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and Rio Qrande on August 81, with brief
stop0 1t Pueblo and Royal Gorge. break
fast at Salida and dinner at Hotel Colo
RADIO, Glenwood Springs, where q three
hours stay will be made.
A Day in Salt Lake.
September 1 will be spent in Salt Lake
City. where the party will be quartered at
the Hotel Knutsford, and the day will be
occupied by trolley ride about the city
and trip to Saltair Beach. Leaving Salt
Lake City at II pm, the party will pro-
coed to Ogden. where the train will be
transferred to the Southern Pacific.
September will be spent in crossing Ne
vada, with brief stops at Carlin and Hum
boldt, meals being served in a dining car.
Sacramento will be reached on September
., where breakfast will be served in the
railway dining station. The train will then
proceed to San Francisco, arriving shortly
after noon.
Six days will then be spent in and about
San Francisco, where a lavish hospitality
will be dispensed by the sir knights of the
Golden Gate, and the party will be af-
forded every facility for viewing the many
wonderful things than can be seen only IN
California.
The Return Trip.
Bidding San Francisco farewell at l am
September 10. the party will proceed via
Southern Pacific to Santa Cruz. where
breakfast will be served in a grove of the
famous Calaveras big trees. Del Monte
will be reached at noon, where luncheon
and dinner will be had al the Hotel Del
Monte, and a seventeen-mile drive will be
taken along the peninsula on which the
towns of Del Monte and Monterey are To-
Gated.
Santa Barbara will be visited on Septem-
Der IL. where the party will be entertained
at the Hotel Potter.
San Pedro will be reached September II.
where the party will Immediately take
steamer for Avalon, Santa Catalina Island.
Twelve hours will be spent at this interest
ing resort. and breakfast. luncheon and
dinner will be served at the Hotel Metro
pole. Returning. San Pedro will be reached
at 10 pm.
Riverside and Redlands will be visited on
September Il. the features of the day be-
ing breakfast at Glenwood Tavern. and a
trolley ride down Magnolia avenue at Riv-
erside. n trip over a kite-shaped track to
Redlands and drive to Smiley Heights at
the latter place Los Angeles will be
reached at , pm, where the party will be
quartered at the Hollenback Hotel
September i will be spent in and about
Los Angeles. the program for the day be-
ing trip by special trolley cars. to Passa-
dena and the ascent OF Mount Lowe. where
luncheon will be mad at the Anime Tavern.
Brief Stop in Fresno.
n brief stop will be made at Fresno on
September Il for breakfast at the Hughes
Hotel The party will then proceed to Sac
ramento where eight hours will be spent
in visiting the state fair. Special trolley
cars will be furnished AT this point one
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am 1ss persons will depart for tour
covering twenty-seven days. fourteen
states and 5000 miles. and having for its
objective point the twenty ninth annual
conclave of the Grand Encampment Of
knights Templar at San Francisco.
The excursion is to he given under the
auspices of the knights Templar of Mary
land and the District of Columbia, and
the multifarious arrangements therefor
have been worked out in the minutest de-
tails by a joint committee consisting of
Sir knights Edward C. REGISTER. John w.
Snyder Stephen r. Mason. William ].
Cunningham and Harry L. Remley. rep
resenting Maryland, and Sir knights
Walter H. klopfer Harrison Dingman,
Frank II. Thomas. George II. Walker and
Emil G. Schafer, representing the District
of Columbia. They have issued an at
tractive booklet descriptive of the timer
airy and announce that they feel safe in
stating that no tour has ever been pre-
pared with more care or better prospects
of successful operation. The schedule has
been arranged with view to affording
every opportunity possible for sight
seeing within the scope of the journey
and AT the minimum OF discomfort"
Early Morning Start.
Leaving Washington at 40 am. Au-
gust -, the party will proceed by the
Baltimore and Ohio lines through Mary
land, West Virginia. Ohio. Indiana and
Illinois to ST. Louis. stopping for meals
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Awarded to the Warner Company.

These decrees however, do not appear to
have been held binding by President Cas-
tro, for it is stated that on December 10,
1900 President Castro issued a decree con-
firming to the Warner-Quinlan Company
that part of Bermudez lake covered by the
that part covered by the claim called La
Venezuela" although. commission which
had Investigated the matter had reported
in favor of the New York and Bermudez
Company. Then followed long period of
costly litigation. Eastern Venezuela was
in the hands of revolutionists, and the
company says 1t was compelled to pay
double duties on its shipments. once to the
revolutionists and again to the Venezuelan
government The large steamships under
charter were interfered with, and for a
long period were wholly prevented from
reaching Guanoco, where the companyS
staff and men nearly reached the point of
starvation because the Venezuelan gov
ernment would not permit the company to
enter, under a threat to seize It's ships IL IL
attempted to do So.
Alleged Extortion.
The company further states that as the re-
suit Of President Castro's decree of Deem
her 10. 1900, referred to. Mr.. Garner was
recalled and another managing director
was appointed in his stead. Although the
company was charged by the Venezuelan
government with having aided the Matos
revolution, it declares in most positive
terms that it preserved strict neutrality.
The statement alleges. however. that ven-
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Shot Wife for BURGLAR

A dispatch from Charleston, 8. c., last
night says: In Brunson. Hampton county,
last night ]. B. Bennett shot and killed his
wife. He was awakened by noise which
he supposed was made by rats, and. looking
toward a window In the bed room, saw
glar.
Drawing his revolver from under his nil
low he shot what proved to be his wife
through the heart. She died at once. Mr.
Bennett was implicated In a murder In
1895, and was pardoned on condition that he
would never return to the state. His wife
has been living near Brunson this wear.
and it seems that Bennett has made IRE.
Quent visits to h6r.
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THE ASPHALT DISPUTE
CASE OF THE NEW YORK AND
BERMUDEZ COMPANY,
Action of Venezuela Declared to Be
Arbitrary, High-Handed and
Indefensible.

The New York and Bermudez Asphalt
Company, in a long communication to its
stockholders, which was given out for pub
lcatlon by the press last night, owing to
the international nature of the case re-
views the history of the trouble, begin
ming with the original concession in 1888
by the Venezuelan government to Horatio
r. Hamilton, and which was later assign
ed to the company by him. The commune
cation, practically, is the company's reply
to President Castro's charges 1t speaks
of the nnumerable hindranceS extortfons
conspiracies and wanton wrongs expert
enced in spite of its (the company's) eff
forts to pursue it's legitimate business, ac-
cording to it's rights and obligations"
finally, in July of this year, resulting in
the placing of the company's property in
the hands of a receiver former officer of
the company, through the aid of Venezue-
Ian gunboats and soldiers. The statement
adds that at the time of the seizure the
companys employees were arrested, it's
property despoiled, and negro laborers from
Trinidad, British subjects, compelled to
work at the point of the bayonet
By its terms the original Hamilton con-
cession will not expire until 1908. AS far
back as 1888, however, the company says,
it enlarged on this concession, and secured
a deinitive mining title for ninety-nine
years to Bermudez lake, large deposit of
asphalt in the state of Bermudez, and a
title in fee simple to over twelve square
miles of land under and surrounding the
lake. The company declares that notwith-
standing the contention of President Cas-
tro to the contrary, 1t has fully complied
with the terms of the concession, and has
spent large sums of money in exploration,
construction of a railroad, wharves and
plant, the improvement of rivers and the
development OF its business. Nevertheless
the statement says that after many futile
attempts to contiScate the company S prop
ertV npnciny in 1897 and beStOw if
upon others, suit was instituted by the
Venezuelan government on July 20, 1904, to
cancel the Hamilton concession the
ground of alleged non-fulfillment of GER
tain of it's optional clauses and to APP
point a receiver for all of the company's
property" 1t declares that the company's
defnitive mining and fee simple titles were
ignored. and that no notice whatever of
the commencement of the suit was given
to the company, nor opportunity to oppose
the application for receiver, but that by
an ex parte order former employee of the
company, A. Howard Garner, was named
receiver
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Final Hearing August 80.

The deportation case involving the prob
able return to China of Moy Wong. local
Chinaman, as heretofore told in The Star,
will have final hearing before, United
States Commissioner Arson 8. Taylor at
his office. 1405 F street northwest at 100
o clock August 30.
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When the Troubles Began.

It is further stated that the troubles Of
the company began in 1897, when certain
Venezuelans conspired to encroach on the
companys property, and that on January
T. 1898, President Castro, on a petition of
these Venezuelans, issued decree declar-
ing the Hamilton concession null and void
on the ground that under it there had been
no exploitation of natural products other
than asphalt. This decree, however, was
held by the high federal court to be with
out authority and void.
The part played by the Warner-Quinlan
Company Of Syracuse in asphalt transac-
lions in Venezuela is gone into with much
detail, the charge being made that in May,
1900, that company bought the "Felicidad'
claim for $4,000, although the vendors de-
clared in the deed of sale that they made
it at the risk of the purchasers and with
out any responsibility" Other Americans
according to the statement. became inter-
other locations superimposed. as was La
Felicidad," on Bermudez lake.
But it is stated in response to urgent
representations by the company's repre-
sentative President Castro, on July %,
1900 issued three DEGREES. the first of which
declared that the company might exercise
each and every Of the rights granted to 1t
under the Hamilton concession In the man.
ner and under the terms set out in the said
contract, and at any time whatever within
the term provided in article 8. which fixed the
duration of the concession at twenty-five
years: and, further, that the company had
the right of preference in every case of de-
nunciation of asphalt mines within the
limits of the concession. The second de-
cree declared that the company had full
filled up to date the engagements and obn-
cations of the contract OF which 1t Is ces-
sionary, entered into with the executive
power on the 18th OF September, 1888. to
which additions were made on the 10th of
October following. approved by national
congress by law of the 9Th of June. 1884,
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KNIGHTS PILGRIMAGE
Will Leave Tomorrow Night
for San Francisco
TO ATTEND CONCLAVE
THE TOUR TO COVER EIGHT
THOUSAND MILES.
All Local K. T. Communicates Repre-
sented-Maryland and Vir-
ginia Participants.
TO ATTEND CONCLAVE

A special train. consisting of three
sleepers. will leave Baltimore by the b.
and o. at midnight tomorrow. On its ar
rival in Washington four sleepers and a
baggage car will be attached and at 10
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Charles Niles, son of c. F. M Niles of
Toledo, Ohio, was drowned by the cap
sizing OF canoe in Lake Erie Sunday
He was twenty-one years old.
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Headquarters During Conclave.

During the conclave the following officers
and past officers of the Grand Command
cry will have quarters at the Palace Ho-
tel: Andrew w. Kelley, grand commander;
Bennett A. Allen. deputy grand command
err; VIM. F. Hunt grand generalissimo;
George H. Walker, grand captain general;
Arvine w. Johnston, grand recorder. and
Frank Fl. Thomas. past grand commander.
They will be Joined by Eminent Sir Simeon
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sentence of August %. 1898, and that there
fore the said contract is in full legal force
and effect The third decree merely APP
pointed an inspector to draw up plans for
the Identification of the various discredited
inns
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Grand Junior Warden. Grand Encampment.
sleeper containing the tourists who will
visit Yellowstone Park, will be cut off and
attached to another special train.
September rs will be spent in returning
IL ough Nevada. with brief stops for meals
at Reno. Humboldt and Carlin.
September II. Ogden again. where, after
breakfast in the railway dining room. the
party will be transferred to the Union Pa
Cific. Wyoming will then be crossed, with
stops for meals at Green River and Raw
Inns
Nebraska will be reached September IS.
and stops for meals will be made at North
Platte. Grand Island and Omaha.
The party will then proceed by the Chi
cago and Northwestern through Iowa and
Illinois. arriving in Chicago on September
10 where it will be quartered at the Grand
Pacific and spend eight hours. 1t will then
proceed directly to Washington and Balti-
more by the Baltimore and Ohio line ar
irving in Washington at 4:45 pm. on Sep
far hpr
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to Denver in time for a two hours ride
on the Seeing Denver car and dinner at
the Brown Palace.
Leaving Denver at midnight. the jour-
ney will be continued over the Denver
The weekly messenger., 1904-11-26
Lafayette and Baton Rouge.
The People.


1t has been reported that Gener-
al Agent j. M. Lee, Jr., of the
Southern Pacific railroad, has in
timated that his company has
about completed preliminary ar
rangements to build the long talk
ed of extension of only 50 miles
between Lafayette and Baton
Rouge, thence, possibly to the IL
linois Central railroad.
Reports of this character have
been frequently set afoat and Mr..
Huntington went SO far once as to
buy the Baton Rouge. Crosse Tete
and Opelousas railroad, which was
originally designed before the
war" as the Southern Pacific rail-
road. But, instead of building
the line his purchase may have
The weekly messenger., 1904-11-26

There is very persistent, hoary
old superstition to the effect that
ninety-five per cent of all the per-
sons who embark in business even
tually fail. This may have been
true before the age of advertising,
but it is no longer founded in fact.
The Mercantile Review says:
"Other misstatements are correc-
ted, other myths die out. but this
one persists. Recently the old
humbug received bad whack, a
solar plexus blow, that should send
it down for the count. The stroke
was dealt by Dun's weekly circu-
lar in response to the query of a
correspondent whether it is true
that % per cent of business men
fail. The Dun agency people
looked into the matter. They stu
died the statistics Of failures since
1857, and they found that the re-
cords show that the ratio of fail
ures in business between 1866 and
1903, inclusive, averaged only a
little over l per cent each year,
that is one out of every hundred
firms in business failed. The ra-
ito exceeded l per cent during the
years of hard times, from 1875 to
1878, inclusive, and again from
1898 to 1898; but of the thirty
eight years between 1866 and 1908
there were nineteen years when
the ratio slightly exceeded l pei
cent, and nineteen years in which
it was slightly less than l pei
cent" Printers Ink.
The weekly messenger., 1904-11-26
Chronic Diarrhoea Cured.

Mr.. Walter Richardson. of TrOutville'
Va, had an attack of diarrhOea that came
near ending his life. His physician had
failed to relieve him and the disease had
become chronic when he begau using
Cham mberIain's Collie, Cholera and Diarr-
hoea Remedy. 1t soon cured him and he
now recommends that preparation when
ever an opportunity offers. For sale by
7. j. Liable.
The weekly messenger., 1904-11-26

For elegance, ease and comfort
wear the beautiful Duttonboffer
shoe, at X. Schwartz & Co., every
pair guaranteed.
A representative of the Messen-
ger visited the Billaud refinery on
Thanksgiving day, and he spent
most of the day looking at the
complicated machinery crushing
hundreds of tons of cane daily.
The Messrs. Billaud who are al
ways couteous, always make it a
duty to entertain visitors and show
them around and explain the ex-
perience of the season in the man.
ufacture of sugar. This refinery
has already passed over $4,000
tons of cane, making a daily aver
age of about $50 tons. This ref
merry expects to grind $4,000 tons
this season, which will be a record
breaker.
Ladies, wear the Duttonhoffer
Shoes, and be convinced you are
wearing the best that is made, they
are guaranteed, K. Schwartz & Co
The weekly messenger., 1904-11-26
From South Africa.
NEW WAY OF USING CHAMBERLAIN's

COUGH REMEDY.
Mr.. Arthur Chapman writing from
Durham. Natal, South Africa, says: "As
proof that ChambeTlain's Cough Reme-
dy is cnre suitable for old and young,
pen you the following: A neighbor OF
mine had a child Just over two months
old. 1t had very bad cough and the
parents did not know what to give it.
suggested that II they would get bot
tie of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and
put some upon the dummy teat the baby
was sucking it would no doubt cure the
child. This they did and brought about
a quick. relief and cured the baby. "This
remedy is for sale by 7. j. Liable.
The weekly messenger., 1904-11-26

kept other capitalists from doing
it. The old road was allowed to
go to decay aud pass out OF exis-
tence altogether, Notwithstanding
that the States share in it figures
in the bonded debt upon which
four per cent interest is paid out
annually.
The veriest tyro In railway COM
munication cannot help seeing that
tbs gap of 50 miles would be the
uatural and most valuable connec-
ting link that could be made to
unite the railway systems east and
west of the Mississippi river and
eventually serve as part of the
Southern Pacific air line stretch
ing from the Pacific to the Allan
tic.
It is doubtless due to the obvi-
ous Importance of this gap that
powerful interests have prevented
its construction to this day, by
the same periodical pretenses at
taking it::up.
Baton Rouge stands on the first
elevated plateau on the Mississip-
nj, l3O miles above New Orleans
by water. and 80 by rail. 1t has
deep water at all times and be-
cause of these and other natural
advantages, it occupies the finest
site in North America, presenting
no end of possibilities.
Are the Southern Pacific people
making a serious effort this time
or merely bluffing to keep other
people out, who would build it
and give them lots of troubleP
1t is inconceivable thai. the Sou.
thern Pacific people would persist
in running freight and passenger
trains over a v of 244 miles tc
make eastern and northern connec.
tions at New Orleans, instead of al
Baton Rouge over a line of 81
miles.
We shall wait awhile before
shouting.
The weekly messenger., 1904-11-26

CLOTHING 4 wish to call the
attention of the public to the fact
that / carry the largest and the
best assorted stock of clothing in
town, everything that is stylish
and up-to-date, and my prices are
the lowest, considering the quality
of my goods, J. B. Ferran.
The weekly messenger., 1904-11-26
LOCAL NEWS.

Our young friend, Sidney Oil
vier of Lafayette is visiting here.
-Budd Shoes for Misses, Chill
dren and Babies at X. Schwartz
& Co.
Miss Aline Voorhies of New
Iberia spent the week here, the
guest of Miss Alice Voorhies.
Mems and Boys Over Coats,
the largest assortment in town, at
x. Sch wartz 4 Co.
The Book Lovers Club will
give Bazaar on Sunday Decem-
ber 4th at Duchsmp's hall, for the
benefit of the club.
The citizens who want to pre-
serve their right TO vote should
pay their poll taxes before the
3lst of December. Better pay it
at once, and be on the safe side.
Ladies and Misses walking
skirts, the latest styles and large
stock to select from, X. Schwar
& Co.
The ladies request US to say that
gumbo, Roasted Turkeys and Pigs
and many other delicacies will be
served at Duchamp's Hall to-mor-
row, from IL M, to s p. M, for the
benefit of the church square side
walk. Dinner 25 cts.
Grand Tonbola and Bazaar in
Boys School Hall on Sunday Dec.
18th from IL a. ln., to 9 p. M, for
the benefit of the Convent. Lunch
es served from IL m., to 5. p. m.
Grab-bags ETC., for the children.
Ladies' and Misses Fine Jackets,
the latest styles and a large as
sortment at X. Schwartz & Co.
Pay your Poll Tax at once ii
you want to preserve your right to
vote. Better not wait until tine
last to pay. as you may forget il
and you will be disqualified. Pay
it now.
The st. Martinville High School
foot ball team, accompanied by al
the teachers and Mr.. P. A. Bien.
venu, went to Abbeville on Thanks
giving day to play the Higt
School team of that town, and the
st. Martinville boys came home
victorious, having defeated theil
Abbeville friends. The boys ant
their teachers were all praise fol
the treatment they received from
the people and the boys OF Abbe
vile, and they fell fully repaid fol
the long tedious drive.
We keep the very best, Wines
and Liquors, aud our prices are al
ways the lowest. ]. b. Ferran.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-16
An Elegant Dinner Set of
100 Pieces, Handsomely
Decorated, Given Away
TO Merchants Free.

We have some beautiful dinner sets
OF one hundred pieces. tea sets of for
ty-four pieces, and toilet sets of ten
pieces, which we will give away free
TO all merchants who will allow us.
Our object Is TO introduce our Chill
Tonic. and for this purpose we give
away these beautiful premiums. Let
the merchants write US and we will
give them our plan and they will see
that they have only to sell very few
dozen OF our celebrated Chill and
Fever Tonic TO get either or all OF the
beautiful sets.
Lippmans' Chill and Fever Tonic
has never been known to fail. IL has
been on the market for a great many
years during which time very few
bottles have been returned on our
guarantee. Any bottle OF Lippmans'
Chill and Fever Tonic that fails 20
cure the purchasers money is re-
funded at once. When this is known
and taken In connection with the
beautiful prizes that we give a can
be readily seen that Lippmans' Chill
and Fever Tonic ought TO be the best
seller in the world. This plan OF Civ
ing away these premiums VIII be kept
up until further notice. Address
LfPPMAN DRUG COMPANY.
LippmanF Block, Savannah, Ca.
Iippmans' Chill and Fever Tonic
rs "A certain cure for chills and fever.
remittent, intermittent, bilious and
maiarial fever and all malariai dis
eases