The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-09-25
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.

STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Il expect to have all troops out o.
Galveston, Texas, not earlier than Oct
and not later than Oct. TO-" sale
Governor Hobby Saturday in a forma
statement.
The fifth annual meeting Of the
Texas Warehouse and Transfer Mems
Association ended at Waco, Texas
Saturday, with the reelection of the
following officers: President, S. ]
Westheimer, Houston; vice presidents
W. J. Binyon, Galveston; F. E. Scobey
San Antonio; secretary-treasurer, w
|. Ford, Dallas. San Antonio was
chosen for the next meeting of the as
ISOLATION, which will be held in Jan
uary.
According to the State highway de
partment the number of motor vehi
Giles that have been registered in
Texas to September Is totals 397 ,063
1t is expected that the 100000 mark
will be reached by October /.
One hundred and sixty accident and
injury claims were filed at Los An.
geles, California, Tuesday with the
wOrkmen's state industrial commits
sion by motion picture actors and ac-
tresses who took part in a battle
scene that was photographed last
week. Of the claimants by far the
larger number were women, and more
than 20 of them filed compensation
claims.
A great balloon of black smoke, the
roar of an explosion, a flash of flame
that SCARED everything within thirty
yards, left Broad and Wall Streets,
New York City, heart of the worlds
financial district, shambles at noon
Thursday For full minute, it seem.
ed, after the terrible blast, there was
absolute silence in the two busy
streets. Not living soul was to be
seem, Dead and wounded lay in their
blood on the steps of the United States
sub-treasury, on the richest corner in
the world.
Louisiana is producing almost half
OF the country's 52,152, 000-bushel crop
of rice this year, according to the de-
partment of agriculture's forecast,
Louisiana's total is 25,200,0O0 bushels,
Texas has 9,O94,OOO bushels, Arkansas,
100000; South Carolina, 1000;
Mississippi, $4,000; Florida, $4,000:
Georgia, $4,000; Alabama, 10000;
North Carolina, 10000.
The story of French woman, said
to be of noble birth, wrongly commit.
ted to the Kansas State Asylum for
the Insane in order that others might
obtain control of New Mexico mining
property, reached Governor Allen Fri.
day. The story was told in a letter
from Arthur E. Stevens, an attorney
in the treasury department at Wash.
ington, D. c., and has TO do with Mrs.
Rubye de May, French woman who
has been patient in the state hos.
pital the last thirty years. Governor
Allen ordered an investigation of her
case.
The Humble Oil and Refining com.
pany's No, 2 Gallagher we'll at Damon
Mound, Texas, was completed Thurs.
day, flowing 1000 barrels of pipe line
oil by heads.
Joe Snow, sheriff of Brazoria Coun.
ty, was shot and instantly killed Wed.
nesday, near Angleton, Brazoria Coun.
/ty, Texas. Residents of the country
south of Angleton were quickly in
formed of the killing and posse cap.
tured a negro named Oscar Beasley
He was later lynched by mob. .
Jack Johnson, former worlds heavy.
weight champion, was sentenced to
one year and day in Leavenworth
penitentiary and fined $1,000 Wednes-
day, at Chicago, ILL.,, by Federal
Judge George A. Carpenter for vic.
lation of the Mann act.
Governor Hobby, following a confer.
snce Monday with DR.. w. D. Hunter
"a member of the federal horticultural
board, and Commissioner sof Agricul.
ture Fred W, Davis, issued a procIa.
nation declaring a special quaran.
tine district in portion of Brazoria
County, Texas, to prevent the spread
of the pink boil worm.
Chester Terrell, aged IS, former
speaker of the house of representa-.
tives in the Texas legislature, and the
youngest man to hold that office. died
L T. I.