VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH II, 1909.
NO 10.
HEWS OF THE WEEK
latest news of the world
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EflST.JOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation, and Particularly
The Great Southwest.
Judge Milton D. Purdy of the United
States district court at St. Poul gave
up liis seat on the bench Thursday. He
held that his appointment received
from President Roosevelt ended at
midnight. This appointment was not
confirmed by the senate, owing to op
position from Senator Nelson.
It is rumored in St. Petersburg that
there has been a conflict between Rus
sian and Chinese troops near Harbin,
but no confirmation is possible. If
the reports are true, the trouble prob
ably arose out of the situation follow
ing the effoffrts of the railroad ad
ministration at Harbin to control the
local administration.
Indictments were returned at Chi
cago by the federal grand jury Thurs
day against officers of the American
Mexico Mining and Development Co.,
a $3,000,000 corporation. It is charged
(hat $357,000 was paid out of the
sale of capital stock at $1 a share as
dividends.
Iowa editors and publishers Thurs
day night formed'' the Iowa associated
dailies, an organization to fight im
pending alleged harmful legislation
aimed at restricting objectionable ad
vertising. which the publishers say is
not questionable.
Major Perseval has completed a
new aeroplant which will be tested
out shortly near Berlin. It is a mono
plane driven by a motor and is ar
ranged to ascend from and descend to
the surface of water.
Judge Grosscup entered an order at
Chicago in the United States circuit
court Thursday confirming the order
of the chancery court of New Jersey
authorizing the reorganization of the
Vnited Box Board and Paper Co.
A Danish-French committee, under
the leadership of Prof. Ehlers and Dr.
Verdier, has arrived at St. Thomas.
D. VV. 1.. from Europe, to study leprosy
in the Danish West Indies.
By direction of the president and in
accordance with the recommendation
of the general hoard of the navy. Sec
retary Newberry Wednesday gave or
ders for the closing cf the navy yards
at Pensacola and New Orleans.
When Charles S. Williams, a beggar,
was locked up by the Chicago police
Wednesday night he confessed that
he had reached such a stage of thirst
tor whisky that he had pawned his
artificial leg for $5.
l lie Arkansas uuuse
adopted a resolution providing that
tae present session, which ends next
week, extended two months, until
May 12. It is believed that the senate
will concur.
Attorney Robert .1. Maloney of New
Orleans who, in the capacity of a no
tary. is alleged to have defrauded cli
ents of sums aggregating nearly $300,
(•00. was retlesed Wednesday under
bond of $80,000.
The senate Monday passed a senate
bill pensioning at the rate of $12 a
month dependent volunteer army
nurses of the civil war.
A $.">0,000 monument in memory of
President James A. Garfield is pro
posed in a bill introduced by Repre
sentative Langley of Kentucky. The
measure provides that the monument
shall be erected on or near the Middle
t'reek battlefield in Floyd county, Ken
tucky.
The Arkansas house passed the
('ann state wide prohibition hill, 03 to
27. The vote was announced amidst
the wildest enthusiasm by the tem
perance people.
R. L. Hunnieut, who last Tuesday
shot and instantly killed his stepson,
14 years of age, near Malvern. Ark.,
while endeavoring to murder his for
mer wife, and who has been a fugitive
since, was apprehended by farmers,
lie admits the crime.
The official list of umpires of the
Western league for the coming sea
son as announced Friday by " 1'lp
O'Neill arc: John Mullen, Jack Has
kell, ,1. M. Dugan and George Clarke.
Vandyke Stoops, son of 1-inlay
Stoops of Pittsburg. Kas.. was found
dead in his room late Friday. He had
shot himself through the forehead.
Stoops, who was 28 years old and a
student at a Louisville (Ky.) busi
ness college, left a note declaring that
he could not live through the shame
his parents had cast upon his life.
William Culley McKelvey, one of
western Pennsylvania's pioneer oil
men and one of the first men in Amer
ica to become interested in the manu
facture of Portland cement, died at
his home in Pittsburg Sundav. Ho
was 09 years old.
Following a conference with ex-Gov
John 1 Cox at Hopkinsville, Ky.
Thursday night, eight Democrats whe
fled from Tennessee to break a quo
ruro in the legislature, have returnee
to Nashville in order to permit the
passing of important legislation.
Gertrude Hoffman, the actress, was
enjoined by the Kansas City circuit
court. Thursday from presenting the
Salome dance on the grounds that the
dance is obnoxious to public morals
Unexpectedly ordered to return tc
Constantinople, the Turkish naval offi
c-ers who came to this country on the
American fleet started Wednesday or
their homeward journey. They were
to have visited the principal cities ol
the country as guests of various cham
bers of commerce and boards of trade
By a vote of 47 to 25 the senate
Wednesday refused to pass a state
hood rider on the house resolution loot
ing to the prevention of discrimlna
tioD against American Jews traveling
in Russia.
Ex-President Roosevelt will huni
big game in Africa with a three-bar
rel gun. The gun was shipped tc
Washington Wednesday.
One of the last acts of President
Roosevelt was the signing Wednesdaj
night of proclamations creating add!
tions to 13 national forests in Nevada
California, New Mexico and Arizona
aggregating 4,980,736 acres.
The car men and other employes or
the Manila street railway systm went
on strike Thursday to enforce a series
of demands. The men ask an increase
in pay and a rearrangement of hours
In the district court at Newton, la.
Wednesday Earl W. Lindsay of Prairie
City, manager of the Prairie City Tele
phone Co., who was convicted of crim
inal assault on Grace Hopkins, 8 years
old, was sentenced to imprisonment
for life.
Judge Farrington of the United
States circuit court handed down a
decision Wednesday sustaining the
Nevada railroad commission in its rul
ings against the Southern Pacific road
The court dissolves the old injunction
against the commission.
The resignation of United States
Senator Philander C. Knox, as United
States senator from Pennsylvania
was received Tuesday by Governor
Stuart. It becomes effective March 4
The governor made no statement re
garding the resignation.
In the lower house of the Tennessee
legislature Representative Hickman
introduced a bill which permits any
persons of good character, on appliea
lion and payment of a $10 fee, to get
a permit to carry a pistol. A convic
tion for homicide in any degree shall
operate as a forfeiture of the license,
While crazed with drink, George L
Marcott, a valet in the employ ot
Brigadier General James Miller, U. S
A., retired, ran amuck in Temple, N
H., and after shooting at several vil
lagers, was shot and killed by Rev.
Harvey Eastman, pastor of the local
Congregational church.
An annpal In astrnnnniprs in font)
erate in following the movement of
ncwly-discovered asteroids, or minor
planets, has been issued by Prof. Ed
ward 0. Pickering of the Harvard ob
servatory and Rev. Joel H. Metcalf
the eminent Tauton astronomer.
The indisposition of the pope con
Tinues, but it did not prevent him
from arising Sunday morning and
working for several hours in his li
brary.
Henry Iiutt, the artist and illus
trator was stricken suddenly Sunday
suffering, it is supposed from nervous
breakdown.
Throughout the country Sunday in
every city where a meeting could be
arranged there was an ''equal suffrage
demonstration," under the auspices ot
the Socialist party and the Socialist
women’s societies. The meetings were
provided for at the national confer
ence of the Socialist party in Chicago,
which set February 28 aside as a
"Woman’s Suffrage Day," and marked
the time as one on which a political
party came forward as a champion ol
woman's right to the ballot.
Co education at Wesleyan Fniver
sity of Middletown, Conn., was abol
lished at a special meeting of the
trustees of the institution.
The newspaper Zingn of Moscow
Friday was fined $1,500 for printing
Count Tolstoi’s latest article against
infliction of the death penalty, entitled
"No Evil Without Good.”
Reports front Uehling, Neb., tell of
a serious riot there Friday night be
tween Greek and Italiau railroad la
borers on one side and the white pop
ulation on the other. The town mar
shal, George Heineman. and a bar
tender named Stamm were shoi by
the foreigners and are said to be se
riously wounded.
Representative Lamb of Virginia,
representing the independent tobacco
interests, protested to the president
Friday against the recent award ot
the American Tobacco Co. of the con
tract to supply the navy with 220,000
pounds of chewing tobacco for the
next fiscal year. The protest was
based on the ground that the govern
ment had just been engaged in expos
ing the dpings of this big "trust."
ROOSEVELT SAYS
TALK HAS ENDED
TELLS NEWSPAPER MEN AT OYS
TER SAY HE IS ONLY
PRIVATE CITIZEN.
IE GETS HEARTY GREETING
As the Train Was Three Hours Be
hind Schedule the Party Did
Not Expect Ovation That
Greeted Them.
Oyster Bay, New York. — Former
President Roosevelt is resting at Sag
amore Hill. He probably will stay at
Oyster Bay two weeks, but he will
leave this month for his African hunt
ing trip. This was learned by Rev.
Warren 1. Bowman, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church here, who
was in charge of the provisions for
the reception tendered the former
president on his arrival.
Dr. Bowman wished to ascertain the
exact date of the departure for the
foreign tour, but could not. Oyster
Bay will give the Roosevelt party a
rousing send-off when it leaves.
Roosevelt had a “corking good
sleep." That is what he said he was
going to do when he stepped off the
special train that landed him in Oys
ter Bay at 1:25 in the morning, and
he kept his word.
It was a family party—and a little
one at that—at the Roosevelt place,
and the only persons there outside of
the immediate Roosevelt circle are
Noah Seaman, the superintendent of
the estate, and who was on the box
of the one-horse coupe that carried the
expresident and Mrs. Roosevelt from
the station, and the servants.
“Only a Private Citizen.”
To the cries at the station for a
speech, he answered:
“No, I am not going to do much
more talking. I am only a private
citizen now and there should be no
call for me to speak."
As an ordinary gentleman and lady
of the land, instead of the first gen
tleman and lady of the land, the for
mar president and Mrs. Roosevelt
journeyed from the nation's capital to
Oyster Bay after the cares of office
had been lifted from the former's
shoulders and placed upon those of
William Howard Taft, it was in the
most democratic manner that the trip
from Washington to Oyster Bay was
made.
At the end of the 10-hour journey,
after a day of momentous events, the
former president seemed somewhat
weary, but was in the best of spirits.
Hearty Greeting at Home.
Mr. Roosevelt's special train left
Long Island City at 12:26, and, as
was more than three hours behind the
scheduled time, he did not expect that
his neighbors in Oyster Bay would re
main up to. greet him at the home
coming, as they expected to do. He
was agreeably surprised, therefore,
when his trained reached Oyster Bay
to find the station brilliantly illumi
nated with electric bulbs and Japan
ese lanterns, while a big illuminated
banner bade him “welcome home."
Better than all, there was a crowd of
from 200 to 300 of his neighbors on
hand, whom neither the lateness of the
hour, the biting wind nor the snow
covered roads could deter from wait
ing to greet their fellow-townsman.
The ex-president, well pleased at
this sign of friendliness, stayed in the
station for 15 minutes to exchange
handclasps with friends. The village
band was on hand.
Mr. Roosevelt will devote most of
his time between now and his depar
ture for Africa to his work for the
Outlook, to which he made his first
contribution today.
PLOT TO SLAY ALPONSO
Anarchist Who Once Before Sought
King's Life Arrested Follow
ing Discoveries.
Gilbraltar.—Ferrer, the anarchist
who was implicated in the
bomb outrage at t>.e time of King Al
fonso's marriage, was returned to Gib
raltar after having been deported from
Atgeciras. where he went with the in
tention. it Is believed, of again at
tempting the life of the Spanish king.
Ferrer left Gibraltar several days
ago for Algeeiras, where the king ar
rived Thursday, but the Spanish police
were notified of his movements and
they immediately intercepted him.
Messages from Madrid say that the
bomb found in the royal gardens was
not the mere hoax that the police tried
to make out, but a deadly infernal ma
chine. The authorities believe that
a plot to exterminate the Spanish
royal family was thwarted by the nar
rowest margin.
GIRL SAYS SUL
WAS POISONED
Miss Elsie Kitchens Dies Under
Strange Circumstances — Tells
Mother Some One Went
Through Window.
Stamps.—Miss Elsie Kitchens,
daughter of James Kitchens, a high
ly respectable farmer living five
miles north of Stamps, was found in
bed in a dying condition by her
mother.
, Miss Kitchens was in perfect
health and showed no signs of ail
ment when retiring.
She made an effort to explain t.o
her mother that she had been pois
oned and that she saw some one go
out of her room through the window
as she awoke. Site was in a critical
condition when her mother reached
her and died soon thereafter.
Efforts were made to secure blood
hounds from Walio, Lewisville and
Texarkana, but owing to the dogs all
being in use was unable to secure
them. No clue to the murderer has
been found. The community is arous
ed over the affair.
FORCED TO ROB BANK.
i^asmer tens RemarKaDle btcry to
Court and is Acquitted.
Nashville.—A remarkable story of
being; forced at the point of a revolv
er to sign a contract to take ?4,000
from the bank of Mineral Springs
and to leave America with the money
has been told -before the Howard
County Circuit Court here by C. R.
Austin, cashier of the bank of Min
eral Springs, who was alleged to be
a defaulter and who admitted to the
court that he took the money, but
who claimed that the act was carried
out under such circumstances as to
rob it of any criminal intent, and
who was held to be not guilty of the
charge here by the jury in the case.
Prosecuting Land Grabbers.
Pine Bluff.—Attorney T. Havis
Nixon and J. M. Shaw of this city
and Col. J, M. Mehaffey of Little
Rock have returned from Idabel,
Okla., where ih«fr went to prosecute
an alleged gang of land grabbers,
who are accused of having fleeced
a number of Grant and Cleveland
county residents out of ? IS.OOP. The
cases of Von Re and others were
called at the recent session of the
McCurtain Circuit Court at Idabel,
and a demurrer was filed in four
cases, in which were a total of thir
teen indictments. The demurrers
were sustained in each case on the
ground that the indictments had been
improperly drawn. Each of the four
defendants were held under boKtl
and their cases were referred back
to the grand jury.
Location of Penitentiary.
Giving an unofficial opinion. Attor
ney General Norwood gave those op
posing the removal of the peniten
tiary to the state farm, together with
the offices of the officials, something
more definite .o stand upon when he
decided the state must first have an
act repealing the legislative act of
ISl’t. which states the penitentiary
must be within five miles of Little
Rock. The penitentiary board at its
next meeting, will probably take up
the matter and rescind the order is
sued at a February meeting, ordering
the white convicts and the offices of
the penitentiary to the farm as soon
as stockades and other buildings
could be ereceted.
Agricultural Meeting.
Pine Bluff.~A big agricultural
meeting will be held in Pine Bluft
the latter part of this month, at
which time the farmers of this coun
ty will nseet J. A. Evans, the agent
of the farm demonstration work,
which is being conducted by the Uni
j ted States department of agriculture;
| J. J. Moore, the state agent, and J. A.
j Gray, the county agent.
Judge James Gould has appropriat
j ed money to assist in paying for the
services of the agent for this county
and much interest has been aroused
in the farmers in this opportunity to
have farm demonstration work con
ducted here under the direction of
the department of agriculture.
Inspect New Capitol.
Little Rock.—'Accompanied by the
state capitol committee of the House
and Governor Donaghey, two govern
ment constructional engineers. C'apt.
Edward Markham and Kertberle, who
arrived in Little Rock to examine the
new state capitol building at the di
rection of the House, Tuesday after
noon paid the first visit to the par
tially completed structure, which has
been the bone of political contention
in Arkansas for years, and Over which
the Arkansas legislature is fighting
and quarreling in an effort to deter
mine whether the building is faulty,
who is to blame if it is faulty and
how to finish it. The engineers have
offices in the penitentiary near the
capitol and are supplied with con
victs for practical tests.
INTER-SCHOOL CONTEST.
Instructions Being Sent Out to Varioun
Schools by State Superintendent.
Superintendent of Public instruc
tion George B. Cook has begun mail
ing out the rules which will govern
the state spelling contest, which is
to be held in Little Rock, Friday and
Saturday, April 23 and 24, under the
auspices of the Arkansas Inter-school
Contest Association.
The contests are open to all schools
of secondary education, including
common and graded schools and high
schools, with no charge for entrance.
Each school is allowed one represent
ative, to be selected by test in the
school, and bearing a certificate from
the superintendent of the school. The
representatives must register and get
'their contest number before (noon,
April 23.
A preliminary contest will take
place at 2 o’clock on the afternoon
of the first day, when words will be
selected by the judges and the ap
plicants will write the list from dic
tation. Each word will be announced
twice. The honor system will be in
vogue and violations of the rule will
cause the names of the guilty ones
to be stricken from (he list. Erasures
or changes will count as words miss
ed, and papers will be taken up im
mediately after the words are all giv
en out. The judges will that night
announce the names of those w'ho
have qualified in the preliminary con
test for the contests of Saturday.
Saturday morning the contest will
begin and the old-fashioned spelling
bee rules will govern, each contest
ant being spelled down having to
take his or her seat. None of the
contestants w'ill be given two
chances at a word. The winner is to
get a cash prize of $15, with $5 to
the second best.
A loving cup goes to the school
seuding the winner.
USES AN AX ON TORPEDO.
Man Bowled Over and Wife is Se
riously Injured by Flying Pieces.
Blevins.—Curious to ascertain the
composition of a cailroad torpedo, Mr.
Galloway of this place split it open
with an ax. His wife, who was stand
ing near by, was severely injured by
the explosion that followed, and the
experimenter himself is suffering
front the shock.
While Galloway was in Hope a few
days ago he picked up a railroad tor
pedo on the street and brought it
home. He and his wife, anxious to
learn what it was, tried to cut it open
with a pocket knife. Failing in this,
the head of the family laid the torpe
do on a fence post, and getting an
ax said to his wife: “Stand back,
old woman,” which admonition she
did not heed. Galloway cut the ex
plosive in two with one blow. Gal
loway and his helpmeet were thrown
to the ground by the force of the ex
plosion, and the ax was found rods
away.
Mrs. Galloway was the worst in
jured and is in a serious condition.
The doctors extracted pieces of tin
and lead from her head and body and
had to sew up several ugly gashes.
It is feared that blood poisoning may
follow.
MADE A FARMER “AT SIGHT."
President Roosevelt is Honored by
the Farmers’ Union Men.
Little Rock—\V. H. Brodnax of
Camden, member of the executive
committee of the Arkansas Farmers’
Union, was in the city Thursday on
his way home from Washington, D.
C„ where he accompanied the nation
al officers of the union and other
members of the organization on their
trip to look after legislation affect
ing the farmers of the South.
The delegation was especially In
terested in the bill providing for the
refunding of the cotton tax and the
bill to prohibit speculation in cotton.
• Mr. Brodnax said that ihe delega
tion called on President Roosevelt
Thursday of last week and was so
pleasantly received by him that the
delegation made him an honorary
member of the Farmers’ Union “at
sight.” which the president accepted
with many expressions of apprecia
tion and satisfaction.
GROUND BROKEN FOR FACTORY.
Plant Will Employ More than 100
Men and Will Cover 16 Acres.
El Dorado.—Ground was broken
Tuesday morning for the erection of
the Agee Wagon 'Works factory, and
the erection of buildings and install
ing of machinery will be rushed to
completion, and it is hoped to turn
out the finished material by June 1.
The plant will be located on 16 acres
of ground on the Chicago. Rock Is
land and Pacific railway.
The factory will employ over 100
men, with an annual capacity of 5,000
wagons, and has a capital stock of
$75,000.
The company also acquires the bus
iness of the El Dorado Hardwood and
Manufacturing Company, located on
the Rock Island.
NEGROES ARE
ORDERED OUT
Two Homes of Negroes Dynamited—
Business Men Meet and Assure
Blacks of Protection, But
Many Will Go.
DeQueen.—As the result of the dy
namiting of two negro homes in the
south part of DeQueen Sunday night,
many negroes of this place are pre
paring to leave, filled with alarm at
the outcome of the warnings recently
distributed in negro homes and al
leged to have been circulated by
white men, who have warned the ne
groes to quit work in the hardwood
lumber plant operated here by the
Dierks Lumber Company. A meeting
of business men, together with the
sheriff, was held and at that meeting
the negro residents were assured that
they would be protected, but not
withstanding, many are preparing to
leave the coutnry. No arrests have
been made as yet in connection with
the dynamiting Sunday night.
It Is reported that the negroes
know who did the dynamiting, but
that they are afraid to give away
the secret, fearing further danger.
The homes of Jim Clardy and Boze
Caldwell were dynamited between 8
and 9 o’clock Sunday night. One
corner of the Clardy home was blown
away and the entire porch of the
Caldwell home demolished. But one
person was injured, a negro girl, who
suffered from gravel blown into one
of her arms.
SHOT BY CITY MARSHAL.
Said That Durham Had Been Drink
ing and Attacked the Officer.
Conway.—City Marshal J. R.
Charles shot and fatally injured W.
L. Durham, local cotton buyer of the
George H. McFadden Company’s Lit
tle Rock branch. The shooting took
place in a difficulty between the two
men, which occurred in front of J. A.
Boydston’s restaurant on East Oak
street. Only one shot was fired, the
bullet completely penetrating Dur
ham’s body, entering the left side, a
few inches to the right and below
the heart, and coming out on the
right side of the spinal column. The
weapon used was a .44 calibre pistol.
According to statements made by
those who witnessed the shooting, ii
was preceded by a fight between Dur
ham and Charles, wi which Durham,
although unarmed, was the aggressor.
Durham was about 38 years of aga
and was a man of fine physique and
appearance He was a native of Con
way county and had a wide acquaint
ance over t he stat e. He w as marriecf.
about 12 years ago to Miss Annie
Duncan, only sister of Judge W. H.
Duncan of this city. They have two
-hildren, a daughter about 10 years'
and a son about six years old. They
have made their home in Conway for
the past six or seven years, coming
here from Plumerville, and during
the past season Mr. Durham has been
engaged in cotton buying.
Charles has served as marshal o£
this city for the past three years;
having been elected to a second term
in April of last year. He is about 58
years of age and is father of 10 chil
dren. He is a native of this county,
having been reared in Newton town
ship.
Trade Extension Trip.
Eureka Springs.—A big citizens’
meeting will be held here to com
plete plans for an excursion over the
full lengih of ihe newly completed
Missouri and North Arkansas railway
lines, the first trains over which were
operated this week. The meeting is
called by the Commercial Club, which
sees great things for this popular
resort in the Ozarks and other por
tions of the state served by the line
in the completion of the railroad.
The excursion will go to Helena,
and from that city a flying trip wilt
probably be made to Memphis. Little
Rock would also be included in the
Itinerary. The purpose of the trip Is
not mere pleasure, but is for the pur
pose of bringing the eastern and west
ern portions of the state into closer
commercial relationship. It is point
ed out that when Chicago business
men can see profit in a rour of dis
tant Southern states that it behooves
business men of west Arkansas to
mak" a trip across the state to get
acquainted with the business. inter
ests of East Arkansas.
L
El Dorado.—Work began Tuesday
morning on the sinking of a deep
well for the system of waterworks,
for which John P. Holmes of this
city was recently granted a franchise.
The well is being pul down on the
north side of the electric light plant,
which is also owned by Mr. Holmes.
Mr. Holmes has let the contract to
Mr. McDowell of Camden to lay and
fit all water mains and piping withia
90 days, ar.cl it will not be long until
El Dorado will be enjoying this much
needed improvement and luxury and
prerequisite of an up-to-date city. t