The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1899-03-09
State News Items.

= MIR. John Drmond. Jr., estimates tn
II recent damage by cold TO the Loalsiani
orange groves at about $2,000,000.
The ungathered cotton crop OF 1898
the recent cold snap and the more re
cent rains, all together have pat pre-
Iparati0ns for the next crop LIuch latel
5 than planters like.
La Grippe. followed by meningitis /:
-causing Il number of deaths throughout
the parish. Numbers of deaths have
occurred " here the person affected wa
sick only one or two days, AN in several
Instances parties have die1 before and
could be obtained. Rouge Demo
crat.
The Supreme Court bias decided in
the Edenborn railroad case on appeal
from the parish of BOs~ier that wards
could tax themselves independently of
the parish for tue aid Of railroads and
other improvements. In this case the
decision Of Judge Watkins was reversed
BIZ the court.
Jeff Oakley, an old negro living on
| the Lastrape place, few miles from
| Opelousas, died last Satur Law night,
While he was beng placed in the coffin
reaching the cemetery with old Jef's
remains word came that Cola's wife
Nancy, had died. Jeff's father and
mother are now critically Ill. About
two months ago Jeffs sister died IN the
same house.
Captain A. NJ. Halliday, president of
the Union Ferry Company, returned on
yesterday from Baton Ronge where he
was for several DAYS attending the meet
ings Of the state railroad commission
he says that the prospects of the cane
crop are decIdlY blue in that section He
told Picavune reporter that he heard
Mr.. John Hill owner of the Homestead
aid Catherine plantations remark that
he was ready to wager $l00 10 ST. that
not "A sugar mill in this parish would
turn a wheel this year. Several planters |
in lbervllle parish say that there will be |
difficulty getting sufficient seed cane to |
replant the crop and number of plant |
ers In That secti6i have about perfected |
to send Il ship TO Cuba for
a cargo OF seed cane. 49,
Jack Bradley was hung at Arcadia |
Friday for the murder of Johanna Riley |
aud Alice TAYLOR. He made full con-
fessIon from the Jail window before he
was hung.
Town Talk says: The police Jury late
Tuesday afternoon let out the contract
Tor building a new Jail to the Diebold
Safe d Lock Co., REPRESENTED by Mr.. L.
/, Moves, of Houston, Texas. The tac-
.ory is localed at Canton. ONO. The
contract price Is about $21 ,S5S, including
| crematory plant The jail building as
wall as the inside arrangements, is not
lOt only very pretty but convenient,
The building will have a front Of As
eet inches and depth of SO feet 2
nehes. 1t will be two stories and u
lalf IN height. The building will be ;
tone from the ground up distance Of
our or five feet and then trimmed with
nj stone,
The jaIIor's quarters are all on the |
lpst floor and the windows and doors (
# his apartments are not barred. HIS &
apartments can be entered both on the I
ront and side. At the front pretty I
'estibule leads to the jailor's parlor and s
he has family room, dining room, led {
DOM, kitchen, large hall, pantry, bath {
DOM, etc., all connecting. On the first \
lOor, in front, is the main entrance TO
he jail, with two apartments for mold s
ny prisoners temporarily. Stairsteps {
cad from corridor to the second floor. i
On rhe second floor, Ia front, there is a I
ell for insane people, cell fol- juvenile t
persons, hospital cell, with closets and t
oath tubs. This portion of the jail is /
separated by door and corridor from T
he main cell portion of the building, &
which is on the second floor. back. That /
portion will contain six cells and cor T
Idor, In the center of the back portion G
i the building and the jailor can walk +
II around between the cells and the v
vaIls Of the building, The prisoners r
orTidor contains bath tub and closet, d
The building will have furnace and +
eating apparatus In the basement, and u
% heated bv means of hot AR. All the h
lops will be burned in crenatorY. a