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THE ST. LANDRY CLAI.N. "Here Shall The Press The People's Rights Maintain, Unawed by Influence and Unbrlbed by Cain." YOL. XVI.---NO. 2. OPELOUSAS, LA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1905. $1 PER YEAR The Johnson & Johnson ¶1! he gIgil at JO'l here m yellsi fever." Sulphur Fumigators ..... ULP HUR FUMIGA TORs . are ready for use-all you have to do is to light the The Product of the Greatest . 13tra l W Iv jIu ibie match, and it will do the rest. Pan goes with every candle. Price, 10 cents, 3 for 25 cents, $1.00 per Scientific M inds, at- -I .a ' " dozen. One candle will burn four hours. receivedrat Mason's Drugstore. ason's Drugstore,.. M Street. Mason's rugstore NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. Sne Ilpe ills Anmther for Five Ceats at Tailelish OVERNOI VISITS THE EONVICT. O 11 sl erd-lapeatmshmat Preeetlangs Agatast iscks-W1l Tele Srmeders. Assasstatlen li CaIcasles. A quarantine guard over near Donaldsonville aecidently shot him. self. John Hughes has been elected as Hheriff of Tensas parish to fill the unexpired term of the late Win. C. Young. State Superintendent Aswell in tends calling a conference of high. school principals as soon as quar antine is raised. Those Parish Fairs which were postponed on account of quarantine restrictions, will be held during November. The Town Talk says that mos quitoes are so scarce in Alexandria now that one of. the festive "stig ordyers" is a curosity. The Bunkie Review says that in abother ten days the right-of-way of the E. & 'W. Railroad, between '1 ulikle and Vola, will 'be cleared. The total expenses of Tangipa hoa Parish for the past year was $40,8$67:8. We note that the ·hool funds exceeded the criminal ex penses nearly 2tM000. 'The Chief says that Donaldson yille has demonstrated its ability 76..o.stamp. out yellow fever. No new cases have appeared in that town since Sept. 16, . S. BI'Blgley,'a special police offi cer at Doiialdsonville, was stabbed to death is. that town on Sunday night, Sept. 23. An investigation has been made to determine the guilty party or parties. Tallulah, La., Oct. 2.-In a quar rel over a'gambling debt of 5 cents, Ed. Jones, Jr., colored, shot and in stantly killed Hence Collins, colo red, at 9 o'clock this morning, in a saloon owned by the former's father. The Louisiana exhibit at the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland, Oregon, will be shipped *from that city direct to Baton Bouge, where it will be placed on petinanent exhibit at the State University. .. Baton aouge, La., Oct. 2.-Yester day afternoon, for the first time in the history of the State Peniten * tiary, the Chief Eteeutive of the * State visited the Penitentary, took Spart in the religious services, and . delivered an address to the convicts. i\ Will Yule, white, under sen timce ofl5 years for manslaugter, .was. liberated by a mob at Harrti eonburg last April, since which time he has been at large, antil the other day,when he surrendered to the authorities, saying he was tired of dodging. A line of railroad is projected from Buras, Plaquemine parish, along the bank of the Mississippi river, to Southwest Pass. This will .practically be an extension of the New Orleans, Fort Jackson, and Grand Isle Road, the present term inns of which is Buras. The religions exerciaes held ,yesterday afternoon in the chapel of the Penitentiary were of more -. than ordinary Interest. They were attended by Governor and Mrs. Blanchard. The sermon of the day was preached by Rev. J. L. Sutton, the Chaplain, and the music was conducted by Miss Lucy Booth and Miss Virginia Murphy. Impeachment proceedings have been begun against City Judge Cal D. Hicks of Shreveport. He is charged with '"nen-feasance, mal feasance, incompetency, corruption, favoritism, extortion, oppression, gross misconduct and habitual drunkenness," and the court is asked to remove him from office. A feud between the Elfer and and Songy families in St. Charles parish, culminated in a pitched battle at Frellson station, four men participating on each side, with the following result: Albert Mer cier, uncle of the Songy's instantly killed; Chas. Songy, badly wounded Mat Songy, shot in the leg; negro spectator, shot in the shin. R. B. Holloway, a saloonkeeper, was assassinated by unknown par ties at his place of business in Lock port, Calcasieu parish. At about the same time Samuel Bowman, another white man, who had just Jeft the saloon, was also shot and killed. Newton Lyons, another saloon keeper of Sulph tr, was ar rested and charged with crime, but it is thought he can prove an alibi. The Wilkins Oil Company's well No. 2 has produced more oil of its own accord, than has been proda cod by any other single well in America and has made a record which the Jennings oil field is well proud of. This statement is proved by the fact that the said well has flowed 2,046,645 barrels of pure oil, that is deducting all water and sand, up to October 1. This well was put down eleven months ago. About eleven o'clock Sunday night Oct. 1, Mrs. J. T. Woodfin, of South Crowley, who was alone in the house with her daughter, aged fifteen discovered a negro who had just entered the girl's bed-room through a window. Mrs Woodfln screamed and the negro jumped through the window by which he had gained entrance and- escaped. Mrs. Woodfin at once notified the police, who are on the lookout for the negro. The State Department of Agri culture has received a letter from C. R. i. rower, of Rockford, Ill., who owns several large plantations in Madison parish, relative to the ad visability and benefits to be derived from tile draining. He states that that method has been successfully employed around Clarkedale, Miss., in the low bottom lands of that section, and the result has been satisfactory in every way. The sugar planters have been considerably worried about secur ing labor for the taking off of their crep this season, the grinding of which is scheduled to soon begin. Tuesday of last week thirty-five negroes, from Crystal Springs, Miss. came through to Harahan, eleven miles from New Orleans, on the Illinois Central, in a screened car, and were Immediately rushed" in to another screened car of the Southern Pacific, which was on a sidetrack. The car was then trans ferred to the S. P. tracks on the op posite side of the river, and then transported to Schrlever Junction, going over the branch line from that point to some sugar plantation in Terrebonne parish. After the sermon by the Chaplain Governor Blanchard made a abort but impressive address to the con viots. le told them that the State dil not bring vengeance upon them, bht that they were placed there because they had broken certain laws which the State had made for all to obey. He impressed upon them that the law must be respected. He said that the State ad not thrown them off, but had taken chargo of them, and was pro viding for their improvement. The General Assembly had made it so that even a prisoner, senten cd for life, could under certain conditions, after serving flfteen years, receive a pardon, and all prisoners were given credit for good behavior. He impressed upon them that the State looked after their spiritual as well as their phy sical needs, and that he as the Governor of the State expectd their hearty co-operation to those n authority, and that he expected them to obey their superiors and to conduct themselves as men should. The Governor and Mrs. Blanchard shook Iands with all of the prison er, who seemed greatly impressed with the Governor's talk. From All Over The World. Fire destroyed property worth $1,oooooo at Butte, Montana. Mayor George B. McCliean was renominated for mayor of New York. It was stated that Japan will soon find hereself confronted with a debt of $,25o,ooo,ooo. Suggestions. to honor Count Witte were rejected by' the St. Peteburg municipality. The assessment of New York City Is given at $6,ooo,ooo,ooo, or nearly six times greater than that of. the State of Texas. The peace treaty signed at Ports mouth arrived in Tokio in the car of Japanese Foreign Office officials. Miss Gladys Lawson, daughter of Thomas W. Lawson of "Frienzed Finance"fame was married on Oct. 11. F. J. Lewis accidentally shot and killed his wife while out hunting near Beaumont Texas, on the 1t insstant. President Roosevelt and Repro. sentative Townsend of -Michigan held a long conference on railroad rate legislation. Joseph Ramsey, Jr., was remove from the presidency of the Wabash Railroad Company and F. A. Do lan was elected his successor. Total grain recipts at Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Bati more during August showeda gain of nearly 4,ooo,ooo bushels over 19o4. A coasting steamer, plying bet wee Shanghai and Tien-Tsin, was blown up by a lioating mine and completely destroyed, fifteen of thecrew being drowned. The first report issued by the Census Bureau this season says that there have been ginned so far o eat cotton crop- 2,5 is waiting "for permissi United States before ta i in regard to the claim holds agalnst the Sou A republic. Hale, colored, was hang i uty jail at Birmingha Oct. 5. On the seafld h was not guilty of t c rged, though he had p u onfessed. Hale . add that he was "ready musle," and died witho e was a member of a gan murderers and hig Who murdered and rob A , a flagman of the Lu i Nashville Railroad Ala., on the night of Ja usry 1 last Our show window. ... this mamm week. It says Umbrllas Shares. Shares. Shares. Ladies and Gents, in the newest -.-. THE finish of handles Gold Silver, _Sn Gol 61Zi ndJacobs New Deo omay Ivory, Pearl and The Hustling Firm of Opelousas; Antique Woods.. The Coming City of Southwest Loulsiana; Keep the son and rain THE FUTURE GREAT off with one of = A FIFTEEN DAY OFFER T R. MORNHINVEG : & SON'S eh Send in your subscription for One Hundred Shares, or more, at One Dollar a each, fully paid and non-assessable, between now and October 28, and receive a cs- - Main Street Jewelers, Opticianves, TIFICATE OF rTOCx with a GUARANTEE OF T= PER CENT. Dividend to be paid May Wathmakers and Engravers. 10th, 1906. REMEMBER, within two years OPELOUSAS will have the Colorado ....._ _._Soutlern__sas City Southern and Opelousas, Gulf and Northeastern Railroads. This INVzxMENT will bring you a LARGE DIVIDEND each year, and your ORIGINAL GUS. E. DUPRE, AMOUNr invested will DOUDLE in VALUE Inside of three years. Abstracter fh te, is W let This Be Tor lone: =N IT NOW. and NTotary/ Publice. " l.u. s s" - ht. O . A, RelýIal Store' fihRlable Goths | ., ora t; T sI I . in Business Over `weiity-Five Years Began Business October r, to90 My long experience in the Grocery Business enables me to give the best goods for the least ", ", ' ,8 io. . money. Quality and economygo hand in hand cpi. atl... ............. .oo ... ......... Surplus and Proftli. 4,4 .74 Surplus and Profits 1 2&54 I Can Save You Dollars. et :.. :.... . .... 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