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SHARES! ARES! SHARES! THE Jacobs News Depot Company Of Opelousas, The Coming City of Southwest 5 . HE GREAT OPENING SALE OF TEN THOUSAND SHARES wll be at par value, One Dollar Each, in lots of one hundred shares or more each purchaser. These shares are being sold for the puose f ere S .ourThirty ousand Dollar Opera House and Store Building on the business site in our city, having purchaed same in 1904 for Ten Thou Dollars;, said real estate to-day is worth~thiy per cent more than gwp urchase price. Thepurchasers of these res whoseoney reaches usbeore Deem 20, 1906, will be entitled to the ten per cent. dvidend to be paidon 10, 1907. Remember, it is the yearly dividends that count. Those who follo . our advice have made money and are still makingmoney. Our dividends on 10, 1902, were 6 per cent; 1903, 8 per cent; 1904, 8 per cent; 1905, 10 per cent; 1 10 per cent; and on May 10, 1907, a dividend of 10 per cent. will be paid on e Ss . ... share sold. Remember, this is an investment, not a speculation, PROPOSED BUILDING OF JACOBS NEWS DEPOT CO., AND OPERA HOUSE. Remember, Opelousas is the Coming City of Southwest Louisiana. Remember, beside you receiving yearly dividends your original amount will FILL OUT THIS BLANK AND MAIL B E OR.[ 1i.eCe yN double its value in three years. : JACOBS NEWS DEPOT 0O. OP LOUSAS, LA. Remember, your money is to be invested in a modern structure on the best enclosed. ................r piece of'real estate in our city. are ..:..:...................... Am e ... ....... .......................... ...... .............. ."... ..: Remember, we refer you to Dunn, Bradstreet or any Mercantile Agency, or Addr .. our local banks or business firms. THE COURTHOUSE ANNEX DANlEROUS. So Says Graid Jury 1i Its Final Report to The Court. SEVERAL TIMELY RECOMMENDATIONS. Attention Called to Neglected Condition of Fountains on Courthouse Square.New Roof For Public Building. The Grand Jury, on adjourning last Saturday, submitted a "final report," which, if followed out, will result in many needed improvements, especially to the courthouse building. This is not the first time that at tention has been called to the unsafe condition of the annex, or clerk's office, and it would seem that the several repairs have been useless. The several other subjects covered by the Grand Inquisitors should re ceive prompt attention, which, we have no doubt, they will receive. Says the Grand Jnry: To the Hon. E. T. Lewis, Judge 16th Judicial District of Louisiana, St. Landry Parish: Your Grand Jury having completed its labors, beg leave to submit this, their final report. We have carefully examined into all matters submitted to us, and have reported true bills only in such cases as, in our opinion, will result in con viction on final trial. We have examined into the condi tion of the public buildings. We find that in the jail there are several windows with broken panes of glass, which should be immediately repaired. The jail, in our opinion, is not kept in as cleanly condition as it should be. We find that there is an ac cumulation of dust on top of the large cell, which should be imme diately removed, and this part of the jail swept at least once a week. The addition to the courthouse, consisting of the Clerk's Office and Police Jury Room, we find in what we would consider a dangerous condition. We would recommend that the Police Jury employ an architect to examine into the safety of building. We find that the Clerk's Office i. too small, and that the increasing business of the effice will make it necessary to enlarge the same. Ir this connection we would suggest that in enlarging the offices, pro. vision be made in any new additior to the pr'esent courthouse building for sleeping apartments for petil jurors and Grand Jury rooms. The sanitary closets, we find in a very bad condition, and should re ceive immediate attention. We would recommend that, in asmuch as several attempts have been made to repair the roofing of the courthouse, , and the roof is yet in no better condition, an entirely new roof be put on the building; that the- curbing around the courthouse square be immediately repaired, and that the fountains on the square be fixed as to prevent the continual flooding of the lands around the foun tains. Respectfully, HOMER SAVANT Foreman ST. MARTIN PEOPLE FEAR LEBLAN; WILL ESCAPE ROPE. The people of St. Martin parish are beginning to fear that Elues LeBlanc, who has lingered in jail for two years and successively averted the fatal Friday so repeatedly fixed for his ex ecution by respites and other legal impediments, will finally escape the punishment which it seems the im pression there he justly merits, by a cummutiion of sentence to life im prisonment. He has just received another com mutation for thirty days, it is said be cause the evidence was purely circum stantial and - that other proof has come to light throwing further doubts on his guilt for the horrible crime of which he stands convicted: the heart less butchery of his wife. The St. Martin Banner of last Sat urday voices the fears of that com munity editorially as follows: "In order to avoid abuse, to pro tect the weak from the multitude in anger and to prevent the use of laws by those in power, for personal re venge, the power to reprieve, to com mute and to pardon has been placed in the hands of superior tribunals, not connected with the local government. It is the duty of the superior trib unals to jealously guard the sacred rights of all accused and unjustly convicted; but it is also their sacred duty to protect the community in the enforcement of law and order by their local tribunals. The LeBlane case has experienced all the delays possi ble. Very soon two years will have passed since Mrs. Elues LeBlanc was found dying in her room, by Mr. Chas. deLaCroix, bathed in her blood, who was attracted there by'the voice of a woman crying murder. He was ap proached by the husband, who was alone in the house with his wife, and informed that his house was full of blood. Her throat was cut from one ear to the back of her head. Two years have nearly passed but the ter rible memory of this human butchery is not yet forgotten, and to-day there is hardly a soul in the parish that does not believe that LeBlanc com mitted the crime. The jury that convicted him knows that he com mitted it, for they refused to reconim mend his commutation. The Judge and District Attorney are as firm in the belief of his guilt. "And yet with the evidence before them of a fair trial, a good jury com posed of the best citizens of St. Mar tin Parish; the people, the jury, the judge, firm in their desire to see the law enforced, the Board of Pardon, without new evidence, are attempting to wrestle from the people the most sacred prerogatives vested in them by, the constitution, the right to punish for crime; a right given by God to the savage to protect himself, his family and his country in the enjoy ment of peace and happiness." fiOVERNOR HAS ISSUED PROCLAM ATION CALLING FOR ELECTION. Governor Blanchard has issued his proclamation calling for an election to be held on Thursday, January 17th, 1907, throughout the State, for the election of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Appeals, provided for by Constitutional Amendment No. 8, adopted at the last general elections. The campaign for these offices will necessarily be short, as the primaries for candidates will have to be held before that time. In some. of the parishes the committees have already called for these primaries, and the campaign in these is already on., Exclusive of the parishes whose appeals are returnable to the parish of Orleans, the State is divided into two circuits, which are subdivided into districts. This Circuit (the first) is composed of the parishes of East Baton, Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Livingston, Tangipahoa, Washington, St. Helena, Pointe Coupee, Iberville, St. Mary, Terrebonme, Assumption, Lafourche, Ascension, Calcasieu, Cam eron, Vermillion, Lafayette, Iberia, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Acadia, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, St. Landry and Vernon. A Judge is to be elected from each of the districts of the two cir cuits. The first district (which is ours) is composed of the parishes of. St. Landry, Calcasieu, Cameron, Vermilion, Lafayette, St. Martin, Acadia, Vernon and Iberia. In this district so far but one can .didate has announced himself, and it now appears that he will have no opposition. Judge Julian Mouton, of Lafayette, is the man,' and he has been endorsed by a majority of the bars of the district. 'He is not only an eminent jurist, and occupied the circuit bench for two terms, but he is entitled to the position this time because of the reason that in 1904 he won it fairly. Then practically the same amendment as was adopted at the last election was submitted to the people, but defeated.. In the in terim between its submission and the election a Democratic primary elec tion was held, and the contestants were Judges Mouton and Fournet, the latter frop: Calcasiou, ann!also an distinguished jurist and loyal Demo crat. Judge Mouton won by a decisive majority; and now it seems fair 'that he should be given the nomination without having to go into an addi tional expense for it. In some of the other districts the nomination promises to be hotly eoni tested. The, position ; pays' `four thousand dollars per year,. and i nthis (the first circuit) the term is for fot' years; in the second district it is for six years and in the third for eight years. The Court of Appeals for the first circuit shall hold sessions at Opelou sas, Baton Rouge, Amite City, :New Iberia, Houma, Franklin, Crowley, Lake Charles, Thibodaux and Don aldsonville. THlOAS B.iBTS MINFALL OUsAe T IT W lBlY E Development concerning the past career of Thomas Brady, 'the man under sentence to hang -in Alesan dnria, La., on be q{h&T1# - fg crim inally assaulting Miss Lucy Warren, an unsophistieated country-girl ofte neighborhood of L comitP te, show, thaktwhiskey wroight his ruin. -wA letter received on th. 119 ln by the officials at Alexandria froa party who was raised with him in their Indiana home states that Brady's real name is Thomas Braden; that his parents were highly respectable people, and his father "spared neither means nor money to make a good, honest and upright citizen of his son Thomas." Until Thomas.attained the age of 21 he was considered a model young man, and then he took to strong drinks; from that time dates his downfall, gradual but sure." He was first convicted to'a light term of imprisonment' for petty Iarceny; then followed the graver crime of robbery, and -a longer term,' and in 1898 he *as convicted for a terim bo ,be to fourteen" years for crimiiial assault upon a white girl at Chester, Illinois. At the end of twenty-six month~ s he was paroled, and left the country and wandered about until his 'rime here. Prior to his prison terms he was married, but eighteen months after was divorced. IHe has : few relatives living, and they have abondoned him to his fate, which is the gallows, is there is not the remotest chance for iinterference with the sentence from anyssource BY THE SOCIETY. The Wotiian's Missiouary Scietties met in reiular sesiionSaturday after noon. Though the attindane w'as' small, till e had an interesting meeting, and regretted that soimany Were absenit. i 'siSters, emist o when "y. fail to cheer' us with soiur presence; and you misii th blessing God designs to give you, if youi "for sake not the assembling of you sles together" in His name. - Mism -Netie Peauoek, one of our new miioiharies, who was to Ehave sailed Septmiber 2nd 'f hear filtd 'of labor, was strickeni with-typtoidifee r. She -bears~ her disappaintmenit with sweetr submissioni and mmanifrest her consera to s eth in er ifor good h oe We trust that the will 'soon be ell and strong again, and while this dis appointment was great, -ill we know that it is His appointment for her just now, for He says Allfthings work together for good to those who love-God." - -dn. Charles Denby, Th g ted 8tes Minister to China frOm 1886 t 189 sayers dp I q a i^n the' strongest language that tongue ean utter, give to these ien ad omswn the `Farga asay fll an'dIwh lterat d co endatio . My ddotr is : tell, if I can, the simple truth abpul thenm; and when .tat is 'known, the caviling, the depreciation,, the eneer ing, which too often accomianies comments on missionary work, will disappear, and they wil staid before the world, as they onght to stand, as benefactors of the ipeople aiiong whom their lives are spent-the forg runners of the commerce" of the world."-Womian's 'Missionary Ad vocate. It is a great thing to get in the current' of Gods lprevidene. He has ordained' that the "world 'siiall ' saved by grace; there is no other way by which it shall be done. very Christian should 'fid it a pleasure to fall actively into the tieid and have some part in completing the divine command. He carn o it b hisin fluence, by his prayers, by hi means. It may not be the part of each to carry the Gospel abroad, but it is the part of each to sustain and encourage those who ;are willing to Ue the spokeisen for the' evangelization of the world. " 1ever mind vwhereabouts your work is. Never mind whether it be visible or not. Never mi whether your name .asociated with it. You "a , et ag yt of your toils. You are working for eternity. If you not se the re sulte here in = te = ot.iworing dsys, the coolt evening houre are r ng tear, when you mty rest from yoar labors, and they may follow yea. So do your duty . "and trt'Godtor ve the seed you sow "a bodya lh wiath pleased ;Him"."-Aleader Maolareu. Opelousas, Nov. 13. DERlCAIIN UFt THlE URAiD PIMIlJE SMAJEI 3580L .Editor Clarlon.-It was the good fortune of miyself and othefres be invited on November 10th to Grand Prairie for the purpose of. 'Fri ent and taking a pert in the tion exercises of the building in whichb the Grand 'Irsirie Gcaded School will soon be installed. Sometimae ag. the pro.psc to consolidate four schools and etbilsh a graded school there was made t. the ople of this neighborhood,, they to f ish~ by: poular subsetption the funds necessary t- procare a building site, and emrect and is t>he building. To the great cdit o the good people of this commnuit y, th ere- a iýmo to the. otil, and in swe4Thwa ada'sI h e hribed the saboont b' k house, Dr. La'o giving ;he .U : There was now noe stotif a th osreio f ehee euttow on this " with h l and as a result of the luck. spiritednre an ,:rtie have, ready for o school buiing, adpqate o s school requireents of hood. It i n a to-tor consisting of a large ha `i commodious uehoolrooi e Ithe. floor, a.nda :arg assembjy bal M the second floor. of addresses by t. foa tmen on the followin u C. ; Thcmpsoon, boo tion3 L. A. Fontenot, Neoessi o ular Attendance. E. EC. Orege ecsity1fr~ Speaking Chld rentoy L En~glish. The meeting wacalle by Dr. Larwoe, who, i a w words in French, dele poses sand complimented phi, and co-work.ts on the which they commenced and 'we bringing to completion. The Doctr was folowedy P. H. Grifth, the .ae Pr App . the school Ir. G$Ethfo labors which were before i ', . which hl coald only hop ' successflI by thhehea rtz prt co-operatib: of the pare:pt` ;` patrons of the scwool= oo prnime c"aditions of a casi school career belfat egae dance. rThe other gentle men po order' named bove, a what said was rwe ceived a d te bf rthe andf 'enc, 1 Afte the speaking, Ada n refreshments were indniuged ." all seemed toa hae reel* plentitude of pleasur whle sh easions cnaply.: In adign which $280.15 were ad it °'th h school °f°n: ofhis tpaw resulto the enrtament iv. Too euch pre ea anotbes ed on the: peope of rn r Oataro 'a il andi ` esol for the veryb comdbe ou*s they have pursued with refrese tbeir sciool. It involved*a sarifte, and trsy mad i, ergnco ad, of t fact that what ni w wit burdensome, will reh o nd, in a future to theper:aa.t b their chitdren and. their :, children. Inie by this ide, we't to work to do noble thg nso lream then) pil day log.1sand juo they have secceeded can ieet be * eated bo a viuitth o tosATou o he iew a(RtheiP h~aandsome and substainsi Myserious qpep hav applie rent rooms w e have windows ve Loonthee to be ' o tai 1bf t royaI proceedon o l o f Grece wi henbeters tosessat i& himfte it. c g? t .hot a him. A tf'rr rIete ,it go t re s eem