The Newark Journal.
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Country, Where Alfalfa Is King.
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, December 16, 1904.
Vol. 4. No. 51
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All Printed
At Home.
HEW ROAD'S COST IS
$72,000 PER MILE
Cost of Constructing White River
Railroad is Enormous.
Oreat Number of Cuts, Trestles and
Tunnels,Makes it One of the Most
Costly Roads in the U. S.
lo persons who have not per
sonally watched the construction
of the hite River branch of the
Missouri Pacific it nnist appear
that the work has progressed slow
ly, and yet if they could but see
what has been and is being done it
would not surprise them that the
work appears to move so slowly.
At Cotter a very expensive steel
draw bridge was built across the
river, which is many feet above
the average height of the river.
P rom this bridge the road goes
through a tunnel eleven hundred
feet long. There are many cuts,
fills and trestles for several miles
to where it crosses Georges creek.
Here there is a trestle over 2,300
feet long and 00 feet high. A few
miles further at the crossing of
Crooked creek, is another tunnel
800 feet long; then two more steel
bridges across Crooked creek.
Passing on west up Sugar Orchard
creek through the little towns of
Zinc and Keener, with here and
there deep cuteand heavy fills until
the head of the creek is reached,
where it conies to what is called
Oregon P lats; here there is to be
a cut almost one mile long, which
will average about 43 feet deep.
The track is now laid and con
struction trains are being run to
this point from the south. There
will be a temporary track built
over this hill, while steam shovels
make the tremendous cut. L«*av- ^
ing the Oregon Flats, it goes down
Cheatham creek, where there are
treaties 125 feet high. Most all 1
of the grading is done on the whole
route except at a few difficult <
points.
At Omaha, twenty miles north
of Harrison, the third tunnel is
reached. This is the most difficult
work on the whole line. This tun
nel is 2,600 feet long, and most of
the way through mud and bould
ers which necessitated timbering
almost the entire distance. An
opening about eight feet high has
been cut through the entire moun
tain, and about 150 feet has been
cut the required depth, 24 feet. It
is estimated that by working with
full force, day and night, this tun
nel can be completed by next July
or August. There was a great
cut at the approaches to each end
of this tunnel. There was a moun
tain slide at the west approach
months since, which tilled the cut,
and would have required $50,000 1
to have moved it; so it was decid
ed to extend the tunnel through '
this slide, • which will make the ‘
tunnel about .‘'.,200 feet long, and
will cost the company $350,000 or 1
more, i
Three miles further is another 1
tunnel 3,400 feet long. This was
through solid rock and has been a
completed. A few miles further, \
across the Missouri line, is anoth- f
er tunnel 2,900 feet long.
There will be another bridge r
across White river, and also one c
across the James river. The road j
is completed from Carthage south 1 h
I to Galena, in Stone county, Mo.
It is estimated that the road will
be completed and trains running
through by August 1, 1905.
This road, it is said, will cost
the company in the neighborhood
of *7*2,000 per mile. The expen
diture of this amount of money
certainly indicates that the com
pany has confidence in the mineral
resources of the country.
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NEW ORDINANCE PASSED
Council Passes Vagrant Law and Pro
poses to Punish Dead Beats,
Vagrants and Loafers.
At a special session of the city
council held Monday night for the
transaction of general business, a
new ordinance to be known as a
“Vagrant Law" was passed by
the unanimous vote of the mem
bers present.
The law is similar to the one
now in effect at Newport. It is
declared, however, by the local
authorities that they shall not he
as lax in enforcing the law as are
the officials of our sister city. The 1
new Ordinance is published in to
day’s paper. as required by law.
and is now in full force and effect.
Treasurer K. d. Magness sub-1
mitted a report which shows that
the total revenue from all sources1
up to the present time, including
a small balance on hand at the be
ginning of the present administra
tion, is $2,013.39. 'l'lie total ex-j
penditures for the same period is;
$1,399.07, leaving a cash balance j
in the treasury of $647.32.
The recorder was authorized to I
publish* detailed financial state
ment.
MAGNESS HAPPENINGS.
Crops are about all gathered.
Pleas Crigler of Charlotts was ,
in town Tuesday,
leather cool and dry; good 1
time for killing hogs. 1
K. M. Gibson has sold his res* '
taurant to W. A. Troy.
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Ask Minor Porter what became *
of those mules he was feeding. t
Miss Amanda liurnes held the (
lacky number in the quilt contest. |
Prof. J. K. Rawlings of Sul- (
phur Rock, was in our town Tues
day. ‘
K. R. Moore of Newark, was >
here on business one day this „
week. (,
Ask Walter Haddock and Whor
ton Magness if they ever crossed t
the river Jordan. f
Several more buildings will be
put up here, between this and the
first of February.
Our school at the chapel is pro
gressing nicely, with Prof. S. C.
Knight as principal.
The ginning season is about ov
?>r, and the boys will begin to saw
timber in a few days.
The ginning company of this
dace have put up 1,260 bales of
:otton up to the present time.
Jack I ueker of Rosie bought
[,000 pounds of pork from the
sisk Mercantile Company one day
his week.
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■nd it you don’t pay it pretty soon
ve’ll, we’ll,—well, what we’ll do
or you will be a plenty.
Mrs. Bullington and Mrs. Her
ington of Sulphur Rock were in
iur burg one day last week pros
pecting, and will probably build
ere soon. X. Y. Z.
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ADVISES FARMERS TO
HOLD THEIR COTTON
President of Cotton Growers Asso
ciation Issues a Statement.
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Only Salvation of the South at This
Time is to Stand Steadfast and
Refuse to Market Cotton
Hon. Harvie Jordan, of Monti
cello, Georgia, president of the
Southern Cotton Growers’ Associ
ation. has issued the following
statement in regard to the decline
in the price of cotton:
Shall the south quietly surrend
er to the dictation of a few Wall
street gamblers in depressing the
price of our great staple crop from
to 7 cents per pound; or will
they rise in their manhood and re
fuse to submit to this unholy sac
rifice ?
The bearish bureau report, is
sued from the department of agri
culture on December 3d, indicat
ing a crop of 12,162,000 bales,
gave the speculators the opportun
ity they had been praying for, and
in less that thirty minutes nearly
*30,000,000 in value was struck
from the pockets of southern farm
ers. The bureau report exceeded
the expectations of the most ex
treme “bear'’ speculators, and but
few well posted men in the south
believe for a moment that the yield
this season will ever reach the
high estimate placed upon the crop
ay tne bureau. 1 bat report was
based upon a theoretical acreage
>f about 32,U00,00b acres, and in
licates a yield far in excess of
hat indicated by the amount of
•otton ginned up to November 14
n the census report. Either one
>r the other of these reports is |
vrony. The yinners’ report is
>ased upon facts as ascertained at
lie yins, while the bureau report
s guess-work. The recent heavy
lepression in the price of spot
otton has been caused by a lot of
[amblers and speculators who nei
her produce or weave a pound of
otton. Every dollar loss on cot
on sold at present prices will go
nto the pockets of these speculat
es and it remains for the present
wners and holders of at least 5,
00,000 bales of this crop to say
whether this unrighteous hold-up
nd high handed robbery shall be
uietly submitted to.
The mills had already bought
beir supplies for future delivery
rom these exporters and specula
ors at prices ranging around 10
ents per pound and the manufac
jrers will not be able to share in
:ie heavy slump in prices. (k>t
>n is worth just as much for spin
ing purposes today as it was at
le opening of the season, as yarns
ave advanced three cents per
ound since the 1st of September
nd no reduction has been made in
le price of cotton goods since the
rop in the price of the raw prod
ct. Nor is there likely to be any
onsiderable reduction in the price
f manufactured goods this year
r next. Then why should the
>uth submit to Wall street yamb
rs and speculators i
The only salvation of the south
j this moment is to stand stead
ist together and absolutely refuse
> market a single bale of cotton
t present prices. Sell no cotton
oluntarily and permit none to be
>ld by coercion or intimidation.
If the speculators waut to put
down the price on paper let them
do it to their hearts’ content, but
when the call is made for spots,
to till their contracts within the
near future, demand the full value
of the staple, based upon a mini
mum of 10 cents per pound for all
middling1 cotton in the interior.
Wall street gamblers are now tell
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SULPHUR ROCK SKETCHES
Short Local Items of Interest Picked
Up at the Metropolis ofWhite
River Township.
Chas. Drennen of Newark was
in town Saturday.
Mrs. Lizzie Waldrip of Magness
was in town Monday.
John K. Rawlings is hobbling
around with rheumatism.
L. H. Pascoe of Batesville visit
ed home folks here Sunday.
E. II. Williamson of Newark
passed through town Monday.
W. W. Hartsfield and Ike Mar
tin went to Batesville Monday.
Miss Mattie Hartsfield has ac
cepted a position withT. C. Knox.
Grason Kent of Gainesboro
township was on our streets Tues
day.
John Huddleston and his boys
went to the county capital Satur
day.
John Huddleston has been ap
pointed constable of White River
township.
Leon Mack of Moorefield pass
ed through town Monday en route
to Oil Trough.
Rev. J. F. Jernigan, now presid
ing elder of this district, was on
our streets Monday.
Dye Moore is staying home
from school on the account of a
carbuncle on his neck.
Harve Dugger who lived about
two miles east of town died Mon
day night of consumption.
Nuck Moore of Newark spent
Sunday night in town, the guest
of his brother, Dan Moore.
Miss Ella Sanders came in Sun
day from Newport to visit her
mother, Mrs. G. A. Sanders.
Rev. Jas. L. Brown filled his
reguler appointment at the Baptist
church Sunday at 11 and at night.
Gibson can give you better cray
on portraits and frames for less
money than you can get from
agents.
Hugh Ivyler came in Tuesday
morning to see his wife and babies,
who are visiting T. C. Knox and
family.
Mrs. Emma Wycough and
daughter, Miss Agness, of Bates
ville, visited Mrs. Lizzie Vaughn
last week.
«J. C. Gibson and J. S. Best
went to the Charlotte neighbor
hood Saturday to do some photo
graph work.
G. W. Wilson who has been in
bad health for a year or more is
not so well this week and is con
fined to his room most of the
time.
Miss Erma Sanders who has
been working for the Dorr Mer
cantile Company for five years has
accepted a position at Maxfields,
at Batesville.
Mrs. W. F. Way man and child
ren left Saturday for Asher, Ok
lahoma, to visit her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Eli Moore. Mr. Way
man accompanied them as far as
Brinkley, and returned Sunday.
SOME IMPORTANT
BUSINESS CHANGES
First of January ^ill Witness.
Several Business Changes.
Saloons Will Go Out—New Hotel,
Drug Store and Hardware Store
Wi!l Commence Business.
Quite a number of important
business changes are scheduled to
take place the first of January,
among the number being a new
drug establishment, a new hard
ware store and a new two story
I hotel.
According to the mandate of tho
| people at the recent election, there
will'be- no saloons in Independence
county during the coming two
years, and the three saloons now
doing business in Newark are pre
paring to shut up shop and go
out of business.
It has been talked on the streets
i for several days that W. R. Wil
liamson would erect a building'
and embark in the hotel business.
When asked about the matter
Wednesday evening by a Journal
representative Mr. Williamson
stated that he would probably be
gin work on a building for the
new hotel within a few days. The
site selected is the lots now owned
by Fred D. Whiting where tho
Newark Mercantile Company’s
building was burned a few months
ago.
The Newark Drug Company is
a new concern that will begin bus
iness the first of the year. TTiey
will occupy the lower part of tho
Motel Magness. The stock and
fixtures have already been order
ed. The business will be in charge
of J. B. Ketchum, who was for
merly prescription clerk at Bond’s
Pharmacy at Little Rock, and is
an expert druggist.
W. J. CoojKir will embark in
the hardware business and will
occupy the Adams building now
occupied by the barber shop.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS
Items of General Interest Gathered
Fresh From the Columns of
the Daily Papers.
There are 63 cases of smallpox
in Pulaski county.
An electric fire alarm system
will be installed at Batesville.
Cholera is causing the death of
many hogs in Cleveland county.
Work on an ice and electrie
light plant has begun at Cotter.
Tracklaying on the White Riv
er Railroad has reached Bergman.
Memphis capitalists have acquir
ed the Forrest City electric light
plant.
Fifty three divorce suits are
docketed in chancery court at
Jonesboro.
Texarkana's curfew law, which
has been a dead letter for several
years, is now being enforced.
While climbing a rail fence near
Mountain Home, Jeff Honsinger
fell and dislocated his shoulder.
E. J. Eckel of St. Joseph, Mo.,
has bought 1,320 acres of land
near Hardy which he proposes to
set in fruit.
Walter Booth, engineer on tho
switch engine at Hoxie, fell from
his engine Sunday night. Ho
struck the railing on a sidetrack,
and was rendered unconscious for
! several hours.