The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-10-17
Mississippi
News

ulllcEcuCc Will lSUa On LQ0
right side of the ledger. Holmes coun-
~ reports o total personal property
value for 1908 at $2,424 ,591, and that for
1907 at 5 2,404 1856. an increase of &c.,
1876. The polls assessed are 1,02O whites,
to 5,722 negroes. Yalobusha county's
assessment for 1908 reached the total
of 1898 ,597, compared with 1888, 1856 for
1907, leaving a balance to increase of
$9,SOl. The white polls are in the ma
jOrity in this county, the figures being
1898 to 1,497 negroes, an excess of 901.
The Gulf & Ship Island road has re-
sumed the work of improving the road
bed of its main line between jackson
and Hattiesburg, which was abandoned
several months ago on ccoun of the
financial stringency. 1t is the purpose
OF the company to give the roadbed a
new ballast and lay the heaviest steel
rails, also ~elevating the road above the
high water mark at the various small
streams it crosses between jackson and
H~attiesburg.
The treasury of Tate county, one Of
the most prosperous and progressive
counties in the state, is empty, and has
been for some time, the sheriff and
treasurer having had to finance the last
term of circuit court from their own
resources, but it is not through any
fault of the officers, but rather to the
failure of a banking concern in which
the county funds were on deposit.
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
amendment of the constitu-
tion Of the United States.
The construction of a combinations
road and commercial railroad
line from Collins to Ellisville is a part
OF the large enterprise which the Sill
Bros, of New York, have
announced for the development of the
properties which they have &C.
CURED in South Mississippi. The Oko-
tOma Sawmill company is now being
formed to take owe all the properties
and to carry out the plans.
The keynote of the several speeches
delivered by Booker t. Washing Ion
his tour of the state was to ad-
wise members of his race to acquire
property. According to Washington's
dea the negro cannot become a good
until he becomes a property
owner, nor can the race hope to make
much substantial progress SO long as
bank account.
The state board of pharmaceutical ex-
miners met at Jackson for the regular
examinations with a class of seventy
o take the examination along
he lines in practical and theoretical
as designated by law and
equation. The class quite we'll filed
he hall of representatives, where the
Meeting was held, four negroes, OF
7hom one is a woman, being included
q the number.
A movement has been launched to
ecure a pardon for j. B. Slade, the
oted Pike county d~esperado, now
a life term in the penitentiary
Dr. the murder of William Miller.
lade had been on the Rankin farm only
few months when be made his escape.
everal months later he was captured
ear the scene of his crime, but it was
ecessary for, the officers to wound him
efore he would surrender.
The suit filed by the heirs of Miss t
-mber Russell of Anding against the {
and Mississippi Valley railroad, '
IT damages amounting to S35, 900, has
settled out of court, the railroad
,mpany paying Sc, 500. Miss Russell
as n of the victims of the railroad
reck which occurred near Clarksdale ,
st month. 4
There is intense excitement through
1T the community south of Newton.
here A. j. Wall was killed bv a ne =
70 named Shep Jones, and a race war
almost threatened. A negro church "
I'd meeting hall have been burned by "
furiated citizens, who think that l
'all's murderer was shielded by mem
RS of his race and aided to escape. r.
The board of supervisors of Clai- b.
'rne county appropriated 81, 200 for n
e support of q commissioner of agri. NJ
llture for the county. The under P
is that the national govern. j,
emit will appoint the commissioner hi
d add $500 to his salary. ii
A terrific wind and hailstorm swept
Hattiesburg last week. The
ound was covered with hail. Re. N
rts from the adjacent country show
of tho cfOrn uoc oo~R~1l ---