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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
MISSISSIPPI BRIEFS

Natchez will vote on proposition
to abolish the Office of police justice.
The Natchez Retail Merchants AS
ISOLATION protested against the par
cells post.
Luther Wood, aged years, was
killed by a train at Robinsonville,
Miss.
In a speech at picnic near Vicks-
burg Congressman Collier scored the
tariff bill.
Sunshine Hawkes. lectured before
the Mississippi Chautauqua, at Cry
stall Springs.
Funerals Of Confederate veterans
at Beauvoir will be conducted with
military honors.
r. o. Self, a railroad man at
Meridian, is alleged to have shot
twice al his wife.
HI. M. Street, J. C. Hardy and c..
w. Thatcher spoke at the good roads
political rally at Hickory.
1t is reported that Aug. S the
dredgeboat Barnard will be transfer
red from Gulfport harbor to South
Pass.
The third annual session of the
Mississippi League of Postmasters
held a two days session at Jackson.
Paul Combel, a baker, Is charged
at Bay st. Louis with criminally as
saulting Irene Fratus, IL years old.
J. H. Crebbin was stricken at the
Seashore Camp Grounds and remov-
ed to New Orleans in a serious con-
dition.
Efforts will be made to continue
the Medical School at Vicksburg,
formerly part of the University of
Mississippi, as an Independent insti-
tuition
Presbyterian Sunday school work
ers, in state convention at Crystal
Springs, launched a movement to
establish a training school for lay
workers.
An agricultural high school for
the joint use of Scott and Newton
Counties was located at the Patrons
Union Camp Grounds, near the divid-
ing line at Lake.
Deputy Sheriff Sid Mckenzie kill
ed five negroes and wounded two
others while attempting to arrest a
band of blacks near Elliott, Miss.
Ernest Arnold, serving two years
for whitecapism in Bolivar County,
was pardoned by Governor Noel.
H. E. Ramsay was elected marshal
of Hazlehurst over G. w. White.
The suggestion of error filed in
the case of State VS.. Wallace Smith
of Gulfport, was overruled by the
Supreme Court, and Smith will have
to serve his sentence.
Charles w. Thatcher, good roads
apostle, spoke at Forest, and the
Scott County Good Roads Association
was formed.
Alex Gamble and Otis Gamble.
the former white, the latter mulat-
to, were arrested in Jefferson Coun-
ty, where they are suspected of the
murder of an unknown man, whose
body was found near Roxie.
A committee recommended to the
Natchez Chamber of Commerce
that plates be secured showing the
lines of erosion of the Mississippi
River.
John Halter, of Biloxi, struck
John Perry, a New Orleans detective,
who had made charge against him,
alleging that he had been running
blind tiger. The detective flashed
gun, but trouble was averted,
when he boarded a train for New
Orleans.
Tobias Thornhill, 10 years old,
who played the part of peacemaker
between Wallace Price and Sam
Brumfield at a church near Sartin-
vile, was hhot by the latter, who
vile, was shot by the latter, who
a flower from the dress of girl
and tore the garment in his quest.
Theodore Roosevelt, in letter to
Governor Noel, states that it will be
impossible for him to visit the Gulf
States before next spring, on his
way to California.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
Reclaim Overlooked Land.

Despite the opposition manifested
from quarters, inspired by the ex-
pense involved. the movement for
the reclamation of swamp and over
flowed lands in Mississippi through
the organization Of drainage dis
tricts is making steady progress.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
Will Bore for Oil and Gas.

Governor Noel has approved the
charter of the Home Oil and Gas
Company of Kosciusko, which IS
capitalized at $4,000, and will, in
the near future, bore for oil and gas
in that section.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
Postal Gets Reduction.

The Postal Telegraph company was
granted a reduction of assessment
by the Mississippi Railroad Commits
sion, but the Western Union did not
get the reduction asked for.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
Normal Programme.

The programme for the opening
exercises of the Tri-County Summer
Normal, to be held at Newton during
the month of August, beginning
Monday night the first, has been
given out by the director, Prof. W..
c Williams.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
Medical School Discontinued.

The board of trustees of the State
Educational Institutions has decided
to discontinue the support of the
Medical Branch of the State Uni
versity in Vicksburg.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28

law provides that the trustees must
select the teachers and notify the
principal of the school to which the
teacher is assigned.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
Saw Mill Burns-No Insurance.

The sawmill of o. F. Cassibry, five
miles north of Tylertown, was burn
ed, the loss being estimated at about
$4,000 with no insurance. 1t is the
intention of the owners to rebuild.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28

"a chemical dip will be established
ct Natchez to handle cattle for
slaugnter-houses brought from Mis-
sissippi River points during the
tick quarantine.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
Good Attendance at Chautauqua.

The attendance at the Mississippi
Chautauqua Assembly indicates that
the sixteenth annual session will far
surpass the expectations of the man
agement.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28

well
flood of OUT
to be in
But what mean?" / interpOse mildly.
don't
a
he has
in the
that they have merely
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28

The governor has appointed dele
gates to the second National Con-
servation Congress to be held at st.
Paul, Mimi, Sept to 8, and hope
to attend himself.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
TediOuSneSS in
Conversation
BY Homer H. Harbou

NE tedum of conversation that wish the
A habit retailing summary plot
~ a
involved is difficult thing
the enterprise How often
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-29
THE POSTAL SAVINGS BANK BILL PASSES
Only Three Insurgents Dare President Tas Wrath and
With All Democrats But One Oppose Measure.

the secretary of the treasury and the
attorney general. This board is
given complete control of the depos-
itories and of their funds. AS it will
require considerable time for the
board to prepare it's regulations it
is impossible at this time to predict
when the postal banking system will
be in operation.
In the repositories any person over
10 years of age may make deposits
of funds amounting to 81 or null
tiples of that amount. Pass books
will be issued to depositOrs and in
terest allowed at the rate of 2 per
cent. per annum. No person is to be
permitted to deposit more than 500
in any month, nor to be allowed to
have exceeding $500 to his credit at
any time. The withdrawal of funds
is permitted at any time.
What Becomes of the Funds.
The postal savings funds thus ac-
cumulated are to be placed in state
and national banks in the commune
ties in which the deposits are made,
and the banks are to be required to
pay IA per cent. interest. Five per
cent. of the total deposits is to be
held by the treasurer of the United
States as a reserve to guarantee the
payment of depositors.
Banks are to be required to de-
post securities in the shape of pub
lie bonds to assure the safety of de-
posits. There is provision author
izing the withdrawal of 80 per cent
of the deposits for investment in gov
eminent bonds, and depositors are
permitted to transmute their depos-
it's into bonds when they so desire
Postmasters in fourth-class offices
are to be given additional compen-
sation for their services in connection
with the repositories and postal saw
ings accounts in the banks are to
be kept separate from all other ac-
counts. One hundred thousand dol
lars is appropriated to carry the pro-
posed law into effect and to establish
/ the first of the repositories.
1t is expressly declared in the bill
itself that 1.-The faith of the United
States is solemnly pledged to the
payment of the deposits made in pos
tai savings depository offices, with
accrued interest thereon as herein
provided"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-29
UNMARRIED MEMS ELDORADO
A PECULIAR CONDITION WHICH
EXISTS IN WASHINGTON.
The Nations Capital Has Become q
City of Women. Number Is
Gradually Increasing.

Gradually Increasing.
Washington has become a city of
women-in fact, the census figures
show that there are 10000 more ma
ture women there than men. Think
of it! And the strange part of it is
that these women are the selected
fittest of all the states. There is
conspiracy of circumstances that
causes all these to congregate in the
capital city. Yet there is a similar
conspiracy that keeps the men away
and sends those scurrying who find
themselves there for a while.
Some years ago reports came from
the south Pacific of an island inhab-
tied by lustrOus-eyed amazons with
never man among them. War be-
tween two rival tribes had resulted
in battle to the death of all the
male inhabitants. The women await
ed with what composure they might
summon the coming of the male
creature from the great outside.
Such a condition exists today in
Washington.
Fifty years ago Bolivia went to
war with Argentine and Brazil, so
out-matching herself as to make the
struggle hopeless. Yet her patriot
ism grew into\ fanaticism. Her men
fought until the male population was
well-nigh exterminated, and but ma
tion of women was left. The demand
for men grew strong, and the Great
ure of the pantaloon persuasion en-
Joyed an unprecedented popularity.
Such condition today exists in
Washington, the nations capital.
There is the Ell Dorado of the I'M
married man. There, stronger than
anywhere else the world around.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-29
TWO PLANT CURIOsITIEs.
Mrs. Gum of Cuthbert Has Some
thing Unusual For This Section.

Mrs. Gum of Cuthbert Has Some
thing Unusual For This Section.
Mrs. John D. Gum has two curiosi-
ties for this section in the plant line.
One of these is pineapple plant
with fruit on it which bids fair to
ripen ere long. A Cuthbert raised
pineapple IS not seen every day.
The other is growth on a Sage
palm that, so far as can be ascer-
tanned, has never before been seen
in Cuthbert. This plant is about
fifteen years of age, and is a very
large and handsome one. Recently
it has put out from the center a cone
shaped growth eighteen inches tall
and eighteen inches in circumfer-
ence. 1t is of yellowish color and
omits pleasant odor. 1t is rough
like a pineapple, and has a nutty
flavor not unpleasant to the taste.
Mrs. Gum is undecided as to
whether the palm is going to seed,
has been queerly affected by the COM
ct, or is endeavoring to repay for the
labor expended on it by furnishing
fruit or food in this time of high
priced eatables.
No one of our flower growers has
ever before heard of palms acting
this way.-Cuthbert Leader.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-29
IMPORTED BABIES UNPOPULAR.
Health Officers Say Bringing of Ba

Health Officers Say Bringing of Ba-
bies Into Louisiana Is Bad Idea.
The importation of babies into
Louisiana from orphan institutions
in other states has been severely con-
demned by the Louisiana parish and
municipal health officers association.
In discussing the question Supt-
PiersOn of the state insane asylum
declared:
THE deposit of these helpless lit
tie creatures, coming possibly I'M
known from tainted progenitors into
our midst, is simply planting the
seed Of greater degeneration, more
defective idiots, imbeciles and alco-
holics."
Hundreds of babies from a New
York founding. asylum have been
adopted in Louisiana homes during
recent months.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-29

WASHINGTON, D. C.-After vot-
ing down several amendments the
senate today decided, "A to %, to
concur in the house amendments to
the postal savings bank bill, and thus
took the last legislative step neces-
Sary to the establishment of a postal
savings bank system in the United
States. The measure was included
IN the administration schedule, and
It's passage marks another triumph
Tor President Taft.
In accordance with the programme
agreed upon yesterday the voting be-
gan at 8 o'clock, and the bill was
passed quarter of an hour after
wards
Most of the ''insurgent" republic
cans joined with the regulars in sup
porting the measure in the final ac-
Cion on it, but Senators Bristow,
ounmins and La Toilette refused to
lleld, and cast their ballots in the
negative with the democrats. Sen
CUR chamberlain cast the only dem
oVIdIlc vote for the bill.
Worse Than Tariff Law?
FFeVlous to the voting there was
muCn discussion of the general mer-
Its of the bill.
MI, Mr. Simmons of North Carolina
Ieuounced the bill as IAN abject and
Eliminating surrender to the banks, -
t slu predicted that before the end of
tL bo next campaign the bill would be
b I0 most unpopular law ever passed
ir 'ne republican party, mot except
Ms MS 'ne spurned, rejected and tram
I0 upon Payne-Aldrich tariff law.
ioo D-eCCidrlng that the house had re-
Ser,eu every feature for which the
Mr. Mo-" IT mad made a special endeavor
fro,, Hughes of Colorado read articles
nroa 1! newspapers declaring that the
ris9Iueht had threatened to veto the
biIIn ana harbOr and public buildings
hin Il the house postal savings bank
snnot snouId fail of acceptance by the
WIZ lie demanded to know
harnaIieF the contents of the pork
HToasl. should be more potent in in
mon 4CIug senator's than the require
nooto3 ot the constitution. Surely a
bn "o savings bank bill was not to
snob passed because of the exercise OF
Rris+ Huence, he said. With Mr.
won}9 ne asserted that the bill
nartI, prove a political curse to the
y ehacting it into law.
What the Bill Is.
the nc rT. postal bank bill, as it goes to
natior esident provides for the desig-
deno Un Vi postof1ces as postal savings
sucb O'.sory offices. The opening OF
cretio repositories is left to the dis.
consio4, VI board of three trustees
ensuing of the postmaster general
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-29
What the Bill Is.

the NC me-. postal bank bill, as it goes to
na hat president, provides for the desig-
demo- VI postoffices as postal savings
sucb ,soIy offices. The opening of
cretiou repositories is left to the dis
con S,on OF a board of three trustees,
Ng of the postmaster general,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-29
JOE HALL BROKE UP THE "REAuTY" SHOW
Objected to the Georgia Legislators Taking Up Time
Having Their Pretties Struck

ANTA.-Representative Hall
of Bibb prevented the members of
the house from having their pictures
taken this morning.
Speaker Holder announced to the
house after the journal had been
read that he had been requested by
a representative of an Atlanta paper
to ask the house to take a recess at
IL o'clock for ten minutes, so that
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-29

they might pose for their photo
graphs on the west steps of the cap
itol. If there was no objection the
house would take a recess at that
hime.
Mr.. Hall quickly rose to his feet.
Has this house no business to
attend to-" he asked in indignant
tones. II object"
That settled the matter, and there
was no recess for picture taking
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-29

Foley's Kidney Remedy may be
given to children with admirable re-
suits. 1t does away with bed wet
ting, and is also recommended for
use after measles and scarlet fever.
Dawson Drug Co. and Peoples Drug
Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-29
GOOD TO THEMSELVES.
Congressman Vote an Extra Months
Pay to the Clerks.


How good our congressman are to
themselves and their employes-at
public expense! 1t hasn't been long
since the congressman increased their
own pay so per cent, and a day or
two ago the senate voted that all Of
its clerks should have an extra
months pay. The house had already
voted that its clerks should have an
extra months pay. The clerks work
about eight months out of the
twelve in a year, and are to receive
thirteen months pay. This, how
ever, is no new thing. 1t has been
done many times before, and will be
done again. Congress is not respon--
sible to anybody except the people,
and the people do not seem to care
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-29
THE HOME OF FREAK LAWS
IN OKLAHOMA STATE CRACKED
PLATES ARE BARRED,
Colonel Jack Love Never Dreamed
He Would Have Magnates EAT
ing Out of His Hand"

! SS ONo VI LIS AAStANs
Kansas used to be the legislative
experiment station of the country.
, Oklahoma is now. Besides all the
known to the legiculturists of the
common garden varieties of laws
world the political Burbanks of Okla
homa are now engaged in trying out
a large number of legislative rarities
and monstrosities of their own in
vention and development, writes a
recent traveller in that state.
Of course Oklahoma has the an
ti-cigar and anti-cigarette paper laws
of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and GER
tain other western states. Of course
it has prohibition, though that was
put upon Oklahoma by congress. 1t
has the law against public or COM
mon drinking cups, which you will
also find in Kansas.
Quick Thought Necessary.
But it has queerer and stranger
things. Oklahoma has a law forbid
ulnS the putting or cracked plate
Oh a table in a hotel or restaurant,
and sometimes it enforces this law,
The other day the proprietor of a
restaurant in Oklahoma City was
moving about among the tables when
he saw the inspector enter the room.
| CHANGING at table the proprietor
perceived a cracked plate. By deft
movement he showed it off the edge
of the table, and it broke into twenty
pieces on the floor The crash was
answered by another in the back
part of the room. The vigilant head
waiter had discovered a cracked
plate, too, and was on the job.
BY such presence of mind as this
the majesty of the law is maintained
in Oklahoma.
One of the new states legislative
curiosities is the payment of a salary
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-29
FIRST NEW BALE.

Was Grown in Texas, Weighed 316
Pounds and Sold For 1910.
A Houston, Tex, dispatch OF June
28th says: Weighing 316 pounds
the first bale of the cotton crop of
1910 reached here today for Mer-
cedes. $50.
The bale classed as good middling,
and at auction brought 1915.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-29

a y
who is commonly Known blush to
say it, but it is what all Oklahoma
calls him, and cannot suppress the
truth-as the bedbug inspector.
Nominally ne is the hotel inspector.
but his principal function seems to
be to inspect the beds, which have
to be shown up for his study at any
hour of the day or night when he
arrives and demands it.
Colonel Love a Character.
This seems to be the proper place
to put these dry matters aside and
tell something about the most re-
markable man in Oklahoma who hap
pened to have something to do with
the railroad question:. E. Love,
universally known as Colonel Jack,
who is the chairman of the state cor
poration commission. This justly
celebrated man WIS formerly a cow
boy on the western ranches. He
looks it, though he is now develop
ing a localized embonpoint," which
would be incompatible with a high
degree of efficiency as a broncho
buster.
He is about six feet four inches
in height, and carries his height
proudly and we'll. He has an eagle
eye and an eagles beak and big
mustache, with prominent cheek
bones and every conceivable mark of
the cowboy type of beauty. With a
wide hat on and no coat he walks
the streets CT little Guthrie with a
noble and commanding air.
The corporation laws of Oklahoma
impose five different kinds of taxes
on the corporations, and it is the
business of the state corporation
commission, over which Colonel Love
presides, to see that the corporations
faithfully pay all these kinds of taxes
and perform all their other manifold
obligations.
Revenge on the Magnates.
Not long ago Love had several
great eastern railroad magnates be-
fore him in connection with a mat
ter of law enforcement. 1t is said
that he leaned back, cast his eye over
the great men and exclaimed with
emphasis:
Well, when | was riding the
ranges out on the plains I never
dreamed that the time would come
when 1 should have you (supply here
the most profane and insulting cpl
tibet known to the western vocabu-
lary) eating out of my hand!"
Colonel Jack Love says that the
corporation laws of Oklahoma are
not bit severer than are those of
New York or Massachusetts, and that
the only difference is that the laws
are fearlessly and vigilantly enforced
there, whereas they are not enforced
in New York or Massachusetts.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-03
LuRY PANEL CHOSEN

A Jury panel to report in Judge Bord-
wells department of the superior court
February Is was chosen yesterday as
follows: Frank B. Alexander and j. r.
Hall. Alhambra Leroy Calvert, Azusa;
carl Dohn. Artesia; F. II. Fabric, Co
yina; Henry D. Kirk, Colegrove; j. +.
Wire. CIaremont; James c. Stout,
Downey; John Franklin and Charles
Seward, El Monte; T. r. Parson, 1ngle-
wood; L. e. Jordan, Lamanda Park;
w. I. Clapp, J. E. Counts, Isaac H..
Fetterman, Harry H. Meyers, George
M. Rose. Clarence G.. Stansifer and X.
III. Tripp. Long Beach; NJ. c. Fordham,
%. A. Forester, w. j. Doran, X. II.
Dorsey, c. w. Damerel, Willis M.
Dixon, Thomas A. Carter, Frank w.
Bailey. S. Behrendt, M. L. Carter,
James Il. Calvin, Albert Cohn, Emil
Furth A. W. Fisher j. b. Green,
George l.. Hasson, A. f. Halsey, H. I.
ingalls,. ]. A. Keeny, Joseph Lucas, )
N NeWmark, DR.. c. f. Pepper II. j.
Robinson. Louis C. Scherb, a. u Taft,
Walter w. Tanner, ]. N. Williams and
Charles L. White, Los Angeles; George
TT. Curtis and w. H. Turner, Pasadena;
George e. Cross, Puente; w. f. Nc
T0ughlin, Palms; Z. w Boehm, Chrls
Johnson r. r. Lowe, w. d. O,Mailey
and C,5E. Ruteldge, Santa Monica
Henry Mcdonald, San Gabriel; clark
e. wilkinson, Tropico; Joseph Iodd'
Whittier.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-03
RESIDENTS OFFER
TO BUY FRANCHISE
South Park Property Owners Will
Make Railway Company Press
ent If Bid to Council Is
Successful

An offer to buy the South Park
avenue franchise and either sell 1t or
give it to the Los Angeles railway was
made by the property owners on South
Park avenue to the public utllltles
commission yesterday afternoon.
The property owners on South Park
avenue petitioned the council to grant
a franchise to the Los Angeles railway
for South Park avenue, and the coun-
Gil referred the matter to the public
utilities commission. The commission
set 1t for hearing yesterday and a
large number of property owners IN
terested in the line appeared at the
hearing.
Meyer Lissner, chairman of the
commission, hinted that the city want
ed to keep South Park avenue open
for a municipal railway, but the pc
titioners declared they did not want
municipal railway, as they want
transfers. They declared that if the
Los Angeles railway would not buy
tho franchise, if it was advertised for
sale, they would do so themselves and
pay the city fair price. They would
then try to sell it to the railway. and
il the railway would not pay for it
they would make the company a
present.
No decision was reached by the com
mission. The matter was taken under
advisement until the question of fixing
rates for the public utilities COM
panies is completed.