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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-07-10
On motion, duly seconded an,

On motion, duly seconded and
passed, the following resolution was
adopted:
Be it Resolved, That an election be
held in the Parish of Tensas on the
3rd day of November, 1908, to decide
whether the sale of intoxicating liq-
uors shall be pohibited in this said
parish. Said prohibition to be effect
i've from and after December 81, 1908,
and said election is hereby ordered
to be held with all legal requirements
thereto necessary.
On motion of Mr.. O'Kelley the fol-
lowing ordinance was unanimously
adopted:
Be it ordained by the Police Jury of
Tensas Parish: That the advalorem
tax of eight and three quarter mills
on the dollar be and the same is here
by levied for the year 1908 upon all
taxable property within the Parish of
Tensas, for general purposes.
Resolved further, That one and one
half mills of said eight and three quar-
ter mills on the dollar be and the same
is hereby levied for the year 1908 up
on all taxable property within the
Parish of Tensas, for general purpos
es.
Resolved further, That one and one
half mills of said eight and three
quarter mill tax be and the same is
hereby set apart under the provisions
of Act No. IL of 1896 of the Legisla-
ture of this State, for the payment of
the interest to become due on March
list, 1909, on the parish bonds issued
by this parish under the authority
contained in said Act.
On motion of Mr.. O'Kelley the fol-
lowing ordinance was unanimously
adopted:
Be it ordained by the Police Jury of
the Parish of Tensas:
SECTION /. That of the eight and
three quarter mill advalorem tax this
day levied, two mills are hereby set
apart for the purpose OF constructing,
maintaining and repairing of-the pub
lie roads of this parish.
SECTION 2. That a per capita tax OF
One Dollar for the year 1908 for road
purposes, as provided in Article 291
of the Constitution be and the same is
hereby levied and imposed on each
able-bodIed male inhabitant of this
parish, between the ages Of fifteen and
tifty-five years.
SECTION 3. That license of One
Dollar for the year 1908 for road pur-
poses, as provided in Article 29I Of
the Constitution, be and the same is
hereby levied on each and every We
hicle, including bicycles, kept and
used for locomotion over the public
roads of this parish.
Be it further ordained that the per
capita tax herein levied and imposed
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NOTICE.

st. Joseph, La, July 9, 1908
There will be a meeting of the Par
Ish Executive Committee at st. Jo-
seph, Wednesday, July the 18th,
1908, ut II O'Clock noon, for the
purpose of fixing day for a Parish
Primary to nominate candidates for
members Of the School board.
JOHN HUGHES, Secretary.
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shall become delinquent on Novem-
Der LIST, and the Tax Collector is here
by directed to enforce collection ON
that date.
The following bills were allowed by the
Finance Committee and ordered paid:
W. Nj. DAVIDSON, Treasurer
ACCOUNT OF ROADS.
Baker d Mcdowell Hardware Co.'S 40
Waters-Pierce Oil Co., oil and for
traction engine. .....2 %. 20
Reeves d Co., repairs for traction
engine. ............... 523j
Austin Western Co., repairs graders 1900
Tensas Oip& Mgfe. Co., coal for
engine. ................... y0.Dj
u. Il. liornsby, pay roll for May. PSI rs
June. .292. so
Newell q Co., coal for engine. 2l.OO
Rodriguez & Whitney, feed bills
May and June ........ 6O.OO
Rodriguez q Whitney, bill for steel
culyerts acknowledgements. 1852
w. u. Fulton x Co., grader, dc. 80
Newell q Co., lumber bill. $500. 1865
Freight bills sol
Cash book. ................. 500
S12D9. 80
III. l.. Smitha, ice for Court ...... 1000
Joseph Curry, blanks for Clerks
Onlce ................... 5.40
John johnson, surveyor, grades
Court House yard. ......... 20.O0
J. q: Okelley, paid for road work 1000
ID: Morris, burial pauper ..... 500
w. q. Fulton, additional ASSESS
MI
kullman Bros, lumber for roads. AGO
\. b. Hunter, pd. for road work. 9.0I
ID. Stone, road work. ........ 2l.g5
j. g. Gorton, road work ... 7.75
+. 9. Rhodes, road work ....... 300
And there being no further business
the Police Jury adjourned sine die.
+. ii. CURRY, President.
II. III. WHITNEY, Clerk.
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Go to Bakers for DAISY FLY
KILLER. Kills right now. Guar
anteed to kill all flies in opened
or screened room. Lasts the en-
tire season. Filling for another
season only ten cents.
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TRESPASS NOTICE.

THE CANTON" "CANEBRAKE'' and
LIMERICK plantations are posted
and hunting, fishing and timber cutting and
trespsssins Of any kind are positively for
hidden.
oct25 EL-cUTHRsE & CO.
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NuttI IlpVl'
Miss Elizabeth Adams is visit
ing in New Orleans.
Mrs. G.. C. Goldman spent q
day with Mrs. l.. A. Clinton thi:
week.
Mr.. aud Mrs. William Young
are spending some time in New
Orleans.
Miss Huldah Wexler, of Nat.
chez, is visiting Mrs. Sam Wexlel
this week.
Mrs. Heddons Montgomery i:
visiting her brother, Mr.. j. NJ l..
Stanton, at Thistle Ridge.
Mrs. Laura Gildart, of Wood.
vile, Miss, is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. J. w. Gildart this week.
Little Miss Wealthy Clarke Wis
tied her aunt, Mrs. Durbin, in
Waterproof several days this week
Mrs. (Dr.) J. G. Phillips is
spending few days visiting
friends and relatives in Orange,
Texas.
Misses Clara and Eliza Whit
ney and Miss Matte Lewis spent
few days with Mrs. r. II.
Whitney this week.
Rev. H. w. May, of Water
proof, is attending the District
Conference of the Methodist
Church, at Monroe.
Mr.. B. F. Young made a bust
ness trip to Chicago last week
While there he paid his wife and
father flying visit in Waukesha.
Mrs. B. B. Young and daugh-
ter May, after a very delightful
visit of several weeks with Mrs.
W. A. Burkhalter, i'll Greenwood +,
Miss, returned home OH Monday.
DR.. and Mrs. W. B. Simmons,
who have been visiting DR.. and
Mrs. J. c. Phillips for the past
week, returned Tuesday morning
to their home in Orange, Texas.
DR.. J. G. Phillips, who was
called Tuesday by telegram to
Meridian, Miss, Oh account of
his mothers illness, returned yes
terday and reports his mothers
condition much improved.
Mrs. William Young, Miss Katie
and Miss Susie Watson left for
Natchez OH Monday. Miss Katie
Watson will visit friends and rel
atlves in Fayette before returning
to her home in Memphis, and
Miss Susie Watson will spend her
vacation with her sister, Mrs.
Sidney Watson, near Rodney.
A Pueblo (Col.) exchange con-
tains the following account of the
marriage of Miss Blanche Hopkins
OF Lake st. Joseph to Mr.. William
Champ Pickens, young man
prominent in banking circles of
Atlanta, Ca:
"A wedding of great interest to
many Puebloans is that of Miss
Blanche Hopkins and William
ohamp Pickens, which took place
ato O'Clock last night at the Trim
ity Methodist church in Denver,
the Rev. Hawke officiating.
Miss Hopkins, a most charm
ing Southern girl and u niece of
WINS +. Bonney, is resident of
Ne~eilton, La, and has been the
guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. Bonney Oh
several occasions. She came to
f%eoio last February, where she
.1uhaihed until a month ago,
When she accompanied Mrs. Bon
hey TO Palmer Lake for the sum-
h,ef' Miss Hopkins, the recipient
" much social attention, is one
=. the most popular girls that
ever visited in this city. Mr.. Pick
Gus Is connected with a savings
S Sank system which is being intro
Irced into all national banks.
us home is at Atlanta, Ga. He
not long ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pickens will spend
we. .ns remainder of July in Colo
RADIO, after which they will visit
I relatives in Tensas parish.
Gu Gu and bis family in Atlanta.
va, and about October lst will
!" 7" Cuba, where Mr.. Pickens
mas business interests
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|. {. HENDERSON, P. n

Persons calling for the above letters will
please say Advertised, :" aud can procure
same by paying one cent for each letter
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Notice to Teachers Who Con-
template Attending the
Summer Normal School
in New Orleans.

| am prepared to entertain teachers,
either ladies or gentlemen, who may at
tend the Summer Normal School in New
Orleans. On account of my convenience
to Tulane University-only three blocks
dlstant-my house is especially suited for
their accommodation as car fare can be
saved and teachers can also come to
lunch, as the distance is hardly five min
utes walk. My house is large, roomy
and well ventilated and is especially well
suited for teachers, who can have all the
privacy desired. Terms: Five Dollars per
week.
MISS KATIE HARDWOOD,
1925 st. Charles Ave.-New Orleans.
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ADVERTISED LETTERS.
Remaining in the st. Joseph Post
Office for week ending Juyl 4

Green, t. G. Scofield, Cate
Greenburg, Mr.. SorreIl, Geo. w.
Kolb, Henry Voice, Southern
Washington, Arne
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CHINK'S EMPEROR
DEAD fCCORDING
TO PEKIN REPORT
Infant Heir-Apparent Is Brought
to the Palace in
Readiness.
LEGATIONS NOTIFY THEIR
SOVEREIGNS OF CRISIS
Nobody Has Been Admitted to
M0narch's Presence Since
November 8.

PEKIN, Nov. 12.-The condition of
the Emperor is so serious that the
various legations here are sending
cabled reports thereon to their respec-
tive governments.
There have been circumstantial
rumors among the people of the death
OF the Emperor and his little brother,
the infant son of Prince Chun, has
been brought into the palace.
The Emperor has been suffering for
ten years past from chronic nephritis,
condition now complicated with
diabetes and sciatica. 1t is admitted
that his brain is affected.
The legations stand ready to lend
their physicians to attend his majesty,
but in August of this year the dowager
empress declined offers to this end
made by the British and German lega-
tions, and consequently no further prof
fers have been made.
Although the government has gazet-
ted during the past few days audiences
between the emperor and members of
the grand council, there is reason to
believe that these have been in name
only. There probably has been no
actual audience since November 8. 1t
is known that yesterday an absolutely
untrue statement of an audience was
made public
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Contestant Engages James R.
Nugent and Believes He Will
Be Victorious.
COMPLEXION OF COUNTY
BOARD WOULD BE SAME
Ward Leadership Features in
AppIication-No Date Fixed
as Yet.

FreehoIder John j. Gaynor. of the
Sixth ward, through City Counsel
James II. Nugent. has made formal ap-
plicntiOn for recount i'm the free
holder election La which he was de-
fcated as "a candidate for reelection by
his Republican opponent, William
weigel. by Gfty-fise votes, according to
the Off icinl returns. ~
The application was made last night
at the home of Chief Justice Gummere
by Mr.. Nugent, who claimed that there
were q number of Irregularities in the
counting of the ballots. and that he
was certain recount would show that
Mr. Gaynor had been reelected.
The Chief Justice and Mr., Nugent
discussed the case at length, and DIT was
finally decided that Mr.. Nugent file a
bond IN the Court House tomorrow in
good faith for the recount No date
was set.
This Is the. second recount application
in the ward, Schaaf. the Republican
candidate for alderman, having asked
for reaounss, clafmirg that he defeated
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to Weigel in the freeholder fight by So.
Gaynor served but one year in the
Board of Freehoders. having been ap-
pointed by Common Council to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of the
Sixth ward representative in the county
body.
Mr. Gaynor refused to talk on tho
issue, but it is understood that the re-
count is the beginning of a struggle for
Sixth ward leadership.
IF Mr. Gaynor wins out in the re-
count it will make no difference in the
politics Of the body, 1t being over
whelmingly Republican. A Gaynor
backer declared today: I'VE want to
send John Gaynor back, because we
think he was fairly elected, and we
don't propose to let him go down and
out just because some people want
him to-
That Gaynor has the organization at
his back, If it is war for ward leader
ship. is evident, his friends say.
The election returns showed an In
crease of 100 votes in the Sixth district
of the Sixth ward over last year, and
the Democrats say that none of this
increase was credited to them.
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RUSSELL ESTATE /
OF 100000 GOES
TO POOR WOMAN
East Orange Mans Property
Was About to Revert to
the State.
OCTOGENARIAN RELATIVE
FOUND IN POVERTY
Newark Lawyer Convicted of
Felony in Connection with
Forged Will. q

The 100000 estate left by John Wells
RUSSELL of East Orange, who died i'll
1906, which was in the process of re-
verting to the State because it was
believed he was without heirs and had
died intestate, will instead enrich an
aged woman who has been living in
poverty, and who, it has been estab-
lished, is the nearest surviving rela-
tive of Mr.. Russell.
ice-Chancellor Walker, in Trenton
today ordered the proceedings by the
State to acquire the estate to cease
and instructed that the property, val
ued in excess of 100000. be turned over
to Mrs. Mary Wheeler Somerby, now 81
years old of Newburyport, Mass.
Matthew j. Ready, a Newark lawyer,
was sentenced to prison, and his case
is now pending on a writ of error, he
having been convicted of offering for
probate forged viii of Russelrs be-
Clavin, who had been Russelrs house,
keeper.
When it was learned that Mr.. Rus
sell had left no viii five persons came
forward as claimants for the estate,
claiming relationship. Among them
was Mrs. Somerby, represented by
Riker & Riker, of Newark Attorney
General McCarter instructed Theodore
Backes, of his office, to make an in
vestigation of the claims. and it is on
his report that Vice-Chancellor Walker
qulets the State proceedings to acquire
the estate and orders the property
turned over to Mrs. Somerby.
Mrs. Somerby has always been very
poor, and until now has been living
on the charity of friends. Her father
and mother died in charitable insti-
tutions.
Mr.. Backes found that Mrs. Somerby
and Mr. Russell were first cousins, that
she was the daughter and he the son
of sisters who were born i'll Newbury-
port and that Mrs Somerby, being a
first cousin, is the nearest relative. She
is the only first cousin. There are a
number of second cousins, and they
claimed the estate also, but the New
Jersey law does not provide for the
participation Of second cousins in the
estate of person dying without leav-
ing will.
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MANY MOURN AS
MRS. GRAY GOES TO
HER FINAL REST
Prominent Newarkers Attend
Funeral of Wife of
Judge Gray.

Many prominent Newarkers attended
the funeral Of Mrs. Mary L. Gray, wife
OF Judge George r. Gray, at the Gray
residence, 30 Franklin street, this after
noon. The Rev. Robert Scott Inglis,
pastor of the Third Presbyterian
Church, and the Rev DR.. Isaiah b.
Hopwood. of Calvary Presbyterian
Church, officiated
The funeral was largely attended and
the service was simple. but impressive.
Mrs. Gray was a member of the Third
Presbyterian Church for nearly thirty
years and had a host of friends.
The interment was made in Mt. Pleas
ant Cemetery.
Dr. Hopwood read the Scriptures and
offered prayer, followed by a short
prayer by the Rev. MIR. Inglis. who also
spoke briefly. The Mendelssohn Quar-
tet sang Lead, Kindly Light" and
Nearer My God. to Thee" Both min
listers accompanied the body to the
grave, where short prayers were Of
fered
Among the prominent men at the
funeral We're former Judge Gottfried
Krueger, former United States Senator
James Smith. jr., John F. Stanley
Frederick Frelinghuysen, Marcus H.
Ward. Addison Woodruff, George b.
Clifford, DR.. Leslie D. Ward, Uzal Fl.
McCarter, Charles f. Kilburn, Justice
Swayze, former Mayor William II. F.
Fielder, James L. Hays. City Counsel
James r. Nugent, Dr. S. E. Robertson,
Albert Spaeth, William T. Hunt, Sheriff
William Harrigan and Richard c. Jen-
kinson.
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MASKED TRIO ROB
JERSEY MEN NEAR
CENTRE OF TOWN
Daring Daylight Robbery in Fort
Lee-EXpress Company
Money Taken.

FORT LEE, Nov. 12.-Held up by
three masked highwaymen, two young
men employed by an express company
were robbed of SS7 and threatened with
death early today in Palisade avenue,
within half mile of the centre of the
town. The robbers escaped after cut
ting the reins Of the express wagon
harness SO the men could not get to the
village in hurry. Detectives We're put
en- the trail of the highwaymen as soon
as the alarm was sounded, but so far
no trace of the robbers has been found.
Whether or not the men are inem-
bers of the same band which robbed the
Protestant Episcopal Church of the
Good Shepherd in Fort Lee a few days
ago cannot be said, but this theory is
held by Chief of Police Kerwein. The
hold-up took place within about half a
mile of the church, in o lonely spot
along the avenue where the tall trees
line both sides of the road. The first
that the, two young men knew of the
robbers was when a man was seen
standing ahead of them and asked
which way it was to Fort Lee.
While one man held the bride the
other two climbed on the scat and told
the two men to give up all the money
they had or they would be killed. One
named Broome carried two bags of
money, one with a small amount of
change and the other with S87 in bills.
He gave the first to the robbers and
then sprang from the wagon and
started to run down the road He was
overtaken before he had gone fifty feet
and Knocked down with the butt of
revolver.
The highwaymen then took the other
bag of money and left him lying in the
mud. The man who had been holding
the horse cut the reins, and when the
other two who had chased Broome came
back the three crossed the road~to the
woods and disappeared.
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300 EN7OMBEO IN
BLAZING MINE; 35
BODIES RECOVERED
Explosion of Fire Damp in Vest
phalia Shaft Causes Fatal
Havoc.

HAMM, WEsTPHALIA, Germany,
Nov. 12.--There WIS an explosion of
fire damp In the Radbod mine this
morning, which probably will result
is very heavy loss of life. Already 35
bodies have been brought TO The sur
face and 500 men are still under ground
in grave peril.
No hope for the other men is held
out.
Four hundred men were working In
the pit at the time of the disaster
About 20 of them have been brought to
the surface. OF these a majority are more
or less injured and one has since died.
One hundred and fifty men are in
shaft No. 2, and it is believed that they
are all doomed.
Rescuers arrived from all directions,
and the work of getting below was at
once organized. These efforts, how
ever, were necessarily slow and at
tended with extreme difficulty. One Of
the shafts together with its elevator
cage, has been completely burned out
An improvised cage was sent down
with a corps of rescuers who made
heroic efforts to reach their comrades
At / o'clock the fire had made such
headway that the rescuers had to be
called back to give way to the fire
fighters, and the flames are still spread
ing.
The vicinity of the mine is sur
rounded by police and the public is not
permitted to approach. Despairing
scenes are being witnessed among the
crowds of relatives who have gathered
outside tE.e police Gordon.
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KOCHs HOTEL, se4 BROAD STREET.
near City Hall. Gypsy Hungarian Orchestra.
Fine music. Sixty-room hotel Finest restau-
rant in city.-Adv.
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TWO FLYERS JUMP
TRACKS; HUNDREDS
ARE IMPER|LEO
New York Central's Twentieth
Century Hurts Passengers
from Berths at Rochester.
FLAMES THREATEN FORTY
In PENNSYLVANIA SMASH
Bessemer and Lake Erie Train.
Derailed, Burns as Occu-
pants Are Saved.

Following yesterdays tale of railroad
disaster come reports of two more pas
senger train wrecks today. The New
York Centraps premier flyer. the
Twentieth Century Limited, east bound.
jumped the rails near Rochester, N. ".
early this morning. and near Butler,
Pa, heavily laden passenger train on
the Bessemer and Lake Erie raiIroad
piled of the tracks while going ut
forty miles an hour.
A remarkable feature of both acci-
dents is that, while many were slightly
hurt. not case of serious injury is re-
ported from either.
ROCHESTER,, N Y, Nov. 12.-Three
cars in the eastbound Twentieth Cen
tury Limited, the New York Central s
fastest train, were thrown from the
rails at Blossom road crossing, Just
east of the city, shortly after o'clock
this morning, but strangely enough, not
one OF the many passengers that were
hurled from their berths was badly in
jured.
A broken rail Is said to have caused
the accident. The train consisted of
six Pullman CO ches, and the three that
were hurled from the tracks and turned
on their sides constituted the last half
of the train The third car in the train
was not ditched. although its trucks
were broken. 1t was the next three in
line that suffered the brunt of the
shock.
All the sleeping passengers We're
thrown from their berths, but no one
was seriously injured. Men and women
scrambled through windows and doors
, with no thought of clothing other than
that which they wore wllen they turned
/ in for the night. q
I The twentieth .Gantury'' is the train
which, on its third trip between chr
I cago and New York, en- the then new
18-hour schedule was wrecked near
Mentor, o., killing 20 and injuring many
more. 1t was this catastrophe which
caused both the New York Central and
the Pennsylvania, III Difference to
aroused public fear, to abandon tenn
porarily their 1S-hour New York to
Chicago schedule.
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his Democratic opponent. Alderman
Frederick Fischer, in the recent cleo
ton.
Il am confident that the recount will
return me to the Board of Freeholders,"
said Mr.. Geynor today, but he refused
to discuss the case at length or go into
details.
The fight in the Sixth ward this year
was particularly bitter, Harrigan and
Haussling carrying the[ ward by big
margins, and the Democratic candi-
date for Common Council winning out
by small majority and Gaynor losing
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POLICE
WITH SHERIFF ON
HAND AS GUEST

The annual fall inspection of the
members Of the police department was
made this afternoon by the police com
missioners and several city officials.
Sheriff William Harrigan, who re-
signed as head of the Police Board
Monday, was the guest of the commits
sioners.
All of the headquarters men were in
spected first. and then the inspecting
party went to the First Precinct. from
there to the Third. then to the Second,
the Fifth, Fourth and the Sixth.
The commands of each precinct were
lined up In front of the station houses,
and each man wore his winter uniform
and new cap.
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RIES AT HIS DESK.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 12.-Silas w.
Petit. one of the foremost lawyers in
the city. had just lighted cigar and
had penned the words Dear Brother"
beginning letter. when he was stricken
with sapoplexy and died at his desk in
his Office last night.
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Door Checks.
Macknet & Doremus Co.. 7ss-7ss Bread st--Adv.
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KILLS MAN WITH FIST BLOW.

Youngstown, o., Nov 12.--In an
alteration in a barroom today Frank
Walz, cab driver. struck William
Dowd with his fist, killing him in
stantly.