The Newark Journal.
One Dollar Per Annum.
NEWARK, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY MARCH 7, 1902.
Vol. 2 No. 10.
STATE NEWS NOTES,
Happenings of a Week Gathered
From Various Parts of
the State.
Will Turner, who killed Jim
Cowan at Gavin, has been cap
tured and placed behind the bars
at Muriou.
Sheriff Pitcock, of Van Buren,
has the scaffold erecled on which
Kit Helton, the wife murderer,
will be executed today.
A Mr. Ryekc.r, representing a
$150,000 creosoting coir pan v, has
pur Jiased 30 acres of land at Tex
arkana and a plant will be put in
at once.
J. M. Grade, a Jefferson coun
ty planter, has bet Dr. J. M. Kel
ler, of Hot Springs, $500 to $100
that Davis will defeat lleetor for
governor.
The hanging of Lawrence Dun
lap and David Jobe at Arkansas
City last Friday was the first le
gal execution ever witnessed in
the history of the town A ne
gro was lynched there 18 years
ago !or incediaris n.
Dr. Robt. F. Su iter, one of the
old physicians of Texarkana, has
been declared insane before the
county judge and is now confined
in the county jail. Admission
was asked for him at the Little
Rock assylum, but that institution
is filled.
A few days ago Arthur Gibson,
ex-county judge of Hempstead
county, offered to bet $2,000 that
.Tones would defeat Clarke in
Pcla^ki county. W. M. Kava
itnu^h heard ot Gibann’s propo
sition and covered his money
Kavutiiiugh is sheriff of Pulaski
coMiity.
A charter has been gt anted by
the state board of railroad ineor
ators to the Jonesboro, Newport
and Western itailroad Company
for the const ruction of a road
from Jonesboro to Newport The
promoters announce that they
will begin work iff a few days.
Could Not Breathe.
Coughs, colds, croup,grip,bron
chitis, other throat and lung
troubles are quickly cured by One
Minute Cough Cure is not a mere
expeetmant, which gives only tem
porary reliet. It softens and liqu
ties the mucus, draws out the in
flamation and removes the cause
of the disease. Absolutely safe.
Acts at once. “One Minute Cough
Cure wili do all that is claimed
for it” says Justice of the Peace
J. Q. Hood. Crosby, Miss. “My
wife could not get her breath and
was relieved by the first dose. It
has been a benefit tc all my fami
ly.” J. 1. Sturdivant.
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Mysterious Disappearance.
Warren, Match 3.—A few (Jays
since a young man named li. S,
Foster, in the employ of the Mon
roe Luml*er (Jo., passed up the
•Saline river in a naptha launch
looking after floati ng timber lie
longing to thul company. He was
•ecu in near Grnvii tit work on
a raft moored there. Last Satur
day his launch was discovered
floating loosely and partly filled
with water, the rope tie having
appearance of having been
cut. His lantern was also found
near l>y, but there was no sign of
Foster. The supposition is that
be was in some manner thrown
into the river and drowned, but
in what manner is unknown. The
t imber company has offered a te
waru of $50 for the recovery ot
the body.
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COUNCIL nHLTING.
The regular monthly meeting
of the city council was held Mon
day night.
The resignation ot Street Com
missioner Seward was accepted
and Eli Magness elected to fill the
vacancy.
A resolution requiring the rail
road company to remove the
stock pen and put in a crossing
where the street crosses the rail
road just west of the depot was
unanimously adopted.
The street and alley committee
was instructed to have a suitable
crossing put in from the depot to
the sidewalk on Fron* street.
Current hills to the amount of
$50 66 were allowed and ordered
paid.
Reports from the mayor and
marshal were read and approved.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that there
will be a public examination of
! teacheia at Bitesville, Ark., tl\e
20th and 2lst days of March, 1902
t:> ascertain the professional
| qualifications of all persons de
siring to teach m the public
schools ot Independence county.
.1. A. \\ ilkks, Co. Examiner.
February 22, 1902.
Practically Starving.
i “After using tt few bottles of
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure my wife
received perfect and permanent
! relief from a severe and chronic
case of stomach Double,” says J.
It. Holly, real estate, insurance
and loan agent, of Macomb, III.
“Before m-ing Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure she could not eat an ordi
nary meal without intense suffer
ing. She is now entirely cured.
Several physicians and many rein
dies had failed to give relief.”
Vou don’t have to diet. Eat any
good food you want, but don’t
overload the stomach, Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure will digest it for
you. J. I. Sturdivant.
Still Worship Ham moil.
The speech of President Mc
Kinby at Buffalo—the last and
greatest utter..nee of a life large
i ly dev\»led to public speaking il
luminates the field of tariff dis
; cussion with the light of the new
I philosophy. Mr. McKinley had
become a somewhat advanced tar
iff reformer. He read the .signs
of the times, saw the tendency of
American manufacturers away
from protection and knew it was
time to forsake the idol. In the
republican emigres, however, they
slid kneel in blind adoration of
the ugly image,--New York Times.
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We have a nice lot of
Cards and would like to
have a share of your pat
i
ronage. Prices right.
For the Complexion
The complexion al'vuys suffers
from biliousness or constipation.
Unless the bowels are kept open
the impurities from the body ap
pear in the form of unsightly
eruptions De\\ itt's Little Early
Kisers Keep the liver and bowels
in healthy condition and remove
the cause of such troubles. C. E.
Hooper, of Albany, Gu.,Sttys “i
took UeWin’s Little Early Risers
for biliousness and they were just
what i needed. I ain feeling bet
ter now than in years.” Never
gripe or distress. Safe, thorough
and gentle. The very best pills.
J. I. Sturdivant.
IS A VERY OLD DOCUflENT.
J. D. Sturdivant Has in His Poses
sion a Receipt Bearing
Date of 1774.
The oldest instrument of writ
ing it has ever Been our pleasure
to Dok upon was shown us last
Saturday by D. Sturdivant. It
is older than the Declaration of
Independence. The writing is
getting somewhat dim and the
paper is worn some, hut consid
ing it’s age, it is in a remarkably
good stave of preservation.
It is highly prized as a family
heir-loom and Mr. Sturdivant in
forms us that that the Samuel
Forgey, by whom the receipt was
given, is one e f his ancestors on
his father’s mother’s side.
There is no doubt about it’s
genuineness and it will probably
he placed in the county exhibit
at the World’s Fait.
On it’s back are some compu
tations that cannot be made out
by the naked eye. The writings
contained on it’s face, however,
are discernible to tbe eye. Fol
lowing are the exact words which
appear on it’s face :
Received, Gth of June, 1774, of Win.
Sharp, the sum of seven pounds, six
teen shillings and ten pence, part of
the estate of Sam’l Forgey, deceased,
and 1 do hereby promise and agree
that if the above sum together with
what I owe to the said estate by note
of hand should amount to more than
my just part as a legatee I w'll pay
back the balance.
Witness my hand.
Samuel Fougky.
“Agin” The Paper.
Every editor makes enemies. A
littie squib, aimed at no one in
particular, will hit some hoLlow
headed individual, and he at once
declaries himself “gain” the pa
per. The paper may have given
him many complimentary notices,
but the irnmaginary thrustset him
on liis dignity and he at once estab
lishes himself as a critic; but he
hasn’t enough nerve to go to the
editor, in a gentlemanly manner
with the griveance. Just notice
and you will see that the men who
are “agin” their home paper, as a
rule, are men who would not be
missed if they should leave the
the community forever. On every
question of local interest the home
paper always stands ready to make
a tight for the best interest of the
greater number, and the best citi
zens are generally at its back.—
Exchange.
Jack’s Predicament.
An old man in Georgia named
Jack Baldwin, having lost his hat
in an old dry well one day, hitch
ed a rope to a snag and let himself
down. A wicked boy named Neal
came along just then, and quickly
detaching a bell from Baldwins
old blind horse approched the well,
bell in hand,and began a ting-aling
a-ling. Jack thought the horse
was coming and said. “Hang the
old blind horse, lie’s coming this
way sure and he ain’t got no more
sense than to fall in on me. “Whoa
Ball!”
The sound came closer. “Great
Jerusalam! The old blind fool
will be right on top of me in a
minute. Whoa, Ball, Whoa Ball!”
Neal kicked a little dirt on Jack’s
head and he began to pray:
“Oh Lord, have mercy on
(Whoa Ball) a poor sinner. I’m
gone now (whoa Ball) Our father
who art in (whoa Ball) hallowed
l*e thy name (gee Ball) gee what’ll
I do) now I lay me down to sleep
(gee Ball.) (Just then fell in more
dirt) Oh Lord, if you ever intend
■ to do anything for me (back Ball,
whoa) thy kingdom come (gee
Ball) Oh Lord, you know I was
babtized in Smith’s mill dam
(whoa Ball) Oh up (murder whoa. ”)
Neal could hold in no longer and
shouted a laugh which
might have been heard two miles,
which was about as far as Jack
chased him when he got out.—Ex
THE DA VIS-RECTOR CONTEST.
What Soma of the Stat9 Papers
Say About the Two Great
Wind-Jammers.
It is no secret in Arkansas that
the woods are full of abler men
than C >1 Rector.—Helena World.
Jeff Davis professes to he
tired of politics, and the people
ought to give him a rest.—Bates
ville Guard.
Davis, the demagogue, is cer
tainly becoming worried, and feels
“powerful pestered,”— Arkadel
phia Siftings.
The News prefers Davis to
Hector every day in the week, be
cause we know what we ate talk
ing about.—Newport News.
If the Little Rock Democrat
will onlv keep up it’s light against
Gov. Davis until March 2U, the
state will be unanimous for Jeff.
—Beebe Bulletin.
“Pistol toter’' has been drop
ed from the campaign since it is
learned that Davis and Rector
are about equal on carrying con
cealed weapons.—Rison Bazoo.
It is well to remember while
talking about pistol toting that j
the gentleman, and son of u !
gentleman, Rector, would not
stand up and be searched.—Tex
arkana Courier.
The governor of, tue state has
an unbridled license to violate the
law. And, if his official acts are
criticised, he loads up his old
shot gun and threatens to anni
hilate somebody. — Bald Knob
Herald.
We are not in this tight, but
from outside appearances we
judge that Governor Davis will
cairy this county, with good
chances for J. P. Clarke for
United States senator.— lleber
Review.
Governor Dtv's says that as
long as he remains governor the
.stale will not again be disgraced
by negro guards whipping white
convicts. Jeff’s a gentleman and
a white man. anyway.—Spring
River News.
Talk about G >v. Davis dis
gracing the state, the smooto
bored, back-action, run-fire aris
tocrat, by such conduct is going
to place Arkansas where it will
take Gov. Davis all of liis next
term to redeem.—Mena News.
The Courier is not taking any
pai tin the Rector-Da vis contest
for the governorship, but we “rise
to remark” that in making your
forecast place Cove township
safely in the Davis column. The
laborers and farmers ure his
fiiends.—Hatfield Courier.
Oh,yes, Davos is the poor man’s
friend. He signed a contract to
hire 300 convicts to a luick com
pany which would have otherwise
employed honest laborers. But
he says he was either crazi or hud
his hands behind him, Will he
say he was crazy?—Hope Gazette.
Governor Davis conceives it to
be his duty us governor to go
I campaigning for u man he prc
| tends to believe would make a
: better senator for Arkansas than
the man who now servos in that
- capacity. Hut we have never
heard of anything in the oath of
office administered to the govern
or that contained anything of the
sort.—Junesboio Sun.
The State Republican, the
republican organ of the state, is
legging for Gov. Davis,—Ozirk
Democrat. As we have observed,
all things being equal, we usuully
leg for the weaket party in all
contests in which we are not per
i mitted to participate, but in this
case wo gravitate to the bigger
• 9ide. Governor Davis needs no
legging by republicans. He will
get there with both feet. It is
nut urn I tor spectators to lean to
ward the winning side.—State
Republican.
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Surgeon’s Knife Not Needed.
Surgery is no longer necessary
to cure piles. DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve cures such cases at
once, removing the necessity for
dangerous, painful and expensive
operations. For scalds, cuts,
burns, wounds, bruises, sores and
skin diseases it has no equal. Be
ware of counterfeits. J. 1. Sturdi
vant.
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WASHiQTON POLITICAL CHAT
Swift’s News Bureau. I
Washington, D. C., March 3. i
The democratic members of the
Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections won a creditable
victory in the Tillman-McLaurin
case- The republicans started out
by talking of reporting a resolu
tion for the expulsion of the two
senators, but the democratic sen
ators put a quick stop to that by
stating that they would filibuster
until the end of this congress be
fore they would allow such a res
olution to be adopted. Then the
republicans proposed that Till
man should be given the greater
punishment. This also was op
posed by the democrats, and they
claimed that the two senators
were equally guilty, and expressed
their willingness to support a res
olution to censure them alike,
ar.d they carried their point- The
majoiity does whatever it pleases
in the House, but the the minori
ty is still able to maintain it’s
rights in the Senate.
AND THAT FIXED ’EM.
The Maryland delegation in
c ingress held a conference to talk
over wiiat should he done to
bring the Schley case before cou
giess. No conclusion was reach
ed. There is little difference of
opinion as to what ought to he
done, hut the difficulty came in
over what could he done. Mr.
Roosevelt iias allowed the repub
lican senators and representatives
to understand that he will regard
their participation in any move
ment to get Schley’s case before
congress as a personal affront and
that teems to have silenced the
most of them.
MOKE IMPERIALISM.
Does the administration expect
the natives of the Danish West
Indies to follow the example of
the Filipinos and revolt? It has
been bemi officially announced
that as soon as the islunds arc
formally turned over to the
United States, iu accoidance with
the treaty that has been ratified
by the senate, American troops
will he sent to ghirison the islands.
NEEDS NO EXPLANATION.
The official announcement at
the War Department, based upon
reports just received, that there
are now 452 garrisoned towns in
the Philippines tells u story thut
needs no comment to make plain.
SAT SIDE BY SIDE.
Pi nice Henry and President
Roosevelt occupied seats side by
side at the McKinley memorial
joint session of congress, while
Secretary Hay delivered a eulogy
on the late President McKinley.
BOOKER ARRIVED TOO LATE.
Booker Wasbiugtou had a talk
with Piesidei* Roosevelt last
week, but he didn’t get here
early enough to be iuvited to at
tend the White House banquet in
honor of Prince Henry.
FILIPINOS ARE NOT COWARDS.
Governor Taft, who is now re
peating his lo.ig story to the House
Insular Committee, has denied in
the most positive tertn9, that the
Filipinos were cowardly.
Wood, turnips, potatoes or any;
thing we can use, taken on sub;
scription.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
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Items of General Interest Gather*
from Four Corners of
the Union.
| JG rover Cleveland has expressed
the opinion that the treatment of
Cuba by this country has been
dishonorable.
An exposed silver dollar with
the address pasted across its face
was sent through the mails and
reached its destination safely.
Strong oppof§tion, principally
among Southern Congressmen, to-'
the Loud bill—providing £»*'
ing rural carriers under ttoP^eon
tract system-is developing in the
House.
The growth of nepotism among
officeholding Illinois republicans
is causing renewed trouble to the
party leaders and improving the
chances of the democrats carrying
the state.
Maj. M. J. Jenkins has declined
to accept the sword which it wa#
proposed to present to him
Charleston, S. C., when the presi
dent visited that place. The
declination was caused by the with
drawal of the invitation to the
president to present the gift by
Liutenant-Governor Tillman of
South Carolina.
No Danger in it.
Some people are afraid to put
much stable manure on the garden,
for fear their crops will go entir
ely to weed instead of making fruit.
There is an idea popularly hold,
that tomatoos, peas, beans, and a
few other plants do best on poor
soil. The writer has done some
gardning, and some fertilizing,
and has found the above crops
very much like others, doing best
on a very highly fertilized soil.
The best garden we ever saw had
stable manure put four inches deep
all over it, plowed in, cross-plowed
and then harrowed.—Farm and
Ranch.
The Blackberry.
An old field in Arkansan will
become overrun with blackberries
if you give it a chance. Did it
ever occur to you that improved
varities might suceed on the same
lands if you plant and properly
cultivate them? There are few
crops which would yield you so
much clear money for the same
amount of land and labor.—Ex.
Now is The Time.
Do not keep the alabaster boxes
of your love and tenderness sealed
up until your friends are dead.
Speak cheering words while their
ears can hear them. The things
you mean to say when they are
gone, say before they go. The
flowers you mean to send to there
coffins, send to brighten and
sweeten there homes before they
i leave them. If a sermon helps
you, it will do the preacher good
to tell him of it. If an editor
writes an article you like, he can
writo a better one next week if
you send him a note of thanks,
if my friends have vases laid away,
with perfumes of sympathy and
affection I would be glad if they
would bring them out in some of
my weariest hours, that I may be
cheered and refreshed by them.
If wo would fulfil our mission we
must acnoint our friends before*
hand for their burrial. Tears
falling on the ioy brow makes
poor and tardy atonment for cold
ness and selfishness in long, strug
gling years. Flowers piled on
the coffin cast no fragranoe back •
ward over wear^ years—Ex.i