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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-04-23

plants, and for the purpose of OPP
ening, building, making, impro-
wing, grading and repairing pu-
bile roads, making and repairing
of bridges within and without the
corporate limits of the town of st.
Martinville, when conducive to the
best interest and welfare of the
town, and in general any work of
public utility, the Town Council,
may in the name of the Town Of
st. Martinville, and for its advan-
tage and benefit, borrow money
for said purposes; and in order to
provide for and secure the pay
ments and extinguishment of any
indebtedness thus created, they
may issue interest bearing bonds
of the Town and increase the rates
of taxation within the limits and
in the manner provided for by Ar
ticle 2O9 of the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana; provided, that
no money shall be borrowed, and
issue, or the rate of taxation in
creased, unless the purpose or
purposes for which the issuance
of said bonds and the amount
thereof shall have submitted to a
vote of the property tax payers,
and majority of the property
tax payers voting at such election
shall have voted therefor. When
ever bonds are issued as herein
provided for, such bonds shall be
made payable in not less than five
nor more than twenty years from
date of their issue, with interest
attached, at a rate not ex-
ceeding six per cent. per annum,
payable annually or semi-annual-
ly; provided further, that the ag-
gregate amount of out standing
bonds issued and existing under
this titles sh all never exceed ten
percentum of the assessed value
of the real and personal property
of the town. The special tax as
sessed for the payment of such
bonds shall be devoted and ap-
piled exclusively to their payment,
but whenever there shall be sur.
plus of the general fund at the ex.
piration of any fiscal year, such
surplus may at the discretion OF
the Council be applied in payment
of interest and principal of these
bonds.
Canvassed, proclaimed and pro-
this 7th of April, 1898.
T. j. Liable, Mayor.
A. V. FLEMING, Secretary.
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dykes causeways and bridges, not,
withstanding any superintendent
which might be set up by any cor
poration or individual over such
works. To determine the COM
pletion and Dimensions of the
pavements of streets, sidewalks
and alleys, to fix the squaring and
to prevent any encroachment upon
or stopping or obstructing the
streets, alleys public squares, levees
public roads, wharves or any part
of the landing of the port of st.
Martinville, and to order any OBJ
ject, whatever may be its value,
which may cucumber said places,
or prevent and embarrass the free
use of same, to be torn down and
removed or sold for whom it may
concern, in the same manner and
after such notices as shall be re-
quired by such regulations.
To provide for the cleaning of
the banks of the bayou, within the
corporate limits of the town; for
the reopening of such natural
drains as has been obstructed by
the owners of adjacent property;
or opening or filling up of any wa
ter course which is not navigable,
for the purpose of carrying the
public highways over the same:
provided, no unnecessary injury be
occasioned thereby to the neigh
boring inhabitants.
The Town Council shall be YES
ted with the full power and antho-
rity to provide the means and reg
ulations for preventing and ex-
tinguishing conhagrations: to de-
termine in what parts of the town
wooden buildings shall not be erec-
ted, and prevent persons from re-
constructing in wood, old and de-
cayed wooden buildings and adj
juncts under pretense of repairing
the same in those parts of the
town where it is lawful to build
only in brick, stone or metal. And
to provide for the inspection, reg
ulation and condemnation of any
building or buildings which may
be dangerous to life and property.
To regulate the police of thea
tres, public balls, taverns, places
for shows and exhibitions, houses
of public entertainment shops for
retailing liquors, houses of i'll
fame, and to order the same to be
closed whenever the public safety
and tranquility shall require it,
and impose such regulations and
duties upon persons keeping such
places as they deem proper and
necessary, and to punish all va
grants.
To regulate the proper govern
ment of carts, drays, wagons and
other vehicles of every descrip-
ton; freight trains and passenger
trains which run in the limit of the
town.
To every year levy an equal tax
upon all real and personal property
in said town, not to exceed for one
year ten mills of the assessed value
thereof, which said tax shall be
due and payable, and collected
and enforced in the same manner
and at the same time as state
taxes; and on the same day annual
ly thereafter, impose an annual
tax on trades, professions, business
and callings, said licenses to expire
on the 31st. day of December in
the year in which it was obtained,
and which license tax shall be
due and PAYABLE from the first dav
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to the town by the granter or
grantees nor for longer period
than twenty-five years.
The enumeration of the forego-
ing powers shall not be understood
to exclude or restrict any other
power, general or specific belong
ing to municipal corporations as
such or which are necessary to the
proper exercise of its corporate
functions nor those powers which
are necessary and essential to the
objects and purposes of this cor
poration, all of which are hereby
specially reserved.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISION.
The Town Council may suspend
or remove by vote Of the MAORI
ty of the members, say appointed
officers for incompetency, neglect
of duty, malfeasance in office, or
when the service of such officer
are no longer required or necessa-
ry to the public interest The
Town Council shall have power to
organize, appoint uniform and
commission a police force, and to
appoint as many officers as may
be necessary, to fix the salaries
and compensation of all officers
and employees appointed by them,
under the restrictions contained
in this act.
The Town Council shall hold
regular meetings on stated day
every month; their proceedings
shall be duly recorded and all re-
| solutions and ordinances shall be
published and promulgated in a
newspaper published in the town.
The Town Council shall further
at least ten days before the expi-
ration of such fiscal year, cause to
be published in town newspaper,
a correct and full statement of the
receipts and expenditures from
the date of the last annual report,
the funds where derived and show
ing for what purpose disbursed,
the condition Of the Treasurer, to-
gether with such information as
may be necessary, and a full state
ment of the financial conditional
of the town. "
No ordinance levying a tax,
making an appropriation over
Five Hundred Dollars, or provi-
ding for the purchase or sale of
real estate, shall be passed except
by a majority of the entire Coun-
Gil, nor shall final vote of same
be taken except at regular meet
ing, subsequent to previous regu-
lar meeting at which the same bill
have been introduced and passed
to its second reading and the said
ordinance together with the vote
on the same, and the names of the
members voting yes or nay, shall
be recorded and published in a
newspaper of the town, except in
case of invasion, instruction,
pestilence or innundation.
All contracts for public works or
materials, or supplies ordered by
the Town Council, when the same
exceed One Hundred Dollars, shall
be offered at public auction and
given to the lowest bidder who can
furnish security satisfactory to The
Council, or the same shall be adj
vertised for sealed proposals in
writing, to be opened by the Ma
yor in the presence of the Coun-
Gil, and the contract shall be given
to the person making lowest pro-
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| ana snail cause Juo Sdiu0 W OS
published at least thirty days in
newspaper published in the towr
and such rate of taxation not ex
ceeding one dollar on every hun
dred of valuation shall at leas'
thirty days after the first publica'
ton thereof be fixed and assessed
so as with other revenues of the
town, may be necessary TO meeI
said estimated liabilities and ex'
penditures.
The adoption of said detailed
estimate shall be considered as the
appropriation therein stated, and
no money shall be drawn from the
Treasury except in pursuance OF
such appropriations.
All taxes and licenses imposed
by the Town of ST. Martinville
La, shall be due and exigible al
the same time as the State taxes
and all the articles and provisions
of the State constitution and the
laws of the General Assembly
passed Hereunder regulating and
relating to the collection of State
taxes and tax sales shall also ap-
ply to and regulate the collection
of town taxes.
That the Police Jury of the Pa
IRISH of st. Martin shall not have
or exercise any jurisdiction with
in the limits of said town, except
it be over the Court house, Jail,
drawbridge or the Bayou Teche,
and other property belonging to
said Parish in said town; and the
said Police Jury shall have no
power to levy, impose or lay any
tax or license within the limits of
said town and which is especially
prohibited, and said town is here
by exempt from Parish tax and
License; and the inhabitants of
said town shall not be liable to
public road duty under the gener-
al road laws of this State, and are
hereby exempt from road duty.
The Town Council shall be and
are hereby empowered to provide
for, regulate and require the bull
ding and repairing of all sidewalks,
banquettes or curbing upon the
streets within the corporate limits
as may be hereafter provided by
ordinances.
Whenever the owner of proper
ty in front of which a sidewalk,
banquette or other walks, shall
have been ordered to be made,
filled up, grading or repaired,
shall fail to do so within the time
required by the ordinance or reso-
luton of the Town Council, the
Town Council shall order the same
to be done at the expense of the
owner or owners of said property,
and the town shall have a special
lien and privilege ON said proper
ty to secure the payment so due,
which shall entitle the corporation
to be paid in preference over any
other claim, mortgage or encum-
brances upon said property, reco-
verable before any court of COM
petent jurisdiction. That all
streets, except such parts as may
be required to be kept up by gran
tiers or franchise, shall be kept in
repair by the town, and all side
walks or banquettes shall be kept
by the owners of the real property
thereon.
The Town Council shall have
the power and authority to grant
franchises over all streets of said
town for the nurnoaa of onorot;po
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the Council by whom he was cleo
ted or appointed, it being the true
meaning and intention of this Sec
ton that each incoming or new
Council have the right of electing
its own officers and employees.
The Town Attorney shall be H.
censed i'm law, and shall be the le-
gal adviser of the Corporation in
all matters in which legal advice
may be necessary; he shall repre-
sent the Corporation in all judicial
proceedings and actions to which
it may have an interest, and shall
in all cases when required by the
Town Council, furnish a written
opinion Of the legality or the con-
stitutionality of the law or ordi-
nance to be submitted to, or pend
ing before the Council, or as to
any question involved in the dis
charge of the duties of the respec-
tive officers of the Corporation,
provided, that the Town Council
shall have the authority to employ
such additional attorney or attor-
neys as they deem necessary in
important cases.
The Town Council shall appoint
and elect one of the banks of st.
Martinville, in which all moneys,
bonds, notes and securities belong
ing to the Town shall be deposited.
and due account kept thereof, on
the most advantageous terms and
conditions that may be offered by
any of said banks, provided, that
If none of said banks will consent
to act as such depository, the Ire
asurer or some other person may
be appointed by the Council as
Fiscal Agent; and provided fur
Their that the Council may with
draw all its deposits and change
its fiscal Agent whenever in their
opinion the public interest may
require.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
The Council may oldain and i'm
pose such fines for the breach of
the bylaws, rules and ordinances
of the town rs they shall think
proper not exceeding fifty dollars
fine and not exceeding thirty days
Imprisonment, or both, for each
offense, at the discretion of the
Mayor. Said fine to be recovera-
bic before the Mayor or any Court
of competent jurisdiction, in the
name and for the use of said town
and in default of the payment of
any fine imposed, the person in
default may be ordered to work
out the same on the streets and
alleys, of the town or other public
works at the rate of one dollar for
each day of labor performed.
The Town Council shall, on or
before the first day of May, fix the
salary and fees of the Mayor and
other elective officers, and shall at
the same time, establish the COM
pensation or salary to be paid to
the officers appointed by the Town
Council; the compensation or sal
airy SO established shall not be
changed during the term for which
said officers shall be appointed or
elected
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salary and fees of the Mayor and
other elective officers, and shall at
the same time, establish the COM
pensation or salary to be paid to
the officers appointed by the Town
Council; the compensation or sal
airy so established shall not be
changed during the term for which
said officers shall be appointed or
elected.
The Town Council shall have
full power and. authority to make
and pass such bylaws and ordi-
nances as are necessary and pro-
per for the government of the
town.
To regulate and make improve
ment to the streets, alleys, squares,
wharves sidewalks and other pub
lie property, and to provide for the
lighting and watering of the same
and to order and direct the ditch
ing. filling. opening, widening and
continuing of any streets and alleys
and if for such purpose, the land
of any person, or body corporate
is necessary to he had the said
Town Council shall have the right
to purchase the same at reasonable
prices, or cause the same to be ex-
propriated according to the man.
ner and formalities prescribed by
existing laws on the subject; to
regulate the proportion of and to
make and repair all common sewers
drains, canals, public roads, levees,
Evening star., 1898-08-26
TESTING UNION LABOR LAW.
\ Member of the National Association
OF Stationary Engineers Brings Suit.

CHICAGO. August 26.-John c. Whistler,
stationary engineer employed by the con-
struction company now building the big
39th street intercepting sewer in this city,
has begun suit in the United States
courts which will test the const1tutionallty
of the city ordnance requiring all work
done by and for the city to be performed
by union labor.
Whistler is a member of the National AS
sociation of Stationary Engineers a body
not affiliated with the Federation of Labor
and, according 10 the latter, is non-union
man. In the eity's contract with the con-
structior company is the regular clause
providing that only union labor shall be
employed and declaring the contract liable
to forfeiture if non-union labor is used
According to WhistlerS complaint he has
keen notified by his employers that unless
he Joined the union he must leave their
employ. The suit asking that the city au-
thoritles be enjoined from demanding his
discharge resulted. His demand is based
on the plea that the ordinance is unconsti-
tutional, and if enforced would deprive
thousands of men of work
Evening star., 1898-08-26

Notice.-On motion, the exchange decided to ad-
1ourn over Saturdays during the months Of July.
Sales-reeulsr caIl-I2 O'Clock m.-United States
3s $1,000 at los. Lanston Monotype, % at 16.
50 at 10, 26 at 10 After cali -Mergenthaler Limo,
District of Columbia Bonds.-2O-ye year Fund 5s.
1o01s bid; 3o-year Fund. gold os, loo bid. Fund.
Miscellaneous Bonds.-MetropolItan Railroad S.
ll912 bid. Metropolitan Rairoad cony. 6s l23
A, ia bid. Metropolitan Railroad cert ind. b,
1o9 bid. Columbia Railroad 6s, I22 bid. Belt
Railroad 5s 4s bid 50 asked lexington Raiiroad
ser. A, 6s 10 bid. Washington Gas Company
b, IS. 1884 bid United States Electric Light
phone 5s, I02 bid. American Security and Trust
5s. loO$4 bid. Masonic Hail Association 5s los
bid Was washington i5 Light Infantry Is IS 20 bid ~
bid. Metropolitan, 3o5 bid. Central, 140 bid
Farmers and Mechanics. lSe hid. Second. ls0
tai 100 hid. West End IS bid 80 asked. Trad
ers' 95 bid. Lincoln, lis bid. 12o asked
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies. : National
Safe Deposit and Trust, I131s bid, ile asked
Washington Loan and Trust 126 bid American
Security aid Trust. $50 bid.
3I14 bid Metropolitan, 40 bid. Corcoran, SO bid.
Potomac, 80 bid Arlington, 122 bid. German
lumbla. 10 bid. Riggs, ~ bid, s asked. Peoples
bid. i''' -''''O'-' ''' '''' ~ "'e' '""'e''iA''
Title Insurance Stocks-Reni Estate THE 10
bid. Columbia Title, Az bid So asked.
Railroad Stocks.-Capital Traction Company, 72k
DID, 6ld - asked. Metropolitan, IL bid. l2s asked.
Gas and Electric Light stOcks.-wsshington Gas,
United States Electric Light. ioa bid. "'1'
Telephone Stocks.--Chesapeake and Potomac. IS
bid, 80 asked.
1s4 bid. 1851 asked. Lanston MOnotype 1915 hid
16E asked. American Graphoph0ne, 12%. hid l3X
caase aS Sd ASKED clss; Ss
Falls Ice. 1l2 bid, 122 asked
Evening star., 1898-08-26
PROPOSE TO CONTEST.
Heirs of Robert Beall File Caveat
Against His VIII.

Mr. William j. Beall, a nephew of the late
Robert Beaii, today through his attorney,
Thomas NJ. Fields, filed a caveat in behalf
of himself and the sister and niece and
another nephew of the deceased, against
the probate of the paper writing offered as
the last will and testament of Robert Beall,
and against the granting Of letters testa-
mentary in the estate.
The grounds of objection are given briefly
as follows:
"First-That the paper writing was not
executed in due form Of law by the said
Robert Beall as and for his last will and
testament.
"Second-If the said paper writing was
executed by the said Robert Bean he was
not at the time of such execution of sound
and disposing mind and capable of exc
cutting valid deed or contract.
"Third-If the said paper writing was ex-
ecuted by the said Robert Beau such exc
cution was procured by the undue influence
of the beneficiary or executor named there
in, or both of them, or of some other per-
son or persons
The caveat states further that If Mr..
Beall exc Ited the will such execution was
obtained by fraud practiced upon him by
the person named as beneficiary or execu-
tor, OF by duress applied by such person,
and, lastly, that he was then and there
mentally oblivious of the purport and effect
thereof and of what property he owned,
and of those related to and dependent upon
him, and was otherwise wholly lacking in
testamentary capacity.
With the caveat was filed motion for
the appointment of a collector for the es-
tate pending the contest of the will.
Mr.. Beall was the well-known book dealer
and citizen who died several weeks ago at
Providence Hospital. In the will filed
shortly thereafter dated April 8, 1s9S and
made at the hospital. he beaueathed all Of
his property to his friend, Miss Mary p
Brown, the nineteen-year-old daughter of
VIM. A. Brown, formerly of Indiana. The
property was to be hers solely and abso-
lutely and without the Intervention of a
guardian. H. b. Mcdonald was named as
executor.
The contest promises to be very interest
ing, as both parties to the controversy. II ia
said, are determined to fight to the last
The Beail estate is valued at many thou
sands of dollars
Evening star., 1898-08-26
CUMBERLAND NEWS.
"uroer Comes to Light After Eigh-
teen Aears-Arrext of Fugftives.
Special DfsDatch fo Tho Eroptp, c.,

Murder Comes to Light After Eigh-
teen Years-Arrest of Fugitives.
special Dispatch to The Evening Star
CUMBERLAND. Md, August 26-Henry
Wills of Hyndman, Pa, has been in Cum
berland probing the alleged murder of
Hiram lines, his wife's father in this city
In January. 1880. with the view of secur-
ing the arrest of the guilty persons. Mrs.
wills, then five years old, says four men
stabbed her father to death and threw his
BODY in the canal. They secured 5000 and
went west with the child. threatening to
Kill her if she ever revealed their act. The
affair preyed upon her mind SO much that
she concluded to tell all, which she did a
few days ago, despite the fact that one OF
the alleged murderers now lives near her
home. He has embraced religion, and 1t
is said that at experience meetings he in
dicates that he is holding something back
that Is troubling him. The body Of lines
was found in the canal at the time of the
alleged murder. but the impression was
then that he was drowned.
Oliver Barnes, who shot his cousin Frank
Barnes at dance near Fhntstone, this
county, making a dangerous wound. was
caught in this city yesterday, and lodged
in Jail.
Bert Montgomery, a printer on the King
wood Journal, has been lodged in Jail at
Oakland, Md, charged with the murder OF
James Bissett at dance at Bloomington
last October.
Sergeant Walter P. Beltz. who was shot
in the fight before Santiago July 1, has ar
rived at his home here. 1t had been re-
ported that he was dead.
Mr.. John NJ. Reynolds, ex-assistant sec
retary of the interior. has returned to ms
home at Bedford, Pa, after a seven
mcnths' visit to Arizona
Private William Cramer of the 9Th Cav
airy, SON of ]. H. Cramer. jr., of Piedmont
w. Va, cannot be found HIS father
searched for him at Montauk Point, where
the regiment is at present, but failed to
find trace of his son. 1t is thought he is
sick and may have been left in Cuba Inc
War Department has Instituted searcn ior
him.
Colonel Thomas B. Davis, the capitalist
and brother of ex-senator Henry G. DAVIS,
has been elected mayor Of keyser, w. va.
to fill the vacancy caused by the deatn Oh
Mayor w. NJ. Welsh.
Evening star., 1898-08-26
ENTERTAINING THE FARMERS
An interesting Catherine at tho
AgricuIturaI Denartmant


The members of the State Farmers, In
sutnte or Maryland, which has been in
session for some days past at the Mary
land Agricultural College at College Park.
Md.' were entertained at the Agricultural
department by Secretary Wilson today.
secretary Wilson visited the Agricultural
college yesterday and extended warm
personal invitation to the members to come
TO Washington and see for themselves the
inside workings of Uncle Sans big bu-
reau that is devoted to the interests Of the
farmer, and as resu' the department was
today an object lesson for some $50 Wis
itors
Mr.. Hill, the editor+n-chief of the de-
partmert in charge of the bureau of pub
hoation, together with other heads of bu-
IeauS, saw to 1t that the visitors were we'll
cared for, and that all the interesting
things connected with experimental work
as well as the routine work of the depart
ment We're pointed out. Acting under Sec
retary Wilson's instructions the employees
for the time being became a sort of recep-
ton committee and devoted themselves to
showing the. visitors around. The party
was entertained at luncheon, the tables be-
ing spread under the sweetsmelling trees
near the museum connected with the de-
partment. W. l.. Amoss, the director of
the institute, and Captain Sylvester. the
president of the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege, accompanied the party.