Lower coast gazette., 1913-03-22
STATE NEWS.

The citizens OF DeRidder, angeret
at Mayor Presley's attitude towards
the labor agitators, have called upol
the mayor to quit. The mayor i:
charged with being a Socialist ant
with having aided the labor cause BY
showing undue Partially to the strik
ers. The mayor sarcastically refuses
to resign, and declares he will govern
the city as he has governed it in his
past administration.
Or. Bowling went to New York te
witness the tests of the Friedman
cure, and then returned. He is doubt
full as to its value and characterizes
friedman as clumsy. He will wait
and he advises others to wait for the
government report.
The New Orleans police have decid'
! ed to refuse the $50 reward offered for
deserters from the Navy. 1t has been
customary for some of the sailors to
get drunk while On shore and to miss
the sailing OF. their assigned ship. The
police technically are able to secure
$50 for the arrest OF these men, who
are left behind, and it has been Gus
tomary to have the $50 so expended
taken out Of the mems already low
wages. This has worked a hardship.
The New Orleans police have taken a
iEst stand.
The following is evidence Of honor
among yer those whom the world
styles honorless. A girl OF New Or
leans, whipped by her parents, left
her home and was directed by n to
whom she asked for aid to q house in
the district of ill-repute in New Or
leans. There, instead of being, al is
the usual case, held for value, the wo-
man Of the house telephoned the po-
lice and the girl now rests in the
home from which she fled. This wo.
man, upon whom the world has turned
it's back, has, by this singularly unself-
ish act, merited the praise of the
world, and we hope the favor OF the
universal God.
Governor Hall has returned from
New York, where he went after the in
a%uguraticn of President Wilson. His
mission was to bring about arrange
ments for the purchasing of State
londs. Arriving home, he has given
the home bankers a tongue lashing"
for their incessant knocking Of the
State bonds, which are yet unsold. He
thinks his visit to New York has made
the road smoother and the prospects
of disposing of the bonds brighter.
DR.. Bowling has answered Mr.. Park
er, OF the Penitentiary Commission, in
answer to the report Of the States
Health Inspector, which called atten.
ton to extraordinary insanitary con-.
ditions prevailing in the State Prison
end State penal farms. DR.. Bowling
attempts to show that Mr.. Parker's
answer has not answered the inspect
orr report. Dr.. Bowling claims that
the several reports reported the same
conditions existing. All agree, which
is strong probable proof OF their truth.
4 cyclone last week wiped several
towns off the map; killed G5 and in
.iured go. The greatest loss Of life
was sustained in Georgia and Tennes-
see. Louisiana suffered the least in
human less. The property damaged is
estimated at $4,000
There are $500, 600 decayed teeth in
the mouths OF the school children OF
Louisiana: $4,000 children have defect
i've eyesieht; 100000 have defective
hearing; 1875, 900 are afflicted with
nose troubles and 10000 with diseased
threats.
Henry H%ardtner, the most earnest
conservation expert OF Louisiana, is
being urged fol the position OF Chief
Forester OF the United States. 1t is
rullored that he is & serious contend
or for the place.
The Admission Hotel, at Mississippi
City, Miss, on the Gulf Coast, was
destroyed by fire. The resort, one OF
the oldest in that section, vas crowd
ed with visitors at the time Of the
fire. No one was injured.
Mrs. Ina Marc Porter Ocekinden,
of the words to Dixie" died
in Galveston, Tex.
Few Words Of Truth.
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