The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-06-18
TREND OF EVENTS
AT WASHINGTON.
Tcrse Topics Of Interest to the
Great American Citizenry.
IRRIGATION ADVOCATES SIGH

iAx\iVA fUAAlLC Siull
At the Tremendous Waste Of Water Ia
the Mississippi Valley, Which, If
Properly Stored Could be Turned
Loose at the Right Time on Arid Crops.
Washington.-The advocates OF
National irrigation for the West
have been signing for the past week
in thinking of the tremendous vol
ume of water that is going to
waste in the Mississippi valley. 1t is
said that not in a hundred years
could the government build storage
reservoirs at the head waters of the
Mississippi or the Missouri to take
care Of such floods as the present
une. A feature OF this flood storage,
says Guy e. Mitchell, secretary of
the National Irrigation Association,
which may not be generally under
stood, may be termed a secondary
storage. The water storage propo-
sitlcn applied to the Missouri and
it's great tributaries Involves the
question of the irrigation CT the
vast arid domain through which
these rivers flow. II irrigation
storage reservoirs were constructed
on these rivers it is estim ated that
as much as 30, 000,0 900 acres of pres
EFT desert land would DE reclaimed.
The principal season of growing
crops for this area would be April,
May, Jure, July, August, and the
reason that the lands are not irIi-
gated at present is that. while there
is pleEty of water in the first three
months, during July and August,
when water is absolutely necessary
to mature the crops, these streams
are reduced to mere threads.
The four secret service men who
formed President Roosevelt's per-
sonal guard on his recent trip, had
a strenuous time of it. They re-
ceived knocks, bruises and scratches
in protecting the president against
the crushing mobs, in keeping en-
thusiastic, but reckless admirers at
a proper distance and knocking out
individuals who refused to heed
warnings to keep back. The guards
had no less than thirty hand to-
b and encounters with unruly mobs,
and it became necessary for them to
deliver Knockout blows to about
fifteen or twenty different persons.
Gilbert Meyers, a well known
CLAIMS attorney of this city, who
was injured last Wednesday in a
runaway accident, died as the re-
suit CT his injuries. He was il his
10th year. MIR. Meyers was the
representative Of hundreds of
Southern claimants for damages
growing out OF the civil war, and
had a large clientele amorg those
who prciessed loyalty to the Union
in Louisiana, Mississippi and Ark
ansas. His business was vast and
extended over the South.
Secretary Moody has made pub
tic the plans and specifications for
the rev $1,000 ton b~attleships Mis-
sissippi and Idaho, just completed
by the board of construction. The
new ships retain the offensive and
defensive features of first class bat
tleships at a sacrifice Of speed,
power and coal capacity. They
will be modified types Of the 5000
ton battleship Connecticut. Rear
Admiral Melville. engineer-in-ohiei
Of the navy. declares it is difficult
if not impossible to construct a thor
oughly satisfactory up-to-date bat
tleship whose capacity is limited
10 Is, 900 tons.
Minister Squires, at Havana, ir-
forEs the state department that
Cuba exported 342, 395 tons of sugar
IN the year ended April 30, 1903.
against 116, 481 tons in 1902. She
had on hand sos, 442 tons April 80
asst, whereas there was a surplus
of 1872, 293 tons in 1902. The Cuban
planters, it is stated, are entirely
satisfied with this years crop,
though the production in the dis.
trict adjacent to Cienfuegos will be