The Newark
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARK., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1903.
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EVIDENCE
There arc four piano manufacturers in nho United States
and only four, who have made 100,000 pianos each. The
houses which are now proudly celebrating tins achievement
ate theChiekering, the Fischer, the Steinway and the Kimball.
It will no doubt be of interest to know the length of
time it has taken each of these distinguished companies to
produce 100,000 pianos, which is as follows :
I he Chickering, 80 Years
The Fischer, 63 Years
The Steinway, 50 Years
T he KimbaM, 20 Years
Of these companies the Kimball is the only organ tnanu
factuier, and in addition to the pianos has also made more
than 250,000 reed organs and 4,400 large pipe organs.
In twenty years time, therefore, the Kimball Company
has far outstripped all other makers in output in this or any
other country.
I his wonderful achievement, when coupled with the
artistic merit of the Kimball, as attested by so large a num
ber of great artists and musicians of Europe and Ameiica,
completes a record of facts which is indisputable, and makes
plain the verdict.
IM’enberg
M sic Co
.'ili Main St
Little Rock
Factory
Ware looms
THE KIMBALL
SURPASSES ALE
Hollenberg
Music Co
.!17 Main St
Little Rock
Factory
Ware rooms.
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9 your heart “flutters,’
you have headaches, tongue is coated, bad breath, bowels con
stipated, bad taste in the mouth? If
not all of these symptoms, /vTC
then some of them? It’s
your liver.
narcotic poisons. It will correct
any or all symptoms, make your health,
appetite and spirits good. At druggists, 50 cents.
I. STURDIVANT.
WHY keep your money around ih" house and
run the risk of having it stolen, or probably lost,
when you can deposit it with this bank and get
it any day you wish? This bank offers to its de
positors every possible protection for their funds.
It also pays interest on deposits of a specified
amount for a specified time. In inviting you to
keep your account with us, we promise you prompt and careful at
tention to vour business at all times.
BANK OF NEWARK
J. A. WILLIAMSON, V L. I'ASCnK, E. li. U1 USHER.
President. Vice President. Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
J. A. Williamson, G. O. Majfncsx. \Y. T. Kin man, M. O. Fisher,
V. L i’aseoe, W, T. May ness, E H. Chesser.
ADAMS BROS.,
Dealers In
GeQeral Merchandise, and
COTTON BUYERS.
O" To The T;irmers:-\Ye want your produce and will pay the highest market
price, cash or merchandise.
KENTUCKY PRINCE SALOON
W. T. Magncss 6c Son, Proprietors,
pirfce ©Id rfeiitbucl^y Whjstysg, Wir^es
CIGARS. TOBACCO AND SO ON.
rST’Jng and Bottle Trade a Specialty. Your Patronage Solicited
NOTICE j^r
We Need Help Badly, and Must Have it—
Not to work in the store—but to carry off Light Bread, Sugar-cured
Hams, Breakfast Bacon, Sugar, Coffee, Flour; and, in fact, every
thing in the grocery line. We guarantee satisfaction, or money
refunded. We also need your produce, and if we haven’t got what
I you want will pay you the money for it. All goods delivered free
of charge anywhere within a mile of the store. Phone No. CG.
i. f. M, Marti?) & Son
W. T. MAENE55
Arkansas.
—DEALER IN—
Live Stock, Corn, Hay and Feedsiuffs.
Highest flarket Price Paid For Cotto nseed.
Make Your Wants Known to the"^
Newark Real Estate & L9615 Co.,
5. A. MOORE, Secretary,
Newark. • • M
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Arkansas State News
Another Killing in Union.
Another killing took place a few
days ago four miles west of El
Dorado which is attributed to the
Parnell-Tueker feud. The victim
was Dallas Hunter and he was shot
from ambush while riding along
the public road. Hunter had just
been acquitted by a justice cf the
charge of killing W. L. Lee last
July, and was on his way t) con
sult a relative about leaving the
country, as he had been notified
that Iris life was in danger. Hun
ter had been a deputy sheriff since
Iasi March and was a friend to
Guy Tucker, who killed John Par
nell.
The assassin stood behind a tree,
and at a distance of about thirty
feet shot Hunter from his horse.
A load of twelve buckshot struck
him full in the back. Appearances
indicated that the assassin had been
there for twenty-four hours. If the
assassination of Dallas Hunter
and the murder of W. P. Lee
on July G last are chargeable to
the Tueker-Parnell feud, this is the
fifth violent death as the result of
that feud. With them as two of
the victims, the complete death list
is as follows:
October 1), 1903—Tom and Wal
ter Parnell and Constable 11 L.
Hearing, killed in street fight in
El Dorado.
July G, 1900—W. P. Lee assas
sinated near Lisbon.
August 8, 1903—John F. Par
nell killed by Guy B. Tucker
September 2, 1903—Dallas Hun
ter assassaniated.
Earnest efforts have been made
by the citizens of El Dorado and of
Union county to prevent a recur
rence of the troubles, and r. law
and order league was organize*! by
representative people for the pur
pose of bringing about peace and
preventing lawlessness. Although
it cannot be asserted conclusively
that the assassination of Hunter
and Lee is traceable directly to the
Tucker and Parnell troubles, each
forms a chapter in the series of trag
edies that have stirred Union coun
ty and aroused the citizens to or
ganized action for law and order.
Aged Man Suidides.
Laboring under the impression
that he was suspected of murder
ing liis wife, John Mobley, aged
65, took his own life at Lythia
Springs, Baxter county, last week.
Mobley, who was a widower, mar
ried Mrs. Sarah Atchison at
Van Buren last July. Shortly
thereafter Ids wife, who went to
the horse lot on an errand after
dark, was kicked and trampled to
death by the stock. A few weeks
ago he left home, but there was
no suspicion against him in con
nection with his wife’s death.
State Rewards.
The governor has offered a re
ward of $100 for the “arrest and
conviction” of Archie Scott, a ne
gro who has been 'convicted and
sentenced to be hanged and who
escaped from the Craighead county
jail at Jonesboro. He also offers
rewards of $50 each for the arrest
of Henry Smith and Will Smith,
two other negroes who escaped at
the same time. Six prisoners es
caped from the Jonesboro jail, but
for three of them the governor of
fered no reward.
Run Down By Street Car.
Eugene Callahan, Jr., aged 22
years, whose home was at Little
Rock, was run down and fatally
injured by a trolley ear at St. Louis.
The young man went from Hebor
to St. Louis a few days before the
accident to procure employment on
a railroad. He alighted from one
car and started across the track,
tdien be was struck by a car which
was going at a rapid speed.
Levee Contracts Awarded.
President A. X. Killough of the
St. Francis levee board has award
ed several important levee contracts
For closing the gap at Random
Shot, north of Memphis, the con
tract for closing the gap at Holly
bush. It is estimated that the cost
of dosing the Mcliybnsk gap wile
amount to $50,000. Work will be
| gin at once.
Boll Weevil May Invade Arkansas.
The question of a practical means
of exterminating the boll weevil it
one that is of no little eoneern to
Arkansas planters. There is now
on exhibition at the agricultural
bureau at the state house three boll
weevils of the kind that have play
ed such havoc with the cotton crop
in Texas, and which have recently
appeared in Louisiana. Cotton
men and farmers over the state, are
awaiting with great interest the
harvesting of this year’s cotton crop
in Texas, as they expect then, for
the first time, to “get a line’* on
the amount of damage done to the
crop in that state by the weevil.
An idea of the seriousness of the
damage done in Texas may be gain
ed from the statement of the fact
that Texas has offered a reward of
$50,000 for the person who finds a
method for exterminating the wee
vil, and in addition to this the
state now has a commission of sci
entists in the field making experi
ments and trying to devise a meth
od of ridding the state of the pest.
Old Veteran i>ead.
The remains of Nat if. (“Old
Dad") Newell were buried at Pine
Bluff a few days ago, after being
held six weeks awaiting instructions
from relatives. Newell died last
July at the age of 81. lie was a
personal friend of Mark Hanna and
a schoolmate of William McKinley,
having spent his early days neat
Cleveland, O. lie was so opposed
to the system of pensioning Federal
war veterans that he allowed a pen
sion amounting to about $20,000 to
accumulate in the pension depart
ment untouched. He was wounded
while serving as a major in the
Federal army at the battle of Frank
lin, Tenn., and he persistently
denounced pensioners of the United
States.
Returned After Many Years.
Two brothers by the name of
Wisener returned to Montieello last
week and surrendered to answer to
a charge of killing M. It. L'iiosuutte
eleven years ago. It seems that the
Wiseners and Chesnutt had become
involved in a difficulty over a tim
ber settlement, and shortly after
ward Chesnutt was shot. Chesnut;
only lived a few hours after he was
shot, but before his death made a
dying statement, in which he claim
ed that the Wiseners fired on him
unprovokedlv, and before he saw
them, while he was riding along the
road.
Planing Mill Burned.
The Valley l’laning Mill, former
.ly the Ledwidge mill, at Hot
Springs, was totally destroyed by
fire. The mill was one of the larg
est in the state. Bush, Smith &
Moore were operating the mill and
their loss is estimated at $20,000.
They had no insurance. Sheriff It.
L. Williams owned the buildings
and the mill machinery and his
loss is about $10,000. By dint of
hard work on the part of tiie fire
men ihe buildings in the neighbor
hood were saved from destruction.
Convicted of Murder in First I>egree.
Nathan Beencr was convicted at
Paragould of murder in the first
degree for the killing of Bud
Dortch in Clay county three weeks
ago. Dortch was shot from ambush
while working in his field, and tin
case was tried at Paragould ou u
change of venue.
Boys Charged With Murder.
Will Jordan and Oliver Peters,
white boys, and Nathan Park, a ne
gro, are under arrest charged with
the murder of Dave Chapman
which occurred at the latter's home
in Jefferson county. It is alleged
that they went to Chapman’s house
at night and fired on him through
the window. Chapman was about
45 years old, and is said to have
been a man of excellent reputt.
Old Man Killed.
E. Mott, aged 60 years, residing
nine miles south of Newport, was
killed by a young man named Lee
Holcomb. It is alleged Holcomb
was under the inlluenee of liquor,
and claimed Mott owed him $10.
After firing several ineffectual shots
at Mott, Holcomb crushed the old
man’s skull with the butt < of hii
gun.
Libor Day.
Labor day was duly celebrated
throughout this state, the last gen
eral assembly by special act desig
nating September 7 us a legal holi
day. At Little Rock a free barbecue
was given under the auspices of the
Central Trades Council, and speech
es were made by leading public men
and students within the ranks of la
bor. At Texarkana members of lo
cal unions took part in the corner
stone laying of the new Methodist
church, of which Rev. James Thom
as, one of the most popular minis
ters in the state, is pastor.
State Pensioners.
The force in the auditor of -date's
office is busy just now making on5
the vouchers for payment of pen
sions to Arkansas Confederate sol
diers. The list this year shows a
slight increase over hist year, therj
being 6,150 pensioners to be paid
this year, as against 5,600 last year.
In ail there is about $162,000 to be
disbursed. The average amount
paid to each veteran is between $27
and $28. Disability, instead of
rank, decides what a veteran shall
Hitlers Injured.
While sitting at the mouth of the
shaft to l’rairie crock mine two
miles from Huntington, awaiting
the fanning out of fire-damp, the
headlight of one of the men exploded
ed, severely burning Fire lloss 1'.
W. Stewart, Assistant Fire Boss
Claude and Oscar Hampton, John
Bohannon, Charles Mills and F. R.
Johnson, miners.
Skeleton of a Boy Found.
The skeleton of a boy between
the age of 14 and 1G years, was
found a few days ago on a sandbar
of the Arkansas river fifteen miles
below Little Rock. Everything in
dicated that the boy was drowned
early last spring but there is no
elew to his identity.
Transferrer to Judge Trleber.
Judge Rogers of the federal
court, who issued an interim re
straining order against the state
railroad assessors, will not hear the
arguments in that ease, having
transferred the same to the eastern
district.
BRIEF MENTION.
Jolin Atkins was stabbed to death
at Fort Smith in a gambling resort
by another negro named Will
Humphrey.
Jim Williams, colored, was hang
ed at Arkansas City on the -1th
inst. for the killing of a negro wo
man.
Tom Jones, colored, was shot
and probably fatally wounded i t
Ashdown in a row started over a
“crap” game.
Mrs. E. Schneider, wife of a
prominent Paris merchant war
found dead in bed. Heart failure
caused her death.
H. P. Blessing, a pioneer of Phil
lips county, passed away lust week.
After suffering for over a year from
a stroke of paralysis.
The county seat of Cross county
will be changed from Yanndale to
Wynne, the latter place winning in
ii county seat election held a few
Jays ago.
The annual ex-Confederate reun
ion of Faulkner county was held at
Cascade Springs last week, with an
attendance of over 2,000 veterans
and visitors.
as a consequence merchant
Walter Coleman, a legless man,
was bound over by a commissioner
ut Little Hock to answer before the
federal gw ml jury a charge of ille
gally selling liquor in Pope county.
Cupt. Nathan Hopkins, one of
the oldest and best known river
men of the Missisippi valley, died
ut Newport a few days ago at the
age of 80 years.
W. I). Tucker, who shot and kill
'd W. M. Westner several months
ago, was indicted by the Dallas
'onnty grand jury on the charge of
murder in the first degree.
Two new bank safes have been
placed in the state treasury at a
cost of $3,000.
The monthly report of the chief
af the bureau of statistics of the de
partment of agriculture shows the
average condition of cotton on Au
gust 25 to have been 81.2, as com
pared with 10.7 on July 25 1903;
54.0 on August 26, 1902; 71.4 on
August 24, 1901, and a ten-year
average of 72.4.
As a whole this st^e is enjoying
the harvesting of CWHaoer c
MARY II.’S CHAIR MOVED.
Interesting Change* Recently Made
in Westminster Abbey.
A great improvement haw re
cent Iy been made in Westminster
abbey in connection with the cele
brated coronation chair, accord
inf; to a London cable to the Wt.
Louis Republic.
For many years past two cha’rs
have stood side by side immedi
ately behind the high altai of the.
church, facing the tomb of St.
Edward the Confessor.
The larger of these chairs pos
senses, of course, a meaning whit
to the English people can nev
be less than sacred, for it 1m
seended to ns frong^tbe dty)|
greatest of ' Ml
nets himself, lull the old home and
\\ 11i<' 11 it enshr —
ros msticuum, inot
twentieth centui
antiquity.
The other chair,
ignated as the “Qu?
I
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18 tmt
roasb
though by no meanson nr.j
interest, stands, of ne«
on an intiniteiy lower lev
topical importance wheitf
pared with King Edwmrd’s
It was manufactured fot
.Mary 1 {, yylio was crown
j\ int • overeig^ with her has
wnriam in, v
At tlie time of the'fvjyolut
KiS!t the prince of Orange
lately declined to give wa
occupy a position inferior m
nity to that of his wife, who
the oldest daughter of James II.,
had by no means an ineonsidera
ble claim upon the crown of Eng
land.
mo uimcniTy, tneretore, could
only be solved by placing the two
of them upon a precisely equal
foot ing. With this end in view, it
was necessary to furnish, in view
of the coronation, the special em
hieing of sovereignty peculiar to
a regnant monarch, for the queen
as well as the king. The scepter
and the orb with which Mary II.
was duly invested may still be
seen among the regalia in the
tower of London.
It was also considered, desira
ble for a sj»eeial chair to be made,
as nearly as jmssible resembling
King Edward’s chair in its gen
eral shape and details. Into this
chair, then. Queen Mary was lift
ed, and while seated there she
was anointed and crowned, in
stead of undergoing these cere
monies in a kneeling posture, like
Queen Alexandra and other
queen consorts.
This chair has now been re
moved to an altogether different
position. It stands in the small
chapel at the extreme eastern
end of King Henry VII.’s chapel.
It will probably never be used
again, seeing that we are never
likely to behold a queen-regnant
in England simultaneously with a
king.
t
It ought to be made i>erfeetly
eloiir, therefore, that this chair
is not the queen’s chair at all.
Properly speaking, it should un
doubtedly be called Queen Mary's
chair, for it has never been
rightfully occupied by any queen
since the year 1689.
King Edward’s chair now re
mains in sole possession of the
chapel of the kings. It has been
placed upon a wooden pedestal
similar in the character of itsde
sign to the perpendicular pen
ding of tne fifteenth century al
tar screen adjoining it.
Here it occupies an infinitely
more commanding position than
before. It at once arrests the eye
of visitors as being almost tiie
most prominent object in the
chapel.
Added to this, it will never be
possible for the grand old chair
in future to be subjected to th
painful indignities which have?
been perpetrated upon its surface!
in the inscription of the names of
countless worthless people, wjgjjf
seem to have scant reverenc
a country’s great traditional
Trachoma Patients.
A cabinet officer of the mikado
recently referred to the fact that
there are 880,000 trachoma pa
tients in Japan, and that in Toho
ku district it is impossible to ob
tain the requisite number of re
cruits for the army if some suffer
ers from this disease are not ad
mitted, adding: “The Japanese
army will physicaUAj^/'Uipse if
things are to **» mas-:
aeri”
RecHaiagcbair
Superior day coa
OWNSEND.O
tier in Rea! Estate
lads of Blank Deeds, Trust
nty, on band, prepared and a
sdgeroents attested. Deposition
Pension work a specialty.
S^Offlce la Post Office
J. C. LEWIS
Contractor Buil
«•**. Spiciflc<nttt Mi EitiBjtn
Cteirfalljr Furi.'thu
work of nil kinds neatly and promptly
ifftte. Satisfaction guurjuteeil. Saw alto* a
poclalty. Shop south of Journal office.
NEWARK, ARKANSAS
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Physician and Surgeon
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Telephone*, Oi
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