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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, September 28, 1906.
Vol. 6. No. 40.
BIG INCREASE IN ASSESSMENTS
Total Assessed Value of Property
in the County is Over Six
nillion Dollars.
The assessment of the personal
property of the county for this
year, recently completed, amounts
to the very nea t total of $2,035,075,
according to figures published in
the Batesville Guard, not includ
ing the railroad, telegraph and
telephone companies. This is an
increase of Si It*,'.*40 over last year.
By items, the assessment is as fol
lows: 4852 polls (4050 white and
-02 colored) at $1 each; 4947 hors
es, at $241,645: 4321 mules, at
$249,230; 16,927 cattle, at $128,
490; 2872 sheep, at $3225; 24,037
hogs, at $34,205; 3546 wagons and
buggies, at $86,950; 970 watches,
at $12,895; 635 pianos and organs
at $34,035; goods and merchandise,
$331,519; banking property, $178,
140; manufactured articles, $13,
365; moneys, notes aud accounts,
$431,630; money invested in bonds, i
$14,21**; other stocks, $9,390; oth
er personal, chiefly household
goods, $267,155.
The improvements on real es
tate, which alone are assessed anew
this year are valued at $20,000,
and brings the real estate up to
$2,490,875, and the total assess
ment, real and personal, to $5,525,
$60.
It wiii be obsen ed that the num
ber of horses and the number of
polls assessed are about the same,
and, singularly enoftgh, these run 1
close together every year. There
are fewer mules than horses, by I
<{•26, but they are assessed for $7,
<585 more. Horses are assessed at
about $4!' a head, and mules at §60
a head. Cattle are valued at §8 a
head, sheen :m §1.13 and hogs at
81.40. Veld ins are given at §28j
• each, watches at 813, and pianos j
and organ- a: $56
The increase in personal valua
tions aud the value of improve
ments on real estate within the j
last year bring the total increase
over last year up to $130,940.
RAILROAD ASSESSMENT
The railroad assessment is as
follows: 41.17 miles of main track,
at $9,500 a mile, $301,115; side
track, 25.61 miles, at $1,800 a mile,
$46,008; rolling stock, $69,989;
main line, 1.05 mile, at $22,500 a
mile, $26,6*0; buildings, $2,350.
Total, $636,432. The Western
Union Telegraph Company is as
sessed at $11,400, the Pacific Ex
press Company at $'0,228: the Pull
man Company at $227, and the
Telephone Company at $7,50y.
Total $28,355. The total assessed
valuation of all property in the
county, for the present year,
therefore, is $6,190,647.
ENCOURAGING PROSPECT
The new Merchants and Plan
ters Hank which opened for busi
ness last week is doing very’ n>,%
ly and Acting Cashier Hogan says
the prospect for doing a good bus
iness is very encouraging, W.
D. Magness, T. M. Waldrip, H.
E. Hawthorne, W. T. Magness,
1. C. Nuckolls, J. \V. Sisk and J.
T. Tharp are (he directors. The
officers are W. I). Magness, pres
ident; W. T. Magness, vice presi
dent, and T. M. Waldrip, cashier.
DESPERATE HEN A1EET
Monticello, Sept. 26.—M. W.
Martin, former deputy postmaster
at Cominto, was killed a mile
west of that place yesterday,
and a man named Rogers was
probably fatally wounned as the
result of a desperate duel at close
quarters. Rogers is said to have
been jealous of Martin’s attentions
to Mrs. Rogers, and he is said to
have found him in her company
yesterday.
Rogers usey a knife and Martin
a pistol. Rogers was shot twice,
one ball entering the chest and
passing entirely through the body,
the other entering his left side.
The shots did not stop him, how
ever, and Martin was killed in the
tight. An examination of his body
showed that his throat was cut,
that being the mortal wound, and
there were several bad cuts in the
body. Martin is dead and Rogers
is not expected to recover.
flAGNESS MUSINGS.
Magness, Sept. 2d.—The ware
house building committee has let
the contract for building the ware
house to the Magness (Jin & Mill
Company for $1,178 46 to be com
pleted by Nov. 15 or sooner.
Work will begin Thursday or Fri
day.
Elder A. Douglass returned
Tuesday from Pennington in .Jack
son county and reports a tine meet
ing. Twenty baptised and nix or
eight restored.
Miss Lola and Ruth Boillott of
Cotter are here visiting their
grandfather, .1. ,1. Boillott this
week.
The Magness Gin Company has
ginned 36 bales of cotton up to
this writing.
R. M. ('row and Will Gresham
went to Bates villa Monday on
business.
Not very much doing at present
owing to so much rain.
OIL TROUGH TINKLINGS.
Oil Trough, Sept. 24.—Two
years ago J. L. Outlaw cut a cot
tonwood pole and set it in the
ground in his yard, post fashion to
hang a dinner bell on. It took
root and grew and now has limbs
on top of it fifteen or twenty feet
long.
R. M. Davidson has bought a
nice residence lot in town from
W. P. Jones and will build soon.
-I. M. Nichols of Rosie spent
Sunday here visiting his brother,
W. A. Nichols and family.
Mrs. N. A. York and daughter,
of .Jamestown are visiting rela
tives here this week.
Hands are scarce in our commu
nity and there is a great demand
for cotton pickers.
The Oil Trough (Jin Company
has ginned 53 bales of cotton up
to date.
W. O. Moore lias bought anoth
er lot and will do some more build
ing.
The work on F. M. Pridmore’s
store building is progressing nice
ly.
R. M. Davidson went to Bates
ville on business Saturday.
Capt. R. R. Reeves expects to
move to town next year.
A. F. Byard went to Newark on
business Saturday.
J. T. Taylor sold cotton at New
ark Saturday.
D. J. Williamson is very sick
this week.
Alex Shipp is on the sick list
this week.
WEEKS DOINGS AT SULPHUR ROCK
Short Items of Interest Picked Up
at the Metropolis of White
River Township.
Sulphur Rock, Sept. 25.—The
public high school opened Monday
with 101 pupils in attendance.
Prof. Sidney Pickens is principal,
Prof. ,1. K. Rawlings first assist
ant and Miss Mattie Wood second
assistant. We now have one of the
best school buildings in the county
and with this able corps of instruc
tors, we expect to have a school of
which any community might well
feel proud.
W. II. Saffel and Miss Alberta
Watson were married at the resi
dence of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. An
derson Thursday, the 20th, Squire
Anderson officiating.
Prof. W. T. Jernigan closed a
very successful school at Hazel
(Trove Friday and will be at home
for a few weeks. He will teach
this winter at Cord.
Rev. and Mrs. C. F. Hively are
spending the week at Iuka, their
old home, where Rev. Hively is
conducting a meeting.
Mrs. Julia Moss of Texas came
in Monday to visit her sister, Mrs.
Wash Wilson, and other relatives.
Ed Martin has sold his mercan
tile business to Frank Smith who
will take charge next Monday.
Prof. Will Jernigan left Tues
day for Fayetteville where he will
enter the State University.
Will Jernigan and sister, Miss
Vela, of Charlotte, visited friends
and relatives here Sunday.
lion. W. S. Wright of Bates
vilie spent Sunday here with home
folks.
J. P. Sink went to Newport Sat
urday and returned Monday.
Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Bolivar
East, last week, a fine boy.
E. R Moore of Newark was vis
iting here Sunday.
A NICE HOME FOR SALE
We have'one of the nicest pieces
of residence property in Newark
for sale at a bargain. Two-story
eight room house with good barn,
smokehouse and good well of wa
ter. An entire block goes with
the property including two small
houses which rent for $5 per
month each. Also line garden and
young orchard. Buildings all
nearly new and well finished, paint
ed inside and out and papered
throughout. The houses would
cost what we ask for the property
to say nothing of 'the lots, barn,
fencing and other improvements.
Craig & Moo up
FURNITURE FOR SALE
1 have a nice lot of furniture,
such as bedsteads, beds, springs,
tables, dressers, etc., consisting of
i the entire furnishings of the Ho
tel Magness, which 1 will offer for
sale at reduced prices, and will be
at the hotel on Saturdays for the
purpose of selling the same.
Mi:>. .1. P. Mauxess.
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FRITTERS AND HONEY
Now that diamond mines have
been found in Arkansas, the honey
ponds and fritter trees must be at
the next turn of the road.—Aik
ansas Democrat.
$ARR1E KELLER
It is with extreme sadness that
i we announce the death of oue of
I
our friends and pupils. On last
Saturday evening about six o’clock
the grim monster death invaded
the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. G.
Kellar and claimed for its victim
their youngest child, Carrie. She
was sick but a few days.
Carrie was 14 years of age, just
verging into womanhood, and bid
fair to be one of the most hand
some and useful young ladies in
the community. She leaves a
father and mother, live brothers,
two sisters and many friends to
mourn her death.
She was buried at Mt. Zion
graveyard Sunday evening just
before sundown. Funeral servi
ces were conducted by Rev. J. H.
McDoniel. dust before leaving
the family residence the friends
sill-rounded her lifeless body and
sang one of her favorite songs,
“Thou art gone our precious dar
ling." Her body was then convey
ed to its final resting place.
We can realize the sentiments
expressed by the poet when he
said:
“Although you flourish like the
rose,
While on its branches green,
Your sparkling eyes in death must
close,
And never more be seen.”
Her friend and teacher,
B. F. Cash.
SALADO SAYINGS
Salado, Sept. 25.—Rev. .lames
Purcelly tilled his regular appoint
ment at the Baptist church Satur
day and Sunday and twenty mem
bers were added to the Baptist
church. Of that number seven
teen were baptized Sunday in
Spring creek near Mt. Zion.
Mr. Robert Clark and Miss Em
ma Meachem were quietly married
Sunday morning at the home of J.
VV. Scott, among a large crowd of
friends and relatives, They are
deserving young people.
Andy Wheeler returned home
Monday from Hot Springs where
he has been for the past twenty
days.
Sam Wheeler and Henry Egner
visited friends and relatives in Oil
Trough Saturday and Sunday.
Homer Smith and W. H. (rat
ling have made 7:»5 gallons of fine
molasses this year.
Clarence Taylor is erecting a
nice residence in the north part of
town.
Burt Wright of Sulphur Rock
was in town Tuesday on business.
Sheriff J. A. Kaneaster visited
friends and relatives Were Sunday.
There are a few cases of scarlet
fever in this vicinity.
COTTON RECEIPTS
Up to noon yesterday there had
been a total of fifty-four bales of
cqtton bought in Newark this sea
son. Sisk, Hulsey & Haddock
have bought more than any of the
other buyers, they having bought
27 bales. It was selling yesterday
at 5>A cents.
.Just a day later than this last
year there had been To bales sold
here and the price at that time was
10 cents.
TinBER LAND FOR SALE
We have 680 acres timber land
I east of Newark for sale at $7,50
per acre. White and red oak tim
ber on land will pay for it. Craig
& Moore.
NEGRO KILLED AT JACKSONPORT
Fifteen-Year-Old Negro Girl Shot
Down By Another Negro
Saturday Night
Jackson port, Sept. 24.—Ben
Page, a middle-aged negro, shot
and killed a fifteen-year-old girl
of his own race, named Mary Page
but no kin to him, at the house of
the girl’s grandfather here Satur
! day night. The killing aroused
much indignation and the testi
mony at the inquest was that it
was unprovoked. John Grubbs
heard the shot tired and captured
the negro before he had time to
escape. Sheriff Simmons was at
once notified and came up from
Newport for the prisoner, who
was at once taken to Newport for
safe-keeping. An inquest was
held before Justice of the Peace
Robinson Sunday morning, and
the verdict of the jury was that
Mary Page came to her death by
a gunshot wound at the hands of
Ben Page.
The evidence was that Page
was sitting on her lap and eight
or ten other negroes were present.
Page, who had been drinking, had
an argument with some one of the
party. He suddenly pulled a pis
tol and, without warning, shot the
girl through the back part of the
head, producing almost instantan
eous death.
NOTICE
In the case of Enos J. Tomlin
son vs Iron Mountain Railway,
(No. 529) the clerk of the supreme
court has, as we believe, very ar
bitrarily refused to remit to this
office, or the sheriff, the funds
which the railway company paid
to hjm as costs for witnesses, and
says that each witness will have to
deposit in his office a certificate
and he will then pay them by
check.
We think that his actions are
very unjust and not in accordance
with law or custom but very likely
we cannot prevent his doing so,
therefore I wish to advise every
witness in this case to send his cer
tificate to P. D. English, Clerk,
Little Rock, Ark., with instruc
tion to send you check for same.
If you have lost your certificate
or never received one, write me *
and I shall take pleasure in fur
nishing you the same without cost,
and will assist you in any other
way possible. Cm.. L. Pearce,
Clerk of the Circuit Court.
DIRECTORS NOT LIABLE
The directors of the defunct
Hank of Newport cannot be held
liable for the losses of depositors,
on the ground that they failed to
require the officers of that hank
to make the financial statement to
the county clerk and secretary of
state as required by law. Such is
the effect of a decision handed
down Monday morning by Judge
F. D. Fulkerson in the Jaeksoa
eiranit court when he sustained
the motion and demurrer tiled by
counsel for the lirectors to strike
out paragraph No. 1 of Senator
Clarke’s complaint iu the suits of
S. lleinemann and W. R. O’Neal.
NOTICE
1 All parties due me must come
in and settle by October 1st. If
not, you may expect to pay the
cost. Will be at my in Newark,
i Geo. F. Crosseu.