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Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1905-09-22

L. Lee, 50 s"4 NV sWd Fec 70,
rel -e4 sec " lp Is Sw l6Oncres
hand u imp Il personal prop, $lS.S9,
pen a., total SO 83.
Stone Cabin Mine, on Stone Cab
in miue $24), pen lie, total 1882.
Brewer A. O.. & Orchard, j. W.
boiler, engine and gallns frame,
$40, pen 37c, total $7.S6.
Prerinct No. 2.
Shannon Baca, ] of lot No. 2 in
blk No. 40 4 imp, So, pen sc TO-
tai 9lc.
Geo Bullard, personal property,
81 ,2S, pen &c. total Sl.34
+. J. Fender, personal property,
.3S, pen 22c total "a 60.
Homer Hirsch, personal proper
ty, 87r pen sc, total sic.
w. F. Kennett, personal pro-
perty, 81 03, pen DC, total 81 .0S.
Christ Schale. personal property,
$500, pen 25c, total $3.50.
Gabriel Seceraes, personal pro-
perty, Zoe, pen Be total 73c.
Jacoba Serna, personal property,
S3 IL, pen l6c total $3 28.
O. N. Titus. personal property,
SIS 90. pen 15e, total So Is.
Mrs. Feacita Garcia, ] int in
blk NO. AZ. S2.04, pen l0c, total
S214
Mrs. AliceM Hopkins, Hopkins
house & Titus house at Hermosa,
So 80, pen l4c, total So 3.53.
Vincent KAISER. lots No. ] sc blk
10. > and imp, $7.20, pen Soc, total
$7 .56,
Adrian Luna, house & ] lot and
imps, $3.50, pen lSc, total, $3. II.
Estate Barney Martin, land east
Of Porter mill and imp, $3 "a, pen
atty 10r; total $3 SO.
Mary T.. Mead, part of lots NO 6
~ iak No. q and imp, 5000,
pen AZ, total $ll24.
Precinct No. 3.
NJ M,rie Anterberes, interest
Chapman lot, adobe house
on Bnllion ave, S2.12, pen lie, to-
tal So "a.
John BaIlheimer, small house "
ON mine Excelsior
81 80, pen Sc, total SlS9
Mrs. s. X Bradford, house next
to Brewery saloon, $lS0, pen &c,
total $1.s9.
John NJ Caipe, house and other
lmps. 5000, pen 30c, total $500.
A. ] Hager & Co., personal pro-
perty, $l7S7, pen $50, total.$l877
Mrs. T.. p. Cosgrove, lot next to
church, 43c, pen &c, total 43c.
Gypsey Mining CO., building,
boiler, engine and tools, $l2 IA
pen ga, total $l3 .38.
Sophia Hanson, lot & Occiden-
tal hotel, garden on creek and per-
sonal property, $l13 80, pen SIC, to-
tai, $1l %.
Andrew Head, house corner Pine
& Cedar ave, Sl0S, pen Sc, total
Sl.13.
John q. Hurst, house on Main
ST., $3.OO, pen l5c, total $3.I5.
Iconoclsst Mining Co., mne and
machinery, $4 49, pen. 81, total
S4 II.
Lon johnson, house east of
81 40, pen Sc, total 81 81.
Lena Jones, house & lot Main
Street, 74c, pen &c, total 78c.
Carrie Liesman. bouse & garden
below Rodgers place, 60c, pen &c,
total 63c.
Fred Llhdner. 2 houses & lots
n. Nam St., side; 2 houses q lots
n Main st, side; | house &
lots Main ST eide; 2 lots q barn
on Water ST., So SO, pen 13 c, to-
tai, 81 SO.
Mary e. Logan, Polar Star mine,
81 40, pen, l2c, total 50 ST.
W. RI. Marriott, bonse & lot on
Bullion ave, Sic, pen &c, total $50.
John Mclaughlin, house q lot
Cedar avenue, 81 20, pen &c, total
SI.26.
Minneola Mining Co., Silver
Wedge mine, $500, pen 15c, total
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1905-09-22

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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1905-10-21

ings are generally held without
guns.
We meet here, said !, be
cause we have constitutional
right to do so.
Very we'll, said the governor,
but you have men that have
orders from us to leave the State:
men that we intend to chastise
severly for their disObedience to
our orders.
We know not these men.
answered j.
Then you refuse to deliver them
up!- l. answered evasively-
Governor, said St. Julien. of what
use is it to parley with these men
since they refuse to deliver their
friends, let us return to our post
and open fire at once.
l., said the governor, it
were well that you should send
away the women and children
that | see in your yard; we have
come to fight men, and not child
rem and women, and then he added,
the responsibility of what follows
is yours, not ours.
Tae governor and his escort re-
turned to their posts, the little
army was deployed for action, the
cannon was unmasked, and when
he lighted match was obout to be
applied to it. there followed in the
camp Of the ants, a scene Of con
fusion which beggars description.
Pane stricken, they fed in every
direction; their army had melted
away in air; the cannon had nxo.
duced the mDst unexpected result.
and the battle had been won with.
eet al,edding = drop q blood
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Then a heller SHELTER race took
place in the prairie. in the wood,
along the bayou, between the
panic stricken ants and the v,gi.
|ants who captured over two
hundred prisoners, and over a
thousand small arms, guns and
revOlvers. The battl. was over.
and excepting eighty Of the prs
Oners, the balance of the captured
ants were released and allowed to
return to their homes.
The pris onrrs were examined
closely and separately and the
Testimony of each one of them
conceded with that Of the others.
and, being condensed, established
the fact that the plan of the ants
was to ovelrun the parish of Laya
) cite, to sack and burn all the
plantations on their way; to plum
der the safes of Alexan der Mou
ton, Emile MOuton. V. A. Martin
Gerassln Bernard, Alex Latiolais
Camille Doucet and others, all of
whom were doomed, besides, to a
cruel death; and lastly to plunde
the town of Lafayette and reduce
t to ashes.
The vigiiants, not wishing to
pse extreme measures against the
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re inforced by two hundred mel
from st. Landry, and the whole
force now numbered seven hun
dred men. Owing to unavoidable
delays on the road, it was broad
daylight when Bayou QUEEN
Tortue was reached, and the ants
drawn up in battle array, seemed
ready to withstand the assault of
their enemy.
"A deadly silence prevailed and
a battle was imminent, when, for
the purpose of avoiding a useless
effusiOn of blood, Governor Alex
ander Mouton proposed to hold a
parley with the chiefs of the
antis-This was acceded to, and
Governor Mouton with Major St.
Julien, Captain ValmOnt Richard
and Lieut.. Steak, advanced to
ward the ants, walking up to the
fence which enclosed house
1t was one story hous ,, surround
ed by a shed-It was "cat ami
clayed," and pierced with loop
holes, in which could be seen the
shining barrels Of guns pointed
towards the governor and his es
cort, ready to be fred at any
moment L and =, two
anti cllleftains came to the fence
What do you wish, gentlemen,
said L.
We have come, said the Cover
nor, to find out the object of your
meeting.
1t is nothing but a political
answered l..
A political meeting! why, we
have no elections this year-If al
political meeting, Why are you
lrz,ed = ~ tes1h ( I olitieal -
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justice. we haye organized tenn
pOrarily as a tribunal for the tlial
Of the violatOrs Of the law. We
have called ourselves vigilance
committees, and our cOnstitu
ton contains but one word: chas
tisement The lash and the rope
will be our arms, both terri BILE and
dishOnOrable Establishments our
organization is that of honesty
against dishonesty, of society
against crime, and we fear neither
the censure of man nor the wrath
of our enemies.
Now, fellow citizens, # you still
hope to save from raplne and
plumber that which you have
earned by your labor; if you wish
to restore our corrupt society to a
healthy standard by branding with
the infamy of exile or of the lash
the men whose presence in our
midst is an insult to public moral.
ty, and danger to our families,
follow our example;-jOin us,
fellow citizens, in our holy crusade
against vice and immortality,
against rapine, murder and incen.
diarism, and let us, with the
lash print on the back Of those
wretches catalogue Of their
crimes.
By the Executive Committee
March 10th, 1859
The effect produced by this pro
clamation was immense, and it
created a stir in the whole state. |
The action Of these men was dis.
cussed by the whole press which
went wild on the subject. The
vigilants found warm supporters
in the city press and to large
extent in the country press; but
needing neither friends nor foes,
they allowed not themselves to be
deferred from the object they had
in view-Th proclamation struck
terror in the ranks of the organ
lied banditti, and many of them,
without awaiting the action of
the vigilants, sought their safety
10 flight.
The step taken by the Vieilants
was a bold one and savored of
evolution, but they must not be
Judged too harshly and with too ,
much of levity-A revolution, +,
on a small or .on large {
cale, has always a first cause {
eadlng to its Inauguration, and {
hat first cause has certainly been I
ct forth IN unmistakable terms in /
be proclamation used by them
he Investigations made BY them !,
eveloped etsrtlspg facts o. which !
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on level with those they have
acquitted. 1t is not to your
knowledge, fellow citizens, that
such verdicts are of daily occur
ance in our courts of justice! II
this criminal indulgence of the
jury had no other effect than that
Of saving a few miscreants from
the penitentiary, we would quail
fly it merely as a weakness with.
out name; but verdicts rendered
contrary to the most convincing
evidence, find an echo in the
hearts of the corrupt people Of the
district; the acquittal Of bandit
Is a premium for the encourage
ment of vice, and opens new
field for the preparation of crime.
lie that sows the wind, shall reap
the whirlwind," says scripture,
and our district Is an eloquent
proof Of this-as soon as the law
became pOwerless for the repres-
sion of crime, what have we SEEM
the bOldest robberies committed
at night, IN the day time, every
where and at all times-We have
seen the assassin and the lncen
diary following in the footsteps of
the thief and of the robber; we
have seen corruption fostering in
our midst, and extending its pestl-
lential stencil and rOttenness to
the very core of society. DO "
exagerate. fellow citizens9 The
bandits have a numerous and in.
telligent army, with chieftans
shr0uded in the dark, but issuing
orders that are obeyed without
hesitation by the soIiers-It is a
mixing OF whites and blacks, a
confused mass of thieves and as
sassins, standing shoulder to
shoulder in their programme of
rapine, of plumber and of incen
diarism, each one cOncurrlng 20
the ultimate success of the OrgaDi
zatlon- crops, cattle, everything
in fact that constituted the riches
and ministers to the comfort of
our laborious population. Is ex-
posed to the depredatlons of these
bandits.
In this dangerous emergency,
we're we to await supremly for
he action of the courts to check
his growing evil, when every one
Knows that our courts are power.
ess to protect us with jurors who
'cquit the worst criminals,
Though there be superabun-
snce Of proof Of their guilt! No
% have banded together for self
rejection, and the law Of self ,
- 4
lfoofion Il supreme and armed I
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however enough OF evidence was
collected, to trace the disastrous
fire that swept away the business
portion of ST. Martinsville, IN
1870. and in which fourteen per
sons persisted miserably. to the
parties who subsequently assumed
the name of AntiVigilants.
Vigilance committees were or
ganized in the parishes of St.
Martin, Vermilion, Lafayette, st.
Landry and Calcasieu-The up
rising was so great, that these
committees could marshal from
three to four thousand men well
armed and disciplined-Tbe most
prominent citizens. in those
parishes, took the lead in the
and the work of regen
GRAFTON progressed rapidly. Many
of the marauders underwent the
penalty of the lash; Others were
exiled, and during six months, the
whole Attakapas region was on a
war footing and in a state of
feverish excitement.
The bandits were demOraliZed,
but the indiOcreet zeal Of certain
and the interference of
the governor Of the State, infused
new life in their ranks, and a
quasi civil war, which might have
had the most serious results, en-
sued--on the 2Sth of May, 1859,
the following proclamation was
ISSUED by the governor.
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deluded men who
clean breast of t7s7
demned them to tn
lash, and then ordeis
leave the state
The bat lie Of QUEEN Tortnes
this bait Of the spurs is can !.
gave a death blow to the Prev.
siOns of the ants, ana sfcu's-
forever the supremacy OF Inc -
in the Atlakapas country.
end aimed at by he vlgllan'S ~
been accomplished; the oand's
ganization had been scattffe"
the four winds, peace anu q'
were restored, and life anc l".Y
erty were now protected.
vigilants, who had spurnso :.
of the goverDo'
this crusade against crlme'
banded of their own accOru.
FELIX vooEBlp
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barbara Ladd in % cep's
Willard next to Alma Hcsse
Barbara Ladd NJ 70 '1pss g
Willard ext TO AHA AiV
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Look around and see II yo II q
need some printed Stationery. = r
the Iberian office is the p's
FIRST CLASS work.
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PROCLAIM ALTON.

Whereas official information has
been conveyed to us by the Dis
trict Attorney of the 14th Judi
cial District Of Louisiana, that a
certain number of persons Of the
parishef of Vermilion and of st
Martin, organized as Vigilance
committees, have in violation of
the law committed sundry out
RACES on persons, and have been
guilty of depredations on the prop
erty Of citizens Of these parishes,
and have resisted the officers of
the law who have attempted to
put stop to their illegal proceed
ings; and
Whereas, 1t appears that the
officers Of courts of justice have
been unable to bring these viola
tors of the law before the courts,
with the means within their reach
Now, therefore, | have thought
proper to issue this my proclama
ton to invite these committees to
disband and disperse, and l call on
all the good citizens Of the State
to lend their assistance for the
arrest and prosecution of these
violators of the law.
Given under our signature and
the seal of the State at Baton
Rouge, this 2Sth day of May A.
d. 1859, and the S3rd year of the
independence Of the U. s. Of
America.
BY the Governor Robt C Wickliffe
Aud. s. Heron, Sect y of State
The people needed not this pro
clamatioD, which had however a
most disastrous effect on that
class which was in opposition to
the Vigilance committees-It was
received by the ants with ap
plause and rejolcings, as they
imagined that the governor was
preparing to advance to their res.
cue with the state militla-They
threw aside all reserve, and band.
ing themselves more closely than
ever, as anti-vlgilants. they pre-
pared themselves openly for an
aggressive campaign against the
For this purpose, they
collected large quantity of arms
and ammunition on the farm of
y y on bayou QUEEN Tortue.
in the parish of st. Landry, their
place of rendezvOus-Over eigh.
teen hundred anti vigilants, well
armed and equipped, assembled
there on the 3rd of September
1859, ready for an onward march
70 the town of Lafayette which
was to be burnt after having been
sacked and abandoned to- all the
horrors Of a city taken by storm
n time of war.
But while the ants were thus
Ondly carressing their dream of
7engence and of spoliation, the
1igilants had been on the alert,
md had watched their movements
'lOsely -On the 3rd of September,
he vigilants, FIVE hundred strong,
allied ont of the town of Lafa.
'ette under the leadership of !
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-04
WITNESS PROVES INVlNcIBLE
Fails TO Let Go Of Testimony Attorney
Seeks by All the skill Of
ENnmincr.


Attorney c. J. Smyth had a hearing be-
fore Judge Kennedy Monday morning in
his effort to collect on the Judgment OBJ
tained by Mrs. Rosa Rezck for S5 900
against Anton Bazaar. a South Omaha saloon
keeper. and his bondsmen Mr. Smytb did
not get any satisfaction at all from his
examination Of Bazaar and his bondsmen
beyond the fact that they apparently have
no property that can be reached
Bazaar testified he pays for what he gets
from the brewing companies at the rate Of
so much a week. one of the bondsmen said
he owns a homestead worth about 81 500
that is encumbered, while the other oould
not figure out his possessions as being
worth more than $500 The bond. Mr.. Smyth
stated shows the men signed for the
amount Of $500 each. He tried very hard
to develop which statement as to their
property worth was true, but under the
proceeding at bar Attorney Edison p Rich
did not let him. objection after objection
was sustained on the ground that this was
simply a proceeding to disclose what II
any. property the men owned.
MIR Smyth did succeed in getting answers
which showed the bondsmen had signed at
the instance OF a third party One bonds
man did not know Bazaar until he saw him
knowing him at all. The attorney for Mrs
Rezek commented on this state OF affairs
in critical vein, but Judge Kennedy said 1t
could not be taken cognizance Of in the
proceeding to disclose.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-04
WHARTON SCORES THOMAS
Says IL Comes with Bad Grace for
Him to Block Proof
of VIII.

Judge Sears and a jury are still busy with
the case in which an attempt is being made
by Attorneys Saunders, Galley, Wharton,
Clapp and Holmes TO prove the lost Winch
will. Proof of the instrument is being op-
posed by Attorneys Nolan, Gaines and
Elmer Thomas. the latter Of whom Is di-
rectly responsible for the loss of the will.
as appears from the evidence so far in
troduccd.
During an argument on the admissbility
of certain evidence this morning Attorney
Wharton took occasion to pay his respects
to Mr.. Thomas quite forcibly.
'It comes with very bad grace" he said,
from the parties responsible for the loss
of this will to .tand up and oppose every
effort we are making to prove it,
The opposing attorney was apparently not
pleased by Mr.. Wharton's allusion to his
carelessness in handling the instrument,
which he had in charge before 1t disap-
peared.
Mrs. Amanda J. Steen, formerly Mrs.
Winch, was on the stand. She told of the
making OF the will and how it had been
witnessed by Attorneys Wappich and Shoe
maker, and afterward by Messrs. Luther
b. Drake and Ben b. Wood in the Mer-
chants National bank. She testified that
the paper now offered in court is true
copy of the lost instrument.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-04
MAN AT ST. LIBoRY NOT WHITE
Missing Des MOines Attorney Stil1
Lost from General
View.

There are no new developments in the
search for Virgil II. White, the Des Moiues
lawyer who was last seen at Council
Bluffs Tuesday evening of last week. Hon.
Fred White, father of the young man, was
again in Omaha Monday morning and
called on Chief of Police Donahue with a
bunch of circulars to be sent out to the
various police and detective departments
OF the country
There is nothing new in the case" said
Former Congressman White. Il went to
st. Libory, Neb, to see the young man
reported as answering the description Of
my son, but my trip was fruitless, the
young man referred to being another
party.
'I have about exhausted every means OF
search here and feel nearly exhausted my
self. have lost my appetite and will re-
turn home this afternoon to await any
news that may be Forthcoming in the
matter. The whole thing has been a severe
ordeal on me. AT first we thought Virgil
had been drowned, which supposition we
were led to believe when we found the
canoe overturned Then Mr.. Hume met
Virgil at Defiance and let my son slip
through his fingers, as 1t were. can be
addressed at Webster, Ia, where l get my
mail and have telephone communication" ="
I The circular sent put states that reward
OF $50 will be given for information leading
to the detention of Virgil White, and gives
the description of the young lawyer, as al
ready published in The Bee. The informa-
ton is also given that the son has been
using the assumed name OF Henry Kirk
hart of Newkirk since he left home.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-04
PEACEMAKER GETS SLUGGED
Justice of Peace is Assaulted by Men
Whose Fighting He Sought
to Stop.

"I command you to keep the peace in
the name Of the state of Nebraska" 4"
shouted Justice Of the Peace Keller at
Benson Sunday night.
He was addressing a crowd of fighting
men on the public street. AS usually hap
pens, the peace maker, instead of being
blessed, was promptly slugged by the fight
ers, who paused in their struggle long
enough to hand him a pair of black eyes
and divers bruises Of more or less painful
character.
As a result of the scrimmage a woman
named Maud Walker was arrested and is
now held in the county jail on a charge
of disturbing the peace. II was necessary
TO bring the prisoner to the Jail in Omaha
because on Saturday evening the Benson
bastile was raided and made useless as n
place of confinement A man had been
arrested at Krug park for disorderly con-
duct and taken to the village lookup. His
friends gathered a little later and broke
into the building and released him. They
practically wrecked the structure.
Justice Keller is now on the war path
after the men who slugged MIN. One OF
them is supposed TO be a man named
Stevens who lives in Council Bluffs, and
the others are also known by eye-witnesses
and will soon be arrested
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-04
FIRST STEAMBOAT FOR HIM
InhabItant of Western Nebraska Has
MIsunderstandinE with Police
Authorities of Omaha

Edward Haight, from somewhere in the
Businesses OF western Nebraska, aroused
the judicial dignity of the local police court
when he told Police Magistrate Berka he
never until Monday morning, saw a steam
boat Haight was picked up at an early
hour Monday morning by detectives while
the stranger was walking around the
downtown streets in an abstracted sort of
way and carrying a small bundle under
his arm Having some misgivings as to
the right of the plain clothes men to stop
him on a public thoroughfare, Haight be-
came indignant when questioned as to his
identity and movements at that time OF
the morning. The stranger told the court
he read in the newspapers OF a steamboat
having anchored at this port, so he just got
on the steam cars Sunday and left his
hotel at an early hour Monday morning
so as not TO miss the boat when it left
the dock,
When Judge BeTka discharged Haight the
magistrate took occasion to remark II
have seen men who never saw a left
handed monkey wrench but in all my ex-
perience as a police Judge this is the first
man ! have seen who never before saw
steamboat"
Haght showed the court the bundle he
carried contained nothing more destructive
than two ham sandwiches, four pickles,
six doughnuts and three paper napkins
Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-04
DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT
Association Decides that II VIII Not
he Earlier than Last
Week in August.

The Douglas County Union Veterans
Monument association met Monday night
at the city hall 10 arrange for the dedica-
tion OF the monument just placed in posi-
ton at Forest Lawn cemetery The matter
OF arranging for the dedication was left in
the hands of a special committee consisting
OF the president Of the association, Mrs. T.
Yule; the secretary Miss Clara Feenan,
and the treasurer, Mrs. Thomas Hull. The
definite date was left in the hands OF the
committee, but with the understanding that
the ceremonies should not take place earlier
than August - IL was decided that the
dedicatory address should be delivered by
DR.. s. X. Spaulding Of Omaha, one OF the
faithful members Of the monument associa-
ton.
A rising vote of thanks was rendered 20
NJ. j. FeenRn. through whose efforts the
monument had been purchased at a saving
OF $50 70 the association. d. r. Ball was
directed TO prepare an eugrussed copy OF
this resolution ana present the same 20 Mr..
Feenan-
A motion prevailed that AL unpaid pledges