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THE ST. ANDRY LARIO "Here Shall The Press The People's Rights Maint in, Unawed by Influence and Unbrlbed by Cain." VOL. XV.---NO. 52. OPELOUSAS, LA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1905. $1 PER EAR II EI -lgIJiU GO WYAN MIr ne ospi ital. The Johnson & JohnsonJohnson & Johnson' s ., , ,, .,,i Sulphur SULPHURF M GATORa s I " "'"" Fumigators..... S U L P H U R FUM I GATO R -I are ready for use-all you have to do is to light the The Product of the Greatest match, and it will do the rest. Pan goes with every just b candle. Price, 10 cents, 3 for 25 cents, $1.00 per Scientific Minds, ats have just dozen. One candle will burn four hours. Mason's Drugstore. Mason's Drugstore, Main Street. Maon's Drugstore. Mao s Drugstore . NEWS FROM ALL ' OVER THE STATE. A Preslaeat Farmer Living Near Crowley Kills His Sen Accidently. a -- ( A SCHOOL TAX FOR LAKE CHARLES. 6 Big Oil Sale in Jennings-Tee Much Raina for Bice near tieydan-Strike in f New Orleans Settled. o The schools in Baton Rouge have been screened. There is a move for a parish stock law in Acadia parish. Crowley has expended more than t $4,000 in the clean-up campaign and the quarantine. The dreaded horse disease episzo tic, has developed in New Iberia, and is causing much concern to stock men. t The saw mill and planer of the{ 'roomy Lumber Co., Toomy, La., t was destroyed by fire last Saturday. t Loss $10,ooo; no insurance. Walter Thomas and Cleveland t Thomas, charged with killing H. P. 1 Rogers father-In-law of Walter Thomas, at Rioggold, La., last April, were acquitted' in the Dis trict Court of Arcadia, La., last ] Saturday. The Diamond Festival, which 4 proved such a success In raising f funds for the yellow fever fight in New Orleans last week, will be an annual event in the Crescent City. 1 The funds thus realized will be de voted to charitable work. There has been entirely too much rain for the rice men in the Guey dan rice section, the frequent heavy showers retarding the work of harvesting to a considerable degree and causing some injury to the rice Fthat Is down in the fields. The Abbeville Meridional says thiat the east bound train came in to that town several hours late Tuesday morning with a new crew it having been reported that the old crew could not stand the strain of eighteen or twenty hours con tinuous duty. .An election for the levy of a five mill tax in support of the public schools of Lake Charles has been ordered, and it is confidently be ieved that the progressive citizens of the City on the Lake will vote the tai with admirable unanim ity. Thei controversy between the #oserdrayd en and the teamsters in New Orleans, has been amicably -ajuste, through the efforts of Mayor Behrman, and a general industrial strike averted. The bat , tie 'was a long drawn one. Both sides are satisfied. The following is a statement of earnings from operations by ratl roads in Louisiana for the year endtng June 30, 1904: SEarnings, entire lines $12o,280, -67.67. E·arniangs in Louisiana $21,996,.44.76 Percentage of earnings In Louis lasna to earanings entire lines is 18.3 per cent. The gasoline boat Venusengaged in the lower coast packet trade, sank Friday night at 8 o'clock while ea route to New Orleans. There were no lives lost, but the several men on board, composing the crew had narrow escapes. The boat and its cargo of seven hundred barrels of oysters are a total less. News has re ched, New Orleans from Paris that.tmpresario Charley has surrounded himself with the nueeus of a French Opera Com pany of most unsoa mnerit. The euasson wiln be o -newith except. ional brilliancy. It is expected that never in the history of this great old institution of French) Opera has there ever been a season to surpass it, and very few to equal it, even in the days before the war, when it attained the zenith of its success. Jennings, Sept. 23.--Through the agency of W. E. Noble, the Morse Oil Company of this place has sold to the Southern Pacific Company 6300,000 barrels of fuel oil to be de livered at the rate of 50,000 bar:.els per month for twelve months. This is the largest contract closed for Jennings oil since the field opened. About two o'clock Monday after noon Sept. 18, Clebert Benoit, a pro minent farmer living about a mile and a half north west of Morse ac eldently shot and killed his son. Andrew Benoit, while ejecting the schells from a revolver with which he had been practicing. The young man was shot near the heart and died almost instantly. The Midland Enterprise says: "The Abbeville branch trains are delayed every night now, due to the scarcity of train crews; the re gular Abbeville crew had to work thirty-four hours without a stop this week, consequently the men were disabled, and Capt. Smith of the Eunice branch had to take the train to Abbeville Tuesday." The State Board of Agriculture and Immigration is preparing to open the new business year for the handling of the feedstuff used and sold in Louisiana. Under the re cent acts of the legislature, feed stuffs are placed in the same class with fertlizere and paris greens, and all feedstuffs must come up to guarantee. In order to ascertain if they do, the feeds are inspected by the Chief Inspector and analy zed by the chemists of the State, working under the Director of the Experiment Stations. JUDGE DUPRE ON OPELOUSAS. Says Future of the St. Landry Town is Very £ Bright-it Will Be A Metropolis. "Opelousas is certain of two new railroads in the immediate future," declares Judge Gilbert L. Dupre, who was in Crowley on legal busi ness Wednesday to a Crowley Sigoral reporter. "As soon as the qua antine lifts work will begin on the jewis road as well as on the Co lorado Southern and there is talk of the Kansas City Southern passing through our town. "The Lewis road will be built," continued the Judge, "because enough tax has been voted to build It and anybody investing money in its construction runs no risk of losing his money. That road will be built because the people along the proposed line want it badly enough to put up the money for it. The Colorado Southern, on the other hand is coming through Ope lousas because Opelousas happens to be in its way. There seems to be no doubt of the construction of the Colorado Southern from some point in Texas to Baton Rouge and we shall get the road because of our geographical situation. Opelou sas is therefore destined to be the metropolis of Southwest Louisiana, since it will have tributary to it the richest farming lands in South ern Louisiana. Even in these hard times we are prosperous, and what shall we be with two more roads, eleven cent cotton,, four cent rice and diversified crops of all kinds around us? "The yellow fever? Opelousas is as immune from it as St. Tammany. We have the finest drainage possi ble and the only mosquitoes we ever had were those bred in cisterns and we have sereened them out, so that today Opelonsas is free from the insect that earries fever" FARMERS, AWAKE ! What Shall We lo Relative to Marketing Our Cotton ? WVhilst this is a subject which in terests every person in the South, old or young, male or female, black or white, it is certainly a subject that receives less serious thought and consideration than the busi ness interests of any other charac ter in the land, and scarcely any at all by those most interested. One of the leading journals of Louisiana, commenting upon the object of the Assembling of the Cotton Growers Association at Ash ville, N. C. on the 6th inst., is pleas ed to give utterance to the fol lowing: "It is the general belief that the convention will resolve that no producer sell his cotton for less than 11 cents during the year about to begin. The theory is that the crop will be a small one by com parison, not merely with last year's phenomenal crop, but with cotton crops generally, an.l that, conse quently, all available cotton, and more, will be needed to meet the world's requirements. Under such conditions the producers believe that they should receive a good round price for their cotton, and they consider 11 cents little enough. This proposed attempt to regu late prices is nothing new; on the contrary, it is extremely old-old as the World and civilizaloton-and the result is, of course, always the same, namely, the ultimate supre macy of the laws of supply and de mand, totally irrespective of the resolutions or attempts of any self constituted body, no matter how important and influential." Whilst the above is the general rule, "There is no rule without an exception," and it only awaits the action of the Cotton Growers of the. South to prove to the contrary. I contend that if the cotton raisers, be they large or small planters, will act with unanimity, and market their cotton with a degree of cau tion and intelligence, supply will play no prominent part in the re gulation of the price of cotton, but demand is sure to play its part. For instance do not rush all the cotton into market at once, only sell enough to satisfy your im mediate demands, and hold the balance as your "Baiik Account." You can always command money, with cotton as your security, and at small interests. In every state in the South, ex cept Louisiana, the banks, mer chants, and even individuals ad vance money on cotton certificates, at 5 and 6 per cent interest, and leave it to the party to sell his cot ton at his owndiscretion. A greater interest was charged in Louisiana and in different locallities, simply because we could not arouse our people to the iecessity of organi zation. Prepare to store your. cotton se cur-r from damage, insure if you desire, and market it gradually, andyou will soon realize the wis dom of this course, if pursued by the greater clap of cotton produ cers, but to be succesful there must be concert of action by a majority of the persons interested. We shall watch the actions of those of all sections, and try to keep our people advised of the re sults, and hope all interested will keep posted and co-operate with us in the good work. Market your cotton judiciously, and it will make little difference whether we have a ten or a twenty million crop. When we find we have too much we can keep it as our Bank account, and raise other crops, repair our worn out farms, and raise new. mules to replace those we have worn out raising cotton at less than the price real ized. I would be glad to see our peo pie aroused upon this subject. Talk it to your neighbors, and let us see if something cannot be done for our financial salvation. We seek no contention with any. class, we only want a paylng price for our labor, and means to keep our farm in a condition which will render it tenantable by employer and employed, and we cannotdo so . with the haphazzard manine prac * tised by the farmers of to-daday. More anon. 1F.E.STOKES, . President of St. Landry, Cotton Growers' Association, Expert Watchmakers, Jewelers, Opticians and Engravers. Watch repairing is our special ty; we make your broken jewelry look like new, so get our advice before you discard it. We don't claim "To cause the blind to see," but we are grad uate opticians, and can help where any acuteness of vision exist. We do a limited amount of en graving free when goods. are bought of us. R. MORNHINVEG & SON'S Main Street Jewelers, Opticians, Watchmakers and Engravers. GUS. E. DUPRE, Abstracter and Notary Public. Can be seen In the office of the Clerk of the Court. NO OLD GOODS . EVERYTHING FRESH A Reliable Store with Reliable Goods In Business Over TwentyFive Years My long experience in the Grocery Businessg enables me to give the best goods for the least money. Quality and economy go hand in hand I Can Save You Dollars. My line consist of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Hardware, Tinware, Crockery, Glassware, Drugs, and Patent Medicines, and also the best Boiled Ham and freshest Cheese in town. Country Produce Bought and Sold. Cumberland 131-3. JOSEPH, LASALLE, Free Delivery Landry Street 1Own Your Home. . a.aWe offer for sale Forty Homes of Forty " acres each. Offer good until October 10th, 1905. Land worth $30.oo per acre. We will- sell now at $10.oo per scre-one-tenth cash, one-tenth January 1, 1906, balance in one-tenth annual installments, deferred - payments to bear eight per cent interest,. payable annually. A CHANCE TO BUY YOUR HOME AND BE HAPPY. KEEP YOUR EYE ON OPELOUSAS. See or write us at once, Littell& Lawle ITad andI migrat ion pa.ts, S . OPELOUS-M- " LotiMMIA.- 1 . : l ·,. v .r w..u .u,~. .-.,J " " , SST, LANDRY STATE ANK, OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA. CgPgI1 SURPLUS MIS &UITIDFII PROFITS . . ACCOUKTS ROLZCITffED. SSAFETY DEPOSIT S OXE$ FOX XENT. AARON JACOBS, JONAS JACOBs, LEON S. HAAS, F. A. VoouIRns, President. Treasurer,. Attorney. Secretary.` do- l ·mpany, Stationers, Booksellers, Newsdealers, Lh ensedBill Posters CAPITAL SrcKt, $50,f0000, MAIN ST., OPELOUSAS, LA, MIDSUMMER ARRIVALS-Advanco showing of early Fail Goods just received; 1ooo Fancy Work and Lunch Baskets 1.o000 len-COe t Purses l- ooo Boxes Papetrie loo Blank Books looo Slates f- oon Oyster Boxes looo Talley Cards Bottles of Ink 50oo Composition Books loooo Tablets 2o000 Batter Trays .. ooo. Paper Napklns 25 gross Playing Cards 25. gross Poker Chips 96 gross Pencils l1o gross Pens Merchants of St. Landry will d. wellto get our prices t gV( We take subscriptions for any M~gazine or Newspaper at publlahera. prlaeeo. Phones: Cumberland, 15-3;, Bertha, 1354. m.Io + -m , The Opelousas National Bank. OPELLOUSAS, LA. - . Began Business October , ;190i. Juie 30, 1904. Juxu $0, 1906. Capital.......... ....$.... 0.O j Capital;....... .... ..;:. 180 0400 ' Surplus and Proftts... 4:4076 Surpus and ProAts. 1. ,M Deposits .... ..... . .. 94197.54 Depousit. ........-:: ACCOUNTS SOLICIT D PRESIDxr...t .... ...........E . .B. ,U iJDSSON VICEP EBSIDENT .. ... ....* *....... B ..... CASHIER i .............. ......A. LON- Pt I Ass's CalaHIER.......... ... ...;J.A.PErIN8 . J.DETLEIN, Th Leading Jeweler. My stock 1 Complete with every fire pertaning to a FPI ST-CLASs Jewelry- Store. Gr't reductions o Goods suitable -for ...EC E PRESENTS... : Opelousas Ice & Bottling Works, Y * ANiPVAV URiRS O - Ice and Carbonated Drinks • prom a p de d alr tttuesiast water is res tto ts allot'rer tip . a quantitles desitd. pres tirnished on applieation. Correspondt ence sollcited. - . . UND TELEPHONE & TELERAP GO. longdi.stance lines and telephones of this Company nable you to talk lm ost anywhere. . . Suthern Indiana, So uthern Irnfnoi, Kentucky, Tennessee, _ si sippi and Loutsana. We can put yout I quick and satefactry communication with the ot of this great section of the country. We oicitcyour patronage Hates eason. aie. 'Equmts and flite fir . 4c F ELº o I II , . . r tw