The Newark Journal.
One Dollar Per Annum.
NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY AUGUST 1, 1902.
Vol. 2 No. 31.
THE CLAYTON GANG
A Few Pertinent Facts in Regard
to the Gang That Harry
Myers Represents.
The State Republicans is wor
rying over what it takes to consti
tute a Democrat, and says is don’t
know whether to jump on the
Bryan kind or the Cleveland fol
lowers. We suggest that it spend
the next few months in finding
out what it takes to constitute an
Aikansas republican and whether
the Democrats here should tight
the Meyers branch or the Greaves
tribe. It is a matter of more local
interest.
The above item appeared in the
lato issue tf the Mammoth Spring
Monitor, credited to the Rogers
Democrat. We ptodnro it mere
ly that we might more intelligent
ly answer. Right now it makes
no difference to republicans what
it takes to constitute a democrat,
but if the State Republican hopes
to gain anything in this state for
Powell Clayton’s candidate for
Governor, II- II. Meyers, whom
it endorses it would he wise to di
rect its tight against Jefferson
Inolr Uiifin it n a tf * m
this ‘-kind” that has been in pow
er in this state since 1874 and it is
the same “kind” that stands ready
to compare records with the Clay
ton gang. A comparison of these
records will certainly prove to
any m in and convince any man
that more than all else it “takes”
piinciple to constitute a democrat
and this same comparison soon to
he made hy Jeff Davis will surely
convince the editor of the State
Republican that it took men with
lit II in them as large as our Mam
mot li Spring's to make the record
which hstory now gives to the
credit of Clayton and the cut
throat gang that did his bidding
from 1888 to 1874 It is a mys
tery to us that any democrat
should express doubt as to which
factios of the lepjbliean party lie
should tight. Greaves and his
followers have shown and proven
by their actum in stepping out
and away from Clayton and his
kind that they deserve at least
the kind 'espect of all right
thinking men be they democrats
or what not. The Rogers Demo
crat should post itself on history.
We ask the editor thereof to turn
with us to the dark and damnable
period of which we speak, ’68 to
’74. Read theieand satisfy your
self as to who democrats should
“tight.” it was Clayton and his
The greatest ambition of Amer
ican men and women is to have
home* blessed with children. The
woman afflicted with female dis
ease is constantly menaced with
becoming a childless wife. No
medicine can restore dead or
gans, but Wine of Cardui does
regulate derangements that pre
vent conception; does prevent
miscarriage; does restore weak
functions and shattered nerves
and does bring babies to homes
barren and desolate for years.
Wine of Cardui gives women tho
health and strength to bear heal
thy children. You can get a
dollar bottle of Wine of Cardui
from your dealer.
WINE°r CARDIII
** Market Street,
married fifteen yean and had never
given l.irth to a child until I took Wine
pf.t arduL Ngwj am mother of a fine
baby girl which was bora March StTlSOl.
The baby weighs fourteen pounds and I
■ (?*1 *• ae nay person could feel.
2?BSi* I never will
^ Wine of Cardui in my house
****** Mrs. J. W, 0. SMITH.
tools who robbed, whipped, mur
dered in cold blood men, women
and children who were not repub
licans, and there are many people
now living in Fulton county whc
will swear that this is so. Greaves
should bo for leaving his camp,
It was Clayton and his tools that
destroyed the homes of peaceable
democrats and made Arkansas i
“hell on earth.” Wo very much
dislike to refer to such repulsive
memories as these but they arc
us true as heaven and circum
stances demand it. Hell woulc
have been a pleasant place foi
the respectable people here com
pared to Arkansas during Clay
ton’s campaign. Today, endors
ing Powell Clayton, II. II
Meyers is seeking the governor's
chair of our fair state : today, re
pudiating Clayton and everything
with the Clayton smell about it,
Mr. Greaves comes out against
Meyers. While we shall support
the nominee of the democratic
party, yet we do think that men
who prefer the election of a re
publican should support a clear
one, oue who has thrown off the
yoke of boss rule and stands foi
cleanliness in politics. It shoulc
be no trouble for democrats te
hmi out where they snoulu utreel
their “tight.” Fight the gang
that has harmed the state and hei
people and have not repented.—
Mammoth Springs Democrat.
Patents at Cut Prices.
In order to Keep buisy during the
summer, Swift & Co., the prompt
and proper patent lawyers, oppo
site U. S. Patent Office, Wash
Ington, D. C., have made a big
cut in the price for obtaining
patents, inventors who desire
to save money and get the best
work should write them while tlu
cut prices prevails,
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Throat Cut From Ear to Ear.
DeWitt, July 26.—At a negrr
festival in wh at is known as tlu
Morgan settlement, seven mile
oast of this place, night before
last bad blood and bad whiskej
precipitated a general row among
the negroes, and when the sniok*
of battle cleared away it was
found that one negro, Georg*
Trice, was dead with his throat
cut from car to ear, an anothei
negro, Morgan Fitzpatrick, was
stabbed three times in the back,
making ugly, if not dangerous,
wounds. Trice was killed b)
Fitzpatrick, but it is not definite
ly known who stabbed Filzpat
rick. Fitzpatrick is under arrest
and will be tried for the murdei
of Trice.
It Needs a Tonic.
There are times when youi livei
needs a tonic. Dou’t give purga
tives that gripe and weaken. De
Witt’s Little Early Kisers expo
all poison from the system and
acts as tonic to the liver. W.
Scott, 531 Highland ave., Milton.
Pa., says: “1 have carried De
Witt’s Little Early Risers wit!
me for several years and woult
not be without them.” Small and
easy to take. Purely vegetable.
They never giipe or distress. J.
I. Sturdivant.
Yet It Is Not a Trust.
According to the answer of tk<
United States Steel corporator
made before Vice Chancellor Erne
ry at Newark, N. J., the earnings
of that great trust aggregate $140,
000,000 per year. The value o]
the trust property is fixed a
$400,000,000 and it is admitted tha
the conversion plan contemplates f
payment of $10,000,000 to ,J. Pier
pont Morgan & Co. This is tin
great aggregation of wealth con
cerning which Attorney Genera
Knox recently reported to tin
president as notin violation of tin
anti-trust law.—Commoner.
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6 MURDERERS HANGED
Four Negroes and Two White
Men Pay Death Penalty
on the Gallows.
Last friday was hangman’s day
in Arkansas and six murderers
paid the death penalty on the gal
lows. Each banging was private.
Four were negroes and two were
white men.
Dave McWhorter, who on Nov
ember 15, 1901, shot and ki^ed
his wife because she had left him
and would not consent to go back
and live with him, paid the pena
lity with his life at Van Buren.
McWhorter stated on the gallows
that he was confident of his soul’s
salvation and advised his hearers
to profit by his misfortune. The
trap was spring at 10.19, he drop
ped six and one-half feet and was
pronounced dead in 14 minutes.
Jim Kitts, a negro, was hauged
at Arkansas City, at 1.45 p, in.
Kitts admitted his guilt on the
scaffold, said he was prepared to
die but was not sorry for his
crime. A song was started and
during the progress of the song
Sheriff Preston sprung the trap.
Kitts assasinated another negro
in the latter’s crap dive in Arkan
sas City November 13 luot,
Cy Tanner, colored, was hanged
at Forrest City at 10.45 for the
deliberate murder of Robert
Black, also colored, over a debt
of 25 cents claimed to have been
due Tanner from Black. He
walked to the scaffold as erect as
a man going to the dinning table,
made a short talk, sung a song
then bid good bye to all and volun
tarily took his position upon the
trap. This is the first legal exe
cution in Forrest City since
1879.
At Washington, Dee Noland
and Tom Simms, both colored,
paid the death penalty for atro
cious crimes. Simms shot and
killed Nancy and Tobitha Setton,
both colored, in November 1901.
Dee Noland killed his wife by
choking her to death. The evi
dence against him was circuin
stati.il, but he finally confessed
his guilt. Both ate a hearty
breakfast at 4 and at 6.16 the
sheriff sprang the trigger that
sent them into eternity.
Lathe Uambre was executed at
Center Point at 10 o’clock for the
murder of W. M. Willis. Willis
was a tie inspector and the mur
der was committed March 2, 190C,
for the purpose ot robbery.
No Shackles for Cunning.
The National Grocer company
has been organized with a capitali
zation of $5,000,000. The pur
pose of the concern is to gain con
trol of the wholesale grocery hous
es in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Mis
souri, and Michigan. The new
trust will begin operations Aug
ust 1. Another indication that it
may be necessary in the near fu
ture “to shackle cunning as in the
past we have shackled force.”
And another demonstration, if it is
really the shaekler of cunning, is
not working much at its trade
these days.—Commoner.
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His Sight Threatened.
“While picnicking last month
my 11-year-old boy was poisoned
i by some {weed or plant, “says
W, II. Dibble, of Sioux City, la.
' “lie rubbed the poison off his
; hands into his eyes and for awhile
; we were afraid he would lose his
l sight. Finally a neighbor recom
mended DeWitt’s Witch Ilazel
, Salve. The first application help
ed him and in a few days he was
[ as well as ever. For skin diseases,
. cuts, burns, scalds, wounds, iu
. sect bites, DeWitt’s Witch Ilazel
Salve is sure cure. Relieves piles
at once. Beware of counterfeits.
J. I. Sturdivant,
LIFE ON A BATTLESHIP
It is Not a Picnic by any Means
and Has Few Allurments
For Average Man.
“Life on a battleship is no holi
day excursion,” said an old mari
ner who knows a thing or two
about guns and things of that sort,
to the New Orleans Times -Demo
crat, “and the young man who
would pick out his knid of a life
with the idea that it wovdd be one
grand, sweet round of pleasure
would miss the mark.
“No doubt there are many young
men who are extremely anxious to
be aboard one of these big battle
ships when the guns unlimber,
but I am inclined to think that
just one experience would bo
enough for the average young man.
Now, 1 do not belong to this
branch of Uncle Sam's fighting
force, but my experience has
taught me many things while at
sea, and I know something about
these big guns. Take these 13
inch guns now in use on the big
battleships. When these guns are
fired there is something going on.
it is awiui. i\o man can stand to
be near them without an appeal to
protection of some sort. In the
tirst place, the men are forced to
fill their ears with cotton. One
young gentleman from Annapolis
failed to do this on one occasion,
and he has not been able to hear
anything since. The mere fact
that the gun decks are bolted down
ought to give some idea of the
amount of force involved in the
discharge of one of these guns.
The stuffing of the ears with cot
ton is absolutely necessary. The
discharge of a 18-inch gun creates
a tremendous vacuum. It literally
pulls all the air out of the ears of
men who are close to the gun.
Here is where the danger come in.
The reactionary force is something
terrific, and unless the ear is pro
tected by the use of cotton the air
would rush back into the ear with
such force that the drum would be
in danger of serious and perman
ent injury. The drum of the ear
could not stand the quick but viol
ent return of the air. Hence the
use of cotton has been resorted to
while firing these big guns. There
is an instance on record where the
rushing of the air iuto the vacuum
casued by the discharge of one of
these guns was so forceful that it
broke the lock of a door near by,
which had been carelessly left
closed—for the men usually take
the precaution to open the doors
on occasion of this kind. Stand
ing near a id-inch gun when m
operation would cure the naval
ambition of many young men, I
am sure, and it would probably
convince men who are much older
in the ways of the world that the
men who represent the sea-fight
ing force of the United States gov
ernment have no easy time.”
To My Friends.
It is with joy 1 tell you what
Kodol did for me. I was troubled
with my stomach for several
months. Upon being advised to
use Kodol, I did so, and words
cannot tell the good it has done
me. A neighbor had dyspepsia so
that he had tried most every
thing. I told him to use Kodol.
Words ot gratitude have come to
me from him because I recom
mended it.—Geo. VY. Fry, Viola,
Iowa. Health and strength, of
mind and body, depends on the
stomach, and normal activity of
the digestive organs. Kodol, the
great reconstructive tonic, cures
all stomach and bowel troubles,
indigestion, dyspepsia. Kodol di
gests any good food you eat.
Take a dose after meals. J, I.
Sturdivant.
Killed a Negro.
Camden, July 26.—During a
trial in Justice W. T. Martin’s
court today while Bob Sales was
being tried for an assault on J. E.
Cheny and a number of people
were in the courtroom, four shots
were heard at the front of the
court house. When the court
spectators rushed out they saw
Joe Kidd, a big, burly negro, ly
ing on the ground, writhing in
death. He was shot on the land
ing of the high steps and fell to
the ground. The pistol was fired
by Frank A. Brewer, a law stud
ent iu the office of Sinead & Pow
ell. Mrs. Brewer has a small
store and the negao, Kidd, made
an account and failed to pay.
Brewer went to collect when the
negro had the money. lie refus
ed to pay and became abusive.
Brewer went away. Kidd made
threats. At the trial today the
negro was the prosecuting wit
ness. He was standing at the
west door, talking when Brewer
came to the door and something
was said about the debt. The
negro said ho would not pay it,
and, with an oath, shoved his
hand in his hip pocket. Brewer
told him three times to take it out.
He refused and Brewer fired four
lin lio tiimnn k nr n o n
tough character, having intimidat
ed several white men, threatening
to smash their heads and carve
them up. The sheriff took a big,
ugly knife, well ground, from the
pocket in which Kidd had put his
hand.
A Necessary Precaution.
Don’t neglect a cold. It is worse
thin unpleasant. It is danger'
iius- By using One Minute Cough
Cure you can cure it at once.
Allays inflammation, clears the
head, soothes and strengthens
the mucous membrane. Cures
coughs, croup, throat and lung
troubles. Absolutely safe. Acts
immediately. Children like it. J.
I. Sturdivant.
Would Act as Proxy.
According to newspaper report
an old lady down in Cincinati,
Ohio, not particularly robust, was
visited by a girl relative of
eighteen, who, in a moment of
exultant affection, grabbed the
old lady in her arms and hugged
her so hard that the old lady fell
to the floor unconscious. Upon
examination it was discovered
that several of the old lady’s ribs
were broken, and she died soon
afterwaids.
There’s something extremely
sad about this incident, and we
don’t know when we’ve read any
thing that so filled us with regret
—regret that we were’nt there.
We could have taken the old
lad}’8 place and saved her life
just as we'i as not. rr tins item
should meet the eye of an old lady
who is feaiful of being gripped
by some sweet 18-year-old grip
peas and having her ribs caved in,
like the one above, why just
remember our address, please.
We’ll drop our work any lime
and come on and act as proxy.
Distance wou’t cut any figure with
us so long as the dear little assas
sin is good looking and lively,
anywhere between Portland and
San Francisco.
Might as well be frank and
honest about thcso things,
J. U. Martin.
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County Institute.
All teachers holding certificates
of qualification to teach in the
public schools of Independence
county are hereby notified that a
Teachers Institute will be held at
Batesville on the 14th and 15th
days of August, 1902. All teach
ers must attend or expect the law
to be enforced strictly. See sec
tion 7073, as amended, of the
school law. J. A. Wilkes.
County Examiner
July 19, 1902.
The Journal, $1 per year,
HON. F. M. MARTIN
Makes a Statement in Regard to
Certain Charges Against
Big Bottom.
To the Editor of The Journal.
I see in the Batesviile Bee of the
23rd, an article headed, “Reply
to Martin,” in which I stated that
I was one of the judges in 1898.
I still say that I was. lie refers
to the records for proof of his as
sertion, but 1 will say if the rec
ords are as he says they are, they
are absolutely wrong. The writer
drifts from his first assertion when
he said that the ballots of that
election were not delivered. That
is like the balance of his assertions;
they are all without foundation.
But there is a great deal of preju
dice behind the whole matter.
Now, the gentleman that an
swered my former letter said, af
ter he had give vent to his spleen,
that we ought not to go so far
back, we ought to prove some
thing about the last primary elec
tion. We are willing for the evi
dence to be brought out and have
asked for that. But when Mr.
“ WV’ ox was gored then it was,
“Hold on boys, we must stop, for
I’ll swear, it’s all alike; we can’t
bring out the facts in regard to
the primary, for it’s all alike, and
it won’t do; we must saddle it off
on Big Bottom andUuion.”
Please tell me why it is that be
cause our town is growing and
township increasing in population,
that it creates so much prejudice
against us in the minds of a few
men, and especially men who will
write and are ashamed to sign
their name to what they write.
But you can find lots of men
who are ready to kick only when
their ox is gored, like Mr. “W,”
or the writer of the article in the
Bee.
We are ready for Mr. “W” to
get the facts and let the people
know them just as they are. Come
on “W,” give them all to us from
alpha to omega.
Yours for fair play and honesty,
F. M. Maktiit
Sam Clemens’ New Maxims.
Mark Twain bus added two new
maxims to the woilu's already
valuable collection. They are as
follows; “We ought never to do
wrong when peoplo are lookiug”
and “No real gentleman will tell
the naked truth in the presence
of ladies.”
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