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The Tupelo journal., 1903-03-27

ter standing in good condition at the
present time. In 1856 Sir Walter
Raleigh presented a Tree which he
carried from Virginia to Sir Francis
Bacon. 1t may still be seen growing
in the garden of Gray'sinn. The seeds
are not distributed by birds, but scent
to be carried on the surface of streams
and grow best in alluvial soil. They
are not easily p~ropagated, but nurser-
les have been successfully conducted
several states. Kansas has a larger
producing area than any others. The
catalpa is also grown in Mexico and
Canada. 1t is hardy south of A de-
grees latitude and is cultivated sue
cessfully in the semi-arid districts of
Utah, Nevada and California as well
as in the south and west. It's beauty,
shade and quick growth are fast rem
derlng it a favorite in all portions Of
the United States.
1t is expected that the sides of rail-
road tracks will present thousands of
miles of II of beautiful catalpas.
In 16 years, a tree will produce five
cross-ties, which will last 35 years;
and $40 trees planted on either side of
one mile of track will provide 5000
ties, a sufficient number to relay that
mile.
When a catalpa is cut or broken
down, a new shoot, arising from the
stump, quickly becomes a tall, vigor-
Gus tree, as the wide-spreading roots
afford it plentiful nourishment. A
growth is permanent, as only a few
trees would be cut each year to sup
ply locally railroad ties and poles for
electric wires. The present large cost
for transportation would be entirely
done away with if they are in the To-
cality where raised.
O~ne-year-old trees are procured at a
cost of from five to ten dollars per
thousand. If it be necessary to use
seeds, rows should be drilled about
four feet apart, covered lightly, and
kept weeded. There are about 10, 0
seeds to a pound. All the weeds must
be kept out. A sod of grass will ruin
catalpas. Vegetables may, if desired,
The Tupelo journal., 1903-03-27

branches have all the space necessary,
the trunks shoot up tall and straight.
the lower branches are far from the
ground. They frequently attain a
height of $50 feet. In contrast with
most quickly growing trees, the wood
of the catalpa is very durable, the anti
septics which form a large portion of
its chemical properties serving as a
preservative. The speciosa variety
has always been regarded as much
more valuable than the kind found in
the south. Its beautiful blossoms
have caused it to be widely cultivated.
The two kinds meet, and a sort of
hybrid is formed in Missouri. In early
days the Indians in the vicinity of
the Wabash recognized the value of
the catalpa speciosa. 1t furnished the
~favorite material for their canoes and
various implements. The early set
tiers constructed their forts, boats and
houses of this wood, many of the lat
The Tupelo journal., 1903-03-27
Banner County.

1t is stated on good authority
that Calhoun is the banner county
of the State as regards candidates
for county offices. Reliable Stats
tics as to the number of citizens who
are aspiring to office Ire not avail
able, as the totals are being changed
every day by fresh announcements.
1t seems, however, that not a sin
gle county office will be left without
at least six, and generally more, ar
dent suitors. Calhoun is an interior
county with no railroad connections,
and the county offices are naturally
regarded as greater plums than in
most Of the others.
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Securing the Rosters.

Secretary Root of the val depart
ment is sending out letters to the
governors of all the States asking
their cooperation in the matter of
securing the rosters of the troops en-
gagged in the war. Gov. Longino has
turned the letter to him over to Di-
rector Rowland and offers to Coop
crate in any way in his power. Mr..
Rowland thinks that with the rec
ords he has already secured, together
with what are now on file at Wash
ington, that he will be able to com-
plete the roster Of the Mississippi
troops.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-03-27
Fruit Shed Wanted.

The railroad commission last week
received a petition from the fruit
and truck growers of Durant,
Holmes county, asking the Illinois
Central to build a fruit shed at that
point, or rather urging the COM
mission to compel the company to do
so. The petitioners recite that the
fruit and truck growing business has
grown to such proportions at Dur
ant as to render a fruit shed abso-
lutely necessary to the interests of
the business. Secretary Webb of the
commission has cited the Central
company to appear at the April
meeting of the commission and an
swer the petition.
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Meeting OF Lumbermen.

Secretary W. G. Harlow of the
Retail Lumber Dealers Association
announces that the association will
meet at Jackson ON April 7 next. A
rate of one and one-third fare for
the round trip has been secured from
the railroads running into Jackson,
and the secretary expects to have
the largest attendance in the history
of the association.
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NJ, j. s. *. C. Progress.

President Merrill of the Mobile,
Jackson & Kansas City Railroad
Company has been in North Missis-
sippi during the past week securing
rights of way for his road. Col.
Merrill stated that the road would
bepushed through from Hattiesburg
to P~ontotoc at once as soon as the
rights of way could be secured. The
necessary finances have been secured
and the company is not asking for
any donations of cash, but simply
for right of way and depot facili-
ties.
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Caught Between the Cars.

Lawrence NJ. Bushby, yard fore
man for the New Orleans. & North
eastern road, at Meridian, in Lau-
derdale county, died last week from
injuries sustained in the yards. He
was caught between two cars and
fatally mashed before assistance
could reach him. Deceased was
about As years old and is survived
by a widow and one child. He had
been employed by the Northeastern
about fourteen years.
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State Medical Convention.

The committee on arrangements
of the State Medical Association,
consisting of Drs. H. L. Sutherland
of Rosedale, president; D. H.. Trot-
ter OF Winona, secretary; S. r. Dunn
Of Smythe and E. P. Odeneal of
Greenville, met in Greenville last
week. 1t was decided to hold the
State convention at Greenville April
Is, 16 and II unless the flood situa-
ton prevents travel, in which case
the president is empowered to call
the meeting for some other city.
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Pushing the Paving Scheme.

At a meeting of the Business
League of Greenville last week to
discuss plans to bring out the city's
vote at the election to be held April
l to vote $4,000 bonds for street
paving purposes ver seventy-five
members were present, showing the
interest manifested by the people in
securing paved streets. A vote at
the meeting was proposed, and when
taken there was not an opposing vote
registered. Paved streets here will
double Greenville's population in
ten years.
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Not Quite Certain.

Crawfoot-So your son Zeke was in
love for two months. Did you notice
any economy?
Stubble-It's hard to say. He didn't
eat as much, but he used up a powerful
lot of sweet soap an clean linen.-Chi-
cago Daily News
The Tupelo journal., 1903-03-27
Historical Society Program.

The program for the sixth annual
meeting of the Mississippi Histori-
cal Society, to be held at Yazoo City
on April 20 and "a, has just been is
sued. 1t is perhaps the strongest
that has yet beer issued by the So
ciety. In addition to the papers that
will be read in person, a number of
interesting manuscripts by able writ
ers will be read by title and sub
mitted for publication.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-03-27
Como Mill Sold.

The mill of the Pamela Cotton Oil
Company was sold last week to R. G.
Wesson and R. G. Fort, the latter the
present manager of the mill. Con-
sideration, $4,000. The mill was
started six months ago by the citi-
zens of the town and has done a
good business.
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New Electric Light Plant.

The Capital Electric Light and
Power Company of Jackson last
week had its charter recorded by
Secretary of State Power and has
issued notice to the stockholders that
a meeting will be held for the pur-
pose OF organizing and electing Of
ficers. All Of the stock has been
subscribed and it is the purpose of
the company to begin the construc-
ton of buildings at once.
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Fire on Truck Farm.

A fire on the truck farm of J. NJ.
Hamilton, two miles south of Merid-
ian last week destroyed his large
barn, several head of mules and
horses, about 100 Plymouth Rock
laying hens, farming implements
valued at several hundred dollars,
a surrey and several wagons. The
property was only. about one-third
covered by insurance. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
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Brakeman Killed.

VIII Coulter, son of Mrs. W. D.
Coulter of Water Valley, was killed
at Durant last week. The young
man was employed as brakeman on
the Illinois Central and met his
death while coupling cars. The body
was carried to Water Valley.
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BeauVOir Fund Increase.

Brig. Gen. Webb of the United
Confederate Veterans announces
that contributions are rapidly COM
ing in for the Beauvoir fund. The
Port Gibson camp alone has guar
anteed $3.50, and two other camps
heard from swell this to $3.50. At
this rate the necessary funds will
be o raised and the debt paid eff
and the home opened.
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Seriously Injured.

A.. G. Starbuck, foreman of the
night switching crew of the Illinois
Central yards at Water Valley, was
struck by an engine last week and
severely injured about the face and
Body. 1t has not as yet been ascer-
tanned whether he suffered internal
injuries.
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Telephone Trouble Settled.

The action of the railroad COM
missioners last week in ordering a
restoration of the former rates by
the Cumberland Telephone Com
pany in Water Valley was met with
a feeling of satisfaction by the citi-
zens of that place. The town has
been practically without telephone
communication for more than two
weeks, and the impression prevails
that matters will be adjusted soon.
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Head Her on.

-sdFiferReaalD She's t1iepwprstg!gps-
sip in the ncighborhood. Why,
heard this morning that She
Husband-Come, now, don't try to
beat her at her own game.-Londcn
Tit Bits.
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A Horrible Accident.

Mrs. Stella Guyne, wife of Charles
Guyne, who, with Capt. J. F.
Guyne, composed the crew of the
little towing boat Pride of Virginia,
operating in Sunflower river, last
week became tangled in some part
of the machinery, caught in the
driving belt that operates the pro-
polling shaft, and was so crushed
and mangled that she died shortly
afterward.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-03-27

A number of prominent business
men of Sardis and Senatobia met
last week and organized themselves
into a company to be known as the
Sardis Oil Company. The capital
stock of the new company is $40,-
900, al of which has been taken. The
mill will be of forty-ton capacity,
and will also operate a irst-class,
up-to-date gin outfit. Work on the
new plant will be commenced at
once and will be ready to begin OPP
erations by fall, when the new cot
tonseed begin to be marketed.
The capitol commission has let
contracts for about $4,000 of the
furniture and fixtures for the new
capitol. This will complete the
equipment of the governors office
and will furnish the presiding offic-
ers' stands in the legislative halls.
1t will also put in some necessary
shelving and files in the offices Of
secretary of state, auditor and treas
urer. The legislature will perhaps
have to appropriate about $780, 900
additional to complete the furnish
ing of the building.
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for the air was sharp ana Paul1neS
teeth were chattering.
When, half an hour later, they
reached the miserable little farm,
Johanna gave shivering Pauline some
of the girls own cast-off garments
to replace the wet and Shiny mes
that chung so persistently to her
body. When she emerged, comfort
ably if somewhat shabbily tattired,
from the bedroom, she found johann
ma making coffee over a battered
| stove, and a girl of about her own
size setting the table. There, at last,
was the girl with SO much reason for
gratitude.
"That," thought Pauline, must be
Hilda. l suppose she is saying in
| side, How can / ever thank my bene-
factress? She's probably SO full of
grateful feelings that she can't say
a word. But how awfully that old
skirt of mine does hang on her. And
my! How cross she looks!"
It was Hilda, and she did look
cross. There was a heavy frown be-
tween her dark brows, and her dark
eyes, whenever they rested on Pau
line, were like thunder clouds. She
flung the heavy plates upon the table
and banged the oven doors.
There's a storm brewing" thought
Pauline. 81 wonder why she behaves
so. I thought at first that she vas
only shy, but it seems now as if she
resents having me here"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12
LEGISLATIVE MILL
GRINDING UPON SOME MEASURES OF
LOCAL INTEREST
Bill to Give Surveyors General Charge of
Road Construction and Repair Work
Fishermen's Licenses Raised - "Fish
Pirates" to BE Punished.

A bill of general interest throughout
the state has been introduced 10y Rep
resentative Welty, of Lewis county
Its purpose is to make county surveyors
county road commissioners and give
them full supervision of the coHstruc-
ton and repair Of all public roads
highways and bridges within such
county, except within the limits of in
corporated cities. 1t provides for the
personal inspection 10y such county
road commissioner of all public high
ways, roads and bridges, to note all
needed repairs and changes necessary
and to report his findings to the board
OF county commissioners. The county
road commissioner is given authority
over the road supervisors, and is re-
|quired to furnish them with instruc-
tlons in writing as to the necessary re-
pair work. In giving such; instructions
1t is specially stipulated that the coun-
ty surveyor shall keep in view the per-
manent rather than the temporary i'm
prOvement of the roads in his county.
The bill also defines the duties of the
county road supervisors. The compens-
alton of the surveyor in counties of the
Dist to Goth class inclusive is fixed at
5000 year and actual travelling ex-
penses.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12
THE LAST OF THE EvANGEL
Checkered Career of the Old Vessel Built
for Missionary Work

The old steamer Evangel, for the
past twenty years one of the best
known of the mosquito fleet on Puget
Sound, is nearing the end of her check
cred career. Her engines are soon to
be taken out of her to be put in new
craft now being built at West Seattle
by King & Wing for the Puget Sound
Navigation Company. The new craft
is to be a freighter. built somewhat
akin to the steamer Rapid Transit.
She is to be about 125 or 1870 feet i'm
length, by 81 or 80 feet beam and 7 or s
feet depth. She is designed for enter
ing shallow water ports and will be
able to rest ON the mud when the
tide goes out without injury to herself.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12
CUSTOMS SERVICE
IMPROVEMENTS TO BE
MADE IN THIS DISTRICT
A Wireless Telegraph system Contem-
plated-Foree of Employees Increased.
Three New Steam Vessels Co BE Pro-
vided for Customs Use.

A special dispatch to the Post-Intel-
lgencer from Washington says: 1.-THE
secretary of the treasury is determined
to abolish opium smuggling, to prevent
Illegal entry of Chinese and other i'm
migration and TO facilitate the transac-
ton of the legitimate customs business
of the Puget Sound district, and he
will spare no expense to accomplish
these laudable purposes. In the course
of three interviews with Collector Idle
the secretary has obtained ideas of the
conditions prevailing at Port Townsend
and other ports of the customs district.
Improved methods and increased per-
sol mel and new facilities in several
ports of the district will be introduced
at once.
iSecretay Shaw told the correspon-
dent of the Post-Inteligencer that the
situation in the customs service of
Puget Sound, owing to insufficient
funds, had attracted his serious atten-
ton, and that the treasury department
would do all in its power to facilitate
the transaction Of the increased Gus
toms business arising from the phe-
nominal growth of commerce in that
part of the country.
ain regard to measures for prevent
ing opium smuggling and illegal immi
grafton, especially Of Chinese, he dld
not care to make statement.
at is proposed to introduce com
prehensive system OF wireless tele-
graphy on the Sound. Several stations
will be established if satisfactory ar
rangements with a wireless telegraph
company can be made, and the secre-
tary believes that this system will be OF
great service, considering the scattered
situation of the several SUPPORTS. Three
or four inspectors who have been en-
ployed temporarily in the district will
be added to the permanent roll and
other employees Will be added when
needed. The salaries of several em-
ployes now in the service will be in
creased.
"Three new steam vessels will be
provided for use OF the collector and
his staff. One of these will be u thirty
knot launch, another will be board
ing vessel and the third will be used
for miscellaneous purposes in connec-
ton with the customs administration.
The fast launch has been built in the
east and will be shipped to Port Town
send Immediately. The other vessels
are now nearing completion at San
Francisco
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12

A bill of much importance to coun-
ties dependent upon water transporta-
ton empowers county commissioners
to build and maintain wharves. The
text OF the measure has not been out
lined in the press dispatches, but its
title would indicate that it is right in
principle. In counties situated like
San Juan, wharves, are as essential to
the transportation Of produce, mer-
chandise, etc., as bridges across large
streams, and there is no reason why
provision should not be made for build
ing and maintaining them in the same
way, having due regard for private in
terests.
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What will become of the Evangel is

floU kIlOWn. F.
The steamer Evangel has been better
known as the gospel ship" although
she has not been in the gospel business
for years. She was built in Seattle in
1882 by the contributions of Sunday
school children, with the understand
ing that she was to be used as mis-
sionary steamer in carrying the "glad
tidings" to the heather of Puget
Sound. She is now 100 feet long by
1872 breadth and 10 depth.
After she was completed she could
not secure the necessary cargo of mis-
sionaries, and as a, mail contract was to
be let to Alaska she was offered and
secured the contract at stiff figure.
She was cut in two and heightened to
her present dimensions and started on
her first voyage. 1t took her. six weeks
to reach Wrangel, I'd during the in
terim the government sent out a
steamer to look for her, and the mail
and the contract, too, was taken from
her. Since then the Evangel has been
on Puget Sound and has been on al
most every known route.
She has been burned up, "blowedn
up and sunk, coming out of several
disasters with barely enough left to
perpetuate her identity. Her nose has
bumped against every spit, :reef and
wharf on Puget Sound. Perhaps the
most serious accident that ever befell
her was the explosion of her boilers at
Sehome dock, Whatcom, ten years ago
this winter, which resulted In the loss
Of four lives.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12

Senator Monltray; of Whatcom coun-
ty, has introduced in the legislature a
bill raising the license of gill-net fisher
men from $3.50 per annum to S., plac-
ing sardines and herring on the list of
food fish which cannerymen shall pay
license on for packing, and making
more definite the law requiring fresh
fish dealers to pay an annual license of
$3.50.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12

A bill designed "to punish fish pirates
of the lower Sound" has been intro
duced by Representative Palmer, of
King county. 1t makes it unlawful
for any person to take any salmon or
other food fish of any value from any
pound net, set net, weir, fish wheel,
gill net, or other fishing appliance, or
from any scow, lighter or boat. A
penalty of not less than one year or
more than ten years IS provided.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12
FRATEKNAL SOCIETY NOTES

There were fifty fraternal insurance
orders reporting and attending the fra
ternal congress in 1902.
The total benefits paid by fifty fra
ternal insurance orders from the date
of organization to the close of the yeal
1901 was $495 ,692, ,O62.O2.
The A. o. U. w. paid in benefits
during 1901 $9,759, ,1l7.O6, being the
largest amount paid by any one OF the
members of the fraternal congress.
The Odd Fellows have the largest
membership of any fraternal organiza-
ton in the world, the total at the close
of 1901, exclusive of the Rebekahs, be-
ing l,002,272.
The Modern Woodmen OF America
added 1884 new members during
1901, the largest number admitted dur
ing the year by any order belonging TO
the fraternal congress.
The Ancient Order of Foresters have
paid out Sl15, 100000 since date OF Or
ganization. This IL the largest amount
paid out by any organization. The
A. o. o.. w. comes next with Sll5,
O4,003.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12

A bill which has already passed the
senate provides for the appointment of
an assistant state land commissioner.
If it becomes law, as it probably WILL
it is expected that John l.. Murray, of
this county present chief clerk in the
land commissioners office, will be the
first man to fill the new position.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12

DIR. Muscott was in town from Lopez"
Tuesday and Wednesday. He reports.
eleven cases of smallpox on the island,
none of them serious. Smallpox case.
cost the county over 500 last year.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12

George F. Hess, whose home is near
the south end of Lopez island, was or
dered committed to the Steilacoom
asylum Tuesday by Court Commits
sioner Blair. He has been ill for sew
eral months and so unbalanced mental
ly that the aid of neighbors was en-
listed to keep a close watch upon his
actions. At times, of late, he has been
very violent and has abused his wife,
who has done everything she could for
him and refused to make any legal
complaint against him, the complaint
upon which the insanity hearing was
had having been signed by neighbor,
Mr.. Thompson. His condition is
ascribed to an injury received in rum
away accident some months'ago and to
worriment over financial obligations.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12

James Clark, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thos. Clark, of Lopez, was committed
to the insane asylum by order of Court
Commissioners Blair last Friday. He
was committed once before, in 1896, but
remained only short time. He is 33
years old. Wesley Warner accom-
panied Sheriff McCrary 10 Steilacoom
with him.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12

1t is announced that the steamer
Clallam, now building at Tacoma for
the Puget Sound Navigation Company,
will be launched in April and probably
be in commission in July. She is to
be placed on the Port Angeles route
and it is expected that the Alice Ger
trude, now on that route, will then
take the place Of the Garland on the
San Juan Whatcom route.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12

Piles last much longer on the water
front here than in many harbors oil
Puget Sound. The old Sweeney dock,
which was replied last week for the
first time, was built about fourteen
years ago.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-02-12

Save three per cent of your res
estate taxes by paying in full on or be
fore March 15.