The Donaldsonville chief., 1906-12-22
AROUND THE STATE.
Items OF Interest CuIled From the
Louisiana Press.
Carload of Cotton Destroyed by Fire al
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Capitalists
Purchase Timber Lands in
Ca1casieu Parish.

Fire in the business section of Chou
drant caused loss of S24, 900.
The Armour Packing Company con
templates building large new coll
storage plant at Lake Charles.
The city council of New Orleani
passed an ordinance prohibiting til,
sale of racing ttips'' on the streets.
The town of Franklinton was visited
| by a destructive fire, several buildings
! in the business section being consumed
1 Frank Brister, aged II years, &C
cidentally shot himself in the righ
arm while hunting near Bayou Chieot
A New Orleans judge decided tha
there is no law in Louisiana requiring
railroads to pay license to operate
in this state.
The Dixon Oil and Pipe Line Co.,
capitalized at $500, 900. was organized
at Shreveport and will operate in the
Ananias field.
The capital stock OF the Central
Savings Bank and Trust Company,
| of Monroe, was increased from $780,
600 to $3.50, 900.
The Standard Box Company's we'll
equipped plant at Baton Rouge was
completely destroyed by fire, entailing
a loss of $50, 600.
| Charles Edmundson, a white farmer
living near Bayou Paul, Iberville par
ish, shot and killed Willie Jones, an
obstreperous negro.
For the first sixteen days of the
present month the average tempera-
ture throughout the state was nine
degrees above normal.
1t is reported that the Swift Packing
Company contemplates entering Baton
Rouge and erecting an up-to-date cold
storage plant in that city.
The sugar factory on Oak Bluff
plantation, St. Mary parish, was de-
stroyed by fire, together with con-
siderable quantity Of sugar.
The federal government has been
petitioned to take steps to protect the
town OF Coushatta from the encroach-
ments of the Red River.
Giorgto Olivieri, an Italian mer-
chant of Monroe. shot and probably
fatally wounded Bob White, a negro,
because the latter insulted Mrs. Oil
Vieri.
Noah McClendon, negro living at
Winnsboro, shot and killed. his mother
in-laW and her young son, and seri-
ously wounded his wife and would
be peaeemaker.
Lee Coleman, charged with the mur-
der Of Deputy Sheriff William schu-
macker Of DeQuiney, was captured in
the Sabine bottoms after having been
at large since Oct. 81.
In the district court at Cameron,
Joseph Moultrie, negro, pleaded
guilty TO selling liquor without IL
cense and was fined $500, with the al
Tentative Of spending six months in
jail.
The American Rice Brokerage Com
pany, domiciled at Crowley, will go
out of business Jan. /, 1907, after an
existence Of two years, during which
time it distributed more than 1000, 900
bags OF rice.
A carload of cotton standing on the
transfer track OF the Louisiana and
Arkansas and the Louisiana Railway
and Navig alton Company's railroads
at Alexandria was completely de-
stroyed by fire.
Illinois capitalists purchased IT,
900 acres of hardwood timber lands
lying along twenty-mile stretch of
Sabine river bottoms in the vest
ern portion Of Calcasieu parish. The
cash consideration was $4,000.
A contract for the Immediate erec-
tion of a warehouse at Arcadia was
entered into between the Farmers
Union Warehouse and Commission
Co., OF Arcadia, and the Farmers
Union Banking and Warehouse Co.,
Of Houston, Texas. The warehouse
is to be built of galvanized iron, with
a brick ndation.