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Published In the famous Big Bottom Country, Where Alfalfa Is King.
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, January 26, 1906.
Vol. 6. No. 5.
ISO ME SIGNS OF PEACE
County Committe Orders Primary
For March 28, and Adopts
Conciliatory Resolution.
The Democratic county central
committee, of which M. E. Moore
is chairman, held a meeting at the
court house at Batesville Satur
day. Representatives were pres
ent from Barren, Big Bottom, Oil
Trough, Christian, Gaines boro,
Greenbrier. .Jefferson, Magness, j
Ruddell, Salado, Washington and j
White River townships. C. P. |
Bnady was elected committeeman
for Cushman township.
The following resolution look
ing to the reconciliation of the
two committees was unanimously
adopted.
“Whereas, there are two bodies
claiming tf> be the Democratic
county central committee of Inde
pendence county, and
“Whereas, the continued exist
anoo of these two bodies, acting
independent of each other, and the
holding of the the two separate
primaries will most surely result
in a strife and division in the par
ly, the end of which no man can
foresee and probably in the defeat
of the democratic candidates and
election of an independent ticket;
Therefore be it
“Resolved, That while we are
fully aware of our regularity and
completefauthority as the rightful
central committee and while we
have no intention of yielding or
giving away to the other body
claiming to be the central commit
tee, yet rather than be responsi
ble in part for disrupting the par
ty and inviting defeat to its candi
dates, we are willing to meet the
other committee (so called) in a
, spirit of fairness and mutual con
cession to the end that the two
•committees may effect a comprom
ise by merging themselves into
one general committee, which
shall be the Democratic central I
committee of Independence coun
ty until the meeting and organi
zation of the next county conven
tion.
“Resolved further, That in or
der that no advantage may be tak
en by either committee or the in
dividual members thereof in the:
further conduct of the party’s af
fairs pending the meeting of the
county convention, Messrs. \V. S.
Wright and L. F. Reeder, chair
man and secretary of the one com
mittee and Messrs. M. E. Moore
and Ernest Neill, chairman and I
secretary of the other committee,
shall have full charge of tiie de
tails of selecting the judges to hold
the next prifhary, giving proper j
consideration, to such names as
Y - be suggested by the commit
*emen from the several townships |
and that in the appointing of such
judges each side shall select alter
nately; that the merged committee
shall select two men from each of
the old committee to count the
vote cast in the primary and an
nounce the result. And in the se
lecting of*the judges for the var
ious townships, the largest town
ship shall be taken first, the next
largest township second and so on
down the list.”
A resolution providing fora pri
mary to be held on the 28th day
of March was also adopted, and
the following qualifications for
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Which was opened for through traffic from Newport, Ark., to Carthage, Mo., last Sunday.
WHITE ItlYEK ROUTE
Was Opened For Through Traffic !
From Newport to Carthage
Last Sunday.
_
The much delayed and much- i
talked-of opening of the new |
White River route for through
tratiic took place last Sunday, the
lirst through train leaving New
port at 7 o’clock Sunday morning. '
The road traverses one of the \
richest mineral sections east of the
Rockies, and is a more important j
link in Western railroad systems ;
than might appear at first glance.
It opnns a direct route between
the Southeast and West, and
Northwest, and what this means
to the people of both sections will
be understood by all railroad men
and students of industrial and
agricultural conditions. It will
mean new and better markets fori
each, and consequently a greater
share of general prosperity. It;
will deflect much of the commerce
that now goes to Eastern markets ,
to the South, and much of what
the South sends to other sections
to the West and Northwest. Fac
tory building will be stimulated
throughout its territory because
of its ease of access both from and
to markets and regions where the
raw products are raised. This
will mean a boom for Arkansas
and Missouri. Vet all this has
been gained by the building of
merely a strip of road less than
300 miles in length, a strip that
was necessary, however, to effect
the direct route mentioned.
The first fifty miles of the line
from Newport traverses one of the
richest agricultural sections in the
entire South a section destined
to become the garden spot of the
greatest State in the Union.
SCHOOL FURNITURE.
School directors are reminded
that Craig & Henderson of New
ark still handle school furniture
and apparatus of all kinds, and are
prepared to sell tirst-elass goods at
low prices. If you expect to buy
anything in their line see or write
to them and you will have prompt
attention.
The annual value of the mineral
I products of Germany is about
j $250,000,000. Goal and iron are
I the most important.
I
R, K. Ratton spent Saturday j
night at Newport and attended the
Hoo Hoo concatenation.
R. R. Reeves, of Oil Trough,
candidate for representative, was
in town Saturday on business.
J. W. Barton of Houston, Tex.,
has taken a position as assistant
barber with II. A. Hire at the
Magness stand.
lion T. II. Hearing went up to
Batesville Saturday to attend the
meeting of the Democratic county
central committee.
Passenger No. 201, due here go
ing east at 7:4.'> p. m. Wednesday,
was twelve hours late, owing to a
break-down of the engine which
occurred at Williamson’s ferry. '
Henry .Johnson has taken a po
sition as salesman with W. J. Lit
tlefield, and wotdd be pleased to
have his friends remember him
when he can be of service to them
in any manner.
Hon. S. A. Moore arrived home
Saturday from a trip to .James
town, Batesville, Mooredeld, Sul
phur Rock and other points in the
county, in the interest of his can
didacy for representative.
Dr. J. C. Magtiess, formerly of
this place, but who has been at
Divine, Tex., for the past several
years, is now located at San Anto
nio, where he has become associat
ed with Dr. 11. W. Matthews in
charge of the Matthews Home for J
the cure of drug and whiskey ad
dictions.
L. 1J. Holcomb, secretary and
treasurer of Oak Hill Farmers’;
Union No. 80S, sends The Journal
the following statement of the fi
nancial condition of his Union
front April 1, .1905, to January 1,
1700: Received from initiation
lees, $32.00; dues for second quar
ter, $2.90; dues for third quarter,
i$3.95; dues for fourth quarter,
$4.30: total receipts, $43.15. The
total expenditures for the same
' period were $42 15, leaving a bal*
1 ance of $1 on baud January 1.
John now must hajmj
Supreme Court Affirms Judgment
of Lower Court and Dow
Must Pay the Penalty.
_
In the supreme court at Little1
Rock last Saturday, Mr. .Justice
Riddick delivered the opinion of
the court in the case of .John Dow
against the State of Arkansas, ap
pealed from this county, and af
firmed the judgment of the lower
court.
The crime was committed at
Sulphur Rock last April, the de
tails of which are familiar to read
ers of The Journal. Dow was con
victed in the circuit court and
sentenced to hang on the loth day
of December. His attorney, lion.
Dene II. Coleman, appealed the
case to the supreme court, and in i
passing upon the case the court
held that the facts in proof made
out a clear and convincing case of
murder in the first degree; that
there was really no evidence upon
which to base an instruction for j
voluntary manslaughter, and that
the court did not err in refusing
to give the instructions asked by
the defendant on that point. The
murder was a very brutal one, and
really the only question in the
case was whether the defendant
was insane at the time he commit
ted the act. No instruction was
asked on that point, and the evi
1 deuce is very clear that he was
not insane.
“While some of the instructions i
may be defective in form,” the
court said, “we think on the
whole that no prejudicial error
was committed, and that the judg-1
ment should be affirmed. It is so
ordered.”
The date of Dow’s execution
must now be set by the governor.
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BUTTERMILK SAVED A LIFE.
While playing with matches the
little son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Mackey of Jonesboro accidentally
set fire to his clothing, lie ran
out into the .yard with his clothing
! ablaze and a woman who was pass
ing with a bucket of buttermilk
j threw the contents on the child
and extinguished the flames, but
! not before the boy was badly
burned.
Deeds of trust and legal blanks
! for sale at The Journal oftiee.
AN EMTOIt'S APPEAL
To Other Publishers in Behalf of
the Lost Child of Dr. Byers,
of Seeleyville, Ind.
The Journal is in receipt of a
marked copy of the Times, pub
lished at New Harmony, Ind.,
containing the following in regard
to a lost boy:
“If the editor of every paper in
the central west will republish
these lines there is no question but
what Dr. S. L. Byers of Seeley
ville, Ind., will recover his little
son who was stolen from his home
one year ago last May. I)r. Byers
has spent almost his .entire re
sources in search for his child and
unless the big hearted members of
the press come to his assistance
his son will grow up an outlaw
and an outcast among the lowest
people of the earth. It is a cause
that should appeal to everyone
and no father reading these lines
can do so without a quickening of
the heart and a sympathetic throb.
It is believed that if this article is
re-printed in the newspapers it
will form an endless chain that
will uncover the lost boy’s con
cealment and return him to his
distracted parents. In doing this
the profession of journalism will
be fulfilling one of its highest des
times.
“Publishers whose circulations
touch the Wabash, Ohio and Mis
sissippi valleys are especially re
questeu to reproduce this story of
the lost child as Dr. Ilyers believes
his boy is now on some houseboat
waiting to take the road in the
Spring. There is a reward of
§500 awaiting any information
that will lead to the boy’s recov
ery. No questions will be asked
and if the abductor himself would
deliver the boy to his parents he
would not be molested. The be
reaved parents are heart-broken
with grief and want only their
child. If each journal will reprint
these lines, they will travel to ev
ery exchange table in the United
States and bring back to a wretch
ed home a child who is now no
doubt suffering with cold, unfed
and wretched to a degree. Think
of what your own feelings would
be under similar circumstances!
This appeal is indicted originally
by a publisher who saw Dr. Byers
only once, has no personal interest
in his quest other than the bond
of sympathy that makes the world
akin, end is inspired from the be
lief that the lost boy can only 1*3
found through the united effort of
the country press of which lie is
proud to be a member.”
DESCRIPTION OF THE BOY.
Richmond Byers, if alive was
0 years old last July, is of light
complexion, has gray eyes, left
eye notieibly crossed, -has a small
V shaped nick in the edge of the
left ear, has a shary chin and a
narrow, projecting forehead. He
is rather small for his age and is
unusually bright and intelligent,
taking after the manner of a boy
much older.
Dr. Byers has searched among*
the roving bands that frequent
the United States and believes
that his son can be found among
1 traveling junk dealers, so called
horse traders or movers. He does,
not think the boy was stolen by
! genuine gipsies. He thinks ha
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