The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-08
NEWS.

,, Rougs. La: The executive
b,, ,jttee of the Board of Supervis-
lp y the Louisiana State University
!, the governors office with the
o. S,. =, gentlemen present: Gov.
sI blanchard, Henry l.. FuQua,
w.. Hill and COL Thomas D. Boyd.
S. Tso obiect of the meeting was to
NV aortain positions in the faculty
. .iJod for by the board at its last
Fv atinp After considering a number
19'ssnniication: submitted by the pres
, aFF rhs committee concluded to es-
., aisb a department OF the science
l'1 ~ ort of teaching, and selected Dr..
nt r Bennett of San Jose, Cal, to
y" w. charge of it. The aim of this de-
+mont is to offer courses of inStruc-
!, assigned to give professional
~. .,ing TO young men who wish to
...b As principal or professor in a
IN school or to hold a position of
.oIsh superintendent.
' n, Rernett is a native Of West Viz
4.i,. was graduated at the Peabody
ina ,s, College at Nashville in 1889;
,aoived his A. NJ. degree at the Lee
Ind md stanford University, California,
'' fsqS and his Phi. D. degree at Co
%nbia University. New York, last
r,ns DR.. Bennett has had wide eX-
,,,iarrp as an institute lecturer and
!. roacber in schools ranging from
4. country school to the university.
q. has been for six years the profess
=, nj psychology and education in the
r,Ffornia State Normal School at
Sp Jose. and gives up that position
fgapse Of his desire to engage in edu
9ioral work in the South. He has
mont his vacations in study at various
rsiyersities and in visiting the schools
England and Germany.
Iuiging from the assessment rolls
g5irb have been filed with the state
,n1irgr I'D to the present time it is
nrdIy probable that the assessed
mpprty valuations of the state for the
TsspDt wear will exceed $50,000,000.
he amount originally anticipated af-
p the several conferences held be-
ts4pn the assessors last spring.
When the rolls first began to come
The increased assessment led many
pysons to believe that the assessment
m this year would go considerably
RyOld the 100000 mark. Up to
lie present time twenty-four of the
ffgDine parishes OF the state have
q1f in their assessments, including
,nODg which are New Orleans and
cshaSieu-from which the heaviest
Increases were expected and received
and the total increase of these TWEEN
tTtour parishes is only $34,914,000.
Veg slight increases are expected
from the remaining thirty-five parishes
With the possible exception of CaddO
md one or two others.
General Agent Lee Of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company has just re-
ir1ed from a tour of the route of the
proposed road from Lafayette TO Port
Allen and announces that practically
The entire route Of way has been prom
ai and that the formal transfer OF
the property will be made in the
course Of the next few weeks. The
fifteen or twenty miles of the road to
be laid in West Baton Rouge parish
will pass through the property OF
iEeRtyone land owners. and all of
theSe have signified their willingness
to have the road on their lands.
The Board of Control of the state
pnitentiary has received a report OF
The death Of George Mcqueen, a con-
Tct On Angola penal farm. Mcqueen
vas formerly a minstrel man and writ
Of popular songs. Becoming en-
aged at his wife about two years ago,
be threw vitriOl in her face, for which
he vas convicted and sentenced to
agel years Imprisonment. During the
NO years spent in servitude he has
made a model prisoner. He was in
tlage CT the plantation warehouse on
lie river front. The fact that he died
fever, after having been associated
various times with steambOatmen
qt Of New Orleans, caused some I'M
asneSs on the farm, but close eX-
inlnation of the case by Drs. Dushie
ila Barrow resulted in a diagnosis of
nalaris favor