The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-01
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

Judge C. H. Jenkins will make the
race for Representative from Brown
and Coleman Counties.
John Elrod, living about two miles
from Sunset, was bitten by copper.
head snake while shocking corn tc
feed.
A flow of gas was struck in a we'll
being drilled by parties for artesian
water near Sulphur, l. T. Great eX.
element prevails.
o. c. Conner, Jr., of Paris, who has
a farm in Red River County, sold 105
bales of cotton at Ammonia last week
for II SAC all around. Some of it was
long staple.
Rev. W. B. Sargent, who lives eight
miles east of Kaufman, dropped dead
between his plowshares. He was a
BAPTIST minister, IS years of age, and
left family.
What is claimed to be the largest
fiywheel ever cast in Texas was cast
at Fort Worth a few days sincs.
When erected the wheel will weigh
$4,000 pounds.
Jim Austin, negro, had tree fall
on him while working in the woods
near Humble, and received injuries
from which he died. Deceased was
about 40 years of age.
Rutherford Grant, a postoffice en-
ploye at Austin, while on his wedding
trip was attacked with fever at New
Orleans, and returning home died Of
the disease.
Practically all of the San Francisco
banks have secured temporary quar-
tiers and are open for business. There
was no run, as was expected, but on
the contrary, increased deposits.
The State Convention of the Frater.
nal Order of Eagles bet in the hall of
the local aerie at Waco, which had
1,oop epao;oIl,, daoor.|o6 for Tho oooo
sion. This is the first regular State
meeting and organization was effected.
c. H. Strong, of Dublin, has shipped
since Feb. 1 thirteen solid car loads
OF eggs. The average price per car
paid the farmers was $1,000 or grand
total of $4,000. In addition to the
above, Mr.. Strong has shipped from 10
to 81 cases every few days.
Carman, Ok, has been chosen for
the location of the Oklahoma Odd
Fellows home under the proposition to
donate 100 acres of land, pay $4,000
cash, furnish al sand necessary in
construction of building and furnish
and plant $3.50 worth of trees.
Walter Perry, young farmer living
near Prattville, Delta County, was
thrown against a crosstie while Jump.
ing from the northbound Texas Mid
land passenger train Monday night just
before reaching Enloe and sustained a
fractured skull, from which he may
die.
No. 1899, the most powerful passen.
ger engine ever built or used on any
Texas railroad, has just been turned
out of the Texas and Pacific shops
at Marshall, where it was built and
is being broken in between Marshall
and Texarkana for regular work be.
tween Marshall and Fort Worth.
The court at Beaumont handed out
a 25O-days' sentence to a pistol toter
a few days since.
! An agreement is under considera.
q ton between Mexico and the United
Y States covering riparian rights along
the Rio Grande,
Peter Schnur, ex-postmaster and
founder of the Joplin, Mo-, News Her.
aid, dropped dead of heart disease
while marching in the parade of the
knights Templars that was a feature
OF the State conclave.
1t is currently talked that Congress
will adjourn between June 10 and 90
steps are being taken by Congress
to formally accept the Port Arthur
canal as present to the Government,
in which event Port Arthur will be
made a port Of entry.
Nearly 200 new pension applications
have been filed and the applicants
placed on the roll for the next mar.
ter's pension warrants. There will he
about 1900 npnSionerc o,S A. ~,