The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-03-13

The Anchorage Planting Company
Ltd, which claims to have had undis
turbed possession of Profits Island fol
a period of seventy-nine years, under
the title derived from the United
States government, entered suit in the
Civil District Court against the Con
servation Commission of Louisiana fol
slander OF title
| The company alleges that the com
omission has been continuously slander
ing petitioners title, pretending that
the commission is the owner of the
property, and causing the lessee, John
W. Thompson, to refuse to pay rents
to petitioner. and otherwise injur1ng
petitioner in the use and enjoyment of
its property, and preventing it from
selling or disposing of its property.
Petitioner declares 1t has repeatedly
requested the commission to desist
from slandering its title, or IL it had
| any Just claim, to bring suit to Judi
clally determine its claim. But the
commission will neither abandon its
pretended claims, nor prosecute them
at law, but continues to assert its
claim at a damage to petitioner in an
amount exceeding s25,OOO actual DAM
ages. The claims of the commission
nave had the effect of preventing De-
titioner from collecting rents and reve-
nues amounting to $4,000 yearly, the
lessee, Thompson, refusing to pay De-
tltioner by reason OF the slander of
the title. The court is asked to quiet
petitioner in its title to the property,
and for judgment against the Conser.
walton Commission for $25,OOO.
The suit grows out of the claim of
the Conservation Commission to the
gravel on the shore of the island below
h1gh water mark. The commission
lays no claim to the island proper. but
under the law asserts its claim to the
gravel which is below the high water
mark, which constitutes the main SIM
ply. The commission has been advised
by the attorney generals office that
It's claim to that deposit below high
water mark, Is good, holding that the
property line extends on the river onIv
to high water.
Preparations have been completed
Tor taking a census of the children
OF educable age in the parish of As
cension, and the work is now under
way. At the last meeting of the
board OF school directors the member
OF the board from each ward in the
parish was appointed to SUPERVISE
the enumeration of children between
the ages of six and eighteen years
inclusive, In his respective ward. and
to do the work himself or
to have 1t done at a cost not IN er-
ceed three cents per name, which is
the recompense allotted by law.
The Daily Commercial, a morning
paper, will enter the local newspaner
aeld at Monroe. The paper will be
published by the Commercial Printing
company, Limited. A. Kaplan is pres.
dent OF the company, Geo. N. Fellin.
zen, business manager, and H. G.
lockwood, managing editor. The
'aiiy Commercial will be, printed ev.
'ry morning except Monday. To be.
'in with six page. six column paper
VIII De printed on week days and ten
ages on Sunday.
The Board of Commissioners n, N.
louisiana Hospital for the Insane met
nd awarded the contract To Wise ana
'all OF Alexandria, to furnish the IN.
titution with meat for the ensuing
ear. All OF the packing houses sub.
nitted bids, but the board desires IN
aVor local concerns, when all condi.
lons are equal and favorable. as
the instant case.
The ruins left by the disastrous Ar. {
jackson January 81, when a mum.
CT Oh buildings were DESTROYED. are
aploiy being replaced by new and at. ,
active structures. Klein Bros. have G
recteo a new store and other mer. /
lants are now following the example 1
It
Inc road tax, being a three.miI ta1
" nfteen years to build a public I
aa between Melville and Port Barre S
10 from Port Barre to Krotz a
'rings. was defeated at this DOLL and 7
ports from Port Barre indicate that D
70 tax was defeated at that precinct "
Inc Morehouse parish school hoard
ID the $4,000 school bond issue for
a. These bonds are predicated on
nve-mill tax voted by the citizens h
the purpose of a school building N
De erected in the village of Collins, q
q. The building will be comnleted e,
the September school term. ci
MRS. j. A. Littlefield Of New Orleans
ought suit in the Federal Court
ainst the City Of Shreveport for nav. =,
mt OF two municipal bonds. issued Nv
'ty-s1x years ago, with accrued in. D
est The interest amounts to over .s
600. %
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