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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-15
Tie Port of New Orleans.
u-MODERN METHODs.

It is seen that, generally speaking,
mile or more of railroad trackage is
necessary for every thousand tons u
cargo a ship can carry. Suppose
that want has been filed. Not more
than beginning has been made.
The freight must be transferred
from cars to ship and from ship &c
cars. If freight is to move through
New Orleans it must have adequate
facilities and be handled at less
charges than in other ports. The
movement of commerce follows the
line of least resistance as general
proposition. One line may appear o
natural outlet all right enough and
yet be subject to artificial distractions
which make delay-exp friction
and hence diversion. A lire may
appear natural outlet for commerce
and in fact be so primarily, and yet be
not so used for lack OF necessary
facilities, because other lines are bet
ter provided and draw the stream
away.
Napoleon was Of opinion that Provi-
dencs was on the side of the heaviest
artillery. Napoleon's judgment as to
the attitude Of mind of the Almighty
may not be of much value, but in ma
serial matters he has had few equals
and no superiors. His aphorism is
only another way of saying that sue.
cess comes to those who help them
selves. Such is the situation of the
port of New Orleans.
New Orleans and Louisiana cannot
sit supine and expect their much
Wanted natural advantage" to
bring them the commerce of the earth.
Germany Is flooding the world with
her manufactures today, and is able
to do SO because her every town and
station and port is provided with
every mechanical device to handle
freight as eheaply and expeditiousls
as possible.
And all this machinery is OF Ameri-
can manufacture.
We sit here at the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi with no Improvement over the
time of the Pharaohs save steam
winch on the deck of the ship, while
every other port in the world OF any
pretenslons is equipped with machinery
to handle tons while our people handle
pounds.
This simply will not do, and all the
expenditures of all the boards will be
wasted unless supplemented by the
installation of every mechanical de
vice that can be applied.
The time for this is NOW, while the
dock board is building sheds on the
wharves, so that these sheds will not
have to be pulled to pieces and re-
built.
The tendency of modern economical
development IS greater profit
through smaller percentage on .
larger volume of business. This
tendency is as inexorable as fate. L
is fate. Those who do not adjust
themselves to it and take advantage
of it will go to the wall, and probably
never know why.
Communities aud individuals who
do not take advantage Of all labor
saving devices stagnate, and stagna-
ton is death.
A landing stage, corrugate iron
shed and a single or even double
railroad track do not m axe a port.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-15

The advent Of the Hon. Sam Gil
more 10 congress increases the Demo.
cratic membership by one--and gives
the Republicans another vote in sup
port of the Republican policy OF a
protective tariff.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-15

An escaped convict from Alabama
was captured and put in Jail at
Shreveport, and promptly sawed his
way out. They didn't see him saw but
the sheriff saw him next morning and
locked him up again.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-15

Deposed Abdul Hanid is indeed
..tha sick man of Europe" And
ctnriapo Castro is the ditto of South
America.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-15

Cattle raisers recently blew up the
Mermentau dam again, and it is
thought the dam thing will stay
sshlowedn this time.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-15

The Knights OF Columbus have made
q discovery Donaldsonyille is
ali right. The fremen and the battle.
ship crew will swear to it.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-15

The people of Philadelphia are indignant be-
cause the price of street fare in that city has
been raised with the consent of the ring govern
ment. They held 3 town meeting" last night
to register vigorous kick" When the Phil
adelphians Learn to vote as they kick they will
probably fare better.-New Orleans Times-Dem-
ocrat.
Right you are! Glad you've found
il out. Keep right along on that line,
brother, but let your missionary eff
forts gather force and expend their
energies mostly at home. II there is
any voting population anywhere that
thinks and kicks one way and votes
another or, what is worse, doesn +
vote at ALT is right here in Louisi-
ana and New Orleans. Keep a-kick
log and vote as you Kick, and good
government is bound to follow in the
course OF time. Let the good work go
cnf
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-15

10 reply to letter congratulating
him on his course in the recent tariff
struggle IN the house, Hon. A. p.
Puio, congressman from the seventh
Louisiana district, wrote: 81 appre
crate your congratulations on my
stand upon the tariff bill. and beg to
say that in determining my course l
considered it my duty to safeguard
the interests Of the people OF my state
as far as possible, and that IN the
fixing of rates its products should not
be disseminated against. We have
measurably succeeded, but We are not
yet entirely out OF danger. y
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-15
SATURDAY. MAY IS. 1909

Talking of convention cities, what's
Tho matter with Donaldsonville?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-15

The Chief Is Ia receipt of an invita-
tion to attend the annual commence.
ment exercises of the Southwestern
Louisiana Industrial Institute at La
fayette, which will be held from May
% to 25, inclusive. The commence
ment sermon will be preached Big Rev.
H. Elmer Gilchrist, pastor of the First
Unitarian Church of New Orleans,
and the annual address to the gradu-
ates will be delivered by Prof. r. L..
Hines OF the Louisiana State Univer-
sity. Aubert Z. Talbot, well-knoTn
young attorney OF Napoleonville, has
been selected to deliver the alumni
GRAFTON on the occasion of the class
night exercises to be held Monday,
May "a. at 8o'clock p. m.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-02
CHAPTER x.
Grey's Ambition.

The first two or three weeks of the session were of routine nature, pro- ductive only of bills, hackneyed in their nature or of a merely local in terest but at the end of that time the torch that startled a confla agra tfon was lighted.
 The national census had been taken, and under the reapportionment Ken lucky with her high birth rate became entitled :o an increase of one repre- sentative if the Lower House of Con- gross. It was the dut! of the Leg islature to make the reappointment, that is to create the new Confessional districts and, in this business, I soon saw the sinister hand of Harrison.
 He had been making great progress in the House by the double weapons of charm and fear. He attracted some by his knowledge and wit and others were frightened by his sarcasm and willingness to say cutting things. I saw that he was becoming a power, although I did not fatnom even yet the GcIth Of his designs. He was showing the deepest interest in public life, and his attention was assiduous. The new game with it's vast complex ity and variety, it's heights and depths pleased him.
 An apportionment bill gives an op- y, but my friend Peden, brought in the first one which was strictly fair. It was evident. however, from the begin ming that Pedens just and impartial bill would meet powerful opposition. and that a certain faction within the majority party was bent on getting every advantage it could, whether the means be fair or unfair. Harrison, in a biting speech, characterized the bill as quixotism, and I learned that a new one, making an obV OuSly One-Sided and unjust apportionment, would be presented by a machine member, named Connor. from Louisville. But ] guess ed that it's father was Harrison. and that he had written it. I now began to suspect also that he meant to make himself the Democratic leader of the State; that is. the Kingmaker.
 The fight over the measure thickened fast. and soon the lines were sharply drawn. Harrison. the indications hold ing good. was the life and soul of the presented as the fate of the Peden measure was to be decided by Demo- cratic caucus, after which the party would be bound by the decision of the majority. whatever that might be.
 It seemed that Harrison would cer- tainly be triumphant, and his oppOn- .ents could do nothing at present but fight for delay. It was probably be- cause the case looked so desperate that I became the leader of the supporters, nobody else wanting the place. People generally spoke of me as it's champion, and as it became a habit with others I began to regard myself in that light also.
 Thus affairs dragged for about two weeks, and one afternoon I went for one of my favorite walks on the hills It was still the dead of winter and the river yet lay under it's glittering sheet of ice, but the crisp atmosphere was full of vitality and life. I met Judge Wharton and we walked on to- gether, talking at first about topics which form the general food of conver- sation. After while he came to our
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-02
Ask for O'sourke's union tobacco.
Better Than Spanking.

Spanking does not cure children Of bed-wetting. There is a constitution al cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Sum- mers, Box w, Notre Dame, Ind, will send free to any mother her success full home treatment, with full instruc- tions. Send no money, but write her to-day if your children trouble you in this way. Don't blame the child, the chances are it can't help it. This treatment also cures adults and aged people troubled with urine difficulties
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-14

the prohibition Of the statute can be
successfully evaded by the simple
device Of transfer Of ownership Of
the property to a corporation. all Of
whose stock shall be owned or con-
trolled by the carrief. Congress should
amend the statute SO as to make it
an effectual and not merely illusory
prohibition, or else repeal it"
Legislation is recommended to
facilitate the removal Of persons in
dicted for crime In one district Of
the United States into that district
from the one i'm which he may hap
pen to be apprehended. Recent
thefts from the Brooklyn navy yard
suggest that all committing magis-
trates should be authorized to issue
search warrants when stolen prop
erty of the government is believed
to be concealed.
The Attorney General earnestly
asks for an increase in the salaries
of federal judges, and that they
should be allowed expenses of travel
and subsistence when they are hold
ing court at places away from their
homes although in their own dis
tricts. An additional Circuit Judge
in the Fourth Judicial Circuit is
said to be needed badly
The report shows that fines were
collected from railroads i'm rebate
cases during the last fiscal year to
the amount of $320,6O0 OF this
$136,000 came from the
New York Central
In the prosecution of land frauds
acres of land were recov-
cred and $311,704 in cash penalties
After referring to the Standard
Oil, the tobacco trust and the pow
der trust cases and the prosecution
against the Terminal Association of
st. Louis, which are all now, or will
be soon, before the Supreme Court,
the Attorney General announces:
The department is now engaged in
the careful investigation of con-
siderable number of alleged COM
binations in violation of the (anti-
trust) act"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-14
DESCRIBES
net WORK OF
CORRUPTION
Attorney General WiCkerSham
Describes Sugar Trust
Scandal AS "UnparaI-
leled Depravity."

Washington, Dec. 11.--"Of unpar-
alleled depravity," is how Attorney
General wlckersham in his annual
report, made public today, describes
the Sugar Trusts frauds upon the
government at the port of New
York.
Speaking Of the Investigations
made and of their results so far, the
Attorney General says: THE evil
dence has disclosed network Of
corruption, not confined to the
American Sugar Refining Company,
extending over a period Of years. af.
fectlng both importers and officers
Of the government, and it is as yet
premature to state the precise ex.
tent Of the conspiracy or the amount
of the revenues of which the govern
ment has been defrauded. While It
is feared that the statute of limita-
tlons may have run I'm favor OF many
Of the malefactors who are RESPONSE
bic for these frauds, yet no effort
VIII be spared to ascertain the pre-
else amount OF which the govern
ment has been defrauded, to recover
all moneys due, and to punish all
those who may be found to have
participated in any respect in tho
frauds, whether as officers or agents
OF the importers or as officials of the
government. / earnestly request a
special appropriation of $4,000 to
enable this work to be effectively
prosecuted"
Besides thus indicating that the
government hopes yet to recover
more money from the sugar trust,
beyond the $2,00O,O0O already re-
ceived, the Attorney General lays
stress upon the fact that in accept |
ing that sum In full settlement Of |
all civil liabilities for penalties az !
fecting the weighing of sugar at the
Jersey City and Brooklyn refineries |
of the trust, the government express |
ly reserved the right to prosecute |
criminally "all individuals who |
might be shown to have been re-
sponsible FOR the frauds. wherever
occurring, even II such individuals |
were officers of the company"
The investigation into the Grim
inal liability of participants in the |
frauds Is being vigorously pushed
and a number of individuals have
been indicted,
Probably having in mind certain
things that came up in the customs
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-14
LAKE LABISH
To Be OR
NOT TO BE
Case of Considerable Interest
In the Circuit Court
This Term.

A case of considerable local inter-
est has been set for hearing before
Judge Galloway on next Tuesday in
the circuit court Of Marion county.
The litigation grows out of a right
of-way contract by the terms of
which the Oregon Electric railroad
runs through the farm of Frank Ford
aiross Lake Labish for about half a
mile The farm was formerly the
property of the late Tilmon Ford
and a sa consideration for securing
this right-of-way the railroad com
pany paid Ford 5000 and agreed to
stop all local cars at some convenient
place on the Labish farm, to take
on and let off passengers. The deed
for the land mentions stopping the
cars as part of the consideration in
the grant. Mr.. Frank Ford has
tired to get the Oregon Electric to
comply with the terms of the con-
tract, but so far they have refused
on the ground that it is contrary
to publii policy to have too many
stopping places. They claim there
are only a few people to be served
with a train stopping at that point
and If they make too many stops it
will be impossible to make the time
required on the run between Salem
and Portland. The attorneys for
Frank Ford, the plaintiff, will show
that about fifty people in that neigh
borhood want the local trains to stop
there, and that a great many people
from Salem would patronize the road
II the station were established. The
station would probably be called
Lake Labish if the court sustains
the contention of the petitioner.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-14

DEPARTMENT CALLED OUT:
FIRE IS EXTINGUISHED,

The fire department responded to
a call this morning from the seventh
ward, and, after making a good run
over heavy streets and a steep hill
with the chemical engine and the
steamer, it was found that the SER
viGes of the fire department was un-
necessary, because the lady of the
dwelling from which the fire alarm
was turned in had threw a bucket
of water on the flames. The fire
was in the Manly home, on Leslie
street, and started from defective
flue. Nothing but a large patch of
wall paper was damaged by the fire
and the bucket of water.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-14
GERMAN
SOCIETY
WELCOMED
Singers Who Went to Oregon
City Got a Very Warm
Reception.

The Gesang Verein of the Salem
German-American Society, who went
to Oregon City about 25 strong, got
hearty welcome at the hands of
the Oregon City society, of which
Gust Schnoerr, the booster at Will
lamette, is president. The City at
the Falls turned out handsomely and
entertained the visitors. President
Schnoerr took a party, headed by
Vice-President A. Kehrberger, to his
home to dinner, and the rest of the
Salemites were entertained equally
as well, At the halle a fine program
OF music was carried out under the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-14

inquiry the Attorney General recon-
mends:
For the purpose Of meeting the
conditions which arise in the en-
deavor to procure testimony for the
government, general immunity
statute should be enacted. The
enactment of the special immunity
statutes as to proceedings under the
interstate commerce laws, apply
with equal force to criminal prose-
cutions generally. The United
States should have the power to
compel discriminating disclosures by
giving a compensatory immunity in
all cases where individuals stand be-
tween crime and its detection and
punishment. Such statute should be
applicable only TO protect a witness
summoned in a proceeding on behalf
OF the United States from the conse-
quences Of testimony which he Is
compelled to give in that proceed
ing"
He also recommends the repeal of
Sec. $50 of the Revised Statutes
which, intended by Congress to ena-
bic prosecutors to give immunity TO
witnesses compelled to testify
themselves, has been held by
the Supreme Court not to be a sub
stitute for the constitutional guar
anty against determination.
"As a result" the report says, at
is ayailed Of constantly by criminals
to prevent the government from us
ing against them any testimony
given by them at any time in any
proceeding SO far as / am aware,
no statute in any of the states pro-
tects a man who is charged with
crime from having used against him
In a criminal proceeding testimony
given by him in a civil suit. The
United States attorney for the SOU
thern district of New York, informs
me that is is an everyday occurrence
In bankruptcy cases for bankrupts
and their witnesses to testify before
special examiners, referees, etc, Of
len falsely, and then, when indicted
Tor some offense under the bank
rGptcy act, to appear in court and
estify in direct contradiction OF
what they may have deposed in the
before the referee or
examiner; but the government is
prevented from using such testimony |
lgainst them"
The Attorney General makes fC |
lear that the government is not
atisfled with the decision of the |
supreme Court in the so-called Com
Clause case, and he intends
o bring certain phases of that law
gain to the attention of the courts.
n this connection he says:
THE decision does not necessar-
Iy determine the application of the
tatute to cases where the commodi-
les transported are owned by cor
Grafton, all, or substantially all, of
hose stock Is owned by the carrier
at the time of transpor-
attion, and especially where the car
Ter shall have transferred all of it's
interest in such commodities to
formed for the express
urpose of evading the prohibition
{ the commodities clause, and all
+ substantially all of the stock in
'hich is owned by the carrier.
hese questions will be presented
~ determination in the courts. II
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-14

direction of Prof. Won Jessen. Ten
numbers were sung by the Salemites,
and after an address by President
Schnoerr, which was full of good
words for the visitors, responses were
made by Mr.. Kehrberger, Mr.. yon
Jessen and John Stellman, of Salem.
Splendid refreshments were served
by the Oregon City ladies, who al
ways take prominent part in the
regular meetings of th9 German So
ciety The hospitality of Oregon
City is wide and broad, and even ex.
tended to paying the car fares of the
sight-seers. The visit will long be
remembered by both the hosts and
the guests.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-14
HexanethyIenetetramine.

The above is the name of a Ger
man chemical, which is one of the
many valuable ingredients of Foley's
Kidney Remedy. Hexamethylenete
tramine is recognized by medical text
books and authorities as a uric acid
solvent and antiseptic for the urine.
Take Foley's Kidney Remedy as soon
as you notice any Irregularities and
avoid serious malady. ]. G. Perry.
Mrs s. Joyce, Claremont, N. H.,
writes: About a year ago l bought
two bottles of Foley's Kidney Rem
edy. 1t cured me of a severe case
of kidney trouble of several years
1t certainly is a grand,
good medicine, and / heartily recon-
mend it. j. G. Perry.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-14
GERMAN SOLD OUT
TO PLEASE WIFE

Gust Kehrberger, the cement
WORKER. has sold his 15-acre fruit
farm on Asylum avenue, for $4,000
TO w. ! Savage. Mr.. Kehrbergef
was very sorry to leave the Garden
Itoad, ard would not have done so,
but the work on The LITTLE farm was
toG hard for his wife, and they will
move into their property at the cor.
ner of Mission aid South CONNER
cal street. where Mr., Kehrberger
will erect TWO hot SEES on his property,
aud not overlook ans cement jobs
that are offered.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-14

The successful briquetting of lig-
mite coal will mean the transforma-
tion of much of the Missouri river
country into a great manufacturing
center
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-14
To Cure Cold In One Day.

Take LAXATIVE BRoMo Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money If
it fails to cure. e. w. GROVES
signature on each box. 25c IT'S
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-14

On school census Eugene claims
1850 population.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-14

Try a Journal want .ad.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-24
SOME STORIES
AROUND TOWN

1t was in the Palmer House bar
about s o'clock in the evening. Four
visitors from the Sticks" walke1
boldly in the door, and then seemed
to wither in the flash OF light from
the prism glasses, the sheen of the
bar fixtures and the unaccustomed
luxury OF it all. They sided over to
a table with four chairs, that ap-
peared to offer a very haven OF OBJ
security, and having sunk into the
seats, they grinned at one another
and gazed around with wonder-struck
eyes. AS is always the case, one of
the quartet was observant and imita-
tive. Once he got his bearings he
proceeded to watch a customer with
the evident intention of Doing as
the Romans did" The customer took
an olive from the end OF the bar and
applied II to his lips. A moment
afterward Mr.. Josh Wise was at the
end of the bar with a hand In the
olive dish. He grlnned a grin of
recognition at the plums and put one
in his mouth. while he took two moe
from the dish. The observant bar
tender longed for a picture machine
to catch the transformation OF the
rube's face. The grin faded into an.
ashen look of helpless despair, then.
took possession of mis-
to be succeeded by an ex-
preston of good humored apprecia-
ton, that dawned like the warm glow
Of sunshine on a June morning. and
by the time he spat out the olive Josa
was actually chuckling.
Pretty good! Pretty good," the
heard him say, and ne
rhuckled again, as he carried the, two
olives over to the table and presented
them to two of his comrades.
One smiled the same smile Of
recognition that lighted up the face
OF Josh at the bar. as he put the
olive in his mouth, and then they al
burst forth in a roar of laughter,
when the second one made a wry face
and spat out the nasty mouthful.
That's a pretty good joke" called
out the first one, now thoroughly at
home, to the bartender. How did
you fix them plums?"