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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
MAKE FIGHT ON
THE CATTLE TICK
DIR. HERMAN, VETERINARIAN, rs
ENCOURAGED.
1000 vATs IN THE STATE
Dipping Supervised by Government and
State Veterinarian Promises to Rid
twenty-five More Counties
of Pest This Year.

Jackson.-According to DR.. j. 81. Kier-
nan, United States government veterina-
rian, in charge of the work of cattle tick
eradication in Mississippi and Tennessee,
the work of eradication in Mississippi ap-
pears to be progressing fayorably. DIR.
Herman reports that there are in opera
tion in Mississippi at the present time
some 1000 dipping vats, which are being
supervised generally by government and
state veterinarians, from which good re-
suits are obtained. The fact that during
June over 100000 cattle had been dipped
in the state, including those redipped, is
an indication of the progress of this most
important branch of animal industry ac-
tivity.
At the present rate of progress it is
probable that by the end of the present
year some twenty-five additional counties
will have been proclaimed as free of the
ticks, and subject to tightening up the
quarantine restrictions now imposed by
the federal government against infected
territory. While the work of eradication
was started in the northern part of the
state, in Marshall, DeSoto, Tate and Ben
ton counties will have been proclaimed as
free, the movement has been more gen.
eral during the past few months in the
southern part of the state.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
LEAKEsyILLE, MISS. FRIDAY JULY 5. 1912
LUMBERMEN FIGHT BILBO BILL
MILLING CORPORATION JOINS ANTI.
PRIVILEGE TAX FIGHT.
Proposes Tax of Twenty Cents an Acre
on All Removing Timber From
Tracts in Excess of a Thou
sand Acres.

Jackson-The Finkbine Lumber Com.
pany, the giant milling corporation in
South Mississippi, has joined the COM
pany of litigants against the celebrated
"Bilbo bilp'-that proposing to levy an
annual privilege tax or occupation fee
of twenty cents an acre on all persons
or corporation owning, occupying or re-
moving timber from tracts of land in
excess of one thousand acres. This big
nonresident concern, through Messrs.
Green & Green, attorneys, has filed .
bill of injunction, similar in terms to
that of the Fernwood Lumber Company,
the Jackson Naval Stores Company and
other complainants, to restrain the state
auditor and state treasurer from en-
forcement of the provisions of the act.
Plaintiffs claim that the act is uncon-
stitutional, confscatory in effect, and a
repressive and unjust measure, and that
the manner of its enactment was clearly
in contravention of constitution and
statute. The bill is in the chancery court
for the first district of Kinds county,
and as is the case with those now pend
ing, will be referred to the attorney
general, to plead, answer or demur. Ac-
cording to Assistant Attorney General
Clayton, the state will file answer to
the bills as drawn, which are now in
the course of preparation, and thus meet
the issue squarely.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
500 LIVES LOST IN
TERRIBLE TORNADO
$4,000, 600 PROPERTY DAMAGE AT
REGINA.
NEARLY THOUSAND INJURED
Aid Arrives, but Great Confusion Pre-
walls, and 1t Is Impossible to
Estimate Full Damage of
the Calamity.

Winnipeg.-It is estimated that from
400 to 500 persons were killed and prop
erty loss of $1O,0OO,O00 entailed by a
tornado, which, after a day of thun ler-
storms and high winds, struck Regina,
Saskatchewan, Sunday.
The local telephone office was wree eked
and it is feared that fifteen girls en-
ployed there were killed.
The tornado first struck the new par
lament building, just completed at cost
of $sOOO,00O. The building is of steel
and concrete and while it still stands
is badly shaken.
The storm swept northward, moving
q path six blocks wide through the fash
ionable residence district. Along Vic
streets, 800 houses were destroyed and
many people were hurled high in the air
and dropped blocks away.
Warehouses, banking institutions and
retail stores were sent into heaps of
ruins, while the air was filled with the
wreckage.
Six big grain elevators were toppled
over like tenpins, the timbers being piled
in heaps on the tracks.
The magnitude of the calamity which
Regina had suffered, while growing in
realization as the rescue work proceeded,
could not be fully estimated at late
hour. 1t seemed certain, however, that
the casualties would roll up to total
of between 400 and 500, and that the
property loss would hardly be under
$4,OOO,O00 at the lowest estimate.
Every ambulance in the city was
worked to its limit, carrying the bodies
of the killed and the scores of injured
persons to the hospitals, which were
filed early in the evening, and to impro-
yised hospitals in some of the larger
buildings left standing. Crowds of vol
unteers all over the city are assisting in
the work of searching the wreckage, and
for hours hardly a minute went by that
a dead body or the mangled form of
some living victim was not uncovered.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
FILE SUIT AGAINST GATHINGS
CHARGES CRUELTY TO STATE CON.
VICTS.
Suit Grows Out of Friction That Has
Existed Between the Superintend-
ent and Members of the
Board for Some Time.

Jackson.-Perhaps the most sensa-
tional suit ever filed in this county was
filed when Attorney General Ross Col
Inns filed writ of quo warranto seeking
to remove T. G. Gathings from his posi-
tion as superintendent of the Missis-
sippi state penitentiary and a mandamus
to enforce him to obey the order of the
board of trustees to remove the white
convicts from the Parchman farm to the
Rankin county farm.
The charges alleged in the bill are to
the effect that number of prisoners
have been grossly mistreated by one
Tom Deut, a sergeant on the farm, and
for whose actions DR.. Gathings is re-
sponsible. The petitions further allegc
that Gathings has wilfully and persist
entirely refused to obey the mandates of
the board of trustees to remove the
white prisoners from Parchman to Ran
kin.
The suits grew out of friction that
has existed between DR.. Gathings and
members of the board for some time,
and it is alleged that members of the
board have employed special agents to
procure the evidence against him for
allowing the cruel and unusual punish
ment of convicts.
The cases will be heard before Judge
Henry in short time
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
WOMAN DASHED
TO HER DEATH
WITH W. A. p. WILLARD, FELL A
THOUSAND FEET.
STRUCK IN SHALLOW WATER
Both Bodies Were Badly Crushed by the
Fall-Were Returning From Twen-
ty-Mile Flight Over Boston
Harbor.

Boston.-Miss Harriet Quimby, OF
New York, the first woman to win an
aviator's license in America, and the
first woman TO cross the English channel
in an aeroplane, was instantly killed
with her passenger, w. A. p. Willard,
manager of the Boston aviation meet,
when her Bleriot monoplane fell into
Dorchester bay from height of thou
sand feet.
The accident happened when Miss
Quimby and Willard were returning from
trip over Boston harbor to Boston
light, distance of 90 miles in all. The
flight was made in 20 minutes. The
Bleriot, one of the latest models of mill
tary monoplanes, circled the aviation
field and scared out over the Savin Hill
Yacht Club, just outside the aviation
grounds.
Heading back into the eight-mile gusty
wind, Miss Quimby started to volplane.
The angle was too sharp and one of the
gusts caught the tail of the monoplane,
throwing the machine up perpendicular.
For an instant it poised there. Then,
snasnjY outlined against Ine SeLLihg sun,
Willard vas thrown clear of the chassis,
followed almost Immediately by Miss
Quimby. Hurting over and over, the
two figures shot downward, striking the
water 90 feet from shore. They splashed
out of sight second before the mono
plane plunged down 16 feet away.
It was low tide and the water was
only five feet deep.
Both bodies were badly crushed. Sew
eral of Miss Quimby's bones were broken
and there were many large bruises. Will
lard, who weighed 100 pounds, hit the
water face first and over one eye there
was a cash from which the blood was
flowing. He, too. sustained several frac-
lures and bruises.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
COMMISSIONERS QUIT
RECENTLY ENACTED STATUTE TO
GOING INTO EFFECT JULY l.
Court Continues Labors-Decision to Ad-
iourn for the Summer Reconsidered.
Whitfield and McLain Retire.

Jackson-Before the time comes for
the next regular sitting of the supreme
court the order of the Mississippi SUI
preme court commissioners, held by for
mer Congressman Frank A. McLain, will
have passed to the realms of things that
were. 1t was an order established by
the legislature of 1910, with view to
Tightening, if possible, the overburdened
trio of members, and expediting the task
of disposing of as much as possible of the
ever-increasing volume of business before
the court. The system, while it may not
have fulfilled all the expectations of its
creators, was of some material help, but
the legislature of this year decided that
it was useless appendage of the judiciary
department.
Accordingly, the act repeating the SUI
preme court commission act of 1910, after
due deliberation, was passed, and as
passed it becomes effective on July /. In
reality the commission of Judge Whit
field and Judge MeLain will expire pre-
sumably at the close of this week, since
Sunday is dies non, and the distin-
guished jurists will return to their posi-
tions at the bar of the same court which
they have served so faithfully.
So far as Judge McLain is concerned,
in effect he has been off the bench for
the past two months or more, having
been incapacitated by severe organic
illness.
Judge Whitfield has made arrangements
so conduct law class, which he pro-
pose to start Immediately.
1t was the intention of the court to
take final adjournment for the summer
on this coming Monday, but owing to
the number of important cases to be de-
cided which are still in the consultation
rooms, the probabilities are that their
honors will go on week or fortnight
longer.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
NEGRO SOLDIER ACCUSED
Assault on White Woman of Seattle Is
Alleged

Seattle, Wash.-All the negro soldiers
of the four companies of the Twenty
fifth infantry, the Brownsville regi-
ment," stationed at Fort Lawson, are
confined to quarters in an effort to iden-
tify soldier, who is alleged to have at
tackled Mrs. F. Pratt, white woman.
Mrs. Pratt said she was seized by the
negro soldier, who drew razor when sne
struggled to get free. She grabbed the
razor and in the tussle that followed she
says she broke the handle and that the
blade, she thinks, cut the mans hand.
She screamed and ran away.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
MUST PAY ASSESSMENT.
No Avoiding Payment Of Automobile Tax

NO Avoiding Payment Of Automobile Tax
Is Rullng.
Jackson.-In an opinion to the state
auditor rendered by Assistant Attorney
General Frank Johnston, the opinion is
submitted that owners of automobiles
must pay the tax assessed in the bill
passed at the last session of the legila-
ture, regardless of some technical fault
dicovered in the bill.
Attorneys for some of the owners had
given notice that the bill would be op-
posed on the ground that it was improp-
erly worded. The attorney general says
there is no escape on account of the
grammatical expression. "The title of
an act and all the provisions of the same
show clearly the intentions of the legis-
lature notwithstanding the fact that
there was some grammatical inaccuracy,"
was the way the opinion was expressed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
Stop crayfsh Depredationa

Aberdeen.-For many years the farm
ers of the prairie soils, especially in that
belt traversing Eastern Mississippi along
the Mobile & Ohio railroad from Okolona
to Macon, have suffered great loss
from the devastation of the crayfsh on
the young crops. They have followed
every means that seemed practical for
them in destroying this pest, with little
avail, and now, through DIR. A. K. Fisher,
who is in the biological bureau, the gov
ernment has taken charge and is carry
ing on experiments trying to establish
method of combating the crayfsh with
chemicals that win be practical for She
farmers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
coNvIcTS MISTREATED.
Acting Governor Bilbow Tells of Visit
to State Farm.

to State Farm.
jackson. Acting Governor Bilbo re-
turned from Parchman, where he went
to investigate personally the charges OF
cruelty to convicts said to be practiced
ct that place.
When seen by q reporter, Governor
Bilbo made the following statement:
Having heard so much about the UNI
satisfactory conditions at the state farm,
especially about tfN cruel and inhuman
treatment of the white convicts at Camp
., felt it my duty to go at once and
investigate the facts. went in COM
pany with Trustees Montgomery and
Smith to Parchman to make thorough
investigation at first hand.
"After interviewing quite number of
the white convicts at Camp 9 in COM
pany with Col. Montgomery and Mr..
Smith, l found the treatment of the
white convicts most shameful and in
human, even worse than reported.
''The suffering, torture and treatment
Of these poor unfortunate victims as out
lined by them to us would make sad
story that would serve no good purpose
to relate at this time, since the objec-
tionable men have been removed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
Conditions in the Delta.

Jackson.-State Treasurer p. s. Sto-
vail has returned from visit to his
plantation in the delta, and while he
reports that conditions are somewhat de-
pressing as result of the floods, the
cotton that has been planted is coming
up fine.
The planters are turning strongly to-
ward corn planting this year, and are
having good success with it. This re-
duces the cotton acreage considerably.
Mr.. Stovall says that it is not q
pleasant sight to see so much idle land
as one observes in the delta this year.
Many acres that had been planted in
cotton this time last year are now to-
tally unused.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
CHARGES STEAMER GRAFT
Stowaways Struggled Across Pacific
Is Charge

San Francisco-Graft on the part Of
trans-Pacifc steamship officers is alleged
in a transcript of testimony taken be-
fore Consul General Anderson at Hong
kong, and received here. Quock Linn, a
Chinese, testified that twenty-seven stow
aways were put on board the Man
churia to be smuggled into San Fran
cisco.
For their passage, $4,000 was said to
have been paid for each woman, and
81, 100 for each man..
The transcript contains evidence given
by the witness of an organized opium
ring operating on the ships. ~Quock said
he was told by mess boy that 42,95O
tins of opium had been sent through Cd
one ship.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
Decision of Oyster Case.

Gulfport.-D. NJ Graham, attorney for
the oyster commission of Mississippi, re-
ceived telegram from Jackson saying
he had won in his fight before the SUI
preme court in the case of the State of
Mississippi vs. the Barataria Canning
Company This decision of the supreme
court has direct bearing upon . num-
Der of other cases brought by the state
through the board of oyster commission
ers against Gamers and shippers Of oys-
ters. The point involved is the right Of
the commission to collect the special tax
of three cents per barrel on oysters
brought here for canning or shopping
purposes OF from other states.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
Goes After Insurance Men.

Jackson.-Insurance Commissioner L.
NJ Henry has been advised that two
agents, representing the international
Insurance Union" an order not licensed
to do business in this state, have been
arrested.
The commissioner viii prosecute these
agents to the full extent of the law, and
if found guilty of the charges against
them, they viii De. required to pay five
times the amount of license due by the
company.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05

Jackson.-Press dispatches announcing
to death at Hot Springs, Ark, of former
Congressman Adam Byrd quite unexpect-
edly, were read with genuine regret by
the many friends Of this sterling and
rugged Mississippian at the capital of
his state, where he was 80 frequent and
so welcome a visitor. While it was
known that Judge Byrd had not been
in robust health for some months, there
was nothing to indicate that his condi-
tion was alarming. In fact, he had en-
tered Justify into his campaign for re-
nomination and election as member of
congress from his old district, and had
recently expressed confidence in the
result.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
LUMBER ADVANCE ALLOWED
Commerce Commission Holds Southwest
arn Rates Valid.

Washington.-An advance OF cent q
hundred pounds in the freight charge on
hardwood and yellow pine lumber from
points of origin in the Southwest to St.
Louis was held by the Interstate Com
merce Commission to have been justified
by the railroads and to be reasonable.
The attack upon the increase was made
by the lumbelmen's exchange of st.
Louis.
In case brought by the traffic bu-
reau of the Sioux City Comemrcial Club,
the commission reduced the rate on yel-
low pine lumber from points in Arkan-
sas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas to
Sioux City and similarly situated des-
tinations from 80 cents to % cents
hundred pounds.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
Test Ten-Hour Law.

1eSI leu-dOuT Law.
Jackson.-The efforts Of the Missis-
sippi legislature to provide shorter hours
of labor seems to meet with scant SYM
pathy with two sets of employers, at any
rate. The sawmill owners have decided
to fight the ten-hour labor law, and now
the Mississippi Cottonseed Crushers fol-
low, and are going to try to break it up.
The attorney for the organization was in
structed to file test suit. The cotton
sed men claim that in the busy season
they run twelve-hour shifts, and cannot
well operate under the ten-hour plan. The
suit will probably be fled in the Kinds
county court.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
CHASE OVER HOUEET0PS
Two Countrymen, Fleeing Police, Receive
Mortal Injuries.

Louisville, Ky.-At the end of their
perilous flight over block Of housetops,
police in hazardous pursuit, Alva and
Goold Bishop, countrymen, blood flowing
from numerous cuts they sustained in a
fight, toppled over raised cornice and
pitched headlong toward the pavement,
two stories below Goold fell to the
street with crash, while Alva struck
trolley guy wire in his descent and
was snapped across the street and upon
the roof of one-story building. Conrad
Berry, the Bishops antagonist, well nign
vanquished when the police entered his
back yard. where the fight was in prog
ress, is covered with knife wounds. All
are :. in the city hospital and living,
though recovery is scarcely considered
possible.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
@Black Tongue" killing Cattle.

Jackson.-Numerols outbreaks of dis.
eases among cattle are being reported to
Commissioner of Agriculture Blakeslee.
He has just had the veterinarians of
the live stock board inspect conditions
at Jackson, at Bolton, and at Edwards,
and now an imperative call comes from
Raymond, in the lower part Of Kinds
county, where the farmers complain
their cattle are dying off fast with
''black tongue"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
NlTROGLYCERlNE EXPLOSION
Dupont Powder Company's Plant Ex.
ploded, One Man Killed.

Muskogee, OKLA terrific explosion
of nitroglycerine at the Dupont Powder
Company's plant killed C. J. O'Brien, an
employe of the company, injured j. H.
Hesberger and broke most of the plate
glass in the town of Haskell. O'Brien's
body was blown to atoms, all that was
left being part of his skull. Frag-
ments of his clothing and splintered
bones were picked up within half mile
of the plant.
A strange freak of the explosion was
the fact that Hesberger, who was closest
to the mixer, was stripped naked and
not seriously hurt. Not stitch of cloth
ing was left on him.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
WORMS EAT CROPS.
Farm Sergeant Says State Feeds Pests
With Vegetables.

Jackson. c. II. Neyland, former
superintendent of the state penitentiary,
and now sergeant in charge of one of
the camps on the states 14,OoO-acre farm
in Sunfower county, states that instead
of having too much rain up there, the
corn has really been suffering for it. He
also remarked on the prevalence of insect
pests this year. Out of five hundred hills
Of squash, he says there is not hill
left. He made four paintings of water
melons, and has not a stand yet; cucum-
bers are infested with small worms, and
the grass worm or "corn bud worm" is
playing havoc with some crops.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
Columbus Wants New Railroad.

Columbus Columbus Business League
has given its formal Endorsement to the
scheme to build the Memphis, Column
bus & Gulf Railroad, and will ask the
city council to call an election to allow.
the qualified electors Of the city to vote
on the question Of issuing bonds IN the
sum Of S50,000 Tor the purchase Of right
Of way through the city and terminal fa-
cilities for the road.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05

Seashore Camp Grounds.-Never have
the Seashore Camp grounds looked love-
lier than this summer The constant
rains have brought out the grass in all
It's freshness and the trees are luxuriant
with foliage Many improvements have
been made about the grounds. Good,
arm walks have been laid, paths cut, old
buildings torn down and new ones have
gone up.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
Grenada Spotless Town.

Grenada.-Dr. w. II. Rowan, chief sam
itary inspector of the state board Of
health, visited Grenada on his official
rounds, and was very complimentary in
deed in what he had to say about the
cleanliness of Grenada. He said, among
many other nice things:
Grenada is by far the cleanest town
have been in 30 far" and that Il found
very little to do in my hne."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
TREASURY WELL HEELED.
State Has Plenty of Cash on Hand to
Last Till Fall.

Jackson.-Treasurer Stovall has COM
pleted the payment of the June school
distribution.
The school distribution amounted to
S474, 500, and of this amount there is
outstanding now only $7,o13.14, while
the state strong box contains In the
neighborhood of $54c,O0O.
The treasurer states that he is well
satisfied that -Mississinpi has plenty Of
money to last until tax payment begin
to come in
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05

jackson There seems no abatement
in the number of pardon petitions iioys
ing into the governors office, and SONS
of the excuses offered in extenuation of
crimes committed Care unique. For in<
stance, Sim Scott, Jones county pris.
oner, says that he was convicted fos
grand larceny and sentenced to two
years, but he committed the larceny
"under the instructions Of his employ
er." It is also offered in bis behalf that
he has been sufficiently punished, and
has wife in destitute circumstances
and wretched health.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-05
TREASURY SURPLUS IS BIG
Government Closes Fiscal Year in Good
Shape.

Washington. The federal government
closed the fiscal year with q surplus Of
$32 ,0O0, 900, according to estimates based
upon incomplete returns from the various
sources of revenue. This amount far ex-
ceeded the expectations of Secretary Mac
Veagh, who months ago estimated that
the surplus would 1o,25o,00o.
The surplus at ths close Of 1911 was
e45, ,se2, 900.