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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY JANUARY 23, 1003.
Volume 3, Number 4.
J HE CONVICT FAR/1 DISCUSSED
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Some Vitriolic Remarks Hade in
the Senate Concerning Vhe
State Convict Farm. \
Both houses of the Arkansas leg
islature are now well organized
and in working order. Bills galore
. ve been introduced covering all
... ects from the regulation of
down to allowing a certain
t practice law. Governor
me.- age, delivered before a
■ ion of the house and sen
Wednesday evening of last
. v vk, was a warm document and
n id to be laid on a chunk of ice at
frequent intervals to keep it from
gniting the escaping gas as Gov
ernor Davis pawed the air in de
livering it.
The first bill passed by the sen
ate was the usual highway robbery
act, to furnish members with 30
copies of a daily paper and 25
cents worth of stamps a day.
Among the most important bills
introduced are the following:
Xo. 12, by Senator Pinnix To
create position of county school
superintendent and make it elec
tive.
r o. 13, by S, ..ntor Gotham—
Believing the in dual factory in
surance companies from the in
surance and foreign corporation
laws.
Xo. 14, by Senator Price—To
compel abstractors to give bond,
a* a county ofhc *r, for recourse in
case of loss by error.
No. 15, by Senator Logan To
permit, stale and county officers to
give corporation surety on their
bonds.
Xo. 17, by Senator Sirapson
To revise and digest the statutes
of Arkansas.
The house adopted a resolution
by Mr. Gantt providing for a joint
committee to investigate and re
port upon expenditures out of the
¥30,000 world's fair fund approp
riated by the last legislature.
Xo. 21, by Senator Gray—The
fellow-servants bill.
Xo. 23, by Senator "Wood—To
regulate application for pardon,
and provides that all petitions be
filed in the clerk’s office and pub
lished in the county papers where
the crime was committed, and liars
from executive clemency wifcbeat
ers, pistol-toters and illegal liquor
sellers.
*>o. 3«, ny senator rinnix—10
amend section 7, act No. 200, of
1901, in regard to the road tax,
and state 'that in any county where
a road tax i, votVd any person
subject to road duty may perform
as much as four days’ service on
the road at £1.50 per day, for
which he shall take a receipt, an 1
which receipt must be accepted by
the tax collector in payment of the
holder’s road tax -not to exceed
the amount of service performed.
No. .30, by Senator Logan—To
regulate bonds of lire insurance
complies.
Noby Senator McFerrin—
To rffulatfe expens#* in crimnal
.'Ton
casesJ
No.) 34, by'Senator Butt—To
provile for the taxing of corpora
tion aid private franchises, giving
the county in which the franchises
are opKjSfod the power to assess
and cojl'W, in addition to the reg
■ iar the sum of 22 1-2 cents
kw hujmlred dollars of the value
of tuiI 'loporty to’ the operation
of the/ • * government, 20 cents
per
undred for the school fund
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and lo cents per hundred for the
purpose of carrying out the pro
visions of the act of 1899.
No. :!4, b.v Senator Butt—To al
low town councils to abolish ira
provments districts where a three
fourth majority of the tax payers
vote for such abolition.
Senator Hinkle has been placed
on the following committees, fi
nance, railroads, agriculture, pub
lic roads, engrossed Hills, mines,
temperance.
Asuiiiig tin* uri iiur until** *ju*;r>*
tion of the legislature going in a
body to look over the state con
vict farm recently purchased by
the penitentiary board over the
protest of the governor,somefl ash
es of wit and vitriolic eloquence
were indulged in in the senate.
Senator Hardy did not favor
the jaunt. He said that such a
thing was unprecedented in the an
nals of the body. If they could not
trust three of the members to go
and see the place and make an un
biased report they had better all
go back home.
Senator Sengel said that four
years ago the body had empower
ed a board to make this purchase,
! and now. forsooth, because one
' dictator, one man, chose to try and
besmirch the other four members;
because they would not meekly
submit to his bidding he considered
it an insult to the body and a dis
grace to Arkansas. Unless some
direct charge of corruption or
fraud is made against these gentle
men he felt that they were wasting
time that should be devoted to up
building grand old Arkansas.
Senator Jobe said he thought
t iiis was a deep laid scheme to get
the legislature drowned, and while
he did not question but that this
would be a good thing for Arkan
sas, at the same time lie was not
ready to go. He said that if the
board had got into trouble it wasn't
the business of the general assemb
ly to get them out; it was their
business to stay here and attend to
business.
HOUSE BILES.
No. 4, by Mr. Du Laney—Pro
posing a constitutional amendment
| enabling a majority of property
owners in school districts to vote
a maximum of eight mills school
tax.
No. 5, by Gannaway—For a
[constitutional amendment exempt
ing from taxation for a period of
1 seven years capital invested in cot
I ton and woolen mills.
No. 0. by llill — For a constitu
tional amendment, constituting the
governor, secretary of state and
auditor of state a board of par
! dons.
No. 8, by Daniel—To regulate
the practice of medicine and surg
ery and to provide for three state
medical boards.
No. 12, by Futrell Making it
unlawful for the owner or holder
| of any insurance policy on mer
| ehandise to recover for the loss of
said property any sum or amount
in excess of twice the assessed val
uation of said property.
No. IS, by Jacobs—To prevent
fraud in elections. This is one of
the best bills introduced and ought
to become a law.
No. 28, by Matheny—To pro
vide, an asylum for the detention
and treatment of dipsomaniacs, in
ebriates and those addicted to the
excessive use of narcotics; to be
located in or near Little Hock, and
to be known as the asylum for in
ebriates in the state of Arkansas;
to be under control of board of
trustees of the charitable institu
tions; cost not to exceed 00,000.
No. 25, by Myer^^Bp regulate
and equalize the aij^ment of real
and personal property; requiring
No. 29, by Pindall—To regulate
peddling beef in stay county, re
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publication of assessment lists.
quiriug vendors t<i make affidavit
Happenings oS Local Interest
Mrs. Mollie Porter has our
thanks for a dollar to renew her
subscription.
Dr. Williamson of Newark was
in town between trains Thursday.
| —Batesville Bee.
Rev. J. II. McDoniel, of Sul
phur Rock, was transacting busi
ness in town Friday.
Attorney S. A. Moore left Sun
day evening for Searcy where he i
has business in circuit court.
J. H. Clark was over from Elgin
a few days ago and ordered his j
paper changed to Tuckerman.
A. C. Robertson dropped in Sat-,
urday and renewed for The Jour-1
nal and ordered the Commercial
; Appeal.
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Harry Neudoffer, the popular
! young salesman at Chas. Ik Lewis’
| wants an annual pass over the Iron
Mountain to Newark.—Batesville
! Bee.
T. R. Amick. a former citizen
I of Paroquet, but now a resident of
i Jackson county, was in town Mon
day and made The Journal a pleas-*
j ant call.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Adams, Jr.,
of Padgett Island, are rejoicing
over the arrival of a tine, eleven
pound son, born unto them Satur
| day morning.
R. B. Gray, one of Black River
township's energetic young fann
ers, was in town Saturday anil
made The Journal a pleasant and
substantial call.
Miss Lora Craig, who was ac
cidentally shot some time ago, has
sufficiently recovered from the
wound to be able to resume her
position as compositor on The
Journal.
Frank Joblin returned Thurs
day morning from a business trip
to St. Louis. While there he view
ed the work progressing on the
exposition grounds and says they
are putting some handsome build
ings there.-—Batesville Bee.
A report issued from the gov
ernment census office at Washing
ton a few days ago shows that up to
and including the 13th of Decem
ber there had been 708,861 bale*
of cotton ginned in Arkansas,
which is estimated to be 85 per
cent of the total crop. The total
number of bales ginned in the en
tire United States up to that date
was 9,311,835, ftnd the census of
lice estimates Unit the crop will be
9,954,106 bales.
The Newark Real Estate Com
pany can sell your property, no
matter where located. We have
several inquiries for land and if
you have property for sale come in
and list it.
The Secretary of Agriculture
says this country will in a few '
years produce all the sugar requir-j
ed for home consumption. The!
cane country is limited, but land
suitable for sugar beets is alone
sufficient to produce all the sugar !
needed.
Mrs. Tom Wolford, who lives
just below White River bridge,
was so badly burned Sunday night
that her recovery is thoughtdoubt
ful. Her dress caught from the
fire place, and in extinguishing the
flames her husband was also badly
burned.—Newport Herald.
In sizing up the chronic kicker
an exchange says: “If the paper
was printed on gold, with ink of
silver, and the subscription price
fifty cents a year, some poor, de-!
hided specimen of humanity would
kick because there was not a dia-i
mond set in each corner of the
page, and want the subscription
price to be only a quarter.”
W. C. Walker, one of Big Bot
tom's lies! farmers, from near the |
Point ferry, was transacting busi
ness in town Monday and called
and left some cash on subscription.
Mr. Walker is a survivor of the
civil war, having enlisted in the
Seventh Arkansas at the outbreak
of the war, and was in some of the
worst battles engaged in by the
old “Bloody Seventh."1
Simple Colds.
Cease to be simple, if at all pro
longed The safest way is to put j
them aside at the very beginning. !
Ballard’s Horelionnd Syrup stops
a cold and removes the cause of j
colds 25c, 50u and f 1.00 at Sturdi
vant's Drug More.
Freight Trains Collide.
Texarkana, .1 m. 16-—Two Cot
ton Belt freight trains ran to
gether eight miles west i f here to
day and wet e badly wrecked.
Engineer John Cox' was instantly
Killed and Fireman Smith receiv
ed perhaps fatal injuries. Seven
teen cars of merchandise caught
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NEW GOODS
LOWEST PRICES.
| BGIVE US A CALL.B
Hie and will likely he a total loss,
The passenger train from the
not, due at 7 o’clock this morn
ing, did not reach here until 10
tonight on account of the nmhup.
State of Ohio,C ity of Toledo,Lu
cas county.
Frank J, Cheney makes oath
that he is senior partner of the
firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing
business in the city of Toledo,
county and state aforesaid, and
tit »t said firm will pay the sum of
One Hundred Dollars for each and
every case of catarrh that cannot
he cured hy the use of Hill’s Ca
tarrh Cute. Frank J. Cheney,
Sworn to before me and subscrib
ed in my presence, this Gth day of
December,*A. D. 188G.
(seal) A. \V. Gleason,
.Notary Public.
Hall’s Catairh Cure is taken in
ternally. and acts d'rectly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system.Send for testimonials,free.
F. .J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c, Hall's
Family Pills are the best.
New riill for Walnut Ridge.
Representatives of the Phoenix
Cotton Oil Company of Memphis
have purchased two blocks of
ground for the purpose of erect
ing a large cotton seed oil mill, at
Walnut Ridge the same to lie
ready for operation by the time
the next crop comes in. The
building (iroper will he a two
story brick, GO by 120 feet, and
the entire cost of the plant will
he $70,000.
Tried to Conceal It.
It's Hu* old story of in order
will out'’ only in this ruse there’*
noc'ime. \ woman feels run down
has backache or dyspepsia and
thinks it’s nothing and tries to
hide it until she finally breaks
down. Don’t deceive yourself.
Take Electric Hitters at once. It
h.is a reputation for curing stom
ach, liver and kidney troubles anJ
will revivify your whole .system.
The worst forms of those mala
dies will quickly yield to the cur
ative power of Electric Hitters.
(July 50c, end guaranteed by J. 1
Sturdivant druggist.
Bloody Work of Desperate Negro.
Clarksville, Jan, 1(5. — Between
12 and 1 o’clock this afternoon
Robert Utley, a young negio of
this place, shot his wife three
times with a pistol, killing her in
stantly, ami tired one shot at Alice
Blackburn, a negro woman whc
was with his wife at the time.
He then ran about three hundred
yards and shot himself through
the right temple. The ball ranged
downward and lodged in his lefi
cheek. It is thought that he will
recover.
If Unwell
Try u50ebottle of Herbine,no*ic«
the improvement speedily effect
ed in your appetite,energy,strong
thand vigor. Watch how it bright
ens the spirits,gives freedom from
indigestion and debility. Isaac
Stot v, Avu, Mo.,writes,Sept. 10th,
1U00. “1 was in had health, 1 had
stomach trouble for 12 months
also dumb chills. Dr, J. W. Mor>
prescribed tiuhine, it cured nit
io two weeks. I cannot recommend
it too highly, it will do all you
claim for it.” bold by ,1. I. Sturdi
vant.
When in Need
of anything in the printing line call
at The Journal office and see our lint
of samples. Prices always right.
Domestic Troubles.
It is exceptional to find a fami
ly where there are no domestic
ruptures • -casionully, hut these
cau lie lessened by having Dr.
King's New Life Rills around.
Much trouble they save by tiieii
great work in stomach und livti
troubles. They not only relieve
yon, but cure, 25c, ut blurdivani’f
Di Store
Th'e Journal one year $1.
FIRES HOT SHOT
AT GOV. DAVIS
Attoriiey-tieneral Murpliy
ltesents Attack.
NO TRUTH IN THE GOVERNOR.
Mr. Murphy 5ays Governor Davis
Considers Himself Absolute
ly Above the Law.
Attorney-General George W.
Murphy, who together with Gov.
Davis, Secretary of State Crockett,
Auditor Monroe and Agricultural
Commissioner Bradford, compose
the State penitentiary board which
was so severely criticised by Gov.
Davis in his message to the legis
lature has given out the following
statement:
“It is a fair sample of the gov
ernor’s egotism and disregard of
truth. To those who know him,
it v.ould have been surprising had
he foregone the opportunity af
forded by his right to deliver
the message, of remanifesting his
principal characteristic traits of
cowardice and disregard of truth.
His statements in reference to the
purchase of the'convict farm had
in them only one truth, that 1 am
able to recall, anc^ Jit was the
fact that we purchased it over his
objection. His insinuations come
from his cowardly nature. He
knows that the purchase was a
good one, looking to the interest
of the State, and he knew at the
time that it was advisable.
“The trouble with him was that
it thwarted his purpose of foisting
on the State the Hayward farm,
the lowest, wettest and most un
suitable farm ever offered to the
board, lower by far than the low
est partof the Berkley farm, which
Ho falsely says would have been
bought but for him. Though the
acreage of this farm was but about
half that of the one purchased, was
wet, low and flat, and from eight
to twelve miles from any stream
into which it could be drained, and
though the other members of the
board gave him conclusive reasons
as to why it was untit for a con
vict farm, could not be utilized as
such even if donated to the State,
he undertook to administer a course
of verbal abuse to them for refus
ing to join him in his purpose to
foist it upon the State ut $87,500.
And would have done so hud not
prompt admonition touched the
heart ot his cowardly nature. He
did not see tit to allude to this pur
pose of his or to explain why he
entertained it. He: may hereafter
lie called on to do so.
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ishould
He assumes that he .1 *y
be the whole board, notwithstand
ing the law, in making the auditor
chairman made him its head.
“He, forsooth, is above the lawJ
The lawmaking pow’er committed
a great error when it made the
auditor president. His disappoint
ment, in not having for his official
associates, tools that he can con
trol, I think 1 can understand, but
have not now time to express.
His attack on Superintendent
llogma was unwarranted and based
on Ialse reasons. It was only when
Tlogins refused to appoint his (the
governor s) brother-in-law,eltictri
ciau, a position for which he is
said to have possessed uo qualitica
tious whatever, and where his
presence would have been highly
dangerous to life and property,
that he began to fallout with him.
Hogins was all right as long as
he would put in place the gover
nor s pets and tools without Any
regard to their efficiency, but wiieh
he began to make requirements of
competency he was ail wrong.
■These statements are susceptible
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