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The Lower Coast Gazette VOL. VI. POINTE-A-LA-HACHE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 1914., 1. 6ERMANS AVANICE K AGAINST BELGIANS BELGIAN FORCES HAVE BEEN FORCED TO FALL BACK TO RIVER NETHE. ARTILLERY FIRE IS FIERCE Germans (Eake Fierce Attack on Al. lies' Center at Roye-Russians Push Germans Back Into Prussia. New York.-The determined efforts of the Germans are making not only to hold their lines in the north of France, but to win back some of the territory the allied forces have succeeded in tak ing from them since the great battle of the Ainne began, are indicated in the official announcements from the retich war office. REF The Germans have continued their .erlee of desperate attacks on the Ais French left wing, and in the center the crown prince's army, which includes the sixteenth corps, has attempted to advance through the wood of La Grs ie. But in all of these endeavors, se cording to French accounts, the Ger have have been repulsed. The crown prince's army even has been driven e back toward the north a mile or two. In Belgium, however, the Germans ba have been more successful, for the Belgian legation at London admits that m Son the east of the River Senne the Belgian forces defending Antwerp, aft er a desperate resistance of ive days, have been obliged to fall back to the SIlver Nethe, so terrific has been the -erman artillery fre But the declar ts Is made that the Belgians intend t the attack on Antwerp to S te offltci communication SP*srad deasecbes , the battle of o in Rusbi. oland, ap deo u into mie of told oke in an ecounter betwee theO ' on of the' cvalry .saias veur ira s ate .; a4 Lp have Jcc4JahBi y d ltlvary and Ma,ampol, Po of `he Russian emperor, acording to a ".~itrgd announcement, has left the ( pitalfor the war sone The German pe ror is said to beat Thorn, Wdst. ; ussIia, close to the usalsan frontier. In, sERMANS ARE 'DRIVEN BACK Petrograd Says Ruealanse Made Bril- th ilant Bhyonet Charge-Push Ger- ( mans back Into Prussia. co ·. . · . th SLoudon.--C. P. Sturk, correspondent 5 at the Loaden Daily News at Petro- of iip tleglphs that Ruslian infantry, Ca Siitj Olt of brilliant bayonet charuges, -peiirlng the ,5fjrmans back into v' in the direction of Lyck. m uslan. Infantry also charged the (ltnans who were besieging Augus ,compelling them to abaadon their -?hlsis the first time hi the northern l mr s0ne that there have been genu. Sad.htry battles sad the Russiamn 01 have proved their get da u in this class of fighttng. t isi k fhom Petrosrad, S erman attapk on the n railroad, says the Ger a . Vitna their obective, dis Sovno and attsoked stub f ally retratlag before Ruam a ~sha bayonet clsuyrge, but In orGr. b - OR2L O OF SATTLE titem. b htai ..dve Out. . i... aeW4 its t #a.r*S m gl teratah "' 4ep~jn~a, for: 'aebe ~Lt he'~i r t6ins. ofl~~ CONTAGIOUSI-: WAR -. KEY , ý t.. t ) r. . t*...... . . r. 11 .4. n (Coedsbht) REPULSE GERMAN ATTACK GEE Alliee' Pressure Tells on Germans. Fr French Forces Reach Practically. Po to Belgian Border. London.-The battie of the Alsne. >lnbd the allied armies pushing with no all the strength they can bring to port bear in their great effort to outflank gion the German right wing and force it n back from its line of communication turn through Belgium. In tl There is evidence that this move-, pros ament is beginning to tell, and that un- ,, 1_W something unforeseen happens fb~portion of the German army must f hft back to another defensive line. now The French official report says the now agion continues to develop to the northward, so that the French left 1the rsit be pushing toward Cambrai, as sult t was in the neighborhood of Albert. Eqn fairter north than this the French cavalry is operating and lastone week a German force which was sent sin to Orchies, 16 miles. southeast of ~ie, to punish franc-tioeus for an al- pro Aged attack od a German hospital at and that place met with superior forces pr .aid had to fall back. . The Germans, too- admit that they i e been unable to arrest the French 9o1 tthe allies re vaced on their t rbt front. Indeed, there seems to be some agreement in the official reports of -the belligerents on the events in pe this part of the battlefield. fro m6 Ja APS CLOSE ON KIAO-CHAU mil mie invest Heights Around Tsing-Tau. but Overlook German Position--Evac- ca uate Line of Defense. of ian London.-The Japanese occupied all oft I- the high ground outside Tsing-Tan o (seat of goverpnment of the German concession of KIao-chau) overlooking the German's main line of defense,II t says a statement given out by the . official ne*s bureau. The communi- Fr cation continues: " They, began an attack on the ad. to vanced positions four kilometers (two miles and a ,half) from the enemy's tel 1e main line at dawn. In a, spurt of fierce pit flame from sea and land they drove Gi i the enemy from his position." de Peking.-The Germans in Klao-chau Is have evacuated the Waldersee line of un defense before an overwhelming force cc of the enemy. Tslng-TpU is now com- m . pletely invested. The German losses m were small. . al 4, This information Is contained in a ei he dispatch received here from a German 51 r. source at Tsl-Nan, Shan-Tang, which bi r. evidently is a. Vireless communication ib frtm .T Th-u. I:t ads. that the Jap- ii i anese armored .criseo squadron bom- C b.dedt Tainget an MonaY without do- N ang any damage. E8ERANS BESIEGE ANTWERP a ( b b Eommenme Attack on First .Line of Defense-Village People Pie. to Ports. e d a. amsateira. - The Germans have d .mmened thiS attak on the first , e, line of ihsds. .it Antwerp, according t .'to "s heh tiII e'tby the Amaster. a m Aam papers. Mud sa Iportant rai- t . wayun. L n*ie tth border, ( I II ii IlegalL abqznrsbudmEt iof vi e- itdirec1talyinia tofk AntweP. - ii itageltheir b ars .h , It - elte h sa ;.I ura a codri ng to a -messag .toi u.*- t bid. i lrb s ub ,-" bt sUONe GERMAN FLANK EXTENDED batte Rome French Claim Progress at Several "TI Points in Argone-Bloody Artillery sued Duels-Win at Roye. the ( Paris.-The following official an. defea nouncement was issued here: Suw2 "There is nothing of particular im- "T' ,portance to describe except in the re- says, gion of Roye (on the French left lence wing), where a violent action has walk turned succqssfully in our favor, and leavi in the Argonne, where we have made tranm progress at several new points. three "The general situation remains sat- Num isfactory." T London.-The battle of the Aisne, tral now nearing the end of its third week, decli soon will outstrip in respect to time 000 1 the greatest fought at Mukden nearly 000 10 years ago, but still no decisive re- 1T sult has been achieved. Excl The French. official communication the 1 condened %lto about 30 words was "1 t one of the shortest given to the public appi t since the war began. It records that the Sprogress haa beep made by both right rept and left wings et the allied armies, but ". giveW no det"l or the extent of the rept Spropfs betsee the lines. brid w'llitry experts believe the great "1 h clasW ar the have been described, fror pontsaiS to ~e to clutch at the out- erly Lr ptarGye +s German army, par etlcultrl' tbW 'rigt, whidh forms the Supright portion of the ., and now has AN Lits back to the east, fighting with des peration. to prevent the French left from encircling or smashing it along Bo* m6st of the front, estimated at 180 . U miles in length. The artillery has played by far the most important part in the struggle, A u" but on the German right lighter guns, sou cavalry and infantry are doing most fen of the fighting with a stubbornness sue and disregard of life that people so bre a often have said in recent years mod- Bi il ern soldiers never would display. the in IDu 1 IMPORTANT BATTLE FOUGHT she . French and Germans Hold Center of vel Stage-Berlin Silent on Opera- in . tions in France. o New York.-For the moment, ajl in- mL rs terest is fixed bn the territory occu e pied by the French left wing and thet ye German right wing, where the most mn determined fighting of the battle line au is going onf, The allied forces grad- n of ually are moving northward; and, ac -ce cording to the `IMnch official state n- ment, thit battle continues to develop fo fie more and more toward the north, the allies attempting to get beyond the th a extremity of the German line for the an great outflankini movement which has Ich been the object of their operations. In A continuation of this advance to ap- the north would bring the allies to g. Cambral, a strongly fortified town in do. Nord, and beyond that as far as the p1 circle could be lrawn. Meanwhile ' there Is compatative calm from Rhelms to the Meuse, which NP conatitutes the centdr of the front, but Sin the .Wevare: dstrit" there have beaen epteist. in which the C of French lihave made advances. Regarding the -.operations in North Seran PFace, Berlin Is officially silent, n dispatches from the German espital 0' e de raing tlat no lnformation has been a 0 gives out- reirding the progress..of 1 in the general eqgagement. , er An otfgicial apnouhcement trom Pe- n ll- trograd says the Austrian protinc of l8 der, Galtota is completely feed of Aus an trians, the last rem0asts of their 1 (Ip troops having *o t~ efuge in the of CarpathianS." An i epalc dispatch I fi. 'from the Russian capital says fight. e r tl ing along the East uteslan frontier t th- haaresalted A the replse of al the J nan German attemnpts to firece aspassage of the Iliver Ntlmn," upthe government ito of SawalkI.. op S .hip Sunk b# I'if I Adriatic I ined from Rolae says a teumanianl sail. 4 jl. Ing ship miid' an Italia- steamer have ] tell benU sunk by mines An the Adriatic ons. with.hea'vy loss of litefm GERMAN POSITIONS AT CRACOW SUFFER RUSSIAN EMBASSY REPORTS A I VICTORY OVER GERMANS AT LODZ AND SUWALKI. ROUGH ROADS OBSTACLE BE Two Forts Near Cracow Reported to ATT4 Have Fallon - Petrograd Corre- Li spondent Reports 30,000 Men Killed and Wounded. Westel Sh: London.--Reuter's Rome correspond- New ent says news received in the Italian Pleai capital from Russian headquarters de- ten clares that Przemysl, Galicia, has been perse attacked by the Russians on all sides, that Two of the forts, it is said, already Lout have been taken, -and from these the Lcao Russians silenced several Austrian ridei D batteries. A dispatch to the Cential News from nqu Rome says: al "The Russian embassy here has is- tuuE sued a communication announcing that the Germans have suffered a terrible a cc n. defeat in the provinces of Lodz and beer Suwalki, Russian Poland. time m- "The Germans," the communication "Th' re- says, "were attacked with extreme vio- and eft lence and compelled to flee from Su- pric as walki, Ostrowiec and other towns, lege ad leaving behinil great quantities of the de transports and guns. Their troops cam threw away their rifles and baggage. of to at- Numerous 'cannon were abandoned." Nat Telegrams from Petrograd, the Cen- terr se, tral News correspondent at Rome says, "j ek, declare that the Germans have lost 30,- cha me 000 men in killed or Vounded and 20,- day rly 000 taken prisoners. tiga re- The Antwerir' correspondent of the trul Exchange Telegraph company has sent der ion the following dispatch: be ras "The German attack on the fort and me: lic approaches of Koningshoyck (one of for hat the new forts on the outer line) was pri ght repulsed. act but "A violent attack on Trermonde was ord the repulsed, the Belgians plowing up the or bridge (over the Schelt). ' eat "The Belgians ,and rtook attack at med, from Antwerp on the fropt of the east- ta ut- erly position. This att k continues." the has ANTWERP FORTS HOLD OUT tor des- bo left by ong Bombardment of Forts Continues. Ply 180 British Aviators Do Splendid sei Work-Refugees Arrive. an the - tw ;gle, Antwerp.-The bombardment of the to Ins, southeast front of the Antwerp de tenses was resumed fiercely, but no op mess success attended the German effort to co o0 break through the strong Belgian posi- ac nod* tions. During the brilliant moonlight ev the Gefmans bombarded the torts at th Duffel, Waelhem and Lierre. Many ne shells fell on the town of Duffel and ha a big paper factory was damaged se- ar verely. e r The enemy made an infantry attack in force from the direction of Ter monde on the intermediate forts of SLiezsel, Brendonch and Heyndonck, but c it was brilliantly repulsed. The Oer mt mans suffered heavy losses. In the ost iafternoon the artillery shelled Thisselt l ad Raemdonck, to the" west of Mech d lin. The damage was imhnmaterial. h Sac- British aviators did spleni61d, work tl e- for the Belgians. Flying in and out elop among the low clouds, they indicated n the the German positions to-Fort Waelhem g the and enabled the gunners to direct a Sthe withering fire on the -attackers. as. Sto CLAIM 6ERMAI DISASTER rn in s the Petrograd Corrspolndent Tells of New i Gun Used by Russians--Says ative Rennenkampf Ppared.. rhich - '. hay London.-Perelival Gibbon, the Dall) h Chronicle's Petrograd. correspondent, I telegraphs: forth- "The great German guns, which are I ilent,now makng1 their difficult way back pil over the marshes to the north and sbn outh of the Suwalki, met their match ti o during the fighting on the- Niemen. There appeared for the first time the Spe- new pattens of the Russian gun of ch of large caliber and considerable mobility, As- which are the productp of the Putiloff Sthe "Artllery experts who have watched spatch its performance are satidfled that it is ight- equal in power and effect to anything ontier the Germians have yet shown. On the l the Prussim frontier near D)ruskenik two geof of these new guns silenced the Ger ment man batteries within 10 minutes. The German guns were afterward aban doned on their positioan, every ganner t ic. havitng been killed. Times ' "The German invasion has been a ( sail* disaster, It has failed at every point. r have ven -.s a reconnaissance it can have driatic productl nothing of even the smallest value to the Germans. t4' I f ". ý z ST~;: yr f"iYýýý fV'll·:~~ g ýi ý. ý ý {ýý ýa to ý v i-·. :$ r i . }F . rv . t ~ `ý ? s P 'ý3f.S i s v 'ýF ý 'ý`,t" ýý :·tiiu f 5 fi'" mtt Vi pSt .OWerby 'Japan over ior. o r, eWs wredldnts ia-the b:o -the-t r s re `Cbiflttrs the t, l~~et- I': ,a ? m of of. the Japanese people to their power, their aspirations to becoine a world power, their keen desire to compete with ,Nuropeans and Americans in the neutral mirkets of the world hav created a.e e eof esentml ent .amon the in` section of the. fore n corm. -.l7e Jiu ! _ a foreiers Jn T~apan grays I ALL OVER ' OUISIANA Eil ALLEGE TRUST IS NE BEING .INESTIGAED I ATTORNEY GENERAL PLEASANT HAD LOOKING INTO THE COTTON SEED COMBINE. Western Newspaper Union News Servece. Wester Shreveport.-Before departing for Nev New Orleans Attorney General R. 0. Orleai a Pleasant admitted that for the past sinki ten days he had been conducting a the G personal investigation into charges rious that a cottonseed oil trust exists in wher Louisiana and that the alleged syn- 25,00( dicate has controlled prices and di- by th vided territory. In the course of his Carpe inquiries Col. Pleasant has called on Comi several district attorneys and grand amuo . juries to aid him. the E t "Complaints about the existence of ter s: le a cotton oil trust in Louisiana have not c id been reaching my office for some $100 time," said the attorney general. ing t In "These complaints were numeroum ship. o. and substantial. They related to the he si u. price paid for cotton seed and an al- for a a, leged division of territory between cause of the mills. The strongest complaint It we Ps came to my office about the section J. e. of the state lying between Monroe and Co., Natchez, Miss., and the Natchitoches that a- territory. Diple "5, "I determined, to inquire into these port' Or charges myself, and for the past ten Cott4 0r days have been engaged in an inves- ager tigation of the alleged cottonseed oil carg he trust..' :The investigation is still un- coi nt der way, and I am determined it.shall only be thorough and decisive. The far d mer is entitled to an equitable price of for his cotton seed. based on the NO0 I price obtained for rottonseed . prod ucts. If the law has been violated in Mor he order that the Louisiana cotton plant e r might be forced to sell his seed at a minimum ,I hope to find It out and west . take the necessary action against N ea those responsible for these viola- aid tions." . Sch It is claimed that at the timee thdi*MOt iT torney general began ,his investiga tion cotton seed was being purchased 1 by the mills at $12 per ton. Col. den 0l. Pleasant visited a number of mill o d sections in the course of his Inquiries, an and the price has now'gone up to be- T tween $15 and $19 per ton; according thi the to locality. aii de. Col. Pleasant would not hazard an me no opinion as to when the inquiry will be j Sto concluded, nor would he state what ing osi- action he proposes to take in the me ight event that the facts he gathers, with to at the assistance of those. distriot attor- cal any neys and grand juries whose aid he and has sought tO disclose the existence of se- an agreement between the cotton I seed mills as to price and territory. die ack Mr e LOUISIANA RAISES LEMONS yo but el but Experiment in Plaquemines Pariah the Turns Out Succeisfidly. of .selt . - hi ch- New Orleans.-Whlile the canker mi has come from other states .to.frg He ork the citrfs indusry,; ahother event 18 out supplies counterbalancing encourage- O ated ment. Lomuisilans can successfully ca hem grow lemons. ' " t Ben Becnal, who put in about twep;' s1 ty-five'trees at Naomi, in Plaquemines 'YE parish, has just gathered his second m S crop, and the fruit is thin of slrl M and very jucley. About half a hun dred more of the same trees are being New planted, and it will not be many a years before the Louisianan lemon will be as famous as the Louislans sweet and other oranges. hi ent FINDS NO BuRSONIC PLAGUE Sate New Orleans QfflcaIs Say Noo 'Pa- $ back tionts Under Observanoe. . athb New Orlesas.-For the qecond time t men, since bubdic plague ..was discovered a the here on June 27 there remain :no hu n of man cases under observation. Of fllty, ficial announcement to tlis effect tloff was made last woees. tched itis 8t. Charles Asseesment $2,920,340. a thing Hahnvlle.--~he report'of Leon C. t a the Vial, assessor of St. Charles parish t Stwo for 1914 shows an asjsesment of $2, Ger- 920,340. aban- Wire Chie1 is promoted. S Baton Rouge--Harry Gale, mana ein a ger of the Western Pnion Telegraph 1 pint, office of Baton Rouge, has been pro have moted to assistant manager of the 1 alles company's Houston of.ce. Edward F. I Gough of Baton Rouge succeeds him. a Women WIll Buy Cotton Goods. wor Shreveport La.-Mrs. John D. Wi! apet kIdnson, president of the State Federa I the tion of Women's Clubs, presided at. *- *b d otfiitheids of the local .ld inong men's orgSaizations held at the City aH cnall for the purpose of indorsing the on movment i'Mr "cotton goods week," anwd chwll b heh~h ilr ere October 5. Re t hat solutions wetadLopted calling on the women -of Srp an4 vicinilty to obe .p@tt@ iqoods,£ 6 as possible, in ir apperel andi h~t~vko l materials, iiiir- cottonl goods week~l~ a success. NEW ORLEINSN BIe i LOSE BY THE 1 A!! T HAD CARGO OF BURLAP ON THE INTER BRITISH CRUISER DIP- PAN LOMAT. II Western Newspaper Union News Service. Wevtern )r New Orleans.-The losses' of New New I. Orleans. importers of burlap in the done i1 at sinking of te British ship Diplomat by. this pi a the German cruiser Emden, in the Bay be exi es of Bengal, were apparently not so se- of lani rious as reported from New York, refinel where it was stated that 20,000,000 to with a 25,000,000 yards of burlap was carried the to by the ship for imports here. " A. C. Carpenter, manager of the Gulf Bag Company, said Sunday that the amuont carri e for that company by repres the Diplomat was small. Mr. Carpen- tion ii of ter said he thought the'amount was planni ve not over 500 bales, valued at about time ne $100 a bale. Most of the burlap com- Comps al. ing to the company was on an earlier dry's Du ship. That imported on the Diplomat,' Avond he he said, would not have reached here fersor al- for some time, but its loss, might planný !en cause some shortage about December. there. int It was insured at war risk. for ti Ion J. C. Werner, representing Mente & acres mLd Co., another importer of burlap, said the E res that firm also.had little cargo on the mend Diplomat. The other important im- tion i eso porter of burlap is the Fulton Bag and Calife ten Cotton Company. T. R. Watt, man- close( ,, 'ager, said he did not know how much "TI oil cargo the Diplomat carried for the dry company, at the matter was handled Okla all in New York, but he thought it was of th far- only a small amount. porti ice Scomp the NORMAL ROSTER IS LARGE the rod- - $1,504 I in More Than Six Hundred Studknts Al- in tb ant ready Are Enrolled. whar I at * - ties 1 and western -NewWSp .aUon News sB'vce. pany lnst Natchitoches.-Although the stand- home Iola- ard of admission in the State Normal AVO! -School is higher than last year, the cap ti 4atl1e t Isl larger. To, s, z.5st4 buu laj. dents have been enrolled in the nor lsed mul department, or thirty-fve stu Col. dents more than during the fall term 3 mill of 1915, and 297 in the training school, ies an excess of forty-two more than last Dr. session. St dbe- The work promises to be successful dthis year. The dormitories are full M aind no new students can. be accom I an modated. ., may 1 be The Normal School, while not buy- and what ing cotton, has made special arrange Lou the ments to acdcept cotton kt ten cents criti with to cover expenses of students who he I 1ttor- cannot otherwise pay their way. or I d he whil e of Was Franca-Prussion Veteran. shoe )tton LaPlace.-Joseph Theodore Maurin rem "f. died at is home near Reserve Friday. teti Mr. Maurin was born in Sagpeas,l Bs. ses Alpes, France, 70 years ago. His sun youth was spent'in' France, whre'phe his served in the Prussian war of 1870, tho and was taken prisoner at the battle so of Sedan.. Upon the, completion or par his service in'the French army he im- full nker mediately re-enlisted for aother term, Ing 1 He was honorably discharged In util event 1875 he left France and landed in New g rage- Orleans, from whence he immediately wh sfullv came to St. John parish, entering the hal mercantile establishment of. J. Tele ter twepa sier, serving there as a clerk until a mines year following, when he entered the ' eond mercantile establishment of Alphonse tet als: Maurin, his brother. eV hun- he being Figuring on Big Contract. h Shreveport.--The. Shreveport Sad lemon dlery Company has received several isan telegrams requesting a bid onpart of a contract for 30,100 sets of artillery mu harness for the warring, nations, of hil Europe, to be delivered in thirty, six- Pu tGUE t ana ninety days. As each set' of sti artillery harness costs from $150 to fei Pa- p.S00 per set, the contract is an im mense one, and ca.ls for bidding from ag every large manufacturer in the coun- g Stime try. America is the only place where in bveredsupplies can be had. . fe 1 Caddo Brewery Case Dlsmiped.. r SOf- Shreveport.-Didtrict Attorney W. to ee A. Mabry has received information tb from Washington, ld. C., tb the effect th that the case of the State of Louisiana et ),340. against C. F. Cunningham, manager of aI on C. the Caddo Brewery, was dismissed in parlsh the Supreme Court of the 'fnlifed v of $2,- States for want of 'Jurisdiction, t. Parish Clerk Suspended. Farmersville.-District Judge Hal- h stead has issued mn order declaring man- A. J. Hammons, clerk of . court of egraph Union parish, guilty of contempt and n pro- teinporarily suspending him from of it the fce. There is a movement now on rard F. foot to amicably adjust the matter is him. and have Clerk Hammons reinstateG. Id. nspecting Shreveport Cattle. .. II D. Wi Shreveport.-IDr. J. F. Tuck, chief meat iuspector for thp United States a Federa- governiment for Louisiana and several II ed at other S8uthern states, has l.een,here b cal w- for the past two days examining the a he Cit cattle in this section. He reports E ing the that he found the majority of the cat weekt," tIe in excellent condition, and he S5. Re- stated this was the only city in the on the South where he regulations regarding laty to the tubercular test is being rigidly sble, in carried out, The board of health has steralt, been very active in preventing milk ucc .u fro.m tuberculntar cattle being sold. BI6 OIL PLANT AT I AVONDALE ASSURED INTERNATIONAL STORAGE COM PANY WILL EXPEND $1,500,000 IN EXPORT FACILITIES. Wevtern Newspaper LUnion News Service. New Orleans.'-Big things are to be done in' the oil export, business from this port. More than $1,500,000 is to be expected at once in the purchase of land and erection cf storage tanks, refinery, wharves, etc., at Avondale, with a pipe line to carry the oil into the tank steamerp for export. "Worj ,will begin tomorrow," said J. ,A. Landry, a leading oil man, who Srepresented the Export Oil Corpora - tion in the purchase of the land and s planning of the improvements. Some ,t time ago the International Storage _ Company bought through . Mr. Lan r dry's agency a tract just above the t, Avondale crossing of the river in Jef e ferson parish, and the company was it plapning extensive developments r. there. Recently Mr. Landry secured for the company an option on 1,500 & acres ad'ditional from the owners of id the Burbank plantation, and leading ie members of the Expert Oil Corpora n- tion from Oklahoma, Missouri and d California arrived in the city and n- closed up the deal. h "This corporation," said Mr. Lan dry, "is composed of capitalists of Oklahoma and California, and is one of the largest oil developing and ex porting concerns in the world. The company will spend immediately on iE the plant at Avoidale more than $1,500,000. This money will be used º- in the erection df. tanks, refinery, . wharves, pipe line and other faeil' ties for handling expert oil. The com pany exports oil mainly from Okla id homa and. Kansas. It will esect at al Avtndale tA~n tanks of 55,000 "barrels he epacity each and ten tanks of 37,W or- - _ rm MONROE'S MAYOR IS DEAD iol, * * a nt Dr. Anlrew A. Forsythe Was One of State's Most Progressive Officers. ful - Monroe.-Dr. Andrew A. Forasthe, mayor of Monroe for sixteen years, and one of the best known men' in Louisiana, died September 29 after a nt critical' illness of ten days, though . rho he had been in bad health for a year or more. 'the death of Dr. Forsythe...: while 'not unexpecte , is ia diptinct ' : shoclK to all Monroe, as his passing . in removes one'of the strongest charac lay. ters.the city has ever Lkiown. 8s-. Mayor Forsythe. recelvgd his fin. His summons almnost in his prime, with ' he his work for Monroe yet unfinished, 870, though nearing the geal he had ought " ttle so- hard to reach. Monroe's nlunlet or par.affairs have progressed wonder im- full] under his admintistration, grow- , lrm. ingifrrom a town with practically ns In utilities and no credit to a city own new ig all .itspublic service utllitie', in tely which the ,munilcipal ownership idea . the has been developed to a greater ex. • eitent than any other city in the United a States. .. the Mayor Forsythe had been topght bit Onse terly at every city election, but lI every instance.he had triumphed as he had before tht state legislature, where Sad the city fightf iave been carried. His reral bitterest political enemies have al) rt of ways' exiressed their belief in the liery mayor's honesty. Th's, coupled with of his strong personality and his fixed . purpose in life, had made him so t of strong before the people that his do ) to feat seemed Impossibie. in- He was elected mayor sixteen years from gdit" had witnessed the wonderful co- growth of the town of less than 4,000 there inhabitants to a city of 16,000 In a. few years, with all public utilities and service concperns owned and opte d.. rated by the city. It was his dream Y W to eventually perfect this system so ation that it would not be necessary to tax effect the citizens for funds to operate the siana enterprises of the city or to maintain erof any of the departments. ed in It is an historical fact that just pre nited vious to the election of Dr. Forsythe the city of Monroe was refused credit it for a 90-cent barrel of lime with which to whitewash its little market Hal- house. It is also a fact that the rio city. owned at that time about $30,000 worth of property. Today the city en Jm o joys an unquestioned credit in any w on market, and owns property and fran atte chises valued, at a l1w estimate, at ated. 41,500;000. e. . Inland League to Meet in New.Orleans chief Lake Charles-The annual meeting States of the Inlaid Waterways League,. pro everal moters oihthe Inter c.aetal Canal, Will ihere be held in New ,Orleans December 4 ig the and 5, according to announcement by .. eports secretary Leon Licle here: ie cat d he Opelousas.-As~essor D. M. Font. n the not has announced his candidacy for arding sheriff. Mr. Fontenot has been asu igidly seedor two terms, and is a son'of the h has late T. 8. Fontenot, who was sherif " mIt o t. andry from 1588 to 1896