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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, December I, 1905.
Vol. 5. No. 49.
DAVIS AND DINSMOUK
Engage in Personal Encounter in
Which Cane and Pistol Are
Used as Clubs.
Fayetteville, Nov. 27.—Gov.
Davis and former Congressman
Hugh Dinsmore had a personal
difficulty last night in the lobby
of the Washington house in which
l>oth got their heads cracked, Gov. :
Davis using a large stick, which
he broke, and Mr. Dinsmore his:
trusty 45 revolver, which he drew
the crimson in copious draughts
from the governor's face, necessi
tating a number of stitches to
unite the cut parts. Both were
placed under arrest and will be
tried before Mayor Eason.
From statements issued by both
•combatants, the tight was over a
personal letter that had been writ-!
ten to Mr. Dinsmore by Senator
Berry, asking his advice about
meeting Gov. Davis in joint de
bate at Bentonville. Gov. Davis
had this letter, an<ihad been read
ing it in his speeches, and, as Mr.
Dinsmore claims, torturing it out
•of its original meaning. Mr. Dins
more had been informed by a friend
that the governor had read the let
ter at Cotter on Saturday, and
when charged with tiiis Governor
Davis denied the allegation, and
Dinsmore called him names. Da
vis ran from the room, calling for
at policeman, and Dinsmore after
him, denying the need of one if
Davis would hand over the letter.
Then they mixed, Davis striking
the first blow, and Dinsmore re
'* ply ,t in kind with the buttentof
his pistols
DAVIS’ STATEMENT.
“I came to Washington Hotel
last night between 11 and 12
o’clock. My train was two hours
late. I found no one in the ollice
but the clerk and Oscar Moore of
Prairie Grotfe and one drummer
and two other gentlemen. 1 reg
istered and spoke to Mr. Moore
and asked him up to my room. At
this point Mr. Dinsmore told me
that he wanted to speak to me pri
vately. 1 told him to walk up to
my room. I saw he was very mad.
He, Mr. Moore and myself went
upstairs and .lack Walker follow
ed. As soon as I went into my
room, Mr. Dinsmore began to use
very abusive •language, as to a let
ter from which I quoted in ray
.speech here on the 18th, which
Senator Berry had written him,
simply asking his advice as to
whether or not he. Berry, should
meet me at my appointment in
Bentonville, December 2. He
asked me where I got the letter, j
I told him a friend of mine in
town gave it to me, whose name 1
declined to disclose. He became
very abusive and insulting. 1
saw a pistol in his vest pocket and
Jack Walker drew one. I openedi
my door to keep from being mur
dered, and walked into the office.
Dinsmore followed, using very
profane language and finally called
me a - - -. 1 then
broke my cane over his head and
he drew a pistol and attempted to
shoot me. 1 grabbed him, and in
the scuffie he struck me twice on
the face and head with the pistol.
Mr. Moore attempted to enterfere
and Jack Walker, so Moore says, 1
drew his pistol on him and threat-1
ened to kill him; said he would
‘shoot the lights out of him.’ I'
think this a cold, premeditated;
plan of murder, which would have
been carried out if Moore had not
been present.”
DINMORE’S STATEMENT.
“I met a friend on the streets
yesterday who was just from Cot
ter, where he heard Governor Da
vis speak. In his speech he read
a, letter which Senator Berry had
written me. The governor is try
ing to make capital against Sena
tor Berry out of this, construing
things into it, which is usual with
him. This letter was private
property and surreptitiously ob
tained. Governor Davis not seem
ing to appreciate that his conduct
was dishonorable, 1 made up my
mind to demand my letter from
him. Learning that he would be
here last night, I awaited his ar
rival at the hotel. When he came
1 told him I would like to have a
private interview with him. lie
said very well, and invited me to
his room. As he started up-stairs
he told Oscar Moore to come with
us. Jack Walker was in company
with me and went also. When
we got into his room, I said: ‘I
understand you have a letter of
mine from Senator Berry, which
you have been reading in your
speeches.’ He said: 'I have, but
have not got it not.’ I asked
where it was now, and he said he
had left it in his otiice at home. I
asked him if he did not have it
with him on Friday at Cotter and
read from it. He said that he did
not. I told him he was a liar,
that Rod Murchison had been
there and heard him read the let
ter. 1 thereupon asked him how
he got possession of the letter. He
said a friend here gave it to him,
but refused to tell who it was. 1
told him that he and his friend
were no l>etter than a couple of
thieves to obtain and use a private
letter in that way. He then open
ed the door of his room and walk
ed out. We went down stairs in
to the lobby of the hotel and I
continued to denounce his conduct
in severe language. He had a
large gold-headed cane in his hand
and shifted it, catching it about
the middle. As he raised it as if
to strike me I struck him in the
face with my fist. He struck me
over the side of the head and broke
the cane in the middle, reversing
it with large end as club, and at
tempting to strike me with it. I
thereupon drew a pistol from my
pocket and struck him several
blows upon the head until he de
sisted and cried for help. I then
left him. Mr. Walker was pres
ent all the time and did nothing
except to prevent Mr. Davis’
friend from enterfering."
THROUGH TRAINS JANUARY I
W. T. Gray, assistant engineer
of construction on the White Riv
er Railroad, is reported to have
stated a few days ago that there
remains only four and a half miles
of track to be laid to complete the
road. The Omaha tunnel, howev
er, which has caused the greater
part of the trouble on the entire
line, is still the bug-bear of the
construction department, and it is
there that the most strenuous ef
forts of the contractors are con
centrated. Everything possible is
being done to complete the line,
and it is believed that by the first
of January a through train serv ice
will be inaugurated.
Subscribe for The Journal.
Mrs. Eliza Guinn left Sunday
for her home at Newport, after a
pleasant, visit here with Mr. and
Mrs. A. H. Saylors.
J. E. Porter has bought the
barber shot on the south side, for
merly owned by T. J. Moore, and
took charge Wednesday.
Men’s, boys’ and children’s ov
ercoats; ladies' misses’ and child
ren’s jackets, all go in the Decem
ber sale at Whiting & Company’s.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Edgar and
Mr. and Mrs. N A. Speed spent
Sunday over in Oil Trough, visit
ing Capt. R. R. Reeves and fam
i ily.
We do a square business and
you get what you pay for when
i you come to us. Don't miss our
December sale. Fred D. Whiting
& Co.
Mrs. Etta McDoniel and daugh
ters, Fanny and Ella went to New
port Saturday to spend a few
days visiting the former’s daugh
ter, Mrs. .John T. Foote.
Hon. W. W. Edmondson of
Stone county, candidate for state
senator from this district, spent
Wednesday and Thursday in town,
getting acquainted with the vo
ters.
Prof. H. .J. Drennen of Salado
spent Tuesday night in town. He
expects to move to Bradford this
week, where he has been elected
cashier of the new Bradford State
Bank.
R. M. Galloway has rented a
new rooming house, back of his
restaurant, and will care for the
traveling public. He has nice
clean beds and up-to-date accomo
dations.
Read Moore Bros. & Company’s
big: advertisement in today’s pa
per, and note the special prices
they are making. It will pay you
! to call and see them and investi
gate this matter.
Our good friend J. E. Shipman
who lives a short distance north of
town, was a pleasant caller Wed
nesday and renewed for The Jour
nal for himself and his son, J. N.
j Shipman, of Leslie.
Those pictures of your dear
ones which you are keeping so
carefully, are going to fade away
one of these days. Better take
them to John W. Outlaw and
have them enlarged.
Miss Maude Griffin has been
promoted to the principalship of
the Salado public school to succeed
Prof. H. J. Drennen who resign
ed to accept the position of cashier
of the new bank at Bradford.
Judge F. D. Fulkerson announ
ces in today’s paper as a candidate
for re-election us judge of the
Third judicial circuit. Judge Ful
kerson is too well known to the
people of the county to need any
introduction at our hands, having
served as circuit judge for this
district for the past several years,
and has made many friends by the
j able and impartial manner in
! wheih he has presided. His past
j record is sufficient evidence thal
he will continue to faithfully and
efficiently perform the duties of
the office if re-elected.
We are selling shoes at the |
greatest reduced price in Arkan- j
sas, considering the great advance i
in leather. Fred 1). Whiting &\
Hon. Jno. C. Yancey announces |
today as a candidate for circuit
judge. Read what the Batesville
News says of him in another col
umn.
Lee Henderson and Mrs. Maude
Williams were married at the res
idence of Mr- and Mrs. J. T.
Tharp Sunday afternoon. Squire
Tharp officiating.
Hon. S. A. Moore went down
to Des Arc Tuesday to attend the
funeral of his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Chas. H. Plunkett, who died
Tuesday morning.
Pearl buttons 3 cents a dozen,
pins one cent a paper, five pack
ages needles 5 cents, calicoes -H
cents a yard, brown or bleached
domestic 5 cents a yard, at Fred
D. Whiting & Co.
The Woodmen treed four vic
tims, captured and dragged them
off through the stumps and brush
at their meeting Tuesday night.
They now have about sixty mem
bers. The Woodmen is becoming
one of the most popular Orders in
town.
The Farmers’ Cnion will hold
| its next county meeting here on
the loth and 16th of this month.
The citizens of Newark should
give the delegates and visitors a
royal reception, and endeavor to
mak^ this the most pleasant
meeting yet held in the county.
B. P. Conner, one of Magness
township’s good farmers, was in
town Wednesday. He was a
pleasant caller at The Journal
headquarters, and ordered the pa
per sent to his brother, 8, E., at
Kempt, I. T., and his sister, Miss
Eliza Conner, at Damascus, Ark.
Some petty thieves broke into a
car of miscellaneous freight stand
ing on the side trrck here Sunday
night. They opened and drank
the contents of a case of beer, but
molested nothing else, fo far as
could be ascertained, except to
open and pour out a bucket of mo
lasses.
S. A. Moore returned yesterday
morning from Des Arc where lie
attended the funeral of his sister
in-law, Mrs. C. H. Plunkett. Mrs.
Plunkett was well and favorably
known here, as she had frequent
ly visited her sister, Mrs. 8. A.
Moore, and her many friends here
will regret to learn of her death.
The attention of our readers is
called to the big advertisement of
the W. R. liice Mercantile Com
pany of Sulphur Rock, to be
found on another page of today’s
t paper. This is one of the county’s
1 most reliable firms. Read what
they have to say and remember
them when you need anything in
their line.
Elmer George, an eleven-year
| old boy, who lives near Oil Trough,
: has two thumbs on his right hand,
j Roth are well developed and have
nails on them. The member looks
I just a little bit clumsy, but he uses
! it seemingly with as much dexter
! it.v as any ordinary boy does a
single thumb. He was in town
' Saturday, and says he picks 150
, j to 175 pounds of cotton a day.
NO HATCHET FOR HIM
So Says Martin, But Would Rather
Take Carrie’s Position Than
riuskokee Lady’s.
To The Newark Journal:
1 notice that a lad.y from the
Indian Territory refers to me in a.
not very pleasant way, but that is
about all any person can do who
stands on the side of the saloons
and their attending1 evils, but I
must confess I am somewhat sur
prised at a lady going on record
for liquor and its blighting curse.
I have given facts and figures
which neither this lady or Uncle
John have ever tried to disprove.
You cannot find any organization
except one of whiskey men who
will say, “I am for whiskey.”
Take the church the lady says she
stands in with. She says it is the
“Campbellite,” but she cannot
find a single preacher of any note,
who favors the whiskey traffic.
It matters not how far I may'
think they are wrong on theologi
cal questions, I am glad I can join
hands in full fellowship with them
on this question, In fact all de
nominations without a single ex
ception stand up against whiskey.
I feel like I am in pretty good
company fighting whiskey. Now
may I ask the readers of The Jour
nal how would a lady look stand
ing behind the bar dealing out
drink to those who are the vic
j time? And let her see where some
i of them spend the night. But the
| picture is too dark. Let those who
stand for good morals and civili
zation still oppose whiskey and
help the W. C. T. U. to do all
they can. As to the reference to
| Carrie Nation, I have not referred
to her or asked for her hatchet,
yet I would rather take her ex-.
; treme postion than to hike that of
I the lady from Muskogee.
She tries to explain the miracle
; where Jesus turned water into
wine. I think the whiskey people
are hard pressed when they want
; to distort the wonderful miracle
i of the purest and best person who
i ever lived, to justify the most
i blighting curse of the present age.
As to the editor of The Journal
; being a second Job, I see him very
j often, and must confess that 1
! have not seen any marked resem
| blance to Job, unless he has re
j centl.y put on sackcloth and is now
! praying to die because a woman
! has come out advocating whiskey.
I will ask the lady if she will de
fend the proposition Uncle John
refused to. But I must close, as L
have to start to Grubbs to put the
fixing on a “Campbellite.”
J I. Martin.
SCHOOL FURNITURE.
School directors are reminded
that Craig & Henderson of New
ark still handle school furniture
and apparatus of all kinds, and are
prepared to sell tirst-class goods at
low prices. If you expect to buy
anything in their line see or write
to them and you will have prompt
attention.
THE BLIZZARD.
A terriffc blizzard swept the
country Wednesday, and 26 men
are believed to have frozen to
death on a steamer wrecked by the
gale at Superior, Wis. The mer
cury went as low as zero at sever
al points in the Northern states.
The gale on the great lakes was
j terrific and several boats wrecked.