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VOL. V.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1906.
ISO. 50.
NEWS OFJHE WEEK
AN epitome of the most im
portant EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
north, easiest, south
A Carefully DigesUd and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The months statement of the collec
tions of internal revenue shows that
for the month of September, 1906, the
total receipts were $21,362,639, which
Is an increase as compared with Sep
tember 1905, of $138,151.
Increased shipments of wheat from
Argentina has had weakening effect on
the wheat market. Weather there was
gald to be favorable for the growing
crop.
Reports of labor scarcity are still
well nigh universal says Bradstreet,
and the movement of the cotton crop,
the shipments of lumber, the outputs
of coal and the deliveries of various
mills are still restricted from this
cause, or by reason of inadequate car
supply.
Moroccan crisis becomes acute and
France sends warships, while Germany
holds hers in readiness
Great Britian, France and Italy form
defensive alliance to nafeguard peace
of Europe.
New York jobbers report the largest
business ever known to date in Octo
ber.
The first test of the federal eight
hour day law ended i"i a victory for
the government at Cincinnati. After
being out only 15 minutes, the jury in
the United S.ates court found the
Sheridan-Kirk Contracting Co. guilty
of violating the law in he construction
of the big Ohio river dam at Fembank,
nine miles below Cincinnati.
A drastic measure against the rebel
lious clergy according to well-informed
persons, has been decided upon by the
French cabinet which intends to deal
with them as foreign officials.
* President Roosevelt has directed
Victor H. Metcalf, secretary of the de
partment of commerce and labor, to
proceed to San Francisco, and make a
thorough and complete inquiry into the
situation affocUng the exclusion of
Japanese children from the schools
provided tor white children an l the
determination to place Japanese pupils
in separate schools.
Mrs. Robert E. Peaty, wife of the ex
plorer'is quoted as saying: ‘I feel just
as sure as I am living at this moment
that my husband has found the north
pole, and that he will soon be home to
tell us about it.”
The Spanish minister of war has in
troduced a bill in the cortes calling
for the complete teforming of the army
and bringing it up to modern require
ments.
G. C. Rose and Mrs. Winnie Wheeler
leaders of the Brotherhood of Lights,
who conduct a home for poor children
bn a farm near Arbeles, Col., were
arranged before a justice on charges
of manslaughter in connection with
the death of six babies on the place,
and sent to jail.
Carrying out further the policy
under which arms surrendered by the
Cuban insurgents have been destroy
ed, orders have been given that a
great quantity of arms, the accumu
lation of forty years, now stored in
the basements of Morro castle,
Havana be thrown into the sea.
At a dinner, given in his honor by
tht' Brooklyn Yacht club. Sir Thomas
blpton, declared that he hoped he
wight be privileged to challenge for
'be American cup, the International
trophy, and intimated that he would
issue a challenge next year for a
''ace, possibly in 1908 or 1809.
By a remarkable achievement in
'*ireless telegrpahy at the Pensacola
Bia., station, that plant has been able
to keep in communication with a
steamer from the time she left New
>nr . untill she arrived at Honduras.
A hurricane swept southwestern
-span. Several hundred coral fishing
boats are reported missing. Each boat
ls wanned by at least two sailors.
before the San Francisco earthquake
iier.> were separate schools in San
Irancisco for the Japanese. These
destroyed during the calamity.
‘ be city authorities are merely re
wilding the schools which existed be
/hey were destroyed and not dls
w >.'.’.mating against the Japanese in
b'.it respect.
fn‘ he statement made by Secretary
' • ar Taft, on the eve oi his de^
lauure from Cuba, that he would put
arnis surrendered by the insur
gents where they would do no further
•'aim, was verified when a company
oi the Cuban artillery spent an after
noon throwing these weapons Into
ne sea from the outer bastion oi
Morro castle.
T A !okio correspondent says the
apanese are greatly agitated against
l nited States on account of the
^elusion of Japanese children from
' '• public schools attended by white
bup'ls in San Francisco. Separate
ch ?°*S are lna*ntahied for Japanese,
l‘!Pse. negroes and Indian?
Without tne aid of gas Santos Du
mon't “Bird of Prey” flew 165 feet,
in Paris, France, winning a prize of
$10,000 as the first successful mechan
ical flying machine.
At East St. Louis, 111., while in de
lirium of fever, Samuel Blankenship
muttered words that resulted in his
arrest and return to Huntington, W.
Va., on the charge of manslaughter.
“The total immigration to the
United States may reach 1,400,000
people this'y^ar,” Secretary Metcalf
of the department of commerce and
labor is quoted as saying.
James W. Forsyth, major-general,
U. S. A., retired, died at his home in
Columbus, O., of paralysis. He had
a distinguished civil war record and
one as an Indian fighter.
A notable feature of the autumn
maneuvers of the Chinese imperial
army has been a portable wireless
telegraphy apparatus, carried upon
light wagons, and so adjusted that it
can be erected in less than thirty
minutes. These stations were operat
ed by Chinese officials of the tele
graph corps.
The board of bishops of the Metho
dist church has decided to raise $700,
000 to rebuild the churches destroyed
by the San Francisco earthquake. A
committee has been appointed to re
port on some plan for raising the
money.
"Attorney-General William H.
Moody will be appointed to the su
preme bench to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Asso
ciate Justice Henry Brown,” is the
statement made in unofficial circles
in Washington.
Midshipman Kltigaki, Japanese,
has resigned from the United S.ates
naval academy by order, it is said,
of tiie Mikado. This is indicated as
an indorsement of the ill feeling of
the Japanese people against Ameri
cans, caused oy the exclusion of Jap
anese children from the public schools
attended by white children in San
Francisco, and the geenral anti-Japan
ese agitation on the Pacific coast.
Former Senalor Burton of Kansas
is now in the Iron couuty (Mo.) jail,
serving the six months’ sentence im
posed upon him for acting as attor
ney for a firm, while senator, against
which the government contemplated
proceedings.
A statement has been issued from
the White House setting forth the
following contemplated changes in the
president's cabinet: Secretary of the
treasury, Hon. George B. Cortelyou;
postmaster-general, Hon. George Von
L. Meyer; attorney-general, Hon.
Charles .1. Bonaparte; secretary of the
navy, Hon. Victor H. Metcalf; secre
tary of commerce and labor, Hon. Os
car S. Straus. The appointment of
Mr. Straus will be the first time that
a citizen of Hebrew faith has been
made a cabinet member.
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, on behalf of its switchmen, has
presented demands to all the rail
roads centering in Chicago for an
eight-hour day.
The Standard Oil Co. of Iowa has
transferred its holdings in California
to the Standard Oil Co. of California.
It is understood that the consideration
amounted to several millions.
R. E. Short, of Hugo, 1. T., was as
sassinated. being shot through the
window of his home in the presence
of his wife and three children. The
weapon used was a shotgun loaded
with buckshot, and the shot was fired
at close range.
Lord Aberdare has practically re
nounced his son for marrying Camille
Clifford, an American actress. It is
said he told his son .mver to darken
his door again.
Apparently without cause, Mrs. May
Brenner, aged 20, of Evansville, Ind.,
took poison, while sitting at the side
of her 7-months-old baby's crib, and
died.
Three thousand negroes assemble
In front of a Philadelphia opera house
and endeavor to prevent the produc
tion of a play distasteful to them.
Seventy-five policemen prevented vio
lence. The mayor prohibited its pro
duction in the city.
At Chatha. .. N. J., John Jacob
Sacco, aged seven years, while play
ing with a rifle, shot and killed his
mother as she was clearing the sup
per table.
The continuous rains and the warm
weather of the last two days hav;
caused all the streams of the North
west to rise to a height never before
known.
Thoms C. Dawson. United States
Minister to Santo Domingo, aecom
panted by his family, arrived at New
York, on the steamer Seminole from
Turks Island.
The statement was made by a
Cabinet officer Thursday' that the ap
poiatment of a Governor of the Pan
ama Canal Zone in all probability wil.
not be made until after Presidem
Roosevelt’s return from the Isthmus.
Several families occupying fram
buildings, were driven into the street
by a fire, which partly destroyed th
plants of the Sullivan-Farmer Cand;
Company, and the Ansel Scale C in
pany at Chicago.
NEWS OF
ARKANSAS
More Work For the Courts.
Three officials of Chicot county have
been suspended pending trials on
charges of malfeasance in office, and
Governor Davis has appointed men
to fill the positions pending the trial
of the cases. The trouble grows out
of the recent mandamus suits brought
against County Judge W. G. Streett
and Sheriff M. C. Strong, in which
it was alleged that Sheriff Strong was
$48,000 short in his account with the
county.
Official notice came to Governor
Davis to the effect that indictments
had been returned by the Chicot
County Grand Jury against County
Judge W. G. Streett and County Treas
urer Abner Gaines, charging malfeas
ance in office. Circuit Judge Z. T.
Wood at ance suspended the two men,
and the notice was forwarded to Gov.
Davis. Tfce suspension of these two
officials follows directly on the sus
pension from office recently by Judge
Wood of Sheriff M. C. Strong. Acting
on the official notice of the suspen
sion of these three officials, Governor
Davis appointed men to hold the po
sitions pending the hearing,
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The Lid On At Pine Bluff.
After dossing the gambling houses
and destroying all the gambling par
aphernalia, 'the authorities at Pine
Bluff are perfecting arrangements to
clamp the lid down tight on Sundays.
This will mean the closing of all busi
ness houses, including meat markets,
drug stores, cigar stands, confection
eries, and in fact every kind of busi
ness will come under the ban if their
present plans are carried out.
Fight for Two-Cent Rate.
The Travelers’ Protective Associa
tion and the United Commercial
Travelers and the Arkansas Travel
ers held a joint meeting in the city
of Little Rock recently, at which time
it was decided to begin an aggressive
campaign for a two-cent rate for the
traveling public unless the South
western Passenger Association gives
a favorable decision to their demands
within the next ten days.
Experimenting With Sorghum Cane.
About 70 acres of sorghum caste
was raised near Rogers with an aver
age yield of from S to 12 tons per
acre. A quantity of i( has been dis
posed of at the vinegar factory at
Rogers and is being ground and the
juice stored in big tanks. Some of
the farmers, however, object to grow
ing it as they say the time and labor
required to top and strip it eats up
the profit.
EAGLE TAIL.
Probably no bettor known scout lives in
the southwest than Capt. Charles L. Von Berg,
whose home is at Fayetteville, Ark., and
whose picture appears above. Capt. Von Berg
was a scout under Buffalo Bill and is well
known throughout the west ami southwest,
where he served during the early period. Nyt
only is he interested in relating incidents that
came under bis observation while riding the
frontier, but he is qnite a literary student
and has one of the finest collections of curios
in the country, lie possesses a buffalo bead
for which the Smithsonian institute has a
standing offer of $500. The collection includes
every conceivable relic of Indian warfare and
frontier life.
“Capital in Arkansas.”
The information comes from Pine
Bluff that the International Harester
Company is negotiating for the pur
chase of the Pine Bluff Lumber and
Veneer Company, which is at present
in the hands of a receiver. No cor
roboration from headquarters could be
secured, but it is believed that a deal
will be closed shortly, if it has not al
ready been consummated. In the
event that the purchase is made a
line of railway will be constructed
either from Pine Bluff or Varner,
and other extensive improvements will
be made.
Geo-ge Trimble Dead.
George M. Trimble, son of Judge T.
C. Trimble, a prominent lawyer of
Central Arkansas, is dead from the
effects of burns received in the explo
sion of a coal oil lamp. He had been
a sufferer from Bright’s disease for
several years, and the shock from the
burns was too much for his already
weakened condition, and he died after
three weeks of intense suffering.
Farmers’ Union at Hoxie.
The Farmers’ Union of Hoxie are
contemplating putting in a stock of
goods in their warehouse, which they
propose disposing of to the farmers
of that vicinity. It will also have the
capacity of storing a large quantity
of cotton for which It proposes to
give the farmer credit in the union
store for half the value of the cotton
he stores.
A Brick Plant at Van Buren.
Arrangements have been completed
to establish a large brick plant at
Van Buren, the capacity of which
will be 150,000 brick per day. Forty
acres of choice shale laud have been
purchased by the company and it only
remains to settle a few minor details
before work on the plant will begin.
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A Change in the Law.
A move is being made by the Synod
of Arkansas of the Presbyterian
church, U. S. A., to have the present
law in regard to liquor license
changed. They will petition the next
legislature to provide that before the
saloons can be licensed a majority ot
the adult inhabitants, male and fe
male, shall first peition the county
court in favor of such license.
Clear Docket for the Supreme Court.
It is expected that at the close oi
the present term of the Supreme
Court, July 23, 1907, it will have dis
posed of all cases before it wiUi the
exception of cases coining in late.
The court has been handing down de
cisions at the rate of from 12 to IE
a week for some time, and if the pres
ent average is kept up the end is in
sight.
Injured by Dynamite.
While making preparations foi
blasting, Wm. Woodring of Bradley
had the misfortune to have his left
arm and leg badly injured by the ex
plosion of a stick of dynamite in his
hand.
of cotton brought 18 1-4 cents.
Lanesburg Lumber Kilns Destroyed
A number of lumber kilns neat
Lanesburg, belonging to Beatty &
Loomis, were destroyed by fire re
cently, with an estimated loss of
$1,150.
Mrs. George Sengel Dead.
As the result of injuries received
in a runaway about twelve months
ago, Mrs. George Sengel, wife of ex
Senator Sengel, is dead at her home
at Fort Smith.
.100,000 Bushels Consumed.
The vinegar factory at Rogers,
which has discontinued the purchase
of apples for the present, has con
sumed over 100,000 bushels during
the season. i
Long Range Politics.
The Fifth congressional district,
which includes Little Rock and Pu
laski county, promises to be the po
litical center of the state in the next
Democratic primary for congressional
nominations. Word has gone out that
Congressman C. C. Reid, who has
represented that district in Congress
and is now the nominee for another
term, will retire at the close of his
next term, and will establish a law
office either in Little Rock or Morril
ton, Ills present home. The announce
ment has caused much speculation as
to who will succeed him, and already
three men are being spoken of prom
inently. These are Judge W. M.
Kavanaugh and Attorney General R.
L. Rogers, both of Little Rock, and
H. M. Jacoway, of Dardanelle. It is
possible there will be others men
tioned when it becomes generally
known that Congressman Reid will re
tire.
Members of Commission Named.
The Little Rock Board of Trade
has named a commission to attend
the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Con
gress, which will be held at Kansas
City, Mo., Nov. 20 to 23. The mem
bers of the commission named follow:
Mayor W. E. Lenon, Horace Baker,
general superintendant of the Iron
Mountain: H. M. Hallock, general su
perintendent of the Rock Island; W.
B. Ferguson, Guy B. Tucker and
James A. Gray. This will be the sev
enteenth annual meeting of the con
gress. A letter was received recently
from the secretary of the congress,
in which it was stated that many im
portant resolutions, which might flud
their way to the national congress,
would be acted on.
Coughs Up the Cash.
The receiver of the Bank of DeValls
Bluff has received from the Ameri
can Bonding Company of Baltimore,
Md., a check for $*>.000 fn satisfaction
of a judgment against the bonding
company as surety of George C. Strong
cashier of the defunct institution.
1 his matter has been pending in the
court for several years, the receiver
of the bank bringing suit in the Chan
cery Court of Prairie county, where a
judgment was obtained against the
bonding company. An appeal was
taken to the Supreme Court and that
court affirmed the decision ot the
chancellor. The suit was stubbornly
and strenuously resisted by the bond
ing company all the way through.
“May He Return Late to Heave
Col J. M. Montgomery, of Lewis
ville, celebrated his SOtli birthday, Oc
tober 23. He is the father of R L.
Montgomery, senator-elect of the
1 wenty-first senatorial district. Col.
Montgomery was elected clerk of La
fayette county in 1S52, aud served un
til 1SGS. He was appointed county
clerk of Miller county by Gov. Jones
He was a citizen of that county for
several years prior to 1808. He was
licensed to practice law and is ac
tive in practice today, .is hale and
hearty and gives promise of living tc
be 100 years old.
His Memory Failed Him.
lelix Tate, a negro 05 years olu,
"alked into the office of the county
clerk at Little Rock recently and
made application for a marriage li
cense. When asked for the name of
the piospective bride the applicant
found himself without speech. He re
flected a few minutes and finally said:
fc>aj, Boss, I never did know the
name. 1 just always called her ‘wid
ow.’ Tate departed and after an hour
or so he came back grinning and said
the name of his bride to be was Rilla
Davis. Thereupon the license
issued.
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Good Grub and Good Roads
The Executive Committee of the
Arkansas Good Roads Association has
announced that a meeting in the in
terest of good roads will be held at
Gleason's hotel, Little Rock, on No
vember 14, and a substantial supper
will be served. It is to be a gather
ing of farmers and business men to
discuss what is deemed to be one of
the most vital questions now before
the State.
An Old Firm Goes Out.
Mrs. Sarah E. Taylor of Washing
ton, Hempstead county, recently filed
her voluntary petition in bankruptcy,
giving her assets at $500, all of which
are claimed as exempt, and her lia
bilities as $165,000. This is the final
chapter in the financial career of Geo.
Taylor, head of the George Taylor
Commission Company of St. Louis, a
career in every way honorable and
cue that was profitable up to the time
of his death.
A Canning Factory.
The canning factory at Gassville has
yielded to the farmers in that vicinity
from $C0 to $75 per acre for their
tomato crops. The factory gives em
ployment to more than sixty persons.
A New Church.
Calico Rock is to have a new
Methodist church, the dedication of
which will occur the fifsa of the year.
TROUBLE IS LOCAL
SAID TO BE DUE TO POLITICS IN
SAN FRANCISCO.
U. S. Will Not Tolerate Treatment
of Japanese Unlike That Accord
. ed Subjects of Other Nations.
Washington—The text of a cable
gram to Ambassador Wright at To
kio given out by the State Depart
ment bearing on the alleged discrim
inations against Japanese laborers
and school children in San Francisco
shows that the United States took
prompt action to acquaint the Japan
ese government of the purely local
character of the case. The dispatch
was brought forth by one from Am
bassador Wright calling attention to
the view of the matter as taken by
the newspapers of Tokio and makes
plain the fact that the government
of the United States would not toler
ate any other treatment toward Japan
than accorded the most friendly Euro
pean nation.
The cablegram is dated October 23,
and, therefore, was sent three days
before the visit of Viscount Aoki to
Secretary RoOt. It is as follows:
•' "Oct. 23, 1906.
“Wright, Tokio:
"Troubles, your dispatch of 21st,
are entirely local and confined to San
Francisco. This government was not
aware of their existence until the
publication in our newspapers of what
had happened in Tokio.
“The best information we have
been able to obtain indicates that
there is nothing even in San Fran
cisco but ordinary local labor con
troversy excited by the abnormal
conditions resulting from the earth
quake and fire. We cannot prevent men
desirous of a labor vote fgrom making
speeches in favor of excluding any
kind of competition. This does not*
seem to have gone beyond irresponsi
ble agitation, to which no attention
can be paid by this government or
should be by the people of Japan.
The trouble about schools appears
to have arisen from the fact that the
schools which the Japanese had at
tended were destroyed at the time of
the earthquake and have not been
replaced.
"You may assure the government
of Japan in most positive terms that
the government of the United States
will not for a moment entertain the
idea of any treatment toward the
Japanese people ether than accorded
to the people of the most friendly
European nstion, and that there is no
reason to suppose that the people of
the United States desire our govern
ment.to take any different course.
“The president has directed the
Department of Justice to make imme
diate and full investigation and taka
such steps as the facts call for to
maintain all treaty rights of Jepanes*
subjects in the spirit of friendship
and respect which our people, have
so long entertained. The purely lo
cal and occasional nature of the San
Francisco school question should be
appreciated when the Japanese re
member that Japanese students are
welcomed at hundreds of schools and
colleges all over the country.
“Root.”
For Uniform State Boll Weevil Law.
Washington.—Secretary Wilson of
the Department of Agriculture pro
poses to wage a vigorous fight for a
uniform state boll weevil law this
winter in the boll weevil states,
among which Arkansas may now be
found. In short, the secretary is go
ing to appeal to the governors and
the legislatures of the states directly
interested and impress upon the so
lons the absolute necessity for con
certed action in the premises. His
plan is not a simple one, and-is still
in the formuiative stage. It will be
a big undertaking and involve an im
mense amount of work, because each
state offers its own peculiar condi
tions, and a uniform law to cure; so
many evils must, in the very natnre
of things, be an extraordinary work.
Favor Law and Order Leagues.
Montgomery, Ala.—Negroes of Ala
bama, headed by Booker T. Washing
ton, at “Negro Bay'' at the Atlanta
agricultural fair, adopted resolutions
endorsing the law and order leagues
throughout the state to suppress
crime among members of their race.
The resolutions were adopted after
stirring speeches by Gov. Wm. D.
Jelks and Booker T. Washington.
The governor was presented to an
immense throng of negro farmers
and business men by the Tuskegea
educator.
Roosevelt is 48 Years Old.
Washington, D. C.—President Theo
dore Ilooscvelt was 48 years old Oc
tober 27. lie was the recipient of
many congratulation^, but passed tha
day veil' much according to the rou
tine which marks I\is every-day life.
A family dinner was one of the feat
ures of the day.