VOL. V.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 190C>.
NO. 43
ARKANSAS STATE TAIR
The Premium List and Ten Days’ Program
Completed.
Beautiful Oaklawn Park Will be in Perfect Condition for the
Assembled Thousands on October I—the
Opening Day.
On October first at eight, o’clock in
the morning President Jackson of the
Arkansas State Fair will give the sig
nal which will open the gates, start
the machinery and the first great Au
mial Arkansas Exposition will be open
in every department and division.
From the first incipiency of the
State Fair every care was taken
that alP should be in readiness on the
first day. The time is so short, the
great fair is so composite, covering
such a wide and diversified field of
human endeavor that no time is to be
wasted. When the first visitors arrive
Monday morning, October first, they
will find corps of assistants in every
division ready to welcome them.
There probably has never been a sim
ilar organization where so great an
effort has been successfully made to
have all in readiness on the opening
day, that this day might be a splendid
•nil magnificent inaugural.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1.
Grand Inaugural Day.
On this day the assembled products
of farm, field, forest and mine within
this state will be shown to the entire
citizenship on a scale commensurate
with the wonderful natural and indus
trial possibilities of this great com
monwealth.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2.
Pine Bluff and S. E. Arkansas Day.
On this day special prominence will
be given the exhibits and interests of
this important division of Arkansas
that has so rapidly advanced in the
march of progress during the pasf few
years.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3.
Red Men and N. E. Arkansas Day.
On this day the thrifty workers for
the New Arkansas whose distant view
looks over into Tennessee and Mis
souri. will see their harvest rewards
side by side with thos£ of their fellow
citizens, neighbors of Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, and the new State
of Oklahoma. The program will also
be made doubly interesting by the
1. O. R. M., the lodge whose history
is that of this nation. The forty odd
lodges of Arkansas co-operating with
those from other states have prepared
a program of historic Indian features
that will be of unusual interest to all
spectators, and will be well worth a
special effort to witness.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4.
Hot Springs Day—“Big Thursday.”
In a peculiar way the home city
of the Fair, the Health and Pleasure
Resort, both of the state and nation,
will be the host of the thousands
assembled from the length and
breadth of Arkansas and the large
number c*f visitors from afar.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5.
Little Rock Day—“Capital Friday.”
•his day has been set aside for the
honor and credit of the Capital City,
"The City of Roses,” the Metropolis
of Arkansas. On this date, in the
midst and high-day of the Arkansas
State Fair, the rapidly developing in
dustries and the wonderfully varied
products in the center of the state,
literally surrounding the State Capital,
will have their full swing.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6.
Arkansas Travelers’ Day—University
Day.
The Arkansas Travelers will lay
aside their sample cases and attend
in force on this day. They have ar
ranged a unique program, and the
original, world-renowned “Arkansas
i raveler,” his cabin and other acces
sories are en route. Also, on this day
the great University of Arkansas will
be at the State Fair in a body. A re
union of all students of the University
has been arranged and an elaborate
and interesting educational program
Is being perfected.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7.
All special programs have been
omitted from this day.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8.
Fort Smith and N. W. Arkansas Day.
The citizens of the Western metrop
olis of the State, with their usual en
ergy, unexampled civic improvement,
pride and general “get up and get”
will do the honors. The varied pro
ducts of mines and famous orchards
and bounteous fields will be exploited
by those staunch Arkansans who have
done their share In placing this State
so prominently in the foreground of
achievement in these lines.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9.
Farmers' Union Day.
The Farmers’ Unign, the most pro
gressive husbandmen of the state,
whose organization numbers nearly
65,000 accredited members will devote
this day to a morning program of
deep interest, and the afternoon to
the varied departments of the Fair,
in which their labors have given so
great a share.
This date is in honor of the “Union
Idea,” and it seems fitting that the
Farmers' Union, the largest in the
state should lead the march, but all
unions are invited and expected to
affiliate in the observance of this date,
which promises to become an estab
lished annual occurance of no little
importance to the regressive and
educational interests of industrial or
ganizations.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10.
Texarkana and S. W. Arkansas Day.
Last, but by no means least, will be
this great State Fair date. The gate
way city of the South, where the
Texas line is dim and blurred and
blends with Arkansas in an insepar
able manner, surrounded by a coun
try rich in wealth on, above and be
neath the ground, will take an im
portant part in the Grand Finale that
will mark the close of the glorious
First Arkansas Fair and Exposition,
all too soon.
Races, Exhibits and Amusements.
Each day there will be a special pro
gram in the immense auditorium ar
ranged to harmonize with the city or
section of the state or organization
for which the date is named. The
most noted and entertaining orators
of the state, and even of the nation,
will be present on these occasions to
enliven the morning. There will also
be parades and exhibitions each day
of some important feature of the live
stock and other departments.
Each afternoon there will be a full
speed program, including one high
class harness event and five running
races, conducted on the highest plane
of sport and honesty.
The splendid exhibits in all depart
ments will be carefully arranged for
inspection and instructive demonstra
tion. These include the Farm ami
Mill, Horticulture, Forestry, Mineral
ogy, Metalurgy, Live Stock, Culinery,
Textile, Trades. Manufactories, Art
and Educational. '
The daily amusement features will
be gigantic. Daily races of the fa
mous trotting ostrich, “Whirlwind,”
racing against swift horses.
Daily flights of the marvelous air
ship “The California Arrow,” which
has made innumerable successful
flights during the past two years.
There will be a replete program of
other free attractions of vastly vary
ing nature, high dives, unique balloou
ascensions and double parachute
leaps, trained animal exhibitions of
startling nature, headed by the trained
aligators from Hot Springs Aligator
Farm, who follow “Aligator Joe” onto
his platform like dogs. There will
be daylight as well as night fire works,
startling feats of strength and agility
of surpassing and daring skill. The
Midway will be free, no charge being
made into these gala streets where
are flaunted the flags, music and man
ners of all nations, and where the wid
est range of educational and laugh
able features have been assembled.
Can Shortage Causes Closing.
Hie canning factory of Appleby &
Morton, at Fayetteville, has closed
down after running about four weeks
and putting up 20,000 quarts of peach
es and 29,000 quarts of string beans.
The supply of cans being exhausted
js the cause of shutting down, and
’'■cause of the uncertainty of freight
shipments. It is not known when the
factory will resume operations.
A little flattery now and then will
soften up the hardest men.
Gave the Preacher a Raise.
Rev. F. M. Wiley of Morrilton re
turned recently from Salisaw, I. T.,
sad on his return his church notified
>tni of a $200 raise in his salary.
This makes seven years Mr. Wiley
t® Oastor of the Presbyterian church
there and he has built up one of the
strongest churches in the state.
Magness Will Incorporate.
The citizens of Magness have filed
® petition with the Independence
ounty Court asking that the town
u Magness be incorporated. The
’earing on the petition will be had
on Wednesday, October 3.
If no one had an appetite for any
thing that was not good for his stom
ach, the cost of living would be great
ly reduced.
A successful financier is a man who
can separate other men from their
hard-earned coin without using a
sandbag.
We certainly have some right to
consider ourselves a great people.
Where is there another people who
can cheer so long, without stopping,
and without knowing what for?
The advantage of praying for light
it that in that way people are rather
more apt to get just the light they
wish.
Is it any wonder that if the woman
who is ahead of her age carries her
age rather less well than the woman
who is not?
A girl would have to have very
blond hair not to wonder if she
couldn’t make it seem more real by
touching it up a little.—N. Y. Press.
It ought to be about as comfortable
to have diseases as these science be
liefs tha* say there aren’t any.
ARKANSAS
/A. STATE NEWS
The First Case of Its Kind.
The transcript in an unusual case
was received recently by the clerk
of the Supreme Court. It is a mis
demeanor case and the first on record
of its kind in this state. It comes
on appeal from the Greenwood dis
trict of Sebastain county and is en
titled, “The State of Arkansas vs.
John McLean.” On June 20, James
Lucas filed an affidavit for warrant of
arrest against John McLean, alleging
that McLean as agent for the Bolen
Darnell Coal Company at its mines
in Hartford ran the output of the
mines over a screen before weighing
the same, thereby detracting from its
value, it being a mine where there
are more than 20 men employed un
derground, thereby commlting a mis
demeanor against the laws of the
state. McLean was arrested June 28,
and was allowed bail in the sum of
$400 for appearance for trial on June
26. At. the trial on that date, before
M. A. Dodd, a justice of the peace, Mc
Lean was convicted and fined $200
and costs. On July 4, an appeal was
taken to the Sebastain Circuit Court.
Six days later McLean submitted his
case upon an agreed statement of
facts to the Sebastain Circuit Court
and he wrs convicted and fined $200
and costs, the judgment being the
same es rendered in the justice court
at Hartford. On July 23, a motion
for a new trial was taken to the Su
preme Court.
Arkansas State Fair.
The racing program at the First
Annual State Fair, held at Oaklawa
Park, Hot Springs, Arkansas, October
1, announces purses amounting to $21,
500. There will be one harness .race
each day of the nine racing days, and
at least five running races. The har
ness events will include five trots and
four paces. The purses will range
from $150 to $600. The harness races
will be' three mile heats, each heat a
race. The entries to the harness
races close September 15. The run
ning races will be for at least $200
added money with not less than four
handicaps, or condition races. Each
race promises to be well filled, and
many horses will start their Southern
tour at Hot Springs, which is the be
ginning of a very attractive circuit.
Following the Hot Springs events, will
come the Texas State Fair at Dallas,
the Fair at Houston, then San Antonio,
then the Louisiana State Fair at
Shreveport, which closes November
27, just as the winter racing is open
ing at New Orleans.
Izard Gets There First..
Izard county was the first county of
the state to receive a warrant on the
state treasurer for its portion of the
common school fund apportioned by
the State Board of Commissioners,
when $6,745.60 was given over to the
officials of that county. The amount
set aside for each county is ready
for distribution, and little delay is
expected on the part of the authorities
in securing their apportionments. The
total amount apportioned was $679,
130.88. This amount, going to the 75
counties of the state, furnishes $1.28
for each child of school age In Arkan
sas. The total number of school child
ren in Arkansas, as shown by the re
ports of the county examiners to State
Superintendent Hinemon, is 530,571.
J. H. H1NEMON, State Superintendent Public Instruction.
Speaking of the election returns, State Superintendent. J. H. Hinemon
said: “It is evident that Amendment No. 8, has carried by a safe and cleai
majority of all the votes cast. It seems now that we will have a majority
of 20,000 to 40,000. Sixteen counties give a majority of 13,000. Not less
than sixty-five counties have decided in its favor. It is the most important
single issue submitted to the people of this State within the last thirty years,
and its adoption will put Arkansas in the very fore front of the Southern
states in her support of public schools. It has been indeed a strenuous cam
paign. The children of the State will bless the noble men who labored so
earnestly and faithfully in this great movement. Bankers and business
men, the press of the State almost without exception, political leaders,
county examiners and principals of schools, the farmers of the State and
patriotic citizens of all classes of society united in this righteous crusade for
better public schools.
By the adoption of this amendment, Arkansas has proclaimed to the
world her abiding faith in her children, and the determination that they
shall have a fair and equal chance in the race of life.”
How to Kill Johnson Grass.
Dr. Caldwell, secretary of the Pine
Bluff Board of Trade, has recently re
ceived a letter from D. E. King, indus
trial commissioner of the Iron Moun
tain road, who explains how John
son grass may be destroyed. He
writes as follows: “We are informed
by Dr. S. A. Knapp of Lake Charles,
La., that the planting and cultivation
of rice will destroy Johnson grass.
Dr. Knapp is quite positive in his
statement, claiming the matter has
been thoroughly investigated and
proven.”
To Secure Soil Survey.
Congressman Charles C. Reid of
Morrilton has expressed his willing
ness to assist the Little Rock Board
of Trade in the work of securing a
soil survey for Little Rock and Pine
Bluff and along the Valley Route be
tween the two cities, and has promised
to lend his influence with the Depart
ment of Agriculture. He has written
Secretary George R. Brown of the;
Little Rock Board of Trade that
he is heartily in favor of the survey
and feels that it will, if granted, to
of great value to the state.
Is Labor Scarce Everywhere?
The scarcity of labor for many dif
ferent branches of trade is the prob
lem that now confronts contractors
who are in charge of erecting many
buildings going up in Little Rock, and
there is scarcely a contractor who
would not use more men if he could
get them. Not only is the skilled
workman wanted, but the ordinary
laborer is greatly in demand, and
scores of able-bodied men could get
work there in less than an hour’s
time, if they would but apply.
New Handle Factory.
Burton Arnold and Joe Kennedy are
preparing to establish a factory to
manufacture handles, and will locate
it either at Batesville or at Mount
Olive. The factory will employ quite
a number of hands, and will contribute
no little to the industrial business of
the community.
Patents to Arkansas.
Patents have been issued to Thomas
E, Adams, Pine Bluff, frame for rail
road rolling stock; engine truck, also
two-wheel engine truck. John T.
Crenshaw, Dermott, measuring device.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPITOME OF THE MOST IM
PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.
While a score or more of firemen
were fighting a lire in a retail grocery
in St. Louts, gasoline in the basement
exploded, and a dozen were severely
burned.
Roger Sullivan, democratic national
committeeman for Illinois, has made
reply to W. J. Bryan’s attach and
demands that he resign as commit
teeman. He asserts that Mr. Bryan's
political assets cynsist in having lead
the party twice to defeat.
Under the floor in a lonely hut oc
cupied by a Ihermit named James
James, near Sault Ste Marie, Mich.,
the skeleton of a man was discov
ered. The hermit committed suicide
and the authorities, in searching the
place in which James had lived alone
for years, made their gastly find.
"The king underwent an excellent
cure (at Marienben, Bohemia), is in
splendid health and the best of spir
its, and has lost the proper amount
of weight.”
The sultan of Morocco is willing to
give up Stenslarrd, the defaulting
Chicago banker.
The state department is probing th&
seizure of an American fishing smack
by a Mexican gunboat.
Secretary Shaw has issued an order
prohibiting national banks from send
ing federal deposits to New York to
be loaned on call for speculative pur
poses. ordering return to the treas
ury of such portion as can not be
absorbed by their respective commu
nities.
Washington authorities are said to
have instructed Immigration Inspec
tor Dunn to look after the Mexican
junta in St. Louis.
Forgeries for more than $250,000 by
trank K. Hippie, the suicide presi
dent of the defunct Philadelphia Real
Estate Trust Co., have beeu discov
ered by Receiver Earle.
Reports of Mexican uprising against
Americans are laaked upon as ridic
ulous by leaders in that republic.
Citizens of La Ceibe, Honduras, at
tacked an American physician who re
ported yellow fever there. He took
refuge in the United States consulate,
which American citizens were called
upon to guard for a week.
Earthquake shocks shook south
western Indiana, but caused no dam
age. About the same hour, so dis
patches say, shocks were felt In the
Windward islands, southeast of Po#
to Rico.
Former Gov. David R. Francis, of
Missouri, had an audience with Em
peror Francis Joseph, for the presen
tation to the emperor of the St. Louis
exhibition commemorative medal.
Capt. Wm. Matteray ascended in a
balloon at Oconte. Wis.. sailed over
Green bay and Lake Michigan, land
ing 20 miles from Wolverine. Mich,
having traveled over 200 miles. He
was up during the night. The capi
tan was almost exhausted when he
reached terra flrnta once more.
Emperor William has decorated Car
dinal Kopp with the order of the
Black Eagle, the highest Prussian
decoration. This Is the first time the
erder has ever been conferred on a
Catholic prelate.
The newspaper, Kysten, of Chris
tiania. Norway, states that United
States Senator Knu*e Nelson of Min
nesota has proposed that the Ameri
can government purchase the steam
er GJoa, which recently completed a
voyage through the northwest pas
sage, in order that she may be the
first vessel to go through the Pana
ma canal, and thus be the only ship
that has sailed around America.
Dr. F. B. Gault of Tacoma has been
appointed president of the South Da
kota university. This ends a long
controversy and political fight.
The grand Duke of Baden, celebrat
ing his eightieth birthday anniversary
at his castle at Malnau, Lake Con
stance, received a deputation of Ger
nian-Americans, who crossed th*.
ocean for the purpose of presenting
him with an address.
State Senator Edgar E. Brackett of
Saratoga has announcel that he is' a
candidate for the republican nomin
ation of governor of New York.
It is remarked that the relations
between the German government and
the Vatican have grown closer since
the church and state situation in
France became acute.
Mendall Burnett, a merchant, com
mitted suicide at St. Joseph, Mo., by
saturating his clothing with kerosene
and applying a lighted match. His
body was badly burned when he was
found dead in the basement of his
place of business, the scene of the sui
cide.
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King Edward has authorized DrJ
Ott to make the following statement-.!
Mrs. Elizabeth Fairchild Wheeler,
mother of Prof. A. M. Wheeler of
Yale, died at Easton, Conn., at the
age of 101 years.
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon ad
dressed a largely-attended republican
rally In city hall, at Portland, Me.,
and said that as long as he was speak
er he would prevent the passage of
the measure advocated by Samuel
Gompers.
Capt. John Low, who served on the
confederate cruiser Alabama, died in
London.
“I have been fooled. Segal got all
the money. There is no one to blame
but myself." This note is said to have
been found near the body of Frank
Hippie, president of the failed Phila
delphia Real Estate Trust Co., who
committed suicide.
Two battleships will be provided
for the president's trip to the Isthmus
of Panama—one to carry the presi
dent and the other to act as an aux
iliary. A smaller vessel will be pro
vided to enable the president to visit
points in shallow water.
The republicans of California nomi
nated Congressman James N. Gillette
for governor, defeating the present
Incumbent, Gov. Pardee. The plat
form is opposed to the admission of
Japanese and other Asiatics, and fa
vors the removal of the tariff on
building material to be used in Sga
Francisco during the next three years.
Speaker Cannon suffered a severe
chill during his campaign in Maine,
and was compelled to go to bed; but
he pulled himself together and made
speeches.
Both the democratic and republic
an conventions of Arizona passed res
olutions in opposition to joint state
hood with New Mexico.
The National Irrigation congress, in
session at Boise, Idaho, elected Gov.
Chamberlain of Oregon president, and
adjourned to meet next year at Sacra
mento, Cal.
The election of Father Meyer, an
American, as head of the Order of
Jesuits, or "Black Pope, is said to
be apposed by the pope.
Speaker Cannon of the national
house of representatives, in an ad
dress before a large audience at city
hall in Lewiston. Me., criticized Sani
Samuel G. Gompers, president of tha
American Federation of Labor, call
ing him a czar.
An official communication ambody
ing the whole government program
has been published in St. Petersburg.
The program embraces court mar
tial for political crimes, and an in
crease of the penalties for revolu
tionary propaganda, • and expresses a
firm determination to preserve order.
It also promises a liberal measure of
reforms. Useless restrictions on
Jews shall be abolished forthwith.
Peace is in the air in Havana, and
on all sides there is hope that matters
will be arranged between the govern
ment and the insurgents so far as to
avoid further bloodshed.
The pig iron market is still active,
and in some district prices are high
er.
The decl'ne in live hog3 has not
lowered the Chicago provision mar
ket.
The carmen’s union of San Fran
cisco has voted to return to work on
the trolley roads in that city, and
leave the question of hours and wages
to arbitration.
Albert Tissandier, the famous
aernoaut, is dead in Paris.
Secretary Root will he in Panama
September 16. He will leave the cruis
er Charleston, cross the isthmus, and
make the journey home on the cruiser
New York.
While filling a balloon, preparatory
to making an ascension at McPherson,
Kas., it exploded, when gasoline was
thrown on the fire, and the auronaut.
Jack Leroy, was fatally burned. He
ran through the town a perfect pil
lar of fire.
Mr. and \\ rn. J. Bryan received a
warm welcome from ‘home folks"
at Lincoln, Neb. There was no pa
tronship shown.
Theodore Roosevelt, ,Tr., who has
been hunting in Colorado, limped into
Glenwood Springs, seeking medical at
tention. He had scratched his left
leg on a bush, and it had become sore
and annoying. A phys’clan said he
was in no danger. While this was
occurring a report was sent out that
Theodore was at the Goldfield. Nevada,
prize fight, when, in fact, li? was al
most a thousand miles away.
The belated cruisers West Virgi
nia, Colorado and Pennsylvania will
be sent to the far East, to strengthen
the American fleet in those waters,
weakened recently by withdrawals.
In an 'address before the Iroquois
club, a democratic organization in
Chicago, Wm. J. Bryan denounced
Roger Sullivan, democratic national
committeeman from Illinois, and re
pudiated the indorsement of the demo
cratic state convention held at Peoria.
The result of the prize fight at Gold
field. Nevada, has s;t the tongues of
the big and little prize tigntirs, the
has-beens and the weulJbis to wag
ging, and boasting and ch.ll.nging,
all seeming to want a go at the negro
Ians, who won. The color line seems
m have been eliminated in the rin^.