VOL. V.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER II, 190fi.
NO. 47.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
an epitome of the most im
PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
and abroad.
NORTH, EASIWEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An ‘infernal machine” sent Gov.
Pennyrncker of Pennsylvania was evi
dently a joke.
An explosion of illuminating gas in
a Philadelphia subway killed seven
men. wrecked construction and dam
aged siirronnding property.
°Three cyclones strike New Orleans
and vicinity, killing seven persons
ami doing $500,000 damages in city.
Bryan will enter Colorado fight, and
will champion the cause of Alva
Adams for governor.
E. H. K. Green has withdrawn as
candidate for governor of Texas on
the reorganized republican ticket.
A daughter was born to Gov. and
Mrs. Dcnecn in rlie mansion at Spring
field, Ill
Clutched in each other’s arms, two
young men fell from the fourth story
of the Lake Shore railroad office
building in Cleveland, O., to their
death. They were J. V. Bunts, aged
30. and Harry Wilfred, aged 2G, and
were clerks in the office of the Lake
Shore railroad. They had engaged in
n friendly scuffle, slipped and fell oul
of the window.
In an address before the Mormon
conference in Suit Lake City, Utah.
President Joseph Smith of the church
said: "Lot every man live such an
exemplary life that there can be noth
ing said against him. Let him be
true to hi.-: people; let him be true to
Zion and pure iri his own way. and
the one God will uphold him. whether
he is deprived of his liberty or in
prison cells." Smith is under indict
ment for living with five wives. He
is the father of 43 children.
Willis S Moore, chief or the weath
er bureau at Washington, is of the
[opinion that recent earthquakes, not
ice! by seismographs in Australia, Ger
many, on the Isle of Wight and in
Washington, was in the bed of the
Indian ocean beyond Australia.
Fifteen men were entombed in the
Dutchman mine, at Slissburg, N. M„
and it is believed all perished.
Question of legality of advertising
oontracis in exchange for railway
transportation will probably be ap
pealed to the courts for a final de
cision.
t'nited Slates takes bulk of Cuba's
txports. rmounting in last fiscal year
to SC pt r cent. Increase in Cuba im
ports shown by commerce report.
A special train carrying soldiers
huund for Cuba ran into the rear end of
J regular passenger train on the Bos
on & -Maine railroad, ai Lansingburg,
A’- 4 wrecking two Pullmans and kill
bg five passengers and injuring 20.
Among tlie dead are Mr. F. L. Block,
a merchant of Peoria, 111 . and Mrs. J.
W. Dacey, of Boston, a bride of 24
hours.
At Harrisburg, Pa., the president de
U'civd the ovation at the d dication of
the beautiful new state capitol, which
has just been completed at a cost of
’L,000,000, to take the place of tile
old statehouse destroyed by fire in
To exercise a constantly Increas
j and constantly more efficient su
pervision anti control over the great
common carriers of the country pre
I'cnts all necessity for seriously con
■" -'ing such a proposition as the gov
jerament ownership of railroads—a
policy which would be evil In its re
mts trom every standpoint.”—Presi
ent Roosevelt, at Harrisburg, Pa.
Ix a"eged Mexican revolutionists
ere taken from Tucson, Ariz., to No
,uis and forced across the border
'> the Immigration authorities. A
fee of Mexican rurales in waiting
ri.'. e<^ *^em the moment they
ruff 1 * *'le **ne' 1'bo men were hand
e together and taken to the Mex
1Cdtl prison.
hem1" em*Srant steamer Charter
tt SP" voyaging between llelhow and
' ™“E' China, foundered off Ilai
arm mad SePte,nber 30. Capt. Clifton
'0 passengers were lost.
r. ">3P°ndence discloses the Palma
,le .ln Cuba planned to force in
1hpi,tn 1011 montbs ago by resigning
Posts and begging for United
btatos troops.
intp!^n 11 Rockefeller, in Cleveland
Aniri .U" ’ declares French people hate
th.-v <aU,S antl wou'd crush them it
ln<J> could
Weston, a pioneer, who in
rtlo, V’ ‘jeld many municipal offices.
Tw aDSaS City- Mo- a«ed 75.
rten,.° 'el'rements from the prest
Ina <v|Cf *ne* are slated for the com
Gen vi ei’ They are those of Atty
°0fy’ whose resignation will
effect,ve about the 1st of De
ivuut me ist or
Treav.Ir, a‘ol that of Secretary of
[Treason- ov.- v‘ ocl;reiary oi th*
February ''haw’ who wil* retire ir
Seismographs at Goettingen, Prus
sia, Sydney, X. S., and on the Isle of
Wight recorded a powerful earthquake
at the same hour. As no part of the
world accessible to tae telegraph has
reported a disturbance, it is believed
that some vast unidentified region has
been shaken, probably around the
poles, or in Africa or Central Asia.
The Japanese naval department has
decided upon a naval programme for
the improvement of the Japanese navy,
the expansion to cover a period of
eight years. The diet is asked to vote
$130,000,000 for the purpose. It is
proposed to construct eight battleships
and 28 cruisers.
iu an address to the students of the
Havana university, Secretary Taft told
the Cubans that they need to stop
quarreling and get to work
Insurance men, after careful exam
ination, place the loss at Mobile, Ala.,
from the hurricane and tidal wave at
one million dollars.
Charles E. Magoon, the retiring min
ister to Panama and governor of the
canal zone, says conditions on the
isthmus are most favorable, and the
canal zone well governed. He said
that work on the canal was progress
ing satisfactorily. '‘There are front
2,000 to 3,000 Chinese on the isthmus,”
said Gov. Magoon, "and I do not think
they make desirable laborers. They
can not be depended upon. As soon
as the Chinaman has earned enough
money he starts a shop, and the gov
ernment loses a man.”
In discussing the Cuban question
with members of his cabinet, and with
callers at the White House, President
Roosevelt stated that the interven
tion in Cuba was solely for tile benefit
of the people of the island, that he
had no thought of annexation, but the
formation of a stable government.
Following an assault upon a girl bv
a negro, near Mobile, Ala., a mob
stormed the jail, thinking the negro
was there, but he was not. In a fu
sillade, Roy Hoyle, a special offiefier.
and Alderman Sidney Lyons, chairman
of the city council, wno were with the
sheriff and deputies in the jail, were
shot, the’ alderman in the hand and
Hoyle through the lungs. Hoyle died.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of the
president of the United States, who
is a student at Harvard, has been
summoned io appear before the grand
jury of Suffolk county, Massachusetts,
to give testimony in regard to an as
sault on an officer on Hoston com
mons.
Several Russian newspapers hav^
published editorial articles on the
events at Atlanta, tia.. comparing
them with the anli-Jewish massacres
in Russia. The Novoe Vremya ex
presses the hope that the United
States excesses to official provocation,
instead of admitting that they are the
result of natural racial animosity.
In making its report on the case of
an unidentified man found dead in St
Louis, ffom accident, the coroner’s
jury said: “We, the jury, are unable
to ascertain tho. manner in which the
deceased came to his death, because
of the failure of parties who, perhaps,
witnessed the occurrence, to take
enough Interest in human life to re
port the matter to tlie proper author!
ties.’’
An American won the James Gordon
Bonnet cup in a ballcon race, going
from Paris to a point 50 miles north
of Hull, England
Tne monthly statement of the gov
ernment receipts nnd expenditures
show that for the month of Septem
ber, 1900. the total receipts amounted
to $51,497,190 and the expenditures
$-10,250,174, leaving a surplus for the
month of $11,227,03G.
Ouster suits based on charges of
violation of the Kansas anti trust laws
have been filed in tffe supreme court
of Kansas against the Standard Oi:
Co. and the International Harvester
Co. The suits were filed by Atty.
Gen. Coleman.
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana
speaking at Lincoln, Neb., declares
Bryan would have been greater
preacher than Beecher.
The nineteen sailers sentenced tc
death for participation in the mutiny
of last August, at Cronstadt, Russia,
have been executed.
This year Is the first time in 1C
years that the populists are not rep
resented on the official ballot in Tex
as.
Harriman and Gould have entered
into a lively contest for an all-rail in
let to San Francisco via Dumbarton
Point.
Speaker Cannon declares that Cuba
will be annexed if necessary.
The Mexican supreme court ha?
handed down a decision affirming the
death sentence in the cases of Dr. C.
S. Harle, Leslie E. Hurlburt, alias
Richardson, and William Mitchell
alias Mason, the New York Life Insur
ance Co. swindlers. They are Ameri
cans, and they are charged with in
suring men and murdering them
They will be taken out and shot.
Refused an increase In wages from
$5.50 to $4.50. 3,200 mill men in Ala
tneda county, California, have walked
out.
Senator Beveridge fears revolt will
again rend Cuba, and the United States
flag must then go to stay, he de
dares.
Colorado Springs, Col., expeHencec
its first snowstorm of the season.
U. S. TROOPS.
REACHED CUEA WITH 200 MEN
ON BOARD.
Rebels Slow in Disarming and Our
Troops May Have to Garrison
the Principal Towns.
Havana.—The first contingent of
United States troops arrived here Oc
tober 6 on board the transport Sum
ner. The ship went to Havana Cen
tral wharf and the 900 soldiers with
their equipment were transported by
street cars to Camp Columbia under
the direction of Quartermaster Gen
eral Baker. There they will camp in
tents until the preparation of the bar
racks is completed.
Governor Taft says that he has no
Intention of turning back any portion
of the expedition of 5,000 regular
troops ordered to Cuba. He feels that
this number is needed as a prerau
tion against future trouble.
The disarmament of the rebels can
not he successfully completed until
the volunteers organized by the Cu
ban government have been paid off,
j disarmed and disbanded. That is the
position tiiat has been taken by vari
ous rebel commanders scattered
; throughout the island, who are
! strongly inclined to remain under
arms until the volunteers’ organiza
tions disappear. This is the only im
portant factor now retarding the
otherwise rapid dispersal of the rebel
forces.
i The disposition of the provisional
: government is to yield to this demand,
j The volunteers would have been mus
j lered out of service sooner but for the
necessity of having some force in ad
; dition 1o the police for the purpose of
| guarding the towns. It is rela'ed,
| however, that in many sections the
presence of volunteers and the militia
only acts as an irritant to the sur
rendering rebels. The conduct of the
volunteers toward their late oppo
nents is not always exemplary, and
what seems most needed is the pres
ence of a sufficient force of United
States soldiers and marines to so
thoroughly garrison every town that
the volunteers can be rapidly ifis
posed of and succeeded by capable and
well-disciplined American soldiers.
Until the towns are thus garrisoned it
is not believed that pacification will
be complete.
While the provisional government
!s not insistent on getting in all the
rebels’ guns, it is believed that most
of these weapons would be surrend
ered but for the presence of the vol
unteers. This attitude is apparent at
all points where the revolutionists
are in considerable force, but it is
particularly so in southern Santa
Clara, where the progress of disband
ment has been very poor, and where
the number of guns surrendered was
ridiculously small, as compared with j
the number of men dispersed.
Of 3,000 rebels visited in the Pal
myra district, only loO surrendered j
their guns. The disarmament com !
mission spent much time in endeavor
ing to find various dispersed bands !
but it is evident, that many of the men
have not yet returned to their homes
and that many are concealing their
weapons. All the men retained ttmir
horses, whether the animals were
theirs orginally or not.
Gen. Guzman’s big force is now
comparatively disbanded, and the only
visible weapons in the possession of
the men are machetes. They assert
that these are the only weapons they
ever had. It is estimated that from
8,000 or 10,000 rebels in the province
of Santa Clara no more than a thou
sand guns would be recovered. The [
commissioners realize that it will re- \
quire another week to get all the
arms that are surrendered and com
plete the dispersal of the insurgents.
At Hutuy, in the province of Puerto
Principe, a force of 400 insurgents
commanded by Gen. Reynoso refused
to surrender their guns while the vol
unteers were permitted to retain
their. Gen. Hernandez wired Gen.
Funston that the volunteers must be
disbanded before he could start in dis
arming the rebels. This attitude on
the part of the insurgents is directly
contrary to the pledge Gen. Guzman
made to Gov. Taft. At the outset
of the disarmament movement Guz
man, with the other leaders, agreed
to lay down ther arms, making no
statement that the government troops
should do likewise, relying wholly
upon Governor Taft’s promise of pro
tection. This obstacle to pacification
tends more than any other toward a
decision to employ American cavalry
to complete the disbandment of the
rebels.
$10,000 for a Small Book.
London. — Sotheby, Wilkinson &
Hodge recently sold by private
treaty to an American collector a
copy of the 1612 edition of Shakes
peare’s “The Passionate Pilgrime,’’ fo
2,001) pounds.
NEWS OF
ARKANSAS
Murder and Lynching in Argenta.
John B. Lindsay, white, of Jackson
ville, Pulaski coufity, was killed, and
his son, Milton Lindsay, was injured
by two negroes, declared by Milton
Lindsay to be Garret and C. C. Colum,
at the door of the Colum undertaking
establishment, 50.r> East Washington
avenue, Argenta, on the night of O •
tober 6. The negroes were at large
at last accounts. They escaped by
locking the doors of the rear rooms
of their establishment just after the
shooting to cause those who gathered
to believe they were still in the build
ing. They evidently got out of the
building within a few minutes after
th£ first shots were fired. The two
najfri are believed to have gone toward
Menifee, where they formerly lived.
The house was dynamited by the of
ficers, but no one was found therein.
The killing w-as the e.'ho of a tragedy
of some weeks before, when one of
the Colums was killed. H. Black
burn. a negro about 37 years of age,
who conducted a confectionery store
in Argenta, next to the grocery and
undertaking establishment of the
Colums, was lynched the night fol
lowing at the corner of Sixtli and
Main streets, just a half block from
the city hall, which contains the city’s
jail and fire station. The negro did
not confess nor did he make any
statement. He was seemingly so
badly frightened that the only words
he uttered were “Oh, Lordy! Oh.
Lordy!” Blackburn v-as strung up
to a telegraph pole, a rope about fifty
feet in length being thrown over the
cross-arm at the top ot' the pole, and
the victim of the mob being drawn up
about half way to the cross-beam.
Shortly after lie was strung up some
fifteen or twenty shots were fired at
him, and many of the bullets took
effect in his fcody.
The Burning Board Work.
The Stale Burning Board, consist
ing of Gov. Davis, Auditor Moore
and Secretary of State Ludwig, re
cently completed the checking of the
books of Treasurer Tipton. The war
rants redeemed during the past three
months were burned. The report of
the treasurer shows there were on
hand in the various funds on October
1, the following amounts:
<;mneral revenue.$ 3.‘i7,2r>G
Common school. 123.:tj3G 44
Stale capita]. 230,478 11
lViViancnt school. 1,017.310 03
Swa.'.if) Iiyul. 34.SS2 ON
Internal improvement. GN.OO.". 4.',
Confederate pcvisiou. 7G.011 -4
SinUhig fund. 104.000 .‘Id
Tax due bounties. 13.072 is
Tax due cities. 3:*,l 2i:
Penitentiary deposit. 3.000 :»:i
Mon-il fund. 8.1st (s;
State school interest. 003 31
I . of A. endowment ....... 2.124,433 73
Teachers’ fund. 100 20
Total .sa.r.'iG.G.so <54
This amount is held in currency,
bonds, coupons and scrip as fellows:
T. S. currency.$ i)!>S,n::7 a."
• ’•Minty scrip. .7;{4 rt
City scrip. 4 (HI
Auditor's certificates. 7>4H 5U
(iovornor Jones' note. 1U3,0ir> SI.*
Three per rent funding bonds. 1.27>ll,S0O (Hi
Three per cent funding bonds
coupons . 802,8^3 00
Five per cent Fayetteville
bonds . 0,00 00
Five per cent Fayetteville
bonds coupons. 7,500 (HI
Total .$0,230.08* 04
A Remarkable Growth Shown.
With tlio close of the present official
year. J. H. Hlnemon, superintendent
of public instruction, v.fill turn over
the affairs of his office to Prof. J. J.
Doyne. wlio has been elected for the
next two years. For this reason the
biennial report of Superintendent
Hine:«.on fs of special interest. He is
now completing his report and will
have it in the hands of the printer
soon. • Although the general tallies
in the report are for the past two
years, in his geuc-ral summary of
conditions during his term of office.
Superintendent Hinemon makes com
parison of the school facilities of Ar
kansas at the present time and at the
time he went into office, four years
ago. A remarkable growth is shown.
Street Duel at Beebe.
Ed Turnage, a prominent citizen of
Beebe, was recently shot and danger
ousl*’ wounded by Ed Stearnes.
Stearnes used a pistol and fired five
shots, two of which struck Turnage.
One bullet, enttred the right side,
passed around his ribs find lodged
near the backbone. The other
entered hfj right hip and rang
ed downward to the knee, bystand
ers say that Turnage drew his pistol
after he had fallen and tried to shoot
his assailant, but that his pistol fail
ed to fire. Stearnes had been pay
ing some attention to Turnage’s
daughter, to which Turnage objected,
and this brought on the difficulty.
A Popular Family.
The Jefferys family seem to have
carried White River Township, Inde
pendence county solid, in the last
election. J. B. and Robert Jeffery
were elected justices of the peace, W.
E. Jeffery was elected constable and
W. M. Jeffery road overseer.
Taken to Little Rock.
John Beavers, Sr., who on Septem
ber 26, was shot and seriously injured
near England by his son, John Beav
ers. Jr., in an alleged family quarrel,
has been taken to the Little Rock
Sanitarium, and is in a critical con
dition. He will lose his left arm, and
three fingers on his right hand were
shot off as a result of the quarrel.
Will Try Arkansas Pickers. .
A. B. Moore, of Guthrie, Oklahoma,
passed through Fort Smith recently
with 100 white cotton-pickers, who
will be distributed through the farms
in the vicinity of Guthrie. Mr. Moore
said that he expected to be able to
give the men work for the entire year.
While at. Fort Smith Mr. Moore re
ceived a message instructing him to
secure as many pickers as is possible,
as there is a large demand for them
in the Guthrie district. The pickers
are ^aid 75 cents per 100 pounds.
Most of them are married men and
will remove their families to Guthrie
on the promise of Mr. Moore to give
them a year's work. Mr. Moore will
return in a short time for another lot
of pickers. The men were drawn from
Washington and Benton counties.
Reunion at Walcott Postponed.
On account of the excessive rains
the Confederate reunion st Walcott
has been postponed. The condition of
the roads and the continued rain ren
dered it next to impossible to make
the reunion a success. Walcott will
perhaps set another day, when it is
to be hoped that conditions will he
more favorable to holding the re
union.
Boll Weevil in Arkansas.
In answer to an inquiry, W. G. Vin
cenheller, director of the Arkansas .Ag
ricultural Experimental Station at Fay
etto\'ille, writes that there is no ques
tion in his mind but that the boll wee
vil has already made its appearance
in Arkansas and that unless precau
tions are taken by the farmers it will
spread to a larger territory next year.
Mr. Vincenheller has been in commu
nication with Dr. W. D. Hunter, who is
in charge of the government entomolo
gist work in Toxis and Louisiana, and
Dr. Hunter states that tV.ready the
weevil has made its appearance in Mil
ler, Lafayette and Columbia counties.
According to the report front Mr. Hun
ter the weevil has been found not more
than twelve or fifteen miles north of
the Louisiana state line in Columbia
county, but he believes it. will spread
farther north and will migrate east
ward just as if has done in Louisiana.
Preacher Convicted cf Harboring
Fugitive.
Rev. \V. R. Brown was convicted in
the Pike County Circuit Court on a
charge of concealing a fugitive and
sentenced to one year in the peni
tentiary. The man to whom lie gave
shelter was James Harris, who was
charged with intent to kill. Harris was
in the Pike county jail and made liis
escape. The officers had reason to be
lieve that he was in hiding at Rev.
Brown's residence. They went to the
house and the minister denied all
knowledge of the fugitive's where
abouts. The premises were searched
afterward and Harris was found and
taken to jail.
Good Shooting For a Kid.
J. B. Reese, the 14-year-old son of
S. B. Reese of Nashville, on a Sun
day morning recently hilled 13 teal
ducks on the pond on the Glendale
stock farm at one shot. A
number of ducks were swimming
around on the water when the shot
was fired, after which 13 were so
cured. The boy shot again as the
ducks arose to fly away and killed
another, making 14 ducks at two
shots. Mr. Reese states that he does
not allow his boy to hunt on Sunday,
but that such shots as those made
last. Sunday morning fn a measure
palliates the offense.
Cyclone Anniversary.
October 2 was the twelfth anniver
sary of the big cyclone visited
Little Rock in 1894, which
was probably the most destructive
storm that city had ever experienced.
The cyclone struck the city about 7:
30 o’clock in the evening and before
it passed four persons were killed, 37
were injured and property was dam
aged to the extent of about a million
dollars.
How Is It?
It is said that a letter mailed at
Russelville for Dardanelle, five miles
away, has to travfl 175 miles to get
there. It leaves Russellville, goes to
Little Rock, from there to Ola, and
from Ola 16 miles by star route to
Dardanelle. Yet there is a train mak
ng regular trips from Russellville to
‘he pontoon bridge at Dardanelle.
A Sensible Investment.
The Independence County Quorum
"'ourt, at its recent meeting at Bates
/Ille, appropriated $200 with which
o purchase a copy of the “Arkansas
Justice Guide” for each member of
he court. The book3 cost $6 per
volume.
A Tragic Accident.
Ernest Carter, who lives in Missouri,
was accidentally killed recently while
hunting near Lafe. He was visiting
his brother, Charles, and with a friend,
Arthur Sillman, were hunting S'tiir
rels. Late in the afternoon tlify dis
covered a squirrel in a tree and the
two brothers attempted to scare the
animal so that Sillman could get a
shot at it. Carter was shaking a bush
trying to frighten the squirrel out of
its hiding place and Sillman was walk
ing backward and looking up into the
tree, when he stumbled and fell. The
gun, which was a single barrel, was
discharged in the fall, and the f ntire
load of shot with which it was loaded
struck Carter in the chin, neck and
breast, killing him instantly. Carter
was 2S years old and he and Sillman
were great friends. They had known
each other a long time and were in
separable companions. Mr. Sillman is
grief stiricken over the horrible acci
dent. The corpse of the unfortunate
man was shipped back to his Missouri
home for interment.
Arkansas Postal News.
Special service to Clifford, Chicot
county, from Eudora has been discon
tinued. Following are the schedules
from the points named: Longview to
Milo: Leave Longview Monday, Wed
nesday and Saturday at 7:25, arrive
at Milo at 11 a. m.. leave Milo Monday,
Wednesday and Saturday on arrival
of mail from Hamburg, arrive at Long
view in two hours and 35 minutes.
Ranes to Garner: Leave Ranes daily at
6:45 a. m., arrive at Garner 8:45 a. m..
leave Garner daily on receipt of mail
from trains due at 9:30 a. m. and 9:35
a. m., but not later than 11:30 a. m.,
arrive at Ranes in two hours. Fol
lowing is the schedule from Ravenden
Springs to Ravenden : Leave Ravenden
Springs daily at 10:30 a .m., arrive at
Ravenden by 1 p. m.. leave Ravenden
daily on receipt of mail from train:;
due at 1:52 p. m. and 2:21 p. m., but
not later than 3:30 p. m,, arrive at
Ravenden Springs in two hours and a
half. Jacob C. Hickman has been com
missioned postmaster at Butterfield.
Revenue Collections in Little Rock Dis
trict.
The internal revenue office here col
lected $7,127.02 in the month of Sep
tember just passed, against $7,260.32
in the same month in 1905, which is a
decrease of $133.30. However, for the
quarter ending September 30 of the
enrrent year the collections were $29,
7S1.84, as against $27,263.24 for the
same period of 1905, the gain for the
period being $2,518.00.
To Improve Benton County Stock.
In order to Improve the stock of
Benton county a company was recently
organized in Siloam Springs and has
just purchased a Perchernon Normal
stallion, paying $3,000 for the animal.
The following are the members of the
stock improving company: E. M. Gra
ven. A- F. Stevens, Gynn Sooter, D.
M. Edwar-ds. B. C. Phillips, E. E. Wit
ty, Funk Bros, and IV. L. Wells.
Burning Board at Work.
The State Burning; Board met Octo
ber 2 in the office of State Treasurer
Tipton and began the work of check
ing the books for the past three
months. It is expected the report will
show that more than $1,000,000 has
been paid out by the state treasurer
during the last three months. About
two-thirds of this amount was dis
bursed during the past month.
They Violated the Quarantine.
J. E. Hogan and Hiram Silers of
Webster county, Mo, pleaded guilty
recently in the United States court of
the western district of Missouri to
driving cattle from Arkansas into Mis
souri while affected with disease, con
trary to the government quarantine
laws. They were each lined $100 and
costs, amounting to over $200.
A Long Haul to Markdt.
Henry Lively, a farmer living in
Rock Creek township, Pike county,
.'lauled two hales of cotton recently
iver had roads and in bad weather
a distance of 05 miles, to Mena. He
was paid a good price for his cotton,
and made no complaints of the trip
ARKANSAS BRIEFS
The total valuation of all the real
and persona! property of Randolph
county for the year 1906 is $2,922,258.
The personal property valuation is $1,
90,003, as follows; Horses, $209,262;
miles, $153,938; cattle, $151,120; hogs.
29.5S1; sheep, $!,t)17; wagons, $17,
11.
W. L. Grayson’s eight-year-old-daugh
er was killed recently at Huntington,
y the accidental discharge of a shot
pin which had been left on a bed.
bout a year ago a five-year-old
laughter was killed by a log rolling
ipon her.
Ex-Senator Sid Kilgore recently
licked five bales of cotton from a
hree-acre tract of up-land on his
.arm near Magnolia.
William S. Morgan has been ap
pointed postmaster at Tupelo, Jack
ion county, vice J. F. Gardner re
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