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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY JULY 18, 1902.
Vol. 2 No. 29.
$292,000.00 FOR WHITE
Above Amount Will bo Spent by
Uncle Sam in Improving the
Condition of White River,
United States Engineer Gr, D
Fitch of the rivers of the Arkansas
district, has received the approval
of a part of his plans for the rivers
Under his supervision. The im
provements will be made from the
appropriation .pf the last congress
of $451,000 for the rj vers and
harbors of this district.
It is necessary for Mr, Fitch to
draw'up plans, which he deems
advisable for the expenditure of
the appropriation of each river
and submit them to the depart
pient at Washington. There are
now a number of these projects
before the department, which Mr.
Fitch expects to heat from in a
short time.
Those which have so far been
approved are for the river locks
Nos 1 and 2 on the miner White
river, and also the dams which are
built, in connection. In the case
of No. 1, one mile east of Iiates
ville, it i.s his intention to com
plete the dams, guide cribs, build
the lock approach and the lock
house and clear the grounds of
temporary structures. In the case
of No. 2, about seven miles west
of Batesville, he will complete the
abuttal, the lock, approaches, lay
the paving behind the land wall,
t'Uii' -;nd place the lock gates,
‘ .1 cribs, tho main dam and
eier.r the ground of temporary
Structures, The construction of
lock 3 will be deferred.
The cost of Nos. 1 and 2 will
probably be about §132,000. The
work, which will begin at up early
date, cannot be finished until next
year.
It is the ultimate purpose of
Mr. Fitch, as the appropriations
(ire made from year to year, to
construct a series of ten dams and
their accompanying lucks between
Ilatesville and the mouth of the
Upper White, which it is estimated
will cost upon completion $1,000,
000. This would keep open navi
gation on the upper White all the
year round, whereas it is now open
for only a few months in the cokT
season. Th« ton
rr
dams would give the river a con
stant depth of four feet, lyu-h of
the dams will be 175 feet long and
30 feet wide, with a depth of live
feet. They will be of the timber
type filled with stone.
Mr. Fitch has submitted plans
for the improvement of the Ark
Great Opportunities for
Homes in Texas.
The country traversed by j
the International & Great
Northern Railroad, embracing
the greater portion of llast,
South and Southwest Texiis,
contains thousands of acres o,f
fertile land especially adapted
to {, meral farming, stock-rais
ing, rice, tobacco, fruit and
grape culture; trucking, mining
and lumber manufacturing, that
can be purchased at low rates
and on exceeding liberal terns.
The Illustrator
and General Narrator,
a handsomely Illustrated maga
zine published by the I. A G.
N. R R„ each number ot' which
contains general and specific
information regarding some
county or section in the 1. &
G. N. country.
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ansas river, but they have not yet
been approved.
The following is a list of the
rivers in the Arkansas district,
which also includes a part of In
dian territory and Missouri, the
amounts showing the relative divi
sion of the appropriation among
them:
Upper White, $270,000; Arkan
sas, $110,000; lower White, $22,
000; Black, $21,700; Current, $0,
900; St. Francis and L’Anguille,
$9,000; Cache, $2,000. The total
mileage of the rivers of the Ark
ansas district is 1,571.
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Mother Always Keeps It Handy.
“My mother suffered a long
time from distressing pains and
general ill health due primarily to
indigestion,'' says L. W. Spalding
Verono, Mo, “Two years ago I
got hei to try Ivodol. She grew
better at once and now, at the age
of seventy-six, eats anything she
wants, remarking that she fears
no bad effects as she has her bot
tle of Ivodol handy.’’ Don’t waste
timi3 doctoring symptoms. Co
after the cause. If your stomach
is sound your health will bo good.
k Mtl/ll I'tufc t 11 n cf/tiviOiilt iii.fi
strengthens the hotly by digesting
your food. It is nature’s own
tonic-J- I. Sturdivant,
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Patents at Cut Prices.
In order to Keep bujsy during the
summer, Swift & Co., the prompt
and proper patent lawyers, oppo
site U- S. Patent Office, Wash
ington, D. C., have made a big I
out in the price for obtaining!
patents. Inventors who desire
to save money and get the best
work should write them while the
cut prices prevails.
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Vacation Days.
Vacation time is here and the
children are fairly living cut of
doors. There could be no health
ier place for them. You need ou-!
ly to guard against the accidents
incidental to most open air sports.
No remedy equals DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve for quickly
stopping pain or removing danger
of serious consequences. For
cuts, scalds and wounds. ‘*1 used
DeWitt’s Hazel Salve for sores
cuts and bruises,” says L. B.;
Johnson, Swift, Tex. <-it is the
best remedy on the market.”
Sure cure for piles and skin dis
eases. Beware of counterfeits.
J. I. Sturdivant. ;
Will Hang July 25.
Van liuren, July 12.—Today
Sheriff Hitchcock broke the news
to Dave McWhorter, the condem
ned wife-murderer, that tho gov
ernor had refused to interfere, and
the date of execution had been set
for July 25. The intelligence
caused McWhorter to collapse,
and he has spent the time since in
crying and praying. It is gener
ally predicted that McWhorter
will have to be carried to the scaf
fold. He has gained considerable
flesh since his incarceration.
Acts Immediately.
Colds are sometimes more trou
blesome in summer than in winter
it’s so hard to keep from adding
to them while cooling off after ex
ercise, One Minute Cough Cure
cures at once. Absolutely safe.
Acts immediately. Sure cure for
coughs, colds, oroup, throat and
lung troubles, J. I. Sturdivant.
Where is the Recompense.
Secretary Root leports that the
total cost of the Philippine war
up to dale is $l?0,32(i,58&. Can
any one discover any benefits ob
tained from (his enormous expen
diture? Wo aio thus spending
about $45,COO,000 per year in an
effort to make the flag “stay put*”
and to force our government up
on an unwilling people. Are we
not paying too much for ouv
whistle?—Cooimonei.
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The Journal, $1 per year.
DON’T GO TO THE CITY
A Few Timely Hints to Young
People Who Hanker For a
Taste of Life in the City.
The constant influx of girls
from the country into large cities
brings with it portentious
evils. Dreaming of an easy time,
good wages, a better wardrobe
and more congenial companions ;
dazzled with the vision of city
amusements, and hoping, per
haps, to tind a marriageable part
ner and settle down into a com
fortable city home, thousands
leave the farm or the village and
flock to the metropolis. Here
many of them canfronta situation
far different from that which they
imagined in advance of their act
ual experience of city life. The
wages they get are meager ; their
lodgings fai from comfortable;
;hey have no home life ; they face
lew temptations unit trials, and
dieir life becomes one of haid
diip and trouble. In the store,
factory, shop or office they are
>eset with danger and annoyance,
while all about them are pitfalls
•plead for unwary feet. Some
if them, with unusual aptitude
for stenography, type-writing and
iiudred occupations, or with tine
executive gifts, uiake their \vay’
0 the top and secure tirst-elass
msts ; but a great multitude
struggle and rJiuost starve on five
>r six dollars a week. This lat
er (lass are unable to save any
nouey ; a week’s illness brings
hem in debt, and a month wilh
>ut employment renders them ob
jects of charity.
How much better would it be
for most of them were they to
-tay at home, help in the house
hold, or accept such work as
night be available on the farm or
u the village. Out large cities j
low contain thousands of girls in ;
1 sorry plight, either without cm- j
doyment or struggling for bread j
—girls who might have remained
n comfort at home, or v\ho
jould have found work of some
sort in a country town to support
hem, with less cost of strength,
lerve, power and vital force—to
lay nothing of the dangers which
tow beset them in the city. What
i kindness it would be to thous
mds who are helplessly planning
:o rush cityward “to tiud somc
.hing to do,” could a pursuasive
void reach them and say “lietter
stay at lit me.”—Exchange.
A Harried Man’s Musings.
Woman’s influence is, on llio
whole, elevating. She generally
Holds a fellow up on pay day.
Never judge a man by the
flothes he wears. Look at those
ae has 10 buy for his wife.
It is not good for a man to be
done, but sometimes it’s very
nuch pleasanter.
The man who wrote ‘•Absence
nukes the heart grow fonder,”
never returned at 2 a. in. and
found his wife waiting for him at
ihe head of the stairs.
A girl isn't an old maid until
she begins to worry for fear she
will never get married ; a man isn’t
m old bachelor until he begins
:o worry foi fear he will.
Anyway, Eve was unable to
threaten to go home to her moth
er when Adam wouldn't put up
die seteen doors.
It is not proper to judge a man
by his wife, either. Perhaps he
couldn't help it.
Hardships are the kind that sail
un the sea of matrimony.
Almost every wife wants her
Husband to make her an allowance,
while she refuses to make any
dlovvance for him.
After a girl has employed all
Her arts in landing a husband it
i rati ties her to read that she was
‘led to the alter.”
While all men are liars, there
ire exceptions to the rule, and a
git 1 i-s generally willing to take an
jxeeption.—Ex
ANOTHER LIE NAILED
Hon. F. M. Martin, Who Was
One of the Judges, Says Bal
lots Were Returned in 'OS.
To the Editor of The Journal.
In an article in the Batesville
Bee of a recent date a writer sign
ing himself “WM says: “Four
years ago the conditions were the
same. The same large vote, 380,
and was so manipulated that the
present county clerk was declared
the nominee by the illegal vote of
Union and Big Bottom townships.
And while every township in the
county brought their pool books
and ballots the judges of Big Bot
tom did not bring their bollots,
but destroyed them in Newark,
returning only the poll books.’’
The above statement by “W”
is not true and he knew it when
he wrote the article. I, myself,
was one of the judges of said pri
mary election and carried the bal
lots and poll books to Batesville
and delivered them to T. H. Bear
ing, who was circuit clerk at the
time and if the ballots never ap
peared it was through the manipu
lations of some trifling fellow like
C_I _a
, awi i jmt uuuiu in Ian; mulu.'1'
of the circuit clerk ruyself.
So far as the statement in re
gard to the present county clerk is
concerned, that is a falsehood,
pure and simple, and no one knows
better than Mr. \Y. that Mr. Ho
gan never received an illegal
vote.
If \Y. had desired to throw the
proper light on the subject he
would sign his name to what he
had to say in regard to the matter
and not hide himself behind an as
sumed name. 1 will sign my name
to what 1 have to say on the sub
ject so that people may have re- i
ference to it. F. M.Mautin. j
P. S. For proof as to the
truthfulness of any of the above
statements, refer to T. II. 1 tear
ing, who was circuit clerk at that
time. Martin.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
IF A. Giro, of Dota, is spend
ing a few days heie with friends.
Dr. M. Sanders, of White
River township, was in town Sat
urday.
Miss Lena Davenport, of near
Newport, is visiting relatives in
the city.
The Dallas, Tex., Grand Jury
makes a sensational report on
. i . .•
John Blue,of Black River town
ship, arrived Monday morning
from a visit to Texas.
F. C. Hoyt has been grunted a
vacation and will leave about the
first of August for points in Col
orado.
Geo. R. Hopson, of Cronan
ville, Tenu., remits the necessary
coin for one year’s reading of The
Journal.
K. A. Clark, of near Elgin, was
visiting relatives here Saturday
and S"nday and made this office
a pleasant call.
Mr, and Mrs. Zed Oiiffith and
children left Tuesday for Dodd
City to visit relatives and will be
absent about a month,
Thomas Jones, The Journal rep
resentative at Magness, was in
town Saturday and reports every
thing quiet in that community.
President Roosevelt is determin
ed to take a real vacation at
Oyster Bay and will transact only
veiy important business there.
For the year ending June 30,
1902, 500,000 foreigners lauded in
New York, and for Jumetb.c num
ber exceeded 50,000. Some of
these are, perhaps, d**eiiublo ad
ditions to our population, but
such are very few. What will be
the final resuit of this influx of
aliens no one knows, but it if
probable that, whatever tho re
sult, it will not be benelioial to
our native Americans.
Burt Arnold, democratic nomi
nee for county cl“i k, came down
from Batcsville Saturday and
spent the Sabbath with home
folks.
The plan proposed by “Buffalo”
.Jones tor the preservation of n
herd cf Buffalo in Yellowstone
Park soon will be carried into ex
ecution .
Tho Waldron Reporter says
crops in Scott county were late in
planting, but are in good condi
tion, with better prospects than
for yea is.
The genial O. M. Pennington,
of White River township, was in
town Friday and reports every
thing moving along nicely in his
neck o’ tho woods.
Secretary John *1. Pago of tho
state board of charities, reports
844 inmates of the .state lunatic
asylum. There was only one
death at the asylum in June.
Zinc ore has advanced $2 on
the ton in the last week. It is
now $38, with promise of going
still higher- Lead ore has advan
ced from $43,50 to $18 since May
1.
To keep boys on t he farm make
tuu ii m wuitu (mi.
I.aveseen farms that no boy worth
his board and clothes would stay
on after his first chance to get
away.
The republican scheme is to
present a hostile face to the trusts
for public ition, but squeeze the
octopus on the side, and assure
the monster that there is no need
for it to believe all it hears.
The Clarendon Sun says,
“There will lie precious few farm
ers m Monroe county this full who
will not enjoy that comforting
consolation which comes from
having plenty of corn in the crib.’
With corn at DO cents, the price
of booze is sure to go up. *Vc
beam that a feller named Gates
has sent up the price of corn, and
if this report proves to he correct
we air goin’ to Chicago and niasli
his mug.—Hardeman Free Press.
In ansvvci to ctiticisms of Gen.
Wood’s bibulous propensity, the
Secretary of War says the gav
ernment does not object, to his
drinking wine if lie wants to, hut
an exchange expresses doubt as
to the general di inking 15U0 doz
en in three mouths, us charged.
The doubter probably is unac
quainted with the general’s ca
pacity. It only amounts to 20C
bottles a day !
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for ar.y case of Catarrli
that cannot be cured by Hall’s
(Jatarrb Cure.
F, J. ClIENEA & Co,, Props,,
Toledo, O. We, the undersigned
have known F. .1, Cheney for the
last 15 years, and beleive him per
fectly honorable in all business
transactions, and financially able
to carry out any obligation made
by their tiini. West & Truax,
Wholesale Druggist, Toledo, O.
Walding, Kimian tic Marvin,
Wholesale Druggist, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure io taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous sui faces of the
system. Price, 75c, per bottle.
Sold by all druggist. Testimon
ials free.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
One Killed, Two Badly Injured.
Van Rureti, July 12 —Richard
Jones, living near Graphic, was
instantly killed and his two child
ren dangerously, if not fatally,
injured in a runaway today near
his home.
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SENATOR J. H. BERRY
Explains His Reason for Favoring
Nicaragua Route as Against
Panama for the Canal.
United States Senator Janies II.
Berry, who is now at his home in
Beutonville, explains in the follow
ing letter written in reply to a re
quest from the Gazette,
why lie voted for the N i cargo a
canal route rather than for the
Panama:
“Beutonville, Ark., July 10—l
am in receipt of your letter of the
8th in which you ask me to give
my reasons for voting for the Nic
aragua route rather than for the
Panama.
"I will state in a general way
that I believe it to be the better
route. My objections to the Pan
ama were the extreme sickly coun
try in which the canal was to be
constructed; its impracticability
for sailing vessels; the great difli
culty, as stated by many eminent
engineers, in constructing the nec
essary dams to secure the requi
site amount of water; and the
doubt whether or not the govern
i-uutu secure a uue irom tnc
New Panama Company that would
not make us liable for the bonds
and indebtedness of the old com
pany.
But il the conditions had been
I equal or even if there had been
some advantage as to distance and
, cost in favor of Panama, I would
still have voted for Nicaragua for
the reason that it is 400 miles near
er the Southern ports than the
Panama and I believed it to be the
better route for the people of the
South.
“The democratic national con
vention, the Arkansas state con
vention and the Arkansas legisla
ture had all declared in favor of
Nicaragua. The people through
! out the Southern states had ex
! pected the Nicaragua route to be
adopted. There was a general be
lief that many of those who favor -
I ed Panama were opposed to any
canal, and nearly all of my demo
cratic associates in the house and
senate favored Nicaragua
“These are the reasons that
caused me to vote for the Nicara
gua route. ’’ James II. Berry.
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Everything nice and clean at J..
11. llolderby’s City Butcher Shop.
Your patronage solicited. Como
and see me.
The greatest ambition of Amer
ican men and women is to have
homes blessed with children. The
woman afflicted with
ease is constantly menaced *dh
becoming a childless w fe No
medicine can restore ^ad or
, lT..n3 but Wine of Cardui docs
regulate derangements that pre
've'nt conception; does prevent
I functions and shattered nerves
1 “„d do» bring babto <o bom»
barren and desolate for
Wine of Cardui gives women the
health and strength to bear a
thy children. Aou ca” “
1 dollar bottle of Wino of Cardi
from your dealer.
[wiMEor CARDUI
A 143 Market Street, 1901.
" Memphis, Ti®Jj one bottle ot
In F*bru*ry» 1901* I too Dftcfcaga of
, of Cardui and one \J^aJ^een
i ThedforiVs m»ck.-I>ru.ng ^ neVer
I mau led fifteen I took Wine
SgS blHh mother of
of Cardui. * bom March 8M9?1;
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