The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-21

DSliiSA ~ ANSi0 VI NC" VI II 10 Oul VI
the Rock Island company. He resigned
as chairman Of the board # directors
and also as chairman Of the executive
committee Thursday.
James J. Jeffries gathered in &C..
4S0.9S by his road work last weeA.
These figures are official and were fur.
nished by Harry II. Frazee, manager of
the Jeffries tour. There never was
such triumphal march as Jeitries is
making across the continent.
The condition Of + frank Newman,
city detective of San Antonio, who was
shot while eating sur0er Monday night,
is somewhat improved. Physicians now
hope that he Will ultimately reCON er,
although he IS very weak. The po-
lice still have no cleW to the men who
did the shOs'ing.
Ray Lamphere, who died recently
in the Indiana penitentiagy while oerv-
Ing a teen for setting fire 20 the
home of Mrs. Belle Guinness, near La
Porte, Ind, did noe carry the secrets
of the Guinness charnal farm to the
tomb. Wien he believed death near
he confessed. The confession was
made to the Rcv. Dr.. L. A. Schell, for.
merly pastor OF the La Porte Metho-
dist Episcopal church, now president
of the Wesleyan university al Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, and held by him as
a confessional secret. He claimed to
have chloroformed the family and set
fire to the house.
Simeon B. Chaplin, head of the New
York and Chicago firm of S. B. Chaplin
G. Co., was suspended from the priv.
ileges Of the New York stock ey-
change for nFriad of sixty days Tor
participation in the Rock Island fiasco
of Dec. II last, when alleged lll-man'
aged manipulation sent the common
shares of Rock Island from so to s.
and back again IL a period of twelve
minutes.
The 2ity council of Shreveport on
Thursday adoptsd an ordinance pro
viding for the purchase of the Louis
lana State Fair Grounds, with most OF
the buildings thereon, for $4,000
which is necessary TO meet outstanding
indebtedness and add Improvements.
The supreme court has refused q
writ of error in the case of B. T. Mas
terson VS.. the st. Marys Orphans Asy
lum, If Galveston, thereby terml
mating an interesting and importan
piece of litigation. The important poin
involved concerns the statutory re
Quiremert as to the period within
which will may be probated. The
statute recites that a will must be pro
bated within four years after t.
death of the testator and the probatins
of the will of John w. Harris, forme
attorney general of Texas, was contest
ed on the grounds that it was sough
to be probated thirty years after death
1--WE must increase production pc
acre by more intelligent methods or W
must face the relentless, certain da
when we shall not produce food enoug
to supply our own necessities" sal
President VIM. G.. Brown Of the Ne'
York Central Railroad in an address
, Wednesday before the New Englan
Railroad Club in Boston.
, The monthly report of Financis
, Agent Barton OF the Texas penitel
/ tiaries shows that during December tn
receipts of the penitentiaries amounte
i to $2O6,13O that Expenditures at Hunt
{ vile amounted to s149,692; at Rusk
1882, and that $S,429 of the expend
Y lures were transferred from Rusk
r Huntsville. That on December 81, 100
there was on hand balance of $72,52
as against balance of $l6,S25 on har
the first of December. In figuring tt
receipts for the sugar sales from a
the farmers, the report shows tn
s. $1074V7 was obtained.