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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
RAILROAD BILL Is PASSED
Missouri House Would Limit Roads
to Transportation.

Jefferson City, Mo.-The Missouri
house passed Speaker Speers' bill pro-
hibiting railroad corporations from en-
gaging in any business other han that
of transportation, under penalty of fine
not to exceed $500 for each %offense, and
that each day the law is violated shall
constitute a separate o%ffense. 1t is held
by persons outside the assembly that
the bill is in conflict with the opinion
handed down by the federal supreme
court in the case of railroads connected
with the anthracite coal business in the
Eastern Pennsylvania district.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
Water Valley Road Chartered.

The organization in due form of law
of the Water Valley Southeastern Rail-
way Company was authorized by procla-
nation of Gov. Noel, the work of or
g~anization to be taken in hand and q
line Of railway to be completed in two
years. The line contemplated will be
about sixty miles, running practically
due southeast from Water Valley to
Eupora, in Webster county, on the line
of the Southern Railway in Mississippi,
cutting d~iagonally across Calhoun
county.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
Federal Court Meets.

The regular term of federal court for
the Jackson division of the Southern
district of Mississippi CONVENED here
Monday morning, with Judge Henry c.
Niles presiding. The most important
case on the docket, from the standpoint
of general interest, is the injunction pro-
ceedings instituted by the various com
mon carriers of the state against the
Mississippi railroad commission, to re-
strain the enforcement of the commits
sion's order promulgating a new rate on
cotton and cotton seed products from
all points at Gulfport.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
Simmons Act Knocked Out.

The knocking out by the Supreme
Court of the Simmons act to relinquish
the title or claim of the State to GER
tain lands which were sold for delin-
quent taxes prior to the abatement of
the opinion handed down by Justice
Mayes in the Winton VS.. Day case does
not seem to nave caused much surprise
among members of the bar who have
studied the law which was attacked be-
fore the court. The action of the court
also goes to sustain the position taken
by the governor in his veto message.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
WHAT Is LEGAL" INTEREST?
Wickersham Has Plan to Make Com
modities Clause Effective.

Washington.-Upon commenting on
the decision of the supreme court in the
commodity clause case, Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham explained that the act
prohibiting railroad companies from
moving in Interstate com
modities in which they have an inter.
est, direct or indirect, could only mean
legal interest, and that the courts
have frequently held that interest in
the stock of a company was not a legal
interest in the property of the company.
This was shown, he said, in the debate
on the bill when it was before congress-.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
West Point Gets College.

West Point, one of the most thorough
going little cities in the United States,
the State College to be built by the
Christian Church followers in Missis-
sippi. In addition to being in the heart
of the healthiest part of the State the
West Pointers offer a 1O-acre lot, in the
center of the town, a building all ready
for use and occupancy, which will ac-
commodate some 200 pupils, which cost
originally $4,000.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
PROMISED $4,000 FOR VOTE
Testimony of Witness in Patrick
Calhoun Bribery Case.

San Francisco.-Andrew NJ. Wilson,
whose failure to testify to certain rec
objections in one of the trials of TREY
L. Ford vas followed by his indictment
on three charges of accepting brides,
was the principal witness in Tuesdays
session of the trial of Patrick Calhoun,
president of the United Railroads.
Wilson told how he sounded the mem
bers of the Schmitz board of supervis-
ors on the proposal to pass the over
head trolley permit, and was promised
$4,000 for his vote. This, he said,
was after conversations with James l..
Gallagher and Abraham Ruef.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
Homecoming for Former Students.

Elaborate preparations are being made
for the homecoming of former students
of the University of Mississippi, to take
place on the campus at Oxford from
May 80 to June 2, inclusive. During the
homecoming period the splendid new
dormitory erected on the campus will
be opened, and it is probable that by
that time plans and specifications for
the new $4,000 library building will
have been completed. Mr.. Andrew Car
negie has made a liberal donation to-
ward the new library, and the remain
der of the expense will be paid from
university funds.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
Assessing Railroad Property.

In a decision rendered by the SUI
preme court in the case of the Y. & M.
V. Railroad VS.. the City of Vicksburg,
it was held that the railroad commission
has sole exclusive right to assess rail-
road property, and that a municipality
cannot exercise the right of assessment
or equalizations, despite the fact that
the municipality is operating under spe-
cial charter.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
FOR HIGHER HOSIERY DUTIES
Counter Petition of Women Present
ed at Washington.

Westinghouse a counter movement
against the monster petition of Chicago
women opposed to a duty on hosiery
and gloves, a committee of ten young
women and five men arrived in Wash
ington Tuesday to present to congress
a petition for a rs per cent. advance
in the present hosiery duties.
The committee was sent here by a
convention of employees in hosiery es-
adjustments held i'll Philadelphia last
week, and claim to represent $4,000 per-
sons.
The mills directly represented are at
Philadelphia, Easton and Reading, Pa,
Lenoir City and Chattanooga, Tenn,
and in Georgia.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
JACKSON.
Fire Losses Show Increase.

Losses incurred by fire insurance CON
panies doing business in Mississippi dur
ing the year 1908 showed a very heavy
increase, according to figures compiled
at the office of Insurance COMMISSIONS
T. M. Henry.
Although the number of companies
operating in the state was considerably
increased during the year, there was
but little increase in the total volume
of business written or renewed, which
was less than $1sO,OOO, 600.
There were IS companies authorized
to do business in the state at the close
of the year, and the recapitulation
showed that they collected premiums on
business written amounting to $780,
26s, against $2,so9,27s.o6 for the year
1907, while the losses incurred amount
ed to $2,s26,202, against losses incurred
in 1907 of $1,505, 1850.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
Privilege Taxes Due.

Tax collectors throughout the state
are serving formal notices that all priv
ilege taxes for the ensuing year are due
and payable during the present month.
1t is expected that within the next six
weeks the state will receive from $780,
900 to $4,000 in revenue from this
source. Privilege license on all forms
Of business are due and payable on the
first day of May, and must be settled
within the month. Collectors have au-
thority to collect double the amount of
the privilege tax from delinquents, but
the enforcement of this penalty is OPP
tional with the collector.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
WILLS COOK $4,000.

Washington, d. C.-Mrs. Annie Van
derlas, who for twenty years had been
a cook in the family of the late Jos. W,
Babcock, former representative from
Wisconsin, is bequeathed $4,000 in his
will. An adopted daughter, Amelia B.
Red, of Sparta, Wis, is given only one
dollar. The bulk of the estate is di-
vided between the widow, a SON and an
adopted son.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
Wants Money for Beauvoir.

Rt. Rev. Theodore DuBose Bratton, of
the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Mis-
sissippi, issues through the press a re-
quest to all the clergy and congregation
of the diocese for a special ofereing for
the building of a chapel at the Soldiers
Home, Beauvoir.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
Gov. Lowry Still Better.

Mississippians are gratiied at the en-
couraging news which comes from the
bedside of ex-Gov. Robert Lowry, in
New Orleans. Adjutant General John
A. Webb, of the Mississippi division, U.
C. ", has just received a letter from
Mrs. William Henry, daughter of Cen
eral Lowry, in which she says that,
while he had an alarming attack with
his heart, there has been no recurrence
of it; that he has rallied and has since
been resting comfortably, so that the
members of the family feel very much
encouraged over his condition.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
Decorate Confederate Graves.

Under the most propitious weather
conditions that could be desired, slightly
chilly, though dry and bright, with the
May sunshine and with the typically
Southern and ethereally blue canopy
overhead, the annual Memorial Day ex-
e~rcises were held here Monday, under
the auspices of the w. ID. Holder chap
ter, United Daughters of the Confeder-
acy. This function was to have been
held last Monday, April 26, which is
recognized generally as Confederate Me-
mortal Day, but was postponed on &C
count of the %unpropitious weather
which obtained that day.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
That Silver Service.


Although the plan for the presenta-
ton of the silver service to the battle
ship Mississippi, at Horn Island, on June
1, as arranged by the commission, pro-
vides a place on the program for the
presentation of two silver candelabra
to the vessel by Mrs. Chalmers Meek
Williamson, State regent of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, the
latter presentation will not take place
at Horn Island. Mrs. Williamson has
accepted an invitation from the Natchez
Chamber of Commerce to have the D..
A. r. presentation take place at Natchez,
while the battleship Mississippi is in
harbor at that place, between May II
and 16. The silver service to be pre-
scented at Horn Island, contract price of
which is $1,000, will be delivered to
Mrs. Eunice Miller, Lockwood, agent of
the commission, at Meridian on the goth
of May.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
DR.. Order Resigns.

The resignation of DR.. Albert F. Cri-
der, state geologist, who has held that
position ever since the creation of the
Mississippi g~eologicai survey. in 1906,
which he has rendered to become efec-
tive June /, next, is received with much
regret by those with whom he has been
associated since the work was started
in Mississippi.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
For Big State Fair.

The idea of Commissioner H. E.
Blakeslee to have county fairs in every
county in the state, where the choicest
products of the county can be shown
during the early fall, the best of these
to be selected for exhibit at the big
state fair a little later, is meeting with
enthusiastic approval.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
Farmers Institutes.

Prof. E. R. Lloyd, under whose direc-
ton and guidance the very successful
system of farmers institutes have been
held during the summer months in the
past, is beginning to work up interest
in the forthcoming series. Prof. Lloyd
gives notice that the Institutes will be-
gin this year about July 10, and that
he Will be glad to cooperate with any
county or community that may be de-
sirous of securing an institute. 1t is
necessary for the parties interested to
notify him sufficiently in advance, in
order that he may arrange the dates.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
President Cannot Attend.

Gov. Noel has received letters from
Fred N. Carpenter, private secretary to
President Taft, Secretary of the Navy
G. Won l.. Meyer and Admiral George
Dewey, all acknowledging the invitations
sent them to be present at the time of
the presentation of the silver service
to the Mississippi as the guests of hon
or of the occasion. Unfortunately for
the fuller success of the occasion, which
would have been the case had either one
of the distinguished officers been able
to accept the invitation and be at Horn
Island on June 1, neither of the trio
will be able to make the journey.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07
WHIP AN EPILECTIc.
Band Of White Cappers in Indiana Com
NIT Outrage.

Sullivan, Ind.-According to informa-
ton given to the grand jury here, a
bond of whitecappers, composed of lead
ing farmers, broke into the home of
Mrs. Eliza Dale and whipped her cpl
iectic son, while he was in bed. An
examination of the back of the victim
in the grand jury room showed UNI
healed wounds. The boy is 20 years
old. The farmers have had trouble with
Dale and a younger brother
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

Congressman Richmond Pearson Hob
son and the party of agronomists who
are touring the Sixth Alabama district
under his chaperonage spent Sunday in
Columbus. Congressman Hobson deliv-
cred an address at the First Baptist
Church on "The Mission of Man and tha
Mission of the Nation"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

All the steel fixtures for Jones coun-
tvs two new $4,000 courthouses nave
arrived. 1t is supposed all the furni.
ture and everything will be in by june
1. The courthouses in Ellisville and
Laurel are among the handsomest in the
state.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

The rural schools of Oktibbeha coun!
ty have just closed the most successful
term in the history of the free school
system of the county. There has been
a better average attendance, less fric-
ton and more enthusiasm among teach
ers and pupils.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

Robert Wade, a young man of Port
Gibson, while engaged in loading a cam
non to be shot in honor of the Confed-
crate Memorial Day ceremonies, was
blown almost literally to pieces by the
accidental discharge of the cannon.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

W~hitecapism in Coahoma county is
the latest and most sensational devel-
opment in that section of the delta, the
existence of an organized band of white
cappers at New Africa, a negro settle
ment about eighteen miles south of
Clarksdale, having come to the knowl-
edge of the officials at this term of
court.
Rev. T. D. Brown, secretary of the
Mississippi Oratorical Association, has
officially advised Canton that the state
intercollegiate oratorical contest would
be held at Canton May IA.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

Henry Mccarthy, news agent on tho
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, is
alleged to have been caught by the
Utica town marshal selling whisky from
the train. Mccarthy was tried before
Mayor Collins and fined $3.50 and sixty
days on the county farm.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

Charles Scoield, secretary for the Mis-
sissippi Western Railroad, the projected
line from Meridian to Natchez, an
nounces that the locating engineers are
at present working in the interior Of
Smith county, and will run the perma-
nent survey into Meridian in less than
three weeks.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

Valley Bank, of Rosedale, declared q
dividend of 200 per cent. on its capital
stock out of the earnings of the past
two years. This bank enjoys the dis
t%inction of having paid it's stockholders
over 1000 per cent. in dividends during
the past eight years.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

The Okolona Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION, organized with an authorized
capital of $4,000. Several new homes
are already projected, and great things
are expected to result from the efforts
of the association to stimulate home
building and improvement.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-05-07

| dozen trains, including four passen-
ger trains. are tied up on either SIDE.
Adele Boas the ~13-year-old daugh-
ter of Arthur e. Boas, is at home Win
her parents, the mystery OF her dlsap-
n~earance having been dispelled and
the case resolves itself into nothing
more than the escapade OF a chlld
with a sudden desire to see the world.
According to a dispatch received
Monday night former Governor Low
rev. of Mississippi, who is i'll In New
Orleans, has suffered a relapse n
if is no believed. he can survive for
many hours.
An unidentified wire Taper was
caught sending results out OF the
grand stand at Lexington, KY. De-
tectiyes stripped him of a pocket key
and wires running down his trousers
legs to heel plates connected with
wires through nails on which he stood.
He was put off the grounds.
Andrew Carnegie has just given
s75 600 to increase the facilities and
extend the Carnegie medical library
at New York University. The labor
atory was established by Mr.. Car
negie twenty-five years ago. The new
gift was accepted.
Owing to the long list OF abuses
which have grown up under the prac-
tice of granting special second class
nartv and labor rates, the executive
committee of the Western Passenger
association in session in Chicago
Wednesday recommended that this
class of transportation be abolished.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-10
Stephen A. Douglass.

The American people are hearing
much of Lincoln these days and they
can not fail to have a deep interest
also in everything pertaining to
Stephen A. Douglas. a man whose
history was linked with that of Lin
coin. Tn an interesting al ticle written
for the New York Evening Post,
Horace White says: douglas was
the cynosure Of all eyes ia the four
years preceding the joint debates. He
was man of herculean powers in
many ways. AS stump orator, sena-
torial debater and party manager he
never had a superior in this country.
Senator Fessenden, describing his
debating powers, said: on may
drop him in the middle of morass,
from which escape seems impossible,
and before your back is turned he
will. have built a corduroy road across
it, and be out again and at you
harder than ever Added to these
gifts he had very attractive per-
Isonality and a wonderful gift for
divining and anticipating the drift Of
public opinion. The one thing lacking
to make him a man mot for an age
but for all time was moral sub
stratum. Although his private life
was unsullied, he had no conception
4
of morals in politics, and this defect
was his undoing as a statesman.
After the campaign of 1860 he SAID
that if he could have had the Charles
ton nomination on the Cincinnati
platform without q split in the demo.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-10

cratic party: he could have carried
every state in the Union except Massa-
chusetts and Vermont. am not
prepared to controvert that claim, but
what gigantic if was involved in
it! His inability to gauge and weigh
the moral principles then confronting
each other, and to see how the house
was divided against itself, as Lincoln
told him it was, brought all his
schemes to wreck and ruin Yet I
have a tender memory for that man.
| heard him deliver the speech ia
Springfield, which saved Illinois from
the fate which befel. Kentucky and
Missouri, that of secession sympathies
and guerrilla warfare. That speech
was beyond comparison the greatest
that ever listened to from anybody.
| can not believe that Demosthenes,
or Mirabeau, or Patrick Henry, or
any orator the world ever saw, could
have surpassed that speech in it's
effect upon the men who heard it. It
did more, far more, than consolidate
the state Of Illinois for the Union. It
consolidated the democratic party of
the north as supporters of Lincoln in
the great struggle that ensned.''
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-10
IHEy'R RE- AFRAID OF JOHNSON
Governors Popularity Prevents
Republican Senator's from Re-
deeming their Pledges.
Measure for Popular Election Of
United States Senators Defeat
ed by Vote of 81 to 26.

Measure for Popular Election OF
United States Senators Defeat
ed by Vote of 81 to 26.
The republican members of the SEN
ate Inundated themselves Friday,
when in the discussion on the McColl
bill, providing for the nomination of
United States senator's by direct vote
Of the people, they allowed their fears
of Gov. Johnson's popularity to pre-
vent them from carrying out their
party's pledges and from doing their
duty to the state.
Instead of considering the measure
purely from the standpoint of its
merits, the majority members insisted
on turning the discussion into a
crusade against the democratic chief
executive.
During the course of the debate,
Mr.. McColl said:
s"The only reason advanced by the
-,
LIN = 49, s,,a,.;a;a r s.;tb nh;aS !. -
1000 rdad - oarta;n nnar tans 1hara
~ A.. 49, ~ os,,.a .e:th -:a.
to benefit any particular Individual.
"The distinguished Individual for
whose benefit this bill is alleged to
have been framed, does not need any
-. I:n 49, ~ --o'
1 ~, 80
- y, " po''
,t1D,
D' . 'noio aOouv WIS oonn a
:, onnn " n.on SUM suon .eiioi ~
VIZ 70 - .neoo nien VII ilAe isicn-
. - sno ~ g oeu' .n use ni'
a1o - = q .en 'no4i on'', -
n pc, =. -. oe"aru ss'iu III rep ''l :
NC iopuoiioan parry mas !" iu"-
Jorley " '"en.y I'VE - el'e SENATE ANU
"oiAlus haJoriey " aoout eisnty IL
.ne TWO oouies. ID splte OF tnls' ana
III spite OF Inc lacs tnat hotnlng snort
u reVolutlon Can possibly make
tnls legislature oemocratlc' IN spl1e OF
the 1act tnat notnlng can prevent the
eiectlQn OF senator Clapp, or some
other good republican IN 1911, yet the
senator comes to US and asks us to
pass a bill which will not only en-
danger the success OF the republican
canoioase Tor United States senator,
but Will result IN giving certain de-
mocrat what is commonly called a
'clnch.
Continuing, Senator Seward gave
Gov. johnson bouquet which any
democratic senator might have been
proud to bestow
Inere IS but Que man 10 the demo-
cratic party that IS OF senatorial call
per. IN the republican party there
are numerous men wnom we woula
oeilght 70 nonof. senator Clapp,
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-10

'How tame Africa will be after
Washington" says the New York
American. You mean how tame Afri-
ca will be after Roosevelt. Cleveland
Plain dealer.
Hartman takes his place as the
chief exponent of non-Euclidian
geometry by the deft way in which he
makes parallel lines meet. York
Post.
The Boston Record suggests that at
s25 plate the New Orleans alligator
banquet to Taft looked much like an
attempt to ssbreak" the Solid South.
Marriage is a woman's duty,
says Harper's weekly. 1T is also a
necessary preliminary to aiimony, =
adds the Washington Post.
| Roosevelt won't change rifles IN
Africa as often as he changed his
secretaries of the navy, remarks the
Cleveland Leader.
Can't somebody make Calebra cut
! in the price of Panama hats2-Mem.
phis Commercial-Appeal.
It is often the case that man
should ask his neighbors to forgive
him, instead of the Lord.
To expect much from legislature
always carries with it its sore .disap.
pointments.
When you bury the Ratchet with
/ some people, mark the grave. -Atchi
son Globe.
4 President Roosevelt will sail from
j New York for Africa on the 23rd o
! March.
It is good to be wise, but wiser to b
j good. Henry F. Cope.