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Full lh»e of deeds and deeds of
trust at 1 k# Jouraal office.
World’s Fair Work.
Thomas WL Milan, manager for
the Arkansas World's fair board,
has issued the following letter, which
gives reliable information on the
work done and to he done by the
board: “The contract for the con
struction of the Arkansas state
building has been let to the 11. W.
Morrison Construction Co., of St.
Louis, at a cost of $17,000, to be
completed on or before December
1. The Twentieth Century Club
has the privilegee of decorating the
reception hall, while a room to bo
known as the “club room” will be
decorated and fiimished by the
Arkansas Federation of Women's
Clubs. The room reserved for the
directors will be furnished by the
Bankers’ Association for the privi
lege of using it as their headquar
ters. Hon. John P. Logan, of Si
loam Springs, Ark., has been select
ed a* superintendent of the horti
cultural department and desires to
communicate witli all fruit growers
relative to securing perfect fruit
specimens. Prof. A. II. Purdue, of
Little Bock, Ark., commissioner of
mines, manufactures and agricul
ture. has been assigned the agricul
tural'exhibit. Prof, A. If. Purdue,
of Fayetteville, Ark., has been cho
sen superintendent of the depart
ment of mines and metallurgy, and
the following are suggestions from
the chief of the department of the
world's fair relative to building
stones: Samples to he eight inch
cubes of ordinary building stone*.
Granite—Front polished ; right,
pointed with ax-hammered- or pat
ent-hammered margin; left, rock
face with same margin; back, all
rock face; top and bottom, rubbed
smooth. Marbl >s and Limestone—
Front, polished or rubbed smooth;
right, tooth chisled with margin of
drove work; left, rock face with
smooth margin; back, all rock face;
top and bottom, rubbed smooth.
Sandstone—Front, rubbed smooth;
right, tooth chisled with small mar
gin; back, all rock face; top and
bottom, rubbed smooth.”
Two Illicit Stills Destroyed.
Deputy I'nited-1 States Marshals
captured two illicit <11 stiilories and
a 100-gallon copper outfit near
Stewart postofliee in Sevier county
last week. These stills were located
near the Arkansas and Indian Ter
ritory line, and when officers from
Arkansas became too active the
moonshiners have heretofore evaded
arrest by crossing into the Territory.
The owners, Julius Bobo ansi Green
Brennan, were surprised while asleep
in their cabin a few miles from tluur
stills, 'fhe officers took the two
prisoners to Texarkana, where Com
missioner Ntimmervihe bound them
over to await the action of the fed
eral grand jury. The prison ts were
th *n taken to Fort Smith, where
they are now being held for safe
keeping.
Oder Reward For Murderer
Citizens of Cnion county have
subscribed a liberal reward for the
arrest and conviction of the partv
who assassinated \V. 11. Loo several
days ago. The total reward f >r
Lee’s murderer has reached the sum
of $3,000. Leo was shot from am
bush at his home twelve miles from
Ml Dorado, the assassin using a
Winchester.
Contract For Insane Asylum Annex Let
At a meeting of the state hoard
of charities held in Little Bock last
week, the contract for tlu* insane
asylum annex was awarded to Casey
& Collins for $119,350. The build
ing is to he ready for occupancy not
later than February !, 1!H)1. The
annex is to cost $140,000 all told,
the last legislature having appro
priated that amount. There will
be two wings, one for males and the
oth.er for females, and it is believe^
that, when completed there will Jpe
room at the asylum for the luumre< 1 s
of insane now confined in t ij^ differ
ent county jails of the a*},..
Arkansians Hon«recj.
At a meeting of tflie National
Educational Association held in
Boston, Goo. B. Onok was chosen a
vice president, yarn! Hon. John
Hinemon a momltar of the board
of directors. Botlu gentlemen are
well known Arkansans.
Walter Chatham, a yo
man, is under arrest at
on the charge | of passnh.
forge-u checks.
tang
white
Bluff
g several
Pine
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Counterfeiter Captured.
J. C. Adams, a coal miner of Bo
nanza, his wife and son, were ar
rested last week on the charge of
making counterfeit five, ten and
twenty dollar gold pieces. Officers
found in the Adams barn outfits
for making coins of the above de
nominations, and a can containing
•$.‘500 in counterfeit money. The
coins are manufactured of lead,
with Iveavy gold plating, and are
I calculated to deceive almost anyone
| during the ordinary course of busi
ne>s. The officers took the coin and
succeeded in passing a number in
saloons and stores, in order to test
their value as circulators. Jjt'hen
they informed those who had ac
cepted them that they were counter
feit a close examination of them IkuI
to be made before the declaration
would be accepted as true. The son
was arrested while engaged in dis
tributing the money. The mother
was taken into custody at tiie home
and the father was found at work
digging coal.
Supplies For State Guard
Gen. \V. II. Ilaynes, commander
of the state guard, lias returned
from a trip to Washington where lie
went for the purpose of securing
necessary stores and supplies. Gen.
Haynes succeeded in securing requi
sitions for everything necessary to
fit out the guard in its entirety—
ifnantry. cavalry and artillery. The
requisitions also included tents and
camp equipage, so there can be lit
tle doubt as to the success of the
coming encampment. Over and
above these allotments Gen. Haynes
succeeded in having allowed to the
state by the war department credits
for $32,000. These supplies are
furnished by the national govern
ment under the new militia law and
serve to put the state guard on the
same footing as the regular army so
far as the nature of equipment and
supplies is concerned. It i- thought
that two thousand troops of the state
guard will he present at the August
encampment.
Fatal Church Row.
As a result of a row started at
] a negro church near Texarkana,
I three young negroes. Flip Hardy,
aged 19, Will Hopkins, aged 15,
land Will Moore, aged 18, are dead,
i while Mat Thol, Lvnchv Wright
and Ed Rodney are in jail charged
with their murder. The trouble
took place on the Texas side. A
number of Arkansas negroes, known
a- “the Arkansas gang,” attended
the gathering and their presence
aroused the jealousy of another
band known a- “the Texas gang.”
Hot words followed and the Texas
negroe- finally drove the Arkansas
gang from the grounds and were
following them on their retreat to
Arkansas when the shooting took
place. 'The first negro kelled be
longed to the Arkansas gang, the
other two being Texas negroes, and
receiving their death wounds im
mediately after the first man fell.
New Road Chartered.
The Varner, (’un.mings and East
ern Railroad Company last week
file ! articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state and was given
a charter by the state board o' rail
way incorporators. The charter is
for fifty years. The capital stock
id the road i- •$1580,000, and its es
timated length is ,‘?8 miles. It is
to run from Varner, Lincoln county,
in a southeasterly direction through
Pendleton, Desha county, thence to
an easterly direction to Douglass,
thence from Douglass to South
Bend,, thence in a southeasterly di
rccjjon to Pendleton, Desha county.
L^ ai: to Medford, thence in an
easterly direction to Ibal Fork, and
thence in a southeasterly direction
to Watson, where it will connect
with the Memphis, Helena and
Louisiana Railway.
Negro Waylaid and Shot.
Richard Jenkins, colored, was
waylaid and shot while on his way
home from Warren by three negroes
after being shot Jenkins was beaten
over the head with clubs and left in
a dying condition. Robbery is sup
posed to have been the motive.
Ben Davis, colored, was shot and
killed in Jefferson county by two
companions while on a drunken
spree.
Hu Unlucky Day.
Will Lemon, who began a term of
three years in the penitentiary a
few days ago for the killing of W.
,J. Rexroad in lftOt, is strongly con
vinced that Saturday is his un
lucky day. On Saturday he was
born; on Saturday he shot and kill
ed Rexroad; he was bound over to
the grand jury by a justice of the
peace on Saturday; he was indicted
bv the grand jury on Saturday; In
was convicted in the circuit court on
Saturday ; when his case was appeal
ed to the supreme court the papers
were filed on Saturday; that court
affirmed the decision of the lower
court on Saturday, and on Saturday
he was taken to the penitentiary.
Anothsr Law to Be Tested.
Mayor W. K. Lenon, the board
of aldermen and a number of prom
inent citizens of Little Rock have
applied to the Pulaski chancery
court for an injunction to prevent
the citizens of the Eighth (Argenta)
ward from holding an election on
July 21, the object of which is to
annex that territory to North Little
Rock and sever it from the city of
Little Rock proper. It is alleged
in the petition that the act author
izing such elections is unconstitu
tional.
Laborer Murdered.
A laborer of the Frisco Construc
tion Company was found dead on •
mile from Ashdown, with a bullet
hole through his nead and one
through his back, lie had recently
drew his wages and as no money was
found on his person it is supposed
the murder was committed for the
purpose of robbery.
ERIEF MENTION.
Authorities at Texarkana are
waging war on public gambling
houses.
A young wolf was recently killed
in the yard of a subifrban resident
of Little Rock.
The Arkansas river at Little
Rock claimed two victims last week,
one white and one colored boy.
John Madding, aged 20, was
drowned in Old river, Jefferson
county. He was in bathing and was
seized wdth cramps.
Dr. C. E. Nash, a well known
author and one of the state’s pio
neer citizens, passed away at Little
Rock on the Tth inst., aged T9.
Albert Mathews was convicted at
El Dorado of murder in the first
dogr»*o for tin* killing of Ed Yount,
and sentenced to be hanged August
2d.
The Arkansas Sportsmen’s Asso
ciation, at the recent meeting in
Jonesboro, appropriated the sum of
$100 t>* defray expenses in defend
ing the Dellossit game law.
Geo. D. Blakey was shot and kill
ed near Mountain Home by Heber
Gross. The trouble occurred over a
settlement of a mortgage held by
Blakey on Gross' wife's estate.
The body of August Hanson, a
Swede from Minnesota, was found
hanging by a wire clothes line at
tached to a tree in a Hot Springs
suburb. It was a case of suicide.
Will Alexander and 0“forge Tay
lor shot and killed Bud Smith on a
train between Swan Lake and Eng
lish. All tin* parties, who are ne
groes, were under the influence of
liquor.
The state supreme court has ren
dered a decision that the act passed
by the last general assembly, admit
ting graduates of the state law school
to practice without examination is
valid.
At a meeting of prominent citi
zens of El Dorado resolutions were
adopted condemning certain reports
sent out to the effect that a feud
had existed between a certain ele
ment for a number of years. As a
community Union oofintv is com
posed of as law-abiding people as
any county in the ?tate.
The wholesale grocery and feed
store of E. S. rarnell, at Junction
City, was destroyed by fire, the work
of robbers. After the fire had burned
out it was found that the safe had
been robbed and then both houses
well saturated with oil from one end
to the other and fired. The citizen
of Junction City have subscribed
$1,000 reward for the arrest and
conviction of the parties implicated.
News of the World
The Chinese government has paid j
the third installment on account of j
the Boxer indemnity.
Arthur Shaddon, a young Missis-!
sippi county farmer, was shot and
killed by a negro tenant.
Gen. Longstrect, the famous Con
federate commander, is critically ill
at his home in Gainesville, Ga.
All American soldiers have been
withdrawn from Cuba, with the ex
ception of four companies, which
will guard our coaling stations in
that country.
Henrietta Distler, aged 18. sui
cided at Cincinnati after discover
ing that her sweetheart was her own
brother. They were separated in
infancy and were raised under dif
ferent names. They met about a
year ago, and fell in love. Their
relationship was discovered by acci
dent.
A waterspout of immense pro
portions struck the Bruch Creek
Valley in Pennsylvania, causing a
dam at Oakford to break. The
waters rushed down upon the towns
of Jeanette, Penn, Laimer, Greens
burg, Irwin, Bunell and Warner,
destroying many houses and caus
ing the death of between thirty and
forty people.
George S. Morrison, who deed a
few days ago in Chicago, was one
of the greatest engineers in the
United States, lie built five great
bridges across the Mississippi and
ten across the Missouri river, the
bridge over the Ohio at Cairo, 111.,
and many others. His greatest feat
was the bridge across the Missis
sippi at Memphis, which lias a sin
gle truss span of 700 feet.
Cato Garrett, colored, who stab
lied a white man to death, was taken
from officers by a mob five miles
from Vicksburg, Miss., and lynched.
A special grand jury was empaneled
within three days after the killing
and Garrett was indicted. He had
been placed in jail in an adjoining
county for safe keeeping. and was
being returned to Vicksburg for
trial when the mob met the train
be was aboard at a small station
and forcibly took him from the
officers.
After four days of general riot
ing at Evansville, Ind., a company
of militia and a mob bent on lynch
ing a negro had a clash that result
ed in tin1 death of ten people and
the serious wounding of about
twenty others. The mob, composed
of about 1,000 men, had gathered
about the jail and began an assault
on the deputies and a company of
militia on guard. For several min
utes the contest was waged with
stones and clubs by the mob, the
officers using their bayonets and the
butt of their guns, when a shot
was fired, apparently by some mem
ber of the mob. Then followed a
fusiladc from the jail of several
hundred shots, which was returned
by an occasional shot from among
tli? moli. When the firing ceased
it was found that ten people had
been killed and that at least twenty
lay o:i the irrouml wounded. One
among the dead was a young girl
about I’d years of age who had
stopped witli her parents a short
distance from the jail out of curi
osity. Several others who were
killed or wounded were attracted to
the scene by the noise of the mob
leaders. Only four members of tin*
jail guard were injured, none of
them fatally.
i wonty-lour persons wore killed
and thirteen injured in a head-on
collision on the Virginia Midland j
division of the Southern Kaihv.u j
at Ruckfish, Va. A passenger train
going at full spec 1 dashed into a
local freight standing on the main
track. The fireman and engineer
of the passenger train, two white
and twenty colored passengers were
instantly killed. The collision was
due io the engineer of the freight
failing to take a siding.
Since the coup of a New York
and Mew Orleans clique, whereby
most all the available cotton was
cornered, the mills have made few
purchases'. Some operators assert
they will lx? compelled to close down
if the present prices prevail.
The jiolice of Denver are puzzled
over a series of mysterious murders.
^In each instance the victim has
biWn a woman of ill repute, and the
malner of death has been by stran
gulatmu ?
<
On the fUh inst. si* people died
from heat in New York city, besides
hundreds were overcome and had to
he cared for at hospitals.
The National Manufacterers’ As
sociation has raised a fund of $1,
500,000 for the purpose of waging
a war on organized labor.
The conductor, whose negligence
caused a wreck on the Southern
railroad near Charlottsville, V a.,
in which over twenty people were
killed, has become violently insane
from mental anguish.
Over To per cent of the colored
population of Evansville, Ind., have
fled from that community since the
unsuccessful effort to lynch a.negro
murderer and the killing by the
militia of a dozen citizens.
The American squadron, in com
mand of Admiral Cotton, now ma
neuvering in European waters, ar
rived at Portsmouth, England, on
the 8th and was given a royal re
ception by the British fleet.
As a result of recent upheavals
in the postal service, four import
ant positions are vacant and will
shortly be filled by appointment.
These positions are: General su
perintendent of free delivery, su
perintendent of salaries and ollow
anccs, chief of the money order
system and attorney general for the
department.
Secretary Root has received from
Gen. Davis, commanding in the
Philippines, a long cable message
over the new Pacific cable relating
>to the disposition of another reruc
tion of troops in the islands for the
next yeear. In the opinion of Gen.
Davis, the conditions in the Philip
pines are such as to warrant quite
a reduction of force.
The best speed record ever made
by any battleship for a similar
distance was made by the Kearsarge
on her recent run from New York
across the Atlantic to join the Euro
pean squadron at Southampton,
England. She covered the distance
from New York to Needles, 3245
knots, or 3785 land miles, in ten
days and sixteen hours, at an aver
age hourly speed of 12.G2 knots.
The syndicate formed last sum
mer by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., to un
derwrite $12,000,000 4 per cent
bonds of the Cotton Belt or St.
Louis Southwestern railway com
pany has been dissolved. It is re
ported that about one-half of the
issu*' was disposed of and the bonds
wil be delivered to members of tbs
syndicate, if they so wish, or will be
disposed of by the syndicate man
agers in their best judgment.
William Rudolph, who with a
companion robbed the bank at
I nion. Mo., in December, 1902, of
$14,000, escaped from jail iu St.
Louis by a bold and cunning
scheme. At the hour of 4:15 in
the afternoon the guards on duty
were attracted to a section of the
jaii by a fake mutiny, planned by
Rudolph. Taking advantage of
the opportunity, the bank robber
made a dash, and by jumping
through a skylight, succeeded in
getting away. Shortly after the rob
bery of the bank at Union a detec
tive named Shumacher went to
Rudolph's home near Stanton,
Mo., to place him under arrest,
when he was killed by the young
desperado. The murderer escaped
but on March 1 he ami his pal,
named Collins, were captured at
Hartford, Conn., after a desperate
battle.
One of the few instances where
the producer has been benefited by
combining to maintain the price of
a farm product is told in a dispatch
from Areola, 111. The farmers of
that community, realizing the scarc
ity of broom corn, put their heads
together and refused to sell their
crops at the prevailing price of $50
per ton. After holding out for a
few weeks they were rt warded by
receiving double the above sum for
their holdings.
T. K. Nolan eloped ten years ago
with the wife of G. W. Sams of Wal
la Walla, Wash. She had a daugh
ter seven years old at that time,
and now Nolan has deserted his wife
for the girl and they have disap
peared.
Gov. Lanham of Texas has issued
a proclamation offering a reward of
$30,000 to any person who will de
vice or discover a practical method
or rentr-dy for eradicating the cot
ton bell isacvil.''
BRAVEST HUNTERS IN WORLD
Rubber Cuttsr3 of Central America
Fight Ja^uirs with Machetes.
I*r< 'ident Roosevelt, Selous, Gor
don Gumming and other world
famous hunters of big game must
play second fiddle to the “rubber
eutters”of theChiapas forests in Cen
tral America. It is the daily business
and pleasure of these men to fight
jaguars and cheetahs with no better
weapon than the long, heavy knife
called a machete in Latin-American
countries.
Wandering alone in the jungle in
search of rubber trees, says the Chi-s
cage Inter Ocean, the rubber cut j|y
•ives for months among the fiercest
of all American wild beasts until he
learns to treat them with scorn.
At night he swings his hammock
between a couple of trees, rolls a
cigarette and lies down for a com
fortable .-moke before dozing off.
Presently ho hears the long, snarling
roar of the jaguar, the sharp hark of
the alligator, or the catlike whine of
the cheetah.
“Caramba!” he mutters, discon
tentedly. “I suppose I'd better
make a fire.”
Perhaps he is too lazy, and just
drops off to sleep, ready to fight any
w ild beast that dares to disturb his
dreams. But if he is a cautious man,
he builds a little hut of branches and
lights a wood fire in the doorway.
Then he slings his hammock inside
the hut. places his machete by his
side, and, with the blazing, cracking
fire on one side and the sheltering
roof on the other, sleeps as tranquilly
as though there were no jaguars or
alligators nearer than the New York
“zoo.”
Seldom doe? a rubber cutter return
to the civilized settlements w ithout a
few skins of jaguar.-, slain in deadly
combat with machete or club. He
often seeks out the wild beasts and
fights them for a dinner when he
runs short of food.
Luiz Mendoza, a famous hunter
and rublx r cutter of Spanish Hon
duras, was once attached by a chee
tah when asleep in his hammock. He
woke up if find the beast orchis chest,
diggin'gTfS claws into his neck. Seiz
ing it by the throat, he swung out
of the hammock into the wood fire
burning a few yards away. Over and
over they rolled among the blazing
sticks, until the cheetah, howling
with pain, broke away and tied into
the jungle.
The ordinary marc wouldhave been
satisfied with that victory. Not so
Mendoza. Covered w ith wounds and
burns as he was. he caught up his
machete and followed the trail of
that cheetah for two days until he
caught it and slew it after another
desperate battle.
No wonder the beasts of the for
est have a healthy respect for the
rubber cutters of Chiapas! Taught
by bitter experience, they seldom at
tack them now.
“Why don’t you carry a gun?” one
of these men was asked.
“It js too heavy, and what need?”
was the reply. “I would like to see
the wild beast that I could not kill
with my machete. Why, I have
known men to fight a jaguar with
their bare hands and strangle it.
There is no sport hunting witkagun.
It is child’s work.”
A Hard Worker,
In hi< present position Lord
Curzon works 1-1 hours a day. He
starts in the early morning, works till
half past one—or lunch time—he
gives an hour and a half to the
numerous guest® he has, then he
works again till dinner time; at half
past ten he leaves his dinner guests,
goes to his study and remains there
till two o’clock in the morning. He
seldom spends more than an hour
and a half .in the open air each day.
And he works at this high pressure
wherever he may be—on board a
steamer, in a railway or w hen resting
at one of his temporary dwellings
during his tour$. And yet those w ho
meet him as his guest can scarce real
ize that he is so terrible a worker.
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Woman at Work.
One woman in the English census
figures is returned as a dock laborer
and another as a pavior. There are
ai.-o five female farm servants re
turned in charge of horses,
while four women are work
ing as. bricklayers, four as
boilermakers, two as locksmiths and
one as a coppersmith. In some other
trades the number of women is sur
prising. Women brewers number
nearly 10O and women builders 177,
while the lightermen, bargemen,
seamen, boatmen and pilots who, be
lying tkeir.name, belong to the fail
mx} run into several hundreds.
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