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Vol. 3, No. 44.
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday October 30, 1903.
$1 Per Annum
mNY IMMIGRANTS
■nrly a Million Foreigners Came
to the United States in
the Past Year.
Vi hington, Oct. 24.—The nn
ortof Commissioner Frank
1 s' , ut of the bureau of immi
gs i ; : ows a large increase of
immigration over that of
i ■■ preceding year, the aggregate
for the fiscal year 1903 being 857,
056, an excess over that of last
■ ear of 208,303, or 32 per cent.
The statistics show an increase
i i immigration from all foreign
sources, suggesting as the chief
ause the influx of aliens into the
United States during the year the
inducements offered to settlers here
rather than any special cause of
discontent in their own countries.
Of the total steerage immigration,
there came from Europe 814,557:
from Asia, 29,966, and from all
other sources 12,573. If to these 1
figures are added those represent
ing the total arrivals of alien cabin i
passengers, 64,269, the result
will show that the total immigra
te! of aliens to the United States
mring the year aggregated 921,
315,. or 105,083 more than the
greatest number ever reported for
any one year.
The greatest number of immi- j
grants, 230,622, came from Italy,
an increase of 52.247 over la*t
year, while Austria-Hungary fur
nished 206,011, an increase of 34,
902; Russia, 136,093, an increase
of 2V,746; Germany, 4(>,vS6,an in-,
r« ase of 17,702; Sweden, 46,92S,
in increase of 15,134; Ireland, 35,
. an me'-ease of 6,172, and Eng-1
Hi d. 26.219, an increase of 12,- t
• 11. Ul' the Oriental countries, da- i
pan was foremost, with 19,968, an ;
increase of 5,696, while China
contributed 2,209, an increase of
560 over last year.
Of the total number of steerage j
aliens, 613,146 were males and
243,900 females, of whom 102,431
were less that 14 years of age.
There were of these 3,431 who
could read, but could not write.
and 185,667 who could neither read
nor write, leaving a balance able
to both read and write of 668,038.
The total amount of money brought
by them into the United States
was $16,117,518.
Exclusive of those denied ad
mission at the land boundaries of
the United States, 8,769 alien im
migrants were rejected for various
causes, the number of rejections
being nearly double those of the
preceding year. Of these, 5,.v21
were paupers, 774 were alHicted
with diseases and 1,086 were con
tract laborers.
Money For The State Guard,
Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 20.
Capt. E. B. Jett, disbursing olhcer
T>f the Arkansas State Guard, has
been notified that $15,000 is on de
posit in the Exchange National
Bank in this city for the purpose
of paying the service, subsistence
and all other expenses of the re
cent State encampment at Hot
Springs. He has received only
the check book for the subsistence,
however, but has been advised
that the other check books were
mailed from the war department
last Saturday and should be here
by this time. Capt. Jett will make
the round of t he State, visiting the
towns where there are companies
of the guard in order to pay them.
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Get a Kimball
Kimball organs are acknowledg
ed to be the best on the market.
You can buy one by paying a
small amount down and $5 per
month, or one-third down and
balanc-* in six months. See O. F.
Craig, agent.
Tit For Tat.
During his speech at Forrest
City, Gov. Davis accused Judge
Wood of having appointed one ne
gro jury commissioner out of the
three at each time when he was
circuit judge seventeen years ago.
.Judge Wood acknowledged it, and
gave a perfectly candid explana
tion. it being a Democratic expedi
ent at that time to oust the Repub
lican carpet baggers. Judge Wood
came back at the governor by read
inga telegram In1 had just received,
informing him that (tov. Davis had
appointed a negro as an election
icommissioner in Pulaski county,
and Judge, Wood also stated that
I Gov. Davis had appointed a negro
notary public.
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Hearst’s Southern Trip.
Politicians in Washington have
pemi watching with very consider
able interest the visit of Hon. W.
R. Hearst to the south. The sig
nificance of that visit may be, in a
sense, magnified, for Washington
is prone to attribute political im
portance to every move which any
public man makes; but there are a
great many people who seem to
believe that Mr. Hearst s visit to
the south is only part of a well-de
fined plan to cultivate a friendship
which may materialize in the shape
of delegates to the next democrat
ic national convention. While of
course no such purpose app -ars on
the face of tilings, 1 is recent tour
of the territories and his trip
through the southern states are
regarded as having their chief in
spiration in the very natural pres
idential aspirations of the younj;
man who has achieved such nota
ble success in the creation of gr eat
newspapers in New York, Chi cage
•>nd San Francisco, which stam
pro- mi . ■ ■' • the i. forests o;
the democratic masses.
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Mr. and Mrs. 'I'. ,7. Raney went
clown to Newport on business Sat
urday.
Dr. \\ . J. Long of Hazel Grove
was looking after business in town
Monday.
Tom Carter of Newark is in the
city writing insurance.—Pocahon
tas News-Herald.
Many of the farmers are gather
ing their corn and the yield gener
ally is very satisfactory.
Attorney S. A. Moore was look
ing after business in circuit court
at Batesville the first of the week.
W. A. Edwards returned to Lit
tle Rock Tuesday, after spending
a few days here with friends and
relatives.
M. C. Blalock of Logan town
ship was in town Saturday and
called and deposited a guess for
oar prize sewing machine.
Misses Maud McDonald and Jes
sie Martin returned home Satur
day from a pleasant visit with Mrs.
Minnie fehofluer at Shotlner.
The Journal is going to give
some one a beautiful new sewing
machine for a Christmas present.
Better come in and take a chance
at it.
Cul. L. Pearce spent Sunday
with friends and relatives at Oil
Trough and reports everything
moving along nicely in that com
munity.
The Masons and Odd Fellows of
Oil Trough have just completed a
substantial new hall at that place,
the building being owned jointly
by the two Orders.
Frank Browning of Sulphur
Rock, who was charged with as
sault with intent to kill, was tried
in circuit court at Batesville last
Friday and acquitted. The alleged
attempt was made against ( larence
Vaughn a little over two years ago
at Sulphur Rock.
There is no place which offers
better inducements to the home
builder than does Independence
county. Our fertile soil, pure
water, clear atmosphere, mild cli
mate and cheap lands all unite to
make this an ideal country for
those desiring homes.
Cu!. L. Pearce left Tuesday for j
Jonesboro to attend the meeting!
of the I. (). O. F. grand lodge, be- \
ing a delegate from Oil Trough
Lodge No. 1.
W. M. MeMillin of Magncss
was transacting business in town
Monday and reports that he avi 11
probably move to Texas some time
in the near future.
A barn belonging to Mrs. W. J.
Freeze burned Saturday night a- i
bout nine o’clock. About bush
els of corn and half a ton of hay
were destroyed. The origin of;
the fire is unknown.
The busy season has come with
a rush and our merchants have a
bout all they can do to wait on
customers. Ten cent cotton has
stimulated all lines of business to a
most gratifying degree.
J. S. Crawford, a substantial
citizen and good farmer of White
River township, was transacting
business in town Saturday. Mr.
Crawford is being urged by his
friends to enter the race for rep
resentative, but has not yet fully
decided whether lie will do so or
not.
W. A. Rogers who lives over
n*'nr Oil Trough ownsayoung hen
which bids fair to break all records
in » gg production. She began her
career as an egg producer by lay
ing two eggs the firstday sheerer
laid, and followed up this remark
able record the next day by laying
two more. The eggs are nice, well
developed specimens and perfect
in every respect. The young hen
was raised this season by Mr. Rog
ers and is of ordinary stock, but
is very tame and gentle, and Mr.
Rogers is very proud of her.
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will
he pleased to learn that thcie is
at least one dreaded disease that j
science lias been able to cure in all j
stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's,
Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Ca’arth being a consti
tutional disease, requites a consti
tutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting di
rectly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the!
disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the con
stitution and assisting nature in
doing its work. The pioprietors
have so much faith in its curative
powers, that they offer one, Hun
dred Dollaia for any case that it
fails to cure. Send for list of tes
timonials.
Address. F, J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, sold by Druggist,
75c.Hall's Family Fills are the best
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human Nature.
An exchange contains the fol
lowing bit of philosophy: When
one hog gets an ear of corn all the
other hogs will trot along' behind
and beg, and arc ready for a bite,
but just let that, hog get his head
fast in a crack and every son of a
sow will jump on him and help
tear him to pieces. Just so it is
with men. As loug as one is pros
perous and has money, he can’t
keep friends off with a base bail
bat. The moment he is unfortu
nate and his wealth is gone, he is
I not only snubbed by his former
friends, but they begin to do him
all the harm possible. When a
man starts down grade the world
I steps aside and greases the track.
JUST A FEW FACTS
A Few Things of Interest About
the Great State We
Live in.
Since its admission into the Un
ion Arkansas has never ceased to
advance. She has never had a
boom; she has never had a setback.
Her natural resources are so great
and varied in their character, so
strong and far-reaching in their
attractiveness, that immigration
lias, through all the years, come
to her in a steady stream, and, like
her great rivers, it never flows
backward.
There is notan acre of her sur
face which does not, in its wild
state, produce something of value
which can be turned into cash on
the markets of the world.
Her agricultural lands cover an
area of more than twenty-five mil
lions of acres, only about one-third
of which are now under cultiva
tion.
Her lands which are especially
adapted to fruit growing comprise
nearly twenty million acres, and
not one-twentieth are now utilized
for that purpose.
More than seven million acres
contain valuable minerals, almost
entirely undeveloped, and much
of it never having been prospected.
In a coal field underlying nearly
five million acres and yealding a
quality of smokeless coal generally
considered equal, and by some su
perior, to Pennsylvania hard coal,
hardly a score of mines are opera
ted.
Her timber land originally cov
ered almost the entire thirty-three
million acres comprising the State,
and there is enough merchantable
timber now standing, which, if
manufactured into lumber and sold
at market price, would produce
funds sufficient to buy and pay for
all the farming land in our sister
State of Kansas at assessed valua
tion.
Four million acres contain valu
able architectural stone and clays,
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Sewing__
Machine
IN THE WORLD.
Made in Vibrator and Rotary Shuttle Styles
1000 AGENTS WANTED.
SALARY OR COMMISSION.
Write for Terms j address,
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sit EB il’IBESV LITTLE. ROCK,
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registered
Walkover Mens Shoes
/ Sold Only By
FRED. D. WHITING,
11 Newark, = Arkansas.
Badly
Shattered Nerves
and Weak Heart.
Too Nervous to Sleep
or Rest.
Dr.Miles’ Heart Cure and
Nervine Cured Me.
A shattered nervous system nearly always
leads to some affection of the heart, espec
ially where the p tient’s heart is weak from
hereditary or other causes. Dr. Miles' Heart
Cure is not only a great heart regulator, but
it is a blood tonic which speedily corrects
and regulates the heart’s action, enriches the
blood and improves the circulation. It will
build you up just as it did Mr. Crawford
whose letter follows, and greatly improve
your general health:
“I have been so greatly benefited by Dr.
Miles’ Nervine and Heart Cure that I freely
recommend them as the best remedies for
the diseases they are recommended to cure.
When I began taking these medicines I
•Weighed scarcely 140 pounds, my nerves
were badly shattered ana my heart troubled
me a great deal. 1 had pain in my left arm
and r.noulder, had difficulty in sleeping cn
mv left side, had freuuent smothering spells
and my heart would flutter and palpitate.
I could eat scarcely any kind of fooa without
suffering great distress, and was so restless
and nervous that 1 slept little nightorday.
Now I am never bothered with my heart,
my nerves are steady as a die, I sleep well,
eat well and weigh 163 pounds. 1 am happy
now und am trying toniake back the money
I spent for doctors who did me no good
while I was ill.”—T. R. Crawford, Center,
Texas.
All druggists sell and guarantee first bot
tle I>r. Miles' Remedies. Send for free book
on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address
Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Lid.