Lower coast gazette., 1909-10-02

LOUISIANA
AT A GLANCE
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

robbed OF S1l 900.
Fire at Eden DESTROYED the saw
mill Of Denmdn & Robinson.
Two men were killed by an Hi
nOiS Central train at StraGer.
A meat wal at ~Logansport reduced
the price Of fine beef TO 8 cents per
pound.
jefferson college, at Convent, sus-
tanned The loss Of the music hall and
the ~reicctOry.
A bond issue Of $lJ,0t0 was voted
at Clinton to build q municipal cleo
trio lighting plant.
A partial destruction Of the acid
plant at Eysian Fields entailed a
loss Of ably $4,000.
The KNAPP gas WelI in Terrebonne
parish wrecked itself after getting
beyond control of the CriilerS.
Governor Sanders r~eappointed
John r. Gibbons and Thomas Doug.
las on the Charity hospital board.
Eli Dominique, 8 years old, was
crushed to death at Lafayette when
a falling tree crashed into a house.
The Vermilion parish police jury
declined to reopen the prohibition
question, %postponing action until al
ter next January.
Charles Stone Reiiey Of Gurley was
awarded the United Daughters of the
Confederacy scholarship at the Lou
isiana State university.
The Kentucky Coal company plant
at Donaldsonville was destroyed, and
the steamer Harvester sunk, the to-
tai loss being $50, 900.
The unwilling of the Massachusetts
monument at Baton Rouge Novem-
Der Is will be participated in by both
the Blue and the Gray.
W. d. Russell, deputy organizer for
The Woodmen of the World, secured
in n day twenty-three applications
for membership to Hattiesburg camp
No. 449.
The proposition to extend the
Shreveport TRACTION company's fran.
Clis1 IN exchange ISr universal street
car transfers was killed by the city
council.
The special grand Jury at Plaque
mine adjourned without finding in
dictments under the Sunday and
~Gay-Shattuck laws, declaring that the
necessary evidence could not be Sc.
cured.
The Standard Oil company has pur.
chased thirteen acres in North Bun
kie and has started the erection Of
q puIlDlllS Stdllol. Liz lSNoS SOl1-
pany has also purchased ground for
a depot.
The grand jury of Livingston par.
ish went On record as favoring the
adjustment of the state game laws,
stating that they are SO complicated
that 1t is impossible for the grand
jury to act on them.
The remains of Charles Washing.
ton, c0lored, were found upon the
Southern Pacific track at New Iberia.
He was evidently run over by No. 7
of the Southern Pacific, westbound.
The body was cut into several pieces.
An election was held at Clinton to
take the sense of the property own
ers on the proposition TO ote $4,000
in bonds to purchase and ebuip an
electric light plant to be owned ny
the town. The proposition carried,
the vote being as follows: Votes for,
4S; property for, $S6,76O; votes
against, 80; property against, $4S,645.
Strong action was taken by the
Baton Rouge board of trade at q re-
cent meeting relative to the failure
Of the federal authorities to establish
rail service over the Rock Island
Frisco system. The local merchants
are much exercised over the matter
and will ask the cooperation of the
commercial bodies in Opelousas,
Houston and New Orleans.
1t has been announced that a new
bank, to be known as the First Ma
tional bank of Ruston, will be opened
for business about the first of next
year. The capital will be $4,000.
Mr.. ]. ". Williams, the president,
is q well known citizen of Ruston,
and Mr.. Wimberly Tooke, the cash.
Ter, has been connected with the
First National bank of Arcadia since
its organization several years ago.
A new steamboat line from Baton
Rouge to Morgan City and thence
up the Teche country will be opened
up by Captains Wilds and Prince,
formerly Of Natchez, on October l.
This will be the first steamboat to
be operated out Of Baton Rouge,
with the capital as the home port,
for twenty years. A rate war with
the Southern Pacific for the Teche
valley trade will probably follow its
installation.
j. Lafayette Magee has taken
charge as postmaster of Franklinton
Governor Sanders has named a list
OF delegates to represent Louisiana
at the Deep Waterways ~conentior
which is to be held in New Orleans
the first of November.