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Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
City to Buy State Land.

Shreveport.-Cnief State Engineer
Frank M. Kerr, while here attending
a meeting of the Caddo Levee Board,
announced that his department had
just completed and filed with Cover.
nor Hall and State Land Register
Frank ]. Grace, the surveys and maps
of the cross lake lands north Of
Shreveport after several months Of
labor, in accordance with a legislative
act authorizing the state to sell these
lands to the city Of Shreveport at a
dollar al acre for a municipal water
reservoir. The lands aggregated H.
S49.13 acres. 1t Is expected that the
city officials will Immediately nego-
tate for the sale.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
OVERCOME THE BOIL WEEvlL
Farmers Of Franklin Parish Have In.
creased Their Yield.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Baton Rouge.-That it is possible to
raise cotton profitably in Louisiana
despite the boil weevil is shown by
reports just received from Franklin
Parish by Mason Snowden, state agent
of the farm demonstration work of
the United States Department of Agri.
culture. The reports show that, with
almost 80 per cent of the crop de-
stroyed by the damaging October and
September rains, 861 more bales have
been ginned in the parish for 1913 than
for the same period in 1912. The mum.
Der of bales ginned in the parish up to
Dec. %, 1912, was 1856, and up to the
same date this season, 10,747.
franklin Parish is right in the
heart of the worst infected district OF
the state. They have had the boil
weevil since 1909. / attribute their
success with cotton largely to the use
of demonstration Methods said Mr..
Snowden.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
CITY GETS NEW SHIP LINE
Hubbard-zemurray Company Moves
From Mobile to New Orleans.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New Orleans.-Mobile has lost the
Hubbard-Zemurray Steamship Com
pany to New Orleans. This announce
ment was made by an official Of the
company at Mobile. Company Offices
and headquarters will be moved to
New. Orleans, after which Mobile will
get a boat a month to and from Puerto
Cortez, Honduras, instead of one a
week, as at present. Three of the four
steamers now in trade between that
port and the Honduran port will come
to New Orleans.
1t is denied that the Hubbard.Ze-
murray Company has been absorbed
by the United Fruit Company. It is
said that the move is made because
New Orleans and Louisiana capital
control the company. The removal
means, however, that Mobile loses
more than 100000 a year to New Or.
leans.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
BUSINESS SESSION
FOR CONGRESS
CORRECTIVE AND PRoA,BlToRY
TRUST LEGISLATION TO FORE.
RURAL CREDITS MEASURES
System Of Country Banks Would Be
Provided-Efforts Will Be Made
to Dispose Of Big Appropria.
ton Bills Soon as Possible.

observation-disclosures started Mon
day on the second stage of the regu-
lar session with the calendars Of both
houses crowded with varied and far
reaching legislation. Refreshed by the
first complete relaxation since Presi-
dent Wilson convened the special
tariff-currency legislation last April,
senators and representatives returned
to Washington keenly interested In
the prospective developments Of the
next few months.
Trust regulation, through further
corrective and %prohibitory legislation.
will hold much of the attention OF
both houses, but other subjects will
share the legislative arena. The first
Of the trust bills to bear any official
status are expected to appear during
the present week, with the indorse.
ment of the Democratic membership
Of the house judiciary committee, and
their scope and terms probably will
reflect closely the views of President
Wilson and Attorney-G General Mercy
nolds.
The president will reach Washing
ton Tuesday, bringing nEith him a
draft, If not the completed copy Of his
message to Congress upon trust legis-
lation. This will be gone over at con.
ferences between the president and
house and senate trust bill trainers
before it is submitted to congress. The
general character OF antitrust bills
prepared by Chairman Clayton and
his associates Of the house committee
already has been outlined.
Rural credits legislation also will
receive attention when the president
returns. He has had with him the
report of the rural credits commission
bill that will be laid before congress
for consideration at this session.
Both of these documents will be
made public within a week or two.
Rural credits legislation would create
a system Of country banks, from
which farmers and stock raisers could
get credit upon special torms of se-
curity, and time of maturity; and the
creation of the credit associations by
which farming communities could
finance their own operations.
Scores of other legislative subjects
are pressing for consideration in both
houses, and congressional leaders pre-
dict the present session will be crowd
ed with work until well into the sum-
mer. Efforts will be made to dispose
of the appropriation bills and to push
the more important work SO 1t may be
completed by June.
This will be done so Democratic
congressman can get out into their
own states to join in campaigns foJ
the fall congressional elections.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
BILL PROVIDES FOR LOCKS
Congressman Morgan Has Plan for
Closing Bayou Lafourche.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
acknowledgements Nor.
gan has prepared a bill for the con
struction Of locks across Bayou La.
fourche at the junction with the Mis-.
sissippi river, which he will introduce
in the House. Mr.. Morgan gave out
the following statement concerning
the bill:
"In 1900 the Atchafalaya Basin and
Lafourche Basin Leyee Boards of
Louisiana unanimously agreed that
the levees along Bayou Lafourche
were insecure, thereby endangering
lives and property, claiming that the
levee fund for maintenance of an eff
ficient system of levees along the
bayou were inadequate.
7 find that both engineers OF the
Federal Government and of the state
recognized and conceded the necessity
of closing Bayou Lafourche by locks
at its junction with the Mississippi.
Pending construction of the locks,
officials Of the government authorized
construction of a temporary dam. Be-
fore the secretary of war authorized
the levee boards to construct such
temporary dam they were constrained
to enter into an agreement with the
government with sufficient security
not only for the removal of the tenn.
porary dam, but, furthermore, they
obligated themselves to construct
the locks mentioned at or before ex-
piration of two years and six months,
which time was extended by Con.
gress until Jan. l, 1910.
81 now have this matter up with the
War Department, upon whose auth.
GRITTY the temporary dam was con.
structed, and before the close of 1914
I hope to see the Bayou Lafourche
locks completed and in operation"
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
PONTEAIAHACHE LOUISIANA, SATURDAY. JANUARY Il, 1914.
Important Louisiana News Is
SEARCH FOR GIRLS SLAYER
Officers Aided by Action Of Governor
in Offering Reward.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Ruston.-Governor Luther E. Hall
has given his support to the search
that is being made for the man who
brutality murdered Dicie Maybell Nc.
Adams, a 1%6-year-old school girl near
this city, by offering a reward of 5000
for the arrest of the girls slayer.
All the citizens of the community,
both white and black, joined in the
search for the guilty man but the or
oner's jury. after an all night session,
was unable to find any clew by which
the identity of the murderer might
be established. Sheriff J.. M. Colvin
and others who investigated the case,
were convinced that the girl was as
saulted before she was hacked to death
with a knife.
The girl was killed while on her
way from home to the school house
about q mile from her home. Her fail
ure to return home at night did not
excite alarm as she was accustomed to
spending the night with friends with
out notifying her parents. The body
was discovered entirely by accident
some distance from the road. There
were evidences of a struggle practi-
cally all the way from the road to
the place where the body was found.
A terrific struggle evidently took
place before her life was taken. In
her school satchel which was found
near the body were a Sunday School
book and a Bible which she intended
to study at school.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
PLAN PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN
Railroads Propose to Advertise Louisi.
n in North and Middle West.

Western Newspaper Union Jews Service.
New Orleans.-An advertising cam
paign through the Middle West, and
the Ohio Valley States is being plan
ned by the Illinois Central and the
Southern Pacific Railroad, and the OBJ
ject of this campaign is to bring the
right sort of farmers and agricultur.
lists to Louisiana.
The railroads intend to urge upon
the Legislature of the state an appro.
priation of $4,000 to be devoted to
advertising, and it is thought that
with the judicious expenditure of this
sum a great deal of good can be ac-
complished and Louisiana put in the
front rank of agricultural states.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
Or. Stephen /. PowIett Dead.

Hammond.-Dr. Stephen L. Powlett,
former mayor of Hammond, died at
his home here. aged about Is pears.
During President Cleveland's admin
istration he was minister to Guate-
mala. Later he resided in New Or
leans and acquired fame as a surgeon.
He removed to Hammond some years
ago. and was elected mayor, being de-
feated for a second term. He was a
colonel on the executive staff of ex-
Governor Sanders and was a brigadier
general in the National Guard.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
SABINE RIVER IS
TO Be IMPROVED
GOVERNMENT ENGINEERS HAVE
PASSED FAVoRABLY ON THE
PROJECT, IT is SAID.
Western Newspaper Onion News Service.

Vrstrfu ENtNSpdltC CHlpn news SERVICE.
Logansport.-President George X.
Gibbs, of the Sabine River Improve
ment Association, received a telegram
from Leon Locke, at Lake Charles,
who was engaged by the association
to present argument Of the association
before the Board OF Engineers at
Washington for Sabine River to be
placed On the list Of navigable streams.
that the Board of Engineers had ac-
cepted the argument and approved the
project, and that improvements on the
stream wound begin Immediately.
The telegram in part reads as fol-
lows.
"Advices from Washington received
this morning give the information
thai the Sabine river matter received
the full Endorsement of the Board of
Engineers, which means early improve
ment of the stream from the gulf up
to Logansport."
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
DIES TRYING TO
SAVE HIS CHILD
MAN JUMPS IN FRONT OF TRAIN
TO RESCUE GIRL-BoTH.
KILLED..
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Patterson.-Eli Bergeron, a black.
smith, 80 years of age, and his G-year.
old daughter, Bessie, were struck by
a Southern Pacific engine, and hurled
so feet and killed instantly. Bergeron
had recently moved his family to a
house situated near the track and the
girl was walking down towards her
home when her father saw that she
did not hear an approaching train.
He dashed from his house after the
little n and caught her just in time
for both to be struck at once and sent
to an immediate death.
Mrs. Begeron was standing on her
gallery and saw her baby and husband
killed. She tainted and was not re.
vived for many hours.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
VILLA EXECUTES FEDERALs
saIazar, orozco, Rojas and 400 Men
Fleeing Eastward.

Presidio, Texas.-The last scenes in
the capture Of Ojinaga by Francisco
Villas rebels were enacted. Villa had
taken more than 300 prisoners dur
ing the mad rush following evacua-
ton Of the fortress. Many OF these
were identified as volunteer members
Of the Orozco and salazar commands,
and every one of these was executed
shortly after daybreak without the
formality of a court-martial. Gems.
Salazar, Orozco and Rojas, with 4oO
men, cut their way through the rebel
lines and are now fleeing westward
through the mountains, with a detacn'
ment Of rebels in pursuit. Gen. Sal
azar is reported badly wounded.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
M0YER STAYS IN
COPPER COUNTRY
TELLS MASS MEETING OF STRik.
ERS HE HAS RIGHT THERE.
GRAND JURY IS ATTACKED
II Union Men Indicted They WIZ
Claim Body llIegai-Gov Ferris
leaves-Makes No Direct At.
tempt to Settle Strike

Observation-Disclosures Of Charles
H Meyer that he intends to remain
In the copper strike district as long
as he wishes, intimations from union
sources that grand jury proceedings
will be attacked on legal grounds, and
the departure Of Gov. Ferris without
making a direct effort to settle the
trouble, marked the progress Of the
local industrial war.
Meyer appeared before a mass
meeting of strikers and sympathizers
which crowded the largest hall in
Hancock beyond its capacity Except
for his five minute address, the gath
ering had a decidedly socialistic
tinge, the other speakers including
Seymour Stedman, of the ~investiga-
ton committee of the Socialist party;
J.. w. Lord of Peoria, ILL.,, and several
local Socialists.
II came back here because l had a
right to-" said Meyer Under the
laws of Michigan and the Constitu-
ton of the United States l am en-
titled to protection. Those RESPONSE.
BILE for my leaving violated the laws
Of the state and nation by taking the
law into their own hands. When the
shot was fired into my back it was
not into Meyer alone, but that shot
reached every miner on the continent.
1t was a shot in the back of the work
ing class and especially into, the back
Of organized wage-workers."
The union leader said he had tele.
graphed to the governor that he &C.
copied the state executives opinion
that a conference between the men
and employers would settle the dill
ficulty, and had asked him to propose
such action ito get the men back to
work"
Interest in the jury proceedings was
intensified by the governors declara-
ton that he would take no executive
action while the judicial machinery Of
the state was in motion. Attorneys
for the union intilnatefsthat the. pres.
once Of Grant Fellows; artUrneyf-gefi-
eral of the state, in the jury room,
had voided the body's legality.
They said there was no Michigan
rule that would permit the county to
hire George Nichols as special prose
cutor.
Mr.. Fellows was quick to defend
his course, saying that he not only
was in the grand jury room, but had
questioned Meyer. mo statute on the
Michigan books prohibited this action,
and as chief legal officer of the state
l had a perfect right to be present
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
sunday's immense Tabernacle.

Sundays immense Tabernacle.
Pittsburgh, Pa.-Second only to tho
interest in Rev. Billy Sundays whirl.
wind addresses during his recent
eyangelistic campaign here was that
aroused by the immense wooden tab
ernacle which was erected under the
direction Of his expert builder to house
the throngs which attended the meet.
ings. There was ample seating capac.
ity for 10000. persons in the great
structure and the choir seated several
hundred singers.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
Federalc CAPTURE Scouts.

Ojinaga.-Federals drew the first
blood in the second biz battle Of DIN
aga, which is believed to be beginning
after an intermission OF five days.
When a detachment of Orozco's cav
airy won't out to scout the hills to
the southwest they returned with 10 Of
Villas most trusted scouts and flank
ers, who had been out to the pass with
a message from the commander.in.
chief. These prisoners viii be given
the Mexican third degree, which al
ways ends in the execution Of prison
ers.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
GOVERNOR HEARS
THE MINE OWNERS
OEPoRTED MINERS LEADER
GOES BEFORE GRAND JURY.

Houghton, Mich.-S0 far as seeking
information was concerned, Gov.
Woodbridge L. Ferris Of Michigan
virtually completed his mission to
the copper strike zone. There re.
manned the problem of a settlement,
but indications were that the gov
errors activities in this direction
might be postponed.
Chief interest centered in the ties.
timony Of copper mine operators. 1t
largely was an historical discussion,
although emphasis was laid on the
opinion of individual mine officials
that union labor, as such, was not re.
pugnant to them. They. however,
made it plain that the Western Fed
GRAFTON could hope for no c%onsidera.
ton from any company sources. They
declared this position was unchange.
able.
After the conference with the mine
men. the governor met a delegation
of Italian and Finnish n%on-union
workmen, who came to ask state pro.
lection. They told the state execu-
tive they were subjected to daily
threats and abuse from s~trisers.They
said they had no use for the West,
ern Federation or any other union.
The governor met Victor Berger,
Milwaukee; Seymour Stedman, Chi
cago, and Charles Edward Russell
New York, who are investigating the
situation for the national executive
committee Of the Socialist party.
A. l.. Peterman, a representative OF
the Calumet & Hecla Company, called
the attention Of the governor to. dis
crepancies between the company's
statistics and those presented by the
state labor commissioner on the
strike situation.
He pointed out that the latter's fig
ures accounted for more than 10000
men, whereas both sides agreed that
fewer than $4,000 were employed II
the district when the trouble began
He added that the companies were
willing to submit to an actual count
Of employees and would open theil
books as a source Of information
il the union would do the same.
Gov. Ferris gave no indication a!
to whether such procedure would. b
adopted. 1t has been known, however
that he has investigators working un
der the state labor commissioners, ant
presumably these men already hav'
gone into that phase of the situation
Charles H. Meyer, president of tn
! Western Federation Of Miners, ap
peared before the grand jury. He wa
loudly cheered by miners while OF
his way to the jury room.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
Would Build New jail.

Jennings.-The grand jury of Jeffer.
o Davis parish devoted a special
report to the necessity for a parish
Jail. The body outlines the financial
status of the new parish and recon-
mends that the police jury take I'M
mediate action at its meeting this
month. 1t was found there is avail
able for a Jail $~11,465.57.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
TO CONFER ON TRUST BILL
Members Of Committee Will Consult
President Wilson.

Washington.-A general outline Of
the tentative draft Of antitrust legis-
lation prepared by majority members
Of the House committee on the judi
ciary for action by the full committee,
subject to a conference with Presi-
dent Wilson, became known here.
While members Of the committee
talked with the president some weeks
ago, the proposed bills so far have
not the administration stamp, and
they will be discussed at a confer
ence between the president and the
committeeman Immediately following
the presidents return.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
Famine in Albania.

Vienna-Private letters from Av.
Iona depict Albania as the prey OF
famine and anarchy. Business Is at q
standstill. Exports have ceased and
imports are SO small that q people
face absolute starvation. Flour and
meat are at exorbitant prices end
other food can scarcely be obtained.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
Held For Miners Death.

Fort Smith.-The Grand Jury in SEES.
sion at Greenwood returned six indict.
ments, one against B. F. Richardson,
charging him with the murder of Ar.
chic McAlies, at Hartford, November
20. McAlies, a driver at a coal mine,
was cut to death. His body was found
partly concealed beneath a telephone
pole lying along a street. The vic,
TINS throat was cut from ear to cal
and he had been robbed.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17

Camden.-The Camden Power Com.
pany, formerly owned by local CAPT.
talists, among them T. j. Watts, T. j.
Gaughan and H. B. Solmson, has been
sold to the Arkansas Power Company,
Of which H. C. Couch Of Little Rock
is president.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
MAY IApIcT STATE OFFICIALS
District Attorny Of Ulster County,
New York, to Act.

District Attorny Of Ulster County,
New York, to Act.
New York.-Armed with testimony
adduced at District Attorney Whit
mans John Doe inquiry into state
highway graft, William D. Cunning
ham, district attorney Of Ulster Coun-
ty, returned to his home in Kingston
purposiug, to convene a grand jury
and seek the indictment, he said. Of
certain State officials.
The testimony Of William G. Mer.
rift, inspector for the State highway
department at Ulster, indicated that
contracts had been let at ~exorbitant
figures to contractors said to be
friendly to high officials Of the high
way department. Mr.. Whitman said
Merritt's testimony showed the penal
code of the State had been violated.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
Primary Set for January a.

Baton Rouge.-The city Democratic
Committee fixed Jan. ~ as the date
for the primary to nominate a mayor.
commissioner Of public health and
safety; a councilman, commissioner Of
finance, a councilman. commissioner
Of parks and streets, n member Of
the committee at large, two members
from Ward / and two from Ward :.
An effort to have a city Judge and
city constable included in the cleo
tive officers was defeated.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
nri.d nvn,mite-Four Dead.

Dried pynanite-Four .oead.
Madrid.-The workmen OF a Cana
dian construction company ~ Lerida'
in Catalonia, spread a quantity OF dy-
Mantle in front Of a fire to dry. The
dynamite exploded and four men were
killed and sixteen injured.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
Evelyn Fears Harry.

St. Louis. Mott won't be long
before he does something to hurt me-"
said Evelyn Nesbit Thaw after read
ing dispatches concerning the report
Of the New Hampshire commission as
to the mental condition Of her hus.
band, Harry Thaw.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
For u. s. Ownership.

For U. s. Ownership.
Observation-Disclosures Bryan
(Progressive) Of Washington is pre-
pairing to bring up government own.
ership of railroads when thu house
takes up the Alaskan railway bill
next week.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17

Prohibition Fight in Virginia.
Richmond, Va.-A statewide pronl'
bition measure will come before the
general assembly of Virginia early IN
the session, which begins here Wed
nesday.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17

New Orleans Five indictments
were returned by the parish Grand
Jury here against T. Walter Danziger.
who disappeared from this city De-
cember Is, charging embezzlement Of
s22,s20.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
Meteor ssartles France.

Paris.-People Of Western France
were startled by the passing Of an
enormous meteor; which was seen at
Tours. The phenomenon took. the
form Of an immense train Of intense
white flames rushing across the sky
at terrific speed.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
Fire Cause. $4,000 Loss,

Lake Charles.-Lake Arthur suffer.
ed a $4,000 fire. It originated in the
Marquette building and destroyed the
store Of L. C. Fitzgerald, the restaur-
ant of Mrs. Jennie Berlin and the no.
tarial office Of R. st. Germain.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
Biography Of Great Evangelist.

Biography Of Great Evangelist.
Winona Lake, Ind.-While Rev.
Billy Sunday, the noted evangelist,
was resting here recently, after a
strenuous campaign in Jamestown, Pa,
he received word that the new biog-
raphy, "The Spectacular Career of
Rev. Billy Sunday" was off the press.
Il is the work of T. T. F~rankenberg,
and the evangelist says it is a truth
full account of his life.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
Dynamite is Found.

L'Anse, Mich.-Disclosure Of the
fact that a stick Of dynamite had been
found In the building where the prose-
cutting attorney Of this county has his
office has caused q sensation.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17

Chinese Parliament Dissolved.
Peking.-The Chinese parliament,
which virtually has been nonexistent
for months, was definitely dissolved
by proclamation.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
To Sci, Plant and Timber

New Roads.-An order was signed
by Judge Leblanc ordering the sale
Of all property Of the Fardoche Lum-
Der Company, Of Fordoche. La, in H.
quidation. This sale will include the
mill. mill site and timber and lumber.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-01-17
Makes Biggest Settlement.

Baton Rouge.-The largest settle.
ment ever made in the state was made
by John Fitzpatrick, tax collector for
New Orleans. who paid into the state
treasury 31,2sS.0o0.