The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-16
YOUNG PERMENTER IN JAIL IN JACKSON Prisoner Will Wait for Action
 By Supreme Court DECREASE IN VALUES Assessments Upon Public Service Cor porations in Mississippi Show
 Considerable Loss From
 Last Year
DECREASE IN VALUES

| SWintOn Permenter, under sentence Of death for the murder of Jamie Sharpe, in Winston county, is now in the Hinds county jail in this city. Sheriff Hull and his deputy arrived here with the prisoner, young man of 19 or 20 years of age, yesterday morning and took him
 immediately to the jail He will be held here till the supreme court shall have passed on his case. it is said. The sher- | if reports that he never handled a bet ter prisoner. that the young man never gave him a particle of trouble.
 | Permenter is understood to have been | brought to Jackson for safekeeping, on | orders of Governor Noel, public sentiment being very strong against him in his own | county. He will be safe here, as friend nor foe will be admitted without the order of the sheriff.
 The transfer of Permenter to Jackson also transfers the scene of interest, and | those Jacksonites who were aware of the presence of the prisoner in their midst have talked about his case more | than ever. There are those who defend him on the ground that the evidence against him was all crcumstantial, oth-
 
 in his right senses would abuse and murder his sweetheart, as Is charged against Permenter, but there are others who have kept posted as to the trial who are strong in the belief of his guilt. Employees of the department of archives and history who have been engaged some months in classifying data covering the war period, came across a letter yester- da hat fc f1fll Of fntn Clr 1t does, that among numerous other hard ships endured by the people of this sec ton during those troublous times was the scarcity, if not the entire absence of salt.
 This letter is dated September, 1862, but bears no postmark. It was directed to Gov. J. J. Pettus at Jackson, and was written by a lady who signed her self M. T. Davis" She and her husband were evidently close personal friends of the governor and she appealed to him to let her have at least five sacks of salt. She explained that her neighbors were hauling salt from the Alabama mines, but in view of the fact that her hus- band was not at home, and her servants were sick, she was not able to send to the mines or to procure salt anywhere, so that she was in a dreadful strait, and forced to appeal to the governor.
 In explanation of the decrease of s477,- 900 In the assessed valuation of the prop erty of the public service corporations this year from last year, it Is only neces- sary to know that the valuation of the Illinois Central was reduced 5000 per mile. Last year the ad valorem valua- ton on the Illinois Central was s21,O00 per mile. It was the only road assessed at that figure. This year the Louisville and Nashville and the Illinois Central are the only roads assessed at as much as 10000 per mile. There is very little of the Louisville and Nashville, but It's of ficials protested vigorously against the valuation. However. their mileage was so small that the case was not taken to the courts. But the Illinois Central has 3S9 45 miles of track. main line, In the state, and reduction of 5000 per mile means a taking off of $389, 450 from the valuation and reduces the total assess ment that much. Other reductions were made on the property of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley. Heretofore all of It's little jerk-wster branches in the delta were assessed at a uniform figure This year they have been classified and as- sessed at more reasonable figures, and at what the commission believed just and proper.
 Commissioner of Agriculture Bakeslee is in Houston, Chickasaw county, at- tending the fair, and may spend two or three days In that section of the state MT. Blakeslee was called on to open the fair and gladly responded. He has done more. perhaps, than any other one man in the state to create and keep going the fair spirit. He was the life and main- stay of the State Fair during the first years of its existence, and when it was struggling to keep It's head above water. and Is still interested in It's success, as we'll as that of all other fairs in the stnte, and there are now a score of coun- ties in which they are held every year.
 The Richton Telephone company Is the first of the states corporations under the supervision of the railroad commits sion to make report of its business for the quarter ending September 30. and for a small concern makes an excellent show ing. The total receipts from business were $890. 4o; total expenses of operation, seo3. .9s. leaving the net earnings at s2S6.4 after paying taxes.
 The rifle shoot by members of the Mississippi National Guard will take place at Vicksburg Monday, and Adjutant General Fridge and other officers are preparing to move on the Hill City day or two in advance so as to have every thing in readiness. Transportation for four men has been sent to each of the "A companies in the state. and that is ex- pected to bring about 100 contestants to the rife range at Camp Williamson.
 It Is the intention of Mississippfs war department to drill and practice its best rifle shots as much as possible this year, so that in the event they participate in the national contests next year they will stand better chance of bringing home some of the trophies.