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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
LOUISIANA NOTES.

Larger shipments of garden truck
from every section show that the
state Is developing the industry
The state board of liquidation au.
tnorlzed Governor Sanders to borrow
s2,l54,57 to pay the cost Of examin-
Ing the books of the Cumberland Tel
epnone company and in carrying on
litigation in an effort to secure lower
rates.
Fire lnsurace companies in Luisia-
ma collected $4,434,472 in premiums
In 1909 land paid $2,46O,155 losses.
The Hooks oil well in the vinton
district promises to develop 500 bar
rels per day under pump.
An Oil exploring company has been
organized lat Natchitoches with q
capital stock of 100000.
The anniversary of the battle Of
Mansfield was celebrated by the Con.
federate Organizations at that place
An election will be held early in
May in Washington parish to vote
5-mill, fifteen-year tax for school
buildings, and a similar tax to main
tain them.
The Standard Oil Company has
secured leases on 1856 acres in the
Caddo field.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
COY, PATTERSON PARDONs COOPERs
Coloneps Cooper's Sentence Affirmed
and Robins Reversed and Re-
manded.

Nashville, Tenn.-In the case of Col
onel Duncan B. Cooper and Robin
Cooper father and son, convicted OF
killing former United States Senator E.
w. Carmack on the streets Wednesday,
Nov 8, 1908, and sentenced to TWEEN
| ty years each in the State Penltentl-
airy, the Tennessee Supreme Court, by
6'vided vote, affirmed the sentences as
to d. B. Cooper. AS to Robin Cooper,
the case, also, divided vote. is re-
manded to the lower court for a new
trial.
While Chief Justice Beard was reao-
ing dissenting opinion in the case of
Duncan b. Cooper, Governor Patterson
wrote a full pardon for the defendant,
in which he declares:
In my opinion, neither of the de-
PENDANTS is guilty and they have not
had a fair and impartial trial, but
were convicted contrary to the law
and eVidencee."
The reversal in the case Of Robin
Cooper is based on assignments of err
ror in the trial judges failing to
charge separately as to Robin Coop
er's theory of self-defense, linking the
defense of the defendants together eX-
Guiding testimony of Governor Patter'
son as to talks with the defendant,
Robin Cooper and advice given him
as to Colonel Cooper before the trag.
edy, and the admission on cross-eXam.
ination of Robin Cooper, as to intent
of certain states witnesses testifying
as to certain incidents.
Colonel Cooper was still at the capt.
tol when the pardon was entered in the
secretary of states office. He was at
once surrounded by a crowd of friends
seeking to congratulate him. He was
as calm and even cheerful through it
all as if he had received an acquit-
tai. The reversal of his sons case
seemed to interest and please him, to
the exclusion Of his own fate.
Robin Cooper is under a $4,000
bond. His friends freely predict that
he will not be again arragned for
trial Should he be, It would be a
most difficult undertaking to sec re a
jury in Davidson county under the
laws requirements.
The opinions were read before
packed courtroom, the corridors being
crowded with those unable to gain
an entrance.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
SENATE DEMANDS BILBO'S RESIGNATION
President Pro Tenn. Hebron Resigned
and Left Room With Eight
others.

! Jackson, Miss-After the defeat OF
the resolution to eXpel Bilbo, the sen,
ate went into open session Friday and
| adopted resolution demanding his re.
signation by an overwhelming vote.
Senator John L. Hebron, president
pro TEN of the senate, supporter of
Vardaman resigned his office and left
the senate chamber, followed by six
or eight other senators, also support.
ers of Vardaman.
By a margin of one vote short of the
required two-thirds majority, % to Is,
the Mississippi senate early Friday re-
Jected a resolution to expel Senator
Theodore Bilbo, who claims that he &C.
cepted bride of S645 in exchange for
his promise to change his vote from
former Governor James K Vardaman
to United States Senator Leroy Percy
during the recent senatorial contest.
The acceptance of the money, Bilbo ex-
planned, was to secure evidences Of
irregularities in Connection with the
contest for the United States senator
ship.
The vote came after an extended
session of the upper branch of the as.
sembly, which for the past several
weeks has been investigating the
charge of Bilbo that he was offered a
sum of money by l.. C. Dulaney, a
prominent planter and supporter of the
successful candidate Leroy Percy. The
vote was strictly along partisan lines,
practically all Of the Var 1aman adher.
ent in the senate voting to sustain
Bilbo.
The ballot, which was on resolu.
ton by Senator Leftwich declaring that
Bilbo be expelled and that he is "un.
worthy of belief" followed the vot-
ing down by decisive majorities of two
substitute resolutions, one Diminishing
the entire subject matter and another
severely censuring the State senator.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
CATS STRENUOUS NFor,
SAVE LIFE Of A Wnu,,
FELINEs YoWLINe se,rc,
WHEN HIS MISTRESS :. 40
OVERCOME BY GAS

New York.-Pedro, a grav ;.
belonging to Mrs. Henrietta R.. %aFs
widow of 1873 Brook avenue tba aIae
is entitled to all the cream '''al
neighborhood His strenpon, he
saved Mrs. Banker from asnb,. 4so''
Gas began to escape from h'' a
pipe Of the Banker fiat soon sf t,.sasa
widow had cooked her breakfsst '' ,, u
Banker, being in poor besl,b ai'
overcome quickly and fol- = va
scious on a bed. uucs'
Pedro at once made as mnc,
as he possibly could. His vo- -us
and scratching were heard br ' ~,
Isabel Breen, a nurse, who ws. lia
ing Mrs. AXelsen in the fiat ~. mt
Mrs Bankers. A' 70
Miss Breen found the door o, ..
Banker fiat locked. Smelling Pas y. ~
realized she must act quickly 'N', p als
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
FAMINE CAUSED RIOTS.
ALL FOREIGN BUILDINGS IN
CHANG SHA DESTROYED.
GOVERNOR AND SON KILLED
Thousands of Foreign Drilled Soldiers
Join Rioters-Many Mis-
sions Destroyed.

Chang Sha, Chna-All the foreign
owned buildings in Chang Sha have
been destroyed by fire with the eXcep
ton Of the British consulate. All the
buildings rented by foreigners have
been looted. The Chinese officials on
Thursday issued a proclamation that
they were unable to protect the lives
and property of foreigners and there
upon all foreigners made haste to leave
! the city. SO far as known no foreign
resident lost his life.
The governor of HUI Nan province,
Wou Tchung Stu, and his son were
killed and several other government
officials fled. Even yet a section of
the city IS in flames. Six thousand
| foreign drilled soldiers are stationed
here and few of these protected the
governors house for a time, but soon
all joined the rioters.
The riots began on April Is, when
the famine sufferers looted the rice
shops. A captain of police was wound
ed while trying to restore order, but
thousands-crowded around him and
he was obliged to flee to the va
men. The rioters followed and be-
seiged the place all night.
B. The following day the disturbances
became antiforeign this being a strong
antiforeign province. The China in
land mission and the Norwegian and
the Catholic missions were destroyed
on April 16.
The missionaries attached to the
American Episcopalian Missionary AL
lance, the United Evangelical church
and the Wesleyan and Yale missions,
numbering forty-one in all, took re-
fuge in boats. They left all their
effects. The destruction of all for
eign property, including the Japanese
consulate and the British warehouses
followed.
The fate of the Standard Oil Com
panys newly erected tanks is un-
known.
The British consul detained two
steamers for the refugees, who include
military Japanese. Owing, however,
to the shortage of provisions and the
hopelessness of the situation, it was
decided to start for Hankow.
The government buildings were de-
stroyed the same day, the troops join
ing the rioters, numbering not less
than $4,000. Gendarmes attached to
mission in Chang Sha when the
troubles began, fled from the city. and |
it is reported that three of them,
while proceeding to Hankow in a Junk
without lights, were run down by tle
British gunboat Thistle and drowned.
Another report say the men drowned |
were Americans, but there is no con-
frmation.
The chief cause of the rioting was
the scarcity and high price of rice.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
Appropriation for Deeper Channel

Morgan City.-Dispatches from the
national capitol that the committee
on rivers and harbors had reported
fayorably upon an appropriation of
100000 for the deepening of the
Atchafalaya channel to twenty feet
was received here with enthusiasm
The Atchafalaya ship channel was
dug to a depth of fourteen feet bv
local capital and has proved to be
a source of great benefit to a vast
section, as number of foreign YES
sells have visited this port since its
completion, but it was found that
the channel was not deep enough
to accommodate the larger class Of
vessels, and though the efforts of the
officers of the channel company thew
have been able to interest the fed
eral authorities in the project.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

ming down stairs, she jumped out On
the fire escape with her mother, who
helped her climb to window of the
Banker fiat. Miss Breeu smashed the
glass. She was almost overcome BY
the rush of gas from the room, but
got inside and checked the leak.
Then she turned her attention to Mrs
Banker and restored her respiration.
After giving the alarm the tomcat
felt the effects of the gas to such an
extent that he toppled over in the
hall, his feet sticking straight up
But the resourceful Miss Breen spied
him there and soon had him breath.
ing as normally as ever.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

The police, on medical advice,
stopped Marathon endurance dance
In San Francisco which had lasted Is
hours. One of the dancers seemed
urging himself to the point of torture,
but that did not prevent the crowd In
attendance from resenting the humane
action of the police. 1t is the same
old story. Scratch the skin of civil
cation and find the human brute un.
derneath.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
Taylor Cotton Receipts.

Taylor, TeXas.-In consequence of
the extremely muddy condition of the
roads in this black land section of Will
hanson county, only one lonely-looking
bale OF cotton POUNDS its way through
the mud to the Taylor market Thurs
day, making the total receipts to date
25,92S bales. Fully 500 bales of the past
seasons crop are yet expected to be
marketed in Taylor before the sea-
son closes
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
NOW FIRST CLASS PosToFFlcE.
New Official at Baton Rouge viii Re-
ceive $4,000 per Annum.

Baton Rouge.-When the postal au-
thorities announced that the stamp
sales for the fiscal year ending on
March 81, 1910, was S40,15O, it be-
came evident that Ed Burnette, the
new postmaster, will receive $4,000
per year salary. The total stamp
sales last year were s37O95.19, and
the increase of $4,000 in a single
year shows that the business activ.
ity of the. capital city is on the ad
vance.
All postoffices in which the total
stamp sales in one year is $4,000 or
more are considered frst-class off.
ces.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
Harold Bank Robbers Caunht.

Frederick, Ok.-From three men ar
rested Friday the police took $1,5SG
rolled in wrappers of the Harold Bank
and Mercantile Company of Harold
Tex. The bank was robbed ear
Thursday, the thieves securing s2,5OC
in silver and currency. One of the
men under arrest gave the name OF
Robert Huttley. The two others re-
fused to give names.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
Inspected Experiment Stations

Baton Rouge.-Dr. w. R. Dodsou.
director of the state experiment sta.
lions, has returned from Crowley.
where he has been inspecting the
work of the State Rice Experiment
Station. which was opened a year
ago and has alrady done splendid
work for the rice interests of Lou.
isiana, in the experiments that have
been conducted in the planting and
rotation of different varieties of rice.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
Turkeys Most Profitable.

Where plenty Of range is afforded
turkeys are probably the most profit.
able of all domestic fowls. They can
be raised with very little care if kept
free from lice. When taken from the
nest where Matched each turkey
should be creased on top of head and
wings along back and around vent
with d little melted lard or olive OIL
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
San Benito Truck Shipments,

San Benito, Tex-San Benito is
leading everything in this immediate
section for truck shipping, the follow
ing cars of truck being already gone
forward. One hundred and fifteen
cars cabbage and three cars of on.
ions.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

The idea of running instruction
trains" for the benefit of farmers ap.
pears to be growing In popularity.
One OF these trains, in charge of the
state agricultural department, is on a
trip through New Jersey and the farm.
ers are fiocking to the stopping places
IN large numbers to listen to the lee
lures and witness the demonstrations.
The practical value of this method is
recognized, and the American farmer
who wants to be up to date is catch.
ing on. New Jersey evidently is wide.
awake as to the Importance of uti-
uzing its natural resources.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
Raeheiors Take Warning

HoggS-Alienists say that sihe'.
men are much more liable TO lnsan's.
than married.
Dobbs-Sure they are! Single meu
are always in danger OF going cias
over some woman.-Boston Transci'ps
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
Skim Milk for Hens.

For some reason thick sour skim
milk seems to have a greater value
for hens than sweet milk. This may
be due to the milk sugar not being di.
gested and assimilated by fowls, or,
possibly, the Tactic acid which is pres
ent in sour milk may have an espe.
cially beneficial effect More expert.
mental work is needed to clear up this
matter.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
New Markham Well

Markham, Tex-Late reports esti-
mate the flow of oil from the Glenn oil
well at from 5000 to 5000 barrels per
day. The well is under control and
arrangements are being made to store
the oil.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

The United States collector of in.
ternal revenue in New York reports
that the corporations are generally
responding to the requirements of the
new federal law calling for returns
as a basis for taxation. This is com.
mendable, and shows a much better
spirit than indicated in many quarters
at first. The best intelligence in cor
porate management is beginning to
realize and recognize that reasonable
restriction and regulation are eouit.
able and in the public interest, and
managers are governing themselves
accordingly.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

The appendix, thinking the human
race has not enough trouble of its
own Just now, has started to make
more by inventing for itself new and
exclusive disease. This disease the
doctors have agreed to call appendix
ular gastralgia," and there is small
doubt that those who wish to keep
strictly up to date will contract it
without delay. Indeed, appendicitis
may go quite out of fashion.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

New York gave away a car load Of
babies to New Orleans people the 9TH
er day. This corroborates the old
saying that generosity consists In
giving away something which we do
not want ourselves.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

One good thing about the gaseous
tail of Hailey's comet, which is ex-
pected to envelope the earth before
long, Is that we shall not be COM
PEELED to get it through a meter.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
Yoakum COMPRESS.

Yoakum. Textile compress Of
is making its last run and will then
shut down for the season. A total
of 10000 bales were compressed this
year, as against $4,000 last season.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Sailing of the Mauritania was de.
iayed' half an hour by the nonarrival
OF some cans of cream. We are sur
prised to learn that the Mauretania
does not have among its attractions a
cowpasture and creamery of It's own.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Count Komura says that a war be-
tween this country and Japan is in
conceivable. Little does he realize
the strength Of the imagiuations of
some of our after-dinner speakers.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
Inspected the University Cadets

Baton Rouge Capt. B. F. Sim
monds of the United States Army
recently inspected the cadets of the
Louisiana State University for the
United States war department. There
was battalion drill, rifle drill com.
pany drill and hayonet exercise
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
PoStoffjce Robbery

Medina, Textile postoffice at Me-
dina was entered by thief, who Sc
cured $l37 in coins and made good
his escape without causing any alarm.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

So tmpetuous are the members of
the Hungarian chamber Of deputies
that they began hurting books and
inkwells without waiting for the mo-
wing picture machine.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

1t will be hard for Kermit to CON
tent himself with the sport of clam
digging when he gets back to Oyster
Bay.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

AS matter of fact NAH is not in
rebellion against buttoning up his
wife's waist in the back. He likes
anything that proves he Is a. conve.
nience about the house.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
Shipping New Potatoes.

Cuero, Tex.-Truck farmers Wednes.
day sent out 40 boxes of new potatoes
for which they got 81 per box (about
q third of a busheD.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Economists, who declare there is
now too mich gold Will not exert any
noticeable influence ON the enthusiasm
of the man with. a mining Prospectus,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Now science has achieved an in.
vention to- take the picture of beating
hearts. This ought TO make effective
exhibits I'D love pIeadings.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

A New York man who was run down
by baby carriage is suffering from a
broken shoulder. New York men
should never go on the street without
their nursemaids.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

A celebrated oculist says that peo-
pie seldom see things as they are.
Particularly is this true when they
look at get.rich.quick schemes.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Why should not the young mans
fancy lightly turn to thoughts of love?
Spring millinery bills do not embitter
his dreams.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Paris has ham and iron" fair
though ham and diamonds would be
more appropriate combination.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Spring, bless her, may go as far as
she likes.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Simian dinners are still popular in
the New York smart set and some Of
them cost 500 per plate.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Japan Is taking an interest in base
ball, which seems to assure cordial
understanding beyond question.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Girls names written on eggs are
turned out Of cold storage from one
to three years old.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

When 1t saw the colonel the Sphinx
remained discreetly silent.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Teach the lambs to eat a little
grain as soon as they are two weeks
old.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Make room for the rhubarb pie and
the strawberry shortcake.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Now for the straw bonnets.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Chicago telephone girls must be
over five feet high. Don't talk back
to Chicago telephone girl.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22

Cool the milk as soon as 1t 10 taken
from the COW.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-22
Shipped Five Carloads of Truck.

Cuero, Tex.-Truckers shipped five
cars OF onions, potatoes and cabbage
Friday.
The Globe-republican., 1910-05-19
Personal.

Florence Nightingale, the famous
war nurse has passed her Goth birth
day.
Col. Roosevelt has authorized a de-
NAL of the report that he has written
letters expressing his attitude toward
the Taft administration.
Gov. Stubbs has written letter to
the coal operators of the Kansas field
asking that the miners be given the
raise in wages demanded and thus end
the coal strike.
Col. Roosevelt has been appointed
special ambassador to represent this
nation at the funeral of King Edward.
Congressman Mckinley the Illinois
street railway magnate is reported to
have purchased the Atchison, Kan.
car system. He is credited with an in.
tention to build an interurban system
west from st. Louis to include Kansas
City, Atchison, Topeka and the south.
west.
Jonn Ennis, % years Old VIII leave
New York May 20 in an effort to lower
Weston's record between New York
and San Francisco.
Senators Cummins and Dolliyer Of
Iowa spoke to great gathering Of
Iowa Republicans at Des Moines where
they discussed the political situation
in congress from tne standpoint Of the
insurgents.
Col. Roosevelt delivered before the
University Of Berlin lecture on "Tde
World Movement and the university
In the presence Of the emperor con
ferred upon him the degree Of doctor
Of philosophy
The Globe-republican., 1910-05-19
Benefit in Outdoor Schools.

Speaking before the National Associ.
alton for the Study and Prevention of
tuberculosis recently, DR.. Henry Far
mum Stoll of Hartford, Conn, said:
Every city should have one or more
such institutions for all delicate, So
called scrofulous or anaemic children,
and those with tuberculosis of the
bones, who are now in ordinary
schools. Doctor Stoll declared that
twenty to forty per cent. of school
children in large cities are infected
with tuberculosis. BY the use of tu-
culin, It was ascertained that 70 per
cent. Of the children from tuberculous
homes were infected as against only rs
per cent. of those from supposedly
healthy homes. 1t was also found that
so per cent. of the frail children from
healthy homes had the germs of the
disease, but that only 13 per cent of
the robust children from similar homes
were thus affected.