The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-05-10
LIQUOR TRAFFIC ON
MISSISSIPPI River
And How to Regulate Has Been a
Problem in Mississippi for Some
Time, and it Appears at Last to
Have Been Solved.
Special to The NelOS

Special to The Ne1CS
Jackson, Miss, May 10.-The pro-
cess of putting a jag factory out of
business in Mississippi is difficult
one, as the ways and means of these
institutions are dark and devious, but
it looks as though General Hudson
has shut down the irrigation plant
for good and all
Assistant Attorney General James
R. Mcdowell has returned from Nat
chez, where he went to attend con-
ference of counsel interested in the
case of A. P. Sims, the Southwestern
Express and Telegraph Company and
others involved in the sale and de-
livery of liquors in the Bluff City.
Former Justice of the Supreme
Court Jeff Truly is retained in the
case by the state, while former Repre-
sentative e. E. Brown represents
Sims and the other individuals and
corporations involved in this fight
against a jag factory. Various pro-
cedure has been started for and
against Sims and his allied interests
to break up this business, most of it
against, and the chances are he will
quit the business. as it looks as
though he is pretty we'll tied UP le-
gally.
Efforts are being made to settle
the cases by cutting off every avenue
Of shipment, except by the American
and Southern Express Companies, and
it is probable an agreement will be
reached Sims cannot ship liquor in.
to this state, except over the regular
express lines, but it required a stran-
gle hold by injunctions to prevent Il.
General j. B. Stirling started pro.
ceedings against Sims and his com.
panies and various individuals. but
left it to General Hudson, his success
or. to perpetuate the work he had
started. General Hudson has taken
deep interest in this case. which is
one with many angles, and is trying.
with the aid of Judge Truly and Mr..
Mcdowell, to ferret out the legal stat.
us of those involved, and in a way
that will prohibit violations of the
Mississippi prohibition law.
When the statewide prohibition
law became operative. nearly two
years ago, Sims organized, under the
laws of Louisiana, what he called the
Southwestern Express and Telegraph
line. He had a station at a soft drink
establishment and pool rooms. or
three of them rather, in Natchez, two
conducted by white men and one by a
negro, where those with a thirst did
use to congregate.
There was a telegraph instrument
in each of these joints, and when one
desired a shipment of liquor, all that
was necessary was to go to one oi
these establishments, write his mes
| S"SS, pay ShO piiSS 10 the operator
and, in few minutes, a boat would
come across from Vidalia, La, bring
ing the jag producer in any quantity
desired. This procedure was eontin
ued for several months. General Stir
ling, then attorney general, learned
the facts in the case and instituted
custer proceedings against the South
western Express and Telegraph Com
pany, charging violation of he Mis-
sissippi prohibition law The couri
issued an order to seize all the goods
of the Southwestern.
A temporary injunction was ther
granted, prohibiting A. r Sims or tht
Southwestern Express and Telegraph
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