The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-19

in that section for $4,000 and bought
a block of land in College Heights ad
ditlon to Abilene.
Mr.. James Ferris OF Vieman, Mo.
has arrived in Angleton, Texas, anG
will engage in the telephone business
He will START new exchange. aad is
meeting with much encouragement.
Joe Cans, former lightweight cham.
pion of the world, easily defeated Jab,
ez White, the English lightweight
champion. in tenround bout at the
National Athletic Club of New York.
1t was tame exhibition.
The establishment of state labor
colonies for the custody and reforma-
ton of Migrants, habitual drunkards
and tramps, advocated by New York
State Senator Grattan, is advocated
before the Senate Finance Committee
by large delegation representing the
charitable societies in New York City.
Trevino Martinez, wcll-to-do
ranchman of Uvalde County, Texas,
was found dead Wednesday with his
head crushed and his body badly
bruised. Martinez had been missing
from home since Saturday and his
body was found quite accidentally in
pile of brush which looked as if an
attempt had been made to burn the
brush and cremate the body.
A meeting of the executive commit.
tee of the Western Passenger Asso-
citation will soon be held in Chicago
10 formulate a plan Of action as re-
CARDS twO-cent passenger rate laws.
The famous suit of the federal gov
eminent against the Standard Oil
Company Of Indiana, wherein the de.
PENDANT company at this time faced
a fine of $29,240,0OO at the hands of
Judge X. NJ. Lands on a charge of
having accepted rebates in freight
from the Chicago & Alton Railroad,
came to an abrupt end in Chicago
Wednesday. Judge A. B. Anderson,
before whom the case was brought
after reversal by the United States
Court of Appeals, instructed the jury
to find verdict of not guilty.
Frank Holiday, hack driver, ia
military known as Little Red" to his
numerous Fort Worth patrons, where
he had driven hack a quarter Of a
century, shot and killed his wife Wed.
nesday and then turned the weapon on
himself sending a bullet through his
brain, which caused instant death to
him.
The Supreme Court Wednesday held
that lands submerged at high tide by
waters of the Gulf of Mexico are not
subject to sale by the land commits
sioner under the general provisions of
the law that vest him with authority
with respect to public lands in the
state. The court holds that there is
nothing in the statute which indi-
Gates that the Legislature intended
to give to the words pubic lands
any other Specification than the law
attaches to them, and it therefore
follows that the land commissioner
has no right to sell lands submerged
by salt water for the very simple rea-
son that the land so submerged is
not, in the contemplation of the law,
land. but water
The Norwegian steamer Mascot, for
Sunderland collided Saturday with
the German ship Margretha, Iquique
for Hamburg, twenty miles west of
Mas lightship. The Margretha sank
almost Immediately, twenty Of the
crew being drowned. The six remain
ing members of the crew were saved.
Out of forty-two members of the
municipal council of Copenhagen,
elected Saturday seven are women.
Seven per cent of the candidates elect
ed in the provinces are women.
The Wright brothers have placed
an order with a London firm for the
construction of six aeroplanes.
The general election, in which the
first ballot was taken last Sunday. was
continued Sunday in Rome. returns
indicate that more than 800 deputies
out of 500 have been elected, with
more favorable to the ministry. At
least 100 representatives of the Ex-
treme Left party have been returned.
Reports received from Fee say that
the rebel forces, which are advanc-
Ing on the city. have defeated the gov
eminent troops of Morocco.
The police of Krasnoyarsk, capital
of the government of YeniSeisk, ST.
IBERIA, have practically exterminated a
gang of robbers that have long been
harrassing the people Of the Turuk-
hansk region. The police rounded up
the bandits and killed ten of them
while they were attempting to escape.
Eight others were captured. The po-
Iiae snffaYed No losses