' · Woodmkik Counm News. «
VOL. V.
McCROKY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 190<».
NO. 18.
THE WEEK'S NEWS
TERSELY OUTLINED
An Epitome of the Most Important
Events at Home and Abroad
the Past Week.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH,
A tilimpise ut What Cougtess Is Do- j
in|f .Together With a Carefully
Digested and Condensed Compiln
tiou of Current hens Items, Doth
Domestic and Foreign.
CONGRESSIONAL. NOTES.
By a vote of 126 to 35, the republican
caucus of the house of representatives
voted to stand by the house statehood
bill.
The house adopted a join resolution
empowering the interstate commerce
commission to compel the attendance
and testimony of witnesses in the rail
road, coal and oil inquiry recently di
rected by congress.
The senate passed bills providing for
two terms yearly of the United States
courts in Eureka, Cal.; granting lands
to Durango, Col-, for water reservoirs;
donating two obsolete cannon to the
-University of Idaho for decorative pur
poses.
The senate passed the house joint
resolution amending the Tillman-Gilles
pie resolution for investigating railroads
and monopolies.
Representative Hearst, of New. lork,
has introduced a bill prohibiting secret
sions, and providing imprisonment of
from one to ten years as a punishment
for giving or receiving such concessions
or rebates.
The senate has passed a bill provid
ing for the punishment of government
officials who prematurely divulge se
cret information of government bureaus
in such matters as crop reports, etc.
The senate passed a bill granting ex
ecutive authority in the matter of con
struction of bridges over navigable
streams'.
The senate committee on pensions
has ordered a favorable report on Sen
ator Gallinger's bill to increase the
pensions of Mexican war veterans from
$12 to $20 a month.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Dr. Herman Feist, a prominent phy
sician of Nashville, Teun.. has been
arrested on the charge of murdering
Mrs. Rosa Mangrum, whose body was
found floating in the Ohio river, at
Cairo, 111., several weeks ago. The
evidence against the doctor, who has
been released on $10,000 bond, is said
to be purely circumstantial.
The shortage in the accounts of W.
R. Delaney, the missing cashier of the
Centerview (Mo.) bank, has been fig
ured up to $25,000. He was curator
of several minors' estates and was re
puted to he worth $50,000 to $00,000;
but none of this or other moneys that
had been intrusted to him for invest
ment is in sight.
Rear Admiral Train, commanding
the American Asiatic fleet, cables that
the naval men wounded in the Mount
Dajo fight will be removed to hospital,
and need not be sent home.
The business portion of White
Pigeon, Mich., was almost wiped out
by fire.
K. S. Inuni, a Japanese student,
won first honors in the annual ora
torical contest of the University ot
Michigan at Ann Arbor, receiving $100
in gold and the Chicago alumni gold
medal. His subject was “The Mission
of New Japan.”
The friends of Major Generals Cor
ViiTl tt n<l Ai n/» A ldlmi' iii nnmvi'fteu o
making a spirited fight to prevent the
abolition of the grade of lieutenant
general until those two officers can
he promoted and retired with that
rank.
The Missouri state board of 'immi
gration, formed to induce foreigners
to settle on unoccupied lands in the
state, has died from lack of legislative
sustenance.
F. H. Everett, cashier of the First
national Ijank at Freeland, Pa., has
been arrested charged with embezzling
$56,900 from the institution. William
Beckley, a lawyer, was also arrested
on a charge of conspiracy in connec
tion with the embezzlement.
The region between the San Joa
quin and King's rivers, in California
is threatened with the greatest flood
in years, on account of the unprece
dented snowfall there, which at the
sui* mit of Pine Ridge is 2k’ feet deep.
The s;ate department at Washing
ton has received from the Christian
Herald, through the National Rod
£Toss, and forwarded to the American
embassy in Tokio, $50,000 for the re
lief of the Japanese famine, making
$80,000 forwarded from the same
source. Another $50,000 was promised
in a few days.
A shrewd deteclive. with the aid of a
ventriloquist and a mule, is said to have
secured a ecu Cession from a negro of
the details of the murder of the Christ
mas family at Cottonwood, Ala., and as
a result Will Christmas, a son, and
.Walter Holland, a son-in-law, have been
arrested
Three firemen were hilled and nine
others seriously injured by the col
lapse of the roof of the old Sixth regi
ment armory at Camden, N. J., during
a fiie that entirely destroyed that
building.
A railroad accident, only exceeded
by that at Eden, in August, 1901, oc
curred on the Denver & Rio Grande
four miles east of Florence, Col., by
which probably 35 persons were killed
and 22 injured. The wreckage took
fire and many of the victims were in
cinerated in the burning cars.
The dowager empress of China has
subscribed $50,000 to the Japanese fam
ine Jund.
The body of a man, identified by
young Antonio Bozaffi, who was recently
kidnaped and escaped, as the man who
acted as his keeper up to the time of his
escape, was found in the Morris canal at
Newark, N. Y. He had been murdered.
The international executive board of
the United Mine Workers of America,
at its session in Indianapolis, approved
the finding of President Mitchell in the
matter of the ousting of Patrick Dolan
from the presidency of District No. 5.
The alleged plot, in New York, to as
sassinate Rev. Dr. Charles Parkhurst,
according to the man who made the con
fession, is ndw declared to have been a
hoax, and he has been held to the grand
jury on a charge of perjury.
Prof. Andrew C- McLaughlin, head
of the American history department of
the University of Michigan, has been
called to the chair of history at the
University of Chicago.
Arthur L. Currey, a special national
bar.k examiner, has been appoimed ap
praiser of the estate of the late Marshall
Field, to ascertain the value of the es
tate for inheritance tax assessment.
Rev. William D. Shea, one of the old
est and best-known ministers ofv the
Methodist church, scutli, died at Atlan
ta, Ga-, aged 77 years. He attended the
wedding of President Roosevelt’s moth
er.
The Illinois republican slate conven
tion is to lie held at Springfield, May 14,
iium jiiai Lanu uaiuo i ui aiat.v; uiin-ca.
Colorado has had the worst snow of
the season, and traffic through the state
has been badly hampered by long
stretches of railroad tracks being buried
under iftimense snowslides from the ad
jacent mountain sides
The British punitive expedition has
crushed the Sokoto revolt in northern
Nigeria, almost annihilating the rebel
forces.
John Ingraham Bunn, for years finan
cial editor of the New York Press, died
of typhoid fever at his home iu Ridge
wood. N. J-, aged 40 years.
In the six-round, bout in Philadelphia
between Terry McGovern aud Battling
Nelson the latter had the better of the
argument, having his opponent almost
gone at the end of the sixth round- Un
der the local law, however, there was
no decision rendered. The tight was
not a clean one, there being too much
clinching
The Leyland line steamer Bostonian
arrived at Boston, bringing a portion of
the crew of the Phoenix liner Britisli
King, which foundered during a fierce
Atlantic storm to the southward of Sa
ble island. Eleven others were rescued
by the German tank steamer Mann
heim, and 27 went down with the ship.
Capt- James O’Hagan of the British
King died on board the Bostonian of in
juries received.
At a banquet given in Washington
by the trustees and alumni of the
George Washington university, in be
half of the forward movement of that
institution. 250 persons sat down, many
of them prominent in public life.
Robert L. Giegory. a prominent
wholesale grocer, is the democratic
nominee for mayor of Kansas City, Mo.
Tl.e platform advocates municipal own
ership.
Many eminent educators assembled
in San Francisco in attendance on the
annual conference of the Association of
American Universities.
The New York grand jury investi
gating insurance matters submitted by
District Attorney Jerome is at sea on
tIre question as to whether a political
assessment by a director of a corpora
tion constitutes the crime of larceny.
The original draft, in Lord Nelson's
handwriting, of the historical “general
memorandum’’ to his captains at the
battle of Trafalgar, was sold at auction
in London for $18,000.
The Mining companies operating in
the Lake Superior region have volun
tarily agreed to readjust wages, mak
ing a material increase.
While nine men were sittiug around
a stove in a little grocery store in
Jamestown. Ind.. discussing the pos
sibility' of the collapse of Odd Fellows’
hall, adjoining, wluph was undergoing
repairs, the latter building fell, crush
ing the grocery like an eggshell, kill
ing three of the party and injuring five
others.
The story of an alleged plot to assas-'
sinate Rev Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst,
with a police official in the role of chief
conspirator, is under investigation ill
New York
“Corporal" Tanner, commander-in
chief of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic, has written a letter to Representa
tive Tawnoy. of Minnesota, chairman
of the house committee on appropria
tions, vigorously protesting against the
proposed reduction of salaries of vet
eran clerks in the government employ
after reaching the age of G5- He sug
gests that congretss is forgetting some
tiling,
RKANSAS
STATE NEWS
Several People Arrested.
The annual report of the chief ol
police of Little Rock covering the
year 1905 shows that during the yeai
6,708 arrests were made in that city
Prisoners on the Little Reck chair
gang worked 4,900 days. According
to this report the city patrol wagor
traveled something over 4,500 miles
during the year. The persons arrest
ed were of all trades and professions
but the avocation having the leasi
number of their followers apprehend
ed was probably that of teaching a:
only 4 teachers were among the vie
tims of the police department of tin
state capital.
'Work on the De Queen and Easter
is progresing rapidly, and if bat
weather does not interfere with th<
work it is expected that the road wil
enter Dierks by March SO. Dierks i;
a comparatively new town and doe;
not appear on the map, but it is al
ready beginning to pick up in antici
pation of the railroad. A bank ha
been organized and other commercia
institutions will be established.
The safe of the Farmers’ Co-open1
tive Union at Spr’ngfield was blow]
open and robbed of its contents se\
eral days ago. The safe was cracke
with gunpowder and a brace and bi
that was Stolen from a neighborin
blacksmith shop. The robbers sc
cured a little over $100 for thei
trouble. There is said to be no ciu
New Town Booming.
Safe Blowers Busy.
to tne perpetrators oi uie ueeu.
Government Employe Arested.
R. A. Chitwood, a clerk in the pos
office at Hot Springs was arrested i
that city recently. Chitwood is a<
cused by the postofflce inspectoi
with stealing valuables from lettei
at the Hot Springs postoffice. It. i
alleged that Chitwood has confesse
his guilt and claims that,the value t
the different articles he has take
would not aggregate over $100.
A Fatal Mistake.
Mrs. R. D. Griffis died in Mariana
a few days ago as the result of
fatal mistake. She went to take
dose of medicine, and unknowingl
got hold of strychnine, which sh
swallowed, supposing it to be som
thing else. Death ensued in a slio;
time.
Probably Fatally Hurt.
Luther Massengale, white, 22 veai
of age, a resident of Hon tie Terr'
Mo., while riding in a car load c
lumber at Hoxie recently, as it wa
being switched in the Iron Mountai
yards, was pinned in the car by tli
lumber, crushing his hips so badl
that it is thought he will uie.
Levee Contract Let.
A contract has been let by th
levee district of Faulkner county t
Alfred R. Duman & Co. of Memph:
to build a new concrete conduit acros
the levee. It will be placed six fe<
lower than the present conduit i
order to drain the surounding lan
better. The contract will amount t
about $4,000.
Child Drowned.
While playing with other childre
on the banks of the Cossatot rive
near Shady, the 5-year-old daughte
of Jeff Ward lost her footing and fe
into the stream. Aid could not be S'
cured in time to save the child
life.
Cow Attempts Murder.
Mrs. Barrow of Ozan was attache
by a vicious cow at her home reccntl
and had a narrow escape from seriou
injuries. She was knocked down an
severely bruised. The fact that th
UUW WUS il miutv iJiuuamv ou » v. vx m
lady from being killed.
Foreclosure Suit Filed.
Suit for the foreclosure on the S
Louis and North Arkansas Railroa<
the first mortgage bonds of which ar
held by the Union Trust Company c
St. Louis, was filed at Harrison r<
centlj in the United States Circu
Court for the Harrison division of th
western division of Arkansas. Th
suit will probably lead to a re-organ
nation of the road and probably a
extension of the line from Leslie t
southwestern ponts of the state.
Charged With Voting Twice.
J. M. Cole, former sheriff of Ye
county, has been released on bond i
the sum of $500, at Danville, to ai
swer the charge of violating the stat
law by voting twice in the genert
election held in September, 1904.
Lineman Injured.
Chas. Roe, a lineman for the elei
trio light company at Hot Spring
sustained a broken leg and was badl
bruised about the head by the fallin
of a pole, from which he had strippe
the wlr*
Storehouse Built By Nature.
On the farm of J. F. Johnson, near
Vin, Marion county, is one of the larg
est caves in the state. The opening
is large enough for a horse to enter,
and is so situated as to be easy of
access. The extent of this subter
ranean cavern is unknown. It has
ben explored for several hundred
yards, and is as dry inside as a powder
house. Johnson uses it for storing
fruit and vegetables during the winter.
A Remarkable Pasenger.
Mrs Jane Gailey, residing at Ben
tonville, made a short trip upon one of
the trains running out of that town
a few days ago. This is said to have
been the first time Mrs. Gailey had
ever ridden upon a railv.ay train, al
though the lady is nearly ninety years
of age. Mrs. Gailey has preferred to
make all her journeys heretofore in
private conveyance, having an antipa
thy against all modern improvements,
such as railroads.
i
I Prospective Gold Mine.
, .T. W. Grant, residing near Benton
I vilie, believes that lie lias discovered
i a gold mine upon his property. Speci
i mens from this vein have been ex
. vamined by a great number of people,
. and many of them believe the vein to
5 be rich in gold. The report of the
1 Colorado assayist, to whom speci
mens have been forwarded for an
alysis, is awaited with great anxiety
by the owner of the property and other
( land owners of the vfcinlty.
Two Towns Incorporate.
Arlicles were filed recently by the
c towns of Leslie, Searcy County, and
3 Cushing, Independence county, show
ing each town has been incorporated
^ under the state law, which provides
| for incorporation of towns. Both
I tnwns bnvp hpon nnprniprl tV.r somp
! time by a Board of Trustees and a
- ; mayor, but the incorporation puts
I each town in position to force im
• ! provements of various kinds.
gj Trainman Seriously Hart.
s ! Walter Davis, fireman on a local
(1 ' freight train of the St. L. and N. A.,
; ! R. R., was seriously injured at St.
u ! Joe recently. Just as his train was
i leaving St. Joe a plug of the boiler
j of the engine blew out, allowing scald
j ing water and steam to escape into
‘ : th6 Cab. While Davis was trying to
^ | escape from the cab he fell, striking
y ! a timber in i he trestle over which the
0 I engine had halted.
Prominent Planter Dead.
f W. H. Eagle, one of the most widely
known planters in the state, died at
his home in Little Rock a few days
s ago. Mr. Eagle had been in bad health
, for several months. At the time of
,f his death Mr. Eagle owned some of
g the largest and richest plantations in
n the state. He was a brother of the
e late ex-Governor James P. Eagle.
y
e
o
s
s
it
n
d
o
n
r
r
11
3
After appropriation.
The citizens of the Texas side of
Texarkana, are beseiging their repre
sentatives in Congress, for a govern
ment appropriation for their part of
the city. These people wish a federal
building erected on the Texas side,
and hope to have $l’50,000 appro
priated for the purpose.
Great Revival Planned.
The Ministers’ Association at Pine
Bluff is planning the holding of a
great revival meeting at that place.
The services of several noted evan
gelists will be secured and it is hoped
that this meeting will prove to be one
of the greatest of its kind that has
ever been held in the State.
d
s
d
e
e
Lucky Arkansans.
The government office at Washing
ton has lately issued patents to the
following Arkansans: William L.
Brown, Little Rock, railway water
tank: William W. Bwigans and J. M.
Adams, Arkadelphia, rafter scale-;
Maceanus B. Peery, Rogers, coffee
I,
e
f
e
a
o
il
u
t
0
.1
s
y
s
a
Installing Machinery.
Two carloads of machinery for the
various rice plants being instilled in
the vicinity of Stuttgart have arrived
and the work of installing is- going
forward rapidly.
Experimental Farm Proposed.
Several farmers residing.near Mar
ianna, assisted by the Commercial
Club of that place, are to establish
an experimental farm. The seed for
this farm will be supplied by the
United States Department of Agricul
ture.
Policeman Roughly Used.
Policeman F. Parker, of the Hot
Springs police force was attacked by
two men, several nights ago and re
ceived a severe beating. The iden
tity of the policeman's assailants has
not been ascertained.
To Inspect State Guard.
Major General Haynes, commanding
the Arkansas State Guard has Issued
an order in,which arnagements were
announced for the inspection of the
troops. The inspection will be matt*
during April.
THE DISAPPEARING DIME
Clever Trick by Means of Which You
Can Mystify Your
Friends.
Provide yourself with a piece of
India rubber cord, about 12 inches
Ions, and a dime with a hole on the
edge; attach the dime to the cord
with a piece of white sewing silk,
and after having done this, sew the
cord to your coat sleeve lining, but
be very careful and ascertain that
the end upon which the dime is at
tached does not extend lower than
within two inches of the extreme end
of the sleeve when the coat is on. It
Is better to have the dime in the left
arm sleeve. Having done this, bring
down the dime with the right hand,
and place it between the thumb and
index finger of the left hand, as rep
READY TO DO THE TRICK.
resented in the aeompanying cut, and,
showing it to the company, tell them
that you will give the coin to anyone
present who will not let it slip away.
You must then select one of the au
dience to whom you proffer the dime,
and just as he is about to receive it
you must let it slip from between
your fingers, and the contraction of
the elastic cord will make the coin
disappear up your sleeve, much to the
astonishment of the- person who
thinks he is about to receive it. This
feat can be varied by pretending to
wrap the coin in a piece of paper or
handkerchief. Great, care should be
taken not to let any part of the cord
be seen, as this would, of course, dis
cover the trick. This is one of the
most surprising feats of legerdemain,
ana its onier beauty consists in us
extreme simplicity.
Another good trick is to stand an
egg upright. The unceremonious
manner in which the Great Navigator
performed this feat, by breaking one
end, is familiar to all who have read
the anecdote of “Columbus and the
Egg." Evidently at that time it was
considered impossible to stand an egg
on its point. Such, however, is not
the case, says Good Literature. By
taking an egg (a large one is the
best), and well shaking it so that the
yolk may be broken and mixed with
the white, it can be balanced, by any
one with a “steady hand,” upon its
broad end. A piece of glass, or slate
or any smooth and even surface, is
best adapted for this experiment.
To display water betwltched, fill a
wine glass with water to the brim.
Lay a piece of card Hat. upon it. and
turn it- over, keeping the card mean
while in place with the hand. When
the glass is inverted the card will not
fall, though the hand be removed,
neither will the water run out, being
kept in position by atmospheric pres
sure. Place the glass thus Inverted
on a smooth wooden table, near the
edge, and cautiously draw' away the
card. The water will still not run
out so long as the glass is not moved
but the moment any oue lifts it the
whole will be spilled.
THE SWEATER BRIGADE.
Down the street they do come,
A strange, jolly crew;
In sweaters and leggings,
Some old and some new.
They’re the sweater brigade.
From all parts of the town;
And each little sweater
Clothes one of renown.
Of RENOWN did I say?
Well, the statement is true,
For til’ brigades' many mothers
Each will tell this to you:
That HER boy is the brightest.
The dearest and best
Who has ever appeared
In a gay sweater dressed.
And that if he but lives
To reach man’s estate
lie will certainly be
A person most GREAT.
So. you see this brigade,
Hi essed in sweaters so gay, »
ltol ls the brains and the brawn
That will rule us some day.
- M ud Wall:**, In Cleveland Reader
BOOMERANGS
The Truth About This Queer Native
Weapon of the Australian
Tribesmen.
More has been written, and less
understood, of the boomerang than of
almost any other weapon. It is gen
erally known to be a flat stick of
wood bent into a shap which suggests
a combination of a “V” and a “U,”
although with the extremities spread
apart until they are at right angles
with each other.
In point of fact, boomerangs are of
almost every shape from semi-circu
lar to nearly straight, and seem to
depend for their efficiency not so
much upon the evident form as upon
the curves which are shown on their
flat sides. If one takes a boomer
ang and looks along its sharp outer
edge, it is seen that this edge pre
sents a wavy appearance—a delicate
ly adjusted sinuosity like the line
of a long screw. This curve is not
elaborately fashioned or smoothed
into evenness; the hard wood of
which the boomerang is usually n?ade
being picked out with short blows
from a sharpened flint held in the
hand, almost always shows, indeed in
definite irregularities.
What rule of construction the
savage artificer follows even he him
self would probably he unable to
say. Yet he has some definite plan
in mind, no doubt, for while he chips
and pecks away at the wood, he takes
frequent squints along its edge to see
how his cunrves are progressing. You
! will never see two boomerangs that
are just alike, but all are similar in
their relation of curves along the flat
side. The boomerang maker knows
instinctively just where his boomer
ang will go when he throws it, al
though he never seems to aim any
two in the same way.
More lies have been tQld about the
boomerang, declares the Philadelphia
NATIVE READY TO THROW THE
BOOMERANG.
Press, than can well be enumerated,
and nearly every Australian traveler
comes back with a fresh assortment.
One hears of men who can so throw
a boomerang that it kills an enemy
behind a tree, and then come flutter
ing cheerfully back to its owner,
who thereupon hurls it on a fresh
mission of carnage. A flock of
frightened cockatoos, speeding in in
tricate girations through the air to
escape the attack of natives who want
a bird for dinner, are pursued at every
turn by these erratic weapons, which
strike them down by the dozen, and
then return to the hand that cast
them. Old wives’ fablts. these, at,
which Australians laugh, knowing in
the nature of things their falsity.
In the first place, the war boom
erang is not made for return' and is
only slightly bent, so that, it’may go
hopping and bounding along the earth
like a hoop, and make big. holes in
the body of the adversary. These are
of hard, heavy wood, and ugly things
lu lumvi c%
erang is simply a plaything, or to ha
used in light hunting, and although
it might give a man a painful rap,
could not seriously injure him. As
for the cockatoo story, it has this
much truth—that a native boomerang
hurler, if he saw a flock flying by him
in a straight course, could so cast
his weapon as to come upon them un
awares at a given point, and, per
haps knock one down; but his boom
erang would drop. too. having no
power of flight after it has struck any
thing.
A Living Library.
Aprma Indian library is an interest
ing one. An Arizona judge, who has
been studying this tribe, says that they
select several promising youths of
their tribe from time to time for repos
itaries of their traditions, and they are
carefully instructed in the historical le
gends pertaining to their tribe, being
required to commit them faithfully to
memory. They In turn instruct their
successors, and thus preserve the tra
ditions in the exact language recited by
their ancestors of many years ago.
Cond.ns.xl,
Tommy—Pa, wh;.t fs the Golden
Rule?
Pa—Give your friends the same
cigars you smoke yourself.—N. Y. Baa.