Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-03-18
PARK FOR CHILDREN
AT School SQUARE
Negro Kills Another Over
Twenty-Five Cents
CROWD ATTENDS SCHOOL CONTEST
Church Gets $1S.O 900 Organ. Two In.
jured in Runaway. Trouble at
KentwOod School. Murder.
er of Officer is killed.

steps were taken at Baton Rouge
to establish a juvenile court.
Baton Rouge Eagles entertained
Worthy Grand Master Herring.
John Nelson was killed while
asleep on the railroad near Vivian,
La.
The Louisiana Board of Liquida-
tion will meet April 9 at Baton
Rouge.
Parish fair movements are crystal
izing in DeSoto, Sabine and Calca-
sieu.
G. A. LaBarre bought swamp land
tract near Napoleonville for $685.
900.
Natalbany is to build a railroad to
Baton Rouge to haul lumber for ex-
port.
The Rice Association of America is
to meet in New Orleans Shriners'
week.
The Bank of Baton Rouge Is to
increase its capital from $50, 10000 to
$250.000.
The state veterinary officer inves-
tigated the prevalence Of glanders at
Natchitoches.
A company with $1,000 capital
was organized to establish a cream
cry at Roseland.
. The Kentwood City Council refus-
ed to call an election to vote on the
saloon question.
The funeral of Colonel John A.
O'Neill, at Franklin. was one of the
largest ever held there.
Rev. ]. w. Cantey Johnson, of
Lake Charles. accepted call to a
church at Roanoke, Va.
Former Sheriff John A. Perkins
was acquitted at Lake Charles of the
charge of embezzlement.
An oil we'll producing 125 barrels
hourly was brought in on the Stiles
tract in the Caddo field.
Charles Jordan, fireman and ball
player, Ill with tuberculosis, suicid-
ed in a Shreveport hospital.
Twenty-Five patrons of the Ham,
mond Postofice are alleged to have
used cancelled postage stamps.
Literary and athletic contests Of
the Rapides Parish schools will be
held April / and at Alexandria.
Interests behind the proposed Ba-
ton Rouge-New Orleans interurban
line are reported to be active again.
A. P. Blocher, of the Gulf Refin-
ing Company at Shreveport, is sup
posed to have been poisoned oy some-
one.
President E. B. Craighead was
made co-conductor with Nicholas
Bauer of the Tulane Summer Nor
NAL.
No new cases of glanders have
developed at Natchitoches and the
disease is thought to be stamped
out.
A. j. Benjamine, of Lewiston,
Mont. suicided by hanging at Cot
tonport after discharging $50 OBJ
legation.
Jean Adrien Parr, IS years old,
died at Houma. He leaves two great
great-grandchildren and other proge-
ny numbering niety-two.
More economy is planned in the
legislative printing of Louisiana.
abolition of the ofiicial journal with
open competition for the work.
The State Board of Control of the
Penitentiary will ask the legislature
for authority to build $250.000 su-
gar house at Angola Plantation.
II change of venue is granted
DR.. e. C. McKowen, indicted for the
murder of E. X. Judson. the case
will likely be tried in East Baton
Rouge parish.
Lafourche and Terebonne parish
es propose to establish a joint poor
house reformatory for juveniles and
detention house for insane making
the institutions self-sustaining.
The Tangipahoa Parish School
Board removed the Kentwood trus-
tees, reinstated the faculty with the
addition of Prof. Arnett as superin-
tendent and directed that school
open Monday.
Louisiana prohibitionists launch
ed campaign for statewide prohibi-
tion at Shreveport, and issued let
ter to the Business Mems League
urging joint investigation of condi-
tions in dry states.
Contract Let For Portable Prisons.
The contract to build seven porta-
BILE prisons in which to keep the state
convicts at night has been awarded
to Charles w. Gambel OF Grand Cane
These cages will be used for the safe
keeping Of convicts now being used
In the model road work which Is be-
ing done Just north Of there.
Three young men and two young
women. all white were tried at Lake
Charles for stealing whisky from the