» " Wondrukk Cmmty News.
VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1909.
NO 12.
MS OF THEM
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH. EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na
tion and Particularly From the
Great Southwest,
Hearing of arguments in the appeal
of John R. Walsh, who was convicted
of misappropriating the funds of the
Chicago National bank, which failed
several years ago, was set for May 11
by the I'niled States court of appeals.
The setting of the case at this time
was the result of disagreement be
tween counsel over the question of
filing briefs in the case.
Harvey Hazen, 17 years old, found
guilty of murdering his mother, was
sentenced to life imprisonment. Ha
zel was convicted in Toledo of slaying
his mother, January 11, 1908, by beat
ing her to death with a hammer.
Declaring that “if the government
is to act with full efficiency against
criminals it must have some force of
secret service agents who can act
against criminals anywhere,” Presi
dent Roosevelt, in a statement made
public from the White House, emphat
ically reiterated his opposition to re
stricting the field of usefulness of the
secret service.
A severe attack on the forestry ser
vice of the department of agriculture
was made in the house by Mr. Mon
dell. of Wyoming. He denounced it
as the most autocratic bureau of gov
ernment outside of Russia.
To acquire a full knowledge of the
efficiency of the wireless service
aboard naval vessels. Assistant Sec
retary Satterlee has issued an order
directing all commanders of vessels
and of naval stations equipped with
wireless apparatus to report to the de
partment on the last days of each
month concerning the efficiency of the
wireless and the personnel.
The house committee on territories
has reached an agreement on the bill
which, if passed by both houses of
congress, will give the right of state
hood to both New Mexico and Arizo
na. The bill will be favorably report
ed within the next few days, with the
intention of bringing it up in the
house for passage some time during
next week.
Amos M. Ensign. 58 years old. city
editor of the New York Tribune, diel
in the Seney hospital, in Brooklyn,
following an operation. Mr. Ensign
was a graduate of Cornell University,
class of 187C. and was the first presi
dent of the University Boat club and
captain of his college crew. He had
been a member of the Tribune staff
since the year of his graduation.
Alleging that his 5G-year-old son,
J. E. McGregor, had alienated the af
fections of his second wife, 75 years
old. .1. M. McGregor, a wealthy farm
er of Fleming county, Kentucky,
brought suit against him for aliena
tion of affection and the case was de
cided in favor of the son by the court
of appeals.
If President Roosevelt will consent
to head a wild west show he can draw a
salary of $10,000 a week for 30 consec
utive weeks, according to an offer that
has just been made to him by James
M Atlas, proprietor of the Hotel At
las. Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Atlas
says he is an old friend of Mr. Roose
velt and used to wrestle with him
when he was governor in Albany.
A committee of the British govern
ment, which was appointed last sum
mer to inquire into the alleged Amer
ican control of the British meat sup
ply. has concluded its investigation,
and according to the Daily Mail, will
report against interference with Amer
ican imports for the simple reason
♦hat Great Britain needs the American
supply.
f'ial court In Chicago Friday William
Chalmers, receiver for A. Booth &
Company, the fish firm which recently
'vent into a receivership, is given
Power to examine any person who
knows anything concerning the
finances of the firm.
President-elect Taft Friday made
his eighth trip across the Isthmus and
everywhere was greeted with marked
demonstrations of good will. With
his party Mr. Taft landed Friday
morning at Colon and proceeded by
Kl"cial train to Culebra, where Fri
day night he was quartered at the
residence of Lieut. Col. Goethals,
chairman of the Panama canal com
mission. His reception by the Pan
ama officials both at Colon and Cule
hra was most cordial. Saturday Mr.
Taft will visit the site of Gatun dam.
C. H. Labodie, treasurer of the Ham
•hon National insurance Co., with
headquarters at South Bend, lnd., has
completed arrangements to file a suit
in court at Toronto, Canada, to recov
cr for the Labodie heirs the site on
which is now located Walkervilla
The next session in the hearing ot
the suit instigated by the federal gov
ernment to dissolve the alleged pow
der trust will be held in Chicago on
February 16. The hearing was to
have been resumed at Wilmington,
Del., but counsel for the defense was
not ready to complete the cross-exam
ination of Robert S. Daddell, president
of the Buckeye Powder company of
Peoria, 111.
It is learned that the protocol drawn
up by W. I. Buchanan, the United
States special commissioner sent to
settle outstanding disputes between
the United States and Venezuela, had
been found unsatisfactory to Venezue
la and would not be signed in its
present form. The hitch has occurred
over the case of the New York and
Bermudez Asphalt company, for the
arrangement reached with regard to
the arbitration of the other claims ap
parently is acceptable to Venezuela.
The navy department has decided
to build a great 14-inch naval gun at
the Washington navy yard. Unusual
attention is attracted to the great
weapon because of the fact that it will
,be the largest gun ever built by any
nation to go on ship board. The ini
tial cost of this gun will be $100,000.
News of the passage by the Califor
nia assembly of the bill providing for
the segregation of Japanese school
children was received in official cir
cles in Washington with surprise and
consternation.
Vice-President Fairbanks is prepar
ing to join the notables who annually
migrate to California to escape the
rigors of winter in the East. He has
just completed a purchase of the in
terest of the H. L. Drew estate, in the
200-acre Drew-Fairbanks ranch, near
Redlands. The purchase price was
between 60,000 and $70,000.
The mysterious "unknown,” who
been in Memphis for the past two
weeks, is a mystery no longer. Mis
name is Roy C. Porter, son of J. W.
Porter of Ottawa, Kan. Sight of the
father’s face as he stepped into the
office of Chief of Police O’Haver
brought back to the clouded brain of
the young man recollection of who
he was. He recognized not only his
own identity, but remembered also all
facts connected with his former life.
Maj. Harvey W. Salmon, former
treasurer of Missouri, who has also
been chairman of the Democratic
State committee, escapes the three
year term in the penitentiary, im
posed by the circuit court of Benton
country, through an opinion handed
down in the Missouri state supreme
court, which reversed and remained
the case, with instructions to the trial
court to quash the indictment.
Headers of the house of represen
tatives indicate that the resolution
providing for the observance of Lin
coln's birthday February 12 as passed
by the senate will not receive the ap
proval of the house conferees in its
present form. They seriously object
to the action of the senate in tacking
a $50,000 appropriation onto the reso
lution as it passed the house provid
ing for a survey of a Lincoln memor
ial road from the White House to the
Gettysburg battle field.
More than 200 negroes were arrest
ed in Pittsburg in an effort by the
police to render the Herron Hill resi
dence section of the city safe. In the
last few weeks negroes have made
numerous attacks upon young women.
The police force was increased, but
the attacks continued, and a raid was
made on the negro quarter, and every
negro man who could not show that
he was employed was arrested as a
vagrant.
The officers of the United Hatters
of North America, 20,000 of those
members on strike, and the members
of the National Felt Hat .Manufactur
ers' Association having failed to make
any overtures to each other for a re
sumption of the trade, the governors
of New Jersey, New York and Con
necticut will meet in conference,
probably in New York, in a few days,
to discuss ways and means of set
tling the strike.
UUI 111^, It*' '
of the battleship fleet $12,301 was re
quired for entertainment purposes, of
which $4,801 was used during the
cruise to San Francisco. The re
mainder was allotted for the return
cruise to the east cost of the United
States, Other expenses which have
been met out of the naval contingent
fund include $l,GGG for "salaries nad
expenses of secret-service operatives.”
Developments in the libel suit
brought by the government against
the publishers of the New York World
indicate that when the case goes to
trial it will reveal that some other of
ficial, possibly Elihu Hoot, and uot Mr.
Roosevelt or his brother-in-law, is the
person alleged to have been libeled.
Announcement has been made that
friends of Charles W. Morse, the con
victed banker, are preparing a peti
tion to the United States circuit court
of appeals, asking that Morse be ad
mitted to bail pending his appeal from
Judge Hough's sentence of 15 years in
prison for violation of the national
banking laws
WILL SEEK
DAVIS’
SEAT
Retiring Arkansas Congressman An
nounces That He Will Go After
Democratic Senatorial Nomi
nation.
Little Rock.—Congressman Stephen
Brundidge, Jr., of Searcy will oppose
Senator Jeff Davis for the United
States Senate four years hence. While
passing through Little Rock on his
way to Washington, Congressman
Brundidge announced his candidacy
and declared he would make a vigor
ous campaign at the proper time.
The announcement that Congress
man Brundidge will make the race
for the senatorship came as some
thing of a surprise at this time, al
though that, he would eventually had
been predicted by intimate friends
who have been urging him to do so.
It was rumored last year that he
would run against Senator Clarke, but
he did not do so, and he has also been
urged as a potential candidate for gov
ernor.
In 1897 Mr. Brundidge was elected
to Congress from the Second district
and lie has served continuously since,
being re-elected five times. Last fall
he declined to run again and he will
retire in March, to be succeeded by
W. A. Oldfield. He has served as pros
ecuting attorney of his district and
is one of the leaders of the bar of the
state.
Wolves in Jefferson County.
Pine Bluff.—A large pack of wolves
have invaded Jefferson county and
are doing great damage to stock, mak
ing it impossible for farming in the
vicinity of Feeneyville, this county, to
raise sheep or hogs. Cattle has been
attacked by the vicious animals, and
in many instances killed. The wolves
are said to be playing havoc with
stock along Bayou Bartholomew,
twelves miles south of Pine Bluff. A
man named Reynolds brought the
hide of one of the wolves to this city
a few days ago and sold it to A. F.
Dreyfus, a local hide dealer. It w'as
the skin of a large prairie wolf, and
is one of the largest of its kind ever
seen in this section. It measures five
feet in length and six inches from
tip to tip.
Finishing Work on River Bank.
Pine Bluff.—The work which the
government is doing to protect the
river front in Pine Bluff to prevent
further caving is nearing completion
on the first contract, which provides
for constructing revetments along the
river front for about one mile. This
work will be completed this week,
when the brush mattresses will be
constructed from the foot of Walnut
street, where the caving began, to
the south side of the bayou, which is
the eastern limits of the present dan
ger zone. This line of mattresses, 100
feet wide, will be sunk with piles of
rock, making a firm foundation for
the work which will be done along
the river bank, which will be sloped
and paved with rock. In addition to
this it is hoped that Congress will
pass a bill introduced by Congress
man Joe T. Robinson appropriating
$250,000, which money will be used
in strengthening and extending the
work.
Pine Bluff Has $10,000 Fire.
Pine Bluff.—The stock of gents’ fur
nishing goods of the Hub, owned by
H. C. Bluthenthal, at No. 224 Main
street, was damaged to the extent of
$10,000 by fire and water. The dam
age to the building owned by Mrs.
Jane Atkinson, will aggregate $1,000.
The fire originated from a defective
flue in the second story, and was dis
covered by Chief Briner of the fire de
partment, on his way from supper.
The fire department did effective
work and prevented a costly confla
gration, as the building is in the
heart of the shopping district. The
value of the new water plant, which
furnished a ninety pound pressure,
was demonstrated. The stock and
buildings are covered by insurance.
Wants $10,000 For River.
Washington.—Congressman Robin
son is trying to get an appropriation
for the protection of the banks of
the Arkansas river at Douglass, Ark .
and it is thought that favorable ac
tion will be taken on his bill to ap
propriate $10,000 for the protection
of the banks and the straightening of
the channel of the river. The bill
which is now under consideration
calls for $10,000 to be used for a pre
liminary survey at and near Douglass,
the object being to protect the levee
at that place. The Auburn levee dis
trict, organized under local laws, has
expended $65,000 or $70,000 on this
levee, and it threatens to go into the
river unless the caving of the banks
is checked. Mr. Robinson is confident
that favorable action will be taken
on his bill by the rivers and harbors
committee at its next meeting
CHARGES AGAINST POSTMASTER.
Texarkana Citizens Made Them and
Two Postoffice Inspectors Are
Investigating.
Texarkana.—Two postoffiee inspec
tors are here investigating certain
complaints which have been made
against the present postmaster, L. S.
Roach, who was reappointed several
weeks ago by President Roosevelt for
another four-year term.
It is known that quite a number of
citizens here have filed complaints
with the Senate postoffiee committee
at Washington, protesting vigorously
against Mr. Roach's confirmation, and
urging an investigation. These com
plaints, it is alleged, charge, among
other things, that Mr. Roach has in
numbers of instances, been guilty of
offensive partisanship, that he has
been very active in local political
matters, that he has used the federal
building, of which he is custodian, as
a place for political caucuses; that he
has not confined his political activity
to his efforts to hold the local office,
but has endeavored to influence fed
eral appointments at other places;
that he is incompetent; that the du
ties of postmaster are performed by
another than Mr. Roach; that his gen
eral conduct and bearing are not such
as should characterize a man who
holds the office of postmaster in a
town of the size and importance of
Texarkana.
NUDE BODY IN FALLEN TREE.
Mysterious Case at Blytheville, Ark.—
Victim May Be Memphis Man.
Blytheville.—The dead and almost
nude body of an unidentified man was
found beside Lumen Bayou, just ou;
side the corporate limits of the city,
in the top of a fallen tree. The body
was burned about the back and the
scattered clothing was all more or
less burned. A pint bottle, one-third
full of alcohol, and a revolver were
found in the coat pocket. The officers
are in doubt as to the cause of death,
as there is no wound of any kind on
the body except the burns, and there
is a difference of opinion as to wheth
er these were caused by fire or acid.
Coroner Gibson is investigating the
case. It is believed the man's name
is W. M. Brewer and that his home
is in Memphis, Tenn.
MACHINERY FOR A POTTERY.
Equipment Purchased in Little Rock
by Benton Men.
Benton.—C. L). Hayten and Arthur
Dovey of Benton purchased $3,000
worth of pottery machinery in Little
Rock for additional equipment to
their pottery plant here. Mr. Hayten
conducted the Eagle pottery at this
place for some years. Recently the
concern was reorganized with a capi
tal stock of $10,000 and Mr. Dovey
became interested in it. The output
of the old plant was of the rougher
grade of pottery. The new plant will
turn out a higher grade of goods, for
which the clay of Saline county is
well adapted. The new plant will be
in operation early in March.
INVESTIGATING A LYNCHING.
Grand July at Waldron Takes Up
Death of John Bailey.
Waldron.—The hardest fought case
before the grand jury at this session
of the circuit court is the investiga
tion into the killing of John Bailey.
Bailey was shot and killed in a strug
gle with a mob. Some time ago it
was alleged that the wife of William
Cummings deserted her husband and
children and went to live with Bailey.
The incident caused much anger and
a mob went to his house to whip him.
He was shot in the struggle with the
mob.
No Shelter For Mourners.
Hot Springs.—Male members of the
funeral party which attended tfee re
mains of W. r. Surratt of Argenta to
the Cedar Glades cemetery, 20 miles
west of here, were compelled to siay
out of doors all night in the vicinity
of the cemetery for lack of accommo
dations elsewhere. The women mem
bers of the party wyere accommodated
at two dwe lings nearby, but there
was no room for the men. The Ar
genta party arrived here laie in the
afternoon and reached Cedar Glades
too late to attempt the return trip
over the bad roads. There were ll>
in the party.
Farmers' Union Store Burns.
Hot Springs.— News reached here
that the Farmers' Union general store
at Bear City was burned, the entire
stock being lost. The little village
has no fire protection. The value of
the stock was placed at $6,000, and
the building at $2,000. The report
here is that the building was fired by
incediaries, as there was positively
no chance for it to burn through care*
lessness.
Killed in Wreck.
Havana.—A telegram was received
here telling of the death in a wreck
at Wilburn Tenn., of a photographer
named Brewer, who was formerly lu
business her*.
JAIL DELIVERY
PLOT EOILED
Wardens Discover Two Attempts to
Escape, One at Each State Prison,
Well On Way to Success.
Little Rock.—A double attempt at
escape, one at the old penitentiary
and another at the new peniteniary,
in which dynamite was to figure,
which might have resulted in a whole
sale jail delivery, was averted early
Friday morning by the failure of two
of the men concerned to remain faith
ful to their fellow-conspirators.
Whether the men fell out among
themselves and the two men that
gave away the scheme became angry
with the others and endeavored to get
even with them, or whether the two
men became frightened when the mo
ment to act came, has not been deter
mined by the wardens, and will not
be, probably, for a week or two, when
the details of the atempted escape
will leak out.
The attempt at he new walls was
nipped in the bud just in time to pre
vent, possibly, what might have been
the largest prison delivery in the his
tory of the state. The object of the
men was to blow out a portion of the
walls with dynamite and then make a
dash for freedom.
It is not known positively where
the men obtained the dynamite, but
it is thought that it is some they had
smuggled in when they returned from
the brick kilns a short time ago. The
brick company used dynamite to blow
out the clay in tbe clay pits, and it
is probable that the men secured sev
eral sticks and secreted them, await
ing a chance to blow down the walls
and get away. Superintendent Pit
cock stated that this is the only way
they could have obtained the explo
sive, unless it had been sumggled in
to them by someone outside the walls.
This plan had not reached the stage
of advancement that the one at the
old walls had reached. No one seems
to have been at the head of the
the scheme, and none of the
prisoners have as yet been openly ac
cused of being connected with it. The
plan was given away by one of the
men who is thought to have become
frightened. He showed the wardens
the place where the dynamite was
hidden and told of the attempt that
would soon have been made.
Warden Lem Smith of the old peni
tentiary stated that it would have
been useless for the men to have
blown down the walls, as a guard is
always stationed at each of the cor
ners and this makes it practically im
possible for a prisoner to get away,
even if he gets beyond the walls.
FRUIT GROWERS FIGHT SCALE.
While Pest Has Not Grown Alarming
in Crawford, Orchardists Are Pre
paring to Stamp It Out.
Van Buren.—While the peach orch
ards of Crawford county have been
practically free front that greatest
enemy to fruit culture, the San Jose
scale, orchardists have at last real
ized that their large commercial peach
orchards that have been brought to
a state of perfection only by years
of labor are endangered and are now
planning to wage a war upon the pest
with sprays and the axe.
The ravages of this tree disease in
Crawford has not grown alarming;
however, there are enough diseased
trees in the county to scatter it to
every one of the million trees now
growing in this county. Our growers
have been making a more careful
observation of their trees this spring
than common and the result is there
is not an orchard of any size but has |
more or less affected trees.
There are those who feel like aban- j
doning their orchards, while others
will flglit the plague with spraying j
apparatus and where trees are so bad- '■
ly affected that they will not bear, |
the axe will be applied and the last J
vestige burned. By this means they j
hope to be able to check the ravages I
of the disease, if they do not com- !
pletely eradicate it.
There is a feeling among the own- !
ers of the large commercial peach
orchards of Crawford county that the
present legislature should pass an act !
providing for an inspector to condemn j
all affected trees and compel their j
destruction without loss of time and ;
compel growers to spray their unaf- i
fected trees with a preparation that j
would make them immune to the dis
ease, this, in their opinion, being the
only effective way of fighting the
scale blague.
Marshall Reported Under Sentence.
Fort Smith.—It has been reported
here that a young man named Ed
ward Marshall, who is wanted here
for the r.r’.rde" of Edward Slusher,
whom he shot in ’.he back of the head
because of an ; ileged insult to Mrs.
Marshall, Is uudor sentence of death
in Nevada for murder on the charge
of killing a miner there.
After the killing of Slusher Mar
shall made good his escape.
QUILLBACK BUYS A NEW CLOCK,
Then He Shows False Economy of
Keeping Old One Too Long.
“At last,” said Mr. Quillback, “we
have bought a new clock, and good
ness knows we needed it.
“The old clock was a small, round,
nickel-plated timekeeper we had had
for some years, and in the course of
time it began to show signs of wear.
But we hated to go to the expense of
a new clock as long as we could make
that one do, so we kept it, shaking her
up ’most every day for something like
a year until finally it got to be so tire
some that we mustered up courage
and bought a new clock.
“And then 1 did a little figuring. In
the course of a year I had spent an
average of five minutes a day shaking
up that old clock on. say, 300 days,
making, to save the cost of a new
clock, a gross total of time spent
amounting to 1,500 minutes. You di
vide this by 60 and you find that I had
spent in shaking up- that blessed old
clock a little more than 25 hours!
“Now, in the way of income, you
know, I don’t pretend to class up with
the Rockefellers and Carnegies and
that sort of folks, but figuring my
earning capacity on the modest basis
of 50 cents an hour I find that I have
spent in shaking up that miserable old
ticker time to the value of $12.50! And
the new clock cost only 69 cents!
“Of course, buying the new clock
when we did instead of a year sooner,
we saved the wear on it in that
period, and if we count the life of
such a clock at say ten years we find
that we have thus saved about seven
cents' worth of wear on the new clock,
and this, properly, of course, should be
deducted from the $12.50, but even at
that, in the best showing possible we
find that to save 69 cents we have met
with a net loss of $12.43, to say noth
ing of the wear and tear on us caused
by the aggravation of having to shake
the old clock up every day and make
it go!
“We had been, as in so many ways
we are prone to be, penny wise and
pound foolish, but we are learning
wisdom and we haven't got to shake
the old clock up any more, anyway.”
Lords in Livery.
Mr. Smith was chatting with the pro
prietor of a big garage when a chauf
feur came in.
“Good morning, Mr. Bl” remarked
the master of the establishment.
Mr. Smith presently asked f
“Why the 'Mr.?' ”
“He is the son of a formerly rich
city man,” was the reply. “The post
of chauffeur is acceptable to a penni
less young fellow of rank. There are
several who come here who have blue
blood in their veins. One of these—
the cousin of a duke—was trained by
a leading motor expert, himself a
member of a titled family.
“One day the young fellow was sent
out to give a trial run in a car. The
would-be customer was a wealthy but
illiterate old lady, who was so pleased
with him that she handed him half a
dollar.
" There, young man,’ she said. ‘Don’t
spend it foolishly!’
“Back he went to the garage in a
state of wild indignation.
“ ‘Look here, Mr. X.,’ he cried, 'that
old woman gave me half a dollar!’
" You're lucky,’ was the quiet reply.
Last time I took her out she gave me
only a quarter.’ ”
Urges Autos for “Coppers.”
Chief of Police Kohler of Cleveland,
“the Golden Rule policeman," believes
that the day of the foot policeman in
his city are past. He favors a system
of automobile squads. In a recent re
port he said: You might as well send
the fire engines out in the streets look
ing for fires as single policemen to
hunt crime. 1 urge that at least 15 auto
mobiles be purchased for the police de
partment for use in patrolling.” Koh
ler explains that he would send out
groups of “coppers” in autos, who
could be carried over a great terri
tory several times each night, drop
ping off one or more policemen when
suspicious conditions were noted.
In Gsy Paree.
“What kind of an eating house do
you call this?” asked the man from
Chicago as he entered a queer-looking
establishment in Paris.
"This is one horse restaurant, mon
sieur," explained garcon. “You can
have ze horseflesh* in any style. How
would you like yours?”
Horse in any style, eh? Well, sup
pose you have mine curried.”
An Ignorance of Values,
“You shouldn’t have said you could
hire all the brains you need for $25 a
week," said the Xew York politician’s
friend.
"Why not?”
“Because it’s merely an invitation
to comebody with only six dollars’
worth of btains to come along and
cheat you."—Washington Star.
Time Changes Everything.
It beats all, how time changes
things. A few years ago a woman
nearly went into hysterics at the sight
of an automobile; now she almost
goes into them if she does not own
one.—Meggendorfer Biaetter.