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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05
ACADIA FAIR.
Address by Governor Sanders and a
Big Parade on Opening Day,
November 16.

Crowley, La, Nov. 4.-One of the
attractions that will be put on at the
Acadia Parish Fair, to be held in this
city November 16 to 19, inclusive,
will be a grand automobile parade and
at least two auto races. These events
will take place on the first day of
the fair, November 16. On that day
Governor Sanders is to be present at
the fair and deliver an address on
good roads, and the auto parade will
be in the nature Of a good roads
demonstration. Autoists from all the
parishes in the southern part of the
state have been invited to attend on
that day, and it is expected that more
than hundred cars will be in line
in the parade, which will be an i'm
posing spectacle. Several car owners
have signified their intention of enter
ing the races. which will be the first
of the kind ever pulled off in this
section and are sure to be interesting.
There will be several other promi-
nent features for each day of the fair.
and no one can afford to miss spend
ing one or two days here at least.
The fair grounds are the finest in
the state, and there will be something
doing to interest visitors all the time
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05
MUST CARRY LICENSE.
Not Sufficient to Buy License, but
Hunters Must Be Ready to
Show Them.

A great many people labor under
the impression that to have paid a
hunters license, which has been re-
corded in the books in the sheriff S
Office, is all that is needed for hunting
purposes. In other words, they think
that if game warden discovers a
man hunting he (the game warden)
is supposed to have a list of those
having procured licenses and there
fore, whether the man hunting has a
lireHse or not, in his possession, the
mere fact that his name is on the
list as having paid makes him i'm
mune from arrest.
The laws require and say plainly
that a man to hunt must procure a
hunters license from the sheriff and
that when hunting he must have said
license in his possession, so as to be
able to show it to the game warden
when asked to do SO. Otherwise the
man hunting is liable to a fine by
the district court.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05

We had the pleasure of call on
Wednesday from Assessor Trahan, ac-
companied by Mr.. c. e. DennisOn, an
old and highly esteemed citizen of the
second ward. Mr.. Dennison was born
in Connecticut and came to Louisiana
in the spring of 1850, settling in st.
Mary parish, where he married Miss
Caroline Stansbury in 1852. He
taught school two years in that parish
and had for one of his pupils the
father of Governor Sanders. He later
moved to this parish, where he has
been a resident for many years. Mr..
Dennison is now nearly Sc years of
age and his wife 78. Both are hale
and hearty and read without specks,
and have a fine promise of reaching
the century mark.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05
FOOT BALL..
institute Will Play AtheviIIe on the
Institute Campus Next Satur-
day at 3 p. m.

The Institute foot ball team has
been keeping itself in the pink OF
condition to meet the Abbeville High
School team here Saturday. Thus far
the home team has not been beaten
But it is said that the Abbeville boys
have a strong team and expect to
make score. The friends, alumni
and patrons of the Institute are urged
to come help root for the Institute
boys. They should be made to de.
velop the largest amount of courage
and preparation for the great game OF
the season, which will be with the
State Normal at Natchitoches on
Thanksgiving. 1t is expected that a
special train will be obtained to take
the team and their friends to Match
itoches and it is hoped that large
number will make the trip.
The game Saturday with the team
of the town of Lake Arthur was a
landslide of SO to in favor of the
Industrial Institute.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05
Evaa6elil,;: PIPE LINE.
Brings Suit to Have Their Assessment
Reduced From $50,431 to $15,775
in This Parish.

The Evangeline Pipe Line Company
has filed suit through it's attorneys,
Carlton & 1ownes and Story & Pugh,
against Assessor Trahan, Sheriff, and
Tax Collector Louis Lacoste, the Po-
lice Jury, through it's president, M.
Billeal3, j., a44u the State board of
Equalization, through its president, w.
M. Wallace, to have the assessment
against the company's property in this
parish reduced from $50. 0.431 to SIS, IT'S.
In their petition the company alleges
that they gave in the valuation Of
their property at $15,775.A which was
a correct valuation; that Assessor
Trahan raised the assessment to $4O,-
345. They appealed through their rep
resentatives to the Police Jury sitting
as board of reviewers, and the Po-
lice Jury sustained the assessor. They
then appealedto the board Of equaliza-
tion and they, instead of giving the
relief sought, further increased their
assessment by $10,0S6. The company
AYERS that this difference, $34.656, ex-
ceeds the actual cash value of their
property. Further, that the assess
ment does not constitute equal and
uniform taxation as compared with
other property in the parish and other
sections.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05
City Council Proceedings.


A regular meeting Of the City COun'
Gil was held this day with Mayor G.
A. Martin presiding and the following
members present: Broussard. CAT
ferry, Ducrocq. Cunningham, Montgom.
cry, Pefferkorn and Doucet. Absent,
none.
Moved, seconded and carried, that
the minutes Of previous meeting be
approved as read.
Moved, seconded and carried, that
the action of the street committee in
suspending work on walk abutting
property Of Mr.. Grow Girard be rati.
fed and that Mr.. Grow Girard be
ordered to place the cement walk to
be laid on his sidewalk where the
plank walk is at present by the fol.
lowing vote:
Yeas-Doucet, Ducrocq. Montgom-
cry, Cunningham, Peherkorn.
Nays-Caffery and Broussard.
Moved, seconded and carried. that
street committee employ a civil en-.
gineer to find the line of Mr.. Girard's
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05
Our hats are the very latest style;
a big assortment to select from.
Kahn's.
AbbeviIIe Wants Road.

A petition is being circulated in
Abbeville to call an election to vote
a tax in aid of the Eunice, Lafayette
and Abbeville Railroad, for which
taxes have already been voted in the
eighth ward Of this parish and the
town of Lafayette. Reports are that
great success is being met with in
securing names. and the promise for
the tax being voted is considered very
fine. AS yet no definite announce
ment can be made as to when the
road will be built, but the officers of
the road are busy and are doing all
they can to secure the building of the
road.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05
eREAUx BRIDGE.
Fifth Attempt to Rob Postofsice-Tht
Same Tools Were Used
Each Time.
Special to Picayune.

Special to Picayune.
Breaux Bridge, La, Nov. 3.-The
post office safe at Breaux Bridge was
blown open last night and about 500
stolen. The noise of the explosion
aroused the people, and Sheriff Brous-
sard and other officers Immediately
instituted q search for the cracksmen.
Sheriff Lacoste assisted Sheriff Brous-
sard in his attempts to capture the
robbers and made several arrests, but
without success. As yet the guilty
parties have not been taken. This is
the fourth or fifth attempt to rob the
post ofIice at Breaux Bridge. and 1t IL
said that the robbers used the same
tools on each occasion, securing them
from q nearby blacksmith shop.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05

| property in order to ascertain the real
| place for said cement walk, his re-
muneration to be not more than $40
Yeas-Doucet, Ducrocq, Montgom-
| cry, Cunningham, Pefferkorn.
Nays-Caffery and Broussard.
Moved, seconded and carried, that
| the Council borrow for the city $500
from each bank of the city for current
expenses.
Moved, seconded and carried, that
| secretary be authorized to issue war.
| rant for $500 in favor of the school
board on the understanding that It is
an advance payment on the appropria-
| tion to be made to the schools out
of the funds of the current year.
The bond of the Fidelity and De-
posit Company and Mr.. Hebert was
referred to the city attorney for eX-
animation and if found correct for
recordation.
Moved, seconded and carried, that
as the tax rolls would soon be sent
in, Mr. A. T. Caillouet be and he is
hereby employed to assist Mr.. Hebert
in collecting the taxes; that his serv-
ices begin when the rolls are filed
with the tax collector and end two
and one-half months thereafter; that
his salary is hereby fixed at $50 per
! month.
Moved, seconded and carried, that
the finance committee pay the interest
due Dec. 1, 1909, on the schools and
water AMI light bonds.
Moved, seconded and carried. that
the city attorney be instructed to sue
all delinquents for cement walk if
they do not pay before Dec. !, 1909.
On motion duly seconded it is
unanimously resolved that the Mayor
appoint another committee to be
known as the auditing committee.
The Mayor appointed Mr.. Montgom-
cry as chairman of said committee
and Messrs Caffery and Cunningham.
On motion of Montgomery, seconded
by Ducrocq, it was resolved that the
city of Lafayette take an appeal to
the court Of appeals from the judg-
ment of the district court in the case
of j. L. Kennedy against the city; that
City Attorney Jerome Mouton be and
is authorized to act accordingly and
sign the appeal bond for the city; and
that his fee for taking this appeal be
fixed at $25. Carried.
The following bills were approved
and ordered paid:
A. E. Mouton, lumber on
streets. Ioo w
Jos. Ducote, commissioner,
October 10, 1909. W
I. B. Bendel, commissioner,
October 10, 1909. ......... 90
George Crouchet, commits
sioner, October 10. 1909.... 0o
Galbert Comeaux. clerk, Oc-
tober 10, 1909. 90
Lafayette Transfer Co., haul.
coal for city schools. -. ~ %
Lafayette Advertiser, letter
paper and envelopes. Is
William Greene, hauling
booths for election. ....... IS
]. E. Mouton, board Of su-
pervisors, Oct. 10, 1907. Is 90
D. v. Gardebled, board Of su-
pervisors. Oct 19, 1907. - 90
fCcnffnref, on nsge fcN-,
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05

We now have In stock all the in
gradients for making delicious fruit
cake, including choice Turkish f1gs.
p. Fl. McFaddin. i
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05

The Advertiser Is we'll equipped to
print wedding invitations. Visiting.
cards two dozen for IS cents, 100 for
Is cents. Orders for engraved cards
and invitations taken.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05
Strayed,

Two ponies, one red, the other gray
spotted, about four years, strayed-
with bride and saddle on. Finder
please return to A. B. Denho at Lafa-
yette and receive reward.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05
Daily Thouoht.

"Politeness is like an air cushion;
there may be nothing in it, but It
eases the jolts wonderfully George
Eliot
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05

You know they'rs
best; % do . few.
others But the
general public-are
they informed Tell
thesni Dent keep
b . DARK secret.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05
ROLLS COMPLETED.
And Filed by Assessor Trahan-Totai
Assessments-RoII Books for
Corporation Nearly Ready.

Assessor Albert Trahan has com
pleted the making OF the assess ment
tax rolls and has filed them with
Sheriff Lacoste, Clerk of Court st
Julien and State Auditor Capdevi1Ne.
The work this year has been exceed
ingly tedious and laborious on &C.
coult of changes made by the state
board of equalizers. The assessor and
his deputies have worked faithfully
and consider that they have now
turned over carefully revised and vsll.
balanced roll books. Sheriff Laeoa;e
immediately on receipt of the roll
began to collect state and parish taxes.
so long delayed. The following figures
show the values, entered in the rollss
Value of lands. ,1GH4fe
Lots and ground incorporated .D5Ss .97AS
Horses, mules, cattle, etc.. 217.l13
Wagons. carts, buggies, ETC.. 54,678
Merchandise, stock, etc. -. 139.85s
Bank stock. shares, etc -. 192.l0E
Value of all property. $3.50. 2,798,r13
Total assessment, whites. .$4,95O.73G
Total assessment, colored. 273,548
Total assessment, 1909. $5,224,2?8
Parish assessment, 1908. 2,941.815 {
Parish assessment, 1909. -. 2,685, 116
Loss for 1909. s. 256, ,699
Corporation, Lafayette. 1908 2,598. $50
Corporation, Lafayette, 1909 1853. 162
Loss for 1909. $59,6l8
Total reduction town and
parish. h.................. .$316,317.0
Total state tax entered.... 26,121.39
Parish tax. 26,85116
Common school tax mills) S,O5534
Industrial Institute e mills) 5,37O23
Criminal Tax 6 mills). -. 7,617.48 3
Polls, 1909. O9................ 4927OO
Polls, 1908. ............ $4,000
Loss in polls. ........ 371OO
Assessor Trahan is working busily:
on the town assessment rolls, and ex-
DectS to have them ready to turn
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05

Assessor Trahan is working busily:
on the town assessment rolls, and ex-
poets to have them ready to turn
over to Collector Hebert in about ten.
days. !
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05

Anything you want in the line o
underwear you can find at Kahn's.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05
STATE NEWS.

A gruesome find was made Sunday
in the lower Little Caillou swamp in
the rear of the Babin place near
Houma. 1t consisted of the badly de-
composed body of little Gertie Rhodes,
who with other members of the
Rhodes family lost their lives III the
September storm.
The board of medical experts ap-
pointed to examine into the sanity
Of Sidney Jefferson, convicted of the
murder of his wife at New Roads,
gave as their verdict that Jefferson is
sane and responsible for all his acts.
This sent the last hope that Jefferson
had glimmering. Judge Claimorne i'm
mediately afterward sentenced him to
hang.
The young son Of Thomas Roger
OF Thibodaux, by his coolness and
courage, prevented what promised to
be q serious accident. He and other
children of Mr.. Thomas were on their
way to church in q buggy. Young
Roger was driving. when the horse
became frightened at an automobile
and ran away. Young Roger held onto
the reins until he was pitched head
long over the dashboard. This checked
the speed Of the horse and permitted
several citizens to bring him to a
halt. Young Roger was not badly
hurt.
C. ]. Brown. superintendent Of As
cension parish, has been selected by
+. H. Harris. state superintendent Of
education. as state supervisor Of ele-
mentary schools. The supervisor of
the elementary schools is selected
with the view Of making this work
moro uniform throughout the state,
just - has been done in the casa Of
the high schools Of the state. which
are under tie supervision Of Dr. g. e.
Weber. Mr.. Brown will visit an Of
the schools a. many times during the
session as practicable and win bring
the elementary work from one end Of
he state to the other under one
standard.
a.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05
COAL.

The Compress delivers coal at $3.50
per ton Terms strictly cash.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05
New Delivery Wagon

Preager, the tailor, has just received
a very handsome new delivery wagon.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-05

Pigs feet, Fulton Market corned
beer. sauer kraut and spare ribs Just
received by Morgan & DebeilIcn. &c
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-10

joyed by the Apaches is due to their really won
ueriui organization. They form community by
.n'eNes' apart from all the rest of Paris.
WIN thelr own laws courts and executioners
their secret passwords and almost their own
language Tor the argot they use is practically
unihteinglble to others. Merciless toward their
victims they are no less merciless in furnishing
those OF their own number who are convicted of
treachery.
few years ago one Palnblanc was accused
OF being in league with the police He was for.
maiiy brought to trial, the Judge being leader
known as "lEspagno" The charge against
Painblanc was not fully proved but his loyalty
was so doubtful that he was sentenced to exile
Rising from his chair in the obscure dive where
the trial was being held he hurled his knife at
lEspagno with unerring accuracy and the Judge
fell dead with the blade in his heart The police
rushed in and carried Painblanc to prison. the
Apaches making no effort to save him.
Another alleged traitor was Albert Durin. He
was condemned to death and two Apaches tied
MIN to the rails of a tunnel of the Belt Line
railway of Paris. He was found before a train
passed and rescued. How many traitors have
been executed by their comrades ii is impossible
to know for only in such cases as the foregoing
do the police learn about the operations of the
tribunals"
The Apache highwayman operates swiftly and
skifuliy, and lone strangers in the streets of
Paris are never safe from his attacks His favo
rite method, known 'le coup du Pere Fran
co.'s" is to strange his victim by twisting a
handkerchief about his neck. After robbing the
senseess man, the thug frequently will kill him
with the knife, for the Apaches seem to delight
in wanton murder done in what they choose
70 consider an artistic" way. If the criminal
is arrested, score of his companions spring up
apparently from the very pavement and unless
the police are in force they are speedily routed
and the prisoner is rescued.
An observant visitor in Paris may see Apaches,
male and female, almost any street. but 1t is
in the Place de la Roquette that they are to be
found in crowds on OCCASION. There is set up
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-10
EDMLA8D w HCKA-6D

the recently restored guillotine,' and
whenever there is to be an execution
the Apaches flock from all districts of
the city to witness the CHASTITY sight
Silently they stand. gazing at the
grim instrument of death, until the
condemned individual Is brought forth
Then jeers and bowls break forth
from the crowd. and as the knife falls
the Apaches rush forward to dip their
handkerchiefs in the blood. These
they preserve as souvenirs, or sell
them to the degenerates of the upper
classes.
Strangely enough, the male Apa.
ches nearly all look alike. They are
hollow-cheeked, dark-haired, furtive-
eyed, stumbling of gait and sallow of
complexion-always easily recognized
among the throngs on the streets
The women on the other hand, as a
rule, are handsome, spirited and in
telligent. They dress well and give
especial attention to the care of thei,
hair. which they never cover with .
hat. All of them. men and women
profess to follow some trade as 6
safeguard against the occasiona
raids of the police on their haunts.
Official Paris is somewhat dis
mayed by the rapidly growing men
ace of these Apaches bands. Tit
number of robberies and murders at
tributable to them is increasing
monthly, and as the victims yer,
often are travellers from foreign lands
the crimes are having an apprecittblt
effect on tourist business.
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save for the loss of one
eye and the presence
of many scars, the re.
suits of her numerous
boulevard battles. She
was deliberately tat
tooed and was mighty
proud of that adorn-
ment. Chiffonnette's ca.
reer came to an I'M
timely end last New
Years day. when she
engaged in a desperate
fight with another
woman whom she hat
ed. Cheered on by a
crowd of her male and
female subjects, the
queen finally stabbed
herantagonist to death
with a stiletto, and
now she is a prisoner
in st. Lazare.
This years queen of
the Apaches is Pope.
She is only IS years
old and as pretty as a
picture, but as fierce
as a tigress and a fit
leader for the wretch
es by whom she is
adored.
The comparative i'm.
munity from arrest
and punishment en-.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-10

First Flag to Float Over North American Soil.
Red Cross OF St George" the banner Of Richard
Couer de Lion In 1892 and planted at Labrador by Sc
basan Cabot in 1897 the royal ensign of Henry VII
the Island of San Salvador, one of the Bahamas.
and again in 1893 at the mouth of the Orinoco in
South America; but the first flag to float over the
soil of the North American continent of which his
tory tells was planted on the shore of Labrador in
1897 by Sebastian Cabot
The first stage of evolution marked two
years before the settlement of jamestown, when
James l. of England, in honor of the union, placed
the diagonal white of st. Andrew with the
red cross of St George, both upon blue field.
This is the first blending of the American national
colors known to history The red white and blue
is therefore old the country. as it appeared
in the flags which ioated over the Virginia settle.
ment and was the flag OF the Mayhower and of
Plymouth.
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NE morning not long ago
q well-dressed foreigner,
evidently an American
tourist, was found dead
on the pavement in a side
street of Paris. Twisted
about his neck was a
dirty handkerchief with
which he had been stran-
gled; he had been brutal
ly kicked and beaten.
and in his chest were
several knife wounds, any
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-10

that "Od Glory was mature at its birth. But
its infancy dates back to the earliest recorded
American history.
At the time of the birth of 1.-THE Star Spangled
Banner" tradition and verified history had marked
some 800 years since the advent of the first
European upon American SOIL The Norseman and
the Danes landed upon the northeastern shores Of
this continent several times between the years
9S6 and 1S00 is proven by their records.
In 1892 Columbus planted the flag of Spain
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-10
alag DAY."
My Mrs. Edward punroy-Reed.

The general observance Of June IA
as Flag Day" suggests ~ thought
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
Proved His Theory, but Died.

The acme Of realism was reached.
though by accident. in O. criminal trial
O number Of years ago at Lebanon. o.
Two men had personal encounter.
One Of them after vainly trying to
draw his pistol from ais hip pocket
turned to flee. A moment later he fell.
shot in the small Of the back. One
chamber Of his pistol was found to
have been fired. His assailant was
tried for murder. The defense con-
tended that the man had shot himself
while trying to draw his pistol, which
had become entangled in the lining of
the pocket. and that the prisoners shot
had not taken effect. The prosecution
cOntended that such wound could
not have been self inflicted. The defend.
ants counsel, Clement L. Vallandig-
ham. undertook to demonstrate to the
jury just how the dead mans pistol
had hung in the pocket and just how
possible 1t was to inflict such wound.
Suddenly there was loud report, and
the lawyer sank to the floor. The ball
had entered the back almost in the
identical spot where the dead man had
been shot The defendant was acquit-
ted. Mr.. vallandigham died. -Ex.
change.