The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-03-11
LA, SATURDAY, MARCH II. 1906.
AROUND THE STATE.
Items OF Interest gulled From the
Louisiana Press.
Steamboat Burned at New Orleans-lVife
Murderer Attempts suicide-Burg-
lars Operate Successful Con-
Wet Pardoned.

Louisiana Railroad Commission
will meet March q at Baton Rouge.
The steamboat Columbia was al
most entirely destroyed by fire at New
Orleans.
Oil indications in Vermilion parish
are similar to those found at the Jen-
nings field.
The report of Secretary of State Mi
chel up to Jan. /, 1905, is ready for
distribution.
A modern freproof ten-story hotel,
to cost $3.50, 900, will be erected at New
Orleans in the near future.
Alfred Richard was shot and fatally
wounded at Plaisanee by Nestor Perro-
din, who claims self-defense.
Burglars visited three business
houses OF Jennings in one night and got
away with booty estimated to be worth
$1,000.
Elius Leblanc, accused of wife mur-
der, attempted suicide in his cell in
the St. Martinville jail by slashing
his throat.
The annual state convention OF Elks
was held in New Orleans this week.
Shreveport was selected as the next
meeting place.
Thousands of people from all parts
of the country, among them many
celebrities, visited New Orleans for
the Mardi Gras festivities.
The bulletin of the Gulf Biologic
Station at Cameron records the dis
eovery of large numbers of scallops
and little-neek clans on Chandelier
Islands.
The Industrial parade of the Mer-
chants, Manuf acturers and Travelling
Men $ Association, held at New Orleans
last Saturday in connection with the
carnival, was a great success.
The seventy second annual session
of the Louisiana grand lodge Of Odd
Fellows was held at Baton Rouge
Tuesday and Wednesday. Leesville
secured next years convention.
Acting Governor ;. Y. Sanders par
doned Charles W. Simpson, white
man 7S years old who was sent to the
state penitentiary from Orleans parish
on the fourth of March, 1904, to serve
five years for manslaughter.
Several large land and timber
dealers from Michigan visited Baton
Rouge last week and conferred with
the officials Of the State Board of Ag-
riculture and immigration with a view
of making heavy investments in Louisi-
ana timber lands.
Judge George K. Favrot reduced
from $4,000 to $3.50 the fine imposed on
the Cumberland Telephone and Tele-
graph Company by the Louisiana
Railroad Commission for violation of
the rules by increasing the toll charge
from Gibson TO New Orleans.
The female telephone operators in
the Cumberland Company's shreve-
port exchange struck for the second
time because the manager repeated his
former attempt TO replace the present
day chief operator with a young lady
just arrived from Indiana. The girls
iusisued that home people should be
given the preference and succeeded in
bringing the manager TO terms.
4 lively contest is developing be-
tween the parishes of East Baton
Rouge and St. Landry over the appli-
cation for the return OF e. e. Garig, a
young white man charged with ahdue-
ton in the latter parish and under ar
rest at Baton Rouge. Garig has been
interdlcted for insanity, but the ST.
Landry of1cials claim that they filed
application for his return prior to the
issuance of inserdiction papers and
tha the fugitive should be turned over
to them.