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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-23
Democrats and tho Isthmian Canal
Continued from LIST pagej

A canal aud we will swat the repuo-
lican administration in the neck
The democrats in the House OF
Representatives tried mighty hnrd
this week to get tho republicans to
agree to an investigation OF The post
Office scandals, but they failed. The
republican refuse to be Investigated,
They killed O resolution for the pur-
pose OF calling an investigation OF
the Btis.ow charges by referring it
to a committee by elm vote OF lO7
to Iii. After it is referred TO the
committee it will continue to sleep
in the pigeon-hols OF the deck OF
the chairman OF the committee
That should show the people OF
the country whore the sincerity OF
the republican party les ia this
matter. They know full we'll that
il the Investigation is ever pulled
of it will pu! more kinds OF big re-
publicsns in hole aud soap the
sides and pull up the ladder, than
any man now dreams Of. That is
why they will smother the thing in
it's inception. The people may draw
their own conclusions.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-23
EoR SALE.

Oh nm LEASBECLD ON BERE-
q SVVV tania street. 80 years
turn Present net income $50 Or
month, apply TO
WILLIANSAVLDGE q co.
ans Merchant 9ty
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-23

Two re6headed Kentucsiaus,
twins, whose auburn haired wives
are also twins, have applied for per-
mission to exhibit themselves at the
ST Louis exposition. They want to
represent brilliant sunset Bat
svia, N Y News.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-23
BY AUTHORITY.
OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE
COMMISSIONER.

Honolulu, Jan q, 1904.
Notice ia this day given that Ger
tifcate OF Authority No 9, delivered
October 3, 1903, ard dated October
l, 1908, to. The FIDELITY INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED, of Honolulu. to
transact Insurance Business in the
Territory OF Hawaii, is this day re-
voked.
G. e, SMITHIES,
Deputy Insurance Commissioner.
Approved:
A, N. KEPOIKAI,
Treasurer aud Elk Ofiicio Iusur.
ance Commissioner.
27l64t
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
superintendent Of Education.

Word has reached the department
of education of the election of Prof.
j. F. Williams as county superinten-
dent of education of Pearl River
county, having defeated Prof. L. w.
Murphey by good majority. A spe-
cial election was held to fill vacan-
cy caused by the death of the former
incumbent. A commission will be IS
sued from the secretary of state IS
Office to the new superintendent when
the official returns are received.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
By u. Z. BLAKEsLEE, Jackson. Mss.

The Corn and Cotton Carnival is on
at Jackson this week. The display Of
products is very creditable one in
deed when it is taken into considera-
tion that only a few weeks was avail
able to prepare for it. 1t goes to show
what Mississippi can do, even if the
time was limited. Not an article on
exhibition was grown for show, what
was secured being picked up as found.
Plans for next year already being
made and the fair will be held on a
much larger scale and more widely
advertised. Begin right now to pre-
pare some article to be exhibited.
Make the exhibition more of a sur
prise than ever, even to the people of
our own state. A conference of off
cials representing all railroads that
enter the state together with business
interests from all over the state will
be called some time in February. Ev-
cry county will be especially urged to
become interested in the project and
help make the best and most complete
show Of products ever seen in the
SOUTH.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
DIR. LovETT's PLAN.

Birmingham, Ala.-Dr. J. A. B.
Lovett, president of the Central Ala
bama Agricultural College at Bloss-
vile, suggests that all planting of cot
ton in the affected territory be
stopped for five years and that the
farmers plant their lands in other
crops which the weevils do not feed
upon. s..
"Starvation is my remedy and II
seems to me as the most practicable
plan,'y said DR.. Lovett. 1T will give
the farmers chance, too, to diversity
their crops and in the end it will
nrove profitable
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
Kilied by Poisoned Cabbage.

Siddell, Ill.-Sid Rankin, aged 60;
Mary Rankin, aged Sc and four chill
dren living near here are dead from
the effects Of eating poisoned cab
bage. Cabbage in the garden was
found to contain worms about the
size Of i thread and three or four
inches long about the color Of the
cabbage. The cabbage was cut and
fed to animals and all died. Farmers
are destroying their cabbage.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
New Road for Vicksburg.

High Illinois Central officials are
conferring with the Board of Trade
of Vicksburg, relative to securing the
right of way for a new branch line
from Valley Park, on the Y. & M. V.
road, to connect with the Yazoo City
Belzoni road, taking in the rich sill
yer Creek country. There is no doubt
but that the I. C. officials will be met
in liberal spirit by the business men
Of Vicksburk as the building of this
road means much to the prosperity
of this city.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
A TEST CASE.
Alabama Law is to be Tried in Hunts
vile Murder Case.

Huntsville, Ala.-Attorneys la. for all
of the prisoners who were indicted by
the grand juries of the Sixteenth
Circuit court have reached an agree
ment to make test case Of that Of
Boss Stovall, charged with shooting
and attempting to murder Marshal
Tisdale, at Gurley. The case of Sto-
vail will be taken to the Supreme
Court for a decision on the question
of whether the indictment upon which
he is now held is legal. Judge D. w.
Speake has rendered decision that
the indictments returned by the grand
juries of the Sixteenth Circuit court
are illegal, from the fact that Judge
Paul Speake had no power to impanel
grand juries.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
Narrowly Escapes Lynching.

Columbus, Ohio.-A negro who at
tackled two women in the street here
narrowly escaped lynching at the
hands of an angry crowd. He first
seized Mrs. Charles Drayer and at
tempted to drag her into an alley,
but her screams attracted help, and
the negro was frightened away. Later
near the same place he attacked Miss
May Dent, and was dragging her away
when her screams attracted passers-
by. The negro was pursued and ran
into saloon, where large crowd
quickly gathered and threatened
lynching. A single patrolman with
drawn revolver held the crowd at bay
until the patrol wagon arrived.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
Sullv Receivership.

New York. .MacGrane Coke, the spe-
cial United States Commissioner ap-
pointed to take testimony on the re-
port and accounts Of Henry W. Taft
and David H. Miller, receivers of the
bankrupt firm Of Daniel J. Sully &
Co., the cotton brokers has filed re-
port. The report says the receivers
ask for an allowance Of $4,000 for
their services, and that Boothby and
Baldwin, attorneys for the receivers,
ask for an allowance Of $4,000 for
their services.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
-Four Men Entombed.

Eldorado, Ill.-Four men are en-
tombed in the Eldorado Coal and Coke
Company IS mine, with no hope for
their rescue; four others are cut and
burned from an explosion which
wrecked the shaft and demolished the
upper works. Mine Boss Patrick
Reed, who volunteered to 60 down IN
the mine after the explosion, CROPPED
Ills wy through the binding fumes
and rescued four men.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
Russian Ministers Resign.

st. Petersburg. 1t is reported that
Grand Duke Sergius, governor general
Of Moscow, and Count Muravieff, the
minister of justice, have resigned.
Grand Duke Sergius, advised the en-
peror not to concede anything to In
terror minister Sviatopolk- -Mirksy and
told him he must choose between him
and Prince Svaitopolk- -Mirksy. There
fore when the emperor indicated his
purpose to support Prince Sviato-
polk-Mirsy the grand duke rendered
his resignation.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
To Improve Gulfport.


Congressman Bowers will ask the
rivers and harbors committee of con-
gress to appropriate $5O0,OO0 for work
ct Gulfport during the next two years.
Capt. j. 7. Jones, who spent nearly
a million dollars building the harbor
has announced that he is going to
spend a half million dollars more on
improvement work, enlargement of
the pier, etc.
During the month of November the
lumber exports from Gulfport were
1S,701, 900 feet, an increase of $685.
900 feet over the exports for the pre-
vious month, and more than 2,OOO,-
900 feet in excess of the entire ship
ments for the year 1902. The exports
for the present year through Gulfport
will be about 250,000,000 feet.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
New Steel Corporation.

Trenton, N. 1.-The Bethlehem
Steel Corporation with an authorized
capital of $30,O00,O0O has been incor-
porated. The corporation will succeed
the United States Shipbuilding Com
pany, now in the hands Of former
United States Senator James Smith,
Jr.. as receiver.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
GEN. NOGI'S SONS.
Both Killed in Battle and He is Now
a. Childless Man.

Toxic. -Telegrams received here
from the headquarters of the Japanese
army state that sthe second son of
Gen. Nogi, the commander in chief OF
the Japanese army beseiging Port Ar
thur, was killed in the final assault
on Metre Hill on the 30th of Novem-
Der. The generals eldest son was
was killed in the battle Of Nashan
Hill on the 9th Of last May, and
he is now childless.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
New York's Borrowing Capacity.

New York.-The present borrowing
capacity of the city of New York in
round numbers is 93,s0O,OOO, accord
ing to a statement of the city's f.
nancial condition presented to the
Board of Estimates by Comptroller
Grout. It is shown by the statement
that since the consolidation into the
greater city, the city debt has in
creased $17S,751,6 percentage in
crease of 1916. A table of arrear-
ages in taxes shows that $64, ,O0O,O 900
remains unpaid and only about half
of this is collectible.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
New Policy adopted.

The Board Of Control Of the Peni-
tentiary have adopted new policy
in regard to the Oakley Farm. Here
after none Of the land on this farm
will be rented to private parties. The
rented land has been bringing in an
income of about. 81, 500 a year, but II
il believed that by good handling this
land can be made to produce q much
greater revenue. The land is not rich
but is regarded as very poor land.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
Collections Good,

Secretary of State Power announces
chat the collection of fees in his de-
partment will exceed this year any
previous year since the passage of
the fee law. These fees are paid into
the state treasury monthly and go into
the general fund. The fees already
total over $4,000 for eleven months,
which is more than any previous year,
and when the December fees are add
ed viii largely exceed any previous
year. The fee collections are growing
steadily each month, due to the raph
increase in the number of new char
ters granted.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
WOMAN PLUNGEs TO DEATH.
Tried to Beat Hotel by Sliding Down
Ladder Made of Sheets.

Chicago. Apparently fearing pros
ecution because had no money to pay
for her room, woman who registered
under the name of Mrs. C. M. Morris
at the Reverse House, attempted to
slide down an improvised rope from
fifth story window. When rescue was
at hand she either lost hold or delib-
erately loosened her grasp. She fell
four stories, landing head first on the
brick payment and was instantly
ki1lad
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
Oyster Industry Active.

The receipts at the state treasury
paid over by the Mississippi Oyster
Commission indicates the industry has
enjoyed decided increase along the
gulf coast, the payments for Sep
tember, October and November being
greatly in excess of the sums for
the same period last year. All reve-
nues collected by the commission from
fishing boats, canneries, etc., are paid
direct into the treasury.
The little town Of Pheba in Clay
county is experiencing a substantial
growth just now. Many new enter
prises are projected and some are
in course of construction. A $lO,-
900 ginning plant is being built and
there is a move on foot to build an
oil mill. 1t is in a fertile section OF
the country and will make an import
ant business point.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

There is plenty of money in Missis-
sippi to establish factories to use the
larger part of our crude material, the
only item to be contended with, being
the fact that our people are not edu-
Gated to the Importance and benefits of
manufacturing. Then too, SO few OF
them have had experience along that
line and they are wary of strangers
who come in and frequently promote
wild schemes that are only intended
to get the money of those who become
associated with them. Thoroughly in
vestigate every proposition before in
yesting your money in it.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
JEFF Davis Portrait Presented.

Final arrangements have been COM
pleted and the programme perfected
for the presentation to the state OF
the portrait of Jefferson Davis, presi-
dent of the Confederate states and
Mississippi's most distinguished son,
which was painted by distinguish
ed Washington artist. This likeness
of Jefferson Davis will be given to
the state by the Jackson chapter OF
the Daughters of the Confederacy,
which organization raised the fund to
have the portrait painted.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

The fall has been especially favor
able for gathering crops and In the
hill sections it is pretty nearly all out.
The delta always makes more than can
be gathered and a scarcity of labor
has left the people over there with a
lot in the field yet. The slump in
prices last week came fortunately af-
ter the greater portion was out OF the
producers hands. Mississippi has
been very lucky the past two years in
the way of weather for gathering and
the realizing of fair prices. Let us
be thankful for these favorable con-
ditions and resolve to, in the future,
try to tighten the load of our less
fortunate brethren.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

Protect your timber. Be slow to
|sell unless you are made secure that
it will be worked into the finished ar
ticle right here in Mississippi. Too
many large bodies of our splendid
timber lands are coming into the
hands Of foreigners who cut it into
rough lumber here and ship to other
places for manufacture. Right now is
the time to stop this. Already too
much of it is in alien hands. We are
glad to welcome sny one who will
come and help us in the great work
of development, but do not want 9TH
ers to get the best crude material we
have and carry it way, thereby losing
to us the cost Of transportation and
the price paid for skilled labor in its
manufacture. Hold your timber lands
until you know fully the purpose of
the intending purchaser. Too much
fine timber land in the state worth
500 per acre or more, is on.the assess
ment rolls at So per acre. This is not
as it should be. Board of supervisors
ought to Sc that it is assessed at
something like what it is worth. By
doing this the owners will be made to
pay little something of the cost of
developing the country and making
their lands worth more money. Other
wise they pay nothing and reap the
larger portion of the benefits. This
matter is we'll worthy careful inves-
tigation at the hands of our people,
and it is to be hoped that some action
will be taken along the lines suggest
ed herein.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

The governor has appointed B. l.
Sayer notary public for Minter
City, Lefore county.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

Write some friend outside Of the
state Of the wonderful resources Of
Mississippi. Do this At least once
week and watch the result.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

W. A. McWhorter Of Laurel sold
from one-half acre of cane $54 worth
of. stalks and made $65.50 worth OF
syrup. He also raised $103.5O worth
of Irish potatoes and $84.50 worth OF
sweet potatoes from an acre of land
that had been in cultivation GA years.
Then there are people who don t know
SO well whether trucking pays or not.
1t does pay better than any kind OF
farming in Mississippi today and land
can be used to advantage that would
starve the man who tried to raise corn
and cotton on it without the use OF
fertilizers Of some description.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

The clcothing factory at New Al
bany, although in operation only a
short time, is doing finely and more
machines are being added to fill the
orders that are coming in lively.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

Yazo City is seriously considering
the paving of Main street with vitri-
fed brick. Since the fire and conse-
quent heavy traffic Of rebuilding the
gravel that was there at one time has
gone and the citizens believe that
brick will be cheaper than to gravel.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

The flowers along our gulf coast are
still in full bloom, there not having
been a frost to kill them yet. It is
q common occurrence for them to be
in bloom while the Christmas festiv-
tiles are being celebrated. Our friends
Of the chilly and blizzard-swept north
are respectfully invited to come down
and see how we live while they are
confined to their homes building big
fires and curing frost bite.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

The Mississippi Poultry and Pet
Stock Association will hold its regu-
lar annual meeting in Aberdeen on
January 9th. The officers are hard
at work and expect to have the best
show since the organization of the as
sociation. 1t was started some years
since in ON a small scale and is grow
ing from year to year. A large num-
Der of fanciers of fancy poultry and
pet stock have become interested and
help every year to make the event one
of Importance. 1t is gratifying to
see so much more interest taken in
such affairs than formerly. 1t means
that our people are awake to the ad-
vantages to be derived from such
meetings and will work to make them
a greater success each succeeding
year.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15


One of the new life insurance COM
panies doing business in the state an
nounces that the money received from
policy holders in Mississippi will be
invested in the state. This sounds too
good to be true. Over two million
dollars is being paid old line compa-
nies every year and not dollar is be-
ing invested here. Tt is carried North
and used to build up that section to
the detriment of this. Let us hope
that the people of Mississippi will in
the future refuse to patronize COM
pany that does not invest its surplus
received from the state in the state.
Investments here bring much larger
dividends than in the east and there
is every reason why we should get the
benefit of the money we pay for life
insurance and is to be invested some
where.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

The difficulty being experienced in
all portions of the state >in getting
negro women to do the family washing
as has been the custom in vogue for
SO many years, is necessitating the
erection Of special laundries for that
purpose. Quite number have been
chartered in the past few weeks and
others are now being organized. That
is the way to meet a problem, hit on
a substitute and put in operation.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

{ John Amaker Of Poplarville killed
"a "razor-back" hog few days since
that tipped the beam at 1886 pounds
and rendered 166 pounds Of lard. That
SIS 4 remarkable showing for the ra-
zor-back and possibly there is more
good in him than he is given credit
for.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

Few people in Mississippi realize
the attention the state is attracting
abroad and the demand for our cheap
lands by monied men seeking profita-
BILE investments as well as homeseek-
ers from other states. Not a week
passes that announcement is not made
that large body of land has been
sold to some northern syndicate. And
right here the writer desires to sound
a note of warning. Don't sell your
land to spectators who will not agree
to improve it and put in cultivation.
There are plenty of bonafide home
seekers who will buy it and make i'm
provements. The syndicates some
times cut up into small tracts large
blocks and sell on installments to
homeseekers, but too often they hold
merely for the increase in price which
goes on rapidly. Our county Off
cials are derelict in their duty fire.
quently in allowing land belonging to
such concerns to remain on the tax
books at the figures for which pur-
chased and not what it would bring on
the market at present. Lands rapidly
advancing in price and hardly taxed
at all offer tempting inducements to
investors. Make such lands pay por-
ton of the cost of development by
assessing them at something like their
real value. This is nothing but right
and equitable and the owners should
not object to such a course.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

Clark county has voted overwhelm-
ingly to work the roads by contract
thereby hoping to improve their con-
dition. Yazoo county went on record
in the same manner some time since.
This goes to prove that the people Of
Mississippi are thoroughly disgusted
with the present condition of public
roads throughout the state and are
anxious and will to make any change
that even promises a betterment OF
conditions. Keep up the agitation for
better roads and something will come
of it sooner or later.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

Mathiston, junction point for the
Southern and M. J. & K. c., now in
course of construction, is still doing
something. The latest announcement
along industrial lines is, that land has
been bought and sash, door and
blind factory will be built soon. The
town is admirably located for the sue
cess Of such an enterprise, the new
road opening up a large section OF
finely timbered country, and there
seems to be every reason why the new
factory should prosper from the first
day of operation.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI

Devoted to the Industrial. Commercial and Agricul.
tural Development Of the Wonderful Resources Of
the State Items Of Interest from all Quarters.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

The 100000 of Lefore county
a per cent twenty-year bonds recent
lv sold to the Bank of Lefore have
been delivered and paid for at Green
wood. This is one Of the largest bond
deals ever made by bank in this
state.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

Newton is not sleeping since the Sc
curing of several nice factories. Work
preliminary to organizing a $4,000
sash, door and blind factory is being
done, and those familiar with the way
Newton is doing things, can almost see
that factory in actual operation.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

Greenwood death rate of only a
little over eight to the thousand for
the past five years is a splendid show
ing for that equally splendid city.
The Delta is showing great advance
in healthfulness lately and now COM
pares favorably with any section OF
the Union.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-15

Farmers in the vicinity Of Wealth
ersby and many persons within the
town have invested in fruit trees, IN
tending to raise fruit, principally
peaches, for shipping. A widow pur-
chased 1000 peach trees and set
them out in a cotton patch.