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Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
W|LLF|GHTS SPECIAL TAX
MAY REDUCE ANNUAL Elk.
PENDITUEES.
Senator Aldrich Opposes Inheritance
Tax-Finance Committee Against
All Forms of Stamp Tax.

Washin@toh.-That a determined ef-
fort will be made to reduce public ex-
penditures to such an extent that gov.
ernmental needs may be met by rcve-
nue. derived from duties on imports, and
without resorting to any of the special
taxation schemes that have been sug'
gestcd in connection with tariff revision,
is Indicated by a remark made Tuesday
by Senator Aldrich, chairman of the
senate committee on finance.
Mr.. Aldrich was asked to give his
opinion Of the plan enormously accred
tied to President Taft to place a tax
on dividends declared by corporations.
Mr.. Aldrich replied that he had not
given thought to it, and added that he
would not concern himself with any Of
the various plans to raise evenues by
special taxes until it could be ascer'
tanned how much revenue could be pro.
duced by levying duties on imports, and
whether the running operations Of the
government could not be decreased so
as to make special taxes unnecessary.
Great significance is attached to the
remark made by Mr.. Aldrich. 1t is as
serted upon what is thought to he &C
curate information that a majority of
the members of the finance committee
regard with disfavor the proposed in
heritance tax feature, the proposed in.
come tax, levies upon dividends of cor
porations, tax on coffee and practically
all forms of stamp taxes.
1t is recognized that in the form in
which the Payne bill was reported to
the house from the ways and means
committee, sufficient revenues to pay
the running expenses of the government
cannot be collected from duties OH i'm
ports alone. The inference drawn from
MIR. Aldricn's expression, therefore, is
that the revision of the tariff must be
of an upward trend, and that the con
gress must curtail the tendency TO tx
pand annual appropriations at each sue
ceeding session of congress.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
Girls Whipped in Court.

Atlanta, Ga, March.-Sallie Ogles.
aged IS, and Hattie Hood, aged 16, two
white girls, were soundly whipped in pc.
lice court today by order of Recorder
Broyles. The girls had been brought be-
fore the recorder on charges Of being I'M
ruly by their parents. After the re.
corder heard the story of the parents
he said: Il won't fine or imprison these
girls. A good whipping is what they
need. That will do them more good
than a fine. A great many girls might
profit these days if they were given a
tusta Of the switch"
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
THREE MONTHS BRIDE SUICIDE
Mrs. Culberson Not Slain az Was at
First Suspected.

Vincennes, Ind.-Mrs. Jessie Lee Over.
ton Culbertson, woman Of mystery, sad.
hearted bride of three months, was not
murdered, but self-slain. OF this there
is no doubt. Her husband and relatives
tearfully acknowledged that their suspi.
cions that she was killed at the instiga-
ton of another woman for jealous re.
yenge were mfounded.
The body of a miniature skeleton,
which had been attached to the skull
found beside Mrs. Culbertson, when she
was discovered gagged in the shed near
her home last Wednesday, after swal.
lowing carbolic acid, was picked up late
today near the scene of the tragedy. It
lay concealed beneath a pile Of debris,
where the %disheartened girl had placed
it, after she removed the head and at.
tached it to the threatening letter which
she thought would lead the authorities
to believe she was murdered for 70.
venge.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
MUELLER AND PARTY SAFE
After Four Days in the Wilds Of
tho Mountains.

Los Angeles, Cal.-After one of the
mast narrowing experiences in the his
tory of %ballooning, Capt. A. E. Mueller
and his five companions who assembled in
the big Ferris racing balloon, America,
at Pasadena, last Saturday afternoon,
and became lost in the Sierra Madra
mountains, arrived Tuesday at Switzer's
unframed.
The men passed through a series of
h%ardships, the details of which have not
been learned. Arriving at Switzer's
Camp, they were provided with horses,
and began to descend from there to Pas
adena over a tortuous and slippery
trail.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
NUMBER Il.
RACE HORSES TO A CHURCHMAN.
The Queer Legacy Left to a Paris
Archbishop.

Paris.-In all ages devout Catholics
have ]bequeathed legacies OF differing
size and description to popes, cardinals
aud archbishops, but it is safe to say
that no prelate eve was more thor
oughly a%stOunded than the archbishop
of Paris when he awoke some time ago
to find himself the possessor Of a cele-
brated racing stable.
Il beg pardon for intruding," Monsis.
Amette's secretary came into the
archbishop's study with an air of much
perturbation II morning, but
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

a woman, the V%iscountess de Raine.
vile, has just died and left her fortune
of several millions, including a racing
stable, to your excellency.'
When Monseigneur Annette UNDER
stood that the legacy was left to him
personally and not to the church, he
refused to accept it. But just after his
secretary had left the archbishopric
to communicate Monseigneur Amette's
decision to the executors of the will,
word came that the court had ratified
the bequest, so there was nothing to
do but to accept the legacy, including
the embarrassing item Of the race
horses.
The archbishop Immediately gave Or
ders for the sale of the stud, also OF
the viscountess' properties. comprising
much real estate, a breeding farm and
| a historic chateau at Allonville in Nor
mandy. The legacy, converted into
cash, will be used for various charit-
oBlC VI 6dAlHlllOAO.
II the august and unwilling owner Of
| race track favorites fancied that he
could wash his hands of proprietary
duties so easily, he soon discovered his
mistake. His man of affairs soon
came to him with a complication. The
horses were to be put at auction at a
| big establishment in the Rue de Pom
| thieu. But some critics had pointed
out to this man Of affairs that the auc-
tioneer was a Jew. Was this a serious
enough consideration to warrant the
Intervention Of the archbishop? 1t
evidently was, for a few days later the
honor OF auctioneering the horses was
awarded to a rival establishment,
where the sale is to take place shortly.
The collection consists of rs horses.
and by a curious coincidence the De
Raineville jockeys always have worn
violet-the archbishop's color.
During the last years of her life the
viscountess, a woman in her seventies.
very naturally had not taken as much
interest in the horses as her husband
had done. He was a staunch royalist
deputy and his wife apparently was a
strong sympathizer with his anti-re-
publican ideas, for she delighted in
giving names which were %caricatures
of prominent governmental p%ersonali-
ties to her horses. Clemenceau was
transformed into ~Clemencette and
Caillaux became C~aillautette.
Because of the viscountess' lack Of
interest in race track triumphs or de-
feats, very few of the horses which
will be auctioneered are particularly
celebrated, although former victories
of the De Raineville stable still are re-
membered in sporting circles. Since
her husbands death the viscountess
has paid more attention to the rearing
of blooded horses than to racers. Her
farm at Allonville is one of the best In
France and many of the De Raineville
colts are sold during the summer sea-
son at the fashionable resort: Deau.
Vile.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
CAN GET $4,000 A WEEK.
theatrical Manager Makes Willie Whitla
Generous Offer.

Cincinnati.-Managers Zeigler and An.
derson, of the Columbia Theater, have
sent to the parents of Willie WhitIa,
the boy just recovered from k~idnapers,
an offer Of $4,000 per week for an en-
gagement of three weeks, to have the
boy appear at the regular performances
in their vaudeville houses here and at
indianapolis and Louisville. The the
atrical managers believe that the inter.
est aroused in the case would make the
lad . very valuable attraction.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
APPEAL BOYCOTT CASE.
q. S. Supreme Court Will Pass Upon
Bucks Stove Case.

MISUNDERSTANDING that the dis.
trict court Of appeals erred in modifying
the injunction of Justice Gould restrain
ing the American Federation of Labor
and President Gompers, Secretary Nor.
rison and Vice President John Mitchell,
of that organization, from publishing the
nam Of the Bucks Stove & Range Com.
pany, of st, Louis, in the "We Don't
Patronize" list of the American FEEDER.
ationalist, the St. Louis concern,
through their attorney, made a motion
for an appeal to the United States 81.
preme court.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
Railway Tax Case Settled.

Atlanta, Ga.-Ine case brought by
the State of Georgia against the Cen.
trail of Georgia Railway, for back taxes
due on $4,000 shares of Western Rail.
way of Alabama stock, was settled here
Tuesday by agreement. The State gets
$42,0S6.82, the county of Chatham $685.
772.sO, and the city Of Savannah $l2O,.
140.34, which includes all taxes on stock
up to and including 1908.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
TAFT FOR SHIP SUBSIDY.
Will Discuss Matter In His Next Mes.
sage to Congress.

Washington.-President Taft has Civ.
en- authority to have his name used as
favoring the ship subsidy. He talked
Friday with Representative Fassett, Of
New York, who will deliver a speech on
this subject before the National Mer-
chants League at Cleveland, o. The
president will discuss the ship subsidy
in his message to the next regular ses
sion Of congress-
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
DEEP WATERWAYS MEETING.
Will Be Called in New Orleans Next
November.

New Orleans, lathe convention of
the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway
Association will be held in New Or
leans, Nov. II, 70 and 10, according to
an announcement made by the organize.
ton in charge of arrangements here.
The official call of the convention will
be issued from st. Louis within the next
few weeks. Representatives of many
foreign nations will be invited to At
+aSa
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
Missed the Spot.

Giles-Swiggs vas told to rub whis.
ky on his bald spot and it would re-
store his hair.
Miles-Did he try It?
Giles-Yes; but he didn't follow the
directions. He invariably got the
whisky about six inches south Of the
bald spot.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
Train Blown from Track.

Topeka, Kan.-At Edison, in Sherman
county, last night, a tornado struck a
freight train on the Rock Island. Nine
cars were blown from the track, two of
them completely off the right of way.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

Baton Rouge.-The disastrous show
ing for the past year of the fire COM
panies doing business in Louisiana is
largely due to the heavy fire losses,
which the companies have sustained
in three or four large fires in New
Orleans. Throughout the state the
loss has not been greater than in past
years, but the New Orleans fires and
attendant losses have increased the
percentage. The figures given out
by the State Insurance Department
taken from the reports of the differ!
ent companies for 1908 show that the
ratio of losses incurred to premiums
written was 1928 per cent for the
1908 business. For every dollar of
premiums written in Louisiana dur
ing 1908 the fire insurance companies
lost 1923 cents.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at $780,
900, the Louisiana-Texas Natural Gas
Company has been organized here for
the purpose particularly Of piping gas
from Caddo to Marshall, Tex. The
charter has been recorded.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

Mansfield.-Albert Mason, Will
Frost and Dempsy Carlisle have been
arrested, charged with assault with
a dangerous weapon and inficting a
wound less than mayhem upon Dunk
Cokk. 1t seems that the negro mar
had been playing detective under in
struction from the officers, and that
he had caused the arrest and convic-
ton of several parties charged with
selling liquor without a license. When
near the Mansfield junction, and
while plying his vocation, he was at
tackled by three men and badly dis
figured by being struck owe the head
with rev0lvers and brass knucks. An
investigation of the case resulted in
the sheriff making an affidavit against
the three accused white men.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

AIexandria.-The work of building
the model road from Pineville to
Camp Stafford is assuming shape. Ma
jor F. M. Kerr, state engineer, has
arrived to go over the subject with
George l.. Cooley, who was sent here
by the United States government to
superintend the construction of the
road. Major Kerr, City Engineer Syl-
vester, MI. Cooley, T. G. Wheaton and
Bertrand Well left for Baton Rouge
to confer with Governor Sanders.
They expect to ask for 100 state
convicts to be sent here to do the
work Of building the model road. The
parish of Rapides is to furnish the
necessary funds and material, and
the United States government to fur
nish the expert. Mr.. Cooley is to SUI
perintend the work, and it is expected
that active work will be begun on
the road soon.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

Dunbar.-The oyster factory here,
after a successful season shipped their
foreigner laborers and families back
to Baltimore on a special train. Their
shell crusher is crowded with orders,
1t being necessary to u day and
night.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

Alexandria.-An important agricul-
tural meeting convened here recently.
DR.. s. A. Knapp of Washington, D. c.,
the chief official of the United States
Department experts for this section
Of the country, being present, and
J. A. Evans, district government
agent, having the work in charge for
the states of Louisiana and Arkan-
sas, being in attendance and presiding
i've the meeting. The meeting vas
what might be called an executive
session, at which all the government
expert agents and farm demonstrators
were present and reported to their
chiefs. Some 35 or more of them
from all over the state were in at
tendance, and their reports were Of
a highly interesting and helpful ma
ture. DR.. Knapp held a public meet
ing after the conference and spoke
to q large attendance of planters.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

Baton Rouge.-Douglas Barnes of
Grand Cane, so years of age, is said
to be the father of 10 living children.
The arrival of the nineteenth baby
occurred only a few days ago.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

Natchit0ches.-The Parish Board of
Health met with DR.. ]. B.. H~argrove,
parish health officer, presiding, and
p. e. Prudhomme, w. w. Page and
Isaac Raphiel, members of the police
jury, composing the board, to confer
on the health situation of the parish.
Reports from all sections show a most
satisfactory condition. The smallpox
situation is much improved, the dis.
ease having about run its course and
has been remarkably mild. The board
has taken every means to hold this
disease In check and its work was
shown to be effective. More than 81
900 school children have been vacci-
mated throughout the parish. The
greatest trouble the board has expe-
rienced Is in getting the people and
physicians to report the existence of
the disease, which, If done promptly,
would facilitate the board greatly in
its efforts.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

Crowley.-Sheriff Fontent has ef-
fected the capture of M. B. Woods,
a negro "hoodoo DOCTOR" who has
been a fugitive from justice for six
years. The charge against Woods is
breaking and entering in the night
time in Rayne about six years ago.
Since the. commission of the crime
many attempts have been made to
capture the negro, but each time he
succeeded in evading the officers. He
has been heard from in several states,
and the sheriff's Office has sent for
him a number of times and to a num-
Der of different states. Recently
Woods was located in New Iberia, and
City Marshal Lyman Clark of Rayne
was sent to arrest him.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

Plaucheville.-The district agent Of
the agricultural bureau, who was here
recently, stated that in his opinion
the situation is much more favorable
than last year at this time, the farm
ers having taken the best preventive
by cutting and burning stalks early
in the fall, and breaking land imme-
diately. Subagent A. Fl. Rabalais said
that some farmers were reporting
weevils found in the yellow blooming
weed known as pissenlit. a winter
grass, and it was decided to settle
the matter right away. At a meeting
On Bayou Choupique the weeds were
examined and some worms were
found in the roots, but having no re-
~lationship to the boil weevil. At the
same time a visit was made to a near
by field and explanation given as to
the best final preparation of soil. The
agent stated that a meeting will be
held here April IA, when he will lee
ture to the farmers on the various
methods of preparing the soil, the
proper time, and the best way Of
planting.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
LOUISIANA HAPPENINGS

Baton Rouge.-It is estimated that
fully 1000 school children will be in
Baton Rouge My ! attending the
state high school rally. Five hundred
school children will be here as con-
testants and as many more will be
here as spectators Of the events. IN
addition, there will be some fifty or
sixty school teachers in attendance.
Baton Rouge must entertain these
teachers and children. Prof. Stun
berg of the Louisiana State Univer-
sity. is head of the committee on en-
tertainment, and, with his assistants,
will in the next few days begin the
securing of homes for the children.
Fifty high schools throughout Louis
lara will be represented at the rally,
and contestants will take part in both
the athletic and literary programs
that have been arranged. The rail
roads in Louisiana will give a rate OF
one fare plus % cents fer the occa-
sion, and all Of the children who at
tend and the teachers who accompany
them will be entertained in Baton
Rouge homes without cost. The de-
tails of the program, now being work
ed out, provide for two classes of con-
tests, literary and athletic. In the
literary contests will be debates, spell
ing matches, compositions, declama-
lions. In the athletic program will
be races, shot putting, high and broad
jump, pole vault and championship
games of all kinds. Scholarships,
cash prizes or medals are offered to
winners in all events.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

Lake Charles.-T. A. Kelly, who
was arrested at Beaumont on the
charge of kidnapping George Hinner,
a boy, from the Baptist orphanage,
gave bond and will fight the cas- KEEL
ly says the boy is over Is, is his
brother-in-law and has a right to
choose Kelly as his protector. Kelly
also claims that he was arrested at
Beaumont, forced to board an east
round train and return to Lake
Charles, even being refused the priv.
ilege OF notifying his counsel.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

Long Bridge.-The ~10-months,old
daughter Of Lange f. Couvilion met
death in a singular manner Mrs.
Couvillon had gone to her mother-in-
laws to spend the day, and during
the morning the baby went to sleep
and was placed on a bed. at the foot
of which vas a sewing machine.
Meanwhile the mother and grand.
mother were attending to some duties
in the back part of the house. Mrs.
Couyillon sent n of her mother-in-
laws little girls to see if the baby
was all right. The little girl called
to come quick and see. The mother
and grandmother ran, and found the
baby hanging between the foot Of the
bed and the machine. The fall must
have been so great that the child's
neck was instantly broken and death
resulted Immediately.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03
POINTE.AIA:HACEE, La, SATURDAY, APRIL g. 1909.

Baton R0uge.-Stats Treasurer G.
B. Steele is making his arrangements
to send to the publishing companies
that made deposits and who l.ceiyed
no contract the deposits which these
companies made at the time they
posted their bids for the school books.
A number of the checks have already
gone back. Some of the com
panies are not getting their
checks back for the full amount OF
the deposit. The state is retaining
s5u3 a book to insure the faithful
performance of the contract. Up to
and above four books adopted $4,000
is retained. Where a company bid
on a long list of textbooks, made a
deposit of $4,000, and had one adopt
ed, this cmpany gets back $1,000 and
$1,000 is retained by the state to
hold as security for the performance
Of the contract.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

Baton Rouge.-Governor Sanders
has issued a call for a meeting Of
the State Board of Liquidation to be
held in Baton Rouge on April Is.
This meeting is called for the pur.
pose of taking action on the per-
centage paid by the fiscal agent banks.
The banks now pay the state 3 IL
per cent interest on the state funds.
They claim this is too much. The
board will also take action looking
towards borrowing from other funds
sufficient money to take up all Of the
1908 warrants, regardless of class.
Lower coast gazette., 1909-04-03

The city council of Broussard has
decided to extend the session OF their
schools n month longer than usual.
Baton Rouge.-Eugene Jastremski.
secretary Of the Louisiana State
Board of Agriculture and Immigra-
ton. is at Calhoun. where he meets
the representatives of the parish fairs
OF north Louisiana for the purpose
OF organizing them In a circuit and
arranging the dates for the holding OF
the fairs this fall so that none Of the
exhibitions win conflict
The Democratic advocate., 1909-07-02
The Rust of Custom.

The bitterness toward innovation is
just the same in an army as out of it
but perhaps with more reason. A new
thing cannot possibly be accepted un-
til it has proved itself better than that
which it displaces. The first cannons
were possibly rejected, and the Chris
tian inventor took them to the Turk
who used them at the siege of Con-
stantinople. The first firearms were
bitterly opposed because they destroy
ed the soldierly bearing of the troops
The British navy strenuously objected
to the first large guns because one
charge would cost as much as one OF
Nelson's broadsides. Ericsson's Mon
itor met with more opposition IN
Washington than it did in Hampton
Roads. At the outbreak of the civil
war it is said that congress ordered
the adoption of the new weapon, over
the objection of the chief of ordnance
who kept specimen of the old one in
his office to show visitors how good
it was.-Army and Navy Life.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-07-02
Detectino a Thief,

Some of the stories In the "Folklore
Of the Holy Land" seem to be at least
founded on fact. And, indeed, when
we come down to quite recent times
we find undoubtedly genuine stories
that might have been told Of the days
Of the caliphS.
Here is one of Ibrahim Pasha:
A goldsmith of Jaffa complained
that his house had been robbed and
remarked that the Egyptian occupa-
ton had not brought security.
The pasha promised redress.
The next day he came to the mans
shop and in the presence Of a great
crowd ordered the executioner to give
the door a hundred lashes.
Then he stopped as If to listen. 'The
door tells nonsense" he cried; "an-
other hundredv
He stopped again.
'The same tale; the door persists
that the thief Is somewhere in this
crowd Of honest people and that ne
has some Of the dust and cobwebs
from the shop on his tarboosh."
He had his eye on the crowd and
saw a man hastily raise his hand to
brush his fez.
The man was arrested and confessed
his guilt.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-07-02
uncIe Sam Rejects Own stamps.

Thomas A. Daily, an indianapolis
lawyer, was laughing at himself the
other day for sending stamps to the
government at Washington in payment
for patent circular. A few days lat
er he received a letter stating that
stamps could not be accepted.
''It never occurred to me they
couldn't use stamps" he said, laugh
ing. "But they use frank, and OF
course they wouldn't want stamps. All
the government could do would be to
sell the stamps over again, and 1t
might as well get the money in the
first ce."-Indianapolis Star.