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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-25
Satisfaction of Mortgage.

A mortgage executed by r. l.. Harp
to State Land Board, May 10, 1908,
for $4,000 is satisfied.
A mortgage executed by r. l.. Harp
to State Land Board, January 25, 1908
for $4,000 is satisfied.
ChattRl Mortgage.
Harrington Bros, to Fix Bros,
$3.50, on I horses and mares and in.
crease.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-25

are poisoned and killed in large
numbers by sprinkling cut alfalfa
with a solution of strychnine and
placing it in a stock proof enclosure
where the rabbits can find and eat II.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-25

4 number of electric heaters have
been developed for private garages
to keep automobiles from freezing
up.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-25
Z. S. to Investigate.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-Secretary
Lansing said America will inquire if
Turkey has any knowledge Of the
sinking of the Persia.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-25

A wide variety of small ear phones
for the deaf, have been recently
placed on the market
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-27
Sheriff Sale.

Sheriff Sale.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Grant.
18th Judicial District Court.
Bank of Montgomery VS.. George L.
Ethridge.
BY virtue of writ of seizure and
sale issued out of the Honorable 18th
Judicial District Court and to me d.
rested in the above numbered ana en-
titled suit, directing and commanding
me to seize and sell the property of de-
PENDANT, have seized and will offer
for sale at the principal front door of
the court house in Colfax, La. between
the hours prescribed by law for judi
cial sales, on
SATURDAY, JULY l, 1916,
the following described property, seiz-
ed as the property of the defendant
herein, to-wit:
Lots 3, 4, 5, Ia and Is in Block II in
town of Machen or Montgomery.
Terms of sale Cash, with the bene-
fit of appraisement.
Colfax, La, May rs, 1916.
A. B. PERKINS,
Sheriff of Grant Ph., La.
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Partition Sale.
State of Louisiana. Parish of Grant,
18th Judicial District Court.

f8fIlIl0n SdIe.
State of Louisiana. Parish of Grant,
18th Judicial District Court.
Succession of j. w. Stanfeld.
By virtue of an order issued out of
the Honorable 18th Judicial District
Court and to me directed in the above
entitled suit, directing and commanding
me to sell the property of the success
sion of ]. w. Stanfield, for the purpose
of affecting partition between heirs, l
will offer for sale at the principal front
door of the court house in Colfax, La. ,
between the hours prescribed by law
for judicial sales, on
SATURDAY, JULY /, 1916,
the following described property:
All that paIt of south half of south
west quarter of section IL, and west
half of northeast quarter and north
west quarter of section IA, lying west
of Bayou DeGappe, all of said lands
being in township z north, range 4
west, Grant parish, La.
Terms of sale-Cash, for amount OF
appraisement.
Colfax, La, May rs, 1916.
A. B. PERKINS,
Sheriff of Grant Parish. La.
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"Chief" Powell Fined and Jailed fol
Using Mails to Defraud.

Shreveport, May "a. -Alexan-
der P. Powell, convicted and de-
MED a new trial in the federal
court on a charge of using the
mails to defraud, was fined $500
and sentenced to three months
in the Caddo parish Jail by Judge
Aleck Boarman on Tuesday.
Judge Boarman remarked in
passing sentence that in his opin-
ion Powell had been living in a
FOOLS paradise and that he had
been misleading in representing
himself to be an Indian chief,
adding you have Indian and
colored blood.
Powell took exception to these
remarks, and in replying to the
courts question why he should
not be sentenced stated that he
was duly elected chief of the
Mississippi Choctaws in 1911, and
that the assertion that he had
negro blood was not substantial
ed by the records on file with
the interior department at Wash
ington. He told the court that
his activities in soliciting con-
tracts to push claims for land al
lotments from the government
to descendants of Mississippi
Choctaws were guided by the ad-
vice of his attorneys in Washing
ton who prepared his contracts.
Judge Boarman also indicated
his belief that Powell had been
made the tool and victim of 9TH
ers higher up" in Washington,
and while possibly not morally
guilty of the charge against him
was so under the law. He ex-
pected connection with the high
er-ups" to be brought out during
the trial he said and expected
the defense to be that Powell
had unwittingly been made tool.
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Sheriff Sale.

SneIlu 66ICs
State of Louisiana. Parish of Grant,
18th Judicial District Court.
d. v. Donaldson VS.. j. S. Bishop.
No. 1850.
BY virtue of Writ of Fieri Facias
issued out of the Honorable Thirteenth
Judicial District Court and to me d.
rected in the above numbered and en-
titled suit, directing and commanding
me to seize and sell the property of
defendant, l have seized and will offer
for sale at the principal front door OF
the court house in Colfax, La, between
the hours prescribed by law for judicial
sales, on
SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1916,
the following described property, seized
as the property of the defendant here
in, to-wit:
Block 4 of the town of Dry Prong, in
Grant parish, Louisiana
Terms of sale Cash, with the benefit
of appraisement.
Colfax, La, April Is, 1916.
A. B. PERKINS,
Sheriff of Grant Parish, La.
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Sheriff Sale,

State of Louisiana, Parish of Grant,
18th Judicial District Court
Charles H. Teal VS.. c. C. Jones.
No. 1886.
Rv virtue of a Writ of Seizure and
Sale issued out of the Honorable Ihir-
teenth Judicial District Court and 70
me directed in the above numbered
and entitled suit, directing and COM
manding me to seize and sell the prop,
erty of defendant, | have seized and
will offer for sale at the principal front
door of the court house in Colfax, La,
between the hours prescribed by law
for judicial sales, on
SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1916,
the following described property. seiz-
ed as the property of the defendant
herein, to-wit:
The South half of the northwest quar-
ter. northeast quarter OF southwest
quarter and southwest quarter OF south
east quarter of section a, containing
100 acres: the northwest quarter OF
southwest quarter, and southwest quar-
ter of northwest quarter, and all that
portion of the southeast quarter OF
northwest quarter lying west OF pubic
road running through same, all in sec
ton 30, containing 100 acres, all OF SAID
| lands located in township north, range
west, La. Mer.
The south half of southwest quarter
of section IL, township north. range a
west, La. Mer. Lot No. z, containing
| 81. 20 acres; lot No. 8, containing rs. ~
acres; lot No. 9, containing $500 acres;
lot No. 10, containing 51.O0 acres; lot
No. IL, containing 55.50 acres; lot No.
liz, containing $500 acres; lot No. IL,
containing 1880 acres; lot No. Ia, con.
tanning 69. 10 acres, all of last described
lands being in section %; lot No. IA,
containing 45.C0 acres; and lot No. 10,
containing 1880 acres, in section ~, all
being in township north, range .
west, La. Mer.
The northeast quarter OF northeast
quarter, the south half of southeast
xuarter, all in section rs; the south
half of south half of section :; the
northwest quarter of southwest quar-
ter, and southwest quarter of north
west quarter of section 80; the east
half of northeast quarter of section 81.
all in township north, range west,
La. Mer.
East half of northeast quarter of sec.
ton So, township north. range west,
La. Mer. -
North half of southeast quarter Of
northeast quarter of section 70, town
ship north, range west, La. Mer.
| Lots 5, 6, z, 10 and IL of section %
townships north, range west, La
Mer., containing 1877 acres.
Terms ofsale-c Cash. without benef
of appraisement.
| Coifax, La, April 25,- 1916.
| Il. b. PERKINS,
| Sheriff of Grant Parish, La.
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The Joke is On Mayor Long.

A negro by the name of Olive
Savoy, alias Joe bikes, etc., was
jailed in Colfax on Thursday on
the charge of obtaining money
on false pretenses. He secured
short loans from Mayor Long and
John Russo for So and So respec-
lively, giving as collateral some
pinchback rings. set with Hot
Springs diamonds, which he al
legged to be very valuable. His
story of hard luck, and promise
to redeem his diamonds" and
pay big bonus for the loan, ex-
cited the suspicious of some of
his intended victims, and Town
Marshal ]. D. Givens arrested
him as a suspicious character.
A little investigation and inquiry
developed the fact that he hac
played the same game in Alex
andria.
Savoy is said to have had ar
accomplice. who carried the sup
ply of fake jewelry in grip. bu'
when he was arrested the &C
complete disappeared.
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Notice.

Colfax, La, April %, 1915
The listing and estimation of the val
uation of all real and personal property
situated in the parish of Grant, State
of Louisiana, has been completed for
the year 1916, and the estimated valua-
ton made thereon by the assessor in
accordance with Act 1872 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of 1906. and in
accordance with all other laws relative
to assessments in the State of Louisi-
ana. Said list shall be exposed in the
office of the said assessor for inspec-
ton and correction for a term of twen-
ty (20) days beginning May 10 and end
ing May 80, 1916. inclusive.
ELISHA S. MURRELL,
Assessor of Grant Parish.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-27
Electricity as Free as Air is Aim of
Inventor.

Electricity as Free as Air is Aim Of
Inventor.
An invention which its origi-
nator claims will make electricity
almost as free as air has been
produced after four years of ex-
perimenting. The inventor is a
Kansas City, Mo-, man who has
been a practical electrician many
years and in recent months has
devoted considerable means and
practically all his waking hours
to constructing what he calls an
electrical accumulation. The ap-
paratus. he claims, collects and
stores electric energy from the
air, which by transformers can
be reduced to suitable voltages
for various purposes, such, for
example, as supplying a lighting
circuit.
Since no details of the inven-
ton have been given out nor any
public demonstration given, it is,
of course, impossible at the pres
ent time to form an opinion as
to its practicability. = Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-27
Cuts His Throat When Jailed as Sus-
piciOus Character.

Cuts His Throat When Jailed as Sus-
picious Character.
Il don't want anything to eat
or drink; / have cut my throat.
Get DOCTOR" was the response
j. D. Owens, town marshal, got
Monday evening when he went
to the town lookup with supper
for S. H. Bauer, locked up an
hour before as being a suspicious
fcharacter. He had been asleep
on the floor of his cell and was
not aroused until the door was
forced open.
A doctor was summoned and
found that Bauer had gashed
both sides of his throat. just miss
ing the jugular vein, and had cut
his left wrist. He used a small
knife with a worn-out blade with
no spring in the back of the
knife, which accounts for the
unfinished job. Itwas necessary
to take several stitches in each
cash., While the doctor was
dressing the wounds Bauer said
that IF he had had a good knife
he would have saved him all this
trouble" He also stated that
"dieing is easier than you think
is is; all you got to have is the
nerve. After his wounds were
dressed he was placed in the par
ish Jail for safe keeping.
Bauer had an order from thu
Eel Lumber Co., of Oregon, fol-
two carloads of hickory wager
axles. He also had a notebook
with several memorandum o.
persons in this immediate localit.
and has had dealings with parties
at Jena and Pineville, La.
Bauer made the remark Tues
day morning that he was goini
to kill himself; that he was no
going to let anybody else do it
Bauer is still in the parish jai
and a lunacy commission will NJ
doubt be called in to pass on hi
sanity.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-27
For Your child,s Cough.

If your child has cold, nose runs, OF
coughs much get small bottle OF LII.
Bells Pine Honey. Its pleasant
pine-tar-honey syrup, just what cn''-
dren like and just the medicine "
soothe the cough and check the cola.
After taking, children stop fretung'
sleep good and are soon entirely wei''
Insist on DIR. Bells Pine-Tar- honey
Csc at your druggist. --Adv.-l.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-27
R.nides Prohibitionists Lose on Appeal.

kap10eS fTOniDitiOHiSts LoSc v" APP~~'
New Orleans, May Is. In the
City of Alexandria VS.. Police Jury
of Rapides Parish, B. F. Thomp-
son ct ais, third persons appeal
ing, the Supreme Court today
handed down a decision dismiss
ing the appeal that was attempt.
ed to be prosecuted on the part
of certain individual citizens OF
Alexandria and Rapides parish
from the judgment of the lower
court.
The above case involves the
celebrated prohibition case OF
Rapides parish. The returns
showed a majority of seven votes
in favor of prohibition. Certain
citizens of Rapides parish con-
tested the election before the
police jury on. the ground OF
fraud and illegal voting at some
of the precincts, sufficient to
change the result. The police
Jury, which was the only body
that could under the law inquire
into the question of illegal voting,
refused to entertain the contest.
Thereupon, the city of Alexan-
dria and certain citizens OF Alex
andria, through the law firm OF
Blackman, Overton & Dawkins,
brought a suit to set aside the
election, on the ground of illegal
proceedings on the part of the
police jury prior to holding the
election.
The trial resulted in judg-
ment of the lower court pronounc-
ed by Judge Andrews setting
aside the election and enjoining
the police jury from passing any
prohibition ordinance.
After some time had elapsed
certain private citizens of Rapides
parish, through their attorneys,
Messrs. White, HOlloman &
White, undertook to prosecute an
appeal to the Supreme Court from
the judgment. Messrs. Black
man, Overton & Dawkins fled 9
motion to dismiss the appeal or
the ground that these third per.
sons had no appealable interest,
and the Supreme Court was with
out jurisdiction.
The motion to dismiss the ap
peal is the motion that the Su
preme Court sustained today
This finally disposes of this liti
cation.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-27
Salient Features of Gov. Peasants RI
nancial Message.

nanclal Message.
Total deficit 81, 235, 512.9l, IN
Guiding overdraft of general fund,
penitentiary, conservation COM
mission and borrowed money.
Recommends funding of peni-
tertiary debt serially.
Recommends meeting other
shortage in one of three ways:
-Readjustment of five mill
advalorem, by taking small por-
ton from general engineering
and current school and giving it
to the general fund for two years.
2. BY levying an additional
81 mill tax for 1916 only, and
clear up entire debt.
3.-Defer the indebtedness un-
til 1917 and 1918 and adopt a con-
stitutional amendment providing
a graduated income tax on cor
porations and individuals.
Recommends creating a budget
for dispensing the States money.
Recommends the segregation
of assessment values for local
and State purposes, allowing the
parish to adopt a lower figure
than for the State.
Abolition of the State Board OF
Equalization and the State Board
of Appraisers.
Recommends the creation of q
taxing board.
Recommends the abolition OF
the Conservation Commission and
the creation of a general superin.
tendent to have full charge.
Recommends the abolition OF
the Penitentiary Board of Con.
troll and the creation of a genera
manager. one man.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-27
Whooping Cough.

One of the most successful prepare
tons in use for this. disease is Cham
berlains Cough Remedy. S. w. Nc
Clinton, Blandon Springs, Ala, writes:
"Our baby had whooping cough as bad
as most any baby could have it. Igave
him Chamberlsln's Cough Remedy and
it soon got him WE'LL" Obtainable
everywhere. ADV.
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sanity.
New Invention Holds Edison Day and
Night.


Orange, N. j., May 20.-A
grayhaired, slightly STOPPING man
punched a time clock at GA a.
m. today, and began his 104th
hour of labor since Monday. The
man was Thomas A. Edison. the
worlds famous electrical. wizard.
He has been on another sleepless
jag up to six o'clock tonight 116
hours work and sixteen hours
sleep in the six days since Mon
day morning. In the 18 days
Edison has had exactly 10 hours
of sleep-and tonight there was
no indication that he would not
work in his laboratory until the
wee small hours of Sunday.
Edison is trying to ferret out
one of the countless problems of
his inventions. Nobody in the
laboratory knows exactly what it
is, but the fact that during the
past 18 days the aged inventor
has broken all his previous re-
cords for sleeplessness indicates
| it must be something big.
Thomas A. Edison holds card
No. l" of the thousands of en-
ployees in his plants here. Every
time he enters his laboratory and
every time he leaves he religious
ly punches this card in the big
recording clock and files the card
away on the rack.
His old card got so cluttered
up with times" on and off that
it was changed Thursday. The
record since then, however,
shows:
mo. Thomas A. Edison.
Friday, May 19-Off l a. m. f;
on 6:32 a. m.
Saturday, May 20-Off 1928
a. M; on GA a. m.
1t was Edison who years ago
announced that four hours sleep
a night was plenty for any man
of mental vigor, and ever since
then he has been proving his
maxim.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-27

One tribe of the Oklahoma In
dams are the richest people in
the world. Twenty-Five hundred
of them own a whole county.
larger than Rhode Island, which
is rich in oil and minerals, and
the per capita wealth of the tribe
is over $4,000 each for every
man, woman and child belonging
to it.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-27
Worth While Quotations.

Noble disappointment, noble self
denial are not to be admired, not
even to be pardoned. If they bring
bitterness-gentleness and cheerful
ness. these come before all morality;
they are the perfect duties.
Louis Stevenson.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-27

The old French opera house in
New Orleans, said to be one hun
dred and fifty years old and one
of the old land marks of the Cres-
cent City. has been sold at public
auction for SAT, 900. 1t will be
converted into an amusement
house.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-27
AN ACT

To confirm the sale and make good and
valid in law the delivery and transfer
by the Police Jury of the Parish of
Grant, La, to the Town of Colfax,
in said Parish and State, of a certain
tract of land in said town, known as
the "Old Jail Site," and being the
same land acquired by said Police
Jury from R. H. Williamson, due no
tice having been given according to
the requirements of Article so of the
Constitution of this State for the
year 1898 of the intention to apply
for the passage of this act
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gen.
eral Assembly of the State of Louisi-
ana, that the sale, delivery and trans
fer by the Police Jury of the Parish of
Grant, State of Louisiana, to the Town
of Colfax. in said Parish and State, of
a certain lot of said town, being one
hundred feet of Lot One ~, fronting
on Fourth street, in Block thirty eight
1857 of said town, and said lot being in
the northwest corner of Block thirty
eight 1887 and being all Of the same
property acquired BY the Police Jury
of Grant Parish, La, from r. H. Viii
hanson, as recorded in Book IF" of
Conveyances of Grant Parish, page TIA
ct seq, be and the same is hereby con-
firmed and made good and valid in law,
and made incontestable, said sale from
said Police Jury to said Town having
been made for fifteen hundred (Sl5OO1
dollars, all as set forth in Book 81
of Conveyances of said Parish, at page
COG ct seq., and having been passed be-
fore W. B: Clarke, Notary Public, on
April Is. 1904.
Section 2. Be it further enacted.
etc., That all laws and parts of laws
in conflict herewith be and the same
are hereby repealed, in so far as the
same may affect this act, and that this
act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-05-27
The Colfax High School Graduation
Exercises.

The Colfax high school closes
it's session for 1876 with the
largest class of graduates it has
ever had, and with a marked de-
gree of success along all lines.
There are ten graduates, as
follows: Lois Long, Mary Nc
Nicely, Brinker Williams, Don
Swafford, Dewey LaCroix, LESSEE
Rodgers, Lieta Dyson, Joy Smith,
Robert Purvis and Viola Mathis.
The interest and pride taken in
the school and its fine class of
graduates is abundantly shown
by the citizens of the community,
who packed the great auditorium
of the school to it's fullest capaci-
ty, and enthusiastically applaud
ed each and every effort of the
graduates in the rendition of the
parts assigned them.
The closing exercises were rem
dered in two programs on the
evenings of Thursday and Fri
day, May Is and &c, as follows:
CLASS DAY PROGRAM.
l. Song, Come, Come, Away
High School.
| 2. Salutation Dewey aCroix.
3. Mary McNeely, Les
sic Rodgers.
4. Class History-Don Swat
ford.
5. Duet, "Moonlight" -Lessie
Rodgers, Miss Lackey.
| 6. Class Grumbler-Viola Ma
this.
7. Sextette Leslie Rodgers,
Wheeler Smith, Louis Tum.
minello. Harry White,
Chas. Kelsoe, Miss Lackey.
8. Class POem-Mary McNeely
9. Duet-Lily Belle Goodwin,
Effie Williams.
10. Glass Prophesy Brinkel
Williams.
Ill. Duet-Lois Long, Mary Nc
Nicely.
IL. Class Will-Robert Purvis.
Ii. Class Song.
IA. Valedictory-Jo Smith.
Is. Good Night.
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM.
! l. Song, Men of Harlech"-
High School.
| 2. Introductory remarks.
3. Address-Dr Bonham.
a. Quartette, "Sailing"-Harr!
White, Wheeler Smith, Les
sic Rodgers, Miss Lackey.
| 5. Presentation of Certificates
6. Presentation of Medals.
| z. Mixed Chorus, Away t.
the Woods Tenth Grad
Girls.
8. Presentation of Diplomas.
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Iatt. La. ;, May rs.

Iatt. La, May Is. 1916.
have taken up one COW and calf,
described as follows: color of cow,
light red, marked under half crop in
each ear, branded on left hip with H.
Has been at my place about z months.
Owner can get them by proving owner
ship and paying all costs.
may27-4t' G. w. MURRY.
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Many Self-Supporting Churches in Mis-
sion Fields.

Many Self-Supporting Churches in Mis-
sion Fields.
Those who are fighting foreign
missions have often asserted that
after a century of work and the
expenditure of large sums of
money, there is not a single self
supporting church in the mis-
sion field, and yet one mission
board, that of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States
(Northern Presbyterian, reports
for the year 1914. under the head
of Churches entirely self-sup-
porting, LAOS churches. There
are other boards that report more
than a thousand. The full sta
tistics on this point are not given
anywhere. but taking the work
under the great number of boards
there must be many thousands OF
self-supporting churches. Igno-
rance of what is being done
seems to be characteristic Of
those who seek to oppose foreign
mission work. Baptist Foreign
Mission Journal.