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The Newark Journal.
published In The Famous Big Bottom Country. Where Alfalfa is King.
$1 Per Annum.
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday September 30, 1904.
Vol. 4. No. 40.
BUILD WAREHOUSES
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Texas Man Suggests This Plan
For Holding Cotton.
-Farmers Could Bring Cotton to Ware
house, Secure Receipt and Hold
It For Fair Price.
Warehousing cotton anti holding
it for a price approximating its
real value, as a means of solving
the problem that confronts the
cotton producers of the South,
was the principal theme in the pa
per on “The Best System of Ware
housing Cotton,” read by .Judge
Eugene Williams of Waco, Texas,
at a meeting of the Southern ('ot
to n Growers' Protective Associa
tion in the Palace of Agriculture
At the Fair Monday afternoon.
In opening his address .Judge
Williams said that the problem
that confronts the cotton growers
is how to secure openly, honora
bly and in a businesslike way a fair
proportion of the price paid by
the consumer, for a cotton gar
ment, which oftentimes i-, many
more than the price the producer
receives for the raw material.
Contrasting the methods of cot
ton growers and other business
men, he pointed out how the cot
ton producer marketed his product
in the open street, saying that
without a place to store his cotton
to hold it for a fair price the far
mer is forced to accept the buy
er’s price. The ideal condition
for both producer and consumer,
he declared, would Jx> for the pro
ducer to be able to give the con
sumer a supply to meet the de
mands and no more, carrying in
original hands the excess.
The plan proposed contemplates
the organization of a corporation,
selling $10 shares to cotton grow
ers, merchants, bankers and all
interested in the industry. Stock
holders in each county would meet
and elect a proxy to vote the stock
at an interstate meeting, to be
held in New Oorleans. At the in
terstate meeting a board of direc
tors would be chosen, which, in
turn would appoint a capable man
as general manager. This having
been accomplished, warehouses
would be established in each town,
managed by a local board of direc
tors. To the warehouse the farm
ers could bring their cotton, have
it classed, weighed, stored, secure
a receipt and hold it for a fair
price.
These warehouse receipts would
be negotiable and could be used as
collateral for borrowing money,
should the farmer need it.
62 DEAD; 127 INJURED.
Two passenger trains came to
gether in a head-end collision on
the Southern railroad near Hod
ges, Tenn., Friday, killing 62 peo
ple and injuring 127. Four or
five others are expected to die
from injuries.
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SHOT HIS FATHER.
Lonoke, Ark., Sept. 25.—A
young man about 15 years old, by
the name of King, was placed in
jail today for shooting his father
yesterday about noon. He used a
shotgun, at close range. The load
struck the father near the top of
the shoulder and in the neck. The
doctor who is attending King says
the chances are against the man.
The trouble started by King abus
ing his daughter and the mother
interfered. King assaulted his
wife and was choking her when
the son tired on him. After this
the tK>.v went to a justice of the
peace and surrendered and was
committed to jail to await the re
sult of the wounds. King lives
about ten miles from Lonoke and
is a farmer.
$125 FOR KISS HE DIDN’T GET.
Bentonville, Sept. 27.*— In the
I circuit court the case of the state
against Douglass resulted in the
conviction of Douglass, the jury’s
verdict being for $."> and costs, the
I costs amounting to over £12,>. It
was all over the fact that Doug
lass, who is a preacher, asked one
of his fair sisters, a young married
lady and highly respected, for a
kiss, which was flatly refused, and
the husband, instead of taking a
shotgun to settle the matter, wise
| iy chose the law. It was rather
a costly experiment.
Hot Springs Special Wrecked.
Iron Mountain fast train known
as the "Hot Springs Special,"
which left St. Louis at b:20 Mon
day night, was wrecked near Vul
| can, 25 miles north of Piedmont,
at 2 o’clock Tuesday morning. The
train was running at a speed of
tiO miles an hour and the wreck
was caused by the rails spreading
as the train rounded a curve.
Thirty four persons were injur
ed. three seriously, but no one
was killed. Five cars and the en
gine left the rails and turned com
pletely over.
WOMAN ASSASSINATED.
Warren, Ark., Sept. ‘28.—Mrs.
II. Vines was shot from ambush
in the lower part of the county
one day last week, and died a few
hours later from the effects of the
wounds. Her husband, Henry
Vines, from whom she had been
separated, and his brothers, Jasp
er and Joe Vines, are suspected of
committing the deed.
TAXES PAID BY RACES.
A table prepared in the state
auditor’s office shows that this
year the white population of Ark
ansas paid taxes amounting to $4,
249,538.21 and the negroes paid
$245,088.94. It sets forth also
that 185,824 white male citizens
paid poll tax and that 53,364 negro
males did likewise.
The census of 1900 gave the
white population of Arkansas as
944,580 and the negro population
as 306,856. According to that ba
j sis the white people paid about
I $4.75 per capita and the negroes
; about 70 cents per capita.
The comparsion is edifying in
that it shows to what straits the
negro free schools would be re
duced by making them dependent
upon the taxes paid by negroes.
In Independence county the to
tal taxes paid by whites was $84.
709.20 and the total taxes paid by
negroes $748.28. The number of
j poll tax paid by whites was 3,- |
l 949, by negroes 167.
The total taxes paid by whites
in Jackson county was $96,514.73
and by negroes $5,560.63. The
white poll tax payers in Jackson
; county number 2,483 and the col
ored ones 827.
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: The ice cream season is here.
| Take your best girl around to Gal
ilowaj s restaurant and enjoy a
dish of that delicious cream they
! make.
IS WINNING MEDALS
Arkansas Has Taken 54 Hedals on
Farm Products at the Fair.
Final Report Today is Expected to
Show More Good Things
For Arkansas.
Reports from St. Louis sa.v that
Senator David L. King, of Hardy,
who is serving on the internation
al jury of awards in the agricultu
ral department at the fair, and is
chairman of “division A,” reports
that the work of examining the j
exhibits is about closed, and the
jury is engaged in awarding prem
iums. He reports that up to this
time there have been awarded to
Arkansas the following premiums:
Six medals on corn (one silver).
Ten on wheat (two gold).
Two on alfalfa (gold)
One on timothy and clover.
Two on oats.
<)ne on prairie hay.
()ne on buckwheat.
One on rye.
One on German millet (silver).
One on peanuts (silver).
One on cowpeas (gold).
One on white peas (gold).
Four on beans (three silver).
Nineteen on cotton (seven gold,
live silver, seven bronze).
Three on (lour (silver).
The final report will be made on
the 30th, at which time may be ex
pected some more good things for
Arkansas.
It should be borne in mind that
this is in only one department, and
that Arkansas is in competition
with the world, with more than j
15,000 exhibits.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS
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Short Items of General Interest 1
Gathered Fresh From Our
Local Exchanges.
. Union will soon have a new j
school house and Odd Fellows hall. '
Farmers unions have been or
ganized in many counties in the
S' t il t'O .
The erection of a $50,000 hotel
is being considered by Newport;
parties.
Miss Mabel Davis of Rogers was j
seriously injured by falling down |
a stairway.
An unknown negro was fatally
stabbed by another negro at Hel
ena Monday.
John (b Houston, one of the
leading citizens of Polk county,
died at his home at Mena Tuesday
morning.
The ice factory of Jonesboro,
which now turns out 20 tons daily,
is to have its capacity increased to <
50 tons per day.
T. A. Bedford’s drug store and
Ed Bertini's grocery store at *
Wynne were destroyed by tire ear
ly Monday morning.
Ozark is to have a system of <
waterworks in the near future, a!i
Fort Smith company having se- i
cured a 50 year franchise.
Onia Holiday, a negro woman,
was shot and killed Tuesday night
while sitting by an open window
at her home near Humphrey.
j H. Cobhill, a justice of the
Lincoln county, was so
peace m
h1 by a runaway
seriously injuicc
team that lie lived only two hours
i
i
after the accident.
It is expected that a movement
will be set on foot at the coming
meeting of the Masonic grand
lodge for the'establishment of an
Orphans Home at some iwiint in
the state.
Mrs. Rosa C. Chase, formerly
of Fort Smith, is in jail in St.
Louis on the charge of arson in
setting lire to a house for the pur
pose of collecting $1,000 insurance.
Bert Oglesby and Fred Rags
dale were each fined $20 and costs
in the circuit court at Gravett for
throwing a cat into a church where
the Salvation Army was holding
services. The total line and costs
was $158.20,
George Bigger, aged 21, at
tempted to commit suicide at his
home at Pocahontas Monday night
by taking laudanum. When found
he was locked in his room and was
unconcious, but the heroic work
of physicians saved his life.
Robert Graham of Tuckerman
lost two lingers while out squirrel
hunting one day last week. The
end of the gun barrels had been
jammed in the ground and he had
run his lingers into the barrels to
clean them out when the gun went
oil'.
The total value of real estate in
Arkansas of all kinds is $159,500,
01-19. Of that amount, $90,851,
851, is farm property. The total
value of personal property is plac
ed at $90,299,009. The number of
polls assessed for 1903 were 290,
917.
Roscoe Jones, the 12-.vear-old
son of County Clerk W. H. Jones
of Logan county, accidentally shot
and killed himself with a revolver
Monday evening. There were no
eye-witnesses to the accident and
the manner in which the fatal shot
was tired is unknown.
The 6-year-old son of Gus Kir
by, who lives near Taylor, smoth
ered to death last Wednesday. He
was playing in a cotton house and'
dug a hole about two feet deep,
und fell in head foremost and died
before assistance reached him. He
had been dead about half an hour
when found.
County Seat Sketches.
From tlie Hatesvilie Bee.
A large delegation of Batesville
citizens are attending the World’s
Fair this week.
A. J. Lovelace of Cushman was
thrown from a horse Thursday and
had his collar bone broken.
Rev. W. B. Hays has been
transferred to the St. Louis Con
ference and was recently assigned
i church in the city of St. Louis.
Theo. Jimerson of Newark has
aeen spending some time in the
•ity under the treatment of Drs.
Dorr and Kenerly. He is ini pro v
ng and expects to entirely recov
;r in a short time. i
Miss Dollie Aydelotte of Oil
Prough spent Monday night in the
:ity with her friends, Mrs. Pearce
ind daughter. She left on the pas- <
senger Tuesday morning for Mt.! '
^iew where she "’ill enter the r
stone County Academy.
NOTICE.
All parties knowing themselves '
ndebted to me must settle same j(
),v the 10th of October, 1904, or 1
nake satisfactory arrangements. *
mean business; 1 have waited 1
ong enough.
Georok F. Grosser.
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OUR SCHOOL HOUSES
Valuation of School Property in
Arkansas is $3,355,292.
Number of School Buildings Erected.
During Year Ending June 30,
1904, Was 265.
The total value of school prop
erty in the state of Arkansas is
$3,355,292, an increase of $454,
080 in the past two years. The
school property in 1902 was valu
ed at $2,902,212. These figures
have been obtained by the depart
ment of education from the re
{H>rts of the county examiners ia
the seventy-five counties in the
state. Pulaski county is second in
the value of school property, Se
bastian county leading with a total
of $007,490. Pulaski county’s
school property is valued at $421,
705. Stone county represents the
other extreme, the entire amount
of school property in the county
being valued at only $5,570.
The total number of new school
houses erected in the state during
the year ending June 30, 1904, ac
cording to the reports received,
was 205 and the value of the new
buildings was $180,507. Of tl»e
new buildings nine were brick,
254 frame and two log. The total
number of school houses in the
state in 1904, as compared with
1902, was as follows:
1904.
Total number.. ..5,583
lirick.
F rame
lA)g..
98
5,187
‘248.
Washington county leads the
state in the number of school
houses. There are 10‘2 in the
county, nine of which are brick,
136 frame and 17 log. Pulaski
county has the largest number of
brick school houses. There are
127 school houses in the county,
eleven ef which are brick and 166
frame. Newton county leads in
the number of log school houses,
with 23, and Madison is next with
eighteen.
CONDITION OF CROPS.
Following is the government
bureau’s summary of crop condi
tions in Arkansas for the week
ending September 2t>:
The week was characterized by
seasonable temperatures and
cloudy weather, with showers,
which broke the drouth in many
sections of the state, but were too
light in some sections of the state
bo prove of more than a tempora
ry relief. Cotton improved very
little, although there is less com
plaint of shedding. The top cro|>
»vi 11 be short. Picking is now
general: in some sections it was
•etarded by showery conditions,
vhile in other sections considera
te progress was made. Early
•orn is being gathered in many
>ortions of the state. The yield*
©cured have generally been very
atisfactory. Late Irish ]>otatoes,
urnips, peas and pastures were
freatly benefited by rains. Sweet
Hjtatoes promise a fair to good
rop. Very little fall plowing has
>een done up to the present, but
he ground is now in fine tilth in
nany sections and this work will
>e pushed. Apples and peaches
will be fair crops of medium qual
ty. Stock is healthy and doing
veil.