The Tupelo journal., 1908-05-29
WississipM
Nrws

CHAbSu oldlcS eupreule court
rendered a decree affirming the position
OF the state of Mississippi in what is
termed the "Pontotoc case" The
highest court OF the land decides that
the decree of Chancellor Robbins d.
recting that the Mobile, Jackson and
Kansas City Railroad Company and the
Gulf and Chicago Railroad Company
should proceed to standardize and put
in order for regular traffic the line of
road running from the north toward
and to the east of the town of Pontotoc,
and connect with the depot built some
years ago is sound and within the law,
and therefore will stand. This puts an
end to litigation begun in 1904, when
the citizens Of Pontotoc filed a bill in
~chancery to compel the Gulf and Chi
cago railroad company to abandon the
new line, which had been built 10 run
around the town proper to the west
ward, and use the depot at the site Sc
lected by the railroad commission.
DSputy LAC i dila ~. LII
Thomas arrested the noted outlaw, NJ.
McMullen, sixteen miles from McCool,
who stood off with Spencer rifle Deputy
Marshal Thomas near McCool on May
8. Deputy Marshal Warren came upon
McMullen and commanded him to sur
render. McMullen, armed with a
bree~ch-loading shotgun, pistol and
knife, ran behind tree and deied the
officers t proceed, but after several
shots were exchanged he was forced to
surrender. McMullen is wanted at
Oxford, before the United States court
and at Aberdeen for retailing and re-
sisting arrest.
The state board of health has in
structed its secretary to Immediately
communicate with the county health
officers and obtain from them lists of
all physicians who are practicing in
their respective counties. These lists
will be compared with the records of
the board of health, and the names of
physicians who are practicing without
license will be sent to the district attor-
neys with instructions to have indict-
ments brought in each case.
Secretary L. H. Wilkinson, Jr., OF
Ind -anola, reports a busy time since the
meeting of the Mississippi board of
pharmaceutical examiners in April. He
is kept busy answering communications
flowing into his Office and compiling
a list of the unlicensed druggists of
Mississippi. He is much gratified at
the way the good citizen are rallying to
the assistance of the board and bring
ing before hat body the names of all
parties who are violating the drug laws.
Attorney General Fletcher having
been requested by the board of super
visors of Lee county to give his opinion
relative to the right of the county to
pay a banking institution at Tupelo ex-
change IN the county pension fund,
amounting to SO 1900, the a~ttorney-gen-
eral holds that there is no authority to
allow a bill of this character, and the
county has no legal right to pay it.
The commencement exercises of the
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechan-
ical college at Starkville will begin
Saturday morning, May 30. Monday,
June /, is alumni day. Graduation ex-
ercises Tuesday, June 2, and the bacca-
laureate address by Hon. Chas. Scott.
A meeting will be held at Lexington
June 2 for the purpose of forming a
drainage district and turning many
thousand acres of land now inundated
by Black creek, and practically useless,
into valuable farming land.
AT a revival meeting held at Corinth
by Rev. o. L. Savage of Iuka n hum
dred sinners were converted.
Bonneville has just experienced one
of the greatest revivals in the history
of the town. Great crowds attended
day and night. There were about one
hundred accessions to the different
churches.
There are 1850 educable children in
Warren county, an increase of about
500 the past year. The personal as
sessment of the county amounts to
So, 2S2,220, and increase of 500, 900.
The Cumberland Telephone and Tel
egraph company is having trouble with
the citizens of Laurel, and the railroad
commission has been called upon to ar
bitrate the controversy.
The Daily Picayune of New Orleans
has donated three thousand portraits
of Jefferson Davis, which are to be
given to as many schools in the state of
Mississippi.
The Oktibbeha county fair will be
held at Starkville Oct. 6, I and s, and
the officers are determined to make it
the greatest in the history of the asso-
citation.
The so-called era of financial depres.
sion has apparently had no effect on