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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
cahh az Political Pinch Hitter.

Omaha Betty Cobb has boosted
an old neighbor into postmastership.
Ty is dandy fellow to have at bat
when you are on base.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
Similarity OF Treatment.

Richmond News-Letter-From the
way they howl him down, it would
seem that those camorra prisoners
take the Judge for a baseball umpire.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
/ STATE NEWS NOTES
Weeedy 0udget C News items Gathered by Our
Speciel Correspondent ct Jackson.
Isarned Historians spssA Ti0s in Exam
lining Books.

Jaeksoa--During the past few days
Jackson has been visited BY two Of the
most prominent and successful histori-
ans and library workers in the country.
One of these IL DIR. Gaillard Hunt of
Washington, ID. G., chief of the manu-
SCRIPT division of the library Of con.
gross, who j. making a tour through the
Southern states looking up archives and
records and manuscripts pertaining ~
the early periods of the country.
DIR. Hunt spent Friday and Saturday
here, and has been occupied in study
of the Mississippi archives department.
lie declared with enthusiasm that he had
visited libraries and archives and exam
ined their work and systems thoroughly
In both American and European capitals,
but at Jackson, under - direction of
Dr. Rowland, he had found the most per
feet system of collection and classified.
ton within his experience.
Another history worker here for the
purpose of getting information from the
same source il Prof. Isaac j. Cox of the
chair of history in the University of Gin
cinnati, who IL securing data covering
the period of Spanish occupancy of the
lower south, and declares that he has
struck gold mine of information among
DIR. Rowland's archives, especially data
pertaining To the lower South and West
Florida.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
CALL MISSISSIPPI VETERANS.
Gen. w. A. Montgomery Issues a
General Order.

Jacksonville following general or
der, issued by Gen. w. A. Montgomery,
calling attention of the Mississippi d.
vision 10 the great reunion 10 be held
at Little Rock, Ark, has been issued
Headquarters Mississippi Division, ~.
G. ", Jackson, Miss, April 8, 1911.
General Order No. 7.
TO Commanders aud Adjutantsi
"Comrades--Nour attention il hereby
called 10 the meeting Of this OrganizA.
ton at Little Rock. Ark, on May 10, II
and rs, next and especially 60 the i'm
portanee Of holding your meetings and
paying your dues 10 the general or.
ganizs tion aud TO these headquarters at
Jackson. The dues of each organization
~ 10 cents per capita, with q minimum
Of 81. Meet az once and attend 90 this
duty; elect your delegates and report
same TO Gen. William H. Miclkle, adju.
tant-general, az New Orleans. Ia. Pay.
ment Of dues - necessary ~ order TO
be represented at Little Rock.
"The railroads leadinig 10 Little Rock
have issued the usual rate Of one cent
per mile each way, plus 70 cents, aud
YOU should consult your nearest ticket
agent IN reference ~ securing tickets.
and also see that sufficient coaches are
furnished for those who wish TO 60"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21

Must Pay Interest on Bonds From
January I. 1911.

Jaekson.--Judge w. A. Henry Mednes
day afternoon delivered a lengthy de
eision Ina the celebrated state bond ease
In which he sustain- the contention 81
the governor that the bonds were sold
az par, ~ the law directed. and or
dering that the writ OF mandamus APP
piled for compelling the auditor 10 issue
his warrant upon the treasurer Tor tho
payment OF the accrued Interest on these
bonds falling due January g., 1911. b.
granted. Judge Henry quoted many
authorities upholding his decision. and
also the common aeepptation of the word
par" by commercial bodies 4 cor.
rect definition of what the legislature
meant by the word par. he said, solves
the question involved
WAS the word par used by the leg.
islatnrs IN sense different from the
common acceptation of the term of com.
mereial nsagef"
He says; lis any legal requirement Co
be thrown around IL that It will re
quire a different construction The su.
preme court Of Mississippi, ia the case
Of Edwards ". Hampton 81 AL. recently
decided, places upon the coupons com.
suited agree a. Ia what par means,
to-wit; Nominal value face value the
value expressed on the face OF IN the
words of certificate of value. ~ a boni
or other commercial paper state or
value of bonds, shares, etc, when they
sell at exactly the price marked on
them, ]. e., without premium or dis
count; above par. at premium on more
than the nominal value; AZ par, al en-.
actly the nominal value below par, a.
discount, or at lees than the NOM.
nal value"
In summing up, Judge Henry saidi
Looking t0 the commercial accrpta.
ton of the meaning of par taking
the commercial usage OF the term as
understood aud applied. bearing ~
mind the construction placed upon the
words by the Legislature of Missi-
sippi. relying upon the authorities and
the reasoning presented by them, the
court has no hesitation IN holding that
by par on the act of 1910. now under
consideration the legislature simply
meant the face of the bond itself The
writ of mandumus will Therefore issue
coma nding the auditor Of public ac-
counts To issue his warrant 10 holders
Of coupons due snd payable January !,
1911, TOR the full amounts stated in
said coupons.
The cant that the state will lose
some eight or ten thousand dollars OF
interest is not received with patience.
We're this true, the state had far better
lose its interest than 90 lose its
honor"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
KICK ON DRAINAGE.
Protective Association Outlines It's
Campaign.

ClarksdaIe.-Two hundred of the
largest land owners in the Tallahatchie
drainage district met here and found
themselves so unanimously in opposI-
tion to the present Tallshat ehie drain
age act and the present administration
of affairs under it that there was no
discussion.
The meeting, under the auspices of
the Tallabatchie Protective Associa-
ton, took further steps To light To the
end and expressed every confidence of
winning the fight.
T. G. James of Sharkey presided and
stated that the meeting was called
primarily to answer the proposition OF
DIR. III. w. Crenshaw, president of the
Tallshatehie drainage commission, who
made suggestion for the commission.
the association and the foreign land
owners to each appoint an equal mum
Der of a general committee, which
should try TO harmonic the differences
between the commission and the land
owners i'll the protective association,
and secondarily to decide upon the
future course of the association.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
FIRST DEMAND FOR MONEY.
Bondholder Asks State Auditor for In
terest Warrant.

state Auditor r. J. Smith has received
q demand from one of the purchasers Of
state bonds, the legality of which was
questioned by the state treasurer and
which Judge w. A. Henry of the circuit
court passed on this week, for a warrant
for the interest from July !, 1910, to
January ], 1911.
This demand was made by a small
holder of bonds who resides out Of the
state, but the warrant has not been ~
sued, ~ the state treasurer has an
nounced that he vii not pay any war.
rant till the supreme court has finally
PASSED on the question he raised three
months ago. Mr.. Smith does not know
what action he will take. a. the case il
10 be appealed To the supreme court,
and he probably will not issue this or
any other warrant till the states high
est tribunal has passed upon it.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21

CURTAILMENr CONTINUES AND
BUYING IS DESUL10RY.


Boston, Mass.--Miscry likes COM
,,any,- said President Franklin w.
Hobbs in his address to the National As
ISOLATION of Cotton Manufacturers in
this city in referring to the fact that
the Lancashire cotton mills had been
having hard shedding as well as those
in the United States
In his annual address President Hobbs
said:
Last September | remarked that the
cotton manufacturing industry had been
in troublous times since we met in
April last, and ] regret to b. compelled
to state that the troublous times have
ben continued. The cotton crop has been
a disappointment, curtailment has con-
tinued and most unsatisfactory condi
tion has resulted. Buying is on hand-to
mouth basis.
Added to perplexing business eondi
tions has been the upset political condi-
ton and the uncertainty due to expected
decisions of the supreme court, which
Will have far reaching effects. With
these two factors removed. we shall
know where we stand and be prepared to
20 forward.
1T may interest you to know that for
the year ending Nov. so, 1910, seventy
three concerns in Lancashire, with a
total paid-up capital stock of Sl2, 500, 900
and an added loan capital of s5,400,000,
showed loss after paying interest on
loans and allowing for depreciation.
These figures are the worst for twenty
five years.
1T i, undoubtedly true that the con-
sumption of cotton is steadily increas-
ing each year, and it seems equally true
that this increase in consumption will
continue.
With increases of machinery which
have been made it is evident that the
consumption of the mills of the world
on full time would be not less than
twenty million bales.
THE query thus arises: Where will
the additional amount of cotton needed
for the world and its increasing popula-
ton come from:
II think / am not too optimistic to
believe that from the present acreage
the American production could be
doubled ii proper methods were used,
and it is along such lines that our
friends in the South must work to Sc
sure the best results for themselves and
the spinners.'
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
UNCLE KIDNAPPED
HIS BROTHERS. BOY
WILL ROGERS CONFESSES COMPLEX
ITY-REvEALS MONEY.
Grandson of Millionaire Was Stolen an
Money PAID for Its Ransom-Uncle
Acted as Agent.

Las Vegas, y. Manipulated by the
confession of Joe Virgins, former life
convict, Will Rogers, uncle of little
Waldo Rogers, was Tuesday arrested for
completely in the lads abduction. For
his return S12 900 ransom was paid, Will
Rogers acting as agent for Mrs. Rogers.
Will Rogers confessed his part in the
abduction. He told where the money was
hidden and officers recovered the yS12, 900.
Waldo Rogers, the two-vear-old son
of MIR. and Mrs. A T. Rogers and the
grandson of II. L. Waldo, a Kansas City
millionaire, was kidnapped from the fam
lily residence the night of March 20.
Taking advantage of the absence from
the city of the boys father, two masked
men went to the Rogers home shortly
before midnight and at the point OF re-
volver compelled Mrs Rogers to dress
the child for night ride and deliver
him to them They repeatedly assured
her that the child would not be harmed
and that he would be returned safely
provided the police We're not informed
and S12, 600 in small bills was paid to
their representatives.
They named a lonely spot eleven miles
north of Las Vegas as the place where
the money was to be delivered by Mrs.
Rogers representative, who was to come
to the rendezvous alone, the following
day. Taking only her bankers and her
brother-in-law, Will Rogers, into her con-
fidence, Mrs. Rogers secured $4,000 the
following morning and delivered it to
Will Rogers to carry to the place of the
meeting.
Will Rogers returned Thursday nifht
with the child, well and unframed. He
told Mrs. Rogers and later the authoyi-
ties that he had been met at the apopbt-
ed place by a man, who, alter recel pg
and counting the moneys s.;;reetas 2 Il
to canyon fifteen miles south Of the
place of meeting, where he found the
boy lying in an arroyo, wrapped in
blanket
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21

tended a banquet of the Nisi Prius Club,
an organization of Cleveland lawyers.
The following Wednesday he was
obliged to go to bed. From that day to
the time of his death his condition was
grave, though several times he made
seemingly impossible rallies, and despite
the fact that he realized he did not have
long to live, the former mayor was cher
full and optimistic almost to the last.
Tom J.. Johnson, from the time he en-
tered the offices of a Louisville street
railway company as a boy of Is until his
defeat for a fifth term OF mayor of Cleve-
land, on November 2, 1909, was ever in
the center of some storm, political or
financial. And, as he often said, it was
thus that he enjoyed himself best.
Mr.. Johnson was born in Georgetown,
Ky July IS, 1854
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21


culfpost.-Capitalists froa New York
And Chicago are planning to make a.
raneements with south Mississippi saw-
mil men 70 place on the market vast
tracts Of the cut-0ver pine lands Of this
section in = manner that will make then
highly attractive and will result, Il The
plan = carried out, in doubling the num-
Der Of farms. Much work on. the plan
hes already been done, il IL said, and
when the scheme il complete il will BE-
one of the biggest immigration sehemss
ever put through i'm the South.
The plan is TO buy up lands or rather
to make arrangements with the owners
of large traets of land in South Missis-
sippi to pool their interests and get. con-
troll of several hundred thousand acres
of land, and then give away forty acres
i'm each section. The deed to this forty
acres will not be given to the settler,
however, until he has raised three crops
on the land. The other 600 acres OF
the section will BE- sold on the Install
ment plan. The scheme is TO make thu
other 600 acres valuable and attractive
BY virtue of the proximity of the forty
acres under cultivation II. A. Camp OF
Haftiesburg will act as trustee and
through him the deeA to the land viii
be awarded. Recently a Mr. Thompson
of New York. one of the promoters of
the scheme, was in Gulfport. and II was
from him that the above information
was obtained.
The scheme will be extensively adj
vertised throughout the country. AT the
Chicago and New York land shows 1000
feet of space will be contracted for. 1t
is also proposed TO prepare and EXHIBIT
motion pictures showing the lands and
crops and to appropriate 100000 for
newspaper advertising.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
GETS $50 PER WEEK ALlM0NY
"Dear Sugar Pie" of Many Letters Want
ed 81 OOO

New York.-Edith NJ. Huff, who is the
dear sugar pie" of the many letters
placed before Supreme Court Justice
Greenbaum in her action for absolute di-
vorce from George c. Huff, of the Wal
dorf Astoria, was granted $50 "A week ali
mony. She wanted 81 900 month,
claiming that her husband had an in
come of $4,000 and was supporting an
other woman in luxury as his wife.
Mrs. Huff explained to the court the /
her husband bad often used the name
Ernest b. Denison in connection with hi }
real estate transactions following ''ffnan-
cial difficulties" in Denver several years
ago. and he admitted that this was true.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
GETTING READY FOR WORK.
New Orleans Great Northern to Soon Let
Contract

Jackson.-The New Orleans Great
Northern railroad, il il said. will begin
work ON its jackson terminals i'm short
time. just when the contract will be- let
is not known here, but il j. understood
the officers Of the road desire To get
started on the work a. soon as practica-
Bile.
Details are being shaped up, il il IN
derstood, and a. soon rs the prelimina-
ries can be arranged, the contract will be-
let and orders issued for the work To be-
gin a. soon a. the contractor can assem-
BILE the material.
IL il not knows what the new termi-
mails of the Great Northern will cost, but
it Is the general opinion that the road
will spend something like 100000 for
its local terminals.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
MUST LIVE IN STATE TWO YEARS
Cannot Vote Unless Resident for Re-
quired Period.

Jacksonville department of Justice
has received many inquiries from various
sources about the qualifications Of a
voter, other than those covered in the
recent opinion of Attorney General Hud-
son relative to taxes.
These inquiries come up in different
forms. One of the latest questions is
whether young man who has not resid-
ed in the state for a year, but has be
come of age since c'yming To Mississippi,
is entitled To vote. Assistant Attorney
General Carl Fox prepared the opinion
on this and holds that the young man
cannot vote till he has been in the state
two years, as required by the constitu-
ton.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
PAY TRIBUTE TO JOHNSON
Stand in Rain to See Body Taken
to Depot.

Cleveland, O.-Braving the chilly
winds and drilling rain, an imincnsa
throng of people, variously estimated
at from $50, 900 to 100000. stood H. the
streets late Wednesday and pail silent
tribute to the memory of Tom l.. John
son as his body was conveyed from the
family apartments TO the union depot
Long before the cortege left tn, john
son home, the streets We're Incl with
people. As the procession pass down
the streets the men removed hats, While
women bowed heads. Flags a. ial,-maSt
hoated from the buildings, and IN store
windows pictures of the former mayor
were displayed, draped in black and the
Stars and Stripes.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
Agricultural High School.

Yazoo Gty.-At joint meeting Of the
county school board aud the trustees Of
the Agricultural high school, site for
the new agricultural high school was Sc
lected, the location being three-fourths OF
a mile southeast of Benton.
The site il said to BE- one Of the most
beautiful in she county, aud j. admira.
bly, suited for the purpose. IL WAS do
mated by the people of the Benton neigh
borhood, and the site covers an area OF
eighty acres. II will require about sio,-
600 to erect a suitable building.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
SEASONS COTTON MOVEMENT
Texas Moved to March /, 2.952, 247 Bales.
$50, 900 Over Last Year.

New Orleans, La.-Secretary Hester }
nalysis of the cotton movement for the
even months OF the season from Septem-
Der 1 to March 81, inclusive, shows that,
compared with the crop movement last
year, the state of Texas has brought into
sight this season in round figures $780,
90 bales more; other gulf states, which,
include Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi.
Tennessee, Missouri and Oklahoma, have
marketed $4,000 more, and the group of
Atlantic states, which includes North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bams and Virginia, have marketed 420,-
600 more, making the increase in the
amount marketed 1.63O,000.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21

Jaekson.-Adjutsnt General Fridge has
ISSUED orders for several companies To re-
port for rife practice aud for = school
of instruction at Camp Williamson,
Nicksburg, commencing Monday, April
II, and ending june II. In this time the
entire national guard of Mississippi will
have seen service. Gen. Fridge viii be ia
command OF the camp and Capt. q. A.
Hogaboom will be- in charge Of the small
arms practice. Capt. J. X. Burnett will
direct the signal corps, and three SER
geants and four priyates from the Third
infantry will be detailed as instructors.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Spring Examination of Medicos to Be
Held in MAY.

Jackson-Dr 8. II. Mclean, secretary
of tbesMississippi state board OF health,
announces that the regular sem-annusl
examination of applicants for license to
practice medicine will be held at the
state house on Tuesday and Wednesday,
May and 10.
sssary for each applicant to have his APP
plication on file at least ten DAYS prior
to the examination. and, in accordance
with the plan adopted last year. must
also furnish his photograph accompanied
by notarial affidavit that the likeness
is genuine.
The purpose of this requirement i to
keep track of all applicants and to pre-
vent the illegal practice OF medicine in
this state.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
POSTOFFICES IN MISSISSIPPI
List of Appropriations Made by Congress
for Work.

Following il a list of the pending APP
preparations for the erection of new
federal buildings in Mississippi:
Brookhayen, pOstofiice, 49,, 900.
Canton. postofiice, $4,000.
Clarksdale, postofhce, si2, 900.
Greenwood, postoffice. 10000.
Grenada. postoffice, $4,000.
Holly Springs, postofice, $4,000.
McComb. postoffiee. $4,000.
Tupelo, postoffice, $4,000.
Vicksburg, postoffce and courthouse
100000.
West Point, postoffcs, s30.O00.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
A Ait of Green.

woman who wanted a bit of green
for her drawing-room, and was not at
tracted by the conventional window
box idea. has created a really charming
effect by the use of plaster bracket
on which is placed an ordinary red
clay pot holding an English ivy. The
bracket, which was bought at PLASTER
cast shop for 35 cents. is of classic pat
tern and ivory in tone. The ivy has
already grown. so that it falls we'll
over the pot, and it is expected pres
entity to reach out more ambitiously.
These brackets are provided with sup
ports. through which small nails may
be thrust to fasten them to the wall.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21

Jackson, Miss.-Through tho Missip
sipoi School improvement Association,
Miss Susie Powell ~ chsrge ol this de-.
psrtmert, has offered 40 a prize for the
two best sets Of plans for a tWo-room
rural scboolhouse and premisos Two
scholarships al the Port Gibson Female
College, one Of the states leading cdu.
cational institutions for young womer.
The competition il open 10 the school
teachers OF the state, and the plans must
be filed with Mics Powell By June i,
1911. A committee will then be- appoint
ed 20 decide which are the best
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
NAVY GUNS KILL CHICKENS
Bombardment of Texas Plays Havoc
With<Heneries ON Shore.

Norfolk, Na.-The killing of many I'M
Matched chickens and hard shell crabs by
the 12-ineh guns of the battleship New
Hampshire when they sunk the old bat
tleship San Marcos, formerly the Texas,
in Tangier sound, Chesapeake bay, has
caused farmers and crab packers of the
eastern shore of Virginia and Maryland
frYfrre
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
PLAYGROUNDS OVER BODY
Tom Johnson Would Have Children
Romp Over Grave.

Cleveland, O.-"When die L hope the
people will make playground over my
body. | would rather have the children
romping over my grave than . hundred
monuments This WAS the statement
made BY former Mayor Tom L johnson,
who died Monday night, to his friends
when men in public life died and moru-
ments to their memory were being
planned.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21

BiIoxi.-The new tabernacle for the
Seashore Camp Ground is being built.
The new building, which will cost 80 900,
il being built by the Delta Contracting
Company. The new building viii b.
ready for use about June IS. A success.
full season il expected this year Mt the
camp grounds, which IL owned by the
Methodist Conferences Of Mississippi, Al
ALBANIA and Louisiana. There are over
fifty houses On the grounds, and in sum
mer about 700 persons are in evidences
there.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-04-21
Verdict for $40, 900.

Lasrel.-The circuit jury in the case
Of Mrs. T.. Creel VS.. the New Orleans and
Northeastern Railroad company, re-
turned a verdict against the railroad
company. Isaiah Creel, the husband of
the plaintiff. was run over BY railroad
train and killed while he was on rail-
way trestle of the defendant company at
a point one mile north Of Ellisville. The
plaintiff was represented by Deavours
& Stands, of Laurel, and the defendant
company ~ Mr.. A. 2. Bozema of Ne
ridian.