Wandrqu Cmmty News.
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VOL. VI.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1907.
NO.
7.
NEWS Of THE WEEK
AN EPITOME OF THE MOST IM
PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
and abroad.
north, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
Alexander Johnston Cassatt, presi
dent ot the Pennsylvania Railroad
Cc.. died suddenly of heart disease at
bis residence in Philadelphia. He was
recognized as one of the foremost rail
road men of the country. He leaves
a fortune estimated all the way from
{50,000,030 to $75,000,000.
In a railroad collision near Ar
broath. a town between Edinburgh and
Aberdeen,- Scotland, caused by heavy
imow. 16 persons were killed and over
thirty seriously injured.
Arctic weather has prevailed
throughout central Europe. In Great
Britain violent gales and snowstorms
were accompanied by thunder.
Efforts on the part of the United
States to effect a peaceful settlement
in Cuba are not meeting with encour
agement from the Cubans. It is the
impression of public men generally in
Washington that the better element
of people of Cuba desire annexation.
Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the Meth
odist church, south, died at Asheville,
N. C.
The director of the mint has pur
chased 100,000 ounces of fine silver, to
be delivered at the Philadelphia mint,
at 70.15S cents per ounce.
Speaker Cannon wins fight for
precedence over the chief justice ot
the supreme court at social functions.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given out
a statement in which she declares that
it is not her intention to distribute
immediately the money left by her
husband, and much less does site in
tend to distribute it everywhere and
to everybody.
W. S. Keyes, a hanker and pioneer
business man of San Francisco was
found dead at his club from natural
causes.
The internal revenue receipts for
the first five months of the fiscal year
amounted to $11G.175,407, an increase
over the same period of 1905 of $9,722,
858.
Pnited States Senator Beveridge, of
Indiana, addressed the school teachers
of Nebraska, and was introduced by
Wm. J. Bryan.
It is stated that James J. Hill will
retire as president of the Great North
ern railroad July 1, and will be suc
ceeded by his eldest son, Louis J. Hill.
Lawrence Leberg, who was lynched
at Las Animas, CaL, for murder, was
recently released from the asylum at
Prono, Utah. The superintendent of
the Utah institution believes the Colo
rado mob lynched a lunatic.
The statement is issued from the
Whit? House that the president does
not contemplate a trip to the Philip
pines next summer.
It is stated that Germany has signed
a peace treaty with the Hereroes, the
African tribesman who have given
trouble for several years.
Near Muskoday, N. D., the process
of thawing dynamite was being car
ried on. It exploded, blowing two
men to atoms. • f
It has been announced at the state
department in Washington that the
tailed States will support measure
adopted by England to ameliorate the
sufferings of people in the Congo
country.
*"*■ tUU1 Mrs. Bouls Bischoffesheim.
of London, have donated $200,000 to
c irnPerial cancer research fund.
!? an interview at Topeka, Kas.,
illiani J. Bryan stated that “such
gb honor is the presidential nomi
ation that no man should decline.”
>auqi Indians, in the state of So
nora, Mexico, are on a raid, murdering
nnd plundering.
L is stated that thirty million peas
. s need assistance in the Rus
1 a° famine districts.
Lount Kugene Zichy, who died al
"Udapest recently, left an estate val
_ ! at 0000,000. He bequeathed a
eni id collection of paintings and
pe^r works of art to the city of Buda
Andie Giron, who achieved notoriety
three
then
.'ears ago by eloping with the
crown princess of Saxony, has
ui ouxony, nas
n,ecl Mile, eanne Bream, who is
>ears older than Giron. The crown
rivhtess 0f Saxony >OBt all her royal
K through her escapade, while
G>con went unpunished.
visit P,oasts of England have been
by terrific gales, causing loss
10 shipping
Ince'nf'*1^ °Wn of Africa- ln the prov
bv ., cttcehle, has been destroyed
the !,„ea^ll<|llttke’ anc* other towns in
or in '^bborhood have suffered more
j ^less severely.
len-U|dd!<\. 011 8 counsel chal
Lena o£aU°f B°Vernment to 8ub
Accidentlly Killed Himself.
O. C. Cate, 19 years of age, accident
ally shot him;- ' at his home near
Cato Christmas ,uorning. He got up
out. of bed and put on his trousers and
socks and stepped ont of doors to tire
some Christmas salutes. He held the
pistol at arm's length, and after each
shot would throw the muzzle back
while cocking the weapon. By some
mishap, while the gun was pointing
toward his right side, it went off, the
bail, entering on Ihe right side, cours
ing its way through the chest toward
•qjuap juEjsut 3ii|onpo.id pun lanaq, am
Powder Explosion lnju-es Eight.
A can of powder exploded recently
in the general store of William Lin
sey & Son of Clinton, injuring eight
men, two of them fatally. The explo
sion occurred while the proprietor of
the store was weighing some of the
powder for a customer. A bystander
struck a match, and it is believed the
head of the match flew into the pow
der, causing the explosion. The ex
plosion wrecked the building and was
followed by a fire, but it was quickly
extinguished.
A Farming Course at University.
The College of Agriculture of the
University of Arkansas will give a
short winter course for the benefit of
tile farmers of the State, and their
sons and daughters. The course will
start. January 14, and continue until
January 20, and will include lectures
and demonstrations by the agricultur
ists, horticulturists, veterinarian, en
tomologists, dairy husbandman, etc.,
at the college. No fees are charged
and no books will be needed bv those
who attend the course.
Accidental Shooting.
I. .1. Vick, who operates a lumber
mill near Sulphur Springs, and one
of the most prominent citizens of Jef
ferson county, was accidentally shot
while out hunting. Mr. Underwood,
who accompanied him, was standing
near, resting his gun across his arm,
and with it pointed towards Mr. Vick.
In some manner it was discharged
and the load of birdshot entered
Vick’s side, causing a wound which
may prove fatal.
State Teachers’ Association.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
J. J. Doyne is receiving letters from
teachers all over the State regarding
the next meeting of the Arkansas
Stato Teachers’ Asoi/ciation, which
will be held in Little Rock December
26-23. A rate of one fare, plus 50
cents has been secured on all roads
for this meeting, and the indications
are that the next meeting will be the
best in the history of the association.
Shot By Owner of the Land.
Virgil English, the 18-year-old son of
Luo English, of Praire Grove, was shot
a few days ago while hunting in Indian
Territory by the owner of the land
upon which he was hunting. English
was out hunting with a number of
companions, and it is stated were or
dered off the farm by the owner, and
after they had left were followed by
the man, when a quarrel ensued and
English was shot.
Merchant Fails at Texarkana.
Isidore Scherer, a dry goods mer
chant of Texarkana for twenty years,
made an assignment recently for the
benefit, of his creditors. The liabili
ties are estimated at about $12,000
The assets, consisting of the stock of
goods and real estate, are estimated
at about $10,000. Poor business dur
ing the past season is given as the
reason for the failure.
To Open Navigation.
Capt. H. M. Earshall,, government
engineer in charge of the Ouachita
river, has been at a point where the
Rock Island bridge is across the Oua
chita for the purpose of seeing why
navigation is obstructed. It. is pre
sumed that he was there at the in
stance of the government, as com
plaint has been made by the Board
of Trade at Camden.
A New Sawmill at Batesvllle.
The Allan-Kernes Lumber Company
will begin the erction of a large saw
mill at Reedville next month. The
company has acquired large tracts of
gum wood lands in the vicinity of
Reedville, the timber on which they
will convert into lumber. The con
cern was formerly engaged in busi
ness at Fulton, Ark.
Constable Takes His Life.
Constable W. N. Watt of Hot
Springs shot and killed himself re
cently, the bullet entering the right
side, passed through the boify and
lodged in the floor underneath the bed.
No reason can be assigned for the act
other than temporary insanity.
Young Farmer Commits Suicide.
Thomas Willington, a young farmer,
living near Hot Springs, committed
suicide recently by hanging himself
to the limb of a small tree. No word
was left by him to explain the cause
of his suicide.
Killed Himself When Child Cried.
William Wall, a one-legged teamster
of Wynne, slapped his little 5-year-old
son, to whom he was very devoted,
and when the child cried, he seized
i pistol and shot himself through the
h?ad.
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AR
RKANSAS
STATE NEWS
Opposition to Flat Rate on Cotton.
A matter which is considered by cot
ton men to be of great importance
to the growers of cotton, is before the
Arkansas Railroad Commission in the
nature of a reo.uest from Pine Bluff
to have a ilai rate established in Ar
kansas for the handling of cotton. It
is asserted that a fiat rate would
mean the abolishment of tho concen
tration rates in existence in the state,
inasmuch as it is declared that the
flat rate as a rule would be in excess
of the concentration rate. It is be
lieved that the roads would refuse to
maintain a low rate in the face of the
higher rate.
A concentration rate is a rate where
by cotton comes from the field in the
bales and is shipped to a point to be
compressed. After compression it is
reloaded and forwarded to final points
of destination, such as the New Eng
land mills and ports for export. This
permits a buyer in Little Rock to se
lect staple in the field, bring it to Lit
tle Rock for compression and for
ward it to destination on certain basic
points.
A flat rate is a local rate. In oper
ation it means that a bale of cotton
loaded at any point in the state goes
to its destination on the local rate
and if reshipped from Little Rock
must proceed on another local basis.
In effect a local rate into Little Rock
and out would be a combination of two
local rates, which it is declared would
as a rule be higher than the concentra
tion rates in effect.
An Appropriation for State Guard
The biennial report of Charles Ja
cobson, adjutant general of the Arkan
sas State Guard, has just been com
pleted and will be submitted to the
legislature. He recommends that the
legislature make a larger appropria
tion than the one for the past two
years and asks that the legislature pay
back to the state guard fund the mon
ey expended in quarantine duty a year
ago. He recommends that sufficient
appropriation be made to provide ar
mories for each company, and annual
encampments for each regiment. He
suggests that the legislature divide the
office of private secretary to the gover
nor and adjutant general, making the
office of adjutant general a separate
office.
A Damage Suit at. Nashville.
Suit has been instituted in the How
ard Circuit Court at Nashville by Cal
edonia Tollett against W. A. J. and
J. B. Sturdivant for damages for en
ticing a tenant from her farm. The
complaint alleges that Will Beckwith
had contracted to cultivate forty acres
of land for the plaintiff, and that after
such contract had been entered into,
and after she had furnished the ten
ant $40.52, in compliance with his
contract to cultivate the land, he was
enticed away by the defendant. The
suit prays for a judgment for $40 52,
furnished the tenant, and damages in
the sum of $400.
Prize for Eggs.
R. Brown, a merchant at Lincoln,
during the'year ending December 15
offered a prize to the person bringing
in the largest number of eggs to his
store. The successful person in this
contest was George Pridemore, who
marketed 944 1-2 dozen eggs during
the year at an average of about 15
cents per dozen.
Above Is a View of the Handsome Brick Public School Building at Ozark.
Franklin County. Arkansas, of Which Her Citizens Are Justly Proud.
Business Brisk at Springdale.
Up to last week there had been
shipped from Springdale this season
I 377 carloads of green apples and six
I cars of evaporated apples. This in
cludes only carload shipments. In
I other lines of business Springdale
has done equally well. For twelve
months, ending November 10, there
were shipped from there 150 cars of
cattle, hogs and sheep, 15 cars of
mules and horses, 41 cars of hard
wood lumber, 92,700 pounds of poultry,
and 3,946 cases of eggs. For the samp
period of time the dry goods and gro
cery stores have done a business of
$218,895. The postoffice receipts were
$3,623, an excess of $500 over the pre
vious year. For the twelve months
ending November 10, there were re
ceived 101 cars of lumber, 121 cars
of merchandise, 173 cars of miscellane
ous.
Suit Follows Failure to Furnish Cars.
James Gould, county judge of Jef
ferson county, has tiled suit in Jef
ferson Circuit Court against the St.
Louis, iron Mountain and Southern
Railway Company for $5,200 for al
leged damage to a quantity of hay
and cotton seed, which he claims was
sustained on account of the failure of
the railroad company to furnish cars
for shipping the hay and seed.
The complaint states that a large
quantity of pea vine hay and cotton
seed was placed on the line of the de
fendant company for shipment and
that it has remained there since Sep
tember 1, waiting for the railroad com
pany to furnish cars for transporting
it, and that during this time it has
deteriorated in value in the sum
named in the complaint.
Rural Route Turned Down.
The effort on the part of the farmers
in the settlement northeast of Mena
to get rural free delivery has failed
for the present. The po3tofflce inspec
tor who went over the route selected
ast week said that he could not
recommend its establishment on ac
count of the fact .that the Washita
river was not bridged at the ford
where the route crossed that stream.
It happened that this river was up
near its high water mark when the In
spector visited Mena to look over the
•outc, and the usually small water
course looked quite dangerous, the
water filling the bed of the buggy as
the man drove across.
Miners Will Return to Work.
An agreement has been reached be
tween the operators and miners in
the vicinity of Fort Smith, and an or
der has been issued from headquar
ters for the men to go to work. The
miners secured all they contended for.
All the mines are to be run on a
mine run basis, the price being G2 cents
a ton. There is a premium for good
work, which means loading a large
percentage of good coal and the pre
mium is 90 cents a ton for cars load
ed with a certain percentage of lump
coal. The semi-anthracite districts
are not included in the agreement.
A Vinegar Plant at Fort Smith.
The Oklahoma Vinegar Company
has purchased a nine-acre tract ot
land near Fort Smith, paying about
$75,000 for it. The company will erect
a plant on the site at the beginning
of the year. The main building will
be a brick 350 feet long by 100 feet
wide, with some auxiliary buildings,
which will make the plant one of the
most complete of the kind in the coun
try. A building for the storing of cu
cumbers will be erected with a capa
•ity of one hundred thousand bushels,
and all the way through the plant will
be on the same extensive scale.
A Young Lady Commits Suicide.
Miss Mattie Barker, 17 years of age,
daughter of Cal Barker, former sheriff
of Newton county committed suicide
at her home near Elmwood recently.
The young lady had tied a flour sack
over her mouth and then laid down
on the floor and shot herself through
th heart, the ball going through the
body and through the floor beneath.
No cause is assigned for the shoot
ing, as Miss Barker was of pleasant
disposition and in the best of spirits
up to the time she killed herself.
Lockett's Will Filed.
The last will and testament of
Robert R. Lockett, the attorney who
recently committed suicide in Texar
:ana, was filed Thursday in the Pro
late Court. The valuw of the estate
is estimated at $G,000. A sister of
the deceased, Mrs. Horace W.
Vaughan, is named in the will as in
dependent executrix of the same, and
is also made sole beneficiary with the
condition that the estate shall give a
support to the parents of the testator
during her lifetime.
JAPS LEAVE MEXICO
CAME THERE AS LABORERS WITH
INTENTION, IT IS SAID, OF EN
TERING UNITED STATES.
Mexico City, Dec. 31.—A dispatch
from Guadalajara says that the mi
gration of the Japanese brought to this
country under contract to work on fhe
Manzanillo extension of the Mexican
Central Railway continues. According
to the corespondent, 150 of these men
have arrived in Guadalajara and pur
chased tickets for El Paso, Texas. The
story puts an entirely new version on
the affair, for it says that most of the
men are well supplied with money and
are not laborers. Among their number
are professional men, skilled artisans
and students. According to the cor
respondent, it is the belief of the rail
way contractors these men came to
Mexico with the sole idea of getting
transportation to the United States.
On January 20 a steamer from Japan
carrying 200 bona fide laborers is ex
pected to arrive, and the railroad men
hope this will relieve the stringency
in the labor market.
Archbishop Ireland.
Minneapolis, Dec. 30.—Archbishop
Ireland in speaking on the church sep
aration law now being enforced in
France reviewed exhaustively the re
lations of the church and state in that
country during the past quarter cen
tury. The archbishop denied that the
church is. opposed to the law of sep
aration, but declared that it must be
a fair separation, carrying with it the
liberty and justice that separation
means in this country or in England
or Germany. He told of the primary
causes of the trouble in France, blam
ing a few agitators who have a hold
on the republic. The archbishop said
that this class had forced the issue
and that the people have not submit
ted, that they “have unfortunately
not had the training in understanding
and governing to defend their church
against its opponents." The archbish
op declared the trouble would contin
ue and that the church in the end
would defeat the efforts of the state
and come into the full exercise of its
rights and liberties.
Street Car Accident.
Cincinnati, Dec. 31.—At least 30 peo
ple were injured, one of whom has
since died, in the wrecking of a run
away electric car on the Warsaw av
enue hill in this city Sunday after
noon. The motorman discovered at
the top of the hill that he had lost con
trol of the car and tried to use the
emergency brake, but it failed, and the
car ran at an increasingly high speed
for five blocks, jumping the track at
what is known as the Horseshoe
curve. The car struck a telebraph pole
and turned turtle, the passengers be
ing thrown in a heap in the mud be
side the track or buried in the wreck
of the car. Hiram Leister, a passen
ger, by operating the brake on the
rear platform, probably prevented a
much worse accident, as his action,
made at great personal risk, reduced
the speed of the car materially be
fore it left the track.
Trade Condition.
Washington, Dec. 31.—The remarka
ble growth in the export trade of the
United States with Panama within the
past two years is shown in a state
ment issued yesterday by the bureau
of statistics of the Department of
Commerce and Labor. From a little
more than $2,500,000 in exports to
Panama two years ago, American
trade with that country for the pres
ent year will show an export trade
aggregating more than $14,000,000. It
is shown that for the eleven months
ending with November the export
trade amounted to $12,956,871 and the
figures for the single month of No
vember totaled $1,273,507. The ex
ports from Panama into the United
States will have aggregated nearly a
million dollars at the close of the pres
ent year.
Great Woman Dead.
London, Dec. 30.—Baroness Burdette
Coutts, who has been ill at her res
idence since Christmas eve, is dead.
The death of Baroness Burdette
Coutts, occurring at the age of 92
years, besides depriving the country
of one of its greatest and most fa
mous philanthropists, removes from
London an unique personality and an
interesting social figure. As a link
with the almost forgotten past, her
life beginning during the reign of Em
peror Napoleon, she lived during the
reigns of five British sovereigns. In
heriting an immense fortune, she used
it so as to die beloved by the whole
nation.
Gov. Molina Has Recovered.
Merida, Yucatan, Dec. 31.—Governor
Molina is quite recovered from his re
cent sickness. He will not come to the
capital to undertake his new post un
i til March.
FACTS ABOUT FIGURE NINE.
Professor of the Occult Has Added a
New Wrinkle.
Mathematicians have juggled with
:he mystic figures 3, 7 and 9 for ages,
ind now comes a foreign “professor"
>f the occult science to tell fortune
jy “the force in a simple numeral”—
.he 9. He reminds his victims that if
hey multiply any number, short of a
lecimal, by 9 the two figures of tho
product added together will make 9.
rhus: Nine times 2 are 18, and 8 and
I are 9; 9 times 3 are 27, and 7 and 2
are 9; 9 times 5 are 45, and 5 and 4
are 9; 9 times 6 are 54, and 4 and 5
are 9; 9 times 7 are 63. and 3 and 6
are 9; 9 times S are 72, and 2 and 7
are 9; 9 time 9 are 81, and 1 and 8 are
9. He might have added that any
■lumber in the hundreds of thousands
multiplied by 9 will give a product
the sum of whose digits is a multiple
of 9. Take at random—9 times 545
are 4,905, the sum of which is 18, and
9 into 18 goes 2 times. Take 7,352
multiplied by 9 equals 66,168; the sum
of the digits is 27; 9 into 27 goes
3 times. Oh, there is an immense
amount of fun in 9.
MADE THEM ALL LAUGH.
Book Must Have Been Funny, but No
One Knew What Is Was.
It must have been a very funny
story! The type looked funny from
across the aisle of the car, the pic
tures looked funny, and the young
lady who was reading it doubled up
in fits of stifled laughter every few
minutes. The young man in the seat
with her could not help stealing a
glance at the pages of the book which
was evidently so funny, but whose
cover was carefully doubled back out
of sight, and soon he began to laugh
as he unblushingly followed the story
page after page, shaking with sup
pressed merriment.
The woman in the seat at right an
gles became interested and looked
over the girl's shoulder. Presently
her face broadened into a grin and
soon she was convulsively shaking.
The man in the seat across smiled at
the scene. A boy a few seats down
the aisle grinned sympathetically. A
darky still further down showed all
his white teeth. The contagion spread
mtil the car was nearly on the verge
' hysterics, when the fair reader got
up to leave the train, yet no one but
tho girl herself had any idea as to
what the book was.
VAST WEALTH OF THE SOUTH.
In Natural Resources That Section Is
Supreme.
To its coal supply, more than twice
as great as the combined coal area
of Great Britain, Germany and Penn
sylvinia; to its vast stores of oil and
natural gas as supplementary sources
power of water powers for utilization
of power and heat end light the South
adds at least 3.000,000 available horse
power of water powers for utilization
for electrical transmission, also for
power, heat and light. The develop
ment of this vast water power poten
tiality will eventually employ $250.
000,000 to $300,000,000 and be equal in
working capacity to 6,000,000 men. It
will make possible construction of
thousands of miles of interurban elec
tric roads, it will furnish cheap power
and light for mines and factories*, and
create, as in Switzerland, the highest
forms of skilled mechanical work in
the mountains of the South, where
climatic conditions are unsurpassed
by any other section of the world. In
counting up the riches of the South al
ways bear in mind its wealth of ever
running streams, where nature fur
nishes the power without price except
for the cost of development—Manu
facturers’ Record.
POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD.
Guarantee On Their Products.
We warrant and guarantee that
all packages of Postum Cereal, Grape
Nuts and Elijah’s Manna hereafter sold
by any jobber or retailer, comply with
the provisions of the National Pure
Food Law, and are not and shall not
be adulterated or mis branded within
the meaning of said Act of Congress
approved June 30, 1906, and entitled,
“An act for preventing the manufac
ture, sale or transportation of adul
terated or mis-branded or poisonous or
deleterious foods, drugs, medicines,
liquors, and for regulating traffic there
in for other purposes.”
Postum Cehf.al Co., Ltd.
C. W. Post, Chairman,
Battle Creek, Mich.
Dec. 12, 1906.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 16th day of December, 1906.
Benjamin F. Reid,
Notary Public..
My commission expires July 1, 1907.
Our goods are pure, they always
have been and always will be, they are
not mis-branded. We have always
since the beginning of our business,
printed a truthful statement on the
packages of the ingredients contained
therein and we stand back of every
package.