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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04

jackson, Miss, September 3.--(Special)
The penitentiary board of trustees met
yesterday for their regular monthly ses-
sion, with all members present. That in
eludes Col. Leroy Taylor, member from
the northern district who has been on
the invalid list for several months, and
unable to visit the several convict farms
for some timep However, his friends were
glad to note that he seems in better
health than when here last month
Trustee Montgomery stirred up his
usual hornets nest by jabbing the su-
per1ntendent i'll the short ribs in his
report of his inspections, and this brought
a protest from DR.. Gathings, who i'm
sisted that when the trustees find any
thing wrong on the farms or in the
management of the farms on the part of
sergeants and guards, they should re-
port 1t to him as superintendent before
publishing 1t in the newspapers On the
oakley farm Colonel Montgomery found
much complaint among the GONZALES
cents and cripples that they are being
worked too hard, when they are not able
to go out at ALL And I find from con-
versation with the sergeant there that
when one of these fellows has been O. k ID
by the physician. it is then UP to him to
go to work, sick or we'll"
The sergeant was present and at tba
instance of Superintendent Gathings stat
ed he had never had but one man to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04
COASTAL CANALS
! GET APPROVAL OF
ARMY ENGINEERS
First Suggested by John C.
Calhoun Nearly a Hum
dred Years Ago
GREAT IMPETUS is
GIVEN MOVEMENT
Appropriation of Half Million Year
y Is Urged Until the Entire
Intercoastal System Is
Completed
BY HOLLAND

New York, September 3.-(Special.)
Nearly 100 years have passed since John
c. Calhoun, when Secretary of War in the
administration of President James Nom
roe, earnestly recommended that the gov
ernment build system of intercoastal
canals which would connect by artificial
Waterways Massachusetts bay, Buzzards
bay, Long Island sound, the harbor OF
New York, the Delaware river and the
head waters of Chesapeake bay, Ches-
apeake bay and Hampton Roads with
the sounds of North Carolina and ulti-
mately canal across South Carolina tc
the Savannah river.
! Cahouns plan received enthusiastic ap-
proval. What was left of the federal
] party and the democrats party cordially
united In support of the Calhoun caral
system. The Erie canal at tnat time was
In the course of construction Interior
New England was reached by canal that
stretched from Long Island sound TO
Northampton, Mass, ana the canaliza ton
''of the Merrimac and the Concord rivers
made possible water navigation In the
interior of New Hampshire and eastern
Massachusetts, to the sea at Newbury
port.
The Calhoun canal system was to sup
plement the transportation facilities
which would be made possible by the con-
struction of the gerat national highway
from seacoast to the Ohio valley.
Stopped by Steam's Advance
While tentative plans We're under con-
sideration for undertaking the calhoun
canal system. there came of a sudden
word from England that George Stephen
son had allied steam energy successfully
to the transportation Of cars over rails.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04
Poor Company

From the Chicago Daily News.
e Reggy-I am--aw--such poor company
for myself, doncher know?
Peggy-Another case Of two SOILS with
but single thought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04

The city commissioners today APP
pointed ]. NJ Phillips dispenser and
Charles Z. Nails buyer for the Hunts
vile dispensary. The commissioners
had three nominations for each office
submitted to them by the county COM
missioners The new officers will take
charge of the dispensary about Sep
tember 20 and serve for two years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04
|NSAN|TARY DITCH
ABOUT ET0WAH JAIL
Transfer of Prisoners to
Calhoun Jail Costly
SCHOOLS OPEN ON 18TH
Henry Fite, Stamp Clerk at Admission
P0stoffice, Succumbs-No Big
Cases Heard Before the
Grand Jury

Admission, September (Special.)-The
transfer of the county prisoners Of Eto-
wah to the Calhoun county jail, pending
the remedying of insanitary conditions
around the Etowah prison. will be costly
to Etowah according to estimates made
by Jailer J. w. Weatherly of this city,
who says the county will have to pay be-
tween $50 and $500 per month to the Cal
houn authorities as result of which this
county will get back the money it paid
out to Etowah while that county housed
Calhouns prisoners after the local jail
had been condemned by the state prison
inspector.
The cause of the removal is said to be
an insanitary ditch around the Etowah
Jail and other defects in the prison itself.
Dave Tarvin. whose trial for criminal
assault on a young white girl was set for
September IL, and j. Smith, charged with
the murder of a policeman, j. Patterson
of Alabama City. were brought back to
the Calhoun jail here from Gadsden Tues
day evening.
Probate Judge l.. L. Herzberg of Eto-
wah county is very indignant at the ac-
ton of the state prison inspector in or
county. He has taken steps to remedy the
conditions complained of by DIR. Oates,
however, as this will be less costly than
the boarding of the prisoners in the Cal
houn jail
Jailer Weatherly says there are now So
prisoners under his care at the Calhoun
county Jail. They are subjecfit to the or
der of Calhoun and Etowah counties, the
city of Admission and the United States
a
new city Jail here. the completion of
which will relieve the county jailer.
The city schools of Anniston will open
for work on September 15 Examination
for the purpose of classifying pupils will
be held on September IL and II. The
city high school will not be abolished
as some wanted, and there will be no
marked change in the course of study
Henry Grady Fte, stamp clerk at the
Admission postoffice, who succumbed to an
operation for appendicitis of a very ma
lignant form. will be laid at rest in Edge
mont cemetery in this city Thursday aft
ernoon, following funeral services at the
Baptist chuch at Weaver, his former
home. Mr.. Fite had been married less
| than two years. He was % years old,
and is survived by his young widow, his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs J. Fl. Fite, and two
sisters of Weaver.
No big cases have been brought before
| the Calhoun county grand jury, now in
| session at the Calhoun county court
| house, according to information given
| out today. 1t is said that there have
| been quite number of small cases in
vestigated, however, but it is not be-
lieved the session will be long one
| Bob Carter, who was sent up from this
! county about two years ago for the al
| legged theft of cotton. has been recap
| tured by Sheriff Brooks at Piedmont and
will be taken back to the Sloss mnes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04

Bob Carter, who was sent up from this
county about two years ago for the al
legged theft of cotton. has been recap
tured by Sheriff Brooks at Piedmont and
will be taken back to the Sloss mines
whence he escaped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04
DEKALB COUNTY HIGH
SCHOOL BEGINS WORK
Walter Seed Orator for Occasion
Tuesday-Public School Has
Flattering Opening

Fort Payne, September 3-lSpecial.) }
Tuesday the opening exercises of the
DeKalb county high school took place
in the auditorium of the high school
building. Walter D. Seed made the
opening address. which was listened TO
with much interest
The school has new principal this
year in the person of Prof. N. j. Cal
Ian. former teacher, in the school.
Short talks were made by a num-
ber of prominent citizens present. The
enrolment is some larger than last
year.
The city school had a very flattering
opening at the city school building at
this place both yesterday and today.
School will be taught again this year
! in the old buildings.
Prof. Hill M. Weaver is the prin-
cipal and will have as his assistants
Miss Iris Appleton and Miss Irene Wis
son. Miss Reed will have charge OF
the music class
The county board of education has
Just been in session at the courthouse
! at this place and much importont busi-
ness which came UP before it at thi;
meeting was transacted at this ses-
sion. Nft
State Highway Commissioner Keller
spent several days in DeKalb recent
ly looking over the newt Fort Payne
Chavies road. which is now under con-
struction.
This road Is being built by the coun-
ty and is under the supervision Of Stats
Egineer Kemp, and leads from Fort
Payne through Big Wills valley direct
to Chavies on the top of Sand noun
tain.
The cases in circuit court against
Thomas L. Downs. ex-sherif of De-
Kalb county, and against John G. De-
Shields, ex-circuit clerk, in which the
state sued them for an alleged short
age in their accounts with the state,
was settled few days ago by agree
ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04

No big cases have been brought before
the Calhoun county grand jury, now in
session at the Calhoun county court
house, according to information given
out today. 1t is said that there have
been quite number of small cases in
vestigated, however, but it is not be-
lieved the session will be long one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04

been undertaken by private capital.
Within year it will be possible for ves-
sells OF all kinds, except the largest ocean
steamships, to avoid the dangerous
shoals, fogS and storms which have made
the waters around Cape Cod a great
ocean cemetery and in addition to save
several hours of time in making passage
between Boston and New York by way
of Long Island sound.
The first great problem for the engi-
neers was offered by the proposition that
the harbor of lower New York be con-
nected with the Delaware river by an ade-
quate ship canal. There is already a ca
nal whose tonnage is considerable, one
terminal of which is at Bordentown, N.
j., on the Delaware, and the other on
the Rartan river which is really a part
of New York harbor. at New Bruns-
wick N +
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04

The Goodrich school opened its first
session here yesterday with large
attendance, among the number being
quite number of boarding pupils. f.
A. Faulkinberry, former college star
is at tile head of the athletic depart
ment and expects to have a fine foot
ball team this year.
The city high school opened with an
enrolment that exceeded the maximum
enrolment of last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04
Begin With Lock Canal

whether this canal will be utilized in
case Congress authorizes the work to be
done or whether a wholly new canal will
be constructed across New Jersey is not
yet definitely known. But the board of
engineers emphatically recommends the
construction of a lock canal at least Il
feet deep and 80 feet wide from the Della
ware river to New York harbor, this ca
nal to be so constructed that by and by
1t can be enlarged as to cotain 25
feet of water, a width of 1875 feet and be
built upon the absolute sea level plan.
When this canal is constructed there
will be micronesia waterways. partly
artificial, stretching from Boston to Phil
adelphia and below.
The New Jersey canal, however, is only
part of the programme recommended by
the engineers. They have apparently fol-
lowed in a general way the recommends
wise that the Chesapeake and Delaware
canal, which connects Chesapeake bay
with the Delaware river, be purcha sed
and then enlarged and improved so that
1t will when finished be a sea level canal
with depth of 12 feet and a width of 80
feet This canal can be so built that by
and by 1t can be easily deepened to 25
feet in case it is found that the demands
of commerce require that depth.
The construction of this canal and the
recommended connection of Norfolk, Va
with the sounds of North Carolina by a
deep canal through the Dismal Swamp
will give an intereoastaI canal system
embracing Boston, Providence, New Bed
ford, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Norfolk
Congress is asked to appropriate S500,000
Immediately and like amount every year
until this cana. system is completed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04
TICK INSPECTOR IS
SHOT DOWN BY A
WOMAN IN JACKSON
Arsenic Also Poured Into
Well of Prominent Jur-
ist-MOb Near Paint
Rock

Huntsville September 3.-tSpcciaL)
Certain elements of people in jackson
county are still showing by acts oil
violence their antipathy to the cattle
tick law now in operation there. Hav-
ing already made a record of blowing
up two dipping watts in the upper PAINT
Rock valley and trying to blow up
another at Larkinsville, MOB took a
large portion of arsenic from the Vas
north of Paint Rock and poured 1t
into the we'll at the home of Judge III.
e. Lester, who is one of the active
partisans of the law.
Europe Caldwell. tick inspector, was
shot by a woman in the northern part
of jackson county when he went to
her farm to get some tick infected
cattle He is believed to be fatally
wounded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04

The body of j. ii. Johnson, d fisher
man, was found in the Tennessee river
near Triana a day after his overturned
boat was found on a sandbar. john
son was killed by stroke of light
ming while fishing in his canoe. He was
a resident of Triana and leaves a widow
and five children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-04

The city schools of Admission will open
for work on September 15. Examination
for the purpose of classifying pupils will
be held on September II and u. The
city high school will not be abolished
as some wanted, and there will be no
marked change in the course of study
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-03
TAFT HEADS AMERICAN
BAR ASSOCIATION
ELECTED PRESIDENT At CLOSE OF AN.
NUAL MEETING TODAY AT MONTREAL
The SIMPLIFYING 0FlEGALPROCEEOURE
DISCUSSED TO DAY.

Montreal, Quebec, Sept. Elk
President Taft was elected president
of the American Bar Association this
afternoon at the close of the annual
injecting.
| This, the last day of the American
Bar Associations meeting, was devot
ed to a discussion of means to sim
iplify legal procedure and election OF
officers. Ex-President Taft was the
chief speaker this morning at Joint
session of the section of legal educa-
|tion and the Association of American
Law schools.
Papers We're read at the Bar Asso-
citation symposium by William C. Hook
of Kansas, Judge of the federal circuit
court of appeals: Judge n. Charles
Burke, of the Maryland court of ap
peals, and William A. Blount, of Pen
sacola. Florida.
Judge Hook urged brevity and sim
plicity, and said: 1T is common re-
mark that the ablest lawyers draft
the most concise pleadings, submit
the briefest briefs and make the short
est arguments"
Judge Burke's subject was: Legal
Procedure and Social Unrest
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-03
BANKERS SUGGEST new
MONETARY IDEAS
SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE HEARS
SPOKESMAN FROM RECENT BANKERS
CONFERENCE GIVE HIS IDEAS ON The
PRESENT BILL and THE REAL NEEDS
or THE SITUATION.

Washington, d. c., Sept. 3.-The
kind of national paper currency the
American Bankers association would
like established in place of the United
States treasury notes proposed by the
administration currency bill was out
lined to the senate banking committee
today by bankers who declared they
did not favor asset currency or notes
secured by the general credit of indi-
vidual banks because of the danger of
wild cat banking"
eve believe the notes should be is
sued by the federal reserve board to
the banks and by them to the public,
and that all the federal reserve banks
should be responsible for the whole
issue of notes.. said Sol Wexler of
New Orleans. one of the spokesmen
of the recent bankers conference at
Chicago.
Senator Reed. declared he was
welded to no particular plan and
throughout the hearing witnesses were
questioned with freedom. indicating
that the committee would take up the
administration bill with open minds.
The chief evils of the present bank.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-03
SEAMEN ARE DROWNED
AT NEWPORT NEWS
HURRICANE and wA1ERSPOUT BRING
DEVASTATION TO LOWER CHESAPEAKE.
....STEAMER MOBJACk REPORTED SUNK
WITH SEVERAL LIVES LOST.

Newport News, Sept. 3.-Three
PSI officers and five men of the bat.
tlesh. Nebraska, were drowned to-
day when one of the ships launches
was wrecked in the hurricane sweep
ing the coast here.
The Old Dominion liner Mobjack is
reported sunk in the bay with crew
of eight and some passengers. The re-
port is unconfirmed, and the line has
nc information.
The Nebraska is at anchor off Fort
Monroe. but the shore wireless has
been put out of commission by the
storm and communication by small
boats is impossible.
The men were attempting to make
shore, when men on the wharves who
had watched their perilous passage,
say water spout struck the launch,
overturned it and men and boat dis
appeared in the waves and spume. The
hurricane, which has been blowing
since early morning. is accompanied
by almost binding downpours of rain,
but the battleship seemed to be rid
ing It well, despite tugging on the an
chors.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-03
CABIN CREEK OPERATOR
Tells HIS SIDE
SPECIAL SENATE COMMITTEE RESUMES
INVESTIGATION into LABOR TROUBLES
IN WEST VIRGINIA COAL FIELDS--TRY-
ing TO UNl0NlzE FIELD CAUSED
STRIKE.

Washington, d. c., Sept 3.--The
coal operators story of labor troubles
il, the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek
districts of West Virginia was told to
the special senate committee today BY
M. T. Davis, president of the Cabin
Creek Consolidated Coal company.
The hearing was a resumption of the
Investigation began early in the sum
n!er when the miners side was heard
in West Virginia.
THE desire of the United Mine
Workers to organize our field was the
cause of the strike" said Davis.
THE trouble came from the outside
rather than from the inside. There
had been no trouble until Mother
Jones made her speech last August.
There had been no complaint from
the men, although all knew they we're
at liberty to present any complaints"
Resistance of arrest and the de-
struction of property during the strike
of 1904 caused the guard system"
Some OF the miners would not stay on
the creek if guards were not kept,
Davis said, and added that the peace
of the community had been much bet
ter since the Inauguration of the guard
system. Objection of the miners seem
ed not to be directed against the
guards or watchmen who had station |
ed the guards, but was directed |.
against men working in the mines.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-03

1 ing system, WeXler said were "tht
lack of a flexible circulating medium
and the fact that banks have no place
/ to so for re-discount when we have eX
hausted our own credit facilities"
I'VE believe the reserves Of the
country should be in one big reser.
voir," said he, 'where they are readi.
ly accessible, rather than scattered in
10000 or more little piles where they
can be of little benefit to the country
in general"
An increased issue of government
bonds and an increase in the bond Sc.
cured national bank currency would
not meet the present needs Of cur
rency reform, Wexler thought.
The bankers association suggested
the advantages of a single central
bank, especially as to the fixing of
rate of discount for all parts of the
country Mr.. Wexler, said however,
that he did not believe the federal
reserve bank. under the administration
bill would arbitrarily try to fix differ
ent discount rates for different parts
OF the country.
'The rate of discount would really
be fixed by conditions in the region OF
the reserve bank" he said, ''and the
federal reserve board simply would
that rate"
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-03
CAYNOR WILL RUN
FOR MAYOR as
AN INDEPENDENT

New York, Sept. 3.-Voters from all
sections of New York city crowded
city hall park this afternoon and ask
ed Mayor Gaynor to become an inde-
pendent candidate for reelection. The
mayor gave his consent.
The gathering was more like New
England town meeting than formal
political assemblage and was prob
ably the first event of it's kind in the
history of the city, The voters parad-
ed from their homes in the various
boroughs, armed with banners, flags
and thousands of shovels-the latter
signifying their approval of Mayor
Gaynors work in subway construc-
ton The shovel had been chosen as
the official party emblem for the Gay
nor campaign.
Jacob H. Schiff, the banker: Her.
man Ridder, and R. Ross Appleton,
head of the "Gaynor league" escorted
Mayor Gaynor to the front steps of
the city hall, where they stood for five
minutes, bowling to the cheering
crowds. The mayor, who recently suf-
fered an attack of his old throat trou-
BILE, looked pale and drawn.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-03
INTERVENTION MIGHT LEAD
TO GENERAL MASSACRE

San Francisco, Sept. 3.-More thar
half of the 100 passengers who ar
rived today on the Pacific Mail liner
City of Para, from south coast ports
We're refugees from Mexico. who
brought new stories of murder and
pillage in that troubled country
]. c. Ingram, who was United
States vice consul at La Paz, arrived
with his family He said that while
there had been no fighting at La Paz.
conditions were altogether unsettled
and Americans should heed President
Wilson's warning and get ont as quick
Iy as they could obtain transporta-
ton
A majority of the refugees who were
interviewed here, expressed the belief
that Intervention by this country
would mean massacres of Americans
who are forced to remain in Mexico
They contradicted reports that wave
of patriotism and adherence to Huer
Ia was sweeping over the country,
When the City of Para sailed from
Mazatlan a week ago it had to leave
behind more than a hundred Ameri-
cans for whom there was no room on
the vessel.