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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
SELMA GRAND
 JURY REPORTS

Selma, January 27.-(Special)-A total of 123 indictments were returned this after noon at o'clock by the grand jury of the city court of Selma, which has been in session for the past nine days. The jury was commended for its work by Judge J. w. Mabry of the city court and dis charged. In the final report the jury makes a number of recommendations, among which was that the county have an artesian we'll bored on its lot just north of the courthouse and that there be made a number of needed improvements about the jail and that bigger and bet ter mules be purchased for the work of improving the public roads.
 The report also complimented the man ner in which the inmates of the old folks home were cared for. as was also the manner in which the convict camps were conducted. A number of indictments re- turned by the grand jury results from the recent car robberies in the Burns vile neighborhood. A number of indict- ments returned were for violation of the prohibition laws in the rural districts of the county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28

Montgomery, January 27.-(Special) The committee on appropriations has world of work to do.
 Its chairman, however. said this morning: No appropriation bill will be reported by the committee until the ways and means committee has reported it's revenue bill. The treas- ury is empty, practically, and we must know what money we will have be- fore we go about making appropria tions."
 In the last session, according to MT. Long, the treasury was so full that the administration could be generous This generosity" continued the speak CT, instead of satisfying those who seek appropriations. simply whetted their appetites. They are coming from every direction and their requests gen. orally name larger figures than were ever before named
 Inasmuch as by voluntary appropri- ations about $SO0,0O0 was given away by the last administration, the total amount of petitions this year will not equal the amount of the total appro- pria tions .last year. "But," said MT. Long, "the requests tn themselves are for more money than last session. and the number of petitioners is just as great, if not greater. The university and Au- burn petitions are larger than before" Dr. Thach of Auburn, Dr. Aber- crombie of the University of Alabama, and Dr. Palmer of Montevallo are on the scene at the present time pushing their claims. Dr. Thach stated this morning that Auburn wants $340,775 It is understood that the university is seeking an appropriation of $500.000 Dr. Palmer wants enough money to build suitable classrooms and to en- large his dormitory.
 pr. Thach summarizes the needs of Auburn as follows:
 Infirmary for 730 students, $10.000- Steam heating with steam now avail able. Buildings now heated by stoves:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
STATES SCHOOLS ASKING
 FOR BIG APPROPRIATIONS
BY HUGH w. ROBERTS

1 CD Main building, $5000; CD Broun engineering hall (not heated at pres- ent), $5000; t3) Langdon hall and ma
 chine shops, $2060; (D chemistry. phar-
 macy and state laboratories. $39S0; (5)
 veterinary building, sS95 $16,935. Equipment of Broun engineering hall, For accommodating 513 separate stu dents in engineering work, 10 profess l sors and instructors and 8 assistants, S10.419.
 Buildings for boiler house and prac- tical machine shops, s26690. Equipment of practical machine | shops-carpentry. pattern making, forge, foundry, chipping and filing, and machine work, $16,200. Equipment of power plant. For fur nishing heat. light and power for shops and all college buildings, and commer- cial sales 10 boarding houses, $21,- | 40, Electrical engineering equipment.
 For the laboratories and equipment for use of 112 special students now taking i, electrical engineering, S66S7. 1 Textile department For salaries, op l erating expenses and machinery (ro promote cotton manufacturing, $14,000. Equipment agriculture. Agriculture I hall. Fourteen professors and instruct
 ors. For classes in agriculture, 201;
 animal industry, 255; botany. 69; en- tomology. 25; horticulture and forestry, i 62: S7575.
 Farm machinery building. For dis
 playing modern farming implements. l S5000.
 | Equipment hot houses and labora- 1 tories, S2800.
 l Equipment for entomology, s672. | Equipment for horticulture. $657
 Equipment for botany. $1730.
 Animal industry department, for
 barns Dairy. beef, horse, mule and
 sheep, $2000 l Veterinary college building and 1 equipment, 'forf6 professors and 8 as-
 sistants, and 1S7 students in veterinary
 medicine and physiology, $50.000 1 Chemical building. for professors and instructors: laboratories and lec-
 ture rooms for BOP students now. pres ent and for 137 special students in
 analytical chemistry, $75,000. l Dormitory for young men, $40,000. | Gymnasium, $15,000. ] Total. $340.775.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
FIX APRIL 30 AS
 TUBERCULOSIS DAY
PASTORS OF 100000 CHURCHES ARE TO BE ASKED TO CALL ATTEN- TIoN OF COMMUNICANTs TO THE RAvAGES MADE BY DISEASE

New York, January T.-(Special. )-April 30 has been set aside this year as Huber culosis day. and will be observed in 2oO- 600 churches in the country in manner similar to that of Tuberculosis Sunday
 in 1910, when over 40,000 sermons were
 preached on the prevention of consump-
 tion. In this first official announcement
 of the occasion made by the National As
 socation for the Study and Prevention
 of Tuberculosis today, the leaders of the
 movement state that they hope to enlist
 all of the 33,0O 900 church members in the country
 differ from Tuberculosis Sunday of 1910.
 Instead of requesting the churches to give
 to the tuberculosis cause a special Sun
 day service. the National association is
 going to ask this year that meetings at
 which the subject of tuberculosis and its
 prevention can be discussed, be held on
 Sunday, April 30, or on any other day
 near that date, either in the week preced
 ing or the week following. What we
 want" says Dr. Livingston Farrand ex-
 ecutive secretary of the National Associa- | tiOu TUT tut Sluuy diid iCNCitiOh Ol u-
 berculosis, in report on this movement, lis to have this whole subject of tuber-
 culosis discussed in all of the 100000 churches of the United States at as nearly
 the same time as possible. This does not mean that a stated service must be given over to this work, though that might be desirable. but that any minister, or other authority whom he may invite, can pre- sent the problem to his congregation be- fore or after his regular, service, or on any day within the week preceding or fol- lowing April 3o.'
 The National association is planning to gather statistics from. thousands of min isters, showing how serious a problem tu- berculosis is to every church. These fig ures will show among other things the number of deaths last year from tubercu- losis in the church congregation, and the ways in which the pastors are called on to minister to sufferers from this disease, It is planned also to issue millions of cir culars and pamphlets on the prevention of tuberculosis, both from the national office and from the headquarters of the 450 anti-tubercuosis associations who will cooperate in the movement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
ROCKEFELLER TAGS
 HIS BIBLE STUDENTS

New York, January 27.-All the 1SO members of the Rockefeller Bible class holding their yearly dinner at fashion able Fifth avenue restaurant last night, wore tags with their names scrawled upon them in the handwriting of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
 MT. Rockefeller feared there might be some trouble about the various members knowing each other, and 1t was his sug- gestion that the tags be displayed. The millionaire himself wore a tag on which was written in bold letters: Rockefeller MT. Rockefeller made Q speech in which he decried the tendency which he said most people seemed to have of holding back kind words while their friends are living
 <'It is the common fashion," he said. ito reseve the flowers till they are laid upon the casket. It is a heartless fashion,"
 Mineral water was the strongest nuid served at the dinner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
LIMITS WEEVIL
 INFECTED COTTON
Bill Reported Prohibiting Shipment of Unginned Article Into Districts
 Not Infected

Montgomery, January 27.-(Special.)- The house bill which prohibits the trans portation of unginned cotton from a boil weevil district to district not infected has been favorably acted upon by the house committee on agriculture. and is ex- pected to have smooth sailing through the legislature. The precaution is taken in the act to fight the weevil along sensible scale as well as scientific lines.
 The same committee has also reported favorably on the bill which seeks to em- power tine various county commissioners to appropriate whatever sums they deem necessary to aid in farm demonstration work Already the house has acted fav. orably upon the bill which authorizes a state appropriation of s25,0o0 for such pur- poses. Third reading of this measure has been delayed in the senate, but is not expected to be hamburger of any fight on the bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
PASS BILL MAY
 MEET ITS DEATH IN HOUSE
BY HUGH w. ROBERTS

Montgomery, January T.-(Special.)-ln spite of the fact that the bill providing for the exchange of transportation by the rail- roads for advertising space in newspapers did manage to get through the senate after a hard squeeze and by an exceeding ly close vote, it is not time as yet for the railroads to rub their hands in satisfac- ton or for the employees of newspapers to dream dreams of future travels
 In other words, 1t appears very doubt ful as to whether or not the bill will be- come law.
 It has yet to go through the house. J. Lee Long of Butler, who was Governor Corners right hand man in the fight of that governor against what he styled the railroad domination Of the state, will op-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28

pose the bill in the house, and will mako a speech against it in which he will refer to the alleged "subsidizing of the press and the state constabulary by the rail- roads, His speech. in other words, will be of the nature of that of Senator T. M. Stevens fin the senate yesterday.
 And according to report which comes indirectly from the governor, the chief executive is not warm in his regard for the bill, and it is whispered that he in- tends to veto it. in case of its passage through the house.
 As far as known, no authorized repre- sentative of a daily newspaper has urged the passage of the bill. But numerous publishers of weekly and country newspa- pers ahve been on the scene off and on from the opening of the session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
Real Estate Transfers

Deeds of conveyance of the following real estate transfers, in which amounts of 5000 or more were involved have been filed in the office of the probate court:
 s144s5-E. s. Larimore to Henry F. Lyman, part of the west half of the west half of the southeast quarter of section 13, township IT, range west. $2150-C. D. Eberdale to R. L. Fuller, the west half of lot ', block 2, survey of Woodlawn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
LeGrand.s nlg Stick Goard

Ex-Sheriff w. c. LeGrand has on dis play in store here specimen from ms farm which he is thinking of sending to Theodore, Roosevelt, ex-President of the United States.
 The gourd in question is the size Of a big club, about three feet long and about 20 inches in circumference. It very much resembles the ex-President's fictitious 'big stick" and the former sheriff is hay ing 1t dried out with the intention of sending it to Oyster Bay as a memento of .it might have been" if the colonel lad not been "beaten to frazzle'' dur ing the late unpeasantness of the last campaign in which he figured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
Tragic Wireless Message

New York; January 27.-Through the fog that held John M. Switzer a, pris- oner on board the steamer Prinz Fried rich Wilhelm and checked his ,race from Europe to the bedside of his dy- ing father in St. Louis, there was waited wireless message today tell ing him of his fathers death last night A tug held in readiness to con vey him to Jersey City and special train waiting there to rush him to St. Louis were dismissed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
ALLEGED FEUD|STS
 HELD WITHOUT BAIL Ada Kennedy Is Released on
 Bond of $500 MAY UNITE THE FAMILY The Anniston Trial Draws Big Crowd. Daniel Puryear May Survive Ac-
 cident-LeGrsnd Raises Big
 Stick for Roosevelt
MAY UNITE THE TAMIL

Anniston. January 27.-(special.)- .)-Five of the alleged feudists in the Pearce- Ken | nedy conspiracy case were held without
 bail. Ada Kennedy, the woman in the case, was allowed bail in. the sum of $500, which she was able to make as testimony was introduced at the conclusion of the hearing which tended to show that she acted as a peacemaker in the effort to prevent bloodshed between the warning | factions.
 | The men who are held are Dr. John E. | Pearce, his son, Cross Pearce; William K. Kennedy, father and grandfather of the | two men who were Killed; Tom Fowler and John Eaton, teamsters who were em- ployed by Dr. Pearce.
 l It will be remembered that the kill ing resulted from an old dispute between
 pr. Pearce and the Kennedy family, growing primarily out of alleged domestic | troubles and later involving a land dis pute, which was the immediate cause of
 the pitched battle All of the men in | volved are now in the county jail here. | The trial has been one of the most in | teresting in the history of Calhoun coun- | ty, and has attracted hundreds to the city every day since it began last Tues
 day. Ifa Trouble Unites Pearce and Wife | The alleged killing of Shelt and Sarge Kennedy by John Pearce and associates may prove a blessing in disguise, in one respect at least, to Dr. Pearce, as his present trouble has been the means of re- uniting him with his wife, Mrs. Patty Pearce from whom he has been separated | for some time. | The little woman, attired in full mourn | ing, frail and with haggard, wistful I expression on her face, has been at ev- | cry session of the hearing, constantly at | tended by her sister, Mrs. D.fD. Wea- yer of Alexandria, member Of Well
 known Calhoun county family. Ihe two women sit near Dr. Pearce during the trial sessions. and as the prisoners are taken back to jail the dentist almost in variably kisses his wife.
 The name of Pearce has frequently been connected with that of the Kennedy wom- an, one of the correspondents in the pres ent hearing, but Judge Coleman promptly and summarily overruled an attempt on
 the part of one of the attorneys in the
 case to bring out this feature Of the case
 Thursday.
 Another complication was auueo to uio strange case Thursday when Lee hehue- dy, the elder son of Shelton J. kenneoy' one of the dead men, arrived from Tex
 as to aid in the conviction of Dr. Pearcc, Cross Pearce, William Kennedy, his grandfather, and Ada Kennedy, who are also trying to convict their father and sister.
 A rather remarkable incident occurred
 during the arraignment of Solicitor Tuns-
 tall when the sympathizers of the two
 dead men broke into cheers, 1t being sev- eral seconds before the sheriff could quiet l them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28

between this city and Uvalde. A ranch
 man whose nearest neighbor Is nine miles distant ordered phone put in his house. This ranchman has a son 15 years old and daughter 12. These spend much time together and are fre- quently away on their COW ponies ear ly in the morning and do not return until dark. Recently while they were away looking after outside fences and similar duties on the ranch the line men installed the phone in the house. Returning about sundown, the boy on entering the house noticing the phone on the wall opposite the door turned about suddenly and said to his sister: Katy, dad has fixed up anoth CT scarecrow for us. You know the last time he made his game work. We'll fool him this time" So suiting the action to the word, the two youngsters secured an axe chopped the wires in two, took the telephone down and hid 1t under the house. remarking as they did so: When daddy goes to ring that fool thing in the morning about 3 o'clock to call us to get up, he will have another guess coming.' Daddy
 did have another guess coming, but just what happened to the boy and girl Is not a matter of record. The telephone was promptly installed tn c next day and the children given their first lesson in its uses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28

Mrs. Mary Ann Shaver of Port Lavaca, Texas, now in her ninety-sec- ond year. is one of the pioneers of the Lone Star state. who has seen this sec tion of the country grow into one of the most habitable parts of the conti- nent. With her husband, she landed at Galveston, on March 4, 1S45, the day that James K. Polk was inaugurated president of the United States. From Galveston they went to a trac of 1000 acres in the Colorado bottom and set tied in the unbroken forest of that country their settlement there being the beginning of civilization in that part of Texas. While Mrs. Shaver Is nearing the century mark, she Is ac- tive, mentally clear and likes to recall the exciting experiences of frontier life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
May suryiye Accident

Daniel Puryear, the little son of Mrs. J. E. Puryear, who was badly beat and crushed by being caught in the wheels of a buggy yesterday afternoon, has had one of his legs amputated near the nip, and is said to be resting easier at local hospital, having an even chance TOT re- covery. 1t is said His other injuries are not regarded as critical unless he was internally injured, which is not believed nrnha hle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
Cleary, 115 Maple street,

Miss Minnie Cleary. 115 Maple street, is the first San Antonio woman to as cend in balloon. Miss Cleary was one of a party of four who took a trip into the clouds Sunday with Captain H. E. Honeywell of St. Louis. who is here with his big gas balloon. The. party ascended to the height of a mile, drift ed eastward and came to land eight miles from the city. Miss Cleary gives most graphic account of her eX- perence and sensations and declares that she is ready to make another trip when the opportunity is offered. Since Captain Honeywell has per- mitted one woman to take a trip with him to cloudland. he is besieged with applications, a number of these com
 ing from the best known young women in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28

Telephone linemen meet with some amusing experiences while installing phones in the rural districts. One of the latest which has its humorous side was met with far out in the country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
OAKLEY IS ENCOURAGED
 ON SPLITTING JEFFERSON
By HUGH w. ROBERTS.

ring to Sheriff Oakley used the name of Jim, his brother, who was formerly sheriff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-28
GREAT DEPOSITS OF
 B|TuM|NOUS COAL Expert Says Texas Has An
 Unlimited Supply CITY OF AUTOMOBILES San Antonio Is Said to Have About 2OOO Machines-Snn Antonio
 Girl Makes Ascent In a Balloon
CITY OF AUTOMOBILES

San Antonio, Tex, January 27.- (Special)--In an address last night be- fore real estate men and others, c. s. Fowler stated that he has been mak- ing investigations and had discovered that within 20 miles of San Antonio there Is enough bituminous coal to supply the entire United States for 800 years. It was maintained by him that this can be mined so cheaply that it will serve as an inducement to manu- facturers of all kinds to locate here. While 1t has been known for years that vast fields of bituminous coal are To- cated in many parts of southwest Texas, it was not matter of general information that so large a deposit lay at the door of San Antonio until MT. Fowler made his detailed statement giving the account of his investigation last night Along with the coal are vast deposits of Ignite which he de- clares can be mined and sold at $1.5o per ton.
 It Is said by those in the automobile business that few cities in the country contain more people who own automo- Dll6S than san AnlOulO <AluloSl 1VVo machines are owned by residents and those living in the immediate suburbs These range in size from the little runabout to great 10-passenger cars In addition to those owned here, many tourists from the north and east have brought their machines here. being in- duced to do so by the good roads which lead out over the country in every direction. Bexar county in partic- ular having as fine highways for auto use as can be found in the United States. These are not stretches of road. but hundreds of miles of most excellent highway. It Is also said that the automobile Is in more general use for all commercial purposes in south west Texas than in any other part of the country, the uniform good roads making this usage possible.
The Chitina leader., 1911-10-14
FORFEITURE NOTICE.

. Chitina, Sept. 25, 1911.
The Chitina leader., 1911-10-14

With strong editorial article the association claim evil the Yukon Valley News again enters the ranks of Alaska newspapers More than 60000 of placer claims were staked and recorded in the Kuskokwm district last year. the for 5000 ordinary 2Oacre cams but than 32,000 saked by in one season. unquestonab the greatest evil interior Alaska suffers from because the claims lie idle and unde veoped while prospectos and population dwnde in number for want of ground to work on.
 The remedy says the News is the simplest thing in the vdng that $OO worth of work should be done for 20 acres whether in single claim association, before the claim could be recorded would end the whole absurdty citation claim group of eight twenty claims and the evils of the association claim and the of attorney will speedily disappear Ground that lying untouched barred the propector will be thrown back into the public domain because the stakers not perform the legal qurements and it will be impossible in the future for new camp be gobbled up by few within week, while later stampdes must either take lays and tribute the form of royalties or quit the camp.
 It is the strangest thing that in all the Alaska has delegate in Congress, amendment to the mining this evil has not been secured There argument in favor of the amendment and nobody seriously opposed it. It would to get through than home rule The trouble to be
 that although delegates leave Alaska with intention attending such matters when they have been ln Wash while they become worked the home rule ques ton and their the whole thing neglect opportunities of the whole It would to that taking at me would eventually get the
 whole much of 1t that it would be comparatively easy 10 get the rest
The Chitina leader., 1911-10-14
WILL CONGRESS MAKE GOOD?

The hue and going all the United States upon questions pertaining Alaska does much to the citizen because he not interested but does
 great deal the people of Alaska To the whole troversy nutshell it Congress and promptly We in need of fool laws that tend the detrment of develop ment laws that force to give up portion of property the people the States for the privilege of earning honest living We open coal mines and pay miners good wages and willing to pay reasonable price for the coal operate meter and railroads and steam boat ne but do not be hampered by prohbatoy laws that make the privileges imperative Too much law like overdose of medicine make the patient mighty sick if does not kill him outright; Congress in prescribing for should foster and crush industries by burden and fool restrictions We of Alaska have real blood and breathe and other ordinary moras and being under the flag and the constitution the parent states rghtfuly entitled to the privileges and rights If Congress fails to give les it fas in it's sworn duty entirely hide behind the ineffciency eress make good!