davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-10-01
Deputy Clerk and Ex-Offici
Deputy Recorder.
Proclamation.

Pursuant to a resolution passed BY
the Parish Board of School DIrec-
tors of the Parish of Caddo, Louis
lana, at its regular meeting held on
the 18th day of September 1911, |
Isaac Barron, president OF said
board, hereby give notice that, in
compliance with said resolution, a
special election will held in School
District No. IA of said Parish of Cad
do, Louisiana, on Saturday, the 2ist
day of October 1911, for the purpose
of submitting the property taxpay-
crs, qualified under the constitution
and laws of the State of Louisiana,
to vote at said election, the follow
ing proposition, to-wit:
To levy special tax of three mills
on the dollar on all property in
School District No. Ia of the Parish
of Caddo, Louisiana, subject to state
taxation, annually, for a period of
ten years, for the purpose Of
4. Purchasing, if necessary, site
or sites, constructing thereon one or
more public school buildings, title to
which shall vest in the public, and
the location OF which shall be deter
mined by the School Board, to equip
and maintain the same.
2. Giving additional aid to the pub
lie schools of said School District.
For the purpose of said special
election, the polling place will be
Oil City, and ]. K. Norman, IL. g.
Angel and Charles Davis have been
appointed commissioners and G. A.
Morse has been appointed clerk.
AT said special election the polls
will open at Z o'clock am. and close
lat pm, and the election shall be
Iconducted in accordance with the
laws of Louisiana applicable thereto.
y Notice is also given that at i:30
o'clock pm. on the oath day of Oc-
tober 1911, the said Parish Board of
School Directors of the Parish Of
Caddo, Louisiana, will meet in its Of
ice in the court house. and in open
session proceed to open the ballot
boxes, examine and canvass the re-
turns and declare the result of said
special election.
This 10th day of September 1911.
ISAAC BARRON, President.
September 10, 1911.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-10-01

Uerold. competent witnesses. on fiji,
the 18th day Of September 1911.
+. s. CAYCE.
y. b. TERRY.
Attest: J, W. OLIVER.
s. F. TALBERI.
s. L. HEROLD.
J. A. THTGPEN
State of Louisiana, Parish Of Cad.
do: | approve the above and fore.
going charter of The Cayce COMPANY
on this 10th day Of September 1911
+. BARNETT.
Acting District Attorney
Endorsed: Filed September "a
1911. ,. w. " VILLAINS,
Deputy Clerk and Exon slo
Deputy Recorder.
State of Louisiana, Parish Of Cad
do: hereby certify that the above
and foregoing is a true and correct
copv of the original act, as the same
now appears on file and of record in
nv office. Given under my hand and
seal of Office this 18th day of Sep
tember 1911. so. WILLIAMS,
Deputy Clerk and Ex-Oflcio
Deputy Recorder, GIG.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-10-01
Succession Notice

No. Is, 485-First District Court OF
louisiana Succession of Gilbert
Meyer and Ann Meyer.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Cad
do: Notice is hereby given that ]. NJ
Trosper Jr. has this day applied to
be appointed administrator of said
succession, and unless opposition be
made thereto within the time speci-
fled by law, he will be appointed as
prayed for.
Witness the Honorables T. f. Bell
and E. w. Sutherlin, judges of said
court, this 18th day of September
1911. f. A. LEONARD,
Sept. 26, 1911. Clerk.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-10-01

G q. WILLIAMS,

s. q. W II1IIf1'
Deputy Clerk and ex-oiii''o
Recorder. ~ cad-
State of Louisiana, fdi i' ohovo
do. | hereby certify that the 49, 'oc,
and foregoing is a true and correca
c c Of the original act, as the same ;e
now appears on file and OF reoo a and
NV office, Given under my hana anu
soal Of office this 8th day OF septelh-
Der 1914. D " Don,,tx
Deputy "ioi $40
Recorder.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-10-01

stock. nor shall any mere informal
ity have the effect of rendering this
charter null, or exposing any stock
holder to any greater loss than the
value of his stock.
Done and signed on this the 18th
day of September 1911, in the pres
ence of the attesting witnesses, and
me, notary.
H. M. SEVERANCE.
L. E. STOKES.
d. J. SMITH.
r. A. GIBSON.
Attest: w. S. SORRELLS.
H. p. THOMPSON.
w. L. YOUNG. T. F. BELL JR.,
Notary Public
Having examined the above and
foregoing charter, and finding moth
ing therein contrary to law, hereby
approve the same, this goth day OF
September 1911. E. BARNETT,
Acting District Attorney First
Judicial District of Louisiana
Endorsed: Filed and recor led Sep
terber %, 1911.
S. O. WILLIAMS,
Deputy Clerk and Ex-Officio
Deputy Recorder.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Cad
do: | hereby certify that the above
and foregoing is true and correct
copy of the original act, as the same
row appears on file and of record III
my office. Given under my hand and
seal of office this 22nd day of Sep
.mber 1911.
s. O. WILLIAMS.
Deputy Clerk and Ex-Otficic
Deputy Recorder. 9-24
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-10-01
CHARTER AMENDMENT
Webster Refining Company of Lou
iSiana

MooringspOrt, Louisiana, Septen-
Der 5. 1914. At meeting of the
Stockholders of the Webster. Refin-
ling Company of Louisiana, held at
The office of the company today, no.
tire of meeting being waived by all
the stockholders of the company the
| following proceedings were had:
There were present the following
named stockholders. representing
the following number of shares Of
stock of the company, tO-wit: S. ].
Hartman. shares 81; S. w. Tullos,
) shares: DR.. J. NJ. Ledbetter, 80
shares: Hazel TuIlos, ) shares: R. s.
Ayers, 10 shares; Andrew Kuhn, II
shares: C. L. Horne, II shares, c. D.
Webster AZ shares; f. NJ. Whitworth
no shares.
Being all of the stockholders Of
the company, holding and owning
all of the capital stock of the com
pany..
| Mr.. S. J. Hartman, a stockholder
was elected chairman of the meet
ing; Mr.. Chas. L. Horne, stockhold-
er, was elected secretary. On motion
duly made and seconded, the follow
ing resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That Article One Of the
charter of this company be and the
same is hereby amended to psSVide
that the domicile of this company
shall be Shreveport, Caddo ParisA.
Louisiana instead Of NooringsNs
Caddo Parish, La. There beng
no further business the meeting adj
iourned. s. J. HARTMAN, Chairman.
CHAS. L. HORNE, Secretary.
Chas. L. Horne and s. ]. Hartman
being duly sworn, deposes and says
that they were the chairman and
secretary respectively, Of stockhold-
| ers' meeting of the Webster Refin-
ling Company of Louisiana, held on
the fifth day Of September, 1911 and
that the above and foregoing is 8
true and correct copy ofthe, reso-
luton amending the charter of the
said company as the same appears
On the minutes of said meeting.
s.. j. HARTMAN, Chairman
CHAS. L. HORNE, Secretary
| Sworn to and subscribed before
me on this the 9Th day of September
1911. J. A. THIGPEN, Notary Public.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Cad
do: Having examined the above and
foregoing amendment to the char
ter OF the Webster Refining Com
pany OF Louisiana and finding Moth
ing therin contrary to law | hereby
approve the same. E. BARNETT,
Acting District Atty, 1st Judicial
District of Louisiana.
Endorsed; Filed and recorded Sep-
tember 6, 1914. w. M. LEVY,
Deputy Clerk and ex-Offici0
Deputy Recorder.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Cad
DO: | hereby certify that the above
and foregoing is true and correct
copy OF the original Amendment To
the charter of the Webster Refining
Company Of Louisiana, as the same
appears of record and on file in my
office.
Given under my hand and official
seal of office at the city of Shreve-
port, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, on
This the f4th day of September, 1911.
w. NJ LEVY.
Deputy Clerk and ex-Off;cio
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-10-01
Attest
RUSSELL p. MOORE.
MATTER H. POLK.
ROLAND WILLIAMSON,

Notary Public Cad1o Parish. La
State of Louisiana, Parish of Cad
do: | hereby certify that | have ex-
amined the charter of Brice Lumber
and Supply Company, and finding
nothing therein contrary to law, |
hereby approve the same. Thus done
and signed on this the 18th day Of
September 1911. E. BARNETT,
Acting District Attorney First Judi
cial District of Louisiana.
Endorsed: Filed and recorded Sep
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-10-01

Before me, the undersigned no. .
,arv nublic, duly commissioner ana
sworn. appeared E. S. Cayce' b. d.
Torrv and J. w. Oliver, all residents
of shreveport, Caddo Parish, LOUIS
lana who declared to me that Ihey
do hereby form themselves into d
corporation under the laws OF 'no
state of Louisiana, under the stlpu-
laff6ns hereinafter set out, to-"lC'
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-10-01
Bids Invited.

Bids are invited for building three
bridges in Ward Six on Cypress.
bayou on dump between Keachie
and KeithviIle respectively rs, 45 and
55 feet long, with concrete posts.
Bids for bent bridges also invi b, to
be built in accordance withS&hish
specifications. All earth fills over 81
inches to be sodded with Bermuda
grass. Bids to be opened next meet
ing of the jury, second Thursday in
October 1911. Jury reserving ris9fad to
reject any and all biN.
w. 7. CRAWFORD, pres.
A. l.. DURINGER, Clerk.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-07-27

1t was after the ashes had been
knocked from the bedtime pipe that
Blount left his chair and the secluded
corner of the veranda to go and wan
der among the parked automobiles on
the lawn.
Blount had just awakened a sleepy
chauffeur to ask him to cov the
engine of a new Italian car when q
stir at the veranda entrance told him
that at least a few of the dancing
guests were leaving early.
He drew back when the little group
on the veranda came down the steps,
preceded by a club footman, who was
calling the number Of the car. And it
was not until he was turning away
that he found himself face to face with
a very beautiful and very clear eyed
young woman who was buttoning an
automobile dust coat up under her chin.
"Patricia!!' he burst out. For PHYS
sake. you don't mean to tell me that
you have been here all the EVENING""
Her quiet smile gave the impression
not quite of frigidity perhaps. but of
that quality Of serene self possession
which strangers sometimes mistook for
coldness.
"Why shouldn't I be here?" she
asked. Didn't you know that the
Cranfords, the people who are enter
tanning, were old friends of ours?"
Blount shook his head. "No, I didn't
know it, and because 1 didn't I have
lost an entire evening. 1t was cruel
of you to deny me this last evening,
Patricia"
""This last EVENING"" she echoed.
"Why 'last?'"
Because l am leaving Boston and
New England Monday. 1t is the only
thing to do"
Il am sorry you are taking it this
way, Evan" she deprecated in the sis
terly tone that always made him hot
ly resentful. at hurts my sense of
proportion"
Sometimes I think you haven't any
sense Of proportion, Patricia" he said
half morosely. IF you have 1 am sure
it is dreadfully distorted"
A white haired old gentleman in the
tonneau was calling impatiently to Pa
tricia to come and take her place so
that he might close the door.
cit is you who have the distorted
perspective. Evan" she %countered.
where are you going?"
II am going west day after tomor-
row."
"How odd..' she said. 1--WE are 60
ing west, too-papa and Though not
quite sc o as Monday"
"You are?' he queried. "Where-
abouts in the west?"
She did not tell him where. The
car motor was whirring, the chauf-
feur vas swinging up to his seat be-
hind the pilot wheel. and the old gen
tleman in the tonneau was growing
quite violently impatient.
81 shan't say goodby." she said hasti-
ly, giving him her hand at parting,
"nor shall I tell you where we are 60
ing. Let it be auf wiedersehen-till
we meet again"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-07-27
ANNEKS.

open handed old cattle king wading
into the muddy stream of politics to
crafty an ambition that wasn't his
own-a woman's ambition. In order
that the woman might mix and min
gle in Washington society for a brief
minute or two he got himself elected
to fill out an unexpired term Of two
months in the United States senate
bought it, some said. That was three
years ago, wasn't it? But Washing
ton hasn't forgotten. When l was
down there last winter the 5 o'clock
tea people were still recalling Mrs.
Biount's gowns and the wild western
naivete Of the Hon. Senator Sage
brush.'"
Gantry was %chuckling softly.
"Land Of love, Evan" he said,
you're an educated man, all right,
but you've got a lot to learn yet
about the senator and his politics. I
mean. Great snipes, man, he isn't in
it for the social frills and furbelows!
He never was. Let me intimate a few
things. Politically speaking, David
Blount is the biggest man in his state
today. He can have anything she
wants, from the head Of the ticket
down. You spoke rather sneeringly
just now of his two months in the
senate. He might have gone back If
he had wanted to, and he actually did
a much more difficult ~thing-named his
successor. / can tell you the situa-
ton out in the crossword country If
you want to know it."
Make it simple was Blount's con
dition.
''The outlook for us is precisely what
1t is in a dozen other states this year
everything promising a renewal Of the
bullheaded Legislative fight on the rail-
roads," said Gantry. There is only
one issue before the people, and that
IL the TranscoDtinenta.l railway. The
reformers, al they call themselves.
would like to legislate us out OF exist-
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-07-27
II.
THE BOSS.

W N a private dining room in the In
Is termountain hotel, whose en-
III trance portico faces the capitol
grounds in the chief city of the
Sagebrush State, two men were finish
ing dinner.
On the guest book of the Inter
mountain one Of the men had regis
tered from Chicago. The name was
illegible to the cursory eye, but since
it was the signature of an empire
builder it was sufficiently well known
in all the vast region served by the
Transcontinental railway system.
The owner of the name had finished
his ice and was sitting back to clip the
end from a very long and very black
cigar. He was a man past middle
age, large framed and heavy, with the
square, %resolute face of a born master
of circumstances.
Though he iguIsd only as the first
vice president of the Transcontinental
company, Hardwick McVickar was
really the active head of it's affairs and
Lie u1lcClOl Ol IT'S lJollCS.
Across the small round table sat the
railway ma2nate's dinner guest, a man
who was more than McVickar's match
in big boned, square shouldered ply
sique; a man whose half century was
written only in the thick grizzled hair
and heavy CRAVING mustaches.
II wish 1 could convince you that
it isn't worth while to hold me at
arms length, SENATOR" McVickar was
saying. you know as well as l do
that under the present law in this
state we are practically bankrupt.
We do a losing business from the mo-
ment we cross your state line"
Yes; it seems to me that 1 have
heard something like that BEFORE
was the noncommittal %rejoinder.
"You have heard the simple truth,
then. And it is a bald injustice not
only to the railroad. but to the peo-
pie it serves. We can't give adequate
service when the cost exceeds the
earnings"
"And you are unable to convince the
members of the railroad commission"
asked the man whom the vice presi-
dent addressed as senator"
you know well enough that we
can't convince an an%ti-railroad com
mission" was the half angry retort.
"Yet you are still running the rail
road" suggested the other.
Eyes; luckily the Transcontinental
system does not lie wholly within your
state boundaries. If it did we might
as well surrender our charter and go
out of business"
"All Of which has come to be a pref
ty old story, McVickar," said the lis
tener quietly. You didn't make me
motor thirty miles to hear you tell 1t
oil over again, ! know. What do you
wanty'
"we want a square DEAL" was the
curt reply.
80 do the people Of this state" as
serted the man Ae7oss the table. You
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-07-27
By
FRANCIS
Copyright. 1910. by Street q Smith

II was just thinking" was the re-
Elective rejoinder. I'VE used to be
fairly chummy in the old Ann Arbor
days, Evan, and yet I never knew till
this blessed minute that Senator
Blount was your father"
"He was and is" was the quiet re-
ply. 81 supposed everybody knew it."
81 didn't" Gantry denied, adding,
"What you don't tell people about
yourself would make a pretty big book
II it We're printed. Long ago you ad-
mitted to me that you were western
born, but you never told me any
more"
Perhaps it was because there was
so little to tell. I had a boyhood, like
other boys-or, no., possibly it wasn't
quite the usual. I was born on the
Circle Bar when the ranch was a
hard days drive from the nearest
shipping corral on the railroad. At
twelve I could ride line cut out and
rope down like any other ranch bred
youngster, and had never seer a
town bigger than Painted Hat"
And what happened when you were
twelve?' queried Gantry.
"The greatest misfortune that can
ever come to a half grown boy, Dick.
My mother died"
"That was hard" Gantry assented;
then, "Your father married again"
mot for some years." Blount quail
fed. "But for me the heavens were
fallen. / was sent away to school,
and from school I went to college, to
Europe and back here to the law
school. In all that time I've never seen
the Circle Bar or my native state:
have never been west of Omaha"
"Then the senator's-your fathers
political life has never touched you?"
"1t touched me on the sympathetic
side, Dick. 1 saw a large hearted
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-07-27

bted us, Hardwick-bled us to death
while you had the chance. You are
justly. if not legally, in debt to every
mar in this state who had ever ship
ped a carload of freight or paid a pas
senger fare over your line before the
present rate law went into effect"
The vice president sat up and put
his elbows on the edge Of the table.
you are too many for me. Blount,
and I'm no apprentice at the game eli
ther. In all the years we've dickered
together you've always been a con-
sistent fighter for your own hand.
What's happened to you? Have you
acquired a new set Of convictions, or
is this only a different way Of whip
ping the devil around the stump"
"Oh. l don't know" returned the
guest. eve are all growing older
and wiser perhaps. You don't deny
the debt you wv us, do you|"
"Do we W you anything. Blount?"
asked the magnate pointedly. "If we
do we are willing to pay it in spot
cash on demand"
The big man on the other side of the
table was leaning back in his chair
with his hands in his pockets, and the
smile wrinkling at the corners of his
eyes was half genial, half satirical.
cts lucky we are alone, McVickar."
he said. ga third party might imagine
that you are trying to bride me-"
Chats all right. Blount. We I'M
derstand each other. Nothing for
nothing is the accepted rule in this
world Of ours, and we all recognize
it. You are figuring IN something. I
know you are. Name it. If it is any
thing less than q mortgage on the
earth and II or two of the planets
I'll get it for you"
81 am afraid we are more than a
mile or two apart yet" said the man
who was not smoking after a long
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-07-27

Dor, and you are pushing us pretty
well up to it. 1 suppose you can swing
the legislature, and you can have it
and be hanged! Well have our gov
error and our attorney general"
"You are betting on that, are you?"
smiled the man in the opposite chair.
els that your declaration of warp"
Call it anything you like. We are
not going to be legislated off the map
if we can help it. Strong as your ma
chine is. you can't swing Gordon in
against Reynolds if we put up the
right kind of fight, and when it
comes to Rankin for attorney general
you simply haven't another man in
the party to put up against him"
You've settled this definitely in
your WI mind, have you, Hardwick?"
was the quiet question. I'm sorry-
I've been hoping you had learned your
lesson-you and your tribe. 1 came
here this evening prepared to show
you a decent way out of your trou-
bles. so far as this state is concern
ed"
Again the railroad magnate put his
elbows on the table edge. What was
your decent way major?" he asked,
using for the first time the courtesy
title by which the ex-senator was best
known in his home country.
Il don't mind telling you, though
you will call it an old mans foolish
ness. l have a grown son, McVickar.
Did you know that?:"
Yes"
He is a lawyer, and a pretty bright
one, they tell me. AS l happen to
know, he is well up on the corporation
side OF the argument, and l have been
afraid he would marry and settle
down somewhere in the east. I'm
getting old. Hardwick, and I'd like to
have him with me. Out of that no.
ton grew another. l said to myself
this: If McVickar could have a good,
clean cut young man representing his
railroad. a man who not only knew his
business in the courts, but might also
know how to plead his clients case
before the public-if McVickar could
have such a man as that for his cor
poration counsel and would agree to
live somewhere within shouting dis
lance of such a young mans ideals
we might all be persuaded to bury
the Ratchet and live in peace and am
fly"
A slow smile spread itself over the
strong face of the railway magnate.
"Why didn't you say in the beginning
that you wanted q place for your
boy?"
I'm not saying it now" was the
sober retort. you forget that you
have just been telling me that you
don't intend to comply with the con-
dition."
what condition."
"That you turn over a new leaf and
meet the people of this state half
way"
There isn't any halfway point in
a fight for life. You know that as
well as 1 do. But We'll give your son
the place gladly"
The man who had once been his own
foreman of roundups Strengthened him
self in his chair and smote the table
with his fist.
"No, by thunder, you won't-not in
a thousand years, McVickar.. Maybe
you could buy me-maybe you have
bought me in times past-but you can't
buy that boy. Listen and I'll tell YOU
what I'm going to do. l telegraphed
him this afternoon, telling him TO
throw up his job in Boston and come
out here. If he comes pretty soon he
will be legally a citizen of the state
before election. You said we didn't
have anybody but Rankin to run for
attorney general. I'll show you if we
haven't"
fro BE Continued