G. W. KRAMER, Editor.
M’CRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1901.
VOL. I.—NO. 15.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AN1) POLITICAL.
On the 4th, in a joint session last
ing three hours, the I’orto Rican as
sembly unanimously passed a free
trade resolution. The assembly hall
was crowded with people, and cheers
greeted the announcement that Gov.
Allen had signed the resolution.
On the 4th the cornerstone of the
proposed monument to mark the spot
where the American flag was first
raised over the territory now known
as Kansas was laid at Courtland, Kas.
The flag was raised by Zebulon M.
Pike, then a lieutenant of the Ameri
can army, September 29, 1806, and on
the anniversary of that day this year
the monument will be formally un
veiled.
On the 4th Frank J. Patterson, vice
president of the National Cash Regis
ter Co., died at Dayton, O., of heart
disease. He is survived by a widow
and three children.
Hon. Charles G. Dawes, comptroller
of the currency, has tendered his res
ignation to the president to take ef
fect October 1. Mr. Dawes resigns his
office in order to enter the Illinois
senatorial contest this fall.
Dr. ,T. J. Kinyoun, surgeon in charge
of the marine hospital in Detroit,
Mich., has been detailed by the super
vising surgeon-general of the marine
hospital service to proceed to Japan
and China on a tour of inspection of
the work done by the marine hospital
service there, lie will investigate
contagious diseases and particularly
the plague. He will sail from Han
Francisco on the 19th.
On the 5th Allen O. Myers brought
suit, in the United States district
court at Columbus, O., for $50,000 dam
ages against the grand lodge of Elks.!
He claims that he was wrongfully and
illegally expelled from the order; that
his newspaper, The Elk, was de
stroyed and his history of the Elks
rendered valueless, and the ritual of
the order, of which he was the au
thor and proprietor, was appropriated
and is now in use, for all of which he
asks damages in the amount stated.
On the 5th President and Mrs. Mc
Kinley left Washington for their
home at Canton, O., where they are to
spend the remainder of the heated
term, except that the president may
visit the liuffalo exposition and run
on to Washington for a few days.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 4tli Frank Tazelow, an aero
naut from Grand Rapids, was killed
at Muskegon, Mich., while making a
cannon parachute drop. When the
balloon had reached a height of 1,000
feet the ropes holding the cannon
broke, and the big gun containing
Tazelow dropped into Muskegon
lake. Tazelow’s body was found in a
terribly mangled condition. The ac
cident was witnessed by thousands of
people.
In Chicago, on the 4th, three people
were driven insane by tke heat. There
were also five deaths and 14 prostra
tions.
On the 4th, while Frederick Wright,
of Indianapolis, was making it balloon
ascension and a parachute leap at
New Carlisle, Ind., he became entan
gled in the guide ropes when 150 feet
above 'he ground and was pitched to
the earth. Thousands witnessed the
terrible fall. Wright was picked up
unconscious, but still alive.
Carlton Meyers, a small boy li\dng
in West Liberty, La., became entan
gled in the rigging of a balloon that
ascended there as a feature of the
Fourth of duly celebration, and was
carried five miles and dropped, unhurt,
in the adjoining county. The crowd
which had witnessed his thrilling ad
venture contributed $100 as a reward
for his courage and tenacity in hold
ing on to the ropes until safely land
ed.
On the 5th, in arranging for the
twenty-fifth anniversary, in August,
of the admission of Colorado as a
state, the Colorado Springs commit
tee completed the details for a ban
quet to the editors of the state, at
which Vice-President Roosevelt is to
be the guest of honor and principal
speaker. Henry Watterson ijnd other
noted editors have been invited to at
tend.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $15,000,000 gold reserve in the di
vision of redemption, issued on the
5th> showed. Available cash halanc*,
H79»«ee,039l gold, $99,396,044.
On the 4t’n George Howard, who
wa« arrested at j. I’eirpont Morgan’s
house, in London, recently, where he
pretended to be repairing' electric
wires, was sentenced to four years’
penal servitude, on indictments charg
ing him with steeling jewelry to the
value of £10,0('ii from various houses.
On the 4th all heat records for tlio
state of Missouri were broken at St.
Joseph, when thermometers regis
tered 108.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
For the trirnnial conclave of the
Knight-s Templar at Louisville, Ivy.,
August 27-30, the Central, Trunk line,
New England, Southeastern, Western
Southwestern and Trans-Continental
Passenger associations and the As
sociated Railways of the Virginias and
Carolinas have made a reduced rate,
two associations granting one fare
plus two dollars, the others one fare.
The excursion steamer Queen ai
rived at Port Townsend, Wash., on the
7th, from the north. Her officers re
ported Glacier bay one mass of ice,
and that no nearer than 14 miles of
Muir glacier could be reached, an ice
jam from thirty to forty feet high
extending clear across the bay. ilie
ice floes in the channel were greater
than ever known before.
The Kansas state supreme court, on
the 7th, handed down a decision de
claring the Kansas irrigation law to
be constitutional and that the con
demnation of land by the Pawnee
Lake and City Irrigation Co. is valid.
This will make it possible to carry
into effect the biggest irrigation
scheme ever attempted in Kansas.
There was a shortage of cars to
move the Kansas wheat crop before
the marketing of that cereal had bare
ly gotten under way. The wheat
movement started much earlier than
usual this year owing to the fine
harvest weather, and the railways, it
is reported, arc unable to care for it.
A number of Japanese war ships
will be present, in addition to the four
American war ships under Rear-Ad
miral Rodgers, at the unveiling, on
the 14th, at Kurihamn, Japan, of the
monument to commemorate the land
ing there of Commodore Perry, July
14, 1853.
At Louisiana, Mo., on the 7th, Don
ald Nichols and Samuel Taylor, each
about five years old, were burned to
death locked in an out-building. They
had been playing and probably set
fire to a can of oil. The door was
fastened and they were unable to es
cape.
On the 7th Silveton Green, of Mc
Dowell county, West Virginia, fatally
stabbed his wife and beat out the
brains of his child with a rock be
cause the wife refused him money
with which to gamble. Green es
caped to Kentucky.
Gov.-Gen. Wood of Cuba who had
been suffering from a mild case of ty
phoid fever, was reported, on the 7tli,
as much improved.
The official reports to the New York
bureau of vital statistics of deaths
from heat, for the week ending July
0 show that the actual number in the
five boroughs of Greater New York
was 989. For the boroughs of Man
hattan and the Bronx the number was
099; for Richmond, 12; for Queens, 24;
for Brooklyn, 264. The records cover
the days when the heat was most in
tense.
The United States Philippine com
mission has ordered H. Phelps Whit
marsh, governor of Benguet province,
to Manila to sumbit to an investiga
tion. on account of the allegation that
he has been using his position to his
personal advantage in acquiring land
and mining rights from the natives.
He is at present charged with indis
cretion and violation of his instruc
tions.
Mrs. Philip D. Armour, of Chicago,
through her attorney, on the 8th, de
clined to take one-half of the estate of
her brother, Frank Ogden, who died
recently in Cincinnati. Mr. Ogden left
an estate which, by his will, was to be
equally divided between his wife an<?
his sister, Mrs. Armour. By the lat
ter’s action the whole estate will go
to the widow.
The financial secretary of the Brit
ish war office, Lord Stanley, in the
house of commons, on the 8th, in an
swer to a question, gave the total
number of Boers killed, wounded or
made prisoners, from among the ac
tive commands, recently, as follows:
March 1, 472; April 2, 434; May 2, G40;
June, incomplete, 1,538.
In the suit at Santa Fe, N. M., of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. against
the United Mine Workers, growing
out of the coal miners’ strike at. Gal
lup, Judge McFie made permanent in
junction restraining the strikers from
interfering with the working of the
mine by non-union men.
Three explosions at. the powder
works at. Santa Cruz, Cal., on the 8th,
wrecked the corning mill and resulted
in the killing of W. R. Darling and
serious injury of Joseph Maynard, em
ployes. The corning mill was c?om
pletely demolished. Cause of the ex
plosions unknown.
Howard B. Rodgers, a nephew of the
late Jacob S. Rogers, of Paterson,
has been served with notice from the
relatives of the deceased millionaire
that the latter'* will, bequeathing the
bulk of hU estate to the Metropolitan
tnvuieum ef arte, will be eenteitcd.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Wife anil Hnntmml Took Polnon.
Mft. Fannie Wilson, driven to des
peration on account of her husband’s
Jrunkenness, anii his failure to pro
vide for the family, committed sui
cide at Hot Springs by taking mor
phine. She went downtown early iu
the evening in search of her hus
band, tvho she learned was drinking
and carousing in a neighboring sa
loon. Upon hearing this, Mrs. Wil
son purchased a small vial of mor
phine and immediately administered
to herself the contents. She died
from the effects of the drug several
hours later. “Tex” Wilson, the hus
band, when he learned that his wife
took morphine with suicidal intent,
and that there were no chances for
her recovery, left his home and was
seen no more until his dead body was
found in the southern suburbs of the
city. A physician examined the body
shortly after it was discovered and
pronounced it a case of suicide, or
death from opium poisoning.
Transferred to Mr. Kerens.
Says a dispatch from Eureka
Springs: “A deed from the Eureka
Improvement Co., which owns the
Crescent hotel and a considerable por
tion of the townsite, has been record
ed conveying to 15. C. Kerens, agent,
the southern portion and Spring
street frontage of ‘Crescent Park,’
comprising five acres of very valuable
ground, adjoining the hotel park,
The Crescent hotel, a magnificent
stone structure, containing 200 rooms,
and located immediately across nn
avenue in the park, has not been
opened this season.”
Charge Against I’nrenta.
State Attorney Maples has filed in
formation charging 11. Buris and wife,
in Carroll county near tlia Missouri
line, with the killing of their daugh
ter. Several days ago Buris notified
the authorities that his daughter had
committed suicide. A constable
found the body, badly decomposed,
near her home. In both hands was
clasped a pistol and through her head
was a bullet hole. The coroners
jury, obtaining no evidence, the ver
dict was suicide or shooting by par
ties unknown.
Petition for Modification.
A petition hns been circulated at
Pine Bluff, praying the council to re
peal or amend the vehicle license law,
and was signed by a large number of
Pine Bluflians. The law exacts a
yearly tax of $2 for a one-horse and
$10 for a two-horse vehicle. Petition
ers requested that the law, if amend
ed, bo so equalised as to reach all
classes of citizens alike.
The Defendant Won.
In the damage suit of Joseph
Thompson vs. The Little Lock & Hot
Springs Western Railroad Co.,at Little
Rook, a, new trial was refused. The
jury gave a verdict for the defendant.
Thompson sued for $5,000 damages,
claiming that he was permanently in
jured while at, work placing rails on
the road last February.
Itnilrond Commission's Order.
The Arkansas railroad eommissior
nas issued an order requiring all rail
roads to tile annual rep>orts before
September 10. Any corporation fail
ing or refusing to make returns
shall be liable to penalty of $50 per
day for every day of such failure or
refusal.
I.ove Rayburn Acquitted.
Love Rayburn was acquitted of the
charge of murdering Almond Carpen
ter, at Van Buren. This was his sec
ond trial. Upon the first trial Ray
burn was found guilty and sentenced
to be hanged, but the case was re
versed by the supreme court.
Will Bore for Oil.
The board of directors of the Oi.
Development Co., recently organized
at Newport, have let a contract to
Malony & Cowan, of Joplin, Mo., to
bore 3,000 feet for oil, the considera
tion being $6,000.
Drowned In the Black niver.
While fishing in 1he Black river,
.tear Hoxie, Williard Tondeer was
drowned. His companion. M. D.
Bowers, made heroic efforts to save
him, but came near drowning him
self.
Kecroe Thief Shot Down.
Walter Ellis, colored, stole a pair
of shots from a merchant, at Texar
kana, and ran. Citizens followed,
and Ellis was shot down, but oflicert
were unable to learn who fired tht
shot.
Failure at Karen* Spring!.
Swazey & Swazey, proprietorsof the
Commercial cafe, at Eureka Springs)
have filed a position in bankrupted
Liabilities and assets uat given.
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President’s Proclamations, Opening
the Indian Reservation Lands
in Oklahoma, Issued.
AUGUST 6 IS THE DATE SETTLED UPON.
A Siimmnr, of the Condition* Under
Which Intending Settler* Mny
Acqnire the Lands—1“Repeater*"
and “Sooner*” Will Kind Little
Comfort in' Them.
Washington, July 9.—President Mc
Kinley's proclamation opening the
Kiowa, Wichita, Comanche and Apa
che reservations on August 0 is made
public. Conditions on which settlers
'may obtain claims are prescribed,
and are summarised as follows:
The Kiowa-, Wichita, Apache and
Comanche reservations will be opened
for settlement it 9 a. m., August G,
190 J.
Two land offiees for registration
have been established, one at El Reno,
Okla., and the other at Lawton, near
Fort Sill, Okla. Certificates of eligi
bility may be obtained at those points
beginning at 9 a. m. July 10, and end
ing July 20 at G p. m. Certificates are
necessary to perfect entry. The reg
istration at each office will be for
both land districts.
Registration must be in person, ex
cept in the ease of soldiers and sail
lors.
Drawings for claims under the lot
tery system will begin at El Reno at,
9 a. m. July 29, and continue indefi
nitely.
Winners of homesteads will be no
tified by postal card of their success.
“Sooners” are effectually barred.
Repeaters will be deprived of their
privileges.
Settlers are cautioned to respect
fences found in the new country.
Lands in the “neutral strip” are to
be reserved for location by settlers
upon These lands for 30 days.
Provision is made for locating town
sites. Townsite applicants are re
quired to file before the opening of
the lands a written application de
scribing by legal subdivisions the
lands intended to be affected, and
stating under oath the necessity or
propriety of founding or establishing
a town other than already provided
for.
None of the lands can be obtained
as free homes. When final proof of
entry is submitted the homesteader
must pay $1.25 dpt acre to perfest his
title.
It is estimated that over 100.000
persons will seek claims, while there
are only 13,473 all told, including
much poor land.
LIST OF THE DISQUALIFIED.
Exrlmloil from Mnkinpr Homestead
Entries In flic Newly Ceded
Indian I.nods.
Washington, July 9.—Commissioner
Harmunn, of the general land otliee,
has issued a general circular specify
ing the persons who are disqualified
from making homstead entries in the
Wichita and Kiowa, Comanche and
Apache ceded lands. Those disquali
fied are as follows: Any person who
has an existing homestead entry, or,
after June 6, 1900, abandoned or re
linquished such entry; a married
woman, unless deserted or abandoned
by her husband; those not citizens or
who have not declared such intention;
any one under 21 years of age at the
Wad of a family, unless he served in
army or navy 14 or more days in act
ual war; proprietors of over one hun
dred and sixty acres of land any
where; anyone who has perfected title
to a homesteal of 160 acres by proof
of residence and cultivation for five
years or under section 2, act of June
15, 1880; any one whose title acquired
and now being acquired by him under
the public land laws, in pursuance of
entries made sinee August 30. 1890,
with the traet now sought to be en
tered, shall make an aggregate of over
one hundred and twenty acres of non
mineral land.
BREAD UPON THE WATERS.
Uoverinuenf Expedifarcs Hint Will
Brins Ileturiis Now mid After
Many llnyit.
Washington, July 9.—The treasury
department yesterday drew warrants
aggregating $1,200,000, or $25,000 each
for 45 states and two territories, be
ing the maximum amount provided
for by congress in the act of August
30, 1890, for the endowment and main
tenance of colleges for the benefit of
agriculture and mechanic arts. This
act provided a minimum sum of $15,00(1
for that year, with an annual increase
of $1,000 for ten years up to $25,000.
The maximum is now reached, and
hereafter each of the states afad ter
ritories will receive annually this sum
for its agricultural colleges. This
money is tha preeeeda of the nil of
public land*.
COMBINATION EFFECTS
Railway Magnates Pnt I'p a IlintT to
Fool the Confiding
People.
The giant railroad combination is
evidently organized to fleece the public
and Ihus pay dividends on their wa
tered stock, not only at its par value,
but on the market price of various
stocks, many of which are quoted far
above par and greatly above the intrin
sic value for which the roads could be
replaced. The great railroad mag
nates insist that the combination will
benefit the public and better the con
ditions of the men employed, but this
is evidently said to fool the people.
Freights have already been advance^
from 30 to f>0 per cent., according to
the Washington Post, which says:
Prominent western merchants, all
heavy shippers of merchandise, are
preparing to call to account before the
interstate commerce commission the
heads of the various railroad combina
tions and the “community of inter
ests” alliances of the trunk lines
throughout the country. The charges
»re made that following those move
ments of consolidation freight rates
have been advanced from 30 to 50 per
cent, through quiet and organized
manipulation of the various classifica
tions of commodities. Behind the
movement to attack this scheme of
freight advances, by applying to the
interstate commerce commission for
relief, lies the plan for a still more vig
orous blow. The complainants intend
to demand that congress shall take a
hand in forcing the formation of a uni
form classification of freights which
shall be effective on every railroad in
the United States.
It is encouraging to note that these
"prominent merchants” are to take ac
tion; hitherto they have stood aloof
and left tlie burden of fight ing the rail
roads to the “grangers” and others.
Their plan of demanding congress to
give them relief is the only one that
will bring results, though it is very
doubtful if the coming congress will be
found willing to pass any bill that will
really hurt the railroads. Nearly every
republican member will ride on a free
pass, not only for himself, but for his
family, when he comes to Washington,
and the general managers who have
granted him this favor of course ex
pect protection and favors in return.
About one year from now the cau
cuses and conventions for the nomina
tion of congressmen and of legislative
candidates who will elect United States
senators, will be meeting, and then is
the time for those who want to curb
the rapacity of the railroad trust to
get in their work, and in 1003 some
thing may be accomplished.
WILL DROP EMPLOYES
Rulin'it ,v Combine* Will Throw Lot*
of WorkliiKiurn Out of Em
ployment.
The employes of the railroads will
suffer by the combination that the
railroad interests have perfected, and
a good many will be hunting jobs in
a few weeks. They will thus be
thrown into competition with the
higher-paid clerks in other lines of
business and eventually force lower
wages than even now prevail for this
class of labor. The Railroad News
says: “It is reported that the of
fices of railroads in the different com
binations located in all principal
cities throughout the country wil be
consolidated. The report is revived
in connection with the Morgan-Hill
syndicate operations. After the of
fices of individual lines under the
same ownership have been brought
together it is said that thousands of
solicitors and passenger agents will
be eliminated in the interests of econ
omy.”
When these men voted to elect a
republican congress, and nearly all
of them so voted, they helped to in
trench the combines and trusts in
power, and their only hope now is
to join the attacking force of the
democrats and force asunder these
combinations, that free competition
may again prevail.
-According to the census bureau
report of manufacturing in the state
of Delaware, the workingmen have
not participated to any great extent
in the McKinley prosperity, for we
are informed that the total wages
paid to 22,203 workmen was $9,263,
661. This would only give each man
an average of $412.72 a year, or less
than $7.94 a week, but little more
than one dollar a day. As this in
cluded superintendents at high sal
aries and foremen and other skilled
labor, the ordinary man must have
received nnlch less than one dollar.
-Fire Alarm Foraker has gone
over, body, soul and breeches, to Han
na, even to indorsing the ship sub
sidy bill. For the past year or two
he has been privately denouncing
Hanna’s programme of loot and his
henchmen have been openly against
it, but the exigencies of the coming
election for senator has made Fora
ker the most ultra administrutionist.
How some men will stultify them
selves for continued place and power.
The democrats should now have a
good chance of carrying Ohio and
turning the raianle out.
SECRETS OF RECIPROCITY.
Split of Repnblicnnn on the Tariff
Question IlriiiKN Interesting
Revelations.
The controversy that has sprung
up between republicans as to the
merits of protection and reciprocity
is good reading these days, for when
thieves fall out honest men may get
their dues. The American Economist,
the organ of the ultra protectionists
is laying down the law with a high
hand. It is receiving some pretty
heavy raps in return but as long as
the trusts and protected monopolies
put up the money to make the fight,
doubtless the editor of the Economist
enjoys the situation and will hit
every head that comes up to say a
word against its backers. What
makes the controversy more interest
ing is that many facts that were
known but were difficult to prove aro
now being acknowledged. For in
stance. it was well known that the
republican managers in the senate
were held up by the protected indus
tries affected and so the French and
other reciprocity treaties were not
ratified.
One of these protectionists writing
about the matter makes this plain by
saying: We invited the French gov
ernment to make a reciprocity treaty.
We told them that if they would re
duce their duties upon some of our
products we would reduce our duties
on some of theirs. This invitation
was extended under the authority of
the Dingley tariff law, and therefore
was the act of congress as well as
that of the executive, but after the
executive had performed his part of
the duty congress repudiated the
whole thing because a few New Eng
land manufacturers of knit goods and
pinchbeck jewelry, and a few Cali
fornians who are trying to raise
French walnuts, feared that theil
products would be reduced.
TRUSTS AND SENATORS.
l’re»»nre Ilrouulit to near oil Secre
tary finite tictn Him in
Line for Them.
The Protective Tariff league of the
Home Market club of Boston, who look
through the same glasses and see noth
ing but ruin for the country unless the
trusts are protected, have been making
a tight for some months to get Mr. Gib
son out of the office of counsel to the
treasury department before the board
of general appraisers and have Mr.
Washburn, Senator Lodge's private
secretary, appointed in his place. Sen
ator Lodge and other senators have
been aiding the trusts in this matter
and in the haughty manner of repub
lican politicians demanded that Secre
tary Gage at once make the appoint
ment, and followed it tip by a telephone
message asking why the removal and
the appointment had not been made.
Secretay Gage, whose vertebrae is
not very rigid, did not resent these de
mands and succumbed to the trusts.
Noting these facts, the New York
Times says: But it would give great
joy to some millions of the American
people if some time the head of a de
partment who dearly loved a fight
would send hack to his insulters
through the mails or over the tele
phone wires messages of loud defiance,
accompanied by opinions on the char
acter and habits of place-hunting sen
ators. enlivened by epithet and glow
ing w ith justified anger.
PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.
-The expected has happened in
Germany. The financial panic has
commenced and the banks are fail
ing, and yet business has been boom
ing- under a high protective tariff,
with its concomitant trusts and plu
tocracy.
——Senator Hanna has increased
the pay of the men employed on his
Cleveland street railway. The Cleve
landers are asking if it is caused by
the buzzing of the presidential bee or
the stirring up Tom Johnson has
given him.
-The Hanna machine in Ohio was
well greased and ran with lightning
rapidity roughshod over some of the
old war horses. Caldwell was with
drawn for lieutenant governor to pla
cate the anti-saloon people, but Cox,
the Cincinnati boss, named another
candidate quite as objectionable.
--The country is not to be en
lightened with the full details of the
Chinese campaign, ^the war depart
ment undertaking to judge what shall
be published and what not of the
report of (ten. Chaffee. This impe
rial idea of censorship is ill-befitting
a republic where all are entitled to
all the information that its public
servants report.
-It is announced that up to the
present time the prosecution of Mr.
Neely for the Cuban post office frauds
has cost the government $50,000, and
he is as far from conviction as when
he was first arrested. How much
Itathbone has cost is not' stated. It
is quite evident that the repulJlicanc ’*'■
do not dare to vigorously prosecute
these men or they would have been
brought to trial long ago. The threat
of Rathbone “to pull down the pillar*
of the temple” has evidently had it*'