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The Meschacebe
PUIfLISIED WEEKLY.
RESERVE. : : : LOUISIANA.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
IOTH, EAST, SOUTH ANI WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na
tion and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.
Hearing of arguments in the appeal
et John R. Walsh, who was convicted
of misappropriating the funds of the
Chicago National bank, which failed
Several years ago, was set for May 11
by the United States court of'appeals.
The setting of the case at this time
was the result of disagreement be
tween counsel over the question of
fling briefs in the case.
Harvey Hazen, 17 years old, found
guilty of murdering his mother, was
sentenced to life imprisonment. Ha
sel was convicted in Toledo of slaying
his mother, January 11, 1908, by beat
ing her to death with a hammer.
Declaring that "if the government
-is to act with full efficiency against
criminals it must have some force of
secret service agents who can act
against criminals anywhere," Presi
dent Roosevelt, in a statement made
public from the White House, emphat
-ically reiterated his opposition to re
stricting the field of usefulness of the
.secret service.
A severe attack on the forestry ser
ice o'0f the -depatment of agriculture
was made in the house by Mr. Mon
4e.l, of Wyoming. He denounced it
i. the most autocratic burean of gov
` erament outside of Russia.
To acquire a full knowledge of the
fEiciency of the wireless service
-,; srd naval vesels, Assistant Sec
- btary atterlee has ~ssued an order
directiag all comhanders of vessels
and of. naval stations equipped with
- reless apparatus to report to the de
partment on the last days tof ech
osiaesa the t efficiena y of the
the 7 " $ l,,o w I n Baeojkljz
ag operation. r. Baeign
e o rOdUi University,
w#,e a=u-bs twas s prest
i. fcunaptai le crew. He had
75 ears.
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" eto Hof the Hotel Al -s
as )**4' Mr. Atlas
an olad Mend of Mr. Rcase
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m. :. t tth! British m rew nau
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The "ext session in the hearing of
the suit instigited by the federal gov
ernment to dissolve the alleged pow
der trust will be held in Chicago on
February 16. The hearing was to
have been reshmed at Wilmington.
Del., jut counsel for the defenes was
not ready to complete the cross-exam
inatiori of Robert S. Daddell, president
of the Buckeye Powder company of
Peoria, Ill.
It is learned that the protocol drawn
up by W. L Buchanan, the United
States special commissioner sent to
settle outstanding disputes between
the United States and Venezuela, had
been found unsatisfactory to Venezue
la and would not be signed in its
present form. - The hitch has occurred
over the case of the New York and
Bermudez Asphalt company, for the
arrangement reached with regard to
the arbitration of the other claims ap
parently is acceptable to Venezuela.
The navy department has decided
to build a great 14-inch naval gun at
the Washington navy yard. Unusual
attention is attracted to the great
weapon because of the fact that it will
be the largest gun ever built by any
nation to go on ship board. The ini
tial cost of this gun will be $100,000.
News of the passage by the Califor
nia assembly of the bill providing fox
the segregation of Japanese school
children was received in official cir
cles in Washington with surprise and
consternation.
Vice-President Fairbanks is prepar
ing to join the notables who annually
migrate to California to escape the
rigors of winter in the East. He has
just completed a purchase of the in
terest of the H. L. Drew estate, in the
200-acre Drew-Fairbanks. ranch, near
Redlands. The purchase price was
between 60,000 and $70,000.
The mysterious "unknown," who
been in Memphis for the past two
weeks, is a mystery no longer. His
name is Roy C. Porter, son of J. W.
Porter of Ottawa, Kan. Sight of the
father's face as he stepped into the
office of Chief of Police O'Haver
brought back to the clouded brain of
the young man recoliection of who
he was. He recognized not only his
own identity, but remembered also all
facts Oonnected with his former life.
Ms., Harvey W. Salmon, former
treasurer of Missouri, who has also
been chairman of the Democratic
State committe, escapes the three
Wirsent form. They su-isor ly object
to the acti a:e the senate ti tacking
ac50,. 0 app ropration to the reso
mution a- it.,pased the house provid
ing for,a survey of a Lincoln memor
ia froadif the White House to the
Wits=More to 200 negroes were arreet
k2n mthurg in an effort by the
pc to r erf thle _ errt e th i govertir.
lat . w we meetkA nro hve made
er "a asv asf re s a t
b . 0 wayrs a ma4d of sts
of ~ 4 -tinte stio .elk a at
eriVAsociathon ciravinwedigt cmruie
of thoer btutre ito feeth oter for a re
which of the trade;sethe urigovtrnor
of New JerSeyn New-Yorko. and Con
:ne fbt will meet Inrt eonferenoe,
'to discuss waytiand m" of set
thue the sh e: ' `.
saderrn fecase ruise to f . east s it sitod
'Ste Othie-ý -'hade
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L *osbe .ad-,OP
IAIlST N[WS
IN LOUISIANA
s Town Forced to Sell Light Plant Be
cause of Loss by Prohibition.
MONROE VISITED BY CYCLONE
n -
d Employes of Lumber Company Strike
o Against Wage Cut.
d Three Infants Freeze to Death-Cov
.ering Insufficient.
Bosco-A small tornado here wreck
ed the public school building, blew
down a house and worked heavy
damage in other ways.
St Francisville-The third attempt
has been made to check the trains
over the Louisian Railway and Naviga
t tion Company's tracks by placing
1 crossties upright in the cattle guards.
1 Grand Cane--While Ed Robinson's
y 17-year-old boy was cutting timber in
the woods a tree limb fell from the
top of a tall tree and struck the ne
gro on the head, and from which in
jury he died a short time later.
IMonroe-A storm of cyclonic pro
portions passed over this section early
Friday morning. Much farm property
has been destroyed and five negroes
are reported as injured. The proper
l ty loss will run to thousands of dol
lars.
Alexanderdria-Edwin E. Gremil
lion, a young man of Bennettville, met
r death in a pecular manner. He had
climbed a tree to cut a limb and the
limb twisted around, pinning him to
the body of the tree. When he was
found the limb was against his breast,
showing that the breath had been
knocked out of him by the blow.
Columbia-While Mrs. E. E. Valen
tine, of Copenhagen, was doing some
washing her clothing caught fire and
she was horribly burned so that there
is no hope of her recovery. Mrs.
Valentine is the mother of twins 4
monhts old, besides a number of other
small children. Mr. Valentine is one
of the most substantial citizens of
Caldwell Parish.
Breaux Bridge-A strong move is on
foot to organize the Breaux Bridge
trarmersand Truck Growers' Associa
. TepurposeiIs .to Saterest al
tables.- -
New Orlea. oseph Dies of this
city, former Member of the House
from this district, has been selected
as Assistant State Labor Commission
et rwith James' Byrnes, the new ap
pointee. The salary of the assistant
is $1,000 per year. This place was
held by Walkus of Shreveport, duro
Ing the administration of Robert E.
Lee. Mr. Dies is well known in labor
circles.
Crowley-A deal was closed here by
which i lac ca' ydicate `omposed of
<Dr. TIL Ilger, DBavi Gow,. Charles
etsel ad i. Trnuax of Crowley, and
S;.Y. Allen, of De Ridder, acquire a
-tract Ofv, $S3*V acres of land near
Tjc , MeLdico, on *hich iS, about
5bo00 head of :cattle and a large
amount of valuable timber. A coloni
zation company will be orgAnized to
setlte the tract with Americans.
Cottonport-Clifton Smith, a negro,
who was suffering from smallpo-, was
placed in the pesthobse on the out
skirts of town. The disease- affected
the negro's mind, and it was necessary
on sevral occasions to chain him down
to prevent him from doing harm. Sat
urday night he was chained to his
bed, and about 9:30 o'clock the house
was seen to be on fire. Before as
sistat.ios doild be rendered the negro
be was burned to death.
Co -ingimFor several weeks past
ezpewineats. have been in progress
here with the elays of this section to
determine if possible, their coipmer
clal value and the feasibility of work
ing tem. A small 2iln was erected
in the theart of town, and the various
samples of kelay, including an excel
lent sample of gray kaolin, were given
a: test w,-bla was n almost every way
satisfactory. The fact was establish
ed that the days of this section are
of an except.onally fine quality, and,
even 'With the limited facilities, will
-ret.rn good profits to the investors.
It is lthsgIti that the result of the in
vetigations now.r in prgres -will be
the establishimet here of a well-euip
pets, Jan, turpoaatia boxes and g -any
_small artiles, tugan there is a possf
i of the eetablishment of a larg
eripant for makingt sewer pipe sad
Wo.rl Abtst 15W af rs met
al *i ni eto Farmers' O ouperative
aof the weladadote
Crowley-The recent cold weather
did no damage to fruit trees in this
vicinity. Orange and lemon trees
which have grown up from the trees
frozen down by the big freeze of 1908
have passed through this cold snap
untouched. The number of orange
trees in southwest Louisiana is said
to be larger now than ever before.
Crowley-H. Winn, of Jennings, Pre
sident of the Texas-Louisiana Rice
Farmers' Association, is devoting con
siderable time and attention to the
organization of the Louisiana Rice
Growers' Association. He has arrang
ed for a meeting at Gueydan on Feb.
6, when a Vermilion Parish associa
tion will be organized. On Feb. 13
a meeting of the Acadia Parish branch
will be held and on Feb. 20 a branch
will be organized at Lake Charles.
The Louisiana Rice Farmers' Asso
ciation now has 250 members and Pre
sident Winn predicts that it will have
at least 1,000 members before spring.
Manfields-At a meeting of the City
Council the city electric light plant
was sold to J. L. Logan, of Texar
kana, Tex., for $6,150. The deal is
an echo of the recent prohibition elc
tion, at which the town went "dry."
The light plant cost the city about
$8,000 and when it was purchased the
whiskey revenue amounted to $5,000
per year, and it was pledged to meet
the deferred payments on the lignt
plant. On Jan. 1, 1908, the payments
became due and the city was unable
to meet its obligations, but arranged
with one of the local banks to carry
the paper. In January last the town
was again unable to meet the pay
ments, and the sale followed as a
necessary consequence.
Batton Rouge-A triple hanging may
be pulled off in West Baton Rouge.
Sheriff Parker now has three prison
ers in his care who have been sen
tenced by Judge Claiborne to be hang
ed. Chas. Davis, Wallace 'Jones and
Ben Jones are the negroes under sen
tence of death. Wallace and Ben
Jones were convicted for the murder
of Conductor Hall, of the Texas and
Pacific Railroad. Chas. Davis, a ne
gro, was convicted in September for
the murder of one of the guards of
the State Penitentiary, but his death
warrant has not been signed by Gov
ernor Sanders. The Governor can
sign all three of the death warrants
at once, and set the same date for the
execution of the three negroes. This
the :oMcials of West Baton Rouge
would like for him to do..
bers of demonsttation farms in this
parish under Mr. Cowdin's direction,
made almost a bale per acre last year,
and this year more cotton will be
planted than last. In addition to De
Soto, Mr. Cowdin has been given
Caddo and Red River Parishes, and in
all three parishes large numbers of
demonstration farms have already
been established. Last season the hill
lands on this parish produced much
more cotton than river and bayou
land. This was due partly to the
bverflow in June and July and partly
to the ravages of the boll weevil be
ing felt more in low lands.
Alexandria.-Floyd Wiliams, a farm
er who resides near Simms, on the
Iron Mountain railroad, north of this
city, was here for the purpose of hav
ing a model made of an automatic
switch closing device which he has in,
vented, and for which he has obtained
a patent. This invention is a simple
device, and relates to autoniatic
switches, and has for its object to pro
vide means operable by a passing
train for automatically closing the
switch should the same be ac
cidentally or otherwise left open.
A further object is to provide a track
device, including a pivotal lever hav
ing one end thereof operatively con
nected with the switch in its opposite
end. A projection on the engine
strikes an upright lever, which throws
the switch, closing it if it is found
open.
Through the courtesy of Dr. L. O.
Howard, chief of the Federal Bureau
of Entomology, the State Crop Pest
Commission has succeeded in secur
ing for the. farmers on its mailing list
about 20,000 copies of recent publi
cations concerning the boll weevil.
During the past four years the conrm
mission has itself published thou
sands of bulletins regarding the weev
IL These have been eagerly seized
upon by the farmers, and they have
clamored for more. The new farm
ers' bulletin is a treatise of 46 pages,
and copies of it will, within the next
few days, be mailed direct from Wash
higton to all the planters on the
Crop Pest ComimissIon's mailing list.
In addition to this bulletin the ha
reac of entomology bas also conment
e1 to f.rpsh the Louisiana farmers
ith :a specia l circular upon "Winter
easures Against the Boll Weevia "
NAtalbasl-AlI emplo,.. of the big
mil ot the Natalbany Lumber C -.
psary, -cated hers, one of the largsst
saw mills a* the. ates went out on a
strike against a 10 per cent reduetiona
in rma es, which went into effet Feb.
tbt*e en pr-i
- Msi
WE WON'T HAVE WAR
ADMIRAL EVANS SAYS JAPAN
MUST FIGHT RUSSIA AGAIN.
Floating Loan of $360,000,000 by
Russian Government Has
That Significance.
Chicago.--"A few days ago, when the
Russian government floated a loan of
$360,000,000. which was subscribed thir
ty times over, that was Russia's notice
to Japan to get ready for war."
Rtear Admiral Robley D. Evans made
this significant statement here Sunday.
"And what is more," added the ad
miral, "Japan herself recognizes and
realizes the position in which she is
placed."
A number of other statements of in
ternational import, viewed from the
viewpoint of Bob Evans, did the ad
miral make. Briefly summarized, they
are as follows:
The United States will have no trouble
with Japan. Neither will England.
When the next Russo-Japanese war does
come, Germany, France and Austria will
espouse the cause of the Russians. Eng
land will find herself allied with Japan
by virtue of existing treaties. What the
result of it all will be, no man can fore
cast.
`e SHAW IS PESSIMISTIC.
n Japan Could Put 200,000 oen in
- Hawaii in Thirty Days.
' New York.-"The Japanese could put
"00,000 of their little brown fighting
men in Hawaii in thirty days," said for
y mer Secretary of the Treasury Shaw at
e the merchant marine congress in Metro
1- politan Temple. "It would take the
'- United States two years to get an equal
d number to oppose them.
"And speaking of the question of pow
n der, if all the powder mills in the United
r States should stop making sporting pow
d der and blasting powder and just turn
. out battle powder, we could only make
,r in thirty days enough powder to last
if our navy two hours. Think of it! We
h could fight two hours a month. Japan
T- knows it. England knows it. Germany
n knows it."
e MINISTER FOUND MURDERED
$egro suppt Uader Jrses and
.; Lyafehig
murdered Rev. Dr. W. T. Hudson, whose
' body was found Saturday night half
submerged in the waters of a pond in
J. 8. Evans' cattle pasture, half a mile
from Houston.
n Immediately following the arrest of
,f the negro a secret meeting was held at
y the Woodmen's halL Only men of cer
LI tain acquaintance were allowed in the
h hall, It is believed plays for lynching
a the negro were made at this meeting.
e A spot of blood was found on the ne
I gro's shoe when he was arrested. He
told the officers that his nose had been
bleeding. He contradicted this statement
to others by telling them that the blood
got on his shoe when he was killing a
chicken.
AGREE WITH THE PRESIDENT
I Senators Continue Hform to Prevent
Passage of Anti-Jap Bills.
Washington.--President Roosevelt had 1
conferences with Senators Flint of Call- i
fornia and Nixon of Nevada and per
sisted in representations to them that s
the situation will be critical if their re- .
spective states insist on legislation '
against the Japanese. c
The two senators have agreed to con
tmue their efforts to influence the legis
lators against action of any sort and
went away from the White House to
send telegrams to the leaders of their
legislatures, urging pwstponement for the d
present of sny legislation.
"I feel that we ought not to try to re- a
sist the strong appeals of the chief ex
ecutive," said Senator Flint "I agree a
with him that the time is inopportune g
for legislation now, and I am going to a5
do what I san to help him in his ef- Pi
iorts." t
TO KEEP HIM OUT OF CABINET
Directors Baie Beynold's Salary m
Prom l8s,000 to $50,000. I
Chicago.-The directors of the Conti
rental National Bank notified George d
M. Reynolds, president of the institute, e
that at a meeting today his salary had
been increased by unanimous vote from ri
$35 000 to $50,000. th
be inerease, it is believed, will prove
an element in the decision of Mr. Bey- in
acids sto aeeeptiln or refusing a tender a
of the portfi of aeretsry of the
Jasitie Says Wssstigtsm Streets Mast
Bs Safe for Ldiesa
Washlttesr-Dealaring "the streets in
of wasbincto. must be safe <fee white G4
wqoen after jLghtfsia Justles Gould Ri
actiensed (mastle.y(kttlett, a negro, who rI
ee the evesinglot7Or V 21s s., attached
f~·Semwb_~_'leef~
HE ALMOST REMEMBERED IT.
Boy at Least Had Combination Some
where Near Right.
Donald had returned from a visit
to the country, and was full of rem
iniscences of persons and things that
had interested him. "I met a boy,
mamma." he said, "that had the queer
est name I ever heard. He said his
folks found it in the Old Testament.
It was-it was-let me see-yes, it
was Father William, or William Fa
ther; I've forgotten just now which.
But it was one or the other."
"But, Donald," said his mother,
"there is no such name as Father Wil
liam or William Father in the Old
Ttestament."
"Are you sure, mamma?"
"I certainly am, dear. I have read
it through several times. William is a
comparatively modern name. It isn't
anywhere in the Bible."
"Well, but--oh, I remember now!"
exclaimed Donald. "It was Bildad!"
Youth's Companion.
CHILD HAD SIXTY BOILS,
And Suffered Annually with a Red
Scald-Like Humor on Her Head.
Troubles Cured by Cuticura.
"When my little Vivian was about
six months old her head broke out in
boils. She had about sixty in all and
I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment which cured her entirely.
Some time later a humor broke out be
hind her ears and spread up on to
her head until it was nearly half cov
ered. The humor looked like a scald,
very red with a sticky, clear fluid com
ing from it. This occurred every
spring. I always used Cuticura Soap
and Ointment which never failed to
heal it up. The last time it broke
out it became so bad that I was dis
couraged. But I continued the use of
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resol
vent until she was well and has never
been troubled in the last two years.
Mrs. M. A. Schwerin, 674 Spring Wells
Ave., Detroit, Mich., Feb. 24, 1908."
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props. Bost
e ALL OF ONE KIND.
it
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n
se that I know of."
If
Not Included.
le After the dry goods salesman had
completed his business with Cyrus
Craig, Centerville's storekeeper, he
f asked what was going on in the town
it "Had any.entertainments this winter?"
r- he inquired.
re "No," said Mr. Craig, "not one. Sa
g lome Howe's pupils have given two
concerts, piano and organ, and the
, principal of the 'cademy has lectured
r twice, once on 'Our National Forests'
and once on 'Stones As I Know Them;
but as far as entertainments are con
cerned, Centerville hasn't got round to
d'em yet."--Youth's Companion.
Criminality of Waste.
If I wanted to train a child to be
thrifty I should teach him to abhor
waste. I do not mean waste of
money; that cures itself, because very
soon there is no money to waste--but
waste of material, waste of something'
I that is useful but that you cannot rep
resent in money value to the waster.
There is waste of water, waste of gas
; and things of that kind. If you would
wish your children to be thrifty I
would beg to impress upon them the
criminality of waste.-Lord Rosebery,
in an Edinburgh Address.
NO MEDICINE
But a Change of Food Gave Relief.
Many persons are learning that
drugs are not the thing to rebuild
worn out nerves, but proper food is
required.
There is a certain element in the
cereals, wheat, barley, etc., which is
grown there by nature for food to brain
and nerve tissue. This is the phos
phate of potash, of which Grape-Nuts
food contains a large proportion.
In making this food all the food ele
mepts in the two cereals, wheat and
barley, are retained. That is why so
many heretofore nervous and run down
people find in Grape-Nuts a truenerve
and brain food.
"I can say that Grape-Nuts food has
done much for me as a nerve renew
er," writes a Wis. bride.
"A few years ago, before my mar.
rlage, I was a bookkeeper in a large
frm. I became so nervous toward the
end of each week that it seemqd I
must give up my position, which I
could not aford to do.
"Mother.purchdsed some Grape-Nuts
and we found it not only delicious but
I noticed from day to day that l was
improving until I finally realised I was
not nervous any more.
"I have recommended It to friends
as a brain and nerve food, never hav
hag found its equaL. I owe maeh to
Grape-Nuts as ft saved me from a
nervous collapse, and enabled me to
retaSl my position."
Nai e given by Pestum Co, Basttle
frek, Mich. Read "The Road to ell'e
r I" I. pkgs. "Therd's a Rieaso."
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