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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
Want Higher Fee.

The Perry County Medical Society,
embracing in its membership practi-
eally all the regular practitioners Of
this county has taken issue with the
Insurance companies in the matter of
ices for making medical examinations
On applications for policies. At the
monthly session Of the board, DR.. R.
B. Stapleton, the president, in the
chair, @ resolution was adopted to the
effect that hereafter no physical ex-
sminations shall be made for less
than SIS, the fee allowed by the compa-
eies in many cases heretofore being
g. II was also voted that local agents
OF she insurance companies should
not be permitted to, makeup the diff
ference; the effect of which is that the
doctors of this county will not make
any more examine ions until the or
der shall shall be given from the
headquarters of the company for the
Increased fee. The resolution applies
only to the old line insurance compa-
aies, fraternal insurance operating
ander a different arrangement. There
have been several calls for doctors to
make examinations since this order
was passed, but they are standing on
the society resolution.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
OUR WASHINGTON
NEWS AND NOTES
ITEMS OF INTEREST BRIEFLY
CHRoNICLED.
PREPARING. FOR PRESIDENT
Battleship Louisiana Sent to New
York to be Fitted Up for the Trip
to Panama With President and
Wife.

The battleship Louisiana, which is
soon to carry President and Mrs.
Roosevelt to Panama and Porto Rico,
has gone to the New York Navy-Yard
TO be dockcd for over-hauling before
making her trip. When the President
goes aboard he will find magnifi-
cent suite of rooms arranged with
great care for the comfort Of himself
and Mrs. Roosevelt.
The Louisiana had her final tests
less than two months ago, sand is a
splendid man-of-wa-, in first-class
condition. Notwithstanding that she
Is practically new and has seen little
sea service, aside from the round
trip to Cuba, when she brought Sec
rotary Taft home, great pains will be
taken to eliminate every spot that may
appear in the painting.
1t will be necessary to enlarge the
quarters and put in new ones, as was
the case with the cruiser Charleston
Tor Secretary Roots trip. The Lou
Isiana is much larger, Of course, and
has more commodious cabin rooms.
Tho vessel it fitted out as flagship,
consequently she is provided with cab
ms for the Admiral, Flag Officer and
others. Two or three of the most
spacious cabins will be fixed up es-
pscially for the President and his
wife, while another will be at the dis
posal Of Surgeon General Rixey, Of
the Navy, the only person aside from
the ships officers and crew who will
make the trip.
While it is said to be the Presi-
dents wish that no particular ex-
pense be incurred in arranging the
cabins for his comfort, no pains will
be spared in refreshing the decora-
tive work and otherwise making them
homelike for the two weeks or more
tlat the Chief Executive and his wife
will occupy them.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
Jackson Road Suicide.

Victor M. Crawford, aged "a, DELHI
erately prepared for death before
drinking the deadly draught Of car
boiic acid, at his brothers. home on
jackson road, near the end Of the
new car line extension in Vicksburg.
His brother, j. Crawford, and wife,
brought young Crawford to their
home from an asylum where he had
been taken care of, being demented.
He had never been able to do any
work, and his brother was loyal in the
degree that blood was thicker than
water, managing to provide for all in
his care.
Friday while Mr.. and Mrs. Craw-
ford were in attendance at the dedi-
cation of the Illinois Memorial TEN
pie. it is thought young Crawford
dressed and went to the city and
bought the poison, returning home
when the rash act was committed. It
was not an unusual coincidence that
AZ otc GU up ottliS III uic IOOut, Hiss
ing the supper hour, and Friday night
no effort was made to awake him,
as it was the thought he had retired.
When Crawford failed to appear at
the breakfast table Saturday morning
some anxiety was felt. An investiga-
ton revealed the awful picture of
death in a strange way. The man was
sitting in &C hair and the labelled
bottle at his side, with the evidence
of poison about the mouth, which was
burned in a most terrible way, told
the choice he made for death. Fis
face was shaved, hair carefully CO.. \
ed and the room arranged in perfe (
order. He had even taken the time t,
clothe his body in clean linen. There
was evidence that death was not in
Simultaneous. The cork was put in
the bottle after the contents Of four
ounces of carbolic acid had been
drained to the dregs.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
Many Changes.

The following statement regarding
prospective changes in President
Roosevelt's cabinet was made public
at the White House:
"October %, 1906. ON the retire
ment Of Secretary Shaw and Attor-
ney General, Moody from. the cabinet,
the following changes will be made:
Secretary of the Treasury, Geo.
B. Cortelyou.
Postmaster General, George Won
L. Meyer.
"Attorney General, Charles J.
-Bonaparte. x
Secretary Of the Navy, Victor r.
Metcalf.
Secretary Of Commerce and La
DOR, Oscar S. Straus."
N. F. Thompson 8 plan Of gather
ing the idle negroes and shipping them
to Panama was not regarded as prac-
ticable by Taft and Shoans.
Purchasing Agent Ross, Of the Ca
nal Commission, says deliveries Of
purchases are very slow.
Secretary Taft will 60 to Idaho to
make a speech favoring law and or
der.
The president has designated Nov.
% as Thanksgiving Day.
|. The supreme court handed down
several important decisions, among
them one changing a will which Gre
ated q perpetual trust for large areas
Of land in Texas and Mississippi.
The president and Secretary TAN
are disappointed over the outcome OF
the Cuban situation, and it is feared
that permanent protectorate viii
be necessary.
At q cabinet conference the con.
tract forms for canal construction
were perfected.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
The Governor Pleased.

Governor Vardaman returned after
speaking at the Illinois dedication
ceremonies at Vicksburg, and the re-
ception given the visitors by the peo-
pie OF that city, expressed himself as
delighted with the way everything
had been handled, and the perfect
welcome that had been accorded the
visitors from Illinois. 81 had antici-
pated that the people of Vicksburg
would do themselves proud on this oc-
casion, as usual, and can only say that
they went the limit; they did not out
do themselves, but simply went the
limit, with a hospitality as boundless
as the universe and as warm and glow
ing as the sunshine about them. 1t
was perfect weather, and nothing had
been left to chance, and no detail that
would tend to attain success was over
looked. They could not have done
more for anybody, and | know tEc
Illinois party were charmed with it
ALL
This view of the governors was
that of everyone else from here who
attended the ceremonies, and as the
Vicksburg people had made deter
mined and united efforts to attain
success, these reports will be graft
flying to their fellow citizens through
out the state.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
MISSISSIPPI STATE
HAPPENINGS
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
I'm EPITOME OF THE NEWS
Called From Important Happenings
Throughout the State During the
Past Week and Reviewed In Brief
! For Our Readers.
Gets Waterways convention.

Vicksburg will get the Waterway
convention to be held the later part
OF November, at which time 400 or
800 delegates will be in attendance.
The following telegram is in answer
20 one sent by Secretary Adams of
the Business league.
!" New Orleans, La, Oct. %, 1906.
81. P. Adams, Vicksburg, Miss:
Invitation gladly accepted. Will
aid IN every way for success, and will
spend Saturday with you in getting
your part Of the work started. Official
call win be mailed this week.
"JOHN w. BRYANT"
Vicksburg had the Waterways con-
vention about nine years ago. The
meeting is to be made up of represen-
katives Of the river interests from all
states that touch upon the rivers.
Usually the convention lasts two or
more days, and resolutions are adopt
ed which are sent to Washington by
q special committee to be presented to
Congressman interested in river af-
fairs.
Mr.. Adams says that he is anxious
for Capt. Bryant TO come here, and
ne is sure that Vicksburg will be able
with the cooperation of the business
men, TO fully care for the delegates.
Details will be arranged when Capt.
Bryant arrives.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
Railroad Assessments.

The railroad commission has an
uounced the assessment Of privilege b,x
co assessed on the railroads of the
state, by counties, showing the amount
Of privilege taxes to be paid by the
railroads in each county of the state.
Only two counties of the state have
40 railroad touching them or entering
their boundaries, and therefore will
collect no railroad taxes. These two
counties are Itawamba, in the north
sasterngceraer of the state, and Leake
IN the very center or heart of the
state. Lines are projected through,
these two counties, and next year will
most probably enjoy some ofsthe per-
quisites from railroad mileage.
The total amount of privilege taxes
TO be collected from all the railroads
of the state this year is &c., 640.20.
Thss tax is separate and distinct from
the ad valorem tax paid by the rail-
roads on their property valuation.
The privilege tax is on the privilege
Of operating railroad, and is as
sessed according TO the classification
IF the railroads.
The railroads of the stste are di-
~ided into three classes first, second
and third The first class pays $40
per mile, the second SIS per mile and
the third $40 per mile. There is also
. privilege tax Of So per mile on mar
row guage railroads.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
Law WIN Be Tested.

There is growing interest in case
soon to be tried in the United States
District Court for the Western dis
brict Of Kentucky. It will be brought
for the purpose Of testing the oonsti-
nationality Of the employers liabili.
ty law enacted by the last Congress.
\ similarly action is pending in the
State OF New Jersey, but the Ken
ucky case, which is to be tried be.
lore Judge Evans, will be made the
est case. This case was determined
'pon at a meeting Of the railway at
.orneys recently held in Louisville.
1t was proposed to deny the author
lty OF congress to legislate in such
matters as the relationship between
employers and employees. The main
contention will be that the law in
question Is not regulation Of inter-
state commerce; that congress has no
right to regulate the liability Of the
master to the servant in the absence OF
a statute fixing that liability in the
first instance.
The best legal talent of the country,
it is assumed, will be employed n the
employers behalf. This fact, and the
alleged improbabiity of an equal ar
ray OF talent On the other side has
appealed to the administration as af-
fordlng an instance where interven-
ton is justiiable on the part Of the
Department Of Justice to expedite
the administration Of law.
Attorney General Moody has ac-
cordingly issued a statement to the
effect that it is his intention to ask
issue of the court in which the first
case occurs to intervene, not upon
questions Of fact, but for the purpose
Of supporting the constitution.iity,
validity and Interpretation Of the law.
Under this intervention it is expected
as in the former case, that the law
will be interpreted and the decision
declared thereon by the United States
supreme court with all due expedition.
This course has received the approval
Of President Roosevelt. The date Of
the trial has not been stated here.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg, the
German Ambassador, has decided to
postpone has proposed trip to Texas
until next autumn. He originally
planned to make an extended trip
through the Southwest this fall, but
finds that he will not have time this
year to make as long a stay as he de-
sires. Texans who have invited him
to various Texas cities have been adj
vised Of his new plans.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
Insurrection Put Down.

The following cablegram dated o.
tober %, from Commander Souther-
land, relative to the restoration Of
peace in Santo Domingo was made
public today:
ssThe ansurrection in Santo Domin-
go has been successfully put down. All
of the revolutionary leaders have quit
the island. Amnesty has been grant
ed to all the parties concerned in the
revolution and last advices show that
tranquility prevails all over the coun-
try. The Dominican national forces
will be with .rawn from the recently
disturbed districts as soon IS possible.
The President Of Santo Domingo pro
poses to start Immediately on . tour
through the greater part Of the north
ern provinces.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
Benzine as Denaturent.

Mr.. Yerkes, Commissioner Of, In
ternal Revenue, when asked concern
ing the alleged control of the produc-
tita OF wood alcohol by the Woods
Prodnct Company Of Buffalo, n. Y,
and the effect Of such control upon the
denatured alcohol market, stated that
it is not for him to say whether it
controls 100 per cent Of the entire
output or not; but even in case it does
the manufacturer Of denatured alco-
hol viii not necessarily be controlled
by this same organization, as wood
alcohol is not the only denaturent,
and it will be easy to find substitutes.
He said that he gave the wood alco-
hol people fair warning some time ago
that IN case Of any attempt to con-
troll denatpred alcohol through the
sale Of wood alcohol as denaturent
be could easily alter the regulations.
One Of these denaturents is benzine.
The commissioner has had number
Of inquiries lately concerning benzine,
which is named in the regulations as
one of the denaturents. The ques-
ton, however, is with regard to the
danger from fire which the sinquiries
supposed would be incurred and the
necessary higher insurance rates re-
sulting. Accordingly the commission
or issued statement to-day as fol
lows.
1.-THE question has been submitted
to the Internal Revenue Bureau by
druggists, distillers and others con-
corning fire risks, and the commission
er wishes 1t understood that persons
desiring to handle deratured alcohol
need have no easiness about fire risks
chat tho benzine prescribed will be
q hydro-carbon, obtained either from
petroleum or coaltar, having speci-
&c gravity Of not less than 800 and a
boiling point Of 7ot less than $50 de-
grees C. The benzine will not be a
particle more dangerous from the
point Of view Of fire risk than the
alcohol itself or many other articles
whose presence in buildings does not
add to the fire risks or call FOR a high
or rate Of insurance.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
siaunese Woman's Death.

Announcement has just been made
Of the death Of Mrs. Luana Ralanay
Apt, wife OF the Siamnese charge
d'affaires, which occurred here Octo-
Der is. The removal Of the body to
! receiving vault was the first that
became known publicly Of the death.
She had been i'll for week. In az
cordance with the Siamese custom, the
body will DO oremated and the ashes
sent % Siam.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
/ Increasing Circulation.

There has been received at the
Treasury Department twenty-five APP
plications for increases in circulation
under Secretary Shaw's offer 81 last
Monday. The amounts specified in
the applications aggregate about 81
100000. and it is expected that the
entire sis, 900 900 will be applied for
as fast as. the banks scansaSsaneesfor
ths necessary securities:
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

A Japanese question is APP
preaching crisis. A cabinet meet
ing was held, and Secretary Metcalf
was sent to San Francisco to gather
all the facts at first hand. It is now
reported that japanese restaura-
teurs are being subjected to boy
colt. Proceedings were instituted in
the federal court to restrain the
school board from excluding Japa-
nese children.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

President Roosevelt was mustered
In o. an honorary member Of the As
sociate Society Of Farnsworth Post,
g. A. r., Of Mount Vernon, n. Y The
ceremony took place in the cabinet
room Of the executive Offices, and was
conducted by Gen. Horace Porter. The
president made few remarks Of pa
4riotic character.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
Kinkead Upheld.

Toledo, O.-The circuit court up
held the decision Of Judge Kinkead,
Of the common pleas court, in the
sentence he gave Reuben Lemon, Rol-
lin Beard and Joseph Miller, convict
ed Of conspiracy in restraint Of trade
in the sale Of ice. These are the ia
nous ice cases which were tried in
common pleas court last summer.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
Sine Insurance Companies.

Suits Of four fire insurance COM
panies against the Alabama, Vicks-
burg and Shreveport Railroad for $50,
900 claiming that spark caused a
cotton fire at Arcadia, is on trial at
Shreveport.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
Five Story Office Building.

The contract for modern fye-story
Office building will be awarded Nov.
! in Hattiesburg. This is to be erect
ed by DIR. Ross in Front street, and
when completed will cost approx
mately 100000. The building will
be completed by April l.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
Form district Association.

A meeting of principals and teach
er of the Brookhaven schools on the
line of the Illinois Central Railroad
south of Jackson, was held for the
purpose of effecting a district organi-
cation to discuss at meetings from
time to time the problems and ques-
tons peculiar to city school work.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

There are some half a dozea cloth
ing manufacturing plants in Missis-
sippi and all are doing nicely. The
plant at New Albany wound up its
second year of business last week
and found that the profit was 1870
per cent. Ten per cent was paid the
stockholders and the balance placed
70 the surplus column to provide
against repairs amid etc
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
Accepts Life Term.

Tom Brown, negro, who killed
Murray B. Williams at. Winona in
1902, accepted a life term at Carroll
ton on the fifth trial Of the case.
Three times the death penalty was
imposed and once there was hung
jury
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

President Roosevelt was reported
= Be anxious to have Secretary Shaw
ecnain in the Cabinet another year.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

State Insurance Commissioner Bar
ry Of Michigan NOTED insurance agent
in that state not to electioneer among
policyholders during the present in
surance election.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

French authorities fear that a holy
war will soon break out in Algeria
and Morocco.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

If the people of Mississippi could
only be made to realize what the lands
in their state we're capable of and
what their real value was there would
be no more immigration to countries
that have been exploited as Eldorados
and Promised lands. Our own state
offers more to the husbandman than
any in the union. Our lands are cap
able, with intelligent handling Of
bringing the greatest returns There
are no worn out lands here. That is,
lands that could not be reclaimed and
made to produce abundantly. We
nave no great areas abandoned like
large sections Of the east where the
people have moved away because they
could no longer produce the neces-
saries Of life With the use of COM
mon sense our lands get better as they
,et older, and the following from the
,ipley Sentinel is reproduced as evil
ence that land in constant cultiva-
ioa for sixty years is still good end
rowing more crop than that but re-
emily placed in cultivation and hand-
I'd in slovenly manner: '.'
Mr.. c. C. Jones Of Dumas was sell
nc. cotton in Ripley Monday and
while here he said in an interview
With the Sentinel, that the bale ne
sold Monday was picked from one
ere of ground and that he could get
mother picking of six or seven hum
lred pounds from the same patch.
This acre Of ground will yield Mr..
Tones little more than two thousand
pounds of seed cotton, and some was
lost during the recent wind and rain
storm. On this acre of land, which
5 an old field bench land, and was put
in cultivation about sixty years ago,
Mr.. Jones applied about fourteen
loads of ordinary barnyard manure.
This is what can be done. in Tippah
county, but is not the best that can
be accomplished. Who viii be the
first to report two bales from ono
acre z" tsot
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

T. J. Dye of near Gloster reports
the following yield from his seed cot
ton: 1912 pounds made bale
weighing 4S1 pounds, or nearly 40
per cent lint; 1,460 pounds made $40
pounds, or 80 per cent; 1,414 pounds
made $40 pounds or SO per cent. This
is splendid turnout indeed. Mr..
Dye says that he has pecan tres
on his place that if the nuts we're sold
It the market price they would pay
the taxes on has entire farm Of 500
acres.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01
Killed in Camr.

j. E. Davis was killed in a logging
railroad accident near Lucedale, Miss.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

The submarine Lutine has been
s.ised; but the bodies have not been
taken out.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

The president is not going to break
hao the New York campaign.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

Seven men were reported killed By q
nine explosion ct Joknstown, Pa
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

The Spanish army viii be put on
q modern basis.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01


Our people generally look with sus-
picion and distrust upon the govern
ment reports thar show large aver
age Of corn yielded to the acre in
Iowa and other corn states, or won
der how it is done. Prof. Holden, OF
the University Of Iowa, was with the
Diversified Farming Special" three
days and told plainly how it was done
and went on to show that with the
same care and intelligent handling
Mississippi land would produce as
much, corn per acre as that of Iowa
or any other state. A proof OF this
assertion is found in the last issue
of the Holmes County Times where
special correspondent, w. A. Hart
cock, visited the farm of Abe Shep-
herd and investigated the raising Of
150 bushels Of corn oa one acre, OF
ground which Mr.. Shepherd accom-
plished without serious trouble. This
enormous yield was taken from land
that had been in cultivation seventy
years and according to the usual hand
ling Of our land, would have been
worn out more than half a century
ago. Mr.. Shepherd '.got his head in
the game as well as his muscle and
cribbed l50 bushels from an acre.
That is all there is to it and anybody
can do nearly so well if they viii try
properly. r.e t..s4 ss,..
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

Our Mississippi farmers might do
we'll to remember that not 80 much
strength is required to do things, but
that > great deal is often necessary
to decide what is the best to do.
Brains are just as important in the
handling Of farm as ordinary mus
cular exertion.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

Taking into consideration, there Is
no state with more to offer the MAJ
seeking home than Mississippi.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-11-01

b The recent storm demonstrated the
fact that excavated channels at our
gulf coast harbors were deepened BIZ
such disturbances instead of filed OF,
shifted. Horn Island Pass is reported
wider and deeper than before and NO
doubt the same can be said of the
channel at Gulfport. With these fav-
orable conditions there is every reason
for us to expect to see two or moro
of the most important shipping ports
in the world in Mississippi. The
building of the canal insures change
in traffic and Mississippi is in fine con-
Edition to handle a large share of it.