The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-04-27
AROUND THE STATE.
Items Of Interest CuIled From the
Louisiana Press.
Big increase in Assessment of cumber-
land Telephone Company's Louisi-
ana Properties-P Public Night
schools to be Established
In CaIcasieu Parish.

in Calcasieu Parish.
A national bank will shortly be es-
tablished at Eunice.
Public night schools will be estab-
lished at various points throughout
Caleasieu parish.
The new Baptist church at Coying-
ton was formally dedicated with i'm
pressiye ceremonies.
Henry Doane, a New Orleans street
sweeper, was run over and killed by
an automobile in that city.
DR.. j. P. Scott, prominent drug
gist of Shreveport, was fined S100 for
selling liquor without a license.
T. J. JeWett, the Oldest passenger
conductor on the Illinois Central Rail-
road, died at his home in New Orleans.
In the district court at Lake Charles,
John Smith and Levi Goldsby were
fined $3.50 each for carrying concealed
weapons.
The annual athletic and oratorical
contests of the Southwestern Louisiana
Interscholastic Association were held
at Lafayette.
The annual convention of the Louis
lana Homestead League was held at
Baton Rouge. Charles T. Buck, of
New Orleans, was elected president.
A site was selected for the public
library to be erected at Alexandria
with funds provided by S. S. Hunter,
of that city, and Andrew Carnegie.
Louis L. C1ack, son of Sheriff j.
81. C1aek, was shot and killed at ST.
Franeisyille by Ed. Mccoy, a rail-
road carpenter, who made his escape.
Robert Robinson, night ticket agent
at the union depot in Shreveport, mys-
teriously disappeared last Saturday
and has not been seen or heard from
since.
Prof. E. II. Fisher, a graduate of
Vanderbilt University and a native of
Tennessee, was elected principal of the
Arcadia central high school for the
session of 19o7-o8.
j. D. Kerr, formerly secretary of
the Louisiana Cotton Seed Crushers'
Association, was arrested at New Or
leans on charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses.
The Black Lake Lumber Company,
of Campti, purchased the plant of the
Montrose Lumber Company, in Nat
chitoehes parish, together with 40, 900
acres of timber land, for 81 ,000, 900.
The Louisiana department of agri-
culture and immigration may test the
constitutionality of the federal law
restraining individual states from en-
couraging aliens to come to this
country.
The Louisiana properties of the
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph
Company were assessed at 50, 600, 900
by the state board of appraisers, an
increase of 81, ,175, 900 over last years
figures.
Travis Gibbs, a 13-year-old white
boy, was shot and perhaps fatally
wounded by a negro named Frank
stayton at Hadley, Caddo parish.
stayton attempted to escape, but was
captured and lodged in jail at shreve-
port.
A progressive league was organized
at Arcadia with lis charter members,
embracing practically every business
and professional man, clerk and book
keeper il the town, and a large NUM-
Der of prominent farmers residing in
the vicinity.
The contract for the erection Of two
three-story brick buildings on the
grounds of the Louisiana insane asy-
lum at Pineville, Rapides parish. was
awarded to E. T. Elan, who con-
structed the other buildings occupied
by the asylum.
w. Z. Foster, of Shreveport, was
invited BY Harvie Jordan, president
OF the Southern Cotton Association,
to accompany him to Vienna, Austria,
for the purpose OF representing the as
sociation at the International Cotton
Spinners' Congress to be held in that
city next month.
Sol. Fletcher and James Campbell,
rival livery men OF Rosepine, Vernon
parish, fought duel with pistols as
the outcome of an alteration over
business matters. Fletcher was sho,
three times and died almost Instantly,
while Campbell received scalp wound
and was also shot in the left arm.
Numbers of large bullfrogs are be.
ing shipped from Estherwood TO Cal
ifornia and will be utilized in intro.
ducing the frog industry into ths
southern portion of that state. Lou.
fsiana is noted for producing the
largest frogs in the United States
many of them weighing over bWC
pounds.
The case Of DR.. r. a. Brown
/ charged with participation IN tht
lynching of Robert J Rogers, at Tai
luIah, was continued until the mex
term of court, owing 20 the illness o.
material state witness. The latter
is said to be afflicted with eonsump
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