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.II T MADISON JOUIRNAL. tREE BROS., Publishers TALILI'LAII, MADISON PARISH, LOUISIANA, SATI l)DAY, Al'lIil 1, 11 NEW SEiIES--VOL. 4 N). 1 .. .... .-- -- " . . . . . . . ... . . _ N In l HALES SAFE ,IE TEACHERS I*YL NO FEAR OF CON TYPHUS THERE, DR. DOWLING. WATER SUPPLY SAFE gat Teachers League is i Meet at Lake Charles prt of the Second week la April. New Orleans. of the Louisiana State wjmaietion who are con -M to take Charles to 3sal meeting of this or is some cases have ex. bmelves as doubtful Sas.safe to attend the adew of the recent typhoid eldrted there. Members of arrangements, lc of assuring such per' with the hope of reliev g s that may be enter Seers, wrote Dr. Oscar of the State Board his opinion on pr. Dowling, in reply, letter to L. J. Alle secretary of the m Sat pleasure to ad we se t to Lake Charles that the city water sate. This was not A i anumber of exami maie covering a pe tw months. I think need have no the meeting In Lake Mwer frem Dr. Dowling, S.eal inspector at Lake th sfoowing assuring S I Mr. Allemaa: etf Pebruary 18 was r. MeKianey for repry. have received more had I not been out tme. In reply, will r will be absolutely Teaehers' As at lake Charles in ot typhoid fever that Is at an end, and W eone of the clean slate. t'he last analy showed up exce M duager from that bard of Health will a watchful eye on of this sty sad see which might by the state will be etirely rea these letters, State Teachers' at Lake Charlee the S esecond week In GS. T.ised residents of ere perfected for a empaigs for the for negroes. It to eare for ased residents. The lash toward estaO bt will ask for esildmets. The or. the hospital will Colored Charity Inc. belag take in the 1 f tfermers in alj illleatioe by the ae belag laed in the parish. rsers realise this method to I the tek. t M others Ideati. near Shreve t II, an a neae t iat the Atlas Oil f i a huge gaa aIsee in a serd of the well eet daily. assistant seer. Sempiled the fol- e binmess done by jt eompanles d 5l1. The fIures a 'malaI reports of Sthe secretary that Cov. a the lo Parishs 8am f( Ewen here Jane d md Vara. aI Amerless pm I S arts at s seat Is ias r ais serei a *Mb ama e The Supreme Court decided agamass the jitney drivers of New Orleans when they handed down a decision declaring the city ordinance impos ing an indemnity bond of $n,000 upon each machine to be constitutional. As the case now stands, it indicates that the jitney business is doomed. The only recourse now of the jitney owner N- is the Federal Court, to which an ap peal will be taken from the decision of the state court. Cost of a $5,000 Indemnity bond would be so great that the operating of a jitney would be unprofitable, the 'E Jitney drivers declare. Practically all of the machines are individually owned, that is, one or two men owning one machine. In. stances are few of where one man or company owns more than one automo bile. Most of them are operated in partnership, one man running the car from 6 o'clock in the morning until late in the afternoon and being re. lieved by the other who drives until te after midnight. )n- The premium on an indemnity bond to is necessarily high, it is said, because ar the insurance company faces the prob 'x- ability of paying out the entire !ul amount of the policy on one accident. he The case was decided in a test case id made by the city againt Hoa LeBlane, ra who was fined $10 or eleven days in CS, jail for refusing to comply with city er ordinance 2346, which required the v- $5,000 bond. This is the second time Il- the Supreme Court has passed on the ar case, the jitney men winning in the ra first, a rehearing being granted. an Chief Justice Frank A. Monroe and ly, Associate Justices Somerville and le- Provosty rendered the opinion, while he Associate Justice Land and O'Neilll dissented. d es At the meeting of the Napoleonville er police jury bills to the amount of $1, Ot 586.46 were approved. A delegation fl- from the Boeuf section appeared be. e- fore thq police jury in the interest of ik the bridge to be built at the junction 10 of Bayou Boeuf and Chene, connect e nlag this parish with the parish of St. Mary. The police jury adopted a re g, solution approving the project provid ce ing this parish can finance its share, ig the amount not to exceed $2,300. The bridge is to cost approximately $6, S5000, and the bayou at the point pro 7 posed is 290 feet wide and 13 feet re deep. This will connect this parish at with the Teche country and will be a Ill step toward the proposed surface road I ifrom Gretna to Texas. 5- -- a At the meeting of the board of school directors Superintendent Gwinn it expressed the opinion that the annual meeting of the Department of Supe S intendence of the National Education. al Association was the best attended K of any of the annual meetings of this Lt department. He stated that 3,000 11 were registered and many more were a in attendance who did not register. * The program was of high order of merit. Of the topics which were dis t cussed, Superintendent Owinn told of a few which are of greatest interest to New Orleans. T. H Harris, state superintendent of education, has announced that the presence of book agents and represen tatives of publishing companies in Baton Rouge, while the committee which is to select text books for the i public schools for the next six years i r is in session, is not desired If they e appear they will be asked- to leave t and if they continue to remain that Sfact will be considered in making se- t lections of books. r The two-span concrete arch bridge near Westlake, on the north end of the embankment approach to the Cal easieu river bridge, has been com- t pleted, eighteen hours of continuous work being requled in the last opera. , Stion. The bridge is 62 feet long, ad d Ihas a roadway of 20 feet, this beIWa t Sthe standard width for bridges adopt. ed for the main east and west high way.t A band of gyples ame to grief at Monroe when a young girl telling foe tunes amoag the negroes told a younaag negro woman that she "have heap good luck, you getta married and have three children." The negro refused to consider that good luck and de manded the return of the fee. The gypsy refused and the negro had her arrested. Amnite City poiee are exerting every effort to ascertain the identity of the persans who several night ago gained entrance to the composaing room of the lorida Parishes and did rat. damag to a new linotype ma 4 which eat $S,500. The Capital City ank of Baton Rouge was awarded the eal agesey of the State Board of Agriculture and d Immigration for two years by the a. eutive committee of the board. Publication of the condition of tlh four Lake Charles bank shows total deposits of $?,00,000 sad total rs soureas of SU8LOW1 . Saming oe behalf et the R. A. M. d R. M. ad ea mourma the storu aeared In the Press that S had r beam arrested at tJebimestbr as a 1rp. In Mis p o re Sea4 a namber o isatrils deasmets which ameam of the ber llmais eatd mnerut- n, r Onigag inu u-s thot they were inse n besaing 4' - # MOVING SUPPLIES FOR THE UNITED STATES ARMY The photograph shows soldiers traveling on trains loaded with ammunition, guns and camp outfits. n DU ·df~pot~ CHARGE HUGE FRAUD IN TOBACCO STAMPS he ' CHARGE REVENUE AGENTS GAVE THE MANUFACTURERS PROTECTION. td 11 New York.-Charges of collusion between agents of the internal reve nue department and manufacturers of cigars and cigarettes, who are alleged ° to have been evading the law, have L, been brought to the attention of gov n ernment officials, it became known in " connection with the wholesale ar rests here of manufacturers accused n of misusing or failing to use internal revenue stamps. Government omcials t. who are conducting the crusade so - mitted that such charges were being I- investigated. Ninety warrants had been issued for e alleged violators of the Internal reve nue laws and 47 persons had been ar rested. Each of the accused was held t in $1,500 ball for the federal grand II jury. a The charges of collusion have come I principally from the accused manu facturers, some of whom are said to have declared they had been paying r from $1 to $10 a week to revenue agents for "protection" against prose cution. Officials of the department of Inter nal revenue and of the Department of Justice asserted that violations of the law had been going on for years 5 and declared the government had been defrauded of millions of dollars In fees. Not only the government but the consumers have been defrauded, ac cording to L. G. Nott, collector of in ternal revenue. At some of the fac tories raided boxes were found, he said, which originally had contained expensive imported cigars, but which had been refilled with an inferior imi. tation made on the East Side. These cigars, he said, were sold over the counter as the genuine imported product. Most of them bore clever imitations of the bands of popular high-class cigars. Lincoln to Leave Soon. Washington.-Department of Jas tice officials have about decided that Ignatius T. T. Lincoln, the confessed German spy locked up In New York pending extradition to England, on the charge of forgery, possesse little Information of use in prosecuting nen trality cases. His deportation proba bly will not be long delayed. Lincoln, who escaped from a deputy marshal soon after this first arrest, sent word 4 to the department he intended to 1 break jail. He declares the charge of I forgery against him is merely a sun terfuge of the British government to secure his return to England that be I may be executed as a spy. Gold Found In Florida. Tampa, Fla.-Gold in Florida is re realed by assay certificates made by I a Cripple Creek (Colo.) assayer or I Pred Renner of Valrico, about 11 1 miles from Tampa. Renner, who is 4 an old prospector, came across the I ledge while digging a well near a lake. e It bore the marks of gold-bearing rock and he sent three samples to an as sayer. The samples showed gold values of $3.20, $11.20 and $17.60 a 1 ton. So far as known this is the first I discovery of gold in Florida. "JItney" Law Is Upheld. New Orleans, La.-The State Su. s preme Court in a decision reversed its I decision of last November and held the New Orleans jitney ordinance to be valid. The ordinance requires a $5,000 indemnity bond for each il- A ehine operated. Attorneys for the t fltaey" operators say an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United fI 8tstes is being considered Defloleney Bill Passes Washingte.-An urgent dedeency appropriation bill aggregating P260,. e 800 or immediate use, including l.-tj 575,00 for naval aeeds, was passed b by the House. It now goes to the a jSaste. tl Gemaalse i Cabinet. Laredo, Tez,--en. Pablo Gosales, e i-amdl the tde e gevemamet ar la Mesule City, Ls bee. sarmed -mistr at eeammnims ia Cem . .o-- - bbs... -. VILL ESCAPES MEXICAN TROOPS THREE COLUMNS OF AMERICAN CAVALRY PURSUING HIM 250 to MILES SOUTH OF BORDER. e of A AIRSHIPS ARE HAMPERED . F- High Winds That Have Been Sweep id Ing Mexico Has Prevented Their ai Use as Scouts-Two Machines Is Out of Commission. a San Antonio, Texas.-Francisco Vil e la has escaped from the Mexican r troops that had checked him near Id Namiquipa, and three columns of American cavalry are pursuing him. Already they are almost 250 miles e south of the border, and unless Mexi . can forces bring the elusive bandit to another stand this distance will be g greatly increased by the close of the e week. L Villa's success in extricating him self from the dangerous posltion into r. which he had been driven by the it American punitive force was related It in a detailed report of Gen. Pershing x that reached Gen. Funston. Gen. n Funston forwarded the report to n Washington without making public any but the essential features. e Col. Dodd is commanding the ad vanced columns that are riding hard t. after Villa and his men, and Gen. -- Pershing has divided his forces so as e to provide supporting columns along I the thinly stretched lines of commu h nications from his most advanced I. base at El Valle. From El Valle an e other line is being maintained back e to Casas Grandes, from where com I munication with the border is main r tained. Gen. Pershing himself is r somewhere south of Casas Grandes di recting the work of holding together his forces and directing as far as pos sible the operations of Col. Dodd. Ca r valry is being used along the lines t communicating with El Valle, where I a detachment of infantry is sta k tioned. I Three aeroplanes are at El Valle e and will be used in scouting as soon as the high winds that have been r sweeping that part of Mexico for Al most a week subside, and which, a I cording to Gen. Pershing, have made I effective assistance by them impossi ble. Of the eight machines that went I into Mexico, two are still out of com mission. They were damaged in the lights from Columbus to Casas Grsndes. To Hold Civilian Camp. Washington.-The score or more of military training camps throughout r the country planned for the next few r months will not be abandoned by the I War Department because of the Mexl i can border situation. Major General Thugh L. Scott, chief of staff, announc- 1 ed that the camps woumd be held. 2,000 Ships Off Seas. Washington.-The Euqopean war has taken from the seas more than 2.000 merchant vessels of nearly 4, 000,000 tons, according to figures pub- a lished by the Department of Com- i merce. Germany, with 600 vessels sunk, captured or interned, heads the t list of losers. Typhus Claims Physician. Laredo, Tex--Dr. Carlos Husk of Aurorar,. ., died here of typhus con tracted in Mexico, where he had gone a with Dr. Peter Olitsky to combat that f fever. Dr. Olitsky, physicians say, I will recover. What Sank the Tubantlat Berlin. - No Oerman saubmarlne could have been in the vicinity of l the spot where the Dutch liner Tu- b beantia was sunk, and no OGerman mines had been laid in this region, t the German Admiralty announced, Children Burn to Death. Sagnsw, Mice.---Pu chhidrem of Mr. ad Mrs. Pal Schldt, the young eat gesd 18 moth.s, wer brnsee te dseath s their homs here durs theirl ti -ess ' ahu . 9 ARMY INCREASE MEASURE PASSED HAY MEASURE PROVIDES FOR 140,000 FIGHTING MEN, IN STEAD OF 100,000. Washington.-The Hay army In crease bill, providing for a regular army peace strength of 140.000 fight ing men instead of the present 100, 000, passed the House by a vote of 402 to two. It goes to the Senate for immediate consideration virtual* ly as drafted by the House committee. The negative votes were cast by Representatives Britten, Republican, of Illinois, and London, Socialist, of New York. Mr. Britten opposed the bill because he favored a still further increase in the army and Mr. London because he favored no increase. The bill is the first of the great na. tlonal preparedness measures urged by President Wilson to pass either House, although various related meas urea have been approved. It was final ly adopted only after Representative Kahn, ranking Republican member of the military committee, had again met defeat, this time 213 to 191, in his ef fort to increase the authorized strength of the regulars to 220,000. During the debate Chairman Hay of the committee which drew the bill referred to it as "the president's own bill." It was explained at the White House, however, that while the presi dent approved the ground plan of the measure, he was not committed to its details. The conference on the Sen ate and House plans, to come after the Senate acts, is expected by the administration officials to produce a bill which will have the president's full support. Carranza Troops Rebel. Douglas, Ariz.-Numerous reports have reached the United States mill tary authorities that open rebellion has broken out among the Carranza troops at Cabullona, 18 miles south of here. Americans here are seriously disturbed and extra precautions have been taken to guard the town. Suffrage Poster Prizes. New York.-The National Woman Suffrage Association offered priszes ag gregating $500 to artists for the best 10 posters for suffrage window display and billboards in a competition to end October 1. A prize of $25 was offered for a slogan of not more than five words. Austria Declares War. London.-A Rome dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Rome says that Austria has declared war on Portugal. A Reuter dispatch from teneva says Austria has recalled ner minister to Lisbon, and has hand. ed passports to the Portuguese minis. ter at Vienna. Cotton Compress Burns. Hobart, Okla.-Fire of undeter mined origin destroyed the Interstate Compress Company's plant and 7,000 bales of cotton, entailing a loss of $461,2b0. A high wind and lack of water made fighting of the fire im possible. $604000 For ReNet. Munich.-The mayor of Wuerzburg 0 announces the gift of $600,000 for the fund for widows and orphans of Ba. varian soldiers. The donor is a wo man who has requested that her name shall not be published during her lifetime. Glass Plant Is Burned. St. Loals.-Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the plant of the St. Louis Plate Glass Company at Valley Park, St. Louas county. The loss Is estimated at $500,000. To Be New Tennesee. 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