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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-02-01

research, for he led his men promptly
to lonely cabin in the wilds of the
Indian land. They came up In native
fashion and located four men in the
cabin. By some certain process Jack
son worked out the correct deduc7
ton that three of the cabins occu-
pants had robbed the Northern Pa
ciic and met there to plan a Great
Northern holdup, as developed later.
The seven men and Jackson sur
rounded the cabin and demanded a
surrender. Immediately the cabin
began to- exude and to absorb lead.
The posse shot at the holes and
chinks in the log walls, while the
men inside shot at the flashes out
side. It WAS hopeless fight for the
besieged from the start, and they
would have surrendered but for their.
leader. By reckless disregard of his
own safety and energy in defence he
inspired a struggle that was as gal
liant a thing in the way Of resistance
as men have ever done against odds.
They held the cabin until toward
nisht when bullet smashed through
and the leader died from it in the
smoky, dirty muck of the besleged
quarters. And deputy marshal lay
dead in the brush outside.
At dark the three survivors made
a dash and got into the woods. Jack
son and his men looked at the corpse
in the cabin and again started in
pursuit.
The finish was not a difficult or
dangerous matter. They picked one
man up half-starved and freezing by
a pile of ties on the Great Northern.
Somebody took the trouble to shoot
the third robber and collect the re-
ward. The fourth proved to be boy
recruit who gave himself up and
turned states evidence. At the trial
in Helena he told the story of their
leader in the cabin battle, crimi-
nally desperate man, who robbed for
pastime and fought to finish.
The capture marked Jackson in
popular estimation as a man who
would die with his boots on an
expectation he fulfilled by falling
through a scaffold into the basement
of the capitol building at Helena. He
had served successfully as the first
under-sheriff in Sweet Grass when
that county was created, although he
was an ardent Republican and his
superior a Democrat.
Throughout the range and noun
tain country he was recognized as an
authority on tenderfeet. The robber
they found freezing was Charley
Jones. and the dead leader turned
over in the cabin wore the smooth
face, minus the spectacles, of that
guileless, timid greenhorn, -Four
Eyed jack
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-02-01
THE STANDARD is FINED.
REQUIRED to Pay $55,OOO for Accept
ing Rebates.

The Standard Oil company OF New
York was fined $4,000 in the federal
court at Buffalo, N. Y, on Monday
for accepting rate concessions from
the Pennsylvania railway in 1906
The maximum fine penalty would
have been $2,S60,000.
Some time ago the Pennsylvania
was fined $4,000 and the New York
Central $4,000.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
STATES BALANCE GROWS.
Mississippi Treasury Is Reported in I'm
usually Good Condition.

Jackson.-State Treasurer P. S. Sto-
vail, in recapitulating his cash balance on
hand, shows that the amount of money
on hand, including that in State deposi.
tories, to be considerably in excess of the
normal balance at this time of the year..
The total cash baalnce at the close OF
business was s3o2,229.66 made up of cash
items, $2s,O29.67; on hand in depositO-
ries, $364,0s5.44; with total payments OF
$114.55.
The floating balance on hand will b
added to during the next few days by
the sum of $22 900, which is in the hands
of the auditor as automobile registry
privilege payments, who has decided to
turn the money over to the treasury. 1t
will be quite a while yet before the
question of constitutionality Of the act
can be determined, which is On appeal &C
| the circuit court, on the criminal side
of the docket, and may not be reached
until the December term, and this would
delay consideration by the supreme cour'
until some time drFing 1913.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
Shows Up Roosevelt,

The report Of the majority Of the
committee that investigated the steel
trust shows ~conclusively that the pur-
pose Of the organization was monop-
olistic, that its original capital was
one-half water, that Morgan and his
crowd made vastly excessive profits
out Of the organization work, that
prices were controlled and fixed, and
finally that there was no justification
whatever for Roosevelt's permitting
the steel trust to grab the Tennessee
Coal and Iron company. It is shown
than the panic was over at the time
this permission was given, and that
Roosevelt had thanked Cortelyou. his
secretary Of the treasury, for his han
ding of the Wall street situation. 1t
is pointed out that the banks involved
were all solvent, and that there was
no trouble till the publication Of the
Perkins letter saying that one Of the
trust companies was a serious element
IN the problem. It seems to US that
the ease as here presented against
Roosevelt is conclusive. Had he
merely kept silent nothing would have
been done. But he promised not to
interfere, and the result was that the
chief rival of the steel trust was alb
sorbed.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
CUT RATE on ROAD MATERIAL
ROAD BUILDING is HINDFppn pv
EXORBITANT CHARGES.
hundreds of Thousands of Dollsro 8,
-A-'s --ei Issued to Be
Used in Building Good
Roads.

JACKSON. - The Mississippi railroad
commission adopted the following apept
'neir order on rates on sand and gravel:
:, mere Is not a subject in the state
'hA' is OF more vital Importance to the
taxpayers than that of constructing good
roads. During the present year hundreds
OF thousands of dollars worth Of bonds
nave beer issued by the taxpayers of
Mississippi for this purpose. One of the
greatest h%indrances in this work ia the
rate charged by the railroads for the
transportation of sand and gravel. the
price charged therefor being 80 exorbi.
tant as to be almost prohibitory. Mis-
slsslppi has sand and gravel of her own
10 construct every road within her
boundary. If the public roads were so
constructed, it appears to us that it
would be a good thing for the railroads
also, because the railroads will be bene-
lifted by any enhancement of property
values along their lines, and the people
would be better enabled to dispose OF
their agricultural products.
whether the railroad companies resist
the promulgation of this rate or not, we
want the people to know that we arc
e%ndeavoring to put into operation a rate
by which our public highways may be
improved at the minimum cost"
The rates put in are 1 cent per hun
dred pounds for fifty miles or less, IN
cents for fifty miles and less than 100
IN cents for less than $50 miles, :
cents for less than 200 miles, 2H cent:
for less than $50 miles, 2 cents for al
over $50 miles.
This order does not prohibit railroads
from charging less for land and grave
used on county roads, or public build
ings.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30

The Democracy Of the present hour
is being ~reproached by the practical
stand-pat Republicans as being a
crowd OF idealists."
The word "idealist" isn't new. 1t
has had a familiar place in the ar.
senal Of political word-warfare for
more than a century. 1t was thrown
at Washington, at Jefferson, at Lin
coin. And in each Of these cases 1t
meant the same thing. The man
who, in a time when many things are
visibly out Of joint, decides that JUS
tice and honesty in public life are
worth all they cost. is an "idealist."
That is Woodrow Wilson's position
today. This is the fact that has made
him the nominee Of the Democratic
party for president. That Is the key.
note Of the Democratic platform.
The Republicans have been busy
telling us that things in general are
settled forever, that our government.
administered as much for the public
good as the Paynes and the Dalzells.
the Cannons and the Aldriches, the
Lodges and the P%enroses found con-
venient, is the best government pos
sible. And the Democracy's position
in view of that is shaped by the deep
conviction that certain changes will
be worth all 1t will cost to make
them.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
TELLS OLE MISS HISTORY.
Historical Society Issues Twelfth Volume
of Publications.

Jacksonville twelfth volume of thu
publications Of the Mississippi Historical:
Society, as compiled by the secretary, DR.,
Franklin L. Riley, of the University, has
been issued.
One of the most valuable features Of
this volume is the exceptional number Of
articles on the educational history of the
State. These contributions are of much
more than local interest, as they treat of
men and events, and will be appreciated
by students of history in other parts of
the country.
The volume contains two county his.
tories of the reconstruction period, and
DR.. Riley expresses regret that he could
not give space to more publications Of
this character.
Doubtless the most valuable contribu'
ton in the volume bearing on the re-
construction period is that from the gift
ed pen of Capt. j.. S. McNeilly, editor OF
the Vicksburg Herald, generally recog
nized as Mississippi's foremost journalist
| who tells a dramatic story OF the climax
and collapse of reconstruction, covering
| the period from 1874 to 1896. Capt. Nc
Nelly was a prominent figure of the re
construction era, and much of his story
is from the viewpoint of an eyewitness
Another interesting article is from thu
pen of Miss Elise TimDerlaKe of the In
dustrial Institute and College faculty OF
the subject, Did the Reconstructed
Give Mississippi Her Public Schools"
DR.. Walter L. Fleming contributes al
interesting paper on THE First Marriage
Of Jefferson Davis" All of the articles
in the volume are of unusual merit.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
WILSON HAS RIGHT IDEA
Democratic Candidate Makes Appeal
to Reason In His Acceptance
Speech.

The hostile critics have found II
themsel ties out Of the speech Of Gov
ernor Wilson. We are told that the
Progressives are disappointed. Yet
If the governor had run wild" We
should have been told that he was not
safe" 1t seems to US that Governor
Marshall put the case very well when
he said, 1T Is most pleasing that b
ills of the country are to be treated
by a physician and not by a surgeon"
AS no surgery Is needed. at least
none of the extreme form, the coun-
try may we'll be pleased that none IL
proposed. 1t Is we'll. In this period
Of calm, after the storm, that the
people should consider public Ques-
tons from the point Of view Of prin-
cipie. No progress Of q real and last
ing sort can be made on any other
basis. We ought to be sure that We
know what VI wish, and hen we
should DO sure that we go about get
ting II In the right way. And that IL
the Wilson idea.
We have had scores Of nostrums
proposed, and many wild suggestions
made that can never be carried into
effect. And there Is a marked dis
position on the part OF some public
men to promise anything II by SO do
ing they think they can win the favor
Of the people. The time has come
for tho use Of more reason and less
rhetoric In connection with u polit-
zeal and social problems. And the
appeal Of Governor Wilson Ia to rea-
son. We doubt whether the people OF
this country will refuse to heed such
an appeal coming from Wilson or any
one else. During this campaign we
should take counsel together, which
Is precisely what the Democratic
candidate asks vi to do.
1t 10 strange, indeed. that there
should be any people In this country
who should pretend to see In this
attitude proof OF a non-progressive
mind. Yet there has been SO much
shouting and screaming, so much wild
denunciation, 80 much aspersion OF
motive. that perhaps we ought not to
be surprised that some people lool
I ON all this as an essential element In
progressiveness. Governor Wilson al
least knows what this government IL
! and what 1t can apd cannot do. And
that 10 more than can Be said fol
. some Of our leaders. Also he has b,
deed rather than by words proved
himself to be an efficient and earnes
reformer. II this campaign Is to b.
8 one of education it must be one o
g reason.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
LOAN SHARK CRUSADE
SoME EFFECTIVE WORK BEING
DONE AT OTHER PLACES.
suggests the Need of a Similar Campaign
IN Jackson. Where Ignorant Negroes
Are Imposed Upon by the Shy.
locks of Small Finance.

~Jackson.-The crusade against loan
sharks promises to become general in
hiississippi. Closely following that
launched in G~reenville by members of the
oar who have entered into an agreement
10 defend all loan shark victims free of
charge, and make an earnest effort to
'ahd the usurers in the ~penitentiary, .
similar agreement is being entered into
ny the attorneys at Laurel, and the
movement is being seriously considered
in several other cities of the state.
lhere Is not a city or town in Missis-
s'ppl having a population of more than
o,ooo where the loan shark does not flour
ish, and perhaps the reason crusades
against them have not been launched
heretofore is the fact that their victims
have been chiefly negroes. Many mem
bers OF the colored race, it seems, find a
Keen delight in borrowing ten dollars
from a loan shark, and devote about
three or four years to paying principal
and interest. A certain old darkey in
Jackson, who has been in the clutches
OF a shark for the past five years, always
speaks in loving and endearing terms Of
de compound what l got ter pay dat
white gem'man Saturday night"
Members of the bar have concluded
that as the negroes are unable to protec,
themselves against the loan sharks ant
are always easy prey for a white maj
with money to put out at interest, it il
their duty to indulge in a little whole
some p%aternalism and put the shark
out of business.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
CROP CONDITIONS IMPROVE.
K. s. Wilson, State Demonstration
Agent, Makes Report.

Misunderstanding to R. s. Viii.
son, state agent for Mississippi, farm
ers' cooperative demonstration work,
United States department of agriculture,
who has just returned here after a trip
through various parts of Mississippi, cot
ton, corn and all vegetable products are
in good shape and he estimates the cot
ton condition as fully 80 per cent of q
normal crop. A normal crop is what cot
ton should be at this season of the year.
He says that so per cent is plenty low
and if cotton continues to improve as it
has done in the past two weeks, 80 to 81
per cent will not be a bit too big.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
PLAN COLLEGE OPENING.
Formal Announcement Concerning State
Normal.

Decentralization Joe Cook, of the
Mississippi State Normal College, to be
opened at Hattiesburg on September IS,
has issued a bulletin to the teachers of
the state setting forth plans for the first
scholastic term.
The new institution represents an in
vestment of approximately 3 10000, and
President Cook states that the work will
be completed and all in readiness for the
opening on the date named.
The normal college will charge a ma
circulation fee of S., dormitory students
must deposit $12 on entry and board
will be furnished at exact cost, probably
not exceeding $40 per month. Tuition
for the term will be Sc, and books and
stationery viii probably not cost more
than $40.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
Looking for Near Beer.

INSTRUMENTATION Thompson received
an inquiry from a citizen OF Chicora, IN
Wayne county, asking information as to
the source of ':near beer" supply. The
writer does not say for what purpose the
information sought is needed, but the
~supposition is that it is probably to set
tie a discussion on the subject. MIR.
Thompson was compelled to write that
he has no information on the subject,
and that the only connection he has with
near beer is to collect and account ior
the privilege on near beer joints whe
such are discovered in operation.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
REPORT O GOOD.
Inspection Made of Illinois Central Dem.
onstration Farms.

Jackson.-Capt. John A Webb, former
president OF the Mississippi railroad CON-
mission, now agent for the Illinois Gen.
trails industrial and immigration depart
ment, has just returned from a round OF
visits to the experimental farms conduct
ed under the supervision of the big rail
road system. Capt. Webb accompanied
Charles N. Brumtield, agriculturist in
general charge of these farms, who was
also in the city.
The nearest one Of these farms to
jackson is at Terry, some eighteen miles
south of Jackson, where they report con
ditions as exceedingly favorable. Corn
is fine, and there will be an abundant
crop, while cotton is in relatively bet
ter condition, as shown by sample stalks
brought in. And this is on land that Is
directly in the boil weevil zone.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
Big Delta Realty Deal.

Greenville.-One of the biggest land
deals of the year in the delta became q
matter of record when Mattingly Broth
ers of Edgar county, ILL.,, transferred the
title to their plantation of 1,10s acres,
near Leland, to David j. Hill, of Dan
vile, III.
Mr.. Hill paid $65,ooo for this tract
of land, which was sold four years age
to the Mattingly Brothers for $4,000
thus showing a profit of $4,000 in -four
years.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
Third Party Menace.

Advocates of a third party to deal
with national questions and partic-
ularly to meet the issue raised by
the domination of the old national
parties by predatory special inter-
ests should temper their zeal with
common sense. To nullify progress
sive victories already won through
hard fighting would be to defeat their
own ends and to work serious injury
to the public.-Daily News.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
.aprwER ANSWERS MRS. MOTT.
n No Provision to Treat tuberculosis
. at State Hospital.

Jekson.-Gov. Brewer has recently
hxyed from Mrs. N. A. Mott of Yazoo
oy . letter of inquiry, the purport of
yiicA was to ascertain why it is that
utsuts or persons suffering with tu-
%krulosis are denied admission to the
hte charity hospital. The governor re-
,GM to Mrs. Mott as follows:
Ny Dear Mrs. Mott--Your favor has
Mn received. The matter whether the
tats charity hospital shall receive and
hat tubercular patients is n that has
sused a good deal of anxiety and worry
the superintendent and board of trus-
~. They all realize that some place
iould be provided for the care and
tmtment of those afflicted with tuber-
ul@is, and hat at the same time it is
iiicult to provide proper treatment in
hospital devoted to patients suffering
WITH other troubles. tuberculosis re,
Fires the open air, plenty of it, and
furnishing food.
The regular treatment of tuberculosis
6uld not be given at the charity hos.
laal; and then comes the question,
vhat effect treatment of this class OF
rtents would have on the usefulness
4 the Institution for treating various
ether maladies. The infection from tn
krulosis is now known to be far-reach'
4, and the treatment of this class OF
rtents there, and afterwards placing
tAer invalids in the same rooms OF
l'fds, would be o likely to commu
Aate the disease to those already weak
nM, whose powers of resistance would
\ essened.
The state should undoubtedly max,
Rne provision for those suffering from
RDerculosis, and this could best be don,
the establishment of a separate hos
ltal and tuberculosis camp.
am, the ladies' of the Kings Daugh
~ are, much interested in the sup
fsslon OF the white plague, and sin
'ssly trust that our next legislature cal
hake some appropriation for this pur
re' Respectfully,
EARL BREWER,
Governor.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
ESIss|PpI BA!L0!
will Be LONG One
49, FOR VOTERS AT N0yEM-
l Irn GENERAL ELECTION.
|, VOTE ON AMENDMENT
,ch,nees in States Law Include
rla'su and Referendum, Change
a rracting Clause on All
Statutes.

.,.,on.- According to Secretary Of
f1 power. the official ballot which is
~. into the hands of voters in
= .n; At the regular election on the
ss S"ssday in November, to be consid-
.ud deposited in the ballot boxes,
one of the bulkiest which his
mont has been called upon to pre-
There will be printed on the ticket
..mes of forty electors, representing
~moratic, Republican, Socialist and
~i.s.ive national tickets, together
x names of candidates for congress.
d. not believed that the nominees of
nmocratic party will have any oppo-
ior representative in congress.
4 .ddition to the electoral candidates
;,cluded on the ballot there will be
institutional amendments, or pro-
constitutional amendments, au-
,,.d BY the Legislature of 1912, to be
lifted to the people. The most i'm
ant Of these is the proposed amend
N to change the organic laws of the
4, so as to incorporate the principle Of
[,;.tiye and referendum in the constitu-
4 , wordy and verbose instrument,
IN the voter will be expected to read
4 ,pdeavor to gain a fair idea as to its
%prisions.
Fl,otber amendment to be submitted
M same ballot will be short, merely
rpo,ing to change the enacting clause
now accompanying all bills introduced
, ats as they are passed, SO that it
m read. BE it enacted by the people
| Mississippi" etc.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
We Want a Million More.

A correspondent whose earnestness
and sincerity the Republic does not
doubt calls upon us to read a GER
tain Democrat of prominence out Of
the party.
The Republic commends to the cor
respondent in question that he take
the Chicago platform and the Balu-
them. and then look up the election
figures Of 1908.
If the principles expressed in the
Baltimore platform are to triumph 4
will be necessary, not to read voters
out of the Democratic party, but to
read something like a million nor
Inst. Louis Republic.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
5O,000-ACRE STOCK FARM
BIG ENTERPRISE PLANNED FOB
SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI.
Gen. Myles Is at the Head of the E.tef.
prise, and 1t Will Be the Largest
Industry East of the Missis-
sippi River.

Jacksonville Largest stock farm eve4
east of the Mississippi river
is to be located in Southwestern Mis-.
sissippi, where since the advent of the
Mexican boil weevil it has been conclu.
sively demonstrated that this is one OF
the banner stock raising sections of the
country, because of mild climate, alum
dant forage crops, and other natural adj
vantages.
The stock farm will consist of $4,000
acres, and will be conducted on a CO.
operative basis. The farmers of the
counties of Adams, Claiborne and Jeffer-
son have been invited to join their forces,
and the head of the big enterprise is
Gen. Myles, a well-known Southern cap
i%talist, who has been prominently identi.
fled for several years with large agri'
cultural enterprises.
Hon. J. McC. Martin of Port Gibson
has been retained as attorney to looA
after the organization features, and tho
stock farm will be incorporated with
Gen. Myles as president, J. w. Pearson
as secretary and treasurer, and Benja
min Humphreys of Port Gibson as mar
ager.
Twenty-Five slices will be erected, ant
every modern preparation made for car
ing for the stock. Farmers now resid
ing on the $4,000 acre tract will not b
disturbed in their tenancy, but will b
given stock in the enterprise, and ais
employment at good wages. The farm
will raise beef and dairy cattle, hog
horses, mules, ETC., and on the 5000
acre tract ample crops will be grow
for the sustenance of the stock.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-30
MORE MONEY FOR SCHOOLS.
Rural School Head of Holmes County
Campaigning.

Observation-Disclosures of Rural
Schools Smith of Holmes county is max
ing a campaign in frentiss county, in
the interest of a two-mill tax for school
purposes. County Superintendent r. E.
L. Cumberland is also giving speeches for
the tax, and j. w. Summers, a young
man of this place, is going with them
and speaking against the levy.
Prentiss county only has five months
free school per year, and Superintendent
Sutherland thinks he can run six months
if he can get the two-mill levy.