VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1908.
NO. 24
NEWS OF THE WEEK
the latest news of the
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD
north, eastjouth, west
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na
tion, and Particulaly From the
Great Southwest.
CONGRESSIONAL.
House passes senate resolution au
thorizing attorney general to file suits
against Oregon & California Railway
Co. for forfeiture of 2,800,000 acres of
land grants in Western Oregon by a
vote of 245 to 8.
Senator Piles introduced an amend
ment to naval appropriation bill au
thorizing increase from two to four
battleships.
Although several hours were con
sumed in roll calls, the day in the
house was one of comparative activ
ity and several measures of impor
tance were put through. The princi
pal of these perhaps was the resolu
tion by Speaker Cannon providing for
an investigation of the paper trust
and, in pursuance of its provisions,
the speaker announced as the commit
tee of six who will conduct the in
vestigation, Me»srs. Mann (111.), Mil
' ler (Kas.), Stafford (Wis.), Bannon
(O.), Sims (Tenn.) -and Ryan (N. Y.).
The Democrats as a unit voted against
the resolution after the declaration
by Mr. Williams that he did not be
lieve a sincere effort would be made
to arrive at the truth. Another meas
ure passed was one in which import
ers generally are interested and which
practically creates the board of gen
eral appraisers at New York, a trial
court in matters peitaining to cus
toms duties, appeals therefrom to be
taken to the circuit court of appeals
instead of the circuit court as here
tofore.
President Roosevelt Wednesday aft
ernoon signed the employers' liability
bill recently passed by congress, hav
ing been assured of its constitutional
ity by Attorney General Bonaparte.
The sum total of Wednesday's pro
ceedings of the house was the passage,
under suspension of the rules, of three
bills and the defeat of one. When ad
journment was reached there was
pending a measure which instructs
the attorney general to institute suits
against the Oregon & California Rail
road Co. for the forfeiture of several
million acres of land grants in Ore
gon. The bills that got through were
as follows: Declaring the right to
enter as oil lands certain mineral
lands; authorizing the alienation of
certain allotments of the five civilized
tribes, and removing the restrictions
against foreign ships with respect to
trade between the United States and
the Philippine Islands. By a large
majority the bill to allow the importa
tion of foreign white laborers into
Hawaii was defeated.
The McCall campaign publicity bill
was unanimously reported to the
house for passage by the committee
on the election of president, vice
president and representatives in con
gress. Though introduced by a Repub
lican, the report had the undivided
support of the minority members of
the committee and of the National
Publicity association.
Senate holds a jokefest over item
in naval bill apprpriating money for
cows and automobiles at naval sta
tions.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Seven persons attempted suicide in
various parts of Chicago within an
hour, and three succeeded. The other
four did little injury to themselves.
The depressing effects of a dark morn
ing and inability to get work prompt
ed most of the attempts.
A serious native rebellion has bro
ken out in Northern India. The Mo
hamand tribe, 10,000 strong, is in the
field. Many Afghans are joining them.
It is understood all available British
troops will be mobilized on a war foot
ing.
Another victory for federal courts
over state courts in state railroad
rates was registered in the supreme
court of the United States when that
tribunal refused to require the federal
court in Nebraska to send back to the
Nebraska state court a suit which the
state had begun tn the state court to
enforce its intrastate railroad rate
laws.
Oscar Tuttle, aged 22, son of a pros
perous farmers at Germantown, N. C.,
shot and killed his sister. Mollie Tut
Oe> aged 28, with a shotgun. Miss
Tuttle was in her room when her
brother entered and shot without
warning. No cause is known.
Homer L. Higgs, editor of the Green
field (Tenn.) Times, has been indicted
by the Weakley county jury on an ar
son charge. It is alleged that he gave
Fannie Jordan, a domestic employee
by him, $75 to burn his house, hoping
to collect $1,400 insurance.
Fightnlng Is threatened between
Guatemala and Honduras, according
to semio-official information from both
countries over the attempt in Guate
mala City upon the life of President
Cabrera. Cabrera suspects the Hon
duran government of complicity in the
assassination plot. Dr. Bustillo, Hon
duras minister at Guatemala City, is
in hiding.
The Chicago limited express on the
Erie was ditched at Canisteo, N. Y„
while going 60 miles an hour. Every
car except the rear Pullman left the
rails, but the coaches remained right
side up. Twenty persons were thrown
from their berths and badly bruised.
The young Due de Chaulnes, who
was married in New York City last
February to Miss Theodora Shonts,
daughter of the president of the Clover
Leaf railroad, was found dead in bed
in his apartment at the Hotel Lang
ham, in the Rue Boccador.
Thieves robbed the bank at Banda
na, Ballard county, Ky., taking $2,500.
After trying to rob several residences,
they went to the telephone exchange.
Finding three young men there, one
the assistant cashier of the bank, they
proceeded to hold them up. They
found the keys of the bank on one or
them, B. H. Hahs. They gagged and
tied the men, and, taking Hahs away,
compelled him to go to the bank and
open the safe.
While his wife and two little daugh
ters lay asleep in bed, Lewis Flecken
stein, a wealthy resident of Johnston.
Pa., entered their bedroom and, with
a hatchet, scalped his wife. Then
went downstairs and hanged himself.
Frank Lewis Strangs Isotta, Italian,
won the Briar Cliff trophy cup in the
344-mile auto race over the pictur
esque and perilous course at Briar
Cliff Manor, N. Y. Strangs’ elapsed
time was 5:15:15 1-3.
Mme. Anna Gould has arrived at
Naples, where Prince Helie de Sagan
has been awaiting her. The prince
was on the dock when the Frederick
der Grosse drew in, hurrie’cT up the
gang plank, met Mme. Gould on deck,
was evidently graciously received,
kissed the American woman's hand
and escorted her to a waiting auto,
in which they were driven at 'top
speed to the hotel, where Mme. Gould's
apartments have been engaged.
Mrs. Mary Williams, a pretty young
matron, was declared insane at Bos
ton, Bowie county, Ark. Mrs. Wil
liams’ husband disappeared, taking
with him their two children, and this
caused the breaking down of her men
tal faculties.
Miss Victoria Hale shot and killed
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Maude Hale,
at a farm 10 miles southwest of Ful
ton, Mo., then came to Fulton two
hours later and gave herself up. She
was placed in jail to await trial.
Four Italian laborers were killed in
an explosion of gas in No. 1 of the
Ellsworth Coal Co.'s mine at Ells
worth, Pa. There were 100 men in the
mine when the explosion occurred.
The damage to the mine was slight.
Four thousand four hundred volts
of electricity passed through the
body of Fred G. Schenkemeyer at the
Union Electric Light and Power plant.
St. Louis, and, although he was ter
ribly shocked and burned, it is prob
able that the man will recover.
Four masked men entered the rear
doors of the Indiana club at Hot
Springs, Ark., and after taking the
club’s bank roll, locked all those pres
ent in a small room and escaped.
Drawn six-shooters served as persuad
ers. Nearly $10,000 was secured.
Federal Judge C. C. Kohlsatt in Chi
cago struck a blow' against the express
companies when he issued a sweeping
Injunction, restraining them from is
suing franks of any kind for the carry
ing of merchandise.
One hundred persons were rendered
homeless by a fire that broke out in
the private garage of Dr. Harzog at
Sutter and Buchanan streets, San
Francisco. Four houses were de
stroyed.
One hundred and fifty-four men
have been deprived of the rights of
citizenship by the circuit and superior
courts of Chicago as a result of the
war of the state and federal govern
ments upon anarchists.
The national banks in Oklahoma
have been told by the comptroller of
the currency not to comply with the
new state law guaranteeing deposits
until the United States department of
justice renders an opinion upon it.
Actually searching a large part of
Guatemala City, bouse by house, for
persons implicated in a plot to as
sassinate him. President Manuel Ca
brera of Guatemala has created a
reign of terror in his capital.
Four Italians were killed and 40 in
ured by the premature explosion of
blasting powder at a construction
camp near Heber, Ark. The interpre
ter was killed and the names of those
killed and inured can not be learned.
Count and Countess Szechenyi have
been flooded with begging letters
since they went to Hungary on their
wedding tour. The total number of
such missives up to the present time
is nearly, if not quite, 1,000.
Federal Jury Fcr May.
The Petit Jury for service in the
federal court for the last of the April
term was drawn Thursday. The jury
will report to Judge Trieber at Little
Rock on Monday morning, May 4, at
0:30 o’clock. The jury is as follows:
Chester Scroggins, Center Ridge; A.
J. Hunter, Little Rock; John C. Park
er, Russellville; John F. Sennett, New
Gascony: John N. Evans, Love; Thos.
Alexander, Davenport; Jeff Isaac,
Plant; Hugh Walker, Wyville; M. F.
Moon, Springfield; N. W. Bunker,
Lake Village; John Benton, Green
brier; R. F. Roper, R. F. D. No. 1,
Bryant; John T. Ginocchio, Little
Rock; Ed Spenser, Monticello; P. W.
Hubbard, Gum Log; H. C. Tombles,
Hot Springs; L. P. Hardeman, DeVall’s
Bluff; W. H. Jarrett, Little Rock;
James Sterling, Judsonia; R. S. Smith,
Malvern; J. P. Robinsn, Little Rock;
W. M. Vaught, Caddo Gap; John W.
Lowell Jr., Hot Springs; John House,
Carthage; Andrew Ritz, Bauxite; W.
B. East, Okolona; T. J. Davis, Little
Rock; A. V. Hope, Prattsville; B. F.
Perkins, Carlisle; M. A. Trice, Roe;
M. J. Mcllwain, Little Rock; Alex
Lewellyn, Holland; W. B. Thompson,
Cypress; Geo. W. McConnell, Casa;
Chas. Seay, Warren; Avery Thomas,
Little Rock.
Steam Shovel Breaks; I Dead.
The sudden and unexpected collapse
of a steam shovel at Camp Hunt, three
miles above Pangburn, on the new
Missouri and North Arkansas railroad
line, caused the death of one Greek
and injured another man of the same
nationality, Monday. It was rumor
ed that a blast of powder had blown
up four laborers, but this report has
been emphatically denied, whereas the
report to the effect that one foreigner
was killed by a falling derrick has
been largely substantiated.
The shovel had been used in exca
vating a cut for a new railroad. Some
part of the apparatus broke and the
shovel completely collapsed, falling on
the two men.
Found Dead In Bed.
Ralph Stuart of Gurdon, was found
dead in his bed Thursday morning.
He was subject to severe headaches
which sometimes produced uncon
sciousness and was suffering from one
of these attacks Thursday night. About
3 o’clock, being somewhat relieved,
he fell asleep. At about 6 o’clock
Thursday morning he was found dead
by his mother.
He was about 20 years of age and
was born and reared in Arkadelphia.
To Protect Visitors.
The Visitors’ Protective League of
Hot Springs will shortly establish
headquarters in that city, where visi
tors will be welcome and will be fur
nished with all the information that a
new arrival in the city may desire.
The association was organized for the
primary purpose of protecting visitors
from the wiles of hotel and doctor
drummers.
Girl Graduates Banqueted.
The High School Alumni gave a
banquet to the graduating class of
1908 at Basin Park hotel. Eureka
Springs, Tuesday night. One hundred
and twenty-five guests were present.
Not a boy graduated this year and 10
girls, composing the class, participat
ed in commencement exercises at the
opera house Monday night.
Corning Revival Ends.
Revival services that have been held
at the Baptist, church at Corning for
two weeks, conducted by Rev. H.
L. Winburn of Arkadelphia, closed
Monday night. There were many con
versions.
Church Building Sold.
The congregation of the Christian
church at Arkadelphia has purchased
the old building and lot of the First
Baptist church, and will occupy it as
soon as the Baptists’ new building is
completed. The purchase price was
$2,500.
Has Oldtime Newspaper.
Clyde Hancock of Conway has a
copy of the New York Weekly Herald
dated October 4, 1S51. The paper is
wrell preserved and is retained as a
memento of his grandfather.
Negro Killed By a Car.
William Glover, a negro, aged 50
years, who lived at Fourteenth and
Jackson streets, was instantly killed
about 7:30 o'clock Saturday morning
at the corner of Twelfth and Lewis
streets. Little Rock, by a Highland
Park car in charge of Motorman R.
W. Rowland and Conductor J. A. Ed
wards. His body was almost mashed
and cut into a pulp. The trunk was
cut almost in two, one leg was cut off;
nearly all of his limbs were either
broken or mashed, and his head was
badly mashed and bruised.
Court Rules Against Saloons at
Wynne.
Cross county is being organized
from a prohibition standpoint.. Rev.
G. W. Eichelberger lectured there
Sunday and organized an anti-saloon
league for the county with Edward
Hamilton as president and Flow Wil
liams, Mayo and Harris as vice-presi
dents, and Mrs. W. W. Haver as sec
retary and treasurer.
Sunday night. Mr. Eichelberger lec
tured at Vanndale and organized a
league, with W. E. Richards as presi
dent and Messrs. Thomas, Killough,
Wolf and Mrs. Dr. Smith vice-presi
dents, and Dr. Griffith as secretary
and treasurer.
Monday night Mr. Eichelberger
spoke to the negroes of Wynne and
nearly the entire audience pledged
themselves to vote for state-wide pro
hibition next September. Mr. Eichel
berger stated that this county will be
thoroughly organized with a view to
turning it from a wet county to a dry
one this year.
A contest is now on in court to be
tried next Saturday, in which the ac
curacy of the count in the recent pri
mary will be tested.
County Judge Gooch Monday passed
upon a three-mile petition presented
by prohibitionists, asking that saloons
be prohibited from Wynne. The pe
tition was granted, the majority being
overwhelmingly against license.
Magistrate Slays, Flees, Surrenders.
A long-distance telephone message
was received at Van Buren Monday
morning by Sheriff Miller from Nat
ural Dam, a small trading post in the
northern part of the county, 20 miles
west of Van Buren, stating that W. P.
Jones, the justice of the peace at that
point, had killed Horace Swearengen.
The message requested him to send a
posse of the officers to join in the
chase after the alleged slayer.
Late Monday afternoon a message
was received from the pursuing par
ty stating that Jones had surrendered
to a deputy sheriff in an adjoining
township, and that he was being hur
ried to Van Buren to be placed in
jail.
Both Jones and Swearengen were
prominent in the locality in which
they-lived, and both-have families.
The cause of the tragedy is not
known there. Jones went to the field
where Swearengen was plowing and
attacked him with a knife, it is al
leged, stabbing him repeatedly until
he touched a vital point, when Swear
engen fell dead almost between his
plow handles.
Robbers Raid a Gambling Room.
Armed with magazine guns, four
masked men descended the west
mountain incline to the rear of the
Indiana Club at Hot Springs at an
early hour Thursday morning, effected
an entrance with pass keys, treaded
the heavily carpeted floors with abso
lute quiet until they reached the heavy
portiered entrance into the main gam
ing hall and there displayed arms and
ordered the five employes and “Big
Dick” Wilkinson of Birmingham, pro
prietor, to turn faces to the walls and
throw up their hands.
The robbers were at first reported
to have covered $S,000 in cash, but
later a statement was issued to the
effect that the loss was $4,000 in cash,
and that certified checks and negotia
ble paper were taken from the safe to
ihe extent of $4,500. The management
of the club would make no statement
as to the description of the paper the
thieves had taken, fearing that indict
ment for gaming might follow such an
announcement.
Has Her Brother Arrested.
On a warrant sworn out by his sis
ter. Lou Maybry, charging him with
having taken one of her horses with
out her knowledge or consent, William
Ford was arraigned before Justice
Jake Probst, at Corning. A compro
mise was effected at the preliminary
trial. The arest was made by Con
stable Arnold.
Negro Convict Slays Another.
Frank Walker of Jefferson county,
a negro convict working at the Hot
Springs junction convict camp, Sat
urday morning struck John Washing
ton of Chicot county, another negro
convict over the head with a shovel,
inflicting injuries that caused Wash
ington's death about seven hours
afterward. The trouble occurred at
the junction camp. The two convicts
are said to have quarreled while at
work, and Walker ended the quarrel
by clubbing the other over the head
with his shovel.
Creamery For Des Arc.
Messrs. Watsou & Aven of Little
Hock, well-known creamery operators,
are installing a creamery at Des Arc.
It is expected that the creamery will
be in operation within 30 days. Mr.
Aven is personally superintending the
work of installing the plant and ma
chinery.
Park Hotel Closes.
The Park hotel at Hot Springs
closed its doors for the season. Next
year this hotel will reopen as a per
1 manent resort.
Governor Will Attend Conference.
Governor Pindall has formally ac
cepted President Roosevelt’s Invita
tion to attend the conference on con
servation of natural resources to be
held at the White House, Washington,
D. C., May 13-15. In a letter to the
president the governor named three
well-known and prominent citizens of
Arkansas to accompany him to Wash
ington and serve as his advisers dur
ing the conference, in compliance with
the president’s suggestion. They are
Henry M. Armistead of Little Rock,
Harry L. Ponder of Walnut Ridge and
Sidney B. Redding of Little Rock.
Asked as to whether he had any
definite plans to put before the confer
ence that will concern Arkansas, Gov
ernor Pindall stated that he had none
to give out at present other than to
say that he would do all possible to
boost the advancement of the levee
and drainage work in this state. He
stated that he would confer with his
friends and leading men of the state
before he leaves for the conference.
Pardons Granted.
Governor Pindall has granted three
pardons, as follows:
To Hewlett Harvell, who was con
victed at the October term, 1907, of
the Lee County Circuit Court, of an
unmentionable crime, and sentenced
to one year in the Arkansas Reform
School.
To Jesse Wilson, who was convicted
at the April term, 1908, of the Lee
County Circuit Court, of burglary and
grand larceny, and sentenced to four
years in the reform school.
To John Gibbons, who was convict
ed March 17 of assault in Perry coun
ty, and who was fined $50.
Mrs. Maria Haynie Dead.
One of the oldest residents of Lit
tle Rock, one who came here more
than 60 years ago, when what is now
one of the leading cities of the south
was a mere village, passed peacefully
away Sunday, when Mrs. Maria Ed
wina Haynie, aged 85 years, died at
her home, 402 Center street, at 7:30
a. m. Death was caused by dysen
tery, from which Mrs. Haynie had suf
fered for only two weeks. Up to that
time she had enjoyed good health and
her sudden sickness and death comes
as a great shock to her many friends
and relatives in Little Rock.
Officers School Allowed.
Several days ago Adjt. Gen. Paul
Little requested the War Departmeut
to allow an officers’ school of Arkan
sas National Guard officers to be held
at Fort Logan H. Roots tills spring or
summer for the purpose of allowing
Major Thompson, in command of the
post, to instruct the officers. Thurs
day morning Major E. B. Jett receiv
ed a letter granting the request, and
the school is now assured. The date
for the holding of the school will be
set later.
May Meet This Week.
The Penitentiary Board wil proba
bly meet sometime this week in called
session for the purpose of taking up
the investigation of the recent charges
made by Dr. R. L. Russell, peniten
tiary physician, concerning conditions
at the state farm and at the Tins
man camp. The board recently ap
pointed a committee in a called meet
ing to investigate the Tinsman camp
charges and the investigation has al
ready been commenced.
Federal Liquor Cases.
W. J. Rogers in the United States
District Court Thursday entered a plea
of guilty to having sold liquor at re
tail without having paid the special
tax.
The case of Jasper Starr, accused of
the same offense, was called. Starr
failed to answer, and the government
took a forfeiture on his bond.
Negress Acquitted.
Annie Clements, the negress who
was accused of receiving stolen prop
erty, was Thursday acquitted by the
jury that tried her. There was no
dispute as to the fact that the goods
alleged to have been received by her
were stolen, but the defense was she
died not know the goods had been
stolen.
Working On Report.
Col. Colquitt of the office of State
Auditor Avery E. Moore is busily en
gaged in getting up the annual report
concerning the insurance companies
operating in Arkansas. The report
is a most exhaustive one and involves
a great amount of labor. It will prob
ably be completed in May.
Sentenced to Atlanta
John Kerse, the negro who was
fouad guilty by a jury in the federal
court on last Saturday of having
robbed the postoffice at Pettus, was
Monday sentenced by Judge Trieber
to serve a year and a day in the fed
eral prison at Atlanta, Ga.
Governor Makes Last Appointment.'
Governor Pindall has completed the
list of appointments to the St. Fran
cis Levee Board when he reappointed
Walter Higinbothem as representative
from Craighead county and appointed
J. R. Wigginton to succeed J. E. Clan
ton as director from Poinsett county.
In all, the governor has appointed nine
directors in the past two weeks. He
is supposed to appoint eight a year,
but he had nine vacancies to fill this
spring, owing to the resignation of
John Lovewell, who was a director
from Mississippi county.
The entire nine appointments are as
follows: J. R. Bush of Phillips county,
A. H. Hammett of Cross county, Tom
A. Buford of St. Francis county, Will
Eberhart of Mississippi county, Hugh
Tomlison of Mississippi county, Dr.
J. M. McVee of Crittenden county,
Walter Higginbotham of Craighead
county, J. R. Wigginton of Poinsett
county, H. F. Roleson of Lee county.
Two directors were appointed from
Mississippi county on account of Mr.
Lovewell’s resignation.
Six of the foregoing, Messrs. Bush,
Hammett, Buford, Tomlison, Higgin
botham and Roleson, were reappoint
ed. The other three are new men.
The six men reappointed were form
erly known as staunch Jeff Davis sup
porters, but they revolted when Sen
ator Davis came back to Arkansas to
take the stump in support of \V. F.
Kirby’s candidacy for governor. They
were not for Kirby and asked Davis to
keep bands off. This Davis refused to
do, however, and the levee board men
threw their strength to Donaghey, who
was being backed by Governor Pin
drll and IBs friends, and it was gener
ally understood at the time that the
former Davis men on the board would
be reappointed if they carried eastern
-Arkansas for Donaghey, which they
did. So it happens that six out of
nine directors were reappointed, and
are now known as Pindall men.
Orders Better Foci aspection.
At a meeting of the Board of Health
of the city Thursday afternoon, a
movement was inaugurated to im
prove the sanitary condition of the
city. A resolution was pssed in which
the hoard insists that every home in
the city that is within 300 feet of a
sewer must connect with the sewer at
once. There is already an ordinance
requiring this, but it is not being
strictly enforced, and it was the sense
of the board that it should be. The
resolution also called for a daily in
spection of the meat shop, restaurants
and places where foodstuffs are kept.
This will be a radical change if it is
enforced, as the inspection is not made
regularly now. The resolution also
calls for a special officerr to inspect
the dairies from which milk for the
city is furnished, as to sanitary condi
tion, also the health of the cows and
of the people who do the milking and
have charge of the milk until it is de
livered. This, it is said, will necessi
tate sending an officer to Carlisle and
other places out of town where dai
ries that furnish milk for this city are
located.
The board ordered several pools of
stagnant water in the city filled with
in 30 days.
The action of the board came as the
first action on the message of Mayor
Hollis to the council in which he rec
ommended just such action as was
taken by the board.
Kirby Gives Opinion.
Attorney General \Y. F. Kirby Tues
day gave out an opinion of state-wide
interest to members of the Arkansas
National Guard, in which he holds the
members of the guard, although ex
empt from the payment of roa'd and
street tax, cannot withdraw their tax
money if they once pay it into the
tax fund.
Several cases have arisen in the
state where members of the guard, who
probably did not know that they were
exempt from the payment of road or
street tax, paid their tax and then
later, upon learning that they were
exempt, attempted to withdraw the
money they had paid in. According to
Mr. Kirby’s opinion they cannot do
this, Mr. Kirby holding that when
tney pay their taxes they thereby
waive their right to take advantage
of the exemption accorded them.
Boys Escape From Reform School
Charles White, aged 19, and Thomas
Smith, aged 17, two prisoners at tho
Reform School, escaped from that
institution about 3 o’clock Friday af
ternoon. They were house boys, em
ployed in the kitchen, and during the
afternoon they suddenly disappeared
from the building while the remaindei
of the boys and the guards were ab
sent. Nothing has been heard of
either boy since. Both weie sent up
from Johnson county. White to serve
four years on the charge of burglary
and grand larceny, and Smith to serva
two years on the same charge.