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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget of State News Items Gathered by Our Special
Correspondent at Jackson.
tanners, Union Convention.

A survey of the work accomplished
by the State convention of the Farmers
Unioa, which came to a close here on
Thursday night, shows that every i'm
portant and almost every ~unimportant
recommendation made by President High
tower in his annual report was carried
out.
Plans were laid for the immediate or
ganization of a gigantic produce eX-
change, with smaller exchanges as feed
ers, for the purpose of charging the
market, to bring them closer to the
farmer and thus assist the efforts TO pro
mote a more general Investigation OF
the crops of the State.
The organization of negroes as union
farmers, in any way to be connected
with the white organization, or in any
manner encouraged by white men, was
severely condemned. There was no OBJ
lection to the negroes organizing among
themselves, and this will be rather en-
couraged in spirit, but not in actual prac-
tice.
Managers of all Farmers Union ware
houses were required to take Il course
in cotton grading at once, in order to
make them more competent in the ham
ding of cotton stored in the warehouses
they manage.
seventy warehouses in the State and in
cooperating them all in one big concern
being still in the embryo state, was
withheld from the public, so far as its
details are concerned.
A resolution adopted urged the utili-
zation of all available home fertilizers,
including cottonseed, and that the mem
bers hereafter refrain from the use of
any ~ready-mixed fertilizer whatsoever,
buying only the ingredients and mixing
them as q CAREFUL study of the require
ments of their soils shows to be best
suited.
The difficulty heretofore encountered
in the use of cotton bagging because OF
its lack of strength is believed to have
been overcome because of the promise of
a mill representative, who was present,
that hereafter it would De made stronger.
The only proposed change in the con-
stitution of any Importance was that of
increasing the annual dues from 6s cents
to $1.10, mainly for the purpose of estab-
fishing a paper to be the official organ
of the organization, and to be sent free
to every member of the union.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
GENERAL NEWS.

Representative Tawneys attitude on
the waterway proposition gives the
friends Of that measure much new
hope, and if a party canvass can be
had there is a chance that a $65, O00,-
900 bill might pass at this session.
Chas. S. Cameron, president of the
Pittsburg & Tube City Railroad Co.,
who was found guilty of bribing
Former Councilman VIM. A. Martin in
the interest of an ordinance before
councils, will not be allowed his free.
dom on bail.
One by one, as his four young
children, three girls and one boy, de-
scended the stairs from their bed
rooms to the kitchen, James York,
living near Bradley's Crossing, Mimi.
slaughtered them with a kife cutting
their threats. Then he went to a wood.
shed and hanged himself
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
TORRENT OF ABUSE CHECKED
House Put Lid on Congressman's
Criticism of President.

Washington.-An outbreak of Juror
transitoria in the house, melted by the
effect of the personality of President
Roosevelt ON the mind of Representative
William Willett, Jr., of New York Mon
day, was quickly smothered by a Re-
publican majority that only a few days
ago could not find words sufficiently
bitter to condemn the president. This
change of heart wildly confirms the
opinion hat the country has grown
tired of the war of vulgar insults in of
fetal circles of the national government.
There was no applause, no laughter,
when the chief executive was alluded
to by Mr.. Willett as a "gargoyle, tyrant,
pigmy, descendant of Dutch trades peo-
pie, a fountain of billingsgate, imitation
of a king and bogus hero"
Finally Willett spoke of the presi-
dents persistent defamation Of Admiral
Schley."
Gardner of Massachusetts, seized the
opportunity to make a point of order
on personalities, which was sustained.
Then Col. Hepburn sprung the rule that
a man ruled off the floor by a point of
order could not regain it except by the
vote of the house.
On this vote the Republicans voted
Bolidly against Willett, the Democrats
with him, and he was ruled off the floor
by a vote of 1876 to rs. This ended the
TRADE, which had lasted more than SO
minutes.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
HESTER'S COTTON MOVEMENT
Texas Has Moved 1,434, 900 Bales
More Than Last Year.

New Orleans.-Secretary Hester's an
alysis of the cotton movement for the
four months from September / to the
close of December, inclusive, shows that,
compared with the crop movement last
wear, the State of Texas has brought
into sight this season, in round figures,
1,434, 900 bales more; other Gulf States,
which include Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, Tennessee, Missouri and Okla
homa, have marketed $4,000 more; the
group of Atlantic States, which includes
North and South Carolina, Georgia, Flor
ida, Alabama and Virginia, nave market
ed $1,000 more, making the increase in
the amount marketed 1,9S3,00O.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
Sunday School Normal.

The Rev. w. Fred Long, secretary OF
the Mississippi Sunday School Associa-
ton, that he is perfecting
plans for a summer training school for
Sunday school workers, to be held at
the Seashore camp grounds, near BIZ
loXi, from July 16 to &c.
1t is probable that the associations of
Louisiana and Alabama will cooperate
in conducting this school, and some of
the ablest Sunday school specialists in
America will deliver lectures.
Mr.. Long returned from a missionary
tour through the northeastern part OF
the State. He attended rallies at Tupe-
10, Corinth, Aberdeen and West Point,
and succeeded in stirring up much in
terest at each point.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
Wildcat Insurance.

Insurance Commissioner T. M. Henry
wrote the subjoined letter to Messrs.
Nall, Breach & Keeton, of Meridian,
pany named, which has been endeavor-
ing to do business in Mississippi by the
underground route for some months.
Judging from the correspondence re-
ceived, the company is succeeding in
placing some business in Mississippi:
jackson, Miss, Jan. Is, 1909.
"Gentlemen-Replying to your favor
of the 14th inst, beg to advise that the
Druggists Indemnity Exchange is not
authorized to transact business in Mis-
sissippi, has never attempted to be, and
l should regard a policy therein as of
very little, if any, value. In case of
loss, the insurer would be absolutely at
the mercy of the company. Not being
able to sue it, for the reason it has no
agent on whom service could be had,
and no adjuster could enter the State
to adjust the loss, insurers would have
to accept whatever the company might
be inclined to pay-a p~redlcament, l
should think, no man with any business
sense would care to place himself in.
l published this concern soon after my
induction into office, and thought I
had caused it to cease operations in
Mississippi, but judging from yours and
correspondence from other sources, it
seems the company has broken out in a
fresh place.
"Why people should persist in pur-
chasing insurance in such concerns,
when there are so many of unquestioned
solvency and legality that it could be
obtained in, passes my understanding.
l would like very much to catch. some
agent soliciting for the concern in Mis-
sissippi, but feel confident that | have
stopped that part of the practice. 1t
is now operating entirely through the
mails, and is therefore hard to catch.
"Yours truly,
'sT. NJ. HENRY,
"Insurance Commissioner"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
Must Confne Hospitality to Home.

A clause of Mississippi's new statu-
tory prohibition law that is causing con-
siderable comment is that section which
makes it a misdemeanor ''to carry to any
place of amusement or entertainment,
or to any public assemblage, intoxicat-
ing liquors of any kind" 1t is held that
this clause, if strictly enforced, would
prohibit the serving of liquors at a pub
lie banquet, or similar social event that
took place outside of a private resi-
dence, the last clause of the section
providing that ''this shall not prevent
the use of liquors in the dispensation of
hospitality at ones own home"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
SON SENTENCED; FATHER DIES.
Unwritten Law Not INDICATED in I'LL
nois-Death in Courtroom.

Hamilton, Ohio.-As Judge Murphy
sentenced Buck ~Cottongame to the peni.
tertiary for life for the murder of Far
IRISH Arnet, the father of Arnet fell dead
in the courtroom. Arnet accused Cot
tongame of wrecking his home and Cot
tongame killed him, and was sentenced
to life Imprisonment. Cottongame is
declared to be a member of a prominent
kentucky family of feud fame.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22

The State Penitentiary Board has
closed another successful cotton seed
trade with the Advance Gin & Mill Co.,
of Vicksburg, as the purchaser, at the
very remunerative price of $21 a ton.
The deal was closed for 400 tons, deliv-
cred f. O. b. at Sunlower farm, which will
result in over $4,000 net cash to the
State treasury, and the price is $500
better than any sale made so far this
season.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
Farmers Favor Education.

State Superintendent of EDUCATION
Powers is jubilating considerably over
the stand taken by the Farmers Union
convention On the educational question.
The features of the measure are: First,
to urge the Farmers Union locals to in
every way assist in and encourage the
organization of agricultural high schools
in every county in the State; second, to
recommend to the Legislature that the
appropriation for such agricultural high
schools be increased from $1,000 to So, 1000
q year; and, third, when the county ag-
~ricultural high schools are thoroughly es-
tablished, the abolition of the prepare
tory departments in both the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical and the Industrial
Institute and College.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
Mirthless Speed Makers.

Progress is killing good humor. En-.
CINE drivers are not so gay Is the pos
tilions Of the ancient d%iligences used
to be. And now we have the chauf-
feur-dumb, stern. and worried-re-
placing the loquacious and jovial
coachman.-Figaro, Paris.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
Help Corn Competition.

Apropos of the competitive corn grow
ing idea, and as showing its statewide
spread, the essentially pine woods and
sandy bottom county of jackson has
gone into the thing with energy and
spirit, and the movement is backed and
encouraged by NO less potent a power
than the country board of supervisors.
That board has passed an order offering
prizes aggregating $40 for the boys rails
ing the finest corn during the current
crop season. The board offers a SIS prizs
to the boy who raises the greatest num-
ben of bushels to the acre.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
Eurone,a Record az Frost.

Nearly all the vines in Europe were
killed by frost in 891 and 1913. On
midsummer's day, 1888, In England,
there was q frost SO severe that It de-
stroyed fruits.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
Work of Women Convicts.

The board of trustees of the Missis-
sippi penitentiary has decided to con-
tinue the policy of employing female
convicts in the manufacture Of uniforms
for the $500 inmates of the institution.
The penitentiary now contains about
thirty-fye female convicts, only two OF
whom are white women, and pardon petit
tions for both of the after are pending
in the governors office.
The female conyicts are busily engaged
for practically the entire year in the
manufacture OF uniforma-
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22

News

Seeking to restrain the carrying out
of a legislative net which provides for
the establishment and support of agri-
cultural schools "for the education Of
white youths" in Mississippi, on the
ground that il violates the fourteenth
amendment to the Federal constitution,
Robert Gains, a negro, has secured II
temporary injunction before Judge Bull
ard at Collins. The writ is directed
against the Sheriff and treasurer of
Jasper county, to prevent the collection
of taxes for support of schools of the
character stated.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22

A years salary, $1,000, was appropri-
ated for the relief of the family of the
late Charles Fitzgerald, postoffce in
spector, by q bill passed by Congress-.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
Prison Board Sells Seed.

Tnsurance Commissioner
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22

In accordance with time-honored Gus
tom, the Confederate organizations
throughout Mississippi celebrated the
birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee January
10. In each instance the celebration
took the form of public exercises, and
addresses paying tribute to the memory
of the great soldier were delivered by
orators Of state and local prominence.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10
ALL HONOR TO AMERICA

ut never rains but it pours." This
old saying never found more complete
verification than with the suddenness
with which come two announcements
from two entirely independent explor-
ers, that two Americans have found
the north pole. The first word of DR..
Cooks triumph came like a thunder
bolt out of a clear sky And the Sec
ond--the cablegram that Peary had
found the pole-coming as it did upon
the very heels of DR.. Cooks story,
afforded probably the most remarkable
coincidence in the history of the
world.
That the news of Peary's achieve
ment should come while the world was
still stunned by news of DR.. Cooks
feat, and while DR.. Cook was in the
midst of cheers from all the world,
make the double report all the. more
singular and astounding.
And America now rests secure in
the honor of discovery. One or the
other has surely succeeded and the
stars and bars unquestionably do float
over the top of the world.
Practically speaking, its discovery
is of little value. We knew as much
about the north pole before as we do
now, and these and all the brave men
who have explored the frozen north
have merely satisfied our curiosity but
have added little to the sum of human
knowledge that is worth while. Never
theless, these men are entitled to and
will receive the admiration and hon.
age of the whole civilized world. They
are of the stuff heroes are made. They
dared to face great odds, to meet the
most untoward conditions and risk
their lives in order to accomplish their
quest. They made a good fight. They
have triumphed. The pole has been
reached All honor to them and the
other brave men who have sought the
same goal!
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10

II is fortunate that the United States
has outlined a plan for controlling at
least to some extent, the belligerent
South American republics through the
medium of their finances. Nicaragua
Is not for the present within the inn
mediate scope of this financial control,
but the $10000,000 worth of Honduran
bonds which will soon be transferred
to New York, will go far toward Sc.
curing Honduras from aggression by
Nicaragua. Costa RIGA has enjoyed
immunity from Nicaraguan Interior
ence for some time because of its close
proximity to the Panama canal, which
made the early control by the United
States of any military demonstration
a certainty. If Guatemala can be sue
cessfully included in this financial
scheme the predominance of American
financial interests from the southern
border of Mexico to the northern bor-
der of Columbia will by itself provide
gradual solution of the Central
American problem. This plan is a
vast improvement on the scheme of
policing Central America by the joint
efforts of the United States and Mex
leo.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10

1t has always been a matter of much
speculation as to how the ancients
moved and set in place the enormous
stones such as are found in the pyra-
mids and other antiquarian ruins. The
theory is now advanced that these
great blocks are not quarried stone
but masses of concrete rock placed by
the shovelful instead of being lifted
in one huge block. If this be true, it
proves that another of our boasted
modern inventions is as old as the
hills and the great cement age" is
another proof that 1--WE think the
same thoughts that our fathers have
thought, we tread the same paths that
our fathers trod."
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10

1t is not probable that President
Taft will discuss the tariff bill, as
passed, to any great extent in his trip
through the west. For so doing would
merely lose him friends. The people
believe that President Taft got what
concessions he could at the last and
that he sincerely tried to uphold and
redeem his campaign pledges. They
understand that after receiving these
concessions to have vetoed the bill
would have split the party, but the
people of the middle west are not sat
isfied with the tariff bill, and until
some genuine downward revision can
be brought about, the less said about
1t the better.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10
HOW ABOUT COOKS sToRY2

And now the world demands the
proof. How about the truth of DR..
Cooks story that he found the north
pole? Where is his evidence?
1t would seem essential that before
credit is given to any man for the
greatest sea exploration of all time,
and the finding of a goal sought but
undiscovered for 400 years. that man
must present satisfactory evidence on
top of his own word to historically es.
tablish his story.
A man capable of exploring and fig
uring the longitude and latitude, would
be capable Of sitting down in his own
home and taking a record of alleged
daily journeys. There must be some
scientific proof beyond the diary.
DR.. Cook has been given remark
able demonstration at Copenhagen.
He will be one of the greatest heroes
in America Just as soon as he can
satisfy the scientists of the accuracy
of his statements.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10

Governor Hughes of New York, in
his first public utterance after return
ing from visit to Seattle and the
coast told the New Workers that the
spirit of "boost," accompanied by a
spirit of honest criticism and earnest
construction was making the cities of
the west. Merely boosting" is not
enough, there must be unremitting eff
forts to make the home town worthy
or its citizens praise. 1t must be
kept clean, healthful, supplied with
pure water, and rents and other ac-
commodations brought within the
reach of the people of moderate means.
If local combinations so control af-
fairs as to make the cost of living high
a town cannot grow as it ought to.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10

Representative Bennett of New York
has broken into the letter writing
squad by sending an epistle to the
secretary of war, claiming that there
is graft in connection with the Panama
canal purchases. Any facts which Mr..
Bennett may be able to produce for
the good Of the service are always in
order, but the public was beginning to
have a great deal Of confidence in the
honesty and efficiency of the Panama
canal management. AS yet no "muck
rakers" have been able to make good
on charges of wrongdoing, but 1t has
not been because they have not tried.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10

Only lately has it come to the notice
of financiers that large profits are to
be made in the railroad business in
China by reason of the country's dense
population, large commerce and cheap
labor, and it is only question of time
until the entire kingdom shall be cob.
webbed with railroads. New construc.
ton of this kind is not expected on so
large a scale elsewhere, but the cleo.
trification of the present steam roads
of nearly every other country in the
world is matter that is being Sc.
riously considered. When once under
taken it will mean complete recon
struction.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10

President Lehman of the American
Bar association gave that body some
sound doctrine on the corporation tax
and its socalled 'inquisitorial fea-
lures" He said that corporations had
no ground for Directing to it because
it invaded private business since there
could be no such thing as private cor
poration affairs, because the corpora
ton is creature of the public. Cor
porate powers are not natural rights"
said the eminent lawyer, and "the gen.
eral welfare is the only justification
for granting them"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10

The merchant marine of the United
States is not creditable to the nation.
The stars and stripes are not seen in
the high seas as they should be. What.
ever the cause, it should be searched
and removed. We are in the anomo,
lous position of being a great com
mercial nation practically without rep.
resentation upon the worlds ocean
highways. If this is due to policy
that refuses to encourage American
shipping that policy should be
changed. America does not lag behind
in other particulars. Why should she
be contented to be laggard in this?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10

In spite of i'll health, Mr. Hartman
is optimistic concerning the business
outlook in the immediate future and
in ultimate America. In his roseate
conception of the American CONNER.
cial, industrial and transportation flu.
ture, Mr.. Hartman is but indorsing
the abiding judgment of all the great
men of affairs in the nations CONNER.
cial history who by the courage of the
faith that is in them have not only
realized great fortunes for themselves,
but, as we'll, promoted great values for
others.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10
WEEKLY NEWS SEPTEMBER

Professor Shaw of st. Paul sounds
a note of warning to the agriculturists
of the United States and Canada, after
visiting the great farming districts of
both countries. lie says unless atten-
ton is paid to renewing the soil with
fertilizers the worlds supply of corn
and wheat will gradually be cut Off.
Already they are deteriorating. Mixed
farming is the ultimate salvation of
these great wheat and corn belts. Now
the straw is largely burned. In few
years the farmers will be keeping
stock and using their bedding for fer
tilizing purposes.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10

1t has come to light in the writings
of the historian, Cesare Alessi, that
about two years after the discovery of
America an italian inventor made a
daring and successful attempt at flying
with a mechanical contrivance at Pc
rugia in 1894. The feat was performed
in honor of the marriage of a prince,
and after he had made his fight, the
matter ended. Apparently the invent.
or had no thought of perfecting his in.
vention.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10

A railway college has been estab-
lished at Omaha by the Union Pacific
road in which employees will be given
instruction in all departments free of
charge. Three objects are aimed at in
establishing the school-assisting en-
ployes to assume greater responsible
ity, increasing their knowledge and
efficiency, and preparing prospective
employees for service. The value of
such an institution is obvious.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-09-10

The comptroller of the currency has
found upon investigation that less than
one-fourth of the bank directors Of our
$4,000 national banks are familiar with
the banking laws, conversant with the
banks affairs or keep in touch with
the details of it's operation. This con
dition calls for reform. A man who
has not time to attend the board meet
ings and perform the duties devolving
upon a bank director, should decline
election to so important a position.