The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-21
STATE TREASURER
 FIRM WITH BANKS Mississippi Cash Bag Holder
 Controls Funds SURETY BONDS ARE IN BAD MT. Edwards Names State Repositories of State Funds and Will Not Issue
 Warrants To Certain of
 the Banks.
SURETY BONDS ARE IN BAD

Jackson, Miss, August 2o.-Thirty-one bankers were today commissioned by the depository commission as state deposit ories and warrants for the sums to which they are entitled to draw from the treasury were issued by Auditor Smith Eight of these commissions are to banks that deposited surety company bonds as collateral security for the loan of the states money, and are signed only by Governor Noel and Attorney General Fletcher. Treasurer Edwards declined to sien commissions for banks that depend ed solely on such securities, ana they will have time getting any money out of his vaults In fact, the treasurer has served notice repeatedly that he would not accept surety bonds as collateral, and has told such banks it would take an order from the supreme court to get the money It Is now In order for the banks thus turned down to mandamus the state treasurer to compel him to iena them money on surety bonds, or else they may institute suit on the bond Of the treasurer-either course being open to them.
 In this connection 1t Is interesting to note the changes wrought by the whiri- igig of time. A few months ago when Treasurer-elect George R. Edwards, Jr-' was trying to make his official bond through the security companies they turned him down cold, telling him IL was not on account of any objection to
 
 such a large risk in this state any more. They had been carrying the former treas urer. but declined this one, and he was forced to the necessity of appealing to the legislature to cut the bond In tWalh and permit him to make it among ms friends. which was done. Treasurer Ed wards was the supplicant then-the se- curity companies are now, and it is not believed they will get any sympathy from this state. They black-listed the Mis- sissippi state treasurer and now he is getting even with them And further more, he has the supreme court at his back, that tribunal having declared in deciding the depository law constitu- tional that surety bonds were not worth
  as security for money loaned.
 Several negroes from the wilds of Illi- nos arrived in Jackson today-sorry that they ever left and glad to get back to old Mississippi, where they are never killed by mobs without good and sufficient reasons. They state that it is too hot in and around Springfield for them, and that they have not slept wink in nearly a week The brother of the negro who caused the roting at Springfield was re- ported a day or two since as headed for Mississippi, but his presence is not known of if he has ever arrived. Trainmen re- port a heavy negro passenger business north of Cairo coming this way. The officers of Mississippi will have their weather eye open for these refugees, but they will be safe here so long as they behave themselves and do not try any Smart Alex" business, learned on the other side of the Ohio river.
 Governor Noel has named the follow ing prominent Mississippians as delegates to the Lakes-to-the- Gulf Deep Water ways aSSOclatlOn, WnlCn IS 10 meet aI the Auditorium in Chicago on october for two days session, viz Hon. B. H. Mcfarland, Aberdeen; Hon. A. V. Scott, Rosedale; Hon. F. E. West Holly Springs; Hon. Lee McMillan, Carrolton; Gen. o. L. Mckay, Meridian; Dr. A. F. Crider, Biloxi; Hon. J. D. Barkdull, Natchez; Hon. Pat Henry Vicksburg.
 Governor Noel took a very prominent part in the meeting of this association that was held last year in St. Louis and Memphis, and is deeply impressed with the importance of the movement to se- cure deep water from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
 Jacob Bubb secretary of the Eureka Lumber company at Estabutchie, notifies the railroad commission that he has per- fected and patented a mail bag catcher and deliverer which will he hopes revolu- tionize that branch of the government service, being simple and easy to oper- ate, certain of taking on the mail bags and void of danger to the trainmen and travelling public.
 BEAUTIFUL NEW DRESS.