Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1901-11-29

FROM THE MISSISSIPPI CAPITAL
A Newsy and interesting Letter From Our Jackson
Correspondent.

displayed tho portraits or statues OF
great Mississippians cad the views of
historical places or events, and an
historical library. This department
should be in charge Of o paid direc-
tor. The commission especially op-
poses making the management OF the
department the ex.officio duty of any
state officer, believing the plan sug-
gested the only feasible way to secure
competent supervision. The commits
sion recommends that for nucleus
OF this department the valuable man
uscripts, documents and relics be-
longing to the Mississippi Historical
Society, with the approval Of the So
ciety, be donated to the state, the so.
ciety to remain perpetual trustee OF
the donation.
The commission recommends that
on the director Of the department. be
imposed the duty Of collecting his
torical materials, the indexing and
binding of manuscripts, the perform
anos Of the duties Of statistician,
the careful editing Of the sources of
state history and the preparation
from time to time of an official state
register.
The commission urges that boards
Of supervisors be compelled by law to
provide fireproof vaults for tho pro-
lection of records.
In the list of valuable records To-
Gated and secured by the commission
the official papers of ex- Governor
Ames of Mississippi hold first rank.
The police have developed strange
clsw in the case of the mysterious
murder of Henry Robinson. the old
Choctw Indian, as related few days
ago. Several Indians were brought
into the police court from the Choo-
taw camp across the river to which
the dead Indian belonged. One of
these, an old fellow who appeared to
be soft Of patriarch Of his tribe,
and who could speak broken English
intelligibly, related a curious story
regarding the custom Of the Ohoc-
taws, which seems to clear up the
murder mystery. According to the
old Indian 1t is law of the Choctaw
tribe that whenever q man is improp-
erly intimate with a woman Of the
tribe a committee Of his tribesmen is
appointed to take the offender out to
secluded spot and open one Of his
arteries. He is then left to bleed to
death. In the case of the dead In
dian, and also with the story as re-
lated by the old Chootaw patriarch,
inolines the officers to the belief that
the dead Indian was not murdered, in
the generally accepted sense of the
word, but that he was the victim Of
this code of the Choctaw for violat-
ing the moral regulations of the
tribe. The police are pushing their
inquiries along this line with view
to arresting the parties who are gull
ty of the act
Will Jackson, a negro, was jailed
here recently on the charge Of MUIR
der. Jackson is charged with killing
Jim Ross at Pocahontas, several
weeks ago. The killing was the Sc
quel to church festival. jackson
fred five shots into Ross, who lived
for three weeks after the shooting.
and died in the hospital at viokshurg.
Captain @. NJ Birchett of Mont
gomery, Ala, called on Governor
Longino Saturday morning to ask |
pardon for a female oonvict named |
Louisa Houston, who is serving a |
life sentence for murder The woman
was an old family servant of Captain
Birchett's family, and while on a
visit to Meridian she killed q man, as
she alleges, for insulting her. Cap
tain Birclett claims that the woman
is demented.
Grand Master o. L. Mckay Of Me-
ridian, Miss. has made the following
for appointment ar
representatives Of other Masonic
Grand Lodges, by the Grand Lodge
of Mississippi: Arkansas, ]. W.
Keys, West Point; Canada, H. T.
Howard Biloxi; Colorado, L. B.
Franklin, Columbus; District of Co.
lumbia, W. H. Howard, Meridian
Maine, Frederick Speed, Vicksburg;
Missouri, Nolan Stewart, Jackson
James f. McCool, Kosoi-
usko; New Brunswick, H. O. Yawn,
Lumberton New Zealand, S. r.
Lamb, Batesville: Prince Edward
Island, John Y. Murray, Jr., Ripley
Quebec. George O. Hoskins, Brook
haven; Rhode Island, Charles B.
Evans, Shannon; South Carolina,
Eggleston, Lexington; Ten
nessee, B. v. White, Mel idian; Vir-
ginia, W. B. Walker, Aberdeen; West
Virginia, E. N. Thomas, Grsenville;
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