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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-17
HUNTSVILLE

Huntsville. April 16. = Especially
Joseph J. Bradley. general agent of the
Merrimack Manufacturing company,
gave a banquet at the Hotel TwiclSen-
ham last night in compliment to the
overseers of the big mill as testi-
monial of his appreciation of what tho
working force has accomplished dur
ing the last Il months. T. y. Rennie,
president of the Pell City Manufacture
ing company dean OF cotton manufac-
turers in the south, and Herbert Lyman,
treasurer of the Merrimack, were guests
of honor. During the evening short adj
dresses were made by Mr.. Bradley, Mr..
Lyman, Mr.. Rennie, Mayor j. d. Humph-
ries, Tracy w. Pratt. W. r. Hutton and
others.
The Alabama supreme court has sus-
tanned the law and equity court OF
Madison county in its decision OF the
case of the city of Huntsville against
the National Surety company, suit
brought by the city to compel the bonds
men of the company that paved West
Clinton street to compel the bonding
company to make the street good. The
and the courts decision means that the
work must be done over again or the
sum of $4,000 paid to the city.
George Gray. an employee of the city
street cleaning force, dropped dead yes
terday while at work on Green street.
He had been a city employe four years.
Huntsville Commandery No. Z of
Knights Templar was organized here
yesterday afternoon with 30 members.
Charles b. Fudge was elected eminent
commander; II. c. Pollard, recorder and
r. p. Weeden treasurer. Grand Com
mander w. e. Bingham of Tuscaloosa
was present and installed the new COM
mandery and its officers. and there were
numerous visiting knights from Deca-
tur.
Local revenue raiders and Sheriff
Phillips late yesterday found and de-
stroyed a wildcat distillery near Belle
Factory A lot of beer, Is bushels Of
meal and three big fermenters We're
found. The still, which was of 100 gal
Ion capacity, was found but it had been
moved by the operators who had heard
of the coming of the officers. No ar.
rests were made.
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PROTEST AGAINST
HUERTA'S VISIT

Washington. April 16.-Many protests
against the continued presence in the
United States of General Huerta. former
provisional President of Mexico, are be-
Ing received at the White House. Most
of them come from Mexicans resident in
this country. SoIpe ask that General
Huerta be deported. others that he be
arrested and still others that he be tried
for various alleged crimes.
The protests are sent either to the state
or labor departments, as their nature IN
dicates without comment By the. Presi-
dent.
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used to be one which was widely known
and which was located near one of the
ferries from Manhattan to Brooklyn Peo-
pie went from miles around to trade in
that store. There was also located upon
that thoroughfare another large depart
ment store carried on under the name of
one of the great mercantile houses which
later was affiliated with the Claflin COM
pany But when the Brooklyn bridges
We're built that thoroughfare ceased to be
a great shopping highway. and what had
been one of the foremost of the depart
ment stores OF New York liquidated, and
the business carried on in the other great
stores was closed out
There has been disposition to attribute
the misfortunes which some of the de-
partment stores have met with to the
private banking system which the adopt
ed. These at one time seemed to be very
fioErishng, but wise business men al
ways wondered whether they would not be
found sooner or later to be a cause of
anxiety Some years ago one of the
large retail houses of Chicago which
had carried for years a private banking
institution was known by few bankers
of New York and Boston to have decided
gradually to liquidate that private bank.
1t was essential that this be done very
cautiously. The managers of this great
Chicago house were persuaded that there
lurked real danger in the management and
control of private bank behind which
stood practically nothing but the credit
of the mercantile house. Gradually but
steadily this private bank was liquidated
and the time came, little later, when
the managers congratulated themselves
that they had taken this action.
Some have thought that overhead
charges and the great abount of money
which investment in building and land
entails explain the gradual eating into
business profits. And yet one great re-
tail merchant who recently died felt that
he was justified in investing nearly s12,-
100000 in building and real estate and
in so constructing the building that it
would suggest the architecture of some
of the famous historic buildings of
Greece.
The managers of another department
store, feeling the impulse occa sioned by
the change in trade centers, are aoout
to abandon their building, which occupied
nearly a block on Broadway, which has
been for many Years one of the retail
landmarks in New Yorlx city and are
now investing between $4,000 900 and 81, 000, :
coo in land and building on that part of
Fifth avenue which faces the public IL
brary. Others have caused to be con-
structed vast retail shopping buildings and
have paid millions for choice real estate
upor which to build them. and these
should know whether overhead charges
and the great interest cost. which vir-
tually represent rentals, contain real dan
ger. They seem to be not of this opin-
ion. No one is able to say how it hap
pened that within q years investments
in department store buildings, represent
ing an aggregate of s25, 900 coo to 0,000 600.
| and yearly business which in the aggre-
gate has been estimated at as much as
| $50 Co., 600. should have been within a short
] time practically destroyed.
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the advice of the press and doing more
oil II TINS season than ever before. Lauder
dale county raised 10000 bushels of wheat
last year and will practically double that
TINS season unless something happens
10 the crop. We have two roller Touring
mus and you can get Just as nice home
mace nour here as YOU can in any mar
ke1. TWO more mills will be erected this
year IN time for the grinding of this
year crop. The Commercial club has
inoHced p y Patrick and some other
gentlemen TO make arrangements, and
they viii be ready 10 buy all the surplus
wheat, corn. hay and oats that our farm
ers raise, it being absolutely necessary to
SHOW them a market before they will
leave off the planting of cotton. Lauder
dale VIII feed herself this year and have
a surplus. Our farmers are building silos
and growing ensilage with which to feed
the cattle ans hogs through the winter
a rev years ago YOU could not see a silo:
now it is the exception In passing a
farm that You do not see one. They are
building them up-to-date out of concrete,
and they have come TO stay. lauderdale
heins Well watered, is the home of the
stock raiser. We have 40 creeks some
larger and some small. in the county, and
springs everywhere. Our farmers are also
giving some attention to the raising of
mules A. ]. Howard OF Rogersvile is
devoting much of his time to raising
mules He now has fine lot of them on
his farm, some of them 3 years old some
2 ana some colts, and claims that it cost
him very little more to raise a. mule than
1t does dog, and pays. lots better.
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A CLOSE SHAVE

Judge Bunnell turns out to be somewhat of wag, and not at all averse, on proper occasions, to exchanging thrusts with the lawyers, even when on the bench.
 Thursday afternoon, during warm argu ment in which two of the lawyers had been fighting one another and third had vainly tried to get into the fight, one of the lawyers was pleading on behalf of the poor labor ing men" whom he represented, until the outside attorney could stand t no longer, and took occasion to inform the court that the "poor laboring men" no longer had any interest in the suit, but that the party actu- ally interested was a speculatively-inc barber The judge looked a trit1e surprised but said nothing and one of the other law ,yers, thinking it good cue, also made men tion of the barber and the judge then called them to order He said he thought they had given the barber close shave, and told them to proceed with the argument
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COURT ADJOURNED
 YESTERDAY MORNING

The last session of the Idtarod special term of the district court was opened Frlday morning to dispose of few matters that had remained open to the last minute, and before II o'clock the court adjourned.
 The term of court just ended has dis posed of many important matters among them being the clearing up Of the crimnal calendar, and many cases which have been on the docket for lengthy periods have been either dismissed or adjudicated, so that the calendar is in better shape than was to be expected from the fact that the term was ot such short duration. The necessity of the court visiting other remote sections ot the district prior to the opening of the court term at Fairbanks in September was given as the reasos for the short term here.
 District Attorney Roth, although 10th to speak for publication, declared himself to be we'll satisfied with the results of his work here.
 Clerk of the Court J. E. Clark and his able assistant, Miss Fisher, worked until a late hour Thursday night and were agAn at their desks bright and early Friday morn ing, closing up the business of the court here prior to the departure of ther boat, which was scheduled for l p, m yesterday.
 From here the court party goes to Ruby, and thence at the conclusion of the term there, will proceed to upper Yukon points, At Ruby some important crlmlnal cases are to be tried, among them being that of the native "Old Toby,' on charge of murder, said to have been committed some years ago.
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cifc Cold Storage Company, an appeal from the commissioners court, has been dismissed and costs awarded against the plaintiff.
 The case of Sam Adams vs. the Yukon Gold Company, known as the "Prospector case" has been continued and transferred to Ruby.
 A verdict for the defendant has been signed in the case of Thomas Malone vs. Peter Malone.
 In the action of Lillian Waechter vs w. H. Boyd and A. L. Weigel an order has been made transferring the case to Fairbanks.
 The case of the United States vs Charles Wolf, which has been on the court calendar for some years has been dismissed.
 Attorneys for both sides in the case of Claud Baker, trustee, vs. the Marvel Creek Mining & Development Company have been ordered to file briefs
 An order confirming sale has been made in the case of Al Walsh vs. R. s. Hart.
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COURT PARTY LEAVES
 ON BEAVER AND PRAIRIE

The court party left yesterday afternoon for Dikeman to connect with the steamer Delta for Ruby. The launches Beaver and Prairie Bell conveyed the party, which in cluded Judge Charles E. Bunnell, District Attorney R. F. Roth, and his assistant G. Ellis Gardner; Clerk of the Court J. E. Clark Court Stenographer Ed Wolcott Miss Fisher, stenographer in the clerks of flee, and Mrs. Patten, stenographer in the office of the district attorney. Deputy Mar shal and Mrs Percy Charles will accompany the party to Ruby Deputy Marshal Wood also was member of the party
 passenger
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OUR HUMANE CENTURY

It is a good point that is brought out in Herbert c. Frye's book, Submarine War fare" in connection with Robert Fulton's invention of the torpedo. Everybody knows that Fulton invented the torpedo and of fered 1t to the British and French govern ments, but both of them rejected it be- cause of its barbarity.
 A writer in the Naval Chronicle of that time stigmatized Fulton's schemes for tor pedoes and submarine boats as "revoltlng to every noble principle, their projector as a crafty, murderous ruffian, and his patrons as openly stopping from their lofty stations to superintend the construction of such de- testable machines, that promised destruction to maritime establishments"
 But that was in the early days of the Nine teenth century. It took the humane and enlightened Twentieth century to see the full and glorious application of this wonder full invention New York Mail.
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The Prospector Case

The case of s. c. Adams vs the Yukon Gold Company and others came up for hear ing in the district court on Tuesday last This is one of the cases tried here in the summer of 1914, and involves the title to ground within the limits of the Prospector Association, which Adams claims under a location of fraction, taking up the excess over the lawful limit of l60 acres in the original Prospector Association location. The case was tried before Judge Fuller, who did not render his decision in favor of the de- fendants until after his return to Fairbanks. In this and some Fairbanks cases, because of Judge Fuller's unexpected departure from Fairbanks and resignation, although final decision had been rendered by the court, re trial was necessary because no findings nor decree had been signed by the judge.
 On Tuesday the plaintiff Adams and E. A. Austin for the Yukon Gold Company, gave their testimony in the second trial, and the case was then ordered transferred to Ruby, where the hearing will be con cluded wheE transcript of the ether evi- dence given last year will be presented to Judge Bunnell
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MEMBERS OF THE BAR
 BANQUET JUDGE BUNNELL

At midnight on Thursday the members of the Idit tarod bar were hosts at a banquet rendered to Judge Charles E. Bunnell and the members of the court staff. The occa- sion was an altogether enjoyable one, and made the occasion of felicitous speeches by Judge Bunnell, District Attorney Roth and Court Stenographer Wolcott, the visiting officials present E. Coke Hill of Ruby also made an apt speech, and Charles E. Taylor spoke for the local members of the bar Major Albrecht presided Clerk of the Court Clark was unable to be present be- cause of the necessity of finishing up the court business before the departure of the officials for Ruby
 The menu was a credit to the caterer, Herb Riley of the Merchants cafe and covers were laid for sixteen persons.
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REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS
 PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT

SEATTLE, July 16.-Coonel Slecher, editor of Leslie's Weekly, is here en route to Southwestern Alaska on a sightseeing tour. lie says that the next Republican national platform will contain construc- tive plank calling for more energetic de velopment of Alaska.
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NO RECEIVER FOR
 CLARK LUMBER GO.

The suit of Mrs Annie Clifton Cleveland as administrative of the estate of Frank A. Cleveland deceased, against the Clerk Lum- Der Company, George w. Albrecht and | George Hamilton wherein she asked a re- cever for the company, was heard Tuesday | in the district court before Judge Bunnel upon the application for the appointment of a receiver.
 | The attorneys for the defendants moved to vacate the order to show cause, and to quash the service for the reasons that no | affidavits or other papers upon which the | application was based had been served, and on account of the shortness of the time of notice-four days-without any reason be- ing given therefor. The motion was denied, but the plaintiff was required to serve copies of the affidavit and give the defendants time to answer. The defendants at once stated that if the plaintiff were ready to stand upon ! the papers already filed, they would waive , all service and time, and proceed at once with the hearing, which was done.
 The case for the plaintiff was based upon the affidavit of Mrs Cleveland, which charged fraud" "mismanagement," "mis- appropriation" and conversion" The only definite and specific charge was that the two personal defendants had "paid to themselves as officers of the defendant corporation, and to others, large sums of money for services pretended to have been rendered to the said defendant corporation, which pretended services, in fact, never were rendered"
 The Large suals" referred to were alleged to have been S2 $50 drawn by Hamilton for thirteen months services while Major AL brecht had received the sum of s650 for his services during like period.
 The charges made by the plaintiff were so sweeping in their nature that Major Al brecht, who appeared for himself and as at torney for Hamilton, remarked to the court that they could only be responded to by negativing every possibility" which the de fendants then proceeded to try to do, At torneys Albrecht and Taylor, who repre- sented the Clark Lumber Company, alter hating in reading affidavits to the extent of couple of dozen pages.
 At the end of the closing argument on be- half of the plaintiff it was stated that the appointment of Mir. Hamilton himself as re- ceiver would be satisfactory, All we want is to know that the property is safe, and with good bond MT Hamilton is all right with us, " said plaintiffs attorney.
 Judge Bunnell denied the application for the appointment of receiver.
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SUSPECT TERRORIST PLOTS
 HAVE BEEN MATCHED HERE

WASHINGTON, July 13.-It is declared that government secret service agents sus- pect that pro-German terrorist plots to de stroy factories where war munitions are produced in this country have been devel- oped. The alleged plots are said to have in cluded an attempt to kill or kidnap the British ambass Ador as he came from the Morgan home last Monday night.
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LIBERTY BELL IN SEATTLE

SEATTLE, July 15-The famous Liberty bell, en route from Philadelphia to the San Francisco exposition, arrived in this city yesterday, and was received by Governor Lister, Mayor Gill and detachments of the state militia. The revolutionary relic was on exhibition near the King street railway station for five hours, and during that time was viewed by hundreds of thousands of persons.
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PROMINENT SEATTLE EDITOR
 GOES TO HIS REWARD

SEATTLE, July l4-Colonel Alden J. Blethen, editor of the Seattle Times died at his home here on the l2th instant, and his funeral which was private, was held this afternoon.
 Colonel Blethen was 69 years of age, and came to this city from Minneapolis in 1896, when he purchased the Times. He made the newspaper success financially, and leaves large estate
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NEW YORK, July 16.-Harry K. Thaw, having been held to be sane, has been re leased by Judge Hendricks under $35,000 bail, pending an appeal by the state.
 Thaw will leave here for Pittsburg to rest, and expects to go to San Francisco and San Diego later.
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THAW MAY BE LIBERATED

NEW YORK, July 14.-Harry K. Thaw was declared to be sane by the jury which has been investigating his case. The agree ment was reached in less than an hour. The final decision rests with Judge Hendricks, who will make the announcement of his judgment on Friday next
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A pleasing feature Wa added to last Sun day nights picture show at the A. B. hall by Professor Drapeau Between pictures little Miss Sigrid Mcdonald recited with her usual charm "A Baby's Stocking and was enthusiastically applauded, and Beatrice At well, the talented little daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Si Atwell gave some fancy dances. The beauty and grace of the little dancer performance were greatly appreciated by the audience
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DEPARTURE OF PRISONERS

For the first time in more than year, the local federal jail is now without occupants, all of the prisoners having been taken Out side yesterday by Deputy Marshal Charles and his assistants. William Waechter was appointed special guard to accompany the prisoners Among those removed yesterday were three insane patients.
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PLANS STILL AT WORK
 TO LYNCH LEO FRANK

ATLANTA, Ga, July Ex-Governor liar ris holds three companies of state militia in readiness to go to Milledgeville if he learns of blans to storm the prison and lynch Leo Frahk.
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LIQUOR LICENSES GRANTED
 IN OUTLYING PRECINCTS

On Friday morning Judge Bunnell in the district court granted liquor license to A. E. Bain of Discovery. This is the case in which protests were filed, and Judge Bunnell investigated the matter thoroughly before granting the application. It is un- derstood that the matter hinged upon the approval of the marshals office, which was finally obtained
 A liquor license was also granted to James Fullerton of Dikeman.
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A MisIeadinq HeadinQ

The account of the trial in the case of Stephenson vs Winchell and others, as pub lshed last week, may have been miscon- strued by reason of the heading. The yer dict given was not compromise. The de fendants were successful in the main con troversy-the breach of contract
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BECKER CLUTCHES AT STRAINS

RANGESLEY, Me, July 10.-Justice Charles Hughes of the United States su preme court today refused an application for a writ of error made by counsel for Charles Becker, under sentence of death for the murder of Rcsenthal
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RIVER TRAFFIC

There was trouble in the Japanese colony on Thursday night last, which resulted in two of the subjects of the mikado finding a resting place in the federal bastile. No charge was preferred against them, and after a severe lecture by Deputy Marshal Charles they were released with warning
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MORGAN DOING WELL

NEW YORK, July 1O-J. P. Morgan, who was shot by a demented man named Holt, who later committed suicide is re- ported to be resting fine and dandy
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STATE OF OHIO FLOODED
 BY TORRENTIAL RAINS

COLUMBUS, O., July 6.-Torrential rains have swelled the streams and rivers in the central part of the state and flooded hundreds of town
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Bail Refused

NEW YORK, July 15,-Bail was today refused to Harry Thaw. He will therefore remain in jail until tomorrow, when the decision of Judge Hendricks is expected to be made.
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Volney Richmond Alaska manager for the Northern Commercial Company, arrived from Dikeman Wednesday night in Harry Watson's launch. The latter accompanied him.
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John Holmgren, the well known mining operator, has been in the city this week.
 LOST-Pair gold-rimmed spectacles in new case. Leave at Iditarod Pioneer office.
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State Appeals

ALBANY, N. r., July 16.-Counsel for the state has filed an appeal in the Thaw case
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DIPLOMAT MAY RESIGN

WASHINGTON, July 15-It is reported in official circles that George Marye, Ameri- can ambassador to Russia, is ready to re- sign.
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WAGE INCREASE GRANTED

CHICAGO, July 16.-Fourteen thousand street car men have been granted wage increase.