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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
Notice Of sale Of
schools Lam DIS.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish of st. Tammany,
COvinOtOn Oct II yaao

Under an. by virtus Of an or.ler issued
By the Hon. W. w. Heard. Auditor OF
Pubic accounts OF sail State. dat a
Sept 80, 1898 l will proceed t. sell. &c.
cording to law, at public a3ction to the
last AMI highest lidder. Mt the front
door Of the CourtLO use, in the town OF
CovingtOn, Parish NJ / State afor .said.
on SATURDAY, Nov. 10, 1898. At Ii
o'clock A. NJ, The following described
school la,,d, viz:
Section is, Township ), south range
II east, situated in st. Tammany
Parish, La.
TERAs-Ten percent Of the purchase
price cash, aud the balance In nine
annual installments, the interest to be
paid on the whole amount annually, Il
the rate Of eight per cent per annum ;
the notes to be made payble to the
special mortgage ON the land sold. and
personal security In solid, until anal
Audit or Of Public Accounts, secured by
payment Of principal and interest. OF
II the purchaser prefers, he can nav the
whole amount Of the bill in cash. de-
Quoting the interest which the credit
would otherwise draw.
In the event Of the purchaser neglect
ing or refusing 70 pay any Of these in
stailments or interest ~ maturity, the
mortRAge shall be forthwith closed and
the land resoId.
Given ut Sovington, in said Parish
and State, this 18th day Of October,
1888.
]. NJ. ABNEY,
treasurer Of St. Tammany Parish, L..
C0vington, La Oct. IL. l. So.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22

The following little antedote re.
garding house quarantine is nc
doubt interesting to all who are
doing any talking md thinking
shout the Yellow Jack scare: ga
we'll known and able doctor, in q
conversation during the epidemic
Of fright, frenzy and folly Of last
year, in response to the inquiry,
s.what danger person would run
ia passing the door of house right
on the street in which there was :
case Of yellow fever" replied:
t-About as much danger as one
would run IN catching broken leg
from ! man who was in the house
with broken leg" When the
people ind that the thing is not SO
dangerous As they have been wont
to believe, then they will stand
their ground and not use wings in
leaving, aunihilating both time and
space, so to speak -Dcnaldsonville
Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
The Cotton Tax.

A merchant OF Selma, Ala, re-
Gently went to Washington to gather
Information from the Internal
Revenue depart relative to the cot
ton tax aud has published the fol-
lowing questions and answers:
When = tenant rents land for .
cotton rental deliverable in bales,
and = landlord stores such cotton
1t 4 warehouse, does such receipt
require . stamp? No; % cent
stamp not required.
II cotton mortgaged by the pro-
Queer to the factor is consigned to
factor to be sold: warehouse receipt
being issued in consignee's name
but designating the conslgnor, does
warehouse receipt require stamp?
No; II cotton is merely mortgaged
aud remains the property Of the
producer, 25-cent stamp not requir-
ed.
II producer delivers cotton to
merchants in the interior for pay
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
Protest to Gov. Culbersoll

The following letter has been
sent to Gov. Culberson, of Texas
Board Of Health, State OF Louisiana.
New Orleans, Oct. 16, 1898.
To his Excellency Chas. A. Culberson,
Governor of Texas:
Slr-Sheer justice to my State,
and to the sister State of Missis-
sippi, compels me TO resent the
misleading statement of your proc
lamation of Oct. IL, by which you
closed the State Of Texas to all
communication with the States of
Louisiana and Mississippi.
In this you state that the disease
now affecting Louisiana and Missis-
sippi is of a malignant and fatal
type.
The following figures prove con-
clusively the true state Of affairs.
The State Of Louisiana has a fairly
complete record, up to Oct. Is, for
the foll0wlnu localities:
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
Total ..... g

The figures from other localities
are not here taken into account
because believed to be incomplete
and unreliable
From an official telegram, dated
Oct. Is, 9:52 P. NJ, the total cases
in Mississippi, including McHenry,
were 736 and 4s deaths this includes
Jackson's 1919 cases and s deaths.
The total number Of cases IN the
two States is 1861, and the total
number Of deaths y.
The mortality therefore, is 4.33
per cent. This most surely, is moi
quarantine disease, and much
less SO than grip, influenza, typhoid
or scarlet fever.
Certainly it is not Of a malignant
and fatal type.
Very truly yours
EDMOND SOUCHON, NJ. d.
Pres. Louisiana Board Of Health.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
Three Doctors In C~nsuls q Ion
From Benjamin Franklin.

"When you are sick, what you
like best il to be choeen for a medi-
cine in the first place what expert
ence tells you is best. to be chosen
in the second place; what reason
ii. e., Theoly) says is best 70 be
chosen in the last place. hut il you
can get DR.. Inclination, DR.. Ex-
perience and DR.. Reason together,
they will give you the best advice
that can be taken
When you have bad cold DR.. In
clinatiou would recommend Cham
berIain's Cough Remedy because
1t is pleasant aud safe to take. DR..
Experience would recommend it
because 1t never fails to effect =
speedy and permanent cure. DR..
Reason would recommend il because
1t Is prepared ON scientific princi.
Piles. and acts TN natures plan in
relieving the lungs, opening the
secreticns and restoring the system
to natural and healthy condition.
For ssle 10y v. H. Frederick,
Covingt0n, and B. b. Paine,
Vaudeville.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22

A horrible story comes from
Talahatche Goa ~, Mississippi, te
the effect that 4 white tramp was
taken with fever, aud took refuge in
= negro church: where he was dis
covered by the negroes, who told
Or. Harrison, health officer of the
county. DR.. Harrison pronounced
the case yellow fever, and while he
was absent from the church attend
Ing to other duties, the church was
set on fire by someone and burned
TO the ground, with the sick tramp.
When the doctor returned he saw
the charred bones in the ashes.
And Mississippi is a supposedly
civilized country.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
sl1I3I!l1 5sl3Ily|


Onr excellent contemporary, the
Baton Rouge Advocate, whose only
fault we can sec is its prejudice
against New Orleans, expresses
some bold and somewhat original,
We we're about tn say entirely
sound. views ON tue futility Of quar-
antine, and says:
1T begins to look as though
many of The scientific theories con-
corning the disease will have to
undergo revision in order to COM
port with recent experiences. fhe
accepted theory that 1t is not indigo
nous TO the climate will doubtless
be very strongly assailed, - will
also the theories regarding the trans
mission of the disease, the manner
of dealing with il and cognate sub
jects. II we are tn be subject to
recurring epidemics every few years
will it not be just as reasonable to
stop all this nonsense and clap
trap and teach the people Of the
South that yellow fever is . neces-
sary part OF business mans edu-
cation and that no msn should con-
slider himself fully qualified to go
into business ON his own account un-
til he has had yellow fever? 1t seems
to us that it ID time for the doctors
aud scientists to either drive out
yellow fever or else admit that il is
inseparablc from our climate, and
then let the public govern itself &C.
cordingly.
We have sometimes entertained
thoughts very similar to this ourself
aud we think we shall at another
time give expression to them.
Whether our capitolian contem-
pcrary be right or wrong, it's views
on this subject are richly deservin z
OF serious consideration by the
whole Southern country.
We said few lays ago that tue
efficiency of quarantine as q pre-
tentative of invasions Of pestilence
was by no means an established
scientific fact, aud that there was
as much evidence against it as for
it. We have approached. il not
reached, the conclusion that the
thorough drainage. sewerage, paw
ing and sanitation of a city is OF
ten times more efficiency IN
preserving the heslth of city and
protecting it against invasions Of
pestilence than il the most thorough
and scientific system tina. ever has
been. or ever will be, invented
Daily States.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22

any and all water. said culverts
to be placed where designated BY
the Road Inspector. -
Sec. z. Be It further ordained, That
the Police member from escll ward
shall be Road Inspector for his
ward. His duties shall be to inspect
the roads after the completion by
the contractor, and approve the
work, before any final payment
shall be made.
Sec. 8, The Public Road revenues
OF the parish shall be prorated
equally to each ward.
Sec. 8, In December Of each
year the President At the Police
Jury shall advertise, by two inser.
tions in the official journal OF The
Parish, for bids to work the Public
Roads BY tue mile. tie Police Jury
reserving the right to reject any and
all bids. SAID bids or proposals
shall be opened at the January
meeting OF the Police Jury. who
shall award the contract 20 the
lowest responsible bidder.
Adopted Oct. IL, 1898.
Mr.. Koepp moved, seconded by
Mr.. Smith, that for the year 1898,
the member OF the Police Jury for
each ward be instructed TO put up
notices on the main public roads oi
his ward, that lie will receive sealed
bids for the repair Of said roads,
for two weeks from date, and the
contract will be given to the lowest
bidder, to put the road in good pass
able condition. The roads to be
inspected BY the Police Jurer OF
each ward. Carried.
Mr.. Smith in the chair.
Mr.. Keyser moved, seconded by
Mr. Murphy, that all contractors
be compelled to give sol, ent bond
Of one third Of the amount Ut con-
tract.
Yeas-Todd, Murphy and Key
ser.-Total, 8
Nays-Koepp, Rodgers. Cooper.
w. 4. Parker and HI. @.
Parker-Total, 5.
And the motion was lost.
Mr.. Smith moved, seconded by
Mr.. Koepp, that the Jury Commits
sioners be allowed IS 90 per day,
not exceeding two days, and that
two witnesses be allowed 81 90 per
day not exceeding two days.
Yeas Geo. Koepp, Jr., w. N.
Cooper, Jos. III. Smith. w. E.
Parker, John A. Todd and Jas.
Keyser-rotal, s.
Nays-B. F. Rogers, and II. Q.
Parker-Total, 2.
And the motion was carried.
It was moved BY Mr.. w. E. Par
ker, seconded by Mr.. Rogers. that
Mr.. +. w. Hosmer be paid the sam
Of $50 IS erroneously paid by him
s. taxes on the Ouchner place.
Carried.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22

ment Of debt and merchant ships
such cotton TO warehouse in his OWL
name, does such : receipt require
stamp? Yes, 25-cent stamp re-
quired.
Or, il producer without being in
debted, sells his cotton straight ou'
for cash to country merchant, he
then shipping it To warehouse. does
such receipt require > stamp! Is
peciaIly when considering in con-
nection with this the fact mentioned
in Nos. 5 and s? Yee 25-cen'
stamp required.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Parish CT st. Tanlmany,

COvlnRton, Oct ), 1888.
According TO Law we, the Eoard o.
Supervisors Of Election in and for Ii.
parish OF II. tn Llinany, do hereby Civ.
notice that m ele-ion will b held OF
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER, 9. 1888.
at which election there will be voted
Tor one Congressman froE the sixth
Congressional District Of Louisiana. Il
represent the district In the House 81
Representatives for the term o. two year.
from the 4th Of March, 1899.
Also for one Railroad Commissioned
for the Second Railroad district.
The follo wing commissioners AND
clerks are appointed to hold said cleo.
ton.
First ward-w. i. Bohring, J. W
B.deaux. Andrew Fl. Helsser. Uommis-
sioners. Thos. Gusman. clerk.
Second WArd-Afilt.n Burns. L. a.
Perreand. y. +. Rodgers, commissioners.
J. d. Yates, clerk
Third Ward-loseph Lancaster. A.
Sharp. J. w. QniDn, commissioners.
]. B. Naille, clerk.
Fourth WaIi-P. C. Saith, J. AZ.
Sharp, w. w. johnson, commissioners.
A. g. Depree, clerk.
Fifth Ward-D. r.. Carpenter. J. T..
CoopeR. Alex Bush. commissioner ]. g..
Aizsll, Clerk.
Sixth Ward-T. J. Parker David
Richardson, J. Y. Crow, commissioners.
g. J. Wilson clerk.
Seventh Warf-J. j. Cnsa.hs, ". E.
Tallsy Sey mour Cousin. Commissions rs.
Alex Todd, clerk.
Eigth WsrdJ. J. Willis, s. p. Cause.
Il. A. Orr, Commissioners. J. p. SOIL
berger, clerk.
Ninth Ward-PAul Ss.iler Harry
Roach. q. Z. DlttEan, Corilr issionef.
John Frcderickx. clerk
or this tie daily On lifted electors OF
the parish Of st. TAmmany will take
dns notice.
Tho polls will b open giom s,vtn in
the mornicg 70 Fix iu the evening.
WARRxN TnOsAs.
w. Z. PAxaxxs.
Ed Exxvsxx1.
board 81 Supervisors, Parish e s.
1ANmAnY.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
FOR SALE.

The Leblanc place, situated i've miles
from Coviugton, on the Ichefdncts
River, and one mile below Old Landing
Contains 1000 sores, more or less.
About 1000 acres timbercd- Has ,
front on the Tchefuncta River OF mile
and q quarter, with residence. BATE
house, wharf, artesian well, gas, anc
an necessary outbuildiDgs. VIII De
sold entire, or separate. Title guaran-
teed. For further information, apply
at this Office, or to ALT. lie Blanc, or
the premises. PostOfflce address,
Coyington, La, Box So.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22

There is something new for the
doctors and other people to think
about the report from Towanda,
Pa, that the sssix pallbearers'' and
1.-TWO assistants" at the funersl of
. soldier who died at Chickamauga
Of typhoid fever and was taken
home for interment, all developed
the same disease, one having died
from it and two not expected to
live. The incident is an excep-
tional one, we believe, but it APP
pears to call for especial considera-
tion.-Charleston News and Cour-
,er
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
FOR SAIL

A farm Of 1870 acres and improve
ments, consisting of dwelling h)use,
barns, stables and out-houses Thirty
acres under cultivation. Three acres
In bearing grape vines. ALI kinds Of
fruit trees, and ten bearing pecan trees
Also horse, 8 cows. sto X Of hogs. a
one horse wagon, one buggy, and farm
ing implements. About miles north
OF Covington- Inquire or add ess l..
Matthew, at the place, or Paul Laborde.
Gown, ton Ia
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22

II. J. Smith, to gallon of oil, 5 axes,
ar handles and lamp globe, 50 60.
Salmen Brick Lumber Co., to bridge
lumber, freight and neile, 81 30.
d. Glover, to lumber and spikes, aud
repairing & bridges, $l2 50.
| +. ]. Frederick, 70 building Dennet's
Bridge, 80 90.
Tom. Thomas, to cleaning Court
house vaults, el2 90.
Paul Dulicn, to hauling :inders
around vault. 81 50.
O. d. Perrin, to repairing three
bridges, and furnishing material $40 80
w. T. Jay, to bridge lmber, and haul
ing, $40 50.
Byrem Hubes, to repairing bridge ON
Edwards road, s. 90.
DR. J. +. Pigott, Coroner, to inquest
Of JudgeL Hunter, $40, telegram 75cts..
burying body sig. Total, 422 Is.
H. Cornibe, B. T. Carol. Oscar L.
Dittmar, Furnice Moody and Manuel
Cole, jurors on the above inquest. - 90
each.
DR.. ]. +. Pigott. Coroner, to irquest
of Peter Jolly, Jr., $40, telegram, 20 cts.
Total, $40 Is.
w. E. Talley, Samuel Gaines. H. J.
Anderson, Henry Keller and d. H
Snow, jurors, on above inquest, 81 90
each.
DIR. J. F. P;gott, Coroner, to inquest
OF John Adams, $40, kilograms IS cts.
Total. $40 rs.
Melville Pechon. w. B. Cowart. w.
II. Talley, Albert Dubuison and Paul
FasciaD, jurors on the above inquest,
o. 90 each.
w. G. Kentzel, to three months
salary, and publishing proceedings,
advertisements and job printing, IS per
itemized bills, $96 SO
C. StegaIl, Official Stenographer, to
salary for July August and Sept, SIS.
Warren Thomas, Parish Assessor, for
making assessment roll, for 1895,
s5O4 Sc.
j. Strobe, Sheriff. to feeding prison.
ers, conveying prisoners to hospital
andIInsane Asylum, etc as per itcmized
bill, $506 40
II II Warren, Clerk of Court, to pur-
chasing jury book, binding conveyance
book, sundmoning jury commissioners,
recording inquests ETC., S45 80
To two witnesses drawing Jury for
June term, 81, two witnesses drawing
jury for December term, 2 days, s. Oh.
Total 912 90
Milton Burns, L Philips, Ed Brew
ster and A. Frederick, Jury Commits
sioners, to drawing jury for December
term of court, two days, $40 90 each
The following warrants were issued
tn memhera for miloa 90 and vs.r diem
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
The Quarantine Meeting,

Last Friday there was held at
City Hall largely attended meet
ing of delegates from the CONNER
cial and industrial bodies of the
city with the committee of Health
of the City Council.
The destructive effects upon
business of the shotgun guarantees
put in operation not only by States
and cities, but by every village
and hamlet in the South, were fully
discussed, and the folly and pitiful
cowadice shown in the frenxied
panics of the people in fleeing in
or fencing themselves in from .
disease that has been demonstrated
in two successive years to be al
most harmless and without fatal
effects, were duly set forth.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
In view of the fact that the So
called yellow fever which now pre-
walls throughout Mississippi and
some portions of Louisiana is of a
very mild type, and mot dangerous
in character; aud,
Whereas, the shotgun and other
guarantees now being enforced in
this and other adjoining states are
of such character as to seriously
injure the business of the entire
south, aud inasmuch as there Is alb
solutely no cause or reason why the
people of the south should be panic
stricken through fear of q disease
which is no longer to be dreaded,
and where the records show the
mortality is far less than in typhoid
fever, diptheria, smallpox or other
infectious or contagious disease.
be it
Resolved, That this meeting,
representing the council and the
various commercial interests of the
city of New Orleans, hereby urges
the state and local boards of health
to abolish all existing guarantees
in the state.-Picayune.
The Picayune, in its remarks
above about "every town and ham,
LETT declaring quarantine, should
have excepted the towns in st.
rammany Paaish. We never quar-
antine, and never have any yellow
fever.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
Official.
TAX ORDINANCE.

Sec. l BE it enacted, by the
Board OF Aldermen Of the Town ol
Covington. La. that tax of 4 mills
is hereby levied ON oil taxable
property in the town Ut Covington
for the year 1898. for the purpose
of defraying the general expenses Of
the corporation.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted,
that tax Of 5 mills is hereby levied
ON all the taxable property Of the
town Of Covington. for the purpose
OF building a public school house,
in accordance with the special cleo.
tion held Sept. IL, 1888.
Adopted Oct 4, 1898.
s. D. ANDERSON,
Mayor.
w. G. KENTZEL. Secretary.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22

The license Of the For. Wayne
Insurance Company, of Fort
Wayne, Ind, to do business in this
State, and all certificates of
authority heretofore issued to It's
agents in this State, were revoked
last week by the Secretary of State.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
QUARANTINE.

The bitterest commercial enemy
New Orleans has could not, witt
the assistance Of his satanic males
| ty, devise . better or surer scheme
to paralyze and destroy the trade
Of that city and the surrounding
country than has been put in
operation by the alarmist and the
dreaded quarantine fever. The
trade of New Orleans and that sec.
ton of country adjacent to it. is
being most effectually and system.
atically ruined.
And for what reason? If it was
the genuine old-time yellow fever
that numbered its victims by the
hundreds there would be some
reason in all this quarantine TOM
foolry. Several towns in the State
have had the prevailing fever in
their midst for weeks and thought
next to nothing about it. until some
would-be expert, anxious to see his
name in print, come along and said
yellow fever! My! What awful,
what horrifying visions Of death
and destruction. those words con-
jure up!
Seriously, matters have reached
such a condition that it is neces-
sary that the entire country be
afforded relief. Commercially
speaking business is at q standstill
and nothing of consequence will be
done until after heavy frost, aud
who knows when that will be? If
these same conditions are to exist
every fall; if the country is to be
tied up and people become panic
stricken, something must be done
to afford relief.
We do not expect the people to
lay aside their fears all at once;
this they cannot do, for these fears
are not based upon the awful suf-
fering caused by the genuine old
time yellow fever. This modern
article has been stripped of all its
hideousness, and the sooner this is
realized the better.
In Jackson, Miss, for instance,
more than two-thirds of the people
have left the place; left their bust
ness and possessions simply on ac-
count Of some thirty or forty cases
of fever, with two or three deaths.
Quarantine does not prevent an
outbreak of fever. Natchez qaaran-
tined against the world and all
the fullness thereof. Yet they have
several cases of fever now. Cow
ington is wide open to the world
and always has been; no yellow
fever there up to date. - The
Florida Parishes.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
HOMESTEAD APPLICATION

Il, sccordarca with Act No Ga Of the
..gisla tune Of the State Of Louisiana, Of
1873. hereby give notice OF nv inter-
,i0n 10 b omestead the folluwiY. STATE
land viz:
The southeast quarter Of the SOUTH
east quarter q. section. 6, township 5.
souti. range IL eaasf. Greenabnrg Dis
,riet. In.
se2I-5.. D. NJ. LLOYD.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22

Old fashion IN dresses may be re,
vived, but no old-fashoned medi-
cine can replace Chamberlain 4
Cholic, Cholera and Diarrhoes
Remedy.
For Sale by v. II. Frederick,
Covington, and r. 3. Paine,
Vaudeville.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
FOR SALE.

A Eeauti ul tract If LAM, Situated 2
miles from the famous Abba springs
Well timbered and small portion uEder
Improvements, containing l6l acres or
more a splendid locality for farming
purposes. For particulars address
Mrs. JAS p. GUlNACLT.
633 Bourbon st. New Orleans, La
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
vENIRE.

sixteenth Judicial ADietTict C1rn q
Ioni.ianA. IN and Tor ths HAr1eh q
ST. ra.smany.
III. X. Wa37en, Clerk Of Coass +
aud for the Parish Of 81 TannAny.
State Of LOuisiana, do hereby certify
that summoned the following named
Jury Commissioners, Milton Burns.
Ed. Brewster, ]. L. Phillips, AdolPn
Frederick and w. J. Mavfield, to meet
at the Courthouse, at % O'Clock :. r..
ON the goth day Of September, 1885,
and there not being quorum present,
adjourned the meeting until Septem
Der 81, 1888, and the following named
Jury Commissioners being present To-
Wit: Milton Burns, Adnlph Frederick:
J. L. Phillips and Ed. Brewster, ana
after icing BY me duly sworn, ACCORD
Ing to law, we proceeded to make list
of three hundred names of the citizens
qualified to act rs Jurors, residents of
the Parish Of st. Tammany, La, w. j.
Mayfeld, one of the jury Commission
ers, rot being present, after hay
ing been duly summoned, we proceeded
to select twenty names to serve -
Grand Jurors for the third Monday in
n.r~,rhnr ,aOa fn-wff.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22

The American Government has
served notice on Spain that she
must evacuate Havana by Nov. 1,
when the United States troops will
be at the gates of the city and
ready to take charge.