One Dollar Per Annum.
NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY JULY II, 1002.
Vol. 2 No. 28.
ENDED HIS OWN LIFE
t'ol. J. N, Smithee, Politician and
Journalist, Fired a Bullet
Into His Brain With
Suicidal Intent,
Col. J, X. Smithee was found
dead in bed in his room at the
Merchants hotel in Little Rock
Saturday, A bullet hole through
his head and a pistol clasped in his
right hand explained the cause of
death. On a table in the room
three notes in Col. Smithee's hand
writing set forth briefly his rea
sons for killing himself.
In an envelope addressed to W.
II. Tindall the following note was
found:
Take my body to W. II. Tindall's un
dertaking establishment. I want no
one but him to handle it. I would
prefer cremation, as I believe all dead
bodies should be thus disposed of. If
that cannot be done a plain, unpoint
ed pine coffin will suffice. It is a mat
uuiiui/iun;^ l-U liic ftUCIC
the remains are planted. The less
ceremony at the funeral the more it
"ill please J. N. Smithed.
Lite following two notes were
found unenclosed on the table;
tor cripples, paupers and mendi
cants l have no use. Fearing I may
get in one of those classes by reason
of the injury with which 1 was re
cently visited, 1 end the douht.
Thirty-nine years ago today Lee was
retreating front Gettysburg. Vicks
burg was surrendered and the battle
of Helena was fought and lost. That
day the Confederacy received it’s
deatliblo-.v. It is befitting that my
‘‘taking off” should end today.
W ith Ins own hands, and while
other people were celebrating,
Col. Smithce ended his life on the
Fourth ol',) uly.
James Newton Smifchee; journal-'
ist and politician, wns horn in
r bharp county, Arkansas, January
11, 1842, His ancestry were
Scotch-Irish, resident in America
since colonial times, and his pater
nal grandfather was a soldier in
the revolutionary war. His father
was a farmer by occupation. The
son's education consisted of a three
months' attendance at a country
school, and until his twelfth year
h<* worked on his father's farm.
He was then apprenticed to the
publisher of a country newspaper,
the l>cs Arc Citizen, and for four
years worked for his board and
clothes, learning the trade of
printer and compositor. When
but I* years of age he purchased
a half interest in the Prairie Coun
ty Democrat, of Brownville, Ark.,
and conducted it in the support of
Breckinridge and Lane in the pres
idential campaign of 1860.
When the war arose lie sold his
paper and ardently espoused the
f
Great Opportunities for
Homes in Texas.
The country traversed by
the International & Great
Northern Kailroad, embracing
tire greater portion of East,
South and Southwest Texas,
contains thousands of acres of
fertile land especially adapted
to general farming, stock-rais
ing, lice, tobaceb, fruit and
giapeculture;trucking, mining
and lmubormanufaeturing,!hat
can be purchased at low rates
and <%t exceeding liberal terms.
The Illustrator
and General Narrator,
a handsomely illustrated maga
zine published by the I. <St (i.
Is'. II. It., each number of which
contains general and specific
information regarding some
county or section in the I. &
G. N. country.
SentJTee
to any address on receipt of 2oc
to cover a year’s postage, or 2c
for sample copy. Address,
n.J. PRICE, O. P. &T. A.,
Palestine, Texas.
PLEA5E MENTION THIS PAPER.
I
Southern cause. He participated
in all the leading battles and was
wounded at Helena July 4, 1863.
At the close of the war lie resum
ed his trade of typesetting in
Memphis, but in November 1800
he returned to Little lioclc and be
came foreman in the office of the
Daily Arkansas Gazette. During
the eight succeeding years he was
I connected with that paper, beeom
j ing city editor, managing editor
jand finally proprietor, lie took
I an active part in the celebrated |
Brooks Laxter war in 1874 and (
served on the staff of Governor
Baxter, with the rank of colonel. ,
Upon the overthrow of the Brooks j
faction and the re-organization of |
the state government lie was ap- |
pointed commissioner of state ,
lands. lie was chairman of the ]
democratic state central committee
from 1878 to 1882 and was an un- i
successful candidate for the demo- <
jeratic nomination for governor in ]
1880. I
Col. Smithee was an eminent i
example of the self-made man. '
Debarred from the priviledges of
i education, the printing office was i
his college: without patrimony his <
head and Ins hands were Ins capi- 1
tal. For twenty years prior to '
18S5 lie was prominent in (lie his- <
tory of Arkansas, and occupied '
many positions of honor and re- |
sponsibility.
Mother Always Keeps It Handy.
“My mother suffered a Ions
lime from distressing pains and
general ill health due primarily to
indigestion,1' says L. \V. Spalding
I
f
i .
Verono, Mo. “ i'wo years ago I
got liet to try Kodol. She grew
1 letter at once and now, at the age
of seventy-six, eats anything she
wants, remat king that she fears
tie of Kodol handy.” Don't waste !
tini3 doctoring symptoms, (in
after the cause. If your stomach j
is sound your health will be good.
Kodol rests tiic stomach and 1
strengthens the body by digesting
your food. It is nature’s own
tonic- «J I. Sturdivant,
Patents at Cut Prices.
1 u order to Keep buisy during t he 1
summer, Swift & Co., the prompt!
and proper patent lawyers, oppo
site U. S. Patent Office, Wash-It
iiigton, D. have made a big <
cut in the price for obtaining'1
patents, inventors who desire :
to save money and get the best j
work should write them while tlie j
ciit nrii-os nrev.ii I
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Vacation Days.
Vacation time is here and the
children are fairly living out of,
doors. There could he no health
ier place for them. You need on
ly to guard against the accidents'
incidental to most open air sports.
No remedy equals DeWitt's j
Witch Ilazcl Salve for quickly j
stopping pain or removing danger
■ of serious consequences. For
J cuts, scalds and wounds. £’I used
DeWitt's Ilaael Salve for sores
cuts and bruise?,” says L. IF
Johnson, Swift, Tex. "it is the
best remedy on the market.”
Sure cure for piles and skin dis
eases. tinware of counterfc its.
J. I. Sturdivant.
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Killed a Negro.
Star City, July 5.—News reach
ed here this evening of the k:ll
1 ing of a negro by A. C, Cogbill, a
planter on liayou liai tliolmnew.
The facts, as far as learned, are
i that Dolph Lee, the negro, was
j drunk, and went to Mr. Coghill’s
house and begun to curse and
; abuse him. Cogbill ordered him
to get out of his ,\ard and go
away. This seemed to have an
gered him. Mr. Cogbill told him
; if be could not get bun out one
: way he could another, when he
j stepped hack in his house, got his
gun, tired and killed him.
I Mr. Cogbill is one of the largest
| planters in this (Lincoln) county,:
and is a man who always attends
strictly to his own business.
HIS SCHEME DIDN'T (JO
Farmer Poured Coal Oil in His
Well to iSell His Place as Oil
Land, Put (lie Sucker
Didn't Bite.
'New Orleans Times-Democrat )
“Some yeaisago,” said the nar
•ator, “an oil boom hit Litchfield
111., and everybody for miles
iround was seen sniffing for oil
md ,‘every stranger suspected of
icing an expert looking for a good
hing. An old farmer named
joomis had a big place three
rules out of town which would
lave been a fortune for lum had
le not been possessed of a mania
or swapping, manifest in a per
mnial attempt to trade off bis
and for twice its value.
“When the boom was at the lop
icteli Loomis received a visitor
vho took so much interest in the
arm, so liked its appearance,
oeation, etc,, that the old farmer
icented a petroleum man and saw
isions ot incalculable wealth.
3eing a shrewd man, Loomis did
lot care to take any unnecessary
ihatices with Providence, and on
lie quite he sent the hired man
>ut the back way with orders to
lump the kerosene can into the
veil. The visitor lined the entire
dace, inspected the barn, the
hicken yr.nl, and then, as if by
:hance, asked for a drink of wa
er.
‘‘Loomis was waiting for that
md hauled up a brimming bucket
retore 1 lie man's eyes and poured
iim out a gourdful of liquid .\ith
i line, opalescent scum upon it.
I'he visitor smelled it, tasted it.
n.tke a wry face and asked if the
water was nlwrys like ffirtT'' ‘Oh,
,es,’ said Loomis, ‘but you soon
;et accustomed to the taste and
rur doetois says this is tl e linest
water on earth for tire stomach
Well’ I am ding-dangcd if I'll
nor get used to it,’ was the unox
jected response. ’I am looking
’or a faun, not an oil well, and if
’ have got to haul niv drinking
water three miles from Litchfield
guess I’d rather buy nearer
own.’
‘‘It took Loomis six months to
jet the taste of oil out of bis well,
md by that time the boom was
aver and nothing was left of the
hi craze but rotting derricks and
ibaiidoned shafts.”
YOUNG RAVENS.
Curious Bit of Natural History from An
cient Records,
I have not learning ‘rnough to
know whether in the earliest times
ravens were accounted “unlucky." If
so, why were they chosen from-among
all the birds of the air for the merci
ful errand of carrying bread to Elijah
in the wilderness? (Did they steal it?
They arc given to theft!) Also in the
writte n word we arc assured that ‘'God
heareth the young ravens when they
cry out unto Him.” Ami nothing of
this is said of doves, or of any other
white or heavenly kind of bird. An
explanation is given in the Egyptian
commentary on St. Luke, in the Cop
tic script by Epriphanius, A. D. 368
401. The passage is certainly very
curious, and 1 am permitted to tran
scribe it here. “Why, then, did the
evangelist mention no name among
the birds except ravens only? Be
cause the hen raven, having laid her
eggs and hatched her young, is wont
to fly away and leave them on account
of the hue of their color, for when
hatched they are red in appearance.
Then ihe Nourisher of all Creation
sends to them a little swarm of in
sects, putting it by their nest, and
thus the little ravens are fed until
the color of their body is, as it were,
dyed and becomes- black. But after
seven day s the old ravens return,and,
seeing that the bodies of their young
have become perfectly like their own,
henceforward they take to them and
bring them food of their own accord.”
It is for naturalists to ascertain
whether or no thist strange account
of the young ravens holds good in our
day.—Co-rnhill Magazine.
TELL 'EM YOU SAW T IS THE JOURNAL
MISS ROSIE IUITLEIMiE
Touching Account of the Death of
ft Former Newark Young
Lady Who Lived in
Texas.
Bettie, Tex., July 1, 1902.
Editor Newark Journal:
For the benefit of the friends
and relatives of Miss Rosie Rut
ledge will you allow me a little
space, in your valuable paper to
chronicle her death l She had a
host of friends and relatives in
Newark and the surrounding
country, and for their benefit I
have announced the sad event.
Sht' departed this life June 20,
1002. Her suffering was brief,
being sick only three or four days.
Her suffering and agony were in
tense, but she bore them with
great patience and fortitude.
Rosie was the daughter of Win.
and Martha Rutledge. She was
born two miles north of Newark,
Ark., nearly 13 years ago. She
lived in that neighborhood until
three .years ago, when the family
moved to Upshur county, Texas,
which is their present home.
On Thursday she was taken se
riously sick and grew worse unt il
Sunday following, when she died.
On Saturday night she told her
mother she would not live until
morning. Her friends and rela
tives did till in their power to re
lieve her, but in vain. They
could only wish and wait for a
change for the belter. When the
sun rose in the eastern horizon,
they realized the fact that she was
being rocked to and fro by the
i waves and tides as the Boatman
carried her across the stream we
1 r*nll Death. tlis sum liiici
traveled far in it's daily course,
she had crossed to the other side.
We could realize the sentiment ex
pressed by the poet when he said:
“J'hou art gone, our precious darling,
Never more canst thou return;
Thou shall sleep a peaceful slumber
’Til the resurrection morn.”
Her remains were conveyed to
the Enon cemetery Monday morn
ing. A host of friends and rela
tives met there to pay the last
tribute of respect. After the
choir had sung a song, the minis
ter had spoken words of consola
tion and invoked the blessings of
Heaven upon the bereaved ones,
we all took a farewell look at Ro
sie. Her body was then borne
| from the grove to the tomb, and
s there deposited in Mother Earth.
Her school teacher, Prof. Wilson,
and probably seventy-five of her
schoolmates surrounded the grave
and. after it was filled up, rounded
it oil and sang a song.
We can truthfully to Billy and
Martha that it is a consoling
thought to know that they had a
precious jewel in their home which
God wanted to make the mansions
of Heaven brighter. It seems odd
to think that, only a few years ago
Rosie was away back in old Arkan
sas, making people happy with her
gay laugh and merry prattle, and
is now away out here in Texas,
resting in a pine forest graveyard.
Rut, sometimes when our hopes
are highest, they are blighted very
suddenly. But we must submit
to the will of Him who doeth all
things well. B. F. Cash.
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You cm buy a Kimball organ,
the be&t made, for $la cash and
$o per month, or on any other
terms to suit your fancy. See O.
F. Craig, agent.
He Didn’t Forget it.
When Davis 11 arum was a boy
he ran away from home to see tin
< ireus. He had no money ; only
the average boy's longing to see a
real, live circus. As he stood
outbide of the tent watching tin
| people go ill, the tears tiled dowt
j his cheeks. A forlorn creature.
and one familiar to every old-time
circus goer.
in after years ho was ahlo to
lift a mortgage from the hoineofa
widow whom all the world seemed
to neglect. As David Ilarum
gave the dear title to the little
woman, he recalled the time when
her husband, long since dead, had
found him ( uf.side the circus lent,!
taken him in to see the show and
given money to him for red lemon
ade and peanuts.—Republic.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Albert Arnold arrived home
Saturday from a trip to points in
Colorado.
(i. R. Rutledge, of (lilmer,
Tex., remits the necessary coin
for three months reading of The
Journal.
J. F. Morgan has our thanks
foi a half dollar to apply on the
subscription of Tlios, Carver, of
Robinsville, N. C.
A Livingston amt daughter,
Miss Elowise, of Batesviile, spent
Friday and .Saturday hero visiting
Mr. and Mrs. (j. O. Maguess.
A wonderful cave in South Da
kota lias aroused the attention of
scientists. An effort is on foot
to include it in a national park.
C. M. Edwards orders Tiro
Journal suit to his brother, Jim,
who i' spending the summer at
i him niui uiu icm ill
of Ins lliullll,
.James L. Ashley, formerly edi
tor of the late Sulphur Rock Mas- j
senger, was in town a short time,
Monday and made thisofti-e an
r ppreeiat ed call.
Lee Mayhan returned to Little
Rock Sal unlay to resume his dut i
les at the State iflind School, af I
ter spending a two weeks vaca
tion with home folks.
.1. F. Morgan recently harvest
ed a little plot of timothy which
contained less than an acre and it j
made, hy actual weight
pounds. \Vho can beat that?
A. A. Covington, of White
River township, was in town Saf
urtlav and ordered The .loorual
sent to his daughter, Miss Ger
trude Covington, at sulphur Rock.
Attorney R. A. Moore has
bought from G. O. Magness the
residence formerly occupied by j
Harrison Drenncu and is having i
some repairs and additions made.
,1. C. Lewis is doing tluAvork.
Rev. I. M. Ussery arrived homo
i Sunday from a trip over in Green
and Craighead counties where he j
flfc' been bolding a series of re
vival meetings. He will begin a
.meeting here at the Clnistaiu
I church tonight..
Congress man Dinsmore crilieis
os Governor l)a\is for writing
lotto'll to lYo.-idenl Roosevelt
protesting against the apointmeut
ot Collator Jones toil place on
the Isthmian Commission. lie
I says (lie letter will have no effect.
Governor Yates of Illinois is
almost ssvamped with insinua
tions from his appointees all over
the State, The friction is said to
he due to the failure of the Re
publicans to recotiizo the Chief
Executive as the party leader in
the Mate.
! A farmer living near Poplar
Bluff heard a noise in his hen
coop the other night and rushed
out in a decolete condition to
catch the thief, lie found not
j the man, hut a big bear. Reach
ing for his pocket knife, he dis
covered that he had forgotten his
trousers. With rare presence of
mind he r•.turned to the house in
two or three jumps and closed the
door just in time to save eve.y
thing but the end of his shirt, a
handful of which bruin sot tired.
By the time thefaimer had se
lected his shot gun the bear had
1 disappeared.—Green County
Newsboy. _
WIIITECAPPEIl KILLED
[•and of Whitecappers Meet an
l nexpected Reception From
Their Intended Victim in
Fulton County.
Mammoth Springs, -July 4.—As
he result of an alleged attempt
it whitecapphigat Union, u sm.dl
Ullage in this county, yesterday,
I’ink Gibson, a well-known citi
zen, was blown into peiees and
line othei men were more or less
auiously injured.
Ilarvey Sexton received warn
mg that a band of whitecappers
were to visit his house, with the
ivowed intention of killing him
in.l dynamiting his building.
Sexton barricaded the doors
md with a lille kept a sharp look
out. Yesterday morning the alle
ged whitecaps made their appear
tnce and Sexton tired one shot.
The bullet struck Pink Gibson
in the stomach, passing through
t pocket in which a stick of dyna
mite was carried.
Immediately there was a terrible
explosion, ami the ground for
yards around where the man stood
was torn up. Nine of his com
panions were thrown to the
ground and more or less injured.
The party immediately retreat
'd.
Gibson was literally blown to
leices, small poitions of his body
wumr f,iiiiiil lmwr 111 I *i i mne
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Poisoning the System.
It is through the bowels that
llic* Ifody is cleansed of impuri
ties, Constipation keeps these
poismns in the syg'eni, causing
headache, dnlness ami tnelanclml
i;i m ttrst ibcn unsigtnty vi irptruis
ami linally serious illness unless a
remedy is applied. De Wilt’s Lit
tle Early Kisers prevent this trou
ble by stimulating the liver and
promote easy, healthy actions of
the bowels. These little pills do
not act v iolently but by st length
er.'. ig the bowels enable them to
preform t heir own work. Never
gripe or distress. ,1. 1. Sturdi
vant.
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That Populists Meeting.
T1 o Arkansas Populists mo
making extensive arrangements
for the Arkadolphia mass con
vent ion on duly 25, Joe Poner
of Louisville, chairman o! Uio
national allied committee, and
Cyclone Davis ot Texas will bo
the chief attractions,
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ALL WOMEN
Wino of Cnrdui is tho guardian
of a woman’s health and happi
ness from youth to old age. It
helps her safely into womanhood.
It sustains her during tho trials
of pregnancy, childbirth and
| motherhood, making labor easy
• and preventing Hooding and mis
carriage. It gently leads her
through the dangerous period
I known as the change of life.
WINE°fCARDU1
cures leucorrinea, fulliug of the
womb, and menstrual irregularity
in every form. It is valuable in
every trying period of a woman’s
life. It reinforces the nervous
system, acts directly on tho geni
tal organs and is the finest tonic
for women known. Ask your
druggist for a ?1.00 bottlo of
Wino of Cardui.
Batcsville, Ala., July 11,1300.
I am using Wino of Cardui aud Thed
ford's Black-Draught and X foci like a
different woman already. Several la
dies hero keep tho medicine* in their
| homes all the time. 1 have throe girl*
uud they are using it with me.
Mrs. KATK BKOWDER.
I For advice uud literature, address, irivlng
I symptoms, "Hie Ladies' Advisory li-pert
mint", 'Hie Chattanooga .Medicine Company,
Chattanooga. Trim.