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Vol. 2 No. 4.
NEWARK, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY JANUARY 24, 1902.
One Dollar Per Annum.
STATE NEWS JS^TES.
Happenings of a Week Adhered
From Various Part*0*
the State.
The Bank of Alma w*8 incor
porated last week with * M}'1^ UP
capital of $25,000.
A little son of John daggers, of
| Risen, happened to the misfor
H tune to get a thumb cut off while
| chopping wood Iasi week.
Dave Adams, of Rogers, held a
j§ “watch meeting" over his hen
i roost one night recently and
i succeeded in capturing only a had
cold.
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A mail crane nn the Iron Moun
tain road near Little Rock struck
Engineer Fled Hudson in the face
breaking his nose and it is feared
put out both eyes.
The Echo says that with the
completion of a railroad into
Yellville she will secure electric
!ifghlsand waterworks and become
the gcufof the Oz.trks.
E. S. and R. E. Penny, of Lin
coln, Neb,, have been on a pros
pecting lour over the state, look
i>*l»»g„f©r a suitable location for a
bank and will probably establish
one at Malvern.
E. F. Forrest, who lives near
Huntsville, bappend to a peculiar
accident Thursday of last week.
He was sitting on the door steps,
went to sleep and fell off, receiv
ing some painful wounds about
the bead aud face.
(Jhailes Mangnun, of near Ben
ton, was thrown fifiir; his hor-e
and fell against a tree, which
u*ed concussion of the brain,
ollar bone was broken al.-o,
and tie was unconscious for sev
Henry. of near
^Prescott. Was Hjh|fu||y turned
by her c catching on
tire.^.3* was teuJe/fng lard
iu a wash kettle in the yard and
in some way her clothing caught
*mm the tire around the kettle.
She is not expected to livo.
E.|K. C. Biggs, a leading citizen
jf tireene county, says that the
western part of that county is
infested with an army of wolves,
something that is very unusal for
his section, and that by sundown
they set up a bowl ami keep the
woods iu un uproar all during the
uight.
Mrs. T. r. Trigg, of Arkadel
phia, was seriously hurt last Mon
day by being thrown from her
buggy. While out, driving her
horse lieeame frightened and ran
away and, in turning a cornel,
the buggy striu k an obstruction,
throwing Mis. Trigg out and
breaking her right leg just above
the uukle.
A corresnndent of the Jonesboro
Times thinks there aie unques
tionable evidence of oil deposits
beneath the sunk lands ot the St.
Francis basin and in discussing,
the matter says: “In the river
bottoms along the St. Francis
liver, in the Lake City district,
fanners in need of water drive a
well from 16 to 30 feet, and the'
watei from many of these driven j
wells is so strongly impregnated
with oil that it is until for use
and sloes, however thit sty, wi'l
not drink it. This makes it evi
dent beyond question that then is
I where beneath the surface a
•ge body of oil, some of which
. escaping and finds its way to
the surface through the, medium
of water. In fact, the evidence
of a large amount of oil under the
auuk lands is so strong tli it tnere
is not a doubt of its existence.
The discoveries and publicity
incident to Hit recent finds in
Texas resulted in bringing the
ibove mentioned f:*cts to the
of the people, among
> enough fcfl
Tamili
The
is a supply
are a number of men
familiar with the oil fields of
Ohio, who, with others of Lake
City and vicinity, organized the
Lake City Oil and Investment
Company, with a capital of $100,
j 000 divided into four thousand
shares of $25 each The com
pany has leased for 99 years
several thousand acres of land in
that unquestioned oil district ;
have purchased over $2,000 worth
of casing and contracted with one
ol the best oil diiiling firms of
Ohio to sink a well 3,000 feel
deep. If they sjiced in finding
oil in paying quantities the profit*
of this enterprising company will
he enormously large.”
Two Young Men Arrested.
Van Bureu, Jan. 17. — This
morning officers from Fort Smith
arrived in the city and caused the
arrest of Tom Dorr and Charley
Blevins, two young men of this
city, on a charge of grand larceny.
The young men are chaiged with
snatching a watch from a visitor
at the Fort Smith street fair last
October. Blevins has been ab
sent fmm tlit* city since that ti ne
and the arrests were delayed
awaiting his return.
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rturderer Captured.
Van Buren,Jun. 18.—Marsha)
Wells arrived here this morning,
having in custody the wife mur
derer, Tom McWhorter, who had
been captured in the Indian Ter
ritory. McWhorter stales that at
the time of Ids capture he was en
route to Van Buren to sun under,
bu* he refuses to discuss the kill
ing of his wife. He is a remark
ably '.veil preserved man of 5b
yea ’old, but jdiows the effect of
the exposure and mental worry
he has undergone since the kill
ing- He occupies the cell with
Kit Helton, who is under senten
euce of death for wife murder.
The Journal, $1 per year.
Her Explanation.
“Do you mean to say that such
a physical wreck as he is gave you
that b'auk eye?" asked the judge.
“Shore, yer honor, he wasn’t
a physical wreck till after he give
me the black eye,” replied the
complaining wife.
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Good Suggestion.
Heie is a suggestion from tlie
Southern Farm Magazine, in
whch there is considerable
force.
•‘Men anxious to get good
interest on their money, and who
for the time being have money
lying idle, can make no mistake
in tuiiiing their attention to two’
undertakings on Southern soil.
One is agriculture and the other
is town building. By town build* I
mg is not meant selling town
lots on a boom basis, where there
is no legitimate reason for a town
to exist, but the creation of«
community which may be a cen
tir of trade and industry, resting
upon nearby agricultural develop
inent. If investors would only
recognize that agiiculture, to b«*
successful, is ju-i as much a
business as the conducting of a
manufacturing ph.nl or the
operation of a railroad, they
would recognize at once their
opportunity in th<wSnuth. There
are hundreds of thousands of
acres of ri_*h land in the ■south
yet to lie settled. Many of these
lands are fat removed from towns
or cities. Their settlement in
the light way, on u business
plan, without regard to economic
dreams or impracticable phi Ian
thropny, would demand the crea
tion of u center of trade and
industry. Why cannot capitalists
invest their surplus here and
induce surplus labor to quit the
over crowded Northern cities and
become farmers?”
NOT PRACTICABLE
Home for Aged Journalists
Would be Overrun
Would Have to Roof in a State to
Hold Them Says the Com
mercial Appeal.
Editor Henry Watterson of the
Louisville Courier-Journal has
lent his* powerful influence to the
assistance of Andrew Carnegie
and is doing what lie can to enable
that man of many millions to die
poor and innocent ot sin. Wat
terstn's idea is not a new one,
because it has been advocated fot
many years. The great Kentuck
ian, however, believes that he can
induce Mr. Carnegie to give •• p a
few million dollars toward the
support and mainlainauce of a
home tor superanuated journal
ists. Editor Watterson may >ue
ceed in his assault on the Scotch
man’s millions, but the institu
tion will never i>e a success. The
aged journalist is such a common
personage that he includes a veiy
laige part of the human family
and any home for him would re
quire the rooting of a state as
large as Texas. The journalist,
iike the man who once practiced
law or who worked as a telegraph
operato", can lie met any hour in
the day. Men who are sportively
inclined and who have investigat
ed the subject, profess to be will
ing t) wager even money that out
of five rocks thrown into a crowd
ot people in any city in the United
States three of them will hit
either an ex-journalist, an ex-tel
egraph operator or an ex-lawyer.
Hence a home for aged journal
ists would be impracticable be
cause there is no way of deter
mining the eligibility of appli
cants. The journalist is some
what mythical. There are a great
many people of advanced years
who would rejoice to lie taken
into a comfortable home, and
some of these have written for
newspapers at some period of
their lives, but men who are jour
nalists and who have followed
the profession as a means of gain
ing a livelihood throughout their
stay on this earth do not need
homes furnished by charity.
Should such ail institution be
established it is n^t diffiout to
imagine the aggregation of ‘Mias
beens” who would assemble
there. Every one who has writ
ten a “piece for the paper” would
consider himself a journalist of
high standing and he would have
a number of influential friends to
vouch for him and insist on Ins
admission, because influential
friends are only too much grati
fied to unload their burdens on
some one else.
Hesiues all iiih, these noiues ,
however well intended, are un
manning. The cert untv of being
taken care of in old age and when
helplessness comes, causes a re
laxation of effort and closes the
eyes of prudence. Kucb individ
ual ought to be made to feel that
tie is his own keeper and that he
must look oui for himself. In
proportion as people depend on
charitable institutions to cure for
them is the growth and develop
ment of their characters arrested
and stunted. When misfortune
<-omes to anyone who has been u
competent journalist, and he find*
himself beyond the days of active
work, and helpless, lie h«tS always
chaiacter enough and friend?
enough to see that he suffers foi
nothing during the short time
that remains tor him to live.—
Commercial Appeal.
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Wood, turuips, potatoes or any
thing we can use, taken on sub
scription.
CUE.'N RECIPROCITY
Farqulmr's Address Before
Academy of Science
Says We Have Made Our Custom
ers in Cuba too Poor to
Buy From Us.
In a recent address before the
American Academy of Political
and Social Science A. B. Faqubar
dealt at length on this counUy’s
'obligations to Cuba and the con
ditions in Cuba—a subject on
! which he was especially qualified
Jto having been trading
with the island for more tliau a
; quarter of a century and having
formed acquaintances with a great
many people during his visits
there. Mr. Faquhur said in parti
“Far beyond any other country
in present importance, as hearing
upon the question of reciprocity,
is the island of Cuba. The best
Known historian of the recent
war in that island, Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, now President, re»
minus us that “the guns that
thundered over Manila and Santi
ago left u? echoes of glory, but
they also left us a legacy of duty.
It is worse than idle for us to say
that we have no duty to perform
and can leave the islands to their
fate. Let us, as we value our
self respect, face these responsi
bilties and meet the problem in u
way to redound to our glory,
with high resolve for the widest
freedom of individual initiative,
j persuing no policy that is hostile
i to the welfare of the many.
While our nation’s first duty is
; within its own borders it is not
to be absolved from facing its
duties as a whole, and if it refuses
to do so it forfeits its right to
struggle for a place among the
people that shape the destiny of
j !, Jki.id."
Our responsibility is gieat be
ceause our power is great. At
our command . as an expres con
dition of our ceasing to treat the
| island as conquered territory un
; der martial law, the * Platt amend- j
ment’ was forced into the new
constitution of Cuba as an integ
ral part of her organic law. By
! that amendment the Cubans are
j bound band and fool : powerless
to conclude treaties wnu oilier
countries save by our consent;
they cannot turn elsewhere tor
favorable terms, but must b?
satisfied with what we choose to
give them; and what we have
heretofoie chosen to give them
is only a fresh and increased dose
of the old Spanish prescription—
pauperism and bankiuptcy. The
> commercial ptoducts of the island
are sugar and tobacco. For these
our country is the natural market
I and w<* make our duties espcially
heavy cn them ; over 100 percent
on sugar, the more importantunt
I of the two. In other words we
| tax the products of Cuba more
than double the Diugley rates on
j dutiable goods generally; the
rate being $1.38 per hundred
pounds, the Cubar receiving af
ter deducting cost of transporta
tion barely $1.70, which is less
than cost of production. This
cannot eontinue^it points to in
eviahle ruin and paralysis of pro
ductive and commercial enter
prise, with a relegation of that
fair island to a condition of idle
ness and semi-barbarism. The
laud is fertile, luckily. Nature
there produces enough with little
! assistance to keep the population
| from starvation, but there can l»e
no growth. I feel a slight shame
in showing how out own interests
are suffering along with those of
our island ward, but that is one
of the f*&8 in the case and the
pace at \® ich the evil is progress
ing is clearly shown by the rate
at which our Cuban export trade
has faiieii off since 1899, when it
was $3(5,500,000. The loss in 1900
was $4,500,000 and in the first
eight mouths of 1901 was $5,000,
000 more. Our exports to Cuba
in the year following the Blaine
McKinley reciprocity law doubled
in value. Can any other lust on be
drawn from the present falling
off in trade, so prosperous else
where, than that our customers
in Cuba cannot buy from us
because we have made them too
poor?
Bashful Bill’s Troubles.
A bashful young man of Orant
ville was invited out to dine last
Monday evening. He was very
much agitated, lie sat opposite
a mirror and discovered that he
had forgotten to comb his hair.
Then he dropped his forte onto
the floor and as he stooped to
pick it up ho upset his coffee.
Matters went on from had to
worse, nntii finally in dispair the
young mail quit eating and put
his hands under the table. The
loose end of the. table cloth was
lying in his lap. When he touch
ed it he turned pale. He thought
it was his shirt, and that he had
in his excitement while dressing
forgotten to put the garment in
his trousers. That accounts for
his further embarassment. He
huniedly stuffed the supposed
shirt inside his trousers. After
ward when the family arose from
the table there was a crash The
dishes lay in a broken mass on
the floor. The young man pulled
three f..et of tablecloth out of his
pants and flew to the woods.—Ex.
Population Increase In The South
For the first tk. e in the history
of this country, as a special report,
from the Census Bureau now sets
forth, the population of the South
ern States has relatively increased
more rapidly than that of the Nort h
and East, making the rate of
growth more nearly the same than
ever before.
The increasing attractiveness of
of the South as a field for invest
ment and settlement accounts for
this marked increase of population.
Outside capital is being drawn to
the development of the South’s
natural resources. The section’s
industrial growth has peen amaz
ing during the past few years.
The demand for labor has beeni
vastly stimulated as a consequence.
Tne inevitable result of these
changed conditions is now appar
ent in the census reports.
The Southern States have every
reason to look forward with confi
dence to a period of growth such
as has not heretofore been known.
The attention of capitalsts is most
favorably secured. Where capital
goes, the labor necessary to indus
tral development follows. Within
the next ten years the South will
unquestionably take the lead in
the rate of population increase if
present indications possess any
value as affording a basis for
an estimate
Bhsdy Mountain Fe ud.
Van Buren, Jan- 18.-Yesterday
morning the feud existing between
the Edwards and Bailey families,
in the country, culminated in the
shooting1 and probable killing of
(Green Bailey and the wounding of
I Bailey's son, Green. Edwards, his
! wife and son were passing the Ed
wards farm, near Graphic, when
| the old trouble was brought up.
Oscar Sherman, who is a member
of the Edwards family, shot Green
Baiiey in the back of the head,
inflicting what is considered a
fatal wound,also shooting Bailey's
son through the leg. Sherman was
placed under arrest and is being
held to await the result of the
! senior Bailey’s injuries. The scene
of the shooting is in the mountains,
some distance from the city, and
j information is difficult to obtain
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
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ltem< of General Interest Gather*
l\om Four Corners of
the Union.
V
B. B. Bj
pnt of Huntsville, Mo.,
was shot ar^l killed by John Seville
at Shawnee\Ok., Monday.
Governor :\imw of Iowa made a
record of panmming 473 convicts
in the course c\ two years.
It is reported nat 300 lives were
lost as the result^ an earthquake,
which did greet dl^mrge in Chil
pancingo, Mexico.
Scottish Kite Masons are making
elaborate plans for the Golden *
Jubilee celebration at VCincinnati^
on Febuary 18-21.
A Knoxville, Tenn., postal cleri
was seriously injured as the result
of the explosion of a mail package
which he was stamping
The two hundredth annivei
of the first French color
Louisiana was celebrated atj
Wednesday and Thursday. t
Professor M. Grossman i
ham, Tex., and his son were
down by a passenger train
killed. They were overtaken «|i
trestle.
The Iowa Louisiana
Exposition Commission has
the State to appropriate
for the State’s display
World's Fair.
The convention >ef^the Us
Brotherhcaj# iff Railway emploj
in sessioiGS^n Francisco, has
tied its insurance question, el«
officers‘ane adjourned.
I -Onard lioeder of Quincy, 111.,
was 102 years old Wednesday. He
was at Waterloo when Napoleon
was defeated and shook haiMs and
talked with Wellington on that
day. M
A freight engineewpleep at
post ran by abiding K Etlah, Mo.,
where he was to have met a pas
senger train. A collision resulted,
and eleven persons were injured, '
none seriously.
A Spokane, Wash., man wan
initiated into a lodge with such
thoroughness that he is now Vtf4
up in a hospital with very serk
injuries. He is attended by
members, who decline to give
name.
Four miners became lost in a soft
snowdrift in British Columbia.
They wandered around helpless
for three days. Three succeeded
in reaching places of safety, but
the fourth sank down from ex
haustion, and was frozen to death.
Fire in the ticket office of
Union Station at Chicago endang!
ered the lives of sixty clerks, de
stroyed more than a million dollars
worth of tickets belonging to sev
eral railroads, and damaged the
building to the extent of perhapa
$15,000.
The Coroner has begun the task
of trying to discover the cause of
the collision in the New York ton
nel in which seventeen persons
W J'jlled. It was stated on the
standthat trainmen had complained
that it was impossible for them to
see well under certain weather
conditions.
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Knows HU Blx.
David B. Hill is af rse to
rapid action on the of
crals at this time.
wauls the republicans to ha
. chance to make hav for
democracy. Mr. Hill may n
the iuiure Moses of the
cy, hut the young
members of the party wt
to adopt resolutions ai
ize every time a half a
them get together, Bk.
member t^at he is a man
(experience. ^