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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-29

From an authentic source il is learned that bI en-
titled IAN Act to Strengthen the State Credit By prOvid-
ing for the payment Of the repudned Union and Planters
bank bonds viii Be introduced III the next legislative as-
sembh The measure introduced viii attract national
attention and furthermore will BE- productive o one Of The
warmest fights III tie history cg egislaIion III his state.
for in some quarters there is very decided sentiment n
prior d the Civil War and which. il lie opinion If many
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-29

~ count OF this oten-quoted case says
the New York World
In early days states widely separated Massa-
chuses Michigan and Georgia built at public cost rail-
roads which thought essential to their development
Cities and towns bonded to aid others. Farmers
often bought stock the only condition upon which cap
taists would undertake branch lines The farmers we're
usually squeezed by stock assessments state manage
ment in every finally abandoned and bonding
proved such nuisance that many states forbid in
their constitutions.
After the war the railroad fever struck Missouri and
many counties bonded themselves to put lines built as the
state laws then permitted. ST. Clair county made the
mistake Of delivering $250000 in bonds when contract
was let for line which desired instead Of waiting un-
til the work was done The promoters worked at grad
ing mile for track until they could sell the
bonds and then stopped The road was built and
has since been article Of religion St Clair county
that neither principal interest the bonds shall be
paid The county judges always in contempt OF court
They martyrs honored in the community.
his is where justice is impossible. The
thieves have escaped and either the presumably innocent
holders the innocent taxpayers suffer In such
the courts hold that the taxpayers bear the
burden because they authorized their officers issue the
bonds and reasonable precautions against being cheated
should have been taken In the famous New Haven rail-
road bonds issued BY president and sold for
his private profit They held good against the
poraon because the president had been empowered BY
by the company issue bonds. Purchasers had
Of determining which Of the bonds precisely alike had
been honestly and which had been dishonesty acquired.
They passed from hand to hand like dollar BILL and
stolen dollar bill be recovered from innocent
person into whose hands it may have fallen.
ST Glars dollar bill was stolen long ago, yet few
readers help sympathizing with the spirit Of the
judges who go cheeruly Jail rather than yield them
selves beaten contest Of wits between sharpers and
honest men generation ago.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-29
OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO THE SOUTH.

he assembling in Washington Of an
international congress to discuss tub
ercuIosis during the early autumn Of
1908 promises to be a spIendidly in
spring event significant of the orderly
marshalling of the forces Of science to
combat disease. UutiI comparatively
recent years there was little co-opera-
ton among medical men in fighting the
great enemies to health and LIE. The
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-29

AS the Interstate Commerce Commission has invesi-
gated the express companies It suggested By Of
the New York papers that the commission look into the
charges On shipments Of bodies from San Francisco The
rules of the Wels-Farg Company are quoted to show
these rates from San Francisco 10 Hong Kong: Corpse
81 white person. $3.50 Chinese dead less than one year.
SIS Chinese dead more than one year. SS5. Why 4
dead Chnaman should cost less than dead white man to
transport and yesr-old Chinese corpse less than w
Gently deceased Chinanan is "a mystery that the New
York paper wants explained Il may Be that those inter-
ested il Tie transportation IF white body are willing 10
pay over four times as much as IS paid Tor the Chnaman
but this leaves the rating Of the Chinaman according tie
time dead unexplained says the Mobile Register
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-29
WORK THE PANACEA.

1OMAS A. Edison has performed
many splendid services for his country.
More than any other living American
he has contributed to the sum total Of
practical, scientific knowledge. More
than any other living man, he has labor
ed to keep oiled the wheels of the cars
Of progress. Now, in the ripeness Of
his wisdom, the interchangeable worker
and inventor gives us the fruit Of his
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-29

physician was ndviduast and general practitioner
but with the advance OF his profession he has become
more specialist Ii is natural phase Of this advance
that physicians should concentrate their learning and
systematic their experience against particular Diseases
and when they meet to study tuberculosis it to attack
that chief which the center OF all the ills to which
flesh is heir. The congress in Washington should and
we believe will the widest and profoundest interest
and it will be successful in high degree if it shall do no
than awaken the American people to the immediate
gravity d the consumption curse and stir them
organized and intelligent warfare against it.
The congress will be Of special Importance to the
South Formerly the people of the South deceived them
selves with the notion that the mild climate Of this region
would forever force consumption into the secondary place
among diseases and they fancied that the problem
one to be left to the dwelers in higher latudes while
they devoted their attention for the most part to malaria
and other fey Statistics however, have exploded this
ignorant opinion and it is now we'll understood that the
Southern American states have advantage in immunity
from it over their Northern sisters.
Attendant upon the rapid expansion Of transportation
facilities has been the spread Of the contagon Of consump
ton in the South 1t in the sumpuous tourist train
Of palace cars to Florida from Massachusetts within thirty
hours. and whatever village city is touched BY railroad
exposed to the danger less than those communities
peculiarly conditioned for its termination.
Besides the negro population Of the South the
whole population to be especially menaced. The enor-
increase Of the disease among the negroes since the
aboshment Of slavery is we'll known. Uncleaniness is
the diseases next friend and when the blood Of freedom
came the negro he lost the protection Of enforced
tation. Every white family dependent upon the negro
washerwoman is in less peril Of contaGion, and
this peril is constantly enlarging AS time goes it is
inevitable that tuberculosis will increase among the
negroes il they be left to themselves oppose it and the
danger to the white is proportionately involved
The exceeding Importance that not only the physicians
but those laymen who are leaders in their communities
should interest themselves in this congress scarcely needs
to be emphasized There are cities tn the South now
whose commercial prosperity suffering because they
known to be consumptves and every community
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-29

The mobbing Of Rev. G. Al Fulton and Attorney L. W.
Dygart Of Syracuse because they had made campaign
for the Sunday closing Of saloons brutal outrage
that will not help the law-breakers The two were stoned
and badly bruised BY crowd Of two hundred men and
boys on SGndsy afternoon Obedience pt law is the rst
array itself with safety This wanton act was probably
the work Of irresponsible persons. but the maefactor
should be apprehended and punished warning against
such brutal attacks in the future.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-29
JUST DOG.

1Y should we not honor the dog? He
is mans oldest animal friend. the only
one that comes anywhere near to com
munication with us. He Of all animals
is attuned to us in Joy and grief. He
has come up with US out Of just barbar-
ism,and, in some respects, is more civil
lied than we are. In the days when
Egypt dreamed of eternity it chose the
dog for god. The Greeks gave him
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-29

"A London woman writer declares that there ARE MOI
gentlemen in America From that We infer Tint she never
heard he story u MI Taft getting uD ii street cSr and
Offering his seat to three ladies Al one time.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-29
TWO KINDS OF CHARITY.

ept E= HOMAS B. Walker Of Minneapolis,
14##E51@ Who owns more timber land than any
Ec4sS7 NJ other one man in the United States. has
0lkN+ Va just declined an offer to Join trust,
N|([NKKV which has for its purpose the controlling
ATyMVAa Of the entire timber supply Of this coun-
XT~2NE-A&. trx Mr. WalLer'e fort,,ne ia astn,at u
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-29

President Roosevelt wants to make Washington the
model cib. but he can't while congress meets there
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-29

Many men in prison are suffering for the sins Of the
Judge that condemned them quite as much as for their
own The Magistrate has means Of knowing the really
significant things about the man before him. what strange
occult mysterious currents Of human will or fate moving
in the man mind or in the minds Of his ancestors i'm
pelled him to his deed he has Of knowing how
far the man has been the prey Of economic forces that
the Judge does not understand what hidden physical
defect may have created moral defect obquity him.
All the Judge knows is that in certain book it is printed
that between minimum and maximum limitations there is
mysterious number Of years that must be prescribed for
burglsry another number for larceny Of sum $685.
another for stealing horse another for forging note
another for firing dwelling; that there SO many
days for larceny Of under $35 SO many for getting
drunk for creatinr disturbance and SO on Il would be
just as sensible for doctors to say that with typhoid
fever must 60 10 the hospital FOR two years man with
smallpox seven years with appendicitis three years
man with boil thirty days, man with carbuncle
ninety DAYS. man with cold ten days. and SO When
IA man is cured Of physical disease, he is discharged
from hospital when he cured oE moral disease, he
should Be discharged from prison that j, assuming
that man could ever Be cured Of moral disease in
prison. which, o course. he cannot society itself adj
mits BY continuing the treatment when hc does ae out
But then the law. the criminal side has made no prog
ress n 2Q0 yeas and cannot Be compared with med.
cine.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-05-29
"A COUNTY IN REBELLION.

DR. thirty-one years St. Clair county,
Mo-, has been an outlaw. Il is in con-
tempt Of court and its county judges,
whose refusal to do the bidding Of the
federal courts registers the determin-
alton Of the community, have to hide
out during their terms or 60 to jail. The
April Century contains the latest ac-
count Of this often-auoted case. SAYS
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-05-10
cHAprER ao2-H. F. NO. e75.

CHAPTER 3O2-H. +. NO. BIB.
AN ACT entitled, act 70 amend sec,
Laws of the State of Minnesota. for
the year 1859, said chapter having
been approved April "a, 1889, and to
provide for an additionai CLERK IN said
compensation Of the deputy clerk and
additional clerk.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of the
State Of Minnesota action AZ -. o,.n+o.
351 Of the Special Laws Of the year 1889,
as to read as follows:
Assistant Cierk-It shall be the duty of
the mayor, or other legally constituted
officer. or body having supervision and
control Of the police department and
SUFFICIENT number Of police officers. in
GLIDING an officer in command. are always
in attendance Upon said court at its
criminal sessions, and such other times
and places as the court may direct. in
readiness to obey its and pre-
serve order during it's proceedings. And
said mayor or other legally constituted
eonfrol or Of De say{d h poiiee d dapsrH1s11a and
police officers of said city, shall have the
power, in his or its discretion, to appoint
not exceeding three persons approved by
the judges Of said municipal court as
policemen for special attendance and duty
in said court irrespective, of the general
rules or legal regulations or enactments
relative to the qualifications of policemen.
hut no greater Compensation: unless the
common council directs greater compen-
sation, than ordinary police, and they
shall be known as bailiffs. and such
bailiffs n policemen attending said
court may be required to give bond to
said city in III sum as the council shall
direct for the faithful performance of
their duties; such bond to be for the
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-05-10
CHAPTER 303-H. F. NO. S31.

3OS-H. F. NO. 831.
vised Laws Of 1905 relating to storage
and shipment of grain.
State Of Minnesota:
vised Laws Of 1905 be and the same IS
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Section 2o49. Storage and Inspection
Warehouseman's Duties-Receipts-Every
storage and shipment. so far as the
capcity. Of his warehouse will permit, all
grain In suitable condition for storage,
rendered him in the usual course Of bust
ness, without discrimination Of any kind.
AL, grain shall be inspected on receipt
and stored with other grain Of the same
grade. A warehouse receipt in the fol-
lowing form shall be issued:
9warehouse Receipt No. ...... MINI,
s.:....19o... e............. Elevator
e Company has received In store. in its
g elevator known as ...........::;..
%s9'sota. for storage from:..:............;
3 9 gI;e5' 10. 5:oa bushels of::-
!Epointed by the State Railroad and
SWarehouse Commission of Minnesota.
. and has been graded by said inspector
Said ss DO grain i or an a eoaa Is e ameu grad ef
grain of the same kind and grade is
F: deliverable Upon the return Of this re-
: ceipt properly Endorsed by the owner
above named and the payment Of all
lawfulschalrges; in case OF, grain stored
q: separately in a special bin, at the re-
8 F.: quest Of the owner or consignee, the
8: identity of such grain will be pre-
S: served, while in store and said grain
s . will be delivered as such separate lot
q or parcel, in accordance with law, up
on surrender Of the receipt. Loss by fire,
heating or the elements is at owners risk.
The .....:.. Elevator Com
pany conducts said elevator as q public
terminal warehouse and receives and
stores therein grain of others for hire.
......B Bushels Grade.
BX
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use Of all persons interested. provided,
however, that nothing herein contained
shall AFFECT the powers n duties OF the
police officers, bailiffs and commanding
officer, and all other policemen, police
officers and bailiffs. stall at all times
subject to the orders and authority and
control of said court, irrespective Of the.
authority or orders of any other official
have power power W With ta'u the %un, consent soue Of st the
JUDGES to appoint In addition to the.
deputy clerk in his act provided for one
assistant clerk, to be known as the first
under the authority of said clerk. Said.
clerk, deputy clerk and first assistant
Clerk shall have full power and authority
jurors; and take Acknowledgements, and
SAID clerk, deputy clerk and first assist
n clerk and bailiffs shall perform such
duties as the clerk or judges shall direct
shall have power to serve all process Of
said court, whether civil or criminal.
when directed by the court. and all other
powers and authority in this act provided
with the usual powers Of constables at
common law, and with the overs and
authority Of police officers Of the said
e c!ax of shall al Saul So direct It t thS 5 sfsf as ST sa1a
clerk. shall have the qualifications of a
stenographer, and shall perform such
duties in that regard as the judges pre-
scribe. Such direction or qualification,
however. shall not in any way affect the
provisions of this act in reference to the
tofhc1al s~tenographer. Said first assistant
clerk before entering upon the perform
ance of the duties of his office shall first
take and subscribe an oath in form as
prescribed in section 10 of this act, and
to the city Of ST.. Paul for the
nse n benefit Of all persons injured by
failure to observe it's conditions a penal
bend In the sum of ST LOCO, with such sure
ties: as the common council may approve,
condition that he will account to and pay
over. to the clerk or deputy clerk Of said
court on each day all moneys belonging
to or to go to said. city, and that he will
deputy clerk Of said court or demand all
moneys to which any person may be en-
titled which may have come into his
hands in virtue Or by reason of his office.
Such, bond shall be filed with the same
officer as the bono Of the clerk. The
salary of said deputy clerk Of said court
shall be fifteen hundred Isl, 500 dollars
per. .annum. and the salary of said first
assistant clerk shall be one thousand
&i,OOO dollars per annum, and such
salaries shall be paid out Of the city
treasury of the city Of st. Paul in equal
monthly installments. {
Sec. 2. All acts or parts Of acts I'm
consistent with the provisions of this act
are hereby repealed.
Sec. B. This act shall take effect and
be. In force from and after it's passage.
Approved April %. 1907.
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-05-10

CHAPTER so1-H. F.. NO. GAG.
AN ACT entitled. "A act to. authorize
any city in the State Of Minnesota.
now, or hereafter, having a population
If oyer 5000 in%h hal fna su to Pf0y and
m~aintenance of its police department.
and tx the maximum expenditure each
year therefor"
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF the
Section /. That any city in this state.
now or hereafter having a population Of
over $4,000 inhabitants, in addition to all
powers now possessed by it. shall have
the power and authority ;na aSt'1 az BY and md
maximum: expenditure each year for the
p and maintenance Of its police de-
partment, and to include the amount so
fixed in the current annual tax levy Tor
Sec. 2. All acts and parts Of acts in
consistent herewith are hereby repealed:
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage.
Approved April %, 1907.
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-05-10

CHAPTER 3o4H. F. NO. $40.
AN ACT to aid in the establishment Of
consolidated rural schools, and to appro-
pirate money therefor.
Be It enacted by the Legislature Of the
State of Minnesota:
Section 1. From any money hereafter
appropriated from the state treasury to
carry out the. provisions Of this act to be
distributed to the first fifty consolidated
rural schools established, equipped and
naauai. Conditions iii rs to to-W WEI the loll0"'ns
(a) Said consolidated rural school dis
trict shall contain not less than sixteen
nor more than thirty-six square miles of
CO. There shall. be. a continuous tract of
ten acres Of land secured as the property
Of the district. upon which there shall be
erected a substantial building containing
not less than four rooms, including one
practice. room.
(c) There shall be employed a principal
teacher. who is qualified. to teach the ele-
such tests as shall be required by the
state superintendent Of public instruction,
in addition to The requirements for the
teacher Of g. state graded school,. There
shall also be employed at least one as
sistant teacher who shall be qualified to
teach home economies, as determined by
such tests as shall be prescribed by the
in addition to the requirements for an
assistant teacher in a state graded schoo
Such other assistants shall be employed
as are necessary to properly instruct the
pupils in the school.
(d) Adequate provisions for conveying
the pupils to and from said schools shall
be provided by. said district.
(e) Said land h be properly divided
into areas for Fairgrounds, for the plant
ing of trees. crops, and
plants, and shall be so used and managed
as to best serve as a means Of instructing
the pupils of said schools in farming and
home making, and shall be under the Inn
mediate management Of the principal,
with such supervision as may be given by
the county. superintendent Of schools and
the state superintendent Of public instruc-
ton.
IT, The said schoolhouse shall be out
side of any incorporated village or city.
Sec. 2. No money shall be paid under
the provisions of this act until the state
superintendent, after due examination,
shall certify.that the conditions of the act
have been fully complied with.
Sec. 3. The aid provided by this act.
shall be granted to not more than one
school district in any M county.
Sec. A.. This act shall take effect and
be insforce from and after its passage,
Approved April 22. 1907.
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CHApTER o17-H = No an,

CHAPTER 297-H. T. NO. $50.
AN ACT to amend subsection . Of sec
ton No. 1874. Revised Laws of 1905,
which authorizes counties to issue
bonds for certain purposes.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section J. That subsection 2 of Sec
ton Ut Of tho Revised Iawa Of Minnie
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-05-10
The receipts shall, be consecutively num-

bered and delivered. to the owner imme-
diately upon receipt of each lot or parcel
Of grain, giving the true and correct grade
and weight thereof. The Of re-
ceipt of such grain shall be stated in the
receipt, with the number and distinctive
mark Of each car, and the name Of each
sue SUES such receipt tG as directed 9TH or the is iss 1s-
ance Of any warehouse receipt differing in
form or language from that prescribed
shall be a misdemeanor.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from In after its passage.
Approved April %, 1907,
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CHAPTER 3osGH. 12o6.

CHAPTER SO9-H. E. NO. 12O6.
AN ACT to amend section 2 Of chapter
336 Of the General Laws of 1905, entitled,
Of certain persons killed in the Indian
outbreak Of 1862, and for the erection
Of a over the same"
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature Of The
State Of Minnesota:
Section 1. That section 2 Of chapter
336 of the General Laws Of 1905, be and
the same Is hereby amended so as to
read as follows:
Section 2. That the selection Of the
place Of reinterment and removal Of said
bodies and the erection Of said monu-
ment shall be lone under the authority
the State of Minnesota, who is hereby
authorized to secure a place of RENTER
ment by purchase or otherwise, Inc on
whose certificate the state auditor shall
draw his warrant for the payment Of the
same.
Approved April q. 1907
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CHAPTER 296-H = Nh 900

296-H. F. NO. $50.
AN ACT relating to the salary and COM
pensation Of county commissioners in
counties of not less than 81, 900. nor
more than $4,000 Inhabitants.
Be it enacted by the Legislature or +he
State of Minnesota: ~
Section /. County. commissioners in
counties of not less thar thirty-five thou
In (35,OOW or more thar seventy-five
thousand C5,00O inhabitants shall re-
ceive three dollars ($3) per day for each
and every day necessarily occupied in
the discharge of their official duties
while acting IN any committee under the
direction of the board, and 10 cents a
mile each way for every mile necessarily
Travelled in attending such committee
work.
The commissioners of such counties
shall be entitled to mileage Of 10 cents
per mile each way for every mile nee
esarily Travelled for attending meetings
of the board, not to exceed twelve meet
ings In any one year.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect ana
be in force from and after it's passage.
Approved April ~, 1907.