)
The Newark journal.
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARK., ER 1-DAY. JUNE 5, 1903.
VOL. Ill—NO. 23.
GOMETOUS
II You Want Your Printing
DONE JUST RIGHT.
* * *
, We Do Only One Kind of Work
-THE BEST
And Use Nothing
But tiood Material.'
*******
The Journal is strictly a home
paper—published by a home
man, devoted to the upbuilding
of Newark and Independence
county and when you spend
your money with us you are
encouraging home industry.
We always guarantee satisfac
tion. 8end us your next job of
printing and let us :::::::
Prove What We Say!
YOl'KS FOR BUSINESS,
.THE NEWARK JOURNAL
Take The Old Reliable
PnllHan chair cars
Reclining chair cars
Superior Jay coaches
H. C. TOWNSEND, Q. P. & T. A.,
ST. LOL LS, MO.
F. C. HOYT. Local Agent.
GEORGE F. CR0S5ER,
Notary Public
—AND—
Dealer in Real Estate.
All kinds of Blank Deeds, Trust or
Warranty, on hand, prepared and ac
knowledgements attested. Deposition*
taken. Pension work a specialty.
< Iffiee In Post Office "\»J
J. C. LEWIS
Contractor and Builder
F.m, Spiciflcitiitit ana Estimates
Cneartully Furnished.
Job work of all kinds neatly and promptly
3ol« Vs' isfi.ir.on K’uaranttl-o i Vitv fl» • a
Miop south of Journal *
NEWARK, ARKANSAS
A. A. HENDERSON,
Sole agent for the new
Kirbberless • Automatic
school desk
and general school supplies.
NEWARK - - - ARKANSAS.
J. W. H0DGE5,
Physician and Surgeon
, Office at Sturdivant's Drugstore.
Residence Rhone No. (>4.
CALI.S ANSWERED I’ROMPTLT.
S. A. MOORE,
ATTORNEY AT L/A1A/
and Notary Public.
r,and title*', administration, damage cases
aud collections a specialty. Will practice in
ell courts of the Mute. Office in pontofflce
buildiLg.
NEWARK, ARKANSAS.
Call at
J. Qualls'
BOOT AND SHOE SHOP
FOR LEGAL ADVICE
0
W. S. MOORE, J. P.,
Real Estate, Rental and
COLLECTING AGENT,
Sulphur Rock, - Arkansas
Newark Real Estate Co.,
DE ALERS IN
Farm and City Property,
Renta: sud Collecting Agents,
Newark. - - Arkansas.
Full li.->e of deeds and deeds of
trust at 1 a# Journal office.
Says Veto is Void.
Attorney General Murphy holds
that the numerous acts vetoed bj
Gov. Davis are valid. Speaking ol
the legality of these acts, the attor
ney general says: “The presenta
tion having occurred in twenty le
gal days after the adjournment ol
the legislature—that is, within
twenty days in which work might
lawfully be performed—his alleged
reason for vetoing is no reason at
all, in a legal sense. This princi
ple is recognized by the supreme
court of our state, and is not the
subject of even plausible controver
sy. The inconsistency of the action
of the governor in approving some
of the bills and vetoing others, all
presented at the same time, is man
ifest. He had no right to approve
unless he had the right to veto; it
lie vetoed a part of them because h<
had honestly regarded them as not
presented in time he should have
vetoed all. If he approved some
because he favored them and vetoed
others because lie did not favor
them he should, had it been possi
Mir, jiciyu i ' i ll (.uiuiu niuu^ii iu
so, and have stated his objection to
those he disapproved. If he had
tlie right to approve any of them he
had the right to approve all. Hr
did have the right, and his reason
for disapproval or veto being legal
ly false, the hills falling under his
displeasure become laws to the same
extent and with the same effect as
if he had formally approved them.
If called on bv the secretary of
'tate I shall advise him to have all
the acts thus returned to him
printed as valid laws, and shall
also advise him to have the propos
ed constitutional amendment, as
the constitution requires, submitted
for ratification or rejection to the
electors at the next general elec
tion.”
State Medical Board Meets.
At a meeting of the state medic
al boards, held at Little Rock, a
uniform certificate to bo filed by
applicants for license to practice
was agreed upon. Every doctor in
the state* may receive one of these
blank certificates, to he filled out
by himself and returned to the sec
retary of the organization of which
he is a member. These certificates
will be approved by the meeting of
•he hoard in July when applicants
will he examined. The certificates
of registration will not lx* returned
to the physicians until after July.
Application for these certificates
should he made to J. 1‘. Runyan,
s-.-retarv of the State Medical So
ciety. or to J. L. Vail, secretary of
the Eclectic Medical Society, both
Horse Thieves in the Toils.
Two alleged hor-i thieves, giving
the names of A. J. Mi Colley and
John Patterson, were captured by
Sheriff Grundstaff and a posse of
citizens near Waldron. McCollev,
who is about 20 years of age, has
confessed to being implicated in the
theft of three hors.- near Green
wood, and acknowledges other
crimes, but said "ho was led to com
mit these acts by older men. Pat
terson, who is a whisky pedder
and horse trade r, is about 2o years
of age. He talks but little, but the
officers are positive he is a member
of a regularly organized gang of
thieves that have been operating ex
tensively in the western part of the
state for over a year.
Another Whisky Victim.
The body of Lee 1 Teddy, the
third victim from drinking poisoned
whisky in Lee township, near Hot
Springs, was found in a badly de
composed state on the Ouachita riv
er. Will and John Spiva, two
young men of Crystal Springs, and
Albert Halls have been arrested and
placed under bonds of $1,000 each
to answer to the federal grand jury
fur alleged complicity in dispensing
the deadly liquid.
Ten Year Old Boy Suicides.
Kent Husk, a 10-year-old boy,
committed suicide at Texarkana by
deliberately throwing, himself in
front of a Cotton Bejrt freight train.
The lad had just^Yiecn chastised by
his father for Opine childish of
fense, and the tragedy was witness
ed by a number or his playmates.
The White rivyi extension of the
Iron Mountain/has been extended
to Buffalo. \
h
Change in Rules.
The railroad commission of Ar
kansas has issued the following cir- ,
eular amending the present ear ser- ,
vice, or demurrage rules of the com- ,
mission: \
It is ordered by the railroad com- .
mission of Arkansas that the rail- i
road companies of Arkansas shall
observe the following rules and reg- 1
ulations to govern in the matter of i
ear service, or demurrage, to take 1
effect on or before June la, 11)03 :t
Sec demurrage rules adopted by >
this commission September 23, «
1899, as amended and amend to '■
read as follows: 1
Page IT, rule 2, after the last ;
line add: Provided, that when 1
ears have been placed on shipper’s 1
private track, it shall be notice that '
the free time for unloading same I
| shall begin at T o’clock a. m. the
I following day. 1
Page 21, after rule 12, add: 1
Ride 13 When anv consi<riiii|i <lm'l
j receive four (4 ) or more loaded
cars in one day, such ears in excess
I of three (3) shall be allowed twen
ty-four (24) hours' additional time
for each three (3) tars until all
are unloaded, provided, that if the
.shipper should order four or more
ears to be delivered in one day,
this rule will not apply.
Kale 11. When ears are placed
for loading lumber and other arti
cles mixed in >ame tar, which en
j ter into the building of a house, as
1 provided for in standard freight
| distance tarilT, as amended, shall
have seventy-two (72) hours (not
including Sundays or legal holi
days) time, beginning at 7 o'clock
a. m. the following dav.
Salaries Increased. (
The following change in salaries t
of Arkansas postmasters has been ;
announced: Arkansas City, from <
$1,300 to $1,000; Augusta, from 1
$1,200 to $1,300; Batesville, from
j $1,700 to l,8i»0; Brinkley, from 1
j $1,400 to $1,500; Clarendon, from 1
$1,100 to $1,500; Conway, from *
$1,500 to $1,000; Deduct n, from 1
$1,400 to $1,500; El Dorado, from 1
$1,300 to $1,400; Hamburg, from 1
$1,400 to $1,300; Locke, from $1,- *
100 to $1,300; Magnolia, from $1,- 1
300 to $1.-100; Malvern, from $1,- *
I 300 to $1,500. 1
Ordered Gambling Devices Eumed.
Judge Dullie of (larlaml county
has issued an order to Sheriff Wil
i liams to seize and burn all slot
machines he can find in llot
Springs. Evidence that these ma
| chines were being operated was
! filed by a prominent minister of
Hot Springs, who made a personal
tour of the places where tliev were
kept.
—
Lawyers in Convention.
The annual meeting of the state
i_ ...... . t. a l ..i r
I
C
(
1
1
c
I
t
I
s
f
l!oek ln>t week. There was a good
attendance, and the papers read
were of a high order and very in
structive to the members. James
F. Head of Fort Smith was elected
president of the association and
Arthur Neill of Little Rock secre
tary.
Wanted to Die.
J. C. Byers, at one time a prom
inent lawyer and prosecuting at
torney of Folk county, made an
unsuccessful attempt at suicide at
Fort Smith. Byers was discovered
by some Ians lying across a rail
road- track and he was rescued just
before a fast passenger train was
due to arrive.
Crops Destroyed
The loss in this state from floods
will be enormous, but no such dis
asters are reported as that in the
Missouri valley. Thousands of
acres of planted lands are under
water and it will be too late to re
plant.
Bloody Fijht Over Can of Beer.
Three Newport negroes fought a
bloody battle one night recently
over a 10 cent can of beer, and as a
result Gene Barker is in the hos
1 pital and may die. His antagonists
i were two brothers named Roseman,
! and besides using knives, one of
I them shot Barker through the jaw.
Texarkana, Ark., has been rais
ed from a city of the second class
to a city of the first class.
t
c
t
a
f
v
i
t
1
f
3
I
t
1
r
t
d
i
I
a
c
l
a
]
t
i
Old Man Hanged.
Eil S'nutt, a pioneer citizen of
Fexarkana ami an cx-Confederate
ioldier, was hanged May 29 for the
nurder of J. I'. W’hitenor one year
tgo. Shutt and Whitten.>r were at
me time partners in busin -ss. Sliutt
lad some imaginary grievance
igainst Whit toner and without a
vord of warning stepped up to him
ind shot him down. On account
>f the prominence of both parties
he ease attracted unusual interest.
Vs a last resort the wife of the con
temned man, accompanied by Col.
M. Henry, one of the oldest at
orneys of Texarkana, went to Aus
in and presented a petition signed
>y the best citizens of the county,
iraying that the life of the old
nan be spared. The governor, how
■ver, refused to interfere, and the
.entente of the court was carried
>ut. Twenty-five years ago Ed
Miutt was one of the most promi
nent business men of Texarkana,
.ml for years thereafter prospered
n the hardware and undertaking
msiness. A man of a jovial dis
xosition, he made friends of all
■lasses, but as years rolled by he
;rew careless in business affairs.
Vs his money slipped away, so it
cas with his friends of prosperous
lays, and the too free indulgence
ii me cup s mil wiped out an ins
neans. While under the influence
if liquor, and brooding over his
inanciai reverses, lie killed the
nan with whom he was in business
or years. Doubtless the deed was
irompted from a diseased brain
ending him to the belief that the
nan he murdered had wronged
urn. At the trial no justification
vas shown by the defendant, and
lespite the efforts of influential
itizens, a once useful and greatly
leloved citizen passed away at the
lands of the hangman.
Value of Taxable Property.
Deputy Auditor of Slate Avery
■1. Moore has completed the ab
traet of the tax books of the state
if Arkansas, showing the kinds and
.mount of real and personal prop
rty taxed, with the rates and
nnounts and poll tax for the year
D0'g. The total value of the real
state i.~ $142,771,533 and the total
alue of personal property, inclini
ng poll taxes, $81,626,580, a total
aluation on real and personal
irojierty of $224,-101,413. This is
. decrease of $8(5(5,5(58 under the
axes of 1901, when the personal
iroperty tax was $81,898,052 and
he real tax $143,281,629, a total
f $225,2(57,(581.
Town Deserted by Negroes.
The prophecy of a half demented
icgress that Dine Bluff was to he
I'ipi'd out by flood and a cyclone
•lay 29 caused thousands of the
olorcd population of that place to
acrifice their property for wliatev
r price they could get. These
icople left the community by the
inndreds on every train, many
f them selling all their worldly
lossessions for just enough to pay
heir railroad fare to another
mint. The woman who caused the
upersbtious people to become so
larmcd was placed under arrest.
i ai ui a naau urea
Grant Blevins, a prominent
armor living near Berryville, sui
ided by shooting himself through
lie head, lie had just viewed,the
estruction on his farm by the
lood. lie went in to his house
nd took his shotgun upstairs with
im. A moment later two shots
'ere heard. Members of the fam
y found him lying at the head of
lie stairway, dead, with the top of
is head blown off and an empty
liotgun by his side.
Says He Will Be Good.
The death of three young men
rom drinking poisoned whisky in
lontgomery county so affected J,
1. Brumley that hi- voluntarily
arrenders his illicit still and him
*1 f to the federal authorities and
cola res that he will never violate
!*■ revenue laws again. Mr.
truniley was in no manner con
eeted with the sale or manufae
are of the liquor that caused the
eath of the above parties.
It is estimated that over 8,000
egroes forsook their homes and
ositions and left Pine Bluff on
ceount of the prophecy of a crazy
egress that the town was to have
ecu destroyed by a cyclone.
Gov. Davis has fixed June 19
s the date of execution of Geo.
hirhain and Fred 1 ’riderwood, un
er sentence of dearth for the mur*
er of Sheriff Powers of Johnson
ounty.
I
News of the World
Beubonic plague is adding to the
horrors in the famine stricken dis
trict of China,
Paul Blouet, better known as
Max O’Kell, the famous French
writer, is dead.
The order of Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen has increased its
strike defense fund from $100,000
to $300,000.
Joseph Baker, a socialist, was
placed under arrest at Walla Walla,
Wash., for threatening to assassi
nate President Roosevelt.
Ex-President Cleveland delivered
an address in Carnegie hall. New
York City, in favor of aid for the
persecuted Jews in Kishineff.
All opposition to Roosevelt’s re
nomination has apparently vanish
ed, leaders of his party conceding
that no other name will be present
ed at the national convention.
The German government has de
cided to participate in the naval
moneuvers to take place at Hamp
ton Roads in 1904 in connection
with the opening of the Louisiana
exposition.
Prompt and heroic work by two
policemen, one of whom was so
badlv burned that ho was crazed bv
pain, saved the lives of several wo
men and children, who had been
caught in a burning building in
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Union coal miners of the Coal
Creek region in Tennessee, by
arming themselves, went to several
shafts and compelled the non-un
ion men to turn back from their
work. The union men declare
they will rid the Coal Creek region
of non-unionists, but the operators
have invoked the aid of the courts
and are determined to protect all
who wish to work.
An Associated Press dispatch
says that Kdgar Wallace Conable of
Colorado Springs has purchased
8,OttO acres of timber and fruit land
in Benton county, Arkansas, where
he will found a colony. Conable is
a noted faster ami vegetarian. A
stock company with 000,000 cap
italization will be organized, schools,
mills and factories will he ereeted.
Much of the land will be divided
into small fruit farms and vegeta
ble gardens. Colonists will he for
bidden to use meat, alcoholic stimu
lants or tobacco.
J. J. I’yan, one of the first men
to launch a turf investment compa
ny, has made a confession of brib
ing a postal.official in order to have
his advertising matter pass tlirough
the mails. As a consequence 1C V.
Miller, a former attorney of the
postolliee department, and Joseph
Johns, prosecuting attorney of
Parke county, Indiana, have been
arrested. In his confession Pvan
says he was approached by Johns
and Miller, and in consideration of
mu mim ui fm* was assuiva
of tin* right to circulate his adver
tisements through the mails, which
privilege he exercised until his bus
iness collapsed.
Over 200,000 workingmen are on
strike in Xew York City, trade is
almost paralyzed, and ail in all the
•greatest loss falls on the idle men
and the small business men. When
at work, the wage of these idle men
amounts to $008,000 a dav, or a to
tal of over $4,000,000 per week.
Not only is every penny of this
stupendous sum lost to toum, hut
a total capitalization of $550,000,
000 are at a standstill, with con
sequent loss of profits. The trade
paralysis has reached a stage more
extensive than any heretofore
known, even during periods of
great industrial depression. Most
of the workmen are idle, not for
any aid of their individual unions,
but for the acts of other unions or
because of the recent decision of tlx1
employers to stand together and
fight the demands of one union by
throwing the workmen of many un
ions into idleness.
Col. A. B. Tiffin, a millionaire
of Tiffin, ()., under indictment for
killing a man in a saloon row,
suicided on the anniversary of his
victim’s death.
In an international automobile
race in Paris, over a cotirse .of 80
miles, a series of collisions of the
carriages resulted in the death of
nine persons and the. serious injury
U>f many others. There were
\1G starters iu the race, and a speed
u iVorded of 88 miles an hour.
\
(
A tornado partially destroyed the
insane asylum nt Glen wood, I a.,
and two inmates were killed.
The Pennsylvania state republi
can convention endorsed tIn' candi
dacy of President Roosevelt for a
second term.
Eight trainmen, five white
! tramps and four negroes were kill
ed in a railroad wreck on tin* South
ern near Bryan, Ala.
Wu .Tung Fang, former Chinese
minister at Washington, but who
was recalled, has been appointed c
member of the foreign office at Pe
kin.
Boston housekeepers will attempt
to solve the servant girl problem by
establishing a school where girls
will be given a thorough training in
domestic duties free of charge.
Upon the assembling of a special
jury at Jackson, Ky., to hear the
evidence against Curtis Jett and
Tom White, charged with the assas
sination of Attorney .1. 1». Mar
crum, the town was placed under
martial law. All the witnesses and
attorneys were kept under guard
of soldiers to prevent their assas
i sination.
A. W. Machin, formerly superin
tendent of free delivery in the post
office department and who was re
lit v<‘tl of duty several weeks ago,
lias been arrested at tin1 instigation
of the department, charged with
receiving bribes from contractors.
It is alleged Maehiti received in the
neighborhood of $‘20,000 from a
manufacturer for having the gov
ernment adopt a patent fastener to
mail boxes.
Dr. Octavius White, a famous yel
•lmv fever expert, died at his home
in New York City, aged 78 years
While a surgeon in the Confeder
ate army Dr. White was sent into
the I nion lines at (ioldshorough,
X. 0., to treat northern soldiers af
dieted with yellow fever, and in the
Confederate prison at Florence, S.
C., he won the love of many Union
men by his kindness during a simi
lar experience.
A bad state of affairs exists at
Jackson, Ky., where two persons
are held for the assassination of J.
It. Marc ram. The militia on
guard at the jail have been fired on
nightly, and citizens cannot ven
ture out after dark for fear of be
ing shot down. Alleged friends of
the two prisoners threaten to re
lease them, but the authorities say
their main desire is to assassinate
them in order to prevent them tell
ing what they know' about the
many murders committed in
Breathitt county.
A dispatch from Boston tells of
•1 7 i! • I li\’ n oriromontinn
a great negro exodus from the
south. It is said the society has
a membership of over 500, and the
scheme is to depopulate the entire
>outh and southwest of negroes,
who will he taken north to Bos
ton, and thence distributed
throughout the west in agricultural
and mining communities. The first
great body of emigrants, 5,000 in
number, will land in Boston about
the first of July, the society lead
ers suv.
At the request of the department
of justice the United States secret
service has undertaken the work of
investigating the charge of peonage,
< r holding another in servitude to
work out a debt, whieh has been
made against persons living in the
vicinity of Montgomery, Ala. The
punishment provided by the statute
for this crime is a fine of not less
than $1,000, nor more than $5,000,
or imprisonment of not less than
one year nor more than five. The
parties alleged to he guiltv of the
above offense contend that they
have only sought the laborers of
those alleged to have been held iu
bondage under a legal contract,
whereby they were paid for their
services.
Booke" T. Washington, the ne
gro educator, urges the establish
ment of more public schools in
the rural districts as an incentive
to keep the negroes on the farm.
Another conviction has been se
cured in connection with procur
ing fraudulent naturalization pa
pers at St. Louis. A jury found
John Barhaglia, a leader of the
Italians, * guilty on half a dozen
counts, and he will serve a long
sentence for his crimes.
> I
1
1
Two negroes and a white boy
w to killed in a riot over a crap
game at Pittsburg, I’a.
Pi re in the building of the Hart
man furniture store in St. Ix>uis
caused a loss of $100,000.
Dispatches report a terrible
earthquake April 29 in Asiatic
I urkev. A whole town, numbering
2,000 people, was totally destroyed.
II. 1). Piker, after breaking all
records in a fifteen mile bicycle
race at Cambridge, Mass., was
killed by* being run over by au
tomobile.
Mrs. Kuis Taylor was found
guilty by a jury in Xew Yor city
of murdering her husband and the
death penalty assessed. She will
la; the first woman to be electro
cuted.
Sixteen negroes composing two
families were drowned in the Mis
sissippi river at Pecan Point, near
Memphis. The victims were en
deavoring to escape from the flood
in skiffs when both boats capsized.
Ollie Dalton, under arrest at
Alexandria, I ml., has confessed to
being a wholesale murderer. He is
said to have been implicated in
no less than thirty-five murders in
the past ten years, the object in
each ease l>oing robbery.
The town of Gainesville, Ga.,
was almost completely wiped out by
a tornado on the 1st. It is reported
about 100 nennln L-iIImi! rPlm
greatest loss of life is reported in
the destruction of the cotton mills,
where about eighty are believed to
lie killed and a score injured.
A specific charge of accepting
commissions on supplies purchas
ed by him for the department has
been filial against George W. Beav
ers, former chief of the division of
salaries and allowances. This is
the latest disclosure in the postal
scandal.
The Presbyterian church of the
I'nited States, in general assembly,
have adopted the revision of the
confession of faith us prepared by
the committee appointed by the gen
eral assembly of 11*01. By the
adoption- of th(i election overtures,
important additions, arfiplfficatiSSfe
and amendments are made to the
articles of the confession of faith.
Of these one of the most vital is
the erection into the church doc
trine of the belief that all who die
in infancy are saved.
All flood records since the year
lH4t have been surpassed by the
floods of tin' past week in the Mis
sissippi, Missouri and Arkansas
valleys. The greatest loss reported
is from Topeka, Kan. At that point
and in suburbs of Kansas City over
tiOO people are known to have been
drowned. To add i>, the horror,
many fires followed ti e flood start
ed by the flooding of water into
buildings where lime was stored.
The property loss in Topeka
and other jx>ints is overshad
owed by the terrible loss of life.
Just how many people perished is
not known and may never be
known.
In mukins its final renort. the
St. Louis grand jury reviews the
evidence concerning legislative
doodling, and among other sugges
tions strongly recommends that
more stringent laws te enacted for
the punishment of lobbying at the
state capital, and that the statute
of limitation be extended to seven
years. It recommends that fran
chises secured through doodling
methods be forfeited. The report
says, in part: “The testimony we
have heard has shown a state of
affairs most amazing. We have lis
tened to the confessions of state
senators, and were we at liberty to
make known all they have told the
recital would appall and astonish
the citizens of this state.. The ve
nality existing among the makers
of our state laws is alarming to
those who believe in free govern
ment.”
It has been discovered that a
Mafia society of New York city has
planned the assassination of all ob
jectionable persons in manufactur
ing plants where the members are
employed.
A serious wind storm, which
swept overClay, Franklin and Kear
ney counties, Nebraska, caused the
death of fifteen persons, injured,
many others and wrecked over a
hundred houses. Most of the dam
age done was in rural districts.
Chas. M. Hurd, a private serv
ing a sentence at San Ffancisco for
desertion, waa shot and killed while
attempting to escape. Papers among
his effects gave his birthplace aa
Hot SDrtnira.