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correspondent Denies Report of
Heavy Losses in
July. ss5s i43
.RU UsHlNG TROOPS r: 4.
TOWARD SINMlNTUN.
japanese Preparing 8 for Attack
on Il own Near M i ulkd q,
fort to r Relieve Kuro opatkit1 NJ
BY Creating Diversion s,,t: ';Ste',
in Rear Of Kuroki's
BSss Army a5ss
! Rx! Assoclat,e,dII :. PI:,!ress.

LONDON, AUG. !. ] he Daily
Telegraph Che Foo pond
sent reports that a great land and
sea fight occulred att Port Arthur.
on August 9Th, and that the Japa-5
5nese were repeated epulsed.
Over a thousand Russians were
killed, the cores lent says: Il
The Toxic CORE pondents XXI
The 7 ines says he learns on the
best authority that there is no
truth what teversin the SRus ussians sru-;
smors of japanese reverses with
3heavy$losses at II Portf Arthur.
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RUSSIAN AT'TA'.lC|; Il / [:
52.5ss/ r, n. = a Ns,yls

III. I'm FUSAN, Aug. v ., General sKu-;
Sroki's Il lea dquarters ins the Field
Aug. IT. y noff fiji repor ITS were
current yesterda az thai q a large
force Of Russians were advancing
to attack the Japanes right
Heavy firing heard insS that direc-5
ton today appears to confirm; "a the;
report. Russian Ssold diers who have
been taken prisoners say the RUS
slams were some times short ORA
tons. Two days Of y hard rains
have followed q fortnig ght of 4 se-5
we're heat. The j panese ossesSi1lE
the ghting Of Aug gust Isl were
GOO. i3ss3s III
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SUPREME COURT DECIDES
AGAIN Fol LETTE
s(jBYI ljE Asso,.ccia ed {: Press. 8 j

N MADISON. WIS, Aug. h 9 1.-The Wiscon-
sin Supreme Court to-day issued an order
giving the '.'staiwa faction Of the Re-
publicans OF the State authority to bring
suit against Secretary Of State Housers
to restrain him from placing the noml-j
y ees 81 the LaFollette State ticket on
the official bal lot bund ders the regular party
sdesIgnation OF "a Repu bli can, and COM,
ipelling 3hom to place the tstal lwart"s snomt-i
nees on the ballot under the designation.
OF RepubIi lean. The LaFollette faction!
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LEE AND gG00DES ADDRESS
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
ElBx, ,AlssocIated Press \

ATLANTA. A.. IS August o.-General
3H,itz)ugh lee, president OF the James
town Exposition Company. and Colonel
4 G Goode. one OF the officers OF the COM
pany, addressed the members OF the
1nyi,aton Of that body. Both speakers
were greeted with warm welcome by
tho joint session Of the Legislatnrefand
hundreds OF citizens. T hey spoke on the
subject uf tho Exposition and urged that
Georgia be represented by O. worthy and
approprlate display,
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San Francisco to Gome Home.
{SsS slf fRyg Assoct tied Press Il sss

4. .WAsHYNGToN,A August 9. Orders were
sent from the Navy aDepa rtmenL LNt9 sEearrr I
$fha'X Xtlantic iieet, directing that the San
Franciscc FRA Il @ ia ssent home. The San ran-
Soisoo w! Re st,Sgted bn Y
gRlu IIhS overt auled. M u n 81 4. 4
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Yellow ever &, i'' in leo.

33 lEy IAsaocIa ted Fress1 n l
MEXICO # CIT " I n IA ugust AT here are
three cases Of yello fever at Vera Crux,
St,ras f'fss aoat IA col con and Ave at ner
,hauntephc There haYs hesA re sdAsths
i at the atteEs 2!as -ysf III sgs III
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no ATTACK sINMlNTUN.
Japanese Have Possession of
Vastly Important Railway and
IA. AZ Are Mohilizinp Troops.
(By Ass sociated Press.

81 (By Associated Press.)
AIUKDEN, August 9.-..I he J apanese are
using the shanhalkwan-Yl Yin ka| lsail-:
road FOR provisioning the army and nlo-S
gbilizing troops for an attack ON Sinnlin-s
ltun. about thirty miles west OF n uisden.
81 sinmintun is the northern terminus s0f
the shanhaikwan RallWay. From iSou-
spargfze, ishout seventy miles - out n west
lof sinmintup. branch line connectas
with Yin Kow. which ist a bout ~ ifty-1 hrss,
miles southeast of koupa ms txe, ssttg gsss u
a Russian correspondent pf the Asso-
lciated Press, In a dispatch from Ia Tche
ak!ao. about Eaoas ass 3 N Ne sssa Is -
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MINIATURE ALMANA
Richmond.

Board Of Aldermen lay the free bridge
matter on the table on account OF the
absence Hof sufficient details. members.
however declaring Themselves ~ N .ayel 6
Levy discusses at length the wa ter sup
ply Of cities. particularly Of Richmond1,
well illustrating tho address BY stercop q
con views and elrawin ingse--.W " Gather 4 Eu.
reau reports crop condi tons cxcelie1t
with plentyiof rain In nearly every sectlo
of the state: corn ana tobaeco doing, f're ne
fChlmborazo school buildings this after s
noon with Masonic ceremoniessenna nat,9 lor
Society one thousand dollars to be used
I'm buying 8. home In Richmond-.-sdIany
p6ration Is Commission -. ford who
claimed to have been unjustly detained .by
relatives in ar, asylum. turns out to be a
vented 4 e. the District & cola"I aIs
snantled and soon thing but the bare
frame will remain Of "a ne historic I, struc-
Silre. 1iANCHESTE g Sc cond .B Pa rker,
Davis and Lamb CLUB organized and eff
1ort 10 be made TO unite WI tn the first club
Water mmlssionersI transa ct tine
business II ad-doE creates agsttr So.
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Virginia..

r 4 Tho seven .maated schooner Thomasf W.
Ia VISOR, in dry dock Newport Ne VS. s--.
Z Igeayyisto passes O. over & Suffolk and
4 does had damage t to elephon es s---The
white e.inhabltantsa around GGreenhe eld, Mel
4 son county In Ia sta te of excite ment& be-
q ana ali are armed and ready for any
i Heye1tuaIitles State Fircmen' s K Agsoeia--
ton meeting and tournaments lii AlexAn-
sdria August i7t h One hundred and fifty
Ieac RS from Lyncnburg and other Vir-
EiriaS points go . IN a ape cial party TO u he
Worlds F,afr---LarEe S a Tendance and
good racing at, the Peninsular Fair. at
ssrasiey. Va. .-C CAPITA ain Etc cfiett .reiieve ot
7 duty at Ocean View pending 5inyestigat Ion
i of@ a row with Captain Solomonsky Ky, md
10 court martial to fol low Ora ftsInenss
achtg Club & to hold a re gatta Saturday
tarnoon ID Dynamite exp oded slinde der an
cientric q ear rsatsTaseWe1l Il; n paaseng ers adiy
frightened and @aha ken VI. hut not hurt
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North Carolina. .


q Louis Rufln Icoloredl& sentenced .s for:
sault at Hlllsboro Clerk OF the state
parayzed az fioyerne5 !, ! Aycosk
holders of the 3 Atlantic and North Ca 70.
i lima Railroad Ito consider proposals Of,
leas ase--Long lost battle flag of The SIX.
teenth North Carolina regiment found IN IN
General.
l \. The war situation was not 70 teriaily,
changed during a The ay;;S the 3as russian
positions area II any TIL Ing, stronger.2,a /, an
\ effort vii 4 be mao create a diversion
4 object OF relieving Kuropatkin; fiat denial
around re,a Port Arthur 4 panese ;mobillzlnE5
troops for attack on Sinmintun; are in
SStocssela says 1000 Japanese were en- 4
gagged In fights around Port Arthur on
j July 26 and 27; Japanese ad dvancing on he
remaining of p9ss ar1hpT u
bAsT be ed III ehfefs visit Sit Presls
dent Roosevelt a u the White II House------..
by. the hundred and 1aevera i villages de-,
stroyed ----M Motter and three little sons
killed in wreck In sChicag go o-International
i 8Typograp aph!cai Union hears address by
United States Senator G.S G. Vest dies
at Sweet Springs, Mo-, rter q lingering
tllness--P ressdent Of Subway Tavern
worth United States now leads Ger
many In prod ton Of beer-----D Despe does
open flre on camp injecting and hold up
buque ! couldn't find willing sponsor for
new glnboa TT ood vi fight in Georgia;
LegIsla tire between representative and
& doorkeeper--F ormal notf ficat ton OF
I0or VII fat la .doy
ceremonies will be very simple; Champ
Clark, OF iissouri, to make mott fication
speechll- Ele ton Association organized
TO furnish shinformation. to betters,Ja an,es
ing doomed for Goyeronr OF Minnesot Ia
Booth Harrington, the author, comes all
the way; from Rome to vote for Pa arker------
Sensation at Delaware Y Republican Con-
yention; Chandler accepts nomination. for
Governor only on condition that there
shall be no c)aan sc. atE IL u ls
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Continued on Second e t' Page') n;st
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Virginians There.
Later in the afternoon Judge \ Pa rker3 il-
received ia : delegation Of yisito repre-
isenting Virginia and Georgia. In the
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and Judgment to represent them.
With this in mind The Adver-
tiser has made it's selection. We
believe that the gentlemen whose
names appear upon The Adver'
Users ticket for State Senators
and Representatives are men
who are not only competent but
will also cOnscientiously give
their best services for the We
fare of the people Of Lafayette
parish and the State at large,
and believing this, we ask the
electorate of this parish to
earnestly and thoughtfully con-
slider the claims of these gentle
men. for their. suffrages when
they cast their ballots.
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NOticel


Public notice is hereby given that
the undersigned Street Committee O
the town. of Lafa yette, La, in
ance with an ordinance adopted Dy
the City Council of said town on
December !. 1908. is authorized to re-
ceive bids for the following work:
Starting from Grant Avenue at its
intersection with Lincoln Avenue.
on the North West side of said
Lincoln Avenue. thence along the
North West side of Lincoln Avenue
to Pierce Street. thence along the
North western side of Pierce Street to
Jefferson Street. thence along the
Western side of Jefferson Street to
VermillOn Street.
All of said work to be done at the
expense of the owners of the real es-
tate abutting said walks, as provided
by Act No. AT of the acts of the
Legislature of 1903 and of the Ordi-
nance adopted by the City Council OF
Lafa yette Hereunder. Contracts will
be awarded to the lowest responsible
bidder who can give security in the
sum of Us per cent? twenty-five per
cent of contract for faithful perfOr-
nance of contract. Copies of speci-
ficatiOns of said work can be had from
chairman street committee. Bids vii.
be received up to January l. 1904:
right is reserved to reject all bids.
FELIX DEMANADE..
NJ. ROSENFIELD.
H. l.. FONTENOT.
Street COMMITTEE
Lafayette. La. Dec. IL. 1903.
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TO- DISCRETION
LEGISLATURE.

The only issue in the State
campaign il b .curtailment OF
the governors patronage, and
upon this point the people all
over the State are practically UNI
animous.k This .-curtailment viii
have tO.be made BY the lLegisla.
ture, and without question win
be made, :.as. all candidates for
that body have : pledged them
selves upon this question.
But just how,fsr. the. curtail.
ment win extend has never been
determiped, and viii. have to b
left 70 the discretion Of the Legis-
1ntnres.. Theretoreyit-Ies~with
Aepeople tOsand men Of ability
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veteran, was turned out of Of
flee and e. A. Burke, the big boss,
and big thief, was kept in office.
Where was Jastremski then!
Was he the manned Confederate
veteran, fighting by the side Of
that other MANNED hero, Francis
T. Nichols? No, fellow citizens,
he was with the machine pOliti-
clans and the bosses, he was
against Nichols, the Southern
patriot, and he was with E. A.
Burke. the easy boss.
"Then what followed? When
the Constitutional Convention of
1879 had turned the Nichols. Ad-
ministratiOn out of office, all save
A. E. Burke, two candidates came
forward for Governor, one Louis
A. Wilt, President of the COnsti-
tutiOnal Convention that had
turned the Nichols Administra-
ton out of office, a candidate
backed by Houston and Burke,
the two big bosses, and every
other ward boss in the city of New
Orleans, the other General Fred
N. Ogden"
General Ogden was the hero of
the battle of the Fourteenth of
September. 1874, by which the
white people of this city were
emancipated from negro and Re-
publican domination. Continues
Mr.. Wilkinson:
General Ogden came forward
as a candidate for Governor, as l
have said, in 1879.
Where was Mr.. Jastremski,
the Confederate veteran. then:
Was he with this Confederate sol
der, the hero of the 18th of Sep
TENDER, but for whose fiery valOr
there had perhaps been no Dem
Ocratic Party in this State? No,
Sir: Mr.. Jastremski was then
with Louis A. Wilt, the darling
of the ward bosses: he was with
Burke and Jim Houston, and the
gang. -
Il saw the gallant Ogden go
down to his hero's grave unre-
warded and unhonored by any Of
fetal preferment, and when Mr..
Jastremski pleads for the rights
Of the people and his claims as a
Confederate veteran, I can only
remember the great, heroic f.
CURE that l saw go down in the
smoke of battle thirty years ago,
and think of the words, With
what measure We mete it unto
others. even SO it shall be melted
unto YOU"
These are extracts from a pow
erful speech, than which nothing
offered in the entire campaign is
more convincing and conclusive
of the wisdom of the Picayune's
position in supporting General
Blanchard's candidacy.
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FITNESS ALONE SHOULD BE
CONSIDERED.

CONSIDERED.
The election, next Tuesday will
decide the kind and character of
government we are to have in
this parish the next four years.
and it is to be sincerely hoped
that the voters will lay aside
partisan feeling and prejudice,
should any exist, and make their
choice STRICTLY UPON THE FIT
NESS OF EACH MAN FOR OFFICE.
There should be no other con-
sideratiOn. 1t is not only the
highest duty of citizenship to
select those best adapted to fill
the different Offices, but it is
greatly to each ones personal
advantage to have the govern
ment of the parish in the best
hands possible Our personal
safety and that of our families
and our property depends upon
the efficiency of the sheriff, and
in selecting a man to fill that
office, the greatest care should
be exercised. Too much depends
upon the right selection for us
to permit any other considera-
ton than special fitness to in
fiuence us.
And we should be guided in
our choice for clerk of court in
the same manner. The proper
recording of mortgages the cleri-
cal business of the court and of
individuals having business with
the Office, involving thousands of
dollars annually-all these de-
pend for their proper disposition
and for accuracy upon the clerk
of court who, in addition, must
have all arranged so that any doc
ument, any record, any suit or
other matter coming under his
Jurisdiction can Abe produced
readily and promptly. The
- -
clerks duties are .somplex and
difficult, and Familiarity with the
work should be . big recommen-
dation for our SURFACES. partic-
ularly when united with fitness
and competency.
Nor in any less degree should
we make special fitness the test
in selecting Police Jurors, for
upon the Police Jury depends in
high degree the welfare and
material advantage of the parish.
Into their hands we placea most
important trust, and Tor that
reason great. caution should be
used in choosing the members Of
that body. AS far. as possible
should be chosen capable, broad
minded, progressive men thor
Oughly identified with education
and good roads, who will con-
scientiously devote their time
and talents to the very best in
terests Of the parish:
Let each voter then be governed
by this consideration of fitness
in making his selection, and the
can but be satisfactory
and rebound to the advantage of
al.
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English Statute Mile.
The English statute mile was first
defined in the thirty-fifth year of
Queen Elizabeth. Before that time
it was nut down at 5000 feet.
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A Tribute to Gen. Gordon.

A Tribute to Gen. Gordon.
Tines Democrat.
AS an orator equally as a
writer, Gen. Gordon was pre-
eminent in his time. His speech
es did more to unite the separ-
ated sections of this country
than perhaps those of any other
man, for he spoke as he wrote,
as a patriot who held love of
country above partisanship or
personal advantage. What The
Times Democrat said of this
great man during the recent con-
ventiOn of the United COnfed T.
ate Veterans in this city is but
an inadequate epitOme of his life
and worth:
"A student diligent and sue
cesful. A son Obedient, a hus-
band devoted, a father tender
and affectiOnate. A soldier as
valiant as Prince Rupert, as pure
as Bayard, as chivalrOus and as
loyal a. Sir Philip Sidney. A
statesman far-seeing, cOnserva-
tive, wise,-true to his friends
and without malice toward his
fOes-a. man cast from the old
heroic mOld-tOo great to employ
the dwarfing methods of smallish
minds and one upon whose public
or private life rests not a spot
not even a speck! It makes
Americans proud of their "coun-
try when they can feel that men
such as he are their countrymen.
And it makes the people of The
South glad, of heart to know that
this country has produced such
a man as Gen. John B. Gordon"
The Pitt, of the Campaign.
Picayune:
The great Blanchard meeting
on Monday night at Washington
Artillery Hall gave to the vast
crowd that filled the spacious au-
ditorium a magnificent present
ment of the merits of every i'm
pOrtant issuein the gubernatorial
canvass. The able speeches of
Messrs. Patterson, Fenner and
Buck are deserving of the highest
praise, but it is not here proposed
to speak of them in detail. What
at this moment is of special inter-
est is the statement of facts set
forth in the speech Of Mr.. James
Wilkinson.
! When the Picaynne took up the
Igubernatorial candidacy of Mr.
VIM. II. Price Of Lafourche, it
recognized in him a gentleman
who had become entirely familiar
with the public business of the
State by his experience in the
State Legislature, while. he had
never held an Office, elective, or
appointive, and had never. been
complicated with the political
machinery Of the State. When
for reasons Of his own he with !
drew his candidacy, the Plea
yune could not see in General
Jastrems6 any other than q po- !
litician who had always been .
seeker after public olnceand bad
almost Constantly. enjoyed e, ard
ID no respect could he be placed
il the same category with Me-
Price He was. on the contrary, I
Is far. from it.as are the. poles as
sunder. i
As to General Jastremski's fol-
owing, while it did not lack an
alemento Of
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Let each voter then be governed
by this consideration of fitness
in making his selection, and the
result can but be satisfactory
and rebound to the advantage of
all.
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disappointed Officeseekers, politi-
cal cranks and impracticables,
hangers-o on for anything in sight,
II. EN- who had political or other re-
venges to crafty, and, in short, a
combination SO motley and ill-as-
sorted that should the State Gov
eminent ever be turned over to
it, the public patronage would be
a prey instead of Il public trust.
As to the two candidates indi-
vidualiy, with all due regard to
the personal and private charac-
ter of both, there can be no com
parisOn, from a public and imper-
sOnal point of view, of the supe'
rior fitness of Judge Blanchard.
Returning to the speech of Mr..
James Wilkinson at the Monday
meeting in Artillery Hall, he
spoke of the General, who was a
member of the Constitutional
Convention of 1879, which con-
ferred on the Governor the power
the General so denOunces to-day:
"True it is that the Legislature
has conferred to much power and
too much patronage on the Gov
ernOr, but l challenge Mr.. JAS
tremski to point to a single mo-
ton, utterance or vote by him in
the Convention of 1879 against the
granting of such powers 10 the
Governor. l challenge him to
point to a single public utterance
by him, either before a legislative
committee or a political cOnven-
ton. between 1879 and 1898,
which sought to curb the Cover
nOr's power. l challenge him to
reproduce a single editorial writ
ten by him when he was editor of
any paper, particularly when he
was editor in the campaign of
1S91-1892 of that reputed organ of
the Louisiana Lottery Company,
The Louisiana Review, in which
lie ever denounced the appointive
power of the Office of Governor
in this State; l challenge him to
a single motion, utter
ancc or public act by him in the
Constitutional Convention of 1898,
where the Government of this
was being reformed and re-
created, and where was the one
great and growing chance of this
of the People to make ef-
fective the reforms on the back
of which he now seeks to ride in
to Office.
If Mr.. Jastremski made any
complaint before the COnstitu-
Convention of 1898 about
the excessive patronage of the
Office, I have yet to
hear of it. Possibly the fact that
be got a chunk of that patronage
himself by his subsequent ap-
pointment as Private Secretary
TO the Governor, may have in
creased his discretion in that di-
rectiOn."
When it comes to the Generals
protested love for the Confeder-
ate veterans, and to his position
IS their special representative
and advocate, Mr.. Wilkinson said:
THAT he fought and was
in the late war I con.
cede, and while l would not take
him a single leaf in his chap
of renown for former valor,
here are, no doubt, to-day, old
Confederate soldiers in the Con-
'ederate home, in New Orleans
Who were equally braveand more
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mes-DemOcrat.

almost consta4tly'e enjoyed it, and
in no respect could he be placed
in the same category with Mr.
Price He was, ON the contrary,
Is far. from it.as are the. poles as
sunder.
As to General J~astremski's fol-
while it did not lack an
fgood citisenship.i txaa
seen to be largely composed of
The Washington times., 1904-09-30
LOVED FIELDS AND WOODS,
OPEN AIR AND SONGBIRDS

.FIe loves the fields and the woods,
says the sam. correspondent. He has
a country place at AsneDumsHit, just
outside of Worcester where he spends
many days Of summer. An eagle which
movers over tais spot he has come 70
regard as almost mis- personal property
IL was DE who procured legislation for
the protection of souEbirds from the
MazEael u~etfs Legislature,
senator E0aTs traits nave come
down 90 him from the stuTfleSt New
EuElaud ancestors lie Is the grandson
of ROGER Sherman. VINO signed thu Dec
Iaratlau of Independence. Ills father,
samuel Hoar. was driven out OF Charles
tom $ c.. iu 1854. when he Wen- there
as n representative OF Massachusetts 90
guard the interests Of free negroes. lie
l. proud of his aucGrt-E, proud or his
state, and imbued with the traditions or
both.
.He is one of those who grow old
gracefully he b. fond of aliUdlug lH
r haIf-iestfuI way To the passing years.