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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
WHEN INDICTMENTS COME
What the Standard Oil VIII Have to
Pay if Convicted.

| The rmes-Democart says: When III
dictments al Standard Oil come, they
come not single spies, but in battal-
ions He concern has broken all re
cords for immenSlty OF interests and
operations, and now the people seem re
solved that 1t shall gain the honor Of
being the most multitudlnOuSly indicted
and proceeded against institution under
the SIM. If III contemplating its wealth
we must think in millions, i'll consider
ing its indictments we shall find the
mental operation greatly facilitated by
thinking III hundreds.
The public has, 10 doubt, already
taken note OF the other proceedings
against the Standard OIL with their ex-
cecdingly great number Of separate
counts. To swell that .goodly total
comes another little list of indictments
go in all-presented by an Ohio grand
Jury. There IS here no question of the
Federal government The Orleans have
an antitrust law Of their own and they
are enthusiastic enough to wish to try
it and see if it really means anything.
In pursuance of this laudabe effort a
grand Ivy Of good men and true have
on their oaths presented that the Stand
ard Oil i, a trust under the Valentine
antitrust law Of Ohio. with the follow
ING objects: 80 establish restrictions
in trade and commerce, to limit and re-
duce the production Of petroleum and
its products, to prevent competition in
the production, sale and manufacture,
transporting and vending of petroleum
and its products between themselves and
others; to fix at 4 common standard
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
River Improvement.

God in his infinite wisdom and good
ness never vouchsafed to any other
people such a magnificent and extern
sive system of waterways as we pos
sess. In the Mississippi valley alone
there are 1890 miles of navigable
rivers capable of bearing upon their
bosoms the commerce of the world.
The failure to properly improve them
is an inexplicable mystery and comes
within a Georgetown Craze of being a
national disgrace. The dream of the
statesmen of every age has been to
Improve water transportation. The
chances are that if Napoleon had been
left to his own devices after the treaty
of Aix-la -Chapelle he would have con-
nected the Mediterranean and the At
lantic by canal, the building of which
is now proposed. for he spent most of
the time he could snatch from war i'm
projecting and perfecting those inter
nal improvements which, next to his
code, are his clearest titles to inner
lShable renown. Among the things for
Which the present German kaiser will
be most gratefully remembered by fu-
ture generations of Germans are the
canals constructed and the rivers i'm
proved during his reign and under his
guidance and supervision. If railroads
had never been invented. every foot of
the 10000 miles of rivers in the Mis-
sissippi valley would now be navigat-
ed safely and profitably. but with the
introduction of the steam car people
seemed to conclude enormously and
prematurely that they would have no
need for water transportation. Now
they are waking up gradually to the
tact that water transportation is rail
road rate regulation" Even if another
pound of freight or another passenger
were never transported by river. the
money would be well spent in making
rivers navigable in fact as well as in
theory. for the very fact that they
could be nayigated safely would drive
the railroads into cheapening rates.
Various propositions are pending for
river Improvement Some urge the is
sue of bonds: others say pay the bills
of expense out of the current revenues
but all agree that system for com
prehensive and continuous improve
ment should be devised at once. We
are spending vast sums in constructing
the Panama canal. which IS Well but
while doing that it is supreme folly to
neglect the Mississippi. the Missouri
and their tributaries If Holland own
ed the Missouri she would if necessa.
~ to render it navigable. build a gran
lite dixie on both sides of it from Alton
to Fort Benton and in so doing Incl
dentally reclaim from overflow enough |
Of the richest land in the world to
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
Shively For Vice President.

There is a rllmOr in Washington thai
Hon. r. +. Shively of South Bend. IND.
has announced that he is willing to ac-
cept a nomination for vice president.
and the rumor has been received with
applause by all Democrats in Wash
ington who know the brilliant HooSler.
He could have been nominated at Kan
sas CITY in 1900 if he had been willing.
He served several terms in congress,
retiring of his own motion March 4.
1898. When he first entered the house
he was the youngest member and dur
ing his entire service was distin-
guiShed member. He is still in the
prime of his splendid powers, lawyer
in the front rank, a public speaker of
unusualSforce. He is tall, well knit.
prepoSsesSing man-an advantage in
public life not to be deSpised or lightly
held. Shively is a favorite son of the
Indiana Democracy and occupies a
geographical position of great strategic
importance Since Indiana quit holding
her state election III October. Just Il
month in advance of the presidential
election. she is not so much of a pivotal
state, but nevertheless in larger
sense she is still pivotal. Normally In
diana is close and at the election iii
1906 showed signs of swinging back to
the Democratic column. In this con
gress her delegation stands two Demo
Gratis and eleven Republicans. In the
SiXtieth congress she will have four
Democrats to nine Repl blicans. and
two of those Republicans We're elected
by the skin Of their teeth. while the
maiOrities of some others were cut to
almost the vanishing point. Shively
made a famous race in the South Bend
district, reducing the Republican ma
jority from 5000 to about 200 Mr.
Shively is happily married to a daugh
ter of Hon. George A. jerks of Brook
vile, Pa, who was a prominent mem
Der of congress and who held high
Office under Grover Cleveland All III
all, he would make tiptop candidate
and when elected he would make an
ideal presiding officer of the senate
Should he succeed to the presidency by
the death or resignation of the preSi-
dent he would make safe and popular
chief magistrate of the republic The
fact that a man of his standing is will
ing TO accept vice presidential nomi-
nation is another evidence that the
Democrats expect to win in 1908.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20


The G. O. T. is rent with feudS. Sen
ator Joseph Benson Foraker is after
President Roosevelt with q sharp
stick about the wholesale discharge of
the colored troops. Governor Albert
b. Cummins and Mr. Secretary Shaw
head the two Republican factions in
Iowa which are fighting each other to
the death-God be praised. In Mis-
souri, the kerens and NiedringEaus
wings are not Topping together. Quite
the contrary. In New York the reg
ulars," now out in the cold, are watch
ing Governor Hughes and the re
formers with knives up their sleeves
In Indiana Vice President Fairbanks
and his friends are trying to unhorse
Senator Albert ]. Beveridge and his
friends. On dit that the Fairbanks
crowd have gobbled nine of the state
committee and have left poor Bever-
idge with only four Consequently the
Beveridge crowd is sore-sore as was
luS AidlI VI " WHeu lie was afflicted
with boils and when his wife coun-
seled him to curse God and die" It's
a pretty kettle of fish. What's the
matter with these snarling, wrangling,
biting, scratching, caterwauling pa
triots? Spells and the division there
of, public pap and its ladling out.
When the Office seekers were Fostering
President Lincoln almost to death, he
pathetically remarked as to the pau
city of teats and the surplus of pigs.
It's the same now. They have all the
federal offices in the land and most
of the state and county offices, but
there are not enough to go round;
hence wars and rumors of war. hence
this hair pulling and knitting. Just
why Vice President Fairbanks wants
to GUST the soulful Beveridge from his
curule chair is not clear to an out
slider, but that such is the case seems
the only conclusion to be drawn from
indianapolis dispatches Perhaps the
senator is incubating presidential
boom of his own which the vice presi-
dent thinks or fears may collide with
his own boom. So he proposes to
squelch the brilliant and ambitious
Beyeridge at once and forever. If they
will closely scan the Hoosier election
returns in 1906 they may discover that
a bitter quarrel between them might
mean a Democratic Indiana once more,
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
Sees Breakers Ahead.

Mr.. Stuyvesant Fish lately president
of the Illinois Central Railroad com
pany, has assumed the role of Cas-
sandra and tells his countrymen GER
tain things which they do not like to
hear. Pope says:
All seems infected that the infected spy
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
1t may be-who knows?-that the
fact that Mr. Fish was recently and
forcibly separated from a nice juicy
job causes him to take pessimistic
view of things. However that may Be.
he begins a lengthy article in the
Journal of Commerce with this dis
duieting sentence: In point of time d
great industrial crisis is due. and there
are many indications of it's being i'm
minent." With that for starter he
discourses on earthquakes. famine.
cliques, etc, in extenso. One of his
sentences will surprise most folks. 1t
Is this: I'VE are still d debtor nation"
We have been Boosting so much lately
about our unprecedented increase in
wealth, about being the richest nation
on the globe and about being u world
power. which we have been since April
3D. 1903, that 1t stuns us to be inform
ed that we are still a debtor nation
Toward the close of his article Mr.
Fish dips into politics and intimates
that business depression betwixt now
and 1903 would cause the discontent-
ed to flock TO the banner of Mr. Bryan
or Mr.. Hearst He cites as sample
of ''the temper Of the peop,e' the fact
that Charles Evans Hughes. Republic
an. was elected governor of New York.
while all the rest of the Democratic
candidates were elected, and then
says that this temper" of the people
sis vastly stronger elsewhere" All In
al. Mr. Fish's remarks are well worthy
of consideration by those who are
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
SHERIFF'S SALE.

No. IO,0I3-ln First Judicial District
Court Of Caddo Parish, Louisiana:
VIM Winter vs. \. NJ. McWilliams.
BY virtue of writ Of feri facias, td
me issued in the above entitled and1
numbered suit, by the Honorable First
Judicial District Court of Caddo Parish.
Louisiana, | have seized and will offer
|for sale at public auction, for cash, ac-
cordlng to law, at the principal front
door IF the court house Of Caddo Par
ISL, La, during the legal hours for
sales, on
SATURDAY., FEB. ,, 1907.
certain suit entitled \. NJ McWil-
liams vs.. Texas and Pacific Railway
Company, No. Io,S5o on the docket of
the First Judicial District Court of
Louisiana, iii and for Caddo Parish,
filed November IA. 1906, the said suit
being for the sum of two thousand dol
lars with per cent per annum interest
from judicial demand, together with all
the right. title and claim and interest
OF the said a. NJ McWilliams i'll and to
aforesaid suit of A. NJ McWilliams vs.
Texas and Pacific Railway Company,
No Io,S5o.
Said suit seized as belonging TO the
defendant, A. NJ McWilliams. and to
be sold to satisfy the sum specified IN
the writ in the sum Of one hundred and
twenty dollars and twenty-five cents
(SI25.25), and all cost OF suit, including
ten per cent on said principal ard inter
est as attorneys fees.
S. Y. ALEXANDER,
Coroner and Acting Sheriff
Caucasian, Ian Il. 1000
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20

make state as y as Indiana.
thereby making HON e, IL the heart o.
the continent for several millions q
American citizens. The people of IL .
Mississippi valley should rise up as one
man and demand III Il way to command
attention that congress shall do its fu!
duty in the premises. Systematic ac-
tion-a long pull, a strong pull and II
pull together-will accomplish the de-
sired end, and nothing short of that
will suffice. Year in and year out the
Missouri and the upper Mississippi
swallow enough rich land to constitute
state as big as Massachusetts. Why
not save that precious land for our
children and our childrens children:
We spend millions on irrigation prof
ectS. If we can spend money to get
water on to land, why can't we spend
money to get water off other land?
That is question which. though fire.
quently asked, has never been salts
factorily or adequately answered Sure
~ it is up to congress to answer it.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
SHERIFFS SALE
No. Io.oor-In First Judicial D -trct
Court of Caddo Parish. Louisiana:
Mrs Mabel A. Norwood, ct al. vs..

No. Io.ooI-In First Judicial District
Court of Caddo Parish. Louisiana:
Mrs Mabel A. Norwood, Ct al, vs.
F. NJ. Currie.
Bv virtue of writ of seizure an sale
to me issued in the above entitled and
numbered suit, by the Honorable Flrst
Judicial District Court of Caddo P,rish
Louisiana, have seized and will offer
for sale, at public auction, for cash. &C
cording to law, without the benefit of
appralsemcnt, at the principal front Ioor
of the court house of Caddo Parish. in
the City Of Shreveport, Louisiana. dur
ing the legal hours for sales, on
SATURDAY, FEB. q, 1907,
Lots 81, 80, "a in ten-acrc let Of the
Allendale subdivision of the CIV Of
Shreveport. Louisiana, together Wit, all
buildings and Improvement, thereon.
Said property seized as beongjue to
the defendant and to he sold to satisfy
the debt specified III the said writ in the
sum Of three thousand dollars with eight
per cent per annum interest from No
vcmber II, 1905. until paid, and all cost
of, suit, including five per cent on said
sum and interest as attorneys fees.
S. y. ALEXANDER.
Coroner and Acting Shriff, Caddc Par
ish, Louisiana.
Caucasian, Ian. 2. 1907
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
CAN NOT BE FIRED.

The Texas farmers are hOt-foot after
one OF their senators because they have
caught him flirting with the Standard
Oil hefer After this infamous trust
had been driven out OF the State, this
senator used his Influence" to have it
reinstated. and it turns out that he WAS
well paid for his work Such men can
not be fired too soon and there are
some more like him from other States
who need beheading- Guardian
Journal
'Fired?" 1t will be surprising if the
senator is fired The senator and his
friends are already rejoicing over his
reelection. perhaps by one vote, posi-
bly, two. Few men, senators or other
wise, are fired because OF their 'flirt-
ing with the Standard Oil heifer'' and
others Should the senator be vindicat-
ed by a reelection he would have cause
for action against his enemies. but it is
safe to say he will strive to forget them,
at least he will not irritate them and
will be we'll satisfied with his vindica-
ton.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20


vile negro soldier episode, and
that is Reed Smoot of Utah. 1t comes
to Reed in the nature of reprieye
not that he is or ever was in the slight
est danger Of being separated from his
curule chair by his fellow senators. II
he had been Democrat he would
have been bounced long ago: but, beng
a Republican. he has been all the time
safe as a bug in a rug by reason of the
modus vivendi entered into several
years ago by the Mormon hierarchy
and the Republican bigwigs. The rea-
son why Smoot is grateful for the
Brownsville imbr0gliO is that it gives
him rest from the dreary stream Of
senatorial talk about himself. He may
be thick skinned. but even he must
have grown weary of that solemn dry
el. OF all the farceS ever put on the
boards the Smoot investigation hcaGs
the list If he is not entitled to his seat.
he ought to have been fired long age
If he is entitled to it, his title ought to
have been confirmed before the middle
of his term. The Smoot case is a stencil
In the nostrils of Decent folk.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20

No. Io,3oS-In First Judicial District
Court of Caddn Parish, Louisiana
Succession of G. H. and NJ F. Boaz-
man
By virtue of a commission TO sell, to
me issued in the above entitled and
numbered succession by the Honorable
First Judicial District Court of Caddo
Parish. Louisiana. | will offer for sale
at public auction, for cash, according to
law, at the principal front door of the
court house of Caddo Parish in the City
Of Shreveport, La, during the legal
hours for sales, on
SATURDAY, JAN. 10. 1907.
the south half of the northwest quarter
and north half of the southwest quarter
of section one, township fifteen. north,
range sixteen west
All Of the above property in the Par
ISL of Caddo, louisiana and to be sold
for the purpose of paying the debts of
the said succession.
s. y. ALEXANDER, ,
Coroner and Acting Sheriff and ex-Of-
hcio Auctioneer of Caddo Par
ish La
Caucasian, Dec. 20, 1906.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
SUCCESSION NOTICE.

No. Io,o7o-In First District Court Of
Louisiana: Succession OF Lucy Jane
Hawkins.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo
Notice is hereby given that w. W, War
ing has this day applied TO be appointed
administrator Of said succession, and un-
less opposition be made thereto within
the time specified by law, he will be ap-
pointed as prayed for
Witness the Honorable T. F. Bell,
judge of said court, this the 9th day of
January 1907.
F. A. LEONARD
Jan. 10. Clerk
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
Progress.

The world moves. 4 Chinese .tnub-
lie is proposed. Doesn't that jar YOU?
The Democratic idea. like Tennyxon's
brook, goes on forever If Thomas
Jefferson is cognizant of what hap
pens on this mundane sphere. he must
be delighted, to use Il fav0rite word OF
the latest Of his successors The Chi
neSe have been supposed to be not
only joined to their idols, o. was
Ephraim of old, but also to their ideas
They have been counted a. the most
incurable conservatives and mossbacks
of all human beings, but there is such
al institution as the Chinese Empire
reform association. which has for it's
ambitious purpose the Americani2a-
ton of China and the establishment OF
republic Wonders will never cease,
and surely this is the most marvellous
bit of news during the first seven DAYS
of 1907. Suppose the aforementioned
association should succeed in Amer
icanizing China, which means that
China and the Chinese would wake
up. Suppose also that the 400. 900
up should join hands with the forty odd
millions of laps who have already
walked up and that they should take
it into their yellow pates to go forth
conquering and to conquer. What
then? All the white men on the face
of the earth would be compelled in
self defense to bury their own differ
enceS and line up together in order to
withstand these Asiatic hordes. Ash
attic nations from time immemorial
have been in the habit of swarming
after the fashion of bees, and the ONLY
reason they have not swarmed much
since the battle of Tours. in which
Charles Martel defeated Adder Rah-
man, is that the power of the whites
has restrained them But within the lfe-
time of folks now on earth japan has
experienced a new birth SO may China.
and when she does it is war to the
death between the yellow races and
the white races.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
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plunging and should be warning o.
at least d cause for study by all those
who have spread out too much undei
the impression that this era OF pros
perity viii have no end.
1t is 10 to l shot, however, that his
suggestions will fall on deaf ears. just
as did Noahs predicting the flood.
Human nature has been the same in al
ages Of the world. and the rule of con
duct for most people is sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof" which,
after all may be most productive OF
happineSS
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
Chinese Coolies.

Hon. Samuel GOmpers, president of
the American Federation of Labor. has
no influence, 50 we are informed by
certain high and mighty Republicans.
AS heretofore related. some of them
even have the cheek to claim that his
opposition to measure boosts it rath-
er than retards it. II that be true.
strange things are happening-things
ineXplicable. For instance, some of us
about a year ago made fight in the
house to prevent the employment of
Chinese coolies on the isthmian canal.
President Gompers was on our side in
that fight, but the putocrats rolled us.
Now, howevlI, rejecting on the cleo
ton returns, the Republicans have sud
denly concluded that President Com
pers and the rest of us were right all
the time and therefore they declare
that Chinese coolies will not be en-
ployed in building the canal, a fact on
which Uncle Sammy Gompers NAV
congratulate himself and union labor.
Judge Walter Evans of the United
States court for the western district of
kentucky has sort of patent right
on a way to get his name into the
newspapers. and that is by declaring
important laws of congress unconsti-
tutional. This habit of the judge
causes President Roosevelt to devote a
sharp paragraph in his December mes
sage to one of the judges decisions.
though he did not name the Judge.
Now comes Judge Evans and "busts''
the federal employers liability act. At
this rate he will soon become persona
non grata at the White House.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
a JUDGMENT.

NO. IO,02I-ln the FIRST judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish Louis
lana: Mrs Lula Robertson VS.. J. D.
Robertson.
In the above cause. by reason Of the
default having been duly taken, and after
legal delays duly proven up in open
court, the law and evidence being in
favor thereof, it is ordered, adiu ped
and decreed that the plaintiff, Mrs. LA
Robertson, wife of J. d. Robertson. do
have and recover Judgment agai"st her
husband. J. ID. Robertson, diSsOlvi'1g the
community OF acquetS and gains hereto
fore existing between them as man and
wife, and giving and granting 10 The
said Mrs. Lula Robertson the sole right
to manage and control in her own name
any and all paraphernal property that
she now has or may hereafter acquire.
1t is further ordered and decreed that
the defendant pay all cost, and that due
notice and publication of this judgmen1
be advertised as the law directs.
Thus done, read and signed in opc::
court on this December 70, 1000.
I. F. BELL, Judge.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
SATURDAY, FEB. 10. 1907.

the following described property belong
ing to the said succession, situated III
Caddo parish. La. to-wit: The east hall
of the northeast quarter OF section
twenty-five (22) township sixteen (Io)
north range sixteen (I0J west contain
ing eighty acres. The southeast quarter
of the southeast quarter of section hi
teen G5) township sixteen (io) noFth
range sixteen west, containing forty
acres The northwest quarter OF section
fourteen Ga township sixteen tIo)
north range sixteen, west, less fifty $50
acres on the west side Of said quarter,
and also less sixteen acres in southeast
corner OF said section. containing about
one hundred acres.
The said property to be sold at public
auction for cash according to law, for
the purpose Of paying the debit OF the
said succession. -
s. Y. ALEXANDER.
Coroner and Acting Sheriff and ex-O1-
fcio Auctioncer OF Caddo Parish,
Louisiana.
Caucasian, Jan. II, 1907.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
SUCCESSION SALE.

No, Io44z-In First Judicial District
Court of Caddo Parish, Louisiana:
Succession OF +. NJ. Fortson.
By virtue of commission to sell, to
NE issued in the above entitled and
numbered succession, will offer for
sale at the principal front door Of the
court house Of Caddo parish, IN the city
OF Shreveport, La, during the legal
hours for sales ON
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20

Especial Washington letter.
MERE is at least one senator Of
the United States who is NJ
doubt thankful for the Browns
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20

| have found out when people begin
to get Old. It is when they cease to
learn anything new.