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The THibodaux Sentinel. VOL. XIII.

Official Journal of the Parish of Lafourche and Guardian of the Interest of the Town.

THIBODAUX, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1910.

n v.-x.-*-.-.-*>.- , j***#*»*•. v.-.. HEWS AS IT HAPPENS «iTlONAL. STATE, FOREIGN. OP

(NTEREST TO READERS.

1 WHOLE WEEK'S OOiNGS |r#rt Mention cf Interesting Happen­

ing! F'om D«y to Dav Through, out the Wot id.

SOiviF.aTiU

Korf than 5,000 persona attending p Sal ion a 1 Convention of the Chris-a« Cburc h at Topeka, Kansas, Sun-jU tooK part in a great outdoor com-<|Sjoii service on the state capitol pUjMis Ai the close a special col-ptfa was taken for the relief of »u-

<l»«!iiuau'd ministers of the Chris-pjs Church.

After wandering aimlessly around K the gulf of Mexico for forty-eight hour*, the West Indian storm has ipiD recurved and is now headed to-«trd the Louisiana and Texas coast, gccordiiig to the latest observations, gtorrn warnings have been ordered up tlUlonK 'he Louisiana coast. Weather {ondnions along the Florida west

are still such as to keep ship­ping 'ied llP, unusually heavy seas titti occasional severe squalls making ft ucproliiaiiie if not dangerous for wweis especially sailing vessels, to wnture out.

Walter A Hurtz. who shot and kill-it Stanley Ketchel, world's middle-wight champion Saturday, was cap-tsred at th" home of Thomas Hag-gird. one mile from Niangua, Mo. Hum was taken to the Webster Coun-t) jti! at Marshfield. where he is be-itf closely guarded After being plac-MI in tili. cell, the prisoner made a itatement in w hich he declared he shot Ketchel In self-defense.

Ai the cud of the fourteen round of vba; *as sihcduled to be a twenty-fpufid bout between Sandy Ferguson a) Chelsea. Mass., and Jim barry of Oicago. at the West Side Athletic Cot in McDonoughville, just across tl* river from New Orleans. Saturday, ftrrieoti!- seconds threw up the

The contest was announced at the hrst of a series of elimination tout* with a view to the possible se­lection of a man to meet Jack John-eon. the negro heavy-weight cham­pion

Five person? »ere killed and seven-let« injured when two trains on the Charieaum à Western Carolina crash­ed tofctfcer at full speed Sunday, two miim south of McCormick. S. C. All «I tà* dt*â and seven of the injured •«* BMMBber« of the two crews. It is •aid that the operator at McCormick taiM to deliver "meet orders" for the KHitfebound train.

Senator Jonothan P. Dolllver died •I hi* residence at Fort Dodge, Iowa, •atnrda;. while one of his attending pàyaiciatiK l>r E. M Van Patten, was summit.? the distinguished states-•aci heart with a stethoscope. His death followed an acute attack of •toaarh trouble which affected his haart

With more than 4000 votes in the r»t» of Houston accounted for, the ad­vocates of deep water and the bond is-fae are steadily keeping their over-

majority, Friday's reports (•trying the ratio over 50 "for'' to 1 "•Calr.*! "

In a narrow street, upon a precisely •elected F[>ot. after an aerial flight •< n»>ir. t..au six .ui.es a ross the city, Claude C.rahame White, the English t^tator. Kri,ia> dropped bis aeroplane at the side door of the White House.

ït a height of nearly 500 d • dome of the capitol ,e lofty Washington mon-

I the apex. He landed _br< st deviation from th6 h.;\c impaled him upon

f the iron fence around jtite grounds at his right him anaitist the eranite

As a result of the proceeding in the eleventh district court before Judge Charles E. Ashe on Friday in Hous­ton, It was definitely decided that ev­ery ballot cast in the democratic pri­mary last July in Harris County would he recounted in order to determine who is the nominee of the party for the office of sheriff. Judge Ashe re­quested the opposing sides in the Ar chle Anderson-Frank Hammond elec tion contest case to recommend two men each to read and recount the bal­lots.

The entire Fifth avenus establish­ment of the five Duveen brothers known th'e world over as dealers in rare art objects and antiques, was seized by federal officers in New York Thursday, and' Benjamin J. Duveen, the only member of the firm in the city at the time, was arrested, charç-

ernment of customs dues. Henry A. Wise, United States district attorney, in asking for heavy bail, said that the frauds would reach more than $1,-000,000, and that all four brothers and an uncle, who make up the firm, were implicated. Bail was fixed at $50,000, which was promptly given and Du­veen was released.

Joan, the Directum Spier mare, owned by Captain David Shaw of Clev­eland, Ohio, won the Walnut Hall' Farm cup. the feature of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' program on Thursday at Lexington in straight heats and established a new world's record for 4-vear-old trotters, going the third heat in 2:04 3-4, a half sec­ond better than the record of her grand sire. Directum, which made the mile in 1S93 in 2:05 1-4.

Two persons were killed, two fatal­ly wounded and five seriously wound­ed in a fight for the capture of George alias "Red" Johnson, a fugitive negro, at Huntington, W. Va. He shot and probably fatally wounded Detective George Lentz when the latter attempt­ed to place him under arrest and shot seven members of the posse before being killed.

Louisiana State News

NO. 51

H&ppeplçgs of Içtereôt to Our Readers

Revision of Expreas Rates. Baton Rouge.—The Louisiana Rail­

road Commission has given notice that on Oct 29 it will take up and consider the proposed revision of the express company rates in Louisiana, with a

ed with oonsprtracy to aetrwTikmtar >Tl*W oI 'Buaaa« * reduction la the ea w itn conspiracy to defraud the gov- 'fateg Th6 compailie8 Evolved „e the

American, Pacific, Southern, Wells-Fargo and United States. The three cases to be heard are: Railroad Com» mission vs. Express Company in the matter of rules and regulations con­cerning the transportation of liquors in corrugated paper boxes between points in Louisiana; Railroad Commis­sion vs. Express Companies, in the matter of reducing express rates be­tween points in Louisiana; Petition of express companies in the adoption of official express classification No. 20 for use in Louisiana.

Branding Theodore Roosevelt as a "dangerous disturber" and "new apos-J tie of discord and dissension" whï should be regarded as a "public en­emy," Mr. John A. Dix, on the ver­anda of his beautiful home in Thom­son. N. Y-, the quaint and quiet vil­lage. Wednesday accepted the demo­cratic nomination for governor of Lumber Plant to Resume. New York and brought a thunderous Ramsay.—A crew of millwrights has shout of applause from the thousand heen put on to repair the sawmill of persons—neighbors and party lead- ! the Greenlaw Lumber Company, which ers—who swarmed over the lawns bas been shut down since the appoint-

South Objects. New Orleans.—New Orleans banks

have rejected the guaranty plan for cotton bills of lading, despite the fact that the National City Bank of New York telegraphed urging them to ac­cept.

The cotton exchanges of the South are up in arms over the proposal from New York to tax the cotton crop 6c or 7c a bale.

The tax proposed on cotton would mean to New Orleans shippers and those who ship thrc igh this port $6 to $7 on every hundred bales, $60 to $10 on evary 1,000 bales, $6,000 to $7,000 on every 100,000 bales, and $60,000 to 170,000 on every 1,000,000 bales, enough to build a big stretch of new wharves every year and under the plan proposed in New York this tax must go into the pockets of foreign •bankers.

New Rules Governs. Baton Rouge—A new rule regard­

ing absences in the Law School has been adopted to to iiMfclffect at once. The law students, for obvious reasons, are not under. £' :;^arjr restrictions, and, therefore, are not given tours and demerits for absences. A rule to cov­er absences was, therefore, adopted, according to which for every absence the student so absent was required to make one point above the pass mark in order to pass in the subject from which he was absent. The new rule entirely supersedes this rule. Under it a student is not marked off for ab­sences, but if he is absent from one-sixth of the classes In any subject without an excuse, or absent from one-third of his classes, even with excuse, he is not permitted to take the exam­ination in the subject from which he is thus absent.

Bumper Crop of Corn and Cane;

Only 254,618 Bales of Cotton

and gardens and stood with rapt at­tention listening to every word of the man whom tbe deworat^ have cho»- ,f#quire| possibly tyo en to lead them to victory.4 * 'f week»,' when it is expected to resume

Diversified farming as the efficient foe of the boll weevil will be urged on the farmers of Georgia as the cardinal principle of a campaign of education decided upon Wednesday by the Atlanta Chamber of Com­merce. The boll weevil, it was said, if» scheduled to make its appearance In Southwestern Georgia within tho next four years. Committees appointed to map out details campaign in which it is hoped to en­roll the assistance of all civic and industrial organizations in the state.

ment of receivers was made by the United States Court. The work ot

were of a

operations. Storm timber from the Great Southern Lumber Company from the Folsom district will be used to log the mill as soon as it resumes, and will continue until that supply is exhausted, when it will cut timber from its large holdings in this vicin­ity. The majority of the families which left when the shutdown went into effect are fast returning, and by the end of the present week dwellings will be in great demand.

FOREIGN.

On the * ' et. h» < k d pa- -atnf r't le

the is|«>kt.« th« White 1 cr «masked vail at : is

Th*- huth tora.iug $1. •ceaL tcrmi

> nation of expenditures mi in«increasing the

• als and in transforming Texas ('i:- into a twentieth century dt) te! = :u brief the results of tl*e

t. . • I,is week of the stock­holding of the lexas City Transporta­tion Com pan > to the mainland sub-

Captain A. B. Wo!vin. president I of t\ie cotii ar>v. and bis associates. representing some of the largest ba::

and m;.. .uacturing interests of Chhai'o ami Pittsburg, departed Fri­day for Ch ico Before his departure Obtain Wolvin briefly announced the immediate plans of the company, *hieh irid ate th'ât there will be no ^iay in carrying out the large •theme# for the upbuilding of the •»»inland city.

An elaborate banquet at the Rice ®oteJ in Houston Friday marked the 'Titiffion of the itinerary of South-*e*t Texas of the National Passenger Agents' Association. Starting at Dallas

ending at Galveston and Hous­ton. and representatives of all the im-®°n*nt railroads of the United States •nded & round of pleasure which was "ottpliir.pMf.d on all sides for its ex-"etne hot-jitalitv and cordial fellow­ship «

The resignation of Wm. Barnes. Jr., Alba: y old guard leader, from the

•tste committee, was the big event hi repu hl., an c:rc les in New- 'iork ^•dnesiim immediately after hav-fef Ocnvfd .Mr Barnes letter of res-•eatiMi. t»ajing that the iailu.-e io r**PPoin' him on the executive com-•aitue inc. a'fd that either his ser-*ktj vteit* no longer useful or that

:a::hiess to the republican *tHt tithe:. Chairman Prentice is •lAetj a s«tailment denying both of

suppositions

Another chapter was added to the history of aviation at London Sunday, when the French dirigible balloon Clement-Bayard made the voyage from Compiegne to London in the remark­able time of six hours, a journey re­quiring seven hours by the fastest ex­press trains and boats. Compiegne is forty-five miles northeast of Paris and about 195 miles by air route to Lon­don. This is also the first occasion on which a dirigible balloon has cross­ed the English channel. The Overwa­ter route occupied forty-five minutes.

Ramon Barros Luco was Saturday elected president of Chile. Senor Luco was the candidate of the liberal party who nominated him for the presidency early in September.

The bodies of Rear Admiral Reis, one of the leaders of the revolution in Portugal, who committed suicide, and Professor Bombarda, who was assas­sinated by an army lieutenant prior to the uprising, were given burial on

What Oteri Had. Plaquemine.—The first sensational

development in the trial of Frank Ote­ri of New Orleans, charged with the murder of the aged veteran, J. F. Ste­phens of St. John, Mich., on his gas­oline launch, came Saturday when Dr. Eugene Holloway, coroner of Iber­ville Parish, took the stand as the first witness for the state and testified that the jewels of Stephens were found on the person of Oteri. He iden­tified the watch, chain and Shriner

Police Jury Meets. New Iberia.—The Police Jury held

its regular meeting,, with John Curtis presiding and A. R. Romeo as secre­tary. Deputy Assessor Felix Mestayer presented the bill of the assessor_for 1910, amounting to $1,761.31, which was accepted. The bill of the parish health officer for expenses incurred in stamping out small-pox cases, amount­ing to $200, was ordered paid. The re­port of the committee of freeholders in the matter of a public road through the property of Dupre Romero was read and accepted, exappropriated and ordered paid.

Theatrical Rate Complaint. Baton Rouge.—J. M. Busley, man­

ager of the Harrison MiHstrel Show, has filed a complaint with the Rail­road Commission against the rate charged by the railroads of the state for the transportation of a baggage and a Pullman car over their lines in Louisiana. The show used the two cars in its travels over the state, and the rate is declared entirely too high by the theatrical manag«1, who says that a lower rate should be allowed the theatrical compiles ia the state.

Fish and Gam« ^xhibit. Natchitoches.—President Miller of

the State Game Commfcsion has ap­plied for 175 feet of space at the Par­ish Fair, Oct 19 to 22, f^r the display of a fish and game exhibit. The model road from this city to Gjrand Ecore, a distance of four miles, tof which the first half mile is graveled, has been completed. The camp of convicts will be transferred to the eaat side of Red River, where work on the continuance of this road to Campti is under way.

i— Cane Plantation Owned by Monks. SL Benedict.—Within fie next week

or so the cane mill belonging to the Benedictine Abbey and located about a mile from it will be In operation. Adjoining the college grounds is a large plantation owned lfy the monks. Every season this land is worked out and produces a good c>ep of sugar cane, all of which is gtound at the local mill. Last season the mill turned

pin found on the prisoner at the time j out a number of barrels of sugar cane of his arrest as the property of Ste- j syrup. phens, the deceased. A piece of iron , — which fitted the wound on the body j p!an Opposed in New Orleans, of Stephens was introduced as evi- ! dence.

New Orleans Sugar Market. New Orleans.—Offerings of sugar in

the local market is very light, amount­ing to 173 barrels, and such light re­ceipts as were brought forward from plantations were absorbed. Prices were nominal.

Refined sugars were in fair demand Sundav the occasion giviug hoc «.v. «. at quotations. New York leported a demonstration unique in the history of quiet market for reflned sugar and a aemonstrauou H chadp „asier. Quotations were un-Portugal •fcours in passing changed. London cabled that beet su­

gar was steady and cane sugar quiet. Molasses and syrups were nominal,

with light offerings, and were all taken up. Receipts from plantations were

given point. The coffins were borne on gun carriages, :that in which the body of Professer Bormbarda was placed being escorted bv imposing civil deputation?. The coffin of Admiral Reis was surrounded 430 barrels. 'by a brilliant military and naval es-cort. There were no religious services j Bu#;ness Men Want Intercostal Canal. and no religious emblem». Abbeville.—Considerable interest !s

The first anniversary of the execu- being manifested by the business com­mon of Professor Francisco Ferrer, tùe munty over the route of the Inter-vf ider of the modern schools, passed coastal Canal from the Teche to the near-exhaustion of some.

ffin»ithout incident at Barcelona on "Vermillion and the meeting of the — 'Thursday " The city was a veritable Board of Engineers for rivers and har-armed camp. Large bodies of police j bors to be held Oct. 19 in New Or-;and civil guards patrolled the streets, ieans. A board of trade was organized while the garrison remained in bar- b3r tke business men of Abbeville and racks under command of Captain Gen- R delegation named to attend this

„ „ „ board meeting and lay before it the vital reasons why the canal channel should be deepened and widened.

New Orleans.—Any plans for the formation of a "guaranty company" to validate cotton bills of ladmg will meet with small favor in the South, accord­ing to leading representatives here of cotton and banking interests. Previ­ous proposals for such an organization are reported to have been vigorously opposed throughout the Southern states on the ground that it would im­pose unwarrantable burden on produc­ers and exporters of cotton.

Baton Rouge.—Th« third quarterly report of the Department of Agricul­ture and Immigration places the cot­ton crop of the state for 1910 at 254,-618 bales.

The corn crop is a bumper one. 55 parishes reporting a crop of 113 4-5 per cent in comparison with last year.

The sugar crop is also good. Fifty parishes report a crop of 94 7-100 per cent, 14 parishes with 75 per cent, and St. John and Avoyelles with 120 per cent, in comparison with the 1909 crop./ • t.- ' ' - ' J

Rice Is reported in 30 parishes at 98 2-3 per cent. Acadia places its crop at 75 per cent, and Calcasieu at 100 per cent.

The other crops make a good show ing, and on the whole the report is a favorable one.

Knowing that many of its details are but calculations, still every exer­tion has been made to collect as ac­curate data as possible, and the de­partment is pleased with the pains­taking work of most of the assessors and believes that this report will be practically upheld in the last and final one of the year on December 31, when the actual figures will be given. All the parishes except Cad­do and Iberville have been heard from.

The cotton crop, as reported by 44 of them, and ranging from 10 per cent in St. Helena and West Feliciana to 300 per cent in Catahoula, is placed at 87 10-11 per cent of last year's crop, and basing a calculation upon the number of bales as reported in our annual statement <)f last Decem­ber, w'e figure the present crop (after adding the same number of bales made last year by parishes not now reporting) to be 254,61S bales. To make assurance doubly sure, the assessors were asked to give the number of bales claimed by conser­vative men as the crop that their

I parishes would make, and this re­sulted (after adding thereto last

j year's crop of those not reporting) : in 246,696 bales.

Sugar Cane—Fifty parishes report ! 9 7-10 per cent, 14 sugar parishes, ; with 75 per cent reported by St. John I and 120 by Avoyelles, make the crop

99 9-14 of last year, while in the 13, without Avoyelles and no report from Iberville, the percentage is placed at 98 1-13. •

Rice is reported by 30 parishes at 98 2-3, Acadia being placed at 75 and Calcasieu at 100. Fifty parishes re­port cow peas and sweét potatoes at 95 4-5 and 913-4, respectively. Hay-is reported at 103 1-25 by 51 parishes.

Two, Calcasieu and St. James, place tobacco at 110.

Twenty-six claim 103 1-3 for pea­nuts.

The peach crop was fine, 28 par­ishes placing it at 125 2-5.

Apples, pears, melons, and grapes range from 90 to 102 3-11.

Nine parishes report oranges and place the crop at 106 1-9, Plaquemine being placed at 90, while Calcasieu claims 150 per cent.

Clover and grasses are reported by i 35 parishes at 103 5-7. j Twenty-nine report season during i September favorable, 11 say it was

not. while 10 say it was "too dry" and four "too wet." Twenty-nine

i claim that the unfavorable weather cut the cotton crop short by about 29 9-10 per cent, 17 say the corn was injured 20 per cent, 21 claim 20 3-4 per cent injury to cane, and eight say that rice suffered 17 1-2 per cent..

Thirty-four parishes report no dis­eases among stock. Eleven report "charbon." one "sleepy staggers," one "sore fee*" and one hog cholera.

Forty-seven parishes report the la­bor supply and efficiency at 99 1-2.

Twenty-five claim the truck has been profitable, while 14 say it was not. Beans, potatoes, cabbage, to­matoes and strawberries seem to have been the favorites.

Locate the Agricultural High Schools. Baton Rouge.—The Department of

Education has completed the work of locating the 16 agricultural high schools that are to be established this year in Louisiana, in accordance with the provision made by the last gen eral assembly. The locations are: Belview, St. Landry parish; Mery-vllle, Calcasieu; Calhoun, Ouachita:

„ Rio, Washington; Ebenezer, Acadia: « JSros, Jackson;* Stonewall, De Soto;

Dodso, Winn; Oak Grove, West Car­roll; Gneydan, Vermillon; St. Martin-ville, St. Martin; Verda, Grant; Min­den, Webster; CJhesborotigh, Grand Prairie and Arjona. The general as­sembly appropriated $25,000 for this work, and the sum will be divided between the sixteen schools. Each school will be in charge of a principal who is thoroughly versed in agricul­ture, and will have a small model farm.

Saloonist Attacks a Policeman. New Orleans.—Sam Leone, a sa­

loonkeeper, was arrested and held for violating the Gay-Shuttuck law. It seems that Policeman Note had a tip that the saloon man was selling liquors to women, and he noticed a woman leaving the place with a can of beer. Just as the bluecoat stopped the woman, it is claimed. Leone rushed up to the policeman and hit him in the face. The woman took advantage of this and escaped. How­ever, Leone was jailed.

CUBA SWEPT BY STORM PROPERTY LOSS MANY MILLIONS.

TOBACCO AND SUGAR.

THOUSANDS ARE DESTITUTE Havana Did Not Escape —Wave« Roll­

ed Mountain High at Moro Castle.

Havana.—The island of Cuba has probably sustained the greatest mar terial disaster in all her history in the practically continuous hurricane which began with light rains on Thursday morning, developing into torrential floods and desvastating hurricanes and continuing until Monday evening. The western half of the island suffered more severely than the east.

The first hurricane of which there was some warning had hardly abated on Sunday night when suddenly the wind, which up to then had been southeast, changed to southwest and v*th renewed fury the hurricane blasts swept over Matanzas, Pinar del Rio and Havana provinces, com­pleting the destruction wrought by the first storm.

It is impossible to estimate even roughly the amount of damage which will doubtless aggregate many millions of dollars. In addition to the great destruction to sugar and tobacco plan­tations, many thousands of peasants in the three western provinces have been rendered homeless and destitute by the loss of their homes and the food crops, especillay corn. It now seems probable that the republic may be compelled to request international aid.

Havana's Loss Great. In the city of Havana the losses

probably will exceed a million dollars, mainly due to the destruction of the customs house sheds which were fill-«I with perishable goods, the sinking

University Defeated Tuiane. New Orleans.—The University of

Mississippi had little difficulty in de­feating Tuiane Thursday by a score of 16 to 0, touchdowns being scored largely by straight football in the first, second and fourth periods. The game was one-sided, save in the third, when time was called with the ball on Mis­sissippi's 30-yard line in possession of Tuiane. Many players were used on account of the warm weather and

Lumber Company Sued for $25,000* Amite City.—Mrs. Lilly Baker, a

resident of Natalbany, has filed a suit in the district court against the Na­talbany Lumber Company for $25,000 for personal injuries sustained by her 15-year-old son, Alfred Baker, whicb resulted in his death, while in th°

; employ of defendant company in June ! of this year. Besides alleging negli-' gence on the part of the company in i having machinery poorly manned and ' generally defective, the plaintiff says • the company violated the child Isbor j law. and that the bfy was overworked.

Dr. Smith Dies From His Wounds. Lake Charles.—Dr. Temple Smith,

who was shot through the abdomen j granted " " quarrel at their j

Lightning at Dance Hall Kills a Boy. Albemarle.—Pierre Gros, 18-vear-

old son of Mrs. Cleophas Gros, a widow, was killed by lightning at Emile Clause's dance hall. A game of cards was being played, and Gros was sitting in a window looking on , - q[ ]jghterS) many of them when be was struck | containing valuable cargoes which

s; r.,rwr,jr» r - <»'—- -, left shoe and leaving the right in- j cit? facing the sea. ^ tact But Few Fatalities;

• — , Few fatalitie§ "to the present Oil Plant Burns. have been reported. Three men were

Alexandria.—The Bonner Oil Com- drowned in the harbor, but no deaths pany's plant in this city was burned, from the storm occurred in the city, causing a loss of approximately $15,- j The American consul general, J. 000, partially covered by insurance. Unn Rodgers, succeeded in reaching The fire originated in a boxcar on a Artemisia, thirty-five miles southwest siding^ near the warehouse and tanks 0f Havana. He reports that the coun-and was supposed to' be of Incen- ^ has been devastated by the floods diary origin. It was a spectacular >nfi conditions from Artemisia to fire and burned for several hours. Cape San Antonio, it is stated, are

even worse than in the territory ex-Arranging for Farmers' Fair.

Alexandria.—Arrangements are be­ing made for the farmers' fair and trades display to be held here Octo­ber 20, 21 and 22. Seven hundred dollars in premiums is offered. The exhibits will include, besides stock and poultry, products of the farm and field.

plored by Consul Rodgers. All the tobacco seed beds and barnB have been destroyed. The prospective crop it is asserted, will not exceed 10 per cent of the normal.

The sugar plantations suffered less severely, but great damage has been done to standing cane by the change of the wind in the second storm.

Over the Ramparts. At the height of the storm the great

Election on Road Tax Called. Many.—The police Jury, during it3 , - , »,

three days' session here, passed an waves went over the ramparts of Moro ordinance in compliance with the pe- Castle. They rolled with terrific speed tition of many stores, providing for UP the harbor, tumbled over the sea-an election upon the question of levy- w'alls, inundating the streets in the ing a 5-mill road tax at Jhe Novem- lower part of the city and carried away ber general election.

13-Months-Old Boy Kills Self. Algiers—Playing with a revolver

which he found lying os the befl, George Blum, a 13-months-old child of W. F. Blum, put the barrel in tyis mouth and pulled the trigger. The bullet passed through his head, kill­ing him instantly.

Will Vote on Good Roads Tax. Winnfield.—The police jury of th's

parish ordered a special election to be held December 6 to ascertain the wish of the voters relative to levying a special tax of 5 mills for five„years in aid of good roads.

Oil Field Operators Elated. Estherwood.—Parties from the Ney

ranch, a few miles from Lake Ar­thur, report that the new oil well

many of the small craft along the shore and swamped many lighters which escaped the blow during the earlier hours.

Maine Raising Delayed. A barge containing all the outfit of

divers working on the wreck of the old battleship Maine was carried away and stranded on the rocks off Moro Castle. Later the soldiers of the fort­ress succeeded in saving considerable of the machinery, but all of the div­ers' buoys, stakes and other marks around the Maine were swept away, which probably will seriously delay the work of raising the ship.

Cherokee Indian Fund. Washington.—In accordance with a

petition filed last spring, the supreme court of the United States Monday

«.um, directed the court of claims to show going down is working over a heavy why it should not distribute the $4,-gas pressure at over 650 feet, and <>00,000 Cherokee Indian fund in ac-owners of the well are mach elated cordance with a recent decision of the at the good prospects. : SUpreme court. Answer is to be made

Dec. 5. Boy Slayer Gets Five Years in Pen.

Thibodaux.—James Howard, a ne­gro boy, was found guilty of man­slaughter and sentenced to five years

eral We vier. Masses of flowers were placed on Ferrer's grave *jy the rep­resentatives of various associations tbut there were no disturbances.

A hurricane swept over the eastern •coast of the Baltic Sea Friday, caus­ing manv wrecks and the ioss of hun­dreds of lives among the sailors. •Throughout the night the signal lights of distressed vessel could be made out Three sailing vessseis foundered off the Gulf of Riga. Some of the men were rescued.

King Manuel is preparing a mani­festo for distribution to the press of Europe setting forth the truth con­cerning aie revolution. The manifesto will not be published until some time after the king s arrival in England

Baling Rice Straw. Esterwood.—Vic Coles of Etherwood

State Convict Killed. Lake Charles.—News was received

Saturday from the Angola State farm to the effect that Jim Jones, a convict sent up from this parish for a term of ten years charged with robbery, had been tilled while attempting to es­cape.

by his wife during ! home here two weeks ago. died at

St. Patrick's Sanitarium. Gangrene set in and he lapsed into unconscious

j ness until his death. The nature of ! the statement made when he believed i he was dying has not been divulged, j but it is the general impression that i it exonerated Mrs. Smith from blame, i as he has done at various times since

he received his wound at her hands.

Louisiana Bank Resources. Shreveport—State Bank Examiner

baling several thousand bales of ; Young reports the total resources of Japan rice straw near Morse for mar- the state tanking institutions of Louia-ket. and may ship several carloads 1 iana on Sept. 27 amounted to $109.080,

958, an increase over the previous out of Louisiana. This is very choice food for mules and all kinds of stock.

Fire Chief Suspended. Lake Charles.—Following a meeting

of the city council this week. Fire Chief L. J. Sudduth was suspended pending an investigation by the city council of charges against him.

quarter of $565,211.

6,000-Barpel Oil Well.' Shreveport.—The Gulf Refining Com­

pany brought in a new well this week in section 34, on land leased from Cad­do Levee Board with a capacity of 6.000 barrels.

Cattle Ticks About Eradicated. Baton Rouge.—In Lincoln and

Morehouse parishes the State San­itary Live Stock Board, which has been conducting the campaign for the eradication of the cattle tick in these two parishes, will suspend its cam­paign for the winter, as it is not nec­essary to carry on the work during the cold months. Both parishes are nearly free from ticks. One more season's work and the eradication of the ticks will be complete. It is just the beginning of the work if the entire state is to be freed of them.

$4,358 for Car of Alfalfa Seed. Amarillo, Tex.—Judge L. C. Lair, MdUgUlCl auu -v* VV jvtw" >

in the penitentiary after a motion of Canyon, shipped the most valuable for a new trial had been overruled, car of agricultural produce ever grown An appeal to the supreme court was in the Panhandle this week, in the

form of a car of alfalfa seed, for which he received $4,358. The ship­ment consisted of 527 bushels of seed. Architectural Examiners **«•»>> în»ed.

Baton Rouge.—Governor Sanders has appointed the following to be members of the State Board of Arch­itectural Examiners undeT act 231 of

vi910: Charles A. Favrot, New Or­leans: Allison Owen, New Orleans; W. L. Stevens, Baton Rouge; J. C. Carter, Lake Charles, and J Snyder, Shreveport.

$50,000 Fire at Houston. Houston, Tex.—A fire in the planing

mill of the Harrisburg Lumber Com­pany Monday caused a loss estimated at $50,000. The fire did not reach the

Y. main lumber sheds of the mill, which were saved by the quick work of the Houston auto chemical engine No. 2.

Limit Speed of Automobiles Covington —The town council has

adopted an ordinance regulating the speed of automobiles in the town lim­its to 10 miles an hour and forbid­ding a speed greater than six miie? an hour in rounding street corners. The ordinance also requires tho blowing of a horn or other alarm ai street crossings and the carrying of a registry number, lights fore and aft and that the driver must be at least 16 years of age, and imposes a fine of from $5 to $50 for violation« of the law.

Atascosa County Valuation. Austin, Tex.—Atascosa County'«

tax valuation is $7,566,195. In 1909 it was $5,991,395. The county assess­or's estimate of what this year's valu­ation would be, filed with the depart­ment July 15, was $7,238,000.

Banana Fields Devastated. Kingston, Jamaica.—News from the

interior of the island shows that a large aera of banana fields was devas­tated by the severe wind and rain* storm last week.

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