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The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-15

The Committee on Streets of the Board of Aldermen win hold a public hearing Tuesday June 16 1908, at & ?, m. In Room l0-ll. City Hall for the consideration of the following petitions: Petition of s. A. York, ct als for opening of Starr street extension.
 Petition of Edward Allison, et als. for curb and sidewalk in State street, between Lyman and Albert streets, and cross walks on State street, between | Lyman and Albert streets. Petition of Patrick Conlan, ct als.. for crossWalks or Bradley street, oppo. '. | site Leonard street
 Petition of F. l.. Mead, ct als for widening of Derby avenue to 30 feet between Derby avenue and Judson street
 Petition of Thomas Kiernan, ct als.. Tor curoing Winchester avenue, between l Thompson street and the city line Petition of ] Sullivan et as, for wid ; ening of Mill River street Sidewalk west side between Humphrey and Wal nut streets.
 Petition of A, N. Farnham, ct sls., for extension of Farnham and Fitch streets, from Blake street to Whalley | avenue.
 Petition of l.. l.. Rosenberg for cellar entrance In front of o7 Lafayette street. All persons interested in the forego- Ing are hereby notified 10 be present and be heard therein without further notice.
 Per order
 CHARLES II, STANTON,
 Attest:
 MICHAEL A. MORAN, JR.,
 ju13 3t Assistant City Clerk. l COMMITTEE ON BUILDING AND
 BUILDING LINES
 A meeting of the Committee on Building and Building Lines of the Board of Aldermen will be held In Room 10-1l, City Hall, Monday, June l5, 1908, at 7.30 D. m. for the consider alton of the following petitions:
 Petition of P. Bonoff, ct all, that building line in Prince street, between Cedar and Liberty streess, be abolished to the extent of IS inches from the street line.
 Petition of A, Lander for abolIshment of building line in sylvan avenue, be- tween Greenwood street and Vine street, 30 that same when altered shall be IS inches from the street line
 All persons interested in the forego- ing are hereby notified 10 be present and be heard thereon without further notice
 Per order
 NICHOLAS j. LEONARD,
 Attest
 MICHAEL A. MORAN, JR., l Jul2 3t Assistant City Clerk.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-15
HOUSES FOR RENT.
One cent a word for each insertion, or five cents word for seven times.

YORK sQUARE--Property No. 7S :.ork
 square. occupied for many years by q Yale professor, The grounds cover about an acre, Entire property will De renovated and placed in good order. For full particulars, apply to Henry c. Bretzfelder, S65 Chapel street,
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-15
BUNDLE WOOD, CHARCOAL, COKE

ASK YOUR GROCER for our goods.
 Also Retailers of Fireplace, Furnace and Kindling Wood. New Haven Wood Co.,, 43I East st. Telephone 1454.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Make Arrangements.

The Central Committee selected to
make the arrangements for the State
Sunday School Convention, to be held
at Baton Rouge on March "A and 25
held its first meeting tonight, at which
time the Subcommittee that are to
attend to the details Of the work were
named. The Central Committee is
composed of w. S. Holmes, chair
man; s. Comeaux, w. r. Dodson, E.
T.. Israel, w. M. Barrow and /. eau.
sey, who is Secretary of the Commit
tee Although there will be over
three hundred delegates in Baton
Rouge to attend the meeting in March
no trouble is anticipated in securing
homes for the delegates for the rea-
son that all of the Protestant church
es viii unite in entertaining the visit
ors. Arrangements will Immediately
be taken up looking to the securing
of the choir of three hundred, and
complete orchestra that will furnish
the music during the three days gath
ering of the Sunday school workers.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Favors Salvation Army.

New York.--The right of the Saliva
ton Army Of the United States, of
which Gen. VIM. Booth is the head, to
the exclusive use of that or any sim
liar name. was handed down by JUS
tice Newburger in the Supreme Court.
Justice Newburger in the Supreme
Court. Justice Newburger's decision
was on the application made by the
Salvation Army of the United States
for an injunction to restrain the Amer
lean Salvation Army, headed by James
W. Duffin, from using that name.
COUNSEL for the applicant, in arguing
the injunction, declared that the APP
plication was made on the ground that
the Duffin organization had brought
discredit on the Salvation Army of
the United States.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Fifteenth Amendment

Columbia, S. Ex-senator B. R. Till
man in an address before the Genera
Assembly advocated the repeal of the
fifteenth amendment and the encour-
agement of desirable immigration as
a means to offset, as he said, inevita-
BILE negro domination in the States in
which the blacks predominant.
He said that with the regular ed
ucation fund Of the several states
coupled with that of Northern philan-
thropists, the negro would soon be
able to comply with the constitutional
requirements of the various Southern
States and thus govern where they
outnumber the whites.
He believed the North and West
would help the South to repeal the
fifteenth amendmnt.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Negro Woman Gets Job.

There is new outbreak of the race
question in the Treasury Department.
Several months ago there was almost
q riot because young negro draught--
man had secured place in the offices
of the Supervising Architect of the
Treasury under civil service rules. The
other employees. Threatened to re-
sign in a body, but Secretary Cortel-
you indicated that they might do so,
and they did not carry out the threat.
Now comes Lillian B. Wright, late
Of Chicago, and before that of Sene-
gambian extraction. She is a mimeo-
graphist and copyist. She got her
position because in a civil service ex-
animation two months ago she headed
the list and was called for the first
vacancy. She is the third negro wo-
man doing clerical work in the COM
putting division and again there is
threat of trouble.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Improvement Association.

A large and enthusiastic meeting Of
the patrons of the Gueydan High
School was held at the schoolhouse for
the purpose of organizing an Improve
ment Association for the good of the
school in the Gueydan School District.
The meeting was called to order by
Prof. Law, who explained the object
of the Association. About two hun
dred have already signed for member
ship and this number will be greatly
increased in the next few days. The
purpose of this Association is to in
terest and the cooperation of the
patrons in everything. pertaining to
the advancement of this school. Diff
ferent committees will be named in a
few days to take up each branch Of
the work, and in the end, to place
this district second to none in Vermil-
lion Parish. The deep interest dis
played in education in this District is
evinced by the people voting a tax
Of $4,000 for the building Of high
school for the Gueydan District.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
James T. Hayden Dead.

James I. Hayden, died early Thurs
day morning in his apartment at the
WaldOrf-Astoria, from heart disease,
was formerly President of the Whit
ney National Bank, He was born in
Buffalo in 1884. went to New Orleans
when boy and entered the banking
business there. Mr. Hayden was in
terested in many concerns in that
city. When the financial panic came
he was in Paris with his wife, but
FASTENED to New York to look after
his interests, leaving his wife in
France. He was a member of the
Union Club, of New York Boston
Club, in New Orleans.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Withdrawal of Deposits.

The secretary of the treasury an
nounced that owing to the great i'm
provement in financial conditions
throughout the country he had begun
the gradual withdrawal of deposits Of
I pubic moneys in omatdreh fp6late
of public moneys in moderate amounts
from the national banks. The first
call has been made upon New York
banks and amounts to approximately
ten million dollars. This, in addition
to about ten million dollars returned
by the New York banks since Deem
Der %.
The secretary also announced that
general call for a moderate amount
would be made upon banks in other
cities at an early date.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Suicides by Shooting.

Frank Lane, an employee of the
Gullett Gin Company, near Amite
City, shot himself through the back
OF his head, resulting in instant death
at the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred NJ. Lane, who live a few
miles west of Roseland. He had not
been feeling well for a few DAYS, and
came up in the morning from Amite
and went to the old home, and a
while after took some medicine and
laid down in an adjoining bedroom,
telling his mother if he went to sleep
not to call him until supper time. At
$3.50 O'Clock Mrs Lane tried to awak
en- him, and after several efforts and
failing to do so, found he was dead.
Neighbors were called in, and they
discovered that he had shot himself
through the head and the revolver
laid upon his breast. Domestic trou-
BILE is said to have caused the act.
as the couple had separated few
weeks ago, the husband having since
lifed IN Amite City. Last Sunday
he came 10 Roseland to effect a re-
cancellation, but was unsuccessful,
and he brooded over the affair until
he took his life. He leaves a father
and mother, a wife and two children.
lie was a member of the Town Board
OF Roseland, and also Of the Wood
men of the World, and for some years
has been an employee of the Gullett
Gin Factory.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Cotton Crop Shortage.

The census bureau issued a report
showing that the total amount of cot
ton in the United States ginned from
the growth of 1907 to January 16, was
10, 337 ,6O7 bales as compared with r.
175, 199, bales for the same period last
year and 9,9S9,634 bales for the same
period in 1906. The total number Of
active ginneries was 1880. In this
bulletin round bales are counted as
half bales. The number of round
bales included IS 49,, 562 for 1908.
25S,717 for 1907 and 270,669 for
1906.
Sea Island included S0,187 for 1908,
56,326 for 1907 and 1O4,7 for 1906.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Italian Boy Arrested.

The seventeen-year-old boy, Joseph
Abate, who was arrested in Waco,
Texas, for completely in the murder
of Joe Tritico, an Italian at Lake
Charles was brought back in charge
of Deputy Sheriff Tony Patello.
Nine men are now in Jail charged
with being implicated in the ear rob
berries at this place and the murder
Of Tritieo, which is supposed to have
grown out of the robberies, through
the fear that he would divulge the
workings of the band.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
CORN CONTEST
AMONG STUDENTS
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
WILL OFFER PREMIUMS.
SUICIDES BY SHOOTING
Frank Lane Member Of Roseland
Town Board Takes His Own Life
Eight Arrests Because of Family
Troubles.

A movement has been inuagurated
to secure a corn contest among the
students of the public schools of
Louisiana. The first step in this d.
reetion was taken by V. L. Roy,
Parish Superintendent of Avoyelles
parish. TO whom the Department of
Agriculture has written as follows ::
In regard to the corn contest for
boys, students in public schools, who
are interested in agriculture 1 wish
10 say that the Department will pay
for sufficient seed corn of the varie-
~ selected to plant one-half or one
acre and present to any boy for whom
application is made by the principal
OF the school, on condition that the
boy receiving same will plant the
half or one acre and agree to Guilt
vate and harvest and exhibit not less
than thirty ears or more Of the va
riety grown by him, at his home par
lsh fair or state Fair, provided there
Is no fair held in his parish.
1.-The thirty ears or more for exhib-
ltlon must be selected and taken from
the half-aere or acre he has individual
ly cultivated.
1T must be further agreed to by
the boy receiving the corn that he
will comply with the rules govern
ing the exhibit of corn at the fair.
ana that he will attend at least one
session of any institute meeting that
may be held during the time of the
fair. and that he will follow as far as
possible the suggestions given in re-
gard TO keeping record of growing
corn.
''You are at liberty to make use
OF tins letter making the proposition
by the Department in the public
schools of the parish, and will please
report number of entries, with the
names of the boys who will enter the
contest. Premiums will be Offered
Tor the first, second and third best |
reports. as well as for the best corn
exhibit, first, second and third prize. "
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Texas Buys Sugar Lands.

Houston, Tex.-By agreements en-
tered into the penitentiary system Of
the state buys 10000 acres of sugar
lands with all mules, implements, etc.,
the total price being $650,OOO. OF
this $4,000 acres is bought from the
Lincoln Trust Company Of st. Louis,
for $45O,OOO, the Trust Company re-
tanning two sugar mills and refinery,
which is the largest independent re-
finery in TIT United States. The pur-
pose of this purchase is to work the
state convicts, taking them out of
competition with free IaDor in man.
ufacturing industries. The Ellis Sar-
tariffs plantation Of over 5000 acres
and the RiddicS plantation of about
q thousand acres are also purchased,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Completed in Month.

With favorable weather it will take
about thirty days to complete the sew
erage system at Crowley. The con-
tractors are now working in thirteen
foot cut and tunneling under the
tracks in the yards of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, having about $50
feet of pipe to lay at this depth. The
balance of the work will be at a
depth of five feet for eight-inch pipe.
of which there are twelve blocks to be
laid.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Badly MINED

Sunday night was the coolest night
that has been experienced on the
coast this winter. The grouni was
frozen and young plants, such as
radishes, were badly injured. The
lettuce fields were also nipped, but
where the plants are not too far ad-
vanced will survive the freeze. The
young onions and turnips are all
right. The Irish potatoes that were
peeping through the ground were cut
short.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
West and South.

Senator Stone, Of Missouri, pre-
sentei statistics of government depos-
its in national banks to show that
the distribution of money during the
recent currency stringency was not
Equitable" as contemplated by the
law. He declared that the West and
South were Disseminated against,
while New York and Boston were ia
vored. His speech was on his resolu-
ton pending in the senate directing
a committee to investigate this and
report the facts in these transactions.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Harvester Trust.

The senate spent over an hour in
discussing a resolution offered by
Senator Hansbrough, of North Dako-
ia, directing the department of COM
merce and labor to suspend its in
vestigation into the affairs Of the
International Harvester Co., which
was introduced by resolution over
year ago. During this discussion,
Senator Hansbrough declared that
the Harvester Trust" is attempting
to control the selection of delegates
to the next Republican national con-
vention and is especially plotting to
defeat him for reelection to the SEN
ate.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
PRESIDENT WENT
BEYOND HIS POWER
IN NEGOTIATING AND PRO-
CLAIMING GERMAN TREATY.
S SEVERELY CRITICIZED
Senators Declare Him to Be More
Autocratic Than the Emperor Of
Germany. Cotton Crop Shows Big
Shortage.

President Roosevelt transmitted
to the Senate and the House copies
Of the tariff regulations negotiated
some time ago between the United
States and Germany, together with a
proposed amendment to the customs
administration act, putting the same
In force as a statute.
In the Senate the message aroused
a lively discussion in executive ses-
sion when it was taken up. The Pres
ident's course, not only in negotiating
the agreement, but in proclaiming it
to the world, as he did last July, was
sharply criticised. 1t was declared
that the agreement makes change,
which are equivalent to legislation,
and it was pointed out that all legis-
lation affecting the tariff must, un-
der the Constitution, originate in the
House of Representatives.
Attention was called to the third
section of the Mckinley law as posi-
bly, permitting the Presidents course,
but his critics contended that his
action in this case had gone far be-
yond the limits permitted by that sec
ton. Stress was laid on the fact
that the President had not only ne
gotiated the treaty, but that he had
given 1t out as a complete perform
ance without referring it to the Sen
ate for its action. This the Senators
seemed to consider as especially re-
prehensible, and far beyond the au-
thority of the chief executive. 1t
was pointed out that the German am
bassador had not only referred the
agreement to the Reichstag for its
action, but that he had even consult
ed both the local and national Boards
Of Trade. Hence the President was
charged with being even more auto
cratic than the head of the German
empire.
Lit was also declared that under the
system of valuation provided for by
the treaty great injustice would be
done the United States.
1t is believed by some Senators that
q resolution by Senator Gallinger,
which was introduced early in the
session, may nave had something to
do with the appearance of the message
and a request for legislation in the |
German-American matter at this time.
The figures which the Gallinger res
olution produced about a week ago
showed quite reduction in the value
Of German exports to this country
since the regulations were passed, and
since the system of inspection Of con-
signments was discontinued by our
consular officers and agents.
After referring to the proposed
amendment to the treaty the Presi-
dent, in his message, dated Jan. %,
1908, says:
81 earnestly recommend to the con
yress the enactment into law of thin
amendment at an early date. Besides
promoting harmonious relations be-
'weent the contracting parties to the
agreement in question. I regard the
proposed legislation as a meritorious
Measure for the improvement of our
administrative acts, the pro-
7isions Of which are applicable to
o importations from all countries
like ii
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Three Killed. Four Hurt

Shreveport, LAS a result of an
explosion at the sawmill of DIR. F. R.
Waters of Gilman, about twenty
miles north of Shreveport, three men
are dead and four others more or
less seriously injured. The dead are
William Mcclellan, foreman; John
Bnrnham, edger man; George Jack
son. negro fireman. The injured are
Victor Thoman, William Jackson, Jo-
seph White and Thomas Collier.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
$50, 100000 Pension Roll.

Washington.-Representative Kei-
fer OF Ohio, chairman of the sub-com-
mittee on pensions of the house COM
mittee on appropriations announced
informally that the committee had
agreed to recommend a pension roll
of $50, 100000 for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1909. This will be
about 100000 in excess of the PEN
sion roll of the present fiscal year.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Charged With Killing Wife.

A. Royal, white man was lodged
In Jail at Winnsboro, charged with
killing his wife. Royal lives about
eight miles west of this place. A
eoroner's jury recommended that he
be held in Jail to await the action of
the grand jury.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Caps Defends Navy.

Rear Admiral Caps, chief Of the
bureau of construction U. s. N, spent
an hour with the house committee on
naval affairs in defending, denying
and controverting some of the va
rious charges brought by newspapers
and magazine writer's against navy
methods of battleship construction.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31

Attorneys for Mrs Kate Van Rams
seleaer, formerly of Natchez, who died
IN Milwaukee about yeal ago, leav-
ing large estate in that city and in
Natchez, and who made requests in
favor of the local Orphan Asylum, are
now preparing to wind up the estate.
There is some speculation as to wheth
,er or not the requests for the Asylum
will stand, so far as the Mississippi
property is concerned, on account of
the State law prohibiting requests TO
religious and charitable institutions.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
False Testimony.

Lezema Mire, the child-wife Of
Zepherin Simon, confessed at Crow
ley .that she gave false testimony
against her husband and his brother
by which they were sent to long
terms in the Penitentiary for ravish.
ing her.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Eight Arrests.

Tight men were arrested at jones'
boro, for alleged completely in run
ming the forty-five negro families EN-
ployed by the Hule-Hodge Lumber
Company away from Hodge several
weeks ago which caused their plant at
this place to close down.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Nashville. Tenn.-Members of I'll

Nashville, Tenn.-Members Of the
Inter-Scholastic Athletic Association,
at called meeting here decided unan-
imously against the abolition of foot
ball in the preparatory schools of the
association. A resolution was, how
ever, offered and carried, limiting the
number Of scheduled games to four.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Helena, Mont:-Matthew X. Sn;t

Helena, Mont:-Matthew X. Sniff
fen, of Philadelphia, secretary of the
Indian Rights Association, who was
sent to Montana to make an investi-
CATION of the alleged irregularities
on the Crow Indian reservation, was
arrested on the reservation, and plac-
ed in the guard house. The reserva-
tion officials it is said, acted in in
structions from Washington. The fed
eral grand jury is now investigating
the officials coniuct Of Maj. Reynolds,
agent of the Crow reservation.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
lnhuman Brute.

A farmer named Mcleod, who is
alleged to have punished his 5-year-
old sister-in-law by forcing her to sit
on hot stove, was given 100 lashes
on the bare back BY angry citizens
near Angie, La.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Mistrial.

A mistrial resulted at Amite City
in the case of John Mink, negro,
charged with the murder of Mrs.
Nelson, the jury standing eight to
four for conviction.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
GREATEST AuTocRAr ExrAnr.

Power Of Speaker Cannon Attacked In the
House BY Missouri Congressman.
An attack of the power Of the speak
er was made IN the house Of repre-
sentative Friday by Mr.. Shackelford
of Missturi during the consideration
of the urgency deficiency appropria-
ton bill. He said Speaker Cannon
was the ablest. boldest champion Of
autocracy this age has produced, and
declared that the speaker exercised
"a created despotism than exists in
any monarchy In Europe"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Big Deficit.

Congressman Tawney, in a speech
in the House, warned Congress that
unless all appropriations were re-
duced the Federal Government would
be confronted by big deficit.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Connections DESTROYED.

Telephone connection between Nat
chez and Vidalia was again destroyed
because of the giving away of recent
ly installed submarine wires.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
Lost $500.

]. H. Thomas, cigar drummer,
awoke in hotel at Alexandria in
time to see a thief disappearing with
his $500 roll.