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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
NEW CORPORATIONS
RUN TO $2,302,OOO
January and February Make
Good Start for Year
INCREASES ARE S254,OOO
During January Alone 16 New Com
panies Were Incorporated BY Pro-
bate Court, With Authorized
Capital of $2,o51 600.

That business conditions are not as dull
as some would pretend they are is evil
denced by the fact that since the first of
the present year 20 companies have been
organized with total authorized capital
ization of $2SO2,OOO, and but two months
of the year are gone.
During January Is companies were in
corporated with total authorized capt.
talizatfon of sos, SEQ. The largest of these
was the Moore & Handley Hardware COM
pany, which incorporated with an author
lied capital stock of $500, 600. The capital
stock of other companies incorporated
ranged from $4,000 to $4,000.
During February 10 companies were or
ganized with a total authorized capital
stock of s25O.5OO.
Several companies filed certificates of
increased capital stock as follows: Equit-
able Trading company, stock increased
from $4,000 to $1O00O Hills Greek Coal COM
pany, from $4,000 to $4,000; Eugenoto Con-
struction company, from $4,000 to 100000;
Birmingham Baseball association, from
5000 to $4,000; Theatre Film Supply COM
pany, from $4,000 to $4,000 and Tyler
Grocery company, from $4,000 to 100000
giving an aggregate increase of capital
stock of s254,0OO
Following is a table showing the COM
panies incorporated during January and
February, the amount of the authorized
capital stock being also given:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
DEATHS AND FUNERALS
Mrs. Laura E. Hall.

Mrs. Laura E. Hall, aged II years, died
yesterday morning at the family resi-
dence, 5126 Third avenue, north. She is
survived by her husband, Alfred c. Hall,
four sons and four daughters. Funeral
services will be held this afternoon at the
residence at o'clock and interment will
be in woodlawn cemetery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
CITY ITEMS.

Good Fellowship Meeting. = The
Young Mems Hebrew association Will
hold a good fellowship meeting at the
club rooms at $3.50 o'clock this after
noon. The association also announces
that it will give a book social next
Wednesday evening.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
THE WEATHER.

Washington, February 27.-Forecast for
Alabama and Mississippi Partly cloudy
Sunday; Monday fair. Slight, variable
winds.
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Local office United States Weather Blu
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Marriage Licenses Issued.

Marriage licenses were issued from the
office of the probate court yesterday as
follows:
Bert Jones of Acton to Miss Beta Nc
Tendon.
Clint A. Farley of Leeds to Miss Cricket
Igo.
R. e. L. jackson of Birmingham to Miss
Martha e. Patton.
George Hoffman Of Birmingham to Miss
Mabel Sims.
J.B. Raglind of Croker to Miss Ethel
Harrell.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Shaw s. Son. Undertakers.
Green Undertaking Co.

I1an xn Undertaking Co.. Phones 70.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
FORMER SUPERVISOR
TELLS ABOUT
BOODL|NG
FIRST OF WITNESSES AGAINST
PATRICK CALHOUN UNDER
GOES EXAM NATION.

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The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
ATTEMPTS TO SHOOT
A COOK
FORMER CHIEF OF POLICE OF
WALLACE ACCUSED OF At
TEMPTING TO KILL.

Special to The Daily Missoulan.
Wallace, April 16.-George Chandler,
formerly chief of police of this city,
is in the county Jail accused of at
tempting to kill George Segerman, a
cook at the Banquet restaurant.
Chandler is alleged to have drawn a
revolver on Segerman, but was pre-
vented from shooting by the quick ac-
ton of o. A. Oln, proprietor of the
cafe, who knocked the assailant down
and disarmed him.
Chandler, who has been living on a
ranch near Rose lake, came in to
town and, it is alleged, became intoxi-
Gated. He blamed Segerman for
trouble which he had had with the
Cooks and Walters union, as a re-
suit of which he was blacklisted in
Wallace and Anaconda, where he was
formerly treasurer of the union, and
hunted Segerman up. Finding him in
the kitchen of the cafe Chandler is
alleged to have drawn a AS Colts au-
tomato revolver and tried to shoot the
cook. A blow from Olin's fist sent
him to the floor, and he was relieved
of his weapon before he could shoot
Olin made complaint against Chand-
Ter and he was arrested.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
CUDAHY PACKING CONCERN IS
ACCUSED OF DEFRAuDlNG
THE GOVERNMENT.
REVENUE LAWS VIOLATED
Corporation Faces SOS Counts for A.
legged Sale of CoIored Olson Margarine
Under Tax Provided for Unco ored
Product, Thereby FrauduIentIy Saw.
ing the Extra Tax on CoIored Butter.

Topeka, Kan, April l6.-Chargcd
with having defrauded the government
by violations of the internal revenue
laws, an Indictment was formally re-
turned against the CudahY Packing
company, of Kansas city, Kan, in the
United states district court here to-
day, The company is indicted ON 695
counts The officers of the company
will be summoned to appear in court
and defend the charges outlined in the
Indictment
The grand jury was dismissed, fol-
lowing the return of the Indictment.
The revenue laws provides that each
pound of uncolOred olcomargarine
must bear a revenue stamp of a quar-
ter of a cent, but that each pound to
which coloring matter has been added
to give it the appearance Of butter, a
ten cent revenue stamp must be at
taChed.
1t is charged in the indictments that
the Cudahy company has sold the col
ored product under the quarter of a
cent tax and consequently has de-
frauded the government out of large
sums.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
FIVE ARE CREMAT TED
IN HOTEL
TEN ARE MISSING AFTER DE-
STRUCTlON OF SAN FRAN
CISCO HOSTELRY.

San Francisco, April 16-No more
of the Hotel St. George at Howard
and Eighth streets, in the destruction
of which shortly before daylight this
morning at least five persons were
burned to death and several others
were injured. After digging in the
smOldering pile of ashes until late to-
night the firemen gave up the search
for the charred remains of other vic
Tins. They declared that after the fire
is out it was not a part of their duty
to dig through the ruins for bodies,
and this work will be taken up to-
morrow by the coroner's office.
Aside from the five victims whose
charred skeletons were taken out to-
day, only 10 persons are said to be
missing, according to the register of
the lodging house, which was saved.
That much larger number of its
occupants We're not incinerated is re-
garded as remarkable, considering the
construction of the building and the
rapidity with which 1t burned. The
building is declared to have been one
of the worst fire traps in the city and
a thorough investigation is promised
by Coroner Leland.
The register shows that l72 persons
were in the lodging house last night
OF these 162 have been accounted for
and 10 are missing. one Of the bodies
at the morgue has been identified as
that OF Charles H. Johnson.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
HARTMAN INTERESTS SEND
accommodating PARTY
INTO BITTER ROOT.
ARRIVE IN EARLY MORN
Locating Engineers Leave This Morn
ing for Long and Hard Work in the
LoIo Country-WilI Travel by Wagon
and Are We'll Eauipped-Permanen
Headquarters to Be Maintained Here.

Early this morning party of locat-
ing engineers, representing the Har-
rman system, will leave Missoula for
the Lolo pass, equipped for an ex-
tended reconnaissance. This is the
party whose coming was foretold
Tuesday morning in a dispatch to The
Missoulian from Portland. The sur
veyors arrived on No. yesterday
morning and, under the direction of
Chief Locating Engineer Russell
Chase, spent the day here in Quitting
for their work in the Bitter Root
mountains.
AS was stated in the dispatch which
The Missoulan published Tuesday
morning under a Portland date, the
party is sworn to secrecy as to its in
structions. There are Is men in the
force which will leave here, and they
will proceed by wagon; their equip
ment is complete and the indications
are that they plan to be a long time
in the mountains. Engineer Mills is
in direct charge of the party; Chief
Locating Engineer Chase was in town
yesterday, but it was stated last night
that he had left the city.
Nothing is given out by the party
in the way of information for pub
lication; it's members were quartered
last night at the Hammond build
ing, where, it is announced, perma-
nent headquarters will be maintained
From the size of the party and the
amount of outfit secured, it is evil
dent that the work which is on hand
itc
formance; it may be that the engi-
neers will not return to MissOula for
some time, but will work their way
over Lolo pass into Idaho, there to
join parties which are reported to be
Engaged in the location of lines in
that district. other parts of the Bit
ter Root are to be explored.
There have been one or more sur
veys made through Lolo pass by the
Union Pacific people; these were made
prior to the Hartman era. 1t is
considered probable that the engi-
neers will trace the old survey, at
least and perhaps locate the line as
it was laid out at that time.
One thing, however, is certain The
Hartman forces are in this territory
anu tlleN are HDI Itle DIi
jaunt. The party is equipped for
business and will be in the field for
some time. 1t means another road
into this city and another vast area
made tributary to this city.
The Chase party was extremely
busy all day yesterday, and when it
leaves this morning it will go well
equipped Local engineers who are
familiar with the situation in the Lolo
say that the old survey of the Union
Pacific up the Lolo is a thoroughly
practicable route. On this side of the
Bitter Root mountains there is no
difficulty on the west slope of the
range there is a harder problem; but
it is not as serious as many others
that have been successfully dealt with
and there is every reason to believe
that the present survey will bring def
mite results. There have also been
lines surveyed through passes further
south, but the Lolo crossing of the
divide had been regarded as the most
practicable.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
COMPANY AGREES TO RELlN
QUlSH CLAIM TO MINERAL
GROUND in MONTANA.
A CONFERENCE IS HELD
Railway Corporation Get Together
cal Understanding Regarding Some
Thirty Thousand Acres in State.
Special to The Daily Missoulian.

Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Washington, April 16.-At a confer
ence today between officials of the
government and the railroad the
Northern Pacific agreed to surrender
to the government thousands of acres
of valuable land in Montana which
were enormously classed as non-min-
eral lands and included in the old
land grant of the company. The COM
pany contended, however, that in JUS
tice and equity it should receive, in
lieu of the land surrendered, an equal
acreage of nom mineral ground. 1t is
said that the land involved in the sur
render amount approximately to 80,
900 acres.
The important conference was held
in the office of the secretary of the
interior and attended by Secretary
Ballinger of the interior department,
the commissioner of the general land
office Chief Special Agent SwartZ,
President Howard Elliot of the North
ern Pacific, Land Commissioner
Thomas Cooper of the Northern Pa
cific and Senators Dixon and Carter
of Montana.
movement about year ago to secure
the return of this valuable mineral
land and the conference today indi-
Gates that it will be successful. The
ground was enormously classed as
non-mineral some years ago by the
mineral land commissioner, and when
the government made it's grant to the
Northern Pacific company a large por-
tion of it was included in the gift
Since that time it has developed that
the territory bears mineral of various
kinds, and there is a demand for its
reversion to the government that it
may become accessible under the min
eral claim act.
The officials of the railroad COM
pany expressed the willingness of the
road to return the land to the govern
ment but insisted that a just settle
ment would call for the reimbursing
of the company by an equal amount
of other land.
1t was set forth that the lands in
the ten-mile indemnity strip are al
ready exhausted and that unless some
fair method of reimbursing the COM
pany by means of lieu lands We're de-
vised the road would lose that amount
of it's original land grant.
An agreement was reached at to-
days conference that Secretary Bal
linger should ask the next congress
for an appropriation to complete the
mineral classification of the claim
land grant The acreage involved in
this examination and classification
amounts to about 100000, and lies
principally in western Montana and
northern Idaho. 1t is land which re-
mained unclassified when the mineral
land commission completed its cruise
in 1900. 1t is believed the action taken
today will settle this long-delayed and
vexatious problem to both the govern
ment and the settlers.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
COURT HANDS DOWN
OPINIONS
SUPREME TRIBUNAL OF STATE
RENDERS JUDGMENT ON
CASES BEFORE 1T.

Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Helena, April 16.-Four opinions
were handed down by the supreme
court today. The issues are the same
Catherine pengelIy, respectively,
against d. II. Peeler, as administrator
of the estate of Jacob Fine, orignat-
ing Flathead county, and they are af-
firmed. The suits We're instituted to
recover claims against the decedent
and the appeal was from an order
of the district court setting aside a
default judgment and permitting the
defendant to answer.
In the silver Bow county suit Of
Knppenberg against the Greenwood
Mining company and others to recover
ON a promissory note in which the
plaintiff is the appellant, the deci-
sion Of the lower court is affirmed.
The appeal of the personal injury
suit of Harrington against the Butte,
Anaconda & Pacific Railway com
pany, originating in Silver Bow coun-
~, is dismissed, on a former appeal
a new trial was ordered on the
ground that the evidence was insuffi-
lent to justify a verdict for the
plaintiff. The second trial resulted in
"A verdict and judgment for the plain
tiff for $500. This was reduced by the
lower court to $4,000. This was condi-
tionally accepted, the question being
the jurisdiction of the lower court so
to lower the judgment This jurisdic-
tion is held to be a prerogative of the
lower court, and the appeal is dis
missed.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
MUT|NOUS MOSLEMS
MASSACRE MANY
REPORTS SAY TOWN OF ADANA
HAS BEEN BURNED AND
CHRISTIANS KILLED.

Constantinople April 16.-A massa-
ere of Armenians has taken place at
Adana, Asiatic Turkey, and, accord
ing to the latest kilograms from Mer-
sina, it is still in progress, Soldiers
powerless to control the situation, are
joining in the pillage of the town. The
fatalities are said to be numerous.
The riots began last Wednesday
The town of Adana has been burned
and many Christians have been killed
The Moslems, having wrecked the
town, are said to have begun opera
tions against the Christians in the
vilayet. The foreign consuls at Mer-
sina have requested that warships be
sent
No definite information is obtain
BILE as to the number of persons who
lost their lives, although one report
says 60 ArmenianS We're maSSacred
Two American missionaries are said tC
among the dead, but no names are
given and the report as to these is
unconfirmed. The British vice consul
at Mersina, Major DaughtyW is
said to have been wounded.
1t is known that the regular district
meeting of the American missionaries
was due to be in session at Adana
and that Mr. and Mrs. William Cham
bers, the Misses Elizabeth and Mary
G. Webb, Miss Wallis and Miss Bo-
rela, missionaries, We're to have been
there. Ambassador Leishmann has
instructed Vice Consul Debbas at Mer-
sina to go Immediately to Adana.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
PUGET SOUND TO ENTER
MlSSOULA ABOUT
MAY |

Tomorrow the Northern Pacific
will shift its business to its new
double track line near Gold Creek,
where its enforced occupancy of
the right of way of the old single
track line has prevented the Mil
Waukee from completing its line.
This will enable the new road to
proceed at once to close up the last
gap in its line. and in about five
days-perh- ps a day more or a day
less-trains will be able to run from
Butte to Missoula over the COM
pleted line. This is an advance
in date over what has been expect
ed. and it is the opinion of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Of
ficers that there will be a freight
service into Missoula not much later
than the first of May.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
JUDGEMENT SECURED
AGAINST GOVERNMENT I

New York, April 16.-A judgment
against the government for s112,000
was obtained today in the United
States circuit court in a suit brought
to recover the war inheritance tax col
lected by the government from the es-
tate of Leonard Lewsohn, the mil
lionaire copper man, who died in 1901,
The estate at that time was valued at
nearly 10000, 900, and a war inheri-
tance tax totalling $227,000 was i'm
posed by the government and paid
under protest. Subsequently as re-
suit of the decision of the courts in
the case of the estate of Cornelius
Vanderbilt, $4,000 was voluntarily
paid back to the Lewisohn estate, and
the suit, now successful, was brought
to recover the balance of $112,0 900.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
APPORTI0N Is MADE
IN c, P. HIGGINS
ESTATE

Papers were filed yesterday in
the matter of the partition of the
Higgins estate, which contain the
statement of the share of the estate
which is allotted to Mrs. Barbara
G Higgins, widow of Frank c.
Higgins. In consideration of tho
receipt Of these amounts Mrs. Hig-
gins agrees to relinquish all claims
against the estate and to dismiss
all suits which she has pending
against the administrator and the
other heirs The documents filed
Yesterday stipulate that Mrs. Hig-
gins is To receive a total Of $1,000
or this amount. $4,000 goes to her
as the guardian of Grant G. HiE-
gins, a minor, $500 as admins
tratrjx of the estate of Frank G.
Higgins, and $500 as her own
share of the estate. together with
lots IA and II, block :. c. + HiE-
gins addition
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
MANY ARE POISONED
BY STRAWBERRIES

Los Angeles, April 16.-Dozens of
persons in this city have been poisoned
during the past few days by straw
berries shipped from Japanese gardens
in the vicinity of Gardena and from
several other districts None Of the
cases has been very serious.
Complaints We're 50 numerous today
that Chief of Police Dishman sent a
letter to the horticultural commission,
asking its members to put stop to
the use of poison to kill insects on
strawberry plants,
The Japanese practically are the only
offenders, according to the reports.
Early in the season worms made their
appearance in great numbers and as
last resort the gardeners used some
powerful solution to destroy them. The
fruit was sold to local dealers and the
many cases of poisoning resulted.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
DESCRIBES FIGHT
AGAINST SOCIALISM

New York, April 16.-How the Ma
tional Civic Federation is opposing
socialism in this country was told by
Seth Low, former president of Co.
lumbia university, in the course of an
address last night before the members
of the National Metal Trades associa-
tion.
DO you know" he said, that IL ere
are Sunday schools in this city where
socialism is taught to little children?
Their literature is on our battleships
and circulates in our army, urging
desertion and mutiny But we are do
ing what we can to counteract that
propaganda. We began this at the re-
quest of the labor leaders in the fed
Grafton.
"Such men as Mr.. Gompers and Mr..
Mitchell have fought socialism in their
labor unions for years.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
SUPREME COURT HOLDS
COAL RATES LEGAL

Bismarck, n. D., April 16.-The su-
preme court today decided the North
Dakota coal rate cases, holding the
law fixing minimum rates to be con-
stitutional and the rates to be rea-
sonable. The court issued an order
enjoining the Northern Pacific, Great
Northern and Minneapolis, st. Paul &
Sault Ste. Marie railroads from
charging their present tariffs and or
dering them to put into effect the
tariffs fixed by the legislature two
years ago.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
IS SENT TO PRISON
FOR MAKING REMARK

San Francisco, April 16.-"If a mig
ger hit me. would kill him, too"
For this remark to w. H. Doud,
juror in the trial OF Joshua Gardiner,
son OF a prominent Kentucky family,
who was acquitted several days ago
of the charge of murder for having
killed Joseph Cardozo, on whaling
vessel in Arctic waters, Charles f.
Schu, a deputy sheriff OF Alameda
county will spend four months in jail.
CardoZo was a negro.
Schu went into Doud's furniture
store to make some purchases for pris-
oners, and declared he made the re-
mark without knowing that the man
to- whom he was speaking was a Juror
in the case. United States Circuit
Judge Van Fleet, however, found him
guilty of contempt and imposed a
heavy sentence.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
FILIPINO EXECUTED.

Walla Walla, Wash, April 16-Juan
Niculas, a Filipino, was executed at
the penitentiary today for the murder
of another Filipino and white boy
at Port Blakeley, Wash, Niculas died
with a smile on his face. He bade his
spiritual adviser good bye cheerfully
and was the coolest man in the execu-
ton room. Niculas is believed to be
the first Filipino ever executed in this
country.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
WILL RAISE MULES
FOR USE Of ARMY

Salinas, Cal, April 16.-The far
famed army mule has achieved the
distinction of having a big corporation
named after him, it being the plan of
company to raise these long cared
beasts of burden on a wholesale scale
and supply the armies of the world.
The corporation has a capital stock
of $500 and owns 1000 acres of
range land in the vicinity of Arroyo
Seco on which a gigantic mule farm
will be conducted. The company will
raise mules for the general market,
and expects to fill orders for the
armies of the United States and
those of foreign powers.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
RAILROAD HEARING
COMES TO A CLOSE

St Paul, April 16-The hearing be-
fore Special Master T. NJ. Dickinson
in the federal court involving a dis
pute between the Hartman and Hill
roads and the interstate commerce
commission, over the eastward lum-
Der rate from Portland and other
northwestern cities adjourned today.
The next meeting will be held in Chi
cago in April. The testimony taken
here was chiefly in relation to the
cost of building and operating the
Hill railroads.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
Marchinu ON Canital

Berlin, April ia special dispatch
from RoStowitz says that after a mon
ster meeting there the young Turks
telegraphed the sultan, saying:
we are marching on Constantinople
to save the constitution you are trying
to abolish
The Belgrade correspondent says
that the Turkish minister there is re
ported to have received a dispatch say
ing that the Pera and Galata quarters
of Constantinople had been bombarded
and two hundred persons had been
killed.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-04-17
ACCIDENTS AT HAMILTON

Special to The Daily Missoulian,
Hamilton, April 16.-Forbes Buchan-
non, a local blacksmith, was rather
seriously injured by being kicked by
an unruly horse he was shoeing today.
His left arm was broken.
Bray Wiley, "a Well-knoWn rancher
residing two miles south of Hamilton,
was badly hurt today by being thrown
from a bucking horse. His back was
badly sprained.