Lower coast gazette., 1909-09-18

An immigration conference will be
held in New Orleans during the sessions
Of the Waterways Convention.
1t is stated that the price of coal will
be much lower this winter.
The U. S. Department of Agriculture
has issued a valuable bulletin, Farmers
Bulletin 3G9. entitled How to Destroy
Rats, prepared by David f. Lantz, as
sistant in the Bureau of Biological Sur
vey. The bulletin covers means Of re-
pressing rats, rat proof building, keep
ing food from rats, natural enemies of
rats, destruction Of rats by traps, poi
sons, domestic animals, fumigation,
micro-organisms and organized efforts
to destroy rats. Considering the enor-
nous annual loss incurred annually in
the United States from rats, this bull
letin should be procured by every far.
mer and householder. carefully studied
and acted upon
President Taft started on his tour of
the West and South on Wednesday, the
18th. Thirty states will be traversed
during the trip and 1858 miles COW
cred. On October l6 the president and
his party will reach ElPaso, where the
meeting between President Diaz and
President Taft has been arranged.
From ElPaso the presidential party will
tour various Texas points, arriving in
St. Louis, Mo. October Is. and begin
ming the trip down the Mississippi that
same evening, arriving in New Orleans
the 3Oth.
Col NJ. J. O'Brien, president of the
Southern express Co., died in New
York of pneumonia on September H..
A shipment Of five thousand sheep
has recently been made from Lake
Charles, La, to the lOl Ranch in Okla
homa, belonging to the Miller Bros.
La Paz, in Lower California, was de-
stroyed by q cyclone last week. La
Paz is said to be the oldest settlement
in the CALIFORNIA;,
The church of St. John the Baptist
on Dryades Street, New Orleans, was
struck by lightning early Monday morn
ing and practically destroyed by fire.
The church was built in 1869.
The battleship Louisiana breaks the
worlds record at target practice off
the Virginia Capes. The gunners made
sixteen hits out of sixteen shots, the
target being two thousand yards dis
tant and twelve by twenty feet in size.
The ship averaged more than two hits
per gun a minute.
John W.. Castles, at one time presi-
dent of the Hibernia Bank of New Or
leans, but who removed to New York
to accept the vice presidency of the
Guaranty Trust Co., committed suicide
in New York on the 18th. III health is
said to be the cause. He was a son in
law of the late Col. B. F. Eshleman.
The body Of Lieutenant James N.
Sutton, concerning whose death such a
controversy has arisen between his mo-
Their and the U. S. authorities, has
been exhumed and examined by experts
and it is declared by the doctors and
lawyers representing Mrs. Sutton that
the wound in young Sutton's head was
not self inflicted. After the autopsy
the body was reinterred in c%onsecrated
ground in Arlington Cemetery.
Halley's comet, which is reported at
large after seventy years absence, has
been reported by Prof. Wolff Of Hell
delburg. Germany, to the Harvard Oh
servatory as having been visible the
night of September II.
The New Orleans Board of Health is
keeping vigorously after the festive
milkman and his too profuse use of
water in his milk and is daily making
afidavits against offenders.
The Navy Department having abol-
ished the use Of fgureheads on war
vessels, the U. S. Government has
given the figureheads of the various
battleships to the states whose names
the ships bear. The %figurehead of the
battleship Louisiana has just arrived in
Baton Rouge and will be given a place
of honor somewhere in the state house.
The fgurehead weighs 1900 pounds and
arrived packed in five cases.
The Mississippi Rice Growers Asso-
citation was organized at Lake Provi-
dence in East Carroll Parish this week.
The idea is to make this organization
include all the rice planters of the Miss
issippi River and its tributaries in Lou
isiana, Mississippi and Arkansas.
Tuesday, Sept ID, was the anniver-
sary of the day when in 1873 New Or
leans shook off the carpet bag rule.
The Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition
in Seattle, Washington, which is the
first exposition on record that opened
with all its buildings complete, is also
making a financial record for itself and
reports come that the exposition has