The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-02-16

gold mine in Transyaal County.
California capitalists have made ap
plication to the Ennis city council fol
a gas franchise.
At the meeting Of Sea Island cottOr
growers at Valdosta, Ga, last week
strong resolutions asking reduction
of % per cent in acreage was passed
Arthur Pearson, a negro, was legal
ly hanged at WaynesborO, Tenn, Fri
day for criminal assault on Dora Scei
len, a 13-year-old white girl. The
crime was a most brutal one.
The estimated per capita circulation
Of money in the United States is now
S3l.22, the largest in the history OF
this county.
A strike is in prospect in Chicago
which will involve the entire building
trades, and stop work on number OF
downtown sky sCraperS.
At a recent meeting Of the Chicago
pastors association, a decisive stand
was taken in favor Of high license for
saioons-$10,000 being the minimum
named.
President Diaz has formally opened
the new penitentiary and hospital at
Meridian, Yucatan, The public build.
ings inaugurated are of large dimen-
sions and cost several million dollars.
Three counterfeit silver half dollars
we're found in a consignment Of money
which reached the United States SUI.
treasury in Chicago, from Texas. They
cannot be detected as spurious except
by the. close inspection of an expert.
Lincoln Day, Monday, Feb. y, was
celebrated by the Republicans of
Muskogee, with a banquet at the
Turner Hotel. A number of prominent
Republicans from all over the Indian
Territory were present.
L. NJ. Crawford, the theater man OF
st. Louis and Topeka has acquired
the Trinity Methodist Church, of Ell
Pas0, recently vacated by the congre.
cation, which will be converted into
theater.
It develops that much of the money
sent to Russia to help needy Jews
has never been paid to those to whom
It was sent. The general reason is
that the Russian government claims
that the money was to aid revolution.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard A. McCurdy
are going to Paris to live, and will
give up their. home in New York.
Their servants have been told that
their services will not be required at
ter March LIST.
10 oh
of the Confederate reunion at New Or
leans in April launched a financial
campaign to raise $4,000 in sixty days,
1t is contended that this sum will be
required for the reunion.
After an expenditure of about $500.
600 the Southern Pacific has compile.
ted tweaty-eight miles of track in the
Colorado desert which will enable
their trains to run without interior.
ence from the wa Observation-Disclosures
ence from the waters of the Colorado
ever, which filled the Salton sink and
ruined about forty miles Of the main
line.
General John Eaton, a distinguish.
ed civil war veteran and noted eJuca.
TOR died in Washington, aged II years.
He entered the war as captain of the
Twenty-ninth volunteer infantry AMI
had charge Of the freedmen of the Mis-.
sississippi valley.
A Kansas City firm now engaged in
constructing system of waterworks
Tor Jacksonville. This plant is to cost
$4,000, Tor which tie cw.z,as bv
vote ordered bonds to be issued ma.
turing in forty years.
Forty-two breweries including the
large ones of nearby cities take ONT .
per cent Of the saloon license; issued
IN Chicago according to figure; pro-
dueed by the men who take in +h.
e"toon feGs in the city collectors #.
fee.
Jim Connolly, who lives near Siho.
ney, Ok, in the southwest part Of ~.
manche County, was found dead with