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September 16, 1906.
W G. KENTZEL,
Du'rITOR bND PROPmaIETOR
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF
--- ST. TAMMANY PARISH
Office telephone 24-2
Residence phone 24-3
One Dollar a Year.
SW Terms, CA4SH LVADDVANC.
Entered in the Postollice at Covington
La.. as second-class matter
Yellow Fever Report.
This is the report issued by the City
Board of Health for the twenty-four
hours immediately proceedlng 6 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon:
Deaths from yellow fever........... 4
New cases of yellow fever..........48
New foc .............. ........ 8
Totals to date:
Deaths.................... ......318
Under treatment................. 308
Discharged as cured............1,787
Cases of fever to date..,....... 2,413
Weekly Crop Bulletin
For the Week Ending Monday, Sep
tember 11, 19J5.
Cotton- Very little change in the
condition of the cotton crop has
taken place during the past week.
An improvement in several sections
is offset by deterioration in others.
The plant is growing whe*. recent
showers have occurred, b.t gener
ally fruiting poorly and shddding
badly in places. Complaints re
garding damage from cotton pests
are numerous, especially from cat
erpillars and boll worms, and the
cotton boll weevils are damaging the
crop in the extreme western par
ishee. Boils are opening rapidly
and picking is being pushed. The
crop, as a whole,.is ruceh below
the average.
Sugar Cane. -Favorable weather
conditions are reported generally
from the sugar region and the crop
continues to improve. A heavy
tonnage is expected.
Rioe,- Harvesting and threshing
have progressed under favorable
weather conditionsa,,and, a fair do
good yield is reported. The qualty
is poor in places,, but generally sat
isfactory. Late rice has improved.
Cor.--Favorable weather con
ditions for gathering orn have been
utilized generally, and much of the
crop has been housed. The yield
is generally poor.
Mbisellaneous.-Truck gardens
are doing well. Hay making was
pushed vigorously and much of the,
crop put up in good condition. Fall
planting has commenced.
"Battling" Nelson knocked ow
"'Jimmy" Britt in the eighteentl
round at Calmo,. Cal., for the
worlds lightweight championship.
Eidde Graney refereed.
Double barrelled shot ..guns dc
pot prevent the spread of yellow
$ever. This fact has been proven
by Natchez. May as well give up
all the exploded theories andgo - to
killing mosquitoes.
A New York physician announces
thatl "certain vegetable fluids will
care consumption." This is not a
recent discovery. Certain vegetable
fluids, namely those of corn and
rye, have been used for many gene
rations as a specifcl for every dis
ease from snake bite to tuberculo
spa.
New Orleans has twenty-seven
linoes of steamers econnecting it with
eighty-seven ports, with an average
of 126 stepmers a month. They
reach every seecton of the world,
except Australia. There are regu
Jar lines to Liverpool, Manchester,
Belfasts London, Havre Hamburg,
Antwerp, Copenhagen, Rotterdinm,
Barcelona and Trieste. Some of the
vessels are large enough to carry
20,000 bales of cotton.
QGov.,Jelks, of .Alabama, is re
ported as saying that the conduct
of the New . Orleans Board of
Health forces on the public the
qegesity for a ratibnal quanantine,
,:system uniform in all the Gulf
*atea .nd Atlnatio ports. "We
.tiobpk there ,should be national
quuarfandte overing all contagious
dipeses and appliocable to allStates
An agreaeenty y the tates coi
ournd. **obeen~uglihO in
fair b tra iasall,' int n
YELLUW FEVER.
Many years ago the Hon. CVsey
Young, member of Congress from
Memphis, Tenn., told me that be
and many others escaped from yel
low lever, which had been prevail
ing to a terrible extent in Memphis,
by amply wearing powdered sul
phur in their shoes. In one in
stance he had a large number of
gentlemen in his offices and advised
them in regard to this matter, and
every man who accepted his advice
escaped the fever, while quite a
number of them who did not had
it.
And I have heard that agents of
the Howard Benevolent Society
have escaped yellow fever by
- adopting the same precaution.
When the grip was attacking al
most every family in Boston some
years ago, I sent an officer to the
, Byam match factory, who reported
r that out of the large number of
persons employed there not one had
been attacked by the grip. I dis
p tinctly remember some years ago
s that all persons working in the
g Italian sulphur mines escaped the
malaria that prevailed all about
a them. I remember, also, in a book
a written by sn eminent German
7 physician, translated into English,
a his assertion that persons observing
the ordinary rules of health and
wearing sulphur constantly in their
shoes were completely protected
from cholera.
It may be that the old New Eng
land custom of our forefathers and
foremothers, giving to their child
ren every spring brimstone and
molasses, was not without a good
foundation, and the effect of a few
doses, as many of us know, is suf
ficiently powerful to blacken the
silver pieces carried in one's
pocket-book, so that car conductors
sometimes hesitate to receive therm.
I 1 think, in view of the present epi
. demic in the South, which may in
i crease, it is well to send out this
information widely through chan
nels where;it will be likely to at
tract public attention.
The above article appeared in
the Boston Daily Herald of August
14.
The Boll Weevil Is
Passing.
Houston, Tex., Sept. 11.--The
comparatively small damage being
done by the boll weevil in Texas
this season has been much gom
mented upon. At the office ot'the
Agpcultural Depprtment's experts
hbet there is small informatiolr to
be had as to the cause of this, btt
J. VD. Evans, who is in. charge
during the absence of Dr. Knapp,
has' a theory. The leaf worm, he
states, destroyed the fohlage of cot
ton last season, leaving the weevils
nothing to subsist upon, and ma
terially reduced the number which
went into hibernationt In February
there was severe weather, and as
many of the insects which. 'did
herbinmate were in low vttality,
they easily suuoombed to the cold.
Then the heavy rains -came and
drowned a lot, and very few'of the
bugs got out slve and in conditionu
to breed.
Innocent Man Ranged
Minot, S. D., Sept. 11-"- When
my lifeless body is found notify
my mother, Mrs. Catheride Hersig,
of Girard, O. The enclosed letter
will reveal my identity and the aw
ful secret of my wretched life. I
can endure it no longer."
The toregoing note was found by
Frank Byer, who lives on a claim
near Hiddenwood, this county.. It
was written by one of his harvest
hands called Frank Hersig
In the letter the writer, who
signs himself Charles Herzig, says:
*Dear mother-In the early
seventies Charles Sterling, a sup
posed tramp, was tried for the
murder of Lizzie Groinbacker, a
beautiful young woman residing
near Youngstown, In Mahoning
county, 0. He was convicted on
cei "" iti tial evidence and was
hanged for the crime in the county
jail at Youngstown..
"Charles Sterling was an inno
cent man. I am guilty of the mur
der of the young girl.
(Signed) Charles Iersig."
Byer and his neighbors have
made a search but without success
for' the body of HIerzig.
, - . -- .
One of the rural schools in Kan
as has. a pretty girl as its teacher,
but she was much troublad at
first because many of her pupils
were late every mording. At last
she made the announcemdnt .that
she would kiss the first pupil to ar
rive at. the sehoolhouse the next
morning., At sunrise the three
largest boys of her class were sait.
ting on the doorstep of the sebool
house, and by 6 o'clock every :boy
in the school26id four of the diree. 4
tors were waiting for her to atrve.
n oba
Parish and Town
Assessment.
We are indebted to Mr. Walter
Galatas, the efficient deputy shertiff,
for the followipg statement from the
assessment rolls for the year 1905.
Value of lands and imp.... $1,874,095
" lots and squares.... 830,030
" live stock.......... 118,282
" vehicles ........... 26,075
" merchandise........ 99,185
" capital stock....... 78,500
" jewelry .... ...... 400
j" udgments.......... 250
" water craft......... 10,050
" other property...... 668,482
Total assessm't 1905.... $8,700,249
. . 1904.... 3,120,306
Increase ............... 579,941
Total aseessm't of whites... $8,562,834
" " colored... 187,411
State tax, rate 6 mills 22,201 49
Parish tax, rate 10 mills 87,002 4S9
Poll tax 1,208 00
Total $60,406 98
TOWN OF COVINGTON.
3 Land and imp. $818,870
SLive stock 5,505
Vehicles 2,585
Merchandisa 47,020
Capital stock 73,500;
1 Water craft 500
Other property 57,325
Total 504,805
Assessment of whites 497,550
r ' colored 7,245
Total assesem't 1905, 504,805
" " 1904, 444,525
Increase. 60,280
TOWN OF SLIDELL
I Land and imp. $184,802
Live stock 8,896
Vehicles 1,840
Merchandise 19,875
Other property 28,875
Total 236.688
Assessment of whites 224841
" colored 11,847
Total assessm't 1905 286,6x8
" " 1904 212,694
Increase 28,994
TOWN OF MANDEVILLB
Land and imp. $146;691
Live stock 8,015
Vehicles .475
Merchandise 38.100
Other property 2.980
Total 156.261
Asse.mment of whites 147.916
- " colored 8,345
Total assessm't 1905 156.261
" " 1904 145,831
Increase 10.980
TOWN OF MADISONVILLE
Land and imp. 55,775
Live stock 1,875
Vehicles 661.
Mdrehandise 4,856"
Water craft .1.900
Other property -.820
Total 78,881
Assessment of whites 51,565
" - colored --1,816
Total assessm't 1905 78,481
"' " 1904 65,088
Increase 8,848
VILLAGE OF ABITA SPRINGS
Land and imp. 124,892
Live stock 1,198
Vehicle 444
Merchandise 4,400
Jewelry 400
Other property 5
Total -181,884
Assessment of whites 181,074
. eolored 260 -
Total usesesm't 1905 181,884
" "" 1904 108,098
Increase 28,241
It will be seen by the above that
the assessment shows a very grati
fynug increase over last Tear, owiiag
to substantial improvemehts, new
business enterprises, and the natu
ral enhancement in the value of
property and farms and unimproved
land. Truly., St. Tamma.yPaiti',,
and the various towns, are holling
their own in the raprd marche 0i
progress that is siuible all over the
South.
Jackson Hot
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 1 l.-Secre
tary Hunter, of the board of health,
has telegraphed to Dr. Aikman~
State Health officer at Natchez, to
have the parties in that city ar.
rested wbo circulated the report
that yellow fever existed in Jack
son. A publication of thi8znor
was made in the Natchezs Bulletin
yesterday and the editors vouchbed
for its accuracy. The prosecution
will be made under the laws of
1898, which provides a penalty for
circulation of rumors about yellow
fever.
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A coroner's jury in Cornwall,
England, which ad been called to
sit on the bod~ f a minor found
drowned in a pool in an abandoned
quarry, brought nm the* following
verdict: "Found drowned in the
White Quavy, there being- water
there at the time.'"
NaAMBEs's corHn REMEYr._1.
'e14'is a medloie of great weuetiad I
merit. Try it when you ;amver a cogh
or cold and .you ate certain to he
please4dth the gueck reltef rwhich it1
4ords. Itis pleasantt to take and an i
fi..c.. dai.upon. dPFor eatle l
Useless QuaaFntines.
Notwithstanding the overly strict
quarantine immediately established
by the State of Mississippi against
Louisiana on the breaking out. of
the fever in New Orleans, and the
further quarantining by the towns,
there are several cities in that State
o that now have the fever. For that
reason we say that due caution can
5 be taken without blocking the busi
0 ness interests of the country. Thb
o Journal of the American Medieal
0 Association says:
"The profession must blush at
9 the medieval quarantines that in
some quarters have been raised
I against the afflicted city.
Barsh quarantine regulations are
causing wide spread misery. while
some enlightenel commituuies have
stamped out fever without restrict
ing travel."
Did' the quarantine accomplish
what its advocates intend, there
might be soile reason in it.ý We
value life more than anything else,
but we also be:ieve in preserving
the business interests in order to
sustain it.
Jap Steersman Dead at
Wheel.
Honolulu, Sept. 5.-A dead man
held the. wheel of the schooner
Charles Levi Woodbury during
several hours of the night of Au
gust 8, on her trip here from
Laysan Island. He was a Japanese
member of the crew and ldied
clutching the wheel. He was found
still holding it, and .the. vessel,
though greatly damaged by a hur
ricane, -which is supposed to have
caused his death from over exer
tion, reached port in safety.
The Woodbburry is thi. s:hooner
which the, United States b ship
Iroquois recently left here to search
for, when .she was long overdue
from Layson. It was foundl that
she had put back after a terrible
experience. Captain Harris, who
was in command, says his vessea
was swept along at the rate of nine
knots an hour without a stitch of
canvas on her. He gave up hope of
saving hr andi said good bye to
Captain .Schlernmer, of Laysan,
who. was, a passenger. Bulwarks
were knocked away to keep the
decks clear of water, and oil was
poured oat the ocean. The schooner
ran four days and nights helpless
in the galj, without the Captain be
ing able to make an obser ation by
either sue, moon or stars.
The ,Japanese compplained of
feeling unwell when he took his
place aspqtee.eman, and he asked
a companion to standby him for a
time. No one saw hlum die He
was found dead and stiff, holding
the wheel a. when alive. He had
fallen forvard, but his hands held
on and the vessel was holding her
course fairly well.
Man 105, Wife was 90.
*Tim tc pondeate at,'res Pest
office of the Columbiao, published
iatColumbis,Rs iss., reoentilv seni
.tbsath aper; tbe,olwwag:
'I~Uncle Willis Raiborn and Iurn
Sallie Raiborn, the oldest mairled
couptle in south Mississippi, ,are
dead at their home, near Iere.
Only nine days separated, the de
mise of th#i couple,' -who. were re
awarkable in a great many respects.
e.u(s4 ipicd e·t-.to old age
on unday., -Aug.-.12,190, and his
wit.efallOw~d·rirnto rthe grave on
Aug.;21, 10.o.. Willie iatborn was
past thi cet ary marki Some say
t tTie x&105 yearis ol. His help'
geet w: sge 90 )gare old.
:"'fhel co:ta, -Isaac Raiborn,
of Trim, Mirs., was born during
Andrew Jbaksone ' administration.
'.'Uaple~Willis bad a.vjivid reeol
lectio.+ p. the.Wirati 0f 18182 and
furnished his' neighbors with ac
counts of personal deeds of valor
during that conflict.
The' couple is survived by a
progeny numbering 127. There are
ten, children, forty-two. :and
children and seventy-five great
grazndTchildren.
"The two graves are side by. side
in the cemetery near the little
church where the- old couple wor
sliped up to within a short time of
their deaths."
;.Strange Place for Milk
One of the children seafto Wood
stock last week by .the Fresh All
ociety witnessed the milking of a
cow for the first. tme.
He had followed the fatinir to
the barnyard, and as tbe milk felt
into the pail th: child .iked:
"Is that the milk ;we driak? F"
The raer said it was, acd then
the youne remarked -
At. :Azs e . ieep the milk -i-a
ref rigerator Do you keep yours
i that .thing? pointing to the
ow..-Bl.-.ttiokp an
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From .a ummrer Olrl's
Diary.
Monday--We reached here last
night. The moonlight looked:lovely
on the water. I saw three couples
sitting on the pocks, and, though I
was very tire6, I persuaded mother
to make Fred go to walk with me.
He didn't want to. Brothers are
such a nuisance, and Fred wouldn't
go anywhere near the rocks where
they were sitting. He called me a
little fool so loud I just know onq
of the couples heard him.
Wednesday-When we came I
registered as "Miss Evangeline
Hope.'" Fred gets out on the gal
lery every tnorning, and for pure
meanness calls me Lina as loud as
he can. Mother can't make him
stop it. There's such a good look
ing man at our table. He doesn't
seem disposed to talk. The only
thing-he has ever said was, "Don't
mention it," when I thanked him
for passing me the salt. I had to
ask him to pass it. There are
twenty five girls here.
Thursday-Fred is so brutal I
told mother to-day that I would go
home if she didn't send him away.
He says he isn't going. He's fallen
in love with a little peroxide widow.
I heard him telling her he was 20
years old. I told her he wasn't but
15. He came up to-night just fu
rious with me. He says he's going
to tell everybody I'm 35 years old,
if I ever open my mouth to his
widow again. I wish she was his
widow. But he's too mean to ever
die.
Friday-Well, of all things !
Fred asked mother to call on the
widow! Mother hemmed and hawed
and finally told him she wouldn't
know whit to say to a person who
wore blondined hair, Just about
thet time I walked in. I told him
I'd go to call on her. I knew ex
actly what to say to her. Then he
flew all to pieces and said that be.
fore he'd submit to being treated
so by his family: he'd go back to
town and leave us alone. I was
hoping he would. But he came in
late to supper. Someone said he
had been for a walk with the widow
Another man is at our table.
Saturday-The new man is Jim
my. Wilkinson, from St. Louis.
He's simply lovely to me. We sat
under an ambrella together" all the
morning, while he read me poetry
he had written. Igot tired of .the
poetry, but it's so, exciting to know
the other girls are envying you.
Fred says mother ,ought to switch
me for sitting on the sand and mak.
nlg a spectacle of my self with that
littl9 counter-jdm`p-r._ But I hushed
him up by saying that Ji`m-mynight
be a Counter jumper, but he Lsn't
widow . I. .
Dawes Could Thin Out a
C(rowd
The Hon. H. L. Dawes . in his
young manhood was an indiferent
speaker.. Participating in a law
case, soon after his' admission to
the bar, before a North Adams jus
tice of the peace, Dawes was op
posed by an older attorney, whose
ploquence attracted a large crowd
that packed the court room.
'nhe justice was freely perspiring
and, drawing off his coat in the
midst of the lawyer's eloquent ad
dress, he said:
"Mr. Attorney, suppose you
mit down, and let Dawes begin to
speak. I want to thin out this
crowd."-Boston Herald.
A young German who had drift
ed to Kansas with other, harvest
hands was taken sick suddenly near
Abiline. He was taken to town
and a couple of phystcians pro,
nounced it. appendicitis. -They
would not operate unless paid for
it, and the younw man had no
moneyyand no friends to guarantee
payment. The county physician
took charge of the case, pronounced
it liver trouble, and prescribed for
it. The next day the man was
well. Which shows that some,
times a man is better off without I
money or friends.
INiEDIBLE BUTLRT YII. .
It would have bien incredible brutat
ity if Chas. F. Lemberger, of Syreus+e
F. Y., had not done the beat hBoohld
for his suffering gon. "My boy," heb
sa,' "out a fearfulgash over his; ee.
so L'applied Bucklekia's ,A ae,
winh quiekynt
'eye." 'Good for b
-Only.siWat J. L W
store,and Jos. I. _
hs + tsfrnisd on alt
best Jl'
To Buy Losin'Ne O
and New Covingtn
8 New -Covington i s too well. kn º
Into auy particulars in regard to the ttrat
Louisiana alroad runs through .er ete4
Clalborne. - Lots can be purchased fronting tie
the Ahita wagon road, which formst the o
of, the tract, and on the Arthur road whichi
Abita Springs and which bounds the tract on?
These Lots are Fvelinles Walk fr l
Lots iB New Citiborne wii be esold for 386 Ol ,
Lots In New Covtngton 40 00 and upaid,
Titles will be Given Purchasers FREE, Put
the' Recodi
Lots and squares are being sold in New Covia
all'wiehing de.irable location had better hurry up and
FOR FURTi[ER INFORMATION APPLY TQ
F. B. Marti
HaRvxr E. ELLis, Pres. W.
R. L. AU3arT, Caphier.
St Tammany Banking Company n
DIRROTORS:
P. H. Handsborough W. A. 'Hood:: D t
W. A. Dixon A. :D. Crawford
E. A. Leonvul EB J. Domergue 1.:
Geo. R. Tolson R. H. B blIgton
we would be pleasedt confer with yonu f you e:
a change in your banking connections. or opt
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SHERWOOD OOTTACE
PRIVATE BOARD ING
First-class rooms and board. Ad
dress, "Sherwood." Box 40.
DR. A. H GRIMMZER,
Dentist,
COVlNGaON, LOUIEIANA.
Hours:9 a, m. to 5 p,m. P1oneNo. 918.
Fnasanzax BuLmDIN.
Succession of ' Thomas J. Goodbee-,
No. 510. - '
Twenty-sixtit Judicial District Court iof
Louisiana, in and for the Pairh =of
St. Tram.uany.
Whereas, C. BS E. Babington ha; ap
plied to be appointed Dative eta t eR
tary Executor of the estate of Thimus
J. Goodbee, deceased.
Notice is hereby given to .all con
ed to show cadea,it _fanythey? e
can, within ten days from theAririzbpu)1.
cation of notdice, why the peyayoto
said petitioner abould not, be -rraa .
By order of the Court this h. day
of oI eptembrerI 1 ,.
H. Nl WARREN, Clerh -oCf o, .,t:
se9.2S
Succession of Jetie Rogers.
Twenty-.sitd Juijeial Disstriet`tourst
ioaniiana, In and for, the Paris of
S Tammany.
By ita n order of dle from l.
honorable, the a-e id Cort, ad: t,'
me directed, bearing d ým
14, 1905
I will proeed4 tO sell at .pubr i
tion, at the front door of the Court
house in the two "of .vCo.vington, . ,
on SATURDAY, October. 7, ..1905,
between .legal sale hours, the fol.
lowing de.c'ibed property, to.wlti
The northeastqnarter of th. south.
east quarter and lots 1, 9, 3, 4, section
6, township 8, south range 1* east, H r o
Helena Meridlan, contail.ig10.
STerms of gale--eash, toay
,TONRY ,
se94t. Admin t
Successon., of John t
TweLty-Sixth Judicial Dist dt. q
Louisiana, in and for the Par sicf S
Tammany.
Notice is hereby given to all wihoml.,
may concern, that Maryhag
of John Staford, has appli et
tera of administratn:on the estate of
John Stafford, deceased that
unless opposition is made thereto
within tendays from the irat pu
tion hereof, said application :will bei
granted.
of September, :190o.
se9*t H. 1i. WARRBEN, Olftw r
Notice to stoko l de'
Noiee is herby givei th tame ing
of the S.pckholders of the .(*reiaew Il
Lumber Company, Limited, wr1i be I
held at the office of said corration,
Saturday, -October :; 1975, I at -elei
q'clock a. ,, forthepnrpeo del
'Ig on an Jncrease of theaite jook d
of sald :om.any, froe one landse
and tty thous d (1
repreeeuted by afteen hpadred ,bar
of twio hundred thou t as
(A200,000 00) to be I e ty
thousand shares, of the pralue _
each. All stockhol4ets are aeaeted
to be preeent, - rbzy
Notice To' ,
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