The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-27
PROHIBITION LAW
 WILL BE TESTED
Injunction Is Asked By Liquor
 Firm of Chattanooga
5000 BARRELS ARE HELD
Firm Claims That Financial Loss Will Be Great Unless Sale Can Be Made of the Liquor Now
 In the Warehouses.


 In the Warehouses.
 chattanooga, July 6-(Special) )-John
 IL connor, minority stockholder in the hrm of J. ". Kelly & Co.,, has filed T bill in chancery court for the purpose of forcing test of the law prohibiting the wholesale traffic of liquor in Ten nessee. The bill Is really the comple- ment of one filed recently against Sheriff s. A. Conner. Attorney General M. N. Whitaker and the board of mayor and aldermen by representatives of J. w. Kel ly & Co, restraining the enforcing of that part of the prohibition law known l as the sales act. Both the original bill and the supplementary bill just filed will be argued before Chancellor Mcconnell July a1. In his petition the complain ant in the proceedings makes the alega- ton that he is a minority stockholder in 1 J. w. Kelly & Co.,, and as such has no 1 directing vote as to the policy of the 1 company. He ayers that the company now has on hand 5000 barrels of liquor, i of which the provisions of the sales act prevent the disposal Unless the liquor can be sold the complainant asserts that his financial loss will be great. In order l to secure test of the law he asks for an injunction against J. w. Kelly & Co.,. Carl White. s. A. Conner, M. N. Whitaker and the board of mayor and | aldermen
 Mrs. Sarah Jane Allen, a white woman al uvhn In own property in Avondale, nearby sub urb, cannot resist the temptation to deal 1 in liquor, law or no law, and has again been arrested for violation of the prohi- bition laws. This woman has been be- 1 fore the courts several times, but she seems to enjoy her notoriety along that line, and takes her troubles philosophical ly. On two occasions she pleaded guilty of selling beer and escaped by paying the costs, Judge McReynolds extending leniency because of her extreme age She was indicted at the recent term of the grand jury and is now under bond for appearance at the September term of criminal court to answer to that indict- ment.
 Charles smott, proprietor of the New York restaurant, who was arrested last week for selling whisky, and who was released on bond. spent Saturday night in the police station. SThe police de- l partment heard he was getting ready to jump his bond and re-arrested him. Smott's confinement was not long. how ever, for as soon as 1t become generally known that he was in durance vile, sew | erai close friends went to his secue. On condition that smott give them deed 1 of sale for his restaurant and as long as he stays in town and puts up as col l lateral all his personal jewelry and ef- l fects, the friends were willing to make bond for him and he was set at lib- l erty. The bond was signed by two mer- chants.
 l A most interesting display of the work of students in the engineering department ! of the University of Tennessee has been 1 placed on exhibition in this city. Prof. R. c. Matthews, assistant professor in drawing and mechanical designing In the engineering department of the university, l Is in the city with the exhibit. He has 1 exhibited the work in Nashville, Mem | phis and Jackson, where 1t attracted con- | siderable attention. The exhibit consists of sample work of the students in draft l ing and mechanical designing, fore, ma chine and shop work Professor Mat l thews said that the university authorities were giving considerable attention to the 1 engineering department and that 150 stu l dents registered in that department last 1 year. According to recent act of the | legislature the tuition in all departments of the university is free and the state gives it's students one round trip ticket Aach to Knoxville from any point in 5le state.
 1 Mayor Crabtree has advertised for sale school and sewer bonds amounting to l $275,0OO Bids for these bonds will be opened at the city hall August 2 at p. m. The bonds will bear AZ per cent | interest and will mature 30 years from issuance, September l. Of the proceeds, | s15OOo0 will be used for the construction of, new schoolhouses, s1o0.00O for the cross 1 town sewer in South Chattanooga and 1 S25 GOO for small sewers in various parts 1 of the city Many inquiries concerning 1 the bonds have already been received by the mayor. and no trouble Is anticipated in securing good premium for them.
 Announcement of the promotion of John D. Carter, travelling freight and passenger agent of the Atchison. Topeka andn Santa Fe to the position of south
 ern freight and passenger agent of the | same road with headquarters in At lanta. has been received in this city. MT. | Carter, whose headquarters were for merly at Nashville, is one of the best known railroad men of this section. J. l c. Sartelle, who was succeeded by MT.
 Carter. was promoted also. and was made general agent of the road, with headquarters in New Orleans.
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 Col, J. B. Cowan Dead.
 New Orleans, July 26.-In a special order issued tonight from the headquarters of the Confederate veterans by Adjutant 1 Ganaral md of Gfnff XNillia m