The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-04-30
Train Loads of Possible Inves-
tors Visit Portions of State
MONEY IN Catfish SAYS LECTURER
Sleeping Men Have Miraculous Es-
cape When CabOose is Wrecked.
Men Sell Government Prop
erty Illegally to Purchasers.
The tug Della reached Sabine Pass
with the crew safe.

oaoIiiJtb Il Oh lSu FOLCu Wv SI Wi
ingly in favor of road tax.
The road tax in the Fifth Ward O
Acadia received a safe majority.
Two hundred Red Men gathered a
Alexandria for the Great Council.
James Polk, of Wortham, La, wa
struck and killed by train at Sill
dell
Five thousand acres were secured
on option near Kingston, to explore
for oil.
Eteilien Babineaux attempted sui
eide at Lafayette, because of hare
times.
Kentwood reported the most ex
citing municipal election contest in
years.
The steamer Belle of the Bend.
was sold to Carter Brothers of New
Orleans.
Roy Flewellyn, youth, was stabb-
ed in a resort at Monroe by a wo-
man inmate.
Motor cars Of the st. Tammany-
Vaudeville line have been equipped
with telephones.
Two miles Of sand-clay highway
were completed on the military road
out CT Coyington.
The Caddo Leyee Board received
$4,000 for Oil and gas leases, be-
sides a royalty.
The commissary of the Indusl rial
Lumber Company at Lake Charles
was destroyed by fire.
Italian secret societies are alleged
to have been operating in the Pietro
Corado trial at Abbeville.
The new city council of Baton
Rouge was inducted into office last
week. Jules Roux is mayor.
Arthurs &ebetas was indicted at
New Roads bh she charge of murder
in an 11-year-old negro boy
The Pointe Coupe grand jury con-
demned the State Game Commission
and the Juvenile Court law.
Walter L. Harp, 21 years old, a
Texas and Pacific employe, was kill
ed in an accident at Westwego.
The Caddo grand jury declared the
Shreveport social clubs are "mys-
terious, powerful and dangerous"
New Iberia Elks celebrated their
tenth anniversary by laying the cor
ner-stone fer the new theatre and
home.
Representatives of the Trowbridge
and Na-er Company, of Chicago, have
been tonring Louisiana in special
train.
Loreauville, forty-five years old,
saw its first railroad train, the Fris-
co inaugurating service with an ex-
cursion
The Mississippi River Commission
held conferences at Baton Rouge and
Plaquemine regarding river divorce
ment.
The Standard Oil Company made
overtures to purchase the holdings OF
the Mansfield Oil Company, In the
Caddo field.
The Louisiana Farm Lands Con-
gress, in session a Alexandria. in
dorsed the Panama Exposition for
New Orleans.
The selling of liquor to whites and
negroes under the same license In
two buildings is an issue presented in
a case at Lafayette.
Eight fire insurance and three adj
justing companies were made defend
ants to suit for s250,000 filed at
Crowley by Major j. D. Marks, who
charges conspiracy and libel.
T. r. Ioor, charged with the muir
der of Justice of the Peace j. A. Bel
sons, went to t~ial Monday at New
Roads for the second time, the first
resulting in a mistrial.
Elzie Kyzer was convicted at
Springfield of the mruder of Abner
Purvis, the verdict being against cap
ltal punishment.
The New Orleans Great Northern
Railroad is charged with using box
cars and flat cars in transporting
including women and
children, to and from St. Iammany
Station.
Rudolph Caddes, in the northern
part of Livingston Parish, set fire to
he bed clothing of his enemy, Jose
Domica. The latter burned out OF
sleep, drove a spade into the head
of Caddes.
The Louisiana Farm Land Con-
sress at the closing session at Alex
andria elected w E. Monroe, OF Del
nj, president, and selected Lake
Charles for the meeting in Novem-
GER and Monroe in May, 1911. An
migration committee was appointed
including railroad chiefs.
The State Library o. Louisiana MS
IN exhibition facsimile OF the
great seal Of the Confederate states
If America, the original of which Is
laid to be hidden away.