Convictions In Federal Court.
Judge Trieber, in federal court at
Little Rock, passed sentence upon
the following citizens of Pope and
Conway counties, upon their plea?
of guilty in the homestead fraud
cases: W. W. Stout, eighteen
months and $1,000 fine in one case,
one year and $250 fine in another
case, and one case nolle pressed.
Stout was postmaster at Morrilton
under the Harrison administration;
W. 0. Bradley, nolle pressed; C. F.
Bradley, one year and $750 fine in
one case and one year and one
day and $250 fine in each of two
other cases; R. P. McReynolds, one
year and $250 in each of three cases;
R. L. Pearl, one year and $100 fine.
Following is a list of previous con
victions: Thomas W. Wilson, one
year imprisonment, $250 fine; W. H.
Stout, eighteen months and $750
fine in one case, eighteen months
and $100 in another case; Henry T.
Warren, one year, sentence suspend
ed; Richard D. Hamm, one year
and $100 fine in one case, and im
prisonment suspended; D. M. Walk
er, fined $25 and sixty days in jail;
imprisonment suspended. John D.
Hamm, three years and $250 fine in
each of two cases, with five cases
still pending.
Capt. Elliott Appointed.
Capt. M. A. Elliott has been ap
pointed as register of the United
States land office at Camden to suc
ceed Charles Dukes, resigned. This
was the only vacancy in a federal
office existing in Arkansas and the
appointment was due directly to the
visit to the president of H. L. Rem
mel of Little Rock.
BRIEF MENTION.
Ira Bridges was instantly killed
by a fall of rock in a mine at Den
ning.
Claude Brown, a young white
man, was killed near Fayetteville
by a passenger train.
The Riverside Lumber Company’s
sawmill at Augusta was destroyed
by fire on the 18th.
Col. W. M. Knight, one of the
oldest and best known citizens of
Faulkner county, is dead.
Sam Jackson was shot and fatally
injured at a country dance near
Pine Bluff by Joe Letting.
Henry Hodge, from Fordyce, fell
from the top of a box ear at Ho
mer, La., and was instantly killed.
A negro boy named Walter Glun
der was assassinated on the Arkan
sas river. A negro preacher named
Gilder is under arrest.
Postmaster Murray at Osceola
has been suspended, pending an in
vestigation of an alleged shortage,
amounting to less than $100.
G. M. Shelby, a native of Sebas
tian county, died last -week at his
home in Fort Smith of heart dis
ease, at the age of 60 years.
Mrs. Agatha Marguerite Erd
mansky is the promoter of a fund to
establish a William McKinley Me
morial Home in Montgomery county.
Maude, the 12-year-old daughter
of Geo. Burr, was fatally injured by
being run over by a wagon near
Mena.
Two freights collided near Van
Buren, both engines and several
cars being demolished. Ko one was
seriously hurt.
Dr. Brown, a prominent physi
cian of Ozark, suicided by shooting
himself with a target rifle. He left
a note saying he was tired of life.
Adjt. Gen. Chas. Jacobson has
been notified by the war department
that the sum of $27,190 has been
allotted to this state for the reorgan
ization of the state guard.
Louis McHaney is charged at
Hartley with having beaten nearly
to death his companion, A. S. Earp,
who was left in the woods near the
roadside, McHaney supposing him
to be dead.
An Indian was killed during the
performance of a wild west show at
Little Bock by his horse stumbling,
falling on top of the man. At the
same performance two women riders
were injured in a similar manner.
SEA SERPENT.
Ocean Reptile Sighted Near Chuk Ch«o
Island, China.
The Hong-Kong Daily Press has
received the following “official re
port on a sea serpent seen last week
in local waters:
On Sunday, the 18th of August,
1901 at 11:20 a. m., as the Chinese
customs cruising launch Lungtsing
was steaming at half-speed heading
for Boddam cove, Tungho island, in
latitude north 22 degrees, 8 minutes
30 seconds, and longitude east 113
degrees 48 minutes 40 seconds, at
about ten cable lengths from the
Chuk Chao island, I sighted a dark ob
ject on the surface of the water, one
point on the starboard bow, and which
looked to me like a rock. I at once
gave the order “full speed astern,”
and the vessel passed about 30 feet
clear of the object, which, to my sur
prise, was a large serpent lying in a
round coil, with its head raised two
or three feet and slightly moving.
Stopped engines and lowered star
board gig. 1 dispatched Mr. Kuster,
second officer, in gig with orders to
kill the monster, if possible. Mr.
Kuster stood in bow of gig with a
boathook ready to strike. The ser
pent had now lowered its head again,
but on approach of the gig, suddenly
struck out, hitting blade of one of
the oars, turning the sailor turtle
back. It then raised its head to the
level of the launch’s davit—about 15
feet—at a distance of not more than
ten feet from the gig and 30feet-from
the launch—where I stood. The crew
of the gig were scared and prepared
to jump overboard. Mr. Kuster, still
standing in bow of gig, prepared to
strike with the boat hook, but be
fore he could do so the monster sud
denly dived and made off. Its action
in swimming was like that of an or
dinary water snake. The water be
ing clear, the reptile could be plainly
seen a few feet down. It dived very
quickly and made considerable dis
turbance of the water.
We judged the serpent to be from
40 to 50 feet long and about a foot in
diameter. It had a kind of crest on
its head and two fins high up on the
neck, just behind the jaw. The thick
est part of its body appeared to be
about 15 feet from the head, taper
ing both ways. Its head was as big
as a Rugby foot ball, with large eyes
and mouth opening wide when strik
ing. It was of a very dark color on
the back—striped and mottled, but
lighter on the belly.
As soon as the serpent disappeared
and we on the launch had recovered
from our first surprise, I ordered the
ten-barreled Xordenfeldt to be load
ed, and launch moved slowly round
for 15 or 20 minutes in hopes that the
reptile would reappear, but, not doing
so, vessel proceeded on her way to
Boddam cove.
(Signed) F. WOLFE,
Officer in charge, C. L. Lungtsing.
August 21, 1901.
The document is also signed bv Mr.
V. Kuster, second officer; the first
engineer, first and second pilots and
14 seamen.
NOW THEY NEVER SPEAK.
Tale of the Man Who Moved in Ex.
elusive Society.
A coolness, growing out of the fol
lowing conversation, has sprung up
between Jones and Smith:
“I had a splendid time last night,”
said Jones. “I spent the evening at
a little social gathering at the Good
man mansion.”
“Are the Goodmans nice people?”
queried Smith.
“Well, I should say so. They are
very aristocratic. To get into their
circle one must have either a great
deal of money or a great deal of
genius.”
“You don’t tell me so? And you
say you were there?”
“Yes.”
“You were invited, were you?”
“Of course.”
“And to be invited a man has to
iiave plenty of money or a great deal
of genius?”
“Precisely.”
“Well, Jones, I am very glad to hear
you have become rich all of a sudden.
Lend me five pounds!”—London Tit
Bits.
Misfit Clothing.
There are some people clothed with
power whom it doesn’t fit.—Puck.
Saved the Little BoTtlen.
“I have a patient who is wonderfully con
siderate of my interests,” said a prominent
physician, lately. “A few weeks ago he had
malaria, and I prescribed quinine for him,
giving him four-grain capsules, so that ho
might take the drug without discomfort.
“He came out of his attack, and a few
days later called to see me at my office.
Judge of my surprise when he exhibited
the empty capsules and said: ‘Doctor, I
thought you might like the little bottles, so
I saved them and brought them back.’ He
had emptied each four-grain dose of the
bitter powder, and then essayed the rather
hopeless task of washing it down with wa
ter. I couldn’t do otherwise than to take
the ‘little bottles’ from him without a word,
and next time I’ll give him quinine in an
other form.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Lamentable Forgetfulness.
As the steamer pitched and rolled in the
waves the traveler heard through the thin
partition a wailing voice in the next state
room exclaim:
“Oh, mamma, it’s coming on again, worse
than ever!”
Then he heard a sleepy voice in reply:
“Marie, why don’t you follow the direc
tions you told me about before we came on
board?”
“Because I’ve forgotten whether I ought
to breathe in as the vessel rises and let
the breath go out as it moves downward,
or whether it ought to be the other way,
and O! O! O! I wish I was dead!”—Chicago
Tribune.
When a man gives his word he should try
to keep it.—Chicago Daily News.
The undertaker is the only man who can
sure some diseases.—Atchison Globe.
More haste, less speed. The quicker the
lunch, the longer it is digesting.—Puck.
Every time a man does a fool thing, he
makes for himself a lot of trouble.—Wash
ington (la.) Democrat.
A man should not lose his temper oftener
than once in ten years, and a politician
never.—Atchison Globe.
When preachers get together, they talk
"shop” even more than lawyers or doctors.
—Washington (la.) Democrat.
The gift horse does not possess a tender
mouth. It has been thoroughly seasoned
by frequent inspection.—Washington Post.
What He Smelled.—“I smell something
burning,” said the husband after he had
lighted his pipe and settled back in the
easy-chair for a comfortable smoke. “Isn’t
it delicious!” exclaimed his wife, joyously;
"I emptied a whole lot of rose leaves in
your tobacco jar!”—Ohio State Journal.
Yacht Tails.
“It seems like such funny talk, and yet
I suppose it does mean something. Now,
right here it says that the Shamrock yawed.
How do vou yaw, George?”
“I don't. And I don’t care to learn.”
“And then right afterward it says she
luffed. Isn't that a funny word? Is luffing
anything like yawing, George?”
“You ruay search me, my love. Lufnnff
and yawing may be the same thing for all 1
know."
“And then she came up in the -wind,
George. Do you suppose she was sunk be
fore she came u]»?”
“No, I don’t think so, my love; It’s some
sort of a technical term, I fancy.”
“Not technical, George. It’s nautical.
And then, see here. Here it says that she
went about in stays. What do you sup
pose that means?”
“That’s easy, my love. It means that she
had mislaid lier waist.”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
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