Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-06-03
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS

follows:
"You have at both the Rankin aad
Oakley farms satisfactory and easy con-
ditions for growing grass and live stock,
while the Oakley farm appears to afford
you the opportunity to have one of the
best live stock farms in the whole coun.
try. as the foundation for this is al.
ready laid. if the board will only realize
it. Good pasture is the basis of all live
stock farming and In this State Ber-
muda and Jlespadeza aresthe main pas.
ture plants, and they are already al
Oakley in great abundance. You may
grow and use to advantage the follow
ing crops: Corn, cowpeas, Bermuda,
Lespadeza, vetch, burr clover, sofa
beans, sorghum, rape, peanuts and po-
tatoes. You may also grow cotton,
wheat. oats and orchard, trucking and
garden crops. You may grow mules,
horses, hogs, cattle and poultry"
The Supreme Court has handed down
decision in the case OF the State Rev
enue Agent vs.. w. X. NJ. Duke ct al. OF
Biloxi. seeking to collect back taxes on
delinquent personal property situated ir
that town. Dukale and Others set up
that Biloxi was operating under o
special charter granted by the legisla'
ture. which did not give il the power tC
tax personal property, the charter being
silent on this. The Supreme Court
holds that all the power "a municipality
has to tax is derived from the State.
that the legislature has the power to
specify what municipal taxes shall be
collected, and that the municipality
cannot be forced by the revenue agent
to collect taxes when no authority ex'
lists for their collection.
Gov. Nardaman has received a re
quest for the issuance OF Il proclami.iet
Incorporating the Percy. Lake Provl'
dence 81 Yazoo Railroad. The route
proposed to be followed is from Percy
in Washington county, southwesterly
through the county of Washington,
through the county of Sharkey. TO the
town of Grace, in lssaquena county:
thence southwesterly through lssa-
qucna, by or near the town of Mayors
vile and the town of Ben Lomond TO
point nearly opposite Lake Providence,
La. on the Mississippi river thence
southcrly and southwesterly TO Il point
at or near Valley Park: thence running
southcrly toa point ON the Nazoo river
The Board of l.evee Commissioners
for the Yazoo-NIississippi Delta has
awarded contracts for over 2,00O,0W
cubic yards Of work, which, when com
pleted, will bring the entire levee sys'
TEN to that degree of perfection which
the chief engineer considers necessary tt
make the Yazoo- Mississippi Delta safe
from further high water. According tt
present ideas, the rate of taxation will.
be materially lowered in the nea,
future, as the only work to be done will
be the keeping in repair the system.
A deal has been closed at Jackson
whereby the Goodyear lumber and rail
road interests purchased 1900 acres OF
long-leaf yellow pine land in Lawrence
county, paying the very snug sum OF
$4,000 therefor. The average price
The lands are adjacent to the proposed
route of the New Orleans and Great
Northern road now being built north
ward from Sidell, La, to China Grove.
Miss, and which has been chartered fOl
through line from New Orleans tt
Memphis.
The Columbus Summer Normal
which opens on June l3, is to be devoted
for the most part to primary work,
physical culture and child study and
general methods of primary work with
methods of teaching in the fourth, fifth
and sixth grades.
The Red snapper Sauce Company,
which has been conducted as private
business enterprise at Ceutervitle, III
Wilkinson county. has now become in
corp0rated, with II capital of $500
and il is said that its output is to be
greatly increased.
The business men of Eupora, in Web
ster county. are about to turn their at
tenti0n toward securing the. Memphis
and Pensacola road for their town. II
is believed that bonus of $4,000 ano
the right Of way will get the road.
The State last week DISPOSED of 2,57t
bales of its cotton for 7.65c. TIE cot,
ton is not especially good cotton, being
somewhat below grade.4 This clean'
out the State entirely,
Two hundred and thirty pounds OF
chewing tobacco and seventy pounds ei
smoking tobacco have been donated tt
the Soldiers Home at Beauvoir for the
Use Of the veterans by Capt. r. w,
McNeer.
The various companies comprising
the National Guard of the State are
now putting in a great deal of time
drilling and getting in shape for the
coming cncampment, which is to be
held at Gulfport in July. The boys
will have more money for their encamp
ment this year than ever before, and ii
should be the most successful in the
history of the State Guard
The Elks lodges throughout the State
are preparing for the annual meeting
of the State convention which is to he
held at Gulfport on June 10. Some oi
the most prominent men in the State
will be in attendance.
Hon. Thos, B. Franklin, Grand Mas
ter of the Masons of the State has beer
invited by President Hardy of the Ag'
licultural and Mechanical College al
Starkville. to deliver the address at the
laying of the cornerstone of the new
engineering building at his institution
The Bohemian laborers who have
been employed on the Mississippi coast
in the canning factories have returned
to Baltimore. An effort was made by
some of the sawmill owners of that sec.
tion of the State TO get the Bohemians
TO work in the mills this summer but
they did not seem to desire to do saw
mill work and most all Of them have
returned to Baltimore.
The feeding of Texas cattle for the
Chicago market is getting to be quite
an industry in Mississippi. In the
prairie section of the State the in
dustry has grown greatly, Around
jackson great many Texas and do
nestle cattle are fed for the Chicago
market, and the returns are said tC
have been very satisfactory.
1t is not probable that the Supreme
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