Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-12-26
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sLJackson, Miss Attorney General
McClurg hasstated that he would
take up the State line controv ersy
next week with the view of pro
teeting the interests of Mississippi
and to get the quickest possible adj
iustment of the trouble. He said his
present inclination was to file de-
murrer to the bill of complaint fled
by Louisiana to have TIE Court say
at the outset whether there is in
fact controversy between the vSoVer-
eign States, over their dividing
line. He says there is no doubt that
there is a scramble over some of the
oyster beds on the coast between
citizens of the two States, but the
Supreme Court of the United States
has jurisdiction in such matters only
when the controversy ,lorldispute. is
between the States, and he is ia
doubt as to whether such dispute
may arise except upon legislative
declaration, and he does not think
it wise to incur the great responsi-
bility of acknowledging that Missis,s
3 sipp is. as State, in dispute. or to
incur the great expense that must
follow litigation between the two
States, in absence of legislative ac-
tion, unless the Federal Supreme
Court shall say that 1t has jurisdic-
ton, and that Mississippi must an
swer The Attorney General says
that no appropriation has been made
to defray these expenses nor to pro-
vide in any way fer conducting this
Litigation. 1t Will be remembered
that he suggested to the Oyster
Commissions of the two States, in
Joint session at New Orleans on the
10th inst, when the Governors and
Attorneys General from both States
were present, that in his judgment
the quickests cheacest and most sat
isfactory manner of settling the mat
ter would be to have the legisla-
lures of the States to pass. a law de-
claring a dispute between TIE States
and to appoint commissioners with
full power to ascertain and mark
the line between them and N event
of failure of these Commissions to
agree,stos empower them to call in
three arbitrators, if necessary, from
different STATES.
+ The activity in railroad building
. in Southeast Mississippi is causing
"boom" that recalls in small way
the magic increase of values in the
West. This appears to be especially
true Of Lawrence county, which
short time ago got its first railroad
after being without line sinceit
became a county A former citizen
of that county, after a visit there,
reports that the last spikes are be
ing drlven-in the line from Hatties-
burg to BlountVille, and the two
places are connected d~sby-a-broad--
gauge road with good train service.
Before the road started in that dIz
rection, BIountville was an inland
village. 1t had tmo small stores and
q pine forest stretching id all direc-
tions. Now, under the impulse Of
the new road, it is becoming town
of proportions. A bank has just been
estabfished,s anew business houses and
residences are being put up, and
the age of gold seems~to have come.
Lands which went begging at $l.5O
lor g per acre are now held at from
s15 to s25, with the owners not anx-s
: ious to part with them at that. A
similar increase of values, is taking
place along the route of tFe new
Gulf and Ship Island branch now
being surveyed from Mendenhall to
Columbia.