St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1905-05-13
news FROM ALL
over THE STATE.
New Iberia StrIdIRg Forward In the Line Of
improvement; and so Is DoRaldsonVille.
BONDS and SPECIAL TAXES VOTED.
And The City Of Shreveport is to Have A
$4,000 Electric Light Plant.

covered in Bunkie.
Revival meetings are being held in
several Louisiana towns.
The Trainor Sash Factory, recently
destroyed by fire in New iberia, will
be rebuilt.
The Hebrews of Shreveport will
soon have temple of worship cost
ing $4,000.
Judge S. McC. Lawrason has been
chosen President of the Louisiana
Bankers Association.
Jack Ragsdale was elected Superin-
tendent of Waterworks and Electric
Lights of Alexandria, and Ed F.
Hunter, town clerk.
Judge Boarman has appointed A.
NJ. Mayo as United States Commits
sioner for the Lake Charles District,
to succeed his father, Claude Mayo,
who died recently.
The city of Donaldsonville has
voted to issue $4,000 in bonds,
whose proceeds will be used to con-
struct water works, additional side
walks and erect modern school house.
The newly elected Mayor and town
council of Eunice have been installed.
The council elected the following
officers: DR.. Jos. Bacon, clerk; Dam
lei Sittig, marshal; G. Ardoin, treas
urer; Theogene Fruge and A. Fusilier,
street commissioners.
Wilkins No. 2, an oil well in the
Jennings field which had suddenly
stopped for several days, again came
in Saturday, gushing forth and nearly
killing workman, the pressure being
so strong. 1t took several hours to
control the revived gusher.
Mayor Queries, of Shreveport, is
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championing a move for the erection
of a $4,000 light plant, to be
owned by the city. The running
expenses would be $63. 900 per year,
and the reduction to private con-
sumers would be reduced to SO cents
month per light.
Dick Craighead, convicted of the
murder Of his brothers wife, and
sentenced to be hung, was shot to
death in his cell by mob at Homer,
La. He maintained to the very last
that he was innocent. He is white
man. Governor Blanchard is invest
igating the affair.
Major Robert Strong, of the Texas
& Pacific, Thursday announced that
work had begun on the grading of
the new Atchafalaya branch, and it
was hoped to get the road built this
summer. The work of grading is going
on at both ends of the proposed
branch. Pieayune.
The municipal election in Lafayette,
held on Monday, May 1st, was tame
affair in point of interest, ir1asmuch
as there was but one ticket in the
field the nominees of the Democratic
Primary election. The ticket unani-
mously elected follows: Mayor, Chas.
@. Mouton;Aldermen, Simeon Begnaud,
OBJ. Hopkins, A. R. Trahan, 2. Krauss,
c. D. Boudreaux. F. E. Girard, and
DIR. G. A. Martin.
DR.. William H. Dalrymple, in charge
of the Veterinary Department OF the
Agricultural Experimental Station of
the Louisiana University, has been
notified by the Secretary of his unan-
imous selection to membership in the
ROYAL Institute of Public Health, Lon
don, England. This is one of the
most important bodies connected with
the public health in Great Britain
and is under the patronage of King
Edward.
Alexandra, April 20 Judge W. F.
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Blaekman, who had been to Mansfield
to try recused case, returned home
last night. While there the Judge
visited the spot where the battle of
Mansfield was fought forty-one years
ago. He states that although a por-
tion of the battlefield is in cultivation,
he recognized several places, par
ticularly the point from which he led
a charge against the Federal forces,
and also the spot where Gen. Mouton
was killed. A farmer who cultivates
the old battlefield presented the