One Dollar Per Annum.
NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY JUNE 27, 1002.
Vol. 2 No. 26.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS
Happenings of a Week Gathered
From Various Parts of
the State.
A compulsory vaccination order
is being enforced at Fayetteville.
The Gentry Fruit Growers As
sociation will hold a picnic on Ju
ly *3.
Mrs. Katherine Outler. aged 73,
died of old age at Hot Springs,
June 17. )
Waterworks and an ice plant!
may be put in at Guidon by J. W.
A\ ilson of Arkadelphia
The Hope Compress Company
has sold out to the St. Louis
Warehouse and Compress Com
pany for $25,000.
Ned Taylor, an old colored citi
zen of Malvern, was arrested last
week on an indictment returned
ten years ago charging him with
illegal voting.
The Gordon Lumber Company
has been forced to abandon its oil
well after boring 1,300 feet, on
account of losing its drill, and
lias started another!
Buth L. Marsh of Hot Springs,
in llie colored Women's Hapijst
State Association at Morrilton,
advised the women to keep out of
the white woman’s cluh federation
and organize one of their own.
Philip Gash, who lived a few
miles west of Jasper, was killed
recently liy a failing tree, lie
lived twenty-four hours after his
skull was broken open and Ids
brains exposed, lie leaves a wife I
and two sons.
i
A tie maker by the name of,
Porrv Dennis committed suicide j
at Ins borne, six miles east of j
Walnut lvidgc, Tuesday of last j
week by cutting his throat with a
azor. Domestic trouble* are'
said to have been the cruse.
McWhorter Alust Hang.
Dave McWhorter of Crawford
ounty must hung: for the crime of j
ife murder. The supremo court j
.0 Arkansas has affirmed the find-j
: in the lower court, wherein
icWliortcr wren declared guilty of
aurder in the first degree.
Chief Justice Bunn delivered
the opinion, which was oral, and
substant ially set forth that the evi
dence was sufficient to convict.
Governor Davis will tix a day for
the execution of the condemned
prisoner.
McWhorter shot and killed his
wife in Crawford county, Nov
ember It last. The testimony
shows that the couple had separa
ted. Finally McWhorter tried to
induce his wife to take him back.
She refused and lie shot her dead.
Leads Them AH.
‘‘One Minute Cough Cure beats
all other medicines 1 ever tried! 1
for coughs, colds, croup aim <1
throat and lung troubles,” says'.
1). Scott Curtin of Logan ton. Pa. '
One Minute Cough Cute is tho t
only absolutely safe cough rente- <
dy which acts immediately. I
Mothers every where testify to
the good it has done their little ]
ones. Croup is so sudden in its ]
attacks that the doctor often ar
jives too late. It yields at once to'
One Minute Cough Curt-. Pleas-|
unt to take Children like it. Sure 1
cure fm grip, bronchitis, coughs, j 1
j. 1. Sturdivant. I 1
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Will Davis Ask For Third Term?
When the Democrat intimated i
sonic days ago that Governor Da~ i
vis was probably iiguriug on ask- l
mg for a tliird term the subject | ■
iiad not been discussed by the i
politicians, binoe then the mat- <
tt-r has been presented to those !
who usually keep tab on future <
events, and it is generally ar. j
knowledged that certain signs
point', to Such a purpose on the1
1
part of Governor Davis. The
politicians are now trying to find
out ‘‘where they are at."—Arku
sas Democrat.
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Spring Fever.
Spring fever is another name
for biliousness. It is more seii
ous than most people think. A
tot pi I liver and inactive bowels
mean a poisoned system. If neg
lected, serious illness may follow
such symptoms. DeWitt’s Little
Early Kisers remove all danger
by stimulating the liver, opening
the bowels and cleansing the sys
tem of impurities. Safe pills.
Never gripe. “I have taken De
Witt’s Little Early Kisers for tor
pid li ver every spring lac....vonft»r”
writes U. M. Everly, Moundsville,
W, Ya. “They do me more good
than anything I have ever tried.”
J. I. Sturdivant.
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Patents at Cut Prices.
In order to Keep buisy during the
summer, Swift & Co., the prompt
and proper patent lawyers, oppo
site E. S. Patent Office, Wash
ington, D. C., have made a big
cut in the price for obtaining
patents. Inventors who desire
to save money and get the best
work should write them while
the cut prices prevails.
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PENTER’S BLUFF.
Quite a crowd took advantage
of the excursion rates last Sunday
and went up to Pouter's liluff to
see the country. For wild, rug
ged mountain scenery the place is
unsurpassed.
Penter's Bluff. proper, is on the
"ist side of White river and rises
front the water's edge almost per
pendicularly to a height of some
thing like hop feet, litis bluff is
i solid mass of stone and is one of
the wonders of nature. From the
river's edge the frowning bluff is
t picturesque scene, capped with
green timber, and appeals sublim
ly to all lovers of nature anu her
handiwork.
Fight along beneath this bluff-,
just two feet above high water
mark, runs the roadbed for the
White Fiver railroad. On one
■tide within a few feet flows the
■rystiff waters of the beautiful
White river, while on the other1
dde. barely at a safe distance from
passing trains, rises the bluff.
The roadbed has been made by
frilling down into the bluff and
blasting off huge blocks of stone,
.vhieh roll down into the water's
,*dge. When blasted off low
enough this shelf-like place in the ,
bluff is leveled up and upon this
the track will be laid.
Inquiry was made as to what the
nunc Penter’s originated from,
>ut no one seemed to know, fcjeve
al theories were advanced by
hose living there, among which
vas that the Indians had in days
rone by, ran a white man named
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ugliest point of the bluff, and by
>tlu*rs that a man named Penter
urn pod oil the bluff once of his
)\vn accord, while some say that j
.he bluff took it 's name from one j
>f the early settlers of that sec- •
ion.
A majority of the jieople of the
dace are very primitive, but seem ;
nippy and contented.
(live Them George Washington.
A Berlin paper prints the state
nent that a number of .New York
nen intend to offer to the Ger
nau emperor a statue of George ’
Washington. which is to l»e placed
n Berlin. It does not seem fair
hat all the courtesies should lie
>.i one side. While representa- j
ives ot empires are presenting us
vith statues of kings, why would |
t not be a good plan tor Ameri
am citizens to present empires i
vith statues of cmiuent Ameri
rails? the statue of George'
Washington would l>e an inspir
ng sight in the caipital of an cm- j
)ire. —The Commo nei\
CON DENSEI) N EWS ITEMS
Happenings of Interest Gathered
F:rom Various Parts of
the Union.
Two men were drowned Sunday
by their bout plunging over a mill
dam near Taylorville, III.
Three Italians who killed a
prominent citizen near Pittsburg,
Pa., barely escaped lynching.
Two ships from Tacoma wi re
caught in great ice floes ofl' the
Alaskan coast, and one is still mis
sing.
A more hopeful tone pervades :
Aba-Mew-York stock market, due!
largely to the splendid crop out
look.
A Macon, Mo., man sues for di-!
vorce because, he says, his wife
publicly prayed that he might fail
down and break his neck.
General Pagan, of army heel
fame, had a pistol enenuntor with
a Western cattleman in an Arizo-j
na restaurant last Sunday.
Richard Croker, it is reported
in New York, is coming back to
compel a retraction of certain
statements recently made about
him.
Secretary Wilson of the Depart-)
ment of Agriculture expects goo I
results to follow recent legislation
by Congress for the irrigation pf!
arid lands.
An Iowa man killed an officer
who tried to arrest him and then
defended himself successfully for
three hours against an attack by a
large posse, being finally killed.
Five New Mexico cowboys who
lie in wait for an old Indian tight
er are killed in the tight when fhi*'
fighter arrives, while three of I
their companions escaped by flight. '
President Mitchell, of the Fait-,
ed Mine Workers, h,«s issued an
address to the puhln . present ins
the strikers' side of the trouble, j
He makes a forceful piesentmcnt ;
of their case and again appeals
for arbitr ition.
A Chicago literary woman trav
eled bC.OOP miles, part of the time
disguised as a nun, to recover her
little girl, who was kidnapped in
Chicago two years ago by the!
child’s father. The long pursuit
ended successfully in India.
An Expensive Victory.
In the Courier-Journal, Henry
Watterson says : “If it be insist
ed that we turn back for a plat
form, why not to that of 181)2 on
which wo won our last presiden
tial battle?” A king was once
congratulated upon a triumph he
had won in hat tie utter a desper
ate struggle in which the larger
portion of his army was annihilat
ed. “Anothre victory like tb it,”
li I f ) i <» 1.- m rr ii: o I ! n <yi t. mi
is gone.” It is true that in 1892
‘*w« won our last presidential hat- i
tie," but when the democrat re
calls the record of the administra
tion elected in 1892, he is ir'press
ed with the thought that lh.it was
the most expensive victor}' that
ever came to a political orguiza
tiou.—The Commoner.
A Real Friend.
”1 suffered from dvspepsia and
indigestion for fifteen years,”
says \V, T. Sturdevant of .Men v
tides, >i. C. “After 1 Had ttied
many doctors and medicines to no
avail one of my friends peisuad- ;
ed me to try Kodol. I.t gave im- ;
mediate relief. I can eat almost;
anything 1 want now and my di
gestion is good. 1 cheerfully rec-j
minuend Kodol.” Don't try to
cure stomach trouble by dieting.
I bat only further weakens the
system, i on need wholesome,
strengthening food. Kodol enables
you to assimilate what you eat by f
digesting it without the stomach’s
aid J. 1. Sturdivant..
AN EDITORIAL DIILA31
How an Editor Fell Asleep and
Dreamed of Things That
Didn’t Happen.
An exchange tolls the following
story on a country editor who fell
asleep on duty and dreamed of
things that never came to pass.
“The editor of the Pobunk Blade
sat in his chair, grinding out copy
with all possible rapidity, It. was
the eve of press day, and the
printer and devil were stacking
the type at a great rate, ^lieet
after sheet was tilled with Halter
ing notices of Pobuuk’s prosperi
ty, of Mojor Blithers' now resi
dence, of Banker Squeezem’s new
carriage, of the approaching grad
uating exercisees. Faster and
faster he wrote, till his tired brain
became dizzy and head droped
over—
“How are you, Mr. Editor,’’
said a hearty voice. “I’m Tom
Slocum that lives over by the lug
ceeek. Been taking your paper
quite a spell and thought I’d bet
ter drop in and pay up.”
“Glad to see you, sir. How’s
tlic crops ever your way?”
"Never better. Guess I owe you
for about two years. Here’s three
dollars. (live me credit for it
"ill you?” “With pleasure. I'll
just wi itc you a leceipt.”
“Never iniml the receipt. Say,
I’ve a couple of ehichens out
there in the wagon that my wile
sent in to you. She mi l she’d
bet you’d like ’em'’
” L’huiTk you very much. I —
“Novel mind the thanks. Taiu’t
nothing.
“Say I guess you’d hotter send
the Blade to mv wife’s sister over
in Slabtown.
“She visited here a couple of
months last summer and got ac
quainted with a lot of people.
She’d like to keep track of them.
W liile you’r about it just send it to
my brother down in Ual.osh. He
owns some property here and he
ought to read about bow things
a<e boomin' here. 1'hat was a
splendid write up you gave the
church supper. I net it tickled
the church folks.
“We thought \v«’d die laughin’
at the story you wrote about the
county convention of the other
part v.
“You did certainly take the hide
off o’theni. I believe your paper
gets better every week. We’re
going’ to have a lot of apples thi
b mimer. Come out some
time and take home a couple
of barrels. Your editorials go
right to the point of the questions
at issue and I’m getting a lot of
valuable information cut of them.
Say I’m going’ to kill a beef next
week and if you want it I’ll bring
you in a forequarter. We can't
use it all. Come to think of it I
tiad you send the paper to my boy
that’s goin’ to college over at
Clingville. and I u’nt mtid for
it.
“Count up what it. all amounts
to for a year. Three dollars?
Say you won’t art rich chargin’
that way. Well 1 must be goin.’
Here's a fiver. Just give me cred
it on them subscriptions for tIk;
amount. I'll be in next week
with the beef. Good day.”
Hut just as the good fanner
stepped to the door his fool
caught on a splinter and he fell
with such a laud that the editor
woke up.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
At a church garden party near
Knoxville, Tenn., one man was
killed and three others probably
fatally wounded in a light brought
[>n by a slanderous attack on the
American Arnij in the Philip
pines.
We would respectfully suggest
that the matter of moving that old
corn she tier out of the street at
the Locust street crossing b<
brought before the council nt it''
next .regular meeting. It oughl
to be moved away and a crossing
put in there.
The traveler who may pr»
through the agricultural sections
of Arkansas at this time will find
abundant evidences of the prosper
ity of the farming classes. The
corn fields give promise of a most
bountiful yield, and the cotton
fields present a remarkable appear
ance. No doubt of it, Arkansas
is the garden spot of the south
when the seasons arc favorable.
Ben Branan brought in a fine
bunch of timoth.'. heads the other
day which he said were grown on
what was termed ordinary land.
They were fine and are good evi
dence of the fact that there is not
a foot of land nowhere in this en
tire section of country but what
could be made to ycild a profit to
it's owner if cleared up and put in
this or some other crop.
dim lid wards and Albert Arnold
left Saturday for liedland, Cal.,
where they expect to make their
future home. A large number of
j friends gathered at the depot to
bid the young men irood bve. The
Journal joins their many friend
! in wishing them health, happiness
and prosperity in their new home,
I and trusts that (hey may become
robust in health and return to
! their native home in a few months
! or years at most.
Quite a sad and s tIous accident
! occurred near Hethesda Friday.
YY. K. ('rook was tiling the tube
ion a loaded gun, Ids little boy
' about twelve years old wits stand
, iaig by. holding an infant in his
i arms, in some way the gun was
1 discharged shooting out both the
\ eyes of Mr. Crook, one of the eyes
of the bab.v and the nose of the
boy. It was thought at first that
Mr. Crook would not recover, but
he is now thought to be out of
danger. Guard.
Here is a comparison that is
going the rounds of the news
papers: “If you ask a man for
an advertisement he will tell you
he doesn't believe in advertising,
i a paper is never read, llut let him
be caught hugging the hired girl
j or chasing a loose peiee of calico
j up the street after dark, or strug
gling with a jug of “tarmid”
water, if the printing office is in
i the garret of a 20-story building
| he will climb to the top and ask
the editor not to publish it in the
paper where everybody will read
Panama Canal Vote.
Yesterday the Panama Canal
Gill parsed the.* Senate under Seu
;.tor Hanna's leadership.
If this is a maneuver to ulti
mately force favorable terms from
Hit! Cent nil Amer’can States
1 whose interests ate affected by
the Nicaragua canal it may lie
statesmanship, though not of an
■ exalted kind. Hut, remembering
that the transcontinental railroads
have maintained a lobby to thwart
i any canal consummation ami that
tin! French Panama concern has
been long anxious to sell to the
I’nited States, it is a matter of
national regret that Senator ILau
' na was successful.
Senator Jones and several other
Senators who voted for the hiil
were undoubtedly honest in rely
ing upon the Walker recommend
ation of the Panama route. It is
always fair to admit the force of
an opinion from such authorities
as those on the Walker board. It
is also always wise to hope that
the national policy selected,
though apparently mistakes, may
turn out to be ttie best.
The country will insist that the
Panama vote shall not be follow
ed by a prolonged abstraction ot
all plans for an isthmain canal.
The canul is a commercial necess
ity.—St Louts Republic*
A SKETCH OF NEWARK
Short Write-up of the Town by
L. S. Dunnaway of the
Arkansas Gazette.
The following write-up of the
town, by L. S, Dunnaway, travel
ing representative of the Arkan
sas Gazette, shows that Newark
makes a good impression on
j strangers. Mr. Dunnaway was
only in town a few hours and did
not have time for further details.
We should have published it some
time ago, but it has been unavoid
ably laid over on account of scar
city of office help.
“Newark, May 29.—Newark is
pleasantly situated between Bates
ville and Newport, and has a pop
ulation of ( ne thousand happy
ami prosperous people. The town
is enjoying a general building
boom. m*d three new brick stores
and a large tvvo-stoey hotel and a
bank building is near completion.
The bank will open for business
in June. The stores are being
erected by Mrs, Maggie Shirey
and John Austin. Mr. Austin
will soon open a general store.
The officers of the bank are : Dr.
J. A. \\ ilhamson, president, Dr.
| V. L. Pascoe, vice president; Mr.
T. 11. Dealing, cashier; 8. G.
Beane. J. P. Magness, C. M. Ed
| wards M. S. Fisher and W. T«
; dones, directors.
Newark will soon begin tho
erection of a new iwo-story brick
school building, which will cost
several thousand dollars. Tho
'school board is as follows: R. R.
Hatton, R, K. McHenry and Ft
M. Martin. Mr. George F. Gros
ser is the popular postmaster, and
is also mayor of the town. Ho
j lias been in Newark a l ing time
and is well and favorably known
in Independence comity. Mr.
Grosser has served as postmaster
l before and understands his busi
ness. Mr. C'. .I. Magucss is tho
I ‘■‘telephone man/' and is very
popular with the people of New
ark. The telephone system is
now up and in running order, and
is no doubt a safe venture.
Gritlith & Morrow are oue of
the leading business firms, and do
a general merchentile business.
The linn came lrom Dodd City,
Ark., last September,and is com
posed of good, reliable business
men. 'And Griffith and A. L.
Morrow are the firm.
Adams Bros, is another reliable
linn, which is doing a good busi
ness. It. lv. McHenry has been
in Newark for some time, and is
enjoying a good business. Among
the other business men and mer
chants of Newark are Maguess
Bros., M. S. Fisher, C. M. Ed
wards, S. C. Beane, W. T. Mag
ness, saloon : Polk and William -
son, saloon, J. I. Sturdivant.
•Irug store, Mui phy &, Mooie, and
Katton <& Cooper.
.Mr. F. C. Hoyt is the genial
telepragh operator, who is a gcod
j employe of the Iron Mountain and
is popular with all.
Hon. li. A. Moore is an old
friend of the writer, and formerly
lived at Bald Knob, and has mov
ed to Newark to practice law, and
is the only attorney in town.
The Newark Journal is a neat
little weekly, edited by Mr. O. F.
Craig, who has had several years'
experience in the newspaper busi
ness, and is getting up a good
paper. The people of Newark
appreciate The Journal.
There is talk of a flour mill aud
also an electric light plant heinjg
put in soon. Much more could be
said of beautiful Newark .”
Depends on the Point of View.
"it's my opinion that marriage
is a failuie,” said the misanthropic
j bachelor.
"You are decidedly wrone,” re
plied the popular young clergy
man. “My June wedding fees
I will buy my wife’s clothes for &
year.”