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Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
ARMOUR TALKS MEAT
INCREASE PRODUCTION AND
PRICES WILL FALL.
5000, 900 Less Hogs Slaughtered
the Past Season Than the
Year Before.

Chicago.-J. Ogden Armour, at his
beautiful country home, .Armouria, dis
cussed the present prices Of provisions,
the cause and the remedy.
You can eliminate the meat packers
from the situation entirely" said Mr.. Ar
ntour, and the high prices will remain.
The prices are high by the laws of ma
ture and natural laws cannot be changed.
The best we can do is to comply with
them. Increase production and prices
will fall.
The situation as regards the cost Of
living has become serious in this coun-
try, extremely Serious said the head OF
the great packing industry. "The prices
of foodstutfs have climbed upward until
they have passed all reasonable bounds.
The cause is not difficult to find, and it
is most important that it should be rene
died. The explanation is simply that the
consumption Of food in the United
States has ovcrtaken production. The
result has been inevitable. Prices have
gone up.
The price of beef to the retailer has
advanced only onc-half Il cent u pound
in the last year-that is to say, the
average price per pound for the whole
carcass. The advanced cost of hogs and
sheep has been very heavy. 1t was only
Il few days ago that we bought live hogs
at the rate of nine cents ii pound. Think
of that. Such prices as these have been
unheard of for many, many years.
And yet at these prices there are few
er hogs offered than when we paid less.
| haven't the exact figures at hand, but
approximately 100000 less hogs were
slaughtered in the last packing season
than for the year preceding. Surely, if
the farmers had the hogs they would
send them to market"
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
INSOMNIA
Leads to Madness, if not Remedied in
Time.

Experiments satisfied me, some 5
years ago." writes a Topeka woman,
that coffee was the direct cause of the
insomnia from which l suffered ter
ribly, as we'll as the extreme nervous
ness and acute dyspepsia which made
life a most painful thing for me.
II had been a coffee drinker since
childhood, and did not like to think
that the beverage vas doing me all this
harm. But it was, and the time came
when | had to face the fact, and pro-
tect myself. I therefore gave up coffee
abruptly and absolutely, and adopted
Postum as my hot drink at meals.
Il began to note improvement in my
condition very soon after | took on
Postum. The change proceeded grad
ually, but surely, and it was a matter OF
only a few weeks before | found my
self entirely relieved-the nervousness
passed away, my digestive apparatus
vas restored to normal efficiency, and
I began to sleep, restfully and peace
fully.
These happy conditions have con-
tinued during all of the 5 years, and 1
am safe in saying that I them en-
tirely to Postum, for when | began to
drink it l ceased to use medicine"
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellville, lin pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter: A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and fula Of humas
interest.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
MEAT STRIKE is NATIONAL
Milwaukee and Cleveland Announce
Cut in Prices.

Chicago-T.he movement to combat the
high prices of meat spread rapidly today
and Is assuming a national character.
Coincident with the spread of the move
ment came announcements from Milwau.
kee and Cleveland that the price of meat
had dropped. In Milwaukee two retail
butchers quoted porterhouse steak at 10
cents u pound; sirloin at the same price,
and other meats in proportion. The
wholesale price of beef fell off Is cents
a hundred pounds in Cleveland.
From Denver came the report that,
Samuel Dutton, president of the West
ern Hotel Mems Protective Association,
announced that the proposition of cutting
down the consumption of meat will be
brought before his organization at a
meeting to be held here on July 81.
Dispatches from Baltimore, Kansas
City, Omaha, Milwaukee, Memphis,
Pittsburg and other cities told of the
rapid growth Of the movement. Cleve-
land, credited with being the originator
of the movement, now has 10000 names
enrolled in the crusade, while Kansas
City reports $4,000.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
Parish Assessors Busy

Baton Rouge.-The assessors of the
different parishes of the state have al.
ready begun the work of listing the
taxes for 1910. This is the first step in
making up the assessment roll. The
property must be listed by May in or
der that the abstracts can be completed
and placed before the state board of
equalization for action. Last vear the
got in their rolls and filed
them with the sheriff of their parish
and the state much earlier than they
did during the previous year, owing to
the fact that the state board of equali-
cation completed its session earlier and
the assessors were prompt in getting in
their abstract blanks. The indications
are from the early start which many
OF the assessors have made that they
intend to be just as prompt this year
in getting up a list of their property.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
HEADS ARE PAROLED
Convicted of Looting Chicago Bank
of 81, 900.

Chicago-Paul 0. Stensland, formerly
president of the Milwaukee Avenue
State Bank Of Chicago, and Henry ".
Herring, formerly its cashier, who were
convicted in connection with the wreck.
ing of the bank and the disappearance of
$4,000 of its funds, were paroled
Thursday.
Stensland, who was captured after a
sensational chase extending across the
Atlantic ocean, into Europe and Morocco,
had served three years, three months
and twenty-four days. He vas sent to
the penitentiary Oh an indeterminate
sentence OF from one to ten years. Her
ing was given a similar sentence.
The looting of the Milwaukee Avenue
State Bank involved the savings of 22,-
600 depositors and the disappearance of
about $1,300,000 of the institutions de-
posits. Stensland left Chicago July IA,
1906, without making his destination
known to his associates, and it was not
until August 7 that the bank was closed
by the State banking examiner, after a
preliminary examination of the books.
The suicide of the banks paying teller
and the three depositors who had lost
their savings, the death of another from
worry and four victims ~adjudged insane
from the same cause, added an element
of tragedy to the affair.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
Increasing Potato Acreage.

Shreveport.-That the planters in this
section of the state are becoming more
generally interested in the growing of
Irish potatoes was indicated at a meet
ing of the North Louisiana Truck
Growers Association held here,
and attended by a large mum.
Der Of Caddo and Bossier par.
ish planters and several of the lead
ing agriculturists of Coushatta, Mans
field, Marthaville and other towns in
this section. Steps were taken for the
handling of the entire crop in this Sec
ton next season. Albert Miller & Co.,
of Chicago, promising to buy the en-.
tire crop. The c%ompany's representa-
tive said he thought the potatoes would
bring at least 65 cents per bushel. The
growers were instructed in the best
methods of gathering and preparing the
potatoes for market, being advised new
er TO allow tho potatoes to remain for
' ftime in the sun, and to gather the
product in wire baskets.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
OLUMEI IL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES b.. SATURDAY. JANUARY %A 1910
All Over Louisiana
Will Push Good Roads.

Baton Rouge,--Thc good roads pro-
gram Of Governor Sanders is TO be push
cd with much more energy during the
coming year than it was during 1909. 1t
was late last summer before the work
was gotten well under way and the gen,
cral good roads campaign inaugurated
by Governor Sanders. This year the
campaign is under way all over the
state. In a half-dozen parishes model
roads are being built according to the
program outlined by Governor Sanders,
the state furnishing the convicts while
the work is being done by them, the ac-
tual expenses Of maintaining the con
victs being paid by the parish in which
the model road is constructed. Several
police juriss have invited the governor
to address them on the subject of good
roads. Among the invitations accepted
by the governor is one from Colfax,
Grant parish, to deliver an address
there on February l..
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
STOCK BROKERS FAIL
S. ,00O,0 900 IN LIABILITIES; AS
SETS NOT DETERMINED.
All Contracts Held With Suspended
Firm Will Be Sold "Under
the Rules"

New Iork-Robcrts, Hall Il Crisis, of
New York and Cincinnati, were forced to
suspend as members of the New York
Stock Exchange Thursday, following the
two failures brought about by the COL
lapse of the Columbus and Hooking Coal
and Iron pool. Hugh +. Crisis estimates
the liabilities of the firm at $4,000, 900,
but is quoted as saying that he hoped
to pay 100 cents on the dollar unless
the governors of the exchange permit
welching on the part of other members
with whom he had contracts.
The feeling among members of the eX"
change is that Crisis has been made to
bear more than his share of the blame,
and that all the participants ought to be
punished for their part in the episode.
The affairs of all three firms involved
}. NJ. Fiske & Co., and Lathrop. Haskins
4 Co.. which suspended Thursday-as
well as Roberts, Hall & Crisis, are now
being investigated by the committee on
insolvencies of the exchange.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
Many White Convicts Enrolled.

Baton Rouge.-That during the past
month more white men have been
brought to the state pcnitcntiary than
negroes is the record that has been
made by the state since about the mid
die of last month. In the number Of
prisoners brought in during q month
the negroes always outnumber the
whites, three and four and five to one.
but this month more whites have been
brought TO the state penitentiary than
negroes. A total of IS white men has
been received. Fabian Bouvv, the
young Plaquemine boy, who shot and
killed Prof. van Ingen, in the presence
Of his wife, is behind the penitentiary
walls here and will in all probability
be kept there. He is not strong eonugh
to work on the cotton or sugar farms,
and will for this reason be kept in the
Baton Rouge prison and probably put
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
HAIL TEDDY AS SAVIOUR
Roosevelt Being 1mportuned to Run
for Governor of New York.

Albany, n. Y.-"Lead us or we're lost !
Hurry home and save the party"
This is the essence of cablegrams and
letters understood to have been showereI
upon Theodore Roosevelt in his African
jungle by machine Republicans, alright
ed by revelations of bribery, graft and
other forms of corruption duplicating
New York State officials.
To Roosevelt prayers are addressed
that he quit hunting wild animals and
head a crusade to rid the party of hut
maj harpies, whose alleged depredations
have brought such shame upon it that
it is threatened with a chastisement
such as elevated Grover Cleveland to
the governorship by nearly 100000
plurality in 1882.
The former president is being bcsought
to not only cleanse the machine stables,
but make it possible to retain the State
by taking the nomination for governor.
Latest advices from Africa, according
to an intimate associate of Roosevelt
here, are that he still adheres to his
determination to delay his return home
until June. Then he may put his hand
on the throttle and seek to avert immi-
nent party disaster.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
EPIDEMIC OF ITCH IN WELSH
VILLAGE

I'm Dowlais, South Wales, about ff-
teen years ago. families we're strick-
en- wholesale by a disease known as
the itch. Believe me, it is the most
terrible disease of its kind that l
know of, as it itches all through your
body and makes your life an inferno.
Sleep is out of the question and you
feel IS If a million mosquitoes we're
attacking you at the same time. l
knew a dozen families that were so
affected.
The doctors did their best, but
their remedies were of no await what
ever Then the families tried a drug
gist who was noted far and wide for
his remarkable cures. People came
to him from all parts of the country
for treatment, but his medicine made
matters still worse, as a last resort
they were advised by a friend to use
the Cuticura Remedies. am glad to
tell you that after a few days. treat
ment with Cuticura Soap, Ointment
and Resolvent, the effect was wonder
full and the result was a perfect cure
In all cases.
:" may add that my three brothers,
three sisters, myself and all u fam
lilies have been users OF the Cuticura
Remedies for fifteen years. Thomas
Hugh, 1850 West Huron St.. Chicago,
ILL.,, June 20, 1909"
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
SUPPORT ATCHAFALAYA BOARD.
Aver That 10000 Acres of Land Would
Ee Reclaimed.

Baton Rouge. Committees from the
parishes of fointc Coupee, West Baton
Rouge and Iberville called upon Cover
ncr Sanders and presented their rca-
sons for supporting the position of the
Atchafalaya levee board in its efforts
to dam up Alabama bayou and build a
levee upon the cast bank of the Atcha-
talaya.
The governor told the representa-
tlvcs that he was glad to receive them
and get their views, which were pre-
scented in anticipation of the mass meet
ing at st. Martinville to give the views
Of the people Of st. Martin parish
against the proposed %damming of the
bayou and the construction of the levee
on the east bank, unless a levee is also
built upon the west bank to protect
them from overflow.
Before the committee came to Baton
Rouge a mass meeting was held at Port
Allen in West Baton Rouge courthouse,
at which time resolutions were adopted
setting forth the reasons why the par
ishes Of Pointe Coupee, West Baton
Rouge and Iberville are in favor of the
dam across Alabama bayou and the pro-
posed lcvee system The principal point
is that it would redeem from overflow
about 10000 acres of land which is at
present useless and abandoned.
Il. NJ. Hewes of Point Coupee acted
as spokesman for the delegates and pre-
sented to the governor the reasons why
the citizens of the three parishes were
anxious to see carried out the work
which the Atchafalaya levee board
had undertaken in damming the Ala
bama bayou and building the levee. Mr..
HeWes referred to the progress which
the board had made in the work: how
the war department had given it's au-
thority to the board to dam the bayou
and what it would mean in the way of
redeemed land to the people from Iber.
vile to the upper end of Pointe Cou-
pee.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
Timber and Salt Mine values.

New Iberia.-In the matter of tim.
Der land assessments it was arranged
that an expert should cruise the lands
of the different lumber companies and
report an estimate of the value of each,
classifying them as to cypress, tupelo
gum and hardwOods. The first com.
pany's holdings estimated should be re.
ported for the first meeting in March.
In regard to the salt mine assessments
the attorneys representing the parish
and the mines, after an extended argu-
ment, finally came to an amicable
agreement satisfactory to the police
jury, by which the taxes are paid at
once and a basis for future years es-
tablished.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
NIL LIONS FOR RECLAMATION
Funds Planned to Further Those
Projects Already Begun.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of indebted
ness or bonds to the sum of SIC, 900
to raise money to complete and prop
erly extend reclamation projects already
begun" will be authorized in a bill to
be reported from the senate committee
on irrigation.
The principle on which the proposed
legislation is based was presented at a
session of the committee by Senator Be-
rah in a bill providing for the authoriza-
ton of a 100000 900 bond issue. This
measure was prepared by him after u
conference with President Taft and Sec
rotary Ballinger.
Whether certificates or bonds are au-
thorized, the securities may be issued
as needed up to a limit of $30,O0O,0 900,
and will pay three per cent interest, pay
able quarterly.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
WEEv|L IS A BUGABO0
SOUTH MUST AWAKE TO HEB
POSSIBILITIES.
DR.. Knapp Says It Is Foolish to
Talk of Abandoning the
Growth of Cotton.

Memphis, Tcnn.-Flaying the boil
weevil bugaboo" right and left, warning
that Investigation of crops must be ac.
cepted as the rule by which to work. and
bringing il message Of cheer and optim.
ism to Memphis territory, DR.. $. A..
Knapp, expert from the department OF
agriculture, addressed an audience at the
Business Mems Club Wednesday that
completely filled the assembly room and
overlooked to the stairways.
The theme Of the speech was "The
South has the possibilities. All that is
needed is for her citizens to awake to
their opportunities
That the awakening is at hand was
evidenced by the audience that filled the
room. 1t was in its way as remarkable
as the address. The bankers, the solid
business men of the city, the planter and
the small farmer, from Mississippi, Ten.
nessee and Arkansas, sat side by side.
They were all eager to hear and learn of
the ways whereby the soil might give
forth more, to the enrichment of all.
Don't get scared Of the boil weevil. 1t
can be whipped. Diversity your crops
and get more out of the soil"
1T is foolishncss,' said DR.. Knapp,
'to talk about the abandonment of the
growing of cotton. We have Just begun
to grow cotton. The MAJ who says 9TH
erwlsc is just uttcring cheap talk.
AT the same time we are coming to
a crisis in the history of the great crop.
We must meet it like men. You can
produce cotton if you wish, boil weevii
or no boil weevil. | do not believe that
the great American people who have
fought and conquered so far intend to be
whipped by such an insignificant thing
as a boil weevil.'
Then followed an array of facts to
show the fight could be won, and how
to win.
He told how in one Texas county in
1904 the government took charge of the
fight against the boil weevil when the
entire county produced 10000 bales. In
1906 the yield had grown to more than
$4,000 bales, and conditions we're better
there than ever before. as the people had
also learned to diversity their crops, and
to raise their own provisions.
An outline OF the fight in other parts
of Texas, in Louisiana and Mississippi
followed. The statements were backed
up with proof. For fear you may call
my hand on some of my statements"
said DR.. Knapp, 81 wish to state | have
with me the M of more than 1000
people from Louisiana and Mississippi
who have made a success of raising cot
ton under Jul PLAN"
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
Internal Revenue Increase,

Observation-Disclosures revenue re-
ceipts for the current fiscal year continue
to show a marked increase over the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1909. Decem.
Der receipts amounted to S24,34O,193. an
increase of $2,O45,462 over December,
1905. The increase in receipts for the
six months ending December 80 over the
six months Of the previous year was 49,.
us OO1.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
PAuLHAN AND CuRnSS DRAW
Faster, But Frenchman
in Air Longer.

Los Angeles, Cal.-After a grilling duel
in the air, which marked the close of the
great international aviation tournament
at Dominguez field, Louis Paulhan. Of
France, and Glenn H. Curtiss, of Amer
lea, at last brought their machines to the
ground just as the mantle of night was
falling upon the scene, with honors even.
Paulhan had been able to remain in
the air longer than his rival, but Cur
tiss, in a race of ten laps, with which
the endurance race began, was not only
able to prove again that his biplane was
ieeter than the Frenchman's, but broke
the track record for that distance. He
made the ten laps III 24:O2h, or 50 Sec
onds faster than when he won his first
great race here with the Frenchman.
Paulhan's time for the distance, 1910
miles, was 2G:03 is.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
48 DIE IN RAILROAD WRECK
Some Drowned, Others Crushed and
Burned to Death,

North Bay, Ont.-DeatL in all it's most
terrible forms bIotted out the lives of at
least a score, and perhaps forty-eight
people, Friday afternoon, when four cars
OF a Canadian Pacific passenger train on
the 500 branch leaped from the tracks,
and, tearing down a steep e%mbankment,
plunged through the recovered surface
of the Spanish river. Some were
drowned, others were crushed to death in
grinding timbers. Most terrible of all,
many persons, manned and injured,
caught in the wreckage of one of the
cars, were burned to death. Ninety.two
injured were taken to hospitals at Sud.
bury.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
GIVE STREAMS TO STATES
Carter Bill Allows States to De-
velop Water Power.

Washington.-Senator Carter, after a
conference with several Western gov
ernors who were in Washington this
week attending the governors conference,
has prepared a bill authorizing the is.
suance of patents to states for public
lands chiefly valuable for the Develop.
ment of water power.
In effect the Carter measure would
turn over to the states the whole ques.
ton of developing water power.
His bill provides that ANY state may
enter any unappropriated public land To-
Gated within its borders, which is consid-
cred valuable for use in the development
of water power upon making proof to the
satisfaction Of the Secretary of the In.
terror that the land sought to be entered
is chiefly valuable for such purposes"
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29

= LOUISIANA AT A GLANCE. +


The oyster and shrimp cannery at
Morgan City has resumed operations,
after being shut down since September
20.
Judge Overton at Lake Charles ruled
that candy cannot be legally sold on
Sunday.
The question Of boring a gas well at
the Monroe city water and light plant
was referred to a committee with power
to act.
The strawberry fields in the Amite
City section are in a most magnificent
and flourishing condition. The crop is
we'll cultivated, and the weather has
been very favorable. There is a very
large increase in the acreage this sea-
son.
An insane negro woman started two
fires on the Gold Mine plantation near
Lucy, entailing a loss of $4,000.
AT the city primary February Is at
Crowley night policemen and scaven-
gers will be among those baIIoted for.
Automobile owners Of Iberville par
ish organized to boost good roads.
Detroit interests purchased the prop
erty Of the Cheny Lumber Company of
Monroe, paying $1S5,000 for the same.
Work has been commenced at Collin
ston on the dredging Of the Coules
drainage canal.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
Saving Time.

The family was to leave on the two
o'clock train from Broad street station.
SO the mother was all in a furry as
she hurried the children In a certain
West Philadelphia home.
Now, children, get everything ready
before luncheon" she said. Don't
leave everything until the last min
ute"
And the children said they wouldn't.
Luncheon ended. they hurried into
their wraps and started. In the hall
the mother said:
Edward, you didn't brush your
teeth"
yes, ma'am, I did"
But you couldn't, she said, you
didn't have time. Why you just got
up from the table"
Il know that said Edward; "but we
were in such a hurry | brushed them
before | ate."-Philadelphia Times.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
Her WEIGHT INCREASED
FROM 100 TO TAO POUNDS.
Wonderful Praise Accorded
Perunathe Household Remedy

Mrs. Maria Goertz, Oricnta, Okla
homa, writes:
"My husband, children aud myself
have used your medicines, and We al
ways keep them in tn house in case OF
necessity. l was restored to health by
this medicine, and DR.. Hartman's in
valuable advice and books. People ask
about me from different places, and are
surprised that | can do all of my house,
work alone, and that I was cured by tho
doctor of chronic catarrh. My husband
was cured Of asthma, my daughter of
earache and catarrh Of the stomach, and
my son Of catarrh Of the throat. When
l was sick l weighed 100 pounds; now l
weigh 40.
"lhave regained my health again, and
I cannot thank you enough for your
advice. May God give you a long life
and bless your work."
Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-29
Can't School Rangers,

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the Treas
ury Tracewell declares there is nothing
in the law giving the Secretary of Agri-
culture power to send forest rangers to
college at government expense. When
Solicitor McCabe, of the Department of
Agriculture, took charge of the forestry
bureau following the dismissal of Gift
ord Pinchot, he found there were about
200 of these forest rangers attending uni
versities and colleges in the West for
short courses in forestry, costing the gov
eminent between $4,000 and $40, 900 per
month.