Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-22

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Baton ROuge.-SalOOn Orders De-
barred General Guion
ruled that a saloon keeper is without
the right to go out and solicit orders
for the sale of liquors which he can
sell over his bar at retail.
Held On Charge of Murder.
Turner Webb, charged with kill
ing -Acy Williams at Wilhelm, was
held by a coroner's jury to await the
action Of the grand jury on a charge
of murder.
Lake CharIes.-Trucking Success.
fui.-For the first time in the histo-
~ of the city the Lake Charles mar
kets are supplied with homegrown
products of all kinds. 1t has been
only a few years since Lake Charles
imported from other points every
thing in the way Of vegetables and
fruits that 1t consumed. The success
of a little band of Italian gardeners
who were the pioneer truck growers,
the work of the experiment farms In
various parts of the parish and the
organization of the Calcasieu Truck
Growers Association, which has
found a market abroad for all sur
plus products, have so stimulated
production of vegetables and fruit
that the development of great
truck growing industry is now as
sured.
Lake Charles.-Peaches From Cut
Over Pine Lands.-Elberta peaches
are coming into Lake Charles from
the big Long-Bell experiment farm
at Bon Ami. This is the first year
Of bearing for the trees and Superin-
tendent Cranberry says the crop is
90 Unexpectedly large that he is hav-
ing some difficulty in handling it.
Peaches from the Strange farm at
Singer are also on the local market.
The fruit from these two farms Is
the finest ever seen in Lake Charles,
not excepting the California product,
and demonstrates without question
that the cutover pine lands of the
parish can be transformed into the
finest fruit lands.
Shreveport.-College Assured
Prof. George L. Harrell, who resign
Cd as president of Mansfield Female
College, reports that the Woman's
College Of Shreveport is assured.
Prof. Harrell is president of the new
Institution, which is undenomination-
al. 1t will be opened in the fall. The
new institution will be similar to
Belhaven College at Jackson, Miss.
NapOleOnvllle.-Ref Permit to
6ein.-The Louisiana Fish and Oys-
ter Company, of Berwick, La, has
finally been put out of business in
sofar as seining in the waters of AS
sumption parish is concerned. Some
time since the Supreme Court de-
cided that the police jury had a
right to prevent seining in the par
ish. Notwithstanding the Louisiana
Fish and Oyster Company claimed to
hold license permitting the sein-
Ing. The company recently present
ed petition to the police jury ask
ing for a permit to continue the sein-
ing, but 1t was emphatically refused.
Niccolina Catalannatto, a saloon
keeper at Covington. was charged
with violating the Gay-Shattuck law.
New Iberia-Model Road Assured
The cities of Jeanerette and New
Iberia and the police jury Of iberia
parish have agreed to bear their pro
rata Of expenses in the construction
Of the model road to be built from
the New Iberia postoffice to the east
ern boundary Of the parish, dis
lance Of twelve miles. The police ju-
~ will Issue certificates Of indebted
ness. bearing per cent interest,
payable $1,000 each year. the entire
Issue to be $4,000. A committee
was appointed to take charge of the
matter.
lousas.-POlitician Makes Ac.
cusatson.-James ]. Bailey, In an ad-
dress here, opening his campaign for
Congress from the Seventh District
declared that Congressman A. P,
Pu1o had been the paid attorney OF
forty corporations.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Show
Decrease.-Tne parish assessor has
Med the abstracts of the assessments
Of this parish with the clerk OF
court. The total assessments
amount to $3.341 900. This is near.
" 100000 less than last year.
6hrevepOrt.-l,uys Fair Grounds
The State Fair Grounds propert.
was brought by the city of Shreve
port, for $4,000, to be used as /;
park and playground. The state
fair will be held on these grounds
each year.
Tallulah.-Bonds Granted. - DR.
I. w. Loper and Mrs. Pearl Dunn
charged with a plot to poison C. E
Dunn. husband Of the woman, wer
held to the grand jury at Tallulal
Under $1,000 bond each.