The Newark Journal
O. F. Craig, Editor.
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Assessor’s Notice.
"Notice is hereby given that 1 will
attend In person, or by deputy, at the
usual voting places in the various
townships in Independence county,
Arkansas, for the purpose of taking a
list of the personal property of each
resident of said township and the per
capitia tax of such as are liable to pay
same for the year 1904, on the days
and dates specified below:
Washington township at Calaway’s
store Monday and Tuesday, June 6th
and 7th.
Stubbs township at Cushman, Wed
nesday, June 8.
Union township Salt Peter School
House, Thursday, June 9.
Jefferson township J. P. Montgom
ery’s store, Friday, June 10.
Gainshoro township, Moorefield, Sat
urday, June 11.
Gainsboro township, Sharp postof
fice, Monday' June 13.
Gainsboro township, Ham’s school
house, Tuesday, June 14.
Ashley township, brewer's school
house Wednesday, June 15.
Barren township, Gray’s store,
Thursday and Friday, June 16 and 17.
Black River township, Charlotte,
Saturday, June 18.
Black River township, Walnut
Grove, Monday, June 20.
Black River township,»Cord, Tues
day, June 21.
Bogan township, Logan school
bouse, Wednesday, June 22.
White River township, Sulphur
Rock, Thursday. Friday and Saturday,
June 23. 24 and 25.
Greenbrier township, Desha, Mon
day, June 27.
Greenbrier township, Jamestown,
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 2' and
29.
Relief township, G'overston school
house, Thursday. June 30.
Liberty township, Floral, Friday,
July 1.
Fail view township, Pleasant Plains,
Saturday, July 2.
tairview township, Pleasant Plains,
Monday, July 4.
Salado township, Salado, Tuesday,
July 5.
Salado township, Rosie. Wednesday,
July (5.
Christian township, Smith’s school
house, Thursday, July 7.
Christian township, Oil Trough,
Friday, July 8.
Oil Trough township, Elmo, Satur
day. July 9.
Big Bottom township. Newark.Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday, July
11, 12 and 13.
Ruddell township. Batesville.Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, July 14, 1;>
and 10.
And at my office in Batesville July
37 to 28, after which time all persons
failing to list will be subject to a pen
alty.
You must assess in person. Each
person will have to swear to his or
her assessment, and each person will
be required to give number of school
district. School Directors will please
furnish list of tax-payers at precinct
*n first day of assessment.
.1A K E M AG N ESS. A ssessor.
Independence County, Arkansas.
Lodge Directory.
Newark Camp W.O.W. No. 288 meets
second and fourth Tuesday nights in
eacl) month. E. H. Mag ness, C. C.;
O. F. Craig, Clerk.
Independence Lodge No. 2379 K. A
L. of 11. meets first and tnird Monday
nights in each month. K. II. William
son, Protector; Mrs. Jennie Pascoc,
Reporter.
A. D. HOLLAND,
Dentist,
Newport, - Arkansas
J. T. MILLER,
Physician and Surgeon
Office Back of John Martin’s Store.
Residence Phone No. 03.
Office Phone_No. 70.
CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED.
M. B. Owens F. M. Owens
OWENS & OWENS,
Physicians and Surgeons
Ofliee adjoining
Sisk & Williamson
Magness Arkansas
DR. W. P. LAWTON
Offers his professional services to the
citizens of Newark and vicinity.
Diseases of Women and Children
a specialty. Office in the Racket Store.
Residence formerly the Jake Magness
place Residence phone 83; office 10.
Serious Wreck Prevented.
An Iron Mountain switch engine
and an incoming freight collided
at a point one mile south of the
union depot in Little Hock, and a
few minutes thereafter the engine,
| which had been reversed and de
serted just before colliding with
the freight, dashed into a string of
empty coaches on a side1 track. The
force of tlie first collision derailed
several cars and considerably dam
aged the freight engine, but as the
switch engine was backing out only
the tender was derailed. In its
run toward the city the switch en
gine broke loose from the tender.
A switchman saw tho runaway in
time to switch it onto a side track
and probably prevented a more se
rious wreck, ns a train filled with
passengers was standing on the
i main line in front of the depot,
about a hundred yards away.
Killed His Wife.
Albert Brown, a negro, shot and
killed his wife at the plant of the
City lee Company, in Little Bock.
A few hours before the tragedy
Brown and several companions were
arrested for shooting craps. He
paid his fine and returned to the
icP plant. 11 i> wife appeared at
the plant and demanded that Brown
accompany her home. When he re
fused to do so the woman drew a
revolver and a fight took place.
Brown, wrenching the pistol from
the woman, began firing. The first
shot struck her in the left arm and
ranged up to the shoulder. She
then turned and ran. Brown fol
lowing. continuing shooting. At
the third shot the woman fell and
Brown rushed up to whore she lay
and sent a bullet through her body.
The woman was struck four times,
and either wound besides that in
the arm was sufficient to cause
death.
Charged With Wife Murder
Sam King, residing near Gar
field, Benton county, is under ar
rest. charged with the murder of his
wife. The couple engaged in a fight,
during which it is said King broke
the woman's neck with a heavy blow.
To make it appear that the woman
had committed suicide, King is al
leged to have poured carbolic acid
ewer her face and neck. The chil
dren. five in number, the youngest
only seven months old, witnessed
the fight, and their testimony led to
King's arrest.
Wager Cost His Life.
Tl. C. Beck, a machinist, was
drowned in the Arkansas river at
Little Bock. Buck and a compan
ion made a wager that each could
dive from the railroad bridge. His
companion made the first dive and
reached the shore in safety, hut the
unfortunate man was caught in an
eddy when within a few feet of the
hank and went to the bottom.
Romantic Wedding.
A romantic wedding took place
recently on a plantation near Hele
na. The contracting parties were
R. B. Inman and Miss Rosa Belser,
both of Helena. A party of young
; people, including the bride and
groom, were enjoying a day’s out
ing. During the afternoon, while
the party was passing through a
cotton field, a minister appeared
and before the witnesses realized
what was taking place Mr. Inman
and Miss Belser were made man
and wife.
New Bank Opened.
The Citizens' National bank of El
Dorado will begin business July 1
with the following officers: J. F.
Sample, president; \V. W. Brown,
vice president ; M. W. Hardy, cash
ier; E. H. Hearin, assistant cash
ier. Directors: John C. Ritchie,
W. M. Green, J. R. Miears, J. F.
Sample, W. W. Brown, II. W. Myar
and W. J. Pinson.
Thievts Steal Valuable Pictures.
Since the opening of the Arkan
sas building at the world's fair for
the third time a report has been
made of the theft of exhibits in the
building. Only a short time ago
the theft of a valuable vase from the
Arkansas building was reported,
and now one of the pictures on
exhibition has been stolen. The
missing picture is a water color of
a woman's head, which was screwed
to the wall on the second floor of
the building. Miss Cage, hostess of
the Arkansas building, reported the
theft, and declared that this is the
4*)ird picture which has been taken,
and that if the thefts continue the
commissioners will be forced to
send the other pictures back to the
owners.
Twenty Men Poisoned
Ptomaine poison caused the
death of Harry A. Rhea of Little
Rock, and nineteen others were
made seriously ill by using milk
that had been contaminated. All
the parties boarded at the same
house and became ill shortly after
eating breakfast, oatmeal and milk
being part of the menu. Attend
ing physicians made an investiga
tion and found that the milk con
sumed had become contaminated
from the vessel in which it was
kept over night. Several other
boarders at the same place who did
not partake of the milk, but ate of
other foods, were not affected.
Allege Assessment Is Excessive.
An interesting legal controversy
will likely follow as a result of the
Kansas City and Memphis Bridge
Company’s refusal to pay taxes on
the Memphis bridge assessed by the
board of appraisers of Crittenden
county. The west half of the bridge
was assessed at $13,294.50. The
company refuses to pay the taxes,
alleging the assessment to bo ex
cessive, and an injunction has been
granted restraining the collector
from selling the property, as pro
vided under the law.
Bridge Company Makes New Departure
On and after July 1, 1904, un
less the present plans are changed,
the Kansas City and Memphis rail
way and Bridge Company will re
ceive for every passenger ear cross
ing the said bridge a fee of $2.
This is to recompense the company
for the reduction of 25 cents in
the bridge fare which will also prob
ably be effective on that date. Here
tofore the railroads have not been
charged for passenger coaches cross
ing the bridge.
Eeld lor Murder.
Martha Hall, a negro woman, has
been held to await the action of the
grand jury on a charge of killing
Ella Leverott, another negress, at
Plumerville a few weeks ago. The
two negresses fought over some triv
ial matter and the Hall woman
struck the Leverett woman on the
head with a hoe handle.
Blow Proved Fatal.
At Jonesboro Mert Garrett ami
Mack Polk, two negroes, quarreled
over a decision of the umpire in a
baseball game in which they were
taking part and Garrett slapped
Polk's face. Polk hit Garrett in
the head with a brick and Garrett
died from the effects of the blow.
Business Houses Destroyed.
Fire at Forrest City which orig
inated in the store of Becker &
Lewis destroyed property to the
value of $ IT,000. The losses are as
follows: Becker & Lewis, $8,000;
J. 11. Dunnavant, $2,000; Sol
Lomis, $200; Brandon & Bough,
$5,000; Brady Jewelry Company,
$1,000; Pettits & Buford, $700, all
fully covered by insurance. Long
& Clark, $1,500, no insurance.
Sensational Killing.
Herbert Wynn, who was shot by
Mrs. Ed Moss, six miles tvest of
Prescott, died after lingering for
three days. The killing, it is al
leged, grew out of an old love affair,
the two principals having been
sweethearts for a number of years.
On the afternoon of the shooting
Mrs. Moss went to the field where
Wynn was working and after a con
versation lasting an hour or more
turned to leave, when she called
back to him and as he approached
the fence she pulled a 44 pistol and
shot him in the abdomen. Six
shots were fired, two of which in the
scufile struck the woman, one in the
thigh, the other in the hand. The
principals are loading citizens of
Bradley county. Mrs. Moss has only
been married a short time.
Mangled By Circular Saw.
A peculiar and fatal accident oc
curred at a saw mill in Garland
county. George Burrough was re
pairing some defect in the machin
ery that carries the logs to the big
circular saw. Burrough was sitting
upon a log that was being fed to the
saw, and it is thought that he was
so engaged with his work that he
did not notice that, he was being
carried into the saw until the teeth
entered his flesh. He was horribly
cut about the abdomen, and one leg
was completely sawed off.
Deserted Babe to Die.
An infant boy probably about
two months old, was found near the
Confederate park north of Newport.
The baby's heels were bleeding
where he bad been kicking the
ground all the previous night and
the little fellow's face was a mass
of bumps where he had been bitten
by mosquitoes. There are no clews
to the identity of the parents, who
doubtless left the infant there to
die, as the place was one-quarter of
a mile from the public road and
was only happened on by a negro
boy out squirrel hunting.
Worst Flood in Many Years.
Old river men and planters who
have seen many floods on the Ar
kansas river declare that the pres
ent one is the most disastrous that
has occurred since the famous flood
of 1844. T'hi- is parti\ due, it is
said, to the lateness of the .season,
which prevents the replanting of the
cotton, but leaving this out of con
sideration it is claimed that the
flood is as disastrous as any that has
ever occurred. „
Boy Hanged Himself.
The body of Ed McCamant, a
15-ycar-old boy, wa.~ found suspend
ed from a barn at the home of M.
R. Shinn at Russellville. The bov
was employed by Mr. Shinn, and
it is not known whether his death
was from an accident or suicide.
BRIEF MENTION.
A minion of cx-Confederates and
I'nion veterans will be held at
Ouachita, Montgomery county, July
22.^3
('has. C. Ouster, sheriff of How
ard county, died suddenly at his
home in Center Point of heart dis
ease.
The Sulphur Rock Male and Fe
male Academy has been transferred
to the M. E. Church, South, and is
the property of the Batesville dis
trict conference.
I hree men were badly injured at
( otter by the falling of a pile of
ties against which they were stand
ing. (ieorge Martin was the most
seriously injured and may die.
I O of. Lewis Rose, son ol,Judge LF.
M. Rose of Little Rock, has resign
ed his position as professor of chein
; istry in the Fniversity of Arkansas
i :1I,d will take a government position
I in New Mexico.
’1 he following Arkansas hoys re
ceived the degree of bachelor of
arts at the closing exercises of tlie
l Diversity of Virginia: L. J
Mundt, L. K. Northley of Helena
W. K. Ruddell of Batesville.
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GEORGE F. GROSSER.
Notary Public
—AND—
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NEWARK, ARKANSAS
J. VV. HODGES,
Physician ami Surgeon
Office at Sturdivant’s Drug Store.
Residence Phone No. 04.
tST" CALLS ANSWKKKP PROMPTLY.
S. A. MOORE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
and Notary Public.
,.and titles, administration, damage ease,
ami collections a specialty. Will practice la
ail courts of tltc state. Ofllce in poslofllc©
building.
NEWARK, ARKANSAS.
Call at
J. Qualls’
BOOT AND SHOE SHOP
FOR LEGAL ADVICE.
W. S. MOORE, J. P„
Real Estate, Rental anti
COLLECTING AGENT,
Sulphur Rock, - Arkansas.
Newark Real Estate Co.,
DEALERS IN
Farm and City Property,
Rental i»d Collecting Agents,
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