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VOL. II.
McCROKY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1903.
NO. 41.
Oil has been found near El Dora
do, 111.
Former Premier Sagasta of
Spain is dead.
All gambling joints have been
closed at Joplin, Mo.
The net earnings of the United
States steel corporation for the year
1902 amounted to $132,002,000.
Daniel J. Hill, assistant secre
tary of state, has been appointed
minister to Switzerland.
The city of Detroit, Mich., is go
ing into the coal business and will
supply the people at cost prices.
After a recess over the holidays,
the authracitc coal strike commis
sion resumed its task of taking tes
timony on the 6th.
The Spanish minister of finance
has prepared a measure providing
for the free coinage of gold and pro
hibiting the coinage of silver.
Near Joplin, Mo., in the eastern
part of Jasper county, an 11-foot
body of coal was struck at a depth
of 40 feet, and the coal is of the
finest quality.
Four persons lost their lives in
a fire at Chicago which destroyed
the Somerset hotel on Wabash av
enue. The lire was caused from
bed clothing igniting from a cigar
ette.
As a result of a collision between
a passenger train and the rear end
of a freight train on the Pennsylva
nia railroad at Cochrane station,
just above Dubuque, seven men are
dead and seven others injured.
The demand of railway men in
the south and west for a 20 per cent
increase in wafges may result in
trouble on some of the large sys
tems. A number of roads have
flatly refused to accede to the de
mands.
Cole Younger has applied to the
Minnesota pardoning board for a
complete pardon, in order that he
might return to Missouri, his old
home. The terms of his parole
forbid him leaving the state of Min
nesota.
jliic XLurupeaii jjuweis nave ue*
dined to receive their second in
demnity installment from China on
the silver basis. The question as
to whether China may discharge
these obligations on a gold or sil
ver basis may yet me taken to The
Hague tribunal for arbitration.
Here is a strong one from Jop
lin : For three "weeks E. Knell, an
undertaker at Carthage, was unable
to unlock the door of a large safe
in his office, because he had forgot
ten the combination. He had giv
en it up entirely, when luckily in a
dream last night ho saw the num
bers that worked the combination
and, arising from his bed, jotted
them down. The next day he un
locked the safe.
The commissioner of navigation
reports 627 sail and steam vessels,
of 171,599 gross ton, built in the
United State and officially number
ed during the six months ended De
cember 31, 1902. During the cor
responding six months-glided De
cember 31, 1901, 717 sail and steam
vessels, of 154,073 gross tons, were
built. Of the tonnage built in the
latter half of 1902, 96,379 tons were
built on the Atlantic and gulf, 20,
039 tons on the Pacific and 47,874
on the great lakes.
A decision of more than usual in
terest was recently rendered in the
United States district court for the
southern district of Illinois. An
express messenger was indicted for
the sale of liquor in prohibition ter
ritory. It was sought to convict on
the ground that he delivered pack
ages of liquor ordered in licensed
territory, or in other words, the
prosecution contended that the
place of delivery should be held the
place of sale. The court held that
the express agent had no knowledge
of the contents of the packages,
hence could net be held as guilty
of violating the federal liquor law*
The government reports winter
wheat in good condition.
Webster, Col., a summer resort,
has been totally destroyed by fire.
The State Univresity building in
Norma, Okla., was totally destroy
ed by fire.
The town of Vista, in southeast
ern Oklahoma, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, $25,000.
Senators Penrose of Pennsylva
nia and Ilansbrough of North Da
kota have been re-elected.
Bishop Gulston F. Report, head
of the Roman Catholic church in
the Hawaiians islands, is dead.
The Houston, Texas, labor coun
cil has invited the trades unions
composed of negroes to affiliate \>ith
it,
Capt. Marmadukc and his crew
of Americans, who about six months
ago took charge of a Colombian
gunboat, have resigned.
Ex-Gov. Hogg has disposed of his
oil holdings in the Baumont field.
It is said the ex-governor has
cleared about $2,000,000 on his in
vestments in oil lands.
Hon. W. J. Bryan, who has just
returned from a tour of Mexico,
declined to be interviewed by a re
porter on the financial conditions
of the above country.
A a result of a collision between
a passenger train and the rear end
of a freight train on the Mononga
hela division of the Pennsylvania
railroad near Pittsburg, Pa.,
seven men were killed and five bad
ly injured.
J. A. Traylor, manager of a mine
near Eureka, Neb., was attacked by
a crowd of miners, when lie drew a
pistol and killed three of them and
wounded two others. The miners
had delcared they would run Tray
lor out of the community.
Fire followed by an explosion at
Hobart, Okla., caused a loss of $50,
000. The fire started in a hardware
store where dynamite was kept.
The force of the explosion was so
great that towns thirty miles from
Hobart reported the shock.
It is understood President Roose
velt will shortly appoint Governor
Taft to be associate justice of the
supreme court to succeed Justice
Shiras. Gen. Luke E. Wright, of
Tennessee, is to succeed Mr. Taft
as governor of the Philippines.
The census bureau report on the
cotton ginned from the 1902 crop
up to and including December 31
last is 9,311,835 bales, irrespective
of shape or weight, equal to 8,005,
503, according to the commercial
counting. The ginners’ estimate is
1,057,I'll bales. This is 90.2 per
cent of the crop.
The president has directed the
appointment of G'apt. Louis B.
Lawton, twenty-sixth infantry, to
be major in the judge advocate gen
eral's department. Maj. Lawton
was badly wounded while with Col.
Liscum’s column on the assault on
Tien Tsin. His injury is perma
nent and he will be retired at once
with his increased rank.
The bureau of insular affairs of
the war department has prepared
for publication a comparative
statement showing that for the ten
months ended October 31, 1902, the
customs and revenues in the Phil
ippine archipelago were $7,475,580,
against $6,921,559 in 1900, aad $3,
759,993 in 1899. The figures rep
resent the total customs house re
ceipts expressed in United States
currency value.
Mr. Wilson, secretary of agricul
ture, has ordered printed 100,000
copies of the report made by Mr. W.
D. Hunter, a specialist of the de
partment., on the results of his in
vestigations in Texas during the
past year on the ravages of the cot
ton boll weevil. Mr. Hunter’s re
port is the most complete that has
ever been made upon this subject,
and there is a great demand among
cotton growers for copies of it.
Hurd coal is selling in New York
}ity at $12 and soft coal at 8 per
on.
I). K. Pearson, of Chicago, has
riven $50,000 to the endowment
:und of Pomona College at Clare
nont, Col.
The representative of Porto Rico
it Washington has announced that
•,he island aspires to statehood in
the Union.
A masked mob released two par
ties from jail at Lewisburg, Tenn.,
who were charged with taking part
in a lynching.
Mrs. Mary A. Morgan, a woman
who had lived in three centuries,
died at her home in Dubuque, Iowa,
aged 105 years.
In a wreck on the Southern Rail
way near Birmingham, Ala., the en
gineer was killed and twenty-seven
passengers injured.
The Eastern Steel Company has !
begun work upon four open hearth
furnaces which will have a capacity
of 150,000 tons per year.
At Joplin, Mo., because the wa
ter company established a minimum
rate, the city councilmen voted to
purchase the waterworks.
Chicago factories will ship $3,
500,000 worth of harvesting ma
chinery to be used by the wheat
growers of southern Russia.
At Oakdale, La., thieves broke
into the Watkins railway office,
ble.iv the outer door of the safe oil
the hinges with gunpowder, and se
cured $4 and some express pack
ages.
Because his brother refused to!
give him « cigarette paper Pink
Grove, a young man living at Grove
Park, Fla., plunged a knife into
his heart, killing his brother in
stantly.
Five men entered the First Na
tion Bank at Abingdon, 111., bound
and gagged the night watchman and
blew open the vault, securing $4,
200. Two of the men were captured
and a portion of the money recov
ered.
Rev. George C. Rankin, pastor of
a church at Dallas, Tex., made a
personal tour of gambling houses in
the above city and succeeded in hav
ing the proprietors indicted by
furnishing evidence to the grand
jury.
Miss Etta Alldridgc, tlic 22
year-old daughter of the sheriff at
Onconta, Ala., liberated two prison
ers during the absence of her fath
er. She accompanied one of the
prisoners, Mayhcrnc Murphee, a
young man charged with murder.
The arm}' is suffering from a
shortage of officers in both the medi
cal department and ordnance de
partment. Neither branch of the
service seems to offer sufficient in
ducement to secure the necessary
number of officers to perform the
work of these departments, and,
notwithstanding several recent ex
aminations, the surgeon general of
the army has been able to obtain
but a few properly qualified medical
officers. The conditions prevailing
in the ordnance corps are nearly as
serious in the navy, where they are
no naval engineers.
Miss Tony Dunlap was acquitted
at Aledo, II.., of the charge of
murdering Miss Allie Dool, after a
trial lasting three weeks. The girls
were old acquaintances. Miss Dool
was a clerk in a dry goods store,
and one day in company with an
other young lady, Miss Dunlap visit
ed the store and tender Miss Dool
girl some chocolate drops. Shortly
after eating Ihe candy Miss Dool
wag taken with convulsions and died
in great agony. The prosecution
proved the chocolate candies con
tained poison, and that Miss Dun
lap gave them to Miss Dool was ad
mitted. The testimony also devel
oped the fact that Tons Dunlap and
another young woman had eaten
candies taken from tho same paper
bag, and that neither suffered in
jury. Mis* Dunlap gtcutly main
tained her iunocence, and her law
yers tried to establish a theory of
accidental poisoning. Lack of mo
tive for the murder was also a
strong argument in defendant's fa
vor. /
Arkansas State News
Decision Against Railroad Commission
Affirmed.
A dispatch from Washington
iaye: The United States supreme
:ourt affirmed the opinion of the
‘ircuit court of the United States
for the eastern district of Arkansas
n the ease of the Railroad Commis
sioners of the State of Arkansas vs.
he Kansas City Southern Railway
Company. This was a case insti
tuted by tlm railroad company to
mjoin 1 lie hoard from fixing rates
upon which the road should carry
goods from one point in Arkansas
through Indian Territory to an
other point in Arkansas. The con
tention of the railroad company was
sustained in an opinion by Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes. The con
troversy arose over a shipment of
chairs from Fort Smith to Grannis,
over the Kansas City Southern, the
freight in transit passing for a
portion of the distance through the
Indian Territory. The rates
charged were greater than those
fixed by the Arkansas railroad com
mission for that distance.
Land Office Business.
Following is the quarterly reporl
of the state land commissioner,
ending December 31, 1903:
Fees, $3,790.50.
Swamp land sold, 3,247.74 acres,
$3,809.68.
Internal improvement land sold
160 acres, $200.
Saline land sold, 443.1 acres
$553.88.
E. E. bank land, 40 acres, $20
Forfeited land sold, 12,905.81
acres, $16,132.34.
Forfeited land redeemed, 13,
738.40 acres, $4,847.21.
Forfeited town lots sold, $221,
92.
Forfeited land donated 17,240.11
acres.
Forfeited land deeded to aetua
■ettlers, 9,837.6 acres.
Total, 56,612.9 acres, $27,575.53
Currency, $20,392.59.
Scrip, $7,182.94.
Total, $27,575.53.
Age A Man to Return to Germany.
Dr. H. L. Anthony, a citizen o
Hamburg, who is 102 years of age
has decided to return to Germany
his native land. In 1826 Dr. An
thony, then a young physician
came to America and begun th<
practice of his profession. II<
finally moved to California, bu
*oon gave up his practice to go int(
the business of raising goats. See
ing an opportunity to enlarge hi:
field of action, he later moved t<
Mexico, where he was when the wai
with the United States began. H<
cast his fortunes with the Mexican:
and led a company during the en
tire war. He afterwards engaged ii
stock raising and amassed a for
tunc. He came to this state abou
twenty years ago.
State Convention Y. M. C. A.
The thirteenth state conventior
of the Y. M. C. A. will be held al
I’inc Bluff January 23-25. It prom
iscs to be the best and greatest con
vention ever held in the state. Pas
tors all over Arkansas are invited
to attend, and also requested to ap
point one or more delegates from
their church. Reduced rates on all
railroads, and free entertainmenl
at Pine Bluff. Write J. L. Sco
field, at Little Rock, at once foi
credentials.
The Bluff Didn’t Work.
Charles Moore, convicted of mur
der in the second degree, and an
other prisoner, Sherfield Kelley, set
fire to the bedding in the jail al
Malvern and called upon the wife
of Jailer Curl to liberate them sc
that they would not burn to death.
She refused and kept the citizens
who soon gathered back at the muz
tie of a rifle. Seeing that they
could accomplish nothing, the mer
•ucceeded in putting out the fire
Confederates Will Appeal to Legislature.
Gen. B. W. Green, commander of
Arkansas division, U. 0. V., says
the ex-Confederates will ask the
general assembly for an appropria
tion of $5,000 to aid in the erec
tion of the proposed monument to
the Confederate dead. An increase
in the levy for pensions will not be
asked. On this point Gen. Green
says: “The question has been quite
thoroughly discussed by the camps
and the more prominent members
of the organization, and the conclu
sion has been reached that the pres
ent rate is enough, but we shall in
sist that restrictions be thrown
around the pension commissions to
protect those who are entitled to
pensions as against those who are
not and get upon the book by fraud.
One of the strongest suggestions we
hall have to make is that no com
missioner, state or county, shall be
appointed unless he be an ex-Con
federate.”
Confederate Monument at Fort Smith.
The Fort Smith Chapter, Daugh
ters of Confederacy, have abandoned
the original idea of erecting a mon
ument to the Confederate dead in
the National cemetery at that point
and will erect it in the courthouse
yard. The war department recent
ly decided that a monument to the
Confederate dead could be erected
in the National cemetery, where sc
many Southern soldiers are buried
but that the monument must bt
without the figure of a Confederate
soldier surmounting it, and must
be without the reproduction of f
Confederate flag, with the words
“Lest We Forget,” which are distin
guishing features of the desigr
chosen by the Daughters of tin
Confederacy. Members of the G
A. R. at Fort Smith offered no pro
test against the erection of the mon
ument in the National cemetery.
State’s Cash.
The balances in the state treas
ury for the quarter ending Decern
ber 31, 1902, as reported by Book
keeper W. M. McCully of the stab
treasurer’s office, are as follows:
Currency .$709,745.8!
County scrip. 12,196.41
: City scrip . 66.7!
Auditors certificates .. 962.1<
i Gov. Jones’ notes. 103,915.9;
3 per cent funding bonds 1,227,0(
3 per cent funding
bonds . 1,227,000.0(
3 per cent funding cou
pons . 993,870.0(
( Fayetteville bonds .... 9,000.0(
Fayetteville bond cou
pons . 4,500.0(
Total .$3,061,257.0!
Big Lumber Deal.
1 One of the biggest lumber deal
ever made in this state has jus
been completed at Campbell, tei
miles north of Piggott. The Gar
etson-G reason Lumber Company o:
St. Louis bought of the Campbel
Lumber Company its plant and 55,
000,000 feet of hardwood lumber
The land lies east of Piggott, ii
Clay county, and Dunklin county
Mo. The price paid for the lane
and timber was $360,000. Man]
new mills and factories will be pu
on the land, and in a few years th<
thousands of acres will be openec
up for cultivation.
Convicts Escape.
Two convicts escaped from th<
camp at England. They are E. N
Sherman, white, Indepence county
three years, embezzlement, commit
ted May 5, 1902, jeweler and book
keeper, $25 reward. Wright Broom
white, Lonoke county, two years
grand larceny, committed March 3
1902, $25 reward. Broom was ar
rested in the Indian Territory, af
ter being at large for some time
and the case attracted much loca
attention. He was convicted of cov
stealing. Sherman was arrested ii
Memphis and taken back to Bates
ville, where he was convicted of em
bezzlement.
School Teacher* ia Convention.
The annual meeting of the North
east Arkansas Teachers’ Association
was held at Mammoth Spring on
she 2d and 3d inst., with a good at
tendance. W. D. Miller, of Para
gould was chosen president of the
association, W. T. Stephens, Corn
ng, corresponding secretary; Miss
.lattie Bassett, Walnut Ridge, re
■ording secretary, and Miss Mosie
Barnhill, treasurer. The officers of
the association were also declared a
world's fair committee. The asso
ciation endorsed the following meas
ures: (1) Normal, or teachers’,
•ollege; (2) more effective county
supervision; (3) increased revenue
iv equitable assessments; (4) con
olidation of small school districts
nto larger ones; (5) increase of
date school tax.
The biennial meeting of the Cath
olic Knights will t>c held at Fort
Smith February 10.
A survey of an extension of the
Rock Island from Des Arc to De
Vall’s Bluff has been completed.
Clem Adair, a 7-year-old negro
boy, was arrested at Eureka Springs
on the charge of setting fire to a res
idence.
Mrs. Margaret Heller, aged 81,
died at Eureka Springs as the re
sult of injuries sustained in falling
off a porch.
The Ozark and Cherokee Central
will begin the operation of trains
between Fayetteville and Okmulgee,
I. T., February 1.
The total loss from fire at Fort
Smith during the year 1902 was
$16,824.68, on which insurance to
the amount of $14,947.03 was paid.
Judge Kavanaugh, of Pulaski
county, addressed the Jefferson
county road overseers on the opera
tion of the new three-mill road tax
law.
George W. Horner, one of tho
best known railroad conductors in
the state, died at his home in Little
Rock on the 6th, at the age of 66
years.
George Rodgers, arrested in Mem
phis, has been identified bv a brake
man as one of a gang which held
up a passenger train on the Frisco
. near Bonnerville, in this state, sev
. eral months ago.
The journeymen plumbers of Lit
! tie Rock have won out and there
> will be no strike. The men con
t tinue their eight-hour day and are
) granted an advance in wages from
i $3.60 to $4 per day.
• The hoard of trustees of state
charitable institution in their bien
1 nial report recommend that an
appropriation bo made by the legis
1 lature for the election of an annex
1 to the insane asylum at Little
Rock.
The senate has confirmed the
’ following nominations: Charles
Page Bryan, minister to Portugal;
David J. Kill, minister to Switzer
’ land; Fracis B. Loomis, assistant
secretary of state; William It. Estes,
1 consul at Antigua, West Indies,
r A demand for a wage increase va
rying from 15 to 20 per cent is to
be made by all the bituminous coal
miners in the country the latter part
' of this month. It is estimated
that the demands of the bituminous
j miners will aggregate $2,000,000 a
year.
A member of the fourth calvary,
, who received a commission in the
regular army on account of his
record in the battle of Manila, has
come to grief on account of faith
lessness to his wife. He enlisted
under the name of Perkins, but his
real name, so his wife says, is
Raynor. After joining the army,
Perkins ceased to live with his wife,
who for some time lost track of him.
Hearing that he was stationed at
Fort Leavenworth, Mrs. Perkins
went there and demanded that her
self and children be supported.
Perkins offered to pay her a stipu
lated sum, but refused to live with
her, saying her social standing was
beneath his official rank. This in
i suit was too much for Mrs. Perkins,
and she exposed the officer, who left
his post without the formality of
i tendering his resignation.