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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
ALABAMA JUDGE
HELD S84,777
SHORT BY STATE
Court Charges Grand Jury to In
vestigate Alleged Discrepan-
cies in Probate Accounts.

HUNTSVILLE oct 1.-THE fact
that the State OF Alabama has
charged Probate Judge w. T. LAWYER
of Madison County, with Irregular
ties involving SS4.IT729 in tire alleged
payment Of warrants without the au-
Lhority Of the Commissioners Court.
was made public in Judge Ballentine's
charge to the Grand Jury OF the Law
and Equity Court
w. r. wilkinson, State Examiner Of
Public Accounts, submitted a written
report under oath OF his findings in
an examination Of the books Of the
probate judge and County Commits
sioners. He finds that with one eX-
ception no publication has been made
OF receipts and expenditures of the
money Of the county within several
years: that but few claims against
the county are passed by the Com
missioners' Court while in session nor
are they examined and approved but
are left in the hands Of the probate
judge TO issue warrants against the
County.at his will
Judge Wilkinson charges that the
County Commissioners do not audit
claims. but leave them 10 the pro-
bate Judge 10 do this at his pleasure.
The total amount involved is SS4.-
777.2s. including missing vouchers not
in files amounting 70 SS,2l96s.
Judge Ballentine charged ehe Grand
Jury TO Investigate these charges and
return indictments against officials
who are responsible.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Recall Talk Starts
In Montgomery Fight
Complications in Sight From Efforts
TO Drive Out Salvation
Army Workers.

MONTGOMERY. Oct. 11.-Despite
the fact that those in close touch
with municipal political affairs de-
clared recently that the clash between
opposing forces over the movement on
the part of the element headed b!
Mayor William A. Gunter, Jr, TO per-
feet an orga niZed charities in this
city would play an important part in
electing a reform board Of commits
sioners at the approaching election,
ii is now evident that quicker com
plications are on the way which may
result in an attempt to recall the
present administrative heads.
For nearly two weeks the reform
and administra ton factions have been
at outs over the charities and efforts
TO drive the Salvation Army from
the city. Already street meetings have
been forbidden Captain J. H. Bloethe
and his corps of Salvationists and the
latter has employed counsel and
planned to take the case into the
courts
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

Taylor visited Montgomery ana was
the guest Of the proprietor.
Senator Yancy who resided in
Montgomery. dined at the hotel and
Joined the guests in their entertain
ments.
Others were the Prestons Of South
Carolina and Senator Pugh.
AS an outcome OF some act or heat
ed discussions duels were fought Ben
Lane Pcsey. a newspaper man Of
Montgomery. who made the Madison
House his home, became involved in a
difficulty with a man named Cum
Minis. Cummins was badly wounded
but recovered.
General James H. Clanton, formerly
Of Atlanta. but who came 20 Alabama
as a young lawyer had an alterca-
ton with Jeff Goodwin. They went
TO West Point. Ga, 10 settle the dis
pute but frieD1s interviewed.
General ClausAp was afterward as
sassinated at Knoxville. Tenn. by
Colonel Nelson. fdrmerly Of the Union
Army
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
j. 5. OFFICERS
GET CONFESSED
A. c. 8. BANDIT
Herbert Thomas, Arrested in Mo.
bile, duplicates CorIey Arm
strong and Elmer George.

MOBILE, Oct 11.-Herbert Tho-
as, alias Everett" Thomas, who "a,
fessed to the Mobile police to betrs
one Of the robbers Of the Aiabar,s
Great Southern train at Woodstock
Ala, when the express safe was dp.
namitsd. was turned over to the Fsa-
eral authorities to-day to answer ,,
the charge of robbing the Unj,sd
States mails.
Thomas Parker, who was fireman
Of the robbed train, last night and
again to-day said that Thomas was
the one of the trio who covered the
engineer when the train was held m
Thomas says that Corley Arm
strong, Elmer George and himself
met in Birmingham four days before
the hold-up and then went to Tus-
caloosa, where the "frame-up" was
completed. Armstrong, he said. car
ried the nitroglycerine, or "soup."
and he stood guard at the door Of the
express car and took the various bags
handed to him. After the engine was
run down the track for thirty miles
he says he separated from Armstrong
and Georgia, went to Montgomery and
remained there four days, and then
came TO Mobile, where he was ar
rested for passing bad check and
stealing a suit case.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Convicts Happy Over
Removal From Camp
Lease Of Mobile county's Prisoners
Cancelled Because Of Cruelty
at Atmore.

MOBILE, Oct. 11.-Handcuffed and
IN convict stripes, but happy over the
oroer OF Governor O'Neal, Mobile
County's convicts, IS in number. who
have been doing time at the Huxford-
Orvin convict camp at Atmore, have
returned to this city. The lease con-
tract was Cancelled because of cruel
ty 10 prisoners
Frank Written, a white prisoner.
swore he was worked from o'clock
In the morning until l o'clock in the
afternoon without a drink of water
and that the convicts after a hard
rain drank water standing In turpen-
tine cups and sometimes it was filled
with vermin. Five of the conyicts
were white men. Wounds caused bv
beatings given the men showed on the
backs of many prisoners.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
OXFORD NEGRO
To FACE FIT I'll
TRIAL FOR LIFE
Erwin Pope, Four Times Sen
fenced to Hang, Gets Fifth
Hearing This Month.

ANNISTON, Oct. 11.-Evin Pore,
the negro who is said to have killed
J. B. McClurkIn. well-known miller
and planter of oxford, near that place
on April 10. 1909, and who is prob
ably the only man in the history Of
Alabama to five times face the SEN
tence OF death. VIII be tried again at
the present term OF the City Court of
Admission under the capital docket,
which viii come up on october 81.
Pope was tried for the first time
the month after the killing of Nc
Clurkin. He was convicted and SEN
fenced to hang He appealed the case,
which was reversed and remanded
for a rehearing after the Supreme
Court had affirmed the lower court.
He was convicted again here in April
OF 1910. He again appealed and the
lower court was affirmed. but the
Supreme Court again reversed itself
on a rehearing
Witness Disappears.
Pope was tried here the third time
in the spring of 1911 and again con-
victed. This time the case was re-
versed on the admission of testimony
which tended to eNculpete John Body,
a material witness against Pope, on
blame for the murder. HIS testimony
was very unusual and he has since
disappeared.
Pope was tried again in February.
1913, convicted and sentenced TO hang
The testimony Of John Body was
again an important factor in the
case in the last reversal in June of
1913. The higher court held that
evidence which he gave contradictory
TO the evidence Of the State should not
have been excluded
Gallows Rots Down.
During the four years he has been
IN the Jefferson County Jail at Biz
mingham, the gallows, whoch was
built for Pope here has rotted down
the jail in which he was originally
confined has been condemned and
new structure built
Pope is now So years old and in poor
health. Throughout all of his trials,
however. he has maintained an iron
nerve, never having been seen to
finch before the sentence of death. He
has protested his innocence from the
first
Pope was a well-to-do negro. His
home at oxford is now occupied by
his wife. Friends throughout the
State have helped him, believing that
ne should not be hanged on the cir
cumstanttal evidence against him. The
higher court has been unanimous in
ruling on his case with one exception
two justices having dissented in the
last reversal.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Admission Proposes
To Build Crematory
Council Committee Takes Up Gar
bage Disposal ProbIem-More
Money Available.

ANNISTON, Oct. 1.-THE purchase
of an incinerator and the establish
ment of a crematory plant for the
disposition Of the city's garbage has
been referred by City Council TO the
committee on sanitation with instruc-
tons TO report at the next meeting.
The garbage question has long been
problem in Admission, and it is be-
heVed that Il will be disposed Of to
a certain extent by the sanitary tax
law which recently went into effect.
as this will enable the city to secure
more money for this department. The
garbage is at present loaded on wa
CONS and carried outside the city lin
its.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

Waiter-"Hews your appetite TO-
day, SIR"
Guest-"Buily good. StuaFt's oys'
pepsia Tablets make me eat IKE
horse"
Appetite makes the glands Of the
mouth open and saliva flows very
freely-hence the term Mouth wa
ter" This is the first digestive juice
II has an important office 10 perform
as all Starchy foods are partially Gl-
geSted by it because one of It's IN
gradients, ptyalin, is almost an IN
slant digestive OF starch. This proc
ess reduces the starch in FOODS TO
sugar
The appetite causing q free flow Of
saliva aids the stomach by its abihty
to mix the food eaten with mouth
juices which enables 1t to more read
lily do its work.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets go into
the mouth like food, are eaten. then
dissolved and fluidized by the saliva
This mass then goes into the stomach
and there quickly readjusts the Ston~
ach juices so that in a short time
food is not offensive and mans ap-
petite comes speedily back to MN
and he is hungry in healthy, norma!
way.
BY all means use a Stuart's DFs-
pepsia Tablet the very moment you
feel a loss of hunger. The quick re
turn of appetite to you will oonVincs
you quickly that your stomach has
been out of order and that Stuarrs
Dyspepsia Tablets were the means OF
restoring its normally healthy oond1-
ton.
Every druggist carries StuaYeS
Dyspepsia Tablets and no mater
where you may be you can always
obtain box anywhere for 80 cents.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Policemen Look Out
For PickpOckets at
Gypsy Smith Revival
Noted Evangelist at Birmingham
breaches to Negroes at Satur-
day Night Services.

BIRMINGHAM. Oct. 1l.-Gipsy
Smith, the noted evangelist, who is
creating such a commotion with daily
meetings in the temporary auditorium
on First avenue, preached TO negroes
tonight
The evangelist has announced that
his meeting Sunday afternoon will be
for men only and it is expected there
will be & full house again. He will
probably occupy the pulpit OF the
South Side Baptist Church Sunday
morning and in the evening will con-
duct services al the auditorium.
Because Of the great crowds at
tending the revival, the police depart
ment sends nightly a regular squad
of men to the place TO stop pocket
picking IL possible and to prevent any
trouble.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
OLDEST MONTGOMERY
CLUB ORDERED CLOSED

MONTGOMERY, Oct. 11.-Because
it violated the Smith liquor regula-
ton law, the Mechanics Club Of
Montgomery, which has boosted of
having been in business continuous
" since 1877, must close its doors,
The Montgomery Commission has
decreed that not another drink of
whisky nor another glass of beer
shall pass over the bar at the club
and that the stock of liquors now on
hand must be disposed of at private
sale.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Efforts to Restore
Vice'District Fail
Birmingham City Commission Re-
fuses to Rescind Order Wipine
Out Restricted Area.

BIRMINGHAM, Oct. l1.-Enorts
made TO get the City Commission OF
birmingham TO rescind its order abol-
lshing the restricted district on Oc-
tcber l, have failed. Members of the
commission have announced they will
not consider the question.
Several attachments have been Sc
cured against proprietors of houses in
the restricted district by furniture
dealers and furniture has been taken
back. There are yet a few of the in
habitants Of the district here.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Body Found in River
Ends 3-Day Mystery
Greek and Two Negroes in Mobile
Jail Charged With Death
of Will Davis.

MOBILE, Oct. ia murder mys-
terry that had puzzled the police of
Mobile for three days was solved to-
day by the finding of the body of
WIN Davis in Mobile River, off Gov
eminent street. with a bullet hole
through his head and his throat ap-
parently cut from ear to ear.
Nick Peters, a Greek, and two ne
groes are in jail charged with the
crime. The killing took place Thurs
day night in a house in the northern
part of the city, and the body was
then taken to the river and thrown in.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
H0BS0N SPENDS WEEK
IN MOUNTAIN COUNTIES

GADSDEN, Oct. 11-Richmond Pear
son Hobson, candidate for the United
States Senate, who has been spending
the week in mountain counties Of Cher
okee, DeKaIb, Marshall and Etowa h.
left to-day for Birmingham to spend
the day. He did not announce his
speaking program for next week
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Appetite HOI HO!
'TiS a Great Joy
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Are
the Best Appetite Makers DyS-
peptics and Stomach Suffer
ers Can Use.

Appetite is very largely series Of
signals from the stomach. When one
has a rousing appetite al the sight or
smell Of food the stomach through its
connection with the mind Of man is
asked whether the food seen or smell
ed would be welcome.
The stomach if healthy says yes
and at once our mouths water and we
are hungry from desire-keenly, raw
enously hungry. If the stomach be
STICK then we have no appetite and
are actually nsuSeated.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION HELD IN LEE

COLUMBUS. Oct. 1.-THE Lee
County (Ala) Sunday school conven-
ton was in session to-day at smith
Station, a village ten miles west of
Columbus, with a large attendance
Several prominent Sunday school
workers are in attendance. An in
teresttng program is being rendered
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
COLUMBUS PASTOR GOES
TO CHURCH IN BIRMINGHAM

COLUMBUS, Oct. 1.-THE Rev. o.
c. Dobbs, former pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Phoenix City, who
was recently called to the pastorate
of Birmingham church, has gone TO
that city, accompanied by his wife
and children. Before leaving Mr.
and Mrs Dobbs were the recipients of
number of valuable presents from
members of his former congrega-
ton.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Latest News from All Alabama
Miss Virginia HberCrOmbic

Daughter of Mr. and Mrs Charles g. Abercrobe of Mont
gomery Of the popular society girls of the Ala
bama capital photograph by Chambers.)
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-19
MAKE STARTLING FIND.
Bears Foot Thought to be That of
Human Being.

Eugene, Ore, May 15.-The po-
lice and a number of private citizens
were pretty thoroughly stirred up
last evening by the reported finding
of human foot on Blair boulevard
near Sixth avenue. Some man found
an object that resembled at first
glance foot of man lying on the
pavement. They wrapped it up in a
paper and took it to Coroner Cor
don's office. The coroner was not
in at the time, but Marion Veatch,
his partner in the undertaking bust
ness. opened the package, washed the
object and pronounced it to be a
bears foot. While he was eXamin-
| ing it the men who brought it to him
left quietly through the front door,
admitting that the joke was on them.
The foot is too wide to be that of q
human, and is different in several
other ways. The hide had been TAX
en- off, showing the tendons and the
last joint on each of the toes had
| been cut off.
The appearance of the foot is ex-
planned by the fact that taxiderm-
ist lives close to where the foot was
found. A big black bear had been
killed up the river a few days ago
/ i IL 10
Webster Kincaid to be made into a
rug. Mr. Kincaid hired this taxi
dermist to mount it for him and the
taXidermist skinned the bears feet
taking off the last joints of the toes
in order to get the claws. He evi
IDENTIFY laid this foot around so tha'
a dog got hold of it and carried il
into the street.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-19
TALENT NEWS ITEMS.

The work of getting the children
started on raising products for the
Talent Industrial Fair is now well
under way. The committee will get
out little later and secure the pre-
miums.
The local Odd Fellows had another
bee Saturday to complete the work
of fixing up their new cemetery.
Harry Simpson and Wayland
Smith went to Weed Saturday with
the Medford baseball team to offici-
ate as battery for the down-valley
aggregation in the game at Weed
Sunday.
Some youngsters got too idle the
other night and for lack of anything
better to do broke Vandersluis &
Burgan's awning.
Emmett Beeson has purchased $50
head of cattle at Willows, Cal, and
they are being driven over the noun
tains from that place to Talent.
Chester Wolters is back from {
months visit in Portland.
Miss Audrey High is suffering from
a sty on her eye.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-19
Not the Mother Tongue.

Johnson, as Mr.. Burke most justly
observed, appears far greater in Bos-
wells book than in his own. His
conversation appears to have been
quite equal to his writings in matter,
and far superior to them in manner.
When he talked, he clothed his wit
and his sense in forcible and natural
expressions. AS soon as he took his
pen in his hand to write for the
public, his style became systematical-
ly vicious. All his books are writ
ten in learned language; in Ian
guage which nobody ever quarrels,
or drives bargains, or makes love;
in a language in which nobody ever
thinks.
1t is clear that Johnson himself
did not think in the dialect in which
he wrote. The expressions which
came first to his tongue were simple,
energetic and picturesque. When he
wrote for publication he did his SEN
tences out of English into Johnson
ese. His letters from the Hebrides
to Mrs. Thrale are the original of
that work of which the Journey to
the Hebrides" is the translation, and
it is amusing to compare the two
versions. when we were taken up
stairs" says he in one of his letters,
"a dirty fellow bounced out of the
bed on which one of us was to lie"
This incident is recorded in the
Journey" as follows: "Out of one
of the beds on which we were to re-
pose, started up, at our entrance, a
man black as Cyclops from the
forge" Sometimes Johnson trans
lated aloud. "The Rehearsal" he
said, very unjustly, "has not wit
enough to keep it sweet" then, after
pause, "it has not vitality enough
to preserve it from putrefaction."
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-19
THINK OF 1T.
10000 Persons Publicly Recommend
Our Remedy-Some Are Ash
land People.

Over one hundred thousand have
recommended Doan's Kidney Pills,
For backache, kidney, urinary
ills.
Thirty thousand signed testimoni-
ais
Are appearing now in public print.
Some of them are Ashland peoplpe.
Some are published in Ashland.
No other remedy shows such proof
Follow this Ashland's man exam
pie.
Festus Butts, 169 Lincoln street,
Ashland, Ore, says: 81 was annoyed
for quite a while by kidney and blad-
der trouble. Nothing seemed to
reach the root of the complaint until
l began using Doan's Kidney Pills
They helped me from the first apd
soon regulated the action of my kid
neys and cleared up the kidney secre.
tions. My trial of Doan's Kidney
Pills convinced me they are fine
kidney medicine"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States
Remember the name-Doan' S
and take no other.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-19
TALENT NEWS ITEMS.

The work of signing up the neces-
sary number of COWS for the cream
cry is progressing and it is hoped to
have another meeting soon, at which
professors of the o. A. c. will be
present and talk to the farmers.
The Talent fire department held
its first fire drill Thursday evening.
Every member of both companies was
out.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Calvin left Mon
day evening for Castle Rock, Wash,
where they expect to make their fu-
ture home.
Mrs. Lon Winner and Mrs. Joe
Smith were Ashland visitors Satur-
day.
Al Afford is again on the street
after two weeks illness.
There have been several calls fol
city water for irrigation purposes the
past week or So
Edmund Wilson of Tacoma arrived
in Talent last week to visit his ole
friend, Thomas Browning. He is con
sidering locating in or near Talent.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-19
is AN IDEAL CANNERY
Bagley Canning !COmpany's Plant at
Talent to Be Up to Date in
Every Respect.

AS the work of equipping for the
1918 pack progresses it becomes
more and more evident that the
plant of the Bagley Canning Com
pany will be one of the best equipped
in the state of Oregon. The new
warehouse is now practically COM
pleted and the addition to the cook
room is all finished. There will be
ample room this year to handle big
output, and there is new machinery
being installed which will enable the
handling of the pack with the least
labor possible.
Two machines which are now being
scalding machines. The tomato
scalding machine has a capacity of
$50 bushels of tomatoes per hour,
and is very ingenious contrivance.
The tomatoes are dumped on an end
less belt made of open steel work,
and defective fruit is picked out by
the attendants as it passes along.
The fruit then passes between two
sets of cold water jets with a press
ure of 80 pounds, which cleans the
fruit perfectly. Next the tomatoes
pass between two sets of steam jets
which scald the tomatoes thoroughly.
Then they pass between two more
sets of cold water jets at high press
ure which cool the tomatoes and also
remove most of the skin, leaving lit
tie work for the peelers to do.
The peach scalding machine has a
capacity limited only by the capacity
of the operators to dump in the
peaches. They are dumped directly
into the scalding water vat, from
which they are automatically and al
most instantly removed by huge
screw elevator 1t is stated tha
every large cannery in California ex
cept one has installed these ma
chimes.
There will also be two more sani
tary cooking machines added to tn,
equipment. Last year 2 " -pounC
cans were cooked and sealed by thi
method, which avoids the use o
solder and the consequent possibilit,
of ptomaine poisoning. Machines ar
D now being installed to handle tn
2-pound and 10-pound cans.
A crew of men is at work putin
in drains to properly drain the prop
erty, and gravel road is to be pu
I in to the unloading platform, so tha
i it will be easy of access even in we
weather.
A large unloading platform wit
7 large covered porches has also bee
, built and the entire plant will receiv
/ couple of coats of paint before tn
d canning season opens.
In order to provide against an
e possibility of shortage of water tn
: well is to be deepened and cross
e cut of 80 feet made to form a hug
: cistern or reservoir. The manage
}. ment are confident that their waite
d capacity would be sufficient to suppl
: the entire village of Talent.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-19
The Price of Sausage,

A man went into butchers shop
and asked how much sausages were a
pound.
"Ach," said the butcher, "der
brice vas gone ups. l shall haf to
sharge you Twenty-Five cents"
'Nonsense!" exclaimed the custo.
mer, "that is outrageous. can get
them at Schmidt's for twenty cents
"Vel, Wy didn't you?"
Because he was out of them"
80, vell," replied the butcher, "ii
I vas oudt of 'em I'd sell 'em fol
twenty cents, too. Chicago Record
Herald.