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VOL. I.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY (!, 1902.
NO. 44.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Norfolk, Ya., suffered a million
dollar loss from lire.
The lower house of congress has
passed a bill providing for a perma
nent census bureau.
The savings bank deposits in the
United States have increased from
$6,973,304 in 1830 to $2,597,094,
580 in 1891.
Admiral Sampson, who is to re
tire in a few days on age limit, is
very feeble in health, and his mind
is fast failing him.
A bill has been favorably reported
in the house of congress further de
ducting the war revenue tax in the
neighborhood of $77,000,000 an
nually.
Congress last week passed a bill
granting a pension of $25 per
month to Hiram Crok, of New York,
aged 102 years, the last surviving
soldier of the war of 1812.
Dispatches state that the release
of Miss Stone from captivity bv Bul
garian brigands is expected daily as
the captors have agreed to accept the
sum raised to secure her freedom.
James Carroll, a carpenter of Ok
homa City, in a fit of madness, shot
his wife through the heart and then
suicided. He had been drinking
heavily. The only witness to the
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couple.
Gen. Harrison C. Hobart, sole
survivor of the Wisconsin constitu
tional convention and the last sur
vivor of the five daring men who
planned the famous tunnel escape
from Libby prison, died at Milwau
kee last week.
Tt has been virtually decided to
place Admiral Dewey at the head
of the special commission of three
members which will be sent to Eu
rope to arouse a more active interest
in the ST. Louis world's fair than is
now being manifested by many of
the old world nations.
Three ex-members of the munici
pal council of St. Louis have been
arrested charged with corruption in
connection with a measure before
the council granting certain rights
to the St. Louis and Suburban Car
Company. It is alleged the com
pany paid $100,000 to secure the
passage of the measure alluded to.
Fred Tyner, a full-blood Shaw
nee Indian, alleged to have crimi
nally assaulted three Shawnee
squaws in Oklahoma, was tied to a
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bers of bis tribe, men and women.
He was first cruelly tortured. His
face was beaten out of shape, his
ears were torn nearly off by squaws
and other horrible tortures were be
ing applied, when Deputy Marshal
Davis arrived and saved his life.
The census preliminary report on
the manufacture of liquors in the
United States in 1J)00 shows the fol
lowing results, with percentage of
increase: Xuinber of establishments,
2,849; increase, 48 per cent. Capi
tal, $457,674,087; increase, 70 per
cent. Wage earners, average num
ber, 44,417; increase, 23 per cent.
Total wages, $28,005,484; increase,
20 per cent. Miscellaneous expenses,
$183,099,796; increase, 61 per cent.
Cost of materials used, $70,512,042;
decrease, 12 per cent. Value of
products, $340,615,456; increase, 18
per cent.
The president has issued the fol
lowing executive order: “All officers
and employes £>f the United States of
every description serving in or under
any of the executive departments and
whether so serving in or out of \\ ash
ington, arc hereby forbdiden, either
directly or indirectly, individually or
through associations, to solicit an in
crease of pay or to influence or at
tempt to influence in their own inter
ests any legislation whatever either
before congress or its committees or
in any way, save through the heads
of departments in or under which
they served, on penalty of dismissa
from the government service. ’
The jury at Frankfort, Ky., in tin
case of Jim Howard, charged witl
complicity in the assassination o
Gov. Goebel, returned a verdict o
guilty and fixed his punishment a
life imprisonment.
if
Dick and John Spikes, brothers,
wen* killed by robbers who looted a
general store at Tecumeasi, X. M.
Former President Cleveland has
recovered from an attack of pneu
monia, and is on a hunting jaunt in
South Carolina.
Chicago coal dealers threaten to
boycott users of gas for fuel by re
fusing to sell them coal during the
extreme cold weather.
John A. Hi ns ley, former head of
the insurance department of the K.
of I’., has been acquitted by a com
mittee from the order of the charge
of misappropriating $500,000, the
money having been paid into the
treasury.
H. G. Clark, general superintend
ent of the Missouri Pacific system
at St. Louis, has been appointed gen
eral manager of the Choctaw, Okla
homa & Gulf Railroad Company,
with headquarters at Little Rook.
Mr. Clark will have entire charge
of the operating department of the
system.
According to statistics on the sub
ject there were sixteen train robber
ies last year and twenty-nine in 1000.
In the past twelve years .‘50(1 trains
have been “held up” by robbers, and
05 persons killed and 105 injured
by being shot. In the past two
years five train robbers were killed
and two wounded, and two passen
gcrs and trainmen killed and ten
wounded.
Fire in the wholesale district of
Mobile destroyed property to the
value of at least $300,000, and caus
ed the death of Richard li. Widmer,
a leading society man, and Bat
Thomas, a negro laborer from New
Orleans. Three firemen were injur
ed, two slightly and one painfully.
Widmer and Thomas were assisting
the firemen and were caught by fall
ing walls.
Seven men engaged in a battle in
Owsley county, Kentucky, six of
whom were wounded. The partici
pants were: Dan and Newell Brew
er and Robert Lynch on one side
and George Scott, Lucian and John
Treadway and Dan Allen on the oth
er. Five of the men were armed
with pistols and two with knives.
The Brewers and Scott were fatally
wounded.
The senate committee On the Phil
ippines has decided to enter upon a
thorough investigation of the entire
Philippine question, and Senator
Lodge, chairman of the committee,
was authorized to present to the sen
ate the usual resolution authorizing
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persons and papers. The investiga
tion will be undertaken for the pur
pose of arriving at eorreet conclu
sions to guide the committee in
formulating a government for the
Philippine archipelago, and will be
on the basis of the Lodge bill.
A naval retiring board has de
clined to recommend the retirement
of Capt. Richmond P. Hobson. He
has complained of his eyes, which
suffered from heat and glare while
he was working on the Spanish ves
sels sunk at Santiago, and afterward
in the drv dock at Hong Kong,
where two vessels of the Spanish fleet
sunk by Dewey were repaired. Capt.
Hobson himself applied to be retired,
but the board of physicians which
examined him found that his eyes
were not permanently injured, and
refused to recommend his retirement.
He has been ordered to return to
duty in connection with the Charles
ton exposition.
Edward and John Biddle, con
demned murderers, escaped jail at
Pittsburg, Pa., by the aid of the
prison warden’s wife, who furnished
them revolvers. The prisoners
wounded two guards and locked a
third in a dungeon. The woman
had become infatuated with one of
the men, and deserted her husband
and four children, but all three were
captured after a desperate battle in
which the Biddles were fatally
wounded by officers. The woman
. was with the men when overtaken
i and with two revolvers fired away at
’ the officers until her companions fell.
I She then placed a revolver to her
L breast and fired, but failed to inflict
a fatal wound.
NEWS OE ARKANSAS.
Address of the Club Women. <
The following letter is being sent 1
oiit to the club women of Arkansas <
by Miss Sue H. Walker, of Fayette- 1
ville, lady manager for the state of <
the world’s fair directory: i
“To the Club Women of the State 1
—Having been honored with the po- 1
sition of lady manager for Arkansas I
at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- '<
tion in 1903, it is my earnest desire !
to secure the best exhibit of woman’s
work to be obtained. The women of
our state are not deficient in ac
complishments—many of them aje
exceptionally talented—and it is j
only necessary to arouse their state '
pride and impress upon them the
necessity for individual effort and
personal interest in this work, to
issue a beautiful display. Louisiana
Purchase Clubs should be organized
in each town, and it has occurred
to me that you, the club women of
the state, should take the initiative
in this. As progressive and repre
sentative women, your interest and
influence would be most effective.
There is no time to lose if we expect
to get up a creditable exhibit. Of
course 1 will do all in my power for
the success of this undertaking, but
without the cordial assistance of the
women of the state my individual
efforts will avail hut little. I earnest
1..
i) ucj\ juui uw-vj/v i ii i ivy 11, luov uiul
of the honorary lady commissioners
appointed by Gov. Davis, and hope
that, the result will he an exhibit of
which the whole state will be proud.”
Van Allen, a colored porter, was
shot and killed in a saloon at Fort
Smith by John McDaniel, after a
hard struggle, in which' McDaniel
was seriously cut about the head.
Cost of State Institutions.
Secretary John Page, of the state
board of charities, furnishes the fol
lowing estimate of the cost of food
for maintaining the inmates of iht
eleemosynary institutions for the
month of January:
INSANE ASYLUM.
Total cost of groceries for
the month .$3,441 83
Number of patients, offi
cers and employes .... 7GG
Average cost, per capita,
for sustenance per
month .$ 4.40
DEAF MUTE INSTITUTE.
Total cost of groceries for
the month.$1,210.17
Number pupils, teachers
and employes .
Average cost, per capita,
for sustenance per
294
.$ 4.12
month .
BLIND SCHOOL.
Total cost of groceries for
tlie month .$1,042.81
Number pupils, teachers
and employes . 235
Average cost, per capita,
for sustenance per
month .$ 4.43
Total amount groceries for
all, per month
General average, per
ta, cost per month
$5,694.84
api
...$
4.40
State Militia Funds.
The war department has informed
Maj. Gen. IV. H. Haynes, A. 8. G.,
that a little more than $40,000 in
military supplies is due the state of
Arkansas. Gen. llaynes while in
Washington secured the services of
an expert and went over the books of
the department, and discovered that
the state was due over $44,000, which
is amply sufficient to equip the en
tire state guard. Gen. Haynes, in
company with Gov. Davis and Brig.
Gen. B. W. Green, personally inspect
ed the supplies that will be furnished
the Arkansas citizen soldiery, such
as ammunition, uniforms, band
equipment, arms, etc., and nothing
but the very best material was se
lected. It will be shipped to Gov.
Davis within the next thirty days
and distributed by him to the various
militia companies over the state.
The band at Siloam Springs, Benton
county, and the Little Rock band
have been designated by Gen. Haynes
as the regimental bands. Each mem
ber will be furnished with a fatigue
and a dress uniform and new instru
ments.
Death of an Aged Citizen.
Mrs. Rebecca Collins, one of (lie
►ldest citizens of Texarkana, died
ast week, aged 8(! years. The do
cased was known by all the old
T.idents of both Miller and Bowie
•otinties, having removed from Al
ibhma to the present site of Texar
;ana over thirty years ago, before
In' town was laid out. Her hus
>and, a most remarkable man, died
ibout six years ago, at the age ol
5G. When he removed to Texas la
vas a man without means, well up
n years, the war having swept a wap
he savings of a life time at his old
tome in Alabama. With that oner
jy and perseverance characteristic
>f the sturdy pioneers of America
Mr. Collins went to work in a new
ind undeveloped section and build
;d for himself and his life partnet
i comfortable home and acquired ;
modest competency to keep them ir
their old age. Their childrer
reside at several points in Arkansa1
rnd Texas, and their grandchildrer
and great-grandchildren are proba
bly more numerous than those of am
other family, in the two states.
Attempt to Defraud.
M rs. T. Back is wanted by tin
federal authorities at Little Rod
on a charge ot attempting to de
fraud in a bankruptcy suit. Up t<
a few weeks ago the woman conduct
cd a dry goods store. Upon applica
tion of creditors, her stock wa
placed in the hands of a receiver
and after due notice the same order
ed sold. Her creditors claim i
have discovered that a few days be
fore her stock was seized site carrie<
away several thousand dollars wortl
of goods, which she tried to slii
out of the state. The goods were rc
covered at a freight depot in Littl
Rock, but the woman is supposed t
have left the state.
S. N. Titzele, a merchant, wa
struck by a passenger train at Wa
nut Ridge and fatally injured.
The Choctaw shops at Little Roc
are to be greatly enlarged.
Cl. S. Gibson, aged TO years, fe
on the ice at Hoxie and sustaine
probably fatal injuries.
The Blair Case.
The supreme court overruled
motion for a rehearing in the case o
the State vs. John Blair, convicte
in the Newton circuit court for th
killing of Chas. Miller and sentence
to thirteen years in the penitentian
The ease had been before the su
preme court on appeal, when the vei
diet of the lower court was affirmed
The motion for a rehearing wa
ment was void because the specie)
term at which he was indicted wa
called before he was confined in jai
awaiting trial, tlnv is before the ex
amining trial was concluded. Th
court in overruling this motion di<
not controvert this as a propositioi
of law but held that the evidence oi
the question not being set .out in th
bill of exceptions it would be pro
sumed that he was in jail awaitin'
trial when the term was called.
Thousands of Dollars Damage.
Heavy sleet and snow, followed b;
a freezing rain, January 28 cause)
thousands of dollars damage
throughout the state. At Lilt!
Rock the heaviest losers were mer
chants, whose stocks were in man;
instances almost ruined by water
which seeped through the roofs
covered with several inches of snow
Several roofs gave way under tin
mormons weight, and all day am
night of the 20th laborers were ii
2;rent demand at wages ranging fron
£l to $.3 per hour, to shovel tin
deet from buildings. Following th<
neavy sleet was a slow rain, whiel
inly added to the trouble. School
were suspended, street car traffi)
stopped and all communication b\
ivire great*/ crippled. Professions
non, clerks, merchants and all class
's left their places to assist in sav
ng property by shoveling the snow
from buildings. The loss at Little
Rock will not be less than half s
million, one firm alone placing tin
la mage at $100,000. As this loss
is of a character not protected bj
insurance, it falls heavy on the vie
tims.
Gubernatorial Aspirants.
The joint canvass between Gov.
Davis and Col. Rector was formally
opened at Hot Springs January
28th. Gov. Davis spoke first. He
was not opposed to a new state
house, hut did oppose flic manner in
which the old board proposed to
build it, declaring that the special
architect employed by the commis
sioners reported that the structure
as planned by Architect Mann would
cost over $2,000,000. He defended
his course as to the management of
the penitentiary and other public
institutions. Col. Rector attacked
the governor on his official record,
declaring that while he had made
promises, he had accomplished noth
ing in the way of reform.
Urged to Raise Premium Fruit.
At the recent meeting of horticul
turists, held at Fayetteville, the fol
lowing resolution was adopted: “Re
solved, That the president, John P
Logan, be authorized to corresponc
with orchardists throughout the state
and if possible prevail upon them to
set aside certain trees in their orch
ards to be given special care and thus
grow premium fruit to be used for
exhibition at the coming St. Louis
world's fair.”
jail i^ciivcijr.
W. II. Hughes, charged with kill
ing and throwing a Mexican in a
well several months ago; Arthur
Lowery, who was placed in jail re
, contly, charged with robbing a crip
ple, and a man by the name of John
1 son, from near Hartley, charged with
, stealing hogs, escaped from jail at
, Mena by digging a hole in the wall.
Death of An Ex-Convict.
^ J. Daly, an ex-convict, dropped
dead at Cumins, a small town in
Lincoln county. Dalv had just fin
ished serving a term on the convict
farm of John M. Grade. At the
i. time he left the farm he was, quite
ill, and it is claimed the warden tried
I to prevail upon him to remain at
j the camp until he got able to travel.
Sheriff Threatened.
Sheriff Edwards, of Texarkana,
1 has been warned by anonymous let
f ter that he had been marked for as
I sassination ‘“'owing to his treatment
, of colored people.’’ Several months
I ago the officer was compelled to kill
a negro desperado to save his own
life.
BRIEF MENTION.
The Iron Mountain and Choctaw
1 railroads will each erect a Y. M. C.
? A. building at Little Rock for rail
1 road men.
County Convict Contractor Grac-ie
' has refused to accept Pulaski county
• prisonars less than Id years of age,
1 also women of both color.
' David Jobe. James Kitts and Law
rcnce Dunbar, colored, have been
sentenced to be hanged at Arkansas
’ City February 28 for murder.
Two railroad surveys are being
made in Montgomery county—one
from Ola to Hot Springs and one
from Mansfield to Hot Springs.
Kit Helton, the Van Buren wife
murderer, who was to have been
hanged February 81, has been grant
ed a 30 day reprieve by Gov. Davis.
W. J. llitt, a prominent mer
chant, was struck by a passenger
train at Prescott and instantly kill
ed while crossing the track during a
snow storm.
Three loaded cars were dumped
into the Mississippi river at Helena
and one man drowned as the result
of an accident on the incline of the
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad.
The extent of the damage to the
forests in this state from the heavy
sleet cannot be estimated, but it is
enormous. A great deal of the.tim
ber can be saved if high water does
not prevent.
The latest from Washington con
cerning the Arkansas federal patron
age situation is to the effect that the
president has decided that he will
not reappoint cither Col. Cooper or
Mr. Rommel.
Annual Report of Iron Mountain R. R.
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern railroad has filed its annual
report wtih the ralroad commission
)f Arkansas, as required by the laws
>f this state. The report gives fig
ares as follows:
Total miles operated in Arkansas,
1,069.91; entire line, 1,900.67; in
crease during year, 25.54, by absorp
tion Arkansas and Louisiana rail
way.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern railway, capital stock,
125,795,110; funded debt, $68,345,
997.36; total, $94,141,707.36; per
mile of line, $05,885; mileage, 1,
423.86.
Little Lock & Fort Smith rail
way, capital stock, $4,505,308.58;
funded debt, $2,342,727.25; total,
$6,848,035.83; per mile of line,
$40,552; mileage, 168.87.
Little lloek Junction railway, cap
ital stock, $400,000; funded debt,
$135,000; total, $835,000; per mile
of line, $1,115,254; mileage, .59.
Kansas & Arkansas Valley rail
way, capital stock, $1,706,400; fund
ed debt, $3,112,000; total, $5,118,
400; amount mile of line, $29,995;
mileasre. 170.64.
Arkansas & Louisiana railway,
capital stock, $512,000; funded
debt, $334,000; total, $896,000;
per mile of line, $35,082; mileage,
25.54.
New Orleans & Northwestern rail
wav, $1,500,000; funded debt, $2,
500,000; total, $7,000,000; per mile
of line, $69,060; mileage, 101.36.
Grand total, capital stock, $37,
419,118.58; funded debt, $77,419,
724.61; total, $114,839,143.19; pet
mile of line, $60,574; mileage, 1,
895.86.
Cost of road, equipment and per
manent improvements: Total cost
to June 30. 1900, $68,646,377.36.
Added during year: For equip
ment, $2,102,381.93.
For construction, $384,262.84—
$2,485,644.77.
Total co-t to June 30, 1901, $71,
132,022.13.
The bonds owned by the road
have a total par value of $33,950,
342.36, and a valuation of $22,129,
173.49, the income from which is
$915,065.
Income Account—Gross earnings
from operation, $15,891,740.25; less
operating expenses, $9,077,254.28;
income from operation, $6,814,485.
97.
Dividends on stock owned, $21,
113.GO; interest on bonds owned,
$915,005; miscellaneous ineonio
(less expenses), $17,140.07; incomo
from other sources, $953,925.27; to
tal income, $7,708,411.24.
Deductions from Income—Inter
est on funded debt accrued, $3,120,
370.70; rents paid for lease of road,
$280,195 ; taxes, $ ’ 14,213.29 ; per
manent improvements, $733,154.84;
total deductions from income, $■!,
453,939.83; net income, $3,311,
471.41.
Dividends, 0 per cent on common
stock, $1,547,242.50; surplus from
operations of year ending June 30,
1901, $1,707,228.91; surplus on
June 30, 1900, $4,310,434.48; sur
plus on June 30, 1901, $6,077,663.
39.
Entire Line—Gross earnings from
operation, per mile of road, $8,649.
88; gross earnings from operation
per train mile, $1.88; operating ex
penses, per mile of road, $4,904.75;
operating expenses, per train mile,
$1.07.
Assets—Cost of road „nd equip
ment, $71,132,022.13; stocks owned
$4,989,209.79; bonds owned, $22,
129,173.49; lands owned, other than
land grant, $541,195.89; land grant
Arkansas, $1,293,449.34 ; land grant,
Missouri, $13 690.84 ; cash and cur
rent assets, $1,131,725.07; sundries,
$037,220.13; grand tot?!, $101,840,
752.68.
Liabilities—Capital stock, $25,
795,710; funded debt, $68,345,997.
36; current liabilities, $1,087,842.
75; accrued interest on funded debt,
not yet payable, $533,539,18; profit
and loss, $6,077,063.39; grand total,
$101,840,752.68.