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THE DONALDSONVILLE CHIEF. - - A Wide-Awake Home Newspaper---Published Every Saturday---Subscription Price, 2 a Year. ~OXXXVVL DONALDSONVILLE, LA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1907.E NO. 22. cMt USESS DIRECTORY. HOTELS AND SALOONS., i~ollUs Hotel, I2.00 a Day House F. xD00 E, Proprietor. S. D. GO.uOel , Day Clerk. Wu. Roooz, Night Clerk. Headquarters for Commercial Travelers. S Bus and Porter to and From all Trains. Missaisippi Street, Near Wharf, DONALDSONVILLE, LOUS IANA. P , O. Box 76. Telephone 30. DRY GtOUOD, tRtOCEIiEtlE, gtc. K HLINE, corner Crescent Place and Bou * mas street, dealear in Dry Goods, Notions, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, Corn Oat, and Bran. PHYSIIIANS. E. a- sum PlPHYSICIA AN o SURGEON. O0icein Houmas street, adjoining the Ascension Club. Telephone 90. D .E T. H. HANSON. OFFIOC : Railroad arenas, between Claiborne and Ope lousas streets. Telephone 240. DB. J. D. HANSON. OPPFIC AND aRSIDENOU: Lessard street, between Nicholls avenue and Iberville street. Telephone 54. D. PAUL T. THIBODAUX. OSFIOC AND EasIDaECE: Missiasippi street, near Catholic Church. Office Hours: 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Telephone 247. DENTISTRY. DR. OLCARENE GOETTE, DENTIST. Office in Railroad avenue, adjoining Goette's Shoe Store. Telephone 36. DRUGGISTS. AVENUE PHARMACY, Corner Railroad and Nicholls avenues, DONALDSONVILLE. LA. Purest and freshest of Drugs, Chemicals and Patent Medicines always in stock. Trusses, Bandages, Soaps, Perfumery, Brushes. Combs, Smokers' materials, etc. Physicians' prescrip tions earefully compoundel at all hours, day or night. Telephone 95 STENOGRAPkER. IJ RICHARD MELANCON, STENOGRAPHER AND TYPEWRITER Office in Opelousas Street, opposite Courthouse Square. ATTORNEYS AND NOTARIES - . FOOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office with R. J. Chavino, in Railroad avenue, opposite Ascension High School. B J. VEGA, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office with R. McCulloh, corner Railroad and Nicholls avenues. R. cCULLOH, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office and residence, corner Railroad and Nich oils avenues. Practices in all the courts of Louisiana, both State and Federal. Address, P. O. Lock Box 8. oA . GNDRAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. District Attorney Twenty-eventh Judicial District. Office in Nicholls avenue, opposite Courthouse. Prompt attention paid to collec tions and civil business. CALEB o. WEBE., ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. a Offce in Nicholls avenue, near the Courthouse, N. SIMS, NOTARY PUBLIC. OfBfe in Cbetlmaches street, opposite Court house Square. UARPICiNTER AND BUILDER. ' C. HARLIP, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. All work neatly executed. Plans and estimates furnished. DONALDSOA~DSDNVILLE, LA. NEWSDEALER. DONAL')SONVILLE NEWS CO., Mrs. L. M. Tarnmr, Manager. Railroad avenue, op poeite the postoilfe. News and Illustrated opsers Books, Stationery, Pens, Ink, etc. bmacriptiona taken for all Leading American eriodicals. ENNEDY a& ULLIVA3i, -MANUFACTURERS OF MOSS COLLARS AND PADS Prices defy competition, with guarantee tf satisfaction or money refunded. r * Addrest: Care Landry & Low ery Co., Ltd., DOA .DSOON VILLE, LA. A Delightful That's what kit ii when you drive one of our teams. You'll think so, too, after you'vetried 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 .o ~t time, you go out. You won't be ashamed of it--or sorry either." The Dexter Stable RODUsiip a TIIJXILL Dr. Sheard floore VETERINARY -SURGEON OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Iberville Street, ear Convent Donaldsonville, La. Dealer in High-Grade Kentucky Horses :: Phone 227 * SEASONABLEI I EATABLES! GLANCE OVER THE LIST. YOU'LL SURELY FIND SOMETHING YOU'D ENJOY Fancy Pork Boiling Pork lortadella Sausage Corned Beef Arles Sausage ]Pigs' Feet Pork Sausage Mackerel Neufchatel Cheese Tripe Swiss Cheese Pig Tongue : BI rick Cheese New Syrup OH AS. MAURIN'S FAMOUS BLUE STORE eme e S ANYTHING _QUICK, 'PHONE We have Long Distance Service and are open DAY AND NIGHT, . 365 day .n the year. 24 hours out of 24 We can supply you from our stock with anything in MILL SUPPLIES MAOHINERY STEAM GOODS HARDWARE. ETC. and our Bobby is Prompt Shipment I WOODWARD, WIGHT CO.O, LIMITED NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Mire Cane Cart Loader .The Best, Simplest and Cheapest Interchangeable flule and Gasoline Power Strong, Durable and Efficient Boom Swings Automatically Grapple Controlled from Platform and Automatic in Operation Third Successful Season in the Field Prices and Full Particulars Upon Application J. C. Mire Implement Co., Ltd. 210 South Peters Street - - New Orleans, La, ESTABLISHED 1847 PURELY MUTUAL The Penn M augtl Life Insurance C&o JOHN R. FELL QENERAL ARENT FOURTH FLOOR, MACHECA BUILDING, NEW -..FCAt. S R. N. SLATOR, LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE. DONALOSONVILL SE, LA. BANK of WHITECASTLE, WHITECASTLE, LOUISIANA. T. J. CLAY, Pres.; A. DAIGLE, Vice Pres.; F. S. BRowN, Cashier DmxacTons: L. M. Soniat, Geo. R. Murrell, Dr. A. A. Allain, Louis Hebert, A. Daigle, S. Levy and T. J. Clay. :: . OkFFERS to depositors every facility consistest with legitimate and safe banking. Issues V. domestic exchange available anywhere in the United States and draws drafts on I rincipal European cities. ,he " King" Moss Collars FIT BETTER-WEAR BETTER-LAST LONGER Delivered at any station or landing at the following p lees: . Open Bottom Moss Collars with Canvas Ends, per doeen, 810.8 Plain Moss Collars, - - * " " .0O Moss Riding Saddle Pads, -- - " " 15 Moss Pack Saddle Pads, - " a &. These collars are made by band from the best selected moos. I have a lrg stock on hand and am ready AU all orders on abshort entice. Old Mes -olCieaa bin aez chage for new ronem Du3N a SaaRD. a8w.. AROUND THE STATE. Items of Interest Culled From the Louisiana Press. Over Seventeen Hundred Convicts in State Penitentiary-High School- at Greens burg Destroyed by Fire-Illinois Capitalists Invest in Gas Field. Property valued at $20,000 was de stroyed by fire at West Monroe. Dr. J. E. Newman, a prominent citi zen of Monroe, died atE his home in that city. Marie Cloud, aged- &ears, was run down and killed by t street car at lexandria. The eleventh annual convention of the Phi Chi fraternity was held at New Orleans. Fire destroyed the high school building at Greensburg, entailing a loss of several thousani dollars. Negroes of Alexandria threatened to lynch Edward Ayles, g fellow-black, who brutally murdered.'is wife. The Illinois Central Railroad will shortly inaugurate a n~v special train service between Chicap and New Or lens. of hio, William Atkins, fo erly of Ohio, committed suicide by rowning him self in Bayou Grosse&Tete, at Rose dale. V. D. Lejeune, aged20 years, was kicked in the stomach a wild horse at Estherwood and died shortly after wards. The- residence and 4tore of A. M. Baker, at Head-of-Island, were de stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $7000. The state penitenti 4y begins the new year with 1710 conticts on hand, the largest number in the history of the institution. Pollard Sealy, the 15 year-old son of R. C. Sealy, of New Iberia, acci dentally shot himself in the right arm while out hunting. The citizens of Natchitoches pledged the sum of $30,000 in aid of a railroad projected by the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company. Mrs. Laura Arnould sued the New Orleans Railway Company for $20,000 damages for injuries sustained in a street chr accident. C: The Melrose sugar plantation, in Assumption parish, coisting of 1200 acres, of which 650 acres are cultiva bie, was sold for $50,000 Dr. E. B. Craighead, president of Tulane University, delivered an ad dress before the Sotthern Educational Associati o Montgomery, Ala. Rev. Eli ` arp, an aged Baptist minister of West Carroll parish, com mitted suicide by blowing out his brains with a 41-caliber revolver. Will Zimmerman, a negro charged with carrying concealed weapons, es caped from the parish jail at Floyd by cutting through the brick wall. C. E. Tatum, station agent of the V., S. and P. Railroad at Waverly, was seriously injured by the prema ture explosion of a giant cannon cracker. Lucas Bereaud, a well-anown farmer of Sardine Point, Iberville parish, was thrown from his sulky while en route home from Plaquemine, break ing his neck. A movement is under way for the building of a system of drainage canals in the vicinity of Jennings for the purpose of reclaiming something like 15,000 acres of land. Jim Smith, a white man who was arrested at Lecompte on the charge of stealing a watch, jumped through the window of a moving train near Alex andria and made his escape. T. J. Richardson's cotton gin at Echo, Rapides parish, was destroyed by fire, together with its contents. The loss is estinjated at $9000, with in surance to the amount of $3100. Charles G. Dawes, former comp troller of the treasury, and his brother, Rufus Dawes, of Chicago, Ill., to gether with S. S. Hunter, of Shreve port, have invested $600,000 in the natural gas field near the latter city, purchasing the Citizens' Oil and Pipe Linae Companywhich was originally capitalized a at3.000900,. Half the World Wonders how the other half lives. Those who Use Buck len's Arnica Salve never wonder if it AYill cure cuts,woonds, burns, sores and all skin et utions; they know it will. Mrs. (Grant Shy, 1130u. Rey nolds at., Springfield, ill.. say*- "I regard it as one of the absolute necessities of housekeepinj." Guaranteed by J. J. Leche, druggist. 25 cents. C. PONSj DONALDSONVILLE, LA. 4 Dealer in Old Scrap Iron Highest Prices paid for Brass, Copper, Lead, Old Rope and Old Sacks FOR SALE- .'. 12 Pumps, all mizes; Evapora tors, Clarifiers, Boilers, Tainks, Copper Boils, Etc. x x INTERCOASTAL CANAL. Hon. H. L. OGeydan Criticizes Adverse Re port of Federal Board of Engineers. Says Project is Too Important to Admit of Abandonment. The adverse report .of the federal board of engineers on the proposition to construct an inland waterway ex tending from Brownsville, Texas, to Donaldsonville, caused considerable surprise in southwest LOuisiana and elicited the following comments from Hon. H. L. Gueydan, vice president for Louisiana of the Interstate Inland Waterway League: "It is unfortunate that the Washing ton board of engineers has seen fit to give our project a set-back. This may delay the undertaking, but not kill it, for it is by far too big an undertaking, too necessary to a large number of people to be pigeon-holed in any such summary manner. The necessity of it is so palpable, the great benefits to be derived are so evident to all those who know south Louisiana and coastal Texas, that I am convinced that the report would have been favorable had these Uuited States land oticers in spected our lowlands coast, embracing our great lumber, oil, sugar and rice belts, and their vast industries, with out taking into consideration the tre mendous possibilities in the future development of hundreds of thousands of acres of the most fertile lands in the United States. "Major Edgar Jadwin, U. S. A., came, saw, and-put in a favorable report, of course; and he didn't take anything for granted, hither. He had to be shown, and reliable statistics had to be furnished him. His estimate of the cost of the work, $2,000,000, is insignificant compared to the great amount of good to be obtained. There is no engineering problem to be con sider4b. The question is purely eco nomical. "Will the saving in freights com pensate for maintenance of the future canal? Yes, ten-fold, twenty-fold. A board of business men would have reported super-favorably 'on the pro ject. Just think of it, marrying the fresh waters of the Mississippi with those of the Rio Grande, uncon taminated by the boisterous Gulf of Mexico, and all for a paltry two mil lions, one-third the value of a respect able battleship liable to be sunk at any time, or one-tenth the price we paid for the far-away Philippines t.at nobody wants now. "This matter is too important to Louisiana and Texa too important to the Mississipp y, too import ant to coal-producing Pennsylvania to be pigeon-holed at a board meeting. It behooves the people of Louisiana and Texas to let congress know in no uncertain terms that the intercoastal canal is a crying necessity and a splendid investment in more ways than one, and that they want it and want it soon. We are confident of the energy and ability of the Louisiana delega tion in congress, but they must be able to show in Waslh igton that the peo ple at home demand the intercoastal canal." New RaiIways in Louislaus. Louisiana ranks second among the states of the union in the new railroad mileage laid in 1906; and, taking the last three years, it still holds second place. This is all the more surprising because the state is not a newly opened one, with a sparse population, as is the case with South Dakota, which ranks next to it in new trackage. Louisiana is an old and well settled state; and there could be no better proof of the business and commercial development under way than is to be found in the heavy work of railroad construction. The additional mileage is being built because the commercial needs of Lou isiana require it. To those who knew the railroad geography of Louisiana of a few years ago, a list of the lines under construc tion today is almost incomprehensible, so many are the new roads being built into the state. Those adding to the mileage in 1906 number no less than twenty. The New Orleans and Great Northern leads in new mileage, as was expected: Tie`Louisihanna Tritt .ad Navigation Company, the old New Or leans and Red River Valley, is second in the completion of its line to New Orleans. Then follow the Colorado and Southern, the J asper and Eastern, the Arkansas Southern, the Kansas City Southern, the Louisiana and Ar kansas, the Louisiana East and West, the Opelousas, Gulf and Northeastern, and a half dozen others. The new mileage constitutes only a fraction of what it is proposed to build, and this assures continued construction for many years to come until all of these lines and their connections are com pleted, so that there is no probability of any let-up in the present activity. Thendthe work is all complete it will Sl for a new map of the state, for nothing tears up a country more than railroad building, establishing new towns and cha.. names of old ones, until a f idens would scarcely know the again: For the state as'La this railroad construction means, , new fa oilies for the shipment of produce to m .54k taa e mo= - rak a kvei THE WORLD'S NEWS. Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From Near and Far. Disastrous Wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad-Large Quantities of Arms and Ammunition Smuggled into Cuba. The national pure food law went into effect Tuesday, Jan. 1. A revolutionary outbreak in the re public of Salvador was crushed. The town of Arica, Chili, was par tially destroyed by an earthquake. Gen. Marcus P. Miller, U. S. A., retired, died at Fort Barrancas, Fla. American exports to Panama during the year 1906 aggregated $14,000,000. Fire in-a garment factory at Los Angeles, Cal., caused a loss of $300, 000: The native residents of the province of Bengal, India, are boycotting Brit ish goods. Wholesale arrests of suspected rev oationists were made at St. Peters burg, Russia. President Roosevelt's New Year re ception at 'the White House was a billiant affair. Large quantities of arms and ammu nition have been smuggled into Cuba by unknown parties. Japan will spend large sums of money in increasing the efficiency of her army and navy. An American and several Mexicans were butchered by Yaqui Indians near Valencia, Mexico. Sixteen battleships of the Atlantic fleet assembled in Hampton Roads for the winter maneuvers. The Mexican government has set aside land for an Indian reservation in the state of Chihuahua. The seventeenth annual session of the Southern Educational Association was held at Montgomery, Ala. W. D. Howsee, a merchant of Cren shaw, Miss., was killed by the acci dentaldischarge of a shotgun. Sixteen persons were, killed and a score of others injured in a train wreck near Arbroath, Scotland. Bishop A. Coke Smith of the Meth edist Episcopal Church, South, died at Asheville, N. C., aged 57 years. Thad. Stampley waskfilled and W. F..Magee seriously wounded in a fight with zegroes near Hamburg, Miss. The American Shipbuilding Com pany, of Cleveland,. O., raised- the wages of all its employees 5 to 10 per cent. Esther McGinb, aged 13 years, acci dentally shot and killed her 11-year old brother while hunting near Bay St. Louis, Miss. Managers of western railroads de cided to take no action on the demands of their employees for a 15 per cent In crease in wages. The chief of police of Alton, Ill., instructed his men to arrest street "mashers," and to shoot.them if they attempted to resist. Fifty-three persons were killed and about sixty injured in a wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near Washington, D. C. Sir Thomas Lipton advocated the use of seaworthy yachts instead of mere racing machines infuture races for the America's cup. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion has ordered an investigation of the block signal system used by the railroads of this country. A, J. Cassat, president of the Penn. sylvania Railroad Company, died at Philadelphia, Pa., and was interred at Byrn Mawr, in the same state. Baroness Burdett-Couts, one of the greatest and most famous philanthro pists Europe has ever known, died at her home in London, Englapd. A call for a second conference be tween cotton growers and manufactu rers was issuqal by the president of the National Asgication of Cotton Manu facturers. George W.-_erkins and Charles S. Fairchild, ials of the New York Life Insurie Company, were indicted for forge , by the New York grand Japanese tu m ss . p jlished at Berkeley, Cal., urgd b.te assassination of the w o--o of Ja~pt , the president of the States and other notables. The president of the Southern Cot ton Association applied to the post office department for the issuance of a fraud order against the New York cotton exchange. - The remaips of Prof. Thom t Grin dell and his party, who left Douglas, Ariz., in June, 1904, on an exploring expedition to Toburn Island, located in the Gult of California, were found in a desert in Sonora. It is reported that James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Rail road and one of the most noted fnan ciers of the country, will retire from active business during the course of the present year. A large number of men distin.ul.hed in historical abd ascintific research assembled at Brown Uptv'wslty, Prov idence, R. .I., to attead theb aasat onvenatf of the O arfit n msHteal, :o~ :u. ~ (q'k~ 25eo.q; NEW ORLEANS LETTER. The New Year's Advent-Memories of Mexico-Death of Ex-Senator Catery and Widow Leon Godehaux. Misaellaneous Matters. New Orleans. La., Jan. 2, 1907. Staff Correspondence of The Chief. How many resolutions have you broken since New Year's day and how many times have you written 1906 for 1907? The blowing of whistles, clanging of bells, the deafening reports of guns and booming of cannon crackers and other noise-makers marked the dawn ing of the new year upon the Crescent City, and at 12:30 the joyous old town was enveloped in a haze of smoke made. rosy.by the glowing illumination of bril liant pyrotechnics. The usual happy go-lucky crowd thronged Canal street, and amid much horn-blowing, jostling and merry badinage, the old year was sent upon its way and the new one given a rousing welcome. A returned traveler from Mexico told me a story the other day which is good enough to bear repeating. "Quien sabe?" meaning "Who knows?" and "manana" meaning "tomorrow," are favorite words with the Mexicans, with whom indolence and procrastination are qualities of the blood. Your rarely ask a native a question to which he does not reply "Quien sabe?" and whenever you de sire anything eope and want to know when it can be' rsaculsied, the al most invariable answer is "ir`mnL.u, A friend of this friend of mine who has lately returned from Mexico, and who had had "Quien sabe?" and "manana" fired at him until he fairly hated the sounds of the words, happened to be in the City of Mexico not long ago and noted a funeral passing down a principal street. He turned to a native standing near-by smoking a cigarette and asked: "Who's dead?" "Quien sabe?" replied he of the sombrero and cigarette. "Thank God!" exclaimed his ques tioner fervently, "and I hope and trust 'manana' will die next!" This friend of mine' also told me another good story concer.ang an Englishman who is spendtin some time on a Mexican ranch. He was superintending a bit of work bel done by several natives, and during the course of it issued an order which sounded something like this: "SeeI heah, you fellahs; vamoose this blar sted bah out of heah now-not ma nana-and let's get out of heah like belll" Then turning to an American onlooker he observed: "Really, sorry I learned this blooming language, don't-cher-know; it's so beastly vul gar." The total number of poll tax re ceipts issued in New Orleans for 1906 was 44,685, exceeding all previous records by nearly 10,000. : The annual bank clearings in this city showed a total of $1,020,2;3,803 for the year 1906, which is an increase of $57,480,343 over the preceding year. Archbishop Bleak officiated -at a beautiful ceremony Sunday afternoon celebrating the completion of St. Stephen's great steeple. Father Fran. cis Xavier McCabe, C. M., of St. Louis, delivered an inspiring address, and other figures beside the arch bishop and Father McCabe who stood out prominently in the ceremonies were' Father Ryan, who began the work on the steeple, and Father an, his successor, who finished it. Former United States Senator Don elson Caffery diedin his apartments at the Cosmopolitan Hotel Sunday nilht. The remains were taken to Franklin, the home of the deceased, Monday morning, for interment. A special train for the use of the family and friends was tendered by the Southern Pacific Company, whose attorney Sen ator Caffery had been for thirty years. Rev. Father. Leslie J. Kavanagh, pastor of the-Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, was appointed superintend. ent of parochial schools by Arch bishop Bleak. The new Shubert theater In.Baronra street was opened Saturday night under very brilliant auspices. The handsome playhouse was taxed to its utmost capacity by a large and fash unable audience, gathered to witness daqi a, "8an oneton." river ` i establish a the steamboa : B Shreveport and New Orleans. Henry Newman, a wttcIi otton merchant of this City and found . firm of H. & C. Newman, died at home in St. Charles avenue after an illness of only two weeks. Gen. W. J. Behan was unanimously elected to the command of WashinXton Artillery Camp No. 15, U.-C. V., to succeed Gea. W. G. Coyle. Mrs. Leon Godachats, wife of the late Leon Godchaux, died on Monday at the family residence in St. Charles avenue after a .lingering llness. Chamberisla' Cneeh Rasi.M the is the t ° i"es Uu sot Av st.irOg. Wallerof P is" ant an d 7 e `¶ alitk _