$75,000 LOSS BY
FIRE IN PRESCOTT
Flames Swept Both Business and
Resident Portions. t
Xievi Francisco Severely Burned While
Resisting Flames and His Con
dition is Serious.
Prescott, Ark., Oct. 21.—One
of the most disastrous fires that
has visited Prescott in many years
started this afternoon at 3:30 o’
clock and destroyed about
00'' worth of property in a few
hours. The fire originated in tin
warehouse of Levi Francisco and
caught from a spark from a pass
ing engine. A fierce wind vva*
blowing at the time and the fire
*oon spread in two directions, go
ing to the residence portion of tin
town on the east and the business
portion on the north.
The supply of water was inade
quate and for a time it looked like
•everything east of the railroad
was doomed. The flying sparks
set tire to a number of buildings
many blocks away, but these were
soon extinguished. A lag of the
wind at t> o'clock stopped the lire
just as it was approaching the
main business center of town.
Levi Francisco, in lighting the
fire at the start, was severely burn
ed and his condition is serious.
Tonight goods and merchandise
arc scattered for many blocks ov
er town and the militia was order
ed out to guard them. W ires an
down and the electric light plan!
will not run for fear of injury tc
pedestrians.
The losses and insurance are a
follows:
Levi Francisco, loss on ware
house, $1,000; on stock of buggies
and wagon, $3,000; dwelling, $1,
000; no insurance.
Sam Logan, loss on packing
house products, $2,000; insurance
$1,500.
W. B. W aller, warehouse, $2,
•000; stock in warehouse, $*>,000
partially covered by insurance.
Prescott Hardware Company
warehouse, $2,000; stock in ware
house, $12,000: damage to goods ii
main building. $4,000: no insur
ance on warehouse; stock pariialli
covered.
,1 B. Jordan, damage to stock
$5,000; partially covered by insur
ance.
(lee Bros., damage on stock
$5,000; insurance, $5,000.
J. T. Brooks, one brick build
ing entirely lost, two others badl.i
damaged; loss, $5,000; partially
covered by insurance; loss oi
warehouse goods, $3,000; part ial
Irovpred.
J. M. Brown, contractor fo
new bank, loss, $500: no insurance
T. C. McRae, loss on dwelling
$1,000; no insurance.
Sid Cole, damage and loss o
household goods, $300; no insur
ance.
O. S. Jones’ blacksmith shop
loss, $800: loss on contents, $700
insurance $500.
Episcopal church, loss, $1,000
total loss, no insurance.
Nat Martin, dwelling burned
damage to contents, loss, $2,500
insurance. $1,500.
(). p. Helbig, damage to house
hold goods, $500; covered.
T. H. Duke, dwelling burned
loss, $2,000; insured.
Sid Chappell, two hundred ton
ot' hay. loss $1,500.
Dr. Guthrie, loss of fences, etc.
$100.
Mrs. Ferrell, loss, $100.
Several negroes’ dwellings wer
burned, with a probable loss o
$1,000.
The court house caught lire sev
era! times, but was finally save,
by the efforts of the officers of th
county.
The telephone company wa
MR. PARKER’S COMMENT
“The governmental expenditure last
year mounted up to five hundred and
eigh'.y-two millions, which is not equal
led by anv year since the civil war, with
the exception of the year of the Spanish
war. Instead of a surplus in the annual
receipts of about eight millions, which
the present executive found on assuming
control, there is now a deficit to be found
>f forty-two millions. There is an in
evitable result to such extravagance.”—
Judge Parker's speech to the democratic
editors.
MR. ROOSEVELT’S ORDER
hy direction of the President, officials
up 11 neither discuss nor give out any in
Jormalion regarding the annual estimates
until further orders." — Order issued
yesterday by President Roosevelt to hcadi
of departments at Washington,
damag'd about $200, and the elec
tric light plant $500.
The Lesser-Goldraan Cotton
Company sustained a loss of twc
hundred bales of cotton, fully in
sured.
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A SMALL SCHOOL.
The Arkansas Gazette says tliai
, Superintendent of Public Instruc
■ tion d. II. Hinemon will in hi
i forthcoming report strongly urgi
- the abolishment of the surplus
r small schools in the state and tbeii
consolidation into larger and bet
, ter schools with better school fa
eilities. An example of a smal
school was shown recently in a re
, port received from Lincoln conn
t.v. in which the total enrollmen'
- was three, with an average dail.\
attendance of three quarters o
one boy and one-half of one girl
i an average daily attendance of on*
- and a quarter pupils.
. Saves Two From Death.
“Our little daughter had an al
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3 THE COUNTRY PRESS.
One of the tinest tributes to the
, country newspapers that has evet
been rendered was contained in t
recent address by Senator Chaun
s eey M. Depew before the New
f York I ress Association at Man
hattan Beach. Mr. Depew said:
I pay my respects to and express
1 my admiration for the country
3 ncwspaper and the country editor.
His lines are not cast in places of
s tue great and profitable organs of
the metropolis, whose profits are
reckoned often by the hundreds
of thousands of dollars every year.
Hut the country editor lives in and
is part of his community. His
virtue is not so much in what he
prints as in what he refuses to
I print. He could easily destroy
the peace of the community by
admitting to his paper the scand
als and gossip of the neighbors.
Hut lie stands as a censor and a
guardian of public morals, and I
know of no con lit ions u dor \v noli
til" public is up ten ed m in a cer
t tin measure wll"re th * Uttenoce
is so free from criticism as the
general tone of the count ry pr< ss ”
This is the gospel truth. file
country editor his mire loeil
power and less profit than those
who follow other pursuits and he
abuses that power less than any
others vested with half so much.
The country newspaper is the
most complete exponent of a com
munity of any other civilizing in
fluence connected with it. In those
; communities where a good patron
age is extended, both in advertis
; ing and in paid subscriptions, it
, means that the communities are
; progressive and prosperous, and
• where there are no newspaper en
terprise languishes and the people
become listlecs and dormant.—
| Knoxville Sentinel.
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Real Estate Bargains
For Sale By
CRAIG & HENDERSON
No. 1. 80 acres good land 1 m from
Newark, on railroad; 40 acres cleared;
23 in cultivation; good bottom land
and a bargain.
No. 2. 80 acres good bottom land 4
miles N.-E. Newark; half subject to
overflow, balance above highwater;
40 acres in cultivation. Fine land and
a bargain.
No. 5. 140 acres good land } mi. N.
of Paroquet; 50 acres in cultivation;
3 good houses on farm with good
pumps; 00 acres in pasture; excellent
cotton laud and good timber on land
not in cultivation. Can be bought for
ten dollars an acre.
No. 6. Half interest in 250 acres
cane pasture land 4 mile from Jack
sonport; under fence; finest, cane land
on White river; ver> cheap.
No. 7. 48 icres i mile from Paro
quet; 35 acres rich rivet bottom land;
15 acres above overflow; good timber.
A bargain.
No 10. 40 acres good timber land
2 miles from Newark; would make tine
cotton land.
No. 11. 2 acres of land and good
4 room house in Jftfroquet, all under
fence and well improved. Hig bargain.
No. 12. Nice 5 room residence and
4 lots near IMpthorlist church- one of
the most, beautiful places in Newark.
Very cheap.
o. 15. 160 acres tine land in tlie
famous Big Bottom country; makes a
bale of cotton and 7f> to 100 bushels of'
corn to the acre. Fine farm and in
a few years will be worth 16 thousand
dollars, but it taken at once can be
bought fur about half that amount.
o. 17. Two nice residence lots one
block north of public school building;
nicest residence property in town and
i a bargain.
o. is. 400 acres tine Big Bottom
j farming land; 200 acres in cult i vat ion;
1 houses on place; makes a bale of cot
ion to the acre. "ell improved farm
| and a genuine bargain if taken atonce.
>. 21. 279 acre farm adjoining
Paroquet, 40 acres in cultivation, 20
acres in pasture; me 6-room frame
and one 2-room box house on place.
Good well, two pumps, three barns,
two good orchards of 5o bearing trees;
land not in cultivation has good tim
ber.
No. 22. 75 acre creek bottom farm,
with 55 acres in cultivation; one 4
room and one 2-room house; two good
barns and other out buildings. Makes
half bale of cotton and 30 bushels corn
to the acre; two miles from Newark.
No. 23. 87 acre creek bottom farm,
two miles from Newark with 67 acres
in cultivation; two 2-room houses
with good chimneys; everlasting wat
ter; makes half bide cotton to the
acre.
No. 24. 20 acres half mile north of
Newark, 15 acres in cultivation; excel
lent location for truck or poultry farm.
o. 25. 11 acres half mile north of
town; good 5-room house, barn, orch
ard, good out buildings and two wells.
56. 160 acre farm with 40 Improved
good orchard of 300 trees, good 7 room
frame house and good barn; everlast
ing spring.
57. 117 acres creek bottom land 2
miles north of town; 35 acres in culii
vation; good hill land, grows 40 bush
els corn and half bale cotton per acre.
59. 2 acres ground and good 5 room
house in north edge of town; good im
provements and tine water
60. 10 acres in northeast part of
town, all under good fence; good 3
room box house witli brick flues; good
well of water, barn, garden; orchard
of 75 bearing trees of apples; also
jiears, peaches and grapes.
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Walkover Mens Shoes
Sold Only By
FRED. D. WHITING,
Newark, - Arkansas.
no. 26. 140 acre farm, 80 acres in
cultivation; good timber on land not
in cultivation; three 2-room houses,
j good well and spring, 24 acre orchard,
i Located 8 miles north of Newark, l
| mile from Black Uiver Academy, mile
j from church and in good neighborhood*
I Small creek runs through the farm.
j no. 27. One block beautiful resi
dence lots just north of school build
ing. Very desirable property and a.
bargain.
no. 39. 40 acres timber land 6 mile*
southwest of Oil Trough store, good
white oak timber; Price $00,
no. 40. 80 acres timber lahd on
l>epartee creek, half river bottom am*
half upland; tine tract of land and
has good t imber on it.
no. 41. •>') acres bottom land or*
Black river adjoining railroad; very
high and seldom overflows; all in f.itu
her, fine piece of land and a bargain.
no. 53. 80 acres Big Bottom land
24 miles from Newark; 00 acres in cul
tivation, 3 acres in alfalfa; grows bale
of cotton to the acre.
no. 37. 2 acres nicest residence*
property iu north part of town; good
well and garden on place.
55. 100 acre farm 3 miles north of
town, 140 acres in cultivation, 20 acres
good timber, no rocks, o room logr
Iiouse and 4 room frame house, good,
well, and nice young orchard.
No. 28. 12 acres tine Big Bottom,
land,mile and a half from Newark,all
in cultivation: makes bale of cottoit
per acre.
No. 29. 1(3 acres half mile north of
Magness; 3 room house, good barn and
orchard.
no. 30. 529 acres tine bottom land;
mile river front on Black river; 300
acres under fence; 200 acres tine cane
land; valuable white oak t imber on.
land.
No. 31. Block of nicest residence
property in Newark, near schoo
building.
No. 32. Block nice residence prop
erty iu west si te Newark, 1 block from
school building.
mi 42. 8 acres timbered land 3 ml.
north of Newark; good hill land and
nice location for small fruit farm.
no. 33. Block residence property in
north part of town; 80 bearing apple,
trees on place; choice residence prop
erty.
no. 34. 40 acres timbered land in
Big Bottom, half mile east of Akron.
Very cheap.
no. 35. 99 acres 2 miles north of
Newark, 70 acres in cultivation, 2-sto
ry 5-room house, good outbuildings,
barns, 20 acre pasture and tine youn
orchard.
0.36. Nice 5-room residence 2
blocks from depot, very desirable lo
cation.
o. 38. 40 acres timbered land on
Village creek, 2 miles from Newport,
tine land; valuable white oak timber
on place.
43. 3(30 acres good bottom land, 280
acres in timber; 80 acres in timothy*
good 4 room house; good barn and out
buildings; good orchard; 100 acres in
pasture; improvements good; located
3 idiles from Newark; a tine stock
farm. Pri e five thousand dollars.
45. 2 room Iiouse and 1 acre land in
north edge of city, at a bargain.
4(3. 3 acres nice residence property
in north edge of city; beautiful loca
tion, and genuine bargain.
47. Good 5 room house and 1 acr*
land in west edge of town: convenient
to school; desirable location; cheap.
48. 80 acres in the manganese belt,
2 miles northwest of Cushman;healthj
location; springs in abbudance.
49. 40 acres timbered land 8 mile*
north of Batesville in the manganese
belt; soil rich from mineral.
50. 2 acres fine residence properly
in north part of town; 4 blocks from*
school building; tine orchard of about
75 bearing trees; nice location,
52. 1400 acres tine river bottom land
on Black river, lying on both sides of
railroad; over 200 acres in cultivation*
400 acres in pasture; good timber, 3
miles river front, railroad station and
switch on place, all good farming lanct
and has natural drainage, fine for eot
( hi, and would make as tine stock
tii i m as any of its size in the South.
>2. 240 acres tincHand in the famous*
i ' Bottom country, half mile from
Nt wark; makes a bale of cotton and
60 u 1(M) bushels corn per acre; 25 acre*
it alfalfa yielding 7 to 8 tdns per acr*
every year.
*. 120 acre farm, 55 in cultivation,
under good fence, good six room
iiouse and a 2 room house, good barm
and plenty of water, located 4i mile*
north of town.
CRAIG & HENDERSON
Newark, - Arkansas*