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ITEMS OF INTEREST NEW THAT IS NEWS, WHEN IT IS NEWS, FOR ALL DOINGS OF DAY AND WEEK Happenings the Wide World Over of Important Events Condensed to Good Reading. WASHINGTON. The question involved in statehood legislation that is giving the most trouble to the senate committee on territories is whether suffrage shall be limited to such residents of Arizona and New Mexico as can speak Eng lish. If this limitation were made it is practically certain, according to a majority of witnesses who have ap peared before the committee that the proposed new states would be demo cratic. Amesdments adding "cable or wire less telegraph systems or otherwise" to the telegraph and telephone as agen cies to which the proposed anti-option legislation is to apply were submitted to a subcommittee of the house com mittee on agriculture Friday by Rep resentative Hardwick of Georgia. The Iallinger-Pinc.hot investigation dragged slowly along through two ses sions Friday. Mr. Vertrees, counsel for Secretary Ballinger, continued his cross-examination of Gifford Pinchot. He elicited some interesting facts from the former forester, but for the most part the day was taken up large ly with wrangles between the attor ney and witness. For two days the democrats and progressives have been in absolute control of the senate on the postal sav ings bank measure, and when the sen ate recessed Friday the reactionary republicans found that they will have to either accept the kind of a postal savings bank bill which the progres sives and democrats are preparing for them, or win over enough democrats to recommit the bill. President Taft today presented to the senate the nomination of William H. Atwell to be district attorney for the Northern District of Texas. "The future holds great promise for the American cotton producer and the American cotton manufacturing trade," declared President W. B. Thompson of the New Otans Cotton Exohange at the hearing before the house cbmmit tee on agriculture Friday on the pro posed anti-option legislation. "We cannot afford to take the chance of nullifying this promise by a heed less conflict with immutable economic laws which no congress can alter or repeal." Bills authorizing the Issuance of $30,000,000 worth of certificates of in debtedness for the completion of irri gation projects already begun, and providing for the purchase of $10,000, 000 worth cf real estate in Washing ton for the further uses of the govern ment were passed by the senate Wed nesday. S DOMESTIC. Fort Worth is now bu ning natural gas. One of the unique mses to which it is to be put is the illumination of the city during the Feeders and Breed ers' Fine Stock Show, March 14th to 19th. A standpipe is to be erected seventy-two feet high, into which the gas will be turned and lighted. This gas will make a blaze twenty feet wide. It will be visible for twenty miles, and will light up the whole country around the show grounds. "This is the man that bound me and my wife and burned our feet until we told where we had hidden our money," said John Wagner, 80 years old, as he picked Frank Donahoe o'.t of a line of eight men at Etna police station, Pittsburg, Pa., Friday. Eighty-six names are now on the list of dead and missing passengers, train men and postal clerks who were car ried down by the avalanche that de utroyed two Great Northern trains near Wellington, Wash. An estimate of 100 dead is conservative. Most of the dead were residents of the North west, but Bert Matthews of Cincin nati, E. W. Topping of Ashland, Ohio, and E. Boles of Moberly, Ont., wqre among the victims. Mr. James Smith, a woodsman, was eaten by wolves Friday in timber land near Ally, Mo., after fighting a desperate battle for his life. Wolves attacked him while he was alone awaiting the return of his brother. When the latter returned he found his brother's bones in the center of a circle of five dead wolves. The valleys of Idaho, from the head waters of the Snake River to the Ore gon line, and from the Owyhee to the stricken Coeur d'Alene district, are being swept this week by the most disastrous floods in the history of the state. Several irrigation dams are imperiled. The test of the Wright aeroplane at Fort Sam -Iouston at San Antonio Wednesday resulted disastrously, the machine being wrecked and the life of Lieutenant B. O. Foulois. the avia tor, being endangered. Three suc cessful flights had been made and the fourth was in progress. The feed pipe to the engine broke, stopping it at 'i once, and the aeroplane dropped a dis tance of about forty feet, striking the ground with great force. The rudder was broken and the aviator nearly Sknocked from his seat. That the state of Oklahoma, through its corporation commission, proposes to exhaust every power to retain in force railroad rates that were recent ly enjoined by United States Circuit Judge Hook at St. Louis became evi dent Thursday when the commission issued subpenas for sixteen railway officials, demanding their presence in Guthrie on March 15 as witnesses in the freight rate investigation now in progress. No wholesale executions of rebel leaders are to be expected in Nicara gua following the collapse of the in surgent cause, according to a state ment given out by Luis Fillipe Co rea, special diplomatic representative of the Madriz government in New York City. After weeks of delay, occasioned by squabbles between attorneys and her presence before the grand jury at Kansas City, Mrs. Logan O. Swope, the guiding hand in the investigation of the Swope mystery, Wednesday gave her deposition in Dr. B. C. Hyde's slander suit against John G. Paxton, an executor for the Thomas H. Swope estate. There was little sensational testimony in Mrs. Swope's story. The Court of Criminal Appeals at Austin Wednesday sustained the va lidity of the law enacted by the Thir ty-first legislature defining as a fel ony the offense of pursuing the occu pation of selling intoxicating liquor in local option territory, although, for errors in the trial, the case of W. I. Fitch, from McLennan county, involving the constitutionality of the statute, was reversed and remanded. Twenty-four are known to be dead as the result of the snow slides Monday in the mining district of Northern Idaho. To the eighteen known to have perished in the snowslides at Mace and Burke, Idaho, are added three more, who died in a similar disaster about noon Monday, when the camp of the Carbonate Hill Mining Company at Mullan, Idaho, was destroyed. The body of an aged negro was found in a sealed freight car in the yards in Fort Worth, Monday in a bad ly decomposed condition. The car was sealed on February 10 at Mart. The man showed signs of awful suffering, evidently having nothing to eat or drink for eighteen days. Holes in the floor near the door and the lacerated condition of his hands showed that an awful effort had been made to escape. The highest price paid for live hogs since 1870 brought an even $10 a hundredweight at the stock yards in Chicago Monday. Sixty-six head of hogs averaging 204 pounds each were sold at this price by B. L. Strohm, a farmer of Cushing, Iowa. An attempt will be made in the legis lature to break up the free pass system in New Jersey. The present law, which went into effect last April, compels the railroads to give free transporta tion to the governor and other state officials, and to the members of the legislature and United States senators and representatives. FOREIGN. Russia Friday formally announced her objection to China's proposal for the construction of the Chinchow-fu Aignu Railroad. Russia bases her ob jection on an alleged secret promise made by China in 1898 that if China costemplated building any railway north of Pekin she would invite Rus sia's co-olleration. The seven hundred American trav elers who have been enjoying the hoe pitality of Tokio for the last few days have proceeded to Yokohama on board the steamer Cleveland. Senor Don Juan Riano, who, it is stated, will succeed Marquis de Villa lobar as minister of Spain to the Unit ed States, formerly was secretary to the Spanish legation and in 1904 mar ried Miss Alice Ward of Washington. Senor Riano is now Spanish minister at Copenhagen. Twenty-three miners were killed at Juneau, Alaska, Thursday, by an ex plosion of a powder magazine in the 100-foot level of the main mine, one of the group on the Treadwell gold properties on Douglass Island. Eight men were seriously injured, of whom, it is said, foui will die. The insurrectionary movement, headed by General Estrada against the Nicaraguan government, has been practically crushed. The insurgent campaign in the West has petered out and nothing is left to the provislonals but to resort to guerilla warfare, en couraged by the desperate hope that the United States may yet intervene in a wish to put an end to the dis turbed situation in the republic. Although the government won a vic tory at Tipitapa, according to the re ports received at Managua, there is no prospett of peace until General Cha morro is dead or captured. A period of inactivity is now looked for until the revolutionists replenlsh their sup ply of ammunition. Chamorro effect ed a junction with General Mena at San Vicente Wednesday. Following the refusal of owners to grant their series of demands, the crews of the interisland steamers struck Wednesday at Manlla. The sultan of Morocco has signed the accord with Franoe, obligating Mo. rocco to pay $12,000,000 as indemnity and damages arising over the Casa Blanca affair. Jose Domingo de Obaldia, president of Panama, died from heart disease Tuesday. He had been sick only since last Friday. Obaldia was elected to the presidency in August, 1908. Louisiana State Fair Talk. institutiln p:linlv unde'r the aa:spires' , of an org:anizatiotl of f:lrmer,. Wi have frnaq ently rt'ma|'k) 'd, :11,d wi , if!'f still we,' dih', to our oipiniin. that it is i1mll,ssible to Iu,',iessfillii ru, n niu is rid ( litur'; l , xhis iti ,,lii. w h i'h i i t,hlO ,I, Openf t upf o the agriculturist, with the farlmer left out. But th,. appeal, , which ClIr. liax imakes to our ' pitlU it,-sliritld citizens andr tht n rll irtt ir. inhl ,titll fins to eacih oi er annuail plizes,, etc., is i good one. i 1 n, I quite int ke .tping i ith what is of t !l woirl i. ' It go' s witihout s:i yini that ai t all tountli it like our t if l ll, and every'[ oither, for thiat matter, whn l te fiarmer priosI ers ;t ll' other ius in sses ialit otelr. prises participate in that lp"St.,rity. ('onset ule ntly, the prosperity is rei proill cti, iof tle Itfro ' pinel GlZetar sto nid if tl t, it shlttin l fh l e fh i i our bll l lu i et'ss Jit:ris tof Ent Bt ton tie utmost for their ownvi rii-t hig nut e nerl, s. li'e rtom personal xof Aericans, overi conif siceorle, numbl r of ta allRt, we hilav fouli n that i iss :n b ttio ll y itslf si.ie to ket'i ip to late in one' s hishre of vetioit tri without ato Ill t t.he most al5l tlhentie i litel. But tlit upa on one's l life wgork, li whith is ato plicihalnc e to all other v catins and enterp rises. The writer, thertifore, in to rer to stimult oll anr enclura e the rea dingi habit arnlin omie of the faimers of the parish, will rs in ate right away, a year's sucl t ilp tion of the Breeder's Gazette to each of tenli white bona fide farmeris of the palrish of East aton Roulg. Thills journal, although not a general agricul turake paper, is onsierepon the leadinli live stock journal of Atme rica, if not of the worie and alne gl that particular line is aln edueintion tic itself. "ltr Wax has chopsen trn as his fa vorite trolducir t to fnurture. e h'as sti sletel wisely. But the fpr arer neireds some gol live stock to enhance the value of Mr. Wax's corn, bi convert in, it into a higher-priced fini.htd pr,,t, net in the shape of beef, prk. mut ton, pouliry, etc. Hience the object of ouisr dnlllation is to ive to tell of ourlt farmers the very host and most relia ble current literature obtainable on this ilmp'rtallt subject. which is engaging the attention of so mangy' of them at the present time. If those of ourl farn m ers in the pnrish who alre to avail themselves in this way of the Breed or's G{aztto. which is publishot1 we,.k ly in 'hig.eago, will signify their desire by addressing the undersigned, Postof fice Box 4S3. Baton Rouge, we will make our decision upon the ten indi viduals from whom we first hear, ,nlless somin other method of determining who shall receive the subtsriptions should be decided upon in the intl'im. "It is to be hoped that all of our business people in ]aton RBige will take their clew from Mr. Wax's timely suggestion. If the proper earnestness is manifested in the endeavor, the ulti mate results cannot be other than mil tually beneficial to both our city and larish." tl,. h lw ,iing of an x ,i it n t ft:"l :a., nit with much i ,,app v:tal, n:l, I)!. W . iI. I)a!rymi ple ,f the L.,,uisin.a ,ale:it University, wh;o has h,,n pr,,mil. '!J ci,,nneted, with tihe State lair, ha: writ ten the followinag letter, inilrsing the project: "First of 911, an exhibition ,f this kinld stimuin lat, he: ithi rivalsry . twe.n exhiliitors of similar lr,,luli t, w hth,.r fidIl ir s or live stock. which ls i v11l eii:ins that (,a h exhilil&,r is going to , his level bet to, win from the t'm petittor w:o iiat him in a previous ,. eas on. 'lTh result here. neesarily, is imI nrovenwnt all al,,ng the line, surh as mo,1 r a:rca eful selitetin anid bIreell.g, gtsiter sirle i' ,iitiva:ii, n itf , ,rp, e iltte: Pre,):Iration , .t'., in ,)rlers to s, nure the ltet pIsille iprdul ' fr ex hib it. "'s eni !. a t inisituii: ; of this kini l t-n(ls to tlring tog :e,:,r ito 'm petition the li -t xp i:',hI.,ts whi,.h the ,ari-:h can pr iluce. ,ire the farmrr is iing j:ust what thie nrehrant is al the time ,l,,inig. viz, exposing, his wares, s that lirslective ihulys may see and kn,-w': t class iof material he hai and is capablle of raising. Neessarily, this makes markets, which coull not ipossi bly be created were the same iproduts kept at home ,ut of sight, and entirely unknown to the buyer. "In the third place, the agricultural exhilbititon attracts buyers to a oemmu nity, and when once the lityer fin s out where he can procure the class of proluet he is after, the fanrmer's mar ket is practically assuredl, privilel he keeps up, or, better still, improves the quality, which lie is very likely to do in order to sureassfullyv coimpete at the annual exhibition. ons'lequently, utin der such eircumstances, instead of the farmer having to hunt a market for his iproduct, the bluyer will hunt him to try to purchase it. The nlarket is usually out for the lbest material, which is ai ways salile. It i th is th inferior stutf of all kinds that goes a begging. "In the fourth place, it adlvertises etc. In the opinion of the writer. it. has been our hitherto lack of the nec essary piatience to graduallavy lull, up that has resulted in failure to aiom plish some of the ,hjects we started to attain. The tendlney has bean to 'put the roof on before the fount ila tion was built,' which is exceedingly poor policy when it comes to institu tions such as that under consilderation. t would not be very difflieult, we thir.k to point to several 'lmonuments' to the want of good, sountd husiness imudg tent and to shortsightedness in this direction. Let uts make haste slowly; get the foundation secure, anI let the structure groiw gradually and of its own momentum, so to speak. Then it will be lasting. "Another excellent point in Mr. Wax's suggestion, andil with which we heartily anree, is thle ,lacing of such an Says He Is- Not Crazy. Baton Rouge.-I)eclaring that he is not insane, has never been insane, and that his former incarceration in the in sane hospital at Pineville was the result of some rows he had in Monroe, Fred Smith arrived in the city today for the purpose of seeing the governor and ar ranging for his legal release, if possi ble. Smith says that he escaped from the asylum at Pineville two years ago. and since then has been a citizen of South Carolina. but has traveled over the country. lie notified the Pineville authorities that he would return to Louisiana. Increase Sugar Mill Capacity. Broussard.-The Billeaud sugar fac tory has started the installation of a supplementary set of knives and rollers in their factor? here. The addition ot these rollers will make it an easy mat ter for them to crush a minimum of 1,500 tons every day, while in previous years they had a maximum capacity of a thousand tons. Negro Teachers to Meet. Baton Rouge.-State Superintendent Harris, in issuing the call for the fifth annual meeting of the negro school teachers of Louisiana, to be held April 14, 15 and 19 at Alexandria, de elares that he will be present one day and make an address. President Joseph S. Clark and Secretary J. W. Hunter of the negro teachers, have announced the committee on arrangements and other details. Strawberry Season Backward. Hammrond.-The season is unusually backward this year, and the farmers do not expect to ship any strawberries foi a couple of weeks. The cold weather has kept the plants back, and as yet many are not even in bloom, whereas last year shipments were being made at this time. Mayor of Hanmmond Fined. Amite City.-Dr. S. L. Powlett, mayor of Hammond, who was recently con victed of unlawful prescribing of spir. its fermenti in violation of the law, came up for sentence and was fined $100. A biologist from Washington is col lecting teal and mallard duck gizzards in Louisiana in an effort to determine whether national protection should be ifforded the game because ducks mini size the red rice pest. The Boll Weevil Frozen. Lafayette. - Several severe freezes freezes (luring the winter have, in the opinion of many, destroyed all boll wee vil in hibernation. The favorite hiber. nating quarters are in bunches of moss, and under the bark of old, rotten trees, and examination proves that even here the weevil has been destroyed. As a consequence the cotton acreage will be largely increased. It is probable that the Truck Grow ers' Association will arrange this spring to have a local agent handle sweet and Irish potatoes. Louisiana State Paragraphs. Another incendiary fire in Madison parish destroyed a barn, with forty-five head of live stock, at Waverly. Lafayette parish is sure that frequent freezes have killed out the boll weevil. Shreveport is to build a $50,000 Ma sonic temple. Lon F. Irvine, held responsible foi a wreck at Shreveport that cost thret lives, was sentenced to five years fou manslaughter. John Gorman, a naval stores manu facturer of Fayetteville, N. C., was found dead at Lake Charles. The steamer Columbia was wrecked and burned nine miles above Bayou Sara. The crew escaped, with the ex ception of John Henry, the negro fire man, who, in returning to get his be longings, was cremated. The St. Tammany Steamship Com pany, capitalized at $250,000, was or ganized at Covington to establish a line of passenger and freight vessels be tween New Orleans and Lake Polit chartrain points. The first vessel of the fleet was purchased in Mobile and named St. Tammany. Billeand refinery, at Broussard, will install a new mill, costing $36,000, to care for increased cane tonnage. Louisiana begins March 'with $2,. 095.730.09 on deposit with its fiscal agent banks. A Belgian colony may be located on 50.000 acres of marsh lands south of Gueydan, growing truck, oranges and figs. The .wireless telegraph companies in Louisiana will be assessed for the first time this year by the state boyrd of ap. praisers. James Cook Davies, suspected safe blower, dug his way out of 'ail at Ope lousas and escaped. 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Barnum, the famous circus man, once wrote: "I have had the Cuticura Remedies among the con tents of my medicine chest with my shows for the last three seasons, and I can cheerfully certify that they were very effective in every case which called for their use." Analyzed by Chemists. Apropos of President Taft and his recent decision about whisky, Richard Le Gallienne said at a dinner at the St. Regis: "While I was living in Liverpool there arose a hot whisky discussion. Was pot still whisky the only whole some one, or was patent still whisky the one non-poisonous drink? Chemi cal analyses were applied to every whisky going. "A Liverpudlian entered a public house near the Albert docks one night and said: "'Is yer whisky pure?' "'Well,. I should think so,' the pub. lican answered. 'It's been paralyzed by three anarchists.' " Not Willing to Commit Himself. The teacher had called upon Fred die Brown to give an illustration of the proper manner in which to com pare the adjective "clean." "Mother is clean," said he faltering ly, "father is-cleaner-" Here he paused. "And," prompted the teacher. Freddie was still silent and very ithoughtful. "Haven't you some other relative?" asked the teacher, smiling. "Oh, yes," replied Freddie, "there's auntie-but I ain't sure about her!" A Jolt to Romance. "How about the young doctor? Has he proposed?" "Not yet. Papa ruined everything last night." "How was that?" "Just as the doctor was pleading for a peep at my eyes, papa came ii and asked him to take a look at my throat." Breakers Ahead. "What makes you so sure that suf fragette club is in for serious trou ble?" "My wife has just joined it," replied Mr. 'teekton. For Colds and Gripp-Capudlne. The best remedy for Gripp and Colds Is -Hicks' C-ludlne. Relieves the aching and 'feverlhness. Cures the cold-Headaches also. It's Liquid-Effects immediately--10, 25 and 50c at Drug Stores. At the age of 18 a girl is afraid of two things-being an old maid and not going to heaven. 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