The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-03-23
DoNALDsoNYILLE La, SATURDAY, MARCH 23 1907
AROUND THE STATE.
Items OF Interest Gulled From the
Louisiana Press.
Catholic Church at Crosse Tete Destroyed
by Fire-sixteenth Section in Caddo
Parish Brings Record Price.
Negro Hanged at Benton.

tablished near Ferriday.
| A civic league composed entirely 0
ladies was organized at Opelousas.
/ The Salvation Army has established
an anti-suicide bureau in New Orleans
The Monroe common council tool
steps to lower the water and ligh
rates in that city.
The w. r. Pickering Lumber Com
pany's plant at Pickering was par
TALLY destroyed by fire.
A bank with capital stock of SIS,
600 was organized at Collinston anG
will begin business about May /.
The Catholic church at Crosse Tete
was totally destroyed by fire, together
with store building and two cottages.
The fourth annual convention of the
Louisiana State horticultural Society
will be held at Lake Charles on April
3, and 5.
The town council of Houma ap.
propriated $4,000 for dredging Bayou
Terrebonne and $1,000 for dredging
Bayou Lacarpe.
The Louisiana State Press Associa-
ton will hold it's twenty eighth annual
convention at Lafayette on April 80
and May and 2.
The lumber dealers in and around
Morgan City subscribed $45, 900 ia aid
OF the project to deepen the channel of
the Atchafalaya river.
The Kentwood oil mill was sold un-
der exeeutory process at Amite City
to Felix Fl. Moyse, of Summit. Miss,
for the price of $50. .00O
A lumber company with an author
lied capital of $1,000, 900 will be or
ganized at New Orleans to succeed the
Cypress Selling Company.
Frankin's municipal market, which
has been In operation for the past two
months, has SO far proved pro-
nounced success, financially and other
wise.
A British steamer brought cargo
OF mahogany valued at $3.50. 900 direct
to New Orleans from the west coast of
Africa, inaugurating a new trade
route.
The Louisiana Anti Tuberculosis
League accepted the donation OF
tract of land in ST. Tammany parish
and decided to establish sanitarium
thereon.
Robert Stephenson, negro who
brntally murdered John Hawkins, also
colored, in Bossier parish, was le-
gally executed at Benton on Friday of
last week.
The cost of the new courthouse and
jail to be erected at Amite City will be
paid out of the revenues of Tangi-
pahoa parish without increasing the
rate of taxation.
The property owners of Franklin
and Gueydan voted overwhelmingly in
favor of the issuance of bonds for the
purpose of constructing modern high
school buildings.
Inc OAK Bluff sugar factory at
Franklin, St. Mary parish, which was
destroyed by fire during the latter
part of last December, will be re-
built on a larger scale.
The Cecilia plantation near Pain.
courtville, Assumption parish, belong
ing to the estate of the late Numa
Wives, was sold to the Sweet Home
Planting Co.. Ltd, for s21,,000.
A special election will probably be
held in Webster parish for the pur-
pose of voting on the proposition to
issue 3-mill three-year tax for con.
structing, maintaining and repairing
public roads and bridges throughout
the parish.
What is said to be the highest price
ever paid for a section of land in
Louisiana was received by the Caddo3
school board for the sixteenth section
of Caddo parish, adjoining the Pine
Island oil field. The land was sold at
auction and brought S32 600.
The captain and pilot of the steam
ship Hugoma, which sank in the Mis-.
sfssippi river at New Orleans as the
result of collision with the French
cruiser Kleber, were exonerated by
the government inspectors, the blame
for the accident being placed on the
pilot of the French vessel.