Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-06-17
late news NOTES
FROM ALL LOUISIANA
, 'etitions Against Sale of
Cigars on Sunday
MAN BURNED TO death BY enemies
Stock Owners Terrorized BY Charbon
Epidemic. Alfalfa StOrehOuse
Erected. Meat and Fish Mar.
kets, Etc, Screened.


Leesville voted 4-mill thirty
year tax to erect a new school.
The Louisiana Veterinary Medical
Association held its session at Bat
on Rouge.
A Belgian colony will be establish
ed on 1000 acres Of reclaimed land
near Gueydan.
C. B. Rice, of Garyville, La, will
erect a $4,000 foundry at Colum-
bia, Miss.
Mansfield Female College will put
more men on the faculty and in
crease salaries.
Fire destroyed $1,000 feet of lum-
ber in the sawmill Of w. w. Toler,
at Franklinton.
Caddo Parish repealed the ordi-
nance Offering rewards for prohibi-
tion violators.
Lake Charles, wants to issue $500
900 worth of bonds for municipal
improvements.
The session of the Alexandria Dis
trict Conference NJ. e. Church, South,
was held at Melville.
Eight men, including an alderman,
we.. -iraisned in Shreveport, charg-
ed with unlawful retailing.
At a mass meeting at Cheneyville,
resolutions opposing the creation of
q new levee district were adopted.
George Meyer was exonerated at
Baskin, La, for killing NJ. d. Fife,
who advanced on him with knife.
Oil in paying quantities is report
ed to have been struck at Edgerly,
eighteen miles west of Lake Charles.
Miss Carrie Pritchard, charged
with killing Sam E. Ford at Pollock.
was set free by the grand jury at
Colfax.
Homesteaders in Grant Parish are
contesting for their property against
the claims of George ]. Gould and
others.
Major Kirby, a deputy Of Vernon
Parish, while out to raid a gambling
den near Leesville, was killed by
train
1t is announced that Governor San
ders may attend Rally Day. June IS,
at the Louisiana Rice Experiment
Station at Crowley.
At a mass meeting at New Iberia,
resolutions were drawn up opposing
any amendment or repeal of the
Locke law.
A mass meeting at Lecompte adopt
ed resolutions protesting against
proposed taxation to rebuild O. $780,
900 levee in Rapides Parish.
]. NJ. Atkins was shot and killed
by w. D. Atkins, his cousin, at Clar-
ence, La, as the result Of patroniz-
Ing blind tiger.
A mass meeting was held at Che
NEVILLE protesting against the bill
providing for a new levee and drain
age district in Rapides Parish.
e. G. Davis, assistant cashier OF
the Commercial-Ge Bank Of
New Orleans, was elected cashier Of
the Covington Bank and Trust Com
pany.
Boy agents for blind tigers at
Opelousas testified before the grand
Jury, resulting in the indictment of
four negroes for violating the prohi-
bition law.
At the reunion of the Braxton
Bragg Camp at Thibodaux discussion
was had of the proposed monuments
to Confederate veterans at Thibo-
daux and Houma.
Sixty-four members of the House
Of Representatives have pledged
themselves to vote against altering,
amending or repeating the Locke
anti race glambling law.
A petition for a mandamus filed
In the district court at Shreveport by
a Chicago concern, seeking to hold
up the paving operations was dis
missed and the work will be pushed.
Postmaster Boudreaux, Of Thibo-
daux, was up with the national de-
partment regarding the cut In salary
announced for that office. The office
showed an increase of business over
last year.
A company was organized to take
over the Ellerslie, Tidal Wave and
South Bend plantations, In st. Mary
Parish, on Bayou Sale, and reclaim
the uncultivated portions for colo
nization purposes.
The jury at PlaQuemine in the IL
bel suit of Judge C. X. Schwing
against ]. E. Dunlap and John j.
Holtgreve for $4,000 damages re-
turned a verdict for the amount. The
defendants asked for an appeal.
Henry Seal was killed by light
ming at Pine. La.
Lake Charles will vote July IA
on q proposition to issue $160,000
bonds for a sewerage system.
| Rev. r. r. -Diggs, of Omaha, Neb.
(, is the new rector Of the Episcopal
church at New Iberia.
A loophole was found at Breauz
Bridge to establish saloon within
800 feet of q church.
The Producers Oil Company drill.