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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1919
VOL. 19 NO. 37
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NEGRO AND HIS GUN
CAUSE EXCITEMENT
DRAWS GUN ON WHITE BOYS
AND NARROWLY ESCAPES
WHIPPING BY CITIZENS
Quite a little bit of excitement was
caused in town Tuesday, as a result
of a little gun play by Robert Wash
ington, a rather self-important ne
gro, recently from East St. Louis.
The negro, and his brother. Gene
Washington, had a little difficulty
with Elmer Rodman and Morris Mag
ness, two young white men, the night
-before wrhen the younger negro ex
pressed himself as going to stop a
bunch of white boys from shooting
fire-crackers. After exchanging a
few words with the boys, the negroes
went home, and the next morning
came to town and passed up and
down front street a number of times
and stopped in front of Yeatman
Gray Co’s, store where Rodman
works.
Going to the front of the store
Rodman asked the negroes what they
wanted, and one of them is said to
have replied “Any d— thing you vc
got,” at the same time picking up a
stick of weod that was lying near the
door. Rodman advanced toward the
negro who dropped the stick and
clinched him, striking him with his
fist.
Young Magness who was standing
near, grabbed the stick dropped by
the negro and hit the black a sound
lick over the head, when he released
his hold on Rodman and ran to the
middle of the street, where he drop
ped on his knee, whipped out an au
tomatic pistol and attempted to fire
at the young men who took refuge n
the Yeatman-Gray store.
Several citizens who were on the
street at the time, witnessed the gun
play by the negro and it is believed
that all that saved the life of one or
probably both of these boys is that
a shell “snapped” in the gun, failing
to explode. Officers say that an au
tomatic will not “throw out a snap
ped catridge automatically, as the gun
must be fired to perform this opera
tion, and the snapped shell would
necessarily have to be removed by
hand. Knowing this, the negro ran
to a box car standing on the siding,
and climbed in, where it is believed
ne removed the defective shell and re
loaded the gun. A shell that had
been snapped was afterwards found
on the negro’s person.
Realizing that they had made a
bad break, the two negroes immedi
ately beat a hasty retreat and lost
no time in getting out of town. A
posse was quickly formed and part
of them followed the negroes on foot
while the officers commandeered the
Newark Transfer Company’s big
truck which happened to be conven
ient, and started in hot pursuit of the
fleeing negroes. The officers on the
truck headed the negroes otf after a
hot chase by the possee, and the neg
roes were captured about a mile and
a half from town.
The negroes were brought back and
immediately taken before Mayor
Tharp for trial. Both negroes posi
tively swore that they had no gun
and it became necessary to secure a
search warrant in order to search the
residence of their father who lives
a short distance southeast of town
and at whose house the negroes
stopped in their flight from town.
The gun, along with several other
pieces of “artillery” was located in
a bed at the Washington residence.
In the meantime, some of the citi
zens, becoming enraged over the af
fair and the seeming dilatory manner
in which the case was proceeding,
forced their way into the court room
while the trial was in progress, and
was going to take the negro out ami
use a horsewhip on him. After an
impassioned plea being made by May
or Tharp, who urged that no such ac
tion he taken during the course of the
trial, the trial was permitted to pro
ceed and the citizens withdrew. Still
not satisfied, plans were made by
the citizens to whip the negro as soon
as the trial was over. But after the
| court room doors were closed and the
| public shut out, the citizens were
kept in ignorance of the progress- of
the case. In the meantime the offi
cers phoned Sheriff Harris and he
1 drove down from Batesville in a
car, and before anyone realized that
! the trial was over, the sheriff was
i here and had the negro in his car and
was gone with him, taking him to
Batesville where he was placed in jail.
Robert Washington, the negro who
made the gun play, was tried before
Squire Saylors, sitting with Mayor
Tharp, and was given a fine of five
hundred dollars and one year in jail.
The other negro and two white boys
1 were fined $5 each.
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NOTICE
TO ALL WHOM THESE PRES
ENTS MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that at a
called meeting of the Board of Com
missioners for Road Improvement
District No. 3 of Independence Coun
ty, Arkansas, for the consideration
of protests against the assessment of
benefits and other matter, the same
having been filed before said Com
missioners on the 25th day of Sep
tember 1919, the following action was
had, to-wit:
All protests against the assessment
of benefits, in which the claimant sets
forth for his grounds of complaint,
that the rate is Excessive, Unreason
able, Unlawful, and Confiscatory, we
have disallowed, for the reason thaj
such complaints are not well founded,
because of the fact that the seemingly
high rate was caused on account of
the manner of arriving at a basis for
assessing the benefits, which was the
Assessment for the year 1917 as re
turned by the Tax Assessor, which as
sessment shows to be only about 15
per cent, on an average, of a reason
able cash value of all the lands em
braced in said District, and to lower
the rate on one claimant’s property,
would justify the reduction on all
property in the district, and to do
that there could not be sufficient
funds obtained to pay for the con
struction of the road under the plans
and specifications as submitted by
the Engineers in charge and retire
the bonds as they become due.
All other protests, requesting a re
duction in the rate of assessment, re
gardless of the grounds set forth in
their complaint, we have disallowed,
because of the fact that to reduce the
rates would not enable us to procure
sufficient funds to construct the road
and retire the bonds in accordance to
the plans and specifications as sub
mitted by the engineers in charge. II
the lands had been assessed at 50 per
cent of a reasonable cash value the
rates would have been about 25 per
cent in the first zone, 18 per cent in
the second zone and 15 per cent in the
! third zone, but each tract of land
would have to furnish the same in
Dollars under the higher assessment
and lower rate as it is required to
raise now under the low assessment
! and high rate.
Action was deferred upon all claims
for damages until the Commissioners
can go upon each tract where a claim
for damages has been filed, view the
I situation and determine the nature of
and amount of damages sought.
In the matter of request filed, for
j a division of the assessment of bene
fits between widow as life tenant and
heirs, the board doubts their juris
diction in the matter, therefore re
fuses the request of the applicant
Given under our hands as such
Board of Commissioners for Road Im
provement District No. 3 of Indepen
dence County, Arkansas, this the 15th
day of December 1919.
G. M. FIELDS,
Chairman.
W. J. HERRINGTON,
Secretary.
Attest:
JOHNT T. THARP,
Clerk for the Board.
FULL SERVICE AGAIN
ON MISSOURI PACIFIC
Effective at 12:01 o’clock last Mon
day morning, full train service was
resumed on the Missouri Pacific lines,
all trains taken off on account of the
coal strike having been re-instated.
All trains will operate on the same
schedule in force at the time they
were taken off.
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FARMER FALLS FROM BLUFF
Montainu Home, Dec. 14.—Nathan
Farris, a farmer, residing near here,
fell off a 20-foot bluff Friday night
while ’possum hunting and fractured
his right arm and shoulder. Farris
fell while walking around a tree in
which a possum had taken refuge
from the dogs.
PUBLIC SALE!
I will sell at Public Auction, for
cash, at my place at the Gap of the
Mountain, near Sulphur Rock, on
Monday, December 22, the following:
5 Head Good Mules.
1 Good Horse.
3 Good Cows with Calves.
5 Tons First Class Alfalfa Hay.
1 4-Horse Hancock Disc Breaking
Plow, as good as new.
1 2-Row Combination Planter.
2 1-Row Combination Planters.
1 Deering Mower and Rake.
1 4-Horse Disc Harrow.
2 John Deere Cultivators.
3 Breaking Plows.
1 John Deere Middle Buster.
1 John Deere 60 tooth section har
row.
1 Good Log Wagon Complete with
Chains and Blocks.
2 Good Road Wagons.
Good Buggy and Harness.
Good as New Organ.
Other Household Goods.
Hoes, pitchforks, sweeps and shov
els.
100 Browm Leghorn Chickens.
J. M. KEITH.
Sulphur Rock, Arkansas.
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Nicest home in Newark, two story,
eight room residence, good bam,
garage and outbuildings, all in first
class condition. This place is locat
ed in most desirable residence section
of town and full block of ground with
the place. A genuine bargain at $5,
000. E. G. Magness & Co.
PAROaUET STEMS
Paroquet, Dec. 17.—We are having
cold weather through this section.
Health is fairly good. The roads are
bad.
Mi's. Fannie Robertson of Newark
spent Friday night and Saturday here
visiting her sister, Mrs. John Barber,
who is seriously ill.
Mrs. G. W. Yaney and daughter,
Etta, spent a few days at Jamestown
last week visiting her sister, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Headrick.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Linebough of
Logan township spent Monday night
here visiting their daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. Yaney.
J. P. Williams made a business
trip to Newport Monday.
Miss Grace Gamer of Magness
spent Monday and Monday night here
visiting friends.
Mrs. Edna Gregory of Hoxie is
spending a few days here visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Williams.
John Parks made a business trip
to Newark Monday.
John McClure made a business trip
to Newark Monday.
John Smith made a business trip to
Newport Tuesday.
Miss Ida Lee Stubblefield spent
Sunday and Monday at Magness vis
iting relatives.
J. J. Horton of Texas spent Sunday
night and Monday here visiting Mr.
and Mrs. John Wayman.
Luther Wayman of Newark spent
Monday here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Wayman.
Ed Shownes made a business trip
to Newport Tuesday.
Roy Duncan spent Saturday and
Sunday at Cushman visiting relatives
and friends.
Miss Ethel Young spent Tuesday at
Newport shopping.
Mrs. Clara Stokes spent Tuesday
morning at Newark shopping.
Marvin Sanders made a business
trip to Newport Tuesday.
Mrs. J. E. Adams of Reamey spent
Monday here visiting friends.
Ida Lee Stubblefield spent Tuesday
morning at Newport shopping.
Several out of school this week on
account of the bad roads.
Paroquet is still improving. Any
one having corn to take to mill, can
get it ground at Tom Martin’s mill
and any one wanting a good bridge
built, may call on Joe Perry and
George Yaney, as they have just com
pleted a good job on the bridge across
the ditch on East Main Street.
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Center Grove, Dec. 15.—We are
having some real cold weather in this
section.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Harerlson spent
Sunday night at Newark visiting rela
tives
Frank Bullington made a business
trip to Batesville Monday.
Mrs. Bettie Greer and children of
Dota spent Sunday here visiting her
brother, T. A. Bullington.
Hugh Goodman made a business
trip to Newark Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Walden and lit
tle son, T. J., spent Sunday afternoon
at Walnut Grove visiting Mr. and
Mrs. T. M. Walden.
Miss Kate Rainwater of Newport is
spending a few days here visiting
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carlew and
children spent Monday visiting the
lady’s parents.
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WILL BE CANDIDATE
AGAIN FOR CLERK
The Journal learns on reliable au
thority that Circuit Clerk B. F.
Adams will very probably be a can
didate for re-election to that office in
the coming Democratic primary.
Mr. Adams has made a splendid of
ficial and has handled the affairs cf
the office in a manner that has won
him many friends and it seems to be
the general opinion of the people
that it would be a hard matter to
find a man better suited for the
| place.
His formal announcement will
probably be made in the near future.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that appli
cation will be made to the Legisla
ture of the State of Arkansas at the
Special Session called to convene on
January 26, 1920 for the passage of a
local or special Act to amend Act No.
537 of the Acts of the Legislature of
said state passed at the Regular ses
sion of the year 1919 for the creation
of Road Improvement Districts Num
bered 3 and 4 in Independence Coun
ty.
J. W. SISK.
E E. ALLEN
W. W. MAGNESS.
T. N. RODMAN.
O. L. BONE.
J B. ROE
C. D. ATKINSON.
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a good Tapestry Brussels Rug 9x12 ft for
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