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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14
Give Credit Where 1t Be
longs.

Some of the opponents of May
or Loeb are claiming that the
credit for the Improvement OF
the power plant is due to the
present Council rather than to
the Mayor himself. For that
reason it is only fair to quote
the following resolution passed
largely by some Of the very ones
who are now fighting him hard
est.
At the meeting held Oct. 1st,
1912, page 237 of the minute
book records the following:
Motion by Mr.. Daniel
That the Beard of Aldermen
express their thanks to Mayor
Loeb, for his energy and success
in financing and obtaining a loan
of Sc, 600, for improving the
power plant. Motion duly sec
onded and carried. =
The members present at said
meeting and voting for the
adoption of said resolution were:
Shaw, Danel, Sicily and BoWden.
This loan was negotiated with
and secured from Capt. Sam
Haas at the rate Of s per cent
discount after it had been re-
peatedly offered elsewhere and
particularly to some of those who
are now opposing Mayor Loeb.
CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14
PAVING WORK STILL
PROGRESSING NICELY
Blocks Are Being Laid on
Landry and Streets Al
ready Look Improved.

The work on the streets is
still progressing nicely. The
little shower experienced this
week was only a drawback Of d
few hours, and if the good
weather which the contractors
have been experiencing since
their stay here will continue it
will not be many days before
the creosoted wood block pave
ment will be completed In this
city and Opelousas will be bless
ed with good substantial streets.
On last Wednesday morning
the contractors began laying the
wood blocks on Landry street,
near Riseman's building, and
Judging from the manner in
which these blocks were being
treated by the laborers it is safe
to say that the work is very near
to completion. Several hundred
people seized the opportunity to
see the men work. and from the
time that the laying Of the
blocks was started spectators
were on the corner of Landry
and Market until knock-of time.
The people here, at least those
who have been converted into
progressive citizens, recently,
are already wondering why they
had not done this work long ago.
Yes indeed, IL the streets ii this
city had been paved several
years ago, Opelousas would be
much more prosperous than it is
at present. Many of the promi-
nent taxpayers rightfully claim
that pavement is one Of the best
investments for a town.
Opelousas will be prouder Of
her streets next winter than it is
at present. When the other
towns in this section will be suf-
fering on account of too many
mudholes" Opelousas viii be
good and dry.
With all the money which has
been expended during the last
two years in this city for public
improvement alone Opelousas
can boast Of as progressive a
stride as any town double its size
in Louisiana.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14
WE'RE ALL ABOARD
FOR next TUESDAY
Election Promises to Be One
of The Most Exciting
In City's History.

All aboard for next Tuesday!
The four hundred and twelve
qualified voters of the city Of
Opelousas are anxiously await
ing for the time to come to go
and cast their ballot for their
candidate for Mayor and men,
Der of the Board of Aldermen.
The contest promises to be one
of the most exciting in the his
tory Of Opelonsas.
,Loeb's friends claim that he
will be victorious for the mayo
ralty, w hills t the Shaw ad-
herents are confident that the
doctor will defeat the present
incumbent by Is to 20 votes.
The fourth and third ward are
conceded to be strong for Loeb,
w hilst the second and first
are claimed for Shaw. However
Loeb's men are confident that
Shaw's majority in either the
first or the second will not be SO
enormous, w h i'll s t DR.. ShaWs
friends are assured that Loeb
will not carry the fourth by such
a great many votes as is claimed
and that their chances in the
third ward are nip-and-tuck.
The election will be one of
the most interesting ever pulled
off in Opelousas, with every
candidate in the field claiming
the victory. Chief of police, G.
L. Hayes, has been proclaimed
the Democratic nominee for City
Marshal, whilst Mr.. Maruis
Fields, is the Democratic nominee
for alderman from the first ward,
both men being in the race with
out opposition.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14
WALTERS TRIAL TO
Be ON APRIL 18th
Hon. E. B. Dubuisson APP
pointed to Defend Alleged
Kidnaper.

William C. Walters will appear
ii the Criminal District Court on
the morning of April 18th, when
the famous Kidnapping case will
come up for hearing. Hon. Ed
ward B. Dubuisson, one of the
ablest criminal lawyers of this
section of Louisiana has been ap-
pointed by a decree of the court
TO defend the prisoner. He will
be assisted by Dale & Rawls,
prominent Mississippi lawyers.
The alleged kidnapper of the
Dunbar child stated on Thursday
evening that he did not fear the
outcome of the trial; he is conf
dent that he will find enough
Jurors to mete out justice to him
and that in the end he will be
proven innocent. He is glad
that he will be tried in st. Lam
dry parish and in the very home
town of Bobbie Dunbar, whom
he is alleged to have taken away
from Swayze lake in August
1912. He wants to be proven
innocent here in Opelousas, and
If he is convicted he claims that
he will be a martyr and for that
reason he wants the people of
Opelousas to be thoroughly ac-
quainted with his sacrifice.
The prisoner is well pleased
with the treatment of the Opel.
ousas people and states that he
has found several friends right
here in the home town of Bobbie
Dunbar. He is positive that
when the time comes he will be
able to prove that the boy now
in possession of the Dunbars is
Bruce Anderson. whom Julia
Anderson gave as his charge a
few years ago.
Walters also expects several
prominent and able lawyers from
Mississippi to come to Opelousas
to assist in the defense, gratis.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14
Chauvin-B Boring.

Miss Alice Boring and Mr.. E.
V. Chauvin were quietly married
at the home of the brides pa
rents, in Bellevue, in the pres
ence Of a few friends. Miss
Alice was the youngest daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Boring. and for
several years has attended school
at Lafayette, whilst Mr.. Chauvin
is a very popular young railroad
dispatcher of Lafayette.
After the wedding the bride
and groom left for Lafayette
their future home.
They have our very best wish
es for a happy future.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14
CONVICT
TAKEN into CUSTODY
Messrs. Lynn Roy and Simon
Sicily Bring Life Convict
Back to Camp.

Pat Ryans, alias Harry Fur
gerson. escaped life convict, was
taken into custody by Lynn Roy,
local store-keeper and Simon
Sicily, popular member of the
Board of Aldermen from the
third ward, early Monday morn
ing about four miles east Of this
city.
The negro was convicted Of
rape in a northern Louisiana
parish about eight years ago; he
had served about four years in
the penitentiary, after which he
escaped. For almost two years
Ryans has been living in this
surrounding country.
The manner in which it was
discovered that the negro was
in this neighborhood was this:
Mr.. Roy was at one time an en-
ployee Of the State Penitentiary
Board; w hilst working for
the state he had charge of seve-
raj convicts. One of these negro
convicts, after being pardoned,
came to Opelousas recently to be
in the employ of Mr.. Roy, to
whom the black is devoted on
account of the kindnesses shown
him by Mr.. Roy, W h i 5 t the
negro was serving short term
in the penitentiary.
After being here a while,
working on the streets, Mr.. Roy's
negro noticed Pat Ryans, and
Immediately notified his master,
whereupon Mr. Roy consulted
Mr.. Sicily, who readily consent
ed to lend all the assistance pos
sible. Tho two men traced the
negro to the Mosely place, about
four miles from 0pelousas. Pat
Ryan was working for Mr.. Mo
riIl Richard, who is the manager
of the Mosely place. Messrs.
Roy and Sicily set our to go on a
hunt, and at the same time to.
ascertain the exact place where
the negro resided. They soon
discovered. however, where they
could capture their man. The
next morning bright and early
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14
PAPPAS and GORMLY
WILL BATTLE HERE
Greek and Lake Charles
Boy Scheduled to Fight
Tonight.

Jimmie Pappas, of Joplin,
Missouri, and Kid Gormly, OF
Lake Charles, two well known
prize fighters, will have a ten
round bout at the Sandoz Opera
House tonight. Both boys are
good fighters and it is expected
that a very interesting contest
will be held.
Mr.. John Molaison, one of the
best known sportsmen of this
city, has secured the two boys
for tomorrow night, and he
promises the people of Opelou-
sas clean cut and honest fight,
one that ladies can witness.
Pappas is a Greek and has
been in Opelousas for the last
several days, whilst Gormly is a
Lake Charles boy, who has hosts
of friends and admirers in this
city. The friends of both con-
testants are claiming that their
man will come out victorious.
Before the big fight, two 9TH
er ones will be staged, being the
preliminaries.
The admission is very reason
able and it is expected that the
Opera House will be packed, as
this will be the best fight ever
pulled off in Opelousas. People
from Washington, Eunice, Port
Barre and Vile Platte are ex-.
pected for the occasion and it is
thought that the exhibition will
be very good.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14
they again went out to the Nose
ly place and were seemingly pre-

they again went out to the Nose
ly place and were seemingly pre-
pairing to hunt again. A few
minutes after their arrival there
the negro was seen coming out
Of the house, the two men hid
and as soon as Ryan came within
a short distance they covered
him with the guns.
Being unable to secure hand
cuffs from the city authorities the
two men had to tie the black
with a rope and in that manner
they delivered him up to the au-
thorities Of the convict camp sta
toned between Melville and
Krotz Springs.
Mr.. Roy was given a reward
Of $50 for the capture of this mo-
torious convict, as also the valu-
able assistance Of Mr.. Sicily.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14
Great Play Coming On
25tfl.

The Leopard Spot, the great
est sensation of the season will be
played at the Sandoz Opera.
House in this city, on Wednesday
Feb 25th.
Next week there will appear ID
the columns a synopsis Of the ia
nous play.
Tickets will be on sale at F. j.
Dietlein's Jewelry Store all Of
next week.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14
Baton Rouge Boy EIopes
With Sweetheart.

Thomas G. Grace. scion of one
of the most prominent families
of Iberville parish, but now Of
Baton Rouge, where he is en-
ployed in the Office of his uncle,
Hon. Fred Grace, eloped on last
Saturday morning to New Orr
leans, with his sweetheart. Miss
Exalta Alta Gath, where the
happy couple were joined in we'd
lock.
Mr.. Grace is very we'll known
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14
Plant Trees.

According to the report of Su-
perintendent Baker, of the Park
Commission, 1855 trees were
planked in New Orleans during
January.
How many will be planted in
0pelousas in February? XXX
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14

Nine. Stanley's Niagara Face
Bleach and complexion powder,
also the celebrated Urico Gray
Hair Color Restorer, fresh stock
just received at Mrs, Corine Mil
sted Millinery Shop. feb Z 1t
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14

FOR SALE One solid oak
combination billiard and pool ta-
BILE just the sort Of amusement
for the home. Apply to
feb 14-tf BOBBIE BOWDEN.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14

!
PROGRAM.
onening exercise-song-
America Miss Raro. conducting
. Roll Call.
: Country life and the Coun.
trv School chapter 2. pages 1873.
142 prof 4 #. Plunamer
The Elementary Course ot
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14

FOR SALE-Corn and hay.
Apply to VIM. NJ. Ringrose, 0pe-
Iousas, La. feb z st
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14

Just received a beautiful line
of face veilings at Mrs. Corine
Milsted Millinery Store. feb Z Ct
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14
Stockholders Meeting.

Notice is hereby given to the
Stockholders of the st. Landry
Clarion that a meeting will be
called on the 10th Of March at
10 o. o'cIock a. m. Tuesday, for the
purpose of electing five members
Of the Board Of Directors, and
transacting other business that
may come before the Board.
YVES ANDREPONT,
President.
GEORGE VIDRINE, Secty.
Just received by Stokes-Stelly
Produce Co. l car northern grown
seed potatoes. feb TIT
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-02-14
Teachers Institute.

Teachers Institute will be held
at Opelousas. La, High School
building. Feb. 21st, 1914, $50 a.
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23

People with a paucity of ideas
and barren of intelligence must oc-
cupy what minds they have with
something and naturally they drop
into idle gossip. permitting their
imagination to coin fantastic tales
of their neighbors and their tongues
to retail them with avidity and as
they pass down the line of the
grand army of hair brains, male
and female, they take on all the
establishment that envy, malice
and depravity can suggest. Which
comment is inspired by sundry good
people. victims of the rapacious
scandalmonger who have come to
the editor during the past several
weeks, as is their wont in trouble,
and laid their grief upon his shoul-
ders. Unless such gossip is out
rageously personal, the better way
is to ignore ito be utterly indif-
ferent to it; and if you are, the
author, as well as the tailers-in
who repeat it and are hardly less
cuipable, will be chagfiped, dissa-
pointed and beaten, for the gossiner
like anyone else, loves his handi-
work and is Inundated when it
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23

A PERSISTENT rumor is to the
effect that Jake Preus will be a
candidate for state auditor. We
know Jake as whirlwind cam
paigner and man who would give
the state an administration of the
auditors office such as it has not
seen in years, built on integrity
and common sense. Should Preus
announce himself as a candidate,
he can rest assured of a vote in
keeping with his immense popu.
larity. Many are awaiting his an
nouncement. Hell at present in
surance commissioner. Through
his mastery manner of going al
difficult propositions and overcom-
ing obstacles has attention been at
tracted to him.
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
Game Laws a Joke

Minnesota game laws are called
statutory farce" a Joke and
nothing more" in a book that has
recently been added to the univers-
ity library for the use of students
in the department of animal biology.
The book was written by W. F.
Hornaday, director of New York
geological park, and is entitled
"Our Vanishing Wild Life"
In a chapter calling attention to
the defects IN the game laws Of the
various states, the author says
Minnesota should at once enact a
bag limit lazy that will do some
good, instead of the statutory farce
now on the books. Make it Is
birds per day of water fowl, all
species combined, and no grouse or
quail" The author states that
robins are becoming a rarity, that
partridges, prairie chickens, mink,
the gray squirrels and fur-bearing
animals generally are becoming ex-
tinets
A great many of the species, he
says, are on the road to speedy ex-
tinction, but as yet the number of
those that have become totally ex-
tinct is small compared with other
states. Came is passing so rapidly,
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23

from going there. Twice two little
ones were 10 danger near the depot by
getting In front of the engine.
Robt. Whidden of Duluth, father of
Mrs. Ernest Isenberg, is the guest of
the latter.
Ernest Sangerlhas gone to Wash
burn, Wis.,, to look after his business
interests there.
Billy Young Is spending few days
at his home here with his parents.
Crist Carson and family left for a
short stay at Virginia to visit with
relatives.
Mrs. Abraham Young, better known
as Grandma Young is sick at the
Shipman hospital with typhoid fever.
Gust Soderback is here looking after
business interests. Gust is farmer
now at Dassel. Mimi.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bysche returned
Friday from Toronto. Canada where
they spent three weeks with relatives.
Mrs. A. j, Stein and daughter will
return from visit at the Twin cities
next'week.
1t certainly accommodating to some
people when their neighbors are we'll
supplied with coal.
Moses Hakkonen has purchased the
Kearney store building and will open
a meat market as soon as the place
can be gotten in readiness.
Ernest Isenberg is on the sick list
this week with severe cold.
While killing some pigs for Jos.
Weed Thursday, John Young had
killed one and while getting out the
second one it got away. He chased
the pig and lost sight of it and
finally got back to the dead one.
Thinking he had found the lost one he
shot into the back of the dead one.
Afterwards discovering what he had
done, he stood and scratched his head
wondering where the one was he had
previously killed.
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23

falls to pieces. But do not fancy
you can fool him by assuming not
to care, and proclaiming loudly
that you don't when you really do,
for being a counterfeit himself he
readily recognizes his kind, in per-
son or sentiment. If it is outrage
ously personal-if it is what in
other days would be considered a
mortal offense-that is another
thing. and while this paper has its
own ideas of the remedy that
should be applied in such cases,
others will have to pursue their
own course and act in the premises
without the aid of its advice. Well
has it been said that slander is
the foulest whelp of sin.
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
Tnue1ttu- gn11r aJeurH Ann.
Items talSep rom Vbe Ely Iron Home
this date, 1880.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,

is convenient novelty. Mr..
Brownell operates the meat market
end and Mr.. Robinson tends to the
depot end. Carl is an amateur
tetegrapher and the line was put
up for the purpose of acquiring
proficiency. Mr.. Brownell is an
old hand at the telegraph business
judging from the way he handles
the key.
One of the pleasantest events of
the week was the progressive
euchre party given on Wednesday
evening by Mr.. and Mrs. Levy, to
a number of their friends. The
gentlemen's head prize was a neat
manicure set. and Banker Kinney
was the happy winner: Mrs. Hoov-
er won the ladies' head prize, Crys-
talized fruits. A. M. Chisholm
was the lucky winner of the foot
prize-a novel.
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
fall Lake

Tue Village council held special
meeting last Monday on the applica-
tisn for license of Toivo Partti.
Peter Karon is decorating his new
store with coat of paint. lie will
move soon.
STEMS barber shop, after this week.
will be in the McTaggart Pool Room
for the time being.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. O. G. Berg
lund. on Sunday boy. The baby
only lived a few minutes. Mr. and
Mrs. Rerglund have the sympathy of
a host Of friends.
Stringent steps will be taken by the
village authorities to keep the small
children off the depot platform and
parents should warn their children
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23

the book states, that it will soon be
a thing of the forgotten past.
There should be a fve-year
closed season enacted for quail,
grouse, plover, woodcock, snipe
and all other shore BIRDS" writes
Mr.. Hornaday. A law should be
enacted prohibiting the use of fire
arms by unnaturalized aliens, and
a 500 license for all naturalized
aliens. Provision should be made
for large state game refuge in
southern Minnesota. "
While he declares several species
of game are threatened with ex-
tinction at an early date, he thinks
bob white and the prairie chicken
will be first to go.
Moose, he thinks, will soon be
extinct everywhere in Minnesota
except in the game preserves.
There is now only one duck, says
the writer, where there were 10 in
Minnesota 10 years ago.
Now what is Minnesota going
to do about all thisl" the author
asks. Is she willing through
apathy to become a gameless state!
Her people need to arouse them
felves now and pass several strong
laws. Her bag limit of As birds
per day of quail, grouse and wood
cock and plover, and so per day OF
the water birds is joke and moth.
ing more; but it is not laughing
matter. It spells extinction. .
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23

M. H. Alworth of Duluth, was
here on Saturday. He made a trip
to where he has diamond drill at
work, some six miles east.
It is rumored that A. E. Camp
has struck something unusually
rich in the shape of iron ore. at his
digging's south of here. We await
further developments.
Chas. Sherwin who is employed
at Camps prospecting camp, met
with a severe accident Wednesday,
while at work in the shaft. Char
lie had occasion to look up to the
top of the shaft and just as he did
a piece of rock fell and hit him on
the forehead, making an ugly cash.
However Charlie will be at work
again in few days.
A telegraph line was put up last
week between Brownell & Co.'S
meat market, and the depot. which
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23

THE Virginia election is taking
on added zest daily and it is ex-
pected that before election day
comes on in a couple of weeks that
there will be something doing be-
sides the gab-fests now being in
dulged in. From this distance the
affair listens good but why one OF
parties gets its printing done at
Biwabik is not quite clear
Whether or not the votes are to be
gotten from Biwabik for the elec.
tion has not as yet been made pub
lie.
The Ely miner., 1914-01-23
Forbes note book. She said:

Forbes note book. She said:
Come to Tampa with A. F. It's all
right. Just like big brother to me-
Special business demands trip tonight
to reach telegraph station before clos.
ing. DOT"
In less than fifteen minutes they
were ready, and she took her seat in
the cockpit, every nerve tingling for
the coming fight.
1t was twenty minutes to 12 when
Mr.. Forbes walked into the telegraph
Office and sent his wire north, the
message that stopped Lawton Carruth-
ers' game, and kept the control of the
railroad concession in the hands of
Forbes company.
He went back to her down the old
street to the water front She knew
the place where her brother made
his landings and had guided Forbes to
1t. Her hood had fallen back from
her head. Both hands reached out
to him swiftly.
did you get there in time?"
1--WE must get back to the island"
she began, but Forbes gave little un-
steady laugh, and drew her close in
his arms.
You said 1 was just a big brother,
didn't you? Am l now, Dot, am +?
I'm going back with you tonight and
tell Nat I've stolen you for good, you
plucky, trueblue sweetheart
Dorothy closed her eyes as his arms
crushed her close. The great winged
bird boat waited for them, the bells
pealed out their message. She drew
back her face and laughed, her hands
rumpling his hair.
1--WE forgot, Allan. Wish you merry.
merry Christmasl"