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Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-02-11

A New York kidnapper has been
sentenced to twenty-five years in Sing
Sing. Let the pardon board keep
hands of.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-02-11

Open. Z 100 am CIose.... Z 200 p.m.
Money Order Department opens az
s 80 a. M closes at s 100 D. rh
Registry Department opens 7 go a. m
and closes 8 90 pm.
Carriers window open evenings froas
g.. m.
stamp window opens Z 100 a. m. closes
at 1900 p. m. daily Sundays. 300 to
10 ZOE a. an.
Public corridor opens until 9 90 D. m
GEO a TICM Postmaster.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-02-11

Senator Root is speaking his mind
pretty freely these days.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-02-11

Grip seems to have a good grip on
the public schools.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-02-11

Yes, the days are getting longer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-02-11
The need of a portable White House

Il eaes nsore baiag demonstrated
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-02-11

Even the Kaiser finds the pace
rather strenuous.
FNT ty1ts -
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-02-11

go L4anxss 8ahuy ave-.
HoUsE ANO Lofts 90 S8L4E
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24

so poorly maintained and administered
as whole that the highways carry
only between one-third and one-fourth
as much product as the railroads.
Road experts say conditions here and
abroad are almost exactly reversed,
due entirely to bad roads.
Director Page has described the con-
ditions of the roads of the United
States is making an announcement
that the American Association for
Highway Improvement has opened Of
fees in Washington. The organization
of the association followed a confer
ence in this country several weeks ago
of many of the leading road engineers
of the country, the presidents of five
of the largest railroad systems and
representatives of automobile manu-
facturers and publishing interests.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
TIGERS QUIT CAMP.

Monroe, La, March 24.-Payers of
the Detroit American League team,
who have given the people of Monroe
a lot of excitement during the last few
weeks, will break camp today to be-
gin their exhibition tour The Tiger
cubs left this morning for Shreve-
port, La, where they play the Texas
League team this afternoon. The
full-grown Tigers also leave today, 60
ing to Birmingham, Ala, where they
play tomorrow and Sunday. other
gartes are scheduled for the regulars
at Memphis, Louisville, Evansville,
Indianapolis, Columbus, Cincinnati and
Dayton. The youngsters will go from
Shreveport to Waco, Tex, thence to
Dallas, Oklahoma City, Wichita, Kan,
Lincoln and Omaha, Neb., Kansas
City, Peoria and Quincy, ILL.,, and
South Bend, Ind.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
The BANKERS May
MEET IN APRIL

Jackson, Miss, March 24.-Chair-
man w. M. Anderson of the legislative
committee, Mississippi Bankers Asso-
citation, probably will issue a call for
a meeting of the committee at Jackson
early in April. While the date for the
meeting has not been fixed, it will be
set for some time between April 10
and Is.
The committee is composed of W.
NJ. Anderson, Jackson; j. w. McGrath
Brookhaven; J. r. Thomas, Grenada,
and Walter Broach, Meridian. This
committee, when it meets here, will
take up for discussion certain laws it
will suggets to the state convention,
which meets at Greenwood, May 10
and II, this year. If the association
approves the proposed laws, the COM
mittee will then endeavor to get the
legislature to enact them.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
TWENTY-FIVE COUNTY AGRIcuL.
TURAL HIGH SCHOOLS RE.
GENTLY ORGANIZED.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS ESTABLISHED
There Are Now 1871 Separate School
Districts in Misssslppi-Increase of
so Per Cent in Two Years.

Jackson. Miss, March 24.-Sinee
the last session of the legislature,
when the act was passed authorizing
the establishment of county agricul-
tural high schools twenty-five of
these institutions have been estab-
lished. These schools promise to be-
come a feature of the educational sys-
TEN of the state.
Several of these schools were ready
to open with the beginning of the
school year, while others opened up
to Christmas and still others have
simply been established in the techni-
cal term. but it shows the people of
the state appreciate this addition to
the educational system of the state.
County agricultural high schools have
been established as follows
Alcorn county, Kossuth, Bcliver
county, Cleveland; Calhoun county,
Derman; Chickasaw county. Buena
Vista; George county, Lucedale /:
Holmes county, Goodman Jasper
county. Bay Springs; Jefferson coun-
ty, Union Church; Jones county, Ellis
vile; Lamar county. Lena; Madison
county, Camden; Montgomery county.
Kilmichael NoXubee county, Mashu-
laville; Pamela county, Courtland; :;
Pearl River county. Poplarville Simp-
son county, Mendenhall; Sunflower
county, Moorehead; Tishomingo
county, Iuka; Wayne county, Close
DeSoto county, Olive Branch: Yalo-
busha county, Oakland.
In addition to these counties there
are several that will establish an ag-
ricultural high school and be ready
to open with the next school year A
great deal of literature has been sent
out on this subject and inquiries have
been answered during the year, with
the result that probably fifteen or
twenty other counties will establish
the schools during this year.
In the last two years there have
also been a number of new separate
school districts established, special
tax levied and the schools are fast i'm
proving their standard. There are at
present 191 separate school districts
in the state which is an increase Of
about 80 per cent over two years ago.
and others will be created this year
A separate school district has ad-
vantage over what is known as the
state normal in that a special tax
can be levied for school purposes
which the school still draws its pro
rata from the state school fund Sepa-
rate school districts have been Gre
ated by many rural schools where
better educational facilities are de-
manded by the patrons.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
The ICE PLANT
HAS Started UP
Terms More Liberal Than Ever Be-
fore-Factory is in Good
Condition.

The plant of the Hattiesburg Ice &
Coal Co. started up today and will
be ready tomorrow to sell ice on bet
ter terms than the trade of this sec
tion has had Ice in ton lots or over
will be sold at the plant at $500 per
ton: in less than ton lots at 20 cents
per hundred pounds. The company
will run no delivery wagons his year,
but will sell ice at the plant in any
quantity to any one who comes for
it. However. Mr.. w. L. Covert, who
has been connected with the company
for some time, will purchase ice at
the plant and deliver it by wagon to
the homes of the city.
The plant of the Hattiesburg Coal
& Ice Company is in better shape
than since it was first erected. Work
men have been busy for the past two
months putting in repairs and over
hauling the plant and it is practically
new. One advantage the plant has is
the unit system that enables them
to turn out 25 tons a day, or half
their maximum capacity at as low
cost, practically. as if running to full
capacity. That is the plant is made
up of practically two 25- ton plants.
AS is well known, all ice at this
plant is made from artesian water.
which is distilled and is made abso-
lutely pure before ice is manufactur-
ed. Mr.. Earl King, the manager of
both the ice and coal departments and
of the large planning MILL has been
having the entire plants overhauled
and improved and the physical condi-
tion of the plants is better for the
economical and rapid transaction of
business than ever.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
IN REAL ESTATE
Both City and County Property Being
Sold at Satisfactory
Prices.

During the last few days deeds of
real estate transfers have been record
ed in the office of the chancery clerk
as follows:
S175-T. E. Batson ct al to c. f.
Butler, lots 23 and % of block num-
Der >, of the East Hattiesburg subdi-
vision of part of the west half of
southeast quarter of section 80, town
ship ;, range l3.
$20O-R. E. Rawls to S. f. Longer.
lots and - in block of the Mitch
ell. Mclnnis and Longer additions to
Hattiesburg.
$125-S. f. Longer to Patsey Gal
loway, lots % and "A in block of the
McInnis. Mitchell and Longer addition
to Hattiesburg.
$152-Jackson & Jenkins to F. B.
Gilmer. lot one in block six of the
Highlands addition to Hattiesburg.
$375-Abner Smith to Huston Broth
ers Lumber Company. lands in sec
tion 81, township I south. range -
west: also land being cultivated by
+. j. Seals in section 81, township
south. range Is west
$315-D. B. Buie to j. r. Morris, lot
6. known as the parsonage lot, on the
north side of Main street in Hatties-
burg.
$l3S-Rich Lumber Manufacturing
Co. to Hawkins Hardware Co., lot 3
in block > of the Switzerland &
Reeves addition to Hattiesburg.
S300-D. J. Sutherland to Hawkins
Hardware Co. lot 3 of block p of the
Southerland & Reeves survey of Hat
tiesburg.
$150-L. F. Magruder to A. +. Hol-
loman, lots l6. Il and is, in block 1, OF
the Magruder & Co. survey of Hat |
tiesburg.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
MAY MOBOLIzE
STATE MILITIA
AT EARLY date
THE GENERAL STAFF is SAID TO
BE CONTEMPLATING
SUCH STEP.
STATE GOVERNORS ADVISED With
Government viii Investigate The
Reported Execution of Ameri-
cans in Mexico.
STATE GOVERNORS ADVISED with

Washington, aMrch 24.-Another
mobilization move, involving the mi
litia of the country, as startling as
that which sent division of the reg
ular army on it's way toward the Mexi-
can frontier, appears to be in contem-
plation. 1t is admitted by general
staff officers that the department has
long had under consideration a plan
for determining how much of a militia
force the Federal government could
depend upon for a warlike move on
short notice.
The scheme has been to ask the Gov
ernor of each State how many effec-
tives could be sent forward by his
State within a given time. That
query would not be to give the proper
strength of the States armies, but the
number of men that could be depend
ed upon to respond to the muster
ready to march within a reasonable
time.
Reports began coming to Washing
ton this afteronon from widely sepa-
rated parts of the country that re-
cruiting officers of the regular army
had been directed to recruit at top
speed, to the end that the organiza-
tions already in Texas might attain
war strength as soon as possible. Sec
rotary Dickinson and Gen. Wood this
afternoon denied that anything of the
kind had been done. The chief of
staff said that the only thing done had
been to direct the forwarding of re-
'cruit camps without waiting to make
certain that they knew the difference
between hay-foot and straw-foot.
A high officer in the militia section
of the general staff said that Secre-
tary Dickinson might throw more light
on the situation if he cared to do so,
intimating that here is more than
mere speculation in the reports of ac-
tivity in recruiting for both the regu-
lars and the militia.
Calls For Facts.
The State Department has called on
the American Consul at Chihuahua
for the fact in the reported execution
of John Hamilton Dignowitty and
three other Americans, under SEN
tence of a drumhead court-martial.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
FRISCO MAY LOSE
EXPOSITION after ALL

Washington, March 24-San Fran.
cisco is in grave danger of losing the
Panama Exposition after all.
1t has become known here from the
highest official sources that if the
California legislature passes, or even
seriously considers, anti-Japanese
legislation. Frisco will forfeit the ex-
position which she obtained as a re-
suit of the California congressman
and senators agreeing to make no oh
lection to the ratification Of the new
treaty with Japan.
This is the threat now made against
the Pacific coast. which is in a fer
ment oover the Japanese question.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
PANAMA CANAL
READY IN 1918
Engineers Are Slides
viii Cause No Serious Delay
In The Work.

New Orleans. March 24.-Sixty men,
bers of the American Society of Civil
Engineers arrived in New Orleans
yesterday on the steamer Heredia
from Colon, Panama. where they went
at the suggestion of President Taft 10
inspect the work done on the Panama
Canal Other members of the party
returned direct to New York from
Colon.
1t was announced that the repre-
sentatives of the society who made
the trip are unanimous in the approval
of the work which has been dons by
Colonel George W Goethals and they
confidently believe the canal will be
ready for service in 1918. .-,
The American people need mo-
alarmed at the reports of slides os-se
there said member of the p&-El
This feature of the work wasS'E
overlooked by the government aJissSs
neers who planned and have so s-5S-s:
cessfully DEssecuted the construf
of the canal. There have beer M
merous slides in Culebra Cut and lnca
the Gatun dam and there dou1tIo
will be many smaller slides in the fu-
ture. but the great work undertaken
by the United States will not be. Sc
riously interrupted.
Every one of the 140 members OF
the American Society of Civil Engi-
neers who visited the canal on this
trip feels assured that the canal win
be ready for the reception of ships
before the end of 1872
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
CHARTERS APPROVED
BY THE GOVERNOR

Jackson. Miss, March Ex-Governor
Noel has approved the following char
ters:
Acme Building Supply Company
domiciled at Meridian and capitalized
at $4,000. The incorporators are c.
l.. Gray, r. c. Malone, John L. McLe-
more.
The Field Dry Goods Company. dom
iciled at Vicksburg and capitalized at
$4,000. The incorporators are NJ.
Barkin. B. T. Field, J. X. Hirsch.
The Spann Addition company, dom
iciled at Pelahatchie and capitalized
at $4,000. The incorporators are J..
A. Spann, Jr., J. E. Ammons, Carl
Stingily.
The Waterford Lumber company,
domiciled at Boice and capitalized at
100000. The incorporators are C. r..
Poytress. ]. F. Gray, J. A. Mccain.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
Annual Meeting Of Pine
Association April II

AT a special call meeting of The
Mississippi Pine Association, the date
of the regular annual meeting of the
association was set, to be held in Hat
tiesburg, Tuesday, April 11th.
AS the Concated Order of Hoo-Hoo
is strictly a lumbermen's fraternity,
these annual meetings of lumber asso-.
Citations are usually followed on the
night by "Hoo-Hoo Concatenation,"
therefore on Tuesday night of the
above date, following the meeting of
the association, there will be held in
connection with the association meet
ing, a "Hoo-Hoo Confederation"
In a few days committee on enter
tainment will be appointed from the
lumbermen of Hattiesburg, most prom
inent in the order.
An elaborate banquet will follow
the initiation, at which will be heard
speeches, and stories from prominent
visiting lumbermen. A "Hoo-Hoo"
ball will follow the banquet.
There will be present at the meeting
number of prominent members of
the order, from a distance, among
whom, J. H. Baird, of Nashville, Tenn,
who holds the office of Supreme Scriv-
enoter, and also editor of the Southern
Lumberman, also w. E. Barnes, Of
st. Louis, Mo-, who is one of the orig
inal nine, who founded the order,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
BAD ROADS Big
drain ON PEOPLE
Burden Of $25o,ooo, 900 Placed Upon
&. 4 The Farmers And Others Who
y Use Highways.

That the United States sufferers a
direct loss of $40.000,000 annually on
account of incorrect and adequate
methods in the construction, main
tenance and administration of public
roads is the assertion of l.. w. Page,
director of the United States Office of
Public Roads, and president of the
new American Association for High
way Improvement.
The enormous loss is nothing com
pared with the indirect loss through
excessive cost of transportation which
is caused by the burden which bad
roads impose upon the farmers and
others who use the highways, and
this amount, according to Mr.. Pages
report, reaches the impressive total
of $3.50, 100000 every year.
The American farmer is paying two
or three times as much to get his
Products to market as the man who
tills the ground in Europe, and this
added cost of transportation is known
to be an important factor in the high
. cost of living problem. France is said
to use her fine system of roads just
one and one-third times as much as her
railroads for transportation, whereas,
in this country, the public roads are
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
Intervention
THOUGHT SURE
BY government
MEN AND OFFICERS so CON.
sTRuE RUSH TO SECURE MORE
RECRUITS.
PEACE OR INTERVENTION IN MAY
Government Makes Demand over the
Country for Six or Seven Thous-
and New Soldiers.
PEACE OR INTERVENTION IN MAY
(By Associated Press.)

san Antonio, Tex. March 24.-The
men and officers at the maneuver
camp had but one subject of conver.
sation today, and that was the rush
to secure recruits. Why the urgency
of the effort, they asked, but the an
swer was not found. A small detach.
ment OF recruits for the revolutionists
are reported to have crossed into
Mexico today at Del Rio.
What with the new demand for six
or seven thousand recruits; the issu.
anee of an order by General Carter
making provisions for a sudden mova
should 1t be required. and a statement
by c. F. Caricristi. one of the domi.
nant figures in the Mexican revolu-
tionary junta. that the United States
would intervene in Mexico unless
there was a definite show of tranouil-
ty by May l, the recently diminished
war cloud has loomed up large again.
Dr. Caricristi felt sure enough OF
his facts to state them In a report to
francisco |. Madero. the revolution
airy leader. who at the last report
was within thirty miles of the cifS0nf
Chihuahua. DR.. Caricristi ,ir<<
lnsurrection chief to achieve e
sive victory at all costs by 1&
Tor, he wrote, President Taft ~
wait longer than that for quiet 1
restored, business resumed and
over the railroads be secured
courier departed from here toda s1
caricristi an Authority. ~
Dr. Caricristi is one of the directing
minds of the revolutionary junta. is
"a lawyer physician and world
traveller, probably their best trained
diplomat. The letter is not an order
Tor Mexico is the supreme leader. but
IS in the nature of a report on the
meaning of the mobilization of Ameri-
can troops. at Fort Sam Houston.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24

and is also editor of the st. Louis
Lumberman.
This meeting will bring number of
visitors to Hattiesburg, and the local
members hope to show them a good
time. All old Cats" and "Kittens"
wishing their eyes opened are urgently
requested to be on hand.
The details of the meeting will be
decided upon, and given out in a few
days.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24

prices far below their actual yalue
Wlthin the past few days have
heard of instances of land as good as
any to be found in any part of Hle
country being sold at Sc or 81 per
acre. The man who is looking for
cheap lands will find his opportunity
right here in Mississippi-an oppor.
tunity that he will never get again.
for these conditions cannot possibly
last.
with changed conditions resulting
from the advent of the boil weevil.
and the adoption of diversification of
Farming. there are necessarily some
serious problems presented for solu
tion' one of which is to provide mar
kets for the crops that hitherto have
not been grown in this section. But
all OF these problems can be solved
by the application of common sense.
The farmer who raises a big corn
crop should not try to sell that crop
in bulk at the prevailing market
price. Instead, he ought to buy a
herd of cattle. and eventually market
the crop on the hoof at several times
what it would bring him after the
harvest. The cattle industry is grow.
ing rapidly in Mississippi. and the
time is at hand when we need cattle
buyer in every community, man
who knows his business thoroughly
and through whose activities stimula.
| tion will be given to this industry"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
BANK TELLER GOT $4,000.

Evansyilie. md, March PA de-
felt of Approximately $4,000 in the
funds Of 2the Evansville Trust and
Savings Company, according to the
announcement of its secretary, Chas.
Brentano. resulted last night in the
arrest OF .. 3N. Blauth. a bookkeeper
and sfellers 81 the company, on a war
ranf charging him with specific de
falcatjon al $1,000
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
Lands Being Sold Below
Actual Value in State

Jackson, Miss, March 24.-Capt. j.
F. Merry. of Manchester. Iowa. immi.
grafton commissioner of the Illinois
Central road, accompanied by his
secretary, Mr.. H. J. Schwietert. was
IN the city yesterday gathering data
and statistics for a pamphlet soon
to be issued setting forth the resourc-
es and industries of Mississippi and
Louisiana.
During the past twenty-five years
no man has been a more important
factor in the agricultural develop
ment of Louisiana and Mississippi, or
has accomplished more substantial
good in bringing desirable white set
tiers and new industrial enterprises
to this section than Capt. Merry. He
Is the father of the Vicksburg Nation
al Military Park, has established nu.
merous prosperous colonies and set
Elements in the two states.
Il have found conditions in Missis.
sippi and Louisiana generally good.
said Capt. Merry this morning. Crop
prospects at this season of the year
were never better, the farmers are
hopeful, and they are facing new
problems with a courage, determine
ton and intelligence that cannot
mean anything but ultimate success
Il regret to say. however, that in
some sections, especially southwest
Mississippi, lands are being sold al
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
WILL PRESENT
COTTON CLAIMS
States Court for Settlement-ln-
teresting information.

Columbia. Miss, March 24.-Sar-
geant Prentiss Knutt, an attorney
from Natchez, who represents a num-
ber of people in this section who hold
claims against the federal govern
ment for cotton confiscated just be-
fore the close of the civil war, is in
the city, and has given out some in
teresting information regarding the
Continued on page eight.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
THE MARK ETS.
(By Associated PreSs.)

New Orleans, March 24.-Cotton
closed steady; one to five points up.
Chicago. March 24-Wheat weak,
is to 3-S cents lower, with selling gen.
eral and buying scattered. Provis-
ions depressed. five cents lower to
2 12 cents up.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
A GENERAL PEACE
MOVEMENT STARTS
(Bu Associated PrcssA

New York. March PA public
mass meeting to support a general
peace movement and particularly to
urge the proposed arbitration treaty
between this country and England is
being arranged by Bishop Greer of
the Episcopal diocese of New York to
take place in the new cathedral st.
John, the divine. soon after its dedi-
cation in April
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
GAYNOR'S PETITION
IS Being HEARD
(By Associated PreSS.)

Atlanta, Ga, March 24.-The hear
ing of the petition Of John F. Gaynor
for permission to take out pauper's
oath and thus escape the payment of
his part of the $1,15O,OOO fine imposed
by the government on Gaynor and
Benjamin ID. Greene for embezzle-
ment in connection with harbor work
at Savannah. Georgia, will be heard
this afternoon Greene has already
been released
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-24
PRINCE TO DISCUSS PEACE.
(sy Union Associated Press.)

Baltimore. March 24-Prince de
Cassano of Rome, Italy, will speak on
European Federation" tonight at a
peace meeting in the Friends Meeting
House. under the auspices of the Mary
land Peace Society Prince de Cas-
sano came to America especially to
deliver this address.