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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-14
Stop Fast Driving.

The accident which occurred here
the latter part Of last week in
which the young colored man
Harry Detiege lost his life, should
serve as a lesson to those who en-
gage in fast and reckless driving
at night particularly. The youn G
man had been riding in town at
an unreasonable speed and he hap
pened to meet with a horse hit
ched to gig which had been
frightened by a dog, the report
says, and they colided, the shaft
of the gig struck the young man
in the lower part of the abdomen
inficting a wound which the Doc
tors considered very serious and
advised that he be taken to New
Orleanf for an operation. He was
taken 10 the city ana uleu tntre
the next day.
There is fast driving here dur
ing the day which is dangerous;
at night the danger is greatly in
creased. There is a town ordi-
nance against fast driving that
should be strictly enforced. Those
who want to exhibit the speed of
their horses should 90 to the race
track, aud those who are careless
in running about at break-neck
speed at night should fud place
of safety in the Calaboose. 1t
should be stopped.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-14
A Humane Appeal.

A humane citizen of Richmond,
Ind, Mr.. U. d. Williams, 1O7 West
Main street, says II appeal to all
persons with weak lungs to take
DR.. Kings New Discovery, the on
ly remedy that has helped me and
fully comes up to the proprietor's
recommendation" 1t saves more
lives than all other throat and lung
remedies put together. Used as a
cough and cold cure the world over.
Cures asthma, bronchitis, Group,
whooping cough, quinsy, hoarse-
ness, and phtbisic, stops hemorr-
hayes of the lungs and builds them
up. Guaranteed at Labbe's drug.
store. Soc and S10O Trial bottle
free.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-14
Wilkinson Sentiment in St.
Martin.

Mr.. Alex. Pellerin, cashier of the
Peoples Bank of Breaux Bridge,
was here several hours Saturday
last enroute to New Orleans. Ask
ed of the gubernatorial situation
IN st. Martin Parish. Mr.. Pellerin
said: THE sentiment in favor of
Col. Wilkinson is growing rapidly
aud conservativeIy speaking the
Colonel ought to carry the parish
by at least 400 votes" Lafayette
Democrat.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-14

who shall not have registered at
least ten days prior to the date of
the primary election. This con-
templates, of course, that the le-
gistration Office shall be kept open
prior to such primary election,
and to within ten days of such
election.
1T also requires that seven days
prior to the primary election the
! registrar of voters shall make a
complete list of all registered vo-
ters in every voting precinct in
the parish. certify to same, and,
within three days before the pri-
mary election, deliver the same to
the respective parish committees
of the parish holding the said pri-
mary election, and this without
cost or charge whatsoever.
"While there is no period of
time fixed in the primary election
law when the registration Office
shall he opened, the fact that the
act fixes a date prior to q primary
election when the registration Of
fee shall be closed, seems to carry
with it legislative Interpretation
that the registration Office is al
ways open at the courthouse. This
is the view of the Attorney Gen.
eral and in it / concur.
From this time on until ten days
before the date fixed for the pri-
mary election, you will keep your
Office at the court house open each
day except Sundays and legal no.
lidays, during the usual hours of
business. and register all who ap-
ply for registration, and who are
entitled thereto under the law.
"Clerks of registration are sp-
pointed by the Governor, and 1
wish you to send me the name of
a competent man for appointment
as clerk in your parish. This man
must be fair and strictly impair
tial. He must not be an active
partisan of any candidate. He
must be a man who is far more
anxious to discharge fairly the
duties of his Office than to further
the interests of any candidate. He
must himself be a candidate for
no Office in the parish or State.
"Where there are two or more
political factions in the parish,
the man you name to nae for clerk
should BE- one acceptable to the
leaders of the factions. They
should be consulted in his appoint
ment. I reserve. Of course, the
right to make an appointment in
dependent of the man you name.
II will hold the assessor and
clerk of registration strictly re-
sponsible for the careful, fair and
impartial discharge of their duties
and for carrying out the instruc-
tions contained herein.
Acknowledge receipt of this
letter, inform me of your intention
and purpose to carry out the in
structions thereof, and send me,
with as little delay as possible, the
name of a good man to be appoin-
ted clerk of registration in your
parish.
"Yours very truly,
IN. G. BLANCHARD"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-14
The Touch That Heals

is the touch of Bucklen's Arnica
Salve. It's the happiest combina-
ton of Arnica flowers and healing
balsams ever compounded. No
matter how old the sore or ulcer
is, this Salve will cure it. For
burns, scalds, cuts wounds or piles,
it's an absolute cure. Guaranteed
by !. j. Liable druggist. 20 cents.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-14
SATURDAY, SEPT. IA, 1907.
FOR ASSESSOR.

| am a candidate for Asses
sor OF this Parish. at the COM
ing Democratic Primary Elec-
ton.
If elected, | pledge myself
to PERSONALLY make or
supervise all the assessments,
and to faithfully, fairly and
impartially discharge the i'm
portant duties of that office.
MARTIN J. VOORHEES,.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-14
POLITICS IN LOUISIANA
GOVERNOR INSTRUCTS ON PRIMARY
ELECTION.

HbIS ivan
Gov. Blanchard has sent the fol-
lowing letter 10 the various Asses
sors Of the State
Dear Sir:-For the first time
in the history of the State a pri-
mary election ordered by law will
be held, presumably in January,
for the nomination of all State and
local officers. 1t is the purpose of
the administration to see to it, as
far as lies in its power, that this
election is absolutely fair to all
candidates.
IAN important feature of this
primary election is the registration
of voters preceding it. As the as
SCISSOR of your parish You are the
registrar of voters for the parish.
The Legislature intended, and 30
instruct you. that every facility
should be given to those entitled
to do so to register.
1.-THE list of registered voters,
as the same may appear on the re-
gistration books of the several "a.
rishes of the State, is permanent
roll, to be added to from to time,
and there is therefore no need of
an entire new registration. This
roll may be supplemented by adj
ding the names of all persons qua.
lifted to register, who may offer to
register at any time, provided they
present themselves for registration
at the court house of the parish.
"Section % of Act No. 1879 of
1890 declares that the registration
books shall be at all times open to
inspection, provided the same
does not interfere with the work
of registration. Copies of what the
books show are entitled to be pro-
cured by those who desire same.
"Section % of the same act pro-
hibits the assessor from opening
his books on any boat or water
craft, aud prohibits him from 60.
ing to unusual places under pre-
tense of affording opportunities to
voters to register.
Section 81 of the same act
makes the refusal of the registrar
of voters or clerks of registration
to register any person legally en-
titled to register, a misdemeapor
punished by fine Or imprisonment.
The registration Office should be
kept open all the time during the
business hours of each day for the
purpose of registering voters as
they may appear. The registrar
of voters, or the clerk of reglstra-
ton, should therefore be every day
during the usual business hours at
the Office of the assessor of the pa
IRISH seat of the parish.
"Act No. 118 of 1904 should be
consulted by you as to the hours
for keeping the registration Office
open, and for other duties of the
registrar of voters. But in con-
nection Herewith you should also
consult the primary election law
(Act No. 40 of 19O6). That law
seems to require that the offices of
registration should be opened
prior to the primary election and
kept open since under section %
thereof, no voter is permitted to
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-14
HOW'S THIS !?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
We. the undersigned, have known +. j.
Cheney for the last Is years. and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to car
ry out any obligations made by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN s. MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal
ly, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system.
Send for testimonials free.
F.J. CHENEY s. CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-14

Believe nothing against another
but on good authority; nor report
what may hurt another, unless it
be greater hurt to concealed it.
WILLIAM PENN.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1907-09-14

For Sale-A good surry for S35
genuine bargain - l.. Biepvenu.
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29

HALF of the citizens of southern
Wyoming are up in arms with indigna'
tion that the department of justice
should decide not to prosecute the great
Union Pacific coal land thieves. 1t is
alleged that just when the law had
strangle hold on the neck of the monop.
oily, the department has called off the
prosecution and has accepted the offer
of the offender that if just very
small proportion of the loot of years is
disgorged, the balance may remain
just where it is now-in the hands of
the Union Pacific and it's tributary
companies. We do not like the appear
ance OF this move.
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29
BRIEF ITEMS OF news
Minor Events Of Interest From All
Parts Of the Wcrld.
uesday, May IA.

Charles Haines Haswell, one Of the
best known civil and marine engineers
IN the country, is dead in New York
city. E1e was eighty-eigbt years old.
Charles H. Kimball, a prominent
lawyer, ex-member of the state legis-
lature and a we'll known railroad Or
ganiZer, is dead at Parsons, Kan, aged
sixty-one years.
H. S. F'airall, for many years well
known newspaper man in Iowa and
Wisconsin and secretary Of the North
ern Wisconsin Farmers association, is
dead at Milwaukee.
A government bill has been intro
duced in the Hungarian parliament
prohibiting employees of state railroads
from participating in strikes under
pain of instant dismissal
Heavy rains have fallen in Havana
province, breaking a drought of many
months duration. Rain has been re-
ported in other sections of the island
during the past day or two.
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29

There is no better rule for good health
than that the bowels should move every
day at the same hour if possible. Re&u-
larity can be acquired by making a habit
of this. Foolish people neglect, this and
when chronic constipation effects them
they take pills every few days to force the
bowels to perform their natural function.
AS years 60 on they require more and
more pills. This should be stopped.
Cooper's New Discovery will build up
the stomach and cause the bowels to act
naturally. While taking the medicine ket
the habit Of regularity, then gradually
stop taking the medicine.
Here is . sample Of letters from those
who have tried it:
'.For sixteen years / have suffered from
stomach and liver trouble, and chronic
constipation. had frequent headaches
and always felt tired and worn out. l
heard Of Cooper's New Discovery and
BEGAN its use, After had finished one
bottle Twas wonderfully improved. Con-
stipation fave way to q pleasing regularity
Of the bowels and ] ate better, slept bet
ter and felt better than had for months.
II is the greatest medicine ] have ever
known. = = Samuel Booren. 1742 Munsey
Ave-, Scranton Pa. Il. 5s ,5
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29

or yellow. lhelr
eyes are dull, and
they look and feel
sleepy. No wonder
tn ey do. Th e
bowels are a sewer.
They carry away
the poisonous re-
fuse. If they don't
act the poisonous
matter is absorbed
by the body, and
headaches, dull
ness, bad complex
ion and eventually
serious troubles re.
eu1f
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29

WITH rebuilding operations almost
entirely suspended because of a series
of strikes, and with large majority of
the city officials fighting to keep out OF
the penitenuiary, San Francisco is con.
fronted by condition bordering upon
anarchy. Practically not street has
been repaired \slnce the earth quake
and fire, not a public building restored
Streets cars are operated in daylight
only on account of violence. San Fran
cisco must be good town to stay
away from.
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29
Wednesday, May IS.

The anti-bucketshop bill passed the
Pennsylvania senate by vote of &c
to 1. The bill now goes to the gov
ernor.
Scarcity Of food is causing frequent
bread riots at Teheran, Persia. Many
persons have been injured in the
fighting.
Brigadier General Mathew NJ Blunt,
u. S. A., retired, died at a sanitarium
in Brooklyn, where he had been under
treatment.
Right Rev. John Diendorfer, one Of
the founders and late president of the
Evangelical Lutheran synod Of low:
and other states, is dead at Waverly,
a., aged seventy-nine years.
The r2cc-linists in the repair shops
all along the line Of the Eric railroad.
it is learned, are dissatisfied and will
demand important changes in a pro-
posed new agreement which will be
submitted to the officials.
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29
EyergreenS at Half Price

After May 1st until sold, we will Of
fer choice block of Norway Spruce,
Scotch Pine, Arbor Vitaes, to and 4.
to feet, at $l5 per lO0 Said trees are
of our three times root-pruned stock,
which formerly sold at $3.50 and ss35 per
hundred and includes our free replace
for three growing seasons. Parties
from a distance, coming for trees, will
be entertained free of charge. Bring
wagon with double box. ;
GILBERTsON NURSERY Co.,
st. Ansgar, La.
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29

MEMORIAL DAY tomorrow. Our
citizens again have opportunity to
honor the memory of the sleeping vet.
erans by entering heartily into the
spirit of the day, day fraught with
lessons of patriotism which may be
well needed by young and old. The
flowers which we scatter on the soldiers
graves will fade but our appreciation
of the service of those who helped to
save our country from disunion should
never diminish.
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29
other places

A CONTRACT has just been let by the
N. w. Cooperative Coal and Dock Com;
pany for an immense dock at Ashland, !,
Wis.,, capable of loading IS cars Of coal
in day to be in readiness Sept. !.
This is capable of being enlarged easily
to much greater capacity. This com.
pany is independent of the coal trust
and will sell coal to the companies which
the trust is trying to freeze out of bust
ness. We wish it abundant success.
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29
OTHER EDITORS OPINIONS

Anoka Union: Most of Gov. John.
do the most harm to the republican
party next year. Thought of this, you
republicans? s"r7' '=1 - "'
LeRoy independent: That Tawney
must take a back seat at the next con
gressional election is the cry of the
people, and although no one attempts
as yet to predict who his successor will
be, the majority maintain that he
(raWney) has been elected to his last
term.
Fergus Falls Journal: The Mime.
apolis Journal is entirely correct in
saying that members of the legislature
who were for temperance leg islation
were 'right" on the other big questions
A man who is not "right" on moral
questions is quite easy to influence on
other questions when financial matters
are involved.
Owatonna Journal.C .Cnronicle: TIE
covering of Southern Minnesota with a
network of electric lines means surely
a great impetus to the development OF
this part of the state, and a huge in
crease in it's population. Given a fer.
tile soil and proximity to markets both
large and small, a vast improvement in
transportation facilities such as afford
ed by these electric lines can spell moth
ing less than a boom for Southern
Minnesota.
Princeton Union: Minneapolis mer-
chants have formulated plan by
which persons living within one hun
dred miles of the city may upon speci-
fed dates receive "free" transportation
provided they purchase from certain
firms $50 worth of goods. But people
should not for moment suppose that
the amount of this So called ''free" fare
will not be added to the regular prices
of the goods that they purchase.
Adams Review: LII. Quimby editor
of the Brownsville LeaAet has laid the
editorial quill aside and discontinued
the publication Of his paper. For a
number of years Bro. Quimby has been
interested in the telephone business
which takes so much of his time that a
continuation of the paper was impos-
sible. The Austin Transcript has pur-
chased his subscription list. .s
Farlbault Republicans: At a confer
ence of the Great Western railroad
officials with the Commercial club of
Rochester recently it was announced
that it had been decided to electrify the
Great Western road from Rochester to
Winona, the improvement to be made
within the next eight months. The
distance is 63 miles, and it will be
essentially an interurban line. It is
cOntended that the cost Of running as
compared with steam will be much de.
creased.
Preston, Republican,: It is generallv
believed hereabouts that Sam Lanpum
was Senator s. a. Nelson's adviser
throughout the session, and therefore
Langum is to blame for failure Of ali
attempts to regulate one of the great:
est evils with which the farmer has to
contend. The so.calied Nelson senate
automobile bill was one Of the worst
freaks that was ever brought to public
notice and its passage would have
mulcted the Minnesota farmer for
hundreds of thousands Of dollars.
Wykoff Messenger: Roy Wall will
soon be known as Ons of the leading
horticulturists and fruit growers nf
Fillmore county. He now has an Or
chard of over 18 acres and is still put-
ting out fruit trees. He has over 2, ,OOD
apple trees, largely Of four varieties.
Dutchess, Wealthy, North western
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29
The'Price of Health.

"The price Of health in q malarious
district Is just Is cents; the cost of a
box of DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
writes Ella Slayton, of holland, Ark.
part Life Pills cleanse gently and i'm
New new life and vigor the system. Csc.
Satisfaction guaranteed at X. O.
Wold's, dru ggist,
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29

UNDER the new North Dakota law,
state officials seized forty cases of beer,
four barrels of whiskey and lot of
other liquor at Bismarck and destroy.
ed it. That was the quickest and best
WAY to dispose of it. -E.-!H ... ~
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29

WE were very glad to have president
Roosevelt skin some of the nature
fakirs. These fakirs know no reason
in their senseless tales of animal life.
One of themSactually tells of wood
cock setting it's own broken leg in a
clay cast.
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29

w. w. CARG1LL heads the subscrip.
tion list for 100000 Y. NJ. e. a.
building in Lacrosse with donation
of 1925, 900. They evidently treat their
leading business men over there with
some consideration. 1t might pay in
other places,
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29

SOME fakir advertiser writes this
paper to inquire if we have libeled a
certain brand of tobacco in our COL
umns. No, we have not libeled itS
We could not use language mean
enough to libel any brand of the vile
stuff, >,
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29

They are seiZing monuments in the
Minneapolis cemeteries and selling
them under execution to discharge
debts. Very contemplate business.
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29

The flag balf-rnast is flying and the al
is filled @Uith praise
Of those zvho by the Nation stood through.
out her trying days.,
When strode the God of Battles in his fur,
DER the land,
And crimson grequ Poto1ac>s tide and res
the Rio Grande;
When the cannon tore the cedars in tM
green Vales of the South,
Where now the blue-bird builds her mes
deep in The n1ortar>s mouth;
But ab! the snoqvy 7vings of Peace abop.
those fields are spread,
And Columbia, like mother, comes X
cro7Un her gallant dead.
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29

4 BANK cashier in New jersey is
seriously i'll on account of handling un.
clean bills. Possibly tainted money
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29
Thursday May is.

The directors of the Standard Oil
company have declared a quarterly
dividend of So per share. This COM
pares with a dividend of SIS declared
three months ago.
Queen Victoria of Spain and the
newly born prince are both in good
health! Preparations for the baptism
Of the heir apparent, which will take
place Saturday, are progressing.
At the bye-election held at Wimble-
don. Eng, Henry Chaplin, Unionist
and ex-president of the local govern
rnent board, whose candidacy was c:,-
posed by the women suffseia gist3, vas.
elected by the great majority of 6,3G4.
An imperial order has been issued
at St. Petersburg creating the Pr.n-
cess Anastasia of Montenegro, VINO
was married May 12 at Yalta to the
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaieyitch.
grand duchess and announcing the
emperor's sanction CT tic .1ion.
Friday, May II.
Governor Stokes has signed the bill
Il Sdtl1So d oLdCt AdIllOdu
In New Jersey.
The Adriatic, the newest and great
est of the White Star liners, has ar
rived at New York on her maiden trip.
Frank w. Hartman, aged forty-fve
years. eX-mayOr of Appleton, Wis, and
a we'll known Wisconsin attorney, is
dead at Milwaukee,
Edwin Conger, former minister to
China and recently resigned as am
bassador to Mexico, is critically i'll at
his home IN Pasadena, CAL
Mamie Riff, sixteen years old, and
Ruby Gardner, six, were drowned i'll
Shoal creek, near Joplin, Mo. They
were members CT a boating party.
The Nicaraguan congress, which is
assembled in extraordinary session,
has approved the treaty of peace az
ranged between Nicaragua and Saliva
dor at Al,apala
Saturday, May Is.
Colonel George N Gi@y, aged sew
enty-fve, prominent iron manufac-
turer and capitalist, is dead at Iron
ton, O..
Orrin w. Potter, the pioneer steel
man and multi-millionaire, whose life
is linked with the development of the
steel industry of the United States, is
dead at Chicago. H.. !
Figures compiled by the New York
Journal of Commerce show that dur
ing April the fire loss in the United
States and Canada was $21,925,900,
some $10,0O0,000 more than for April,
1905. ..-5s. y
Professor Gustave A. Stoeckel, the
first head of the department. of music
at Yale university and the second old,
est professor emeritus of that institl.
tion, is dead at Norfolk, Conn, aged
eighty-eight.
Monday, May 20.
All the brewery workers and brew
cry wagon drivers in San Francisco
went on strike Saturday They de-
mand an increase from $40 to $27 a.
week .... ~
Emperor William has conferred the
crown order of the second class on DIR.
Francis Greenwood Peabody, professor
of Christian morals at Harvard uni
yersity. 81 s. d !.
The Paris Economist European says.
the return of favorable weather has
completely dissipated apprehension
regarding Frances wheat crop The
conditions now are normal.
= Herr Dernburg, who was director OF.
the German colonial Office, has been
appointed secretary of state for the.
colonies under the new law establish
ing 9 separate ministry for the col
5onies. II
Mower County transcript., 1907-05-29
SHORT TALKS BY
L. T. COOPER.
CONSTIPATION.

can tell person who is constipated
On sight. Their complexion is pasty