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The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-29
NEWS OF THE CLERKS OFFICE
Partial List of Documents Filed
For Record During the
Past Week

E. Denegre Martin ct ais to Jno.
P. Boagni. N. u of Sec. 81, N. y
of Sec. 80, TIP. 3, R. 6 East, 400
4 acres. Consideration, $6,215.
Widow Mary E. Moss tosJno. z.
Boagni. Same as above.
United States to Oliver Ardoin,
Patent to Lot 1, Sec. la In~97ho'
2 East, 80 acres; &En re
Louise. SoIIeau to Victor H.
SiihHiIhbg Deed of correction.
ONE Partition sale between Elisha
Boudreau and Mrs. Ursin Prejean.
Eighty acres at Plaquemine Ridge.
E. M. Miller to l.. j. Langley.
Twenty acres in Sec. 80, TIP. 6, r.
2 West, 5000.
Eloi Prudhomme to Joseph H.
Boutte. Forty acres in Prairie
M~amougAQ0.
Mrs. Martin Conner ct al to
] Richard Odom. Twenty-Five
acres on Point Courville, $3.50.
Ferdinand Tate to Paul Stage.
Twenty-Five arpents in Prairie
ManSpu, $l38.
JosaBordelnad the forA Evans
to j. 90 to develop it, and 1esl-
dence ons that Mother Naslousas.
Jos. Ply in wajs---fe Arce-
neau. JuAaecesy, $50.
Simon Hadetson TO Andre Ar
ceneau. JUDI fnt, $63.
nOctaye Duriogp Joseph Iafond.
M0agage sale. Lot on Landry
stree9 OpeIousas, $275.
Widow sidonia Hidalgo to
yEugene Richard, Jr. Morfgsge
I sale. Lot with improvements u
Block B, Paws Addition, $500.
Thomas Hunchlife to Emilien
Miller. Release Of oil rights.
Last VIII and testament OF
Charles Anselm. Bequeaths the
usufruct to widow of estate. O.
Bordelon named as testamentary
executor.
Last will of Marie @. Bordelon.
Gives instruct of estate .S3aus-
bandr71 d;eafaaH
IaeQnce Ese4itteII To n loud
IN 80 +h;sarsixth interd Al ".
snls Ind S. w 9sec.
I'LL II Of Sec. isl y. E.
Of seseompl J, =.
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-29
ID. ID. TARvER.
CARPENTER AND BUILDER

would respectfully inform the people
OF Opelousas. that he ID prepared TO un-
dertake any Job In his line and guaran-
tee .sAtisfaction. Estimates furnished ON
short notice. Order left. with IT. g.
Csehere or as Mrs. .Laadryss boarding
houss viii receive. peemps attention.
fsb 8: isos !
The Opelousas courier., 1908-02-29
JURY VENIRE
First Week, Beginning Monday,
March I'd.

NAMES. RESIDENCE.
1 Armand Dejean, OpeIousas
2 Aurelien Moreau, Mallet
3 Rene Dossmann, Vile Plate
4 Hector Robert, Grand P1ai-
RE
5 Ernest St. Armand, Piaisance
8 Adolph Miller, Prairie Basse,
Grand Coteau
7 Tom Meyers, near Opelou2as
8 Achille Deville, Mallet
9 Alex Sandoz, Opelousas
10 Arthur Lahaye, Leonville
II Eugene Lavergne, Bellevue
II S. Lyon, Melville
Is Louis Joubert, Plaisance
IA W. c. Hudspeth, Rosa II
Is Louis Rogers, Opelousas
16 L. Marx, Opeousas
II Jos. McClelland, Mallet
Is Jos. M. Boagni, Opelousas
10 H. D. Larcade, Opelousas
~ A. l.. HOAavi', OpelOusaS
81 CASTOR Horais, Sunset
% Cha5les Ventre, Opelousas
% Evlne Fontenot, Eunice
"a G. T. Wartelle, Washington
rs J. E. Butler, Grand Prairie
.26 A. Wolff, near Opelousas
.27 John Boudreau, Opelousas
% John Jennings, Prairie Basse
20 Ed. Wolff, Chicot
80 Sidney l.. Hebrard, Opelousas
Second Week, Beginning Monday,
March 9th.
1 David Elliotte, Pine Prairie
2 E. M. Young, Plaquemine
3 Albert LaAera, Vile Plate
4 William Brinkhouse, Grand
Coteau b
5 Paul D. Fuselier, Eunice
6 David O. Fisher, Bellevue
7 Theodore Tate, Eunlce
s Lawrence Raspberry, Dossman
9 E. L. Loeb, Opelousas
10 John Foreman, Chicot
II John Walker, Turkey Creek
IL C. P. Richard, Opelousas
Is Saul Guidry, Bellevue
IA Leon Wolff, Washington
Is Robert Lafeur, Eunice
,.16 J. C. Lafeur, Mallet
II VIM. Niece, Eunice
18 Horace Meche, Arnaudville
10 Deogene Savoy, Sunsem
20 Willis Elliot, Pine Prairie -s
III Marius Bergreon, Arnaudville
% John Carriese, Prairie Basse
20 Jos. Guidroz, Opelousas
IA JOS. F. Stoke, Bellevue
rs David Blacksher, Opelousas
LES L. L. Daniel, Opelousas
27 Albert Gautreau, Opelousas
% Pierre Mistric, Leonville
20 Henry Martin, Opelousas
80 W. H. Milburn, Whiteville
A true and correct copy.
YVES ANDKEPONT,
cleSk.
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Iaisance, $3UO.
SamI. and ii. 4. Bafousse to
A5fner Barousse. "A one-fifteth
lrerest iii the estate of Their
g~radmother, Mrs. Caroline Fonte-
notS1O0.
Marion BterIas to ,.
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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-18
WIRELESS A SUCCESS

A. Brannan and J. Williams
Thomas spent several days this
week here in the interest of United
Wireless Telegraph Company.
These gentlemen are placing the
stock of this company among other
business men and they have met
with fine Success. This stock is
now selling at $3.50 per share and
is going right up. A few years
ago Union stock sold for only 81
per share and is now quoted at
$1,000 per share and the United
Wireless has an even brighter fut-
ure than Western Union or Bell
Telephone. There is no doubt that
Wireless stock will be as high or
higher than any stock OH the
market in a few years as its earning
capacity is simply enormous. Gas
cade Miner.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-18

be compelled to take oath to sup
port the ticket he is voting at the
primary election. at least for that
election. If this were done real
democrats would not vote the re-
publican ticket and real republicans
the democratic ticket at the pri-
maries.
There is another feature of the
primaries that is unfair to Candi-
dates-that is the placing of names
OH ballots. This should be done
by lot and not by disgraceful
scramble in filing, nor alpeabeti-
cally. as is done in Oregon. The
Only way to give each candidate a
fair showing is to give him a chance
to get as near the top of the ballot
for his particular Office as is posi-
BILE.
The entire law should be modi-
fed. 1t is a cumbersome affair and
not at all to the liking of the voters
of either party
While this is but the expressed
opinion of but one man, yet hum
dreds have complained of the pres
ent primary law. 1t is crude
construction, claimed by many to
be unconstitutional, and the next
legislature should certainly take it
up and improve upon it.-Tacoma
Tribune.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-18
WHICH WILL 1T BE?
ANSWER Mr.. FARMER
The Question is up to You and
All Bank Depositors

The republican state convention
of Kansas has declared unequiv.
ically in favor of Mr.. Bryan's plan
for guaranteeing bank deposits
And it should be borne in mind
. that the republican convention OF
this state, in session at Spokane
May IA, did the very same thing
1t may safely be assumed therefore
/ that this is popular issue in the
state of Washington.
But unfortunately the republican
national convention, refused to
adopt such plank on the ground
that it is a socialistic scheme, but
the republican leaders deeming it
necessary to say something on this
pressing subject, declared in favor
of postal savings banks. But even
in that they are insincere, for when
President Roosevelt urged the pre-
sent congress to authorize the pos
tai savings system no attention was
paid to the recommendation by the
party leaders in congress, aside
from quietly denouncing such a
program as revolutionary and
socialistic.
Judge Taft in his speech of ac-
ceptance, after seeing the growing
popularity of the bank deposit plan
attempted to combat the proposal
by denouncing the plan as unsafe,
doubtless in the hope of arousing
partisan prejudice and starting a
scare over it that would work to his
own advantage in the campaign.
But Bryan in his powerful speech
delivered at Topeka completely
kicked the props out from in under
Taft's labored argument and he
showed plainly moreover that Taft
has little practical knowledge of
the scope and details of the banking
business.
The people of this country are
going to have either a guarantee
of deposits law for the regulation
of all existing banks both national
and state or they propose to have
the postal savings bank operated
by the federal government, just as
it is operated today in England,
Germany. Switzerland, Belgium
and other countries. The Ameri-
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-18

can people are going to have one
system or the other and public
sentiment is fast crystalizing in
that direction. Which will the
bankers choose? Do they want
the national government to enter
the banking field? 1t certainly
will unless the other alternative is
adopted.
The bankers will only deceive
themselves if they assume that they
can defeat both of these proposed
reforms for they cannot. For the
people of this country when once
they decide that a proposed reform
is inst and in the public interest
will find a way to break down all
opposition to it.
There can be no doubt but that
the bankers will sooner or later de-
clare themselves in favor of law
for the guaranty of deposits. For
they will realize that such a system
will in the end protect the banks
as we'll as depositors and the pub
lie generally. -Yakima Democrat.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-18
PRIMARY LAW IS
SIMPLY FAULTY
Needs to be Amended to be
Satisfactory Generally

The primary law is faulty in
construction. That much is con-
coded by members of both the great
political parties. A prominent
Tacoma banker, in discussing the
law, said:
am a republican, and favored
the primary law, but the present
enactment is not what the voters
asked for. The law should make
it impossible for a voter of one par
ty to aid in choosing the candi-
dates for another party. Human
nature is certain to assert itself and
the democrat, if permitted, will
vote for the weaker republican
candidate, and vice versa. This
might be remedied in registration
by making it imperative for the
voter to state his political prefer
ment with column OH the regis
tration book to show whether he be
republican or a democrat. Then
when that individual asks for a bal
lot at the primary election, and
that ballot be other than the party
he processes to support, he should
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-18
THEY GOT OUT THE VOVE
AND YOU KNOW THE REST
Result Was Not a Surprise
Just What Was Expected

As this paper feared very con-
siderable number of democrats OF
this county insisted on voting re-
publican primary ticket last Tues
day, while many others, doubtless
feeling that as there were scarcely
any contests on, other than that for
governor and that Mr.. Splawn was
practically sure of the nomination
ANYWAY, declined to take the time
necessary to cast vote.
The republicans of this county
were and are at all times loyal to
their leader, congressman Jones,
and are deeply interested i'll his
ambition to go to the senate. Ev-
ery effort was made by his friends
therefore to get out a big vote for
him in his home county, their as
sumption being that the vote in the
state would be close on the choice
for senator, which did not prove to
be the case. 1t must be remem-
bered too that the Jones senatorial
campaign has been under way in
this county for over a year and
during all that time the press has
been harping on it and urging sup
port from the local man upon local
grounds with the result that an
interest amounting almost to
frenzy was worked up in behalf of
the Yakima candidate for the L. S.
senate. The wonder is that the
vote was not even larger. Num-
erous democrats doubtless voted
for Mr.. Jones for the same reason
that many republicans supported
him because he is a local man and
in their minds he stands for local
interests.
Among a number of local repub-
lican candidates a fierce contest
was on for nominations at the pri-
maries. Yon may be sure that
this fact played leading part too
in getting out the G. o. p. vote.
Even democrats in some cases were
prevailed on to cast a republican
ballot for the purpose of helping
out some friend who had the fight
Of his life on his hands. And thus
it went. Republicans had the in
centive to get out the vote, and
they appear at this writing to have
brought it out,
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-18
with my crop; l will be in a day OF

with my crop; l will be i'll day or
two"
In Cleveland, Ohio, bank fail
ed about the same time, and the
papers announced "Twelve-hun-
drel Infatuated Italians stormed
the closed doors of the busted
banking house of Coston Liopea on
Orange street, today. The police
drove the crowd Back
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-18
lust THE SAME
ONLY DIFFERENT

Compare this failure under the
guaranty system with a failure
where there is no guaranty. In
Oklahoma the bank commissioner
telephoned the farmers to come III
and get their money, and the
answer was, Il am busy today
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-18

Don't be afraid to give Chamber.
lain's Cough Remedy to your children
IL contains no opium or other harmful
drug. 1t always cures. For sale by
Owl Drug Store.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-24

vionsly wrested from the sultan with
the explanation that she was only re-
covering stolen goods.
About the only thing Prince Bis
marcll and his diplomatic guests
found suitable for Bulgaria was the
principally. The Bulg;trs didn't want
it, but in the end they accepted it With
as good grace as they could muster
and resolved to make the best OF it.
The Berlin adjusters made it an auton-
omons and tributary state under the
suzcraintN of the sultan. with Il Chris
tian government and a national militia
Its ruler was to be elected by the peo-
pie and confirmed by the sultan, with
the consent of the powers. The prince
however. must not be a member OF any
of the reigning houses identified with
the comforting powers. and he must
reside permanently in the principality,
How permanently remains to be seen"
observed Il Bulgarian member of the
assembly of notables when he read the
draft of the treaty.
Tho masterful Bismarck was sue
cessfu in his ambition to put man
of his own choosing at the head of the
new Bulgarian principality. Prince
Alexander of Battenberg was also the
choice of the assembly of notables. and
lie was elected, greatly to the disgust
of Russia, which had favored candi-
date. At the time no one believed that
the new ruler would remain at his post
for year or that he would be per
mitted to do so.
A Man of Initiative.
Alexander, however, proved to be
neither a figurehead nor a catspaw.
He had very well defined ideas of his
own as to how his principality should
be governed. and he proceeded to put
them into operation. From the first
he made it clear that he was not an
agent OF the czar or of the Austrian
emperor. He entered into the scheme
OF national expansion with readiness
that made him very popular with the
better classes among the Bulgarians
1t was due to his. manipulation that
part of the territory OF eastern Rou-
melia was restored to Bulgaria. Next
he made war on Scrvia and would have
absorbed that kingdom but for the in
reference of Austria. He was alto
gether too devoted to Bulgarian inter-
csts to suit Russia, and the Musco-
vites began to plot to get rid of him.
The cars secret agents fomented a
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Tho kaiser however, was not In
clned to abandon his ambition to be-
come lord of the admiralty of the At
lantic His reply to this latest defiance
from his English rivals was seven
Dreadnoughts, each with an armament
of twelve eleven-inch guns, which are
to be ready by 1911, This last stupen-
dous effort to retain the supremacy
will cost the Germans S100,O00,000. As
yet the empire has no docks big enough
to accommodate these 1eviathans, and
the Kiel waterway will have TO be wild :
ened and made deeper.
Although the honor Of the practical
realization OF the observation-disclosures of
battleships belongs to England, 1t had
been discussed previously both in
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AT last Uncle Sans navy is to
"a have two monster fighting
machines of the Dreadnought
A "A type-the North Dakota, soon
to be launched at Fore River Mass,
and the delaware, now under con-
structio.. at Newport News, Va.
These great battleships, which are
almost precisely alike, have long
forecastle deck extending from the
bow almost to the center OF the vessel.
The ten twelve inch guns are arranged
in five turrets, two to a turret, the for
ward turret being so located that the
axes of its guns are twenty-four feet
above the water line. Just abaft this
rurret is another. the barbette of which
is of sufficient height for its guns to
clear the roof of the forward turret.
Abaft the break of the forecastle deck.
and also situated on the axis of the
ship, are two more twelve inch gun
turrcts and abaft and near the stern
is the fifth and last Of the big turrets.
Naval men are of the opinion that
no navy in the world possesses ship
of the Drcadnought type in which the
guns are arranged to better advantage.
1t is only recently that the full mean
Ing OF concentrated sea power seems
to have been made clear to any nation.
Until within the last few years the
fleets Of the great nations We're scat
tered over the globe. and the force OF
sea power was lost in maintaining di-
pided squadrons in different parts Of
the world The political situation
caused Great Britain to resllape its
naval policy and to center it's sea
lighting strength in one powerful nome
fleet. At this time also there was a.
wild hurrah in Germany over the
proposition of its war lord to build
the biggest navy in the world. The
country was already tax burdened, but
the subservient reichstaG provided that
the existing organizarlon OF the navy
be raised from the standard of the
1900 ton ship to that of 10000 In
reply the British admiralty lorGs threw
I22 fighting snips, representing an out
Jay OF $40, 100000 into the scrap heap
and built new navy of the King Ed
:;i.-'d type OF ships, mounting four
nine-inch guns in addition to the usual
battery.
Coming of the Dreadnousht.
The Teuton had been outwitted put
his sea power continued to expand es-
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conspiracy. On the night of Aug. II,
1886, Alexander was lured secretly into
Russian territory and there forced to
abdicate A revolution followed, and
the prince returned to Bulgaria. He
remained in the principally less than
a month Everything was in state
OF upheaval and he once more sought
asylum in Germany III disgust, leaving
an abdication in the hands of his par
Lament.
Alexander left many friends IN Bull
Saria, some of them rich and powerful,
who would have remained faithful to
his interests, but he had had enough
He declined absolutely TO take any step
TO recover his turbulent principalitS,
and the Bulgarians were without
ruler.
In Search Of Ruler.
a deputation was sent in search of
one Practically all of the courts of
Europe We're visited. but there was Il
marked paucity OF candidates for the
ticl1lish position. With Alexander's ex-
perience fresh in mind. not even the
most impoverished princclet in the
German empire could be persuaded to
try his hand at being prince OF Bull
garia. At last the bafIled deputation
returned to Vienna with the forlorn
hope that some one of the multitude
of inconspicuous emi-royalties CON
nected with the Austrian court might
be begged, borrowed or stolen"
The bewhiskered Bulgars found no
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Italy and in America. 1t was the
Italian Colonel Cuniberi who designed
the Dreadnought and offered the plan
to the admiralty of his own country.
Unwilling TO undertake the construc-
ton Of such a costly type, the Italian
government turned it down. Cunt
berti then gave his design TO the
world, and the British made use of it,;
In the same Year that Cunibcrti plan
ned his big ship Lieutenant Poundstone
laid before the United States naval de-
partment the plans of a largo type of
warship similar to the Dreadnought
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her Anniversaries and with the conccn-
tratcd fire of her ten hard hitting guns
hammer the little ships to the point of
surrender or speedy humiliation. Her
perfect fire control would never permit
a miss. Sweeping noiselessly across
the sea, her pointers. following til"
enemy in tho crosswircs of their
sights. hcr ten enormous guns high
above the waves and spray, would seek
out tie vulnerable point of the enemy
and BY continuous pounding would 81
leuce his heaviest guns
In the battle Of Tsushima. Russian
naval prestige was wiped ont in IL sin
gle afternoon Had the japanese pos
scssed Il single Drcadnougft the proc
ess Of obliteration would have been
less protracted-an hour aud a half
would have been quite long enough.
preservers of Peace
Thus it is that the destinies OF mart
time nations seem 10 hang on these ar
biters Of the seas. The Hague has not
yet been able TO suggest anything more
practical or more potent. The power
OF the Dreadnought is having its in
iuence OF the war lords of Europe.
Little fresh water states may blster
and burn powder. but the great naval
powers are not overanxious TO assume
the offensive.
on the South American continent
Brazil is first TO acknowledge the far
reaching Influence Of the Dreadnought
and has already become the dominant
force on account OF the three great
ships which she is having constructed.
In spite OF her poverty the little brown
men Of Japan are riveting end ham
mering day and night on the great
hnIis which are to be the bulwarks OF
her coming national prosperity In
1911 the quaint flag of the mikado viii
f!y over seven Drcadnoughts aud nine
Dreadnought cruisers Al dat data
Uncle sam Will have fouP ships OF the
highest efficiency and two ;hers OF
the Michigan tYpea sort oil Dread
nnught compromise Great Britain
will add eight improved Dreaduoushts
to her navS and four cl,jtnsrs, Gael.
carrying eight twelve inch guns and
With IL speed Of twenty four knots
Italy has wGlSed UP ana is building y
10000 ton patticshtp, France which
once held second place among this
worlds naval powers, has dropped 70
fifth. A. J, PoafER0f.
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New Battlesl1ips Of the Dreadnou8ht Type;
Does the Peace Of the World Depend Them?

pecially his merchant marine. Finally
his insular maritime rival abandoned
all conservatism and produced the
Drcadnought 1t was a fearful blow,
for it made the highly Wanted German
fleet collection OF second class ships.
All the navies OF the world were made
vastly less efficient by it's coming.
That of Russia, broken into fragments
by the japanese. has never been re-
stored even to its original strength.
That OF France has been brought to a
state of almost absolute inctiicency by
failure to keep up with the procession.
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Dreadnoughts might preserve the
peace Of the world. In order to defy
her on the high seas 1t would be neccs
sary to excel her in point Of numbers
and in equipment. No naval arma-
ment Of the usual type could Withstand
such fleet In combat with a fleet of
the type that must soon go to the junk
pile, even one of these new ships could
inhict fearful destruction.
In combat such ships would conquer
without wasting a single shot. Secure
in the possession of impregnahie
armor, one Of them could descend on
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vantage The wonderful speed of
these big ships. twentyone knots.
makes every other battleship not tur5
bine driven a tortoiselikc affair. In
an action a fleet of Dreadnoughts
might accept or decline battle, as suit
ed its convenience. 1t could also
choose its own range and control the
rate of change of range.
Although the tremendous power of
concentration secured by the ten
twelveinch guns of a ,Dreadnought is
the principal reason for the adoption
of this new type by all the navies of