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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-14
NOTES FROM LABOR WORLD

The workmen's scompensation act
is to be reintrodueed in the Manitoba
legislature,
Canadian mine worker, are discus.
sing affiliation with the Western Fed
Grafton OF Miners,
The Trades and Labor Council OF
London, Canada, will open toy
factory to employ men out Of work.
| The annual convention OF the Glass
Bottle Blowers Association will be
held in Milwaukee from July to
rs Of this year.
The international Master Painters
and Decorators association at its re-
cent convention at Baltimore voted
to hold its 1910 convention in Detroit
Statistics show that the accident
liability of the brakemen Of the
United States is considerably greater
than that Of the brakemen in any
other country,
The women operators Of the trunk
telephone department. Of the general.
post Office Of Leeds, England, have
recently organized a union for their
own protection.
Starting with a membership OF
more than one hundred, the Tailors
and Cleansers' Protective Associa-
tion Of Cincinnati and vicinity was
organized at a recent meeting.
Statistics collected by the govern
.ment and extending over period
of six years, show that Of 100000
deaths Of males, nine per cent were
due to accidents while following their
vocations.
The various locals OF the Interna-
tional Alliance OF Theatrical Stage
Employees are at present voting by
referendum on a proposition recently
made, to publish, at the expense Of the
an official organ.
The labor laws in France for the
protection Of women and children
only extend at present to those en-
ployed in the various industries and
manufacturers, but not to those en-
ployed in cimmercial establishments. !
During the six months from April |
to September 1908 the total member
ship in the various labor uniins Of the
State of New York showed a de-
crease from 398,582 to 372,45o, which !
to loss of 26,123 members.
All the locals Of the Brotherhood
If Painters, Decorators and Paper
Hangers Of America will be called
ipon during the coming month Of
Iune to determine whether there
hall be general assembly this year
There has been more since 1905.
A movement is under way for the
Of a pipe trade council
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-14
FROM THE SHOULDER


Councilman Curtis. in his letter oi
yesterday morning, tells some sheer
and pregnant truths to those to
whom such counsel is due, but who
in the past, have scorned to note and
value it as they should Coming
from a man who is, in many respects
their friend, patron and adviser, it
should be met with something more
than passing notice by the liquor in
terests of Astoria. He is speaking
by the card, for he knows their
status, their desires, their chance of
success, and the course to be pursu
ed to achive that success.
They are in a position to help
themselves if they will but dc il; but
if they cannot yield anything to the
popular demand, they must not be
surprised at the popular reprisafs
that ensue, just as he says they will.
We are glad to see this sort of ad-
vice given at the hands OF man cal
culated to convince them; perhaps it
will have more weight than that we
have been offering for the past three
or four years; and if it does, it will
do more to lay the vexations issues
that have been to the front all that
time than anything else can do.
He hits from the shoulder, and the
jolts may shake the queItion free
from the barnacles of stupid op-
position and fnsistant demands on
the part Of the saloonmen and make
for a safer and easier condition for
them and for the City of Astoria.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-14
LABOR LEADER IN JAIL

MANILA. March l3.-The writs
Of mandamus for habeas corpus
sought by counsel for Dominador
Gomez who was sentenced to four
months Imprisonment in Bilibid for
melting a strike, have all been denied
and the convicted labor leaders has
been taken to the prison. Large
crowds gathered at the police court
headquarters but there was no dem
onstration on the streets.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-14
THE ASTORIA SUCKER

Astoria has literally swarmed, for
sometime pas. with real estate EN-
misaries from Portland, offering the
Astoria Sucker" $500 and $500, lots
on the remote suburbs Of the metrop-
oils and enticing him and her to
yield up their little "nest-eggs" of
hard-earned dollars for precarious
investment in those wilds. In one
year, practically half a million of
money has been Withdrawn from the
Astoria banks for the purposes of
realty buying in Portland; some of
this, Of course, (and the larger in
dividual buys) have been made IN
really paying property there, which
will net the few investors Of this sort
handsome and immediate return,
being upon inside and practicable
properties awaiting development and
guaranteeing instant and compensat-
ing income. Bue for the preponder-
ant part of this scheme, the lots of
fered are %wild-cattya in the extreme
and the home-dollars Of Astoria are
frittered in useless and barren prop
erty thar will not be susceptible of
a dollars profit in years to come.
These agents are making far more, at
their IS and 40 per ce Mt commits
sions than the witless purchaser viii
make in ten years on half the stuff
that is sold them, and it is time some
warning vas sent out in this behalf.
The man Of wealth may do as he
pleases; he is in a position to buy
any and everything that will produce
him a satisfactory return; no matter
where it is located; but the small in
yestor has reason to go very guard,
edly after the boom" lots and par
cells Of land from which the promot-
ing company and its agent alone re-
ceive a single dollar of profit. Our
people seem to have become obses-
sed on this program OF singing their
few idle dollars into the nets and
meshes of the metropolitan SPELL
binder, and they are not only doing
themselves a deliberate injustice, but
they are throwing their own city and
section down hard with every coin
they bury up there.
If this half million Of money had
been invested here, it would have put
new and cheerful face on Astoria
and done that much toward forcing
her to her rightful place among the
cities of the Northwest The same
state Of affairs existed here II years
ago, when hundreds of our people
were loaded down with "partial.pay-
ments" due on Portland realty, and
scores and hundreds OF the buys were
"let slide" owing to the Improbable
nature of the investments. Portland
herself once went wild over the al
legged inducements sent out from the
Puget Sound cities, and sunk thou
sands in suburban ventures over
there. until she got her senses back
and began investing in her own out
lying properties, and from that hour
she has gone steadily ahead and up
ward.
We protest against the rank injus-
tice of the proposition, both as it eff
fects the citizens and the city; and
we shall be glad to have the signal
that Astoria has come to her senses |
in this relation. There are all man
ner Of properties here for investment |
if the home-dollar wants to stay at !
home and double itself; and it is
about time it was taking this whole
some course,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-14

in Minneapolis MINI. A special com.
mittee Of four has recently been APP
pointed by the Plumbers and Steam
filters unions, and similar committees
will be appointed by the other inter-
ested organizations.
A novel decision affecting labor
unions was handed down by Justice
Mills in the supreme court in White
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-14

Plains, N. Vile held that labor or
ganizations which picket a factory
thereby put the owner TO expense for
his property and employees must pay
for such expense. He also held that
the unions involved and the men di.
reetly concerned by giving and TAX.
Ing pecuniary support had abetted the
unlawful acts OF the piekets.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-14
Piles Cured At Home By New Abb
sorption Method.

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also send some Of this home treat
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from your own locality if requested.
Immediate relief and permanent cure
assured. Send no money, but tell
others Of this offer. Write today to
Mrs, NJ. Summers, Box P, Notre
Dame Ind.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-14
THE WEATHER

Oregon = Increasing cloudiness;
probably followed BY showers north
west portion.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-03-20
Corner Stone q ths Nsa BulEaina d iha Ea
nous 81, Charles College 10 hs LAID.
ARCHBISHOP no OFFICIA
GaVarn0r !. !. Sanders VIII address ihe
ASSEMBLY -Rsunlsn 0fshaFormsrsludsnls
Of lhe College

Tuesday, the 23d Of March viii
witness d function of vital inter-
est TO this section Of the country
On that day viii be laid, with inn
posing religions ceremonies, the cor-
ner stone of the new ST. Charles Col
lege at Grand Coteau.
His Grace, Archbishop Blenk. q. D.,
win odieiate, assisted by i large CON
course Of the clergy from The sur
rounding parishes.
His ExcellencY, Gov. j. X Sanders,
former student Of the college, VIII
honor the occasion By bis presence,
and will deliver an address.
This ceremony win be made bib
occasion Of a grand reunion Of the
former students Of the college, the
majority Of whom are prominent III
every walk be life. The Faculty ds-
sires Us to extend for them ali inyi-
tation to these former students and
To their friends, as well as III Ehe
friends of religious education, to be
present On this occasion
From present indications 1t ii safe
70 say that the gathering at Grand
Coteau on Tuesday will be one of the
largest and most presentative ayse
witnessed in this section of The State.
Prominent orators win address the
assembly. and Guidrys, the famous
Church Point Band, viii furnish d
choice program of exquisite music
Special railroad rates have beensa-
cured one fare and one-third for
The round trip from Alexandria q an
points South TO Sunset. "A spaeial
train viii leave Franklin for Sunset
at 3 q M, making connection With
the East-bound train at Lafayette AZ
1915 q. M, and return at 4 d.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-03-20

die Of water, and in his drunken con
tdition could not get up.
The DonaldsonyiIle Chief is respon.
sible for the statement that the next
meeting of the Louisiana Press Asso-
citation viii be held at Covineton.
1 EOpelousas was an applicant, and Is
still an applicant, for the honor, but
! ICovington seems to have had Che
bulge" on us.
The bondsmen for former notary
public ]. a. Schlessenger, who left
Abbeville some months ago leaving
behind many clients who had been de-
frauded by him, paid the amount Of
the bond $1,000 Tuesday. SchIes-
senger was Prohibition lecturer ii
St. Landry during the late campaign.
Reports from Ward, Calcasieu par
ish, are that race war is iminent
/ there, as a result of the assassina-
ton Of d prominent white man named
Rene Reed BY nine negroes. The
whites are incensed at the act, and
threaten to drive the negroes out Of
the town, and it is said that the lat
ter are arn1ing to resist. The Sheriff
has sent q force of deputies to the
scene, and there is talk of asking the
Governor for troops,
Baton Rouge, March I5-The De-
partment Of Agriculture and Immi-
grafton has issued an extract from
circular No. 26 of the State Crop
Pest Commission Of February, 1909,
dealing with the question Of late
planning to avoid boil weeVil injury,
matter that has attracted some at
tention among the planters Of the
State by reason Of certain agencies
taking issue with the commission as
to the wisdom of early planting as d
means of outWfttiag the boil Weegil
in his food supply. It has been ad-
vocated IN some quarters that the
cotton be planted late ii order To
starve the over wiiatering WeeviII be-
fore they find green vegetation upon
which to sustain their existence. The
commission finds ID its experiments Is
to the time of hibernation certain
weeVil do not come out Of hiberna-
tion until the middle of May. IT ISL
also the experience Of the commission
in its experiments that in the earlier
and cooler portion of the year the
conditions are more favorable for the
growing Of the cetton, as the WeeviI
is not as active as is tie case in the
later hot months Of the season. 1T
recommends the early planting prae-
tice assthe one which experience and
reason urges to be the most effective
means Of counteraeting the activity of
the WeeVil.
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PAIRING THE WATER.
WORKS And LIGHTS
PLANT.

The city was ii darkness all of che
past week, due to the vaterWorks
and electric lights plant being over
hauled and repaired.
1t was admitted that the plant
could stand no more delays in that
line, and III pursuance to a resolution
by the eonncil authorizing It's repair
Mayor Halphen and the committee
appointed for that purpose imme-
diately employed Mr.. Ross Corlin, en-
gineer Of the oil mill, and a force Of
assistants and bricklayers, and the
work is being done with all the haste
possible.
Mayor Halphen il experimenting
the work personally, the city paying
all workmen By the hour and day.
The boiler foundations were ID
distressing condition, and when re-
paired Mr. Corlin thinks half Of the
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-03-20
ANTI-DIVISIONISTS MAKING
FUR FLY IN HOT CAMPAIGN

The anti-divisionists are conduct
ing a red-hot campaign in st. Landry,
and before election day speakers will
have visited every central point in
the parish.
This week, up to yesterday, their
intinerary included Sunset, Leonville,
Coulee Groche and Mallet.
To-day Saturday they speak at
Eunice, and tomorrow Sunday at
Chataignier at III o'clock and at
Fauquetaique at 8 o'clock. The com
pIete itinerary will be found on tie
eighth page Of this paper.
The meeting at Sunset Saturday
was well attended, and the speakers
are delighted with their reception
there. Sunset ii III the second police
ward, and the antis expect to carry
both that poll and the Goulee Croehe
poll, these two polls making up that
ward, by a good majority.
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|. r. 4. ELECT OFF
Gers and DEL
Iocai BFanch ot TIE Order Easi ii aaalsa
and Resides Regular Bnsiuass, Decide ID
GIVE 4 SWELL BANQUET
iieneI BlenEenu Is President and fsadosa
Isaac Secretary. .EReasarsE .AaEsn Jaebhs.
!. Blsngenu and ]. Isaac lha IeEagals

Post !. Travellers Protective ALL
sociation, Of OpeIousas, held a veil
attended and highly eatnusia
meeting il Budd's parIors, III this ciby.
on last Sunday.
The regular routine business f0r
it was b regular meeting was inter
spersed with toasts and other evi-
dences Of good cheer and wholasoulsd
comradery, and al clinked Rice Nu-
trine to i banquet which was prom
ised ID the near future, the exact
date Of which will be decided at The
next meeting.
Officers for the ensuing term we're
elected ais follows: Lionel Bisngenu.
President; Isad0re Isaac, Secretary
and Treasurer.
Delegates to the State Convention,
which is to be held in New Orleans
during May, were elected as follows
q. A. Budd, Aaron Jacobs, Il. Bien
yenu, Isadore Isaac. The Alternakes
are: w. G. Fowler, Adolph Jacobs. n
r.. Baltic, G. e. Voorhies.
The organization is ID a prosperous.
growing condition, and Aft members
are embued with the good of the
order.
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OF INTEREST
FROM OVER STATE.
Press Association Will Probably Meet ID Coyington-
Race Trouble in CaIcasieu Parish-- Schlessenger's
Bondsmen Paid Up-- Refinery at YounosviIle.

Reports from North Louisiana are
that the boil weevil has greatly Ill
minished.
The heavy frosts and ice Of the
first part of the week injured yegeta-
tion IN North Louisiana.
Frederick Boudreanx died Of ex-
citement Incident oh Witnessing d
prize fight in New Orleans.
The Acadia Parish Fair will be held
at Crowley on November 16, IL, lis
and 10.
The Tstrouma and the Mayer hotels,
Baton Rouge, were fined So d bird for
the sale Of three quail out of season.
On account Of rain and ice, the
farmers in the neighborhood Of
Avoyelles parish, will have to replant
their corn.
Lake Charles brokers paid S35, 900
for $1,000 sacks of Japan rice ii d
competitive sale at Iowa, Caicasieu par
ish.
A Central State Fair, to be parti-
cipated in BY all Of the parishes ii
that section, viii be held in Baton
Rouge on July I'd and Sd.
The negroes Of the town of Lafa-
yette are organizing social1 clubs
for the purpose of avading the anti
gambling law
A new sugar refinery is 20 Be
erected at Youngsville, Lafayette
parish, to be used IN connection with
the syrup plant there.
Sam Gordon, Russian shoemaker
at Natchitoche, thrust & knife into
his throat Tuesday, and killed him
self, because he could not quit drink
ing and save up money.
Amos Franklin, negro, who 7n-
yaded the room of a 12-year-old white
girl at Homer was shot and killed by
q posse after ambuscading himself
and defying arrest.
Congressman Broussard, Of the
Third District of Louisiana, has been
appointed a member Of the Commit
tee on Ways and Means, the most I'M
portant committee in Congress.
Ex-Congressnlan Favrot has at-
tackled the Constitution Of the State
of Louisiana as being null and void
and of no effect, in that the members
of the Constitutional Convention did
not take the proper oath. The litgia-
tion grew out of the case Of Maloney,
Che famous New Orleans embezzler.
G. w. Sherman, a white man, was
drowned in a foot af water at Oak
Ridge last Tuesday. He was going
home under the influence of liquor,
and fell from his horse into the pud-
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-03-20

amount Of fuel used in the past will
suffice to run the plant, a saving oi
some four hundred dollars month.
While one boiler was being repair
ed. The other was used To keep the
inhabitants of the city supplied with
water.
The walls of the engine room were
thickened and strengthened, and j
partition was built separating che
engine room from the boiler room.
It is believed that when the i'm
proyements are completed the plant
viii be in such condition as to render
more efficient service.
Superintendent Jones is still Id
charge Of the plant, his resignation
not taking effect until the 3lst Of
this month.
4 new electrician has not yet been
selected.
Later The lights we're turned on
Thursday nights.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-03-20

NO meeting was held at Leonville
Sunday, as announced. The meeting
was appointed to take place immedi-
ately after Mass, but the weather
was 30 inclement that tie people
could not even go out and attend the
religious services; therefore no meet
ing was held.
At the meeting held at Coulee Gro
che, at Bristol, Wednesday, many Of
the representative citizens assembled
al the store of Mr. Louis Sibflle.
Addresses we're made BY Sheriff
Swords, in English, and ii French By
Messrs. Gilbert &. Dupre and Kelly
Andrus. 1t was said By citizens Id
attendance who we're well acquainted
on the subject that all present were
opposed to the division of the parish
save and except one solitary voter.
The speakers we're assured that Cou-
lee Croche would give a good maiori-
ty against division.
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TOTAL REGIST TERED ST.
LANDRY VOTERS 1851
Registrar lastFapes Closed Registration Books
Last Friday. RaRch ls.
FOR DIVISION ELECTION
aaoks ESahIeet % Revision BY Registrar fog
the Purpose ot Verifying Some Hhe Ragls.
tsrsd Under Properly Qualification.

4
The total registered vote Of ST
Landry parish IS 335l Ii may BIZ
some fifty or more less when the
books will have been revised By Reg.
istrar Lastrapes, who registered some
voters under The property quaIifca.
tion while on his country tour who
did not have with them their receipts
which would show that they owned
the required $500 worth of property.
He registered them with the under
istanding that if upon the tax-coIlec-
tors books showing that they did moi
own the required property their
names would be stricken from the
registration rolls.
AS there are SITS white poll tax
payers in the parish, the registra-
ton is considered rather small This
may be attributed to the field work,
which was pressing during the time
the Registrar was going around the
parish.
The first ward fell off from IT'S
poll tax payers to 62l registered
voters; the second ward from 465
poll tax payers Ia 194 registered
voters; the third from 466 poll taxes
to 204 registered; The fourth from
275 poll taxes to $50 registered; the
tift from 400 poII taxes to 377 rep
istered; the sixth from rs poll taxes
to 295 registered; the seventh from
1864 poll taxes 10 $50 registered:
the eighth from I075 poll taxes to
ST registered.
The registration BIZ polls ii al fol-
lows:
First Ward Opelousas 489; Plai-
sance "a, Bellevue 4I; total 621.
Second Ward Grand Coteau I25.
CouIee Croche SO; total 1914.
Third Ward LeonVille 1876, Not
leyville us; total 204.
Fourth Ward Melville 70, Waxia
26, Big Cane 81, Bayou Current Is,
Morrow 81, Palmetto 8; total 100.
Fifth Ward Washington 1856,
Garland 12, Grand Prairie I67, White
vile Is, Barbreck | z; total 377
Sixth Ward Dossmann Az. Lone
Pine Is, Bayou Chicot rs, Beaver 29,
Lake Cove II, Pine Prairie 100; to-
tai 295.
Seventh Ward Vile Platte 274,
Chataignier 139, Upper Mamou 236,
Point Grand Louis SO, Manou 127 ];
total 866.
Eighth Ward Eunice 237, Plaque
nine Point n, Mallet ITO, Lower
Mamou l0l, Faquetaique los; total
S27.
When the registrar reached Ope-
Iousas Tuesday, the 9Th, after his
tour Of the country districts, for The
last four days Of registration, the to-
tai registration Of The parish was two
thousand and forty-one, So that one
thousand three hundred and ten
voters registered at 0pelousas during
The last four days.
The vote IN ST. Landry for Cover
nor ID January 1903 vas $685. 22Og
for Sanders and 1923 for Wilkinson.
The vote at The prohi5ition elec-1
Jon III November last was 1921
2050 for Prohibition and 1921
against
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-03-20
ACTING DISTRICT ATTORNEY
i. Garland DupFs EoH Fills that Position UailE
Successor u Gilmore u Elected

On account Of the resignation a.
District Attorney Gilmore, of NeW
Orleans, first assistant District At
torney II. Garland Dupre is now fllI-
ing that responsible position, afa NiEl
continue doing 80 until Mr Gilmore
successor has been elected
dr Gilmore resigned the position
of District Attorney 30 that he could
accept tie more exalted one of Con-
ressman, to flIl the vacancy caused
BY the death of the late Congress
man DaVy
The election for District Attorney
oE New Orleans will he held iii April
1t ii believed that Judge q. Moore
will be Mr. Gilmores successor.
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Judge Edwards viii Return
To-Day.

Judge W r Edwards, Of Vermilion
parish, who has been assigned to this
court in the absence Of Judge Per
rault, who Is III Id New Orleans. left
for his home last Saturday morning,
after holding days term Of court
here.
He will return to-day and confirm
the defaults IN the suits ID which de-
faults we're entered Friday last.
He has not yet decided when be
will hold q term Of criminal court.
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DIS RICT ME or
FARMERS union In
0PELQLSAS APRIL II

Il District meeting of the sub-unions
or Locals of che Farmers Educational
and Coo Operative Union win be held
ii 0pelUusas on Wednenday, April
1Ath. The meeting viii in all Iikli-
hood Be- held ID the courthouse.
The District is composed Of the
parishes Of ST. Landry and AvoyeIles,
and two or more delegates are to Be
sent BIZ each Local. St. Landry has
tWenty-six Locals, and Ayoyelles
probably as many Other visitors
will also be present
The meeting will be addressed BY
the State President and The State
Lecturer, and the public will be ad-
mitted to these lectures. In fact The
Union desires that as many as can
attend The meeting, and extend b cor
dial invitation to all to do 50.
The meeting IS On The day after
the election, and this fact, connected
with the meeting, will bring ! large
crowd 10 the city.