St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1905-05-27
NEWS FROM ALL
over The STATE.
4 Rlch Swamper Dies. Leaving SlO.0GO.0O
Property Without an Heir.
Big FIRE in NEW IBERIA.
Oyster Industry Worth $4,000 In Revenue to
the State.-NeW Orleans to be Made Ship.
ping Point for Panama Canal Supplies.

to-date courthouse.
Six men suspected OF completely
in the Craighead lynching sur
rended to officers at Homer, La.
Egan, a small town in Acadia
parish, will ship two or three car
loads OF Irish potatoes next month.
The Abbeville Meridional reports
the cane crop exceptionally good
in that parish, with an increased
acreage.
New Orleans will be made a ship
ping point for Panama canal sup
plies and the Louisiana port placed
on Il parity with New York.
Six fruit ships arrived at New
Orleans Monday and unloaded 137,- :
600 punches of bannas, the worlds
record receipt at any port for one
day.
Mrs. r. P. Nelson, we regret to
learn, had u severe attack of illness
last week. It is gratifying to know
she is better at present-Abbeville
Meridional.
A drainage district has been es-
tabiished in West Baton Rouge
and Point Coupee parishes. Gov.
Blanchard will have the appoint
ment of two OF the five commits
sioners.
President James NJ. Breaux Of
the State Oyster Commission stated
that Louisiana's oyster industry
in. revenues alone, would be worth.
lii the neighborhood OF $4,000 TO
the State next season.
Harry Guidry, lunatic, shot and
killed Albert Desroche and the lat
ter's 14-year-old brother while the
boys were asleep at their home
near Houma. Guidry asserts that
he murdered the Desroche brothers
because they laughed at him.
In the appointment of Mr.. VIM.
G. Hudson to the position of COM
missioner OF the Red River, Atcha-
falaya 4Bayou B@uf Levee Board,
vice Capt. j. G.. White, deceased,
Governor Blanchard made wise
selection. Mr.. Hudson is one Of
our best citizens, thoroughly un-
derstands levee building, and is
one of our most successful planters.
We are glad that he was appointed.
Alexandria Town-Talk.
Saturday morning Francois Cue
blet, through his attorneys, Col. 6.
A. Breanx and r. w. Elliott, filed
suit against the town OF Lafayette
for $2500, on account OF Injuries
received because OF defective side
walks. Some time during Noyem-
ber last year Mr.. Gueblet, who is
over seventy year of age, while ac-
companying his grandchild to
school, stepped into hole in the
walk. near the Lacoste Hardware
Co, tripped and fell, breaking his
leg. He has never recovered from
the accident and il still confined
to his bed.-Lafayette Advertiser.
A. N. King recently died at Zach
airy, near Baton Rouge, leaving an
estate OF $4,000. Nothing can be
learned as to the life history OF
King prior to the time he came to
Zachary in 1856, and begau the ac-
cumulation of money by splitting
rails. A little later he entered in
to the mercantile business, and at
the time of his death had property
aggregating $1,000. III the event
of the death Of a person who has no
y III M { 49,
heirs, this class Of property reverts
to the State. There is an indebt-
edness on the estate amounting to
$1,000, and the representatives oi
the State and the creditors of the
estate are in a legal contest as te
who shall be appointed as execu.
tors.
New Ibera suffered $4,000 firt
Saturday morning, at an early
hour. The loses are as follows
yendome Theatre $4,000, insu
rance s45oo; DeBlane & Landry