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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
JOHN W. KNIGHT
 PLACED ON TRIAL Charged With Using Mails
 To Defraud Customers BOTH SIDES READY
Motion Made To Quash Indictments 0verruled-Defendant Request To Have Firms Books Brought
 Into Court Granted

Huntsville, December 6.-(Special.)- John w Knight, managing partner of the cotton firm of Knight Yancey & Co. of Decatur. who went into bankruptcy in April, 1910, with liabilities amounting to -,seeo,co is facing trial in the United States district court here on charges of using the mails to defraud customers of his firm of several million dollars.
 ! When the case was called both sides announced they were ready, the defand- ant asking that W. s. Lowell, trustee of the bankrupt firm, be required to bring the books and accounts of the firm into court This was so ordered.
 The Knight case was not reached. today until nearly o'clock, and the whole session was devoted to presentation of a motion to ouash the indictment, the mo- ton being finally overrued. Attorney w. W. Callahan presented the motion, asking that the indictments be quashed because after the defendant had been adjudged bankrupt, District Attorney Street went to the grand jury and ascertained thai John w. Knight was, it is alleged, re- sponsible for the failure, and had prac- tically ruined the cotton business of the south The district attorney. it is said charged that Knights operations would prevent the cotton farmer from getting 3 fair price for his product, and made reference to the Steele-Miller failure al Corinth, stating that Miller was grad uate of John Knight.
 Continuing, the petition said Distrlc Attorney Street made frequent expres sons of opinion detrimental to the de fendant ard influenced the grad iur, in finding the Indictments against Knieh;
 The presentation Of this motion le' to the examination of several of tn
 men who served on the grand jury il November, 1910, when the indictment were returned and much was told o the proceedings of the body A deposi -iion of Grand Juror Allen was req
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
INTERESTING CASE
 ON AT TUSCALOOSA
Trial of Alleged Whitecappers Bids Fair To Be Very
 Sensational

Tuscaloosa, December 6.--fSpecial)-- The trial of the alleged whitecappers of the Buhl nelgbborhood began in circuit court this morning before Judge Harwood and bids fair to be one of the most sensational and 4interestin g cases that has ever been recorded in Tuscaloosa county
 The defendants. are Ed Bonds, Sam Channel. Charley Skelton, John Chan nell, Liston Booth, Valcus Evans and John Patterson. and they are charged with terrorizing the employees of the Buhl Lumber company and threatening the life of the president of the com pany, pr. Deal. One member of the crowd is said to have confessed the crime and stated that they declared themselves "whitecappers" and had taken the James boys oath Circuit Solicitor Ormand is prosecuting tho case and the defendants are represent ed by Collier. Vandivort, Rice SS Wright
 Four houses belonging to Col. H R Foster and Henry Aston were de stroyed by fire yesterday at noon. The houses were located back of the Y M IC. A. building and the fire departm ant was unable to render assistance m account of no water connections near enough. f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07

in support of the claim of the defense that the district attorney influenced the grand jury i'll returning indictments W. ". Cameron, W. W. Nelson, T. A. Ragland, Sam Garner and J. W. II. Pe- den, members of the grand jury, were examined in turn. The purport of theiI testimony was that the grand jury voted to return three indictments against Knight and then took a recess for two weeks to allow District Attorney Street time to prepare rhe indictments. When the jury convened again MT. Street, or his representative. presented five indct- ments, which were signed by the grand Jury without any of the members reading them.
 w W. Cameron testified that some of the jurors were not in favor of indicting John Knight and allowing the other members of the firm to go free.
 He remembered that the district at torney said that the eyes were on Ala bama in this case. On the other hand Ragland. Nelson. Garner and Peden said they did not remeber that the dis trict attorney said an indictment should be found against Knight.
 Attroney ". W. Callahan. on being sworn as witness, said that he had against Knight and the court clerk re- fused, and said he had been instructed not to show them to anybody.
 District Attorney Street. being sworn as witness, said that it had been the intention of the district attorney to keep the indictments secret, but the clerk had been instructed to keep then in the office because there were nt copies.
 Summarizing the argument for tht motion. Attorney Callahan quoted vol uminously from United States suprems court decisions.
 District Attorney Street argued that the testimony failed to show that had he not used his influence with the grand Jury for finding of the indictments nc indictments would have been found.
 Judge .Grubb took this view of the matter and refused the motion. Attor- ney for the defense excepted. Examina. tion of talesmen will probably begir at the morning session tomorrow.
 Knight appeared in court with hi: wife and little daughter and mother His attorneys are W. W. Callahan, E w. Bodbey and Gus Harris. District Attorney Street is being assisted bs Gen. John $. Stone of Oxford Miss. who prosecuted the SteeleMiller case: in Mississippi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07

the sixties, and the value by no year sub sequent to that decade.
 As sort of measure of the years per- formance in agriculture, the. bushels of the cereals are added together and com pared with totals of former years. The
 total for this year, 4,522 OOo,0oo. is S.4 per cent below the five year average. and the secretary adds, While it indicates that
 the agricultural year, of 1911 was below
 par, it is far from indicating any de- gree of calamity. If the great cotton
 crop be taken into account the total crop production is below the average in less degree than the cereals suggest.'
 Although sugar making belongs to man. ufacturing. it is asserted that cane and beet production can best be treated through the sugar made from them. The
 secretary says: q am gratifed to see
 that the beet sugar tonnage reaches the figure of nearly 600,0O0 short tons. 1t in- dicates that we can make our sugar." This is the largest amount ever made in this country by about S0,00O tons and 24
 per cent above the five year average. The value has, of course, scared and amounts to about $30,00J, 900, including value of pulp, the highest previous value being about $6o,0G0Oo0 for 1e09
 The cane sugar production of 1911 is es- timated to be about 3s0.OOO short tons of raw sugar. or 5l4 per cent above the five year average, with value of about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
MISSISSIPPI HAS
 SPLENDID EXHIBIT

Jackson, Miss. December 6.-(Spe-' cial, )-H. E. Blal1esIee, commissioner of
 agriculture, has returned from Chicago
 where he went to see and to assist in
 the land show, and reports that Mis-
 sissippi is attracting a great deal of
 attention. the space allotted to this
 state being filled with visitors all the
 time. He states that Louisiana. has the
 finest exhibit of any of the southern states, occupying a great deal more space than does Mississippi, but that what this state did have was of the best and could not be excelled by any state in the union. Mir Blaleeslee de- liYered two illustrated lectures to large audiences during his stay, and had thousands of inquiries about the price of lands, crops to be raised, climate schools, churches, etc, and Is satisfied that the tide of immigration is in this direction at last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07

has been exceeded in this respect In three years.
 The crops of this year compare with the average of the previous five years mone favorably than they do with single years when results were highest In the list of crops that had production above the five year average are cotton, rice, buckwheat. beet sugar and cane sugar. t&
 Tn value Of crops the five year average was overtopped by corn, cotton, hay, oats, barley, pota toes, buckwheat. rye, fiaxseed, hops and beet and cane sugar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
Calhoun .Ginnery Rurns

. Annlston, December 6.--( Special )- A match dropped in seed cotton be- came igfiited in one of the gins at the Calhoun ginnerya here this afternoon resulting in the destruction of the en-
 tire plant and causing a loss estimated at s6oOo. This is the fourth fire in Anniston within 2i hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
Stokes Seriously III

New York. December 6.-W. F. L. Stokes is still seriously i'll, but he will not be operated on at present. Mrs. Stokes is suffering from complications wbichs followed an attack of acute indi- gestioh on Thanksgiving Day. Because 'of his illness the trial of Ethel Conra d and Lillian Graham, the show girls charged with shooting him, was adjourned yesterday until Thursday next,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
Steamer FlOated

KeyrWest, Fla. December 6.--The Aus trian steamer Marianane. bound from New York tor New Orleans and wh{Ss ran ashore near Torturas on November 2s, arrived here today The vessel was floated last night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
SECRETARY WILSON SAYS MIDDLEMAN
 GETS ALL PROFIT
CONTINUED FROM PAGE n

 consumer were general, the benefits to both would be considerable.
 When a foreign insect invades our sci entists seek its enemy where 1t came from The natural enemy of the boil weevil was an ant that could not endure our winters, but the native ant is get ting busy.
 The experiment stations of the several states are doing better work each suc- ceeding year, the scientists are matur- ing, and the people are appreciating. The object lesson in agriculture is the best teacher; we had COCO of them at work last year.
 Six hundred thousand short tons of beet sugar were made last year in 67 factories. There is an estimated worlds shortage of ,G00,000 long tons of sugar this year. The consumer pays dollar for food the farmer gets less than 50 cents for it. Who gets the rest? All government agencies that conserve public health should be grouped together in one bureau.
 The department of agriculture has had success in the southern states through object lessons in the fields, where the best southern farmers in their counties were the instructors. This method should be organized in all the states along lines of greatest necessity Our systems of renting land are faulty and result In soil robbing; where the renter can not provide domestic animals the owner should arrange to furnish them, so that rotation of crops may be had and hay and grains may be fed on the farm.
 Irrigation will bring maximum crops while the land is new and full of plant food: but where the crops are sold year by year irrigation gill not of itself as sure good results.
 Alaska will some day provide farmers in lower attitudes with grain seeds SUI perior to what they can grow at home. The corn crop is moving forward by seed selection
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07

| Cleveland, O., December 6.-(Special. J. l The Iron Trade Review tomorrow will say The past week nas added consider | able tonnage of pig iron to the very heavy purchases made during the preceding weeks. It was not expected that buy ing would continue at the very lively rate reported last week. but no weak ness has developed. Prices, however. do not respond, as the demand is not yet great enough to justify higher quotations. The production of coke and anthracite pig iron for November was 1,99o, 265 tons, decrease Of 96,796 tons compared with October. Shipments of iron ore during November were 2,523,253 tons, making the total movement for the year 32l30, Ill tons, decrease of l0,4S9,790 tons from the movement of 1910.
 Buying of pig iron has continued in | the east, most of Foundry and forge grades, and price commissions continue | to be made. About 20,00O tons is pending
 in New York territory, including an in-
 quiry for 10,oO0 tons of foundry grades
 from one buyer. The principal sales of | basic Guring the week were 12r000 tons
 in the Ohio river territory for first half
 delivery, and 7500 tons to Harrisburg | steel maker which will be shipped from
 the Lehign Valley at about sl425 de-
 livered.
 The General Electric has contracted | for 6OOO tons of foundry grades. Pipe
 makers in Philadelphia district have pur-
 chased about 25,OOO tons in the past 10 | days one New Jersey foundry pur- | chased 10000 tons of No. 3 for shipment
 up to April Norfolk and Western rail-
 road and the Baldwin Locomotive works
 have also been among the buyers of pig iron. Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., is expected to buy about 40.000 tons of l basic this week. In the south, in spite l of recent sales of large tonnages al s9.75 Birmingham for No =, the prevail ing quotation now is $l0.
 In finished materials mills generally | are making a determined effort to ad- vance quotations at least one dollar q ton on plates, shapes and steel bars The question whether advanced quota
 tions now being made can be sustained
 has not been settled and probably vii
 not be definitely until January is well ad l vanced.
 Pennsylvania engineers are still con
 sidering rail requirements of the sys T tems and other railroads have not beer
 active in place of the orders during tn,
 past few days. The D. X H. has ordered
 lO00o tons of open hearth rails from tn,
 Bethlehem Steel company
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
NOVEMBER PROVES
 A RECORD MONTH
In the Volume of Pig Iron
 Orders
ALL MARKETS ACTIVE
Orders Include One of 10000 Tons for N, C. X St. L. to Tennessee Co. 11.OOO Tons for Lehigh Valley.
 Figuring on Bridge Work

New York, December 6-(Speeial.)- The Iron Age will say tomorrow: ''The belief that the decline in prices of steel products has been arrested has gained ground in the past week. November has been the record month of the year in volume of pig iron and finished material orders. Present indications are that Il also marked the turn in the situation though there are still plentiful signs of buyers market.
 The remarkable burst of activity in the pig iron market 10 days ago has been followed by liberal buying, particularly in foundry grades, and in the past week all marke,s have been active. Prices are as low as the lowest on the present movement, apart from firmer tendency in southern iron, on which as low as S. 50 for No. at Birmingham Pig iron production fell off slightly in November, the total being 1,999. 433 gross tons, or 66,64S tons a day. against 2,io2,lH tons, or 67,su tons a day in October.
 on December 1 21 furnaces were in blast against 2l2 on November 1. Recent sales of basic iron in the St. Louis dis trict reached 5000 tons.
 A Plttsburg steel company, which is inquiring for 25O0o to 400 tons, has had bid below Sl225 at Valley furnace. More car orders have been announced, including 5000 in the Chicago district, where 500O more are pending. Rail or ders include one of 10,oo0 tons for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis to the Tennessee company, and 11,o00 tons for the Lehigh Valley. Railroads are figuring on a large amount of bridge work. In New York city specifications have just been issued for 36,0O0 tons ad- dttional for the Hellgate viaduct of the Pennsylvania railroad. connecting bridge
 The advance in bar prices by the Re- public company has been followed by three other long producers and Pitts burg is the general minimum for prompt business. In plates and structural shapes also. producers are taking firmer stand at 1.I5c Putsburg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
In the Loveman, Joseph & Loeb Music Room You May Hear the Worlds
 Greatest Singers Alternately You May Listen 10 the Vctor-Victrola ano
 inc GrQfonOa

the quiet refinement of this Third Floor Music Room you be thrilled and entaed with yomfavore Meba Cave Scot or Schumann-Henk
 Versatile entertainment indeed Music and the eoquence of statesmen preachers eoqueny expressed hopes and fears of patriots ersand men science that might have been lost Sothe time coming and shortly when there will be libraries of talking machine records of the most beautiful works e and these libraries will be in midst libraries of classical literature.
 And talking machines such splendid entertainers talking machines ideal Christmas gift
 In Brninghams Big Store you hear the best instru ments thai madepck your choice and arrange your terms of payment with trouble, 7Uorry and much satisfaction. (Talking Machine Dept, Sd Floor.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
Loveman Joseph s Loeb Begin Daily Parcel Delivery
 BeSS@m@r

Birminghams Big Store, with that initiative Which has always characterized itsleadershp announces daily parcel delivery to sister city ten miles away as proof of its better service.
 Beginning today the citizens of Bessemer Aa may make their purchases with the understanding that they will be delivered to their door without charge the following day.
 All purchases that made up four o'clock in the afternoon of day will be delivered to the homes of Besseme the following morning.
 On special request emergency purchases will be delivered
 through special service at any time during the day of the purchase.
 will profit all the citizens of Bessemer very much to read daily advertising appearing in the daily papers of Birmingham and Bessene Should not prove convenient to to Birming ham to any of the attractive offerings made have ranged this:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
Southern Boys

The southern farm boy Is showing the way to grow more of all crops on an acre.
 Educate the farmers boy toward more valuable life on the farm
 Upllft the farm home through the ed- ucation of the farmers daughter toward greater usefulness and atuactiveness in the farm home.
 Save all the liquid fertilizers on the farm. in cisterns, to be applied where
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
Special Telephone Shopping Service

After getting Loveman Joseph Loebover the telephone ask for the "ma order department Our Mail Order shoppers will take pleasure selecting for you personally anything store whether advertised not and will that is sent you the daily BesSemer delivery.
 This special shopping service should great deal to resi- dents living at distance of ten miles, with free telephone service free delivery and special service of expert shoppers who will take pleasure in filling your telephone orders
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
f{iCe

Rice is one of the five crops that have production above the five year average, but the amount. although little over LOCO 100000 pounds, has been exceeded twice.
 The buckwheaI crop has been exceeded in production by only two crops since
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07

crops are to grow: this will recover the greatest farm waste of our times.
 There is great promise in the fact that whole classes of graduates of agricnl- tural colleges go back to the farms, hav- ing learned how to make them proflt- able.
 Our foresters are learning by eXperi- ments how to reforest 30OOo acres Tn a year. 10 times as much must be plant ed annually to cover all the bare acres III a generation. It will be done.
 There should be publicity regarding the cold storage of foods. through monthly reports 10 some federal authority that would give them to the press, to the end that the people might know to what ex- tent foods were being withdrawn from consumption.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07


 Sl25 0Oo,O0o. and much above the record value of 1907.
 The tobacco crop is estimated to be about S00,000,O00 pounds, or per cent under the five year average, and to be worth about $7600o,0O0. or 5.3 per cent under the five year average. The tobacco grown in this country during the last five wears is 3l per cent of the world $ crop, and supplied other countries with a quantity that is 42.3 per cent of the worlds exports of tobacco.
 The production of haxseed this year has been exceeded many times, but tle total value has never been equaled The crop of 22,0OO,oOO bushels has a farm value of about s47, 50o.000
 Rye has the low production of 3l.0O0,- GOO bushels, but the value. $26,O00. 600, is 122 per cent above the five year aver age.
 The sugar beet crop, which for several years remained close to $20,000.000 in value. has risen to more than ,00O this year ,an increase of 23la per cent above the five year average. This is a crop to tho establishment and growth of which the Department of Agriculture has directed some of it's best efforts.
 No othec crop exhibits such high in- crease of value over the five year aver age as the hop crop does. It is 40 per cent. This is because the price of hops, which has usually been 10 to 20 cents a pound, has risen to 3S cents. Conse- ouentIy the crop value has become sl5,- 5O0000 The production. on the other hand, has fallen off 15 per cent from the five year average. Nearly one-fourth of the worlds exports of hops go from this country and little over one-fourth of the worlds crop is produced here.
Arizona republican., 1911-03-03

anywhere along the border. The headquarters of the department of the Colorado are at Huachuca, where General Schuyler arrived in the carly part of last February. with his chief of staff, Major Hirst, the quarter master Of the department Major Kim ball, and two aides. It is the opinion of these officers that the reports of trouble along the border have been greatly exaggerated and they have yet to discover single fragrant violation of the laws which the gov ernmcnt is enforcing
 General Schuyler was recently pro noted to the grade of brigadier gen eral, and before coming here 10 take his new command was stationed in Honolulu as colonel of the Fifth cavalry. This is not his first eX- perience in Arizona. however. He came from san Francisco and up the gulf to Yuma in 1874, and since then has been several times stationed in this territory. at one time being on General Cooks staff. It is expected that the general will arrive in Phoc- nix with one Of his aides within the next ten days. after having made q complete inspection of the border line between Yuma and Fl PasO.
Arizona republican., 1911-03-03

ly enough time to reach New York aft CT they close their local engagement and sail across the Atlantic to fill their Cardiff date. Their time with the Lon don agency began some weeks ago. but they cdb!cd to postpone their first ap- pearancc under the new contract in or der that they could play in san Fran cisco two weeks. visit Miss Vests rela- tives in Los Angeles and see Phoenix
 This life requires a great deal of travelling. but it's worth it, said Miss West. I'd be seasick forever just to visit Australia again"
 Barnes has an unlimited fund of an ccdotes about actual experiences of himself and Miss West. He is still laughing about that Honolulu reporter who. when they were there a few weeks ago. took his two best stories and mixed them up so that it couldn't be told where one ended and the other started. Starting to tell one story. the writer wound up with the climax of the other.
 There are no more enthusiastic anna teur photographers than these two They have taken pie lures m all the countries they have wis itCd and many of them have been made into stereopticon slides. which Mir. Barnes uses to illustrate a humorous travel lecture he will deliver here for the first time Saturday night