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Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
INCREASE CANAL ISSUE
MORE CASH IS NEEDED FOR
THE BIG DITCH.
Appropriation to Cover Estimated
Cost Of Work Is to Be
Asked For. d

observation-disclosures will he asked,
at the instance of President Taft, to
authorize the issuance of bonds to the
extent of the latest estimate of the cost
of the Panama canal. This issue would
be in lieu of that proposed in the rider
to the Payne tariff bill (stricken out in
the senate), authorizing the issuance Of
$40,O00,0 900 in bonds, to reimburse the
general fund Of the treasury for the
purchase of the canal property.
The Goethals estimate of $780,, 0O0, 900
as cost of the canal complete was used
as a basis for the proposed bond issue.
The secretary of the treasury would
be empowered to issue the bonds, as the
money is needed, at interest not to
exceed 3 per cent. Just now the sec.
rotary of the treasury is anxious to
reimburse the working balance in the
treasury and out of the first issue OF
bonds this balance would receive the
sum of $5o,OOo,Ooo made up of the pur.
chase price for the canal company prop.
erty and the $40, 600, 900 paid ont of
the general fund for the purchase of the
canal zone.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
TAFT WILL USE VETO
MUST REDUCE TARIFF DUTIES.
HE SAYS,
Not Free Raw Materialist-Where
Duty Is Unnecessary Will
Not Tolerate Any.

Washington.-Al doubt as to where
President Taft stands with regard to
the downward revision of the tariff was
swept away Friday, when a statement
was given out at the White House set
ting forth in detail what the president
had to say to twenty-three Republican
members of congress, who called to pro-
test against putting raw materials on
the free list.
The president, in this statement, de-
elared that the Republican party is com
mitted to a downward revision; that he
has never had any other idea of the
Chicago platform, and that he person.
ally has promised a downward revision
to the people.
This statement is interpreted in some
quar- ers here tonight as a direct mott
ication to the epnferees on the tariff
hill 4iaat il the measure they finally
agree upon does not constitute a mate.
rial reduction in specific duties the pres
ident will exercise his power of veto.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Complaints Against Salt Water.

Crowley.-A petition is being cir
culated among the rice farmers along
the Abbott. Dus0n canal, scar Egan,
asking the authorities to prevent the
oil men of the Jennings oil field from
pumping salt water into Bayou des
Cannes, from which the water sup
ply of the Abbott-Duson canal Is
drawn. The water of the bayou is
heavily impregnated with salt from
this source and much injury has been
done thereby to rice on the canal.
Salt water from the oil field is said
to extend into the Mermentau river
and TO have been observed as far
down as the Southern Pacific bridge.
Two years ago the same complaint
was made by farmers on the Abbott
Duson canal and oil men were en-
Joined from pumping water into the
bayou. District Attorney Robira will
take action in the matter If evidence
Is given him that the law is being
violated.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24

New Water Transportation Scheme.

New Orleans.-Water Transports
ton from New Orleans to Mobile and
thence up the Alabama and Tombig'
bee rivers, to Montgomery and all
the central portion of that state, is the
proposition which the Birmingham.
Gulf Railway and Navigation COmpa.
ny, of Mobile, proposes to offer ship
pers. The Birmingham, Gulf Railway
and Navigation Company has its
headquarters in Mobile. Mr.. Dew
berry is vice president, and E. R.
Cobb is the general freight agent.
This company operates boats up the
Alabama and Tombigbee rivers, going
as far as Montgomery. It is their
plan to put in through freight rates
from New Orleans to Mobile and
Montgomery. It will be in direct Op-
position to the Louisville and Nash
vile. Captain st. Amant believes he
can make the run to Mobile in 16
hours.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
MRS. HAYES PASSES AWAY
Last Member Of the Family of JEFF
ferson Davis.

Colorado Springs, Colo.-Mrs. J. Adj
son Hayes, daughter of the late Jefferson
Davis, president of the C%onfederacy, died
Sunday night at her home in this city
after an illness of several months.
The cause of her death as announced
by the attending physicians was a com.
plication of diseases.
Mrs. Hayes, the last of the family Of
the late president Of the C%onfederacy,
after the death of her sister, Miss Win.
ME Davis, at Richmond, Va, made a trip
South a few years ago, when she was
made a Daughter of the Confederacy IN
her sisters stead.
Her mother, widow of the Southern
president, died in New York about two
years ago.
Mrs. Hayes is survived by two sons,
Jefferson Hayes Davis and William
Hayes, and two daughters, Lucy Hayes
and Mrs. Virginia Webb, wife Of DR.. Ger
aid B. Webb Of this city. Jefferson Hayes
Davis bears the name Of his grandfather
through a special act of the legislature.
Mrs. Hayes was "a years OF age.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Two Good Catch Crops.

OF the crops which I sowed ahead
Of the c%ultivator at the last cultivation
Of corn and potatoes to get a growth
to turn under in the spring and to pro.
tect the land from winter washing.
rye and dwarf Essex rape were the
most satisfactory.
Rye was sown N year when the
potatoes were taken out in Septem.
Der, and a heavy sod 1t made to turn
under for oats in April.
Another year rye was sown on corn
stubble after the corn vas cut at the
rate Of one and one-quarter bushels
per acre, and it made a fair cover
crop, which l know prevented wash.
ing, though the ground "a narrowed
only twice before drilling in the seed.
Dwarf rape l have always sown at
the rate Of ten pounds Of seed per
acre just before c%ultivating the corn
the last time in July, and have had
a good growth until late in the fall.
which would have made excellent pas.
ture, but a cover crop vas desired, 50
1t was left till spring and turned I'm,
der for oats to enrich and make hui.
mus In the soil.
I should judge it's value as a fertile.
er is about Sc per acre, and the seed
costs only seven cents per pound.
Some Of the rape was green all win.
ter, and persons seeing the growth
it had made in the standing corr were
surprised, while the growth of COW
! pears in the same field was not en-.
c%ouraging. Crimson clover is a good
catch crop, If n can secure a stand,
and 1t lives through the winter. Rape
is the best crop for me, considering
the cost Of seed and its fertilizing
value, and rye is very good, especially
when it is to be turned under for POI
tatoes, or n wishes to pasture it in
the fall. n. Clover, Pennsylvania
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Fear Shortane Of Cotton.

Baton Rouge.-Whether the oil
mills In this section Of the state will
be able to run is a question that at
the present time is giving the man.
agement of the mills much concern.
On account of the short cotton crop,
and the ravages of the weevii there
Is danger that the supply of cotton
seed will not be sufficiently large to
justify the operation Of all of the
mills. The mill managers are now
making an investigation Of the prob
able supply of seed that will be put
on the market this fall, even should
the crop not fall below the present
estimate. It may be necessary for a
certain percentage Of the mills In
this section to be closed in order
that the run OF the mills operated
may be of sufficient duration to make
a ruiz profitable. Few of the mills
in this section are getting in a big
coal supply for the fall and winter
run.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Miniature Statue Placed.

Baton Rouge.-In the State Muse.
UNI. on C%arondelet street (Washing-
placed last week a statuette of Jean
Baptis,e Lemoyne, Stiur de Bienville,
the hardy French-Canadian explorer,
who founded the city of New Or
leans in 1918. This miniature prod
duct of the sculptor's art is destined
to be a model of some grandiose
statue that is to be erected in Jack.
son square, opposite the Cabildo, in
memory of the intrepid voyager, the
man who laid the foundations of the
Crescent City, and built much more
than his imagination ever could have
conceived.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
COTTON BELOW II CENTS.
Break of 100 Points-Weevil Doing
Small Damage.

Small Damage.
Memphis, Tenn.-The price of options
on the new cotton crop sold below IL
cents in New York and New Orleans
Friday, on the publication Of a bulletin
by the governments boil weeyil experts,
saying that the weevils were less threat
eng to the cotton than at this time
last year.
October in New York sold at 1872,
a break of 90 points or $4.65 per bale,
from the high figures of Tuesday. DC.
tober in New Orleans broke to 11.91, or
1o2 points from Tuesdays highest equiv.
alent, to $50 per bale.
In part the decline was due to re.
ports Of showers in Northern Texas and
apprehensions by bulls that general rains
might come to Texas, where drouth has
prevailed for several weeks and moist
ure is greatly needed.
Perhaps, however, the most important
reason for the break was the enthusiast
tic everyday given prices on the advance,
the rise having been carried beyond the
warrant of the crop situation. The
boil weevil news, therefore, became the
occasion, rather than the cause for the
decline.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
B0NI SAYS HE'LL MARRY.
Tells Creditors Bride Will Be George
Gould's Daughter,

Paris.-Incredible as the story may
seem, it is believed among certain well
informed people that Count Boni de Cas-
tellane has been re-establishing his credit
around Paris by repeating confidential
ly" that he is shortly to marry Miss
Marjorie Gould, daughter of George
Gould, when his finances would be fixed
up to the satisfaction of all concerned.
Preposterous as such a story would APP
pear. it is believed at Pre- Catelan, the
fashionable adjunct of the Cafe de
Paris, in the Bots de Boulogne, where
Count Boni has been lately giving en-.
tertainments rivaling those of Frederick
Townsend and Martin in luxury.
When asked if Count Boni paid his
bills, the maitre de hotel of the Cate.
lane replied: no, but he had no fear
of giving him all the credit he wanted,
since Castellane was to marry. Miss
Could"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Burglars Terrorize Town.

Greenville, S. C.-Admitting that the
police force is powerless to cope with
the gang of burglars that has terrorized
G~reenville for months, Mayor Mahon
dcputized a number Of prominent citi.
zens to patrol the streets Of the resi-
dence district. These men will serve
without compensation, and announce
that they propose to end the reign Of
Iawlessness at the expense Of bloodshed,
if necessary. The homes of the mayor
and chief Of police are among those re'
Gently b%urglarized.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Chrysaiis and Larva.

common designation Of army worm. 1t
will be remembered that this species
was exceedingly destructive in most
of the counties of New York state in
1896, and has been injurious here and
there in later years.
An outbreak Of army worms re-
quires prompt treatment If satlsfac
tory results are to be obtained. Grass
or grain in badly-infested fields, if OF
any value, should be cut and removed
at once and the migration or march.
ing of the hungry caterpiliars pre-
vented by digging slight bitches OF
turning burrows toward the advancing
horde. The bitches and burrows can
be made more effective by digging
small holes at intervals Of Is or 70
feet, in which the caterpiliars, turning
to either side, fall and a be readily
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
OF CLOVER
Pestiferous Little Fly Does Much
Damage.
Seed Nudge, One Of the Most De-
structive Insects That the Farmer
Has to Conted With. So Small
Can Hardly Be Seen.
BY PROF. T. w. FOLSOM,

ItIlOiS SO'CSS W NS''NS'sa'S
The worst of the seed pests is the
seed nudge. This fly is SC small that
you may not have seen it, but you can
find many of them in the clover fields
when they are most abundant.
In other words. they are most album
dant when young green clover heads
are most numerous. They are album
dant late in July and early in August.
They lay their eggs on the green
clover heads. They will not lay them
on heads that are on bloom or heads
that have ripened. The female has a
long. flexible lash-like %oyipositor which
she inserts among the flowers, laying
n egg at the base of a tloret.
These eggs are barely visible to the
naked eye, they are 81 small. They
hatch in three days, and the grub, red.
dish, pinkish or sometimes white,
squeezes into the bud and deyours the
semi-huid contents Of the ovary.
This is, Of course, before the flower
has been fortified. Now we can get
rid of this pest very easily. All you
need to do to save your seed from the
nudge is to cut the hay crop a little
carrier than usual.
You can ever wait until part of the
clover is fresh in bloom, but you
should not wait until many of the
heads have turned brown.
If you cut your clover early you
catch these grubs in the heads and
they are killed as the clover dries.
Furthermore, you hasten the matur-
ity Of the second crop Of heads, and
by the time the second brood OF
midges is on the wing the heads are
too ripe for them to lay their eggs in.
The adults are minute, black, fy-like
insects. We find them in abundance
on clover heads about June u, and
again in the middle of August.
They are most numerous whenever
there are the largest number of clover
heads just turning brown. These in
sects do not lay eggs in the green
heads like the seed nudge, and they
cannot lay eggs in seeds that are
hard.
Most of the eggs are laid in the seeds
of flowers which have just begun to
wither-dowers that have been fertil'
lied and the seeds of which are going
to develop.
The female sticks her long, needle
like ovipositor into the green seed and
lays an egg therein, and the grub
when fully grown nearly fills the seed,
The adult escapes from the seed by
biting out a hole in the she'll.
At ~threshing time these shells are
swept away with the chaff, though
many Of the seeds from which the
adult has not emerged remain behind
with the sound seeds. These affected
seeds can be easily recognized.
Clover seed having a grub in it will
not grow. If you want a good crop o.
hay you don't want to let any Of 1t turn
black. To get rid of this seed pest, cut
your clover early.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Handling Fruit.

A machine to handle orangs seems
10 be a success in California. It sorts,
wraps and samples the fruit. The
same process might be applied to the
apple, except that the apple skin is
more tender and the fruit more easily
damaged. Perhaps the idea will be
improved so that the more delicate
fruits can be handled in this whole.
sale way.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Arrest Made on Peonaae CHARGE.

New Orleans.-The first actual ar
rest for peonage in this state was
effected last week by Chief Deputy
United States Marshal T. F. Laiche
OF this city, when he brought from
J~eannerette, iberia parish, a prisoner.
Lynn Smith, whom he took before
United States Commissioner Chapel
la, holding a special session to re-
ceiye the case and determine on the
bond to be given. There have been
several charges Of peonage against
planters and corporations in this
state in past years, but no indict-
ments were ever returned and no ar
rests made. The United States stat
utes define peonage to be the keep
ing in involuntary servitude of any
iaborer or workman to pay off a
debt. The offense Is said to have
been committed in 1908.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
To Celebrate First Train,

Baton Rouge.-All of the railroads
entering Baton Rouge have notified
Secretary F. B. McQueety of the Bat
on Rouge Board of Trade, that they
will give a special rate of one and
one-third of the regular fare on tho
occasion of the celebration of the
crossing of the first trans Mississippi
train at Baton Rouge, July 81.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
To Protect Rice Mill,

Gueydan.-The Planters rice mill
is installing a $4,000 fire protection
plant 1t the Mutual mill of this place.
The plant will consist of a $4,000 gas.
oline engine, deep we'll. tanks, reser-
voir and pipes throughout the mill and
warehouses. 1t will make it the best
protected as well as the cheapest in
surance of any wood frame mill in
the rice belt.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
EnoIish ORANGE Marmalade.

Two dozen juicy oranges, six lemons
(only use juice of, cut rinds Of or.
anges in quarters, put in pan with cold
water. When hot empty water out,
lay rind on board, white side up, and
with small knife cut all white out, then
slice rind in very thin, narrow strips.
Peel off all the white of the orange,
then quarter in small pieces and put
On to boil until cooked. This, run
through a sieve; pulp, throw away.
The juice and the sliced peel measure
and put equal sugar; boil this all to.
rether until thick; stir often.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Freight Conductor is Killed.

Shreveport. H. Bond, a freight
conductor on the Vicksburg, Shreve-
port and Pacific railroad, was thrown
from a freight car while switching in
the yards at Sibley, La, and instant
ly killed. Bond was ON the top of a
a and the sudden stop made by the
train threw him across the track and
several cars passed over his body. He
was we'll known by all the railroad
fraternity, having been employed by
the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pa
ciic several years.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Haskell Pardons Bar Keen.

Guthrie, Okla:-Gov. Haskell has par
doned j. C. Willoughby of Lexington,
KY, serving a 99-year term for killing
Charles Shaw, an Oklahoma City negro:
in 1907, because the negro did not take
off his hat while delivering beer cases
into a saloon where Willoughby wa
tending bar.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Thrown Into Furnace Alive.

La Porte, Ind.-Two white men and
a negro attacked August Wiseman,
Waterman of a steam shovel. beat him
into insensibility, and showed his body
into the boiler of the machine. The
Goals had been banked, but Wiseman's
clothing caught fire. Revived by the
pain of burning, he was able to open the
door and reach out and pull the whistle
cord. Workmen ran to his aid and
dragged him out of the firebox. He was
terribly burned, but has a chance of re-
coyery.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
One Injured; Two Drowned.

Lawton, Okla.-While W. J. Lawson,
a farmer, residing near Walter, was all
sent at Temple, for the purpose of Sc
curing medical aid for his son, John,
aged ten years, who was run over by a
moving machine and seriously injured,
his other two children, aged six and
thirteen, wandered to a stock pond and
were drowned. The injured lad, upon
hearing the cries of his brothers, has
tened as rapidly as possible to their as.
s%istance, but was unable to get them
out.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Leyees Are Breaking.

Cairo, nl.-With the crest of the
present flood at from a foot to eighteen
inches higher than the stage, corn grow
es in this vicinity despair of saving
their crops. Already it is estimated
that the damage to the corn crop be-
tween Cairo and New Madrid, Mo-, will
reach $4,000.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
M0oNSHlNE STILLS INCREASE
Prohibition Law Creates Business
For Illicit Manufacture.

Atlanta, Ga.-More illicit stills were
destroyed in the state Of Georgia dur.
ing the fiscal year just terminated than
were destroyed in Georgia, Alabama,
Florida and Mississippi a year ago.
These statements are taken from the
annual report of Revenue Agent Jas.
H. Surber.
During the year just closed Surber
and his assistants raided and destroyed
GIG stills in Georgia, 231 in Alabama,
"a in Florida and one in Mississippi, a
total of 81.
A year ago the entire number dc.
stroyed was only 40.
The revenue office attributed the in.
crease to the high price and increased
demand for whisky since the prohibition
laws began to be passed in the South.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Globe Tr0tter Ends.

Berlin.-Hans Liam, who started
around the world afoot with his wife
and daughter, on Sept. -, 1900, has just
completed his journey and reached his
home in Passau.
Liam undertook to win a wager that
he could push his family in a cart around
the globe. His wife died during the trip;
but the daughter has grown from a baby
of 2 years to a vigorous child of II years.
Liam claims that he walked 10000 miles
and that he wins $4,000.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Justice Of the Peace indicted.

Shreveport.-After being in session
four days the Caddo parish grand
jury submitted a final report, showing
81 indictments, one against Justice
of the Peace E. T. Fuller of Bessier
City, who is charged with violating
the concubinage law, and is now in
Jail here. The jury made special
mention that few complaints of vio-
lation Of the prohibition law have
been filed since the April session,
and only two true bills for this OF.
tense were returned.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Remedy for Scours.

A stockman says he has saved sew
eral valuable Jersey calves that we're
down with the scours by taking a
.teacupful Of wheat -four and giving a
tablespoonful every minute. He re-
peated this two or three times a day
before feeding and diminished the
feed one,half until the calf got we'll
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Young Lady Passes Away.

New Orleans.-Catherine Thelma
Derby, a 22-year-old young woman Of
more than passing fairness, died at
Hotel Dieu as the result Of antisep-
tic tablets taken with suicidal intent
while the girl was in Memphis, six
days before.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Teachers Salaries Increased.

INTERCHANGEABLE parish school
board and the police jury met in reg
ular session last week. All SCHOOLS
will begin work September 6. The
salaries of teachers have been re-
vised and some important changes
have been made, which are advanta-
ge0us to teachers.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Southern Farming.

A member of the Country Life COM.
mission says the worst agricultural
conditions Of the country are in the
south, because the farmers have
robbed the soil of its humus by grow.
ing cotton and tobacco exclusively for
more than a hundred years.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
800 Quake Victims.

London.-Special dispatches received
here from Athens say that 800 persons
were killed or injured by the earthquake
that occurred Thursday in the province
of Ellis, in Southern Greece. The dam.
age to property also was very great.
Hot water is flowing from many of the
springs in the stricken district.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
NUMBER 80.
OUTBREAK OF ARMY WORM
Appears in Large Numbers on Long
lsland-Farmers Warned to
to Be Prepared.

The army worm, according to re-
cent advices, has appeared in large
numbers at Oakdale, l.. !. This may
be the first of a series OF injuries
here and there throughout this part
of the country, and farmers are ad'
vised to keep a close watch for the
appearance of this pest. The rather
large, dark. ~obscurely striped cater
pillars frequently become very album
dant in gress and grain fields and.
after %deyouring most Of the foliage,
desert the field in search Of more
proyender. This habit has led to the
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Report on Louisiana Crops.

Baton Rouge.-The Department of
Agriculture is making every effort to
secure prompt and accurate data for
the second quarterly report on Louis
lana agricultural conditions. This re-
port is to be issued August 1, and
the department has given notice to
the assessors, who are the CORE
spondents for the board, hat the
data must be accurate and sent in
promptly.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Money Still on Hand.

Tallulah.-The Madison parish po-
lice jury met in regular session and
the first thing considered was the
financial report for the fiscal year
just ended. The report showed re-
ceipts from all sources OF $45,301. 20,
with $~43,109.38 disbursements, leav-
ing a cash balance of s2,191.23 on
hand, and was unanimously adopted.
The %remodeling of the Jail was also
discussed.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24
Offer by Department of Agriculture.

Baton R0uge.-With a view to en-
%couraging the parish fairs to make
collective agricultural and live stock
exhibits at the State Fair to be held
at Shreveport, La, November 1-6,
1909, the Department of Agriculture
and immigration agrees to pay $25,
and so per cent of the freight charges
to each parish fair association that
will install a collective exhibit at the
State Fair. Said amounts to be paid
On satisfactory evidence of the exhib-
it having been installed and render,
ing Of copy of freight bills.