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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01
New Telephone Company Surveying

]. A. Collins, of the Southern Tele-
ephone Company, with a corps OF
surveyors, has been in jena, several
days surveying the right-of-way for
the proposed lines of the Southern
Telephone Company, and it is ex-
pected that work will begin on the
exchange office in the near future.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01
Assessor Richards Reports Firs
Lawmakers Very Busy.

This is the second to the final week
of the session of the general assem-
bly, of Louisiana, and a great amount
of business is to be transacted by
the lawmakers before the end of the
session on July s. Up to the pres
ent time thirty bills have been pass
ed by the general assembly,, signed by
the governor, and have become laws.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01
Shreveport Gets Peanut Factory.

The Shreveport Chamber OF Com
merce has been advised that the
Bains Peanut Company will locate its
factory on property belonging to the
Louisiana and Arkansas, instead OF
in Bossier City, as planned two
weeks ago.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01
late news NOTES
FROM ALL LOUISIANA
$500, 600 Oil Refinery to be Es-
tabliShed
Change SITE OF PEANUT FACTORY
14-Year-Old Boy Disappears. Many
New Enterprises Planned. Cut
Over Lands Being Divided
For Truck Purposes.

Mrs. A. II. Bowden was struck and
killed by lightning at SimsborO.
Four new schoolhouses will be
erected in Iberia parish before Octo-
ber 1.
A mortgage for $5,OOO,000 was
filed at Shreveport by the Arkansas
Gas Company.
A mass meeting at Natchitoches
urged the passage of the fish AMI
game preserve bill.
Plans are under way for the Cal
casieu-Louisiana Fair at Lake
Charles in November.
Suit was filed at Shreveport seek
ing to annul the city's paving con-
tracts, involving $1,000.OOO.
Women automobile drivers at
Baton Rouge who exceed TIE speed
law will be fined by Judge Jones.
Three convicted blind tigers at
Shreveport were each sentenced to
six months on the roads and fined
$500.
John Wesley Davis was convicted
at Shreveport of murder without cap
ital punishment for killing Richmond
Smith.
The Thibodaux postoffice was ad-
yanced after the postmaster had
shown its receipts to justify his con-
tention.
Sheriff ID. j. Reid secured a court
order at Lake Charles directing that
| his name be restored to the registra-
ton list.
Senat Rivet, a wealthy Assump-
ton planter, was indicted in connec-
ton with incendiary fires at Napo-
leonville.
Lieutenant Governor Paul NJ. Lam
Fremont will deliver the annual ora
ton to the State Red Men at Baton
Rouge. July 4.
A manslaughter verdict was re
turned at Natchitoches in the case o.
w. d. Atkins, charged with the mur
der of ID. X. Atkins.
Judge Overton, at Lake Charles
held that the delinquent tax list o
Calcasieu parish must be published IL
the official journal.
Walker Tannehill was acquitted
Jena of the murder of Clay Smith
The jury was reprimanded by Judg
n " ThOmnSOn
DR.. McKOwen heard Of the affirma
ton of his sentence by the Suprem
Court from the lips of his wife Il
his cell at Baton Rouge.
A special grand jury was convene'
at Rayville to investigate the case
Stephen Freeman. who killed Tow
Marshal C. C. Chenault.
Mrs. Laura E. Webb, who was accl
dentally killed in Memphis, was ma
tive of st. Mary Parish, and has re-
atives living at Little Bayou Wax.
Judge A. y. MurH, Of Shreveport
in announcing his candidacy for tn
seat Of Congressman ]. T. Watkins
charged the latter with violatin
party pledges.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01
Truck Farms Become Numerous.

Several large tracts of cut-over
lands near Covington have recently
been cut up into small lots and are
being sold for tr 'ck purposes. 1t is
freely predicted that the acreage
devoted to truck in this section VIII
be about doubled before fall.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01
Frisco to Advertise.

A letter to the Board of Trade OF
Crowley, from the st. Louis office OF
the Frisco Railroad, would indicate
that this railroad intends to do some
extensive advertising for Louisiana.
The first move in this direction Will
be to get the people Of southwestern
Louisiana together to discuss the ad-
vertising campaign and try to inter-
est them IN it. For this purpose big
picnic and watermelon day has been
designated at Opelousas on Thurs
day, July 2S, when excursions will be
run from all along the Frisco lines
to the st. Landry capitol. Another
plan that has been formulated rs to
give the state space in the new Fris-
CO building at st. Louis for perma'
nent exhibits of the states resources
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01
Sensation in Murder Trial.

Sensation upon sensation has been
the status of the murder trial OF Ben
Kinchen, charged with being acces-
sorry to the killing of ]. o. Breeland,
when he and his wife and stepdaugh-
ter, Mrs. Joe Everette, were killed
near Tickfaw on Jan. %, 1903, and
for which crime Avery Blount has al
ready been hanged.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01
Youth Disappears.

For several days there has been
considerable excitement in the Duvil
neighborhood over the disappear
ance of Wiley Green. youth of IA
or Is years, son of w. c. Green. He
was last seen on the gallery OF his
home, two miles east of Folsom. He
was dressed in a blue homespun shirt
and brown trousers with a black
stripe and was barefOoted.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01
RaiIrnad To BE Built.

S. Taylor Jackson has completed
a survey of land for Frank James,
Forest, La, capitalist, who will build
a railroad through his timber sec
ton. Construction work will begin
shortly.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01
William VarnadO, und

William Varnado, under a SEN
tence of twenty-one years for con-
nection with the murder of Jeff ANA
ker, and w. G. Behan escaped from
the Jail at Amite City while the aged
watchman was asleep.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01
For Improvement of Milk Cattle.

A movement has been launched at
Covington for the removal from the
range of all scrub bulls and their
replacing with thoroughbred, but
not registered Holstein bulls. A
leading cattle man, who is behind the
movement, offers to purchase one
such bull for the open woods range,
il the Police Jury will pass law
recurring the fencing of all bulls not
of standard pedigree.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01

During the health conference OF
of the parish and municipal health OF
ficers of Louisiana at Baton Rouge,
addresses were made by DR.. P. I.
Talbot, inspector Of foodstuffs; Mr..
TAYLOR, State Board of Health anai-
yst; DR.. D. Harvey Dillon and 9TH
ers.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01
Fourth of July Rally Planned.

A Fourth of July rally will be held
at Forest July 6, and prominent
speakers, including Hon. Joseph +.
Ransdell, of Lake Providence; Judge
S. f. Hall. of Monroe, and General
Thomas w. Castleman, of New Or
leans, have been invited to speak.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01
Convicted of Horse Stealing.

The case of FlOid Fuller. arrest
ed for horse stealing at Natchitoches
resulted in verdict OF
guilty. A sensation occurred
at the close of the case, when
William H. Fuller, the father of the
prisoner, and John Spurgin were ar
rested in the courtroom on informa-
ton filed by the district attorney,
charging them with attempted bribe-
ry of a witness. The evidence OF the
attempted bribery was substantiated
by documentary evidence in the form
of a letter.
Assessor Richards Reports First.
Assessor C. NJ. Richards friends
are congratulating him on the fact
that, although Calcasieu parish is by
far the largest in the state, he was
the first state assessor to furnish the
State Board of Equalization the com
plete figures of his assessment, and
that he accomplished this feat after
most of his schedules had been de
stroyed by fire and needed to be re
placed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01

LAKE ST. JOSEPH HUNTING CLUo.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-30

by act of the revolutionary group. One
of their number was chosen by lot. to
carry out the decree, but al almos,
the last moment his courage gave ont
and he voluntarily surrendered TO the
poIice. After fully confessing his part
in the plot the red" committed sui
eide in his cell. perhaps the most con-
siderate thing he ever did.
Queen Margherita, it Is claimed. is
almost wholly responsible for the
break between the Duke of Abruzzi
and Miss Katherine Elkins, whose love
affair occupied the attention of two
continents for long time. Perhaps
there was really less love between the
Notwithstanding duke and the
charming daughter of West Virginia 5
former senator than the papers led
one TO believe, but with so much
smoke there must have been a little
fire. at least There is not particle
of doubt in the minds of many that
the duke was hot-foot to marry Miss
Elkins, but there seems to be more OF
a question regarding the state of her
feelings for her titled sutton. Be that
as il may, the dowager queen is said
TO have put stop to whatever chance
there was of a marriage between the
two young persons: and now that her
assassination has been thus timely
prevented she may still continue to
block the game. should the duke per-
sist In his suit.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-30
Plan of Pit.

only from the pit in which he stood
to another pit that he could see in a
direct line with his own, the passage
from one pit to another being always
a direct line through the dark.
As each pit commanded a view of
two others, each man was told that If
he saw another man dressed in dit
ferent color from himself standing in
any pit he should fire upon him at
once and kill him or the man whom he
saw would in turn shoot at him. II
any survived and got to the other side
of the maze they would be set free
This plan having been explained to
the prisoners before the day set for
the experiment and each of them hav-
ing been provided with a plan of the
maze ii appears that one of them had
studied out plan by which they
might all escape with their lives, and
when they were placed In the pits.
the tops of which were open to the
sky, he called to the others in his own
that they all understood him, where
upon he explained his plan and gave
the word of command to each man as
to the direction he should take. In
% moves they had safely changed
places no red man having ever seen
a yellow man aud no two men having
ever been in the same pit at the same
time
How was this accomplished?
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-30
LIFTING CATS AND RABBITS
Mistake to Lift Animal by Nape OF
Neck Without Supporting Lower
Part of BODY.

1t is a mistaken idea that the proper
way to lift a full-grown cat is by the
nape of its neck without supporting
the lower part of its body with the
other hand, says Watchword 1t is
true that the mother cat carries young
kittens by grasping in her mouth the
loose skin at the back of her of.
springs neck, but tiny kitten is a
very different matter from large cat
and, indeed, the only way to lift e
kitten without squeezing or hurting
it's soft little body is to lift II by its
neck: but after il has grown larger its
own weight is too great to be support.
cd by such a bit of skin and fur as is
so grasped by the hand, and many a
cat suffers perfect fortunes by being
held in this manner, and is quite help.
less to run or struggle, as in such a
position certain of its muscles cannot
be controlled, and 1t is absolutely at
the mercy of it's unconscious tormen-
tor.
The same rule should be observed
in lifting rabbits by their ears. They
should always be partially supported
by the free hand and not allowed to
dangle with their whole weight strain
ing from their large but necessarily
delicate ears.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-30
The Suffolk Resolves" House.

thing to bring matters to crisis. As
soon as General Gage heard of their
adoption, he sent to England for more
troops and commenced his campaign
of confiscation which ended in the
fight at Lexington and Concord.
The resolves declared that the SOW
ereign who breaks his compact with
his subjects forfeits their allegiance.
They arraigned as unconstitutional the
repressive acts of parliament and re-
jected all officers appointed under
their authority.
They directed collectors of taxes to
pay over no money to the royal treas
urer They advised the towns to choose
their officers of militia from the friends
of the people.
They favored a provincial congress.
and promised respect and submission
to the continental congress. They de-
termined TO act upon the defensive as
long as reason and self-preseryation
would permit, but no longer.
They threatened to seize every
crown officer in the province as host
age. If the governor should arrest any
one for political reasons. They also
arranged a system of couriers to carry
messages to town officers and CORE
spending committees. They earnestly
advocated the weI-known American
principles of social order as the basis
of all political action; exhorted all per
sons to abstain from riots and all at
tacks upon the property of any person
whatsoever; and urged their country
men to convince their enemies that
/ in a contest so important, in a cause
/ so solemn, their conduct should be such
as to merit appreciation OF the wise
and the admiration of the brave and
| free of every age and country"
These resolutions were sent to the
continental congress at Philadelphia
| by Paul Revere, where they were ap
| proved and recommended to the who's
country on June II, 1775.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-30
Even or Odd.

This game is the most ancient, per-
haps, that we know. The children
who played in the streets of Athens
and in the Roman Forum in early
ages, knew and loved il, and little
children find amusement in 1t still.
It is played in this manner: One
child hides in her hand a few beans.
nuts. or just bits of paper, and asks
her companion to guess IL they are
or even.
If the playfellow guesses odd and
on opening her hand the other dis
plays an odd number, she forfeits the
articles TO the guesser, who hides
them in her turn. But il the guess is
odd and the number even. the guesser
pays forfeit and the first hider re-
tains the beans. etc. The guess must
be right to win.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-30
.ELOPED IN A BASKET
Romantic Story of An Old Time
London Beauty.
Circumvented Her irate Father in An
Ingenious Manner-Lover, Dis
guised as Baker, Carried Her
Off in Hamper.

London--The old saying that love
will find way was never better illus
trated than in the romance of Eliza
beth Spencer, the most beautiful WON
an in all England in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, and her devoted
cavalier. Sir William, second Baron
Compton. who afterward became the
first Earl of Northampton.
Elizabeth had the double advantage
OF beauty and of wealth She was the
only daughter of Sir John Spencer.
who reached London a penniless boy
from the country during the reign of
King Henry VIII and who became its
wealthiest citizen and In turn sheriff
and lord mayor of the old city of Lon
don. Like many another self-made
man Sir John was somewhat OF an
idolater-a worshiper of self He re-
garded himself, and very likely with
perfect justice. as the equal of many
of the mobiles of England and the SUI
perior of some. and when one of these.
Sir William, Baron Compton, pre-
sumed to make love to the beautiful
Elizabeth he was shown the door and
told not to return.
And SO the lovers planned how to
circumvent the wealthy and pompous
Sir John.
One day a handsome young baker
called at Crosby Hall, trundling a
barrow upon which re 3ted a capacious
and fiat-topped basket. He Iugged the
basket into the house easily enough
and soon emerged with ii and labori-
| ously carried It to the barrow
| CHANGING to meet Sir John he tipped
his hat to the great man, who
pleased with this mark of courtesy
cheerfully gave him a sixpence. "A
civil young man." said Sir John to
himself. and his face somehow looks
familiar"
little later Sir John discovered
that the civil young man" was the
"scapegrace," Sir William, and that
his daughter had eloped in the basket,
Messengers were at once dispatched
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-30
Eloping in a Basket.

in every direction to arrest the fugi-
tives, but the plans of the lovers had
been carefully laid and before their
whereabouts were discovered Eliza
beth Spencer had became Lady Comp
ton. The rage of the father knew no
bounds and he roundly swore that Sir
William had seen the only sixpence
of his money he would ever touch.
This determination would very likely
have been adhered to were 1t not for
the appearance on the scene of an
other actor
Queen Elizabeth years before had
met Elizabeth Spencer and had taken
some interest afterward in her af-
fairs. Driving through the city one
day the queen saw Elizabeth and
beckoning her to the royal carriage
paid her the compliment of pro
nouncing her the owner of the sweet
est face | have seen in my city of
London" Naturally. she learned of
the beautiful girls elopement and
later concocted a plan of effecting a
reconciliation between daughter and
father.
A year after the elopement Sir John
was summoned to the presence of the
queen. After expressing her sym
pathy with him over the ingratitude
OF his daughter she asked him TO be
come sponsor with her at the baptism
of a baby, who was just born TO a
couple who had married against the
wishes of the mothers father. Hon
ored by the request. which of course
was tantamount to a demand, Sir
John readily consented and also will
ingly acceded TO the queens desire
that he permit his own surname to be
used as the Christian name of the
child. Flattered beyond measure by
the queens graciousness. Sir John de
clared that as he had discarded his
own undutiful daughter he would
adopt the infant as heir to his for
tune He was then told that the child
was his own grandson, the offspring
of his daughter Elizabeth A recon
Citation was then effected and years
afterward, when Sir John was gath
cred to his fathers, the son-in-law, Sir
John, or Lord Northampton as he had
then become, erected a magnificent
tomb on which the disobedient daugh-
ter. in contrition for her fault, is seen
kneeling at her fathers feet.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-30
SUFFOLK RESOLVES" HOUSE
Boston Mansion in Which the Suffolk
Resolves" Were Adopted in
the Year IVA.

Boston.-One of Boston's most I'M
portant revolutionary relics is the old
Vose or Suffolk Resolves" house at
the Milton Lower mills 1t was in this
historic mansion. the hume Of Daniel
Vose, often called the birthplace OF
American liberty that the famous
Suffolk resolves" were adopted. Sep
TENDER .. 1874. by the Suffolk conven-
ton.
The obnoxious regulating or recon
structive acts had not been long in ap-
Grafton before the popular resistance
they encountered found expression in
these resolves, which were drawn up
and reported TO the convention by Gen.
Joseph Warren, who the next June
lost his life in their defense at the bat
tie of Bunker HILL
These resolves, 10 in number. were
by far the boldest doctrines ever adopt
ed or promulgated in America, and
probably did mere than any one other
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-30
ENGLISH In London.

Senator Depew. on the deck of the
Lusitania, talked about English as
she is spoken in London"
1T is very difficult 10 understand
that London English" he said. II
know a man who had lodgings all July
in Bloomsbury, near the British mu-
scum.
ION his return from the museum
one afternoon, M friend said to his
landlady:
Can | have a cup of tea, IL you
please"
Certainly, sir; at once the land
lady replied. The kettle as been
bi'lin' for ours
'But-er-I prefer freshly boiled
water. if you don't mind" stammered
my friend.
The landlady Redeemed with anger.
Look ere she said. If 'ad meant
wot you mean I'd ave said hours"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-30
GOLD is SHAKEN FROM COINS
New York Detectives Unearth Clever
Swind!e in the Maiden Lane
Jewelry District.

New York.-Secret service agents
who have been at work in the Maiden
Lane jewelry district have discovered
coin stripping by which gold is OBJ
tanned and sold. the coins being put
back into circulation apparently as
good as ever. The new process con-
sists in placing the coins in a burlap
bag, which is shaken vigorously.
Thus tiny fakes of metal are
knocked off the coins and cling to the
bag. which is then burned, the gold
melting into wee ingots.
The treasury department at Wash
ington has been getting back of late
large quantities of gold coins, which
seemed more scratched and battered
than ordinary.
Under the microscope it became evil
dent that these coins had been han
died with strange violence Special
agents were sent here to investigate
and soon uncovered the industry of
shaking the coins in burlap bags.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-30
SUlTAN'S PIT GAME is NOVEL
Prisoners Placed in Labyrinth and
Offered Freedom Under Unique
Corditiore

A certain Sultan who was fond Of
ell manner of intricate puzzles used to
amuse himself by testing the in
genuity and resource of his prisoners
of war. Among other buildings about
his palace he had peculiar maze.
which consisted of II pits, open to
the sky above and connected by a
series of underground passages. which
were quite dark
Upon one occasion he caused six
prisoners to be placed in these pits.
three of them dressed in red In the
pits numbered ! 3, and three more
dressed in yellow in the pits num-
bered 10. II, L. The Sultan com
manded his vizier to provide each of
these prisoners. who were complete
strangers to one another, with rife
and five cartridges. and to inform
them separately that any of them
who could escape alive under the fol
lowing conditions should be set free
and returned to his own country:
The three dressed in red were to
exchange places with the three dress
ed in yellow, but only one man was to
move at a time. upon a given signal.
Il bell for the red and a whistle for
the yellow. Each man could move
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-30
UNIQUE GAME WITH LETTERS
Each Player Is Given Vowel and
Five Minutes to Write Sentence
Longest Wins.

Now" said Charlie, when every
body was gathered around the table
lets play the vowel game father told
us he used to play when he was 3
boy"
How do you play it," asked every
one at once
It's very easy" replied Charlie,
distributing pencils and paper impair
TALLY among the family group. You
take the FIVE regular vowels, a, e, i. o
u. and. beginning with the first let
ter. each player writes as long 4n
tence as he can, using no vowel ex
cept a in any word. but repeating
that letter as often as he wishes"
II don't quite understand" said
Cousin Lucy. please give us an ex
ample"
You'll have to give me a few min
utes' grace, then" laughed Charlie
taking his pencil and paper. Sup
pose | take "a He wrote Industrious
ly a few minutes and then read the
result aloud:
"Ah, madam, Frank Farms, a tall
tasty, black man at Panama, has 6
cat lLdl CdH CdICH ali Ddu anus dHC
bats at Nathans pantry and barn.
"Bravo." cried uncles and aunts
and cousins. as Charlie finished read
ing the queer sentence.
You see." continued Charlie, "yoJ
may give the players five minutes, oil
any time you agree on beforehand, tc
make up the sentence. When tnt
time is up, the sentences are read anC
the one having the longest sentence
of good, plain. commonplace English
has gained the first point. You go or
this way for each of the five vowels
and when all the sentences are read
and compared, the person who has
gained the most points wins the
game"