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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17
Must PAY OWN EXPENSES.
Levee Funds Cannot be Used by Oe'
eqates on Junket Trips.

Baton Rouge. An opinion has peen
received from Attorney General Gull
on which upholds the position TAKEN
bv State Travelling Auditor Archie M'
Smith. that a Ievee board has not Inc
right under the law to make an ap'
propriation TO pay the expenses ol
any of its members as delegates u
a waterways, river and hart Or OF Ike
convention.
The question recently came up III
the Tensas board investigation III
which State Travelling Auditor Smiln
criticised the board for its actloh IN
making an appropriation tc pay 'hs
eyDpnsps of the members to the nv
or and harbors convention.
Some of the members of the hoaro
took ISSUE with the statements VI lh'
travelling auditor, and contendeu Nnd'
the board had a perfect right L
make such appropriations, ana 10 pa!
such expenses as were incurred II
the transaction of business ana 'll'
gaining of information incident 10 Ih'
work in hand.
Several of the presidents OF ONE
Ieyee boards have written to the GOV
erDOr of the state in regard 10 Il'
matter, urging that they be permit
ted TO send delegates to The River
and Harbors Congress TO be heId II
WASHINGTON, and that their expense
be paid from the levee board tund>
Governor Sanders submitted the Ell
tire matter to Attorney General Gu
on. and the opinion rendered was [
the effect that the levee BOARD ina
cannot be used for that purpose.
In his opinion the Attorney Geners
says:
THE funds of the le"ee board
have been raised solely for the pu
pose of building levees, and there
no authority given them by the LEI
isIature of the State for the use
the same, or any part thereon, &c
anv other purpose. ! have reache
tho cOnclusion>t that the expense or IN
delegates who may be appOlnte
should not be paid by The boards
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17
NEWS AS It HAPPENS
ouAt STATE, FOREIGN, OF
MA INTEREST TO READERS.
INF WHOLE WEEKS OOINGS
.. Mention of interesting Happen,
' mas From Day to Day Through
out the World.
WASHINGTON.

,aa. aIA oOrDOro+iOnc in
More IMAM n.ator viii bavo 70 make
the OH'''u f,r,,orca with tha
their re'ul 10 !" .Y c,orotocv Of tho
new corpoI "'.o'' '''' -. ..,,uad ,.on,
treasury Ma .'.,,,,r. tor +bo GOV
compie4 t nf those CORPORATION officials.
crime .n,omont is calculated to cover
Inc ,t;ors of classification and dis
any 4u,T which might arise in the max
tAn'' ~ +ba reDorts, and it sets forth
lls language what the government
III '.,
....o, ...,,o+;o, n which
".oIr+fonfsts in Nicaragua find
' ,sa,ros tbronuh ZpIaya's tactical
'u0n,o .. N throwing = strong force be-
su'..'t .bo two wings Of Estrada's army
w." tborohv threatening Bluefelds the
st - the provisional government,
~ nj no nprmittpd to embarrass
WI. wi, country or check the plans of the
' donartment for bringing the Ze-
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17
FOREIGN.

It is the opinion Of Panamans that
President Zelaya Of Nicaragua IS rlo-
ing for a fall; that he is deliberately
working to bring about intervention oy
the United States, having chosen this
form of humiliation in preference to
the greater one of suffering defeat at
the hands of the revOlutiOnistS.
Twenty-six Moslems were executed
at Adana Saturday in connection with
the April massacres. Great crowds
witnessed the executions.
The syndicate of French banks
which was formed last spring in Paris
with the expectation of listing MIL
lion shares of Steel common STOCK on
tho Paris Bourse was dissolved few
days ago, after liquidating its holdings
King Leopold, who has been serious
" i'll for the past fortnight, but VINO
was believed to be convalescent, SUI
fered sudden relapse Sunday and MS
condition is very grave.
Nine workmen were suffocated IN a
comnressed air compartment In the
harbor at Naples, Saturday.
The Peruvian finance minister Dr
Carlos Ferero, has arranged for a loan
in France of s6,OOO,O0O. The loan VIII
be issued at "a and will draw interest,"
at 51a per cent.
King Leopold, concerning whose
physical condition conflicting stories
continue current at Brussels was re
norted to be improved Friday. The ru
mors that his majesty is critically H.
have been officially denied.
The detailed protest of China
AGAINST the Russian memorandum sen
n the powers in October has beer
received in St. Petersburg. IN II I'M
Chinese government declares specll1C
oily that the administration of affair!
at Hardin and other points in Manchu
ria does not concern Russia. The pro
test also cantends that the agreemen
If 1896 between China and the Russo
Chinese Bank, creating the Chines'
Eastern railway, as we'll as the Haroll
agreement of last May, yielded no ao
ministrative rights to Russia.
Mai Gen. Borotkin, representing
the war office in the Russo-Finnlsl
commission, has submitted a deman
that Finland pay her proportlond
share of S24,5OO,OOO of the total eA
nenses of the Russo-Japanese war Tn
total expense was about $1,000, 100000
The Judge of the civil court ha
cited Monsignor Annette, archbisho
of Paris, to appear before him to ar
swer suits brought by the authors o
text books which have been interdict
ed by the church. Each of the plain
tiffs asks $4,000 damages.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17
A Merry Christmas.

u,,o. ho+.. .ioL o, y, sopt forth
- OIL ~ donoutnt noodoro ,bon
tbis ors ,nado hv cbor,au dickens 50
MANY yeore aeo9
",,o c,.-.-.
s.,a.3
"'I'' - "i'o'
40 .l
, l>0l'lN ''o'iN'
90 '''
ine'e II IS al !" d h"'7''e''' JUST VIC
"'9ii Al me Me' eAle'uS ~ e,0'S 0"e
on Tue uay ol the NhrlSCcniid oi''n'
"heh Tue Joy pens are eChotI'6 'He"
ulesSdse VI peace Iouhu I1IS 5Ie"'
"oilu hul 10 insure accommodations
VI cneellui recOilec'IohS we AUS' Oe,
gin INls very minute 10 lay up our
treasures ny thinking OF the next one
WHO Hnay heeo our nlhlStFaIlons' TIC"
DIS wen as poor
was especially touched last week
when | saw deeply yelled woman,
! whom sorrow has touched with a
heavy hand, having lost every men,
Der OF her own family within very
short time, leaving her absolutely
alone, making purchases of dainty
trif1es for children, for servants and
friends on both sides of the continent.
II look a stout heart TO JOIN with the
merry throng and It was TO me true
bravery 10 even attempt 10 get away
from "hat l kne" her true 1eellngs
10 De. AS | grow older thlnk the
greatest art IN the world IS that or
selI-lorseuulhess' we are SO apt TO
tnlhk that we may De excused II we
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17
DOM ESTlC.

What an important factor in the
commerce of the United States is fur
Rished by paper and its kindred manu-
features is shown by bulletin just
compiled by the bureau Of statistics
Of the department of commerce and la
Dor. Imports of paper and its products
have increased from 100000 in 1899
to $t2O0O,000 in 1909 and the exports
have increased at a large rate also.
Nelson Davids, aged 10, and Mary
Mylander, aged q, both school teach
ers, we're drowned Sunday while skat-
Ing on the Portage river, at Oak Har-
Dor, Ohio.
Fire Sunday totally destroyed the
mammoth plant of the Racine, Wis,
Manufacturing Company, entailing a
loss estimaed at 100000, partly COW
cred by insurance.
remarkable assertion of the prac-
ucabllity at aviation is embodied in
the announcement at Worcester,
Mass, Sunday of Wallace E. Killing
mast, vice president Of a Worchester
manufacturing company, who claims to
nave secretly invented, built and test
60 an aerOplane capable Of carrying
three passengers and in which he says
ne has flown from Worcester to New
York, thence to Boston and back, a dis
lance Of 300 miles. A speed OF 12O
miles an hour was attained at times
ne declares.
Diamonds and other iewelry valued
at 100000 were stolen from the apart
ments of Mrs. John William Jenkins on
the eighth floor of the Lorraine, Fifth
avenue and Forty-ffth street in New
YORK. on Saturday afternoon. Inc
robbery is the largest Of the kline
which has occurred in years. Police
and detective agency have been unable
70 OBTAIN trace Of the lost property oi
proof against any persons suspected
OF having stolen it.
Subscriptions to the Red Cross foi
the Cherry relief fund amounted L
S5060220. The total Chicago indie
pendent fund is close to $4,000.
The report of the bureau OF stats
tics OF the agricultural department OF
tae winter wheat outlook gives toI
texas a contemplated acreage o
4'z95OO0, which is an increase OF Al
per cent over that of 1908. The con
uitlon December ! is stated at SO, TIT
.ea'year average being "a. The con
ullion of the crop in TIE whole United
o'ates is placed at S5.3, the ten-yea
average being 91.5.
Lost in the terrific snow of Novem
yer u, the body of Uncle Jack" Leon
.sd vas found Friday near Amarillo
frozen
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17
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4 4 - u u 4 4 4 4 4 I 4 4 Z Z =

The new Odd Fellows home at
Crowley vii be opened in January.
The Mercantile Club was recently
charteded at New Orleans.
The Jefferson Davis Monument AS
sociation of New Orleans reported
over $4,000 on hand.
Shreveport property owners voted
overwhelming in favor Of two bond
issues of $4,000.
The store owned by c. R. Eldridge
AT. Amite City was entered by burg
lars and valuable jewelry was stolen
The burglars overlooked $50 which
was in a safe, but they opened sew
eral cans of fruit and had good
lunch before they left the store.
The police board of New Orleans
raised the pay of the police TO S15
per month.
An opium joint in full operation
was located and raided by the police
of Baton Rouge. The four occupant
of the house were each fined SH5.Ot
and costs, and all were ordered te
leave town at the expiration OF theil
Jail sentences.
New Jersey capitalists have mad'
requests to become interested IN
canning factory at Baton Rouge. |
is believed the impetus in trucking
is responsible for the interest shown
The State Baptist Convention ad
iourned at Mansfield to meet mex
wear at New Orleans.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17
Road Certificates 60 Begging.

Mansfeld.-The police jury met IN
special session to discuss the good
roads work in progress In this par
ish, under plans. drawn up by Gov
Sanders. The committee sent to New
Orleans reported that no money Is
available in that city on the GER
tificates, and that all orders for work
will be rescinded unless the money Is
forthcoming to carry out the con-
tracts, in which the use OF convicts
for road construction and repair IL
a part.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17

The department of agriculture for
the State Of Texas on FRIDAY issued
us glnners' report for November
showing 2,0S4,4O3 bales of cotton
ginned in Texas up to Dec. / this
year. as compared with 1,99S,94C bales
reported ginned up to the same time
last year.
The sudden disappearance of ths
Bowers Southern Dredging Company's
tug Jimmie still remains a mystery.
Up to a short time after midnight Fri.
day nothing definitely had been
learned at Galveston which would
throw any light on the case.
Blood poisoning from the peck of a
turkey on Thanksgiving Day has
caused the death at Sayville, n. Y, of
William Tucker, 81 years old. Mr.
Iuker settled there about sixty years
ago and the town was for many years
known as Tuckertown.
Attacked by wild hog. which he
found uprootng a grave in a Gem
ert near San Antonio Friday, and
which he endeayored to drive away,
Semis Baca, aged Is years, was bitten
on the head and shoulders and it is
said received fatal injuries.
/ The attempt of Charles H. Lukens,
a deputy sheriff in Kansas City, Kan,
to serve some papers in divorce suit
on Charles Galloway, business man.
led to the killing of Lukens and Gal
lOWay and the serious shooting of Har.
ry Anderson, detective, Wednesday.
Sitting alone in the Prospect observ.
atOry in his nightly inspection of the
sky, ZaCcaus Daniel. a member of the
class of 1906 in Princeton University,
who holds a fellowship in astronomy
discovered a new comet. He made the
announcement Wednesday, informing
astronomers the world over through
the Harvard observatory at Cambridge
to which he telegraphed the news.
George Crocker's gift to Columbia
University, to be used for the investi
CATION Of cancer, Of which he died in
New York city on Sunday last, viii
amount to $1,000 600, according to the
terms of his will.
The temperature nearly all over In
diana Wednesday made a. long drop tC
zero. Telegraph and telephone wires
snapped and high winds threw dowr
the poles in many directions. Severa
interurban railroads were impeded by
the snow.
The two children of the late Mar!
Croker Burton Harrison, will inheri
nearly $2,0O0,00O each from the estate
left by their mother, according to th'
account of the executors, which ha
Just been approved by the New Yorl
supreme court. -, ......
The police estimate that in the las
two years the pawnbrokers in Wash
,ington have been fleeced of about SIT
,, 600, probably more, by man who say
. The is Frederick R. Rice Of Chicago. h
is locked up charged with embezzle
ment. Rice's plan, the police say, wa
Ito buy diamonds on credit and paw
them.
The Phoenix Insurance Company c
: brooklyn is under investigation for il
regularities, which report has it nav
= impaired its surplus by at least Sl,0OV
: 600.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17
Boil Weevi Too Warm to Hibernate.

Baton Rouge-The continued warm
weather has resultde in keeping the
boil weevils out of Information. This
is the opinion of Willmon Newell, OF
the State Crop Pest Commission, and
the situation applies to Louisiana in
general. Usually by the last OF No
yember the weevils are in their win
ter quarters, but so far this year the
winter has been unusually mild. In
omen weather the weevils move all
around, and have no doubt been very
busy in finding new locations.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17
Waterworks at Lake Village.

Lake Village-The construction OF
the tower, power house, and the &C.
tual laying of mains for the water
works system, for which Lake Village
recently let the contract, Is progress
ing. Justin Matthews Of Little Rock
is the contractor, and Lund & HILL,
of the capital city, are the engineers
In charge.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-17
|IE&llSG1lES oCLMh
ia gIfnIQ12y .Rw

Long sashes are being worn with
coat suits.
Fur neckpieces are very wide and
muffs are huge.
Some of the dainty new silk stock.
ings have lace insteps.
Red is brilliant exception to the
rule that makes for dull-hued colors.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-01
CLENENCEfU IN DANGER
Disafected COrsican Shoots Through
HindOzc of Prcmier's Office.

Paris. Dec 3l--A disanected Corsican named
Benedetti fred i've shots this evening in the
direction OF the window of the office of Premier
Clemenceau. in the Ministry of the Interior
No hurt. but NJ. Clemen-oau had a
narrow escape. He was seated beside the win
dow. through which crashed bullets from
Benedettis pistol At the sound Of the hrng
VI. Clemenceau arose and opened the window.
In the street excited individual bran
dishing revolver and crying. Down with the
tyrantf long live the republic
Just at this moment the Pramier's footman.
revolver in hand, rushed from the building and
started toward Bened"tt "Dont fire" shouted
NJ. Clencnceau 10 the footman. Don't fire."
yelled the Corscan, I have thrown away my
gun"
Benedetti then submitted to arrest He as
serted that he was aggrieved NJ CleWenceau.
who Minister Of the Interior. had refused
him authorization to launch lottery scheme
Like the assailants Of President FaniAres and
Major Dreyfus. Renedetti characterized his act
as merely "a gesture designed to procure JUS
tice for himself
New-York tribune., 1909-01-01
.STU4RT LUPTON SAFE.
Nc7cs Of 1mer1cdn Tice-COnSut
UcSSiRG IN Darkness.

Malta. Dec 3I.-Wireless dispatches received
from the British varships at Mcssina Indicate
that the Kings presence there has aided some
what in bringing about better condition.
The dispatches give a long list Of British
subjects alive dead The only American men
TONED IS Stuart Luptou. the new Vice Consul at
Messiua. and he is safe.
Although tin" panic has not subsided. the
bulk Of the people are behaving NelL Martial
law was proclaimed on Tuesday at the express
desire of King Victor Emmanuel More than
hundred British and many Maltese travellers
were "a Meseina - the time ~ the disaster.
To-r-sltt IT Is pit h dark in Nessina. all lights
being -xtiuGuished. The dead -tiIl lie in the
sire ts horrible and disfgured The weather
IL very cold with frequent heavy rain and hail.
Food is hardly obtainable and there is no water
The British military attachc has arrived at
Mcssina from Rome and I. now proceeding u
intercept the Ophlr and the Bremen. in passing
the strait. 10 give assistance.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-01
TRYING TO SAVE LIVING
Italy's Great Task-Estimates Of
the Dead Reach 500 OOO.

Rome. Dec 31-Estimates OF the death roll OF
the earthquake cease TO concern the Italian peo-
pIe It is enough to know that she catastrophe
is orerwreInng-f would add nothing to
the g-ief Of the stricken nation. nor move to
greater efforts those on whom the work OF relief
and rescue has fallen
Every channel open TO the government has
been utilized 10 this end. and other nations have
beer quick to come to It's assistance. even be-
fore the tr aid went up shiploads OF fus1-
tfves have n carried out Of the stricken Hons
to Naples Palermo. Catania and other ports.
and. according to the Minister Of Marine. thirty
six rescue vessels are now in the strait OF Mes
sfna. and FIVE thousand soldiers are being landed
on the two coasts
Most important Of all now Is the question Of
the living Thousands Of those who escaped ths
falling walls and the sweep of the tide are starv-
ing and without clothes or shelter They can
scarcely long survive their suTerings- The first
thought has been to carry food and covering for
these helpless people. and IT has been de-
cided by the government 20 send fleet OF emil
grant steamers TO transport them 70 other places
The latest reports received az Rome say that
there have been ray intermittent shocks fol-
lowing the first. t. which The greater part OF
the destruction is attributed The British war
shin Minerva reported by wireless to Malta that
two severe shocks occurred at Messina last night.
Professor Rioco. director OF the observatory
az Mount lFtua. states that his instruments
have recorded forty-two distinct shocks after
the first. but that during the last thirteen hours
,bav have been almost n1otionless. IEtna and
strorboIi are now quiet. and he is certain that
the earthquake was not of volcanic. but geo.
logical origin similar to that Of 1Ts5.
I.Iovd C. Griscom tn American Ambassador.
will leave here Tomorrow for Messina and other
places in the south Italian warship IN
search of information concerning missing Amer
lean travellers II has been found impossible
to obtain tidinss OF the hundreds OF foreigners
supposed to have been in the zone about whom
inquiries have been made to the government
and the various embassies
The horror Of the situation at Messina and
Reggie grows with every fresh dispatch One
o. the correspondents places the death roH
throughout the entire territory as high as 3OO.-
ON. but this appears to be extreme Others
make their outside estimate 10000 but the
official estimate made by the Minister of Marine
still holds to 11J,000.
Relief expeditions which have been making
their way 10 Reggie have encountered tre-
rnendous ohstructions all along the route. They
report eighteen villages. besides those already
mentioned in CaIabria. having been COM
pletely ruined. This woald indicate that the
earthquake did not conffue its work of havoc TO
New-York tribune., 1909-01-01
,NEV 81. .OOO .OOO HOTEL.
Structure ut 3Hh Street and Park
Ircnuc TO Be ~ Stories High.

The CITY easing Company. II which Joseph
" Wclch is president, is going 10 erect on a
plot at the southwest corner Of saith street and
Park avenue nineteen story hctel The site Is
owned hv Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. He had
nlans drawn about two years ago for an oftice
building for the premises Tn" building oCcu-
pving the corner parcel Of the plot is the former
homo Of the Princeton club
The proposed hotel is to he OF 1repro"f con-
struction with a frontage Of one hundred and
ninctv-eight end a half feet. and depth Of
eighty feet 1t will be Of ornamental brick and
stone with facade ornamented with tall tiers
Of bays extending Within two stories Of the
roof These two stories viii be finished with a
cornice and peaked gables. The building is TO
cost $4,000. 600. Warren & Wetmore are the
architects.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-01
BIG GIFT TO COLLEGE.
Teachers College Gets Im$terd0m
lfTcnuo Block Front.

Teachers College. II was announced ny its
dean Or James f. Russell. Yesterday, has re-
ceived from ;hc Norningsde Eealty company
the gift of its entire stock. representing the
ownership Of the block front in Amsterdam ave
nue. between i2oth and l21st streets. This in
c1udes Whittier. Hall dormitory for women
students Of Teachers college ana Barnard. and
the Lowell and Emerson apartment houses
Tho officers OF the reality company are Spencer
Trask president. and Or. Russell. secretary Thu
other directors are Grace II. Dodge. Charles W
Hardness ana Y Evcrit Macy. other stock
holders are George Foster Pea body. Seth LOW.
Josaph NfIhanR. d -. Mills. Archer NJ. Hunting
ton. James Speyer and the estate Of u. WII:s
New-York tribune., 1909-01-01
SHOT GIRL; HIT By CARS.
Eheobethport Commuters Chase Al
lcecd Slayer Into Engines Path.
Inr Telesrarh 90 The Trihune.

LEY Telegraph 20 ] ne Tribune
Eliza beth y. j.. Dec 31.-Gda Werer. eigh-
teen years old was shot and killed tonight by
Alexander Cohen. uho then shot himself, accord
ing to the police cohen's wound not fatal.
and he fed toward the Long Branch Railroad.
where ne struck by train He is in the
Alexan Brothers Hospital where the surgeons
say he may die.
Cohen and Miss Weimer were former sweet
hearts. but the P'ri's parents objected - Cohen
and she had refused marry him He met her
tonight al the Elizabethp"rt railroad station
Cohen witnesses say. suddenly pulled pistol
from his pocket and fired bullet into the girls
head killing her instantly
AS she fell score OF commuters who had wit
messed the tragedy rushed toward Cohen who shot
himself in the head He fell but and stag
gered toward the tracks Of the Long Branch Rail
road Dazed failed to an eastbound train.
which tossed him into a trench.
Miss Weimer had been employed in a Newark
department store. Cohen had been boarder at
the Wener home. but had not worked for several
New-York tribune., 1909-01-01
PRESIDENT At PR1CTICE
Docs Good Shooting on Range an
PyeparatiOn for HINT.

Washington Dec 3l.-"After q little practice.
am coming along strong President Roosevelt de-
cIered to-day after he hit the buli's-ave ~ fifty
Yards on the shooting range o. Surgeon General
Rtxev's farm nea- CherrydsIe Va, just across the
Potomac River from " sshing'on.
The President his Kermit end General Rixey
snent almost the entire day in series of ''prac-
tice rounds" in preparati for the Presidents
African hunting trip The President and Kermit
arrived at the country place at early hour and
with General Rixey, tramped through the snow for
a quarter of mile to a secluded nook IN the
woods where the mprovised range is situated
New-York tribune., 1909-01-01
CITY'S BIRTH RATE INCREASING.
Death Record for Year, on the Other Hand,
Lowest in It's History.

Health Commissioner Darlington in giving out
the annual report of the vital statistics of greater
New York yesterday. said: During the last ten
years birth rate has been steadily increasing,
whereas in many other large cities gradual de
crease is being shown The death rate for the
wear now closing is the lowest in the history Of
the city
. The statistics showed 126S6s births during the
year. rate of 2s.6s for each thousand Inhabitants
The number of deaths during the year 1901,
or 1s52 for each thousand.
The number of marriages during the yea was
47 4ss a decrease of S5ss from the previous year.
The reasons ascribed for the decrease the
ma rrase license and the business depression.