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!t drx iiii)i..i. nave V -l byinlunc ad .nyi by K, VI--NO.5.OPLOUAS L,, AT R U B 019 NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. District Attorey Files is in Insolvent Shreveport Bank Case. PATBICKI ROWLEY IS INSANE Free mNail Deivery Stepped laertlones tof New Orleans an Aeuast of Na Walks-leavy Flaes for 6. C. I. Alexandria has five candidates for Mayor. A large paint factory is contem plated for Alexandria. The municipal waterworks and elec tric lights system at Abbeville is com pleted. A passenger train ran over and killed Octave Landry, at Morgan City, on October 26th. A lack of funds has caused a cur tailment of the research work at the Gulf Biologic Station. The saw mill of the Lee Lumber Co., at Tioga, Grant parish, was des troyed by fire, causing $75,000 loss. Judge Burns, of St. Tammany, fined two young men $200 and ten days in jail for carrying concealed weapons. The: Calcasieu district court im posed' a fine of $250 against Peter Nichols and Alex Saulter for violation of the Sqnday Law. The Mermentau dam will be per mnatly repaired. The temporary repairs made on it this season, it is said, saved the rice crop. New Orleans commercial interests have about concluded to establish a steamship line connecting that city and. South and Central America. The Baszile correspondent of the Crowley Signal says that "T. H. Lewis, Jr., is putting up a nice store building near the iroposed railroad depot." In a shooting affray at DeQuincy, Calcasieu parish, last Saturday night, town marshal Shumacker was killed and three other men seriously wounded. John R. Williams, from near Ober lin, was convicted in the Lake Charles district court for selling whiskey without a license, and sentenced to a fine of $500 and six moths in jail. Interdiction proceedings were com menced In the Lake Charles court last Saturday against Patrick Crow ley, three times Mayor of Lake Charles,. and a wealthy business man of that city. The city of Crowley is named for him. The Assumption Pioneer says: The cane is reported very green. On the Cosa Natural the juice direct from roller was only 5. A report from the McCall refinery is to the effect that it took nearly two days to cook a strike which proved very un satisfactory. Walter Brinkley, a prominent citi zen of Plaucheille, Avoyelles parish, killed a negro by the name of Jim Hall last Sturday. The negro fired first, killing the white man's horse. Brinkley ist'a brother of Horace Brin kley, who killed Hadley ° Jeansonne, marshal of Cottonport, last year. The committee of Elks of New Iberia sold $4000 worth of opening night tickets in the first canvass made. One more thousand in that way will complete that part of the plan for the new opera house, and this they expect to get in the next canvass. The tickets sell for $5 each. A Tennessee convict, who escaped from the penitentiary, to which he had been sentenced to serve a term of ten years for attempt to murder, was arrested in a railroad camp at Cheneyville, and fully identified by the Tennessee authorities and brought back to serve the balance of his sen tence-13 years. District Attorney Foster, of Shreve port, has filed bills of information against the officers of the defunct Merchants' and Farmers' Bank, of that city, for "having received de posits and created debts knowing the bank to be insolvent and in a failing condition." The officers so charged are: Albert H. Leonard, Peter J. Trezevant, C. S. Bauman and R. L. Mayfield. Messrs. Lisso and Bentley, the gentlemen composing the committee selected by the citizens of Alexandria to make' a tour of several cities with a view of finding a suitable plan for a new hotel for that city, have re turned, and have about decided on one similar to the hotel at Little Rock, Ark., which costs $300,000. Judge Leche, of Ascension parish, has charged the grand jury to inves tigate~the charpcthurewFr -sub hir4 regularities had. been committed in that parish at the recent primary election for Congress. '`These charges have thrown a cloud over the good name of the people of Ascen sion, and it is your duty to investi gate them fully," said the Judge. The striking mill operators, who had the Lake Charles mills tied up for eight weeks, returned to work last Monday, the mills agreeing to pay them weekley and work them 10 hours a day, the basis of their de mands. The operators, however,. were forced to meet the mills half way, by signing nonunion contracts. The strike involved an average of 1600 men. A. considerable territory of' the city of New Orleans will be seriously affected in postal service after Nov ember 1st, when an order of the Federal postal authorities will go in operation discontinuing the free de livery of mail. The government gives as a reason for-this action that the sidewalks and crossings are such as to, make it too much of a hardship on mail-carriers to deliver the mail in those districts. It is supposed that New Orleans will ask for a suspen sion of the order until the offending territory -is put in good condition. The residents of Baton Rouge have received notification that unless the walks in that city are repaired the same penalty will be visited on its residents by Your Uncle Samuel, who believes in the comfort of his carriers. --- *-a-*·----- BEGIN LAYING. STEEL ON THE COLORADO SOUTHERN. Monday the track laying outfit on the Colorado Southern railroad began work at DeQuincey. and inasmuch as all the bridges and trestles on that stretch of the line between the place first named and Eunice have been erected it is expected that rapid pro gress will be made in laying the steel to the last named place. By the time the gang reaches Eunice it is ex pected that the bridges and trestles will have been completed to the At chafalaya river; thus permitting the laying of steel along the entire line from the western part of the state to the river in quick time, says the Crowley Signal of last Saturday. These facts have been gleaned from the.Beaumont Journal which gets its information from the general offices of the company at Beaumont. In this connection the statement is also made that "The contractors have laid out all their work on the Crowley branch. The right of way has not yet been secured, but it is expected to have it all by the middle of the week. This line is 22 miles long. There will also be 10 miles of ter minals built at Crowley. The officials of the Colorado Southern, New Or leans & Pacific expect their Crowley branch to be completed by January 1, and made ready for operation the first week in that month." Studying Marsh Reclamationl A special from Gueydan, Vermilion parish, says that A. C. Phelps, of the editorial staff of Ridgeways, arrived there Saturday, to study, at first hand, the reclamation work now go ing on in that section. He is interested in irrigation, drain age and reclamation. If all the low marsh lands south of Gueydan can be reclaimed for cultivation, the same will hold true of the whole Gulf Coast i of Louisiana, Texas, IMississippi and Florida. FOR FARMERS AS WELL AS OTHERS. St. Landry Equal to Any Sectiea of the State for cane Cullare, CONFIDENCE IN REFINERY BUILDING Special Agent eria Talks to The Clarlen no Coatto Seed As A Plant sugar cane! Do you imagine you can "buck up" against the inevitable? That is what you are* doing if you imagine you can succeed with an all-cotton crop not withstanding the boll-weevil. And do you imagine that the boll-weevil is really not here? -Get o your horise and ride out a few miles (if youi have none on your place yet) and you' will see enough of the pest to absolutely convince you that they are here, and here to stay and multiply. If you should hear that the mer chants of Opelousas on any particular day were selling higher than usual, and that they would go down to rea sonable prices in a few days longer, if you stayed away, would you come to town to lay in your stipply for the year on that day? Then why. should you come to town and sell your cot ton when you hear the market is down, when you know that 'if you hold off the price is bound to go up? Cotton is your year's supply-that is, the amount of your ,ypr'sa supply is regulated by the pae you get for your cotton. Mr. L. Perrin, U. S. Government special agent and demonstrator, was a pleasant caller at the .Clarion office Monday. Speaking of the Clarion's articles on cotton seed as a fertilizer, Mr. Perrin said: "Cotton seed, 800 pounds per acre, will increase the yield of corn about 25 per cent, and the yield of pea vine 40 per cent. It should be applied about six weeks before planting, and plowed in. It gives fertilizer avail-7 able to the plant for at least three years. Cotton seed meal, 300 pounds per acre, will produce the same re sults, but there is no noticeable effect on the second year crop but, as above, that produced from increase of pea vines. "One ton of seed gives the first year the same results as 865 pounds of meal. "Therefore, the substitution of meal to seed is only a quicker-return from fertilization, but is not helping to the building up of land, there being always the same lack of humus, which is fur nished by the seed." "The 'oil industry is to-day well established," continued Mr. Perrin, "and the product is becoming one of the necessities of the times. The oil has nothing of great value for the soil, but the farmer should not be made to pay for the taking of it from his fertilizer, We have endeavored to have the oil mills excange fairly meal and hulls for seed, at the option of the farmers. One mill in Avoy elles has made a start in that direc tion, giving 1000 pounds of meal or three tons of hulls, or a composition in proportion, for each ton of seed. We wish all the oil mills would con sider this system, which is equitable for all parties concerned-including the land." Mr. W. J. Smith, of Bellevue, (about a mile from Opelousas1 brought to our offce last Tuesday six stalks of the finest sugar canes it has ever been the pleasure of the Clarion man to seesw They were well matured, of extra size in circumference, red as a full bloom rose, and as sweet as the sweetest: This is no ile boast-they werea on exhibitiona thie ol. the force could no longer formber the temptation .of eating, eem -and al who saw, them marvele dM =t their beauty and their appeaaiincs or sub~ stantiality. Mr. Smith e ' tic s of this cane, and he assured :ip that he did not pick these samr1t from the numi her-that they were true represen tatives of the crop. 1Zte wgj.s neither sell nor grind them, but' "will save them for seed, and ·lant them all country, but "he needs them in his business." 'He is thoroughly con vinced that anybody can ris their equal on any land in this parish. Mr. Smith knows something about cane and their manufactured: pd"ct, having been employed jii theilarge sugar plantations in the Sugar Bowl, where he could see f or;AJimself and acquire knowledge from actual con tact with the grerat industry. This is what makes him enthusiastic on the subject of the adaptability of~S.S Landry for the- culture of sugrcane. Mr. Smith feels confident rof.fhe ultimate erection of large- sanr P rB fineries. here, and is pteparii f their advent, Next season he will havemanagpnment O uqIfs 4udge B. D. Estilete). plsntma.djdmWng the corporate limits of Opelousas, and will erect ja-t y iill thereon and plant as much cane as he possi bly can. He, will buy the seed for this latter pir pa i h hewill cane saved this season for his .. vn plantation. Mr. Smith, like al wde-awake farmers, is appreciative of. the fact that King Cotton is, deposed as. the sole monarch of this country; that he will have to be auxiliarated;by other crops in horder for the .farmer - to make both ends ieet, al' he li-*i i of ~io better crop to i°;ll on thian the sugar cane. "Why, I could buy twenty bales of cotton with the money realized from my four acres of sugar cane this year, notwithstanding that we have had a bad year for the cul tivation of' cane, as ybu have doubt less noticed fropm reports from the sugar section. It pays one-fifth bet ter than cotton, and boll weevils can't touch them," said Mr. Smnith:: THE COUIiER AND THE JUDICIARY AMENDIENT. Opelousas, La., Oct. 28. Editor the Clarion.-Itis with: te luctance ,that I invoke the "deadly parallel" against my old friend of the Opelousas Courier; but it would seem to me that he has reached an, . age where he should. know ;bettet than to try to ride both sides of anIi.iortant question in the "short space of two weeks. Two weeks ago, when his issue of the 13th appeared, I -was delighted to see that my old friend realized, to gether with the united bar of the State d thr* ho ree a ae with 'the.e i Qetilg; > r te for a safer and better intermediary court system in Lou~i's. I fancied that the old Courier would, right up to the day of, the. election, :kee. upp the fight for the Circuit Court Amend ment, asit had started .i ,the (i4i issue of the 13th, when it .oontained the following article: . "Wewould like to see the ,amend-i ment in regard1' " tet courtsof s peal, which will be ubmitted, tot: the voters on Nov. 6th, receive the active support of our people£ Th~, bat :of this city has nil nously -io ded the amendment, which, if adopted, will afiord suibsttihal and much needed improvement" to the judicial system. At present the district judges have to do the work of eircuit judges, This eount has jurisdictionof. appeals in cases involving lets thai $2,000 so it most concernspeople of' small means, snd we believe the ipoeed. amenmn.nd shot ed dt when I readin its issue of:yeterdar a coment on an tic fr te Peple, of Baton ouge, which, b t' In choosing icles widch willotsyc with them- essage of love or kindly regard, that will, if possible, be a per~apent reminder of the yirit that ,4 eases "= solid iltveir of your wants. - ; . MORMnHIM Main" Street Jewelers. BRICKS FOR SALE At lt. Pleasant kar ri t :lor For particulars, see or write A C. J,; HULLER, Manager waSHINGTON. LA. seamples can be see' at" the wh iesa1 warehseiift the Opelonefts 'M'riiaatiMe (10l. Orders taken by Eraste Dario. the article: in the People" atnd the Courier's coiment,) littely otpp s the amendment providing for, a urt of Aipea t, Swillrquote te ourier ' comment on the Baton Rogea9 .iape ient ionh ing for :the sake of a iformitinr tjat the old here it refers to, is Gen. ,eon Jastremski . who r is the editor of the Baton -ouge People, Aud the· in ure which it wanits "r' iied beneath at avalanche of votes" ies' `t i ruit Court Amendment, lgsame that the Courier two weeks age wanted adOpted becatse 'it most concerned people of small means." Says the Courider "fthe' otets of ,i - . Itadry still have the ofldeate ins tlie w and the lhonestti he oldi herothat they so forcibly expressed by their votes inh 1904,. they. will bury this measure beneath ,an avalanche of votes and they will tell ,the legislature of 1908 to evolve a less costly plan by studying the, systems of Mississippi, Alabaia, and Tennessee, even If it should be necesisary to reform and re cast the entire state jndicary. Miore than half of this $4,0 increase to an already too weindve =system is forsa'jaies for the jugef 'fthe dew curits of appeal, and" if: "the people ratify Amendment .No. 8 they will never be able to rli evehemIelves of this unnecesaryexpense-this in def.nsibL url.».de!." 1Now, I favt the adoption of ib amendamqt hanging presntci cuitoudrtsystem, because I believe -in fact I know-that 'the pdient system is abortive and a failure, and the poor litigant ta have a a and reliable and' cheaper court to which he ca appeal, and I will vote for `it;,s aAased yth Cdtrer o the 13th, and will ruse to change my opinion beca en. Jastrem opposes it. Akn. `airen ;ai I $Y be atillowed to reiarki i neer to my knowledge, beetn . favor of M thing (except holding :oce). and his stand on this wuestion is in consoe ance with i record agin' things, which reminds me of a lUttle'$ so I t -er rlted deteti ago, -hc fits tbtol& General t a ic.ty 4The. poorytEOes that a ship-wrecked am. archist, Whohad biseen nt on a small island somewhlere, was accosted by a native, who kindly offered him succor. At once the sea-tossed pilgrim asked the .native "Kae you a government here?" to which the natite resie that the country dicd have a govern merit. "Wel, then, I am agit' it,¶" promptly rtpled the anarchist I don't want to be unerstood as refering to Gen. Jastre ki as an an archiut.o thte extent that he would throw a bab, oranythi like that -but hisrecd if i tely oppoing anything wlbch anyboy but himself is irettoadva' ce is _so w! khow thad feetj ed il4 the ftory of the w marier fianh w t 'rc isi reclites & w e isflto tchCociflcop the 1soo ether voters toJud4e a. to hd i in r .i to siders stab gradn saen F saidWhier Ipenu Our line of Suits has just ar Srived, and is in.. every respect up * to-date in fit and quali. Look at Cur show windows, and it will ok at our Boys' School Suits-it , will interest you-from $1.25 to $6.5Q. Den't fail to see our line. U. WWSURRo TE CLOTHIER AND FURNISHER, Landry Strget Opelousas, La. DE BA R alt 003 ýa Ty L sad P r :.: 'w ; isvz .a t IMW S an um IsE the o NationI pni ate p s St. J(( dy It hoet c u l ald prora rtention to al z be y t tit. It gm ent pis liberafas well ?r E&1 L Pre e J. 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