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THE CLARION RAYMOND BREAUX, - - Editor dARON J3COBS, - Business Manager. iiE LARioN CO., LT., PROPS. BOAR)D OF I)IRECTOItS. RAYMONI)D BREA UX, President, . G. L'A LE It, Vice-P'resident, AAR( ON.i J(' OBS. Sere. and Treas. .BOI)EM UILEIR, .iN(). AV. LE WIS. Offcial Journal of the Parish of St. Landry. C iicina Joy' f the Parish School Board Of.cil Jo. of th!u .r f ) u.,;sl, iA IL )F I'IfSCItPTION. Ont, Year ... ............... .(1J Six Mo.nt. INYAI Y (.1411 IN .A VANI(E. ALdL P' ,T(FFI ('E, EXPI'itEbt ANI)D ANKii .MO)NEY (i Ii:'i . CIIEt'K-, I)iAU "T i , ETC., FOR StI"- Rt:I'TIINNS AND Ai) VEItTISEMENTS MUST itE MADE I'AY ABIE TO) THE ORDER OF I'liE ST. LAN AIIt (LA lOoN, OR To TIlE RIUSI NESS MANAGEIt. Eatered at the Post OftFce at Opelousas, La.. as second-class matter. I. . Railroad Schedules. ROCK ISLAND-FRISCO L1NES. Eastbound--Leave Opelousas at 8:21 a. m. and 4:31 p. m. and arrive in New Orleans at 2:10 p. m. and 10:25 p. m. Westbound-Leave Opelousas at 11:59 a. m. and arrive in Houston at 8:15 p. m. Crowley and Eunice--Leave Ope lousas at 7:22 p. m., arriving at Eu nice at 8:00 p. m. and in Crowley at 9:10 p. m. SOUTHERN PACIFIC SYSTEM. Eastbound-Leave Opelousas at 9i51 a. m. and arrive in New Orleans at 5:25 p. m. Westbound-Leave Opelousas at 2:30 p. m. and arrive in Alexandria at 5:25 p. m. OPELOUSAS, GULF & NORTH EASTERN. Eastbound--Leave Opelousas at 8:45 a. m. and arrive in New Or leans at 3:35 p. m. Westbound-Leave Opelousas at 4:05 p. m. and arrive in Crowley at 5.36 p. m. "UP AND AT THEM" The extermination of the cotton by the boll weevil, especially in north eastern St. Landry, including the Waxia and Palmetto neighborhoods, has made the people alive to the situ ation, and produced the firm resolu tion to find and plant another and different crop. The soil in these lo calities is as well, if not better, adapted to the growth of sugar case than cotton, and yields of forty tons to the acre are reported all through that section of country. Placing cane at $3.24 per ton, the price now pre tiling at Opelousas, we have as a gross income the magnificent sum of $137.F0 per acre. The cost of cultivating cane is .much less than that of cotton, whilst tie cost of harvesting same, or placing it on board the cars, is very Itle more than the same outlay for oottotn where cotton pickers are em iloyed. A conservative estimate made by an experienced farmer, shows that that section can easily produce, for the land owners, $100 per acre, net, ia cane. But' there is a serious handicap to be met and overcome. It is a well kihown fact that cane, on account of its great weight and bulky nature, cannot be handled at a profit at a 1 distance more than two miles. To meet this difficulty, and to place northeastern St. Landry on a sugar producing basis, the planters of Avoy elles and St. Landry are uniting their energies in an effort to promote the building of a railroad line to begin in Moreauville, on the line of the Louisiana Railway & Navigation Com pany taking in Plaucheville and Pal- I metto, crossing the Texas & Pacific b railway line at Palmetto, and then r running into Port Barre, and there forming a connection with the Frisco, the 0, G., the S. P. and the Welch a lines, all connecting at that point. The proposed line is only thirty three miles long, and traverses per- C .:haps the richest sugar and timber 4ands in the State. This proposed t line, like the 0. G. when first incor- t oiairted, is unsettled as to details. The people of southeastern Avovelles a are working hard for a connection ki with the lines to the south of ther.i. Li Now is the timne for Opelousas to act and to try and have this line cotn etructed to Opelousas instead of Port bt Btarre, and we are informed that this re ti matzntt.r e;,,y to accomplish. Posthrs are ,ut announcing a mon- ce .ter railrad meeting at Palmetto on Nj _.aday, the 22d of November, at 12 m. Opelousus sRhul I be on hand through an her Progressive League and other citizens, and should be ready, at r least, to offer a free right of way, together with depot grounds. The State in the past two years has spent over a quarter of a million of dollars under the supervision of Major F. M. Kerr, dredging the ba yous and draining the lands over which the proposed line runs: this land was already rich by nature; we should leave nothing undone to make its magnificent resources tributary to Opelousas. Besides all this our best tax pay ing territory has been cut off and placed in Evangeline-it is up to us, to the Police Jury, and to the whole people to develop the territory left to us if we desire to have a parish worthy the name. Opelousas can get this line, which will eventually have a Natchez con nection, and all depends upon the energy and activity of her people. We say let's get the road by all means-let our watch word, like that of the great French general, be "up and at them." MAMOU WANTS To COME BACK TO 01D PARISH Opelousas, La., Nov. 12th, 1909. To the Editor of the Clarion: It appears that everything oul West is not as serene and lovely as heretofore. The accompanying let ter from a former red hot Divisionist would Indicate that they have already begun to see the error of their way and desire to return to the fold where they properly belong. Here is the letter in its entirety: Mamou, Nov. 10th, 1909. Judge Gilbert Dupre, Opelousas, La. Dear Sir: The time has arrived when the Mamou people are satisfied that Ville Platte and Eunice have done us up,-for, as you know, that Parish Division was brought about to the disadvantage of the West; let me tell you if the enabling Act is un constitutional, then we are all ready to give you our hands to defeat it, because we rather go to Opelousas than to Ville Platte. Do not think that I am the only one that is ready to go in the fight with you. Any time you call on us, we (the whole Western portion of Evangeline Par ish) are anxious to know if there is a chance to defeat it, and we are ready to take part with old Opelon ass. Let me hear from you soon for I feel like tearing them to pieces for they cheated us by wholesale. Please answer by return mail. Your friend, - P. S.-Please hand this to M. L. Swords and Yves Andrepont. I have withheld the name, be cause it may be the writer never in tended it for publication. But as to the genuineness of the letter, there is no doubt, as you yourself, Mr. Edi tor, can ascertain by calling at my office when I will exhibit the same to you. I have replied that, in my opinion, as well as that of some of the ablest lawyers in the State, the Enabling Act was unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court would so declare. Then, Mr. Editor, Parish Division will be at an end forever and St. Landry will continue to be, as here tofore, the empire Parish of this State. "So mote it be." Yours truly, GILBERT L. DUPRE. (Advertisement KEEP THE KIDNEYS WELL elth Is iertk Saving, and Somme Opeleams Peeple new Bew to Save It. Many Opelousas people take theim lives in their hands by neglecting the kindeys when they know these organs need help. Sick kidneys are responsi. ble for a vast amount of suffering and ill health, but there is no need tc suffer nor to remain in danger when all diseases and aches and pains due to weak kidneys can be quickly and permanently cured by the use of Doan's Kidney Pills. Here is an Opelousas citizen's recommendation. L. J. Marx, Landry St., Opelousas, La., says: "For years I was subject to attacks to backache and sharp twings across my kidneys, which al most prevented me from getting about. I really do not think the misery could have been greater if my kidneys had been clutched in a vic$ Last spring when having an attack, I read of Doan's Kidney Pills and procured a box at Shute's Drug Store. In a short time after their use was begun they relieved the pains, and it required less than the contents of one box to completely cure me." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name--Doan's and take no other. TWO CENTRAL REFINERIES IN PROSPECTIVE (Continued from page 1.) simply buying stock in a paying in vestment, and one of them guaran tees 25 per cent on a lease basis. This proposition is mentioned only to show the confidqnce that sugar men have in this section. There is room for two mills, and it is possible that the monied men of this section will so contrive as to get both of the mills proposed. More than that, one of the gentlemen here for the )purpose of erecting a mill says that there is room here for four refineris --that this is the finest I sugar cane country in the world. \,ith two central refineries-with one, even--and the Schell canal, the farmer would think no more of the boll weevil. It does not eat sugar cane and rice. Now is the time to hit the iron it's hot, oh! so hot. COURT ADJOURNS AND PRISONERS ARE SENTENCED. After a session of four weeks, the the criminal jury term of the Dis trict Court came to an end last Saturday. Judge O'Neill, of the St. Mary Dis trict, who presided over the term in place of Judge Perrault, who was re cuperating from a prolonged illness, won the hearts of the local bar. The term was hampered from clearing much of the docket by rea son of the fact that the trials were long-drawn owing to the importance of the cases tried, there being sev eral murder cases, one requiring a week to try. The Court could not help this, however. It is the inten tion of the law that an accused should be furnished with every legiti mate chance of defending himself. The last trial of the term was that of Amede Fontenot, charged with manslaughter. He was acquitted. Saturday was sentence day, when the prisoners convicted were sen tenced. Sheriff Marion L. Swords was the first to face His Honor, and be sen tenced for assault and battery on the person of Mr. Felix Dezauche, the Item correspondent at this place. The case is familiar; it is even noto rious. It was during the "late un pleasantness" here, w' en things were rather lively over the enforcement of the prohibition law. Reports of the affair emanating from here, and written by Mr. Dezauche, caused the Item to make many vicious attacks on the Sheriff, editorially, and one of these editorials was posted by Mr. Dezauche in the show window of the Jacobs News Co., where he is work ing and of which company he is sec retary, blue-penciled. At this the Sheriff took unbrage, and attacked Mr. Dezauche on the streets, striking him on the head with a revolver af ter an exchange of blows. Mr. De zanche after disclaimed any desire to "post" Sheriff Swords, but attributed the posting of the editorial in the window to the fact that the news stand was out of Items, and the peo ple were clamoring to read the edi torial in question. The incident is now closed. The Grand Jury indicted Sheriff Swords, he entered a Fplea of guilty, and Judge O'Neill last Satur day imp,,sed a fine of $15 against him. Arthur David, against whom a bi of information for selling liquor wit] I, out a license had been ureferred b t the District Attorney, was fined $2C or 4 months in jail. Fine paid. e Chas. McDaniel, same offense, sar fine. Anatole Landry, same offense, sam a fine. Wm. Gradney, manslaughter, tw - years. Julius Perrault, manslaughter, tw years. Louis Cooper, horse stealing, tw years; another count for larceni three months. Onezime Meche, stabbing with in tent to kill, four months. Rufus Blair, shooting with inten to kill, four months. Clarence Clark, shooting with in tent to kill, six months. The above represent the convic tions, as well as those who entere( pleas of guilty at the last term Every sentence is to the State peni tentiary. Sheriff Swords brough them to Baton Rouge last Thursday Leon Pitre, L. B. Wyble, and Chas Duckworth plead not guilty to a charge of violating the prohibitior law. Bond in each case fixed at $200 The bond of the Syrians charged with infanticide, and in whose case a mistrial occurred last week, wa! fixed as follows: Mary Joseph, $250; Abram Joseph $250; Chas. Joseph, $250; Mrs. Chas. Joseph, $100, Filfy Joseph, $500. New Grocery Firm. J. Adam Budd & Sons will open a grocery store in the rear building of the place formerly occupied by them as a saloon, on Court street. The store will open for business next to-day, and will have as mana ger Mr. A. M. Hlollier, a gentleman who has had long experience in the grocery line. Mr. Hollier tells us that it will be the aim of the new store to keep a complete line of everything that goes to made a business of that kind popular. The Clarion wishes the new firm sic Cess. TEETH Kd EXTRACTED and FILLED i et WIHTOUT PAIN ur at Dr 1. V. Smith ar DENTAL SPECIALIST - NEW LACOMBE HOTEL. - OPELOUSAS, LA. D Until November 25. Dr. Smith will be glad to see his old as well as new friends. He stands by his work. Satisfaction guaranteed, Dr. Smith Works For White People Only. ts e LOOK IIIERE a Just Recieved BARREL PICKLES ot Pig Feet IDried Shrimps ti- illet Sardines at Prunes and Raisins th French Peas at 15c and 25c a Can n and n , The Famous Faust Bend Coffee If you want the Best Red Rust Proof Seed Oats THEN COME TO US n DARDEAU & VENTRE 1OPELOUSAS, LA. YQoUR LITTLE ONES d ý MINEY SLE DD.. Y e 8.s will grow. h1o 0pelousas National Banki OFFICERS: DRECTORS: E. B. DUBUISON Pres't E DUBIRECIORS:N 4. B. 1 ANDOZ, Vice Pres't JB. B BSANDOZ O A. LiEON I)UJPRE, Cashier ROBT.CHACHBRE J. A PERKINS, Ass't Cashier B. T. LAFLEUR b A. LEON DUPItE DREAMLAND Opelousas Popular Mov-= ing Picture Show 300 Feet of Film, Daily Change of Program Every Evening 1 K J. KEYSER - - - - Manager Manager 1 NOTIC'E. Emile Hauptman, the well known Piann Tuner of New Orleans, is now in ()pelnuQns transferring the Pipe Organ 'o t',e New Catholic Church, and shalt be pleased to attend to any other work in the city in the line of tuning Pianos or Organs. Leave or ders with Jacobs News Depot Co. or address through mail. Mr. F. L. Robinson, formally pro prietor of the Robinson House in Chicot has opened an up-to-date hotel in Eunice, and will be glad to receive the patronage of the traveling public CONSTABLE'S SALI. E. J. GUILBEAU Vs. ALBERT DEVALCOURT. to. -, Fourth Justice's Court, Parish of St. Landry, La. By virtue of a writ of heri facias Issued by J. A. Smith. Justice of the Peace in and for the 4th Ward of the parish of St. Landry, In the above entitled suit, and to me directed. I have seized and I will pro ceed to sell at the office of said Justice of the peace, at Grand Coteau. on Saturday, November 13, 90o9, at I1 o'clock a. m., the following described property; to-wit: One open top buggy. Terms--Cash. ov. OBRI2N BLMe cow s"st Coestable. SANDOZ OPERAH Monday, Nov.1 i THE LYRIC THEATRE (N. Y.) SU. THE GREAT REALISTIC PLAY OF THEC~T By EUCENE WALTER, Auther of ` "PAID IN FULL" and "THE EASIEST WAY MR ANDREW ROBSON d nd i EXCELLEUN Prices: $1.50, $1.00, 75cts and 50cts. TICKETS ON SALE AT HAAS & LIfEL. DRUGl Si SOUTHERN PACIFIC --THE- Best, Quickest, most Comfortable and Safest Route To The North, East, South and W SUNSET EXPRIESS Solid Vestibuled Train Through to California Whall Connection made at New Orleans with the Magnificent Southern Pacific Steamers. --TO- NEW YORK AND HAVANA, B0 If you are undecided, see any Agent of the Southern Pacifieplanysap Ask your agent for information and literature, or wfte A. ASBURY, Div. Pass. Agt., J, H. H. PARSONS, Lake Charles New CANDIES! CANDI OUR OWN MAKE THE BEST MONEY CAN BU TO-DAY 15CTS A08M AT ® A. D, THEODORE w Opposite Lacombe Hotel - - Write For lMy P AD 5AVR s PUa Cr.N ALEXANDiOIA iTEAIAd E. M. HENNING, Pr Wholesale Sa. ball Marble and Granite Mon ment, Iron Fen*ig~ ad Building Stone. V Designs said Pe PisM Fr*4Mr T Yard and .ills p Telephnoe Talk N Telephone service is recognized for its sefueta s, ieodi extensiveness and its ability to connect with all important Q0el therefore, the service of this Company is aunsurpr.esed and by every one. All subscribers are treated with the a.tmostaP service always prompt, and rates so reasonable as to eM iei have a telephone in their residence or place of busines W.t kI:: ness house without a telephone, and what is a home wi.theout For full information concerning rates, etc., call up the o~frs of tM pany. CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPK (INCORPORATED) SALE TO EFFECT PAR TITION. ESTATB OF ADRIENNE COURVILLE~I No. 6407. Probate Docket District Conrt, 16th Judicial District, Parlshof St. Landry. By virtue of a judgment rendered in the above entitled cause, signed by the lion. Chas. A. O'Neill, Acting Judge of the 16th Judicial District of La., and bearing date October 29, 1909, there will be sold by the undersigned auctioneer, or any other duly qualified auctioneer of the parish of St. Landry, at the last residence of the de ceased, situated in Faquatalque, about foar miles east of Euniee, for the purpose of effecting a partition, on Saturday. Dec. 4, 1909. at 11 o'clock a. m., the following described property, to-wit: 1. A certain tract of prairie land situated in Mt. Landry parish, La., and a small strip thereof running into Acadia parish, bouu, ed north by public road, south by land of Mrs. widow M]artin Curron, east by land of Richard Odem, and west by land of Mrs. Widow Martin Carron, containing one hun dred and twenty arpents, more orless. with buildings and improvements thereon. Also a lot of hlousehold furniture, kitchen ntensils ,farming implements, carpenters' tools, about 21O barrels of corn, 16 head of cattle (large ade small). one half American potatoeo . , - - . TBRMS AND OO DI Movables cash on day of biles one third or more ý - Of purchaser; rbalance,1 and two yeanL-romr t for unpaid portion to' their own order and blank; said notes o t interest from day of sai. With of ten per cent for ettOrn7" fee upon or placed in the hby nd O1i for collection; velndor's 15a0 to be retained on the p>r t of the estate, or any of said notes, Iunti. fRD of same. ._ Notice is hereby given tfllt trespassing on my prolprg ltd!2 strictly pronibited under law. OViDZ Trespass Not Notice is hereby gien thiV trespassing nit.yW pie stlctrl tl oay protnaI . law .trb~tf1tlLTL