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New-York tribune., 1909-11-18
BALLINGER ATTACKED AGAIN
Gave Rights of Way to Railroads. Mag
azine Writer Saws.

John l.. Msubsws, IN an article IA IN.
December number Of ''Hampton's Maes-
zine asserts that Secretary Bsuinger IL
friendly 10 tho railroads aud 90 Coal land
sfaobers an Alaska he says that the
Bea fhutes River, fn Oregon bss long
been sought after by the H1l INTEREST,"
and the Hartman interests. which wished
the right 81 Way along its banks They
were blocked. however. by Mr. Roosevelt
Mr.. Matthews adds lie says that within
three weeks after he became Secretary OF
the Interior Mr. Baiiinger signed and
approved the rights Il way OF the rival
railway constructors. lie gave away this
valuable property M such wise that it's
use VIII wreck the great heritage OF the
people Of Oregon"
Mr.. Matthews repeats the statement that
MT, Ballingfr, before and after hts occu-
pancy OF the Office Of Land Commissioner
vac attorney for the Alaska Petroleum
and Coal Company.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-18
APPROVE CANAL REFERENDUM
Friends of Proposition Figure Majority
from Incomplete Returns.

Albany. Nov. E.-Friends OF the canals
announced to-day that the proposition
which would authorize the expenditure Of
about s'.ooo.s00 for the Improvement Of the
Cayuga and Seneca canals. SO as 10 bring
them within the barge canal zone, had
probably been approved by the people as
result OF the referendum vote taken AT
the recent election.
They said that twenty flour counties Of
the state. where the votes had beep
tabulated. show total of If.9li for ana
7cOoo against the proposition. This vote
does not Include any Of the returns from
New-York tribune., 1909-11-18
SENATOR ALDRIcH HERE.

Senator Aldrich returned from his trp
through the West yesterday evening HIS
private car was attached 90 the south
western Limited. and rolled into the Grand
Central station az 6;S5 2. m. forty minutes
late. The Senator walked out OF the sta
uon at the end OF long line OF passen-
gers and took taNicsb 90 the Plaza Hotel
He looked well. and said that he was we'll.
and his appearance Indicated that he was
satisfied with hts trip. AS usual. hovevsr.
he was uncommunicative. and said that
ne would rather have some one else talk
about the effects OF his tour than 20 talk
about IL himself
New-York tribune., 1909-11-18

slessase 10 Mr.. Havemeyer he was ac-
tompanied by q special agent Of the
Treasury Department who. IL necessary
would corroborate his statement He
intimated that he had documentary proof
or this transaction with Mr.. Gage.
According 20 Mr.. wskeman the sugar
frauds were not discovered by Richard
Psrr or Edwin 7. Anderson. AIR. Wake
man said that the credit belonged 10
GeOrge +. Cross. who Was formerly a
special agent of the Treasury Depart
nent At New York and Was later trans
ferred 10 Buffalo. Mr.. Wakeman re-
turned 20 New York tonight.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-18
Confident OF LO1N.
No Serious Opposition iR China
EFpected.
lFrom The Tribune Bureau :

Washington, Nov. ls.-Therc D. feeling
o. confidence ~ the State Department that
the obstacles which have impeded q settle
ment Of tho Chinese loan VIII shortly he
removed and that the transaction VIII he
factorily conpl tod IN tho near future.
The department has lecn Informed that
thc difficulties between the German and
British participants which have delayed
progress up 90 she present may be al
lowed 10 20 over until the contracts for
tho loan are signed and then adjusted by
the tNo powers. These differences are OF
8 minor nature. relating to the adminstra-
ton 81 the railroad for which tho loan is
20 be made. aud ~ IS considered most prob
ah'o that both England and Germany will
consent 10 a consunma;ion of tho loan
project, even n they do not reach an i'm
mediate agreement between themselves.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-18
PLEASED WITH NEW TARIFF.
Home Market Club Wants Nation to
Mind Its Own Business.

Boston. Nov l.-"Pesce with the world
by national policy of minding cur own
business and having business 10 mind" is
one of the things which the Home Mar
ket Club advocates. according 10 the re-
port made by its secretary. Colonel Albert
Clarke, Of Boston. at the annual meeting
of the club. held here to-day
The new tariff" reported colonel
Clarke. lis better than we expected. IL
a few Western agitators would subside. I
believe that tariff insurgency would soon
die out. II is almost wholly political. The
Home Market Club will continue TO pro-
mote the interests Of both producers and
consumers by advocating American EN-
ployment. American wages. American mar
kets, impartial and non-sectionaI protsc-
tiOn."
James r. MacColl. of Providence. was
reelected president Of the club
New-York tribune., 1909-11-18
FINNs REJECT czAR's DEMAND.
Dissolution Of Diet Expectsd-Ssnators
Out of Office.

Helsingfors, Finland. Nov. 1.-THE Fir
nish Diet rejected to-day. after an au-nizht
session, the government bill providing To-
Finlsnd's contribution TO the Russian wilt
tary appropriation. A resolution was
adopted requesting the Emperor 20 rein
treduce the measure in a constitutional
form. The dissolution Of the Diet Is sx-
pected.
The Emperor has accepted the resigns
ticns OF the Finnish Senator's who refused
to remain in ONCE IL Russia pressed ths
demand for a large military appropriation
BY Finland
New-York tribune., 1909-11-18
CoTToNsEED OIL DUTIES.
French Deputies Adopt Revised Rate
Nine Francs a 100 Kilos.

Paris. Nov. 1.-THE Chamber Of Deputies
adopted to-day the revised duty on cotton
seed oil. The general rate Is francs ana
'he minimum francs a hundred kflos. in.
t''aa or uniform rate OF francs. az pre-.
viously provided.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-18
MINISTER DAWSON SAILS

Santiago. Chill. Nov. 15.-The American
Minister. Thomas e.. Dawson, sailed for
home to-day by way of Buenos Ayres n.
Grant Smith. formerly secretary of the
American Legation here and recently an
pointed secretary Of the American Embassy
al Brussels, sailed for Belgium to-day.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-18

the counties Of greater New York but
takes in several so-called anti-cansl coun-
ties.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-18
NUNS THE WORD"

Mr. Corss. who was an assistant 10
the sugar samplers. said he carried
tray containing little pots. in which we're
the samples. to d vault which was kept
locked. The pots remained there until
removed by tho appraisers. The assist
ant samplers. before reaching the vault,
passed through a cellar near the docks.
i'm which were the trusts agents They
would take the pots. Mr. Corsa said.
dump the contents. and refill them with
damp, spoiled sugar from hogshead.
When he saw this, Corsa didn't like it,
he said. But he was told;
You're i'm on this. old man: NUNS
the word. there's money enough To go
round i'm il: don't be a squeaIer, and take
your bit and shut up
II was soon after this. as Corsa tells
his story. that the bribe money. SD 81
was slipped into his coat pocket He
says he didn't understand then the fun
significance Of it. but soon he saw clear
ly. He continued:
Now. knew what tine bit Of each Of
us was figured at, from ST. TO SD. The
service we ,-erc esked To render would
save the sugar company about $1,000 on
e. u cargo. II was polluting us for
about $500 on each cargo. counting what
went TO the head sampler"
When he understood the full purport
OF what he was expected To do, Corsa
says he remembered his oath of feaIty
10 the government when the Civil War
began. and went 10 see Mr. Treat. who
advised him TO see Mr.. Wakeman The
conference with the latter followed. and
Mr.. Wakeman had the samplers and
their assistants called before him. They
suspected Corsa. and he said his life at
the docks thereafter until Mr.. Wakeman
left the service was hard. Mr. White
head succeeded him, and then Corsa's
dismissal came.
ONLY ONE WAY BACK
II didn't matter after that To whom
Mr.. Corsa applied Tor a hearing lie
was referred 10 MIR. Whitehead lie went
10 the President, In Secretaries of the
Treasury. hut always was told, he saws.
10 go back 10 Mr. Whitehead 4 letter
from MIR Treat was taken To Mr.. White
head with great confidence by Mr.. Corsa
And this is what !,c says Mr. Whitehead
said:
We'll, ] won't do it
II was a request for the reinstatement
OF Corsa. Mr. Whitehead kept the let
ter. ON eli the letters received by him
aNorins the reinstatement of the dis
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
Gas Accidentally Located.

eport-Natural gas has been
discovered near Forbing, seven miles
south of Shreveport. on the A. B.
Spence stock farm On Wallace Lake.
in the southwestern portion of Caddo
parish, near the De Soto line. The
Busch Everett Company have filed
leases on property adjoining the
Spence tract. The finding of the
Spence well was accidental. A gang
of negroes digging a hole eight inch
es in diameter for drinking water sup
ply detected strange odor, and at
a depth of 43 feet were forced from
the well. In working a pump 10 drain
the hole of water Mr.. Spence was
forced to quit operations because OF
the pressure of the gas, which es-
capped with a noise like a locomotive
whistle. 1t is reported the gas cap
be scented half a mile from the well.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
Dam Blown Up.

Cameron. On the night OF March %
an attempt was made TO blow up with
dynamite the dam on the Mermen.
tau river at Grand Cuenler. An in
vestigatiOn next morning revealed the
fact that four charges Of dynamite
had been placed at intervals along
the structure. but that only one had
been discharged destroying a portion
of the dam. A few nights ago the
dam was again dynamited. The en-
tire upper works, including the flood
gates FUSED 10 keep salt water) were
destroyed. The locks. used for the
passage of all water craft, were not
molested. What damage was done 10
the dam proper which is about four
feet under the surface Of the water
has not been aScertained This makes
the fourth attempt TO blow up the
dam. There seems to be no Cew 10
The identity of the parties who ma
nipulated The dynamite.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
Drainage Plan Approved.

St Martinyille.-The Cypress Is
land Oil and Mineral Company, Linn
tied, has been organized here with a
capital stock of $4,000. The compa-
ny owns mineral rights On 900 acres
Of land at Cypress Island. five miles
from ST. Martinville and three miles
from the Anse-la-Butte oil field. The
oil indications are Of the best. The
company will start drilling in the next
few days.
The Progressive League has receiv'
ed the report of the committee ap
pointed 10 go over the proposed route
of the drainage and navigable cana
which is to connect Bayou Poragt
and the Teche at this point The
committees report was favorable and
the league has appointed a committee
Of 20 to proceed with the necessary
means TO bring this new enterprise
to a final success.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
To improve the Service.

Shreveport Officials of the New
Orleans division of the Cumberland
Telephone and Telegraph Company
spent a day in Shreveport, calling
upon the business men with view
of ascertaining their ideas and senti
ment regarding the rebuilding OF the
Shreveport telephone business and re-
adjustment of rates here. They init
mated that they are planning install
ing the fashlight system, believing
the development of the Caddo gas and
oil field will mean big growth for
Shreveport. 1t is rumored there is
a possibility of the company absorb
ing the Shreveport Telephone Compa
ny, making only one service here.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16

all three left the steamer at Wlilelhstau'
Castro who while president OF Venezuela, often
tried in the wrong way. to do the flsht .iins ~,
his country, attempted to break up this vast
smuggling conspiracy But his efforts resulted
only in Drecpiatng a bitter Quarrel WITH floi,
land that barely missed becoming real war ana
in fastening his own downfall. HIS successor
backed down as gracefully as possible and much
of venezuela's imports are still being Trans
shipped at Willemstad.
One other industry has Curacao that Is OF espe-
cial moment to her neighbors OF the mainland
That Is the manufacture OF revolutions Inc
island is favorite refuge for deposed presidents
defeated revolutionists and other refugees They
may always be found in the clean little cafes OIL
the capital concocting plots to regain lost power
and awaiting the psychological moment" for
starting new rising of the people against the
"tyrants" These patriots are always ready TO
talk yolubly of their hopes and plans, and SO WIZ
lemstad has become the great distributing point
for sensational and unreliable news concerning
our volatile sister republics.
Curacao really is the top of an almost sub
merged Volcano like many other islands of the
West Indies, and lies almost within sight or the
coast of Venezuela. For many months at
stretch not drop of rain falls there, and the
whole island looks like big bare brown and gray
rock. Then comes wet week and grass and
shrubbery spring up as by magic and clothe hill
and valley in a mantle of green. But it is only
grass and shruhbery for there is not a tree on
the island more than ten feet in height The an
cient crater has become large beautiful lake of
irregular outline, known the Schoolgirl. This
connects with the sea by the stream which
flows through break in the crater's rim me
stream is Willemstads harbor, but the larger
steamers have to go into the Schoolgirl to turn
around. On both sides Of the stream Is built the
quaint city, which looks as if 1t had been brought
bodily from the Zuyder Zee Its two parts are
joined by long pontoon tollbridge at one end OF
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
City Auditor Wins.

Shreveport.-District Judge Bell
has rendered a decision favorable to
the plaintiff in the mandamus suit
of City Auditor Tritus H. Thurmond
VS.. the City Of Shreveport, and order
ed the council to raise the city aud.
itor's salary from $25 to 500 monthly.
Thurmond petitioned for salary OF
1925, which was paid his predeces'
sors, but owing to general cut OF
officials salaries by the new admins.
tration the court thought 500 reason
able, this beng the amount recon-
mended by seven Of the councilmep,
the minority faction.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16

its harbor-lake these bloody sea-rovers sailed with
rich eargoes captured from the Inflated merchant
men that had fallen into their hands and the
stores OF gold and goods from plundered cities
on the mainland The place was safe from all
pursuers and there the pirates divided their spells
and reftted for new raids. But in all the chron-
icfes OF the buccaneers there is little mention OF
Curacao and no record of it's ever having been
attacked by them. From 1884, when the Holland
ers apparently found 1t without an owner the
island was Dutch possession. Thrifty merchants
settled there and it requires no stretch of the
imagination to suppose that their immunity from
raids was due to the excellent facilities they az
torded the pirates for disposing of loot The cities
of the mainland and of dozen islands of the
Caribbean were repeatedly ravaged and burned
and the inhabitants subjected to torture and mas
sacre But Curacao was unmolesed save for two
Intellectual expeditions for its capture organized by
the Spanish during European wars
And the Curacao of to-day? Well it hasn't
changed greatly, save to accommodate itself to
iatter-day conditions Rich cargoes still are un-
loaded at its wharves, but they are sent there in
steamers by the merchants of Europe and Ameri-
ca Sober peaceful Dutch Jews take the mer-
chandise in hand and little later much of it is
loaded into sloops and schooners which sail away
Tor the mainland of Latin-Amerca. Still later
TINS same merchandise appears for sale on the
counters OF merchants in the cities of Colombia,
venezuela and Central America, at prices that
preclude the superstition that has passed through
the custom houses and paid the heavy import du.
ties that are imposed in those countries
In a word, Curacao has become the headquar-
tiers for the smugglers of the Caribbean Little
Is heard of this, for silence best serves the pur-
poses of most of those concerned. hint at the
truth is met with the indignant denial Of the
shrewd folk of Willemstad. But the fact is we'll
known to ali who are familiar with trade in the
Caribbean.
do you go to Caracas on your rounds?' in
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
BR0AD TREET MzLEzjzAD

back to the stream again.
Marvellous Is the equipment Of this tramway. 1t
consists of small bobtail car with seating ca
pacity for about six persons and no straps ana
one weary detected little donkey. When the car
reaches the end of its the motive power stands
on three legs and goes to sleep. The car cannot
start back until he wakes up and W1lemstads
perpetual traction problem is How long Will the
donkey sleep this time?" 1t would be most
annoying problem If anyone cared. but no one to
whom time is an object ever uses the tramcar
anyway.
Dutch architecture, somewhat modified to suit
tropical conditions. prevails in Wemstad, The
business buildings are large and not unattractive
the public structures decidedly picturesque, and
many of the residences are very handsome. The
merchants as rule are wealthy and, as has been
intimated. are not lacking In enterprise. 1t is only
fair to say that many of them conf1ne their actiy
ties to business that is above suspicion. The port
is an important transshipping point for trade In
the Caribbean. Its business men are wondering
Just how the opening of the Panama canal will ar
feet their prosperity.
Though Curacao is Dutch colony, and has been
for centuries. the visitor will find few Dutchmen
there: the population is almost wholly negro and
the merchants nearly all Jews AS for language
YOU may have your choice Address the almost
naked lad sitting on the dock ready to dive for
pennies in Dutch Spanish English French. and
he will reply in kind-with request for money.
Speak to him in "papaimento' and he will take
You TO his brown bosom. Papaimiento-literally
"the talk we talks the ordinary language Of the
common people and Is a curious compound OF the
several tongues named together with African and
Indian It is like all and yet strangely unlike any
of them.
The tourist landing on Curacao for the first time
naturally expects to be confronted at every turn by
bottles of the liqueur to which the island has given
its name but he is disappointed. 1t is there. OF
course and for sale, but it is not obtruded On the
passerby The small bitter orange from which 1t
is made Is grown on the island, but the queur Is
not manufactured there and never has been 1t is
product of Europe. Gold fligree work, hampers,
inaid caskets are offered tourists.
Altogether though the ordinary sights OF Gu,
racao may be exhausted in day, 1t is well worth
longer visit by the leisurely traveller and he Will
find the inhabitants most hospitabe. With its riot
of color its far over-reaching caves, its long
wrought iron sign-posts its quaint forts and
crooked streets its waterways and boats and gayly
clad people, Willemstad should be a paradise for
painters.
The pirates who infest Curacao nowadays
prey only on governments
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
STATE BRIEFS.

A new denatured alcohol distillery
IS to be located at New Orleans.
Thomas Miller of New Orleans, q
sufferer from epileptic fits, was found
dead in shallow pool on the streets
of his home city.
The Louisiana School Teachers
Convention finished it's work at Al
exandria and adjourned. Baton Rouge
was selected as the next meeting
place.
DR.. w. H. Dalrymple declined the
offer TO become government veteri
marian in the Philippines.
Baptist revivalists hold meetings on
the streets Of New Orleans.
The Louisiana Field Trial and Ken
mel Association has been formed al
New Orleans.
Claude Taylor was beaten and rob
bed at New Orleans by stranger
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
PROBABLY HARDEST or All
Wifey's Addition to List of Her Ho,.
hold Duties Of Course Was
Not Personal,

After dinner the other evening N.
and Mrs. Brown started to sneaL :,
their respective duties, ana soon -
argument as to whether the bnsAanS
or the wife had the hardest work =
perform was in full swing Firs.
Brown warbled, and then witey sane
"A wife" argued the good Iady no,
to cock, wash dishes. clothe the kjas
scrub the floors, sweep the bousa
make the beds. build the fires COW.
ZIP coal, nail Stats on the back fenos
dig"
rs that all?" sarcastically inter.
rupted Mr.. Brown.
NO." was the prompt reiopdar =,
Mrs. Brown. in addition to Those A.,
ties every wife has TO keen her br.
band from making fool of bimsalf,n
philadelphia Telegraph.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
CAUGHT on the Rebound

The old man was lecturing his NOR.
or less hayward son on the evils o,
getting up late in the morning.
Remember he said, that It was
the early bird that caught the worm
But how about the worm. dads'
queried the youth, who thought he had
his sire up in the air. Where did biz
reward for getting up early come in?"
Il am informed" replied the old
man, gravely, that the worm was on
his way home-hadn been in bed a,
ALL"
And there being nothing more ID
say, the young man said nothing
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
insurance Charter Revoked.

Baton Rouge-Eugene Mckinney
insurance commissioner Of Louisiana
has issued his proclamation revoking
the right of the Louisiana National
Life Assurance Society of New Or
leans TO do business in the state be
cause this company persisted in issu
ing coupon policies, when Mr.. Nc
Givney has ruled is a violation o.
the insurance laws of the state. The
company will contest the case in the
courts.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16

There is more Catarrh in this section Of the countr
than all other diseases put together. and until the as
few years was supposed TO be lncurable. For gna
many years doctors pronounced II local disease 81
prescribed local remedies. and by constantly failha
TO cure with local treatment, pronounced It cufsbe
Science has proven Catarrh to be constitutional ID
ease and therefore requires constitutional Treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j. Chene
& Co.. Toledo Ohio, is the only Constitutional cure
the market. 1t is taken internally IN doses from
drops TO teaspoOnful. 1t acts directly on the boo
and mucous surfaces Of the system. They offer Oh
hundred dollars for any case 1t fails to cure. Sen
for circulars and testimonials
Address: +. j. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. Ohio.
Sold b. Druggists. &c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
Here's Relief.

II we must be afflicted with weak
sore and infiamed eyes, it is consoliaa
to know there is such ready relic
within our reach as Doctor Mitchell
Eye Salve. One bottle usually enecl'
complete cure. Have you ever triee
this wonderful remedy? All stores
Price % cents.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
Workman is Killed.

Ferriday.-Tom Butler, member
of construction gang, while loading
piling in the local yards here, was
struck by derrick beam and in
stantly killed. His remains will be
shipped to Van Buren,, Ark, his home,
where he leaves a wife
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
Unsympathetic.

Others may have said the sant
thing, but this rather unsympathetic
comment is attributed to. the lats
Judge Hoar: Are you going to at
tend the funeral of Gen Butler?"
friend asked him. No was TIL
calm reply. No, | am not going tn at
tend-but l heartily approvs Of l."
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-16
iI.a A,jan's Eoot.Ea se.

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Corns and Bunions. Ask for Aliens fv +
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shoes. Cures while you walk. AT an pi 'ss
gists and Shoe Stores. Sc. Don't sce.s
any substitute. Sample sent FREE As
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