New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1906-02-24
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

In Superior, Wis. and vicinity We'd
nesday the temperature ranged twenty
q. degrees below zero
John Mueller. white, and Robert
Newcomb. a negro. were hanged in
Chicago Friday. They had each muir.
dered three people.
Weather prognostiCators are gCner-
ally agreed that the balance OF the
winter will be bad and gloomy.
A movement is on foot to establish
glass factory in Dallas, good glass
making sand having been found near
there in abundance.
Nacogdochcs County. which has had
local option for two years, Will hold
IN election on March s to decide up
on It's continuance.
Huburt Sanders, son of p. F. san.
ders. of Coppell had his leg broken
above the knee while at school
Record breaking exports of Amcri-
can agricultural machinery will be
made to Russia this season. Three
complete shiploads are to be forward
ed to Black Sea ports within the next
few week
| "Ten-Acre Rock" an immense rock
Of finest granite measuring more than
ten acres, near Troy, |. r, is to be
quarried by a big company. The
work will be done on a large scale
A league has been formed in the
| Northwest whose name is "See-Amer
| ica-First," and whose object is to
draw sight-seers to Americas beauty,
wonder and historic spots, instead OF
silently permitting them to go abroad
for scenery.
Tact is telling a woman what pref |
ty hat she has on when you are think, |
ing how her gown looks like -four
sack.
Waco: An official of one OF the asy- |
lums of Texas, is authority for the |
positive statement that hereditary in |
sanity is increasing at an alarming |
rate, and that some steps should be |
taken by legislation to prevent per
sons strongly tainted with insanity
from marrying and thus adding to the
long list of patients now in the asy.
lums of Texas.
Tulsa, |. T.: Stock to the amount
of S1,000,000 is said to have been sub
scribed to the Pure Oil Company OF
Pennsylvania by Kansas and Territory
oil producers to secure a pipe line for
oil from this field to Gulf port. Di-
rectors of the Pure Oil company will
meet on Tuesday at PittsDurg. where
details WILL be given out The pipe
line will be COO miles long.
Mrs. Cheek, the widow OF William
Cheek, Who died last Saturday, diei
Friday. the physicians think from
grief. Mrs Cheek was Is years of age
and was apparently in good health I'M
til her husband died, after which she
grew weaker daily. O
The holding of session of commits
sioners' court at Broken Arrow.
town on the Usage division of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas Railway. of
$500 inhabitants, one day last week.
heralded new era for the town.
Al Moore OF Newton, Kan, who has
he contract of grade the first sixty
he contract TO grade the first sixty
niles of the Gulf, Santa Fe and
from Cameron City to
Plainview, is on the ground with his
grading outfit ready to begin work at
Pat Grove, charged with the rob
1ery OF Edw. A. Cudahy, the Omaha
packer. of $4,000 in connection with
kidnapping the latter's son five years
'go, was acquitted Friday afternoon.
The jury was OUT fifteen hours.
The Hobart Oil and Gas Company,
corporation composed of local cap I
talists. chartered for the purpose OF
leveoDing the oil and gas resources l
IL the vicinity, have let a contract
o drill three wells in the Immediate
'lcinity OF Hobart.
The city council of Shawnee, Ok,
las ordered a vote to be taken on the
question of issuing $4,000 in bonds
or building a new sewer system and
$4,000 for a sixth eight-room school
ouse.
Five car loads of material for the !,
JAWS waterworks system have arriv
d and work has commenced. A c
tandpipe 125 feet high will fur .
ish fire protection and will give prop +
rty owners a reduction of so per cent ,.
n insurance rates. T
The quadriennial mail weighing in
he Eleventh District will commence
'eb. 20 and continue for los days.
he Eleventh District consists of Ar :
ansas, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma
nd Indian Territory.
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