The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-01-26
DoNALDsoNyILLE LA, SATURDAY, JANUARY e. 1907
AROUND THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Gulled From the
Louisiana Press.
Twenty-six New Banks Organized in Lou
isiana Last Year-Condemned Muir
derers to be Executed March /.
State Board of Equaliza-
ton Elects omcers.

established at Monroe.
The municipal power plant at Alb.
beyille is now self-supporting.
The second annual convention of the
Yellow Pine Manufacturers Associa-
tion was held at New Orleans.
| Louisiana produced 7,176, 338 bar
rels of oil in 1906, a decrease of 1904,
/ 078. barrels from the 1905 output.
Three million dollars were invested
| in tWenty-six new banks organized in
Louisiana during the year 1906.
The residence of Mrs. N. C. Wash
burn, at Monroe, was totally destroyed
by fire, entailing a loss OF $4,000.
The municipal authorities of Plaque
mine purchased 500 yards of gravel
for use on the streets of that town.
Thieves entered the stable of II. S.
Crozier, on Louisa plantation, Jetfer-
son parish, and stole two valuable
mules.
It is proposed to build new court
house, costing in the neighborhood of
$50, 900, at Amite City, Tangipahoa
parish.
The national house of representa-
tives passed a bill Quieting the title to
large tract OF land in Natchitoches
parish.
Reginald Dykers, of New Orleans,
was appointed distributing agent of
the state board of agriculture and i'm
migration.
Louis P. Rice & Company will es-
tablish at New Orleans the largest
horse collar and collar pad factory in
the south.
The business section of the town of
Gueydan was visited by disastrous
fire, property valued at 10000 being
destroyed.
Shreveport is an applicant for the
honor of entertaining this years con-
vention of the Louisiana BankeSs'
Association.
The Monroe Lumber Company IS saw
mill plant and timber holdings were
sold to a syndicate Of Michigan capi-
talists for $500, 900.
Louis Reece, a convict who escaped
from the state penitentiary at Baton
Rouge Ia July of last year, was cap
tured at Houston, Texas.
j. C. CARRIER, of Jackson, Miss,
was awarded the contract for erecting
a new high school building at Coving-
ton to cost about S34, 900.
An analysis of thirteen samples of
milk taken from dealers at New iberia
showed that seven were diluted with
water, one as high as 21.8 per cent.
Liberal provisions for waterway inn
provements in Louisiana have been
made by the rivers and harbors COM
mittee of the national house of repre-
sentatives.
A mild type of small pox is preVa-
lent in the northern part of st. Helena
parish. The disease has been raging
for some time just across the state line
in Mississippi.
NJ. W. Harvey's sawmill near Abita
Springs, St. Tammany parish, was
completely destroyed by fire, together
with about 100, 600 feet of pine lumber
and two cars loaded with slabs.
Pearl Smith, negro wanted in Jas.
per county, Texas, to answer to
charge of murder, was arrested at
Leesville while at work in the sawmin
of the Gulf Land and Timber Com
pany.
State Senator u. Billingsley, of
Mansfield, and his daughter, Miss Ida
Florence Billingsley, were arrested at
Shreveport on federal warrants charg-
ing perjury in connection with home
stead entries.
Fireman Ed. Cook was scalded to
death and Engineer j Jack Morgan
dangerously injured as the result of
head-on collision between freight
trains on the Kansas City Southern
Railroad at Carson, Vernon parish.
James Raymond Hogan, who killed
Christopher Brigsten in New Orleans
on Nov. Is, 1905, and Robert Steven
son, who murdered Willie Hoffman in
Bossier parish on Sept. %, 1906, viii
expiate their.crimes upon the gallows
Friday, March {.
John T. Cole, a prominent planter of
Ouachita parish, was tried before the
Untted States court at San Antonio,
Texas, on charge of peonage. The
jury was unable to reach a verdict,
ten of It's members standing for ac-
quittal and two for conviction.
A white man giving his name as
Dennis S. Dunkan was found wander
ing around swamp in the rear OF
GaryVille, ST. John parish, in nude
condition. Dunkan claims to be. of
Grecian birth, and says he has
brother living at Brunswick, Ca.
The state board of equalization held
its initial meeting at Baton Rouge
last Monday and organized by elect
ing Hon. Wm. Wallace, of the fourth
district. permanent chairman, and w
n. curley. of Lake Charles. secretary.
+. A. VOORHEES,, Of St. Landry, and
Allan Beary, Of New Orleans, we're
elected assistant secretaries.