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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-05-16
City Council Proceedings.
Lafayette, La, MAY 4, 1908.

AMENDMENT TO CHARTER.
The City Courcil of the town of La
fayette, La, shall have power to provide
for the prevention and extingushment of
fires and to organize, establish and maint
a fire department and to regulate the same;
to establish hre limits to regulate, restrain
or prohibit the erection of wooden buildings
within such limits may be prescribed by
ordinance, and to provide for removal OF
same at the expense of the owner thereof
when erected Contrary to the ordinances of
the municipality; to- appoint fire marshal,
who may be the mayor or town marshal,
the vicinity of any fire all idle and suspi-
cious persons lurking near the same, and to
compel any person present to aid in the eN-
tinguishment Of said fire, the preserva-
ton of property exposed to the danger of
the same, and in preventing goods from be-
ing purloined thereat and with such
powers and duties as may he prescribed by
ordinance. Also to regulate the storage of
powder, pitch, turpentine, r''sln, hemp, hay.
cotton and all other combustible AMI in
hamable materials and the storing IF lum.
Der in yards or lots within the fire limits as
may be prescribed by ordinance, and the
use of lights and candles in stables, shops
and other places TO remove or prevent the
construction of any fire place, chimney,
stove, oven, boiler, kettle any apparatus
used in any house, building, manufactory or
business which may be dangerous in causing
or producing fires TO direct the construction
OF deposits for ashes and generally said
City Council shall have power to do and
cause to be done whatsoever may be needed
and required to prevent and extinguish fires
in said town.
A vote being taken on above the result
was as follows: Yeas: \. f. Mouton, J. o.
Mouton, F. Demanade, c. A. DeBlanc
Nays: None.
There being no further business the Coun
Gil adjourned.
CHAs -. CAFFERY, Mayor.
LOUIS IACOSrE, Secretary
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from being united on any sub
ject or in any enterprise. Rus
STA and France are joined in ALI
ance. Germany. which is placed
between France and Russia,
would find a joint attack by those
two nations serious in the ex-
treme. Germany and France
are supposed to have an old
grudge to settle between them
selves. There are various causes.
serious or trivial, that have op-
Grated to create discOrd and
jealousies between the several
European nations. so that it can
not be declared with confidence
how they might be arrayed upon
the most serious of these differ
ences.
At the present time the various
European nations are eagerly
seeking territory wherever it
may be found which they can
conquer and colonize. They
have already partitioned the
most of the African continent,
and they are now at work upon
Asia, while some of them cast
longing eyes on the Central and
South American countries. But
at this moment China is the
principal object against which
their covetousness is directed.
While all the nations are try
ing to get slice of the Chinese
pie, there is no agreement, while
there are many causes for jeal-
Ousy. The wolves that devour
the carcass com monty fight des-
perately over the prey, and it
appears that some effort has been
made to draw the United States
into the squabble on the ground
that every world power must
take part in the wrecking and
plundering of nations.
But such interference on the
part of the United States would
be not only wholly uncalled for,
but little short of madness.
Such interference would arouse
Russia against the United States
when nothing else would. A
coalition of all the Europen ma
tions against the United States
to annul the Monroe Doctrine
and secure the conquest and di-
vision of the South American
would be very Sc
rious matter to US. Without Rus
STA, they would not attempt such
a move, but if it were done it
could be successfully met.
Let US not interfere in the in
affairs of the Old |
World while we vindicate our
doctrine as to the New. If there
ire to be two great Powers dom
mating each a hemisphere, let US
accept the edict of destiny as to
our part in it, and not interfere
With the development of the
,ther.
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BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIONS

CATHOLIC KNIGHTS OF AMERICA,
BRANCH NO. 1872 meets Ist and sd Sun
days after high mass, at Home Fire Co. hall.
Address Robi. II. Broussard, Secretary,
Lafayette, La.
meets Ist Saturday of each month, at court
house. 10 q. m.
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Notice.

Notice.
Public attention is hereby called to the
sanitary ordinances of the town requiring
all persons to clean up and dis,nfect their
back yards, as, commencing June I. an
inspection will be made, and said ordinance
enforced at the expense of all delinquents,
CHAs. d. CAFFERl, Mayor.
Lafayette, La, May IS, 1908.
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The Mastering Of the Nations.

The Mastering Of the Nations.
New Orleans Picayune.
The great Powers among the
nations to-day are the United
States, Great Britain, Germany,
France and Russia.
OF these, the first and the last
possess, within themselves every
resource that is needed to sus-
tain a vast population and to
maintain every important indus
try and to produce everything
required either for an offensive
or a defensive warfare,
The United States and Russia
possess, each, a vast contiguous
territory endowed with soil and
climate capable of producing
every important article of food
and every plant used in the
manufacture of clothing. They
have vast virgin forests, mex
haustible mines of coal and iron
and resources of petroleum, be-
sides mines of gold and silver
and of all the other useful metals
and minerals. The vast terri
torial domains of these two
countries extend across CONT
nents from ocean to ocean, and
each is inhabited by a greater
population than has any other
country, with room for many
millions more.
OF these two countries one
enjoys high state of civilization
under great, free institutions,
while the other is merely emere-
ing from barbarism under a des-
potic government. Both the
United States and Russia are in
progress of Development, and all
the conditions promise that they
are in time to dominate, each, the
hemisphere upon which it is
seated. One can muster a pop
ulation of $4,000, 900 souls, while |
the other has 1OO,OOO,OOO, and
each of these great countries is |
capable of supporting hundreds |
of millions more. The people
of the one are highly intelligent.
enterprising and brave beyond
comparison. The Russians, on
the other hand, are able-bodied,
sturdy, far behind in mental
Development, but not lacking
in intelligence. Their fighting
qualities are excellent, and they
have made good records as
soldiers.
Such are the two nations {
which are to exercise a most
Hateful influence upon the history
IF the world. AS to Great
Britain, whose vast commercial
md Industrial Importance and t
wealth have all had
heir rise in the small domain
# the British Isles, her do =
ninions are scattered over the c
ntire globe, necessitating a '
avail as well as commercial n
1arine that dwarfs the shipping Il
{ the other nations in COMPARE in
On. But the British Isles are
dependent upon for .
ign commerce for food for their ia
eople and for raw materials for In
leir industries. Any war that
ould stop England from abroad as
ould reduce the people of that Is
land Empire to starvation and to
leness. tic
The area of both Germany and Sc
.ance is limited. They are IS
ut in by the territory of other
ntiguous countries that may Mi
any time be hostile to them. IS
icy are not capable, on their ter
n resources, of supporting =!
cir respective populations in wa
se of war that would block Sci
e their ports and shut out COM
lnication with neighboring ton
untries, nor have they room tria
any extensive increase of ters
cir populations. Both have H..
Eat military organizations and gen
} formidable on land, but weak ss :
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Constable Sale.

Justices Court, Lafayette, La.
By virtue of judgment rendered by
Judge HI. l.. Monner, of the third justice s
court, Lafayette parish, and to me directed,
l, the undersigned, will sell, for cash, TO
the last and highest bidder, IN front of
Judge Monniers Office, in the town of La
fayette, between legal sale hours,
SATURDAY, MAY, I6. 1908,
the following described property, to wit:
One Sorrel mare.
THOMAS MOUTON,
Constable I'D Ward.
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Notice.

Public notice is hereby given that ten
days after publication hereof the city
marshal and deputies will put in force the
ordinance of the town requiring the killing
of all unlicensed dogs.
CHAs. ID. CAFFERY. Mayor.
May IS, 1908.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-25

all description and are graceful and
effective when properly used. A
blue miroir face voile-a charming
new material which may be mistaken
for and is less expensive than crepe
de Chine-anords a striking arrange
ment OF fringed ornamentation. II
begins in an unlined yoke of blue lace
from the lower edge OF which a fringe
OF fine steel beads falls To the waist
line.
The skirt. which is scant and cling
ing. trails in the back and Is formed
entirely OF overlapping rows OF fringe
matching that on the bodice. The
lowest row Is very wide and each sue
ceeding row is narrower, although
that at the top Is fully nine inches
deep.
No woman with fashionable pre-
tentions is ready for any day time
function nowadays without a bag OF
some sort. consequently there are a
number OF designs from which one
might make a selection. The pret.
test begs are OF delicate gold and sill
yer flagree finished like many OF the
silk bags with draw strings in the
shape OF chains 10 match the bags,
run trough metal rings a couple Of
inches from the top: the tops then
fall back In metal rufies and have lit
tie points finished with tiny round
pendants.
Black iewelry is very fashionable
and one does not have TO be in
mourning to wear it. 1t comes in
enamel. gun metal. dun Jet, bog oak
and bright cut Jet Set with gold
land studded with pearls-grey or
white-the dun OF bright jet is de-
lightfully pretty and loses all the
sombrsness which one might be apt
10 associate with it, These odd trifies
are at an prices from nifty cents for
a gunmetal safety pin ornamented
with a single baroQue pearl. 10 $50 for
a brooch Of cutjet flowers.
Il Is an assured fact that elbow
sleeves and oollarless waists will be
quite the rage as soon as real warm
weather arrives so the girl with skin.
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TO show them on more fasciiiii
than ever.
For the woman who does ~ :
approval on the collars %
there will be narrow nStliA
transparent lace supported y -
or delicate ribbons run thDcp
MAUDE GRIFF
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-25

ny arms and scrawny neck should
consider herself forewarned and look
up grandmothers receipts for the
skln-foods and creams that will build
up relaxed tissues and MI out the
hollows. Nothing looks prettier than
a well rounded neck or arm and there
viii be an opportunity this summer
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-04-25
Shingles and Shakes

The roof is shingled best II you use
tho kind OF shingles aud shakes we
sell. and we ask you TO note the good
wear and economy OF the roof for
which we furnish the shingles or
shakes. We carry a large stock Of
shingles and shakes OF good quality,
carefully selected 10 make a sound,
tight. durable roof. and We are al
ways ready 20 give estimates.
oooDALE LUMBER CO..
Near Q. p. Pas Depot
phone es1.
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"Bsstedy

Buttonholes are the bane Of
bachelors married mans. as welD
existence. No wonder the blankety-
blanks are forthcoming. Don't worry.
don't fume. don't swear. Simply let
us do the laundering, and the collar
bands viii remain intact until the end
Of the chapter. We are thinking Of
Offering a prize for buttonholes de-
spoiled here.
Salem Steam Laondry.
COLONEL. ]. OLMSTED. Prop.
D0RUS q. 0LhSTED. Mgr.
phone 4tf. 230 Liberty 81
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sEE AMvTHInef

Better than our rye whiskey. XXX
brandy or wines7 No. not with tel
escope. These are some Of the finest
brands on the market. Come in and
try a sample-these goods please the
palate, as well as the eye. and tina,
is saying a good deal.
The SENATE,
100 state street.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-03-13
EUROPE'S MONEY KING.
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild is Said to
Be Dying-Head of Two-BilIion-
Dollar House..

Naples, March l1.-Baron Nathaniel de
Rothschild, who has been suffering from
intestinal trouble, is in a critical condi-
ton and may die.
The wealth of the RothschilG family,
which has branches in all countries of
Europe has been estimated at 50, COO, OOO, 900,
a capital sum of which the interest alone
would about support the entire popula-
ton of France.
Spain, whose debt is nearly S2.Oo0, 100000,
Is owned by the Rothschilds.
Among Baron Rothschlld's many RESI-
dences is a peculiar one in the Egyptian
desert. 1t is a little four-roomed wooded
house set down on the sands, within
sight of the pranaids. Surrounding it are
a dozen tents, which are occupied by the
baron's servants, so that he has the house
all to himself. The baron has many mil
lions, and he could afford a palace amid
the gayeties of Cairo, but for reasons Of
his own he prefers this little hut out in
the desert
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.ON WATER WHEEL.
California Man Escapes From an Elk
perience of Fearful Trial.

#-"#--r HSt III VI vail - tSs
Redding, Cal, March 1.-With his
clothes entangled in the buckets of a 20
foot overshot water wheel and his body
being rapidly carried around the Wheel,
now under the water and now out. George
Ellsworth, o Hayden Hill placer miner,
spent one Of the most miserable and try
ing hours that man has ever been COM
PEELED to undergo. For one solid hour
Ellsworth faced death. Then his cries
reached the ears of workmen on an ad-
joining claim and they went to his rescue.
Ellsworth uses 81 large overshot wheel
to convey water from the creek to the
high land. While making some repairs to
the platform around the wheel his jumper
caught on the hooks on the buckets and
before he could extricate himself he was
carried up and around the wheel time
after time until 1t seemed he certainly
must perish. He called loudly for help,
but it was fully an our before the men
came to his rescue. They finally succeed
ed in stopping the wheel and tearing Ellis
worth's clothes loose from the bucket.
Ellsworth was carried home more dead
thNn alive, but has now recovered suff-
ciently to relate his experience and the
sensation he felt during his terrible ride
The wheel is unusually high above the
bed of the creek and this alone saved
Ellsworth from being ground to death be-
tween the bucket and the rocky bed Of
the stream. Ellsworth say that after the
fourth or fifth revolution he became sea-
sick and really did not care whether he
VAS killed or not.
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MUST STAND TRIAL.
Head Of the Defunct London Globe Fl.
nance Corporation, Limited, viii
Be Prosecuted,

London, March ~11.-JGstice Buckley
of the high court of justice this morn
ing made an order directing the Of
fetal receiver as liGuidator of the Lon
don and Globe Finance corporation,
limited, to criminally prosecute Whit
aker Wright, the well known promoter.
Demands for Wright's prosecution have
been incessant since the collapse of the
corporation.
The failure of the London and Globe
Finance corporation shook English finance
to Its foundations. and had a profound eff
rect in other countries. Wright was man.
aser OF the concern, and had q meteoric
career as a Napoleon. He was the king
OF haute finance, and England went wild
over his Investments. He could sell any,
thing, and sold almost everything-except
legitimate investment propositions. The
London ana Globe failed for an immense
sum with almost no assets. Wright, de-
spite that his methods were completely
exposed. continued his hold on a great
clientele. He continued business In his
wlfe.s name, and for two years has en-
Joyed q great vogue, people coming daily
70 MS paiatial home TO consult him about
investments, speculations, etc. His spe-
cialty has latteriy been to explain to peo-
pie how 70 float their questionable
schemes. Peers of the realm, titled wom-
en-, ieading people in all walks have
sought him for counsel, and although a
confessed bankrupt ne has spent millions
annually and been noted as the most ex-
travagant liver in London. Prosecution
in London.
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FOR STATESMEN.
The Bar at the National Capital Hasn't
Yet Been Closed,

Washington, March 11.-Although the
immigration bill passed just before the
adjournment of congress contained a
provision prohibiting the sale of liquor
at the capitol, the bar of the house is
still doing business and there is no in
dication that it will be closed. The
manager Of the house restaurant, where
the liquor is sold, stated today nat
he a not been notified to stop and
that until he received a notice he should
continue to do business. investigation
showed that for all practical
the provision of the immigration bill
is worthless, as it doeS not contain a
penalty for violation. 1t reads simply
that mo Intoxicating liquors of any
character shall be sold within the linn
its of the capitol building"
Lawyers said today the courts would
have to pass upon this provision and
determine whether it could be enforced.
The house and senate restaurants are
under the control of the two commit
tees on public buildings and grounds.
Both are under one business manager
and recent the sale Of liquor was
stopped on the senate side, as it was
decided that II bar at the capitol was
enough. Since the adjournment of con-
gress there has been no house commit
tee on public buildings and grounds and
there VIII be none until the regular
meeting of congress in December. The
law ordinarily would be enforced by the
speaker, but Speaker Henderson's term
expired last Wednesday and his sue
cessor wll not be chosen until con-
gress meets. There is regret among
members of the house that the pro-
hlbitive section was inserted in the inr
migration bill n it is probable that an
effort will be made at the next session
to have it repealed. 1t was put in by
the house largely as a joke with the
understanding that it would be stricken
out later. This was not done.
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ECCENTRIC RUSSIAN DEAD
Lived to Age of IS and Left Property
Worth 500, O0O, 1000.

Moscow, March 1.-THE richest man
IN Russia, Nickolai Terestchenko, has
lust died in his Sbth year, leaving prop
erty valued at 500, 600, 900, much Of it
cal estate in this city. For more
than fifty years he has been one Of the
euriosities of Moscow. He slept only
four hours in the twenty-four, two
hours at night and two hours after
luncheon. At 2 o'clock every morning
he had a said in his room. At 6
o'clock he began work with his secre-
laries, eating nothing until noon, when
he took an egg or a bow of soup. He
had only one solid meal a day, and that
was at 10 O'Clock at night. Though he
was charitable, his b%enevolence was ex-
tended in unusual ways-as, for in
stance, in establishing homes for one
legged and one-armed men.
1t is said he wanted to found an asy-
um for mothers-in-law who were badly
treated by sons-in-law, but the police
refused to sanction the scheme. His
son, who inherited the a fortune.
died at O Carlo of consumption the
lay after his fathers death.
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AMERICAN WAS ExlLED.
Boston Aroused Over William Miller
Sent to Russia as Educator.


Boston, Mass, March 1.-THE Poles
of Boston are greatly excited over the
news just received from Europe that
William Miller of Boston has been ar
rested by the Russian overnrnen and
exiled to Siberia.
Miller has recently been in
endeaVoring to educate the Poles wher-
ever they may be, and he had not con
fined his work to Russia alone.
Various societies of welI-to-do Poles
have contributed funds to his care for
this purpose n it was the accounts
for this money and not the money that
was found on his person tina caused
his arrest.
His Boston compatriots declare that
Miller had no revolutionary motives.
and that his sole motive was to educate
and assist Polish Immigrants, who,
upon landing in America, are detained
by the inspectors II often sent back
owing to their lack of education.
A mass meeting will be held here to
protest, II Secretary Hay will be
asked TO act.
Miller. it is declared here, is an Amer
lean citizen. His real name is Vincente
MilikewicZ, but he adopted Miller for
convenience. He has been imprisoned
for ten months in st. Petersburg al
ready, according to the reports.
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FIVE TIMES q BRIDE.
Grace Smell, Whose Father Was Tas.
colts Victim, MAKING a Record.

-
Chicago, March ll.-Mrs. Grace SHELL
Walker-Cof6n, the much-married daugh-
ter OF Amos Smell, whom the missing
Willie Tascott is said to nave killed. has
made her fifth appearance before the mat
rimonia! altar, and is now known as Mrs.
Perkins a. Layman.
Mrs. Coffin's latest hyrneneal venture
was entered upon Thursday Ut Riverside,
Cal. Los Angeles will be the home Of
the coup!c, who expect to devote much OF
their timr to travel.
Airs. Layman was thrice married and d.
vorced from Frank Nixon Coffin, and
once married and divorced from James c.,
Walker Of Waukesha. Her first marriage
to Coffin occurred in 1854, and the rela-
ton was continued for ten years. During
this time the pair had three children, and
1t was a great surprise when Mrs. Coffin
applied for and obtained q divorce on the
grounds Of incompatibility. In 1898, at the
deathbed of her eldest son, Mrs. Coffin
became sreconciled 10 her former husband
and was remarked to him. This relation
ship endured but a few months, and in
furnished the cause for which
Mrs. Coffin was again separated from her
twice married husband.
James c.. Walker, then a clerk in a ho-
tel, was the neNt man to whom the daugh-
ter Of the multimillionaire was united.
This ceremony occurred in 1889, and it was
not until two years later that Mrs. Coffin
made her appearance in the divorce court.
AS soon as her prayer for separation had
been granted or the grounds of cruelty
she was Immediately remarked to Frank
Coffin. This period OF married life lasted
but four hours, and then the divorce court
was again called upon to separate the cou-
pie who had been three times married to
each other. This divorce was granted in
1901, and since that time Mrs. Coffin has
been travelling and deyoting herself to lit
erary work. She is said to have inherited
much valuable property from her father
and her mother.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-03-13
SOCIALIST GAINS,
Town Meetings in Massachusetts, Give
Some Remarkable Showinss.

Boston, March 11.-Of great sisnif1-
canoe were some of the annual town
meetings in this state, for they impress
students of politics with the suspicion
that q new party is forging to the front,
the socialists.
In every town in Massachusetts
where the party made nominations 1t
made remarkable showings. intWo towns
it almost completely overthrow exist
ing rulers n defeated combinations
of republicans and democrats.
These We're Amcsbury, where the So
~cialists elected all three selectmen n
several other officers, and Stoughton,
where the party elected the chairman
of the board and other officials.
Oppose Strong Fusion.
While it is true hat local issues
helped the socialists in Amesbury and
Stoughron. these issues cannot be.
mad to account, except in compare
lively small measure. for the over
throw Of the republican-democratic
f%usions. The following shows the So
cialist votes in the towns named at
the state elections of 1901 and 1902 and
at the town meetings last week.