Lower coast gazette., 1913-04-12
STATE NEWS.

1t is predicted that the highest
stage Of the river at New Orleans
this year will be some height between
1876 and 20.G. This is slightly below
the notwithstanding stage of last year.
Whether the high water will be of
long duration we have heard moth.
ing. We could hope that the season
of high water will be short this year.
But no figures have been published
yet regarding this phase OF the flood
question. The flood crest will reach
New Orleans between hpsil goth and
April S0th.
Archbishop Blenk Of New Orleans,
IN response to the appeal from the
parish priest of Grande Point near
Arnaudville, La, for aid to 200 or
500 stricken families, who are in need
because their low lands are under
water from the rising A~tchafalaya
River-has sent a representative with
supplies to aid the hungry refugees.
The Tangipahoa strawberry growers
expect a 100000 strawberry crop
this year. There are more acres
planted with strawberries this year
than ever before,
James H. Freeman, a New York
engineer CT much prominence, suggests
depicting part Of the great current
Of the Mississippi River through the
Atchafalaya River by cutting a chan
mel from the Atchafalaya to the Mis-
s!ssippi at a point just below where
the Red river empties into the Mis-.
sissippi. This idea has been suggest
ed before a number of times, and Of
course, will BE- considered when the
letiargic national legislators awake
to the realization Of the chronic ruin
and desolation that blights annually
the country because Of the Insufficient
protection from tie fioods-this chrOn-
ic ruin and desolation is the parent to
the forever desolate plains, half water
and half swamp, that will be the dire
result Of WOeful national neglect.
Free sugar is certain. Though
three years grace may be allowed.
If Louisiana's senators fight the pas
sage Of the bill in the senate, free
sugar men in the house and. senate
will work to make free sugar effective
at cnce.
River reports predict 21:S feet at
New Orleans. April 6 was Confeder.
ate decoration day. The graves in
the New ORLEANS cemeteries of the
dead were covered with
flowers and banners of the colors un-
der which the reyered Southern dead
had served. The day is not as gor-
Gecusiy celebrated as the Union dec
Grafton Gays are in the North. But
the spirit Of eternal remembrance Of
these who fought for a principle which
leliered to be the soul of free.
6cm and the refusal of it to be a
retlaaing CT cne's step back to degra.
daticn and barbarity, which they be.
to work ruin fer those of their !
yet unborn and hinder those
CT the future South still prevails |
amongst those children whom they
sacrificed their lives to bring into1this
world free and unllampered. i.
The cooperage and storage build
ings Ct the Colonial Sugar Company
Granercy, La, were destroyed by
fire. The damage was $4,000. No
one knows how the fire started.
Jchn T. Diepadorf, cashier OF the
St. Tammany Banking Company and
Savings Bank at Covington, La, has
confessed to a defalcation of $1,000,
part Ct the funds Of the bank.
At Shreveport, La, Albert Bunch
allied mis- wife and then committed
suicide. They were married 10 days
$50. Jealousy was the cause Of the
murder.