The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-12
YOUNG MANS BODY
 FOUND IN FIELD J. M. SaIter May Have Been Murdered While Hunting IN RACE FOR SOLICITOR Edgar H. Hanna is Preparing for Cam. paign in CaIhoun-Work is Be-
 ing Pushed on New Noble
 Street Theatre.
IN RACE FOR SOLICITOR

Anniston, August 1.-(Special.)-J. M. Salter of Horseback mountain, a young man of about 24 years of age, met with tragic death some time yes terday afternoon. Te had left home with his dog and gun to go hunting and, not returning, his parents became uneasy as to his prolonged absence and started out to search for him. His dead body was found in field near his home and his empty gun was lying nearby. The circumstances of the tragedy point as well to murder as to an accident and it has not yet been ascertained which of the two theories is correct. Some of the young mans friends and relatives, among them his father, incline to the belief that he was murdered, though suspicion has not yet been fixed on any one. The remains were inferred this afternoon.
 In the election for the office of so- licitor of Calhoun county, which will occur in 1910, when, for the first time, the office will become elective, Edgar H. Hanna will figure prominently as a candidate.
 MT. Hanna was a candidate before the people for the position four years ago and received a number of votes at a time when it was not generally understood that the office was elec- tive, and which the courts (to which MT. Hanna appealed in his contention for the office) held not to have been The case finally went to the supreme court by quo warranto, where Mir. Han ma lost by a vote of 4 to 2 of that body. although Chief Justice McClel- Ian and Associate Justice Denson held with MT. Hanna. It is under the act held by the supreme court to be con- stitutional that the election will occur next year.
 MT. Hanna has been a citizen of this county for 20 years or more and Is well known to the people, He says he has always believed in fair play and the right of the people to say who shall hold office, and he proposes to be In the primary for the position of solici- tor when the time comes.
 Work is now about to proceed on the Noble Street theatre, which was re- gently destroyed in a storm here. The work of tearing out the old building is completed and the excavations for the new foundation have been begun and are being pushed to completion. The building will be extended 80 feet further back than formerly, and it is proposed 10 make the tn eatFe one or the finest in the south. The probable cost of the Improvements will amount to s35,0c0.
 The work of cutting down the hill at the head of North Noble street has about been completed and the road is now being smoothed off The road has been greatly improved and is now very good except in one or two spots where thu mud holes need a little attention.
 Henry B. Gray. Jr., of Birmingham, son of Lieutenant Governor H. B. Gray, passed through the city yester- day afternoon in auto on his way home. He had made the trip from Birmingham to Chattanooga and from Chattanooga to Anniston in three days When he reached Anniston he had come 92 miles yesterday and expected to make the 70mile trip to Birmingham by g o'clock last night. Mr. Gray drove a Stanley steamer and was &C., companied by a mechanic.
 The heavy cornice of the Finn build ing, which was recently gutted by fire, has been removed, and so carefully was the work done that although the workmen were compelled to work un- derneath the heavy structure no one was injured during the entire work. The job of removing the lower part of the front will now be rushed.