Moosder Cmmm News.
VOL. VI.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1907.
NO. 46.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
the latest events of the
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
north, east west, south
Foreign Lands. Throuahout the Na
tion and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.
Automobile plunges seventy feet
Into a stone quarry and man is dashed
against rocks. His companion escapes
by clinging to a fence post.
Chicago bomb throwers resume op
erations and set off charge in rear
of Mont Tennes' cash register store
on Clark street, over which a pool
room is operated.
Sir Thomas Lipton will consult with
Fife before sending a second challenge
for the America’s cup.
President Harahan of the Illinois
Central declares he has enough
proxies to give him absolute control
of the Illinois Central annual meeting,
and that Stuyvesaut Fish will be pow
erless.
J. Pierpont Morgan and other New
York financiers are told by Bishop
Ingram of London, in a sermon in
Trinity church, that rich men are
merely the stewards and not the own
ers of their possessions.
Paula Klippenburg, a Viennese act
tress who came to America to sue a
Newark (N. J.) man for breach of
promise, weeping hysterically when
she finally learns that she must be
deported, starts on her return trip to
Europe from New York.
Unable to live on their salaries, pas
tors are being forced to other lines of
work, and increases in their pay are
necessary to fill the pulpits, delegates
to the Wisconsin Methodist conference
are told.
National Association of Local Fire
Insurance Agents, at its convention in
Richmond, Va., hears addresses by
several speakers.
Secretary of State Root, accompa
nied by his wife, daughter and private
secretary, passed through St. Ijouis
on their way to Mexico City.
Missouri Pacific passenger train No.
22 ran into a freight at Barnett's Sta
tion, Mo., injuring Harry Ewing, con
ductor, and a brakeman, and demol
ishing two box cars.
Replying to the claim railroad com
panies made in St. Louis recently that
they had lost $1,500,000 front com
pliance with the 2c fare law in Mis
souri, Attorney General Hadley said
said that did not believe the railroad
companies knew whether the opera
tion of the law will result in an in
crease or decrease in net earnings.
Former American circus man and a
globe trotter given job as official
boomer of British East Africa, praised
by khedive.
State's Attorney Healy of Illinois
may order investigation of charges
that Stuvvesant Fish misused the
finances of the Illinois Central rail
road.
Herbert Knox Smith, federal com
missioner of corporations, visits Chi
cago and confers with District Attor
ney Sims on the Standard Oil case.
Work on the construction of the
Evansville auxiliary channel of the
drainage canal formally begins when
gii'l shovels first spade of dirt.
Defeat of Chicago charter changes
political condition in Illinois.
Judge Landis scores methods of
Standard Oil Co. in issuing pamphlet
reflecting on his action in fining the
company, and summons the president
of the Indiana corporation before the
grand jury to prove the charges.
J- r. Harahan in a statement ac
cuses Stuyvesant Fish of loaning to
himself and others large sums from
me Illinois Central treasury upon
t'orthless security and of serious
breaches of faith.
New system of street nomenclature
or * hicago is ready for the city coun
cil, and the entire city is dizzy,
hirst year of Illinois Central under
e Harriman-Harahan management
snows an increase net of $1,3-10.000.
In response to a letter from a little
'dryland girl, saying that naval mili
amen had taken her pet dog and that
B le "as lonesome, the navy depart
ment hunts up the dog and sends it
back.
I nited States circuit court of ap
j6?*8 at Denver confirms a fine of
? •*,000 imposed on the Great Northern
:“.lway for rebating, and gives hope
nat the big Standard Oil fine will bo
upheld.
Railroads in Kansas and Pennsyl
nm decide to put 2c rate into effect
v emanded by state commissions,
1 leserve right to contest,
a. mericans migrating in large num
s to the Canadian Northwest In
>ears 272,609 leave this country.
former Senator Spooner to
tin * Starts reP°rt that he is plan
8 t0 line UP delegation for Taft.
Benjamin F. Graff, formerly pastor
of a .Joliet (111.) church, is in jail
there, charged with forgery and prac
ticing a confidence game.
Proposition to cut off two of the
five presiding elders in the Wisconsin
Methodist conference and divide their
salaries among the poorer pastors
causes a clash in the conference, in
session in Milwaukee.
Establishment of a great central
bank as a cure for tight money mar
ket Is advanced by a German dele
gate in an address before the Amer
can Bankers’ Association at Atlantic
City, N. J.
A monster petition signed by hun
dreds of British Columbians is on its
way to the premier, Sir Wilfrid Lau
rier. It prays that the government im
mediately pass legislation to insure
the absolute exclusion of orientals
from the Dominion of Canada.
Paul Meliege, 40 years old, was res
cued at Chisholm from a mine cham
ber 205 feet below the surface, upon
which there had been a sinking de
pression. When found Meliege was in
an exhausted condition.
Standard Oil Co. prevents independ
ents from using its pipe lines by ’’cre
ating” a town on the New York-New
Jersey state line and nominally doing
away with interstate business, testi
mony of a witness at the New York
hearing shows.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, recently com
mitted to the workhouse for disor
derly conduct, has been released, her
fine having been paid by a friend.
The cruisers Cincinnati and Raleigh,
recently home from the Asiatic sta
tion are to go out of commission in
about ten days at the Mare Island
navy yard. They are to be thoroughly
overhauled.
Th.e British schooner Princess of
Avon, bound from Parrsboro, N. C., to
Boston, was capsized off the Graves,
the entrance to Boston harbor. Her
crew of five men was rescued by a
government tug.
Mrs. Silas Baldwin of Hampshire,
Til., is beaten to death and her aged
husband is said to have confessed the
crime.
kJU * v 11 hi iiiwi'j wuimva tovyvsu Lw
vote on question of saloons or no sa
loons.
Methods in Chicago hospitals criti
cised by Miss Jane Addaras, who finds
patients sometimes suffer while nurses
are kept busy at needless details.
It is understood that Frank B. Kel
logg, the government’s counsel in its
suit to disso’ e the Standard Oil Co.
of New Jersey, has important evidence
in his possession bearing on alleged
relationship between railroad rebates
and the proms of the corporation In
the last eight years.
Mrs. Marguerite Carter, who com
mitted suicide at the home of her ben
efactor, John j. White, was the daugh
ter of a countess, and was deserted by
her husband just after her honeymoon,
it was learned. She tried fourteen
times to commit suicide. Before her
marriage she was Marguerite Louise
Marie de Marideau. Left an orphan,
she spent her girlhood in a French
convent, inherited a small fortune from
her grandmother and went to live with
a grand aunt.
An official report on the relation in
France of alcoholic excess to mental
alienation, shows that in the public
asylums for the insane there are 9.932
cases affected by alcoholism out of a
total of 71.547. Of the cases of alco
holic alienation, approximately half
owe their degradation to absinthe.
After having been in session over
three months and with adjournment
probably a month in the distance, it i
recognized generally, and even by the
most optimistic in the peace move
ment. iua„ the second International
Peace Conference has been and will be
at its conclusion barren of resuits lead
ing to permanent measures of benefit
to the peace of the world.
While the government is grilling
Standard Oil officials in New York, the
monopoly is going ahead from western
Pennsylvania with its plans to extend
operations to every part of the world.
Its latest field for investigation is Ja
pan. Col. John .1. Carter of Titusville,
Pa., head of the Carter Oil Company,
Standard concern is now on his way
to Japan with a corps of experts, to
investigate the oil fields in the mika
do’s kingdom.
President Roosevelt’s speeches will
no longer be sent to the Wall street
ticker service in advance of delivery.
Neither will they be distributed among
the publishers of Wall street newspa
pers. They will be sent, to the three
regular press associations only.
Judge Ludwig of Milwaukee stops
proceedings in the suits against the
street railway companies, awaiting bis
decision on an injunction under ad
visement.
Wierd ceremonies at funeral of Chi
nese envoy’s wife caused amazement
to Romans.
John Leavell and John McLaughlin
of Lancaster, Kv.. were killed acci
dentally by illuminating gas while
asleep in a hotel in Hamilton, O.
F. S. Royster and Charles F. Bur
rowes were brought before the fed
eral court at Norfolk. Va., as defend
ants in the anti-trust suit against the
American Fertilizer Co.
North Arkansas Association.
The Northwest Arkansas Editorial
Association is in session at Fay
etteville. The program as outlined
by the committee Is as follows:
President’s address, G. E. Miller,
Eureka Springs Times-Echo; enroll
ment; historian's report, Albert Gar
rison, Marshall Republican; “The Nec
essity of Press Associations,” H. L.
Cross, Bentonville Sun; “Editorial
Ethics,” M. L. Hilderbrand, Prairie
Grove Herald; “Press Room Points,”
E. C. Funk, Rogers Democrat; “The
Price of a Newspaper Subscription,”
John P. Stafford, Springdale News;
good of the order; “The Politician
and the Newspaper,” J. S. Stevenson,
Bentonville Democrat; a journalistic
quartet; “The Editorial Page,” W. M.
Malone, Eureka Springs Flashlight;
“The Local Page,” John R. Newman,
Harrison Times; “Country Corres
pondence,” J. P. Stafford, Springdale
New%; “The Business Manager,” A. C.
Veach, Gravette News; good of the
order; election of officers.
Merchants Will Give Prizes.
The Board of Trade at Morrilton
has decided to establish a "trades
day” on the second Tuesday in each
month, the first one to be held on
October 8. Ten thousand buttons have
been ordered with “Meet me at Mor
rilton cm the second Tuesday”
inscribed thereon. There will be a
big barbecue given on this day free to
everybody. Each merchant in Mor
rilton will make special bargain sales
on these days, and prizes of merchan
dise and cash will be offered to the
farmer bringing the largest load of
produce, finest team, best grade of
cotton, corn, etc.
Progress of Interurban.
Working surveys have been nearly
completed, and a large portion of the
right of way guaranteed, for the Lit
tle Rock and Pine Bluff interurban,
according to one of the promoters. The
exact route of the survey cannot be
ascertained. It pursues the same gen
eral course as the Rock Island as
far as Galloway, and then parallels
the Cotton Belt until within a short
distance of Pine Bluff, when the river
will be crossed. It is said the con
struction of two bridges is included
in the plans.
Widow of Ex-Governor Dead.
Mrs. Mary Kim Roane, widow of
the late John Selden Roane, fourth
governor of Arkansas, died recently
at her home at Tulip in Dallas county.
The Roanes liver near Pine Bluff until
18G7, where Governor Roane died,
after which Mrs. Roane returned to
her old home in Tulip, where she has
since resided. In her young woman
hood she was one of the belles of
Arkansas and was held in high es
teem.
A Peculiar Result.
Charles A. Reed, a barber of Fort
Smith was cut in the left ear and seri
ously wounded by a man named
Brown, who accused him of insulting
his wife. The knife penetrated the
brain and caused partial paralysis,
which had the strange effect of ren
dering him unable to open his left
eye or to close the right one.
Assessment Gain.
Newton county did away with the
equalization board by an act of the
last legislature and the assessment on
personal property alone this year
shows a gain over last year of $300,
000, also a substantial gain on real
property.
Injured In Runaway.
Mrs. \V. S. Thomas of Freeman was
seriously if not fatally injured by a
runaway team attached to a wagon.
One of the horses stepped upon her
breast and a wagon wheel passed over
her abdomen.
Two Men Shot.
Eddie and Winfield Wise, brothers,
were shot to death at Huttig by C. B.
and E. O. Dukes and Henry Wheeler,
of Cecil, La., who claimed that Eddie
Wise had wronged their sister.
German Colony.
The efforts began some months ago
by the Rev. George Kirschke of the
German Lutheran church to promote
the establishment of a German colony
in and near Mena are bearing fruit.
Already a goodly number have gone
there and bought property.
Committed Suicide.
Rosa Devine of Lockport, Mo., com
mitted suicide at Fort Smith by tak
ing carbolic acid. The girl was re
cently arrested at Tulsa, I. T., it is
said, on a charge of grand larceny and
released under bail of $3,000.
Fifty-Eight Suits.
Fifty-eight damage suits, aggrega- J
ting about $125,000, were filed in the j
Jefferson circuit court at Pine Bluff i
recently, against the St. Louis South- I
western Railway Company, commonly
known as the Cotton Belt, for losses
sustained in the big fire which occur
red in that city on February 13, 1907.
The allegations in the varioua suits
are the same and in substance claim
that the fire originated from sparks
from an engine of the defendant com
pany. Some of these suits were insti
tuted by the property owners in the
burned district for losses sustained
over and above the amounts of Insur
ance received by them. Some of the
plaintiffs had no insurance. The
others are brought by various insur
ance companies under the powers of
subrogation contained in their policies
for the amount of insurance paid to
each of the insured.
Cattle In Quarantine.
Charles P. Fry, government cattle
inspector, has put the ban on 28 head
of cattle of Green Forest, by or
dering them confined in quarantine for
30 days to undergo treatment to rid
them of fever ticks with which he
found them infected. The inspector
followed up the movements of the in
fected drove that he held at Green For
est in quarantine some weeks ago and
found that every brute that came in
contact with those cattle, or was even
in close distance of them had become
diseased with ticks. Mr. Fry is of
the opinion that the trouble can all be
stamped out in Carroll county within a
month or so, if due diligence is em
ployed on the part of the people whose
cattle are or may become infected with
ticks.
Another Line Projected.
Active steps are being taken to
build a line from Pine Bluff to Monti
cello, a distance of 55 miles, via Star
City and Tyro, to connect at Pine Bluff
w’ith a road which is now being sur
veyed to DeVall’e Bluff, and at Monti
cello with a line projected south to
Hamburg, and thence via the A. L. &
G. to Monroe. Surveys were made
about IS months ago, and the right
of way has been secured. A prelim
inary survey has also been completed
for the Pine Bluff, North and South
Railroad, with which the Monticello
line would connect for DeBall’s Bluff.
The proposed line would develop a
country rich in agricultural resources,
and capable of producing cotton, rice,
hay and many other crops.
Woman's Body In River.
The body of a young white woman,
apparently 2 5 years old, was found in
the Mississippi river at Old Town, 15
miles below Helena recently, by some
government workmen. She had been
dead about five days and had a slight
abrasion over the right eye, which
might have been sustained by a fall or
striking against some object in the
river. The body was fairly well pre
served and recognition would have
been easy for persons who knew the
woman in life. She wore white slip
pers, white stockings, white waist,
blue skirt, a chain of beads and fan
and two solid and two set rings. In
one stocking was $1.6G wrapped in a
man’s handkerchief.
Found Pay Dirt.
The Schell Mining Company has
found a rich deposit in its mine near
Yellville at a depth of SI feet, the
jack being valued at $45 per ton. The
cost of sinking the shaft to this depth
and carrying on all other work in con
nection with it has been $4,S00. 1 he
company now expects to sink the
shaft sixteen feet further, and will
then erect a $12,000 concentrating
Proposed Law Library.
There is a movement at Fort Smith
to organize a law library. The plan
is to secure the upper story of the new
Atkinson building, and place there all
the law books owned by the various
attorneys, which are not frequently
referred to. Under such conditions at
torneys who become stockholders in
the library would have access to any
book in the library.
Bonds Redeemed.
The university bonds which were is
sued by the city of Fayetteville at the
time the university was founded and
located at that place have been re
deemed, and city's annual expense will
be reduced about $<,000. City scrip
is now worth 9 0c on the dollar, while
county scrip is worth only about < 5c
Shrinkgae in Values.
The shrinkage in values of real es
tate alone in Boone county, it is claim
ed, will amount to $300,000, to say
nothing of the shrinkage of the per
sonal assessment. This report is
authorized by the equalization board
of Boone county.
Conductor Tomlin Killed.
Dave Tomlin, a conductor on the
Pine Bluff and Western Railroad, in
charge of a logging train, was instant
ly killed at Pine Bluff by the falling
of one of the logs, which hit him on j
the head, crushing it almost to a jelly.
State Capital Notes
To Appear In Bulletin Form.
The resources of Arkansas are to
appear in bulletin form from time to
time, and Will be issued by the Ar
kansas Bureau of Mines, Manufactures
and Agriculture. Each mineral, agri
cultural and other resource of the
State will be set forth in a separate
bulletin similar to the ones issued by
the agricultural department at Wash
ington. Commissioner Tucker finds it
necessary to adopt this system on ac
count of the numerous inquiries he
receives daily from every section of
the country concerning the various
resources of the State. The majority
of inquiries come from persons who
want information regarding the agri
cultural possibilities of the State. Mr.
Tucker proposes to issue a separate
bulletin on every fruit, vegetable and
grain produced in the State. He will
also prepare special bulletins on each
mineral and variety of stone found
in the State. During the past two
months more inquiries have been
received at the agricultural depart
ment concerning the bauxite deposits
in Saline and Pulaski counties, and the
marbles of Independence, Newton and
other counties, than have reached the
department in the past during a year's
period. All these letters have been
answered, but not as fully as desired
by the commissioner. Mr. Tucker is
securing official data of every resource
of the State, and as far as he receives
the information he is seeking he will
issue a bulletin upon such subject
upon which the information is com
plete. By degrees ho hopes to as
certain the producing qualities of
every quarter section in every town
ship in every county in Arkansas. All
this information he intends to classify
so that any visitor to the department,
or any person making written inquiry
for information regarding any resource
of the State, can secure what he
wants at a moment's notice. The
object of this scheme is to make the
Bureau of Mines, Manufactures and
Agriculture an institution in every
respect what its name implies—a
bureau of information concerning
every resource of the State of Arkan
sas. The first bulletin from the agri
cultural department, it is expected,
will be issuel some time during the
coming week.
Pardons Granted.
Acting Governor Pindall has grant
ed a pardon to James Traylor, con
victed in the White county circuit
court on a charge of murder in the
second degree, and sentenced to fif
teen years in the penitentiary, but
whose sentence was afterward re
duced to five years. Traylor killed
Sutton Thompson near El Paso, in
White county, while the two were en
gaged in an altercation, and it was the
opinion of the judge and prosecuting
attorney that he should have been con
victed of manslaughter. Believing
that the ends of justice had been sub
served in the case. Gov. Pin lall grant
ed the pardon. Pardons were also
granted by the governor, to Tom Ren
fro of Sebastian county in whose fa
vor Congressman Ben S. Cravens had
a great deal of information and
testimony; Sam Peoples, a ne
gro, convicted in the Jefferson cir
cuit court on a charge of murder in
the second degree about a year ago;
J. W. Langhorn, convicted in the Ben
ton Circuit Court in September, lhOO.
on the charge of forgery, and Mason
Akinson. convicted recently in the
Columbia Circuit Court on the charge
of aggravated assault and fined $">0.
To Go To State Farm.
One hundred and fifty convicts will
be transferred from the camps of the
lessees to the state convict farm in
Lincoln county before the end of the
week. The convicts are needed to
pick the cotton on the farm and har
vest the corn and other crops. The
lessees are expected to object to this
arrangement, but the necessity of the
situation demands that they be placed
in the cotton patch, and in the big
corn field later on. About 200 of the
prisoners working at the rock crusher
and at <he brick yard of the Arkan
sas Brick and Manufacturing Com
pany's plant, and about 50 employed
on railroad work by Contractor W.
L. Reaves, will in a few days be en
gaged in picking cotton. The change,
it is said, may interfere somewhat
with the contracts, but this the peni
tentiary commissioners say, is no con
cern of theirs. The law provides
that when the convicts are needed on
the state farm they may be taken
there from the camps of any lessee.
Fatigue and Character.
Just as fatigue lessens our ability to
withstand diseases—which attack the
physical man—so it lessens our ability
to withstand temptations, which at
tack the moral man. This is not be.
cause the temptations are more
numerous, hut because there is ,fess
energy of resistance.—World’s Work.
Again Gives Them the Slip.
Ben Hunnicut, who was sent to the
reform school from Van Buren county
on the charge of burglary, made his
second escape from the institution
recently. Arthur Mcllwaine, sent
from Hot Spring county on a similar
charge, accompanied him in the break
for liberty. It is customary at the
institution to give the boys a half
hour’s recess at 2:30 o’clock in the
afternoon. It was during this recess
that the two lads made their escape.
The boys were at play at the time,
and were in charge of only one guard,
who was unable to abandon his
watch over the other boys to pursue
the two fugitives. Superintendent
Chestnut was absent from the school
at the time, but on his return a few
hours later started in pursuit of the
two boys and succeeded in capturing
them at Pinacle. This is the second
time Hunnicut has escaped from the
reform school. Three months ago he
left the institution. A reward of $10
was offered for his arrest, and he
was captured at Shawnee and return
ed to the school by Superintendent
Chestnut, who went there for him.
Eight Pardons Granted.
Acting Governor X. O. Pindall
granted eight pardons, six of whom
were convicted and fined on the
charge of disturbing a religious con
gregation in Faulkner, as follows:
Milos Locket, a negro, convicted
recently on the charge of manslaugh
ter. and sentenced to four years in the
penitentiary. Lockert was charged
with being an accessory to the kill
ing of Horace Price, who, at the time
was maltreating his sister, Mittie
Lockert, the shootiDg being done by
Elder Lockert, a brother of Milus,
who was also convicted, and is now
serving a term in the penitentiary.
Joe Holub, convicted at the March
term of the St. Francis Circuit Court
on the charge of assault and sentenced
to one year in the penitentiary. M.
Thompson. Tom Thompson, Henry
Dunn, Tom Vann, Carl Vann and Wal
lace Wilson, convicted in the Faulk
ner Circuit Court in July on the
charge of disturbing a religious con
gregation, and each find $20.
To Improve City.
In order that the city may be pro
vided with the machinery necessary to
keep clean all the paved streets in
Little Rock, Mayor W. E. Lenon is
making a thorough investigation of
all the latest improved street sweep
ing machines in the country. Within
the next 00 days Little Rock will
have about 15 miles of paved streets,
from seven to nine miles of which are
now under construction or contracted
for. The city is now provided with a
flushing machine and one street
sweeper, which will be inadequate for
the performance of the work required
for the cleansing of the 15 miles of
paved thoroughfares.
Distinguished Visitors.
Little Rock is to he visited by a
delegation of more than 200 leading
spinners of Europe in Octo
ber. A communication to May
or Lenon from the Manu
facturers’ Record Publishing Company
of Baltimore requested the chief exec
utive of this city to write that publi
cation a hundred-word welcome or
greeting to the visiting cotton men,
and the mayor has signified his inten
tion to comply with the request. The
delegation is to make a tour of the
entire South, with a view to study
ing cotton-growing and the handling
and manufacturing conditions of this
section of the United States.
Transcript in Insurance Case.
The transcript in the case of D. A.
Smith against J. M. Smith and J. W.
Scivally, on appeal from the Missis
sippi Chancery Court has been filed
in the Supreme Court. The suit was
brought to enjoin defendants from
the collection of 1279.35 on a note al
leged to have been given in payment
for a policy of life insurance in the
New York Life Insurance Company.
Plaintiff contends that the policy writ
ten for him was not of the kind he
agreed to take. The lower court ren
dered a decree in favor of the plain
tiff, ordering that he recover defen
dant’s $295.20, together with 10 per
cent interest.
Alleged Breach of Contract
The transcript in the case of Gra
ham & Bordley against H. C. Harris
and Lillie It. Harris and Sample &
Hoaglan, on appeal from the Monroe
Circuit Court, has been filed in the
Supreme Court. The action is for al
leged breach of contract in the build
ing of a residence in Clarendon, the
aipoiuit of damages claimed being $2,
005. Tna-lower court rendered a
judgment in favor of the plaintiff for
$1,537.50, from which judgment the
defendants appealed.