VOL. VI.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1907.
NO. 41.
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.
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden arrives
at Newport, and the series of enter
tainments in his honor at once begins,
the first affair being a dinner by Mr.
and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish at Cross
ways.
Walter Wellman, writing from Spitz
bergen on July 13, tells of the success
ful fight of the explorer's party to save
the big balloon house from destruction
by high Arctic winds.
Text of the American proposal for
a permanent peace court is completed
at The Hague in agreement with Ger
many and Great Britain.
Wall street is cheered by the report
that Secretary Cortelyou will come to
the relief of the- situation by deposit
ing $25,000,000 in national deposito
ries.
Chicago bankers expect further re
cession in general business, but do not
take such a pessimistic view of the
situation as is held in the east.
Plans are being drawn in Chicago
for a $110,000 building for the teach
ing of domestic science at the state
school at Normal, 111.
New speedometer, tested by the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad, is
designed to improve passenger serv
ice.
Police crusade to rid Chicago of
criminals begins, twenty-one well
known thieves, burglars and confi
dence men being arrested in the first
round-up.
Man who rocks a boat to scare a girl
causes the craft to capsize, and dies of
heart failure while struggling in the
water.
President Small, of the telegraphers’
union, declares that secret spies in the
union are trying to cause dissension
and break the strike.
*. Serious disagreement between H. H.
Rogers and William Rockefeller is re
ported over the question of passing
the regular quarterly dividend on
Standard Oil as a result of Judge Lan
dis’ big fine.
Officers of the New York Electrical
Workers’ union are charged with
Wrongfully appropriating money.
Secretary of War Taft opens state
campaign in Kentucky and appeals to
southern voters to join with the re
publican party to secure the influence
to which they are entitled in the coun
cils of the nation.
Government Attorneys Sims and
Wilkerson, back from Washington, re
fuse to discuss Alton case, but im
pression is that fight will be dropped.
Government bureau issues a warn
ing against carelessness in the use of
concrete in construction of buildings,
recounting the dangers.
Photographers are engaged to take
snap shots of men of the New York
navy yard absent from their tasks but
supposed to be at work.
Nathan Perry Beers, noted New
York Educator, loath to part with
wife, keeps her dead body in home
and sits constantly beside it.
Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of
the treasury, says that with the iin
mense sources of national wealth un
impaired there is n» reason for de
pression.
Alexander Jester, tried and acquit
ted a few years ago on the charge of
murdering the brother of John W.
Gates, dies at the age of 90 at Shaw
nee, Okla.
International socialist congress
opens in Stuttgart, with delegates rep
resenting twenty-five nationalities.
Herr Bebel refers to the “scandalous
persecution” of Haywood in Idaho.
Judge advocate general of the army,
in his report, says the passage of the
anii-canteen act has been destructive
of discipline by causing the establish
ment of saloons near military posts.
Senator Dubois, of Idaho, at Aurora
Chautauqua, advocates federal juris
diction and prison for Mormon leaders
as only way to stamp out polygamy
and end growing power of Mormon
church.
Hetty Green, in New York, scores
Gie smart set, declaring that modern
girls are extravagant and should have
work to do, and that women of fash
ion spend their time gambling, smok
ing and drinking.
t ourt appointed guardian for infant
son of Mary A. Dixon; she claimed
Patrick McCarren, Brooklyn demo
cratic leader, was its father.
Government said to have secret
service men on pay rolls of railway
^nd trust combinations. Alleged to
oo seeking violations of law.
New York police believe they have
clue leading to solution of Hunchakist
murder.
' ic’im of Pleasant Prairie, Wis.,
Powder mill explosion on his deathbed
makes a will leaving property to
■sweetheart.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor announces that
the association will proceed crimi
nally against the members of the
Mannifacturers' association on Ihe
charge of boycotting organized labor.
Standard Oil gives out a long de
fense of its business methods, and
blames “socialistic outcry from below
and political pressure from above” for
its troubles.
German automobile enthusiasts plan
to teach the judges the joys of motor
ing in order to induce them to cease
imposing heavy fines.
Forty-four delegates from Chicago
and representatives of other cities go
to Detroit to attend the annual con
vention of the American Institute of
Banking.
Wealthy man, passenger on an
ocean liner, formerly an immigrant,
gives a talk to the passengers in tha
steerage, with suggestions of how to
win success.
At the national convention of life
underwriters, held at Toronto, the con
tention is made that the New York
insurance laws are unjust and must
be amended.
Senator Foraker, replying to Secre
tary Taft, defends the Elkins law, and
asks what is the secretary’s position
on the negro question and “new south
ern rebellion.”
Young man follows the girl he loved
from Germany to New York, searches
till he finds her, persuades her to
marry him; kills her in anger and
slays himself.
Jacob H. Schiff, New York hanker,
says it is idle and unjust to attribute
financial depression to President
Roosevelt, and says that a reform in
the tariff is the first essential to bet
ter conditions.
Gamblers in a plot to blackmail the
gambling kings of Chicago are said
to have a hand in the dynamiting of
the komes of the leaders.
Senator J. B. Foraker declares that
Secretary Taft’s Columbus speech is
having a bad effect in Ohio.
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden ex
presses himself as delighted with
America and the Jamestown exposi
tion. His visit at Norfolk is ended
and the cruiser Fylgia, with the roya'.
visitor on board has gone to Newport,
R. I.
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid un
veiled tablet erected by Salisbury
(England) citizens in memory of vic
tims of steamer train wreck in July,
1906.
Nomination of Secretary of War
Taft by republican national conven
tion considred certain.
Walter Gaylord Leland, 19 years old,
Chicago boy, fatally shot while on
summer outing.
In a fight between two old soldiers,
comrades of a G. A. R. post at Vic
toria, Rio., one is fatally stabbed.
Count Boni de Castellance publicly
rebuffed in London hotel by former
brother-in-law, George Gould.
Alton road will be immune from re
bate prosecutions if it kept its prom
ise in the Standard Oil litigation, ac
cording to Attorney General Bona
parte.
Mrs. Leland Stanford, Jr. s, dia
monds are quietly sold in London,
bringing $250,000, for benefit of uni
versity.
Mrs. Annie Besom., president of the
osophical society, outlined destiny
guiding Russia.
Consensus of French opinion is that
troops must stay in Morocco; possibil
ity of conquest discussed.
King Edward's visit to Marienbad
aroused much interest.
Steamship captain said Muir glacier
had slipped back seven miles.
Briton who was hanged for poison
ing victims developed crime as a fine
art.
Meeting between king and kaiser
earned Edward new right to title of
peacemaker.
Head of established church in Lon
don. bishop noted as hustler, to visit
America.
Nation's riflemen to meet at Camp
Perry.
Prof. Archibald Henderson gave his
close range impressions of George Ber
nard Shaw after minute investigation
of Irishman.
Five thousand girls employed in the
New Jersey thread factories announce
their intention to take a vacation and
force the big plants to close for ten
days.
Passengers on the steamship Teu
tonic witness a thrilling rescue in mid
ocean when a crazed sailor jumps into
the sea and is saved by a crew in a
lifeboat.
Santa Fe to make Galveston prin
cipal lumber point on the gulf coast.
Pier 1,200 feet long probably will be
built at Bolivar.
Attorney General Bonaparte, despite
criticism from many quarters, stands
firm in his policy of bringing offenders
against the anti trust laws to justice.
Gtneral Bell, chief of staff, returns
to Washington after a tour of the mili
tary posts of the country, prepared to
take steps to ameliorate the condition
of the enlisted men.
Joseph Joachim, famous violinist,
conductor and composer, dies.
King Edward reaches Ischi, where
he is cordially greeted by Emperot
Francis Joseph.
_ ARKANSAS _
Estate new?
Incorporation Articles Filed.
The Alluvial Land Company of Pine
Bluff, capital stock $25,000, of which
$1,500 has been subscribed. The
business of the company will be to
buy and sell land and land notes,
build houses, stock farms, and operate
industrial enterprises, etc.
The Central Heating and Manufac
turing Company, of Little Rock, cap
talization $200,000. The company
has taken over the plant of the Little
Rock Heating Company, and contem
plates extensive enlargements.
J. W. Buchanan & Co., of Van
Buren, capital stock $25,000, fully
subscribed. The business will be
wholesale grocery, steam laundry,
bottling works, sale of feed and fuel,
and the building of a sales stable and
livery barn.
The Van Buren Logging Company,
of Fort Smith, capital $2,000. The
company will do a general sawmill
business.
An amendment to the articles of
incorporation of the O. D. Hardy
Drug Company of Camden changing
the name to the Jos. G. Gatlin Drug
Company.
Copies of its charter from the state
of New York by the Eureka Hard
ware and Lumber Company of Buffalo,
N. Y. The company operates a saw
mill in Arkansas.
Frisco Buys Bridge.
The Fort Smith and Van Buren
Bridge Company has conveyed to the
St. Louis and San Francisco Railway
Company the bridge across the Arkan
sas river between Fort Smith and Van
Buren. The consideration named in
Arkansas Forest Reserve.
In answer to a communication from
the Little Rock Board of Trade, rela
tive to the forest reserves that have
been announced for Arkansas, and
addressed to the Department of Ag
riculture, Forestry Service, the As
sociate Forester replies is part as
follows: “I am very much gratified
to learn from the many letters re
ceived in this office that the inaugura
tion of a national forest policy in Ar
kansas has created such widespread
interest and approval. The necessary
field examinations and reports for the
creation of the proposed Arkansas
and Ozark national forests have been
completed. It is expected that action
will be initiated on tliese proposed
forests this Fall. The creation of a
national forest does not prevent the
entry of mineral lands under the min
ing laws, the settlement of agricul
tural lands, or the process to patent
bona fide claims initiated before May
10 and July 16, 1907, the dates re
spectively of the withdrawal of the
lands for the creation of the Arkan
sas and Ozark national forests."
Saline May Be improved.
United States engineers have just
completed an examination of the Saline
river, starting in about 30 miles
below Benton. The government sur
veys name the Saline river as a navi
gable stream, and that it is so con
sidered by the railroads is shown by
the fact that the Rock Island is build
ing a drawbridge across it about
eleven miles west of Crossett. The
government engineers who made the
examination express surprise to find
the Saline possessed such a head of
water. They found stretches in the
river about four miles long in which
the average depth of water is about
12 feet. The river is badly clogged
in many places, but it appears as if
the clearing of the channel would
render a fairly good head of water at
most seasons of the year.
RAINFALL DURING JULY IN ARKANSAS.
The July report, just issued, of the Weather Bureau shows that monfti
to have been remarkably dry and hot The above map, taken from the
report shows the light rainfall of the month, and the small area visited.
Over nine-tenths of the State it was the driest July experienced in the past
ten years. For fourteen days, ending with the 27th, the rainfall was insigni
ficant The average precipitation for the entire State was 2.08 inches below
normal for the month. In point of temperature, it was the hottest July expe
rienced in Arkansas for the past six years. A spell of unusually hot weather
be"-an on the 17th and continued uninterruptedly till the 2Sth, inclusive, with
maximum temperatures ranging from 96 to 108. The average mean tem
„orat,M-P for the entire State for July was 8.14, which is the highest since 1901.
the deed is $500,000. This bridge was
built in 1886 and as its officers were
closely identified with the directorate
ef the Frisco system, it was simply a
corporation within a corporation. The
Iron Mountain has paid a minimum
rental of $1,000 per month to run their
passenger trains over the bridge
between Fort Smith and \ an Horen
ever since the completion of the struc
ture, and it is believed here that
before their lease expires in 1911 they
will have a bridge of their own at
this point and over which the Gur
don branch will connect with the cen
tral division of the system.
Celebrate Golden Wedding,
Mr. and Mrs. James Callaway, each
71 years old, celebrated their golden
wedding recently in a grove on their
farm, six miles north of Eureka
Springs, where they have lived con
tinuously for 31 years. Four chil
dren, 1 9 grandchildren and five great
grandchildren were present.
Evidence of Incendiary.
Seven boxes of matches placed in
apertures gouged out of walls
together with rolls of inflammable
building paper were discovered
recently in the three-story Erhardt
building on Central avenue at Hot
Springs. The building is now owned by
Sam Watt, who has made a
fortune through the ownership of
some of the leading gambling institu
tions of Hot Springs and he is con
vinced that an incendiary is seeking
to burn his property.
State University Enrollment.
j It is reported that the coming ses
sion will witness the largest enroll
ment in the history of the State Uni
| versity at Fayetteville. This institu
tion is entering upon its thirty-sixth
year. Two of its students are now
I on the Supreme Bench, three of them
have served as governor, three of
j them are now in Congress, one in the
i United States Senate, many of them
i have been circuit judges and prose
cuting attorneys, while great num
j bers of them have become prominent
in professional, financial and bus’ness
circles.
Low Death Rate.
The death rate in Fayetteville since
the first day of January, 1907, has
been very low. In a population of
I more than 8,000 people there have
! been only 42 deaths, an average or
less than one death in five days. Of
i this number seven were infants, and
! quite a number very old people.
Colonization Project.
Beginning next spring, Mayor T. H.
Jackson, of Brinkley, working in con
i junction with the immigration agents
of the Rock Island and Cotton Belt
; railways, will set in motion an aru
| bitious proposition for the colonization
of 4 0,000 acres of Lee and Phillips
county land. Mayor Jackson is the
agent of the Black estate, which owns
the land, and will employ men this
fall and winte? in clearing the under
brush for the surveyors. It is
\ planned to lay farms out in tracts of
| from 20 acres up to as high as the
[ purchaser desires.
Arkansas Pure Food Law.
A digest of the pure food laws of
Arkansas-, as prepared by the Secre
tary of State, has been printed in
pamphlet form and distributed by the
Commissioner of Mines, Manufactures
and Agriculture. The act of 190?,
which becomes effective January 1,
1908, is entitled “An Act Preventing
the Manufacture or Sale of Adulter
ated or Misbranded or Poisonous or
Deleterious Foods, Drugs, Medicines
and Liquors and for Other Purposes.”
Violation of its provisions shall sub
ject the offender to a fine of not to
exceed $500 for the first offense, or
a sentence to one year’s imprison
ment or both such fine and imprison
ment, with heavier penalties for sub
sequent offenses.
State University Instructors.
Two new instructors have been
added to the force of the University
of Arkansas. These are Prof. Max
Lentz, who will fill the chair of Ger
manic languages, and S. A. Rowland,
Jr., will teach in the preparatory
department. Prof. Lentz, who comes
from New York city, is a Prussian by
birth. He was educated in Berlin,
Zurich, Munich and Geneva, and has
had 25 years’ experience as an instruc
tor of modern languages. Mr. Row
land is from Ouachita College of
Arkadelphia, a graduate of the past
session. His home is in Camden.
State Capitol Delay.
Attorney General Kirby’s opinion
on the expenditure of public funds in
connection with completing the new
state capitol, if accepted as final,
means that the building cannot be
completed in time for occupancy by
the General Assembly of 1909. A
specific appropriation being held nec
essary, and the General Assembly of
1907 having failed or refused to make
such appropriation for the new cap
itol, no matter what sums be to the
credit of the capitol fund, the money
at this time cannot be legally drawn
and expended for the completion of
the project.
Statistics for Government Report.
Special Agent J. G. Green of the U.
S. Census Bureau is in Little Rock to
ascertain the condition of the citj
finances during the year 1906. Re
ceipts, expenditures and the assessed
valuation of city property will be
taken in detail. A report of the
standing of all cities of 30,000 popu
lation or over is prepared annually
by the Department of Commerce and
Labor, and this investigation is the
fifth made of Little Rock. Joplin,
Mo., will be the next city visited by
Mr. Green
Water Payment Held Up.
Because of the unwholesome qual
ity of the water furnished the city,
and because of its alleged insufficient
supply in cas^ of fire, the City Coun
cil of Little Rock has refused to
approve or pay the bill of the water
company for the year ending on the
first of last month, which amounts
to $15,389. The council will defer
further action in the matter for a
time until the situation is straight
ened out b the water company.
Another Diamond Find.
D. B. Conway, of Texarkana, while
prospecting for diamonds in Pike
county, picked up what is declared
to be tne finest stone yet found. It
weighed 1 3 3-4 carats, and is a beau
tiful stone. The find was made on
the west side of the Little Missouri
river, while the developed field, where
so many diamonds have been found,
is on the east side of the river. Mr.
Conway refused $2,500 for the stone.
To Establish River Packet.
River connections by boat to Mem
phis and New' Orleans is the project
that has recently been launched in
Clarendon. According to the present
prospectus a company is to be organ
ized and a boat purchased or built to
run from Augusta to the mouth of
the White river and there make con
nections with river packets running
to Memphis, including the Arkansas
River Packet service to LiiMe Rock.
Drowned in Ouachita.
Robert Lydick, 23 years old,
employed as timekeeper by l.be con
struction company which is building
the depots and section houses on the
new Rock Island branch between Lit
tle Rock and El Dorado, was drowned
while bathing in the Ouachita river
neai Huttig.
Baby Prostrated by Heat.
The 2-year-old baby of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Standridge of Big Fork, Folk
county, was prostrated by the heat at
Mena recently and was unconscious
for twelve hours. The baby’s parents
had driven from their home to Mena
through the hot sun in an open wagon.
Peach Shipments from Rogers.
The total shipments of peaches
from the Rogers district the past sea
son amounted to * 2 cars. The can
ning companies took 24 cars. lhe
amount received for the crop is esti
mated at $50,000.
.
MOROCCO TERRORIZED
Natives and Europeans Still Fight
ing on the Coast.
Paris, Aug.—Advices received from
Casa Blanca show no change in the
situation. The troops are anxious for
a decisive engagement with the
trilfesme^i, but France’s determinar
tion not to penetrate far into the in
terior country prevents pursuit of the
fanatics and the result is a waiting
game.
Meantime the state of Morocco’s
internal affairs is growing worse.
Chaos reigns and the government has
degenerated into mere mock admin
istration.
Muiai Hafig, the newly proclaimed
sultan, who is reported to be march
ing toward the coast to light the
French and Spanish troops, has ap
pointed a ministry, one member of
which is Muiai Sidi Mohammed, an
other brother of the actual sultan
who is now held prisoner by the sul
tan at Fez.
Raisuli controls his own region and
the pretender rules northeast Moroc
co. The sultan is not sure of his
own foothold and anarchy pervades
the empire. Litteral towns are tran
quil because of the presence of for
eign warships, but Rabat is reported
to be constantly menaced by tribes
men who aie ready to swoop down
upon it at the first opportunity. Eu
ropeans dare not pass outside the
walls of Rabat and other cities.
Premier Clemonceau, who returned
from Carlsbad an Munich, has as
sumed active direction of the Moroc
can situation, which developed dur
ing his absence. He conferred with
Foreign Minister Pichon, War Min
ister Picquart and Marine Minister
Thomson, who met him at the sta
tion, and he will soon consult Presi
dent Fallieres.
Bomb Failed to Explode.
Johnston, Ua., Aug.—Members of
the Black Hand Society, a number
of whom are known to be in Wind
ber, made an attempt to w’reck the
home of Samuel Low'rey, on Graham
avenue, several nights ago. A quan
tity of earth was dug up in the Low
rey yard and used to cover six and
a half sticks of dynamite, to which
two fuses had been lighted. Both
fuses died out before the caps were
ignited and the dynamite was found
on the porch the next morning. The
dynamite was in such quantity to
blow the building into atoms. It is
believed that the Black Hand fellows
intended to revenge themselves be
cause Lowrey is supposed to have ig
, noted their requests for money. Offi
cers are working on a clue.
Woman Kills Aggressor.
Mount Sterling, Ky„ Aug—Algin
j Thomas, a prominent farmer of Mont
j gomery county was shot and killed
I Sunday by Mrs. Kate Brumet, 20
years old. wile of Abe Brumet, an
other farmer. The Brumets were
tenants of Thomas and the men had
a disagreement. While Brumet was
away from home, Thomas shot at his
wife three times, one bullet grazing
her head. She secured a revolver,
firing at Thomas live times, one bul
let piercing his brain and killing him
instantly. The young woman is about
to become a mother and as a resul
of the shock is in a critical condi
tion. Thomas- was 70 years old and
leaves a family. Mrs. Brumet is a
native of Johnson county and‘highly
respected.
Want Directors’ Meeting,
New York, Aug.—A circular ha3
been sent to every stockholder of the
United States Express Company, en
closing a blank request asking him to
mail the same to the secretary of the
company, requesting a meeting of the
shareholders for the election of seven
directors. The request is accompan
ied by a letter setting forth the fact
that it has been 4 5 years since the
shareholders met. The letter is sent
out l)v the Stockholders Committee,
which claims to represent more than
a majority of the stockholders of the
corporation. The object of the meet
ing, it is stated, is to elect a Board
of Directors opposed to the Platt
management, charged with misman
agement of the affairs of the com
pany.
AllegedI Embezzer Leaves.
Philadelphia, Aug.—Herman G-.
Stadon. confidential clerk for Edwin
Harrington Sons & Co., makers of
machine tools in this city, is a fugi
tive from justice, charged with fo
gerv and the embezzlement of $20
000. He disappeared about two
weeks ago.
Marriages to Be Annulled.
Rome. Italy. Aug.—Under a new
law to be announced soon all mai
riages of American Catholics that
have bee:-, -ontracted by going before
a justice of the peace or a Protestant
minister will be regarded as null and
void. It is announced the new law
will come as an edict from the Pope.