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The Lower Coast (azette. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE LOWER COAST AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FISHERIES AND COMMERCE. V .,l rx. POINTE-A-LA-HACIIE, LA., SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1910. SUMBER 17. Qn a m• i l miNm a l l sm Im • n H i I i H inn• o • m m imn U n i a I il l u i is i ii t• li. • ii I l i H m I n a a ~m aw u I u • • nu m I n u an n ninu amiHii i m il t HI I t • III~lI II is HI l I I N i i I m i PATTERSON PARDONS COOPER Promptly Freed by the Governor After His Case Had Been Affirmed by the Supreme Court of Tennessee-Robin Cooper Gets New Trial Nashville, Tenn.-In the case of 0(u1. Duncan II. Cooper and Robin .I. (ooper, father and son, convicted of killing loor mer United States Soenator E. W\. Car mna(ok 'on the streets hero', Nov. 9, 191,0, and senltencedl to tweonty years each ill the statoe pi'enite'ntiary. t he Tenness'e supreme'n court \V'ldneshly morning, by t diivi lhd vote', attirrnoed the .-ontenice 4os to DI. B. ('oo,'r. As to Robin (oopcer the easc, al.o by a divided vote,, is re versooed a nd r'lmanded to the lowor .'court for a new trial. WVhile thief .Inl tice BL.ardl was reading a dissentinil, opinion in the ea.e of l)ouian It. ( o',er, Gov ernor PI';tterswon wrote.c a full pardoen for the doefendant. in which hie de)l.irt.es: "Iteing thoroughly i:onailiar % ith the recordl, halvinlg ireal tl the te.,ti lOony' and tostjliodl to certain facts ithint my p rlOl 11111l knowledge,'. it is neitlher icte siraihle nor It"..,iary toi delaiy ac-tion for petiion to be presentedl. l.kilog cx reeutil'e c('imenllcv. '"n my. olpinioon, neithelior (of the de fendant- is guilty antl theo' hasle not had a fair andll ilmpartial trial, lbut we\\re toolvictetd coltrary to the law and evi deuce. The action of thle supremei court in vucating the jludl ent as to Robdin Coolor., leav'es the sentoncee of tilnal eon viction as to his c--dlferndlant. The-lio oof shoowed that I:,lbin ('oolper killed the dlee'a.-ed and that I). It. C( opelr did not fire a shot. Without roilction upoon thlie court, it is fiiconceiable to m1y m ind and repugtuiitnt to every principleo of jus tice that a man should e fouindl guilty of mulrder who tlas not in a conlspiracy to kill, and who, in fact, did not kill." The reversal in the case of Robin Cooper is based on assignients of error in the trial judge's fuailing to challrge se.ip arately as to Robin ('Coper's theory of self-defense, linkiing the defense of the defendants together, excluding testimollny of G;overnor Patterson as to tailks with the defendant, Robin Cooper, atdl ad vice given himt as to Colonel (oope r be fore the tragedy, and the admission of cross-examination of Robin Cooper as to intent of certain state's witnesses in testifying as to certain incidents. Wanted Robin's Vindication. Colonel Cooper was still at the capitol [ when the pardon was entered in the secretary of state's oftie. II- 'os at ones surrounded by a crowd of friends seeking to congratulate hint. "I wanted Robin's vindication more than I wanted a pardon," was his smil ing remark wnen told of the governor's t action in behalf of himself. Leaving the t' crowds gathered about him, he entered a .carriage with his daughter, Mrs. Lucius I1 E. Burch. and his sister-in-law, Mrs. 3 James C. Bradford, and, accompanied by f Marshal Robert Marshall, was driven to " the county jail, where formalities in con- I aection with the pardon were gone t through with and le was released. lie h reached the jail at 2:20 p. m., leaving ( there about 2:30. Robin Cooper is under a $25,000 bond. 0 His friends freely predict that he will " not again be arraigned for trial. Should 3 he be, it would be a most difficult un- h dertaking to secure a jury in Davidson Ii county under the law's requirements. a Courtroom Was Packed. 11 The opinions were read before a court room packed to suffocation, the corridors being crowded with those unable to gain t' entrance. Every word was listened to to with breathless interest, and the scene C was a memorable one. It marked an ep ch in not only the legal annals of the stite, but the political as well. The j Democratic party of Tennessee has been ' rent into bitter factions over the prohi bition question, and, as a wheel within n a wheel, "the Cooper ease" lhas played a el conspicuous part. Cooper is the close friend and alleged political adviser of Patterson, vwho is the leader of the anti- P prohibition forces in Tennessee. Carnlack a was the chief of the prohibition move ment. Patterson was a most Important w witness for the defense at the trial of the Coopers for the killing of Carmack, in whose death his friends allege was the to outcome of political machination. Now, te on the verge of an election of the judici- er ary, the supremne court was called on to f pass finally on the case over which it at seems the party factions lhave actually cl aligned themselves on one side or the ii other. For sixty-nine days the court se -as had the case, ind the state has (i0 been on the tiptoe of e.pectancy as the p"i opinion days came and went without its Ji being referred to. The announcemnent at last showrs an iz interesting status to those familiar with wl the intricacies of the political situation. as Chief Justice Beard and Justices Me- col Mlister and Bell reverse the case as to Ti Robin Cooper, Justices Nell and Shields to dissenting. Justices Shields, MeAlister and Neil confirm as to Colonel Cooper, Chief ,lus tie* Beard and Justice Bell dissenting. The supreme court was more widely ca d:vided than it ever was before. Two sto of thle most elaborate opinions ever ren- tol dered were handed down, and neither one hi of them, strange to say, actually aecom- in SEE MORE PENSIONIS. -it Weola Grat tind Pay d at Washliagton.-A pednsion bill to grant ha ib rariingvolunteer ofgeers of the mil tbJdted Shts 'armny, who served six gel sometlr maore, retired pay aecording dei t aihtht ser'ie, sad to al honorably b -db idalistald se onve 10 sad suf-. in dug eg e inta dsgre. of dIsability a for -ass d s peerm .1 nmith, was 5 to theiase hps thse mnal. thl :l. pli.-ed the result intended by the opinz ir, in itself or the justice who wrote it. or- .lu.,ticer .olin K. shields read an opinion ar- (cverin, 7' typewritten pages, affirm Ut, ing the jiud'aniuit of the court below in in all things. In this Justice M1. M. Ne.il e eoiturred. y (Chief .Ilustice BIeard read an opinion as covering 63 typewritten pags. This cr opini on reversed the juidgieunt of the re. court I slow as to both defendants. In rt it .Justice It. I). lell coneurred. we I pon the shoulders of .Instice WV. K. mon l.\liter ireted the responsibility of v. actual}ly de,,idii, the case. Ihe con or 11rel ttith neither opipnin in toh. Upon the twent'.-two as,;irnmlnenlt s of error, he (. concurred with .lustic.s Slhichl-is and Neil nV in the majority of thlm, but differed iv with ,them as to all of those affecting le- lhhin t'oper exchlusiely. on As a re-uIlt of this wide division of x thIle court on this case, the opinion of the court was not handeld down for the first e- tihnu in the history' of the jiurisplrudence ot of the tate. Th'Ie opinion of .Just ce re ,Shihldh is not Ih'e opinion of the court, vi. nor is the opinion of .Jutice lBeard the rt ,pinin of the couirt, but a part oi each in taken to,,ether forms the actual ldecision n. that goes into ell'ert. I'f Nashville Excited. e Tile news created more excitement ano more t wilisllreadl liscuvsion proibably lie than any e'vent in the hitory of the nl city. The telegraph and tchlehone of. Slies aere besiegedl not only by repre v s:ntatives of out of town newspapers, % but by hunlll'reds of private messages to friend:,s all over the state and in adjoin ing .tates. or the pardon was not unexpcrted. From SI (;overe,o Patterson'.s t.stilmony in the court below there could remain no doubt o as to his personal conviction of the in noceuce of t he defendants. Such being the case there was never any doubt in d the public mind that lie would grant a 'ipardon to both defendants should the sunpremne court affirm the sentence. But while this action did not come as a sur a prise, it created all of the interest and all of the wild excitelment that a totally unexpected denouement to the whole l series of events could have done. ie Politica' Results. is As to the result politically in Tennes see of the state supreme court's decision iln the Cooper case and the pardon of . Colonel D. B. Cooper by (Governor Pat. , terson, opinion seems general that the Sold factional lines-Patterson and anti Patterson, the latter representing the i prohibition or state-wide element of the state Democracy-are unchanged. In fact, they are more taut if that be pos o sible. The governor's friends claim that t his action has served to cement more e closely than ever his following-that it has given them a rallying cry to battle. g On the other hand, it has embittered tc I even intenser degree the hostility to huim on the part of his political enemies. Car. mI mack was the leader and idol of the state-widers. His friends. charging that his killing was the outcome of a po n litical scheme, made it the chief issue against Patterson, and the Cooper cast has colored the entire political atmos phere of Tennessee. A governor and state judiciary are soo 1, to be elected. The state Democratic coin p imitteet dominated by Patterson men, re cently called a blanket primary for June (, 4 to make nominations. Enemies of Pat. , terson freely charged the inclusion of the t judiciary was an attempt to wield a club l over thIe supreme Court, which had the , Cooper case under advisement, and every p member of which was a candidate for re election. Matters were complicated by a the refusal of Chief Justice Beard and i Justices Shields and Neil to enter the primary. They will run independently, i and now that their attitude on the "cause celebre" is known, the question is N what will the alignment be? It is most complex, if the attitude oe individual members of the court is to be tl taken into the analysis. Meanwhile Pat ha terson, serving his second term as gov. til ernor, has not said if he is a candidatt 1 for a third term. Many of hisi friends 1 are insistently urging him to be, whj)li al equally strong pressure is being used tI cc induce him to' run for United Statee ri senator to succeed James B. Frazier. In di cidentally, Mr. Frazier, a candidate tt. cc succeed himself, has refused to enter tha p June primary. ti The state-wide faction is well organ ized and prepared to fight Patterson cc wherever he lands. But they have not te as yet put forward a name to be used it. qi connection with the gubernatorial race The campaign, when it opens, is expectec fo to be furious. th ROBIN OUT ON BOND. tt Nashville, Tenn.-Robin Cooper, whose case was reversed in the supreme court th stands upon his bond of $25,000. At be torney-General McCarn says he will put th his ease on the May docket of the crim- vi inal court of Davidson county. an Break Immigration Record. New York.-The influx of immigrants at this port, which has been unusually heavy this week, reached such a point Wednesday that it was impossible tc handle them all at .the Ellis island im migrant station. The steerage passen gers on the Caronia, Oceanie and Presi. dent Lincoln, 4,863 in all, were held on board the vessels, where they will stay until tomorrow before being examined for admission. Ons the island today are - 5,864 aliens. The 'lmmigration officers tbink tbhe week may. be almost a reoord ". "-~,-. WOULDN'T IT BE FUNNY? (Copyright, 1900.) RATS The National Woman Suffrage Assoc iation in Sesslon in Washington and What Might Happen. lee r: HISS THE PRESIDENT ' TOLD THRONG HE DID NOT FAVOR WOMEN'S VOTE. "Q Permit Him to Continue Address He y Styled "My Confession"-Applause Ile Finally Follows. re r \, Wa.lhiiigton.--The president of the to United States, the first clhitef executive of iI- the Inationii r to greet a conlvention of woman suffragists, braved the danger m 'lThursday night of facing an army of he womn'n who wanit the ballot; had the bt courage to express his opinion, and was n. hissed. So great was the throng that ig sought admission to the hall that hun in dreds were turned away. a President Taft was welcoming to ie Washington the delegates to the conven ut tion of the National American Woman Ir- Suffrage Association. He had frankly id told them he was not altogether in sym ly pathy with the suffrage movement, and le was explaining why he could not siib scribe fully to its principles. lie saidi he thought one of the dangers in grant :., . . .. ,' nomnn v as that the w omen as a whole were not interested I in it, and that the power of the ballot as far as women are concerned wolld be controlled by the "less desirabl? at class." Chorus of Hisses. e When thorn words fell from the presi 6 dent's lips the walls of the convention a hall echoed a chorus of feminine hisses. It was no feeble demonstration of pro it test. The combined hisses sounded as if a valve on a steam engine had broken. President Taft stood unmoved on the * platform during the demonstration of C hostility-for the hissing continued but a moment-and then, smiling as he spoke, he answered the unfavorable greet- I ing with this retort: "Now, my dear ladies, you must show I } yourselves capable of suffrage by exercis ing that degree of restraint which is nec essary in the conduct of governmental af fairs by not hissing." The women who had hissed were re buked. Th? president's reply had ap parently taken hold. There were no more hisses while the president continued his t address, which he characterized as "my e confession" on the woman suffrage ques- d tion. At the conclusion of his talk he 1 was enthusiastically applauded, and f some of the leaders of the convention ex F pressed to him their sincere regret of the unpleasant incident. President 'raft 1h assured them he had not had his feelings P injured in the least. P HAVE TOO MANY CHILDREN t - a Mrs. Larein Baker Says 90 Per Cent of e Infants Are Not Wanted. b Washington.-"Ten years hence to be J' the father of ten or twelve children will be as much of a disgrace as being a con- l tirmed drunkard at present," declared H Mrs. Larein Helen Baker, of Spokane, L Wash., suffragette, who will be heard along original lines of thought at the convention of the National Woman Suf- J' frage Association. Her studies of chil- C1 dren all over sthe world, she said, had a convinced her that "not more than 10 b per cent of them are children of love and P the other 90 per cent are not wanted. "Roosevelt, poor, ignorant man," she continued, "urges large families, but I tl tell you it is quality in children, not ut quantity. a "Woman suffrage will better clhildrei, for it will produce better tlhinking., It is a the mental, not the physical, that rules progressive action today and teaches us gi that the greatest crime of the ages is too many children. "When they (the parents) have learned pi that fully nine-tenths of all the babies at born every year are nothing more or less "i than human culls, I believe the birth rate tl will decrease and we will be a better of and stronger race.th Granite for Esrope. American granite is being shipped to Europe. Not long ago 320 tons of cc blue granite from South Carolina were I sent to Aberdeen, Scotland. It re- vi quired 11 cars to transport the stone r to Charleston, 8. C.. from the quarries ac It will be manufactured into monu is mests. t Not the Same Thing,. i "Jinks told me that fancy ball was superb. Said he was simply carried tawy." "sw ay. was-la the patrol Wgoi'" at "U h ·· , -: · IT DRUNK WITH POWER DR SENATOR LA FOLLETTE SAYS MOR GAN IS A RED-FACED BULLY. He Declares Mellen and Byrnes Are But Megaphones Repeating Morgan's Orders. le Waslington.-Incidental to the consid of !ration of the administration railroad h bill, the merger of the Boston and Maine ,er railroad with the New York, New Haven of and Hartford railroad, through the rail he road holding law, enacted by the Massa as chusetts legislature in 1909, was dis at cussed at length in the senate Monday. Li. The principal speech, attacking the con solidation in unstinted language, was to made Uly Senator La Follette and con n- siumed the larger part of the day's ses an sion.. lv Mr. La Follette practically charged . that the enactment had been consum ed mated as the result of the dictation of b,. President Mellen, of the New Haven i.i road, who, he intimated, represented the . Morgan-Rockefeller interests. lie quoted be from a member of the Massachusetts Id legislature a statement to the effect ot that G(overnor Draper has disposed to an d1 Ultimatum from the New Haven inter Seasts. He undertook to show that the federal merger suit, which had been in stituted during the Roosevelt administra . tion had been dismissed at the dictation >n of Attorney-General Wickersham, under 8, the Taft administration, for the inade o. quate reason that the Massachusetts leg if islature had passed the holding bill ni under which the consolidation was ef. 1C fected. f "Think of it," Mr. La Follette shouted, it "This great case, involving the transpor tation of New England and all the peo. t pie of the country engaged in trade with New England, after eleven months of t preparation and successful prosecution on the part of the government, reached a e stage where the defendants are compelled to take the stand and make their show ing, and then, like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, comes the order from Wash ington: 'Dismiss the government's case.' " "And," he said, "the attorney-general, is the highest law officer of the federal gov y ernment, sworn to preserve, protect and defend the constitution and enforce the e laws of congress, gives his official ap d proval of this legislative compact be tween the New Haven Company and the f Massachusetts legislature to nullify the law of congress, and declares that it ex s pressly authorizes what congress has ex pressly forbidden. "If the door of the federal court may thus be closed in the face of a wronged and outraged public by the attorney-gen f eral of the United States, then the law becomes a black art and justice a mere a juggler's pawn." Speaking of President Mellen and Vice President Byrnes of the New York, New I Haven and Hartford railroad, Senator La Follette said: "The mask is off. We have all of us done injustice to Mr. Mellen--gross in - justice. Nor is Mr. Byrne, in his private Scapacity or in any capacity except as a corporation employe, the truculent braggart that he seems in the press re Sports of the railroad hearings. "Both of these men and others of their kind are but hired megaphones through which a beefy, red-faced, thick. necked financial)ully, drunk with wealth and power, bawls his orders to stock markets, directors, courts, governments and nations. "We have been listening to Mr. Mor gal." Whisky Costs Less. t Cincinnati.-The reductions in the 1 prices of whisky took effect Friday; V and a bitter price war was declared. The E "independent" distillere quoted $1.33 as a the price, and the local representatives v of the so-called "whisky trust" offered ij their goods on a basis of $1.30 a gallon, b Inclined Style of Writing Best. It has been reported by the French commission formed for the purpose of making comparative studies of the vercual and incined styles of hand. a wrtting, with regard to the health of s' school children, that the Inclined style o is far simpler and less rtitguing than I the vertical style, and less likely to e cause spinal curvature and other evil G results. u Power of the Brain. Thougbhts are mflhtfer than the s treanath ot haad-Sophocste. - SIALL OVER LOUISIANA IMPORTANT DECISION PERTAIN ING TO SCRIP LANDS. Owners of McEnery Scrip Lands are Asking for Their Patents and Have Cash posted. Baton Louge.-Since the Supreme Court of the United States turned down the Frellsen applications for the McEnery scrip lands and upheld the validity of the Toomer act of 1906 the State Land Office has re ceived a great many applications from owners of McEnery scrip lands for their patents. Since the passage of the Tooluer act, four years ago, there has been on deposit in the banks of Baton Rouge probably a total of $60,000, representing money placed there by McEnry scrip land owners at the sug gestion of their attorneys, and these people now want to pay their mtl ey to the state and get patents to their lands. The Toomer act provided that ev ery person who held land through M1cEulry scrip patents could pay the ^d state $1.50 an acre and get a patent from the state for the land. The - Frellsen syndicate had previously R made tenders for all of these lands, and immediately upon the pasage of the Toomer act an injunction was gotten out preventing the register of R- the State Land Office from accept ing the $1.50, and from issuing pat ents in accordance with the Toomey ut act. The injunction has been in effect since that time and all of the money has been on deposit. d These parties now want to know what the state is going to do about their $1.50 an acre. If the Hughes act of 1908 had not been passed, it ii- is argued by some, these parties a- would be entitled to receive patents to their lands for the $1.,0 tendered. There is some question, however, as to whether the Hughes act applies to the MlcEnery scrip holders, as well n* as to the homesteaders, and this mat ter has been referred to the attor ney general for his opinion. Li Decision Anent Hughes Act. Over a dozen applicants for home n stead entry are effected by the de d cision of Attorney General Guion in which he holds that no matter what the vested !nteres of a person .w. in the claim, he could not perfect r- a title from the State, since the pas te sage of th Hughes act of 1908, un less he first had the land advertis . ed and offered at auction. n The persons who have their appli 'r cations before the Land Office to per. - fect their homesteads have been liv - ing on their lands for the required 1l number of years, and it was not f. the intention of the State Legisla ture to disturb these persons. Both L Grace, register of the Land Office, r* realize that this was the intention Sof the lawmakers, but, as the attor h ney general pointed out in his opin f ion, the working of the act is plain " that all lands unperfected are in this Sclass and they are subject to the act. The only way that the home steaders can perfect their titles now, without having them advertised, is to wait until the next session of the state legislature for it is almost cer tain that a law will be enacted al lowing the homesteaders to perfect title to their property from the state. WILL HELP CAPITAL CITY. I SFavorable Report on Making Baton I Rouge Sub-port of Entry. 1 Baton Rouge.-The announcement that the United States Treasury De partment had favorably rported upon Baton Rouge's claim to be made a sub-port of entry, the board of trade officials believe, will mean much for f the city, and according to report, is S going to bring some large industries here. t That Baton Rouge was recognized $ over so many other cities was due ii to the untiring efforts of the board e of trade, and also to the fact that i the Standard Oil Company has its r large refinery here and will soon be in position to ship its product from n here to all ports of the world. i The officers of the board of trade are being congratulated upon the fa- d vorable report of the treasury de partment and the certainty of the passage of the bill. Inspected Experiment Stations. Baton Rouge.-Dr. W. R. Dodson, director of the state experiment sta tions, has returned from Crowley, where he has been inspecting the work of the State Rice Experiment 1 Station, which was opened a year a ago and has alrady done splendid bi work for the rice interests of Lou isiana, in the experiments that have been conducted in the planting and si rotation of different varieties of rice. C New Salt Mine in Louisiana. Crowley.--CGeneral F. F. Myles, of y( New Orleans, is confined to his room es at the Pizzini Hotel, suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism. He is It on his way to Pine Point, in upper vt Mamou Prairie, where he is interest- in ed In a salt mine at Weeks Island. General Myles believes there is a val- er uable salt mine at Pine Point, where et a drill which was beng used to bore to for oil penetrated a deep strata of tit salt rock, which it is believed will he develop .a rich minae, at AGRICULTURE IN SCHOOLS. Prof. T H. Harris Outlines Method of N- Public School Work. Ba:xton Rouge.--Good report cometi from Little Rock to the effectl that re Prof. T. T. . Harris, Superintendent of Public Instruction in Louisiana, made a profound impression at the thir. teenth confer:ence for education in the South when he outlined the Lotu sd iana plan for leaching agriculture it the public schools. Id 11ie explained that Louisiana is pro f vided with a State Board of Educa e tion comiposed of the governor, atate is superintendent of public instruction. is the attorney general and seven men appointed by the governor, one frola each congressional district in the state. The state is also providel! with county boards of education and county superintendents. The district boards are eliminated and the county board is in contr'ol ° of the schools of the entire county. As a result the system is less coim Dllicated and more easily regulated. Superintendent. Harris has three or four men outi in the state all the time, agitating the need and value of high schools. The courtly boards are also striving hard to build high i schools, and as a result great prog ress is made along that line. If the citizens of a certain ss(tion of the county desire a high school they take the matter up with the county, board and a vote is taken in the district affected on the questblh of levying a tax for the piurpose o1 building and maintaining the high school. The taxes voted range from fiv e to 25 mills and extend fromn li;i to -0 vears in tinie. Mr. tHarris states that there a"e 87 high schools throughout Itmisian:t and a third of the number are coun ty high schools. S NOW FIRST CLASS POSTOFFICE. New Official at Baton Rouge Will Re ceive $3,000 per Annum. Baton Rouge.-When the postal au. 1 thorities announced that the stamp sales for the fiscal year ending on March 31, 1910, was $40,150, it be came evident that Ed. Burnette, the new postmaster, will receive $3,000 per year salary. The total stamp sales last year were $37,095.19, and the increase of $3,000 in a single year shows that the business activ ity of the capital city is on the ad vance. Ali potoiafices :n which the total stamp sales in one year is $40,000 er more are considered first-class ofm ces. Appropriation for Deeper Channel. Morgan City.-Dispatches from the national capitol that the committee on rivers and harbors had reported favorably upon an appropriation of $500,000 for the deepening of the Atchafalaya channel to twenty feet was received here with enthusiasm. The Atchafalaya ship channel was dug to a depth of fourteen feet by local capital and has proved to be a source of great benefit to a vast section, as a number of foreign ves sels have visited this port since its completion, but it was found that the channel was not deep enough to accommodate the larger class of vessels, and though the efforts of the officers of the channel company they have been able to interest the fed eral authorities in the project. Inspected the University Cadets. Baton Rouge.- Capt. B. F. Sim monds of the United States Army recntly inspected the cadets of the Louisiana State Universit; for the UInited States war department. There was a battalion drill, rifle drill, com pany drill and bayonet exercise. LOUISIANA NOTES, Larger shipments of garden truck from every section show that the state is developing the industry. The state board of liquidation au thorized Governor Sanders to borrow $2,154.57 to pay the cost of examnin ing the books of the Cumberland Tel. ephone company and in carrying on litigation in an effort to secure lower rates. Fire insurace companies in Luisia na collected $4,434,472 in premiunms in 1909 ,and paid $2,460,155 losses. The Hooks oil well in the Vinton district promises to develop 500 bar rels per day under pump. An oil exploring company has been organized at Natchitoches witih a capital stock of $100,000. The anniversary of the battle of Mansfield was celebrated by the (Con. federate ofganiizations at that place. a An election will be held early in Mlay in Washingtlon parish to vote a 5-mill, fifteen-year tax for school buildings, and a similar tax to main tain them. The Standard Oil Company has secured leases on 4,586 acres in the - Caddo field. The fiscal agent banks of Louisia na were re-elected for the ensuing year and will pay 3 per cent inter. est. Five thousand acres in the cicin Ity of Church Point, heretofore de voted to cotton, will be converted into rice lands. The Louisiana Federation of Wom en's Clubs elected officers for the ensuing year and adjourned to Ba ton Rouge. They adopted resolu tions commending the proppsitioa to hold the Panama Canal celebration at New Orleans. This contractor got results. Some years ago a contractor build ing a railroad in a warm climate was troubled a great deal by sickness among the laborers. liHe turned his attention at once to their food and found that they were getting full rations of meat and were drinking water from a stream near by. He issued orders to cut down the amount of meat and to increase great ly the quantity of Quaker Scotch Oats fed to the men. He also boiled Quaker Scotch Oats and mixed the thin oatmeal water with their drinking water. Almost instantly all signs of stomach disorders passed and his men showed a decided improve ment in strength and spirits. 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