The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
Mississippi
News

OAo ~ W.
obusha and Holmes counties have been
added to those already received at the
auditors Office, both of which show the
difference compared with 1907 on the
right side of the ledger. Holmes coun-
ty reports a total personal property
value for 1908 at 8 2,424, 591, and that for
1907 at 81, 4O4, 1876, an increase Of 3d.
1876. The polls assessed are l,020 whites,
to 5,722 negroes. Yalobusha ~county's
assessment for 1908 reached the total
Of $685., 597, compared with 1888, 1876 for
1907, leaving a balance to increase Of
$9,801. The white polls are in the ma
jority in this county, the figures being
1888 to 1,497 negroes, an excess OF soL.
More than 600 veterans attended the
reunion of the Mississippi division of
the United Confederate veterans held
at Greenwood, among them many men
who had won fame by their deeds OF
valor on the battlefield, as well as
many prominent in the affairs OF state
and nation. A resolution was adopted
indorsing the erection OF a monuments
in each state to the women Of the Con-
federacy. Gen. Robert Lowry was
unanimously elected c~ommander-in-
chief of the Mississippi division. His
absence on account of serious illness
was the cause of keen regret among
the veterans.
Judge w. II. Hardy granted an in
junction to the Gulf & Ship Island, the
Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City and the
New Orleans & Northeastern railroads
against the enforcement of an order Of
the Mississippi railroad commission re-
quiring them to build a union depot
at Laurel. The contention of the rail-
roads is that the order Is confiscatory
of their property and violative OF the
fourteenth amendment Of the constitu-
ton of the United States.
The construction Of a combination
logging road and commercial railroad
line from Collins to Ellisville Is a part
OF the large enterprise which the Sill
verthorne Bros, of New York, have
announced for the development OF the
III iOPCk OACS "AANh tAO now ~
quired in South Mississippi. The Oko-
toma Sawmill company is nov being
formed to take over all the properties
and to carry out the plans.
The keynote of the several speeches
delivered by Booker T. Washington
during his tour of the state was to adj
wise members of his race to acquire
property. According to Washington's
idea the negro cannot become a good
citizen until he becomes a property
owner, nor can the race hope to make
much substantial progress so long as
its members do not realize the value Of
a bank account.
An immense factory for the manufac-
ture of paper out Of yellow pine refuse
will be established in Hattiesburg i'm
mediately, with a capitalization OF $780,
900. The grades Of paper will be Of
the heavier kind, and in connection
with the paper mill will be factories for
the manufacture OF paper boxes of all
kinds. The enterprise was on foot over
a year ago, and had been put well for
ward when the financial panic came
along. The present enterprise is a re-
newal of the earlier company.
The state board of pharmaceutical ex-
aminers met at jackson for the regular
examinations with a class of seventy
seven to take the examination along
the lines in practical and theoretical
pharmacy as designated by law and
regulation. The class quite we'll filed
the hall of representatives, where the
whom one is a woman, being included
in the number.
A movement has been launched to
secure a pardon for j. B. Slade, the
noted Pike county desperate, now
serving a life term in the penitentiary
for the murder of William Miller.
Slade had been on the Rankinfa farm only
a few months when he made his escape.
Several months later he was captured
near the scene of his crime, but it was
necessary for the officers to wound him
before he would surrender.
"
That w. J. Rice, the fugitive presi-
lent of the defunct Central Bank OF
Mississippi, now under Indictment in
the Kinds county circuit court on the
charge of ENLIGHTENMENT, is preparing
to settle with his Mississippi creditors,
is the announcement that from
Lexington, KY, in the form of private
letters from the fugitive. He claims
ability to show that he was not person
ally responsible for the failure of the
Central Bank.
Ex-Governor Vardaman has been as
signed to speak in Tennessee and Ken
lucky for the national Democratic
ticket. His dates for Tennessee are
for the week of Oct. II to II and for
Kentucky the following week, ending
Oct. "a.
What promises to be the most nota-
BILE gathering of farmers ever held in
the South will take place at Natchez,
Nov. 24-27, inclusive. The prime pur-
pose of the gathering is to prepare the
farmers of the cotton belt east Of the
Mississippi river to battle with the
boil weevil, and to acquaint them with