The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-07-27
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All returns from the statewide pro-
hibition election in Texas received by
the Galveston-D Dallas News thus far,
after being carefully subjected to the
most careful revision, give: For pro-
hibition 225,533, against prohibition
22S, 1888; anti majority 3,400 No re-
turns have been received from five
counties, but these perhaps have cast
no more than 1000 votes. Forty-seven
counties have made only partial re-
turns, but in most of these only few
small boxes are missing. The total
unreported vote probably will not ex-
coed $4,000, 1t being indicated that the
total vote polled was about $4,000,
which is the largest vote ever polled
in Texas, except in 1896, when $4,000
votes were cast. A survey of the ter
ritory not yet reported, which is we'll
scattered over the state, indicates
that the returns yet to come hold
about as much promise for one side
as the other, and the result may be
put down as doubtful, but slightly
more in favor of the ants than the
pros. At anti.prohibition headquar-
ters majority of 5000 is claimed. The
prohibition leaders are quite as en-
phatic in asserting that they have
gained victory in the election, and
moreover they assert that frauds have
been committed.
For the first time in the history of
the New Orleans cotton exchange, the
last few days of trading have shown
big cleanup on the bear side OF the
market. Estimates of the profits vary,
but more than one prominent trader
says at least $2,500,000 was taken in,
very largely from bulls trading in the
New York exchange. The weekly
statement of the New Orleans clearing
house shows an increase in business
of $66S,0O0.
A renewal of the heavy selling
movement in the cotton market seem
ed calculated to remove whatever
doubt may have existed following the
big decline that at last leading bull
interests, including Eugene Scales,
Colonel Thompson, the New Orleans
operators, and others who have fig
ured so prominently in the market
reports of the last two years as hav-
ing taken fortunes out of cotton, had
largely thrown over their holdings.
Various estimates were ventured as
to the probable losses OF the bulls
and their friends, all of which ran
up into the millions. In spite of
feeling that rallies were to be expect
ed after such drastic liquidation as
that OF several days past, local senti-
ment still seemed of a very bearish
average after the close of business
here, and there was talk in some quar-
ters of IL and even 10 cents cotton.
Through an arrangement perfected
between the United States weather
bureau and the Southern Bell Tele,
phone company, more than $4,000
Southern farmers began receiving the
daily weather reports by telephone on
July /,
To fight the threatened outbreak of
the southern pine beetle, bark bor-
ing insect which caused enormous
damage to healthy living timber in
the virginias in the early nineties,
and which has recently been reported
in different sections OF the South, a
forest insect field station has been es-
tablshed in Spartanburg, s. c., by the
bureau of entomology of the United
States department of agriculture. Rec.
ognizing the Importance of concerted
action and that the danger is com
mon to all timber owners, the South.
ern railway is endeavoring to call the
attention of timber owners through.
out the South to the activity of the
bureau in this matter