The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-09
NEW RAILROAD FOR
 TIMBER DISTRICT PaScagoula Northern Charter Is
 Matter of'Recerd MUCH INTEREST IS TAKEN Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Rail- road Is Again in Litigation
 Over Route Into the
 City of Decatur.
MUCH INTEREST IS TAKEN

'oOhsoh, MisS., July o.-lSpeclal. )-On1- cial notice of the organization of the Pas cagoula Northern Railroad company has been filed with the secretary of state, and is now a matter of record This road is chartered to cover the distance between Scranton or Pascagoua and Me ridian, penetrating a fine timber and farming region of the state and opening up thrifty section to the business world.
 The officers elected are Henry Hall, president; Wyatt H. Ingram, Jr., secre- tary; J. W. Griffin, treasurer The board of directors are E. R. Du Mont, W. T. Jay, Henry Ball. N. McInnis, J. w. Griffin, A. s. Denny and Wyatt H. Ingram, Jr.
 Never before in the history of Missis- sippi perhaps, was so much interest be- ing taken in the location of new lines of railroad, and there Is a prospect that several of them will be built in the very near future. The "Piney Woods" re- zion of the state is being honeycombed with railroads just as Is the western border along the Mississippi river. The first Is after the lumber business that is being furnished by the scores of mon- Slcf SdWliiilS Ot pat oi thc btotCf the second is largely engaged in haul ing cotton from off the richest farms in the world. A great future awaits both sections of Mississippi.
 Demurrers having been filed in the case of the state versus the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad company, Judge Brame, special chancellor to hear the case by agreement with counsel on both sides, and heard here because of the convenience of the parties at interest instead of In Newton county by Chan cellor Whitman, further time has been granted in order that the attorneys may furnish additional references.
 This Is case wherein the railroad com mission ordered the railroad company to run its main line into the town of De- catur instead of using a three-mile spur track. as now. The railroad declined to do so, and the attorney general was author ized to institute suit to compel the en- forcement of the order of the commission. To this the railroad company demurred. and the authority of the Mississippi rail- road commission will once more be tested In the courts.
 It may be that the citizens of Decatur slept on their rights, or that they agreed to submit to the use of spur track when sist that no railroad can build within three miles of a county site without go- ing into the town.
 Quite delegation of citizens of Silver
 
 today to see the governor and enter a sol emn protest agains tthe pardon of Dr.. Kirby. a practicing physician of that county who was convicted at recent term of the circuit court of selling liquors. Dr. Kirby's defense is that he supposed he had a right to sell his own whisky on his own prescription, and that he pre- scribed the stuff to his patients as medi- cine and did not sell 1t to them as a beverage.
 A petition for the pardon of the doctor was filed with the governor some time since, and since that time the counter petitions have been arriving by very fre- quent mails.
 Governor Noel has not intimated what he Is going to do about the matter but before he takes any action one way or the other he will post himself as to the facts in the case by a careful perusal of the record of the court and if 1t appears to his satisfaction that Dr. Kirby was sell ing booze as booze, the chances are that he will have to take the medicine prescribed by the court.
 The local agent of the Alabama and viclSsburg and the Southern Railway has been notified of a reduction of 15 cents per ton on coal shipped to this section from the coal fields of Alabama. and 1t is believed by coal dealers here that this means a rate war with the Illinois Central which brings coal from the Illinois and Kentucky mines, and that rates will be still further reduced.
 Even with a 15-cent per ton reduction coal rates are still burdensome. the freight charges being more than the price of the coal at the mines-or s1. 45 per ton. whereas they have heretofore been N 60.
 Substitution.