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Probably About Five Per Cent
Decrease.
Excessive Rainfall Has Retarded Growth
of Plant---Supply of Labor
Fairly Adequate. |
New Orleans, La.—The Times-Demn
ocrat, in publishing its first report of
the cotton crop of 1909, summarized
conditions as fololws:
“Phere has been a moderate de
crease lnvacroage—probably about J
per cent, .
“Taking' the belt as a whole, the
condition of the plant leaves much
to be desired.
“The supply of labor is fairly ade:
guate, as a’ rule, though there is a
good deal of complaint in some sec
tions.” ! &
Among the reports from the cotton
belt of unuusal features is the fol
lowing from Austin, Texas:
“That central Texas is without a
cotton crop, with half of the month
of June gone by, may be a state of |
affairs difficult to imagine, yet such
is the case, and to farmers of this
section it is a sad reality.
“This is generally admitted through
out the rural precincts, and it is be
lieved that the same conditions exist
throughout the state and most of the
southwest. The state department of
agriculure in this city confirms this
statement. In fact, there is sO little
cotton in the ground that a com
parison between the agreage of this
year and that of last is next to in:-
possible. About the only cotton well
grown at the present time has been
raised almost-exclusively by the ‘hot
house’ methed.”
Memphis, Tenn.—The Commercial
Appeal, reviewing crop conditions,
says: Excessive rainfall has caused
much grass in cotton fields east of
the Mississippi river.
The weather of the last week was
fair and hot, however, and much prog
ress was made in cultivation.
Another week of bright, warm
weather is needed to put the crop in
good shape, \Worst reports are re
ceived from Mississippi, where until
last week, the rains were very heavy,
washing the uplands and flooding th=
lowlands. The acreage in the state
has decreased as a result.
West of the Mississippi the crop is
in fair condition, reports from Okla
homa and Texas being excellent. The
rainfal] west of Arkansas and Louisi
ana, except along the coast of Texas,
has not been excessive. Parts of Tex
as is deficient in moisture, but the
plants looks well and is growing.
The plant generally is smaller than
last year, but where not overrun with
grass or submerged, is healthy.
Showers in Texas and Oklahoma
would be beneficial, while fair weath
er is needed elsewhere.
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HAWAII FEAKS JAPANESE.
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lsland is Stirred"by an Alleged Yellow
. JPeril Scare.
Honolulu, Hawaii. — Evidence of
what the authorities claim is a con
certed movement_on the part of the
Japanese of the= Hawaiian group 10
control the sugar industry and thus
dominate the internal affairs of the
jslands through their number anud
power, was disclosed when the offices
of The Jigi, a Japanese newspaper ol
Honolulu, and the offices of the Jap
anesg Higher Wages Association were
entered by officers armed with search
warrants, and letters, reports and oth
er documents seized.
Following the confiscation of the
papers, an application for a wiit of
habeas corpus, entered in behalf of
Makino, Negoro and Soga, three al
leged leaders of the sugar plantation
strikes, who were taken into custody,
was rejected by the court.
It is claimed hy the authoritiés that
the papers found indicate that a wide
gpread conspiracy will be formed
among the Japanese of the island to
wrest control of affairs from the white
residents and conduct the internal
government in their own interests.
CHARGED SONS KILLED MUTHER. l
Woman's Body Was Found in Well at
Columbia, South Carolina. ‘
Columbia, S. C.—With a gash in the
top of her head, and with her throat
cut from ear to ear, the body of Vie
toria Griffin, a married woman of this
city, was found in the well on her
premises., In the Kitchen of the wo
man’s home were found a bloody ux
and razor, with which the murder
evidently was committed. Three sons
of the murdered woman—Walter, Jim
and. Russell Griffin; Luke Lewis, a
friehd of the dead woman’s daughter,
and S. Wash Medlin, a former board
er at the woman’'s house, are under
arrest 'in connection with the mur-
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POOR FEED KILLS HORSES, |
Barley with the Oats I 8 Responsible
for Mortality in New York.
New York City.—The mixture of
barley with oats, shipped here from
the west, is blamed by veterinarians
for the large number of valuable worik
horses which have died recently in
this city. Following the death of
many horses in the stables of ‘express
and transfer companies and depart
ment stores, an investigation was
nfade, and it is said that intestinal
trouble, which caused the large ma
jobity, of deaths, was due to the pres
ence of barley in the oats. The stable
superintendents say that western ship
:fi ; adultel F_ &?I"tm.. oats with .;i!g,flm
pagavse it js cheaper, bet BB
WATERWAY NOT DESIRABLE.
Unfavorable Report in Regard to Deep*
ening the Mississippi River.
Washingten, D, C.—A blow was giv
en the proposed fourteen-foot deep wa
terway project from St, Louls to the
Zult when the board of engineers re
ported to congress that such a wa
terway is not desirable, The water
way would cost $128,000,000 for con
gtruction and $6,000,000 annually for
maintenance, the engineers say.
The report was based on a survey
of the Mississippi river by a special
board of engineers, The conclusion
reached by both the special board
and the regular board of engineers are
practically the same,
The report of the regular board
that it is not desirable to construct
a navagable channel fourteen feet
deep from St. Louis or from Chicago
to the mouth of the Mississippi was
based on the conclusion of the spec
fal board that only commerce origi
pating from sources that do not at
present ship by river would justify
the great cost of a fourteen-foot wa
terway.
STATUE OF GEN. LEE UNVEILED.
Splendid Monument Erected to Mem
ory es Confederate Leader.
Vicksburg, Miss.—The scene of the
Confederate Veterans reunion was
transferred from Memphis to Vicks
burg, and several thousand of the old
soldiers, who followed Lee in the six
ties, wnneb;sed the unveiling of the
heroic statue to General Stephen D.
l.ee. The splendid monument, design
ed by Kitson, stands in the National
Park, upon the exact spot from which
Geieral Lee directed the movement
of his troops during the siege of
Vicksburg. Two litule boys who un
veiled the statue were John G. Lee
and Lee Harrison, grandsons of Gen
eral Lee, while the general’s son, Ble
wett Lee of Chicago, stood at their
gide and directed them,
General Clement A. Kvans, comman
der-in-chief of the Confederate Veter
ans, formally presented the statue to
the federal government on behalf of
Mississippi and the Confederate Vet
erans,
When General Evans finished and
Colonel Watterson arose to present
General Grant, who had been dele
gated by the secretary of war to re
ceive the statue, a storm of applause
broke out and continued for nearly
twenty minutes,
After the second demonstration,
which marked General Grant’s conclu
ding words, had subsided, the Vicks
burg school children sang “America,”
Then George R. Peck of Chicago spoxe
feelingly of the splendid affection that
bound together both north and sauth,
The ceremonies closed with an invoca
tion by Rev. Dr. Sproles of Clintdn,
Miss.
FOUGHT FUR LIFE ON GALLOWS
Texas Sheriff is Stabbed by Doomed
Man,
Floresville, Texas. — Using as a
weapon a metal spoon, sharpened to
a lieen edge, Refugio Juarequea, sen
tented to hang, fought desperately on
the platform of the seaffold to pre
vent the execution and succeeded in
stabbing Sheriff William Wright over
the heart when he attempted to ad
just the black cap. The blade, how
ever, was deflected when it struck a
bone, and the wound is not consider
ed necessarily serious. When the man
was subdued, the execution was pro
ceeded with, a brother of the wound
ed officer acting in his stead.
The first time the trap was sprung,
Juarequea fell across the trap, and it
was necessary to repeat the prelimi
naries. The second springing of the
trap was successful, Juarequea falling
through the opening and strangling to
death.
The man protested his innocence to
the end. ;
Condition of Crops.
Washington, D. C.—The general av
erage condition of crop growth in the
United States on June 1, hased on
all crops reported to the department
iof agriculture was announced as ap
‘proximately 4 per cent below the con
‘ditions on June 1 of last year but
about 8 per cent better than two
years ago. Representing last year’s
acreage by 100, the preliminary es
timates of acreage planted this year,
as given in full in the supplemental
report issued are: Winter wheat 91.8
per cent; spring wheat 106.9; oats
100.2; barley 103.5; clover for hay
89; sugar cane 106.9; cotton 95.6.
Waiter Saved $200,000.
New York City.—Charles Miller,
who has worked for S3O a month for
thirty-four years as a waiter behind
the lunch counter in a hotel here, re
signed his job and announced his in
tention of taking a trip to Europe.
At the hotel it was said that Miller
had accumulated a fortune of $200,000
from working as a waiter. He is fa
miliarly know{% by many prominent
men in the lower part of Manhattan
and about his counter every day could
be found men on whom he had been
walting for a ‘guarter of a century.
Ex.sheriff Edward Callahan, famous
throughout Kentucky for the part he
played in the numerous Breathitt
county feuds, was shot from ambush
near Jackson, Ky. and lies fatally
wounded at his home in Crocketts
ville.
Holding to be void, under the laws
of New York, certain trusts by which
the testator sought to tie up his es
tate, D. Cady Herrick, referee in the
suit brought hy the three daughters
of the late Antonio Yznaga del Valle,
decided in favor of the plaintiffs. Un
der the terms of the decision, Consue
lo, dowager duchess of Manchester;
Lady Natiea Listei-Kay ‘and Emily
Yznaga are entitled to an equal divis
| son of $356,880, the principal of . the
| trust fuud created for .them. ..
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