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K. THE ST. LANDRv LA.id "Here Shall The Press The People's Rights Maintain, Unawe by Irttuei.* and Unbribed by Cain." VOL. XVII.---NO. 23. OPELOUTSAS, LA., SATUDAY, MARCH 9,1907. $1 PER YEAR CONTRACT SIGNED FOR BIli HOSTELRY. Mesrs. Ventre & Pfoerd to Begin Work at Once and Coeplete It Ina FiVE IONTHT FROM DATE OF SIGNINGi ar. lI. Cretin to lan it, and the lacombe Annex to Be Kept in Connecteon With IL-1 Bllome Capital. As announced would be the case in our last issue, Mr. C. G. Honnold, the Abbeville architect, arrived on Tues day evening's train, and that evening the contract for the building for the 1 New Lacombe Hotel was signed with 1 Messrs. Ventre & Pulford, a local firm, who will at once begin work. 1 . The contract price is $41,800, ex clusive of furniture, but including a circulating system of hot water heat ing, * wiiing and plumbing. The building is artistically designed, and in appearance as well as substantial t .qualities will compare with any city of this size in the 4tate. It, will be 70x96, three stories, 40-room capaci- t ty, pressed brick porte chochere front with cement trimming. The lower floor will comprise'a large lob- C by, main stairway inside, billiard room, store building, barber shop, large sample room and two offices, besides the hotel office. The rooms will be equipped with modern bath attachements, and the whole building a will be heated by a hot water circu- t4 lating system. The building should be completed p; within five months, and the contract- al ors say that they will complete it in d, that time. Mr. Hann6ld is the super vising architect, and will give the a] building his personal attention. sc The Opelousas Development and t1 Improvement Co. was organized in June, 1905, with a capital of $50,000. A deal was immediately closed with Mr. L. E. Littell for the purchase of a site at the corner of Court and Bellevue streets, measuring, seventy feet front by a depth of one hundred N andfifty feet, the purchase price be ing $7500. The contract was let to Messrs. Ventre & Pulford soon after, but for some and various reasons the ti matter remained in that shape until a t month or so ago, when the company H was reorganized and the new Board of Directors went right to work at it, th with the result that the hotel is go- of ing up. G The hotel will be built entirely with home capital, half in shares and SI and half in bonds. The $24,000 of bonds was bought by the following vi parties: E. M. Boagni, $5000; St. Landry State Bank, $5000; Peoples State Bank, $5000; Opelousas Nation al Bank, $5000; L. E. Littell, $1000; M Dr. Jno. A. Haas, $1000; Dr. C. F. s Boagni, $1000. b The Board of Directors of the com- br pqny are: Jno. W. Lewis, President; L. E. Littell, Secretary; Dr. Jno. A. cr Hass, G. H. Cretin, Ike Roos,'Dr. C. m F. Boagni and E. M. Boagni. se "This is the best hotel town in the - State," remarked a drummer at the Lacombe on The night of the signing A of the contract, when the new hotel $E was the subJct of discussion on the pa hotel gallery, "and we are all just in 'de-lighted'at the news of an adequate bniHlino.-all that was IaCinCkmr to make hotel conditions here perfect." Mr. Cretin, the present host of the Lacombe, will manage the New La combe. The hotel annex (now being used as such) will be retained by Mr. Cretin. It is just across the street, and contains eleven rooms. This will make the room capacity of the New Lacombe 52-not yet enough, thinks Mrs. Cretin. The capacity of the present Lacombe is thirty-two rooms, including the annex. Big Land Salae Over $27,000 worth of sixteenth section school lands were sold at Auditor's Sale at the front door of the courthouse last Saturday. The lands sold well, and were mostly tim ber lands. The saw mill men were n evidence at the sale, and made ay p hases . NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. General Prosperity Throughout Louisiana--Million aire Watkins Regaining His Mind--Sanita rium for Consumptives.. There is an epidemic of glanders in Tensas parish. A $40, 000 cotton oil mill will be erected at Broussardville.. A white partridge waa killed by Sheriff Gahagan, near Ruston, last week. The Farmers' Union is preparing to build a large warehouse at Bentley, Grant parish. Franklin is agitating requiring the telephone companies to put wires i underground. There are seven candidates for dis trict attorney of St. Mary parish, the Review reports. A lodge of Knights of Columbus, forty strong, was organized in Alex andria last Sunday. The Federal government is anxious to secure men from this State to en ter the mail service. Mrs. James Ware, wife of the vet eran Lake Charles physician, died, in that city last week. G. M. Dugger was nominated for Chief of Police of Alexandria in the Democratic primary election. A rural free delivery mail was es tablished between Marksville and Red River and up to Choctaw Bayou.: The St. Bernard Grand Jnrymet and adjourned without work, owing to abseice of crime in, that parish. Charles Godchaux was elected president of the Whit-Central Nation al Bank, vice W. Q. Whitney, recently C deceased. Miss" Jesse Buford, of Abbeville, I and Mr. Herbert Lusted, of Lafayette, son of Chas. Lusted, were married at ( the latter place. Three little negro boys played with a gun at Donaldsonville. The gun went off then there were two. -Crowley Signal. New Orleans has spent over $4,000, 000 in public improvements during their tenure of office. The Governor has called an elec-' tion to be held in Natchitoches parish to elect a clerk of court to succeed' H. M. Hyams, deceased. "Miss Gertrude Caffery, daughter of 1 the late Senator Caffery, was married one day last week to Mr. Henry M. Glassie, of Washington, D. C. As a result of a war opened in Shreveport last week by pulpit and press on Sunday Law violators, three violators were arrested there last Sunday. At a meeting of the Catholics of Marksville last week $11000 was sub scribed by those present to the building fund of the proposed new brick church. "The prospects for a fine cane crop throughout St. Mary are the most favorable for many years, con sequently our planters are all smiles." -Morgan City Review. Eunice is offered a saw mill, by the Adams-Duson Lumber Company, a $50,000 capital incorporated com pany, if she will give the proper inducements. Says the Rayne Tribune: "Church Point is to have a bottling work and ice plant. Theodore Daigle has pur chased a site on which he will estab lish the above named industries at an early date." Edwin French, son of William French, of Alexandria, has received the appointment as cadet to the West Point Military Academy. He received the appointment through Congressman Pujo. A sanitarium for consumptives will be established in St. Tammany parish, under the management of the Louis iana Anti-Tuberculosis League. A tract of land was donated in that parish for that purpose. "Not less than live elections will be held in as many school districts in this parish on March 27th, for the purpose of ting f or lagat thie levy of special taxes for school pur poses," says the Marksville News. a The Elks of New Iberia last week purchased a lot of ground upon which e to build their opera house. The lot, measures: 6 feet front, by 1..0 r deep, ~On Main street, for which they | paid $4,402.85, or $75 a front foot. Mrs. H. V. McCain, of Colfax, has entered suit against the Majestic Theatre at Shreveport for $20,000 damages for injuries sustained by her son in falling through a blind exit while attending a play in that play house. Jules Robichaux, a white man, committed suicide by drowning him self in Bayou Lafourche, near the town of Thibodaux, last Sunday. He had previously attempted his life by swallowing gasoline, but gasoline is not so bad as that. At a meeting of the building com mittee of the Methodist Orphanage, held at Bunkie, it was decided to ac cept the plans for the orphanage to be -erected at Ruston. The Conference owns 40 acres of land at Ruston, and will build as soon as possible. "Improvement is the order of the day all over Louisiana," says the Lake Charles American. "Every town is making advances in public utilities; drainage canals are being constructed, school houses built and paving and sewerage systemsI installed.." An addition will be built to the E Commercial Hotel, New Orleans, costing over a half million dollars. The millionaire proprietor, A. Monte leone, came to ..his country a steerage paisenger, with just enogh money to get by the immigration ' inspector. "The acreage in this vicinity will undoubtedly be larger than ever be fare, and every indication points to a greater yield than last year. The acreage has been increasad at least 25 per cent, over last year," said Mr. Ben Weil, in speaking of the Irish potato crop in the vicinity of Alexan dria. r The Lake Charles Press says: News c has been received in Lake Charles that J. B. Watkins has recovered so a far recently as to be able to attend to considerable business, and a letter b from him to a relative in Lake c Charles declares that he will soon be able to return and give active per- L sonal attention to his affairs. Ripe Pear. And now comes John Boudreau, of' Plaquemine Ridge, with a ripe Le compte pear! Yes, this year's crop. Dr. Theo. Chachere,* of our city, returned from that section (a few miles from here) Monday, bringing with him a specimen of John's ripe pears. A Heavy Loss. The Clarion deeply sympathizes with Mr. Leandre Lavergne and fami ly in the heavy loss of property they recently sustained. Mr, Lavergne is a hard-working and highly esteemed citizen of Belle vue, and for years had labored assid uously with the object in view of erecting for himself and his dear ones a permanent home. In order to economize they lived in a small house, hardly above the dignity of a cabin. Last year their hopes were real ized, and he built a commodious and well-finished house. One night last week the family awoke to find their home in flames. It was burned to the ground -without even saving a change of clothes. There was not a cent insurance on the property. A few friends, with Dr. Theo. Chachere as the leading spirit, who have known Mr. Levergne and family all their life and know their worth, have contributed a sum of money for his relief, and are still endeavor ing to raise more, in order to~ aid them in. starting in life again,- for which Mr. Lavergne desires to extetl his heartfelt thanks and gratitud. FOR A STATE a Opeleas3a Had Bit A Colin g:ar lty for Se OF TH 388EVEFO $ According to Major C. J. Barrow, of the State Board of Agriculture, I Opelousas has an opportunity of is tinguishing herself. She has an op. t portunity to make a step forward that will at once make her famouis,~ and will be the means of doing much k toward her attainment of the goal her citizens are striving to have her' - reach: the goal marked "The' best " city in the State outside of New Or-n. leans." ti We mean that, according to the gentleman above mentioned, Central Louisiana is entitled to a Central ~ State Fair, as well a North Louisiansa. We mean that the Legislature 6f the O State- of Louisiana having donated. m $15,000. to such an institution in A North Louisiana, would cheerfully do ! the same forh Central Louisiana. And ~ Opelousas must get it. -: Major Barrow was in: Opelo!uss last Moniday, having come to. appear. before the Police Jary and to meet t the citizens of this parish and city, al looking to the' drganizatioi of a. Par m ish Fair Association, and it was. he, Ii strack with the possibilities of •our city, who made the sugpestion, or rather advaniced the idea, ofaCeiitral State Fair for Central Louisiana to be o located at this point, Our con. e.ia was marely informal, a=d: thi. ng W herein must be understood as coming ax from him in his official apacity, ex- c cept that which refers to a Parish, Fair. . . The only State Fair is now at ai Shreveport, in North Louisiana. There th every year are assembled the various . Parish Fairs which havebeen held in rli the parishes, concentrating there with a.a their exhibits. The fair lasts gene rally a week, and during that ine the he city of Shreveport is croi4e4 with - people, the last meeting vw"re told Gi an average of 10,000 people .aseing L. the admission gates daily. The' cele- P brated horses of the .UiUtd'State all come there to race, a8 celebritiesin th other lines come the.q. 'Ie'tate;of t Louisiana gave Shreveport-s10,00(} bo for- eecting a permanent Stte build- pe ing,-and $5000 for prizes....:" - -. : _ -: . . . . . . . ,, ,'. - ..: - 1 i!I OL UUUtre necess ary ur 1us Tw be on a footing to present our claim to the Legislature. The first step is the organization of a Parish Fair Ase sociation. Even if we ca. d et no further than a Parish Fair, t~ must we organize. St. Landry t1 mpire Parish of the State, is one of he few that is without a Parish F ;Aasocia tion. It has been the experiene with otherparishes that these were t only self-sustaining, but that 't tl.. .outlay for the preparations wasn.. ursed the first or second year, apd that the stockholders founad. thatthet had made a good investment. The Policee Jury Monday appropriated $300. 'The Board' of Aldeiria will appoiprlate at least a like amount, provided the Fair is held in Opelonuas. The State of Louisiana gives~ $100. Then the citizens are supposed to form thgm selves together into a stock company, and the thing is done. It.is proposed to hold the parish Fair here from thie lt to the 4th of October next. so It is now incumbent upon our peo ple to take hold of this matter-take hold ef it with a:sii and . getther edness that will not only insure the' holding of annual Taºi.h Fairs, but that will place Opelousas in a position to go before the net Legislature ard say to it: "You aeivn $15000 a State Fair in Korth Louisiana. YTo should do-s much for Central Lois iana, Opelot-sh-as prepared for it. The Woodmen of the World will hold their ate onvention at roe next Tueday, the 13th. Over 30 delegates are expete toatt PUGH SAYS STABLE. IS NOT OUTLAWED. May Become A Nuisance By Manner Of Coduct- Suit O Judge Lewis v Sandf & Powel A > arit-Pougbt Lge lBattle. The casej is, this: andell & Powell, of Vernon parish, bought a l lot bak of the Epiecopal churchb, and opposite the residence of District Judge E. T. Lewis, on Landry street, in- a resi dental portion of the city, and started the erection of a livery, sale and feed stable thereon. :They were notified by .Judge Lewis, before they started building, that he made objection to the erection of a stable on that spot, and that he would fight the matter in court.if they persisted in their inten tion to build the stable. About that time Alderman Jno. W. Lewis intro dueced an ordinance in the Board of Aldermen providing that piaties de siring to build warehouses, stables. barns, etc.; within the corporate limits of the city shboulfld first obtain a per mit from the Mayor and Board of Aldermen The clerk of the° Board was instruct d to . noti. essrs. San dell & Powell of the introduction of this ordinance, which had to go-- over to the next meeting according to; a rule of the Board aiid }tell them that 1 the matter would come up for action at the meeting of archM - ith. i the 1 meantim .howo vtr Sandhell :t Powell had begun the building of the stable, ignoring overtures of a petition filed I by Judge Lewis in the district court a ooing to the triatl of the iss'with oiit resorting to an injuaction . When they continued the` b.lsing, and when theo fo aionanaon wlIt I w a plege be nl'jo -them,1 and later the ladies of the Episeopal . church intervepeed with Judge Lewis. I Sandell & Powellin ir .t anas. er, l asked' that theinjunction be diesolve , i; and for damages. Charles Thiboed x, the contractor, also sued fordnasges. i Judge P. S. Pagh;, of Acadia ar- I rived Tuesday evening to try the case, b and that evening tried the .exception c having to do with the bond, 'ai after I hearing the argumients on both sides I -B. H. Pavy for Sandell &c Powell, F GiL L. Dupre for Judge. Lewis and D L. Guilbeau for Tliboda datlge t Paugh modified the ipjanction, by allowing it to be bonded, which meant that defendants could go 'in with their work provided they f.is.hed a a bond. Judge Lewisasked for a-sus- t pensive appeal to the Supreme.Court. e The decision of :Judge: Pugh, .which ii he dellvered orally from the w:.ench, d practically decided the point involved f in the suit: that a livery stable is not 0 a nuisance per see Cr itsealf, an thatr a prospective nuisance can not be in joined. In other words,; that a stable might become a nuisance, and an in junction would lie only iwhenit did become a nuisance: This was clearly first blood for the stable.. Judge Pugh then, against the pro test of Judge Lewis and his attorney,: ordered that the trial should tproceed on the merits of the case. Judge Lewis pretested that he was not ready for trial, but Judge Pugh would only delay the- trial one day, and setTlhra day, the 7th, as the- day. The de fense wanted to go to trial at nce. Tuesday night the ordinance intro duced by Mr. Jno. W. Lewis at a pre tious meeting of the Board ov Alder men came up for action before thatr body, and was pasmed after much die cossion, by a vote of threo toone, Al derman Lawler beingi the chair and not voting, and r. r: ans oting. That .wa a knock down to the credit of the plai tit, Judge Le is. Then, towards t close of the umeeting, Alderman tewi& hi o ced a motion to the efect that the ity atterey be instructel to join. In the suit with Judge Lewis, i beha8 of midt securig fromte t9 d~M*bp MeurSaedel & Powellof the pas. sage o the odinn: e, and take mea sre itopate . caa the like its older brotherl was threa ened with a still-born ate, when Mr. Lewis aaroe and made an inpassionate speech, in which he said to Marishall Hayes, who as present: "Go, go, and tell these gentlemen that the council passed an ordinance, but don't intend to enforce .it. Tell them to go ahead with their stable; tell them that the Christian ladies of the Episcopal Chuch and the old citisebs of the town who have watched it grow and helped it advance have appealed in vaint to their servants for protection for their sacred place of worship and their hoaes." After more discussion Mr. Ventre seconded Mr. Lewis' motio, nd it adopte, Mr. Evans voting no. The meeting then adjourned ntil next Monday night, the 11th. After ti e aeting several of the Aldermen remailsedh the City Rall, and a lively di orne , livelier, anything, than during the i. In the face of the resolties pplying the ordinanceto the .table now in theirm (except Mr. Lewis who had gone home) said e'phaially that It was not intended that this should be the case; that the erdinatee was meant for the future, and ai no ap plication to the Sandal & 'Powell stable, whigh had bg an i. kesara. Rooe andl Ventre, who~ voted toE the ordinatce sn4tlg ggtoti ap Powell applie4 to the Boaifor apei. it, ithey ni h wold vote tograntit feel. ng that it was aotjat to make it I apply to them. Ms:;ra. Lsnler and1 wans also said that they waould vote o grant these gentteen . permit, mt Mr. Evans had voted against the >rdinance and the motion, and Mr. Awler was understood, all along to e opposed to both. The meanmbe )resent at the post-mortem .aaembly aid that they did not dere that the own shuld involve itself lute litip.. don over the preseut embo in at Wed4*nfeda borin%, Judge Pgh ubmitted a written opinions on the ame lines with his oral opinion oft the previous evening, but nincb more exhaustive and clear. dTis dion if upheld by the Stpreme Coun, will decide thecase in favor of the d fendants, Sandell & Powell and will obviate going into the trial on the merits of the case. He says thai the in.jun6tlon i level led at the use to which the a' e is to be paut, and asks: "Ca the plaein tit aessume s amattr of law That where there are twoway in whch a livery stable can be couted, that the defendants will neesriy con uct the se rso as to constitute a private nuisance?" He sets the ques tion as to whether astableis a nui sance at rest, ecording to his opinion, b saying:. "There tis no question thats a livery stable is noet a nuisance perZe, said that it only becomes so from the °manner in whieh it is con ducted." The plaintffI , Judge Lewis, v aked for a suspensive appeal, which Judge Pugh refaused. He then asppled lto the SupretieCourt for a writ of man dam s, fqrcing Jndge Pygh to grant it. It was agreed between counsel that the matter would he at once ub mitted to the higher tibunal,a the entire matter rema"* in statu qo a u n til the oourt p on the mandamas. llis also asked that the iriai$ the case on its merits, if t shouldcome to atpoint, should he pestpoued for i*tsten days, and the cannt for %he making an objection, the tuil Judge set it for April 4th. T b s abofht plt ad defendant were - tot $1#0( Ardia, La., wll he a e w $1, OCoG housanau*he A LECIE ON UiIC BATTERS. Ers. tttuwuurat, Of SIreuped, Vil Vs e aus ler dmncay nA - ~ lE1 FUWEH WhBit is the Analr' for hfl4ats>* Nitt The Progressive League held a Imeeting at the courthouei WedBea day night which if thei measures taken hold of are carried out, will repay renetatively th efforts. The various subjects treated at the meeting were: K railroad to Vie. Platte;-a Parish and Central air; as Carnegie Library; a Chic Lease, and saw mlls. President Swords urged persistent action in the etter of the popese4 Ville Pl atie-Opelou a 4ail . `Ie said that ti eald e no he hbe ses&e aboti 4 saion of the prct if it' . fay etween rand Vlle Pl was teoured. )It #advsed ~tha4 League take up e a r reIly` ' withthelop railroad ge Opelonae, New slean~S A Ndrfi icir~ ter 4 tof 4hc r.L w ltkntalt il teitdem A Woiatte s of A M Iebll ndJ.. Chltel ý to to rr the mthio . The ono s , nth hetnuaeobme. in qtey of ada tral .ater, wa k oeththf80u t Ionstideesl l ~llt for the.l tae wtte n £ 4ts * ng e and h Progreyive Le e° hst andVr Platte will bet S to co-operGssWy moited as holl:we FroC; Oplooe:D.43~ta Dry C. . on, J.ý G . Lawer. 'Thyn ons B. ti haelirR. to., M.e hmsoD.&L talker G.· A o Thee omittzeesh· alrt establishes a $1O0,000 where 100 a yer mai na e. 'i coit " xtleaSpt. C. J A pgW L Saudos, Dr. B. A. LAtt l sdt McKinney,. . BJ~er ier, ch5~a3ra of Ithe oo* mittee on oirga aon ' oa1 OCic Lege, announed pres, and announced that o neat Wedes day, the 14th, at8 o'clo E 'k, M Shuttleworth, ecretariy `at °; Shreveprt Civiec League, would afd. dress the ladies of Opeloasas at he courthousie, on civic iiatters. The se -comoittee wae authr to perlect the arrangements for the receptie of this .esteemed Loausana lady. ' ladies of the city shoud not fail t est b her. Mr ° Cha.i eville wvse elected a member of the Board of Director of the Progressrive Leage.. The question of giving. Mr. V. H. 8idlikebomanusfor the ma it of a =saw mil. at this Esae a.was brought aup, and deferred until anoth er aein.It wia agreed, however, that the necessary efforts in tt direction woIoi be made. A vote of than~ks was exteudedI tel New O`eas Plcaone for t: to thiseity; .ad to Mr. D.L. Gal besaan A. A. Andint fr servioes mi the matter of o n .e o.ora do gotendqept onhe7 South aide the geoo d 1h oldewod Imkste