Lower coast gazette., 1909-02-20
LATEST NEWS
IN LOUISIANA
Mother and Boy Burn to Death While
Father is Digging Grave.
TAFT GIVEN A GRAND OVATION
Four Bueiness Houses Destroyed BY
- Fire-Loss 5000.

Four Bueiness Houses Destroyed BY
Fire-Loss 5000.
Government Building and Free Mail
Delivery Assured.
The state yetinaTy examiners a
IA applicants before gtnem at their
last meeting.
Governor Sanders inspected the
Southern University farm last week
and said it would hEe to be made
self-supportipp or be sold.
The Louisiana Slate University
band is practicing fol the annual trip
TO New Orleans, when the cadets will
take part in the carnyal parade.
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Judge Brunof at Bdon Rouge held
that saloons within 500 feet airline
of a church or schoolcome within the
provisions of the GE-Shattuck law,
and instructed judgments accord
ing!y.
Alexandria.-An Unfortunate acct
dent occurred here IN which the ~
year-oid daughter ofTurner Goldman
of Spring Creek, hal II of her legs
crushed by the trap railroad engine
Of the Rapides Timber Company,
which struck her.
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Lake Charles.-Gound has been
acquired at Kinde by a company
headed by j. AltoI Foster, manager
of the Lake Charts rice mill, for a
rice mill to be butt in time for the
coming season. he mill will have
600 barrels daily bapacity and will
cost $4,000. Citi3ns of Kinder do
mated the site am guaranteed free
dom from taxation for ten years.
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Monroe.-W. II! Christian, depot
agent for the Iron Mountain at Riv-
erton, is missing ad along with him
the company's moiey and everything
that could be concerted into money.
Christian was CHECKED into the Office
abou, a week agq|and the last seen
OF him was in Mo4oe Saturday night.
He has two b%lanldexpress money or
ders and took 10 coupon tickets.
The American SGety Company was
on his bond for 1000.
i
Beaumont, TeXEBelated news has
reached here fro1 Florein, La, to the
effect that Mrs. i. r. Salter and her
four.year-old som Hoyt, were burned
to death seveN miles from that
I place. While ptying with fire Sun
day the little blows clothing be-
came ignited an in her efforts to
save her boy The mothers dress
caught fire. Boil we're so badly burn
ed that hey did in fearful agony.
The father wasaway from home at
the time diggin3 a grave.
r.
Alexandria.-Ihe Alexandria broom
factory, of Will A. Broussard and
G. P. GremillA are the promoters,
expects to be4 operations between
the first and neenth of next month.
The factory VI be located on Mon
roe street. 4e machinery will be-
gin to arrivawithin the next few
days. The bmoters are also con
tracing for u planting and harvest
ing Of broon3 corn in large quaint.
ties.
Baton Rou0.-The reports receiv-
ed here froa the. surrounding sugar
cane territo4 is TO the effect that
the recent "a weather did no dam
age to the Inc crop. The ground
was not from deep enough to do
harm, and planters report that
the eyes ofzhe stubble are in per-
feet condit&n. Even the second
years stubA is in a good state OF
preservation A majority of the cane
planters VII finish planting their
crop this oiNext week. Many have
already tini I'D, and, as a rule, in
this s~ectio4 the farmers have in
creased th& cane acreage and cut
down the treage that in the past
a grownn cotton, on account OF
the bell WIN.
Baton Alge.-That there were
possibly al many as nine hundred
teachers iQLouisiana teaching with.
out the n&essary certificates from
the state apartment is revealed by
the report1 which have been received
by the del ttment of education from
twenty-five parishes, showing that
AT teach}e took the examination.
Superintel mt Harris has announced
that even person who teaches in
Louisiana 3ublic schools must have
a certfca Mr.. Harris is making
up the Ia tuary quarterly apportion-
ment to schools. The apportion-
ment viii e based on S1.35 for each
educable hild. Mr.. Harris is also
making the checks for the six
teenth 81 ion school land money to
be sent the different parishes.
Piauca le.-This section is expe-
riencing ke longest drought that it
has seer br many years at this time
OF the Ar, as rain has not fallen
here Tor 9 last FIVE weeks. Cisterns
are run he dry, and should there
be anot week Of dry weather many
acres q and will remain unbroken
until It ms, which will set the field |