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The Irish standard., 1906-10-20

Under present laws the railroad and
warehouse commission has full au-,
thority to reduce the passenger rate
to cents; 1t can and is ascertaining,
the true values Of railway properties
within the state and can fix mer-
chandise rates on basis which will.
pay fair dividend on actual capital
invested: it can enforce reciprocal de-
murrage charges without further law
upon that subject. It is therefore up,
to that body to afford the people much
needed relief from the burdens of ex-,
tortionate charges by the railroads
companies. When the people awake.
to the fact that the railroad and
warehouse commission should repre-
sent them and not the corporations in,
rate review hearings they will have
taken long step toward the rsctifloa.
tion of the ills from which they suffer.
1t is not reasonable to expect that the
governor Of the state will have time
or opportunity to study these ques.
tions to sufficient extent to be able
at all times to point out to the rail-,
way commission their duty in these
cases. 1t is the duty Of the commits
sion to attend to these matters: they
are elected for this purpose; 1t Is for
this they draw salaries from the state
and the people should hold them to a
strict accountability for the performs
ance Of their duties
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
Colder rewarded for Killing Woman.

Colder Rewarded for Killing Woman.
st. Petersburg, Oct. 17.-After in
Xestigating the killing of Mile. Sem
enova, the young medical student
confined in the central detention
prison at st. Petersburg, who was
shot and killed by sentry Septem-
Der 10 when she showed herself at
the window of her cell overlooking
the courtyard, the commander of the
st. Petersburg garrison, in an or
der of the day, has thanked the SOL
der who killed the girl and has
given him a reward of five dollars.
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
BANKERS IN SESSION.
Thlrty.second Annual Convention Of
American Association Opens.

st. Louis, Oct. 1.-THE American
Pankers' association convened Tues
day for it's thirty-second annual con-
vention when the trust companies Sec
ton was called to order at the
Olympic theater, simultaneously with
the gathering of the savings banks
section at Schuyler Memorial hall. The
meeting of the association as whole
will not take place until Wednesday.
Hundreds of prominent bankers.
representing every state and territory
as we'll as the United States depend
encies, are here as delegates and Of
ficers of the association place the total
attendance, including delegates and
unaccerdited visitors, at 1000.
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
A..au,t Case Dismissed.

!. Boston, Oct. 1.-THE case of Shaun
Kelley, the Harvard student charged
with assaulting patrolman, which
has been before the authorities in
different phases for the past two
weeks, was dismissed in the NUM-
cipal court Tuesday. The case grew
out of the attempt of the officers to
arrest a party of Harvard men who
were skylarking on Boston common,
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, and Shaun
Kelley, his room mate, being in the
party. One of the patrolmen was in
cured in the encounter with the stu.
dents.
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
BLOW TO REFORM EFFORTS
DRAKE INVESTIGATING COMMIT.
TEE DECLARED ILLEGAL,
Was Created by Last Ohio LegsIa.
ture to Probe Affairs of'HamiIton
County and Cincinnati.

Columbus. O., Oct. 17.-The Drake
investigating committee. created by
the legislature last winter, is with.
out power in a legal sense. The COM
mfttee was created to probe the af-
fairs of Hamilton county and Cincin.
natl. and the committee held meet
ings in Cincinnati several times and
also in this city. The case came to
the supreme court through the case
brought by the Robertson Realty com.
pany, of Cincinnati, who had sued the
state auditor to compel him to issue
a warrant on the state treasurer in
payment for rooms occupied by the
committee while in Cincinnati.
The members of the committee are
Arthur Espyer, of Hamilton county:
John G. Drake, of Erie county, and
Thomas p. Schmidt, of Cuyahoga
county, all Democrats, and W. H.
Meek, of Montgomery county, and ].
S. Sites, of Fairfield county, Repub-
licans, who refused to serve.
Cincinnati, Oct. 1.-THE Drake
committee during it's Investigations
brought out the personal collection by
county treasurers of interest on pub
lie funds deposited in banks. Because
of the criticism aroused half dozen
former treasurers paid voluntarily
into the county treasury a total of
$214,000, which they estimated they
had thus received. Other matters
brought out affected the sale of turn
pike roads to the county, in which
large commissions were paid for dis
posing of the roads. The case which
was carried to the supreme court was
a dispute over rent, but it followed
favorable action on the refusal of
Cashier Davis, of the First National
bank, to disclose what he considered
to be the confidential business mat
tiers of depositors. His arrest and re.
moval from the city, followed at once
by his release on a writ of habeas
corpus served in a Springfield hotel
at three o'clock in the morning, were
sensational incidents in the investiga-
ton and the legal fight which followed
it.
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
SUIT FOR SIXTY
millions IS OFF
RATHER THAN HAVE YELLOW
SCRAP READ MRS. JONES
WISTER ADMITS DEFEAT.
TERRIBLE SECRET
NOT TO BE REVEALED
Woman's Son.in-Law Speaks in Hor-
s ror Of What Weightman Wrote
/. About His Wife's Mother-known
to Only Four Persons.

Philadelphia, Oct. 1.-THE postpone.
ment Monday of the $60,0OO,0oO will
contest for the estate of the late Will
liam Weightman means in a nutshell
that the suit will not be further
pressed. Mrs. Jones Wister has ack-
nowledged defeat by her sister-in-law,
MRS. Anne M. Weightman Walker,
rather than run the chance of having
the contents of a scrap of scandal
breathing, yellow paper upon which
her father-in-law, the millionaire
chemist, wrote his last wishes and
thoughts regarding her, openly read
in courtroom.
Terrible Family Secret.
Nothing more dramatic ever &C.
curred in Philadelphia courtroom
than the sensation produced by the
sight of this little slip of paper, yellow
with age.
That it bore terrible family secret
cannot be doubted. Mrs. Wister's at
torney turned pale as he read it in the
courtroom and, after reading it, asked
the court for an indefinite continuance
of the case, which was granted.
Mrs. Wister's Son-in-Law Talks.
. So terrible was the secret that Mrs.
Wister's son-in-law, Richard w. Meirs,
said after court adjourned:
For the sake of Mrs. Wister, l
would rather cut out my tongue than
divulge the contents of that scrap of
paper. Until it was produced at the
hearing only four persons in the world
had seen it. 1 hope, with all the
earnestness of which / am capable
that no one else ever will see it.
Never to Be Made Public.
"Unless the other side should permit
1T to escape them feel sure that that
scrap which turned the current of
events never will be made public. 1t
is buried deeper than the foundations
of my Office building. 1t is neither a
will nor codicil, but what it contains
caused the abrupt, indefinite contin-
nance of the case"
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
Women Win Damages from Planter.

Women Win Damages from Planter.
Memphis, Tenn, Oct. ia special
to the News-Scimiter from Helena,
Ark, says that the jury in the dam.
age, suit against the wealthy farmer
Musgrave, of Mississippi county, Ark,
brought by Miss Witt and Miss EN-.
mons, both of st. Louis, returned a
verdict Tuesday. Damages were as.
sessed in favor of Miss Witt for 1925,
and in favor of Miss Emmons, $1,000.
Counsel for Musgrave says he will
pay these amounts
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
New Express Company.

| Augusta, Me-, Oct. 1.-THE North
american Express company has been
organized here for the purpose of con-
Quoting general express business,
with an authorized capitalization of
1875. 100000. J. Berry, of this city, is
named as president
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
Lipton Milwaukee,. Guest.

Milwaukee, Oct. 17.-Tuesday was
Upton day" in Milwaukee. Sir Lip
ton arrived here at II o'clock and
from then until late hour at night
he was the city's guest. A varied pro.
IKramrae was mapped out for the en-.
Stainment of Sir Thomas.
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
Must Die in Chair.

Columbus, O., Oct. 17.-Frank Cas-
tor, who killed Police Officer Daniel
E. Davis, must die in the electric
chair. The supreme court Tuesday.
sustained the decision of the common
pleas court, condemning Castor to
death.
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
Renair shops Burn.

Fremont, O., Oct. 17.-Fire Tues
day destroyed the Lake Shore cleo.
trio railway repair shops, with much
valuable machinery, motors and roll.
ing stock. LOSS, 100000; fully COW
cred by insurance
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
Children Burn in Barn.

Sioux Falls. s. D., Oct. 17.-Three,
children of Anthony Hughes. at Flan'
dreau. burned to death Tuesday in q.
fire which destroyed barn where
they we're sleeping.
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20

the orders of the railway commission
shall have precedence over all other
litigation, excepting that Of criminal
nature. thus obviating as far as pos
sible the delays incident to court pro.
ceedings. w
.'........... s...s..s.... .
(: In a speech at Owatonna last T:
!: week Mr.. Staples, member of the /:
railway commission. took a posi- +:
ton directly antagonistic to that /:
of Mr.. Cole. He held with Gov /:
ernor Johnson that. insofar as
ratemaking and rate enforcement T:
were concerned, the present laws T:
were both sufficient and efficient, /:
also that all rate orders made by
the commission remained in effect (:
during the tendency of any action /:
to contest the same In fact all
we'll informed authorities agree in :
this contention and Mr.. Cole is I:
left in the absurd position OF advo- (:
eating measures which would not :
stand the test of judicial review. :
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
d PER CENT ON SAVINGS

The Minnesota Title Insurance Trust
Company pays four per cent on saw
ings and starts interest first of every
month instead of first of every quarter.
Capital s250,000 Twentyo one years in
business.
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20

He showed also that in one of the
earliest decisions of the supreme
court Of the United States the court
pointed out that the procedure for the
fixing of rate laws which did not pro-
vide for the right Of appeal upon the
part Of railroad companies did not
constitute due process of law It will
be seen, therefore. that in order to
make his scheme effective for the i'm
mediate placing in effect rates of the
railroad commission Candidate Cole
will be compelled to amend both the
state and national constitutions. Mr..
Lind also pointed out that Senator
Nelson, in his address before the SEN
ate Of the United States last March,
referred to the Minnesota railway rate
laws as models of their kind. He
holds that 1t would be folly for the
state to adopt such laws as Mr.. Cole
suggests and thus cloud the efficiency
Of our present statutes. He says:
amy attempt now to change and
amend those laws. which have stood
the test of judicial procedure. which
were proposed by Mr.. Nelson as the
model upon which congress might
frame laws for the interstate COM
merce commission. would be in the
highest degree prejudicial to the inter-
ests Of the people of this state, and
would be procedure hailed with de-
light by the very persons whose con-
duct those laws are intended to regu-
late"
Under the present Minnesota stat
utes the railway commission is now
taking a valuation of the tangible
property Of railroad corporations. This
is the feature for which Senator La
Toilette of Wisconsin contended in his
great speech before the United States
senate last spring, and without which,
he said, no railway rate law would be
effective. The statutes further pro-
vide that any proceeding brought be.
fore the courts Of this state to enforce
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
SONG of Souls that Failed.


We come from the war-swept valleys.
Where the strong ranks clash in
might.
Where the broken rear guard rallies
For its last and losing fight:
From the roaring streets and high
Where the mad crowd moves
abreast
We come to the wooded byways.
70 cover our GRIEF, and rest
Not ours the han of the coward,
Not ours is the ide1's shame;
IF we sink al last. o'crpoweret. y
Will yc whelm us with scorn or
blame?
We have seen the goal and have striv-
AS they strive who win or die;
We arc burdened and harshly driven,
And the swift feet passcd us by.
When we hear the p!audits' thoundcr.
And thrill to the victors shout,
We envy them not. nor wonder
At the fate that cast us out;
For VIC heed one music only,
The sweet far voice that calls
To the dauntIess soul and lonely
Who fights to the end and falls.
We come-ol,tworn and weary
The unnamed hosts of life:
Long was our march and dreary.
Eruitlass and long our strife.
Out from the dust and the riot
From the lost. yet glorious quest,
We como to the Wales Of quiet,
TO cover our grief and rest.
Marion Couthouy Smith in McClure's,
Magazine.
The girl sailed away with his rival,
And her form he beheld never more.
What the wild waves were saying was
plenty
TO the lobster who sat on the shore.
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
FORMER GOVERNOR SAYS OUR
RAILROAD LAWS Ar: AM.
PIE TO EFFECT RATE
REDUCTIONS.
Mr.. STAPLES TAKES ISSUE WITH
COLE AS TO "EFFiclENcY
AND SuFFlcIENcY" OF
OUR STATUTES.

In his st. Paul speech of Sept. q
Candidate Cole took occasion to re-
iterate his position on the railway ratio
problem and his attitude regarding
additional laws to accomplish tina,
end. He not only favored the passage
of a law putting into immediate effect
orders issued by the railroad and
warehouse commission, but he further
favored laws covering the following:
THE passage of law providing for
a Jail sentence for rebaters.
THE passage of law for the aboli-
ton of the pass system.
THE passage of a law for the re-
duction of passenger rates to 2 cents
per mile.
"The massage of proper and suffi-
cient demurrage laws.
"The passage Of law to prevent
the abuse of the private car system.
The passage Of a law specifically
authorizing the railroad and ware
house commission to determine the
actual value of railroad property with
view to such value being used as
basis of railroad rates.
THE passage Of such laws as are
necessary in all ways that are prac-
tical and beneficial to the people to
make the railroad statutes of the state
conform to the rate regulation law
recently enacted by the federal gov
eminent"
These railroad efforts OF the Repub.
fcan candidate were brought out by
the statement of Governor johnson
that present railway laws are both
SUFFICIENT and efficient to accomplish
all necessary reforms in railway
rates." and are causing amusement
among his opponents and uneasiness
and disgust among his friends. 1t
would seem to be the natural thing for
q man, unacquainted with subject.
to get Information from those quail
fed to give it: particularly would this
be the part of wisdom when the man
In question is the candidate for high
ONCE and is demonstrating to the peo-
pie bis fitness for the position. Mr..
Cole does not think this necessary.
but goes before the people declaring
that he will recommend the passage
Of laws already on the statute books;
that he favors others which would
not stand the test of judicial review,
unless the little formality Of amend
ing both the state and national con-
situations was successfully under
taken.
In letter published in the Mime.
apolis Journal Of the issue of Oct. 2
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20

In letter published in the Mime.
apolis Journal Of the issue of Oct. 2
former Governor John Lind effectively
disposed of Mr.. Coles contention that
the state needed further legislation to
put orders of the commission reduc-
ing rates into immediate effect. He
called attention to the fact that Sec
ton 1869, Revised Statutes of 1905, did
that very thing, as follows:
The Irish standard., 1906-10-20

80 The tariff so made by F:
: the commission shall he deemed {:
prima facie reasonable in all :
; courts and shall be in full force :
during the tendency of any appeal /:
or other proceeding to review the /:
!: action Of the commission in estab. +:
!: fishing the same"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-05-11
Round Trip Rates.

Annual meeting b. y. 7. |. OF
America, Omaha, Nebraska. Rates |
fare plus s.. Dates July 10Th to 18th
inclusive. Final limit July 18th.
Protective Order of Elks- Denver,
Colorado. Dates sale July -. 4, and
18th. Final limit august 10th Rate
One First clss fare.
Elks Circus, New Orleans. Rate
one fare and one third fare. Dates
sale May 10, II. and 18th. Final limit
May 18th.
Kentucky Home Coming-Louisviile,
Kentucky. Dates sale, June II, y
and 18th. Final limit SO days date of
sale. Rate one fare plus 81
Convention brotherhood of St. An
drew, Of the Z. f. Church, Memphis,
Tennessee. Dates sale October Ii,
and 18th. Final limit thirty days
from sale. Rate One fare plus y.
General Conference NJ. +. Church
Birmingham, Alabama. Rate One
fare plus 81. Dates sale April 30th,
May |. and Slh. Final limit May -.
Louisiana State Medical Society
No,,. hrIoops po+o I,o f.ro niue %
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-05-11
ARTICLE V.

The business affairs of this corporation shall
be under the supervision and management OF
0 board Of directors who shall be stock hold
ers in said corporation, said board Of direct
ors to be composed Of nine t9) stockholders
of said corporation. and to be elected to
Office as such, on the first Monday in April OF
Of each year, beginning with the first Monday
in April, of 1907. The officers thus elected,
shall hold office for the term Of one year, or
until their successors are duly elected and
qualified. majority of the vote of the di-
rectors present at any meeting, shall be suffi-
cient to put into effect and carry and mo-
tion, not in conflict with the provisions of
this charter, and majority Of the stock voted
ct any stockholders meeting, shall have
like effect, provided that any stakeholder
may be represented at any meeting OF the
stockholders, by written proxy duly filed
with the Secretary.
Each stock holder shall be entitled TO one
vote for two shares of stock owned by him,
provided that no person save the holder Of at
least two full shares OF stock, fully paid for,
shall have the right to vote at any meeting of
the stock holders portion of share of stock
not being sufficient to entitle the holder to a
vote and no stock holder to be allowed more
than one vote, regardless of the number Of
shares he may hold.
ARTICLE vi.
Five directors shall constitute quorum for
the transaction of all business legally coming
before the board and majority of the stock
holders Of the corporation represented in per.
son or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum Of
any meeting Of the stockholders.
ARTICLE VII.
The following stock-h holders shall constitute
the first board Of directors Of this corporation,
and shall hold Office until the first Monday in
April of 1907, or until their successors are
duly elected and qualified: J. B. Hoke G. B.
Hauley, A. Longanecker, A. Mcmillan. s. o.
Scsgglns, ]. W. Meeks, ". r. Fowler, J. C.
Minnix, J. W. DeVilbiss.
ARTICLE VIII.
At each an nual meeting of the stock holders,
they shall elect from their number, a board of
directors, President, Vice President, q
Secretary and Treasurer, each OF said off,
GERS to hold Office for period Of one year
from the date of said election. or until their
successors are duly elected and qualified.
The following named stockholders, shall
serve in the capacities indicated, until the
next regular annual election, to be held on the
same date each year, a. 10 the annual meeting
of the stock holders:-J. ". Meeka, President;
Jessie Devilbiss, Vice President: ". r. Fowl.
er, Secretary and J. C. Minnix, Treasurer.
ARTICLE TX.
The huty Of the President, shall be to pre-
side at all meetings of the board of directors
and stockholders, sign all papers. divesting
or sncumbering the corporation property. sign
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-05-11
NOTICE OF BANKRUPTCY.
In the District Court Of the United States for
The Western District Of Louisiana

In the District Court Of the United States for
The Western District Of Louisiana
In the matter of 7. H. Walton, Bankrupt,
No. 2S2, In Bankruptcy.
Notice is hereby given that, in obedience to
an order of the Court for said division and
district, dated April 2nd. 1906, l shall offer
for sale at public auction, for cash to the last
and highest bidder. at Roanoke, Calcasieu
Parish, in said division and district, between
legal hours on Saturday May the 26th 1906,
the following described real and personal
property belonging to said bankrupt:
Lot Number Fourteen "a of Block Number
Twenty-four ga of the Town of Roanoke. La,
together with store building situated there.
on, all appraised at the sum OF, six hundred
S600.00) dollars; Also Vacant lots Numbers
Fifteen t15) and Sixteen U6) of said Block
Twenty-four t24I. in said Town of Roanoke,
La. appraised at One Hundred Fifty SI5O.0O}
Dollars each; Also one lot of notes and ac-
counts in the possession of said trustee.
As L. s. Crosby, Trustee.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-05-11
Stop GrnmbIlRg

if you suffer from RheumstzI
pains, for Billiards. Snow Lin
will bring quick relief. Il isis
cure for Sprains, Rheumatism. Z
tracted Muscles and all pains-z
within the reach of all. Priceskf
$1.00. C. Il. Smith, Tenaha, I
writes: | have used Ballads Z
Liniment in my family for yesh1
have found it a fine remedy q
pains and aches. | rec0mmeud
pains in the chest" Sold bgE|
Bros
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-05-11
If You Don't

succeed the first time use Herbine and
you will get instant relief. The great
est liver regulator. A positive cure
for Constipation, Dyspepsia, Malaria,
Chills and all liver complaints. Mr..
c.. of Emory Texas, writes: "My
wife has been using Herbine for her.
self and children for FIVE years. 1t is
a sure cure for constipation and ma
laria fever, which is substantiated by
what it has done for my family"
Sold by Billion Bros.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-05-11
STATE OFLOUISIANA.
PARISH OF CALCASTEU.

Charter of the Roanoke Cooperative Supply
CO.. Limited.
Before me, the undersigned Notary Public,
duly commissioned and qualified within and
for the Parish and State aforesaid, and in
the presence of the undersigned competent
witnesses, personally CAME and appeared the
persons whose several names are hereunto
subscribed, all of whom are of the full age Of
majority, each of whom declared that avalllng
themselves of the laws Of the state Of LOuiSl-
ana, relative to the organization of corpo-
rations of the character hereinafter indicated,
they have formed and organized, and do by
these presents form and organize themselves
into and constitute a corporation and body
polite in law, for the objects and purposes
and under the stipulations and agreements
hereinafter set forth an expressed, which they
hereby adopt as their charter, tOwlt:
ARTICLE |.
The name and title of tins corporation, is de-
clarcd to be "The Roanoke Cooperative Sup
ply Company Ltd" and its Gomocile and
principal place of business, shall be in the
village of Roanoke, Calcasieu Parish, Louis
lana. 1t shall have and enjoy succession i'll its
corporate capacity, for period of ninety
nine years from the date hereof, unless sooner
dissolved in the manner hereinafter indicated
All citation end other legal process, shah be
served on the President, or in his absence OF
! inability to act from any cause, upon the Vice
President