The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-11-30
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE,

$1,000 horse to his stud at Lexington
KY, Friday.
The Trans-Mississippi Commercial
congress voted to meet at Muskogee,
|. T., in 1907.
The Honolulu Promotion Company
is promoting an exposition of Pan
Hawaii, to be held next year.
During the recent cold spell, bacon
was used for fuel in some instances
at Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Three shepherds were caught in the
recent blizzard near Carlsbad, n. NJ.
and were frozen to death.
A Commissioner is now in Okla.
homa City for the purpose of select,
ing site for the $35O,OOO Fedora!
building to be erected there.
James F. Delaney, of Chicago, vice
president of the American Shipping
company, was Friday shot and killed
by his wife who Immediately afterward
! committed suicide
NJ. c. d. Borden, owner of the Fall
River Iron Works, has posted a notice
of ten per cent increase in wages of
i've thousand employees. to take effect
| November %.
A great Methodist school is to be
established at Stamford. The building
and concessions represent value of
SlOOO0OO Rev. Jerome Duncan is
TO be manager of the institution.
1t IS declared that not over seventy.
five per cent of the cotton machinery
in the South is running because of
labor as help cannot be secured to
run the remainder.
The Department of Agriculture has
made public a process that is claimed
to destroy melon lice, which have been
very destructive IN parts of Texas and
Virginia.
R. NJ. Scott, who immigrated to Col.
lin county from Nashville, Tenn, in
1872, died at his home at Blue Ridge
Monday. He was II years of age, and
is survived by his wife and children.
Joe Hess, Of Ardmore, who was re.
Gently shot, died fro mthe effects OF
his wound. The assailant of Hess is
unknow The deceased was closing
his place of business when he was
fired upon and wounded in the thigh.
Sheriff George Eubanks and Deputy
Albert McAuley went to Mart Griflin's
farm, west of Mckinney and killed
and burned several horses with CLAN.
ders recently. The stock had been
condemned by DR.. Knight, of Houston,
State Veterinarian.
w. c. Ray and S. L. Tomlinson, rep
resenting the Melons OF Pittsburg, are
in Muskogee preparing for the pre-.
liminary survey out of that city Of the
oil pipe line to the Gulf. 1t is estim.
ated that the cost of the line will be
$5O,OOO,OOO.
Judge Holt, of the United States
District Court has fined the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad
Company $4,000 for rebatingg freight
charges to the American Sugar Re.
filming Company.
Indian Territory Dealers are ship.
ping out all their stock soft drinks
such as Tip Top. Uno, Long Horn ard
Ino in accordance with an order Is.
sued by the United States Prosecuting
Attorneys that unless this was done
all stocks would be destroyed aud
he vendors arrested.
Early Friday two masked men, in
an attempt to hold up the st. Charles
Hotel at Arkansas City, Kansas, shot
and instantly killed William Golf, the
night clerk and wounded s. A. Halpin
an actor, so badly that he died a few
hours later. The robbers escaped.
Two navigation companies Of Dallas
are arranging to build wharves at
Dallas, having assurances that locks
will afford seven feet of water perma-
nently by July 1. 1907.
The auto drivers strike ended early
Monday when a settlement was reach.
ed between a committee representing
the men and the officials of the New
York Transportation Company. Wages