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THE DONALDSONVILLE CHIEF A Wide-Awake Home Newspaper---Published Every Saturday---Subscription Price, $2 a Year. VOL. XXXVI. DONM.LDSONVILLE, LA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1906. \ NO. 14. LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY. HOTELS AND SALOONS. Nicholls Hotel, $2.00 a Day House P. ROGGE, - - Proprietor. S. D. GIANELLOwI, Day Clerk. Wa. ROGGE, Night Clerk. Headquarters for Commercial Traveler s. 'Bus and Porter to and From all Trains. Mississippi Street, Near Wharf, DONALDSONVILLE, LOUU IANA. P.. O. Box 76. Telephone 30. EDRY GOODN. tiliOUERYIE? , Etc. C' KLINE, corner Crescent Place and IHoun i. mas street, deaiear in Dry Goods, Notions, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, Corn Oats and Bran. PHYSICIANS. E. K. SIS8, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Offie in Honmas street, adjoining the Ascension Club. Telephone 90. lR. T. H. HANSON. orFFItE: *ailroad avenue, between Claiborne and O e lousas streets. Telephone 240. DR. J D. HANSON. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE: Lesaard street, between z.icholls avenue and Iberville street. Telephone 54. R. PAUL T. THIBODAUX. OFFPICE AND RESIDENCE: Mississippi street, near Catholic Church. Office Hours: 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Telephone 247. DENTISTRY. DR. CLARENCE GOETTE, DENTIST. Office in Railroad avenue, adjoining G(iette's Shoe Store. Telephone 36. DRUGGISTS. J. LECHE, Avenue Pharmacy, Corner Railroad and Nicholls avenues, DONA LDS'ON VI'LLE, LA. Purest and freshest of Drugs, Chemicals and Patent Medicines always in stock. Trusses, Bandages, soaps, Perfumery, Brushes, Combs, Smokers' materials, etc. Physicians' prescrip tbons caret flly compoundel at all hours, day or night. Telephone 5n-2 STENOGRAPHER. I. RICHARD MELANCON, STENOGRAPHER AND' TYPEWRITER Offiee with E. N. Pugh, in Honmas Street, Don aldsonville. Telephone 100. ATTORNEYS AND NOTARIES N K. FOOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office with R. J. Chauvin, in Railroad avenue, opposite Ascension High School. DONALD)SONVILLE. LA. B . VEGA, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office with R. McCullohb, corner Railroad and Nicholls Avenues. R. cCULLOH, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Offce and residence, corner Railroad and Nich oils Avenues. Practices in all the courts of Louisiana, both State and Federal. Address, P. O. Lock Box L GA. GONDRAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. District Attorney Twenty-seventh Judicial District. Office in Nicholls avenue, opposite Courthouse. Prompt attention paid to collec- a tions and civil business. CALEB C. WEBER, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office in Nicholls Avenue, near the Courthouse, DONALDSONVILLE, LA. B N. SIMS, NOTARY PUBLIC. Office in Chetimaches street, opposite Court house Square. DONALDSONVILLE, LA. CARPENTER AND BUILDER. W C. HAZLIP, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. F All work neatly executed. Plans and Estimates Furnished. DONALDSONVILLE, LA. L CIGAR MANAFACTURER. L. OOUBSEAULT, CIGAR MAKER. CONVENT, ST. JAMES PARISH, LA. Best quality cigars at prices that defy competi tion. Write for samples and prices. NEWSDEALER. DONAI DSONVILLE NEWS CO., Mrs. L. M. Turner, Manager, Railroad Avenue, op posite the postoffice. News and Illustrated pasers, Books, Stationery, Pens, Ink, etc. ubseriptions taken for all Leading American Periodicals. KjENIEDY & SULLIVAN, MANUFACTURERS OF MOSS COLLARS AND PADS Prices defy competition, with guarantee of satisfaction or money refunded. Address: C'are Landry & Low ery Co.. Ltd., DONA LyDLSON VILLE, LA. H. P. O. Hargroder's Pile Ointment For sale by druggists and merchants and M. A. HARGRODER PROPRIETOR Price, $1 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 eoo ooosoes -ssesesoo sooooossoooosonsooosoe" moise"s Dr. Sheard floore VETERINARY SURGEON OFFICE AND RESIDENCE brle Street, Coent Donaldsonville, La. Dealer in High-Grade Kentucky Horses :: Phone 227 Clothir ng! /o Men's - Youths' - Boys' Q% Fall. Fashions 1906 '9 "'9 lft "Netter 6 Co. Mississippi Street ,.,/.i º.ý...o........ýý'ar.ý '.ýý ý- . Bargains in Town Lots At Gonzales, Louisiana The Coming Town of East Ascension 200 Choice Town Lots situated in the heart of New River, a thickly populated sec tion of Ascension Parish. Lots are situated on both sides of Louisiana Railway and Naviga tion Company and Belle Helene Railroad Company's Line; on both sides of the stream of New River, and adjacent to the site of the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company's depot. Prospective purchasers are invited to visit Gonzales and select lots which will be sold at auction in the near future. ya Call on or address Gonzales Bros., - - Gonzales, La. S. GOETTE. PRESIDENT-MANAGER. JAS. FORTIER, SECRETARY-TREASURER. DONALDSONVILLE ICE COMPANY, LIMITED. DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIANA. ICE, BEER, COLD STORAGE. - 4 ._CAPACITY, 30 TONS DAILY. MIssISsrPPI STREET, OPPOSITE MARKET. TELEPHONE NO. 73. Purest And Best Qual;ty ICE At Lowest Market Rates, SUPPLIED IN ANY QUANTITY AT FACTORY OR SHIPPED WHEREVER ORDERED. Local agency for the mammoth ANHEDSER-BUSCH BREWING ASSOCIATION'S celebrated KEG and BOTTLE BEERS, (FAUST, ANHETSER, BOOK AND PALE IN KEGS, EXQUISITE, BCD. WEISER, ANNEUSER AND BAVARIAN IN BOTTLES), which can be furnished in quantities to suit. Orders left at the factory or addressed through the l)onaldsonville postotfice, will receive orompt ard careful attention. Satisfaction always fully guaranteed. .'Q--. '- " /''--I '".... 'O% H. ABRAHAM M. LEMANN E0 H. AB AM & CO. 00 Commission Merchants.. COTTON-SUGA2R-RICE Llberal Advances Made on Consigmoents 218 and 218 Daronnea treet, New Orleans, Louisiana . A. +. . . A------A A A A A S1he "'King" Moss Collars FIT BETTER-WEAR BETTER-LAST LONGER Delivered at any station or landing at the following pi ices: Open Bottom Moss Collars with Canvas Ends, per dozen, $10.80 Plain Moss Collars, - - - " " 7.20 Moss Riding Saddle Pads, - c- " " 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 hand and am ready to fill all orders on short n.tice. Old Moss Collars taken in ex change for new ones. DENNIS CAhbARD, Barton. La. 9w w v v.- --. v W - ,." vý ý W v, - v AROUND THE STATE. Items ot Interest Culled From the Louisiana Press. Boll Weevil Advances to Within Twenty HMiles of the Mississippi-Court of Law Orders Dnstruction of Railroad Trestle with Dynamite. A progressive union was organized at Abita Springs with more than fifty members. The annual convention of the Bap tist Women's Missionary Union was held at Lake Charles. The town council of New Iberia re fused to adopt a resolution permitting skating on public sidewalks. Grain exports from New Orleans during the month of October aggre gated mote than two million bushels. Louisiana had $1,424,702.15 on de posit with her several fiscal agencies at the beginning of business on Nov. 1. The Farmers' Union of Louisiana proposes to erect a state central ware house at Winnfield at a cost of $25,000. Arthur Sorbet, aged 15 years, was accidentally killed by his 8-year-old brother while the boys were hunting near Abbeville. Waiter Taylor, a young white man wanted in Winn parish to answer to a charge of criminal assault, was ar rested at Floyd. Dr. C. C. Ellis, of Philadelphia, Pa., will conduct teachers' institutes throughout Louisiana during the ap proaching winter. The recently organized Union Bank and Trust Company, of Monroe, began business Monday morning with a paid-up capital of $100,000. Robert Allen, a white man, made two attempts to commit suicide by cut ting his throat at DeQuincy, but was intercepted on both occasions. Gerac Bros.' cotton warehouse at Lafayette was destroyed by fire, to gether with 30 bales of unginned cot- Q ton, entailing a loss of $2000. According to the opinion of officials connected with the state department of education, a parish superintendent is s1 not required to be a qualified elector. A number of prominent Methodist ct women propose to build a dormitory s at Ruston for the free use of poor girls a attending the Louisiana Industrial ft Institute. It might be necessary for shippers ti to resort to the employment of tramp ti steamers in order to secure a reduction S of the rate on cotton exported from b New Orleans. at Mrs. Edgar Wilson Nye, widow of It "Bill" Nye, the noted American hu- It morist, died at the home of her son-in- ii law, E. A. Pharr, near Morgan City, ft aged 56 years. b Crowley property owners voted al- tl most unanimously in favor of the prop- st osition to issue bonds to the amount ci of $100,000 for works of public im- ii provement. st John O. Guy, a well-known young millwright of New Orleans, was killed by a fall from a Mississippi Valley train near Kenner, while en route to she latter place. The Murphy-Kramer Construction Co., of New Orleans, was awarded the contract for constructing Lafayette's proposed new high school building, which is to cost $46,000. The cotton boll weevil has advanced to within twenty miles of the Missis sippi river, a number of the insects having been discovered near Harrison burg, Catahoula parish. A bull wrecked a passenger train on the New Orleans and Northwestern Railroad near Rayvilie, Richland parish. The trainmen and passengers miraculously escaped injury. The merchants of New Orleans will make a determined fight to prevent the passage of the ordinance authorizing city health officials to confiscate and ;, destroy articles of food unfit for use. Approximately $9000 has been con tributed to the fund being raised for ad ,the purpose of presenting the battle r: ship Louisiana with a magnificent ye silver service. About $3000 more is needed. Thomas Brady, the white man con victed of criminally assaulting a young white woman near Lecompte several weeks ago, will be legally exe cuted at Alexandria on the 7th of De cember. A trestle forty-five feet in length spanning Petite Canal, on the Southern Pacific's Iberia-Vermilion branch line, was blown up with dynamite, pursuant to a court order, in order to permit a dredgeboat to complete the waterway, which will compete with the railroad as a common carrier. John R. Ghbens sold his extensive Golden Ranch sugar plantation in Lafourche parish to C. R. Ash, of Duluth, Minn.. for $500,000. The deal involves 24,000 acres of land, of which 3500 are under cultivation, a large proportion of the remainder being taken up with valuable cypress swamps. The Sea and Aetna insurance com panies were awarded damages amount ing to $55,501.92 against the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad as a result of the destruction by fire of nearly 2000 bales of cotton and a big warehouse at Arcadia, caused by sparks from a passing locomotive. The railroad was awarded damages to the amount of $4375 against the Insur ance Company of North America and the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Com pany. your tongue to ALUM and tlM k in the glass-.you will see the effect-. You can't help puckering-it makes you pucker to think of tasting it. By the use of so called 'cheap Baking IPowders you-take this puckering, injurious Alum a right minto "yur system--you injure digestion iUa Ltin. your. stomach, S AVOID ALVM ._ L R-`pas m t frorn pure, refined Grape Cream of Tart -Costsmore than.Alumbut you have the profit of quality, the profit ofood healthL rs 'NO CANAL .NE LETTER. Queer Customs and Sights Prevail in Dis tant Panama and Colombia-Rus sian Immigrants Arriving. "Evicted Skeletons." Special Correspondence of The Chief. Panama still posseses many queer customs and sights that as yet do not seem normal to Americans of as much as two years' residence, and Colombia far outclasses Panama in this respect. There is quite a difference between the native country huts and those of the backwoodsmen of the United States. In Panama carpenters build backwards or downwards, first con structing a framework for the roof and laying over this a quantity of palm leaves which are held in place by a little weaving and many props; next a four-cornered row of reeds and bam boo sticks is driven into the ground, thus forming the walls and making a structure somewhat resembling a chicken coop built by a boy, only a little larger-about 10 or 12 feet square. No floor is provided other than the bare ground, and for a bed a pile of leaves does duty, although a few of the more industrious natives provide hammocks. In constructing frame houses in the cities the native carpenters build the roof first and the floor last. Far-off Russia has contributed its share to Panama's oddities. I noticed in the morning paper that Panama was encouraging industrious Russian im migrants to settle in its territory in order to develop some of its agricul tural resources-an excellent idea. Shortly afterwards, while crossing the Isthmus one Sunday morning, at one of the interior towns I noticed more than a hundred of the most woe-begone, di lapidated specimens of humanity that it is possible for the world to pro duce, and these I was told were Rus sian immigrants. About half of them were to board the train' and I was re lieved when I saw they were confining themselves to the second-class coaches. Their leave-taking, while quite affec tionate, was still more amusing. "Mid dle-aged men would embrace each other with both arms in a lion's grip and then proceed to exchange linger ing, "spluttering' kisses. Then for the trainmen to get them separated and into the proper cars was an ordeal similar to dividing a herd of cattle. The cotton plant as it grows in Pan ama is quite different from thaL in the States. This zone having no frosts, the plant continues to grow from year to year, in the course of a few years attaining the size of an orchard tree, and in place of the cotton patch as seen in the States we have orchards of white-topped trees that produce a non perishable fabric. The lottery drawing presents a very novel sight. The office of the lottery company is located in the most promi nent part of the city, and the drawing takes place every Sunday at 10 a. m. The capital prize is never less than $3000 in gold, consequently many tick ets must be provided, yet so great is the interest taken that nearly all of the tickets are disposed of every week. For two hours before the drawing takes place several hundred natives throng the lottery entrance and, viewed from the outside, the hall has the ap pearance of a congested bee hive. On a high table in the center of the hall is a revolving spherical wire cage about Contiuned on Eighth Page. THE WORLD'S NEWS. Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From Near and Far,. Battalion of Negro Troops which Partlci pated in Brownsville Raee Biot Dis missed from the Army--Chicago Bank Wreckers Sentenced. French priests are seeking employ w ment in the professions. Two women were executed at Cron stadt, Russia, for conspiring against the government. The annual convention of the Na tional Nut Growers' Association was held at Scranton, Miss. A mutinous outbreak of several hundred British sailors occurred at I'ortsmouth, England. Two ,iorkmen were killed by the burstink of a fly-wheel in a candy factory at Nashville, Tenn. Medical men of Washington, D. C., are experimenting with cold tea as a remedy for typhoid fever. At Mobile, Ala., Charles Williams, a negro, was sentence4 to ten years' imprisonment for stealing chickens. Statistics prepared by the depart ment of commerce and labor show a decrease in American exports of cot ton cloths. Dr. Edwin E. Beeman, one of the largest manufacturers of chewing gum in the United States, died at Cleve land, O. A hospital ambulance was struck by a street car in New York city and two patients and a doctor were severely injured. The, battleship Virginia was rammed by a passenger steamer off Norfolk, Va., and several of her guns were damaged. Will Robinson, the negro who re cently murdered the sheriff of Coving ton county, Miss., was captured in Baltimore. Former members of the Vermont state cattle commission were indicted for alleged implication in the sale of diseased cattle. Fire at Hillsboro, Texas, destroyed the block occupied by the C. F. Gra ham dry goods company, causing a loss of $175,000. Three delegates from the British Cotton Spinning Association arrived at New York and will study cotton farming in the south. At the close of business Oct. 31, 1906, the national debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $952,171,364, a decrease of $2,074,829 for the month. Great damage was caused by a gale along the coasts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Islands. Several vessels were driven ashore. The battalion of negro troops which participated in the recent race riot at Brownsville, Texas, was dismissed from the army in disgrace by order of President Roosevelt. Alex Walker, the first of fifty-eight negroes to be brought to trial at Atlanta, Ga., for the murder of Police man J. L. Heard, was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Paul O. Stensland, former president of the °Milwaukee Avenue State Bank, of Chicago, and Henry W. Herring, cashier of the same institution, were sentenced to indeterminate terms in the Illinois penitentiary for embezzle ment and forgery, which resulted in the wrecking of the bank. NEW ORLEANS LETTER. Hagenbeck's Circus Comes to Town and the Big and Little Children Have the Time of Their Lives--Generous Dona tion to Charity Hospital. New Orleans, La., Nov. 7, 1901. Staff Correspondence of The Chief. Attention, all you littlest readers of The Chief, be se the beginning of this letter is ~fneant entirely for you and I want you to be sure lo read it or in the event that you can't read, to ask your mammas and papas to read it to you (!) You see, I am going to t tell you all about the great Hagen beck circus which came to town this week. To begin with, such an ex citing spectacle as the parade which took place Monday forenoon you never saw in all your small years, and the big tents which were pitched in the green, sunny wilderness of Audubon Park near the Hurst street entrance were enough to fill you with exuberant joy and fire your youthful imagination with visions of the won derful things that were bound to happen on the inside of the great domes of canvas. I must tell you that I went to Monday afternoon's per formance with a pair of young hope fuls whose cheeks were like June roses and whose eyes were ablaze with ex citement. My but those kids were overcome. But wouldn't you have been, too, if you had entered a mighty tent surrounding five enormous rings with something splendid happening In each at one and the same time?-where more clowns than you- could possibly count were constantly running, tum bling and doing-funny stunts?-where lions and bears and leopards and elephants and wild-cats and tigers and camels and dogs and pigs-yes, in deed, every-day, common-place pork ers-were doing all sorts of wonder ful tricks? "I'm 'Alice in Wonder land'!" shrieked one of my two small companions, dancing in a delight which nearly sent her careening be tween the spaces of the seats in the grand stand, "and oh, Ella, look at that pretty circus la4s wif the pink legs. Do you fink she have stockings on?" "Hol" essayed the boy kid with his tiny ch* expanded at least a quarter of an inch and looking ex traordinarily like a healthy young 0puter pigeon, "If zat big w'lte bear bweaks outern hiv cage I will hit 'im wiv my fis' and kill 'ima dead," which grandiloquent threat was followed by a howl of fear as an infinitesimal fox terriereheaded towards our portion of the grand stand. We had a great time, we did. There were chariot and other kinds of races, trapeze perform ancesenogh to make your spine creep; bareback riding andaremarkable feats of strength, wild Indians and a band of Hindoos, brown of body and nearly nude, and in short, more things than I could possibly tell you of in a week's time. The Hagenbeck shows continued up to Wednesday, and thousands upon thousands of people attended the two big performan es which were given daily. The New Orleans Progressive Union I had a big time Monday celebrating the sanitary revolution of this city, t the chief feature of the celebration be the making of physical sewerage con nection between the city main and the headquarters of the organization. Speeches were made by prominent of ficials and other citizens In which New Contlaued on tgjhth Page.