The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-18
LIVELY CONTESTS
 IN MISSISSIPPI. Congressional Primaries VIII
 Soon Be Settled
CANDIDATES ARE ACTIVE
Mir. Bowers Has Secured Large Appro. priations For His Dlstrlct-Mc- Lain Is Not a Candidate
 For Reelection.

During the very spirited campaign for district, 1t has been developed that D. J. Bowers, the present incumbent has not been idle when 1t came to securing appropriations for his people, and es- pecially for the improvement of the harbors and the big rivers that flow into the gulf. The sum total of these appropriations is something like $600- 900 since 1905, and to that is to be added $125,o00 for dredge to be used in the harbors of Gulfport and Pasca- gould.
 During the same time Mir Bowers has also secured s237,5OO for public buildings at Gulfport, Hattiesburg and Laurel. and during the last session was directly responsible for the quick re- lief for the storm sufferers in the southern states, securing s250,0OO to be used in Mississippi. Louisiana. Ala bama and Georgia, and the most of which went to his own state.
 The congressional primaries will all be over in two more weeks. and the liveliest contests experienced in Missis sippi in several years will have ended Two years ago there was opposition in but one or two of the districts, and all of the old congressman were re- turned, but it will hardly be the case this year. In the Seventh district MT. McLain is not a candidate for re-elec- tion, having promised not to run again if elected two years ago, and the chances are that his successor will be Jesse Webb of Pike county, though he has three opponents.
 In the Eighth, John Sharp Williams district there will also be a change, MT. Williams having declined to offer because wanting a rest before enter ing upon the duties of senator. The campaign in this district, the Eighth, is the liveliest in the state, there being six candidates, and all men of more or less ability and some personal fol- lowing. There will be a second pri- mary, as matter of course, and the consensus of opinion here Is that R. H. Henry of Jackson, and J. D. Thames of Vicksbufg, will be in the second race.
 In the other districts the chances are that the present incumbents will be renominated.
 The state depository commission, con- sisting of Governor Noel, Attorney Gen eral Fletcher and Treasurer Edwards, held meeting yesterday afternoon at I which time they went over and ex- amined the balance of the securities | selected a few weeks ago as state de- ] positories. Among the securities listed were United States bonds, state, mu- nicipal, levee and other bonds, and 1 last, but not least, the surety bonds of the security companies which have l been black listed by the state treasurer
 The bonds thus deposited as collat- 1 eral for loans of the states money were l all approved by the three members of 1 the depository commission, and tn c banks that have sent up such bonds are now in position to get their money 1 The security bonds were approved by Governor Noel and Attorney Gen eral Fletcher, but Treasurer Edwards declined to sign for them, and suef l banks as persisted In sending such | securities get no money-unless they | mandamus the treasurer and the su. preme court says positively that he must accept such security bonds al collateral.
 It is stated that there are three ol four banks that will insist they have the right to the use of some of tht states money on their deposit of sure | ty bonds, in spite of the refusal of tn treasurer. The Bank of Gulfport. o1 | which Col. Jones of the Gulf and ShiJ 1 Island railroad Is president, one of tht banks at Lexington, the home of tn. | governor, and one, and possibly two | oth CTS, have served notice that the, l will mandamus the state treasurer t, 1 compel him to let tn em have loans or surety bonds.
 On Monday next the commissions vii be sent to those banks selected as stat, Repositories, and in few days the, | will be in position to get money iron the state. The bonds accepted by tn, state treasurer as good and sufficien
 security for loans amount to three o four times the amount of money nov in the state treasury.
 Sam Walton, a young white man married, was lot and killed a fev nights since at negro church festiva in Tallahatchie county In compan, with two or three kindred spirits h had gone to the festival, was drunk or drinking, and raised a rough house when he was shot and killed in til, fracas that followed. Walton will ge
 no sympathy, the sentiment of tn, great majority of the white people O
 the state being that the white mar who attends negro festival should b, | killed
 The first bale of new cotton has mad
 it's appearance in several Mississippi
 towns, and was received with opel arms and general rejoicing, mark ing a
 it does the beginning of the busy an, the money season in the state A Port Gibson the first bale was accom- panied to town by brass band, an, the occasion was made great one. I was 10 days earlier than last season but was raised by the same farmer E ! H. Ikerd. It weighed 45S pounds classed a good middling and sold fo 12R cents per pound, or s5724 for tn bale, in addition to which there wer l special premiums offered and wh icl | amounted to several dollars more. Messrs. Wall & Carnell, promoters o the railroad from Meridian to Menden hall, through one of the finest pin regions in the state, have been in Jack son the past week conferrIng with ex Governor Longino, their attorney, a to the charter after which U ov re turned to Mendenhall for a conferenc with the citizens as to rights of way etc., on which they inform the peopl along the proposed route that tn ey vii begin cutting out the right of way |
 30 days.
 The refusal of State Treasurer Georg R. Edwards, Jr., to accept surety pono