Woodrukk County NEWZO
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VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1909.
NO 14
It® OF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na
tion and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.
Any attack made hereafter on the
lock type of the Panama canal, ac
cording to the opinion expressed by
President Roosevelt in a message
transmitting to congress the report
made by the engineers who recently
visited the canal zone with President
elect Taft, ‘‘is in reality merely an
attack upon the policy of building any
canal at all.
One of the most mysterious cases
with which the Chicago police have
had to deal in many years developed
in the Wellington hotel, a standard
downtown hostelry, when the uncon
scious form of Miss Ella Gingles was
found lashed to the supports of a
bathtub.
Discussing the action of the senate
in restoring the marine corps to the
battleships in connection with the
naval appropriation bill, Senator Cum
mins of Iowa, in a vigorous defense
of President Roosevelt, declared that
the provision would be accepted as a
rebuke to the president.
The legislature of the territory of
Hawaii convened and organization was
effected. The message of Gov. Frear
was then read in both houses. The
governor urges appropriations for the
entertainment of congressmen visit
ing the islands; for a territorial dis
play at the Yukon-Pacific exposition,
and for the national guard.
A rug said to be worth more than
$50,000 was presented to the White
House and was accepted by President
Roosevelt. It will become the prop
erty of the nation and will be placed
in the parlors of the presidenfs home.
The donor was H. H. Topakyan, a
rich Armenian of New York city, who
Persia, three from the sultan of Tur
has two decorations from the shah of
Turkey and one from Venezuela.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who
sailed for Europe after he had been
subpoenaed to serve as a juror in the
supreme court, was fined $250 by Jus
tice Guy. Affidavits were presented
showing that Mr. Vanderbilt bad de
parted for Europe and, therefore, was
unable to attend. Justice Guy held
that this was not a sufficient excuse.
More than 1,000 delegates to the
Mississippi grand lodge of Masons
heard from Grand Master Edwin J.
Martin that he had committed the
grand lodge to a withdrawal of all
fraternal correspondence and affili
ation with the grand lodge of New
Jersey because in the latter jurisdic
tion the grand lodge recognizes and
admits to its work Alpha Lodge, No.
166, located at Newark, and composed
mainly of negroes.
One half of the United States Navy
should be kept on the Pacific coast
at all times, in the opinion of the
senate. An amendment to the naval
bill was agreed to providing that in
the discretion of the president one
half of the navy shall be kept in
Pacific waters so far as practicable.
The president has already the author
ity to so divide the fleet, but the
amendment amounts to an expression
of congress in favor of such action.
It is reported that Beggs Hocks, situ
ated in the outside channel between
Santa Barbara and San Nicholas
islands, have recently sunk into the
ocean, probably as the result of an
earthquake, and now constitute a se
rious menace to navigation.
Drought conditions in south Texas
were relieved Sunday when more than
an inch of rain fell. Sunday night the
temperature was below freezing.
Indorsing the view of Former Sec
retary of State Root that Liberia is
an American colony, Booker T. Wash
ington declared the situation in the
African republic was serious and that
the United States was in duty bound
to render practical assistance to Li
beria, which was established in 1819
by the United States government and
philanthropic individuals.
Any idea that he was contemplat
ing retirement from active participa
tion in the management of the rail
road and other properties in which
he is interested, wras scouted by
George J. Gould. To reporters who
asked him about a report to that ef
fect, Mr. Gould said that however
much he might desire to get out of
business, he could not think of do
ing so.
The house committee on census de
cided that there should be no attempt
on the part of the house to pass the
census bill over the veto of the presi
dent. This action was taken after
much deliebration among the leaders
of the house and senate.
Plans for reorganization of the Cin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad
company has been practically com
pleted and it is expected that in a
few days the official announcement
will be made that the road has been
sold to the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
system.
Vice-President-elect Sherman was
the guest of honor at a reception
Tuesday night tendered him by his
fellow members of the “.Tape Worm
Club,” an organization which had its
inception in the days when Speaker
Reed presided over the house of
representatives.
At the opening session Tuesday of
the Illinois convention of the United
Mine Workers of America, Secretary
Treasurer Hayes recommended that
the “strike fund,” abolished last year
be revived.
A house-to-house census which has
been taken under the auspices of the
trades unions shows a total of unem
ployed persons in Berlin of 67,367, in
addition to 33,933 unemployed in the
suburbs. The municipality will carry
out a similar census, but has called
upon the unemployed to report at va
rious centers.
A fierce fire raged in the Great
Northern railroad tunnel at Teton Sta
tion, 50 miles east of Great Falls,
Mont. The tunnel will probably be
burned out. A large force of men is
trying to check the flames, but no
water is available. The road may be
blocked for several days.
Louis Anthehue Gregori, the French
military writer who made an attempt
on the life of Major Dreyfus at the
canonization of Emile Zola at the
Pantheon last June, Monday filed a
complaint against Madame Alophe
Steinheil, the woman charged with the
sensational murder of her husband in
Paris May 31 of last year, in connec
tion with the death of Felix Faure,
who was president of France when
he died in 1899.
James Morgan, a bank thief recent
ly let out of Jolit (111.) prison, was
arrested a Racine, Wis., Monday night
charged with having taken $3,000 from
a department store messenged in the
First National Bank of Milwaukee.
Morgan confessed to the police that
he had four accomplices, but they es
caped. About $600 was recovered.
The great coffee interests in this
country are becoming alarmed lest the
project for a coffee taxe to help offset
the reduction in the revenues be en
tertained seriously by congress.
A score of fishermen and their dogs
were carried out into Lake Erie Sun
day morning when the ice field was
set in motion by a shift in the wind.
All were rescued except Joseph Ga
tusky, who is missing.
At the close of a long conference at
the palace in Havana between Presi
dent Gomez and Vice-President Zayas,
for the purpose of deciding upon terms
for the fusion of their rival factions
of the liberal party, President Gomez
announced that a definite agreement
had been reached and that a commit
tee had been appointed to arrange the
details.
Following a cloudburst In Rubio
canon, above Passadena, a terrific
flood of water came down the narrow
canon precipitating the Rubio canon
pavilion into the ravine and burying
Fred T. Drew, agent of the Pacific
Electric railroad, with his wife and
four children in the ruins.
A dispatch to a German news
agency from Addis Abeba says that
King Menelik has returned from his
pilgrimage and is in the best of health.
As a result of an opinion by Assist
ant Attorney General Sluder of Tex
as, there is a probability some of the
text-book companies which have eon
tracts with the state will be sued for
cancellation of contract. The school
officials of Hopkins county advised
the attorney general’s department
that 4.67G books needed in that county
could not be obtained from the com
panies having contracts with the
state, and suit may be instituted
against these companies for breach of
contract.
A bill has been introduced in the
Cuban senate to annul the order of
the American military authorities
abolishing the lottery.
Rooseveltian doctrines of anti-race
suicide are not practiced to any ex
tent on the canal zone, according to
figures given out by the isthmian ca
nal commission. They show that the
average zone family consists of a hus
band, wife and one child.
Yielding to the moods of artistic
temperament and resenting criticism
leveled at his work, Oscar Mundhenk.
a young sculptor, wrecked an elabor
ate production he was executing for
the new St. Mary's Catholic church a*
Marietta. Ohio.
Complaining that ihe name of the
National Red Cross is being infringed
upon to sell such commonplace mate
rials as chicken feed, and that persons
have resorted to the use of the name
to collect funds not designed for the
relief of of suffering humanity, Miss
Mabel Boardman, secretary of the
American National Red Cross, ap
pealed to the house committee on for
eign affairs for further legislation to
supplement its original incorporation.
TAFT CABINET
COMPLETED
THE TREASURY PORTFOLIO
STILL IN THE BALANCE, WITH
HERRICK AND MACVEAGH
BEING CONSIDERED.
FIVE LAWYERS IN THE LIST
J. M. Dickinson, Tennesseean, to suc
ceed Luke Wright, Tennesseean,
in Department of War.
Philadelphia.—A conference took,
place between the president-elect and
Frank H. Hitchcock, who came here
at the request of Mr. Taft. Frank B.
Kellogg was also a visitor.
The report printed that as the pres
ident he would go to Alaska, Mr. Taft
said, had only the foundation that
he had received an invitation for such
a trip and had replied that he would
hold i t under consideration. This
same answer, he said, likewise ap
plied to incilantions to visit Denver
and Seattle next summer. He has
not yet decided what his traveling
itinerary for the year will be, except
that he will make a trip through the
South and Southwest as far as Texas.
An address will be delivered by
Judge Taft at the Academy of Music
here under the auspices of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania in celebra
tion of the University Day. The ex
ercises will take place in the morn
ing. A walking stick used by Benja
min Franklin and by him presented
to Lafayette, will be a gift to the
university by the president-elect. Af
ter the celebration Mr. Taft will be
the guest at luncheon of the first
troop, Philadelphia city cavalry, and
at night will attend the Pennsylvania
University Alumni dinner.
Mr. Taft admits he is making head
way in the selection of a secretary of
the treasury, but maintains the place
is not yet filled. Franklin MacVeagh
and Myron T. Herrick are two of the
men under consideration. With this
exception the Taft cabinet is com
plete and when officially promulgat
ed shortly before his inauguration will
be found as follows:
Secretary of State—Philander C.
Knox of Pennsylvania.
Attorney General—George Wicker
sham of New York.
Secretary of War—J. M. Dickinson
of Tennessee.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor—
Charles Nagle of Missouri.
Secretary of the Navy—George von
L. Meyers of Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Interior—R. A. Bal
linger of Washington.
Postmaster General-Frank H.
Hitchcock of Massachusetts.
Secretary of Agriculture—James
Wilson of Iowa.
It will be observed that in this list
are five lawyers, of whom Mr. t'aft
believes there are none in the coun
try better. It may be stated that this
fact is not a mere coincidence, but
is an accompishment which has been
carefully planned and striven for by
the incoming president and bears a
most important relation to what he
believes to be the important work of
his administration.
In assembling his legal cabinet, the
president-elect has not lost sight of
the necessity of obtaining men whose
beliefs on the questions to be dealt
with coincidence with his own. Mr.
Taft’s position has been clearly em
bodied in his inaugural address and
this document is known to have re
ceived hearty adoption and complete
approval by all of the men selected
to be Mr. Taft’s cabinet advisers.
J. M. Dickinson of Tennessee, who
accepted the war portfolio at the
hands of Mr. Taft, will give up the
position of general solicitor for the1
Illinois Central Railway system, and
a salary of $35,000 a year to become
a cabinet minister. He is between
54 and 55 years of age, a native of
Mississippi, served three months in
the Confederate army as a boy, grad
uated from the University of Tennes
see and finished his education in Ger
many. His grandfather was Phelix
Grundy, attorney general of the Uni
ted States.
WORLD CONGRESS APPROVED.
North American Conservation Con
gres Adopts a Resolution.
Washington.—A resolution unani
mously approving the action of Presi
dent Roosevelt in calling a world
wide congress for the conservation of
natural resources was adopted at the
final meeting of the North American
Conservation Congress. Most of the
session was spent in discussion of
a formal declaration of principles
which are to govern three countries
in the matter of the censervation of
their natural resources, it being rec
ognized as impracticable to lay down
any hard and fast lines for all the
countries represented in this direc
tion.
HELENA
AGAINST RATE
Business Men’s League Will Petition
Iron Mountain to Rescind Increase
Order of 2 Cents Per 100.
Helena.—As a result of an advance
of about two cents per hundred on
lumber, which becomes effective Feb
ruary 17, a call meeting was held by
the Business Men’s League Saturday
resulting in an agreement by the
merchants to stand by the lumber and
the manufacturing people, looking to
some relief from these rates, which, it
is alleged, will work a great hardship
upon the many lumber plants and in
dustries of Helena, in competing with
other points.
The agreement which reads to the
effect that the undersigned agree to
divert all freight in and out bound pos
sible to the railroad giving Helena
the best outbound lumber rate was
circulated among the merchants and
shippers and very freely signed. It
is also understood that a committee
will wait upon the officials of the
Iron Mountain railroad protesting
against the increased rate.
PLAN CITY BEAUTIFUL.
Women of Stuttgart Would Have Town
Cleaned Up From End to Eend.
Stuttgart.—An enthusiastic move
ment is under w j here to make
Stuttgart a beautiful city. The move
ment is backed by some of the lead
ing women of this place, met for the
purpose of organizing a Stuttgart
Beautiful Club, through which an
original crusade is to be made upon
everything which detracts from the
beauty of the place, such as offensive
billboards, dirty streets and alleys,
untidy back yards, and front ones,
too. It is possible that the ladies will
ask the authorities to name a “clean
ing up” day and will ask the school
children and business men to join
with them in giving Stuttgart such a
cleaning as it has never had before.
The town is to be divided into sec
tions, with a member of the club in
charge of each section and she is to
report back to the club regularly the
progress made, the obstacles met with
and the plans for overcoming them
will then be formulated.
CAMDEN FARMERS ORGANIZE.
Will Grow and Market Fruit and Pro
duce.
Camden.—About 60 of the repre
sentative farmers of this county met
at the court house and organized the
Southern Arkansas Truck Growers'
Association, a regularly chartered
stock company, with a capital stock
of $5,000, the purpose of which is to
grow and market all kinds of fruit
and produce, operate a fertilizer plant,
a box factory, canning factory and
a cold storage.
The board of directors organized
by electing W. F. Tate, president; ri.
A. Dean, first vice president; J. C.
Hughes, second vice president, and
Harry F. Knapp, secretary-treasurer.
A sales a^ nt will be employed at
once, who will have general field
management of the company.
A large acreage will be planted in
Irish potatoes, to be followed with
other truck crops. The association
will have about .150 members.
CONTRACTORS BOUND OVER.
C. G. Price and James Anderson
Charged With Violating Eeight
Hour Law.
Pine Bluff.—C. G. Price, a .white
levee contractor who has a subcon
tract from the government, waived ex
amination when arraigned before
United States Commissioner A. L.
Burnett, in this city, on a charge of
violating the eight-hour labor law. He
was bound over (o await the action of
the federal grand ju. and gave bond
for his appearance in the sum of $500.
Price is working a lot of men on a
levee near Arkansas City.
James Anderson, who has a similar
contract near Luna Landing, on the
Mississippi, was arrested at the same
time by Deputy United States Mar
shal Guy Caron, to answer the same
charge. He waived an examination
some days ago and gave bond for his
appearance.
For a Barr.es Memorial.
Sheridan.—What will probably be
the last term of Circuit Court to con
vene in the old courthouse opened
Tuesday with Hon. W. H. Evans pre
siding. The new building was decided
upon by the quc.um court last Octo
ber and plans have been drawn for
the building.
Two Children Drowned.
Helena.—News reached this city of
the drowning at Spring Creek, Ark.,
of two children, four and six years old.
of Will Travis. The children, sup
posedly, were playing on a foot log
and fell in the creek.
$75,000 FOR HENDRIX,
Gsneral Education Board Makes Prsm
ise on a Condition.
Little R«ek.—Provided the Hendrix
College fund reaches tha sum of $390,
000, the General Education Board will
contribute $75,000 as a portion of the
fund for the endowment of that col
lege.
Arrangements whereby the contri
bution would be made were consum
mated at a conference at which Dr
Buttriek, secretary of the General
Education Board, President Stonewall
Anderson, representing Hendrix Col
lege, and Rev. James Thomas, finan
cial agent of the Methodist college*
of Arkansas, were present.
Rev. Mr. Thomas, some time ago,
stated that $100,000 of the total
amount had been promised. The new
conditional gift will leave only $125,
000 to be raised.
RIVER OUT OF ITS BANKS,
Th# Little Red Inflicts Considerable
Damage on Property.
Judsonia.—Through the severest
rain storms and highest winds with
which this section has been visited
for years, the little Red river is over
flowing its banks in many places, and
the back water covers all the low
lands in town.
At the farm of Mr. Plumleigh, two
miles west of town, the wind almost
became a cyclone. One of his barns
was unroofed and a shed, in which
was stored a large quantity of berry
cases and some cotton, was almost
torn to pieces. Nearly half a mile
of rail fence was scattered over a 40
acre field, and the house was so bad
ly shaken that most of the plaster
fell from the ceiling.
Another Clock Stopped.
Texarkana.—The self-winding clock
in United States Commissioner John
M. Somnerville’s office at Texarkana
stopped at 11 o’clock Friday night,
the one hundredth birthday anniver
sary of Abraham Lincoln. “I did not
think much about the incident,” said
Colonel Somnerville, “until I read in
one of the papers about a similar hap
pening in the capitol building at Guth
rie. It called to mind that our old
faithful timepiece had also stopped
and looking at the dial I noticed that
it was 11 o’clock, the exact hour, 100
years before that Lincoln is said to
have come into the wrorld. I have been
unable to get it started since, al
though a close examination does not
disclose anything wrong with the
mechanism.
Surveying Hot Springs Line.
Hot Springs.—Reports reaching
here indicate that surveyors of the
Hot Springs, Ouachita and Mena Rail
road are approaching this city with
their lines. This railroad, which has
just taken over the rights of the Mena
and Eastern Arkansas road, is ex
pected to be operating between this
city and Mena during the present
year. A western outlet has been
wanted for this territory for years,
the Rock Island and the Iron Moun
tain terminating their lines from the
east here. The proposed route gives
Hot Springs a position on a line from
Memphis to Kansas City, and opens
up hundreds of square miles of virgin
timber and minerals.
Deserter Commits Suicide.
Hot Springs.—Herman Franklin,
who killed himself in St. Louis while
a refugee from the officers of the Ar
my and Navy Hospital here, left this
city Sunday morning, purchasing his
ticket to Little Rock with a worthless
check for $20 and receiving the
change in cash. He deserted the ar
my post here and fled because of a
string of worthless checks which had
been put in circulation recently.
Franklin was a quartermaster's clerk,
but had been assigned to general du
ties and was the personal attendant
of Unite dStates Senator Warren of
the ilitary and Naval Affairs Commit
mittee and Col. William F. Tucker of
the army, during their visits to the
hospital here.
Get $1.10 for Potatoes.
Judsonia.—Through the efforts of A.
M. Kittler, the president of the Fruit
and Vegetable Growers’ Association,
the association was able to sell their
crop of potatoes at $1.10 before.
Some of the local merchants at first
refused to pay the price, but when Mr.
Kittler informed them that the grow
ers had been offered that and that,
they proposed to ship all the potatoes
out of the neighborhood, they speedily
ordered a supply and paid the price
asked. Had it not been for the efforts
of Mr. Kitter, the growers say, they
would have had to dispose of most of
their surplus stock to the home buyers
at about one half the price obtained.
To Arrange Programs.
At the meeting of the Springdale
Horticultural Society it was decided
to arrange regular programs for the
future meetings of the society. Sub
jects for discussion will be chosen
and members assigned to prepare pa
pers on those subjects. The next
meeting will be held February 27.
ROOT VISITS
LITTLE ROCK
Former Secretary of State and Sena
tor-elect From New York Deliv
ers Two Speeches.
Time moved rapidly and events trod
on each other’s heels during the few
hours that the health-restored senator
elect, Elihu Root, spent in Little Rock
Thursday as the guest of the legisla
ture and the city of Little Rock. Af
ter a trip about the city, he addressed
fhe legislature and as many city res
idents as could crowd into Represent
fative Hall in the morning. Later he
was entertained at a luncheon given
by the representative citizens of Lit
tle Rock at the Hotel Marion, and
shortly before 3 o’clock Thursday af
ternoon he returned to Hot Springs,
where he is sojourning for the benefit
of an injury which he received to his
left knee during the recent national
campaign.
Mr. Root appeared not the worn
seeker after health, but again the
alert, commanding statesman. H-e
walked with erect figure and his
whole appearance conveyed the im
pression of health and strength much
in contrast to his appearance when
he passed through Little Rock three
weeks ago.
Both addresses wrere marked by
the direct, virile and striking utter
ances which have characterized his
public addresses since he first entered
political life. Neither address con
tained anything of a political nature
and it seemed that the distinguished
statesman guarded his remarks that
they might not in any way verge upon
the political situation of the immedi
ate past or of the present. He spoke
enthusiastically of the firm bonds of
unity which bind together all sections
of the country and dwelt upon the de
pendence of one section upon another.
FOR AND AGAINST STOCK LAW.
Sentiment Against Bill jn Faulkner
Seems to Grow.
Conway.—The farmers of Faulkner
county are greatly agitated over the
proposed bill for a law prohibiting
the running at large of stock in this
county. Representative J. A. Batson
stated that he would introduce the
bill and press its passage if a ma
jority desired it and when the first
petitions in its favor were circulated
they were freely signed, sentiment in
a few townships being almost unani
mous for the law.
Within the past few days, however,
a strong opposition has developed and
it is now thought doubtful if a ma
jority of the voters will sign the pe
tition. The matter is almost the sole
topic of discussion in the country dis
tricts, both sides expressing their
views in no uncertain manner.
ROGERS IS SPECIAL AGENT.
J. A. Evans Names Him to Work in
Faulkner County.
Conway.—J. E. Rogers of Magnolia,
a member of the State Executive
Committee of the Farmers’ Union, has
been appointed by State Agent J. A.
Evans to take charge of the farm
demonstration work in Faulkner coun'
ty as a special agent of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Mr. Rogers will enter upon his duties
at once. The salary for this agent
was raised by the business men of the
county several months ago, but Mr.
Evans has been delayed in securing a
suitable man for his position.
Bunkers to Meet February 24.
Fort Smith.—W. J. Echols, presi
dent of the Merchants’ National Bank,
has received word from the secretary
of the Arkansas Bankers' Association
that group 4 of that organization has
been formed and will meet in Fort
Smith February 24 for the purpose of
discussing, among other things, the
banking law now before the legisla
ture. The group is composed of the
banks of the following places,: Gran
nis, Greenwood, Hackett, Hartford,
Huntington. Yellville, Lamar, Maga
zine. Mansfield. Mena, Mount Ida, Mid
land, Mulberry, Ozark, Paris, Spadra.
Clarksville, Van Buren, Waldron and
Fort Smith.
Heber.—Plans for bringing factor
ies and new industries to this place
and for doubling the population were
set afoot at a meeting of citizens who
effected a permanent organization of
the Heber Commercial Club. A street
railway system, new commercial build
ings and several miles of concrete
sidewalks are some of the projects
already under way.
Confederates Organize Camp.
At a meeting of ex-Confederate sol
diers at Eureka Springs recently Ster
ling Price Camp was organized by the
election of R. P. Harrison commander
and S. E. Hays adjutant. A basket
dinner under the auspices of the camp
will be given at Mystic Spring the
second Saturday in May.