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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARK., FRIDAY. JULY 31, 1903.
VOL. Ill—NO. 31.
OVERWHELMING
EVIDENCE
I here are four piano manufacturers in nho United States
ami only four, who have made 100,000 pianos each. The
houses which are now proudly celebrating this achievement
are theChickering, the Fischer, the Stein way and the Kimball.
It will no doubt be of interest to know the length of
time it has taken each of these distinguished companies to
produce 100,000 pianos, which is as follows :
The Chickenng, 80 Years
The Fischer, 63 Years
The Stein way, 50 Years
The Kimball, 20 Years
Of these companies the Kimball is the only organ manu
facturer, and in addition to the pianos has also made more
than 2o0,000 reed organs and 4,400 large pipe organs.
In twenty years time, therefore, the Kimball Company
has far outstripped alt other makers in output in this or any
other country.
ihis wonderful achievement, when coupled with the
artistic merit of the Kimball, as attested by so large a num
ber of great artists and musicians of Europe and America,
completes a record of facts which is indisputable, and makes
plain the verdict.
Holienberg
M sic Co
■HIT Main St
Little Hock
Factory
Wareiooms.
THE KIMBALL
SURPASSES ALL
Holienberg
Music Co
.'117 Main St
Little Rock
Factory
Ware rooms.
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5. A. MOORE, Secretary, |
Newark, . . . . \ Arkansas,
Want Game Law Enforced.
The Arkansas State Sportsmen's
Association has entered the field to
aid in upholding the DeRossitt
game law which was passed by the
last legislature. The bill, which is
very stringent, provides, among oth
er things, that it shall hereafter be
unlawful for non-residents of the
state to hunt, fish or trap within
this vtate at any season of the year.
This feature of the law has arous
ed bitter antagonism among certain
parties who live outside the state
but who make trips within the state
for tut- purpose of hunting and fish
ing. Some of these people own
lands within the state but make
their homes elsewhere. They claim
the right to hunt and fish on their
own land and a test, ease has been
made in the Crittenden county cir
cuit court. Sportsmen from Mem
phis who own land in Arkansas are
fighting the law. and have employed
eminent counsel to break it down,
if possible. The sportsmen of Ar
kansas wish to see the law enforced,
and in their recent association meet,
held at Jonesboro, it was decided to
carry the first to the court of last
resort if necessary, and to leave no
means untried to have the law cn
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Circular From Col. Murphy.
Attorney (ienornl Murphy has is
sued a circular letter calling atten
tion to the fact that the attorney
general can give no “official’ opin
ions except on request of the gov
ernor, secretary of state, auditor,
treasurer, state land commissioner,
state superintendent of public in
struction, commissioner of mines,
manufactures and agriculture,
touching some constitutional or le
gal question concerning the official
duty of the officer making the re
quest ; the prosecuting attorneys,
upon legal questions concerning the
financial interests of the state, and
to county election commissioners
concerning the election laws. Xo
opinion given by him to any other
person, or upon any other matter,
carries with it any more weight
than if it were given by any other
lawyer.
Not A Fish Story.
A party of Camden business men
were out fishing at Mustin lake one
day recently with a heavy trot line
and using a jug for a float. Sud
denly a vicious tug at the line broke
it in twain and the jug was carried
swiftly along on top of the water,
by the catch on the hook. Two ven
turesome young men sprang into a
boat, and after an exciting chase,
eventually succeeded in getting
hold of the broken line and hauled
the monster ashore, where it was
dispatched with a shotgun. It
proved to be an immense man-eat
ing gar. It measured 7 feet 1)
inches in length, 31 inches girth,
and 11 inches between the eyes, and
weighed 300 pounds.
Surrendered To Serve Long Term.
(IHamilton, a white farmer of
Logan county, voluntarily surren
dered himself at the penitentiary to
serve a sentence of twenty-one years
for murder. Hampton was convict
ed in January but took an appeal,
being released on bail. Last week
the supreme court sustained the ver-.
I diet of the lower court. When
Hampton heard of the decision he
immediately left for Little Hock to
begin his sentence.
Major Strong Dead.
A dispatch from Washington nn
nouncles the death of Major Frank
strong, formerly of this state. At
the time of his death Major Strong
was a general agent of the depart
ment of justice, lie was a clerk in
the state house during the adminis
tration of Gov. Isaac Murphy, from
US61 to 1868, and shortly aftcr
' ward was appointed by Attorney
General Garland to a position in
Washington.
In Honor of Their Memory.
At a meeting of the J. M. Ivellar
Chapter, United Daughters of the
Confederacy, held at Little Rock,
a resolution was adopted favoring
appropriating a certain sum of the
money in the treasury as a nucleus
of a fund to be raised for the pur
pose of erecting a monument to the
memory of the women who devoted
their efforts to the Confederate
* cause during the war.
Babe Deserted on Train.
Pino Bluff officers have in charge
a baby girl about six weeks old.
which was deserted on a Valley
Koute train bv a well-droned voung
woman. The woman boarded the
train at Little Rock and at Pine
Bluff the conductor noticed that the
child had been deserted. The wo
man was unfortunate enough
to leave with the child a fan on
which there is considerable scrib
bling. By this writing her identity
may yet be discovered. In ono
place appears an address: “Carrie
Recce, Milton, Texas." and in an
other is written, “Friday night,
September 19, 1902, at basket sup
per. I will never forget the night."
Young Man Suicides,
Fred Mathis, a young white man,
committed suicide at Ida- home in
Little Rock by shooting himself
through the head. No motive is
known for the rash act, but it is
supposed by those who knew him
that he was despondent on account
of bad health and had grown tired
of life. His actions at times were
said to be rather queer, and he was
probably under the influence of a
temporary mental derangement
Dynamite Explosion.
An explosion of dynamite at Hot
Springs caused great consternation
and om' person, James Conway, a
laborer, was probably fatally in
jured. A piece of stone weighing
over 10Q pounds passed through a
window of the Arlington hotel ro
tunda and a number of guests nar
rowly escaped death. The dyna
mite was to have been used in ex
cavating for a new building.
Held to Federal Grand Jury.
John and Addison Yerser, broth
ers, were bound over to the federal
grand jury by Commissioner
O'Hair of Little Rock on the charge
of robbing the postoffice at Prim,
Cleburne county, on last Christmas
eve. Their brother, James, was
discharged, the evidence showing
that he was present at the time, but
did not participate in the robbery
Railroad Won Big Suit
The celebrated case of Marv Nor
man of Altheimer against the Cot
ton Belt railway company for $25,
a verdict for the railroad company.
The woman lost both of her legs in
an accident and accepted $1,250 in
full payment and afterward sued
the company for $25,000.
Counterfeiter Bound Over
Wash Camp and J. It. Cowan, ar
rested at Stamps, were bound over
by Commissioner Somerville at
Texarkana to the federal grand
jurv on the charge of counterfeit
ing. The men are accused of hav
ing passed a number of spurious
silver dollars, unusually well exe
cuted and almost perfect in weight.
Supplies For State Guard.
Three carloads of stores for the
use of the state militia were receiv
ed from Washington by Major-Gen
eral Haynes last week. The work
of issuing them to the various com
manders throughout the state will
begin at once. The stores consist
of khaki uniforms, tents, blankets
and some ordnance.
Acted In Self-Defense.
Claude Latham, who shot and
killed Carroll Reynolds in Drew
county, was acquitted at his pre
liminary trial. Witnesses to the
killing testified that Latham tried
to avoid the difficulty and would
have been killed himself had he not
shot Reynolds.
Cut Her Throat With Razor.
Mrs. W. R. Alton, living at Buck
ner. a station on the Cotton Belt,
cut her throat with a razor during
the family's absence. No cause is
given for the suicide. A few years
ago a brother of the dead woman
took his life in the same manner.
Fatal Fight Between Farmera.
In a difficulty between John
Latham and Carroll Reynolds, on
Long Prarie, in Drew county, the
latter was shot and killed. Latham
surrendered, claiming that he shot
in self-defense. Both young men
belong to prominent families.
C. W. Cummins, under the in
fluence of liquor, went to sleep on
the Colton Belt track at Pine Bluff
| and was killed by a train.
000 damages was trh
on change of venue a
at Conway
resulted in
Lynching Near Warren.
A negro named John < 1 reen was
found hanging to the limb of a
tree about six miles from Warren.
Green went to the home of W. E.
Parker during the absence of all
the members of the family except
the 14-viar-old daughter of Par
ker, and assaulted the helpless girl.
As soon as die crime was discovered
a posse of neighbors started in pur
suit, and after overtaking Green,
took him within a few hundred
yards of the scene of his crime and
put him to death.
Preacher Loses His Mind.
Rev. Louis Hickman, a popular
clergyman who has had charge of
the Associated Reform Presbyterin
church at Havana, this state, be
came suddenly insane and tried to
take his own life by striking him
self in tlu> head with a hatchet.
Friends took the unfortunate man
to his old home in Virginia, where
In' will be placed in a private san
itarium with the hope that he will
regain his mind and health.
No Inmates at Penitentiary.
There are over 800 convicts in the
state penitentiary now, distributed
as follows? In the walls, 149; on
the Cummins place, 270; at. the new
penitentiary brick yard 100; at the
railroad camps at Conway, Pium
merville and Denning, about 300.
There are no white women in the
penitentiary. There are fourteen
colored women on the Cummins
place and five in the walls.
Brutal Murder.
A most brutal murder was com
mitted on* Sulphur River, about
fifteen miles from Texarkana by
Seaborn Regner, colored. Hi- vic
tim was Andrew Larrv, also color
ed, whose body was horribly mu
tilated, the head being severed
from the body with an ax. Regner
claims Larry insulted his wife, but
his story is not believed.
Killed Wife and Lover.
Green Williams shot and killed
his wife and her lover, William
Bass, near Winchester, Drew coun
ty. He then sat down near the
bodies and announced he would
await the officers' arrival and sur
render to them. He changed his
mind, however, and tied.
BRIEF MENTION.
Gov. Davis has reappointed Mr.
F. Rafter state mine inspector.
A man by the name of Joe Kelly,
from DeYalls Bluff, died suddenly
at Brinkley.
Will Frame, a young farmer of
near Ozark, was killed bv a kick
from a mule he was plowing.
Attorney General Murphy holds
that women are ineligible to till
the position of county school ex
aminer.
Jim Williams was convicted in
Jefferson county circuit court of
murder in the first degree for the
killing of Floyd Chcffey.
Oscar Booker, a young white man
employed by the Bradley Lumber
Company, fed from a logging train
and his neck was broken.
Will Daniel, colored, wanted in
Pulaski county for the murder of
Allen Boca, also colored, was cap
tured by Sheriff Ford at Marianna.
Fire in the boiler room of the
Pine Bluff Transit Company plant
caused about $(>,000 damage and
put a -top to street car traffic for
two days,
A bathhouse for colored people
is to be added to the facilities at
Hot Springs, Ark. The interior de
partment has just approved of such
a project. •
On August 2") State Superintend
ent J. 11. llinemon will hold in Lit
tle Rock an examination for appli
cants for state and professional li
cense to teach.
Alvin Talley, a young white man
sent up from Washington county in
IffOl for five years for grand lar
ceny, escaped from the Cummins
place last week.
Gustave Jones, city attorney of
Newport, has resigned, owing to a
difference of opinion with a ma
jority of the city council in regard
to certain affairs of the city.
The department of education ad
vises the teachers of the state to call
upon the examiners of their respect
ive counties for the graded course
of study, rather than to write to tJfe
a^Jfeitcndent of education for
The 2-year-old daughter of An
drew Nichols, residing eight miles
northwest of Ozark, was burned to
death. The child was left alone in
a roomi and in trying to climb on
a bed saerturaed a lamp.
DANIEL WEBSTER’S GIN.
Similarity to Water Caused Amusing
Incident In the Senate.
A former member of congn 'ss from
Connecticut related1 to me a very
amusing incident he witnessed on
his first visit to congress in 1850,says
a writer in the Denver Republican,
lie had a position in the lobby, just
over the seat of Mr. Webster, who
was to make his great speech ou the
compromise question, but before he
began his speech a page put upon his
desk a pitcher and a tumbler, from
which he refreshed himself several
times in the course of the longspeech
he made and at its conclusion Isaac
P. Walker, democratic senator, from
Wisconsin, arose to reply, and and as
iiis scat was next to Mr. Webster he
reached over, and pouring out a glass
of water, as he supposed, drank it
and in a few moments such a splut
tering and gasping as followed dis
closed the fact that the Massachu
setts senator had been inspired in his
greatest effort by Byron’s source of
inspiration—giq! The shouts of
laughter which followed, in which
Mr. Webster joined most heartily,
and the confusion and loss of breath
entailed on Mr. W’alker, caused him
to yield the floor to some one else.
Silas Wright was another of those
statesmen who needed a stimulant
and found it before beginning an im
portant speech in tlio cloakroom,
where a supply could always be ob
tained in those days. I cannot recall
any such unseemly exhibition as was
witnessed at the close of the last
congress on the floor of the senate.
The habit was convivial, not dis
gusting, as more recent times have
witnessed'.
I he drinking was, I think, much
heavier than now, hut it was not in
dulged in openly. The dinners were
in some cases the medium of heavy
drinking, but a debauch was rarer.
In those early days the members and
senators herded together in the vari
ous boarding houses with which
Washington abounded. They formed
“messes” of whigs in one house and
democrats in another, and they sel
dom mixed, for at these “messes” po
litical action was discussed in the
most unreserved manner. Mr. Web
ster, Col. Benton and a few others
then kept house and had their fam
ilies resident there, but in the major
ity of instances these bachelor house
holds prevailed.
rI he restaurants in theeapitol were
evolved from the “hole in the wall”
which from 18G0 to 1865 supplied the
“feast of reason and flow of soul” to
members of both houses. The res
taurant, which was admirably kept
by a famed caterer here, Samuel
l’roctor, was the scene of manv con
vivial entertainments, and on one oe
casion at an entertainment given by
John C. Hives an unfortunate alter
cation occurred between Willard
Saulsberry and Senator MeDougall,
which happily resulted only in the
destruction of the chandelier and
two or three bottles of champagne.
I lie site of that famed resort had
previously been the post office of the
senate, which, being removed, gave
place to this restaurant, from which
has come the restaurants of the cap
itol, which have been the subject of
io much debate and action in both
houses of congress.
Clothes from Fish Skins.
Tntil recently few people thought
of utilizing as a substitute the ma
terial to be gained from water ani
mals. 1 he 1 nited States fi.-h coin
mi^-ion has taken up the question,
ijnd already proved that several
Kinds of fish have skins that make
excellent leather for some purposes.
Salmon hide is found not only ser
viceable for boots, but among the
l .squimaux jt has been used for gen
erations. in making water-proof
clothes. The people of the very far
n ort li also use codfish skin s for jackets.
The different skins which the fi.-h
commission has found to be most
practical and durable are whale skins,
porpoise skins, and seal leather,
tthich dye in most exquisite colors.
Curious Little Animal.
A naturalist at Hanover, Cape
Colony, describes many remarkable
small animals which abound there.
Among them is a gecko, called by the
Dutch farmers “getje,” whose’ tail
comes off with a slight touch and re
mains jumping about on the ground,
attracting the attention cf the en
emy, while the animal it.-elf slinks
away and eventually grows a new
tail.
Coffee Leaf Cigarettes.
Parisians smoke cigarettes made
of th< leaves of the coffee plant.
Those why have tried them prefer
them to tolatfco cigarettes. -
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