The Newark Journal.
O. F. CRAIG, Editor.
Newark- - , Arkansas!
Con. Reyes. the soldier-statesman,
lias been elected president of Colom
bia.
The Associated Press reports that
Colombia has abandoned the idea of
invading the Isthmus of Panama.
President Roosevelt has nominated
W. J. Buchanan of New York to be
United Slates minister to Panama.
In his annual report Secretary
of War Root, urgently advocates a
reduction upon Philippine imports
into the United States.
Gov. Beckham of Kentucky, re
cently inaugurated, is the first gov
ernor to succeed himself in that
state in ninety-two years.
Gov. Hunt lias pardoned Father
Villahoz, the priest who was con
victed of violating the civil mar
riage law in the Philippines.?
Gen. Wood has been subpoenaed to
appear before the senate committee
on military affairs to answer some of
the charges preferred against him.
A Mexican federal judge has ren
dered a decision granting the ex
tradition of Kratz, one of the St.
Louis boodlers who tied to Mexico
about a year ago.
(Jon. Reyes, special commission
er from Colombia, lias notified his
government of the hopelessness of
mission to this country regarding
the new republic of Panama.
In addition to the sum appropri
ated the Louisiana Purchase exposi
tion Company has asked congress for
a loan of $1,500,000, to be paid back
in installments without interest.
The final steps have been taken
for the formation of a permanent
republican form of government in
Panama by the calling of a constitu
tional convention to meet January
20.
The body of Avery Crockett, a
grandson of David Crockett, was
found near Thorpe .Sj'.’.'V.’.g^ Texas,
suspended irom^ j t0 which he
had han^*^mscif jn a jjt of dc
sponduffev.
A shortage of $5,000,000, coupled
with charges of misappropriation of
funds and criminal mismanagement
in the special assessment department
of the Chicago municipal govern
ment, lias been laid bare and proved
by expert accountants as the result
of two years of investigation.
U is said no change will lie made
in the name of the Protestant Epis
copal church in the immediate fu
ture, and the next triennial council
of that church will take no action
whatsoever on the movement which
has been on foot for* a change in
name of the church to the Catholic
church of America.
Secretary P. W. Richard-on of the
National Cood Roads association
has anounced the special committee
of the association which i> to meet
in Washington next month and pre
sent to congress Hie resolutions
adopted by the National Good Roads
convention in St. Louis last April.
Every state and territory is repre
sented on tlie committee, which has
nearly 200 members.
One thousand dollars fine for il
legal act.- as a corporate body was im
posed upon Franklin Union. No. 4,
press feeders, by Judge Jesse llol
dom of Chicago. The court found
the union, as a corporation, guilty
of contempt of court for violating an
injunction restraining it from inter
fering with the business or employes
of ten printing firms. Judge llol
dom’s action creates a precedent, it
Icing the first time in the history of
trade unionism in this country that
a court has fined a union as u corpor
ation.
Alexandria Howie declares that
he will have built a wall eighteen
feet high and two feet thick around
Zion City and that after this is ac
complished none hut his followers
will be permitted to enter the city.
11. Clay King, an ox-Confederate
soldier, and once a prominent citi
zen and lawyer of Memphis, died
last week in the penitentiary at
Nashville. King was serving a life
sentence for the killing of David II.
Poston or. the streets jf Memphis.
Postoffice Business in Arkansas.
The report of the auditor of the
| postolfice department for the liscal
I year ending ,1 une 30, 1003, shows
• that there are sixty presidential of
| postohices in this state, of which
only one, Little Lock, is of the first
! class, paying its postmaster a sal
ary of $3,300 a year. The offices
I of the second class are Eureka
Springs, Fayetteville, Fort Smith,
Helena, Hot Springs, Jonesboro,
Newport, Fine Bluff and Texar
kana. There are cities with free
delivery, which cost $19,043.32, as
follows: Little Bock, $20,519.47;
Fort Smith, $9,292.79; Hot
| Springs, $7,208.95; Fine Bluff, $<>,
j 142.27 ; Texarkana, $5,880.34. Be
low arc the statistics of the presi
dential offices for the year:
Gross receipts, $502,536.55.
Salaries of postmasters, $01,400.
Clerk hire, $68,044.46.
Rental, light and fuel, $13,233.07.
Other incidental expenses. $4,501.32.
Total expenses, $227,123.57.
Domestic money orders issued in all
| offices in state. 648,019, for a total of
$4,507,308.11, the fees on same being
$37,574.06.
International money orders issued.
1,628, for $39,707.10, the fees being
$4.71.60.
Deposits received from money-order
postmasters, $2,102,872.86.
Drafts on postmaster in New York,
$312,013.25.
Gain of money-order business in Ar
kansas, 3.59.
Below are comparisons with the
two preceding years in some of the
important items:
1902. 1901.
Gross rec’pts.$443,052 05 $395,997 66
Free delivery. 45,424 65 42,352 20
Salaries . 84,350 00 79,150 00
Total exp'ns.. 205,120 08 184,392 S3
Per cent ex
penses to re
ceipts . 46 ,-- 47
Money orders. 544._tftOOO
Amount „ -'^8,474 70 $3,781,667.57
The Jonesboro office was run at 41
per cent of expenses to receipts, being
the lowest per cent for the last year,
and the highest was Arkansas City,
with 77 per cent. The highest inci
dental expense was $1,329 for Little.
Rock, and the smallest was nothing
for Wynne.
The gross receipts of the Little
Rock office were $116.033.CO, and the
total expenses, $42,777.07.
Below is a statement showing the
receipts and total expenses of the va
rious presidential offices:
Arkansas City .
Augusta .
Batesville .
Bentonville ....
Black Rock ...
Brinkley .
Camden .
Clarendon .
Clarksville ....
Conway .
Corning .
Dardanelle ....
DeQueen .
DeVall’s Bluff .
El Dorado.
FTureka Springs.
Fayetteville ...
Fordyce .
F'orrest City....
F'ort Smith
Flamburg .
Harrison .
Helena .
Hope .
Fiot Springs ...
Fluntington ....
Jonesboro .
Junction ......
Lake Village...
Little Rock .
Lonoke .
Magnolia .
Malvern .
Mammoth Spr'g
Marianna .
Mena .
Monticello .
Morrilton .
Nashville .
New Lewisville.
Newport .
Osceola .
Ozark .
Paragould .
Pino Bluff .
I’ocahontas
Prescott .
Rogers .
Russellville ....
Searcy .
Siloani Springs.
Springdale .
Stamps .
Suttgart .
Texarkana ....
Van Boren
Walnut Itidge..
Warren .
Wynne .
Receipts
40
2.099 42
2.978 12
6,320 14
4,179
2,223
4.199
9,000
3.517
3,177
4.343
2,156
3,498
3,953
534
3,508
8.33S
12.949
4.447
4,910
48.187
2.759
4,914
12,321
5.921
34,843
2,025
12,205
2.738
542
116,033
2.896
3,273
3.759
o
Expenses.
1<
88
71
31
68
69
19
55
05
30
14
30
29
(O
58
38
00
6G
83
56
19
47
20
11
50
79
60
86
90
47
45
05
05
;i3
01
1L
25
31
21
45
29
6°
Zo
4.195
6,031
4.956
3,349
3,946
595
9,526
3,096
1.146
7,2 IS
32.048
2,149
4.296
5,431
4.241
4.842
4.329
3,106 8 4
2,756 09
4.7SS
35,532
5,651
2.823
2.823
3,o0o
11
55
r *>
u<>
92
60
] 1
83
28
44
44
80
2,502
1.617
1.417
') <)n(|
2.022
48
68
44
6b
79
1.358 88
60
48
1,877
2.126
1.721
2,070
2.080 32
1.309 69
40
1.951
1,854
311
2,007
3 822
1.661
96
16
11
63
28
54
14
44
1,770
2,063
21.800 29
1,776 56
2,496
4.S48
2,563
20,290
i -
36
16
4.957
1.629
42,77'
96
51
76
44
07
1,786 00
1.599
1,7'..*
1.517
1.878
2.36s
1.963
1.975
1.779
310
4.01 1
1.377
691
2.421
32
*
76
80
24
39
73
36
70
35
99
78
16
15.390 04
1,155
1.983
2,429
1,818
2.667
1,958
1.811
CO
9.1
01
4 2
41
1.300 64
04
2,007
15,690 05
2,371 07
.
1,591 76
1,588 00
Brutal Murderer Convicted.
John Bell, colored, was Convicted
at Clarendon tor the murder of Win
nie Gidean, a -year-old boy, and
sentenced to be hanged. Norman
Couch, an alleged accessory to the
crime, testified he was with the de
fendant, John Hell, on the day of
the murder, helping to unload cot
ton from a wagon into a cotton stall,
and while doing this Winnie Gidean
came up and climbed on the wagon
and began helping to unload the cot
ton. and while in the wagon, the de
fendant, John Bell, took a pencil
away from the little hoy, who insist
ed that lie give it hack to him. I’pon
the negro's refusal to do so. the
child laid down on a plank near the
wagon and began crying, and threat
ened to tell his mother, whereupon
the negro seized a stick and struck
him across thcfback of his head, and
then pushed him in the cotton stall
and covered him with cotton, where
lie was found dead by one of the
hands at the mill next day.
Public School Funds.
A compilation from the financial
statements of the various school
districts in the different counties,
with the exception of Miller and
Chicot counties, makes the follow
ing showing: .Expenditures: Teach
ers’ salaries, $1,32?,104; purchase
of houses and sites, $1?,207.14;
building and repairing, $8?,973.00 ;
purchasing apparatus, $3?,811.Cl;
treasurers’ commissions, $31,321.
02; other purposes, $55.2.">0.3? : to
tal, $1,550,097. Unexpended:
Common school fund. .'f'00,sr,8.<V.i:
district fynd. $<>09,250.18: from
cth.-Af sourc $5,3?8.94 ; total,
$819,? 19.0?. lievcnttc raised: On
hand July 1, 1902. $? 15,290.? 1;
common school fund. $551,807; dis
trict fund, $897,205.58 ; poll tax,
$1 (>8,233.70: sale of s-xteenth-soe
tion lands. $607.13; other sources.
$10,880.41 ; total, $2,300,190.53.
Important Decision As to Fees.
The supreme court last week ren
dered a decision in the case of Gro-ne
Countv \s. Light. George (♦. Light,
the county clerk of Green county,
sued the county for $800, alleged to
he due him as fees for the issuing of
8G00 warrants upon the county
treasurer. The contention urged by
Light was that the issuance of each
warrant, and the taking of a receipt
therefor, as required by jaw. consti
tuted a "settlement"’ within the
I meaning of the statute allowing the
j eounty clerks fc. s at the rale of 10
cents for each settlement, The su
preme court held that the is-uance
of the warrant, after same had been
ordered by the court, was not a set
tlement within the terms of the stat
utes and dismissed the claim.
Heavy Loss From Fire
A recent lire in the business sec
tion of G~ cola di -1 roved $00,000
worth of property. The losers are:
G. lb Brickov, $18,000. insured for
$9,500; S. 11. (javlord. druggist, loss
$12,000, in-aml for $0,000; 1 >r. 11.
< Dunnavant, $10,000, uninsured;
the I’re.-s plant, $2,000. uninsured;
Dr. Travis $ 1,300. im tired for $500 ;
Dr. Turner, $1,000, uninsured; L.
Kompner, merchant. $2,000, insured
for $800; A. It. Clianev, $4,000. in
sured for $1,500; G. \V. Thompson,
$ 10,000 on buildings, uninsured; J.
L. Driver. $20,000. insured for $10,
00<i. 'I’he fire originated in one of
Brido v's store- and made it- way
with i‘ rapidity southward.
S jit County Farmer Killed.
S. \V. Wihiain?. a Scott county
farmer, was recently shot through
the h;-a<l and instantly killed, i I is
15-;,ear-old son vas arrested, sus
1 t- d of jif ing the crime, but
the boy cla: ns the killing was acci
dental. Williams and his son
had hr n t , Il<p Springs and were
on tin ir way home when the tragedy
took jilar a '| in boy claims that
his father -tar. 1 to get out of the
">ac u. Shotgun in his
V weapon was
\load entering
| hts 1 ad. \
Oil House Burned.
The oil house at ihc Cotton Bolt
shops in Tine Bluff was completely
destroyed hy fire on the niglrt of the
12th. The origin of the tire is un
known, hut it is supposed that it
originated from the cilice of the oil
house, this is where the flames
were first discovered hy the night
watchman. In the big oil house
there were stored thousands of gal
lons of different grades of oils. The
lire department of the city and the
shops responded promptly, but the
oil was soon in a mass of flames. The
high wind, which made the flames
roar. (ndangored the surrounding
buildings and at times the whole
plant was threatened. The coal
chute, which was in the rear of the
oil house, caught, against the efforts
of the firemen, and hundreds of tons
of coal and a number of box ears
were burned.
Want Space For School Exhibit.
Superintendent Junius Jordan of
the Pine Bluff public schools, has
written to State Superintendent
Ilinemon, asking for 300 square feet
of wall space, 100 square feet of ta
ble space, and -100 square feet of
bulletin space for the educational ex
hibit of the Pine Bluff public schools
at the world's fair, lie says that
some of the preliminary work is*now
in his office and that special instruc
tions have been issued to all the
schools to press*the exhibit work un
til the required amount is secured.
Deaf-Mute Teachers Elected.
At a meeting of the state charit
able hoard held in Little Rock last
wcclc, the following employes of the
deaf-mute institute were selected:
I. >S. Humbert, position on the fac
ulty; Miss Mamie Stainback of
Monroe county, librarian and visit
tors' attendant, to succeed Miss Ma
mie Bcs-elieu, resigned; Mrs. Man
ning. housekeeper, to succeed Mrs.
M. A. White of Texarkana, resign
ed: 11. Ludwig, instructor in shoe
making, to succeed W. F. Murphy,
resigned.
Engineer Accidentally Shut.
While out hunting ducks a few
miles north of Texarkana Ivan Mat
thew-, a locomotive engineer on the
Iron Mountain railroad, accidentally
shot himself in the left side and died
from his wound a few hours later.
If ■ was iu the act of climbing over
a feme when in some unknown man
mu' I - gun was discharged and the
‘ ....rge of biirks’iot entered ills
arm and side. He leaves a wife and
two children.
Will Meet December 30.
Chairman II. L. Koiumel of the
republican state central committee
lias issued a call for a meeting of the
committee in the Lincoln club rooms
in Little Kook <>n Wednesday, De
cember .10, at .‘5 p. m. 'I’he object of
the meeting is to consider such busi
ness a- may properly come before the
committee. One of the matters is
the selection of a time and place for
the 1 publican state convention.
Innocent Party Killed.
Will Calvin shot and killed a nc
gro at Marked Tree one day last
week. The report says the negro
made an attempt to get his gun to
shoot ( 11 \ in, hut Calvin was too
que l-: for him and shot first. As the
shot we fired the negro jerked an
other negro in front of him in time
to n eive the Imllet and the innocent
negro was killed.
Death of An Unknown Man.
A young white man, about 20
years of ago, six foot tall, light
complexion and smooth shaven, was
picked up in an unconscious condi
tion by tin* track of the North Ar
kansas railroad, cast of Eureka
Spring-. The man died without
i'. gaining consciousness and noth
ing was found on his body to lead
to liis identity.
Increase Pay For Messengers.
An increase of $5 per month has
h‘cn granted by the Pacific Express
company to the messengers in the
company’s service. The increase ap
plies to all the first and second grade
messengers in the Arkansas division.
The old scale was from $55 to $80.
The increase was effective Decem
ber 1.
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