YoodrutkCounty News.
I VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1909.
NO 10.
(IS OF THE WEEK
■ TEST news of the world
tersely told.
ESST, SOUTH Si 1ST
Foreign
tion
Lands, Throughout the Na
and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.
CONGRESSIONAL.
A{tev a hot debate Friday the house
toted two battle ships.
An interesting fight will occur in
lie senate over the proposed increase
oithe president’s salary from $50,000
to $100,000, with the.repeal of the
provision allowing $25,003 for trs.vel
jng expenses. The amendment to the
legislative, executive and judicial bill
containing this provision was adopted
in the committee of the whole after a
prolonged discussion, and after the
point of order made against it had
been voted down so it wa» supposed
to have been disposed of, but Senator
Beveridge has conceived the idea that
it can be beaten when the bill is re
ported to the senate, and has been
working assiduously ail day to that
end.
The outlook for statehood in the
Tinted States senate is not bright.
While members cf the house and lead
ers in that body are working to put
forward a hill that can command a ma
jority of that body it is admitted by
members of the senate committee on
territories that almost insuperable
obstacles offer themselves to a state*
hood programme in that body.
After adopting a resolution by
which Governor George F. Lilley of
Connecticut ceases to be a member of
congress, the house Wednesday pro
ceeded with the naval appropriation
bill There were few amendments of
fered to the measure, the items under
consideration being those of mainte
nance and improvements to navy
yards, stations and other public works
of the navy.
10 us an artillery ngure, congress
has been firing projectiles at the pres
ident nut by piece, but by battery.
The last missile was a naval shell
fired Friday in the form oi a provision
in the house navy appropriation bill
recommending that the marines be re
stored to the status that they former
1,'' held in the service.
There is no likelihood that the pend
ing invesitgations of the secret sen
dee. the disbursement of funds appro
priated to detect and prosecute viola
tions of the federal statutes, will be
completed before the 4th of March.
This means, of course, that the prom
ised exposure of the administration of
President Roosevelt, the implied, if
not promised attacks on the president
and the promised censure of the secret
Krvice, have gone glimmering.
The senate committee on public
buildings and grounds reported favor
ably bills increasing the cost of post
office buildings already authorized as
Mows: Boise City, Idaho, $125,000;
Sioux Falls, S. D., $90,000, making a
otal of $190,000; Beatrice, Neb., $15,
MO for additional land; Missoula,
llont., $35,000, making a total of $150,
00°. and Kansas City, Kan., $90,000,
making $240,000 in all.
The select committee appointed by
bv house to make an inquiry into the
mtivities of the secret service held its
,rst meeting Wednesday, organization
'as perfected and the announcement
tide by Representative Olmstead,
■bairman, that the active work of in
stigation would be begun at once.
added that for the present the
meetings of the committee will he ex
ecutive.
Speaker Cannon announced the ap
'°intnie r,t ns a member of the house
ommittee on invalid pensions of Rep
csentative Joseph J. Russell of Mis
out'l, to succeed Representative
iackett of North Carolina, who re
igned. Mr. Russell was recommend
a to the speaker by Representative
^ainp Clark, the minority leader. Mr.
'Ussell retires from congress March 4.
blxpressions of opposition and hos
'i'ty to the action of the president in
^Pointing a commission of architects
B(* artists to have charge of all public
Millings and the erection of monu
ments and memorials in the national
®Pital continue to be heard on Capitol
general news.
Thomas p. Gore, democrat, wai
finally re-elected United States sen
or by the Oklahoma legislature it
^nt session Wednesday. The vote
Tn ^e'nnis Flynn, republican
j e ^’ew Mexico legislature Tues
5 adopted a memorial to congress
ng for the immediate passage o
ah'hood measures.
do t^"1 Woodbury, “the beaut;
lt0r.” shot and killed himself Mon
jSl^ ^ ®ea Cliff, his home on Cone;
Over the veto of Gov. Patterson
both houses of the Tennessee legisla
ture Thursday passed the senate bill
which prohibits the sale of intoxicat
ing liquors within four miles of a
school house in Tennessee, and is in
effect a state-wide prohibition act. It
is effective July 1, 1909. In each
house the passage was effected
through a combination of Republican
and “state-wide” Democratic strength.
John D. Rockefeller was again
chosen superintendent of the Sunday
school of his Cleveland church, the
Euclid Avenue Baptist, at the yearly
meeting Wednesday night.
Fire that caused half a million dol
lars damage broke out in the theater
section in Toledo, O.. Tuesday night
just as the performances were about
to close and only the coolness of the
managers prevented a panic in the
Arcade and Empire theaters.
California members ot congress gen
erally are supporting President Roose
velt in his contention that the anti
Japanese measures now pending be
fore the legislature of that state
should be killed.
Charges against Senator Tillman,
which were sent by President Roose
velt to Senator Hale in response to
his request for information concern
ing the operations of the secret serv
ice, will not be considered by the sen
ate committee on appropriations. This
special committee, composed of Sen
ators Gallinger, Hemenway and Clay,
held its first meeting Monday. The
data already submitted was exam
ined by the committee and it was
found that investigation would have
to be of an exhaustive character.
A telegram from New York states
that Charles L. Tutt of Colorado
Springs, Colo., one of the richest min
ing and smelting magnates in the
West, is dead there of heart disease
and pneumonia.
xluiuuau aiiuuum ru i uui d*
day afternoon that after a close inves
tigation he was convinced that 66 men
have perished in the fire which de
stroyed the crib in Lake Michigan
Wednesday.
The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill was reported to the senate. It
carries $1,151,602, an increase of only
$25,000 over the amount as passed by
the house. The committee struck out
the house provision for an appropria
tion of $12,000 for the purchase of au
tomobiles for the use of the president,
which was included upon expressed
wish of President-elect Taft, who pre
fers the automobile to the horse.
The James river dam bill is dead
so far as the present congress is con
cerned. The president's veto of the
bill was referred to a subcommittee-of
the house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce. Mr. Stevens, chair
man of the subcommittee, said there
was no need making an effort to pass
the bill over the veto.
v\ lin run military Honors me oouy
of the late Vice-Admiral Rojestvensky
was interred at St. Petersburg Mon
day in the presence of representa
tives of the imperial family, the min
isters of war and marine, and an as
semblage of high officials. Wreaths
from ilie emperor and empress were
placed on the coffin.
The senate ratified arbitration treat
ies with Chili, Costa Rica and Austrio
Hungary and an extradition treaty with
Honduras, this latter completing the
series of forty-four new extradition
treaties negotiated to include the
crime of bribery among the extradit
able offenses.
The stormy weather In the earth
quake region is adding greatly to the
affliction of the refugees. The work
of hut construction has been retarded
and the country all about Messina is
like a iake of mud. The panicky feel
ing also is kept up by numerous
shocks which have been felt as far as
Brindisi.
After seven hours of heated debate,
characterized by bitter denunciations
and caustic criticisms, the house of
representatives pased the bill prohib
iting the manufacture of intoxicating
liquors in Tennessee, by a vote of lit)
to 36. The bill was passed by the
senate Thursday.
Grieving over the illness of one of
his five motherless children, Eugene
Schoech of Highland, near Edwards
ville. 111., crept from the house where
his boys and girls were asleep early
Friday and lay down on the Pennsyl
vania railroad tracks. Five minutes
later a fast train, flying through the
night, ran over him, cutting him in
two.
With railroad traffic practically sus
pended on some lines, train scedules
demoralized on other roads, telegraph
and telephone wires prostrated and
communications only fitfully main
tained at some sections of the San
.loaquiu and Sacramento valleys, Cal
ifornia has within the last 24 hours
experienced one of the worst storms
in a quarter of a century, covering
an area that extends from the Oregon
coast to San Diego. At various places
the rains at times reached the propor
tions of a cloudburst and was accom
panied by a fierce gale.
AGED WOMAN
ASSAULT VICTIM
CHARLES STINNETT, NEGRO, IS
UNDER ARREST, CHARGED
WITH CRIME AGAINST
MISS LOVITT.
LAW IS ACTING RAPIDLY
Special Grand Jury Is Summoned and
Negro Is Indicted—Quick Trial
Is Promised.
Harrison.—Accused of assault on
Miss J-ovitt, a woman more than 60
years oid, Charles Stinnett, 23 was
arrested here. Although Circuit Court
was in session. Judge Hudgins called
a special Grand Jury Tuesday morn
ing, when the facts of the assault be
came known, and gave them instruc
tions to investigate 'Jie case. Before
noon Stinnett had been indicted and
served with a copy of the indictment.
Feeling is running high, but Judge
Hudgins is appealing to the people to
remain calm and promises a fair and
immediate trial.
Stinnett, the accused man, was
raised here, but has lately been in
Springfield. He returend here about
a month ago, and since that time has
been without employment.
According to the statement of the
woman, the negro came to her house
late in the evening. She was chopping
wood, which he offered to do for her.
After he had carried the wood into
the house he sat by the fire for some
time. Then, telling the woman he
would go if she w'ould open the door
she arose to do so, when he attacked
her. After the accomplishment of
his intention, it is said he drew a
knife and threatened to kill her if she
ever told. After his departure, the
woman, fearing he would return, hid
in the barn until morning, when she
told some of her neghbors of the
crime.
When arrested, Stinnett acknowl
edged being at the woman’s house,
but denied having committed the
crime. Xo trouble is anticipated now,
and it is thought the law will be al
lowed to take its course.
MAP OF ARKANSAS IN WOOD.
Governor Donaghey received from
Charles T. Abeles & Co. a highly
polished block of oak, a foot square,
to be used in the construction of a
map to adorn the cabin of the new
lake and ocean steamer “United
States,” under construction at Mani
tomac, Wis., by the Indiana Trans
portation Company.
The object of file company is to
place in the cabin of the steamer a
map of the United States constructed
of blocks of wood from each state,
the map of each to be fashioned from
the respective blocks from such state.
In addition to this map, a panel por
trait of the governor of each state
is to placed upon the walls of the
cabin and mural decorations, consist
ing of reproductions in oil of import
ant events in the nation’s history,
from the landing of Columbus to the
present time, and terse sayings of
eminent Americans from George
Washington to William H. Taft en
gravinged on brass tablets which will
be ditributed througout the craft.
Married Two Days—Seeks Divorce.
Conway.—After living together as
man and wife for two days, Will
Chrisonberry, the 16-year-old son of
J. H. Chisonberry, is now seeking a
divorce from his 13-year-old bride.
The complaint which was filed in the
Faulkner ( haneery Court Tuesday by
the plaintiff's ff.ther, as his next
friend, alleges that the plaintiff was
overpersuaded by the mother of the
defendant to enter into the marriage
contract, and that he dd so without
his parent’s knowledge or consent. It
is also claimed that the marriage is
null and void on account of the age
of the two parties. The plaintiff asks
that he be restored to the rights of a
single man and that the maiden name
of his wife, Minne Joiner, be restored
to her.
The defendant in the case is a
daughter of the widow of Charles
Carnahan, who was killed by A. B.
Winters. Winters was tried and a«
quitted for the killing last Saturday.
Dr. Adams At Fayetteville.
Fayetteville.—Dr. C. F. Adams or
the agricultural experiment station
has just returned from an extensive
trip over the state, where he has been
holding farmers’ institutes and or
ganizing co-operative work.
Meetings were held at Jacksonville.
Paragould, Jonesboro, Osceola, Corn
ing, Walnut Ridge. Pocahontas, Clar
endon, Roe, Strut gart, Thorton, Genoa.
Prof. Hinemon spoke on "Agricul
tural Education” at Thorton. Th*
meetings were successful and others
are being planned.
TO TALK ON GOOD ROADS.
Governor Scheduled to Discuss Road
Building With Convict Labor at
State Convention.
Gov. George W. Donaghey will ad
dress the sixth annual convention of
the Arkansas Good Roads Associa
tion, which will convene in Little
Rock January 26 and 27, on “Convicts
and Good Roads.” About 200 dele
gates from all parts of Arkansas are
expected to attend the convention. A
large number of county judges and
mayors have signified their intention
of attending, and have sent to Secre
tary E. L. Carter the names of dele
gates whom they expect to be pres
ent at the convention.
The annual election of officers of
the association will be held during
the convention. The members of the
association probably will take an ac
tive interest in the passage of sev
eral new laws. A new bond amend
ment, against which the same objec
tions urged against Xo. 10 cannot be
made, probably will be suggested by
the association.
The first meeting each day will be
held in the auditorium of the Hotel
Marion, and the second and third
meetings in the hall of the House of
Representatives. An automobile ride
over Pulaski county macadam roads
will be a feature of the meeting on
the afternoon of January 26. An ef
fort is being made to induce local
automobile owners to extend the use
of their machines to the members of
the association. A number of Little
Rock automobilists have already
granted the use of their cars for the
proposed ride.
An address by Mayor W. R. Duley
on “Municipal Need of Power to Issue
Bonds for the Making of Public Im
provements” will be a feature of the
night session, January 27.
BANK CLOSES AT LEWISVILLE.
Merchants’ and Farmers’ of Which J.
0. Smith Was Cashier in Receiv
er’s Hands.
Lewisville.—No event of recent
years has attracted more comment
here than the indictment recently re
turned by the grand jury against J.
O. Smith on the charge of accessory
to arson. The excitement was in
creased by the voluntary closing of
the doors of the Merchants’ and
Farmers’ bank of this place, of which
Smith was formerly the cashier.
There is much discussion of the rap
idly multiplying events connected
with the arrest and further reports
that are said to be pregnant with
possibilities of even greater sensa
tions are awaited.
The charge of arson made against
Smith has been overshadowed by the
appointment of receivers for the
bank.
Among the funds of the bank were
between $5,000 and $0,000 belonging
to Lafayette county, of which I. L.
Nix is treasurer. This money is pro
tected by a bond and none will be
lost to the county in case the bank
is not able to pay its depositors in
full.
Two negroes have been indicted for
arson and Smith is indicted as their
accessory.
MINING AT CADDO GAP.
Two Compaines Organized and Shops.
Etc., Are to Be Built.
Caddo Gap.—Several enterprises of
large proportions are bing projected*,
here.
The Caddo Gap Mining and Smelting
Company has perfected its organiza
tion, with H. J. Redcliff. president;
H. F. Primni, vice president; G. L.
Howell, secretary, and L. C. Huey,
treasurer, and the articles of incor
poration are ready to file with the
clerk of the court at Mt. Ida. They
have already done considerable work
and claim to have brought up ore of
good quality.
The Fuller Prospecting and Mining
Company, including miners from Colo
rado, have leased from the Vaught
brothers all the "Gap lands” owned
by them in the narrows. The lease
u« for minerals only and does not in
clude the hot water in the land. Shops
an assay office and necessary build
ings are to be erected at once, and
mining operations are to begin im
mediately. The company is said to
have plenty of money to prosecute the
work.
College President Resigns.
Mountain Home.—J. A. Smith, pre
sident of the Mountain Home Baptist
College has resigned. It seemed for
a while that the school would close
for the term, but the board and those
interested got together and decided to
carry on the school. Joe George, a
student at the State University, was
induced to take Mr. Smith's place, and
he, with the remaining members of
the faculty, will complete the term
The cause of the president’s re
signation as given out was that the
institution was not paying expenses
and was running behind each mon h.
Citizens agreed to insure Mr. George’s
and the faculy’s salaries.
m JOSE SCALE
State Horticultural Society to Ask
Legislature for a Spraying Law.
Next Meetings at Little Rock.
Siloam Springs.—A resolution ask
ing the legislature now in session to
pass a compulsory spraying bill «*as
passed by the Arkansas State Horti
cultural Society at its concluding ses
sion. It has been found by investi
gation that all of the orchards with
but few exceptions throughout the
entire state are badly infested with
the San Jose scale and from the ex
perience of growers who have been
troubled with it, it has been decided
that unless some steps are taken to
check its ravages it will be only a
few ye^rs until every orchard in Ar
kansas—both apples and peach—will
be destroyed. Secretary Logan gives
out the following statement in regard
to fruit conditions in Arkansas, bar
ring the ravages of the scale.
“From the present indications, as
gathered from fruit growers from
every section of the state, it seems
that the Elberta peach crop in north
ern Arkansas, including the northern
tier of counties, as well as southwest
Missouri, has been entirely wiped out
by the recent cold weather, but no
damage is reported to the apple crop,
so far, the apple buds being in splen
did condition with a fair prospect for
a good crop. Some little damage to
the Elberta peach crop is reported
from Van Buren, Clarkesville and oth
er points in that section, but the
damage is only slight, and will not
materially affect the crop. The re
ports from Mena, Grannis, De Queen
and Horatio show that no damage so
far resulted to the peach crop in that
section.”
nucK uas oeen cnosen as tne
next meeting place of the society, to
be held on the third Tuesday in Janu
ary.
Secretary Logan, who for several
years has been secretary of the asso
ciation, has resigned from that office.
The following officers were elected:
W. H. H. Shibley of Van Buren, pres
ident; A1 C. Ford of Siioam Springs,
vice president; Prof. E. Walker of
Fayetteville, secretary; J. W. Vestal
of Little Rock, treasurer.
A feature of the session was an ad
dress by John N. Tillman, president
of the Arkansas State University. Ad- !
dresses were made by George T. Tip
pen of Springfield, Jlo., and Prof
Ernest Walker of Fayetteville.
New Light and Water Plant.
Pine Bluff.—The big new water and
light plant of the Pine Bluff cor
poration has been completed and was
tested by the city officials and mem
bers of the City Council. The test
was most satisfactory, the capacity
of the plant far exceeding expectations
and even the claims made by its
builders. The new plant is the most
modern in this state, it is said, and
cost several hundred thousands of
dollars. The old water and light plant
has been abandoned. It covers halt
a block of ground and the reservoir,
with a capacity of J.000,000 gallons
of water, occupies another half block
adjoining. Te contract with the city
is to furnish 4,000,000 gallons of wat-r
per day and the test Tuesday demon
strated that the new plant can exceed
that amount at least 20 per cent.
CALDWELL UNCOMMUNICATIVE.
State House Contractor Will Not Dis
cuss Governor's Message.
Little Rock.—George W. Caldwell of
Caldwell & Drake, contractors for the
new state capitol, returned this week
from a visit to his home in Columbus.
Ind., and expects to remain in Little
Rock several days before going to
Springfield. Mo., to look after the pro
gress of a $300,000 building hi?, firm
is constructing in that city.
Mr. Caldwell was asked if he would
accept the suggestion of arbitration
offered by Governor Donaghey in his
inaugural message for the settlement
of the questions involved in the com
pletion of the state capitol. Mr. Cald
well stated that he had read Governor
Donaghey’s message carfully, but said
emphatically that he would not dis
cuss the matter or say wh:«* his in
tentions were regarding his contract
for the construction of the state capi
tol.
T. J. McMillon Disappears.
Little Rock.—Local authorities have
been notified of the disappearance of
J. T. McMillon of Bauxite, who mys
teriously dropped out of sight in Little
Rock on November 22 last. McMillou
left home in Bauxite with $4 1 v ith
which to buy a stove in Litr.le Rock,
and no definata trace of him has been
found.
Mrs. Belia McMillon, his wife, was
in Little Rock and appealed to the
police and constables. McMillon is
described as five feet, six inches tall,
with light hair, blue eyes and a red
dish complexion. He has a gol
front upper tooth and the thumb i*
off his rt;t.t hand. He is il ye&rl
old.
HOLDS REMARKABLE RECOha
Mains Man Who Has Voted at Seven
teen National Elections.
Boston.—Voted in 17 presidential
elections, lived in two states and two
counties, yet never moved from his
farm, is the rather remarkable record
of a remarkable Maine man.
When Almon S. Forbes of Brooks,
Me., was born August 10, 181S. he was
a resident of the state of Massachu
setts and of the county of Hancock;
now he lives in the county of Waldo,
state of Maine, and until within a few
years upon a farm which the first set
JLttON <3. FORBES
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tier of the town cleared from the vir
gin wilderness.
For 69 years Mr. Forbes has paid
taxes and voted in the town of Brooks
and has the right to be referred to in
the village press as “one of our oldest
and most highly-esteemed residents.”
Although in his ninety-first year he
!s most remarkably well preserved and
would pass for not over 75 years old.
He reads without glasses and being
an expert orchardist spends much of
his time in grafting and pruning and
improving the orchards of his neigh
bors. He has been a hard worker all
nis life and but recently retired from
he management of one of the largest
farms in the county.
His memory of past events is re
markably accurate and he is in a way
a walking historian of the earlier days
of the section where he lives. He has
been selectman and town treasurer
and earned well the title bestowed
upon him by an enthusiastic admirer
as "The grand old man of Brooks.”
CURIOUS FREAK OF NATURE.
Tree Grows Out of Grave and Lifts
T ombstone.
London. — The woman buried in
the grave shown in the il
lustration, which is situated at
Hanover, is said to have been a pro
fessional infidel, and in order to show
her aversion to the idea of a resurrec
tion she gave instructions that the
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Tree Which Grows Out of a Grave.
following notice should be engraved
on her tomb: “This grave has- been
purchased forever, and no one must
dare open it at any time.—Henrietta
Juliane Caroline Vonruling, born 9th
January, 1756, died at Hanover, 1782.”
What man has not dared to do, and
while the instruction has been ob
served as far as the human is con
cerned, nature has not felt so re
stricted, but allowed a tiny seed to
upset the infidel lady’s decree in that
a tree has grown out of the grave
where she was buried, and has lifted
the tombstone as shown in the pic
ture.
Secret of Preserving Colors Lost.
Present-day artists buy their colors
ready-made, and spend large sums of
money on pigments with which to
color their canvases. The pictures of
modern artists will be colorless when
many of the works of the old masters
are as bright as they show to-day.
Just as the secret of dyeing has been
lost, so has the secret of preserving
rtie colors of artists’ paints. Yet this
secret was known to every ancient
painter, for all of thsm mixed their
own colors.