Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-12-16
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WASHINGTON NEWS.


cambridge Colby, secretary of state,
left Washington Friday for South
America, where as the representative
of President Wilson, he will pay an
unofficial visit to the governments of
Brazil and Uruguay and an unofficial
visit to Argentina.
Southern senators in conference Fri
day to consider the possibility of ex-
tending farm credits through congress
sional action agreed to support num-
bers of measures that will be offered
during the next two weeks. The first
is for revival of the war finance cor
poration to facilitate exporting of
American products, and to support
the bill by Senator Smith of Georgia
amending the federal reserve law to
give rediscount accommodations to
paper of cotton factors.
Awards of $2,357 ,491.S5 based on
claims amounting to $15,S27, 429.6
were made up to November u by the
war minerals relief commission of the
bureau of mines, according to an
nouncement Thursday by Secretary of
Interior Payne. The commission has
but 83 cases left to consider and the
amount asked is $8O2,7O3.83. OF the
appropriation. of $S,5O0,OOO given the
commission out of which all claims
were to be paid, there is left balance
of $5,812,9O7.58.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
The mechanical engineering labora-
tory of the State A. and NJ. College,
at College Station, Texas, and practi-
cally all the machinery in the build
ing is total loss as a result of fire
Sunday.
Three thousand eight hundred and
eight persons met death from automo-
bile accidents in the larger cities of
the country during the last year, ac-
cording to figures from the census
bureau Nineteen of these occurred
in Dallas, Texas, IA in San Antonio,
Tex, and Ia in Houston, Tex, all de-
creases from the year before.
Japhet No. q of the Humble Oil
and Refining Company at West Col
umbia, Texas, came in Saturday with
an initial flow of 10000 barrels. The
coming in of this well establishes a
new gusher comparable with Abrams
No. and Hogg No. 2 in that field,
both coming in with initial flows of
over 10000 barrels
Official figures announced Friday
show the anti-aHen land leasing law
of California was adopted in the No
vember election by majority of 446,.
S97. The vote was: Yes, 8,483; no,
222,0S6. Seven other amendments or
initiative measures were adopted, in
Guiding the alien poll tax, which had
a majority of 520,712.
Hogs on the hoof have returned to
what is virtually 1913 prewar price,
Judging from figures obtained Friday
at Chicago, ILL.,, from one of the big
five packers. Pork and pork products
at wholesale are on their. way toward
the same level, the monthly report Of
the Institute of American Meat Pack
ers indicates, and have reached the
scaeI prevailing in April. 1917, when
the United States entered the war.
Will Johnson, negro, convicted slay-
er of Miss Dot Vauchelet, young
white woman of Beaumont, Texas, died
on the gallows,in that city Monday
Last call for returns on the vote for
presidential elector was sent out from
Austin Texas, Friday by Secretary of
State Minis to eight counties of Texas.
He said that if the remaining eight
counties to whom he has wired for re-
turns do not respond, he will turn their
cases over to the attorney generals
department.