The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-01
Observation-Disclosures
!: LOUISIANA
!. AT A GLANCE I
Observation-Disclosures.

robbed of 81, 200.
Fire at Eden destroyed the saw.
mill of Denman & Robinson.
Two men were killed by an iii.
nois Central train at Strader.
A meat war al Iogansport reduced
The price Of fine beef TO cents per
pound.
Jefferson college, at Convent, sus-
tanned the loss Of the music hall and
the refectory.
A bond issue Of $15,0GO was voted
| at Clinton to build Il municipal elcc-
trio lighting plant
A partial destruction Of the acid
plant al Elysian Fields entailed a
loss of probably $4,000.
The Knapp gas well in TerrebOnne
parish wrecked itself after getting
beyond control Of the drilerS.
Governor Sanders reappointed
John 7. Gibbons and Thomas Doug
las on the Charity hospital board.
Eli Dominique, 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 aClOn 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 pant
at DOnaldsOnville was destroyed, and
the steamer Harvester sunk, the TO-
tai loss being $15U,0O0.
The unwilling of he Massa chuselts
monument at Baton Rouge Novem-
Der Is will be participated i'll by both
the Blue and the Gray.
W. d. Russell, deputy organizer for
the WOOdmen OF the World, secured
in one day lwenty-ihree applications
for membership TO Haltiesburg camp
No. 449.
Shreveport Traction company's fran
chise in exchange for universal street
car transfers was killed by the city
council.
The special grand jury at Plaque
mine adjourned without finding i'll
dictments under the Sunday and
Gay-Snattuck 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
pumping station. The Texas com
pany has also purchased ground for
depot.
The grand jury Of Livingston par,
ish went on record as fav0ring 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, colored, were found upon the
Southern Pacific track at New Iberia
He was evidently run over by No.
of tne Southern Pacific, westbound.
The body was cut into several pieces.
An election was held at Clinton 10
take the sense of the property own
ers on the proposition 70 Ote $l5,00o
in bonds TO purchase and ebuip an
electric light plant to be owned Wy
the town. The proposition carried,
the vote being as follows: Votes for,
As; property for, $S6,760 votes |
against, SO; property against, $4S,645. !
Strong action was taken by the |
Baton Rouge board of trade at re-
cent meeting relative 20 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 he |
bodies in Opelousas,
Houston and New Orleans.
It has been announced that a new
bank, TO be known as the First Ma,
.ional bank of Ruston, will be opened
Tor business about the first Of next
year. The capital will be $4,000.
Mr.. J. w. Williams, the president,
s a we'll known citizen of Ruston,
and Mr.. Wimberly Tooke, the cash
err, has been connected with the
First National bank of Arcadia since
is organization several years ago.
A new steamboat line from Baton
Rouge to Morgan City ard thence
Up the Teche country will be opened
Up by Captains Wilds and Prince,
ormerly of Natchez, OH October /.
This will be the first steamboat TO
Re operated out OF Baton Rouge
With the capital as the home port,