Lower coast gazette., 1909-12-04
STATE NEWS.

tractors, are ready to begin on the
Fast Jetty extension of Southwest Pass
and hope to have it finished in about
four months time.
The New Orleans Board Of Police
Commissioners have raised the pay Of
policemen to $75 per month and serge
ants to 800.
The Board Of Commissioners for the
Bayou Terre aux BGufs Drainage Dis
trict in the parish OF St. Bernard, has
issued q call for HI election to express
the will Of the property holders on the
proposition to levy a tax Of six cents
per acre on all the land IN the district
for a period Of forty years.
Wyatt Ingram, the defaulting ex-
trust officer of the Hibernia Bank. left
New Orleans last week for a twelve
year ~sojourn IN Baton Rouge. He Was
greeted in the peniLentiary By his name
sake W. 8. Ingram. who is serving
time for embezzljag funds from the
State Board Of Health. Ingram hav-
ing at one time been a medical student
will, it is said. probably be assigned to
the medical department of the peniten-
tiary.
The first plantation to finish grinding
in Louisiana was the Allandale place
in West Baton Rouge. Two million
pounds Of sugar were made, the cane
averaging l25 pounds Of sugar to the
ton.
Rev. A. II. Shankle. minister Of the
Methodist church in Ruston, La. has
been exonerated of a charge of heresy
made against him because he stated
that parts of the bible contained legends
and folklore.
The New Orleans Elks distributed
1900 baskets full of good things on
Thanksgiving Day.
The pupils Of Miss Sophie Wright's
Home Institute distributed 400 baskets
among the poor On Thanksgiving Day.
The State Baptist Missionary Asso-
citation met in Mansfield, La. the other
day and elected James W. Parsons of
Mansfield, president of the convention.
DR.. E. C. McKowen, accused Of the
murder Of E. K, Judson, an inmate of
the state insane asylum at jackson, La.
has been removed from the jail in st.
Francisville and taken to Clinton in
East Feliciana, in which parish it is al
legged the murder occurred.
The steamer Utstein, which recently
sailed from New Orleans for Nicaragua
reached BIuefieIds on Nov. Is, with
1000 Mauser rifles, $50, 900 rounds of
ammunition and some light artillery
ior the revolutioniSts. 1t is stated that
they are DESTROYS of having the Utstein
return to New Orleans Immediately for
more supplies.
Up tc November rs, the poll tax re-
setpts in New Orleans for the year had
reached but II 900 ard in order to ex-
pediate the gathering in of the forty or
more thousands, branch poh tax de-
partMents have been established at va
riuus points in the city.
Leonce Sandoz, the editor of the
Opelousas, La, Courier, and wei
known member of the press in Louisi-
and, died at his home in Opelousas on
Nov. 25 from a stroke of paralysis.
Attorney General Guion has handed
down an opinion that the state Levee
Boards are not empowered to make an
appropriation to pay the expenses of
delegates to waterways conventions.
j. E. Cooper of the Louisiana Fruit
and Truck Farm Mfg. Co. Ltd, of New
Orleans, has just closed a deal for the
purchase Of 4sOO acres Of land near
Coyington, La. which will be divided
into tracts and settled with northern
farmers. Mr., Cooper is quoted as say
ing he already has thirty-eight families
ready to start south. Of this tract
some forty or fifty acres will be set
aside to be utilized as an experiment
farm, a COMPETENT man being placed in
charge, who will cultivate all the pro-
ducts that can be grown in St, Tam
many and by the results obtained there
the truckers will be guided in their
work.
A life insurance company, capitalized
at $500, 900. has been organized in
Breaux Bridge, La, under the name
of the Latin-American Casualty and
Life Insurance Co.
The Daily Enterprise Leader of New
Iberia, La. has suspended pub LEGATION
on account of the inability of the man.
agment to make the venture pay, The
Weekly Enterprise will continue in
business.
A new system Of keyless fire alarm
boxes is being installed in New Orleans,
The boxes have a large gong inside in
addition to the regular alarming mech
anism and there is a lever ~protruding
from the box, which, when pulled and