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New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-12-12
ROBINSON CRIJS0FS

The most. amusing thing in con-
nectlon with the present radical
enforcement Of the prohlbitory liq-
uor law in Maine is the plight of
half a dozen Eastport saloon keep
ers, who fed to the British island
of Campobello, two miles out in
Passamaquoddy bay, and directly
opposite Eastport, to escape jail.
A considerable number of East
port saloon men are now in Jail for
terms varying from sixty days to
eight months, but these few man.
aged to make their escape in fish
ing boats to the neighboring island,
where they are safe from prison
but very lonesome.
Campbello is a charming place
in summer, but at this season it is
about the last place one would
choose to live in. AS winter ap-
proaches it will be as bleak and
lonely as the coast Of Labrador.
The exi!ed liquor dealers sit on
the shore and gaze across Quoddy
bay to their once happy homes in
he sardine metropolis of Maine;
'rylng to decide which is the best,
Dr. worst - jail in Washington
county, or Punishment to Campo
bello. Friends have sent over to
hem the suggestion that, as the
sentence will be enforced when
ever the exiles shall return, be it
years from now, it might be the
better plan to come home now and
10 their time while the Jail is we'll
illed with congenial company,
'ather than wait until the present
squad has been liberated, and have
o serve their sentences in compar-
tive loneliness.
AT last accounts the exiles were
till living on fish and sitting on
he shore Of Campbello, trying to
make up their minds what to do
lbout it, while the sheriff is pa
icntly waiting for the wanderers
Q return. = Bangor (Haine) Cor.
ven York World.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-12-12

The Mansfield Journal Thus
praises Gov. Heard for the neutral
position be has taken in the State
compaign now under way:
Governor Heard has assumed
q neutral position Ia the campaign.
All honor to him for it. He has
done much to eradicate among
Democrats the old feeling Of ad-
Eministration and anti-administra-
tor and has refused to use the
power at his command to dictate to
his successor. He stands for q
square deal among Democrats.
This is high ground, and the gov
ernor will be remembered as an
Official who chooses to bs the SER
want rather than the master of the
people. Paqnemines Protector.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-12-12
PAPER MILL IN PROSPECT.
Representatives of two of the lar

representatives OF two OF the larg
est paper manufacturing concern!
in this country have been in New
Orleans withinthe past two weeks
prospecting for the erection OF
mills in New Orleans or vicinity
for the manufacture of all grades
of paper from bagasse. These two
firms arethe Wallace -Jasstad- Drew
sen Company of New York, and
the Fibre-Board Company of Bos-
ton. Both OF them have made
more or less definite arrangements
through their representatives for
the erection this winter or next
spring of at least two plants.
Mr.. E. Tenant Lee, representing
the Boston Company, announced
definitely before he left that his
Company would erect a plant near
New Orleans before next season,
and the Company authorizes the
statement that they are willing
to pay 81 ton for all the ba-
gasse in Louisiana available this
year. The address of the firm,
for all who desire to correspond
with them in regard to this offer is
17S Devonshire street, Boston,
Mass. The same price will prob
ably remain good next season.
The plan of the Company is to
take care of the entire available
bagasse crop produced in the state. |
They will have central plant In |
New Orleans, or vicinity, and pulp |
mills throughout the State near
every cane plantation of any size.
The pulp mills will take the ba-
yasse from the planters mill,
reduce it to a pulp and ship it to
he central plant, where it will be
into the paper board
made by this Company. The plant
will BE- Of such size that it will be
Ible to handle twenty tous Of pulpf
laily. It is expected that the mill
will be in operation by February.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-12-12
BRYAN IN PARIS.

Paris, Dee. s. William j Bryan
visited the Chamber of Deputies
|and Senate to-sln;; comparing
French parliamentary methods vii i
those Of the United States Con-
|gress. He was accompanied ID the
Senate By Senator CIemsnceao,
who introduced him to Premier
Con,bes Mr. Bryan had i long
talk with n. Con,bes, the hitter
ma.ifcsfing interest in Asncris.a.l I
economic ari political affairs.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-12-12
How's That?

We efier Ono Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case OF Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Hall 3 Cata1rh Cure.
F.J CHENEY & Co., Toledo, @.
We, tho undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transaction and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their Arm.
WEST q TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O. WALpING KANNAN g. MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon tho blood aud mu-
cous serfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent FREQ. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by
oil Druggists.
Hall's ) Family Pills are the best.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-12-12

The is no better chance than at
the polls to defeat the Doodle cam
didates, and when you vote for
Jastremski you vote against the
heavy swing of the combine.
That's why every voter in this par
ish is working for Jastrernski.
He's the friend Of the people
Lsc0mpte Drummer.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-12-12

The question Of the honr Is.
"Have yon paid your poll-taxf'
4 Jon cannot come, send it, and il
yon haven. got the money, borrow
i. Il i your duty 70 be a citizen
hrst and IN ordinary individual
afterwards.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-12-12
OB6ERVER-CONSOLID4TED.
SENSATIONAL CHARGES AGAINST
Mr.. BASS OF MORGAN CITY

Morgan City, La, Dec. S.-Dep-
uty Sheriff Dudley Sanders, with a
posse and mob Of indignant citi-
zsns, are securing the neighborhood
for Edgar Bass, merchant and
local politician Of. some influence,
on charge of attempted assault
on a 1l-year-old white girl. The
crime is supposed to have been
committed last night, and the
search began for Bass Immediately.
This morning Gabe. Nope, who is a
pilot on the steamer Frank B. Will
liams. made an affidavit against
Bass, charging him with the crime
against his daughter. Friends of
Bass Indignantly repudiate the
charge, and ask a Withholding of
public sentiment, but from present
indications il the mob gets him be.
fore the sheriff it will go hard
with him. Up to s O'Clock tonight
he was still at large.
This parish and section has never
before in its history been so shocked
and staggered as it was yesterday
when it became generally known
throughout the parish that Edgar
n. Bass, one Of the most promi-
cent men Of the parish in CONNER
cial social and religious circles,
had been charged with criminal
assault upon the little 11-year-old
daughter Of Captain Nopes at this
place.
Bass was Superintendent of a
Sunday School here, and it is said
that the child was one of the Sun
day school scholars. After the
services, it is said, Bass enticed the
child into his store, saying he
wished to give her some candy.
The child, whose father was away
from home and whose mother is
dead, went to some neighbors aud
told of her experience.
Bass is a member of the Sem
atorial District Democratic Exec
utive Committee, man of wealth,
and religious-b bearing and reputa-
tion, being member Of several
fra.ernal orders. The majority Of |,
persons who heard the rumors
could not at 6rst bring themselves
to believe the things alleged were
pc ssible, aud for this reason was /,
slow. i
After thorough investigation !
District Attorney w. K. Wilson,
at Franklin, requested the officers
to Immediately apprehend Bass.
The affidavit was made by Cap
tain Nopes, father of the alleged
victim. I.
Bass is = city councilman Of
Morgan City, and has always been
> prominent man in business and
political circles. He is not d nativeI
Of this parish, but had resided
here many years. He is abont so i,
years Of age, Of medium height,
and stockily built. He is a Jew by1
birth and profession, bnt some
years ago was converted to the
Christian religion, and has since
been prominent in all church and
school work.
The only possible ameliorating
circumstance that was suggested BY
bic friends was that the man may |
have been insane. n
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-12-12
Pine | CYPRESS
IT'S A SELF-Evr)ENT FACT

that Lumber supplied by BIanchet
q Dnpre is being nspd in greater
quantities every year by builders
ct the best class II houses and
stores Whether Won need mate
rial for the entir. l,aildiDg, or onlv
for inside finish. ynu grt only the
best fron, MS. while vou f,a. ~
more han y''u do for inferior stnff.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-12-12

Love is some-
times a hard task
master. He drives
women to tasks be-
youd thslr strength
and lays heavy bur
dens on their
shoulders. Love
Of husband, love Of
family, forces many
. woman day b.
day to labor for tbs
home when aching
bact 9nd throbbing
head make her ut
terly unfit for
household d duties.
vHYf
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-16

time that Mrs, Schaefer kidnapped her
children. He escaped arrest when the
detectives found Mrs, Schaefer by
leaping through the window of the
boarding house, He was later arrest,
ed, however, When Deputy Sheriff
Byron arrested Mrs, Schaeter she at
tempted TO pull a revolver from her
dress TO shoot him, but was over.
powered.
The complaint against Mrs, Sehae-
fer was made by Herr Schaeter, who
declares he will urge the severeSt pun
iShment known to the law. An army
of detectives has pursued the woman
since Feb, IL, when she kidnapped her
children, Eleanor and Freda, in Cen
trail Park, aud disappeared, Severa
months before that she and Worth had
eloped, it was charged. Although the
detectives were constantly reporting
all sorts of Clews and every once in a
while turned up the information that
Mrs. Schaeter, Worth and the chill
dren had been seen together in Con
necticut, but he was also by her sue
cesstul flight prevented from serving
on her divorce papers which he very
much desired to do Worth is 4 son
of General Worth of civil war fame,
His mother is now Mrs. Austin Abbott
0t Sparkiu, y. Y, wife OF an attorney
who acted as one OF the counsel in the
famous trial of Henry Ward Beecher.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-16
INSPECTORS TO INQUIRE INTO
PosToFslFcE EMsRoGLio.
PAYNE ISSUES STATEMENT
Postmaster General Says All offend.
ers VIII Be Summary Dealt With,
Should There Sc Any-Pendns the
Investigations There VIII Be no
Change in the Personnel,

Washington. April l4,--PoStmaster
General Payne last evening gave out Il
statement in which he announced that
the Investigation of the affairs OF the
postoniIe department. would be con-
tinued and that any parties found
guilty ot wrongdoiug would be dealt
with summarily The postmaster gen,
erals statement cites the fact that the
information he had received induced
him To order an investigation, that
the Investigation viii I've continued,
and il wrougdoiug is disclosed the
guilty persons will he brought to JUS
tice.
"lt the system or method of doing
business in the department is faulty"
said the postmaster general, proper
remedies will be applied without fear
or favor | inaugurated the investiga'
tion With the determination that II
should We exhaustive. 1t is proper
for me to add that | laid before the
president the information which had
in my possession and he fully ap.
proved of the action proposed by me-
The whole administration of the
postolcc department is made subject
to the Investigation under the post.
master generals direction and every
division will be prohod thoroughly
and the inquiry be made as thorough
as the departments most expert in,
spectors can make it.
: At the same time the postmaster
generals purpose is to give fair and
just treatment to all concerned and
not act arbitrarily and with undue
haste For this reason, 1t can be
stated that no immediate changes OF
Importance in the personnel of the
service are now contemplated and
the changes will depend largely on
the report to be made by Fourth As.
! sistant Postmaster General Bristow
on the Investigation, although devel.
opments in the meantime may necessi'
tate some deviation from this policy.
The office of assistant attorney gen
eral for the postotlice department Is
among the bureaus included in the
general inquiry and until an investi'
cation OF affairs generally is complet.
ed it is probable that no successor to
Assistant Attorney General Tyner
will be named
Postmaster General Payne did not
reach the department until 4 o'clock,
He summoned a number of officers of
the department and held short consul
tations with them respecting postal
affairs. About one hour later he gave
ont his statement. Subsequently he
held quite an extended interview with
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow 1t is learned It will be sew
era weeks before the postofiice In
spectors will be able to complete
their work. When they have finished
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow will prepare a comprehensive
report on the whole subject.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-16
SAMOANS IN
AGITATION

Tutuila March 80, via San Francis
co, April 14.-Natives of Tutuila have
been much agitated lately over claims
of German Samoans, to land in Tu,
tuila. One of the chiefs advocated
the assault and slaughter of all the
Upolu people who come over to this
island and claim the land. Several
young men set out with determine
ton to carry out the decree of the
chiefs. They were promptly arrest
ed by order of the secretary of native
affairs and a political embroglio be-
tween the United States and Germany
in Samoa was ayerted. This land
question was anticipated when a flag
was first hoisted and in the deed of
cession of Tutula to the United States
the natives stipulated there shall be
an investigation into the land ques-
ton by the United States government
and the hopes Of the 1utuila Samoans
are now in the United States TO re
deem their lands for them after the
adjudication Of the court or a com.
mission OF competent jurors has made
a decision The German government
has appointed a mixed commission OF
German, British and Samoans. but 50
far the United States has done moth
ing,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-16
OMAHA MURDER MYSTERY,
j. e. Knight, Said TO Have ki(lec
His Wife and Hauled Body Away.

Omaha, April ll,-late develop
ments lead the police to believe there
has been committed u most deliberate
murder and thuy are looking for
Frank T. Knight. whose wife they be
lfevc was poisoned and then buried
secretly Mrs Lucy Stile and her
son. Malyiu nusouhcrry are under
arrest charged with the alleged
crime. Last week Mrs, Knight whu
was formerly Miss Rose l.. Snyder Of
Waukcsha, disappeared suddenly and
the neiRhbors asked tho police t.
mako an Investigation Her husband
said the woman had gone to South
Omaha to prcpalc n home To which
they would movu shortly, Knight
being employed in packing hous1
thorc, Further Investigation thowed
that Mrs Knight had not gone to
South Omaha. II was also learned
that Knight had borrowed wagon
and n horse late Saturday night
which he used to convey something
from his home in this city, TIL,
police allogc he haC' ed away the body
of his wife,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-16
Former Slave Elected Judge.

La Crosse, Wis April Al c.
Perkins, who represented the colore !
population Of La Crosse county when
President Roosevelt visited this city
April 4, has been elected judge Of the
Shelby district Of this county. He 10
the first colored Judge Of Wisconsin
ana perhaps the only ex.slave in the
United states ever elected Judge He
was born in 1870 and took his name
from Colonel Perkins of the rebel
army. whose servant he was curing
part Of the war
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-16
Two.cent Fares Endorsed.

New York, April 1.-Two hundred
and fifty thousand workmen Of New
York city, through their selected
delegates ut the Central Federated
Union Saturday Endorsed the crusade
Of the New York american In favor
of 2cent fares for passengers com
PEELED to stand In street cars, and de.
manded IN no uncertain terms the
passage Of the bill Of Senator Russell
now before tho state Legislature look
Ing to that emf The resolutions were
adopted by unanimous vote.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-16
American Commander at Canton Saves
Lives Of Many Foreign Residents
Conspiracy Among Rebels to Attack
Chinese Vceroy Discovered in Time
Many Arrests Made and Large Amount
Of Stores and Ammunition Seized

his preparations and advised the com.
manders of the English, German and
French gunboats of the line of action
to be pursued if Shameen island
should be attacked. The foreign
commanders offered their cooperation
and plans were perfected to meet any
trouble that developed whether on the
island or the water. Instead Of visit
ing the holy temple in the inner city
at Nlisygrit to offer incense, the vice
roy and officials, contrary to the
long custom, remained in their re
spective yaement, securely guarded,
Around the viceroy's yaemen alone
were assembled 1900 armed troops
BY o'clock the gates to the inner
city were closed and streets cleared
Many arrests were made that night
in which some compradores were i'm
plicated and large amounts Of stores
seized in houses and shops in Fong
Chun and Fates, opposite Shameen
Many other indications of the intend
ed attack We're found and the rebels
abandoned their plot only because Of
brakes discovery and his prompt
action ard that of other foreign com.
manders in taking ample precaution,
AIRY measures. The landing of the
armed force from each foreign man Of
war had been agreed on by the Ameri,
can, German and French commanders
at the first evidence of an attack on
the foreign section. Consular adviCes
received at the state department from
Canton call attention to the feel.
ing OF insecurity caused by the short
age of the rice crop, the activity Of
reformers and the rebellion of KWang.
New Councillor.
Washington, April IA. United
States Minister Conger at Pekin
cables the state department that
Ching has been appointed to the grand
council, vice Jung Lu, deceased.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-16

place, The chauffeur was trying &c
rise, and Fairs skull was crushed out
of all semblance Of humanity, Mas
sail to the witness, The lady is not
dead" and he lifted her up. Witness
was within yard Of her,
Il saw her lips move" said the Wit
ness, her hands tighten and her cheS,
move slightly The ups moved rs
though she was breathing"
10 you rccolect what you saw NJ.
ter your friend put her DOWN."
For about minute saw her
breathing gently. her lips were still
moving when turned away from
herr"
Did tho gentlemen move at all?'
He did not He was in the Same no
sition when turned away as when
saw him first"
At thus point Adjournment was TAX
en- until today
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-16
BRIAoL PARTY IN TooMBs.
Finance of MiIionaire's Son Will
Feast Within Grim Walls.

New York. April 14-For the first
time in the history of the Toombs
prison an ante-nuptial dinner was
given yesterday within its grim
walls. The star figure, instead Of
being a prisoner fighting for liberty,
perhaps for life, was a young girl
about to give up her liberty Willingly
for loves sake.
The bride-elect was Miss Gertrude
May Sergeant of Brooklyn who Will
be married on Wednesday to Oscar
Pouch, a son of the late millionaire
Standard oil magnate. She and her
bridesmaids We're given dinner yes
terday in the Toombs by her aunt.
who is the wife of Warden John e.
Van de Carr
The wardens private dining room
was transformed into a bower of
green and white, colors of the fra
ternity of which the girls are mem.
bers, and the dinner was served by
the TRUSTEES "-the inmates of the
prison who. for good behavior, are
permitted to -ear white uniforms and
serve the warden
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-16
Ludinoton Retires.

Washington, April I'm. |. Lud.
ington. quartermaster general Of the
army yesterday was placed on the re-
tired list with the rank Of major gen
eral. Colonel Charles F. Humphreys,
who is credited with having told Colo,
mel Roosevelt at Santiago to seek a
warmer climate. will become quarter
master general
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-16
INSURGENTS VICTORIOUS
IN NORTHERN AFRICA

Madrid. April l4-An official dis
patch from Melilla confirms the cap.
ture of Fortress Frajana by insur.
gents. The latter exploded a mine
beneath the wall Of the fortress and
delivered an assault through the
breach made by the explosion Thu
garrison held out some time and then
fled into the Spanish territory The
Spaniards took possession of the arms
Of the fugitives and tended thcir
wounded
Private dispatches state that 80 men
and an officer of the garrison
persisted in the explosion Among the
wounded now at Melilla is the pasha.
who commanded the fort
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-16

Washington, April 14.-Quick action
and common sense treatment of the
critical situation by an American ma
val officer in China recently saved the
foreign residents in Kwongtung, along
the east bank of the Canton river,
from falling victims to a plot which,
while directed primarily against the
Manchurian dynasty, inevitably would
have eliminated on the foreign popu,
Iation. While this attack was averted
by precautionary measures taken by
Commander Drake of the U. S. S.
Monterey with the assistance of Eng
lish gunboats Sandpiper and Brito-
mart, the French gunboat Avalanche
and the German tug Shameeu, the
coalition known to have fomented the
trouble extends to several provinces,
and the official advices received both
at the state and navy departments
show that the reactiOnary measures
were on a scale for larger than is ad.
mitted either by the foreign represen-
tatives or Chinese government had
been planned by rebels.
Hearing that a force of rebels un-
der Hung Chunk Fuk a native of
Wal Chow, had planned an attack on
the viceroy and the Chinese officials
of Canton during the celebrations of
Chinese new year. during the night of
January 2S and 20 Commander Drake
prepared to defend the foreign resi-.
dents. An armed force Of 5000 men
had entered Canton surreptitiously
several days before he learned that
news, and were hiding with the sym.
pathizers As most of the foreigners
and official representatives Of various
nations resided in Shameen Com.
mander Drake first completed his
plan of defense for this section and
then to allay the excitement which
prevailed in her, officially informed
the consulates and Chinese officials of
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-16
JUMPS ON GOVERNMENT.
Irish Honorable Says Land Bill Is
Confession of English.

London, April John Mirelly.
speaking at Montrose last night, re
ferred to the introduction of the Irish
land bin as a new great chapter in
the Irish revolution. and a confession
by the government that their Wanted
policy of resolute government in Ire.
land pursued for seventeen years, was
an abiect failure-so abject that they
We're to pay millions of pounds to get
on a completely new track 1t was a
case of the deformed transformed and
an acknowledgment that the irish
policy Of the last century had been
upon entirely wrong lines.