The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-09-13

Food and Drug Commissioner r. II.
Hoffman, Jr., announced Friday that
inspectors of his department had
seized $3.50 pounds OF bacon at Whar-
ton, Texas, alleging that it is unfit
for human consumption.
A deterioration of 6 points in the
Texas cotton crop since July 20 is
shown in the report of +. \. Gray
of Houston, state cotton specialist, is
sued Friday. Making the allowance
of l per cent abandonment of acreage,
basis 10,7550O0, equivalent to 500
pounds gross weight, including linters,
an average yield of 1864 pounds Of
lint cotton is indicated. A condition
OF 81 per cent Of normal cotton crop
is the deduction OF the report.
at its meeting Friday, at Houston,
nominated the following officers: Dr..
S. j. Smith, president; l.. S. AttWell,
Jr., A. L. Curtis Of Bolton, F. l.. Den
ison of Temple, E E. Taylor of Aus
tin, Robert w Shaw Of Galveston,
K. T. Cole of Ferris, Tom Field OF
Calvert, James N. Abeel OF Waco, Z.
Murphy of Lufkin and Ben We'll OF
Alexandria, La, vice presidents; Ben
Burger, secretary and treasurer.
There has Just been filed for record
with the county clerk at Lufkin, Texas,
land patent issue to S. Spivy by the
state of Texas on May 8, 1860. The
document is signed by Sam Houston.
governor of Texas, the instrument
conveying 100 acres Of land on the
waters of the Neches, twenty-one and
a half miles from the town of Marion,
which was at that time, nearly sixty
years ago, the county seat OF the
county, which today is known only as
Marions Ferry.
The house OF delegates Wednesday
at Richmond Va, adopted by vote
of 81 to q the Leedy joint resolution
rejecting the national woman suffrage
amendment, which president Wilson
had urged the Virginia legislature to
act upon Immediately.
More than two million feet of lum-
Der. which, together with other prop
erty of the Burton Lumber Company,
aggregated approximately 100000,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday at
Houston, Texas, after $50 o'clock this
morning.
The state land sale now In progress
at Austin, Tex, promises to be the
largest of recent years. Approximate
ly 2O0e sealed bids have been recetv-
ed and these are being opened. No
attempt will be made to list them I'M
til they have all been opened and
read. However, many of the bids COW
er the same tract of land.
In the states answer to the Bassett
Blakely suit over the possession of
Blue Ridge farm, the sum of $1,000,000
damages and 100000 rental are asked
in a cross bill embraced therein. 1t
is directed against Blakely and large
number of persons who hold oil leases
on the land. 1t is alleged that the
state Of Texas has been dispossessed
of it's lawful rights by these persons
and the money is demanded in salts
faction.
The value of the mineral products
of the United States in the last two
years reached a record-breaking total
in excess of 100000 10000.
After Lucius McCarty, discharged
negro soldier, had been trailed by
bloodhounds, caught and identified by
a white woman as the one who attack
ed her Saturday night, at Bogalusa.
La, a mob of more than a thousand
men lynched the negro in daylight,
Sunday, tied his body to an automo-
bile, dragged it through the principal
streets, and burned it in front Of the
home OF the woman.
FOREIGN NEWS
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