Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-05
BATON ROUGE Orders
Inspection OF MEAT
Will Require Sanitary Condi.
tons Where Meat is Killed
KILLING OF STUDENT ACCIDENTAL

Inches In Diameter Being Install.
ed in Roads Near Covington.
Telephone Charge Adjusted.
Inspection Of Home Killed Meat.
An ordinance 10 to be adopted pro-
viding for the inspection of all meats
killed and sold In the city Of Baton
Rouge. A renewed effort is also to be
made looking to the establishment OF
central abbatoir, at which all OF
the cattle OF the city can be killed
under sanitary conditions, properly
inspected and cleaned. This can be
done, It is estimated, at . cost OF
$4,000, and will be q money-saving
proposition.
Garner Doyle, . Shreveport stu
dent. accidentally shot and killed
himself at Gahigan. while dressing
after q swim.
Good Drainage Being Installed.
Police Juror Herman Schultz of
Covington Is giving the roads OF his
ward q thorough overhauling and
raising corrugated iron culverts
where they are needed. Some OF
these culverts are thirty-six inches In
diameter. The drainage Of the road
Is being specially considered.
Telephone Charges Adjusted.
The Louisiana Railroad Commis-
sion confirmed the compromise the
New Orleans Board OF Trade made
with the Cumberland Telephone Com
pany for q reduction in business in
struments to $3.50 per month. mean
ing a saving of $2s.S24 to users. II
the measured service Is used physl-
clans and lawyers will pay an in
crease of $3.50 per month.
OIL Company to Sink Well.
Manager ]. w. Freeman, Of the
Natchitoches OIL and Gas Company,
has secured leases on 10000 acres OF
land, and has made arrangements to
sink a we'll. Active operations will
be under way by Aug. 20. The first
10000 shares were taken at 500
share, and an issue of 5000 addition
al was offered and is being taken
freely.
White Mans Body Found in Bayou.
The body of an unidentified white
man was found in Bayou PlaQuemine.
at the foot of Court street. Applica-
ton papers to Join the navy and IS
were found on his person.
An independent company 10 estab-
fishing q flashlight telephone system
at Alexandria.
Rapides Parish will make an ex-
hibit at the Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin
and Michigan State fairs.
Unknown assailants killed and
wounded o number of negroes at
Quincy, and 1t is thought that race
feeling over the employment of ne
gro labor In the Frisco shops at
Quincy may be at the bottom Of the
affair.
James ]. Bailey spoke at Marks
VILE in the interest Of his candi-
dacy for congress.
Congressman ]. T. Watkins and
Judge A. J. Murff appeared In joint
debate at Coushatta, and Winfield.
L. e. Thomas, president of the
Continental Bank and Trust Compa-
ny, of Shreveport, and member of the
Louisiana House of Representatives
from Caddo Parish, gave out q state
ment in reply to the speech BY Gov
ernor Sanders, at Alexandria 10 the
Farmers Union.
Old residents near Shreveport are
urging the farmers : to revive the
wheat-raising industry.
John B. Slattery, OF Shreveport.
will be offered the position Of assist
ant United States attorney for the
Western District of Louisiana.
The body Of Ashton Beraud. Tu-
lane student, drowned at Lafayette.
Saturday, was found Saturday night.
Oil pipe line companies In Louis
lana asked for material reduction In
assessment.
8. J. Gianalloui. Of Baton Rouge
made the trip from that city to Pass
Christian, Mis-. with his family In
his automobile.
The plant Of the Natalbany Lum-
Der Company was damaged By fire.
It was saved from destruction BY
good work Of employees.
Barely EscaPes Asphyxiation.
A negro named spooler. in the en-
ploy Of the Baton Rouge Electric Co..
came near being asphyxiated while
repairing . gas pipe in . hs'e. The
negro was rendered unconscious By
the gas and Il wss nearly an hour
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