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The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
WEEyIL SECTION PROSPERS
Adjusted Under New Order
of Affairs.
RULE SERVED UPON TIMBER MEN
Assessments Inc'eased $25O,OOO-
Veneer Factory-Farmers' I'm
ion Opposes School Tax
Coloring Plant.

After laboriously and diligently
going over the detailed assessments
by fortes filed by the various lum-
her companies for more than two
days and a half the Police Jury of
Winn Parish, sitting as a board of
reviewers, took action upon the rule
served upon the timber men to
show cause why their classifications
of timber as originally filed with the
assessor should not be amended SO
as to increase the assessments about
30 per cent. The timber men pro-
duced their private estimate books
on each forIy acres in support of
their contention that the proposed
change was unjust and in equitable.
After going through these an AMIGA
Bile settlement was reached, where
by the classitications will be chang
ed so as to increase the assessment
about per cent over the lists orig
inally filed by the timber men. The
increase will amount to about $780,
000
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Oil Well Strikes Gas Pocket.

In addition to the evidences of oil
detected in the overflow from the
we'll being bored on Kelley Heights,
the drill had entered, a gas pocket
that morning and the entire top OF
the derrick was blown away, while
the pipe which reached a depth of
some 700 feet, was lifted fully six
feet out of the hole. Immediately up
on the receipt of the news many per-
sons left for the field, and dozen
automobiles were soon scorching out
to the oil field loaded with directors
and other persons Interested in the
oil developments. The drillers claim
that it will require several days be-
fore the derrick can be repaired and
the drilling resumed.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Weevil Section Indicates Prosperity.

Director Dodson, of the State ex-
pertinent station, reports that there
are sections of the State where he
found the conditions highly encour-
aging. At StonewaIl, Desoto parish,
he heard not single complaint and
found that this section, which is
largely settled by white people and
where very few negroes are engaged
in farming, is in prosperous con-
dition. This section of the State was
among the first to be affected by the
advent of the boil weevil, and, there
fore, among the first to assimilate it.
self to the new order of affairs un-
der the change effected by the ad-
vent of the pest. He found that in
this section the people have planted
extensively in cegn, oats and other
cereals and that considerable atten-
tion is being given to forage crops
and stock raising. A lucrative re-
venue is derived from dairies and
creameries, which have been recently
opened in that section and the gen.
eral condition of the country indl-
Gates prosperity.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Dairymen Organize.

The specialist Mr.. Nelson's visit to
the dairymen in Hammond, had its
good effect in more than one way.
The dairymen will purchase at once
a Pasteurizer and separator machine
will be put in charge of an expert,
and each individual dairyman will
have his milk thoroughly tested
daily with the result that those who
would adulterate or who are dilatory
in cleanliness will be excluded from
the Cooperative Association of Milk
Dealers, thereby making the product
more salable and reducing adultera-
tion to minimum.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Fell from Train.

New York.-After he had been re-
vived, in a hospital, Samuel Lowey,
a diamond merchant who fell from a
New York Central train while it was
going through Harlem station at 80
miles an hour, felt of his pockets
Historically and asked IL his dia-
monds had been found. The doctor
drew from his pocket several pack
ages containing $4,000 worth of
diamonds, but Lowey said there were
more, that he had two large stones
in small pocket of his coat. While
he was describing them, the police
arrived at the hospital with the miss
ing gems. A passenger had found
them.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
conflict OF JURISDICTION
Judge Speer and Judge Charl-
ton Reach Agreement
SUPREME court TO SETTLE IT ALL
Judge of Federal Court Announced
That II Agreement Could Not
Reached He Would Have to
Enforce Order of Court.

Savannah, Ga.-Conflict between
federal and state courts, which was
I Threatened over he assets of the
Electrical Supply Company, has
been averted by the agreement oi
both Judge Speer and Judge Charl-
ton to refer the case at issue to the
supreme court of Georgia for ad-
judication. Some of the creditors
of the company had appealed to
Judge Charlton and he had named
as receiver w. V. Davis. Other
creditors applied to the federal court
for an order in involuntary bank
ruptcy, and Judge Emory Speer
named United States Marshal White
as receiver.
Judge Charlton refused to recog-
nize the jurisdiction of the federal
officials and ordered his receiver to
refuse to obey Speers writ He
further instructed Receiver Davis TO
put armed guards over the property
and to resist the attempt Of Marshal
White with force. Thereupon, Judge
Speer cited Davis for contempt.
Then, Judge Speer proposed to
Judge Charlton that if he would
agree to order Receiver Davis to
hold intact all the company's prop
erty until the supreme court of the
United States could mold upon the
question OF jurisdiction, the citation
for contempt would be recalled.
Judge Charlton wired that he
would agree to do SO, and thereupon,
Judge Speer telegraphed Judge
Charlton:
"Your telegram received. Rule
against receiver accordingly sus-
pended"
Judge Speer's letter to Judge
Charlton, while deprecating the un-
fortunate situation and offering
way to solve the dispute, neverthe-
less, maintained that the federal
jurist's view was the only tenable
one and indicated that the United
States court would stop at nothing to
enforce it's mandates. Judge Speer,
in the letter, said:
If, however, you do not think
proper to adopt this suggestion,
must do the best / can towards the
enforceemnt of the law as / conceive
it to exist, to prevent the distribu-
ton of assets of what remains to
me an insolvent and bankrupt con-
,ern.''
Instead of hearing in Macon on
l contempt charge, Marshal White
will ask the supreme court of the
state to turn over to him as re-
,eiver, the property of the concern.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
BRYAN MAKES SPEECH.
Delivers it in CoFnfieId Ten Miles
From Town.

Mason City, Ia.An engine pulling
a train on which William ]. Bryan
was being rushed to Cresco to fill a
lecture engagement broke down in
corn field ten miles from his destina-
tion. After the trafnmen had com
with the division superin-
tendent and the track was properly
guarded Mr. Bryan handed cigars to
the engineer and fireman, and upon
the demand Of his friends, took
position on the pilot of the dead"
engine and made ssa red hot speech
on. the tariff bill IIe fiaved what
he called the corporation protecting
Senate. The corporation tax was
sop to excuse no downward revision,
he said. If the bill was passed in it's
present from the Republican would
lose the House and the White House
he asserted.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Establishes Veneer Factory.

H. J. Davis, prominent saw mill
owner of st. Tammany parish, has
established in connection with his
saw mill on Bayou Lacombe a We
neer factory and is making a special
ty of orange, lemon, pineapple and
similar boxes, the material for which
he turns out from black gum, large
quantities of which are 20 be found
in this section. Most of the pro-
duct of the mill goes direct to Ha-
Vana
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Maddog Creates Excitement.

A dog in Crowley recently went
mad and created considerable excite
ment among the women and child
rem 1t was finally killed. The
chief of police and the city marshal
have killed 1872 dogs since the mad
dog scare began. Several of these
had developed symptoms of rabies.
One horse has died with what vet
erinarian has pronounced rabies.
The horse is believed to have been
bitten by rabid dog which had
been killed in the same block.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Charged with Embezzlement.

Special Detective NJ. ]. Baulch of
the Iron Mountain Railway, at Bat
on Rouge, arrested Will Holmes, for
merly station agent at Farmerville,
La, who is charged with embeZzling
$500 of the company's money while
employed there. Holmes, who is
said to have come from prominent
family, has been employed by the
Louisiana Railway and Navigation
Company in the capacity of tele-
graph operator at Bayou Sara.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
GATES MAY BUY OIL COMPANY,
Will Be Strong Bidder for Waters.
Pierce Concern.

Galveston, ex.-John w. Gates,
in heading a new organization, which
will be capitalized at $3,00O,OO0, for
the purpose of taking over the Wa
ters-Pierce Oil Company's property
in Texas, estimated to be worth near
ly $2,00O,00O. The property will be
put up at auction by. the State in
about sixty days and bidding will be
lively. The State has announced
two conditions. One is that no COM
pany or firm now operating in the re-
tail oil trade in Texas will be permit
ed to buy the property, and the other
is that no trust or individual or con-
Germ connected with the oil trust
will be allowed to take the property
which the State seized and which has
been paying 40 per cent ON its value
in earnings.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
SWORN STATEMENT :
Making Revelations as to Packing
,yc,

Making Revelations as to Packing
House Irregularities.
East st. Louis, Ill.-Julius Bishof,
of Bellevil1e, has issued sworn
statement giving the gist of his testi-
mony before the committee sent here
by Secretary Wilson, of the depart
ment of agriculture, to investigate
Harms charges. Bishof's charges
against the meat inspection system
are more serious than those made by
Harms and more specific. He re-
cites his three years experience in
the packing house and calls atten-
tion to numerous alleged irregulari-
ties
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
THIBODAUX. La. SATURDAY. II, 1909
INCOME TAX AMENDMENT.
"Now Is the Time to Act" Says w.
j. Bryan.

Lincoln, Neb.-Mr. Bryan made
public the following statement on
the income tax amendment:
1.-The Democratic platform of 1908
contained an income tax plank.
"Mr. Bryan endorsed this plank
and urged the necessity of consti-
tutional amendment. President Taft,
in his acceptance speech, insisted
that an amendment was not neces-
sary. For years, the Republican
leaders have opposed an income tax
and denounced the Democrats for
advocating 1t. But behold the
change
ft sends - message
to congress proposing the sIbmis-
sion of an income tax amendment
and it passes the senate by a unani-
NOUS vote-77 ayes, nays none.
Democratic governors in states .hav-
ing Democratic legislatures ought
to call extra sessions at once and
secure immediate ratification of the
amendment. Income tax clubs ought
to be formed Immediately in every
county and non-partisan clubs to
pledge members of the various legis-
latures to vote for ratification. Now
is the time to act"
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Wood Coloring Plant Operating.

The last carload of machinery for
the Gardner Wood Company at Cor
bin has arrived there and been in.
stalled, and thirty-five men are now
employed at the saw and coloring
plant and a large force will be put
to work when the platforms and
sheds are finished. They have also
completed large extension to their
factory and have put in a 300~foot
runway twenty feet wide and are
about to build big dry kiln. The
Gardner Wood Company is attract
ing many visitors. One Of the fea-
lures of the mill is Mr.. Gardner's
Office, the walls of which are de-
corated with magnificent samples OF
colored and perfumed woods.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Bids for New School.

The Tangipahoa School Board
convened and the matter of advertis-
ing for bids for the contract of the
new $4,000 school building, for
which the plans of X. A. Kramer of
magnolia have been accepted, was
considered, and it was recommended
ny the board that the president and
secretary advertise for bids on this
building
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
DEPosITORs SUFFERED HEAVILY
Power Plant to Pay Back Banks
Victims

San Francisco.-Deposit who
suffered heavily in the crash in the
California Safe Deposit and Trust
company will be benefited materially
by deal just consummated here for
an enormous electrical power plant
in the Clear Lake region of Califor-
MIA. The deal, it is said, will involve
between $1,000 900 and $4,000, 900.
Prominent financiers of New York
are said to have interested them
selves in the plan by which all the
holdings of the Central Counties
Power company, organized by the
defunct pank, will be entirely taken
over.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
100000 FOR SUFFRAGE.
Lady Cook to Give Entire Fortune
to Cause


New York.-Lady Francis Cook
expects to transfer her whole for
tune to this country, devote every
penny of it to the cause of "votes
for women" and die with nothing
left to fight over, not even suffrage
unless it Is bank for those of the
fairer sex, who transact their OWL
business and believe in women hand
ling the money of women. She made
her plans known when she announ.
ced that she was going back to Eng
land to arrange her affairs. She de-
clared her ultimate intention is to
found a bank and said she didn't
know a man in politics whom she
would go across the street to vote
for, although she emphatically ex-
pressed her desire to secure the bal
lot for women.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Potatoes at $1.25.

Chicago.-White potatoes sold at
S1.25 bushel wholesale this week,
this price being SO cents higher than
a week ago. Besides being con-
fronted with this increase, house
wives were informed that much
higher figures would prevail. Floods
and excessive rains in the Kaw val
ley in Missouri and in Kansas were
responsible for the sudden decrease
in the movement of potatoes from
the Southwest, and although new po
tatoes were selling at unusually low
figures few days ago, prospects are
that famine prices will prevail.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Plant Close Owing to Salt Water.

Salt water has made its appear
ance in several of the larger canals
in Calcasieu and Vermilion parishes,
which has caused a great deal of
alarm and the closing down of sew
eral Of the pumping plants. The
Klondyke pumping plant, near
ago after the water had shawn forty
seven grains salt Prof Metz of New
Orleans stated that twenty grains OF
salt was injurious to the rice and
the assistance of bumpers in this
section salt water may be expected
to make its appearance quite general
ly soon.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
TRY TO CAUSE TROUBLE.
Socialists Distribute Pamphlets Ii
Army and Navy.

Army and Navy.
New York.-The circulation in the
army and navy principally among the
enlisted men, of pamphlets and 9th
er documents of a seditious character,
is again the occasion of anxiety to the
military and naval authorities. Most
of this literature has been traced to
a so-called socialistic newspaper office
in Oakland, California. The first ap-
pearance of these pamphlets was not
ed during the presence of the Atlantic
fleet in San Francisco, when members
of the crews of the battleships were
advised to desert and not lend them
selves to the demonstration of war, .
which the circumnavigating cruise of
the command was termed. So far as
the authorities can ascertain, these
circulars produce little or no effect.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Union Opposes School Tax.

The East Baton Rouge Farmers
Union has risen in arms against what
it terms 1.-The arbitrary methods
used by the school management of
this and other parishes in the
State.' The Farmers Union, in a
set of resolutions, opposes the vot-
ing of a school tax for the support
of schools in this parish las long as
the affairs of the public schools are
not published monthly and the pres
ent arbitrary system is maintained.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
HAS SUPERIOR CRAFT.
Inventor Claims Great Things for
His Airship.

Victoria, B. C.-Private tests were
made here Of an airship which the
inventor, William Gibson, a mechani-
cal engineer, wagered $1,000, will
carry him safely to Seattle, a distance
of sixty-fiye miles, within half an
hour, when he is ready for the flight,
and do the victoria to San Francisco
flight within five hours. The craft
now almost completed, is mono
plane sixty-f1ve feet long and radical
ly different from other designs, hav-
ing a width OF only fourteen feet.
Mr.. Gibson says the great speed is
given by his engine, which weighs
but 222 pounds and develops sixty
horsepower.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
The Quarterly Crop Report.

1t has been the earnest endeavor
of the Agricultural Department to
secure reliable information for its
quarterly crop reports. Recently the
assessors were all sent a copy of the
law making it incumbent upon them
to send in correct and accurate in
formation.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
SENSATIONAL HUNT FOR BANDIT
Surrounded in Progresomo Noun
tains by Large Force.

Chihuahua, Mex.-Hunted on ev-
cry side by citizens and surrounded
by a band of fifty rurales in the Pro-
gresomo mountains, the murderer of
at least half dozen people and
noted bandit, is the center of a SEN
sational man hunt The rurales
closed in on him, but the bandit
killed Lucien Cabrales, chief of the
rurales, and escaped through the
mountain passes, after his father had
Teen slain by the officers. Arguel-
les and his band some time ago held
up and robbed Solomon and Elias
Prieto, but Pedro Ruio, a member of
the band, fell into the hands of the
police and confessed, declaring Ar
guilles was the leader of the gang.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD CROPS.
West Bound Freight Traffic
Heavier Than Last Year.

Chicago.-The Illinois crop report
indicates the largest crops ever rails
ed in the state. Reports from all sec
of corn, wheat and oats. Special ad-
tions suggest record combined yield
vices in the American Can Company
from 1853 points in the best fruit and
vegetable sections of the country
show the largest vegetable and small
est fruit crops ever raised. West
bound freight traffic is from Is to
SO per cent heavier than that of a
year ago and crowds the record move
ments of the last boom period.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Iron Workers for Refinery.

Fifty additional ironworkers ar
rived in the city of Baton Rouge
from the East to work on the big
refinery of the Standard Oil Com
pany. The ironworkers cannct be
secured in the South. and a majority
of them are gotten from New York
and New Jersey.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Arrangements Made.
Tentative arrangements have b

Tentative arrangements have been
made by the navy department to
have the first and second divisions
of the Pacific feet cruise in Asiatic
and Philippine waters during next
autumn and winter. Rear-Admiral
Uriel Sebree, commander-in-chief of
the feet, will arrange the details.
The vessels probably will leave the
Pacific coast late in August and re-
turn to the United States late in
March.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Professor InstructS on Forestry.

Prof. R. S. Cocks of Tulane Uni
versity delivered an illustrated lee
ture in Lafayette, especially for the
benefit Of the students of the sum-
mer school. The slides for his lee
ture were especially made to teach
the different trees of the State. His
lecture was of much benefit to the
teachers of the State, as State tree
is to be selected in the near future,
the selection having geen deferred al
ready on account of the lack of
knowledge on the part of teachers
and students of the many different
Trees of the State.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
VERGE OF GENERAL WAR.
Widespread Revolt is Expected il
Columbia.

Panama-Mail advices received
from Columbia report very critical
condition of affairs in the republic.
AS the result of the departure of
President Reyes for Europe, the va
rious political parties, which a few
years ago seemed to be united are
now completely disorganized and
there are indications that Columbia is
on the verge of great revolution.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
FAMOUS ASTRONOMER.
Prof. Simon Newcomb Dies at "a i'm
Washington City.

Washington City.
Washington.-Prof Simon New
comb, the famous astronomer, died
at his home in this city at the age
of "A. Probably the most noted
American astronomical mathemati-
clan since the days of Benjamin
Franklin, Prof. Newcomb was re-
cognized at the time of his death as
one of the worlds greatest scientists.
Since his retirement from the navy
in 1897, where he had served as
professor of mathematics since 1861,
he had devoted himself to both pure
and popular science.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Map for Livingston Parish.

Recognizing the necessity for
complete map of Livingston parish,
the Police Jury have passed resc
luton asking for bids Tor parish
map giving names Of entcymen and
present owner of every tract OF
lend in the parish, and such map
is badly needed.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
No Cure for CharbOn.

DR.. Thomas Mitchell Of Houma,
expert on the disease of charbon,
who has been studying conditions
in the badly infected districts, an
rounces that there is no cure for the
disease, as it is internal, and the
seat of the disease cannot be reach
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Council Orders Sidewalk Cleared.

CONSERVATION prevailed in Ham
hond among the numerous produce
uealers and fruit stands who have
soeen in the habit of blockading the
I SIDEWALK with their edibles. The
council ordered the city marshal to
ssfigldly enforce the ordinance re-
squirlng all vendors to put their
stuff off the walk. The barber shops
with hootblack artists operating in
'front.' OF their places of business were
pfdered to also yacate.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
PROHIBITIONISTS LOSE.
Bristol Va, Votes to Return to Lii
censed saloons.

CenSe0 saloons.
Bristol, Va.-By the narrow ma
jority of 80 out of total of S44
votes polled, the anti-prohibitionists
won the local option election here,
following one of the most hotly con-
tested campaigns Of its kind known
in the South. Preparations are al
ready being made for opening up sa-
looms and wholesale houses for sup
plying not only the Immediate terri
tory, but the half dozen nearby
states which are in the columns of
prohibition. The "wets" declare that
the victory here, following the recent
one against prohibition at Peters
burg, Va, will have the effect of
checking the statewide prohibition
movement in Virginia.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
Steel .3ridge to BE Erected.

The Police Jury has contracted for
.he erection of steel bridge over
bayou Bushly, two miles south of
harrisburg. This bridge will be
putt at cost of $4,000. The jury
mas also in mind the erection of good
roads throughout the parish, and
sto this end will heartily cooperate
win the ideas of Governor Sanders.
Road machines will be purchased
Tor this purpose.
The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-17
MAKING TESTS AT NASHVILLE.
Chemists Collecting Samples of Soft
Drinks.

Nashville, Tenn.-Government che
quietly collecting samples Of soft
drinks to ascertain what per cent of
alcohol they contain and if the col
oring matter used is in violation of
the pure food law Lucious P. Brown,
state pure food and drug inspector is
also collecting samples Of the so-call-
ed near beer drinks. ,--------------