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THE DONALDSONVILLE CHIEFK A Wide-Awake Home Newspaper---Published Every Saturday---Subscription Price, $2 a Year. VULj. XXXVI. DONALDSONVILLE, LA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1906. NO. 7. LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY. HOTELS AND -SALOONS. Nicholls Hotel, $2.00 a Iay House .I ROG E, - - Proprietor. S. ). D. IANELLOIr, Day Clerk. Wm. ROGGEo Night Clerk. Headquarters for Commercial Travelers. 'Bus And Porter to and From all Trains. Mississippi Street, Near Wharf, DONaLDSONyILLE, LOU :EIANA. P. O. Box 76. Telephone 30. THE WELCOom CAFE GEOR;E iLA-N DhY Iailrom. i Avcune and lberviile Street, Di)ONALL)n(UN\VrLLE. LA. - AR. -. liltr, ti aul o or, Music all, P'lcture sa:ierl) aut ,iiller tactlitioS for i .sillll oinilt'it, atn"a .nv:"0Ile : cll of tatruis. A choice unpptly of Lig are. 14'irS. .,moarco. etc. CC KlNE, coruor I rescent Place and lonu SIlnaS t rent, ,ialhar tn i.,ry timalds, Notions, lhirts and Shoes, (jroceri-s. Provisioui, Corn Oats and Brau. SS2. 2ls, PHYSICIAN .ND SURGEON. Office in H.umas street, adjoining the Ascension Club. Tleuhon--e Sn. S OFFICE : Railroad e.venu, bcetwt, ol ('laib, rm and Ot e Sio.Ua slUreet.. TelephoneIiI 2. ) OFICE AND RESIDE CE: Lessard! spunt, becwete:- airholis avenue and Ibervioin s. t' . Tei mmmune 54. DR. PAUL T. T1HIOi)DAUX. OFFICE AND EESIDENCE: Mississippi treet, ir I a.thoic Church. Othc. liuuti: ll11 a in. ,to 2 p. M. Telephou 2l t i. ---- i)E TIS---i--- . DR, CL LNCtk (}OETTE. DENTIST. Office in Railromdi u1e, adjo,,iinng (oeatte's J4J.LL ,it, .T. Aveaue Li.-harmlilacy, t,:. Uor Railroad and N:cilat avenuu'., DOAC .I),(V L ILE, LA. Purest and fressest of frllgs, Chemicals and Patent Me.dimcue, ahlwaly iU stock. Trusses, BHadages, oai,, i, imrit1e11, ortlueues, C'ombs, SmOkers rll5.:clmiI-, etc. 'iiysicias' presecrip tious car- lily cmmmiiimoude I at, a.- hours, day or night. dtm -im l,,e a.-. srENOIi(tLAlfHEIL SIICIIHARD 31ELANCON, STENOGRAPHER AND TYPEWRITER Office with E. N. Pugh, in Houmas Street, Don lasiounvitle. Tep;ciolne 110. ATTORNEYS AND NOTARIES N K. FOOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office with 1t. J. (lauvin, in Railroadmg avenue, oppositl Asceusion High School. DON AL)SONVILLE. LA. SJ. VEGA, ATfORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office with R. 5el unilh, corner Railroad and N ijciolis Avenues. I)ON.ti / DSu'O" VILLE, LA. .E McjULLO)DU, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Otice and residence, corner Railroad and Nich ll- Avenues. D O A,LDNO N i ! iL ,L LA. Practices in al. tite courts (o Louisiana, both u:.at antd Federal. Address, P. O. Lock Box S. I A. (It)s La RAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. DOX J LL "ON ILLE, LA. District Attorney Twenty-seventh Judicial iDistrict. Oltice iu N.chotl. aveune, opposite ICourthouse. PFrompt attenti.on paid to coliec tions and civil bu-iiess. -- e-- - -- - ALEB C. 11 iEE, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Otfice in Nicholls Avenue, near the Courthouse, DONALDbONViLLE, LA. NOTARY PUBLIC. Office in Chetimaches street, opposite Court house Square. PONALDSONVILLE, LA. CARPl.'2yThR AND BUILDER. W c. AZLIP, CONTRACTOR A.. BUILDER. All work neatly executed. Plans and Estimates Furnished. DONALDSONVILLE, LA. CIGAR 5AN 2AFACTUREBR. L O COURISEAULT, CIGAR MAKER. CONVENT, ST. JAMES PARISH, LA. Best qnality cigars at prices that defy comlpeti tion. Write for samples and prices. NEWSDEA LER. D ONAI DSONVILLE NEWS CO., Mrs. L. B. iTurner, Manager, Railroad Avenue, op posite the postotic., News and Illustrated ,,atsrs. BokI. Stationery. Pens, Ink, etc. Subscriptions taken for all Leading american Phriodicals. Miss Dixie Moore Voice and Piano Miss Garrett's School October I, 1906 P. 0. Box 32 Telephone 26 THE ST.' MARTIN HOUSE T S. H. ST. MARTIN, PROPRIETOR GUY LANDRY, CLERK RATES, $2.00 PER DAY HEADQUARTERS FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS NEW AND HANDSOMELY FURNISHED THROUGHOUT - LARGE SAMPLE ROOM FOR DRUMMERS Dr. Sheard floore VETERINARY SURGEON VE S R E OFFICE AND RESIDENCE- Donaldsonville, La Dealer in High-Grade Kentucky Horses :: Phone ;227 Don't Waste Your Money BUYING I Cheap Furniture while Good Furniture can be purchased at a Cheap Price We are closing out our entire line of Handsome Furniture without regard to cost. Some of our friends itve taken advantage of this Closing Out Sale, and greatly profited thereby. Others have not, but there is still an opportunity for them to do so, as we have some tine pieces left that are going at prices lower than they could be bought for at auction Don't Delay -Come at Once The Famous Blue Store s CICAS. MAURIN, PROPRIETOR a----- -· - Bargains in Town Lots At Gonzales, Louisiana The Coming Town of East Ascension 208 Choice Town Lots situated in the heart V of New River, a thickly populated sec tion of Ascension Parish. Lots are situated on both sides of Louisiana Railway and Naviga tion Company and Belle Helene Railroad Company's Line; on both sides of the stream of New River, and adjacent to the site of the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company's depot. Prospective purchasers are invited to visit Gonzales and select lots which will be sold at auction in the near future. 1 s Call on or address Gonzales Bros., _ = Gonzales, La. TWWWWWW WWartaw wwww Why Use Muddy River Water When you can have it Clear, Clean and Pure for Drinking, Cooking and Bathing By putting in a LYNN FILTER Over 1200 in use in Louisiana. Positively the best on the market. C. C. Hartwell Company, Ltd. 213 Baronne St., New Orleans Edward C. Webre & Co. SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. 237 Decatur Street, NEW ORLEANS. CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. H. AIBRHAN .. . M . LEMANN 3 H. AEAHAM & 00. Commission Xerchants... COTTON-SUTGAR-RICE4 - lberal Advances Made on Consignments 218 and 218 Baronne Street, Now Orleans, Lo'isiana • ..E~~~·LL~6 &"."-.:':'. . - -P__....~:.'.,..",."'. .. AROAUND THE STATE. Items of Interest Culled From the Louisiana Press. Prospective Brfde Criminally Assaulted. New Orleans Man Jumps to Death at Shreveport-Baton Rouge lady Assaulted. The Louisiana Cotton Association will meet at Shreveport Sept. 25, A military drill, sham battle and race meet was held at Opelousas. Mrs. George Paletou, of New Or leans, was fatally burned by the ex plosion of a gasoliue stove. Tom nMartin was shot and instantly killed by Chas. Bradley at Minden as the result of a neighborly quarrel. East Carroll parish voted a 1-mill 36-year-tax to erect a $30,000 central high school building at Lake Provi dence. Police Iuspector Whitaker of New Orleans has issued orders prohibiting police officers from smoking while on duty. Two negroes shot one another to death in a duel at Covington, and a bystander was wounded by a stray bullet. Congressman Burton and his party are in the state investigating the delay in the completion of the Plaque mine locks. The Federal government offered $75, 000 for the state quarantine station, but it is not likely that the offer will be accepted. Ed. Caldwell was stabbed to death by Marshall Johnson near Monroe as the result of a quarrel growing out of a "kidding" match. William Burch, a disreputable white man, was killed by Ned Brock, a bai negro, in a drunken brawl at Dyson, Washington parish. Four wealthy young students on their way to college from Yucatan were detained on board ship at New Orleans for defective eyesight. Thomas Cleveland and Charles Cleveland, brothers, died within an hour of each other, the former at Lena and the latter at Leesville. The Alexandria military company will be mustered out of service be cause enoqgh competent men to officer tth 'ommand cannot be secured. The Giovanni brothers, who were arrested at New Orleans on suspicion of being connected with the Black Hand Society, were released on $1000 bonds. Mrs. R. B. Stubbs and her daughter, Mrs. Gabriel Spahr, and the latter's two children, were poisoned at New Orleans by eating impure cream cheese. The town council of New Roads passed an ordinance prohibiting the blowing of steam whistles more than three times a day, at 6 a. m., 12 m., and 1 p. m. Dr. Honore F. Laine is in the United States buying horses for the Cuban government, and the first ship ment of 658 animals was made from New Orleans this week. Henry F. Braud, a boy sent to the penitentiary from Rapides parish for burglary, was conditionally pardoned by Gov. Blanchard upon the personal petition of the prisoner's aged mother. A crusade against gambling has been started by the ministers of Crowley as a result of a statement by the defaulting cashier of the Crow ley Signal that he had lost all of the emdbezzled funds at gambling. A wallet containing $4,000 in green backs and checks was lost on one of the ferryboats at New Orleans by a trusted employe of A. Crespo & Bros., of Algiers, while on his way to one of the banks to deposit the amount, and so far no trace of it has been found. Mrs. F. L. Howell was attacked at her home within two blocks of the capitol at Baton Rouge by a negro with a razor and was badly beaten. Although a thorough search was made by indignant citizens and the local militia, the brute has not yet been captured. Being suddenly awakened from a sound sleep and finding his bed clothes in dames, A. A. Wells, a New Orleans traveling man, thought the building was on tire and jumped from a second story window of the Caddo Hotel at Shreveport, breaking nearly every bone in his body. Congressman Sheppard, of Texas, delivered an address at the unveiling of a Woodmen monument at, Shreve port to the late Pinckney Wells, Jr., carrying out a compact entered into years ago that tile surviving one of the two should deliver the oration at the grave of the other. Miss Jula Warren, a pretty 16-year old girl of Lecompte, was criminally assaulted by Tom Brady, a white rail road laborer, while on her way to meet her sweetheart with whom she was to elope. Brady learned of the proposed elopment in some manner, and impersonating an officer, took the girl in custody and lured her to a lonely wood, where he accomplished his foul purpose. The citizens of Le compte are greatly wrought up and it was only the assurance of Judge [ltackman that the brute would be given a speedy trial which prevented-a lynching. NEW ORLEANS LETTER. The Latest in Slang-At the Theatres. Italian Immigrants Coming-A D ew Tunnel-Plaids in Universal Vogue. New Orleans, La., Sept. 19. 1906. Staff Correspondence of The Chief. 1 There is a catch phrase going the rounds these days; I heard one fellow get it off on another at the lake a few evenings ago. Said No. 1: " 7ou've a holiday on the 23rd, haven't you?" "Why, what's the 23rd?" asked No.2, in surprise. "Skiddoo's birthday!" No. 1 tired back. The styles in which this popular slangism is served up are certainly many and various. "How many nickels in $1.15?" is another version, and you are told that when you calculate the answer you can "it for yours." Even West End got into the game, and when it closed for the season Sunday a week ago, instead of finishing its final bill with the usual kinodrome picture of the fat and smiling infant surmounted by the terse announcement: "That's all!" a gigantic 23 was exposed on the canvas. The idea was clever and amusing, and created a general laugh, and thus, according to the advice George Cohan dishes out in one of his happy bailards, the popular lake resort "left them laughing when it said good bye." Any one in Donaldsonville who has not seen Tim Murphy in "Old Inno cence" ought to. The inimitable Tim is at the Tulane this week delighting theatre-goers with a graceful ren dition of the sweetly simple comedy which is sd fitting a vehicle for Mr. Murphy's special talents. The Cres cent opened its doors Sunday night with an offering of that worn-out and wearisome burlesque, "McFad den's Flats." The Orpheum's open ing bill is exceptionally good, and it is safe to predict that this first-class vaudeville house will continue to en joy the deservedly large share of public patronage with whiqh it has been favored during the past six years. The new steamship Lazio of the Royal Italian Mail Steamship Com pany will arrive here from Palermo about October 4, bearing 1114 immi grants. It 'is planned to place the immigrants upon lands in Louisiana ani Texas that they may do truck gardening and farming, thereby de veloping the country along the Texas and Pacific lines and making the lands profitable sources of revenue for hundreds of families. It is ex pected that an immigration station will be established here in the near future. Inspector Whitaker, head of the local police department, and at least eight prominent Italian families, have received letters of a threatening char acter from the Black Hand Society. The messages were received since the imprisonment of Matteo and Filippo di' Giovanni and Joseph Carnelli, suspected of being connected with operations of the Black Hand and arrested on that charge. The New Orleans Light and Rail way Company has just completed a r 370-foot tunnel extending under two electric railways and seventeen steam 1 road tracks, which will be used for the intake and outlet pipes of the com pany's Claiborne street power-house. This is generally conceded to be one of the most difficult engineering feats ever accomplished in this city and e marks an epoch in that line of work in New Orleans. The shop windows down town are at bewildering vision of plaids. Plaids! plaids! plaidsl--skirts, waists, under skirts, belts, and even thectrimmings for the newest hats are all in plaid effects. A man who had been in veigled into shopping with his wife was heard to remark in Holmes' while confronted with, a counterful of the festive materials, "This settles it-I've got 'em again, because I can't see any thing but plaids. No more Scotch high-balls for mine!" This season's walking hats will be small, while the dressier hats are extremely large, very high as to crown and much be plumed. I saw an early fall hat down town yesterday which was a winner. It was a rather wide brimmed black felt, the high crown swathed around with a fetching black and white checked ribborhich was piled in a confusion of knots and loops to the left. From the midst of this soft crush of ribbon rose a black paradise plume which curved gracefully over the brim. Have you ever noticed how slight a thing can attract and hold the unflag ging interest of a crowd even during the busiest hours of the day? Near the postoflice the other afternoon a collec tion of men were gathered about something which was apparently worth seeing as those on the outer edge of the crowd were cranning their necks in an effort to see over the shoulders of their fellows. Investi gation proved that those interested onlookers were merely absorbed in watching a swarm of ants attempting to drag a dead grasshopper through a crack in the wall! At present all the world's whistling "Why Don't You Try?" It is the cutest little song that ever was. E. B. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Aids Nature. Medicines that aid nature are always most effectual. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy acts on this plan. It allays the cough, relieves the lungs, aids expectoration, opens the secretions, and aids nature in restoring the system to a healthy condition. Sold by all druggists. THE WORLD'S NEWS. Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From Near and Far. Five Thousand Lives Lost in a Typhoon at Hong Kong-A Romantic Marriage. Passenger Train Plunges Into an Oklahoma River. Reports are that the Mexican cotton crop will be very short. A Baltimore crank mailed a package of ice to PZesident Roosevelt. A monument to George Washington was unveiled in Budapest. An anti-Jewish outbreak is expected at Warsaw, Russian Poland. Lightning exploded a powder maga zine in France and killed seven per sons. Four Tartar villages in the Russian Caucasus were destroyed by Arme nians. Fire at Buenos Ayres, Argentina, caused a loss of several million dollars. The Cuban insurrection is causing great loss to sugar planters on the island. A statue of the late President Wil liam McKinley was unveiled at Colum bus, Ohio. The Treasury Department purchased 200,000 ounces of silver for coinage purposes. Germany has made an emphatic de mand for protection for German sub jects in Russia. The Japanese are charged with barbarous methods in the execution of natives in Corea. Turkey has called the attention of the European powers to the warlike attitude of Bulgaria. Moonshiners at Boaz, Ala., robbed a saloon of $2000 and murdered John Davis, the bar-keeper. A serious crisis exists in the Japan ese cabinet, and Foreign Minister Hayashi has resigned. The report of trade with Egypt shows that we import ten times more than we sell to Egypt. Mexicans at Aguas Calientes, Mex ico, threaten to drive the Americans out and burn the railroad shops. The Cuban Junta has appealed to the American Red Cross Society for aid to furnish nurses for wounded soldiers. Chinese laborers taken to Panama for work on the Isthmian canal will be deported at the conclusion of their service. A young man claiming to be a nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan was tl arrested in England on a charge of ti swindling. t1 In a fight between Japanese and Russian fisherman off the coast of a Kamchatka, several were killed and a many wounded. tl Alfredo Zayas and Loynaz del Cas tillo, two of the Cuban insurgent lead- tl ers, have offered to surrender to the ti United States. Twelve men were drowned as the re sult of a handcar plunging through f; an open draw-bridge into a stream F near Toledo, Ohio. n Mexican Independence Day was cel ebrated quietly, and there were many e public expressions of friendliness to- ti wards the United States. President John Mitchell of the United b Mine Workers, says the miners are in c politics and will support candidates g favorable to the .cause of labor. C Two men were killed and another e wounded in a saloon quarrel at Ham- i mond, Ind., as a result of an ar- l gument over the Gans-Nelson bout. The contract was awarded for the construction of a new Battle House at t Mobile, Ala. The building is to con tain nine stories and will cost $1, 000,000. Herbert Frazier, a negro who i stabbed a white man at Rosebud, Texas, was taken from the jail and 6 lynched by a mob of unmasked farmers. I Charles Conley, a negro who at-I* tacked two white women at Wilming ton, Del., was sentenced to fifty years' i imprisonment and thirty lashes at the whipping post. English and French views express i confidence in the attitude of the United States towards the Cuban revolt, and indicate approval of whatever course is followed by this country. D. J. Hogue, of West Memphis,. i Ark., and Miss Wilbur M. Drummond, of San Antonio, Tex., were married at midnight on the middle of the Missis sippi river bridge at Memphis. The Democratic party in New York is split into warring factions and chaos exists. The Hearst men claim they will control the state convention, but this is disputed by the opposition. The Interstate Commerce Commis- I sion issued an order permitting rail roads to issue through bills of lading on export cotton and permitting them to reduce rates on three days' notice. A passenger, train on the Rock l Island Railroad plunged into the Cimmarron river at Dover, Oklahoma, as a result of the collapsing of the bridge spanning the stream, and eight persons were killed, a score or more injured and many are missing. Five thousand lives were lost, twelve ships sunk, twenty four stranded and seven more badly damaged by a ty phoon at Hong Kong, China. The · financial damage will amount to mil lions of dollars, and the shipping trade of the port has been completely 2 paralyzed by the greatest disaster it has ever known. WASHINGTON LETTER. Efforts Being Made by Interested Parties to Secure American Intervention in Cuba-Trouble in theGovern ment Printing Office. Correspondence of The Chief. Every effort is being made by those interested in securing American inter vention in Cuba to force this govern ment to take a high hand and put down the present insurrection by virtue of the police right that is given it under the Platt amendment, but it, is pretty safe to assume that nothing of this sort will occur. President Roosevelt is handling the situation from Oyster Bay, and he had in conference with him Secretary Bonaparte of the Navy Department, Secretary Taft of the War Department and Acting Secretary Bacon of the State Department. He has issued orders for Secretaries Taft and Bacon to go to Havana where they will learn the real facts in connection with the uprising and be able to report directly to the president of the necessity or otherwise for inter vention. The strongest factor in the whole situation is a letter that the president has written to the Cuban minister, Mr. Quesada, deploring the state of civil war into which Cuba has fallen and warning the Cuban people that as a last resort it will be the duty of this government to intervene and restore peace in the island at any cost. One of the most disconcerting features of the situation is that President Palma, incited by his wife, whose father was the murdered president of Honduras, is talking of resigning, and may do so at any moment. If he should take this step Vice President Capote would succeed him, and as he is equally unpopular with the revolu tionary element, this would help mat Iers very little. The Navy Department now has four warships available In Cuban waters, a force ample to protect all American interests, and if neoes sary to put down the insurrection as well. There has been some talk that either the insurgents or some other evilly disposed person might dynamite the cruiser Denver, now at Havana , harbor, and force this government to drastic action. This is rather a wild , supposition but precautions have been r taken against any such contingency. i Such a happening could only be of advantage to the friends of annexa tion wl0 are anxions to see this government take over the island of .1 Cuba. As the annexation sentimestis r the most violent among Amerioan capitalists who have interests in the island, it is hardly to be supposed that any such event could happen. One sthing at least is certain and thea is I that no such fatality could ocatr through the instrumentality of the I present government in Cuba, because the harbor is not mined as it was dur f ing the Spanish occupation. The in d surgents on the other hand have not the equipment for any such villanous exploit and the chances are very largely against anything happeningto the Denver and forcing the hand of e the administration in this way. There is trouble and a good deal of it in the government printing office. There has been friction and dissatis faction ever since the removal of Public Printer Palmer and the appoint ment of Mr. Chas. Stillings, an out sider of Boston, as his successor. Dis charges and suspensions have followed each other in rapid succession until the whole force of the great- print shop is on edge wondering wher the light ning will strike next. Mr. Stillings has been the head of a large commer cial printing establishment, and it is generally undesetood that he is thor oughly experienced in his trade. The government printing office is the larg est and best equipped establishment of its kind in the:world, but there has been nothing but trouble ever since shel'ew public printer has been in chaig.. Exactly what the difficulty is, it would be hard ts say. The explanation of the printing office employes is that, "He's all right, but he won't do." It is perhaps the first time, since the dayi of Andrew Jackson, that the printing office has been run on economical bus iness-like lines, The joint committee of congress on printing has invent gated the situation during the reaese without arriving at any defiate con clusion. The office has ong been an asylum for political printers looking for soft places and easy work with big and sure pay, and now when they have grown old in office resent as an intruder a young man full of energy, who insists on them doing something. The United States patent office sorely needs a man like Public Printer 8til lings. Drive.... when. ou drive one of our tiams. You'llthlnkso, too, after you'vetited one. Our horses go. They look well, too. Our traps, buggies and surreys are new and look swell. Just as nice as any private turnout. Get a team from us next time you go out. You won't be ashamed of it-or sorry either. The Dexter Stable ROi0 A TRUILLO P ..ihf1 1I(SU