I Woodrgkik Cmmty News. "
VOL. V.
ARKANSAS
J\ STATE NEWS
Will Make a Good Showing.
The biennial report of State Auditor
Moore regarding the insurance depart
ment of his office will show the state
has collected about $16,000 more in
taxes and fees from the insurance
companies doing business in this
state during the past two years than
was collected from the companies for
the two years previous. The report
for the years 1903 and 1904 shows
$103,942.54 was collected in taxes and
{ees’during the two years. The re
porter 1905-1906, which will be issued
October 1, will show the state has col
lected over $120,000. Already the
state has collected more than $119,
000 in taxes and fees and the year
does not close until October 1. The
report includes taxes and fees from
all life and fire insurance companies,
well as fraternal, accident and
causualty companies doing business
in this state. _
Will Meet at Walcott.
The Confederate soldiers of Greene
county recently voted to have a re
union'at Walcott in that county on the
4th of October. The annual reunion
of the Greene county camp has here
tofore been held in Paragould, and
the people of that city made an effort
to secure the honor of entertaining
the old soldiers this year, but Wal
cott received the largest vote. A num
ber of the committee were appointed
to provide speakers and entertain
ment for the reunion. A large number
of the old soldiers live in and near
Walcott, and the hospitality of its
people is traditional. Not only are
the old soldiers and their families
guaranteed an abundance to eat and
a royal good time, but there will be
plenty of food, music and ice water
free for all who attend.
What Is It?
For several days recently farmers
in the vicinity of Albertlia, Randolph
county, have been missing their stock,
which strayed into the woods. A
number of citizens concluded to
search the woods and ascertain the
cause of the absence of their stock.
They armed themselves with shotguns
and started for the forest. About
50 farmers, mounted and accompanied
by a number of dogs, took part in the
search. They believed that some
wild animal was roaming the woods
and was responsible for the disap
pearance of their horses and cattle.
They found plenty of evidence in the
way of dead and crippled stock to
convince them that some terrible beast
was getting in his work, but they
were unable to locale the monster.
Another hunt has been arranged for
with a larger crown], and*it is believed
the hunters will be more successful.
Will Sow More Wheat.
Arrangements are being made by
many farmers in Logan county to sow
a large acreage of wheat this fall.
Col. O. L. Miles, the well-known Fort
Smith attorney, who owns a stock
farm in this county, is arranging to
have a line livestock exhibit at the
State fair in Hot Springs in October.
He will have 25 head of fine cattle on
exhibition. Mr. Miles is one of the
leading stockraisers in the state, and
takes a great deal of interest in the
development of the state in the way
of agriculture and the stock industry,
which he says is growing very rapid
ly.
Mine Trouble Settled.
National Secretary-Treasurer Wil
son of the Mine Workers’ Union has
adjusted the differences between the
miners and the mine owners at Spa
dra, and has returned to his home in
Cincinnati.
What Clark County Can Do.
H. C. Crawley, who lives one mile
east of Okolona, in Clark county,
probably owns the most remarkable
and valuable pear tree in Arkansas.
H has been bearing regularly for 50
years, and will produce at least 50
bpshels of choice fruit this year. He
bought the farm, 80 acres, on which
the old tree stands, several years ago,
0n credit, and sold pears enough off
the one tree each year to pay the in
terest on his laud note until he paid
0l|t his home.
Compress for Forrest City.
Articies of incorporation have been
1'd with the secretary of state, by
0 Merchants’ and Planters’ Com
press Company of Forrest City, show
tng a capital stock of $35,000, of which
e.OoO has been subscribed. The in
corporators are George R. Pettus, J.
j tk'Ugh, J. H. Tipton, E. A. Iiolfe, J.
\V Eugene Williams and John
to ‘'a^'or- The company proposes
t> eiect and operate a compress and
(^'(0 storage in connection at Forrest
, Of Importance to Arkansas Land Own
ers.
I A decision has been handed down
In the United States Court of Appeals
at. St. Louis which may affect the own
ers of thousands of acres of land in
Arkansas. The case was one where
the original owners sued to reclaim
title to nearly a thousand acres of
land in Crittenden county, Arkansas,
| which had been sold for taxes in suits
prosecuted by the St. Francis levee
1 district. The original owner was A.
| H. Johnson. The land was sold for
taxes to Charles W. Hunter. Rebecca
A. Johnson, the plaintiff and an heir,
claimed that proper notice was not
given that a tax suit was pending.
The District Court of Arkansas, how
ever, affirmed the sale. The case
was appealed, and the court in St.
Louis decided that because no affi
davit was filed to show that Johnson
was not in Crittendon county and was
a resident of Ohio, as alleged, the de
cision was reversed. If Johnson had
been in the county at the time the
suit was filed, he should have been
served with notice. The notice was
published, as was right, if he were not
in the county. The leaving out of
the affidavit, which probably was done
in other like cases, caused the title
to be reverted to the original owners.
Johnson was the head of the Land
| and Lumber Company.
Farmers’ Union Picnic In Prairie
County.
The Prairie County Farmer’s Union
picnic was given August 18 at Oak
Grove, and at least 2,500 people were
present. L. F. Martin, county secreta
ry, was chairman of the meeting and
introduced State Lecturer H. Beecher
Lewis, of Brinkley, who spoke for
over an hour on the good of the order
j and what the union had done for the
' farmers of the South. He was fre
I quently interrupted with cheers. Mr.
Lewis is one of the practical tillers
of the soil, and, reared on the farm, is
one of the best stump speakers among
the farming class in Arkansas. He
has recently been re-elected state lec
1 turer of the farmers’ union, and says
the union is still growing in Arkan
sas. Mr. Wright, of Des Arc, followed
Mr. Lewis with a prohibition speech.
Mining in Marion.
The Morning Star mine has again
started up, and is hauling ore to Yell
! ville, a distance of 12 miles, to load
onto the cars for shipment. The ore
taken out at this mine is zinc, prin
cipally jack, and is of the finest grade,
and the managers are highly elated
over the success they are meeting
with. The ore is milled on the prop
erty at the company's concentrating
plant, and sacked and hauled to the
cars. The Bonanza, near Buffalo, is
proving to be a fine mine. Here, also,
the ore is of a high grade of zinc,
and the shipments made from this
mine are loaded on the cars at Buf
! falo depot, the Bonanza mine being
| in the south part of Marion county,
near Buffalo.
Let the Good Work Go On.
Hon. B. H. Burnett, president of
Arkansas Division, S. A. C., addressed
a large audience at Forrest City Au
gust 18. About 125 members were
enrolled. The merchants all agreed
to collect and pay the 5-cent per bale
tax asked by the association this fall.
Cotton in that section has made too
rapid growth. Corn is very fine and
there is a large increase in acreage.
The annex to the Jefferson county
court house is rapidly nearing com
pletion, and it will be ready for the
fall term of court, which convenes the
third Monday in September. As soon
as the addition is completed the occu
pants of the old building will move in
to the new building, while the old
building is being remodeled.
Looks Like Pat Lacey.
There now seems to be no doubt
that the prisoner who was brought
to Pine Bluff by the sheriff
of Arkansas County under the
; name of, T. J. Martin, but who was
suspected of being Pat Lacey, is really
that noted character. He has been
i identified by several men who former
ly knew him. He will remain in the
Jefferson county jail until the author
ities in Arkansas county are ready to
try him for grand larceny alleged to
have been committed in that county.
An Old Agreement.
An agreement made in 1874 for the
' consolidation of the St. Louis and Iron
Mountain Railroad Company with the
Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company,
under the name of the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern Railway Com
pany, was filed for record recentfy in
! the circuit clerk’s office at Little Rock.
The Seventh Day Adventists held
their annual conference at Winslow,
recently. Prominent Adventists from
, Washington, D. C., California and Tex
j as were in attendance. -
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1900.
NEWS 0F_ THE WEEK
AN EPiTOME OF THE MOST IM
PORTANT EVENT8 AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The jury In the case of Doss Gal
braith, the alleged leader of the mob
which lynched and burned three ne
groes in Springfield, Mo., in April
last, and who was on trial, charged
with second degree murder, was dis
charged by the court when it reported
that its members were unable to
agree. The jury stood 10 for acquittal
to 2 for conviction.
One thousand of those who were
killed by the earthquake at Valparaiso
have been buried, and there are more
than one thousand corpses beneath
the ruins.
President Roosevelt has resolved to
adopt the "reform" or Carnegie meth
od of spelling, in his messages and
executive correspondence. Comment
ing on the president's decision, the
London Standard bluntly declares
that Mr. Roosevelt overrates his pow
ers, adding that it declines to believe
that scholarly and cultivated Ameri
cans will sacrifice the history and
meaning of the language by adopting
the “Carnegie jargon.”
Alfred Stevens, the celebrated Bel
gian painter, is dead in Paris. He
was born in May, 1823.
Finance Minister Kokovsoff of Rus
sia has authorized the press to deny
categorically the constantly recurring
reports that Russia intends to enter
the foreign market for a new loan
this autumn.
Reports from the southwest are tc
the effect that the corn crop i3 now
almost safe from damage, and that
the yield will be very laige.
Steamers are arriving at Tampa,
from Havana, loaded to full capacity
with tobacco, which is being rushed
out of Cuba by importers.
Plans are already under way to
build Valparaiso again, making it a
more beautiful city.
Present interstate railroad rates
must remain absolutely unchanged un
til September 28.
Judge Magoon, governor of the
Panama zone is to succeed Gen. Smith
as governor general of the Philipines
within twelve months.
Chief Engineer Stevens cabled the
isthmian canal commission that the
recent earthquake in Chili was not
noticed at Panama, and that there
was not even a record of it made on
the seismographic instruments there.
At the canal commission's offices
there is firm conviction, based on gov
ernment scientists’ reports, that the
canal zone is entirely without the
earthquake area, though it has been
popularly supposed to be within its
range.
Japan, it is said, will send a com
mission to the Pribiloff islands to in
vestigate the, killing of Japanese seal
poachers by American guards on the
islands. The Japanese consul at Van
couver reported to his government
that it was impossible for him to ob
tain a satisfactory report of the affair,
hence the action determined upon by
Japan.
Sud Miller, a pioneer mereuam
tailor of Fairbanks, la., was drowned
while bathing. His wife almost per
ished in an attempt to save him.
Edward M. Ames was elected com
maniler-in-chief of the Sons of Veter
ans at their national encampment at
Peoria, 111. The next encampment will
be held at Dayton, O.
King Alfonso of Spain has signed
the decree making the treaty of com
merce between the United States and
Spain effective.
The czar has determined to dispose
of crown lands and appendages to the
peasants, and thus make a bid for the
support of Russia’s peasant millions
against the revolutionists.
A mob took Wm. Soain. a negro,
from jail in Dorchester county, S. C.,
hung him to a tree and tired live hun
dred bullets into his body. He was
charged by a white girl with attempt
ing to climb into her window. This
made three lynchings of negroes in
that state within ten days.
Thirteen negro soldiers of the Twen
ty-fifth infantry were arrested at
Brownsville, Tex., by the civil author
ities, and will be held on charges of
riot disorder*, in which one man was
killed.
There seems to be a general feel
ing for the annexation of Cuba to the
United States among the business in
terests of Havana.
President Roosevelt has written a
letter to Congressman Watson, of In
diana, in which he indorses the acts
of the last session of congress, opposes
tariff changes and declares public wel
fare demands a continuance of present
conditions. He urges that Cannon to
retained as house leadei
Thirteen negro soldiers of the
Twenty-fifth infantry were arrested by
the civil authorities at Brownsville,
Tex., and will be held on charges of
recent riot disorders, in which one
man was killed.
The Cuban government has asked
the United States for eight rapid-fire
guns, manned by American artillery
men, to assist in suppressing the re
bellion.
The national convention of Sons of
Veterans closed at Peoria, 111., with
the election of officers and the selec
tion of Dayton, O., as the next meet
ing place. Edward M. Aimes, of A)
toona, Pa., was elected commander-in
chief.
At Anadarko, OUla., Annie Dress
back, aged 1G, »hot N. Mulliken, acci
dentally, discharging a revolver, and
then, believing she had killed him,
shot herself. Both were fatally
wounded.
The tenor of the London press is
that the United States must sooner
or later intervene in Cuba and re
store order under the Platt amend
ment.
During the past year the Salvation
Army has sent 12,000 immigrants
from the United States to Canada.
The Cuban government ha3 ordered
a number of rapid-fire guns in the
United States, and will endeavor to
secure experienced American gunners
to man them.
Michael McNamara, a St. Louis po
liceman, shot and killed James J.
Brophy and Mrs. McNamara in a ho
tel. Brophy had just registered as
‘J. C. Wilson and wife, Centralia,
ill.”
Three hundred and fifty Chicago tel
ephone girls strike because ordered to
enter through rear door. Company
yields after 13,500 phones are tied up.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw di
rects that $3,000,000 be distributed
among small national banks.
The democratic state convention of
illinois, at Peoria, indorsed Wm. J.
Bryan for 1908, and tabled a resolu
tion requesting' Sullivan to resign from
the national committee from Illinois,
as demanded by Mr. Bryan.
The democrats of Ohio indorsed
W. J. Bryan for 1908, in the state con
vention.
The republicans of Illinois indorsed
Speaker Cannon for the republican
nomination for the presidency in 1908.
It is reported that the pope, im
pressed by the frequency of earth
quakes in the new world, intends or
dering special prayers to be said after
mass for deliverance from similar visi
tations. The archbishop of Santiago,
Chile, cabled to the Vatican, reporting
loss of life among the clergy, and the
pope in reply sent his apostolic bene
diction, assurance of prayers and pro
found sympathy.
Arrangements for the entertainment
of William Jennigs Bryan during his
visit to Chicago include a reception
and luncheon at the Iroquis club and
a banquet at the Jefferson club. W.
Randolph Hearst has been invited to
deliver an address.
A communication emanating from
the reform party at Constantinople as
serts that the health of the sultan of
Turkey is gradually failing, and that
a fatal result may be expected shortly.
Mahala Lewis, a negress. said to be
3 20 years old, died at Ottawa, Kas.
She could tell many incidents in the
life of George Washington, whom she
insisted she had seen many times.
Mrs. Lewis was a native of Virginia, i
and was tuiable to read or write.
Count Fermor, a colonel on the gen
eral staff, aid-de-camp to the govern
or of Warsaw, and a member of one
of the most aristocratic families ot
Russia, was mortally wounded by rev- j
olutionists.
The will of the late Daniel B. Wes
son, the noted revolver maker, gives
$650,000 to the Wesson memorial and
maternity hoslptals in Springfield,
Mass., and divides $15,000,000 among
40 rleatives. George Bull, his son-in
law, was not provided for, the wi
expressly making this clear.
■ The democratic state committee of
Tennessee met and indorsed \Vm. J.
Bryan for 1908.
Hoke Smith carried the democratic
primaries in Georgia for governor.
An intense hot wave has prevailed
over northern Illinois, northern Iowa !
and Michigan. In Chicago, four j
deaths from heat occurred in one day j
and four in Milwaukee.
Commissioner Yerkes says distillers !
will not be harassed under the de
natured alcohol law.
Captain Ueorge Boynton and three- i
others were arrested In New York
on the charge of being implicated in
a scheme to counterfeit Venezuelan
silver dollars, to finance a revolution
in that country.
The dowager empress of China
plans to summon a conference of high
officials. Including several viceroys, tc
discuss the adoption of a constitution.
The Nebraska republicans, in state
convention, declare that “while yield
ing to this principle (protection), we
believe that changes in schedules
should follow changes in conditions.’
Captain Houston Tom, who was one
of the most noted Indian fighters in
Texas in the early days, died at his
home at Runge, Tex. He was SO years
old, and had lived in Texas since 1834.
I?# took a prominent pari in political
affairs in Texas a half century ago.
ARKANSAS BRIEFS
John Spain, a citizen of Missouri
has brought suit in the United States
Circuit Court against the Arkansas
Democrat Company for $25,000 dam
ages for the publication of alleged
libelous statements. The statements
upon which the suit is based are al
leged to have been published in the
Arkansas Democrat August 30, 1905.
It is alleged that in a special dispatch
dated “Pocahontas,” it was stated
that John Spain, who had been de
mented for several months, had died
and ou his deathbed had confessed
to having murdered his brother-in-law.
Pay McKiou, two years before, by put
ting poison in some whiskey which
McKiou drank. The complaint alleges
that these statements amounted to a
charge against the plaintiff of insan
ity and murder, to his damage in the
sum of $25,000. The Arkansas Dem
ocrat has been sold since the publi
cation of these statements and is now
published by the Little Rocb Publish
ing Company, an entirely different
company.
At the recent meeting of the Young
People’s Missionary Conference for
the Southwest, held at Siloam Springs,
there were nine denominations repre
sented, with a total representation
of 127, of which 89 were men and 38
women, as follows: Southern Presby
terian, 75; Presbyterian, U. S. A., 16;
United Presbyterian, 75; Presbyterian,
1; Methodists, 26; Baptists, 5; Chris
tians, 2; Episcopalian, 1; Congrega
tionalists, 1. Ten states were repre
sented, as follows: Arkansas, 58;
Texas, 21; Missouri, 20; Louisiana,
15; Indian Territory, 5; Tennessee, 4;
Virginia, 1. Kentucky, 1; Alabama, 1;
Georgia, 1. There were 20 volunteers
for foreign missionaries; 5 mission
aries; from Japan 1, China 2, Korea 1,
Cuba 1; 50 pastors, 14 Sunday school
superintendents, 27 Sunday school
teachers. There were present 36
persons who promised to teach mission
study classes at home.
J. E. McCook, warden of the state
convict farm in Lincoln county, was
in Little Rock recently in conference
with Superintendent J. A. Pitcock.
He said the outlook for a large yield
on the farm is good and that from
present indications the state farm
will produce 1,200 bales of cotton.
More corn has been raised than at
any one time before, and cribs are
being erected to house during the
winter and next spring. It will be
used to feed the stock on tlje farm.
Throughout, he says, the present crop
will be the banner crop for the farm.
At present, little labor is needed on
the farm and about TOO of the con
victs are now working under contract
in the railroad camps over the state.
The Commercial Club of Fort
Smith has decided to extend an in
vitation to William J. Bryan to speak
there this fall at the statehood cele
bration, which will take place one
day during the stock show in October.
Mr. Bryan will be met in St. Louis
by a committee of five from the Com
mercial Club while on his way from
his reception in New York and pre
sented the invitation. In addition to
Mr. Bryan, there will be invited prom
inent citizens of Indian Territory and
Oklahoma. The mayor of every city
in the new state will be invited.
A great many improvements are
being made at the Blind School, pre
paratory for the opening in October.
Two new porches have been built,
and another is now in course of con
struction on the front of the main
building, which will add much to the
comfort of the pupils, and the appear
ance of the school. In addition to
these, new floors are being put in and
the interior is being generally put in
to a better condition. A water tank
is being erected at a cost of 18,000,
that will provide a force sufficient to
throw a stream of water to the top
of the building, which cannot be done
with the present service.
mere uas oeen a consiaerame lei
up in the building being done in Little
Rock. For some time there were
large numbers of houses being erect
ed, but for some reason there were
few new contracts closed during Aug
ust. A prominent contractor has
made the statement that the cause
for the let up is the high price of
lumber. All grades of lumber have
been advanced materially this year,
and now the average five-room house
costs, roughly speaking, $250 more to
erect than this time last year.
J. A. Beckham, who was sheriff of
Miller county from 1898 to 1902, was
shot and killed by a man named Brock,
near Gilliam, La., 50 miles south of
here, on the Texarkana, Shreveport
and Natchez Railroad, on August 18.
Beckham was for many years one of
the most influential citizens of Miller
county. He is said to have been in
toxicated at the time of the fatal diffi
culty, which otherwise would have
been averted. Ordinarily he was one
of the most peaceable of men.
NO. 41.
POINT TOO OFTEN OVERLOOKED.
Proper Appearance of Back Is of
Much Importance.
A woman’s back expresses a great
deal more than one would fancy.
Observe a woman with stooped
shoulders, an Ill-fitting bodice, a collar
pinned sloppily, a waistband escaping
from the protection of the waist, and
what hops into your mind?
Either that the woman is so crazed
with trouble and hard luck that she
isn’t conscious of her appearance, or
that she is simply a careless, slipshod,
“no-'count” mortal to whom energy
and ambition and neatness are unin
telligible words.
Then look upon another back with
the bodice lines straight and correct,
the waist lines well placed, the collar
securely and neatly fastened down,
the skirt well fitting, and the shoul
ders poised with firmness and grace.
What then?
You are pretty sure when you get
a front view that you will see a pretty
or serene face, with hair daintily
dressed and neatly placed.
Sometimes, of course, you are dis
appointed.
A few women go in for beautiful
backs and don’t get any farther, but
that is neither here nor there nor
some place else.
Details make dress just as the most
trivial incidents contribute to the af
fairs of life.
An open placket and a skirt band
creeping away from the waist are
troubles that are not confined to any
one particular class of women, for all
are afflicted more or less.
Men have routed and fumed more
about sagging waistbands than about
scorched muffins and underdone steak.
There has been many a happily
planned trip to the theater or a din
ner marred by the masculine and
scornful exclamation:
“Why don't you fix up your belt?
It looks like the dickens! You are
coming all to pieces.’’
Ana as aomestic Happiness is aDout
the greatest necessity—if one could
live through this short span of exist
ence with anything like tranquillity—
they had better look to the waist lines
and see that they are not only care
fully and correctly arranged, but artis
tic and becoming as well.
Remember that the public gazes
more often and longer on your back
than it does on your face.
Be sure that your back makes a
good impression.
Using Left-Over Fruit.
Whenever you have any fruit left
over from a meal, can it. Cook the
fruit until tender, with plenty ol
sugar. When tender pour into your
jar, which should be made hot by
the use of boiling water. By placing
a tablespoon or knitting needle in the
jar you will prevent it from breaking
when pouring in the hot fruit. The
jar should be filled to overflowing,
and immediately screw on the top.'
Then turn the jar upside down until
the next day. If the juice has not
leaked out the can is airtight and
may be put away for winter use in a
cool, dark place. By this process a
jar of fruit at a time may be pre
served without much labor. Never
throw' away the juice that is left over.
If it is put in sealed glasses or jars
it is very good in mince pies or may
be used as a sauce over ice cream
or cottage pudding. *
When the Damage Happens.
If a cut bleeds profusely it should
be held under a stream of cold water.
Compress the wound and apply clean
lint. If an artery has been severed
tie the lint tight above the cut and
by introducing a stick under the hand
kerchief and twisting it round check
the bleeding until surgical assistance
can be obtained.
Delicate Organs of Smell.
The organs of smell in a turkey
vulture and carrion crow are so deli
cate that they can scent their food
for a distance of 40 miles.
Blouse Made at Home.
Watch for the remnants of the pret
ty pale-tinted batistes, and of these
make separate blouses. For these the
prettiest way to combine lace is to
take an all-over valenciennes, with a
small design rather widely scattered,
so that one-quarter yard will make
about 12 medallions. Baste these be
tween whatever tucking you may in
dulge in, and embroider a vine or a
wreath of small flowers around the
edge, then cut away the material be
neath and a very dainty waist will bs
the result.—Vogue.
Tomatoes Stuffed with Rice.
Cut off a slice from one end of ripe
tomatoes and take out the seeds with
a teaspoon. Fill with boiled rice that
has been drained. Dust with salt and
pepper. Lay a thin slice of onion on
each tomato and put them in a bak
ing pan. Put a tablespoon of butter
melted with one of water into a pan.
Set in the oven; bake slowly for hall
an hour, hasting the tomatoes occa
sionally. Take off the onion and serve
the tomatoes with the sauce in the
pan poured over them.