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HAPPENINGS IN MISSISSIPPI Items of interest from all SECTIONS. __ hn epitomeToTthe news ) ■ I Called From the Important Happen ings Throughout the State During the Past Week and Reviewed in Brief. Acreage Reduction. Secretary M. A. Fisher, of t ^ State Cotton Growers’ Association has made public the figures from the various counties, showing the reduc tion of cotton acreage in this state and the condition of the crop. The re duction for the whole state is placed at 20.5 per cent. Most of all the coun ties report the crop from fifteen to twenty-five days’ late. The average decrease in the use of commercial fer tilizer this year is figured at 41.33 per cent for the entire state. The follow ing are the figures for the various counties on reduction in cotton acre age: County Reduction. Adams. (No report.) Alcorn. 20 per cent. Amite. 25 per cent. Attala. 25 per cent Benton. 30 per cent Bolivar. 15 per cent Calhoun. (No report.) Carroll . 26 per cent. Chickasaw. 20 per cent. Choctaw. 29 per cent. Claiborne. 12 per cent. Clarke. 23 per cent Clay. 26 per cent. Coahoma. 15 per cent. Copiah. 30 per cent. Covington . 25 per cent. DeSoto. (No report.) Franklin. 23 per cent. Greene. (No report.) Grenada.. 26 per cent. Hancock . 7 per cent. Harrison (no cotton raised.) Hinds. 22 per cent. Holmes. 20 per cent. Itawamba. (No report.) Jackson (raised 5 bales in 1904. Jasper. 20 per cent. Jefferson ... .. 25 per cent, Kemper. 12.5 per ct. Lafayette. 28 per cent. Lauderdale. 25 per cent. Lawrence . 25 per cent. Leake . 26 per cent. Lee . 33 per cent. Leflore. 10 per cent. Lincoln. 25 per cent. Lowndes. (No report.) Madison. 24 per cent. Marion .... 25 per cent, Marshall. 15 per cent. Monroe.'• H per cent. Montgomery. 27 per cent, Neshoba. (No report.) Newton . • 26 per cent. Oktibbeha. 23 per cent. Panola . 23 per cent. Pearl River. (No report.) perry . 30 per cent Pike . 31 per cent, Pontotoc. 25 per cent. Prentiss. 25 per cent Quitman . 12 per cent, Rankin . 26 per cent Scott. 25 per cent, Simpson. 2o per cent Smith. 24 per cent, Sunflower.15 per cent Talahatchie. 24 per cent, Tate . 18 Per cent Tippah . 37 per cent Tishimingo. 20 per cent Tunica . 18 per cent, Union. 23 per cent Warren . 18 per cent Washington. 14 Per cent Wayne. 25 per cent, Webster. (No report.) Wilkinson. 15 Per cenl nO _— Winston .,. - Yalobusha. (No report.) Yazoo . 15 per cent To Solicit Funds. Hon. B. W. Griffith of Vicksburg, ir discussing the coming Baptist State Convention, announces that he will en deavor to have the convention desig nate Rev. W. T. Lowrey, president ol Mississippi College, as an espeica agent to raise the additional $75,00( endowment for the school which the Baptists of the State propose to raise at once. Dr. Lowrey was so success ful in raising the other endowment money last year that it is believed he will be able to make up the amounl sooner than any other man in the state. If Dr. Lowrey is chosen for thu work, it is proposed to appoint Rev J. W. Provine to temporary charge ol the colege during the time that Dr Lowery will be employed in soliciting Petitions Presented. Petitions urging Governor Varda ■ man to re-appoint Judge Jeff Truli as a member of the Supreme Cour have been received at the Governor’i office. West Point rightfully appreciate: the importance of securing new rail road lines and is making a strenuoui effort to lai^ the Alabama, Pensacoli ft Western Levee Contracts Awarded. Captain George M. Hoffman, of tin Corps of Engineers, in charge of the Third Mississippi River Engineers1 District, at Vicksburg, opened bids for 1,128,900 yards of levee work in the Lower Yazoo and Upper Tensas Levee Districts. The award attract ed a large number of bidders. Sixteen different proposals being made and opened. The work is enlarging and topping, and extends from Rosedale to Lake Washington, on the east bank and from Chicora, Ark., to Bunch’s Bend on the west bank. J. K. Jeffries of Memphis, gets the largest share, this being 435,000 yeards in the upper Yazoo District, with John Scott & Sons, of St. Louis, next with 239,000 yards in the Rosedale district. Law rence Bros., of Friars Point, secured 190,000 yards of topping at Arkansas City, and 25,000 of banquette work at Luna, Ark. Helgason Bros., of Vicks burg, secured the Opossumpoint en largement, some 120,000 yards, the balance being apportioned in smaller quantities among several bidders. Encampment Date Changed. It has been officially announced from the governor’s office that the date a ii i ___j. .P il,n j.u.l tut; annual cniaiu^uitjiv kj. j Mississippi National Gaurd, to be held at Gulfport, has been changed from the 18th of July to the 2nd of Aug ust. The lateness of the crops is as signed as the reason for the change. Governor Vardaman has forwarded a request to the war department that Capt. H. 0. Wiliams and Lieut. G. A. Youngbird, of the United States reg ular army, now stationed with their regiments at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., be assigned to inspecting duty with the national guard during the en campment. Both of these officers are Mississippians and Capt. Williams is very popular with the officers of the state guard, having served as lieut enant colonel of the Second Missis sippi regiment during the Spanish war. He is especially popular in Jackson where he was stationed for several months. Primary and Kindergarten. President Kincannon in regard to the normal to be held at Columbus on June 20 says that the normal will be devoted especially to primary and kin dergarten work, and teachers eminent in this field have been secured. Many letters have already been received from teachers all over the state to the effect that they will attend the normal, and President Kincannon looks for a splendid attendance. Miss Florence E. Ward, of Chicago, who is at the head of the Chicago Kindergarten Col lege, will have charge of the Kinder garten Department of the normal, while other members of the faculty are equally well known in their profes sion. mewumisi is trie t v/uuiwcuw. The Sunday School Institute branch of the Methodist District Conference, in session, Newton, devoted its time to discussion of work. Rev. J. M. Morse presided and Rev. T. J. O’Neal filled the office of Secretary. Subjects dis cussed were: “The Sunday School and its relation to the church,” “Impor tance of the Bible Teachers,” “Study Circle” and “Relation of pastor to the Sunday School.” A practical il lustration of the importance of black board drills in the Sunday School was given by Mrs. J. S. Parker. Sermons were delivered by Rev. H. Mellard, of Taylorsville, and Rev. M. M. Black, Conference Missionary Secretary. Peach Growing Industry. Howerton Brothers, orchard and nurserymen at Gulfport are canvass ing the Gulf & Ship Island Railway territory with a view of establishing some commercial peach orchards ani have succeeded in making contract at Magee for 10,000 trees, and ar interesting the citizens of severa towns along the line. J. H. Bouslog, the Industrial and Immigration Agent of the Gulf & Ship Island, is enthu siastic over peach growing in soutl Mississippi, and is lending every eii couragement to the enterprise. Steam Quarries. Colonel John Y. Crafton, who rep resents the investors in a large tract of timber lands, also reports a fine deposit of stone near' Star, -has just paid a visit to the property, increasing the acreage by additional purchases, and hopes to begin the development of the fine stone quarries there in a few days. Work to Begin Soon. It was announced that bids for the new power house at Gulfport for the coast electric car line will be opened ' on the 10th of this month, and the work of construction will start as soon thereafter as material can be placed on the ground. The Delta is attracting more at tention from investment seekers than ever before -and large sums of money are being spent for the rich land over i there. Some enormous sales have been recorded during the past few days. ; At the regular meeting of the Hat ■ tiesburg Camp U. C. V., the following i delegates were elected to the Louis , ville Reunion: A. Magregor, 0. C Fatheree, W. D. Cook and Alf Brown OUR WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.; LATE NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR NATION’S CAPITOL. —- ( RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES ' The Treasury Statement Shows a De ficit of $2,960,122.00 for the Month of May, Though There Was a De- ! crease in Expense for the Last Elev en Months. The monthly comparative statement ; of the Government receipts and ex- i penditures shows that for the month of May, 1905, the total receipts were $43,578,933 and the expenditures $46, 719.055, leaving a deficit for the month of $2,960,122 and deficit for the eleven months of the present year of $36,649, 6S0. The receipts for May from the several sources of revenue are as fol lows: Customs, $19,659,189; increase as compared with May, 1904, of $807, 987; for the eleven months the in crease was $274,4S9. Internal reven ue, $19,960,748; an increase of $1, 303,616. For the eleven months the increase was $S88,651. Miscellaneous, $4, 138,794; decrease, $40,711. For the eleven months there was an in n n 1 mt. _ ’ ' l n d Uica&e U1 j-JXUj I J--L. A lie miscellaneous expenditures amounted to $11,208,353; a decrease as compared with May, 1904, of about $48,000,000. The expenditures last May included $49,000,000 paid on account of the Pa nama Canal. The expenditures on ac count of the War Department amount ed to $8,967,765; a decrease of about $1,500,000. On account of the Navy. $9,438,399; an increase of $33,000. The total expenditures during the last eleven months were $532,122,763; a decrease as compared with the corres ponding period last year of $13,449, 309. The following bulletin on the con dition of the cotton crop was issued by the department of agriculture. Re turns to the chief of the bureau of statistics of the department of agricul ture show the total area planted in cotton in the United States up to May 25, to be about 28,120,000 acres, a decrease of about 3,610,000 acres or 11.4 per cent from the total acreage planted last year. The average con dition of the growing crop on May 25 was 77.2 as compared with 83 on May 26, 1904; 74.1 at the correspond ing date in 1903 and a ten year aver age of 85.3. The percentage of decreas es in acreage in the several states, (the comparison being with the total area planted last season) is as follows: Virginia, 10; i>oriu vaiuima, South Carolina, 11; Georgia, 11; Flor ida, 10; Alabama, S; Mississippi, 12; Louisiana, 14; Texas, 12; Arkansas, 15; Tennessee, 10; Missouri, 14; Ok lahoma, 11; Indian Territory, 10. The condition of the crop by states on M»y 25, was as folows: Virginia, 87; North Carolina, 83; South Caro lina, 78; Georgia, 84; Florida, 88; Alabama, 87; Mississippi, 73; Louisi ana, 73; Texas, 69; Arkansas, 73; Tennessee, 86; Missouri, 84; Oklaho ma, 88; Indian Territory, 81. Charles J. Bonaparte, the new ap pointee as head of the navy, will be defendant in a suit in the Treasury Department has asked the Attorney General to begin. Mr. Bonaparte is part owner of what is known as the Peabody property in Baltimore. The government wants it for part of a park about the new custom house. Bonaparte, who is manager of the property, asked $50,000, then $47,000, but the treasury was willing to pay but $32,000, this being on about the basis charged by another owner of property near by purchased by the government for the same object. Fin ally, Mr. Boneparte withdrew all offers and the Treasury Department is in sisting on condemnation proceedings. An early beginning of the action is expected. Louis R. Smith of North Carolina, formerly an employe of the general lanrl effieo was inflietprl hv the crand jury of the District of Columbia ou a charge of abstracting and selling thirty land warrants, worth about $5,000. Smith was employed in the Land Office from July 1,1901, to July 6, 1904, and it was during this time that the warrants were taken. Smith confessed. It is announced at the War Depart ment that Lieutenant General Chaffee. Chief of Staff, and Brigadier General William Crosier and J. Franklin Bell, will represent the United States at the .maneuvers of French troops. The 'invitation to send United States Army officers was extended to Secretary Taft by the French Ambassador. The monthly circulation statement issued by the Comptroller of the Cur rency shows that at the close of busi ness May 31 the total circulation of national bank notes outstanding amounted to $488,327,516; an increase for the year of $42,338,851, and an in crease for the month, of $7,082,571. The circulation based on United States bonds amounted to $456,2^9,096; an increase for the year of $6,621,11, and a decrease for the month of $8,759. The monthly statement of the pub ic debt shows that at the close of msiness May 31, 1905, the debt, less ash in the Treasury, amounted to '1,000,346,128, which is an increase 'or the mouth of $3,128,187, and is icconnted for by a corresponding de crease in the amount of available cash in hand. The debt is recapitulated as fol ows: Interest-bearing debt, $895, .58,240; debt on which interest has ncreased since maturity, $1,377,165; lebt bearing no interest, $348,952,100. Petal, $1,281,487,505. This amount, however, does not nclude $995,529,969 in certificates md Treasury notes outstanding, which ire offset by an equal amount of cash n the Treasury held for their redemp ion.. The cash in the treasury is c.lassi ied as follows: God reserve, $150, )00,000; trust funds, $995,529,969; general fund, $139,24S,070; in nation il bank depositories, $78,457,792; in the Philippine treasury, $3,739,479; total, $1,336,975,312; against which there are demand liabilities outstand ing amounting to $1,085,933,934 which leaves a cash balance on hand af $281,141,377. Secretary Morton received infor mation that the original commission of John Paul Jone; as a captain in the Navy has been located in Phila delphia, and he will initiate an effort to obtain it for the Navy Department. The commission of which a copy was forwarded here, re ids: “John Paul Jones is appointed-to be captain in the Navy. By order of Congress. “John Hancock, President. Philadel phia, Oct. 10, 1779]“Attest: Charles Thomson.” According to the Secre tary’s informant tie commission has every appearance cf being genuine. It is now in the possession of a prom inent woman of Philadelphia, who received the docume it from her moth er, into whose possession it had come from her father, Commodore Ganse voort, U. S. N., who in turn had re ceived it from his father, Genera! Peter Gansevoort, of revolutionarj fame. If the document can be pur chased from its present owner it will be carefully preserved and placed or exhibition in the Navy Department library. Preparations are being made by the Geological Survey to complete the to pographical, map of^the “Baton Rouge Sheet,” which comprises approximate ly 1000 square miles west of Bator Rouge, taking in portions of the par ishes of West Baton Rouge, Iberville Ascension and Assumption. About one-fifth of this quadrangle has al i tt nr:i ready oeen cnariereu, anu xi. i»x. »* ** son, chief of the division of topogra phy, will send men to Louisiana ir -July or August to begin preliminarj work on the rest of the sheet. Tht preliminary surveys will be made un der the direction of Assistant Topo grapher C. B. Kendall, who will work with a force of a dozen men. In Oc tober Topographer Duncan Hannigan who is in North Carolina, will go tc Louisiana with a large force and work throughout the autumn and wintei until the maps are completed. Tht work to be done includes the deter mining of the elevation of the lands, the ccyitour of the country, the run ning out of streams and the location of railroads and houses. Secretary Taft is preparing to call for bids for furnishing an army of laborers to dig the Panama Canal. Just as he will seek open markets in the purchase of canal supplies, so Sec retary Taft will go into the markets of the —orld in his search for compe tent laborers to do the manual labor of constructing the great waterway. Representatives of organizedlaborhave protested against this procedure, but these protests will not be heeded by the administration. Secretary Taft be lieves that he will have no serious trouble with labor organizations in carrying out the “open door” policy wit hregard to laborers on the canal. Those who have protested against hiring cheap workmen from foreign countries have been informed that -no discrimination will be shown, that com no f l f ir>n fnr the contracts will be open to all, and that the government will aecept the most advantageous bids. It has been determined, however, that about 15,000 Japanese laborers will be contracted for at t>he very start, for it is now apparent that they , can be employed at a very low salary. The complete exoneration of Fran cis B. Lomis, Assistant Secretary of State, and the acceptance of the res ignation of Herbert W. Bowen, Min ister to Venezuela, are now regarded as the assured outcome of the inves tigation which Secretary Taft has been conducting info the conduct of these officials. In the case of the St. Louis Hay ana Grain Co., against the Mobile & Ohio Illinois Central, Louisville & Nashville and the Southern Railroad Companies, the Interstate Commerce Commission decided that the carriers’ rates on reconsignments of hay from warehous es in East St. Louis to points south of the Ohio river, amounting to two cents more thhn their proportional rate from East St. Louis on through shipments are unjust and unreasonable MISSISSIPPI JUSTICE METED OUT TO A BRUTE. This Negro Gets the Usual Potion Dosed Out to Fiends of His Charac ter. The Lynchers of Course are Unknown to Officers. Louisville, Miss., June 4.—Esex Bostick, a negro about 26 years of age, who was accused of attempting to en ter the sleeping room of Mrs. Sallie Gordon after midnight Friday, was last night taken from the officers near here and hanged. Bostick was one of a party of sere nades on the night in question and was making the rounds of the neigh borhood among the negroes. Later Mrs. Gordon was aroused by the sound of music being played very softly and her screams attracted Mr. H. J. Gully, who happened to be passing and scared the serenader away. A search of the premises resulted in the finding of a guitar and a pair of shoes later identified as the property of Bostick, who was located and jailed. As soon as it became known that the guil ty wretch had been caught demons^-3' tions which plainly showed the temper of the crowd was lor lyncmng imu were repulsed Saturday and officers were endeavoring to spirit Bostick tc Philadelphia, but in a lonely and un inhabited part of the woods, forty armed men suddenly appeared from alt sides and demanded the custody of the thoroughly cowed prisoner. Seeing that resistance would be folly, the offi cers acquiesced, and in a few moments his dangling body suspended from the limb of a nearby tree, was mute evi dence of the work of the lynchers, who did not fire a shot, but went about their gruesome task like silent spec tres of the night, uttering not a word and disappearing as silently as thej had come. There is absolutely no clue to the members of the part}'. i ■ » < — Thrown into the Water. London—Another echo of the great battle in the Japanese Sea between the magnificent fleets of Admiral Togo and Rojestvensky has reached here It is authoritatively stated that dur ing the battle that as the shots were hitting and the shells were flying intc the masts and superstructure of the battleship Orel that one hundred anc forty mortally wounded men were thrown into the sea. This action wae taken by the commander of the vesse to stop the cries of the injured lest should affect the courage of the more fortunate. Inelictment Returned. St. Louis—In a partial report to the St. Louis Circuit Court, the Apri grand jury reuirueu an muicimcui charging Martin L. Reddoch, formei postmaster at Yazoo City, Miss., wit! “making a voluntary false oath.' From testimony given before thegranc jury, it is alleged that Reddoch imper sonated a man by the name of Sher man in making an affidavit in St Louis, upon which the Federal author ities based an investigation regarding a charge that a North Carolina con gressman has accepted money fron convicts in the Nashville, Tenn., pen itentiary on the promise of obtaining pardons for them. Servia Wrought Up. Constantinople.—Servia has notified Turkey that she will recall her Minis ter from Constantinople unless satis faction is given by June 12 for the re cent violation of the Servian Consu late at Monastir (Macedonia). It appears that the local polic< searched the Consulate and seized cer tain papers. Servia demands the dis missal and further punishment of th< Chief of Police, and that an officia visit be paid to the Consulate by th< Governor of Monastir with an expres sion of regret on the part of the gov ernment for the occurrence. British Amy Scandal. London—According to the Dailj Mirror, the report of a war office com mittee on the improper disposal ol military stores at the conclusion ol the South African war reveals a hug< scandal. The report, the paper says 1 P _ cc._ —.1, CCllSltl C3 iX UUUiUCl V/J- umvcioj ” names are given, and who are allegec to have worked in collusion with the contractors. The latter bought store! at absurdly low prices and afterwarc sold them to the military authorities at enormous profits, entailing a low to the government of $5,000,000. Famous Burglar Dead. New York.—James Hope, known ai “Jimmy” Hope, leader of the banc which robbed the Manhattan Bank ii this city of nearly $3,000,000 in monej and securities nearly thirty years ago is dead at his home here. French Delegates Arrive. Berlin.—The French delegates t< the wedding of Crown Prince Freder ick William arrived here and wen cheered by a considerable crowd. Thii was probably the first time in a gen cration that Frenchmen have beei cheered in the streets of Berlin. Thi Emperor caled on them later, and alsc called in Grand Duke Michael of Rus sia, the representative of Empera Nicholas, who arrived in Berlin, Always in the Leah! DUKE’S CASH STORE, SCOOBAf MISSISSIPPI. HEADQUARTERS FOR Staple and Fancy Groceries, Dr* Goods, Clothing, Notion^ Boots, Shoes and Hats. Etc. Heavy and Shelf Hardware, Tinware, Crockery ware and Cutlery* ___—___ Harness, Saddles and Bridles. Wagons, Buggies, McCormick Mov-'j era Rakes and Pattee Cultivators. Coffins, Caskets and Undertakers* Supplies. IMPROVED PRAIRIE FARM -AND rX'I Mw BERED LANDN FOR BALE, FOR CASH 014 ON EASY TERMS. JAS. H. DffKE, Proprietor. SCOOBA. MISSISSIPPI. HARNESS! HARNESS! HOME-MADE HAHNESS Manufactured out of the BEST of OAK TANNED Leather. Styles Up-to-date. Workmanship Perfect. Prices Cheap. Compare our Line with that of others and'convinced that WE MAKE THE BEST. Manufacturer’s Agents for “STUDEBxAKER” and “WHITE HICKORY” Wagons. * \ Proprietors of all “RED ROSE” Brands and the Cele brated “STAR” FLOUR. THREEFOOT BROS. & 00., WHOLESALE GROCERS. MERIDIAN, - MISS Edwin McMorries, President. H. L. Bar dwell, Cashier. John Kemper, Vice-President. C. W. Robinson, 2nd Vice-President. Walker Broach, Assistant Cashier. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, MERIDIAN, MISS. The large combined capital and surplus of this Bank $360,000, (the larges1 of any bank in this State) is a strong bulwark of protection for depositors. CAPITAL, $260-00000 SURPLUS.- 100,000 00 STOCKHOLDERS’ LIABILITY, - - 260,000.00 PROTECTION TO DEPOSITORS, -_- $820,000 00 We Solicit Accounts of Individuals, Firms and Corporations and Offer every Accommodation Consistant with Safe and Legitimate Banking. DESIGNATED DEPOS.TORY OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURY w. A. NALL & CO., FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS. GIN INSURANCE A SPECIALTY; MERIDIAN, - - MISS. GEORGE H. ETHRIDGE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Dekalb, Mira. General law praotlce in all the Oonrta of Mississippi. Special atten. ; tion given to legal writings and col leetiona. ^^_ / 1 T. T. CHILES. PHYSICIAN A SURGEON Wabalak, Miss. Tenders his professional servioes II tbe people ot Wahalak f»nd vicinWy ' Calls answered dav and night. ' ’ J. B. MOONEY, i PHYSICIAN AJ3URGEON, [ SOOOBA MI8S. I - Particular attention given to surgi oal cases. Office—Ward’s drug store. H. W. RENCHER. PHYSICIAN A SURGEON. Soooba, Miss, Offers his professional services to the people of Soooba and Kemper connty. ter Speoial attention given to office work. __A NEVILLE & WILBOURPr ATTORNEY- AT-LAW, Hamm Building. Meiidian, Miss. Branch offioe in Soooba. Miss. A member of the firm will be in Sooobe every Saturday. Advertise in THE HERALD and increase your .......BUSINESS.