Vol. 2 No. 6.
STATE NEWS NOTES.
Happenings of a Week Gathered
From Various Parts of
the State.
Tbe upearance of several cases
of smallpox in Oceola created a
good deal of alarm.
Coroner Thomas Nance of Jack
son county died at bis borne at
Tuckerman Sunday from pueu
mouia.
Bentonville is entertaining a
knitting null project which, if se
cured, will furnish employment
for about 100 women and girls.
- Hunter, a Missouri chick
raif^'of renown, was iu Kog
^ ers recently on a prospecting
pyA tour ajid will probably establish a
EHH chicken ranch n-«ar that place.
1||H . during the present icy comb
of 1111 outdoors. Col. G. S.
■■Hibson, of No. -th Carolina, who
WSe?** visiting hi:,jj son at Walnut
^^■Ridge, fell on t..ie sidewalk and
broke his hip, )./ie j8 70yearsold,
The stop*? olT*k whitecap raid
near jLHjjr .iwood recently have
‘$fc£.rrnuch exaggerated. Four
men are under arrest, chaiged
with being drunfc and disorderly
and disturbing the peace, but the
report that there are a band of
whitecaps there is unfounded.
mier a mourn a rest tne saloons
of Harrison have again been
thrown open. A joint canvass
whs made, under un agreement by
both sides to abide by the result
of the canvass, *tiieh demon
si rated the fact that the people
desired saloons by a majoiity of
*° one, and license
haw been issued to three.
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The worst effects of ihe drouth
are just
seel
sort
nmnr calls have 'Already been
made upon the people of the town
to help unfortunates who failed
to make a crop and have run
short of anything to go upon.
The Conway Times says : “A
woman was on the streets Tues
day morning who said she lived
near Preston, Her father was
blind and her mother hud pneu
monia, and she had walked in
from Preston to see if site could
get a little help until the weather
got Iwtter. She said her name
was Blackwell. A few of the
citizens soon got together a nice
lot of groceries for the uufortun
ule woman.
A raiher strange case of poison
ing is reported from near Green
Forest. Toe entire family of a
wanted Inventors
to write tor our confidential letter before tp*
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toning up.
for an or
ily bottle,
supply for a year
1 farmer by the name of Lum Ev
an8 were taken mysteriously il
and two of the children died he
fore medical aid could be sum
moncd. A doctor was called ii
and found the other members o1
the family in a precarious condi
tiou and said that one or twc
more of the family would die. 11(
pronounced it a case of milk poi
j soiling, and said the cow had eat
en something which gave her milk
the poisonous effect.
A very pitiful death is reported
from Fayetteville. A woman and
several small children had been
camped near town for several
weeks, depending for an exist
ence upon the wood the oldest
boy could cut and haul to town in
a miserable little wagon with a
donkey. A few days ago a phy
sician was notified that the moth
er was sick. He went out and
found the poor woman lying on
the frozen ground, barefooted
and with hardly any clothing on
and suffeiing with pneumonia.
The doctor made a tent over hei
of an old wagon sheet and gave
the children money to buy some
supplies. The woman was beyond
medical aid and died. The child
ren will bo taken into the county
poor house.
Wood, turnips, potatoes or any
thing we can use, taken on sub
scription.
Burned to Death.
Halena, Feb. 3.—A.1 Batson,
for fifteen years the head press
man at the Arkansas Cotton Oil
Company’s n-ill in this city, met
with a horrible death lu«t night
at a late hour. Hutson and his
partner, Tom McNeal, kept ‘bach’’
in a smuti no use near the mill in
f- ^0f
which they were cnu>lo}cd. Last
night 'hey went home late. After
ward McNeal left the house to re
torn to a nearby saloon and while
he was there an alarm of tire was
turned in. It proved to he^the
home in which he had left his
companion. The shanty burned
down liefore McNeal could get
back homo. When lie returned,
however, he told the firemen,utid
they soon found the charred re
mains of the unfortunate man.
The Journal, $1 per year,
NOVEL BULLFIGHTING.
Aatoaobllt Takes tin Place of a Horse
in a French Arena.
A corrida took place at Bayonne in
which an automobile played the role
of the caballero in plaza, who is, as i6
wall known, the distinguished person
age in a bullfight, riding a horse cov
ered with trappings and wearing the
costume of a jpaud seigneur of the
seventeenth or eighteenth century.
This time, says the London Times, by
a truly modern innovation, M.
Deutsch, the founder of the famous
100,(X>0-franc prize, presided. Some
4,000 spectators were present. As I
said, the caballero, instead of enter
ing the arena on horseback, entered it
on a motor car, w ith protected wheels
and the diiver well sheltered. The
emotion, or, ratlur the curiosity, of
the crowd was uncontrollable, and it
is to be hoped ako that one element
in their delight was a feeling of satis
faction at not seeing horses ripped
open and blood flowing in the arena
Unfortunately, the desire of the pub
lic, which was looking forward to a
picturesque struggle between the bull
and the motor car, was not realized,
The automobile maneuvered cleverlj
in pursuit of the bull, which the pica
dor harassed; but the bull refused t<
tak« the offensive, lied continuousl}
before the motor car at the nsk of be
i«g run down and crushed, and thui
the battle ended through lack of f
combatant. The automobile, whicl
had conquered without danger, tri
umphed without glory. If anythin;
could succeed in rendering bullfighti
ridiculous this would perhaps be thi
best way to do so.
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NEWARK, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7, 1902.
:;the
RIGHT ARM <
It is true that the revival of
. learning that closed the long peri
od of general ignorance known as
the Dark Ages, proceeded the
newspaper, hut it was as John the
Baptist proceeded Chiist. Print
ing and hooks were merely pre
paiatory stages of the great revo
lution that has resulted, in this
age and in our count! v, in nearly
fifty papers annually for every
man, woman and child over the
age of foui years.
The newspapers of all civilized
countries are what have made.eiv
ization possible. During the
darkest period of the Dark Ages,
there was great learning—men of
mighty minds who spent their
lives in study ; but these were few
and their pie eminence depended
largely upon the marked contrast
which they presented to the
great masses of dense ignorance
which prevailed all ubout them.
General enlightenment or what
we now call civilization was then
impossible because there were
not teachers enough to reach be
yond the walls of the monasteries.
As a matter of fact the learned
friars were a little jealous of
their learning because their pow
er over the ma-seo depended as
much upou the ignorance of the
masses as their own attainments.
Books were beyond the reach of
the massess, by reason of their
great cost and the abject poverty
ot the people, and hence were in
capable of spreading civilization
far beyond the walls ot the few
libraries then in existence. There
fore we conclude that civilization
1 is the work of the newspaper, a
. view that is fully continued by the
fact that, the world over, the civ
ilization of every nation is in di~
icet proportion to the number of
newspapers printed therein, and
the extent of their circulation.
Compare Germany, with some
thing over 6,000 newspapers, with
Spain, which lias 850; G 'eat
3F ClVILIZATION n
♦ V
Britian, with 4,000. and Rut'iu
with 800; tiie United Sfates,jji^
more than 20,000, and Turkey,
with 56.
Jf any should deny thr.t news
papers are the universal civilizers
they must admit that the two go
hand in hand the world over, and
where one is absent neither cun
be found Not only literature in
it’s restricted sense is represented
in the pciiodical press, but every
profession, art and industry has
its newspaper organs, and none
are successful without them.
They have become a necessity.
Men mav'live without overcoats
land even without houses, hut
su h lives aie comparatively or
superlative failures. In like man
ner, a lawyer may subsist without
his law magazine, a duett r with
out his medical journal, an en
gineer without his scientific pa
per, but their clients, patients or
employers, as the case may be,
i will be few or meager, compared
with that of their felltw crafts
men who read the periodical lit
erature which concerns them, and
keep pace with the general pro
gress of the rgi*. No one knows
better than the American reader,
that all the influence of newspa
pers is not for good, for, like all
other lines of business, demons
as well as saints, are engaged in
the newspaper business.
But it is beyond question that
newspapers are the greatest pow
er for the uplifting of men that
the world has ever seen. Tyrants
I read them and tmnble; frauds
behold in them the greatest ob
staclo tu the success of their
schemes ; the unprincipled politi
cal mount eh < n k fears them ; the
moral leper keeps aloof from
them ami the f<>ol has uo use for
tire'ii. But tyrants, frauds,
mountebanks, lepers and fools,
happily, are in the minority, and
this is itself the work of newspa
pers.—Texas Farm and Ranch.
WASHIUTON POLITICAL CHAT
Swift’s News Bureau. I
Washington.C\, February 3. f
Tlie democrats of the House
are wise in keeping the republi
cans guessing as to their attitude
on reciprocity for Cuba. The ad
ministration is bringing all the
pressure it has at its command to
bear upon those republicans who
art opposing Cuban reciprocity,
but the opposition is still active
and the question m«v result in
dividing the republicans into ad
ministration and anti-administra
tion factions. Therefore it is
good policy for the democrats to
keep on “sawing w > >1” an i
watching for opportunities to
pull something out of the final
scramble that will be benetieial to
the democratic p.»ity in th.syem's
congressional campaign, and thy
arc doing U Unless the republi
cans get toget tier on ! his cjuestion
it will t»e in the power of the dem
ocrats in the House to say wheth
. t Cub: shall have reciprocity or
nut Ivepuinirum enough to
mak' a majoritv of the ii use
have night to in ko ail aii ;>>•
.V ii n 1 tie 'it'iiim nils against, t ubail
. ivc iptocitv, but the democratic
load is it.i not coiisldei that the
tune has yet e >me for them to
- <u\ l lieir Ii ind.
OPPO'KP T > T1IKI It PUltC.ltASE,
Many democratic senators an
imposed to the t reaty for the pur
I chase of the Danish Islands
.; a hieli is uow in the bauds oi tin
Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations, hut it has not been
definitely determined whether
! thev will m ike an organized
| tight against its ratification. The
House will a'so have a say in the
matter, as an appropriation of
*5,000.000 will he necessary to
! put the treaty into effect.
WAS A I.1TTLK I*RKM ATURR.
It seems that Col. Sam Parker,
who was Queen Lil's prime mi i
ister when she was deposed, was
a little prcmaiure 1:1 announcing
that he I. id been appoiu.ed to
succeed (iov U ilc, of Hawaii, or
else the friends of wdiat is known
as the mis-ionarv element, have
succeeded in holding up I lie mat
ter, At anv rate, it has been
I officially given out, by order of
Mr. Roosevelt, that Hawaiian af
fair* are under consideration, but
that no conclusion has been reach
til as to whether any changes will
be made mid that the governor
snip haR n >l been given or even
offered to anyone. This will
probahh mean I In' Col. Parker,
who is the Hawaiian member of
the Republican National Commit
tee, will lieicuttor act. with Han
na's ami Rooseudt machine.
W ANTS CON-TI rt xiox TO KOI.LOW
Senator Teller offered at
amendment to the Philippine tar
iff lull providing “that the eon
stitulion and ail laws of tin
Foiled States which are not local
. 1 ly inapplicable shall have tin
; same force auJ effect within tin
said Philippine archipelago as
i elsewhere in the United States,”
i an«l Senator Morgan offered one
JJEgtifying and contiiming the pres*
gjpwit's of a civil government in
Phitippiuos and making that
government a department of the
administration of the United
States.
DEPARTMENT OP COMMERCE.
The labor organizati(*<s are in
delated to Senator Bacon tor th<
amendment adopted before 'tin
senate passed the bill providing
for a new executive department
which makes it the Departmenl
of Commerce and Labor.
TO MAKE UOOSEVEI.T RESPONSIIILE.
Republicans are still hammer
ing on the idea of thiowing the
ivqmi Mhility of choosing the
route for the Isthmian Canal up
on Mr Roosevelt. Their latest
{ move in that dii ectimi is a bran
new bill, introduced by Senator
I Spooner. It authorizes the Pres
ident to buy the Panama outfit,
: at the price named, if he eonsid
j erst lie title valid, and if not, to
[proceed with canal over the
Nicaragua route. Tne Senate
Committee on Inter-oceanic Ca
nals will next week begin hear
ings <m the canal question, which
will probably continue until the
committee sees its way to getting
action upon any report that it
may make to the senate. That
will not be until leading republi
can senators cease their efforts to
obstruct canal legislation.
Only Thing he Missed.
“Well my little man,” said the
preacher, the next day after, “did
you get every thing you expected
on Christmas?'’
. “Nope, 1 didn’t get one thing
! ma told me I was going to get.”
“Indeed? And what was
I that?’
“The etummick ache.”
A Pointer For^nveniors.
If you wish /our patent busi
ness properly and promptly done
send it to Swift & Co., opposite
U. 8. Patent Office, Washington,
D. C. They have no dissatisfied
clients. Write them for then
confidential letter ; a postal card
will bring it, and it tiny he worth
money to you. See their adver
tisement elsewhere in this paper.
Kicked by a Horse.
llot Springs, Feb. 1.—Lenn
Orril, the thirteen -year-old (laugh
ter of Capt. John Orril, a promi
nent farmer of this county, wa>
today kicked in the head by a blind
horse and fatally injured. Tin
skull just above the left eye war
: fractured and almost two spoons
full of brain mUttor had oozed out
when the Dr,s. Berry, who were
hastily summoned from town, ar
j rived, yet the young givl was
perfectly conscious and apparently
in no i-.-.iii whatever. Drs. Berry
state the case is a most: marvellous
one, in ismuch as all such blows
almost invariably result in almost
instant death, while Miss Orril
talked to them while they were
' dressing the wound and told just
how “Old Bold Charley" kicked
her. She cannot possibly recover
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Why it Failed.
“You’re a fraud, sir,” cried the
indignant patient. “You guaran
j toed your medicine to cure aftei
everything else had failed, and—'
“Well, my dear sir,” interrupt
ed tlu* fake medicine mail, “prob
ably you havift tried everything
j else.”
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A Reminder.
“•Yes,” said Mrs, Starvem a'
tlie breakfast table, “its a splen
did book. ll certainly has i
j | strong and —”
.j “All, that reminds me,” inter
> rupted ihe absent-minded board
* er. ••PieatC puss the butter,”
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items of General Interest Gather*
f rom Four Corners of
the Union.
Two Vermillion County, Illi
nois, shunters were shot and badly
wounded by companions.
An Iowa girl obtained a verdict
of against the estate of her
dead fiancee through a breach of
*HtJ^>niise suit.
TTr^tfur men attempted to rob
the Cateden Point, Mo., banlc
were sentence to the penitentiary\
for ten years.
Jim Ilow’ard was ag.;nconvlc
of the murder of Goverrta* y
l>el, and his punishment fixe
life imprisonment.
Omaha real estate men bring
suit to compel a higher valuation
of property owned by car]K>rations,
that control franchises.
The report of the United Stai
Department of Agriculture i
dicates that most of the peach budi
in Missouri have been killed.
Former Sheriff Harman of Welch,
Ya., was killed in a street duel as
the result of a similar encoi|fiter
last year between two other fnen.
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The Industrial Commission ex
poets to appoint auxiliary arbitra
tion committees in all the large
cities to immediatily settle
labor disputes.
A negro undt>;isenfw*ff^of death
for murder in Montana was freed
at the request of a county attorney
because all the witnesses against
him are dead or gone*
Edward and John Biddle, under
sentence of death at Pittsburg,
j escape after shooting two guards
with weapons supposed to have
been supplied by the T-rdw>,|
wife.
John Biddle, one of the men who
escaped from the Pittsburg jail
Thursday and who was wounded
in a fight with officers, is dead, and
his brother is dying. The woman,
Mrs. Sotfel, has pneumonia and
may die.
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Bought by the Frisco.
It is pretty generally understood
now that the Frisco railroad has
bought the S. M. & A. railroad
and will push the extension from
Cape Girardeau to St. Louis and
put the entire road in first-class
condition. There is also talk that
the road, the coming year will bei
extended from Pocahontas by wayj
of Black Kook, thence on to Fort#
Smith. The Frisco has
will soon havo a direct line from
St. Louis to Memphis- Then
there is also rumor that the Frisco
will secure the Culver log road at
Sedgwick and extend one arnv^to
gould. People are just beginning
to reli/.e/fhat the Frisco is to be
i one of/tiie mightiest railroad sys
1 temrfof the age.
bought, several short roads
Cape Girardeau and Memphis and**"1 qrf
Newport and the other
j Colored Girl Frozen to Death.
' Brinkley, Fob. 1.—News reach
ed this city this evening from
Glenwood, south of this city about
eight miles, that a thirteen-year*
. old negro girl was frozen to death
on the bayou about four miles east
of the A. (farraughty place.
Thursday she left the house to go
to some traps and lost her way. A '
searching party failed to tind her §
i until the following evening, when
she was dead
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Couldn’t Resist an Officer.
Mis. Huuekeep—You needn’t
• deny it, Delia, I saw you permit
i that polieemau to kiss you last
night.
Delia—Uv course, mum. Shuro
- ye wouldn't hev me resist an
|officer, woulu ye?