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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 ,
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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.
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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