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pril 30.—Not
great volume
through the
uisiana levees
ding, the Mis
ained station
during the 24
7 a. m. today,
ere was a fall
mraging data
vho are fight
laining levees
at a greater
i water than
’om the cre
ville, Miss., is
the river at
the Sunflow
■s.
reak occurred
iding Sunday,
it the river’s
icksburg and
ild be at least
previous re
a fall of .3 at
I Ion Rouge and at uonaia
Iville. At New Orleans the
Ige was stationary.
I rise of several inches a day
[xpected from Red river land
I south, beginning about Fri
[, with the return of the wa
from the Gibson’s Landing
psse. While the levees are
Letter shape than last year at
[points south of Red river to
Gulf, they have been sub
ited to the strain of flood wa
' continuously since the Janu
r rise, and if there &re addi
nal breaks they will not be at
unexpected. The levee at Re
, 43 miles north of New Or
ns, is again in bad condition
11,000 men are working hard
prevent a crevasse. There are
ler dangerous spots in the le
ss near the Hymelia crevasse
last spring and further up the
er near Bayou Sara there is
isiderable danger.
Hie levees just outside New
leans, including the Pectrion
sks, which extend from the
er back to Lake Ponchatrain,
re inspected yesterday and de
red to be safe.
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Compliments Arkansas Officers.
The Chicago Banker, a weekly
paper devoted to the banking
and financial interests of the
(Middle West, contains this week
a halftone of the president of
the Arkansas Bankers’ Associa
| tion, Mr. Charles G. Henry, with
the following merited endorse
ment of his administration as
well as that of Robert E. Wait,
secretary of the Association:
“Charles G. Henry, president
of the Arkansas Bankers’ Asso
ciation the past year, is cashier
of the Arkansas Bank and Trust
Company of Newport. He al
ways has been an enthusiastic
association worker and his offi
cial connection with the state
bankers organization has been
reflected creditably, not only to
himself, but to the association as
well.
“Robert E. Wait, the secre
tary, also is president of the
Citizens Investment and Securi
ty Company of Little Rock. As
secretary of the Arkansas bank
ers he has succeeded in keeping
that body prominently before
the public, and has been respon
sible to a considerable degree for
the accomplishment of the salu
tary reforms advocated and se
cured for Arkansas by the bank
ers.
Both of these enterprising of
ficials are entitled to a great
deal of credit for the neactment
of Arkansas’ new banking law,
which was secured only after
much patient effort. It is be
lieved that this law will prove to
be thoroughly adequate for the
needs of the state, and that a
statute could be used profitably
by other states not so fortunate
as Arkansas.”
Bonded Warehouses to Prevent
Frauds.
Memphis, April 30.—Memphis
bankers are working on a bonded
warehouse system, and if the
scheme is adopted, it will revolu
tionize the handling of cotton at
this point and territory from
which Memphis factors draw
their trade.
In addition to asking that ev
ery warehouse be placed under a
heavy bond, bankers and busi
ness men would require that ar
rangements be made and enforc
pd. wherebv cotton receipts
must state the amount of money
loaned on cotton stored in the
storehouse. Strict accounting of
such loans would be demanded.
That is, if a farmer growing the
cotton borrows from a country
merchant on the year’s crops,
he would be obliged to state the
amount of the cotton’s incum
brance when it is shipped to the
factor, and the factor would
have to make a similar report to
the owner of the warehouse.
When cotton receipts are up as
collateral for loans, bankers
would demand a guarantee that
no loans have been made on the
cotton for which receipts call for
and this guarantee would have
to be made by the owner of the
warehouse who holds the origi
nal shipping record of the cot
ton. The warehouse man’s
guarantee would not make him
liable for non-payment of a loan,
but it would make him ilable for
the collateral statement given
' concerning cotton receipts put
| up as surety.
Bankers and business men say
the present system of handling
1 cotton is antiquated. It was
started before the Civil War by
men who became rich handling
cotton and when buyers were
few and far between.
COURT DENOUNCES
CONVICT CAMP
At Wilson And Orders Contract
of Greene County Annull
ed.
Paraguld, April 30.—Acting
upon the report of the commit
tee of the Greene County Prison
Board, which recently investi
gated the convict camp main
tained by John Bomar at Wilson,
in Mississippi county, Judge A.
D. Jackson has notified Bomar
that Gi’eene county’s contract
with' him will be abrogated with
in thirty days.
The committee, after inspect
ing Bomar’s camp, denounced
him in scathing terms in its re
port to the Prison Board and to
Judge Jackson.
Of the convict camp maintain
ed by Bomar the committee in
its report said:
“This spot is so disgraceful
that it is impossible for a human
being to conceive of its unfit
ness without a personal visit.
After meeting Bomar and view
ing the condition of the men
confined in this institution, and
the manner of conducting same,
we are of the opinion that any
one with the same evidence
would be justified in believing
any tale of cruelties or improp
er treatment that concerns the
methods in vogue on this farm,
oo matter how inhumane or un
usual the tale apparently seems
to be. Sheriff Grooms of the
committee was so disgusted with
the farm and Bomar that he
brought the remaining Greene
county prisoner back to Para
gould with him
Tales of the barbarous cruelty
and unspeakable conditions at
Bomar’s camp have been rife
for siipe time. Miss Adah L.
Roussan, editor of the Osceola
Times, published at Osceola, in
Mississippi county, scathingly
denounced the camp in a first
page editorial last week.
After telling of the inhuman
treatment of the prisoners, the
lack of sufficient food to even
appease hunger, of the long
hours, cruel, body wrecking
work, Miss Roussan told of an
instance of cruelty to a woman
as follows:
“A short while ago a man and
his wife, white people, and stran
gers, lived on the river. The
man became sick; they were
without money, food or medi
cine. The man owned a pistol;
the wife brought it to Osceloa to
try to pawn it. She failed, was
i arrested for carrying a pistol,
ey to pay her fine and was sent
to the convict farm to work it
tried, found guilty, had no mon
looking woman about out. She
was a clean,decent lookingvoung
woman, about 25 years old. Her
husband was arrested also and
put in jail. He was sick and
Dr. Dunavant attended him.
When he was well enough he
was given a trial and discharg
ed. He went down to the farm
and helped his wife to work out
her fine.
“While at work the woman in
] same way provoked the anger of
j the people in charge and she was
1 cruelly beaten with a strap. As
soon as these unfortunate peo
ple could work out the woman’s
fine, they came to Osceola. At
their request Dr. Dunavant ex
amined the woman’s body and
he testifies that she was covered
with black stripes two inches
wide where the lash Had been
laid across the tender flesh of
her body with the brute force of
a fiendish nature,
j Comment is unnecessary.
“This case will come before
the courts, but there are other
cases where the woman’s skin
was black that will forever re
main untold except in muttered
groans and curses ”
CALIFORNIA
IS DETERMINED
To Have Drastic Act to Prevent
Japanese Land Owner
ship.
I
Sacremento, Calif., April 30.—
An open right of way for final
action in the Senate tomorrow
morning on the Webb anti-alien
land act was prepared today by
Senate floor leaders. Before to
morrow night a concrete expres
sion of the legislature’s attitude
toward Secretary of State Bry
an’s diplomatic visit will be at
1 hand in the shape of a vote on
the most drastic land-holding
act yet proposed.
Secretary Bryan spent the
day in San Francisco not return
ing until late tonight. It was
not known whether he had re
ceived further instructions from
President Wilson.
In his absence the original
plan to permit no further delay
was carried out and when the
Senate adjourned tonight the
Webb bill, which stands on the
file as the accepted subtsitute of
the original Thompson-Birdsall
measure, was due to be reached
within a few minutes after the
upper house convened tomorrow
■m 1m?
tion to his comrades, and literal
ly keeps this, “He kindly afFec
tioned one to another with bro
therly love; in honor prefering
one allot her."
No man gave more unselfish
service to the south than Col.
Cook gave during the war, and
none since have been more zeal
ous ii perpetuating the honor of
the,,cause in which he fought.
And while he does not seek
this or any other honor, it would
be pleasing to his friends in Ar
kansas and surrounding country,
if he should be selected for the
honorable position as command
er of the Trans-Mississippi De
partment.
Col- Cook always attends the
reunions, and always his pres
ence there brings gladness to
some less fortunate than he. He
is always ready to contribute
liberally for the pleasure and
comfort of the others, and there
has never been a time at any re
union, when he has not in some
manner helped to make the oc
casion one of more enjoyment
than it would have been without
his help.
mi n i i i. . i n.i _i.
i m: veity iciet tlicit vui.
does not seek the honor, and the
fact that his comrades must in
sist upon his accepting it before
he is willingto do sc, whui
manner of man he :
thy he is of the hon
It would be just ai
him, perhaps more
some other veteran 1 %
recognition, and ha\
er good man named £
er, as far as Col. Coo
goes, and it remai
friends to urge him
willing to deprive
man of the honor.
But now that Gen
of Texas has declirn
his name to be pres
next reunion, and d
he will not accept
the way seems op
Cook, and his comri
Batesville will spare
having him named.
The Guard voic<
sentiment, we belie’
entire body of the
federate Veterans i
when it says that n
thy and more able rr
Cook could possible
and we believe when
presented that will
diet of all his comrai
Mississippi to the G
ville Guard.
W. J. P. Stacy of Remmel
here Thursday en route home
from a visit to his
uncle at West Plains, Mo.
* “ .n*
A few amendments may be
offered, but they will be resisted
with the full force of the admin
istration leaders, who stated to
night that they expect the act
to be passed in its present form.
There was wide discussion of
the new bill today, although but
little criticism was forthcoming
from the standpoint of Califor
nia- In comparison with various
drafts that preceded it, the
Webb act is said to be more
drastic and effective in reaching
the Japanese farmers of the
state than any other proposed
measure, and at the same time
least objectionable of all from an
international point of view.
Col. Cook For Commander
Tom Hindman Camp, U. C. V.,
of Newport, has endorsed Col.
V. Y.Cook for commander of the
Trans-Mississippi Department,
U. C. V., and the home camp has
endorsed the action.
Col. Cook has signified his wil
lingness to accept the honor if it
is offered him, but declines to
make any unseemly scramble for
it.
That is Col. Cook’s way. He
has never sought any honor. He
lives up to the admonition of
Paul to the Romans, in his devo
Marriage License.
Chas. Scott and Janey May
Ashby, colored, both of Newport.
Bert Blackburn and Ettie
Langston, both of Tuckerman.
Riley Hensley and Dovie Hil
ger, both of Doylesville.
Viola Anderson, colored, Shoff
Robert Wilson, Tupelo and
ner.
S. R. Gefford and Mrs. Ollie
Wyatt, both of Newport.
Sam M. Nelson, Jr., and Lena
, Harvell, both of Newport.
I Jack Grissom and Julia Redd,
j colored, both of Weldon,
j Joe Grady and Ollie Altman,
| both of Tuckerman.
J. W- Altman and Mrs. Mary
Newcome, both of Tuckerman.
J. A. Ensley and Bertha Mil
ton, both of Grand Glaize.
Adrien Balmaz as Holly Cobb
I in “Beans, Beans, Beans” to
J night. Harry Stephens and Jim
Blackwood will be right there
also.
! Gene Hirsch (Walter Stall
! ings) will be interlocutor for
| “EJks’ Imperial Minstrels.”
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