The Newark Journal.
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, April 2, Id 15
Vol 14, No. 52
HALF MILLION DOLLARS
CUT IN APPROPRIATIONS
Gov. Hays Weiids Axe
With Telling Effect
on Big Bills
Little Rock, Mch. 30.—Gov.
Hays late Saturday afternoon
vetoed items in the appropria
tion bills for the maintenance
of the state departments and
institutions that brought the
total amounts cut from the ap
propriations made by the 1915
legislature to $595,032. In
cluded in the veto appropria
tions are the $45,000 for the
removal of the State Reform
School and $25,000 for the re
printing of the Supreme Court
reports.
The governor’s veto state
ment, makes the prediction
that the cuts in the apropria
tions will bripg the state out of
debt within the next biennial
Aggie Schools Suffer
The district agricultural
schools suffered most. The
items of $40,000 for sala
ries for each school wasstriclc
en out, making a total cut of
$100,000 on the appropria
tion of $340,000 for th ' four
schools.
Governor Hays ,>a\. ’ ^ad
no intention
agricultural schools, ar tic.t
he hejieved the item of $4o,
000 for the general expenses
* of each school would, be suffi
cient to pay salaries and main
tain the schools.
Hospital Loses $138,000
The state Hospital items
were cut $138,000 and the
University of Arkansas $73,
500. The branch Normal
School, a negro institution at
Tine Bluff, lost $37,000 of the
$48,100 appropriated for it.
which will mean that the pro
posed plan to erect now build
ings and change the location
of the school probably will
fail. Governor Hays said he
had been informed by the
school authorities that the
school has -approximately
$25,000 cash on hand, and
that the cut that he had made
would not seriouslycripple the
institution.
University Hard Hit
The items cut from the uni
; versity appropriations include
those to.provide for the main
tenance of the departments of
the college of arts and sciences
$10,000, for the maintenance
of the departments of the Col
lege of Engineering $14,000,
repairs on building$l0,000,the
appropriation for the home
economics department $8,000,
and many other smaller items.
The Deaf Mute Institute es
caped with a cut of $2,000 for
repairs and $2000 for wiring.
The salary of two guards were
stricken from the Reform
School annronriations.
In the apropriation for the
Confederate Home the item of
$1,400 for tobacco for the in
mate was among those elimi
nated. Other items cut out
were for repairs, salary of
sterjograpV r to write letters
for" the blind inmates, and the
l purcha. or a-few boiler, the
ta! ■ ' ■ "■»" the Y was*
'$0,7G .
The governor cut from the
appropriation for the tubercu
to.-i' sanatorium the item-, “or
the erection of a new refigi
ating tank electrical plant and
for painting the buildings.
The State Hospital lost items
for two telephone operators,
two ushers, one female hydro
therapy operator, assistant hy
drotherapy operaor, and the
entire .items for salaries of
male and female attendants,
totalling $55,000. The items
First National Bank
Newark, Ark.
CAPITAL $25,COO
SURPLUS $6,5G0
C. M. EDWARDS, Pres.
G. M. FIELDS, V. Pres.
E. B. CHESSER, Cashier
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THIS BANK
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UNDER AND
CONTROLLED by
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ENACT
at
Don’t You Think
the satisfaction of drawing
checks in payment of your
bills, thus enabling you to
have a receipt for every pur
chase, would repay any slight
sacrifice in building up a
bank account duringthe year?
TRY IT WJTH US DURING 1915
BUY BANK MONEY ORDERS
" sending.nonev to distant points. The orders arg pavable
anvwhere and are ABSOLUTELY SALE.
TOR EXAMPLE
Amounts up to #5.00, cost--;j cents
Amounts of $5.00 to $30.00, cost-5 cents
Amounts of $30.00 to $75.00, cost..10 cents
Amounts of $75.00 to $100.00, cost___15 cents
HEAVY SENTENCES
FOR NIGHT RIDERS
Leader of Gang Gets Eight
Years and Others One and
Four Years Each.
Osceola. Mch. 27.—Judge
W. F. Driver today sentenced
the three men convicted of
night riding, in the Mississippi
Circuit Court last week. Mark
Rodgers alleged leader of the
gang. convicted on three
counts, was sentenced to
eight years in the penitentiary.
Giles Simpson, convicted on
two counts received a four
year setnenee and Jesse Swof
ford, who pleaded guilty, was
given a one-year term.
The outline of a pistol
sketched in pencil on a threat
ing notice pasted on a negro
cabin fitted the revolver own
fcd by Rogers and the jury re
turned a verdict of guilty.
Conviction was obtained
principally on the testimony
of Swofford, who turned
state’s evidence and exposed
secrets and plans of the band
operating in Mississippi county
Swofford testified that Rogers
was “captain” of the band and
that the object was to drive
I negro plantation laborers
; from the county.
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| for salaries for four stenogra
phers, two. grave markers,
painter m florist were, also
vetoed. The items for tiie
erection of an annex and a
laundry and for installing i
bakery were stricken from the
bill by Govrnor Hays.
Governor Makes Statement
In a statement issued in re
gard to the cuts made by him.
Gov. Hays said:
“I have always believed that
with the proper economical
methods in the managment of
our state government, our rev
eries are sufficient to meet all
necessary and reasonable ex
penditures No administration
should recklessly squander
the people’s money. I do not
think that any institution
should suffer for lack of funds
and, 1 have taken particular
pains pains to see that each
one is well provided for dur
jing the coming biennal term.
"The last legislature appro
priated $3,086,681.98 to be
derived from the general rev
enue funds for the next bien
nial period, lucluded in this
was $139,400 to cover defi
cienees in the years, which
should have been avoided;
and. also $47,260 for the
Smith-Lever fund, an addition
al burden that we have called
upon the state’s finances to
“I have gone through the
apropriations throughly: 1
| have worked long and hard
jwith the difficult bills; 1 have
i seen fit to veto $595,032 from
the total apropriation pf the
legislature and feel that every
department of the state gov
ernment will be well cared
for during the next two years.
This will makethe ensuingtwo
years cost the taxpayers $2,
490,032. The total revenue
ipaid into the general fund for
! the last biennial period was
I aproximately $2,980,000.
‘‘It is utter folly for the state
to further permit the expendi
tures to exceed the revenues.
The policy of tnis administra
tion is one of strict economy.
II shall vigorously discourage
the creation of any deficits in
any of the state department?
.or state institutions. 4 do no1
wish to transfer my successor
any financial troubles.
“I believe that with the con
tinuanc of the proper econom
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POSTMASTER HELD ON
SHORTAGE CHARGE
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Swifton Official is Charged
With Embezzling $1,800 of
Government Funds.
At a hearing: at Batesville,
i last Saturday, Jeff D. Lane,
postmaster at Swit'tn, Jackson
county, was held to the feder
al Grand Jury on a charg of
embezzling government funds
i He was rleasedon $1,000bond.
His 17 year-old daughter,
Daisy, who had been detained
on the suspicion that she
might be implicated, was re
leased, as there was no evi
dence against her.
The principal evidence
against Lane was that of Post
office InspectorTyler whosaid
that when he examined the
books of the postmaster at
Swiften Thursday he found
the official about $1,800 short.
He was obliged to leave town
and when he returned Friday
he says he learned that Lane
had withdrawn mrvrp than Si _
(•00 of the postoffice funds
from a bank where he had
them deposited and had start
ed to walk to Tuckerman. He
was arrested when he walked
into Tuckerman.
Lane was taken to Newport
and placed in jail Friday.
While there Sheriff McCuiston
talked with him and succeded
m inducing Lane to give him
a written order on Mrs. Lane
f<-r more than $1,000 which it
is said Lane, had hidden in his
home. Inspector Tyler s^ys
this money was returned by
ra. Lane but that the post
master is still about $800
short.
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Returns From West
Booster For Home
W. M. Magness arrived
home Friday from San Fran
cisco where he spent a few
week attending the Worlds
Fair. Mr. Magness says the
fair is very good but that it is
very much over-rated and
comes no ways near being an
equal to the wqrhis fair held
in St. Louis a few yars ago.
He stopped off at a number
of points of interest en route
but says he found no place,
either city or country, that
looks as good as this section
of Arkansas.
The Rocky Mountin scen
ery is grand he says, but it
looks entirely too bleak and
barren to appeal to a man ac
customed to the luxrious
growth of crops and vegetation
in our fertile valleys of Ark
lie is inclined o think there
is little likelihood of anythink
ing citizen of Arkansas going
West to live if he will t h*t go
out and make an investigation
of conditions in that country.
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AGED LADY BREAKS ARM
Grandma Wyatt, of Rosie,
one of the oldest ladies in this
part of the county, fell from a
wagon recently and broke her
wrist. The accident happened
some two weeks ago, and de
spite her advanced years tin
injury is mending nicely and it
is thought that she will soon
entirely recover the use of her
arm
APPOINTS METCALF
Gov. Mays has appointed
('has. Metcalf of Batesvillt
as a member of the Board ol
•Ejection -Commissioners for In
dependence county, to succeec
Dene H. Coleman who was re
cently appointed circuit judge
The Joonal for Job Printing
GOVERNOR VETOES
LOAN AGENCY BILL
Also Disapproves Reprinting
Supreme Court Reports and
Redigesting Statutes.
Little Rock, April 1.—Gov.
Hays yesterday completed nis
disposal of the bills passed by
the 1015 legislature by ap
proving four and vetoingthree
measures. The vetoed meas
ures were the Waggoner loan
agency bill. Representative
Shoffner’s bill to apropropri
jate $25,000*for reprinting the
old Supreme Court reports and
| Representative Shouse’s meas
ure to apropriate $40,000 for
the redigesting of the statutes.
The total number of bills ap
proved was 342. The vetoed
j bills, including the Sawyer
racing bill, numbered eight.
No bills will become laws with
out the aproval of the govern
or. The tate of the Waggoner
bill was r?ot decided until af
ter G o’clock last night. A
hearing was held late yester
day afternoon. The bill plac
ed a prohibitive tax of $2,500
a year on pawn shops and was
aimed to stop the small loan
| business in the state. Gov.
Hays gave as his reason for
| the veto that bankers and busi
ness men of the state had pe
titioned him to veto the bill
'because of the unsettled busi
ness conditions.
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INTERESTED IN
SCHOOL CONTEST
Report: from the various
! schools in this part of the state
indicate that considerable in
terest is being aroused in the
first meeting of the Northeast
Arkansas Contest Association
which will be held at New
port, April H> and 17. Con
tests ip declamation, reading,
piano, composition, and ath
ieticcs are entered by stu
dents from the high schools
of Newark, Newport, Bates
vile, Searcy, Walnut Ridge
Bald Knob and Sulphur Rock.
JONES-LOCKARD
Newport, Mch. ,‘10.—Hon.
and Mrs. Gusave Jones have
announced the engagement
and approaching marriage of
their daughter, Miss Mary
Ellen, to Adam Lockard of
this city, the wedding to take
place April 28.
SHOOTING FOLLOWS
HEATED ARGUMENT
I Dispute over Hard Times and
Wilson Administration Leads
to Shooting at Paropuet.
An unknown man, supposed
to have been a tramp, was
shot by a pearler named Buch
nan last Monday near the rail
road bridge across Black river
at Paroquet.
Buchanan, who had been
living in a houseboat near the
bridge, met the tramp and
they became involved in a dis
pute over the “hard times’’ it
is said. The argument bet
tween them became so heated
that Buchanan shot the tramp.
Buchanan fled and has not
been captured.
Parties who witnessed the
trouble from a distance made
a search for the wounded man
but were unable to find him,
although he was tracked for
some distance by a trail of
blood.
Officers at Newport were no
tified and are on the lookout
for Buchanan.
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HOLDER BY FOR MAYOR
The announcement of J. H.
Holderby as a candidate for
Mayor of Newark will be
f$und in another column of
today’s paper.
Mr. Holderby is a progress
no citizen who always takes
a lively interest in all matters
vacillated to add o the prog
ress and advancement of New
ark. He has been connected
with the town government in
various capacities and has al
ways discharged his duties
faithfully and well. If elect
ed, he will make the town a
good mayor.
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BIG BUILDING BURNS
Mammoth Spring, Mch. 31.
—Fire of unknown origin or
starting in the office consum
ed the entire building and
stock of the Cambell Bros.,
wholesale grocery last night,
entailing a loss of $50,000 ful
ly insured. The blaze was
discovered by one of the em
ployes returning shortly after
supper and the alarm sounded
It was soon seen thatthebuild
ing was doomed, and efforts
of fire fighters were directed
to the saving of adjoining
buildngs.
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