Womde County News.
VOL. VI.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1907.
NO. 48.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
the latest events of the
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
north, east west, south
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na
tion and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.
Ernest Capelle, a New York steepe
Jack, placed a golden ball on top of
the Singer building flagstaff, 707 feet
above the level of the street,
August Hartje's fourth attempt to
buy his wife off has failed.
Missouri sues 600 corporations be
cause they fail to file statement of
location of their offices, factories re
plants.
Pittsburg judge discharges father
who was arested for spanking his 35
year-old daughter with a slipper, and
tells woman she must obey her father
while staying under his roof.
Dr. Rand of Washington attended
services at his o.wn grave. Surround
ed by friends, he watched the dedica
tion of a monument in his own honor.
Mrs. Morris, who was forcibly eject
ed from the White House a year ago,
has been pronounced hopelessly in
6ane.
Prisoner of St. Louis police tells cf
Jail horror in Texas, where he was
kept in a cell for 10 months without
once stepping outside its doors for ex
ercise or trial.
Japan has placed instructions for
the construction of the largest de
stroyer in the world.
Tales of cannibalism and famine
among the nat/Tes of northeastern
Canada, between the eastern shore of
James Bay and Labrador, are brought
back by J. A. Osborne, editor of the
Fort Francis (Man.) Times.
That a shameless intimacy existed
between Fred H. Magi 11 and Faye
Graham before the death of Pet Ma
gill, Fred's first wife, and that the two
wanted to put the wife out of the way
bo that they could inarrv, was the
assertion of E. D. Mitchell, one of the
prosecuting attorneys In his opening
statements to the fury in the Magill
case.
With “Theodore Roosevelt, Presi
dent," emblazoned on one side, the
first bale of cotton shipped direct to
England has been started from Mem
phis, Tenn. The journey will be en
tirely by water.
Gladys Vanderbilt will renounce
Protestantism and become a Roman
Catholic in order that a priest may
marry her to Count Szechenyi in a
Catholic church. This announcement
has been confirmed.
Mike" Cronin, one of the presi
dent s Adirondack’s guides, has been
adjudged insane and sent to the state
hospital.
Before Thanksgiving day, William
J. Bryan says he will Inform demo
crats just what his attitude toward
the presidential nomination is.
Four young men were drowned and
three others, all from good families,
bo seriously burned in the explosion
of a gasoline launch on Raritan Bay
that they may not recover.
Mrs. John C. Breckenrldge, widow
of Gen. John C. Rreckenridge, at one
time vice president of the United
Btates and a candidate for president
ogainst Abraham Lincoln, died in New
York city.
\ a,iuijr nurses uroKe ciown com
pletely under the 320 pounds of an ar
tillery officer who was ordered to
®ake the 13-mile ride over the miser
able roads of Virginia to test his
horsemanship.
Wickham and Oegrais announced at.
J“e Congress of Surgeons that they
ad succeeded in many cases in re
moving the birthmarks known as port
»dne stalns wUh radlum
Attorney general of New Jersey' has
eeiiied that the negro Elks do not
1 'use on name of lodges composed
°* white men.
Peter Murray of Buena Vista goes
<o coniege at the age of 57.
Chinese press comments on Taft’s
p to China are very enthusiastic,
'tuple Chadwick dies in prison.
',°man whose frenzied finance
• rec Ohio bank succumbs to nerv
usness. V as considered most notable
.criminal of day.
• Fred Butt of Columbus kills his
take '\th a plstol> shoots himself and
ca s an ounce of carbolic acid be
e. Was determined to push her
8ult for divorce.
f^Klng of Saxony threatens the pope
Cn„«.n0t rec°Knizlng divorce from
Countess of Montignoso.
Htuct' i ba*tleslliP Kentucky became
hnt m 116 mu^ °® Lambert's Point,
M,-laSr n0t seriously Injured,
tietv i L?’“Sa Falrbanks. wealthy so
2d eadf of Charles City, la., dum
•treet laborer3 ^ marryia* negro
Miss Marguerite Magill and her
young stepmother, Mrs. Fay Graham
Magill, sit together in the courtroom
where Fred Magill and his bride are
on tiial for the murder of Marguerite’s
mother.
The story of a woman’s love turned
to hate after the man she loved had
repulsed her advances for two years,
and the horrible sequel in the suicide
of the girl, who died rather than live
without the man she worshiped at a
distance, was told by Samuel F. Whit
low of Iola, Kas., at the coroner's in
quest over the body of Miss May
Sapp, who, he testified, cut her throat
in her own yard.
The German foreign office says
there is no truth in the report that
Germany has offered to send a war
ship fleet under Prince Henry to visit
V-e Atlantic seaboard of the United
States during the absence of the
American Atlantic squadron in the
Pacific as a demonstration of German
friendship.
Threatened by regular soldiers,
striking trainmen in Nevada return to
work in their old places.
Chicago Chinese revolt against pay
ing tribute to highbinders may result
in bloody war of rival tongs.
Persia is at the mercy of bands of
bandits who have inaugurated a reign
of terror.
Driven back and forth from pillar to
post across the Canadian boundary,
first into the state of Washington then
back into British Columbia, the sev
eral thousand Hindus dumped on this
unfriendly shore are objects of pity
as they wander about seeking employ
ment to earn enough to keep body and
soul together.
Shocking stories are leaking out
concerning the cruelties the Japanese
are perpetrating in Korea in their ef
fort to restore peace. They are report
ed to have butchered all the way
from 10,000 to 20,000.
Dr. Carl Liebkneclit, noted German
socialist, is brought to trial, charged
with treason, for his appeal to soldiers
and young men.
Arbitration question carries at peace
conference at The Hague all Ameri
can countries voting for it.
The pocket of Rear Admiral P. S.
Harrington was picked by a woman at
Williamsburg during the open-air ad
dress of the Bishop of London under
the trees after the presentation of
the Bible and lecturn to the old
church.
With the remark, “Heads for me;
all democrats are fond of the ladies,”
H. B. Clark won by the toss of a silver
dollar the clerkship of Sequoyan
county over his opponent, W. Peters,
a republican, who had received an
equal number of votes in the recent
election.
Insanity to be defense in case of
woman Raffles. Wife of millionaire,
and confessed burglar, is released on
bond of $9,400. Says natural depravity
is cause.
shooters were ambushed hy tribes
men in Morocco.
Sir Thomas Lipton, disappointed in
his failure to secure a race for the
America’s cup, will race at home, and
is having a new yacht designed.
After having, It is alleged, stolen
$1,300 from a laundry and found an
other woman whom he told his wife
he had married, Frank Hornish shot
and killed himself at Madison and
Dearborn streets, Chicago, before a
large crowd. Several weeks ago, he
left his wife and took up with his
affinity, who he said was known as
“Miss Fifer” of Knoxville, Wash.
An explosion, caused by the upset
ting of a pot of metal in the No. 1
cupola of the Standard Steel Co., at
Butler, Pa., caused the death of four
men, fatai.y Injuring twenty, and se
riously injuring twenty others.
The effort which President Diaz Is
making to prevent the indiscriminate
Imprisonment of American trainmen
by Mexican authorities when accident?
apd train wrecks occur, may be sup
plemented by an amendment to the ex
Istlng laws.
At the annual meeting of the "Last
Man’s Club” in Wilmington, an organ
ization composed of prominent Ma
sons, C. T. Toppin, the president, was
presented with a silver pitcher in hon
or of his 50th birthday. There are 22
members of the club, and each year a
dinner is held and the seat of deceased
members is left vacant and draped in
black until there is but one survivon
who will dine in state, surreunded by
the 21 empty chairs.
The first test ride by army officers,
which was ordered by the president
to determine the horsemanship of
those of higher rank than captain,
started from Fort Myer at 2 p. m. and
in two and a half hours the party was
back at the fort, having traversed
something over fifteen miles of good
and bad Virginia roads.
H. H. Rogers rushes to New York
at record-breaking speed at the call
of William Rockefeller.
It is understood that Secretary
Taft will ask congress for an appro
priation of $5,500,000 for military
clothing needed during the next fiscal
year.
ARKANSAS
Estate news?
Gashed Husband’s Throat.
Purlee Martin, wife of Warren Mar
tin, of Mammoth Springs, seriously
lacerated her husband's throat with
a razor, having become angered at
what she supposed to be an attempt
on his part to chloroform her while
asleep. Martin was able to be in Jus
tice Frayslier’s court the following
morning for preliminary examination.
While his wife was on the stand, tell
ing of how she used the razor and
revolver she suddenly sprung to her
feet, sinking to the floor unconscious
in an epileptic fit, causing almost a
panic among the spectators, who
thought she was going to shoot some
more.
New Auditorium.
The large auditorium building which
has been in process of erection at
Batesville is now nearly completed,
and its formal opening will be made
October 16. The building is a large
stone structure, and will have offices
on the first floor. The auditorium will
occupy the second floor, and will have
a seating capacity of about 1,000 peo
ple. Box seats and galleries have
been provided in addition to the s^ats
in the parquette, and the stock scen
ery compares favorably with the best
in the state.
Enthusiastic Over Fair.
Citizens of Ouachita county are
very enthusiastic over the fair which
will be held at Camden October 23, 24
and 25, and the display of farm pro
ducts, stock, poultry, canned goods,
fancy work, etc., will be very exten
sive. Thirty or forty booths will be
erected in the mddle of the streets in
the business section, and the stock
will be displayed on adjacent vacant
lots. The local Daughters’ of the Con
federacy and other ladies’ organiza
tions of the city will decorate booths
and entertain there.
$50,000 Court House.
Monroe County Quorum Court in
session at Clarendon appropriated
$50,000 for the purpose of erecting a
new court house. This will fill a
long-felt want in Monroe county, as
the building at present in use is en
tirely inadequate for the transaction
of the business of the county and
preservation of the records. The old
building will be torn down and a new
one, a handsome structure of modern
type erected on the site.
Shot by Accident.
E. W. Mooney, sheriff of Baxter
county, was accidently shot and in
stantly killed at Holdenville, I. T.,
While on a train en route with a pris
oner whom he was bringing to Moun
tain Home. He had his prisoner hand
cuffed and was seated next the win
dow »when the pistol fell from his
pocket to the floor. The weapon was
discharged and the bullet struck Mr.
MooDey, killing him instantly.
Investigating Boll Weevil.
A special field agent of the agricul
tural department is at Ozan to secure
data as to the inroads of the Mexican
boll weevil in Arkansas. A few eggs
of the weevil have been discovered
in a field near that place, and two
adult weevils in the field of J. S. Con
way, but so far no more discoveries
have been made. The agent declares
this to be the extreme northern limit
of the pest this season.
Petition for Road District.
A petition has been circulated and
numerously signed in Wynne asking
the levying court, to create a special
road district to comprise only the ter
ritory within the limits of the city of
Wynne. The object of the mov^ is
to make available all the road taxes
paid in the city, which amounts to
about $3,500 per year, for use on the
streets, instead of applying it to the
entire district.
Died From Effects of Wound.
Pleas Hill, a negro, died in Nash
ville from the effects of a wound re
ceived on the head in a fight with two
other negroes, in Page's camp on the
Memphis, Paris aud Gulf railroad. Hill
was struck on the head with an angle
bar in the hands of one of the negroes,
his skull being fractured.
Region of Sponge Divers.
In many of the Green islands div
ing for sponges forms a considerable
part of the occupation of the inhabi
tants. The natives make it a trade
to gather these, and their income from
this source is far from contemptible.
Sidewalks Ordered.
At the meeting of the De Queen
City Council recently, 55 additional
blocks were placed in the sidewalk
district and the walks ordered con
structed, and it is stipulated they
Bhall be completed by January 1.
Ore Shipped to Pueblo.
A car load of lead, zinc and copper
ore, estimated to be worth close on
to $1,500, was shipped from Hot
Springs to Pueblo, Colo., where it is
to be smelted. This is the first car
load of ore shipped from this point,
the mines beng new, and the rich
veins only recently discovered. Other
shipments will follow, as the assays
show' the ore to be rich and the min
ing profitable.
Berryville a Mule Market.
Berryville, Carroll county, is rapid
ly becoming an important market for
the sale of mules. During the past
three or four weeks no less than half
a dozen different buyers have been
in the town, and each went away with
mules. One day recently not less
than 25 head were sold there on the
square, 2-year-olds and up, and all
brought high prices, from $100 to $250
each.
White Boy Stabbed.
Ernest Worden, the 12-year-old son
of Frank Worden, of Clarendon, was
stabbed by an unknown negro, at a
merry-go-round. It is said the trouble
grew out of some trivial matter which
finally culminated in the negro plung
ing his knife into the boy’s body near
me heart. The negro then made his
escape in the crowd before anyone ful
ly realized what had taken place.
To Organize Y. M. C. A.
A number of young men in Fort
Smith have become interested in a
movement for the formation of a
Young Men’s Christian Association,
and it is probable that within a short
time a meeting will be called for the
purpose of discussing the question
among the business men and taking
the proper steps toward a permanent
organization.
Four Murder Cases.
The Hempstead circuit court is in
session, for the regular October term,
with light docket. There are four
murder cases on the criminal docket,
two of them having been continued
over for a number of times on account
of absence of witnesses, and several
other felony cases, as well as a num
ber of misdemeanor cases.
Swiped Mail Pouch.
Some frolicsome individual standing
on the platform of an Iron Mountain
coach, jerked a mail pouch from the
crane at Homan as the train passed
that station recently, and after
taking it up the road a half mile drop
ped it by the side of the track. The
postoffice department is trying to iden
tify the party.
Horribly Mangled.
Walter Parks, a well-known man of
Booneville, was horribly mangled by
the band and flywheel of the engine at
the Robbeclce Milling Company’s
plant. He was fireman, and in putting
resin on the pulley of the engine was
caught in the machinery. He lived
only about two hours.
Building New Jail.
Work has begun on the construc
tion of the new Sevier county jail at
De Queen. The building will be 40x
50 feet, and will cost $12,000. It will
be constructed of concrete and will be
fitted up with four steel cells of the
latest pattern.
Negro Killed at Humphrey.
Tom Walls, a middle-aged negro,
was shot and instantly killed at Hum
phrey, by Robert Lynch, a white man,
while he was in the act of carrying
out a threat to “carve” him with a
knife. The negro was drunk at the
time.
Thrown by Horse and Killed.
John Sparks, living near Gaither,
Boone county, wras thrown from his
horse and killed, about five miles
north of Jasper. He was, it is said,
running his horse at high speed on
the public road.
Negress Fatally Woynded
Jetty Mays, a negro woman, was
shot through the body and perhaps
fatally wounded by a negro known
as "Colonel” Jones at Texarkana.
Jealousy is given as the cause of the
tragedy.
Officials Raid Blind Tigers.
Sebastian county officials made a
raid on blind tiger resorts in Hartford
recently, and secured three wagon
loads of liquor and eight prisoners.
Fireman Is Killed.
James Attaway, a fireman on the
Prescott and Northwestern Railroad,
was accidentally killed near Prescott.
Attaway stepped off the switch, think
ing he was stepping on solid ground,
but fell off a 25-foot trestle.
Petition for Waterworks.
Parties owning about $120,000 worth
of property in Fordyce have signed
a petition asking for waterworks. A
petition representing $200,000 is re
quired before the council can taka
further action in the matter.
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State Capital Notes
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Supreme Court Docket.
The Supreme Court met Monday
and after the rendition of opinions
and the call of the docket listened to
oral arguments in the cases of C. D.
Boyton and others against the Chicago
Mill and Lumber Company, on appeal
from the Mississippi Chancery Court,
and the Fourche Planting Company
against T. C. Brown and others, on
appeal from the Pulaski Chancery
Court. In the cases of Bayne Pugh
against the Texarkana Light and Trac
tion Company, on appeal from the Mil
ler Circuit Court, and James Land
against the State, on appeal from the
Cleveland Circuit Court, motions are
pending for continuances.
The case of the State of Arkansas
against J. B. Black of Miller county,
convicted of murder in the second de
gree, will be called for submission.
The following civil cases will come
up for submission:
Waters-Pierce Oil Company against
J. Van Elderen and others: appeal
from the Garland Circuit Court.
Waters-Pierce Oil Company against
J. W. Eggner and others; appeal from
the Garland Circuit Court.
Board of Improvement District No.
5 against A. J. Offenhauser and others,
appeal from the Miller Chancery
Court.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and South
ern Railway Company against the
State of Arkansas; appeal from the
Izard Circuit Court.
Cleveland McLeod Lumber Company
against Wes Piggee; appeal from the
Sevier Circuit Court.
H. J. Hanson against W. L. Conne
vey; appeal from the Lafayette Circuit
Court
J. H. Buckley against S. P. Williams
administrator; appeal from the Wash
ington Circuit Court.
Arkansas Mutual Fire Insurance
Company against M. A. Clark; appeal
from the Lee Circuit Court.
D. L. Gebhart against W. B. Merch
ant; appeal from the Garland Circuit
Court
T. E. and R. D. Townsend against
William Penrose; appeal from the
Woodruff Chancery Court
John F. Park, trustee, and others,
against L. C. Smith and others; appeal
from the Arkansas Chancery Court.
Law Affects Cotton Seed Meal.
Commissioner Guy B. Tucker holds
that cottonseed meal, which is regard
ed as a fertilizer, lawfully comes
under the provisions of the act passed
by the recent legislature, “providing
for the regulation, registration, sale,
inspection and analysis of commercial
fertilizers, acid phosphates, fertilizer
materials and chemicals in the State
of Arkansas.” The commissioner
claims that cottonseed meal comes
under the head of fertilizer materials,
and that it is a commercial fertilizer,
and is therefore subject to the provis
ions of the act. The law provides that
it shall be unlawful for any manu
facturer or company, either by them
selves or their agents, to sell or offer
for sale In this State any fertilizer
or fertilizer materials that have not
been registered with the commissioner
of mines, manufactures and agricul
ture. There is a great deal of cot
tonseed meal in which hulls are mixed
that is sold not only for fertilizing pur
poses, but for feed. All this stuff, the
commissioner says, shall bear the tag
of the commissioner of agriculture,
showing that the law has been com
plied with. In case the oil mills should
be required to tag their packages of
meal, it is estimated that the revenue
to the State from this source would
be considerable. The fee for inspect
ing fertilizing material of this kind is
25 cents per ton.
Little Rock's Water Supply.
In response to a demand for a
pure and unlimited supply of water
for Little Rock, Henry G. Martin, an
engineer, and one who, as nearly as
any other man, knows every nook and
cranny of Arkansas, makes the propo
sition to tap the vast sand beds from
six to fifteen miles south of the city
and by sinking wells therein obtain
the desired supply of water. He
claims for such a project the virtues
of economy, purity and unlimited sup
ply. Mr. Martin does not say that
the end can be gained at once, for an
adequate water source is difficult^ to
locate, but he does say that the water
is there if Little Rock cares to take
the trouble, time and money to look
for it.
Inspector of Fertilizers.
Commissioner Guy B. Tucker has
appointed M. L. Bowden of Nashville
inspector of fertilizers for Howard
county. The appointment is made un
der the act passed by the recent legis
lature. requiring that all fertilizers
must be analyzed and each package
bear a tag showing that its contents
conform to the Jaw.
Holds Wingo Act Unconstitutional.
United States District Judge Jacob
Trieber held Saturday that the Wingo
act was unconstitutional in the hear
ing on the injunction suit brought by
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railway Company against O. C. Lud
wig as secretary of state. This decis
ion also effects the actions brought
by the St. Louis, San Francisco Rail
road Company and the Southwestern
Railway Company against the Stat»
of Arkansas. Judge Trieber overruled
the demurrer of Attorney General Kir
by as to the jurisdiction of the federal
court, and granted the injunction
prayed for by the railroad corporation.
The case will be immediately appealed
by the state to the Supreme Court of
the United States. Attorney General
Kirby is absent from the city, but his
intentions in this respect have already
been stated. Judge Trieber holds that
the suit against the secretary of state,
who is merely acting in this matter as
a ministerial officer, is not a suit
against the state within the meaning
of the Eleventh amendment of the
constitution and, therefore, is cogni
zable in a court of the United States,
as the right claimed by the railroad
company is one arising under the con
stitution of the United States. It is
held thrt wki'e the state has the right
to exclude foreign corporations from
doing business within its borders, with
or without any reason, this power of
the state is subject to the constitu
tional provision that no state shall
pass any law impairing the obliga
tions of a contract, which is a point
mentioned in a recent opinion by
Judge Winfield.
Money For State Farm.
The Penitentiary Board will hold an
adjourned session the latter part of the
week, and it is likely will order a
payment on the state convict farm in
Lincoln county. What this amount
will be has not been agreed upon by
the members. The only payment made
on the farm this year is $15,000, which
was paid to the Urquhart estate sev
eral months ago. The farm was sold
to the State for $140,000. The recent
legislature appropriated $45,000 for
payment on the place, out of which
appropriation $15,000 was paid on
May 20, leaving a balance to the credit
of the appropriation of $30,000. Pay
ments for the farm must come out of
the penitentiary fund, which consists
of the earnings of the penitentiary. At
present there is about $25,000 to the
credit of the fund, and as large returns
from the sales of cotton will soon
come in, the board feels justified in
making another payment on the place.
The amount paid on the convict farm
to date is about $78,000, leaving a bal
ance of $02,000 and interest due.
Moore-Heartsill Law to Be Tested.
Seeking to compel the Postal Tele
graph Company to continue its service
to their offices in this state, Logan &
Bryan, the New York and Chicago
grain and stock brokers, filed, through
George J. Meier, in the Federal Cir
cuit Court a suit to test the constitu
tionality of the Moore-Heartsill law,
the creation of the last legislature,
which is said to have driven every
cotton exchange out of the state. The
complaint was in the form oL.a boak_
and consisted of 108 typewritten pages.
The contents explained the difference
between a legitimate exchange and
a bucket shop, claiming that the-for
mer institution deals only in the act
ual commodity and contracts are for
actual delivery and purchase. This
action may be the forerunner of sim
ilar suits in other states where cot
ton legislation has been effected.
Georgia, Texas and Alabama come un
der this head.
Lucas Goes to Court.
With the ultimate purpose of having
Prof. T. A. Futrell ousted from charge
of the Blind School, Prof. S. D. Lucas,
who was recently elected superinten
dent by the State Board of Charities,
has filed an injunction suit in the
Chancery Court, petitioning Chancellor
Hart to restrain Futrall from exercis
ing the functions of the disputed posi-'
tion. Prof. Lucas is represented by
J. H. Harrod, while M. P. Huddleston
of Paragould is looking after the in
terests of Prof. Futrall. Chancellor
Hart, it is understood, will be called
upon to decide whether Acting Gover
nor Pindall had authority to remove a
member of the Board of Charities »n
this case.
Paid Charter Fees.
The American Lumber and .Manu
facturing Company of Pittsburg, ha*
filed a certificate of its incorpora
tion with the secretary of state and
paid its charter fees amounting to
$1,000. The company is capitalized at
$200,000, and designates the secretary
of state as its agent in Arkansas upon
whom service of process may be had.