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The rue Democrat. XVIII St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish La., Saturday, December 4, 1909. No. 44 W W. LEAKE, Ilre"ident. W. I[.I111IIARDSON, Vice-President. K. C. SMITI, (ashier. THE PEOPLE'S BANK St. Francisville, La. Capital - - $50,000 Surplus - - $2,500 W. W. l,ak, K. C. Snmith, A. F. Barrow, Sam'l. ('aster, I1. E. E.k ridge. ('. \V'ydtrt, C'. F. l owcll, WV. ~. I~ichardson, Ben. .Mamnn, 1 . . \Vickliffe, F. (i. lHamilton. AGeneral bankirg Ihusiness transacted. Liberal accommodation t ecord with s)ound and conservative banking extended patrons. otlldates of Deposit Bearing 4 Per Cent.: lterest to Time Depositors. Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Patent Medicines, Stationery, Jewelry, School Books, Picture frames, Post. Cards. Royal Pharmacy, F. M. MUMFORD, M. D. Proprietor. 211 Royal Street. Prescriptions a Specialty. S. I. Reymond Co., Ltd., Cor. Main and;Thlrd Streets Baton Rouge, La. Goods, Notions. Shoes fats, Clothing, lousefurnishing, Etc. you Sara Lumber Co., Ltd Bayou Sara, La., prepared to fill orders for all kinds of building materals used in building the smallest to the largest residence, having in stock all grades of building material in lhuh and Dressed Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Weather boarding, Pickets, Laths. Mouldings, Brackets, Sash, Doors and Blinds, Heart Cypress Shin gles, Red and fire Brick, Lime, Cement. prices are right. Send us your orders and they shall have our prompt attention. Feliciana Oil Company, a B. E. ESKRIDGE, Manager I St. Francisville, La. n Shipping Point-Bayou Sara, 01 Price Paid for Hulls and Meal on Sale at 01 Ctlon Seed. Lowest Prices. e4 For Sale land Simpkins Cotton For particulars ap . Doherty, Jr. St. Francisville, La. ,A.-'Seed OGat, [Les Berkshire pigs, reg _----Lk. SW. B. SOt-Irr , 8olitut1. La. For Sale Pure Burruss McGehee Red Oats and Lespedeza Seed. W. C. Perkins, Turnbull P. 0., Miss. At Friend's you will find all the popular magazines. For 25c you can rent any one of the latest novels. New books received each week. Rent a book! McQUEEN'S PRELIMINARY RESULTS IN DISCHARGE. A special term of the 24th Ju dicial District Court was held ir Clinton, Monday morning, Judg, George J. Woodside presiding. The cause of this si)ecial session was for the purpose of giving a preliminary examination to H. E. McQueen, charged with complic ity in the Judson murder case in which Dr. E. C. McKowen is charged as principal. It result. ed in the dismissal of McQueen. Court was called to 11:40 a. m., by Sheriff J. D. Hubbs. The State was represented by Dis trict Attorney J. L. Golsan, Judge Chas. Kilbourne of the firm of Kilbourne and Walker, and Col. I. p. Wall of the firm of Wall and Kilbourne. The de fense was represented by Judge S. McC. Lawrason and Hon. L. D. Beale. After the reading of the miin utes of last session of the court, the District Attorney made a motion that Judge Woodside re consider and annul his orders, made in chambers, recusing him self in the McQueen and McKow en cases. The District Attorney cited the laws and authorities governing such matters and showed that the Court was in error in recusing himself in the McKowen case, and that there was no ground for his recusation in the McQueen case. When counsel for the defense were asked by the Court if they had any statement to make, Judge Lawrason addressed the Court and stated that the defense had no objection to offer, and that they had as soon be tried before one fair judge as another. In explaining why he entered the order of recusation Judge Woodside said: `'When this matter first devel oped I was notified that a man had been murdered. I did not know who the murdered man was or who had killed him. Shortly afterward the sheriff in formed me that the man who was murdered was E. K. Judson, a lunatic from the Jackson In sane Asylum, and that Dr. Mc Kowen was charged with the crime. Dr. McKowen is a cousin of my wife. I consulted with a number of lawyers and friends and they told me tlat they be lieved I should recuse myself. I investigated the law and found a decision which satisfied me that I had a right to recuse myself, and I consulted with counsel in the case. They agreed with me that the law authorized my issu ing the Order of recusation. "Later McQueen was arrested and charged with being an ac cessory to the crime. It then became plain to me that I could not sit in one case and not in the other. I have given the matter considerable attention, and I now order the previous order rescind ed." After Judge Woodside's order rescinding his previous order was made, District Attorney Gol san moved that the defendant, H. E. McQueen, be discharged, as the State had summoned no witnesses, and had no evidence to offer. Mr. McQueen was lib erated and the Judson murder case closed for the present. Different views are held by different people in regard to this latest phase of the Judson case. There are people who have con. tended all along that the State held no evidence against Mc Queen and that his arrest was a blunder. Others claim that there is evidence against the man and that some future grand jury will take action in the case. What ever the status of affairs, it may easily be seen why the State should not resist the release of McQueen. Had the State rcsist ed, evidence would have had to have been produced showing McQueen's connection in the case, and as the McQueen and McKowen cases are so closely related, any evidence offered in the McQueen case would have furnished a working ground for the attorneys for the more im portant McKowen case. In the absence of a request for a preliminary hearing for Dr. McKowen, and unless a special session of the grand jury is call ed, the next regular proceedings in the case will not be till the first Monday in March, when the East Feiiciana grand jury meets. The Price Too Hligh. Times-Democrnt: When it became evident that the good roads movement was to be made a political one, and used as a battering ram to knock holes in our Constitution and political system, there was a natural op position from those who do not want Sanders; and obstacles and difficulties of every kind were placed by them in the path of the good roads movement. It became evident that there were many persons in Louisiana who did inot want good roads, if Gov. Sanders and his faction were to gain any great lotitical advantage by them. The present halt in the movement, the "failure" as some of the papers call it, is the natur al consequence of this unfortun ate tangling up of a great public improvement, of benefit to the whole people, with the selfish in terests of factional politicians. Whether it is possible at this day to untangle and separate the two-the interests of the people in securing a great public im provement, and the interests of the politicians in getting office it is difficult to say; but before we go a step further several points must be settled. The voters of Louisiana are not will ing to sell their birthright for a mess of pottage-to surrender their Constitution, their choice of officials, their control of the gov ernment in exchange for good roads built with theirown money. Even if Gov. Sanders were the only man in Louisiana who could carry through the good roads scheme, it would be infinitely better to postpone this improve ment, however greatly it may be needed, than surrender the gov ernmental reforms won by the earnest popular efforts of the last half dozen years. The price asked for good roads is far too high. If there is no truth in the statement that a movement is going on today with the object of amending Article 63 of the State Constitution, Governor Sanders, owes it to the people of the State, as well as to himself to come out and say so. On the other hand, if he continues to remain silent, it should be taken by the people of the State, that it is true, and he is in favor of it, and that at the last moment he will show his hand.-Assumption Pioneer. Fine Eggs for Sale. Pure Rhode Island Red Eggs, $1.00 a setting of 15. Apply to JOHN S. TOMB. Jackson, La. I Notice. Castle Hall Bayou Sara L dge, No. 15, K. of P., St. Francisville, La., Nov. 21, 1909. To the Officers and Members of the Lodge: You are requested to attend the regular meeting to be held Tuesday, December 7, 1909 for the purpose of holding annual election of officers. A full at tendance is earnestly desired. By order of ISIDORE LEVY, C. C. H. A. W ls, K. of R. & 8. Not Permitted in Missiuippi. Referring to the dope now brewihg to bring about a perpet ual governorship in Louisiana, the Jackson, Miss. Clarion-Ledg er says: Under no circumstances would the people of Mississippi ever agree to change their Constitu tion so as to make their Govern or eligible to re-election, and no man would dare advocate such a proposition in this State, unless seeking an early, a premature, political grave, for the very sug gestion would carry with it its own condemnation, its object too patent, its purpose too apparent, to fool even the most child-like tyro in politics. Upon which the Times-Demo crat comments as follows: The Governor of Mississippi possesses little power as com pared with the Executive of Louisiana; he has not one-tenth as much patronage as G(;ov. San ders enjoys to-day. None the less, the voters of Mississippi, realizing that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," that the people must he ever active and vigilant in their determination to keep conrtrol of their own affairs, have decreed that the Governor f that State shall be ineligible to succeed himself, "thus pre venting him from building up a mighty political machine." And they have not only put this in their organic law -from which it was borrowed with sat isfaction by the Louisiana Consti tutional Convention in 1898, as the best protection of the rights of the people-but they have made it a part of the unwritten law of Mlississippi-that this provision shall remain unchanged for all !ime. Parish Budget. St. Francisville. La., Sept. 2, 199. Budget for the Parish of West Feliciana, for the year 1910: Grand and Petit Juries.....+ 1,)0 (IK Coroner and Jury. .2x1) 0o Paupers ...100 00 Sheriff in Criminal matters.. 1.000 o( Sheriff attending Court..... 400 0o Magistrates...... ......... 250 00 Constables................ JiM) o00 Police Jury......... ... ) 00 Clerk of Police Jur.. 150 00r Parish Treasurer...........1 Clerk of C'ourt........... . 75 ,K) .\s.sessor............. . " (KM H1arr IUros.......... 1,0() 1)n Jail i'hysician .............. .,S (1 ('are of Court house...... 120 (N) C'ourt liouse I :lock .......... 72 (I Hoard of tHealth............ 1510 ) True I)( mocrat.... .... 150 N(k Roads and Bridges........ 1,.,0 OI Missouri Valley Bridge C'o.. I.4 MI (NI HShools%.............. Sho.4.K. ) (A M. T. Lewman & 'o ....... 2.7) (N Maintaining Prisoners...... 1.',( 01) District Attorney . ..... ( Sheriff (ommisslons....... 70() (N) C'ontingent Account.......... 3,00(0 () Total . ..... 21,897 00) Respectfully submitted, S. L. LAVERUNE, THOS. W. ItAYNHAM, W. H. iC'tHARa)SoN. I EEDS Er, Iai, Ptsh Kl rf7 Oseut mmd PlsnItebould Ltegthe mpeloir merlfaol Our North.,. Garow. ed FOR 10 CENTS we wil mmd peewml em FAMOUS COLLECTION Its . lb wria m5. 54 tly Ibm she, .. FW GZUREAT OTrn 0SED Co. lIP~Q~ Rae. it. Rechsinzlg Sheritffrs Sale. i State of Louisiana, Parish of East Baton Rouge, 22nd Judicial Dis. o trict Court. L. Szabo vs. T. H. Daigre. ) No. tOi virtue of a writ of Fi Fa to me directed by the Hon. Court aforesaid in the albte entitled and numbered cause, I have seized and will offer for sale on premises of T. H. Daigre ir liayou Sara, La., to the highest bid der at the hour of 11 o'clock a. m. on Saturday, December 4, 1909, the following property to-wit: Lots No. 16 and 18 with all buildings and imirovments thereon in Sq. 2 in IBayou Sara, Ia. I lot machinery used in Pop Factory. I lot cases and bottles and all fix turoe.. I wagon. I horse. I set harness. "2 shares ('apital Stock of Bank of W.est Feliciana. I gasoline engine, boiler and smoke stack. I iron safe, I steam pump, I deep well outfit. ropes etc. 1 writing desk, I heater. Termns of Sale -('ash with benefit of appraisement. J. H. CLACK, Sheriff. Y. & M. V Rates. The Y. & M. V. will sell round trip tickets every Sunday, good returning Monday morning on train 22 leaving New Orleans at 7 a. m. for one fare. The Y. & M. V. will sell round trip tickets daily for 10 per cent less than double the regular one way fare good for five days, to the following point s: Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Frellsen, Garyville, Kenner, Mt. Avery. Reserve, Scotland, Shrewsbury and Terre Haute, La. Y. & M. V. train No. 738 now leaves Bayou Sara 4:45 a. m., connecting with train No. 15, the Memphis and New Orleans fast mail train, at Slaughter, arriving in New Orleans at 8:30 a. m., makes the trip from Bayou Sara to New Orleans in 8 hours and 45 minutes, which is 40 manutes faster than any train leaving here. All passengers for New Orleans, Lutcher, Convent and Burnside will be allowed to transfer at Slaughter. L. W. RooEBs, Agent. "MADE LAST IIGHT." We have the agency for Jacob's New Orleans Candies. Assorted Chocolates, Italian Creams, Marshmallows, Chocolate Assorted Nuts, Crystalized Fruit, Maraschino Cherries, Chocolate Brazil Nut Delicacy, Chocolate Wal nut Delicacy. SPECIALTIES: Chocolate Marshmallows, 50 cts.; Chocolate Almonds. 50 cts.; Chocolate Nougatine. 40 cts.; Chocolate la Cerase. 75 cts. Crushed Fruit Creams, 50 cts. -AT hmford's Royal Plariahy. FOR SALE. Some grade Poland China sows, 7-8 Poland China with a little Berkshire, from a very fine strain, 9 to 10 months old, will weigh 85 to 100 lbs. Price $10 to $12 each. For $1 extra can breed to either my Registered 0. 1. C., or Poland China, both of which are very fine hogs. Can also sell a few 300-lb Sows. I would like to correspond with parties that are interest ed in the Hog business, as I think I can interest them. F. S. PERCY, Weyanoke, La.