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Official JouTnal of the Parish of West Feliciana and School Board. L, Jr, F and Prop. ST. FRANCISViLL E, WEST F ICIANA PARIISH, IA., SATURIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, .1.. LVO . . John ' 1l! row1t* "lintonl a ,oWELL & ST E, CYSl?:Y SEMPLIC & p 'CY, «t; L S7' ni orz1C.'1y ellII prst iOt ini t:ny curt in this iii ,ŽcIS'viLL L, i A oR.A. F. B O"U 1)11 St. Fnllc'iavii.(',' 7 a. in Leak ý ,t~l:. 1 w retd from i o e .iiie Xiwu:r1ts H fori's tlrg stll·c:' · . OR .LOVTO , !t4 N _+T I S T a +,"It.".j 5lleciaJ t'· in St. 'I',FcI('I:; ,lio on the Ist nChuntol1 on ti.a diti U1 t'iChj! EY POWELL, D.D.S., DENT! T, eisVilI3, - Louisiana, , preparetl to d+l all work in e lice. Ollice M. rcsidexuce, C ii *T,Gastrdll, MRUE.,BIE, STlOVES4, WAG-ON CARUJA:;I: W(OOD IVuR.K. 9 Furnir3hifl Coods. PE, 0II' 3TiV0P MOI - lliES, HAY IlUY .fiSi, 8Alil, LINDS, DOOES, ETC. JOSEPH STEM, neral Merchanfis3c. St350 In Connoction With Store. Ir of Horses and Mlules for sale. Satixiaction Guaranteed. Foot of Hliil. and Ch mist, rflSyl and P'rosperl!y streets, pins carefully compoundedl. cs~eoetjoa of DrugsH, i'atcitLn 3iedicines, andl Notions. hCarden Seed on Hand lt9 . RAZYN~~?API, ~tractor anz~ld Buiider. Coors andt Dressed Lnlmber kiept ~Cfl"tantly on h!andl at shop, leer rcaidte.cŽ, to Suit the Times. Com~panyg 0t~ew Orleans, La. erpitaI ""·ta··.........$OO,00 ...........·. 625,000 0lap ouses, SawR Mill0, Coun. isoeDwelling! Honsee :'adBarna. Addares;, / 1tig, Jr., Local Agent. FElician a female uCi Lo iaE ...JACKSON, LCIUSIKNA... ' The 48th session of this' Institution Vwijil opoen Sel,tem ,.r 1, 19t. '1he memlbers of thie Faculty are ladisc of culture. :IeCIAldr;3s ill e:chii depcart ment. Superior aIdvlntagl.s reu tiner Sv o fered to those .,nuiig ladi.ic des.ir i t a horough end 1i lishedl educliiin. The lh'ilt~h of the I titutiui' is uinsur Fo1r ( rtiiculars and c:ltilocgue ad 3IUSS L a ClATLHTT, rl'in., .Iii'con, L:. "IIO1E.ll:' SWEET IIOM,.E, T''ilZEIt'S NO PLACI LIKE Ii 3ii,' Is a iuniversal sentimnt, and for that re:ion doubly wcll inamed is that c:. collent School, t Hon I i To the young ladies and girls ih its charge it :gives the eadvautage3 of iu struetion in literature, science and art, combined with all the environments of - refined home; so thait while the mind is cultivated the heart is not neglected in learning the ways of noble woman hood. i For catslogue and terms. arply to MISS SOPHIE B, WIIS.T, Frin.. 1456 Camp Stroast, s'ew rtloans, La, STATE lNO MAL SGHOOL, I IATCHITOCHES, LA. Maintained by the State for the training of teachers. Affords thorough praparation for the profession of teach tug; fnull course of academic study, practical training in the art of teach ing, one year of daily practice in . model schools under guidance of skill ed training teachers. Class work ex emplifies the best of modern thought in matter and method of instruction. * Diploma entitles graduate to teach in any public school of Louisiana without examination. Tuition free to students who teach one year after graduation. Entire ex - peanse for session of eight month, $110. Twelfth annual session begins Oct. 1, 18i(i. For catalogue write to B. C. CALDWEELI, Pres. BANK HOTEL, `i1 .IIT'S. F. M. DAVIiDSON, Prop. di Wi Board by Day,Week or Mont1, TERMS, $1.50 PER DAY. Monthly rates made on application. Location, central. S:rround- t ing3, plensant. 'Iran sients solicite:l. Eanl EuiVirg, St,. Frncisville , Lou's.sna. T Hotel Wirddsor, ,,,,.SLAtMITlR, LA,,.. d irs. J,, 0. IoIl, ProprietTcas. ....BOARD.... By the day or menth. Sing!o Mea!s Furnishcd. Chas. Weydert, S .....BAYOU SAR1A, LA..... t Biasdmith al Whm kre i tl, LOCKi and GUTNS31ITI'I, Eoller and Gin Stand Repairing a Specialt. All work that remains in my shop over t 90 days vjill be cold to pay cost. t J. G. DIEM, t ....St. Francisvi!le, La..,. Practical Tin Smith, COPPER and SHEET.IRON WORKER. Tin Cuttering and Roofing a Specialty. ,iAIU work guaranteed. NEWSY ITEMS OF INTEREST, ana rely thel Condensed into Short and Pitlh Para ra.Ils den For Our Subscribers. suit IINCREASE 11 NEW ORLEANS' EXPORTS, enil ila{ of An Immigration Station' Wanted-- Sot the News For Suga:r Plantiers -- The ,,e I.evees on Red River-- l.amitge Suit Fi' for a Race iHorse. lia A Mexiean Shake Up. Ii A heavy earthqu:tke of conusiderable j duritior wasC felt at At :i.lco Mexico thI F,'rida;y morning. No one was hurt, 1'1 but great alarm was: felt. Papal ),el- n egates Averardi was enithusiastically v1 received at San Luitis l'otosi Friday 1-1 m(rniug, whore he celcbrated 1)outi: cial high mass. Au Indian It.4i Two GOnablers. .1 At Hatter Gap t.wety-1tvo miles on south of MIcna, Ark., Frilayv imornig i an I:dian tiamed Porter shot andkllfilled h two gamnblers, Swede Joliuson and Lob Smith. The gamblers had Ilecced the he injun. Schooner Sn ; 'Iik. The schooner l[len, wit, e, argo of shells, iii chl)rg of Capt. 'Pecrr , in making an effort to enter Bayou S;t. John Friday ran afoul of the tBpanish v" Fort lighthouse and wa suank. 'h. t I schooner was valued at $5;00, and wil l be raised. The cargo was valued at r $35. ';, Gin Ilouse Burned. to The gin house of A. H1. ('iilespie, about a mile back of Vidalia, La., 5 I caught fire in some unaccountable man- ci I ncr Wednesday and was totally con sumed, together with about 30 bales tl of cott-'n. The gin, which was a new one, was insured for $1,500, while the c; cotton was insured for $6O0. Levees on Red River. to Frank Kerr, a.sistant State engineer w. of Louisiana, returned from Shreve- b port to New Orleans on last Sat Surday after measuring the Buck Hall b anil Cash Point levees, in Caddo parish, lc and Rush Point levee, in Bossier parish, and inspecting the Pandora levee, in º Bossier. He also arranged with the v contractor of the Dixie levee, in Caddo f, parish, to enlarge the Eagle Bend and and Kentucky levees as an extension to the e ' Dixie levee contract. This line is 10, ' 534 feet loot long and will involve the building of about 30,000 cubic yards. s h r News for Sugar Planters. The sugar and rice service of the h t weather bureau was recommenced in Louisiana Monday for a period of t thirty days, or until the end of the grinding season. It was stopped on October 15, as the growing season was I over, but owing to the iqitportancee of t the information distributed through its Sagency the planters asked that it be t resumed, and their request was granted. t This service has been stationed in the different parts of the sugar districts and keeps the planters posted as to weather outlook. The resumption of the service will be pleasant news to all Sparties interested in the sugar industry. Supposed Shreveport 3Ian Meets Death 'lThe body of a man supposed to bo W. G. Hall, a commercisl traveler of Shreveport, was found Saturday on the track of the Richmond, Fredricks burg and Potomac railroad near Fredericksburg, Va, From the marks on the body he had evidently been thrown or had fallen from a train. , The man was well dressed and had light hair and eyes. Io his pocket was a railroad ticket from Ilchmond, Va., to New York. In his black derby hat wa:u stamped the name, J,"n. Loo der, 113 Broadway, St. Loi., .ud on the watch-pocket o(f his tri'~r was Smarked W. G. Hall. Caught by the Lumpers. Conductor Edward Smith, in charge Sof an nutward-boutnd freight train of the Northeastern railroad from New •Orleans, found George Thomas, a negro, between two of the cars suffer Sing from a fracture of the hlef leg. The negro was taken to Slidell and placed aboard an inward-bound freight train. When the train reaclhed Ne Orleans, Th::rsday mght, the negro was sent to the hospital in the am bulance. He stated that his home was in MIaben, Miss., and as he de sired to return home ho boarded the er train and secreted himself between two of the cars, and while the train was in motion his leg was e.uIc ht be tween the bumpers and fractured. Twno btowaw;ays landed. When the steamehip Arapahoe sailed from Liverpool, between two and three weeks ago, John Fitzpatrick and John Manning, two able-bodied Irishmen, S were safel." stowed away in the holds, safe from the observation of any of the officers of the vessel. When the ship i had been at sea two or three days they made their appearance. Of course they had tobe brought over the ocean, but when thq vessel reached New Or leans they 'were turned over to Immi gration Agnt Montgomery as a towa ways. As the men were .able-bodied and able to make a living for them- a8. 1 selves Mr. Montg omnery discharged them, and they will henceforth be res, dents of the United States. cleath of a Racer. In New Orleans a $1,200 d ar.tAge suit was tiled in the United States cir cuit court Friday by Trainer Frank lRagan, representing the Eagle Stables of Jersey City, against the Adams and Southern E:ipress compamies, alleging that they were responsible for the death of the great stake race horse Sir Francis, and injuries to Robbie W. When th;s stable arrived at New Or leians ten days ag) from New York Sir Ei ,racis died icmmedittely upon reach in;, the track, the result of internal in juri:'s s! ;tained during a shake-up on \rc the trai:. J:I.:nl claims that he asked o pernmiss io t.) take the horses from the trainl at '.irniIgbhIam. 'nl., and get a __n vtc eriunryv surgteon, and that the co m, F:vu refused the privilege. An Ihumigration Station. I:nmigcration Commissiouer S. A. M.o;,tg;mry is firmly convinced that one: of the crying needs of New Orleans is an imm i ;ration station, where would lie citiz:n.s of the United States could be exammicd with some comfort. He eI litvesCi that the expenditure of $20, 001U for such a purpose would not only ire:'e,:se immigration at that point 100 l.r rent, 4at that tOe chara"ter of se:ke"lr :tt*-r hIltou ; I rt7im Iori4I latltuds wh, . t hrough New Orleans would be h vastly ,1uperior to the character of the 0 immigrants now coming through the C i port. In other words Mr. Montgom t ery entetains the opinion that by e;pendiug ,20,000 there from 20,000 to 4,),(00) immigrants; annually would touch tihe so:t of the United States at New Orleansc, instead of 2,000, as last year and this year will average, and A that instead of the poorest peasant classes the really desired immigrants - would lhnd entrance to the republic w there. ie Carribean Fruit Company Organized. Another Richmond has entered the fruit importing field, and the new en terprise has entered upon its career or with a degree of succes seldom achieved e- by a firm just formed. The new cor - poraton be.ars the name of the Carib l11 bean Fruit Company, limited, and is , lor'ated at 421 and 416 Poydras street. h, New Orleans, La. T'he firm,has' been in capitahled at $50,G00, and has an ad lie vantage over its competitors in the do fact that it owns its own fruit planta ud tions. It is the outcome of the re Io establishment of tlhu Caribbean Fruit 0'- Company which liquidated some time he ago, but its creation is based on lines 1s. somewhat out of the u.ual run in this part of the country. Already the company has started business, its first he ship having artcived with 11,000 bunch in ces of ba.naam last week. . his week of the second ehil',ent, 15,000 bunches, ;he wiil rriv. 'Tie firm owns its own on steamer, the Firam, which during the ats jpresent lax sea5son wi!l besu::icient for of the deeds of the company. When the its inmporting season proper comes around be the firm propose.; to establish a line Of ed. three ships beitween New Orleans and the ]3luelields, where its plantations are els situated. 1n addition to the local to headquarters the conpauy will have a of branch at Chicago, and another in Cal all il'fornia, posiibly San Francisco. Mrs. Vanderbilt's Will. lt Chauncey M. Depew, at New York of rriday, filed for probate the will of the late Mrs. W. H. Vanderbilt. Her kn estate, he said, was worth about $1, c 100,000. To her sister, Miargaret Ab, rBromley, and her brother, Samuel Kissam, she gave each $50,000 abso, o u Intely and $75,000 ip trust, the form in. er's trust to go at death to Louis A. ad Vanderbilt~ Kissam and latter's to his d children. She directs that $150,000 be d invested2 for the benefit of Ethel .Kis Ssam. Win. Vanderbilt Kissam is left the interest on one-half of $125,000, Sthe executors to pay him as much of it as is deemed necessary for his support and any accumulation to be paid to his children, the other half to be invested for Josephine Dermott Kissam. An rge annuity of $1,000 is left to the descend of et's consins, Harriet andl Josedhine Cw Kissamin, and the same incomes to Mrs, a Harrient L. Button, ITe:ea Clausen, fer- Mrs. Fannie Dumont and Mrs. Minnie eg. B3ranteshum. Ten thousand dollars is and left in trust for Mrs. Cynthia Austry iht and $20,000 in trust for Benj. G. ..C McClellan. All the testator's jewelry, gro laces and other personal effects are left am- to her living children. George W. ome Vanderbi!t gets his mother's pew in de- St. Eartholew Church. The rectors the and vestrymnen of the: latter church are n left absolutely $250,000 to be kept rain invested e.nd the income applied to the uses of the church and the expenses of the parish house in the 42nd street. The residuary estate is divided between Mrs: Bromley, Samuel H. Yissam, the iled child of Winm. V. Kissam, and the re hree maining one-fourth between Sosophine ohn de Mott Kissam and Ethel Kissam. nen, Cornelius, \Vm. K., and George W, lds, Vanderbilt are named as executors. ship Bir Life lusurauce. they Mr. Frank Hamilton, the banker, use who died in Austin, Texas, Wednes an day, had $100,000 on his life in the Or- New York Li o Insurance Company, ni- all of which goes to his wife and three oawa- c~hildren in euqa l portions. ·.' ·/. 8 WV. LLWASo; Pres A. TEurTirrn, Virzi-Prm& 3L J zL 1ft, catm ..;.ST. FRANC1SV ..LL, LAa.... Cash Capital, - -$5 ep itB1ox Ný h T'. cihngc ieouuit r; at Pohlo. Prompt errs ; tt ftý is r1ý,; ý;c ýI. 11 I~nf bourr.; irorrs 4 f Fk d3 fS j.PZ IIl . *,.l : rs "s 0. D Xitrook", L. P. '1itmuiitri,, .T:tlro'4 Tjes%':e, A, IX; d Lc) ~ ·4. L. I oltit Dauli;, T. _. Butler. F.. .. e Mu liford,,D DRUGS AND CH' 0IC .....Perfnnumry, Tollet Articles, 4Sspsana : ames h.. _ CUTLERYV, INOVELTtES and FANCY C ,O PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFUY. WAEFULLY CM Agency of F. Hammer & Companys RA MIXED PAINT.. NEW GQOOIiS R...BAr UOmI- 3 Lm , For li?,rFal' end 3ui+ I'Wds .t Tr rPe cnred the find atie ,ee ni *w aai am iii of the :tate of Oiamondioii~s, VB f Optical Goods, aiid SIhnýrý b AT THE VERY LOWEST ARKEF WOCE 1. 'We ca1n and will Fedl lower than any Xi nie r in mbSo W.isa £ per Ssonal gnarainte on ull goods bonght of: -ma.. C i i Bs l s, e promptly attended. to. d FIe Watch Repairing. and EELaritm r y A Few Words With You About Clothes...... We have one thousand Suits at Xa'b 3e rmdaig f~a from the tailor's bands, newa8p ~a p-b yIs-w--n s' fit your figure as well as yoar purue OUR STYLES ARE EXCLUSIVE! Not to be found elseiwhere. O~.r ~ mi . te~s" to $25.00. "BATON ROUGE, 7,5. . ' o ovIzm S· -- -L ---- l--UI--M O'. 'ooa3' ARR thMB BsoPC OUR PRICE? THE £OkVEJ* 'jETEJ YJ77 AV· - VII I$J 5YJ-