Lower coast gazette., 1909-02-06
LATEST NEWS
IN LOUISIANA
Coroner's Inquest Exonerates Boy for
Killing Father.

SoiohSF , inquest CHo'e'ateo IVY ~
Killing Father.
OVATION GIVEN MRS. BOOTH.
Two Workmen Injured by Collapse OF
a ScafoId.
Thirty-seven Insane Women Placed in
PineviIIe Asylum.
EstherwOOd.--The Eureka Rice Mill
started with about SO, 900 bags OF
rough rice in sight. They expect to
mill over 1000 bags for the season.
A number of rice buyers are on hand.
Esterwood.-Western Acadia parish
is in deep earnest about the good
roads movement, and has asked the
United States government for all the
assistance of any kind they can give.
Trial read experiments will soon be-
gin.
New Orleans.-ConductOr Burr Hall
Of the Texas and Pacific railroad was
shot and killed by a negro passenger
on his train, near Walls Spur, in
Pointe Coupee parish. The negro was
captured by passengers and members
of the train crew, and carried, with
the remains of the conductor, to New
Roads, the parish seat.
What Constitutes. a Perfect Stand
of Cotton When Fighting the Boil
Weevil?" is the subject Of a bulletin
issued by the Department of Agricul-
ture and immigration by Wilmon New
ell, secretary of the state crop pest
commission. The department, in this
bulletin. advocates planting cotton
close together, something that has
never been advocated before.
Monroe, LA. B. Stevens, who is
erecting a canning factory at Stuff
CART, Ark, is here at the request of
the Monroe Progressive League, as
sisting in organizing a factory for
this place. The factory will be
equipped to can vegetables and
fruits and will be connected with the
molasses canning factory, an old in
stitution.
Crowley.-A movement is on foot
here to establish a large corn ware
house at this place for the sale of corn
raised in this and neighboring par
ishes. The Nutrilene Feed Company
has agreed to take a carload a day
for the manufacture of nutrilene, and
local feed dealers agree TO buy the
corr at current market rates, instead
of Northern and Western corn.
A~bbeyville, Lathe right Of way
having been cleared for the Intercost-
al Canal Contractor John Anderson
will, in a few days, resume work at
the mouth of Sooner Bayou on Yer
million Bay, and will push the work
to completion. The work of dredging
has been suspended for more than a
month on account of trouble in secur-
ing the right of way.
Monroe.-Dave Lemle had a narrow
escape from being killed while out
turkey hunting with Poncefort Cam.
Lemle laid down by the side OF a
log to take a nap, and when Cam
came up some time later he mistook
Lemle for a turkey and took a shot at
him with a load of buckshot. One of
the bullets struck Lemle a glancing
blow in the forehead, inflicting a pain
full but not serious wound.
Grand Cane.-The merchants are
receiving shipments of farm imple-
ments on every train and farming Is
commencing in dead earnest. All who
are going to raise Irish potatoes for
market are either planting or are
ready to plant. Farmers throughout
the parish are taking advantage of
the fine weather and excellent condi-
tion of the soil and are making rapid
progress in preparing the land for the
coming crop.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS white fe-
male patients of the Louisiana Re-
treat and House of Detention in New
Orleans were received and admitted
in the Hospital for Insane, near Pine.
vile. Special arrangements had been
made by DR.. John N. Thomas, the SUI
p%erintendent, for their admission, In
advance of their coming, and the hos
pital staff and attendants completed
the transfer in less than ar hour from
the special car in which the patients
had been brought.
Coushatta. ben S. Lee, a well.
known young man here, while hunt
ing. accidentally dropped a revolver,
and in the fall it was dicharged, the
ball striking him in the shoulder and
seriously ~wounding him. This is the
second accident of the kind that has
happened here in the last few days.
Tony Thornton, Jr., accidentally dis
charged his shotgun a few days ago
and received serious flesh wounds in
the leg and arm. but is slowly recover
ing.
Monroe.-Mrs. Darlington Booth met