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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
PLAN REFORMS
TO PRIMARY LAW
ALABAMA VOTERS MAY HAVE
TO REGISTER EVERY TWO
YEARS.

I MONTGOMERY, Ala, June 30.-
Every voter in Alabama will be re
qufred to register once every two
years If certain proposed reforms in
Alabama's primary law are adopted
by the next legislature. A complete
revision of the present defective pri-
mary statute will be one of the most
important pieces of legislation to be
considered by the new legislature.
In order to purify the ballot and to
be sure that no illegal votes are cast,
it is proposed by those back of the
reform movement to pass a law that
will require every qualified elector to
register every two years regardless
OF whether he has already registered.
Under the present law, when a man
registers once in county and re-
mains there he gets a certificate
which entities him to life franchise.
and he never again needs to register.
This, 1t is claimed, is unsafe. as IL is
necessary every two years to regis
ter the entire voting population to as
certain who has died and what voters
have removed from the state.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
SIXTEEN ADDITIONAL
CITATIONS ISSUED
BY TRUSTEE M'fALL
PHOSPHATE PEOPLE SUMMONED
TO SHOW WHY THEY SHOULD
NOT BE BACK ASSESSED.
MAKES TOTAL NINETEEN CASES
Suits Were Brought BY Thos. n. Pee
bles, Local Attorney for Thomas N.
Greer, State Revenue Agent-Trial
Set for Five Days Of Next Week.

Upon request of Thomas H. Pee
bles, attorney for Thomas N. Greer,
revenue agent for Middle Tennessee,
Trustee Spence McFall issued six
teen additional citations Monday aft
ernoon against phosphate companies
and individuals owning large tracts
of phosphate lands near Mt. Pleas
ant, citing them to appear before the
trustee on July Z, s, 9, 10, II to show
why they should not be back assess
ed for the years 1911, 1912, 1918 and
1914, or have their property assess
ed at its real value for these four
years
Three similar citations were issued
some time since upon three of the
largest phosphate companies in the
county. the Federal Chemical Com
pany,. the Charleston Mining and
Manufacturing Company and the In
ternational Agricultural Corporation.
The sixteen issued Monday afternoon
brings the number of suits that Mr..
PEBBLES has brought up to nineteen
The citations were issued under
Chapter 602 of the acts of 1907. The
style of each of the cases is the State
of Tennessee and Maury county VS..
the defendant companies and individ-
uals. They are the Blue Grass Phos-
phate Co., of Maine; Mrs. M. G. Frier-
son, Charles s. and Cranberry Jack
son ct al, Mrs. M. M. Kittrell, Hoover
and Mason, the Globe Phosphate Co.,
the Ruhm Phosphate Co., Phosphate
Supply Co., Coble, Garrett and Smith,
M. E. Wheeler, by Dan Smith, agent;
'Coble, Garrett, Wheeler and Smith,
Petrified Bone Phosphate Co., Brown
Rock Phosphate Co., and John Kit
tren ct al.
1t is the contention Of Mr.. PEBBLES,
who is the local back tax attorney for
Thomas N. Greer, state revenue
agent, that these phosphate compa-
nies and owners of phosphate lands
are not paying their proportionate
share of the taxes of the county, or
rather that they are not assessed at
their full cash value.
1t goes without saying that all Of
the defendants will engage counsel
and attempt to show to the trustee
that they are assessed high enough
already. The hearing of the cases
will begin next Tuesday and last
through Friday.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
SHORT SESSION OF
JULY TERM COUNTY
CRIMINAL COURT
ALL CASES DISPOSED OF THAT
WILL BE HEARD DURING
THIS MONTH.
-FOUR SUBMITTED Their CASES
Iwenty-Four Others Were Continued
to the August Term of the Court.
Capiases Issued for Appearance of
Nine Who Have Not Been CAUGHT.

The July docket of the county
criminal court was disposed of in
snort order this morning by Judge
Mcknight and County Attorney
lWhitthorne. Five defendants sub.
mltted their cases and were sentenc.
ied to the county road for varying
terms, twenty-four cases were con.
tlnued, and capiases issued for nine
defendants, who had not yet been
found.
Felix Mays, charged by A. B. Har.
ian with taking horse temporarily,
submitted his case and was given
ninety days O the county road and
taxed with all the costs of the case.
he was also up on charge of petit
larceny, to which he also submitted.
and took ninety days in the work
house. He will have to work out the
costs there. He will be entertained
at the county domicile for rock beat.
ers for quite a spell, and he will do
well to get out by this time next
year.
julius Blair, who was recently in.
dlcted for carrying weapons, be-
cause OF a difficulty with Albert
Wright, submitted his case and was
fined $50 and costs.
Ollie Glenn, charged with larceny.
thought best to submit and left the
sentence to Judge Mcknight, who
promptly gave him sixty days in the
work house and assessed all the
costs of the case to him.
Charley Booker also thought best
to submit to a charge of carrying
weapons. He was fined $50 and costs.
The cases of Ed Fariss, who was
on two counts with selling
liquor without license, were taken
on the docket, as he had previously
submitted.
All the other cases on the docket
were either continued to the August
term OF the court, or capiases were
issued for those who were not to be
found.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
AGAINST SHERIFF
OF CHAMBERS co.
o'NEAL ORDERS IMPEACHMENT
PROCEEDINGS FOR ALLEGED
GRATING.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, July lin
peachment proceedings against John
w. Lane, sheriff of Chambers county
charging corruption in Office, com
mission of offenses involving moral
terptitude under color of his office
were ordered by Gov. O'Neal this aft
ernoon.
Instructions were given after Gov.
O'Neal had heard Sheriff Lane make
a general denial of charges which
were furnished the executive by sew
eral citizens of Chambers county on
Monday.
The chief charges against Sheriff
Lane will be that he made arrests
and released prisoners without max
ing court cases, and that he forced
persons to pay him money before he
would give the mliberty, even though
they filed appearance bonds.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
LAUNCH WILLIAMS
CAMPAIGN IN THE
!. COUNTY ON MONDAY
REPUBLICAN COUNTY COMMIT.
TEE TO MEET ON CALL OF
CHAIRMAN HOPKINS.
NON PARTISAN MEETING TOO
Leaders Of Independent Judiciary
Movement Suggest That a Meeting
Be Held Here Patterned on That
at Nashville During Last Week.

Maury county republicans are go
ing to get squarely behind Judge
Samuel c. Williams in his race for
the supreme court. They are going
to do what they did in 1910 and 1912,
stand for a free and independent ju-
dietary, at least, that is what a major
ity of them will do. The party lead
ers here are all lined up for the en-
inent jurist.
In order that Justice Williams can
didacy may have the support of the
organization, Chairman R. S. Hop1
kins, of the county republican exec
utivs committee, this morning issued
the following call for meeting Of
the committee on next Monday:
"The Maury county republican ex-
ecutive committee is hereby called to
meet in the Office Of R. 8. Hopkins
Monday, July 9Th, 1914, at IL o'clock
noon, for the purpose of organizing
for the ensuing two years and to at
tend to such other matters as may
come before said committee. All re-
publicans, whether members of the
committee or not, are urged to be
present as some matters vital to our
party will be discussed at the meet
ing. Respectfully,
"R. S. HOPKINS, Chm.
"PHINEAS MURPHY, Sec"
1t has been suggested that a big
non-partisan independent meeting be
held at the court house to organize
the county for Williams and a. free
judiciary. Those who have made the
suggestion declare that the meeting
should be patterned upon that recent
ly held at Nashville and to it all par
ties, independents, democrats, repub-
licans and all, regardless of their
choice for governor, legislature or
congress, should be invited. This
suggestion meets the hearty approval
of Chairman Hopkins and other sup
porters of Williams.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
HEALTHY INCREASE
IN POPULATION Of
STATE DURING May
THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS WAS
ABOUT ITO GREATER THAN
THE DEATHS,
NO RACE SUICICE IN MAURY
tuberculosis Most Prolific Source
and Cause of Death, While Pneu-
monia Has Stood Next In First
Four Months of This Year.

There was no race suicide In Maui
ry county during the month Of May
Ii the monthly report of the state
registrar of vital statistics is to be
believed. There were 500 more
births than deaths.
The total number of deaths report
ed from this county for the month
was 81, while there were rs births.
This is pretty healthy birth rate,
and betokens an increase in the pop
ulation Of the county at the taking
of the next census. The number of
people decreased 1000 from 1900 to
1910. There were $4,000 at the be-
ginning of the new century, while
ten years later there were only a few
over 10000.
The percentage of births over
deaths throughout the state is better
than in this county. During May
there was 2,424 deaths reported, but
the number of births was 4,307, an
increase of ITO over the latter. The
peculiar thing about the statistics is
that the two largest counties in point
of poulation, Shelby and Davidson,
both showed more deaths than
births. In the former, the deaths
numbered 354, the births only 272. In
the latter, the discrepancy was not
near, SO great, standing 224 to 221.
The registrar Of vital statistics
states that the death rate has de-
creased in the state as a whole. II
the figures of the month Of May be
taken as a basis, there should be 81
764 deaths and 51,76S births in the
year 1914.
During the first four months Of the
year, January, February, March and
April, the total number of deaths
from all couses was 1888. The anal
ysis of the figures shows that tuber-
culosis was the cause of most Of the
deaths. There were 1872 who died
from some form Of that disease.
was the cause Of the next
greatest number of deaths, 1,577.
However, for the next few months
the deaths from this source will not
be nearly SO great, because 1t Is most
prevalent during the winter months
1t is probable, though, that the num-
ber Of deaths from typhoid fever will
more than make up for the loss from
pneumonia.
The state registrar reports that
the number of counties with ineffi-
cient registration is growing very
much smaller. The law was only
put into operation on January /, and
it has taken time to get accurate re-
turns from all Of the ninety-six coun-
ties Of the state.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
AMERICAN GUNS
STOP BOMBARDMENT
i,
SANTO DOMINGO PRESIDENTS
ASSAULT ON PUERTA PLATA
Is ABRUPTLY ENDED.

WASHINGTON, June 3O.-Bom-
bardment of the rebel city of Puerta
Plata by President Bordas, of Santo
Domingo, was silenced late Friday by
nre from the main battery of the
American gun boat Machias. Only a
Few shots were required for the task.
News of this incident came to the
navy department late last night in a
belated dispatch from Capt. Russell.
OF the battleship South Carolina. The
machine was sent into the inner har-
Dor at Puerta Plata prepared for bat
tie after the Dominican forces sever.
al times had violated an agreement
not to use artillery in attacking the
rebel forces holding the port.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
LOSES FIFTH FIGHT
AGAINST DEATH
SENTENCE IMPOSED AT ANNIs.
TON ON Erwin POPE is
AFFIRMED.

MONTGOMERY. Ala, July 1.-Er-
vim Pope, Calhoun county negro. has
lost his fifth fight against death sen.
tence imposed by the Admission city
court for the murder of James Nc.
oiurkin. The supreme court today
affirmed the recent sentence, and fix
ed August 21 as the day of execution.
Pope's case has attracted attention
In every section of the southern
group of states. Five times he faced
a jury in the Canhoun county court
and five times he was condemned.
Edward Degraffenreid. associate jus-
tice, wrote the opinion which marked
Pores arrival at Waterloo. He found
no error sufficient for reversal, and
in this every member Of the supreme
court concured
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
JERSEY TOWN HAS
RAILROAD ON HANDS

TRENTON, N. j., July 1.-West
Orange is the first municipality in
in New Jersey to own railroad. The
condition resulted from the purchase
at auction yesterday by Ttown Treas
urer Edward A. McGuirk Of the Or
ange Mountain Trolley Go. because
the company had failed to pay s1,50O
taxes.
The power of the line has been
shut of by the public service compa-
ny because Of bill for power which
runs from the time the road started
six years ago.
The town authorities have not de-
eided what TO do with the line.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
PARK DRAMATIC
CO. HERE NEXT WEEK
WILL APPEAR UNDER THE PER-
SONAL MANAGEMENT OF
JAMES A. PARK.

The G. w. Park Dramatic Co. will
appear in the city next Monday for
an all week engagement. The COM
pany has appeared here before this
season, and made a most favorable
impression upon all those who heard
and saw them.
This year they will appear under
and dictatorship Of Jas.
A. Park, who has provided for his
troupe only the newest and best plays.
In addition, he will put on number
Of superior and up-to-date vaudeville
features. There will not be dull
in the whole show.
The engagement will start Monday
evening, July 6. and last for whole
week.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
FRIENDS ON MRS.
CARMACK'S BOND
1T Is ESTIMATED THAT THEIR
WEALTH Is OVER TWO MIL
LION DOLLARS.

Special to The Herald.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, July IA
movement has been started at Win
chester to have the friends of for
mer Senator e. w. Carmack make
the bond for his widow as postmis-
tress at Columbia. The movement
started there, but it has quickly
spread to all sections of the state,
among the places being Fayetteville,
Decherd, I.ewisburg, Shelbyville,
Chattanooga, and other points. 1t is
estimated that the wealth Of those
who will go on the bond is over two
million Of dollars.
The movement is designed as a
compliment to Mrs. Carmack and the
memory of her dead husband.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
BOY ACCIDENTALLY
SHOT AND KILLED

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July l.
John McGrew, s year old son of Jas.
McGrew, was instantly killed when a
shotgun with which he was playing
slipped from his hands, the trigger
striking a table. One of the loads
was discharged into his brain. His
head was blown partially off. The
lad, while alone in a room, climbed
onto table and secured his fathers
shotgun from above the window. 1t
was too heavy for him and slipped to
the floor.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
COUNTY OFFICERS
WILL BE ELECTED
FIVE WEEKS HENCE
THERE HAS BEEN BUT LITTLE
TALK TO DATE OF cANDI.
DATES.
RACES WILL WARM UP NOW
Most Candidates Have Canvassed
Entire County, and Talk viii Soon
Begin to Circulate-Rumored That
Some VIII Withdraw First Monday.

| Five weeks from tomorrow bat
tie OF ballots will be waged in Mau-
ry county that will not soon be for
gotten. To date there has been lit
tie interest manifested in the races,
but with the opening of this month,
he campaign will begin to seethe,
the candidates to be talked, the races
discussed, and the usual quota of
campaign lies to be circulated.
1t is the subject of rumor on the
streets that some of the races will
be considerably simplified by the
withdrawal of some of the present
candidates. No one seems to be able
to forecast the result In any of the
races at present. All Of them are
badly muddled affairs, and even the
wiseacres have but little dope on the
situation.
In most of the races there Is such
a multiplicity of candidates that there
are many angles and tangents to the
situation. In two or three of them
the candidates are pretty vel | dis
tributed in the various sections of
the county, and have strong local fol-
lowings.
1t is said that more interest is man
ifested at present at Mt. Pleasant
than in any other part Of the county
in the races. One or two clubs have
been formed for the purpose of boost
ing the candidacy Of some Of the men
in the races. They are actively at
work and organizing the district in
their interest.
Some Of the candidates, who began
their canvasses of the county early
In the spring, have pretty well cover
ed the county. Some of them are god
ing back over 1t and will make trip
to some parts twice. The hot wealth
er has interfered little with their ar
dor and zeal, and they have been
pushing their claims vigorously.
One or two of the candidates have
been heard to say that no consider
alton would induce them to make the
race again. In fact, they would not
have gone into the race this time if
they had known the awfully hard
and exasperating work that canvass.
ing Is. The strain has been terrific
on them, as this is the first time they
have ever asked for public office.
They have gotten to the point that
they don't care much what the re-
suit is, just so they get through with
the present race.
From now to the wire, Just five,
weeks away it is going to be nip
and tuck affair, and those who win
are going to have to play some good
politics to hold a nice fat office for
the next two or four years.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
POLITICIANS HAD A F..
REGULAR FIELD DAY
HERE last MONDAY
CONFERENCES AND CAUSES
WERE THE ORDER OF
THE HOUR.
WILLIAMS MELTING IS HELD
o,en to Those Who Had a Prior Mo-
+ics or Invitation to Attend--At-
tempt to Change the County EIec-
ton Commission Made. & @

There was a regular political field
dav here on Monday. The crowd of
country folks that came to the city
was not large, but most every one
here was talking politics. All Of the
county candidates were on hand and
conferences, caucuses and secret
meetings were the order of the day.
1t was currently reported number
of times that there would be develop
ments in some Of the races, that
would result in the elimination of
one or more of the candidates, but
these reports proved to be incorrect.
It is stated, however, that there will
be much bigger day here next Mon
day, which happens also to be the
first Monday and that then the ex-
pected may happen.
There was also something doing in
state politics. A "Williams Meeting
was held, but it was private affair
to only which the chosen few were
invited. Some of the members Of
the independent county committee
are known to have had notice Of the
meeting, but others knew nothing Of
it. Inquiry develops the fact that
several members of the local bar, al
though ardent supporters of Judge
Williams, were kept in utter ignor-
ance of the meeting. 1t is said that
plans for carrying the county for the
candidate Of an independent judici-
ary were made although no report of
the meeting was given out.
1t also developed that in addition
to being a Williams meeting the inde-
pendents assembled took steps look
ing to a change in the personnel OF
the county election board. And 1t
also leaked out that there was some
discussion of county candidates, al
though all were not Of the same mind
and the subject was dropped
1t is expected that democrats Of
the regular" fraternity will have
their fracas next week when the
county committee will assemble Not
withstanding the outward evidences
of or claims Of harmony in Tenhes-
see the regulars of Maury county are
not altogether ready to fall on each
other S necks. There are evidences
plenty that some Of the anti-Rye
regulars are more bent upon getting
revenge upon certain leaders than
they are upon electing any party tick
ct in Tennessee this year. Safe to
say, peace among the regulars is not
much more than skin deep And this
very situation has led a wise old re-
publican, one of the most astute pol
iticians in Tennessee, to say, Sure
Hooper will win. For every inde--
pendent that Rye gets, Hooper will
get regular
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
ALLEN B. HARLAN
HIGHLY HONORED
NOMINATED FOR ONE OF THE
DIRECTORS OF REGIONAL
BANK.

Among the nominees for director
OF the regional reserve bank of the
sixth district, is Allen B. Harlan, the
proprietor of famous Oakwood Farm,
IN his county. He was nominated
ior class B, the third group. Mr..
harlan has long been identified with
banking as we'll as farming interests
IN the county and his selection would
De splendid one should he be chos-
en- as one of the directors.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
JAILS OF STATE
IN BAD SHAPE
OF BOARD OF CHAR
tiles MAKES MOST cAUS.
TIC CRITICISM.

Special to The Herald.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 1.-C. e.
Menzler, secretary of the board Of
charities, in his report to the board
that met yesterday, makes startling
statements as to the condition Of the
jails, work houses, ETC., in Tennes-
see. He says the most of them are
unsanitary and kept in a
manner generally deplorable.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-03
GRAND JURY ROASTS
GOVERNOR O'NEAL

DECATUR, Ala, July IA report
OF the grand jury of the law and equi-
" court of Morgan county roasts
Gov, O'Neal for granting pardons to
men who have been convicted of sell
ing liquor in this county. The report
IS quite spicy throughout. The grand
jury found a number of indictments,
mostly against men accused Of sell
ing loquof.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-10-06
0LD-FASHIONED
PIRATE BOARDS
And ROBS AUTO

Spanish galloons. gold laden. have
ceased 20 sail the Spanish main.
and other niains. ard business on
tho high seas has fallen off until #
is positively rotten FOR onterprisinE
pirates
Rut necessity IL the mother 4 in.
yontlon.
One OF these pirates. all shorn OF
cutlass aud whiskers. turned up in
Seattle yesterday.
With all sails set and the Jolly
roger Tapping at the masthead. he
ovcrhauicd an auto driven by Mrs,
W 4 Shinklc. 7i06 55th ~. s. w,
and boarded It at First av 8. and
Jackson.
She ordered him of. but before
he jumped he grabbed a gold nugget
pin. an eardrop and a purse contain.
Ing $50
Then he came about ana. sailing
with the wind. disappeared present.
~ below the horizon
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-10-06

velop a new offensive IN tho Ar.
gonne region and along the Mouse.
where night and day fighting con.
tinued.
The German homhardment Of the
allies right had slackcn.d. how
ever. Il was said. the Teuionlc
guns having been worn out hy PRO
logged use Il was uudsFetood
fresh cannon were being forwarded
from AK La Chapell.
An attempt b. tho German right
wing at an cncirciing movement of
is own vas suspected here today
from reports Of presence ~ uhlans
near Lille Experts think this was
merely A accommodating force. but
In view Of the fact that Lille 81 on
the main railway. the allies would
have TO use 70 relieve Brussels
and Antwerp. Fl vas also thought
possible the Germans planned 20
destroy the line.
Today statement was generally
encouraging.
Fierce fighting vas still In prog
ress about Arras but the Germans
had made no substantial gains
The Germans had been reuuiHod
In an attempt to break the French
line AT Lassigny This attempt.
had u succeeded. would have en-.
dangcrcd the Gallo left
At headquarters u was said tho
renewal OF the German offensive
need cause no alarm. though Il was
expected the kaiser's troops would
endeaVOr to continue aggressive
tactics as long as possible.