Woodrukk Eountx News.
VOL. VI.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1907.
NO. 39.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPITOME OF THE MOST IM
PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
north, east, west, south
A Carefully Digested and Con
densed Compilation of Cur
rent News Domestlo
and Foreign.
Independent bakeries of the east art
to be included in a new cracker com
bine, with a capital of $30,000,000.
Chicago is to have an unrivaled
park system, the north and south
sides vicing with the west side in im
provements pending and planned.
A defensive alliance of the railroads
end Standard Oil Co. against the gov
ernment will, it is expected, result
from conferences.
Two more fall victims of the murder
wave in Chicago.
Irregularities amounting to over $7,
000,000 are aleged to have been dis
covered in the former management of
the Delaware & Hudson railway. Sui
cide of President Willcox said to have
bei*n due to fear of exposure.
William S. Alley, once a wealthy
New York broker, ends his life just
before his stock exchange seat is to
he taken away from him, in order that
his family may get $10,000 insurance.
Mayor Decker of Milwaukee is held
up in his automobile by two bandits,
who flee, however, at sight of his
6tai\
New York’s wave of crime against
girls continues, and the police barely
prevent the lynching of accused men.
Young woman tells New York police
that Helen Gould and W. K. Vander
hilt have conspired to ruin her.
Five thousand New York sweatshop
workers pursue a sightseeing automo
bile and seek to lynch the chauffeur
for running over and killing a boy.
Inventor sues St. Paul railway for
$150,000 damages for alleged infringe
ment of patented transfer table.
The National Fire Insurance Co. of
Hartford confesses judgment in Kan
sas litigation, and an injunction is en
tered against it.
Rev. Duncan Campbell Sayers, sec
retary of St. Paul’s Cathedral society
at Garden City, L». I., was arrested,
charged with forgery.
Many railroad wrecks are caused by
out-of-date safety appliances, accord
ing to statements credited to officials
of the Westinghouse Air Brake Co.
Woman's body is cut to pieces at
Monte Carlo and carried away in a
trunk, and an American and his wife
commit suicide after heavy gambling
losses.
According to the latest report from
Casablanca, Morocco, the pasha who
led the tribesmen to hostilities against
foreigners, including the attack upon
marines sent to guard the French con
sulate, has surrendered.
Surprising revelations were made
through the disclosure of the hitherto
well-guarded plans of the administra
tion to begin the mobilization at once
In Pacific waters of the most powerful
cruiser fleet ever assembled.
Tornado rages throughout north
west, conteiing at Winona, Minn., an.l
does great damage to crops, unroofs
buildings and cripples railroads.
Armed and strongly entrenched in
R fastness of the mountains back of
Seoul, two battalions of Korean sol
diers, 1,£00 men all told, are defying
the Japanese.
Borsenko, the Russian philosopher
Rnd noted scientist, has just published
R volume in which he states that In
the year 2000 there will be only three
Preat powers—Russia, Japan and the
United States.
i^awin u Wagner has been selected
as President of the new National Prod
uce bank of Chicago.
Chicago’s new juvenile court build
ing, the only one of its kind in the
Vorid, is opened.
Engineer George E. Abbott, of the
Burlington, whose train killed three
Uien near Napierville, Sunday, tells of
& career marked by forty fatal acci
dents.
Health Commissioner Porter, of New
rork, in a speech at Chautauqua, says
many are murdered by the sellers of
canned goods and patent medicines.
Kansas City policemen are barred
fioin accepting witness fees from
jctropolitan railway. New commis
*5 oner carrying out governor's poli
cies.
Crop reports insure continuance of
prosperity. Corn seems backward, but
"" leaf is in fine condition. Cotton
Prospects good.
Hives of three Chicago men are
saved by a 16-year-old girl in Okau
Chee lake, near Milwaukee.
Archbishop of St. Andrew condemns
ncient Order of Hibernians. Orders
iat sacrament be refused to members
society.
Hears continue the onslaught on
Wvs, forcing down prices of leading
fc SI'es; demand for currency in west
a cs New York’s money rate firm.
Logansport (Ind.) chief of police,
because city ordinance as violated,
ordered that American flag be lowered
and nearly caused a riot.
Lightning kills two and fires barn at
Olney, 111.
Oscar Schroeder, Chicago million
aire, fleeced by St. Louis fake prize
fighter, dies under peculiar circum
stances.
Following reprimand, man in priest’s
garb shoots two Pittsburg hotel keep
ers. »
Texas health board orders exterm
ination of mosquitoes and sounds yel
low fever warning.
Chinese deserters to be returned to
German consul.
Acting Attorney General Russell
makes a statement concerning the pol
icy of the government in trust pros
editions and rate-law controversies.
Special grand jury at Chicago will
probe the relations of several rail
roads with the Standard Oil Co.
Hillsboro, 111., negro employes or
dered to ieave town as result of at
tack on aged man.
“Fighting” Judge Lindsey, of Den
ver, makes a sizzling reply in Chicago
to Governor Buchtel’s recent attack.
United States Steel corporation adds
$45,000,000 to the appropriation for its
mammoth plant at Gary, Ind.
Interview of Attorney General Bona
parte, in which it was intimated that
criminal prosecution might soon be
commenced against E. H. Harriman is
not taken seriously in Washington, be
cause the government up to date has
failed to secure tangible evidence that
he has been guilty of a crime.
English school teacher who mas
queraded as the daughter of an earl is
held in the Tombs, New York, being j
unable lo secure bail.
Skeleton of W. J. Barney, whom
Steve Adams confessed to murdering, !
is found near Telluride, Col., in the
spot pointed out by the alleged assas
sin.
Shippers are not objecting to in
crease of railroad rates, but are much
concerned about transportation facil- j
ities.
Delegates from forty-one states have
been named by governors to take part
in the National Civic Federation con
ference on trusts and combinations to
be held in Chicago in October.
That American warships will go to
the Pacific on account of the ap
proaching crisis in Japanese affairs, is
the opinion in well informed circles in
Washington.
Blithe and merry, Jojrn D. Rocke
feller attends church and jokes with
reporters about the big fine imposed.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
finds former Trustees Harding and j
Sontesby, deposed members of the I
board of education, not guilty of the
charges preferred by Mayor Busse.
Mayor Busse is reported as ready to J
offer his support to Edward J. Brun
dage for governor, and is expected to
bring out a candidate for state treas
urer if Brundage refuses.
Gambling again brisk in Chicago,
with Jim O’Leary, Pat O’Malley and
Mont Tennes leading the wolf pack.
Wheat load is getting heavy under
increasing supplies of new and bur
densome load of old grain. Coarse
grains gaining in favor on short crop
prospects.
Unfavorable news during the past
week affected all securities on Wall
street and sent, prices downward,
Judge Landis’ big fine against the
Standard Oil company being the cli
max.
A massacre of Christians by Turk
ish troops* has just occurred in the
little Persian village of Mawahe.
Tommy Burns is ready for a battle,
but Jack Johnson does not seem as
eager as before the Burns-Squires go.
The spirit of mob vengeance has
seized the outraged citizens of New
York. Numbering 10,000 in all, infuri
ated men and women in four different
parte of the city attempted to take the
law in their own hands because of the
inability of the authorities to cope
with the unparalleled number of
crimes against women and children.
Miss Katherine Eddy, daughter cf
Mr. and Mrs. Augustus N. Eddy, of
Chicago, is married in Berlin to Sen
ator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana.
Money in Chicago holds firm, with
C per cent the ruling rate.
“Fighting” Chaplain Lozier, famous
figure in the civil war, is dead at
Mount Vernon, Iow’a.
Crew of steamship arrived in New
York reports witnessing a great battle
at sea between whales and sharks.
Commander Peary leaves Portland,
Me., for New York, ready to go at
once on his hunt for the north pole.
Wisconsin anti-saloon league opens
campaign to prfevent granting of new
licenses, backed by Baker law.
President A. J. Erllng, of the St.
Paul road, takes trip over the new
coast extension route, and proposes
to push the line to completion.
Big fine on Standard Oil causes a
break in the stock market, though
Wall street thinks the supreme court
will reverse Judge Landis.
Ryan, Belmont and Vreland will not
be called before the public service
commission in New York as witnesses,
and thus cannot secure immunity
baths.
f0' NEWS ^
J. M. Scott, city editor of the Hel
ena World, was found recently in a
dying condition on the sidewalk near
the river levee with two bullets in his
head. He died without making a state
ment. Just a month ago, at the same
hour in the morning, an attempt was
made to assassinate him by the same
means. At that time he was attracted
by a noise in the rear of his office.
Going out to investigate, he was fired
on, the bullet passing cV>se by his
head. He returned the fire, shooting
four times, but without effect. His
assailant ran, and in th« darkness Mr.
Scott was unable to identify him, not
being able to tell even whether he
was black or white. There were no
witnesses to the shooting, so far as
known at present. Mr. Scott was
unconscious when found, and although
he lived sereval hours, was never in a
condition to make a statement.
May Become Famous.
The reported discoveries of dia
monds in Pike county, are believed by
the Geological Survey, at Washington,
to be bona fide. Extensive investi
gations have been made ’by experts
in whom the survey has confidence
and the results are to be set forth
in a few days in a bulletin giving the
exact facts. It is known that this
bulletin will incline to the view that
perhaps the diamond field of the
United States has been found in Ar
kansas. Many phases of the inquiry
are yet to be ascertained, for in
stance, the relative value of the Ar
kansas stones compared with those
from the African fields, but it appears
to be the belief that unless unfavor
able facts be added to those already
known, Arkansas soon will be mining
the most valuable mineral substance
taken from the ground in the world.
Independence County Schools.
There are 92 districts in Independ
ence county, with a total school popu
lation (between the ages of 6 and 21)
of 8,700. Of these, 3.239 are white
tnid 521 negroes. The total enroll
ment in the public schools of tha
county last year was 5,353, and the
daily attendance was 3,133. There
were employed 118 teachers. Of
these, 41 held first grade certificates
and drew an average salary of $42 a
month. Fifty-two held scend-grade
certificates, and dfew $39, while 22
held third-grade certificates and drew
$35 a month. Three teachers held
state certificates and received an aver
age of $72 a month. The average
length of term was something over
100 days, which was better than ever
before.
ARKANSAS
Editor Scott Killed.
Forty Bushels to the Tree.
W. R. Sites, who lives near Siloam
Springs, has several enormous wine
sap trees in his orchard, set by him
27 years ago last spring. The best
one has a spread of 42 feet from ex
treme to extreme of branches. This
tree is loaded with perfect apples,
and is good for 4 0 bushels, worth $4 5
to $50 at picking time-next fall. An
apple buyer who has seen nearly
every orchard in Benton county de
clares this is the best tree of wine
saps in the county.
Offering Inductments.
The business men of Leola are of
fering inducements for the location in
that town of a mammoth planing mill,
which will hare a capacity of 7 0,000
feet daily and give employment to
over 100 men. A bonus is being
raised to secure the plant. The
company has already purchased 250,
000,000 feet of timber, and should
the plant be located at Leola a rail
road will be built from that town to
Tulip, Dallas county, a distance of
eight miles.
Will Not Serve Burning Orders.
The new chief of police of Hot
Springs, Peter Bentz, states: “There
will be no radical departures from
former policies of the department.”
Basing his position on an opinion of
the city attorney, he also says that he
will refuse to serve burning orders
issued by magistrate courts against
gambling paraphernalia.
Work on Oil Well.
The work in drilling for oil near
Stuttgart is "to be resumed at once.
Recently the work was stopped on
account of the drill striking a caprock.
With new drills the rock can be pene
trated and it is believed that oil or
gas will be struck below it.
Old Landmark Gone.
The first brick building ever built
in Arkadelphia, and which was used
before the war to make guns in for
the Confederates, has just been torn
down to make room for a modern,
up-to-date structure.
New Line To Marianna.
Work on the constriction of the Mari
anna road will be commenced at Mari
anna September 1. The new line will
open up an extensive territory and will
give Marianna its second railroad cut
let. The land contiguous to the rail
way is especially favorable to the
growing of tomatoes. It is said that
tomatoes srown in that secton will
matare earlier and are of as fine a
quality as are those grown in the
famous Humboldt district in Tennes
see.
A Strong Showing.
The report of Secretary-Treasurer
Ben L. Griffin to the state convention
of the Farmers' Union at Conway
showed that on June 30, 1907, the
chartered local unions in Arkansas
numbered 2,549, an increase for the
year of 718 local unions, and that
14,000 new members had been added
in the past year, bringing the total
membership in Arkansas up to 78,100.
Run Down By Auto.
Two men, Frank Zagar, and Frank
Klapac, Slavonians, who live at Rison,
were run down by an automobile in
Pine Bluff, driven by Rev. W. D.
Buckner, rector of Trinity Episcopal
church, and were badly hurt, one of
them seriously. The speed limit, it
is said, was not being exceeded, and
the accident was unavoidable.
To Beautify School Grounds.
At a meeting of the Nashville school
board recently, the contract was
closed for terracing the- grounds of
the Nashville high school building.
Brick and cement walls will be used
at the base of the terraces, and tiling
will be put down to convey the water
from the roof of the building out of
the grounds.
Delegates Appointed.
President Weaver of the Batesville
Board of Trade has appointed S. M.
Casey, John Q. Wolf and T. J. Wal
bert as delegates to the eighteenth
annual meeting of the Trans-Mis
sissippi Commercial Congress to be
held at Muskogee, in the new state
of Oklahoma, November 19 to 22.
Artesian Wells.
Three artesian wells have lately
been bored at Mountain View, from
which streams of water flow. It is
supposed the water comes from the
mountain near by, as the town is high
er than any other point in that county.
The water from one of the wells has
a trace of sulphur.
New Cotton.
Edward Corley, a farmer living near
Gravelly in Sevier county, has several
acres of what is known as “Mortgage
Lifter" cotton, which, it is said, will
produce two bales to the acre. The
leaves at present measure 11 inches
in breadth.
Run Over By Wagon.
W. W. Wilson, a farmer, residing at
Wallaceburg, was thrown from a load
of hay and his wagon passed over
him, breaking one of his legs. The
accident was caused by the team
becoming frightened and running
away.
Will Build New Wharf.
W. J. Parker, city engineer, is ar
ranging details for the construction of
a new wharf at Pine Bluff. Plans and
specifications are being prepared for
it and will be completed next weak.
May Get Soap Factory.
Representatives of the Globe Soap
Company of Cincinnati are in Port
Smith looking for a site to which
they desire to move their plant. The
company is capitalized at $200,000.
Greenwood Democrat Sold.
The Greenwood Democrat has been
sold by P. M. Claunts to Leon West
moreland, of Hartford. Mr. Claunts
goes out August 20, when Mr. West
moreland will take charge.
Boy Was Drowned.
Luther Hooker, who lives at Antioch,
was drowned recently in Little River
at Open Banks where he with other
members of the Hooker family, were
on a camping expedition.
Barrel Factory at Siloam Springs.
The branch barrel factory at Siloam
Springs has been completed and is
now in operation. The building is
20x100 feet. The plant gives employ
ment to 15 men.
Peach Growers Claim Damages.
The peach growers of Crawford
county, it is said, are contemplating
bringing suit against the Iron Moun
tain and Frisco companies for dam
ages resulting from inadequate train
and refrigeration service during the
peach shipping season.
Ten for Penitentiary.
Circuit Court at Searcy adjourned
after being in session one month. Be
sides an unusual number of misde
meanor convictions, there were six
whites and four negroes sentenced to
the penitentiary.
I
State Capital Notes
I
Little Rock.—Th6 State Board of
Confederate Pensions, composed of
Secretary of State O. C. Ludwig, State
Auditor A. E. Moore and James H.
Berry, met in annual session
in the state auditor’s office
Monday. The board will be
session several days. The object
of the meeting is to pass upon new
applications for pensions and applica
tions for pension increases. The board
will have from 1,500 to 2,000 applica
tions to consider. Until the board
passes upon these applications it would
be impossible to state with any degree
of accuracy what percentage each
pensioner will receive of his claim.
The amounts paid on the total allow
ances of the board for the past, five
years are as follows: Forty-eight per
cent in 1902, 46 per cent in 1903, 48
per cent in 1904, 51 per cent in 1905,
68 per cent in 1906. There was
received this year on account of the
pension fund about $280,000, the levy
being one mill. Next year the receipts
will be larger, the recent legislature
having increased the levy 1-2 mill.
This increased levy, together with the
increased valuation of property in the
slate this year, will increase the pen
sion fund next year, it is believed,
to $350,000.
State Penitentiary Board.
The Board of Commissioners of the
Slate Penitentiary were in session the
first of the week. A resolution offered
by Acting Governor Pindall, providing
that the Arkansas Brick and Manu
facturing Company shall be furnished
enough convicts to make up the aver
age of 300, according to contract, was
defeated, as was also a resolution by
Attorney General Kirby, authorizing
the superintendent to withdraw from
the brickyard all convicts in excess
of 300, the number now there being
354. Both resolutions were defeated
by a tie vote. Pindall and Tucker
voted for the first resolution and
Moore and Kirby voted against it. On
the second resolution Moore and
Kirby voted in the affirmative and
Pindall and Tucker in the negative.
The report of Superintendent Pitcock
showed that there wrere 740 convicts at
the various camps and institutions, as
follows: State farm, 193; brickyard,
189; rock crusher, 102; El Dorado, 63;
Fordyce, 67; Casey, 53; within walls,
73. In the report of Dr. S. W. Col
quitt, assistant physician in charge of
the hospital at the state convict farm
in Lincoln county, it is shown that the
following cases were treated during
the month of July, the greater number
being malarial fever: Anisaconia,
asthma, biliousness, congestion of
bowels, delibity, fracture of skull,
hepatic acites, hemorrhoids, neuralgia,
pleurisy, pneumonia, tuberculosis,
scrofulosis, one each: malarial fever,
36; rheumatism, 7; slight wounds, 2.
The secretary of the board was in
structed to give such notice as nec
essary to parole cases on trial in ac
cordance with directions and instruc
tions from the attorney general. There
are three cases of this kind pending
before the board, those of Keedy
Vance of Pulaski county, serving a
term of 21 years for murder in the
second degree; Yank Brown, a negro
convicted in Chicot county on the
charge of larceny, and Jesse Montague
of Monroe county, serving a two
years’ sentence for manslaughter.
The parole of the latter is recommend
ed by State Senator John P. Lee of
Monroe county, author of the parol
act. On motion of Commissioner
Tucker, the attorney general was re
quested to give an opinion as to the
character of boys and girls that
should be sent to the reform school
and the secretary instructed to mail
a copy of the opinion to each circuit
and county judge in the state of Ar
kansas. The Superintendent of the
reform school was instructed to as
certain the cost of the services of a
physician for the institution.
Pardons Granted.
Among the pardons granted by Act
ing Governor* Pindall this week are
victed in a justice court at Campbell
township, Pulaski county, on the
charge of malicious mischief and
sent to the county farm- for 39 days.
\V. H. Cole, convicted in the Sebastian
Circuit Court in March on the charge
of Sabbath breaking and fined $50.
Albert Higgins, convicted in the Drew
Circuit Court in September, 1906, on
the charge of manslaughter and sen
tenced to two years in the peniten
tiary. Middleton McDuffie, convicted
in the Columbia Circuit Court in Au
gust, 1900, on the charge of murder in
the second degree and sentenced to 15
years in the penitentiary. John T.
Pickens, convicted in a_ justice court
in Ye'.l county September, 1905, on a
charge of petit larceny and sentenced
to pay a fine of $100 and be imprisoned
in the county jail for one hour. The
paidon was granted in order to re
store citizenship.
Cheatham, recently con
Commission to Leave Soon.
Superintendent J. J. Doyne, Super
intendent B. W. Torrey of Little Rock
and Senator Otis T. Wingo of De
Queen, the committee appointed by
the State Normal Board to visit nor
mal schools in several states, are mak
ing arrangements to start on the trip
Monday and will be absent about ten
days. The committee will probably
visit the normal schools in Missouri,
Louisiana and South Carolina. Dr.
Wycliffe Rose of New York, manager
of the Peabody fund, expects to join
the committee in South Carolina.
When the committee returns to Little
Rock plans and specifications of the
proposed Arkansas State Normal
school building will be prepared under
the directions of the board. It is the
intention of the committee to have the
plans ready to be presented, to the
board at its meeting September 4.
George W. Donaghey of Conway has
been in the city and held a short con
ference with Superintendent Doyne re
garding the transfer to the state of
the property at Conway upon which
the school is to be located. Mr.
Donaghey stated that everything was
in readiness for the transfer. The
property consists of 80 acres and is
just outside the western limits of the
city of Conway. Mr. Donaghey also
stated that the Conway bonus of $51,
753 would be forthcoming when re
quired by the board. He is of the
opinion that the work of constructing
the building will be commenced some
time in October. It is expected the in
vestigations of the committee will re
sult in a great saving to the state.
An architect will accompany the com
mittee on its inspection tour, and
when the members return to Little
Rock they will engage at once in ar
ranging the details for the construc
tion of the normal school building at
Conway.
House Journal.
The journal of the house of the re
cent legislature will be completed by
Thursday of next week. After the
journal is completed the clerical force
will begin the work of preparing the
copy for the printer. The journal
force expects to complete this job by
September 1. The printed journal of
the proceedings of the last house will
be the largest ever printed, containing
the work of the lower house of the
Arkansas legislature. The journal of
the house of the Thirty-fifth General
Assembly contains 1,200 pages. It is
estimated that the proceedings of the
recent house will make a book of
2,400 pages. The following House
Journal Committee and clerical force
of that body have been transcribing
the proceedings to the. record in com
pliance with a resolution adopted by
the house. W. A. Cravens of Calhoun,
J. W. Black of Marion, W. B. Owen of
Miller and W. M. Moore of Pulaski,
committee; Chief Clerk E. L. Lucas,
First Assistant Clerk Walter C. Par
sons. Journal Clerk J. B. Higgins, As
sistant Journal Clerk, E. A. Stanley.
None of the force has received any
pay for bis work in the preparation
during the past six weeks.
Transcrips Filed.
Among the transcrips filed in tha
Supreme Court this week is the tran
script in the case of Eugenia Ward
against W. A. J. Sturdivant, on ap
peal from the Howard Circuit Court.
The suit is for the possession of a
tract of land and alleged damages
amounting to $400. The transcript in
the case of E. T. Bigham against W.
A. Dover, on appeal from the Polk
Circuit Court. The suit is for the re
covery of certain personal property.
The transcript in the case of tie
Board of Directors of the St Francis
Levee District against J. O. Hale and
others, on appeal from the Lee County
Chancery Court. The suit was
brought in the lower court for the con
demnation and sale of certain lands
in Lee county for nonpayment of levee
taxes. The lands were sold in accord
ance with the decree of the court, but
defendants afterward claimed the
light to redeem, which claim was sus
tained by the court, whereupon the
purchaser appealed to the Supreme
Court.
Charity Board Adjourns.
The Board of Trustees of the State
Charitable Institutions has concluded
its business and ajourned to the first
.Monday in September. It was decided
by those favoring the reconsideration
of the resolution adopted at a previous
meeting, electing a superintendent of
the blind school, to defer action in the
matter for the present. The board
awarded the contract for repairs on
the Deaf and Dumb Institute for Ne
groes to Domain Krah. his bid being
$G25. The contract for the construc
tion of the ward building, an addition
to the infirmary and a cow barn and
dairy at the State Hospital for Norvous
Diseases wjas awarded to Patrick
Powers. His bid was $35,925.