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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1916-10-07
THE PIVOTAL STATES.
lNew Orleans States J

That the successful candidate 10
November must carry Indiana and New
York is the opinion of Louis scibold,
the political authority Of the New York
World after a summary of the political
conditions. The result Of the cam.
palgn Ia doubtful az this time IN his
judgment; and having an insight into
both political headquarters, be init.
mates this 10 be the opinion Of the
Republican and Democratic leaders,
despite their public claims.
According to Mr. seiboid these states
are reasonably certain to be carried
by Wilson Alabama, Arizona, Arkan.
sas Colorado, Delaware. Florida, Geor'
gia. Kentucky Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi Montana, Nevada, New
Mexico, North Carolina. Oklahoma,
South Carolina. Tennessee. Texas, and
Virginia. tweuty,ono In all with an
electoral vote Of lg7
These states are reasonably sure for
Hughes Connecticut Idaho. Iowa,
Kansas. Maine, Massachusetts,, North
Dakota. Oregon. Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island. South Dakota, Utah. Vermont.
Wisconsin, and Washington, eighteen
IN all. with an electoral vote OF IT'S.
Both sides concede these to be doubt.
ful Indiana. Illinois. New York, Ohio,
four In all With an electoral vote Of li3
These states are claImsd by the
Democrats but not conceded by the
Republicans New Jersey West Viz
ginia. tao, electoral vote 90
These states are claimed by the Re
publIeans and not conceded by the
Democrats California. Nebraska, Wy
omng. three with an electoral vote
of "a.
There will be 53i votes In the Elee'
toral College Necessary 90 elect, 2ss.
The Progressive vote slll decide the
contest Four years ago the eandh
dates polled Wilson, 6.2g30is; Roose-
welt illa.5o7, Taft, 3.ist59e, while
/ .i3g.o5o votes were divided between
the Socialists. prohibitioalsts and So
cial Labor candidates
The result In Maine put the FIRST pep
into the Republican campaign since
the nomination Of Mr. Hughes. But its
effect already Ia wearing off The re.
publieans are realizing that only a
bigger campaign fund than Mark Hanna
raised for Mckinley can give them
chance 10 win. and they are exerting
the most extraordinary pressure 10
raise IL.
But there IL considerable percent
age Of Progressive votes which money
cannot touch, and az the campaign
swings into is last month the Republl
rams are growing more and more
alarmed over the possibility that this
is going from them and
that IA is larger than Wilson needs
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1916-10-07
Whlte Schools

White srhouls have been opened n the
usual locations with the exception Of
sebastapuI and Poplar Springs Crowded
conditions are reported from New Hope
aud Wilhelm II these schools continue
10 sroN in number If students, Il would
seem that something will have 10 be done
TO relieve the oyercrowdrd condition.
Apparently the other schools 81 the pariah
VIII be able ta maintain the average uP-
uuifcd hy laW new school has been
opened n Angola \ good building has
been erected hy the state Farm manage.
ment. and has been furnished partly hy
local subscription partly by state appra.
priation and partly with aId from the
parish arhoul board Miss Lille Toaraan
has been selected rs teacher
cesrsd Schools,
Schools for rnlnrod children have BEEN
opened IN The following places Laurel
Hin. eth ward. Dawson and Moore. teaeh
ers. Greenwood, 10th ward Rlnggoid,
teacher. ST Paul. sth ward Turner.
teacher Pamela, ith ward Keller. teacher
Magnolia end ward, Earles, teacher
Mekoweu, sth ward, Johnson. teacher.
Beech Grove. 18th sard. paekwooa. teacher
All teachers have been Instructed not
"a collect incidental fees which have beeu
abolished by Law.
Parish Fair.
Considerable interest is being mani
Tested by teachers and pupils In tbe par
lsh fair to be held October Y, ~ and IL.
4.
schools crcditably represented there
Respectfully submitted,
4. b. CRUMp. Parish supt
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1916-10-07

Bond offered by II " Brandon 70 cover
road contract approved, accepted and or
siefed recorded
Communication from New Orleans com
snittse asking cooperation Of Police lury
10 secure for NeW Orleans enc Of the
farm losn banks
Resolution passed and copy forwarded
20 New ORLEANS committee,
Road Super .ntendent BARROW reports
II miles Of road worked, 3 20 miles new
road
subject 90 per capita taS,
There being 40 further business the
meeting adjourned,
g, F. HOWELL President
e T TOORAEN, CLERK
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1916-10-07
SCHOOL BOARD MINUTES.

The school Board Of West Fehyana
Parish met ia regular quarterly session.
Moudae october 9. lsl5 Meeting called
10 order bY President Bowman
Minutes q last regular meeting ard ~
special meeting read Secretary instruct.
81 Ia insert the word white Ia referring
90 adult driver foF t'ains van with this
correction. minutes approved as read
AIRS ConHeH and Mrs Hammond ap.
peared before the School Board ia behalf
n children attending Jackson gthoul fruul
this parish, from Ninth Ward II was
moved, seconded aud carried that the
Board refer the Ninth Ward matter 10 the
District Attorney for det sion. and that
The superintendent hc authorized to act
ou the District Attorneys advice both as
10 the high school students and as 10 the
children II lower grades
Moved, seconded anal carried. Thut the
Superintendent Toe instructed 10 tuycs,I-
gate the Poplar Springs school situation
and appoint "a teacher " II be found that
a sufficient number Of children viii attend
e. maintain the average required hs law
Petition If patrons 81 New Hope srhoUl
for an additional teacher Was received
and laid over Ter further action
The quartcrb report at The superIu-
tcudeHt vts read and ordered spread uH
the minutes Report appended hereto
Tie Superintendent was instructed 30
Investigate the school situation al VIII
| hslm with reference "a moving the build
| INK or erecting another building and an
| thofiged h aid iu any sum not To- exceed
hfty dollars
un molten, duly seconded ara carried,
| the President and Chairman ~ the Finance
| Committee were authorized 10 borrow
sufficient funds from SINE % time as the
| need arises. from lie Bank of Commerce.
10 pas the gGrrrBt expenses II the schools
| Moved. seconded and carried. That the
| Superintendent be authorized Ia pay So
Of as sIuth thereof AZ il Necessary toaafd
bu ing furniture for the school ai Angola
J u WAS moved, seconded and carried
That Thursday and Friday, October 1.
and 10, 1919 be observed as school holidays
| throughout the parish, so that teachers
and pupils MAS have opportunity 10 a..
tend the Parish Fair on those dates
There being no further business. th,
Beard. on motion. adjourned
JAS. = BOWMAN. President
liz r. CHiMp Secretary
| sUPERiNTENDENTs QUARTERLY
1 REPORT
To the Hon school Hoard West FeIieIaha
Parish
Geutlemen:
Ia compliance with the law. beg leays
10 submit the following az ms quarterly
report on the condition # the parish
schools
Financial Statement.
balance on hand close Of last
quarter OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. t2,hss 2.
Total receipts during quarter 2i2
Total 10 be accounted Tor ..... S. 29i 81
| Disbursements
Total expenditures during quarter { a23 II
balance TO be accounted for . 81
Credit balance accounted Ter "a
follows
Deposited with Hank of Commerce $50 81
FeHeiana Bank Il Trust Co din
| Liquidation. ............-...... 1883
leash in Treasurer's hands ... = g
| SSH
Less outstanding checks ...... iol
4 al al
The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-28
WESTERN.

James Whicomb Riley, the Hoosiec
poet, died at his home in Indianapo-
lis.
Six persons were killed and forty
three injured by the explosion at
San Francisco of timed bomb in the
midst of throng viewing prepar-
edness parade.
The will of Mrs. Hetty Green was
admitted to probate at Bellows Falls,
VT, without contest, leaving the en-
tire estate to her son, Col. Edward
H. r. Green, and daughter, Mrs.
Matthew Astor Wilkes.
Impeachment of Pat Daniel, sheriff
of Russell county, Ala, in whose home
quantity of liquor is alleged to have
been discovered during the recent
Girard raids, has been ordered by the
Alabama Supreme Court.
The two-year wage increases for
the $4,000 coal miners of Missouri,
Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma,
agreed upon by subcommittee of the
conference of miners and operators,
was accepted at Kansas City by the
full conference and will become oper-
alive Aug. l.
The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-28
GENE RAJ.

Sixty thousand garment workers of
New York locked out or on strike for
more than three months, will return
to work
One guardsman IVES killed and an
other badly injured by lightning at
the state mobilization camp at Macon.
Ga, during severe electrical storm.
Basil B. Elmer and William p.
Phillips, representing New York
bondholders, purchased the St. Louis
& San Francisco railroad at auction
at st. Louis for $45,70O,2OO.
The Prohibition national conven.
ton, after three-day session at st.
Paul, Mimi, adjourned sine die after
nominating j. Frank Hanly, former
governor of Indiana, for president of
the United States, and DR.. Ira d.
Landrith Of Nashville, Tenn, for vice
president.
A searching investigation into
every department Of the United States
government is to be made by the in.
stitute for government research 1t
was revealed in New York that this
new bureau for federal inquiry was
formed and is. backed by the Rookie.
Teller interests.
The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-28
SPORT.

Frank Kramer, national cycling
champion, holds worlds record for
every branch Of the sport
Heinrich Schmidt of the Claremont
Golf and Country Club of Oakland,
won the Western golf championship
at Del Monte, Cal.
Before throng of spectators on
the beach at Washington park in
Denver the first A. A. U. swimming
meet to be held in the West was
marked throughout by scores of
thrills.
Confederation of the reports that
Francisco Villa is personally directing
a campaign that has for its immediate
object the capture of Torreon was
contained in a report from Gen.
Pershing to Gen. Funston, according
to San Francisco report.
The 10O-mile motor derby, dedicat-
ing the new dirt speedway at Kansas
City, was won by Ralph de Palma.
His time was l hour AZ minutes and
SO seconds, an average of 5S.4S miles
an hour, almost eight miles an hour
below the worlds dirt track record,
ODonnell was second. Buozane was
third.
The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-28
WASHINGTON.

Chicago has been selected for the
campaign headquarters Of the Wo-
mans party.
The McGillicuddy-Kern worklnen's
compensation bill was passed by the
House by vote of 286 to 3.
The Senate passed the House bill
appropriating $135,000 to finance the
public health service campaign
against infantile paralysis.
A joint resolution to extend leaves
of absence with credit to homestead
ers on public lands who are with the
national guard in federal service was
adopted by the House of Represen-
tatives.
The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-28
FROM TELEoRAPHic RePoRre
THAT COVER THE Wggk'o
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST IMPo RTANT
CURRENT TOPice.
western Newspaper Union Csws service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Russian army in Armenia captured
Gumuskhaneh and now is forty miles
northwest of Baiburt.
Belgian troops reach Lake Victoria
in German East Africa and disperse
Teutons in seven-hour battle.
Fierce engagements have taken
place south of Riga, and Russian
troops have penetrated the German
first line at several points.
A new advance of Turkish forces
on the Sinai peninsula TO within about
thirty miles of the Suez canal has
been reported to the British, authori-
ties.
According to Rome reports, the
violent Russian offensive has been re-
sumed in the Carpathians, at Kovel,
vladimir-Volynski, and in the Riga
sector.
The German army headquarters
staff in the official statement claims
that the great uniform AngloFrench
attack on the Somme sector in France
has been abandoned.
One of the most striking episodes
aof the great Somme offensive was the
taking of the field fort at Biaches and
the garrison of 113 men by nine
French soldiers.
The Russians have driven the Teu-
tonic forces facing them south of the
river Lipa, in Volhyna near the CAY
clan border beyond the town of
Berestechk to the west.
Germans stop new British offensive
near La Bassee and claim 1000 Eng
lishmen were killed. Berlin admits,
however, British have captured first
line trenches near Hardecourt on two
mile front.
J. Beltran, one of Villas chief lieu
tenants and a participant in the mas
sacre of eighteen Americans at Santa
Ysabel, Chihuahua, last January, was
killed in the engagement at Cerro
Blanco July IL. reports to General
Jacinto Trevino at Chihuahua City
indicated.
Berlin reports that the enemy lost
seven aeroplanes, four of them south
of Bapaume, one east of Arras, one
west of Combles and one near Roye
Lieutenant Wintgens disabled his
tenth and Lieutenant Hoehendorff his
eleventh aeroplane. The emperor be
slowed the Pour lie Merite on First
Lieutenant Won Althaus, who con
Quered a biplane near Roye.
The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-28
EIGN.

Prof Eli Metchnickoff, the famous
bacteriologist. died in Paris.
At Madrid the government revoked
its declaration of martial law.
Ten thousand Canadian soldiers are
to proceed overseas soon, 1t was an
nounced at the militia department at
Ottawa.
Nearly 1000 cases OF alcohol, con-
tanning twenty gallons 10 a case. were
destroyed by warehouse fire in
Juarez
Sergius Sazonoff. minister OF for
eign affairs, at Petrograd, has re-
signed. He is succeeded by Boris
Vladimirovitch Sturmer, the premier,
who has taken over the office.
Walter Hines Page. the American
ambassador. expressed himself to the
Associated Press as fully alive to the
possibility of trouble arising from the
publication of the statutory blacklist
of American firms.
The latest son of the heir tn the
Austro-Hungarian throne was formal
ly christened with great pOmp at
Schoenbrunn near Vienna and given
the modest total OF fifteen names 10
carry
Food riots which broke out in Bel
GUM and northern France have been
suppressed by the German military
authorities. The rioting was especial.
ly severe at Liege, Verviers, Roubaix,
Renaix, st. Nicholas, Lokern and Ter
monde.
An imposing celebration presided
over by the first chief, who was ac-
companied by the members of his cab
met, was held at Mexico City in hon
or of the anniversary of the death
of Biento Juarez, the national hero Of
Mexico.
Closer and closer are the Gordon of
Carranzista troops being drawn about
Villa, and the remnant of his main
band, beaten and scattered in the re-
cent engagement along the Nazas
river, in northern Durango, according
to private dispatches at Ell Paso.
Anticipating acceptance by the Unit.
ed States Of it's suggestion for dis
cussion of the border question by a
commission, it was informally indi-
Gated at Mexico City that the three
commissioners who win represent
Mexico will be Roberto Pesquiera,
formerly the first chiefs representa-
tive in Washington; Luis Cabrera,
minister of finance, and Alberto Pant,
director of railways.
The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-28
BOY TOOK CHANCE OFFERED
Indiana Judge Had Faith in Human
Nature, and It Was Not Mis-
placed on This Occasion.

A judge sitting as the Juvenile court
in an Indiana town was trying q boy
on charge of stealing stamps from
his employer. The evidence was pure
ly circumstantial. The boy had
cleaned his employers desk and n
short time later he tried to sell to an
other employee the same number Of
stamps that had been missed from the
desk. The judge considered the evil
dence of the men who worked at the
same place and then called the police
man who had arrested the boy.
"Now," said the court, "did either
of you see this boy take the stampsT'
mo, your honor, but the boy has
made full confession to us"
The court looked at the boy, who
WINGED slightly at this statement.
"Well," the court concluded, "that
may be. But I'm for absolute justice
In this court, and nobody saw the boy
take the stamps. The defendant Is
discharged"
The next day the boy returned the
stamps to his employer.-Indianapolis
News.
The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-28
GENERAL PROSPERITY
IN DENVER AND COLORADO TO
STAY, SAY BANKERS.
Reports to Denver Convention tell o,
Increased Farm Crops and Activity
In Mining and Other Industries.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-Expanding prosperity was
the keynote of the first session Of the
fifteenth annual convention of the
Colorado State Bankers Association
In this city. Bankers from every sec
ton of the state and from outside OF
the state talked of the development
of agriculture here, the general re-
vival in mining. the increased output
from coal fields and the rapid in.
crease in population throughout the
state. The feature of the opening
session was the address of Mayor
Speer. who urged the bankers to put
more human interest in their transac
lions and learn to intermingle hand
money" and "heart money"
Encouraging reports were made by
the five group chairmen, including W..
E. Hickman, Windsor; o. T. Christen.
sen, Castle Rock; D. T. Stone, Grand
Junction; X. A. Gagg. Durango, and
Benjamin l.. Lusk of La lara. All
told of good crop conditions, of In
creased population and of expanding
business.
The reports of Paul Harley of Den,
yer. secretary, and of A. M. Rex OF
Kiowa, treasurer, showed the organ.
ization to be in prosperous condt
ton.
The building of a uniform system
Of state roads, cooperation in the use
of the land farm loan law and the Sc.
curing of loan bank in Denver and
review of the prosperous conditions
throughout the state were dominating
features in series of resolutions
adopted by bankers representing ev.
cry section of Colorado at the closing
session of the fifteenth convention of
the Colorado State Bankers Associa-
ton.
The following officers We're chosen:
j. M. B. Petriken, Greeley, president;
d. T. Stone, Grand junction, vice
president; Paul Harley, Denver, sec.
rotary, and w. F. Boyd, Saguache,
treasurer.
The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-28
Mine Chiefs House pynamited,

Trinidad.-An attempt to DESTROY
the residence of Charles O'Neil, mine
superintendent at Starkville coal
camp, was made. 1t is estimated that
twenty pounds of dynamite was ey
ploded under window. No cre was
seriously hurt. The injured persons
were Mrs. William Stevenson, who
was badly bruised and cut about the
limb and ankle by falling glass and
w-eckage, and Mrs. Isabelle Steven.
son, mother of Mrs. O'Neil, who was
cut and bruised about the arms,
The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-28
soak Reelected Head Of W. o. W.

Denver.-I. l. Boak of Denver was
reelected head consul of the Wood
men of the World by reclamation. Mr..
Boak was nominated by Frank M.
Smith of Oakland, CAL, and when he
had finished the whole delegation
arose and joined in three cheers for
the veteran chief of the order. There
was little opposition in the election of
the other officers. They follow: G..
v. Benson of Denver, head clerk, re.
elected; A. E. Sunderland of Fresno,
Cal, head banker, reelected; F. p.
Bertschy Of Denver, head auditor, re-
elected; Judge E. E. Goodman, Town
send, Mont, head Waterman; Henry
Rhone, Grand Junction, Colo, mead
sentry; John Pattison, Spokane,
Wash; Willis G. Hawley, Salem, Ore;
Thomas NJ. Robinson. Oakland, CAL;
John H. Alton, Denver; Frank p.
Hawke, Pueblo. Colo, board of man
ayers, reelected.
The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-28
Two Injured When Train Hits Auto

Two Injured When Train Hits Auto.
Denver.-Racing into Denver from
Holyoke in a big touring car, T. E..
Moon, "a years old, and Herman
Wehrs, 30, were seriously injured
when Rock Island limited train No. Z
from Kansas City. running on the
Union Pacific tracks, struck their ma
chine at York street and Forty-third
avenue. They were thrown to an ad-
jacent track twenty feet away. The
car was demolished. Both men are
residents of Holyoke. They wer.
taken to the county hospital, where
1t was found Wehrs was suffering
with conclusion of the brain and two
scalp wounds. Moon escaped with two
badly bruised arms.
The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-28
Die. After Month of Strange. stupor,

Denver-Mrs. Fay Harvey, youtn,
full wife of an employee of the Union
Pacific shops, is dead; dead after
lying since the 18th of June in a
strange stupor, diagnosis of which
baffled the best medical skill in Den.
vera stupor' wherein the young WON.
an lay for weeks. apparently in deep
sleep, insensible to the efforts of ply
sicians to. awaken her and unable to
accept nourishment Of any kind.
The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-28

An ex-spinster says it is almost as
hard to live with husband as 1t is
to live without one.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-01-07
CHAPTER xxx.
BY His Eyelids.

Hernandez and his two companions
reached the tree. They reconnoitered.
Above him in the swaying branches,
all ignorant of the group below, Neal
wigwegged his signals toward the Al
bany. His heart leaped within him,
for the Albany wigwagged in return.
She was doing more-she was sending
off her fastest launch shoreward,
crowded to the gunwale with marines
marines who knew their business.
Below Hernandez smiled diabolical
smile. He was watching, not Neal.
but the swaying of the tree. Is
Look" he said to Porto, "see how
these roots tug at this scant earthen
covering. She is a tree growing on a
rock. She totters. And she is more
than a tree growing on a rock-she
grows on the edge OF cliff. Beast,
come here. Tell him, Ponto, what to
do"
Ponto told him, emphasizing bis
commands with the ever-ready whip.
The brute obeyed. He set his shout
ders to the tree trunk and began stead
lily, tirelessly, persistently to push.
Now, now" cried Hernandez, in a
frenzy of excitement. ION, on"
The tree crashed desperately over
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-01-07
CHAPTER XxxV.
Sanctuary.

Meantime things had happened
Outside the fort there was camped a
gang of about fifty insurrectos. Many
were wounded; all seemed to be in
tatters.
They had with them three Ameri.
canos. One was Joe Welcher, who
sat sullenly upon the ground smoking
a cigarette. Inez Castro was also In
evidence. The third Americana was
Neal Hardins mother. She was the
subject of considerable discussion, for
she was i'll.
Get me two donkeys," said Her.
nandez. 81 will send her back down
the trail with Senorita Castro and
Welcher."
A quarter of a mile away on the
top Of jagged rock that thrust its
head above the surrounding foliage
there crouched a native scout. He
watched a cruiser slowly steaming
up the coast He watched the shore
and the trails leading from the shore
Suddenly he started-he had seen
something ominous. He chung to his
perch for one instant peering down to
make quite certain. Then he scram.
bled to the ground and then crawled,
leaped, staggered through the brush
He reached the insurrectos' camp
and clutched his leaders arm.
"Americanos, captain" he painted
breathlessly. "They come"
From whence?" queried the leader
The insurrecto scout indicated the
direction. Fear spread itself over the
countenance Of the leader.
Hernandez grunted. 1--WE must va
moose. Senorita Castro" he said to
Inez, 'you and the two Americans
shall go thither-east." He nodded