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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09
HENSON WILL
 ACCEPT PLACE Meeting of New Park Con- mission Will Be Held
 This Morning

Commissioner James Weatherly whc has been actively engaged in forming the board of park commissioners for Birming- ham, authorized the announcement yes terday that Robert Jemison, Jr., had ac' cepted place on that important board
 The acceptance of MT. Jemison has beer eagerly awaited for the past several days, as it was known that MT Weath- eIly had requested him to assume a place. On account of pressing business, however MT Jemison has been speculat- ing as to whether he could give the work sufficient time. His decision was John L. Kaul of the park commission CTS and the other associated commission CTS with a great dead of satisfaction
 With the present personnel of that body it is expected that Birmingham will get a fine system of park improvements within a few years. MT. Jemison Is ia miiar with the proper handling of parks and is intensely interested in the civic Improvements of the city.
 Upon the acceptance of the position by MT. Jemson, Chairman Raul issued a re- quest that the commissioners meet this morning at II o'clock in the office of President Culpepper Exum of the Bir- mingham commission.
 The park commissioners have in mind a wide system of park beautifcaton in which they intend to ask the aid of the civic bodies the ladies organizations and the people of Birmingham generally The provision of wading pools in all parks, sand pits for children, swings, better benches and other attractions are being considered, and will be formulated and provided just as quickly as the commits sion can secure an outline for a work ing plan.
 It is considered probable that at the meeting this morning the street commits sioner will designate such assistance to the board of paEk commissioners as Is neded forthwith and that a superintend- ent will be placed over the workmen to get the park in condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09
SECOND PETITION
 FOR SUNDAY SHOW
Operators Offer 10 Per Cent Gro to the Anti-Tubercu-
 losis Camp

] The proposition 10 allow the exhff| mingham on Sunday came up again vel terday in the form of petition sign by 271O citizens of Birmingham that aft o'clock every Sunday the show hous be permitted to open.
 The petition was secured, 1t is state 4 without any great exertion. The propo, tion differs from the former petition d, the striking particular that the riioYin P. picture show operators agree to give I'd per cent of their gross proceeds to the anti-tuberculosis camp on Red mountain. It was explained that the offer was not
 intended for a bait or snare by tho show men, but as an indication of their desire 10 aid a humanitarian work while allow1 in6 citizens some recreation upon thd Sabbath It was stated that the earn1 ings of the picture shows would be o4 such volume as to provide at leas S4000 or perhaps $500 per month to ths ! camp on Red mountain. Such a sum, iH the opinion of the commissioners. would operate lIidl camp UT di iedtQ provide greater facilities with which d stay the white plague.
 The petition and it's accompanying a tractive features were received with e, dent Interest by the commission. Wh.' action has already been taken on one r tition it was the sense of the city offici, that a petition from PHO citizens sho be carefully weighed Commission James Weatherly will have charge of proposition. It was suggested by Pre- dent Exum that a meeting be arranr at which those favoring and those posed to the plan could present tt views freely. Suoh a plan may be lowed.
 While due consideration will be gi, the petition of the citizens, and wh the commissioners would be glad to ca $500 or less for the camp on Red mou tain the opinion prevails that the apply cation will be refused.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09
Steel Plant to Resume Operations On June 10
 Because Of New Orders
No Mine Will Resume Once-President Crawford Gives Out Other Good News for the Birmingham Dsrct-About
 15O Ovens at Bessemer Will Start About July 1.

President George Gordon Crawford of company gave out some more good news for the Birmingham district yesterday. The steel mill at Ensley will resume op- erations June IS instead of June 21, as previously announced, and the further re- sumption of certain mines and coke ovens will give employment to a large number of men.
 No Pratt mine Is to resume at once. and this will be especially gratifying news to workmen in the heart of the industrial field.
 In addition to this President Crawford gives out the first announcement of work to start about July 1. This will include the coke ovens at Pratt Nos. 3, and 5,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09

part of the big oven plant and about 150 ovens at Bessemer. = The official an- nouncement issued by President Craw- ford yesterday reads as follows:
 June s. 1911. "On account of new orders for June delivery the Ensley steel works will re- sume operations on June 1s. instead of June 21. as previously announced. "On account of the starting up of the steel plant No. Pratt mine will resume operations at once
 "The coke ovens at Pratt Nos. 3, and 5, part of the big oven plant and about 150 ovens at Bessemer will also start up about July 1.
 GEORGE G. CRAWFORD, President Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail road Co.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09

dog muzzle. Other than this instance 1t is stated that in practically all of Greater
 Birmingham the dogs have been un- checked and unmuzzled.
 The dog wagon 1t was stated brings in to the pound a great load of canines every night and they are promptly given gas if payments are not made. However. it is stated a perfect army of the dogs yet run at large without tags, muzzles or any restraint. The result has been that the son of B. F. Moore of Moore &s Handley was bitten yesterday and 1t Is stated there Is serious doubt as to the dogs exemption from rabies No an- nouncement has been made but it is ex- pected that Mr. Moore will go through the Pasteur treatment.
 The commissioners intend to start a wig orous campaign to correl all the dogs and either see that they are muzzled or let them go the gas route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09
Marriage Licenses Issued

The following marriage licenses were day
 H. F. Hines of Birmingham to Miss Pearl Shreves.
 D. P. Knapp to Miss Ethel Pennington. John Neveles of Carbon Hill to Miss Ada Gilbert
 Charlie J. sobb of Birmingham to Miss Rosa McGhee.
 H. D. Dedman of Ohatchee. Ala, to Miss Mamie O. Faulkner.
 Henry French of Birmingham to Miss Ada Jarvis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09

dies in charge of the Boys Industrial school, secured permission to direct the city engineer to repair a tank at the school. That work will start this morn | ing. It was pointed out that the healthI of the boys was at stake and the work was ordered rushed to completion. Al ordinance was adopted permitting th( construction of a sanitary sewer in Ardi} Heights. Frank B. Fowlkes. one of the owners of that property. and his engi-, neer, R. E. Meade, appeared before thel commissioners and urged the authoriza1 tion of the work.
 Commissioner Weathery. who had looked into the question: concurred in theI plan
 The commission held a meeting in the ! afternoon, called in a jocular air 'thsI Weatherly meeting" for the special pur} pose of permitting Commissioner Weath ! erly to clean up his file of papers of ro1J tine work. His petitions were acted uporI quickly and the commissioners. without taking any specially important action, adjourned until next Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09

LOST-Tuesday night be- tween Country Club and Bijou theatre, pearl and diamond pendant set in platinum. Large reward given for return to Age Herald office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09

turn was that an acquittal had bee found.
 The arguments in the case were b. gun shortly before the noon hour wit. a limitation of one hour set for eact side. Solicitor H. P. Heflin opened thu prosecution with a 30 minutes speecl and was followed by White Gibson ant C. P. Beddow for the defense. The clos ing argument was made by z. T. Rul dulph
 The main effort of the defense hat been to prove an alibi for the defend ant. It will be recalled that Arlie Bar her. prominent druggist, was se upon and severely beaten one night las october following a sensational address he made before the City Council ir which he brought very specific charges against alleged prohibition law violat- CTS. Richard Wray was arrested on 8 warrant sworn out against him as one of the party who attacked Barber Shortly thereafter he was given a hear ing which resulted in mistrial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09

of his nest. or by the supreme president and secretary"
 Article XxXI is so drafted as 10 pre- vent any of the local nests from adopt ing an original constitution wIicaa would conflict with the general con- stitution. Each branch nest may adopt laws for it's own government. none of which shall conflict with this consti- Iution."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09
Dictatorial Power

Article VIII, it is claimed, provides for taxation without representation and fur ther does not allow any benefit to accrue to the local nests from the per capita tax. It provides that leach nest. shall pay the home nest for the support of the general organization the sum of 10 cents per mem Der quarterly at the end of each quarter for each member of the branch who was in good standing at any time during such quarter" It is claimed by the local Owls that Caulfield promised that they were to have received 40 per cent of this tax for local purposes and that such agree ment has not been carried out.
 Article XIV is the one to which the greatest objection is raised, because " rlaces the existence or each nest entirely in the hands of the supreme president with it's provision that the supreme pres ident may at any time revoke the char ter of any nest or suspend for any length of time the existence of such nest, and in case of his doing so all the property and funds of the nest shall become the property,of of the home nest and be paid to it.
 Article KY provides: Each nest shall
 
 on deposit and not subject to be drawn for local expenses the sum of s100 pro- vides that "the sum of $2 shall be re- such deposits or any of them to be kept in the common depository to be named by him where they shall draw interest. which interest shall be used to some purpose for the good of the order"
 Article XVII in content is contrary, it is claimed to the statement of the national organizer. who said that only the per capita tax was to be remitted to the home nest This article pro- vides thta the sum of s2 shall be re- r,itted to the home nest for each can ddate initiated and s1 for each charter member"
 Article XVIII sets forth that "the sole executive power of the organiya- tion shall be vested in the home nest and In the supreme president when the Tome nest is not in session, including 2 the right to grant dspensatons of any and all kinds" The supreme presi- dent, it is said, thus absorbs the power of the local nest officers.
 Aticle XXII is shown to fix such con- ditions as will allow the home nest to stop 4n and take the funds from the local nests treasuries by saying that the treasurer shall honor all warrants signed by the president and secretary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09
Stringent Constitution

knowledge of the constitution. of whict l the local Owls claim that they have here tofore been ignorant. President G. F.
 Riddle states that copies of the consti- tuition were asked for at the time of the organization of the order and at the time also of the installation, but were
 never furnished
 Lately the owls came into possession Of a copy of the constitution and learned by it's articles that practically the entire power of the order Is vested with the home nest, which can at will drain the local treasuries of the order at their leisure and even sweep the whole nest out of existence if the supreme president so desires.
 There is scarcely an article In the con- stitution which is satisfactory to the local nest, while the majority of them are claimed to be despotic and dictatoria Ar ticle I'll is the first pointed out as not meeting with the requirements of self governing organization inasmuch as it provides that the home nest shall con sist of the organizers thereof or their sue cessors, elected by unanimous vote of the survivors to fill any vacancy caused by death or resignation or removal or resis- nation of any member, and that no mem- ber of the home nest shall be expelled eX cent on the unanimous vote of all other members thereof" thus leaving the local nests without voice in the supreme affairs of the order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09
Industrial School Work

Judge Lane. at the request of the la
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-09
LOCAL OWLS ARE
 D|SBANDED AND WITHOUT A NEST Members Are Indignant and Generally Agree That
 They Were "Stung" CLAIM ORGANIZERS
 MIsREPRESENTED Local. Order Finally Received Copies of the Constitution and Found Itself Helpless to Guard
 Its Own Interests

The local order of Owls Is no more. Fifteen hundred and eleven fedglings look wistfully back upon the dream of a feathered nest for which s7555 had been collected by National Organizer H. R.
 Caulfeld and only 1922 .5O set aside for | the purpose. according to a statement
 made by c. F. Riddle, one-time president I of the local nest.
 l The local nest was formally disorgan-
 ized at a meeting held on Sunday, May 1 2s, at the Majestic theatre, and the bal
 ance remaining from the 22.5O, after
 meeting all obligations of the nest was
 returned pro rata to the members of 1 the organization.
 w. A. Haynes, general organizer of | the Order of Owls, reached the city yes terday, having been sent here to investi- gate the conditions of the local nest His presence is said by local members of the reorganization to be for the pur- pose of trying to locate the funds of the Owls, but this they declare Is back in the hands of the 1511 men who were initiated into the order. According to statement from w. H Miller once dU OllCtT Ol IHe OWiSb 11dyhcS IS quOlCd as saying: You are pretty nice fellows, but the little Owls of Birmingham are f1uttering too much in their nest and will have to have their wings clipped
 National Organizer H. R. Caulheld is also quoted by Mir Miller as saying shortly before leaving Birmingham that the Yankees always found it an easy thing to skin the southerners." The local members claim that they will eventually beat Caulfield at his own game. The specific charges made against H. R. Caulfield are that from April 3 to May he turned in an account showing only 329 charter members for that time when his receipts called for 337 further that he placed to the credit of the local nest an amount of $s22 50, as representing half the initiation fee of s for 329 instead of $S42 50 for the full 337. Moreover, 1t is charged that a number of persons have reported at the headquarters of the or der that they paid initiation fees at the door of the Bijou theatre at the time of the installation of the order and that these members are found never to have been accounted for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23
MRS. GERTRUDE GIBSON PATTERSON

DENVER. Col, November 2S.-Wit-
nesses expected to show contradictory
statements made by the defendant in re-
gard to the shooting Of Charles A. Pat
terson as well as number OF others ex-
pected to corroborate testimony intro
duced by the state yesterday. were in
court awaiting summons to the stand
when the fourth day of the trial OF Mrs.
Gertrude Gibson Patterson, charged with
the murder of her husband, opened today.
Maids at the home Of e. 3. Hendrick. a
wealthy machinery manufacturer, In
front of whose house the shooting took
place, and to whose door Mrs. Patterson
fled after killing her husband. make up
a good part of these witnesses. together
with Chief Of Police Hamilton Armstrong
and members of the Denver police and
detective force.
BY them the state expects to show that
Mrs. Patterson first declared that her
husband had shot himself; that later she
said she had wrested the weapon from
him and had shot him after he had drawn
the revolver and attacked her. and that
she denied all knowledge Of the owner
ship of the weapon until the man who
had left 1t with her two nights before the
shooting acknowledged his part In the af-
fair to the police. The principal part of
terday and 1t was expected that today
would see the end Of the prosecutions
evidence at least for the present.
Should the defense, however, seok to
lay before the jury the past life OF the
defendant, a. Is expected, and to attack
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23
EMPLOYEES AGAIN RESTRICTED
Those in Postal Railway Mail Serv-
ice Not Allowed to Trade Jobs.

Second Assistant Postmaster General
Stewart has issued a warning to the
effect that any railway mail service
employee who seeks to change his
status in the service in any way for
a valuable consideration will be sub
ject to removal from the service, IL he
holds an absolute appointment, or if
he be an eligible or substitute such
action on his part will prevent his ap-
pointment; and any employee who deals
with another in this manner will be
considered equally culpable and SUBJ
ject to the same penalties.
1t was explained at the department
today that employees of the service
who wish to succeed those contemplat-
ing resignation, or to exchange runs
with those who have runs considered
more desirable than their own, have
been paying the incumbent Of the
place they are after either to withhold
his resignation until they can secure
their own appointment as his sue
cessor or to swap places with him. The
department does not approve Of either
practice and will break 1T up in the
way stated in Mr. Stewards warming
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23
ARRANGE NICARAGUAN LOAN.
Bankers Do Not Wait for Approval
of Senate,

Without waiting for the approval by
the Senate Of the pending treaty pro-
viding for an adjustment of the
Nicaraguan finances, the syndicates oil
American bankers which had agreed to
advance the Nicaraguan government
funds is dispatching it's agents to
Managua to initiate the transaction.
Col. Clifford d. Ham. formerly sur
veyor OF the port Of Manila, and F. w.
Wilson. an employee in the customs
service in the Philippines, have been
retained by the syndicate. They will
sail from New York Saturday for
Nicaragua, via Colon.
The amount of the loan which they
are to advance. IL the conditions are
is only $500, 900, which is
to be applied to the reorganization of
the Nfcaraguan currency. This may be
followed by additional loans for the
OF the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23
Appeals From the Auditors.

Even as it is now the average number
of appeals taken from auditors settle
ments to this office are in excess of a
hundred per month. Dissatisfied claim
ants would readily discover that the one
auditor legally responsible for these set
Elements absolutely knew nothing about
them and consequently little respect would
be paid them, and this Office would soon
be overwhelmed with an avalanche of
appeals from the decisions of the one
auditor. The above result would inevita-
bly, follow unless it can be truthfully af-
firmed that the chiefs of divisions in these
offices are and will be as competent to
make these audits as are the auditors
supposedly much higher grade of men,
Instead Of the proposed system fixing a
one-man responsibility it will divide this
responsibility into as many parts as there
are chiefs Of divisions. The one auditor
would be mere figurehead. and a rubber
stamp could well be substituted for him.
The rubber stamp would evidence his per-
functory signature, and this is all he could
accomplish If he worked every hour of
the twenty-four in day"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23

following the news OF the assassination
OF President Caceres may have brought
about this condition. At any rate. the
insular bureau of the War Department
today received a cablegram from Mr.. Pull
liam. the American receiver Of customs at
Santo Domingo. as follows:
Reports reassuring from outside, and
no trouble at other ports. Business re-
sumed. Congress will assemble November
30 for the presidential election.
The Dominican constitution, article 40.
provides that in case of the death OF the
president cong oss shall designate the
person to I'LL the once until the incapacity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23
FOR MORE FREEDOM
Controller TraceWeII Wants
His Office Independent.
POSITIONS QUASI JUDICIAL
Need for Untrammeled Interpreta-
ton of Acts.
OPPOSED TO CUT IN AUDITORS
Disputes Recommendation of the
Economy and Efficiency
Commission.
OPPOSED TO CUT IN AUDITORS

Robert j. Tracewell, controller of the
Treasury for nearly fifteen years. in his
annual report just made public, not only
urges that accounting officers under him
and elsewhere in the government service
be made absolutely free from the fear of
losing their places in case they do not de-
eide to suit men higher up in the gov
eminent, but he goes after President
Taft's economy and efficiency commission
in no uncertain terms, opposing the idea
said to be advanced by that commission
that the offices Of five auditors should be
abolished and one auditor made to per-
form the whole work Of government
auditing. The controller declares that his
Office should come directly under Con-
gress.
Mr. Tracewell takes his stand on these
questions regardless of what may be
thought among those higher than he is in
the admin stration. Mr.. Tracewelfs hot
shots on the two questions are set out in
the following paragraphs from his annual
report:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23
QUIET IN sANTo DOMINGO.
No Uprising Follows Assassination
of President.

The unexpected happened in Santo Do
mingo. and almost for the first time in
the troubled history Of that republic the
assassination OF its president has SO Tar
been unaccompanied by revolutionary up
risings.
Possibly the speedy dispatch of the
American warships to Dominican waters
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23

the dead man to strengthen its plea of
self-defense the prosecution. 1t Is assert
ed, has ready for this occasion letters
written by Patterson to his brother in
Chicago and other documents found
among Patterson's effects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23
IMPORTED NEsToR, ssc pkg:

ceases or new president IL elected. and
II the body is not in session when the va
cancy occurs 1t must be Immediately con-
vened for this sole purpose The govern
ment of Santo Domingo at present is adj
ministered by the council of cabinet off,
GERS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23

Rev. L. A. Miller, pastor of Zion United
Evangelical Church. Cearfoss. Nd, was
seriously injured in a fall against the
wheel of his carriage while inspecting
the work on the new Evangelical Church
at Big Pool Two ribs were fractured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23
Soaps Reduced.

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Fairy Soap, 3 cakes. ..1oc
1oc Lana Oil Soap, 3 cakes. I6c
1oc Milk Maid Soap, 3 cakes. 12c
15c Harmony Rose Glyce-
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25c All Soap, cake. ..I5c
25c Ponds Extract Soap,
cake. .............. ..I5c
25c Woodbury's Soap, cake. 15c
15c Jersey Cream Soap,
1oc Pumo Soap, for ma
chinists, cake. .......... &c
Ioc Flash Hand Cleaner,
can. /C
1oc Williams Shaving Soap,
cake. .............. SC
1oc Colgate's Shaving Soap,
cake. .............. sc