The Newark Journal.
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, October 7, 1904.
Vol. 4. No. 41.
| > COUNTY APPROPRIATIONS
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Quorum Court Makes Annual Appro
priations For Maintaining
County Government.
The quorum court has been in
session at the county capital this
week, with Judge Lindsey pre
siding and about 35 justices in at
« tendance.
A three mill county general tax
was levied, also a three mill road
tax. An additional half-mill road
tax was levied to be distributed
among the districts in the hilly
portions of the county.
The appropriations were as fol
lows:
For county general purposes,
$12,000; for county bridges, $2,
0,00; county paupers, $2,000. An
appropriation of $500 was made to
build a bridge across Curia where
the Batesville and Powhatan road
crosses that creek; $75 to build a
foot bridge over Blue creek in
school District No. 77; $150 for
"building a bridge over the small
stream crossed by the road leading
from Batesville to Ramsev’s ferrv:
$500 to build a bridge across Polk
bayou near Strickland's mill, and
$150 to make some needed irn
provements on the court house lot.
The only remaining business
before the court was the appoint
ment of road overseers. They
were to be appointed yesterday
(Thursday) but we were unable to
get them at the time of going to
press. Overseer X. M. Wilson
will be re-appointed for this town
ship.
WANTS ARKANSAS BUILDING.
Hot Springs, Oct. 4. —The plan
to use as much of the material of
the Arkansas building at the
World's Fair in the erection of a
permanent exhibit hall in this city
is becoming a very popular move.
The city owns a most desirable site
at the junction of Malvern, Valley
and Elm streets.
An enterprise of this character,
with exhibits, to be replenished
from time to time, showing the
resources of the state, would at
tract much attention from the
thousands'of visitors here and be
of great advertising value to the
state.
Advertised Letters.
The following is a list of letters
remaining uncalled for int he New
ark postoffice October 1, 1904.
The New Century Co.
Miss Myrtle Davidson,
Mrs. N. P. McWbister,
Mrs. Dora Thomas,
Miss Allha ^ush,
Edgar Johnson,
H. E. Bragg,
Claude Ford,
W.H. Grubbs
J.E. Kenedy,
T. M. Miller,
Elie Sims,
Mrs. Robattom.
If not called for in 30 days will
be sent to the dead letter office at
Washington, D. When calling
for above letters say advertised.
T. M. Haruelson, P. M.
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25 Per Cent of Cotton Picked.
Following is the government
bureau’s summary of crop condi
tions in Arkansas for the week
ending October 3:
The week was characterized by
unseasonably high temperatures
and an almost total absence of
rain, which has intensified the
drouthy conditions which prevail
ed during September. Cotton
picking is now general over the
state and about 25 per cent of the
crop has been picked; the indica
tions are that there will be a very
light top crop. Early corn made
a good crop and was being gather
| ed in many sections; the late is
suffering from lack of moisture
and will make a very light crop.
Owing to continued dry weather
very little fall plowing has been
done and very little tali grain has
been sown. Late potatoes and tur*
nips are suffering for moisture;
sweet potatoes are doing fairly
well and promise to make a fair to
| good crop.
THE SATISFACTORY WAY.
Pay the spot cash for what you
need and cut down the large profits
realized by the credit houses. You
I know every word of this is true. I
Make your resolve to-day to pay
cash and save money.
Our strictly cash system is “tak-j
ing” enthusiastically with quite a
I number of our customers. They
like it so much better than the old j
j way they have taken pains to tell
j us so. The great reductions on
j all goods is a very strong point in
j the argument for the strictly cash
system. Get the habit of paying j
cash and you will never want to
quit it. Fkf.d 1). Whiting.
SUPREME COURT AT WORK
State’s Highest Court Re-convenes
After Usual Vacation, and is
Still Badly Behind.
The Arkansas supreme court
convened at Little Hock Monday
morning after a recess during the i
j summer months. The court is,
still far behind, the docket con
| taming at present about four hun- j
dred cases. There is no prospect (
! of the court catching up in its j
work, a.s the defeat in the recent
election pf the constitutional a
mendment providing for an addi
tional member and the dividing of
the court into two divisions, de
| stroyed the chance of clearing up
the docket.
The court will be in session reg
ularly during the winter, sessions
being held Monday and Saturday
of each week.
GROUND TO PIECES.
Van Buren, Oct. 3.—F. W.
Ward, 27 years old, son of Con
ductor W. J. Ward of the Iron
Mountain, was instantly killed on
the bridge here yesterday evening.
Ward had started to cross the
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Kfx *'*v^ i#ui <xkj tue uravv
span was stopped by the watch
man, who forbade him to cross.
He was still talking to the watch
man when a north-bound freight
of the Frisco road came along.
Thinking to cross by this means,
.V oung A\ ard made a spring to
board the train. He missed the
handrail, slipped and was thrown
under the wheels.
The body was horribly mangled,
being literally ground to pieces,
parts of it tailing between the ties
into the river and the balance be
ing strewed along the track for
several hundred feet.
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POSmASTER GENERAL. DEAD.
Henry C. Payne, postmaster
general of the United States, died
Tuesday afternoon at 6:10 at his
home at AV ashington, 1). c.
was 60 years old.
icorge B. Cartelyou, formerly!
secretary of the department of
commerce and labor, will proba
bly be appointed to succeed Payne
t
AN e have just finished unboxing
our stock of fall dry goods, cloth
ing, shoes, hats and the largest
most up-to-date line of men’s fur
nishings ever brought to Newark
Moore Bros. & Co.
IS NOT ARKANZAS
l inal S” In Pronouncing Name
of the State is Silent.
This is Correct Pronounciation as
Fixed by the Legislature a
Few Years Ago.
During the editor’s recent trip
to the \\ orld s Fair we met many
persons from the North and East
who mis-pronounce the name of
Arkansas.
During a heavy shower of rain
a gentleman from the cultured
city of Boston accepted an invita
tion to share our umbrella from
the Administration Building down
the avenue to one of the foreign
buildings, and upon learning that
we were from Arkansas the gen
tleman became so greatly interest
ed that he plied us freely with
questions concerning “Arkanzas,”
the traits and habits of its natives,
their mode of earning a livelihood,
the Indians, bears, wolves and oth
er wild and ferocious animals
which he supposed infested the
country.
He was surprised to learn that
there were no wild Indians in Ar
kansas. He supposed there were
yet many tribes of wild Indians in
this state and that it was hardly
safe to live here.
In speaking of the state the
gentleman invariably called it
“Arkanzas." and we, in turn, in
variably referred to it as “Arkan
saw.” He finally noticed our pro
nounciation of the name and in
quired why we called it “Arkan
saw.”
This cultured gentleman from
Boston is not alone in his ignor
ance of the pronunciation of the
name. A great many of the North
ern people, and, in fact, quite a
number of our own citizens, mis
pronounce the word.
The mistake may probably be
traced to the way the word “Kan
sas" is pronounced, many arguing
that if this word is properly pro
nounced “Kanzas, 1 Arkansas
should be pronounced “Arkan
r/as
The name of the state is derived
from the name of the tribe of In
dians who once inhabited this
country about the mouth of the
Arkansas river known as the Ar
kansa Indians, and from them the
state takes its name.
In the act of congress of 1819,
creating the territory, the name
occurs ten times, and is spelled
s-a-w nine times and s-a-s once.
The Indian names which we
now spell Choctaw and Chickasaw
were originally spelled ( hocta and
Chichasa.
A considerable discussion arose
in the state a few years ago as to
the proper method of pronouncing
the name, and the legislature of
1881 passed a concurrent resolu
tion fixing the pronunciation of
the state as “Arkansaw.
The concurrent resolution of the
“Whereas, Confusion of prac
vhich fixed the pro
nounciation, au«
ed in the bienn
secretary of s
1899 1900, is as
in as follows:
tice has a
tion of the name
it is deemed in1
pronunciation >
mined for use in
ceedings; and,
“Whereas.
The matter has
been thoroughly investigated by
State Historical Society of Little
Rock, which has agreed upon the
correct pronunciation, as derived
from history and the early use of
the American immigrants; be it
therefore
“Resolved, by both houses of
the general assembly, That the
only true pronunciation of the
name of the state, in the opinion
of this body, is that received by
the French from the native In
dians, and committed to writings
in the French word representing
the sound, and that it should be
pronounced in three syllables, with
the final ‘s’ silent, the ‘a1 in each
syllable with the Italian sound,
and the accent on the first and last
syllables, being the pronunciation
formerly universally and now still
most commonly used, and that the
pronunciation with the accent on
the second syllable with the sound
of V as in ‘man’ and the sound
ing of the terminal ‘s’ is an inno
vation to be discouraged.”
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS
Short Items of General Interest
Gathered Fresh From Our
Local Exchanges.
Clint Smith was shot and seri
ously wounded by Will Mason at
Varner Saturday.
The canning factory at Belle-,
fonte has put up 14 car loads of
tomatoes this season.
The Arkansas Deaf-Mute Insti
tute opened Thursday (yesterday)
with about 200 students.
C. S. Brown of Black Rock took
an overdose of morphine last week
and his life was saved with diffi
culty.
There are 12 murder cases on
the docket of the Union county
circuit court, which convened at
El Dorado Monday.
The Hempstead county equali
zation board made a raise of $213,
465 in the assessed valuation of
property in that county.
Jackson county is to have a new
jail, the Quorum Court having ap
propriated $2,00Q for the purpose
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V/I C/1 UUU
At a special term of the Craw
ford county circuit court Monday,
eight men were indicted, tried and
convicted in one hour and twenty
minutes.
John Cagle, night watchman at
Mena, was killed at that place
Monday night by being run over
by a box car while pursuing ho
boes in the railroad yard.
Leonard Martin was fatally in
jured while at work in a gin at
Colt. His arm was caught in the
machinery and completely torn
from his body. He died in a short
time.
School boys at Mammoth
Springs engaged in a tight, and
Cleo Croom, one of the partici
pants, had his shoulder blade dis
located and his clothing badly cut
with a knife.
The remains of a dead baby
were found partly buried under
the residence of J. E. Lester at
Hot Springs Monday, and Becky I
Thornton, a young woman work
ing in the family, was held by the
coroner’s jury, who investigated
the case, on a charge of infanticide.
A number of infanticides have
been committed in Hot Springs re
cently, but this is the first arrest
made.
J.V. ROBERTS FOR DEFENSE
Roberts Will Defend Lightle Unless
Disbarred by Bar Association
of White County.
Searcy, Ark. Oct. 5.—John V.
Roberts, who was last week ad
judged guilty of robbing the grave
of Edward Pitts for the purpose
of palming the body off on the in
surance companies as that of Dr.
Richard G. Lightle, upon whose
life policies were held aggregating
$21,000. will, unless disbarred in
the meantime, defend Dr. Lightle
in the circuit court of White coun
ty. The information comes front
a reliable source and is not doubt
ed in the least. Dr. Lightle was
convicted on the 3rd of September
of grave robbery and the sentence
imposed was a tine of $2,000 and
imprisonment in jail for six
months. Through his counsel he
appealed to the circuit court, where
he is also to be tried upon two fel
ony charges, namely, conspiracy
tu uenttuu mm arsun,
Immediately after the jury at
Judsonia last week returned a ver
dict of guilty against John Rob
erts, fixing his punishment at six
months in jail and the payment of
a fine of $1,000, he appealed the
ease to the circuit court. When
it is called at the January term of
the court at this place Judge Hut
ton will be asked to grant a change
of venue, and the case will likely
! be sent to Forrest City and will
j come up for trial in February.
Dr. Lightle will not ask for a
change of venue, but will fight his
case in the circuit court at Searcy,
and John Roberts will be one of
his attorneys. Judge M. M.
Stuckey and Hon. Gustave Jones
will assist in the defense of Light
le, and it is said that Roberts will
make the closing speech for his
client. Those in Searcy and in
White county who are best ac
quainted with John Roberts pre-1
diet that his speech in defense of
his friend Dr. Lightle will be one
of the efforts of his life, and prac
tically every citizen in the county
will hear it.
There is a possibility, however,
that the bar association of Searcy
will take action against Roberts in
the meantime, and if this is the
case he will not be allowed to de
fend Dr. Lightle. It is said that
strong efforts are being made to
forestall any such action by the
bar association, and friends of
Roberts from other parts of the
country will, it is stated, come
here to protest against such a step
being taken until after a final dis
position of the charge against him.
Roberts is now in Searcy and is
attending to all of the cases that
he had on hand prior to the time
he was charged with robbing the
grave of Edward Pitts in connec
tion with the famous Lightle in
surance swindle.
Encampment Cost $11,650,
The total expense of the recent
encampment of the provisional
regiment of the Arkansas State
Guard on the World’s Fair
grounds at St. Louis was $11,650,
§150 more than the amount receiv
ed from the War Department to
defray the expenses. Capt. E. 1?.
Jett, who acted at disbursing offi
cer during the encampment, has
made a report, showing that the
total pay of the officers and men
was $5,150, the transportation
charges were $5,250, and the cost
of subsistence, $1,250.