VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1908.
NO. 25.
Pr NEWS OF ^
\ ARKANSAS j
Frost, Snow and Ice Visit State.
Officially speaking, there was no
frost in Little Rock and its vicinity
Thursday. That means the tempera
ture did not drop enough for the
Weather Bureau to hunt for frost. In
the secluded spots, however, at street
levels, frost appeared Thursday morn
ing, according to the reports of many
persons. The absolute minimum tem
perature for Little Rock was 38 de
grees.
Frosts ranged from heavy to light
In the state Thursday. In the fruit
growing district in the northwest part
of the state the frosts were heavy. At
Bentonville a minimum temperature
of 30 degrees was reported. As that
was 2 degrees below' freezing, the frost
was a killing one, and the quality of
the fruit will be impaired and the
quantity lessened.
Cotton was badly damaged in the
lowlands. In the bottoms near Pine
Bluff frosts occurred and the growing
cotton was killed. In England, Lon
oke county, heavy frosts damaged the
cotton and corn. The mercury fell
to 29 degrees at Eureka Springs, and
vegetables, as well as cotton and corn,
suffered. Reports from Havana and
Hoxie were to the effect that all grow
ing crops were injured by frosts.
Thursday morning was phenomenal
in many states. The storm was cen
tral over North Carolina. In the states
of Kentucky, Mississippi, and, in fact,
in all the Gulf and South Atlantic
states, it was either raining or snow
ing. In Kentucky it wras snowing.
The weather was clear and cool in Ar
kansas, but the indications were for
warmer weather.
Killed Big Lynx.
J. T. White, living in the northern
part of Crawford county, was attack
ed by a fierce lynx in the mountains
near Cove City, and but for the time
ly arrival of a friend might have been
seriously, if not fatally, injured. Mr.
White had ridden between the animal
and its den, in which there were two
newly born kittens. The lynx be
came greatly enraged and was about
to spring upon Mr. White when his
friend, Mr. Mangoal, arrived upon the
scene and with clubs and stones killed
the animal. It measured a little over
four feet in length, its heights being
22 1-2 inches.
Mangled and Crushed By Cars.
'William Bunion Brumbelow, 118
North Ringo street. Little Rock, aged
24 years, a former employe of the
Little Rock Railway and Electric Com
pany, was caught between two street
cars on Main street, about 8:45 o’clock
Wednesday night, and fatally injured.
Both of his legs were badly cut and
almost mashed to a pulp from a point
just below the knee to the ankle. The
right side of his head was cut and
bruised. His entire body was bruised.
Brumbelow was taken to the City hos
pital, where he died at 2:30 o’clock
Thursday morning.
Tetanus kills Injured Man.
Roscoe Covington, a printer who
was run over and injured by a street
car at Hot Springs April 17, died at
St. Joseph’s infirmary. The young
man’s injuries were not at first re
garded as serious, but tetanus set in
and death ensued in a short time.
The funeral took place Tuesday af
ternoon.
Fire At Atkins.
Monday night, shortly after 10
o'clock, the general store of W. L.
Mitchell & Son at Atkins, was found
to be on fire. Prompt response was
made by the citizens to the alarm,
and the flames were extinguished af
ter a loss of possibly $500 to store
and stock. Insurance will cover the
loss.
Policeman Kills Negro.
At 2 o'clock Sunday morning the
police on the Arkansas side of Tex
arkana raided a negro crap game in
a vacant house on an alley at the rear
of Laurel and Sixth streets and made
several arrest 3. Powell Trimbles, one
of the players, resisted the officers and
in the scuffle which ensued he was
killed by a shot from the pistol of
i oliceman Kuhn. It is said the offi
cer was trying to subdue the negro
by beating him with the pistol when
it was accidentally discharged, with
the fatal results noted.
Addressed By Hartzog.
President Hartzog of Ouachita Col
lege has recently delivered addresses
to the schools of Prescott and Brink
le>'- He has engagements to deliv
er commencement addresses to the
following schools:
Little Rock Medical College, May
1; Gurdon, May 4; Fort Smith, May
Morrilton, May 15; Nashville, May
22; Stephens, May 26; Hope, May 27;
Clarendon, June, 5; Crossett, June 12.
He has had to decline a number of
invitations from other points because
°f conflicting dates.
Wind Killed 14 Near Hot Springs.
News of fourteen additional dead by
the recent tornado in the country west
of Hot Springs was brought in Tues
day. Four of this number were white
and the remainder negroes.
An aged white man, named Vander
venter, and two women, living at his
home, were instantly killed at Peak
postoffice.
A white man named Page, was kill
ed at Ashley, and ten negroes, com
posing two families, were wiped out
of existence.
The territory in the storm’s path
was covered with some of the finest
hard and soft timber to be found in
the South, and this was devastated.
The roads are impassable on account
of millions of feet of timber being
blown down, and direct communica
tion with the desolate district is cut
off. From reports received, it seems
that three distinct storms wrought
the havoc.
It is known that the suffering is
acute in parts of the territory. Per
sons were not only rendered homeless,
but many persons were more or less
injured. As is the case in all such
storms, there were some marvelous
escapes from death. The residences
of Green Houton and Bob Menzer, ten
miles west of Hot Springs, were
blown away, but the inmates were not
injured.
Lumber Plant Burns Down.
The plant of the Cunningham &
Kitchen Lumber Company was com
pletely destroyed by fire at Tinsman,
Friday night. The company’s plant
was not insured, and the loss will be
about $5,000. J. E. Ritchie, a promi
nent farmer and mill man near here,
is also a loser by about $2,000. He
had recently bought a sawmil outfit,
and part of it was stored in one of
the Cunningham & Kitchen sheds. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
Officers Battle With Desperadoes.
It is the belief of many at Newport
that a daring plan to rob the postofflce
or one of the banks there was frustrat
ed Tuesday when the prompt action
of Sheriff Simons placed two negroes
known to be desperate characters be
hind the bars. The arrest was ac
complished after a vicious fight, in
which the assistance of half a dozen
citizens was necessary to disarm the
negroes, and they were overpowered
only after one of them was badly
wounded and finally covered with a
pistol in the hands of Assistant Post
master Holly Cobb.
Corning Revival Enas.
Revival services that have been held
at the Baptist church at Corning for
two weeks, conducted by Rev. H.
L. Winburn of Arkadelphia, closed
Monday night. There were many con
versions.
Killed Seven Wolves.
A party of hunters living in the vi
cinity of Almyra, after a three-days'
chase near the junction of Mill Bayou
and Bayou Meto in Arkansas county,
succeeded in killing seven wolves.
Died From Lockjaw.
Curtis Lewis, 16 years of age, and
whose home was in Piggott, died from
lockjaw, the result of blood poison
caused by a nail which pierced his
foot a few days before.
Died From Injuries.
Mrs. J. W. Dawson, who received
severe injuries in the fire at the 'Wood
men hall at Ellsworth during a church
entertainment recently, died from the
effects of her injuries.
Bankruptcy Petition Filed.
J. M. Prough, a resident of Earle,
in Crittenden county, has filed a vol
untary petition in bankruptcy. He
quotes his liabilities at $6,842.92 and
his assets at $6,321.
Injured Miner Dies.
Frank Blonski, the miner who was
so severely burned in a mine explo
sion died at the Belle Point hospital at
Fort Smith.
Fights Farmer With Hatchet.
Craton Thacker, a young farmer,
who lives four miles west of Mammoth
Spring, went to the home of Henry
Guscheke Saturday and demanded to
know whether or not Guscheke had
charged him with having given false
testimony in a divorce suit. Guscheke
is said to have admitted making the
statement, whereupon Thacker attack
ed him with a hatchet, inflicting a bad
wound in the arm with the first blow
and splitting Guscheke’s head to a
point below the eyes with the second.
Guscheke is still living.
Preached Anniversary Sermon.
Rev. A. C. Cloys delivered a sermon
at Central Avenue Methodist church
at Batesville Sunday, i^ commemora
tion of the eighty-ninth anniversary
of the establishment of Odd Fellow
ship.
Bought Canning Plant.
F. W. Brown of Cave City has pur
chased the necessary machinery for
establishing a canning factory at that
place. The plant will be ready for
operation in June.
State Capital Notes
Annual Report Shows Less Loses.
Col. J. C. Colquitt of the state audi
tor’s office, who is compiling the an
nual insurance company statistics for
Arkansas for the year 1907, has an
nounced figures in regard to fire in
surance companies that are of unusual
interest, in that they show that the
fire loss ratio in this state last year
was only 36.59 per cent, a decrease of
22.21 per cent over the average ratio
during the past six years.
During the past year the fire insur
ance companies operating in the state
received $2,587,042 in premiums and
paid out $950,160 in losses, leaving
the loss ratio of 36.59 per cent. The
year before the companies received
$1,709,363 in premiums and paid out
$649,301 in losses. In that year, de
spite the fact that less money was
paid out in losses, the loss ratio was
greater than in 1907 because of the
increased amount of premiums paid in
in 1907 over that amount paid in 1906.
Col. Colquitt is devoting all of his
time to compiling the insurance re
port, which is an exhaustive one and
which requires a great amount ot
work.
School Directors’ Election.
The election of new school directors
throughout the state will be held on
the third Saturday in May. One new
director will be elected in each com
mon school district and two new di
rectors in each special school district.
The amount of school tax to be as
sessed in each district will also be
voted upon at the same election. The
question of “county supervision” will
not be voted upon until next year’s
school directors’ election, as even then
the county superintendents cannot be
elected until the year following, 1910,
owing to a section of the law regard
ing the election, which requires that
the question of “county supervision”
must be voted upon the year preced
ing the general election at wliicu
county superintendents may be elect
ed.
Officers School to Open May 20.
The school of instruction for the line
officers of the Arkansas National
Guard will open at Fort Logan H.
Hoots May 20 and remain in session
for eleven days. The date for the
opening and closing of the officers’
school was set Monday afternoon at
the close of a conference between
Maj. Thompson, in command of Fort
Logan H. Roots, Adj. Gen. Paul Little
and Maj. E. B. Jett, the latter two of
the Arkansas guard. Other arrange
ments for the school of instruction,
which will be the first of its kind in
the history of Arkansas, were also
made.
To Dine With Roosevelt.
Governor Pindall has received an
invitation from President Theodore
Roosevelt to De entertained at dinner
on the evening of May 12, the day on
which the national drainage confer
ence will be held at Washington. Gov
ernor Pindall has accepted the invi
tation and will be one of the guests
at dinner at the White House on that
evening. The governors of all the
states of the Union have been ured
to be in Washington on May 12 to
attend the dranage conference and for
several days following to attend the
national conference for the conserva
tion of natural resources.
Senator Davis Sued For $25.
In the court of Justice Rankin a
suit was filed by W. .1. Parks of
Springdale against Senator Jeff Davis
for $25, alleged to be due for services
and campaign expenses when Davis
was running for governor in 1900. In
an affidavit. Parks says the bill is
true and cored and that the expenses
were incurred in Yell, Logan and Scott
counties. W. L. Greer is the attor
ney in the suit.
May Select Faculty.
At the next meeting of the State
Normal School Board, which will be
held in Little Rock May 21, the mat
ter of selecting the faculty for the
new State Normal at Conway and
equipping the new school will probably
be taken up. If the matter is taken
up it is probable that only a part of
the faculty will be selected at that
meeting, as the task of selecting teach
ers is one which demands time and
care.
Companies Return Equipment.
Five of the Arkansas National
Guard companies thus far have re
turned their arms and ammunition to
the arsenal in Little Rock. Maj. E.
B. Jett will pack the equipment re
turned thus far this week and ship
everything to Rock Island, 111., where
the War Department ordered that it
be sent. All of the companies will
returu their arms equipment and then,
immediately upon making out $500
bond to insure the protection of the
new quipment, will receive the new
Springfield rifles and ammunition.
200 More Convicts Will Be Needed.
Superintendent J. A. Pitcock of the
penitentiary, who has just returned
from a trip to the state farm, where
he inspected the work that is being
done by the convicts on the levee and
the cotton crop, stated that he would
ask the Penitentiary Board to send
about 200 more convicts to the farm,
if possible, to help hoe the cotton,
which has already been planted, and
which is now being harrowed. There
are already 230 convicts at the farm,
but Superintendent Pitcock slates that
it will be necessary to almost double
the force when it comes time to hoe
the cotton. It is thought that the
cotton will be ready to be hoed about
next week.
The extra convicts for the farm will
be taken from the convict contractors,
who are obliged, under the terms of
their contracts, to give up convicts
when so ordered by the board. A few
months ago the board took about 50
convicts away from one of the contrac
tors and sent them to the farm to as
sist in the work of picking the last
crop of cotton.
About 400 more acres at the state
farm will be put out in cotton this
year than last. Superintendent Pit
cock estimates that between 2,800 and
3,000 acres will be planted in cotton.
A portion of the new cotton land was
formerly planted in corn. There will
be but about 100 acres planted in
corn this season.
Mr. Pitcock reports that favorable
progress is being made by the con
victs in the work of building up the
levee at the farm. The old levee is
being built about three or four feet
higher. When completed it will stand
about 12 feet higher than the top of
the natural bank, or about 22 feet
above the level of the river when the
latter is at its ordinary stage. Forty
convicts are employed in building up
the levee.
Board Appoints Sanitation Expert.
At a meeting of the city Board ol
Health Tuesday afternoon in the may
or’s office, Dr. Horace Rice, the junior
member of the firm of Rice & Rice,
was employed by the city as expert
sanitary insp<ictor to inspect the dai
ries, meat shops, restaurants and such
places? for the detection of disease
germs. His work will be more es
pecially with the dairies, the cows, the
milk and the people who have charge
of the milk, for the detection of tuber
culosis bacilli. Dr. Rice will make
chemical analysis of the milk and wat
er used at the dairies, and will do
everything to compel the proprietors
of the dairies to keep their dairies
as sanitary as possible. He will be
assisted in his work by the Police
Department. Dr. Rice will begin his
work May 1.
The board, while in session Tues
day afternoon, listened to a lecture
on “Tuberculosis Bacilli,” by Dr. Din
ton, of the State University experi
ment station.
Plan to Make This County Dry.
Pulaski county will be voted “dry”
at the coming general election next
fall if the present plans of the Ar
kansas Anti-Saloon League prove suc
cessful. The league is now planning
the most strenuous and thorough cam
paign against liquor that has ever
been made in the history of this
county. The campaign will last two
months, July and August.
Prominent anti-saloon league lead
ers, such as E. A. Tabor, Rev. Dr. J.
A. Anderson, editor of the Western
Methodist, and others, are now busy
arranging plans for the campaign, and
although all of their plans have not
been completed, they have already told
enough of them to indicate that the
saloon men will be given the battle
of their lives.
Two More Delegates Named.
Governor Pindall has named two
more delegates to the national confer
ence on drainage to be held at Wash
ington, May 12. The governor named
George W. Donaghey of Conway, Dern
acratic nominee for governor, and D.
E. King of Little Rock. The governor
thus far has received word from four
or five of the men whom he appointed
to attend the conference with him to
the efTect that they have accepted the
appointments.
Company Incorporates.
Articles of incorporation and agree
ment have been filed with the secre
tary of state by the Pike County Dia
mond Mining Company, which says it
will engage in the mining and sale of
diamonds. The company will operate
at Delight, but will have its office at
Texarkana. It incorportes with a capi
tal stock of $100,000, of which $50,
100 has been subscribed. The stock
is divided into 40,000 shares at $25
each. The incorporators: J. G. Bick
ley, Reece and A. C. Lamb.
Expelled From Helena During War.
After an absence of more than 40
years, Mrs. Emma Morris has returned
to Helena, which she was forced to
leave in her girlhood days because
she dared to wear the colors of the
flag she loved upon her hat, after the
fall and capture of Helena by the
Federals in the Civil war.
It was Mrs. Morris, then Miss Em
ma Rightor, who presented to the gal
lant Capt. J. C. Barlow a silk flag,
worked by the ladies of Helena, when
he mustered his battery of guns and
marched away to the front. She was
loyal to the flag which her hands pre
sented, and it was this unwavering
devotion, coupled with brilliant dar
ing, that brought on the command
which drove her from the city.
Mrs. Morris was presiding at the or
gan for the Baptist church on a Sun
day following the fall of the city, and
she showed her spirit by donning a
hat bearing the colors of the Confeder
acy. A lieutenant from the Ferera
troops was in attendance at church
and after the services he notified the
daring young woman that she might
consider herself under arrest and re
quested that she report at headquar
ters Monday morning, Gen. Beauford,
who was commanding, upheld his jun
ior officer, and Mrs. Morris was com
pelled to leave the city.
She went from Arkansas to Ken
tucky, where she met the young man
whom she afterwards married—Ben
jamin Morris—and in Kentucky she
has lived ever since the day that she
donned the hat trimmed in the stars
and bars of the Confederacy.
_
Hacks Off Head With An Axe.
What was probably the most ghast
ly and uncanny murder in the history
of Saline county occurred two miles
west of Hensley late Monday after
noon, when Alex Brunson, a negro
about 45 years old, killed Fred Al
ford, another negro, aged 63 years, by
chopping off his head with an axe.
After severing Alford’s head from the
body, Brunson is alleged then to have
placed the head on a block and hack
ed it into four pieces. According to
one report of the killing, Brunson then
took the brains out of the head and
placed them on a table, intending to
feed them to his dog. After killing
Alford, Brunson sat up all night over
the body and was still watching the
body Tuesday morning when he was
arrested by Deputy Sheriff T. P. Byrd,
and taken to Little Rock, and from
there taken to Benton, where he is
held on the charge of murder. It is
thought by many that Brunson is in
sane. It is alleged that Brunson, after
killing Alford, dragged the latter’s
body around to the front porch of the
Brunson home and, standing on the
body, crowed with joy.
Negro Preacher Arrested.
C. N. Moore, a negro preacher, was
returned to Pine Bluff by Sheriff C. M.
Philpot to answer a charge of obtain
ing money by false pretenses. He was
I arrested at Watonga, Okla., and Sher
| iff Philpot went there for him. The
; information was filed against the ne
gro by Prosecuting Attorney W. D.
; Jones at ihe request of various per
, sons, who charge that Moore fleeced
: them. It is alleged that Moore went
| to Pine Bluff some weeks ago and
I sold a number of town lots, which
! he said he had on sale at Ferguson,
■ Okla. It is charged that the lots do
not belong to Moore. He is also ac
| cused of representing himself as a
promoter of an improvement associa
! tion.
New Bridge At Council Bluff.
The new steel bridge to be erected
by Perry county at Council Bluff
across Fourche LaFave river, about
two miles southwest of Houston, has
arrived there, loaded on cars. The
work of construction will begin as
soon as the high water recedes, thus
fulfilling the pledge of Judge J. N.
Stone, who was elected upon the is
sue of bridging that stream at several
points. The others have been com
pleted.
Fight to the Death With Knives.
In a fight which took place Sunday
evening about five miles from Sny
der, El Mitchell was killed almost in
stantly, and his son. Bob, and Lon
Matthews wounded so seriously that
both are expected to die. Owing tc
the serious manner in which the twc
survivors are injured, no attempt has
been made to place them under ar
rest. It is said that the Mitchells accus
ed Matthews of shooting some of their
live stock, and when the parties met
Sunday, the elder Mitchell and Mat
thews began fighting with knives.
At a resort known as Spring City
and located on the Missouri line, Fred
M. Murphy and Carl and Frank Lind
ley, two brothers, engaged in a pistol
duel Saturday afternoon. The parties
were said to have been drinking and
became involved in some petty con
troversy. The Lindley brokers drew
guns and began firing at Murphy, af
ter concealing themselves behind trees.
Murphy, with but four shots in his
gun, walked toward them, seeking to
better his position, and after the Lind
leys had emptied their guns they ran,
* No arrests have been made.
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