» HWOId-Ukk Cmmty News.
VOL. VII.
McORORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1909.
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NEWS OF TIE WEEK
latest news of the world
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH. EAST. SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation, and Particularly
The Great Southwest.
Sure Senator Gillett Wednesday re
ceiw ,1 a letter threatening to blow up
the Ohio senate chamber next Tues
(iav The named signed was John
Knmiska. He said there no longer
was any chance in this country !or a
poor niHii.
Hu* Tennessee senate Wednesday
passed the house bil to permit spar
ring matches of eight rounds with six
ounce gloves, and under direction of
chartered clubs.
Judge James denied Wednesday at
bus Angeles a writ of habeas corpus
asked in behalf of William Wallace,
former clerk of Warren county, Tenn.,
charged with embezzlement. He will
be returned to Tennesse for trial, as
the court's action ended his fight
against extradition.
William Smith, alias Randall. 19
years old, was Tuesday convicted of
robbing a Great Northern train on the
Shelby line. This is the second con
viction in the case. Two other boys
are accused of complicity.
Dr. A. L. Arnwine, one or the promi
nent physicians of central Texas, was
vund won and killed while walking on
the track near Calvert. Texas.
Stewart Douglas Robinson. 19 years
old. a nephew of President Roosevelt
and a sophomore of Harvard college,
fell from a six-story window of Hamp
den hail, a dormitory, and was killed.
He was a son of Douglas Robinson.
The steamship Prince Willem I\
which arrived at New York from \ en
ezuela, brought reports of great dis
tress in the hospitals at Caracas. A
short time ago the physicians and
nurses in the hospitals went on strike
because the authorities failed to fur
nish food and medicine.
Col. William F. Tucker, F. S. A., has
returned lo the army and navy hos
pital at Hot Springs after his experi
ences before the retiring board in Chi
cago. He stated that he had uot
heatd from the report of the board.
The required $10,000 has been raised
and it is now the intention to dedicate
the Stephen D. Lee memorial in the
Vicksburg national military park in
June.
Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis, of Chi
cago, who is now in London, w as
robbed of $10,000 worth of jewelry
while on I he way over frfom New
| York. Detectives from Scotland Yard
are attempting io locate the thief who,
it is thought, left the liner at Queens
town.
Princess Trixie, the famous educat
ed horse, burned to death in a Dela
ware wreck, was owned by \\ • H.
Barnes, of Sioux City, who has been
exhibiting her for the past ten years.
She was insured for $>0,000.
Disgusted at the way Kansas papers
hate been attempting to prove that
no cruel or unlawful punishments weie
inflicted on Oklahoma convicts, J. P
Conners, president of the Oklahoma
department of agriculture and of the
state prison board, offered a $100 te
ward each to one, two or three male
Kansans of sound mind and body who
will undergo similar punishments in
flicted by the same man who was com
pelled to punish Oklahoma convicts at
Lansing.
Six persons were crutneu to
and thirty were seriously injured at
Tulsa. Olila.. during a Are panic in a
moving picture theater. The film of a
machine caught, fire, starting a rush
of spectators for the exits.
More than 1.000 delegates to the
Mississippi grand lodge of Masons
heard from Grand Master Kdwln J
Martin that he had committed the
grand lodge to a withdrawal of all
fraternal correspondence and affili
ation with the grand lodge of New
Jersey because in the latter jurisdic
tion the grand lodge recognizes and
admits to its work Alpha Lodge. No.
160 located at Newark, and composed
mainly of negroes.
One half of the United Stales Navy
should be kept on the Pacific coast
at all times, in the opinion of the
senate. An amendment to the naval
hill was agreed to providing that in
the discretion of the president one
half of the navy shall be kept in
Pacific waters so far as practicable.
The president has already the author
ity to so divide the fleet, but the
amendment amounts to an expression
of congress in favor of such action.
ft Is formally asserted that King
Alfonso does not intend to make art
asceusion in the Wright aeroplane.
Not during the present session of
congress has such a large amount of
legislative business been done by the
*enate as was accomplished Friday.
Former President Eliot of Harvard
University, who addressed both houses
of the Texas legislature, said, regard
ing a published report I hat he would
likely be offered Ihe ambassadorship
to Great Britain, it would be impos
sible for him to accept the post should
it be tendered.
The bill which provides for the re
instatement ot' negro officers and sol
diers who were discharge, as a result
of the shooting affray at Brownsville,
Tex., on the night of August 13. 19(H>,
will be favorably reported by the
house committee on military affairs
by a vote of 10 to 5.
No opposition has so far developed
to the provision of the sundry civil bill
permitting the use of the govern
ment’s share in whatever surplus may
be left of Ihe Louisiana Purchase ex
position funds toward the erection of
a monument to Jefferson at Forest
park, St. Louis.
Aroused by newspaper editorials
which they claim advocate race sui
cide both Cardinal Gibbons and Bish
op Owen B. Corrigan came out in in
terviews denouncing arbitrary limita
tion of offspring.
Senator Albert J. Beveridge was ac
claimed the leader of the Republican
party in Indiana at a banquet given
by the Republican State Editorial as
sociation.
It is announced that soon after his
inauguration President Taft will visit
the ranch of Charles P. Taft near San
Antonio, Tex. A residence is being
built on the ranch and golf links laid
out.
The Russian government has for
warded a request to the United States
for the extradition of a Finn named
Mustonon. Mustonon recently pub
lished a pamphlet in New York in
which he accused the Finnish social
ists of complicity in numerous rob
beries. He is now sought as a wit
ness against those men.
Resolutions calling for the organi
zation of a junior brotherhood were
presented and met with favor Wednes
day at the national convention of the
Presbyterian Brotherhood of America.
The fourteenth anniversary of the
uprising at Baire. marking the begin
ning of the Cuban war for independ
ence was observed throughout the
island Wednesday as a national holi
day. President Gomez and Vice-Pres
ident Zayas. accompanied by the
members of the cabinet went to Ma
tanzas and unveiled a statue of lib
erty.
The dates for the national meeting
of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, to
be held in Omaha, have been fixed for
September lti to 20 inclusive.
Mrs. James Brown Potter, accord
ing to a story published in New York
Tuesday, has definitely given up the
stage and is now living with her
daughter, Mrs. James Stillman, Jr.
By decision of the supreme court
of the United States express compa
nies cannot hereafter issue franks for
transportation of packages.
E. J. (Lucky) Baldwin, who has
been seriously ill for several weeks,
suffered a relapse Tuesday. His con
dition is said to be very low.
Indictments were returned at We
woka, Okla., Tuesday against Judge
T. S. Cobb, of Seminole county, and
his brother, Joseph S. Cobb, charging
them with felony and misdemeanor.
It is alleged the indicted men defraud
ed Seminole Indian children in land
transfers.
In an opinion by Justice White, tho
supreme -court of the United States
Tuesday upheld the validity of the
Arkansas anti-trust law of 1905, which
provides a penalty of from $200 to
$500 for each offense and the forfeit
ure of the right to do business in the
state.
r in i:uaar u.» i i —
land in New Jersey on whicl| to build
oil storage tanks, extension of office
facilities in New York city and gen
eral expansion in the East by that
company have attracted attention to
the fact that the Standard Oil com
pany is to have a more vigorous rival
than it has had to contend with pre
viously.
President Roosevelt has slapped
Senator .James Alexander Hemenway
into the Ananias club. He did it in a
letter containing 3.000 or more words
addressed to Senator Hale, acting
chairman of the committee on appro
priations. In the course of the letter
he challenged a statement made by the
Indiana senator as ‘inaccurate and
misleading.''
With an ear-splitting war whoop, an
unidentified Wyoming Indian war chiel
ran amuck in the Cincinnati Union
station, and before he could bo over
powered had dangerous stabbed and
cut Mrs. Anna Doverd of Huntington,
W. Va., and Max Meyers of Cincin
nati, and seriously'wounded Joseph W.
Gordon. Cambridge, 11!.. in an effort tc
sealpt them.
Unexpected and unexplained order
from Washington, the extensive immi
grant station newly erected by the
government on Angel Island, and the
tug Inspector, recently completed for
the service of the same department,
have been consigned to idleness for
nn indefinite period of time.
MILLION DOLLAR
FIRE II SEEDS
SIX FIREMEN BELIEVED DEAD UN
DER WALLS OF DICKINSON
WAREHOUSE, CHICAGO.
GENERAL ALARM TURNED IN
Dust and Gas Explode—Thirty-Five
Companies and Two Boats Re
spond—$300,000 Fire at
Columbus, Ohio.
Chicago, Til.—A general alarm
of fire was turned in Friday morning
when two immense 12-story ware
houses of the Albert Dickinson Co.
caught fire. The company is one of
the biggest seed and plant concerns
in the country and tin- warehouses
were filled.
At 9:30 one of the walls of the burn
ing warehouses fell and six firemen
are believed to have been caught un
der it and crushed.
Dust arid Gas Explode.
The fire started from an explosion
of dust and gas in one of the build
ings. The fact that the goods in both
warehouses are extremely dry and
combustible spread the fire rapidly
and 35 companies and two fireboats
were called.
The warehouses cover two square
blocks and with their contents are
valued at $1.00u.000.
$300,000 Fire in Columbus.
Columbus, Ohio. — Fire which
began with an explosion, from some
cause not known, in the Brunswick
bowling alleys, at 3 a. m. today,
burned out the building, spread to the
six-story building of the Tracy-Wells
Co., and the latter, with the remains
of its $200,000 worth of stock, is a
mass of ruins, piled in the cellar. The
loss is $300,000.
A NEW PERIL IN FLOOD
Rising Waters Threaten to Make a
New Channel and Leave Towns
Far Inland.
Evansville, lnd. — Steamboats are
plying the flooded lands at
points above and below Evansville,
rescuing families and live stock ma
rooned by the rapidly rising Ohio
river. Rivermen are less hopeful that
the flood stage would be checked at
at the 42-foot mark and fear the wa
ter will go beyong 45 feet.
Green and Barren rivers are at the
highest stages known for years and
immense damage is being done. Green
river is hurling its torrents of water
into the Ohio above the city, and
fears are entertained that the terrible
force of the current will cut a new
channel through Kentucky above the
city.
A number of refugees are coming
to the city on every boat and if the
river continues rising for another 48
hours a large number of them will be
cared for here. The river is 41 feet
Friday morning and is rising an inch
an hour.
BRYAN CRITICISES SUIT
In Commoner He Says Government
Could Bankrupt Editors of
Moderate Means.
Lincoln, Neb. — W. J. Bryan
in Friday's issue of his Commoner gays
about the president’s libel suit:
"The president has secured the in
dictment of Mr. Pulitzer of the New
York World and Mr. Smith of the In
dianapolis News.
"If every newspaper proprietor is to
be threatened with bankruptcy by fed
eral prosecution in case he dares to
say a word against the action of a
federal official, we will have taken the
first step toward desoptism. It will
cost Mr. Pulitzer and Mr. Smith more
than the fortune of the average man
to defend themselves in the suits
brought. What chance, therefore,
would the average editor have in such
a case?"
Old Chicago Newspaper Man Dies.
Chicago, 111.—Edward Jennings
a newspaper man in Chicago for 25
years, died suddenly of heart disease.
He was born in Boston. Mass., in 1861,
and was educatd in the public
schools, coming to Chicago soon after
1880. In 1S85 he became one of the
editors of the Associated Press and
later became night manager at Chi
cago headquarters.
Famous Paris Cartoonist Dead.
Paris, France. — Car an d’Ache
France's most famous cartoonist, died
here Friday of heart failure. His real
narnd was Emanuel Poire. He was
born in Russia, and his name, “Caran
'dAche,” is the Russian for lead
pencil.
“PRACTICAL
TARMING”
Agricultural Commissioner Rock Is
land Again in State on Lecture
Tour.
Liu It' Rock.—F. S. White, agricul
ture and horticultural commissioner
of I he Rock Island, is again in Arkan
sas holding meetings of farmers at
stalions and towns along the line of
the railroad and delivering talks on
“Pratical Farming.”
While here Mr. White said that he
was being greeted by large numbers
of farmers and planters along his
route and that much interest was be
ing taken in improved methods oi
farming. He illustrates his experi
ments with samples which he carries
in his private car, which is a con
densed storehouse containing samples
of nearly every plant, fruit and ce
real grown in the United States.
Mr. White does not believe that the
boll weevil can be fought sucessfully
with other insects or by chemicals
and he declared his views upon 'he
subject. "The planters make the
great mistake of not utilizing the ear
ly part of the season for planting
their crops." said Mr. White. "There
are practically 150 days available for
the season and the planters should
take advantage of the first fifty. Then
the proper selection of soil and the
proper preparation of the seed bed,
together with the right sort of cultur
al methods, should insure a freedom
front the boll weevil for the lower
crop. It will be a hard fight with the
boll weevil for the middle crop and
the weevil is almost certain to take
the last crop.”
THIRD ATTEMPT SUCCESSFUL.
Henry A. May of Pine Bluff Sends
Bullet Through Heart.
Pine Bluff.—After locking himself
in a room at his home, No. 623 East
Second avenue, and after his wife had
pleaded with hint not to end his life
inducing hint to give her, as she
ehotight, all the cartridges he had in
his possession, Henry A. .May, a black
smith, 28 years old. committed sui
cide by shooting himself through the
heart. .May attempted suicide in I he
same manner in the afternoon at tht
blacksmith shop of Joe Burns or
South Main street, but Burns knock
ed the weapon from his hand and
reasoned with him throughout the
day. Burns accompanied him to hit
home, to make sure that he would not
carry out his purpose. After Burns
left the house May locked him«ell
in his room and killed himself.
May tried suicide two weeks ag<
by taking poison, but a physician
saved saved his life. No reason it
assigned for his desire to end hit
life.
OLDEST CITIZEN DEAD
Ben Garcia Was a Resident of Jeffer
son County 90 Years.
Pine Bluff.—Ben Garcia, a negrc
who has resided in this county tot
more than ill) years and who declarer
that he was 117 years old, died at tht
Jefferson county poor house west 01
this city Thursday morning, lie was
ill only a few days and was taken tt
that institution last Sunday from his
home at Altheimer, Ark.
The old negro was brought to this
county many years ago as a slave b>
the Barraque family, one of whom, J
S. Barraque, still lives at Altheimer
this county.
Garcie is believed to have been tin
oldest living resident of Arkansas
He was well preserved at his advanc
ed age and possessed all of his facul
ties.
The old negro has smoked cigar.'
and a pipe, he said, for more than SC
years.
The body will be buried in the pot
ter's field here.
Fined $50 for Shooting Another.
Pine Bluff.—Guy Saunders, tht
young white man who shot and pain
fully wounded Lee Pickering, anothei
white man, in this city several weeks
ago, after Pickering refused to sur
render to him while being sought t>\
the police, was given a hearing before
Justice Cheek and fined $50 and costs
The hearing had been postponed pre
viously until Pickering was able t<
come into court as a witness.
Dog Saves Master's Life.
Helena.—One of Helena’s sh*m\
boat dwellers narrowly escaped drown
ing in the Mississippi river recently
being saved by a faithful dog, which
swam to his assistance and helped
him to reach a tree, where he held
on until a boat could be taken to him.
Mena.—The board of public affairs
of Mena awarded a contract to Loq
Goff for the construction of a city
jail in that place- The building will
be 20 by 28 feet, will be of concrete
and will be divided into two compart
ments.
KILLS YOUTH—WOUNDS SISTER.
While in Custody of Officer, Shoots
Brother-in-law and Wounds Former
Wife.
Malvern.—While accompanying Con
stable Garvin F. Phillips, by whom he
had just been arrested, B. L. Honey
cutt shot and killed John i. Hartsell,
the 14 year-old brother of bis divorced
wife, and wounded .Martha Honeycutt,
his fprmer wife, near here. He then
made good his escape, although the
officer fired five limes at him It is
believed that Honeycutt is wounded,
as he fell to the ground twice as Phil
lips was firing at him.
Honeycutt was arrested on a war
rant issued by Justice of the Peace
M. O. Bettis, upon information filed
by H. B. Means, prosecuting attorney,
charging Honeycutt with the aHempi
ed murder of his father-in-law, .J. H.
Hartsell. The constable started to
return to Malvern with his prisoner.
Honeycutt was walking, leading his
horse. He carried in his hand a dou
ble-barreled shotgun, from which Phil
lips had previously extracted the cart
ridges. In some manner Honeycutt
reloaded the weapon without his ac
tion being perceived by the officer.
A short distance from .Malvern the
pair met young Hartsell and Mrs.
Honeycutt, in buggy, \\ t.en within
a few feet of the woman and boy,
Honeycutt opened lire. His first shot
killed the youth, and the second
wounded his divorced wife. The horse
which the boy was driving was also
injured.
As soon as he had emptied his shot
gun Honeycutt started to run. The
constable, who was momentarily dazed
by the action of his supposed unarm
ed prisoner, recovered his sense and
opened fire upon the fleeing man. Hon
eycutt fell to the ground twice, but
managed to escape. fficers are scour
ing the country for the murderer.
1,000 ACRES COAL LAND.
Producing Mine Already on Land Leas
ed in Coal District.
The Little Rock Packet Company
has closed a lease upon 1,000 acres of *
land in the Coal Hill mining district,
with W. H. West of Coal Hill. The
lease is for 10 years and contains an
option by which the Little Rock Pack
et Company may purchase the land.
The land upon which the lease is se
cured is some of the most promising
in the Coal Hill district. There is now
a mine open and in operation upon it,
which produces from 400 to 500 tons
a day. It is the intention of the di
rectors of the company to begin min
ing and shipping coal as soon as the
boats which have been secured arrive
at Little Rock. Preparations will be
made to ship coal by water and by
rail.
WANT MONDAY FOR HOLIDAY.
Russellville Pupils Would Go to School
on Saturday and Play Monday.
Russellville.—A petition is being
circulated in the school of this city
by the pupils who ask that they be
given Monday, instead of Saturday,
for their weekly holiday. The peti
tion is being signed by a great many
students, but it is meeting with some
opposition.
The principal reason given for the
change is that it will “create a col
lege spirit among the pupils and thus
improve the school." The petition is
addressed to the Russellville School
Board, but that body has taken no ac
tion on the question up to the present,
time, as the petition has not yet been
placed in their hands.
GREAVES NOT A CANDIDATE.
Sumpter and Williams Only Aspirants
for the Senate.
Hot Springs.—Charles D. Greaves,
the Republican who had unsuccessiul
ly contested the seat of O. H. Sump
ter, Democrat, in the Senate, but who
caused the Senate to declare the seat
vacant and order a new election, will
not be a candidate against Sumpter
again.
As yet Sumpter and Hamp Wil
liams are the only candidates, with
Greaves declaring he will not run,
and the probability is admitted that
the field v 'll be left open to the two
candidates "0w announced.
Kohn Still Missing.
Helena.—F. Kohn, proprietor of the
West End grocery here, who disap
peared last Sunday night, is still miss
ing, although a search is being main
tained for him. No clues which would
lead to an explanation of his disap
pearance have been found, and no
plausible theories explaining it have
been advanced.
Negro Suspect Makes Escape.
Pine Bluff.—Will Love, a negro pris
oner, believed to be wanted in Mem
phis, Tenn., for the murder of a ne
gress some months ago, escaped from
the chain gang in this city and has
not been recaptured. The negro was
serving 150 days, having been fined
$150 for carrying a pistol and resist
ing arrest, in the city police court
several days ago.
t
WERE LIVING
LIKE PRINCES
Had Taken the Maxwell Coffin Home
on Pulaski Heights—Women Who
Were With Them Disappear.
Little Rock.- What criminal experts
pronounce to be the biggest and most
wonderful organization of swindlers
ever brought to light in ibis country
was unearthed in Little Rock Tues
day following the arrest of .t. O. Ma
bray, who, it is alleged, is the head
of i lie system, and three alleged con
federates. The operations of the gang
apparently extended from Canada to
the gulf and from the Alleglianies to
the Rockies. Records found in Ma
bray's trunk give the names of nearly
a hundred men whom the authorities
declare have been fleeced for nearly
half a million dollars within the past
two years. The names of more than
300 men stationed in every state in
the Union and in several provinces
in Canada, whom the officers allege
are the agents who "steer’’ the victims
to “headquarters," were found in a
small ledger among the effects of
Mabray.
The handsome home of .Maxwell Cof
fin on Pulaski Heights and a suite of
three office rooms on the fourth floor
of the Southern Trust building formed
the background for the operations of
the men in Little Rock. The men ar
rested, J. C. .Mabray, F. M. Clark. J.
M. Johnson and Isadore J. Warner,
were taken into custody at the Coffin
home, which they rented, furnished, a
month ago. The offices in the South
ern Trust building were abandoned
only Monday. Two women, alleged to
be Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Mabray, have
been residing with the others on Pu
laski Heights. All the parties lived
in style, with an automobile, horses
and carriages, elegant clothing and
the other perquisites generally attrib
uted to the ultra-rich.
Mabray, Clark, Johnson and Warner
w'ere arraigned before United States
Commissioner W. S. Allen on charges
of using the mails to defraud. They
pleaded not guilty, and a continuance
was taken until March 2, to permit
the government to get its witnesses
here. Mabray was held under $13,000
bond and the others under $10,000
each. The cases brought were purely
for the purpose of holding the men
until cases can he brought in the state
courts.
The women who were with the par
ty left the home on Pulaski Heights,
telling the negro servants they would
be back for supper.
Ten thousand dollars in money and
diamonds was taken off the prisoners
after they were attested, and tlie men
are believed to have $50,000 more. A
search of the effects at the residence
was made by the officers, hut no trace
could be found of it. Mabray and
Clark had a safe deposit box in the
Little Rock Trust Company, which
was drawn out, which it is believed
held a large sum of money. This box,
opened and epipty, was found beside
two revolvers in a locked closet in
Mabray's room at the Coffin residence.
MINING ACTIVITIES BEGIN.
Bear Hill and Coker Hollow Property
Are to Be Worked.
Harrison.—A company lias been or
ganized to take up the lease on the
Bear Hill mine, mar Dodd City, and
work will probably begin in the early
spring in an extensive way.
This property has a shaft down 157
feet, and good pay ore the greater
portion of the way.
Modern machinery is to be install
ed. and this property will soon be
come one of the best producers of the
district.
\\\ H. Alma has leased five acres of
his ground, and work has recently be
gun, and already a fine show of ore
has been made. He is also working
another place on nis property, on a
carbonate outcrop, and has a load of
ore now ready for shipment, which,
needs no milling. He cleans it up
by hand and by hand jigs.
J. H. Rogers, one of the leading
stockholders of the Coker Hollow, is
preparing to install modern ma
chinery on that property, and with
in a few months this will be one of
the regular producers in the camp.
This property has a shaft now more
than 70 feet deep and drifts run out
more than 10 feet, and they have been
in ore since they reached a depth of
three feet.
Made Slash at Employer's Throt.
l-’ort Smith.—Because he was not as
signed to work that pleased him, Lem
Wood cut his employer, J. H. Bently,
on the chin in an effort to cut his
throat. Wood was employed at the
sand plant and was taken off one job
and put on another. He demanded a
reinstatement and being retused he
whipped out his knife and made a
slash at Bently's throat, but was just
a trifle too far away, the point of the
knife striking Bently’s chin, inflict
ing a painful but not serious wound.
Wood made his escape, but was sub
sequently captured as he was cutenng
his back yard.