VOL. VI.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1907.
ISO. 24.
ARKANSAS
STATE NEWS
Campaign of Spraying Started.
Dudley Moulton of the United
States Bureau of Entomology, and
VV M Scott of the Bureau of Plant
Industry, are at Siloain Springs rank
in''- arrangements for a systematic
campaign of spraying fruit trees in
northwest Arkansas, with the object
of studying the habits of the coddling
moth, which causes so much injury
to apples. One or more orchards in
Benton county will be selected and
the apple trees sprayed as a starter.
The coddling moth will be closely
studied, its movements recorded, its
life history studied and everything
pertaining to the insect closely noted
to determine whether or not there is
a third brood. The experimentation
will be watched with interest by all
fruit growers in that section of the
state.
Fined For Smoking.
Carl Stevenson, who was a witness
recently in the United States Circuit
Court at Little Rock in the suit of
John Henderson against Silar Stev
enson and Ed Griffith, was fined $50
and costs for contempt of court. The
contempt of Stevenson consisted in
his smoking in the court room while
the court was in session. After Stev
enson had testified he returned to
his seat and began smoking. Judge
Trieber called Stevenson to the bench
and fined him $50 and costs, and ord
ered him committed to jail until he
paid. He was committed. He was
later released on an order signed by
the United States marshal, which
stated that the fine and costs had been
paid.
Strawberries in Demand.
Judsonia, always a good town,
jumps to the center of the stage for
a period each year, and she has just
made her jump, for this is her usual
season for making it. The strawber
ry trade has opened and within a
short time this little city wrill be load
ing from ten to twelve care per day.
The town now swarms with buyers,
who pay cash for the berries as soon
as they are offered at the station.
Three cars per day loaded and sold
on the track is the record thus far.
One car was recently sold for $4,300
and another for nearly $3,000.
Accidentally Shot.
John Boyd, a farmer, residing near
Emmet, was shot in the leg just above
the knee, as the result of an effort
on his part to stop a duel that was
about to take place between two ne
groes. The wounded man was driving
to Wallaceburg, when he encountered
the two darkies in the act of firing
at each other. He commanded them
to drop their guns, when one of them
turned and fired. When they noticed
that the shot had taken effect, both
of the negroes fled, and up to the
ptesent time neither has been appre
hended.
Will Start Stock Farm.
A corporation composed of fifteen
members, citizens of Camden, with
W K. Ramsey, president; Colin Dews,
secertary, and J. H. Goodgame, treas
urer, recently purchased an imported
■''•year-old German coach stallion for
$3,000 of j. Crouch & Son of Lafay
ette. Ind. It is the purpose to extend
the organization aud increase the
capital stock sufficiently to purchase
a suitable farm, which will be stocked
w'th choice horses and cattle for
breeding purposes.
Warehouse at Camden.
the Ouachita County Farmers’ TJn
i'm at. its last meeting definitely de
termined to build a cotton warehouse
at Camden. A meeting of the stock
holders lias been tailed for the pur
pose of electing a Board of Directors
and a Building Committee. The ware
house will probably be located near
the compress. The Camden Board of
Trade is contributing handsomely to
tbe project.
Fruit Killed by Cold.
The late cold spells have killed
a (|ut all the peaches and has dam
■'Sed apples and berries to a great
extent in the vicinity of Mountain
0fne- Corn planted in March
proved a failure and will have to be
^planted.
Foreman Has New Bank.
t he Bank of Foreman, a new insti
ation, has been organized with Car
Shuman, president, and H. M. Me
• ,'er’ eashier. The bank has a pair
P capital of $10,000, and will begii
usiness as soon as supplies can lit
retained.
Another Shooting Scrape.
Sam Henderson and Will Taylor be
]‘tI'1- involved in a difficulty recent
sat/fai' ^arTley and Henderson io
chfl t0 have shot Taylor with a Win
La r’ the bal1 suing through both
egs below the hips.
Heavy Berry Shipment.
While the weather has been very
unfavorable for ripening the straw
berry crop in Crawford county, yet
25 cars have been shipper! from Van
Buren alone, although the heavy move
ment of the crop will not begin much
before May 1, about the usual time,
that being shipped now being the
result of the extreme warm weather
during the month of March. Notwith
standing the many reports to the con
trary, the berries in this county were
not injured by the late frosts, and
with favorable weather the crop will
be as large as usual. The vines are
heavily fruited and owing to the cool,
cloudy weather no reports of rotting
have been received. The berries,
on the other hand, are solid, up to
the standard in size and color and
are carrying even to the fartherest
markets better than ever before, and
with much less refrigeration.
Companies Would Return.
A number of applications have been
received by Insurance Commissioner
A. E. Moore, for blanks to be used by
insurance companies in applying for
permission to do business in the
state. Among the companies are
Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, of
Hartford, Conn., Jefferson Fire Insur
ance Company, of Philadelphia; St.
Paul Fire and Marine of St. Paul,
Minn., and the New York, North Bri
tish and Mercantile Fire Insurance
Compnaies.
Beautiful Pearl Found.
One of the most beautiful, as wrel/
as being one of the most valuable,
pearls ever taken from an Arkansas
stream was brought to Little Rock
recently. It was found near Cotter,
on White river. It is a round pearl,
pure white, lustrous and without a
flaw and weighs 40 grains. The own
ers brought it to the city to find a
buyer, and finally sold it to Chas.
S. Stifft for $1,000.
City Marshal Killed.
City Marshal J. F. Hart of Arka
delphia was accidentally killed recent
ly by a shot from his own revolver.
He went into the express office search
ing for contraband whiskey and when
he stooped over to inspect a jug his
revolver fell from the scabbard under
his shoulder and was discharged, the
bullet striking him squarely in the
breast.
Plan For New School.
At. a recent meeting of the Russell
ville School Board, Architect C. L.
Thompson of Little Rock was selected
to draw the plans and specifications
for the new high school that is to be
erected during the summer vacation.
It was also decided to advertise for
bids for the erection of the structure.
New Stock Company.
The Harris Lumber Company of
Junction City, has been organized
with a capital stock of $G,000, divided
into 60 shares of 100 each. The gen
eral business of the company is the
“manufacturing, buying and selling
of lumber and the buying and selling
of land and timber.”
Shooting Affray.
A difficulty occurred on the streets
of Jasper, between Roy Hudson and
Austin Harrison, two young men, sons
of well-known families, in which both
were seriously w'ounded, Hudson be
ing shot in the abdomen and Harri
son sustaining serious injuries on the
face and head.
Skull Fractured By Blow.
Arthur Elder, IV years old, living
near Star City, died recently from
injuries which, it is alleged, were in
flicted by Hilly McClain, 1C years old.
McClain is said to have struck him
with a club, fracturing his skull.
Rich Vein of Ore.
The shaft on the Horner property
on Hall Mountain, Marion county, is
down 25 feet, and the ere becomes
richer the farther down the drill goes.
A round of shots recently threw' up
large chunks of rich ore.
Distillery Established.
A small distillery has been estab
lished at Rutherford, Independence
county. The plant has a daily capa
city of four bushels of mash or thir
teen gallons of liquor.
New Lumber Plant.
A large lumber plant has been es
tablished at Plainview. The mill wilt
have a capacity of 75,000 feet daily,
and will give employment t» more
than 100 hands.
Colonization Company Formed.
The Choctaw' Western Colonization
Company of Arkansas, with head
quarters at Hot Springs has been
formed. The capital stock of the
company is $44,000, of which $-1-..000
has beeu subscribed by the corpora
tors.
Will Bore For Oil.
A company is being formed at Mon
ticello to bore for oil. It is proposed
to raise $3,00C by the sale of shares
of the par value of $100. The exact
location of the well has not yet been
determined.
More Insurance Suits Filed.
Additional suits to the number of
seven have been filed by Prosecuting
Attorney Rhoten in the Circuit Court,
Second Division, against insurance
companies, either operating directly or
indirectly in the state o£ Arkansas for
alleged violations of anti trust statute.
A total of 114,000,000 is demanded.
The companies sued are: The T. and
C. Insurance Company of Dallas, Tex
as for $1,000,000. The Commonwealth
Insurance Company of Dallas, Texas
for $1,000,000. The Seaboard T ire and
Marine Insurance Company of Gal
veston for $0,000,000. In like manner
the Orient Insurance Company of
Hartford, Conn., is alleged to have
been the agent for the T. and C. In
surance Company of Dallas, and a
demand for $0,000,000 is made. The
Scottish Universal for $3,000,000. The
Franklin Insurance Company of
Wheeling, W. Va., for $1,000,000 and
the Fire Association of Philadelphia
for $3,000,000.
Spring Reunion of Scottish Rite.
The spring reunion of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite of the
Valley of Little Rock was held in Lit
tle Rock, beginning Monday morning
at 9 o’clock and closing Wednesday
afternoon. The sessions were held
in the Albert Pike Consistory. At
this meeting a class received the de
grees up to and including the thirty
second, which is the highest that can
be conferred by Masons to applicants.
The class which received the degrees
was organized by Class Director T. A.
Simms. The work of conferring the
degrees began at 10 o'clock. Monday
the fifteenth degree was reached,
Tuesday the twenty-ninth, and on Wed
nesday the thirty-second degree was
conferred. The Masons who partici
pated in the conferring of the degrees
reported to J. II. Fraser in the dress
ing room at the Consistory at least
15 minutes before the work began.
There was a large attendance of the
membership.
Insurance Commissioner's Report.
The annual report of the state in
surance commissioner, Avery E.
Moore, has just been published. The
report shows that during the year
190(i, there were 25 stock fire insur
ance companies doing business in the
State, nine mutual fire insurance com
panies, five farmers’ mutual aid as
sociations, 33 legal reserve life com
panies, 11 accident and miscellaneous
insurance companies and 26 fraternal
insurance societies. The experience
table of the fire insurance companies
shows the loss ratio for the companies
over the period of 26 years to be 58.8
per centum and the expense ratio to
be estimated at 37 per centum.
Cold Weather Damages Crops.
The cold winds and the rain that
lias been sweeping over the state for
the past week have had a ruinous ef
fect on the farming industries of the
western section. The fruit has been
damaged, the corn that has been plow
ed over and worked out has been
killed for the most part and from pres
' ent appearances the wheat and oat
crop will be a failure this year. The
cotton crop will have to be replanted
altogether. The strawberries are rip
ening fast, however, and there is an
unusually large supply this year.
New Railroad Incorporated.
The State Board of Railroad Incor
poration met recently and examined
and approved the articles of incorpo
i ration and granted a charter to the
I Antoine Valley Railroad. The road
is capitalized at $150,000, divided into
1,500 shares of $100 each. The road,
which will lay entirely within Clark
county, will extend frori Graysonia,
situated on the Gurdon and Fort
Smith Railroad, to Arkadelphia, a dis
tance of about 27 miles. The corpor
ation has a 15-year franchise.
Corporation Affairs.
The White River Zinc and Lead
Company have filed articles of incor
poration and agreement in the office of
secretary of the state showing a capital
stock of $300,000, of wbich $3,000 has
been subscribed by the corporators.
The stock is divided into 12,000 shares
of $25 each. The headquarters of the
j concern will be at Yellvllle.
Capitalists at Pike City.
Several Eastern capitalists have
been prospecting in the vicinity of
Pike City with the view of selecting a
point at which to bore for oil. They
are satisfied that oil in paying quanti
ties can be procured at a depth of less
than 1,000 feet.
Instantly Ki led.
An altercation occurred between Bill
Taylor and J. Stephens at Stephens'
nill just east of Giannis, over some
emarks made about Stephens’ wife
Dy Taylor and Stephens shot Taylor
vith a winchester rifile, killing him
nstantly.
Canning Company Organized.
A company has been organized for
the purpose, of estat lisuing a can
ning factory at Markley. The factory
will have a capacity of 10,000 cans
daily and will be in operation by the
first of August.
Legislative
a ^
Proceedings J
THE SENATE.
A resolution was introduced in the
Senate Monday by Senators Tindall and
Montgomery, to extend the session until
June 10. So action was taken on this
resolution.
The reform school appropriation meas
ure. carrying $32.sno, was called up for
final passage by Senator ltector. The bill
had previously been considered in Com
mittee of the Whole and favorably recom
mended with an amendment by Senator
Rowland, giving the penitentiary physi
cian $50 a month to attend the inmates
of the reform school. The bill passed with
only one dissenting vote.
The Patterson !> 111 nsk*ng for $35,000
for the paymeut of the state guard, which
was defeated and reconsidered last week
was passed with only seven dissenting
votes.
The Cloud measure repealing the Lee
Prohibition Act of 1007 was also passed.
The bill regulating poll tax receipts
was passed. Coder the measure the
sheriff or collector cannot take out a bun
dle of the receipts, but must have au or
der for every receipt that is issued. The
idea of the bill is to prevent certain coun
ty officials from using the poll tax receipts
for the purpose of carrying elections.
The appropriation bill as passed by tin*
Senate carries nearly half a million dol
lars divided among the following depart
ments; Legislative. $150,000; judicial.
$192,100; executive. $44,000; mainten
ance and repair of state house, and state
departments, $133,300; governor’s office,
$8,000: office of secretary of state. $8.
07- : attorney general’s office. $5,850: au
ditor’s office. $14.-07 ; treasurer’s office.
$11,074; land commissioner's office. $12.
772 ; superintendent of public instruc
tion’s office, $0,172; office of commis
sioners of mines, manufacturers and agri
culture. $5,000: clerk of Supreme Court’s
office, $0,025 ; railroad commissioners, $22,
187 ; janitors wages. $3,720.
The Rowell bill prohibiting any railroad
In the state from working its telegraph
operators for more than eight hours in
a shift was passed by unanimous vote in
t lie Senate Tuesday* Several hundred
telegrams from different parts of the state
Were received in favor of the bill.
The Cravens measure, making it a mis
demt'nnor for an individual or public body
to spend more money than was appropriat
ed by law for the purpose was read a
third time and passed with only two dis
senting votes. The bill is aimed at the
university trustees, and others who have
been presenting deficiency bills at every
session of the legislature.
Senator Goodwin introduced a bill allow
ing the school commissioners to increase
the school fund*; of the stare for the put
pose of securing additional funds for the
erection of school houses.
1 ne nppivprmuou oil tor hr*
Hospital for Nervous Diseases. carrying
more than $400,000, was considered in
Committee of the Whole ami passed by
the Senate without a change in exa-.•fly
35 minutes Wednesday. This is the quick
est action that has ever been taken on an
appropriation bill of this magnitude in ihe
present session.
The Rowland resolution which authorizes
the attorney general to bring suit against
the railroads in the stare to recover $3<hi.
000 in taxes that have been due since
ISsT. was passed by a unanimous vote.
The Senate killed the Goodwin bill which
has for its object the investment of the
school funds of the state by the State
Board of School Commissioners. At pres
ent all of the school funds of the state are
invested in Arkansas bonds that are draw
ing interest at the rate of •-> per cent, and
the Goodwin measure is to provide for the
investment of tlie funds in the various
school districts of the state at the rate
of 5 per cent, the money to be u*ed for
building purposes. The bill was passed in
the early part of the session.
The bill by Senator Patterson, allowing
the shooting of ducks and snipe at an
times in the year was passed by a vote of
It* to 7.
New bills introduced were :
By Senator Toney, requiring water com
panies to comply with tin? provisions of
their contracts and „to pay all damages
caused by the violation of the same.
By Senator Cloud, giving to traction en
gines the same rights on the roads of the
state that automobiles have, providing that
the latter repair all bridges that are
broken.
By Senator Bush, giving to the railroad
commission power to fix rates on iuterur
bau trains.
The Senate consumed nearly all of Thurs
day in the consideration and disposal of
local bills. it refused to recede from its
amendment to the Reform School bill re
quiring the penitentiary physician to
serve as physician at the Re
form School, and amended the bill pro
viding for the printing of the Supreme
Court reports by authorizing tlie board to
receive bids from publishers outside the
state ami to award the contract to the
lowest bidder irrespective of locality.
The twily hill of general character intro
duced in the Senate was presented by Sen
at or DeRosltt. providing for the building
of a macadamized road from Fort .Smith
through the counties of Sebastian, craw
ford. Franklin. Johnson. Pope, Conway.
Faulkner. Pulaski. I*onoke. Prairie. .Mon
roe, St. Francis and Crittenden counties to
a point on the Mississippi river opposite
Memphis. The bill appropriates uooo
for the survey and location of the road
and provides for the creation of a boaid
of commissioners to look after its construc
tion.
Senator McKnlght presided over the de
liberations of the Senate Friday.
The Senate Friday passed the Brown
ing bill appropriating $50,000 for the re
printing of the Supreme Court reports,
the Mouse Dill by Mr. Leigh, regulating
the employment of child labor, and House
bill by Mr. Kizzie, increasing the pay of
judge* and clerks of elections from $1
to *1.50 per day. t j_#
Mouse bill by Mr. Barker, regulating
the practice of suggestive therapeutics and
magnetic healing, also encountered Sena
tor WUigo’s opposition. Me spoke against
the measure, atempted to have it tabled
and Inter moved to indefinitely postpone
its further consideration, but failed in both
Instances. The bill was accorded a first
reading, but a motion to suspend the
rules and have it read a second time was
lost. A number of Mouse local bills were
passed and others advanced in tbe stage
of Legislation.
New bill in Senate: By Senator Gross,
by request, for the relief of W. H. Ma.xey
of Crawford county, providing for an ap
propriation of $50 to reimburse him for
the purchase of a tract of land belonging
to the United States, but which was sold
to him by the state. Read twice and re
ferred to the Judiciary Committee.
While the clerk was calling the roll on
a Senate bill next up Wednesday the House
was disturbed by a second personal con
flict of the session. In this instance Mr.
Foster of Cleveland was again one of the
belligerents, and Mr. Caraway, represen
tative of the Democrat in the Mouse, was
the other. Members of the House inter
vened as soon as possible, and the tight
was stopped. Speaker JJamiter an
nounced that gentlemen with fighting
proclivities should be removed from the
room, but the stir soon subsided aud the
participants were brought to peace. The
trouble is believed to have grown out of
an interview concerning the difficulty be
tween Mr. Foster and Mr. Quinn on
Tuesday.
THE HOUSE
The namlter-Jaokson bill, which In
creases the power of county school super
intendents and gives them the author
ity formerly vested in county examiners,
passed the House Saturday morning by
a liberal majority. Under the provisions
of the bill no county need adopt the new
method unless a majority of the electors
of the county shall so choose at the next
general elecUu". Ity agreement, the greater
part of the day was devoted to the pas
sage or advancement of local measures,
these having been delayed during the week
for general appropriation bills.
Now hills introduced In the House were:
Hy Mr. Skaggs, abolishing the grand
jury system throughout the whole of the
state.
Iiy Mr. Davis Of Clark, prohibiting city
ordinances from becoming effective sooner
than thirty days after passage, and then
only after having been submitted to the
people for approval.
Ity Mr. Newton, increasing the per diem
of jurors in attendance on circuit courts
to $3.00 per day.
itv Mr. Carlton, requiring assessors to
make separate lists of the schedules
of property and persons assessed and sub
mit it to the auditor.
The House Monday trimmed the peri
tentiary appropriation bill about $100,000
and disposed of another of these very iin
portant measures when it gave its final
approval to the bill for .he support and
maintenance of The Iieaf Mute Institute
The measure had been gone over several
times in the House Committee of the
Whole, and in the final action there was
no discussion of the bill.
A bill asking for an appropriation of
$10,000 for the support of the Eureka
Normal School was taken up and saved
from a final sacrifice by deferring action.
In Committee of the Whole the House
recommended that it do not pass.
New hills in the House were:
Ily Mr. Dul.aney of the House Com
mittee on Charities, the regular appropria
tion bill for the support and mainten
ance of the Confederate Home in the sum
of about $57,000.
Hy Mr. Stevens of the Ways and Means
Committee, amending the inheritance tax
law and providing that certain large es
tates shall not he divided until the tax
is settled.
'I'lte entire afternoon session in the
House Tuesday was devoted to the Amis
insurance bill, under the provisions of
which the life insurance companies doing
business In the state were to have been
required to Invest 75 per cent of the re
serve held for policy-holders in this state
in investments-within the state, TVie bill
had passed the Senate and was up for
a final test in the House. it failed to
pass, the vote being 54 to 35.
Tlte following hills were passed :
Hy Mr. McCollum, chairman of the
Hoads and Highways Committee, an a<'t
requiring corporations and persons to give
the names of such persons in their em
ploy as are subject to road tax.
By Mr. Stirling, requiring the railroads
to maintain track scales at every point
in the state where more than 100 cars
of freight are handled in any one year,
and prove weights when demanded to do
By Mr. r.idham. prohibiting any persons
from drawing a pistol or weapon on an
other, or threatening or intimidating an
other. making the penalty a tine of from
$500 to $1,000 and one year in the peni
tentiary.
day Wednesday in Committee of the Whole
passing on tbe various items of the blind
school appropriation bill. The salary of
the superintendent was reduced from the
committee recommendation of 2<a> per
annum to $2,800. Other items passed with
hut slight changes, anti as a whole the
bill was reduced but slightly from the
recommendations made by the Joint Chari
ties Committee.
Among the bills passed ar this session j
was one by Mr Carl I.ee. making it unlaw
ful to permit the running at large of stock
and giving persons taking up such stock
.">0 cents for having taken it up and lt>
cents per dav for feeding same. And one
in- Mr .Welch, regulating the practice of
peddling and requiring that peddlers in
the counties shall have a county license.
The House Thursday passed the bill
which seeks to preserve the sixty acres
of land surrounding the new state eapftol.
A bill recognizing and regulating sug
gestive therapeutics as a healing medium
passed the House at the morning session.
I nder the provisions of the hill "absent"
treatment can be given only by those who
have graduated in its schools.
The salary of the superintendent of the
lilind Institute, which had been reduced
to $2.sun in House Committee of the Whole
Wednesday was Thursday restored to
$2.00(1. which is the sunt paid the super
intendent of tlie Deaf Mute Institute.
other hills passed at this session were:
Itv Mr. Anderson, regulating the auction
business and hours in which auctions stall
bo held.
liy Mr. Berk requiring owners of addi
tion's to cities to tile their plats with the
county clerk before disposing of lots.
By "Mr. Stevens of the Ways and Means
Committed, amending the inheritance tax
law and raising the tax on large estates.
A protest from the Arkansas Federa
tion of Woman's Clubs, in session at For
rest City, against the proposed demolition
of the old state eapitol building and ask
ing the Legislature to pass a law that will
protect the building to future posterity,
was read Friday morning.
More than $100,000 was stricken from
the state university appropriation biTl Fri
day by the House in Committee of the
Whole before that body had passed ou a
dozen items. The indications point to a
continued clipping or' the items until the
appropriation is reduced one third from
rite form in which it had passed the Sen
ate.
The university deficiency hill was de
clared passed at tlf Friday morning ses
sion. although it had not received the sup
port of two-thirds of the membership of
ihe body. Speaker Hamiter ruled that a
majority could pass the Hill, this ruling
was challenged by Mr. Killough, who served
notice that he would later ask for a defi
nite ruling < a the question
The Blind Institute bill has been about
completed in the House and will go to
the Senate within a very short time for
consideration there.
A bill was introduced by Mr. Killough
which repeals that part of the 190$ sta
tures authorizing the eapitol commission to
dispose of the property of the old state
eapitol.
A till I was introduced in the House Fri
day repealing that section of the look
law. which authorizes the sale of the old
qate eapitol grounds and building. The
hill was presented by Mr. Killough. The
defeat of the Quinn hill, which sought
io save the properly by turning it over
lo Hie Arkansas Historical Society, was
Interpreted by many to mean that the old
i apitol grounds would he sacrificed lo
sale, lint this idea is combated by the
wcirm reception the Killough bill received.
•The people do not want tbe property
disposed or." said Mr. Killough. "hut they
are not ready yet to turn it over to any
society. Just so we protect the property
from ’sale within the next two years is
all that is asked. In that time there will
have developed a well defined idea as to
how the property should he kept.”
The Senate Friday killed the Owens seg
regation bill before the reading of the title
had been eomnleted. The measure was
rolled up by Senator Btndall for the very
purpose of exposing it to a massacre, and
the secretary had no sooner read the num
ber of the bill than Senator Harrison
moved that the measure lie tallied. Some
of the senators began protesting against
tills procedure, hut the chair held that a
motion to table was not debatable. Oa
roll call the motion of the senator frftia
Mississippi prevailed by two votes.
legislative notes.
John Morgan, chairman of the legisia*
five committee of the Arkansas federation
of labor. Is in Little flock at the head of a
delegation of coal miners to tight the coal
screening bill passed by the Senate Insr
week. lie gave out the following state
ment today :
ft the bill Is passed, more than 4000
miners in this state will go out on a strike.
More than that, they will remain ou strike
until contracts can be made with the oper
ators just exactly opposite to this law. We
want just exactly what we have. We de
sire no change. We want the miner to
g“t pay for his work. lie digs the coal.
He should lie paid for that. Under the
screen law all that goes through v'h' screen
is not paid for. but the operator sells this
coal at a good price and there is no rea
son why the man who digs it should not
receive pay for it. And when we strike
it will be one to be remembered. We have
settled this tiling by legislation. We made
our contracts with the understanding that'
they were to stand if the supreme court did
not uphold the anti-screen or mine-run law.
We went to work at Spadrtt. tUe largest
coal ruining camp in Arkansas, after u
settlement under arbitration. We will tie
backed by the United mine workers of
America. We will light the battle to the
bitter end and we shall win. I am not
saying this to influence action on this
bill, for I know that can not be done. The
Arkansas house of representatives are men
who can not be influenced by any such
methods. But since I have been asked
as to the effect the passage of the bill
would have on us. 1 am telling you just
what we mean. We want fair play. We
want the law left just exactly as it is.”
The two-cent rate as applied to the
Memphis gateway is giving residents of east
urn Arkansas much alarm. Following the
fact that the Cotton Belt Itad taken ad
vantage of the fact that its Texarkana
station is just across the state line and
in Texas, lias refused to apply the two
rent fare, it Is feared that after the Leg
islature has adjourned every road to the
Fast that, goes through the .Memphis gate
way will consider Memphis the destina
tion, instead of Bridge Junction, to which
tickets have been formerly sold, and re
rpiire a three-rent fare. Under the con
tracts the railroads hold with the bridge
corporation the fare for crossing the bridge
is i’o cents, and tbe bridge corporation
collects it, making the actual destination
at Bridge Junction as far as railroad fare
is concerned. But baggage is checked
rhrough to the Memphis depots, or on fur
ther as the ticket may read. An investi
gation of the probable result is to be
made, and if it is believed that the rail
roads will have an advantage ar the Mem
phis gateway, a bill is to be drafted and
presented which will require a station at
Litis end of the bridge, so that the Arkan
sas passenger tariff may be demanded at
ienst to that point.
ters ot' difference between the Lnited State*
and this state arising out ot the swamp
land grant of 1850. and other grants,
which was ratified by concurrent resolu
tions March 10. 1897, there was due the
United States the sum of $103,915.95 from
the state. There not being this sum in the
state treasury to the credit of the general
revenue fund, in order to raise the sum.
by a t of tite General Assembly approved
June 1, 1S97. Governor Jones as governor
of the state executed his notes, one to the
international Improvement Fund, and one
to the Swamp Land Fund for this sum.
and the money was paid into the United
States treasury from these funds settling
the difference between the United States
and the state. The situation has been
that these notes have been in the treas
ury since and the bill by the Ways and
M-’ans Committee in the House Wednesday
was introduced that the state might pay
the sum from these fuuds into the sink
ing fund, cancelling the notes. Under the
bl’.I the levy for the sinking fund is to
put one-eighth of a mill for the four
years.
in speaking of an extension of the Legis
lature. Senator Oldham said :
"I will say that the Joint Committee on
Capitol have not considered the matter of
an extension of the present session. f
want it understood that the committ""
lias not given the matter a thought, and
at the present time we do not know
whether an extension would he necessary.
I personally would favor the taking of
a recess for about '-'if days at the end of
the session. One of the best lawyers in
tlie state has declared that Governor
Moore will hold office until the regular
governor. John Little, returns, other good
and able lawyers, on the other hand, hold
that tlie term of John Moore in the exe
cutive's office expires at the same time
that his tenure as president of the Spnnte
does. Iu tiiat case, in order to be on
the safe side, it would be a good idea to
lake the recess and give Acting Governor
Moore a chance to sign all of the mea
sures that have passed tin* Assembly. If
we took a recess, there would be no doubt
of the legality of the acts, for John Moore
would still be president of the Senate.”
Declaring that if appropriation meas
ures were not curtailed tlie state of Arkan
sas would face a deficit, and be issuing
warrants in lieu of . ash for its obliga
tions. Messrs. Kilhmgh. McCollum and oth
ers wagged a relentless fight throughout
the major part of the day in the House
Friday against the University of Arkan
sas deficiency appropriation lull. Almost
defeated in the closing minutes of the ses
sion. and realizing that the majority favor
ed the passage of the bill, an endeavor
was made to have art amendment tacked
oil which would nrnhiblt the beneficiaries
in the bill from drawing the money until
after August i. "We will be on a scrip
basis bv the first of June." said Mr. ICil
lough. "if we do not curtail these measures.
There is now but $150,000 in the treasury.
This bill covers an appropriation of $60
000, that will be drawn the minute it b
comes a law. With the present running
expenses the full supply of cash will be
exhausted and warrants will have to go
out--something that it has been manv a
day since Arkansas has been forced to ao.”
If any one had doubted that the final
rush was on In the Legislature, he would
have been convinced of the fact if he had
hem in the Senate chamber Monday after
noon. Two appropriation bills of great
magnitude were passed, a resolution was
introduced to extend the sessiou until
June 10. and. to cap the climax, when
the upper house adjourned at 5 o'clock
it was with the understanding that the
Senate would reconvene again at 8 :30 lu
the morning, an hour earlier than usual.
A lady who sat in the line of the ink
well that was aimed at Mr. Qutpn 'Dues
ilay by Mr. Foster iu the Ilottsq fracus
was probably the greatest sufferer from
the incident. A new Faster hat was found
to have been spattered with the black fluid.
As she withdrew from the crowd in the
excitement a senator standing n-ar sug
gested that Messrs. Foster and Quinn
should have their heads bumped together.
"And 1'<1 like to have the job. too," the
lady added as site passed out.
Senator Montgomery lias proposed a reso
lution which lie will probably introduce
Monday extending the legislative session
until June 1. or fifteen days in addition
to the first extension. The senator from
Lafayette and several of his colleagues are
>f the opiuhm that the extension is absty
lutefy necessary on account of the unfin
ished condition of the several appropria
tion bills and the state capital investiga
tion. The fate of the resolution is a matter
of considerable doubt. _
House Iiiil No. 331. by Mr. Davis of De
sha. prohibiting hunting or trapping by
residents of Desha county, except by the
procuring of license front the county clerk,
was taken up ou third reading in the
Senate Friday. The bill permits each resi
d mt of the county having a license to In
vite not more than three non-residents t*
hunt or trap and does not preclude a per
son from hunting on his own premise*.
The bill passed by a vote of 14 ayes to*'
1.2 noes.