The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-08-06
Rl1]N ROUGE ORDERS
INSPECTION OF MEAT
Will Require Sanitary Condi-
tions Where Meat is Killed =
KILLING OF STUDENT ACCIDENTAL
co,rupated Iron Culvcrts, Some 80
inches i'll Diameter Being INSTALL
cd in Roads Near Covington.
Telephone Charge Adjusted.

ri in Roads Near Coyington.
Telephone Charge Adjusted.
II rusnection of Home Killed Meat.
An ordinance is to be adopted pro-
yiding for the inspection of all meats
billed 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
i under sanitary conditions, properly
inspected and cleaned. This can be
aone If is estimated, at cost of
10000, and will be money-saving
proposition.
Garner Doyle, Shreveport stu
dent accidentally shot and killed
himself at Gahigan, while dressing
after swim.
Good Drainage Being Installed.
Police Juror Herman Schultz of
Coyington is giving the roads of his
ward 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.
Tclephone Charges Adjusted.
The Louisiana Railroad Commits
sion confirmed the compromise the
New Orleans Board of Trade made
with the Cumberland Telephone Com
pany for a reduction in business in
struments to $3.50 per month, mean
Ing a saving of s29,S24 to users. If
the measured service is used physi-
clans and lawyers will pay an in
crease of $3.50 per month.
An independent company is estab-
fishing flashlight telephone system
at Alexandria.
Rapides Parish will make an ex-
hibit at the Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin
i, and Michigan State fairs.
Congressman ]. T. Watkins and
Judge A. j. Murff appeared in joint
debate at Coushatta, and Winfield.
Oil pipe line companies in Louis
lana asked for material reduction in
assessment.
Stephen r. Steere, postmaster at
Shreveport died at the age of So
years.
O. H. Eichblatt, at Morgan City,
swam 1900 feet in twenty-six min
utes.
E. P. Mills resigned as assistant
United States district attorney for
the Western District of Louisiana.
Judge John Yoist, distinguished
jurist, Confederate veteran and Ma
son, died at his home near New
Roads, aged 70.
A number of poultry owners OF
Lake Charles sent fowls for exhibit
tion to the Cotton Carnival, which
opened at Galveston last week.
The Italian school at Milliken's
Bend has been discontinued, the col
Cny at that point having moved
away.
Congressman J. T. Watkins, in an
address to the State Farmers Union
at Alexandria, declared he was IN
sympathy with the work.
The Busch-Everett Company 1s
drilling gas wells in the Caddo field.
supposedly to supply the pipe line TO
st. Louis.
Contract was awarded to erect at
Opelousas a monument to General
Alfred Mouton and the Confederate
veterans Of Louisiana.
Governor Sanders, in an ADDRESS
before the State Farmers Union at
Alexandria, defended criticism OF his
administration
President Taft's conservation pol
Icy means heavy financial loss IN
the Caddo oil and gas fields by the
withdrawal of land from the ptpllc
domain
DR.. A. l.. Bordelon was upheld IN
court at Cottonport for re1usihs
to pay license because funds coiiect-
ed were not appropriated for the pur-
pose intended.
Judge w. w. Elliott, at Lafayette,
held that the sale by DR.. E. F. Beau
champ to a negress of valuable ianu
was disguised donation, and fouho
for the heirs
Barely Escapes Asphyxiation.
negro named Spooler, in the en-
ploy of the Baton Rouge Electric Co.
came near being asphyXiated "nie
repairing a gas pipe in hoe. ne
negro was rendered unconscious W
the gas and it was nearly an ho"i
before he regained Consciousness.
Henry E. Hardtner, president OF
the Louisiana Forestry Assoclatioh'
has appointed delegates to the ha
tional convention at st. Paul, Mlhh''
to be held September to y.