The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-16
MISSISSIPPI WILL
 GO PROHIBITION
BsptiStS Are Taking Lead in
 the Fight
METHODISTS ARE TO ACT
Legislature Will Be Memoralized to Put an End to the Traffic and Indications Look to State
 Prohibition.

Jackson. Miss, September 15.-(Special.) Those five or six Mississippi counties wherein the sale of whisky continues to be legalized might just as well make up their minds to surrender to the prohibit tion army, as death and taxes are little more certain than that this state will declare for statutory prohibition when the legislature meets next January. The fifty-six Baptist associations of the state are now being held, and some of them have already adopted resolutions calling the saloon towns by name and serving no- tice on them that their days are num- bered. Vicksburg, Greenville. Natchcz, Biloxi Gulfport and Scranton are the principal offenders. During the winter the Methodist conferences and other re- ligious bodies will meet and they will also memoralze the legislature to put lock on what they denominate "these places of sin and human destruction"
 Will of J. B. Graves.
 The will of the late District Attorney J. B. Greaves of this city, which mas been filed for probate, shows that he was iC1DEoSOb bulk of which was left to his 1O-year-old son by his first wife
 Opening of Schools.
 Thousands of Mississippi citizens, white and black, will get to their books Mon- day, that being the date of the opening of a great many of the schools, though the regular free school term does not begin till October. and then run for five to seven months. There are more than half million school children in the state and 10000 teachers ape employed at the munifcent salary average of $36 41 Tor white teachers and s20. AS for negro teach- CTS. These salaries are for the rural districts. The separate school districts pay more-$54.45 to white teachers, S2S. .O6 to negroes
 Bishop Galloway Well.
 Bishop Charles B. Galloway preached at the First Methodist church today for the first time in many Sundays, and as is al ways the case. was greeted by an over flow congregation. The bishop has just returned from Michigan, where he has spent the summer, and his friends every where over the south will be rejoced to know that he seems fully restored to health.
 Can't Stay Out of Jail.
 Ed Lewis, negro convict who was re- captured at Meridian and returned to the penitentary whence he had escaped last April. This negro was sentenced to the penitentiary from Lauderdale county twenty years ago. his sentence being for twelve years. During these twenty years he has managed to escape ten times, but generally rounds up in the vicinity of his old home and Is recaptured.
 Injunction Is Asked.
 Chancellor Garland Lyell of this city has just returned from Yazoo coun,y, where he has been hearing an injunction instituted by those who are opposed to the issues of bonds in the sum of $50 0o0 for the purpose of building an electric railroad in the city of Yazoo. The op- ponents of the bond issue claim that the city has no legal right or authority 10 issue bonds for any such purpose, and the code does not make any provision for electric railroads It authorizes bond ls- sues for water works, sewerage. lightD and other public utilities. but says noth- ing about railroads of this character. The question has never before been brought DtloIt lIle cOuTlS Ol the Sldle ana 1ndn- cellor Lyell has taken it under advise ment.
 Jury Fails to Agree.
 The jury in the case of J. s. Clark vs. the Illinois Central railroad, has been discharged, being unable to reach a yer dict. Clark sued the railroad for dam ages in the sum of s20G00 on account of the killing of his son, Kid" Clark few months since They stood eleven in favor of giving Clark S4000 to one who would not agree to pay anything. The criminal docket will be taken up Monday. It is one of the heaviest Hinds county has ever experienced. there being more than POO ca ses to try, three or four of them mur- der cases