The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-10
WORK PROGRESSES
 ON NEW HIGHWAY Road Being Built Between
 Two Cities PATROLMAN ELECTED Greer Contradicts Harrison's Testi- mony Before Stanley Committee as to Treatment of Alabama Conyicts-Wants Water
PATROLMAN ELECTED

Anniston. February 9.-(Speeial.)-ln a statement given out here Thursday alter mon b, Contractor Goodrich, who is in charge of the construction of the model public highway between this city ana Jacksonville, to extend five miles or more
 in length. says that good progress has
 been made under the favorable weather
 recently, and that the project will have
 been completed within few weeks longer
 The rock for the bed is being quarrled
 near the scene of the contractors actiV-
 ty, and a large force of men, mules
 and machinery are being utilized in rush
 ing the road to completion. It is pike
 of the most modern kind and will be
 model for other work 10 be done by the
 county in other sections.
 Len r. Greer. state convict inspector.
 who is recuperatng from a fractured limb
 at his home in this city, gave out an In
 teryiew here Friday in which he charges
 that the indictment of Alabama for al legged maltreatment of convicts. as brought
 by Shelby M. Harrison, New York mag
 azine writer, in his testimony before the
 Stanley Investigating committee at Wash
 ington recently, is false in every essen
 tial particular
 Ninety per cent of the convicts in Ala
 bsma are better fed and better clothed than they were at their homes before being sent away to the mines, MT. Greer says; and the reference to shackles on prisoners is absolutely without founda- ton, as there is not state convict in Alabama, according to his knowledge, wearing siiackles, nor is there warden in the state authorized to place sirons on any of the prisoners.
 The proposed extension of the gas franchise of the Anniston Electric and Gas company, for which a petition was presented to the city council at it's regular meeting Thursday evening, was
 withheld under the advice of Capt. A. F. Agee, president, who stated his be- lief that the city could effect a more remunerative contract with the com pany.
 The proposition for the extension of
 the time allowed for the building of
 hydro electric line from Jackson g
 Shoals, furnishing water power to this
 city and Talladega, which has been in
 the hands of a committee for several
 weeks. was granted favorable report, and it Is believed that the line will have been completed within few months longer. James Williams, the aged white man of this county who was convicted of arson on the testimony of negro al | a recent session of the city court, sur rendered to the sheriff Thursday and will serve sentence of two years in | the mines of the state, his case hay ing recently been affirmed by the su preme court.
 The Fifth ward of Anniston is again after water, and at the instance of his constituents, Alderman Evans
 brought the matter before the city council Thursday evening. The question has been up several times before but the water company has taken no ac- ton in the matter.
 George W. Rutledge has been elected | to a position on the police force of | Anniston to succeed James Kyle, who | recently resigned to take position with a Birmingham business concern.