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THE COMMERCIAL JOURNAL
Think not lig'htty of never so weak an arm which strikes with the Sword of Justice.
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VOL. 7.
THIBODAUX, LAé SEPT. 28th rgio.
HO. 34
Mistrial For
Child Murder
Case took up morning hour of coUi't last
Thursday, although there was no dinîct
evidence given.
Accused testified and his testimony
to show that shooting was
merely an accidental while scuffling for
shot son.
went
J nry remained in room considering mat
ter for three hours and twenty minutes
before they realized they could not
agree.
Theoase of the State Vs. James
Howard, a youth, but fourteen
years of age or fifteen at the
oldest, was tried last Thursday,
seven months after he was char
ged with having murdered a com
panion, one Lawrence Anderson,
both colored. The accused was
without, means to employ an at
torney, and the court appointed
Judgê Beattie last February.
The matter was taken to the Sup
reuie Court on au exception to
the court's jurisdiction main
taining that the cour, should sit
as a juvenile court to try thn case,
eveu if it were a capital crime.
The Supreme Court ruled other
w ise and the matter was reman
ded for trial tothe DistrictCourt
and a plea in abatement, excep
ting to the court's jurisdiction
was again filed. This beiogovt r
ruled the trial whs proceeded
witli in the ordinary wuy.
There was absolutely ftoclirect
testimony, all evidence being cir
cumstantial and based upon state
ments made alter the homicide.
The only witness was the ac
cused himself. There was some
evidence tending to show that
deceased had said that accused
had shot him, but this was not
made as a dying declaration, as
deceased never seemed to realize
that his death Was near. Accor
ding to accused, whose story-was
very plausible and told withbst
any hesitancy and in the moSt
straightforward manner, he bor
roA 'ed a gun from his grand
father to shoot a robin hi the
yard, failing to strike with the
first shot, he followed it. De
ceased, a boy of about 16 years,
working on the adjoining planta
tion on a water cart was attrac
ted by the first shot and came
up and tried to persuade accused
to let him shoot, after telling him 1
the gun was no good, and inscuf- !
fling for the gun, deceased hoi- 1
ding the barrel, thegun was dis
charged striking Anderson in the J
abdomen, as they were standing j
on a plank over a ditch and de- j
ceased was precipitated into the
ditch. Accused imediately went j
for his grandfather and apprised
him of the fact and he in turn re
ported the matter to Mr. Van
Beary. Returning to the scene
they found accused under acorn
house, hiding. He is said to
have told conflicting stories as to
manner in which shooting oc
cured. The case was submitted
to the jury practically without ar
gument and after deliberating
from noon to 3. 20P. M. returned
in court and stated their inabili
ty to agree, whereupon the judge
ordered a mistrial entered.
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Mrs. Gus. Wallace is now rea
dy to show her friends and
public her beautiful line of
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Bids For Plant.
Last Friday afternoon the City Fathers
met in regular meeting for the purpose
of opening bids.
There were local bidders, as Well as out
siders on each and every portion of the
big electric plant proposed.
Bids aggregating Forty Thousand,which
will be the approximate cost of the new
plant, were received and contracts are
now being signed.
I The C:ty Fathers metinregu
lar meeting last Friday after
; noon foI . th(1 purpose of ()petl i n <,
L h e bids asked for and received
Many of the bidders were repre
sented in person and there was
much moving around and lobby
ing in the morning. Some of
the out of town bidders on the
machinery were here the after
noon previous and the hotels pro
fitted by it, in that they were
taxed to their capacity the night
previous.
The meeting was held at five
in the afternoon and created
much interest. Consulting En
gineer G. U. Bürde who .drew
the plans for the plant was pre
sent and advised with the local
authorities. The following bids
were received and contrats will
shortly be awarded: ,
Sec. A. Goorge \V. Kettringham, for
building one story brick, #4.050.00
Sec. B. Dresel Engine Co.,
St. Louis, engines, ^3.000,00
Sec. C. Ft. Wayne Electrical
Works, pumps, £7,125 25
Se«.. D. A. C. Jones, Opelou
sa», poles, *3549,00
Sec. E. Ft. Wayne Electrical
Works, wiring, £1012,55
Lawrence Pump and
Sec. F.
Eng iues,
$2061,50
Total £40.ß9S.30.
The approximate cost of the
entire new plant will be in the
neighborhood of $40,698.30.
Work is to start im mediately.
WANTED.
A man to sell milk and do other
work. References. Apply to
MKS; TA.YLOR BEATTIE, SR.
There was a frightful automobile
wreck in New Orleans last Satur
day morning in which two men and
two women were killed by being
thrown info the basin with the auto
mobile. Too much liquor.
A Most Cordial Invitation
is extended to you and your friends
by the Officers and Directors of
The Bank of Thibodaux
to call, at any time, and see the
interior of their banking room,
which is now, probably the nicest
iu the entire Southwest.
NECROLOGY.
A. O. Boudreaux.
Lake Charles» La., Sept. 24—
A. O. Boudreaux, one of the best
known telegraphers in southwest
Louisiana, died this evening. Years
ago he was connected with the Great
Eastern, Clark's and Haag's showsj
He has been here eleven years in
the tel 'graph business. He was
manager here for both companies
at different times, and was wire
cliiei for the postal at the time of
his death. He was born at Thibo*
jdaux fifty-three years ago, and
leaves his mother, wife,son, daugh
ter, brother and two sisters at Ber
wick. His son is telegrapher for
the Kansas City Southern here.
Deceased was several years agent
for the Southern Pacific at Rayne,
Vinton and Scott, and was a char
ter member of the Theatrical Me
chanics' Association here- The
funeral will be held Sunday.
Your complexion as well as your
temper is rentier« <1 miserable by a
disorded liver. l>y taking Cham
berînin's Stomach anil Liver Tab«
let* you can improve both. Sold
by ü 11 dealers.
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For Sale
30 Homing Pigeons, 2 Flying
Pens and one House, 12 mated
Pairs and 12 Young Pairs.
Apply at this office.
High Price
Of Necessities,
Republicans are leeling tlie effect of the
high cost of living that the country is
experiencing.
Kock rib Keoublienn states have gone
Democratic and more or expected to
fall into line at approaching elections,
Next House promises to be Democrat,the
greatest trouble.to the party in power
exported in tlie east.
The high cost of living, higher
now than it has ever been known to
be, has caused the people to awa
ken to a realization of the situation
more than ever. The Republican
partv, creator of high tariffs, is feel
ing the effect and is now in mor
tal fear that the Congress of the
United States will soon be lost to
it and be entirely and hopelessly
under Democratic control. Accord
ing to press reports the national par
ty leaders are putting up a bold
front, but they are confidentially
awaiting the crash which will come
in November, when the Democrats
will sweep the country.
Following Maine, Massachusetts
will fall in übe, as will other eas
tern states, New York it is also said
will be in line, as will several other
strong Republican strongholds»
From all press reports the next
House will be beyond the range of
those responsible for the present
prohibitive tariffs, and unless a
world of money is spent the result
can not be other than beneficial to
the people.
New Iberia suffered a heavy
loss last Wednesday night by a
fire which originated in a saloon
in the centre of the town. The
cause is said to have been defec
tive„electric wiring. The loss is
estimated at touiething like
§125,000. The fire was too much
for ^fte local fire department
and it was thought for a while
that ihe entire town would be
wiped out. Most of the losses
are *id to have been covered by
insurance. Illustrations such as
this should be sufficient to dem
onstrate to owners of homes,
stocks, and other valuable pro
perty, as weh as household fur
niture proprietors, that fire in
surance is a great thing with
which to start a new.
Rice Day.
The local agent of the Southern
Pacific, Mr. A. H. Laborde, who
has been acting as relief agent since
the absence of Air. James Wilson,
called our attent ; on last week to
the fact that next Friday t^ie South
ern Pacific will observe as "Rice
j Day" by serving free of charge rice
dishes on its dinning cars to its pa
i trens. While this will in no mea
sure apply to the branch line, Mr.
Laborde was anxious that no Thibo
dauxite should miss the treat if he
; chanced to be on a dining car on
next Friday.
"Can be depended upon', is an
expression we all like to hear, and
when it is used in connection with
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhea Rt-inedy it means that
it never fails to cure diarrhoea,
ilyst iitary or bowel complaints. It
in pleasant to take and equally
valuable for children and adults
Sold by all dealers.
made
Drug
Try our fresh Taffy Candy
this morning."—Lafourche
Store.
The entire stock of Richard &
Tabor was sold at. auction last Sat^j
urd'iy, the entire day being consum
ed in disposing of same- The live
stock was not sold, as a sufficient
price or bid was not offered» but of"
fers have been made since.- Some
of the liquor could not be disposed
of that day and has been disposed
of since by fcida being offered.
Southern Pacific
Demonsttation Train,
Southern Pftciflc Railroad showing its in
texest in agriculture and sparing no
pains to give the people the benefit.
A special demonstration train with a
competent corps of agriculturalists will
be here on Next Tuesday. Octobor 4th.
Demonstration will be given at the de
pot in this town ou special cars on
that day from two to four iu the after
noon-public invited.
The Southern Pacific Railroad
is taking the proper steps and
showiug its
ture. Next
^interest inTgricûT
t week it will start
out a special demonstration train
from New Orleans over its lines.
Lockport, Raceland, Lafourche
and other points will be visited.
Thibodaux is schednled for the
afternoon of October 4th, be
tween the hours of two and four
o'clock. On this train will be a
competent corps of agriculurtu
ists, iuc'uding a number of the
State
faculty of the T ..ouisiana
University. The train will be
fully equipped and the public,but
particularly the land tiller* and
crop growers, are urgently soli-1
cited to visit the car and witness
the numerous demonstration^ to
be offered .
Since the road has set n üt to
go to this expense there is uo
reason I hat the people should not
show t ie proper, appreciation
This o
ing ou
ing in lu everything
the train that th
have j ou see. The
at the Southern Pacific depot iu
the afternoon between the hours
to by seen on
road would
train will be
a only be clone oy turn
in numbers and iuquir
above mentioned and all publici
ty is heing given lhe matter so
that there will be a good crowd
présent to avail themselves of
the lessons from which they can
profit. Remember the day, and
date, Tuesday October fourth,
between 2 and 4 P. M.
On leaving here the tnfm will
stop at all sia'ions in Terrebonne
and thence proceed west until
the end of the railroad's lines in
this state. Till railroad is after
demonstrating the possibilities
of our lands as well as instructing
our people in Lhe fact that diver
sification is possible and that we
do not all have to plant the same
thins:.
lok B ackac:<c K idkcts and P updep
Southern Pacitic Agricultural
Demonstration Train win be ope
rated in Louisiana with the Assis
tance of the Louisiana State Uni
versity and Agricultural and Me
chanical College. Exhibitions and
Demonstrations will be given at
Thibodaux October 4th, 2 P. M.
to 4 I'. This train, accompa.
nied by an efficient corps of lectu
rer*, will consist of five cars with
exhibits of live stock, Poultry, Gar
den Truck, Corn, Rice, Sugar Cane
Etc, also latest and most up to
date Farming linpleuunts. ft is
very importait! that the farmers
attend these Exhibitions. Abso
lately free.
Like Charles has let a contract
for a $75,000.00 City Hall to re
place the one recently destroyed
by fire.Their court housealso it is
said will surpass in beauty any
thing in the state, the contract
for same has not been given as
yet, as a committee is still inves
tigating va rious public buildings
throughout the state.
Dental Notice
.Smith,
Tlie Denial Specialist
Will be at
The Stiangers Hotel,
Beginning
Tucs« Oct. 4th,
For 10 Days.
All his old friends and patients
are invited to call Work needing
adjusting will be gladly attended
to.
PRICES REASONABLE.
Eat the best Taffy Candy made.
For sale by Lafourche Drug Store*
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Fne tin proved. Order ol Lcdmen ,
give a dance atuf Pow ;U the Odd
Fellows Ifall to-morrow night.
There will be some fancy marching
and Indian dances. The ball will
open with an Indian march and
the evening will be interspered with ;
Indian dances.
St. Helena Echo
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! Comes Back
Bro. 'Holland a little resentful but lets
us down easy and does not mako Iiis
position any clearer.
Knowing him as we do we could not un
derstand and we felt that making a
statement of the case would bring, forth
au explanation.
He seemed so determined in his first issue
that we could not understand change
of front--and do not understand yet.
Our expressing our fcurprise at
| Broker Holland's change of front
ÎP. eight . d W fi«t comrng out
j_ insur King and them backing ml
, ine a S ain ^nd shoutingfor banders
has brought forth another state
ment from our good friend. \\ e,
confess that .we are no further ad
vanced than we were before and
the excuse for coming b ac k" is so
lame that we would prefer hearing j
our good and true brother say so j
rather than see it in print. We j
! fee sure h '' 8ays 11 Wlth soine reg ! et
and id a very amusing way. We
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! , no . u ! fools only do not change
j i h ^, r nm j ds ' but ld \ M surveying the ;
, il seeing how many kick ;
I i sueai ,. at easting conditions |
! ai ? daro u ipped back into line ;
Y seemingly no reason, we won- ;
L L , r , le r 1S I* 0 *. wlser not to :
take the census of wise men. lhe
article, which we feel deserves j
^uue prominence we gave
our article, is here reproduced ,
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"Just after the famous meeting
0 f the "insurgent" Democrats in
New Orleans the Echo bobbed up
and declared itself as being
insurgent, and said it was going
to light just as long as it could
wag its tail, etc.
Before our next effusion, Gov.
Sanders came out in a statement
announcing that he would not
quality as U. S. Secator, but to
comply wyth the request
of the Exposition Com
uiittee, and believing the Exposi
tion to be of paramount impor
tance, etc.,he would serve outhis
term as governor, and also that
candidate for
he would not accept any position
whatever on the Exposition Com
mission, but that he would be a
U. S. Senator in
the coming primary. Appreci
ating the tremedous sacrifice he
had made for the sake of friends
and the success of the Exposition
enterprise, from a sense of simp
le justice, we declared that if we
lived to see the election, etc., he
would get one vote in St. Helena.
For this expression some of our
friends nearly had spasms, and
one highly esteemed friend call
ed in and canceled his subscrip
tion. Nut only this, but sumo of
our newspaper bretberu huv,.
been making faces at us and ae
cuse us of waobling. The Com
mercial Journal, of Thibodaux,}
went so far as to suggest that
with an opposition newspaper in
which to publish the Constitu
tional amendments. In answer
to this we will simply say that no
man who knows us best, be he
friend or foe, will say that we
have ever been known to 'bend
the pregnant hinges of the knee,
that thrift might follow fawning,'
Nor do we know that we haveev
er been called the henchman of
any politician or seen runningup
hill after one begging for a job.
We have supported men for office
and
probably, we had been called to
Baton Rouge and threatened
and afterwards regretted it. We
supported Sander's candidacy
for the governorship to our own
hurt. In fact, the preaehers and
the "lam more holy that thou,"
element thought that we ought
to be excommunicated from the
church and banished from socie
ty, and none but the degenerate
woul ( d support us for Represen
tative. We took the man for what
he promised in his platform and
for what he had done in the past.
He had been a pioneer in advo
cating the election of all officers
from governor down to consta
ble. He promised to liquidate
the state debt, and made divers
and sundry other promises that
have not been full filled, but when
the whole truth is brought out
that the legislature is more tobe
blamed than the governor. We
know it will be contended that he
dominated the legislature, but
we don't takemnch stock in this.
We are inclined to the belief that
one hundred, imyn can come near
jer domineering over one man
^ jan he can over the one hundred,
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even if he is governor.
But what we started out tosay
was that in our famous wabbling
we did not wind up by bringing
ail the governor's sins before
And did fehc article con
Scott Case
Started Yesterday
The trial of Alphonse Scott charged by
the Grand J ury with the murder of one
Uus. Adams was started in court yes
terday.
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The greater portion of the Jay taken in
selecting the. jury, and many tatismen
were summoned before panel could be
completed.
Case creates interest and draws monster
crowd, building packed to doors, many
kept away until jury was selected.
The much talked of case of AI«
ph Ônse Scott charged" witlTthe' muri
der of Gus Adams by the Grand
Jury, after having been admitted to
bail on a preliminary examination
was started in the District Court
yesterday. The accused is repre*
presented by Messrs. Beattie &
Beattie and Messrs. Howell & Cail
l oue t, local attorneys, while the
state is represented by District
Attorney H. M. Bourg
As we go to press too early to
give any details of the case we hope
t0 give a complete synopsis next
week' if the testimony offered will
permit. Photographs of the scene
0 f the tragedy were taken by Mr.
Eugene Knobloch and we under
etand that he has been summoned
as the different views will be offered
in court and will have to be identi
fied by him
j The crowd that was present this
morning was a monster one and in
creased throughout the day, good
many town people kept away for
fear that the> might be summoned
f, s a es jurors, and it was not until
re A Ur ^- , en 8 ^ ,
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gest seen in the
1S " lhe greater . portion of,
i. ie a ^ r " as taken in selecting the
] ury and the regular panel was ex
ia ". 111 httle-or no time and de
Pities were sent out to summon
f e f 3 P r ? rs ,° . court ' man ^' mdivi
1 ua , ^ e,I ) g taken out of their pla-;
f, es . •. )usiuess - It was anticipated^lion
. a t it would be difficult to get a
° many people had discus-^
? , ,? case a . were familiar with
here in town and outside,
, )U Particularly in the neighbor -
At 1; 30 only five
the entire jury had been
that the Gase increased to the lar
building in some
! 100< ;l ü * ^ ie f ase<
la een ected.
You can now buy Taffy Candy
at the Lafourche Drug Store.
For
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hand made Shingles,
particulars address
Pliisc a R ichard,
Thibodaux, La.,
In Care of j. l. basset.
uin anything Cümp li me nta
slv / lhe fare statement thai
F ow S tomach .T rouble and . C onstipation
that
we'were goiug to vote for him for
senator ?
• We want to say just here that we
can see no good) but much harm to
7,,, ,,V ,1 th; , ■ ,
the Governor. It is a very poor in
vitation to capital or immigrants to
come this way. It will build no
new factories nor will it in any way
advance the social or material pro
gress of Louisiana.
We have noticed something that
we believe we will mention just to
see if anybody else has noticed it:
We know some men who read ex
clusively. so far as state papers are
concerned; the Times Democrat- In
every case they are arrayed against
Sanders, and firmly believe that he
is the most corrupt man that ever
walked the surface of the earth
Why, to hear them talk they think ;
that Some wicked Genii must have I
bien
At his birth and cjrsed the earth
with sin,' ;
and it is like singing psalms to a
dead horse a» to Undertake to rea
son the case with them.
i'When we meet and conversewith
a man who reads other papers as
well as the Times-Democrat, we
find a man who is quite conserva- !
tive» and willing to concede theman i
his political rights. They had not !
expected absolute perfection of the
man, knowing that he was human,
and they find much good in him, and
many are to be found who love and i
admire him, and they areneither of
lice holders or office seekers. î
We repeat that with the light be -j
fore us we shall cast our ballot for
Sanders. Conditions could change
and we may have reasons to change
our mind, and if this is wabbling,
let. it go ai that.
"Wise men change their minds. '
Fools never do.'' ;
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To-day is ' Fall Opening", at
Mrs. Gus. C. Wallace's Millinery
Parlors. All ladies are invited to!
be present- No troubie to show j
goods. See special advertisement j
in another^coluipn.
Amendments Te Be
Voted Open
At approaching Novtembar elections the
people will be callod upon to T®te sev«
ral amendments to the State Constitu*
tion.
There are fifteen in all and as we took
occasion to sky before thirteen either
mean extra taction ot.more money.
We give herewith the synopsis of each of
the amendment» proposed to give our
readers an idea.
The following are the fifteen
amendments proposed to th® State
Constitution to be voted upon on
November 8th next •' A tax of 6-8
of a mill on all property outside of
the City of New Orleans and Ä-8 of
a mill in the City of New Orleans,
to be collected annually until four
million dollars are paid, said tax
to begin in the year 1911. Thi's
was followed later by another amend
ment continuing the said tax, in
the City of New Orleans only, un
til six and one half millions have
been collected and authorizing the
Panama Exposition Company to is
sue bonds to above amount. In
th* event that the exposition is not
other increasing the number 6t re
presentatives in the Legislature to
120, there being 116 now and provi
held in New Orlsans the amount
collected from the levy of this tax
to be retained by the parishes eol*
lectingit and to beueed for good
roads. Another to levy and author
ize the collection of i of one mill
on the assessed value of all proper
ty in the State for the creating of a
road fund to construct and main
tain public roads in the State« An
giving the power to the Commissio
ner s of the Port of New Orleans to
ere ot and operate public warehouses
ant ] iggue bonds to raise the money.
Another proposing changea t» the
present Juvenile Court Law in that
thexourts are gîvep more jurisclic«
over the trial and disposition
0 f SUc ^ cases. Another allowing
the Attorney General two assift?
tant attorneys at $4000 and 16500
pe r annum. Another authorising
the collection of a license tax for all
professions, eaUingfl, avocations,
save a few enumerated. Another
ding f or further increase as new pa*
rishes are created. Another
proposing a different manner of ia
suing bonds by municipal corpora*
I tious, school boards, etc. for spe<*
IciaLpurposes. Another proposing
j the levy of 1-5 of a mill extra for
pensioning Confederate Veterans.
Another relative to the levying of
special taxes for sohool purposes
by towns, parishes etc. not fo ex«
ceed three mills. Another stating
qualities of Supreme Court Jasti*
ces and retiriug them at 75years of
i age on full pay, if they hare served
115years. Auother exempting do
i mestic steamship companies. An*
other authorizing the State Board
of Liquidation to issue new bonds
to retire the old state bonds for
state indebtedness doe Jannary
1914. Finally, another to redis*
trict the Judicial Districts of this
«ate to thirty districts.
All voters should D<
ponder well
and exercise their jadgment on
this carload of amendments which
one way or the other mean so mnch
to tha state. Several increase the
burden of taxation, if carried.
Our Taffy Candy is always freeh
made daily at Lafourche Drug
Store.
iOlEïS OfiINO 1AXÄIM
Fo« S tomach TROUBi*.«n<ll£0mXM>ATiMI
'.IThose Who Come and Go
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I Hon. Robert F\ Broussard,
candidate for Congress was hare
last Friday circulating among
friends.
tl . , T
, , l ^ oa - E A ',° Su t "'I a . n , of ? ew
.Orleans spent last Friday here
on 0 ® a business.
Mr. Pen Weldon of Bowie was
here last Monday on business before
court.
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sure to tr y our old fashion
Ta % Candy, made daily at La
fourche Drug Store.
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Something New.
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Mr. Thomas Pierson, who is coo
ducting the tonsorial parlor former
ly belonging to Mr. James OheraaSt
has called our attention to a new
and very sanitary apparatus nov
;in lis© in his parlor. It is a paten
' sterilizer, with all its parts of
; nickle plate. All towels, brushes
and tazors used in the shop are
sterilized before being asèd on
patrons, and the apparatus is so ar
ranged that the peculiar
j would be forced to refraiu from
j kicking ^ the service iu coonec*
tion with tuia new outfit.