I Wondmkk Cmmm News.
VOL. V.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1900.
NO. 38.
PRESS ASSOCIATION
NORTH ARKANSAS EDITORS HOLD
SECOND ANNUAL MEETING
AT EUREKA SPRINGS.
Good Attendance Present and Session
Enthusiastic—Next Meeting to Be
Held at Fayetteville.
The North Arkansas Press Associa
tion, composed of newspapers em
braced in the Second congressional
district, met in regular session at
Eureka Springs, July 27-28, 1906. In
the absence of the president, H. D.
Routzong, of the Cotter Courier, Vice
President Giles E. Miler, of the Eureka
Springs Times-Echo, presided. The
sessions were held in the Roof Garden
of the Basin Park Hotel, and were
well attended.
After invocation by Rev. Nathaniel
Chestnut, the address of welcome was
delivered by Mayor J. E. Wood, who
officially presented the visiting editors
with the mythological “keys of the
city.” W. L. Crow, of the Berryville
Progress, responded in his usual happy
manner,
C. W. Darby, of the Leslie News, as
orator, did himself and association
justice. The historian’s report, by G.
Byron Cady, of the Rogers Republican,
was most complete and comprehensive
and exceedingly interesting.
A number of interesting subjects
were handled, and “round table talk”
indulged in on each. The constitution,
as presented by the committee, was
adopted, and other matters looking to
the practical working and helpfulness
of the association were perfected.
At night the editors, their wives, and
several friends, enjoyed a trolley ride
by courtesy of the Citizens Electric
Railway Company, over the most pic
turesque line in the world. Their car
GILES E. MILLER, President.
was profusely illuminated with vari
colored lights, and the hills and val
leys of the "Gem of the Ozarks”
echoed and re-echoed to the wild
music of cowbells, hunting horns and
the editorial yell:
Boom-a-la, boom-a-la,
Sis-boom-bali!
We are the editors
Of North Arkansas!
The trolley ride ended at the Cres
cent hotel, where a literary and musi
cal program had been arranged in hon
or of the Press Association. This
Program, followed by a grand ball in
the magnificent dining room of the
hotel, was the chief social event of
the press meeting, and the enjoyment
*nd appreciation of the editors was
too complete for descriptive expres
sion.
The morning of the second day was
oloudy and threatening rain, but not
withstanding this fact twenty-eight of
the editors and ladies accepted the
O' itatlon of the liverymen of Eureka
prings for a tallyho ride about the
mty. Although the evening before had
cen a "strenuous” one this ride was
®njojed with a zest and hilarity that
e °hened keen enjoyment and evi
denced the peculiar "tireless” trait of
e trained editor. During this ride
&,s^> was ma<le at the beautiful home
« Mr. and Mrs. Giles E. Miller, where
• noprotnptu literary and musical
Program, with graphophone interlude,
w*s arranged.
fnF°^°Wing are the officers elected
ior the ensuing year:
President—Giles E. Miller, of the
Eureka Springs Times-Echo.
Vice-President—E. C. Funk, of the
K°gers Democrat.
Secretary and Treasurer—W. L.
of the Carroll Progress.
Historian—Albert Garrison’, of tho
Marshall Republican.
oet—1 lmmas Elmore Lucey.
i urator-Clarence W. Darbey. of the
Leslie News.
P,,Bxffutive Committee—John Neell.v,
zon ett^ville Democrat; H. D. Rout
bramiC£Uer Courier, and Jf. L. Hilda
1 1 » I l&irie Grove Nows.
ARKANSAS BRIEFS
The discovery of valuable pearls in
the rivers of the North Central states
recalls that for several years the
White and Black rivers of Arkansas
engaged the attention of pearl buyers
from all parts of the United States.
Pearls were first discovered in those
rivers six or seven years ago, and
for a long time residents along the
rivers abandoned their agricultural
and other pursuits to search for !
pearls. According to local dealers it
is but rarely now that Arkansas
pearls are offered for sale in Little
Rock, whereas there was formerly a
great market for them there. It is
said that the pearl industry in Ar
kansas is almost at a standstill, al
though a pearl found in White river
was sold about three weeks since for
$1,000 to a buyer for a Memphis
establishment.
Mrs. Mary J. Wignall of Vande
voort, Arkansas an heir under the will
of the late Russell Sage, who died in
New York ten days ago, leaving an
estate of approximately $100,000,000.
Mrs. Wignall is a niece of the noted
financier and under the terms of the
will bequeathing $25,000 to each niece
and nephew, falls heir to that amount
in the event she does not contest the
will, in which case the bequest is set
aside, acording to the terms of the
will. Mrs. Wignall is a daughter of
Elizur W. Sage, a brother of Russell
Sage. Her father was twice married,
and she is the eldest daughter of the
first wife. She resides in Polk
county in Vandervoort, a village of
one hundred inhabitants.
The Arkansas Normal College to be
established at Eureka Springs is now
a definite certainty. A college char
ter is being arranged for, providing
for collegiate, normal, music and
commercial departments. The trus
tees of the institution include:
Mayor Wood, Hon. C. D. James, Post
master Rosewater, Rev. N. Chesnut,
Rev. J. E. Denham, Supt. Barnett, Dr.
C. A. Reed, Mr. Giles E. Miller, W.
T. Shepherd.
One of the most important cases
disposed of at this term of the Polk
County Circuit Court was that of the
Arkansas Improvement Company vs.
the Kansas City Southern Railway
Company. The plaintiff, who is the
owner of the Stilwell orchard, north
of Mena, brought suit for $8,000 dam
ages alleged to have been caused by
fire, originating from a locomotive on
the Kansas City Southern. The jury
awarded the plaintiff $1,000.
The Rose City Lodge of Machinists,
Litle Rock, has instructed its repre
sentative on the Central Trades Coun
cil to vote against the proposed Labor
Day parade. The men believe that
the day should be spent as quietly as
posible and that a march in the hot
sun would be harder than work. Each
of the unions in the two cities is
allowed to vote for or against the
parade:
The Jackson County Sunday School
Convention will meet at the Metho
dist church in Newport, Tuesday,
August 7. All pastors and superin
tendents are delegates by virtue of
their office. Each school is entitled
to one delegate for each twenty-five
enrolled.
Preliminary steps have been taken
at Harrison to organize a bar asso
ciation to be composed of members
of the bar in that federal district.
The lawyers in that section of the
state have been invited to be present
at the October term of the court to
perfect the organization.
The I. O. O. F. lodge, to be known
as Little River Lodge, No. 431, has
been organized at Foreman. About
twenty-five charter members were en
rolled, and the new lodge starts off
with flattering prospects for the fu
ture.
The Crossett Lumber Company of
Crossett is contemplating bringing
some settlers from the North to locate
on a large tract of land which it owns
in the vicinity of that place. At pres
ent it intends to bring 300 white fam
ilies from New York state and will
settle them upon three hundred farms,
into which it will divide its lands.
M. L. Gray, who resides on rural
route No. 2, Little Rock, about three
and a half miles from the city, owns
a calf three days old which has two
tails. The calf is very large for its
age.
The Forrest City and Cutoff Tele
phone Company has been organized
with J. J. Barron president, Dan
Wylds, Sr., vice-president, and D. B.
Harper secretary and treasurer.
Work will begin at once in building
the line, which will extend from For
rest City to Cutoff, a distance of
seventeen miles.
The Building Committee of the Y.
M. C. A. is working on plans for a
building at J|onesboro. The plans
will soon be ready for the contractor,
and work on the construction if the
building will commence at once.
AB
RKANSAS
STATE NEWS
On a Sad Mission.
Capt. Lloyd England, Artillery
Corps, U. S. A., and J. E. England
Jr. have gone to Atlantic City, and will
remain in the East awaiting the arriv
al of the body of Lieut. Clarence Eng
land, who was killed on the bridge of
the Chattanooga at Chefoo, China. The
body will not arrive at New' York for
about six weeks or two months. Capt.
England has been visiting his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. England, on leave
of absence. Callon England will ac
company his father, J. E. England Jr.
The body of Lieut. England has been
sent to Yokohama. This information
w'as conveyed to Capt. Potter, acting
chief of the Bureau of Navigation of
the Navy Department at Washington,
Wednesday by a cable dispatch from
Rear Admiral Train, commander-in
chief of the Asiatic fleet. The admiral
stated that the body wras being con
veyed to the Japanese port aboard the
officer's own ship for transportation to
the United States.
Couldn’t Down the Stock Law.
Justice of the Peaqe Fisher tried a
case involving the validity of the
Ozark stock ordinance. The city mar
shal had recently taken up and im
pounded several head of cattle which
were running at large in the incor
porated limits and belonging to George
A. Smith, who lives on his farm east
of town. Mr. Smith replevied the
stock, his counsel contending in court
that the present law was invalid and
that the city had no jurisdiction over
stock belonging to non-residents. Jus
tice Fisher decided that the law is
valid. It is said Mr. Smith will ap
peal to the Circuit Court.
A Popular Resort.
Two negroes and one white man,
who are charged with burning the
Cleveland county jail at Rison, are
confined in the Jefferson county jail
for safe keeping. The white man, be
sides being charged with burning the
jail, is also charged with breaking
jail twice before, and in addition to
this there is a charge of bigamy
against him. The Jefferson county
jail has quite a reputation for safe
keeping, for at present Cleveland,
Lincoln and Arkansas counties have
prisoners there, and there are a good
many more who use that jail when
important arrests are made.
A Just Judgment.
In the Second division of the Pu
laski Circuit Court judgment in favor
of the State of Arkansas has been
given against the Western Union
Telegraph Company for 119,404. The
suit was brought against the tele
graph company by Prosecuting Attor
ney Rhoton for failure to file articles
of incorporation. During the trial it
developed that the company had filed
the articles, but it was also brought
out that after they were filed the
company had increased its capital
stock to an amount several times in
excess of the capital stock on which
the fee for filing' was paid.
A Big Enterprise.
The Wisconsin-Arkansas Lumber
Company is a strong corporation which
has recently been established in Gar
land county. The company is now
erecting a big sawmill plant near
Mountain Valley, which will have a
capacity of 30,000 feet a day. It now j
has about. 5,000 acres of timber lauds
in the vicinity of its plant, and expects
to add to its holdings. It will use trac
tion engines to transport its output
to Hot Springs for shipment., but if
this experiment should prove unsuc
cessful will probably build an elec
tric line. Its first traction engine is
expected to arrive in a few days.
is It a Case of Atavism?
Ranger Jones, a young negro, whom
the police think is crazy, has been
placed in the Little Rock calaboose,
pending an investigation into his san
ity. Instead of eating meat and vege
tables and the diet of the ordinary hu
man being, Jones insists that he is a
cannibel and told the officers that
nothing but human flesh would satisfy
his appetite. As he has eaten nothing
for several days, his desire for flesh
has as yet gone unsatisfied. The officers j
say it is impossible to make him eat
ordinary food.
Wireless Telegraphy for Arkansas.
J. T. Downing, district manager for
a wireless telegraph company, which
proposes to use the DeForrest sys
tem, says the company which he rep
resents will soon install wireless tele
graph stations in Little Rock, Pine
Bluff, Fort Smith, Hot Springs and two
or three other cities of the state.
There is on exhibition at Walnut
Ridge a pumpkin that weighs 12 1-2
pounds raised by H. L. Ponder on new
ground. The seed from which the
pumpkin matured was planted just
thirty days previpus to the time It
was picked.
New Companies Chartered.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state by
the People's Gin Company of Morril
ton. The capital stock is $8,000, of
which $7,000 is subscribed and paid
in. The incorporators are: J. R.
Stallings, R. A. Dowdle, R. D. Earle,
C. W. Garner, W. S. Cazort, T. A.
Dowdle, H. B. Henley, W. V. Higgins,
M. A. Dowdle, B. G. White and Chas.
W. Gordon. A charter was also
granted to the Farmers’ Co-Operative
Gin Company of Chickasawba, with a
capital stock of $5,000, all subscribed.
The corporators are: J. F. Lyerly,
W. H. Bryion, R. W. Crawford, J. B.
Fields, J. J. Lane, B. B. Hodges, R. B.
Cook, W. C. Burks, I. Y. Crawford,
J. T. Craig and C. II. Lloyd. The
Union Zinc Mining and Development
Company of Colorado has filed a certi
ficate showing the appointment of G.
J. Crump of Harrison as agent for
Arkansas.
vaiuaoie waives.
R. F. Young, a farmer, who lives
near Greenbrier, Faulkner county,
lost $2,000 in currency in his pasture,
and all but $375 was devoured by
calves before the loss was discovered.
The money represented the savings
from his crops the past three years.
It was in charge of his wife, who kept
it locked in a trunk when she was at
home and concealed on her person
whenever she left. Mrs. Young went
to the pasture to pick some black
berries and dropped the handkerchief
containing the money. The next day
search was made for the lost fortune.
Mr. Young found the handkerchief
and close by two twenty-dollar bills.
The whole pasture was searched and
bits of the money were found scat
tered around promiscuously, having
been chewed up by calves, the amount
destroyed being $1,625. Each year for
the past three years Mr. Young after
paying his bills, put the savings into
a handkerchief and placed them in
the custody of his wife.
Had Dynamite in His Pocket.
With enough dynamite to destroy
a section of the city in his pocket and
a large cargo of intoxicants in his
stomach, J. M. Ivey, a laborer, was
arrested in Little Rock recently.
Ivey was drunk and raising a
disturbance in the saloon, and the
officers were called to place him un
der arest. When searched at the
station, a package wrapped in a news
paper was taken from him and care
lessly laid on the table in the office
of the chief of detectives. When the
package was opened it was discovered
that it contained one piece of dyna
mite weighing about eight ounces,
several small pieces of fuse and a
cartridge, such as is' used in blasting
to explode dynamite. There was a
age were discovered. Nothing could
general scattering of police and detec
tives when the contents of the pack
be ascertained from the man as to his
purpose in carrying the dynamite, nor
as to the place where he secured it.
He was locked up on charges of drunk
and disturbing the peace, pending an
investigation of the case. While in
the saloon with the dynamite the man
was surounded by a large number
of laboring men, and had the dyna
mite fallen to the floor there would
have ben little chance for the escape
of any of them.
i ne wages or sin is ueatn.
Accused of a serious crime against
his own daughter, Isaac Patey, a mid
dle-aged farmer, who lived about nine
miles west of Dardanelle, placed a
revolver to his head and blew out his
brains rather than submit to arrest.
A warant for the arrest of Patey was
sworn out by his son-in-law and it was
charged that an unmarried daughter
of Patey was the victim. Being advised
of the issuance of the process, Patey
took flight from the officers and
evaded pursuit. A telephone message
announced that Patey had appeared
at a neighbor’s house about a mile or
more from his home and shot himself.
Arkansas Postal News.
A postoffice has been established at
Luber, Stone county. Service from
Southern Home to Havana has been
changed; supply Riley. Service has
been discontinued from Ferguson to
Steamboat Landing. Myrtle Adams
has been appointed postmistress at
Brookings.
Hogs on the Warpath.
A1 Kuykendall declares that five im
mense porkers chased his wife and
daughter quite a distance the other
night as they were returning home
from church.
A Richochet Shot Did It.
A negro farmer in Crawford county,
went out to kill a chicken with a 22
calibre target gun. He was followed
by his 3-year-old son. When he flred
he misser the chicken, and the bullet
striking a rock, glanced and struck
the child in abdomen with fatal re
sults.
Sues for Seven Years' Wages.
Mary E. Adams has brought suit
in Pulaski Circuit Court against
Frank P. Adams for $S40, which
amount is alleged to be due for serv
ices as servant covering a period of
seven years.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPITOME OF THE MOST IM
PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
'terns, Domestic and Foreign.
SITUATION IN RUSSIA.
The first move in the general strike
in St. Petersburg has been taken. The
employes of the electric lighting plants
have responded to the call, and St.
Petersburg is in darkness at night.
The governor of Samara was in
stantly killed by a bomb thrown by
an assassin, who was immediately ar
rested.
There is said to be disaffection
among the Moscow regiment of the
guards quartered in St. Petersburg.
The demands formulated by the men
are both economic and political.
The entire Sveaborg fortress is said
to be again in the hands of the gov
ernment, the prisoners being trans
ferred to Skatudden island.
The emperor is reported to have
flatly refused to accept the conditions
to which Premier Stolypin agreed in
his negotiations with other members
for the reorganization of the cabinet.
There is increasing apprehension that
the emperor proposes to turn the coun
try over to the military dictatorship
of the Grand Duke Nicholas. St. Peters
burg is filled with armed patrols.
A report was current in Vibourg
that, the Russian flotilla stationed at
Hanyo, Finland, had mutinied, impris
oned the officers and sailed to the as
sistance of die mutineers at Svea
borg.
According to latest accounts the mu
tineers at Sveaborg had surrendered
after heavy bombardment by the war
ships. The reports, however, were
fragmentary and conflicting.
Trouble has broken out in a fresh
spot. Troops in the great fortresses
of Sveaborg and Skatudden, on the
gulf of Finland, the “Gibraltar of the
North,” have mutinied, and some hard j
fighting has occurred between the mu
tineers and the loyal troops, partici
pated in by the warships in the har
bor. The first mutiny was reported
suppressed, but late dispatches indi- |
cate that the mutineers held their po- ;
sitions and had possession of all the
movable artillery, including quick
firers and machine guns. The situa
tion was considered serious.
The public prosecutor at St Peters
burg has begun proceedings against j
the late members of the lower house j
of parliament who signed the Viborg
manifesto.
A manifesto to the peasants has
been issued by the revolutionary i
bodies intended to inflame them to
action against the government.
Fighting is again going on between |
the Tartars on the one hand and the
Armenians and Russianson the other J
in Transcaucasia. A large force of
Tartars was repulsed in an attempt to
enter Shusha.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There is a cry from Minnesota,
“come and help us.” A bumper crop
is ready and there is not one-tenth
of enough men to harvest it. The
same conditions exist in Iowa and tho
Dakotas.
Ex-Gov. Samuel Van Sant of Minne
sota, has been chosen as grand mar
shal of the G A. R. parade in Minne
apolis August 15.
Bradstreet’s reports a decidedly op
timistic feeling in all lines of trade,
the heavy crop yields and the phe
nomenal demand for iron and steel in
building operations being the main
factors.
The town of Hamburg, Pa., was al
most washed away as the result of a
cloudburst, which sent a ten-foot flood
sweeping through the main portion of
the town. One man was drowned and
there were many narrow escapes.
Three little girls, the oldest not
much more than 12 years of age, ar
rived, unaccompanied, at Boston, on
the steamer Ivernia from Helsingfors,
Finland, tagged “Portland, Ore., U. S.
A.,” where their father awaits them.
Secretary Root, before sailing from
Rio Janeiro for Montevideo, gave a
farewell reception on board the cruiser
Charleston. Mrs. Root was made the
recipient of some beautiful and costly
presents from President Alves, on be
half of the nation, and others.
David Hoover, United States col
lector of customs at Gateway, Mont.,
and Quon Lee, a Chinaman, have been
bound over to the federal grand jury
at Helena to answer a charge of con
spiracy to smuggle Chinese into the
country.
A submarine craft, the plans for
which were rejected by France, has
just been launched at Krupp's Ger
mania works at Keil. The vessel will
have a radius of action of 3,000 miles,
a surface speed of 12 knots and a
speed of 9 knots below the surface. It
will be driven by electric motors.
Rear-Admiral Charles J. Train, com
I niander of the United States Asiatic
fleet, died at Chefoo, China, August 4,
of uraemia.
As a result, primarily, of one man
failing to pay his union dues, between
3,000 and 4,000 men employed by the
Boston & Montana company, at Butte,
in the mines, the smeltermen at the
Great Falls smelting plant and the
train crews engaged in hauling all are
idle.
From 1881 to 1905, inclusive, 4,425
miners and 2,452 mine laborers were
killed in Pennsylvania, due largely
to their own negligence, carelessness,
wrecklessness and ignorance.
Battling Nelson and Joe Cans are
expected to contest for a $30,000 purse
at Goldfield, NTev., Labor day.
Maj.-Gen. A. W. Greeley has been
ordered to St. Louis to take com
mand of the Northern division of the
army, succeeding Maj.-Gen. Henry C.
Corbin.
Brig.-Gen. Albert L. Mills, comman
dant of the military academy at West
Point, has received orders to proceed
to the Philippines and relieve Brig.
Gen. Winfield S. Edgerly, in command
of Fort William McKinley, who is or
dered to SSn Francisco.
Ed. Misener, accompanied by his
wife and son, has just completed a
trip from Chicago to Red Wing, Minn.,
via the Chicago drainage canal, the
Illinois and Mississippi rivers, in an
18-foot launch, without a mishap on
the trip.
E. A. Gage, son of former Secretary
of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage, shot
himself through the heart at the Tour
ist hotel in Seattle, Wash. Acquaint
ances said he had been acting strange
ly for some time.
The federal department of justice
has taken up the case of the alleged
burning of rebate evidence by the Bur
lington Railroad Co., when two cars,
loaded with documents, w'ere burned at
Belfast siding in Greeley county, Neb.
James B. Postlethwait, employed In
the clerical department of the Michi
gan Central Railway Co., at Detroit,
fasted 49 days for the benefit of his
health and then died of exhaustion.
Mrs. Grace Hutchinson was acquit
ted of the charge of murder in the
killing of Mrs. Mary Bode at Salida,
Col., last June, after her husband had
confessed intimacy with Mrs. Bode
An investigation of alleged irregu
larities in the Philippine islands is be
ing conducted by Col. Wood, inspector
general, under the direction of Maj.
Gen. Leonard Wood.
Floyd Carmichael, a negro, was shot
to death at Lakewood, a suburb of
Atlanta, Ga., after he h-d been iden
tified by Miss Annie Poole, aged 15,
as her assailant.
The United States government has
paid Germany the award of $20,000 in
the Samoan case. Great Britain paid
her damages in the spring, and the
matter is therefore settled.
Baron Komura, the recently ap
pointed Japanese ambassador to Great
Britain, arrived at Victoria, B. C., en
route to London via Quebec. He ex
pressed regret at his inability, at thi3
time, to visit the United States and
renew former pleasant acquaintances.
The number of people receiving re
lief in San Francisco has been re
duced from 225,000 during the first
week after the fire to less than 17,000
at the present time.
The battleships Alabama and Illi
nois were in collision, during a fog,
southeast of Brentou’s Reef lightship,
and several of the forward plates of
the Alabama were dinted. Seaman
Corbett of the Illinois was severely
injured by the fall of a lifeboat davitt,
and it was found necessary to ampu
tate one of his legs.
Terrible neat conditions are report
ed from the Myo county (California)
gold fields and adjacent desert, and
mining prospectors are said to be dy
ing dally from the heat.
The state of liliuois has secured
judgment against former State Treas
urer Henry Wulff and Floyd K. Whit
temore, his bondsman, for $0,532.50
before Judge Creighton, in the Sanga
mon circuit court, being the amount of
fees retained by the former treasurer.
Emil Lesser, president of the Ger
man Immigration Society of Alabama,
reports, after a personal investigation
at Lockhardt, that no trace of peon
age exists in the camps of the Jack
son Lumber Co.
The Spanish generals who were con
cerned in the surrender of Santiago,
Cuba, will reply to attacks in the press
by issuing a manifesto laying the
blame for the surrender upon the
politicians.
A movement is under way in San
Francisco to fix a charge of criminal
conspiracy on the insurance brokers
who have compelled policy holders to
accept less than was due them on their
losses in the great conflagration.
Gen. Oku, the victor at Nanshan
and Tieling in the Russo-Japanese
war, and whose command succeeded
in isolating Port Arthur, has beer
appointed chief of the general stall
of the Japanese army, vice Baror
Kodama. deceased.
T. M. Campbell, the union labor
candidate, leads in the primary vote
for democratic candidate for governor
of Texas, M. M. Brooks, C. K. Bell
and O. B. Colquett following in the
order named. The contest will have
to be fought out in the convention.