The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-04-09
The REFLECT OF
JACKSON LOBBIES.
Crisp Notes of State Interest
Culled at the Capital City.
NEW FEE BILL "A WINNER"
It Is Monument to the Lamented Col.
J. L. Power, Who Recommended Its
Passage. ga Peculiar Damage Suit
Filed....Eclectic Doctors to Meet.

| Ing W MISSISSIPPI, as S0OWE Dy the
records In the Office of the secretary
OF state, together with a Compare
| tive statement of the fees paid un-
| der the old and new fee bills. is
alike startling and gratifying. The
figures speak eloquently for them
selves. In this connection it is but
just to the dead philanthropist and
humanitarian, Colonel ]. L. Power,
to state that the fee bill, which be-
came law at the session of the leg
stature OF 1900. was recommend
by him. 1t has covered into the
treasury already $39.516.5O, more
than enough to pay the secretary OF
state for eighteen years, and it will,
continue to cover money into the
treasury perhaps at greater ratio,
as the State grows and prospers, for
all time. This is a monument to the
Iamented Power, written in the
statutes of the State, which he loved
and served SO well. and which saves
the taxpayers of Mississippi thou.
sands of dollars annually.
A very peculiar suit has been
filed in the circuit court here
against the Illinois Central Railroad
by T. {. Hupperich. He alleges
that in December be boarded an
Illinois Central train in this city for
McComo City, there being with him
at the time his mother, an aged
lady; an infant child and his wife.
He alleges that the train was crowd
ed and that he asked the fagman tc
get seat for his mother who was
too feeble to stand up. He alleges
that the fiagman was discourteous
to him and refused to accommodate
him. He says that he got off the
train to get bundle he had left in
the depot, and that when he got it
and started to get back on the train
that the f1agman abused him and re-
fused to let him board it, t1naiiy
calling policeman and having him
arrested. He says that he remained
j in the Jackson Jail for two hours
and then was released. He brings
suit for $4,000.
DR.. Finley Ellinwood, secretary
of the National Eclectic Medical As
sociation, has issued q call to the
! members of tie eclectic fraternity
to meet in Jackson GA the 10Th of
the present month for the purpose
of forming State association. The
eclectic physicians, as IS generally
known, acknowledge allegiance to
no particular school of medic inc,
| but claim to take advantage of the
best features OF all the schools.
There are several physicians of this
kind in the State. ard it is expected
that the association will be launched
with fairly good mem bership.
Adjutant Henry is now busy send
ing OFT blank acquisitions to the va
rious companies for the supplies re-
Gently secured by the State Guard.
These acquisitions are signed by
the proper company officers and "a
turned with the numbers and sizes
of uniforms desired and ether neces-
sary information. The supplies will
then be shipped from here. Several
consignnents of Uniforms, legglngs
and other military toggery have al
ready been received from the de-
partment.
Gen. j. "A. Webb, chairman of the
committee on transportation of the
Confederate Reunion and Corner
Stone Laying, has received letter
from Division Passenger Agent
Scott of the Illinois Central, notify
| ing him that that road has made
rate of one cent a mile for each mile
Travelled fol military companies, and
one fare tor the round trip for the
public. The limit to return is fixed
until June, tickets to go on sale
June /. This rate IS satisfactory to
/ the veterans and will insure large
crowd. both at the corner stone
laying and at the reunion.
Secretary Fitzhugh. of the state
house commission. has received a
letter from james F. Wheeler, OF
Greenwood, Leflore county, in
which the writer states that he wit
messed the laying Of the corner stone