The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-11-12
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Eastern heutuChy.
Turkey has now left in Europe only 1910
square miles of territory.
The present money circulation of the
United States is 1894, 100000.
There are seventeen thousand railroad
postal clerks in the United States.
A total of 2, 1875 names are on the Con-
federate pension roll of Kentucky.
The army any navy of the United States
in time of peace costs $3.50, 0O0,O 900 year.
China produces 100000 tons of coal
year, and is annually increasing her out
put.
There are fifty-three fewer saloons in
Brooklyn, N. Y, than there we're year
ago.
The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which be-
gan in May, 1918, has reached an acute
stage.
Forty dollars month for eight months
in the year is now the minimum salary for
teacher in Ohio.
Wheat reached new price in Portland,
Oregon, last Friday when January delivery
sold for Sl.23.
Patrick Gibbon. 1O3 years old. a veteran
of Seminole, Mexican and Civil Wars, died
on the 4th at Bowling, KY.
Owing to the radid rise in the price of
flour in Austria, "war loves" of wheat, rye,
barley and potatoes are now being baked.
Three persons were killed and one was
seriously injured Sunday as the result Of
the overturning of an automobile at Mil
waukee, Wis.
The Valley Bank of Phoenix, the largest
bank in Arizona, failed to open for bust
ness Tuesday. The deposits are said to
total over 100000.
Existence of an organization of cotton
seed Oil manufacturers which has fixed ar
bitrarily the price of cotton seed was ad-
mitted Monday by K. C. Hall, testifying in
the State of Mississippi's antitrust suit
against more than one hundred cotton oil
mills.
The important farm crops of the United
States this year worth S., 068, 742, or S104,-
100000 more than the same crops last
year, notwithstanding loss of S418, 900, :
alone as result of the European War, ac-
!, Agriculture.
The total wheat cropin the U nited States
, for the year 1914 was in round numbers,
1872, C00, 900 bushels. and the average price
at which it was sold was 931a cents pei
hushel. The average price here given is
the United States Government estimate oil
October 1, 1914. 1t may be added that the
average price per bushel of the crop Of
1918 was IS cents per bushel.
Kansas farmers are rushing into wheat
every acre that possibly can be sown, il
: expectation of big prices next year. Fur.
thermore, many of the largest growers are
selling very little or none of this years
] crop, in expectation of still higher prices
: At the same time, financial conditions il
, the West are good, and the farmers are
having little difficulty in getting loans.
Washington, Nov. lone of the mos
severe droughts on record is rendering the
r forest situation in Northern Atlantic coas
l States extremely serious, according to re.
!. ports to the forest service. Every day
q brings news of fresh fires. Massachusetts
: has suffered severely. The Governor re.
Gently closed the hunting season to keeE
s hunters out of the woods, since careless
e campers are prolific source of fire. Ii
t New Jersey hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of property has been destroyed
Washington, Nov. WARS effect OF
the price Of cotton and cotton seed has
Il caused loss of about S455 10000 t.
e American cotton farmers this year, it wal
d announced to-day by the Bureau of Crol
K Estimates of the Department of Agricul
o ture.
The experts base their estimate on tn,
y shrinkage of prices this year, compared
e with those of last year. This years price
e are the lowest that have prevailed sine
1898.
Cotton prices on Nov. averaged g.:
cents per pound, while year ago the pric,
was thirteen cents. This reduction repre-
sents total shrinkage of income of cotton
: farmers for lint cotton of about 1925, 900,
600.
Cstton seed was sold by the producers OF
Oct. at about S15.25 ton, while yea
. ago the price was about S22 ton. Thi
reduction represents shrinkage of abou
$50 ,OOO, 900.
: The average price of cotton per poun,
;, to producers on Nov. l., by States, was
North Carolina, 6.5; South Carolina, 6.6
Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas
So; Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas
q 81; Oklahoma, go.
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.
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