THE NEWARK JOURNAL
Published Weekly
3. F. CRAIG. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Entered at the post ofPce at Newark,
Ark., as second class mail.
Cross county politics seems
to be the Early Bird variety.
They will hold their Democra
tic primary election in that
county on December 7.
It cost New York a half mil
lion dollars to hold a constitu
tional convention, and then the !
voters rejected the new consti-j
tution by a majority of 150,000
This might be a valuable point
er for some of our Arkansas
folks who are clamoring so
loudly for a new constitution.
The Memphis Commercial
Appeal says: “The candidate
who does not put prohibition on
his campaign banner may as
well close up his headquarters
and go back to sawing wood.”
There is a good deal of truth in
this but the Commercial Appeal
would not have admitted as
much a few years ago. But
some people learn awfully slow.
Some of the newsapers are
predicting that Gov. Hays’ ap
pointment of Mr. Burnside to
succeed Mr. Surridge on the
State Charity Board mear.sthat
Gov. Hays will not be a Candi
date for re-election. The Jour
nal as no inside informat:on,
but it is our opinion that the pa
pers making these predictions
will find that they are not very
reliable prophets.Gov. Hayswiil
be a candidate for re-election,
and unless there is some decid
ed change in the line-up as it
now stands, he will be re-elect
ed.
The State of Alabama is
more than three million dollars
in debt, and the state officials
are facing a big problem, asthe
tax rate is already as high as
can be levied under the present
constitution. If it is worth any
thing to a friend in distress,we
don’t mind saying that our per
sonal experience has taught us
that when we cannot make
enough money to meet expen
ses we have found it a pretty
good rule to cut down expen
ses; and we shouldn’t be sur
prised if that wouldn’t be a
good rule for our old friend
Alabama to adopt. And we
might bring it nearer home by
saying that if Independence
county would todow this rule
lor the next two or three years
her county scrip would not ho
selling at 90 cents.
GOOD PASTURE
We have the finest cane
pasture in the county and are
prepared to take stock for
pasturage at $1 a head per
month. Man on place to look
after stock.
H. E. HAWTHORNE.
RESIDENCE FOR SALE
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good well of water, smoke
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Grand Jury Report
To the Honorable Dene H.
Coleman, Judge of the Third
Judicial Circuit:
We, the grand jury of Inde
pendence county, for the fall
term, 1915,of the Independence
circuit court, having completed
our work, beg to submit the fol
lowing report:
We have investigated all
crimes and violations against the
law of which we had knowledge
or received information, and
where, in our judgment, the
evidence waranted it, we have
returned bills of indictment.We
have examined 101 witnesses
and have returned into this
court 71 true bills of indictment .
We have by committee exam
ined the reports of the justices
of the peace of the varioustown
ships of the county and find
that all have filed their reports
according to law except those
of ft. A. Frazier, deceased, and
S. W. Williams, resigned.
We have by committee exam
ined the reports of the road ov
erseers of the different town
ships of flie county and find that
they have all filed their reports
as required by law.
We delegated a committeeto
visit the county poor farm, the
report of said committee being
as follows:
“To the Foreman and Mem
bers of the grand jury:
“By your appointment we vis
ited the county farm the sec
ond day of court. Our visit was
unexpected as this duty has
been attended to the second
week of court. The keeper and
his wife were absent when we
arrived, being out on the farm
attending to some duty. We
went through the buildings and
into the various rooms and a
mong the inmates and talked
with several of them. We have
no complaint to make against
Mr. Duncan and his wife. We
feel assured they are doing the
very best they can, considering
the meager appropriation made
to support the farm. In fact,we
hardly see how they can man
age so well with- so little sup
port. We found things in better
order than we expected to find
them.
\\ e believe the county
should not be so much interest
ed in seeing how little the coun
ty farm can be run on, as in
seeing how well it can care for
its unfortunate poor.
“We recommend, first, that
th° gap in the south porch be
filled in with a porch and cov
erng is badly needed here to
protect the kitchen from the
summer sun.
“Second, that a well be dug
in a convenient place at the
building. An ample supply of
water is an absolute necessity.
The present well has failed and
the cistern is dry and waterhas
to be hauled at present.
"third, that a large hand bell
be purchased and used by the
superintendent to assemble the
inmates at meal time, or at any
°ther time when it is desired to
have them assemble for any
purpose, especially to alarm
them in case of fire. The in
mates can be quickly made to
understand that when the bell
rings they must at once assem
ble at a stated place on the
premises.
“Fourth, that the roof on the
north side be repaired at once
as it is decayed already and
will rapidly go to pieces if it
does not have immediate atten
tion.
“Before we left Mr. and Mrs.
Duncan returned to the house
and gave us information and
made suggestions to us that
lorm the basis for a part of
these recommendations.
“W. W. Magness,
“B. H. Dodd.
“John Q. Wolf,
Committee.”
The committee to investigate
the convict camp submitted the
following report:
“We find the sanitary condi
tion very good. We find the
rules of the convict board to be
reasonable and fair to both the
county and convict, but find
that these rules are not strictly
[carried out by the ward
en. We therefore advise that
this board use every possible
means to have these rules en
forced.
“The will of this jury, that
the convicts be worked f ull days,
not to go home on Saturdays or
any other days, not to fish or
hunt, nor should the convictsor
prisoners in jail be allowed to
play dice, as it leads to gamb
ling.
i “Further, that the pay of the '
head warden be reduced to $60 ;
per month, and that his assist
ant shall not be paid more than
$1 per day. That the cost of
prisoners in jail shall not ex
ceed 75c per day, as the law
says.
“That all persons be kept
away from near the jail win
dows on the outside. As we see
it, there would be no trouble j
for an outsider to furnish fire-1
arms, tools, poison, dynamite, i
or anything asked for by the i
prisoners.
“It is also suggested that all
the officials of the countystudy
the digest and make themselves
familiar with the law.
“B. H. Dodd.
W. M .Waller,
Committee.
We visited tie county |,ul in
a body and found conditions a
bout as good as could be ex
pected under the circumstances
the jail being very crowded at
the time. In another place in
this report wa make some re
commendations in regard tothc*
jail.
We have looked over and ex
amined the court house and
grounds and find that certain
needed repairs have been pro
vided for by the quorum court. I
We have as far as possible
under the circumstances exam
ined and investigated the re
ports of the various county of
ficers of the county and find:
The report of the commis
sioners of accounts and an ex
amination of those commission
ers and of several county offi
cials discloses a condition of af
fairs in our county that is any
thing but reassuring to the tax
payers and anything but com
plimentary to several county of
ficers. There is a looseness and
a lack of system and order in
the conduct and management
of several of the county offices
which, if practiced by business
houses, would quickly lead to
bankruptcy. To illustrate: The
receiving officers of the county,
with the single exception of the
treasurer,have been in the hab
it, of settling with the county
annually instead of quarterly,
as the law requires .Under the
Gray law, which seems to be
responsible for much of the
ooseness and delinquencies pre
vailing at the court house,these
receiving officers seem not to
know how much money they
owe the county in excess of sal
ary, until the commissioners of
accounts meet, which is once a
year, and figure it out forthem.
Then they turn in the amount
to the treasurer. Certainly any
man who is competent to fill |
these various offices ought to j
take enough pride in his work
to keep his own books and be \
able to know without beingtoJd !
by the commissioners, how j
much he owes the county, and
he ought to turn it in without
being called on by the commis
sioners. These officers explain
that their predecessors did it
that way and they are merely
following precedent.
We recommend that all re
ceiving officers pay over to the
treasurer the kind offundsthey
collect.
We have examined the re
ports of the various constables
of the county and find they are
in the main correct.
We find that quite a number
of corporations doing business
in the county arenotfilingtheir
annual statements with the
county clerk in the manner
which the law requires. The
statute says these annual state
ments must show the “condi
tion” of the reporting corpora
tion and that they must show
the amount of their debts. Sev
eral of the principal corpora
tions doing business in the coun
ty have evaded and are evad
ng this requirement by cover
ering up their indebtedness un
der the heading of “surplus,
undivided profits, bills payable
and accounts payable.” . They
include their indebtedness un
der a heading similiar to the
foregoing, thus defeating the
very object of the law, for no
human being could tell what
their indebtedness is when in
cluded with their undivided
profits.
We merely call attention to
this prevalent custom feeling
sure the state’s attorney will
see that these statemenst are fil
ed hereafter as the law directs.
And having finished our la
bors we now extend our thanks
to the court and all court offi
cials for their courtesies, and
respectfully ask that we be dis
charged.
S. A. Hail, Freman.
Jno. Q. Wolf, Clerk.
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FINE FARM FOR SALE
We have for sale a tract of 450 acres
of the finest land in Big Bottom, lying be
tween White and Black Rivers near Jack
sonport and convenient of access to that
place. Sixty acres of land in cultivation, is
the most fertile, and produces more stuff
than any land in Big Bottom. Fine cane
pasture of 350 acres under good woven
wire fence and will support several hun
dred head of stock the year round. More
than 1,000 bearing pecan trees on the place
About 400 acres of this place is susceptible
of cultivation and when cleared and put in
cultivation, which can be done at an ex
pense of $10 per acre the land is easily
worth $60 an acre. Can be bought now for
$18 per acre.
HENDERSON REAL ESTATE COMPANY
H. E. Hawthorne, Manager
Newark, Arkansas
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