Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-28
LOUISIANA
At A Glance

strike.
Lee HargrOye, clerk in the post Of
flee at OakdaIe, La, charged with
rObbing the mails, was released on
bond at Lake Charles.
Aldo Abucherry, a Syrian p"ddlcr,
is held at Convent in connection with
the killing Of Louise Syczia, a woman
companion, near Excelsior Station.
A good roads convention will be
held at Napolconyille at q date TO be
suggested by Governor Sanders, wac
will be asked to make al address.
With the arrest Of four negroes at
Morgan City it is thought some clue
may be obtained TO a series OF bur
glaries there.
A model road from Baton Rouge to
Hope Villa, the first link in the levee
highway from New Orleans, is to be
constructed at once.
Several parish assessors have been
called to account for failure to use
the rate OF assessment fixed by the
Louisiana board of equalization in as
sesSing pine lands.
Owing to heavy pulling on teams,
many rice farmers are making ar
rangements TO attach small four
horsepower gas engines to run the
binders.
Mr.. B. Mandelson, grand chancel-
lor commander of the state OF Louisl-
ana, knights of Pythias, is making
the rounds visiting the different
lodges of the state.
Governor Sanders has appointed
DR.. Thomas K. Roy Of Avoyelles Par
ish a member of the state board OF
health, vice Sidney +. Porter OF Avoy.
Giles, resigned.
The Vile Platte Town Site com
pany has disposed OF a great num-
Der of lots, on which the purchasers
have decided to build substantial res
licences and places Of business.
The oyster and fish companies in
Morg2ll City and Berwick have an
nounced the opening Of the oyster
season for September 30. Prospects
are for a fine quality of stock this
season.
The New Orleans.Baton Rouge
Good Roads association adjourned
after increasing the fund and arrangt
ing for a meeting of the executive
committee with Governor Sanders IN
New Orleans.
The management of the Baton
Rouge canning plant has set October
as the date for resuming operation OF
the plant, which, the management
says, will be in ample time to take
care of the sweet potato crop.
A new tram railroad running from
Hemphill to Boyce will be built by a
sawmill firm, which is surveying the
right of way. This will help to break
up a long horse and empower haul,
and may some day develop into a st.
Louis route.
Governor Sanders has approved the
verdict OF the jury, composed OF mem
bers of the port commissioner and
fellow bar pilots, who tried and &C.
quilted E. T. Smith of the charge OF
grounding the steamer Ramore Head.
Smith is a bar pilot.
The y. S. war department has
authorized a survey made of Bayou
Quede Tortue for the purpose of form.
ing a plan to dredge the bayou and
clean 1t up. The surveying party
will be in the field in the course of a
few weeks for that purpose.
Harry P. Gamble, secretary of the
state commission for the conserva.
ton of the natural esources of
Louisiana, has written a letter to W.
N. Curley, secretary of the state
board OF equalization, asking for data
relative to the timbered lands of
Louisiana.
Judge Edwards, in a decision made
public at Opelousas, holds that the
act creating E%vangeline Parish by
dividing St. Landry is constitutional
and legal, and that the suit attack
ing the act on these grounds will be
dismissed. An appeal will be taken
to the supreme court at once.
The district and parish executive
committee of the Farmers Union re-
Gently held a meeting in Baton Rouge
Tor the purpose of discussing mat.
tiers connected with the cotton crop,
but, like all the meetings of the I'm
ion, the gathering was held behind
closed doors and there was nothing
to give out for publication.
FRED Grace, register of the state
land office, has made public another
complaint from a north Louisiana par,
lsh OF the cutting of timber from the
state lands, and the register has re-
ported the matter to the district at
torney OF the parish in which the
depredations have taken place, with
a request that the matter be placed
in the hands of the grand jury.
The New Orleans school board has
decided not to employ married wom.
en- as teachers.
After exceeding the endurance test
ride that Theodore Roosevelt set up
for the army officers, j. L. Bankston
hNH 80 - lN-.