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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Levee TangIe to Go to Courts.

It is said G. M. Bagget will fight the
appointment Of J. H. helms as presf
dent of the lower levee board in the
courts. He refuses to recognize MI.
helms as president of the board, ana
this may result in his removal from
the board. 1t is believed that GOV.
Noel will remove w. H. Fitzgerald
and Edward Collins also, which Will
necessitate the appointment of three
new members.
Mr.. Baggett is n Of the members
recently appointed by Gov. Noel.
About a month before his term OF Of
fee began, DR.. Crump, who was presl-
dent of the board, resigned, and Mr..
Baggett was elected his at
a special meeting of the board. This
was done before the term OF the new
members appointed by Gov. Noel be-
gan, and when the new board met
early in July and tried to go into an
election of officers Mr.. Baggett lined
I'D and voted with Messrs. Fitzgerald
and Collins and prevented the cleo
tion.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
BRINGS MONEY
HAS PRODUCED s75,ooo,ooo MORE
THAN ANY OTHER BILL.
Corporation Tax Revenue Only $207r
600 Less Than the Amount A.
sessed.

Washington. - The Payne-Aldrfch
tariff law has produced in its first year
q e greater by $4,000 900 than
the sum collected in the year In the
country's history, except the banner
1907, according to treasury depart
ment figures.
During the first full year, the total
ordinary receipts, including CUSTOMS
ordinary internal revenue, corporation
tax n miscellaneous were $678.8O5''
SIG, exceeding Disbursements by $2O'-
PA, 1929. The ordinary receipts were
greater by SIS, 900, approximately
than during 1907, and the 1907 re-
ceipts exceeded those of any otner
year Of record by almost $6O,0O0,Oo
While there was a deficit OF $685..
734,955 in the ordinary operations OF
the government In the fiscal year end.
ed June 80, 1909, there was a surplus
of more than $40, 900, 900 in the year
ended last Saturday, according to the
department.
The corporation tax revenue was
$27, 900 1894, which is. only 100000 less
than the amount assessed. If the gov
| eminent we're reimbursed for the ca
nal expenditures Of s35,283,O19 during
the tariff year by proceeds of the sale
of a part of the authorized issue OF
Panama bonds, the treasury working
balance, it is claimed, would be In
creased to $3.50, 900, 000.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
MAYOR OF new YORK SHOT
AssaiIant Claims He Had Been De-
prived of Bread and Butter.

New YOrk.-Mayor William j. Gay.
nor was shot and dangerously wound
ed at GAS o'clock Tuesday morning as
he stood on the deck of the steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse att the
steamships pier IN Hoboken, N. j..
about to start on a months vacation
in Europe.
The shooting was done by a stran.
ger, who later gave his name as jules
James Gallagher. He was later iden.
tilted as a former city employe. who
recently had been discharged.
The doctors report that they do not
believe Mayor Gaynor's wound to be
serious. Their examination shows
that the bullet entered the right side
of the neck and did not cut any of the
important blood vessels. The mayor
suffered somewhat from the blood in
his throat, but this was relieved, and
he felt considerably better. The ex-
act location of the bullet has not yet
been determined.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

The p~redicament of two men with
their wives who were held into the
night off Chicago by the failure Of the
engine Of their gasoline launch, and
who were rescued only after the won.
en- had sacrificed their skirts as
torches, should recommend the lash.
ing of sweeps on the decks of such
craft, so that men a help themselves
IN emergencies. A. pair of muscular
arms applied to q sweep would soon
re-establish confidence after accident
by giving the disabled craft motion
enough to creep toward shore.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Army's Strength $1,000.

Washington.-The enlisted strength of
the army during the present fiscal year
has been fixed at $1,000 men, under the
arrangement of Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood,
and approved by President Taft. Gen.
Woods plan is to use the army appro-
priation for soldiers and materials and
make reductions in other directions. The
new chief of staff wants an army of
fighting men, and says he is willing to
make sacrifices in other ways to obtain
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
II Was tho Other Way.

mt. JONES'" said the senior partner
IN the wholesale dry goods house to
the drummer who stood before him in
the private Office, you have been
with us for the past ten years"
Yes, SIR"
And you ought to know the rules
Of the house. One Of them is that no
man of ours shall take a side line"
But 1 have none, sir"
"But you have lately got married"
"Yes; but can you call that a side
line, Mr.. Jones?"
Technically, it may not be-"
You needn't fear that having q
wife is going to bring me in of q trip
any sooner"
"Oh, l don't. It Is the fear that
having a wife at home you'll want to
stay out on the road altogetheri"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
CROP IS DETERIOATING
COTTON DOING BETTER IN THE
VALLEY AND THE EAST.
Grown Bolls Are Scarce and Crop Late.
Bolls Opening Prematurely In
Southern Texas.

Memphis, Tenn.-Telegraphic replies
from Texas correspondents at 6 o'clock
Sunday night indicate that no rain OF
consequence fell in that state during
the week save in the Red river valley.
As a result the cotton crop except IN
the small area which received rain has
deteriorated, in most instances sharply,
as the limit of the plants endurance had
been reached a week previous. In
Southern and Western Texas ten days
additional drouth means q very small
Weld of cotton. Bors are opening rap
idly and prematurely.
Generous rains fell throughout Okla
homa, and the situation has hssa relieved
and it is believed that the crop piu very
quickly recuperate.
In other sections of the belt some i'm
provement took place. The crop has
been laid by clean, and the plant has be-
gun to form squares and bloom freely.
Grown bolls are not numerous, however,
and the crop appears to have regained
but little of its lateness. The frost date
will have an important bearing on the
outturn.
Except in Texas there is no complaint
of shedding. General rains during the
coming week would help the crop in the
Mississippi valley and the Atlantic
states.
Except in Texas, little or no cotton is
sufficiently advanced to expect open bolls
| for some weeks.
Alabama.-The cotton crop has been
laid by in q fair state of cultivation.
Blooms and squares are forming freely.
There are few grown bolls as yet, except
in the southern counties, where the crop
promises rather well.
Arkansas.-Rain fell in most parts of
the state at a most opportune time. The
crop is good in central and western Ark
ansas, but IN the lowlands of the east
10 less promising, having never recov-
cred from early excessive rains.
Georgia.-Cotton made normal prog
ress in growth and f~ruiting except in
the extreme southeast, where the rain
fall was excessive. The crop is spotted
and it is all late.
Mississippi.-The crop did well dur
ing the week, and where rains fell the
advancement was very rapid. There
are some parts of Mississippi where the
crop is good, but the average is not high,
and the plant is still late.
Tennessee.-The crop in this state is
doing nicely. Cultivation is completed
and, except that the plant is small and
somewhat late, there is no complaint.
A late frost will permit of the maturing
Of a full crop.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Her Weapon Was Harmless.

Hickman, Ky.-The mysterious wO-
a who has been here for the past
week, and who has been in this end OF
the Estate for the past year and a half.
was arrested for carrying concealed
weapons. Upon examination of same,
it was found that the hammer was
broken, and the officers gave the pis'
toll back to her and let her go. This
woman, who givep her name as Jane
Aubrey, was supp osed to have frozen
to death last winter during the ex-
tremely cold weather in Hickman
county.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
United States Has so, 900, 900.

Westinghouse will be about the
middle of October before people of the
United States learn the result of the
thirteenth census. It is generally be-
lieved that the number will be about
ninety million, and census officials are
known to share in this general belief,
although officially they know nothing
about it,. This belief is based on the
fact that an increase slightly in excess of
the thirteen million increase during the
previous decade would bring the popula-
ton in 1910 to the 100000 900 mark.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget of State News Items Gathered By Or Special
: Correspondent 1t Jackson.
FALSE REPORTS DO HARM.
Mississippi to Start Campaign to Prove
Its Healt.:uIness.

Mississippi to Start Campaign to Prove
Its HeaIt:2:uIness.
That Mississippi is being injured by
false reports circulated through the
North and Middle West to the effect
that this is an unhealthy state Is the
declaration of Manager L. E. Davis,
of the Mississippi Land improvement
Association, and he intends to COM
N a campaign of publicity to cor
rect these erroneous impressions. MI.
Davis says:
1.-THE last federal census report
showed that Mississippi's mortality
rate compared favorably with that OF
any state in the Union. and l am con-
ident that the statistics Of the fed
eral census of 1910, when compiled by
the bureau. will give us an equally
good showing.
There is not a healthier state in
the Union than Mississippi, and If we
could eliminate from the statistics
that portion of the mortality record
among negro infants, due to careless
ness or criminal negligence, not a
state in tibet Union would compare
with us.
"Along with our other work we are
going to give the people of the United
States a campaign Of education on
this subject, furnishing vital statistics
to prove that there is not a healthier
state anywhere. It Is unfortunate that
Mississippi has no bureau Of vital sta
t~istics, and that we must wait ten
years in order to give official infor'
nation on this subject"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Jackson May Have Natural Gas.

A strong flow of natural gas, evil
IDENTIFY through a assure leading TO a
larger deposit, has been struck by
contractors engaged in drilling wells,
from which Jackson will be provided
with an artesian water supply. The
flow of gas is SO strong that 1t is read
fly ignited at the surface, burning with
q bright blue fame, and when the drill
first struck the 1ssure the gas came
forth with a rumbling sound that
awakened the entire neighborhood for
several blocks around. The gas was
struck at a depth Of 500 feet.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

The dean Of Norwich Indignantly
denies that King George eve had a
morganatic wife and adds: King
George is a man who, with a wife Of
like disposition to himself. has been
wont during his leisure to sit in his
garden with his young children round
him, just the same Is any of us might
do In our own patch of garden" Also
the dean might have told us how
khe kings tomatoes are coming on.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

The discovery of defective armor
plate on the battleships Utah and
North Dakota after the ships had been
commissioned has caused agitation In
the nav department favorable to a
alan for the inspection of the plating
bf every battleship in service. 1t Is
fair to assume that If two battleships
could be provided with faulty plates
without discovery until the ships were
In active service there may be other
ships with poor plates that may have
escaped detection.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Plan Fight on Weevil.

One of the most notable gathering
of farmers ever held in South Missls-
sippi took place at the state agricult-
ural experiment station at Mcneil
The purpose of the gathering was to
awaken the farmers in that section Of
the state to the Importance Of prepar-
ing to fight the Mexican boil weevil,
which will be generally prevalent over
the entire southern part of the, state
next year. A basket dinner was serv.
ed on the ground, after which an ad-
dress was delivered by B. L. Moss.
agent of the United State department
of agriculture.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
DYKE Edwards Breaks Prison.

After Serving less than sixty days
of his life sentence, imposed by the
circuit court Of Oktibbeha county at
the April term, 1910, which was in
June affirmed by the supreme court,
Dyke Edwards, the convicted MUIR
derer Of DR.. A. F. Richardson, at the
town of Sturgis, on Christmas Eve
The following description Of the
noted prisoner is furnished from the
penitentiary record book, az follows:
Dyke Edwards, age 81, born in
Mississippi, height 5 feet II ga
inches, weight 40 pounds, brunette,
eyes brown, hair black, both forefn-
gers missing, seal on right hip, also
one just above the left hip"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

The poor should be remembered this
hot weather, for their sufferings are
considerable. Ice often means health
to the sick and pure milk life for ba-
bies, but these are Injuries for which
the prisoners Of poverty must look to
their more fortunate brethren to sup
pfy them. There should also be gen.
Eous public support Of the various
fresh-air enterprises which do SO
much toward a~meliorating the condi-
ton of the poor in a large city during
the heated term. t.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
G. Optimistic,

New York.-President McCrea of the
Pennsylvania railroad sees no clouds on
the financial horizon, and says: "Af-
fairs in this country are in a very salts.
factory condition so far as I can discern.
1 consider the prospects for fall business
good. / think the pessimistic reports re-
garding crop failures and depressions in
various lines of business have been some.
what overdone."
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
ABRUZZI NAY GET BRIDE
Hostility Of Italian Royal Family Is
Withdrawn,

Paris.-A special from Rome to the
Petite R~epublique says that the hostility
of the royal family to the marriage of
the Duke of Abruzzi and Miss Catherine
the official announcement of their en-
gagement will be made shortly.
Miss Elkins and her mother have been
in Europe for several months. Lately
they have been staying at Toblach, Aus
tria, and recent reports have had it that
the Duke of Abruzzi, who is now director
general of the arsenal at Venice, has
made many motor trips from his head
quarters to the Austrian retreat of Mise
Elkins. ..
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Exceeds Contract Speed.

Observation-Disclosures reports from
the speed trial of the new dread.
naught" battleship Delaware are that
the ship exceeded her contract speed
on all tests. The Delaware averaged
Fl IL knots an hour for four consecu'
tive hours under forced draught, and
10 knots an hour for "a consecutive
hours at normal.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Gen. Fridge to Camp Perry.

Adjt.-Gen. Fridge, with the men
who will make up the rifle team to at
tend the national rifle matches to be
held at Camp Perry, O., this month,
left the state Thursday for the Buck
eye state, where they hope at any rate
to make an impression on the targets.
if they do not land up among the top
notchers.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Monument to Confederate Women.

Hon. Charles Scott, OF Rosedale,
chairman of the committee Of United
Confederate Veterans, appointed to
raise a fund of at least $4,000 to be
used in the erection of a monument to
the women of the Confederacy on the
state capitol grounds, was in Jackson
Thursday to confer with other men,
bers of the committee relative to the
progress of the work. Hon. H. Clay
Sharkey, treasurer of the committee,
reports that the contributions have
reached a total of $1,062.46. An ener-
getic canvass for subscriptions will be
waged throughout the state.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Killed in Church.

Lexington, Ky.-Henry Martin, clerk
of the Rock Creek Baptist Church in
Whitley county, vas killed in the struc-
ture. The church is the n in which
Rev. Isaac Van Over and Rev. Isaac
Jerryn recently fought during an &c.
clesiastical trial, Van Over being killed.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
JACKSON.
APPoRTloNMENT OF TAXES.
Amount Due by Each Road In the
State To Be Figured Out.

According to the classification OF
the different railroad lines and prop
erty in the state for the purpose OF
privilege tax assessment, there is very
little change from the last assess
ment, made a year or two ago. While
the state legislature fixes the rate at
which this class Of property must be
assessed, it is left to the railroad
commission to determine the classi-
fication.
Under the classification Just com
pleted and adopted at this weeks sit.
ting of the commission, the following
are the railroads of the first class. the
rate for which is $3.50 per mile:
Illinois Central, main line; Yaozo &
Mississippi Valley. main line: Mobile
& Ohio, main line; Alabama Great
Southern, Alabama & Vicksburg, New
Orleans & Northeastern, St Louis &
San Francisco, Gulf & Ship Island
Louisville & Nashville. The mileage
of these trunk line systems combined
constitutes the bulk Of the railroad
mileage Of the state, all Of which mus
pay taxes at the rate OF $3.50 pei
mile.
Then follows q list Of the third class
PROPERTY, which includes the New Or
leans Great Northern, New Orleans
Mobile & Chicago, Liberty. White
Fernwood & Gulf, Sanoody Valley
new. Pascagoula Northern, Alabama
and Mississippi. Natchez & Southern
Delta Southern. Brookhaven & Pear.
River, Mississippi Eastern, Gulfport &
Mississippi Traction Company and
Pascagoula Street Railway and Power
Company.
Secretary Maxwell Of the railroad
commission will 10 apply himself te
the task of working out the amount
due by the several railroads under the
adopted classification. This will &C
cupy him closely for several weeks
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

It is estimated that over $4,000, 900
words were spoken during the recent
kession Of congress. All honor should
be shown the stenographers who
stayed at their posts and listened to
every one of them.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Prof. Huddleston III.

Hon. G. w. Huddleston, member Of
Millsaps College faculty, as well as
head of the state board of examiners
in the department of education, is
quite Ill. Prof. Huddleston Is n of
the best known and most thorough
going educators in the state.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Honor Memory Of Confederate Women

Chairman Charles Scott, of the COM
mittee of United Confederate Veter-
ans, appointed at the last annual re-
union to take charge Of the movement
to raise funds for the erection Of a
monument to the Confederate women
of Mississippi, has issued an address
ending the observance OF
Confederate Women's day" through
out the state on August 16. At each
place where a Confederate organization
exists public exercises will be held,
tributes paid to the women OF the
C%onfederacy, and earnest appeals
made for contributions to the memo
rial fund.
Chairman Scott hopes to raise at
least $25, 900 for the monument.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
State Fair Prospects.

Assistant Manager Jim Mcdonnell
of the State Fair Association, declares
the fair being arranged for next fall
will be the biggest and best ever un-
dertaken here, the applications for
space being unprecedented and sew
eral of the most interesting attrac-
tfons having already been secured. Eff
forts are being made to secure an
aviation exhibition and the WrightS,
the Curtisses, the Baldwins and 9th
ers are persistently corresponding
with the management.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Record Cotton Prices.

Atlanta, Ga.-News of big prices for
cotton was received here in dispatches
from rural districts in Georgia. At
Camilla $50, 900 was paid for 600 bales.
This was all from the 1909 crop. At
Leesburg a farmer sold mi bale OF
new crop cotton for 1913.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

The northern Michigan dairyman
who claims to have discovered that
music sweet and low from a phono-
graph wooes milk from his cows.
might try for ice cream by giving his
devoted animals the "cold shoulder"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

An airship passenger service be.
tween London and Paris is being
talked of. People who expect to take
that route should go to the trouble Of
FIRST learning to swim.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Reformation.

you say you are a reformerr
"Yep," replied the local boss; "o1
the deepest dye"
But you were not always so.s
mo. The reformers reformed ouI
town last year and I want TO reform
It back again"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

That bitter taste in the mouth expo.
rienced on first arising In the morn.
ing, says an authority, may be re-
moved by taking a little nux vomica
mixed with water. Should the expert
menter, however, desire to remove all
taste from his mouth permanently,
this can be accomplished by adding
more nux vomica
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Rooster h Bow.

Chicago.-Everett Busse Weber, a s.
year-old boy, was attacked and badly
injured by a thoroughbred game rooster.
The child was unconscious when the bird
wa driven from him.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

An expert at the National Educa-
tional association convention in Bos.
ton says that children are naughty
when they are Ill. Will the old say
ing have to be revised to read Spare
the castor oil and spoil the child?"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
Make Little Ones Happy.

One hundred children from the Mis-
sissippi Methodist %orphanage enjoyed
a days outing at Crystal Springs
Chautauqua.. Free transportation for
the children from the orphanage to
the union depot was furnished by the
street railway company, the Illinois
Central provided a special coach and
free transportation from Jackson to
Crystal Springs and return, and free
transportation to and from the
grounds, free admission through the
Yates, and q bountiful tree linner
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

And now they say that either . pho
nograph or a pretty singing milkmaid
furnishing music In the stall makes
q cow give more milk. The cows
artistic discernment Is apparently not
highly developed.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

Music an aid to dairy manage.
ment!" That's an old story. Was there
ever a comic opera without a varia-
uon of the merry, merry milkmatd
chorus!
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12
christmas Takes Ceiba.

New Orleans. Advices received
here are to the effect that Ceiba. Span
ish Honduras, has been taken by the
revolutionists, under the leadership OF
Gen. Lee Christmas.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

It Is said that a substitute for IA
dunn has been found. Some druggists
to the contrary, a substitute 1s not al
ways something lust as good"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

/. And now a Torrington, Conn. man
Is planning to walk to California.
Isn't 1t about time for some ambitious
California citizen to set out to walk
east to New England?
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

Regarded merely as a peril, 1t Is
much easier to dodge a coming aero
plane than 1t Is to dodge q motor
cycle. .