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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23
CONTINUED from first paoe.l

In the matter OF the account of
Drs. GoOde and Jones for attending
to A. Cook while q prisoner, the par
ish treasurer is authorized, upon the
receipt of Drs. Go0de and Jones ex-
ecuting their receipts in full for said
bill, to pay them 500.
The salary of the parish treasurer
is hereby increased in the sum of SIS
per year.
The committee appointed to ex-
anime into the condition of the par
ish property, reported as follows:
We recommend that q new wash
pan be bought for the cells and that
an inside lock be provided for each of
the inside cells; also that the cells be
painted inside, and that the pump
and piping be painted and that a new
cistern be built in the jail yard. C..
81. Teal and j. E. Dunn appointed to
ATTEND to same.
The body then adjourned until
Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock.
COlfax, La, April 6.
The police jury met, all members
present. The order of business was
then resumed, and the parish treas
urer's report was presented and
checked, and adopted as a part of
minutes. The script handed in was
checked and burnt in presence OF the
whole police jury.
The police jury then adjourned un-
til the first Monday in July.
j. E. DUNN, JNo. C. CALHOUN
Clerk. President.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23

Judge N. F. Machen, District At
torney A. B. Hundley, ]. T. Wallace,
Freeman Capps, and q number
of Witnesses and others interested
were in Coliax last Tuesday to attend
the preliminary trials set for that
day. Dan Jenkins, for killing John
Lee, at Rochelle, was discharged, the
evidence showing that he was justi-
fed in the oct. The trial of John
Laube, for killing J. 7. McAllister, at
Pollock, was postponed until next
Monday, to be held at Pollock. The
case against the negro, Duncan Tad
lock, arrested on the T. x. Smith
place, about twelve miles from Colfax,
on the charge Of rape, was also dis
missed, and the accused discharged.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23

Especially valuable - voGen i Bsou1si
Iron BitteI Baekaehe vani1hm, headachs
disappsaEA stsength takes tie place a weak
D@sI end ths G1ew 81 health comes 70 ~
p1lhA ehsek VIZ. "a. vendssfsl rsnsdy +
men \ has - squal. No home shoald b
vifhs1t BssVng Iroa HASA n - 81
eli dealeEs.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23

A meeting was held at Pollock last
Saturday to discuss the ways and
means Of moving the court house and
jail to that town. Committees were
appointed and other matters discuss
ed looking to that end.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23
Furniture from Factory to Fire.
side.

boinR the only extensive manufacture
eFs o. furniture in the world selling d.
fect from maker to user, We cave our
customers the enormous expenses and
prone = the jobbers and retailers. Send
Tor catalogue A. showing our full line Of
douaehoId Fu!n,tuture, at 20 to 50 per
ceot under retail value.
3UAKK VALLEY 4ANuyAcTuR1ro Co.
al9 and S21 s Canal St, Chicseo.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23

After April 18th the Sunset Limited
Train viii leave Chicago for San Fran
cisco on Tuesdays only, and after
April 9TH win leave San Francisco for
Chicago on Thursdays only. The
service viii be discontinued east
bound for the season April 26th, and
west-bound May Sd; to be resumed
early in the fall.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23

Mr. EDzToR:-Plssse tell your readers
that the Quaker Valley Manufacturing
CO. SO end S21 South Canal Street.
Chicago. ssll furniture direct from the
factory ct 90 10 30 pen cent. lower than
retail prices, and win ssud anyone copy
q their cataloguo free.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23

Sheriff Swafiord has received q cou-
pie Of hundred pounds OF lead, and
Meyer, the painter, IL going to put q
coat of paint on his new house for
him.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23

Miss Jessie Nugent, who has been
visiting relatives near Coliax, went
to Pollock last Tuesday with her
uncle, Mr.. 8. r. Lee.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23

Mr.. Will LaCroix has been employed
by Assessor Lee to assist in making
the assessment for this year.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23

There may be war, but if you want
to avoid war time prices call at the
Boston Furniture Emporium in Alex
andria.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23

II you contemplate purchasing house
hold furniture, by all means send for the
catalogue Of the Quaker Valley Manu-
featuring Co.. $40 and 321 South Canal
Street. Chicago.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23

The Coalax lodge F. 4 A. NJ. held
their regular monthly meeting last
Saturday.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23
New Goods

Are being constantly added to his
stock, such as Dry Goods, Clothing.
Notions, Hats, Shoes. Staple and
Fancy Groceries, etc. In fact. every.
thing kept in first-clasa store.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-04-23

A number Of big civil suits are to
be tried at the May term Of district
New-York tribune., 1898-01-30
omous comments which the Presidents appear
ance at the Manufacturers Convention mas
elected
4 WASTED VOTE.


The vote in the Senate does not misicad any
body. All the world knew that there were rev
silver States. each with vote III the Seha'e
equal to that Of New-iork. All the worid aiso
knew that the House represented the people
and that no monetary bill could pass "l'ho"'
the signature Of the President More tlah
third in either house would support him. anu
n vote in favor Of free silver is as clfective as
the Pope's bull against comet. NOT one Sli-
yer man in the Senate imagined 1t could nave
any other use than as evidence that measure
embodying the ideas Of the Monetary Canmls-
sion could not pass. But the silver men them-
selves were weak il they imagined that fact
so well known was in need or any PROOF.
II is a misfortune that so many of the people
who feel called upon TO think and talk and write
and agitatc about finances know so little about
the Government of the United States. They 20
on organizing eXpendng money for the IN
formation of the people. and holding conVeh-
tlons and passing resolutions just as II the
Government of the United States was located
in some silver mine or some bank parior. Inc
fact is that it is not located in either. and II
might he we'll for people to grasp that idea
The silver producers can control the Legslat-
ures and thus the Senator's of few Mates
A crazy and desperate Democratic party. beng
ready to vote for anything on earth or under
the earth In order 10 get power, will give the
silver men all they want, as the votes OF Dem
ocratc Senator's show. The two together nave
n majority in the Senate. as they have had for
more than twenty years. That is one side OF
the case and it makes impossible for the pres
ent the passage of any measure TO when the
silver men object. If any man wants sucn
measure passed. his only chance is 10 PM GER
tain Democrats out of the United States Senate
The other side is that the people control The
House of Representatives. and are overwhelm-
inclv oprosed 10 free-silver coinage or any de
basement of the currency. The majority In the
House is large hut il there were only single
vote more than third In that body or IN the
Senate to uphold sound money no silver bil;
could be passed until the term Of President Nc
Kinlev had expired. Thus il Is nothing hut
foolishness to attempt by any action In the
Senate 10 swing the finances Of this country
over 10 n silver basis. With these facts clearly
in mind why are people worried or even OK
cited in antaConsm? The truth is that nothing
whatever can he done. unless 1t is such action
as the President may propose and some OF the
silver Senators may be disposed 10 accept
When hard-money people, or soft-money peo-
ole. or any other people, seek some settlement
along that line il will be time enough to wonder
what may possibly come 10 pass. Until then.
except in that way. the man who thinks any
thing can he done is sure to be disappointed.
New-York tribune., 1898-01-30
~ HONOR or MANAGER cONRIED.
CELEBRATION ARRANGED TO COMMEMORATE
THE TTENTY-FIFTH ANNIvERsARY or Hu
ENTRANCE INTO THE THEATRICAL
PROFESSION.

Heinrich Conred. director of the Irving Place
Theatre and one OF the best-known and most
popular German-A rlerlcans In this country. vii
celebrate the twenty-hfth anniversary OF his enc
trance into the theatrical profession "Wednesday
February %. \ committee Of well-known men has
been formed 70 arrange A celebration In his hon1
The committee has decided TO give benefit fo'
Mr Conried or that evening and TO make him
present commemorative OF his services. The COM
mitten has taken all the seats in the theatre ior
February %. and will sell them as follows Boxes.
$50 and $40. the seats In the orchestra and first
two rows Of the balcony. 81; IN the remaining
rows OF the balcony e.: in ,he gallery. 81 and %
cents Tickets may be secured a. the prices named
from Thonat Brothers. Broadway and Twetth-st-
Great interest has been manifested among tae
numerous patrons OF the popular theatre IN ine
coming celebra ion. Among the memneIs OF ,ae
committee are Oswald Ottendorier. JACOB II scnn
Consul-dieneral Fcigel, Consul-General Stockinsei
Or. L. Weber Professor Morris Loeb. ex-kegis,e'
Ferdinand Levy Louis Windmler. Emu b3ss
James Loeb. Paul Goepel, Herman Rldder' I'd
uard Benneche and John Weimann.
New-York tribune., 1898-01-30
Neu21prk Dailp Tribnare
SUNDAY. JANUARY 80, 1898.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-The Spanish cruiser Ni2caya IS
preparing TO sail from Carthagena for America
owing to his criticisms or America nel 80, ~
mander. Captain Concas. Will be rePiaceu 1SaS ~
C,sntain F,cbate; the rest of the Spanish squad
ron is preparing to sail for havana. -
Fighting between a British expeditoh anu ia
tives is imminent in Beloochlstan = jazz Ja.Vo
ires celebrated the anniversary OF the execution
90 King charles in London. - Plague riots
have broken OUT in India; ponce nIeq ou D. "
mob and wounded many people. 7- Id 4 d.
the capital of Bolivia. is in state OF siege
= Count William Bismarck. son OF 'ne ne
Prince. wounded Herr Maunack IN ,'onstra. "Tet a.
GERMANY - More anti-Semitlc demohStra-
tjons occurred in Paris and Bordeaux.
CONGRESS.-The Senate was not in session
- The Teller silver bond resolution "as "
ce,ved and referred to the ways ana Mea"S
Con,n,itteo. most Of the session was spent III a
political debate the subject being the re'ui" VI
prosperity. ,x
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-The annual dinner
O, the West End Association was held AT IN riie
Waldorf Astoria - Adjutant-Generai III
l,nphast announced that he favored dlVlsl"h
Of the First Brigade. n. G.. n. Y and the eleG, T.,
tion Of brigadeT- generals. - Inc stea4ISn'P
Aller brought in the shipwrecked crew OF me
tran1n steamer Dago - Brown defeated Yale
Al hockey in the Clermort Avenue RinK. hrooh-
iyn - Stocks were strong and active.
DOMESTIC Republican leaders IN the House
~ REPRESENTATIVES decided that II would nave
n good effect on the country to vote down ,he
Tellor resolution Immediately; the resolution
will therefore he taken up ana dlsposea oi nm III
the House tomorrow. == The Postoince De
partment decided to postpone the reduction Oh
mail deliveries in the large cities whlcn was 10
have gone into effect on February l. In ths
hone that the necessity for it might be averted
hv deficiency appropriation from CONGRESS.
= Fiv. men were injured. two OF thelh
fatally by the explosion Of boiler on the snip
Benia1nin Sewan at Baltimore. - Inc GRID
iron Club gave its thirteenth annual dinner IN
WASHINGTON. President Dole OF HaWan oeiils
or,onr tho quests Particulars of the
wreck Of the steamship Corona on the Alaskan
coast were received; the passengers were saved
bu. the vessel and cargo are total loss
State officials oppose the removal OF the New
York battlelags from Albany 10 the Grant
Tomb - The races for the American ska.-
ing championship were begun at spring Lahe'
Wv - An attempt will be made to punish
the Versailles lynchers. and many arrests are
expected
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day
Fair and cold. The temperature yesterday
Highest "a degrees; lowest II: average. 20.
New-York tribune., 1898-01-30
THE talk OF THE DAY.

Mayor Van Wyck OF New-York" says THE
Hartford Times should read over Alice IN
Wonderland and note the likeness between him
self and the Queen In that famous book The
spirit OF her hasty and imperious on with their
heads" answers to the spirit In which he bully
rags the public officials who come before him with
estimates OF the expenses OF their departments
His feeling is that OF the mother. who said: Jane
20 out In the kitchen and see what your sister is
doing and tell her to stop Very often he is
right in nnding fault with the estimates bat
times he makes It painfully evident that he knows
nothing OF the subject"
Did YOU ever" asked the young husband have
vour wife look you IN the eye when You came
home ana SIX you II you had not forgotten some
thing
MANY time. mo hoy" answered the old mar
rled man "She does yet In the early days II
used to mean a kiss. now II Is usually reference
to wlping my shoes" Cincinnati Enquirer.
Such Is fame. exclams correspondent OF
The London Globe" "Poultcney Blgeow took
the chair at Percy Fitzserads lecture Oh D.ckcns
at Chelsea. last night. and In coming out OF the
hall overheard n lady inquiring OF her husband.
Who Is this Poulteney Bigelow? There quite
compassionate tone In her husbands voice when
New-York tribune., 1898-01-30
PERSONAL.

The religious people Of Georgia are sharply crti-
cising Governor Atkinson because he went 10 a
Sunday bullfght during his recent visit 20 Mexico
Mrs Eliza a. Lowell. descendant of the first
settler Of Hailowell Ne. has made donation OF
$4,000 to build a wing Of tho library building in
that city.
William Henry Domville who has just died in
London was associated with Huxley Tyndall and
others in tho formation Of the Sunday Lecture So
ciety and the movement for getting the national
museums and art galleries opened to tho public on
Sundays.
william Earle Cooke OF Portsmouth r. T. who
has just celebrated his lolst birthday said to be
the oldest Methodist and oldest Free Mason IN
New-England.
1t Is hoped that tho monument to Frederick
Douglass for which fund is now being raised
will be erected in Rochester about the first OF next
August.
j. D. Edgar the Canadian official who recently
visited Washington. says that h. found the officers
OF tho United States Army and Navy very friendly
10 Great Britain.
Richard c. Parsons. jr. OF Ohio. who was on
Wednesday last appointed Second Secretary os
Embassy at Rome. is a son OF ex-Congrcssman r.
c. Parsons OF Cleveland. Mr.. Parsons is well
known in Washington and New. York and Is said
to be well fitted for a diplomatic position. having
been educated at Harvard and IN Europe After
leaving college ne read law for years but never
practlsed, and in later years has been a careful
student or history ana international law The
Cleveland Plain-Dealer." the leading Democratic
paper Of Northern Ohio, notices the appointment
follows: For diplomatic office Mr.. Parsons
is considered especially qualified. he has been
great traveller has unusually wide social
Acquaintance at home and abroad. Is a good lin
gulst and a man OF broad reading and intelligence.
Mr. Parsons is Harvard man OF the Of
1852 President Mckinley Is 70 bc congra tuated on
having mads htting appointment and also Mr.
Parson. for having received a most agreeable Of
nce." Mr. Parsons is member OF the Union club.
Of Cleveland and the Knckcrbocker Club, OF New
York.
Some of the Paris papers think 1t strange and in
bad taste that. In view OF the recent disagreeable
prominence OF his name in the stormy progress OF
the Dreyfus case. Emile Zola should allow one OF
his pieces "Therese RaqIin." to he played at a
Paris theatre. The publication Of his name on the
theatrical posters, they think, looks like unneces-
sary bravado.
The Oldest clergyman OF tho Church Of England
is the Rev. Edward Allen. who has just completed
his hundredth year. lie Is still fulfilling his func
tions at Tiverton.
New-York tribune., 1898-01-30

armies and navies into warlike trim the seri-
BUSINESS Of the situation Is apparent
The secret Of the trouble H. that the Nor
wegIans are at heart and indeed. half OF them
avowedly. republicans and would Ike To throw
of the crown altogether and establish u re-
public Moreover they have the same PRIDE III
II ell own strength and the same contempt lor
thc soft DIMES and Swcdes" that King oar
cherished, to his disaster. So they are suo-
stan,ially irieconcilablc. They do not want 10
agree with Sweden. They want to break inc
list bond that untes the two Kingdoms Aho'
" strange contradictornass, they turn Tor
sympathy and perhaps physical aid. to RusSih.
They who would get rid Of a liberal ana con-
stitutiona King and set up republic All!
themselves for that purpose with the most
rcactionary and arbitrary of autocrnfs lher'
j. no indica ation that the Swedes would III any
event have shown particularly concl'ia'or!
disposition, but since Norway began coluet'lhs
with Russia they have strengthened tneir reso-
luton TO maintain the union, even II IL pe a'
The cost of fighting a desperate war WIN II
foe on each side at once The memory OF me
spolation of Finland and the thirst for re-
venge are as strong IN Sweden as such ie'l'
incs for Alsace-L Lorrane are in France, and
with oven better cause And when the SwedeS
sec Russia casting covetous glances upon MOTT
land. and Norway considering the cesslon 10
Russia of the Varanger Fiord, II Is not to he
wondered at that war spirit is rife al Stock
holm.
American sympathes will be divided between
the two. for both sides have grounds OF COM
mcndation But most Of all. Americans VIII
hope the dispute will be amcably and cquilaDly
settled With both kingdoms American rela-
tions have ever been friendly. Both have con-
tributed TO the population of the United States
many thousands of cstmabe citizens. No for
eign element Is more welcome here. and none
shows itself more worthy of amalgama'ion with
our composite American stock than that from
Scandinavia 1t would cause profound reSrer
throughout this Nation to see Sweden and Nor
way at war. or the relations between them so
strained as to mper the integrity Of either.
New-York tribune., 1898-01-30
SWEDEN AND NORWAY.

One dual realm subsidies into quiet, and the
other threatens eruption and perhaps revolu-
ton The intestine troubles Of Austrla-liungary
have been allayed. If not healed by the mingled
tact and frmness of the Emperor Is ing. Forth
with the twin Scandinavian kingdoms renew
their chickering's. and threaten something worse.
y joint committee representing BOTH has for
some time been at work trying TO devise
modus vlvendi satisfactory to both. 1t has now
ended its deliberations In failure and despair.
The fatal issue was the direction OF foreign af-
fairs. The Swedish representatives. and the
Norwegian Conservatives readily agreed 10 the
plan Of having single Foreign Ministry for
both kingdoms. bur the Norwegian Radicals dis
sented and insisted upon separate Foreign
Ministry. and. Of course. separate diplomatic and
consular service for each. There Is no reason
to suppose that Sweden will ever consent to that
arrangement, nor that the Norwegian Radicals
will be content with anything short Of it.; and
the Radicals are. as a rule the dominant party
in Norway. When it is added that as n result
OF this disagreement. which has for some time
been 'c-eseen. both kingdoms are putting their
New-York tribune., 1898-01-30
THE LATE I. 4. Hi|ENElERN EkSiDENtE
, CONTEST RAISED on THE POINT ny THE STATE
CONTROLLER OVER THE APPRAISAL
OF THE ESTATE.


state Controller Roberts ard Mrs Emile ha'~
,uover widow OF Theodore \. Haveneyer diner a.
- ,hc state in which the dead man had his les"
residence Mrs Havemeyer asserts that he' nls
band had his residence in Hohokus' Bergen Oo'n"
y. J.. while Controller Roberts Insists tnat NJ
uaveneyer's residence was in the city OF New
York. ar,
When Mr. Havemeyer died I'm April Ias' ''.
Uaven,eyer obtained letters OF administration j.
Bergen County or the ground that her husos.. span.
had resided in that place. The state Voh'ro...
had an appraiser appointed 10 assess the ''~'''
value OF the property left by Mr.. Havemeye'' ~ 81
sorting that the letters Of administration 'sAe" ~.
in Nev-Jersey were for the purpose o' a'o''",
.ho navmer, Of all taxes which might ne as'es'.s
in Newyork agains, the property. The apptais'. ~.
v,s annointed by the Surrcgates Conr, o' '.
county. in spite u the objections raised % ~
widow. ,,.0. 70
Mrs Havomeyer has now begun proceso"s'
have the appointment set aside. ana mas oo'a'..
from Surrogate Fitzgerald an order compe.''"e y. 80
l,o,,roll.r TO show cause VIII thai sNou.o NO :,
49, and also why an other proceedings WI. ss a.;
80 nave begun or VIII b, sin QUO yl,..rsyer r.,
I',Ii 90 rho ground that Theodore \ ss,,s,
asiee, a." resident of tn.s state n her aas,s ays,
W vhi,h the order was granted MI, l.,,s,Ssnes
vi W ynrtb fhaf while her husband Aad y ivss.s IN.
- Nar,nor and another n this ci.N' ". .,t - 10
i"r.i residence IN Hohokus ana spent "'os' "
time In that town, - .,t.e, in the supreme
,.,m, m ss,'aral wears ago At that tine u wSSS.v.
~ Ia -, Nr Uavemeyer was resident o' Wv
New-York tribune., 1898-01-30
INCIDENTS N SOCIETY.

A tea and sale will he held on Saturday afternoon
next from go until o'clock in the Astor GAL
lerv of tho Waldorf-Astoria by the Misses Mas
tors's School Society for the benefit OF the baoy
r,old Tba room will represent an old-fashioned
garden. The booths will be decorated with differ
ent flowers There will he tables for ne sale ot
fancy articles. and sporting table; where goii g
sticks Golf stockings string ties and Ascots WIZ
he sold. queen Stella will tell fortunes by palm palm,
istrv There will also be interesting picture
r." ilorv win a collection OF copies of celebrated
artists works also original dra wings which VII, WI
he offered for sale Tea will he served throu2hou,
the afternoon one OF the special attractions Tor
children will be the human goose. loaned by Mrs
BlOOmer.
New-York tribune., 1898-01-30

81 Paul. Jan. 29.-The Probate Court to-day de-
c,ae1 the famous Waters-M -Mintzer Will contest In
,,,or Of the heirs and declared the marriage cer-
racate presented by Joseph Waters TO be a for
eer, Mrs Anna Mintzer died over year ago.
leaving an estate valued at about $4,000 Last
c,rt,,nher Joseph Waters sought TO secure the
,i,tc os husband OF the deceased, presenting a
IA ~. age certificate dated six years back and
sierfd by persons who are now either dead or IN
the insane asylum
New-York tribune., 1898-01-30
HOyORS FOR CARROLL u. WRIGHT.

Washington Jan 29.-Carroll n. Wright. United
States Commissioner OF Labor has received n cable
dlsnatch announcing his election member OF
the Institute OF France. He has also been in
formed that he has been elected an honorary mem
her OF the Imperial Academy OF Science OF Rus
sia the highest scientific distinction that can be
awarded in that country.
New-York tribune., 1898-01-30
president WKINLEY'S BIRTHDAY.

Washington Jan. 29-To-day was the anniversary
Of the Presidents birth. He was born In 1913
There was no special observance OF the day az
the White House except the presentation to the
President Of a large bunch OF cut flowers. In the
morning although he was busy with Congressional
callers. the President came down into the East
Room and received about one hundred and twenty
five visitors from Maine. for whom Senator Frye
had ARRANGED a meeting.