Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-31

the first of July, and another during
the period when the shrimp are yer,
small. Prof. Gates states that expert
ments have shown that regulating tho
size Of the meshes of a seine does TO
keep the small shrimp from being
caught. as nets with two inch meshes
have been found to catch very small
shrimp. A shrimp does not begin t,
breed until two years after it has
been Matched.
The Hercules Company, Ltd, OF
which Mr.. Emile Perilliat, brother oil
Gen. Arsene Perilliat, is president, has
secured the contract for building the
new Carrolton levee. Creosoted lum.
Der will be used in the revetment. The
Perilliat bid was 33 l-3 cents per cubic
yard of earth; Sal. 10 per thousand fol
B. NJ. cypress and s61. Is per Thousand
for B. M. creosoted pine for revetmen,
work.
Euzeb Durapeau Of Browns Island
went to Lake Arthur in Calcasieu par
ish last week to be treated for Charlton
which he had contracted in his neck.
This is the second case of this sort in
that locality.
The encampment of the Louisiana
troops at Camp Stafford on the out.
skirts of Alexandria, La. ended in a
rainstorm on the 20 of July.
Galveston, Texas, on Wednesday,
July q. was swept by a hurricane
reaching in its force the dreadful one
of September 1900, but the e wal
built by the national government pre-
vented the i%nundation of the city and
no fatalities occurred in the city,
although some fishing parties out in the
Gulf near Galveston were lost. The
wind at one time reached a velocity of
seventy miles an hour.
The board of directors of the Hiber-
MIA bank have promoted R. J. Druhan,
who was assistant cashier, to fill the
position of Trust Officer, rendered va
cant by the defalcations of W. H. In
gram Jr. w. B. Machado was promot-
ed from paying teller to assistant cash
Ter under Mr.. PaIfrey.
Aristide BRAND, scholar, orator, and
socialist, has been named as premier Of
France to succeed Clemenceau.
Some twenty person lost their lives
along the Louisiana and Texas coast
during the recent storm or the Gulf.
An effort is being made to stop the
parking of railroad ars on Elysian
Fields Avenue, which has been a NUS.
ance of many years standing on that
Avenue.
L. J. Dossman, president of the Lou.
isiana Oyster Commission advocates in.
creasing the present tax on oysters
from 8 cents per barrel to 5 or 6 cents.
Duluth, Minnesota, experienced a
cloudburst on July goth that caused q
damage of a million and a half dollars.
The damage done in the Texas rice
belt by the storm last week is estimat.
ed at 500, O00. Velasco, a Texas town
on the gulf coast was practically wiped
off the map, but a few houses being
left standing.
The assessor of the Parish of iberia
has raised the assessment of the Avery
Rock Salt Co. from $751; 500 to $500. 600
and the Myles Salt Co. from SIG, 425 to
SASS, 999. 1t is said that the salt COM
panies will take legal steps to contest
this rise.
The rice pumping plant at Morse, La.
shut down on account of salt water an
analysis of the water showing 34.l
grains Of salt to a gallon Of water and
water containing Is grains of salt to
the gallon is considered injurious to
rice.
An American citizen, whose name is
withheld by the authorities, is report
ed as having died from cholera in Koe-
Prussia, having arrived there
q few days previously from Russia.
Efforts are being made to have the
meeting between Presidents Taft and
Diaz occur at San Antonio, Texas.
Dispatches from Africa are to the
effect that the entire collection of spec
linens made by Nj. Roosevelt. includ-
ing mammals, birds, etc. and varying
in size from field mice to rhinoceri,
amount to two thousand, besides sew
eral thousand reptiles and insects.
Quite a loss was experienced by the
Louisiana Game Commission on the
bird breeding islands during the recent
gulf storm and although over $50, 600
birds have been breeding on Battledore
Audubon and Breton islands, it is stat
ed that but 5000 birds will be raised
there this year. 1t is estimated that
over SOC, 600 birds were drowned dur.
ing the storm.
New Orleans will soon gain a reputa-
ton for defaulters. The latest to be
added to the list is Joseph @. Gowland,
who admits the forgery of eleven mort
gage notes on which he obtained SIG,
400. Gowland attempted to commit
suicide.
A a on the Coliseum line jumped the
track and crashed into q drug store on
the corner of Oak and Cambronne SITS.