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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04
Cavalryman Dies

Montgomery. December s.-(Special) George w. Brine of Seaboard, Washing ton county, member of the supply com pany of the First cavalry regiment. died at a Montgomery hospital of pneumonia Friday night and his body was shipped to his home at Seaboard Saturday. Brine became i'll five days after the regiment was mobilized here and was moved from the field hospital to the base hospital m Montgomery. when physicians diagnosed his illness as pneumonia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04

Douglas, Ariz., November 28.-(Special Correspondence.)- .)-The training of the Alabama artillery is rapidly nearing it's firish The main things which the gov ernment has required the other National Guard units that have been stationed on the border to learn have been mastered by the Alabama boys.
 The most important of these things are the care of a camp, the care of the horses, the care of the material, the fir ing of the guns and, above all, care of ones self.
 The better part of five months in camp has made very good soldiers of the men and on last Monday they were allowed to start the firing of service ammunition. This was probably the last definite step of training which the Alabama batteries will be required to take, as the weather is almost too cold to attempt hikes. This has always been the finishing touch to the work of battery here.
 The beginning of target practice with service ammunition was considered by most everyone to mean the beginning Of the end here. For this reason when the batteries were carried to the range every
 
 carried on with good speed and good re- suits also Both batteries will have fin ished their firing by the middle of this week.
 It was a very pretty sight to see the batteries in action and watch the would- be deadly effects of the firing if the firing had been at real enemy The ar tillery used by the Alabama batteries is of the three-inch field variety, and has a range of 6500 yards. Each piece has a weight of about 4000 pounds, and is drawn by a span of six horses. There is a caisson accompanying each piece for the purpose of carrying ammunition and it has a capacity of 72 shells. This car riage is also drawn by span of six horses.
 The picture shown is a battery con- mander's station. This station is really responsible for the work of firing as here the battery commander is stationed with his lieutenants and aids. Here the firing data is determined and observa- tons of the results taken and necessary changes made.
 This is the most interesting part Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04
DEMOCRATS UNDER FIRE

The republicans now charge that the democrats have not made the slightest effort to break up the criminal con spiracies" although the Sherman anti trust law and othef statutory instru- ments provide adequate authority for prosecution
 The democratic leaders have been com pelled to concede the logic of the re- publican assertion that the fault pri- marily lies with the department of jus tice. They admit that MT. Gregory, the attorney general, has not made any move in the direction of vindicating the pledge of his party to break up such conspi- racies.
 It is not improbable therefore that in any inquiry that may be undertaken into the causes for the present high cost of foodstuffs republicans will bring the re- cent administration of the department of justice into the legislative limelight.
 Democratic congressional leaders, who are subjected to criticism for their fai- ure to perform the functions expected of them display tendency to encourage the republican move in this respect, be- cause it permits them to pass the buck and place the official responsibility for the present widespread criticism of their party upon department of the govern ment, which they are compelled to ad- init has not fulfilled the expectations Of it.
 Some of the resolutions now being drawn for introduction in both houses will pay particular attention to the de- partment of justice Others contemplate the interrogation of the heads of other departments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04

Colorado uses more than 2,000,o 900 elec- trical horse power every day to run it's industries
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04

i While blowing in his garden, I. T. Mon roe of North Livermore, Me- turned up an old coin bearing the date ITO and the inscription King Carolinas.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04

who are working their entire way through the schools and 1200 pupils that are working part of their way. That the money is well spent no taxpayer of the state will deny, as those boys and girls are to be the future men and women of the state under new conditions of farming, and they will be well equipped for the battle of life with cotton out of the reckoning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04
Hearing Sixth District Appeals

Montgomery, December 3-(Special) Further consideration will be given by the supreme court and court of appss~- next week to cases appealed fr>m trial courts of Jefferson and other counties in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04
Three Paf As9S
From the Three Pal

A pleasant smile sonality than any is an invitation to f a hostage to cheert
 Are you not alW dened to see the m the business associs stranger whose gre or casual, is accom- by a smile? Thero sponse in kind, an' pleasurable compal'
 Cheerfulness Of c grouch killer. To content behind yo neither can those smiling face su
 grouch to maturif
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04

the negro is to have fair show in Mis-
 sissippi. Joe Hill, colored, had been con-
 victed of murder in Bolivar county and
 sent to the penitentiary for life. The
 case was appealed to the supreme court
 and that tribunal held that in view of
 the fact that the tria Judge had refused
 to permit jurymen to answer questions as
 to whether or not they held any race
 prejudice and could give the defendant as
 fair trial as if he was a white man, a fatal error had been committed and the
 appellant was entitled to another trial
 The trial jury was composed entirely of
 white men,
 TRIED THE FOURTH TIME
 Bob Watkins, Jackson negro, has
 been on trial this week for the fourth
 time. The first time he was convicted of the murder of his wife and her
 mother; the second and third times there were mistrials, sentiment having been created to the eeffct that white man had done the killing-all negroes appear ing to believe that to be true. Watkins is black negro; his wife was as white skinned as anybody, very handsome. and well known woman of the town, and it is supposed that he killed her because of her continued association with white men. The courtroom has been crowded all the week.
 AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOLS Within the past five years Mississippi has invested $1161,577 in an agricultural high schools an average for the A coun- l ties that have them in operation of about l $S9 GOO. These A schools own 2503 acres l of land, an average of 568 acres each. | The monthly salary roll is $19,1H and the l total support received from the counties | is $194S32. The average cost of board is
 $6.S5 per month There are 300 students
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04

from the division were s4Sisa
 mtted this week and fee eds Hi9 ttl the courts indicate tha aH s4 will be considered ne eeSA ostffkes in the division are Jeff %qfiaf sis- man, Fayette, Lamai qe, ens Tuscaloosa, Walker Y 9a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04

Bananas can be kept at 110 degret
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04
GREGORY BLAMED FOR CONSPIRAC|ES
 ID BOOST PRICES
Department of Justice Ac- cused in Special to New York World of Being
 Derelict

Washington, December S.-(SpeciaiD According to Washington special to the New York World, the ablest democratic supporter among the eastern press. demo- crats and republicans of Congress at tribute blame for alleged conspiracies to manipulate the food market to Attorney General Gregory
 The special follows:
 There does not appear to be the slight est doubt in congressional circles that one of the important undertakings Of the short session will be an inquiry into the high cost of living.
 A substantial majority of the represen- tatives of both parties appear to favor it and a the same time 10 oppose the passage of a resolution placing an em- bargo on the export of foodstuffs to other countries.
 Several of the more candid democratic leaders admit that their party has been delinquent in it's duty to the people re- garding the high cost of living.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-04

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01

STATE ROAD. SOUTH HANOVER TOWNSHIP
10 10 cash IN reserve, January 4th 1915 $ 1000 90
by transfer TO county general fund 9,0OO. 90
MlDDLETOWN BRIDGE
10 cash IN reserve, January 4th, 1915 3 5o45 M
D' transfer 10 county general fund . 5OI5 90
MILLERSBURG BRIDGE
10 10 cash IN reserve, January 4th, 1915 8 . 76o IN
d! transfer 10 county general fund. 2.762. 50
COUNTY CONNuSStoNrps, .,,,.,,,-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
SCOTT'S PLAN FOR
THE MILITIAMEN
Former Legislator Will Push
Bill Which Would Remove
Some Obstacles

Representative John r. X. Scott, of
House a joint resolution providing for
an amendment to the United States
Constitution giving Congress jurisdic-
uon over the militia in time of peace.
The proposed amendment provides
that Congress shall have power to call
the militia into the service of the
Federal Government for the purpose
of training and drill. 1t also provides
that when the militia is called its
training and the appointment of its
officers shall be vested in the Federal
authorities His resolution will be
opposed by the States.
Mr.. Scott said to-day:
This amendment, if adopted, Will
enable Congress to turn our National
Guard into an effective force. The
adoption of any of the defense
plans which have been proposed,
whether it be the continental army
plan or the larger standing army plan,
will not lessen the advantages to be
derived from the adoption of this
amendment.
I'm my opinion, the militia is inef-
fective for the following reasons:
First. 1t has not been properly
trained or drilled.
Second. Whatever training it has
had has been under different authori-
ties and along As different lines.
Third. No unity of responsibility,
authority or control exists.
Fourth The militia is not paid,
and it is, therefore, impossible to keep
the various corps of the militia up to
the proper enlisted strength.
Fifth. The higher officers of the
larger units of the militia have had
no experience in drilling or maneuver-
ing large bodies of troops.
Sixth. In many of the States the
officers are chosen by the enlisted
men, and in order to hold their posi-
tions must stand in the good graces of
the men under them. AS a conse-
quence, the officers hesitate to enforce
stringent discipline.
Seventh. The disinclination of the
States to make sufficient financial pro-
vision for the maintenance and train
ing of the militia.
by the adoption of the amendment
Congress would be enabled to remedy
all of the defects"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
APPROPRIATION 81"
APPROPRIATION ~"

INCIDENTALS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
EpiscOpalians Open Attack
on the Catholic Party

New York, Feb. IA nationwide
movement has been inaugurated among
the clergy and laity of the Protestant
Episcopal Church to offset the at
taCks of innovators. in other words,
the Catholic party and certain high
ChurChmen." whose object. they de
clare. is the introduction of a kind of
Catholicism foreign TO its genius, its
institutions and its laws, into the Prot
estant Episcopal Church"
\ conference of certain leaders of
the church was held last Wednesday
in the parish house. of st. Thomas
Episcopal Church, New York. at which
arrangements were made for perma-
nent organization to uphold and eX-
tend within the Protestant Episcopal
Church the principles of New Testa-
ment Christianity" Another meeting
will be hctd slnenlsw York soon, when
it is expected the movement will re-
CeiVe greater impetus
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
THE PANAMA SLIDES

The battle with the slides is the
great problem of the Panama Canal
operation, the one point of conflict
where the riven mountain range still
strives to close its wound. Cracking
at the top of Culebra mountain, great
slides of mixed. earth and rock come
slipping and crawling down the noun
tainSide and into the water. thrusting
a great toe of mud across the bottom,
blocking the channel for all but the
smallest ships. The material is dug
out by ladder and dipper dredges,
sucked out by suction dredges, carried
miles away and dropped into Gatun
Lake. Then another mountainside
gives way, rolling and tumbling
downward into the big ditch, and the
work begins all over again.
Fighting the slides at Culebra Cut
is the most discouraging, the most
tremendous and the most incessant
engineering task in the world 1t
costs Uncle Sam S12, 900 a day to keep
a thirty-foot channel open through
The slides. For twenty-five hours a
day the snorting, laboring dredges
crowd into the cut, digging out thou
sands of cubic feet of mud and broken
rock. Then for two hours. if it is
possible, the cut is flung open and the
commerce of the world sails through
in an impressive procession. AS soon
as the last vessel has passed the last
fuS0GO
back into place and the race with the
restless encroaching mountain begins
all over again.
only one thing can be said in favor
of the slides-they have never all been
fully active at once. When Cucaracha
went to sleep the two Culebra slides
suddenly came to life and cascaded
tons OF material into the canal from
either side. Cucaracha has lain still
now for many months, but both of the
Culebra slides are still active.
As one sails past them, he looks up
over a great, red cash and sees far
above him the jungle ripped open
where new mass of material has
broken away and hangs ready to de-
scend into the water, while far above
that, tiny as match boxes, are the de-
serted houses of construction days,
awaiting the moment when they will
be swept to destruction on the face of
the crumbling mountain.
Scattered over this great cash in
the earth on points and pinnacles. are
little groups of men, bending over
machines that fling a fiume of stream
TO the breeze. These are the drilling
corps, for every big rock that goes
down the slides must be drilled and
blasted into little pieces before II
reaches the canal. or the dredges can
not handle it. Nothing gives a more
striking impression of the immensity
of this task than the sight of one of
these drilling crews, tiny as flies, peg
ging laboriously away at the rock in
the long, long fight between man and
the mountain.
II you would like to know all the
facts about. the building and opera
tion of the great Isthmian waterway,
as well as the story in detail of the
working side of the entire federal
government, you should read the two.
great patriotic books, "The Panama.
Canal and The American Govern
ment,' both by Frederic j. Haskin.
Read the offer of the Telegraph to.
its readers in the big advertisement
printed elsewhere i'm to-day's issue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
1901 SINKING FUND
lauphin Couny 8 per cent. Bonds. is.

DHUFTIII NUUTIN " VVT CVIII, BOnUs, IS
sued l9Ol, Sill, 900. .0
aumcipal Bonds at per cent, ..... l,5O0.G
Municipal Bonds at 4 per cent, zee. 5000
Bonds and Mortgages at o per cent, Is. $50. q
Bonds and Mortgages at o. per cent, 5,1OO.0
Bonds and Mortgages at ) per cent, 3,G9l d
Total worth, 81 d
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
ROADS
APPROPRIATION X.
COURT EXPENSES
APPROPRIATION L.

]. Jury commissioners .....s 46l. p
2. Clerk, jury. commissioners 1850
g. Grand jurors, pay and mile
age -..-................. ,4f3.3s
4. Petit jurors, pay and mile
age ..-.................. 4, 43S.l0
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
Report Of County Controller

Office of the County Controller Of Dauphin County.
Harrisburg, Penna, January II, 1915
e Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County
assembly creating the office County Controller herewith
howing Expenditures detail classified
condition the County for the year ending
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
APPROPRIATION "K"

APPROPRIATION "K'
IMPROVEMENTS
Item.
l. Stone erushcr and sewer work.. $500. OF
APPROPRIATION Ia
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01

CONsTABLES AND POLICE ''''-'''
APPROPRIATION II.
!. Discharged cases (see note
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, s., t66 II
: Court cases (see note ''c'') $4,000
3 Constables returns to court 1870
4. Police returns to court -. 042.50
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01

Mr.. George r. Kelsey. Certified Pub
lie Accountant, is at present associated
with Mr.. J. c. Shumberger. Public
Accountant and Auditor. as Consulting
Accountant Mr.. Kelsey increases Mr..
Shumberger's staff of Accountants,and
Auditors to seven.-Adv.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
1908 SINKING FUND

Dauphin County l-2 per cent. Bonds,
issued 1908, ........................ $40
Corporation 8 per cent. Bonds, ..... =
Municipal Bonds, 8 per cent, ...
Municipal Bonds, 4 per cent, ....... 3
Bonds and Mortgages, at per cent. l3
Bonds and Mortgages, at 1-2 per
Ceut's .s'....,........ ................. .
Bonds and Mortgages, at 5.4 per cent, Is
Bonds and Mortgages, at per cent, Is
Bonds and Mortgages, at per cent, 4
Total ,,ortb 400
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
1902 SINKING FUND

Dauphn County per cent. Bonds, is
sued 1902, ..........................S $50, 600 q
Municipal Bonds, at b per cent, 80. 10000
Municipal Bonds, at per cent, $50. 2000
Bonds and Mortgages, at per cent ] SOS {
Bonds and Mortgages, at 5.5 per cent 1000
Bonds and Mortgages, at 5.4 per cent 5000
Bonds and Mortgages, at per cent, 5,3iG0
Total worth, ....................... $2s,9l4i
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
BREWERY LICENSE GRANTED

Indiana. Pa, Feb. IA license was
Yesterday granted the Indiana Brew
ing Company, of this city, by the
license court. The brewery is the only
one in the county and has been with
out a license for two years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
NOTE "a"

The Mllersburg and Middletown Bridges
contracted in 1914. but not completed until 1915.
The total cost of the Millersburg Bridge in
Guiding plans and inspections s7,0ll3s of
which a. 1883 was paid in 1914, and the bal
ance, 50, ,772.5O was paid in 1915
The total cost OF the Middletown Bridge in
cluding plans and inspections was Sl7s73.s6 of
which sl2. .sSs24 was paid in 1914, and the bal
ance s5O4062 was paid in 1915.
The 10Th Street Bridge over the p. & II. Rail.
road was contracted in 1915, the total cost maid
to date was S2T, ,O92 45. The balance 81 49, OO
will be paid upon acceptance of the bridge in
1916.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
81 1I,7sl.S2
BRIDGES
APPROPRIATION j.

!. New bridges (see note "a")sIS, ,5sl. so
z. Bridge repairs ............ 3,9l9.sI
3. Bridge views and inspec-
tlons .................... 1914
4. Advertising ................ 5s.95
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS

As of December 3lst, 1915, report the valul
OF the County Sinking Funds, and the characte|
OF the securities contained therein to be as fol
lows:
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-05-20
BROWNIES" AUTO
SUFFERS CHRONIC
INTERNAL INJURY

Charles E. Browning q North Thir-
teenth street, bought roadster with
speed proc1ivities, little over a
month ago. He has driven it three
times, and each start has meant more
work for the repair men. First time
out the roadster collided with sec
ton of the garage, fracturing its trans
mission. After repairs had been made
Browning took the machine out a
second time. and on North Tenth
street. opposite the Westcott hotel.
he did something with the clutch that
he shouldn't have done, and-bingo-
away went the transmission again.
Browning made his third start yes
terday. While bowling along the Ma.
tional road west of the city, near
Reidston farm, the roadster took the
bit In its teeth, rammed car rail,
turned around twice and plunged into
a ditch, breaking a front wheel
Browning escaped without a scratch.
The car was toved into a repair shop
last night.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-05-20
AVIATOR WRIGHT
HEARS SERVICE
FOR DR.. DENNIS

Orville Wright. foremost airman in
the United States, was an unpreten-
tious visitor at the David w Dennis
memorial. it was learned today. Mr..
Wright was a personal friend of Dr.
Dennis who took a deep interest in
the man many years ago. Mr.. Wright
was accompanied to the services by
his younger brother, the two coming
here from Dayton
During his life time and before
many of his classes, Dr. Dennis made
frequent reference to the Wright
brothers and at the time of the death
of Wilbur Wright, he sent messages
of coincidence to his family
The two brothers with their mother,
for -lerly lived on South Twelfth
street in the first house north of the
Garfield school, When but mere boys.
however, they lived in a log house in
Dublin The house is still standing.
1t was during their residence in Wayne
county that DR.. Dennis became ac-
quainted with them. 80
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-05-20

Asks Rate Increase.
Then the Richmond City Water
Works company submitted a petition
asking an increase Of water rates, al
legfng that the company was receiving
approximately $4,000 less revenue
from the rates established nearly two
years ago than what the company was
entitled to receive.
The commissions at once began fguT-
ing on readiness-to-servec charge for
sprinkling systems used In Richmond
as d. method for making up this al
legged deficiency in the water works
companyB revenue.
Immediately. however, the business
interests affected, several large fac
tories and mercantile establishments
entered vigorous protest. The com
mission gave a hearing yesterday to
the complaining Richmond business
men and after they had finished stat
[continued On Page Feurteen.]
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-05-20
ALL GOOD ROADS
BEWILDER AUTOIST
IN WAYNE COUNTY

The only trouble with the roads in
Wayne county is this" said Sol Boren,
Of, Buffalo, N. Y. who. owns a farm
north Of Richmond, "An autoist can
get lost so easily. No matter whether
he gets on a by-road or not. he thinks
he is on a main highway, they are all
so good
Boren said that he believed the
roads in Wayne county, for automo-
bile purposes, are better than any
county in the United States, not ex-
cepting counties in New York and the
eastern states.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-05-20
u. S. To HELP
PROMOTE PEACE
SAYS PRESIDENT

CHARLOTTE, N. c., May 20.-Presi-
dent Wilson in his speech this after
noon at the celebration of the Neck
lenberg Declaration of Independence
indicated that the United States would
have part in the peace negotiations
when the conflict in Europe come to
an end. The president first spoke of
the tremendous strength of the United
State, adding:
| ut is a good deal more important
to know what we are going to do with
our power than that we possess it"
Passing to the European conflict
Mr. Wilson said:
What are the elements in this strug-
gle? 1t is a competition of traditions
and political intricacies and national
policies. 1t has been graphing of
war rather than peace"
The president then passed on TO the
part the United States is playing as a
world power. calling this country a
melting pot as big as the world"