S't. jgmmnt
OFELOU SAS :
S aturday, May 5, !§§§.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from our Regular Correspondent*
Washington , April 23,1888.
Complaints against the present meth
ods of doing business in the United
States Pat«nt Oftice are becoming loud
and frequent. It is charged that the
examiners in the office are extremely
careless, some say criminal, in their ex
amination of applications for patents;
that they throw out many applications
without properly examining them to dis
cover whether they are patentable or
not; that other applications are reject
ed which the examiner knows should
be allowed.
These are serious charges against an
important branch of the Government.
I have thoroughly investigated the mat
ter in order to discover what, if any
foundation, there is for the charges and
who is to blame. I soon discovered
that the charges were all too true, or
rather that many of them were. I also
discovered that the parties who were
responsible for this, I might also say
disgraceful, state of affairs, were the
Republican examiners who have been
allowed to continue in office under the
present administration. And that is
not all. I am fairly convinced that
these hold-over Republican examiners
have conspired together to bring the
office into bad repute, in order to help
the Republican party in the Republican
campaign this year.
In order to get some idea of the po
litical effect of such a conspiracy
among these Republican examiners,
just think for a moment of the, great
number of people who are either di
rectly or indirectly interested in the
business of this office^ Suppose you
notice for one day, everything you see,
and you will find how many of them are
patented or are the product of a patent
ed machine or process. You will be
surpiised, for you will discover that
«.bout nine-tenths of all the things eith
er manufactured or produced in this
country are connected in some way with
a United States patent.
After this discovery you will not be
surprised to learn that this Government
issues more patents every year than all
the rest of the world combined. Now
yon can more readily understand the
amount of damage that can be done the
Administration by the conspirator.
Every man whose patent is disallowed
without a good and sufficient reasop
therefor, becomes a deadly enemy, not
of the Examiner but of the Democratic
Administration, which lie believes has
mistreated him, and his idea of petting
even is, nine times out of ten, to work
like blazes for the Republican party.
This fellow is not alone. There are, so
to speak, thousands of him, and the
Republican examiners of the patent
office are to blame for all his troubles.
In no branch of the Government is
the head of a Department so depend
ant on his subordinates as in the pat
ent office. In 1885 President Cleveland
appointed Mr. Montgomery, a Michi
gan lawyer, Commissioner of Patents.
At the the time that was considered an
excellent appointment, but, owing to
a lack of familiarity on the part of Mr.
Montgomery with the extremely com
plicated practice of the office, his Re
publican subordinates virtually ran it
for him. The natural result was neg
lect and idleness on the part of the em
ployes and complaint on the part of the
representatives of the patentees of the
country.
I am informed by a gentleman who
is in a positiou to know whereof he
speaks that there are quite a number of
examiners of the patent office now en
gaged in business here as patent at
torneys, whose sole capital with which
to begin business were long lists of the
t names and addreses of applicants for
patents whose applications tliey had un
justly rejected for the sole purpose of
afterwards getting a fee as an attor
ney for procuring the patent they had as
■examiner of the United States Patent
Office rejected. These men are Repub
licans.
* In order to break np this practice,
Ibills have been introduced in Congress
«several times to make Examiners of
the Patent Office ineligible to act as
patent attorneys for two years from the
date of their resignations or dismissals
from ftffice. So far, interested parties
Iiave in some way been able to prevent
Buch bills from becoming laws.
Last year Mr. Montgomery was suc
ceeded by ex-Representative Hall,
of Iowa, as Commissioner of Patents,
Mr. Hall is .in able and honest man,
but like his predecessor, he, too, was
unfamiliar with the workings of the
office, and the Republican examiners
succeeded in getting him to make a se
ries of rulings which have produced
much trouble and litigation. In the
meantime the Republican examiners
are enjoying the situation and working
liurd for the success of their party next
fall.
When Mr. Vilas, with his vigorous busi
ness methods succeeded Lamar as Secre
tary of the Interior, he at once noticed
tiie loose way of doing business that
was in vogue there, and issued an order
prohibiting employes gossipiug, smok
ing, writing private letters, etc., during
office li on rs. This order created a big
scare among the Republican exami
ners and outwardly there was a sud
deu transformation in the office, but
in reality they are devoting more of
their time trying to bring discredit on
Mr. Cleveland's administration, than to
the work for which they are paid.
Vicksburg Herald : His Reverence,
Bishop Francis Janssens, of the Dio
cese of Natchez, and Reverend Father
Pickeritt, of this city, will leave here
ou Sunday, 22d inst.. for Warm Spring,
South C8Coli!»a, to attend a convention
of Catholic clergy and laymen, which
will be held here for the purpose of
forming a league to encourage immi
gration to the South. All of the Catho
lic Bishops of the United States are ex
pected to be in attendance, besides a
large number of priests and prominent
gentlemen among the Catholic laity,
and the convention promises to "be of
vast importance in encouraging set
tling farmers and others to seek homes
in the new Sontii.
Mr. Wofford, who was a guest at the
house of Col. Jones S. Hamilton, in
Jackson, Miss., on the night of the 23d,
tired on two white men who were in the
•act of setting fire to the dwelling. One
«ftbeuicn was hit as he left blood
where lie was standing when .fired on.—■
Capitoliaa-Advocate.
LOUISIANA NEWS.
Tliibodeau has received a new Syls
by fiie engine.
Rifles have been reeeived by the Oua
chita Pelicans.
Pat Taylor, living on the Hollings
worth place in Bossier parish, was not
long since killed at a negro ball.
A saw fish six feet long, weighing
nine hundred pounds was caught at
Hahuyille recently.
A cotton compress company and a
fruit and vegetable canning establish
ment are spoken of at Ruston.
The monument fund raised by the
citizens of St. Martinsville to erect a
monument to the memory ef the late
Father Jan is $281 50.
Mr. Robertson has secured the pas
sage by the House of his bill appropria
ting $15000 for constructing a road to
the cemetary near Baton Rouge.
Shreyeport will have a creamery.
A new colony has been established on
theRosedale plantation in Iberia par
ish.
In a difficulty last Wednesday night
at ßellevue. Bossier parish, a negio was
shot and killed.
For some time the pine woods near
Wilford were on fire, cansiug conside
rable damage to fencing timber, etc.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Louisiana will hold their an
nual convention at Baton Rouge May
11,12 and 13.
A short time since a little son of Mr.
T. B. Morgan of Amite City, fell into a
well twenty-six feet deep pulling the
bucket dowu with him. lie escaped
without serious injury.
It is rumored that a newspaper will
soon be started at Welch. Calcasieu
parish.
Mr. Charles Paiker. who killed W.
C. Farmer on the 4th February last, has
been released on bail, the iudictment
against him being for manslaughter.
He has since been acquitted.
At Alexandria on the 24th ult. Han
nah Brooks, colored, was convicted of
administering laudnum to an infant and
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Messrs. L. C. Ferrel and David Israel
of Donaldsonville have received a pat
ent on a new shackle. A prisoner fas
tened with it cannot deal a blow, run or
jump from a tra'in—hence can safely be
carried any distance.
The following tax-collectors have
settled with the auditor for the quarter
ending Maich 31 : Bienville, More
house, Red River, St. Bernard, St. Hel
ena, St. James, Tensas, Terrebonne and
Washington.
Shreveport will have a three-story
hotel with ninety rooms.
There was n heavy hailstorm one day
last week at Vidalia, but no damage is
reported.
In the district court at Alexandria
on Tuesday of last week, Wm, McGin
nis, charged with the killing of a man
named Holloway, was tried and acquit
ted.
A new paper, "The Two States," is
now being published at Osyka, situated
on the line of Louisiana and Mississip
pi.
A machine shop has been started
at Broussard by Louis Reynaud.
The Houston, Central Arkansas and
Texas Railroad Co., it is said, will lie
gin work on their road about the loth
inst.
It is probable that a cotton mill will
soon be started in New Orleans, as the
Chamber of Commerce have been get
tinginformation as to the cost of ma
chinery.
The Maginnis Cotton Mills are to be
augmented by an increase of twenty
three thousand spindles and five hun
dred and forty-six looms. The
building is now being erected.
A canning factory will soon be
started at Ruston.
At Pattersonville on Tuesday of last
week John Niel shot and killed John
Whitehall.
At Plaquemine about 2 o'clock on the
afternoon of the 25th ult., Wm. F. El
ler, living about niue miles in the coun
try, walked into a barber-shop
in the above uamed place, picked
up a razor, and stepping in front of
a looking glass, cut his throat from ear
to ear. He died almost instantly.
From the Times-Democrat we learn
that a large number of Iowa colonists
have made up their minds to settle in
Louisiana; also that Hon. James Mur
phy, of Iowa, has made soiçe paying in
vestments hereand will devote a good
deal of time and capital toward de
veloping the resources of this coun
try.
Sheriff Cook, of St. Tammany, offers
$100 reward for the arrest and con
viction of the mnrderers of M. Swan
son and Samuel Smith.
Last Sunday the new Catholic church
at Vidalia was dedicated by Bishop An
toine Durier, assisted by Father Car
tissier, of Vidalia and several of the
Catholic clergy of Natchez.
A hotel with fifty rooms is soon to be
erected at Lake Charles.
On Thursday of last week Theodore
Laswell, charged with robbing the post
office at Monroe, was given an exami
nation before U. S. Commissioner Rob
ert Ray and acquitted.
On Wednesday of last week, M. Jef
ferson Poche, residing in the 1st ward of
St. Jacques parish was stabbed in the
back by a son of Mrs. Dr. Bertin.
Donalsonville Chief, April 28: One
of the largest transfers of real estate on
record in Ascension was accom
plished on the 28th March, when Messrs.
John Crossley and Sons of England
«»Id their extensive Southwood, River
side and Mount Houmas sugar planta
tions, all located on the left bank of the
Mississippi river in this parish, to
Messrs. L. A. and E. G. Ellis, wealthy
laûd owners, for a hundred and seven
ty-five thousand dollars. One hundred
thousand dollars of the purchase price
was paid in cash and the balance in
Texas lands. The Messrs. Ellis have as
sumed possession of their newly ac
quired property and will make few if
any changes iu the corps of managers
and other employes during the current
year. We congratulate them upon
their invesment and trust it will yield a
profitable return.
A PAIR STATEMENT OF THE
ELECTIONS,
N. 9. PSjaayime.
The recent violent attack on the peo
ple of Lonisiana in the United States
Senate by the men who had assisted to
perpetrate odious and infamous politi
cal crimes upon them naturally attracts
much attention to the .elections which
have just been held in this State. Par
tisan expressions of various sorts have
already been made, and nota few in the
malicious spirit of the recent utterances
in the Senate. It is pleasing to turn
away from these obscene detainers to
this statement of the case by a fair, in
dependent aud unpartisan critic like
the Philadelphia Times. Says the
Times :
The only important spring State elec
tions have been held and they leave the
two great parties with honors easy.
The Republicans have carried Republi
can Rhode Island by a reduced majori
ty and the Democrats have carried Dem
ocratic Louisiana by an increased ma
jority. Both States were warmly con
tested, solely because the majority par
ty in each invited the opposition to
hopeful effort by its serious dissensions.
Had Rhode Island been carried by the
Democrats, there would have been no
reasonable doubt as to lier Republican
vote lor President in November ; but
had Loussiana elected Warmoth Gov
ernor with Republican State officers and
Legislature, that State might have voted
for a Republican for President, and
doubtless would have been returned
Republican regardless of the vote. But
Warmoth had to face his own election
laws, tempered somewhat by the courts
giving the Republicans a representa
tion on the election boards, aad he is
defeated anywhere from 20,000 to 40,000.
The significant lesson of the Louisi
ana election is in the fact that War
moth with his experience in organizing
and handling the negro vote, utterly
failed to enlist the colored voters in his
cause. In a few parishes he did it and
made a good run ; in other parishes
they took little interest in the election
and largely refrained from voting, and
in the distant parishes of the northern
portion of the State, they turned out
and voted, but largely voted the Demo
cratic ticket. »
It is not specially surprising that the
Louisiana colored voters refused to
vote for Warmoth. He was the first
carpet-bag Governor of the State ; lie
organized them into secret bands with
lavish promises of idleness and plenty,
and before the rule of the adventurers
ended the State was bankrupt and the
negroes were starving. The presenta
tion of Warmoth again as a caudidate
recalled his protested promises to the
deluded colored voters, and they had
no enthusiasm for a cause that had al
ready been tried and won, with sweet
ness to the taste, but bitterness in the
digestion.
The Democratic dissensions, bitter as
they are, seem to have increased the
vote for the Stale ticket, while the dis
pute was fought out on rival Democrat
ic tickets in New Orleans. The Repub
licans supported the reform Democratic
ticket, but the Democrats have stood
to their State candidates with great
fidelity. Doubtless the nomination of
Warmoth did much to force Democratic
cohes>on, as the Warmoth administra
tion left a bad taste in the mouths of
t he people that yet lingers with them.
With all his faults of the past, he is
among the best of the carpet-bag Gov
ernors of the South. He remained in
the State, commanded respect as
a planter and is personally liked by all
who know him. He believes that all is
fair in poljtics, and the Democrats,
with Warnioth's old election machi
nery in their hands, regarded every
thing as fair to beat Warmoth.
This isjust about the situation. It
could not have been stated more fairly.
CHARTER
OF THE
St. Landry Homestead and Building
Association
STATE OF LOUISIANA, PARTSIT OF
ST. LANDRY.
Be it Known, tliat, on this Twenty-second
day of March, A. P. One Thousand Eight Hun
dréd and Eighty-Eight, before me. Wm. Ohas.
Perrault, a Notary Public in and for the above
Parish a#l State,'duly commissioned, qualified
and sworn, in presence of the witnesses herein
after named and undersigned, personally came
and appeared the. several persons whose names
are hereunto subscribed, who declared that
availing themselves of the provisions of the
laws of this State relative to .the organization
of corporations, they do by these presents cov
enant, agree and bind themselves, their asso
eiates and successors, to form aud constitute a
corporation for the objects and purposes and
under ilie stipulations and regulations follow
ing. to-wit :
Art. 1st. The name and title of this corporation
shall be the "St Landry Homestead and Loan
Association," and under its said corporate
name, it shall have power and authority to
have and enjoy suecession for the term of
twenty-five years, from the date hereof, to con
tract, sue arid be sued, to make, have, and use a
corporate seal, and the same, to break, aller or
amend at pleasure, to hold, receivf, lease, pur
chase and convey, under its corporate name,
real estate ; to lend money on mortgage secu
rity, to name and appoint such officers, mana
gers, directors and agents, as the interests and
conveniences of said corporation may require,
to make and establish such by-laws, rules and
regulations for the proper management and
regulation of the affairs of said corporation, as
may be necessary and proper, and the same to
change and alter at. pleasure a» d do all other
acts and things as are. or may be, necessary
and properto carry out the objects and purposes
of said corporation.
Art. 2d. The domicil of said corporation, shall
be in the town of Opelousas, T.a., and all citations
and ntlier legal process shall be served upon
the President of said corporation, or in bis ab
sence, upon flic Vice-President, or in the ab
sence of both of these officers, upon the Secre
tary.
Art. 3d. The objects of saUi corporatin shall
be the accumulation of a fund from the weekly
installments on account of subscriptions to the
capital stock,rentals, premiums and interest
on loans, the funds so accumulated to be used
for the purchase and sale of real estate, the
building, renting and sale of homesteads, and
the lenri'ngof funds upou mortgage or realty,
or other security in the Parish of St. Landry,
but no loan upon other than real estate, securi
ty. shall be made without the consent of at
least fwo-tliirdsof thewhole Board of Directors.
Art. 4th. The said eapital stock of this Cor
poration shall be Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars, divided into Five Thousand Shares
each representing One Hundred Dollar.^ pay
able in weekly installments of twenty-five
cents per share, per week, and said corporation
shall begin business when two hundred (200)
shares ot the capital stock have been subscribed;
said stock shall bo issued respectively in series
designated as series A. H. O. etc., of which tlie
stoek now existing shall lie known as series A.,
but no one series shall contain more than Five
Hundred shares. The Board of Directors shall
%ave power to close eaeli series before opening
a i'ollowing.one. Whenever the shares repre
senting any series, shall by reason of payment
of installments and accumulation of profits be
worth the par value of One Hundred Dollars
each, such ssiies shall ijeliquida-ted fjs speedily
as is consistent with the interest of the subscri ti
ers, and whenever the shares representing the
last remaining series shall be worth the sum of
One Hundred Dollars each, the Association
shall be liquidated by three commissioners se
lected by the Board o° Directors from among
the stockholders.
Art. Slh. The corporate power? of the Asso
ciation shall be eserei-ed by a Board of Direct
ors te consist of Eleven Stockholders owning
at least two shares of stock each, who shall be
elected by the Stockholders on the 3d Monday
in March, annually, commencing on the 3d
Mondavin March A. D. One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Eighty-Nine (1889) each share
of stock represented at said election and not in
dcfr.ultbei.15 entitled to one vote. Notice of
said election-shall be given for at least one
week by publication in one or more newspa
pers published in the Parish of St. Landry.
Said election shall be by ballot, and shall be
held at, the domicile of this Coiporation, under
tlie sunervision of three stockholders appoint-* >
ed by the Board of Directors at the last pre
cedin<r regular meeting thereof. The stock
holders rece"vin c c a majority of the votes cast
shall be declared elected. The failure* to hold
ail elect km 00 tlie day specified, shall not dig
Corpo
office shall hold over until ati election be held
after ten days notice of the time and place
thereof. Tlie directors shall elect from 1 heir
number a President and Vice-President, and
seven directors shall be a quorum for the trans
action of business. The directors shall elect or
appoint a secretary and treasurer and such oth
er officers as may be necessary, but 110 salary
shall be paid except to the secretary, and said
directors slialf have power to enact by-laws
not repugnant to this charter ; to select a placo
of meeting, to suspend any officer for neglect
of duty or misconduct, and to have general au
thority to carry out the objects and business of
the Association; but they shall not have power
to purchase real estate except for cash, nor
contract any indebtedness whatever in excess
of the amount of one months installments.
Art. 6tli. The members of this Association
must be residents of Louisiana. Minors may
hold stock through their tutors, and women
and minors over the age of fifteen years, in
their own right. All applications for member
ship shall be subject to the approval of the
Board of Directers.
A.it. 7tli. Each stockholder, for each share of
stijeh he may lio'd in tlie Association, shall be
elegible to receive from the funds of the Asso
ciation a loan of one hundred dollars less the
premium offered. Whenever the funds in tlie
treasury shall warrant one or more loans, they
shall be disposed of to the stockholder offering
the highest voluntary premium in such man
ner as the Board of Directors may determine,
provided, 110 loan shall be- made for a less pre
mium than ten per centum. No stockholder
shall lie elegible to a loan on more than twenty
shares. No stockholder shall lie elegible to a
loan who Is in arrears to the Association.
Stockholders takhig loans shall pay interest
thereon (on nominal loan) by weekly payments
at the rate of six per cent per annum. In case
ef failure to give satisfactory security for sucli
loans, within one month of the, date of pur
chase, the interest shall be charged to said
purchaser together with all costs and charges
or expenses attending examination of titles,
and searches, and the money revert to the Asso
ciation. Security shall not be deemed suffi
cient unless approved by at least a majority of
the Board of Directors present.
Art. 8. In case any stockholder shall neglect
or refuse for one mouth to pay Iiis weekly in
stallments, such stockholder so neglecting or
refusing to pay, shall forfeit and pay for each
share of said stock held by him or her an addi
tional sum of five cents for each month and any
stockholder who for the term of six months
shall fail to pay the installments due 011 his
stock, shall by reason of such failure, and with
out notice, or putting in mora, forfeit all pay
ments previously made by him, together with
the profits, interest and accumulations thereon,
which shall revert to and become the property
of the Association. Any stockholder having
effected a loan from or being otherwise indebt
ed to the Association, who shall for one month
neglect or refuse to pay the weekly portion of
the interest 011 such indebtedness, shall pay an
additional sum of live cents, each month, 011
each share against which such indebtedness
lia$ been affected. The fines for each and
every monthly neglect or refusal to pay in
stallments or interest shall be charged to the
accounts of the stockholder who is in default ;
but these tines may be avoided by paying in
advance for a certain time, during which pe
riod it being covered by a prepayment, no tines
can be levied.
Art. 9th, If any stockholder who is indebted
to the Association, the vaille of his stock being
less than his indebtedness, shall desire to
settle and liquidate such indebtedness, he shall
have the right to surrender to the Association
his stock, with interests and accumulations
thereon, in part pay mount, «of such indebted
ness, provided lie pays the balance of said in
debtedness, in cash. Whenever stock lias been
pledged tu tlie Association as collateral by a
stockholder who is indebted to the Association,
and the value of such stock, with interest and
accumulation thereon, shall become equal to
the amount of indebtedness, (with all interest
and cost that may be due on the same) for
which stock is pledged; such stock and in
debtedness shall cancel each other, the stock
and the indebtedness being alike extinguished,
and it shall be the duty of tlie stockholder to
surrender his stock for cancellation; and upon
such surrender it shall lie the duty of the Pres
cient or Vice-President to cancel said stock
and to give and render to such stockholder a
proper receipt, and acquittance. All fees of
attorneys, notaries, recorder, register and all
expenses incurred in making or cancelling
loans, shall be paid by the respective borrow
ers.
Art. 10th. Should any stockholder who has
borrowed money of the Association, desire at
any time to reduce his indebtedness, he shall
have the right of so doing, by paying on ac
count of said indebtedness, a sum not less than
twenty-five dollars. Such payment shall be
credited on the face of his outstanding notes,
and said stockholder shall subsequently pay in
terest, weekly at the rate of six per cent per
annum on tue remainder of said note only, and
if ho desire it, the mortgage bearing on his
property shall be reduced proportionately.
Art. lltli. Members indebted to the Associa
tion may withdraw by giving one month's no
tice in writing when an order shall be drawn
on the Treasurer in favor of the «withdrawing
member for the dues paid in first deducting
therefrom all fines and proportion of incidental
expenses and losses ; provided that said order
on tlie Treasurer shall be liquidated out of the
first unappropriated money in the Treasury.
Art. 12th. At the death of a member not in
debted to the Association the legal representa
tives shall be entitled to an order for the full
value of the stock at the time of tlie last pay
ment made by such deceased member, or to
transfer the said shares of stock, or to continue
the right of membership by continuing the
weekly payments.
Art. 13th. No stock shall bo transferred un
less the person to whom it lias been transferred
has been approved by the Board of Directors,
and then only on the books of the Association,
and in the presence of the Secretary, upon the
surrender of the certificate of stock, and the
person to whom the stock is transferred shall
sign the charter in like manner, as an original
meiner. For each share of stock so transferred
there shall be paid ten cents to the Secretary
for the Association.
Art. 11th. Special meetings of the stockhold
ers shall be convened at the request in writing
of ten stockholders, stating the time and ob
ject of such meeting.
Art. 15th. The following named persons shall
constitute tlie first Board of Directors, viz :
Judge Edward T. Lewis, Jos Bloch, Alphonse
Levy, Theodore Chachere, Etienne Latreyte,
Oscar H. Terwilliger, Dr. Robt. M. Littell,
Ohas. D. Stewart, Reiui Mornhinveg, Henry E.
Estorge, Rev. F. W. Lewis. They shail hold office
until their successors shall have been duly
elected and qualified, and any vacancy occur
ring in the number, may be filled by them until
the next regular elect ion as herein provided for.
Art. IGtli. No stockholder shall ever lie held
liable for the contracts or faults of this Asso
ciation in any further sum than the unpaid
balance due on the share or shares of stock
owned by him or lier, to the Association; nor
shall mere informality in organization, have the
effect of rendering this charter null or of ex
posing any stockholder to any liability be
yond tlie amount of his or her stock.
Art. 17th. This charter may be altered, mod
ified or amended by a vote or three-fourths of
the capital stock represented at any gene
ral meeting of the stockholders called for that
purpose.
Thus done and incorporated in my office in the
tlie town of Opelousas, La., in the presence of
Joseph A. Oil and Wm. L. Andruscompetent and
attendant wtinesses who have signed these
presents with the appearcrs and me, notary af
ter due reading, on the day and date herein
before written.
(Signed) Charles N. Ealer
andforEtfie Ii. Ealer, J. E. Gardiner. Mrs. E. J.
Trask per C. N. Ealer, Opelousas Hope Hook &
Ladder Co.. per Gus. E. Fontenot, President,
Lucius G. Dnpre, L. P. Louallier, B. F. Megin
ley, E. Latreyte, F. W. Lewis, H. E. Estorge
and for Mrs. Ceeile Bailey, Alphonse Levy, J.
Bloch E. T. Lewis, R. M. Llttcll, Tlieordore
Clincher,!, O. II. Terwilliger, R. Mornhinveg, T.
W. Lacefield, W. T. Henderson, George O.
Elms.
Witnesses : Jos. A. Gil. W. L. Andrus.
W. C. PERRAULT,
Notary Public.
STATE OF LOUISIANA. PARISH >
OF ST. LANDRY, J
Be it known to all whom it may concern, that
I, John N. Ogtten, District Attorney of the 13th
Judicial District of Louisiana, have examined
tho foregoing act of incorporation of the Saint
Landry Homestead and Loan Association, and
I am of the opinion that- the purposes and ob
jects are legal, and that none of the provisions
therein contained are contrary to law.
JOHN N. OGDEN,
District Attorney 13th Jud'l Dist. La.
Filed March 23d: 1888.
LOUIS P. LOUALLTER,
Deputy Clerk.
STATE OF LOUISIANA. PARISH »
OF ST. LANDRY, j
I, Louis P. Louallier, Deputy Clerk of the
13th Judicial District Courtin and for the Par
ish of St. Landry, State of Louisiana, do here
by certify that theabove, is a true and correct
copy of the original act of incorporation on
file and of record in my office in Miscellaneous
Book No. 8 at folio.
In testimony whereof. I have hereunto affixed
J my hand and seal of office at Ope
se al . > lousas, La., this 4th day of April,
V—i A. D. 1888.
April 7
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The Parker Cun.
At the two principal events of tlio year—at tlie World's Trap Shooting Carnival 1uM at Well
lugton, Mass., May 30 to June 3,1887, the Parker Gun won the leading prize for the best aver
age lor five days' shooting ; also at Seattle, W. T., June 9.10 and 11. 1887, tlie leading prize and
best average was won with the Parker Gun, adding victories to 1880 as follows : The Second
Annual Tournament of the Cliainherlin Cartridge Co., held at Cleveland, O., Sept. 14, 188ß. . Out
of EIGHTY-SEVEN KNTK1KS lroiu REPRESENTATIVE SHOTS, representing * OLRfKEN
STATES, the Parker Gun w n FIRST and THIRD MONEY, winning $900 out of »1,200 purse of
fered, adding another victory to 1883, which was the Second International Clay-Pigeon Tourna
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NOTICE.
U nited S tates L and O ffice, ?
New Orleans, La., March 9 1888. S
Notica is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before the Judge,'or
in Iiis absence, tlie Clerk.of the District Court,
at Opelousas, Louisiana, on Wednesday, April
25th, 1888, viz :
TOEODVLE DOl 'CET,
who made homestead entry No. 0331, for the
south half of northwest quarter and nortu.half
of southwest quarter section 24, township 0,
south range 2 west, Losisiana meridian.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cultivation
of said land, viz :
Ertelus Saunier, Anatole Bellon, Llger Vi
drine, Milton Robinson.—all of the Parish ot
St. Landry, Louisiana. _ ,,,,
THOMAS J. BUTLER,
march 17-Ot Register.
NOTICE.
L and O ffice at New Orleans, La., I
Feb. 27tli, 1888. >
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has tiled notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before the Judgo
or Clerk of Court at Opelousas, La., on Thurs
day, April 19th, 1888, viz :
Si A I'll A Kf. E. MANUEL,
who made Homestead Entry No. 7102 for tlio
south half I of the north-west quarter, south
west quarter of the north-east quarter, and tho
north-west quarter of the south-east quarter of
section 33, township 5, south rango 1 west,
Louisiana meridian.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cultiTatioii
of said land, viz : _ „ ., _ .,
Auas! hase Gnitlory, Benoît Soileau. Emile
Hebert. Joseph Beltou, all of St. Landry 1 arish,
Louisiana. TH0 MASJ. BUTLER,
march lo-ct Register,