St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-09-25
Ta The Public.
,favette La, Sept. 16, 1909.

ads throughout ing o1s
tssae lines in the way Of letting
,,5lie have an opportunity to
8 side Of the question Of the
fscts ii the matter Of the cot
.bt which so recently broke out
gss,e. ia. / feel that my long
asnee ii this community, my con-
with several Of the most i'm
commercial enterprises in La
ss the interest I have always
,ss n ali that has ever been offer
n, the property of this and neigh
ssa parishes, my personal conduct,
MA and family ties, all entitle me
~ consideration which | viii
~..agbtsdly receive from fair-ninded
na
4nd now to the story:
!. III regular course Of our voca-
ii. 4 buying seed and baled cotton,
.sasrtOok this season to do busi-
n. nth Mr. Jacques We'll Of Rayne.
n. arrangement proposed was that
rsa ssu my firm square baIed cotton,
!. euryant market prices, we paying
ii cents extra for those square
lis uut up On what is known as the
@uas COMPRESS Tin line with this
,,,ssmsnt. We'll did sell US all the
,osop BE- would put up in square
hs form Oh Saturday, Sept. 4, 1909,
Mn CSC per pound for average re-
,sip.s. that being the current price
!, tbis territory on that date.
o. Sunday, Sept. 5, 1909, ! tele-
aned WeiYs Office at Rayne that we
vsld send our classer, Mr.. Hebert
Richard, the next morning (Mon-
ID, Sept. S, 19090 to receive the
msre bale, Of cotton, but was told
int It was useless to do so because
III cotton would not be delivered to
d. having been disposed Of other
Es. notwithstanding its positive sale
d as on the previous Saturday, Sept.
1909.
Idid send Mr.. Richard, however,
i Rsyns on Monday, Sept. s, 1909,
md We'll refused to deliver any cot
m II Eli.
I'll i proper to say here that We
se sought to make a buying arrange
nnt for square bale cotton with Mr..
Bailaaux, another Rayne ginner,
bit d being told by him that he had
Hide arrangements with Messrs.
lyman, Killer g Co. at Opelousas, we
aFssd him not to break his promise
b Do business with that concern.
Ehsn We'll refused on Monday,
apt. 6, 1908, to deliver Richard the
atse be had positively sold US,
Richard, acting under our orders,
Sgat ID Bailleaux and gave him writ
aH Instructions to buy seed cotton
ta Or account in the Rayne market
i $500 per thousand pounds, we
mng Baileaux bis regular charges
~ ginning. On the same day T
vote Baileaux TO ship the cotton he
would gin and bale for Us to Messrs.
Lehman Stern& Co., Ltd, New Or
Ras, il my name, and in the same
Utter told him to ship the seed Id
w. name Of the Lafayette Compress
aa Storage Company to the st.
tsHdg Cotton Oil Company at 0pe-
ssas Che last instructions were
gFa because il involved q wagon
aal d ship seed from Bailleauxs
ats points On the s. P. road, the
n beng located on the o. G. & NJ.
2Rl
Sallaagx however for reasons Of
" aFn, did not buy a pound Of seed
as9a for us at $500 per thousand,
aly other price, so on Wednesday.
!, 1909 ! went to Rayne again
" aAe purpose Of trying to employ
as man uho would buy seed cotton
s gof us, Mr. Hebert f. Richard
~soapanying me on the 0riole train.
slaa We (Mr. Richard got Mr.,
saland q Rayne to buy seed cot
y sasfe for Is, we giving him q
~ q $500 per thousand. By
We we're paying $500 per
-'asafd tor seed cotton at that time
sgeste, not $3l.50, as alleged.)
alaard, however, did not buy a
MI y seed cotton for US, for Mr..
Well as soon as he heard or
what We we're about 10 do,
and in the most violent man