The Montgomery Times from Montgomery, Alabama • 1

Times. TH TIMES Today's Niwi Today. SIX DAYS SIX CENTS JDHE ONTGOMER THE TIMES Todzr'i Newt Tcdir. SIX DAYS SIX CENTS VOL VIII. MONTGOMERY, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1311.

NUMBER 269 WITNESS PUTS "RICH OLD FOOLS" WILL PLEASE PAY ATTENTION BEAT ELEVEN BEAT THE BUNCH FOR HUMIDITY MEXICO AC! THREATENED CIVIL WARFARE HIS in ODD PREDICAMENT i WEATHER, WATER, SUN AND MOON. 4. Unsettled weather, with rain tonight or 4 j. Maximum temperature re- 4 JL corded past 24 hours, 87 de- 4 4 grees; minimum, 69 degrees. 4 4 Sun sets at rises to- 4 4 morrow at 4:52.

4 Moon sets at 11:46 4 4 rises at 11:28 p. m. 4 4 Moon enters last quarter at 4 4 11:31 p. m. 4 4 River gauge reads 6.1 feetl 4 river is rising.

4 4 Shippers' forecast Protect 4 4. 36-hour shipments for tem- A 4 perature of 86 to 92 degrees, EXPOSE SECRET 5s2SSSS Mrs. Alma V. Sturtevant, of Passaic, N. the latest figure to come to the front in the smuggling case' of Mrs.

Helen Dwelle Jenkins, of New York. Mrs." Sturtevant, whose stage name is Josephine Joy, came into the case through her own initiative. According to the story told by Mrs. Jenkins, ever since she made public the amazing facts of how a fortune in jewels given to her by two millionaire admirers were smuggled into this country, she has been bombarded by messages from Mrs. Sturtevant, begging her for an inter view.

Mrs. Jenkins now says she finally decided to investigate the wo man, and the result was a remarka cgsagss, in 1 ble proposal by which Mrs. Sturtevant urged, her to Join forces and' make "rich old fools, pay for their flirtations." Mrs. however, refused to become interested. On a visit to Passaic Mrs.

Jenkins took Richard Parr, of the Customs Service, and his brother Owen, with her and they know all that took place. It is admitted that Mrs. Sturtevant has had some experience in making men pay for their flirtations. According to her, own -story, she re-, ceived a settlement from a rich Boston man, whom she threatened to sue for breach of promise several years ago, to the amount of $25,000. She was married at the time, she says, but kept that fact a secret.

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE OF BUST NESS LEAGUE WILL MEET TOMORROW AND, CONSIDER PRO- ject. I Y- Indications are that the Business Men's League will start an advertising campaign soon. The publicity committee was to have met for the purpose of taking up this matter today, but the meeting was postponed; until Wednesday afternoon. The proposition of raising to advertise Montgomery was discussed at a meeting o'f the publicity committee March 30. It was deemed wise to drop the matter until some of the political agitation, which has characterized Alabama the past twelve months, was settled And conditions assumed a more promising attitude.

The league is a purely business organization and has no part in politics. William Clondenln. aa-advertising expert of Nelson-Chesman Company, suggested at the meeting in Marcb that the $15,000 be raised. E. J.

Meyer, who has important positions on various committees, lifted his voice and said believed this could be done. A T1 Mr. Clendenln is in the. city now, and will meet with the committee tomorrow nfternoon at 8:80 o'clock. NOTARY APPOINTED.

Samuel B. Stelner, of Birmingham, was appointed a notary public this mornlng(by order of Governor O'Neal NOT ONE DRY VOTE WAS CAST TO SAVE REPUTATION ONLY TWO BEATS IN THE COUN-TY, SO FAB AS KNOWN, GAVE A DRY MAJORITY -REPORTS RECEIVED FROM OUTSIDE CITY ABE NOT YET COMPLETE. The election of yesterday disappointed no one as to results, the general opinion being that the outcome would he overwhelmingly favorable for the open barroom and regulation. Beat 11 was the only heat which went exclusively for wetness, so far as known, and Beats 12 and 14 the only ones, as far as found out, which went. dry.

The reports, up to the time of going to press, from outside the city are only partial. The following are the returns as far as received at this office: In the City. Wet. Dry. Ward 1 354 64 Ward 2 304.

68 Ward 3 325 74 Ward 4 323 62 Ward 5 266 33 Ward 6 296 13 Ward 7 Box 1) 126 55 Ward 7 (Box 94 .55 Totals 2,0 8 8 The votes stood in the city 401 For dispensary, 299; against, 1,688. For Saloon, against, 200. Country Beats. Beat 10 Wet, 28; Dry, 2. Beat 11 Wet, 52.

Beat 12 Went dry. Beat 13 Wet, 46; Dry, 25. Beat 14 Wet, 15; Dry, 22. Beat 1 6 2 8 Dry, 7. SUMMER TRAVEL IS QUITE UNPRECEDENTED.

Passenger Agents of All Railroads Are Kept Busy Answering Injuries. The railroads all report unprecedented summer travel- The offices of passenger agents are kept busy answering questions as to routes for those who are going In different directions, and in engaging- sleeping car accommodations. The 'phones Hre also kept alive with interrogatories and applications for berths. For example, John Metcalf of the Southern, stated that sleeping car purchased up to July 31. This Is but a sample of the way business- is going.

"Either people are hunting a cool place during the warm weather or tills 4a An i-n Aiain tT a Vi Qxr Tl fl.VP money to spend," said an agent. ITOHN GATES STHJj CONTIUES TO IMPROVE. Bteel Man Not Yet Out of Woods, But Attendants are Hopeful. PARIS, July 18. Further Improvement in the condition of John W.

Gates is announced by his physician. While not out of danger, his attendants are hopeful he will recover. CABINET IN RECEIPT MlflBA SB MMMMItfkM wiun mm SECRETARY WILSON SAYS HE WILL MAKE RECOMMENDA. TION WHEN HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED. WASHINGTON, July 18.

Secretary of 'Agriculture Wilson today sent the reply of Dr. H. Wiley to the charges against him to the white house and when the cabinet met submitted the document to the president and members. Seoretary Wilson said lie had Just received the papery and had not read them, but he intended to make a recommendation in the case as soon as the cabinet "went over them. i ELOQUENT NEGRO PREACHER WILL SPEAK TONIGHT.

Dr. M. W. Gilbert to Occupy Pulpit of Colored Baptist Church. Dr.

M. W. Gilbert will preach the First Baptist church (colored), at 8 o'clock tonight. Dr. Gilbert is a speaker of eloquence, a graduate of Madison University, New York, and of the Morgan Park Theological Boston.

OF THE TRUST CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE TRANFERS INVESTIGATION TO NEW YORK CUS-TOM HOUSE. NEW YORK, July 18. The congressional committee investigating the sugar trust today transferred its activities from Washington to New York, and in the costum house began the real work of uncovering the secret of how the American Sugar Company has been able to monopolize trade in the United States. Claus Spreckles, president of the Federal Sugar Company, is expected to be the most important witness called. JIT THE MERCY OE THE KENHEIMS ATTORNEY BRINGS EVIDENCE BEFORE COMMITTEE OF IN-VESTIGATION SHOWING DIS-CRIMINATIONS AGAINST HUMBOLDT IiINE.

WASHINGTON, July 18. That the independent steamship lines Jn Alaska are at the mercy of the Guggenheim Tailroads and steamer lines was shown the committee investigating the Controller Bay scandal today. Charles T. Drayton, of Washington, the attorney representing the Humboldt steamship line, of Seattle, tnltt nf Har.rlminat.inns asalnst that line by the Guggenheim interests. DEER PARK HAS A COLONIZATION COMPANY.

The Alabama Colonization Company of Deer Park, Washington county, filed articles of Incorporation with the secretary of state this morning with an authorized capital of of which $8,400 is paid in. SPECIAIi TROOP TRAIN 5 TO PASS THROUGH CITY. Snecial t.roon train second division of No. 38, will pass through Montgomery over the Western from San Antonio to Fort Meyer, Virginia, to morrow morning, mere win De twenty-two cars in the haul MAN DONS HIS FIRST SHOES. FORT SMITH, July 18.

Yielding' finally to the solicitation of his wife, Police Judge Harrington, now a middle-aged man, is wearing shoes for the first time in his life. When he was a boy he went barefooted and since has worn nothing but high boots, preferably box-toed. BREAKS LEG KISSING WIFE. "Just One More," She Says, and He Steps Back Off the Porch. ARCON, July 18.

But for a kissing bee with bis wife, George Ransom, a farmer north of town, would not have sustained a broken lef. As Ransom was about to go to the field to plant, he kissed his wife. Mrs. Ransom followed her husband to the back porch. According to her statement, while be was backing away she playfully exclaimed: "Just one more, George, for good meas ure." George was about to gratify the request of his wife, but before he did so he took another, step backward and fell to the ground, breaking his right leg, ONE THUMB.

NIAiHU $30. Grainer Insures His Natural Grain ing Tool for This Sum. NEW YORK, July 18 Charles Helnsey, a grainer, employed by a Newton (N. painter, has taken out an accident insurance policy for $50 on his right thumb Helnsey says be would, not take $100 for the nail, which Is 1 Inches long. He uses the nail almost entirely in graining, and says it is much better than an artificial tool.

Helnsey says he Insured it tor $60 because several times the nail has been broken and each time be lost money by remaining Idle. MADERO AND DE LA BARRA ARE AT OUTS THE FORMER ISSUING PROCLAMATION DECLARING PRESIDENT RESPONSD3LE FOR PUEBLO BATTLE. MEXICO CITY, July 18. Civil war again threatens Mexico as the result of an open break between Francisco Madero and President De La Barra. Madero has issued a proclamation directly charging De La Barra with the responsibility for the fighting in Puebla and summarily ordering him to dismiss from public office every sympathizer with the rebellious party.

Reports of disorder throughout the republic continue to pour into the capital. WILL HOLD INSTITUTE FOR COLORED TEACHERS. Week's Instruction to Be Given Commencing August 21. On August 21a teachers' Institute, continuing one week, will be held In Montgomery at the state normal school for negroes. All negro teachers in Montgomery county will be ordered to attend in order that they may be instructed in better methods for teaching, as well as to have pointed out to them other important subjects which will be helpful in training children for good citizenship.

Experienced men and women in the employ of the state will be jh charge of the institute, and all negro teachers in Montgomery county are required by law, under penalty of losing their certificates, to attend. ATTORNEY-GENERAL THOSE RETAILING BEER OF FOREIGN MANUFACTURE ARE AGENTS APPLICANTS FOR LIQUOR LICENSES MUST ADVERTISE. In an opinion, rendered today by the attorney general, it is held that any person, whether retail dealer or not, selling beer manufactured by breweries other than Those in the state, shall be deemed and held an agent thereof, unless such brewery shall have an established agency in this state. The attorney general further held that every agency of a brewery In the state is subject to a license of per annum', which is payable to the probate- judge of the county where such agency is established. In reply to a Question propounded by the secretary of state relative to the law requiring applicants to advertise that they would appear before the excise commission for a license, the attorney general held that before such application could be passed upon by the excise commission, the applicant must have ad vertised in one of the papers with a general circulation for two successive weeks, otherwise his application could not be acted upon.

MONTGOMERY IS WELIi REPRESENTED IN GREENVILLE. Many from City in Attendance at Baptist State Convention. The ministers meeting preliminary to the ninetieth session of the Alabama Baptist state convention met at Greenville last night and wiM continue through today, the convention proper opening tomorrow, r-. The convention Is well attended by the ministers and laymen of Montgomery, a number of ladies also attending. Drs.

W. B. Crumpton and C. A. Stakely and their wives, and Pastors Bush, Cowan, Professor Hodges and Mrs.

B. P. Crum are among those In attendance. The officers of the body are: "i President, R. E.

Pettus, Hunts-vine, S. D. Mallory, Selma, and W. Campbell, Tuekqgee; wording and statistical secretary, M. M.

Furman; treasurer, R. P. Manly, Birmingham; auditor, 3. P. Fowlkes, Birmingham; preacher for 1911, J.

D. Gwaltney, Talladega. CIGAR VENDER AT CHICAGO CLUB TESTIFEES THAT STAR WITNESS BEFORE LOUIMER COMMITTEE BOASTED IN HIS PRESENCE THAT HE HAD ELECTED ILLINOIS SENATOR. WASHINGTON, July 18. That Edward Hmes boasted he elected Lorlmer to the United States senate was the testimony of Donald M.

Frame before the Lorlmer investigating, committee. Frame is a clerk at the cigar stand in the Union League Club in Chicago. He was selling cigars on the day Lorlmer was elected, when Edward Hines came out of the telephone booth and accosted H. H. Hettler, saying, "I have elected Lorimer." Frame was backward as a witness and an effort was made to confuse him on But the witness stuck to his story.

W. OF A. RATE HEARING WILL END TOMORROW. President Wickersham Expected Here Tonisjht Will Be Last Witness Examined. It was announced this morning by one of the attorneys in the Western of Alabama rate hearing case that it Is very likely that the testimony In the case would be finished tomorrow afternoon.

The taking of testimony in thig case has been going on fer several months, and the hearings have alternated between Montgomery and Atlanta. The last witness that will take the stand will be President C. A. Wickersham, who is expected to arrive in Montgomery tonight or in the morning. He has been expected for the past week, but business has detained him in Atlanta.

TAX EQUALIZERS GETJU TANGLE RESCIND RAISES OF TAX COMMISSION RECEIVED AT FORMER MEETING AND SET NEW DATE FOR HEARING. According to the action of the county board of equalization all those cited to appear before the board to contest, if they saw fit, raises on their property, need not attend. They are to await new citations to be sent out later. This was the result of a lengty wrangle at the meeting today, in the presence of some twenty-five or more property owners who had been cited to appear. The discussion grew out of a resolution offered by Mr.

Cody, In which was set forth the probable irregularity of the citations, claiming that the tax commissioner should have filed with the board his raises on undervalued property and that each item should, have been passed upon by the board before the citations were issued. Despite the fact that the board, at its July 10 meeting, moved to receive these raises and ordered that the citations should be made by the clerk, and the fact that they were so made, the Cody resolution was passed and the minutes of July 10 were rescinded. July 19 was appointed for a hearing by the board on the raises of the commissioner. GRAVES AND SOLWAY VOLUNTARY BANKRUPTS. J.

C. Graves, an Opellka merchant, this morning filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States district court, with liabilities of $3,019.06, and assets of $1,572.24. M. Solway, of Montgomery, filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy this morning. His liabilities and assets are given as nominal.

LANDS BIG FISH, DROPS DEAD. FORT SMITH, July 18. After hooking and landing a 40-pound cat fish in the Illinois river near Moore, James Holmes, aged thirty-five fell back In his bont a corpse. Heart disease, produced by excitement attending the capture of the fish, caused his death. LOCAL COTTON MARKET.

Middling 14 3-8; strict middling, 14 1-2. PASTEUR INSTITUTE HIS HEW HUE COTTAGE HAS BEEN FITTED UP WITH EVERY CONVENIENCE ON THE CORNER OF PELHAM AND UNION STREETS. lit is moving day at the Pasteur Institute, and by this afternoon the institute will be located In its new quarters on the corner of Pelham and Union streets. A pretty little cottage has been rented by the state for the housing of thig department, and all modern conveniences have been Installed In the building. A new roof has been put on the house, the walls have been papered, and the wood work, both outside and In, has been painted, Separate waiting rooms have been prepared for the white and colored patients, reading rooms have been fitted up.

and In every way the comfort of visitors has been looked after. The rabbits and guinea pigs have nice quarters provided for them in the back yard, and the bad smell that met the patients when they entered the institute at the capltol will be absent. The first treatment in the new building will be given tomorrow, as it is expected that all of the apparatus will have been installed by that time. As soon as the institute finishes its moving the old quarters will' be given a thorough cleaning and' renovation; and the court of appeals will take possession. WINNER OF PARKMAN FELLOWSHIP AT CAPITOL.

A. S. Ford, of Receives Congratulations of Many Friends. A. S.

Ford, of Troy, was at the capHol this morning visiting his friends. Mr. Ford has recently returned from Harvard University, where he won the Francis Parkman fellowship for a year's study in philosophy in a foreign universty. He was formerly a school teacher in Troy, and his many friends will be very much gratified to learn of his sucess In winning this honor. Mr.

Ford stated this morning that he would probably leave for Vienna in the fall, where he would study several months, and then go to Paris for a short course )n philosophy. GIRL ASSAILANTS OF STOKES INDICTED MILLIONAIRE AND DETECTIVE ONLY WITNESSES BEFORE GOTHAM GRAND JURY THAT ISSUED TRUE BILLS. NEW YORK, July 18. The grand jury today indicted LUIIam Graham and Ethel Conrad for attempting to murder W. E.

D. Stokes, the millionaire hotel proprietor, in their apartments at the Varuna. Only two witnesses were heard, Stokes end Detective James McCor-mick. The Iris will appear in court tomorrow plead and have their ball renewed, MUCH PROPERTY AT LUZON DESTROYED BY TYPHOON. MANILA, July 18.

A typhoon which vlsltod Luzon several days ago did damage estimated at a million and a half dollars. RABBI ADLER DIES IN CITY OF LONDON LONDON, July 18. Herman Ad-ler, chief rabbi of the British empire, died here today, aged 72. He is widely known as a writer of Jewish history. CLENDENIN WILL BOOST ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN APPROVES PLA AND GOVERNOR CERTAIN TO DO SAME FOR WETUMPKA HOS-PATAL ON HIS RETURN TO THE CiTY.

TVia nfn ta ennvict board met this morning shortly after 11 o'clock for the purpose of considering plans for hniMinv si hnRtiita.1 for tubercular not tan at Wetiimnka. where the: state charges can he carea tor iu humane manner. noin tn thn ahsence of the gov- tmm th ritv nlna for the hospital could not be authorized, but the board endorsed tne pian sud-niHAd anH linnn the return Of the governor to the city on Thursday, It is expected that he will give nis approval to it. as lie is heartily in fa vor If the movement. The plan calls for four one-story buildings, connected by a continuous gallery running the entire length of hnlliUnor.

The rooms the nrls- oners will occupy will be enclosed by a. boarding ror a nigtit oi aooui three feet, and the balance of the roomd to the ceiliner will be enclosed by a coarse yire netting. The doors will be made of the same material. With a place of this nature it Is expected that the death rate from tuberculosis in the Alabama prisons will be greatly lowered. lAt present the greatest number of deaths are caused by tuberculosis.

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