Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-02-25
Interesting STATE NEWS
Greenburg Farmers in Better
Shape Than Ever Before.
RURAL ROUTE OF 96 BOXES DENIED
Prominent Lumberman Killed BY
Fire Engine. Work on Big
Drainage District Begun.
10000 Real Estate Deal.

DR.. z. Z. SOuller was elected
mayor OF Broussard.
Bud French rescued child from
drowning near Franklin.
George Wycoff, assistant travelling
auditor, died at Baton Rouge.
East Baton Rouge adopted an ordi
ance regulating automobile traffic.
North Louisian parish fair officials
will meet March 10 at Calhoun.
Seven negroes at Opelousas are &C.
cused of operating blind taigers.
The grand jury at Napoleon re-
turned two indictments for murder.
The case of Peitro Corrado was
continued at Abbeville until Feb. 2S.
State Travelling Auditor Archie
Smith is to have another assistant.
The Louisiana State Farm Land
Congress was organized at Shreve-
port.
N. Halphen defeated DR.. B. A. Lit
tie for mayor Of Opelousas by four
votes
Two projects are under considera-
ton for establishing a cotton mill at
.vidalia.
The primary for district Judge in
st. Landry Parish will be held
March 10.
Timber land investigation will be
prosecuted in the Teche section by a
government forestry agent.
An auto bus line will be establish
ed between the towns of Genesee,
Natalbany and Hammond.
Four hundred delegates attended
the laymen's missionary conference
at Shreveport.
Tug Minnie Gorgas. bound for Gal
weston, was burned soon after leav-
ing Morgan City.
Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth open
ed her tour of Louisiana with an
address at Shreveport.
Seven thousand bags of rough rice
were sold at Crowley under the COM
petitive bid system.
A drainage and navigation canal
will be cut from White Lake to Pecan
Island, Vermilion Parish.
A six weeks summer normal school
was assigned to New Orleans, with
Nicholas Bauer as conductor.
The regular ticket, headed by
Charles T. Wortham, won in the Ma
poleonville municipal election.
Billeaud Refinery at Brussard, will
install a new mill, costing $4,000,
to care for increased cane tonnage.
Two trainmen charged with man.
slaughter in connection with a re-
cent wreck went to trial at Shreve-
port.
Boealusa Progressive Union nam
ed ticket to make a cash bid for
the home to be erected by Louisiana
Masons.
Morgan City annexed Klingsville,
and now has a population OF 5000.
w. M. Egan defeated ]. A. McAyeal
Tor mayor of Crowley.
Eugene White of Nashville. Tenn,
vas assaulted and robbed by two
negro highwaymen while waiting for
. train at New Iberia.
L. Caspari, OF Natchitoches, unop-
posed. was elected senator from the
Iwenty-hrst District, succeeding B.
W. Marston, resigned.
A. party of well-to-do farmers
from Indiana are here looking over
the territory around Alexandria, with
the probability of buying.
Fifty business and profession men
OF Covington met and organized q
carnival club. which will give a par
ade And ball next Mardi Gras.
Ed Hodges shot and killed August
Smoker on a barge near Breaux
Bridge as a result of a quarrel over
the ownership of a mosquito bar.
Leopold Aschaffenberg, 81 years
Old. .eof Henderson, La, capitalist,
planter and clubman. suicided by
shooting In a hotel at Vicksburg.
The st. Landry Democratic execu-
i've committee requested the legis-
lature to pass new law providing
Tor the creation of Evangeline par
ish.
The report of state Travelling Aud
'tor Smith on the financial affairs of
Inc State Insane Asylum at Jackson.
La, criticises various matters, and
declares that trustees have sold arti-
cies to the institution against the
law.
Special election will be held April
In the Tenth Ward of Orleans Par
lsn Tor representative; St. Tammany
farish, for representative, and st.
landry Parish. for district Judge.
reyton R. Sandoz and B. Henry Pavy
announced for the latter Office.
The st. Tammany Steamship Com
pany, capitalized at s250,0O0. was
organized at Covington to establish a
Inc OF passenger and freight vessels
'etween New Orleans and Lake Pont-
'nartrain points. The first vessel of
me feet was purchased in Mobile,
md named st. Tammany.
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