Newspaper Page Text
THE DONALDSONVILLE CHIEF A Wide-Awake Home Newspaper---Published Every Saturday---Subscription Price, $2 a Year. VOL. XXXVI. DONALDSONVILLE, LA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1906. NO. 11. LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY. HOTELS AND SALOONS. Nicholls Hotel, $2.00 a Day House F. ROGGE, - - Proprietor. S. D. GIANELLONI, Day Clerk. Wet. ROGGE, Night Clerk. Headquarters for Commercial Travelers. 'Bus and Porter to and From all Trains. Mississippi Street, Near Wharf. DONALDSONVILLE, LO LUSIANA. P. O. Box 76. Telephone 30. THE WELCOME CAFE GEORGE LANDRY PROPIE1TOR Railroad Avenue and Iberville Street, DONALDSONVILLE, LA. LARGE Billiard and Pool Room, Music Hall, Picture Gallery and other facilities for amusement and convenience of patrons. A choice supply of Liquors. Cigars, Tobacco, etc. uDy <GOoiS, JS. ROCERJEi, Etc. C KLINE, corner Crescent Place and Hou . mas street, dealear in Dry Goods, Notions, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, Corn Oats and Bran. PHYSICIANS. E. K. SIMS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Houmas street. adjoining theAscension Club. Telephone 90. DR. T. H. HANSON. TD OFFICE: Railroad avenue, between Claiborne and Ole louses streets. Telephone 240. DR. J. D. HANSON. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE: Lessard street, between Nicholls avenue and Iberville street. Telephone 54. DR. PAUL T. THIBODAUX. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE: Mississippi street, near Catholic Church. Ofhee Hours: 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Telephone 247. DENTISTRY. DR. CLARENCE GOETTE, DENTIST. Office in Railroad avenue, adjoining Goette's Shoe Store. Telephone 36. DRUGGISTS. JJ. LECHE, Avenue Pharmacy, Corner Railroad and Nicholls avenue-, DONA LDSON FILLE, LA. Purest and freshest of Drugs, Chemicals and Patent Medicines always in stock. Trumses, Bandages, Soaps, Perfumery, Brushes, Combs, Smokers' materials, etc. Physicians' prescrip tions carefully compoundel at all hours, day or night. Telephone 95-2 STENOGRAPHER. H. RICHARD MELANCON, STENOGRAPHER AND TYPEWRITER Office with E. N. Pugh, in Boumas Street, Don aldsonville. Telephone Il). ATTORNEYS AND NOTARIES N K. FOOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office with R. J. Chauvin, in Railroad avenue, opposite Ascension High School. DONALDSONVILLE. LA. , J. VEGA, ATTORNEY AT LA- AND NOTARY PUBLIW Office with R. McCulloh, corner Railroad and Nicholls Avenues, DON A IDSOY VILLE, LA. SMcCULLOH, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office and residence, corner Railroad and Nich olls Avenues. Practices in all the courts of Louisiana, both State and Federal. Address, P. O. Lock Box S. G A. GONDRAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. District Attorney Twenty-seventh Judicial District. Office in Nicholls avenue, opposite Courthouse. Prompt attention paid to collec tions and civil business. CALEB C, WEBER, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office in Nicholls Avenue, near the Courthouse, DONALDSONVILLE, LA. N, SIMS, NOTARY PUBLIC. Office in Chetimaches street, opposite Court house Square. DONALDSON VILLE, LA. CARPENTER AND BUILDER. y C. HAZLIP, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. I work neatly executed. Plans and Estimates Furnished. DONALDSONVILLE, LA. CIGAR MANAFACTURER. L O. COURSEAULT, CIGAR MAKER. CONVENT, ST. JAMES PARISH, LA. Best quality cigars at prices that defy competi tion. Write for samples and prices. NEWSDEALER. floNAl DSONVILLE NEWS CO., Mrs. L. M. in7Turner. Manager, Railroad Avenue, op uosite the postofirce. News and Illustrated egners. Books, Stationery, Pens, Ink, etc. ýnbscriptions taken for all Leading American ?eriodicals. . P.O. Hargroder's Pile Ointment For sale by druggists and merchants and M. A. HARGRODER PROPRIETOR , $I a Jar Lafayette, La. THE ST. MARTIN HOUSE S. H. ST. MARTIN, PROPRIETOR - GUY LANDRY, CLERK RATES, $2.00 PER DAY HEADQUARTERS FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS NEW AND HANDSOMELY FURNISHED THROUGHOUT LARGE SAMPLE ROOM FOR DRUMMERS aeseoseseoso" """e"o~ooo o ""soooo woooseso"oseooo"ýsesse Dr. Sheard Ioore VETERINARY SURGEON SOFFICE AND RESIDENCE-La i Iberville Street, near Convent Donaldsonville, La. Dealer in High-Grade Kentucky Horses :: Phone 227 Don't Waste Your Money BUYING Cheap Furniture I I while Good Furniture can be purchased at a Cheap Price We are closing out our entire line of Handsome Furniture without regard to cost. Some of our friends have taken advantage of this Closing Out Sale, and greatly profited thereby. Others have not, but there is still an opportunity for them to do so, as we have some fine pieces left that are going at prices lower than t)hey could be bought for at auction The Famous Blue Store CHAS. MAUIRIN, PROPRIETOR iiliuriaf~~~~aWWWaggagigggý eggý«ºBSEMEMEMMIýý;ýýtrrraE~ Wholesale ard Retail We handle everything for the General Store Besides, we, carry the Sugar Planter Largest Stock in the South of t Lumber Manufacturer Link Belting, Pulleys Railroad Contracter Shafting and Cotton Oil Manufacturer All Kinds of Logging Man and, Machinery Dealers and Consumers are requested to send for our new 1200-page Illustrated Catalogue Woodward, Wight & Company, Ltd. 406-420 Canal Street WAREtiOUSES-St. ioseph and Magazine strtst New Orleans, Louisiana Julia Magazins streets S. GOETTE, PEESIDENT-MANAGER. JAS. FORTIER, SECRETARY-TEEASUREE. DONALDSONVILLE ICE COMPANY, LIMITED. DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIANA. ICE, BEER,, COLD STORAGE.5_. -.CAPACITY, 30 TONS DAILY. Missisasippi SREET, OPPosrrE MAREET. TELEPHONE No. 73. Purest And Best Quality ICE At Lowest Market Rates, SUPPLIED IN ANY QUANTITY AT FACTORY OR SHIPPED WHEREVER ORDERED. Local agency for the mammoth ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASSOCIATION'S celebrated KEG and BOTTLE BEERS, (FAUST, ANHEUSER, BOsK AND PALE IN KEGS, ExquisITE, BuD wEISER, ANHEUSER AND BAVARIAN IN BOTTLES), which can be furnished in quantities to suit. Orders left at the factory or addressed through the i)onaldsonville postoffice, will receive orompt aryl careful attention. Satisfaction always fully guaranteed. H. ABRAHAM M. LEMANN H. AVAHAM & co. Commission Merchants... COTTON-SUGAR-RICE Liberal Advancezs M e on Consignments 218 and 218 Barzone Street, New Orleans, Louisiana A.r A.A . Tr am eel .A .A.A .A E5he "King" Moss Collars FIT BETTER-WEAR BETTER-LAST LONGER Delivered at any sitation or landing at the following p Ices: Open Bottom Moss Collars with Canvas Ends, per dozen, $10.80 Plain Moss Collars, - - - " c 7.50 Moss Riding Saddle Pads, - - - " " 15.00 Moss Pack Saddle Pads, - . " " 5.00 These collars are made by hand from the best selected moss. I have a large stock on band and am ready to fill all orders on short notice. Old Moss Collars taken in eza change for new ones. DENNIS CAESARD, Barton. La. . ývw V w ee 9 vPve , - V AROUND THE STATE. Items of Interest Culled From the Louisiana Press. Wife Murderer Reprieved otton Gin Burned-Violator of Poolroom Law Fined and Sentenced to Three Months' Imprisonmeni. Almost 29,000 children are attending the New Orleans public schools. Stave workers in New Orleans struck for higher wages and a recognition of their union. The state board of health lifted the quarantine against Central American ports last Tuesday. The Southern Pacific Railroad es tablished a land and immigration of fice in New Orleans. The town council of New Iberia adopted an ordinance prohibiting skating on sidewalks. The grand jury of Tangipahoa par ish recommended that the retail liquor license be increased to $t00. A fine new motor-boat belonging to the Pelican Lake Oyster and Packing Company was destroyed by fire at Houma. The liquidators of the defunct Mer chants and Farmers' Bank, of Shreve port, have declared a dividend of 22+ per cent. The cotton gin on A. Wilbert's Sons' Dunboyne plantat n, Iberville parish, was destroyed by fire, entail ing a loss of $6000. Five hundred cases of oiled con densed milk were discov ed in vari ous New Orleans groceriei by officials of the city board of health. The first annual convention of the Louisiana StateFiremen's ssociation was held at Gretna. Thibodaux was selected as the next place of meeting. Covington taxpayers voted in favor of a proposition to issue bonds to the amount of $25,000 for the purpose of erecting a central high school build ing. The ladies of Baton Rouge have in augurated a movement to rid that city of negro loafers by means of a stricter enforcement of the vagrancy laws. D. B. Hudson will contest the nomi nation of H. E. Estorge for member of the state board of equalization from the seventh congressional dis trict. Congressman Jos. Ransdell, of Louisiana, delivered an address at the annual convention of the Missis sippi River Improvement Association, 1 in Minneapolis. H. D. ("Curley") Brown was sen tenced to serve three months in jail and pay a fine of $500 for operating a poolroom at New Orleans in violation of the Hunsicker law. W. H. Moody, a negro, shot and probably fatally wounded his para mour, Maggie Stevenson, at Monroe, and then, turning the weapon upon himself, blew out his brains. Prof. W. S. Lafargue was appointed superintendent of public education in Lafourche parish, succeeding Hon. Thomas A. Badeaux, who resigned at the request of the parish school board. J. W. Boyett, Jr., secretary and treasurer of the Louisiana Farmers' Union, has moved his office and head quarters from Tannehill to Winnfield. The organization is said to have 40,000 members in this state. Ryan Henderson and W. L. Wo mack, charged with complicity in the murder of Jesse Brown, a merchant of Girard, for which crime Robert T. Rogers was lynched at Tallulah on the 28th of last May, were brought to trial before the district court at Monroe. Upon the recommendation of the board of pardons, Gov. Blanchard has granted a respite to Elius Blanch ard, a young white man who was to have been hanged at St. Martinville yesterday in legal expiation of the crime of murdering his wife. The board of pardons wishes to make a fuller investigation into the merits of the case. / Yor Your Protection we place this label on every package of Scott's Emulsion. The man with a fish on his back is our trade-mark, and it is a guarantee that Scott's Emul sion will do all that is claimed for it. Nothing better for lung, throat or bronchial troubles in infant or adult. Scott's Emul sion is one of the greatest flesh builders known to the medical world. We aenE you a sample hw. SCOTT & BOWU, 40, ?eUl? , treet DEBLIEUX ACCEPTS. Strong Letter from the Sixth Dis trict Republican Candidate. Louisiana's Material Interests Promoted by Republican Policies-Our Politi cal Conditions Reviewed and a Halt Called. The subjoined letters are self-explan atory, and should be carefully read and calmly considered by every citizen who desires to enhance the common weal and more particularly to serve the best interests of the people of this district and state: Plaquemine, La., Oct. 13, 1906. How. Jouw DEBLIEux, Piaquemine, La. Dear Sir-At a meeting of the Re publican executive committee of the sixth congressional district of Louis iana, held in Baton Rouge on the 3rd of September, your friends presented your name to the committee as the Re publican candidate for member of the sixtieth congress of the United States. The suggestion met with unan imous approval on the part of the com mittee, and you were accordingly nom inated. We have been charged with the pleasing duty of notifying you of this action. Through the operation of a Demo cratic primary election law our party was unable to formulate a declaration of.principles in accordance with time honored custom, but an address was issued to the people of the district which we quote to you in full. (This address having already ap peared in the columns of The Chief, it is not thought necessary to reproduce it here). In addition to the foregoing expres sion on the part of the committee, it is hardly necessary for us to say that the party in this district stands upon the declaration of principles contained in the national platform of the Repub lican party, and upon the record of that party as written in the statutes and history of the nation. Republi cans here, as elsewhere, are in complete accord with the programme mapped out by our matchless president for the next two years of his administration. We believe that what President Roose velt has accomplished is only the be ginning of what will be accomplished if members in hatmony with him are I elected to the sixtieth congress. We feel that the party has honored itself in nominating a young, energetic, thoroughly trained business man as its standard bearer in this campaign. The time has passed when mere oratory carries the day. It is the man of abil ity, keenness and alertness who makes an impression upon his colleagues in congress and accomplishes results for his constituents. We are satisfied that the party has nominated such a man in selecting you, and we trust you will accept the nomination we now have the honor of tendering you. Yours very truly, W. J. BEHAN, Chairman; HENRY McCALL, H. W. ROBINSON, Notification Committee. MR. DEBLIEITX'S ANSWER. Plaquemine, La., Oct. 13, 1906. MEssas. W. J. BEHAN, Chairman; RENRY MC CALL and H. W. RoBINSON, Notification Committee: Gentlemen-I have the honor to ac knowledge receipt of your favor of the 13th instant, notifying me that at a meeting of the sixth district Republi can executive committee held at Baton Rouge, Sept. 3, 1906, I was declared the party's nominee for member of the sixtieth congress of the United States. When my friends pressed this matter upon me I told them I could not ac cept because my business engagements would prevent me from giving the can didacy the attention so grave a re sponsibility merited. Since the com mittee insisted upon making the nomi nation, however, I have decided, after mature reflection concerning the duty a man owes to his friends, to accept the honor. In doing so, I desire to ex press to your committee my sincere ap preciation of the kind language you employed in discharging your duty, although I feel that your encomiums are undeserved. I would fail in candor if I did not also express my deep ap preciation of the distinction which the party conferred upon me. In the ad dress to the people of the sixth diptrict the committee has stated concisely and forcefully the party's position, and I commend that address to all intelligent and unprejudiced men. Before depos iting their ballots for my opponent, Democrats will do well to stop, read and ponder over that address. I would be willing to leave the subject where the committee left it, but the voters will rightly enough wish to know my views, and I consider this my best op portunity to get these views before the people at large. Measured from the standpoint of suc cess in elections at the polls, the Re publican party of Louisiana has fared badly in late years, yet I can not but think that whatever may be the result locally, Republicans have every rea son to be proud of their party. For half a century, with only two short in termissions, it has guided the desti nies of the greatest nation in the world with singular success. In 1896, after Continued on Eghth Page 8akingPovrder Ahsolute4lI'Aw A wholesome cream of tartar baking powder. Makes the finest, lightest, best flavored biscuit, hot breads, cake and pastry. Alum and alum-phosphate powders are injurious. Do not / use them. Examine the labeL ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.. NEW YORK. THE WORLD'S NEWS. I Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From Near and Far. Former United States Senator to Become 9 a Convict-Widow of Jefferson Davis Dies in New York City-Noted t Evangelist Passes Away. The boycott against American goods a has been called off at Canton, China. Three thousand bales of cotton were destroyed by fire at Bremen, Ger many. Bubonic plague appeared at Osaka, Japan, and cholera at Shanghai, China. The annual convention of the Amer ican Bankers' Association was held at St. Louis, Mo. President Cypriana Castro of Vene zuela is critically ill at his official residence in Caracas. Ladies of fashion in London are having many of their winter outer garments made of leather. The anniversary of the beginning of the ten-year war with Spain was cel brated in Cuba as a national holiday. Several thousand revolvers pur chased by the Russian government fell into the hands of revolutionists at Warsaw. Mrs. George F. McDonald dropped dead in a cemetery at Montgomery, ; Ala., while sitting on the grave of her husband. Severe earthquake shocks were ex perienced in Sicily, considerable damage being inflicted on churches and dwellings. The next international balloon con test for the James Gordon Bennett cup will be held in America during the summer of 1907. The Guatamalan revolutionary junta issued a proclamation advo cating the annexation of that country by the United States. . The Mexican consul at St. Louis, Mo., was summarily dismissed by President Porfirio Diaz for alleged connection with a revolutionary junta. t Twenty-five miners were killed and fifty temporarily entombed asathe result of an explosion of fire-damp in the Wingate colliery, near Durham, Eng land. Rev. Sam Jones, the noted evange list, died suddenly on a train at Perry, Ark., while en route to his home at Cartersville, Ga., to attend a family reunion. An unsatisfactory start at the Long champs (Paris) race course precipi tated a riot, which resulted in the destruction of property valued at approximately $40,000. Prince Alexander von Hohenlobe, who recently incurred the kaiser's displeasure by the publication of his father's memoirs, resigped his official position as governor of Alsace. The British steamer Hankow burned to the water's edge while lying at her dock at Hong Kong. More than 200 Chinese passengers lost their lives, and a valuable cargo was destroyed. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the president of the' Confederacy, died Tuesday night at the Hotel Majestic, in New York city, after a week's ill ness with pneumonia. Her remains I were laid to rest beside those of her f late husband at-Richmond, Va. The supreme court of the United States denied the petition of former United States Senator J. R. Burton, - of Kansas, for a rehearing of the case in which he was sentenced to serve six months in jail and pay a .fine of $2500 for accepting an attor -ney's fee while serving as senator. Mr. Burton will probably begin serv Iing his sentence at once. t Fraulein Bertha Krupp, daughter t of the famous gun-maker and by far -the richest woman in the world, was married to Lient. Gustav von Bohlep, Sformerly an attachd of the Prussian - diplomatic service, in a little impro Svised chapel adjoining the bride's Ibirthplace near Essen. The ceremony was witnessed by Emperor William of SGermany and many other dIstin guished guests. NEW ORLEANS LETTER. Dress Doesn't Always Make the Man-Ema campmenta and Camp Meetia's-Py thian Week-News of the Cll. Pads in Girls' Hata. New Orleans. La., Oet. 17. 1Mtt, Staff Correspondence of The Chief. I took a little maid of my acquain tance to the Jesuit Church last Sun day. Her small years number five, and the times that she has been to church number even less than that. She was profoundly absorbed in the services, and noting the cassock and surplices of the priest and altar boys, arrived at the childishly logical con clusion that "clothes make the man" -likewise the woman-and such garbs betokened none other than members of her own charming sex. When the dear old brother who takes up the col lection at the Jesuits, severe and dig. nified in his long, black cassock, paused at our particular pew, my little maid. with eyes as big as saucers, dropped into the plate a solitary nickel which she had laboriously fished from the microscopic bit of leather which does duty as her purse, at the same time observing in what was intended to be a whisper, and with her eyes stilled glued upon the brother: "Ella, she's got a dress on, but she looks mighty much like a man to me!" I felt myself turning a beautiful purple, while the surrounding multitude col lapsed into smiles and giggles. This same little maiden heard me singing "Camp Meetin' Time," Stella Ma$ hew's big song hit in "Comm' Thres The Rye," and remarked with great unction: "We had one of zose camp meetin's at Alexandria, and I got aew ful scairt 'cause the sojers started shootin' off cannons and I runned to the guv'ner's tent!" Apropos of encampments-or camp meetings, as that little friend of mine would have it-Pythians, andPythians, and more Pythiane gathered here this week for the twenty-fourth convention of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and the regular biennial en campment of the uniform rank of the order. The grounds at City Park race track were white with the tents where several thousand of the knights were quartered, and the tall, straight cy presses rising like guardian sentinels in that billqwy, snowy sea of canvas, with Old Glory floating triumphantly over all, formed a distinctly pictur esque and pleasing scene. The camp was a veritable little city, abounding in a small collection of amusements, refreshment booths, and one big, roomy restaurant. Members of the Pythian order from every state and territory In the Union and far-off Canada were represented in the gath ering, and New Orleans, as usual, of fered a rousing welcome to the stran gers within her gates. A big program of events was carried out, and the twenty-fourth convention of the Py thians will probably go down in the records as one of the most successful as well as enjoyable occasions in the annals of the order. Certainly, it considerably livened up things in the old town, and there was no doubt about the holiday spirit being abroad. Canal street was In gala attire from one end of its business seetion to the - other, and very nearly all the promi p nent buildings of the city were festive. r with gaily flying bunting and other decorations. Last Sunday, Columbus Day, was fittingly celebrated here by local and r visiting Knights of Columbus, when the fourth highest degree of the order e was conferred upon a class of 100, and a class of 104 was initiated into the first three degrees. In the evening a a banquet was given at Odd Fellows' & Eall in honor of Archbishop Bleak, .who, upon that day, became a member Sof the order. Very young girls-that, is, maidens r in the sixteen-year-old class-are at r present wearing very boyish-looking as felt, hat~s, telescoped and turned rak i, ishly up at one side, and handed either n in plain black, gray, the lassie's ,- school colors, or the school colors of s her favorite lad's. It, Is also a fad y nowv to have big-headed bat pine the if precise shade of the hat, so complete a. is harmony of color being carried out in milady's costuem K, K,