The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-11-25
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

Friday.
Jim Walker, Sr., of Clawson was kill.
ed Thursday night by being thrown
from his horse while on his way homo
from Lufkin.
A batch Of twenty Mexicans and ten
negroes left Waco few days since
for Mississippi where they will pick
cotton. OOthers are to follow.
Jeff D. Mclean, the recently elected
county attorney of Tarrant county, has
announced that gambling must go, and
that the day of Sunday saloons is
past.
]. L. Houston, of Graham, has gone
to st. Louis to look after a brother, a
cattle man of Dickens County. who
was last heard from at the Worlds
Fair several weeks ago.
Gid Nelson, middle aged farmer,
living IN the southeastern part of La
mar county, was jailed Friday morning
charged with making and passing coun.
terfeit money. Spurious dollars were
passed on a merchant.
The Strawn public school building
YVES destroyed by fire early Friday
morning, supposed to have been of in.
cendiary origin. The building was val,
ued at $4,000, and was insured for
$4,000.
D. F. Altman, farmer, living in the
southeast part Of Lamar County in the
Broadway neighborhood, was thrown
from his wagon by a runaway team
while returning from town and sus-
tanned injuries that will probably
prove fatal
A. A. Richards, the young lawyer
who was hurt at Denton on Friday,
Nov. II, while trying to stop run.
away, died Friday morning of injuries
sustained at the time Of the accident.
Deceased was about 20 years old and
was born in Columbia, Ky.
John Wagner, of Denison, assistant
manager for Waters-Pierce Oil Com.
pany for North Texas and Indian Ter
ritory, has been given 12-month's va.
cation on full pay, and received his
pay ($25,000) in advance.
The States penitentiary board is adj
Vised that the sugar cane crop on the
Clemens State convict farm is unprece-
denied and record breaker, the gross
receipts therefrom being estimated
at a minimum of $125,000.
Carl Egge, rural route inspector, has
just completed the surveys of routes
6 and 7. With the establishment of
these two rural routes the entire coun-
try adjacent to Midlothian will be
served by rural carriers.
Colonel E. S. Peters, cotton planter,
Of calvert, Texas, and president of
the Texas Cotton Growers league,
says from information received he be-
lieyes the cotton crop Of this year will
be under 100000 bales.
Many Travis County negroes are
leaving for points in Louisiana, not for
only a short time, but for good. It
seems that they are getting more work
in the cotton and cane fields of that
state than they get in Travis.
Representatives of Texas nurseries
have received $4,000 alberta peach
trees to be plated by the farm.
ers OF Johnson County. This is anoth-
er indication that Investigation is
paying the farmers Of Johnson County.
DR.. George D. streeter, prominent
resident of Waco, known all over Tex.
as h Odd Fellow circles, and who was
past grand master of that order, died
suddenly Friday morning. He was on
the street Thursday.
The business men and farmers of
Randolph and vicinity held a meeting
for the purpose of organizing a bank.
The stock was all placed but $1,000
worth, which was reserved for the pur.
pose of placing it among the most
influential farmers,
Col. W. c. P. Breckenridge, the not.
ed lawyer and former Congressman
was stricken. while at his desk in his
office in Louisville, with an attack Of
appoplexy, and his condition is con.
sidered serious.
Col j. N, Simpson and E. D. steger
left Texas Wednesday for Paris