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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07

A worm will turn, and 30 will a
mule, as Muledriver Littlejohn
found to his cost in an Ohio coal
mine. He was, ordinarily, very
cruel to the animal, and when it
became refractory the other day,
as he was bringing it out of the
mine he began to beat it with a
club. The mule became desperate
and assaulted him in a vicious
manner. Littlejohn turned and
fed down the dark entry, his light
becoming extinguished AS he ran.
The mule chased him through the
entry and penned him up in dark
room, where a hald-fought battle
took place, the mule climbing on
Littlejohn's body and biting off his
left hand near the wrist. Little
johns cries brought assistance, but
he was nearly dead when rescued
from the mule and rodents of the
mine.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07
Brian's Bad Break.

Bro. Hundley 0f the Ola Signal, com
pliments us because he seems to think we
are trying to reform the Peoples party.
He is mistaken; we are only trying to re-
form the lawyers that have come into our
party for the fat judicial offices.-Louisi-
ana Populist.
Look-a-here, Brian; you are out
of the sacred circle of Populistic
confidence just now, and what yon
say don't go like it used to, when
you held both whip and bride
reins. Those Populist fellows are
not taking any more stock in what
yo'. say than they do in our "pa-
laver." Besides, you are liable to
get into trouble by such talk. 1t
is only a few short months since we
came very near having to fight a
duel with Bro. Machen because we
said he had Withdrawn from the
Democratic party and gone into
the Populists' ranks and raised a
lightning-rod, in the hope that he
would be struck with political light
ming and land in a good fat Office.
True, we have turned out to be con-
siderable of a prophet, but look
how cross-eyed all the Pops gaze
upon our poor devoted head! No,
sir; it won't do. You can think all
you please, but you mustn't say
things SO plainly that people can
understand them and appreciate
their truth.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07
Third Court of Appeals.

Judges w. F. Blackman and E. T. Lew
is, Of the Sd Circuit Court OF Appeals,
were on hand Tuesday to try cases on
appeal to their court, and remained over
until Thursday to investigate the records
and write up their decisions. The follow
ing constituted their docket:
A. w. Bell vs.. Mccain & Teddlie. con-
tinued.
Martha M. Hadnot ve. w. j. Tison, A.
E. Cruikshank warrantor, Judgment re-
versing and setting aside Judgment of
lower court, and rejecting plaintiffs de-
mands with costs.
]. w. Pollock We. Police Jury of Grant
parish, judgment annulling and avoiding
and reversing the decision Of the lower
court, and further ordered and decreed
that the assessment of plaintiffs property
be reduced from forty-two thousand dol
lars to az, ass, that to this extent plant
ifs injunction be perpetuated, and de-
fendant prohibited from any tax. state or
parish upon any amount in excess of $780,
455. In other respects it be dissolved.
1t is further oreered that plaintiff pay
ten per cent ON the taxes to be collected
on the assessment as herein fixed, and
that defendant pay costs in both cases.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07
A. E. fitzpatrick, of Fillmore, Cal, had

A. e. Fitzpatrick, of Fillmore, Cal, had
the misfortune to have his leg caught
between cart and a stone and badly
bruised. Ordinarily he would have been
laid up for two or three weeks. but says;
"After using one bottle of chamberlain's
Pain Balm began to feel better, and in
three days was entirely well. The pecu-
liar soothing qualities which chamber.
lain's Pain Balm possesses have never
noticed in any other liniment. / take
pleasure in recommending it." This
liniment is also of great value for rheu-
matism and lame back. For sale by j.
H. McNeely, Colfax, and DR.. ]. v. Bon
nette & Bro. Pollock, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07
Talk About Inviting Capital.

Our people claim to be in favor of imi-
grafton, progress and improvement; and
in many instances they have contributed
literally Of their means for this purpose.
The Kansas City, Watkins and Gulf rail-
way stands knocking at our doors, and
says that il we will return its taxes to it
for ten years, it will bring us more set
tiers within that time than we could
hope to secure otherwise. in fifty years,
besides it's own investment within the
parish Of fully half a million of dollars.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07

Say, you fellows who have been
SO red hot over our railroad cleo
ton; did you know that on last
Monday Congress met? Well, 1t
did, and Thomas B. Reed was
formally elected Speaker OF the
House. So you can look for some
more fun soon.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07

Tho secretary OF the Elkhart Carriage
and Harness Mfg. Co, Of Eikhart, Ind.
informs us that their prices will be lower
for 1891 than ever. he wishes us TO ask
oar readers not to purchase anything in
tho line Of carriages. wagons, bicycles or
harness until they have sent cents in
stamps to pay postage on their liz page
catalogue. We advise the readers of this
2aper to remember his suggestion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07

The table
precinct At the Fsh poll Cenhw
Cronk nonresident
only $780, the valuation reduced accordingly
and Union thrown by the Board
valuations voted for and
precincts affected the result their
their notv there's
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07

Dr.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Pair Highest Award.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07
Colfax High School.

The Trustees of the COlfax High School
for Males and Females take pleasure in
announcing to the public that the second
Ten Months Session of this school will
begin ON the First Monday of Septem-
Der, 1895. No pains will be spared to
make it a first-class High School.
RATES OF TUITION.
Primary Department 81 % per month
roIiss;asoS I. ~ :. :.
Music. Vocal and instrumental 8 50 :" -
Incidental fee rs cents per session.
Good lizard can be obtained on reasona-
Die terms Two hotels I'm town. and sew
eral private boarding houses in town and
vicinity will board cheap. Those having
children to educate should send them in
and give ms fair trial. We are in the
race to stay.
J. IF. KELLY, NJ D., President.
W. L. RICHARDSON.
Secretary Board of Trustees.
Colfax, La, Aug. 10, 1893.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07

There win be service at the Catholic
church in Colfax every fourth Sunday in
the month, beginning with Dec. %, 1895.
Father Theolier will conduct the services.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07

DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Pair Highest Medal and Diploma.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07
Tabulated Statement of the Returns


SPECIAL RAILROAD ELECTION HELD IN GRANT PARISH
On Monday December 2, 1895,
Relative vyng
Watkins and Gulf Railway
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07

In their primary election last Monday
the Pops voted for Kemp and Lacroix,
two well known Democrats of Grant par
ish. That's right, boys; hold yourselves
ready and We may give you chance to
elect one OF them. The election for all
parties voted for resulted as follows:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07
La, AY, DECEMBER Z 1885,
3. TURNER

B.TURNER
DEALER IN
General Merchandise
Pineville. La.
Has Just received Full Stock Of Fall
and Winter Goods, which is to be sold at
small margin above cost for cash.
The public are invited to call and exam.
inc his large and well selected stock OF
DRY GOODS,
consisting of Dress Goods and Trimmings,
Fancy Goods, White Goods. Ladies' fine
Hosiery. all styles and grades, Flanels
and, Waterproof, Linseys, Cassimeres and
Diagonals, Bedford Cords. etc., and full
lines of Gloves, Embroidery, etc.
Mems and Boys Hats. and Ladies' Trim
med Hats.
A large stock of Boys and Nens's CLO-
THING. Special bargains are offered in
Boys and Mems JEANS Clothing. which
were bought at sacrifice.
A fine assortment of Boots and Shoes.
Saddlery, Crockery, Hardware, Groceries.
Plantation Supplies. TRUNKS, Valises,
Towers celebrated "Fish Brand" of Slick.
ers, and FURNITURE.
Highest market price paid for Cotton.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-12-07

G0Jmdical advertisements mast be paid
for in advance, or they wiu be Discontinued
after the first insertion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-25
KANSAS PARAGRAPHS

Craps holds higher place than poker
in the esteem of Atchison people by a
ratio of 90 to 8.
Two Salina boys are going to ride
across country to York, Nebraska, on
their wheels.
The Holton Signal says the fight for
supremacy between the green onion and
the rhubarb pie is now on.
Netawka extends a polite invitation to
Governor Morrill, to come down and see
her two saloons running.
An octopus was exhibited in Arkansas
City recently, and all the Populists
wanted to have it taken in by the sher-
if
A former Eldorado man who is now
running a drug store in another town,
reports everything dry and business
good.
If the Avon circle had had any style
about it it would have held its meeting
on Shakespeare's birthday instead of yes
terday.
Thieves stole an Arkansas City mans
washtub, a thing he wouldn't mind so
much if it were warm enough to battle in
the canal.
The grass has grown high enough in
Wilson county to get its flavor into the
butter. It never gets that tall in Wyan-
dotte county.
It has been observed at Holton that
when girl is learning to ride bicycle
she generally stops to rest while man
is passing.
The cows of Altoona which had been
deprived of liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. have been given the freedom
of the town.
Mart Starr one of Baldwin's fixtures is
reported very sick. When Mart Starr
leaves they might as we'll move the col
lege buildings away.
The ladies of society in Abilene are
going to serve New England dinner
for 10 cents. That is every bit New
England dinner is worth.
Holton will soon have bottling works
which will be able to manufacture
enough soda pop to supply the thirstiest
county fair or normal institute in the
state.
Atchison is talking of giving a ban
quet to David Martin the new chief jus
tiee. Leavenworth set mighty fast
pace and Atchison will do well to come
up to it.
The county commissioners of Jackson
county have decided that the home jail
is good enough for prisoners and if they
want something better let them go some
place else to be mean.
A barrel full of molasses dropped and
burst in the Santa Fe yards at Arkansas
City and the numb Der of boys with sticky
fingers that night was exactly equal to
the number that heard about it
A Fredonia event as chronicled by the
Citizen: Mat. Gilbert, the whilom De-
mosthenes of Duck Creek township, and
Populist oracle of Airy Sharp's haymow.
who was confined in the county Jail for
violating the prohibitory law, escaped
from that penal palace last Saturday
through hole about sixteen inches
square which he produced by the use of
a small han6sauv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-25

WE hope to see the league pass a
strong resolution backing up the state
administration in the rigid enforceme nt
of all laws in all the cities and counties
of the state.-Capital.
There is sort of double back action
and duplex movement to the above
paragraph. How is the state league ex-
pected to shack up" something that does
not exist? There is no attempt on the
part of the state administration to main
tain rigid" or any other kind of an
enforcement of @an" laws in 'all'' the
cities and counties of the state. What is
this thing then that the state league is
expected to back up2 There is not only
nothing in this line to shack up but the
head of the administration has said
plainly that there will not be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-25
WORRIED THE PREACHER.
Durrant's Attorney Trying to Fix the
Crime on DR.. Gibson.

Crime DR.. Gibson.
SAN Francisco. April 25.-About the
only tangible evidence against Durrant,
the medical student accused of having
killed Minnie Williams, that has been
adduced in the preliminary examination
SO far is that the prisoner was better
acquainted with the dead girl than he at
first would acknowledge. It has been
shown that he lied in regard to that par
ticular point
Rev. John George Gibson. the preacher
of the church, had a long seige in the
witness box yesterday, and he is slated
for the rack again this morning.
DR. Gibson did not enjoy himself The
lawyers were Rustere with him and the
judge was sarcastic.
General Dickinson, attorney for the
defense, took the preacher over the
whole course of his life from his birth in
Edinburg to the day of the discovery of
Minnie Williams bloody body in his
church. and every question seemed to
veil an insinuation. The minister an
swered promptly but was disposed to be
excrutiatingly exact in his answers. He
1dgeted good deal.
Everybody enjoyed the parsons dis
comtiture. The district attorney to be
sure did put in one objection to save him
from annoyance, but Judge Conlan
swept it aside and did some prodding Of
the pastor himself
The length of the cross examination
and the manner of it indicate that Dur
rants lawyers propose to throw the
preacher forward as the centre of their
theory of the murders-for of course
| when they contend that Durrant did not
commit the crimes, they must supply a
possible substitute and Rev. Gibson IN :
derstands just what they are about
1t is hard to perceive just how the de-
Tense will connect the preacher with
this murder, for he was at the party OF
Emanuel church young people at DR..
Vogel's house that night from 7:3C
o'clock until about II o'clock, while
Durrant who should have been there to
| act as president, did not appear until
after $50.
Still, the undercurrent of opinion
among those who doubt Durrant's uilt
is that the preacher should be the man
under police surveillance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-25
FAMILTAR KANSAS NAMES.

John Seaton is said to have his eye on
the governorship of the state provided.
E. Bronson Cowgirl is the way a Great
Bend paper prints the name of the editor
OF the Kansas Farmer.
Ex-Congressman w. A. Harris is again
among his choice herd of short horns at
his farm near Linwood
Col. Jim Hallowell will revive the
memories of the war for the people of
Beloit on Memorial Day.
Tim Mccarthy and Henry Booth are
reported to be members of the faculty of
a dancing school out at Larned.
Hill P. Wilson is engaged in the in
surance business out at Hays City. He
guarantees the farmers crops against
hail and wind.
Rufe Cone of Wichita. who attained
much prominence during the LewslIing
administration, is conducting a boarding
house for horses.
It is reported that Webb McNalI still
thinks that he ought to represent the
sixth district in congress and will be in
the fight next year.
n. F. Acres will endeavor to get salts
faction out of ex-senator John Martin
for calling him a gambler at, the June
term of the district court in lola.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-25
sEYENTY-SIX YEARS OLD.
The American odd Fellow, His Strange
Creation and His Phenomenal Growth.

The American odd Fellow, His Strange
Creation and His Phenomenal Growth.
American Odd Fellowship will soon
be veteran of rs years. and on April
&c the anniversary of the foundation of
the popular order will be celebrated by
nearly 1, 600, 900 members of the society
in America, Seventy-six years ago
Thomas Wildey, an Englishman who
had located in Baltimore and was lone
" because Englishmen were not popu-
lar then on account of the recent war,
proposed to John WEIGH, John Duncan,
John Cheatham and Richard Rushworth
that they relieve the monotony of life
by organizing an Odd Fellows lodge
resembling the one he had belonged to
in England. On April 20, 1919, these
five men met at the Seven Stars tavern
and instituted the first lodge, which
they called Washington lodge, No. 1.
The five men were not we'll educated or
particularly refined, and they had little
Influence in Baltimore, but Wildey was
a born leader of men, and before he
died, in 1851, the order he had founded
had a membership of 200, 900.
In his great work he had the able as
sistance of James L. Ridgely, a native
American who was educated and refined
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-25

YER folly'' the Globe Democrat says:
1.-THE conditions which ended the first
will be equally fatal to the second.
When the resumption of specie pay
ments in 1879 closed the industrial stag
nation greenbackism dropped out Of
sight as silverism In its 16 to 1 go-it-
alone stage will a year hence" Now
if the Globe Democrat knows anything
about the facts it knows that the resump-
ton of specie payments had nothing
whatever to do with the return of pros
perity; that it did not create ripple in
the financial affairs of the country.
We glided into it so smoothly that no.
body realized that anything had hap
pened. But the real cause of return
of improved conditions was the passage
of the 81 and Allison law just one year
previous, which opened the minis to the
coinage of four millions of silver per
month, which was made legal tender
money. It was then that activity began
to be seen in all kinds of enterprises and
an era Of prosperity set in that did not
wane until the business of the country
was growing so rapidly that the increase
in currency did not keep pace with it.
A relapse naturally followed and in
seeking remedy congress repealed the
law by which a panic might have been
avoidai
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-25

and lawyer of high standing. He ex-
celled as an organizer and was very in
strumental in making the order the
great organization that it is.
Thomas Wildey was born in London
in 1881 and became a wagon maker s
apprentice at the age of II. While still
bound to his employer he became an
Odd Fellow, and with few associates
instituted a lodge in a remote part of
London. The order was started in Eng
land over a century and a half ago
much the same as Wildey started the
American order. A number of congenial
spirits got together of Saturday night,
snapped stories and had a good time.
From this beginning came Manchester
Unity, the English Order of Odd Fell
lows and the prototype of the Ameri-
can order. The Rebekah degree for
women was instituted in 1850 and was
the creation of Schuyler Colfax, after
ward vice president of the United States.
The present officers of the sovereign
grand lodge of Odd Fellows in America
are the following: J. B. Stebbins of
Albion, N. Y, grand sire; Fred Carle-
ton Of Texas, deputy grand sire; T. A.
Ross of Baltimore, grand secretary, and
Isaac Shepard of Philadelphia, grand
treasurer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-25
MAcEo, THE CUBAN PATRIOT.
Fighting For Freedom Under the Five
Barred Flag with the Single Star.

Fighting For Freedom Under the Five
Barred Flag With the Single Star.
There are probably more major gen.
erals, brigadiers, colonies and captains
in the Cuban revolutionary army than
in all Kentucky. Some of them are vet
Grams, and others are getting their first
taste of grim visaged war. In the for
mer class is Major General Antonio
Maceo, who stands next to General
Maxine Gomez in the affections and
admiration of the patriots who are bat
thing for liberty in Cuba as the boys Of
'76 battled at Lexington, Monmouth
and Ticonderoga,
General Maceo participated in the
ten years war and was a leader in the
ranks of the revolutionists. He was
severely wounded at one time and was
hunted for days by the Spanish troops.
He eluded them in the mountains and
finally escaped in a small boat After
days of terrible suffering from hunger
and thirst beneath a tropical sun he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-25
DIDN'T KNOW HEwAS GAY.
Miss Ashley Wasn't Aware That Lucky
Baldwin Was a Deceiver.

Los ANGELES, Cal, April 25.--The dis
patch from San Francisco regarding the
answer of Lucky Baldwin to the COM
plant of Miss Lillian Ashley, who is
sueing him for $4,000 for betrayal, Gre
ated considerable comment in this section
where the defendant is so we'll known
that even his very frank admissions OF
casion little surprise.
The plaintiff in the case, who now
lives in Pasadena, where she conducts
a identifying and hair-dressing estab-
lishment, was shown the dispatch and
asked what she had to say about Mr..
Baldwin's assertions that she was fully
aware of his fckleness and the impossi-
bility of her becoming his wife.
Miss Ashley said she had been warned
by her attorneys to keep silent on the
subject, but she declared that previous to
her meeting Mr.. Baldwin she knew
nothing of his character as gay de-
ceiver and trusted him implicitly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-25
Win VFonders Never Ceaae.

The Shaker doctor in his lectures in
the Crawford opera house claimed about
one man in every ten and about one
woman in every eighteen were suffering
from parasites OF course many people
laughed at the doctors theory, but now
we must admit that the doctors theory
is about right; from the number of para
sites that the doctor ia removing FROM
the people here. There is not day
that he does not remove two or more
Today the Shaker doctor removed from
Mr. ]. NJ. Wiley, 1915 Quincy street,
North Topeka, tape worm fifty three
feet long, and from Mr.. s. P. Whitman,
1919 Polk street, another monster tape
worm, and the doctor was still busy re-
moving parasites when we went to press.
Really and truly we must say that the
Shaker medicine Is a wonderful medi-
cine and the doctor is actually proving
his worth to suffering humanity. He
can be seen at the Copeland hotel from
9 to II a. N. and 2 to p. ID. every day.
Mr. Ponds Summer Rehaof
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-25
GEORGIA PEACHES.

Middle Georgia's Orchards Give Promise
of 100000 Bushels.
SAVANNAH, Ga, April 25.-A. Win
burn, general freight agent of the Cen
trail railroad, has just returned from a
trip through the fruit-growing section
between Fort Valley and Marshallville.
He says the peach crop will be the
largest in the history of that section and
that extra preparations will be made to
move it. 1t is expected to be between
100000 and 100000 bushels in that sec
ton. Several northern commission men
have gone through here on their way to
that section to make arrangements for
their share of the business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-25
YERKES TELESCOPE

Ground Broken for the Observatory at
Geneva Lake, Wis.
WILLIAMS BAY, Wis, April 25-The
work of building the .Yerkes observatory
has begun.
One of the first things to be done is to
drill an artesian well. 1t is expected
that large force of men will be put at
work by May 1 and the building hurried
as fast as possible. The observatory is
located one mile west of Williams bay
on plateau overlooking the waters of
Lake Geneva, about 200 feet below. and
is one of the most beautiful of the many
beautiful spots around this lake