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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

FUNERAL services of Secretary
Traey's wife and daughter were held
in the East Room of the White House
on the 9th and the remains laid away
temporarily IN Rock Greek cemetery.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

A SEVERE storm on the Atlantic
coast destroyed a lot OF oyster craft
near Norfolk, Va, on the 10th inst,
causing the loss Of valuable cargoes of
oysters and some twenty lives.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

a CHICAGO lawyer has instituted
suit for the recovery of $4,000 of
property in Duluth, Min. The suit
grows out of a defective power of
attorney.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

A st. Louis paper is authority for
the statement that California farmer
pulled a beat the other day that was
seven feet long and weighed 1914 lbs.
Neaos.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

JACOB R. SLATER's four children
were skating on the ice at Lake
BonnisWater, near New York, on the
9th. The ice gave way and all were
3rowaed
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

ono hundred and iilty Louisiana
cplglcia have been taken from DE-
Ner Orleans 4 AoFghWesieln railway !.
70 Carroll parish 70 saise and
Strengthen tie Alllikep'H bend legee.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

TIoKETs from Chicago to New Or
leans and back enabling travellers to
attend Mardi Gras festivities will be
sold over the Illinois Central at $40
for the ronnd trip.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

ANDREW PRIoE, NJ. c. from Sd
congressional district, La, has onr
thanks for copy of the Official Con
gressional Directory.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

ATTuESEY EszEEs4a E2l,lssEr, az z tEzlss,
Is said TO BE- pBssaE1EssilEa ssEIIiEIafisE atlr
governor.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

The magnificent court house at
Dallas, Texas, was burnt on the 18th
inst. The records were saved. It
was perhaps the finest court house in
Texas.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

THE Dakota lottery bill, by which
it was proposed to transfer the
Louisiana Lottery Company TO that
State, has been indefinitely postponed.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

The Pacific Express Company has
been robbed at Dallas, Texas, of $685.
900 by an employee of the Office.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

MExIgo hasrecognized the Brazilian
republic.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

FlFTY THOUSAND people have already
crowded INTO the Sioux reservation
recently thrown open for settlement.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

Board met IN special session Feb. 9TH
1880 Present: Prof. A. Thomson,
presiding; jas. p. Gsary, J. ". Bryan
A. ]. Jones, JH0. Fl. Poe and John Nc
Nesse.
The following is the report Of com
nittse appointed to employ experts fG
examine into the accounts Of Parish
Treasurer school funds with school
beard:
Gentlemen: The undersigned nnm-
mittsa, appointed by your honorable
body 70 employ experts to examine the
Treasurer's account from Jan. LIST, 1884,
to Jan 1890, beg leave to report tnRt
they employed Msssrs Harry j. Geary
and John McNesse as experts. with in
struutions TO them TO make an exhaust
i've investigation, and report the fact,
which they have done, and find the ar
count of the Treasurer, W. L. Hutohins,
correct with the exception Of shortage
Of SG.T6.
/ The report of said experts IS hereby
submitted, and made part Of our own
report,
That summary Of receipts and dis
hur~emeHts be spread upun the min
utes, and with said minutes published.
Respectfully submitted,
A THOMSON,
J. W BRYAN,
Jas. 7. GEARy,
Committee,
Moved that report Of committee rs
above be received and adopted
The following is an account Of the
FsrpITkS fnF Treasurer frnrD Inn 1sr
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14
ROfiGe.

ny son, sarrazin LeBoeuf, a minor has left
my home without my consent or KNOWLEDGE,
and all persons are hereby notified will hold
anyone employing him responsible for his
wages. LOUIS LRBOEUF.
Cameron, La, Feb. 6, 1880,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

Louis J. VOORHEES,, district attorney
Of the 2lst judicial district, has re-
signed on account of i'll health.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

TENDER Vegetables were destroyed
by hail storm at Enterprise, Miss,
on the 9Th inst.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

ALREADY ITO bodies of the dead
have been recovered from the Aber.
sychan colliery, in England.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

The Warrior river rose 39 feet at
Tuscaloosa, Ala, in "a hours, and
continues to rise.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

Col. !. W. PATTON is dead. New
Orleans has lost one of her best and
abIest public men.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

EARTHQU4KE shocks have frightened
the people Of ST. LOais.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

ADAM FOREPAUGH's great circus has
been sold to English capitalists but
will continue in this country.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

GAEnIz4L Pn71E, brother 81 thg
pope. died at Rome a0H the Sab 5HSl,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

GAEvEsF0N bgiasas gs FRS taElaZ
treasures, and PbsaeT ef uRgassy n e
per cent.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

NORTH DAKOTA is bidding for the
Louisiana Lottery company, whose
charter expires in 1895. 1t is pro
posed by the company to pay the
Stale of Dakota 100000 per year
a bill proposing the transfer has been
reported unanimously favorable to
the Dakota senale, and will probably
pass through the legislature. Is not
this a move to draw forth the seuti-
ment of Louisiana legislators upon
the ACCESSIBILITY Of passing an amend
ment to our constitution to be sub
mitted TO the people, extending the
charter?
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

GHouIs sge FObbing the graves Of
The dead IN Knoxville, Tenn.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

= NHREE LARGE ROOMs-furnished or IN
i furnished. Apply TO MRS. L. MCCOY
ga Pine street, one block from lake.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14
K.AEEE GymAMaasa. "a.

TaE &c De 80 lf0r sl.OO.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14
GnmEreHaunmm E1r7eesH Good
EgnEshx.


( AtEAat ID AAE lines Democrats
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Mr. Pricu
to-day presented a petition from a
number Of prominent mill men OF
Lake Charles asking for the improv-
ing Of Black Bayou, so as 10 make il
navigable and connect Calcasieu
Lake and Sabine Lake. Mr.. Price in.
tends shortly to introduce a bill to
that end.
Dir. Price Is also taking great inter
est 10 the improvement Of Calcasien
river and pass. BE has been press
ing the matter upon the members of
the rivers and harbors committee, and
has reason to believe that an apprO-
priation for it will be incorporated in
the rivers and harbors bill.
We have heard street talk TO the
effect that petition exists at Wash
ington to which the names of some
citizens Of Lake Charles are attached,
who claim never to have sigred it,
The petition asks for the opening Of q
canal connecting Caicssisu river with
the Sabine utilizing Black BsyoR,
There appears 10 he slso = fear sa-
tCFtaiasl lest any steps Aoss5eg u the
connecting 81 these streams, slisissse
agaiHlst She prospects At az aETroFaua~
sinn for aeeP Waisrs al Gsa31Hs5Uu PISS
Ssns aTv~rAsc lk5s paa4.. believing
sae aiagT Ril 1D1 aaa azalre6 RaoI-
sz2 ansa abal ahfr saissaiar she rapuI
viii fl arr requirements bua - a TEN.
loEaE7E E6hIE.
Il aHU- lssuliia WHIT a canal aHnnsEa-
Hgg ZsistaaE8aH ana iSailiBe 4EEss- We
Gtlssz1 aBEEr Will EhEHgs "a anua H. as EfBGia
SaEEG ~ INT ,IITEE1up. lHRsBb guzasaIUa11n
gHs- sl3zBl5 luERE- tuBf11nE- FTa nus~
sIziszr sE- lslaE1osas TT EBEzEz EEEs1E,- ?
Ir-sE4SaR bsC 6gsiSEBE tBs Da31HsaHn
EIvsE bs4teE StgsE svz- Rs5aEs- We So
with pride shRt our e0HgTsssmsE,
Price and Blanchard ara IL earnest
about this matter and viii not leave q
stone unturned to accomplish it.
When the Calcasieu is opened it will
benefit northwest Louisiana, Kansas,
&C., as much as Southwest Louisiana,
and MIR. Blanchard knows it.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

We give the following from the
New Orleans States as it comedies 50
thoroughly with our views as to what
the revolutionary actions of the Re
pubicans in congress means: ut is
plain that the purpose of the Repub.
Iicans, nnder the code of rules which
they have adopted, is to first unseat a
number of Democrats whose seats are
contested and then pass bill regu-
Iating Federal elections in the South.
This will be done despite the fact
that a large part of the Republican
press is opposed to such bill on the
ground that it is an INVASION Of States
rights. The Republicans do not hope
by the passage of the bill to secure
more congressman from the Southern
States, bat their aim is to throw the
South into a state of turmoil and
strife, to bring on conflict between
the whites and blacks and endeavored
by bloody shirt campaign to save
their party from defeat in 1892.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14
sIAeriR,s Sale.
fSarteenth Judicial District Court, Parish Of
Caleasisu, State Of Louisiana.--No. 1870.
JIG. STANTON vs.. J.J.LYoEs

OF
Caleasisu, State Of Louisiana.--No. l476,
DO. STANTON Va, J. j. LYONS,
EtlA NlkIUk Of q writ Of Asri faeias issnsd
- - AMI 70 me directed by the Honorable Court
aforesaid, have seized and will offer fOr sale 81
public auction, 10 the last aud HIGHEST biddeT
alth INC benefit OF appEaisemeRt at the Court
taoose door OF Calcasien parish ia the city Of Lake
saturday, March 22, 1880,
DetN cen Legal hours, the following described pron
erty situated In Caleasieu parish in gto VIZ
he south half 9f southwest quarter Of section
one ana north hall OF northwest quarter Of 49,.
3en Twelve township ten 40 south range eleven
W west containing one hundred and sig ty acres
q iand more Or less together with al building
1lla improvements rights, ways and privileges Ia
Seized in said suit ~
Lerms--Cash.
s,-.s. DAVID j. REID,
aheflil . tl'ice Lake Charles, La, Feb III 1890
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14

GFeensbarg. la, has ! shopping
eoneb epidemic.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-12
Usurious Interest.


The Arkansas supreme court has
handed down an important decision.
Sometime ago Hardy M. Banks,
farmer of Yell county, negotiated
loan of $1,000 from the New Eng
land Mortgage and Security company
and the Corbin Banking company.
The loan was made through brok-
er, Cookbook, Of Memphis. The sum
of 5000 was taken out of the prin-
cipal for interest and Banks was paid
only $500. In return the farmer exc
cuted notes and gave the security
company a mortgage on his farm to
secure their payment. The notes
came due but were not satisfied. and
proceedings for foreclosure were COM
menced in the Yell county circuit
court. Banks lost his case and ap-
pealed to the supreme court. A few
days ago a decision was rendered
against the security company. The
court held that the interest charged
was usurious, which fact forfeited the
principal and interest. The farmer
is ahead just $500. Considerable in
terest is felt in the decision, as it
is the first rendered since the pas
sage of the act by the last legisla-
ture, fixing the rate of interest at not
more than 10 per cent.-Industria]
Review.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-12
Minnesota MORTGAGES.

Progressive Farmer raleigh, N. c.
Some six months ago the GREAT
WEST, St. Paul, MINI, alleged that
700 mortgages had been foreclosed
in one county in that State in the
past twelve months. Many of the pa
pers made light of the statement.
Since that the GREAT WEST went to
the trouble of getting the exact fig
ures and publishing them in the last
issue OF the paper. They find that the
county has bonds outstanding for
railroad facilities to the amount of
100000. The total number of real
estate mortgages that have been re-
corded since the county was organ
lied is 1850. OF this number ,272
have been satiated or foreclosed,
leaving 6,547 still in force. The to-
tai mortgage Indebtedness since the
county was organized has been ST.
49,, O63.O8. Of this amount, So
494, 881.86 has been paid up or fore
closed. This leaves the vast sum of
So, $751; 81 20 unpaid. The county
has a population of about 10000
people. It has 81 townships. So
each township has an average of LOG
mortgages amounting to $5S,622.
The GREAT WEST finds the average
price of wheat in the county for the
past twelve months has been about
so cents per bushel. Now how long
will it take these people to pay these
debts with SO cent wheat? That is
not all. Nearly all the personal prop
erty in the county is under chatte]
mortgages. On the real estate mort.
cages above they have to pay $780,.
900 annually in interest. Add to this
the $40, 900 annual interest on the
railroad bonds and other indebted.
ness and the total sum for interest is
$500, 900 each year. The above are
facts. There is no guesswork about
it. Can there be any further doubt
about the sincerity OF the Northwest.
ern farmers in the great Alliance
movement? The history of this one
county is just a sample.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-12
Three Million Tramps.

Mr.. Bromley has said there are
three or four million tramps in this
erich new country and the Journal
and other county papers have had a
fit because of it. These republican
sheets are wasting time in their ef-
forts to convince the people that all
is lovely among the people under Re-
publican rule. What are the facts?
The Massachusetts Bureau of Labor
shows that in that state one tenth of
the people in all occupations are idle
twelve months in the year-involun-
tarily so. If this is true in a state
"where labor is organized, better
classified, and more efficiently order
ed than elsewhere in this country, it
cannot be presumed that any other
state will exhibit smaller proper
ton of unemployed laborers. We
have today in the United States q
working population of 22,254, 900
Taking the deductions of the Massa-
chusetts bureau as a basis, and we find
that {, 1854, 900 persons in the coun-
try are out of work and lack the oppor-
tunity to earn a livelihood. In dis
cussing this subject before the late
congress, Republican senator said
that the wage loss from involuntary
idleness in this county is $4,5OO,OOO
a day, $27, 100000 a week, $117,-
900, 900 year. That is reckoninga
day wages at 81. ltwould not be less
than that were our money system
perfectly adjusted to industry. Such
idleness is worse than wars or pesti-
lence of which we have knowledge as
a people. Its results are not only
poverty but crime. The same speak
er said "aside from the effect on the
individual, what benumbing conse-
quences entailed upon the nation by
the idleness of so large a number of
it's people. When the money volume
of a country is sufficient to keep
prices from falling, and thus to en-
courage capital to seek productive
enterprises, in which labor is employ
ed every willing man is kept at work
and no country can enjoy a higher
degree of prosperity than when all it's
people are employed, and the pro-
ducts of their labor equitably distri-
buted. "-Spink Comfy Independent.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-12
Caucusing,

We desire to issue a word of warn
ing to the members of the State ALI
ance.
One of the DEVILS devices of the
politician is the caucus. 1t has
caused more Generalization in our
politics than any other one thing.
1t makes men sink their consciences
and their individual sense of right in
obedience to trick. 1t puts terri
ble power in the hands of the wire
pulling politicians.
Let us suppose that there are, we
will say, three counties represented in
the next Stat, Alliance meeting by
400 votes each, 300. votes in all.
Now let us suppose that some great
ard important question divides
them, and. for illustration, we will
say, that there are so members in
each of these delegations on each
side of that question. If they pro.
ceeded to vote there would he then
$50 votes on each side, in the State
Alliance. But let us suppose that
there are, on one side or the other,
some INSCRIPTIONS knaves;-they
are active and cunning;-they know
Just how the votes stand; they pro-
coed to buy up one man in each dele
cation. It does not follow that they
will have to pay him money they
may promise him an Office even q
place on a committee is enough to
purchase some men. Then they get
the three county delegations to hold
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-12

Trades Journal:
If one wishes to thoroughly realize
the progress made in the organiza-
ton of labor, he need only to COM
pare the worker today with that of the
down trodden toiler q hundred years
ago. On May 10th, 1889, q newspa~
per, published in London, contained
the following:
"On Saturday the journeymen
smiths, convicted in November last
of conspiracy for the purpose of
raising their wages, were brought up
in the Court Of Kings Bench to re-
ceive Judgment. The sentence of the
Court was pronounced by Mr.. Justice
Ashurst, on Thomas Bunce and three
others, in these words: Thomas
Bunce, ETC., you have been tried and
found guilty of entering into con-
spiracy to raise the price of wages in
the trade and business of g. black
smith. This is crime of very
heinOus nature, and of the most per-
nicious consequence to society. 1t is
a crime which of late years has be-
come exceedingly frequent, and there
fore this Court, which presides over
the general welfare of the country,
will animadvert severely on this sub
ject. The Court, in mercy to you, al
lowed this matter to stand over for
some time, in order that they might
see whether the effects of the con-
spiracy were entirely at an end, and
whether those of the same business
with you would return to their work,
and perform their labour for their
former wages"
They were convicted aQd imprison.
ed!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-12

each q caucus. A vote Is taken. IL
stands in each case 81 to 40. The
40 have given up their right OF in
1iyidual action,-they are merged
wiped out; the trust which their con-
stituents reposed in them is surren-
dered to the scamps who bought
those three votes; and when the vote
il taken to the State Alliance 147
votes are literally swallowed up; and
800 solid votes given for perhaps
the wrong side. The knaves grin;
evil triumphs, and the Alliance per
haps receives a blow from which it
may never recover.
The unit of the Alliance is the sub
alliance; and the man who repre-
sents it is bound to follow, to the
very end, the wishes OF those who
elected him. He has no right to stop
by the way and trade himself of, or
tie up his own hands, or bind up his
own mouth, at the bidding OF anoth-
er. The state constitution should be
amended so as to expel the man who
tries to get up county or district eau
cuses, to coerce men, by the sense OF
fellowship and good feeling. to do
what they do not want to do. The
caucus is the politicians special re-
fuge and hiding place. Give them
caucuses enough and few sharp,
quick rascals, with some knowledge
OF parliamentary law, will override
and control ten times their number
of plain honest farmers.
We do not mean to say that where
there are hostile parties, as in legis-
lature, representing adverse prin-
ciples, those who think alike should
not confer together SO as to act to-
gether. But there's this distinction
they were elected by their constitu-
ents to represent particular views;
and their constituents expected that
they would fellowship in the Legislar
ture, with those holding the same
views. But in the Alliance there is
nothing of the kind; we are supposed
to be band of brothers; we are all
filled with the same sentiments, and
working for the same ends; and the
man who seeks to break us up into
congressional districts, or to array
one geographical section of the state
against another, or against all 9th
ers, is knave who has some evil ul
terror end in view, which he sees HI
cannot accomplish in the open field O
the Alliance itself.
Let us act, in the next session o
the Alliance, as plain, straight-for
ward, honest men, and bretheren
filled with the spirit OF fair play ant
brotherly regard and let us set dowr
| with a ton weight OF Indignation OF
the tricksters, the politicians and
above all, on the caucus organizers.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-12
Mankato Journal:

ManKaCO j journal: .
Every friend of the people and anti
monopolist everywhere should re-
joice over the triumphant election of
lgnatius Donnelly as state senator
from Dakota county. His majority
over his Republican opponents is
7O5; over the Democratic candidate,
442. Mr.. Donnelly had both to
fight, and both went down. This is
a county that gave Cleveland 71S
majority. The railroads and other
corporations flooded the country
with money in the endeavor to defeat
Mr.. Donnelly and forever bury him
out of sight, but despite Doodle Mr..
sDonnelly is elected. In his election
the anti-monopoly sentiment of this
State has won a victory. With the
Alliance strength in our next legisla-
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-12

The Railway Zones in Hungary.
Sir Arthur Nicolson, in his last re-
port on Hungary, refers to the effects
of the introduction of the zone tariff
on Hungarian State Railways. The
official statistics show that since the