New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1906-02-10
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.


showing a lang chain OF near-co'ai
beads. with afinost-go links set IN at
intervals of skies. 5000.
AT RocK Springs, John Simpson, lS
years of age, was run over by hea'y
freight wagon he was driving. and
was instantly killed -
August Sweet, a Bohemian, SO years
of age was found dead in her bed IN
Fort worth The justice of the peace
dectled that death was due 10 con-
sumption.
The Chinese divide the day into
| twelve parts of two hours each. The
| Italians go right round the twenty-four
1 hours, instead of having two divisions
of twelve hours each as we do.
The harvest mouse is generally
thought to be the smallest OF British
quadrupeds. It's SO diminutive that
two of them put into a scale will just
weigh down one copper halfpenny.
The London Daily News, noting
that Harmsworth, the newspaper pro
prietor, recently created peer, has
adSTted for his arms two rolls OF pa
per, remarks that the selection OF
them hetTays rather CYNICAL humor-'
Just sitter he had discovered the
richest vein of tungsten ore ever foup1
in this country. George Spratley, q
veteran prospector. was killed by an
explosion of dynamite in his claim in
Boulder County, CSS3
Cattk raising is carriS+f on in Mo.
rocco on large scale, but only by the
est in the world, Camels, mules and
donkeys exist in lasse numbers and
are the only means of transportation
throughout the country.
The Chinese are. perhaps, the most
successful poultry raisers in the
world. They do not feed the fowl, but
make them PICK their own food, each |
flock being kept on the move, as sheep
are on the range. The quality of this
poultry is. however, poor
The citizens of Muskogee turned out |
hr <>f
$4,000 to secure the shops and oper.
ating department of the Midland Val.
ley Railroad. The shops will be moved |
from Excelsior, Ark They will EN-.
ploy something near $50 men.
The Indian Agent of the five civliz-
ed tribes has instructed officers on
lines of railways to arrest hunting
parties taking game from the Terri
tory. At tIarvin a Kansas City party
of sportsmen were arrested in their
special car for violating the game
lawsQ
When Col. Mosby was aked why he
did not try to get his young grandson
into the Military Academy, he said:
Because / don't want him to shoot
anybody" IF he went to either one
of those schools and was hazed, he
would surely shoot the fellows that
tried TO do it,"
A girdle noticed in Herald Square is
fashioned of linoleum, with a long,
narrow, japanned buckle studded with
rhinestones. Suitable for favor.
An optimist derives lot of pleas
ure from thinking of troubles that do
not trouble him.
C. w. Post OF Battle Cdeek, the null
manufacturer, has gone
to Colorado City to examine a large
ranch, with the view Of purchasing it,.
1t is reported that Mr. Post intends to
buy about 10000 acres of Texas land
and establish colonies thereon.
Three persons were injured, one Of
them seriously in small wreck on
the Salt Lake road in which two pas
senger trains crashed together in a
head-end collision near Rowland, Calf.
Col. John Temple Graves, candidate
for United States senate, was remOv-
ed from the position of editor of the
Ga. News because he persist
ed in using the columns OF the paper
TO laud himself. After one day of dep
osition he was restored, and all is well.
Prominent capitalists who have loan
I'd money to Russia are under threat
If death at the hands of the revolution.
SITS. Among these is Herr o Mendel-
sohn of Berlin:
Advices received from the sealing
feet hunting off Cape Horn and in the
say the catches are larger
10 the present than last season.
A National Bank has recently been
at Fort Townson, l. T.; cap
tai $4,000. ,
Queen Alexandra and her suite left {
london Friday morning for Copenha.
zen, where her majesty will attend the r