St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-10-27
The jacksonville Ferry
Matter.

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Matter.
Madisonville, La, Oct. 20, 1900.
Editor St. Tammany FARMER:
l notice in your issue Of to-day's
date that you publish a complain,
about the jacksonville Ferry and
which came under the notice of the
Police Jury. l wish 10 draw your
that the letter has not been
published as placed before them,
i. e. If l am correctly informed.
The letter in question bears
other signatures besides those pub
lished, and as | signed it with the
distinct understanding that Mr.. +.
Mugnier aud Mr Z. Mugnier and
others would sign it in Madison
vile land which they done) | think
it unfair to take such an advantage
Uf Harris as has been done. | do
not wish 10 dictate 10 the Police
Jury what their privileges are, bu,
this | do know, that it would seem
reasonable to have notified Harris
to have the road improved or
otherwise he would forfeit his con.
tract, instead Of rushing the thing
through in the manner in which
they done. l also was given to
understand that he would he mott
fed in such . way. Now. | may
ask you In your next issue to pub.
fish IN full the names of the signers
to that letter SO that fair play can
be shown to Madisonvllle as well
"a the other side Of the river.
Excuse me for troubling you in
this matter and for which favor on
behalf of the printed signatures
shall be obliged, Yours truly,
j. KaRERrs.
On receipt Of the above letter
we wrote 70 Mr.. Roberts, assuring
HIM that the letter and signatures
in regard to the Jacksonville ferry
were published exactly as they
were presented 70 the Police Jury.
not a single name having been
omitted, the only error in it being
that the name "Ruesse" should
have been "Ruegge.
In reply We received the follow.
ing;
Madisonyllle, La, Oct. %, 1900.
Editor ST. Tammauy fAKxkE:
Last night | received your letter
Of the s2ld inst. for which please
accept nv thanks far yaAr ptemp'
attention.
This may be OF no interest to
you, but Is you are > public mdl.
vidual as identified xlth your na'..-
L want LII YOss 90
-. YOU the whole affair
all through.
About six weeks ago l saw Mr..
g. hoepp aud complained TO him
a. to the state Of the ferry road on
the opposite side Of the river Ia
jacksonville.
lie then told me that he would
60 over the road and see if Harris
would not put It in shape. but ask
ed me to get letter with olhe,
slgners to 1t, that it could come be.
fore the Police jury and compel
him to do il.
Il went on and | paid no atten
ton to it, aud tho night before the
PoliOs Jury met Mr.. f. Mugnier
sent word To me that he wanted "a
soc me. went to his place aud saw
him. lie told me that Mr.. koepr
had told him TO see me aud get the
letter in shape and he would put j,
before the Police Jury, aud l asked
hum II he would sign aud he told
me he would and get others.
The next day l got it signed 81
shown in your paper with the ex'
ceptiou that you have the name Of
W. Rue.sse and | had the name OF
Max Kuegge. Ruesse having never
signed 1t ~ l know Of, and the let.
ter was typewriter, written by me,
and Max Ruegge's name was ate,
mine, and l saw him sign il.
After getting these took it t.
Mr.. Mugrier and left it with him
TO forward next day to Covington
with other signers to it.
The next night went again t
Nugnier's and asked Mr.. L. Mug
nier what he had Gone, and he told
me that he and Mr.. Z. Mugnie
and 1 or S other names who d.
not remember had signed it and b,
had sent 1t in.
This was on the distinct under
standing that the improvement o
the road was our object.
Now you can imagine my sur
prise to find out what has been don
from your Published proceedings. l
needs no comment.
If anyone wants any more salts
faction, send them to me.
This is the whole of It aud plac
my last letter by the side Of thi
and you have all my explanation
in the whole matter.
had nothing against Harris onl..
to compel him TO come to HIS con
tract and keep that road in shap
so that anyone can walk and driv
over it, and under the circnm
stances Harris has my small inhu
ence in the future. At the sam
time those who arc the first to con
denim tins correspondence shoul'
travel that road morning aud nigh
for about three months and the
see if they would still be angels
l think not.
If not too much trouble I wis
you would publish the whole mat