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Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-05-05
MISSISSIPPI LAWYERS
AT VlcKSBURG, MISS

VICKSBURG. Miss, May 5.-The
Mississippi Bar association began its
annual melting here today with many
leaders OF the state bench and bar
in attendance. The leading feature of
the three days program will be the
presidential address Of Chief Justice
Sydney Smith, of the state supreme
court. whose subject will be "a Plea
for the Establishment in Mississippi
of a Modern Unified Court"
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-05-05
ANNOUNCEMENT

1 shall not for an indefinite period
return to the active practice Of the
law, and have placed my law practice,
pending and future, in the hands OF
MILTON B. BADT. Pioneer Building,
Elko, Nevada.
Elko, Nevada, May 8; 1916.
F. S. GEDNEY.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-05-05
WILL CONDUCT BIG
MILLINERY SALE

A big millinery sale. at greatly re-
duced prices will be conducted by
Mrs. E. T. Campbell, at her store on
Railroad street between Fourth and
Fifth commencing tomorrow, Friday,
April 3Oth, and continuing for a week.
All who are interested should not fail
to attend as exceptional values win be
offered. adv.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-05-05
CONSTRUCTION OF A SCHOOL
HOUSE AT THE TOWN OF CAR
LIN, ELko COUNTY, NEVADA. Pr

Sealed proposals. endorsed. PRO
posals for the erection ana Construc-
ton OF a School House at the Town of
Cariin, Hko' County Nevada" viii be
received!by the Board Of School Trus,
tees of Bald Town OF 1Cariin, Eiko
County, Nevada, UP to 6 o'clock Pm.
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q. s. Land Office, Elko, Nevada
April 20. 1915.
01987
Notice is hereby given, that in pur-
suance Of Chapter Six of Title Thirty.
two. OF the Revised Statutes of the
United States. w. P. Anderson, Of Gin.
clnnat, Ohio. by c. ]. Nelson, his at.
torney In fact, whose postofice is
Jarbidge, Elko County, Nevada has
made application for q patent for
10000 linear feet on the Usona Lode,
Tearing gold and silver, the same be-
Inp $50. 90 linear feet In q, southeriy dl.
csction., and $4,000 linear 4feetiih q
Gortheriy direction frord the location
monument thereof, together with the
surface ground 10000 feet in width
thereon. situate in Centennial Mining
District, County OF Humboldt State
H p 81 IT,
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-05-05

Office of the County Treasurer and
Ex-oficio Tax Receiver in and for the
County of Elko. State of Nevada.
Elko. Nevada, May 1st, 1915.
NOTICE is hereby given that in
compliance with the provisions of Sec
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-05-05
HORSES AND MARES WANTED

Horses and Mares without foaI)
wanted for army purposes. For par.
tleulars address%H. n. HAMMOND,
Mayer Hotel, EIko, Nevada: m27
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-05-05

BIDS rt FOR THE ERECTION AND
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14
WOULD PROTEST ON
 PRESIDENTS REPORT
Miss Rittenberry Asks Mrs. Woodrow to Call Meeting of Charter Chap
 ter, Daughters of 1912

Miss Alma Rittenberry, member of the Alabama Charter Chapter Daughters of 1872, has written to Mrs. R. H. Woodrow. regent of the chapter, asking that a spe- cial meeting of the chapter be called to protest against inaccuracies In the report of the state president, Mrs. Harry Tut wiler Inge of Mobile, to the national con vention held in New York Miss Ritten- berrys letter follows:
 Birmingham, Ala, August 13 1915. Mrs. R. II. Woodrow. Regent, Alabama
 Charter Chapter N. S r. s. Daughters
 of 1872, State of Alabama, Birmingham.
 Ala.
 Madam Regent write this as a request that you call a meeting at your earliest convenience of the members of the chapter to consider the state report given by Mrs. Harry Tutwiler Inge of Mobile, president of our state organiza- ton, on the 18th, 2sth and 30th of April. 1915, at the national convention of the National Soicety United States, Daugh- ters of 1872, held at the Hotel Waldorf, New York
 "The report that the president gave at this meeting is so full of inaccuracies and unfairness to the members who have done the work m the state or Alabama, that I deem It expedent and wise that we call this meeting 10 give a fair and just report of the work that has been done by the daughters. especially the chapters work in placing the first mark CT on the Horseshoe Bend battle ground in commemoraton of it's one hundredth anniversary. March 27, 1914. but which was postponed until July {. 1914 at which celebration you were present in person and presented the marker that the Smms- Kelley chapter. now the Alabama Charter , napter, donated in commemoration of that important historic event.
 There are other inaccuracies that need correction We are continually finding fault. especially we Daughters of the Confederacy--many of whom are Daugh. ters of 1872. with the unfarness and the injustice of northern history to the south, but how can we ask them to correct in- accuraces and misstatement of facts when we ourselves wilfully and knowing ly make similar mistakes In recording historic facts in our patriotic organiza- tions. Very truly yours.
 ALMA RITTENBERRY, "Member Alabama Charter Chapter Ma
 tional Society United States Daughters
 of 1912, State of Alabama
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14

Rate per 1000 per annum Exclusive of nonresident deaths): White, sS4; black, 4.32: total, 14.97.
 DEATHS BY AGES. Under 1 year, 3o 1 to years, 27; to 10 years. 5; 10 to 20 years, II, 20 to 30 years, 33; 30 to 40 years. 45: 40 to 50 years, 27: 50 to GO years, 25 60 to 70 years, 1G: 70 years up, 20. Live births: White 2l1 black s2; total. Still births: White. IA; black. s; total g
 Total: White, 225; black, 90: grand total. 315
 Rate per 1000 per annum fexclusive of still brths): White, 23.9l; black, 14s5: tctal 20.21
 COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. Measles: White. 17 black. 20 total, 37. Typhoid fever: White, s1; black, 21; total, 52. Scarlet fever: White, '; total [ Diphtheria: White. 3; total, 8 Pellagra: White. 1; black. IA; total, 15
 Tuberculosis; White. 12. black. 27: total 39. Chicken pox: White, 4; total. 4 Lobar pneumonia: White, 2; black, 2; Cerebro-spinal meningitis: Black. 1; total, 1.
 Typhoid Fever Data
 DISTRICTS. No. 1, South Highlands. case No g. Southside case No. 3, Northside. cases No. 1, North Highlands, cases. No 5, North Birmingham, Acipco, 8 cases. No 6, West End. Elyton no cases. No GraV1nnpf Cnith6o1d Ridge, 13 cases. No 8, Pratt City. Thomas. East Thom- as. ? cases No. g, Ensley. wylam, Fairview, IF cases. No. 10, Avondale. South woodlawn, no cases
 No. II. East Birmingham, 2 cases No 12 North Woodawn, Gate City, East Lake, cases. Total. 52 cases.
 WATER City. 42 cases. Well, cases. Spring. 1 case. North Birmingham, 1 case. Total, 52 cases.
 CLOSETS. Dry. 21 cases. Sanitary, 90 cases. None. 1 case. Total, 62 cases
 MILK. Dairy: Sweet milk, 12; buttermilk. 12; butter 1. Private COW: Sweet milk. g; buttermilk, 19: butter, 13. Restaurants: None. Store or milk depot: Sweet milk, 13; buttermilk 3; butter, g. Drug store: Sweet milk, 1. None: Sweet milk. IT. buttermilk, IS: butter 12.
  butter, 52. Any meals taken away from home dur. Ing month preceding attack Affirmative, 13; negative. 3S: total, 62.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14
SCHOOLS ID BEGIN ON REGULAR DATE SAYS MIR. JACOBS President of Board Says They Will Go as Far as
 Possible on Avail
 able Funds

President Ben M. Jacobs of the Birming- ham board of education. stated yester- day that the city schools will open as usual on the third Monday In September. which falls this year on September 70.
 Tn spite of the announcement of the city commission that such a drastic cut would have to be made in the school ap- propriations" said Mir Jacobs. ''the board has never had any other idea than to open the schools at the regular time.
 Under the appropriations as announced by the commission 1t will probably mean two months cut off the school term. though we all live In hopes that the lesis- lature can grant the city such relief that so radical a step will not he necessary.
 At any rate we shall begin at the reg ular time and go as far as We can with the funds available"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14
GARDNER TO SELL
 DIR. RILEY'S BOOK
Birmingham Man Assumes Agency for Makers and Romance of Alabama History"

Dr. B. F. Riley announces that J. Gard ner of Birmingham has assumed the agency of Dr. Riley's latest volume, Makers and Romance of Alabama His- tory" and will dispose of them through out the state. MT. Gardner is a young man who has ambitions to make his way through college by the sale of these books and pr. Riley was eager to cooperate with him in any way possible
 It will be recalled that much of the material in pr. Riley's new volume ap- peared in The Sunday Age-Herald, where the articles attracted such wide atten- ton because of the authors broad grasp of some of the greatest characters In Alabama history and his ability assemble the dramatic and stirring incidents in the lives of these characters.
 MT. Gardner's Birmingham address is Box IA. R. F. D. No. 3.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14
REPORT FOR JULY
 MADE PUBLIC BY
 DR. CUNNINGHAM
Health of Birmingham Is Satisfactory, While Ty- phOid Fever Situation
 Shows Improvement

The report of the city health de- partment for the month of July was made public yesterday by, Dr. R. M. Cunningham. The report showed to- tai death rate per 1000 of 14.97 the white death rate being ss4.
 The typhoid fever situation was much Improved, only 52 cases developing during the month. Dr. Cunningham during the course of his remarks on typhoid fever again warns against the private COW and urges the people to get their milk from dairies in dairy bottles.
 His report in part follows:
 Birmingham, August IS. 1915. Honorable Board of City Commission
 CTS. City:
 herewith submit the report of the health department for the month of July, 1915.
 "The mortality rate is: White. S.S4 per 1000 colored. 24.32 per 1000; to- tai. 14.97 per 1000. This is an excel lent average death rate for both races and a most excellent rate for the white. There were II deaths, white and ! black from typhoid fever. There were l4 deaths from Pellagra, 13 of whom were black There were only 25 deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis among children under years of age. For the month of July this Is exceptionally good.
 There were 52 cases of typhoid fe- yer, 31 white and 2l black. The num- rr average incidence of typhoid fever in July for the last five years was S5 cases. It will thus be noticed that there were fewer cases of typhoid fe- yer than the average for the preceding five years and less than half of July, 1914. This is perhaps more than CO., incidence. The health department made special fight beginning early in the ~sfring on the breeding places of flies and d number of traps have been em- ployed in the business part of the city. l think 1t is a matter of common ob- servation that there were fewer flies Ill July than in June and fewer in Au- gust than in July. In this connection l desire to congratulate you and. the city on postponing the change in the method of collecting garbage until the middle of October. and l would re- spectfu;iy suggest that it be made at least to the first or middle of Novem Der.
 Efficiency Possible No Longer
 You will observe that in the month Of July the sanitary department made 17,29S inspections and travelled S473 miles It will be impossible hereafter to do the efficient work that has been lone heretofore with eight of the san itary force reduced lt.leaves only five
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14
TENNESSEE COMPANY WILL BARGE COALDOWN WARRIOR
Permission Granted By Government to Use Steel Bridge Over River At Maxine-To Use Steel Barges of New Orleans and Alabama Trans portation Company-First Barge Will Be Load ed By September

Following receipt of formal permission from the United States department for the of the steel bridge the Warrior river Maxine official announcement was made erdy at the executive offices of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad that the company would barge coal from mines in the Edgewater and Bayvew divisions down the War ror river to New Orleans.
 Negotiations have been under between the Tennessee company the Southern and the Alabama and New Orleans
 Transportation company for weeks this respect desired however the onto the barges from steel bridge the Maxine branch of the Ensey Southern rail Maxine do this the consent of the war depart ment had to be secured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14

that the big corporation officials have been prospecting, so to speak. and if the coal experiment proves successful, of which there seems to be little if any coubt, it will not be long until develop nent of the Warrior as a transportation system for products of industrial cor porations in the district will be under- taken on a big scale.
 The advent of Tennessee company coal in New Orleans. according to report, will also mean much to the local coal busi- ness, for it is predicted that it will have a very telling effect on the present large coal business at New orleans done with Ohio and Pittsburg coal fields. On ac- count of it's claimed superiority over Ala bama coal, the Ohio and Pennsylvania product has competed with the Alabama product successfully in the rast at New Orleans, 1t Is said. in spite of the long way it had to travel down the Mississippi river.
 Good as Coal From East
 The coal mined by the Tennessee com pany at Edgewater and Bayview is said to be as good however, as the northern coal, and 1t is generally predicted, espe- cialy by ship men, that the Tennessee company coal will run the Pittsburg coal out of the New Orleans market. One of the greatest coal buying interest at New Orleans is the various coastwise ships that coal at that port These ships, 1t is said, always avoid Alabama coal when they can get other, but it Is stated that such will not be the case when the Ten nessee company product can be had via river transportation.
 Work is now to be started at once by the Tennessee company on the construc- ton of the shute at the Salters Bluff bridge and the first barge is expected to be loaded about September i.
 Coal is now being bargcd down the Warrior by the Pratt Consolidated Coal company in it's own barges to Mobile and at Cordova on the Frisco railroad 8 switch and trestle is being built for the unloading of coal into barges by the De- Bar6eleben Coal and Coke company and the Empire Coal company.
 Warner Shook. general manager of the Alabama and New Orleans Transportation company, has been conducting the ne- gotiations with Mir. Crawford.
 While there is no connection between the movement to barge coal down the Warrior and the decision of the inter- state commerce commission announced yesterday which increases freight rates by rail on coal to New Orleans from Bir- mingham by 15 cents a ton. tho decision is generally accepted among coal men as meaning that the time will be hastened when the Warrior is to become the chief transportation artery for Alabama coal bornd for outside markets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14
Says Policy Has Worked Well in Past and All Things Come With
 Pay Rolls
WANTS MULTITUDE
 TO MAKE TRIP AND
 INSIST ON PASSAGE
Intimates Growing Use of Electricity and Loss of Coal Orders Are Basis for Opposition to
 Power Plant Exemptions

F. M. Jackson issued a statement
 yesterday in which he urges the
 Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
 to rally on the tax exemption Dill,
 go to Montgomery in a great mui-
 titude and demand that Alabama
 take no backward step In this fm-
 portant matter.
 Mir. Jackson insists that power Is cheap CT, since the Alabama Power company came. which is shown by the fact that so many industries are giving up coal and using electricity instead He intimates that the effect on the coal trade IS the source of opposition to the tax exemp- tion proposed. for power plants and refers to this opposition as the ''clamor and the clangor of appeal to the small man against the big producer. He writes as follows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14
DIR. BAKER TO SPEAK
 TOMORROW NIGHT

Announcement is made that Dr. P. A. Baker of Columbus. O.. national superin- tendent of the Anti-Saloon League will be heard in Birmingham at the West End Methodist church tomorrow night. Dr.. Baker is said to be a forceful speaker, Snd is well known by reputation in Ala bama for the part he has played in past sensational episodes in connection with the leagues fight against the liquor traf- fic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14

sanitary inspectors. It will be impos- sible for the department to inspect res- idences as heretofore. We will try, how ever, to answer all complaints as soon as We can get to them and will try also to see that the law is en- forced in maintaining sanitary stables. Generally speaking. health conditions in Birmingham excepting typhoid fe- CT, are good. That of typhoid fever is much improved OF the 52 cases of typhoid fever, 20 had dry closets and 3o sanitary closets. Twelve used dairy sweet milk. private cows. 13 store or milk depot 1 drug store, and IT none. l again caution the public during this season to avoid the private COW and the milk stores as much as possible, and get their sweet milk directly from tiairies in dairy bottles. Forty-one of the Northside, Graymont, Smithfield. Enon Ridge. Ensley, Wylam. Fairview, North Birmingham and Acipco. There We're only two cases on the entire Southside. Forty three used city wa ter well s, spring l. Very truly yours,
 "R. M. CUNNINGHAM. M. D.
 City Health Officer"
 Vital Statistics
 Vital statistics for the month follow:
 DEATHS BY CAUSES. Typhoid fever: White. A. black, '; total. Il.
 Scarlet fever: White, l. total. 1. Pellagra: White. 1; black 13; total, A. Tuberculosis of the lungs: White. A. black, 15; total, 19.
 Other tuberculosis: White, ?; black '; total. 9.
 Broncho pneumonia Black, 1; total 1. Lobar pneumonia: White, 4; black 5; total, 2.
 Diarrhoea and enteritis, under years: White, g: black 16; total 25.
 Violence Accidental and otherwise, White, [; black, 10; total, i7.
 OH others: White, 66; black, @; total 135
 Total: White. 98; black. Al; grand total. 239
 Nonresident deaths: White, .o black, 2; total. p.
 Total resident deaths: White, IS; black, 1s9: grand total, 217.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14
GOOD CITIZENS STRIVE
 FOR SAME OBJECT

Let us assume that all of us are equal ly serious of promoting a stronger richer, happier and better Alabama. That Is the great aim and object of every good citizen The ways and means, the meas ures and methods by which we go for ward, are matters of policy or expedi- ency about which we may differ.
 We used to be all agreed here in Bir- mingham that we would each of us do all in his power to encourage the develop ment of our resources. We used to be all agreed that we must promote the crea tion of industrial pay rolls even sub scribing money to that good work, spend ing and being spent gladly to get a new factory. a new production, a new plant that would pay men to turn raw ma terial into finished articles of commerce
 During the late unpleasantness known as the hard times,' and they are not yet over, we had painful and distressing proof of how we live and move and pay for bread and shelter through the pay rolls of our productive industries. The first demand of every man with capital is opportunity to employ his capi- tai. The first demand of that vast ma iorty who have no capital is a job
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14
Resolutions Adopted

The following resolution was unan- imously adopted:
 In view of the far-reaching results that are being accomplished by the Boys' Corn club work. the Boys Pig club work, the Girls Canning club work and other related lines of club work for our farm boys and girls, the Alabama Farmers union gives it's most hearty approval to this work.
 We also earnestly urge the legisla- ture now in session to enact into law house Dill 1059. which provides for prizes and premiums and for otherwise encouraging and instructing the farm boys and girls in their club work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14
COTTON MILLS FIRST
 GIVEN THE BENEFIT

Away back wonder in the closing years of the last century, the democratic legis- lature of Alabama passed and a demo- cratic governor approved a bill to ex- empt new cotton factories from taxation for a limited time There was no prin- clpal involved in it. except the great general principle that all of us ought at all times to do all in our power to en- courage those productive industries that .reate wealth and give people employ m,nt whereby to live. It was a matter of policy, and expedient to encourage the spinring of our cotton at home, the em- ployment of labor at home. the creation of new wealth and new tax values.
 Tt worked well. The first fruit was the great mill at Cordova. and 1t Is still producing fruit. The policy was extended to include other productive industries
 is a simple, proper, costless thing to do We used to run our city lines in the most ridiculous way to leave out the Sloss furnaces at one end of town and the rolling mill at the other, because they mace the pay rolls whereby we lived and We wanted to exempt them from city taxes. They were public benefciences, as every creative industry Is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14
Meeting of Children of Mary

Sunday being the third Sunday of the month, the children of Mary of St. Paul s will meet at the usual place at 7:15. As it Is also the feast of the assumption of the Blessed Virgin, full attendance is requested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14
Marriage License

The following marriage license was yes- terday recorded in the office of the pro- bate judge:
 c. E. Howard. Belle sumpter. to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Becker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-14
ALL OTHER THINGS
 FOLLOW PAY ROLLS

Tn common with all our business men have been called on time and again ny our Chamber of Commerce to go down in my pocket and fish up actual money to be used in promoting our creative industries. do not regret a cent l ever gave. The industrial productive pay roll comes first. The stores. the banks, paved streets street cars. offices. libraries. schools, churches, if you please, all like Jill in pursuit of Jack, come tumbling after Remove the steel corporation in- dustries. or even the Woodward or the Republic or the Sloss to the remotest location in Alabama, and around their pay ro!s these other things would gather as bees about a flower garden.
 This democratic legislature in it's wis., dom WAS proposing to carry forward the simple, costless policy or expedient to encourage more pay rolls and there seemed no opposition. A few years ago 1t was extended to cover water power companies, and To, millions of dollars have been invested in Alabama already and power is cheaper than 1t ever was tetore. I say in spite of prejudice de- liberatoly worked up, power is cheaper. Else why are so many of our industries quitting coal and taking electricity in it's stead? Nav they flow over dam. and in all this region electric power is being installeds to take the place of steam. Ay! There's the rub, I fear The Presto change at Montgomery; that sudden wild outburst in our papers and around the capitol: that lamentable revival of preju- dice against productive industry; the clamor and the clangor of appeal to the small man against the big producer. against the investor of millions, against the creator of jobs for the joblessl A few coal orders are lost by our coal mines, and tfi's great and beneficient and costless policy or expedient or precedent of our state and city governments Is to be abandoned. If this electric power .s not being supplied cheaper why the loss of coal orders. If electric light from the Coosa is not cheaper, why are the towns taking it in preference to the coal produced article?
 "I have been a coal operator and am free to speak and mean no offense. But I do appeal to our Chamber of Con- merce to our business community. to ouf citizens who live on pay rolls and who VIII prosper from more pay rolls to rally to the tax exemption bill and go down to Montgomery in great multitude of eager and progressive Humanity. de- manding that Alabam.. take no back ward gtep. Respectfully.
 IF. N. JACKSON"