I he Newark Journal.
O F. CRAIG, Kditor.
NEWARK- - , ARKANSAS.
Many Americans have offered
their services to Japan in the pres
ent war.
Many Japanese in the United
States navy have deserted to tight
for their country.
Missouri democrats are working
for Senator Cockrell for the presi
dential nomination.
The State Bank of Pittsburg,
Pa., has suspended. Injudicious
loans caused the failure.
Russian ofiieials at St. Petersburg
regard the attitude of the United
States as distinctly anti-Ru.-sian.
It is possible Russia wil labandon
her world's fair exhibit at St. Louis
in ease the war with Japan is not
speedily settled.
The press of Turkov is urging
the government to take advantage
of the war in the far east to de
clare war on Bulgaria with the ob
ject of recovering southern Kouma
nia.
Fire at Topeka. Kuv. destroyed
$400,000 worth of property in the
business section. The fire darted
by an explosion of chemicals in
the Parkhurst-Davis Mercantile
Company's building.
The position of the (h rman gov
ernment respecting the Russo-Jap
anese war is well defined in a proc
lamation issued by the imperial
chancellor. Count von Buelow. It
is exact neutrality in act, hut in
sentiment it is sympath tie toward
Russian predominance in China
rather than Japanese predominant
there.
Since hostilities began in the
far east the Japs seem to have been
victorious in every engagement,
though tiie news in conflicting as
to the extent of damage done. It
is known that seven Russian ves
sels have been jmt out of action
and that several Russian transport
have been captured, but the num
ber effvasualtios has not been oili
ekilly verified.
Japan has gained a big advant
age in the war with Russia through
victorious in the iir-t naval battles.
The defeat of Russia on the sea
will doubtless mean her defeat on
land, as she would he practically
without means of transporting -up
plies to her troops in Manchuria.
Russia's only line of communica
tion with her troops is the Siberian
railroad, some -4.000 miles long,
which can be easily d*-trov<d.
Con. Reyes, president of Colom
bia, ha- gone to Germany on a se
cret mi.-sion. It is believed ho will
offer Germany a la rye slice of Co
lombian territory in return for her
help in regaining Panama. For
the elected president of a country
to act as his own envoy and per
sonally visit the ruler of another
nation with the object of asking
her to intercede with a third power
is a most astonishing s; -etude, sav
diplomats.
William Rudolph, who with
George Collins robbed the bank at
Union. Mo., December *.H>.
later killed an officer who tried tf
effect 11is arrest, and then made a
sensational escape from the St.
Ixmis jail in broad daylight, has
been sentenced to an indefinite
term in the Kansas penitentiary for
safe robbi.ry, Rudolph was sen
tenced under the name of Albert
Gorvo. A Kansas pardon will he
asked for Rudolph at once, that he
may be taken to Missouri on a re
quisition and tried for murder and
bank robbery.
W . \V. Wentz. Jr., has been suc
ceeded as general superintendent of
the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf
by F. O. Melcher, formerliy super
intendent of the Illinois division
of the Rock Island.
In a clash between guards and
driking miners at Coal Creek,
Term., four men were killed and
eight wounded. Gov. Frazer de
clares ho will send troop- into the
district should any further trouble
x'cur.
Money in Growing Peaches.
A bulletin on “ l'each Growing
in Arkansas'" has bom prepared by
Ernest Walker, horticulturist- and
entomologist of the agricultural ex
periment station at Fayetteville.
Mr. Walker gives the following in
teresting observations: “A small
planting in Washington county of
trees ten years old and under good
rare yielded at the rate of $1S0 per
acre net at 30 cents a bushel, both
in 1001 -02. Instances of better re
turns could be easily multiplied.
One of the most notable instances
of large returns from a well-eared
for peach orchard was that of Mr.
M. S. Scott at Slatonvilie, who net
ted $10,000 in two years from a
30-acre orchard of three and four
year-old trees. $3,000 for 1001—
and $1,000 for 1002. ()n the other
hand, an orchard of equal extent,
and equally favorably located, under
the same climatic conditions, weld
ed nothing in the same years on ac
count of inexperienced manage
ment. On the whole the results in
1001-02 were >o very satisfactory
in Arkansas that an unprecedented
interest in peach growing has aris
en. In 1*00 the census showed a
total of 2,1 (»0,ti."i2 peach and nectar
ine trees in Arkansas (practically
all peach). In 1X00 the number of
trees was !.<it;2.21x. Since 1000 it
is probable that the number of trees
has been more than doubled, possi
bly the total extent of such areas
has been trebled."
mcuJDiei ueis lweniy-vjcc icais.
Napoleon .McDaniel. who shot
and killed J. (', Larue al Texarkana
last May. has been sentenced to
t wen tv-one years in the '.l'ex as pcn
itenliarv. About lifteen years ago
McDaniel took part in a train rob
bery on the Cotton Belt railroad a
few miles from 'Texarkana. During
a battle between the robbers and the
train erew, one of the bandits was
so badly wounded he could not be
carried away, and it is charged that
MeDaniel deliberately murdered the
man with the \ iew of concealing his
own identity. For this crime, he
was given a life sentence in the pen
itentiary. but through the untiring
efforts of an invalid wife ho was
granted a pardon. McDaniel's wife
lived only a few days after the par
don was granted, and within three
months he shot and killed Larue,
apparently without provocation.
One of hi< partners in the Cotton
Belt train robbery was named W il
liam--. a deputy United States mar
shal. who a Bo received a life sen
tence.
Bentonville to Get Main Line.
ll i- reported that Bentonville is
to have the new main line of the
Frisco railroad. The n< \\ main line
will leave the old one at some point
in Missouri south of Monett and
will hear southwest. pas>ing west
of the Klkhorn mountains, going
through Bentonville and crossing
Benton county near its center and
Washington county through its cen
tral western portion, thus entirely
escaping I>evi!s Kyebrmv country
and the Winslow Tunnel and it> ad
jacent mountains and leaving Bog
ers several miles to the eastward.
This is the most feasible and practi
cal route and presents no difficulties
as compared with the old route.
A Deplorable Tragedy
A most deplorable* tragedy took
place at King-land, in which Coun
ty Judge S. T. Morgan and his
brother. Henry Morgan, were killed
bv J. 1 >. Kight. The dead men
were standing on the street together
when Kight and a man named
Knickerbocker, rivals in the* livery
business, got into a dilliculty. The
latter drew a knife and clashed
Kight. who then ran. As he ap
proached the Morgans they were
standing in such a way he thought
they were going to stop him. Kight
pulled a 38-calibre Smith & Wesson
and opened tire, mortally wounding
both the Morgans.
Tornado in Fulton County.
A terrific- tornado swept over Ful
ton county. Fight persons are re
ported to have been killed at Un
ion and vicinity. Only one build
ing was left standing in the town
of Union, and it was blown from
its foundation. Two churches, the
Masonic ball, the residence and
barn of Samuel W. t'oehran. the
residence and barn of William Oil
strap and a number of smaller
dwellings, together with the store
houses of S. \V. t’oehran and S. W.
Cochran, Jr., with the entire con
tents. and the Carnes blacksmith
shop, were swept away. ’Hie path
of the tornado was about JOt) vards j
wide, from southwest to northeast,
crossing the Frisco railroad a few
hundred yards north of Fickinger.
In its course of over thirty miles it
i demolished the farmhouses of Fay
J < tte (ircen. Robert Mathis. W\att
Phillips, Dan Haney. Kiev (IriHith,
(icorge Sadler. Bruce Thompson;
end mam others. A fa-t mail
train on the Frisco ran into the tor
nado near Fickinger. and was
struck by Hying timbers and the!
windows demolished.
Publishing Proposed Amendments.
Secretary .1. W. Crockett, linn
mailed to one newspaper in each
county an official copy of the pro
posed amemlments to tlie constitu
tion of Arkansas which will he
voted upon at the election in Sep
tember. I'nder the law proposed
constitutional amendments must he
advertised in full in one paper in
each eountv for a period of si\
months preceding the election.
Scrapper in Hard Luck.
‘*Kid’ Kelly, who had received
a slight cut in the haml during a
saloon brawl at Hot Springs, got
obstreperous and assaulted a phvsi
eian who refused to dress the wound
unles.- accompanied to Ids office.
The physician drew a revolver and
shot Kelley in the fleshy part of the
leg and left him to secure surgical
aid from another source.
Long-Term Prisoner Escapes.
Cliarles T. Moore, Serving twen
ty-one years from Carland county
for murder, escaped from the peni
tentiary at Little lh>ck. lie had
served three years of his term.
Moore is 1C year- of age. has light
colored hair, auhurn complexion.
Iiazen eyt -. A reward of $50 will
l»e paid for hi< return to the walls
New Koad Chartered.
The state railway incorporation
hoard has granted a charter to the
Luxora. livening Shade and Xorth
wi -tern railroad. 'The incorpora
tion propose to build a railroad
from Luxora to Kw ning Shade, a
distance of ]00 miles, through the
| counties of Missi.-sippj, Craighead,
-Jackson, Lawrence and Sharp.
Unknown Negro Murdered.
The body of an unknown negro
was found on a sandbar near Red
field. An examination revealed
that the man came to hi< death from
• a gunshot wound in the left side.
It is believed lie was murdered for
jibe purpose of robbery and thrown
i into the river at some point above
Red field.
BRIEF MENTION.
The Ihinh of Nettleton, capital
stock *10,000, has been incorporat
ed.
Admiral Sehlev will attend the
Scottish K’ite reunion at Little Koch
May Hi.
A -pecial hearing LSI grain
dealers from \ehraska visited a
numher of points in the state last
week.
W. E. J. lverd, an Iron Moun
tain hrakcinan. was crushed between
cars at Kenton and probably fatally
inj ured.
M. McCormick, a farmer living
near Mammoth Spring, suicided by
taking poison during It is family's
absence at church.
NOTHING OUT OF SEASON
Spring and Summer Products in
Market All Winter.
A local market man declares
that in the present artificial do
velopiuent of the delicacies, vege
tables a«nd fruit, which adorn the
(able of (he wealthier people,
there is nothing “out of season.”
says (lie ltoston Advertiser. The
application of the hot house prin
ciple, all (he way from the raising
of chickens to the growing of
strawberries, lias made this pos
sible. There is neither winter nor
summer, spring nor fall, so far as
tin* ability of the market man to
supply the wants of his rich pa
trons is concerned. This situa
tion did not exist 25 years ago.
but the demand has made the sup
ply.
About Christmas time all the
fruits and vegetables which arc
out of season to 1 he poor man. and
therefore beyond the reach of his
purse, are in season to the rich.
In many homes herestrawberries,
fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and
garden truck in general have been
as plentiful as though summer
were here. Around this city there
are several hundred acres of beds,
altogether, under glass, where
vegetables are raised.
Coils of steam pipes, t he sun by
day and the electric lights by
night, stimulate the growth. Of
course, the* practical market gar
dener will declare that the best
fruit and vegetables of artificial
growl h do not possess t lie flavor of
those ripened slowly in the sun
light, but as the flavor is not so
neeessary as the substance, t he dif
ference is not always noted by
those who can afford out of season
luxuries.
Throughout f he winter t he great
garden land of the south is pour
ing its trophies into Boston will
out stint. Strawberries come into
Boston to iheextent of over 2.0oO,
(»00 quarts from North and South
Carolina alone. There are about
1.000,(100 crates of ol her vegeta
bles from other parts of t he so.it h.
< 'alifornia and Florida ship us 50,
000.000 pounds of fr< sli fruits
which are in season there, but out
of season here. New England it
self supplies the Boston market
with “spring” chickens and hot
house lamb, which are staple s in
the diet of our wealt hier cit i/ens
at this time. The* farmer, who
caters to lliis class of trade al
ways finds a market ahead of him.
He can sell every delicacy he
raises.
DESERVED A DOLLAR.
Tale of Bright Offics Boy Who Got a
Raise in Wages.
Willie Thompson. I lie office bov,
was a smart lad. and when reeent
Iy In* was sent to one of tin* oper
ative departments with a message
he not iced at once that something
was wrong: with th<* machinery,
says Stray Storms.
Il<- rot urimd. gave the alarm,
and thus prevented much damage.
The circumstance was reported to
the head of the firm, before whom
Willie was summoned.
“Von have done me a very great
service, my lad,” said the genial
chief. “In future your wages will
be increased by 50 cents weekly.”
“Thank you, sir.” said the bright
little fellow. “I will do mv best
to be worth it. and to be a good
servant 1o you."’
The reply struck the chief a!
most as much as t he lad’s previous
service had done.
“Thu t's t he right spirit, my lad,”
lie said. “In all the years I have
been in business no one has ever
1 hanked me in that way. I will
make t he increase 75 cents. Now,
what do you say to that?”
“Well, sir,” said Willie, after a
moment's hesitation, “would you
mind if 1 said it again?”
In London.
In London streets, as soon as
fain has made the roadway slip
pery, street department men scat
ter fine, hard gravel from iron bins
placed at frequent intervals at the
intersection of the busier thor
ough fa res.
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