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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
.LUMDER PROBE BEGINS
Special Grand Jury to investi-
gate Big Industry.

At Chicago, Monday, formal investi-
CATION of the conditions in the lumber
industry with view of criminal pro-
secution began in the federal build
ing when a special grand jury was
impaneled by Judge Landis More
than fifty Minnesota lumberman and
wholesale paper dealers have been
served with subpcenas to appear be-
fore the jury and it is expected that
all evidence will he in the hands of the
jurors by two weeks. Among the
witnesses who have been summoned
arc Cornelius Crawley, Minneapolis
sales representatives of the Weyer-
haeuser mills at Cloquet, Mimi; Miss
Martha Thomson, stenographer in the
Office of the Northwestern Lumber
mems association; H. e. White, vice
president Of the Minneapolis Paper
company; ]. II. Queal, president Of J.
H. Queal G. Co, ard Platt r. Walker.
editor and manager Of the Mississippi
Valley Lumbcrman.
These have been ordered to bring in
their books, correspondence and all
information On suppression of compe-
tition.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
GOTHAM MILLIONAIRE SHOT
w. E. D. Stoves Wounded in Leg
Target for Two Women.

w. e. d. Stokes, the proprietor of
the Ansonia hotel in New York, who
was recently married and who is many
times a millionaire, was shot by two
women in the Varun apartments, 225
West Eightieth street. Each woman
discharged revolver at him. Six shots
in all were fired.
At the Ansonia it was found that
Mr. Stokes had been hit in the leg.
The women after the shooting locked
themselves in their room and barri-
caGed the place against entrance by
the police Several bluecoats finally
smashed their way in after the women
had refused to surrender. One of the
women was known as a Miss Graham
The shooting occurred in Miss Gra-
hams apartment.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
SPORTING AFFAIRS,

Yale track men are preparing for
the trials to be held to determine who
shall make up the team which, with
the Harvard contingent, shall meet
the Oxford Cambridge team in Eng
land in July. No trials will be held
at Yale for the distance runs, as it is
conceded that Harvard's milcrs and
haf- -milers are better than any at
Yale. Harvard will reciprocate by
giving Yale both places in the broad
Jump, Holden and fitzpatrick being
the men to go. Kelley of Harvard
will go for the 440-yard dash and
either Steward Of Farrar for Yale.
Billy Fanke, the American, defeated
jim Sullivan in London, England,
for the middleweight championship of
the world 1t was a punch on the
mouth that cid the trick near the end
of the ninth round. Papkes right
dropped the Englshman and he was
taking the count when the gong rang
for the end of the round. Sullivan,
however, was unable to go back for
the beginning of the tenth round and
the referee cave the decision to Papko.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
SENDING OUT SCHOOL MONEY.
Auditor Busy Making June Distribu.
tion, Amounting to $i74,e96.

Jackson-Audtor Smith is busy send
ing out school warrants of the June
distribution, the total amount to be
apportioned among the seventy-nne
counties of the state being $474, ,696, this
being the second distribution for the
year, the previous one having been made
III January, when $940,392 was distrib-
uted among the teachers OF the state.
According to the last enumeration of
the educable children of the state in
cluding whites, Indians and negroes,
there were 712,044, divided as follows:
Whites, 301, ,54S; negroes, 41O0S9 In
dams, 407. OF the latter, 6s are in
Leake county, while 339 are in Ne
shoba.
The last enumeration was made in
1908, and shows an increase of 4s,742
over that of two years previous. Ac-
eording to chapter 202 of the laws of
1908, the next enumeration will not be
made until 1912, when it is expected the
increase will be much larger in proper
tion than that of the last.
OF the seventy-nine counties of the
state, Lauderdale has the largest num-
Der of educable children, 1896 whites,
and 12,701 negroes, and receives for the
January distribution $200S0, and for
the June distribution $10,040, while
Kinds is close second, with 5,639
whites, and 1906 negroes, receiving
at the January distribution $1S,S33.34,
and at the June distribution $9,41666.
Harrison has the largest number of
white children, 1868, and Issaquena
the smallest number, 191. Washing
ton has the largest number of negro
children, 15,s40, while Ittawamba has
the smallest, 3S7.
The distribution of the school fund,
which this year amounts to $1,424,0sS,
is no small job, and the force in the
auditors office has large amount of
work to do when it comes to figuring
out the apportionment to be made to
each county, including the many sep
arate school districts of the state.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
MANY ARE killed BY
A Quake IN MEXICO
Vengeance of God for Deposins
Diaz, Say Some.
Seventy Soldiers Buried in Ruins O,
Collapsed Building-Hundreds
of Visitors in Panic-Seek
Churches for Refuge.

An earthquake rocked the CITY OF
MEXICO and toppled several buildings
Between fifty and sixty persons were
killed.
Among the buildings razed was the
artillery, quarters, where seventy sol.
diers were buried in the ruins.
Many other buildings were demol
ished and scores of victims are be.
lieyed to be beneath the ruins.
The first and most severe shock was
feit at 4:2S a. m, but the tremors con.
tnued for nearly two hours. The first
shock was of only fifteen seconds dur.
alton, but was the most severe. The
entire city rocked.
The city, which was en- fete for the
welcome of Francisco |. Madero, the
revolutionary leader, was turned into
a scene of panic and desolation. Thou.
sands who have been pouring into the
city 10 welcome Madero fed in terror.
Hundreds were sleeping in the streets
when the first shock came. Awakened
by the undulation they ran panic.
stricken through the streets, while
thousands from the homes in the city
Joined them, adding their cries to
those of the visitors who had been un-
able to find accommodation for the
night.
The churches became the main cen.
ters of refuge, and these were filled
with hundreds of frightened people.
Others ran through the streets crying
out: 1T is the vengeance of God for
driving out Diaz! Beware! Beware!"
While no complete reports were re-.
ceived from outlying towns, fragmen.
tary advises showed great damage at
many places,
The first shock had completely
aroused the city before the full force
of the second was felt. The second
was shorter, but the panic-stricken
people feared that it forecasted more
severe shocks.
Dispatches say the center of the dis.
turbance was the volcano Colima,
which has become active The towns of
Tonila and Platanar, situated near the
Volcano, were damaged by the flow of
lava
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
USE HOME BRICK.
Brookhaven Federal Building to Be Con-
structed of Home Product.

Westinghouse Through the efforts OF
Representative Dickson, OF the Seventh
Mississippi, district, Supervising Archi-
tect Taylor agreed to use brick manu-
factured by the Brookhaven Press Brick
Company in the erection of the federal
building at Brookhaven, which is to cost
sos, 900. Mr.. Taylor informed Mr.. Dick
son that the texture of the Brookhaven
brick commended its adoption irrespec-
tive of the saving to the government in
the matter of freight rates.
Representative Dickson in appealing
for the use of the Brookhaven brick
waxed eloquent in behalf of the patron
ze-home-industry slogan now so popular
in the South.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
TELLS OF NATCHEZ TRACE.
Mrs. Dunbar Rowland Contributes a
Valuable Paper.

valuable PaPef
Jackson-Among the many recent
contributions to the historical literature
pertaining to the earlier days of Mis-
ssssippi. there is none which seems to
possess a more interesting and romantic
touching of color than that which re-
wives the romantic story of the Natchez
trace. Dedicated to the Mississippi So
ciety of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, Mrs. Dunbar Rowland has
recently brought forward i'll interesting
and easily accessible form her valuable
paper pertaining to the old Natchez
trace, ''the oldest historic highway of
the lower South which was published
in volume NJ of the publications OF
the Mississippi Historical Society" In
view of the fact that the Daughters OF
the American Revolution are blazing
the way toward securing through the
cooperation of the several states of the
lower South a re-marking OF this old
highway, over which from Kentucky,
Tennessee, the Carolinas, and even old
Virginia, the forefathers of Mississippi,
those who came to the land of the
Chickasaws and Choctaws, the Natchez
and the old Spanish and French set
tiers, ere the period at which statehood
came to Mississippi this bringing for
ward of the history and data pertaining
to the old trace seems appropriate
and timely.
The records of the land office, in
which the entire survey of this old road
is shown, indicate that it passed
through thirteen Mississippi counties, to-
wit: Adams, jefferson, Claiborne, Kinds,
Madison, Leake, Choctaw, Webster,
Chickasaw, Pontotoc, Lee, Prentss and
Tishomingo.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
MANGLED BY GORILLA
LARGE Animal Escapes from Show
at Laporte, Ind.

At Laporte, Ind, Tuseday, Mack.
large man eating gorilla, brought
from South Africa two months ago, es-
caped from a travelling show after at
tacking his keeper, Montana" Harri-
son of Columbus, o.
Several hundred people saw the at
tack and fought to get out of the tent,
fearing the gorilla would turn upon
them.
Harrisons leg and arm were man
gled and crushed and he is in hospi-
tai. The animal was at liberty all
NIGHT. hut was captured in a cupola of
a building in the morning.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16

Secretary of War Stimson has set
an example for the United States reg
ular army by volunteering for vac.
cination against typhoid fever Mr..
Stimson has been much interested in
tho work of the army medical corps
in immunizing the soldiers against
typhoid fever by vaccinating them
with a specially prepared serum and
decided to take the treatment himself.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
LORIMER PROBE APPROVED
Senate Adopts Resolution for Inquiry
by Bipartisan Committee.

At Washington, by unanimous
vote the senate approved the action of
the committee on privileges and elec-
tions in naming subcommittee of
four Republicans and four Democrats
to conduct new Lorimer inquiry.
The subcommittee, which really be-
comes a separate committee under the
resolution adopted, is clothed with
vide authority and will begin work
immediately
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
GARMEuT STRIKE ON
Six Thousand Cleveland Workers De-
mand Recognition Of Union.

At Cleveland, Ohio, six thousand
union garment workers went out on a
strike.
The strike is an exact duplicate, it
is said. of the one in New York year
agc-not so much question of dollars
and cents as demand for recognition
OF the union.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
Encampment of State Troops.

Jackson.-It has been definitely de-
cided that there will be no general en-
campment of the Mississippi National
Guard this year, but in the early part
of July one of the regiments Will be
taken to Vicksburg for ten days camp
in the National Military Park Tor work
on war problems and target practice,
on the Camp Williamson range, ana
at the end of the ten days the other
regiment will be given the same sor.
of instruction. Next year the guard
will probably camp with the regulars
- M Summer maneuvers at some point
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
Crop Condition Worst in Years.

Sunflower.-Crop conditions here, are
bv far the worst in years. Acreage
about normal. The stand of cotton is
very poor. Many acres replanted during
last days of May anf first OF June.
There has been no season since April ~.
Corn is suffering and replanted corn is
diving for the lack of moisture. The
general condition of the fields is poor.
The land was broken wet and remains
cloddy and shows slow response to the
cultivation given it.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
Cattle Tick Talk.

Brandon.-Dr. G. N. Wiekwire, who
kemper, Newton, Lauderdale, Scott and
Rankin counties, addressed the board of
supervisors of this county on the ad-
vantages to be derived from ridding this
county of cattle ticks. The dipping watts
cost much less than is generally sup
posed, and the arsenical solution used
is declared to be safe and the treat
ment success, as demonstrated in many
counties in the northern part of this
state, in Tennessee, Kentucky and other
states.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
NEW POSTAL BANKS
Duquon, Beardstown, Murphysboro
and Fulton Named in Illinois.

Fifty additional postal saving banks
have been designater to begin busi
ness July 3.
Among the fifty new Offices are Du-
quoin, Beardstown, Murphysboro and
Fulton, H.; Brazil and Vincennes
Ind; Emmetsburg and Mount Pleas
ant Ia; Charlevoix, Holland and St
Joseph, Mich, Cameron and Chilli
cothe, Mo-, and Rice Lake. Wis.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
PRISON TERMS FOR TWO
Miss Lodavine Miller and Brother Con-
victed of Conspiracy.

At Chicago Thursday Miss Lodavine
Miller and her brother, Attorney j.
Marion Miller, who swindled Tommy"
Foulkes. the sentimental Iowa farmer,
out of about all his considerable rich
es while he was under spell wrought
by the charms of Miss Miller, were
found guilty of conspiracy. They will
have to serve sentences of from one
to ten years in Joliet prison.
According to Foulkes Miss Miller
induced him to turn over to her SILL
600 and two farms worth $4,000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
WANT SOIL SURVEY.
Mississippi Congressman Petition Agri-
cultural Department.

cultural department.
Washingto on.-Representative Dickson
and Harrison of the Sixth and Seventh
Mississippi districts went together to the
soil survey division of the agricultural
department and urged that the soil sur
vey men in the field from the depart
ment in Mississippi should not be trans
ferred to Northern Mississippi.
They gave as their reason that i'm
pending depreciation by the Mexican boil
weevl rendered it of great Importance
that all the scientific aid that the gov
ernment could afford should be given
Southern Mississippi without delay; that
they should be made acquainted with
every possible productivity OF the soil,
so as to be ready to combat whatever
adversely might be imposed by the insect
pests.
The two Mississippi members made
an effective argument and were assured
that their wishes would be complied with.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
L. II. Chiles Passes Away.

Jackson.-L Ford Chiles, former dep
uty state revenue agent, court clerk,
alderman and business man, breathed
his last at o'clock Sunday morning
Mr.. Chiles was 6s years of age. He was
one of the younger set of Confederate
veterans, having been a mere boy when
he broke away from the restraint OF
a watchful and careful mother and rode
away to join Writ Adams cavalry. lie
was an Odd Fellow, a Mason, Pythian
and member of the Episcopal church,
and was probably more widely known
than any other citizen of Jackson.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
w. C. T. U. OF MISSISSIPPI.
viii Interview Governor and Candidates
for the LEGISLATURE.

Wll Interview Governor and Candidates
for the Legislature.
Jackson.-At the recent mid-year meet
ing of the state executive committee of
the Mississippi Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union, the various auxiliaries
were instructed to send letters as fol-
lowsi
1. To Hon. Earl Brewer, Clarksdale,
Miss, asking how he stands upon the
subject of statewide prohibition.
2. To each candidate in each county
who announces for the legislature, ask
ing his position on statewide prohibi
1ion.
3. Ask the latter what attitude they
will take toward a juvenile reformatory
and toward raising the age of consent
from twelve 20 eighteen years.
4. To secure mass meeting in each
town where there is w. c. r. U. which
will give expression on these subjects
and educate their people to the need.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
WRECK ON SANTA re
Six Persons Reported Killed and Large
Nunter Injured

Santa Fe train No. 8, known as the
California Limited, and the fastest
train On the Santa Fe system, met a
construction train near Domingo, N
NJ, thirty miles from Albuquerque, and
six persons were killed and a large
number injured as the result of the
collision.
The limited train was loaded with
California tourists, many Of them from
Chicago. Among the known dead are
A. w. Green, enaineer of the construc-
ticn train, ard the fireman of the linn
tied, name unknown.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16

At Lincoln, Neb., Miss Grace Dex.
ter Bryan, second daughter of William
Jennings Bryan, was married at s
O'Clock in the evening to Richard Lew.
is Hargreaves, a Wholesale grocer OF
Lincoln, The wedding took place at
fairview and the ceremony was Fer.
formed by the Rev. Harry f. Hunting.
ton, of Crete, who has ofiiciated at the
weddings of the other Bryan children
MIR. Hargreayes and Miss Bryan
have been sweethearts from their
school days.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
Big Lumber Deal.

Wesson.-An important business deal
took place here when the Cook and Graz
ton Lumber Company acquired posses
sion of large trct of timbered land
from the Southern Lumber Company
The land consists of about 1900 or 14oo
acres and is in Copiah and Lincoln eoun-
ties, the purchase price being near
$4,000.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
Shooting in Neshoba.

Meridian.-A serious shooting afiray
occurred at Dixon, small town III Ne
shoba county, about ten miles from
PHILADELPHIA. in which DR.. William Ma
lures was shot by Thad King. MaJures
condition is said to be serious. Both
parties are prominently connected
throughout this section. They are
brothers-in-law.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
Held Without Bail.

Meridian.-W. II. IIopson, who shot
and Killed S. b. Stuckey at Graham's
Switch, waived preliminary hearing
and was bound over to await the action
OF the grand jury without bond. lie
and his mother, Mrs. Wm b. Hopson,
who. it is said urged Hopson to shoot
Stuckey, are confined in the Lauderdale
oounIv 10 II
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
Bill Taxing Weapons.

hington.-Sentirnen in the ways
and means committee of the house is
crystallized in favor of the bill of Rep
resentative Sisson, of Mississippi, to
place an internal revenue tax upon the
manufacture and sale of all deadly
weapons which it is violation to carry
concealed in the various states Pistols,
dirk knives, sword canes, slung shots and
similar articles that are carried con-
cealed are to be taxed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
Carrie Nation Is Dead.

Carrie Nation, the Kansas saloon
smesher, is dead of paresis at Leaven-
worth, Nas. For several months Mrs.
Naticn has heen in poor health and
Jan. % she entered the local sanator-
ium, in which she died, hoping to re-
cnvcr frcgl nervous breakdown
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16

Jackson.-State Superintendent J. N.
Powers has completed arrangements for
the sem-annual Distribute nof the com
mon school fund, which takes place dur
ing the month of June. The amount to
be distributed is $474,696.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
Booze Tcints Fined.

Natehez.-Proprietors of various soft
drink establishments in Natchez were
fined $50 and costs by Judge r. S. Dor
sey on charges of violating liquor laws
by the sale of intoxicating liquors.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-06-16
81 at Vicksburg.

Vicksburg- previous high weather
marks for May were eclipsed in Vicks-
burg when the mercury climbed to 81
about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The
hottest ever before reported was in 1877
and in 1874, when the local bureau of
weather registered 95.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-15

"Some years ago." writes Editor
Hansmann of the Kingman Journal
ii slung stray shoe in this column
at one of the lazy, gadding, good-for-
nothing girls Of this community who
was then letting her mother wrestle
the pots and skillets and do up all the
housework while she read yellow-back
novels, bummed the streets where
the loafers would speak to her in the
streets, and met the trains at the San
tn Fe depot. said then, right about
her in this column, that some day
she would get her pay out Of the mills
Of the gods. She got it. For moro
than q year she had been supporting
a worthless whelp Of husband by
the washtub in neighboring city. He
is one of the bunch that used to stand
around waiting for her to come out,
while he smoked cigarettes and ex-
changed foul remarks with the gang. l
see by the Wichita papers that she
has at last applied for divorce"
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-15

mission, Keating dissenting, have leas-
eo large tract Of land in Montezuma
county to an oil man for the sum of
s cents per acre, annual rental, and a
percentage of the oil, or rather roy
atty on the production. The Denver
papers are giving Burwell and JEFF
ferson, the two members of the COM
mission who have voted for the grant
ing of the lease, particular fits and
are lauding Keating for his refusal
to sanction the deal.
While we are rather new to the
country and probably know less about
the conditions existing than we will
know in couple Of dozen years yet
we know that in the matter of this
lease Mr.. Burwell has done that which
seems good in the eyes of the people
Of the San Juan district. They point
out to us the fact that as the land
lies on the edge of the oil basin there
is nothing at all sure that the entire
tract, or even any considerable por-
ton of it, is oil bearing territory.
That to explore and prospect for oil
is a mighty expensive proposition and
that to get the exploring done a
tempting offer must be made capital
to interest it. That practically all
the land leased is really valueless for
agriculture or even for grazing pur-
poses and that, in case oil is found ir
sufficient quantity, the boom resulting
will be Of great benefit not only to
Montezuma county but to the San
Juan district and the ertire state.
Mr.. Burwell went there and made
a personal inspection of tie land and
talked with large number of the
best informed people Of the district
and he found that it was the con-
census of opinion that such lease
should be made and we do not hesi-
tate to say that we have confidence in
our member of the board to the de-
gree that we prefer to take his per-
sonal judgment in the matter rather
than the judgment of Denver politl-
clans who are inclined to make the
matter of the leasing of the lands in
question matter of politics instead
of matter of business.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-15

The representative of the Vienna
Times who shook hands with the
walters in the hotel and bowed him
self out of the room, is in fair way
to get mighty good treatment. Too
many people have an idea that wait
er is n rack on which to hang all the
scorr for humanity that they store
up during the day. A waiter is mere
ly clerk who brings your food to
you. 1t is something that has to be
dore so long as people infest restau-
rants and hotels. and there is as much
work To it as there is TO any other
Job on the town site.