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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09
Dun's Review

New York. April 7.-R. G. Dun & Go. s eeky review of trade today says:
 A somewhat slower movement of trade is revealed in most of the reports from different sections. Fundamental condi- tions are undoubtedly sounder and better than in long time past, but immediate husintss, while necessarily large, in view of the constant requirements of an im- mense population, shows reduced activity for the time being, because the period of retrenchment and re-adjustment is not yet ended. The optimism that prevails abroad and especially in England is be- ginning to have it's effect in this country, and must be counted as one of the influ- ences working for improvement.
 While there is evidence that consumers of iron and steel are showing less dispo- sition to anticipate requirements than for some time past, the general situation presents several encouraging aspects, not withstanding that new bookings of the leading producer are on diminished scale One of the favorable features is the steady reduction in accumulated stocks of pig iron, in spite of the report that the production during March rose to the highest point since July, 19l0
 Moreover several furnaces have been added to the active list and the com bined output increased sharply. last month. On the other hand, current buy ing of pig iron is limited in practically all markets, Cincinnati being an eXcep- tion, although it is noticeable that quota tions are not quite firmly held. In fin ished materials specifications are showing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09

work done around the mines if the mins bosses didn't have a vocabulary and use 1t occasionally. Sposin' each and every mine boss and foreman in the district should get sued for cussing out the darkies.
 Well, we'd have a situation up around the court house, we certainly would. And we'd hear some language. The thing is simply becoming a farce, carried on as it is now from day to day. Simply read ing the bold notices in the daily papers of suits entered. shows any man how things are going in our courts"
 The county auditors facts and figures added to this daily record of suits filed against the city, the public utility com- panies and the various corporations, mercantile and industrial concerns, speak plainer than any words.
 Statement of Annual Expense
 The yearly expenditures of Jefferson county, according to MT. Gillespy, for maintaining the civil courts is s4s,S50.12, and for maintaining the criminal courts, s22, ,211.02 The total amount expended for all the courts last year was s71 ,061.14.
 A more detailed table of daily average of costs of courts trying only damage suits for the eight months of 1910, during which the courts were in session, has also just been prepared by MT. Gillespy. This is as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09

No matter what is said about the dam age suit business, pro and con, whether fake or not fake, you can't get away from one thing, and that Is, its heavy cost to the citizens and taxpayers Of Jefferson county. It is costing the peo- ple treble what it is worth. More than treble.
 Every day sees good money going out for nothing, moneys that could be used in civic and municipal improvements. for real estate development. railroad ex- tension, park making philanthropic or ganzations and reconstruction. work in the carious companies
 According to the statistics of the past fiscal year ending November. 1910, the suits filed numbered 152s all told. Of these the outstanding suits carried on into 1911 amounted to 1195. aggregating a sum of s11,57O, 400 in the city, circuit, Bes- semer and United States court.
 The detailed statement shows up as fol- lows: Local railroads 463, iron eompa- nies 200, coal companies t43, public ser- vice 52, city and county 5S. factories 6i, miscellaneous 60, traffic II, contractors 8, private Al. Total 1195.
 Majority Are GrOundless Suits
 That these damage suits are one and all fake damage suits is not asserted. Not precisely. Certain ones, as mat ter of course. are and have been essen tial under the circumstances. But the great majority of these suits are trivial, groundless and absurd, and consequently should never have been inflicted upon the courts and the people of gBrming ham and Jefferson county.
 The city itself Is daily getting more heavily involved, as are also public util- ity companies. banks, contractors, the railroads and the great companies that are the backbone of this district, chief among them the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, Sloss-Sheffieid Steel and Iron Alabama Consolidate Coal and Iron, Woodward Iron company. Republic Iron and Steel, Pratt Consol- dated Coal company Birmingham Goa; and Iron. Birmingham Railway Light and Power company, Birmingham Ter minal company and others.
 Said a local attorney: Striking Q general average I should say that the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09

falling off in most lines, but wire con tinues active.
 While indications are not lacking that tEere has been some shrinkage in net profits, as a consequence of the reduced volume of transactions, steadier and flrmer tone to the cotton goods market was given during the week by a recovery in prices from the low levels touched on wide sheetings and A bleached cottons and also by consistent purchases for the well established needs of a larger printer. Export trade has been better than year ago. The tariff agitation centering upon the wool schedule has naturally led to cautious operations on the part of all merchants handling dress goods and mems wear. The yarn markets, by in- activity on a broad scale, continue to re- fleet the curtailed output of many mis- cellaneous textile mills.
 In footwear some manufacturers are fairly busy, but others are feeling tho lack of supplementary seasonable orders and their cutting rooms are especially dull at the present time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09

There was one, for instance, brought not so long ago by friend of mine an at torney whom I thought better things Of.
 His client was lady on the sunny side of 43 if 43 has a sunny side, though she testified in court that she was be- tween 30 and 40. She was a bachelor maid. as we must all say nowadays, and she was bound to stay that way. l think. That is. of course, if looks have any thing to do with the case.
 The Tragedy of It All
 .Well. to go on with my story. She said she was riding on an East Lake car and the conductor winked at her. Winked, understand, wilfully, brazenly winked his right eye!
 "She was insulted and entered suit at once against the street car company for s20OO I heard the whole thing from start to finish. The poor conductor i1 the case was a great big six-footer, fresh from the country He scarcely knew his right hand from his left, and was just getting broken in. He had no more harm in him than fly. and he was a good. honest sort of a chap, though he was slow to catching on.
 He told his story and it was straight as die.
 ..The fellow simply had gotten cin- der in his eye, and that was all there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09
STOVE EXPLODES
 BURNING FAMILY

Chicago April S.-By the explosion of a kerosene stove six children and their mother, Mrs. Luddie Podotil, were badly burned last night at Clyde, near hero.
 One of the victims, a 5-year-old boy, died today. Mrs. Podotil attempted in vain to extinguish the fire of the clothes of her offspring, while her own dress and the walls of the rooms were burning away.
 The house was so quickly destroyed that 1t was with difficulty neighbors were able to drag out the helpless mother and children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09

The county auditors office has just undertaken an interesting service for the information of the general public; that is an effort to obtain comparative sta tistics in this business from the various southern cities.
 Ii would be interesting to learn how Birmingham stands in this specific mat ter, with Memphis, Atlanta and other cities of near kin to ours. The reports obtained by MT. Gillespy will be pub lished in this series shortly.
 Said one of the local attorneys: I'm a believer in damage suits all right, an don't make any bones about 1t. But they've got to be the right sort, y know. I certainly don't hold up for any of these pesky little good for nothing cases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09
TRADE UNUSUALLY
 QUIET AND SLOW Weather Conditions Favor
 able to Farmers A SLOW MOVEMENT However, the General Situation Pre- sents Many Enc0urageing As
 poets and More Furnaces
 Are Running

New York, April s.-Bradstreet's to- day says:
 Trade and industry are quiet, disap- pointingly so in most sections. consider ing the nearness of Easter and collec- tions are backward, but weather condi- tions, which have been partly responsible for this, have on the whole been benc- ficia to agricultural interests. It is to he noted that the long decline in most farm products, which are now 2ono 40 per cent below a year ago, is credited at a few points with being Il retarding in- fluence upon trade. On the other hand few days of good weather and recent price revisions are credited with helping the cotton goods trade slightly Still the difficulties in that situation are well illustrated by the statement that some large printers, who are also manufac- turers, have bought quite freely of cloths in the open market where it is claimed they have obtanA.l goods cheaper than they themselves could produce and sell them.
 In the leading industries there is not much new to note. Iron and steel fail to show progressive growth in demand. The railroads are slow to place business md pig iron prices are weaker at some cent CTS, but structural materials sell fairly well and wire of the entire list of steel products notes most activity. There are fewer idle cars than two weeks ago. though the grand total is double that of a year ago.
 Woolen goods and textiles generally feel the effect of the threatened revisons of the tariff while farm products reflect re- newal of reciprocity talk and the paucity of export demand, as well as the unques- tionably improved outlook for winter wheat
 Business failure in the United States for the week ending April were 236, against 26) last week. 240 n the like week of 1910, 227 in 1909, 25S in 1908 and 19i in 1907
 Business failures in Canada for the week number. 23. as compared with 26 last week and 26 in the corresponding week of 1910.
 Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the week ending April 6 aggregate 2,143,043 bushels, against 3,576, ,S64 last week and 1,775.0S6 tlis week last year. For the .4o weeks ending April 6, exports are 94.69o.732 bushels, against 1l7,O46,es3 in the corresponding period last year. Corn exports for the -.->~----~~----~ -~-------------------~~~--
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09

was to 1t. He was all baled up over the old maids accusation. because, as I said he'd been brought up in the coun- try and he was all respect as they say, to every lady he ever saw.
 His denial was clear, and his story and his personality convincing through out. It was his word only, however against the woinan's word And she wasn't pretty either. as l told you. Yet. d' y know the jury turned in a verdic. for that woman for $500. And it was later affirmed by the supreme court.
 An expensive wink, or cinder, which ever way you want it.
 T was ashamed of my friend. But he went around puffed tip as turkey COCK after the verdict. He took it all as 8 high and mighty joke. The verdict sur prised him more than anybody, can as-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09

week are 1,616,045 bushels, against ,2s6 last week and 6S5 62i in 1910. For the 40 weeks ending April 6 com exports are fl ,033 993 bushels, gainst 23,371,426 last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09

sure you of that. Well, that thing spread over the state, Montgomery, Selma and Mobile had similar cases within six months, and 1 daresay 1t got out in the other southern cities. Any thing, it seems. for easy money now- adays. Mores Q tsmparap'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09

ofimmene to from believe  m possible Werh hgbf or read o
 
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  as Of ORIGINATORS VIM. R. MOORE DRY GOODS COMPANY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-09

There are a few points of immens
 from which to get your filling chants of this section most painsts better service than any other hous know that the merchants who fin' want when they want it and want
Arizona republican., 1911-01-05
NEVER SUCH A TIME
 FOR NAVAJO BLANKETS
Selling at Balke's Big Curio Store
 For Cost.

Now. a word more about Navajo blankets Ever since Balke's Big Gu rio store was opened for business. it has made speciality of Navajo blankets The proprietor began a study of them He visited the reser- vation at remote points from the railroad where the blankets were made in the hogans of the Indians just as they had been manufactured for generations He saw that the wool was from the sheep of the Navajos and that the coloring was of the fast vegetable dyes. In short, that the blankets were genuine and not such blankets as the Indians living nearer the railroad and trading posts had been taught to make of Germantown warn the life of which had been de stroycd in the dyeing process. Since then, every year. Mir. Bake has secured the Navajo reservation for blankets personally making his se lection from the best. He has never handled any Navajo blanket except the genuine made in the old fash toned way.
 The demand for Navajo blankets has increased rapidly within the last ten years as everybody who has had occasion to inquire has learned. The
Arizona republican., 1911-01-05

price has risen with the demand un- til now a blanket is worth double the price of a similar blanket ten years ago. The price will keep on increasing. only more rapidly than ever for notwithstanding the grow ing demand. fewer Indians every year engage in the manufacture of them
 Last summer. Mr. Bake bought an unusually large number of blankets because he secured a bargain. At that time he had no thought of clos ing out his stock. He was not con templating such a trip to Europe as he has been called upon to take and it was immaterial to him wheth- CT the blankets were sold out this season or not. He knew they would be worth more next season.
 But now comes the closing out sale: everything must go, Navajo blankets and all. To facilitate the movement of them. for the time is short, they will be sold for precisely what he gave the Indians for them for cost.
Arizona republican., 1911-01-05

Constipation is the cause of many ailments and disorders that make life miserable. Take Chamberlain Stomach and Liver Tablets. keep your bowels regular and you will avoid these diseases. For sale by all deal CTS
Arizona republican., 1911-01-05

Phoenix Savings Bank & Trust com pany pays per cent interest On saV- ings accounts. m
Arizona republican., 1911-01-05

See Mcdonald & Curtis in clever song and dance turn at the Coliseum tonight.
Arizona republican., 1911-01-05

Phoenix Savings Bank & Trust com pany pays per cent interest on sav- ings accounts. m
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
DREAM SAVES A LIFE
HANGING OF SON is AvERTEp ~
FATHERS VISION.
Nightmare Brings Proof Of innocence
After Suspect Had Been Convicte3
of Murder and Death Sentence i.
Suspended on Parents Plea.

Des Moines, Ia.-George Weems
aged SO. originally sentenced to he.
hanged will soon step forth from the,
Iowa State prison at Fort Madison q
free man, after sixteen years seryt
tude. He was convicted of the mur.
der of l.. B. Ridpath. conductor on.
the Chicago Great Western railroad.
who was on his way to his train when
shot in the neck and killed.
Weems maintained his innocence.
He had been with John Grout and
Hammill earlier in the evening. b,,t
left them to visit with Miss Kitty.l
Leary. While in her company he said
he heard a shot fired in the street
He rushed out and saw the conductor
staggering in the street helped him
to the curb and fed When arrested
next day it was discovered that the
woman by whom he could prove an,
alibi had left the city.
On the night of the murder the,
father of George Weems. who lives at
Abel, twenty miles from Des Moines.
had a bad dream. He left his bed and
walked into the country. He was.
stopped by several friends. to whom.
he told his dream.
It was to the effect that he had
seen his son George with two other
persons about to be buried, though
his son was alive The father cried
out for some one to help him, and a..
man whom he did not know said: Il
will save your boy from the grave"
The man jumped into the grave and
lifted out the son alive.
The next day Mr.. Weems was called
to the assistance of his son, accused
of murder After the death sentence.
Weems' father went to the private Of.
fee of Governor Drake to plead elem.
ency for his son. He had never seen.
the governor but when he entered
the room he cried: Governor, | know
you; you are the man in my dream
who helped lift my boy out of the
grave" Then the father recounted
his dream, whereupon the governor
said:
'In real life will l help you lift
your boy out of the grave"
He signed the order committing the,
death sentence to life imprisonment
The woman who was with Weems
on the fatal night was found, and was
finally prevailed upon to tell her story
in confidence to Senator A. B. Cum
Minis, then governor of Iowa. AS a
result the sentence of life was COM
muted. and in few days George
Weems will leave the penitentiary q
free man.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17

they were large, steady eyes that
Helen had liked as soon as she looked
into them. She had intended each
day to send back the pictures and
each day had put 1t off This pro-
crastination was not entirely from
negligence but because day dreams
around the mans personality had sift-
ed into her daily thoughts and she
hated to think of her dreams without
the face to keep them alive.
Where were her own pictures? Hell
en- hoped with guilty feeling that he
had found them worth a second
glance. There was no doubt that
their pictures had been merely ex-
changed on account of a mistaken
reading of the film number, by the
photographers clerk. Eighty-eight and
eighty-three were easily confused. But
why did he make no attempt to trace
his own pictures? Again Helen
blushed at her own thought: why
don't | trace my OWN"
"Oh-hello, Geoff!" Helen started
about quickly. Her fiance had come
In unannounced. Without reason she
swept the pictures from her desk and
turned them face downward She and
Geoff had been engaged more from a
family arrangement than from choice.
"Humph! l am glad you have a se-
cret admirer."
Geoffry Blake's tone more than his
words Infatuated the girl.
II haven't" she said calmly.
Il suppose some favorite actor.
them"
mo, nor is he an actor" Helen
stiffened perceptibly
"Well-I'll just have a look anv
way"
"You will do nothing of the kind!"
mhe retorted. His air of ownership
and the right to pry into her affairs
maddoned Helen. Never before had
Geoffzy displayed such temper. She
faced him squarely.
"Geoffry. you may as we'll under.
stand now as later, that will never
tolerate either suspicion regarding nv
actions or display of temper such as
you exhibited when you first came into
my presence"
The man was stung by her calm
ness as well as by his own jealousy
IF you think l want the girl who ia
to be my wife sitting around moon
ing over another mans picture Won
are very much mistaken" He turned
angrily away, and | notice you are
pretty much ashamed of him who"
Il am nothing of the kind" Helen
flashed indignant eyes. 81 admit I
should not have tried to conceal the
pictures-I did that unthinkingly."
Perhaps you don't mind telling me
the name of my rival"
From Geoffry's tone Helen felt that
he doubted her veracity.
Il do not know his name"
"Oh! suppose you don't know him
either?" q
mo, nor do l know him. And now.
II you have finished your questions
may as well tell you that / do not
want this anv longer
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
FILM
NUMBER SO
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS

Helen Ware opened locked drawer
of her desk and took out package of
photographs. She carefully extracted
the six pictures from their separate
envelopes and stood them in row
across the top of her desk and leaned
back with a sigh of contentment.
For the past seven days she had
gone through the same manoeuvre.
Nor had she considered 1t necessary
to confide her little intrigue with the
pictures, to her fiance. The privilege
of gazing at the picture of an un,
known man was surely not one to be
denied even an engaged girl.
One week before, Helen had walked
to the suburban postoffice for her mail.
She had been expecting her pictures
from the photographer in New York
SO that the large envelope had not
surprised her 1t was when she was
walking through the sweet smelling
lanes on her way home that she had
opened the package. Then. not one
Of the three poses for which she her
self had sat were there, instead. they
were six pictures of man, the pho
tographer had made a mistake.
Helen reached forward and took her
favorite from the row. There were
six different poses and Helen had long
since had her choice. From 1t, his
eyes looked back into her own, and
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
The "Bo'n Oratah."

It is narrated that Colonel Brecken.
ridge, meeting Majah Buffo'd on the
streets of Lexington one day, asked:
What Is the meaning, sub, of the con.
co'se befo' the cot house?"
To which the majah replied:
General Buckneh, sub, is making -
speech General Buckneh, sub, Is q
bon oratah."
What do you mean by BON ora.
tah?"
IF yo' or l., sub, were asked how
much two and two make, we would
reply foh.' When this is asked a BON
oratah he replies: When In the co'se
of human events 1t becomes necessary
to take an integeh of the second de-
nomination and add it, sub, to an in
tegeh of the same denomination, the
result, suh-and have the science of
mathematics to back me In my 1udg.
ment-the result, sub, and say It with.
out feah of successful contradiction
subtitle result Is fo'.' That's BON ora.
tab. THE Lyceumite.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-17
FELINE is ALLOWED TO LIVE.
Cat Survives Poison, Bullet and Gas
and Police Give Up Trying to
Xiii II.

Westfield. N IA cat which has
survived efforts to drown, poison and
shoot IL passed safely through gas
explosion which blew the whiskers of
of and almost cost the life of PATROL
man John Roscrans, and startled one
district of Elizabethtown out of the
best part of an evenings rest.
The cat had been brought to the
police station by two boys. who said
they had attempted in vain to oblige
their mother by getting rid of the
animal. Roscrans thrust it into
small tank in the rear of the police.
station and then turned on the gas.
The contrivance had been used for
months to smother cats and dogs that
had become a nuisance in the com
munity After the cat had been ten
minutes in the tank Roscrans shifted
at the tiny peephole by the knob. he
smelt no gas, and supposed, he said,
the supply pipe was stopped up.
Lighting his lantern, he opened the
door of the tank and set the lantern
inside to see what was the matter
The explosion burst the. tank, blew
the cat into Roscrans' face and sec
fire to his clothing, hair and whiskera
Several comrades ran out and res
cued him, and a doctor attended MIN
and added plasters to his countenance.
The cat today is walking around and
about the police station as well 40
ever. The bluecoats will keep 1t az
mascot.