The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-11
THE WEEKS EPIToME
A RESUME OF THE MOST lMpOe,
TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
A Carefully Digested anG Condensed
Compilation Of Current News
Domestic and Foreon,

Jack Taylor was killed az Lyra, Palo
Pinto County, Wednesday Pat Single.
ton surrendered to the officers claim.
ing the shot had been accidental.
rom Teller of Wichita Falls was A..
cidentaly shot through the leg Wed.
neSday while in a restaurant with =.
rifle, which he thought was unloadpd
Thousands of cattle Oh the ranges in
Colorado are reported e be starving
with the prospect thai there will b.
unprecedented loss to the cattlempr
during the winter.
The United States and GERMANY
have arranged for a postal rate on let
tiers of 2 cents instead of the existing
rate of &C The new rate goes into
effct on January l.
The Grayson County Medical Asso-
citation adjourned Thursday evening
A resolution was passed requesting
the National tuberculosis exhibit to be
brought to Sherman
The Kansas City Stock Yards Com
pany will begin. the first week in Jan.
uary, the erection of d new eight
story Live Stock Exchange building
and new cattle and hog pens.
Eight hundred and thirty dollars
revenue off fourteen acres Of peanuts.
or nearly $50 an acre. is what w. D.
Pockrus did with his peanut crop
southeast of Denton this year.
UnGer Director North of the bureau
Of the census. the government has EN-.
barked upon the field Of invention, and
has been successful in the manufaC.
ture of new tab9la'ing machine.
Mrs. Nicholas Errington OF Chicago.
who was travelling with her 1O-year.
old daughter, Tuesday in a hotel in
Memphis. Tenn forced the girl to
take carbolic acid and ;hen drained
the vial herself, ending both lives in
short time.
When Rev. DR.. William r. Hunting
ton, rector of Grace Church. New
York, sat down 20 his breakfast
Tuesday morning. ne found under his
plate a check for more than $4,000.
voluntarily contributed by members of
his congregation as token of their
esteem.
Four lives were lost when the 10;
000-ton White Star freighter Georgia
coming in rammed the Finance, a
1900 ton passenger steamship of the
Governments Panama line, outward
bound, in dense fog a mile east and
little north of Sandy Hook Thursday
morning.
That a gigantic corporation to con-
troll every stick of standing timber in
the Western Hemisphere is being agi-
tated at the present time, was the ad-
mission made in Washington by T. B.
Walker of Minneapolis, owner of the
largest tracts of standing pine in tho
| United States.
In his annual report to the secre'
tary of war Lieut.. Col. George W.
Goethals, U. S. A., chief engineer OF
the Isthmian Canal Commission shows
that dirt has been flying in the exca
walton work of the last year and that
SS4,572 ,99S.55 had been spent, with al
available balance of $3G391470.0S OIL
July l, 1908.
News of a gold strike at Gold Pass
new mining camp few miles from
Sylvanite, n NJ, was brought to Ell
Paso Tuesday by c. G. Campbell, who
claims to have struck paying ore.
A tragedy occurred in Ardmore
Okla, Tuesday evening in which Luth
err Ford, boy of II years, is dead
with three buckshot in the back. Pc
liceman Smith Redmon is wounded
with four shot, and William BelleV
was shot in thirty places from thu
hips to the head.
Corsicana: While making gas con
nection at the residence of J. P. Wool
en- Thursday evening an explosion OF
Cured in which the plumber, Bul
CESS, was severely burned Mrs. Woo
en- and son and Mrs. Clayton Q
Athens received Slight burns
Report from A. c. Torbert, trea:
urer of the Santa Fee Railway Con
pany. shows the total number of az
tual employees of the railway compan
in all departments in Temple at pre-