Lower coast gazette., 1913-01-04
STATE NEWS.

tributed among the STOCK and bond
holders of New Orleans this month.
This is the annual dividends declared on
their securities.
The United States Engineers will
start work on the new Plaquemines
levee this week expecting to have it
completed before the early spring rise
in the Mississippi.
The cotton firm of Dreuil & Co., on
of the oldest cotton exporting house
of New Orleans, filed a petition of
voluntary bankruptcy in the United
States District Tuesday morning.
Judge Joshua Baker, Of the Criminal
District Court CT New Orleans, was
married at Pass Christian, Miss, to
Mrs. Mary Monroe Vincent, sister Of
Justice Frank Monroe of the State
Supreme Court.
A boy twelve years old while playing
Indian with his little brother eyed five
in New Orleans recently, shot and kill
ed the little fellow and the older broth
er, VINO did the shooting, is held in New
Orleans in Jail charged with murder.
Coach Frank Long, of Louisiana
State University, walked from Baton
Rouge to New Orleans in nineteen
hours and five minutes. Leaving
Baton Rouge at midnight Monday Long
reached New Orleans at Tuesday even
ing at 7:05.
Louis A. Veillon, a bar tender at the
Green Tree saloon in New Orleans,
while aiding in the chasing of a high
wayman who had rihed the saloon
register where he was employed, was
shot ard killed by the fleeing thief who
made his escape by concealment along
the New Orleans river front.
The Commissioner Of public safety OF
i New Orleans, Mr.. Harold Newman,
who was just recently elected, has been
studying the methods of other cities
with r. gard to the abating of the noise
nuisance and lie expects tobe able soon
to put a stop to the hideous noises that
are leard upon the streets ct New Or
leans.
Commissioner Kicks of New Orleans
ha. s;gnified his intention of donating
$3.50 OF his yearly. salary to the teach
ers retire ment fund. This is a fund
used for rension:ng the aged women
teachers and hereto.ord' it has been
made up principally from the assess
men,s levied on the teachers. Mr..
Kicks donatio,h is the first of its kind
.gr~E.HEEnd Mr.. 1;IcKs deserves
praise.
Belgium capitalists have secured op-
tons on some 10000 acres of pine lands
in Mississippi with a view Of colonizing
the tract with Belgians. Some time
ago the immigration to these parts OF
the Union was very steady but for the
last few years tie immigrants thai
have come down this way are mostly
those who finding conditions rot to thell
liking in the north and east have sough'
the southern plains of fertility ant
plenty.
DR.. Bowling, state health officer, ha'
closed up the Orleans Athletic Club a
New Orleans on account OF lack O
conformance to the sanitary laws o
the state. The club officials went t
work earnestly to remedy tie exlsten
conditions but they seemed TO Overlook
the fac. ,i.at he who had closed tn
place muss be the one to open it. The,
were .orced to call off i very prciitabi
contest due to their w unnnteatitns
neglect.
Some very prominent ccmml5slo
merchants of New York have write
the deun and directors OF the Lou.S
lana State University testifying to til
superiority OF louisiana cau,iiiowe
over the caulilower OF California. lh'
sort Of encouragement is powerfully
Stimulating and our farmers should fe'
this ntrthrrn appreciation OF cur farl
ys,ues keenly and they should endeavt
to grow all Of our farm products tt
best and have other people say so.
Nine men now lie in the Jeffersc
parish jail charged with white cappinl
All vi the n.en are very prominent IL
i,ents OF Westwego and their ARE
ms excited considerable comment. u
E$ ii the accused was arrested ut h
marriage cers mony aid brought
iail. ills charge ii proven cafrl
with it, the judgge SO d]eelies, me pc
slty III a. all. And 1T tic present III
E9.. tie .,a...~f:t.es Oh jefferson are We
mech engrasSed in The search I
csi,, nee ~a.aiast the alleged win
Gappers.
f,ogiss foreman, ;sed, Is years, a
&cissna Ii: saot anu killed aimse.i Mo
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