The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-21
ALABAMA SHOWS
 GREAT PROSPERITY State Fairs Give Evidence of
 Great Advance TRY IMPORTANT CASES Shriners From All Parts of the State Celebrate Shriners' Dny at Expo sition With Unique Parade
 and Big Banquet

Montgomery, October 0.-(Special.)-In the opinion of wellknown agriculturists of the state, Alabama this year is at least 40 per cent better off than last year. The condition is more visibly impressed by the extent of the exhibits at all of the state fairs, and by the continued warm weather which is now prevailing.
 Col. E. H. Grave, who operates large farm near Eufaula, says that the prices which are now obtaining with respect to the cotton products will prove record breaking, and will aid in the enrichment of the state along every line. This op- tlmistic view Is also indulged in by the agriculturists of the Alabama Polytech- nic institute, who are now in attendance upon the exposition which Is going on in Montgomery.
 A feature that is being much stressed at this time is in the increased uses of the cotton by-products. such as seed. Cotton seed is bringing a very fair price, while the products made from the seed are said to be showing a general inn provement in every way. It Is given out that an item of saving this year will be the establishment in the south of many more olive oil factories, condition that will benefit the country on a large scale. It seems that the greatest portion of the olive oil manufactured at, the present time is made in France. Neces- sarily, the product sells for a higher price than it would if made in the United States. Shipping rates are largely in strumental in swelling the costs of the product. An olive oil factory, 1t is said. will be established in Montgomery dur ing the fall season.
 The bill of lading situation does not seem to have perturbed cotton factors of this section of the state in the least, the boast being openly made that the south can look after itself along the financial lines It is depored by bankers that a guaranty should be demanded on the cotton bills of lading, when it is not de- manded on any other commodity that Is exported Action of the continental bank CTS, as a consequence. is taken as a re- flection upon the United States. especially upon the south.
 Cotton at the present is bringing for this section of the state on an average of 14M cents, and this price has obtained practically all of the cotton season.
 Present at Killing
 Albert Johnson, an 1S-year-old negro, is in the Montgomery county jail en route to the state penitentiary, where he is to begin serving time on a sentence of life imprisonment which has been inflicted upon him. He is charged with complicity in the atrocious. murder of Jesse Bald win, an aged citizen of Conecuh coun- ty, who was killed few months ago. The negro was convicted at Evergreen yesterday and is being promptly trans ferred to the pen.
 The negro declares that he was present at the killing of MT. Baldwin, but in- sists that he had no part in the murder.
 The crime for which the negro was sent up was one of the most atrocious in the annals of south Alabama. The aged farmer was found dead in his yard, where he had been beaten to death and horribly mutilated.
 Remus White, one of the negroes impli- cated in the murder of Mir. Baldwin, was shot and killed by deputy. John Man uel, who is also said to have had a hand in the affray. is now in custody pending trial Johnson declares that the two ne- groes who were with him asked MT. Baldwin to loan him some money and he states that when the farmer refused they beat him to death l