St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-12-15
NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE STATE.
Alexandria Citizen Finds Gold i'm His Garden=-Bride
of Fifty=Two Days Suicides-=Cadet Felix
Reinstated== =Other News.

IS Steps have been taken to build
new court house at Lafayette.
Mrs. Dr) F. s. Mudd died at Lafs
yette on December 6, aged 65 years
j 8 months and 6 days.
q The town council of Lecompte ha
y raised the liquor license of that tow
from $500 to $225O.
The contract for building the Cd
Fellows home at Crowley was let t
a Shreveport firm for S13,88O.
!, A movement is on foot at Lecompt
to organize a stock company to buil1
and operate large sugar refinery.
4 Cotton mills in Guatemala have
changed the route of their shipmen
, of cotton from San Francisco to New
:. Orleans.
j In digging an artesian well in Grant
parish, salt water was struck at 8
depth of $40 feet, and the well had
to be abandoned.
! Tom Butler, a negro, plead guilty
and was sentenced to life imprison-
ment for criminal assault upoh his
9-year-old daughter, at Luling, La.
In fight between town marshal
Shaw and blind tiger operator
named Sanders Day, at Kentwood, the
latter was killed and the former
slightly wounded.
Ward Constable ]. N. Rachal was
killed by a restaurant keeper named
Herring at Alexandria. The tragedy
was the result Of a difficulty which
happened in Herring's restaurant.
Jim Waters, a white man, 18 years
old, and negro named Nash were
killed at Atlanta, La, not far from
Alexandria, by the collision of a log
train with detached locomotive.
The town council of Lafayette has
adopted an ordinance compelling the
railroad company to employ a man
for the purpose of calling trains and
giving passengers all information de-
sired as to train movements.
J. E. Edmunds, editor of the Baton
Rouge State, is now State Printer,
having succeeded to the position
when Printer Brunot was elected Dis
trict Judge Of East Baton Rouge par
ish. Mr.. Edmunds was a reporter on
the Times-Democrat before he be-
came editor of the State.
Oil mills all over the State are COM
planning of the scarcity Of tank cars
in which to handle their export to
Northern markets and export points.
Some of the mills were forced to close
down on account of inability to get
cars to move their products, the
tanks at the mill being full.
Prof. ]. H. billiard, Dean of Tulane
University and member of the State
Board of Education, accompanied by
Prof. Nelson, prominent educator
from the State of Illinois, are making
a tour of Louisiana to learn by actual
observation the condition Of the school
system in the various parishes.
Cadet Felix, who was suspended
from the Southwestern Louisiana In
dustrial Institute atLafayette for dis
obedience, in that he attended a
church service after having been re-
fused leave of absence for the occa-
sion by President Stephens, viii be
reinstated, the matter having been
amicably settled.
The town of Homer is threatened |
with a fuel famine. Few families
have their winter supply of wood, and
the electric lights plant had to close
down on account Of lack of fuel. The
town depends ON the farmers to haul
the supply of wood, the only fuel used
there, and the scarcity of labor forced
the farmers to devote their entire |
time to harvesting the crop.
B. NJ. Grisson, citizen residing in |
Alexandria, while digging a hole in
his garden found a vessel made Of
potter's clay, which contained 81, ,358-
80 in gold. The gold was mostly in
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