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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-09-14
CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS
EXTRA SESSION 1912
ACT no. 4.

Serate Bill No. 2. BY AIR. Voegtle.
Joint resolution submitting to the
people of the State of Louisiana an
amendment to the Constitution au-
inequalities to exempt new industrial
enterprises and also improved value.
inclusive of structures added to unim-
proved lanos by immigrants into the
State. who occupy said lands as home
steads from local taxation for period
not exceeding ten (10) years.
Section l. Be IL resolved by the
General Assembly of the State of Lou
isiana, two-thirds of all the members
elected to each house concurring, That
the following amentiment to the Con-
. stitution of the State of Louisiana be
and the SAME is hereby submitted to
the qualified electors of the State at
the congressional election to be held
on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in the month OF November of
the year 1912, to-wit
Every parish and svif-taxing NUM-
cipality shall have the right to exempt
new industrial enterprises and also the
improved value added to unimproved
lands, including all structures thereon,
by immigrants into the State who oc-
cupy said lands as homesteads, from To-
(10) years by the vote of two-thirds in
number of all its taxpayers, who are
qualified electors. including resident
women taxpayers. holding at least two,
taxation within the taxing locality at a
special election called for that purpose.
at which special electfon members of
partnerships, associations and heirs Of
estates. otherwise qualified, shall be
entitled to vote tLeir respective pro rata
of the assessed valuation of said part
nerships. associations or estates. E-ch
enterprise so exempted must be situat-
ed within the limits of the. exempting
authority and be established after, the
exemption is granted
Section 2. Be it further resolved,
etc, That there shal be printed on
the ballot to be used at said election
the words: For the constitutional
self-taxing municipalities to exempt new
industrial enterprises and also improy-
ed value. inclusive of structures. added
to unimproved lands by immigrants
as homesteads. from local taxes for a
period not to exceed ten 40 years and
Against the constitutional amendment
authorizing parishes and self-taxing
municipalities 10 exe.npt new industrial
enterprises. and alss improved value.
including structures. added to unim-
proved lands by immigrants into the
State who occupy said lands as home
steads, from local taxes for period
not to exceed ten (10) years. and each
elector shall indicate on his ballot as
provided by the general election laws of
the State whether ne votes for or
against the said amendment.
THOMAS C. BARRETT,
Lieutenant Governor and Persistent OF
L. e. THOMAS.
Speaker of the House Of Representatives
Approved: August gath, 1872,
Governor of the state of Louisiana
A true copy:
ALVIN Z. HEBERT.
Secretary of State.
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AcT 40. 1o.


Senate Bill No. Z. BY Mr.. shaffer.
Joint resolution submitting to the
people of the State OF Louisiana. az
the congressional election to be held
in November. 1912. an amendment 20
the Constitution of the State exempting
from taxation for ten 10) years from
the date of completion the capital
stock. franchises and certain property
of all corporations constructing. owning
and operating within the State COM
bined system of irrigation. navigation
and hydro-electric- power. using fresh
water streams AMI water sheds. provid-
ed that each system be completed ana
in operation within five go years from
January 1st 1913. and providing fur
tier that not 1sss than five. million
dollars shall have been expended IN
the construction of each system.
Whereas. the State of louisiana has
large areas comprising millions of acres
of land that can be reclaimed ana
brought into cultivation by irrigation.
whereby large additions will be made
to the population and the assessed val
ne OF the State and
Whereas. canals can be constructed
SO as to provide irrigation. navigation
and power and it IL the States duty
to encourage and promote the organi-
zation Of such concerns:
Section l. Be II resolved by the Gem
cral Assembly Of the State of Louis
lana. two-thirds Of all the members
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BATTLE OF TIE: WILDERNESS,
Soldier Describes riphI ing iu Letter 10
His Wife.


Following is IA letter of a Confedcr-
ate soldier TO his wife, published in
tile Ncwbcrry Observer, ~ which the
Battle OF the Wilderness is described:
Wilderness, May :. 1864.
Ny Dear Wifc,-On The 9Th we
marched all day on .he plank road
| from Orange Courthouse to this place.
we got Into hard tight on the left OF
the road rather late in tire afternoon
Tho fighting was desperate for two or
three hours. with the least carrcnad-
ing l have ever heard in a battle. /
suppose this WAS duo to the level coun-
trF ana the thick undcrErowth. In
aesd, wilderness II is-iow. flat and
! utterly unft for cultivation.
After night Major Hammond rode in
TO where We doctors were and told us
| that about two miles to the rear there
was poor Yankee Who was badly
wounded. lie insisted TINT some one
OF us so back and help him. | went.
. aud found him phraly.ed from a shot
IN the back. gave him water ana
morphine. aud made him comfortable
IN pest could. Poor tel!ow. he seem
Cd very grateful.
AFTER returned to our lines the
order came to move nack with our
medical stores to Orange Courthouse.
we marched nearly all night. but iuet
before day VIC We're ordered back to
the Wilderness, reaching there not
! long after sunrise. Lon&street came
up apout this time. having mad fore
ed march al night previous. Then the
. hghtinS began in earnest-contiuuin;;
isnria! and desperate all day. Tho
tremendous roar from the artillery
, and tho rattle Of the :nusketry seem
cd to make the woods trcmbIc
La" In the afternoon NJ this dny I
walked among tho wounded OF tho
2 l fH7 .ar~f- {
te%rs, and OF the Yankees who had
fallen into our hands. AS usual on
such occasions, groans aid cries met
me from every aide. Colonel James
Nance. my old school.nate. and Colonel
inil!ard. OF Fairfield, lay side by side
IN death. Near them lay Warren
Peterson with a sheltered thigh bone
ana still others from Aswberry. Not
lar from these was an old man +,
Yankee onicer. mor,ally wounded. !
iearned that he was Brigadicr-Gcneral
/ Wndsworth. once Governor OF New
! York. Many OF the eucmy were there
picked 'up an excellent Yankee
overcoat on the Battlefield but the
cape is off. will have sacl, Goa,
made OF II. also found an India
rubber cloth that Is plenty big for
four men TO lie on or to mako tent
OF have never seen Il battlefield
so Strewn with overcoats, knapsacks
India rubber cloths AMI everything.
else soldiers carry, eHceEt at Chan
ce!lorsvtle. The dead Yankees are
everywhere I have never seen woods
Sc completely r.ddled with bullets: at
one place where tho battle ragged
among ch!duapin bushes all the bark
was knocked off and they are literally
torn TO pieces.
Tell Bob that as soon az 7 draw some
~ the new issue ! will send him the
pay FOR your catskin shoes.
Anecttonatcly yours,
s G. "
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thci. confusion, and before the shoot
ing could be stopped several men had
been killed. among them Colonel Hot
lnway. Many wcr. wounded. or
course. the Ionfcdcrntes thought they
were tring on tho cncn,y 'rnc ami.
forms OF the Confederate and Union
soldiers at that ttiuc We're largely i'm
proTiScd, SO that such a mistslS. was
easily made.
AZ for the enemy tho: ware stand
ing on tic hin several hundred yards
away gazing IN ACCOMPLISHMENT upon
the demonstration that w.,s going on In
the Confederate camp. When the mr.
Ing had subsidized the "ern,uy" marched
calmly back 10 Kansas CITY Elat!
enough. doubtless. TO get away, for its
hundred soldiers would not have made
much Of an Impression. probably. I'M
on the 500 men In The Confederate
camp--a little detail when The excitce,
Confederates appeared rot "a have con
sidered
subsequently, mnst Of The men In the
Confederate camp became brave sol
a!erS. but at that time the men We're
Inexperienced and undi .riplined and
their nerves were not yc, panic proof
rho battle or 1o,iS Creek is believed
Ia have hcen tho only humorous battle
IN the Civil War, says the kansas City
Star.
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Fleet Grnnt.

Fleet Grant.
John Fleet took up 800 acres on
York River in 1853. Robert Todd and
Colonel Richard Lee had land adjoin-
Ing. What relation he was to Henry
Fleet Burgess from Lancaster In
1862, does not appear. William Fleet
was also sheriff of Lancaster IT'S
1910. John might have been OF this
family. William Fleet also might have
been descendant of John. He lived
In King and Queen county from 1857
to 1885, was . member of the Consti-
tutionai Convention l7SS, and had
Christopher (2) b., NJ D., who married a
Miss McKim Colonel Alexander (ab,
justice OF the psacc. and member 81 the
VirSinin Legislature, who married,
first Miss Pollard and. second u
Mrs. Butler; james t2) Robert, who
married Miss Eyland, and BENJAMIN
f2), who married Maria Louisa, daucn-
ter of DR.. Wacker. a German. whose
wife was A Pollard. DR.. CHRISTOPHER
'(2) Fleet had john A. (3), who married
flrst. a Maynard. and second, Ry-
land; Charles B. ca. married n Burras,
and DR.. William (s) T., who married a
Basby.
John tsp AS children were May
na:'d "a. Charles ti>. Or. Bennett %,
McKim -. and Ellie as.
Or. william T. Fleet t3) had Jean.
cite "a, who married = Mr. Vest;
Brooke (D, married Miss Pyles;
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Stnnc,rnll .Incs.nn.

The Detroit FREQ Press gives Gen
eral Thomas J. Jackson place among
Seven Men OF Integrity"
Tho following article cut from the
Detroit Michigan FREQ Press. January
IL, 1912. lis in such strong contrast
with the description Of the great Con
federa;e soldier in Miss Mary John
stons la: book, The Long Foil" that
!. as native Firsinian and an ad-
mirer of the great Confederate Gen
cral. felt that | would like 10 see II
in tho column OF your influential jour
nal, believing that the estimate of
his character by this Northern writer
will be accepted and remembered by
our Southern people, long after Miss
Johnston's book is forgotten.
How a Southern lady could traduce
the character of 40 noble a gentleman
and soldier, the writer has by her
untruthful description and caricature
of his likeness In the book referred
to Ia past all comprehension.
MRS. DANIEL p. McNL LIEN.
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l1HA aDI1P Ull1le5 4jYpotrt, 60
IS &1ENE CT Ks G{01IE{UTEE

William a. Chaplin, Minnie 81 and
sydney "a.
Colonel Alexander ca Fleets chill
dren were Christopher (3) b.. Rev.
Alexander (s). Betty 90, who married
Bagby. and Suilie ca Brown
DR.. Benjamin Fleets children were
Colonel a. T.. Fleet. a most scholarly
gen tleman, who was for many years
superintendent Of the Culver Military
Academy: David. of Washington. State
Judge; William. OF Virginia Louisa:
Fleet married Miss Bolie Seldom, and
has several sons and daughters. Miss
Seddon was daughter of John Seldom,
Secretary of War during tho Confed-
cracy.
Mrs. Maria Louisa Fleet was a pio-
necr in educational effort, and her
school In King and Queen had largo
patronage, and was much moro ad,
vanced than the usual school OF her
day
Robert Todd took M Land on the
York River In 1868 and Is said TO b.
of the Toddsbury family" which is 4.
most inter astinE one. No Todds are
left in Gloucester but there are. as I
have before mentioned. many citizans
of Gloucester descended from thf
Toddsbury Todd..
+" Toddsbury is ono Of the most nor
feet examples OF eighteenth century
architecture In the State. We will
siva full notice of It when We got
to North River. There can bo no COM
plant of tho Gloucester land grants
or any other land grants. being mo-
notonous. for no ono ever stays whcrS
he began. and IL one takes a grant in
Gloucester. we find hts children In
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
Editor Genealorx Column.

Editor GenealoSy Column:
Dear Srs.--I have before me- clip
ping from one OF your tissues in Sop
lcmhcr last, referring 10 tho Preston
family, In which you state that tho re-
cord given was taken from the st.
Louis 'Times-Demoornt. beg 10 call
your attention to tho fact that tho
Times-Democrat has made a mistake
In stating TINT William Preston was
the founder of tho American family.
and that he married Elizabeth Patton,
sister of Colonel James Patton. John
Preston was the founder cf the family
In America. and he IT was who married
Elizabeth Patton, and their son was
William, who married Susanna Smith.
and lived at "Smithfield" near Blacks
burg, Montgomery county, Va. His
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-11
The SHY Dny. OF 1901.

Il was the silly season of 1861 which
may have accounted FOR IT, No Other
explanation has ever been offered. u,
an? rate, Tor the Battle OF Rock
Crcek, that was fought June II OF
that year near where the o.d Westport
ana independence Roads Intersect a,
Rock Creek on land .hen owned by
Harnctt holland. father CT William 4.
holland, now citizen of Independence
Kansas.
For several days there had been
camped about 30Q recruits from the
farms of Jackson and adjoining coun.
lies eager to see some real war, 80 they
SAID. They were Southern sympa thi-
zers and at night they srt around tho
campnres and chafed at the delay tha,
Kept them from showing thot they sure
enough were heroes. II seemed n
shame that soldiers of their valor. they
told each other, should be wasting so
much time that might as well be en-
ployed TO good advantage pulvcr!zIny
the enemy.
Here in Kansas City tho Union
troops were canped. and the mornin :
Of June Is two Confederate scouts re.
turning from n accommodating sNpedi
ton announced that n company of tho
Union troops were approaching. 1t
proved to he Captain William T., prince
with about 100 men under 81 flag OF
truce, and Colonel Holloway, OF the
Confederate troops. advanced to meet
him. There was a conference and the
two officers started back 20 their re-
spective commands.
Nobody ever knew exactly what
started II. but iust nj tbs juncture
over in tho Confederate camp every
body appeared to he shooting and run
ming at about the same time They
weren't firing ct the anemy, but had
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Continued to Next Sunday
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AsnBY AND wySpnAM.
Philadelphia Writer Gives New YER
sion of Much Discussed Incident.

The question of who captured Sir
Percy Wyndham has hobbed up again,
this time In the Philadelphia Times.
and The Star has been asked to publish
1t. The article from the Philadelphia
paper appears below, but the reader
should understand that It's rcproduc.
ton here does not lead 10 the Infer
once that its authenticity Is vouched
for by The Star. nor does The Star uii-
dertake to stand for any other matter
that has appeared in It's columns con.
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AT E'licott City. Md, few miles
from Baltimore. resides Miss Marian
Phi'iraaa Jones. an elegant. typical
Southern woman of the anto- hellum
days Miss Jones is stenographer.
and typewrites dissertations for tho
graduate students Of the Johns Hop
kins University. This Is how
CHANGED 10 meet her in 1906.
One day Miss Jones told me about an
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-11
Autorrsrh. Of Confederate Soldiers

Richmond. va. November 1. 1911.
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-17
DENMARK'S NEW KING.

The new King of Denmark, Christian
X, comes to the throne at mature age.
He spoke well at his coronation, and
declared his purposes TO be practically
what the course Of Danish kings for
many generations has been; that is.
popular monarchs really subservient 70
the will Of the people, and mild CON
stitutional rulers.
Prince Christian, until lately the heir
apparent and now the king. was born
September e6. 1870. He was married
April 90. 1898 TO Princess Alexandrne
of Mecklenburg. The heir apparent is
his oldest son, Prince Christian Fred
erik, born March II, 1899.
The late King. Frederik VIII. WAS
born June 3, 1s43. He succeeded 10
the throne on the death of his father.
Christian IX, on January %. 1905. King
Christian was one of the most respected
rulers on any throne in the world. He
was born in ISIS. and succeeded 10 the
throne on the death Of his father. Fred.
erik VI November -. 1868, and
rcigned tiil his death in 1906. period
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-17

of forty.tbree years His son Frederik,
who came 10 the throne in 1908, has
reigncd but little over six years
The long reign OF the present kings
grandfather made the Danish dynasty
one of the foremost OF the European
rcicning houses. One daughter Of old
King Christian married King Edward
of England. another the Gar Of Rus.
sia, one of his sons became King of
Greece. and by international marriages
the Danish rulers family is very close
TO all of the lynasties of Europe. This.
however. did not prevent the old king
being robbed OF his province Of Schles
wig Holstein by the PruSsiaus and Aus
trians in the shameful war grab Of
1864
The now king Of Denmark will have
the good will Of all the European roy
alties. He is close in kin with the
rcigniug houses of Great Britain, Ger
many. Greece. Russia, Sweden. and
Spain. His brother is King of Norway;
his country is at peace with all the
world, and is enjoying prosperity that
is we'll earned by scientific and fruit
ful agriculture and industries Of many
sorts. His outlook, therefore, for long
and prosperous reign, is unusually good
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-17
HIS DEMENTED EGoTIsM.

The arrogant egotism of Roosevelt is
manifest in his expressions, which real.
ly are evidences of a dlsordered mind
Thus in addressing the voters Of Min
nesota he said, 81 became candi.
date only when ] became convinced
that no other progressive candidate
could by any possibility he nominated
against Mr.. Taft. And this right in
the face of his statement 10 the voters
of Arkansas that he spoke equally TO
Democrats and Republicans. and in
face of his statement TO the North
Carolina Democrats that be was espe.
cially and particularly a follower or
Andrew Jackson. But how can his APP
peal TO Democrats be reconciled with
his statement to the voters of Mime,
sofa that no other progressive candidate
other than himself could beat President
Taft' In Minnesota ne Is special
progressive Republican candidate; In
Arkansas and North Carolina he is es-
pecially a Democratic candidate and a
Jackson man.
Again. in his Minnesota letter. Roose.
Welt said: "There is Just one candidate
whom II is possible 10 nominate against
the bosses, and that is myself. - That
is, Of course. he is the biggest boss of
all. and if he can outboss everybody
else he viii win.
Further. in that same Minnesota let.
ter, he SAID;
MY personal interest Is OF no concern
one way or the other but it happens that
at this time I typify and embody the
grcat cause which can only be furthercd
bv supporting me. Almost everywhere
where / have been able TO appear per-
sonaIy In this campaign and tight the
bosses we have beaten them, and I ask
that Minnesota stand beside Oregon and
Illinois. Pennsylvania and Nebraska.
Maine, Kansas and Maryland In this
fight.
Which is practically repeated in his
telegram to Colonel Loose, where he ap-
pesls for support in Utah, And the
curious part of it all il that no one,
aside from Colonel Roosevelt, had re-
allied that the country was in any
special danger this year any more than
heretofore. or that there was anv great
crisis on which required political sa
yior. swho, of course, could only be
Colonel Roosevelt
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-17

Roosevelt now explains that when ne
favored the Canadian reciprocity agree.
meut it was before he knew its real
character. But why should he approve
thing before understanding it7 And
why sbouldn Z he understand reciprocity
with Canada, proposition that has
been agitated for fifty years or more1
Such explanations don't speak well
either for his intelligence OF stability
of mind
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-17

Recent reports say that there are
more than five million people in the
United States who can neither read nor
write. This will be encouraging news
to the courts, as indicating that the
supply of know-nothing Jurors is not
vet exhausted,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-17

in this country, where our yield OF
wheat is less than half as much per
acre as the farmers of Europe raise on
their old farms that have been used
for centuries.
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Suppose that Bryan had cut into
the Presidential game" as Roosevelt
did, stumpiug the country for delegates,
how many could the other candidates
have obtainedi And it is certain that
most Of the Democrats who have voted
in the primaries for Roosevelt would
have preferred TO vote for Bryan.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-17

The other day King George and his
oldest son, the heir apparent. went
down In a submarine, and no fuss was
made about it. But when Roosevelt
proposed while he was President to go
down in submarine, his worshipers
raised a yell of terror. as though the
country was about to be deprived of
it's One and Only.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-17

\ Chicago firm is said TO have given
million dollars 20 further a project
to put county agriculturist in all the
counties of every State TO make study
Of local conditions and suggest plans
Of scientific farm management to oh.
tain larger Weld OF better grain.
That isvthc sort Of work that must
count IN time, and that il badly needed
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-17

Suffragettes in the East proclaim that
Laws will be enforced when women
have the vote" Hurrabl Well, but
What do Utah courts think about that
sentiments Women vote in Utah. Who
says that here the laws are erforcedl
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-17

In his speech at Manchester, New
Hampshire, Col. Roosevelt said: HThe
only promise that is valuable is the
promise that can be kept Meaning.
no doubt, that his promises not TO be
candidate for President again had no
value because he did not keep it. 4
very convenient excuse, truly.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-17

Roosevelt never has any objections
to the steam roller when he is running
it over other people. But when it is
run over him, what a scandalous, bar
barous process it is. TO be sure!
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-17

Three of Roosevelt s cabinet officers
are opposing him. 1T is clear case
that they have dcgenerated; for. while
they were with him they were friends
of the people; but now, of course, they
arc mere tools of the bosses
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-17

President Taft figures that the Ohio
delegation will insure him success. But
if his campaign manager s figures are
correct. even approximately, he will
he nominated though Ohio be against