VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1908.
MO. 36.
NEWS OF
ARKANSAS
Changes In Road Laws.
The question of good roads is at
tracting much attention in the vicin
ity of Ozark and the best methods of
building and maintaining the highawsy
its discussed with more interest than
»ver before. It is probable that some
proposition will be submitted to the
next General Assembly by citizens of
Franklin county looking to a change
in the present methods. A. J. Tubbs,
who has devoted much thought to the
matter, suggests that the present sys
tem of paying $4 per day for an over
seer who looks after the work of from
one to three men is too expensive. He
thinks roads should be improved al
together by money derived from taxa
tion or that the tax system should be
abolished altogether and the roads
worked directly as formerly.
He also suggests the enactment of
a law which will prohibit the use of
freight wagons in the state having less
than three-inch tires and the exemp
tion from all taxation of wagons hav
ing tires four inches or more in width.
To Have Another Election.
Another election will be necessary
finally to determine the removal of the
county seat of Dallas county from
Pcrineton, as neither Fordyce nor Car
thage received a majority of all the
votes cast. Full returns from ten of
the twelve townships of the county
show 1,430 for removal and l,05fi
against removal. The estimated vote
of the two other townships is ten for
removal and 100 against removal. The
Fordyce Dry Run township gave 10
votes removal out of a total of 1,125.
Princeton returned only three votes
for removal.
To Hold Reunion At McNeil.
The reunion of the Southwestern Ar
kansas Confederate Veterans’ Associa
tion will be held at McNeil July 29 to
31. The address of welcome will be
made by W. E. Askew and the re
sponse will be by Dr. C. M. Norwood.
In the afternoon an address will be
made by W. K. Ramsey. The second
day an address will be made in the
morning by Oliver Jones and the af
ternoon address by John C. Wright.
The third day the morning speaker
will be Rev. T. H. Ware, and C. T.
Boggs will make the address in the af
ternoon.
Blows Negro's Heart Out.
Brad Alexander, a negro, aged 24
yearg, was waylaid and killed near Ho
man, at 10 o’clock Tuesday night. A
shotgun was used at close range, the
whole load of shot entering the vic
tim’s left side and blowing his heart
out. Rev. W. A. Williams, a negro
preacher and stepfather of the deceas
ed, was arrested and lodged in jail
at Texarkana on a warrant charging
him with the crime. Williams is near
ly 70 years old, and has been promi
nent among his race as a preacher in
this section for twenty-five yea^rs.
Held For Bootlegging.
Deputy United States Marshal L. E.
Rowe arrested Robert Pollock, a white
man In Little River county near Ash
down and took him to Texarkana
Thursday on a warrant charging him
with selling whiskey without a fed
eral license. He is said to have had a
quantity of whiskey in his buggy when
arrested. He was given a preliminary
hearing before United States Commis
sioner Summerville, who ordeed him
committed to the Fort Smith jail in
default of $250 bail.
New Drainage Districts.
Swan Pond Drainage District con
tract was let to J. C. Coleman & Son
°f Hamlett, Ind., at 9 2-5 cents per cu
bic yard and the Cache River District
'•ontract to Leon Schutt of Vandalia,
ni-. at 7 3-4 cents per cubic yard. Swan
bond will cost $48,000 and Cache river
the same. The work is to be started
within a month.
New Depot At Forrest City.
Within a few days the contract for
* new brick freight depot at Forrest
City will be let by the Rock Island
The structure will be one commensu
rate with the busines demands of the
Place.
Reunion of Blue and Grey.
The Federal and Confederate vet
erans at a meeting at Heber arranged
for the annual joint reunion of the two
organizations, which will be held at
Heber August 6 and 7.
Committees were appointed to take
charge of the reunion and arrange for
't- Will Johnson is chairman and W.
C. Watkins secretary. A committee
*°ade up of W. L. Thompson, L. R.
and George W. Reed was an
imated.
J. F. Whitlock at Terre Haute, Ind.
J. F. Whitlock, atate mineralogist,
has traveled the entire distance from
Little Rock to Terre Haute, Ind., via
St. Louis, in his motor car, and is now
at Terre Haute, his home, where he
is visiting his mother. Friends of
Mr. Whitlock here expect him to re
turn about July 35.
Mr. Whitlock was the first to trav
el from Little Rock to St. Louis in
an automobile. It is presumed he
will ship the car back, as the trip
north proved very costly as the result
of bad roads. The car is a staunch
and well-built one, but the roads
through northern Arkansas and south
ern Missouri were almost impassable.
Mr. Whitlock made the trip for the
dual purpose^ of investigating certain
minerals in northern Arkansas and to
pick out the best route possible for
a good road between Hot Springs and
St. Louis, Mo.
Dr. F. R. Earle Seriously III.
Deputy State Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction W. A. Crawford Thurs
day received information of the serious
illness of dropsy of Rev. Dr. F. R.
Earle at his home at Cave Hill, Wash
ington county. Dr. Earle is 76 years
of age and one of the oldest educators
in the state, having served as presi
dent of Cave Hill College for 25 years.
During the Civil war he was a major
in the Thirty-fourth Arkansas regi
ment of infantry. He is also one of
the best known Cumberland Presby
terian ministers in the^state.
Mrs. Sophy Kanady.
Mrs. Sophy Kanady, aged 82, one of
the best-known and oldest, residents of
Fort Smith, died Wednesday night at
the residence of D. B. Sparks, where
for several months she had made her
home. Her death was occasioned by
cancer of the stomach. Mrs. Kanady
was born in Fort Gibson in 1826. She
was the daughter of Aaron and Rebec
ca Barling, who went to Fort Smith
when that post was established in
1817, but was removed to Fort Gibson
upon the establishment of that post
several years afterward.
To Appeal Maddox Case.
The congregational meeting which
was set for Thursday night at the Ar
kansas Presbyterian church, Texar
kana, to consider the future of the
case of Rev. F. E. Maddox, the pastor,
who on Tuesday night was tried be
fore the Ouachita Presbytery and con
victed of heresy, was called off.
At a meeting of the elders and dea
cons, at which Dr. Maddox was pres
ent, it was agreed that the case should
be appealed to the state synod, which
meets in October.,
J. E. Davis Is Convicted
Word has just reached Mammoth
Spring by phone that J. E. Davis, a
prominent farmer and citizen of that
place, was arraigned Wednesday in the
Alton (Mo.) Circuit Court, tried on a
charge of cattle stealing, found guilty
and sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary of Missouri.
Davis is of a good family, his broth
r being circuit clerk of Oregon coun
iy, Missouri. His father, at the time
of his death, was sheriff of Fulton
county.
Haskell Refuses Wade Requisition.
Governor Haskell Thursday refused
to honor Governor Pindall’s requisition
for the return to Hot Springs, Ark., of
R. G. Wade, arrested last Saturday
night at Walters, Okla., charged with
murdering his former wife, Mrs. Ada
Riechers, there, on July G. Merchants
of Lawton, Okla., made affidavits that
Wade was in Lawton on July G and 7.
Wade now resides in Guthrie and
travels for the Swift Packing Com
pany.
Track Laid to Crossett,
The Arkansas and Louisiana and
Gulf Railroad finished laying track to
Crossett Saturday, connecting there
with the Rock Island and using the
same depot.
It is expected that trains will be
running to Monroe, La., from Cros
sett in a few days. Track laying to
Hamburg will be completed by the last
of this week.
Road Tax Delinquents.
Niue persons were arrested at Nash
ville Friday on the charge of failin';
to pay their road tax. It is state!
that warrants will be issued for about
50 more alleged delinquents.
An Old Resident Killed.
W. W. Pope, one of the oldest set
tlers and best, known citizens livnig
near Texarkana, died Monday night
from the effects of a wound accidental
ly inflicted. He was a merchant, and
at the close of the day’s business lock
ed the store and started for home,
| some distance away, the cash receipts
in one pocket and a Cell's 45-calibre
pistol in the other. On Ills way he
dropped the pistol and it was discharg
ed, the bullet striking him in the ai>
dumen and piercing the bladder
BALLOON ADVANCE COLLIN.
Belief Freely Expressed in Army and
Navy Circles That They Will Be
Used In Next War.
Washington.—“In the next war thaf
Is fought the advance column will be
made up of balloons and airships.”
This is the belief freely expressed
by army and navy officers here. For
this particular reason the army bal
loon tests which are to begin at Ft.
Meyer next week will receive much
attention in military circles. It is un
derstood that several of the military
attaches of the diplomatic corps will
be at Ft. Meyer to take notes and re
port to their respective governments.
One of the most important results of
the Ft. Meyer tests probably will be
the establishment of an aerostatic
corps in the navy. Assistant Secre
tary of the Navy Newberry will be
one of the interested spectators. He
has been following closely the pro
gress made in ballooning and has re
quested General Allen of the Signal
corps to notify him when the trial
will take place at Ft. Meyer.
It is understood that the American
Air Ship and Balloon Corporation is
building a dirigible balloon to be tried
out before a naval board when com
pleted.
Another enthusiast in the navy is
Rear Admiral C. M. Chester of the
Bureau of Equipment. Admiral Ches
ter claims that aeronautics s-^u.d be
an adjunct of the navy because the
mariner is specially fitted ter deal with
the conditions that are met within the
air. Lieut. Robert P. Henderson, chief
engineer of the battleship Missouri,
has made extensive experiments, hav
ing for their object the application of
the gyroscope to flying machines. He
has the support of Admiral Chester
and other naval officers in recommend
ing the establishment of a corps in
the navy to be devoted to the applica
tion of aeronautics to naval warfare.
The advantage to be derived from such
a corps, properly equipped, was clear
ly demonstrated in the Japan-Russian
war, wrhen ballons were for the first
time employed in naval defense, al
though the idea had existed for some
time.
Experiments have been made in
France of balloon ascensions from the
decks of men-o’-war and flights were
made over the sea, demonstrating the
great possibilities in the way of re
connoisance. Without divulging the
presence of battleships the balloon
gives a radius of observation of 60
miles, instead of the ordinary range
of 12 miles from the deck of the ves
sel. It also renders it possible to see
objects below the surface of the water,
such as mines and submarines, which
cannot be located from the deck of a
ship.
Rates of Wages and Cost of Food.
Washington.—The average wages
per hour in 1907 were 3.7 per cent
higher than in 1906, the regular hours
of labor per week were 0.4 per cent
lower than in 1906, and the number
of employes in the establishment in
vestigated was 1 per cent greater than
in 1906. These are some of the facts
of interest in a statement issued Sat
urday by the Bureau of Labor as the
result of an investigation o.f the prin
ciple wage working occupations in
4,169 establishments representing the
principal manufacturing and mechani
cal industries of the country. The ar
ticle is entitled “Rates of Wages and
Retail Prices of Food, 1890 to 1907."’
Investigations covering the sales of
1,014 dealers in 66 localities, show
that the retail prices of 30 principal
articles of food, according to consump
tion in representative workingmen's
families were 4.2 per cent higher in
1907 than in 1906. As the advance
in retail prices from 1906 to 1907 was
greater than the advance in wages
per hour, the purchase power of an
hour’s wages, as measured by food,
was slightly less in 1907 than in 1906,
the decrease being one-half of 1 per
cent. The average hourly wages in
1907 were higher than in any other
year of the 18-year period paid from
1890 to 1907, and more than 20 per
cent higher than the average in any
year from 1890 to 1900. As compared
in each case with the,average for the
10 year period, 1890 to 1899, the aver
age hourly wages in 1907 were 28.8
per cent higher, the number of em
ployes 44.4 per cent greater and the
average hours of labor per week 5 per
cent lower.
Qauke In Oklahoma.
Fort Reno, Okla.—Farmers -residing
in the Piedmont neighborhood, mid
way bet ween El Reno and Guthrie,
1 report earthquake vibrations early Sat- j
urday continuing several seconds.
Heavy rains fell through this section
Saturday.
Kansas City, Mo.—Mrs. Susan Tur
ner, wife of Louis C. Turner of Ar
gentine, Kas„ gave birth to quadrup
lets, three boys and a girl.
Swadeshi.
In the sense in which Sir William
Harcourt remarked “We are all social
ists now,” it may be said that all An
glo-Indians are believers in Swadeshi
While all reasonable Anglo-Indians dep
recate tha "senseless agitation and
the unsound economics of the extrem
ist advocates of Swadeshi principles,
they are all anxious to assist that
natural development of indigenous in
dustries and the creation of new ones
upon which the future prosperity ol
the country so largely depends.—Pio
neer Mail.
AN HONEST DOCTOR
ADVISED PE-RU-NA.
MR. SYLVESTER E. SMITH, Room
218, Granite Block, St. Louis, Mo.,
writes: “Peruna is the best friend a
sick man can have.
“A few months ago I came here in a
wretched condition. Exposure and
dampness had ruined my once robust
health. I had catarrhal affections of
the bronchial tubes, and for a time there
was a doubt as to my recovery.
“My good honest old doctor advised
me to take Peruna, which I did and in
a short time my health began to im
prove very rapidly, the bronchial
trouble gradually disappeared, and in
three mouths my health was fully re
stored.
“Accept a grateful man’s thanks for
his restoration to perfect health.”
Pe-ru-na for His Patients.
A. W. Perrin, M. D. S., 980 Halsey
St., Brooklyn, N. Y., says:
“I am using your Peruna myself, and
am recommending it to my patients in
all cases of catarrh, and find it to be
more than you represent. Peruna can
tie had now of all druggists in this sec
tion. At the time I began using it, it
was unknown.”
Food
Products
Libby’s
Vienna Sausage
YouVe never tasted
the best sausage until
you’ve eaten Libby’s
Yienna Sausage.
It’s a sausage product
of high food value!
Made different. Cook
ed different. Tastes
different and is different
than other sausage.
Libby’s Yienna
Sausage, like all of the
Libby Food Products,
is carefully prepared
and cooked in Libby’s
Great White Kitchen.
It can be quickly
served for any meal at
any time. It is pleas
ing, not over-flavored
and has that satisfying
taste. Try it.
Libby, McNeill & Libby,
Chicago.
SICK HEADACHE
IcartefCs
Whittle
IVER
PILLS.
1 ositively cured by
these Little Pills.
They also relieve Dis
tress from Dyspepsia. In
digestion and Too Hearty
Eating. A perfect rem
edy for Dizziness, Nau
sea, Drowsiness, Bad
Taste in the Mouth. Coat
ed Tongue, Pain in th<
Side, TORPID LIVER
They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable
SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE.
Genuine Must Bear
Fac-Simile Signature
REFUSE SUBSTITUTES.
PARKER’S
HAIR BALSAM .
Cleaners and beautifies the hair.
Promotes a luxuriant growth.
Never Ptlils to Restore Gray
Hair to its Youthful Color.
Cures scalp diseases & hair tailing.
oOc, and jl.OU at Druggists
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ANAKESIS'
Tribune Bid*.. Mbw Yob
Bold Attempt to Burn Felsenthal.
Fire of incendiary origin oaused a
$35,000 Io6e at Felsenthal, two milee
northeast of Huttlg, at 2 o'clock Tues
day morning, completely destroying
the $15,000 brick bank building and
wiping out the two largest mercantile
firms and the Bank of Felsenthal.
The $3,000 residence of Ike Felsen
thal was also fired, but by heroic work
it was saved.
At the $2,500 residence of Dr. J. P.
Basham, a pile of excelsior, saturated
with kerosene oil was found under the
back stairs, but through some slip it
was not fired.
The following losses were sustain
ed: Basham & Co., general merchan
dise, $6,000, insurance, $3,000; Felsen
thal Dry Goods Company, $12,000, in
surance, $7,000; Felsenthal Townsite
Company, building, $15,000, insurance,
$8,000; Bank of Felsenthal, loss on fix
tures, $1,000, covered by insurance if
vault proves fireproof; Dr. J. P. Bash
am, office fixtures and library, $350, no
insurance.
The postoffice was in the rear of
Basham & Co.’s store.
All books were saved and also about.
$500 worth of the stock in the store
and about $400 worth of clothing from
the dry goods company’s store.
Old Game Works Well.
A large number of people were fool
ed into purchasing cheap razors at
Corning Tuesday by a legless street
peddler, who operated on the streets.
He began his work by selling spoons
and pencils at a dollar a set, later re
turning the money to the purchasers.
After disposing of a limited number of
packages in this way and declaring
that he was hired by a firm to adver
tise goods in this fashion, he offered
razors at a dollar each and found doz
ens of purchasers who probably fig
ured that their money would be return
ed to them, as it was in the case of
the spoons. After making all possible
sales, the street man hurriedly pack
ed his grips and left, failing to return
any of the money.
Judge Bunn in Critical State
The condition of Judge Henry G.
Bunn was considered very critical
Tuesday night. Practically no hope
is entertained for his recovery. His
children have been summoned in an
ticipation of the end.
Judge Bunn, who was for years chief
justice of the Supreme Court of Ar
kansas, is held in great esteem
throughout the state. He is one of the
few living members of the constitution
al convention of 1874, and was a mem
ber of the state Senate during the cel
ebrated Brooks and Baxter war. Since
leaving the supreme bench he ha:
made his home in El Dorado, where
he has a most excellent law practice
Think's Wade's Abili Is Proven.
Accepting the belief that R. G
Wade's abili at Lawton, Okla., will re
move him from suspicion in the mur
der of Mrs. Ada Riechers in Hot
Springs last week, the second husband.
Frank P. Riechers, Ti*esdav afternoon
wired to Chicago, employing Pinker
ton's aid in solving the question as tc
who murdered his wife and kidnaped
the 9-year-old girl.
The police now believe that Archie
Bannister committed the crime, but
! they have no definite proof. There b
less tangible evidence in the case now
than ever before since the discovery o'
the crime.
Capture Negro and Whiskey.
Marshal Hawkins and Constable
Dooley captured a negro named Heim
Royston, at Arkadelphia, who had ir
bis possession a grip full of whiskey
The grip was handed the negro from
the northbound train from Camden
Wednesday.
It is the opinion of the officers tha‘
some one has been assisting the negro
n smuggling liquor into Arkadelphia
for sale.
Negro Killed By Train.
Dick Pace, a negro, was instani
ly killed near Prescott at 7:30 Thurs
day morning, a south-bound freight
train mangling his body, %'or years
the old negro was a trusted servant
of O. S. Jones and for more than a
year he has been demented. The ac
cident occurred about jbalf a mile
north of Bought on.
The farmers of Hempstead county
held a preliminary meeting recently
and organized to make a systematic
fight against the boll weevil.
Bass for Distribution.
Word has been received at Mam
moth Spring from Washington that ail
orders for fish throughout the United
States have been filled and that M. F.
Stapleton, superintendent of this Uni
ted States fishery station, can now
j distribute the remainder promiscuous
ly wherever he desires. This is the
first time, it is said, in the history of
the department that all demands were
supplied. This station has thousands
of bass yet to place any where they
may be wanted.
FOUR GIRLS
Restored to Health by Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
Read What They Say.
Miss Lillian Ross, 530
East 84th Street, New
York, writes: “Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegeta
ble Compound over
came irregularities, pe
riodic suffering, and
nervous headaches,
after everything else
had failed to help rne,
and I feel it a duty to
let others know of it.”
KatharineCraig,2355
Lafayette St., Denver,
Col., writes: "Thanks
to Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Com pound I
am well, aftersuffering
for months from ner
vous prostration.”
Miss Marie Sto 1 ta
rn an, of Laurel, la.,
writes: “I wasiuarun
down cond ition and suf
fered from supp ression,
indigestion, and poor
circulation. Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound made me
well and strong.”
Miss Ellen M. Olson,
of 417 N. East St., Ke
wanee, 111., says: “ Ly
diaE Pinkham'sVege
table Compound cured
me of backache, side
ache, and established
my periods, after the
best local doctors had
failed to help me.”
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Hnk
ham’s Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands or
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflannnation, ulcera
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges
tion,dizziness,ornervous prostration.
Why don't you try it ?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynu, Mass.
HAZY.
Publisher—The third chapter in this
manuscript is so blurred I can’t make
it out.
Author—Yes; that is where I used
London atmosphere. That is the fog,
you know.
Never Fails.
“There is one remedy, and only one
I have ever found, to cure without
fail such troubles in my family as
eczema, ringworm and all others of
an itching character. That remedy is
Hunt’s Cure. We always use it and it
never fails.”
W. M. CHRISTIAN,
50c per box. Rutherford, Tenn.
Things That Trip.
"It’s a fact,’’ said the man who was
given to moralizing, “that one cannot
be too careful about trifles. Some
times when a man’s going along plan
ning some big things some little thing
that, he's overlooked trips him up.”
“Yes,” the plain man agreed, “and
there should be a law against throw
ing banana skins on the pavement.”
TO DRIVE Ol T MALARIA
AND Itl lLD I P THE SYSTEM.
Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS
(. H1I.la TONIC. You know what you arc taking.
The formula is plainly printed on every bottle,
showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a taste lea*
form, and the most effectual form. For grown
ooople and children. 60c.
You can not love the real sun, that
is to say, physical light and color,
rightly unless you love the spiritual
sun; that is to say. justice and truth,
rightly.—Ruskin.
Hicks' Capudine Cures Women.
Periodic pains, backache, nervousness
i i ml headache relieved immediately and
sssists nature. Prescribed by physicians
with best results. Trial bottle 10c. Regular
size 25c and 50c at all druggists.
Sorrows gather around great souls
ns storms do around mountains; but
like them, they break the storm and
purify the air of the plain beneath
them.—Richter.