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STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
On his fifty first birthday Monday
Governor Colquitt of Texas signed fif-
ty-one Christmas pardons
The bank at Kyle was blown by
yeggmen early Monday morning and
J 18,(KI0 in cash was secured.
Sixty thousand tons of butter, said
to amount tu an absolute corner, is
held in cold storage in Chicago, ac
cording to government socret service
operatives in connection with the suit
filed Monday in the United States
court to dissolve the alleged butter
trust Profits amounting to between
$11,000,000 and $17,000,000 may be
realized from the store of butter,
which is enough to supply the entire
naUon for several weeks.
The trial In Indianapolis of the for-
ty-one men accused of complicity In
thi' McNamara dynamite plots is said
both sides to be noaring an end.
i'hirty-one of the defendants have
testified, denying charges of illegal
transportation of explosives at the
close of Tuesday's sc: -ion
Actual work upon the Dallas union
depot and terniiniib. to cost between
$4,000,0110 and $5.nii' ,ooo, will coin
, menco within from sixty to ninet>
i days.
Miss Helen Miller Gould Morula)
announced her engagement to Fiuley
J Shepard of St. Louis.
Kami products, including farm an-
il.i.il products of it- I nlted States, id
worth $9,532,000,0u:.' this year, accord-
ing to the report of the department
of agrlcultura.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Important News of the Week Gather-
ed for the Busy Reader—Stat*
and Domestic.
WASHINGTON.
Pay on Labor Day. a holiday, for
*11 per diem employes of the govern-
ment Is provided by the ltedfield bill,
passed in the house Monday, without
opposition. Labor Day has long been
a legal holiday but the controller ot
! the treasury ruled that there was no
authority for paying government pet
diem employes gratuity wages for
that day.
Senator Smoot Saturday entered a
motion providing for the alternation
fortnightly of Senators Galllnger and
Macon as president pro tem of the sen-
ate during the remainder of the ses-
sion The democrats were favorable
to the program, but Senator Dristow
objected. On his request action was
postponed.
The Lever agricultural education
extension bill, already passed by the
house, was ordered favorably reported
Saturday from the senate committee
on agriculture and probably will be
presented to the senate next week.
Practically every state agricultural
college In the country would be bene-
fited by its terms.
The senate Friday adopted the res-
olution approving the plan of the
Lincoln memorial commission for a
$2,ooo,ooo memorial structure in Poto-
niac park. Washington.
Representative Charles C. Bowman
or the Eleventh Pennsylvania district
! was unseated by the house Friday by
the vol" of 163 to 118, on a resolu-
tion declaring thai corrupt practices
had been used in his election in 1910.
At the same time the house refused,
181 to ns, to feat George If McLean,
his democratic opponent. It was
charged on the floor that he had been
guilty of tin same practices ac were
alleged against Bowman.
A bill providing for an eight-hour
workday and a six-day week for wom-
en employed In factories in the dis-
I trtct of Columbia was Introduced Fri-
j day by Senator La Follette. The
measure would prohibit any woman
under 18 years of age from being per-
mitted to work before 7 o'clock In the
morning or after 6 o'clock in the even-
ing.
The highways and byways of
finance, as traversed by operators on
the New York Stock Exchange, were
mapped out before the house banking
and currency committee Friday iu its
money trust inquiry, Frank K. Sturgis
of the brokerage firm of Strong, Stur
gis & Co., former member of the
board of governors of the Stock hix-
changc, told the committee at length
about the ways of the "street."*
Secretary Stlinson told the house
committee on military affairs Wednes-
day about the plans of the govern-
ment for fortifications of Hawaii
through works back of Pearl Harbor,
and about plans for guarding the Pan-
ama canal on land by troops stationed
Along it, as well as its two ends The
protecting force would muster 10,000
or 15,000 men.
An understanding for a recess of
congress for the Christmas holidays,
from December 19 until January 2,
was reached Wednesday between sen-
ate and house leaders.
510,000 GOLD FOR CROP WINNERS
GOLD DIVIDED AMONG THE FARM-
ERS OF TEXAS.
Four Thousand Farmers Tried for
the 141 Prizes—Son Sur-
passed Father.
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Professional Cards
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Number of
Austin ...
Baylor
Bosque
Brazos
Brewster .
Burleson .
Cameron .
Camp
Cass
Coke
Collin
Dallas .....
Delta
Denton
Duval ....
Erath
Falls
Fanning
Fayetto ...
Fisher ....
Freestone
Gray
Hale
Hardeman
Harrison .
Henderson
Hopkins ..
Winning Contestants
Counties.
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Jasper
Limestone ...
Lamar
Lavaca
Leon
Marion
Matagorda ..
Maverick
Milam
Morris
Navarro
Nueces
Busk
San Aug'tine.
San Patricio..
Shelby
Smith
Titus
Van Zandt
Walker
Ward
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Wichita
Williamson ..
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estimates of production and
value of eleven important
crors of united states.
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Dallas, Tex.—The Texas Industrial
Congress Friday awarded $10,000 In
prizes to farmers of Texas, many of
them under 21 years of age, for crops
raised In the past year. There were
4,000 contestants for tlTe 141 prizes
offered. The competition embraced
the cultivation of 10-acres farms di-
vided equally among corn, cotton,
cowp >as, mllo maize or kaffir corn.
The purpose In offering prizes for
such a plot is an effort to encourage
in Texas crop rotation, diversification
and the retention of soil fertility.
Cost of production was considered,
the prizes being awarded on a basis
of net profit.
Executive officers elected were:
Colonel Erall, president; E. W. Kirk-
Patrick, .\l< Kinney, vice president; W.
('. Uariicknian, Dallas, secretary,
John W. Wright, Dallas, treasurer.
The winner of the $1,000 prize in
class A. embracing crops of cow peas,
kaffir corn or milo maize, cotton and
corn, was Charles A. Doss, Rockdale,
Milam County. The ambition of Mr.
Doss, who Is a young man, was to
get belter results than his father,
George ihjss.
In this ho was successful, his
father winning only a $500 prize.
The second prize in class A, $750
and a scholarship iu the University
or Texas, was won by William L.
Norman of Kingston. Hunt County.
Capital prize winners, the amount
of the prizes and conditions In other
classes of the competition follow:
B, first prize, $250; cultivate
acre of corn Won by Alford
Overton, Rusk County,
c, $250; cultivating one acre
Won by E. S. Kovar, Fayette-
ville, Fayette County.
Class 1), first prize $300; unlrrl-
gated forage crops; cultivating two
acres kaffir corn or milo maize with-
out irrigation Won by W J. I.evens,
He by, Fisher County.
Class E, first prize $.'100; Irrigated
forage crop; two acres kaffir corn or
mllo maize—Won by C 1). Newberry,
Eagle Pass, Maverick County.
Class
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Brunch,
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REFORM LAWS FAVORED BY TEXAS JUDGES
Constitutional Amendment Providing
Substantial Justice System Shall
Prevail Advocated.
Austin, Tex.—Appointing a special
legislative committee to urge the sub-
mission of a constitutional amend-
ment providing that the so-called
"substantial justice" system shall pre
vail and to urge that the legislature
enact many laws which will revolu-
tionize both civil and criminal prac-
tice In tills State, the district judges
Friday adjourned. No permanent or-
ganization was perfected, and the
body will rest with the steps It lias
taken to secure legislative action.
An effort will he made to secure
the indorsement of the action of Mils
meeting bv all district Judges who did
not at 'iid the meeting, but are in a
majority in this State. The campaign
is to be a consistent one, it is said.
Chief Justice T .1 Brown of the su-
preme court, speaking lor the adop-
tion i>! the report on civil procedure,
told the judges 111• y should have a
committee go before the house and
s>iaat<. in the proper wa> to urge their
desires, that heretofore he has kept
away Ironi legislative halls; but lie is
foim: in lore the legislature thi time;
that when men oppose reforms ho
■ hall advocate them in an effort to ml
the practice iu this State of Its faults
Waterworks Bond Election Carries.
Montgomery, Tex. The clectluu
held In the town of Montgomery to
determine whether snid town shall is-
sue $10,000 water works bonds car-
lied by a vote of five to one.
These Eleven Crops Are Only a Por-
tion of the Production of the Soil,
Which Is Estimated Thlr, Ysar
at $6,137,000,000.
Washington—Final estimates r
production and value of eleven of the
Important crops which go to make up
the enormous grand total of $9,532,
000,000, the wealth produced on farms
through the soil and farmers' live
stock during 1012, as stated by the
secretary of agriculture, were an-
nounced Tuesday by the crop report-
ing board, bureau of statistics, de-
partment of agriculture. The figures
■.ire the official government estimates
for the important crops, and Indicate
the acreage, production, value based
on prices paid to farmers on Decem-
ber 1. These eleven crops are only a
portion of the production of the soil,
which the secretary of agriculture es
timates will amount this year to $6,-
137,000,000. The secretary estimate*
the total value of the animal prod
ucts of the farm In 1912 to be about
$3,396,000,000.
The estimates of Tuesday, with
comparisons for 1911 and 1910, follow:
Corn—Area harvested, 107,083,000
acres, compared with 105,826,000 acres
last year and 104,035,000 acres in
1910; production, 3,124,740,000 bush-
els, compared with 2,531,488,000 bush-
els last y«*r and 2,880,200,000 bushels
In 1910; fa raj value, December 1, per
bushel, 48.7c, compared with 11.8c last
year and 48c In 1910. Total value of
the crop, $1,520,454,000, compared ;
with $1,666,258,000 last year and $1. !
384.817,000 In 1910.
Winter Wheat -Area harvested. 20, I
571,000 acres, compared with 29,102,
000 acres last year and 27,239,000
acres In 19^0: production, 399,919,000
bushels, compared with 430.050,000
bushels last year and 434,142,000 bush-
els in 1910; farm value, December 1,
per bustie., 80.9c, compared with 88c
last year and 88.1c In 1910. Totai
value of the crop, $323,572,000, com
1 ired with $."79,151,000 last yoar aud
^392,318,000 in 1910.
Spring Wheat—Area harvested, 19.
243,000 acres, compared with 20,162.-
000 acres last year and 18,252,000
acres in 1910; production, 303,348,000 |
bushels, compared with 190,682,000 i
bushels In at year and 200,979,000 hush |
els in 1910; farm value, December 1,
per bushel, 70.1c, compared with 86c j
last year and 88.9c In 1910. Total!
value of the crop, $231,708,000, com I
pared with $103,912,000 last year aud
$178,733,000 in 1910.
Fall Wheat Area harvested, 45,-
814,000 bushels, compared with 49,
543,000 acres last year and 45,681,000
acres in 1910; production, 730,207,001
bushels, compared wl th 621,338,000
bushels last year and 635,121,000 bush
els in 1910; farm value, December 1,
per bushel, 76c, compared with 87,4c
last year and 88.3c In 1910. Total
value of the crop, $555,280,000, com-
pared with $543,063,000 last year and
$561,551,000 In 1910.
Oats- Area harvested, 37,917,000
acres, compared with 37,763,00u acres
last year and 37,548,000 acres In 1910;
production, 1,418,337,000 bushels, com
pared with 922,298.000 bushels last
year and 1,186,341,000 bushels iu 1910;
farm value, December 1, 45c lasl year
and 34 4c in 1910. Total value of
crop, $452,469,000, compared with
$414,663,000 last year aud $401,388,000
In 1910
Barley—Area harvested. 7.530,000
acres, compared with 7,627,000 acres
last year and 7,743,000 acres in 1910;
production, 233.824,00o bushels, com-
pared with 160,240,000 bushels last
year and 173,832,000 bushtitf in 1910;
farm value, December 1, per bushel,
50 6c, compared with 86.9< last year
and 57.8e in 1910 Total value of the
crop, $112,957,000, compared with
$139,182,000 last year and y00,426,000 I
in 1910.
Rye —Area harvested, 2,117,000
acres, compared with 2,127,00a acres
last year and 2,185,( oo acres in 191 o
Production, 3!>,664,uoo bushels, com-!
pared with 3::.1l9,n00 bush (Is last yu*r j
and ;i4,S79,uon bushels iu 1910. Farm j
value, Dei ember 1, per h lshel, 66.3c, i
compared with 83.2c hut year and!
71.6c iu 1910. Total vi.lue of the
crop $2$6,000, compared with $27,-
557,000 last year and $24,953,000 In j
1910.
Rice A fen harvested, 722,800 acres,
compared with (196,oon acres last year
and 722,800 acres in 1910. Produc I
tlon. 25,0,11,0 "I hi;.- he Is, compared |
w ith 22.9 :4,00a bushels last year and
24,510,000 bushels iu li>10. Farm
value, December 1, per bushel, 93 oc,
compared with 79 7. last year and
67.8c in 1910 i of i.l value of the
crop, $: ,i. t.ono. eJnpared with $18,-
274.000 last yeai J.ud $16,624,000 n
1910 *
J. P. T owior, J. P. Fowlor, Jr.
Fowler S: Fowler
Attorney# ut Lmw
building b« tro|i, 1 rasi
Will predict in all the bigbca
tud Ulterior courts.
PAUL D. PAGE
Lawyer
Citiirai' State XiHiik, Htstrop, Tex.
General Practitioner
Will practice in u. cuuiu
i. S. JO!\US
Attorney «t Law
Miittrop, Tex«
Will practice in all the higher
<ud interior courts.
IACK JENKINS
Attorney at Luw
baairop, 1 slat
Only complete Set of Abstract
Book* in lire County.
ROBT. A. BROOKS
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Snore. Phone 59.
Residence -Hast .Bastrop.
J. GORDON BUYSON
Physlciau and Surgeon
Basti op, Texas
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