The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-23
Conner Pays Tribute.

to the dead executive of Minnesota:
 Governor Johnson was personally known
 to me. I esteemed him as the highest
 type of an American citizen. Of national reputation and importance, evidencing high ideals and spectacular accomplish
 ments, he was of great value and the
 future, unwritten 1t is true, could easily
 in the way of accomplishment for the good of the people,"
 Mobile Liquor Cases. Attorney General A. M. Garber has received the copy of the petition brought in the city court of Mobile to force Judge Afford of the inferior criminal court to try men charged with violations of the Fuller bill provisions. The judge, hold ing that the law cannot deny them a trial by jury and his court having no jury. he continued them to the grand
 jury. Solicitor Afford petitioned for man. damus to compel him to try the cases according to the law. and Judge Semmes of the city court has set the hearing for
 October 4, making bonds for all defend
 ants $2o0. Under the law the attorney general must look after cases of this kind.
 Looks Like Evans. It looks very much like Judge A. A.
 
 supreme court, as most of the capital crowd seem to think he can have the | honor if he will accept. Even some of | the other applicants for the Denson va- cancy Zee it this way. The belief is that l the governor would have appointed Att | torney General Garber but for the fact | that he and H. c. Selheimer. who might 1 have had the place if he had wanted 1t, are tied up in the railroad litigation. Y,,Ae Uyuo fy, f<,yr
 ernor 1t is thought the governor did not
 care to further break in on the states
 side of the litigation. eemmes Anniversary. In a letter to Dr. Thomas M. Owen, l director of the Alabama department of archives and history, Gen. Clement A. Evans, commander in chief of the United ] Confederate veterans, expresses approval l of the ono hundredth anniversary of | the birth of Admiral Semmes on Mon- l day September 27 He would be glad to accept the invitation sent him to at- l tend the meeting, but cannot because of l another engagement on a similar mis- sion.
 Among other things the general says: l "The very remarkable preparation made | by all the Confederate organizations of the city of Montgomery to celebrate the birth of the great admiral are worthy of l the people who now live in the original | grand center of the organized Confed- ! crate movement, where a new natior. was born so fair, struggled so nobly for l It's life, and fell so pure of crime as to win the worlds admiration" The let l ter is dated Atlanta, the home of the l commander in chief
 Dr. owen is greatly pleased with the tenor of the letter, especially as 1t notes | the fact that all organizations of the city are in full accord. He says that more l than 1000 letters have been sent out and | that there is mared interest in the move-
 ment in all sections Of the country. The prospect is that there will be an immense crowd here next Monday to have part in and enjoy the occasipn. A brother of the admiral and other members of his family live in the city.
 silver Service for Boat.
 HIS. Kealhofer, secretary of the Cham Der of Commerce, gives 1t out that the organization will at once begin move ment to present a silver service to the "City of Montgomery" the handsome new ocaan going steamer to be built hv th>