VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1908.
M). 42.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
VORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
north, easl south, west
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na
tion, and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.
Because two Indian chiefs were con
fined at Salmon Arm, south of Kam
loops, B. C-, for illegal fishing, 100 of
their red brothers threaten to take the
war path. Following the fining of the
chiefs, they were put in jail and the
other Indians immediately swooped
down upon the jail, rescued them and
fled.
Bloodshed is threatened in a fight
that has developed in Houston, Tex.,
between the Southern Pacific railroad
and an interurban company engaged
in building a competing electric line.
Alarmed at the prominence given
by newspapers at home and abroad to
stories of Russian discontent, plots
and executions, the czar directed the
St. Petersburg telegraph agenty, prac
tically the only channel through which
such news can reach the public, to
stop giving out such stories.
The seed of revolution sown in Tab
riz is bearing bloody fruit all over
Persia and Shah Ali Merza faces the
alternative of convoking a parliament,
in accordance with his promise, or
yielding his crown.
Dispatches were received reporting
the loss of the British steamer Dun
earn with 51 members of her crew in
a typhoon off the island of Port Katu,
China. Only two members of the
crew were saved.
Jesse L. Livermore's attempt to
make himself the cotton king was
definitely abandoned when the price
of October options tumbled $3.35,
dragging others with it for a dollar or
more. Livermore is said to have lost
$2,000,000 of the profits he had piled
up in his remarkable campaign.
Determined to outdo every other
country in its welcome to the Ameri
can fleet Oct. 17, the Japanese govern
ment has decided to send the entire
navy, in battle array, to act as an es
cort for the 1(1 American ships. Japan
will utilize the occasion for a series of
naval maneuvers before the arrival of
Uncle Sam’s fleet.
Despondent because an illness that
was largely imaginary prevented her j
marrying George M. Mansfield, a trav- j
eling salesman of El Paso. Tex., Miss ;
Mary Field Werne of Chicago, a pretty
and ealented young woman, committed
suicide by walking into the lake.
Cigarette smoking is henceforth for
bidden, on the Rock Island system.
Supt. F. J. Eisley has just issued a
bulletin to the effect ehat any em
ploye caught using the white-ribbed
stick will be discharged.
"Canned campaign speeches" may
be driven off the market by "canned
campaign songs," if the Prohibition
national committee has its way. It
has been announced that in addition
to phonographic records of speeches,
it has decided to send broadcast cam
paign songs on talking machines.
Worsting a burglar who had invad
ed her home, Mrs. P. H. Gammon, wife
of a tax collector of Newton, Conn.,
saved the funds of the town which
were in the safe in the house and is
the heroine of the whole community.
Mrs. “Jack” Gardner, whose rela
tions with the U. S. customs officials
in connection with the demand for
$70,000 duties on art treasures brought
to this country by her friend, Mrs.
Chadbourne, of Chicago, says that no
demand has been made upon her by
the government and disclaims all the
responsibility for the importation of
the articles.
Funeral services for Baron Speck
Von Sternberg, the German ambas
sador to the United States, who died
In Heidelberg will be held at Lutch
ena, near Llepslc. Many men promi
nent in Germany's public life as well
as members of foreign diplomatic
corps will attend.
Competion that promises to mean a
cut in meat prices is scheduled to
make an appearance in the beef trade
about Oct. 1. An independent concern
has been incorporated under the name
of the Chicago Stock Yards and Tran
sit Co. It has a capital stock of $2,
500,000, of which nearly half is to be
spent for a packing house and other
structures.
Receivers of the Minneapolis and
Northern Klevator Co., a subsidiary
company of the Piilsbury-Washburn
Co., have called on Minneapolis banks
for $1,000,000 and have failed to get
R- They have in their hands 90 ele
vators in Minnesota and North Dako
ta which they are unable to run be
cause they no funds.
G. P. O'Neal, right-of-way agent for
the St. Paul, is authority tor the state
ment that the cost of construction of
the road between Taft and St. Joe,
Idaho, sixty miles, will be $11,400,000.
There will be 35 tunnels on this piece
of road
V\'. H. Worden, counsel for Ray Lam
pliere, indicted for the murder of Mrs.
Belle Guiltless, has prepared papers in
application for Laniphere’s release on
a writ of habeas corpus, declaring
there i3 not sufficient evidence on
which to hold Laniphere. The papers
will he filed in a few days.
After a world-wide chase lasting
three years and extending over three
continents. Bela Walder, a Hungarian
nobleman accused of forgeries amount
ing to $10,000, was arrested in Chi
cago. He is held for extradition. The
charges state that Walder forged the
name of his uncle, a count in Hungary,
to notes.
Bryan is greatly interested in the
recent declaration by W. R. Stubbs,
Republican nominee for governor of
Kansas, in favoii of a guaranty of
hank deposits. Bryan, it is well
known, regards the platform declara
tion in favor of such a guarantee as
one of the most important issues of
the campaign.
Twenty-three alleged Mormon con
verts are held at the immigration bu
reau in Boston for further investiga
tion. Thirteen have been barred by
the board of inquiry and must be de
ported.
A passenger train on the Galena di
vision of the Northwestern collided
head-on with a work train near Platte
ville, VYis. The engineer and fireman
of the passenger were killed and the
fireman of the work train and 17 pas
sengers hurt.
Not satisfied with banishing his
younger brother. Archduke Louis Vic
tor. from court for alleged immorali
ties. Emperor Francis Joseph took the
former's magnificent palace on the
Schwarzenberg platz away from him
and gave it to Mine. Catherine Schratt,
the actress, to whom the emperor has
been devoted for years.
Crazed by cocaine, Gus Bullock, a
negro, killed two white men and
wounded another and was himself shot
to death by a posse at Mount Olive,
Miss.
Mrs. Cecil Overton, companion of
Mrs. Kate Howard, the leader of the
Springfield mobs who committed sui
cide when informed of her indictment
for murder, made the statement that
all the druggists of the city had been
warned not to sell Mrs. Howard any
poison.
The American Bar association is on
record as favoring a restriction of ap
peals to higher courts, in cases where
actual prejudice is shown, rather than
on purely technical grounds. The
association took the action when it
adopted by a division, the report of a
special committee appointed a year
ago to support methods to prevent
needless litigation.
A fine of $10 and costs itas been im
posed on David L. Frank, campaign
manager for Richard Yates, defeated
candidate for the Republican nomina
tion for governor, charged with caus
ing a disturbance in attempting to in
stall a challenger for the Yates fac
tion.
Jesse Coe, negro desperado, who,
with George Williams, also a negro,
killed Policemen Petticord and Rus
sell in Indianapolis, Sept. 30, 190G. and
who had been sought ever since, was
shot and killed on the Chamberlain
river in Monroe county, Ky„ by Sher
iff Bryant and a posse.
A decomposed skull of a woman
found in 12 feet of water in the Ohio
river at Rising Sun. Ind.. and the grue
some leg of a woman discovered in a
sand bar in the river at the foot of
Bridge street, Cincinnati, confront the
police with the most baffling mystery
in years.
Freiherr Speck Von Sternberg, Ger
man Ambassador to the United States,
died in Heidelberg following an oper
ation for cancer.
The death list as the result of the
wreck of a Southern Pacific freight
train near Eugene, Ore., mounted to
five when Engineer John Nicholls suc
cumbed to his injuries. The others
dead are: Three tramps and Frank
Boulton, fireman.
Affairs in the United Mine Workers
of America, which have for some
weeks been muddled, seem to be grow
ing serious. Pres. Lewis, who suc
ceeded John Mitchell at the head of
the organization, is openly defied In a
few districts and the national officers
are issuing appeals for loyalty and or
ganizers are working night and day
trying to increase the membership,
especially in the anthracite regions.
While the national target shooting
tournament is taking place at Camp
Perry. O., arrangements are being per
fected for a tournament at Sea Girt,
N. .1.. which in importance in mili
tary circles compares favorably to the
national contest, it will follow the
Camp Perry tourney and will run sev
en days from Sept. 4.
Twenty more indictments, making
50 all told, were returned by the spe
cial grand jury of Sangamon county,
111. The latest batch of accusations
includes five indictments against
Thomas Marshall and 12 other ne
groes, whom he is accused of having
led in a murderous assault upon W>
llam Rowe, chief clerk of the county
treasurer's office.
Election Will be Legal, Says Kirby.
The discovery that the new law of
Arkansas setting the date for the gen
eral state election for this year con
flicts with the old law and makes it
•possible for the law to be interpreted
to mean that the election can be held
either on the first or second Monday
of September, has been made and re
ferred to Attorney General W. F. Kir
by, who Thursday night gave out an
official opinion to the effect that the
law, although in conflict, should be
interpreted as the legislature evident
ly intended, and that is, that the elec
tion should be held on the second
Monday in September.
The inaccuracy in the law is con
sidered of importance by politicians,
as the Republican organization in
some counties, and possibly in the en
tire state, could attempt to cast its
vote the first Monday, while the Dem
ocratic vote will be cast one week
later, Monday, September 14. Repub
lican leaders have not announced
definitely whether they will take ad
vantage of the opportunity, but it is
believed that they will.
The law formerly provided that the
state election should be held the first
Monday in September. The last legis
lature amended the law, which was
made to read that the election should
be held the second Monday in Sep
tember, the law to take effect on the
second Monday in September, 1908.
Until then, however, the old law
would remain in effect. That being
the case, the old law is now in ef
fect, anc^will be on the first Monday
in September, and under the law the
election should be held the first Mon
day. Then, when the new law goes into
effect, according to its own pro
visions, a second election should be
held on that day, the second Monday
in September. Two state elections
are palpably impossible under the
constitution.
Those who have investigated the
law declare that the intention of the
legislature in exacting it is clear.
They state that the legislature evi
dently desired that the law should
be put into effect this year, and that
the election this year should be held
on the second instead of on the first
Monday in September. That the legis
lature failed to provide for the law
going into effect before the election
time set by the old law is considered
an oversight.
It is on this ground that Attorney
General \V. F. Kirby holds that the
election should be held on the sec
ond Monday.
It has been reported that the Re
publican organization in several cona
tion were planning to cast their votes
the first Monday on the strength of the
conflict in the law. Prominent state
Republican Thursday night stated
that they had not investigated the
question thoroughly, and were not in |
positions to make definite statements
as to what aciion the Republican f
party would take in regard to the
question. However, F. W. Tucker,
chairman of the State Republican
Central Committee, stated that he did
not believe that the Republican party
of the state would take advantage of
the defect in the law. A similar state
ment was made by U. S. Bratton, an
other prominent Republican in Ar
kansas.
Four Escape From Mena Joil.
The county jail at Mena was broken
into by outside parties at 10:30
o’clock Wednesday night and four
prisoners liberated. The prisoners
were: Fred Berry, charged with
forgery: Charles Spencer, seduction:
Lambert Powell, burglary; Ed I»ng
necker, carrying concealed weapons.
Jack Nicholson, held for violating the
liquor law', did not leave, and notified
the officers Thursday morning.
Sheriff Cunningham was out on the
campaign, but returned Thursday
afternoon to take up the pursuit.
Accused of Striking Mother.
For a very extraordinary offense,
that of abusing his mother, George
Bain was given a hearing before Just
ice Edmonson at Fort Smith Monday,
and his next drunk will cost him bu
days in jail. Bain denies striking his
mother, who is an aged woman, and
was reluctantly the only witness
against him. He declares that he was
drunk and if he struck his mother,
he was not aware of what he was
doing.
Operators Fined for Theft.
Alsey Holland and C. Lyons, night
operators at the Iron Mountain sta
tion at Benton, were convicted in the
court of a justice of the peace Thurs
day morning for petit larceny and
fined $35 each. It is charged that
they stole some clothing from a sui'
case' in the baggage room. The
clothes belonged to A. Tarver and
were identified by him.
Would Make the Teachers Pay Up.
“Should a male teacher who never
pays a poll tax be permitted to hold
a position in the public schools in
Arkansas ?”
This question has been frequently
asked and was called to the attention
of Superintendent George B. Cook
Saturday. It is contended that teach
ers, above all others, should be among
the first to pay a poll tax. This tax
goes to the school fund, and the teach
er gets more benefit from it than any
other person, and he should be re
quired to pay it, otherwise he should
be barred from teaching in the public
schools, so argument runs.
Some persons who have talked the
matter over with the superintendent
would like to have him suggest that
an act be passed by the legislature
making a male teacher ineligible io
teach in the public schools in the
state unless he is a poll lax payer.
Superintendent Cook, in discussing
the question, said that every good
made citizen in the state should pay
the poll tax and that so should every
teacher of the sterner sex. “The male
teacher should be proud of the privi
lege of paying a poll tax,” said Super
intendent Cook. “He is more for
tunate than the teacher of the oppo
site sex. He enjoys benefits that the
oilier does not. His pay is greater
than that of the other, and in addi
tion to this he is distinguished by
every cue with the title of ‘professor.’
He not only receives the pay, but is
also accorded the honor of his pro
fession. He certainly should esteem
it a pleasure to pay his poll tax, and
I believe he will when the matter
is presented to him in the proper
shape, without going to the legislature
to make him do so."
To Break Up Gambling.
Within twenty-tour hours after the
Fulton circuit court convened ar
Salem, four felony cases had been dis
posed of and sixteen people had been
heavily fined and sentenced for gamb
ling, and six indictments bad been re
turned by the grand jury, while the
county jail is full to the doors.
A sensation was created in the
court room Tuesday when the grand
jury foreman, F. W. Harris, brought
Wheeler Caruthers before the court
for refusing to answer certain ques
tions propounded to him in jury
room. Judge Meeks fined him $25
and sentenced him to twenty-four
hours in jail, ordering the officer of
the court, who was the prisoner’s own
brother, to take charge of him. It is
supposed Mr. Caruthers refused to
answer questions relating to alleged
gambling being carried on and which
the grand jury is endeavoring to
break up.
Child Bitten by a Copperhead.
Mary, the 6-year-old child of John
McGlasson, of a few miles north of
Jonesboro, lies at her home, it is
feared, in a precarious condition, as
a result of a snake bite received
early Tuesday morning, from a cop
perhead, one of the most venomous
of all snakes which inhabit this sec
tion of the country.
The child was walking in I he field
to take her father a bucket of water,
when she accidentally stepped on tne
reptile, which lay almost concealed
among the weeds. The snake quickly
dug its fangs into the little girl’s
ankle and made a quick getaway in
the weeds. The child screamed and
she was soon reached by her father,
who was but a few yards away, and
who tightly bound her leg above the
wound until the assistance of a doctor
could be received. Some hope is en
tertained for the wounded one.
Many Eyes on Arkansas' Fight.
The Railroad Commission spent a
busy day Saturday. As the time fo?
the hearing of the rate cases at St.
Paul draws near, the commission's
work becomes heavier and heavier.
All the members of the commission
are vitally interested in the outcome
of the suits, as a victory for the
roads would mean the undoing of all
the rulings which the commission
has made under acts of the legis
lature.
Several railroads in other parts of
the United States are thinking of
filing suits to enjoin the commission
ol the states in which they operate
from enforcing its rulings, and the
outcome of the Arkansas litigation
will greatly affect the future action
ot these companies.
A New Daily Paper.
Argenta is to have another daily
paper, a stock company, with $4,000
capital, having been formed Monday
afternoon for the purpose of financing
the new venture.
"The new daily will be issued with
in the next six weeks.” said Frank N.
Henderson, one of the promoters.
The stock has all been subscribed
and a man is now in St. Louis pur
chasing the plant. The publication
will, in all probability, "oe a morning
paper, as we were unable to purchas<
lie plant of the Daily News, as was
rnr first intention. The policy of th#
paper will be for a cleaner, a bettei
and a more progressive Argenta.”
Unearth Dynamo and Crucibles.
The arrest of Dr. L. W. Blanchard
and J. C. Wilcoxsen at Harrison late
in July on a charge of making and
passing counterfeit money and the
subsequent arrest of the aged parents
of Dr. Blanchard, who confessed that
their son had been engaged in making
bad money for a long period of time
and showed the officers where much
of the surplus coins and moulds were
hidden, is leading to still further de
velopments in the counterfeit plot.
Deputy Marshal Sutterfleld, who
accomplished the arrests, has been
making further investigations around
the Blanchard home and has succeed
ed in unearthing a number of addi
tional moulds, dies and tools used by
the counterfeiters.
In the list of additional articles
found is a small electric dynamo and
some crucibles used in melting gold
and silver.
Four additional moulds and t wo
sets of dies are in possession of the
officers, together with an emory
wheel, geared to run at high speed
and used to dress the coins to an
even size, have been found, along
with several pounds of pure nickle
and $18 worth of counterfeit money.
It is believed that still further search
will reveal more evidence of guilt,
and the hunt will be continued from
time to time.
The unearthing of additional evi
dence resulted in Dr. Blanchard and
Wilcoxsen being taken again before
the commissioner, who has increased
the bond in each case to $8,750. The
prisoners have been unable to furnish
bond, and have ben sent to Fort
Smith, where they are being held in
jail.
Their cases will receive the atten- !
tion of the grand jury, which will con
vene the second month in October, at
Harrison.
The arrest of Dr. L. W. Blanchard
and J. C. Wilcoxsen was accomplished
July 27, and Wilcoxsen turned state’s
evidence, declared that Blanchard
had been operating a plant for fifteen
years, and that Wilcoxsen had been
with him for a period of five months.
A few days after the arrest of the
principals the father and mother of
Dr. Blanchard were arrested and final
ly confessed to a knowledge of what
their son had been doing, and told
the officers where much of the hid
den counterfeit money and the outfit
for making the same could be found.
The officers searched as directed and
were rewarded by finding the stuff as
directed.
The mother of Dr. Blanchard de
clared that since the death of his wife
her son had shown a morbid tendency
to deal in counterfeit money, and that
all her efforts to persuade him to
desist were futile. She declared that
to protect her son the tools and evi
dence of his guilt had been hidden
by her and her husband after the
boy's arrest. Both the old people
denied any connection with the mak
ing of bad money or assisting in pass
ing it.
Dr. Blanchard was a respected man
in his community and had been super
intendent of a Sunday school. He had
for years paid little attention to the
practice of medicine, but had pur
chased a farm and installed his
parents thereon, he making his home
with them.
Fears Feed Will Follow Killing.
“If I had held the inquest in that
community I would have had to hold
twenty-live more.” was the statement
made by Coroner Etchervarne, who
took the body of Henry Fisher to Hot
Springs Tuesday.
Fisher was killed in Lincoln town
ship. Garland county, Monday by
Garfield Lewis. Both were prominent
and have many friends. The coroner
wont to hold the inquest Monday
and when he discovered the feeling
existing he said it would be impossi
ble to hold it there, and took the body
to Hot Springs. The men in the
mountain section are infuriated and
many rifles were exhibited.
Henry Fisher was a prominent farm*
er in Lincoln township. His son at
tended “Dewey” school in that town
ship, which was taught by Lewis. It
is alleged that the boy polluted the
spring at the school and that Lewis
punished him. The father is said to
have called upon the teacher for the
purpose of investigating his boy's
misdeed and punishment and that a
quarrel followed, in which Lewis at
tacked and fatally injured the elder
Fisher and also injured the son. who
is alleged to have gone to the assist
ance of his father. The elder Fisher
was cut just below the heart. His
abdominal cavity was also ripped
open.
Surveying Line for New Road.
A party of surveyors left Mena last
week to look for a railroad route
lown the Oossatat and Missouri
•ivers via Black Springs Bethesda
5p*rings, Missouri Falls and Womble
0 Hot Springs. It is figured they will
■e able to find a water grade all the
way, and as the route goes through
1 timber district, untouched as yet, a
laying timber busiress for years tc
oome is assured.
Over Eight Thousand Beneficiaries
Must Wait Ten Days for Final De
cision in Matter.
Little Rock. Ark.—State Audi
tor Avery . E. Moore has made
the startling announcement that
as to whether he would issue any pen
sion warrants this year. Ii seems to
be a question with the auditor as to
whether the pension fund is not in
the same attitude as the stale capitol
fund, on which he refused to issue
warrants some time ago, and which
caused all work on the building to
cease.
Audiror Moore stated that it. would
be 10 days before be would be able
to say whether he would send out the
pension warrants.
His hesitancy in authorizing the
pension warrants is based on the fail
ure of the recent legislature to make
an appropriation for the purpose, as
it did in the case of the new state
capitol.
The obstacle which the state audi
tor is trying to surmount that he may
be able to meet the pension claims,
is section 28 of article 5 of the state
constitution, which reads as follows:
“No money shall be drawn from the
treasury except in pursuance of spe
cific appropriation by law, the purpose
of which shall be distinctly stated
in the bill, and the maximum amount
which may be drawn shall be speci
fied in dollars and cents, and no ap
propriation shall be for a longer peri
od than two years.”
During the last 30 days the clerical
force in the auditor’s office has been
placing the names and addresses of
the pensioners on the stub books and
front these books the names are to
be taken and written on the warrants.
This work completed, the amount due
each pensioner is stamped upon the
warrant and the warrants for the pen
sioners of each county are sent to the
respective county clerks for distribu
tion to the pensioners for whom they
were drawn.
There are over 8,000 pensioners in
the state, about 1,000 new ones hav
ing been added to the former list at
the recent meeting of the State Pen
sion Board. The majority of the bene
ficiaries are either mothers or widows
of soldiers or sailors who served in
the Confederate army or navy, and
who anxiously look forward every
year to the receipt of their pension
warrants. The pension fund this year^
is the largest since its creation;
amounting in round numbers to $472.
000. The total amount of pensions al
lowed by the board is $091,950. The
amount of the fund on hand being
less than the amount of the allowance,
each pensioner will receive 07 per -
cent of his claim, providing State
Auditor Moore sees his way clear to
issue the warrant.
State Auditor Moore said that no
one in Arkansas was more desirous
than he that every pensioner should
receive his claim, and he hoped the
day would come when every one of
them should receive it in full, but he
did not believe any pensioner would
desire him to violate the law in order
that he or she might receive a pen
sion.
“But I don't know' what I shall do
in regard to the matter.” said State
Auditor Moore, “and won't know for
the next 10 days.”
Gen. A. P. Stewart Answers "Taps.”
Biloxi, Miss.—General Alexander P.
Stewart, one of the last two surviv
ing lieutenant generals of the Con
federate states army, died at his home
here Sunday. Although in his 87th
year and suffering from the infirmi
ties of old age. General Stewart’s
death was sudden and came as a dis
tinct shock and surprise to his rela
tives and friends.
A native of Tennessee, General
Stewart lived the greater part of his
life in that state, but of late had
been making his home in Biloxi, where
he found the salt air and pine woods
of great benefit to his health. He was
born at Rogersville, Hawkins county,
Tenn., October 2, 1821. and received
his early education in that state. Lat
er he was appointed to the United
States Military Academy at West
Point, and graduated with honors from
that institution in June, 1842.
Negroes Shoot Each Other.
Memphis, Tenn.—Richard Hum, a
negro, lies dying, and six other ne
groes are wounded, as a result of a
riot among negroes at a picnic at Oak
ville. Tenn., ten miles out of Mem
phis cn the Frisco, it is said. Accord
ing to reports. Hum's wife became in
censed at an attractive negro, and
stytt several times at him. The negro
shot at disappeared, only 10 return a
short time after with a gun loaded
with buckshot, and began to shoot.
Other negroes joined in the fusillade,
seven being w’ounded, Hum mortally.