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To Fruit Growers and Farmers.
Superintendent John P. Logan
of the Arkansas department of hor
ticulture at the world's fair has is
sued the fololwing self-explanatory
address:
To the I’ruit Growers and Farmers
of Arkansas:
Just at this time all eves are be- !
ing turned toward St. Louis, where
great preparations are being made
to h<>!d a great exposition. At this j
exposition the manufactured prod- ,
uet of every state in the Union, as
well a,~ those from foreign coun- j
trie-, will be displayed. Not only
the manufactured products, hut the
products of the farm and orchards
■ the result of the skill ami labor of
the husbandman, will have a promi
nent place at this exposition. Ev
ery state will vie with each other in
trying to show to the world that
fruit can be grown to greater per
fection in their own respective lo
calities than elsewhere. The world’s
fair management have set aside
and will erect an immense building,
covering several acres of ground, to
be known as the horticultural pal
ace. and devoted exclusively to the
exhibition of fruits. In this build
ing will he found fruits not only
from every state, but from every
tountry on the globe. We must come
in competition with this great gath
ering of exhibits, and to do so suc
cess 1 ully will require the combined
effort and the hearty co-operation
, of (very fruit grower in the state.
’A hilo nature has done a great
deal for Arkansas, and while with
ordinary care we can raise the finest
fruit in the world, yet we are some
what at a d -advantage this year on
account of the late frosts that dam
aged our fruit and destroyed so
much of it. therefore it will take
the hardest kind of work, the clos
est inspcition and a full and heartv
'-'•per; ::• n on the part of all the
pf"p!" to enable the management to
make :!.c fruit display what it ought
to lie.
pt1 -bent of the Arkansas
>t..:, 11 :t: literal Society, 1 want
t i n:a I*.* a personal appeal to that
society, and 1 feel that 1 will not
appeal in vain, for they have al
ways responded nobly to the call,
and by their combined efforts hnvi j
assist! I in making that one of the
In st and greatest societies in the
Faded States. But not only to
them alm.e. but to e\,uy one who j
lias til- interest of the state at heart
do I appeal, and I beseech you to
come to the rescue and help me in
the name of the great state of Ar
k,u-a- to carry off the prizes at
this, the greatest of all expositions.
Under the rule- of the management
all fruit exhib ted must bear the
name of the grower and when
grown, and by this rule all who
furnish fruit and the locality will
get proper <riclit, and it is my de
sire and intention to give every
community an opportunity to make
a creditable showing. All that 1
ask is that you lend me the proper
aid and assistance. I would like if
every one who will have fruit and
who desire to furnish any would
write me at once, apprising me of
the varieties they wish to furnish
and when it will he ready to he tak
en cure of. We desire to prepare
and put up in solution this season
such fruit as cannot he carried over
in cold st irage, sin'll as peaches,
berries, plums, etc., and would like
to be notified by those who will have
any fruit < f this kind just wh
they have and when n will be read
and I will call on them with ja
and ev rything necessary to prescr
them in their natural state. j$o
in conclusion, let me urge eve
one not to delay in this matter, h
advise me at jour earliest conve
ienco so that proper arrangemer
can Lie made to care for all \our e
liibits of fruit. Yours ven rejrpri
John I’ 1/fIgan.
fully,
recently, but
the guards. Om
son, was killed
in the foot and
captured before
Negro Convict
Eight state convict, Employed at
a rock crusher nearyn’lummervillc
made a break for^Rbertv one night
discovered by
John John
was shot
of them were
Conductor’s Sad Death.
B. L. Wright, a conductor on the
lower end of the Valley Route, was
accidentally shot and killed by John
Goodwin, a negro, as a passenger
train upon which himself and fam
ily were en route to Little Rock en
tered the station of McGehee.
Wright was standing near the door
of the baggage car. Goodwin, who
was in the colored coach, had be
come boisterous and drew a pistol.
The train porter grappled with him
and in the scuffle Goodwin’s revolv
er was discharged. The bullet went
through tlic- glass door of the color
ed coach and on through the wood
en door of the baggage ear, strik
ing Wright in the neck, llis wife
and two children were also with
him in the baggage car, and the
unfortunate man expir'd in his ter
rified wife’s arms without uttering
a word, tin* bullet breaking his neck.
The train porter succeeded in shov
ing Goodwin from the car platform,
and when it became known that
Wright had been killed a posse
started after the murderer. Ife was
located in a house about four miles
from McGehee and upon his refusal
to surrender, was shot to death.
Wright’s remains were prepared for
burial at Little Rock and forward
ed to Fort Smith for interment.
Levee Work In Arkansas.
The 1'nil.-d States government
levees on the Arkansas side of the
Mississippi river, between Helena
and Laconia Circle, will be enlarg
ed during\the summer, fall and
winter, to the extent of approxi
mately 37!),000 cubic yards, a total
length of 53,000 feet, or more than
tin miles, says the Memphis Morn
ing News. This work will be in
the White river levee district. All
the work to be done in the White
river district is enlarging the ex
isting levees. It will be divided
into six pieces, of various propor
tions. The first section begins at
mile 324, south of Cairo, which is
hut a few miles below Helena. On
that mile the work will h ■ 1.500
feet long and contain 40,000 cubic
yards. Four miles below, at mile
3.40, there will be a 13,000-foot
piece, containing 135,000 cubic
yards. The fourth section will
contain 28,000 cubic yards and he
3.mit) feet long, at mile 3(il. At
mile 35(1, the smallest piece of tin*
work, only T<>0 feet long, will be
done. It will contain 16,000 cubic
yards. The largest piece of
work will he at mile 366. It will
be 27,000 feet long and contain
120.000 cubic yards. The improve
ments will extend through a
stretch of country forty-two miles
long. »
Ruling on DeRossit Law
Circuit Judge Hughes of Crit
tenden county, in the case of (’apt.
Mallory of Memphis, has declared
section I of the l)eltossit game
law passed at the last session of
the legislature to be unconstitution
al. This section forbids non-resi
dents from hunting or fishing on
lands owned by themselves in this
state. The court held that the
rest of the law, which sivks to
prohibit non-residents who own no
land in the state, from hunting
and fishing in the state, is valid.
The case will be appealed.
Land Commissioner’s Report.
Below is the report, of State
Land Commission'!' Conway lor
the quarter ending June lit): Fees,
$1,41(1; swamp land sold, 1,186.53
acres, $1,483.17; internal improve
ment land sold, 279.57 acres, $31!).
4(>; Saline land sold, 617 acres,
sold, 10 acres, $ too; forfeited land
sold, 12,243.63 acres, $15,304.57;
forfeited land redeemed 7,31)8.85
acres. $1,45:2; town lots sold, $637.
!)? ; forfeited land donated, 6,31)5.
87 acres; donated to actual settlers,
6,105.34 acres; total, 31,296.71)
acres, $21,927.80.
M. F. Locke,secretary for Arkan
sas of the Nat goal Association of
Mexican War Y ferans, is now en
gaged in procuring the names of
the widows of deceased Mexican war
veterans. Ho issued a card some
time ago asking for the names of the
Mexican war survivors in this state,
to which he has received a number
of replies. Col. Locke’s address is
G05 West Seventh street. Little
liock, Ark.
A Good Movement.
At a meeting of the executive
committee of the state good roads
association, held at Little Rock, the
following circular letter was order
ed sent, out to the various county
judges in the state: “The executive
committee of the Arkansas Good
Roads Association at a meeting
held this day at Little Rock, derid
ed that arrangements should he
made as soon as possible for hold
ing a county good roads conven
tion in each county in this state,
under the auspices of the respective
county judges. As you will notice
by the inclosed slip giving the
rules of the state association, you
an1 a member of the said associa
tion and the organizer for your
county. The delegates to the an
nual state convention to be held at
Little Rock the third Wednesday in
January should be elected. We
want your help. Will you act ami
assist in this movement? If so,
please send the date of your con
vention and the names of the dele
gates to the county convention to
George R. Brown, our secretary, at
Little Rock, in order that they may
Im supplied with good road litera
ture prior to the hoi ling of the
county convention. The names of
ttie delegates to the county conven
tion will be forwarded to the Bu
reau of Good Koads Inquiries at
Washington, I). ('. The executive
committee urges the importance of
a largely attended county conven
tion, and to this end suggests that
delegates to the county convention
he selected from each township or
road district, not less in number
than five delegates and five alter
nates ; and that every county hold
ing a convention send a full delega
tion headed bv the county judge,
electing one delegate from each
township to the state convention
in January. The time for holding
the county convention is left to your
discretion, but we suggest the con
vention should be rallied prior to
November 1. You are aware that
the I’nited States government has
already reached the point where
it is ready to give national aid to
country roads as well as to locks,
dams, harbors and canals. The
fanners and lumbermen of Arkan
sas have a clear conception of this
olTer, and will readily hear your
call for a convention and an onward
movement. The subjects to be
considered by the county conven
tion should, we suggest, include,
iir-t, a statement of ■•the object of
the convention by the county
judge; second, address on the im
portance of good roads; third, ad
dress on the importance of the state
convention; fourth, a discussion of
the proper expenditure of the road
tax; fifth, exchange of ideas by
road commissioners and overseers;
sixth, selection of delegates to the
state convention.'*
To Tax Coal Mines.
Assessor Bryan has caused con
sternation among mine owners of
Sebastian, county by stating that
he will tax the coal underground as
well as the land. If his contention
is sustained by the courts, the coal
corporations will be compelled to
pay taxes on fully one-half a mil
lion dollars’ worth of property
which has hitherto escaped taxa
tion. In making his assessments
through tin* county Mr. Bryan dis
covered that fully three-fourths of
the surface land in the county is
underlaid with coal, which has been
sold, so that the land has a surface
and a mineral owner, the former
paving taxes and the latter escap
ing payment. The surface is as
sessed at $.1 an acre, while the
underlying coal is held at $100 an
a*to, and has heretofore remained
untaxed.
BRIEF MENTION.
The cotton crop in this state is
generally backward and the stalk is
small and the stand only fair. Front
present indication the yield will be
limit 15 per cent below that of last
year.
The sheriff of Pulaski county,
acting on tho order of Judge Lea,
made a fourth of July bonfire of a
number of niekel-in-the-slot ma
chines'seized in Little Ilock sa
loons and cigar stores.
Town Marshal Taylor shot and
killed a negro prisoner at Ash
down. ttstylor was on his way to
jail with the negro and lie resist
ed and was about to best the ollicet
j when lie shot in self-defense.
News of the World
Earnest Courtney. aged 28, last
his life at Virginia, 111., while at
tempting to make a balloon ascen
sion.
, All the ore smelters at Denver,
Col., were compelled to close down
on account of a walkout ot work
men, entailing n great loss.
Newton Van Horne, aged 17, was
killed while playing a game of base
ball at Cohoeton, ()., by being hit
by a foul tip ball, his skull being
fractured.
Ex-Gov. Stevens of Missouri, be
fore the grand jury at St. Louis,
testified that after he signed as
governor the hill which legalized
the consolidation of all St. Louis
street railways he was offered $100,
000 in transit stock and the further
sum of $20,000 if he would ap
point James J. 1 hitler excise com
missioner of St. Louis. lie de
clared both propositions were re
ted.
Four people met death in a pe
culiar manner at l’ittsburg. Pa., on
the -4th. A large American Hag
was blown against a heavily charg
ed wire, which broke loose and fell
into a shallow pool of water. Short
ly after the wire fell into the pud
dle, Joseph Wisa, while running
through the blinding rain to seek
shelter, stepped into the pool and
dropped dead. Three other per
sons followed him and all were in
stantly killed.
The government joined with the
citizens of the district of Colum
bia in a general commemoration of
Independence day. The features
were a military procession, in
which all arms of the regular ser
vice—army, navy and marine corps
—ware represented, together with
the national guard of the distrii t
ami tin* high school cadets and a
public meeting, in which Admiral
Dewey, Secretary of the Navv
Moody, M. Ju'serand, the French
ambassador, participated. The pa
rade was witnessed by large crowds
and was reviewed by Gen. S. M. B.
Young, the grand marshal.
During the first, half of the year
there was a notable activity in
organizing companies for the erec
tion of oil mills. According to the
Manufacturers’ Record, the new
capital invested in this industry
during the past six months is great
er than the whole capital repre
sented in cotton oil mills in 1SH0.
In that year the south had forty
oil mills, with a capital of $.'1,500,
000. During the past six months
ninety-four new companies wore or
ganized to build mills at an esti
mated cost of $,'1,075,000. In this
movement the greatest activity was
in Arkansas, where seventeen new
companies were formed, with a to
tal capitalization of $1,170,000.
A suit was filed at San Antonio,
Tex., last week, the outcome of
which will be awaited with much
interest by members of labor unions
and the public in general. The
style of the suit is State of Texas
vs. The Trades Council and the
Electrical Workers’ t’nion of San
Antonio, and the officers of each or
ganization. It grew out of the boy
cott of the Herf building, a big
business block in the best business
part of the city, which was boycot
ted bv the unions because the elec
tric wiring was done by a firm that
was on the union’s “unfair” list.
Negotiations were pending for the
lease of the building when the par
ties who wanted to lease were noti
fied by the unions that they would
be boycotted if they attempted to do
business in the structure. This
threat caused the proposed lease to
fail and no man nor firm will now
lease the block, which is one of the
finest in the city. The matter was
placed before the attorney general
and the suit filed followed.
It is regardisi as the most import
ant law suit ever filed in Texas, as
the decision in it will determine the
existence of boycott in Texas.
John Osborne, a negro who crim
inally assaulted and afterwards
robbed Mrs. Lizzie Wentz, a white
woman, aged (j(), at ln*r home in
Union county, North Carolina,
was taken from the officers when
en route to prison and hanged by a
uiob of unknown men.
A spark from a locomotive set
we to a barrel of lubricating oil on
a b.Vgo anchored at St. Louis and
two workmen were burned to death
by th^ explosion which followed
,1 Wliitak r Wright, the English
promotor, is dying in Ludlow street
jail, New York. Wright was ar
rested upon his arrival in this
country several months ago on the
charge of wrecking several big Eng
lish syndicates and getting away
with the funds. *
The Iowa republicans, in state
convention endorsed President
Roosevelt’s administration, reiter
ated the party’s financial and
tarifT policy and nominated the fol
lowing ticket: Governor, A. B.
Cummings; lieutenant governor,
.John ll'rriott; supreme judge,
('has. A. Bishop; railroad commis
sioner, David J. Palmer; state su
perintendent of education, F. J.
Riggs.
Andrew Diggs, a negro, was tak
en from jail at Seottboro, Ala., by
a mob and hanged. When the mob
put in an appearance in the hallway
of the jail Sheriff Austin seized two
pistols and mounting the stairs,
said he would kill anyone that at
tempted to come up. The threat
was met with a volley, and the sher
iff emptied his revolver in reply.
Before he could reload lie was shot
down. One shot took effect in his
right log and the other in his pistol
arm, thereby disabling him.
Following is the record of lvnch
ings for the month of June:
1 -Benjamin Gorman, colored,
Webster county, Georgia
1 Robert Dennis, colored,
Greenville, Miss.
8—“Banjo” Peavov, colored, Fort
Valley, Ga.
8— Four negroes, Smith county,
M ississippi.
8 Negro woman, Smith county,
M ississippi.
II—Frank Dupree, colored, For
est Hill, La.
10—John Brown, Bad Lands,
Mont.
22 doorge W hite, colored, Wil
mington, Del.
I'd—(Jeorge Kincaid, colored,
Cleveland, Miss.
21 (Vise Jones, colored, Klk Val
iev, Tenn.
25— Jack Harris, colored, Clar
endon, Ark.
26— Three negroes, Newton, Ca.
2d—Lamb Whitely, colored, Mon
terey Landing, La.
2!>—Andrew Diggs, colored,
Scottsboro, Ala.
30 —(’has. Fvans, colored, Nor
wav, B. (’.
Total, 21.
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
uary Keep has made a summarized
statement of the principal financial
operations of the government for
the fiscal year, closed June 30.
The revenue of the government for
all sources for the year ending
June 30, 1003, is shown to have
been $538,887,026. The sources of
revenue were as follows: Customs,
$283,891,710 ; internal revenue,
$230,115,250; misecellaneoils
sources, $14.88(^,551. The expen
ditures for the year were $506,176,
>00, as follows: Civil and miscel
laneous, $125,918,312; war (includ
ing rivers and harbors), $118,549,
683; navy, $82,696,803; Indians.
$12,931,256; pensions, $138,425 A
618; interest, $28,556,618. The
surplus for the year is $52,710,936.
In comparison with the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1902. the revenues
show a decrease of $3,500,707, and
expenditures an increase of $34,
085,732. The surplus shows a de
crease of $385,676,430. The avail
able cash in the treasury on June
30, 1003, was $231,545,012, an in
>Tease of $10,357,651 over the cor
responding date in 1002. The total
amount of gold in the treasury on
June 30, 1903, was $631,630,896,
an increase of $71,439,508 over
1002. The outstanding gold cer
tificates, less the amount of same
m the treasury, on June 30, 1903,
were $379,356,789, an increase of^
$72,957,7 80 over the net amount
in circulation at the beginning of
the year.
a I'ourm ot July pistol duel
took place at Stoelvillo, Mo., be
tween Sheriff Taff, his deputy and
a farmer by the name of Starks,
the latter being killed outright.
That was fatally wounded and Ter
ry Ives, a deputy, was shot in the
mouth and hip.
Ktlie Smith and Bertha Winston,
young white women, fought a duel
to the death in Chicago with hat
pins as Weapons, the latter receiving
a thrust through the heart.
\ i i.
TO GET A HEARING.
It Costs a Small Fortune for Begin
ners to Give a Concert.
Lot all those of the outside public
who read that some eminent vocalist
of the concert-room platform, or
some astonishing instrumentalist of
the same, is drawing enormous fees
take the word of an expert that there
is no effort in the world so difficult
and so heartbreaking as that of ob
taining the ear of the public in the
way mentioned.
Every season, in London alone,
stys Tit-Bits, the sums spent by nevr
comors in their desire to give a con
cert or to share in one are in the ag
gregate enormous, and generally this
expense only comes as a culmination
after both friends and money have
been exhausted in paying for a long
series of lessons in this country and
abroad, during which period the stu
dent has never earned sixpence. But,
after years of study, a hearing must
he got at any hazard for the novice,
and if she be a girl the very dress on
her back has often cost an infinitude
of family sacrifice. In too many
eases, though agents have been pro
pitiated and critics have been actu
ally got to the concert-room—impor
tant concerts often clash on the sarhe
day—the result is a disappointment,
for many a musical genius will break
down under the ordeal and be seen at
his or her worst.
From the colonies alone fortune*
have poured into London that have
boon speculatively used in concert
giving on behalf of tyros, but quite
nineteen out of twenty of the aspir
ant- have been, as is tiie ease with,
the home-cultivated variety, com
parative failure.-. One of the greatest
concert agents of the world said to
the writer: “1 hive known score* of
eases—I mean scores literally—
where a student, praised to the skies
by professors, ha- spent ten years of
study w ithout earning anything, and
has then expended a small fortune in
giving experimental concerts, only to
find that he or she cannot even earn a
living.”_
PAPER CORKS NOW.
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Invention Makes Possible Cheaper
and Better Bottle-Stoppers.
For hundreds of years the bark of
the cork-tree has been the only
known substance from which corks
have been made. The process is
practically the same now as a hun
drel years ago. There has been no
improvement, no progress. On the
other hand cork has become scarcer
and scarcer, until it is almost doub
ling in cost every year. The supply
is not equal to the demand, and is
rapidly becoming exhausted, until
users of fine sorts of cork find it dif
ficult to secure them, says Londoo
Answers. ,
A remarkable invention has just
been perfected and patented. It is a
machine the size of a sewing ma
chine, which makes cork out of waste
paper and paper pulp. All kinds of
waste and scrap paper can be made
into corks. These corks are superior
to the regular sort, as they ate not
affected by acids or oils, and have
been tested by leading chemists and
the largest users of corks, and by
them pronounced far superior to the
old style in every way. One machine
will make over 300 per minute.
Corks can be made any size, color, or
shape, and name or trademark can he
stamped in the top of each as made.
They are sold at one-tenth the price
of regular corks.
A DEAD GIVE-AWAY.
Cherries Were Ripe and There Wai
a Woman Who Liked Them.
When Mr.-. Dean went out to se<e
if the cherries were ripe enough for
picking, says the New York Times,
she found one of her neighbor’s chil
dren perched aloft in the tree not
only helping himself, but also tilling
a pail with the fruit. She called him
down and was about to administers
stern reproof when his motherenure
hurriedly over to apologize. "I trj
every means to keep Leslie out of
that tree,” she said. “But he’s bound
to get into it. I shall punish him se
verely.
Much appealed. Mrs. Dean was
•about to offer her neighbor soine*of
the cherries when the little boj
tugged at her arm.
“Say, Missus Dean,” he said, “do
you know last year mother had to
boost me into that tree, but nowT*m
big enough to climb into it myself.’'
Everybody’s Doctor.
Automatic machines, to be called
“Everybody's Doctor.” are to bo
placed in the boulevards and princi
pal thoroughfares of Brussels. By
putting a penny in the slot one will
be able to obtain a remedy and also
the prescription for such aihncnts'ai
sick headache, cold, lumbago and
toothache.