The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-02-06
THE LOG WAR. COMMENCED.

THE LOG WAR COMMENCED.
| The new CalcasieE log war that was fore.
Swallowed in the. GH1EF week before last
4 opened just about the time of the publica-
| tion of or article. Some half q hundred resi-
dents Of Calcasiea parish havesbsen ranked
up to answer the charge Of taking timber
| from Uncle Sans lands without 50 much
as saying by your isa7e. The cases would,
/ in ths ordinary course, have been prose
cuted before the United States District
Court at !Alexandria. but in order that the
| accused parties may not be put to any
more expense and trouble that is absolute
| " unavoidable, District Attorney Jones
has made the writs retarnabie at Opeiou-
sas. which is much nearer the homes of the
| defendants.
The trial of these cases will be awaited
with much interest, and if the government
succeeds in securing the conviction of any
of the accused, we venture TO say our cs-
teemed fellow citizens of Calcasieu will
thenceforth be very careful not to get be-
yond the boundaries of their own farms
when they go out to split kindling wood to
start the morning fire.
FUGITIVE MURDERER CAeruEED.-On The
10Th of December, 1884, Wesley Gautreau
and Asa Cook, coiored men living on the
Mount Houmas plantation, IN this parish,
had difficulty which eliminated in the ia
tai shooting of Cook, ball from the revoiv-
or of his antagonist entering the pit of his
stomach and perforating the right lobe of his
liver. producing internal hemorrhage and
death. Gautreau escaped immediate
ly after the ARRAY, and has been at large
ever since, until Saturday last, when he was
arrested in New Orleans by special officers
Fruthaier and Littleton. on information
furnished them by Deputy Sheriff Israel of
this parish. The arrest was effected at the
corner of Delord and Rampant streets, the
prisoner making no resistance. but claim
ing that his name was James Moore and
that he was not the man wanted. Mr.. Is
rael went to the city on Sunday and return
ed the following evening with the fugitive
in custody, locking him up in the parish Jail
to await trial for the killing of old man
Cook. Tailor Dutrei visited New Orleans
some time ago in search of Gautreau aud
succeeded in locating his place of residence
and ascertaining his assumed name, but
Gautreau was not then in the city. Upon his
return he was Swallowed by the detectives
who captured hin, as above stated.
ACCIDENT TO THE JEwEL.-About day
light Thursday morning, as the sternwheei
steamer Jewel. was attempting to pass
through the draw of The railroad bridge
across Bayou Lafourche at this place, she
ran with much force against the piling that
protects the approach to the bridge on The
Donaldsonvilie side of the bay on, tearing
off some thirty feet Of her guards and
considerable portion of her lower deck,
one of the stages and its gearinss
and staving hole IN her hull onlya few
inches above the water line. A colored
roustabout had his ankle broken, but
beyond this we believe no one was hurt 1t
has been reported that another man was
knocked overheard and drowned. but the
rumor is doubtless erroneous. The boat
lay at the bridge until P. NJ, by which
time she had been sufficiently repaired to
ehabie her to continue her trip down The
bayou and deliver the good cargo of freight
she was carrying. She came out of the !
bayou yesterday morning aud proceeded to
New Orleans, where she will be put in
good order again before starting on another
trip. We have heard that the principal
cause of the accident was the unusually |
slow pace at which tue bridge was being
opened VIXEN the boat attempted to 90 |
through.
CoLoaED Boy k1LLED.-On Saturday last |
several colored boys we're hunting rabbits |
q the woods back of the Mount Houmas
plantation, when Nicholas Young, one of.
he number. was shot and fatally wounded |
oy companion named Minor Williams.
Minor WAS in the act Of firing at rabbit
when Nicholas, intent upon doing the same
hing, sprang within range of Minors gun,
eceiving It's entire charge of No shot in the
'ead, just behind the left ear. The wounded
10Y was conveyed to the neighboring house
If Isaac Bright. where he died Oh Monday.
coroner Dutfel held an inquest on the re-
Mains the same day, and the jury, after
earring the statement Of Williams and q
'rother of the deceased who witnessed the
iiiing,. decided that the homicide was en-
rely accidental. An examination demon
trated that the shot had entered the boys
rain, producing internal hemorrhage and
ILLUMINATION. Nicholas was a lad about Is
ears of age.
Friday night, at the early hour of half
asst O'Clock, while Mrs. George S. Gre
as alone with her children III her resi-
ence corner of Chstimaches and Claiborne
treets, she was alarmed by hearing stems