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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
To the White and Colored People of
C0lfax and Ward One.

Colfax and Ward One.
] Beginning April Is. 1910, as
enumerator for District No. SO, /
will call at each persons house, in
regular order, whether white or
colored, for the purpose of obtain
ing information from each indi-
vidual for the Census Department
in making the 18th enumeration.
In order to post you on the most
important questions to be answer
ed, l have prepared a summary of
the questions to be propounded, as
follows:
l. Name.
2. Sex.
3. Color.
4. Age, at last birthday.
5. Single, married or divorced.
6. Number of times married.
Z. Years of present marriage.
8. Number of children born to
you.
8. Number of children now
living.
10. Place of birth of self, father
and mother.
IL. Trade or profession.
IL. Present occupation.
Ii. Employer, employee or work
ing on own account.
IA. Number of weeks, out of
work in 1909
l5. Ownership of home, wheth-
er owned. rented or mortgaged.
If a foreigner, state year of
immigration to United States, and
whether naturalized or not. =
These questions are to be an
swered by every person, regard
less of sex, race or color, or age.
and those refusing to give the in
formation are subject to a penalty.
Every person sleeping under
the same roof, either as father,
mother, son, daughter, son-in-law,
grandson or granddaughter, SER
want or boarder, will be designated
as a member of that particular
family, Except where two distinct
families occupy the same house, }.
1t is therefore desired that every
family having boarders or servants
in their home shall ascertain from
each their answer to the questions
above, and have them ready when
called on for the information.
This will facilitate the work and
save the enumeration from hunting.
up servants or boarders who hap
pen to be absent when he calls at
your house.
All questions are to be answered
rs though it was the 18th day of
April, 1910, although it may be
the LIST day of May before the
enumeration calls on you for your
answer to the questions.
A. M. GOODWIN,
Enumeration for District SO, en-
bracing Colfax and Ward l.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
Farm Flows for Sale.

% secondhand No. 10 Blonnt's
True Blue plows. for sale with ex ira
point at $3.50. These plows are In
good repair and cost IS new.
&. H. TEAL.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09

MARRIED.-On Wednesday, April
6, 1910, Mr.. Felix FuIcher and Mrs.
l.. Lestage were united in marriage,
Magistrate j. Q. Long officiating.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
We are authorized To announce
c. N. CARNAHAN

as candidate for reelection to the
Office of Mayor for the town Of Col
lax. at the election to lie held for
officers in the approaching
April election.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
Notice of Final Proof.
U. S. Land Office New Orleans. In.
March 10. 1910.

MHrcn III. lSiU.
Notice Ia hereby given that
DAVID I. BIDDLE. Z
of Black Greek. La. who, on March
s. 1905. made Adjoining Farih Home
steni Serial No. Ul422, for ne or Of re
or Sec rs. re ar OF We or or lot IL. Sec
26. TSn. r3w. La. Meridian. has
flied notice of intention tomake final
five year proof, to establish claim TO
the land above described, before
Clerk of Court. at COlfax, La, on the
10Th day vi April. 1910. S
Claimant names IA witnesses: W.,
s. Cox. w. W. Corbitt, ThOs. Biddlc,
X. l.. Corbitt. all of Black Greek, La.
WALTER l.. COHEN.
Register. y
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
We are authorized to announces
JOHN d. OWENS

as candidate for the office of Mar
slial Tor the town of Colfax. at the
election To lie held for municipal Of
ficers in the approaching election In
April.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-04-09
We are authorized to announce
VIM. d. IRWIN

as a candidate for reelection to the
Office of Marshal for the town of Col
lax. at the election to he helslfur
municipal ofiicersin the approaching
April election.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
"APPLE WAY" PLANNED,
SPOKANE TO COEUR D'ALENE

Spokane, March 28.-Lined with ap-
pie trees, set forty feet apart and al
ternated with English elms, and with
fountains for man and beast as mile
stones, will be the Great Apple way, a
60-foot wide macadamized thorough
fare between Spokane and Occur
dAlene, Idaho, thirty-one miles, upon
which construction work is to begin
within thirty days. J. A. Perry, sec
rotary of the Spokane Good Roads AS
ISOLATION, which will direct operations,
announces that the estimated cost OF
the speedway is $4,000, or $4,000 a
mile.
Funds for the building of the road,
the first of its kind on the continent,
will be obtained through an assess.
ment plan, operating similar to levy
for municipal improvements. Tree.
planting will begin May 1.
Seventeen miles of the road, be.
tween Spokane and the Washington.
Idaho state line, will be built by. the
Spokane County Good Roads Associa.
ton, assisted by commercial and i'm.
provement organizations in the valley,
and the remaining fourteen miles be-
tween Spokane Bridge and Occur
dAlene is to be constructed by the
Chamber of Commerce of the last nam
ed city.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
OUR UNCLE SAMUEL
WRITES COOK BOOK

Washington, D. c., March 26.-"Meat
clubs" is one of the many suggestions
for the lowering of the high cost of
living in cook book just issued by
the government.
A meat club let it be explained,
is club in which the members take
turns providing an animal for slaught-
er.
Uncle Sam has gone into the cook
book business, and, according to house.
wives who have perused the contents
OF the book, prepared by two govern
ment experts, the business is sue
cess.
In Uncle Sans zeal to protect the
American stomach and fattened purse,
he has come out boldly against the
vegetarian diet and declared for meat.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
FLOATING COURT FOR
REMOTE ALASKA PORTS

Washington, March 26-By an ar
rangement Gov. Clark of Alaska, com
pleted with the treasury departsent
next summer Alaska will have a dis
trict court afloat, new thing in the
federal judiciar.v. Probably Judge E.
E. Cushman viii be selected for the
duty.
With a duty marshal, an assistant
district attorney, the clerk of the court
and a grand and petit jury, he will
set sail on revenue cutter to visit
remote places between Seward and
Unalaska and the mouth of the Yukon.
visiting particularly canneries for the
purpose of Investigating conditions
and holding such trials as may be nee
essary.
At present there is little or no law
in those regions. By this method the
law will be taken to the residents. The
revenue cutter will be court house and
Jail for the whole coast line.
By an amendment to the legislative.
judicial and executive appropriation
bill, passed by the senate, the salary
OF the governor of Alaska was increas-
ed from $4,000 to $1,000 year. It is
believed that the house will concur in
the amendment.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
KANSAS GOVERNOR
PRAISES PROHIBITION

Chicago, March 2S.-Gov. Walter R.
Stubs, of Kansas, in a speech here
yesterday, put his foot on the necks"
of those who maintain that absolute
prohibition would bring commercial
ruin to a community.
prohibition in Kansas is not a re-
suit of atmospheric conditions" said
Gov. Stubs. 1.-THE climate has moth
ing to do with it. Reason was at the
bottom of it all. AS a result the Kan
sas people today are better fed, better
sheltered, have finer homes, larger
families and bigger bank accounts.
1.-THE cry of anti-prohibitionists that
wiping out the saloons would bring but
stagnation, has been utterly refuted.
have proof by which figuratively speak
ing, l think 1 have my foot on the
necks of those who circulate anti-pro
hibition talk.
1T was said three years ago that the
wiping out of Wichita's saloons would
ruin the town. Today, with no saloons
that town has doubled it's population
more than doubled it's bank account
has better people, less crime and more
schools.
Il have just received letters and tel
egrams from the mayors of twenty
cities and towns, and they all agree
that the day statewide prohibition
went into effect in Kansas was its
brightest.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
SCHOOL CHILDREN WILL
GROW BEANS FOR PROFIT

Montesano, March 28.-The pupils
of the Montesano public schools,
through the efforts of M. l.. Martin,
secretary of the Montesano Fruit
Growers Association, have become in
terested in the growing of vegetables.
Mr.. Martin visited the schools, and
with the assistance of City Superinten-
dent Wheeler, pointed out to pupils
how this could be done at profit.
The reputation of the Montesano
cannery for string beans has become
State wide and the demand is steady.
Manager Martins greatest trouble has
been the shortage of the supply on &C
count of farmers failing to plant and
cultivate the crop. 1t was for this
reason the pupils of the schools were
appealed to. The work of raising
beans will be both healthful and profit
able employment for them
The Woman's Club has also interest
ed the scholars in raising flowers by
offering prizes for the best specimens
of different blooms, the seeds to be
furnished at cent per package
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
WATER FROM COLUMBIA
IRRIGATES MUCH LAND

Seattle, March ga Wenatchee
special to the PostIntelligencer says:
Progress in the development of arid
tracts in North Central Washington
during the past two years has been
marvellous, due entirely to the intro
duction of pumping plants for irriga-
ton.
Five hundred acres twelve miles
north of Wenatchee, on the Douglas
county side of the river, owned by Muir
dock & Freaney, is being set to trees,
to be irrigated by pumping.
The company headed by ex-senator
Pettigrew is preparing to pump water
for $4,000 acres in the region of Moses
lake.
One hundred and twenty acres own.
ed by H. M. Maxwell in the vicinity
of Moses lake will be wate9ed by
pumping.
DIR. G. w. Stryker, of Everett, asso
ciated with E. M. Upper and e. A
Wyman, of this city, are preparing to
pump water for 100 acres in East We
natchee, above the high ditch.
The Wenatchee Realty and Invest
ment Company will pump water to
cover several hundred acres in East
Wenatchee and also to cover several
hundred acres at Ephrata.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
Settlers Given More Time.

Was hington, March 2S.-The senate
irrigation committee Saturday ordered
favorable report on bill authorizing
the secretary of the interior to use his
discretion about suspending water
payments on the government irrigation
projects when he is convinced that
settlers, through no fault of their own.
have been unable successfully to pro-
duce crops sufficient to enable them to
make payments.
The bill is designed to meet individ-
ual cases where settlers experience
hardship, due largely to bad climatic
conditions.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
Minor Happenings
of the Week

Fire at Charleston, w. Va, rendered
homeless two thousand people.
Arrangements have been concluded
for holding a national electrical eXpOSi-
The Chinese empire, including all it's
dependencies, has been placed on the
minimum tariff list by an executive
order
tion in Denver October s to Is.
The nomination of Col. Ralph w.
Hoyt to be brigadier general has been
sent to the Senate.
The United States and Canada have
arrived at definite agreement on the
tariff question, according to an appar-
emily authentic report. 1t is expected
official announcement will soon be
made.
The bill terminating the present
lease of the fur seal killing on the
PribvIoff Islands in the Pacific, and
authorizing the Secretary of Commerce
and labor to declare closed season
has been passed by the Senate.
AS a result of the affection won in
the hearts of Minnesotans by the late
Gov. John A. johnson, fund OF w.
900 has been raised in the State OF
Minnesota to provide permanent in
come for his widow the remainder OF
her life
Basing their Judgment on the re-
ceipts for the first eight months OF the
current fiscal year, s177,779,13S, in
ternal recenue officials say the total
for 1910 will show an advance OF $751;
OOO, 900 over the amount estimated by
Commissioner Cabell, $25a, 100000.
The battleship Maine, sunk in the
harbor of Havana, is to be raised and
removed if the Senate approves a bill
passed by the House. Under proVl-
sions of the bill it will be possible to
examine the wreck to discover the
cause of the destruction of the vessel.
Democrats in Congress see victory
of national significance in the Four
teenth Massachusetts district, OF Con-
gresham Eugene N. Foss, Demo
crat, to the House of Representatives,
while the Republicans claim that Foss'
victory has no wide meaning. Foss
turned a Republican plurality OF A.
25O into a Democratic plurality Of g..
$40.
The foreign commerce of Alaska in
1909 was over $60,000,000. The annual
report of the collector of customs at
Juneau shows that the exports to the
United States last year were 1885,
112 in value, consisting mainly OF
canned salmon ($1O,424,S11) and gold
and silver (s1S,27s,962). The imports
totalled $1S,S23,SS7 from the United
States and $4,630,S77 from other coun-
tries.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
CHICAGO "DRY" Petition
HELD NOT SUFFICIENT

Chicago, March %. = Chicago has
lost its chance to vote on the saloon
question at the election April 5, &C.
cording to a decision by the election
commissioners.
The commissioners decided the petit
ton offered by the "drys'' to have the
question, 'Shall this city become anti
saloon territory" put on the ballots
lacked sufficient signatures.
The "wets'' had filed a complaint as
sorting that out of the $4,000 names,
26,128 were those of persons not reg
istered. The commissioners sustained
this charge after an investigation.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
CHINESE IRON ORE FOR
COAST STEEL PLANT

Seattle, March 28-By the terms Of
q contract just signed between the
Western Steel Corporation, of Seattle,
and the Hang Yang Steel Company, of
Hankow, China, the local company is
to obtain 100000 tons per annum of
pig iron and iron ore from the Hankow
company. News of the signing OF the
contract came in cablegrams to Presi-
dent James A. Moore of the steel cor
poration Saturday afternoon, says the
Post-Intelligencer.
The deal just completed is regarded
as one of unparalleled Importance to
Seattle and Puget Sound in general.
The annual importation of such vast
amounts of metal and ore from China
will mean that the present lack of re-
turn cargoes for Seattle's Oriental
fleet will be thing of the past, that
the present importation from China
through the Puget Sound customs dis.
trict will be more than doubled, that
this vast amount of new transpacific
business will have all the effect of a
powerful subsidy to existing or new
lines, and that many big steamships
will have to devote their time almost
exclusively to the handling of this ma.
terial.
One more immediate effect, as out
lined in a statement given the Post-In.
telligencer last evening by President
Moore, is that the steel corporation
will at once enter upon new construc
ton work at Irondale which will make
the capacity of the steel plant there
within the ensuing two years, six times
greater than it's initial capacity will
be when it opens about May 1 next.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
Washington State
News Items

A lodge of Elks was instituted at
Wenatchee last week.
Ladies of Leavenworth have organ
lied "City Beautiful" Club.
a Campaign has been started by the
Fifty Thousand Club to secure COM
mission form of government for North
Yakima.
High water in the Spokane river last
week washed away the joint Lincoln
and Stevens county bridge at Chamo-
kane The loss is $4,000.
The Whitman College Glee Club has
started on it's twelfth annual tour, to
include North Yakima, Ellensburg, Sc
attic, Bellingham and Tacoma.
Forty miles of pipe are to be laid
by the Everett Gas Company to serve
localities which lack service. The
piping has been ordered and Manager
James expects the material within
thirty days.
The United States government will
pay $2,46O to have mails carried on
Lake Chelan for the next four years, a
daily mail service to be given three
months out of the year. Gasoline
launches will be used.
The treasurer of King county col
lected s7,92O,7S725 during 1909, &C
cording to a printed report of the
finances of the county just issued.
North Yakima city council has de-
clared war On gamblers.
King county has turned over to the
State treasurer the sum of $76,268.54,
which is the States share of the tax
collections during the month of Feb
ruary. The State is now in fine finan-
clal shape with plenty of money in all
of the funds.
Farmers of Walla Walla county have
been successful in buying grain bags
and other articles and fighting the
grain-bag trust through cooperation,
and will enter the chop-mill business,
to handle feed, according to H. H. Nc
Lean, president of the Farmers Union.
me exchange IdCo Ou III dICo USIWoCu
Seattle and Portland has been cut by
the Seattle Clearing House Associa-
ton The new rate is one-twentieth of
1 per cent. The old rate was one
tenth of per cent. The new rate was
adopted at the meeting of the Clearing
House Association at Seattle.
The Wenatchee Valley Railway &
Power Company and the Wenatchee
city council have agreed on terms for
a street railway franchise. The COM
pany is to complete it's line from the
northerly limits of the city to the
Great Northern depot within eighteen
months, and the whole line as propos-
ed is to be completed within forty
two months.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
Shearinu Soon to Begin.

Portland, March 28.-Wool sneaiin0
will begin in Oregon in few aa,0'
Local dealers say the clip, as "nol,'
will be lighter conditioned but not q.
good staple as last year. lnefe na 80
been no contracting in Oregon ye'' a.
the views of buyers and growers a.. ~
too far apart. The only business ~
ported here was in some eariy'sr0. ~
wool at Prosser, which went at 10 Wv "
16c. Mohair is coming in more lf0'''
and the market holds firm at zoc.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
Ohio Labor objects to Judge

Cleveland, March 28.-Tne on IN o0o
Grafton of Labor, representing zoV'p'
union men in the State, mas S. .be
protest to President Taft agalnss
proposed appointment of Alexanoeia 400
Smith, of Toledo, as Federai JuN On
for the Northern district OF Onio, ,or.
the ground that Mr.. Smith IS a Guy
alton lawyer.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
competency Board" for Poor =

"competency Board" for Poor
Washington, March %. = sua niahts
lions of Indians to assume the 70 in
Of citizenship will be determine ~ the
the future by boards appointed :. - he
Commissioner of Indian AnailS the
known as competency boards a. last
result of an experiment inltla,e ontine,
summer by Commissioner Vaie s.ancy
when he appointed such COMP. Ne
board for the Omaha Indians =
braska
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
Southwest Business Men Organize.

Centralia, March 28.-A convention
of delegates from commercial clubs of
Southwest Washington was held here
last week to form an association to
work for the improv ement of business
in this section. The counties 10 be in
cluded in the association are Pacific,
Chehalis, Lewis, Cowlitz. Clarke, Wah-
kiakum. Skamania, Thurston, Mason
and Klickitat.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
WaIla WalIa Wants Men.

Waila Walla, March 26-Farm hands
are scarce in Walla Walla. President
II. H. Mclean, of the Farmers
agency, declared that 200 are needed
.or seeding and farmers are paying
Sl.oo and board, rs cents higher than
usual this time of year.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
B. & o. Sets Standard.

New York, March 26.-While no
statement as to the New York Cen
trails answer to it's conductors and
trainmen was forthcoming yesterday,
it is generally understood that the Bal
timore & Ohio rate will be the mini
mum standard for eastern roads.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
A Million Trees for Stevens.

Colville, March 28.-It is estimated
by orchardists that more than a mil
lion fruit trees will be planted in Stew
ems county this year, practically dou-
bling the stand already in the ORCH
ards of the district.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
Receiver for Deschutes Company

Receiver for Deschutes Company.
Portland, Ore, March 26.-Federal
Judge R. S. Bean has named G. e.
Redfield receiver for the Deschutes IT.
rigation & Power Company, and fixed
bonds at 100000. Redfleld is engineer
of the company and was agreed to as
receiver by both interests.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01
Get $500, 900 for Bibles

New York, March 2S.-The $500, 900
fund which the American Bible So
ciety has for more than a year been
seeking to raise in order to secure an
equal amount, the gift of Mrs Russell
Sage. has been completed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-01

A lodge of Elks was instituted at
Wenatchee last week.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-08-25
COTTON SEED OIL.
Taking Place Of Olive Oil for Packino
Fish IN France and Norway

washington, d. c., August "a.
American cotton seed oil, in spito Of
the nigh duties against it, Is steadily
making Roadway in the markets of tho
world. Through the efforts of the bu.
reau OF manufactures of the Depart.
ment of Commerce and Labor Soma
packers OF sardines in France and
norway nave promised to begin exper.
iments in packing fish in the American
product instead OF olive oil
italy is able to undersell Spain in
the olive oil markets a report m tho
bureau says, because Spain prohibits
the Importation OF cotton seed oil as
an edible, while Italy permits IL Tho
Spanish send their olive oil to Jf5Tv
where 1t is mixed with the cotton seed
oil. The domestic use Of cotton seed
oil in Italy, as well as in. Turkey NJ.
lows neatly all the native olive oil 20
be exported.
Special agents of the department
VINO have been investigating the for.
eign market, report that the preiudices
against the American product are no.
ing steadily broken down, and an i'm.
mcnso sale Of American cotton seed
oil abroad in the next few years ia
expected.