The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-03
FRAUD PRACT|CED
 IN DRUG BUSINESS
Move Made In Mississippi Upon
 Illegal Druggists
STATES COTTON DAMAGED
Rain Has Caused Losses to Crop On State Farms-State Historian Row land Turns Down Requests
 for the Register

Jackson, Miss, September 2.-(Spe- cial)-L. H. Wilkinson, Jr., secertary of the state board of pharmaceutical examiners has issued a circular letter from his home at Indianola calling on all the good people of the state" to assist his board in the extermination of a large class'of men who claim to be pharmacists and who are following that calling in the state without license issued by the state board. The board meets in the city of Jackson on October to examine candidates, and it is desired that full list or all illegal druggists be furnished from every county so that they may be pros ecuted to the extent of the law.
 At the meeting of the board of trus- tees of the penitentiary today the mat ter of placing insurance on all the states property that is in the control of the trustees, such as gins, barns, cages, dwelling houses, etc., was dis cussed at some length and resulted i'll the appointment of Chairman Montgom- cry to look into the matter and place insurance wherever he thinks neces- sary. He was ordered to purchase hose and be prepared to use water from the artesian wells on the state farms wherever possible, but exposed bullo- ings were to be insured. Trustee Smith voted against the order, taking the position that the state is able to carry it's own insurance just as it has al- ways done.
 Chairman Montgomery of the board of trustees of the penitentiary made report to the meeting today in which he declared that the cotton crop on tn 9 states big farm in Sunfiower county has been seriously damaged during the past three weeks. He says, in part: Il regret to announce that instead or the bountiful yield of cotton that was Tn prospect on the Parchman farm Ill July, there have been three weeks Of rain, wh ich has caused an extraordinary growth of the weed and much shedding of squares and blooms, and today there is a falling off in prospects Of from 70 to 35 per cent"
 Col Montgomery reports crops of cot ton and corn on the Oakley farm In this Kinds county, as good, and re- grets that the other trustees would not vote with him to purchase machinery for saving the hay crop.
 State Historian Rowland is besieged with requests for copies of the Mis- sissippi Register recently issued in one large volume of about 1500 pages, but states that his supply is small and that he will not have any more than the law requires him to distribute. These histories of the state are not for sale at any price, and all offers to buy tn em are turned down. Each memb Der of the legislature Is presented with five copi' !; for distribution in his county, and that makes a very disagreeable duty for tho law maker. He finds that if he had hundreds of copies he would still be at a loss where to place them so as not to offend others. They all want more, but cannot get them.
 The receipts at the office of the sec retary of state were small during the month of August, being only s942.50. This has been due to the fact that very little has been doing in the charter fee line. Few corporations of impor- tance applied for charters. Times were supposed to be tight, and those corpor- ations orgaiized were small affairs.
 The board of trustees have determ- ined to try tolt and mule raising once more. Two expensive efforts have been made in that direction by former boards man, thousand dollars being spent for mares and fine jacks One, perhaps two, colts have been raised, and they are hardly worth the powder and lead 1t would take to kill them This time the trustees have purchased stallion inst,ad of a jack and horse colts will be ried