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The St. Landry Clarion. "Here Shall The Press The People's Rights Maintain, U.lawed by Influence and Unbribed by Cain." VOL. XVII.---NO. 10. OPELOUSAS, LA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER8, 1906. $1 PER YEAR . . . . . .. . . .. . . _.. .. . . . . . ° ,..,-- .. . ; . THE OVERNOR HUNTS DEER. Ills Excelleacy Speds Three Days After the FleebtFoted Denizens OF THE FORESTS OF ST. LANDRI Six-Feet St. Laadrla Says the Cadie States. man Will Take Ne Odds From Roosevelt IWh ttt Comes to the Chase. Governor Blanchard, accompanied by Penitentiary Warden Reneaud, of Baton Rouge; Levee Commissioner Gordy Richard, of near Melville; School Director Dr. Joseph, of Mel ville; Mr. Frank Dimmick and Dr. Lawrence Daly, of Shuteston; Mr. Peterman, of Marksville; Major Oge, of Grand Coteau; and Messrs. Helmick and Cason, of near Melville, made a very successful hunt in Northern St. Landry last week. Gov. Blanchard arrived in Melville Tuesday, the 27th, where he joined the party awaiting him, and proceed ed to Swayze's Lake, on the Opelon sas, Gulf & Northeastern Railroad, where camp was pitched that night, Swayze's Lake is famous for its plentitude of fish and game, and is one of nature's most picturesque and lovely countries, dotted with lakes and surrounded by dense forests where the deer roam in native free dom. Bat the graceful ruminants were not in their accustomed haunts on that day, and only one was jumped by the hounds, which, however, es caped after a run of some eight miles. The party concluded to move to another place, where it was reported deer werk in abundance, and camp was struck Wednestay morning, and a point twenty miles below Melville reached early that day, where it was found that two swamperp, who had been sent ahead, had killed two deer. One of these was immediately shipped by express to Mrs. Blanchard at Ba-. ton' Rouge. Thursday two more were killed, I and the half dozen rounded off Friday. "Did the Governor killed any?" asked the Clarion man of Mr. Dim mick, on his return to Opelousas. "No; His Excellency complained that those that passed him on the stand were all, does and fawns, and of course it is against the law to shoot them," replied Mr. Dimmick. "Maybe he don't know a deer from a wood rabbit," suggested the in credulous newspaper man. "Don't you ever get that in your mind for the truth,", quickly replied the Shuteston six-footer, "Governor Blanchard is as good a woodman- "Woodman of the world, maybe," broke in the scribe. "Not on your life," hotly put in Dimmick, "a woodman in the woods a hnnter and a aod one. Why.v on the first day at Swayze's he straddled a pot-stomached pony and followed the dogs during the long drive of eight miles-and right up to the dogs, too-and you know the woods in that country are as thick and harassing as they can be, and it takes a woodman right to follow fleet dogs there, and don't you forget it. He's been there before, and it's bad luck that only the prohibited species pass ed him." The party was arranged some time ago, and several from Opelousas were in it, including Mr. Thos. H. Lewis, Sheriff Swords and Assessor Doss mann, but His Excellency came when court was in session, and it was im possible for these gentlemen to get off. Mr. Lewis, however, made the start Thursday evening, but as the party had left the place originally agreed upon, he "missed them and returned home. Governor Blanchard was highly de lighted with his deer hunt in old St. Landry. Rev. Teurlings, formerly pastor of the Washington Catholic church, but recently appointed by Archbishop Blenk to the Lafayette church, was enthusiastically received by his par ishioners upon his arrival to assume his new duties. Rev. Sehmidt, form erly assistant at Opelousas, was as signed to Washington. NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. .Sad Death of Jack Kibbe--Ladies' Progressive League at Hammond--Monroe Hotel Goes on A "White Basis"--Other News. Elks held their annual memorial exercises throughout the State last Sunday. A Presbyterian church was organ ized at Welsh, with a membership of twenty-six. The custom of giving lagniappe will f be abolished in New Orleans after r January 1st. The Elks of New Orleans distri - buted 1500 baskets to the poor on Thanksgiving. Archbishop Blenk has declared that all Catholics are bound to favor high license for saloons. Lafayette parish recently purchased two blood hounds, and sent them to the State penitentiary to be trained. A movement for a $35,000 school building is well on foot at Gueydan. The population of the town is under 12,00. R. A. Murff, a prominent citizen living near Crowley, committed sui cide by blowing his brains out with a pistol. Bookmakers are said to have lost a hundred thousand dollars the first week of the winter racing in New Orleans.. Frank Gotch, the champion wrest ler of America, was defeated by Fred Beell, of Wisconsin, at New Orleans last Friday. The population of the Louisiana State penitentiary, at the close of the month of November, numbered exactly seventeen hundred. It is proposed for the town of Nat chitoches to buy the parish court house and convert it into a city hall, the parish to build a new edifice. The Baton Rouge Sugar Refinery has gone into the hands of a receiver, with liabilities of $12,000. Poor crops for the season are blamed. A party of English spinners made a tour of Louisiana last week, with the object of inspecting cotton fayms on which they propose to raise their own cotton. The Pioneer, at Napoleonville, is responsible for the statement that Donaldsonville, Napoleonville and Thi bodaux will soon be connected by an electric railway. The ladies of Hammond have or ganized an Improvement League, with the object in view of helping the men folk boom the country. No wonder Hammond is prosperous. Curley Brown, the man who was recently convicted of conducting a pool room in the guise of a broker's office in New Orleans, paid his fine apd was released from jail. . A Baton Rouge paper started the agitation for a new State capitol, and this has been joined in by other papers in the State, who advocate at the same time a change of capital. A Bank, with a capital stock of $30,000, has been organized at Boga lusa, the new town where walks were paved and contract for sewerage given out before a house was built. Disgusted with the worry over the unreliability of negro servants, the manager of the Hotel Monroe, at Mon roe, La., discharged them all and in stalled exclusively white servants, from chef down. Police Officer Otis Poirier, of Baton Rouge, had both legs broken over the ankle Sunday, in jumping from his buggy, his horse having become un manageable. It is feared amputation will be necessary. The Lafayette Gazette says that the Baton Rouge-Lafay'ette branch of the Southern Pacific will not be com pleted until next September, but that trains will be running on both ends to the swamp within four months. The National Guard of Louisiana will have three rifle ranges under the appropriation recently made for this mpurnpose by the National governmen if These ranges will be located at Alex andria, on the encampment ground; at Lake Charles, and at New Or leans, where there is at present an old range, which, however, was re cently found to be out-of-date, not I having been designed for modern arms. Rice men of Louisiana have decided to send a committee to Washington to seek construction of the pure food laws to permit the use of various sub stances for polishing, and prevent its being labelled "artificially polished." The Lafayette Gazette complains that the waters of Bayou Tortue are being poisoned by chemicals from refineries, and that the finest fishing grounds in the United States are be ing threatened with contamination. Daniel Lowden, aged 74 years, com mitted suicide by cutting his throat from ear to ear with a rare in Alex andria last Saturday. Ill h alth is as signed as the cause., The deed was committed at the kesidence of his son in-law, Isadore Vandewen. N. C. Collins, who was under bond in the sum of $2,000 for participa tion in a get-rich-quick concern, failed to appear in the Federal Court in New Orleans when his trial was called, and his- surety, Dominick C. O'Malley, had to pay the bond. Harry Thomas, a negro, was ar rested in Shreveport, charged with peonage. This is adpposed to be the first case wherein a negro was charged with this offense in Louisiana. It is alleged that he held a negro woman and her child in involuntary servitude. The Livingston Times informs us that over four hundred families of Hungarians will arrive in Livingston and Tangipahoa parishes before Janu ary 1st, and purchase homes and locate permanently in that section. They will establish a Hungarian news paper. Simeon Beldeh, one of the Confed erate soldiers who joined the Repub lican party after .the war and held the office of Attorney-General and 4 later that of Speaker of the House of Representatives of Louisiana dur ing the Republican regime, died in 1 New Orleans last Monday at the age 1 of 76. He was a native of Natchit oches parish, but had been a practic ing lawyer in New Orleans since his retirement from office. Joseph Kibbe, familiarily known as "Little Jack," a popular young man1 of Abbeville, accidently shot and killed himself while hunting last Sun day. He went alone to hunt ducks on the ranch of his brother-in-law, E and when he did not return to the 4 ranch house for dinner, some of the hands went out to look for him, and found his dead body lying in a path way, his gun with one barrel dis charged by his side, and a terrible wound in his left chest over the heart. He was twenty-four years old. Gen. Rivera has postponed his plans to organize a new party in Cuba. While he does not give this as a rea son, it is suposed that the Island is yet in such an uncertain condition that really nothing solid can be at tempted, no matter of what nature. The negro question is now looming up like a dark cloud, threatening to precipitate the Queen of the Antiles into another revolution, were not the 1 United States there to prevent it. The negroes are demanding office and recognition of Gov. Magoon, and com plaining that they are not being treated with the consideration that i their numbers and standing in that] econtry should insure them. Indeed,] the little Island is in a pickle, and it is now considered almost inevitable that there will have to be gentral ihouseclesning and new start made by 1 the United States, with the growing 1 possinbility of it being added to mod ern America's possessiois. We can more deeply sympathize with Spain now, and feel kinder sorry we gave' her a drubbing for spanking the S~ot- e ted Kid. "THE VILLAGE IN THE PRAIRIE." More Evideue tho e Earmelems *e at of St Id.t Tmus n . SALE OF LOTS II TILLE PILATE SCorer Lats Sell For Ilerly as Ruck as ntire a fTes , Age. That the awakening of St.. Landry is genuine and general is more and more made evident every day. Sections and towns a few years past counted among the "things that breathed not," to-day are among those "of beauty and of life." The railroads have acted like an electric battery, distributing life and energy .through every fibre of the body of this great parish, heretofore, before the railroads' advent, dormant and backward because its greatness could not reach out and make itself known to the world; its resources and advantages smothered in a little world of its own. Ville Platte, eighteen miles from Opelousas, "wasn't worth the picking" four years ago, if we believe some of its leading business men. Property there was worthless, except to those who owned it and lived on it and maintained themselves by the com merce afforded within its own con fines and the immediate adjoining territory. Howcoald it be otherwise? No railroad, no navigable water, no thing but "its own fat." Things are different now. The Louisiana East & West made a sur vey through that section, passing through Ville Platte. At once, on mere prospects, things began to "look up." The road began building, and with it the town of Ville Platte. New residences and business places , began going up. Surrounded by as fertile and staunch a country as is to be found anywhere, where corn and cotton and cane and rice.and fruit and trucks grow "like blades of grass in the autumn," it was beyond ques- i tion that with railroad facilities Ville 1 Platte was bound to thrive and grow. Then came the contemplated line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, from l Mamou, through Ville Platte and to! Opelousas. And now Ville Platte may be said to be on the threshold of marked prosperity, never dreamed of by its citizens. Twenty-two new buildings have gone up in the past few months! A new two-story hotel is now in process of erection, and a large livery stable has just been com pleted. Streets have been opened and fields cut into town- lots. And all this before a locomotive whistle has been heard in the town. But the roads are assured; one is building and will reach the town by Christmas. A few years ago a certain tract of seven arpents of land, situated in the corporate limits of the town but not in its present business radius, could have been bought for $300. In fact there was no sale for it, and it laid there idle, the stamping grounds of stray cows and horses. The Louisiana East & West ran its right-of-way within three blocks of this tract. and last Saturday, at a succession sale of the {Stagg heirs, who owned those seven arpents in conjunction with the Hinckley heirs, twenty-eight hundred dollars was realized for it! It was cut up in town lots, 42x150, and the corner lots brought nearly as much as the entire tract could have been bought for three years ago. Ville Platte was incorporated in 1857, we are told. In tpse days it was not required to have a ixed popa lation in order to secure a charter. There were but few stores there- the Dardeans, the Coreils and the Reeds comprising the population. It has maintained a populatiqp of sabout two hundred ever since, going down to 150 at one time. It has now about, twelve stores, all doing a good basi ness, and we learn that its' citizens will soon ofrnise a Progressive Le gue and go ater industriesl As we said before, Vile Platte is in the midst of one of the richest sectin of the paish: FARMER'S 'VICTORY OVER SPECULATOR. Wonderful Change In Marketing of the South's Staple in the Past Th e Years--New Orleans Essentially A Spot Market. For three years the cotton trade the world ove has been amazed be cause the price oe actual cotton at: New rleans,- the -principal primary market, is relatively: higher than at New York and Liverpool,:but only in the very recent, pasta hue, the real reason for this reversal of the logical order of things cottonwise been gene rally' understood, and the ...awakening has added much potential force to the farmer's power as a pricemaker. A very few years ago the producer of cotton, burdened with mortgages and debts of all kinds, accepted, gene rally without question or protest, the price offered by his merchant or'city factor, and most of the money so reali zed was quickly absorbed by usurious interest rates and overcharge for plantation supplies. This condition of affairs gave the balance of power to the consumer, and in the natural course of events the speculator came to set the pace, which buyer and seller alike followed for manyyears. Thus the middlemen, , oCxporter, the man upon whom the spinner relied to round up his sup plies, and on whom the country mer chant counted as a constant customer, sold cotton ahead which he did not possess in the confident knowledge that when the time came to sell his ' future "hedges" andbuyin his "spots" for delivery to the spinner the trans action would mean lear profit to him in addition to his regular commission, 1 because he himself and his allies were the price dictators . This was the actual condition of affairs up to three years.' ago. But ai salient force had been atwork during' two or three years prior to that time. Big demand and comparatively high prices had really brought partial pros perity to many farmers, and many a mortgage had been lifted, and not a few farmers had begun to carry over l cash balances from one year to an other. Then came the memorable speculative bull campaign of the New Orleans operators in 1904 which left many millions of dollars in the pockets of Southern folk, money which was promptly utilized in throwing off the old yoke. Co-incident with this occurrence, the farmers began to learn as m~divi duals the advantage of holding their cotton when the market was declining, and by experience found that the boasted independence of the buyer was a sham and a fraud because the mills could not operate without raw cotton supplies, and could not indefi nitely extend the date of delivery in order to assist the men whose con tracts they held. This knowledge instantly revolu- I tionized the cotton business, aniHe-. fore the spinner and the exporter realized just what had takpn place,' two cotton cropeBhad been sold at a valuation enhanced by more than $100,000,000 over the aggregate value old standards :would have brought. 4 ~ Thus within three years experience. along prseti~ line has taught:the farmer how to market his cotton to the best possible advantage when the price.is advanei. 'Thei new method1 of marketing, which means te~ s of millions of additional prtt to the ' farrier evory year, is worked out .in The ipinner bhays nottes fo for ward delivery,'ius as hue as doe alt along. The exporter sells it t. hm. porter's buyer refsaes to accept the ditional ten, or eves ly, points; or, h dinae ankle wires bit a try buyer to pay the price asked am to hurry up the shipment. In whirl pvet, he relatively higer price thi exporter pays'for '~hipot over vhi "hedges" means a dead loss to him i Next time the exporter sells foOPai 1 shipments to the splanerhe adds of Sa few points to protect himself agains the farmer. But the farmer repeats his former programme, for the methoc is progressive, and takes the ateo points and a few more besides away from the buyer. After a while .t. premihm demanded by the farmnn grows so great, that in, self-defens the "hedged" exporter begins to wor) for an advance in the future markel in order to equalize the price. o futures and spots. This done, he is enabled to sell out, his futures and buy in his spots without l . The thing works like an endles chain, be. cause except when prices ftly mneet the farmer's ideas, he demands and gets a few points more than the mar ket price practically every time he sells a bale of cotton. The mhilse have sold for hfdatre delimy aU--the yarn they can spin ding yea to come, and must have the cotton. The exporter can not default in his raw cotton deliveries, foe t wtuledmean financial s~e ide Theiei d e pesi, tohe can not depress spot :aVows and the "hedged" spot short can not permit him depress fute 66a he ~i the farmer would promptly advance thie premium at which he is holdg spot cotton over future s. New Orleans is esetial a spot market, and its fature contract based as it is tupon aitr conditioss of supply and demand, reIel' t tbit revolution in conditions rec.unted above; whereas, _the New Yor con tract, which is so framed that- "dog tail" and other uanspinable cotton may be delivered by the "short" at a proft, favors the spe. lator always, consequentlynever redfects oanditions existing in the actual cotton maiket. And this is thereason why cotton values at New 'Orleans have ranged well above those at New York ever since the farmer began -"bargaing" with the buyer some thee years ago. Every time Liverpool merchants at tempt to .buy cotton in the S.th, that market rises about 100 points above New grleeans, . r .ret belongs. Between times, New Yorkspeulatorsn finding they can not depress New OOr leans except at heavy kss, turn their attention to Liverpoo wtit tempoa ry effect. The cotton market can not :et along without the pulator, who occupies the same relation to the spot dealer that an ,esarance com pany holds towards the house owner, and who is entit-le tol fair r prof for the risksherons. ·But with the spinner at .one nd, psperous a able to pay eleven ad en t cents for raw cotton, and the faire at the other end, pirosperous, $e to the game, and able to demsa~ n -ad collect sach prices, the speculator can not obtain any more :thae *n equitable share of th pr0is Proof of this is fondi the f..t that in the aggregate specuatots have actually lost ,money by their operations during the past -ye . and are readjoastig their affairs to meetj the cbanged conditions brought about bl the integlletiattitade. of South The Southern 8s.ta es can not - 8tateuwllt es:essely to! devise. But Btwitbthbefarmers ieveryj THE IARENCIO REiULATORS. Judge Pgh Adults ae Accused to Three bsam<edi Dl anrs sead. EURO SHOT AT HIBITE aS Wikteseple, is Ceesby Elmeet W W ere t lamuysl.'.t .in t SJudge Pugh' held a preliminary ex asmination in the case of the men I charged with the killing of the negro Antoine Dominique, at Carencro, last kweek. The preliminary was held in Lafayette, and a crowd of several Ihundred men from the Carenro section attended -it, all evidently isympathising with the accused. It is said that the men are sturd, honest, peaceable farmers of that section, and it seems the g;aer opinion that they are not gi ety Thi evidence was not of isuch a character as to point to. them as the perpetrE tors of the crime, bt His ono thought lt advisable to. hld themn under bond to await :devolopenta, as odds and ends cropepd .-ut that, can be taken as ol8cumstmatiSl ev idence against them. , TheClarion learns that "regulating" aegroes around arecro ha been a favorite psattime with some ;peple there for some time past, bt t punishment inficted heretofore bas been conhned to sound casigtio There was a time when the nearoe of. that section were ol and troublesome, butt is iu id that now this can not e chargd to that they hase become good darkfa and ireamy merit not the xcat-'-nise` tawswhich.i asasuer negro civiliser, oftuen saing i ir more severe panshet by "geing" him in time. Thus is i e thet te btter class oa citizens, recognizing that there is no more necesity for whippg nggers condemn those who contine the practice as mere "sport"-alway the great datger that stands in the w of the citizens of a community taking the law in their own hands. '; rough element iew stink that b* cause good cities took 'hase mes ires when it wnee rd r good of the cosmunity, tBe ear licensed to do th same thing even t there is no occasion for it. On 'the night of the killing of the negro Dominique a crowd of abeut sixnt men hd chastised several ae grees, when hbcame along. He got £ whipping, sa rua and loft is os ad buggy on the spot. H went home and armed himself and tne _ad a fgbttoo place n whi ' the negro shot as well as the egtlatr, o afwhitecaps. e was fog end dou , Wih two pistols nearby. The n a ted and released der a $300 bond each are: 1Thrence Guirow Antoine Conque, Mar BSinai and his son Gabrie Pierre ilbean ad Hypolite Stelly. Seythi4 in quite at Carencr dano further trosb is expected. aecncro i jas over. the in diving Lafayette and St. Landry on the Lafayette Vide, an ee at ote parties Impliated are from thk parish. A gigantic saa trust, whisi bespeaks ;trouble for the samall S tors, has been formed' i this tte It is composed of large plasttrs ik e the Godcbf ElMdst , Wfani Omnard etc., andthe cooeos wi h named the I. asoua a Ci pM , with a c t O A w eir ·erft a 'be .erected In Orleans tar costot $1,50 hatai p thes comb't iners~ t~fh iow, owt a th.at t te ndr wl as mutes prection, n t at h m iaeh t ar vii reimds to th e ý $sewtl ,ppget a4rfoWs