The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-04-16
late news CLEANINCS
FROM ALL LOUISIANA
Convict is Caught Almost I'm
mediately After Escape
WILL Raise MUCH WINTER TRUCK
stockman Mysteriously Disappears.
Laundry Burns. Young Shrubs
and Trees Furnished by Gov
ernment for Public Park.

Dave Tolliver, negro, killed his
wife near Alexandria.
A juvenile reformatory will be es-
tablished at Lake Charles.
The Iberia Police Jury indorsed
the river enforcement project.
Fraud is charged in a railroad-tax
election held at Monroe in 1907.
Daughters of the Confederacy dec
GRATED the graves in Baton Rouge.
The State Federation of Women s
Clubs will meet at Baton Rouge.
st. Francisville, has paid for its
water plant, and will put in sewers.
The vote for Jules Roux for may
or of Baton Rouge was 353, out of
354.
Oil in paying quantities was struck
In the Hooks well, in the Vinton
field.
The Alexandria Council ordered
saloons closed from midnight to
q. m.
Posey, a negro school teacher has
been appointed census enumerator at
Slidell.
Manual Bias, negro, was hanged
at Convent, La, for the murder of
his wife.
Berwick voted a 5-mill tax in aid
of the Iberia, St. Mary and Eastern
Railroad.
The Standard Oil Company secur-
ed leases on 4,586 acres in the Cad
do field.
There was quite sesation at Mon
roe about some cows, negro and
shotguns.
A large class of Knights Of Co.
lumbus were initiated April 10 at
Lafayette.
An oil exploring company was or
ganized at Natchitoches with $780,
600 capital.
The case of DIR. E. c. Mckowen
was assigned for trial April 20, at
DdLUu hUuSe.
The Lafayette grand jury reported
seventeen bills, and recommended
new courthouse.
The Baton Rouge Water Works
Company has been reorganized with
100000 capital.
The anniversary of the battle of
Mansfield was celebrated by Confed-
ate organizations there.
Morgan City will vote on a propo
sition to levy a 5-mill tax to establish
$4,000 water plant.
The Rapides Police Jury will con-
tribute $1,000 annually to the Alex
andria Progressive League.
The Natchitoches Police Jury
adopted the Sanders good roads plan
and will use state convicts.
Alva Carter was arraigned at
Amite City on the charge of murder
ing his brother-in-law, David Wall.
Frank R. Caffery, 35 years old,
son of the late United States Sen
ator Donelson Caffery, died at Frank
lin.
Five thousand acres in the vicini-
ty Of Church Point heretofore de-
voted to cotton will be converted in
to rice lands.
John R. Lyles, heavily interested
In timber and rice lands, died at
Oberlin, from blood poison caused by
carbuncle. =
Mrs. Jeff Amacker testified at
Amite City that Will Varnado and
Warren Hicks were the parties who
shot her husband.
The Council ut Washington, La,
voted the marshal appointed by the
governor 81 a month, and private
watchman $50.
A negro mother at Baton Rouge
"doctored' the family Bible in an eff
fort to get her son under the Ju-
venile Court law.
The destruction by fire. of the
southern Paclflc DrldSe at nduos
was discovered a few minutes before
train No 6, eastbound was due.
An election will be held May ~
In Washington Parish to vote a D.
mill, fifteen-year tax for school
buildings, and like tax for main
tanning them.
Warren Kicks admitted on the
witness stand at Amite City that ne
fired the shots that killed jeff
Amacker, claiming defense OF VIII
Varnado, his companion.
Shreveport, Alexandria and Lake
Charles sent delegates to the meet
ing in New Orleans to discuss the
projected Panama Exposition.