The Newark Journal.
published In The Famous Big Bottom Country, where Alfalfa is King.
$1 Per Annum.
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, June 16, 1605.
Vol. 5. No. 25.
All Printed
At Home.
Ail Printed
At Home.
LAND LOSSES IN THE
FAR EASTERN WAR
The Japanese, Everywhere The At
tacking Force, Have Made a
Remarkable Showing.
14,050 2:5.
15,44* 34}
100.00**
10.150 5.S
7,000 14.
Brigadier General Tasker II.
Bliss of the general stall of the
United States army has compiled
a table of the casualities in the
Russian and in the Japanese ar
mies since the beginning of the
present war. The operations pre
ceding Lio-Yang were relatively
unimportant except the battle of
Raiding, in which 00,00o Japanese
are reported engaging 25,00** Rus
sians with a loss of 25 per cent
against a Russian loss of s per
cent. But in the five great battles
commencing with Lio-Yang the
forces engaged, the losses, and the
per centage of losses on each side
are given as follows:
Russians
Lngaged. Losses. P.C.
Lio-Yang ... 8,640 5.4
Sha River ... 1 so.ooo 20,250 16}
Sandapu.05,0'*0
Port A rthur.. 45,000
Mukden.. . .400,000
Japanese—
Lngaged. Losses. P.C.
Lio-Yang.. 17o,00o 11,**33 6.40
Sha River . . 1 75.OO0
Sandapu .... 50,000
Pt. Arthur. . 106,00** 45,156 42.<1
Mukden .....500,00*» n<>,ooo 12.
This table, of course, combines
the losses in all ways, and is for
only live battles. Reuters, the
principal European telegraph
agency, classifies tin* losses in all
land engagements since the war
begun as follows:
Russians
Killed.MO,00**
Wounded.... 165 ******
••Captured.5* *,000
The same authority
number of men in both nations
under arms because of the war as:
Russia, 800,000; Japan 1,200,0**0.
By an inspection of the table
prepared by General Bliss it will
Ik* seen that the proportion of the
loss is much heavier for the Rus
sians in each engagement except
Liao-Yang, where it is slightly
less, and Port Arthur, where the
excess of loss for the Japanese is
large, but not nearly so large as
would be expected. The percent
age of loss of the Russians in these
live battles is a trifle under 2<* |>er
cent, and for the Japanese less
than 14 per cent. As the latter
everywhere were the attacking
force tltifcbiML a remarkable show
Japanese
75,Ooo;
125,000 j
l*),00t*
gives the 1
thyhp*
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STRAYED.
Strayed from tin* Med Ruther
ford farm, one bay mare with a
sorrel mare mule colt. Mare is
about eleven years old, branded
with figure “7'' on left shoulder;
also one small light gray mare 7
years old. Strayed on or about
the 1st of June. Anyone know
ing the whereabouts of said stock
will please write me at Rutherford
post office and get reward.
J. F. Vor.Mi.
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STABBED HIMSELF.
Tige Davis, a young farmer liv
ing six miles north of Ilazen was
found in the barn of his brother
about two miles from his home
Tuesday morning in an uncon-j
scions condition from loss of blood !
caused by self-inflicted wounds
from a pocket knife. Young
Davis was found only after an all
night’s search by relatives and
friends, lie having lest his home
Monday morning, as usual, to
plow in the field. Not having re
turned for dinner at noon, a search
was instituted for him, which re
sulted in finding him as indicated,
after over sixteen hours’ hunt.
The man’s knife was in his hand
at the time he was found.
RE-UNION TRAIN WRECKED
Twenty-Nine Arkansans Injured and
One Killed in Wreck at Gol
den Gate, 111., Tuesday.
Three persons were killed ami
29 injured in the wreck of an east
bound passenger train on the
Southern Railway at Golden Gate,
III., Tuesday.
The train was a “Cotton Belt,"
special carrying Confederate vet
erans to the re-union at Louisville,
Ivy. While running at a speed of
,}<» miles an hour the engine struck
a spread rail on a trestle 20 feet
high and the engine and four
coaches were overturned and fell
to the bottom of the ravine. The
engine turned completely over, kill
ing the engineer and fireman.
One of the persons killed, d. J.
I'hies was an Arkansan, and the
29 injured were all Arkansans, but
none of them were from this im
mediate section. Several Jones
boro and Paragouhl people are
among the injured. J. J. 1'hles
who was killed was a merchant at
Greenwav, Clay county.
NEW PRESIDENT
FOR UNIVERSITY.
At a meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the University of Ark
ansas held at Fayetteville Tuesday,
Judge John X. Tillman was elect
ed president of the university, to
succeed Dr. Henry S. Hartzog.
The selection came as a great
surprise. It was known that oth
ers besides President Ilart/.og had
been spoken of for the place, but
the public was not aware of the
probability that Judge Tillman
would be the board’s choice.
Judge Tillman is a graduate of
the university and a resident of
Fayetteville. He is widely known
as a jurist and stands high also as
a citizen.
The retiring president, I)r.
Hartzog, came to the U. of A.
from South Carolina a few years
ago, and, under his administration,
the affairs of the university have
prospered splendidly, the enroll
ment now being the largest in the
history of the institution. He is
still a young man and is highly re
garded as an educator.
WYNNE LAWYER FOUND DEAD
Wynne, Ark., June 12. Leslie
Durley a member of the local bar,
also senior member of the real es
tate firm of Durle.v & Dalton, was
found dead in his bed at the -Ior
dan hotel in this city yesterday
morning. A coroner's jury was
impaneled and concluded deceased
came to his death from heart fail
ure.
Mr. Durley was last seen alive
about 11 o'clock Saturday night,
shortly before repairing to his
room for the night, lie requested
that he be allowed to sleep until a
late hour the next morning, saying
that he had not been feeling at all
well. When a servant entered his
room about 11 o'clock yesterday
morning for the purpose of awak
ening him, he was dead.
The material is being placed on
the ground for d. P. Magness' new
residence.
Miss Alpha Arnold returned
Monday from a pleasant visit with
friends at Sulphur Rock.
Miss Kate Hodges of Sulphur
Rock is spending a few days in the
city, the guest of Miss Alpha Ar
nold.
Little Woods Clark, son of Con
stable and Mrs. S. W. Clark was
reported quite sick the first of the
week.
Misses Oma and Ola Kinman
entertained a number of their
friends with a party Monday
night.
dames Ketchem and K. B. Ches
ser arrived home Saturday morn
ing from a pleasant visit at lm
boden.
Little Misses Susie and Hattie
Rogers returned home Saturday
from a two weeks visit with rela
tives at Elgin.
Little Miss Gussie Love had a
congestive chill Friday and was
(piite sick for a few days, but is
now able to be up again.
We will sell you a steel rod par
agon frame, fast black, 2b-inch
umbrella for fifty cents. Can't be
duplicated in Newark. Fred D.
Whiting & Co.
The Odd Fellows will observe
their annual memorial service next
Sunday. All members are request
ed to meet at the hall at 1:80 p. m.,
and after a brief session at the hall
the members will march in a body
to the cemetery where they will
listen to an appropriate talk by
Rev. C. H. Newman, and will then
deposit floral remembrances upon
the graves of the deceased mem
bers.
For Sale—-One five room one
story house, one five room two
story house and one eight-room
two-story house, a good well,
smoke house, and barn and one
acre of land with each house.
North of school building. Would
sell one or two of them. I also
have other real estate bargains in
Newark property. If you want
to buy do not fail to see me. T.
«J. Raney.
FATAL WOOD ALCOHOL.
Searcy, June 13.—B. F. Doane,
a local photographer here, killed
himself this evening by drinking
wood alcohol. It is thought that
he drank it by mistake.
SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN.
(iov. Davis, having arranged to
speak at Conway on duly 4 and to
open then and there his campaign
for the senate, telegraphed Sena
tor Berry asking him to appear at
the same time and place.
In a letter to (iov. Davis, Sena
tor Berry refuses to allow (iov.
Davis to designate the the time
and place for the opening of a joint
canvass without first conferring
with Senator Berry. He adds
that had (iov. Davis conferred
with him and an agreement could
have been reached as to the t i ne
when the campaign was to be open
ed, lie would have had no possible
objection to Conway. Further,
he is ready to meet Gov. l>avis
and confer with him in reference
to the joint canvass.
There does not seem to lie any
reason, however, why Governor
Davis and Senator Berry should
not get together and agree on a
joint campaign.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS
Items of General Interest Gathered
Fresh From the Columns of
the Daily Papers.
Texas grown watermelons are
being sold in Little Rock at .10
cents each.
The Arkansas Press Association
held its annual meeting at Hot
Springs Tuesday and Wednesday.
Annie Todd, a mulatto, shot and
perhaps fatally wounded Will
Belcher, a negro, at Fort Smith
Tuesday.
Great preparations are being
made at Conway for the opening
of the senatorial campaign there
the Fourth of .1 ul.v.
Mrs. Hannah Jacobson, grand
mother of Governor Davis’ private
secretary, died at her home in St.
Louis a fi w days ago.
John, the three-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Howard,
died near Nashville from the ef
fects of a knife wound in the eye,
inflicted while playing.
J. C. Still and three members of
his family were poisoned at Nash
ville by drinking milk which had
been kept in a tin vessel, and their
condition was serious for several
hours, but they recovered.
D. A. Allen and L. E. Fogle
were going along the road near
Clarksville last Saturday amusing
themselves shooting at signs, when
Allen was accidentally shot just
above the eye and dangerously
wounded.
Airs, lionuon, an aged lady liv
ing at Brentwood, was badly scald
ed while canning fruit. The lid
blew off a can, throwing the boil
ing fruit in her face, badly scald
ing her face and totally destroying
her eyesight.
Peter Retzeman of Staunton. III.
committed suicide at the union de
pot at Little Hock Sunday b.v de
liberately walking upon the track
laying down in front of a rapidly
moving engine. His body was cut
in two and he died instantly.
.1. W. Luddington, a Pine Bluff
produce merchant, was ejected
from a Cotton Belt train Saturday
night at the Memphis bridge by a
bridge collector because Ludding
ton was drunk and could not tind
his bridge ticket. He was found
dead a few hours later, his body
dangling from a barb wire fence,
into which he had fallen from the
trestle several feet above.
W. n. EAVES DEAD.
\Y. M. Hives died at his home
a few miles north of town Tue
I day, after a prolonged illness.
Mr. Eaves was born in Tennes
see, May *2s, 1 s’ 14, but had been a
resident of this county ■dice his
1 early youth, and was a well known
and respected citizen. II • Laves
one brother, one sister and nine
; children.
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Fhe new duliaette collar for
! children and ladies, is the new
idea for spring. Now on >ale at
' Fred 1). Whiting & (Jo’s.
NEWARK WINS FIRST
GAME OF THE SEASON
Game Yesterday Between Newarki
and Lonoke Resulted: New
ark, 8; Lonoke, O.
The Lonoke ball team arrived
in town .yesterday morning for a
series of three games with Newark,
and the first game of the serie.*?
was pulled oil yesterday evening.
Only a small crowd of spectators
witnessed the game, but as there
is every indication that both teams
are going to do some good playing,
it is expected that some good
crowds will be present to witness
the games today and tomorrow.
The game resulted in a victory
for Newark by a score of s to 0.
This was Newark’s first game
for the season and our boys were
a little rusty, but they soon warm
ed up and did some good playing.
The Lonoke boys are a set of
royal good fellows, all right, and
are strictly “onto their job” when
they go on the diamond.
The lineup of the two teams was
as follows:
XKWAKK.
B . pitcher: Kuddell, catch
er; Allen, eenterfield; Grosser,
short stop; Ivetchem, first base;
Henderson, second base; Dutton,
third base; Raney, right field;
Crow, left field.
LOXOKK
Bacon, catcher; Swan, pitcher;
Stein, first base: Gallager, second
base; \N alls, third base; Johnson,
short stop; Apple, left field; Good
run, center Hold: Bird, right field.
N’OTKS.
C. S. Henderson, Alvin Wilson
and Clara Carson are down from
Imboden, visiting friends and at
tending the ball games.
Arrangements have been made
for three games of ball here on the
3rd and 4th of July between the
Newark and Brinkley teams.
THE CROP REPORT.
The government crop report for
Arkansas for the week ending
thine 12 says the week was charac
terized by high temperature and
an almost total absence of rain.
Considerable progress was made
in cleaning fields of weeds and
grass, and there is considerable of
this work to be done, but the sur
face soil is getting too hard to
work and light rains would be ben
eficial. Cotton is practically all
planted; the stand is fair to good
and the crop is making a fair
growth: chopping is general and
in some sections is well advanced.
Corn made a good growth gener
ally; the plant is small, and some
is yellow. It has been laid by in
some portions of the state. Oats
are good and are heading nicely,
while wheat is fair to good.
Harvesting of these grains has be
gun in the southern portion of the
state.
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We sell you a 75-eent straw hat
tor 50 cents or a Si.25 hat for
*l.oo. Fred 1 >. Whiting J& Co.
FARMERS UNION NOTICE.
The Independence county Farm
ers Educational and Cooperative
Union will meet with the Oakr
Ridge local union in Black River
I township on the 20th day of .June,
1005. All local unions are request
ed to send delegates.
John ('. Stkwakt, Pres.
J. D. Mautin, Secretary.