The leader., 1905-06-10
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS



On June Secretary Fisher made
public the figures from the various
counties, showing the reduction Of
cotton acreage in this State and the
condition of the crop. The reduction
Of the whole State Is placed at 20.5
per cent. The following are the fig
ures for the various counties: Adams,
no report; Alcorn. 90; Amite, 25; At
tala, 25; Benton. 30; Bolivar, Is; Cal
houn, no report; Carroll, 26; Chicka-
saw, 20; Choctaw, 29; Claiborne, IL;
Clarke, 23; Clay, rs; Coahoma, Is;
Copiah, 30; Covington, 25; DeSoto, no
report; Franklin, %; Greene, no re
port; Grenada, 26; Hancock. q; Har-
rison, no cotton raised; Kinds, %;
Holmes. 20; Itawamba, no report;
Jackson, report raised five bales in
1904; Jasper, 20; Jefferson, 25; KEN
per, 125s Lafayette, 28; Lauderdale,
25; Lawrence, Is; Leake, 26; Lee, 33;
Leiore, 10; Lincoln, 25; Lowndes, no
report; Madison, "a; Marion, 25: Mar.
shall, 10; Monroe, III; Montgomery,
81: Neshoba, no report; Newton, 26;
Oktibbeha, %; Pamela, %; Pearl Riv-
er, no report; Perry, 30; Pike, 81;
Pontotoc, rs; Prentiss, %; Quitman,
12; Rankin, 26; Scott, rs; Simpson,
25; Smith, "a: Sunfiower, is; Talla-
hatchie, "a; Tate. 1S; Tippah, 81;
Tishomingo. 90; Tunica. 18; Union,
23; Warren, 18; Washington, IA;
Wayne, 25; Webster no report; VIII
kinson, Is; Winston, %; Yalobusha,
no report; Yazoo, 15 Most all the
counties report the crop from Is to
20 days late. The average decrease
In the use of commercial fertilizer
this year is figured at ABB for the en-
! tire State.
The Mississippi Railroad Commits
sion has received the following peti-
ton from the wholesale merchants Of
Greenwood:
I'VE, the undersigned wholesalers
and grain dealers in the city of Green
wood, Miss, would respectfully show
to your honorable body as follows:
"First-That the rate on grain and
| grain products from Vicksburg to
Jackson is two and one-half cents per
100 pounds. as ordered by order of
your honorable body and decided as
correct by recent decision of the
| Supreme Court of the State of Missis
sippi.
Second That the present rate on
grain and grain products from Green
vile, Miss, to- Greenwood, Miss, is
seven cents per 100 pounds.
"Third-That the distance by raiS
from Vicksburg to jackson is practi-
cally the same as the distance from
Greenville to Greenwood.
"Fourth-That the rate on grain
and grain products from St. Louis,
Mo-, and Ohio river crossings to
| Greenwood is based on the rate from
| those points to Greenville, plus the
| rate from Greenville to Greenwood.
"Fifth-That the rate of seven cents
per 100 pounds from Greenville to
| Greenwood is excessive.
"We therefore petition your honor
able body to order a rate of two and
one-half cents per 100 pounds on grain
and grain products from GreenvilIe to
Greenwood
The Idaho Capitol Commission, COM
posed of Secretary of State Will H.
| Gibson, State Treasurer H. NJ Coffin
and Hon. w. e. Pierce, all of Boise
Ida, visited jackson last week and
| spent a day inspecting Mississippis
new Statehouse. The Commonwealth
| of Idaho is preparing to spend about
| 100000 on new capitol building,
and before adopting the plans and
| specifications for the structure the
commission decided to visit some of
| the new buildings of this character
recently erected in the United States.
Mississippi is the first State selected
to visit.
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Recently Secretary John Smylie
of Capital Lodge No. II received let
| ter from S. d. Friley, corresponding
secretary of Warren Lodge, stating
| that during recent visit to Vicks-
burg of some Ohio gentlemen, former
members of the Feleral army, one of
| them informed the secretary that a
| friend of his had a very handsome
| Noble Grand collar which was secured
| in Jackson during the war, after the
city had been captured by the FEEDER
ais. 1t seems that the man who is iE
| possession of the collar is anxious to
return it to Capital Lodge The ad
| dress of G. H. Humphries, of Urbana,
o., was given in the letter as the one
with whom to correspond in regard to
the matter
J. w. Eldridge, of Hillhouse, Boil
ar county, won his suit against the
.ississippi River Levee Commission,
md was awarded damages in the sum
| of $S1 ,818.85 for injuries to his Tally
| no plantation, regarded as one of the
| finest in the State. The jury was TAX
en- on special train to Hillhouse so
that it might be enabled to see what
damage had been done and correctly
estimate the same. The suit was
| brought to secure recompense for
damages done the plantation of Mr..
| Eldridge by the construction OF the
new Australia levee, which ran
through the Tallyho place, leaving
500 acres Of fine land between the riy.
er and the levee, and taking up 20
acres in the building
A reward of $50 for the arrest and
delivery to Warden Henry of the State
penitentiary is offered by that oficia
for Alphonse Michael, young Span
lard, who escaped from Travelling Ser
geant Dodds while being taken to the
penitentiary a few days ago. He is
described as being about 18 years old,
5 feet 8 or 4 inches. hair straight and
black, very black eyes, large nose.
speaks Spanish and broken English
He was sent up from Jackson county
Hon. S. D. McNair. chairman of tbe
Railroad Commission, who recently
visited the Delta, where he went in
his capacity as a member of the Pris-
on Board of Control, to inspect the
crops on the State convict farms, re-
ports that the farming work through
out the Delta is very backward, and
the cotton that has been planted is
very grassy. On the big convict farm
in S.l flower county, however, the
crops are in better shape than those
| of any other section of the Delta. and
the chopping has been almost nm
ished The corn crop is also in fair
| ly good shape.
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