VOL. V.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1906.
ISO. 46.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN
EPITOME of the most im
portant events at homi
and abroad.
■ORTH, EASLWEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Fifty lives are reported lost and
6 000 houses damaged in Mobile, Ala.,
*s a result of a hurricane. The prop
erty loss is placed at $3,000,000.
Cotton in Missiissippi, southern
Alabama and southern Arkansas was
greatly damaged by the storm the lat
ter part of September.
Quanan Parker, chief of the Com
anche Indians, is advocating the In
termarriage of whites with the In
dians for a better citizenship among
the Indians. He is quoted as saying:
•'Mix the blood; put white man’s
blood in Indians, then in a few years
you will have a better class of In
dians." Quanah’s mother was a white
soman, and several of his daughter
have married into white families.
Eugene C. Bagwell was arrested in
the office of Alton B. Parker, 32 Nas
sau street, New York, under an in
dictment for bigamy in Oswego, Kas.
He is Mr. Parker’s secretary.
David R. Francis has arrived horns
in St. Louis from his visit to royalty.
He said he xvas glad to get home, and
that the worst thing in Europe is
warm drinks.
Word has been received from Mar
seilles, France, to the effect that Sen
ator W. A. Clark, of Montana, was In
an automobile wreck and sustained
a broken rib. At last accounts the
patient was slowly recovering.
George H. Poor, the inventor of the
air brake generally used on American
railroads, died in Portland, Me.
Mrs. Howard Gould’s sister has
married a Chinaman in San Fran
cisco. A complete and very elaborate
Celestial ceremonial marked the cele
bration of the nuptials, and Miss Ella
Clemmons is now entitled to the
name Sun Yue. She has been a mis
sion worker in San Francisco for sev
eral years. She said: “For eight
years 1 labored night and day attend
ing the women and children in China
town, the only Catholic who ever de
voted herself to that branch of mis
sionary endeavor.
Mrs. Eleanor Reede, of San Francis
co, was robbed in Paris of a zibetene
stone worth $10,000. A man intro
duced himself to Mrs. Reede at her
hotel as the representative of a big
lewelry firm. An accomplice thon
came up an announced to Mrs. Reede
the call of s prominent resident, and
she left the room to see him. When
she returned the alleged jeweler's
representative and the stone were
gone.
During the 24 hours ending at 7 a.
n. Saturday 2.1 G inches of rain fell in
k. Louis, according to the official fig
ires of the weather bureau. Toe total
all since it began raining about 9 p.
n. Thursday was 2.G7 inches. The
'ain, which was due to the gulf storm,
vas general over the Mississippi, Ohio
ind Missouri valleys. The'storm has
noved northward and is expected to
each tne lake regions Saturday and
iontinue down the St. Lawrence val
ey.
Paul 0. Stensland, the Chicago
'ank convict, was put to work in the
>orting room of the broom factory,
'here he will labor by the side of
°hn A. Linn, the ex-clerk of the su
)erior court of Chicago, under sen
ence for embezzlement.
A natural gas franchise, which
(’ves "'e Kansas City-Missouri Gas
-onipany the right to serve the city
,uth natural gas for thirty years, at
ln average rate of twenty-eight cents
’et 1,000 feet, has been passed by
city council and signed by the
nayor of Kansas City, Mo. The rate
°r mar>ufacturing purposes is to be
s ow as the price in neighboring
‘es, some of which pay eight cents,
lepktent Roosevelt has appointed
h p°srga,i Shuster as a member ol
ne Philippine commission, to fill one
'• the vacancies caused by the resig
ion of Governor General Wright
nu Governor General Ide. The other
acancy recently was filled by the ap
intm<?nt of Judge Charles E. Ma
' American minister to Panama
p H°'ei'nor of the canal zone.
resident Palma agrees to Secretary
a i as arbitrator, and it is now hoped
“at Cuba may be pacified,
becoming despondent over ill-health
rs. n. B. Carson, of Eldon, la., com
l.1 . f’h sPicide by drowning In Des
oincs river The body was found
out ten feet from the river bank en
“Sled in a fish net
icsiilent Roosevelt has contributed
rim *0 he used by Rear Admiral
mas m a legal suit ak Newport, R.
’ 0 (*et“rniiue whether or not a
iubb'Ula> 1)6 exclu<ied from a place ol
f ^ ®ntertainment because he
s the uniform of the Unitea
m'es army or navy.
Bertha lieilstein, a wealthy young
woman of Allegheny, Pa., who has
been confined In an asylum for the
Insane at Dixmont, Pa., since her con
viction of the murder of her aged
mother eight years ago, escaped from
the institution at night, and her pres
ent whereabouts is unknown. It is
said she left by the fire escape and
was whirled away in an automobile.
News has been received here, says
a Honolulu dispatch, that Afong, the
well known Chinese capitalist, for
merly of Hawaii, died in China on
Tuesday, September 25. Afong mar
ried a half-breed white woman, by
whom he had two sons and thirteen
daughters. The daughters are ex
ceedingly handsome, and married
well, one becoming me wife of Rear
Admiral Whiting of the United States
navy.
A gulf hurricane caused great loss
to shipping at Pensacola, Fla., also
to wharves, warehouses, residences,
railroads and farms. The storm ex
tended along the coast from New
Orleans to a point south of Atlanta,
moved northwest into Mississippi,
Alabama and Tennessee, continuing
northwest to the St. Lawrence valley.
In the gulf states great damage was
done to cotton, rice and other crops.
Complete plans for a campaign
against the Standard Oil company
have been drawn by the department
of justice. Attorney General Moody
has returned to Washington from his
vacation and will take them up at
once, and if he approves, as it is ex
pected he will, hostilities will be be
gun against the great oil concern
as quickly as possible, and pressed
with vigor until the supreme court
determines whether the Standard Oil
sompany can exist under the Sher
man . anti-trust law.
William Randolph Hearst was nomi
nated by the democrats for governor
of New York.
The republicans of New York uam
inated Charles E. Hughes for gov
•rnor.
Abbe De Larue, cure of Chatenay.
France, who disappeared about two
nonths ago. and who was thought to
have been assassinated, has been
found to be alive and well, living in
Brussels with a teacher, formerly a
nun of the same town, with who, it ap
pears, he eloped.
Six are known to be dead, 36 injured,
several probably fatally, and two have
been driven insane from injuries and
shock, as the result of a wreck that
occurred when a Wabash fast train,
eastbound from St. Louis, struck an
open switch at Catlin, a siding six
miles west of Danville, 111., and crashed
into a freight.
Committees of switchmen, in pur
suance of a general movement, have
presented a uemand for shorter hours
and increased pay. It is asked that a
response be made to the request with
in thirty days.
The Pulaski county (Ark.) grand
jury has indicted Will Gay, a negro,
for murder in the first degree for kill
ing Mrs. Charlotte Leetham, in Little
Rock, on the night of June 4. Gav
worked as houseman for Mrs. Leel
ham. He intimated that he was hired
to commie the murder. Sensational
reports that Mrs. Leetham knew some
thing about alleged boodling in the
last legislature were current soon aftei
her death.
The proclamation for opening the
Kiawa lands in Oklahoma to settle
ment, which was signed at Oyster Bay.
recently, has been made public at the
state department by Acting Secretary
of State Adee. This proclamation
names no date for disposing of the
lands, and has nothing to do with the
regulations of the interior department.
Paul O. Stensland, to whose sslf
confessed embezzlement of $400,000
was due chiefly the collapse of the
Milwaukee Avenue State bank, was
given an indeterminate sentence in thj
penitentiary within three hours after
his arrival in Chieago.
The members of the Cuban cabi
net presented their resignations to
President Palma, and it was an
nounced that the president would call
congress together and present his
own resignation. This will practic
ally leave Cuba without a government,
and American intervention is inevit
able. The United States has seven
thousand marines and bluejackets
ready to land in Cuba, and a force
near at hand sufficiently strong to
back them up.
Kev. U. Amos, a negro preacher,
who had been advising his people to
assert their alleged social rights
against white people, was shot am
fatally wounded oy a train news agent
on the Iron Mountain road near Uoeuft
Station, La.
Paul O. Stensiand, the Chicago
banker, says he wants full justice,
and will both protect the innocent
and tell of the guilty.
A 500-pound octpus was caught by
a Ashing party in Mississippi sound,
and killed, after a struggle which
lasted eight hours. The octopus
towed the boat of the party, stern
lirst, for ten miles. It was finally
killed with rifles.
dross earnings of railway lines 01
the ttnfted States, last- rear'-exceeded
the $2,000,000,000 mark. The sta
tistics of the commerce commission
show a reduction in both freight and
passenger rates.
TAFT TAKES CUBA!
AS PROVISIONAL GOVERNOR AND
PEACE NOW REIGNS.
His Proclamation in Official Gazette
Widely Distributed and Caused
General Satisfaction
Havana—An American provision
al government assumed possession of
Cuba when War Secretary Taft’s proc
lamation declaring himself provision
al governor of the island was formally
issued. The proclamation was pub
lished in the Official Gazette, and
thousands of the printed copies of the
document were distributed in Havana
and elsewhere.
The terms of the proclamation
caused general satisfaction.
Clear, blue skies and a fresh, cool
breeze were the weather conditions
harmonious to the general aspect ac
companying the turning over of the
government of Cuba. The bright at
mospheric conditions after a week of
drenching rain were in consonance
with the relief everywhere manifest
over what is regarded as the end of
strife in Cuba. Cuban government
politicians are not much in evidence
today, but even among them expres
sions of satisfaction are not uncom
mon over the fact that a government
of reliability has taken control of af
fairs. All seem incliii-Ptrtptagr«e_that
danger is past, aric) Sal tlife*futirre is
much brighter. All express confidence
in the good faith of the United States
and while none venture to predict the
length of time American occupation
will continue, this class has more or
less hope that the full sovereignty of
the republic eventually will be re
stored. It is different with the business
element. Merchants, bankers and
planters of all nationalities are en
thusiastically glad to welcome Ameri
can government.
Secretary Taft went in an automo
bile to the palace for the purpose of
greeting and arranging to succeed
Senor Palma. His going was practic
ally unnoticed. No crowd gathered,
and the incident passed off quietly.
On his arrival, Taft was greeted by
Mr. Belt, the president’s secretary,
and was ushered into the president’s
private office. Formal greetings were
exchanged. Mr. Taft highly compli
mented Senor Palma on the progress
in Cuba’s development under his ad
ministration and on the condition of
her finances and resources. He said
to Senor Palma that his course in re
signing was in its way a species of
heroism. Senor Palma replied simply
that he was glad that the burden of
the presidency had been lifted from
his shoulders.
Secretary Taft had expected to go
over the financial affairs of the govern
ment with Senor Palma, especially re
garding bonds and other indebtedness,
etc., but Senor Palma said Fonts y
Sterling was much better able than
incoming government. The interview
he to explain all such matters to the
accordingly ternminated in friendly
fashion, and Secretary Taft and party
returned to the legation.
Secretary Taft has received a letter
signed by Jose Miguel Gomez and
other conspiracy prisoners, as follows:
"We understand that the provision
al government just established in Cuba
intends to carry out, so far as the
same may be applicable to the chang
ed conditions, the basis of settlement
which the peace commissioners recom
mended to both the Moderate and the
Liberal parties, including general am
nesty for all political offenders. The
undersigned, representing the insur
gent forces in the field, by proper
declaration hereby agree, on behalf
of such insurgent forces, that they
will at once lay down their arms, re
turn to their homes and restore prop
erty taken by them for military pur
poses, which is now in their posses
sion. We request the appointment of
a commission by the provisional gov
ernment to meet a similar commission
appointed by us, to arrange the details
of the surrender of arms and proper
ties, after which we shell return to
our homes.'1
Mr. Taft has ordered the release of
all conspiracy prisoners and appoint
ed a commission as requested in the
appointed, consists of Gen. Funston,
foregoing letter. The commission, as
(president), Gen. Menocal, Gen. Ag
ramonte and Col. Carlos Fernandez,
co represent the Cuban government,
aided by Maj. Ladd, U. S. A., and
Lieut. Mitchell, Gen. Funston's aide,
as recorder. It is understood the in
surgent commission will consist of the
eame men who served the Liberals re
cently as peace cimmissioners.
When the prisoners were released
they went direct from the Presidio to
the American legation. They immedi
ately began a conference with Mr. Taft
regarding the details of laying down
of arms and the manner of conducting
that operation.
Will Send 6,000.
Washington—The War Department
has received from President Roose
velt instructions to send 6,000 troop*
to Cuba immediately.
ARKANSAS BRIEFS
Saturday October 6 will be a gala
day at the State Fair Grounds. A
special train will leave Fayetteville on
Friday bringing the entire University
and many hundred others to the Fair.
Invitations are especially extended to
all former university students to meet
their old friends at the Great Fair.
An elaborate program is being arrang
ed to be held during the morning in
the immense Fair Ground Auditorium.
The most noted educators and sons
of the U. of A. will be heard. The
University Band and cadets will add
their quota to the occasion. In the
evening an elaborate banquet will be
served. The people of Arkansas will
have an opportunity through this
splendid spectacle and gigantic gath
ering to realize as never before the
importance and magnitude of the edu
cational work of our State University.
All other colleges and schools of the
state have been cordially invited to
co-operate in this splendid program.
On this same date the Arkansas Trav
elers will arrive on two special trains
accompanied by their friends and
many merchants from all over the
state. The Travelers will number one
thousand in full parade uniform.
Special popular priced excursions will
obtain on the railroads and a record
breaking crowd will be assembled
within the magnificent Oaklawn Park,
Saturday October 6.
The suit of the Brook-Rauch Mill
and Elevator Company against Alex J.
Rauch and O. C. Ludwig, secretary of
state, which is one of the first cases
of the kind, involving the ownership
of a trademark, ever tried in the
courts at Little Rock, occupied the at
tention of Chancellor Hart recently.
The defendant, Alex J. Rauch, was for
merly a member of the Brook-Rauch
Mill and Elevator Company, selling
out his interest only a short time ago.
After his retirement the company con
tinued to use a trademark formerly
used by the concern. Mr. Rauch later
filed a copy of the trademark in the
office of the secretary of state and then
claimed that it was his exclusive pos
session. In the present suit the plain
tiff company seeks to have canceled
the certificate issued to Mr. Rauch
on the trademark and to enjoin him
from using the same.
A youth 12 years of age, while
asleep, got off a Frisco train at Nettle
ton recently and strolled about the
town for an hour before he aroused
from his slumbers. A Mr. Littlefield
and his family, which included the
12-year-old boy, were on the train en
route from Tennessee to Oklahoma,
where they were going to locate. His
boy fell asleep on the train, and no one
paid particular attention when he left
the train at Nettleton. The father of
the lad didn’t miss him, and was
surprised when he reached Jonesboro
and a telegram was handed him telling
him to come to Nettleton and get the
boy . Looking through the train he
soon found that his son was not
aboard. Mr. Littlefield got 'off at
Jonesboro, the others of the family
going on to their destination. He went
to Nettleton and found the boy safe
and uninjured.
Judge J. E. Hampton of Fordyce will,
be the next chairman of the Railroail
Commission of Arkansas. While no
official announcement has been made,
it is understood that Judge Hampton
was selected at a caucus recently held
at Little Rock between the three mem
bers of the commission who will go
into office in January, Messrs. J. E.
Hampton, John \V. Crockett and R. P.
Allen. At the same time W. E. Floyd
of this city was selected as secretary,
G. W. Swaim as rate clerk and L. W.
Denton of Cotter as stenographer.
The new commission will not go into
office until January, when the officers
as mentioned in the foregoing will be
elected.
In order to facilitate the handling
of the business in the general deliv
ery department of the postoffice in the
federal building at Little Rock, the
supervising architect has agreed to
plans formulated by Postmaster Win
field S. Holt and within forty to sixty
days the proposed improvement will
have been made. Bids for the work
have been received and sent into the
department, and the contract will be
let within a short time.
William Utah, a contractor,
while at work on a build
ing at Eureka Springs, was
attacked by a large tarantula, which
bit him on the arm three times before
he could remove it. In the last at
tack the tarantula set its mandibles
so firmly into the flesh as to require
a surgeon’s knife to cut them out.
Utah was sent to his home at Aurora,
Mo.
Philander Smith College, Little
Rock, a.negro institution, held its thir
tieth annual opening exercises recent
ly. A large number of students, as
well as many prominent negroes of the
city and state, were present. Address
present. The enrollment at the school
is large, and a successful term Is ex
pected.
And Now the Trouble Begins.
Mrs. Andy Mace of Hot Springs has
brought suits fcfr the recovery of the
property fn Pike county upon which
the two big diamonds were recently
found by Sam Huddleston. Mrs.
Mace’s father, C. R. Kennedy, owned a
section or two of land on Hickory
creek during his lifetime, where the
Important and valuable discovery was
made. After his death the administra
tor, \V. T. Corley, sold all the proper
ty, so it is alleged in the petition, in
an unlawful manner, and Mrs. Mace
asks for restitution of the land to the
rightful heirs. The suits are brought
against C. T. Corley, as administrator
of her father’s estate, Sam Huddle
ston, who made the diamond discov
ery, and nearly a hundred others who
have purchased land from Adminis
trator Corley.
May Establish Union Market.
M. E. Davis, president of the District
Farmers’ Union comprising Garland,
Montgomery, Pike Saline, Clark and
Hot Spring counties, was in Hot
Springs recently looking over the
local situation relative to the market
ing of the present crop. He is more
especially concerned just now about
the beef market there. The farmers
feel that they have not always receiv
ed a fair price for beef marketed at
that place, and have plans under ad
visement to remedy their causes of
complaint. In this regard he stated
that unless the farmers were able to
secure a fair price for their native
beef they would establish a market
of their own, and thus eliminate the
middle buyers, until prices are paid
that are considered reasonable to
Manuscript of First Volume Ready..
Prof. J. N. Reynolds of Fayetteville,
secretary of the Arkansas History
Commission, now has in his hands all
the manuscript for the first volume of
the publications planned by'the His
tory Commission. He is correcting
the various papers and is having
them typewritten ready for the prin
ter. The commission has already re
ceived bids for the printing of the
first volume and the contract will be
awarded soon. There will be between
300 and 400 pages in the book and it
will be ready for distribution by Jan
uary 1. It is the hope of the commis
sion that other volumes will follow
this first one and that a complete
history will be authorized by the
state.
After Darkness, Light.
During the meeting for men only
September 24 at the gospel tent in Ar
genta the electric lights went out,
and for five minutes the evangelist,
Mike Cassidy, preached to the audi
ence in the dark. The effect of his
pleading for men to save themselves
was heightened considerably by the
darkness, through which the clear
voice of the evangelist rang out. The
crowd of about five hundred men list
ened attentively, and when the lights
flashed up again just as the evangelist
had concluded a prayer, a large num
ber responded to his invitation to ac
cept religion.
Lonke County’s Rice Crop.
“ Lonke county’s rice crop this seas
on promises to be the banner crop of
the series. A large crop—about 5,000
acres—was put in this year, and as
conditions have been favorable from
the start, much of it was har
vested in September. The gen
eral yield all over the county
will be 60 to 90 bushels to the acre,
with an average of not less than 75
bushels. Of the entire crop the re
sults at the experimental station may
be taken as an index. The crop at
the governmental station this year
was increased from 25 to 40 acres, and
there will be an average yield of 80
bushels to the acre.
New Tiling Plant Opened. •
The tiling plant, with a capacity of
14,000 four-inch tiles, per day, has
begun work at Harrisburg. The plant
is owned and operated by home capi
tal and cost over $9,000. Hon. J. W.
Rooks, ex-representative of Poinsett
county, is secretary of the company.
John Pfeifer is general manager and
erected the main building, which has
recently been completed. The recent
rains delayed the w’ork a good deal.
A large number of men will be em
ployed the year round, and this plant
is quite an acquisition to Harrisburg.
Give Arkansas a Chance.
Maj. Gen. W. H. Haynes, command
ing the Arkansas State Guard, recent
ly sent a telegram to President Roose
velt at Oyster Bay, requesting that
Arkansas be given a chance in case
any state guards are sent to Cuba. He
states that a regiment, fully equipped
and well drilled, can be ready to start
for Cuba within a week, or a brigade
of Arkansas troops within a short
time,''in case it is found necessary to
use staid',, troops in pacifying the
island.
AR
RKANSAS
STATE NEWS
Good For Fort Smith.
H. L. Remmel of Little Rock, who
accompanied Leslie M. Shaw to that
city recently from Mena, said while
there that the surveys for the project
ed line from Fort Smith to Prairie
View, a distance of 65 miles, to de
velop the large quantity of coal land
owned by the syndicate represented
by himself, George B. Rose and other
Little Rock parties, had been complet
ed, and as soon as the estimates
were made he and George B. Rose
would go to New York to make ar
rangements for the necessary money.
The road will run south of the origin
al route, because the danger from over
flow would make extensive trestle
building necessary. The accepted route,
however, would also be north of the
Arkansas Central. Work, he said,
would commence simultaneously oi^t
of Fort Smith north, and from Prairie
View South and all of the material
for the construction would be assem
bled in Fort Smith. Mr. Remmel de
clined to either affirm or deny the
truth of the rumor that Hetty Green’s
money was to build the road, and an
swered the query with a laugh, and
said that he did not care to discuss
the identity of the Eastern capitalists
who are to finance the enterprise.
Stock Law is Valid.
In the case of the city of Ozark
against Fay Townsend, appealed by
the defendant from the mayor’s
court and tried in the Circuit Court
recently, the jury affirmed the decis
ion of the lower court and reduced
(he fine assessed from $15 to $5. This
was practically a test case of the
Ozark stock ordinance. The city had
impounded some hogs belonging to
Townsend, which were found running
at large, contrary to the ordinance,
and Townsend had gone to the pound
and recovered the stock, without the
permission of the marshal. He was
subsequently arrested and fined in
the sum of $15. An appeal to the
Circuit Court was taken, which re
sulted as stated above.
They Seek Relief.
Arkansas lumbermen, and especial
ly maufacturers of short leaf yellow
pine in this state, are greatly interest
ed in the organization of the Southern
Lumber Operators’ Association, which
was effected at a meeting held in St.
Louis recently. A number of the
leading manufacturers of Arkansas
were present at the St. Louis meeting,
and became members of the new asso
ciation. The principal object of the
new association is said to be to devise
some method of securing relief from
the car shortage, which has prevailed
throughout the South to an unusual
extent during the past few months.
Hospital at Pine Bluff.
The contract for building the found
ation of the hospital which the
Ladies' Hospital# Association will
erect in Pine Bluff has been let to the
Prather Construction’ Company, and
work will begin at once. An effort
will be made to get the county to ap
propriate $5,000 in consideration of
the privilege of using several wards in
the hospital, as the county has no hos
pital at present
A Good Rule.
Two apprentice boys at the Rock
Island shops were recently seen whil
ing away the noon hour at Little Rock,
by indulging in a game of cards. As
a result one was discharged and the
other warned against future amuse
ments of this kind. The rules of the
shop positively forbid cigarette smok
ing and card playing among the em
ployes, even during the rest hour, and
it is stated-that the rule will be rigid
ly enforced.
Whl Buy Steamboat.
At a mee1 !ng of the Board of Trade
at Batesville recently, it was decided
to purchase a steamboat, to be run
on White river between Batesville
and Jacksonport, there to connect
with the Rock Island system. A
committee composed of D. D. Adams,
I. N. Barnett and C. T. Rosenthal was
appointed to solicit subscriptions for
this purpose. The sum of $300 was
subscribed at this meeting.
After the Thieves.
Jonesboro officers have recently
been vary active on account of a -re
port *o the effect that car thieves are
operating in the vicinity of Jonesboro,
and the Cotton Belt and Frisco official*
are very busy in prosecuting a sejireU
lfter the depredators. The theft of
goods from freight cars has been go
,ng on for some time past, and the
jfficers have been keeping a strict
vatch upon the trains that pass
-hrougb Jonesboro. One man has
reen arrested and it is thought that
ithers are connected with the theft.