The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-11-10
A very short crop of
GENERAL olives is expected in
NEWS Spain this year as q
HAPPENINGS. result of the cold

Sequent months of an un broken droutn,
which finally euded in heavyrains and
hailstorms. The known shortage in
the harvest has begun to affect price
of olive oil and an increase in quota
tons may be expected, it is said, be
cause those who are holding oil from
the crop of last year want to keep
their stocks in the warehouses in an
ticipation of higher prices.
Five hundred Maltese kittens with
blue ribbons around their necks were
distributed the last days of the CAM
paign among the resident of one OF
the main congressional districts of
New York city-the Fifteenth. The
ribbons had inscribed GU them these
words: Drive Out the Mice. Sena-
tor Aldrich says three hundred million
dollars are wasted by the present ad-
ministration yearly. Stand pat with
Patten (Democrat) and drive out the
treasury mice, tariff mice, forestry
mice, fraud mice and graft mice. .
Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm
and Crown Princess Cecilie of Ger
many have started on tour of the far
east. The crown princess will only go
as far as Ceylon, returning to Berlin,
| and the crown prince will spend two
months in India. From there he goes
to Siam, the Dutch East Indies, Hong
kong, Canton. Shanghai, Kiaochau,
| Pekin and Toxic, returning to Berlin
by way of Siberia in the middle OF
May.
Miss Geraldine Farrar, the Ameri-
can opera singer, said when informed
of a report that she was engaged to a
duke, that she met many of them,
and believe me, aaking them individ-
ually and collectively, they are not
worth ding"
The Muskogee Industrial Develop
ment company of Muskogee, Okla,
organized to put through the Grand
river dam proposition, increased from
$3.50, 600 to $500, 900 its capital stock.
A. @. Aylesworth, the we'll known
correspondent of the Memphis Com
mercial Appeal, was taken suddenly
i'll on a train in Tennessee and died
shortly after reaching Jackson.
BY March / Little Rock will be u.s.
/ ing natural gas from the Gaddo fields
of Louisiana. 1t will costthe Pulaski
Gas Light company says its manager.
$500, 900 to change to the natural 'arti-
Gle
j Government railroads in the state
of Bahia, Brazil, have been leased TO
French parties. At a cost of S35, 900,
600 the lines are to be extended.
An entire block In the business sec
ton of London, KY, was destroyed
by fire; loss, $500, 900.
Jack Williams, who
CRIMES resided near Tulsa,
AND was killed by tree
CASUALTIES: falling upon him in
the Verdigris river
bottom. He was saving logs A tree
that was being felled jumped from its
stump and fell on Williams. An arm
and leg were broken and he was badly
bruised and crushed. His companions
had to dig him from beneath the tree
| with their knives. Williams, who was
/ a pioneer in that section of Oklahoma,
leaves a widow and five children.
| After cashing alleged spurious drafts
to the aggi egate of over S., 900 L. f.
Ayre, whose alleged operations have
extended over period of about two
months, was arrested at Chickasha,
Okla, taken to Enid and jailed. Ayre
| is charged with having cashed spnri-
Gus drafts, most of which were for S35
and 500. at about ninety banks in that
state.
Drawing two pieces of his own skull
from his overalls in an Atlanta, Ca,
court, removed by surgeon, Herbert
Jackson, a negro. offered them in evil
dence against Ed Dimson, charged by
Jackson with assault and battery The
jury considered the evidence sufficient
to send Dimson to the chain gang for
one year.
| John Gibson, an aged resident OF
Hill county, Tex. while on a visit to
1 Dallas was attacked by another white
man, and after being slashed across
the throat he was knocked down and
robbed of So IS, all the money he had
on his person.
/ Night Chief of Police Burnett OF
Oklahoma City and couple Of pa
trolmen swooped down upon place
and disturbed some parties playing
| poker, shooting craps, engaged in reu-
lette, etc. Five arrests wers made.
i Several weeks ago John Lamont was
found ia field in the Sapulpa, Okla.
| section. He had been peppered with q
| load of birdshot. After lingering I'M
| til few days ago he passed away.
Jewish quarters in Shiraz, capital oil
the province of Ears, Persia, were
sacked by Khargais. Eleven of the
Jews we're killed. Five thousand are
| destitute.
By overturning of street car al
q Dallas Miss Lizzie Mentally was badly
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