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Published In The Famous Big Bottom Country, Where Alfalfa Is king.
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, May 18, 1906.
Vol. 6. No. 21.
ROAD TAX AMENDMENT ATTACKED
Cotton Belt Railroad Files Suit
For Return of Tax Paid Un
der Amendment No. 5
Little Rock, May 16.- A com
plaint and petition for restraining
order was tiled this afternoon in
Chancery court by the St. Louis
Southwestern Railway Co., against
Sheriff C. C. Kavanaugh asking
that he be restrained from paying
into the county treasury the sum
of $372.51, the taxes collected by
him for 1J>05, from the railroad
company under authority given
him by Amendment No. 5 of the
state constitution, known as the
“Three Mill Tax Amendment.”
The company alleges that the
amendment was not legally adopt
ed and therefore the taxes collect
ed should be returned to the com
pany. The suit is based on the
decision of the Arkansas supreme
court of a few weeks ago, which
tribunal declared that amendment
No. 3 was not legally adopted and
therefore void. As the other
amendment, No. 5, was voted on
at the same time the same rule it
is alleged, will apply to this case.
A tabulated statement showing
the vote of the last general elec
tion on the amendment is attached
to the complaint and shows that
out of a total vote of 116,37 >
votes, 57,209 were for Amend
ment No. 5 and 24,074 against the
amendment, thus showing a short
age of 980 votes to secure the nec
essary majority. This amendment
was voted on in 1898 and should
the final result of the suit be sus
tained by the supreme court, over
8120,00*' will be involved from the
several counties of the state which
collected the tax this year.
BIG CKEEM BUZZINGS
Bill Owens is still on the sick
list.
It is reported that W. K. Law
horn is thinking of joining the
■“Rebeccas.”
Jim Robertson and wife of Dota
are visiting the gentleman’s moth
er Mrs. Della Robertson.
Jules Davis says he is done
planting corn for this year, if he
doesn’t have to plant over.
Fine weather, and the farmers
have made good use of it. All
are about done planting corn and
cotton.
Mrs. Willie Lewis of Magness,
and children, Claud and Yirgie,
are visiting frinds and relatives
on the creek and at Rutherford
this week.
Mrs, Francis Halcombe, the
widow of Jack Halcomb, is here
from Bowie, Texas, visiting
friends and relatives. Her hus
band died at their home in Texas
April 8th, 1906.
HOW IS THIS?
Any time before the first of
June I will take your bees out of
the old box hive and put them in
the improved hive for per hive,
and on the first of September if
you arejjot satisfied with the in
vestment I will pay you £4 for the
hive and their earnings.
W. J. Littlefield.
For sale—Three nice residence
lots in Vhc north part of town.
Apply to Craig & Henderson.
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REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
The Republicans of Big Bottom
township held a convention Satur
day afternoon at the office of Geo.
F. Grosser in this city.
Geo. F. Grosser was elected
chairman and T.* M. Harrelsoti
secretary of the meeting, and the
following delegates were elected
to the county convention which
meets at Batesville tomorrow, the
19th: Geo. F. Grosser, ,J. G.
Rogers, J. S. Hill and George
Price. The alternates are J. A.
Ma.vhan, T. M. Harrelson, \V. R.
Knight and J. T. Duff.
Geo. F. Grosser was elected
township committeeman. The
delegates to the county convention
were uninstructcd as to county
and township officers.
The convention adjourned to
meet again on Saturday, May 20,
at 2 o’clock p. m., when the re
port of the delegates will be re
ceived.
OAK MILL ITEMS.
John Kiddle and family visited
relatives at Madness last Surlday.
Mrs. Mary Highland visited
Mrs. I). R. Reaves Saturday night.
Charlie Hurt and family attend
ed church at Pleasant Mill last
Sunday.
Ed Engles, who has been quite
sick for the past two weeks is able
to be up.
Lewis Crawford, who has been
quite sick for the past week is
able to be out again.
Miss Fannie Maxwell of near
Oak Grove attended church at
Pleasant Hill last Sunday.
Rev. E. A. Horn preached an
interesting sermon to a large con
gregation at Pleasant Hill last
Sunday.
Mrs. Sarah Shipman from near
Newark visited relatives and
friends in this vicinity the first of
the week.
Johnnie Marshall and Urban
Henderson and their families
went to Otter Lake last Sat
urday and caught a*nice lot of
lish.
MOW TO BECOflE WEALTHY
If you are desirous of becom
ing wealthy, make some man who
wants to hire a good hand the fol
lowing tempting proposition:
Offer to work for him a year
provided he pay you one cent for
the first week, two cents for the
second week, four cents for the
third week, and so on to the end
of the year, doubling the amount
of the preceeding week each time.
Surely your services would in
crease in value in a corresponding
ratio, and many business men
would gladly accept your terms.
But we would strongly urge up
on our readers that if they ever
make such a bargain, they get
full security for the last payment
for they will find that when it
c cues due there will not be mon
ey enough in the whole world to
satisfy the claim.
The entire amount of all the
money in circulation among all
| the nations of the world (not
wealth) is estimated at something
| less than $15,000,000,000, and the
| last payment would amount to
fifteen hundred times that im
mense sum.
The French have a proverb that
* ‘it is the first step that costs,”
' Ic'est le premier pas qui countef
■ but in this case it is the last step
1 that costs and it costs with a ven
geance.
Several of the business houses
are preparing to put in gas lights.
C. M. Edwards has just installed
some of these lights in his store
and has the finest lights in town.
It seems that the lid is going on
in this county, also. It is report
ed from Batesville that Sheriff
Kaueaster has offered a reward of
$10 to anyone furnishing sufficient
evidence to convict proprietors of
blind tigers.
H. J. Drennen, formerly of
this place, but who is now cashier
of the Bradford State Bank, at
Bradford, writes The Jonrnal
that he is well pleased with every
thing down there, and says they
are doing a nice business.
YV. R Vick, a prosperous farm
er and good friend of The Jour
nal from Magness township, was
looking after business in town
Wednesday. He says the farmers
are getting pretty well up with
their work in his neighborhood.
There is another rumor that a
change of schedule will go into
effect on the White River road
next Sunday, giving this road a
double daily passenger service,
but these rumors have so often
proved to be unfounded that the
public will perhaps not believe it
until they see the train put on.
SIXTH IN LUMBER INDUSTRY.
A report by. the For res try Bu
reau of Washington City on the
lumber cut in the United States
in 11*05 shows Arkansas to rank
sixth among the states in that in
dustry. Washington leads with a
cut of 3,010 million feet, Louis
iana is second with 2,043 million
feet, Wisconsin third with 1,990
million feet, Minnesota fourth
with 1,71ft million feet, Michigan
fifth with 1.670 million feet and
Arkansas sixth with a cut of 1,457
million feet, of which 1,080 mil
lion feet were from coniferous
trees and :>77 million feet repre
sented hard wood. Arkansas
ranks third among the hardwood
producing states.
GOV. TAYLOR’S SUCCESS
The defeat of Senator Carmack
for election to a second term as
United States Senator for the
state of Tennessee is a topic of in
terest in political circles. Gover
nor Taylor has at last attained his
ambition. Carmack will retire
from the senate next March and
wdl likely resume his profession.
Before his election to the senate
he had acquired considerable rep
utation as an editorial writer. As
I editor of the Memphis Commer
cial Appeal he was known all over
I the Southwest. Governor Taylor
has always been a prime favorite
in Arkansas and many will rejoice
over his success.
UNCLE 5ATI ON THE LID
Governor Davis announced
j some time ago that he intended to
put the lid on at Hot Springs if
he had to call out the militia to do
it, but it seems now that he has
about induced I’ncle Sam to put
the lid on and sit on it.
PROF. WYNN RE-ELECTED
The school board has re-elected
Prof. S. J. T. Wynn as principal
of the public school for another
year, and he has accepted the po
sition.
Professor Wynn has done a
great deal for the advancement of
the school interests in Newark and
The Journal is pleased to know
that he will remain for another
year.
The other teachers have not yet
been elected.
OKLAHOMA NOTES
To The Newark Journal:
Farmers in this country are well
up with their work and crops
look well, considering the cool
weather.
The land in this country is a
sandy loam and produces well in
almost any kind of crop, but cot
ton and corn are the principal
products.
Organization among the farm
ers is going on in this country all
the time and much good is being
done. Let the good work go on
all over the country.
G. M. Morris,
Norman, Okla., May 13.
HONUMENTS UNVEILED
Sunday afternoon the local
camp of the Woodmen of the
World unveiled the beautiful
monuments recently erected in the
Biue Springs cemetery to the
memory of the late Sovs. .1. T.
Miller and J. T. Barksdale.
Nearly all the members were
present to participate in the cere
monies, and several visiting sov
ereigns were in attendance.
A large crowd was present at
the cemetery to witness the cere
monies; in fact it is said by many
to have been the largest gather
ing of people ever seen at the
cemetery on any occasion.
The ceremonies at the cemetery
were very beautiful and impress
ive.
HAGNESS MUSINCiS.
Geo. Wyatt of Rosie was in
town Monday.
E. R. Moore of Newark was in
town Tuesday.
T. M. Waldrip was able to come
to town again Tuesday.
Merida Nelson of Sulphur Rock
was in our city Tuesday.
J. S. Griffin of Sulphur Rock
was in our city Tuesday.
Uncle Morgan Moore was able
to be down town last week,
W. J. Waldrip, wife and moth
er visited at Batesville Tuesday.
Doc Blanton of Black River
| township was in town Tuesday.
F. M. Engles of White River
township was in Magness Tues
day.
Hugh Bullington visited rela
tives and friends at Salado Sun
day.
S. C. Knight is out on the road
this week in the insurance busi
! ness.
Several of the boys from Mag
ness attended the I. (). O. F.
: lodge at Sulphur Rock Friday
i night.
.James Rister, who has been sick
for several months, is slowly im
proving.
School election next Saturday
evening. Let every elector at
tend without fail. 1 here is busi
ness of importance to attend to.
LITTLE ROCK WANTS CONNECTIOI
Business Men of the Capital City
Want Direct Connection With
White River Country
The Democrat says the business
men of Little Reck are desirous of
securing a better passenger service
between that cit.v and the White
River country. To this end they
have, through the Hoard of Trade,
taken the matter up with the va
rious officials of the Iron Mountain
system. In reply to a request
from the secretary of the Hoard
of Trade, Horace Baker, general
superintendent of the Iron Moun
tain, gives no definite promise of
relief, but leaves the impression
that another train may be put on
the White River division to make
direct connection at Newport with
one of the fast trains into Little
Rock.
Complaint has also been made
to Vice President C. S. Clarke,
and in a letter to the Board of
Trade Mr Clarke says:
“This subject will be carefully
looked into and its bearings on the
many interests which we serve
will have merited consideration.
"After getting the necessary
facts to enable us to intelligently
l»ass upon the matter, I shall take
pleasure in advising you of what
can be done in the premises.”
The Democrat says that what
the business men of Little Hock
want, and are entitled to, is a
through train from White River
points, direct to Little Rock with
out a change of cars at Newport.
When Superintendent Hugh
Wilson was before the railroad
commission some three weeks ago
he stated that a new train would
he i>ut on the 8th of May, but
it was not done.
THE HOT SPRINGS LID.
It is reported from Washington
City that W. Scott Smith, confi
dential agent of Secretary of the
Interior Hitchcock, has returned!
to that city from Hot Springs
with a report on gambling condi
tions at the Spa.
Drastic steps will be taken to
clean out all gambling resorts, it
is said, and criminal prosecution
may be begun at once.
It was as the result of com
plaints made by Governor Davis
that a government agent was sent
| to Hot Springs. Governor Davis
called upon Secretary of the in
I terior to aid him in his fight, and
Mr. Hitchcock then sent Agent
1 Smith down to make an investi
gation.
NOTICE TO TEACHERS
Notice is hereby given that a
Peabody Institute will be held at
Hatesville, Ark., beginning Mon
day, June 11, and continuing two
1 weeks. The Institute will be con
ducted by Supt. Rogers of Jones
! boro.
The Annual County Institute
will meet with the Peabody Insti
tute. All teachers are required
: by law to attend. It is hoped
i that every teacher in the county
! will be in attendance.
On Thursday and Friday, June
! 21 and 22, the regular quarterly
examination will be held.
Respectfully,
Si on ky Pi< kkns.
County Examiner.
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