VOL. I
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1902.
NO. 47.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Boors surprised a detachment of
British troops at Klipdam on the
l!<th, killing two, wounding six and
capturing forty men.
It is now estimated that jewelry
to the value of $500,000 went down
in the fire that consumed the Sani
tarium at Battle Creek, Mich.
Wm. M. Tweed, son of the noto
rious boss of the Tammany organi
zation in New York in the fifties, fell
dead at his home in Standford,
Conn., Tuesday.
Valet Jones occupied the witness
stand for two days last week in the
Patrick murder trial, New York
City, and gave damaging evidence
against the accused.
The theft of $40,000 In- Express
Messenger Frank McCarthy, of the
Wells-Fargo Company, near San
Louis Potosi, Mexico, is reported,
lie jumped from the car as it was
leaving the town and boarded a
freight following, and was making
liis way to Sonora when last heard
from.
Gen. Greely, chief of the signal
service of the war department, who
has charge of telegraphic lines own
ed by the government, the report
says, estimates the entire cost of i
Pacific cable, including ships and
all possible contingencies, at $10,
000,000, and places the annual ex
penses at $25,000.
The severe winter so far has se
riously crippled the oyster and fish
business in Delaware, the rivers and
most of the bay being frozen over.
Wild fowls congregate in swarms
wherever there is a break in the ice
or snow for food and water. Tur
key buzzards are perishing. Mam
part ridges and rabbits have starved
or frozen.
I’ire insurance men met m .New
York last week and agreed to ad
vance rates throughout the United
States east of the Rocky mountains,
with the1 exception of New York and
its immediate vicinity 25 per cent
on mercantile stocks and buildings
occupied for such purposes. The
reason given for this action is the
heavy losses during the jear 1001.
Secret societies in the Philippine
islands have been interdicted by the
commission which had felt that
they were one of the most fruitful
aids to the war, and had taken the
should be confined to open meetings
and prevented in oathbound socie
ties. At least one of the societies
had for one of its main purposes
assassination, being thus like the
Mafia.
James W. Tufts, the millionaire
soda fountain manufacturer of Bos
ton. provided in his will for nearly
500 of his trusted employes, the
sum aggregating $80,000. To each
of tin1 three hundred and twenty
married men who were in the employ
of the company four years ago un
der Mr. Tufts the sum of $200 is
left, and to about eighty single men
$100 each.
Cornelius Roosevelt, the only sur
viving son of the late S. Weir Roose
velt and a cousin to President Roose
velt, died of heart disease in New
York City last Sunday. Mr. .Roose
velt was born fifty-four years ago,
and was educated at the Troy Poly
technic Institute. Shortly after
completing his course there he went
abroad and had lived since that time
chiefly in Paris.
Gov. Taft, before the senate com
mittee, testified that the expenses of
conducting the government of the
Philippine islands are much higher
than under Spanish rule and that
the increase would be greater this
year than it had been last year. For
instance, while the annual expense
of conducting the government of
Manila under Spanish rule was
from $500,000 to $1,000,000 Mexi
can. the present expense is about
$1,500,000 in gold. The increase in
the total was. he said, due to the in
crease in salaries and to the im
provement the government afforded.
The latest sensation in the racing
line was developed at Charleston, S.
C., when Jockey Kennedy was caught
with an electric battery on his boot
heel, by which he won a race with
Bail Penny.
Fir.' at Louisville, Ivy., on the
ISlh completely destroyed the plant
ol the Louisville Bolt and Lou
Company, causing a loss of $100,000
insured.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis visited the
capital of Mississippi last Saturday
with the view of offering the famous
Jefferson Davis family residence,
known as Beauvoir, to the state at
a nominal price, to be devoted to a
Confederate soldiers’ home. Hhe has
been offered $00,000 for tin; prop
erty, but prefers to t<jke $10,000,
and have it be used as above.
The Texas Midland railroad is
going to demonstrate whether the
Marconi telegraph system can be
made practical in operating railroad
train service. President Greene lias
ordered Marconi’s wireless telegraph
system from Edinburgh, Scotland.
If the experiments prove successful!
the Midland will he the first railroad
in the world to attempt to adopt
Marconi’s invention.
A bill has been introduced in con
gress by Itopresentative Corliss for
the laying of a cable to Hawaii and
the Philippines. Mr. Corliss con
tends that it should be made by an
American manufacturer, laid by an
American ship under the American
flag a.y.d operated at actual cost for
the dissemination of knowledge, the
proper direction of our army and
navy and the advancement of our
trade and commerce in the Pacific.”
The United States consul at Mon
terey. Mexico, reports that shoes of
United States manufacture are popu
lar among the better class of people]
of Monterey and in the northern
part of Mexico. There are several
large shoe stores in this city which
handle almost nothing but American
shoes and they are sold in nearly all
the dry goods establishments. 1 am
not aware that any other country
ships shoes to this part of Mexico.
In many shop windows one can see
the sign “American shoes for sale.”
I lie miraculous escape of over
four hundred patients at the sanita
rium of the Seventh Day Advent
ists at Battle Creek, Mich., is re
ported without the loss of one life,
though the inmates were sound asleep
when the alarm was given, and many
got out with nothing on but their
night clothes. Mrs. II. C. Daniels,
of El Dorado, Ark., is the only per
son who was seriously injured. She
jumped or fell from the fire escape
at the third story and sustained a
broken leg. The fire started in the
hath room of the sanitarium build
ing, probably about the furnace.
In the Sampson-Sehlev ease Pres
ident Roosevelt has this to say: “I
am satisfied the court of inquiry did
substantial justice. The court was
a unit in condemning Schley on his
h'ctrogade movement.’ If Schley’s
actions were censurable he should
not have been left in command.
Technically Sampson commanded
the fleet and Schley the western di
vision. It was a captains’ fight. The
loop seriously marred the Brooklyn’s
excellent work, the only grave mis
take made that day. There is no
excuse for any further agitation of
this unhappy controversy.”
The United States maintained its
position as the leading exporting na
tion in the calendar year 1901. The
figures of the treasury bureau of
statistics, just published, show the
exports of each of the principal
countries of the world at the latest
available date, and clearly indicate
that the exports of the United
States were, during the year, larger
than those of any other nation. The
average monthly exportation in the I
year 1901 were: United States,
$119,840,333; United Kingdom,
$113,753,987; Germany, $90,242,
000 ; France, $66,929,329; Nether
lands, $56,790,923; Austria-IIunga
ry, $32,012,746, and Belgium, $28,
678,729. For the full calendar year
figures of the United States and
United Kingdom are available. They
show: United States, $1,438,083,
000; United Kingdom, $1,365,047,
843. The exports of the United
States thus exceed by nearly $75,
000,000 those of the United King
dom.
A force of mounted British infan
try, while paroling the Klip river,
south of Johannesburg, pursued a
single Boer for several miles, and
upon reaching an exposed view were
fired upon by the enemy. They had
been led into a trap, and were un
able to escape, ten men and two
officers being killed, and forty men
and four officers wounded.
A band of heavily armed Creek
Indians were captured by Deputy
1 nited States Marshal Brant John
son on Wolf creek, Indian Territory,
There has been some restlessness
among small hands of these Indians
and threats have been made of an
outbreak but they are being well
rounded up by the marshals. War
rants are out for about 200 who,
when caught, will be severely pun
ished.
Everything now presages a late
spring in the south. Nothing as vet
has been done on the farm toward
preparing for planting, owing to the
cold, wet weather, and the time is at
hand for planting corn with not an
acre plowed to receive it. Ordinari
ly it is the ease that many of the
most progressive farmers have their
corn planted and their cotton land
cleaned off by the middle of Febru
ary, but not so this time, and the
prospect is not brighter than the
weather. The corn crop last year
was distressingly short; in fact, very
few farmers made a sufficient quan
tity to run their places until the
first of the present year, and these
had prepared to put in oats to help
out in the early spring, but now
comes the report that all the fall
planted oat crop has been killed by
the repeated freezes, and it will be
necessary to replant.
E. 0. Dun <k Co. report on the
state of trade in this country that
there is such a thing as too much
prosperity. During the last few
years there has been such a marvel
ous expansion in domestic business
that the capacity of furnaces and
mills, as well as transporting facili
ties, have failed to keep pace. The
result is a gradual falling behind
with deliveries and a tendency of
buyers to send orders abroad when
ever needs are urgent. One case is
now in evidence of steel rails to be
delivered at a Florida port, which
after paying the duty, will cost
about $5 a ton more than the regu
lar domestic price. Yet home pro
ducers arc fully sold up to about
September 1. According to the Iron
Age, pig iron production during
January was at the record-breaking
rate of 1,450,000 tons, and the re
duction in furnace stocks indicated
that consumption was still greater.
There is a great contention be
tween Colorado and Kansas in re
gard to the waters of the Arkansas
river which flow through both states.
Kansas claims that Colorado is dis
posed to get more than it's share of
the water for irrigation purposes.
Attorneys for Kansas allege that
the state of Kansas is the riparian
owner of the lands within its boun
daries, and that the state of Colora
do is a very great offender against
the rights of Kansas. The waters of
the Arkansas, it is asserted, should
serve two states and not one. Im
partial justice demands that the
state of Colorado should be restrain
ed from taking it all, and the stata
of Kansas should not ask it all.
Kansas does not ask that a single
irrigation ditch be closed in Colora
do in order that one may be opened
in Kansas, but only that sufficient
water be allowed to flow into Kansas
to fertilize her fields in the natural
way. In brief, the five causes of
wrongs against the state of Colorado
are as follows: In case it is
decided that Colorado cannot get
the lion's share of this water,
and that Kansas must have a
fair per cent, the question arises, arc
these two states going to absorb all
the pura aqua of this river and leave
Arkansas without a stream upon
which to float her argosies. This
must not be, and in time we shall
claim our own.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
Arkansas’ World’s Fair Building.
The building to be erected at the
world’s fair at St. Louis for the state
of Arkansas has been agreed upon by
the state commission. Architect F.
G. A. Hart, of Hot Springs, submit
ted the design, which is in the style
of the French renaissance. The
building will be seventy-five feet
wide by one hundred feet long. The
approaches to the building are per
haps the most convenient and beau
tiful yet offered by a state building.
The building proper will be two sto
ries high. In the center of the build
ing will be the main reception hall
connecting with the corridors, which
extend the full length of the build
ing. This reception hall will be in
the form of a Latin cross.
On the first floor, grouped on each
side of corridors, is the general man
ager's office and office of board of
commissioners, governor, the lady
manager and the ladies’ reception
room, which will be on a suite with
the ladies’ toilet and cloak room, the
day nursery and ladies’ waiting
room, which will be furnished and
apportioned for all ladies from the
State. On the opposite side of the
corridor are the gentlemen's recep
tion rooms and suite with wash
room, toilet and check room.
One entire corner of the building
will be devoted to Hot Springs and
Eureka Springs exhibits, which will
be admirable and calculated to
arouse considerable interest. Space
is also provided for any and
all counties and cities which may ap
ply for it. The second story is de
voted to educational exhibits unclas
sified, and the historical society and
a thoroughly accoutred auditorium.
While' the building will cost $100,
000, in its actual value, piece for
piece, it is proposed to have the
state expend only between $20,000
and $25,000—the balance being con
tributed: for instance, one man gives
so much of this kind of lumber, an
other of that, and so on. until Ihe
remainder is actually furnished by
a congregation of people. The
building will be built entirely of
wood and stone.
Gen. “Bob” Crockett Dead.
Gen. Robert II. Crockett, fi <rraml
son of the immortal Davy Crockett
and ftither to our present secretary
of state, John W. Crockett, died sud
denly on the night of the ITth at his
home in Stuttgart of heart failure.
The Saturday before he had been
presented with a cane on his seven
tieth birthday. If ever there was
an illustrious son of a noble sire it
was “Uncle Bob.’’ as ho came to he
universally known. No man dared
outdo him in magnanimity, in hon
esty of purpose, in liberality of sen
timent and generosity. It was
“brother" and “God bless you" to
every one he met. and "sweet girl"
to the fair ones who adored and
worshipped him. ITis geniality was
inbred and always flowing, his cor
diality as radiating as the rays of
the sun. Arkansas was always
proud of him living, and his memory
will be honored and revered long
years hence when others more polit
ically prominent will have been for
gotten. Gen. Crockett was born at
Paris, Tenn., February 15. 1832.
When a young man he settled in
Arkansas county and took up the
practice of law, becoming prominent
as a practitioner. He was elected
state senator and served during the
years 1885-1889. He served all
through the Confederate army, and
his bravery and efficiency won for
him the colonelcy of the eighteenth
Arkansas regiment. Gov. Davis is
sued a proclamation Tuesday requir
ing the placing of the flag at half
mast and the suspension of business
in the different state offices for that
day.
Conductor McFall Killed.
Conductor McFall, of the Frisco
line, was fatally injured near Ra
venden Springs in a head-end col
lision between two freight trains, fie
was standing in the caboose door and
the violence of the collision caused
the door to strike him with such
force as to fracture his skull, and he
died in a few hours.
To Aid Drouth Sufferers.
County Clerk W. F. Fat man,
County Judge R. C. Lone and Sher
iff It. H. Hudson, of Baxter county,
have had a personal conference with
Hoy. Davis upon the question of aid
ing the drouth sufferers of north
central Arkansas. The gentle
men are warm supporters of
the proposition to aid those
in their vicinity, as well as those suf
fering in other sections, who have
fallen heir to the heritage left by the
recent sleet. The drouth of
last summer was sufficient
within itself to cause mis
ery and since to that experience there
has been added another bv the on
slaught of hail and snow, double is
the cause for woe. Corn in their
section is selling for $1.25 per bush
el and other things are in a propor
tionate ratio. The people up there
art' bearing the conditions bravely,
but feel that succor -must soon be
given.
Grand lodge, K. of H.
The grand lodge, Knights of Hon
or, of Arkansas, which was in ses
sion last week in Little Rock, will
meet in Pine Bluff next session. It
donated $100 to the drouth sufferers
of the state. The officers elected
were: Charles Coffin, grand past
dictator; II. A. Howe, grand dicta
tor; L. J. Weber, grand vice dicta
tor; J. F. Maxcv, grand assistant
dictator; P. K. Roots, grand chap
lain: J. II. Bilhoimcr, grand report
er; Frank B. Sligcr, grand treasur
er; Hilliard Bryan, grand guide; L.
C. Adams, grand guardian; C. 0.
Luker, grand sentinel; O. B. Roll
wage, Forrest City: H. S. llornor,
Helena, and T. H. Jones, Little
Rock, grand trustees. The Knights
of Honor have fifty-live lodges in the
state, with a membership of 1,700.
New Manufacturing Company.
Articles of agreement and incor
poration of the Thomas-Fordvce
Manufacturing Company for the
manufacture, operation, buying and
selling of cotton, ginning and other
machinery in Little Hock. The con
cern purposes a general foundry and
machinery business. It is capital
ized for $2.50,000. $100,000 of which
is paid in. The officers of the new
company are as follows: Dr. A. D.
Thomas, president; John I?. For
dyce and R. \V. Mattox, vice presi
dents: O. II. Thomas, secretary, and
Ben D. Shaad, treasurer. The new
company takes the business hereto
fore conducted by the Thomas Man
ufacturing Company and the Little
Rock Gin and Machine Company.
More Relief for Sufferers.
Relief committees arc at work,
aiming to help the drouth sutTerers
of north central Arkansas, and are
active in soliciting means for that
purpose. The board of trade of Lit
tle Rock has appointed a committee
with Col. John G. Fletcher as chair
man, assisted bv Messrs. E. G.
Thomson, J. T. Beal, II. K. Coch
ran and C. S. Stifft, and Chairman
Fletcher, in appointing sub-commit
tees, said: “In appointing these
committees I can only say to them
to start at once; get supplies, some
thing for those people to eat; get
clothing and shoes and get cash.
With cash we can get anything. You
will find our people ready, as ever,
to do their full duty.”
Big Railroad Proposition.
A big proposition in the way of
the construction of a now line of rail
way comes from Guthrie, Okla. A
charter has been granted to con
struct 1,426 miles of road, with a
capital stock of $15,000,000. The
line is to run from Denver southeast
to Marshall. Okla., thence via Okla
homa City, through the Seminole,
Chickasaw and Choctaw nations to
Paris, Tex.; with a branch from
Coal Gate, I. T., northeast via South
McAlcstcr to Fort Smith; another
branch from Stringtown, Choctaw
Nation, to Texarkana; another
branch from Marshall to a point on
the Red river. It is to he known as
the Denver, Kansas & Atlantic Rail
road Company.
Mayor Allen Kilila.
On Saturday, the 15th, Col. II.
\Y. Allen, mayor of Ashdown, Ark.,
twenty miles north of Texarkana,
was killed in the Cotton Belt yards
in Texarkana, his body being man
gled in ji horrible manner, and pieces
being scattered along the track for
fifty feet. Col. Allen was crossing
from the union station to the Cot
ton Belt passenger station when run
down. lie fell opposite the waiting
room and many persons witnessed
the accident. The body rolled di
rectly under the ticket window on
the platform. The remains were
picked up in a basket. He was one
of the most prominent men in Little
Liver county and was well known
throughout the south.
Gun Failed to Fire.
Failure of an old muzzle-loading
shotgun to work at the critical time
saved the life of \Y. A. Wheeler, en
gineer and foreman of the Arkansas
Compress Company, in north Little
Rock. A negro, Hpli Bryant, bad
been discharged from the compress
by Wheeler. He went away, but re
turned, armed with the shotgun. He
beat Wheeler considerably about the
head, and then, placing the weapon
to the injured man’s face, he meant
to round out his work with a cold
blooded murder, but the gun failed
to fire. Bryant made his escape.
As to Road Ouerseers.
In reply to a question as to
“whether road overseers arc elective
or appointive under the present law,’’
Attorney General Murphy says:
“They are appointive in all coun
ties where road'tax has been voted,
in all counties where the road law
of May 25, 1897, has not been adopt
ed by the county court. In counties
where the road law of May 25, 1897,
is adopted by the county court and
the roads arc being worked under it,
road overseers are to be elected by
the qualified voters.”
Big Fire at Sherrill.
A fire ;il Sherrill. Ark., on the
15th destroyed property to the
amount of $30,000. li originated
in the saloon of Win. Alexander, who
lost $2,500: L. M. Quattlebaum,
$15,000: D. X. White & Bro., drug
gists. $1,000; Dr. Sherrill, hotel
drug store, plantation supplies, $12,
000. Aboui $1,000 insurance on the
loss.
St. Loui3 Firms Contribute.
Among contributions for the
drouth sufferers received bv Gov. Da
vis are the following from Si. Louis
firms: 1 lamilton-Brown Shoe Co.,
$500; Lesser Cotton Co., $500;
Schwab Clothing Co.. $300: Brown
Shoe Co., $250 : Rice-Stix Drv Goods
Co.. $250: Baer-Oliver-Singcr Cloth
ing Co., $250.
BRIEF MENTION.
Mrs. Caroline Schernick, aged 63,
of Fayetteville, was taken suddenly
ill at the breakfast table and died
before she could be removed.
I'he Choctaw has been sued for
$10,000 damages by Amanda Har
vey for the death of her husband in
a wreck at Little Maumclle a few
days ago.
Little Rock Daughters of the
Confederacy have entered an em
phatic protest against any presenta
tion of the play, “Uncle Tom’s Cab
in.” in that city.
Miss Elizabeth Conway, of Texar
kana, has been appointed sponsor for
the Arkansas division of the United
Confederate Veterans at their reun
ion at Dallas next June.
At the recent Little Rock city pri
mary election several bogus poll tax
receipts turned up, with the name
of the sheriff and collector forged
in a bunglesome manner.
Claud Mitchell, a young man em
ployed by the Iron Mountain at Van
Buren, was run down and killed
the other night, while learning the
route as night caller'under Mr. lid
Lynch.
Gen. Robert II. Crockett, of Stutt
gart, one of the best known men in
the state, was presented with a gold
headed cane Saturday, February
15, by his friends in remembrance
of his seventieth birthday.