Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-09-16

MISSISSIPPI MATTERS



The directors Of the Mississippi In
justrial Exposition Company have
moved up the date to Nov. -. The
date was changed for two reasons: in
the first place, is is feared that the
State will not be entirely free of yellow
fever before the middle of November,
and, in the second place, the new date
(22d TO Both includes Thanksgiving
Day, and it is proposed to make that
the biggest day of the exposition. The
plan is to arrange football and other
games between the big colleges of the
State; to have extra bands Of music,
speaking, racing. etc, and because OF
the increased attendance those sports
will bring to offer purses of 800 each
to more than one of the o%rphanages of
the State. The prospect for the big
fair was brighter. The business
men Of Jackson, nearly all Of whom are
stockholders in the association, are II
unit in favor of making this the big
gest and best show of the resources of
the State of Mississippi that was ever
gotten together 10y any one community.
The success of the carnival last fall has
encouraged extra efforts, and all the
money that may be necessary will be
put up promptly.
Some time ago the Mississippi Rail
road Commission passed an order rt-
curing the Alabama and VickSburg
Railroad and the New Orleans and
Northeastern Railroad Companies TO
put in effect and operation a Joint tariff
ON all interchange business. All
lreights under that order that %originat-
| ed on the New Orleans and Northeast
crn and ending on the Alabama and
Nicksburg, or vice versa, were to be
hauled as if the road was II cOntinu-
ous line. The order was to become
effective Sept. 10. but the roads men
toned were given permission to elect
whichofthec charge, -ofthc Alabamaan
Nicksburg or of the New Orleans and
Northeastern they would operate un-
der. But the two railroads have an IN
tirely different idea about that business,
and do not propose to obey the order of
the commission al all, us is evidenced
by an injunction from Federal Judge
| Niles, which was served on President
McNair of the commission.
+. w. Fatheree, secretary Of the
Gulf Coast Lumber Company and a
member of the firm OF Gary-fatherec
Lumber Company, shot and killed j. T.
Evans ON the log road of the company
at Lyman, Miss, in a dispute As to the
value of an OK which had been killed
by the company's engine and belong
ing To Mr.. Evans. Fatherec'S pre-
urinary hearing will occur before
Judge Kelly at Gulfport OF Sept, %,
it being impossible to have the investi-
CATION at present on account OF the
quarantine.
Gov. Nardamau has appointed DR.. II.
| H. HARRISON of jackson as a member
of the State Board Of Health from the
Eighth Congressional District, to sue
coed DR.. j. II. Rhodes. deceased. The
appointment is one that will give very
general satisfaction. especially among
those persons who have the pleasure of
the acquaintance of the appointee, He
i, considered one Of the most successful
physicians and practitioners in the city
Of Jackson.
The appeal nthe ease Of Writ Adams,
State revenue agent, vs. the Jackson
Electric Railroad and Power Company,
from the decision of the Board of
Supervisors of Kinds county, which de-
cliucd TO asseSs the company Tor 5000
l00 worth of back tax assessments, has
oeen filed with the circuit clerk and
will be heard ON its merits at the next
term. The revenue agent claims that
the company is liable Tor the taxes and
the company denies this.
Charleston's Mayor recently sprung
a surprise upon the tigerelelnent there
abouts. He convened Il court of in
quiry.' as authorized under Section
l06, Laws of 1909, and as q result of
several days sitting rounded up in
dictments against several of the ven
doris of cheap whisky.
Following the example of the state
institutions OF Mississippi, the Missis-
sippi Synodical Collegeat Holly Springs
has postponed its opening to Oct, I.
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The supervisors Of Sunl'ower county
refuses to continue the contract system
of working public roads, which has
prevailed for five years, and goes back
to the old system of road commission
ers and oycrseers.
President k1ncannon OF the Indus
trial Institute and College at Columbus
has issued a statement to theefect that
the opening Of the institution has been
postponed until Oct. }.
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President Murrah of Millsaps Col
State Board of Health having ordered
that no boarding schools open in Mis-
sissippi before the LIST of October, Mill
saps COLLEGE openinr is therefore post
poned from Sept. 20 to Oct. A.
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Railroad Company has filed with the
Secretary of Stale a mortgage agree
ment with the American Car and fouu-
dry Comnnnv of Memphis for S333. 572.
which i to cover the purchase of 500
hoy oars which are to be delivered at
one or INST MS soon As possible. That
means that he NJ. /. and X. G. will