The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-12-22
MISSISSIPPI

a.. .I.y " otate mas eomplpsaa
.ne compilation Of the financial enS ).
ms report to the Legislature. and ~ u
hgures make very interesting reaat sms
matter for Mississippians who foal
PRIDE IN what is going on in a bns;no.a
and industrial way. For the two rass
ending the first OF last October H. .eals
amount of the capital stock of tho Ip'ai
tiers recorded by the secretary was slo
10000. OF this 10S banks show 80
tai OF $~5,722,000; 100 mercantile or
Germs, S2,533,500; 60 lumber mau,fan.
uring plants, $6,742,o5O; ii oil mi1.
$1,70o,000! IS miscellaneous faetor;as'
$2,192 500; 6s schools and edncstia"at
establishments, on which there is a
nominal fee. The fees collected on these
charters amount to perhaps s1O0oo
more than ever before for a two.ve,r
period, and the secretary is confident
that the showing is a good one for the
State.
The narrative report of the Board n
Control has been sent to the printer. II
shows that for the two years ending last
October the gross receipts of the State
on account of the penitentiarv were
~$576,402.21, and the expenses for tha
same period 1891, S30.45, which leaves 4
net balance of $1s4,571.76, to which also
IS added the increase in value of the
State farm property, carrying sam to
1926, 900.
The report goes into details as to the
care and management of the c~onyicts.
All of the white c~onvicts are kept on the
Rankin farm, seyenty-fve of them, ey.
cept two or three cripples at Oakley.
and thirty-two at the Sunfower sawmiil.
There are twenty-four women at Oak.
ley, one of whom is white, and thew are
employed in making clothing for the
other conyicts. There are also sixty.
two incurables at Oakley, seventy eight
c%onvicts ON the Sandy Bayou place.
ninety-one on Belmont and the balance
at Sunflower.
The board declares in this report
that the c%onvicts all have wholesome
food, such as bacon, vegetables, corn
and flour bread, coffee, sugar, rice, etc.
Artesian wells have been bored on
all the State farms and they have the
best of water, comfortable quarters,
spring beds, cotton mattresses and
WOODEN clothing for winter.
There is a physician on all the places
and the best of care is taken of the
sick.
Superintendent Bobyns, of the State
Deaf and Dumb Institution, will report
to the Legislature that his new building
is full to OVERLOOKING and demand that
$4,000 be appropriated for additions.
He states that when the institution
opened on the 18th of December liz white
children applied for admission and were
taken. However, he has applications
from fifty more and cannot accommo-
date them. He believes there are 100
more deaf children in the State who
would attend if room was provided.
travelling Sergeant Dodds, who has
just returned from a visit to Franklin
county, the midst of the alleged white
capped element in Mississippi, declares
the people there are the best and most
hospitable he has ever met, and that
they are determined to settle all their
old troubles and get down to business
and real living once more.
The Confederate Veterans of jackson
are considerably stirred Up and inter
ested over the proposition to move the
Confederate monument from the Com
federate Park in the old capitol yard to
the lawn of the new capitol, and the
chances are that should the Legisla-
ture take the matter up there is going
to be a lively fight. The Confederate
Veteran camp at 'Yazoo has passed res
olntions, declaring that the monument
should be moved to the new capitol, and
that is what has caused the interest.
The Legislature is going to have a
new county proposition at the coming
session, just as is Wlerally the ease at
every session. The advocates of George
county, a county that it is proposed to
make out of portions of Amite, Frank
lin and Wilkinson, are getting busy. 1t
is proposed to take 210 square miles out
of Amite, 1873 from Wilkinson and "a
from Franklin, which will form a county
of 437 square miles and with a popula-
ton of about $4,000 and an assessed
valuation Of 100000.
Hon. Clarence Greaves, member of the
Legislature from Madison county, de-
clares that he is going to run the blind
tigers out of Mississippi after this year
or put saloons in every county, by max
ing the unlawful sale of whisky a peni-
tertiary offense. Another law he has
in urse Of preparation is one to force
all foreign corporations doing business in
Mississippi to pay taxes on their bust
ness and on the money they have invest
Ell in their business in this State. Mr..
Greaves states that he is tired OF seeing
the little farmer pay all the taxes.
A party of hunters from jackson, who
spent a few days IN Funnagusha creek,
twenty-five miles north of jackson, re-
port that they killed seventy-ive SPUR
rels, caught an abundance of fish and one
Of the biggest 'possums that they ever
The Jackson men saw plenty of
and other large game, but
lacked the prowess necessary to bag
any of it.
The Theo. Spight Chapter, U. d. G,
Ripley, held a bazaar, the proceeds to
De applied to the fund for the Confede-