The Starkville news., December 26, 1902, Image 1

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The bubonic plague has broken
out among the Japanese planta
tion laborers in the Hawaiian
Islands.
□ Senator Quay is facing one of
the few important defeats of his
career, the omnibus statehood
bill being apparently doomed to
failure. •
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Representative Hepburn lias
joined Senator Morgan in an
effort to ascertain the amount the
Isthmian Canal Commission is
costing the Government.
A Texas building of Texas ma
terial is one of the ideas the Ex
ecutive Committee of the World’s
Pair Commission is trying to
work out. It would be a striking
illustration of Texas's resources.
The death of Bob Bobo, the
famous pioneer huntsman of the
delta, left a vacancy in the
office of county treasurer of
Coahoma county, which has been
filled by the appointment of Col.
Bobo's son
Bob Taylor and John Allen
have agreed to write a “joint lec
ture” at the home of the former
next summer; subject to be “This
and That.” Something extra
good may be expected from the
above combination of “wits.”
A Kansas man playfully kick
ed his friend, the sheriff, in the
hip pocket, causing the sheriff’s
pistol to explode and won iul him
in his leg. Nobody on earth but
a Kansas fool could bring about
this combination of circumstan
ces.—Ex.
The special edition of the
Yazoo City Sentinel is a thing of
beauty. Its publication reflects
great credit upon the manage
ment of the Sentinel and will
doubtless redond greatly to the
benefit of that splendid and thrif
ty little city.
A Convention of Farmers and
Business Men at Dallas. Texas,
adopted resolutions urging Con
gress to make an appropriation
to aid the farmers in their war
on the Mexican boll weevil. The
Texas Legislature was also re
quested to help in the fight
against the pest.
TO
Friends and Patrons:
We are in a position to show
now during this fall, an ele
gant line of
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods.
Clothing, Shoes, Suits.
Neckwear etc.
Comprising the latest novelties of the sea
son. Our prices will be AS LOW IF NOT
LO WER than elsewhere , and the quality and
style of oar goods will comm and your trade .
Come and price our goods and you will
save money by buying from us.
We make NICE SUITS TO ORDER , Give
us a trial . HUNDREDS OF SAMPLES to
select from, and we guarantee a fit or no sale .
Respectfully,
STERN & GOODMAN.
THE STARKVILLE NEWS.
STARKVILLE. MISS., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26,1902.
The News.
Issues only two pages of “home
print’* this week on account of
wanting to let its office force
“take Christmas.’’
We wish one and all a most
Merry Christmas” and Prosper
ous New Year.
• —“—
Representative Bartlett, of
Georgia, sprung a surprise in
the House by securing the adop
tion of an amendment to the
Legislative, Judicial and Execu
tive Appropriation Bill appro
priating $:00,000 to aid in the
enforcement of the Antitrust
Law. The bill was passed.
The vacancy in the textile
school caused by the recent
resignation of Arthur \yhittam,
the instructor, has been filled by
the appointment of Mr. Broad
bent, of New Bedford Textile
school. Mr. Broadbent will act
as director of the department un
til the end of the session.
A scientist says “if the earth
was flattened the sea would be
two miles deep all over the
world.” After due meditation a
Kansas editor gives out the fol
lowing: “If any man is caught
flattening out the earth shoot
him on the spot, and don’t be too
blamed particular what spot.
There’s a whole lot of us in Kan
sas that can’t swim.*'
■
An exchange says that an in
quirer writing to a real estate
dealer in a certain town said: “I
can tell more about the kind of
town you have by seeing your
paper than by any other means
of information. If your mer
chants are dead and don’t use
your paper, I don’t want to lo
cate in or near such a town. I
had experience with one town
like that and I’ll not be caught
again if I can help it.”
Tax All Overcapitalization.
If trusts will persist in over
capilization, let taxes be asses
sed on the property at the valu
ation placed upon it by the trust.
If the property of a trust is
worth $1,000,000, for bonding
and stocking, it ought to be
worth $1,000,000 for the purpose
of taxation. —Indianapolis Senti
nel.
COLONY FOR
THE NEGROES
IN THE EAST.
SENATOR MORGAN OF ALABAMA SIiifJESTS
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
MEETS GOV. TAFT’S AP
PROVAL.
Senator John T. Morgan, of
Alabama,has succeeded after two
years of endeavor in interesting
the war department and incident
ally President Roosevelt, in a
plan to use the Philippine Islands
in colonizing 1 the negroes of the
United States.
The war department has made
arrangements to test the practi
cal possibilities of the plan and
the president has sent a special
envoy, T. Thomas Fortune, a
negro leader, to the Philippine
Islands to make investigation
and report on the conditions
there. In his efforts to have the
plan put into execution Senator
Morgan has held frequent con
sultations with Secretary of War
Root, has written Gov. Gen Taft,
and in other ways urged his
scheme on the officials.
It is the Alabama senator’s
purpose in the future tb start
legislation in Congress for the
movement to colonize t he negroes
in the Philippines. He has not
pushed this part of his scheme
because he believes the time is
not ripe yet for legislation; the
farmers of the South, he says,
thiuK they need the negro labor
er now, and until conditions are
more favorable he will withhold
legislation. He believes howev
er, that the move now under way
will result eventually in millions
of the negroes emigrating to the
Philippine Islands and working
out their own salvation there.
This, he says, is the solution of
the grave negro question which
now confronts the American
people.
FACILITIES FOR NEGROES.
Senator Morgan's plan is to
incorporate for the negroes
steamship transportation com
panies; to give them homesteads
of about 20 acres each in the
islands and to give them the best
possible commercial advantages.
The plan would not deprive them
of their protection under the
flag of the United States; it
would dot deprive them of citi
zenship of which they are proud
and it would enable them to
become a self-sustaining and
prosperous race of people, be
cause the land in the Philippine
Islands is extremely rich and
fertile. The climate is exactly
suited to the negro's physical
and industrial character, he says.
v
Under this plan Senator Morgan
believes great numbers of the
negroes, but not all of them, of
course would go to the islands.
He said to-day:
•‘The principal reason for my
attitude in the Senate towards
retaining the Philippine Islands
was my belief that those islands
would afford a home for the
negroes.
“When I first came to Congress
I introduced a resolution to re
cognize the Congo Free State as
an independent nation, merely
to afford the negroes of this coun
try a place to which they might
emigrate when their numbers
increased to an extent that would
make the emigration of large
numbers of their race necessary.
The resolution passed the senate
and house, and a colonization of
the negro in Congo was well un
der way when the United States
acquired the Philippines.
“The acquisition of that terri
tory opened up anew and vastly
superior country for them. The
land is richer,* the climate better
suited to them, and there they
would still be under the flag, a
condition which the negro likes
exceedingly well.
MEETS COW TAFT’S APPROVAL.
“I took the matter up with
Secretary Root and wrote to
Gov.-Gen. Taft for information
and ideas on the plan of colon
izing our negroes there. Both
were favorably impressed and 1
am glad to know that it has at
last been started. All the move
ment needed was a starter. It
will be like the crawfish hole in
the Mississipi levees —small at
the beginning, but large enough
for the river to run through next
morning.
“The negro was the first race
found in the Philippines. He is
the original inhabitant. Then
came the Malay pirates, who
drove them back into the hills,
where Philippine negroes now
live. The Spaniards conquered
the Malays. This is merely to
show that the islands are suited
to the negro race.
“I have tried to put the plan
in operation without endanger
ing the labor of Southern farm
ers. and I believe, under the
present schema, it will work out
this way. It will take time of
course but the plan, when ac
complished, will prove satisfac
tory to everybody.”
New Goods.
Large Stock.
Lowest Prices.
J. H. STILLMAN * CO.
Have the largest and best
selected stock of Furni
ture, Carpets, Rugs, Mat
tings, Shades, Wall Paper
Etc. ever brought here.
I have a very large
and varied assortment of
Novelty oods of Every
description.
Call, Examine and Price and
you will be more than pleased,
for I will save you money on
every purchase made.
Don’t forget the place.
J. H. STILLMAN & CO.
Served 30 Years
In Penitentiary.
Old Jake Cooper, Now TO
Years of Age Completes
in Mississippi Peni
tentiary.
Juke Cooper, the oldest con
vict in the Mississippi peniten
tiary, in length of service, lias
been released from the institu
tion and has returned to his
home in Warren county. Cooper
was sent on the 4th of January
1H73, on the charge of manslaugh
ter, and served nearly thirty
years in the institution. He is
now nearly seventy years of age.
The average length of service
of life or long term prisoner in
the Mississippi penitentiary is
about fifteen years although
there are several now on the rolls
who have served from sixteen to
twenty years. The death rate of
the institution is very low, being
only 4.02 per cent last year, and
about the same for the present
year.
About 22e convicts are serving
life sentences from a total prison
population that fluctuates be
tween 1,000 and 1,100. Thirty
two are now serving sentences
ranging from twenty-five to fifty
years. Over one-half of the
total number are serving terms
ranging from two to ten years.
Two white women and thirty
uegresses are on the prison
register.
The next oldest prisoner, in
length of service, now within the
walls is Joe Johnson, who was
sent up from Issaquena county
in October 1H74, to serve a life
term for murder. Twenty-eight
years of his life have been spent
working for the State, and be is
still hale and hearty at the age
of fifty-two.
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