Louisiana and Texas congressmen
have secured favorable recommenda
tions on sections of the proposed in
tercoastal canal.
The next annual encampment of the
Louisiana National State Guard may
be held on the grounds of the James
town exposition.
The school board of Lafayette par
ish will issue bonds to the amount of
$20,000 for the purpose of building and
repairing schoolhouses.
N. O. Nelson, a St. Louis philan
thropist, will reside in New Orleans
for several months and execute va
rious charitable undertakings.
Two men were killed and several in
jured by the explosion of a boiler in
the Wainwright sawmill at Atlanta,
twelve miles south of Winnfield.
F. H. Benjamin, of Nashville, was
appointed general inspector of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
with headquarters in New Orleans.
The gross receipts from the sale of
stamps at the Shreveport postoffice
amounted to $91,978.12 in 1906, an in
crease of $13,782.33 over the receipts c
for 1905.
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The steamer Natchez arrived at New
Orleans with 4000 bales of cotton, the
largest cargo of the season and the
maximum allowed by insurance com
panies.
Thirty-eight saloons went out of
business at Shreveport as a result of
high license, yet the city's revenue
from this source jumped from $80,000
to $121,000.
Emile Hebert, the 16-year-old son of
Sosthene Hebert, a farmer residing
near Abbeville, was shot and seriously
injured while attempting to place a
gun in a rack.
According to statistics prepared by
the United States census bureau,
Louisiana produces a greater quantity
of yellow pine lumber than any other
state in the union.
A telegraph cable 3200 feet in length
was laid across the Mississippi river
at New Orleans by the Western Union
Telegraph Company, the work being
done in five minutes.
