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The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Duty on Rice.

Havana. The winter session OF
Congress has ended, in accordance
with a resolution previously adopted.
President Palma IS requests for the en-
actment Of certain of the more ur-
gent measures were not complied with,
and nothing special was enacted dur
ing the session except the appropria-
tion for sanitation of the larger cities
and the authorization of the purchase
Of the National Theatre. The House
postponed action on the Senate bill
for the sanitation of every town at the
government s expense. The budget bill
increasing the duty on rice, the Cuba
Railroad subvention, the immigration
bill and most of the other important
measures go over to the session be-
ginning in April.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
L,eyee Bonds.

President W. S. Barry, of the va
soo-Delta Board reports the sale of
1856, 900 of levee bonds authorized by
The last legislature, at fiat bid OF
par with accrued interest, the buyer
paying all expense of lithographing
the bonds. The net expense to the
board of negotiating and affecting the
.ale is only $50. This is regarded as
In extraordinary sale of levee bonds,
md is the best sale on record. The
bonds are per cent and on long time.
The board was authorized to sell the
bonds at rate not exceeding 4 IL
per cent. This is a better sale than
lhe State made of its zhalf-million is
hue last summer, when the State re-
leived par but had to pay the expense
Of hthographing and the express
Iharges on the money.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Something to Sell the State.

Director Rowland has jusi receiv,
ed proposition from d Washington
collector Of curios, old manuscripts
etc, to buy d lot of. manuscripts that
are of great historical interest and I'M
portance to the state of Mississippi
and some of which he safes he IS gong
to purchase, if the prices are not un-
reasonable In the package, are let
ters written by Governor Clarke and
the Federal officers here at Jackson
in May 1865, when Governor Clarke
was ordered to vacate the capitol and
the mansion and to give up the ar
chives. Other packages contain al
the correspondence that relates to the
building of the old capitol, way back
in the thirties, several of them being
letters that passed between the gov
ernor and the architect of that build
ing, one Mr.. Lawrence.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
May Cost Government $5,ooo,ooO.

New York Judge Wheeler, in the
United States circuit court of appeals
handed down an opinion which, if f.
lally sustained by the United States
circuit court Of appeals, will cost the
United States government five million
dollars. This money the government
will have to refund to the American
Sugar Refining Company for duties
paid to it on sugars imported from
Cuba in 1908 and on which the com
oany contended reduction of 20 pei
,ent should have been allowed under
the existing treaty at that time.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Prepares to Extend.

Preparations are being made by the
Mississippi Eastern Railroad Compa-
ay to extend the line from Quitman to
The Tombigbee river, tapping coun-
try wonderfully rich in, timber and
agricultural resources. The line is
already built eastward from Quitman
to Carmichael, just across the line
IN Alabama, and about thirty-two
niles of roadbed are to be construct
Id for the company to tap the hard
Eood sections of the Tombigbee.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
President Jordan at vicksburg.

Quite a large audience heard The
address delivered at the courthouse
at Vieksburg by Hon. Harvie Jordan,
President of the Southern Cotton
growers Association. The address
was along the lines laid down by the
Cotton Convention at New Orleans
The leading thought was reduction OF
cotton acreage, as the surest way to
increase the price of the staple. Hon
Walter Clarke, president Of the Mis-
sissippi Cotton Planters Association
was present and made a brief talk, in
which he emphasized all that had been
said about reduction of acreage.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Fertilizer Rush.

The managers of the fertilizer fac
tories at Jackson say that they are
now rushed with orders for fertilizers
the rush being caused by the fact that
there has been little buying during the
last few weeks. The local managers say
they expect that there will be a falling
off in their sales this year of from 70
to 25 per cent. Prices have gone up
so cents ton owing to the increase in
potash
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Outline Campaign.

The prohibitionists held mass
meeting at Yazoo City to discuss the
most feasible method of holding va
zoo county in the dry column. Com
mittees were appointed in each beat
20 advocate prohibition. About $500
was subscribed to assist in the work,
J. F. Powell donating $10O.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Was Continued.

The suit of the State Revenue Agent
against the Gulf and Ship Island Rail-
road and the Valley Railroad for
privilege tax of $40 per mile, which
Is assessed against all railroads in the
State which claim exemption from the
supervision of the Railroad Commits
sioner, has been continued unit the
hext term of the Kinds Circuit Court
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
To Plant Diversified Crops.

During the past several days of fine
sunshiny weather considerable land
has been plowed in the Saratoga dis
trict and no time is being lost in ar
ranging to get the seed in the ground.
Most of the farmers have resolved to
plant more corn, peas, potatoes, cane
md such stuff as can be consumed at
home. and plant cotton as surplus
.rop and the cotton crop of thissection
The coming season will be decidedly
short as compared with the crop OF
several seasons past.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
A New Bank.

The Union Savings Bank, domiciled
at Jackson, Miss, has been incorpo-
rated by the governor. Its capital is
fixed at $25,O00 The incorporators
are closely identified with the First
National Bank of that city. The char
ter for another savings bank to be
located there is now being published.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Better Attended

State Superintendent of Education
Whitfield believes that the next meet
ing of the County Teachers Associa-
hons in the different counties of the
state, which are to be held on March
Is, will be better attended than ever
before. Better rural schoolhouses is
The subject which is to be discussed,
and it is believed by the state super
htendent that these meetings will be
The means of arousing interest among
The people on the subject.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
An Assured Fact.

The proposed electric railroad from
Biloxi to Gulfport will now go to Pass
Christian, as the board of mayor and
aldermen of that city granted Capt.
J. T. Jones Of Gulfport, a franchise
to enter the streets of Pass Christian,
and it is stated that Cap. Jones prom
ises to have the road in operation by
December 1st.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Sold for a Song.

The sheriff of Harrison county sold
the old courthouse and grounds at
Mississippi City at public auction to a
bid of Henry Ross for 5000, which
bid was refused by the board of SUI
pervisors. The property is said to be
worth $4,000.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Bond Election.

An election was held in Prentiss
bounty to decide whether the county
should issue $25,OO0 additional bonds
gor extra expenditure in erecting and
furnishing the new courthouse and
lail. The original bond issue was for
$4,000.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Woman Burned.

Miss Mary Ellen Gardner, was burn
ed to death at Union. She was sweep
ing the floor near the fire when the
broom caught fire and in her efforts
to put out the blaze her clothing
caught. Before anyone could reach
her she was burned so severely that
death resulted.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Big Earnings.

New York. The total earnings OF
the companies which were merged
into the American Tobacco Company
for 1904 were reported at the annual
meeting Of the stockholders Of the
company in Jersey City to be $22,-
304, ,696. The surplus for the year at
fer payment Of dividends and interest
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Lumbermen to Meet.

w. g. Harlow, of Yazoo City, Sec
retary of the Mississippi-Louisiana
Retail Lumber Dealers Association,
is making preparations for the semi
annual meeting of the association
which is to be held in that city on
April IL and 12.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Factory for Houston.

Houston, at very early date is to
have in operation wagon factory.
The promoters are HI. G. McCrary &
Co., general construction contractors
for the Southern railway.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
None Below Thirty Degrees.

independence, Kan. The Prairie
Oil and Gas Company, the Kansas.
branch Of the Standard Oil Company,
issued an order to the effect that here
after no Kansas oil testing below 30
degrees gravity will be bought by the
company.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Suit to Recover Real Estate.

The largest suit ever brought in
Perry county was fled by Attorney
Thomas B. johnson, Judge G. B. Hud-
dleston and R. S. Hall to recover 100
acres of land now embracing the most
populous portion Of Hattiesburg.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Biz Balance on Hand.

The report Of the county treasurer
bf Adams shows that the county is in
4 very strong financial condition, as
the total balance on March ! this
rear is $52, 1868.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16

New York Henry Norcross Mum.
editor Of the Scientific American, il
dead at his home in this city. He was
member Of The firm which publishes
that paper.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
To Enter City.

The Biloxi city council has given
the new electric line the right to en-
ter the city and run cars over the BIZ
loxi street car lines.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
JAPS CAPTURE
CITY OF MUKDEN
AND FIERCE FIGHTING IN SEW
ERAL PLACES CONTINUES.
RUSSIANS PANIC STRICKEN
Thouands Of Prisoners and Enormous
Quantities of Stores and Guns Have
Been Captures. Fate Of Russian Ar.
my is Still in the Balance.

Toxic. Field Marshal Oyama tele
graphs as follows:
"We occupy Mukden. Our sur
rounding movement in which we hav'
been engaged for some days past, ha
now completely succeeded.
"The fercest fighting continues a
several places in the vicinity Of Muk
den.
1--WE captured a great number o.
prisoners, enormous quantities 0.
arms, ammunition, provisions and 9th
er war supplies. There is at presen
no time to investigate the number Of
those injured.
Shattered Army Fleeing.
New Chwang According to reliable
information received here the Rus
slams have been driven out Of Mukder
and Fushun and with the railroad GU
are retreating in demoralized con
dition to the hill country towards the
northeast. Detached bodies Of Rus
slams are roughly entrenching with
view to checking the pursuit, but NJ
great rearguard action is being fought
1t is believed the Russians may at
tempt to reach Kirin, 224 miles NORTH
east of Mukden, through the valleys
but a special japanese corps from ths
direction Of the Yalu river (probably
Gen. Kawamura IS forces) threatens tx
cut them off.
General Kuroki is advancing north
west and is forcing the Russians
against General Nogi's army.
The casualties on both sides have
been enormous. The Russian 16tl
army corps were practically annihi
lated at Tatachekiao.
Eight thousand Russians fell a
Liukuanpao.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Election Held.

Lafayette county held an election
for treasurer to I'll the unexpired
term of the late Dr. ]. p McEwen. re-
bultinQ in Stephens election.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16

A friend in Hattiesburg has for
warded the writer case of canned
syrup, put up by the factory at that
place, with the request that as many
as six of the cans be preserved for use
IN the months Of May, June, July,
August, September and October, to
test the efficacy of the processing
through which the syrup has under
gone to prevent granulation and fer
mentation. A new system Of pres
ervation is being used on this syrup
and it is to be sincerely hoped that it
will prove absolutely successful. Ev-
eryone knows the trouble experienced
in getting good syrup during the sum-
mer months on account Of fermentation
in the best cane syrups. If this pro-
cess is what it is claimed to be, and
every reason is produced to show that
it is, this great difficulty will be OBJ
waited. Then too, it is hard to real
ize what it would mean to the people
who have land suited for the raising
of ribbon cane. It would assure them
handsome price for their product
and an unlimited demand for the
same.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Bond of $1,000.

Martin L. Reddoch gave bond Of
81 800, his bail having been reduced.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16

Intelligence comes from Washing
ton to the effect that the new battle
ship Mississippi, is about one-fourth
finished. This new man OF war Will
cost in the neighborhood of eight mil
lion dollars and will be something
akin to the Oregon which took a lead
ing part in the great battle with Ger
vera's Spanish feet just outside the
harbor of Santiago. While it will be
some time yet before it is completed,
the people of Mississippi might begin
the movement to present an appro-
pirate silver service, library or some
thing else useful as is customary. The
best way to do this would be by an
appropriation by the legislature, as
in this case all would bear part OF
the expense instead of a few If II
were raised by popular subscription
Begin to think about it.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16

,
Scandinavian countries into the south
ern states and in recent letter to the
Louisiana State Board of Immigration
has the following suggestion to make
relative to the introduction OF the
Danish plan of fruit and vegetables
growing in this section:
"Now that immigrants from North
ern Europe are beginning to settle
in the southern states, this consulate
is receiving an increased number OF
INQUIRIES as to whether certain fruit
trees or vegetables which are very
profitable IN Scandinavian countries
can be cultivated iii the United States
AS it is well nigh impossible to an
swer such questions satisfactorily, and
as this consulate, on the other hand
would not do anything to turn such q
valuable class of immigrants away
from the south, the idea has suggest
ID itself to me that your department
night possibly, without any disadvati,
age to itself, step in and render good
services in matters which have lately
been the object of interest here.
eff you at one of your experiment
stations had employed a graduate OF
the Royal Danish Agricultural Col
lege at Copenhagen, who would be
competent to place the advantages OF
the south comprehensively before
,efore prospective immigrants and
others, there is no doubt that he would
,e able to do a good share of what
progressive public men of the south
ire now striving to accomplish.
lhink that such man should have
an opportunity to experiment with
fruit trees and vegetables from the
Scandinavian countries and to see
which would be adapted to the cul-
sure of the southern states. Such ex-
oeriments would not interfere with
MS other duties in the A. & M. Col
Iege experiment station, but on the
,ther hand I take it for granted that
t would be considered an advantage
@ such a station to have the bes1
lrees and vegetables introduced from
countries where Horticultural indus
trv has reached such a high degree
# development, and to have this done
w a we'll trained and competent per-
son who could be able also to fill
place in the general work of an ex
pertinent station.
The Louisiana Board Of Immigra
ion has taken the matter up and viii
,ct upon Mr.. Soigaard's suggestion
An effort will be made to comply witt
he proposition to employ a man from
he Danish college and to prepare mat
er in the Scandinavian language fol
distribution.
The Scandinavians are the best class
# migrants that are coming to thu
United States today and it is a pit.
hat Mississippi is not in a position
to get some of them. A colony ha'
been started near Brookhaven by thu
Pearl River Lumber Company, bu
they are handicapped in the work b.
he lack of state department t.
handle the matter. 1t is uphill worl
for individuals or a corporation t.
bring any considerable number O.
shese people here from the fact thei
statements and representations lacl
the endorsement Of the state or ma
ional government. The Greater Mis-
sissippi Association has entered int
correspondence with Consul Soigaar'
md will endeavor to do something TO
Mississippi in securing this class 0
immigration.
A friand in HattieShuro has for
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI

Devoted 10 the thdustria, Commercial and A4ricul.
iural Deveiepment 6f the Wonderful Resourfes Of
the State Items Ut Interest from all QaArterss
ByH. Z. BLAKEsLEE, Jackson. Mss
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16

Mississippi people should get top
notch prices for their fruit this sea-
son if the report that large amount
of damage was done the fruit in other
sections by the extremely cold wealth
Ter Of some days since.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
Russians Panic Stricken.

Yinkow- Mukden fell friday
morning. The Russians are panic
stricken. Thousands of prisoners and
enormous quantities of stores and
guns have been captured.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16

H. B. Ford Of Centreville killed a
hog recently that netted him 400
pounds, was raised in small lot, fat
tened on slop and refuse from the
kitchen and did not know the taste Of
corn. Mr.. Ford raised about 1000
pounds of meat and the cost was not
appreciable He knew that it was
good and wholesome, something you
cannot know if it is butchered in the
northwest. Then the question arises,
why does not every farmer raise his
meat and get rid Of The Hbig yellow
ears, as far as Mississippi is concern
edY It could easily be done and is
done by large number Of our best
and most successful citizens.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16

An enterprising young farmer and
stock raiser Of Coffeeville, ]. P. Lam
bert, has ten acres of fine Strawberries
that will bring their first fruit this
year. This crop alone should bring
Mr.. Lambert handsome income and
increase as the years go by. He also
has several hundred tomato plants and
other vegetables. His tomatoes are
claimed to be the largest grown in the
state, being variety of his own pro-
noting. He also raises what is need
ed to keep things going on his farm
and is very successful. This is the
kind Of farming and Mr.. Lambert is
the kind of man that it takes to solve
the perplexing problems of overpro-
duction in cotton enough like him
would shortly settle it permanently.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16
By H. Z. BLAKEsLEE, Ja'

The outlook for a good year is es-
pecially proppiti6us and d writer IN
one of the bright dountry weeklles
says this of the prospect:
'sThe farmers Of the south are IN
better condition this spring than they
have been since the war and there new
er has been time when his possibili-
ties were greater. All that seems to
us to be necessary to say in good shape
is to provide in the present crop for
plenty Of corn, potatoes, molasses and
then look we'll after ais hogs and then
all of the cotton that he can grow. The
cotton growers association will help
some but we cannot think from all
reports that we have read, that this
Organization will be universal or even
hardly general, hence you cannot at
ford to plant your whole crop to cot
ton for fear that SO many more will
do likewise that the price will be fore
ed below the profit line. The Eastern
war war will keep the price Of grain
high for some time to come, so it will
be to your interest to be sure and fill
your crib with corn and fatten your
own meat so that you will be safe
whether you get seven or ten cents
per pound for the cotton. +"
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-03-16

The Mississippi Pearl Button Com
pany has just been chartered at jack
son with a capital stock of $4,000.
The object of the concern is to make
pearl buttons from the mussel shells
found in great quantities in Pearl Rlv-
er and other streams contiguous to
Jackson. This enterprise will be worth
much to the city and surrounding coun
try, affording as it does a market for
the shells which have heretofore had
mo value. This is the second factory
Of this character to be put III opera
ton in the state, one having been es-
tablished at Aberdeen something over
year ago. This is the kind OF fac
tories we need, ones that will give en-
ployment to labor and at the same
time make an article Of staple value
from material that has been consider
ed of no value.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
NEGROES BARRED FROM
KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS

Kansas City, Sept. 12.-Negro pupils
were refused admission to the white
high school at Kansas City, Kan, and
the ward school at Bonner Springs.
Kan, ten miles distant. In both cases
the negroes withdrew quietly and there
was no clash.
In Kansas City, it is said, the ne
groes will test the law in the courts.
The Kansas Legislature last winter
passed an act separating the races in
the Kansas City schools, a direct result
of the agitation following the murder
of a white boy by a colored pupil.
Bonds were voted to provide for the
building Of a school for the negroes, and
pending it's construction the board of
education planned to have two sessions
daily, one in the morning for the white
pupils and that in the afternoon for
the colored pupils.
The negroes objected, preferring to
sit with the whites.
At Bonner Springs the. school board
provided separate rooms for the whites
and negroes, but the negroes objected,
claiming they should ccupy rooms
simultaneously with the white children
At Bonner Springs the negro children
were accompanied to school by Their
/ parents.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
YUkONERS WILL
SEEK NORTH POLE
Confident of Success Because Of
Their knowledge of
Arctic Life.

Seattle, Sept. 12.-If the plans Of
the International Society for Polar Re
search are carried out All expedition in
quest of the North Pole will start out
in 1906 from Dawson, Yukon territory.
Governor w. B. Mclnnes of Yukon, is
one of the leaders in the movement,
and General Greedy, U. S. A., thinks the
plans of the society feasible.
The main differences between the
plans of the Yukon explorers and those
Of expeditions in the past is that The
Yukoners expect to utilize their knowl-
edge of ways and means. of existence
and transportation in! the Arctic.
The International Society of Polar
Research was organized recently in
Dawson with 200 members. One thou
sand persons attended the public meet.
ing. Among the patrons were Governor
McInnis, Dr.. Alfred Thompson, mem
Der of the Canadian parliament; JUS
tees Dugas, Craig and Macauley, the
highest judges of the territory; Major
T.. r.. Wood, Commander of the North
west mounted police, and the foreign
~consuls in Dawson.
Mistake of Nansen.
The scheme for the expedition was or
| iginated by DR.. Anthony Varicle, wht
| came to Dawson from Paris. In a lee
| ture Charles Macdonald, clerk of thu