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Show ; DRIVEN OUT BY BOLL WEEVIL. Alarming Ravages of the Pest In the Southern States. One of the most serious and damaging damag-ing results of the invasion of Texas by the Mexican boll weevil is made public pub-lic for the first time by ex-State Senator Sena-tor A. H. . Carter of Fort Worth, who states that many thousand of South Texas farmers are leaving the state and locating elsewhere, because of the devastation wrought In their localities lo-calities by these pests, says the St Louis Globe Democrat He says that possibly 50,000 people, all told, will go to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Indian Territory, particularly to the two last countries, and that he knows of many people who have already left the state. Not only are the boll weevil ruining the south part of the state, but they are being discovered in other sections. sec-tions. A farmer living in this county has recently found the pest about five miles north from this city. The question, ques-tion, Senator Carter says, is the most serious one that the people of not only Texas, but the entire cotton-growing sections of the South, have to contend con-tend with since Texas was admitted into the Union. |