BIG STRIKE IMPENDS
ON ALL RAILROADS
Four Brotherhoods Now En
gaged in Taking Strike Vote
On Eight Hour Day
The most important strike
vote in the history of labor dis
putes is now being taken by the
more than 300,000 engineers,
conductors, firemen and brake
men employed on the railroads
of the United States to enforce
their demand for an increase
in wages estimated by the rail
road managers at$ 100,000,000
a year.
In many ways the situation
thus created is absolutely un
precedented. Never before has
a demand for so large a raise
in pay been presented to a sin
gle group of employers at one
time.
If the employees vote to
leave the service the leaders
of the four train service broth
erhoods will have the power
to declare the biggest strike
ever experienced.
Never before has a strike on
all the railroads of the coun
try even been seriously threat
ened. The “big four” brother
hoods of train employees have
heretofore confined their con
certed wage movements to one
section of the country at a time
and while the engineers and
firemen or the conductors and
brakemen have frequently
joined in such movements this
is the first case in which all
four organizations have com
bined to enforce an increase in
wages.
While the demands apply
only to freight and switching
service, excepting the passen
ger service, all of the employ
ees who are members of the
organizations, as well as all
nonunion train employees, are
being called upon to vote for a
strike.
The train employees are de
manding an eight hour “basic”
day—i« other words, that they
shall be paid the same wage
for eight hours or 100 miles
or less. This would make the
hourly rate one-eighth of a
day’s pay or the equivalent of
twelve and one-half miles in
stead of one-tenth of a day’s
pay or the equivalent of ten
miles. They also demand “time
and one-half for overtime,” or
a rate of 50 per cent higher
than the regular rate, for all
time over eight hours or over
the time which would be re
quired to complete a trip at a
speed of twelve and one-half
miles per hour.
The demands were formul
ated by a committee of the ex
ecutive officers of the four
brotherhoods in Chicago last
December, and were first sub
mitted to a referendum vote of
the men. The demands were
formally served on the roads
on March 30, with a request
that the railroads appoint a
conference committee repre
senting the organizations.
The railroads promptly re
plied with a notice that in con
nection with the proposals of
the employees they desired to
have considered certain provi
sions in the present schedules,
which ii continued in connec
tion with the higher basis of
pay, would lead to unfair re
sults and in many cases would
multiply the inequities of dou
ble compensation for the same'
time or service. Arrangements
were made for a conference to
be held at New York beginning
on June 1 lor the purpose of
discussing the demands. The
roads were represented by the
national conference commit
tee of the railways and the
employees by the executive of
ficers and general chairmen of
the four brotherhoods. The
conference lasted two weeks.
The brotherhood leaders refus
ed to consider any modification
of their demands and the rail
roads were unwilling to grant
a further large increase in
wages to the highest paid class
of their employees without a
mandate from some tribunal
representing the public. On
June 15 the conference com
mitee gave the brotherhoods a
formal reply declining to grant
the demands, but proposing
that the entire controversy be
settled, preferably by submis
sion of the entire question to
the interstate commerce com
mission or else by arbitration
under the Newlands law. Both
plans for a settlement were re
jected by the brotherhood
leaders, who announced their
intention of taking a strike
vote and returning for another
iconference early in August.
NOTICE OF DATES
FOR DIPPING CATTLE
The undersigned will be at
the following vats on dates
named, for the purpose of su
pervising the dipping of cattle.
All cattle owners are requested
to have their cattle at their re
spective vats on dates as given
below':
Leggett Vat.—June 13, July
3 and 25, August 15, Septem
ber 5 and 2G, October 17.
Moorefield Vat.—June 15,
July 6 and 27, August 17, Sep
tember 7 and 28, October 19.
Newark Vat.—June 19, July
10 and 31, August 21, Septem
ber 11, October 2 and 23.
Self Vat.—May 31, June 21,
July 21, August 2 and 23, Sep
tember 13, October 4 and 25.
Bob Magness vat, July 28.
August 11, September 1 and
September 22.
T. A. SHARP,
Inspector, Batesville.
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BOONEVILLE YOUTH
SHOOTS SELF IN HEART
Booneville, July 31.—After
writing a note, saying he was
ill and tired of living and tell
ing his family and frientts
good-bye, Claud Wagner, 21
years old, shot himself through
the heart last night with a 22
caliber rifle.
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you suffer from backache, sick-head
ache, dizzy spells, or the twinges and
pains of lumbago, rheumatism and
gout. The urine is often cloudy, full
of sediment; channels often get sore
and sleep is disturbed two or three
times a night. This is the time you
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Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute,
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heart valves of any sandv substances
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well as regulating blood pressure.
"Anuric” is a regular insurance and
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who deposit lime-salts in their joints.
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iou feel clean, strong and strenuous in
stead of tired, weak and faint.
IS YOUR LAND TITLE GOOD?
If you have never had the title to your
land examined and the title abstracted
you should have it attended to at once—
you insure your property against fire. Now
have your land title abstracted against
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TRAGEDY IS RESULT OF
QUARREL OVER MELONS
One Farmer Dead and Two
Others Wounded Result of
Dispute Over Canteloupes
Prescott, July 29.—A quar
rel over the disposition of can
taloupes at a packing shed
near Deaneyville between J.
P. Slagle and Joe McClain cul
minated today in the death of
I Slagle, the fatal wounding of |
Joe McCain and the shooting
of John Wade, an onlooker,
and Mark McCain, father of
Joe.
The shooting occurred on
Main street and was witnessed
by more than a hundred peo
ple, no two of whom detail the
difficulty alike. Witnesses are
divided in their opinons of who
fired the first shot and wheth
er Slagle had a pistol. One wit
ness testified before the coro
ner’s inquest today that he was
with Slagle this afternoon when
Mark McCain and his two
sons, Joe and Henry, ap
proached Slagle and began to
abuse him about kicking Joe
McCain out of a packing shed
at Deaneyville, and stated Joe
McCain fired the first shot,
which struck Slagle in the
shoulder; that Slagle ran to the
middle of the street and fell
where one of the McCains at
tempted to shoot him again,
when he wrested the pistol
from his assailant and shot
Mark McCain through the hip.
During the fight Joe McCain
was shot in the stomach and is
expected to die. Slagle was
shot five times and fled to a
feed room, where he died in a
few minutes without making a
statement. Henfv McCain was
not injured and is under ar
rest awaiting an examining
trial. Joe McCain is 20 years
old and his father is 50. Slagle
was about 50 years old.
John Wade of Blevins was
standing across the street op
posite the feed store where the
shooting occurred and receiv
ed a stray bullet in the foot.
His condition is not serious.
Slagle and the McCains wen
all prosperous farmers and
truck growers residing near
Deaneyville and had just com
pleted the shipping of their
cantaloupe crops. The trouble
arose over a difference in opin
ion as to the management of a
packing shed which they occu
pied jointly.
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GARDEN FOR THE
SUMMER AND FALL
Sow early in August a 10
eent package each red valen
tine beans, Georgia collards,
drumhead savoy cabbage,—it
will grow out doors all winter,
Bloomdale spinach, dwarf Ger
man kale; China rose winter
radish, strap leaf turnip, sev
en top turnip for greens, coun
try gentleman sweet corn, big
Boston lettuce and Southern
curled mustard. This will give
your family fresh good things
to eat every meal until Christ
mas, and enough may be can
ned to furnish vegetables until
Spring. Plant half an acre of
Irish Cobbler potatoes.
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ARKANSAS WILL GET
$46,135.48 FROM U. S.
Washington, July 28.—The
state of Arkansas will receive
as its apportionment of the
proceeds of the Arkansas For
est Reserve this year $29,958.
51, and of th; Ozark Reserve
$1(5,176.97. These are the re
ceipts from timber sales and
grazing rights in the reserves
for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1916, and represent one
l’ourth of the gross receipts.
F u rt h e r a pportion ment of a bout
10 per cent of the gross will
be made later for roads in the
reserve.
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SENATOR ROBINSON
HAS RECOVERED
Little Rock, Aug. 1.—Sena
tor .Joe T. Robinson, who went
to Colorado several weeks ago
tor his health, has resumed his
seat in the United States Sen
ate and writes Little Rock
triends that he is now enjoying
the best of health and will re
turn to his home in Little Rock
immediately after the adjourn
ment of Congress.
Stop using dangerous drug before
it salivates you!
It’s horrible!
You’re bilious, sluggish, constipated
and believe you need vile, dangerous cal
omel to start your liver and clean your
bowels.
Here’s my guarantee! Ask your drug
gist for a 50 cent bottle of Dodson's
Liver Tone and take a spoonful tonight.
If it doesn’t start your liver and
straighten you right up better than
calomel and without griping or making
you sick I want you to go back to tbe
store and get your money.
Take calomel today and tomorrow you
will feel weak and sick and Nauseated.
Don’t lose a day’s work. Take a spoon
ful of harmless, vegetable Dodson’s Inver
Tone tonight and wake tip feeling great.
It's perfectly harmless, so give it to your
children any time. It can't salivate, so
let them eat anything afterwards.
IS CHARGED WITH
MURDERING WIFE
Alleged Accidental Killing 3
Months Ago Now Thought
To Have Been Murder
Arkadelphia, July 29.—Al
va Hopkins, a resident of Hill
Crest, a suburb of this city,was
arrested yesterday by Sheriff
Roy Golden as the suspected
murderer of his wife, who was
killed by the discharge of Hop
kins’ shotgun on April 19,last.
He was jailed without bond
pending the sitting of the Clark
County grand jury.
Mrs. Hopkins met her death
while she and her husband
were on a fishing trip on the
Caddo River, six miles north of
Arkadelphia. According to tes
timony at the coroner’s investi
gation at the scene of the kill
ing, given by Mrs. Pearl Welch
cousin of the deceased, who
was the lone witness of the
tragedy, the party of three,
herself in the lead, 10 feet in
advance of Mrs. Hopkins, and
Alva Hopkins five feet behind
his wife, were going by a path
from the home of Mrs. Welch
to the home of Rufe Jones,
nearby, when Mrs. Welch heard
the discharge of the shotgun
carried by Hopkins. Turning,
she saw Mrs. Hopkins lying
face down, fatally wounded,
and Hopkins on his knees.
There had been no quarrel in
Mrs. Welch’s hearing, she tes
tified.
Hopkins blamed the incident
to stumbling. The gun was a
hammerless and Hopkins testi
fied that he put a shell in the
right-hand barrel before leav
ing the Welch home for the
purpose of killing a bird should
one be in range, that the gun
was “on safety” and that he
could not account for its dis
c h a rge.
The coroner’s jury returned
a verdict to the effect that
Mrs. Alva Hopkins came to her
death accidentally by the
careless carrying of a shotgun
by her husband.”
Hopkins was not taken into
custody, but olficers were sus
picious, and after three months’
careful investigation Sheriff
Roy Golden arrested the man.
Mrs. Hopkins bore the re
putation ot being a good wo
man. rhree small children
were left motherless by the
death of Mrs. Hopkins. Furth
er developments are expected
immediately.
DROUTH INJURES
CROSS COUNTY CROPS
Wynne, Aug. 1.—The con
tinued dry weather, which has
been unbroken here for the
past five weeks, is beginning to
seriously threaten all kinds of
crops. Late corn is especially
hard hit, and unless rain falls
within a very few days the
corn crop will be materially
reduced. Cotton, where not
properly cultivated, is also
showing the effects of the
drouth.
EATESVILLE men
make long swim
Ratesvillo, July 29._Yester
day afternoon Frank Perrin,
a well-known insurance agent!
and Sam Smith of this citv
performed the difficult feat of
swimming in White river from
Greenbrier to Ratesville, a dis
tance of four miles. The trip
was made without stopping.
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OI' ARKANSAS.
Notice is hereby given that the fol
lowing Joint resolution, proposing an
amendment to the State Constitution
was passed by the General Assembly
at Its regular session of 1915, and that
the same will be submitted to the elec
tors of tile State at the next general
election, to be held Tuesday, November
7, 1916. for adoption or rejection.
Proposed Amendment N*. 14.
That the following it hereby pro
pos'd as an amendin' nt to the Consti
tution of the State oL Arkansas, which,
when agreed to by a majority of all
no mbi t elected to each house and
adopted by a majority of the elector*
of ttie State voting at the next gen
era! election for senators and repre
sentatives, shall become a part of the
Constitution of the State of Arkansas:
"Section 1. The county court* In
tc-lr respective counties. In addition to
tne county tax now allowed to be lev
ied, shall have power when authorized,
as hereinafter provided, to levy an an
nual tax not exceeding three mills on
the dollar on all taxable property,
which shall be collected and expended
in making and repairing public road*
and bridges in their respective coun
ties; and , iid '•utii' G..-C1 have power,
after authority given as hereinafter
provided, to levy a tax not exceeding
three mills on the dollar on all taxable
property for a period of time not to
exceed thirty years, to borrow money,
issue bonds, and pledge th*- revenue*
arising from the tax levied for a pe
riod of time, to pav the interest and
principal of an- sum or sums so bor
rowed. All 1"‘i:ds ts-ne l by authority
herein given shall hear a rat* of inter
est not to exceed 6 per cent per annum.
A!! sums so borrowed shall be used ex
clusively in making' and repairing th*
public roads and bridges in the county
The annua! tax and the tax f. r period
of years shall not both be levied and
be in force at the same time in any
county the levy of one shall exclude
the levy of the other
Before any levy of taxes herein au
thorized shall be made, the question
of levying such tax shall be submitted
to the qualified electors of the county
at a general or special election called
for that purpose, at which a majority
of the qualified electors voting at such
an election shall have voted in favor of
such levy of taxS-a.
Approved February 2, 1915.
The above resolution was filed In the
office of the Secretary of State on Feb
ruary 2, 1915.
Each elector may vote for or against
the above amendment.
Witness my official signature tkL*
tlth day of April. 191*
EARLE W HODGES,
Secretary of States
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