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The Grenada sentinel., 1906-04-07

There is perhaps not another state
in the Union, Htsr strip Of land or
the American continent which offers
greater attractions than those of Cal
lfOrnia as place to spend your vaca-
tiOn.
So many teachers who cOAtemplate
spending their vacation as agreeable
as possible, to the best advantage.
and at small expense, it was deem
ed prudent by the California Commit
| tee OF the National Educational AsSO-
clation to print booklets which give
all the information, and answer the
many inquiries received from all
parts Of the United States about the
cost of attending the San Francisco
meeting Of the n. f. A.. in July next.
the cost OF living i'm San Francisco and
IN other parts Of California and points
OF interest Of the Pacific coast. The
booklet gives the railroad rates for
round trip over all the direct rontes to-
and from San Francisco, from all the
principal points in the East and as far
West as Salt Lake City and from the
Northwest. 1t tells Of the privileges
granted on these special tickets, going
by enc road and returning by an
other, the stop overs and the length
OF time for which these privileges
hold good.
1t also gives the rates Of hotels.
boarding houses, both the American
and the European plan. The cost of
single meals in restaurants or at ho-
tells, the charge for taking luggage to
and f1Om different points. 1t emu.
merateS the principal resorts in Cali
fordia and on the Pacific coast, how |
TO reach them, the mode of travel. |
the cost OF the round trip, and hotel
rates. 1t also shows how teachers
;an spend their vacation prOftably in
California for us many weeks as they
1esire at no greater expense than it
would cost almost anywhere else.
They could learn more during their
tay in California than by travelling
many months in other parts.
The knowledge the teachers will ac-
Iuire on their trip across the cOnti-
ent and during their stay in Calfor-
ia and on the Pacific coast, and on
his side trips, which are being plan
ed for their special benefit. will be
t great value to them and to those
'hom they teach, and will furnish
hem ample and interesting material
D dwell upon for many months and !
erhapS years to come.
These booklets may be had, free of |
barge, by those who desire them on s
pplicatiOn to the n. E. A., Califor-
ia Headquarters, % New Montgom- s
~ ST., San Francisco. G
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-04-07
Persistent and Enterprisinp.

occasionally one may be too persis-
tent. lie may he SO strenuous as t.
overdo a thing. This cannot be the
case with a company if it is mutual
and reciprocal public benefit. This is
the situation with regard to The Mis-
slSsIppI Home Insurance Company.
All the property it covers by insur-
ance IS in the South, and every dollar
1t pays out or invests is i'm the South.
1t is indeed home company.
Thomas K Hoffa are the Grenada
agents.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-04-07

Dear Sir: Would you rather have
your customers speak of your shoes as
wearing we'll, as not running down at
the heel, as turning water, and taking
a SHINE: or wag their heads and say
nothing?
we'd rather have ours, at long in
tervais. say: 1--WE want some more
paint. and we want Devoe.n We
know it isn't in human nature to
paint very often: we don t expect them
20 come very often: don t want sem to.
All we want is to paint what they have
60 paint, whenever they paint it; the
longer the time. the surer they are to
come back. There's business in the
wOrld; there are houses enough to
paint. let 'em take their time.
Ii we were shoemaker, we'd make
shoes to last half lifetime, and shoe
the whole time.
Yours truly:
+. w. DEvOE, New York.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-04-07
LIST OF LETTERS
Not Called For at the Grenada Postoffice
Week Ending April a,

Allen, Mr.: JOhnHenry Brods. Mr.. Alter
6y, Do0ker, MISS Mario Hase. Anna Bridges.
Groom, Mrs. II. C. Hill. Miss iidi,
Harloy. Mr.. A. NJ Hudgeons Mrs Tbo,,-
Jones, Frank as F. "'"
Smith, Mr.C. L. McAIister Nrs M NJ
Parties calling for these letters will nIe.se
say they were advertised April 4th. I0es
Mail south for train No. closes III 10 n. m
Grenada and Greenwood and way stations
closes p. m. Memphis lines and Fulton and
Grenada mails close 4:3O d. m. All mails
close 9 p. m. Office open s a. m to 6 p M
GEO. w. FIELD, Postmaster.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-04-07

Making total loss of S48. 355. 20
less a gain of So. 4S7 % for the yea
1908, leaving net loss for the tim,
mentioned of S42, 2,S6791.
We cannot account for this heay,
loss to the state of Mississippi on any
other ground than that of gross mis-
management. No rules of regulations
were ever made by the Board of Con.
troll or posted up where the convlcts
could see them, as required by law in
sections 3l73 and 3l74 of the code OF
1892; but drunken SubOrdinateS were
allowed TO brutally maltreat the CON
VlctS, In some cases at will, or when
ever the unfOrtunateS ran counter to
their inebriate wishes.
The sergeant Of this farm, one Capt.
Dave Pickett, was a drinking man.
and those under him, especially his
relative, Joe Strong, was much worse
than he.
We find that pork, beef and vegeta-
bleS ia varying quantities were sent
from the Rankin farm to hotel in
Brandon, which hotel was in charge
of Son-in-law of Capt. Pickett. Some
horses, from 10 TO 20, were fed ftlr
quite a while at the expense Of the
state, which stock belonged to Capt.
Puckett. and for neither pork, beef,
vegetables or horse feed did the state
ever receive cent.
AS to the heavy loss sustained by
the state on account of this farm. we
refer you to the special report of the
state revenue agent, Writ Adams,
from which anyone who desires the
information may see for himself that
the Rankin county farm has caused
net loss to the state OF upward of
$40, ,0O0.00 from the year 1896 to the
year 1904, inclusive
AS to the cruelty of Capt. Dave |
Puckett to the convictS under his |
charge we make no report for the rea-
son that the said Pickett is under in
dictment for his conduct there and
we leave the matter to a jury of his
peers, without comment.
On June }, 1908, a convict, one Dave
Crockett, was brutally murdered by
another convict by the name of Horace
wallace, afterwards escaped and has
not since been recaptured. Wallace
was acting under the positive orders
1f Joe Strong and received the second
order to shoot before he would fire the
latal shot. This Joe Strong is a rela-
i've OF Dave Pickett, and the tale of
cruelty, drunkenness and debauchery {
SHOWN by this testimony concerning I
ibis man is Sickening in the extreme. l
SAID Strong who is now under indict- I
nent and is & fugitive from justice, I
his excessive drunkenness to Q
'uch an extent that he was for several Y
weeks in the hospital in the Rankin t
county farm under treatment for de- t
lrium tremenS His will seemed to p
Ne law and he punished the unfortu
late inmates without regard to C
whether they deserved it or not. TAX a
ng advantage of the position he held, n
Which was driver. afterwards promo e
ed to assistant sergeant on the farm,
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-04-07
ABOUT THE PRISON BOARD
House Committee Makes a Salty
Report on Management
CHARGES EXTREME AND UNUSUAL CRUELTY
0enerai Policy of the Board of Con-
troll Severely Handled Rankin
County Farm Losses
To the House Of Representatives:

IU UIIt IIUtISe OF REPRESENTATIVES,:
We, your Penitentiary Committee,
having had under investigation the
Rankin county state farm, submit
herewith our report thereon:
We find that the Board of Control
was negligent in the discharge of it's
duties in regard to this farm. and the
said farm has for this, among other
reasons, been managed at a loss to the
state OF over $40, ,OO0.OO in nine years,
the loss for each year being as fol-
lows.
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-04-07

We call attention of the farmers of
Grenada comfy to- the fact that
Mr.. j. M. Brown of the Mississippi
Cotton Oil Company, has an interest
ing fertilizer proposition to make them.
Write, or call to see him, az the com.
pany'S Office. Ait
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-04-07

Cleanse your system with Semmes'
SarSaparilla, combined with iodide Of
potash, and you will have no doctors
bills to pay this summer.
3-24-tf 2ND CLASS DRUG STORE
The Grenada sentinel., 1906-04-07

For Job Printing of all kinds call
on THE GRENADA SENTINEL.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1906-02-11
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE
STATE or NEVADA
The S.s--- g Nevada ex. REL,
Nevada Title Guaranty and Trust Com
parry, corporation.
Fiaintiff and ReIator
Puddy Grimes, as County Recorder in
a~d for the County Of Nye, State
Of Nevada.
Defendant and Respondent
PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDATE
Geo. s. Green, Alfred Chartz and Z.
A. a. Sieafried, for Relatcr.
VIM. forman, for Defendant.
Syllabus by the Court:

/. Under Sec. 1868 and 1884. Ney.
Compl. Laws, providing that every
CONVEYANCE of real estate. and every
instrument of writing setting forth an
agreement to convey any real estate.
or whereby and real estate may De
effected, proved, acknowledged. certi-
fed and recorded in the manner pre-
scr.bed. "sEa!l from the time of filing
he same with the recorder for record.
;tnpart notice to all persons of the
>n'ents thereof: and subsequent DUR
chas sors and mortgages shall be DEEM
TO Iu. s.ase and take with notice and
under other statutes enumerated. as
cons I'D IN connection with the com-
mon law, a corporation organized for
guaranteeing titles, may, fee OF
charge. through its agents and en-
ps0Jses during regular business hours
Inspect and make memoranda ana
copies of all hles and records In the
ofice of the County Recorder tn &c
tar as they relate to current transac
tions in which it is authorized or EN-
apfoyed to make searches, furnish alb
'stracts or guarantee titles by persons
having or seeking to acquire, an inter
lest in property; the examination to b;
made at such times and under such cir
cumstances as will not prevent thu
Recorder or his assistants from dis
charging their duties. nor interefer'
with the rights Of other persons Il
have access to the records.
.. Under the laws mentioned re
-lator has not the right to copy or In
.snect all records for the purpose O
compiling an Independent set OF az
stract books, &C. ering al! the propert
to which the records relate, and fo
use in equipping an orice in opposition
to the recorder. -'S-~,-s-s -
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1906-02-11
DECISION.

To what extent 1S company en-
Gagged In the business Of furnishing alb
stracts and guarantying titles allowed
to inspect, examine and copy the rec
ords in the ONCE Of the County Re-
corder, without the payment OF fees,
is the question presented. From the
petition, answer and agreed statement
Of facts it appears that the respondent
As county recorder has refused. and
unless ordered by this court will con-
tinue to refuse, to allow relator, or Its
duly authorized secretary and general
manager, either for itself or as agent
for the owner of the property, to IN
spect. copy or make memoranda OF
the record of a specified certificate OF
mining location, and of a certain deed
and other records in the office of the
county recorder Of Nye County; that
the relator seeks and has demanded
to insnect and copy these records free
Of charge for the purpose OF compiling
an Independent set of abstract books
covering all the property pertaining
to these records with the intention OF
supplying and selling abstracts to its
customers: respondent was and is will
ing to permit REALTORS agent to in
snd information provided that he does
not take any compensation or Tees
from any other person for so doing
hut refuses to allow him or the relator
TO inspect or copy the records for the
use of relator in preparing abstracts
except upon payment of the fees Al
lowed by law for making such alb
stracts.
The relator in the pursuit of his
abstracting, record searching and title
guarantee business and for the pur
pose of preparing a set OF abstrac
books, had engaged one man contln
uously for three or four months IL
searching these records, taking mem
oranda and making copies. and il
permitted will continue for three o
four months to keep one or more me-
engaged in copying, searching and tax
ing memoranda. and when the alb
stract books or ~o1~.~- - completed
relate Ill [cnand the ~ht to- In
spec a&e meGora"@s, ON tn
recon- # AL conveyance .'afte
filed. r." the nurposo q" 70" Vi
to d. rs chstract books anf it
use in compiling abstracts OF tito.
F"'ator claims that ''',Ge" ~!
statutes and also under the Ccmmol
Lay it has. right to e1am.Ha An
coov all these records. Pnsocnf""
challenges both these contanticrS an
asserts that as no such privilege
conferred by statute the Ccr"""fr -
controls ard limits the rights of 4
spectlon to persons having an wares
in the subject matter to whic'f' II re-
ord relates.
In seeking light and Gritty o
these propositions we frst turn to tn
Statutes and fined provided in tn
Compiled Laws:
Sec. 1868 and 1854. Every conve
ance of real estate and every instr
ment of writing setting forth an agre
rent to convey any real estate,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01

duce the size of the world. It will bring the hitherto inaccessible parts into touch with the rest of the world and weld all together as one big commun- ity. Already the liner on the Atlantic Is kept informed of events from one shore or the other, and thus the sea is losing it's loneliness and perhaps some of it's attractions, for soon no one will be able to get away from the worlds many worries.
 The wireless is so marvellous it seems almost part of necromancy. A wizard seems to turk at the foot of it's poles, or perhaps some of Shakes peare's fairies are it's messenger boys Some Ariel, or Puck may be doing the business from pole to pole. But however it may seem, 1t is becoming real and numerous, and it will soon bind the world together in way lit, tie dreamed of at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
Alabama Trade School.

The proposed Alabama Trade School for White Boys, to be located at Gads- den, is an undertaking which merits enthusiastic support from the people of Alabama. The plan, as outlined yes terday by Secretary J. R. McMullin, is broad and is destined to. accomplish incalculable good for the poor boys of this state. Gadsden has contributed 150 acres of land and has subscribed S10,00O. Contrary to published reports, work on building for the school will not begin at once, for the promoters intend to establish an institution that will be more than sectional in its in fluence A vigorous campaign will be waged in the state to raise at least $100,000, and everyone who Is able to do so should contribute something to the cause.
 The object of the Alabama Trade School for White Boys is similar to that of Booker T. Washington's suc- cessful negro school at Tuskegee. It will take poor boys and teach them a trade without charge, the only consid- eration being that the proceeds derived from each boys work shall go to the school, thus building it up while at the same time giving him free education. The scope of such an institution is practically unlimited. It will do for the poor boys of the state what the state university and Auburn can not do. It will be a place where they can study and learn without being brought into competition with boys who have purses well filled with spending money, a condition of affairs which has kept many ambitious young men from at tending either one of the state institu- tions.
 One can not aid too much or too often the cause of education in Ala bama. Good schools means good citi- zenship, without which no material or spiritual advancement is possible. The men and women who are fighting for the cause of education in Alabama should be encouraged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
Glorious Summer.

When the mercury ranges high in the nineties in the early summer time, people call the weather hot, and not a few of them fuss and fume about it. But 1t is seasonable weather The growing crops need just such warm days and nights as we are now having. Corn and cotton fairly revel in a caloric spell like this, and with these staple crops reveling, continued pros perity is assured.
 While some degree of discomfort may attend hot. lusty weather, it has certain economic advantages and many singular charms. Food is abundant, cattle are sleek and fat and the cost of living Is greatly reduced; and, on the finer spiritual side, the luxuriance of nature gives delight to the poetic soul. The landscape is entrancing and the hills and the valleys send out notes of joy.
 All hail, then, to the glorious sum- mer! For every man and woman made irritable by the heat thousands are lifting up their voices in thanksgiving that the weather is just as we find it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
Law of Transfers.

A New York court has decided that the right of a passenger on a street car to have a transfer cannot be con ditioped upon a request for it at the time fare is paid. A New York decision can be enforced in New York alone but 1t has weight in all the other states, and it would be cited and dwelt upon and extolled If similar case should be brought in another state.
 In some cities transfers are given on demand, while In others they are handed out at stated times based on requests made when fare is paid. In few sensible cities the matter is left to the discretion of the conductor who issues transfers at the most con venient time, even letting the passen- ger change his mind. The entire bus mess is based on courtesy and good sense in such towns.
 The transfer is an important part of trolley riding, and in town of many lines, like Birmingham, it is mob outranked by anything save, of course, the collection of nimble nickels. To the passenger it Is all-important It is worth much more in his mind than it's real cost or value It is to him econ omy and travel sense.
 The New York decision Is probably good law, and gradual relaxation of the rule as to asking for transfers when fares are paid seems to be in order even in this town where the rule is sensibly enforced. It does not seem to be needful rule, and it is perhaps best to consider it knocked out by the New York decision.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
Wages in the South.

Frank P Sargent, commissioner gen eral of immigration, is preparing to establish a detention camp, or junior Ellis Island, at Galveston. New Or leans is to have one also, and steam ship lines will soon land immigrants where they are needed, instead of where they would meet a congestion of labor.
 The one obstacle in the way in the south is, however, low wages. The im- migrant is met by men at Ellis Island who offer him $1.50 day, payable weekly in cash, and the south cannot reasonably expect to secure many i'm migrants until it is willing to pay that price. Immigrants cannot be deceived in the matter of wages. They soon hear what their neighbors who went to oth- ser sections of this country are receiv- ing. and they will not rest until they secure the maximum price of labor.
 The cotton fields afford chances for purchasing and sharing that could be skillfully used to attract labor. The places of those who have left the fields to build railroads, to cut lumber, to work in the mines and at the furnace plants can only be made good through Immigration, and the sooner we dc wise ways in which to meet the of fered and northern going price, the sooner we will be able to induce i'm. migrants to locate in the south to grow cotton. All know that the present sup ply of labor fin the south is not sui fic'ent to do the work that needs to lc cone on our farms, In our mines aud among our forests, and southern development therefore waits upon the great labor problem that we are squarely up against.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
Howard ColIeue,

The report of the executive commit tee of Howard college. printed in an other column, indicates clearly that this popular institution of learning is being kept abreast of educational prog ress. Old Howard Is in strong hands. The president and those who are CO., operating with him are determined to have finely equipped professors and mean to spare no effort to bring the college up to the first rank
 With Howard in the Baptist field and the North Alabama Conference Col lege at Owenton in the Methodist field, the Birmingham district is we'll ahead in the collegiate realm. While the two colleges are backed by two great de. nominations, respectively, they are non-sectarian in their general academic work, of course, and in the student bodies are found boys of various creeds. Education is more and more sought every year.
 The business world as well as the professional world is now demanding young men of liberal education, and Birmingham alone should supply stu dents enough to fill our two colleges and more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
TN HOTEL LOBBIES
Apathy In State Politics.


 Jake Weiss commercial tourist out of Mobile, and one of the best known trav- cling men of the state, is in Birmingham. He said yesterday afternoon to number of friends gathered about him that he noticed in travelling about Alabama a general apathy as far as state politics are concerned. He said that the Bryan boom is being discussed more widely throughout Alabama than are the relative merits Of MT. Conner and Dr. Cunning ham,
 The best thing that I have noticed" declared the veteran travelling man, who has been dubbed the senator" lis that there Is upon us season of good cheer, and plenty. The farmers throughout the state seem to have enough garnered to maintain their families throughout the coming winter, and I find that the vast majority of them own their homes ana their respective plats of ground are paid for. This. in my opinion, is far better than hearing of a boom for this or that candidate. I do notice. however that throughout Alabama. Dr. Cunningham seems to be gaining ground
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-01
About Robberies.

The average citlzen," said Chief Wier yesterday afternoon, "has general fear that he will be robbed by burglars This is true, too, as concerns companies and corporations. Now, I will tell you that a person loses ten dollars at the hands of servants to every one that is lost to the burglars. l am reminded that this is true by the recent capture of two negro porters who worked for Caheen. It was proved that these two had carried on d systematic theft for some months. and now Detective Hamilton has recovered some three loads of valuable merchandise.
 Another recent capture revealed the fact that the Ellen N railroad had been robbed for a long period by trusted color ed employees. Every one connected with police circles remembers the robbery of the wholesale house of Collins & Co. One negro would load the drays, and would invariably conceal a box of tobacco or cigars under the other truck. The dray- man, saying nothing, would cart this away and sell to one of the street mer- chants. Yes, the average man is robbed by his employees more than by profession al burglars who visit this neck of the woods.'