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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-11

The three Jones seldom separate
on a roll call but when one OF them
goes wrong.
The members of the third house
didn't charge any mileage.
II vote for the Peoples choice
under protest" said one third house
member, "and | want it smeared on
the record along with my embarras-
ment.
II believe in obeying the voice of
the people as I want a chance to
come back here" said one third
house member with more truth than
sarcasm.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-11
@. +. MASON BOX 90.
BUrTERNUr BREAD.

Il Is worth more than any oths
1Fead yet the price - 20 hiShe'
mr. sa,- a. vour Wroeers
CAtIFORNI RAKFRY
Thomas a Cooley. PrOos.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-11

Even it's author now considers the
hatpin bill a joke. After a while
that's what they'll all think OF them
selves.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-11

A third house member demanded
that the name OF Representative
Bean be spelled with a big "B."
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-11

Brady is not the only live member
Farrell IL alive. too.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-11

The third house had Bonebreaker
introducing a bill for the sale of beer
and whiskey in hopyard dance halls.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
Succession NOTICE.

No. I3,265-In First District Court OF
Louisiana: Succession of Mrs. Mat
tie Aline Rudy.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo ::
Notice is hereby given that F. A. Leon
ard, clerk of District Court of Caddo
Parish Louisiana, has this day applied
to be appointed administrator OF SAID
succession, said succession consisting OF
lot 40, block B, Highland Park subd1-
vision Of the City of Shreveport, valued
at $4,000, and unless opposition Be
made thereto within the time speci1ed
by law, he will be appointed as prayed
for.
Witness the honorable judges of said
court this 9TH day of October A, D. 1909
S. o. WILLIAMS.
Oct. ,. Deputy Clerk
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
CONSTABLE SALE.

No. 2I4-In Justice Court of the Sec
ond Ward of Caddo Parish, Louis
lana: w H. Massey VS.. Jas. Terry.
BY virtue of a writ of feri facias IS
sued in the above entitled and numbered
suit by the Honorable ]. B. Olds, JUS
tice of the Peace of the Second Ward
of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, and to me
directed, | have seized and will sell at
public auction at Rodessa in Ward One
of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, on
SATURDAY, OCT. I6, 1909,
A three fourths interest in cotton
crop. The above property seized as be-
longing to the plaintiff and to be sold
to satisfy the judgment, ten dollars, in
terest twenty cents, and costs thirty
three dollars and forty-fve cents, Specl-
fed i'll the said writ, say the sum OF
S43.6s, and all cost. Terms of sale cash
with benefit of appraisement.
JOHN M. WYNN,
Constable of Ward One, Caddo Par
ish, Louisiana. 9-2o.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
Mr.. PEARY
His Defective Indictment Against DR..
Cook
New York World)


Mr.. Peary evidently believed that by
drawing UP his indictment against DR..
Cook on the lines of Scotch sermon,
with its firstly, secondly, thirdly, finally,
in conclusion and lastly, he would make
it more impressive. For a month past
he has promised an eXpectant world
proofs that DIR. Cook did not reach the
Pole. In logic there are two ways of
disproving a statement, the proofs ad-
mitted being the direct and the indirect,
the latter generally taking the form of
a reductio ad absurdum. 1t is the lat
ter that Mr. Peary has attempted and
achieved-but not as he intended. The
only proof that he furnishes is proof
that he really has none. He has mere
ly stated the reasons why in his opinion
DIR. Cook could not have reached the
Pole. But this is not to the point. DIR.
Cook has solemnly affirmed that he
reached the farthest north. In view Of
his reputation and his eminence as an
artic explorer such a statement is entl-
tied to be received as true until he pre-
pares and brings forward the scientific
data on which it is based, and on any
one giving the statement fla categOrl-
cal denial-which Mr.. Peary has done
| lies what is termed in law onus pr0handl
the burdens of proving his assertions.
| This onus in a score of interviews Mr..
Peary has cheerfully assumed and the
world has waited for what was to come.
1t seems almost a waste of time to ira
verse point by point the extraordinary
document Mr.. Peary has now made pub
lie. It starts out with a fragrant breach
of the laws of evidence Mr.. Peary in
voked the testimony of the Eskimos
who could have known only what Cook!
! companions chose to tell. This form o
secondhand testimony would be re
iected in any cour of law. 1t woult
further appear that there. exists kline
of polar etiquette by which an explore
must bring back records left by prede
cessors. 1t is comprehensive that al
explorer making dash for the pol
: would not want to burden himself wit
unnecessary inpedimentia, but D
} Cooks explanation is even more sim
ple-he did not bring back any record
because he did not find any. The view
= on distances travelled, sledges, snowshoe
: and instruments used are purely person
l al to Mr.. Peary and have no more valu
: than any criticism of Mr.. Peary's equiv
4 ment by DR.. Cook would have. The fiji
: al argument that DIR. Cook should
n held responsible for the fact that Hari
). Whitney did or did not do certa
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
FIGHT OF THE BLUE BLOODS
The Sherriff's Office Is Preferred to
a Judicial Place of Smaller Wages
(Homer Guardian Journal)

Homer GUARDIAN JOul IidlJ
Down in old St. Bernard by the sea,
royal fight for political prestige and
the sDoils of office is waxing warm.
The principals in the engagement are
the scions of ante-bellum aristOcracy
and modern plutocracy. For many years
the reigning dynasty of St. Bernard, has
been confined to the house of Estopinal
and Nunez. The progenitors of these
proud old French-Spanish folks have
all these years been bound with hooks
of steel. Not only were their political
alliances strong but their marital and
coniugal relations were such that here
tofore no one has appeared in the poll
teal ring with temerity enough to op-
pose the combined allies Of the houses
Of Montague and Capct
But, alas in an evil hour death came
and removed Nunez, the cider, who for
a time beyond the memory Of man had
been high sheriff of the baliwick Of St.
Bernard
The Younger Nunez is prosecuting
attorney. while EstoDinal the younger
is Judge Of the court Of appeals. Not
withstanding thsc scions Of the royal
blood Of French-Castilian extraction are
holding high positions in professional
life the aroma from the flesh pots of
the Sheriff office now vacant, is so rich
that both have SHE'D their castors in the
ring and a royal fight is now on for
the place made vacant as aforesaid. In
times past. these ruling families, always
! bv mutual consent, around the flow
ing bowl. with nectar and cocktails
quaffed, parceled out the coveted places
But the official places have not increased
in the same ratio that multiplies the
races. and so the fight so long post
poned has come at last The fight is or
to finish, and the spartisans OF each
have all enlisted for the seige. One
of the leaders was quoted in New Or
leans paper as saying they much regret
ed that the two old families which had
so long controlled the politics of the
lower coast, had come to the parting oil
the ways, but since it had come, he cri,
ed aloud to the opponents, Lay OF
McDuff." The Estopinal referred t.
here and who is Judge of the court OF
appeal, is the son of the congressman
| ,,bo ,v,c T lieutenant Governor and {
Senator for many years. His friends
were surprised to learn that he preferred
the sheriff's office to his present hlgf
place. Verify, truly, does politics make
strange bedfellows. After all it is tn,
coin of the realm that incites men to aG'
ton. Hence the sheriff's office is pre-
ferred to a judicial place of smaller
wage.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
MARSHAL'S SALE.

No. I533-In the City Court of Shreve-
port, Louisiana: Andrew Kuhn VS..
Louis Presley.
By virtue of a writ of heri facias,
issued in the above entitled and num-
bered suit. by the Honorable S. I.
Fullilove, Judge of the City Court OF
Shreveport, Louisiana, | have seized
and will sell at public auction, at the
Texas street front door of the court
house of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, be-
tween the legal hours for sales, on
SATURDAY, OCT. 10, 1900,
One lot of household goods. The above
property seized as belonging to the said
defendant and to be sold to satisfy the
debt specified in said writ, say in the
sum of $54oo, and all cost
Terms of sale cash with benefit of ap-
praisement. G. F. GERALD,
Oct. 5, City Marshal.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10

DIED IN THE PEN.

q. Walsh Virgins, 66 years oldand .
Confederate Veteran, died in the penl-
Tertiary at Baton Rouge last Thursday,
after being an inmate of that prison
since March %, 1858. He was sent there
from Harrisonburg, Catahoula parish,
for murder. He was one of the most
noted characters ever in the peniten-
tiary. He had been prominent in poll
tics, and once represented Catahoula
parish in the Legislature. - Progressive
Age.
Virgins was one of the forgotten by
his friends or he was independent Of his
friends and would rather stay in the pen
than to solicit pardon. He was prob
ably an unreconstructed who was op-
posed to amnesty on general principles.
1t is singular that J. Walsh Virgins was
permitted to die in the penitentiary, as a
convict, when Others have been liberated
by the pardoning board, turned loose
aS gentlemen on the community Whosl
peace and dignity and whose laws they
have outraged wantonly. Perhaps J
Walsh Virgins had lost his political
pull, which may explain why he was no
pardOned.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
(RrDubliCatiOn.)

Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office at Natchitoches, La,
Sept, "a, I9o9.-Notice is hereby given
that Harry Brown, Of Forbing, La, who
OR February IS, 1901, made Homestead
Entry No. $40, No. o4o5, for the south
half of southeast quarter section 81,
township 10 north, range IS west Louis
lana meridian, has fled notice of inten-
ton to make final five year proof, to
establish CAIN to the land above de-
scribed, before Register and Receiver at
Natchitoches, La, on the 18TH day Of
October 1909. Claimant names as
witnesses J. Mccoy, F. Leslie, l. Shep-
herd, J. Bell, all of Forbing, La.
]. ERNEST BREDA,
o-I6. Register
Caucasian, Shreveport, La.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10

be certain of having it right. In the old
b1ue-back speller the words were so
grouped that in the. process of going
through the lessons all the words in
the English language were presented
to the student, and by the old method
of class spelling and spelling matches
thew were so impressed on a student
that few children who passed through
these schools creditab1y failed of being
fairly accurate spoilers. In the desire
for the new the old is often discard
ed when it is really better than the new.
This applies to the Webster spelling book
Successive generations used it, and by
its admirably arranged lessons were led
by easy steps through all the mazes
of English spelling. until the orthogra-
ply of the language was mastered, and
none Of the latter, and socalled improV-
cI system books has brought as good
results. To teach the erratic spelling
OF English words to children there ncv-
.cr has been nor probably ever vel be
a textbook to equal the cid bjue-bacE
sncller.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
THE OPENING SKTRNTSH

The opening sbirmish of the next
State campaign in Louisiana occurred
before the Natchitoches Police Jury
Monday when Judge c. V. Porter bit
ter1y attacked the Sanders good roads
plan and Phanor Breazeale vchemently
defended it. Acrimonious debate char
acterized the proceedings, and what
previously looked like sure thing ap-
preparation of $4,000 for good roads
is now held in suspension. lnasmuch as
Judge Porter is prospective candidate
for Governor and would inevitably have
been opposed by the present admlmStra-
ton anyway, the first slogan of battle
may easily be seen in the charge Of
graft in Sanders good roads scheme. .
Mansfield Journal.
Indirectly, politicians may construe
the criticism of the so-called good roads
by Judge Porter as a political straw, the
opening skirmish, but it has a deeper
significance than politics.
/ Is luClG dliE lNCSOII VI Nt'O''o IVA 1890
charge of graft in this model road
making by convicts?
In this model good roads construction
which consists principally in rounding
off the highway with the native soil a
hand, there is opportunity for serious
inquiry into the policy Of spending thous
ands of dollars, which in the end mus
prove delusive and disappointing to tn
people.
1t would seem as if the good road
proposition has been and is one gigantl
! scheme of politics and therefore the PEG
pie are being inclined to think more Sc
riously than at the outset Of the agita
ton
From the Caucasian's view Of the /:
sue Judge Porter has simply proteste
as becomes a good citizen and desire
= more light and plenty of light on tn
4 road-making by convicts.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
A COONSKIN CAP
Some Difference Between Judge-made
Law and Common Sense

Golfers Weekly, October 2: A man
entered into a contract with a rail
road company to furnish wood and
ties for the company, to be taken from
the timber lands in the Mississippi Xiv
er bottom. In this bottom, perched
upon stills, he built log-cabin, and
with his wife and an old negro man
who assisted him, lived there and work.
ed for five long years. The railroad
company was impecunious, and had
paid him on account barely sufficient
to buy meal and bacon for sustinence,
when it went into the hands of re
ceivcr. The wooiman went in person
to the Federal Court with his claim.
He wore a coonslin cap. He was long
past the meridian Of life, and too poor
to hire a lawyer He told the Federal
Judge the company owed him over sew
en- hundred dollars, all Of bis lille for
lunc. The last item in his account was
eleven months old when the company
tcfanItct According to the then decis-
ions. The payment Of such claims was
restricted to those which had accrued
within six months, and the Judge de-
cidcd against the mans claim. / he
woodman reached for his coonskin cap,
and. almost lettering, left the court
room. He was found later at his home
hanging to the limb of 4 tree, dead.
The coonskin cap was laying at the foot
Of the tree. That Judge was United
States Circuit Judge Henry Clay Cald-
well Of the Eastern District Of Arkan-
sas, appointed by Abraham Lincoln,
himself Of the coonskin cap tribe.
Judge Caldwell is now living in honor
able retirement after forty years OF
continuous service on the FederaS
| bench. The case of the man with She
co0nskin cap he never forgot. lie
found that much of the law was judge
made law; that there was just as much
! law and lust as much reason and COM
. mon sense, for saying that claims
against railroad properties IN the hands
of receivers were valid if they accrued
within SIX years as there were for say
ing that they must have accrued within
six months. He then and there decld-
ed to make some law himself. He
made it a rule of his court that there
after no railroad receiver would be ap-
pointed by him except upon the cond1-
ton that all claims for labor, supplies,
and material necessary to keep the road
in operation, and all claims for damages
resulting from its operation were not
barred by the statute of limitations. 1t
was a new rule of law, but that was
many years ago; and now, through leg
islation in some States, and by judicial
decisions in others, that law and its
manifest justice are marching on.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
THE OLD BLUE
BACK SPELLER
(Aug11sta. Ga. Herald.)

augusta, Ga. Herald)
The greatest public man produced by
South Carolina, and one of the trio OF
great men whose names are inseparably
coupled in the chapter of one of the
brightest periods of our country's his
tory, was very poor speller. This fact
is not generally known. In all the pub
lished writings of John c. Calhoun the
spelling has been carefully revised, and
it is only in the original manuscripts
that remain of him that his sad detic1en-
CIV in this respect is revealed. The New
berry Observer in a recent issue has
culled some examples of Calhoun's bad
spelling, which are here reproduced !:
NEGOTIATIONS, SUPPLEMENTARY, appear
ant. a1ude, indisoluably, speret, merlcal,
conspiracy, separation. The following
occurred in single letter written by
him: Syable intelligence, permitted, we'll
fare, occurred, catalogue, clmlnar1es,
These also occur in one letter: Except
my thanks, 'releaved my mind, dis
cribe. He writes of his son Andrew
as strong and stought' " Such mis-
takes appear inexcusable, but Calhoun
was not by any means the only man gift
ed as a bad speller The modern method
of writing and debating by means of a
typewriter as an intermediary prevents
many a man from having his deficiency
in this respect revealed, but the number
Of those who could rank easily as th'
EQUALS of Calhoun in bad spelling l:
LEGION. Indeed is is probably true thai
among people who would be supposed
to be accurate spoilers from their gen
eral attainments a larger proportion ar
now bad spoilers than there were a gen
Grafton ago. In part this must be charg
ed to the method of dictation which re
lieves the subject of the actual work o
! writing and thus makes him more care
less in trying to acquire habit of goo
spelling. In part also, and perhaps 1
the largest part, this deficiency in spell
ing must be charged to the abandonment
by our schools of the old blue BAG
speller. Spelling as taught in our school
TODAY may be an easier way to teac
and quicker way to learn, but it
certainly not equal to the methods
old coupled with the use of the old Wei
ster spelling book. English is di:
, ferent from the other languages in i
erratic spelling. In every other langt
age, the words with a few exception
are spelled phonetically, and it is rea
" easier to spell most words right tina
it is to spell them wrong. But in Il
English language the spelling of ea'
word seems to have been adopted arb
trarily, and without having learned no
any word is spelled writer can n
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
GOOD ADVICE.

.siinden Democrat: When a nnan
points a gun at yous KNOCK him down.
Don't stop 60 took 60 see il IL IS loaded,
butQknocll him down and don'f be az al
particular whaf you do it with, If shere
is going to be a coroner's inquest, 4eS il
be over the other fellow, he won't f9e
MISSED
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
CONSTABLE SALE.

No. 8s3-yoe &. Herold vs. .9ohn Logan,
Under a wsis of Il "a ans numbered
in Che above suis I hase seized and will
selt az public aucsion % CHE last and
highest bidder GA
SATURDAY. DCT, 95, 1900,
AZ Be4cher, dtWing the 9egal hours foA
sales, she following described property,
to-wit: Two hundred bushels of corn
more dT fess in field, to satisfy the sum
OF $500 9ith cost and interest.
N. TYSCN, Constable.
September 50.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

a meeting of the stockholders of the
Excelsior Steam Laundry Company,
Limited, will be held at the Office Of
the company, No. GA Crockett street,
Shreveport, La, on Wednesday, Ocro-
Der ~, 1900, at 10 am. for the pur-
pose of considering the ACCESSIBILITY of
increasing the capital stock.
J. D. PENNINGTON,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Shreveport, La, Sept. I6, 1909
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
MHITE SUPREMACY.

Baltimore Sun: The South desires TO
cooperate with President Taft in all
that is good for the welfare Of the ma
ton. But on the issue of white su-
premacy in local government it can not
recede an inch from its position without
bringing disaster upon itself and in the
same degree bringing disaster upon the
nation. o.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
TO THE FAIR
-GROLNDS.

An excursion to the State Fair
grounds is scheduled to start from the
Phoenix hotel at SIS o'clock this even
ing. The trip will be made without stop.
With the directors Of the association will
be the Mayor, the members Of the City
Council and the members Of the Police
Jury who may accept the invitation ten
dercd
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
SUCCESSION NOTICE.


No 13,15z-Firs District Court, Parish
If Caddo, State Of Louisiana: Sue
Ccssion Of r. N. Bitner.
Notice is hereby give0 thar F. 4.
leonard, administrator, has this day
filed tableau of Icbts in said succession,
and unless opposition be made thereto
within the time specified yy law, the
same will be duly homologated as
prayed for
Witness Che Honorable 7. Q. Bell,
Judge of said court, Na6s the goth day
Of September 1909.
S. % WILLIAMS,
Seps. 20. Deputy Clerk.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
DIR, T. G. ALLEN

Office in the Cooper building. DR..
Allen is a graduate of both schools and
carries a full line of homeopathic rene
dies. Special attention given chronic
diseases.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10
INSURANCE.

When you want money, fire insurance
bonds life insurance, real estate, acct
dent insurance or building and loan
stock, see W. C. Agurs, in the Cooper
building.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-10

Seps. 90.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-06-24
pmIding operatIons in BuIlingtOn.

Interviews with contractors and build
ers Of Burlington indicate that the local
building industry will Be considerably
more active this season than Il was
last.
J. +. Cushman's brick storage house on
the corner Of College and Champlain
streets Il practically completed. Work is
progressing on Graham Wilson's building
on Church street, a little north Of King.
The street floor will be used for stores
and the upper two stories for tenements
or Offices. Miss Sarah Hagar Is building
double house on Willard street north
OF College 81 S. Adsit il erecting q
double ohuse on Adsit place. y. II. Nc
Gale Is at work on a house which viii
be numbered 5l2 South Union street,
south Of Beach street. On Bank street
below st. Paul Mrs. Eva Shedd Is build.
ing 4 house. the FIRST story outside walls
being Of cement blocks and the upper
story Of brick. T.. ~ Davis is laying
the foundations Of a house 70 be built
on Colchester avenue In front OF Centen-
nial field Excavations have been made
for a house which W. o. Spear viii erect
on North Minoosld avenue north OF
Grant street. The nubmer viii be 20
North Wiuoosld avenue, and the build
ing will be Of brick Except the first
two the buildings mentioned viii be
rented for tenements.
AT the Fanny Allen hospital the east
wing has been remodeled and an extern
sive addition for use as a monastery is
being made. Extensive additions and al.
terations have also been made at the
Mary Fletcher hospital,