The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-03-24
Gbs g1re 8elt yonrnal
WELSH PIG CO., Ltd, Pub.
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE,
WELSH,
LOUISIANA.

+. D. Lyon, of the Texas Gas Con-
pany, states that work will soon h
commenced on the proposed gas work
at Temple.
George W. Wilson has been indict
ed by the Grand Jury on charge O
Killing Porter in Commerce severa
months ago.
Inc contractors began the work or
me new court house for Caddo last
week. The lumber and other mate
rial is on hand.
IN the local option election held al
Fairfield, the county site, last Tues.
day. the pros won by a majority of
tlfty-four votes
Mayor Norton Rutherford of Mus
Eogee, I. T., acted as motorman on the
hrst trolley car for that city, which
was started Wednesday.
r. S. Benson, one of the best known
cattIemen of the southwest, 6rcpped
dead Thursday while sitting in chair
at his ranch house near Carlsbad
RlIeys concert band of GreenyiIle
has been engaged to play at Sherman
April on the occasion of the visit Of
President Roosevelt to that city.
AS a result of the fight against the
Standard Oil Company in Kansas if ic
likely that a pipe line will be buiIt
from Chanute, Kansas, to Port Arthur
Texas.
The trade outlook continues verv
cheerful in all directions considering
the very heavy tonnage placed earlier
III the year in pig iron, says the Iron
Age.
An unprecedented rush is reported
oy steamship line officials in New York
for booking passages by Americans
wishing to cross the Atlantic this sum. /
mer.
Owing to the prevalence of
smallpox in and around Carrollton the
railway postal authorities have issued
orders that all mail originating from L
the infested district must be fumi. V
gated. il
COL Henry Glitch. a prominent law. =
yer OF Anadarko, Ok, died very sud. 6
lenly there Thursday morning He
vas found dead, sitting in his chair in -,
lis office. It
A dispatch from Palm Beach. Fla
eports the death of Meyer Guggen- m
elm the copper capitalist. Death was cl
aused by pneumonia. He was 70 TT
ears of age. ar
The nov brick State Line Methodist ne
hurch edifice at Texarkana is near. pl'
lg completion and will be ready for re
occupancy within the next four weeks be
ne opening service has been set for Sh
pril %. he
Uurant, |. T., is in the throes Of a
ad dog scare. Two rabid dogs from ~,
e county entered the city and bit ~.
ne people-six children and throo wv
en-. The citizens are wrought I'M to p0l
high pitch. we
Bo!
AFTER strenuous campaign of three ma
onths, sufficient acreage has been
sned up to insure the success of the
''operatice Raison Growers Comma. p
Vi California. The total acreage NEE
med is $4,000. VIZ,
j. v watkins has received accpn. vest
Ice from the New York invoc+ors of Il
IN whom he has correspondent rela. Wol
e TO the financing of an interurban hist
between Corsicana and Fairfield mos
d the construction will be commenc. elias
soon. in g
3rlg' Gen. Thomas H. Barber first year
''"ry governor of Hawaii. who
'eu many years in the regular ar.
; is dead at his home in New York 20
n heart failure. He was gradual. negr
from West Point in 1867. lodge
ne Texas and Pacific Railroad an. noan
i report just issued shows an in. orrn.
'Se IN gross earnings of s33S OOo w.
'"upared with the previous year is 49,
al expenses fell off to the extent q, '-
i'ooO' causing an increase in net a Col
loco. ~ ne' u oo''
Mac
'4'e one signing himself "a Sinner" Col. /
Just RENTED to the wasbington day t
orlties $4,000 stating that the fraud
was 1ourfold payment for q sum ton '
men ne had defrauded tho oovou~ man \