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VOL. i
Apinaldo’s Scheme
lor PWlipine Bank.
Suggests That the United States Should
Loud Twenty Millions in (mid
for this Purpose.
Secretary Root has transmitted
to the senate and house copies of
a petition received by him,
through Governor* Tail, from
Aguinaldo, the late insurgent
loader in the Chili pines. The
petition is a remarkable presen
tat ion of the conditions now ex
isting in the Philipines. and Sec
retary Root hastening to send it
to congress because it went a
long way toward supporting the
statement he had made to the
committee of that body and also
demonstrating the necessity for
prompt and exhaustive action on
tlie part of congress to prevent
disaster and distress in the ar
chipelago.
The Secretary’s letter of trans
mittal was very short, simple
reciting the character ol the
document and alluding to the
picturesque and graphic manner
in which Aguinaldo had describ
ed the conditions of the Philip
pines.
The secretary attached partic
ular importance to Aguinaldo s
profession of a desire to do every
thing in his power to aid the
Americans in carrying out relief
measures and developing the
islands.
Aguinaldo says in part:
Profoundly impressed by the
sorrows and calamities which
aftiiet my people, and bearing in
mind tbe good intentions which
inspired the acts of the C ivil
Commission, I have taken heart
to present a project oi a purely
economical character, which in
my op in ion. would remedy—if
not completely, at least in great
part—the precarious situation in
which we find ourselves.
LI IS PROPOSITION.
1 propose to the honorableC. ivil
Commission to obtain from Con
gress a United Slates Treasury
loan 0f ‘520,990,000 gold, in cash,
and also a credit of
o-old which will guarantee the
issue of paper to serve as money
in the islands. This sum shall
be used for the development and
improvement of Philipine agri
culture and shall he paid within
twenty year, the payments being
made in three installments at the
end of ten, fifteen ami twenty
years, respectively, and at the
rate of $25,000,000 at tbe end of
the first period, which would
cancel so much of the credit, and
$25,000,090 and $50.G00,000 at
theend of the two remaining
period.
The amount of the credit would
not be taken out of the United
States Treasury, like the loan,
and both would be without inter
est and could never be transfer
red to any other foreign nation.
*
A minister passing along the
road one day, observed a number
of boys in a circle with a small
dog in the center. He inquired
what they were doing, when one
said they were telling lies, and
he who told the biggest lie got
the dog. . .
“Dear me,’’ said the minister,
“lam ashamed to hear of you
telling lies. vV4ien 1 was a boy
like you I never told a lie.”
“Hand him de dog/’ said one
one of the boys. “He s won de
prize.’’
THE STARKVILLE NEWS
STARKVILLE. MISS., FRI DAY, JAN U ARY S3, 1903
Lumber and Timber.
Mississippi)! Leads All The
Southern States.
The vastness of the timber in
terests of the Southern States
invests the convention of the
Southern Lumbermen, now in
session in this city, with a very
great importance. The conven
tion is the thirtheenth in due
course.
Some very interesting informa
tion was given by Mr. K. A.
Long, one of the speakers on the
timber endowment of the South
ern States, in comparison with
that of oilier sections of the
Union and Canada, and he cited
the United States government re
port on the area and probable
quantity of the yellow pine
timber in the states of North
C arolin a. V i rgi ni a. Geo rg i a .Flori
da. Alabama. Mississippi, Louis
iana. Texas, and Arkansas. The
area occupied by pine forests in
the nine states mentioned above
is approximately 150,000 square
miles, or about. 100,000.000 acres.
Average stand, 3,000 feet per
acre, or 300,000,000,000 feel. The
estimate by states as follows:
Florida —Two million acres at
2,500 feet per acre, equal
5.000. CMO feet.
Florida —Two million acres, at
1.000 feel per acre, equal
-.000,000,000 feet, total, 7,000,-
000,000 feet.
Alabama —One million live hun
dred thousand acres, at 5.000 feet
per acre equal 7,500,000.000 feet.
Mississippi—Two million acres
at 9,000 feet per aero, equal 18,-
000,000,000 feet; 700.000 acres,
equals 5,000.000,000 feet 23,-
000,000,000 feet.
Louisiana—One million live
hundred thousand, acres, at 10,-
000 feel to the acre, equal 15,009,-
000.000 feel.
Louisiana—One million acres,
at 7.500 feet to the acre, equal
7.500.000. feet; total, 22,500,-
990,909 feet.
A rka nsas— Eigl 11 h u n and red
thousand acres,s,>o,ooo.ooo feet.
Arkansas—Two hundred and
ninety thousand acres, at a,OOO
feet to the acre, equal 1,450,000,-
000 feet; total, 0,450,000, 000 feet.
Texas—One million two hun
dred thousand acres; total 10,000,
000,000 feet.
Total, 12,990,000 acres, equal
76.450.000. feet.
It should be noted that the
tigures in feet given above are
billions, and among the states
mentioned, Mississippi stands
first, with 23 billion feet and
Louisiana next, with 15 billion.
Texas is third, with 10 billion,
it thus appears that the main
supply of yellow pine is to be
got from Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas,
The northern states of Min
nesota, Wisconsin and Michigan,
which formerly furnished the
principal pine lumber supply,
are being rapidly exhausted, and
the speaker quoted expresses
the belief that not 50 billion feet
are to be found in that entire ter
ritory. He puts down the stand
ing pine in all the Canadian
provinces from the Atlantic to
the Rocky Mountains at 37 bil
lion feet. The Pacitic states of
Washington. Oregon and Cali
fornia are heavily timbered, but
the main timber supply east of
the Rocky Mountains must come
from the Southern Slates uf the
union.
Nothing is said of the southern
hard wood forests, which are also
very extensive, and it is of great
importance that public atten
tion should be brought to these
facts. The lumber men are an
enterprising, intelligent body of
manufacturers, and they are en
gaged in a great work of develop
ment. -New Orleans Picayune.
Bishop of Mississippi.
Dr. Arthur L. Lloyd of New
York Elected to Succeed
Hugh Miller Thomp
son.
The diocesan council held as
Jackson. Miss., elected Dr. Arth
ur L. Lloyd of New York bishop
of Mississippi to lill the vacancy
caused by the death of Bishop
Thompson. The new bishop is
now secretary of the board of
missions of his church with head
quarters at New York. A com
mittee was appointed to visit
him and inform him of the action
of the council. It is not known
whether he will accept the place.
The man on whom the choice of
the council has fallen is a Vir
ginian by birth and education
and was for many years rector
of the Norfork church.
New Scheme of Labor Agents.
Anew scheme has been adopt
ed by the labor agents who
are now busily engaged enticing
negroes to the delta and the rail
road construction camps from
the hill counties of the State.
The plan is to employ intelligent
colored women who move about
among I lie labor forces and pic
ture the glittering inducements
offered by contractors and plant
ers elsewhere. The advantage
of the scheme lies in the fact
that the negress is rarely sus
pected. while a male agent is
liable to rough handling in case
he is caught enticing labor.
St renous efforts are being made
by tbe agents representing the
delta planters to recruit a full
labor supply before the opening
of the spring planting season,
and the prospects are that a
larger acreage will be planted
this year than ever before. The
railroad contractors are also
making heavy demands for
laborers to commence spring con
tracts.
Senatorial Committee.
Ackerman, Jan. 20, 1903.
A meeting of the 23;d Sena
tonal District Executive Com.
rnitlee of the Democratic party
is hereby called for Tuesday, the
27th day day ot January 1903, in
the town of Ackerman, Miss., at
which time and place arrange
ments will be made for the sub
sequent nomination of- a State
Senator to represent said district,
The members of the commitee
from Oktibbeha county are as
follows: S. Fried,'J. T. Chiles,
W. W. Magruder, J. A, Shirley,
R. P. Washington, J. W. Crump
ton. C, H. Hannah and H. A. Uox.
The members of the Committe
from Choctaw county are as fol
lows: S. B. ] o bbs, J. O. Fon
dren, J. P. Patterson, C. A.
Torbert, Frank Townsend, J. T.
McCafferty, W. J. Daniel and C.
W. Burks.
Frank Townsend,
Secretary,
Jackson Man Wins
Laurels.
Native of Mississippi Dis
covers Specific for
Blood Poison.
Jackson, Miss., January 20th,
—Dr. Charles Burrows, of New
York, who has startled the medi
cal world with his discovery of a
specific for blood poisoining, is a
former citizen of Jackson, having
been reared in this city.
The early manhood of Dr. Bar
rows was spent in Jackson and
his father. Major D. N. Barrows,
was one of the capital city’s most
prominent citizens. In discuss
ing the discovery made by Dr.
Barrows, and its effect on medi
cal practice. Dr. tl. A. Gant,
president of the Mississippi State
Board of Health, says:
“The medical tendency of the
day is to find specifics for all
forms of germ diseases, and I
have no doubt that Dr. Barrows
has struck the right line, or that
liis discovery will he verified by
further experiments. The in
jection of formalin, either in the
veins or sub-cuteauous manner,
is a powerful antiseptic and
destroys or prevents the develop
ment of streptococci. The forma
tion of formaldehyde gas formed
by a’destructive disposition wood
alcohol. It will he especially
valuable in the treatment of per
petual fevers.”
Cheap Homes in Texas and
Arkansas.
Along the Cotton Belt Route —
laud that can be bought for $2.90
to $5.90 an acre and up —cut-over
timber ground that makes good
grazing land, furnishing range
ten or eleven months of t lie year,
farming land for corn, wheat,
oats, cotton —some of it peculiar
ly adapted to quick growth and
early maturity of fruits and
vegetables, such as peaches,
pears, plums, strawberries, toma
toes, potatoes, onions, cabbage,
melons —finding good markets in
the north at fancy prices, on ac
count of excellence of quality and
earlier maturity than in other
sections. An ideal place for the
man of small means—cheap fuel,
cheap building material, long
growing seasons, short, mild
winters —a land of sunshine and
plenty. Let ns send you litera
ture descriptive of this country.
Homes in the Southwest,”
“Glimpsesof Southeast Missouri,
Arkansas and N. W. Louisiana,"
“Through Texas with a Camera,”
“Fortunes in Growing Fruits and
Vegetables,” “The Diversier.”
a fruit and truck growers’ jour
nal.
On first and third Tuesdays of
each month t he Cotton Belt Route
will sell one-way tickets from
St. Louis, Thebes. Cairo, and
Memphis, to points in Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas, at half the
one-way rate plus $2.00 or round
trip plus $2.00, allowing stop
going, and 21 days return limit.
For full information, address.
E. W. Laßeaume,
G. P. & T. A.
St. Louis, Mo.
Don’t forget the News office
when you have Job Work to do.
Return ol Story to
The Penitentiary.
Noted Mississippi Escaped
Convict Who Has Been at
Large for Two Years
Was Tired of
Dodging.
Brooks Story, one of the? most
notorious convicts with whom
the State of Mississippi has ever
had to deal, and who has been at
large for nearly two years, was
returned to the penitentiary Sun
day by Deputy Sheriff Wallace,
of Attala county, to whom he had
surrendered the day previous,
stating that he was tired of dodg
ing about the world and wanted
to complete his sentence. Story
was sent up from Holmes county
some ten or twelve years ago for
complicity in the Durant express
robbery, to serve a term of ten
years, and has given the authori
ties a great deal of trouble. He
has escaped four different times
and has spent as much or more
of his time on the outside as in
side the prison walls.
One or two occasion he has
been apprehended in the far
West and it has cost the State a
goodly sum of money first and
last to return him to the walls
and pay the rewards for his re
capture. His last escapade was
from the prison hospital in
Jackson. Hh had been quite sick
for some time, having made him
self so by eating liberally of bar
soap, and was allowed a good
many jiberties —one of which was
to sleep late in the morning.
Finally a day came when the
sergeant went to his bunk to
wake him found a straw man
rolled up in his blankets, and
from that day to this no man
who knew him has seen him.
He states that he has spent most
of his vacation in the Indian Ter
ritory, but the desire to visit his
old home in Attala was too strong
to resist, and he came, determined
to surrender and to serve out his
term.
BOOKER AND TED TO BE
INVITED.
Chattanooga Negroes Want
Roosevelt to Preside
at Banquet.
Under the leadership of the
negro ministers of Chattanooga,
Tenn., a Lincoln society has been
organized to give a great banquet
on the birthday of the emancipa
tion president.
It is their avowed intention to
invite President Roosevelt to pre
side and to have Booker T.
Washington as one of thq speak
ers. Funds are now being rais
ed.
. . ..
Xt't'cU'd But SScutroo.
What is needed, and sorely
needed, in high places are men
who are not only not afraidto do
their duty but who exulting!y
welcome the opportunity to do
it in the face of opposition and
threats of political persecution.
Men who are happy in making a
sacrifice for their weaker fel
lows, who have no interest to
subserve but right, who won't
|quibble or quiver, who when
most needed are there, their
hearts “aflame for the right.’*—
Exchange.
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