New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1906-02-17


growers at Valdosta, Ga, last week
strong resolutions asking a reduction
| of % per cent in acreage was passed
| Arthur Pearson, negro, was legal
! ly hanged at Waynesboro, Tenn, Fri
cay 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
s31.22, the largest in the history 81
this county.
A strike is in prospect in Chicago
which will involve the entire building
trades, and stop work on a number OF
! downtown sky sCrapCrs.
| At recent meeting of the Chicago
| pastors association, decisive stand
was taken in favor of high license for
ssioons-$1O,O 900 being the minimum
named.
President Diaz has formally opened
the new penitentiary and hospital at
Meridian, Yucatan. The public build
ms inaugurated are of large dimen.
sions and cost several million dollars
Three counterfeit silver half dollars
were found in 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. II, was
celebrated by the Republicans OF
Muskogee, with a banquet at the
Turner Hotel. A number of prominent
Republicans from all over9the Indian
Territory were present.
l.. M. Crawford the theater man of
st. Louis and Topeka, has acquired
the Trinity Methodist Church, of Ell
PasO, recently vacated by the congre.
cation, which will be converted into q
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. RichardSA. 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 af-
ter March 1st.
The executive committee in charge
of the Confederate reunion at New Or
leans in April launched 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 $780,
200 the Southern Pacific has compile
ted twenty eight miles of track in the
Colorado desert which will enable
their trains to run without interfer-
ence from the wa Observation-Disclosures
ence from the wsters of the Colorado
::ver, which filled the Salton sink aud
ruined about forty miles OF the main
Inc.
General John Eaton, a distinguish
ed civil war veteran and noted educ;,.
tor, died in Washington, aged II years.
He entered the war as captain of the
Twenty ninth volunteer infantry AMI
had charge of the frecdmch of the Mis-
sississippi valley.
A Kansas City firm now engaged in
constructing a system of waterworks
for Jacksonville. This plant is to cost
100000, Tor which tie cr....-as by a
vote ordered bonds to be issued, ma.
turing in forty years.
.Forty-two breweries including the
large ones of nearby cities take out -
rct cent of the saloon license, issued
in Chicago according to figure; pro-
duced by the men who take in the |
saloon fees in the city collectors # |
fee.
Jim Connolly, who lives near Sibo-
ney, Ok, in the southwest part of Co
manche County, was found dead with
a shotgun wound In his breast. Connel. |
ly had gone hunting and by some &C.
cident his gun was discharged.
J. c. Stanfield and Jim Underwood,
as result Of a preliminary hearing,
are held to the Grand Jury under ST.
900 bond each on charges of dynamit-
ing the farm home of George Cogge-
shall, near Gotebo, Ok, several weeks
ago.
Tie Daisy Byrd Mining Company
organized at Crystal Springs a short
time ago and capitalized at s25O.OOO.
begun Wednesday of last week with a
force OF men to sink a shaft prepare
tory to mining.
Lieut.. burlington, in command. OF the
Thirteenth Cavalry, stationed at Fort
Sill, is making preparations to begin
the erection of large vat for the dip.
ping of cattle so cattle may be shipped