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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-28
Suit Instituted by the United States Recovery
Lands Enormously Patented N. O. P. Railway Company

The following news letter comes to the
Banner from the U. S. land office at Baton
Rouge. 1t is self explanatory. The citi-
zens of our State (perhaps including your
self are vitality interested in the matter
and it is being published by the press of
the State for the protection of their rights.
1t follows:
There is now pending in the United
States Circuit Court for the Western Dis
trict of Louisiana suit, No. Is, in equity
United States versus New Orleans Pa
cific Railway Company ct al-instituted by
the United States for the recovery of the
title to certain lands in the Baton Rouge
Land District, held to have been erro-
neously patented to the New Orleans Pac-
ific Railway Company under its grant.
By letter dated August 10, 1911, the
Attorney General advised this department
that it was his intention to take action
looking to an early trial and final DISPOSE
ton of this suit.
1t was his desire to have some notice
given by the Government to the effect
that no more tracts of land involved in
this suit will be eliminated merely because
the parties seeking such action have &C.
quired the titles both of the railway COM
pany and the settlers.
There prevails very erroneous idea as
to the title of the New Orleans Pacific
Railway Company to the lands acquired
under its grant, many people having the
impression that all the lands approved or
patented to this company are to be con-
veyed to the Government and placed within
the public domain and become subject to
homestead entry.
A great many applications have been
filed recently at the United States Land
Office in Baton Rouge on railway lands
and the officers of the land office are in
formed that number of people have
"squatted'' on still other of the railway
lands. All these home seekers appear to
be confident that they can hold the lands
on which they have made application, OF
as squatters.
The act under which the railroad gran,
was made especially provides that any
lands within the limits of the grant tina,
were in the possession of and being cult
waited and improved by actual settlers a,
the time OF the selection of the lands BY
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-28

AS usually treated, a sprained ankle will
disable man for three or four weeks, but
by applying Chamberlain Liniment freely
as soon as the injury is received, and OBJ
serving the direction with each bottle, a
cure can be effected in from two to four
days For sale by all dealers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-28
From Over Our Great State

Morgan City is soon to have new ship
yard.
New Orleans will get the 1912 good
roads convention.
Vidalia has sold $4,000 in bonds to
build new high school.
Over 5000 persons were in attendance
at the Vivian barbecue Tuesday.
Over 500 students have thus far regis
tered at Louisiana State University.
The continued increase of pellagra in
in the South is alarming physicians.
The agricultural and live stock exhibit
at Birdlonville closed Saturday, with good
results.
Two women were arrested in New Or
leans Monday, on charge of wholesale
shop lifting.
The Baton Rouge Board of Trade has
adopted plan for increasing truck grow
ing in the State.
Red River Parish farmers, at a meeting
held in Coushatta, agreed to hold their
cotton for IA cents.
The Louisiana State Health Car will be
taken to the Conservation Congress, to be
held in Kansas City.
Lockiaw as the result of extracting a
tooth caused the death of Andrew Bobino
at Franklin last week.
1t is said that the country is not suffer-
ing from the high cost of living but from
the cost of high living.
Lightning struck tank at Oil City last
Thursday causing the loss of 5000 barrels
of oil, which was burned.
Members of the Farmers Union met in
Columbia last Thursday and agreed to
hold their cotton for Is cents.
The New Orleans naval station was eff
fectually closed Tuesday, by the captain
in charge being ordered away.
Edward Wisner of New Orleans returned
from Holland and Belgium last week and
says Louisiana lands are the best.
The United States gunboat Wheeling viii
be present at the Intercostal Canal Con.
vention to be held in Morgan City.
Nine boys we're caught shooting craps
in the Y. M. c. A. building in Monroe las
Sunday night. They were arrested.
Congressman j. E. Ransdell of Louis.
lana deplored the growing evils of divorce
in speech at Peoria, ILL.,, Saturday.
The Advance Lumber Co., of Cleveland
Ohio, bought hard timber trac
in Ouachita Parish recently, paying
$4,000 for the property.
Lightning struck and killed Arthur Bar
illeaux and two large mules of J. N
Pharr & Sons on Avoca plantation, st
. Mary Parish, Tuesday afternoon.
Since the closing down of the Unite'
States Mint in New Orleans, the city au
thorities claim that the buildings an,
property rightfuly belong to them.
a Priceless gems stolen from wealth,
homes have been traced to the old Roya
Street antique shops in New Orleans. Al
old white woman was said to be the sourc
of supply.
James Wilkinson, editor Of the Plaque
e mines Protector, has issued letter show
ing that John T. Michel purchased NOR
than $4,000 acres of public land Will
Secretary of State.
Determined to be sent to Jail just for tn
r sake of having the experience, Miss AID
o Keller, of New Orleans, young and pretty
= proceeded to create a little disturbance OF
n the street Tuesday morning. She wa
!. promptly arrested. When taken befor
Judge Gauthreaux and asked to explai
}, her conduct, the young woman told hir
- that she had never experienced such
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-28

For bowel complaint in children
always give Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
ora and Diarhna Remedy and castor
oil. It is certain to effect cure and
when reduced with water and sweenened
IS pleasant to take. No physician can
prescibe better remedy. For sale by
all dealers.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-28
Our Agents

1t is the purpose of the management
of the Banner to greatly increase its
subscription list. One way to secure
new subscribers and hold them per
manently is to make it easy to remit
This has been done by securing |
agents at number of towns and I
postoffces throughout the Banners
territory. Whether you are an old |!
or new subscriber, it is now only |!
necessary to hand your dollar to one !;
of our agents and your part OF the I
transaction is finished. He will fill I
out blank post card furnished for I
that purpose and mail it to this |
Office. The receipt Of your sub |
scription will be acknowledged in /:
print, and also by card from the
publisher, when desired.
4 The Banners agents are:
Alden BRIDGE. F. Elder.
Adner-W. H. Lord.
Bolinger-M. S. Bolinger.
Bellevue. C. Biggs.
Bossier-W. J. Owsley.
Cotton Valley-A. A. Smith.
Haughton-Miss Clifford Connelf.
Ivan-R. D. Wilmington.
Koran-L. r. Sapp.
Linton-W. v. Lay.
Minden-Harmon C. Drew.
Midway-G. w. Dalrymple.
Plain Dealing-John H. Allen.
Rocky Mount. M. Henderson.
Shreveport. B. Carney, with
Castle Printing Company.
Tyler-G. w. Tyler.
Up town in this placer. T. Stin-
son, at the Bank of Benton.
Anywhere you can find him
w. M. Morrow.
4 1t is no trouble to the agent to
make a remittance. Don't think
that. The post cards and other
stationery are furnished him in
abundance. Aside from this, he
gets his commissioning cents out
OF each dollar paid him by old sub
scribers and Is cents out of each
dollar paid him by new subscribers.
4 Agents also have our advertising
rates and are authorized to make
contracts.
4 Addressed envelopes, post cards,
ETC., for the asking.
We have no local AGENTS other
than those mentioned above.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-28

A circular calling attention to the pro-
posed plan to erect in our State monu-
ment to the memory of the women of the
South who so heroically and unselfishly
cared for those left at home and encour-
aged the soldiers in the field during the
great struggle throughout the States dur
ing the COS, accompanied by letter from
Gen. T. W. Castleman, Chairman of the
State Division Of the U. G.. ", has been
received at this office. The corporation
of the Banner and its management has
been solicited. This will no doubt be Civ
en- in no mean measure, but we do not
care to take the liberty to launch the move
ment in our parish or start subscription
list in its interest before consulting the
editor and before his return home.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-28

HN- Send the Banner to your son O.
daughter now away from home in school,
They will appreciate it, and you won .
have to write them SO often. Don't senu
in dollar. Ii the paper is wanted eighs
months, remit 50 cents; if nine MONTHS
remit 80 cents. The subscription prlcs
by the month is 10 cents.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-28

A pretty girl, says the Detroit Free
Press, is a charming sight anywhere ex-
cept on the back of a motorcycle. How
about climbing pole?-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Or astride horse, riding as man.
Shreveport Caucasian.
Or in the lobby of a hotel shooting dice
over the cigar counter with men.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-28

You may have the Banner without
paying the price of subscription. Just
secure us three new paid-in- advance
subscribers and we will be pleased to
mail it to you gratis for year.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-28
Why Darn Stockings by Hand /?

Get Singer Darner. It's the best device
ever invented for holding a stocking so it
can be darned at the heel, toe or any other
point. For sale at Singer Store.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-28
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-28
THE Z

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Of March 3
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

solution of her
Cities villages
that
This strongly follow Londons
footsteps.
Gentlemen money, listen to this:
which 10
dividends the
which similar built
1t? it this 1t makes
no dollars who
40 together of city
little the suburbs
build 10 houses the You get the
dividends in either
Why then the city sums Mr. Moneyed Man? You
get the dividends and have your tenants living in
behinda
where folks have fruits vegetables sunshine and air
these villages
the 10 They successfuripy sue
healthier D they the dividends
wretched city
Now thing have to have in America in
this We must have
minutes ride for three cents
And the stock, 1t?
England has found private capitalists who
their reasonable profit by
the instead of everangy
they lost
their principal, plus good interest
encouraged
little democrace
IS successfully managed by cooperation
people with
1900 They going outside to live
helping them do tbecause it
sample garden suburb in this town?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02
How's Your Son Shaping Up

The creation of class distinctions the oppression of uncon
the public
the ideals
teaching that moneys the thing and
social listen
professor political science Stanford uni
truths that
head:
maj his all, In the esti
nation of his fellow stand like wnd-swept oak bere OF
afford with
standards moral WORTH by
Judgments of right and formed When
the patterns which he
boted and blurred and the critical faculty
by
soul of him. He is degraded from
the moral mastery of life.
For 20 years. friend watched the effect upon
triumph first great
prate-the oil trust Sand Moneys the thing
With it, matter kicks Many left college
ideal of fe'
principal continues Howard, els
right ideas OF what
while itself Endow benevolent institutions
restore ideals destroyed by the of ngoen
wealth"
ideals getting? Is his character
Moneys thing" else
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

VI.
After I'd killed the stray sheep
thinking 1t was a "varmint," pa
remarked that he could see we
weren't going to stay in the woods
long. First thing you know there'd
be a man along to collect about
Sc for the sheep.
l rescued the rifle from where
pa had flung it In the river, and
cleaned and oiled 1t and hiked
over the mountain to see If 1
couldn't really kill some sure
enough game while I still had a
chance. But maybe I'm wrong
maybe 1 never had a chance. Any
how 1 didn't see any and didn't
kill any. So lit little camp fire
and fried some bacon and felt
real backwoodsy. After that
went back to the tent.
Pretty soon we could smell
smoke and not long after we could
see whole lot of it. "Lawsy
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

me, the woods are afire," says ma.
Its hot enough without that"
The fire seemed to be right
where I'd just been.
odd you light fire over
there?". asked pa.
YES" l said. ~ cooked some
bacon"
did you put the fire out?" he
asks further.
"No, didn't" says "Why?"
Because now 1t would take the
regular army to put it out" he
says, hurriedly packing up. ct
never thought you'd set the woods
afire as hunter, but evidently
you did,"
I'm glad we got away as soon
as we did. The angry natives, I
hear, half killed tramp they sus-
pected of starting that forest fire.
FOR SALE, CHEAP-One rifle,
slightly used.
(THE END.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02
The Shell Game.
BY Gerald Massey.

BY Gerald Massey.
IT'S coming up the steep Of time,
And this old world is growing
brighter;
We may not see it's dawn sublime,
Yet high hopes make the heart
throb brighter.
We may be sleeping in the ground
When 1t awakes the world to
wonder:
But We have felt It gathering
And heard its voice in living
thunder!
A Harvard graduate, heir to
81, 900, 900, is working as a gro
Gerry clerk at 50 week so as to
learn papa's business.
The dolphin is the swiftest fish,
swimming short distances at the
rate of 25 miles an hour.
Watermelons as big as flour
barrels are grown in Diarbekir,
Asiatic Turkey.
And
The pullets, We presume, are as
ponderous as the prehistoric
pachyderm.
oh,
A joosy melon underneath the
bough,
A tendah choking, twice big as
a COW;
A razzer side me, for to slice the
feed,
That Diar place am Paradise
enow!
Kermit Roosevelt has returned
from a hunting trip in Lower Cali.
fornia. Magazine editors, atten.
ton!
Following is the first tsanza oil
1 the song which has been chosen
as the battle song Of the suffra'
gists:
Once more awakes the spirit Of
the just,
And a world wide flame is kindled
from the dust.
Women, for the right we know
i For the duty that we owe,
For all souls now here and com
ing, vote we must.
But
Kindling worldwide flame
from dust Is no easy job.
Consular reports show that
American chewing gum is replac.
ing the betel nut as the favorite
chaw of Siamese men and women
John Jacob Aston has gone fish.
ing with his fiancee, Miss Force
But he won't land any bigger
catch than she has.
The food experts OF the agricul.
tural department are trying to
find out what's Maraschinc
cherry. It's a trouble maker
that's what 1t is.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

known to an af-
fectionate con-
federacy as "The
Swamp Fox" is
sued a very I'M
foxlike procla-
nation in which
he noisily an
nounced that he
W o u l d hang,
draw &d quar-
ter a minion of
Abraham L n
coin for every
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

member of the confederate amry
or the Missouri state guard who
should be put to death in pursu-
ance of the orders of Gen. FIRE.
mont in his excesses," promised
Thompson. But neither got very
far that way.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02
Bill On the Safe and Sane Lay

With his carefully laid with the family sverware
President Taft told the G. A Rochester:
However times the situation long
country God-fearng, intelligent people,
working safely
the problems set before them"
white smelly things thrown BILL if
he this lovely thought off the the people OF
he's publicly being unfit their
owl
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02
READ THIS TO FATHER
Don't spend no money fo

Don't spend no money lot
gas" he told the dentist.
"Yank it out II it does hurt"
You are plucky," said
the dentist. Let me see the
TOOTH"
"Oh, faint me that's got
the toothache; it's my wife.
She'll be here in a minute"
Cosmopolitan.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

stagedom, the
forty-first ami
versary of Miss
Henrietta Cross
mans first debut
on the world
stage. Probably
she Is best
known to Amer
lean theater go
ers as Mistress
Nell" a produc-
tion that has fur
nished no end of
fame and dollars
for the actress
and her husband
manager, Maur-
ice Campbell.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02
REMARKABLE EFFECT

Adam Bede gained such reputation for telling funny ones
from Minnesota that his const
him home they could hear them and
laugh, too -
reminds Saw
getting off
effect the
remarkable Stone turned
Wood Then both turned rubber.
ENCOURAGING
is a robin singing the rain?"
pretty girl letting hold her hand in dark
Watkyns much interested In
he the exhibition
much interest in the
young misses.-Sonervi Journal
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

Natalie Curtis says all we need
to do to Indians music to make
1t good is to apply some mathe-
mates to it. Does she mean
put down six and carry two" or
merely a little matter of subtrac-
tion2
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

They've arrested New Mexico
restaurant man for serving worms
In his spaghetti, the gay deceiver!
They're getting almighty bloated
officially with their idea of state
hood in n. M.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

Portland Telegram says
there is something of pathos
about the charge against Sen
ator Stephenson, a man of
82 and worth $20,000,0O0.
Maybe, but we don't recognize
the pathetic odor, yet.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

Los Angeles suffrage organiza-
lions get together in federation.
This federation idea proves the
strength of the movement better
than anything else.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

Pretty school ma'am APP
peared at the institute at
Tuscola, o., in hobbies. Tick
led 'em so that they want to
continue the institute right
through all vacation time.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

Jim Lawton, of the Wild Moss
Mills, Carrolton, Mo-, got wheat
out of the field, into the mill. into
the kitchen and onto the table as
biscuit in less than IL minutes.
Bet they weren't as good as
mother used to make.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

King George was shooting snipe
while his troops were shooting
strikers. Royalty and Big Bust
ness opening the hunting season
together?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

DR.. James A. LaGasa has moved
his offices to the Bird floor of Ma
tional Realty bldg. **%
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

Uncle Sans new Panama canal
hotel is to be "the Washington.
What If they had called it the
Taft or the William Howard?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02
Observations

Utah man confesses that he
his wife nicely by beat
Ing her regularly twice a day.
Bet that fellow could manage even
a motorboat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

They have vacuum cleaner
now, run by the exhaust gases and
used to clean the auto, the uphol-
stery and to remove dust from
passengers clothing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

Revolution stirring in Hondur-
as! What bunch of fire-crackers
those southern neighbors of ours
are!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

And now a mean eastern liter
airy sharp is proving that Stone
wall Jackson didn't pass within
two blocks of Barbara Frietchie's
flag!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

They say important questions
will come up at the apple~ con-
gress in Denver. OF cores. Rot
ten, rotten!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02
OUR DAILY BIRTH.
DAY PARTY.

Here we are back of the foot
lights once again, celebrating with
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02
ENCOURAGING
TODAY IN HISTORY

Sept. Q, 1881, Just 80 years ago,
Gen. Jeff. Thompson, who was
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

Chinese have taken to chewing
American gum, the heather!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

French scientist says there new
err was a Julius Caesar. Wassent,
hey? We'd like to know what
Mark Antony borrowed them ears
for then.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02
MOST
ANYvNiMG

A dragon fly can fly backwards
faster than swallow can fly
tother way.
The time Is here when the busy
man leaves off gathering the
dough to go to hunt the deer.
Dough (doe)-deer. Did you
get thatl. Then laugh, why don't
your
The Shell Game.
The month is now with ns.
The month with an r,
When many an oyster
Goes over the bar.
The latest fad-little pockets In
women's hats In which money or
even cLgaret case may be car
ried.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

Victims of highwaymen I'm New
ark were given back their car
fare. Highwaymen probably
thought that U. s. supreme court
decision about being reasonable"
applied to other thieves as we'll
as Standard Oil.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

DIR. Wiley says there are $1,000
900 germs in spoonful of ice
cream. Probably 100000 more
belonging to us, but the darned
druggists clerk leaves 'em in the
freezer for the next sundae fiend.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02
FROM DIANA'S DIARY

MIN DnpckIes Camping Mountains
to Slaughter Big Game.
BY SCHAEFER :
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

nunuEc Business Ofnse Msin 7ss, AiTsS
TuUVty Circulation Dept. Main 7ss, Ai7ss
Editorial Dept. Main 7e4, AI78s
oFFICE--7Gs COMMERCE ST.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

Cut out this coupon and bring IL or mail II to us
for free 90-page book about our treatment
This beautifully illustrated with pictures OF
we'll built robust men and women, showing how
ectra-Vita is applied, and explains many things
you should know regarding the cause and cure of
disease.
II you can't call well send the book, closely
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-02

The food experts OF the agricul-
tural department are trying to
find out what's a Maraschino
cherry. It's trouble maker,
that's what It Is.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-10-06
A cHlGGER CURE.

DR.. Crumbine. one time secretary OF
the Kansas board Of health, got hold
of a chigger remedy from a Texan a
number Of years ago and made it pub
lie. 1t is simple, as follows: Take
a few ounces Of hyposulphite of soda,
which retails for about 10 cents q
pound at any drug store, and make a
saturated solution In a small quantity
of water-that is, dissolve in the water
all 1t will hold. Moisten or battle
spots where chiggers have burrowed.
The solution apparently penetrates to
them and kills them. The solution has
no harmful effect aside from causing
slight smarting on parts which have
been scratched or irritated. The solu-
ton will not only relieve chigger bites,
but applied to the skin and allowed to
dry will prevent them from working
for day or two.