One Dollar Per Annum.
NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY HAY 2.Y 1902.
\ cl. 2 No. 2!.
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GENERAL NEWS OF IMPORT
ANCE BOILED DOWN.
Items of General Interest Picked
Up From all Over Uncle
Sam's Great Broad
Domain.
Hebrew women of New York
have organized an association to
tight the beef trust.
delegation to visit the
, and Investigate left Wash
on Sunday night.
Between iil’ty and one hundred
persons lost their lives by a cy
clone at Goliad, Tex.. Sunday.
Hundreds of strikers in anthra
• cite region have taken the oath
to abstain from liquor during the
prevalence of the strike.
The coal dealers of Richmond
are apprehensive lest the strike
extend to the bituminous mines,
when the supply will be exhausted
and big plants must shut down.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Geo. F. Grosser orders The
Journal sent to his cousin, G. 11.
Grosser, tit Bloomfield, Mo.
N. L. l'aseoe and wife of New
ark, were registered at the Ilazel
Friday night. Newport News.
W. G. Gole left Saturday for
Oil Trough bottom to do some
carpenter work for Gol. J. C.
1 ancey.
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Col. Till Allans, ot Sulphur
Rock, tlit* only, original and gen
uine vround lay. w;u in town
Monday.
Rev. Mr. Brunon, of Barren
township, spent Sittmc.ny in the
city and favored The Journal with
a pleasant call.
lion. M. L. Arnold, democratic*
nomine^ for representative, was
i i town Saturday and made this
oilier a pleasant call.
Attorney R. A. Moore is very
* in rly fried up in hi> ofilco in the
building form udy occupied by .1.
11. Roller's burlier shop.
Miss Maggie Shirley, who has
1) :'n s. ay ins? at Oil Trough far
? >.n.* time, has returned and will
ay with Mrs. John am.
\V. R. 1/twhon w.c down from
Magness Saturday, lie made this
office a very pleasant call and will
hereafter read The Journal.
J. T. Sandlin, a good citizen of
tie- Magness neighborhood, was in
town Saturday and dropped in and
had his name placed on our sub
-c.' ' "i hook.
and Mrs. (A II Hogan
iv i ,-.i to their home at liates
ville .Saturday morning', after a
pleasant visit with relatives and
friends at this place.
1 >r J. 11. Myers and wife and
Mrs. Maggie Sliirey left Sunday
evening for Newport and will take
u trip down the river on the doc
tor's gasoline launch.
The fad of shaving the mous
tache has struck town and the
faces of a number of prominent
citizens remind one of some of the
pictures of Mark Hanna.
The work on the new railroad is
being pushed rapidly forward and
as it. progresses the interest in the
upper White river country con
tinues to increase.—Bates ville
Guard.
It is hinted that, the New York
democrats are grooming Judge
Barker for the presidential nomin
ation. They should first get his
picture and pedigree into the (lat
ent insides.
When a farmer buys a thing he
can produce at home he is out just
t he price of the article. The first
duty of the farmer is to produce
everything he needs ns far as pos
sible; then he is well able to buy
the things he wants, and cannot
produce on the farm.
We have just received from G.
M. Morris, of Newcastle, I. T., a
bunch of wheat heads, which look
tine but seem to be empty. He
failed to- enlighten us as to the
cause.
Clede Martin of Newark was
down Friday to meet Miss Kirk
Martin and Miss Nina Rutherford
of Batesville, who were returning
home from their Dallas trip.
New port I ndependent.
1). I). Whisnant, a prominent
citizen of Logan township, was in
town Saturday. He reports crop
prospects fairly good in his neigh
borhood with the exception of
wheat and oats, but says they -are
needing rain pretty bad.
The work of democratic reor
ganization is going on briskly in
the Fast. There is nothing to
prevent the union of all the demo
cratic forces. Senator Stewart,
who has been the most vigorous
white metal advocate in tin- Unit
ed States senate, declares that the
silver issue is dead.
When a farmer fails to make
his business a success, he bin mi’s
the tariff, the trusts, the season,
the land and every other thing he
can think of except the right one
which is him--If. The best of
farmers may have their crops de
stroyed by hail or their cattle by
eharbon: but these things seldom
hit twice in the same place. If a
farmer fails for a series of .years
he should acknowledge that he
was not cut out for a farmer, or
that ho was spoiled in making up.
He should sell oi* and try .some
thing else, unless, perchance he is
willing to reform his n-u,\ II*.
Dangerous If Neglected.
Burn-, nits and other wounds
often fail to heal propel ly if neg
lected and become trobblesome
-•ore-. DeWitt's Witch Hazel
.Salve pit vents such consequences.
Kven wh'*fe delay has aggravated
the injury DeWitt's Witch lltzlc
Salve effects a cure. “1 had a
running sore on my log thirty
year,” says H. C. Ilartly. Vankce
town, I ml. ‘’After useiitg many
remedies, I tried DeWitt’s Hazel
Salve. A few boxes healed the
sore. “Cures all skin diseases,
Piles yield to it at once. Ik*ware
of counterfeits. .1. 1. Sturdivant.
Crumpacker’s Backdown.
Congressman Crum packer who
is so anxious to have the repre
sentation in the South cut down
because he thinks the negroes are
in some way mistreated in the
matter of franchise Inis found it
convenient to deeliiu an invita
tion to visit a large plantation i.n
Alabama for the purpose of com
ing in actual contact with the
negro question. He knows noth
ing about it and does not want to
put brakes upon his enthusiasm
by any access of knowledge in the
premises. He is another one of
those long range themi&ts who re
fuse or are afraid to meet the
facts face to face. He has a soul
ful sympathy for the downtrod
den negro as the colored individ
ual appears to him in his dreams
and phantasies an I he wants to
j know no o'her. The Alabama
planter who invited the congress
ional delegat ion to visit him works
some four bundled hands and has
what we assume to lie <i fair aver
age plantation where the condi
tion of the negro, as it actually
exists, might be studied to ad
vantage. Knowledge and infor
mation are just what Congress
man Criunpaeker does not want
Cold facts would destroy hi
beautiful theory. —Commercial
| Appeal.
I The Journal, $1 per year,
INDEPENDENCE
Is What Carnegie Would
Give Filipinos.
WOULD PAY 10R IT HIMSELF
Offers to Pay For Philippines Pro
vided Their Inhabitants are
Granted Freedom.
New York, May 17.—Andrew
Carnegie offered to the late Presi
dent McKinley to pay the $20,000,
00C for the Philippines if lie
would authorize him to say to the
Filipinos that the United States
would ultimately grant them free
dom.
Mr. McKinley’s answer was
that Mr. Carnegie did not under
stand the real situation.
Through George F. Seward,
president of the Fidelity and
Casualty Co., this new evidence
has heeii made public, as showing
the intensity of Andrew Cai
negie’s opposition to the United
States’ occupation of the Philip
pines.
Mr. Seward and Mr. Carnegie
are old friends and ardent anti
impei islists.
Mr. Seward says that the con
versation in which Mr. Carnegie
told him of the offer he had made
■ took place at Mr. Carnegie's
bouse in this city some time be
fore Mr. Carnegie tailed for Eu
rope.
Carnegie expressed again ins
j regia t at tiic course of events in
those islands, and then spoke of
I his efforts to prevent the out
break of hostilities between the
Filipinos and t:io Americans
lie said lie had called on the
President in Washington before
the iatifieation of tlie treaty of
peace with Spain and had told
,him that lie was convinced we
were facing a war with the Fili ;
pinos. which he was greatly de
sirous of avoiding.
At that time the President was
already contemplating .sending a
committee to the Philippines to
endeavor to reach an agreement
with Aguinaldo and his people
which would avoid hostilities.
Mr. Carnegie said to Mr. Sew
ard that he had told the President
that he wanted to be sent to the i
Philippines as a special commis
sioner with authority to assure
the Filipinos that Americans were,
seeking only their good and had
only toe kindest feeling for and
the best disposition toward them ;
that we desired to help them es
tablish their own government se
ourely, and then their indepen
dence would be recognized.
| If he could have such ant Ik rity.
j Mr. Carnegie told the President,
I he himself would undo!lake to
pay the $20,000,000 which the
treaty of Paris bound the United
States to pay Spain for the relin
quishment of her title to the
Philippines. Mr. Cirnegie did
* not desire to prevent the ratifica
tion of the treaty, but be did de
sire t ) prevent the United States
I from undertaking to control and
| govern those islands, a proceed
I ing which he beleived to lie
fraught with grave danger to us,
; and the responsibilities of which
l.e thought wo should not as
: sumo.
Mr. Carnegie has never made
! any public reference to this part
| of his talk with President Mc
Kinley, but Mr. Seward savs that
in telling him about it Mr- Car
negie bad laid r.o injunction of
secrecy upon him and had, there
fore, felt authorized to make it
public.
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Lewis & Cole's is headquarters
for pearling tong handles crows
. foot grubs, boats etc. See them.
CAN’T BACK OUT
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State’s Contracts Hust be
Carried Out.
| SUPREME COURT SO DECIDES
Governor’s Attempt to Abrogate
Brick Company’s Contract
Comes to Naught.
The readers of The Journal are
familiar with the now famous
case of E. T. McConnell et. ai.
vs. the Ailtansas Brick and
Manufacturing Company, which
was decided by Chancellor Thus.
B. Mar'inin the Pulaski chancery
court a few months ago whereby
the penitentiary board attempted
to annul a contract entered into
by the board of commissioners
between the Arkansas Brick and
Manufacturing Company and the
state. The brick company re
fused to allow the commissioners
to set aside the contiact and car
ried the matter into court The
case was first tried before Chan
cellor Thus. B. Martin and the
brick company won, Judge Mar
tin holding that the commission
ers could not lawfully set aside a
contract ititered into by them as
authounzed agents of the state.
The hoard of commissioners was
not satisfied with this ruling and
carried the nutter before the
supreme court
Hast Nit uni ly in tho supreme;
court Mr. Chief Justice Ilium Jo- !
livcred a veiy long opinion, nf-1
tinning in all particulars the do- j
cr<-e of Judge Martin in this pen- j
ilentiary rase. 'I'lie opinion is1
entire ly too long to give an ex
tenso, hut it may suffice to say!
that the ease was tried upon the '
t Itinpl- .... .1 4 l. .. \
thereto.
It will he remembered that
Judge Marlin overruled the do-!
nrurerof the stale, and his de
cree, as quoted in tho supreme
court opinion, is as follows, and
sufficiently states (lie ease, viz : i
“Thereupon being well and
sufficiently advised as to all mat
ters of fact and law arising here- 1
in, as shown by the complaint and
confessed by the demurrer, the
court doth order, adjudge and de
cree that the resolution passed by
the board of commissioners for
the management of the state pen
itentiary of the state of Arkaesas,
on the loth day of August, 1901,
attempting to cancel and annul
the contract purporting to have
been made by and between the
patties to its litigation and tiled
as an exhibit to the complaint, be,
and the same is hereby canceled
and held for naught,”
“That the defendants, Jeffer
son Davis, J. W. Crockett, T. C.
Monroe, Geo. \\ . Murphy and
Frank Hill, as membeis of said
hoard of commissioners, tie, and
they are hereby enjoined and re
straiud from in any manner can
celing or annulling said purpor
ted contract, without sufficient
cause being shown therefor, and
that the defendent. E. T. .Mc
Connell, its superintendent and
keeper of the Aikansas peniten
tiary, and M. I). L. Cook, its
limvneial agent of said penitenti
ary, be, and they are hereby en
joined from executing and carry
ing into effect the said resolution
of the said board of commisiou
| ers, passed as aforesaid : and that
they, together with the members
of the said board of commission
ers, lie, and tluy are hereby en
joined and restrained from refus
ing and failing to execute and
catry out the terms of said pur
ported contract until it- illegality
1 ot invalidity as a contract -hall be
adjudged anti declared by some
; tribunal vested by law with juris
diction and authority to be illegal
or invalid.”
It will be remembered that the
stipulation of the contract refer
red to was that the Ilrick am
Manufacturing Company was t i
have the use of the able liodiot
convicts, if, they so desired, am:
nevet less than 100, to work in
their brick and innnufact m in«
plant, and that this contract wa
to yontinue fur ten years. Tin
hoard of co'.niiiissionors, undei
the governor's leadership, sought
to abrogate this contract, and a
hitter tight look place in the
boaid, which dually brought
about this suit, which resulted in
the upholding of the contract.
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Wants Others to Know.
‘‘1 have used DeWitt’s Little
Early Risers for constipation and
torpid liver and they are a!’ right.
I am glad to indorse Hit in for 1
think when we find a good thing
wo ought to let otliers know it,”
writes Alfred Hein/..; Quincy. III.
They never gripe or distress.
Sure, safe pills. ,J. 1 Sturdivant.
Patents at Cut Prices.
I n order to Keep buisy during the
summer. Swift & Co., the prompt
and proper patent lawyers, oppo
site U. S. Patent Ofliee, Wash
ington, D. have made a big
cut in the price for obtaining
patents. Inventors who desire
to save money and get the best
work should write them while
the cut prices prevails.
Don’t Start Wrong.
Don't start the summer with a
lingering cough or coll. We all
know what C-ummer col I” is. It's
the hardest kind to cure. Often
it “hangs on"’through I lie entire
season. Take it. in hand light
now. A few dos°s of One Min
ute Cough Cure will set you right.
Sin c cui e for coughs, colds, ci oup
grip, bionchitis, all throat and
lung trouble. Absolutely safe.
“One Minute Cough Cure is the
best cough medicine 1 ever used,
"says ,|. II. liow les, Groveton, N.
II. “I never found anything ( I.-e
that acted so safely and quickly.
J. 1. Sturdivant.
Killing at Paragould.
Paragould, May 1 <».—A. 15
Thomason, a well-known charac
ter, was-shot four times and kill
ed hist night just after midnight
by ,!oe l'. Thomson, son of ex
Mayor L. C. Thompson. Tin
weapon used was a 38 calibei
Smith & Wesson, and either of
the wounds would perhaps have
proved fatal. Thompson surren
dered to the officers and is undei
guard pending preliminary trial
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Why Editors Prosper.
After a good deal of study am
worry we have at last “liggercd'
out why so many country editor
get rich. Here is the secret o
their success : A child i< horn ii
the neighborIk o i ; the atteudinj.
physician gets $10, the editoi
gives the loud lunged youngstei
and the ‘"happy parents” a sent
off and gets $0. It is christened
and the minister gets $5 and the
editor gets $01). It grows up am
marries; the editor publishes an
other long-winded, tl overy article
and tells a dozen lies about tin
“beautiful and a:eomplised’
bride etc- The minister gets $li
and a peiee of cake and the edito
gets $000. In the course of tinn
it dies ; the doctor gets from $.
to $100, the iniui-ter perhaps gel
another $5, the undei taker get
from $25 to $50, the editor pub
j iisl es a notice of the death am
obituary two columns long, lodg
and society resolutions, a lo< o
poetry and a free card of thank
and gets $0000. No wonder s
many couutiy editors get rich.
Subscribe for the Journal
I'i'EriS OF INTEREST GATHER- '
ED I if-RE AND THERE.
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A Xogro Hanged Xenr Tomberlin
I
liricle of Throe Weeks Kill
ed Xeur JIard.y Oth
er I lappenings.
| A severe wind did considerable
damage at V'an *3uren Monday
evening.
Last Friday evening a young
negro named William Jordan at
tempted to outrage the daughter
of James Cox, a white farmer liv
ing near Tombei lit). He was ar
rested and placed in jail. Satur
day night a mob took the negro in
charge. Ilis body had not been
found up to Tuesday.
An accident happened Thurs
day of last week near Hardy
which resulted in the death of
Mrs. 11. C. Fuller. Mr. Fuller
was chopping down a tree and his
wife was standing by looking on.
\\ hen the tree was about lo tall
lie called to her to g ) in a eeitain
direction, l ut for some reason she
went another way and a branch
of tin* tree struck her, and killed
her. They had only been married
about three weeks.
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Daring Officer.
korrest City, May 17.—Deputy
-Sheriff Murphree captured John
Armstrong near Levesque and
brought hie1 to jail here oil a
charge of disposing of mortgaged
| property. Murphree overtook
; Armstrong, and the la!ter, cock
ing his \\ iuehedter, halted the
.officer. With daring coolness*
Murphree engaged Armstrong in
casual conversation, and, at a
favorable moment, pushed his
pistol in Armstrong’s face slipped
j Armstrong of Ins Winchester, a
revolver, a dirk a.id a pair of
brass knocks.
Negro Hanged at Marianna.
Maiianna, May 16.—Henry Le
Sme, colored, was lning m the
j lilyard at 10 o'clock this morn
ing for t he murder of John Green
wood near here in January, 1901.
He passed a restful night, arose
at o o’clock and ate a hearty
breakfast, saying it was his last
meal in this world- The death
warrant was lead to him at S
o’clock and at once he began to
dress for eternity.
Boom For Walnut Ridge.
Walnut Ridge, May 17.—It is
announced that the Iion Mountain
railroad will spend $100,000 hero
;in the next ninety days in pur
( suance of its decision to make
this a freight and passenger divi
: 'ion point. Hound houses, coal.
■ sheds and repair slu>ps will bo
ierected.
Carnegie Verifies the Story.
The l’ost-Dlspateh cabled Mr,
Carnegie for a verification of the
!
conversation, and to-day the fol
lowing answer was leceived :
London, May 18.—To the l’ost
Disputeh: Seward's statement
quite true. 1 would gladly pay
1 twenty millions to-day to re
stoie our republic to its piiuci
• pics.
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Only One Condition.
Wc don't know nothin’ about
1 the water cure given the Filo
■ peens, hut we are agin it just tho
. same. As to the torture pait of
■f it we have muddied our opinion.
They say that the most water a
1- ilopen drillkt was six pints. If
iliai amount of liquid gavo him
I pain lie mint have small storage
capacity. Wo will undertake to
• volunteer'd)' drink four times that
amount of beer in four hours and
agree to step off a jig when the
1 thing is over. The only condi
tion that wc insist on is that
suin' one furnish the beer, — Hard*
. euiau Free Press.