The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-02

of the supreme court of he United States
in the boundary case that was decided
against Mississippi couple of years ago.
In accordance with a request from the
governor of Louisiana last winter, Cover
nor Noel asked the legislature to appro-
pirate a sum sufficient to pay for the
survey and marking the boundaries be-
tween the two states, but the legislature
/, declined to appropriate cent, wherefore
the governor has no funds at his dis
posal to assist Louisiana in this very i'm
portant work, and 1t will have to go I'M
done unless the federal government will
attend to 1t.
Governor Noel states that he will do as
the governor OF Louisiana requests, being
very DESTROYS of having the lines of
boundary firmly and permanently estah-
lished.
At the request of the slversmiths of
the country who desire to bid on the
silver service for the battleship Missls-
sippi, Governor Noel announces that the
commission to select the service and
award the contract, advertised to assem-
BILE here on January II, will not meet
until the 18th. The manufacturers say
they have been too busy during the past
several days to figure on the proposition,
and want more time
5. n. Malone, manager of the Natchez
Cotton Oil mill, who spent the day in
the city, states that the supply of seed in
his district is about exhausted, and that
he has not received shipment Of seed
in two weeks.
Mr.. Malone is of the opinion that he
will have to close down his Natchez
mill within month. The short season is
charged to the boil weevil, the foods
of last spring and other providential in
references with a big cotton crop. and
which have made the oil mill season the
shortest on record.
Attorney General Stirling has addressed
a letter to w. Calvin Wells, Jr., colonel
and judge advocate general of the Mis-
sissippi national guard, advising him that
members of the guards are not exempt
from street taxes in the towns, nor from
road duty in the country
colonel Wells had explained that the
guardsmen had been laboring under the
impression for years that they were ex-
empt, and that some of them had been
arrested for failure and refused to pay
inc tax They believed that their serv-
Ices to their state are sufficient to en-
title them to exemption from street and
road taxes, and hoped the attorney gem
eral would be able to see it in their light
However, the official finds nothing in
the law to justify such claim of exemp-
uon from taxation, and cites the national
guardsman to an opinion on this identical
SUBJECT as rendered by General VIM Will
Hams, MS predecessor in office five or
SIX years ago. General Williams held thew
are not exempt from street or road duty
and General Stirling is Of the same opin-
ion.
with the approach of the winter term
OF circuit court damage suits against the
railroads and other corporations begin to
pile up in the office of the circuit clerk.
and the chances are for the usually large
number. During the past day or two the
following have been filed:
Alonzo Brown VS.. the Illinois Central
railroad for $1,000 Brown is a negro sec
tlon hand who claims to have had his
foot badly mashed by rail failing on II
Thos Bowers VS.. the Alabama and
Vicksburg railroad, demands $1,000 for his
nand, which was badly mashed by rail.
MISS Maudle Minis, minor, by her next
friend, Is. f. Minis, sues the Edwards
hotel and City Railroad company for 5000.
alleging that the companys car started
off just as she got one foot on the stem.
threw her violently to the ground, and
injured her severely
George Coleman demands $500 of the Ala
pama ana Vicksburg for having broken
and mashed his moving picture outfit.
Mrs. Kate Whiting sues the CITY of
Jackson for $500 for damages to her prom
erty which was put down to grade, the
city having taken about ten feet off her
front yard for street purposes, all of
which is alleged to have been arbitrary.
unreasonable and unjust"