The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-25
RACE FUR CONGRESS
 GETTING LIVELY Several Primaries Are to Be
 Held In Mississippi SIX MEN AFTER ONE PLACE There Are Plenty of Aspirants for the Shoes of John Sharp Williams
 and All of Them Are
 Fairly Able Men.
SIX MEN AFTER ONE PLACE

Jackson. Miss, August s4-(Special)- Congressional primaries are to be held in the four remaining districts of Mis- sisslppi this week. and after which there will be run-overs in two districts for certain and perhaps in three, where there have been more than two candidates.
 The primary in the Fourth district. that now represented by ". s. Hill of Montgomery, takes place tomorrow, Monday. and T U. slsson of Montgomery and O. F. Bledsoe of Grenada are those opposing Mr. Hill. The district has ex- perienoed very lively campaign and there has been a good deal of mud-sling- Ing at MT. Hill. but 1t is confidently be- lieved here that he Is going to win out over both his opponents.
 On Tuesday there will be primaries In the Fifth and Eighth districts. In the Fifth Adam Byrd, present incumbent, Is opposed by MT. E. J. Currie of Kem- per county. It is believed here MT. Byrd Is sure winner, though his opponent Is recognized as a strong man.
 In the Eighth district, John Sharp Will Hams baliwick, there is no present in- cumbent in the race, but six aspirants are after his shoes. They are R. H. Henry of Hinds editor of the Clarion Ledger; Dr. Frank Hallam, lawyer of Hinds; J. D. Thames and J. W. Collier. lawyers of Vicksburg; J. W. George, lawyer of Yazoo City; Pat Henry, lawyer of Rankin. Thames is district attorney for the Vicksburg circuit; Collier is chancery clerk of Warren county; George is son of the late Senator J. E. George and served Yazoo in the legislature a few years ago; Pat Henry served two years in Congress 10 or 12 years ago; Hallam was until few years since a prominent Episcopal minister. These gen. tlemen have made a very thorough can vass of the district, speaking at every crossroads store and school house, as well as in the towns. It is impossible to tell who Is the strongest, but 1t is believed here that Henry of Hinds will show up with the largest vote on the first primary.
 In the Seventh district there are four candidates-Webb and Simmons of Pike; iOiChSOIl Ol " 0HclIOu OI 1hlCOifl all lawyers but Dickson, who is a farmer. The Seventh Is McLain's dis trict, but he Is not a candidate. The primary will be held next Saturday, and the indications are of victory for Webb. He has served the counties of that dis trict as prosecuting attorney two or three terms and has a strong following, but hor Nv fo i,, fha a-- primary.
 Inequalities in the matter of assess. ments has long been a thorn in the side of the political economists of this state, and will continue, it seems, till some other plan of fixing values than on the oath of the owner, is put in practice Today the personality assessment rolls of one of the rich delta counties Issa- quena and of Winston, one of the poor hill counties, were received at the office of the state auditor. Issaquena is very decidedly black county, having only 17l white poll tax payers to 2331 negroes while Winston Is a white county with 1866 whites to 1237 blacks.
 The total valuation of the persona property in Winston Is given as s7sS,S while that of Issaquena is $4O6910. Winston gives in 111S head of cattle to 46O in Isaquena, but the Issaquens cattle are valued at about s11 per head while the Winston cattle are valued al less than s7.
 The same ratio holds as to hogs, those over the exemption of 10 head to the family in Winston being given at 421 valued at s134 or about 25 cents per hog Issaquena has only 32 hogs more thar those exempt, but they are valued at only $S4 less than are Winston's 421 hogs-ol about s each
 The capital employed in merchandise in Winston county Is 17,35Q-in Issa quena 1t is $6OS35. Capital employed ir manufacturing is s47,5OO in Winston; ir 1 Issaquena it is 80, 400.
 When it comes down to cash Winston l is far in the lead-in fact the citizens of Issaquena, largely negroes, prove true | to their reputation as shiftess set Int assessor finds In Winston. money on hand $12,7OO in Issaquena $2o0 In Winston 1 money on deposit is given at S3O,117, 1T l Issaquena none. Here is a delta county the lands of which are said to be tho richest on earth, rivaling in fertility those of the famed valley of the Nile making a bale of cotton to the acre and with a population of 172 whites ant 233l blacks has only s2o0 in cash--on hand deposited or loaned. Winston, poor as hel soil may be, Is in far better shape thar the rich delta county of Issaquena- l
 One of the very strongest evidences of the revival of industry and the re sumption of business in the state of Mis- sissppi is found in the fact that great many of the sawmills that hav' 1 been closed down the past several months have started up again and the railroads centering at Jackson have begun to han dle almost as many carloads of lumbe per day as ever. Yet another evidence is found in the rebuilding of one or tw' of the biggest mills ever estab lished in the state, and which hay
 been burned down during the past year The latest to make this announcement is the Kola Lumber company, which ha' an immense plant at Kola, a station ol the Gulf and Ship Island railroad a fey miles north of Hattiesburg
 The railroads of this section are ad vertising for more men, anticipating
 heavy business at an early date, or els wishing to hasten copstruction work. Tn New Orleans Great Northern wants 90 men at Bogalusa, and the Illinois Centra asks that 50 report at once to their shop
 at McComb City. The latter road wi
 repair every piece of rolling stock possibl and continue to build fiat cars as rapidl
 as possible.
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 Thompson Habeas Corpus.
 At 10 o'clock this morning habeas COT