New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-09-09

Baton Roug6, La: The executive
committee OF the Board OF Supervis-
crs of the Louisiana State University
met in the governor office with the
following gentlemen present: Gov.
y. c. Blanchard Henry f.. Fuqua,
George Hill and Col Thomas d. Boyd.
The object of the meeting was to
till certain positions in the faculty
provided for by the board at its last
meetiEg. After considering d number
Of applications. submitted by the pres
.dent. tn committee concluded to es-
tabiish department of the science
and art of teaching, and selected DR.
G. J. G. Bennett Of San Jose, CAL, to
take charge Of H. The aim of this de-
partmclt is TO offer courses of inStruc-
lion designed to give professional
training to young men who wish to
teach as principal or professor in
high school or to hold a position OF
parish superintendent.
DR.. Bennett is a native of West Vir-
ginia; was graduated al the Peabody
Normal College at Nashville in 1889:
received his A. M. degree at the Lee
land Stanford University, California,
in 1896. and his Phi. ID. degree at CO.
iumbia University, New York, last
iune. DR.. Bennett has had wide ex-
perience as an institute lecturer and
as teacher in schools ranging from
the country school to the university.
He has been for six years the profess
{ or of psychology and education in the
California State Normal School at
San Jose. and gives up that position
pf hjo dpcirn N GA in p6I-
cational work in the South. He has
spent his vacations in study at various
universities and in visiting the schools
Of England and Germany.
Judging from the assessment rolls
which have been filed with ehe state
auditor up to the present time it is
hardly probable that the assessed
property valuations Of the state for the
present year will exceed $50,O00,00O,
the amount originally anticipated al
ter the several conferences held be-
tween the assessors last spring.
: When the rolls first began to come
In the increased assessment led many
persons to believe ths- the assessment
for this year would go considerably
beyond the $3,000.000 mark. Up TO
the present time twenty-four of the |
iifty-nine parishes of the state have
sent in their assessments. including |
among which are New Orleans and |
Calcasieu--from which the heaviest |
increases We're expected and received |
ard the total increase OF these TWEEN |
ty-four parishes Is only S34,9l4,00O.
Very slight increases are expected |
from the remaining thirty five parishes
with the possible exception OF Caddo
and one or two others.
General Agent Lee of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company has just re-
,turred from tour of the route of the
proposcd road from Lafayette to Port
Allen, and announces that pracucaiiy
the entire route of way has been prom
ised 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 R.ige parish
viii pass through the property OF
twenty-one land owners, and all OF
these have signified their willingness
to have the road on their lands.
The Board of Control of the state
penitentiary has received report OF
the death OF George Mcqueen, con-
Wet IN Angola penal farm. Mcqueen
was formerly minstrel man and writ
err Of popular songs. Becoming en-
RACED al his wife about two years ago.
he threw vitriol in her face, for which
he was convicted and sentenced to
seven years Imprisonment. During the
two years spent in servitude he has
made a model prisoner. He was In
Charge Of the plantation warehouse on
Jhe river front. The fact that he died
cf fever, after having been associated
A., various times with steamboatmen
ont of New Orleans. caused some I'M
as mess on the farm. but close ex-
amination of the case by Drs. Dushie
4 ID barrow resulted in diagnosis OF
malaria fever.