The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-15
RAILROADS MAKE
 ANNUAL REPORTS Mississippi Railroad Revenues
 Show An Increase OLD SOLDIERS NEED ROOM Trustees Ask T. M. Henry to Make Report to Legislature Concerning
 the Affairs of the Old
 Soldiers Home. .
OLD SOL BEERS NEED ROOM

Jackson, Miss, November 14.-(speeial)
 The railroads doing business in Missis-
 sippi have begun to send their annual re-
 ports to the state commission. as re-
 quired by law, and the data thus secured
 is of interest to those who try 10 keep
 track of matters that affect the prosper 1 ity of the state as well as of the great l corporations.
 l According to the report the total oper- ] atng revenues of the Illinois Central in 1 the state of Mississippi was s6,ss3. .4s4. A.
 but there Is not one person in 1000 has any idea just where all this money came from, and many of them would like to know the source of the revenue of the line that splits Mississippi open from the north to the south. The report gives the items of receipts as follows: Freight rev enues s50o6. .s84.o or: passenger revenue, s1.- 4o9,11s.62; excess baggage, s1s,7s6.42: mail l contracts, s1s2. 2S4sS; express, S2o1, ,766 47 milk on passenger trains, 2615s: other passenger receipts, s95S .0S; switching charges, s14146; special service, s7426 47 miscellaneous s110s .25 station charges, Sss66 99; parcel room receipts. $50. .o5; freight storage, sss7s.so; baggage storage, s229 10; car service, ssass; rents, s41s. miscellaneous, s1S2654.
 The expense account for the same time is charged with the following: Mainten- ance. ways and structure, sSos 3S4.s7; equipment, s1,4S7 9s1.29 traffic, s176 2S1.21 {;
 transportation, s1,sSo,O52.7S; general ex- 1 pense, SIP, 1892. This gives the total ex penses of the operation of the Illinois Central in the state of Mississippi as s4 s525, 6S3.47, while for the entire line the expenses were $15, ,435, ,095.0S. The revenues for the entire line during the same period were $21, ,619, ,659.05, so that the Illinois Cen tral made about s2O00,OOO in the state of Mississippi, as against about S60O0,0oo for the balance of the country, and shows its business in this state more remunerative than in any other of the several states through which 1t operates, on the aver age.
 The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley rail- road reports total revenues in Mississippi as ST 446, 262 l6, on expense of $5, 798 S4S. .25 while the revenues for its entire line were S9,67O, 343.05.
 The Natchez and Southern shows total revenues of $3s, ,S91.96; expenditures of s24- s10.S6.
 The Mississippi Eastern shows total revenues of $6S, 445.25, while the expenses are given as $46, ,55277
 Tn Southern Expres company shows to- tai revenues in Mississippi of $SS, ,5S0. 70; 1 exuenses, $40,02441, so that 1t lost some thing more than 5000 on it's business in TT has returned from Beauvdir and the Old Soldiers Home. where he went the first of the week at the invitation of the trustees of the institution MT. Henry is no longer connected with the home in an official capacity, but he has it's in- terests very much at heart, and the trus- tees desired that he should do as he has heretofore, and make up the report to the legislature-that is. some of the fea- lures of the report with which, after several years as secretary, he is more familiar than are others, and he agreed to do the work.
 Asked as to the condition of the home now, MT. Henry stated that everything is moving along nicely that the 140 in- mates are as happy and contented as pos sible for them to be and that the af- fairs of the great institution are in good shape in every respect. save that there is not sufficient room for the accom- modation of all the veterans and the wives of veterans who desire admission.
 The board of trustees will call on the legislature for at least four new and ad- ditional cottages, accommodating about 20 veterans each. The present capacity is 140 and all places are filled. There are 50 or 60 applications for admission to the home on file with the secretary and there is no place to put them until the legislature has made an appropriation for the new dormitories. With these new dormitores the state will be able to take care of about 200 at the soldiers home, and it Is not believed the demand will ever be greater than this. Those on hand are growing older and more fee ble as the years roll around. and as they droy off others will take their places, thus keeping the big family up to the limit of the accommodations provided by the state until such time as the departures exceed the arrivals.
 Judge Niles has determined that Mrs Mamie DePriest Sivley Is a citizen of an- other state, Tennessee, and that his court has jurisdiction in the suit of the form CT attorneys of Mrs. sivley for the fee they allege she owes them, and the trial will be had in that tribunal.
 In this case the defendant, Mrs. Mamie Sivley, answers the bills of injunction filed by her former attorneys against her, with petition to remove the contro- versy from the chancery court Of Hinds county to the federal court, on the ground that it was a suit against her, a non resident, and the controversy was a sep arabic one.
 Chancellor Lyell overruled this applica- ton, but the attorneys for defendant, Mrs Sivley, Jr., brought the case into the federal court, notwithstanding, and a mo- ton was made by Flowers Mayes and
 Winfield, Mrs. Sivley's former attorneys, to dismiss her petition for removaI&and remand the case.
 Judge Niles heard the motion today and overruled the contention and the motion | of Messrs. Flowers, Mays & Whitfield in 1 the case, and the question of the indebt- 1 edness of Mrs. Sivley. Jr., to them for
 fee of s15,000, which was one-half of the verdict of the Newton county jury, | will be ultimately heard by Judge Niles | of the federal court.
 l Judge Niles of the federal court has 1 taken the big railroad injunction suit case | under advisement, and has informed the | attorneys engaged in the litigation that l he will deliver his decision from his home l at Kosciusko. The attorney general and l others representing the state in this very 1 important and interesting controversy are confident that the decision will be in their l favor, but those who appeared for the several railroads are equally as hopeful, | and there is nothing on which to base . "tin" as to the decision
 The case is one of the most important | in the history of the state, involving as it l does the right of the railroad commissiou 1 of the state to fix rates on Mississippi