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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-22

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-21
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Invitation for Proposal

Bids are hereby requested for the con struction of a road from Wylam to the Warrior river in accordance with an order of the board of revenue of Jefferson coun- ty as follows:
 Ordered by the board of revenue of Jefferson county, that the county engi- neer, George H. Clark be and is hereby Instructed to place an advertisement once & week for thirty (3O) days in some daily newspaper having a circulation of at least 5000 published in this state, request ing bids for the construction of road extending from the corporate limits of Wylam or from some point on the present Wylam-Mulga road to be determined upon, to the Warrior river at or near the mouth of Deer creek or Fishtrap branch. Said road to be 3o feet in width in ex- Cavation and 30 feet wide in embarkment, graded surface, having maximum grade of 2 per cent and the length of the road to be approximately 15 miles, 2 Said work to be done within the time stated and strictly in accordance with the plans and specifications now on file fin the office of the county engineer. Said work to be let to the lowest or best re- eponsible bidder who shall enter into bond in the amount of such bid condi- tioned for the proper performance of said contract according to said plans and specifications and within the time pre- scribed by the order of this board for such work, which said bond shall be approved by the judge of probate of Jefferson county.
 Payment for said work to be made in county warrants issued from time to time as said work progresses, the said warrants to be issued so that not more than the sum of slO0O00 will be payable in any one year.
 No warrant is to be payable in less than five years from date of issuance and all warrants issued to be payable within five years from the date of pay ment of the first warrant issue, in order that the full discharge of the contract payments for said work shall not ex- ,tend over a period of more than 10 years from the date of the first warrant issue. Said warrants to bear interest from the date of their issuance at a rate of in- terest of Az per cent ahnum, interest to be payable semi-annually from the date of warrant issue
 It is further ordered that the contract for said work will be let by this board on the first day of November 19l6 at F o'clock noon.
 Ordered further, that the board of reve- nue of Jefferson county reserves the right to reject any or all bids:
 Ordered this, the 29th day of September, 1916. GEORGE H. CLARK,
 County Enginter
 Nss 9-3,,-4r-Sat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-21

Humfast, b. m. (Murphy) ).... dis.
 Time, 2:0SA; 2:09h; 2:07A. Two-year-old class, trotting, two in three, added money $500: Mary Coburn, oh. f. (White).. 3 The Real Lady, b. m. (Mur- phy) .''...'
 Time. 2:16%; 2:19A; 2:12%.
 2:11 class, pacing, three in five; purse 5000:
 Little Frank D., m. g. (val- Dr. Griffin, b. g. (stiles) .. 2 2 ? Lady Venus, br. m. (Stout).. 3 Miss Belle Patchen, b. m. (Walker) ................. Queen Hal r. m. (Cline) .... 5
 Time, 2:071z; 2.10; 2.OsA. 2;07 class, trotting, three in five; purse 5000 (unfinished):
 Miss Perfection, b. m. (Mc-
 Mahon) .................... 3 Miss Directed, b. m. (McDe-
 vitt) .................. Sombro Clay, b. S. (Valetine). 4 Azora Axworthy, b. m. (Mur- phy) ois' Time, 2:o7% 2:o9%; 2:12A. To beat Georgia state trottign rec ord, 2:05:
 Lee Axworthy (B. F. White)... Won. | Time, 1:59%. Special exhibition, one mile trotting: Peter Mac, b. h. (McDevitt). .... Won | Time for mile, 2:041a. Time by quarters. 32; 31A; 30A | 30h,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-21
Mabel Trdsk Again Defedts
 St. Frisco In Close Heats

Atlanta, October 20.--Mabel Trask. the speedy little chestnut mare owned by Walter K. Cox and driven by her owner, added to her beats over her harness rival, St. Frisco, when, in straight heats on the Lakewood track today she won the Georgia Railway and Power company cup and the big end of s2500 purse. Her best time was 2:07A, made in the third heat.
 The two favorites trotted consistent ly, St. Frisco, with his owner, Geers, driving, finished each heat in second place, and in neither more than a neck behind. The race was for the s:0S class trotting, with a field of five, the others being, in order, Bacelli, Sadie S. and Humfast. The last named, driven by Murphy, her owner, was distanced in the second.
 The Real Lady, driven by Murphy, and Mary Coburn, White behind, were the only starters in the 2-year- old class trotting event, two in three, and the Real Lady, while winning the first heat handily, lost the last two and the race.
 The third event, 2:11 class, pacing was won by Little Frank D. in straight heats, with pr. Griffin, owned by an Atlantan, and the only Atlanta owned horse in the Grand Circuit races shere came in for second money in each of the three heats.
 Three heats of the 2:o7' class, trot, were staged, but at least one more will be necessary to decide the event. The race will be continued tomorrow.
 Lee Axworthy, the world champion trotting stallion, came out between events with B. F. White at the heins and started to lower the Georgia track record of 2:o5. This he did handily, putting on the prettiest exhibition of trotting ever seen in the state, reeling off the mile In 159A His second quar- ter, made in 29 seconds, was his best. His record as champion is 1858.
 Peter Mac also came out as special event and gave an exhibition mile per formance, piloted by M. McDevitt. He made his mile in 2:o4h, thus himself beating the Georgia record as it stood before Lee Axworthy lowered it. The summarizes:
 20s class, trotting, Georgia Railway and Power company cup, three in i've purse $2500
 Mabel Trask, oh. m. (Cox).... 1 St. Frisco, b. s. (Geers) ..u.. 2 2 Bacelli. b. 8. (White) ........ 3 4 3 Sadie S.. b. m. (McMahon). 4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-21
LEGAL NOTICES

Notice
 In the district court of the United States for the western district of South Carolina. In the matter of Mau- rice Klein, in bankruptcy:
 Rock quarry for sale, near Easley, s. C., 15 miles from Greenville, S. C., on main line, double track Southern railroad, consisting of outfit, buildings and lease to an exhaustless supply of stone. Terms, cash. Sale at public auction, Greenville, S. C., November 16. 1916. at 12 o'clock, midday.
 Inspection may be had upon applica- tion to N. o. Fansler trustee in above Case, at Liberty, s. C., R. F. D.
 Correspondence solicited with said N. 0. Fansler, or his attorneys, Ansel &. Harris, Greenville, S. C., or J. J. Me Swain, referee in bankruptcy, at Greenville, S. c. N. o. FANSLEY, Trustee in Bankruptcy, Liberty, S. c. E. F. D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-21
GOyERNoR GIVES NOTICE


 This office has heretofore approved every requisition made upon it by your office, looking to the improvement of its efficiency, but many things given out of your office presenting only part Of the facts with a tendency to reflect upon the chief executive, leads me to the conclu- sion that the size of your force exceeds it's requirements. For this reason l have concluded that it is advisable that the force and expense of your office should be reduced to within that contemplated by the provisions of the code. Therefore, I give notice to you that with the terml- nation of the present calendar year, that any expenses to be incurred by reason of special contracts existing, will not De approved by this office. If there should be need for special counsel in particu- lar cases, it can be presented to me as they may arise. The code provides ample assistance to the attorney general; that is it has been so considered heretofore, without the great expenses which 1t now consumes. I will ask, therefore, that you give notice to any of those now con nected with your department under any special arrangements not provided for in the code, whose terms extend beyond January l. 19l7 advising them of this decision of the executive. l am deter mined that insofar as my authority ex- tends that nothing shall stand as a hin- drance to the material interest of the state except in the administration Of JUS ticc'
 MT. Martin replied to the governor at length on August 22, stating that he had just returned from the special term or court in Russell county. He declared he had not "interfered with any contracts or agreements made by the convict dc- partment with the lessees of state con victs, and gave history of the matters relating to the obligations of the con vict lessee After lengthy review of the incidents in these transactions ex- tending from May until early in July. MT. Martin says that early in July he addressed communication to the .gover- nor, stating that the collections made py the convict department on the accounts were small in comparison with the on- ligations. On July 25. he states, he ac- dressed a letter to each of the companies asking that they make arrangements for immediate payment of their past due iE- debtedness. and as a result had confer ences with the representatives of two of the operators
 "What steps I take toward collecting an indebtedness which has been permit ted to remain standing for more than two years, when the statute requires report thereof to be made to my onice If 1t is not paid within 30 days, is a mat ter with which you have nothing to do" wrote AN. Martin. His action. he stated, was nots an Interference" nor an "as- sumption of authority" but the perform ance of a plain duty commanded by the statute.
 If it is your Intention to suggest that have been discourteous to you," the attorney general continued to the goveR nor. T assure you that you are in error. n have endeavored always to treat yo,i officially as the governor of Alabama. and trust that no communication or act of mine has furnished aO ground for
 such conclusion on your part"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-21
MARTIN CENSURED

The governor, in writing Mir. Martin on the date named censured MT. Martin for failing to answer communication, relative to agreements (which the les sees of the state convicts claimed to have been made with you (the attorney gen. crab, as an excuse for not maintaining their agreements and contracts with the state.
 Your assumption of authority, If such is a fact" the governor wrote, lis af- fcoting the material interests of the state, and in the absence of the information requested from you in my note of the l4th, I am compelled to ask the lessees for data This should have come from your office. The matter is so urgent, however I feel compelled to pursue the subject diligently, even at the risk of dis playing to the outside that lack of CO., ordination of the different branches of the state government which is necessary in securing the highest efficiency of state government.
 ing the course of this administration. Never before. in the history of the state government, so far as my recollection goes, has the chief executive been denied the advantage to be derived from having legal advisors and confidential counsel necessary to facilitate the dispatch of the duties of this office. While I have en- deavored to overcome this as much as lay in my power, it has been a source of strain upon the resources of this office, and to a degree has reduced it's eff cier cv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-21
ATTORNEY GENERAL CLAIMS GOVERNOR
 OVERRULES LAWS
Continued from Page one)

violation of the law growing out of the Girard liquor seizures" he says. "A num- Der of patriotic citizens in different parts of the state have volunteered funds in order that the work of ridding the state of the conditions of graft and lawlessness disclosed by these raids shall not halt Necessary funds for thu. conduct of the prosecutions growing out of the murder available. While all right thinking peo- pie regret the spectacle of a sovereign state being so reduced as to be conl- pelled to accept donations for the conduct of important prosecutions, I assure them that I am endeavoring to have such con- dition speedily remedied In the courts Under date of August r, according to the correspondence given out, Governor Henderson wrote MT. Martin relative to h1s action in the convict department mat ters. It seems that during May, in &C., cordance with the law, the convict de- partment reported to the attorney general that about five coal companies working state convicts had fallen behind in their payments to the state during the two years following the depression in this sec ton. MT. Martin, 1t seems, was on the verge of carrying the matter into the courts but held off, and subsequently, re- ceived periodical reports from the con- vict department as to what the lessees were doing in the way of liquidating was learned today, have not yet been f, lat tad
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02
JACK LONDON DIES SUDDENLY
Uraemic Poison Fatal to Noted Author
in His California Home-41
Years Old.

Santa Rosa, Cal, Nov. 23.-Jack
London, one of Americas best known
authors, died at his Glen Ellen, Cal,
ranch near here at LAS o'clock to-
night, victim of uraemic poisoning.
London was taken ill last night and
was found unconscious early today by
a servant who went to his room to
awaken him.
From the time London was found
this morning he did not regain con-
sciousness. About midday he seemed
to rally, but later suffered a relapse
and sank rapidly until the end came.
Besides his sister, Mrs. Shepard,
London is survived by a daughter, who
is a student at the University of Cali
fornia; his mother, who lives in Oak
land, Cal, and his wife, CHAIRMAN
London. Mrs. London was at her hus-
bands side when death came.
London would have been Al years
old January II.
Mr.. and Mrs. London recently re-
turned from a visit of several months
in the Hawaiian Islands and have been
living on their Glen Ellen Ranch, one
of the most deliberately equipped in
Northern California.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02
Carrying Too Heavy a Burden.

If it is imagined that the American
people will ever be content with such
conditions as now prevail, there is a
gross misunderstanding of the weight
of the burden laid upon the multitude
of men who find the number of dollars
coming in no greater than it was a
year ago, while the work every dollar
must do is much increased by the I'M
ending rise in the cost of necessaries
of life. The average American will
never be satisfied to eat up so large
a part of his wages or other income
as he must consume under existing
conditions.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02

In an interview. Secretary of Com
merce Redfield declares that the Euro
pean demand for food and clothing
due to the war, is the cause of the
enormous increase in the cost of such
products to consumers in the United
States. If the war causes the high
prices, it necessarily follows that the
war also causes the high wages. for
high prices and high wages go togeth-
err. Thus is a member of President
Wilson's cabinet compelled to admit
that our present prosperity is due to
the war and not to Wilson.-Hartford
(Conn.) Courant.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02
POOR MORE EXPENSIVE NOW
Cost of Maintaining the County Farms
Increased More Than $4,000
During Last Year.

TOpel-a--The cost of supporting the
inmates and maintaining the poor
farms of Kansas for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1916, was $134, 704 SO,
an increase of $4,000 over the figure
for last year. The state board of con-
troll recently filed the reports of the
county clerks of the state covering
the poor farms and paupers in the
counties
The population of the poor farms of
the state for the fiscal year tota1ed
GAG, an increase of forty-one compared
were divided as follows: Insane, So;
feeble minded, 242; children, IL;
other inmates, 63S
The following twenty-three counties
of the state have no poor farms and
are without paupers of any kind: Bar
Ton, Cheyenne, Comanche, Edwards,
Finney, Cove, Graham, Grant, Gray,
Haskell, Kearny, Kiowa, Logan,
Meade. Morton, Russell, Scott, Stew
art, Stanton, Stevens, Trego, Wichita
and Wallace.
Hamilton, Lane, Meade, Ness, Sheri-
dan and Greene counties own poor
farms but have no inmates, and have
not had for several years Pratt
county owns poor farm, but leases it
and then pays for the care of the few
paupers the county is called upon to
support.
There are three counties in which
the poor farms produce a sufficient
revenue to support the paupers of the
county. These are jefferson, Miami
and Pawnee.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02

couNTRYs PRESENT PROSPER
Tx DUE TO EUROPEAN WAR
Not Underwood Tariff, but Cessation
of Industry of Foreign competI-
tors in American Markets ls
Responsible for Trade

The prosperity which the United
States enjoys today is built up behind
a wall of protection much higher than
any tariff ever erected. 1t is sheltered
by barriers equal to three ordinary
tariffs piled one on top of the other.
in respect to some important phases
of foreign competition.
The war has operated as a COM
plete embargo upon shipments of man
ufactured products of many kinds from
Germany, the most formidable COM
petitor this country had to face in
Europe, in time of peace. Austria
Hungary has also been practically
eliminated from American import
trade. That is true of Belgium. also,
and Belgian wares were long a factor
of no little consequence in American
markets.
Even countries which still have &C
cess to American ports are so occu-
pied with war needs and war condi-
tons that they have been nearly wiped
off the map, in respect to some impor-
tant industrial fields, as far as export
trade goes. Altogether, the war has
placed barriers in the way of foreign
exports to the United States which are
Iar more difficult to pass than the high
est tariff ever heard of in this country
or any other modern nation
So Wilson prosperity is high tariff
prosperity-in effect the highest tariff
by far that the industries of the United
States have ever known. In some
great fields it is prosperity sheltered by
a virtual embargo. 1t should have
proved the case for the Republican
party and its candidate, for the war is
temporary and may not last long, and
its duration is wholly for foreign gov
ernments to decide. When it ends its
embargoes and its trade barriers OF
all kinds will fall
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02
THE BIG GAS SALE ENDORSED
The State Utilities Commission Gives
Consent to Transfer of Kansas
Natural Property.

Topeka-Announcem was made
here recently that the Kansas Public
Utilities Commission would issue GER
tificate of convenience and necesSi-
ty,'' authorizing the Empire Gas and
Pipeline Company (the Doherty Com
pany) to purchase the Kansas Natural
Gas Company and the necessary sub
sidiary companies. The consent was
obtained by telegraph from the mem
bers of the commission who were in
Washington.
The formal permit will be issued
when the commissioners return to To-
peka- The Doherty interests will then
exercise their option, it is said. to the
purchase of forty thousand shares of
Kansas Natural stock.
The sale of the Kansas Natural to
the Doherty group should, gas men
say, give Kansas cities a measure of
relief at once by enabling the new
holders to make connections of pipe
lines and delivering more gas to their
gates. These connections are a tri-
fling matter as far as labor is con-
cerned. The gas men say that no ex-
tensiye reorganization of the pipeline
system could be made this winter, nor
could the necessary pressure stations
be installed in time to give full
out that if the Doherty group intends
to make good the assertions it voiced
before the purchase it can even now
give more gas and stop much of the
real suffering to gas users
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02
HOSPITAL SHIP GOES DOWN

London. Nov. 23--The British hos
pital ship Britannia has been sunk
with the loss of about fifty lives. says
a British official announcement to-
day.
The Britannia was sunk by a mine
or a torpedo yesterday morning in the
Zea Channel, an arm of the Aegean
Sea between the Island of Yea and
the Greek mainland. according to the
official statement There we're LOG
survivors, of whom about twenty
eight were injured.
The Britannia was a steel triple
screw steamship of 4S,15S tons-the
biggest British ship ever built She
was built for the White Star lines
Transatlantic passenger service, be-
ing finished only last year, but was
Immediately requisitioned by the Brit
ish government for use as a hospital
transport
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02
Adamson Law Held Unconstitu-
tioneI by a Federal Judge
at Kansas City. -
HOPE FOR AN EARLY DECISION
Government Attorneys Expect the SUI
preme Court to Act Before the
First of January.

Kansas City, Nov. 23.-The govern
ment, through Frank Hagerman as
special counsel, won its first point in
the Adamson S-Hour Law case yester-
day.
Although Judge Hook declared the
law unconstitutional, it started the
case Immediately on the way to the
United States Supreme Court, where
the government hopes for final de-
cision before January L. This is the
time set by the railroad brotherhoods
to strike unless the S-hour day is then
in effect.
Also Judge Hook took the bite"
out of his decision of ''unconstitution-
atty by this paragraph:
1.-The case was presented but yester-
day and decision is desired today 1t
is far from being an agreeable duty
for a judge to record a judicial con-
clusion without the care and deliber-
alton essential to a conviction that he
would stand to in every circum-
stance"
Railroad Ordered to Cooperate.
In order to obtain a decision of the
Supreme Court before January 1,
Judge Hook said the following should
be done:
AN order will be entered in that
case (the Injunction suit of the receiv-
ers of the NJ. o. & G. Railroad against
the government directing plaintiffs
and their counsel to cooperate with
the Department of Justice in lodging
the appeal in the Supreme Court by
December A, next, and in then making
for the advancement thereof for such
early hearing as the court may find
it consistent to grant; also to invite
counsel for all the railroad companies
and others similarly interested in the
question involved to participate in the
presentation of the motion to advance
and in the arguments on the merits
as fully as though their clients were
parties to this litigation
Judge Hook granted the injunction
asked by the receivers of the Mis-
souri,, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad. He
directed that a decree be entered in
behalf of the plaintiff railroad reciting
that the government as defendant be
allowed an appeal in open court
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02
Reaaars a-horse-Raek.

Don't you shudder To think what will
happen when the Wilson congress re-
convenes in December? The esti-
mates for the next fiscal year will pass
the 5000, 100000 mark, with no means
of meeting this stupendous increased
expenditure except by increasing the
income tax and making it apply more
generally. Estimates for the army
are $405. OOO, 600 The fact that the
last congress appropriated S2.5OO.OOO
more than it raised by revenue makes
1t necessary for this added army ex-
pense to be taken care of.