The Newark Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
OSCAR H. CRAIG. Editor.
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FKIl>A\ , MAY l»".'>•
Senator John P. Logan ha* an
nounced that he will be a candi
date for governor.
Nearly four million pounds of
horse flesh were consumed for
food in Germany last year.
She legislature adjourned and
the moon changed yesterday.
Maybe we will have some settled
•weather now.
The time for the actual reduc
tion of the cotton acreage is now
at hand. What are the farmers
going to do about it? It’s up to
them. _____________
In justice to our friend “Ob
server" The .Journal must say
that our good brother, J. I. Mar
tin. is “barking up the wrong
tree.’’ Observer is not a North
ern man, but i< a native of Inde
pendence county, and there is not
a better or more law-abiding c ti
aeu in the county* nor a man in
■whom the people have more conli
donee. The editor of The Journal
ha- been intimately acquainted
with him for some time, and we
can say that he is not a profane
man - in fact we have never heard
him swear an oath. And, even it
he was a Northern man, why abuse
him for that? There are just as
good men in the North as in the
South, and we are a little surpris
ed that our friend Martin should
endeavor to inject sectional preju
dices into a matter of this kind,
home of as good citizens as can be
found within the borders of Inde
pendence county today,came from
the North. They are entitled to
the same privileges, and have the
sain * right to their opinions that
we have, and The Journal thinks
it. very unwise and undignified for
j the people of any section, either
I North or South, to dig up these
I nla sect ional prejudices that should
; have been buried and forgotten
I years and years ago.
I The Clear Creek Baptist Asso
ciation in session at Alma j Missed
resolutions denouncing State Sen
! ator A. T. Gross and requesting
j him to resign, because of a bill he
I introduced in the senate to allow
{cities of the first and second class
| to hold special elections to deter
mine whether or not liquor license
i shall be granted in such cities.
! With such a law in operation near
ly every city in the state would
have saloons, regardless of how
the county vote stood on the li
cense question. It is safe to say,
however, that Senator Gross will
! not resign.
FORCE rs TO HUY THE BE EC
Editor AVilkerson of the Bates
vi lie Bee is threatening to bring
suit against the editor of The
Journal to compel us to buy him
out, and in this week’s issue of the
Bee makes an extended statement
of what he terms the sale of the
Bee.
This is a matter that is of abso
lutely no concern to the public,
and is the private business of no
one but Mr. Wilkerson and our
self, but since Mr. Wilkerson has
I seen fit to charge us with violating
! a contract, we must say that he
has mis-stated the facts in the
case.
Mr. Wilkerson has made sever
al unsuccessful efforts to sell the
'Bee to the editor of The Journal,
and about a month ago he took the
matter up with us again. At that
time we became mor^ interested
in the proposed deal than hereto
j fore, and thought seriously of
closing the deal for the Bee. Mr.
Wilkerson demanded that we put
J up a forfeit of $50. This we final
ly consented to do, pending a full
! investigation of the matter, and
Mr. Wilkerson signed an agree
' ment to turn the property over to
' us on the first day of May, pro
vided we paid him the balance of
the purchase price on that date.
The editor of The Journal signed
no agreement whatever, as Mr.
Wilkerson, it seems, would have
the public believe, and we defy
him to produce any agreement
whatever, signed by the editor of
! this paper.
The matter was a simple busi
! ness proposition with us, and ii
we should have disposed ot out
property in Newark, the oppor
tunity was open to buy the Bee; if
we did not take advantage of the
i opportunity, we simply lost the
And as we could not sell our
property here, except at a consid
erable loss, we preferred to lose
the *50 forfeit, rather than sacri
lice what little property we have.
Mr. Wilkersou's idle threat that
he will have the courts settle the
ownership of the Bee is worse than
nonsense. No one but Wilkerson
entertains any doubts as to the
ownership of the Bee -at least no
one but him seems to think the ed
itor of The Journal has any claim
on it.
It takes money to get eases
through the courts, and as we have
become somewhat familiar with
the financial status of the Bee, we
would suggest that if Brother
Wilkerson has any surplus cash,
; he could perhaps use it to better
j advantage than by squandering it
| in a lawsuit.
Dr. Stover, dentist, will be in
Newark one week, commencing
I Monday, May 15.
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS
Sketch of the Important Tran.sac
tion.s in the Arkansas Law
Making Body.
Both houses of the Arkansas
legislature adjourned at noon yes
terday, after having been in ses
sion 11*5 days.
I The senate put itself on record
against any reduction in .‘alary or
1 per diem, as by a vote of 1<> to IT
it refused to take up the Shinn
house bill to make the per diem
after the constitutional sixty days
was over.
Senator Hinkle called up house
| bill 2o7, to abolish the office of
road commissioner for Indepen
dence county. It was read the
third time and passed ayes 2M,
noes 0.
House bill 3ti2, to enlarge the
duties of notaries public to make
them the same as that of the jus
tices of the peace in taking depo
sitions, was passed—ayes 24,
noes 1.
House lull .NO. 2< + ILmOK), to
amend section 74ol of Kirby's Di
gest, was read the third time and
passed —ayes 32, noes 0. The bill
I increases the salaries of the coun
j ty judges of Chicot and Indepen
dence counties.
The house tabled the senate bill
; carrying an appropriation $s<)0,
| 000 for the completion of the new
; state capitol.
Mr. .Jackson of Phillips intro
1 duced a bill to abolish the state
■ capitol commission and to consti
( tute the governor, auditor of the
, state and attorney general a capi
* tol board.
* House bill No. 113, to fix the
j: rate of taxation for general pur
t {poses, reducing the tax levy t(
* one and three-quarter mills was
► i
► passed ayes 04, noes 0.
I j House bill No. 21)1 making il
, | unlawful to sell air guns and to;
* pistols ami caps or cartridges fo
► same, was read the third time an<
) ,
I! passed ayes 35, noes 20.
p j House bill No. 490 authorizin'
* j county treasurers to settle annual
ly in June with school directors
restoring the old law prior to 190
passed ayes 4*5, noes 10.
Senate bill 301 abolishing pub
lie executions was called up i
the house and passed—ayes 41
noes 9, Messrs Coleman, Fields
J Glover, Hurst, Jackson of Ilow
aril, Las ley. Linder, McDaniel and
Seay voting in the negative.
Senator Hinkle's bill for a
county depository for Indepen
dence county was read the third
time and passed ayes 20, noes 3
The senate passed a bill appro
priating £4,000 to rebuild the
boys’ dormitory at the state blind
school which was destroyed by
tire some time ago.
The house passed a bill appro
priating £4,000 to aid the South
ern Cotton Association.
The house indefinitely postpon
ed the Fletcher-Pinnix good roads
bill by a vote of 4* to 2!*. The
bill provided for the working of
the public roads by contract.
Advertised Letters.
The following is u list of letters
< remaining uncalled for in the New
ark postottice May l,
Hob Arnett
Mrs. Koxie Arnold
Lifus Baltime
T. C. Hullard
A. L. deed
.1. R. Fowler
F. \V. Green
('. L. Gladdis
Mrs. Giddy Hale
Chas. Levingston
W\ F. Lee
l>r. V. I>. McAdams
Miss Lula Morgan
YV. K. Smith
Mrs. Martha Stone
Mrs. Fearl Smith
Miss Mary Sutton
George \V. Thayer
.1. \Y. YVhittinghill.
If not called for in 30 days will
he sent to the dead letter office at
W ashington, I). ('. W hen calling
for above letters say advertised.
T. M. Hakuklsox, 1*. M.
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ARTHUR NEILL DEAD.
Arthur Neill died at the homo
’ of his father, ex-Congressman
Kebert Neill at Hatesville, Wed
nesday morning. He was about
36 years old, and had attained a
prominent position in the political
^ affairs of the county and state. Ho
served as private secretary to Gov.
1 Jan W\ Jones during Governor
Jones’ four year administration.
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i The dead body of C. W. Field
was found in a grove a short dis
- tance from Fxcelsior. A Wrin
i Chester rifle was in his hands and
, a bullet had beeu sent through his
, head. It is supposed.to be a case
- of suicide.
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TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS.
You are invited to pay our store a call, and inspect
the many new and up-to-date good things we have so
carefully selected and bought for the season.
We Ask For Your Patronage Purely
on Business Principles.
There is a great difference in stores. Some have but;
one object-sell. We have three—sell, satisfy and accom- <
modate. We make it a part of our business to satisfy
our customers. Come in and get your Easter Shoes and
Clothing here. We have just received a full line. It has
become an unwritten law that young men shall dress
well and neatly. We can dress both old and young better
than any other store in town at any given price.
Your patronage respectfully solicited.
M. S. FISHER.
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