The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-12-16
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS,
Contest Over Convict Contract.

biggest issues OF recent times Ii this
State by securing al injunction from
the supreme cour enjoinlng the board
OF control from leasing the Sandy
Bayou plantation, belonging to State
Senator McLaurin. This action was
taken after a majority of the board had
voted to accept the proposition made by
Senator McLaurin to pay the State $685.
600 a year for working his place. The
claiming that the board of control had
no authority under the law to lease any
place or work any cOnvicts on any but
the States lands. Commissioner McNair
voted with the governor, but Attorney
General Williams and Commissioners
Bradley and Kincannon voted for the
lease. The writ of injunction was is
sued by Chief Justice Whitfield, but il
was not served until after the majority
members and Senator McLaurin had
signed up the papers. A fight in the
courts will follow.
There are about 1000 acres in the
Sandy Bayou plantation, and it takes Is
or so convicts to work it.
The biggest and strongest land com
pany in the State is in course of fOrma-
eAOh AL coChoOu, anu Will DC OlSdulLcu
and begin active business the 1st OF
January. The company is to be formed
by home and Eastern capital, of which
there will be an unlimited supply, SO
that the very largest tracts of pine and
delta lands may be bought for cash and
sold on time payments. The company
has already purchased 34O, 900 acres OF
pine and hardwood timber lands, and
by the first of the year will be ready
for the biggest business in that line in
the State.
There were ], 1913 INT on the States
prison rolls on Nov. 80, a gain of thir-
teen over the month previous. During
the month of November twenty-five
were discharged; there al one death,
two pardOns and two escapes. A death
rate of one for more than 1000 speaks
we'll for the management of the Missis-
slppl convict farms, and it is doubtful
if there is another State in the Union
that can make such a showing.
A citizen of the Delta country has
written the railroad commission to
know whether or not the railroads have
a right to charge 4 cents fare where the
passenger does not have a ticket. That
has been the impression for some years.
The commission insists on it, and so do
the railroad companies. The idea is to
encourage passengers to pay their
money to the cOmpany's agents and not
to the conductors, the latter Directing
to being bothered with cash fares.
Lauderdale county citizens were the
of nearly all the first prizes
offered at the Jackson fair for Poland
China and Berkshire hogs and Ply
mouth Rock chickens. w. s. Whit
Of Zero entered six Poland Chinas and
off six blue ribbons, and his n
Plymouth Rock entry secured the bonus
the ribbon. A. Fl. Harrington OF
.aleville entered five Berkshires and
'eceived four first and one second prize.
j. B. Sale has been found not guilty
If the charge of numbering ]. B. Bell.
This brings to a close one of the most
Important criminal cases ever heard in
his State. Sale and Bell met one af-
last July, on the streets of
and engaged in a pistol duel,
n which Bell was killed and Sale
wounded. The trouble was the out
ONE of a business correspondence be
ween Sales mother and Bell involving
he rental of a house. Both families
re exceedingly prominent and wealthy.
The dead body of a w~ell-dressed man
f 55 or go years of age vas found on
he public highway near Gloster. On
he dead man were found letters ad-
ressed to Rev. John Moody and mail
at Ocala, North Carolina. Other
,tters bear recommendations from the
aston of the Baptist Church at Ocala.
that Rev. Moody was a minister
/ good standing. The dead man wore
Confederate badge. The remains
ere inferred in the Baptist cemetery
Gloster, members of that congrega-
on taking charge of the funeral ar
Will Horn was convicted at Gulfport
st week of the murder of j. G.. Smith
Hattiesburg.
One of the saddest tragedies in the
story of Arcola occurred in the
mily of Mr.. and Mrs Robert Poague,
hen their little 9-month-old boy met
untimely death from the explosion
a lamp. Mrs. Poague lighted the
mp and placed it on the machine, and
epped out of the room for a moment,
hen the little fellow, trying to pull up
the scarf covering the machine, up
t the lamp with the above result.
Representative Gambler of Mississippi
s ! introduced a bill in in aid
the common schools in Mississippi.
lis bill provides that all public land
the State shall be disposed of by sale
der laws to be enacted by the 1egis-
,ure of Mississippi and the proceeds
be used for the common schools OF
3 State.
Lewis Scott, a desperate negro, was
lched neal Cleveland last week. He
s being taken to jail on the charge
obtaining goods under false pre-
lses and shooting an officer when a
10 o~verpowered the officers, took the
lsoner from them and hung him.
New Hope Presbytery of the Cum
rland Presbyterian Church, embrac-
a number of East Mississippi coun.
), convened at Alderman with about
rty-five ministers and laymen in at
dance.