The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-09-09

ooo,O0O acres suitable for the growing
OF cotton. If an average of one-third
| OF bale to the acre was raised the
state would produce annually 100000.
ooo bales. AT present only 10,O8S, ,0OO
acres are in cotton. The increase in
acreage during the past ten years has
been about 100000
Two bills of Statewide Importance
were signed by Governor Colquitt Fri
day One was the text book bill and
the other was the deficiency bill. The
latter provides for the appropriation
OF approximately $165,O0o for de-
1lclencies incurred in running the
State government during the last
fiscal year.
Texas ranks first as a. cattle pro-
dpclng State. Texas has 1,137, 900
milk cows that ARE valued at $32,-
$4,000. The other cattle number
7,131,000 and are valued at s109,104,-
900. There are about 100000 sheep
and 100000 goats in Texas. The ag-
gregate value of both sheep and goats
is about $7,500,000. There are about
3,205,000 head of swine in Texas.
There are 100000 mules, with an
average value Of $99 each and 1861
900 horses.
1t is learned that Frank J. Could
who is large stockholder in the ST.
Louis Southwestern Railway Com
pany, has allied himself with the
minority interests in the company,
with a view to securing the election
Of an important director at the annual
meeting of the stockholders, to be
held in St. Louis on October 3.
The estimated true wealth Of Texas
in 1880 was placed at 1926. 100000 In
1900 it had increased to 1892, 200, 900.
The figures for 1910 place the true
values at $3,68O,0O0.0 The assessed
value of Texas property in 1880 was
$320.364,515. The 1900 assessed value
was $914.0O7,634, and the latest avail
able figures, those for the year 1910,
place the value at $2.394,265,292.
The rice industry has made consid-
erable headway in some of the count
les of the Texas midcoast, especially
in Matagorda, Wharton, Jackson and
Colorado counties. In the develop
ment of this industry vast sums have
been invested in pumping plants, ele-
vators, etc. Many of the small grow
ers get their water for irrigation from
wells sunk on their own premises, but
those who plant this cereal on an ex.
tensive scale rely upon the streams,
paying the irrigation companies for
water.
Six pall-bearers, carrying the casket
the body of Stephen Mastio-
wicZ, aged twelve years, the ticket
seller of the ill-fated Morgan Opera
House, at Canonsburg, Pa, and many
Of the mourners accompanying the fu-
neral procession to the cemetery, were
felled to the ground when a bolt of
struck large tree under
which they were passing. Several
were rendered unconscious. They be
came panic-stricken, and the pail.
bearers permitted the white casket to
fall into the mud.
uc Ii 1911 pOldlO CiOp tulo yCdl III
Wharton county brought good money
to the farmers There were 1,176 cars
shipped out. The crop averaged Sic
per bushel, and was harvested in time
to permit the use of the same fields
for growing other crops
Mona Lisa" the $5,00O,OO0 master. !
piece by Leonardo Davinci, which mys-
teriously disappeared from the Louvre
in Paris and later was reported to
have been secretly taken aboard the
Kaiser Wilhelm ii when she touched |,
at Cherbourg, was not to be found on
board the ship when she docked in
New York Wednesday.
The storm which swept the South
Atlantic seaboard Sunday night left its
imprint on the navy. Six torpedo
boats, obsolete in design, however.
were wrenched from their moorings
At the Charleston navy yard and toss
ed high upon the beach by the nine
ty-mile gale.