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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Blind Tiger Investigation.

The Kinds county grand jury fin
lshed the work of its session and ad
jourred sine die, submitting the fol-
lowing report to Judge r. L. Bull
lard:
eve, the grand jury, beg to sub
NIT our final report, and, having no
further business before W, ask to be
discharged.
"We made a very careful inquiry
with reference to blind tigers, and
have found that most of them were
run by negroes, and it has been with
the assistance of Chief of Police Al
len that we have been able to indict
a number Of them. We find the bet
ter class of negroes very much oppos-
ed to this form of lawlessness and
ready to lend every assistance pos
sible to run them down.
eve feel that we have located the
source of lot of the illicit sale of
liquor in Jackson, and returned in6ict-
ments against the guilty parties.
"While great many of the indict-
ments returned were against negroes,
our Investigations have been thorough,
regardless of color or occupation.
The grand jury settled down to a
bull dog determination to ferret out
the blind tiger liars in Jackson and to
break up the traffic in whiskey. Since
the arrest of King, the young man
who was caught by the police recent
ly, evidence has been secured to show
that there has been a wholesale traf-
ticking in -whiskey through local agen-
cies of various firms in New Orleans,
Memphis and other cities. Since the
Legislature and the courts put the
C. o. d. business to the bad by put
ting prohibitory tax on express
companies doing such business, and
also by prescribing heavy penalties
for violation Of the drastic regulations
made by law against the business,
the liquor dealers have hit onto other
schemes for reaching the local buyers.
King made confession to the police
authorities that he was the agent of a
firm in New Orleans. 1t seems that
this firm shipped to King large con-
signments of whiskey, billing the
goods to the fictitious address "Pe-
ter Cooper" This liquor would be
sent by freight and draft with bill
of lading attached would be sent
through one of the local banks. King
would supply the liquor to the tigers
direct.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Will Enter New Orleans.

Kansas City, MOI. A. Edison,
President of the Kansas City South
ern Railroad, in an interview stated
that the road would enter New Or
leans. Surveys have been completed,
he says, from Leesville La, to New
Orleans, a distance of about $50
miles, and construction work on the
new extension Of the line will be COM
menced as soon as conditions for rail-
road building become favorable The
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
BEAUTIFYING THE HOMES.
School Children Taught to Make
Flower Gardens.

A few years ago the Twentieth
Century Club started school gardens
and tried to get the children, as well
as their parents, interested in beauti-
flying their homes and schools, with
the aim of training the young Ameri-
cans to have an eye for the beautiful,
and to aid the city in bettering it's
conditions wherever they could. Most
of the principal schools have their
gardens now where the scholars work
diligently, each room vying with the
other in having the prettiest bed.
Seeds are also sold by the club at a
very nominal price to the pupils to
take home and grow in their own
yards. Many of the children have
beautiful beds laid out in artistic de-
signs; others have their flowers
planted almost any way, but each child
is striving to win button, which will
show they belong to the association.
Every child bringing in collection
of flowers grown by these seeds to be
shown at the exhibit this week will be
presented with a button showing the
possessor to be a member of the
Home Gardening Association.
The ladies of the club, who call oc-
casionally to inspect these home gar
dens of the little folks, say they find
most of the young gardeners to be
boys, and those between the ages of
seven and twelve years. One bright
little fellow has a large back yard
laid out in perfectly shaped beds, of
different designs, the flowers all
planted with the best taste so that
the colors and shapes blend grace
fully. In the centre is bower over
which vines are growing, and climb
ing flowers reach almost to the top.
In this place he has his tools and gar
den implements, and all his spare
time is spent there. The mothers say
it is a fine thing for the children,
keeping them off the streets. and CIV
ing them a pleasant and helpful oc-
cupation.
Three years ago, when the work
began, just few packages of seeds
were sold, while this years statistics
show 53,770 packages of seeds de-
livered to children in this city.
Sixty-seven schools have been sup
piled, and many out-of-town schools
have received seeds. The flowers
which seem to be favorites, according
to the numbers used, are gladiolas,
1854 packages; asters, 713S packages
with China pinks and nasturtiums
| following closely.-Detroit News-Tri-
| bune. !;
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
WANT DRAINAGE
FOR BLACK BAYOU
DRAINAGE COMMISSION HAS
BEEN AUTHORIZED.
A $5,OOO.09 APPROPRIATION
Is What the Old Ladies Home Asso-
citation Wants from the State Leg
islature-Scarlet Fever at Natchez
0rphanage.
Drainage Wanted.

The Black Bayou drainage district
matter has been again revived in
Washington county, legislative act
authorizing the creation of drain
age commission having been passed at
the last session of the legislature, and
after lengthy discussion among prop
erty owners in the proposed district,
abandoned until definite information
could be secured concerning the cost
of the project.
Congressman Benjamin Humphreys
of the Third District, secured author
lty from the department of agricul-
ture for government engineers to
make a survey of the Black Bayou
country, and the report of C. G. Eli
ott, acting chief of irrigation and
drainage investigation shows that the
plan is in every way feasible.
Mr.. Elliott estimates that the total
cost of drainage $4,000 acres of land
adjacent to the Black Bayou will be
$3.50, ,706, or an average of less than
81 per acre. He says that this esti-
mate is quite liberal, and it is posi-
bic that a contract car be let at a
lower figure than the one named. He
divides the work into two sections,
one consisting of 100000 acres and
the other of $4,000 acres, and sug-
gests that dredge should be put in
the channel at the upper end, cutting
out the bends and making necessary
enlargements. Concerning the FEAST
bility of the project, and the financial
benefits to be derived therefrom, Mr..
Elliott makes very fattering report.
The lands in the valley can be rented
at from Sc to 81 per acre and cult
waited Indefinitely without fertiliza-
tion.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Home Mission Society.

The Women IS Home Mission Socie-
ty, Mississippi conference was held
at Hattiesburg. Mrs. 7. B. Holloman
president of the society, presiding,
there being some sixty delegates pres
ent. Reports from different depart
ments were read. 1t was shown that
during the past year fifteen new aux
iliaries had been organized, making
a total of seventy-two for the confer
ence, with membership of 2OO0.
There has been expended during the
year 1929, and six parsonages have
been built in whole or in part. Mrs.
c. R. Mcqueen of Meridian acted as
recording secretary, and B. F. Lew
is of Canton corresponding secretary.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Bill Dismissed.

Chancellor Thad A. Wood handed
down his decision in the case of Mrs.
Annie L. Benjamin versus A. l.. Sta
pies, receiver of the Scranton State
Bank, dismissing the bill of complain
ant. The bill sought to establish a
preference claim against the assets
of the bank in favor of Mrs. Benja-
min and Mrs. M. L. Holcomb, whose
claims aggregated $4,000, virtue of
an attachment on the banking house
and other assets of the defunct bank.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Editor Graves Speech.

Washington.-President Roosevelt,
declined to make any comment or to
discuss the disposition of the declara-
ton made by John Temple Graves of
Georgia at the Bryan anniversary club
banquet. at Chattanooga, that Mr.. Bry
an should at the forthcoming Demo
cratic convention nominate President
Roosevelt for another term. The state
ment of Mr.. Graves excited much In
terest in official circles and there were
many requests that the president say
something, but he uniformly declined
them all.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Contract Awarded.

Bids have been opened by the Sis
ters of the lncarnate Word for the
erection of their sanitarium at Lake
Charles, and the contracts were
awarded to the Texas Building Com
pany, of Fort Worth, with bid of
$23, ,496- and 81 800 additional for gal
leries. The contract for heating,
plumbing and gas fitting was award
ed to the Model Plumbing and Heat
ing Company, of Beaumont, for $5,-
725. The work will begin April "a.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
For Charity Home.

The annual meeting of the OLD
Ladies Home association of Mississip-
pi was convened with Mrs. A. H. Lon
gino presiding.
This organization has been in exist
ence about three years, during which
period its members, composed of the
! foremost women of the state, have
been diligently engaged in an effort
to raise sufficient funds to build a
home for aged INDECENT women who
are without means of support.
The report Of the treasurer, sub
mitted shows about $1,000 on hand
not including sums to be reported by
treasurers of local auxiliaries during
the convention. A site for the home
as donated the association by S. Liv-
lngston, of Jackson, the suburbs of
Jackson, and architects have been in
vited to prepare the necessary plans
and specifications for cottages to be
built from time to time, as the stat
us of the treasury will permit.
1t IS the purpose of the association
to again memorable the legislature
for aid. A bill carrying an appro-
priation of $4,000 for the home lack.
ed only two votes of passage at the
1906 session, and the ladies are con-
tident that the voters of the state
will select more gallant body of law
makers during the summer primaries.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Ex-Gov. Chamberlain Dead.

Charlottesville, Va.-Danl H. Cham
berlain, who was governor Of South
Carolina during the turbulent times
Immediately following the reconstruc-
ton days, died at the home of C. G..
Chamberlain near the University of
Virginia. He was taken i'll with can
Ger of the stomach last fall on his
return from pleasure trip to Egypt.
He was a graduate of Yale and of
Harvard law school, and was 72 years
Of age.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

Atlanta, Ga.-Mrs. Leslie Carter's
private car was robbed of thousand
dollars worth of her diamonds and
iewelry and small amount of mon
ey during her absence at the theatre
here. The fact was made public by
the police to whomsit was reported
before Mrs. Carter left the city. The
police have no clew.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

San Antonio, Tex.-Ten million lot
terry tickets, representing, if they had
been sold at face value $5,O00,O00
which cost over $1,000 to lithograph
were fed to the furnace at the feder-
al building. There was more than a
carload of the tickets and it took over
six hours for the furnace to consume
them. These are the tickets captured
in this city April 2, 1905, and which
resulted in breaking up the lottery
business
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Scarlet Fever

Owing to the prevalence of scarlet
fever, six cases having developed
among the nineteen inmates of the
Natchez Protestant Orphan Asylum.
that institution was fumigated will,
formaldehyde, and the Natchez Insti-
tute was accorded the same treatment
Pupils were dismissed. The trtire
building will be fumigated again.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Decline Aid.

The executive committee of the Mis
sissippi Negro Bankers Association
has declined to give aid to the ne
gro bank at Hattiesburg, which clos.
ed it doors on March 10, after the
assassination of Ed Howell, the cash.
ier, the disappearance of about ST.
600 worth of the banks securities,
and the arrest of several of the bank
officials on the charge of numbering
the cashier.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

Something was said a few days
since in these columns anent the oys-
ter industry of Mississippi, but stat
istics more recently given out place
the state in the lead in this very i'm.
portant industry. 1t has been su.
posed that Maryland was ahead in
this line, but not so. See the follow,
ing for last year: In 1900 the oyster
business of Maryland amounted to
$923, sos; Louisiana, 81, ,625; Missis-
sippi, $31, sos. In 1906, Maryland,
$54S,649; Louisiana, $5O7,373; Missis-
sippi, 81 ,340,942. This is a renarka-
BILE changing of the scales in the oys-
ter business. Seven years ago Mary
land furnished nine times as many
oysters as Louisiana and Mississippi
combined, while at present, Louisiana
is almost equal in production with
Maryland and Mississippi doubles
either or is equal to both. Hurrah
for Mississippi.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Prepare for Convention.

Chief of Police w. Z. Daniel, of
Yazoo City, states that the program
Is in course of preparation for the
annual convention of the Mississippi
Police Chiefs Association, which will
be held at Yazoo City during the first
week in June.
Mr.. Daniel is president of the asso-
clatlon and he will send out a gener-
al invitation to all the police chiefs
town marshals and mayors in Missis-
sippi to attend the session.
Better enforcement of the criminal
laws and cooperative methods in de-
tecting criminals will be the princi-
pal subjects of discussion. The asso.
citation was organized in this city sew
eral months ago and has enlisted a
large membership.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Tried to Be Exacr.

Georsia obituary writer, striving
to be exact, says:
"It may have been o'clock when
he crossed the river, but we were not
certain abol it, as the clock had
been losing time, and the only watch
in the house had a broken main
spring. Atlanta Constitution.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Thrown from Truck.

Jack Thompson, a fireman, at Me-
ridian, while guiding a hook and lad
der truck at exercise, was thrown off
and sustained broken arm and
thigh bo..e.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

What have you done for yourself,
your neighbor or your state lately Z
If you have done nothing, do some
thing right now before you forget. 1t
is never too late to do good but it is
better never late.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Crickasha, l. T.-The compress of

CflcKasha, I. I.-Ihe compress or
the Traders Compress Company with
its contents of $4,000 bales of cotton
was destroyed by fire here causing a
loss estimated at betwten $650,000
and 100000. The loss is covered by
insurance. The compress was owed
by N. P. Anderson of Forth Worth
and R. M. Wooten and L. M. Potts, of
this city. The flames were famed by
strong wind and the town was only
saved from destruction by the citizens
helping fight the fire.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
For Manslaughter

Judge Smith passed sentence on
the four white men convicted of man
slaughter in Circuit Court at Indian
ola. They were VIM. Elmore and
S. A. Wright, for the killing of w.
J. Stevens, in March last, each SEN
fenced to five years in the peniten-
tialy, and John New and Will Bart
lett, for the killing of Ben Brady
last October, sentenced to serve fif-
teen years each in the penitentiary.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

Summit has organized a league for
the promotion of the interests of that
town and the surrounding country.
Mayor J. B. Holden is president and
Mr.. E. III. Bradshaw Secretary. Mat
ters of interest and benefit to the com
munity will be handled during the
year and the result should be crafty
ing to those interested.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

In selecting men for the offices this
year, first believe that your candidate
is thoroughly honest and answering,
then figure on his ability. Better to
have a man who is not so brilliant
than one who will allow himself to
be handled in the interest of any
scheme by the use of money or the
promise of power. This subject may
be getting little thread bare, but
it is Of enough Importance to bear re-
petition number of times. Consid-
er this matter carefully before cast
ing your ballot.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

Hog and hominy is the watchword
of progressive Mississippians at the
present period more than ever, and
the result will be shown by increasing
prosperity IN the near future.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19
Burned to Death.

Chas. Bridges, negro twenty-one
years old, was burned to death at
Bay CT. Louis, when a small four
room cottage here was destroyed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

The Navy Department is pushing
work on warships now building and
hopes to have twenty-five battleships
in commission within a year.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

A delegation of Mississippians
headed by Congressman Humphreys
is In Washington in the hope of rails
ing the reported embargo placed by
the Italian government upon emigra-
ton to that State.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

The management Of the State Fair
Is preparing for doubling the size Of
he event this fall. Applications for
roace indicate that it viii be more
AN twice as large as in former
lars.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

The building of a great common
wealth is what Mississippians are en-
gagged in just now. The ground work
is being laid and development is COM
ing at slow but sure PAGES. Our tim
Der wealth is something enormous and
the cutting of its adds thousands of
dollars daily to the circulating me-
dunn. With the building of the Pan
anna eatal and the diversion of ocean
traffic through oiir section; Mississip-
pi has two excellently located deep
water ports that are bound to become
of great Importance. Pascagoula and
Gulfport are of course, referred to.
AS an evidence of what Gulfport is
doing the following is taken from an
exchange: "The Gulfport harbor es-
tablished a new record for lumber
exports during the month of March,
the shipments amounting to 33,2S7,-
900 feet board measure, valued at
$761 500. The shipments for the first
three months of this year amount to
S9,291 900 feet, and if this average
is maintained during the remaining
nine months the total lumber exports
for 1907 will be approximately $780,
100000 feet. Last years record was
296, ,125, 900 feet, as compared with
207, ,614,000 feet for the previous year.
1t will thus be seen that the business
of the harbor is increasing at rate
OF about thirty per cent. per annum.
In reality, Gulfport IS export business
is limited only by the capacity of the
harbor and loading facilities. More
vessels are applying for anchorage
each week than can find room in the
basin. During the month of March
thirty-four vessels cleared from the
harbor, their net registered tonnage in
the aggregate being 3S,13O tons. Five
of the number carried cargoes consid-
erably in excess of one million feet.
The vessels clearing were Russian,
British, German, American, Norwe-
gian, Dutch and Italian and the bulk
of the shipments went to South Amer
lean ports, with a goodly number of
eargoes to Havana, Colon, Hamburg,
and Rotterdam The harbor is now
filed to the limit with vessels taking
on cargoes, and the export trade is
so heavy that it has been necessary for
the ship Island road to adopt strin-
gent rules relative to acquisitions for
cars to carry export shipments. Now
rules regarding the unloading of cars
on the piers have also been adopted" "
This is very satisfactory state of
affairs indeed, but how much better
would it have been if our own people
could have been induced to cut and
market this lumber than to have
awaited outsiders to come in and do
it. There are still hundreds of op-
portunities lying around awaiting the
coming Of some man to take advant-
age Of them. Mississippians wake
up. Now is the time to get to doing
something.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

Those who are wondering what kind
of weather is in store for us during
the present year, may be surprised
to learn that the year 1916 was gem
orally known as the year without a
summer. Not a month of that year,
so it is said, was without ice and
snow at some point in the United
States, and crops were dismal fail
ure except in isolated spots. Febru-
ary was as warm as July and other
months also changed places. The
weather so far this year has been de-
cidedly freakish, but there is yet no
occasion for alarm. The greatest trou
BILE is a shortage of moisture that
would make drought later on espec-
tally disastrous. Keep in good cheer
and all will be well.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

Lyon, a thriving burg near Clarks-
dale is clamoring for an extension of
the water and light service of Clarks
dale and the prospects of getting
what they want seems to be unusually
good.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

London has over 1900 postofIicas
and the mail delivery amounts tc
727,0O0,000 rss<ces year.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

Although the Lafayette county corn
club was little late in getting start
more than fifty boys have planted for
prize winning fields and they evidence
spirit of stickability that means all
of them will be in at the finish. Prof.
Hurst and Odom deserve the encour-
agement and cooperation of the good
people of that section in this COM
mendable work, and it goes without
saying that they will get it.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

There is nothing that offers better
returns for the investment than a
properly managed barn yard of poul-
try. Chickens pay we'll under al
most any existing conditions, but of
course better If handled in an intel
ligent manner. A friend in Simpson
county writes than a neighbor Of his
with only twenty laying hens sold in
three months SO dozen eggs, used all
needed at home for the table and
Matching. The eggs sold brought him
1882 and the cost of feeding the hens
was practically nothing. These twenty
hens made as much clear mony for the
owner in three months as they were
worth on the market. In what other
line is there so much proftq The en-
ergetic house wife has for years kept
a few hens for pin money and it is
safe to assert that the returns she
received equaled any thing her hus-
band had that cost ten times as
much. Mississippi is peculiarly adapt
ed to the raising of chickens of all
kinds, and those handling them profit
ably find the investment excellent.
Mr.. L. .. Hutchinson at Crystal
Springs is a successful raiser of fine
poultry and derives good profits from
the sale of birds as we'll as eggs for
setting. Will Taylor at Jackson is
another breeder that is making money
and there are dozens of others that
can be named in support of the con-
tention.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

Fifteen hundred brewers struck at
pittsbarg.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-19

If you have anything of interest,
write the editor of this department
about it. Let others know of your sue
cesses. They may try it too.