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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-12
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

A farmer in Ohio was driven insane by
fear of the comet.
A severe rain and hailstorm visited
Natchez, Miss, Saturday night.
S. T. Stouffer hanged himself at Chews-
vile, Md, after several attempts.
A thousand doctors attended the annual
convention of physicians in Washington,
DC.
The New England railroads are prepair-
ing to raise passenger and freight rates by
June 1st.
While handling mussels in White River,
Indiana, man found pearl that he has
refused ST 900 offered him for it.
Two thousand lives were lost in the
earthquake in Costa RIGA, while the prop
erty damage will reach S25,00O,00O or
$50, 100000
B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the Frisco
system, in an address at st. Louis before
farmers, blamed the middlemen for the
high cost of living.
Fifteen players and spectators at base
ball game Sunday near Hull, Quebec,
were killed and sixty injured in powder
explosion that wrecked plant.
Frederick Saugrain, 104 years of age,
the oldest native of the Louisiana Purchase
territory, died Monday at Sedalia, Mo. He
aided Gen. Grant in 1854 to build the cele-
brated Grant cabin near st. Louis.
In less than fifteen minutes time or
Wednesday of last week the United States
Senate considered and passed the Pension
Appropriation Bill carrying about $780,
100000. Senator Scott said that 81 ,00(
pensioners had died last year.
Unofficial census estimates show tina
New York leads in increase of population
and Oklahoma is next, Iowa alone shows {
: decrease of AZ, 6O6 since 1900. New York:
population is 1896, 1922; increase in tel
years, 1,596,828. Oklahoma, 1851 ,514
population; increase, 1888, 1873. The fou
next States following New York are Penn
sylvania with 7 ,346, III population; Illinois
$780, 48; Ohio, 4,642,761; Texas, 1851,
893. Louisiana's population is 1874 1852
$685.
King Edward, the ruler of the British
Empire, died in London at II: 45 Frida,
night. Pneumonia, following bronchitis
was the cause of his death. One of tn
last Entrances attributable to King Edward
was: swell, it is all over; but think
have done my duty" His reign has bee1
prudent, prosperous, and in the mail
peaceful, and England's traditional glor.
has lost nothing in his hands. The Prime
of Wales, as George the Fifth, assumed
the reigns of government Immediately ate
the death of his father.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-12
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

The total assessment of the State for the
year 1909 was S518, 1872, IT'S.
The Jail of Ouachita Parish, at Monroe,
was empty last Friday for the first time in
many years.
After finding iii true bills and sixty no
true bills, the Rapides Parish Grand Jury
adjourned last Friday.
Fire at Abbeville early Monday night
destroyed the Vermlion Hotel and the
Peurel drug store, causing $4,000 loss.
Secretary Brueggerhoff says the next
State Fair at Shreveport evil be given on a
larger and grander scale than ever before. :"
Michael Tobias, forty years old and a
prominent business man, shot and killed
himself in his store at Donaldsonville last
Friday.
The State Convention of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, in session
at Donaldsonville last week, selected
Shreveport as the meeting place in 1911.
Mrs. J. S. Alison of this parish was re-
elected Historian.
The New Orleans Picayune of Saturday
says: The fields all through the State and
in many parts of the South have the ap-
pearance of being parched, and farmers,
wherever they can, are resorting to artifi-
cial means to give their growing crops
sufficient moisture to save them from be-
ing destroyed.
In the history of the weather station at
New Orleans which began in 1871, says
the Louisiana Planter, there is but one
year giving as dry record as that of April
of this year-0.9 80 inches of rainfall. April
1891 had but 0.26 inches and the next
smallest rainfall was 1874 in April 1908.
These dry Aprils are quite in contrast with
the April of 1909 when the rainfall ex-
ceeded inches.
The Louisiana Press Convention, in SEES
sion at Opolousas last week, adopted reso-
lutions that Constitutional Amendment
be submitted by the Legislature providing
for special tax throughout the State in
aid of the Panama Canal Exposition ir
New Orleans. Lake Charles was selected
as the place of meeting in 1911, and the
following officers were elected for the en-.
suing year: Conrad J. Lecocq, of the
New Roads Banner, President; Hon
Robert Roberts, of the Minden Democrat
First Vice President; Miss Florence by.
mond, of the Louisiana Planter and Sugar
Manufacturer, Second Vice President; L
E. Bentley, of the Donaldsonville Chief
Secretary, and Elrie Robinson, of the st
Francisville True Democrat, Treasurer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-12

The splendid work of Chamberlain 3
Stomach and Liver Tablets is daily coming
to light. No such grand remedy for liver
and bowel troubles was ever known before.
Thousande bless them for curing constipa.
ton, sick headache, biliousness, jaundice
and indigestion. Sold by all dealers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-12

Itisproposed to abolish the official journal
of the State, which is all right, but a much
better law would be an act abolishing the
printing, at the public expense, of a lot Of
stuff which is of no general interest and
serves no useful purpose whatever.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-12

TroopC of the National Louisiana Guard
will shortly be mustered out.-Ners Item.
Why not muster out the entire force and
save the money annually appropriated for
thier support, or give it to the school
fund or the proposed Panama Canal Ex-
position at New Orleans?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-12

The delinquent tax list published in the
st. Landry Clarion takes up twenty four
columns of that paper and contains over
one thousand names.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-12

Shreveport Caucasian: The people are
growing FESTIVE under system of taxation
which is increasing their burdens without
any tangible or visible betterment of con-
ditions.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-12

Mansfield Enterprise: Senator Boggs
is after the scalp of the Game Commission.
May he get it promptly, is the will of every
man who detests humbuggery and graft.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-12
THE RED RIVER BRIDGE QUESTION.


versies, and always avoid them if it is
possible to do so, for all such controversies
generally degenerate into personal abuse
and bad feeling and seldom, if ever, do any
good to worthy cause-few writer's con-
fning themselves to temperate language
and dispasionate argument, their motto
being to carry their point at any cost,
rough shod, if necessary.
For several years past there has been a
great deal said by the press of Shreveport
on the Red River Bridge question, and if
swords, words, Words" instead of money,
could have been used for the construc-
ton of the bridge it would now be ready
for traffic.
Recent newspaper criticisms of some OF
the Police Jurors Of this parish, who are
opposed to building the bridge at Texas
Street and favor the Lake Street site, have
done more harm than good to the cause
the assailants sought to serve.
Abuse is not argument, and there is not
member of the Police Jury of Bossier
Parish who can be driven by denunciation
against his honest convictions and sense OF
duty to the public and his obligation to his
constituents, to whom alone he is expected
to render an account of his stewardship.
| Boosters Police Jurors are men of in
telligence and fidelity, who have never
been known to betray trust, and have
the utmost confidence of their constituents,
and they will ever be found firm in the
discharge of their duty as they see it, doing
their own thinking, and allowing no one
else to do it for them. They are not men
of putty to be fashioned at will.
In reply to the newspaper lectures some
of our Police Jurors are gratuitously re-
ceiving, Mr.. j. w. Elston, President of the
body, in a letter to the Shreveport Times
of Monday, we'll says:
"The bridge question is matter OF
economics and take it that in as much as
Bossier is equally interested, her repre-
sentatives' views are entitled to as much
consideration as Shreveport; and that
without being criticised as unreasonable
and prejudiced.'
"Without claiming for myself superior
knowledge in the premises, but close
study of the facts in the case and famil.
iarity with the engineers findings en-
boldens me to say that some who write and
talk on the subject, however honest, are
in slang parlance, talking through thei'
hats.
"Many of the best financiers of Shreve.
port are agreed with the Police Jury o.
Bossier that the proposed bridge at Texas
Street is an impracticability. Time alone
will prove who is correct.
"This note is simply for the purpose o.
denying the charge of prejudice made
against the Police Jury. OF course it i:
possible that the proverbial mote obscures
the beam
eff indeed the mote or the beam bedim.
my vision am not conscious of it's pres.
ence, and finally won't you be fair enough
to admit that arguments of sentiment ii
the settlement of an economic question art
as reprehensible as the intrusion of preju
dice
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-12

Some of the fancy-priced college presi-
dents who want almost the entire revenue
of the State for their respective colleges,
will now get busy-at Baton Rouge.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-12

Corrupt and pestiferous lobbyists will
storm the State Capitol for the next sixty
days.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
WAS ORDERED TO
GET TO HIS HOME
Fell BY Roadside and Found In
Almost Dying Condition
Hours Later

Special to Daily Leader.
MARROW. Okla. June 2S--On Sum
Gay morning the body OF Walter Me-
Carley OF MARROW was found lying BY
the side OF the public highway one
mile east OF town. He was in an
unconscious condition. He was
brought to town by Constable Booth.
lie had been badly beaten up and was
a horrible sight.
AT present, he is improving with
good chances for recovery. Facts have
developed to the effect that McCarley,
Cub Gibson, and Frank Lawrence met
at the home Of Mr.. Brewer--that
ior some cause Walter McCarley and
Cub Gibson became engaged In q
fight in the yard. Seeing that Glib
son was getting the worst Of the al
tercation, Mr.. Lawrence picked up q
chair and proceeded to beat up Nc
Carley ~
McCarley was advised to 90 home
CT he would be Killed.
He started home but fell by the
roadside, where he was found next
morning.
Both Gibson and Lawrence are nm
der arrest charged with attempt TO
kill. xaliM
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
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general public, which by reason of
the obvious inability of any single
state of the union to deal with them
have been pressed upon the national
govrnment for solution"
The attorney general then reviewed
in brief the development of the last
few years toward the control of pub
lie utilities, and compared to it the
growth of the machinery of trade
now come to control OF great lines
Of industry by corporations or indiv-
iduals.
Never before has 1t been possible
to lay so direct toll upon the pub
lie through the concentration of in
dustrial power" he said. "The full
significance of the attempt to check
the growth and power of great com
binations through the commerce
clause Of the constitution was scarce
ly preceived at the time Of the on
actment Of the Sherman law, nor un-
til successive interpretations of it had
been given by the supreme court.
"The history of nations indicates
that a certain period OF national de-
veiopment becomes necessary to In
tcrpose by legislation between the
rapacity Of individual greed and JUS
tee and fairness to the whole people
"The right of every community to
legislate respecting property affect
ed by a public use was early recog-
nized.''
Mr.. Wickersham referred to the
Standard Oil and tobacco cases now
waiting decision of the supreme court.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
DELAYED CAPITAL HEARING
State Officials Were Not Ready
for Hearing This
Morning

Postponement until Thursday Of the
capital location hearing In district
ceurt was announced today. The case
was to have been heard this morning
by Judge Huston, but Attorney Gen
eral West, chief counsel for the de-
fense in the mandamus proceedings,
asked for delay on account Of being
busy with the Waters.Plerce oil case
at Enid.
B. +. Burwell. who was the star at.
torney for Oklahoma City In the fed
eral court hearing on the Coyle case,
appeared today to assist the attorney
general In the district court.
IL Is likely that only West and Bur
veil will appear in the case. G. G..
Hornor, Frank Dale and j. II. Bur.
ford will represent Guthrie. The hear.
ing Is set on amended plendings for
Guthrie and further demurrers for
the governor, the filings following the
FIRST formal hearings on the injunc-
tion.
Judge Burwell was accompanied by
G. G. Jones and Jack Jones. w. A
i4edbetter. is hardly expected To ap
pear In this case.
AT the Washington end the matter
seems to be resting quietly. The pro
posed removal OF the capital has beer
laid before the department OF justice
Senator Gore, TO whom one OF the
West kilograms was addressed, y
now In Iowa. The attorney genera
asked for an audience with the head
OF the department of justice. II 4
said Attorney General Wlckershan
las advised waiting until the state
courts are through with the question
State offices here are working OF
regular schedule.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
PENlTENTlARY NEWS OF A DAY

Special to The Leader.
McAlester, Okla, June 2S--Iames
Phillips. negro. sentenced from Ok
mulgee county to five years In the
state penltentiary, died Saturday
night at 1850 of heart disease.
Three prisoners were received AZ
the penitentlagy yesterday. They
we're w. l.. Drennon, one year. em-
bezzlement; Ben Sherbut, one year
and day. forgery; Henry Stelle,
four years, selling liquor to a minor,
oil from pottawatomie county.
Four were discharged as follows. G
D. Carter two years, grand larceny,
Logan county, pardoned. william
King two years, grand larceny. King
fisher county. pardoned; Morris Bar
nett, two years, burglary Ia the sec
ond degree, Logan county, pardoned:
William Greer, two years, grand lar
ceny, Klngflsher county. pardoned.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
TAXED HARRIS THE COST
Grandfather Clause Protest
Was Not Allowed By
Judge Huston

Following a decision in the supreme
court, Judge Huston of the district
court today dismissed the mandamus
proceedings brought by James A.
Harris, Republican state chairman.
The action sought to compel the sec
retary Of state to grant further hear
ings on the grandfather clause. .
1t was dismissed with assessed costs
to the plaintiff.
The supreme court has already dis.
posed OF the other grandfather clause
cases. dismissing the petitions for
mandamus and rehearing.
Secretary Cros heard four protests
and then sustained the iniatory pc
titions. The election on the propos.
ed amendment Is to be held on August
2.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
in house of representatives.
Roosevelt And Taft

I
ellison Gardner newspaper cor
respondent who joined the Roosevelt
party In Egypt and accompanied 1t to
New York and who had almost
daily interviews with the ex-president
stakes his reputation on the predic-
tion that the Taft administration has
been so thoroughly bad that Roose-
Welt will not endorse it in any shape,
form or manner He declares TAFT
deserted the Roosevelt policies cold.
hloodedly. In connection with Card
ner's statement, 1t Is significant that
Roosevelt should have been this long
ON American soil following his long
absence in Africa without having
seen the man he made President or
having mentioned him In any way
Roosevelt and Taft have not met
since March 4, 1909
Aldrich Stands Pat"
Senate Boss Nelson Wilmarth Aid
rich stands pat on his original state
ment that the government Is wasting
$3OO,0O0,O00 q year. Senator Bever-
ridge, fretting under Aldrlchs indict-
nent Of the Republican party ON the
charge of gross and wanton extraya-
eance, sought to discredt Aldrichs
settlement, But Aldrich declared he
knew what he was talking about, and
that If he could run the government
as a business man, without let OF
Eindrance from anyone he could
save the people s300.OOO.OOO year.
Query: IL Aldrich contemplating join
ing the ranks of the Insurgents? II!
would be interesting TO know what
the "stand pat Republican editors of
the country think of Aldrich's state
ment on Republican wastefulness.
Removing The sting
The house passed q bill requiring
the publication of campaign expenses
before and after election. The SEN
ate took the sting out OF the measure
by amending II so that It provides
for the publication OF expenses 80
days after election.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
WILL FILE DISCLAIMER.
Special to The Leader.


Washington. d, c. June 2S.--J. r..
McAIurray OF McAlester, Okla. the
attorney whose contracts with the
Choctaws and Chickasaws are TO be
made the basis OF an investigation
to be conducted by select committees
OF the house and senate. will prepare
statements for submission to the two
committees setting forth a disclaim.
er oil ANYTHING except what Is proper
and legal. The statement will be I'll
ed after Senator &re has presented
hts charges to the committees
There was no nhetlng OF the SEN
ate committee Yesterday. Chai man
Jones thinks the committee will be
able TO obtain all the Information re.
qulred here. SO ~ Yts hearings are
likely TO be held ~ Washington. The
house committee VII Meet during the
first week In Augu It Guthrie.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
SANDS CLAIM VICTIMS
nv Associated Press. T,

Santa BE. n. NJ, June 2S--The quick
sands OF the Rio Grande claimed tfo
victims at the little village OF Alcalde
north OF Santa Fe. Nine-year-old Max
Sanchez walked into the river and
sat down in the water, ~ that point
a foot deep. When he tried to wade
out he found that the sand had him
In It's grasp. lie screamed for help
and the ti.year.old Leandro Sanchez
ran TO his aid. only 70 be himself
drowned In the deadly sand. When
other would.be rescuers arrived both
boys were drowned, although their
heads were above the sand.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
SAN JOSE SCALE THREATENS
Special to Daily Leader.

Special to Daily Leader.
III Reno, Okla. June 2S.--Hundreds
of fine trees over the city are being
destroyed by the San Jose Scale says
today's American. Property owners
are not obeying the ordinance in re-
gard to the spraying of trees, ETC.,
and as result many beautiful trees
are being destroyed. We don't exact
ly know who 1t Is up to to enforce
this ordinance but something should
be done and done at once. A little
care will save any further spread Of
this disease and a little work Will
soon eradicate It,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
ALL BELIEVE IT THE LAST.
(By Associated Pressl

Reno. New. June rs. Well this IS
a big fight. pugllism as IL has flour
ished fosmany decades, will be a lost
art Ia the United States, and that
means In the word. when Jeffries
and johnson fight Is over.
Such is the prediction of the whole
fighting world. Apparently II Is shar
ed hy fighters. trainers and sport
ing writer's as they loiter about the
hotels of the city or quarters OF the
principals. patiently awaiting the com
ing Of the big day.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
POSTPONED
Porter Charlton Shielded Facs
From Large ThT0Dg Of
Curiosity Seekers
(By Associated Press.l

New York, June 2Ss--Porter Charl.
ton. the confessed wife murderer,
pale and thin, was brought from the
jail to the court house today for his
preliminary trial. He carefully
shielded his face from the large cur
ious crowd. Al the request OF the
defense, an adjournment to July )
was granted.
Young Charlton kept his eyes closed
all the time the lawyers were talking
In the meantime the case awaits oI
the results Of the exchange OF mes-
sages between the state department
at Washington and the Italian gov
eminent. OF which nothing definite
Is known.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
G0VERNM' |
Denies Story Of Estrada Sue.
cess In HIcaTagusn Con-
tests Along Coast
tBy Associated Press.)

San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, June
2S.--Great Corn island and the whole
Atlantic coast OF Nicaragua with the
exception " the town of pinefields Is
now In control Of the government.
Acoyspa has not been captured by the
revolutionists as reported yesterday
II is also untrue that Estfadas' men
have captured the port Of San ubalno
Nicaragua.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
DISASTROUS CALAMITY
Automobile Overturned Near
Hammond With Fatal
Results
(By Associated press.)

Chicago, ILL.,, June 2S.-Peter Ripley
of Hammond, Indiana, was pinned
under an automobile and drowned
and other young men and q young
woman we're seriously injured, early
this morning fe wmiles from Ham
mond, when car plunged INTO the
creek. Among the injured are three
sons OF Frank Betz, millionaire
manufacturer of Hammond.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
Frank Barber Sold

Yesterday Frank Barber of the Bar
titsville team, was sold to Indianapo-
lis. OF the American Association aud
will leave to Join his new associates
in the great American game at once.
The departure OF Frank Barber from
the Barslesville team will be viewed
with great regret by the fans Of. this
city, for he was a general fayorite
with them all-Bartlesville Examiner.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
SOAKED IT
Cumberland Telephone Concern
We|ted By a Mississippi
at Water Valley
fRy Assoclated Pre- ls.l

Water Valley, Miss. June 2s5.--fhe
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph
company was found guilty OF violat-
Ing The state antitrust law here to-
day, and was fined $f75,o0o.
The company was charged with en-
terIng into d contract for The purpose
OF shutting Off all competition In the
state Of Mississippi.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
LA TOILETTE SATISFIED.
lBy AssocIated Press.l

Oyster May, June 2S.-Colonel
Roosevelt and Senator La Toilette of
Wisconsin conferred for more than
Two hours yesterday afternoon after
which Senator LaFollette said they
had talked politics and the nadded
Colonel Roosevelt is the greatest
living American and in fighting
trim"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
EITHER AIRsHlP OR TREMENs

Special to Daily Leader
III Reno, Okla, June 2S-An airship,
travelling at rapid rate and carrying
lights, passed over El Reno last night
about S:45. Just who the aerial rider
was or whittier he was bound no one
knew. At any rate he didn't make
this stopping point.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-28
PHASES OF COUNTY DIVISION

Division OF Greer county has re-
suited In peculiar complication,
The constitution provides Greer with
two representatives. When Harmon
was cut off. 1t was agreed Harmon
was TO have one representative, but
no provision was made for district
or an election. Nonlinally both rep
resentatiyes are from Greer county,
the Harmon Legislative district not
being of record at (this time.