The Newark Journal
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OSCAR F. CRAlti, Editor.
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FRIDAY. DECEMBER U>, 1904.
That. new journalistic Star at
Pocahontas is a little “foxy" at
times, but it’s a good paper, all
Tight.
If the Cnited Order of Fool
Killers should happen to assemble
in national convention at Little
on the !*th of January, wouldn’t
there be a hot time in the old
town that night!
A government official at Fine
Til oft has given out a statement in
which he says he thinks there was!
a mistake in the recent bureau re
port on the cotton crop. He be
lieves the crop will hardly exceed ;
eleven million bales.
The Journal is a little late this
week owing to the fact that the
■editor was yanked up by an offi
cer yesterday and arraigned be
fore a federal official at Batesville,
■charged with sending objectionable
#nalter through the mail. This,
however, is not the first time the
law has took cognizance of things
printed in The Journal, and we
suppose we will either have to
suspend pul .icution or apply for
the appointment of a censor to
blue pencil our “copy before it
goes in type.
The Honorable Grover. Cleve
land was highly elated last sum
mer when the Democratic party
| “returned to safety and sanity,
and he handed out great chunks of
gratuitious advice to the party.
Would line’ Grover mind inform
ing the scattered, but patient and
long-suffering remant of the party
whether it is still “sate and
fc l a « y
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PRODUCED BEST COTTON.
Foreman, Ark., Dec. 10. B. F.
Haywood, a negro, who lives on
lied river twelve miles southeast
of here, enjoys the enviable dis
tinction of having produced the
cotton which won the gold medal
at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi
tion.
He began experimenting with
ordinary cotton five years ago. By
carefully culling the best boll Irom
the finest stalks he could grow by
a system of intensive farming he
has demonstrated to the world
what marvelous results can be
achieved on the principle of the i
survival of the fittest. 1 lie staple
thus evolved, besides being of
superior quality, approximates:
two inches in length, and when
other cotton was bringing 12 cents
his sold for 18 cents.
Boy Stabbed Near Clarksville.
Clarksville, Dec. 14. Hugh
Taylor, an 11 -year-old boy. stab
bed and instantly killed (’has.
Rodgers, a 14-year-old boy, near
here last night.
The boys are sons of farmers!
and were engaged in some boyish
quarrel, when the youngest sprang
at the other with an open pocket
knife and plunged it in his heart.
The boy was brought to town,
but was afterward sent home to
his father by the sheriff to remain
until court.
ADVISES FARMERS TO
HOLD THEIR COTTON
(CONTINUED FliO.M I'AtiE 1)
ing the public through the press
that they will teach southern farm
ers a lesson to remember and stop
them from forever undertaking to
hold any part of another crop
again.
Will southern farmers surrender
their manhood to the lash of Wall
street speculators' ,
Letters are coming to me from
farmers all over the south stating
that they will not sell any cotton
now in their possession at present
prices and urging that every farm
er take similar action. Others
propose to enter into an iron-clad
agreement to hold all the cotton
they new have until next Septem
ber and reduce their cotton at r -
age next year L'o per cent. They
urge me to issue this call for vol
unteers on a similar agreement
and unkertake to absolutely tie up
from 2,000,ooO to 3,<mK),000 bales
of the present crop unless prices
go back to legitimate figures.
Wo face a serious condition and
not a theory. It may cost us
hardships, but the south has been
through much severer struggles
and won out in their fight for free
dom and independence from the
yoke of foreign domination. The
southern bankers and merchants
should, and I believe will, cordial
ly co-operate with the producers
in their present effort to put the
price of cotton back to its legiti
mate value. The whole south is
aroused as never before at the out
rageous doings in Wall street. The
farmers were led to believe last
spring by cotton experts all over
the world that the manufacturers
would use, at good prices, all the
cotton that could be raised, and
yet by the time half of the crop is
sold, a lot of gamblers get togeth
er, headed by Theodore 11. Price,
of New York, and force the price
down below the cost of produc
[ tion.
W e had far better produce a
crop of 10,000,000 bales and sell it
at a profit, than to listen to the
spinners’ demand for a large crop
and sell it below the cost of pro
duction. W e had better produce
less cotton and more supplies,
thereby winning independence in
agriculture, than to go on buying
supplies to raise large cotton crops
without profit, giving our labor
and the products of our soils to a
few millionaires who live a thous
and miles from our doors. The
salvation of the south depends up
on every man who now has cotton
in his pa-session to do his full du
ty by refusing to sell at present
prices.
Do not get discouraged or timid.
Store your cotton undercover or
in ware houses and there let it
rest. The world wants it and
must have it soon. No farmer
should be afraid to retain posses
sion of a staple which is today the
most valuable agricultural product
in the world. Hold tight to your
cotton.
\V ille \ a.-sar. the 10-year-old
son of W . H. Y:t—ar. of Lonoke
was accidentally -hot in the right
arm by Claude Howard Saturday
evening, and the arm had to be
amputated.
Lurer Buchanan and A. A. A run
became involved in a dispute at
Sidney, and Arnn stabbed Bucha
nan in the abdomen with a knife,
inflicting a serious wound. Buch
anan is in a dangerous condition,
and it is feared he will not recov
er. Both are prominent citizens.
Ordinance No. 21.
An ordinance entitled An Ordi
nance for the Punishment of Va
grants and Declaring Who are
Such.
Be is ordained by tiie Common
Council of the Incorporated Town
of Newark. Arkansas:
Section 1. 1 hat the following
offenses be deemed misdemeanors,
and any person found guilty of the
same shall he subject to a fine of
not less than two dollars and not
more than twenty-five dollars.
hirst Any idle or dissolute
person, who shall lead an idle, ini
moral or profligate life, not liav
ing any visible means of support,
; or settled place of abode.
Second Any able-bodied |>er
son who shall be found loitering,
or rambling about, and lodging in
tippling houses, beer houses* dram
, shops, outhouses, bawdy-houses,
houses of ill repute, lumber yards,
lor any place other than is kept for
that purpose, and not being aide
to give a good account of himself.
Third—Any able-bodied person
found wandering abroad and beg
ging. and going from door to door
ta gging, or appearing in any pub
lic place begging.
Fourth Any prostitute, courte
san, bawd or lewd woman, or any
female inmate of any bawdy-house
or house of ill fame, found wand
• ■ring about on the streets, or any
public place, in the night time or
frequenting and dram shop or tip
pling houses.
Fifth Any procurer, pimp, or
I other male person, inhabiting a
bawdy-house, or house of prosti
tution or assignment, or in any
way connected with the keeping
of any such house or place.
Section 2. On trial, before the
Mayor, of any person charged
with violating any of the provis
ions of this ordinance, it shall bo
lawful for the town to introduce,
in support of such charge, testi
mony as to the general character
land reputation of the defendant,
touching any matter set forth in
| the preceeding section, and the
defendant may resort to testimony
of a like nature for the purpose of
disproving said charge.
Section 3. That this ordinance
take effect and be in force from
and after its passage and publica
tion.
Approved this 13th day of De
cember, 1904.
,J. H. IIoldkhbv, Mayor.
O. F. Craig, Recorder.
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