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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
LINE TO TIDEWATER
The Pearl River Valley Road Win Ger
tainly Be Built.

The Pearl River Valley Road VIII Ger
tainly Be Built.
Jacksonville railroad up the Pearl,
river valley is going to be built.
1t will be constructed within the next
two years, and possibly 0
This is a certainty and about the first
definite information people have had on
the subject.
The road will run from Jackson up the
valley Of the Pearl and possibly connect
with the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas
City and the Aberdeen branch of the
Illinois Central at Alderman.
1t will develop the richest territory
in the state and the largest territory
now u~nprovided with railroad facilities.
The greatest body of untouched virgin
hardwood timber in Mississippi will be
opened, and some of the richest farming
land in the state made accessible for
development.
The great bulk Of the land in Rankin,
Leake and Neshoba counties contiguous
to Pearl river and some of its principal
tributaries is now owned by the Herrick
syndicate, and by the Hogues, relatives
and business associates of the Herricks,
together with others affiliated with
them. Fred Herrick, the principal hold
er of the lands, is an immensely wealthy
banker and timber operator of Michi-
gan.
The Goodyears are also interested to
some extent up the valley of the Pearl,
and when the road is built it will con-
meet at jackson with the New Orleans
Great Northern, which has acquired
terminal facilities in the heart of the
city of Jackson, south of the old state
house, which cost the neat sum of
$50 5000.
The capital and prestige of a road
already constructed and operating sue
cessfully, will be added to the develop
ment plan of the Herrick-Hogue group
of capitalists, and probably the rolling
stock and equipment of the Great North
ern will be used on the Pearl River Val
ley extension.
It is known that the Goodyear inter
ests and the Hogue-Herrick group have
a Community of interest" in that terri
tory and the foregoing is the tentative
plan of development.
A connection is proposed to be mad
with the New Orleans Great Northern
railroad somewhere about Columbia
Junction, and the state will have an
other trunk line from the very hear
of its rich territory up the Pearl vale.
to Mississippi's harbor, of which she i
justly proud. &,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28

In this fierce looking attendant. The
latter does, however, give a degree OF
prestige and the right Of way when
passing caravans.
The khans along the way provide no
furniture and no food, other than an
occasional chicken. Usually a Euro
pean can get a room to himself, and
he carries his own cot bed and supply
Of insect powder. The experience
brings one quite close to native life
and, If he desires, the traveller may
visit the elders Of the village and talk
politics and progress with them.
What the New Railroad Means.
The Bagdad Railway will be well
into the Taurus mountains early this
year. Work is actively in operation
upon this section and also upon the
stretch across the Cilician plain OF
the other side Of the mountains. TT
completion to Adana will DerhaDs b.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28

covered with trees and there was plen-
ty Of water, is apparent at a glance.
Much of it resembles the west in parts
Of the United States and Canada. It's
ancient glory may be restored at any
time that an efficient government pro-
vides for afforestration and irrigation.
Perhaps the cities of antiquity will
rise again. Sardis, where Croesus
made his name a synonym for riches,
is now a heap Of ruins wherein an ex-
petition from Princeton University is
digging.
Ancient Philadelphia, is now called
Aleshir and one may see the compare
lively new village through a ruined
arch in the old wall. An excellent min
eral water, which was known and used
long before the Christian era, will, in
the new day that may dawn for this
region, become a commodity for the
whole world.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
Tho Turkish Way With Railroads.


Railroads are running tWo-thirds Of
the way across this great Anatollan
plain, and the construction is being
pushed forward through the Taurus
mountains. There is a train a day in
each direction, carrying both passen-
gers and freight. The cars are built
on the European model, with compart-
ments. The trains do not run at night,
and the first night out from Smyrna Is
spent, nolens volens, at a miserable
native inn where the proprietor thinks
1t strange that guests are not willing
to crowd three into a room, and even
insist upon clean bedding. The train
starts at day-break, for Turkish time
is a constantly changing quantity. Sun
set is IL o'clock, so that clocks and
watches must change every day. The
natives generally take their time from
the call to prayer in the minarets.
Eventually the time tables will be
printed "a la Frank" as they call
things European out here.
The train from Smyrna connects
with that from Constantinople at a
picturesque ancient city, Aphion Kara
Hissar, where there is a fortress thai
seems more ~impregnable and imposing
than Gibraltar. There is an hours
interval between trains. Undertaking
to spend part of this time in the ba
zaars, l returned ten Or fifteen minutes
ahead Of the time scheduled for the
departure Of the train, only to see i
pulling out across the plain. l was
cheerfully informed that as there waI
very little freight that day, the trair
had started ahead of time! ThiI
meant twenty-four hours in a cit!
where the only English-speaking per
son was the American pastor of tn
American Board church.
When the Bagdad Railway gets II
running, this city will be an importan
point, and a popular objective for tour
lists. 1t was here that the Turkish gov
eminent undertook to COLOMBO tn
Moslem Cretans, 1t built houses TO
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28

cities which gave Paul and his COM
panions a sample Of mob law OF else
worshipped them as Gods.
The Ancient East Still Survives.
The country is still pretty much as
At has been for millenniums. The cities
are now hidden under the debris Of
ages, and the thriving commerce of
that older day has disappeared along
with the marching leglons. But the
wayside wells are identical with those
at which the thirsty soldiers used to
drink. The khans are built OF mud
and straw, and are after the same type
as were known to the travellers before
Christ; indeed they cannot be very
different from that primitive khan In
Bethlehem wherein was born the
worlds Conqueror.
The dust from passing caravans en-
grimes the traveller. The s~oft-footed
cameIs who now come swaying along
with serpent necks, are laden with
cans Of American kerosene. The bull
lock carts with their primitive solid
wooden wheels, bear material for the
construction of the Bagdad railway. A
bent stick still serves for a plow.
Agriculture is largely by hand, and
the threshing floors Of scripture are a
frequent sight. Picturesquely clad ma
tives move slowly along on donkeys'
1 saw one young mother and child,
whose bearded husband and father
had stopped at a brook to give them
drink, who suggested strlkingly the
picture of the Flight into Egypt.
Where the Glory Has Departed.
The ancient productiveness Of this
Anatolian plain, when the hills were
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
Attala Wide Awake.

Jackson.-News has reached the city
that Alfalfa county has appropriated the
goodly sum of two thousand dollars for
the purpose Of improving the general
condition of the live stock of that county.
The supervisors of the county are now
wanting to know what steps they should
take to enable them to secure a portion
of the forty thousand dollars appro-
priated by the last legislature for the
same purpose. They want the state to
supplement their own appropriation for
this good work.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28

them and then straightway forgot
them, so that the colony subsequently
few by night, like the Israelites from
Egypt.
The next night is spent at Konia-
the ancient Iconium, where the Apos-
tie Paul was so shabbily treated, and
now notable as having the only decent
hotel in the interior of Asia Minor.
M%eerschaum quarries, a mission school
and interesting archaeological excava-
tons are the notable sights Of Konia.
Again starting at d%aybreak, Bregli Is
reached about noon. For practical
purposes this is the present end Of
the Bagdad railway. 1t is a small,
dusty, malarial town, without a hotel
above the khan classification. Here
wagons or horses are taken for the
overland journey to Tarsus.
Travellers In Arabas.
The process Of securing arabas,
which are diminutive prairie schoon-
ers, with entrances at the sides, re-
sembles a small riot. Everything In
the Orient must be done with great
noise, and before terms are finally
made with one driver, it looks as II
blood would be shed. The journey
across the plain takes three nights
and parts of four days. The govern
ment desires travellers to be accom-
panied by one or more soldiers as es
cort, because the region is famous fol
outlawry. A soldier has an old fash
ion Mauser ~single-shot rife strung
over his shoulders, and at certain
points he carries this in his hand. Al
American traveller puts more conf
dence in his own magazine pistol thar
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
DID MRS. FOLEY KILL DAUGHTERS
FIANCE?
Mother Of His Sweetheart Accused Of
Crime-Magistrate Releases Mrs. J.
L. Foley After Examination.

Cleveland.-Charged in an affidavit
made by Capt. w. A. Chapman, chief Of
the Greenville police force, with the
murder of G. Y. Mcknight, her daugh-
ter's fance, Mrs. j. L. Foley was given a
preliminary hearing here and released
without bail. The chief witness at the
hearing was a son of Mrs. Foley, who
told of a midnight visit Of Mcknight to
the Foley home and Of the fatal shot
being fred when Mcknight and his sis
ter were in a buggy together near the
Foley home.
The detention Of Mrs. Foley caused o
tremendous sensation, and a crowd Of
several hundred assembled in the magis-
trate's court while the preliminary hear
ing was being conducted. When Nc
Knights body was found dead in his
buggy on the morning Of September 10
it was generally supposed that he had
committed suicide.
Further complications are given to
the case by the fact that the husband of
Mrs. Foley is now in jail at Clarksdale
awaiting trial for the alleged murder
last May of ]. T.McKnight, a first cousin
of the alleged victim Of Mrs. Foley. Both
killings occurred on practically the same
spot.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
COLUMBUS IS DRY.
"NobOdy Knows How Dry They Are" in
Lowndes' CAPITAL,

Columbus.-As a result Of the vigor-
crusade against law violations of all
kinds by the present grand jury, not a
social club has been dispensing anything
but water in a week. When it was
noised around that the clubs were to
have some principal members summoned,
they voluntarily went before the court,
and the agreement to settle all differ
ences by closing the Bullets was quickly
made. Columbus is absolutely a dry
town" now.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
.Iuat to Sac thn BAN Game.

MY" exclaimed little Jimmy as he
gazed at the Autograph. I'D like to
be a giraffe. Just think how easily
you could rubber over the baseball
fence"
"That's all right" replied Johnny
"but there is another time when you
wouldn't want to have a neck like a
giraffe"
when Is that?"
"Why in the mornings when your
ma begins to scrub your neck with
o and water"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
LOOKING FOR NATURAL GAS.
Ohio Concern Prospecting Near Hatties
burg.

MISUNDERSTANDING may at no
far date i the future be supplied with
natural gas and oil from wells adjacent
to the city. This would be a great thing
for the city and South Mississippi and
the accompanying benefits would be of
such proportions that they could not be
foretold. That this is 10 pipe-dream,
gas-pipe dream if you will, is shown by
the fact that a gentleman by the name
of Lee, representing a big oil corporation
Of Cleveland, O., has quietly and unas-
sumingly secured leases on some ten
thousand acres of land near the city.
The leases are for a period of n year
and are made to J.. E. Belts, trustee,
who is vice-president of the interested
corporation.
The corporation securing the lease
thinks enough of the, prospects to sink
a test we'll at a cost of about 100000.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
PrscautIon.

MARY" said her mistress, I'm go
ing to entertain a few friends this
afternoon. You needn't stay in"
"But don't you want me to helpT'
said the hired girl.
mo. I'll get along myself. I'm
afraid If any Of my friends see how
competent you are they'll start to bid
ding for your services"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
Farmers Look for weevil.

Hernando.-First appearing in the
southwestern counties of the state, the
cotton boil weevil in its progress north
ward has reached the Southern railroad,
about one hundred miles south of De-
Soto county. It is now in the counties
of Carroll and Leflore, and as it travels
about fifty miles a season, it will likely
appear in the southern parts of Pamela
and Quitman next year and in Tate and
DeSoto the year after.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
Newport Given Freedom.

Jackson.-0n Thursday afternoon Gov.
Noel ordered the discharge Of J. A.
Newport, a white convict in the service
Of the state at Rankin farm. lie had a
good long term against him for man
slaughter, but he has been d model pIis-
oner and has several times shown mefito-
rious conduct. The action which gained
him his freedom was the exposing Of .
plot which was on foot a few weeks ago
for the escape of viii Sorsby and Frank
Dewett. His timely information is per
haps all that kept these men within the
walls
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
Grenada for Good Roads.

Grenada.-Grenada county has been
giving the working of her public roads
very great attention for the past sew
eral years. This year the board of SUI
pervisors employed a civil engineer to
lay out certain roads. A new road has
been surveyed right down the Yalo-
busha river to Holcomb station, II miles
west. There is being a united and ener-
getic effort made to lay out new roads
that will avoid the hills and that will
traverse the valleys wherever possible.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
Life Convict pardoned,

Jaekson.-Acting Governor Luther
Manship issued a pardon to John C.
Walton, a white convict, who is serving
a life time sentence at Oakley farm. Hs
was sentenced for murder.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
Killer Pleads Insanity.

Oxford.-A sweltering crowd filled the
county court house and listened with
straining ears to the testimony in the
case of E. W. Williams, charged with the
killing of H. H. Bond. Bond was Will
liams' cousin. Fanny affairs are said
to have been the cause of the quarrel
which led to the killing last February.
The defense pleaded insanity as the
cause of the killing, and all the testi-
mony offered by the defense has been
in support of that plea.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
Even Then.

American Citizen "a. D. 1910)-You
don't take much interest in congress,
Ezra.
Another-No. 1 tell you they don't
have the men there that they had
twenty years ago.-Puck.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
Fix Tax Levy.

Meridian.-The Lauderdale county
board of supervisors fixed the tax levy
for the fiscal year at 14.40 mills, ex-
cept for supervisors district No. /, in
which an additional mill was levied for
good roads, this district having issued
100000 in bonds for the purpose.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
Odd Condolences.

"What do you think about the man
who is the base of all my musical sue
cess in songs?"
what about him?"
HE isn't a bass at. al; he's {
tenor"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
Record Shrimp Catch.

Biloxi.-Capt. W. 0. Parker of the
schooner Louisiana, Capt. Peter Parker
of the schooner Edna D., and Capt. A.
Lepre of the schooner Albert D., running
out of Biloxi in the fishing business,
have gotten 1000 barrels of shrimp with
in the past eighteen days, a catch that
is a record-breaker.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
Alcorn Assessment.

Jacksonville land and personal as
sessment rolls of Alcorn county have
been received and checked over by the
auditors department clerks, both OF
which show an increase over the sam
assessment two years ago.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-09-28
Sunflower Schools Open.

WORCESTERSHIRE Sunflower. county
agricultural high school had a very enter
tanning opening. Many friends and pat
rons from all over the county were In
attendance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-23

These are Cudahy Packing Co.
Hams. the standard everywhere.
Be sure you ask for Diamond &C"
Sweet. juicy and delicious: offered
this week at phenomenal saving.
Order one early before we are COM
pletely sold out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-23
ANAC0STIA.

The annual meeting of the congrega-
ton Of the Garden Memorial Presbyterian
Church was held last evening in the edi-
flee on Minnesota avenue, with Rev.
George NJ. Cummings presiding. Reports
Of the different organizations connected
with this parish were submitted. which
showed that the year had been sue
cessful one. The brotherhood. 1t was
shown, has done much toward the MAIN
tenance and is TO use special efforts the
coming year.
Before large audience in the hall
of the Anacostia Methodist Episcopal
Church Rev. Samuel w Graffiin. pastor.
delivered an illustrated lecture last even
ing ON stepping Stones in American
Literature" The address was under the
auspices Of the Junior Epworth League.
The Women's Relief Corps Of John A.
Logan Post, G. A. r., Of Anacostia, held
a meeting last evening in the Anacostia
Masonic hall with a large membership
present Mrs. Ida Ferguson presided at
the meeting.
The police of the eleventh precinct yes
terday were investigating a theft that oc-
Cured at the residence of J. w. Nc
Closkey, Valley street, Washington High
lands Entrance was gained through n
valued at about SO were stolen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-23
TELLS Of WANDER|NCS
WITH lord SHO[T0"
Josephine Hood, His Ninth
Wife, Writes Home
After Years.

ASHEVILIE, N. c., March 23.-A1ourn-
ed as one dead because she was supposed
to have been murdered by John c. Caven-
dish, alias Lord Percy Sholto Douglas"
Josephine Hood, a member of one OF the
leading families here, who became VIC
tim Of the wiles Of the propossessing Eng
lishman, by a ceremony of marriage De-
cember 16, 1906 at Lake Charles, La, has
broken the silence Of years by writing to
an aunt here.
In her letter she cites some circum-
stances Of adventure Detailing her in COM
pany with the bogus lord, to whom she
seems bound by a hypnotic spell, since
she declares her belief in his uprightness
and that she is happy and is cared for in
luxurious style. She carefully refrains
from telling her present address. The let
ter was mailed on a train going west from
New Orlenas. Mrs. Cavendish tells of
trips around the world, of twenty trans
atlantic voyages. Of visits to Europe.
Asia and Africa She mentions many gifts
Of Jewels from her husband and his lavish
expenditures, which suggest that Cayen-
dish may be an International gambler.
His Ninth Wife.
/ Cayendish was notorious as a bigamist
at the time Of his marriage with Miss
Hood, and she is believed to be his ninth
wife. The present Mrs. Cavendish does
not indicate that she knows of his earlier
marriage, but does say plainly that she
could not communicate before or return
to her home because Cavendish has
troubles he hopes soon to overcome, and
then they will live i'm Los Angeles.
She did not say that Cavendish married
a Los Angeles woman in bygOne years
who shot him in the leg. She speaks OF
being in Ramon, Mex, some months after
their marriage. 1t was at Ramon that
agents of the Mexican government found
Cavendish and his wife on the request
made in 1907 by Elihu Root. then Secre-
tary of State, who had secret service men
searching for the girl at the request of
North Carolina and Louisiana senator's
1t was found that Cavendish had en-
ployment with a railroad there under the
name of r. G.. Pearson, and with him
was a woman corresponding to the beau
tiful Josephine Hood. The couple fled be-
fore they could be arrested
Cavendish is said to have married eight
women in as many different parts of the
United States before he met Miss Hood.
One Of these he married In Los Angeles,
one in Fort Worth, Tex; one in Norfolk.
Va; one in Georgia, one in Denver, one
in New OrleanS and one in Ohio. All OF
these women are said to have written to
Miss Hoods aunt here, but she has kept
no memoranda of their names. He soon
deserted all Of them except Miss Hood.
Miss Hoods mother is living in Louisi-
ana, and Josephine wrote to her aunt to
get the address, saying she often saw
Asheville papers. The mother almost died
of grief years ago when it became GER
tain that her daughter was one Of Cav
endishs victims.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-23
personal Notes of River Men.

Cant. Frank Taylor Of A. ]. Taylor &
Bro. has returned from a trip of sew
eral days to Norfolk. where he looked
after the interests of the tug Davis. and
was at his office on the river front this
morning.
Capt. Henry Davis, master of the tug.
James o. Carter. in service on the river.
Is confined to his home at Alexandria by
a severe cold and other masters of the
TAYLOR fleet are looking after the tVg.
Capt. frank Howard LAS taaen COM