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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-06-03

The terrible calamity which befell
Yazoo City last week should be
warning to other towns that water
works, and good water works should
be maintained for use on just such
occasions. A private corporation had
maintained the system in Yazoo City
for a number of years and many were
the complaints of inefficient supply
and pressure. The city was in the act
cf installing a system of its own when
the fire swept away the greater por-
tion of the business district and
great many dwellings. No town of
500 or more inhabitants should be
without good system of water works
and regularly organized fire compa-
ny. Profit by the costly experience of
Yazoo City and provide these things
while there is time and not be COM
PEELED to stand by and watch millions
of dollars go up in smoke without
means to check it. The entire state
sympathises with the stricken city and
much substantial sympathy has been
shown. Arrangements are already be-
ing made to rebuild and that in a
much more substantial manner than
before. The people of Yazoo City
will emerge from their fire bath brigh-
ter and more energetic than ever.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-06-03

N0TE.-Secretaries Of industrial leagues,
progressive unions and all organizations OF
a like nature, are requested to furnish the
writer with notice Of matter that would be
OF interest to readers OF this department.
Newspapers are also requested to send
marked copies containing mention OF new
enterprises, good yields OF crop, extra stock
DC, or to place the writer on the mailing
list so that such matters can be properly
handled. Would highly appreciate any OF
the State papers that might be sent regularly.
ALI press people are cordially requested to
mako this ofice headquarters while in jack
son. Always have q comfortable chair, ex-
changes, stationery and hearty greeting
for the fraternity.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-06-03

Mrs. West of Enterprise has sold
$50 worth of strawberries from one
ninth of an acre of ground and saved
some for home consumption. At that
rate an acre would bring $540. How
is that for intensive farmingf 1t is
an example of what can be done in
Mississippi.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-06-03
LEAKEsvILf, GREENE COUNTY, MISS. FRIDAY, JUNE

Attendant upon seasons of pros
perity comes a disregard of the law
that is to be deprecated. Such has
been the case from time immemorial.
Mississippi is now experiencing the
greatest period of prosperity since the
dark and bloody days of '61-65 and it
is to be hoped that the loyal citizens
Of our beloved state will use every en-
ergy to see that the law is not flag
rantly transgressed. 1t is their duty
as citizen to do this and it may not
be necessary to call attention to it at
this time, but lest some might forget
word of warning is dropped in a
spirit of love and every man urged to
do his duty as a citizen. The blight
ing effect Of lawlessness is being ex-
perienced by several sections and
strenuous measures being adopted by
the citizens and authorities to suppress
it before it gets beyond control. A
mans duty to his country is second
only to that to his family, and let us
trust that every citizen will use his
every energy to prevent stain upon
the fair name of his native state. Our
people are prosperous and happy as a
general thing and the day is growing
brighter as it grows older No state
in the Union is making faster progress
than ours. The eyes of the world are
turning this way and to insure con-
tinuance of the good work begun, dill
igenee must be exercised upon the
part of our people.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-02-25

Recommendation Of the committee to
cut out the rule requiring the courts
permission for an attorney to with
draw or enter case after suit had
been instituted. Mr.. Stewart wanted
the rule left In and Mr.. Robertson stat
Cd that he did not believe It any Of the
courts business what attorney liti-
CANT had. Judge Stanley said he didn't
SEQ what control the court had over
the contractural relations between at
torney or client. Mr.. Stewart con-
tended that he did not believe the court
should allow q change Of attorneys un-
I'll the last attorney had been paid his
fee. Mr.. Robertson replied that the
proposed rule wouldn't help Stewart
collect his fee. Mr.. McClanahan
thought It unwise for court to lay
down . rule Of professional ethics. No
attorney would accept case until the
relations between the client and former
attorney had been dissolved. He was
opposed to the regulation Of the ethics
Of the profession in any way by the
court.
The association voted to eliminate
the rule.
Next came q discussion over the rule
proposed by Judge De Bolt, requiring
all afiidavits or jurats to be absolutely
verified and prohibiting the swearing
to complaint on information and be-
lief.
Mr.. Robertson said a complainant
might be absent from the Territory and
his attorney might not wish to verify
q complaint absolutely. Judge High
ton said he was opposed to too many
rules. They should be as simple and
brief as possible.
A. Lewis opposed the striking out Of
rules governing probate cases. Some
such rule was needed and It would be
q good thing for the Legislature to
adopt the code system from California.
"A. s. Hartwell said the Hawaiian stat
ute was meagre on the subject but
that the lengthy rule proposed was
not authorized by statute.
There was also opposition to the re.
port Of the committee proposing to
eliminate the rule requiring guardian
I'D Item to give bonds before he could
receive any property.
The committee In Its report proposed
a number of amendments to other rules
and these will be discussed at the
meeting today.
Judge Highton, d. l.. wilmington and
Robbins Anderson were voted In al
J members of the association.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-02-25
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ID Queen Street, Honolulu, T. n.
Agents for

Hawaiian Agricultural Co.. Ookala
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List Of officers:
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Treasurer and Secretary; Col. w. F.
Allen, Auditor; p. c. Jones, G. H.
Cooke and Geo. r. Carter, Directors.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-02-25

Weekly EDITION o. the sul'suM y
Der yssf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-11
Countinu the Bales,

On January 16 there had been turned out of S0,171 active gins 9,S57, PIT com mercial bales. On December 3 the agri- cultural department estimated the en- tire crop at 9,962,O39 bales. The esti- mate of the agricultural department is discredited by the counting of bales at the gins by the census office.
 The truth Is, we have outgrown the estimate method. What we need now are more frequent countings of bales as they are rolled from the gins. The census office reports of bales ginned are valuable, while the estimates of anybody are but guesswork, and all guesswork is untrustworthy.
 It is still difficult to say what the crop will be, and not until the bales ginned up to March are counted will any one be able to say what the out turn will be on September l. It is plain, however, that the crop will be in the neighborhood of 10, 800 ,000 bales, round bales and the Sea Island crop included A good deal of ginned cot ton is yet to come in, and some gins are still turning out bales. The crop cannot vary much from 10,500,000 bales, which is fully million bales below the needs of the cotton mills on both sides of the sea. The crop has been underestimated, but the figures from the ginneries do not promise a supply equal to the demand.
 If congress desires to put an end to the manipulation of cotton it will pro vide for at least semi-monthly reports 3 from the ginneries. and it will abolish all estimates. The latter are but gold bricks, whereas counting of bales at the ginneries is known to present the truth. Speedier and more frequent re ports are much needed.
 In Alabama there had been ginned up to January Al6 over million com mercial bales. The exact sums are,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-11
In Sanfo Oominqo.
known,

The murder of a machinist on the gunboat Yankee in a Dominican port, by one of the contending factions, will no doubt be followed by demand for reparation. It Is difficult to see, how ever, how reparation can be secured when no one can say which faction is de facto, or which de jure. The admin istration has recognized to some ex- tent the Morales crowd, but Jiminez has still, it is said, following.
 The island is about 450 miles long, Hayti holding the wee sern one-third, and the Dominicans the balance. It seems a mass of mountains from the sea, but the island contains many beautiful valleys. The population of the Dominican republic is about 600,- 900. In Hayti the French tongue is spoken, but the Dominicans speak Spanish. As rule the Dominicans are 1 AhtAbuAC OI 1ANiohH negroes in about equal proportions. The republic was established in 1S4S, and it has been the scene of many rev olutions and insurrections since that time. Our minister, MT. Powell, con siders the present situation chaotic and an invitation to this country to inter- vene and restore order.
 As we will not permit any other country to become peacemaker and order restorer, the responsibility seems to rest upon us to do something in Santo Domingo, and doubtless the mur- der of the machinist will be all the ex- cuse we need for a degree of inter- vention that will restore order, or at least enough authority to grant us rep aration for the firing on an American gunboat, and the killing on it of an American citizen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-11
On horrors head, horrors accumulate.
 -OtheIlo.
New York's Electoral Vote.

Tn 1890 the democrats in Michigan had control of the legislature and ex- ecutive office, and they did not feel sure they could carry the state. They therefore passed law, providing that each congressional district should elect an elector, and they cut the state into two large districts each of which was to elect an elector at largei The law was carried to the United States su- preme court for review, and that great court declared 1t wholly proper and constitutional The republicans after ward repealed the law, because they did not need 1t in their business.
 It is said the republicans in the New York legislature, now in session, pro- pose to repeat the Michigan scheme, thus about dividing between the two great parties the thirty-nine electoral votes of the populous state. The city districts of New York are democratic, but the upstate districts are even more strongly republican than the rural dis tricts in Massachusetts. At present there are seventeen democrats and twenty republicans in congress from New York. If the state should be cut into two parts, one part would choose a democratic elector at large, and the other part republican.
 If this plan should be carried to'law by the republican leaders 1t would sim ply be confession that they think the state as a whole would go democratic in November, and such confession and such resort to a political device would be damaging.
 Massachusetts selected electors by districts in 1920, and perhaps other states did likewise The plan Is not novel, but it's application just before election in pivotal state would ere ate deep feeling, and it would be de- nounced as a trick. If the plan should become general the science of gerry imander would be developed, and shoe- string districts would become common Each state is left free by the federal constitution to appoint electors lin such manner as the legislature thereof may direct" and the New York legis- lature, controlled by republicans in both branches, with governor who is a republican, may decide that half a loaf is better than no bread.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-11
LONDON POLICE COURT soLoNs
Are Very LenIent in Dealing With
 Their Prisoners.

From the New York Commercial.
 The police magistrates of London are invariably lenient in their dealings with erring or misguided persons charged with merely minor infractions of the law and not in the class of ''habitual offenders" :" It may be said that -75 per cent of the cases brought before the stipendiary magistrates, popularly designated "beaks. arise from over-indulgence In liquor; in such cases, and where no profane swear ing or dsorderly conduct Is charged, the general fine is only about seventy-five cents. But If the case is an aggravated one. drunk and disorderly' then justice is solaced with fine of either s2.5o or s5; and failing payment the offender gets week or ten days of imprisonment The following are very fair specimens of London police court cases, and will show the almost paternal tone of the magis- trates when not dealing with criminal of lenders.
 A man charged before MT. Plowden with being drunk pleaded that he had an acute attack of neuralgia and took some whiskey to relieve the pain. He was very sorry, and so forth. The magistrate: "Oh! you need not take it so much to heart think you were quite right to take whiskey if you had neuralgia. Port wine is better. Go away
 Another man charged with drunken ness said that he was eating pease-pud- ding and 'faggots' when he was arrested.
 The magistrate-"What are faggots2'
 A gaoler--''A mixture. sir, sold at butchers shops
 The prisoner-"But I was drunk
 The magistrate-"You must have been to eat faggots. Pay ten shillings or seven days.
 After hearing the last one of forty-six cases of drunk and disorderly," MT. Plowden remarked: *These are the fruits of fine Sunday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-11
About Persons.

Chief Justice Thomas N. Mcclellan of the supreme court came up from Mont gomery last night and is stopping at the Morris.
 G. A. Boorks of Cincinnati is at the Hillman.
 J. F. Pitt of Gadsden is registered at the Florence.
 H. Fox of columbiana is at the St. Nicholas.
 Wallace c. Elder of clantoh, editor of the Union, is at the Metropolitan.
 W. J. Porter and J. A. Wilson of Rus sellville are at the Hillman.
 The Hon. R. E. Poole of Montgomery, commissioner of agriculture and indus tries, is at the Morris.
 J. Lodge and R. L. Lodge of Tuscaloosa are at the St. Nicholas. at the Metropolitan.
 Thomas Cobb of Montgomery is at the Hillman.
 The Hon. J. A. Iusk of Guntersville, who is contesting with the Hon. J. L.. Burnett for congressional honors in the Seventh district is at the Florence.
 Will c. Spence and w. E. McCord of Goodwater are at the Metropolitan.
 Major John G. Harris of Montgomery Is at the Morris.
 L. B. Musgrove of Jasper Is stopping at the Hillman.
 C. c. DuBose of Columbiana is at the Florence.
 c. s. Robbins of Montgomery is at the Norris. ]. R. Ryan of Corona is at the Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-11
From the New York Sun.

rTOIn the NeW Ork sun.
 6 HE terrible conflagration at Balti- NY more ranks with the great fires at
 Chicago in October, 1871. and Bos- ton, in November, 1872, in the extent of the destruction caused by it.
 The rapid, mushroomlike growth of the huge western town, with it's highly in fiammable construction, made such con- fagration not astonishing but almost in- evitable. New York itself in it's earlier and roUgh-and-tumble days was the freouent victim of such fires, invited by wooden constructions and the comparative inef- fciency of safeguards against fire in the way of fire department organization and building regulation. But when a eonfiagra- tion spread over even Boston itself pe- culiar among American cities for the solid ity of it's construction and for the con- servative nature of its municipal meth ods, there came to the whole union a shock of surprise, even of consternation Now, when again more than a quarter of a century later, another American city of the first class, likewise notable for the substantial character of it's development in all respects, has been swept in it's dis trict of solidest construction by one of the greatest conflagrations in the history of civilization, the peril from widespread fire in even the most conservatively built and governed of great communities is made still more painfully apparent. This peril,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-11
sALTIMoRE's HISTORY IN BRIEF,

Baltimore was founded in 172s.
 It was named in honor of Lord Balti- more. founder of the Maryland colony. In 1752 Baltimore had only twenty-five houses. majority of them of primitive type.
 In 176S it became the county town.
 Tn 1775 the city contained 564 houses, and population of 5934.
 In 17S0 1t became port of entry
 In December, 17S6, the city was incor- porated.
 In 1870 the city had a population of 267, ,s54
 It became noted early in its history for It's commerce and shipbuilding.
 It was the scene of important events during the war of 1sl2-15, and during the early part of the civil war of 1S61-65.
 It had a population of 1s, 5os in 17sO. The city's population in 1904 is about 100000. Baltimore is on the River Patapsco, an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-11
Judge Gray.

CT thought last fall that Judge Gray would probably get the Democratic nom- nation for the presidency, but see now that he has no possible show" said a prominent working man.
 Gray Is meeting with opposition even in his own state The activity of his friends throughout Delaware, which has been pronounced for several months, has been the means of stirring up a good sized hornets nest within the party, and instead of securing a universal indorse- ment for the Judge as the Blue Hen state candidate. the result has been to the contrary"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-11
Peanut Crop.

"It Is predicted that the humble peanut will be rather scarce next year." said a produce dealer. "A combination of cIrcum- stances. in which crop conditions largely figure, portend that the price of this nutritive nut will be much higher next year than at present, and it Is even hlnted that there may be opportunities afforded for some lively speculative ventures. though. of course, the rise will not be so spectacular as that of cotton.
 ''In spite of it's humbleness the peanut is the most popular nut now before the public, and is largely eaten in the south. At present prices there is also plenty of money in peanuts, hence the numbers of fruit vendors who tend their little roast CTS so assiduously."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Interest in Senator Hanna.

This morning a report got out in town that Senator Mark Hanna was dead, and although without foundation. 1t caused much excitement for a while" said law yer T was surprised at the general in terest taken in the matter. although Mir Hanna is one of the strongest figures in American public life today. and was still further astonished by the fact that most of the enquiries came from women. do not know that there was any apathy shown by the men, but 1t certainly does seem that Senator Hanna Is much ad- mired by the ladies.
 Although some of us would not vote for MT. Hanna in an election there is general sympathy expressed for him in his present illness, and the entire country joins in the hope that he will soon be restored 10 health. Without doubt he Is one of the greatest statesmen this coun- try possesses and the United States Is always in need of able men in public life"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-11
Newspaper Headlines.

l T find it interesting to watch the head lines papers are using since the eastern war and the Baltimore fire have furnish- ed so much exciting copy" said busi- ness man who Is also an observer. 'The old conservative papers won't let any calamity, no matter how appalling, upset their equilibrium and I actually believe that if the entire country were to burn up or be swept away by tornado those old fogy dailies left from the wreck would not devote more space to their heads than the top part of one column.
 ''On the other hand the yellow jour- nals and papers more progressive strive to see just how large and startling they can make their heads. The result is an assortment of large, black type that has perhaps never before been equalled in the i history of journalism. It is seldom indeed that there Is so much going on in the world at one time as now. There Is a great fair that will soon be thrown open to the public, a Presidential election is drawing near-under ordinary circum- stances an affair of the greatest interest and importance-Baltimore has been de- vastated by fire, and now Russia and Japan are hard at 1t In the far east. If the sultan should start up a massacre now just to keep things moving and if second Kishnen affair should be her aided abroad all the papers would get new plants and headline artists would give up in despair.
 Tn the parlance of the Washington Post, There is something doing in the country as well as in the world and these are, imagine, busy times for the newspaper fraternity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-11
YANKEES FOR JAP BOATS.
Large Number of Americans Serving in
 the Mikado's Navy.

Savannah Special to the Atlanta News.
 American gunners and engineers whose terms of service have expired in the United States navy are being transported to Japan in great numbers.
 The exodus has been in progress for some time past in quiet way, the re- suit being that the Japanese navy has secured many of the finest gunners In the world, and these at high prices.
 A. H. Willett. who is here, said today that for several weeks past the gunners and machinists anticipating the war, which has been regarded on the Pacific slope as inevitable, have been passing through the Portland route to Japan from all sections of the United States.