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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 6, 1003.
Volume 3, Number 6.
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ASYLUM
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Some Facts flrom theSup=
intendefflt’s Report.
MORE ROOM IS NEEDED
5uperintendent’s Report Shows
That There is 235 tasane
Persons in Jails,
Relow are some important ex
tracts from the biennial renort of
Superintendent II. C- Stinson of
the insane asylum:
At the present time there sure
t' ;3 cat.cuts being1 treated and
src-d for in this hospital. Of this
number 277 are white males, 269
white females, 38 colored males
and 69 colored females. There
were admitted during1 the fiscal
year 1901 98 white males, 64 white
females, 6 colored males, 13 color
ed females, making1 a total of 179.
The whole number treated was 351
white males, 327 white females, 46
colored males, 77 colored females,
making the total 801. There were
discharged during the year 152.
Among this number were: Re
coveries 54, improved 47, unim
proved 5, eloped 2, not insane 2,
by death 42. The percentage of
recoveries to admissions was 80.
17 per cent. The mortality was
5.24 per cent.
The unceasing and urgent cries
coming from all walks of society
and all parts of the state for room
to admit their loved ones, must in
spire the legislature to provide ad
ditional accommodation. Tiie de
signers of thi- institution only con
templated a capacity of 600 in
mates. We have been providing
and caring for between 645 and
h5(> patients, causing us to add ad
ditional beds to our dormitories,
converting single ro >ms into small
dormitories. To what extent this
condition interfered with the pro
gress toward recovery in cases we
might reasonably expect restora
tion, it is impossible to estimate.
The overcrowded condition of this
institution makes it difficult, nay.
even impossible to provide for the
acute insane, that classification and
degree of separation modern socie
ty dentanns. In order to intelli
gently approximate the number of
insane in the state outside the pale
of scientific treatment., hospital re
gime, environment, etc., a circu
lar letter was mailed and answers
received from every county show
ing that there is now confined in
the county jails of the state 235
insane persons.
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However siaruing a mn,\ ap
p**:vr, however great the burden of
reflection, we. have between 24s
and 250 unhappy members of so
ciety with no other harbor of hope
save that vouchsafed them by the
jails and poor houses of their re
spective counties. It will require
no magic of words, no logic of
reasoning, to convince an enlight
ened public that places of deten
, jo,-, of this kind are totally unsuit
od for these unfortunate victiii s
of disease. Additional provision
for these unfortunate members of
oeiety is supported by all the dict
ates of reason, humanity and ex
; , ne\. It has been well said.
an ! i'-K repetition does not lessen
its force, tltat “nations are never
impoverished by the munificence
of their charities; the prosperity
of the state and the culture of its
citizens are easily judged by its
charitable institutions.” As this
pressing necessity for more accom
modation for the carp of the insane
in theptate has outgrown its age
of unjertaint.v or delay, I would
rcspec tifully recommend that there
c ited on the present asylum
s a suitable building, eon
of sixteen wards, each ward
capacity of thirty-five pa
making a total of 560 in
these, added to the normal
be loc
grounc
with a
limits
mates;
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capacity of this building (600),
would make a grand total of 1,160,
which would not be too great,
though large enough for proper
supervision in one institution.
There are many similar institutions
in the country accommodating
from 1,500 to 2,000 people. It can
be reasonably assumed that it
would be many years before there
would come a necessity for ad
ditional accommodation, even al
lowing such latitude for the natu
ral accretion to the population our
rapidly developing state and its
relative per cent of insane. All
the buildings would have access to
the same water supply, same elec
tric light plant, garden, etc., sav
ing much to the state in the way
of expense and subserving the best
interest of the taxpayer.
In the management of this hos
pital we have conformed to rules
appealing to our minds to best
subserve the interest of those com
mitted to our care, keeping the |
building and enclosure in a good I
state of repair,and enjoining scrap- !
ulous cleanliness and a strict and
uncompromising discipline in all
its departments.
Drowned in White River.
Rogers, Feb. 2. - S. Fleek, a
liveryman of this place, was drown
ed last evening while attempting
to ford White river at Knox Fer
ry, about twenty miles east of!
here. Fleek was on his way to j
Eureka Springs, where he was to j
be an important witness against ;
Poly Carlisle, charged with rob
bing the Bank of Springdale.
Hobson Resigns From the Navy.
Richmond P. Hobson has tend
ered his resignation as a con
structor in the navy. For some
time Captain Hobson lias sought
to be retired, but the board which
examined him pronounced him tit
for duty and he was ordered re
cently to take charge of construc
tion work at Bremerton naval
station.
Mysterious Circumstance.
One was pale and sallow and the
other fresh and rosy. Whence the
difference? She who is blushing
with health uses Dr. King’s New
Life Pills to maintain it. By gent
ly arousing the lazy organs they
j compel good digestion and head
; off constipation. Try them Only
25c, at J. 1. .Sturdivant’s Drug
i gist.
Payment on “Pen” Farm.
The state penitentiary board held
(he last bi-monthly meeting for
January Saturday afternoon at 2
o’clock in the auditor’s office.
Governor Davis was not present.
The other members, who are the
attorney general, auditor, secre
tary of state and commissioner of
agriculture, attended. A resolu
i Lion was passed authorizing Finan
cial Agent M. 1>. L. Cook to pay
j over to the creditors on the peni
tentiary farm in Lincoln county
any balance in the penitentiary
j funds now on hand. This amount
ed to §5,000 and was paid over by
Mr. Cook, in accordance with the
contract entered into last fall, when
the farm was purchased by the
board. This payment makes the
second, §30,000 of the total amount
| having been paid down. This
leaves a debt of §105,000 on the
farm.—< lazetto.
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| * riasons, Take Notice.
To the Worshipful Master,
| Wardens, and Brethoren of New
ark Lodge No. 21s F. & A. M.
Brethoren, you are hereby noti
fied that 1 will visit your Lodge
officially on Friday and Saturday,
i the 13th and 14th days,, of Feb
ruary, 1903. Take due notice and
govern yourselves accordingly.
Fraternally yours,
W. M. Kent,
1). D. G. M„ 1st List.
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Happenings of Local Interest
Mortgage blanks at The Journal I
office.
Ii. B. Adams left Monday for
points in the southern part of the
state on business.
X. M. "Wilson sold a bale of his
line cotton in town last Saturday
for ten cents a pound.
Let no man speak evil of your
town without a protest from you.
Stand by your colors.
For Sale Sixty bushels of Ozier
long .staple cotton seed. Brice 50
cents per bushel. X. M. Wilson.
For Sale One thousand bush
els of corn, 1,000 pounds of meat
and 400 pounds of lard. W. F
1’olk.
P. G. Magness, one of White
liiver township’s most prosperous
and progressive farmers, was in
town Friday.
Mrs. Lena Egner returned to
her home at Newport Friday, after
a weeks visit here with her sister,
Mrs. (i. (). Magness.
The outcropping of coal near
Wiley's Cove, in Searcy county, i
is said to be of line grade and in- i
dieates large quantities of the fuel. ^
W. F. Polk, a good citizen of
White River township, was trans- i
acting business in town Friday and 1
made The Journal a substantial
call.
A Kansas woman died recently
leaving lt>8 defendants. An ex
change says if they all sign the
card of thanks it will look like the
delinquent tax list.
TIil' Newark Real Estate Cotn
pun.v can sell your property, no
matter where located. We have
several inquiries for land and it'
you have property for sale come in
and list it.
Four years ago Frank Babcock
planted twenty-three acres in El
berta peaches near Greenwood in
Sebastian county and last year he
shipped twelve carloads of fruit
from these trees, netting $51,400.
L. Pearce, of Oil Trough,
the efficient principal of llu; (rum
Chapel public school, was trans
acting business in town Saturday.
W hile here he made Tut- Journal
a pleasant call and left an order
for some printed stationery.
Negro boys in Fort Smith held
a kangaroo court and sentenced
Charles Johnson, a 16-year-old
negro, to be hanged. They put a
rope under his arms and pulled
him to the ceiling of the livery
stable in which they worked.
Johnson cut the rope with his knife,
fell to the floor and was so badly
injured that he died two days later.
Strayed or Stolen—One dark
bay mare with white spot in fore
head and one white hind foot;
about 154 hands high, 7 or S years
old and branded on left shoulder
with letter “R” but brand is very
dim; barefooted all around, lias
never been worked but little and
is hardly bridle-wise. Five dollars
reward will be paid for informa
tion leading to her recovery. A.
T. Wilson, Newark, Ark.
“Uncle” \rul.v Magness, who is
: probably the oldest negro in this
part bf the country, wants The
Journal sent to his address.
i “Uncle” Andy is nearly 70 years
■ old and is a type of the old ante
; bellum negro that is fast disap
pearing. Before the abolition of
slavery he was owned by W. T.
Magness’ father and says he thinks
more of Tom, as he familiarly calls
Mr. Magness, than he does any of
his kin folks. “Uncle’’ Andy al
ways votes the democratic ticket.
Things that should not be are
numerous. A physician with an in
valid family; a lawyer going to
jail for contempt; a shoemaker’s
wife going barefooted; a tailor
wearing patched trousers and a
farmer goinglo town to buy bacon
and canned goods. In these cases
the physician was a quack, the law
yer an ignoramus, the shoemaker
a worthless cobbler, the tailor a
goose, and the farmer as bad as
the worst of them. Any farm that
fails to supply itself with plenty
of substantial food for man and
beast, and some to spare, lacks a;
competent farmer to manage it.
Farm and Hunch.
Just after going to press last
week the news reached us that
l)r. J. M. By rum, of Asher. Okla.,
and Miss Leah Knox, of Sulphur
Rock, were married at the resi
dence of the bride’s father in Sul
phur Rock Thursday evening.
They left immediately on the pas
senger for Asher, Okla., their fu
ture home. Dr. Byrum is a native
of Independence county and for
several years practiced his profes
sion in Sulphur Rock. He left
there, however, about a year ago
and located at Asher, Okla,, where
he has been imminently successful
in his chosen profession. The
bride is a most estimable young
lady and is a daughter of T. ('.
Knox, a prominent business man
of Sulphur Roek. Mr. and Mrs.
By rum have a large circle of
friends here who join The Journal
in extending congratulations and
best wishes.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with local applications as the\
cannot, reach the seat ot the dis
ease. Catarrh i s a hi.. or const i
tutional disease, and in order to
cure. it you must take internal
remedies. Hall’s Catarrh Cure i
taken internally, and acts direct It
on the hlood and mucous surfaces.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is no quack
medicine. It was prescribed by
one of the best physicians m this
cnuntrv for year-, and is a tegular
ltretcriptimi. It i- composed of
the best tot ics known, combined
with the best blood purifiers, u-t
ing directly on the mucous sur
faces. I’lic perfect combination of
the two ingredients is what pro
duces such wonderful results in
curing catarrh. Send for testi
monials free. F. ,J. Cheney & < 'o.
Props., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by
druggists, price 75c, Hall's Fami
ly Pills are the best.
Where Does Teddj' Stand?
Senator Hanna and other repub
licans who have been through the
South and have had dealings with
the negroes do not stand with the
administration on this question.
Senator Hoar, who comes from
the same State as Cabot Lodge and
who, despite Ins Puritan ancestry,
is a patriot and a fair man on most
question, lias shown to the world
that he does not sanction the auto
cratic actions of the broncho-bus
ter in the W hite House. Senator
Doliver has told the republican
party that something must he done
I or defeat will ensue. Senator Quay
has formed an alliance with the
democrats on the statehood ques
tion. The beet sugar senators are
lined up with some of the demo
crats on the Cuban treaty matter.
Congress is Hooded with all sorts
of trust measures, with no hope of
any passing. Where, then, does
Teddy standi Look at this ques
tion from any position, and the
president looks like the man up the
tree with a bulldog at the bottom.
Did ever man have such opposi
lion? And when he wakes up alter
this congress is over he will lind
that he is a mighty small force in
shaping the affairs of state. His
influence with congress is waning;
his’connet lion with Cabot Lodge
and Payne and the policies which
they are pushing through him are
so obnoxious that the republican
party is going to turn to llanna
or some one who is capable of
leading them out of this muddle.
To 1.ini it Wealth.
Washington, Jan. HI.- Senator
Wellington introduced an amend
ment to tin* constitution prohibit
ing the holding of fortunes ex
ceeding $10.0**0,000 by any one in
dividual in the United States. In
case of such holding, the amend
ment provides that the excess shall
be condemned, whether or not, ns
a public nuisance, a public folly
or a public peril, and be according
ly forfeited to the United States
treasury.
TAKEN AT HIS WORD.
Lover’s Theatrical Style of Proposing
Wasted on Wrong Party.
He was a theatrical lover, and she
didn't like his style a little bit. lie
was constant in his devotion, how
ever, and that made matters worse.
She had tried gentle means to get
rid of him, but he had disregarded
them with painful persistency.
In thi- moment of her dt-pera
tion he felt it incumbent upon him
to propose to her, as men in similar
circumstances often do.
“Dear one.” lie exclaimed, hurling
himself tragically at her feet, “I love
you My life is yours. Will you
take it?”
JShe did not look like a murderess.
“Mr. Singleton,” she responded,
with calm determination, “I will.”
He gazed at her rapturously,
“Don't do that," she begged, draw
ing back from him a? if in horror. “I
have taken your life, as you requested
me to do, and you are henceforth, to
all intents and purposes, dead.”
He seemed dazed.
“I do not, Mr. Singleton," she con
tinued, turning aside, “desire to have
a dead person in the house, and if
you do not go away at once 1 shall
ring for an ambulance.”
Then the dreadful situation in
which his own precipitate folly had
placed him was revealed, and he re
moved himself with promptness and
dispatch.—London Tit-Bits.
Buried Towns.
Italy is not the only country that
can boast of its buried towns and vil
lages. In Scotland there are tlieCul
bin Sands, covering a large tract of
country, under which many dwellings
lie entombed; while in Ireland there
is the ancient town of Bannon, sit
uated in a once fertile tract between
Wexford and Waterford, as effectu
ally covered with sand as ever Pom
peii was with red-hot cinders or Her
culaneum with lav*.
A Country of Gates.
A curious feature to travelers in
the high roads of Norway is the great
Dumber of gates—upwards of 10,000
in the whole country—w hich have to
be opened. These gates, which either
mark the boundaries of the farms or
separate the home fields from the
waste lands, constitute a consider
ible inconvenience and delay to the
traveler, who has to .-top his vehicle
And get down to open them.
Negro Bully Shot.
Brinkley, .Ian. 31. John Cla
burn, a negro freight brakeman
on the White and Black Kiver
Valley, a branch of the Choctaw,
was shot through the abdomen this
evening about 0 o’clock, while re
sisting arrest, by City Marshal P.
A. Gillespie and Deputy Jim Bay.
Claburn was trying to shoot a
I negro woman, and Deputy Ray
; called to him to halt. lie started
down an alley, and when Marshal
Gillespie, who then appeared, and
Deputy Ray began to close in on
him he shot at Nr. Ray, striking
him on the shoulder, just touch
ing the skin. Both officers instant
ly opened lire, with the above re
; suit. The wound is not necessari
ly fatal. Claburn has the reputa
tion of beirg a bully.
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BILLS, BILLS, BILLS
Legislature Still Grinding
Odt Bills and Bills.
MANY BILLS, FEW LAWS
Senator Jobe’s Bill to Aegrate the
School Fax Failed in the
Senate by 2 Votes.
Among the bills worthy of men
tion introduced in the legislature
during the week are the following:
No. 100, by Senator Rison, to
give constables the same fees for
summoning witnesses as that now
received by sheriffs.
No. 101, by Senator Wilson, to
establish and maintain public libra
ries in cities of the first and second
class.
No. Ill, by Senator Caldwell,
donates 100,000 acres of state lands
for the purpose of establishing a
textile school in Arkansas as a
branch to the university.
No. 115, by Senator Covington,
giving circuit courts the right to
parole youthful convipts, except
in cases of rape, robbery and ar
son, pending good behavior/
No. 121, by Senator Huddleston,
provides for the publication in the
newspapers of the names of all
persons delinquent for taxes on
personal property, the same as
now provided for taxes on land.
No. 123, by Senator Hinkle,
amends an act fixing the salaries
of the officers of Independence
county. The bill puts them all
hack to be paid out of fees up to a
certain amount. It does not apply
to coroner and minor officers.
No. 163, by Futrell, to prohibit
t he sowing of cocoa or Johusou
grass in this state, was read tho
second time. A number of amend
ments were offered exempting cer
tain counties and finally the bill
and amendments were referred to
the committee on agriculture.
No. 214, by Poole, to remove
the University of Arkansas from
Fayetteville to some central point
hereafter to be selected.
No. 63, by Chrisp, requiring
thirty days’ notice by applicants
for liquor license, was taken up,
and an amendment adopted requir
ing notice to be given through
newspapers.
Among the bills introduced Fri
day was one in the senate by Mr.
McFerrin and one in the house by
Mr. Futrell to create a board of
seven members to control and man
age the state charitable institutions,
together with the penitentiary.
The members of the board are to
be appointed by the governor and
confirmed by the general assembly
in joint session. The bill proposes
to abolish the office of financial
agent of the penitentiary and to
empower the board to employ a
secretary at a salary of §150 per
mouth.
By a vote of 62 to 29 the house
passed 1 >r. Myers’ newspaper and
stamp bill. In the senate the
measure was read twice and made
a special order for Monday morn
ing.
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A favorable committee report
was recorded in the senate on Sen
ator Norwood's bill appropriating
#140,000 for an annex to the in
sane asylum. The senate amend
ed the bill so as to allow the ar
chitect #2,000 in lieu of 3 per cent
of the cost of construction.
1 lie senate adopted a resolution
by Senator Seugel calling on tho
governor for a list of pardons, re
prieves and commutations
No. 228, by Whitley, to regu
late the granting of franchises by7
municipal corporations; city or
town councils shall give thirty
days’ public notice before passage
of any ordinance granting a fran
chise, voters to be given oppor
tunity to pass upon franchises.
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