The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-14
B|LbO AND JAMES BEFORE GRAND JURY More Will Be Heard Of The
 Bribery Charges COTTON FIELDS CLEAN Farmers Around Jackson Say That 95 Per Cent Of the Cotton Crop
 Has Been Picked and
 Ginned
COTTON FIELDS CLEAN

l Jackson, Miss, December 13.-6Spe- cial. )-T. R. James. county attorney of George county and Theo. c. Bilbo, state senator from Pearl River county, were both before the Hinds county grand jury yesterday and today--James being admitted first It Is supposed-of course. grand jury business has to be guessed at-that these gentlemen were | questioned as to the report of bribery l in connection with the passage of the bill creating George county at the last session of the legislature, Senator Bill bo being chairman of the committee on local and private legislation.
 It will be recalled that during the progress of the Dulaney bribery trial at Yazoo City two weeks ago MT. James declined to testify on the ground that he might incriminate himself and that he and MT. Bilbo were both placed under $1000 bond to secure their at tendance on the Hinds county grand jury Both responded promptly and have been in Jackson for a week. The grand jury is close mouthed one and date for state land commissioner next between. Especially is this true as to Bilbo and James as welf as to the re- ported indictments against members of the city council on paving contracts. The juror closes up like a clam when either of these eases are mentioned in his presence and all that has been said or reported has been largely surmise, but these surmises are justified be- cause of the witnesses who have been before the grand jury. In the mean- time the public is expecting a few choice morsels in a day or two.
 The officials of the Farmers Ware house company, the headquarters of which are in this city, give it as thei opinion that about 95 per cent of the cotton crop in Mississippi has been ginned, and most of it placed on the market. This Farmers Warehouse company controls and operates about 60 big warehouses in the state and are in position to know the condition of the crop and of the supply of cot ton.
 The idea of the management is that prices have been so very attractive here of, late that cotton has found it's way to market as soon as ginned. Their information Is that picking is well ad- Nanced. most fields outside\ the delta being clean and the cattle turned in.
 The price of seed has also been very satisfactory, having sold as high as $S6 pre- ton and s25 being as' low as most mills have been able to secure them. The seed has come to be a. very im- portant fa@or in the business of the
 farmer, selling as they do for about half the price of a bale of cotton, and
 thS result is that the farmers are more prosperous than at any time since the surrender of Lees army.
 It Is understood here that Capt. M. A.
 Brown of Yazoo county will be candi-
 date for stand land commissioner next
 year For some years he has been state
 lecturer of the Farmers union, and has
 thus made a wide acquaintance over the
 state knowing more farmers personally,
 perhaps, than any man D Mississippi In
 view of the fact that the Farmers union
 does not countenance anything like poll ties, Captain Brown will, it is said, re- sign his position of state lecturer before
 making formal announcement of his car-
 dldacy for the office of land commits