VOL. VI.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1907.
NO. 43.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
the latest events of the
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands. Throughout the Na
tion and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.
Congressman Burton will be the re
publican candidate for mayor of
Cleveland in opposition to Tom John
son.
New York thief confesses that a
member of his gang was thrown into
the river and drowned by his pals
for not dividing spoils fairly.
Prof. Oscar Oldberg of Chicago is
elected vice president of the Ameri
can Pharmaceutical association at its
session in New York.
Mayor Becker of Milwaukee inti
mates that he will in a short time be
a full-fledged candidate for governor.
Development of the country’s water
ways on plans to bo outlined by the
inland waterways commission will
have great results, says Senator New
lands in a speech before the National
Irrigation congress at Sacramento,
Cal.
Attorney General Bonaparte’s effort
to force immunity for the Alton, cou
pled with the action of Judge Landis
in Chicago, revises rumors in Wash
ington that the attorney general may
be forced to quit the cabinet.
Immunity Of the Alton is post
poned until Sept. 24. District Attor
ney Sims obtaining a continuance from
Judge Landis.
Double wedding makes Mrs. Pauline
H. Lyon a bride and her son a bene
dict, Mrs. Lyon's father performing
the two ceremonies.
The passing of the straw hat is in
dicated !;y the appearance of derbies
and fedoras and bottom jirices in
windows.
Occupation by Japan of an island
within 120 miles of the Philippines
makes a stir at Washington.
Tauzi brothers, who dominated the
sultan of Morocco to enrich them
selves and are regai ded as responsible
for the ruin of the country, are as
sassinated at Fez.
F.apid progress is made in the re
ceivership procedings for the Traders’
Fire Insurance Co., the claimants
numbering more than 150,000, al
ready having paid 50 per cent.
Sixteen naval reserves, after trying
hi vain to make the harbor at New
York, are picked up at sea three
miles off Sandy Hook.
Throng of visitors cs the Swedish
cruiser Fylgia in New York harbor
carries away as souvenirs nearly ev
erything loose on tue ship, including
parts of the guns.
Prescient Roosevelt now burns the
midnight oil preparing speeches for
his coming trip to the middle west
and south.
Primary elections axe «i progress in
Russia for the third duma, which will
be more hioderate than its predeces
sors on account of the changes in the
election law.
Premier of Persia is assassinated
as he is leaving council at Teheran.
Gypsy band is driven by Texans
across border into Mexico, after men
are horsewhipped.
High officials of Standard Oil may
hot be required to testify in St. Louis
nearing to be held in New York.
Frisco stockholders at special meet
ing called in St. Louis approve issue
new bonds foy $115,000,000 and in
«iase of capital stock from $100,000,
000 to $200,000,080.
.'ody of Richard Mansfield is buried
a New London, Cohn., after simple
ut impressive funeral services.
Report that Thomas F. Ryan and
0 mi capitalists are forming a big
company to secure a monopoly of the
manufacture of typewriters.
-Ioroccan situation threatens to in
P°'e I ranee in diplomatic difficulties,
eiraany taking a determined stand
against extensive military operations
hi’ the allies.
, *n. ,an address before the postal
oi \s convention in Peoria, Con
K essman Overstreet said that if the
rr,i!!!efS °f tke P°st°ffice department
hi, i' JS as wel1 conducted as is the
mJneSS °f lhe Standard Oil Co., lc
would be in force and em
h "es ^*le department would be
better paid.
ten, ,aC ',e.°f tlle department of the In
with' re S'tS Milwaukee and confers
Vera-1 Strict Attorney Butterfield it
K m rt0 ^°*orado land fraud cases
entl ' n'an w'ns over Schreck in sev
fou- !' '!nf Cincinnati Qerman claim!
* and is counted out.
t]la(°t01man "no was on express cai
terurh?lUSRtI Charle8ton-Mattoon in
funeral*1 Wrcck dashes car througl
l»rrowi.COrlege of two victims an<
7 escapes mob violence.
Mrs. Phillips, widow of the coal
man and banker murdered in Cleve
land by a burglar, according to first
report, is held by the police.
Fire chief of Franklin, O., shoots
down man who eloped with his wife.
Attorney General Bonaparte says
he wrote Mr. Sims that the agreement
made with the Alton should be kept;
he exprelses confidence in the sound
ness of Mr. Sims’ reasons for ask
ing delay.
Receiver is appointed for the Union
Iron and Steel corporation.
Two New York firemen are fatally
burned by an explosion of gasoline.
William J. Bryan will make a
speechmaking tour of New York under
the auspices of the Progressive Dem
ocratic league.
Gathering of railway presidents in
New York starts rumors of a confer
ence on hostile legislation in various
states.
One armed George R. Clark, wajited
for Haganiann jewelry store robbc-ry,
is caught in New South Wales, but.
may go free, as Illinois has no money
to send a policeman for him.
Edward Hagerup Grieg, famous
Norwegian composer and pianist, dies
in Bergen, his native city.
Last of the semi-annual statements
of fire insurance companies operaMng
in Georgia are filed.
Railroad men of three sections meet
and take steps looking toward uni
form classification.
Reaction follows the advance in
Wall street and bears bring out more
rumors of trouble to come.
■Joe Yeager, the plunger, is credited
with winning heavily on the victory
of Keep Moving at Sheepshead Bay.
Many star athletes expect to enter
University of Chicago this fall.
President Roosevelt has written
Gov. Kirby of Arizona that he will
take no further action looking toward
the joint statehood of New Mexico
and Arizona.
Admiral Capps and Admiral Cowles
of the navy department returned to
Washington from the Pacific coast,
where they made preparations for
the reception of the Atlantic fleet next
spring.
The Rapid Transit Co. of Philadel
phia has proposed that it will inaugu
rate a 4c fare on all lines, surface,
elevated and suburban, and that all
free transportation, transfers and
tickets shall be abolished. The an
nouncement has been made to test
public sentiment.
The navy department has instructed
the board of experts known as the
preliminary report on how best to pro
tect the men in the turrets and the
ammunition men on Admiral Evans'
battleships during the target practice
which will begin Monday off Province
town, Mass.
Dr. William H. Abercrombie, for
merly United States consul at Nagas
aki, Japan, committed suicide by as
phyxiation in his apartments in Stone
leigh court in Washington.
Bodies of a young man and woman
clasped in each other's arms were
found in the Mississippi river near
Muscatine, la. There was nothing on
the bodies to establish identity.
Members of the Structural Iron
Workers’ union in Ssn Francisco, re
turning from the funeral of one of
their number killed in the Labor day
riots, made an attack on a street car.
The prompt arrival of the police
checked the riot. Five men were ar
rested.
Judge Robert L. Stout of the four
teenth judicial district in Kentucky,,
in which the Goebel murder was com
itted, said that if W. S. Taylor will
return to Kentucky and testify in the
Powers case he will see that Taylor
is not arrested and that he is safely
returned to Indiana.
Attorney Chambers, w'ho has had
charge of the collection of evidence
for the Voters’ Civic league in the tax
receipt fraud cases in Pittsburg, said
that there would be 200 additional
indictments in these cases. He said
that a thousand men had confessed
to handling bogus receipts.
In tlie hearing of the North Carolina
rate case at Washington Comptroller
Plant of the Southern Railway Co
testified that the method employed
in computing the earnings of the road
were these used by the interstate com
merce commission and the North Car
olina corporation commission.
At the convention of the National
Postal Clerks’ association in Peoria.
Frank T. Powers of Chicago was elect
ed president. Congressman Overstree’
suggested that the postoffice depart
ment offer rewards for the best ideas
for increasing the efficiency of the
service. The convention voted $500
annually for these rewards.
A report is being circulated in Wash
ington that President Roosevelt, dis
satisfied with the peace conference at
The Hague, will call a conference ot
his own, assembling the ambassadors
of the powers accredited to Washing
ton to take up great questions.
Mrs. Pepper-Vanderbilt, the New
York priestess of spiritualism, tells in
court of her dealings with the spooks
Fifteen persons are killed and *
score are injured in a fire in a hot*
at Shelton, Wash
Farmers In Session.
The Farmer#' Co-Operative and Edu
cational Union of America, is holding
its annual convention in Little Rock
in the hall of representatives at the
State house, President C. A. Barrett
of Atwater, Ga., presiding. Ben L.
Griffin of Conway, Arkansas, secretary
of the Arkansas division of the Union,
made the address of welcome and the
response was made by Homer L. Higgs
of Greenfield, Tenn., the editor and
proprietor of the National Union
Farmer. This much of the convention
was open to the general public, but
all other meetings will be closed to
all except those who are in possession
of the password. There are about 75
delegates in attendance, the represen
tation having been recently cut down.
The Union has grown greatly in all
the States and consequently each dele
gate represents more members than
at former convention*;.
Women Establish Library.
By making a?d selling cakes and
pies, sewing, selling cigars, and even
by carrying notes from young men to
the popular young ladies of their
town, the public-spirited women of
Dumas, all members of the Dumas
Library Club, have raised more than
$1,000 for the establishment of a pub
lic library in this enterprising little
town. These women have even gone so
far as to plant, plow and pick cotton
on an acre of ground which one of
the interested citizens donated to the
club. They hope to make a hale of
cotton on this acre of ground, and as
it will most likely be ginned without
cost to them, they will realize a sub
stantial sum to add to their fast-grow
ing fund.
Will Build New Railroad.
The Aiicansas, Oklahoma and Texas
Railway has filed its charter with the
secretary of state. The company is
capitalized at $150,000, divided into
shares of $100 each, and the stock
holders are residents of Sebastian
county, where the railroad will be
operated. The line will be seven miles
long, and will run from a point near
Montreal, Sebastian county, thence
south to a connection with the tracks
of the Choctaw division of the Chica
go, Rock Island and Pacific Railway.
The new road, while traversing but
a short stretch of territory, will open
up a valuable coal field, which had
not been developed owing to the
transportation facilities being limited.
Oppose Social Equality.
A report from Marvell, Phillips
county, states that a timber buyer
named C. H. Weis was given a severe
whipping and forced to leave the town
between suns. It is said that Weis
boasted that he was no better than a
negro, and went so far as to attend
a negro church and kneel at the
mourner's bench during a religi&us
meeting. It is alleged that the white
people of Marvell repeatedly warned
Weis that his conduct was not pleas
ing to them, but he persisted in his
practice of social equality, becoming
so bold In his actions that the citi
zens took drastic measures in order
to 3liow him the error of his ways.
Church Service By Phone.
Rev. M. H. Ingham, rector of St.
John's Episcopal church of Camden,
has had special telephone service
installed in his church, in order that
persons who are unable to come may
hear the services. It was primarily
designed to meet the wants of an
afflicted member, who could not
attend at all. but it is working so we’.l
that many who are kept from being at
the church now hear the services over
the telephone. All that is necessary
to get the telephone service is to notify
the rector about an hour before the
time for preaching.
Boy's Skull Fractured.
While workmen were tearing down
the tent recently used by the Baptist
church at Benton, one of the center
poles fell, striking Dr. Walton's
12-year-old son. The blow rendered
the boy unconscious and he was at
once removed to Dr. W alton s office,
where an operation was performed.
His skull was fractured, and he is
now in a dangerous condition.
Shot On Train.
Ben A. Hardy, of Monticello, was
r.hot twice and fatally injured on an
Iron Mountain train at Pine Bluff
while en route home. The shots were
fired by J. N. McVey. formerly of
Monticello, but now of Texas, whose
leg was shot off by Hardy In a street
fight at Monticello one year ago.
To Establish Hospital.
Arrangements are being made to
establish a hospital at Fayetteville
on the site recently donated for the
purpose by Mr. and Mrs. S. K.. Stone.
Crops Will Be Short.
According to the monthly crop
report of the State by counties, issued
by Guy B. Tucker, commissioner of
mines, manufactures and agriculture,
the cotton and corn crop of this year
will be anywhere from 10 to 50 per
cent under that of last year in the
various counties of the State. Phil
lips. Randolph and St. Francis coun
ties report that their crops of cotton
will be equal to the crops of last
year. The recent rains have been of
great benefit to the corn in many of
the counties.
Hunting Pearls Cn White River.
More persons are engaged in
pearling in White river and its tribu
taries than ever before. It is esti
mated there are 500 people pearling
between Cotter and Branson, north,
and from Cotter to Newport, a dis
tance of 125 mile-3. It is said that
$5,000 worth of pearls was marketed
in that section during the month of
August. James Pongs and wife, near
Buffalo found one which they sold
for $500. A man named Roberts dis
posed of one in Cotter for $G0O.
Successful Cotton School.
After a six-weeks’ successful session
the cotton school held at Conway un
der the auspices of the Farmers’ Un
ion has closed. The enrollment for
the term was 80, all the students be
ing young farmers, who learned a
great deal about the grading and clas
sification of cotton, also bookkeeping,
which was taught in connection in or
der that the pupils could take the man
agement of the various union ware
houses throughout the State.
Granted Pardon.
Governor Pindall has granted a par
don to T. J. Harvey, convicted in the
Fort Smith District Court of Sebastian
county, December, 1905, of forging and
uttering fraud checks, and sentenced
to serve four years in the peniten
tiary. The petition of Kit Point
dexter, convicted of resisting an
officer, and who asked for a pardon,
was refused. Pointdexter was con
victed in the Woodruff Circuit Court
1 of resisting an officer.
Unusual Number of Blooms.
Twenty-seven white blooms on a
single stalk of cotton is the unusual
; spectacle seen by Judge George L.
Basham of Little Rock on a recent
visit to his Wrightsviile plantation,
in Pulaski county. The force of this
statement will appear when it is
known that a white cotton bloom lives
but a single day. He says he has
never seen anything of the kind
before.
Harvest Fair Home-Coming.
One of the features cf the harvest
fair which will he held in Camden,
October 23, 24 and 25, will be a home
coming of all the former citizens of
Ouachita county. Invitations will be
sent to those out of the State, urg
ing them to come home during fair
week. Much interest is being mani
j fested in the fair and exhibits of all
sorts are being prepared.
Confederate Veterans Convention.
Janies H. Berry, major general,
commanding the Arkansas Division,
United States Confederate Veterans,
has issued the call for the annual
convention, which will be held at Hot
Springs, Friday, October 4. At the con
vention there will be a major general
elected to command the division and
also a brigadier general elected for
each of the four brigades.
Canning Company Organized.
A company is being organized by the
business men of Pine B'.uff for the
purpose of establishing a canning fac
i tory in that city. The new com
pany proposes to can all kinds of
fruits except corn, ^nd an up-to-date
factory, modern in every respect and
equipped with all the latest machinery,
will be erected.
New Law Enforced.
The new statute forbidding the
wearing of a society emblem unless
the wearer is a member of such organ
ization was given its first test in the
Little Rock police court recently. The
victim was F. N. Frazier, who was
wearing an Elks pin, and was fined $25
, on his plea of guilty.
Excitement Kills Old Man.
F. hi. Doss, an aged man living near
Cabot, dropped dead recently while in
a dispute with a neighbor over some
timber. Heart disease was supposed to
have been the cause of his death.
Baby Took Morphine.
Mrs. I. M. Rosser's 18-month-old
baby swallowed a portion of a mor
phine tablet recently and came very
near dying. Mrs. Rosser lives at
Poteau, and was visiting relatives at
Fayetteville. The child found the
tablet while rummaging through a
drawer in a dresser.
Wine Rooms Prohibited.
The police of Helena are enforcing
to the letter the ordinance prohibiting
the operation of wine rooms in saloons
or In rooms adjoining saloons.
535,556 School Children.
Arkansas has 533,55G children of
school age and the per capita amount
allowed for the education of each is
$1.27, making a total disbursement of
$077,707. The list of counties and
the amounts accredited to each is as
follows:
School Apportion
Countics. Population,
Arkansas . 4.955
Ashley . 8,580
Baxter. 3,938
Benton. 11.374
Boone. 5.605
Bradley. 4.701
Calhoun. 3.247
Carroll. 6.715
Chicot . 7,090
Clark . 8,031
Clay . 7,807
Cleburne . 3,604
Cleveland . 4,496
Columbia . 8,084
Conway .. 8.740
8.502
8,306
6.455
5,040
4.324
4.249
8,195
8.771
Craighead
Crawford
Crittenden
Cross .....
Balias ....
Desha ....
Drew.
Faulkner . .
Franklin. 7,190
Fulton . 4,584
Garland. 10.015
Grant. 2.94 1
Greene . .. 8,084
Hempstead. 10,913
Hot Spring.. 5.374
Howard . 5,536
Independence. 8,760
Izard . 5.316
Jackson . 6,881
Jefferson. 17,599
Johnson.». 7,255
Lafayette . 4.831
Lawrence . 6.373
Lee . 7.369
Lincoln . 4.517
Little Rock . 5.474
Logan . 8,777
Lonoke . 9.371)
Madison . 6,662
Marion. 3."(is
Miller. 7.565
Mississippi. 7.487
Monroe . 6,883
4.653
6.717
4.637
7.376
3,545
9,330
Montgomery
Nevada .
Newton .
Ouachita
Perry . ..
Phillips .
Pike . 4.010
Poinsett . 3.805
Polk . 6.308
Pope. 8.972
Prairie. 4,791
Pulaski . 27,645
Randolph . 6.691
Saline . 5.327
Scott . 5.503
Searcy . 5.378
Sebastian . 15.474
Sevier . 6.317
Sharp. 4.442
St. Francis. 7.118
Stone . 3,484
Union. 9.491
Van Burnt. 4.915
Washington . 13.246
White . 9.375
Woodruff . 5.993
Yell . 8,569
Due District 45. Co
lumbia county, on
account of error
in report of 1906.
ment.
6.292.85
10,896.60
5.001.26
14.444.08
7,118.35
5.970.27
4.1 23.69
8.528.05
9,0(14.30
10,199.37
9,914.89
4.577.08
5 709.92
10.266.68
11,099.80
10,797.54
10.548.62
8.197.85
6.400.80
5.491.48
5.396.23
10.407.67
11.139.17
9.131.30
6,821.68
12.7 19.05
3.736.34
10.266.68
13.859.51
6.824.98
7.030.72
11.125.20
6,731.32
8.738.8.
22.35". 73
9.213.85
6,135.37
8.093.71
9.358.63
5.736.59
6.961.98
11.146.79
11,911.33
8.460.74
4.925.06
9.594.86
9.508.49
8.741.41
5.909.31
8.530.00
5.888.99
9,367.62
4.502.15
11,849 ! 0
5,092.70
4.832.35
8.011.16
11,394.44
6.084.57
35.109.15
8.497.57
6,765.29
6.985.81
6.830.06
19.651.98
8.022.59
5.641.34
9,041.13
4.424.68
12.053.57
6.242.05
16.822.42
1 1.906.25
7.611.11
10.882.63
90.S8
Total .533.556 $677,707.00
I certify that the above is correct, and
the Auditor of State is hereby author
ized to issue warrants in favor of the
treasurers of the several counties for
the amount set opposite each, upon
proper authority from the County Courts
of the several counties. Respectfully
submitted,
J. J. DOYNE.
State Superintendent.
Must Pay For Furnishing Passes.
The State of Arkansas won its suits
in the Pulaski Circuit Court against
the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern Railway Company, and
obtained a judgment for $10,000. The
cases were brought by Lewis Rhoton,
as prosecuting attorney, it being
charged the company violated the law
by furnishing senators and representa
tives iii the legislature of 1905 with
free transportation. The Company
filed demurers to the complaints and
attacked the constitutionality of the
acLthat makes it unlawful for railroad
companies to furnish free transporta
tion to officers. The cases were argued
before Judge E. W. Winfield. The
State was represented by Prosecuting
Attorney Rhoton and the railroad
company by T. M. Mehaffy, general
counsel. After the argument the court
overruled the demurers and gave
judgment in each of the five cases for
the maximum penalty of $10,000. The
money goes into the general fund of
Pulaski county. Before judgment was
announced the defendant elected to
stand on the demurrer. The Arkansas
constitution of 1874 provides that the
legislature shall prohibit railroad com
panies fro mfurnishing free transpor
tation to any legislative or judicial
officer of the State. In 1S87 the leg
islature passed an act making it
unlawful for a railroad company to fur
nish free transportation to any such
officer and fixed a maximum penalty
of $2,000. The same legislature also
made it a misdemeanor for any such
officer to accept or use free railroad
transportation and fixed the penalty
at a fine and removal from office.
Auditor Draws Warrants.
Auditor Moore has settled the mat
ter of the position he would take in
regard to the expenditure of the com
mon school fund by drawing warrants
as they are asked. In relation to the
Confederate pension fund he will, in
all probability, do likewise, but he
has made no statement, preferring to
meet the situation as it comes to
him. The statement of Acting Gover
nor Pindall relieved both the audi
tor and the state treasurer from all
liability that they would incur in cash
ing the warrants.
Penitentiary Board In Session.
Following the agitation of the bad
flour which it is alleged has been in
use in the penitentiary, the board,
which is now in session, has ordered
all bad flour to be destroyed, and a
new supply purchased. After the
flour question had been disposed of
the board took up the matter of the
education of the inmates of the reform
school. By the statute, passed at the
last session of the legislature creating
the reform school, it was provided that
the boys and girls confined should
receive three months education each
year. It was the belief of some of
the board members that the school
should be established immediately
and Secretary of State Ludwig
answered the objections of the oppo
nents of the plan who contended it
is alleged, that for the balance of the
year the inmates would be required to
work and go to school later. The dis
cussion was long on this proposition,
but finally was settled by the unani
mous vote of the members in the
appointment of L. Perry as special
instructor of the school at a salary
of ?50 per month. Mr. Perry’s name
was placed before the board because
of his qualifications for the post, hav
ing been employed in the reform
school at Nashville, Tenn. The appoint
ment was made at the suggestion of
Superintendent Chestnutt. Dr. R. L.
Russell, present penitentiary physi
cian, was appointed physician of the
reform school and will receive $25 per
month as salary for the additional
duties. The board passed upon the
awarding of the contracts for supplies
for the month of September and
adjourned to meet in special session
September 12, when the retention to
his position of the superintendent of
cooks, the lighting of the reform
school with electricty and the con
sideration of the parole of several
prisoners will be acted upon.
Boodle Cases Set for November.
The First Division of the Pulaski
Circuit Court, Judge Lea, presiding,
will open Monday, September 23, and
beginnning on that day the court from
present indications will be busy up
to and including November 25. Begin
ning the last week in October and
running through November, the boo
dle cases will come up. The first
case set is the perjury charge against
A. W. Covington, the president of the
1905 Senate, and the last is a misde
meanor case against M. D. L. Cook,
who has been a leading witness for
the State in most of the boodle cases
tried thus far. Tha program of boodle
cases as now arranged is as follows:
October 28—A. W. Covington, per
jury.
November 1—C. B. Andrews, bri
bery.
November 4—A. W. Rison, bribery.
November 6—A. D. DuLaney, acces
sory to crime of bribery.
November 6—A. J. Kiser, accessory
to crime of bribery.
November 11—Claude E. Fuller, mis
demeanor.
November 11—Benjamin McFerrln,
misdemeanor.
November 18—George W. Caldwell,
accessory to the crime of bribery and
also accessory to the crime of offer
ing a bribe.
November 25—M. D. L. Cook, mis
demeanor.
Big Loss In Cotton.
According to a summary compiled
by Commissioner Tucker from the
county crop reports that were recent
ly published there will be a big loss
in the cotton crop for 1007 over last
year. The decrease will amount to
nearly 30 per cent, the figures for
the present year being 70.1 per cent
of 1906. Arkansas hist year pro
duced 941,000 bales, estimated. The
approximate output this year will be
059.641 bales. To make the latter total
conditions from now until the staple
is picked must be normal, the weather
must be favorable for good develop
ment, and no further insect damage or
the early visitation of a heavy frost.
A cold spring, a reduction of the
acreage and other evils, such as boll
weevil and heavy rains, are respon
sible for the poor showing of the
Arkansas crop. Other states have
nearly all suffered the same troubles,
and the cotton crop as a whole in the
Southern States will be materially
less than last year.
Contest Over Depot.
A large delegation of citizens of
Grant county were in the city this
week, bearing a petition signed by 250
persons, asking the Arkansas Railroad
Commission to rescind its order locat
ing a Rock Island depot at Fenter,
and to require the depot to be erected
at Cross Roads, four miles south of
that point. One of the delegation
stated that a railroad at Cross Roads
would mean the development of a
large area of the surrounding country.