The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-01-05

state can produce, else we're no
prophet.
A well.Ercwn citizen from the woods
rez1 arked incidentally the other day
that New River has nearly thousand
poll tax payers and nary candidate
for sheriff. Maybe she won't want a
few other plums though!
Twenty $500 liquor licenses for Dom
aldsonville doesn't indicate that any
Of us are apt to be in danger of per-
ishing from thirst this year, nor that
the prohibition ticket is likely to carry
the town next election.
It looks as if Sheriff St. Martin
doesn't intend to come across with any
epistolary response to District At
torney Gondran's Sunday law letter.
Mayhap the sheriff thinks actions
speak louder than words.
Independent of the Lafourche lock
question, what sort of term would
the esteemed Iberville South use to
characterize the action of any set of
men who would deliberately attempt
to Violate a voluntary contract be-
cause its fulfillment was likely to cost
them more money than they thought
it would?
A published list of the prospective
Democratic candidates for next gov
ernor, revised up to date, contains the
names of Gen. Leon Jastremski, Lieut..
Gov. Jared Y. Sanders, Attorney Cen
eral w alter Guion, Congressman Rob-
ert Broussard, Gen. Albert Estopinal,
Hon. Theodore Wilkinson and Chief
Justice Joseph A. Breaux.
The Prairieyille Item, owned and
edited by A. Fl. Landry, suspended
publication last week after an exist
ence of about four months. Mr.. Lam
dry will continue to operate a job
printing Office at Prairieyille, and The
Chief hopes his efforts in this direc-
ton will meet with more support than
was accorded his newspaper venture.
Here's one of the kind of things that
are giving US the big head: II have
been reading the dear old Chief for
nearly fifteen years, and have always
found it reliable, accurate, just and
fearless, as we'll as newsy, instructive
and witty. It is q splendid weekly
and has my best wishes for it's con-
'tinued success" So wrote we'll
known practitioner of enc of the
learned professions whose opinion is
as good as the next mans.
Says the Assumption Pioneer: 1--WE
admire President Roosevelt as much
as good Democrat is capable OF do
ing without violating his party trust,
but if he were to take cognizance of the
conditions existing in the Lafourche
valley and compel the levee boards to
keep their promise, anent the locks,
then we would be willing to take of
our hat to him, that's what" There's
no need to invoke the interference of
the president at this stage of the game,
neighbor. Gov. Blanchard can turn
the trick easy enough when the proper
time comes by putting rollers under
such members of the levee boards as
nieF fail es.,tssss.sse-e carry out their
voluntary agreement and the specific
INSTRUCTIONS OF the general assembly.
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iov. Blanchard has appointed the
following well-known Louisfanians to
constitute the special commission Gre
ased by acs 191 of the general assembly
of 1906 for the purpose of ingestiga-
ting assessments in this state: Edgar
Fl. Farrar, Chas. J. Theard, w. o.
Hart, Ashton Phelps, Pearl Wight, A.
Brittin and james O'Connor, New
Orleans; John McIlhenny, Avery's
Island; T. ]. Herman, Baton Rouge;
Edmund Mcclellan, Glendale; NJ. a.
Carver, Natchitoehes; T. C. Barrett,
Shreveport; Divide Lacour, Raceourcf;
r.. N. Sims, Donaldsonville; DR.. Al. i
a.. Forsythe, Monroe. John A. Nc I
1lhenuy, former state senator, was the |
author of the bill authorizing the APP
pointment OF the commission.
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