The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-06
WASHINGTON
ITEMS
REPORT ON BANKS.
Shows Increased Circulation--
Postal Statistics...C0aI for
Government.

Washington.-The following PEN
Bions have been issued: Louisiana
Widows and minors and dependent
relatives of leah Bragg, New Or
leans, So; Jane Casson, Moorland, S.;
Elcey Ann Witherwax, Iowa, s.,
Louisiana-Original; Henderson Car
roll, Donaldsonville, Sc: Robt Smith,
Franklin, Sc. Increase, reissue, ETC.,
William johnson, New Orleans, So;
George t. Hastings, Lake Charles,
SS. Widows, minors and dependent
relatives, Betty Reyes, New Orleans,
IS; George Robinson, New orleans;
Isaacs Yantis, Fenton. Mississippi
Frank Ravens, Tutwiler; Henry Schy-
lock, Days; Stiles A. Acee, Grenada.
Widows, minors and dependent rela-
tives, Ellen Carter, Mound Beyou,
%.
The summary of crop conditions for
the month of October, issued by the
Weather Bureau, says: Rains caused
considerable injury to cotton during
the early part of the month, especially
in the central and western portions
of the belt. The weather of the mid
die and latter part of the month was
more favorable, and the development
of fair top crop in some localities re-
suited. At the close of the month
picking was still in progress, and with
out delay by frosts considerable will
yet be gathered, most favorable pros
poets for top crop being reported from.
Northern and Central Texas.
In the report of the fourth assistant
postmaster general, given ont under
the head of appointments of presiden-
tial offices during the fiscal year,
there were thirty in Alabama, fourteen
in Louisiana, and thirty-thres in
Mississippi. Those in Alabama COM
prised twenty-five commissions ex-
PRED, two removed, two deceased,
and four advanced to rue presidential
class. Louisiana's quota covered one
resignation, eight expirations of COM
missions, two deaths, and three be-
came presidential. Those in Missis-
sippi represented twenty-one expira-
tions of commissions, seven removals,
one death, and four became presiden-
tial. There were 661 fourth class
changesir Alabama, 302 in Louisiana,
and 593 in Mississippi. At the CLOSE
of the fiscal year there were forty-nine
presidential offices in Alabama, which
was an increase of one during that
period; Louisiana had thirty eight,
which was an increase of three, and
Mississippi, with a like increase,
showed fifty-seven presidential Offices.
Upon the basis of an estimate of popu-
lation prepared by the postoffioe de-
partment and embodied in this re-
port, Louisiana is shown as having
i 1, 45O, 706 inhabitants, and ranking
twenty-third among the States. Miss
issippi is given l,613, 1921 inhabitants,
and ranking twentieth, and Alabama
is credited with 1901, 845, with the
rank of seventeenth. The gross re-
ceipts at all postoffices in Louisiana
were 81, 100, $50, and the State ranked
twenty-fourth as to the total number
of postofices. Alabama showed gross
receipts of $94S,81S, being the elev-
enth State in rank as to the whole
snumber of postofices. Mississippi
receipts were 1874 $3.50, and the State
stood thirteenth in rank. The latter
figures are fine index of the business
transactions of these states.
The treasury department, which is
probably the largest single consumer
of coal for heating and mechanical
purposes in Washington, has come off
,,retty we'll, in spite of the disturb
ance in the coal market. Last spring,
when the anthracite strike seemed
threatening. Chief Clerk Hills had
nearly all the furnaces equipped with
.moke-consuming apparatus, so that
aoft coal could be used. But the con-
tractor who had obligated himself by
~ "a 900 bond to supply the demands