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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30
By II. Z. BLAKEsLEE. jackson. Mss.

The city council at Starkvile have
under advisement the building Of a
camp yard and house for the free use
of farmers coming to that place to
sell their cotton and buy goods. Stark
vile could not make better invest
ment. The farmer who sells his cot
ton in a town is entitled to considera-
ton. He is the man who furnishes a
market for the goods offered by the
merchant aud makes his business pro-
ftable, and appreciates any favors
shown him. A roomy, clean and COM
Portable camp house with dry stalls
for the stock offered free to any one
who may choose to come and use it,
will be worth a great deal to any town
making the offer
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30
Bank Organized.

With an authorized capital stock
of 100000. and ready to begin busi-
ness in Shreveport on Aug. l, 1906,
with capital stock of 100000, the
American Savings Bank and Trust
Company was organized. The sub
scribers Of the stock were called to
meet by S. W. Smith, of Arcadia, BIZ
enville parish, through whose efforts
the new organization was perfected.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

The house ways and means commit
tee voted to report four bills. The
first of the bills is the measure pro-
viding for the use of grape brandy
in the fertilization of pure, sweet
wines, and the imposing of tax on
such wine. The second is the Bing-
ham bill, which is intended to exempt
distilled spirits, commonly known rs
soakage, existing in the slaves or
wood of casks, from internal reve-
nue. taxation. The third is a local
measure authorizing the refund of GER
tain duties originally shipped to Ha-
waii and afterward returned. The
fourth bill is a plan introduced by
Delegate Larrinaga of Porto Rico, and
authorizes the appointment of an
agent for the sale of internal revenue
stamps in Porto Rico V
President Gompers, of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, and the ex-
eeutive council of that organization
with about 100 presidents and repre-
sentatives Of international trades un-
ions, were received by Speaker Can
non in the house lobby. They pre-
sented a document concerning pending
labor legislation, which later was pre-
sented to Senator Frye and President
| Roosevelt
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

For a second time Midshipman
Minor Meriwether, Jr., has sent in his
resignation to the Navy department.
1t will be referred to the president
before action is taken. On the occa-
sion Of his first effort to get out of
the Academy, Meriwether was being
tried for hazing and the resignation
was not accepted. Meriwether is
serving a sentence of year S confine-
ment in the Academy grounds for en-
gaging in the fist fight which resulted
in the death of Midshipman Branch.
Midshipman Meriwether's trial placed
him behind his class in his studies,
but a months time was allowed him
in which to catch up. The strain has
been too severe upon him, and his eyes
have troubled him very much, which
probably accounts for his wish to
leave the service.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

The limit on corporate holdings in
Mississippi has very wisely been held
down to reasonable limit. We can
not allow this to become one-man
country as others have become under
class legislation
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30


The people in some sections of Mis-
sissippl raise more chickens and eggs
than they consume while in other Sec
tions they consume more than they
raise. A piece of good work could bo
done by the proposed Department of
Agriculture and immigration in find
ing the market for those with a sur
plus and finding the surplus for those
with a market. The same holds true
with a number of our important pro-
duets. Hundreds of valuable func'
tions could be found for the departl
ment, and many that would net the
people Of the state dozen times what
it would cost per annum.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30
Ladies Visit Soldiers.

Among the visitors recently enter
tanned at the Jefferson Davis Memor-
ial Home were Mrs. Daniel Manning,
of Albany, N. Y, wife Of a member
of President Cleveland's cabinet;
Mrs. Alton B. Parker, wife Of the
democratic candidate for the presi-
dency during the last campaign, and
Mrs. Bertha Parker Hail.. of Kings
ton, daughter of Mrs. Parker. The
ladies had with them Alton B. Parker
and Mary McAllister Hall, grandchil-
dren of Judge Parker. The party
mingled with the veterans at the home
spending several hours. The ladies
are wintering in the Mississippi Gulf
Coast, beng located at Pass Christian.
Col. John M. Taylor, Lieutenant
Colonel of the twenty-seventh Tennes-
see infantry, of Lexington, Tenn, was
also recent visitor.
For the second time in the last few
days Clarksdale has been visited by a
rather disastrous fire. The Challenge
newspaper owned and edited by
Mrs. III. H. Butt, was destroyed, the
loss amounting to about $4,000, with
insurance of half that sum. The en-
tire upper floor of the building was
occupied by the art gallery of Tom
Robinson and was entirely destroyed,
the loss being in the neighborhood of
$4,000, with insurance of 1900. f.
B. Dickey, the lessee of the Challenge,
suffered loss Of about $500.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

Mississippi resources to the amount
of multiplied millions of dollars in
the shape of timber has been shipped
away in the crude and unfinished state
to be manufactured in other sections
OF the country. Our. cotton crop to
the amount of seventy or more million
dollars per annum is nearly all ship
ped away in the bale to be made into
goods In New England and the north
IN general. These two items alone
have lost to the state an amount al
most beyond conception, because the
manufacturing was not done here at
home. Magnificent oak lumber that
brought the Mississippi mill man not
more than 500 per thousand feet is
sent north and cut into thin veneers
and glued to furniture and shipped
back here for use at price doubled
more than ten times. One thousand
feet of inch board cut into veneers
will make 10000 feet and the price
doubles in proportion. The man who
cuts this lumber into thin slices and
faces furniture with it gets more than
$500 per thousand feet while the Mis-
sissippi mill man only gets 500 for
the same material The increase in
price on cotton is even greater. Pres.
Clarke of the Cotton Association for
chilly illustrates this fact in his talk
to the farmers. He commences by stat
ing that the Mississippi farmer raises
a>bale of cotton and sells it foi =.
cents per pound, bringing him sou.
The Fall River spinner converts it
into print cloths and gets % cents
per pound, or $125 per bale. The Hol-
yoke thread manufacturer spins it
into threads and receives So perpound
or 81 500 per bale. The lace manufac-
turer weaves it into lace, some of
which is worth $400 per pound or $40
| 600 per bale. All of this increase in
price received by the manufacturer
is lost to the people of Mississippi,
the producer and largely the consum-
er. If the cotton crop of Mississippi
is worth to our people something like
$4,000, 900 per annum, it is worth full
ly $750,000,000 to the spinners of New
England.
What would be the condition Of our
state today if this enormous amount
Of money now being paid spinners was
all made and spent here at home? 1t
would no doubt be revelation to even
| the most optomistic. Then is the pro-
position of Senator Yarbrough to en-
courage cotton manufacturing a wild
scheme or vain suggestion? While
the plan proposed may not be exact
ly practicable and easy of adoption,
yet it is evidently along the right
line and may result in Investigations
that will evolve practicable and easi-
ly adopted plan to manufacture our
cotton at home. Speed the day when
our own people may be able to reap
the benefits due them for their toll
and the products of the same. We have
been hewers of stone and drawers
of water for our brethren of the north
and east long enough We now have
the capital and have always had the
brains and energy to conduct the bus
mess of a great country. Let's do it
from the present on.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

One or members Of the committee
of the New York Chamber of Com
merce, recently appointed to consid-
er the question of currency reform,
are in Washington for the purpose of
looking over the situation in the sem
ate and the house, with a view to as
certaining the condition Of pending
and recent bills. Chairman Fowler
has been in consultation with them
on the subject. 1t is learned that the
committee does not intend to urge leg
isIation at this session, but is more
likely to devote itself entirely to a
campaign of education designed to in
dicate the most necessary lines Of re-
form. Discussion and investigation
will be continued for several days.
In the opinion of the president the
fees of the proposed court would not
be sufficient to pay capable deputy
clerk, but would take away from the
income of the court at San Antonio
and thus effect the efficiency of thai
office.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

Experience has proven that hog
raising is one of Mississippi's most
profitable industries. A pound of
pork can be made here cheaper than
any place in the world and it is a SEN
sible suggestion that our people
should at least, raise what is used for
home consumption.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

The limit on corporate holdings in
Mississippi has very wisely been held
down to reasonable limit. We can
not allow this to become one-man
country as others have become under
class legislation.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

The legislature will soon conclude
its labors and its members go home
TO receive the plaudits of their con-
stitutients, or the reverse.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

Prof. Lloyd, of the A. & M. College
recently gave out the following re-
suits of experiments with cotton
plants to determine the distance be-
tween plants and rows giving the lar
rest yield. The largest yield in Mis-
sissippi was for plants four feet be-
tween rows and eighteen inches be-
tween plants; in Georgia the best
results were obtained with rows four
feet apart and twelve inches between
plants while in Alabama the best was
from three and one-half foot rows
and eighteen inches between plants
Prof. Lloyd argues for wider rows and
closer plants, offering the saving in
cultivation as one point in favor of
the system. His contention is well
founded, especially with reference te
the saving in the cost of hoeing and
blowing.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

If you know of a good item for
this department, send it to the editor
at jackson. There will always DO
room for good ones.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

An evidence of the prosperity of
Mississippi will be found in largely
increased assessment Of the real estate
which is now under way. While there
has been a strong upward tendency
in all lines, nothing has increased in
price and demand like lands. Then
too, the holdings of foreign concerns
that have in the past escaped their
just portion Of taxation, will be raised
to something like surrounding proper
ty is assessed. This is nothing but
fair and should be done. The foreign
holder who is merely speculating
should be made to bear his part of the
expense which goes to increase the
price Of his investments.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

The Mississippi Exhibitors Associa
ton in a meeting recently held at Gulf
port, asks the Mississippi Industrial
Exposition to offer prizes to boys un
der sixteen years of age as follows:
SO for the best bushel of sweet potat
toes, $40 for the best half-bushel Of
Irish potatoes and $40 for the best
dozen ears of corn. They believe that
if the youth can be interested that
great strides have been made toward
the agricultural development of the
state. 1t goes without saying that
the Exposition management will act
favorably upon the suggestion made
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

Chancey, new town in Quitman
county is fast becoming a place of
considerable importance. The Bacon
Nolen Lumber Co., which operates a
big mill there is putting in a box fac
tory and planning mill which will run
the pay roll up to 500 men or some
thing like $1,000 per day. A commo-
dious hotel, neat stores and dwellings
are being erected and in a short time
the business done there will be some
thing Of large proportions.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

Representative j. s. Williams, the
minority leader, following the instruc-
tions of the democratic conference
introduced resolution calling upon
the committee on rules to bring in
rule which will permit the discussion
Of the quarantine bill in the house.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

The Gulf Coast Gas Company Of
Biloxi has secured franchise from
the city council Of Gulfport to lay
mains over the streets Of that city.
The franchise, which extends over a
period Of twenty-five years, gives the
company clear right-of-way from the
city to Pass Christian. The plant is
being built in that city and the pro-
duct will be piped to the other points.
The company will make bond Of
$4,000 to begin work at Galfport with
in SIX months.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

Yazoo City is inaugurating move
ment looking to the construction of
a street railway by the municipality.
The city already owns an excellent
electric light and water plant and it
is estimated that the addition of a
railway system sufficient for present
needs would not entail a heavy addi-
tional expense. 1t is to be hoped that
the road will be built and carefully
managed. The writer believes that it
can be made a success. The expert
ment of Yazoo would be watched with
much interest by other municipalities
with the view Of falling into line.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

Yazoo county has organized a $780,
600 stock company for the purpose
of conducting plantations on large
scale. The company is composed Of
well known and prominent planters
who viii undoubtedly make a success
of the enterprise. Anumber of such
companies have been chartered in the
state during the past two or three
years, and the success attending the
pioneers have encouraged others to
follow the example set.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

Representative Spight, Of Mississip-
pi, the ranking minority member OF
the committee on Merchant marine
and fisheries, who have been particu-
larly active in fighting the ship sub
sidy bill, which is pending before that
committee, is confident that the meas
ure will not pass the house and also
that it is extremely doubtful if it will
come out Of the committee. Accord
ing to Mr.. Spight The eighteen mem
bers of the committee are evenly di-
vided on the question of reporting
the bill, eonceding that Mr.. McDer-
mott, of New Jersey, is in favor of it,
and that would preclude favorable
report. Five of the six democrats,
and four republicans, namely, Wat
son, of Indiana; Wilson, of Illinois
Henshaw, Of Nebraska, and Birdsell,
of Iowa, are opposed to the bill.
The subsidy bill provides that $780,
100000 shall be appropriated from
the treasury within the next ten
years, but it is Mr.. Spight's opinion
that the figures will be doubled, at
least, as the big ship builders and
not the smaller ones will get this mon
ey. Senator Spooner opposed it, and
leading republicans will oppose it in
the house.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

The United States Attorney for
the Eastern District Of Tennessee has
been instructed to investigate the
Chattanooga lynching.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI

Devoted the Industrial, Commercial and Asricul.
tural Development Of the Wonderful Resources sf
the State Items Of Interest from all Quarters.
nv H. r. RIANrSrww r.~r... IA.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

If you know Of a good item foi
this department, send it to the editor
at Jackson. There will always be
room for good ones.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

The National Farmers Union, which
organization is gaining strength in
Mississippi very fast, proposes to
erect warehouses at central places for
storing cotton and preventing dump
ing all on the market at one time. 1t
is believed that the price can be han
died in this manner, and why not?
The banks are anxious and willing to
cooperate and if the crop should be
marketed as needed the farmer would
be able to make the price instead of
the speculator and spinner. The plan
is undoubtedly feasible one.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

Yazoo county has organized $780,
900 stock company for the purpose
Of conducting plantations on a large
scale. The company is composed Of
well known and prominent planters
who will undoubtedly make a success
of the enterprise. Anumber Of such
companies have been chartered in the
state during the past two or three
years, and the success attending the
pioneers have encouraged others to
follow the example set.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

The legislature will soon conclude
its labors and its members go home
to receive the plaudits Of their con-
stitutients, or the reverse.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

There is always something for those
who want to work in Mississippi and
the demand for good men is increas-
ing from year to year.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

Okalona has organized a $4,000
corporation to manufacture handles
from the splendid ash and hickory
timber that is plentiful in that section
of the state. This move on the part
Of Okalonians is correct and proper.
By this means the city will reap all
the benefit from its crude material and
not lose the increased price between
rough timber and finished handles Mis-
sissippi has too long depended upon
some other section of the country to
manufacture her crude material, and
any movement looking toward q
change is to be gladly heralded.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30
OUR WASHINGTON
NEWS AND NOTES
ITEMS OF INTEREST BRIEFLY
CHRoNICLED.
DEEP WATER ASSOCIATION
It is Decided to Call Convention for
Next November in st. Louis to Pro-
mote Fourteen Foot From Chicago
Canal to the Gulf.

The Lakes to the Gulf Deep Water
Association was organized at dinner
given by Representative Lorimer of
Chicago to the Illinois delegation and
the other congressman who were with
him on his trip down the Mississippi
last autumn. It was decided to issue
call for a convention at st. Louis
Nov. Is and 16 to all the states di-
rectly interested in the project. Mr..
Lorimer was selected as temporary
Chairman, and Representative Rainey,
secretary, to take charge of the pre-
liminary work.
The following we're present at the
conference: Representatives Foss, Nc
Gavin, Madden, Rainey, Wharton,
Wilson, Graft, Knopf, George w.
Smith, Snapp, Humphrey, of Missis-
sippi, and w. F. Saunders secretary
Of the Business Mems League of St.
Louis. The specific purpose of the or
ganization will be the promotion of a
fourteen foot waterway from the Chi
cago drainage canal to the mouth of
the Mississippi river None of the
other waterway associations along
the river will be invited as organiza-
tions to join in the movement, but the
individual members will be asked.
The project will enhance the work of
all the other organizations, but it was
feared there would be conflict of in
terests if other organizations were af-
filiated in the present project. Di-
rect interest in lakes to the gulf pro-
ject is expected from the representa-
tives of twenty-five states bordering
ON the great lakes and the Mississippi
and its tributaries. The general plat
form adopted by the association was
request on the government to take
hold of project that would be of
immense benefit to the commerce of
the entire country, more directly than
will the Panama canal. The first ap-
preparation to be urged will be for
$S1, 100000 which will be needed to
get fourteen-foot channel to st.
Louis. Between now and next No
vember the congressman from all the
States of the Mississippi valley, and
bordering on the great lakes, will be
organized to back up this demand for
recognition in the rivers and harbor
bill. During the trip taken down the
Mississippi stops were made at all the
principal towns along the Illinois and
Mississippi rivers, and clubs were or
ganized. Invitations were sent to
these clubs to send representatives.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-30

For D. II. Chamberlain, il"
Mr.. Chamberlain, having with
drawn any personal illusions to me
regarding the charges preferred by
him against Chancellor Fulton, and l
having applied certain epithets to him
In a speech in the senate which re-
fected on his honor as a man and a
gentleman, [ hereby withdraw the
LANGUAGE referred to.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-12-06

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The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-12-06
Legislation on
New and important
Subjects.
INCOME INHERITANCE TAX
He Believes Such Laws Would Curb
Growth Of Fortunes to DAN
gerous Proportions.

His Views on Negro ouestion-Asks
fer Currency Reform, and Shipping
BHn-Would Make Citizens Of Japs
Many Other Important Subjects
Discussed.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-12-06

10 DO away with the power Of Injunction;
n therefore nuch careless use 81 tho
~in5uncNvo process tends 70 threaten itg
very existence. for ~ the American pso-
Pic ever become convinced that this
process % hnbltuaily abused, whether IN
matters Affecting labor or in matters nt-
fectng corporations. u VIII be well-nigh
impossible 10 prevent 10 abolition"
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-12-06
lnherltanee - censtltgtIsnaL

This species of tax has again and again
been imposed. altho only temporarily. by
the national government u was urst
Imposed by the act % July g Ess. when
the makers % the C~onsutuuuu were
alive and az the head Of afalrs 10 Eas
a graduated tax. tho smAu iu Amount.
the rate was increased with TIRE amount
leu 20 any Individual eNcepuons being
made tn the case Of certain close En- A
similar tax was again tmpused by the
act OF July q. tS4 a sum q
u.Oo IN personal property being eNocptet
from AVIATION. the TAI thea becoming
progressive according 20 the remoteness
Or Kin The var-reTcnue act OF June H.
1855. provided Tor an Inheritance tax On
any sum exceeding the value OF Aee.
the rate % tax increasing both In accuru-
anrs With the amounts left and IN He-
cordauce with the leEateo'a remcleness
OF kin. The supreme court has neid nat
the Eucccssion tax Imposed ~ ts time
81 t2ia civil war WAS not q direct tax but
an impose % excise which was both cor
-stitutionai an6 valid More ruceuuy she
court, in an opinion delivered tY NY
Justice white. witch contained an eN-
caeaingiy able ana ylabpratc discussion
of tha psu-cra o. thn ConNreEs O. ina{o
death duties. sustained the constitution
aiity % the tnhcfttance tax featuru % tha
w-nr-rcgVuuo act Of lHA
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-12-06

Tie asks Tor thc passing 90 the hNl Nm-
fffnr abe number I'd hnafH Uf
~om-ioymouf uf railroad employees aHd
CLASSES zoe measure 90 4 worry mctrrate
ono NE naNs tna aim o3 on should ~
a. steadily roduca the Dauocr % houre