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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
CONVICTS WILL MAKE CANE
THEY RAISE CANE ON THE RANKIN
FARM-ALL VARIETIES.
Penitentiary Authorities Will Go Into
Making of Syrup as a Commercial
Proposition Next Season.

Acknowledgment Mccoy of the Ran
kin convict farm states hat of the TWEEN
ty acres planted this year in ribbon cane
at the Rankin farm, it had been decided
to bank" eighteen acres of it for seed
for the next year in order to have enough
to carry out the extensive program laid
out by the board of trustees relative to
the making of molasses. 1t may be that
the other two acres will be saved for
seed instead of grinding it, as the Ran
kin farm has IS barrels of prime syrup
left from last year.
Some of this last years syrup is be-
ginning to sugar, and in the bottoms of
the barrels there is a considerable guam
tity of it. Sergeant Mccoy is thinking
OF emptying the syrup out and draining
the sugar and using it instead of buying
sugar for the farm.
The p~enitentiary management is 60
ing to devote a great deal of space next
year to the growing of sugar cane and
manufacturing molasses, the surplus to
be sold, and there is Il splendid profit
in it. The Oakley and Rankin farms,
both of them badly boil weevil ridden,
have land especially suitable to sugar
cane and a large acreage will be planted
there.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
HIT HARD
Supreme Court Will Enforce Law on In.
-terstate Roads.

Supreme Court Will Enforce a On In.
terstate Roads.
Washington.-Complete control of all
the railroads of the country by the in
terstate commission and Writ
ual elimination of the state commissions
from such control, is o~vershadowed in
an opinion handed down by the supreme
court of the United States. The court
held that hereafter all locomotives, cars
or other equipment used on any railroad
which is a highway of interstate COM
merce, must comply with the federal
safety appliance act.
The court held that compliance with
federal law is compulsory on all rail
roads engaged in the transportation of
persons or freight from one state to an
other. Celebrating this, however, is held
that the cars OR equipment of such roads,
even if engaged in such transportation
within the confines of a state, must be
considered as part and parcel of the
road, and therefore completely under the
jurisdiction of the federal commission.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
PLANS TO INCREASE
PRICES OF COTTON
ALL SOUTHERN STATES REPRE-
SCENTED AT NEW ORLEANS.
Showing That Demand Far Exceeds Sup.
ply-Farmers' Union Ready to
Hold Crop.

New Orleans, La.-After consideration
of different plans for relieving the pres
emit demoralized condition in the cotton
world by the cotton conference, Gov. Col
quit of Texas has promised to make
public the first statistics ever compiled
showing the consumption of cotton and
the estimated demand of the world for
cotton of the 1911 season. These fig
ures, it is said, will clearly demonstrate
that even admitting that this seasons
crop would be the largest in the South's
history, every bale is worth from IA to
Is cents per pound. The figures were
not given out in detail. but Gov. Colquitt
said they showed that the worlds de-
mand at the present time was far great
er than the supply.
President Barrett of the Farmers
Union stated that the members of that
organization were, almost to a man,
prepared to hold every bale of this sea-
sons cotton which they have on hand,
and would be urged to do SO.
Almost every cotton growing state
was represented at the meeting. The
governors of Texas, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Louisiana and Virginia and Chas.
S. Barrett, president of the National
Farmers Union, were among those pres
ent and took an active part in the pro-
ceedings.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
PEOPLE WILL RULE IN CHINA
Strictly Limited Monarchy Follows Sue
cessful Revolution.

Peking.-An epochal series of edicts,
issued in the emperor's name, marks the
beginning of the end of a%bsoiutism and
insures to China a strictly limited mon
archy. A peaceful revolution has been
accomplished.
By the surrender of the Manchus to
the national assembly and the army
league, forced upon them by the menace
of the loss of their throne, the govern
ment of China is passing from the impe-
rial clan, whose sway was absolute since
1914, into the hands of the Chinese peo-
pie:
The throne conceded that Manchu
princes and other imperial relatives never
again shall be eligible to high posts in
the government, the right of the Chi
nese people, through their representa-
tives, to nave full voice in the making
of the fundamental laws q the land, in
stead of being compelled to accept a
government made constitution as hereto
fore provided and formally granted.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
TOMATO CLUBS FOR GIRLS.
Miss Powell Urges Organization il
Every County.

Jackson.-Miss Susie V. Powell, the
superintendent of rural school improve
ment, attached to the department of
education Of Mississippi, has returned
from a visit to Gainesville, Fla, where
she attended a conference of educators,
and where the question of tomato club
work among the girls was the main
one for consideration. Miss Powell, by
her successful conduct. of the tomato
clubs in Copiah and Lincoln counties
tins year, has become a sort of author
ity on the subject, and is in great de-
mand at educational gatherings.
In discussing the fact that the tomato
clubs viii only be tried in ten counties
OF the state this next year, Miss Powell
says this means that government aid
and the government demonstrators can
visit only the ten counties, but there is
nothing to prevent any county that
wants to put the tomato work in opera
ton getting up about 5000 to pay a
demonstration and then getting up 500
or 5000 in prizes, and the work can be
had just as well as in the counties
where government aid is extended.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
Corporation Tax in Copiah.

Hazlehurst.-The chancery clerk has
received from the secretary of the rail-
road commission a copy of the assess
ment of public service corporations in
Coriah county. The assessment of pull
he service corporations is $9s4,414, with
in a few dollars of the million dollar
mark. The total real and personal as
sessment o: the county, outside the pub
lie service corporations, is = little over
five and pne-h-,lf million dollars, bringing
the total assessment of the county up to
Elk and one-half million dollars.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
STATE AID FOR HIGHWAYS
ell Win Be Offered at Session Of Legs
lature.

Jackson--The Mississippi legislature,
At it's approaching session, will be asked
to adopt a law providing for state aid
to good road building in the counties.
This step was decided on after hearing
Q report by . committee composed Of
p. +. Wilson, George P. Chamberlain,
I. s. Aderholdt and III. E. Blakeslee,
and was offered at he. opening session
OF the Statewide Good Road Congress,
which began its second session. The
convention appointed Oscar Newton of
Jackson, chairman of a committee which
will be appointed before the close of the
convention, to draft a bill or memorial
to the lawmakers of Mississippi.
u think that this is the first real
step In the way of making good roads q
reality" said NJ. j. Spain of Attala
county, who is one of the leading spirits
OF the convention. "The building of
good roads is a problem which the state
must of necessity take a hand to work
out. In my opinion, this move to get
state aid will give the good road move
lei greater impetus than any other
means that could be devised"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
COUNTIES AHEAD OF GAME.
Draw More Money Out of Treasury
Than They Pay In.


Jacksonville auditors office has
just finished compiling an interesting
lot of data, showing how much money
the various counties pay into the state
treasury, and how much is paid to them
in various ways, the comomn school
fund, pensions, and in other ways.
Some of the counties, however, in the
last fiscal year, which ended on the first
of the present month, come out ahead
of the game and get more out of the
state treasury than they pay in. The
counties that are to the good on this
proposition are Attala, Benton, Calhoun,
Carroll, Choctaw, Franklin, Itawamba,
jefferson, Lafayette, Leake, Monroe,
Neshoba, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Smith,
Tippah, Tishomingo, Webster, Wilkin-
son and Winston, and the total amount
they nave received at the expense of the
other counties is $~75,995.31.
This year, from the way the assess
ment rolls are showing up, nearly all
the counties are trying to get in that
class. The way they work it is to put
assessments low. That, of course, makes
the amount they pay into the state
treasury small, for the state levy is
fixed at 6 mills on the dollar. Then on
the low assessment the county tax levy.
for county purposes strictly, can be fixed
at any amount desired. That money
does not leave the county.
The proposition that is worrying some
of the expert figurers around the cap
itol is, if all the counties, or a great
majority of them draw from the state
treasury and do not contribute any
thing, where is the money coming from
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
APPORIlON JOHN D. FUND
Southern Methodist University Will Re-
ceive $2oo, 600.

New York.-Conditional appropria-
tions a~ggregating s6a5,ooo We're grant
ed to six colleges and universities by
the board of trustees of tie John ID.
Rockefeller fund for e~ducation-the gem
eral education board-Friday. Applica-
tions from twenty-four institutions were
presented. From this list the board Sc
lected six, among which is distributed
conditiopally the available funds as fol-
lows,
To Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, Texas, 100000 toward $1,000
600; to Furman College, Greenville, 5.
c., $25 5000 TOWARD 100000; to Bucknell
University, Lewisburg, Pa, $4,000 to-
ward $3.50, 900; to Earlham College,
Richmond, Ind, $4,000 toward $4oo, 900;
to Grinnell College, Grinnell,, Iowa, $780,
900 toward $500 900, and to Smith Col
lege, Northampton, Mass, 100000 to-
ward 81, O0O, 900.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
WEED OUT THE SHIFTLESS,
mo Place on Farm for Worthless Ne.
gro," SAYS Jewell.

Observation-Disclosures the shiftles and
undesirable negroes from the farm, cut
the acreage for the good ones, and
plant all that is left in oats, is my ad-
vice to the farmer of the SOUTH says
j. r. Fewell, special agent of the U. S.
department of agriculture.
mississippi farmers can make their
land produce fifty bushels of oats to the
acre worth fifty cents a bushel and equiv
aient to $25 an acre. 1t costs IS for
planting and harvesting. The profit
therefore is $40. Turn under this stub
Bile and plant a good crop of cowpeas,
and it will yield at least a ton and one
quarter to the acre. Peavine hay al
ways sells for S12 a ton. 1t costs So an
acre to plant and harvest, and leave n
profit of SIC an acre. The two crops to-
gether net $50 by this process"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
LOUISIANA KILLING
IS RE-ENACTED
BROTHER, WEARING BLOODY SHIRT
OF VICTIM, ASSISTS.
Accused Woman Frequently Clutched
Hand of Her Attorney or Husband
During Ordeal.

Opelousas, La.-Before an audience
that packed the old parish court house,
Albert Garland donned the blood-stained
shirt worn by k:s dead brother, Allan,
on September 21, last, and re-enacted
the scenes of the tragedy for which Mrs.
Zee Runge McRee, mother OF four chill
dren, and wife of a prominent railroad
official, is asked to pay the death pen
atty.
Mrs. Mckee, whose defense is that she
killed Allan Garland in defense ot her
honor, was visibly nervous and constant
ly turned with an appealing look toward
the seven lawyers who are defending her,
or grasped the hand of her husband. This
grim scene came with the examination
of the first witness in a murder trial
which in many of its features already is
without precedent in the legal history OF
this parish.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
MISSISSIPPI CROP FIGURES
Hay and Forage More Than Double.
Sweet Potatoes Make Gain.

Washington, d. C.-Statistics rela-
tive to the leading crops for the state
of Mississippi, collected at the thir-
teenth decennial census, April Is, 1910,
are contained in In official statement
just issued by Census Director Durand.
The leading crops of the state for
1909, ranked in the order OF valuation,
were: Cotton, Ss3,149 900; corn, $26,-
100000; hay and forage $~a,3e4,ooo;
sweet potatoes and yams, $50 900;
oats, ss23 5000; potatves, $4,000, and
peanuts s217 600.
In the decade between 1883 and 1909
cotton increased SOP 200 acres, or 17.3
per cent. From 2%,1O6,215 acres in 1879
cotton increased to 2,ss2 a7e )" 1889, to
2,se7 800 in 1899, and again to 3,4O0,210
in 1909. The total yield in 1909 was
1,127,156 bales; the average yield per
acre, O.3 bale; the average value per
acre, $24.15.
Corn showed a decrease for the de-
cade ending 1909 of 1O3, 7O1 acres, or
40 per cent. From 1879, when $780,
| $50 acres were harvested, corn rose to
1,7O6,352 in 1889, to 2,279,313 in 1899,
but fell in 1909 to 2,172,612. The total
yield in 1908 was 2s,42s,667 bushels;
the average yield per acre, 10 bushels;
the average value per acre, $12.
For the decade ending 1905 hay and
forage showed an increase of 13O,444
acres, or 1914 per cent. Starting with
9,219 acres in 1879, hay and forage rose
to 66,159 acres in 1889, to 99,261 in
1899, and finally to 229,7O5 in 1909. The
aggregate yield in 1909 was 279,236
tons; the average yield per acre, 1.2
tons; the average value per acre, $14.65.
Sweet potatoes and yams in the ten
years between 1889 and 1909 increased
1876 acres, or 46.3 per cent. Starting
with 41,S74 acres in 1879, they rose
to A, 1ss in 1889, fell to $3.50 in 1899,
but rose again to 56,O45 in 1909. The
aggregate yield in 1909 was 4,427 ,98s
bushels; the average value per acre
$54.S5.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
M SEE PRIZE FIGHTS
Cigarette Smoke Was Not Lacking in
Ringside Seats.

Cigarette Smoke Was Not Lacking in
Ringside Seats.
New York.-One hundred suffragettes
sat as close as they could get to the
ring in the Longacre Athletic Club and
cheered, wept and applauded in turn as
sixteen boxers and the wrestlers fought
as they never fought before to acquit
themselves we'll in the eyes of the wo-
men. The boxing show was given by
Mrs. Gus Rubin for the benefit OF the
cause.
Mrs. Louise White Snydam, whose hus-
band, Walter Lispenard Snydam, Jr., this
young millionaire, divorced her a few
weeks ago, occupied a ringside seat with
Young Fred Noble and smoked cigarettes
through the entire show. She wore a
salmon colored evening gov with white
fur opera coat and serenely pulled her
scented cubes regardless of the con-
~sternation and indignation Of the suf-
fragettes, O whom were SUCH well
known workers as Baroness von Gro:ss,
Mrs. Emma Bosworth, Mrs. Eta Ed
wards and Mrs. Charles Wallender.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
INTO DEN OF BEARS

Lima, On an attempt to end her
life while suffering from dependency,
Miss Anna Harter, 33 years old, leaped
into a pit at the city park in which were
confined two large black bears.
The bears, however, refused to harm
her and she was found il the pit some
time later by Lee Stucky, a park attache.
The bears attacked him when he went
to the woman's rescue and drove him
from the pit, but they were subdued by
a stream of water and Stucky dragged
Miss Harter from the enclosure.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
Commission Government Popular.

Jacksonville endorsement given the
commission form of government by the
State League of Municipalities at the
recent meeting at Vicksburg has ap-
parently given an impetus to the idea,
for since the meeting Greenville has
fallen in line with a petition for an cleo
ton to decide whether the city will
adopt that form of government, and also
G%iulfport. Hattiesburg and Clarksdale
are the only cities having the commits
sion government and both are greatly
pleased with it. The coming legislature
viii be asked to perfect the commission
law,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
ASSURED FOR CHINA
5000 REBELS KILLED IN FIGHT AT
HANKOW.
Rumored at chiehse Capital That Prince
Ching, Too Old for Flight, Has
Az. Killed Himself.

Peking.-Complete capitulation to the
demands of. the assembly and army
league>is reported from the palace.
Yuan Shi Kai has been sumomned to
Peking Immediately. Juan is the master
He apparently possesses complete con-
troll both of the army and the national
assembly.
Peking.-From Wuhu, the nearest tele-
graph station working with Hankow,
come reports that in a battle in and
around Hankow 5000 rebels are dead.
The rebels retreated to WI Chang.
Another dispatch from Wuhu an
nounces that after terrific fighting at
Hankow the rebels nave fallen back to
Hang Yang.
The combined attack of the loyal mil
itary and naval forces On Hankow was
successful. The imperialists routed the
rebels from intrenched positions near the
railway line. The rebels fought like
demons but were infiladed by the guns
of Admiral Sah's squadron in the
Yangtze.
The leaders recognized that further
resistance only meant slaughter, and Or
dered a retreat. They were pursued by
the imperial infantry, who opened a
heavy fire with Maxim guns, moving the
insurgents Town by tie hundreds.
The desperate character of the fight
ing is shown by the report that 5000
rebels were killed and other thousands
wounded.
The situation in Picking is becoming
worse. A veritable panic prevails among
the Manchus, and the Manchu women are
adopting Chinese dress. Some OF them
are attempting to make their feet ap-
pear small, by peculiarly constructed
shoes. Most of the trains leaving the
capital are drawn by two engines, SO
heavily are they loaded, the people sit
ting on top of their household belong
ings. Officials are seeking asylums for
their wives and children among the TOR
eigners. "
Rumors are current that the emperor
has been spirited away and that Prince
| Ching, who is too old for flight, haseom'
mitted suicide. There are many such
stories. They may or may not be true
The American legation has issued orders
that the women and children living along
the Peking-Hankow Railway and also in
the country to the west of the line shal
proceed as soon as possible to the coast.
The American consul-general at Han
kow, Roger S. Greene, reports that an
American, A. H. Kep1er, has been wound
ed in the fighting around that city.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
Seven in Family Have Typhoid.

Huntsville, Ala.-Seven daughters OF
Miller McCown of Halle Green have
contracted typhoid fever since the death
of their mother with the malady about
two weeks ago and have been brought
to the city hospital for treatment. The
eldest is 10 years old and the youngest
is a baby. Mrs. McCown contracted the
malady about a month ago and died two
weeks later, leaving eight girls, seven
of whom nave become i'll with the same
ailment. One girl in the family has not
been sick.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
Bull Guarded Human PREY.

E1phinstone, Manitoba.-Guarded by a
fe%rocious bull. which had caused her
death, the body of Mrs. Johanna
Chiconys, who disappeared two weeks
ago, has been found, torn almost to
shreds by repeated gorings of the brute.
Only by the most determined efforts
could members of the searching party
drive the beast from his prey and re-
peatedly he returned to the spot. The
disappearance of the woman, the wife
of a farmer, seemed a mystery until the
body was found.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
Cousins Accused.

kosciusko.-Gus Burns and Fiber
Burns, young white farmers and first
cousins, are in Jail, charged with the
murder of their cousin, Columbus Burns,
who lived near them. 1t was reported
that Burns had been shot accidentally,
but the coroner's jury placed the crime
upon the parties first named above and
they were committed to Jail by the JUS
tice of the peace. These parties were
tried here last march for the killing of
A. j. johnson at Ethel and acquitted.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
TRIED TO ANNlHlLATE FAMILY
Killed Father-in-Law, Injured Wife and
Her Mother, Kills Self.

Parkersburg, w. Va.-Carroll l..
James, a railroad conductor of this city,
shot and killed his f~ather-in-law, Will
liam P%ritchard, probably fatally wound
ed his mother-in-law, slightly injured
his wife, and committed suicide today at
Pennsboro, w. Va. James broke into
the Pritchard home and caught his vic
tins while they slept. He made no
effort to harm his ~4-year-old daughter,
who occupied the bed with her mother
and grandmother. q
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
Legal Tangle Develops.

Meridian.-A legal question involving
the state and federal liability laws, mas
arisen in connection with the suit of
J. Nj. Cook ct al, who is endeavoring
to recover damages in the sum of $25, 900
from the Mobile and Ohio railroad for
the death of a brother, Will Cook, an
employee of the company, who was killed
in the local yards at Meridian. The
question involved is whether or not the
federal or state statute is paramount.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
He Saved Girls.

Charlotte, N. C.-ustiiable homicide
was the verdict of the coroner jury at
Shelby, N. c., on the killing of Sam
Whitworth, a prominent Cleveland coun-
ty farmer, by Lucas Randall. Randall
was a~utomobiling with three young ladies
when he met Whitworth. Whitworth.
advanced toward the machine, ordering
Randall to stop inc saying, 'I1l kill
you" Randall said: ~Don't shoot; l
have some little girls here" Whitworth
drew his gun and Randall fred twice, in
stantly killing the farmer.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
His Blood to Save Woman.

Nashua, n. H.-Summoned at mid.
night to the bedside of q dying parish
Toner and there informed that an imme-
date TRANSMISSION of blood from the veins
Of another might possibly W her life.
the Rev. Willisr2 Porter Niles, son Of
Bishop Niles of New Hampshire and rec
tor Of the Church of the Good Shepherd,
promptly offered himself to the surgeons
as q subject for the operation. The
TRANSMISSION was made and as q result
strong hopes are entertained of the pa
tient's recovery.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
Warmers Day" November 10.

Hazlehurst. - The second Farmers
Day" will be held in Hazlehurst Satur-
day, November IS. The premium list
for horses, mules colts and hogs has
been prepared. A special day will be
named for cattle. Stockmen should be-
gin now to display something. The list
of premiums is an attractive one; but
aside from this everyone should Coop
crate to make the display truly repre-
sentative of what the county is doing in
improving its stock and hogs.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
Weds to Leave Fortune,

Cairo, m.-Because w. Cline, aged -,
Of Anna, ILL.,, had no one to whom he
could leave his money, he married Miss
Minnie Nordman, aged 30. Mr.. Cline is
a prosperous farmer OF Union county
and did not hesitate to tell the report.
ers why he married SO late in life.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-11-03
Two Counties Go Wet.

Portsmouth, O.-By large majorities
two counties shifted from the dry col
umn as q result Of elections held in
Scioto and Lawrence counties, including
the cities of Portsmouth and Ironton.
Portsmouth, which three years ago
gave a wet majority of 141 votes, rolled
up a majority of 1,425 against the drys.
In Lawrence county twenty-eight pre-
cincts out of a total of thirty-one gave
the vets 454, and it is conceded the
wet majority will be between 400 and
SOO.