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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-02-21
The Cleanliness of LAFAYETTE


To The LAFAYETTE GAZETTE:
When l read the complaints from two
citizens and taxpayers of the neigborhood of
that dissraceful old pond and another
tax payer and resident of that neigborhood,
canno, restain myself from saying few
words about it, as 1 have daily occasion
pass right close to it, and often meet rang
ers who express themselves most indignantly
in saying what shame fo- a civilized town
to have such horrors in its midst.
Now, members of the city council, excite
that dormant pride in your bosoms, and
spread like all upto date towns the propo-
ganda of cleanliness, and spend few dollars
to help the health of the town. We
not asking for system of sewerage, but
merely i small drain from that pond 10
either canal leading the water out of town,
50 TO give residents of that part of
town dry road to go to the railroad track.
AS it is now, have to go around four
blocks to reach it.
Lafayette is not like New Orleans, visited
by thousands of people, but no matter as
to the member of visitors she receives.
fear the conditions of our streets and prin-
| cipally that dirty, unhealthful pond in Mills
| addition way shock them; otherwise if they
should that disgraceful hole cleaned cut,
and put in condition to relieve of the
danger of all kinds of disease that breed
there.
| Now members Of the city Council, Lafa-
ycttc has made such stride in the progress
sivc world, and with the prospect of being
the leading town in Southwestern Louisiana,
reflect only 4 minute; don't let Il few dollars
for the welfare of the town be in your way,
and no more harsh words would be heard
against our beautiful little city. DO as
much as You can to benefit her and it will
be an evidence of its commercial and tinan-
cial prosperity and progress.
Now, members of the city Council, it is
left TO you. DO your duty. +.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-02-21
Cures Sciatic Rheumatism

Mrs. A. E. Simpson, 500 Craig
ST., Knoxville Tenn, writes,
June 10th, 1899: Il have been
trying the baths of Hot Springs,
Ark, for sciatic rheumatism,
but l get more relief from Bal
lard's Snow Liniment than any
medicine or anything have ever
tried. Enclosed find pos toffice
order for $1.OO. Send me a large
bottle by Southern Express. !"
For sale by Lafayette Drug Co.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-02-21
Taken Up.

On my premises about o months ago one
spotted hog. about one year old. Owner
can secure same by proving ownership and
paying costs.
]. -. MoUroN. Lafayette, La.
27-4t.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-02-21
Escaped an Awful Fate

Mr. II. IIag@ins of Melbourne, Fla,
writes, s'A1y doctor told me had Consump-
ton and nothing could b. done tor me. l
was ,,ivcn up to die. The offer of free
trial bottle Of Dr. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, induced me t" try it. Re
suits were startling. l am now on the road
to recovery and owe all to DR.. Kings New
Discovery. 1t surely saved my life" This
great cure is guaranteed for al throat and
lnns diseases by VIM. CIrgg druggi IS.
Price soc and So Trial bottles free.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-02-21
LIST OF GRAND JURORS.

State of Louisiana. Parish of lataycttc-
| hereby certify that the above and for ego
ing is 4 true and correct list of grand and
Petit Jurors selected and drawn TO serve at
the regular Jury FERN of the 18th Judicial
District Court in and for the parish Of Lafa
ycttc, La, beginning on Monday March 9th
\. d., 1908.
Witness my official Signature and Seal of
Office this 9th day of February y. d., 1905
ED G.. VOORHEES,, Clerk of Court.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-02-21
Lease Of Shoot Land.

According to instructions from the Board
of School Directors of this parish, Treasurer
MARTYR ufcrcl for Lease: November IS,
the schorl land i'll the fourth ward consist
ing Of $50 acres. The land offered at
minimum Of two and half dollars per acre
and rs acres were lea: ed. The Board has
27S acres which it still offers to any one
who may wish to lease good land.
Address all Inquiries to
l.. ]. A1IENAN, Secretary.
Lafayette, La.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-02-21
& CRESCENT
ROU 7 E.,

Commencing Nov. 1S, the New
Orleans & NORTHEASTERN II. r.,
in connection with the Mobile and
Ohio r.. r.. via Meridian, will in
augurate on trains Nos. 2 and
through Pullman Buffet Sleeping
Car Service between New Orleans
and ST Louis, the first car to
leave St. Louis, southbound, on
Mobile and Ohio train No. 3, at
1923 p. M, Nov. IS, arriving in
New Orleans on New Orleans and
North Eastern train No. 3, at $40
D. M, the following day; north
bound, the first car to leave New
Orleans on New Orleans and
North Eastern train No. ,, leaving
New Orleans 7:3O p. m, on the
Goth inst, arriving at ST. Louis
the following evening at 1882 I'm.
Shortest and Quickest Time.
| For detailed information, apply to any
Ticket Agent, the undersigned.
GEO, II. SMITH, X. !. ANDERSON,
G; A. \. G.. y. a.
NEW ORLEANS. LA.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-02-21
LIST OF JURORS.
State ofLouisiana, Parish of La
yette-1S th Judicial Dis
trict Court.

LIS, of Grand and Petit Jurors selected
and drawn to s>.rvc at the March regular
jury Term Of the 18th lu"icia! District
Coult, in and for the parish Of lafayette.
la. Said term commencing on Monday
March the 9th \. ID. 1905.
LIST OF GRAND JURORS.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-09-09
COURTLAND,

w. T. Siege says he put in three
fourths of a day threshing last week.
This was because of the rain.
Miss Hilda SchIottmann was in the
cities during the week having her eyes
treated. She returned home Sunday.
Miss Emma Bobsin who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Johnson, at
ST. Paul, returned home Sunday.
Our public schools opened Monday
of this week with Miss Margaret M an
ley as principal and Miss Blanche
Feldman as primary.
Charlie Zieske, cashier of the bank
of Window, was here last week assist
ing his father at his auction sale.
The railroad company has gang
OF Italians loading gravel from the
Courtland gravel pit. They have
their boarding cars with them.
Two team loads Of the Courtland
Sunday school scholars attended the
Sunday school convention in New
Ulm Sunday. They say that they had
a very profitable time and that the
New Ulm people know how to enter.
tain.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-09-09
Notice Contractors

Notice is hereby given that sealed
written bids will be received up to 10
O'Clock, a. m. of the 21st day of Sep
TENDER, 1908, by the County Auditor of
Brown County, Minnesota, at his Office
in New Ulm, Minnesota, for the erec-
ton of a Jail and sheriff's residence
for said Brown County according to
plans and specifications therefor now
on file in said Auditors Office.
Each bid must be accompanied by a
certified check on some Incorporated
bank for ten per centum of the amount
of the bid, as guarantee that the sue
cessful bidder will, when requested.
enter into a written contract and fur
nish the bond required. All bids will
be opened by the Board ofCounty Com
missiOners at this Office in the Court
House in the City of New Ulm, Mime
sofa, on the 21st day of September,
1908, 10 O'Clock a. M.
The right to reject any and all bids
is hereby expressly reserved Plans
and specifications for the information
of all persons desiring to bid NAV be
seen at the Office of the County Auditor,
at the Builders Exchange in ST. Paul,
Minneapolis and Mankato, or can be
obtained from the architect, A. J. Van
Deusen, Winona, MINI. Samples OF
Stone, Brick and Steel must accom-
pany each bid.
By order of the Board of County
Commissioners of Brown County,
Minnesota.
LOUIS G. VoGEL,
County Auditor.
Dated at New Ulm, Mimi, Sept. 4th,
1908. 81
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-09-09
THE PLEASURE OF EATING,

Persons suffering from indigestion,
dyspepsia or other stomach trouble will
find that Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests
what you eat and makes the stomach
sweet. This remedy is never failing
cure for Indigestion ane Dyspepsia and
all complaints affecting the glands or
membranes of the stomach or digestive
tract. When you take Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure everything you eat tastes good, and
every bit of the nutriment that your food
contains IS assimilated and appropriated
by the blood and tissues. Sold by all
Druggists.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-09-09
A PUR5ATIvE PLEASURE.

= If you ever took DeWitt's Little Early
Risers for biliousness or constipation you
know what purgatlve pleasure is.
These famous little pills cleanse the liver
and rid the system of all bile without
producing unpleasant effects. They do
not grippe, sicken or weaken, but give
tone and strength to the tissues and
organs involved. W. 81. Howell OF
Houston, Tex, says "No better pill can
be used than Little Early Risers for
constipation, sick headache, ETC." Sold
by all Druggists.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-09-09
PICNIC OF WAGE FARMERS.
Labor Day Celebrated For First
Time in New tim.
Workingmen With Band Parade
Principal Streets.
Addresses Made to Crowd Gather
ed on Hermann's Heights.

Labor Day was observed in this city
Monday with appropriate ceremonies.
For New Ulm's first attempt at cele-
brating the national holiday, the aft air
was a distinct success. In honor of:
the occasion flags were. displayed from
the various publicbuild ings and many
business houses, while numerous en-
ployers allowed their help to partici-
pate in the exercises. All the banks
closed their doors during the day and.
in the afternoon quite a number Of
stores adopted the plan of not trans
acting business.
Shortly after l o'clock the procession
moved from the monument at Center.
and State streets. It was headed by
the Concordia band and following that
organization were the Arbeiter Verein
and Harmony Camp, NJ. w. A. The
parade followed the principal business
streets in its line of march and had as
its destination the picnic grounds on
Herman's Heights.
Arrived at that place B. Marschner
acted as master of ceremonies and he
introduced A. J. Alvin as the first
speaker. A crowd of very generous
proportions had assembled and Mr..
Alvin addressed the concourse in
English. He cited the improved con-
dition of the wage Garner and con-
doned labor unions, asserting that
they acted as the natural balance
against the vast consultations of
capital To them the workingman must
look for prevention of the importation
of foreign labor and they alone could
solve the child labor question. In
closing he deprecated strikes and gave
as his view of the matter that they
should be declared only as last
resort.
After hehad finished Prof. Ed. Bosky
I spoke in German, advancing number
| of original opinions. Prof. Bosky com
pared labor conditions in Europe and
America and offered a statement to the
effect that the questions now being
considered in this country wereidentic-
ally the same as those which had
agitated Europe. They grew out of the
same cause; namely, the manipulation
of labor for the benefit OF capital. The
| speaker favored the organization OF
both labor and capital and in dealing
with the unions characterized them as
step toward equalizing the injuries
done to the artisan. They were, in a
sense, stimulant, for it is a natural
law that If anything is taken and no
equivalent returned, stagnation of
some sort will inevitably result. He
| did not urge opposition to capital,
| but argued in favor of REIMBURSEMENT
| of the present competitive system
suggesting as the most simple remedy
the government ownership of trusts,
with cooperative plan of operation.
His remarks concluded the program
and the remainder of the afternoon
was spent by the crowd in patronizing
the amusements and picnicking with
their families. In the morning the
clouded sky BODIED i'll for the cele-
bration but, whileitprobably decreased
the attendance somewhat, it really did
not Interfere with the picnic. All the
afternoon the threatened showers held
off and only a few tardy ones were
caught in the heavy rain which
descended at o'clock.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-09-09
,cRoNE Bros, SPECIALS.


We have eeceived our style book and
book of samples for Ladies and Misses
suits, and are prepared to take measure
ments for these garments. Every garment
guaranteed to fit perfectly.
Don't forget about that skirt sale be-
ginning Monday, Sept. "A. Skirts will be
sold at from $1.eO up.
Wrist bags are as fashionable as ever.
We have them at Csc to $1.00.
We have received our stock of com
forters and the assortment is very good
Prices just q fraction over cost oil
material. Come see them.
Ladies Ctavenette coats at reduced
prices. Good for rain or cold.
Bead and Pearl neck laces 2Oc up.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-09-09
Pianos at Wholesale

Don't pay fancy prices to agents for
piano, but write to Williams Bros, st.
Louis, Mo-, the manufacturers, or to 3.
Gruenenfe]der, New Ulm, 614 N. Broad
way, where you get circulars and prices
and where you also have chance to see
and hear those beautiful Instruments.
Guaranteed for ten years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
JAYHAWKER Jors.

Olathe is to have "Ten Nights in a
Barroom' for ten weeks.
Toronto has the Finch craze so bad
ly that they play the game by moon
light
A Clyde firm wants girls for a glove
factory. Weaving mittens is a maid S
delight.
The talk of the town at Clyde is an
errand boy who went after a bucket of
water unaSked.
Mr. Crows team made lively run,
away at Kingman. Spectators said
they fairly few.
The Colby jail must be dismal sum-
mer resort. A citizen has given $500 to
effect his release.
A Russell Springs landlord who keeps
a coyote evidently isn't afraid of the
wolf at the door,
A Kingnan county farmer who has
lost his s-months-old bird dog adver-
tiSeS for a pointer.
1t will be merry times for the little
folks when the long expected merry-go-
round reaches St Paul
The Salvation army of Oakley re-
minds one of game of solitaire-one
soldier with a drum to beat.
A Leavenworth woman of a retiring
disposition hates to make calls because
she often finds people at home.
A repentant Larned citizen rushes
into print to state that when he called
his neighbor liar, he, himself, was
living.
A poor old blind woman on Topeka's
streets thinks she is doing a good turn
when she grinds out THE Maiden's
Prayer"
Weeds along the streets of Hays City
are so tall and stately that comet OBJ
servers use them in preference to the
church belfreys.
A Smith county paper says the Rock
Island will employ Chinese section men
in that county. Where did the editor
get his queue?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
LOCAL MENTION.

H. ]. Adams. of Burlington, is in To-
peka on business.
Captain ]. G. Waters will deliver an
address on "Chickamauga," at the
Kansas G. A. r. reunion at Lawrence
Miss Dora Kerle entertained Friday
evening at Stock Exchange in compli-
ment to Miss Mamie Lane who left yes
terday for Kansas City.
The picnic of the Topeka Grocers' as
sociation will be held on August 10 in
a grove near Tecumseh. A special train
on the Santa Fe will be chartered for
the day.
A large quantity of trash is being dump
ed into the river along the bank near the
Woln packing esta blishment. The bank
was not seriously cut out by the June
flood but is being strengthened.
Howard Williams, II years old. was
badly burned Saturday afternoon at the
home of his father, Walter Williams.
l4lO East Sixth avenue while lighting a
gasoline stove. He was burned about
the head and has been taken to Christ
hospital for treatment.
Rev. Z. A. F'redenhagen, with his
family and private secretary, will leave
tonight for Colorado, over the Rock
Island. He will spend several weeks
developing the new organization in that
state. About year ago the officers of
the Prisoners Aid society asked Mr.
Fredenhagen to SuperSede and include
their movement with a Society for the
Friendless- He has made several visits
to Colorado where satisfactory prog
ress has been made. During this visit
he will take definite steps toward form
ing the organization and launching the
work 1t will be on the same general
plan as the societies in Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Oklahoma Mr.. Fredenhagen
is being called to many states where in
terest in the work for the aid of dis
charged prisoners, the evangelization of
the prison populations and prison re-
form, in general, is rapidly growing.
The party will return about the first
week in September
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10

larger total of imports from Russia than
in any preceding year. while the total
commerce with Russia, was larger in
the fiscal year 1903 than in any pre-
ceding year.
Cotton, agricultural implements and
manufactures of iron and steel are the
most important factors in the export
trade from the United States to Russia.
In 1902 the total value of cotton exported
to Russia was over million dollars, OF
agricultural implements over 2 millions.
of manufactures of iron and steel over a
million and flour over million.
To Asiatic Russia flour forms the prfn-
cipal article, the total value of flour ex-
ported to that section of Russia being
in 1902, over 600 thousand dollars out of
a total Of about one million.
All of the cotton shipped to Russia goes
to the Baltic and White sea ports, over
three fourths Of the agricultural imple
ments to the ports on the Black sea,
more than half of the manufactures of
iron and steel to the Baltic and White
sea ports. while -four is about evenly di-
vided between Asiatic Russia and the
ports of the Baltic and White seas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
FREAKS OF LIGHTNING.
Current Shows a Tendency to Bifurca
ton After Striking

Anent the article in your issue OF
May 80 under the heading, A man
who was struck by lightning and lives
(his clothes torn into shreds), 1 would
say that some fifty and odd years ago
l was witness to the fact that one 20
lette of St. Michael de Bellechasse, p.
O., and then about eighty years of age,
while in kneeling attitude in the little
chapel of Ste. Anne, about quarter or
a mile eastward of the parish church,
was struck by lightning, with the effect
that while he was only dazed for
while by the stroke his clothes were
torn asunder all along his backbone
from neck to base of trunk, where the
lightning bifurcated and thence fol-
lowing the marrow along each Oh ms
legs finally escaped through the heel OF
his boots.
This tendency to bifurcation of the
current from trunk to limbs, when, as
in the human system, the nerves OF the
legs exert an equal pull upon the CEN
trail column, is further illustrated by the
fact that at Peoria. ILL.,, an individual,
struck by lightning and who was other
wise uninjured except by being Tor
moment dazed, as in the case of old 70
lette. found that the electric fluid, after
traversing his nervous system from
head to foot, or, rather, feet, had nnaiiy
passed out through the soles of his
the fact was evidenced by two tiny holes
one in each sole. through when the nulo
had tunneled for itself an exit.
Some twenty years ago the apex OF
the roof of a house in the same village
of ST. Michael was struck by lightning.
which bifurcated or divided into three
branches or currents: the one descend
ing west along the roof sloping toward
that size. the second north and the
third SOUTH respectively, tearing away
the shingles on their way to and fol-
lowing down the central bolts or iron
fastenings of as many windows stu
ated one on each side of the three sides
of the house, tearing away the fasten-
ings and portions of the woodwork of
each window in their respective ira
jectories toward the earth.
At St Michael again, near Beau
mont. 1 was witness to the fact that as
1 passed by during thunder storm
man trending toward his home in an
adjoining field was struck dead by
flash of the electric fluid from the
clouds. and remained suddenly motion
less. erect and in the same attitude as
when overtaken by the th-dcaling
shaft
But the strangest and most beautiful
display of lightning or atmospheric
electric currents which it was my good
fortune to witness, il being the only
time in my life I ever saw anythinss of
the kind. was out on the BEAUFORT flats
near Quebec. when. as 1 then wrote to
Flammarion OF the Societe d'Astron-
omie de France, two electrically laden
clouds. as though two trees, their heads
toward each other. and their longer
branches interviewer. kept on for fully
more than ten minutes interchanSing
horizontal flashes of beautifully coll
ored fire, not one OF which ever reached
the earth; while occasionally a flash
would shoot onward as if toward some
cloud in that direction. but which I
could see no sign of.-Scientific Amer
;cSn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
CRIPPLE CREEK STRIKE.
Has Not Affected Operations at the
Colorado City Mills.

Colorado Springs, Colo, Aug 10.-The
strike inaugurated this morning at the
mines at Cripple Creek district ship
ping ore to the plants of the United
states Reduction and Refining company
at Colorado City and Florence, because
of the refusal of the so called mill trust
to pay the scale of wages demanded by
the Western Federation of Miners, with
which organization the mill mems
unions is affiliated, has as yet in no
wise affected operations at the Colorado
City mills inasmuch as large supply
of ore is on hand. Several cars of ore
arrived for treatment at the Standard
mill today, having been shipped from
Cripple Creek yesterday.
All of the officers of the United States
Reduction and Refining company IN
Guiding General Manager c. NJ. Mac
Neill and Superintendent ]. D. H%wkins
are out of the city but it is said by
those in charge at the Standard min
that the company has enough ore on
hand to run the plant for several days.
The men employed at the Standard are
not members of the union and the COM
pany expects no difficulty in operating
it's plants unless the strike at Cripple
Creek cuts off the supply of ore In
that event it is stated the reduction
company will close its mills indefinitely,
paying its present employees one-third OF
their present wages for period OF six
months. General Manager MacNeill is
at Florence, Col, today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10

Senators Plat and Quay. Senator
Lodge is to look after New England and
other trusted friends of the administra-
ton in different parts of the union will
give their personal attention to the con-
duct of the campaign in their sections.
There is no question that up to this time
the Republicans have an enormous adj
vantage over the Democrats. The for
mer know already who their candidate
will be. The platform has been definite
ly indicated in Ohio and Iowa and in the
presidents speeches. They have large
number of very expert campaigners, like
those mentioned, working in unison with
success. The Democrats on the other
hand, are still .'aIl at sea" about their
candidate. Nobody can tell what their
platform will be. The leaders are sus-
picious of each other uncertain as to the
policy, disorganized as to action. Fortu-
nately, perhaps, convention time is near
~ a year off, and good many things
are likely to happen between now and
then.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10
Mono Railroads.

Electrical experts and transportation
managers of this country are watching
with interest the latest developments of
high-speed traction. as indicated by the
construction of the "mono-rail'' line be-
tween Manchester and Liverpool, Eng
land the Berlin-Hamburg tests in Ger
many and the limited" service be-
tween Cleveland and Toledo. All these
represent different types of locomotion.
The German tests are practically a con-
tinuation of those made two years ago
on the Berlin-Zossen short military line,
and are to determine the practicability
of maintaining high speeds with both
steam and electric locomotives. The
.sMono-rail' system is a development o.
the idea which in this country took the