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New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-06-10
Corporation Tax Sales
OF~
IMMOVABLE PROPERTY.
THE CORPORATION OF NEW iberia
VS..
DELINQUENT TAX DEBTORS.

By virtue of the authority vested in me
by the Constitution and laws of the State
of Louisiana, will sell at the front door
of the Court House in which the Civil Dis
trict Court Of the Parish of Iberia is held,
within legal hours for judicial sales, be-
ginning at IL o. clock A. NJ,
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-06-10

Transferred by agreement to the Parish %
Iberia, under No. 1894 of District
Court Docket.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-06-10
auction Sale.

IN THE MATTER OF IBERIA CYPRESS
co. LTD.
VS.. No. GIL,
VICTOR Won SCHOELER EFT AIS.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-06-10

10Th Judicial District Court, State OF
Louisiana, Parish of St. Martin.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-06-10

State of Louisiana, Parish of Iberi
Nineteenth Judicial District Court.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-06-10
ENJOYABLE PROPERTY.
STATE OF LOUISIANA
VS..
DELINQUENT TAX DEBTORS OF
PARISH OF IBERIA.

By virtue of the authority vested in me
by the Constitution and Laws offthe State
of Louisiana, l will sell at the principal
front door of the Court House in the City
of New Iberia, Parish of Iberia, within le-
gal sale hours for judicial sales, beginning
II oto NJ
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
LIEUT., CLARK LEAVING THE ARMY.
His Health Would Not Allow of His Going
to the Philippines
lFRoM THE TRIBUNE BrREAr.I

Washington Aug. by the acceptance This
week OF inc resignation of Lieutenant Robert g
'lark ot the sth Infantry the service loses one of
us wealthiest officers The resignation has heen
expected ever since he returned from tour Of d,t,
af Peklns, wher" he was with the American Iera
tlon guard He was 10 he assigned with his regi
ment for duty in the Philippines and he informed
tho war Department that his health would not per
nit him te go on duty in the Islands
Lieutenant Clark's mother is the wife of pisbo,,
Potter of New-York. He was born in New-yort IN
1877 is graduate of the Sheffield Scientific school
of Yale and entered the army in Septemher 1900 as
a second luetenant of the 9th Infantry with which
he served faithfully and with considerahIe a,
thuslaSm especially while the command was in the
Philippines and in China. For a time IJeutopsnt
Clark was on duty in the military information
division Of the War Department
He came here comparatively unknown N bis 90
sociates Of the service, and he excited the com
pensive hotel in town and keeping his horse AZ
livery stable. He once Informed that tb.-a
were cheaper places 10 board, and that he could
arrange 10 have his horse cared for by the demo,
quartermaster here. He replied that he did NOT
care 10 move at that time he abou, to AXE
large house in the most fashionable part of the
city-some place where he could have his several
horses and his two automobiles Later he startled
his service friends by giving $4,000 entertain
at the New Willard.
He has been among the most modest unassumins
young men in the service. genial and hearty, with
courage In his conVictons which attracted to him
many friends, whom he kept ON account of those
qualities, after IL learned by accident that he
was among the wealthiest young men in the coun-
try: His career has been of great credit him
he took lively interest the target practice OF
the men OF the Legation guard.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
INSURANCE SOLONS MEET.
Legislative Committee ORGANISED,
7cith Senator 4rmstrOng Chairman,

Albany, Aug. 1.-The first meeting of the leg
isative committee appointed at the extra ses-
sion TO investigate the whole subject of insIIr-
ance in this State held here to- day, and the
second meeting Will he in New York tomorrow
morning After session devoted to discussion
Of preliminares the committee adjourned until
u o'clock tomorrow, when it will meet at the
office Of Attorney General Mayer, No -
William-st., New York. This rendezvous was
selected for temporary convenience. AS soon as
possible working quarters will be secured in
some public building All the members of the
committee except Assemblyman Rogers left for
New-York this evening the night boat. MIR
Rogers took the o'clock train.
The committee unanimous in its opinion
that the investigation should begin without de-
Law The topics discussed We're the choice Of a
counsel and stenographers and the formal
method OF procedure. No decision was reached
In any of these matters.
During part of the session Attorney General
Mayer was present, but he did not accompany
the members to New York, and does not expect
to go there until Thursday.
The committee organized by selecting Senator
Armstrong; of Rochester as chairman, and As
sembyman Prentice. of New York. as tempo
rary secretary. Sergeant at Arms Frank John
son of the Assembly appointed to perform
the same duties for the committee with Ser
seant at Arms Charles Hotang of the Senate
as his assistant An effort will be made To have
the proceedings of the committee printed from
da Ia
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
PTTTsBURG GOALS BAD QUARTER.
Directors Issue Statement Explaining Pass
ing of the Dividend.

Pittsburg Aug. 1.-The board of directors OF the
Pittsburg Coal Company issued statement to its
stockholders to-day showing the net earnings for
the six months ended June 30, 1895. and quick assets
of the same date. The earnings of the Pitts
burg Coal Company and all subsidiary companies
Except the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal
and Coke Company are given 81. 1876, S33, de-
AZ compared with the period last year
of $523, ,sS3 The net quick shown to be
So 259, ,692.
In explanation of the passing of the quarterly
dividend the board says
The business of your company suffered considera-
Oly during the earlier months of this year on ac-
count or unprecedented competition in the bitumn-
Gus trade in which your officer had 10 meet very
low prices made by competitors locally and in ad-
Joining fields. in order to retain the business that
mines of the company These low prices resulted in
decreased earnings, SO that your directors felt
preferred stock for the second quarter of the
These conditions carefully considered and
II was hoped that recovery at hand. and
that the earnings for the full han-year would
meet the dividend requirements for that period.
These expectations not realized and while
an Improvement in the situation is noticeable the
tory earnings has been slower than anticipated
IN the history OF the company the earnings for the
exceeded those for the first half and there is 10
tion. f
It is recognized that an increasing working cap
ltal IS desirable, and your directors deemed II,
therefore, inadvisab be to draw upon the accumula-
ton OF previous years for dividends, rather 10
cess of the requirements for bond interest and other
capital
Inc tWenty-h five year contract with the United
States Steel Corporation is cited as one that will
be OF great benefit when ii is in full operation.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
WATER SUPPLY BOARD APPOINTMENTS
J. Waldo Smith Chief Engineer of New Or
ganization

The city Board Of Water Supply held it's
last meeting in it's temporary quarters. No
34 Pine-st yesterday. and to-day will remove
to the permanent offices, the ninth floor Of
No 900 Broadway.
The following appointments were made: J.
Waldo Smith. chief engineer; Professor William
II. Burr and Frederic P. Stevens consulting
engineers on the advisory board of the chief
engineer; A D. Finn, division engineer, and
John r. Freeman, consulting engineer TO the
Board of Water Supply.
Commissioner G. y. Chadwick Is secretary of
the board. and as his assistant the board ap-
pointed H. G. Murray Henry c. Buncke was
appointed auditor and joseph NJ. S. Millitte
chief clerk These appointments fill the exempt
positions in the gift of the board in the clerical
places The remaining exempt places in the
engineering force will be filled the work de-
velops and other places VIII have to be filled
from the Civil Service list.
Mr.. Stevens is present chief engineer Of
the Metropolitan Water Board Of Massachu-
setts He is just about bringing TO completion
the great waterworks Of Boston, which are said
70 be the best in the United States.
Professor Burr and Mr.. Freeman were men,
bers or the commission that prepared report
on the future water supply. Mr.. Smith has been
chief enginee- of the Aqueduct Commission for
the last two years
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
CRAZE RIBBON FOR HAIR.
Little Girls Desire for Ornament
Takes Her to Court.

Paterson. Aug. Wanting a ribbon for her
hair and with money to buy one Miss Rosie
Leach fourteen years old, took a ribbon from
some flowers on a grave. and to-day was ar
rested for her act The little girl was passing
Cedar Lawn Cemetery, when she a new
piece of ribbon tied to a bouquet which had been
placed upon freshly made grave.
She thought it would be a shame 10 have such
a pretty piece of ribbon lay there TO be spoiled
by the rain and weather. II would look SO much
prettier. she thought tied in her hair. The rib
bon was soon in her hair, but she did not long
it.
The theft soon became known, and 1t was then
remembered that Rosie Leach had been seen
lettering about the cemetery. warrant was
issued and she arrested She was taken be-
fore Recorder Noonberg, who placed her In
charge of the probation officer
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02

,ho ;doo .hs, he was being pursued by the Ill
will of Ianiace .rTt is NJ Laplace' he writes,
who during the last ten years has polsoheo
my life and / call upon him to repair the "rohs
he has done me" In his History OF Mali "e
demands that the ears of an ass pe lasteieu
10 tie square cap of Laplace, ana that the sa'u
I.anlsce be exposed thus bonneted TO the de-
rision Of the pupils in the lyceums he pei
sisted in addressing letters TO the Bureau OF
Longdtudes, calling upon that body to intervene
i'm tho politics of Europe. His confinement TOT
a time in an asylum at Chsrenton and his un-
successful attempt to shoot himself complete
the ia biological picture.
As for Comte IL is well known that for al
year he was in an asylum under the
care Of the alienst Esquirol, and that he at
tempted take his life and the lives of those
around him After his death there was some
litigation about his will. but il was decided
that the testator was of sound mind. At that
time a certificate as TO his sanity was presented
in court signed by Richard Congreve and other
positivists and physicians. NJ Dumas REM
forces these documentary arguments by reason
ing which seems to us far from conclusive. The
question is whether. aside from the crisis OF
1876. when Comte was put under restraint,
there are evidences of a disordered mental con-
dition? NJ Dumas thinks that the later years
of the philosophers life during which he
brought TO completion his great philosophical
undertaking. forbid to imagine that he was
not sane But we should say. rather. that II
evidence were needed of his insanity II might
be found easily during Comtes declining
years as during the months when he raving
i'm a maison de sante. Comte's followers and
biographers seem to find something admirable
i'm the system of mental hygiene which he prac-
tised i'm order to avoid repetition of the
tastrophe OF 1896. and we are also told that the
philosopher who Knocked at Saint-Simons new
Christianity" deserves praise for making the
worship of humanity the climax of his sociology.
But if is difficult 10 interpret philosophicay the
sentiments of a who worships humanity
in the person of a very commonplace woman,
author of inferior poems who tinid
rather than virtuous. For such one Comte
forsOok the world and erected altar where
he worshipped her both living and dead. The
prophet, the messiah, turned his back on scien-
tific philosophy and traditional Christianity to
kneel at a goddess shrine and recte strange
bdrdgoninGge OF Latin. French and Italian
prayers adapted from the writings of Kempis,
the rosary and the litany of the saints. The IT,
tanic folly of Saint-Simon is more attractive
than this.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
EXPENSIVE SITE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL.
Condemnation Proceedings Begun for Land
That Will Probably Cost $59s, 900.

Condemnation proceedings have been begun to
acquire what will be the most expensive site for an
elementary public school in this city, and probably
In the world This piece Of property is 901 feet long
and l50iz feet wide and contains in all 30 25Ol5
square feet IT will cost according to the commits
sioners Of estimate and appraisement appointed by
the Supreme Court $596,I0-that is, sle II square
foot. The site IS I'm Forsyth and Eldridge cts be
tween Hester and Canal SITS. The school which will
occupy II viii be No. So. 1t will have siHty-eght
clsssrooms and seat about 3.400 pupils. The build
Ing, aside from It's equipment, VIII cost S4I0S00.
The largest public elementary school I'm the world.
No. iss. AT Manhattan and East Houston sts cost
with its site and equipment, ss79,523 IL contains
eighty schoorooms and seats 1850 children
$50 more than No 65 Will provide for.
The most expensive elementary public school
building. counting its site and equipment is the
in Hester. Essex and Norfolk SITS. Its cost was
almost l5o0o The site cost S5557l6 and the build
Ing S616305 II seats $50 children in its eighty five
las
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
>IIC
The MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.
FOREIGN Ports

Liverpool sus sailed, steamer N'aSo 'tr' C'''' N''
GLASGOW Aus Arrived steamer F"rne7s' '7T' ''''-
New via Neville .- ,>...-s, 3, ant
Iizar,i sus l, "a. NJ PASSED s'e'JaTs ,ir-s
,C:srt Nnuth tor hover @lt staNnee ,,
Shields Juy 3lSaIled steamers NleNan,f' 'tet i9s-.
from topenhag ageut. Boston ~, Hes V'o', ''
,fr,rn Copenhagen. New Nork. .t4., sisi.
u.yr@ july 2,,-Sailed steamer Bordeaux tfT' l. NV.
New York ,--,,,fara.
Antwerp. aug L. 43O a ul-ArriNed sNe"i''' ~
poNrid. New York Ma Dover. -. nam.
t'hriStiania July sailed steamer pl'e" N'f-'
WulT ttrom Copenhagenl New NofS
Naples 7. : "a ui-NrrtVec Steaiie- Lt''- 49,
t(sevl. SCharschuidJ NeW-NoTS m, rnNs.
Gibraltar Aug Passed steamer Eloomnl''0 's'''
NeWNoyk for Nenice. ~, xT.~rsv
B.arSades. July 29-Sailed steamer boiniHc tI'''
tfrOm Para. New York. r.-,,-. an.
Port Natal July 3g-Arvtved steamer W elsa ,-s s,o
CouII via cape Town anG East t~Hr ,Ilrl
Nnler Passed previously steamer Netll,S-
Haynes, New York VIA foVt Natal fof St.eN-' rRr.
july Arrived. steamer Eastern l.l"
Ffmer, New fernamouco anu NJ
sailed. capri CRreSen, New - "a,
Futt Sai1 NuG Arrived. steamer WFaN Ssse-e u,er.
Watson. New -NerS for Nien. Stnsa9efe St'"s -
Melbourne avs Nrrtve,i previously, steamer IN
,Ers, traInsr New-Nore via 81 Vincent : "
sydney. y ".
syGrcs W Aus i.Nrrised prev i%Ss..y % "A. Aa-
Anglo Canadian tSsl. Parsons. NeN-Nofs w ~
aide and Melbourne.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
B.RT's GENERAL COUNSEL RESIGN.
Sheehan and Collin Will Be Succeeded by
George D. Yeomans.

Sheehan and Collin resigned yesterday as gen
eral counsel of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit COM
pany and the title has been transferred To George
u. Yeomans the son of the ex-Interstate Commerce
Commissioner The law firm. which resigned, is
composed of ex-Iieutenant Governor William +.
Sheehan, Professor Charles a Collin. formerly
David r. Hills legal adviser; John l. Wells
Thomas l.. Hughes, Charles V. Werner and Charles
V. Nenany
Mr. Yeomans who began his legal career as one
of the office force of the firm he now succeeds. has
been the general attorney of the railroad company
and attended 10 many details for four years The
company desires for their principal legal aid man
who can give his chief attention to its AFFAIRS
The Law firm, which became general counsel for
the BROOKLYN Rapid Transit Company in 1S6 will
continue to look after its larger legal transactions,
but Mr.. Yeomaus will be the legal adviser in the
ordinary
The rumor that Mr.. Sheehan would retire in a
few months was denied last night.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
I'LL. REVE4LS WEDDING.
Baltimore Banker Married Bottlers
Dau ghter Last June.

Atlantic City. Aug. 1.-The marriage Of Balti-
more banker. preceded by "A courtship Of less than
month, and kept secret since June p. was DIS
closed to-day. when he was taken seriously i'll
Rudolf F. W. Obst, banker of baltimore, and
Miss Marie Charlotte Foreman. the .daughter OF
Charles h. Foreman, a local bother, were married
on June % by the Rev. c. d. Sinkinson. pastor OF
Christ Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr.. Obst told
the clergyman that he was twenty-three years old
His wife is eighteen years old
The marriage kept secret. The husband
lived at No. 112 North Massachusetts save, while
his wife continued 10 live with her parents at No.
523 North Indiana-aVe. Mr. Obst was taken Ill To-
day. and. fearing ne would become worse, he sent
for his wife. who then told her parents of the mar
rage
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
BANKERS AUTO" INJURIES BOY.
Mark R. Spelmsns Machine Runs Over Lad
in Centre-st

John Monar ten years old. of No. II Roosevelt
st, was knocked down and run over yesterday af-
ternoon by an automobile owned by Mark r.
Spelman. banker, who lives at the Osborne
51th-st and 7th-ave- Mr.. Spelman and Gilbert q
Thorne vice-president of the Park National Bank
were riding uptown through Centre-st. near Reade-
ST. The boy was crossing and struck by the
heavy machine, two of the wheels passing over
his body The little fellow was sent TO Hudson
Street Hospital where it found that he was
Of the lung and internal injuries and will probably
die
Edmund Roxby, the chauffeur. was locked up in
the Elzabeth-st- station. where he baiIed later
by Mr.. T'horne.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
Mr.. FAIRBANKS AT $500 CELEBRATION.

Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. Aug. l-Preparations
were completed to-day for the formal celebration
tomorrow and Thursday OF the hftieth anniver-
sary OF the opening of the first permanent shin
ranal Ste. Marie's River
Vice-President Fairbanks, who will be the CHIEF
speaker OF the occasion, arrived In this city TO-
night The principal events for tomorrow are IN
be naval and military parades and in the evening
ilreworhs IN which the Canadian government viii
participate,
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
SAYS DIRECTORS WRECKED COMPANY
Receiver Accuses Them of Fraudulently
Transferring Funds of Insurance Society.

Philadelphia Aug. LIN a bill filed In the COM
mon Pleas Court here to-day. five directors of the
Odd Fellows Mutual Life Insurance Society OF
Pennsylvania are charged by Henry +. Walton.
the receiver, with wrecking that concern. He ac-
cuses them of fraudulently transferring $4,000 from
the treasury to the Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany of Pennsylvania. and of illegally collecting
$50 600 i'm premiums Odd Fellows policies.
In consequence of this, the receiver says. the CON
Germ failed last March. In the suit brought to-day
he asks the court compel the five directors and
ten others to make good the $4,000 alleged to have
been frauduently taken. The receiver asks for a
complete accounting by the directors.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
proposals FOR MULES. STRAW BED

DING AND ROCK SALT Cf1cs- Is-hmisn Cars,
Commission washington u e.. July 81, 1903 ssalsi
proposals. in tripcate will BE- received thH Office O.
the General Purchasing ofcer IJhmlan Canal Cornns
sion WASHINGTON. II. g until 1870 \. NJ. AUGUST 81
1895 at which viii opsns1 n Puolc, tor 1r
nishng 100 Draught Mules, 80 900 lbs straw ~
bedding and = 800 lbs Rock salt Blanks ana I1ll H
formation NAV obtained from this Office or orces
the Assistant Purchasing Agents q state street NfN
civ. House. New Orleans. La also ron
chief C1arteruaser Department Of the Lakes sh5as7
and the Commercial Club. Mobile Ala--p. W Kos
General Purchasing Of1ceT
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
BURIED ALIVE IN PLAY.
Boy Dies After Being Covered with Sand
by Child Companions.
IFv TELEGRAPH 70 THE rRIBrHE.

Mansfield. Ohio. Aug IA boy six years old
son of Ralph Steinman was playing near the
home of his parents this afternoon with two
paYmates, four and three years old An ex-
caVation had been made by workmen and into
this the Steinman lad jumped and his compan
ions covered him with sand The boy was
quickly dug out of the sand and medical assist
ance was summoned. but in spite of all efforts
he died i'm few minutes
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
THE CALIFORNIA ARROW SOLD.
Manager of Boer War Spectacle May Have
It Taken to Portland Fair.

Captain Arthur ". Lewis. manager Of the Boer
War spectacle at Brighton Beach, announced yes
terday that as result Of the successful flight of
Leo Stevenss airship Monday. he had taken it
over from the Baldwin company. and that Stevens
would operate IL for the rest of the for him
The airship may be taken TO the Portland fair
Before the California Arrow goes the West
Stevens plans to make an ascension from Brighton
Beach. take the ship TO Manhattan and re e.urn.
stevens said yesterday that his drag rope, bal
ance to his ship. nor used 10 "tethsr'' the
ship. but least fifteen hundred feet above
the ground time.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
NEW ISSUE OF CITY DIRECTORY.

the Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbindine
COMPANY has just issued the general directory for
the year iso5 for the boroughs OF Manhattan and
The Bronx This is the 18th volume of the New
York directory. and contains $500 names. an in
crease of "a over last year. To publish il has
necesstated canvass OF more than ? 10000 people
and of much data accumulated by the
TTow company In the past years The book is
neatly and strongly bound. and is printed upon h
fair quality Of paper. IL contains 49, pages
about 20 names are printed upon a page
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
INSURANCE INVESTIGATORS IN TOWN.

Most of the members OF the Legislative Insur-
ance COMMITTEES arrived In town last night James
II Rogers Assembyman and chairman or the com,
mittee; Speaker Nixon OF the Assembly. and Archie
E Baxter the clerk OF the Assembly, went to the
Hotel Cadillac. Mr.. Rogers refused discuss the
Equitable
These were joined later by Senators William W
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
SHIPPING NEWS.
Port of NewYork. Tuesday, August l. 1905.
ARIiIVEn

steamer Ceve ttiy}. Clarke. Liverpool Juty the
White star Line. with mdse. Arrived the taar a;IG
"a
steamer Bremen toierl Ntrrich. Bremen LuN - an /
southampton - 10 oelrices 10 with 80 eab.n and
iOd steerage passengers aud mdse. Arrived The lr
steamer Finland. Apfeld. Antwerp anu Dover Jus -
the Red star Line. with cabin
SasssnAerS and mdse. Arrived at the Bar II As
New-York tribune., 1905-08-02
RICH Ex-PoL1CEMAN MAKES ARREST,
Charges Poor Woman with Begging-Mag'
istrate Discharges Her.

Ex-Patrolman John H. Smith, who retired
from the force about three months ago. said 10
have made S2OO0OO in Bronx real estate. was
the complainant in the Harlem police court
yesterday against Mrs. Lepa Erin, of No SO
East 106th-st He charged the woman with
begging and also with abusing him. Magistrate
Mayo evidently did not believe the former po-
Iiceman's story, for he discharged Mrs. Erin,
after commenting sarcasticany on smith