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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-05-07
THE STATE PRESS.

Mansfield Enterprise: Congressman
Watkins has developed into one of the most
useful Of Louisiana Congressman.
Mansfield journal: State Superintend-
ent Aswell was visitor to our town Friday.
He spent most of his time at his hotel He
did not take any chances of being snubbed.
Morehouse Clarion: The South is the
only truly American section of the United
States at the present time, and Progressive
Leagues of all Southern cities should see
to it that the people they induce to immi-
CRATE here are not liable to become a bur-
den to the State
Shreveport Caucasian: Since all oppo-
sition against the State Superintendent was
silenced or side-tracked, and he is secure
in office for another term of four years,
unless he shall resign, he should not as
sumo that he is ''the only pebble on the
beach," Before the end of the first session
of the Legislature he may realize that it
is easy to have bills introduced, but ap-
preparations are not secured on call or on
demand. The great body of the people
are not inclined to the system of education
which is being fixed on the State, for the
reason that it is too much on the order of
an autocracy. The school interests of the
State are not tagging; indeed, as indicated
by the results in each parish, progress is
steady and encouraging, and this will be
accelerated when the people shall elect the
School Boards and the public schools shall
be conducted without the red tape of s'The
Department of Education,'' which is seek
ing appropriations of money from the State
for what?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-05-07
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

Prohibition carried in ST. Landry Parish
by 1850 to 1,070, a majority of 979.
James Krammer, an old chopper, was
murdered while at work in the woods near
New Orleans.
j. M. Nettles, near Greensburg, died
from heart failure while seated on river
bank fishing.
Lawrence O'Dell, nine-year- old boy,
died in New Orleans last Thursday of in
juries received from street car.
The amendment reducing the number of
tax collectors in New Orleans from seven
to one, was carried by 1900 majority.
Charles E. Letten, the defaulting tax
collectors clerk in New Orleans, was SEN
fenced to seven years in the penitentiary.
The Weather Bureau states that last
month was the warmest April on record in
New Orleans, the average temperature
being 80 degrees.
The exhibit Of Louisiana resources being
displayed by the Frisco railway lines in the
North Central States is proving an affec-
tive advertising medium.
The Episcopal Church Council in New
Orleans adopted resolution opposing race
track gambling and voted money to secure
an assistant to Bishop Sessums.
Cotton acreage has been greatly reduced
IN Avoyelles Parish this year. The farm
ers have planted an immense acreage to
cane and corn, and the biggest cane crop
in the history of the parish is now growing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-05-07
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

Chicago Journal: The trust barons
maintain their position by owning the ma
tons making body.
Baltimore Sun: Mr. Bryan is annoyed
by mere stockholders worrying him about
the management of las party.
Cincinnati Enquirer: It did not used to
be the fashion for candidate for President
of the United States to show at overnight
stands.
Los Angeles Times: Paternalism, the
relying on some one to stand for you, does
not tend toward building up manhood; it
saps the strength out of men and creates a
disposition to lie down, to cease the strug-
gle, to give up, to dispair. That philosophy
will not make men. The product must be
weaklings unable to stand alone-always
in need of some one to stand for them, to
prop them up.
Clarksdale (Miss.) Register: The great
majority of our people would undoubtedly
prefer to see bird life protected. The reck-
less and wanton destruction that keeps
down our feathered population to it's pres
ent low limit is the work of small minority
of thoughtless persons. It is up to our
substantial citizens, and to game wardens,
wherever such are or shonld be appointed,
to see that the laws are not defied by the
ignorant and unthinking.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-05-07
..WHAT GOOD HAS HE DONE?"

When a man dies these days other men
ask: "What was he worth?" By the an
swer to that question they gauge the value
of his life. But this method of reckoning
is barbaric. The day will come in this
country when men will ask of a man just
dead not what was he worth?" but "What
good did he do?''
This is commercial period in the growth
of a commercial nation. Everybody IS
eager to get rich; so engrossing is the
pursuit of money that the ideals and am
billions of an earlier day are dead. No
longer does youth long for distinction IN
art or literature: even distinction in science
seems hardly sought for. The young set
out in life determined to get rich, at what
ever cost Riches only appear desirable;
for themselves, even, and not merely for
what they buy. Thousands, hundreds OF
thousands, of men already have more
money than they can spend, but they do
not slacken their industry. So long as
others have more than they possess they
are unhappy
But this state of things can not last long.
Sooner or later reaction will occur and
men will find that money is one Of the least
to be valued among the benefits of life.
Human nature must grow weary of piling
up useless accumulations of wealth and
seek for something more inspiring. Man,
after all, is spiritual being, and he can
not be long kept away from the things OF
the spirit Human existence is short; toe
precious to be wasted in picking up coun-
tiers.
When man comes to die what is it worth
to know that he has heaped together mil
lions of dollars that are of no use to him:
Would he not rather have the right to re-
member that he had discovered cure fol
cancer, or solved the mystery of the
Marian canals, or built hospital, OF
soothed the suffering, or wrote poem thai
would be read with delight centuries hence:
Such money grabbing as we are guilty
of is worthy of savages. Civilization viii
in time be done with it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-05-07

The soil of Louisiana not only teens with
natural products, many of them of great
value in the various industries, but it is
adapted to the highest development of ag-
ricnItuEal products. Among its natural
of wealth, and also many minerals, the
most noteworthy of which are salt, sulphur,
gypsum, etc., and also oil and gas. The
luxuriance to which its sugar cane, cotton
rice, hay, vegetables and fruits attain, and
its possibilities in the way of wheat, rye
indigo and tobacco mark it as unsurpassed
in fertility among all the lands in the
United States.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-05-07

A terrific storm swept over sections Of
Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois
and other States Monday. Four persons
were killed in Arkansas, the town Of
Watson was wiped out, great damage was
done at Dumas and in Faulkner and Con-
way Counties. AtFrench Village, Illinois,
many houses were unroofed, twenty five
power boats were sunk in the Illinois River
at Peoria and the village of Edgemont
flooded, many persons being forced to take
refuge on improvised RATS. In st. Louis
the wind did much damage to property and
indirectly caused the loss of two lives.
Many sections in Louisiana and Mississippi
were visited by wind, rain and hail storms.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-05-07

In THE DIM PAsT.-Boswell was writing
the life of Johnson. s'I'll tackle Bryan's
biography he said, when he gets through
talking-if he ever does.''
Besides, he thought it best to wait until
the peerless leader had run five or six
times more for the Presidency before put
ting the story of his life and loquacity into
connected form.-ErcLonqe
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-05-07
THE LAST ROLL CALL ANSWERED.

THE LAST ROLL CALL ANSWERED.
B. F. Howard, Confederate veteran,
died at Richmond, Va, aged seventy four
years.
Rev. Father Hugh L. Magivney, noted
Jesuit, gifted writer, lecturer and an officer
in the Confederate Army, died Saturday
at Cincinnati, aged sixty-three years.
Vespasian Chancellor, we'll known cit
teen and Confederate veteran, died at his
home in Fredericksburg, Va, April %, af
ter a lingering illness, aged seventy years.
John Penn Taylor, an ex-Confederate
soldier, died at his home at Chesterfield
C. H., Va, last Thursday, aged sixty nine
years. One Of his surviving sisters, is a
widow of Carter Lee, who was brother of
Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Judge Ernest Miltenberger, one of New
Orleans best known citizens, died April
20 at the age of seventy four years. With
the Orleans Guards he won distinction at
Shiloh, and was Lieutenant Colonel I'M
der Brigadier General Henry W. Allen.
When Allen was Governor of Louisiana
Miltenberger was sent to Europe as special
commissioner, with Prince Polignac, who
carried important documents to the court
of Napoleon Ill.
DR.. J. F. Griffin, one of the oldest ply
sicians in Shreveport, died in that city last
Thursday night, aged eighty years. He
was born in Louisville, KY, Nov. IA, 1927.
For sixty years he practiced medicine in
Louisiana, graduating from the State I'm
iversity in 1848. He served through the
Civil War, enlisting in Shreveport COM
pany and was promoted to surgeon. He
was we'll known as a medical writer, and
for years was President of the Shreveport
Medical Society.
Mr.. E. E. Sandlin died at his home near
Rockwell, Texas, April 20. He was born
in Dooley County, Ca, in 1927, and was a
son of Jesse G.. Sandlin, who moved to
Bossier Parish in 1848, settling in the Cot
ton Valley neighborhood, now a part of
Webster Parish. In 1861 "Lige" Sandlin
and his brothers lessee G. and j. H. Sand
lin enlisted in the Bossier Volunteers, Ninth
Louisiana Regiment, participating in all
the battles in which this famous regiment
was engaged during the Civil War in Vir-
ginia, Maryland and at Gettysburg. When
Gen. Jackson was wounded at Chancellors-
vile Corporal Sandlin was one of the men
detailed to wait upon him, and was in the
discharge Of that duty when the great
Southern hero died.
Col. Frank P. Stubs, an old and prom
inent citizen of Louisiana, died at Monroe
Pelican Grays, which was mustered IN as
Company I, Second Louisiana Infantry.
He declined the captaincy Of the company
for want of military training, but accepted
the first lieutenancy. Later he raised 269
men to recruit the Louisiana batteries and
returned to Virginia, participating as the
First Lieutenant of Moody's Madison Ar
tillery in the battles of Charlottesville
and Gettysburg. Col. Stubs served as a
member of the State Senate from 1875 to
1879 and as a member of the Constitutional
Convictions Of 1879 and 1898. He was
born at Milledgeville, Ca, in September
$3.50.
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-05-07
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
Seven inches of snow fell at Buffalo, N.
Y, Friday.
Francis J. Black committed suicide in
New York.
Four Italian laborers were killed by a
sewer cavein at Altoona, Pa.
The spread of bubonic plague in Venezu-
ella is causing an exodus from that country.
An attempt was made in Cincinnati with
a bomb to destroy the quarters of fash
ionable club.
The excess of government expenditures
over receipts for the month of April was
500, 1882.
A severe storm swept through Middle
Alabama last Thursday, destroying a num-
Der of small houses.
The New Jersey Democratic Convention
refused to instruct for Bryan and will send
its delegation unpledged.
Heavy frosts were reported last Thurs
day throughout the South and Southwest,
with storms in New York.
Four-year- Rosa Hornstein was
drowned by falling into we'll in the yard
of her home in Baltimore.
The National House of Representatives
passed bill appropriating $3.50, 900 for the
relief of the storm sufferers.
The severest snow storm ever known at
Herkimer, N. Y, at this time of the year
ragged at that place Saturday.
Two men were killed and six wounded
by the explosion of mine aboard the
launch of German battleship.
After being lost all night, aged Mrs.
! Gilbert was found waist deep in the water of
the Benning marshes, District of Columbia.
Saloons in number of counties and
towns in Virginia which have recently
gone "dry,' went out of business last week.
In an armed political conflict at Fort de
de France Martinique, West India Islands,
the mayor and several other men were
killed.
Six persons lost their lives and four were
injured in tenement house fire in Brook
lyn, N. Y.
About 225 Japanese naval officers and
sailors lost their lives last Thursday when
the training cruiser Matsushima was de-
molished by an explosion.
Hold up men secured $4,000 which was
to have been used to pay off employees OF
coal company, while it was being taken
from Welch to Gary, VIVA.
Two inches of snow fell throughout
] Eastern and Central Kentucky last Thurs:
Rev. VIM. G. Eggleston, the oldest min.
lister of Baltimore Conference, Methods
Episcopal Church, South, died at Middle.
town, Va, April 25, aged ninety four years
Observation in the New York saloons
shows that drivers of trucks, vans anc
wagons are the largest consumers of spirit.
uous liquors of all classes of persons ir
the city.
A small tornado twenty feet wide struck
destroyed three houses, two barns anc
smoke houses. All the property was tori
into fragments.
The dynamiting of passenger trair
near Butte, Montana, the work, it is be.
lieved, of a tramp seeking revenge fol-
being elected from a train, resulted in the
death of one person and the injury Of three
A snow storm prevailed practically
over the entire State of Ohio last Thursday
At Cincinnati the snow caused consider.
able damage to trees, and at GAINESVILLE the
street cars in residence districts were pu
out of business by falling poles and heavy
limbs crashing from trees into the trolly
} wires.
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-05-07

The Democratic State Convention in
Connecticut refused to instruct for BRYAN.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-08-21

FRIDAY, AUGUST 81, 1908.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-08-21
RESOLUTION

II Is resolved by the city Of St. Johns:
That IL deems il expedient and neces-
sary to improve Hayes Street, from the
South line of Catlin street to the s.uth
line of Weyerhaeuser tract in the city OF
St. Johns, in the following manner to-
witt
BY grading said street to established
grade and by sidcwalking same, with
wooden sidewalks feet walk Ia feet
curbs on both sides of the said street,
and proper cross walks according to the
plans and specifications of the City En-
gineer on file in the office of the city re-
corder relative thereto, which said plans
and specifications and estimates are sat
isfactory and are hereby approved.
Said improvements TO be made in accord
ance with the charter and ordinances OF
the city OF st. Johns, and under the sup
ervision aud direction of the city engin-
eer.
That the cost of said improvement to
be assessed as provided by the city char
ter upon the property especially and
particularly benefited thereby and which
Is hereby declared to be ball lots, parts of
lots, blocks and parcels of land between
the terinini OF such improvement abut-
ting upon, adjacent or proxiinate to
said Hayes street, from the marginal lines
of said street back to the center OF the
block or blocks or tracts OF land abutting
thereon or approximate thereto.
That all the property included III said
improvement district aforesaid Is hereby
declared to be Local Improvement Dis
trict No. T."
That the city engineers assessment
of the probable total cost Of said i'm
provement OF said Hayes street Is f5743.-
70.
That the cost OF said Hayes street is to
be assessed against the property IN said
local assessment district as provided by
the city charter of the city OF St. Johns.
Adopted the nth day Of August,
1908.
A. NJ. ESSON,
Recorder city OF St. Johns.
Published In the st. Johns Review Aug.
AZ aud as, 1908.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-08-21

II Is beautifully located, the surface
being practically level, having just a
slight fall toward the river on either
side to give surface drairaec. Has
'he best fresh water harbor on the
coast that will take the vessels OF
deepest draught that swims the seas
at her dock. by the time this Is In
print the money for abig50O.foot dock
will be in the Peninsula bank here
for the city's use. Work will be
commenced at the earliest possible
date on it's construction. There are
many ideal locations for factory sites
and there are no more derirable or
prcttier reside nee locations In any
city I'm Oregon and the prices are as
reasonable as can be forId when
all things are considered. We have
unexcelled educational facilities and
clean town with good churches and n
saloons, making II a desirable place
to live. Add to this The finest eli.
matte conditions on earth, what more
can one wish? Besides, We are close
enough to Hood River to get the
best apples that grow.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-08-21
RESOLUTION

II Is resolved by the city of ST. Johns:
That II deems II expedient and neces,
sary To improve Salem street, from the
South line of Crawford Street To the
South line OF Edison street, in the city
of ST, Johns, in the following manner,
to-wit;
by lowering same to sub-grade and by
macadamizing a strip in the center there
of 10 feet wide, said macadam TO be 3
inches thick in center of street gradually
diminishing To o inches thick on either
side in the manner provided by Ordinance
No, I99, Section I according To the plans
aud specifications OF the city engineer on
file in the office OF the city recorder re-
latiye thereto, which said plans, aud
specifications aud estimates are satisfac-
tory and are hereby approved. said i'm
proyements To be made in accordance
with the charter and ordinances of the
city of st. Johns, and under the supervi-
sion and direction of the city engineer.
That the cost of said improvement To
be assessed AS provided by the city char
ter upon the property especially and par
ticularly bentitted thereby and which
is hereby declared to be all the lots, parts
of lots, blocks aud parcels of land be-
tween the terinini of such improvement
abutting upon, adjacent or proximate
to said Salem street, from the marginal
lines OF said street back to the center of
the block or blocks or tracts of land a
butting thereon or proximate thereto.
That all the property included in said
improvement district aforesaid is hereby
declared to be Local Improvement Dis
trict No, TO-"
That the city engineers assessment of
the probable total cost of said improve
ment of said Salem street is to5o.oo.
That the cost of said Salem street to
be assessed against the property in said
local district as provided by the City
Charter of the city of st, Johns.
Adopted the rs day of August, 1905.
A. NJ. Esson,
City Recorder,
Published in the 81 Johns Review Aug,
al and 2S, 1895.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-08-21
RESOLUTION

II Is resolved by the city OF St. Johns:
That II deems II expedient and ncces-
sary to improve Pittsburg Street, from
the Ferry slip on said street To the North
side line OF Crawford street In the city
of 81. Johns, In the following manner to.
wit.
BY lowering same 10 sub-grade aud by
nacadamiling q strip In center Of same
10 feet wide said macadam 60 be inches
thick In the center, 6inches decpat eth
or side, To bc done In the manner pro.
vided by ordinance No. i97, See. there.
Of aud by sidcwalking with board side
walk from Bradford street TO the ferry slip
aud cross walk across north side Of Brad.
ford ST. according 10 plans and specifi.
cations Of the city engineer on file IN the
Office Of the city recorder relative there
To, which said plans, specifications aud
estimates are satisfactory aud are hereby
approved. Said improvements TO be
made in accordance with the charter
aud ordinances Of the city Of ST. Johns,
aud under the supervision and direction
Of the city engineer.
That the cost OF said improvement to
be assessed as provided by the city char
ter upon the property especially and par
ticulafly benefited thereby aud which IL
hereby declared 10 be all Of the lots,
parts OF lots. blocks and parcels OF land
between the terinini oi such improve
men,s abutting upon, adjacent or proxi'
mate To said pittsburg street, from the
marginal lines OF said street back 10 the
center Of the block or blocks or tracks of
land abutting thereon or proximate
thereto.
That all the property included IN said
improvement district Aforesaid Is hereby
declared 10 be Local Improvement Dis-
trict No. g."
That the city engineers assessment OF
the probable total cost OF said improve
ment Of said Pittsburg street is s7Ib.o7,
That the cost OF said pittsburg Street
To be assessed against the property In said
local assessment district as provided by
the city charter OF the city Of 81. Johns.
Adopted the rs day of August, 1905.
A. NJ. Esson,
City Recorder.
Published in the ST. Johns Review
Aug, ~ aud 9s, 1898.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-08-21
Administrators Notice 10 Creditors.

I'm the County Court of the State OF
Oregon, Tor the county Of Multnomah.
In the matter of the estate OF Robert
Johnson, deceased,
Notice Is hereby given that the under
signed Was on the IIth day Of August
duly and regularly appointed by the
county court of Multnomah county, ore
gon, administrator of the estate OF Rob
vrt Johnson, deceased.
All persons having claims against said
estate are hereby required to present the
same with proper vouchers attached To
me at the office of II. Is. Collier, rooms
2o-2i, llolbrook building, 81. Johns, Or,
egon, within six months from and after
the 2Ist day OF August, I9oS, said date
being the first publication of this notice
BERT JOHNSON,
Administrator of above named estate.
III. T.. Collier,
lI-4S Attorney for Administrator.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-08-21
RESOLUTION

II II resolved by the City Of ST. Johns
That Il deems Il cxpcdicnt aud necessary
to improve Crawford Street, from the
east line oi pittsburg street 10 the west
line of Salem street, IN the city Of 81.
Johns, IN the following manner, to.wit:
By lowering same To subgradc, and
by macadamiling strip IN the center
thereof 10 feet wide, said rock to be
inches thick iu the center thereof aud
| tapcFing to o inches thick on either side
Said Improvement To he made as provid.
cd hy Section No. of Ordinance No.
ig3, aud according To the plans aud SPEC
ihcltions OF the city engineer on fle In
the office Of the city recorder relative
thereto, which said plans, specifications
and estimates are satisfactory and are
hereby approved. said Improvements to
be made Ia accordance with the charter
and ordinances oi the city Of 81. Johns,
and under the supervision aud direction
oi the city engineer.
That the cost oi said improvement 10
hc assessed as provided by the city char
ter upon the property especially aud par
ticularly benefited thereby, aud which IN
hereby declared Ia bc all the lots, parts
oi lots, blocks and parcels Of land be-.
tween the tcrmini ui such improvements
abutting upon, adjacent or pToNimate To
said Crawford street, from the marginal
lines Of said street back Ia the center of
the block or blocks OF tracts OF land
abutting thereon or proximate thereto.
That all the property included Ia said
Improvement district aforesaid is hereby
declared lo be Local improvement Dis
trict No, y"
That the city engineers assessment of
the probable total cost of said improve
ment of said Crawford street is s2iI.79,
That the cost of said Crawford street
to he assessed against the property in
said local assessment district as provided
hy the city charter of the city of ST.
Johns.
Adopted the 18th day Of August, 1908,
\, NJ. ESSON,
City Recorder,
Published Ia the 81, Johns Review,
Aug, 2Ist and 9Sth, 1905.