The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-12-17

sessions the stars ana all lts pos
Iol' 100000 souls. This anar .pes protect
cd sto 80 me Official estimate of the Irni4 nrn
nonn ea.es bureau of the censns ~ ~
~ ounced Saturday in connectioa ' an al,
tnn reputation statistics for tha wv VIII
as enumerated in the tbir4 un
1e. 1ensus. 1t includes the pb,,;asa en.n
mos -, 1aum, Hawaii, Alaska ga.
Wi.. 1n1a and the Panama Canal zona 30
CO.. LII It's borders the North Ameri,
Ian Ir. continent, exclusive Of Alasla 49,
90 niseu aoea states has a population of al
'oo inhabitants. During tbe 49,,
Ten years the states of the nnia. los, los,
~ ~ aseregate gre increase of population
ol l5,s77.6s1, which amounts a'ion TO o1
per cent over the 1900 figures
me government Friday seized ,7E
eases OF eggs which had been sbinnaa "a
: ~ paiias, Texas, to local CANDY
1bnpahy q ct kslssas iGiey, MO-. affsa.a
eneliicai ANALYSIS showed they wara
spoiieds They collected $50 600 nm
bacteria to the cubic centimeter az
analysis showing that.
NIL, Nc seate board of pardon advisers
WIN nave its "friendless conyicts"
iist OF favorable recommendations re..
ny ny ior the governor by the goth inst
nere VIII be total Of fifty prison
.efs recommended for pardon and
some OF the reports have already boon
lieu Win the governor. 1t is expect
Gu that the governor will have annie
lihe 10 examine the recommendations
Oh the board and issue pardons as
christmas presents" in the cases he
considers meritorious. Since there are
no papers to wade through, but only
the boards findings, the governor will
not nave to spend much time going
over the fifty records.
In supplemental bulletin for Decem-
Der' issued by the secretary or the
board of agriculture Friday he esti-
mates the total Oklahoma cotton crop
this year at $4,000 bales of 500
pounds each.
The United States circuit court for
tne eastern district of Pennsylvania
Thursday decided that there is no gen
eral conspiracy among the anthracite
coal carrying railroads, or coal COM
pan1es, to restrain trade or commerce
or to monopolize the trade or to
maintain certain prices, but it did de-
eide that the Temple Iron Compan,
is combination of anthracite coal
carrying railroads in violation of the
Sherman antitrust law, and granted
the prayer of the government for an
injunction restraining that corporation
from continuing a violation of the act.
The population of Texas, as ascer-
tanned by the thirteenth census. is 81
S96,542. A gain of 27.S per cent over
the census of 1900, or an increase in
Inhabitants Of S47.S32. The population
OF the state in 1900 was 3,04S,710,
which was gain of 1854 per cent, or
813,187 over the previous census. Thus
it will be seen that in the past ten
years Texas gained 34,649 more inhab-
itants than it did in the previous ten
years. BY this showing Texas goes
from sixth to fifth rank in poulatton,
ago was fifth in size of population. The
steady forging ahead of Texas since
the civil war is shown by the census
for the past fifty years, as
follows: In 1860 it was twenty-third
in rank, in 1870 nineteenth, in 1880
in 1900 sixth and in 1910
fifth.
Seven Chinese girls, captured when
an attempt was being made to SNUG |
gle them ashore from the steamer
Wednesday, told a story
hat, for brutality, comedies nothing to
The workings of the earlier African |
slave trade. immigration officials say |
here is no doubt that the girls were |
brought to Francisco to be sold into /
he slave trade Their ages are from
Ia to 19 years.