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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-03
lsllad Henent, Losing faRh,
RI oil Short Contracts.
y nHIs DPll|u|nG MOVEMENT
Dve Hartman Interview Deprived
Dults Of One Of Their Mainstays-
Reduetlon In Price Of Copper Here
1 and In London.
INV the Associated Press).

NEW YORK, April BEARS got
Z the upper hand today in the contest
which has waged on each successive
day this week In the stock market
The professional trading element on
the floor Of the stock Exchange has
been distrustful OF the rise In price"
and has felt for the top" constantly
BY putting out short contracts
Previous TO today they have been
forced to cover shorts later at 4
loss. driven In by the subtle resis'
tence of the market 10 depression.
The trend OF tne market was not
determined until after the first hour.
the absorptive power being still mani
Jest at that time, when the large SELL
ing orders seemed to be by almost
equally heavy buying. After q period
ee Quietude the market then began
70 recede on comparatively light
transactions. thus demonstrating the
withdrawal OF support. The reac-
ton was as much lacking in definite
news 10 account for It as has been
the weeks advance.
The interview Of f. II. Hartman
with the newspapers yesterday de-
priyed the bulls of some OF the infor'
nation they have relied on by the
frankness OF some OF his admissions.
Rumors are In circulation here which
persisted In London this morning.
that an advance in the Union Pacific
dividend to IL per cent. had been de.
termined on. and in Southern Pacific
TO per cent. Mr.. Harriman's fiat
assertion that no divident increases
were IN contemplation in either case
took away this motive for buying
the stocks at advancing prices,
There was reduction In the price CT
copper at the New York Metal FIX.
change and in London. which served
to dampen the confidence in reviving
demand In that trade.
Bonds were irregular. Total sales.
par value, $5.336.000. United States
bonds were unchanged On call.
Total sales today. 926.700 shares.
including: Copper 10000: American
Ice 21,S00; American Smelling 20
400: Atlantic Coast Line 400: Chesa-
peAke 4 Ohio 10000; Chicago Mil. 4
st. Paul 27,700: Great Northern. pfd.
20,b00: ELECTROMAGNETIC. pfd. 1880:
Louisville 4 Nashville $500; Norfolk
= Western 200; Reading 42l. 800:
southern Pacific $1,000: Union Pacific
111,90O; United States Steel lsl 500:
Sloss Sheffield Steel & Iron zoo:
Virginia Carolina Chemical 5000.
Closing Stock List.
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WANTED - HAULING OF ALL
kinds. especially furniture. e. c.
SHIELD, o401 Chestnut avenue.
Bell phone I'll. Mich 20-3m
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FOR RENT-LARGE, WE'LL LOCAT
ed store room, formerly occupied
by r. w. JUDKINS. Terms very
reasonable. For Information apply
Daily Press Office.
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WANTED.

WAETED-TO LEND $2.00G AT LIE
gal interest on long time. Gilt edged
security required. A. c. GARRETT.
IT,
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LOTS FOR SALE OR LEASE IN ALL
parts OF the city. Call and get
prices. OLD DOMINION LAND
CO.. Hotel Warwick Building
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"PortsmOuth. Va, April >. 1909.
we have Democratic chart and
two good pilots. | see no need OF
conv ention j.. T. HOPE.
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-3lG AND 3fS FORTY
fourth Street, two ten-room houses:
modern conveniences: apply 31O3
Washington Avenue. 3-2-tf
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LOST-BETwEEN TwENTY-SIXTH
and Thirty-third streets on Wash.
ingion avenue. pair gold trimmed
gisssess Reward IL returned TO
Daily Press once. Newport News.
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LOST.

LOST-ON WEDNESDAY GOLD
Lockef attached to fleur de- lis pin.
1907 on one side: T. TO T.. on the 9th.
or. Finder return 10 coo Lee street
Hampton. or Schmelz Brothers. City,
and receive reward ..
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NORFOLK TALON co. DEAD
animals removed free Of charge W
c. H. Schoneid, Phone sri haDp'
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r. 8. BOONE. EXPERT HAIRCUT
ter: first class BARRIERS employed:
best attention paid to all. BIZ
Washington Ave. S-Z7
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HOW ABOUT THOSE OLD BILLS!
WE can collect them. Guarantee to
collect or no charge. GEO G.
Bland, Room 2. Coleman Bldg.
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WANTED-TO BUY. SELL OR EX.
change. furniture and stoves. c. w.
LEWIS, 2502 Huntington avenue.
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TO LEND-MONEY IN SMALL
amounts, on city real estate.
NELMS & CO., INC. 2J17 Wash
ingtOD Avenue. - =,
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HORSE SHOEING-BEST WORK
and material. Plain and Toe Shoes
81 per set CONARD'S HORSE
SHOOTING SHOP. S. G. MIDklFF.
Mngr.. 1909 Huntington Avenue. AZ
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
LOUISIANA NEWS.
Eice Growers Meet,

Crowley. lathe meeting Satpr.
day of the Louisiana Rice Growers
association here was the largest meet.
ing OF rice farmers held in recen,
years i'll louisiana, nearly 100 rice far.
mers Of this and neighb0riug rice mar.
lShes being present Resolutions wero
adopted thanking the Louisiana sena.
tors and congressman aui the rice as.
ISOLATION committee for heir work in
behalf of American rice IN the pend.
ing tariff Lii. and the draft of n,o.
posed charter was submitted by a
committee appointed for the burmese
FINAL action on the charter vas defer
red until April II, when 1 meeting Of
the state association vii, D. held here
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
Large Trade in Farm Machinery

Crowley, La.-LOcal farm machinery
men report the largest -rade in ma
chinery for several years. Planting
machinery trade, which mas been very
brisk, closed month cartier than usu.
al, and harvest machinery is already
being placed. The thraSler men saw
that the outlook is the BEST since the
boom days of the rice Industry. Ma.
chInery orders indicate an extension
OF rice territory on the Mississippi
north of Baton Rouge on the Red
river and il St Landry Parish. In the
rice belt proper the tendency is in the
direction Of smaller acreage and inten.
sive farming
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
Results Follow Orosrizatjon.

Robelina. La.-For the first time in
the history of Robeline the entire
town and vicinity have gotten togeth-
er, past differences laid aside, and all
of the same mind and in the right d.
rection. Realizing the Importance Of
a progressive league to place before
the public the resources. virtues and
benefits of the town and surrounding
country, which have been sadly neg
lected heretofore, league was or
gained last Tuesday night for the bet
terment of conditions.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
Canal From Texas to the Atlantic

New Orleans, La-G0yarnment en-.
gineers in the South will Meet in New
Orleans next Thursday afternoon TO
discuss the possibility OF establishing
an intercoastal canal from st. George.
Sound, Fla to New OrIean. II it can
be accomplished. this you'd practic-
ally make an intercoastai canal from
the Atlantic coast to Texas.
The plan proposed is to have the
waterway connect with the intercoast.
al canal under construction between
New Orleans and Sabine.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
LOUISIANA HAPPENINGS

T Covington.-A travelling salesman
for prominent New Orleans whole
sale grocery house, who reached here
| from trip through Washington par
ish, gives most graphic accoun. VI
the recent storm III that section. He
says he was near Zona in buggy
| when the storm struck him and that
before he could travel about one
block the water was about three inch
es deep in the fiat woods. He pic
lures the rain as a veritable cloud
burst, and says that over large area
the crops that had been planted were
actually washed out OF the ground, the
cotton and corn ridges being washed
fiat He says tnat the farmers OF that
section will have to replOW their fields
before they can rep.ant, the ridges
being washed away and the ground
being packed by the heavy rainfall
of nearly six inches. The rain was
accompanied by a very hard wind,
which tore limbs from The trees and
did other similar damage.
The police jury has received a COM
municatiOn from w. n Patrick IN re-
gard to the common disregard OF the
law relative to the disposition of the
carcasses of cattle dying from dis
ease and praying for relief. The Pc
tition was referred TO the grand jury
for action.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
Southern Pacific Summoned,

Baton Rouge, LATHE Louisiana
railroad commission Monday issued a
summons 10 w. NJ Hobbs general SUI
perintendent of the Southern Pacific,
ordering him to appear before the COM
mission on April IA and show cause
why an order should not De issued re-
quiring the Southern Pacific to build a
drain along its right OF way adjoin-
ing the property of C. E. Reggie, near
Jeanerette. La.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
Alexandria in the League.

Alexandria, La.-Manager Auslet Of
the Alexandria base bail club was in
receipt of a telegram, Saturday from
President Merrill of the Cotton States
League at Jackson, Miss, saying eV-
erything'is o K for four-cIub league,
including Alexandria, Monroe and Al
giers, La, and Jackson, Miss.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26

Baton Rouge.-That the cattle in
dustry in Lincoln and Claiborne par
iSheS has been greatly advanced by
the partial eradication OF the caIlle
tick from these two parishes was the
information brought to the city by Dr..
c. E. Mauldln OF the United States
Department Of Agriculture, who has
been in charge of the cattle tick Grad
ication work which the state and the
United States government is doing in
Lincoln and Claiborne. Dr.. Mauldin,
with Commissioner Schiller and Sec
rotary Newell, of the Crop Pest Com
mission, held a conference with Gov
ernor Sanders and discussed the work
for the coming year. The campaign
against the tick will reopen in about
three weeks. With the State Crop
Pest Commission we have been work
ing in Claiborne and Lincoln parishes
for about two years. said DR.. Maui
din, land We have about tnree-fourths
of the ticks eradicated. The people
are raising more cattle and better
cattle than ever before in their lives.
1t will probably take about two more
years to complete the work"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
Fuoitive From Iberia Arrested.

Franklin, La.-An important arrest
was made here Saturday by Night Mar
shall Oscar Jones, and Deputy Sheriff
Charles Pecot, WHO arrested negro,
George Reader, who has been wanted
in Iberia parish for the past year for
killing negro, Louis Mack, in crap
game on the plantation Of Shelby San
derS.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
Sinking Well for Rice irrigation.

Fstherwcod, La.-JOha and Mort
Robins, two successful rice growers OF
this section but now established in Cal
casieu parish, west Of mere, are put
ting down 1O-inch deep we'll for rice
irrigation. making two on the farm
they are Oh. and most OF the land be
ing planted now, will grow fine seed
rice.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
Arrested on Horse Theft Charge.

Crowley, La. j. Antoine, negro,
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Keller
and lodged in the parish Jail on a
charge cf horse stealing He had IN his
possession a horse watch has been
identified as one recently stolen from
J. V. Raou!s of Avoyeues parish.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
Circular Anent Philippines Rice.

Crowley. La.-CirculaCs were re-
ceiyed here Saturday from President
J. E. Broussard of the Rice Millers and
Distributors association of Louisiana
and Texas urging ricemen to take
prompt action TO save American rice
from the invasion of Philippine rice.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
Trial Of BIount at Anite.

Amite, lathe trial of Avery
Blount, charged with the murder OF
Buzzy Breland, his wife and daughter
in this parish on the night of Jan -
last, viii, be called in the district court
here this week.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
Farmer in Bankruntcy.

Shreveport. La.-Johu w. Ford,
farmer of Bienville postotfice. BEN
Vile parish, La, filed bankruptcy pro-
ceedings this week. De0LS. S2,563G4;
assets, 1880
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
Supervisor of Election.

Crowley. La Raymond /. Ciarh
has been appointed BY GOV. Sanders
as a member from this parish OF the
board of supervisors OF elections.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
Evanoeiire Merchant in Bankruptcy.

Shrey, port, La.-William I. Blshcp
of Erangeline, Acaria parish, filed voi-
untary bankruptcy proceedings. La
bilities, $l,t2l.77; assets, $3.50.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
The riots at Booota. Colombia.

Joseph &. Cannon was re-electe,
speaker Of the House.
Director Leach of the United
J States mint will visit New Orleans
The shah Of Persia has agreed
| to convoke a constitutional convcn.
ton.
! J. H. Clinton was fatally shot by
| his former friend, &. W. Nixon, at
Kite, Ga.
A company Of rurales mutinied
at VueItas, Cuba, and attempted to
start an uprising
Mexico will declare off all wheat
duties by April ! in order to pre-.
vent bread famine.
| Southern rivers are on rampaoa.
even the Mississippi showing feed
stage earlier than usual.
Champ Clark Of Missouri was re-
elected minority leader of the House
| by the Democratic caucus.
The British army is experiment.
ing with the utility of automobiles
i'll the rapid movement of troops.
The Peterson brothers were res
cued from d mine near Salt Lax.
City. after being imprisoned fifty
hours.
The German colony arranged en-
tertalnment for officers and crew of
the coming cruiser Bremen at New
Orleans.
Governor Sanders of Louisiana
and his immediate party have re-
turned from Washington and New
York trip.
Four persons were killed and sey-
eral injured by runaway train
crashing into a depot at Montreal,
Canada.
A visitor to a San Francisco de-
partment store found package
holding $4,000, which remains un-
claimed.
Mrs. Leopold Baumann, wife of
a wealthy New York furniture deal
er, was killed by TulIy c. Estee's
automobile.
Pedro Ezquiel Rojas, who is re-
garded as the ablest diplomat in
Venezuela, has been appointed Ven
ezuelan minister at Washington
Suits have been brought in the
High Federal Court of Venezuela
against NJ. Castro, former presi-
dent, who is now in Europe, on the
charge that he caused the murder
i'll February of 1907 of Gen. Anto-
Mo Paroles and number of his
revolutionary companions. The
plaintiff, Manuel Paroles; asks the
Judge to extradite Castro and i'm
pose the maximum sentence of fif-
teen years Imprisonment. He pre-
sents proof that Castro issued the
order to kill Antonio Paroles from
his sick bed at Macuto.
There were only two really new
things shown at the first session of
the Dressmakers Protective Asso-
citation at New York. One was the
"style clerical" a summer costume
made to look as much like the
French priests robe as possible with
500 buttons On it. Another novelty
as the 'Tmeyen age gown, which
was first heard from at a western
dressmakers' convention a short time
ago. Several specimens of this,
which is to be '|the really proper
thing this summer" were shown.
10 call a man liar in the state
Of Georgia is a breach Of the peace
and means fight, declares the state
court of appeals in a decision hand.
ed down at Atlanta.
The American embassy at Rome
has been assured that the utmost
efforts will be made to arrest the
murderers of Joseph Petrosiue. The
Italian police are now greatly con-
cerned about the impending arrival
NJ M poocaroIt ,pd l,,c f,,,,i,,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26

Baptist revival campaien beoan
in all the Baptist churches.
Three suicides. a woman and two
men, occurred at Jacksonville Fla,
| Edward Weston has left New
York on his 3OO-mile walk to
Frisco.
The Balkan crisis is in last STAGES
and Seryja will determine her own
fate this week.
Posev RYAN Lillod bic w;fo and
danohtor hoca,co bic w;fo sonpht
divorce.
Special missions we're conducted
IN all the Catholic churches at New
Orleans
Southern textile mill owners will
meet in Atlanta this week to dis
cuse the tariff.
The New Orleans Great North
EN- railroad may adopt motor car
service on the Shore Line.
Orleans Lpypp BOARD Of New Or
leans maid C. r Fisher S9,1 400
for nronortv +aLon for lovoo ,nr-
poses.
prndonc;o Altar boS larncnod
another revolutionary movement
AGAINST the SaIvadorean GOVERN
" ont
Cuban government hos had
month 70 nroro ;+s oMo;oro,. and
is ronortod do;nc wall VIII worl,
for new roc;nroc;tv tro,+v
nou.on,,,or ,,,on uho :, - -
comnanv Roosevelt 10 Africa will
brine hack full blood African
child for Col, Cecil Lyon of Texas.
If 1aol, Johnson t,;,o 70 donr
+hn+ J., ! ,,,ann;oJ -
man, the negroes at Galveston will
cancel preparatjons for his r.,ey-
ton
Tofrorso, pronor4r Holders, pro
toct;ve Association doferrad action
On specisl school tay until q confer
ence with school hoard at New Or
leans
Rev. J. W. Jones known as the
HHistorion of tho Confederacv y
close friend of Robert Z. Lee and
StonewalI Jackson died at Colum-
bus, Ga,
$40 ooo fro loco ooo,r,.oa o.
The prison on Fleet Island N Y
The prisoners attemnted to escane
but were ouieted bv the rifles of
the guards,
A lannon's coot from, Korr,, 1ro-
,ond hos hoon nroson+o,+o 4hs
tlosb;n vormont DC . masoo+ Tho
roo+ oo,,.oa low ;t hat,,.oa,,
branches of an Irish secret society
in Boston and the gift was made
ia thp hattleshin in order 70 cottla
the controversy.
Tho American no,,o,., >, OIL tFs
nonncoa tbo+ = viii aonona : o,oor
ana exnl,c,t statement fro,o. sass,,,,
rs 70 her intentions IN +bo Moon
t;mo Tho Austr;on o,n,u hos hoon
,1oooa ~ u,an foot;n
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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26
EvENTSOF The DAY
a BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE HAP
PENlNGs OF THE WORLD AT
LARGE AND ESPECIALLY OF
OUR SISTER STATES.

seriously Ill.
Natural gas is being borel for
near New Orleans.
The House is still in snarl over
the fight on the rules.
Extraordinary military activity
? is reported N Nicaragua.
Serious riots and disturbances Oc-
Cured at Bogota, Colombia.
The French postot1ice and tele-
graph strike is spreading rapidly.
By the caying of a ditch at Ham
iton, Ohio, three workmen were
buried alive.
Early Intervention in Cuba is ex-
.tt1d by the administration at
Washington
The new tariff bill was introduced
in the House by Congressman Payne
Of New York.
Several thousand employees of the
French postoftice department have
gone out On strike.
The Southern Commercial Con
gress will, it is said, prove Of great
benefit to Washington.
Dorando Pietri defeated JOHNNY
Hayes by half a mile in the match
for Marathon supremacy at New
York.
The discussion in the British
House of Commons of the naval
estimates is arousing the greatest
interest in Germany.
Speaker Kennedy of the Texas
House Of Representatives, resigned,
and was succeeded by G. J. Mar
shall of Grayson county.
Two trainmen were killed and
one probably fatally hurt in a
Louisville and Nashville freight col
lision near Gainesville, Ga.
The British steamer Mechanician,
a shin of 1892 tons. which left
New Orleans for Liverpool on Feb
ruary 20, burned in the Mersey. She
had 400 bales Of cotton aboard.
Mayor P..J. Lyons, on beginning
lis second term at Mobile, vetoed
the ordinance granting a general
salary increase, in which he would
have shared, and the city council
sustained him. ~
Speaker Cannon has rubbed salt
il. the wound of Champ Clark and
his defeated coalition of Democrats
and insurgent Republicans in nam
ing the committee on rules and
ways and means. For the first time
in years the minority leader was
ignored in the assignment of places.
King Edward witnessed the
flights by Wilbur Wright and evinc-
ed equal enthusiasm with the other
spectators in the remarkable accom-
plishments of the American aero
pianist. The flight was made at
Pau, France.
The long contest over the ap-
pointment of a collector of customs
At Charleston, S. c., which was
waged over the selection of DIR. VIM.
y. Crum was terminated by the APP
Pointment by President Taft of Ed
ward W. Durant, Jr., for the posi-
ton. Mr., Durant is a white man
aid it is presumed his nomination
will be confirmed in due course of
time.
The grand jury of Pottawatamie
yctunty, Iowa, met and is expected
to take up consideration of the oper.
ations OF the alleged swindling cases.
Several of the victims of the fake
horse races, foot races aud wrestling
matches are said to be here. and
Tany Others are expected to come
from various parts Of the country
&c testify against the men charged
with Wholesale swindling.
Cipriano Castro, the former pres
ident of Venezuela, has engaged
state-rooms for himself and the
members of his party On board the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26

Abbeville.-The practical failure ot
crops last year has stimulated the
farmers to intensive efforts to sue.
coed this year, and farm lands have
been put in first-claSs cult for a crop.
large acreage of corn has been
planted already and is coming up,
but there is scourge of blackbirds
IN the country here that destroys it
as soon as it peeps above the ground.
These birds are protected under the
NentreSs game law, but they are
the most disastrous birds in the farm
that planters have to deal with in
this section of the state and farmers
trample the law under their feet so
far as pertains to the blackbird.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26

Baton Rouge.-Goyernor Sanders is
expected to call the meeting OF the
Louisiana State Board OF Liquidation
for the purpose of taking final action
on the state fiscal agency matter.
The. present IL fiscal banks only
agreed to act as repositories of the
state for a months time on trial,
claiming that at the rate of interest
fixed by the state board, 1-2 per cent
on daily balances, the banks would
lose money because Of the amount
of bond which the banks had to give
for the full amount and because only
Is per cent of the sum could be put
out at interest. When the board is
called TO meet by Governor Sanders,
it will either reduce the rate of in
terest to 3 per cent or attempt to
secure other fiscal agents. The lat
ter course will likely lie adopted
Baton Rouge.-Cadets from the
Louisiana State University will enter
the intercollegiate rifle practice which
will be conducted by the United
States government. Captain Sor.ey OF
the United States army, commandant
at the l.. S. IT,, made the students
talk on rife practite and the inter-
collegiate contest. A number of stu
dents will be in training for several
weeks. At the end of the week the
best ten shots from the list will be
placed in the rife squad, AID they will
train until spring.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-26

Lafayette-About 20 negroes have
been tried for gambling. but it was
necessary TO discharge them, as the
council recently repealed the anti
gambling ordinance. The mayor how.
were amenable to the state law, and
ne only regretted that he had no pow.
er to fine them. The negroes, in or.
der to evade the law, are organizing
social clubs, two now being prac.
tically in operation, or soon will be.
The officers report considerable activ.
ity in gambling circles since the re-
peal of the ordinance prohibiting it's
practice within the city limits.