The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-03-18


ofslcIaI Journal OF the Town and
PavIeh OF Lafayette.
Battered at Lafayette La Post-Ofbce Second
Class NJ AFTER.
SATURDAY, MARCH I8, 1890.
The president of the Louisiana
Board of Health has thorny path
to travel. If he is to be held res
ponsible for the death of every per-
son who died from yellow fever it
is safe to say that in the future it
will be difficult matter to find a
physician who will accept the Office.
Because he told the truth DR..
Olliphant incurred the hatred of
the people of New Orleans and he
was ousted from Office Because
he didn't tell the truth DIR. Sou
chon is acceptable to the people of
New Orleans, but the grand jury of
East Feliciana wants to send him to
the penitentiary. The presidency
of the Board of Health is a nice
job.
The general rules adopted by the
Railroad Commission at a meeting
by the New Orleans papers. The
commission requires that all rail
road, telegraph, telephone and ex-
press companies doing business in
Louisiana shall establish general Of
fees III some city in the State.
Another rule compels all passenger
and freight trains, except specials,
to stop at every station where there
is a courthouse. In the matter of
telegraph and telegraph rates the
commission has fixed IS cents as
the maximum charge for a message
of ten words or less. An exception
was made in the cases of the Ocean
Tow Boat and East Louisiana lines
No action has yet been taken on
the very important matter of freight
tariff and. classification.
The wooden trust is the latest big
thing in that line, and it is confined
largely to the mills in New England.
The mills SO far considered as in
the trust represent SI2, 900, 900 of
capital. The Pittsburg Post says
of the new trust: t.Against this
valuation, plus $40, 1000, 900 to be
held as working capital, it is in
tended to issue SIG, 1000, 900 pre-
Go N
stock, or S4I, 100000 altogether,
and as other mills come in the
amount of capitalization will be in
creased accordingly. AS trusts GO,
this is a very moderate ease of stock
watering This is all very-well fol
the wooden weavers, but where is
the benefit to come from for the
wool growers7 They will have &c
pay more for their raw wool. The
tariff won't help them against the
trust.-Daily States.
The action of the East Felicians
authorities in indictlng and arrest
ing DR.. Edmond Souchon of the
State Board of Health, and DIR.
Quitman Kohnke of the New Or
leans Board, on charge of man.
slaughter, is unquestionably the
most surprising piece of folly ever
heard of in this or any other State.
These officials are alleged to have
caused through official dereliction
the death of some citizen or citizens
of the parish of East Feliciana.
If the officials of that parish car
prove that Drs. Souchon and
Kohnke did feloniously and with
malice aforethought, ship a carload
or more of yellow fever microbes tc
the parish of East Feliciana for the
purpose of taking the lives of the
good people. ofthat section, we have
no doubt that the distinguished
prisoners will be convicted, but a:
they could hardly have been guilt,
of SO heinous crime their trial can
not be anything but a huge farce
That the better sex is forging to
the front there is no doubt.
Those old fogIes who think tina,