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The bee., 1905-11-16
FEAR REDUCTION
In wases-RaiIway Employees Appeal to
President.

Washington, Nov. If "A n
earnest protest was made to the
President today against the pro-
posed railroad freight rate leg
islatiou. The protest was filed
by representatives of the five
great labor organizations con-
nected with interchangeable en-
gineers, firemen, conductors,
switchmen aud trainmen. The
members of t b e delegation
which called on the President
represented the organizations.
They pointed out to him that
railroad rate Legislation logically
meant the lowering of rates.
This, they contended, will be
followed by a lessening of the
earning power of the railroads
and consequently by the reduc
tion, eventually, of the wages of
railroad employees.
In response, President Roose-
welt assured the delegation that
it was not his purpose or the
purpose of those who favored
railroad rate regulation, to do
anything that might injure the
railroads of the country, or, in
cidentally, the employees of the
railroads. He said that it was
his purpose that all classes
railroads, shippers and employees
should have perfectly fair
treatment. He was of the opin
ion that the proposed legislation
would not mean a reduction nee
essarily in railroad rates, and
suggested that the members of
the delegation, therefore, were
proceeding on a wrong under
standing of the situation.
The bee., 1905-11-16
Cured CONSUMPTION.

Mrs. b. w. Evans, Clearwater,
Kans., writes; MY husband lay sick
for three months. The doctors said
he had quick consumption.
We procured bottle of Billiards.
Horehound Syrup, and it cured him.
That was six years ago. Sinces
then we have always kept bottle IN
the house. We cannot do without
it.. For coughs and colds it has no
equal 25c, soc and $1.0O.
I Sold by st. Bernard Drug Store.
The bee., 1905-11-16

SEvENTY-FIvE citizens of Louis
vile raised $4,000 in fifteen
minutes Friday night to push the
election contest in that city
against the machine that has de-
clared Paul Barth elected mayor.
This action is swift enough and
strong enough to be a guar anty
of oodfaith and determination in
the contest.
The bee., 1905-11-16

A HoPKINsvILLE dispatch says
Munnell Wilson has announced
his candidacy for congress from
the Second district and that
there are five prospective can
didates for the nomination in
jacksonville. Wonder if Madi-
sonville is to have a congressman
from each ward.
The bee., 1905-11-16
THURSDAY. NOV. 10, 1905.
TINE FOR RESTITUTION.

which was published nearly two
weeks prior to the county cleo
ton, we requested Judge Givens,
of the jacksonville Hustler, to
rectify an injustice which he had
done to certain towns of the
county by recent editorial ut
terance In the columns of the
Hustler, in which he insinuated
that "certaIn towns" of the
county had been burden upon
the county during smallpox cpl
denies; that these certain
towns'' had not paid their own
bills or taken care of their own
people, but had forced the coun-
ty to bear this expense and had
1n burden to the county in
sway.
We asked Judge Givens to
specify.
We reminded him that he had
recently intinated that he was
in favor of "square deal" in
correction with some issue ham
died in his editorial columns.
n We told him insinuation was not
square and asked him to come
out in the open and say who he
meant.
But he hast said.
In our issue of November 2nd
we said we did not look for an
explanation from the Judge un-
til after the political campaign
had closed and the expediency of
cultivating smallpox germs and
the seed of demagoguery togeth-
er had passed.
The time has now come when,
If he ever means to be fair to
darlington and the other towns
of Hopkins county that bore
their own burdens in the small
pox epidemlcs, Judge Giyens
will correct the false impression
he has produced in the minds of
the readers of the jacksonville
Hustler and mend some of the
wrong he has done these towns.
He will, if he has any regard for
the truth, now tell his readers
that darlington has never cost
the county one cent because OF
smallpox. He Will go further
and say that darlington has not
I only not cost the county any
thing in smallpox epidemics, but
that Darlington has contributed
substantially to the support of
afflicted families that lived be-
You'd her confines and were prop
erIy the charges of the county
during their affection. He will
also make restitution in like
manner for the wrong he has
( done other towns of the county,
which he meant his readers
should interpret his charges
against certain towns" to in
clude.
1t is time for restitution. Will
I Judge Owens, will the Madison
Il vile Hustler tell the truth about
/ this?
We quote again the insinuat-
ing and hurtful paragraph from
\ Judge Given's pen in the Madi-
n sonyllle Hustler:
"But next year the county will be
y entirely out of debt, and on cash
basis, and there will be plenty of
iuuQb dNdlldOlO AO' AO0o WOihi pHNe
& is, unless smallpox breaks out
among the republicans Of certain
& towns of the county"
3 Does anybody doubt that
Judge Givens intended his read
. ers should think his "certain
/ towns" meant Darlington and
4 other mining towns of the coun-
i ty? Does anybody doubt that
this publication was made for
political effect regardless OF the
lying inslnuation it carried, the
false and hurtful impression it
produced upon the minds of the
The bee., 1905-11-16

FL sraif a. i.oweis with GascArers.
Cav 'sic, cure constipation forever
TO- ~, .. ; y. O. fail, druggists refund money
The bee., 1905-11-16

Good fellows seldom make good
citizens.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
Wiping Out the Desert.

ehaveno useless American acres''
said Secretary Wilson in speaking OF
the work of the department ia intro
dueing new plants and improving
methods of agriculture. aThere are
no bad acres; we will make them all
productive. We have agricultural ex-
plorers in every far corner of the world
and they are finding crops which have
become SO acclimated to dry condi-
tions, similar to our own in the west,
th at we will in timehave plants thriving
upon all our so-ealied desert lands.
We will cover this arid area with plants
of various sorts which will yield hun
dreds OF millions of tons Of additional
forage and grain for western focks
and herds. Our farmers will grow
this upon land now considered praeti-
cally worthless" A tireless activity
is being displayed by the department
in the reclamation Of great areas of
the central west through the far-reach-
ing work of agricultural explorers who
are traversing lands in the interests of
the American farmer, especially the
high, dry plains and steppes of central
Asia-uhe Cradle Of the World -
where agriculture reaches back from
history into dim tradition. The activ-
tiles of Mr.. Wilson'S department
bode Ill for the continuance Of any
very great stretches Of our once limit
less American desert.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
Business In New Orleans.

The following excerpts from Dun S
Review of March 25, showing general
and market conditions at New Orleans,
will prove of interest:
General Conditions-Manuf
of clothing, furniture and other lines
report a good volume OF trade. In
groceries the volume OF business and
movement of merchandise is up to the
average. but in dry goods, notions
and kindred lines the business is not
SO good as it was year ago, and not
up to expectations for this season.
Retail trade is fair.
Cotton-Cotton has huctuated dur
ing the week within narrow limits.
The movement has been comparatively
heavy, but sales of spot cotton have
been of only fair proportions. The
quotations of futures are down six to
ten points and spots are do wn three
sixteenths. Receipts of cotton were
1908, 402 bales, against $3.50, GIT bales
last year. Stocks at all ports are
647 900 bales, against $50, ss9 bales
last year.
Sugar-The market for plantation
sugar continues rather quiet, with Of
ferings on moder ate scale. Refined
sugars are also quiet and unchanged.
Trading in molasses is confined mainly
to lower grades, which are in mod
crate supply, and offerings have been
readily taken.
Rice-Reeeipts of rice were 1,2L1, 521
sacks, against ], $50, o25 last year. Re-
ceipts of clean rice were 488, 851 pockets,
against 344, 551 last year. There has
been an Improvement in the demand,
both for rough and clean rice, and
trading has been on a broader scale,
but prices are unchanged. The Louis
lana movement is reported by Dan
Talmage's Sons as follows: Receipts,
1, 100, $3.50 sacks rough, against /, $685.
s5a last year; sales of 1,267 ,916 pockets
cleaned, compared with 1,274, 479 in
1904.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
Giant Government Dam in Arlzona.

The government contractors have
begun work on the giant Tonic dam in
the Salt River Valley. Already the
government has blasted out mountain
roadway along the precipitate shelves
of the canyon and has constructed its
cement mill and its big power plant,
utilizing the energy of the stream itself
wherewith to grind the 200, 900 barrels
Of cement necessary TO build the enor-
nous edifce. a work of solid masonry.
This dam is to be 230 feet high and 200
feet thick and will cost So, 500, 900. 1t
will form the greatest artificial lake 10
the United States and will irrigate
something like 800, 900 acres of deep
and fertile soil. The conditions are
described by the engineers as ideal
for dam building. The towering per-
pendicular walls of the narrow box
canyon, asIthe bottom of which rushes
the Salt River, are of tough and en-
during sand -stone, and this masonry
wedge will become IN reality part Of
the everlasting rocks which it joins to
hold back the torrential foods OF
the Salt River.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
Weather Statistics for 1904.

The average temperature for the year
1904, determined from continuous rec
ords of thirty four stations distributed
throughout the state, was,67 2 degrees,
or 0s3 above the normal. The coolest
month was January, with an average
of 48 degrees, and the Warmest was
August, with an average of 80.2. The
months of FEBRUARY, March, June, Sep
TENDER and October were warmer than
usual; during the other months there
was deficiency in temperature. The
greatest departure from normal con-
ditions occurred in February, the mean
for that month being Al degrees above
the average. The highest annual mean
temperature was 1914 at Port Eads, and
the lowest was 81 at Plain Dealing.
The highest temperature recorded in
the state dnring the year was 103 at
Monroe on September 30, and the low
est was 10 at Leesville on January 4.
The average precipitation for 1904,
determined from continuous records
at thirty weight stations distributed
throughout the state, was a. 10 inches,
or 10 inches less than the normal. The
greatest annual precipitation was 81 50
at Collinston, and the least, 31.91 at
SugartoWn. The wettest month in the
year was July, with an average of I'll,
and the dryest month was October,
with an average of 0.62. There was an
average of 80 days in the year with
appreeiable precipitation. The annual
snowfall ranged from none at most
stations to 5 inches at Robeline, all of
which occurred in the month of January.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01

The parish of St. Helena has some
OF the tallest pine trees in Louisiana a,
but none Of them are taller than the
swearing done by Witnesses in muir
der case tried at Greensbnrg on the
10th of March. John Davidson was
Indicted by the grand jury for assas-
sinating Man Bates and at the trial
the widow of the murdered man and
one other witness positively declared
upon oath that Davidson was at the
scene Of the shooting, the widow aver
ring that she saw him raise gun and
fire the shot that killed her husband,
while Tom Nettles sWore that he turned
when he heard the shot and saw David
son running away. Nettles also testi-
fed to the presence of peculiar shoe
tracks in the vicinity, corresponding
to those always made by accused, who
has lost the toes of his right foot.
Witnesses for the defense swore that
at the murder Davidson was at the
home of his brother, and the jury evil
IDENTIFY gave credence to this evidence,
as they consumed only few minutes
in reaching a verdict of acquittal after,
the case had been given into their
hands. There has evidently been
much bad feeling aroused by the kill
ing and the contradictory testimony,
and The Echo expresses the hope that
there will not result "a feud that will
rip St. Helena up the back from top TO
bottom. Z For the sake of the chill
aren and Of generations yet unborn, =
pleads the editor, .'let US have peace. .
So say we all.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
Civil Service Examinations.

The Civil Service Commission an
nounees the following examination to
be held April L, 1905, at the custom
house, New Orleans, and at the post
offices at Baton Rouge and Shreve-
port:
Assistant, either sex, Division OF
Biological Survey, Department of
Agriculture, at 5000 per annum. Age
limit, 20 years or over. Application
form 1872 to be had at the Office OF the
district secretary, customhouse, New
Orleans.
The following examin ations will be
held at the New Orleans customhouse
on the dates given below:
April 26, 19o5-Bockkeeper, Depart
mental Service; salaries ranging from
$500 to $1,000 per annnm; age limit, 20
years or over; application form 3o4.
Inspector of clothing malel in the
Quartermaster' Department at Large,
New York, and other vacancies as
they may occur. Applicants must be
competent and experienced tailors,
qualified to inspect the workmanship
of made-up garments. Age limit, 20
years or oyer; salary 1860 per an
mum; application 1893.
April IS 27, 1eo5-Field Assistant in
Forestry, Bureau of Forestry in the De
partment of Agriculture and Philippine
Forestry Service. The following va
cancies exist in the Philippines: One
at $500, one at Sl400 and four at $1,000
per annum. Application 1872 for the
United States and for the Philippine
service.
April Is, -Boilerma ker. carpen-
ter and coppersmith, for positions on
the Isthmus of Panama.
April 10, 1905-Instructor in carriage
making.
April 1920, 1905 photographic aid
geological survey.
April 26, l905-Sugar sampler, cable
foreman, chief OF the division of chem
istry, transferrer bureau of printing
and engraving).
Trained nurse (male or female) and
bridge carpenter, both for positions
on the Isthmus of Panama.
April 26-27-Tariff expert, clerk ex-
pert in internal commerce statistics,
clerk in tariff division department of
commerce and labor, physician (fe-
male) in government hospital for the
insane.
May 3, Mechanical craftsman
in the patent Office.
Application forms can be secured
from the Office of the district secretary,
in the New Orleans customhouse, and
detailed inform alton relative to the
examinations may be obtained from
circulars posted in the customhouse,
postof6ce and public libraries of New
Orleans, and at the office of this paper
at Donaldsonyille.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
Lee Lodge No. s. Ancient Or
der of United Mnrknen.

MEETS second and fourth Tuesdays of each
NA month at p M, IN Masonic Temple Rail
roe 4 oyenue. largest beneficiary fraternal or
der IN the world. Life insurance of $1,000 at
lowest possible cost. Entire expense of initia-
ton, including proposition fee, medical exam
III alton, beneficial y certificate and advance as
sessment, only s. Past master workman, Ed
mnnd Manrin; Master workman, Walter
Lemann; Foreman, j. P. Kr.eger; Overs eer,
A. g Wbidden; Medical examiners, Or. E. K
Blanc: Financier, E. Langheckar: Recorder,
Jna. f. Terrio Postoflice address Box 159. Don
jacksonville. La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
VETERANS GRATEFUL.
Heroes of 'e1-'e5 Applaud Congress and
the President for Returning Confed
crate Battle Flags.

HEADQUARTERS
UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS,
New Orleans, La, March /, 1905.

crate Battle Flags.
HEADQUARTERS
UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS,
New Orleans, La. March /, 1865. }
General Orders No. 26.
I. The general commanding feels
that be would be derelict in his duty
to his old comrades who have honored
him in making him seommander-in-
chief of this great federation did he
not give expression to the feeling OF
satisfaction that fills the heart of
every Confederate veteran in eontem-
plating the heartiness and unanimity
with which the national legislature
passed the bill restoring the Confed-
crate battle flags to the several states,
and the readiness with which the meas
ure was approved by the president.
This action is but fresh evidence tn at
there are now in our grand country
no sectional lines-no south, no north,
no east or est; but that we are all
Americans, devoted to one common
country.
1t. The general commanding takes
occasion, in view Of this era of good
feeling shown by the congress Of the
United States and the president, to
urge upon all parties, north and south,
who have colors in their possession,
to return them at once to the. state
capitols. In such repositories these
highly priced relics can be properly
cared for, and they should all be
gathered there at the earliest moment.
He INDUCES the hope that this wish
may be complied with, and that pri-
vate parties may manifest as much
brotherly feeling as the national au-
thorities.
III. The general commanding is sat
isfed that the display in the various
state capitols of these precious heir
looms, which represent the highest de-
votion, the greatest self-saerifce, the
most persistent courage witnessed in
modern warfare, will do a great deal
to stimulate the patriotism of the ris-
ing generation. These evidences of
bravery on the part of their fathers
cannot but add to the pride that our
children feel in the heroic and daring
exploits of their ancestry, and lis the
surest way to encourage and magnify
that feeling of love of country and
willingness to die for her sake that
should be fostered at all times by the
state.
". The commanding general de-
sires that some official acknowledge
ment should be made TO Hon. John
Lamb himself a Confederate soldier) i,
who introduced the measure in con-
gress, to the senate and house of rep
resertatives, who passed it without a
dissenting voice, and to the president,
who Immediately approved it; and he
urges camps everywhere to at once
get together and formulate resolutions
expressive of their endorsement.
By command OF
STEPHEN d. LEE,
General Commanding.
Official.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
Kenneth Lodge No. al, Knights
OF Pythias.

G4ONVENES in Masonic Temple the secoud
~ and fourth Thursday evenings of each
.nenth at o'clock. Visiting brethren cordially
welcomed. Sick benefits, funeral tax and all the
fraternal features. Members have option of
joining endowment or insurance rank. Than
cellor Commander. VIM. 4. Terrio; Vice Chan
celior, Dr. D. q. B-umtfeld; Prelate, Fred. Lam
dry: Master of Excheqner. Jacob Blum, Keeper
of Records and Seal, J. E. Blum; Master of FL
nance. VIM. Pforaheimer; Master of Work, Hy.
l.. We'll.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01

Mrs. W. Fl. White and Manfred
Cook are under arrest at Rayville in
connection with the death Of Mrs.
Whites husband, who is believed to
have been poisoned.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
Attention. Veterans.

The members Of Major Victor Mau-
rim Camp No. IS, U. G. u. are hereby
notified and requested TO meet in reg
u1ar monthly session at the Mohawk
Club at 1880 o'clock tomorrow fore
noon. S. A. POCHE,
VIM. j. MURPHY. Commander.
4s.+aot
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01

In az election at Abbeville ma
jority vote was polled in favor of the
issuance of bonds to the amount OF
s45, 900 for the purpose of constructing
waterworks, electric light and sewer
age system.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
A DaFetieyfl Ride

genital injuries, use Bncklen,s Arnica salve.
"A deep wound in my foot, from an accident, N
writes Theodore schnele. of Columbus. o.,
less, but Bueklens Arnica salve quickly
healed it, Suothes and heals burns like
magic. 25c at j. ]. Leche and T. L. Trepa gnier
druggists.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
SERIOUS stomncl, Trouble Cnred.

was troubled wi b distress in my stomach
sour stomach and vomiting spells and can
truthfnlly say that Ghamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets cured me.-Mrs. T. v Williams,
Laingsburg, Mich. For sale at X-Ray Drug
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01

Sheet music at New Orleans prices
Comstoek's Avenue store,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01

Oscar Dufrene was drowned while
fishing in Bayou Lafourehe near Lab
adieyille.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01

Severe wind and rain storms il
southwest Louisiana did considerable
property damage.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01

Transient, official or legal advertisements. ST
per inch first insertion; each subsequent inser-
tion, 50 cents per inch.
Reading notices, first insertion, ID cents per
line: 50 bsequentIy, 10 cents per line.
Cards of lines or less in Business Directory,
S. per annum.
Brief Communications upon subjects of public
interest solicited.
No Attentions prid to anonymous letters.
The editor is not responsible for the views of
Address The Chief Donaldsonville, La
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01

The new trade mark registration law
will go into effect today Users
Of trade marks can get copy OF the
law by sending postage stamp to G.
A. Snow 8 Co, solicitors of patents
and trade marks, W ashington, D. e.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
....Adiutant.

Encouraged perhaps by the success
that ". J. Bryan has made of his
newspaper venture, Tom Watson has
embarked il kindred enterprise.
having established periodical called
4'Tom Watson's Magazine 1t took
an edition of nearly 100, 600 copies to
supply the public demand for the first
number Of the new publication. If
the Nebraskan and Georgian states
men could draw votes as well as they
can talk and write recent election re-
turns might have told different tales.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
Last Hnne NanisI,ea

When leading physicians said that ". NJ.
Snithait, rf Pekiu, Ia, had incnrahle con
sumption, his last hapr vanished; but Dr.
htn9 y New Discovery for consumption. coughs
aud colds, kept h m out IF bis grave, He says:
"Tlis great specific completely cured me and
saved my life. Since then, 1 have nsed It for
over 40 years, and consider il a marvellous
throat and lung cure" Strictly sci ntftic cure
for coughs, sore Threats or colds; sure proven
tive of pneumonia. Guaranteed. SOC and 81
BOTTLES at ]. j. Lecie's and F. l.. Trepagniers
drug stores. Trial bottles free
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-04-01
Letter TO John F. Terrio.

Dear Sir-The cheapest thing 10 the
way Of sending anything over the world
is q postage stamp; and the cheapest
way to shed water Is paint.
Not whitewash; paint. Do you hap
pen 10 know it doesn I belong to your
business 10 know about paint, you
kuow=-do you happen to know that
most of the makers of paint stuff il
out with lime and clay and sand and
water and air.
they do stun it out IL the can: but
not on the house. They make more
gallons to sell or to buy; more money
to pay for paint: more money to pay
for putting it on: a good deal more
money to pay for putting i on; but no
more beauty; more rust: decay; disap-
pointment; loss.
Devoe is your paint, because it's all
paint, ne sham, and full -measare.
Yours truly
Is n. w. nEyoE & Co..
New York.