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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02
A HORRIBLE CRIME.

Last Sunday afternoon at Pearl Ha
ven, suburb of Brookhaven, Miss,
r. e. Woodall, white man, aged
about 35 years, with wife and child,
attempted to rape a little white girl
aged II. In company with girl com
panion the victim was passing
through the lumber yard of the Pearl
Haven Lumber Co., when the scrounr
drel sprang from behind pile of lun.
Der, seized the child and attempted
the whist crime known to people of
Anglo-Saxon blood. Her screaming
companion quickly fled to her home
and gave the alarm.
The girl soon followed, but in a
terrible mental and physical condition
The culprit was caught, identified
and speedily confined in jail, being
guarded by the local military COM
pany, under orders from the sheriff
to protect him at all hazards. Cover
nor Noel rushed the Jackson company
there and in a few hours, the pris
oner was placed aboard north bound
train and carried to Jackson for safe
keeping.
The mob had no leader, or Woodall
would have been lynched and had
such justice been melted out to him,
no one would have said he received
anything but merited punishment.
Under the law of the State an
attempt is not punishable with death
as should be the penalty and it re-
mains to be seen whether the hot
blooded Lincolnites can be control
led when the brute is carried back foI
trial. -.
The next term of court does not
convene in that county until Novem-
Der and special term should be
held to try Woodall. 1t will require
Grace from above to hold the crowd
in check when the trial comes off,
but it is to be hoped that a special
message to the next legislature will
be sent in to give that body the
right to make attempt to rape a hang
ing offense, and, should it not do SO,
then the people will do the right thing
to lynch such beasts in humans form.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02
TO OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOM

We have concluded to continue ouI
Cotton Factorage business as usual,
and as the opening of another. sea-
SON approaches, we desire to remind
our friends that we are now, as we
have been in the past, prepared to
handle all cotton consigned to us.
Vicksburg has quite reputation as
cotton market, especially for Ben
der cottons, and is unsurpassed as a
Long Staple market. We believe i'm
good prices for this crop, and shall
use every effort to obtain the high
esE market values. Our Mr.. c. O.
Willis will give his strict personal
attention to the selling of the cotton,
and we will endeavor to give every
one entire satisfaction.
Yours very truly,
WILLIS MOORE co.
yicksburg, Miss.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02
NO RACE SUICIDE IN ITTAWAM-
BA COUNTY.

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Sails, Of It.
tawamba county, will never be
charged with race suicide. -Four or
five years ago the stork made its
first visit to this couples home and
left pair of boys. A year or two
later the famous bird made another
trip to that home and left three
boys. This was an unusual record,
but the chagrin of the father may
be imagined whenb few weeks
since, his wife presented him with
four bouncing boys at one time, and
all healthy robust youngsters. With
this sort of a beginning, there Is no
telling what is in store for the fu-
ture, especially If at each visit OF
the stork there il to be an increase
of one.-Carrollton Conservative.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02
KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE.

The subject of good roads has
been more or less agitated i'm Miss
issippi for several years, and more
this year than common.
In some counties the boards of SUI
pervisors have made experiments wit
different kinds of road material, and
the result has been, as a rule, high
ly gratifying.
The only way to secure good roads
is to keep everlastingly at it," and
this the Dispatch intends to do, not
only for the benefit of Lauderdale
county, but for the benefit of the
state at large.
The time has come when good
roads are a necessity.
Of course it lis impossible to inn
prove all the public highways in
one or even five years, but the work
should begin all over the state.
In this county and in many others
the roads have been somewhat bet
ter under the contract system and
by working the county prisoners ON
other parts of the roads.
But a well defined system must
lie adopted before the counties OF
the state will really have good roads
at all seasons of the year.
The main arteries, the thorough
fares leading to the county seats,
must first receive attention. 1t
will be impossible to build all the
roads at one time. One of the most
travelled thoroughfares should first
be taken, and then let the next fol-
low.
This lis the only plan by which the
work can be done.
1t will take money to do it, but
the value of county lands will be en-
HANGED to a value far beyond the
cost
Them the conveniences, the say
ing of time and teams, is a matter
OF great Importance. This alone
would be worth the price. 1t wdll
make travel easy.
More than this. the. day is coming
when the United States government
is going to require good roads for
rural free delivery, without which
the rural sections cannot well afford
to do, and the people had as we'll gel
ready for this now as later.
The state press is vofcing the sem
timents of the people and the de
mand for good roads is growing al
the time. Let the good work 90 on
until Mississippi lis noted for her
good roads. Meridian Dispatch.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

L. NJ McLaurin to ]. r. Col
lins-12O acres, section 8,
township 5, range 4, :. :. $4,000
J. Monroe Palmer to Alex
Pritchard-4O acres, sec. %,
township 5, range 5,.... 100000
Frank Roell, ct al, to Joseph
Reading--40 acres, section 20;
township 5, range 2, ;. ). $35O.OO
R. L. Aills, ct al, to Mrs. E. A.
Stubbs, certain lands for and
other considerations. ;. $1.00
Carl Stingily, ct al, to John Win
dom-lot i'm Pelahatchie, per-
fecting title, :. =. :. $1.00
Matte Window to w w Co
forth-lot in Pelahatchie. :. $4,000
Sumpter Durr to James DUR
lot in Pelahatchie. :. !. $4,000
w. w. Goforth to M. l. Goforth
2 acre lot in Pelahatchits 1925. 90
A. M. and ]. w. Cross to Green
Bay Lumber Company.,-3O
acres, section 30, township 3,
range 4, :. $3.50. :. :. :. $425.00
r. L. Aills, ct al, to VIM. Aills-
certain lands for and other con-
siderations, :. :. :. :. =. $1.00
VIM. Aills to ]. W. Byrd-18
acres, section 80, township 4,
range 2 east. :. $4,000
VIM. Aills to w. L. Martin-lot
in Florence. :. :. :. $4,000
]. B. ,ISingletary and wife to E.
M. Odom-60 acres, section 10,
township 8, range 2 east, :. $4,000
j. L. Kersh and wife to c. A.
Warren-75 acres, see. rs,
township 8, range 5, :. :. $650.00
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

A negro doctor CD who, practiced
''hoodooism" was fined $285.00 and
60 days in Clarksdale city court for
mulching black victims, and Judge
Bullard, in Scott county, gave some
white physicians heavy fines for
practicing without license. Amy pro
fessional man who is not legally Ii
censed should be given stiff doses OF
working hours on county roads, fer,
as a rule, they are not competent,
for anything else.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Ed Strickland, 20 years OF age,
several Of which had been spent in
jails, broke out of the Lauderdale
county bastile last week, and upon
being overtaken by an arresting pos
see, fired upon it with shot gum,
and was riddled by the men who
sought his recapture near Marion
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

A st. Louis clergyman proposes
family suffrage, giving the father an
additional vote for every boy and the
mother an extra ballot for each daugh-
ter. Should the suggestion be adop-
ted, Oh! you, who do not believe in
Rooseveltianism where would you be
on election day?
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Bacon, Bread and Butter is a
mighty good motto for the southern
farmer for should he make too much
of it for ready cash sale, (Which is
hardly possible) he can consume
enough of it to be so fat he will not
need much clothes, or fuel, and live
well.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

DIR. Frederick A. Cook, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, has wired from L4edwick, Shet-
land Islands, stating that he discov-
cred the North Pole ON April 21, 1908.
If it takes the time since then to
reach. a telegraph station hiatt pole
will never knock the persimmon off
even a summer resort tree.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

A cloud burst resulted in the loss
of 1,40O lives, $4,000 rendered home
less, and property destroyed valued
all the way from $12,000,000 to $780,
0OO 900 at Monterey, Mexico, Satur-
day and Sunday.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

The Natchez News is a new candi-
date for patronage in the daily field
and editorially and geographically it
is deserving for liberal support, which
the Brandon News hopes it will re-
ceiTe.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Mrs. Partington was trying to sweep
back the Atlantic with broom. Don't
discourage her." begged her husband:
1T abstracts her attention from the
house. Thus we learn even the Inn
possible has It's uses.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

But three days elapse between the
time the salmon leaves the Pacific
ocean to ascend the Washington riv-
ers and the time that 1t is neatly
canned, ready for shipment.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

around Meadville to enforce the law.
What Is needed is a permanent garri-
son with a Calling and instructions
to sweep the streets If any private
shooting starts again.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Senator Scott, of West Virgin
ia, says he fayors the improvement
of the Mississippi. Had the Sena-
tor left out the. "THE" and said
Mississippi he would have been
called out, sub, for the insultin'
inference, sub!
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Now that floods are receding from
Monterey, we may take stock of the
awful damage wrought by the high
water. Conservative estimates place
the number of dead at no less than
1000, and while the money and prop
erty losses will probably reach $780,
900, 900.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02
WANTED.

A man to look after the furnace
and do other chores at the SANTA
rum during fall and winter.
J. T. B. BERRY.
Brandon, Miss.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

The Roosevelt referee board has
arrived i'm Denver to uphold it's con-
tention that benzoate of soda is not
harmful. They might also let long
suffering public know whether the
constitution follows the flag or the
constitution follows the jag.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02
W. S. MAY, Editor.

With taxes sufficiently high to rid
the State. of worthless dogs, sheep
raising would be profitable, and with
good roads to travel over to market
the farmers life would be more pleas
ant.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Of the country there's fine young
war progressing down there over the
Presidential election. It's time we
heard from Central America oz the
war question.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

dozen that he excerpts from the gem
eral indictment. And no mans ia
vorites are another mans.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

The distribution of hot springs in
the United States comedies very close
ly with that of the mountain uplifts.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Washington wires indicate that
the insurgents in the n9tional house
are whettiGg their knives for Uncle
Joe Cannon. When it comes to a
case of a knife against cannon.
we rather think the cannon will have
the best of it, however.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Spanish cables state that five
thousand are in prison as a result
of Spain's near-revolution. If this
rate of arrests keeps up there will
soon be not enough people to act
as jailers over there.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02
NEWS NOTES.

Paulham, a French aviator, remain
ed up i'm the air nearly three hours
at Rheims. We know certain persons
In this country who frequently stay
up all night and who are always up
in the air.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

eral Indictment. And no man S Ia
vorites are another mans.
Senator Scott, of West Virgin
ia, says he fayors the Improvement
of the Mississippi. Had the Sena-
tor left out the. "THE" and said
Mississippi, he would have been
called out, sub, for the insultin'
inference, sub!
Mrs. Julia Soldier, of Bayonne,
N. j., declares that women will sur
round legislatures with gums in their
fair hands and will get suffrage or
shoot the legislators Here's hoping
some legislators we know don't let
'em vote.
Tom Jones, Hammond, La, ne
gro, has at last been jailed. Tom
went too far You may rob the peo-
pie of ordinary goods, but you cam
not insult them by stealing things
to which deep sentiment attaches.
Tom got away with variety of 9TH
er peoples property; he even stole
a wagon. But when he pilfered
dog, the end came. Tom is i'm jail
and the authorities are taking no
to prevent lynching.
In telling the public that a new
evening daily, the News, is now doing
business at Natchez, the correspond
ent adds that 1T Will be democratic.
1t is this criminal waste of time and
space against which we must protest
The cotton rate schedule comes
UP before the railroad commission
September Z. Commissioner Lee lis
already clearing details out of the
way to leave an OPEN field for the
biggest fight of the season.
The Vicksburg delegation inspected
the streets of Atlanta and the roads
of Fulton county, Georgia. The ma
ture of the subsequent festivities is
not stated in the dispatches
And now we are confidently mn
formed that there is no danger OF a
civil war in Mexico. WE'LL Mead
vile is still ON the map-nOt so still,
either.
A crowd of good natured southern
ers at the Seattle fair got away with
a lot of free advertising for Dixie
on Tuesday.
The Newman Pritchard feud may
hurt the. merchandising business of
MeadvilIe, but it has certainly given
a boom to the Natchez sanitariums.
'Tis an ill wind that blows no good.
Speaking of gambling to the grand
jury at Forest, Judge Billiard said,
'gentlemen's poker games" should
be raided the same as negro zap
games. What sort of law is this?
Is the judge crazy? The rise OF the
radical idea of law enforcement
threatens our most sacred fnstitu-
tions.
T. s. Thigpen, a negro barber,
graduate from Tnskegee, and an in
fluential Hattiesburg black, was con-
victed as sightless feline. As Al
ALBANIA has Just dried UP, Booker t.
had better be careful about his
alumni
Benzoate of soda, that refreshing
ingredient of pumpkin catsup, has
had the stigma removed from its
name. AS the chances are that most
of us would have had to go on eat
ing it anyhow, we are glad it's all
right.
H. o. Jeffries, of Panama, who
killed Editor Nichols for publica-
ton OF what was claimed to be COM
mon knowledge, cannot be given the
death penalty, under the Panama
laws. If he has plenty of money he
will probably be convicted. however,
and may have 10 go ON a trip to Eu-
rope to avoid tiresome questions by
his friends.
President Taft is going to take
up the adjustment OF the money sys-
tenn. Step this way, please, Mr..
President
According to private cables flashed
up from Costa RIGA to different parts
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

0VttsuSssIsFT GItU SSS~Ia EtaBU 90 gus
'T'n bet that young girls parents
keep three hired girls and a cook.
What makes you think SOL" "She
says she just loves Homework and
could live in the kitchen. Detroit
Free Press.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Mrs. Julia Soldier, of Bayonne,
N. j., declares that women will sur
round legislatures with gums in their
fair hands and will get suffrage or
shoot the legislators. Here's hoping
some legislators we know don't let
'em vote.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Now that Roosevelt is no longer on
the job to shake up things in Pana-
ma, nature steps into the breach and
jars the canal workers with a lusty
young earthquake.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Wednesday the stock market open
ed weak. If we had been rugged,
drugged, cross-cut and double-cross-
ed as much as the stock market, we
would be too weak to open at all.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Now we are told that pellagra is
not produced from eating corn. May
we consider this a vindication of corn
juice?
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
declares Taft the tool of a great po-
litical machine. The tool lis so large
and heavy that the Pitchfork might
have called it blunt instrument.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Texas growers of that pungent, sue
cu1ent, lachryfacient vegetable, the
Bermuda onion, are in a combine
that looks like a trust. The hardest
prosecuting attorney in the Lone
Star State could not break it up
without getting tears in his eyes.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Mr.. Simms, of Natchez, better
known as "Quick Delivery Simms
of Vidalia,' has returned to straight
ell out affairs and says as he has
BEEN offered financial support by
friends he may resume business. This
is comforting news to Natchez.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

According to private cables flashed
up from Costa RIGA to different parts
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

In telling the public that new
evening daily, the News, is now doing
business at Natchez, the correspond
ent adds that 1T Will be democratic.
1t is this criminal waste of time and
space against which we must protest
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

President Taft is going to take
up the adjustment OF the money sys
tenn. Step this way, please, Mr.
President.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02


Judge Potter warned the grand
Jury at Raymond against permitting
any one to lobby" them or sway
their opinion In any way. Why not
Suggested to the grand jury that
they indict the man who approached
them. Some people seem to think a
grand jury as easy as legislature.
Now that the wool growers are to
rise inn their might against the cur
dog, he Is being called a worthless
cur" The average Mississippian's
positdom on the negro and the dog
are identical. = Talking them -
whole, they are undesirable and o
problem. but he always knows half
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

The cotton rate schedule comes
I'D before the railroad commission
September z. Commissioner Lee lis
already clearing details out of the
way to leave an OPEN field for the
biggest fight of the season.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

The Magnolia Gazette thinks what
Franklin county needs Is enforcement
OF the law against Newmans and
Pritchards alike. The clans seem to
present all the power there Il
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Cowfoot Creek, Miss, Aug. 70,
Si Hopkins wuz shot i'm the stumlc
and killed dead by unknown owner
of two fine shoats he took last week.
The owner has recovered his shoats
and the grand jury has brought In
verdick of suicide by not calling his
friends quick enuf. All is quiet and
the trupes are busy keeping the
Hopkins clan from retaking the
shoatS.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

All the Jones county farmers who
subscribed to the proposed Farmers
Union Saving Bank have recovered
their money but Mr.. John Bush
of Ellisville. 1t is staetd that Mr..
Bush would have received his if he
had sent his receipt to Jackson. If
this is true, the promoters certainly
had a careless system of accounts
not to know who subscribed to their
stodk.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

A crowd of good natured southern
ers at the Seattle fair got away with
lot of free advertising for Dixie
on Tuesday.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

The Vicksburg delegation inspected
the streets of Atlanta and the roads
of Fulton county, Georgia. The ma
ture of the subsequent festivities is
not stated in the dispatches
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-11-14
EVADE STATE LAWS.
Chicago Corporations Dissolve and
ReorEn nlze.

Chicago. Nov. 13-Chicago business IN
terests are alarmed over the corporation
situation. Since last August more than
fifty large corporations have surrendered
their Illinois charters and reorEanized in
States where the laws are not so strict.
principally I'm Maine. Most OF these were
Chicago concerns. and the reason for
their action Was TO evade the Illinois pay
Tnent OF the capital stock tax, to secure
the right to vote the stock TO other cor
poratons. which is denied to Illinois cor
poratons. and to escape other restric-
tons imposed by the Illinois statutes
upon home corporations.
The alarming feature OF tho situation
IS that these same corporations, dissolved
and reorEanized under another States
laws, are securing licenses to do business
in Illinois as foreign corporations and
ere exempt from the most stringent re-
stricuons OF the Illinois laws on home
corporations. IL IS placing the home cor
pOratlOns at a disadvantage.
The taxation OF the capital stock OF
Illinois corporations. IN addition 70 the
taxation OF the physical property, has
caused n great deal of grumbling, and
the records OF the last few months show
that the grumblers are ready 10 forego
The somewhat doubtful advantage OF be-
ing known as "an Illinois corporation"
for the sake or evading some Of the dis
advantages. Whether tho Illinois laws
are Just or not. the fact would seem to be
that they should be amended so that
home corporations would be at least upon
an equal footing with foreign concerns.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-11-14
TRADE WITH SOUTH AMERICA
John Barrett Thinks DiXieland
Should Have Bulk of It.
Ports and Commercial Value OF
Congress Programme.

One man in Washington believes IN the
list between the Southern States and the
South American republics. He is John
Barrett, Director Of the International Blu
reau Of American Republics.
Mr.. Barrett will address the Southern
Commercial Congress on Opportunity
for Southern trade in the South American
republics" Associated with his speech
and delivered in the same session viii be
an inspiring statement regarding the
ports of the South and their extraor-
binary prospects affected by both South
American and Pacific trade through the
influences Of the Panama Canal
Immediately following the speech on
ports will come, In the same session, the
speech Of John L Mathews, secretary of
the Mississippi Valley Transportation
Company. on Tho commercial pOSsibili-
ties OF shallow streams"
These three topics are placed in one
session that every manufacturer first
hand in the South may reach an attitude
OF confidence regarding the business fu-
ture OF the Southern States.
Mr.. Barrett's speech will indicate how
little advantage business men Of the
South have taken OF the opportunities
that are theirs. He win make a number
OF practical suggestions that. II acted
upon. will bring q rapid increase in trade.
The speech on ports will criticise as
well as praise. 1t will summon the lead
ers OF the South 10 vigilance In order that
natural advantages may not be nullifed
by keen-witted legislation directly aimed
against Southern leadership
The speech on streams viii show each
inland city on a navlgable stream how "a
use advantages that Will make South At
lantio and gulf ports leap still farther
forward than In the decade ls9S-l9Os