The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-06-01
THE STATE.
Items of Interest GuIled From the
Louisiana Press.
Evidences of Oil Discovered in Webster
Parish-Fiftee Carloads of Irish Po-
tatoes shipped TO Colorado
from CaIcasieu Parish-Big
Sale of swamp Lands.

met at Amite City and organized a
union.
Special school taxes were voted in
the first and fourth districts of Con-
cordia parish.
A freight train on the Louisiana and
Northwest Railway was wrecked near
Homer, but no one was injured.
A S25, 900 oyster and shrimp cannery
will be established at Morgan City by
Lopez Il Dukate, of Biloxi, Miss.
Unmistakahle evidences of the pres
ence of oil were discovered on the farm
of John B. Clement, in Webster par
ish.
A new brick church costing sl5, 900
will be erected at Franklin by the
members of the Episcopal congrega-
tion.
A movement was inaugurated to
have New Orleans designated as a
central reserve city for national bank
funds.
Leon Martin, a negro employed by
the Alexandria Lumber Company, was
run over and killed by log train at
Pineyille.
A syndicate of Missouri and Louis
lana capitalists will be formed to de-
velop extensive tracts of timber lands
in Livingston parish.
All of the residences and business
houses within the corporate limits
of Alexandria are to be fumigated
on Thursday, June 6.
Lightning struck the barn OF Camille
Thibodaux, near Midland, killing two
horses and setting fire to the barn,
which was totally destroyed.
Cal Thomas, a negro, confessed to
numbering his rival, Henry Thomas,
while the latter was asleep in his
cabin six miles from Clinton.
Charles w. Goodyear was elected
president of the New Orleans Great
Northern Railroad to succeed his
brother, the late f. II. Goodyear.
The proposition to levy a 5-mill,
ten-year tax for the purpose OF erect
| Ing a modern brick school building at
Winfield was carried by a large ma
iority.
E. D. Hfgginbotham, of Fordoche,
was lodged in jail at New Roads on
the charge of attempting to criminal1y
assault Rose Higginbotham, aged 16
years.
The Louisiana State Blind Peoples
Association, composed OF the grad
yates of the Institute for the Blind,
held its annual meeting at Baton
Rouge.
Two women, one white and one
colored, escaped from the lepers'
home in Iberville parish and are be-
lieved to have made their way to New
Orleans.
i C. o. Groves and J. N. Warner pur-
chased 300 acres of cut-over pine lands
near Pollock, which they will divide
into 40-acre tracts for sale to prospect
i've settlers.
The eighteenth annual report OF
Superintendent John MeNeese shows
that 9245 children attended the public
schools of Caleasieu parish during
the past year.
The Sabine Lumber Company bought
from W. Scott Matthews Is, 900 acres
of hardwood timber lands in Calcasieu
and other parishes, the consideration
being 800, 900.
| Prof. w. G. Robinson, formerly
president OF the Louisiana Industrial
Institute at Ruston, was elected prin,
cipal of the Winfield high school for
the session of 1907-08.
No trace has been found OF John W
Roth. the aged and wealthy real estate
man who mysteriously disappeared
from Shreveport after drawing a large
sum from bank in that city.
Private VIM. Duggan, Company F
L. S. N. G., was convicted of absent
/ ing himself from muster and sentenced
/ to pay a fine of $40 or be imprisoned
i for thirty days in the parish jail a
Crowley.
Edward Wisner, of New Orleans
sold 10000 acres OF swamp lands ii
Jefferson parish to John D. Wolfe, 0
Mount Vernon, Iowa, who contem
plates launching great reelama
tfon project.
Gen. Alexander Mackenzie, chief 0
engineers, United States army, state,
that nine-foot channel in the Mis-
sissippi river from Cairo to New Or
leans could be secured at compare
lively small cost.
The DeRidder Truck Growers As
soeiatfon shipped fifteen carloads Q
Irish potatoes to various points i
Colorado, as compared with three car
: loads disposed Of last year. III
: average price received was g, 25 pc
100 pounds.
The Pioneer Gooperage Company
Of ST. Louis, Mo-, which operates
large saWmill and heading factory 3
Forest, is building twenty mills
broad gauge railroad ID north gssl
erly direetion from that town. Il
believed the line will eventually be q
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