Wand-Juki Ecamty News.
VOL. VI.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1907.
NO. 11.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
an EPITOME of the most im
portant events at home
and abroad.
north, east, west, south
a Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
CONGRESS.
The house voted to abolish all the
,cnsion agencies throughout the couu
,v 18 in number, and centralize the
payment of pensions in the city ol
Washington.
The pension appropriation bill car
rying $138,000,000 in round numbers,
ban been passed by the house.
The new battleship provided for in
the naval appropriation bill is to be a
lister ship of the one authorized last
year. They will be as powerful as the
ihips of any navy, and will cost $5,
000,000 each.
The senate accepted the proposition
,f the house of representatives to in
crease the salaries of senators, mem
bers and territorial delegates to $7,000
annually and those of the vice presi
dent, speaker of the house and mem
bers of the president’s cabinet to $12,
&ou. This action was taken by a vote
of 53 to 21.
The senate passed the compromise
Foraker resolution, authorizing ihe
committee on military' affairs to in
vestigate tlie fact of the affray at
Brownsville on the nights of Aug. 13
and 14 last, without questioning the
"legality or justice of any act of the
president in relation to or connected
with that affray."
Senator Tillman, in a speech in the
senate, likenel that august body to
a minstrel show. The excitement
grew until it was deemed necessary
lo close the doors, and go into execu
tive session. When the doors were
opened, Mr. Tillman apologized for his
firs: attempt to be "funny, and said
it would never occur again. His re
mark;; will not appear in the record.
The republican and democratic sen
iors got together on a compromise
resolution on the basis of ordering au
Investigation of the facts of the
Hownsville affair without brnging in
to question . e authority of the pres
ident to dismiss the negro troops.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Resolutions to check naval officers
from ‘lighting a fire under senators
and members to compel the enact
ment of the naval personnel bill at this
ttssion” were presented In the senate
tv Mr. Hale, and after causing a snap
py debate of short duration, went over
to; future consideration.
• tie senate has passed a bill author
izing a loan of $1,000,000 t o the James
town expositinon.
After an extended conference at the
i'hite House, it was decided to reject
•he bid of Oliver & Bangs, who pro
posed io complete the construction of
•be Panama canal for 6.75 per cent
01 the total estimated cost, in so fai
8s Anson M. Bangs of New York city
is concerned.
A coal-laden ship foundered in a
' orni on the Black Sea. Sixty work
men and the ship's entire crew were
drowned.
The German Government has won
* definite victory in the general elec
ion held lor a new reichstag. The
Hicral. radical and conservative part
1PS: supporting Prince Von Bucelow's
colonial policy, have won at least 2(
'tats from the socialists.
*h« Kingston Daily Telegraph says:
,s excellency is still careering
the city, poking his nose into
various coroners. The general opinion
In , } l*!e governor has completely
, “is head, and is utterly unequal
. tas*{ °f meeting the emergency
l '.n L- Hart, aged 13, was found
■aging near Pattstown, Pa. His act
11 destruction is attributed to a
•a.'iu! remark by a young girl com
<Vi°n'. w'Ko said she did not like him.
ivassia had decided to withdraw her
,('Ps immediately from Manchuria
walt »ntil April 15. the date
>»'I10n b-V tlle Portsmouth treaty
to ,tbias Huque, of Cuba, claims
Up ;-:e .covered a cure for leprosy
an "!t'd '*S sister- he says, and now
He 88 lb° cure ot two other cases
•reatment.11 ^ ‘°d ma-ngrove tree’
serccu°'ar'V of ,bo Treasury Shaw has
Ku. ' n°'ice of his decision to havt
callow?' deposits with banks re
denrrtTv-"" °,e bis 'eArement from the
vGthd™ ei'*nMa,Cl1 **• p !’is order w.ll
iPiri- -r \ ^'°'(K|0,00O from the money
Gov ‘l,nng February,
stiff°Vp,,'n°' ,S' Kittle of Arkansas has
sicians a Rhyaical collapse. His phy
ilutiPK i-, 10 _muBt not undertake the
Com oflice for several weeks,
an j tv.,, u 01-in-Chlef R, B. Brown
Grant] . Pension committee of the
h0en assn.0'') ,01 tbe Republic have
he favors tv! b^rSpealier Cannon that
I? an individualCCumber service bil]
Statistics show there are 1,750,000
child breadwinners in the United
States between the ages of 10 and 15
years.
Wm. Whitely, a well known citizen
of London, Eng., was shot and killed
by a young man who claimed to be his
son. The youth then fatally wounded
himself. It is believed to be the re
sult of a fancied grievance.
Says a dispatch from Berlin: “At
the annual reception at the palace
more Americans han usual were pre
sented to the emperor and empress.”
The Kentucky court of appeals up
held the constitutionality of the legis
lative act, of 1904, making chicken
stealing a felony.
Secretary of State Root and Mrs.
Root have returrned from Montreal.
The secretary said he found the Cana
dians very friendly to Americans.
The executors of th* Marshall Field
estate have filed with the probate
court in Chicago an inventory of the
late merchant’s possessions. The ap
proximate value of the estate is placed
at $75,000,000.
Andrew Carnegie is to have his
fame perpetuated in Chicago by a uni
versity bearing his name. Articles of
incorporation have been filed in the
county recorder's office whereby the
new institution is allowed to teach
many sciences.
It is reported that Pope Pius will
end the traditional cusiom of extract
ing the entrails of the deceased pontiff
and preserving them in the parish
church of the quirinal. consequently
Leo XIII will be the last pope to be
thus mutilated.
Senator Russell A. Alger, of Mich
igan, died in Washington. Senator Al
ger was born in 1836, in Ohio. He
started in a farm boy, became a school
teacher, then a lawyer, soldier, specu
lator. governor, cabinet member and
senator.
Friends of Senator Bailey, of Texas
are growing uneasy, the silence of op
posing forces being regarded as omin
ous.
can troops and Yaqui Indians, in
which the latter were defeated with
heavy loss, but carried away their
dead. The Mexicans lost. 20 killed.
Mrs. Louise M. Este died at Balti
more, Md., aged 104. Her father,
Judge William Miller, was the agent
of France in the Louisiana purchase.
Twenty miners, according to the
most authoritative information obtain
able, lost their lives as the result of
an explosion which occurred in the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.’s mine near
Primero, 20 miles west of Trinidad,
Col.
Following the Jamaican earthquake,
the southern Texas oil fields show
heavy decrease.
The Texas legislature re-elected Jo
seph W. Bailey to the United States
senate. In Illinois Shelby M. Cul
lom was re-elected; in Wyoming, Sen
ator Warren; Elkins in West Virginia,
and Tillman in South Carolina.
According to a private cablegram
received at Washington from a promi
nent government official at Manila,
Gen. Luke E. Wright, American am
bassador to Japan, has made known
to his friends that he will retire from
the diplomatic service next August
and return to his home in Memphis.
Tenn., to resume the practice of law.
The mayor of Kingston, Jamaica, in
his official capacity, has appealed to
tlve generosity of the American people
on behalf of the Kingston earthquake
sufferers.
William M. Robertson, aged'57, re
publican national committeeman for
Nebraska in 1888, and for many years
a prominent politician, died at Norfolk,
Neil., of cirrhosis of the liver.
Advices from the Dutch East Indies
tell of a tidal wave that devastated
the Island of Tana on Jan. 11 and the
southern coast of the island of Simula,
causing a loss of 1,S00 lives.
Federal official at St. Louis refuses
naturalization to a Hindoo and appeal
will be taken to Washington.
American refugees from Kingston,
Jamaica, tell stories of selfishness on
the part of the English after the earth
quake. They declare that the captain
of the English steamer Port, Kings
ton, on which were Sir Alfred Jones
and party, refused to allow American
women to sleep on the bare decks of
his ship and put them ashore on the
d-'-ks, where they remained three
days, and that this English noble
man never once sent them coffee or
food of any descri-’ion, but that the
captain of the Teasel visited the docks
once and talked very uncivil. The
Americans who underwent this expe
rience adopted resolutions and gave
them to me press of the world, de
nouncing the acts of the English and
declaring that the much-talked-of
“bonds of blood and language." when
tested, a mockery and a diplomatic
phantom.
Senator Sutherland, in a speech be
fore the senate defending Senator
Smoot, declared that the accused had
always led a pure life.
Little difficulty is experienced in in
ducing the negroes to work, at Kings
ton, on account of the conviction
among them that this was a "white
man's earthquake," and that it would
be dangerous for colored men to in
terfere with an act of God.
Killed By Train.
Charles Ring, watchman at the
White river bridge near Augusta, was
hilled by the fast west-bound train
recently. The bridge had been open
ed to allow a gasoline boat to pass
up the river, and for some reason
could not be gotten back to its place
in time for the train, which had al
ready whistled for the bridge. The
watchman signaled for a stop, but it
seemed to him that the train was not
going to stop and he stepped upon the
tracfk in front of the approaching
train, which was nearer than he
thought, and before retreat could be
made the engine had struck him, the
front trucks passing over bis body,
killing him instantly.
Railroad Man Kills Himseif.
I. H. Moon, a machinist in the local
Iron Mountain shops, at Texarkana,
was found in a dying condition in a
rooming house on West Broad street
and died in a few minutes after medi
cal aid reached him. Death was due,
according to the phyr-ican, to lauda
num poisoning. An empty bottle which
had contained this drug, together with
a large quantity of carbolic acid ayd
“rough on rats," was found in his
room. Domestic troubles are believed
to have caused the suicide. He left a
letter addressed to his father-in-law,
giving certain directions concerning
his family.
For Arkansas Rivers.
The appropriations for Arkansas
carried in the river and harhor bill is as
follows: Ouachita and Black rivers,
Arkansas and Louisiana, $140,780, con
tinuing, $200,000; Arkansas river. $35,
000: Arkansas river at Bine Bluff,
$100,000; White river, $30,000; upper
White river, $73,500; Black and Cur
rent rivers, $18,000; St. Francis and L’
Anguille rivers, $12,000.
E. A. Mears Indicted.
E. A. Mears, proprietor of the First
bank at Grann-is, has been indicted
by the Little River County Grand
Jury on the charge of misappropriat
ing funds belonging to the First Bank
of Wintlirop, which it is said he or
ganized three years ago. His bond
was fixed at $500, which it is reported
he has been unable to make.
Brought Back From Alabama.
Sheriff C. M. Philpct of Pine Bluff
has returned from Birmingham with
F. H. Davis, who was arrested there
on a charge of embezzlement. Davis
was arrested several months ago in
Pine Bluff and was under bond when
he left, the city. He maintains that
he had secured an agreement with the
court before he left.
Cutting Second Teeth.
Airs. Lee of Provo, who is 97 years
of age, has cut three new teeth in the
last few months. The teeth are of
fufl size and well developed. Mrs.
Lee has also received her second
sight, being able to thread a needle
and read without the aid of glasses.
Injured in Lumber Mill.
D. S. Mann, the foreman of the Val
ley Pine Lumber Company at Havana,
was caught in a wheel and his right
leg broken. His leg was taken off
at the knee. Air. Alann is a prominent
citizen of Havana and is the justice
c*’ the peace for Riley township.
Unique Auditorium.
The Pleasant Ridge Literary Society
at Pleasant Ridge has built a unique
auditorium, in which It is now hold
ing its meetings. The building is 50
by 30 feet, constructed of logs, and oc
cupies an imposing site on the top of
oue of the Ozark mountains.
Lost Mine Found.
It is reported that James Spencer
has found the long lost traditional lead
mine about three miles north of Har
dy, on Forty Islands creek, on the land
of II. C. Denny, at or near the point
where the old Pocahontas and Salem
road crossed the creek.
Organization to Build Roads.
The farmers between Fayetteville
and Huntsville are organizing to build
macadam roads -between those two
points and Goshen. It is expected that
Fayetteville citizens will contribute
$20,000 toward the construction of the
voad to Huntsville.
Seriously Injured.
Mrs. M. Phipps, who lives near
Huntsville, was seriously injured re
cently by plaster falling from the
ceiling of her room. She was sit
ting in a chair when the plastering
fell upon her, injuring her head and
shoulders.
Yardmaster Is Killed.
C. E. Hartley, yardmaster in the
Denning and Coal Hill yards at Coal
Hill, was thrown from a ear recently.
Two pairs of trucks pased over his
legs, inflicting injuries from which he I
died a few hours later. I
Announces His Staff.
Gen. D. B. Castleberry, brigadier
general commanding the Fourth
brigage of the Arkansas Division,
United Confederate Veterans, has
appointed the following staff who will
attend him at the re-union at Rich
nr:rtl, Va., May 29, 1907:
Capt. J. G. Taylor of Magazine, as
sistant adjutant general.
Col. B. B. Chism of Paris, inspector
general.
Gen. H. B. Armistead of Fort Smith,
assistant inspector general.
G. L. Wirt, Dardanelle, chief quar
termaster.
F. A. Hamer of Dardanelle, assist
ant quartermaster.
L. A. Hooper of Benton, chief com
missary.
Capt. J. A. Hughes of Center Point,
assistant commissary.
W. M. Cross of Atkadelphia, judge
advocate.
Dr. J. S. McCorkle of Fort Smith,
surgeon.
Capt. J. H. Cordell of Prescott, chief
of artillery.
Capt. .1. S. Goodwin of Charleston,
assistant chief of artillery.
Capt. J. H. Black of Hope, chief of
ordnance.
Capt. John Carr of Magazine, assist
i ant chief of ordnance.
R. H. Hhyne of Paris, chief engineer.
J. H. Caldwell of Mansfield, assist
ant chief engineer.
J. P. Hall of Cauthron. chief pay
master.
Rev. G. W. Evans of Booneville,
chaplain.
A. S. Bennett of Paris, C. B. Flor
ence of Golden City, J. H. Hawkins
of Dorsey, M. C. Scott of Booneville,
G W. Young of Carlon and P. T. De
vanney of Fort Smith, aides-de-camp.
Conscience Stricken Purloiner Rsturns
Jewel.
A diamond ring that disappeared
from the dresser in the bedroom of
Mrs. Marie Justice at Paragould five
years ago has been returned to her.
No amount of search and advertis
ing at the time could furnish the
slightest clue as to what became of
the jewel. In the intervening years
Mrs. Justice never ceased to keep a
lookout for the treasure. Among her
mail a few days ago she received a
package post-marked at Paragould,
neatly packed, containing the long
lost ring. There was no writing or
othei marks to indicate who sent the
package. The ring had evidently
not been worn, being in the same
condition as when li left the posses
sion of Mrs. Justice. It is believed
the party who took it did not wear it
for fear of detection.
Fayetteville to Have City Hospital.
There is the probability that in the
near future Fayetteville will have an
up-to-date city hospital. The Knights
of Pythias lodge has on foot a plan
for the construction and maintenance
of such an institution. It is the pur
pose of the Knights of Pythias to
work in conjunction with the other
fraternal orders of the city, which
have a combined total membership jf
more than five hundred, and a com
mittee has been appointed to arrange
for conferences with them. Fayette
ville needs a hospital badly, and the
ten thousand dollar site recently do
nated by Mr. and Mrs. Stephen K.
Stone on condition that a hospital be
erected on it within a specified time,
makes it imperative that something
be done at once.
Get Extension of Time.
A certificate has been filed in the
office of Secretary of State Ludwig
by the Southside Coal and Railway
Company, asking for an extension of
the charter granted to (his company
eighteen months ago. The company
proposes to construct a railroad from
Paris to Dardanelle and to operate
coal mines. The certificate states
that the company has already expend
ed $38,000 in surveys and work pre
paratory to beginning actual opera
tions. The certificate was brought
before the Board of Railroad Incor
poration at its recent meeting and
granted.
Thieves Secure $6,000.
Charles F. Hartley, a retail grocer
of New Albany, Ind., was robbed of
$0,000 in the door of the day coach
of a Rock Island train at the Rock
Island passenger station in Little
Rock by four men who had followed
him from Hot Springs. Two men
have been arrested and are held in
connection with the robbery, but the
other two escaped.
Curious Springs.
Boggs' Springs, near Hatton Gap,
possesses about 50 springs that are
said to be wonders, all of which pos
sess medicinal qualities. Within ten
feet of each other are two springs,
one a white and the other a black
sulphur. The place is to be made a
health resort and the locality is being
improved for that purpose.
Big Gas Flow.
A gigantic gas flow was brought to
Fort Smith from the Caching place
recently. The flow is 4,000,000 cubic
feet per day. It is stated lhat the flow
from this well, if maintained, will
place Fort Smith in the forefront as
being in the center of the largest gas
field iu the Southwest.
fudgments Awarded In Damage Su^ta.
The following judgments were ren
dered in the Logan County Circuit
court recently against the Western
Coal and Mining Company in favor
of the parties named: Lee Garner.
$100; Eugene Nichols, $100: Fred
Kergen, $100; Lee Kergen, $100; Guy
Jones, minor, by H. T. Jones, his next
friend, $150; A. T. Jones, in his own
right as father, $50; Lloyd Rowe, by
Eva Rowe, his next friend, $100; Eva
Rowe in her own right as mother, $50.
The parties asked for $2,000 damages
as a result of a powder explosion in
the company’s mine at Denning on
the 2Gth day of last March.
Mail Pouch Robbed at Cotter.
The mail pouch thrown off the
north-bound train a few nights ago
at Cotter was cut open and it is said
a package containing $0,000 consigned
to the Cotter bank was stolen. All
valuable mail matter was taken from
the pouch. On account of the late
ness of the hour the mail was left
cn the depot platform, no one being
there at the time to receive it. A
number of letters containing nothing
of value were torn open and found
scattered over the ground not far
from the depot. The authorities have
no clue to the robbery. •
Negro Sold List of Questions.
W. H. Lambert, a negro teacher in
Hot Springs, is alleged to have fur
nished four negro women applicants
with a list of the questions prior to
the examination of teachers in Gar
land county, receiving $50 in return
from each of them. The county su
perintendent, Geo. B. Cook, is at a loss
to understand how a copy of the ques
tions could have fallen in the hands
of Barrett, and the School Board, it
is understood, will probe the affair
to the bottom.
Gas Field Near Van Euren to be
Developed.
F. G. Kerr has been granted a
franchise by the city council of Van
Euren to supply the city with na
tural gas for a period of fifty years.
The franchise provides that he shall
first develop the gas fields in the vicin
ity of Van Buren and Crawford coun
ty, and, should he fail to find gas
there, he is allowed to pipe it from
the Sebastian county fields.
Wrong Kind of License.
Two nomadic fortune tellers applied
to the county clerk of Jefferson coun
ty for license to ply their trade, but
being unable to speak English very
well, the clerk misunderstood them
and issued marriage license instead.
The couple were later arrested, when
the mistake was discovered.
Judge J. W. Jones Dead.
Judge John W. Jones, a well-known
citizen of Hot Springs, died at his
home in that city after an illness of
more than six months. He had served
two terms as county judge and six
years as police judge, and was at
the time of his death, justice of the
peace of Hot Springs township.
Arkansas Rivers Get $357,500.
It is reported at Washington that
Arkansas’ share in the river and har
bor appropriation bill, which will be
reported this week, will be $357,500.
This is said to be the largest sum
ever set aside for the state by any
one Congress.
Governor Little Suffers Collapse.
Governor John S. I ''ttle has suffered
a physical collapse after the nervous
strain of the ardous campaign through
which he has just passed, and physi
cians have ordered him to his home
at Greenwood for a complete rest of
several weeks.
Get 11 Cents for Cotton.
The general manager of the Far
mers' Union at Charleston has sold
1,000 bales of Union cotton at 11
cents, middling. The cotton had been
held at this price by the farmers com
prising the union.
Jefferson County Valuation.
The assessed valuation of Jeffer
son county according to the list as
completed by the county clerk is: per
sonal property, $5,158,100, and real
estate, $7,407,550, making a total of
$12,565,656.
Fatally Injured In Runaway.
A. N. Middleton, foreman of the
sales department of the Ehrman
stables at Little Rock, was thrown
from his buggy recently in a runa
way, and was fatally injured.
Dislocated His Shoulder.
Henry Bolton, 12 years of age, who
lives in Texarkana, dislocated his
shoulder recently, while playing crack
the-whip with a number of boys in
the school yard._
Shooting Into Negro Cabins.
Claude Dougherty, a white man, is
in the Miller county jail, on a charge
of shooting into negro cabins at
Booker’s sawmill, six miles southeast
of Texarkana.
Killed In Collision.
Ed Gelebert of Rogers, fireman on
a passenger engine, was killed in a
head-on collision near Waldron, Kan.
Another Factory For Jonesboro.
The Chapman & Dewey Lumber
Company will establish a larg4 wood
Eactory at Jonesboro.
WILL RESIGN
IT IS SAID THAT GOV. SWETTEN!
HAM IS UNABLE TO COPE j
WITH AFFAIRS AT KINGSTON*
Kingston, Jan.—It is understood
that Governor Swettenham tendered
his resignation to Lord Elgin, sec
retary for the colonies, a few days
ago in. consequence of ’t'heAdmiral
Davis incident and his inability to
solve the problem created by khe
earthquake. On Saturday the gov
ernor visited the temporary offices
of the municipal council and inform
ed the vice chairman, who is acting
in the absence of Mayor Tait, who
is injured, that the government had
decided to relieve the people of King
ston from all rates and taxes for a
period of fifteen months, beginning
January 1. This announcement has
been received with gratification by
the residents of the city, who will be
encouraged to start the work of re"
building as early as possible. Arch
bishop Nutall, in an interview, said
that the Municipal Council was un
able to deal with the present extra
ordinary emergency and should be
abolished and one commissioner with
full powers should be appointed to
govern the city during the period of
reconstruction. He also declared that
in addition to the generous contribu
tions from the United States and
Canada and elsewhere, it is abso
lutely necessay to obtain an imperial
grant and a large imperial loan to
rebuild Kingston, more particularly,
in view of the attitude of the English
lire insurance companies, which have
disclaimed all liability for loss sus
tained during the earthquake and
fire. j
Was Annoyed.
New York, Jan.—Two little tots,
aged T and 2 years old, told Magis
trate House in the Harlem Police
Court that their stepmother, Mrs. Kate
Cravius, had branded them with a
red-hot stove lifter, when in play they
had made too much noise. Twice dur
ing the recital, the prisoner, a woman
of intelligence and pleasing appear
ance, not more than 25 years of age,
fainted. When restored, the woman
admitted that she had burned the chil
dren, but said that at the same time
she was possessed by an unaccount
able mania. The two girls, she said,
had been playing with their dolls un
til the noise and confusion robbed
her of her reason and left an impulse
to burn the little ones. Seizing the
stone lid lifter, she pressed the
glowing end upon the back of the
right hand of each child, causing scars
that the little ones will carry to their
graves. Apparently the children and
th.-ir stepmother have a great deal of
affection for each other.
German Elections.
Paris, Jan.—Examining the result
(f the German elections from an in
ternational viewpoint, practically the
entire French press unites in regard
ing it as a distinct endorsement of
German imperialism, and, therefore,
of the highest importance and dis
quieting and especially to Great Bri
tain and France. The Figaro alone
combats that view, being of the opin
ion that the desertion of the Social
ists in favor of the Liberal parties
would not have been possible if the
latter had not recently clearly mani
fested a desire for a less personal
form of government—a consideration
with which the government must
reckon hereafter.
Die Together.
Camden, N. J-, Jan.—With artns
entwined, an unknown man and young
woman stood on the tracks of the
Pennsylvania electric railroad over
Newton creek and calmly waited until
an electric train ran them down. Both
were killed and their bodies were
hurled into the water. Thte body of
the young woman, who was about 25
years old, was recovered and brought
to the morgue here. The body of the
man has not been recovered.
College Killing.
Abbeville, Ga., Jan.—W. B. Cars
well, one of the victims of the shoot
ing which followed a schoolboy's fight
at the Georgia Normal College, is
dead from his wounds. F. L. Cars
well, his brother, is in a critical con
dition and it is feared he cannot sur
vive. Young Lamar Carswell and
Fletcher McLeod will probably re
cover. Mack Brophy, charged with
the shooting, has not yet been appre
hended.
Peculiar Explosion.
Belgrade, Jan.—A* mysterious ex
plosion occurred at the palace recent
ly which shattered many windows of
the building. It was stated that the
.-.plosion resulted from leaving a
quantity of gunpowder and cartridges
tea near a stove in the private apart
ments of the crown prince. Nobody
was injured.