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"HMr. Chall the preee The PeopI' lRights Maintain, Unawedl by influence and, Unbribed by Cahin"

VOLUME XXVI-NO 43,... OPELOUSAS, LA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1916. 1 PEpE

CARRIERE IS S IOTAND CAPTUREDDARIUS FONTENOT WAS ELECTED SHERIFF OVER THIBODEAUX

SWORDS' ASSASSIN[APTURED TBUSSDAY

IBilaire Carriere Shot by Sheriff

Reid Near Elton Early Thursday

TAKEN TO HOSPISLLAT, LAKE CHARLES

Desperado in Serious Condition, andInformation Is that He Has PoorChance to Recover

Just one month ago SheriffM. L. Swords of St. LandryParish was assassinated byHilaire Carriere in 'that see-tion of the Mallet-wood knownas "Pot Cove."On Tuesday of this weekAssessor D. M. Fontenot waselected to fill the unexpiredterm of the vacancy createdby the death of Marion L.Swords.On Thursday morning at twoo'clock Sheriff Reid of Calea-sieu shot and probably mor-tally wounded the desperadoCarriere. Carriere was' firedon three times with buck-shot, and pach shot tookeffect.

The career of Hilhire Carriere,--ade notorious by the assassina-

-tion of Sheriff Marion L. Swords,

shas come to an end. That careerias one of the blackest in the crim-i.i'al annals of this State. The shot, from the gun" of Hilaire Carrierelbrought to the grave one of the best~known, greatest loved and highestr7espected officials in the State ofLouisiana. Marion Swords was one(of #ie leading political figures intyh is State.

Many reports contcadicting eachother flowed into The Clarion of-tiee, coming from all sections, fromt'his and surrounding parishes. The•Clarion anxious to kiye its, usual.. ect report got in touch with tlbe

eidiJor of The American-Press of theiYty of Lake Charles, a'd below we

'.pnint the story in fulltas told byr. Krebs :Sheriff Reid got information a

#fewdays ago that Carriere was hid-iiig at the old Putnam Saw Mill,

Ut a mile west. of Ben Field in

tn*eline parish, and about six:itls :orth of Elton, Jeff Davis

h The officers knew thatriere had been hiding in that!oction for several- diys but- were

table to locat, him until Wednes-

heriff Reid took wit h-imT fromCharles three deputies, Jerryth, Leslie Richardson and Ci

Harmon, oand at Elton they pick-Yorick Reed, and Oscar Tete.

arriving at the point in viewwere told that Carriere's hid-

Place was in the old mill. They,, there for him until twoi Thursday morning. Car-Swalked out on the -p!atform,

when Sheriff Reid saw t:his hesd at him and told him to Uair-

.r. This Carriere fail4e-tJdo,

rri.ere looked around, but •• dlocate the Sheriffs ,ice.again called upon Carer t-der, but Carriere 'a seBdt

Sfailed to do so. Rpid siotere with buck-shot and fliooedl." Tle Sheriff and his deput1.i

g a trap being set for theimtod a few minutes, but se~ehg

tiarriere did not move went ~ iPuhim and picked him up. •

ht him to Lake Charles ilanf

at about eight o'clock Thurs-morning, where hewas p•

a sanitarium of that city. O-is being attended by two p -a His chances for recoverY

IRE CONFESSES TO :NT OiFFENSES

Ihure Carriere madW a coiP0S

sion of the several murders com-mitted by him. He confessed thathe had killed the old negro at Jen-nings, but that this deed was donein self-defense. He also acknowl-edged that he had killed a youngnegro boy. He killed this boy, hesaid, because '.he (the boy) hadpromised to give him up for thesum of twenty-five dollars. Car-riere admits that he killed SheriffMarion L. Swords, but says that heis sorry for it-that he has regrettedit since. He told the questionersthat ,he had almost killed anotherman, meaning Mr. Chachere-thathe .thought that he had hit him.Carriere also said that he was sorrythat he had not killed the two ne-groes who had reported to the St.Landry authorities. Sheriff Reidsays that he hated to kill Carriere--that he did not want to do so. Saidthat he wanted to capture him alive,but that Carriere's former acts didnot warrant taking any chances.SEARCHING PARTYWORKS HARD.

The different searching partieshave certainly worked hard duringthe hunt for Carriere, especiallycan this be said of Sheriffs Reid ofCalcasieu, Latiolais of Lafayette,Fontenot of Acadia, the sheriff ofCameron and Acting Sheriff R. M.Littell of St. Landry. They were onthe go almost continuously.. Manyclues were brought to thei whichproved to be futile. Only Wednes-day was a correct information re-garding Carriere's whereaboutsgiven. Several times before- theywere on his trail, but on each occa-sion they were unable to locate thedesperado.MUCH EXCITEMENT

Opelousas is in a high pitch ofexcitement. Never since the killingof the Sheriff have the people beenso anxious *bout this matter. Thereis a speculative comment afloatthat if Carriere is brought to Ope-lousas that he will be met by an uh-ruly mob. To this statement littlecredence i tta0caied. Leaving asidespeculation Op eousas. people are

anxiously a aiti, to know whetherCarriere will fover from the

wounds revived They all want to

see this Carrie e-this desperado

who killed their popular sheriff.

DEMOtCIATS • OTHATB $INEI GIBLE

Bull itoose or SheriffW -l : e 4 o Some to Have

Name on Ticket, They Say

J. W. iBassett, who ihas. been etered e as the choice Ot lbe Sj.Landry prdgressives as can~:

for shefiff, has afight comi g tohim, according to local democra

when he comes to have his namS

placed on the ticket. It is said thatthe law required that a candidate

must have beep registened i8n the

piarty in which he runs at ieast six

months before the election in o0rde

thse his na ie. placed o n thwa -ino rdg to .the hecordsi~the of voters Vr. Bassettonf ed two'eeks agOlas i

Mr. bads fOrm E~nitO,swhere he ban beeo a rehident for

the past fe onr~. He was promgiinently identitied with the Parlkrmovement in this section of ti.state. He tourepvteral contigu.ous

parishes during the caimpaign miak.ing speeches in behalf of the BullMoose candidate..

There are only ae regisjprogressives in this parish; demOerits have lined up eind theca's4idate of their ,choice It is ii. m4 dif a fight is necessary prominentdemocrats who opposed Fsmtenotwill be fighting right along side ofhim. Progressives, on the otherhand, however, feel confident that

they can make a creditable rae; on

September 12th.

GERMAN CHANCELLOR AT HINDE~it'S MONUMENT

This is a new photograph of the German Chancellor Von Be Cmann- Holweg (in uniform at the left) and

it is of particular interest to Americans just now because of the thretened resumption of the former U-

boat policy by the Germans.

CHARLES THIBODEAUXSUPPORTS FONTENOT

Defeated Candidate for Sheriff

Congratulates Victor

BOTH FACTION CENTERON DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE,

All Join Hands to Make Election of

' Darius Fontenot Practically Unan-

imous on Sept. 12th.

Charles Thibodeaux has a4Waysbeen regarded as a game loser; he

once more showed that he was able

to stand the "gaff" and that he wasready to congratulate his victorious

opponent. On Wednesday morning,

bright and early, Charles Thibo-

deaux wa's one- of tihe first men toappear up-town and as soon asyoung Darius Fontenot, successfulcandidate for the democratic nomii -

nation for sheriff, a'rrived at thecourthouse, Mr. Thibodeaux ex-

tended the glad hand, congratulated

his opponent and tendered his sup-pdrt to him, in the event that he

should have opposition at the pollson September 12th.

J. W. Bassett, is said to be a can-didate on the Bull Moose ticket,

most people posted with Louisiana

politics claim that Mr. Bassett willnot be able to have his name ap-pear on the ticket. This did not

bother Mr. Thibodeaux, ISowever, as

he was ready at all times to sup-

port the nominee: In fact if it isnecessary for him 'to go out cam-

paigning -for the man who defeated

him, at the :polls on last TuesdayMr. Thibodeaux is ready to do so.•

- The recent campaign was one ofthe most hotly, contested ever held

in St. Landry parish. There wasconsidgrable bitterness engenderedon both sides, but after the cloud ofbattle blew off and the, victor was

found to be Mr. Fontenot the lead-

ing fighters and bitterest politicalenemies of the successful candi-

date did not hesitate to step for-

ward and extend their congratula-

tions and support at the general

election.

Both Mr. Fontenot -and .-Mr.Thibodeaux feel grateful to their'loyal supporters throughout theparish, and th'ey have already invarious forms expressed theirthanks to their friends, who as-sisted them in the recent campaign.

In speaking to a representative ofthe Clarion Mr. Thibodeaux said:

"I want to express my heartfeltthanks to those who voted for mein the late primary. I want tosay that I appreciate their loyal

support. I am going to vote for and,support the nominee of te demo-

eratic party.

WILL CALL ELECTIONIN DRAINAGE ITRICT

Plaquemine-Mallet Distrit Tax-Payers Are Said to FavO Taxand Proposition M4y arry

The property taxpayers /of the

Mallet-Plaquemine drainage district

will be given another opportunity

to express their opinion on the

question of most vital imporcance to

the landowners of the Mal t and

Plaquemine Point neighbor'hhods, in

the shape of a tax election.

It is understood that the police

jury at its next meeting will ap-

proye the new boundaries of the

old district and it is claimed that

the election will' be called within

the next few weeks. It is said the

najority of the landowners are in

favor of the propositibn, as a- large

portion of the cotton and corn crops

in the district was lost during thepresent year on account of defec-tive' drainage.

J. Franklin Schell has been work-ing in the district with the view of

acquainting every taxpayer of t'le

proposition, and it is= said that

there is not a taxpayer in the dis-

trict who does not know exactly the

situation.Mr. Schell was asked .by the

largest landowners of the' district

to take the lead in boosting up the

cause, and this gentleman did not

hesitate to work for the cause ashard as thlough he was a taxpayer

of the district himself.

Surveyors have been out, in thedistrict for the poest two weekstid

it1 will -be kn n, when, the gledttionis called, exactly how many yards,

of dirt- have to be take-n oit of •thesevetaat gullies and streams~lin thedistrict, in'oprder to systematicallydrain the district;

it is said that tfe people who live

south of the present line of AtheMallet-Plaquemire draina: districthave not been ,leepiig at the post

of duty; they bave been Way ar-ranging themselves, it is said, to

meet the -conitions, and as : ;as

they will ascertain what the tax-payers above them . will do, t4 = ywill set to work, it is said, create .district of their o*n and ado~isa

tax, .so as -t drai their country,s oulktt is take place 4th io

tire western p ortion of BA findrywill be thoroi ghly drained and thelands in the Mallet and Plaquemineseetions will son ig prices

------ : .- *--------Miss Cassie .Ster•ing returned

home Tuesday from Alexandriawhere she was the guest of hersister Mrs. E. G. hickman and MisseFannie Uickmian.• - She w,. ... -

panied home by her siter.

ALL INTEREST TURNSTO IUDIGIAL FIilHT

Candidates Lewis and Sandoz HaveMet With Success in Evangeline

YOUNG ATTORNEYS ASSUREDOF FLATTERING SUPPORT

The People of the Sixteenth Judi-ei'l District Have' Gotten BehindCandilacies of Lewis and Sandoz

,o JobhW.: Lewis and s-epton R. LSandoz have made a triumphant

tour of the beautiful Evangeline

country and have returned to St.

Landry with assurances of a great

victory at the polls. The two young

Opelousas attorneys who are oppos-

ing Judge B. H. Pavy and District

Attorney R. Lee Garland will sweep

Evangeline parish on the 12th of

September like a cyclone and will

romp home with a great victory.

While the recent contest for'sher-

iff kept the attention of the voters

of St. Landry, more interest being.,

manifested in that. election because

of the fact that it was pulled off a

a month before the judicial elec-

tion, Mr. Lewis and Sandoz were in

Evangeline making a tour of that

parish and renewing old acquaint-

ences. All reports from St. Lan-

dry's daughter are to the effect that

the ecent visit of the "Peoples

Candidates" has proven a source of

great satisfaction to the voters and

gratification to the candidates, as

the voters of Evangeline were given

an opportunity to discuss issues in

a "ieart-to-heart" manner with the

candidates.The "Peoples Candidates" are now

busy in St. Landry, which is claimed

by he "ins" by an overwhelming ma-

jority, and the, result which .willastound the most optimistic sup-

porters of the. Pavy.-Garland fac-

tion. If the result of the judicial

contest is to rest slely with theSt. Landry vote the many friends of

Messrs. Lewis and Sandoz feel con-

fident that on the 12th of Septem-ber a new day will dawn for the

young and ambitious youths of the

sixteenti judicial district, as Lewis

and Sandoz will surely be electeddistrict attorney and judge respec-tively.SVoters throughout the district,

personally- friendly to the presentincumbents, feel ghat. zioom shouldbe made .forother worthy sons ofthe district; no man should have amonopgly of an 'office, 'especially`when there are others, younger,more vigorous and progressive, totake theiv places. That will be oneof the -reasons why Lewis and san-

dos willibe elected by such decis-ive majorities on: September 12th.

HYMAN-HILLER GIN WILLUSE ELECTRIC MOTORS

Stelly & Barnett inatall ModernMachineries In Their Up-To-

Date Plant in This Ctly

The Hyman-Hiller gin, which isnow owned by Simon Stelly and J.P. Barnett, and which will be oper-ated by Mr. Stelly, is the .first ginplant in this parish to ilstall elec-trict motors and' to discard thesteam engines and boilers. Mr.Stelly, popular manager of the con-cern, being a progressive sort of afellow readily undertook to provethat it was more, economical tooperate a-plant of that sort by elec-tricity than by steam.

The motors are being installed andAhould be ready for operation to-day.. From henceforth the Stelly-Barnett gin will be able to operateevery day ip the cotton season, asthe cost per bale ,will always re-main the same whether there isonly one or whether there is ahundred.

Those who are interested in mod-ern machineries can enjoy thFe in-spection of the modern Opelousasginnery.

---------- :0:HOLLIER STILL HEAD OF

OPERA HOUSE HERE

David Hollier, popuiar member of

the city council from the fourth

ward, will again be imanager of the

Sandoz Opera House this winter.[

Mr. Hollier has' successfully man-

aged the opera hous for the past'thre yeiars, aiidhas brought --alarge number of good shows to thiscity.

It is the intention of manager.Hollier to bring a large number 'f oigood shows to Opelousas this com-ing winter. He has alreafly made 1

arrangement to =lave somei showsout of New Orleans to play here ontheir way to the: West.

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RAIN INJURES (OTTON CROP.

Had it not been for the almostdaily local showers during the pasttwo weeks St. Landry :would haveproduced in the neighborhood of:25,000 bales of cotton, in the esti-mation of the best posted cotton:-men. Now, however, the yield willnot be that much and: it is feared-that the cotton crop in this parishwill not reach the 20,000:mark.

Cotton gins throughout: the, par--ish "are .ready now :for the cotton:season, several gins having alreadybegun. It, is expected that practi-.eally every gin .in the parish wiSoperate to-day. , Cotton his been.opening up rapidly in practicallyeyery' locality. TIhe staple is 'con.,sidered of exscellent quality and thefar~iers expect to get a good pricefor their crop.

PROP. GRIFlIl'T TO RiEMAINHEAD OF' UIItfE SCHOOLS

Well Known Eduestor RecoasidersAeeepta Pri~nffpalship of

An item from the Crowley Signalstates that "Professor P., 1. (riffith;:,head of the Eunice schools waschosen by the Crowley school boardand parish superintendent, -as prin--cipal of the North Crowley Schdl,anQ accepted the -place. Learningof his contemplated removal fromEunice, the people .of that littlecity got toethef~rand determined toretain his serviets in the schools

there. A additional purse :wPitraised Ld guarantee any salary re-

quired .to retain .hlhn-and Prof.: 1

worth as mulch t nice as to any:town on -theipapi apnd •as- assuredthat any salary required to keephim, and he finally eonsent~ld to

remain in char9sge of the school.

FONTENOT DEFEARTSCHARLES TIDBOSIEAUJ

Interesting Contest forBrought to End on Tuesdia

WINNER GETS 239 VOTESMAIORITY IN

Man Defeated in January by hSwords Proves Winner in Exit.-ing Race With Thibodeaux

Last Tuesday's election provedbe one of the most interestingsidexciting ever held in Opelousai, ai-though it was not as close .aselections. Both fastions were iing bitterly for supremacy, bit N.rius Fontenot's candidacy petoo much for the oppositi.a;c,having the solid support of LIZiO I'Tland-Pavy faction and a larg• p•rtion of the supporters :of '~i.Swords. Mr. Fontenot's victyiv-ya decisive one,, his majority I•Bin239.

Mr. Thibodeaux's race, hwis looked upon as pheno•it~ z

the fact that he was being foupnall sides by political leadeP'tofficer of the parish and and nt4-.cipalitg was fighting him banr ,Jghis friends feel confident t:t i

made a very remarkable rarethe fac 'eof such temendouis : 5,

Now that Mr. Fonteno.declared the demropatt/io tall political factions haveon him and it is evident threceive the practicaily .op

What made the eleoainiexciting is the fact T at thetest was not, considered anyup to the last minitei, bothfeeling sure that a stifff it wbeing put up throughout thi:i

ish.Thibodeaux suiporters t ld1

to the hope hoat the fourt an Iwards would redehem ... l

date, as the two wards h. sathe latelamented Sword3. wiikFontenot people relied 4 n t'E;i

and the third to puill tVs'irthrough, trusting that Thih.ktmajority in, the fopniwex oali

duced materially Luck !Fontenot people ,th-' fi

whinch was l.4ine 'h t,': 'ii

oellevue favoe red tabe "r ie )Sb•y 1 vte. T,5e yseoa d , "hiodib eau, )peach .aa gfi d

earn oieg: for th- Ttu. atCi 4t

4idlate. In the ourthd I'h-• ddito2vstrengit well ief andisau f rr. u

eoxpcatipn Fonteot scariedmie.polle and made a creditable ashP 2lag s Waxia, Palmetto, Maifd Jdort Barre4 Oomingt ove il' 6the fift* ward, whibch was as

jority of at least o :vote, a "dwas eonTeded to the opposltiq ' 3Faoteneot people, young.e Fn1 ,earied that ward by votesrying Washington, wthishclatied by and coincede to Th1bildepau by a' good majority

oeat for ontenet, edceedingt

petatedis; t'hat big ward wdtFtntenot by thejority of 230 votes, Eiailee *for Fontenot two to one, wh tlet was better than 8t,4- Yr44 0taique gave a goose-eu o t bdeaux, as BArbreck1, t the aL 4tttto Fontenot. 'Plequeinmne ?

gave Tihibodeaux a majority of onl*3 votes.

The fight in fjiv 'ard wa