The Rice belt journal., 1907-07-05
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE

show an assessment of about $4,000
600. an increase of about $6,O000,0O0
over last year.
Butte, Mont, mail carriers have
gone a strike, declaring that they can.
not live on the wages paid-S6O0 to
$3.50 year for eight hours service.
While Thomas Townsend was act
ing peacemaker during a quarrel,
I three miles south of Talehquah, r.,
Saturday night, he was shot three
times and instantly killed.
Attorneys for the Standard Oil Com
pany appealed to the United States
Court for the withdrawal of the sub
pena for John d. Rockefeller. Judge
Lands refused to withdraw the sub.
pena.
A returned missionary from japan
tells wonderful stories of a japanese
army of million well-trained men
who are liable to break loose at any
moment and start something that will
be hard to stop.
Thursday morning, when A. p. o.
son got off the train at FL Campo from
Houston, he was arrested on a charge
OF murder, his daughter being the al
legged victim. He was taken to the
county jail at Wharton.
DR.. Henry w. Latshaw, well
known dentise, killed himself last week
by firing bullet into his brain. Grief
over the death of a wife and daugh-
ter and tinaCial troubles are said to
have been the cause of his act.
The Britt-NelsOn fight which was
scheduled for July 8, was postponed
until July 81. A reason given for the
postpOnement is the inability of Mel
son to continue training owing to an
abscess in his ear.
A heavy windstOrm did much dam.
age at Natchez, Miss, Wednesday.
A block of wooden hotels. ada
cent to jamestown Exposition were
burned Wednesday, endangering for
a while, the whole show.
During a storm near Clarksville,
Tenn, Tuesday night Nicholas Hege-
wood, prominent farmer, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed.
Two of his negro tenants were fatal.
ly hurt.
Between fifteen hundred and two
thousand drivers of the delivery wag-
ons of the American Ice Company,
New York City, went on strike last
Friday to enforce a demand for ex-
ira pay for extra work.
Miss May Folk, sister of Governor
Folk, of Missouri, of Treasurer Folk,
of Tennessee, and of DR.. E. E. Folk, an
eminent Baptist theologian, and
James Avery Webb. a member of the
st. Louis bar, were married at the
home of Miss Folk, Brownsville, Tenn,
June %.
John X. Shireman, who is a di.
rector and also is the secretary
of the Amarillo Street Railway
Company, says work is progress
ing rapidly on the railroad. Two and
quarter miles of the proposed sew
en- miles of track are completed. and
the whole system will be in operation
by September l..
Farmers in Harrison County are all
attaching small brushes to the single
trees of the plows, so as to knock
weevils and punctured squares off the
plants and plow them under the hot
sand, knowing they will get rid of
many of the pests in that way.
Peter McAllister, 80 years old, for.
merly of Detroit, dead at the break.
fast table Sunday morning at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Jos Le-
noir, eight miles northeast of Paris,
near Taught.
The body OF a negro was found on
the tracks of the Cotton Belt Rail-
road in the suburbs of Dallas at
o'clock Sunday morning. AS it was
cold when found, the supposition is
that the man was run over some time
during Saturday night.
Some of the waters from the wells
at Carbon have been analyzed and
found to be equal to the vichy waters
of Saratoga. A stock company will
take up the matter of bringing Carbon