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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY JANUARY JO, 190J.
Volume 3, Number 5
AKIN^ GOOD ROADS
nd Why me Government
ShoYraid Assist.
PUBLIC" NECESSITY
nlow Bill Pending tn Cong
ress is a Long Step in the
Right Directiob.
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Through the courtesy\of lion.
T. M. Martin we have a copy of
the bill by Representative Brown
low, of Tennessee, pending in con
gress, to give road-building nation
al aid and supervision, 'which is
attracting discussion in the press.
Thetitle, which embodi esa synopsis
of the measure, is “A bill to create
in the department of agriculture a
bureau to be known ns the bureau
of public roads, and to prov ide for
a system of national, state and lo
cal co-operation in the permanent!
improvement of the public high- |
ways." It is the purpose of Rep
resentative Brow nlow to press:
vigorously for the passage of the
bill by the next congress, and as
would be expected, the proposed j
legislation has powerful congress
ional hacking.
While national improvement of
public highways may seem some
thing of a departure, it is, never
theless, but a return to one of the
early policies of the federal govern
ment. Before the railroad was
thought of, the infant republic laid i
out and improved roads between
important commercial centers, con-!
ress voting appropriations and
rt g dating the plan of work. After
i he railroad came, there was no
r aid of the kind for wagon
o ids, but Uncle Sant did uot hesi
at ■ to help build a transcontinen
tal ra void. It will not be forgot
en. i tliis connection, that the
, ver.iim-m expended a million or
note in bui.duig the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal.
I ll*1 improvement of public high
viy.->by i lie central government
" re . <> commend it than many
s v , ,menial improvement by
.ires^io.nil appropriation, but
pl mi is certain to meet with
tonnidanle opposition. The ob
jection, like many other objections
to federal enactments of a com
mendable nature, is this: A state
that has for a century been mak
ing liberal appropriations for car
rying out an intelligent,permanent
system of public road building
within its borders, and which is
now in the full enjoyment of the
fruits of such great expenditure
and labor, is sure to do some tall
bucking before it will suffer itself
to he taxed to improve highways
in new states, or in states as old
but too short-sighted or poor to
build good, durable roads.
II is a lamentable fact that road
building as conducted by the aver
age local supervisor is about as ef
fective and lasting as water poured
in i sieve. The first prolonged
rain puts the wtiy-farer back into
the same old slough of despond,
hub-deep, and in the spring the
tax-payer proceeds as before.
Macadam and other permanent
roads art> enormously expensive,
though it is true that the average
country township, where road
wc i king is respectable prosecuted,
in the course, of years pays more
f01 its treacherous dirt roads than
it/would have paid for a service
iit4«i*tpike. However, the same ar
gujhient will appi;, to the luckless
ividual who has to pay for a
essity on the installment plan,
rub is in getting together the
his to have done with the whole
liuess ut once.
■he federal department of agri
lure has already done good woi k
Jig the line of road improve
I iftinlj in an instruc
> aj i It nas constructed sum
pie pieces of good road for the
edification of backward communi
ties, and the “good roads train”
sent into the south last year was a
valuable start of the educational |
propaganda. Mr. Brownlow now
proposes to extend the idea and
clothe the department with some
real authority in the premises.
The government is not only to in
struct, but foot half of the bills.
The bill, having provided for a!
bureau of public roads, provides1
fora director of the same, assisted
by a corps of engineers and other
officials, whose duty it will be to
cooperate, assist and instruct in
the building of public roads in the.
various states, the local authorities !
first applying for such aid. Where
such application is duly made, and j
approved'by the director of the
bureau, that official is to have the!
proposed road mapped and survey-1
ed, when the United States is to
award a contract for the work and
pay one-halt the cost, the state, !
county or individuals to pay the j
other half. For purposes of con
struction the tell carries with it an j
appropriation of !?20.000,U00, of!
which no state shall receive in aid.
of construction a greater proper-!
tion than its population boars to
the total population of the United j
States. The public interest seems i
to be properly safe-guarded and
every provision of the measure!
carefully thought out. A difficul
ty likely to be encountered is fore-1
stalled by a provision to the effect
that where a state or county is un
willing to surrender control over
the work on its roads, discretion
ary powers are given to the direc
tor to make a contract directly
with the stat^pr county officials.
The Brownlow hill has much to
commend it, and it stands for a
sound, worthy principle of gov
ernment, designed to benefit not a
class, but the whole people.
Died of Injuries.
Cliarles F. Montgomery, an old
man from Claflin, Kan., who fell
into an open sewer at Van Buren
last Wednesday night, died from
the effects of his injuries. There
is some mystery surrounding the
accident, and officers think there
was foul play. Montgomery was
known to have had sixty dollars
that has not been found.
Land Wanted.
We want to list one hundred farms
in this immediate section. Newark
Heal Estate Company.
DOINGS OF THE LAW-MAKERS.
Among the bills worthy of men
tion introduced in the legislature
during the week are the following:
No. 74, by Senator Hinkle, pro
vides for t ransportation of convicts
to the penitentiary by sheriff's, and
requiring the financial agent of the j
institution to pay the expenses.
No, 81, by Senator Witt, pro-■
vides that a verdict by three
fourths of the jury in civil cases!
shall be accepted.
Hon. C. II. Hogan has been ap- j
pointed on the follow ing commit
ties: Cities and towns, Federal j
relations. Malitia.
Hon. 1. ,1. Matheny is ou the
following committee: Public print
ing and memorials.
No. 1*28, by Holland, to provide
for the election of superintendent '
of the penitentiary by the quail-:
lied electors of the state.
No. 128, by IiuLaney, amending
section 7081 of the digest, making!
it the duty of county treasurers,
immediately upon receipt by them
of any school funds, to give notice
of the amount and kind of funds
received and from what, Source re-!
ceived, by written oiH>rinted no
tices, which shall be/forwarded by
mail to the secretary of each board
of school directors.
No. 144, by Burk, to provide
that the county judges in counties
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Happenings of Local Interest
We take wood on subscription
—when we can got it.
Attorney S. A. Moore returned
Saturday from a professional trip
to Searcy.
The Jackson county grand jury
adjourned last Friday after having
returned N8 indictments.
The tax-collector don’t seem to
know that there is a paper pub
lished in this end of the county.
Our good friend, \V. M. Mc
Millin, dropped a dollar in the till
Friday to renew his subscription.
L. G. Foster orders The Jour
nal sent to his brother, C. C. Fos
ter, of Strawberry, for six months.
J. W. Fetzer was transacting
business in town Saturday and left
some coin of the realm with the
head guy to apply on subscription.
S. S. Lastar. a good citizen of
Oil Trough, was transacting busi
ness in town Saturday and called
and had bis name enrolled on The
Journal's subscription list.
It is reported that Doe Lane, of
Newark, received rather rough
treatment by the hands of unknown
parlies in this city Thursday night,
during which he lost §50.00, and
was pretty badly pummelled up.
Newport Herald.
Judge Ilall showed the Bee man
the monster lemon Wednesday. It
was raised by Miss Jane Allen
near Salado, in Independence coun
ty and weighed 82 ounces.- Its cir
cumference is 10 1-2 inches and
length 6 1-2 inches. The tree is 3
years old and has several other
lemons growing on it.—Batesville
Bee.
N. M. Wilson arrived home Sat
urday from Little Hock, where he
attended the good roads conven
tion, and says it was an enthusias
tic gathering. The laage attend
ance of delegates shows that the
people are becoming thoroughly
aroused to the importance of better
roads and good results are sure to
follow.
President Dodge, of the White
River railroad, says that there will
be fifty six miles in operation from
Batesville by February 1, after
which time the construction of the
latter part of the road will be push
ed from both ends with all possi
ble speed. George Gould ha-, sub
scribed the additional stock to
build the line, and is anxious to sec
the early completion of the road.—
Harrison Times.
Our good friend. W. G. Foster,
dropped a dollar iri our depleted
treasury Friday to renew his sub
scription.
I 1 he Newark Telephone Com
pany Friday filed its articles of in
corporation with the secretary of
state. The capital stock is $10,000,
of which $5,000 has been subscrib
ed. C. J. Magnus^ is president,
<1. S. Hand ford, vice-president
and treasurer, .1. <'. Yancey, sec
ret!! ry.
A perfect town isthat in which
you see farmers patronize the
home merchants, the laborers
spending the money they earn
with their tradesmen and all ani
mated by a spirit t hat will not pur
chase articles abroad that can be
bought at home. The spirit of re
ciprocity between business men,
merchants, tradesmen and farmers
results every time in making a
perfect town to do business in.
We take pleasure in calling at
tention to the announcement, of
the W. 11. Rice Mercantile Com
pany, of Sulphur Rock, to be found
in another column of today’s pa
per. Lhis company was recently
incorporated with a capital of $10,
000 and promises to do a good
business. Those composing the
firm are all competent business
men of good reputation and our
readers are assured of fair treat
ment when dealing with them.
“How dear to our heart is the
study subscriber, who pays in ad
vaace at the birth of the year; who
lays down his money, and does it
quite gladly, and casts round the
office a halo of cheer. He never
says‘Stop it. 1 cannot afford it,’
nor ‘I’m getting more papers now
than 1 can read; but always says,
“Send it, the family likes it: in fact,
we all think it a real household
need.’ How welcome he is when
he steps in the sanctum, how he
makes our hearts throb', how he
makes our hearts dance. We out
wardly thank him, we inwardly
bless him, the steady subscriber
who pays in advance.”
Infernal Machine Failed to Work.
Considerable commotion was
caused at Wynne by the discovery
of a well laid plot to assassinate a
negro physician. The attempt in
its designs would have reflected
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credit upon a Haymarket anarch
ist had it proven successful. An
infernal machine was discovered
under the office of Dr. Clawers, a
negro physician, containing1 suffi
I cient dynamite to have blown up
an entire block. The explosive
; was packed in a cigar box, well
wrapped and deftly tied, and a
fuse attached which protruded sev
eral feet from a small, round ap
: perture made in the bottom of the
I box. The fuse had evidently t«een
lighted and went out before the
lire reached the dynamite. The
damp earth had apparently come
in contact with the fuse, thus pre
venting murder and destruction.
State of Ohio,City of Toledo, Lu
I ras county.
Frank ,T. Cheney makes oath
that he is senior partner of the
Him of F. «T. Cheney & Co., doing
! business in the city of Toledo,
county and state aforesaid, and
ih it said tirm will pay the sum of
One Hundred Dollars for each and
every case of catarrh that cannot
I'e cured by the use of Hill's Ca
tarrh Cute. Frank ,J. Cheney ,
Svvoi n to before me and subscrib
ed in my presence, this 6th day of
December, A, D.
(seal) A. \V. Gleason,
Motary Public.
Hall > Catairh Cure is taken in
ternally, and acts d’reetly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system.t'cnd for testimouials.free.
F. ,1. CiiENLV a Co., Toledo, O.
Slid by druggists, 75:, Hall’s
Family Pills are the best.
flasons, l ake Notice.
To the Worshipful Master,
Warden-., and Bretheren of New
ark Lodge No. 2 0 F. & A. M.
Bretheren, you are hereby noti
fied that l will visit your Lodge
officially on Friday and Saturday,
the 13th and 14th days of Feb
ruary, 1903. Take due notice and
govern yourselves accordingly.
Fraternally yours,
W. M. Kent,
1). I). (i. M., 1st List.
Tried to Conceal It.
It's the old story of “murder
! will out” only in this case there’s
no c* ime. A woman feels run down
i has backache or dyspepsia and
j thinks it’s nothing and tries to
i hide it until she finally breaks
down. Don't deceive yourself.
Take Electric Bitters at once. It
has a reputation for curing stom
ach, liver and kidney troubles and
will revivify your whole system.
| The worst forms of those mala
dies will quickly yield to the cur
alive power of Electric Bitters.
Only 50c, and guaranteed by J. I.
i Sturdivant druggist.
Pistol Toting a Felony.
A strong sentiment prevails
' among senators and representa
tives to make the carrying of con
cealed weapons a felony. Mr.
Kelso's bill will unquestionably
pass the house. It fixes the pun
ishment at one year in the peni
tentiary, together, with a heavy
fine.
If Unwell
Fry a.iOe bottle of Hei bine,no*ice
the improvement speedily effect
ed in your appetite,energy .streng
th ami vigor. Watch how it bright
en-' the spirits,gives freedom from
indigestion and denility. Isaac
Storv, Ava, Mo.,writes,Sept. 10th,
1900 “1 was in had health, I had
stomach trouble for 12 months,
also dumb chills. Dr, J. W. Mory
prescribed llerbine, it cured me
in two weeks. I cannot recommend
it too highly, it will do all you
claim for it.’’ Sold by .1, I. Sturdi
vant.
The Newark Real Estate Com
pany can sell your property, no
matter where located. We have
several inquiries for land and il
you have property for sale come in
and list it.
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SCORES GOV. DAVIS
GeiT. Murphy’s Caustic Re
ply to the Governor.
THINKS DAVIS HAS LIKD
Suggest..} That the Governor be
Exhibited as a Freak at
the World’s Fair.
Attorney General Murphy has
issued a lengthy statement reply
ing to the strictures cast upon the
penitentiary board by Gov. Davis
! in his message to the legislature.
! The attorney general explains in
! detail all the transactions referred
to by Gov. Davis, especially the
purchase of the state convict farm.
The opening and concluding chap
ters of Mr. Murphy’s statement
follow:
“To the People of Arkansas,
Their Senators and Representa
tives- The senate concurrent res
olution extending to the maligned
members of the penitentiary board
the opportunity of refuting, in the
invited presence of the governor,
the slanderous charges he calls his
message, in the same hall and un
der the same conditions they were
made, having failed in the house,
it becomes necessary to adopt oth
er means for the exposure of his
falsehoods.
“No complaint is here made at
t lie action of the house, but it is
difficult to conceive the improprie
ty of meeting a libel in the same
i hall and in the same body where it
was published, even though it be
improperly called a governor’s
message. What sanctity or im
munity this name should carry
with it for the protection of false
and unwarranted statements and
insinuations is impossible of defi
nition. If the archives of the
world were ransacted no such doc
ument preserved as a state paper
would be found. In it the govern
or, wanting in manliness and cour
age to confront those he wishes to
wrong, takes the advantage of
sending a message to the general
assembly to vent his spleen in cow
ardly insinuations and baseless
charges. Having done this he
seeks by every means in his pow
er to thwart the efforts of those he
has wronged to get the truth to
the people.
“Notwithstanding the failure of
the senate resolution, his false
hoods shall not escape exposure.
I am not done either with him or
his so-called message. No one
shall remain wholly ignorant of
his untruthful, slanderous, mali
gnant and pusilaniraous nature,
except from choice. Out of his
own mouth his guilt shall be made
manifest, and when this is done
my fixed purpose is to brand him
with a new name and turn him
loose.’
“I begin with that rTfc'of ins"
called message in which he m,
ligns the other members of the
penitentiary board on account of
the contract made by him and for
mer members binding themselves
and their successors to furnish the
labor of 300 convicts to the Ark
ansas brick manufacturing com
pany at 50 cents a day per convict
for a period of ten years. lie
signed this contract during his
i candidacy for governor, and it is a
significant fact that in this aspira
tion he was ardently supported by
its members. But he was scarcely
elected when he began to deny
that he signed it at all. He per
sistently denied it -during the ses
sion of the general assembly of
1901. After this he modified his
denial, saying that if he signed it
he was either ‘crazy or had his
hands behind him.’ But in his re
markable delivery before the pre
sent general assembly he . left his
manuscript long enough & uu*
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