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Seeks Aid of Farmers and Manufacturers
Commissioner of Mines, Manu
factures and Agriculture H. T.
Bradford is anxious to awaken
• greater interest in the matter of ad
vertising to the world the many and
diverse products, both mineral and
agricultural, of this state, and inci
dentally to greatly enlarge the ex
hibit which is now at the statehouse
and is most creditable.
With this end in view, and also
that of obtaining complete and ac
curate statistics of the industries of
the state, he has addressed the fol
lowing letter to various men of in
fluence and prominence throughout
the state:
“Little Rock, .Tune 18, 1003.
"Dear Sir—I am very anxious t
build up this department and in or
' dor for me to do so I will have to
1 ask the people throughout the state
! to co-operate with me, and 1 write
to ask if you will furnish me with a
■ list of the mines and manufactur
ing plants in your county, together
with the names of the owners or op
erator^ their output and amount
invested, etc. Also send me a few
names of the progressive farmers in
different sections of the county, and
a list of your real estate men.
“If you are not able to furnish
this information please hand this to
some one who will give it attention.
1 want every county in the state hi
take a space in this department and
send exhibits to show evi ry product
of the farm and orchard, mine and
manufacturing plant, together with
a little booklet giving a general de
scription of the county, so that I
can show visitors who come here
just what each county has.
“While this is a general letter, I
hope you will do me the kindness to
let me hear from you as early as
possible, and 1 assure you that anv
assistance you show me will be ap
preciated.”
Killed By Brother-In-Law.
J. M. Tiffin, a truck gardener,
was shot and killed at his home in
North Little Rock by Claude Ma
lices, his brother-in-law. Maness,
with another relative, went to Tif
fin's home to remonstrate with him
about mistreating his wife, who is
a si-tor to Manees. During a con
versation with Mrs. Tiffin her hus
band came into the room and order
ed Manees to leave, and told him
he had better not meddle in his af
fairs. Manees replied that he did
not care to meddle with lus affairs,
but that he (Tiffin) must stop
abusing his sister. Tiffin became
greatly angered and started toward
Manees, at the same time running
his right hand into his pocket. Ma
nees warned Tiffin to stand back,
but be continued to advance, and
was shot through the heart.
Old Faculty Retained.
The hoard of trustees of the
State University held a meeting at
Fayetteville last week and elected
teachers for the ensuing two years.
The old faculty were retained.
mign ueagan succeeds Mm Marrs
as secretary. I)r. Otev Miller suc
ceeds himself as treasurer. Col. W.
G. Vineenlieller, director of experi
mental station; Miss Ada Pace, li
brarian; Miss White, elocutionist:
Miss Crawford, director of vocal
music.
Can't Insure Wife’s Property
A case which will lie of the great
est interest throughout the state
was passed on by the supreme court
yesterday. That body decided that
an insurance policy issued to a hus
band on the property of his wife is
void, as he has no insurable interest
in the propertv;
Government to Make Improvements.
The contract for the new govern
ment free bath house at Hot
Springs had been awarded the firm
of Judd and I,otz. This contract
calls for the remodeling and en
larging of the old free hath house
building, at the cost of nearlv $-J5,
000.
Since the adjournment of the
legislature it has been found that
many of the acts authorizing spe
cial school districts to borrow mon
ey are inoperative, through the con
stitutional provision against the
levying of more than five mills at
any one time. >
Acts In-Operative.
Mrs. John Both, wife of a Ran
dolph county/farmer, gave birth
last week to ftriplets, all girls, .
State University Graduates.
At tlit> closing exercises of the
State University at Fayetteville,
twenty-seven students graduated
anil were awarded diplomas by Gov.
Davis. The names of the graduates
are as follows: Fred White Holt,
Harrison; Hattie Clementine Mel
ton, Fayetteville; Susie Vaulx, Fay
etteville; Nora Madge Bates, fa
ncy Hill; Joseph Fitts Womack,
Seba; John 1!. Ellis, Fayetteville;
V Hill Davis, Lowell; Win. W.
Cartwright, Mountainview; Fred
Merrett, Bollings Cobb, Wis.; John
Brewster, Caney Hill; Lemuel Ber
ry Brvan, Fort Smith; Elbert
Clark, Waldo; Elizabeth Crozier,
Lincoln; Houston L. Daniels, Lit
tle Hock; Delia Kouth Droke, Fay
etteville; William Marvin Harris,
Montieello; Alphonse Milton Hon
nett, Fine Bluff; James Leland
Longino, Magnolia; Abner McGe
hee. Little Bock; Robert J. Mid
dleton, Fayetteville; Samuel Al
fred Mitchell, Fayetteville; Jas. F.
Muller, Little Rock; William Ben
jamin Rife, Osage Mills; William
A. Buggies, Fayetteville; John Paul
streepv. Hot Springs; Rupert Tay
lor, Jonesboro.
Negroes Fight on Train.
A desperate light took place on a
Cotton Belt passenger train near
Stamps. In the negro coach was a
negro who claimed to be a private
detective, commissioned to carry a
pistol. He got into an argument
with another negro and nulled his
| gun. The other negro pulled a ra
zor and slashed the alleged detect
ive’s face, then grabbed his gun,
which was discharged in the scuf
fle. At this juncture Conductor
Thompson was attracted by the af
' fair. As he attempted to enter the
j car he saw that all the occupants of
it, were held at bay bv the second
negro, who was brandishing the re
volver and razor. One negross was.
screaming that she was shot.
Thompson immediately stopped the
train and the negro with the weap
ons jumped otT and took up a po
sition behind a wood pile. As it was
impossible to arrest him without
the danger of ]o-s of life, he was
not pursued. *• The alleged negro
detective was badly wounded.
Street Car Accident
Dan Pei!, driver of a bakery wag
on. was run down and badly injured
by a street car at Little Rock. Peil
was driving in the same direction
the car was going, and it scorns at
1 tempted to pull his team away from
the track, but instead pulled the
wrong line. As the car was onlv a
few feet away when the team step
I pdd on the track it was impossible
to prevent a collision. The wagon
was literally rolled up beneath the
car and Peil was pinioned among
the debris.
Tried to Break Jail.
.Tim Dougherty, under sentence
of death at Hot Springs for the
murder of Policeman Donahue, was
detected in an effort to break jail
by means of using common needles
as a saw. He had out through a
heavy steel plate and was within a
j few hours’ work of gaining his lib
erty when the watchman discovered
i 1. l e coUivmn
Blind Timers Raided.
Officers raided two blind tigers in
the eastern part of Perry county
and arrested N. S. and James
Guinn. They found in the
| possession of the former thirty
i [>ints and thirty-two half-pints of
whisky, and in the possession of the
latter nineteen pints of whisky,
which was destroyed.
Woman’s Rash Act.
Mrs. James Phelan, residing near
Fayetteville, made a desperate at
tempt at self-destruction by swal
lowing carbolic acid and slashing
her throat with a razor. The
prompt arrival of a physician saved
her life.
Farmer’s Strange Death.
II. K. Ritchie, a prominent farm
er residing nine miles from Car
lisle, met death in a strange man
ner. He was hauling hay with a
tall frame on his wagon. Ritchie
was on top of the hay, and by the
turning of a bale he was thrown oil
just as the wagon was passing a
large tree. His body was caught be
tween tire tree and wagon and he
was crushed to death.
Rtilrood Commission Acts.
The stnto railroad commission
has promulgated it- through class
rates for shipments of merchandise
over two lines of railroad not un
der one management. About two
years ago the coin mission made
joint rates on through shipments,
but the supreme eourt of the Unit
ed States upheld the decision of the
lower court in which an injunction
was granted preventing the commis
sion from enforcing the rates. At
the last session of the legislature
an act was passed enlarging the
powers of the commission, giving it
authority to make such joint rates.
It is claimed the joint rates are
from 10 to 15 per cent lower than
the old rates. A copy of the circu
lar will he mailed by the commis
sion on application.
Osteopaths Organize.
Members of the osteopathic
school of medical practice held a
meeting at Little Lock last week
and perfected a permanent organi
zation. The officers of the associa
tion are as follows: President,
Dr. Clifton E. Whitney, Little
Lock; vice president, Dr. Charles
Higginbotham, Line IllulT; secre
tary. Dr. Elizabeth Broach, Hot
Springs; treasurer, Dr. W. C. Wil
son, Eureka Springs. The stale
board of examiners is as follows:
Dr. B. E. Morris, Little Bock, pres
ident; Dr. Elizabeth Higginboth
am, Hot Springs, secretary; Dr. C.
W. Boss, Fort Smith, treasurer.
White Tennent Killed.
A special dispatch tells of thr
killing at Grays, on the Brinkley -
Newport branch of the Choctaw, of
W. M Wessner, a tenant farmer, by
“Red’’ Tucker. Wessner was a
renter from Tucker and the two
quarreled over the gathering of some
garden truck. It is claimed the
killing was unjustifiable.
Passenger Train Wrecked.
An east-bound passenger train
was wrecked at a trestle near Ozark,
the mail and baggage ears being
thrown into a ditch twenty feet be
low the track. Mail Clerk S. K.
Lenning had his nose broken and a
severe gash was cut over his right
eve. Engineer Hayner, in jump
ing, was slightly injured.
BRIEF MENTION.
Chas. Ilavs, under arrest in Ok
lahoma on the charge of bigamv, is
said to have a living wife in this
state.
C. A. Stovall, engineer of the
Sawyer-Austin Lumber Company
at Pine Bluff, was seriously injured
by a heavy piece of timber striking
him on the head.
The annual reunion of the Mis
souri-Arkansas organization of the
Blue and the Gray will commence
at Mammoth Spring August IT and
continue fnr^frwcvk.
An encampment of the state
guard will likely l>e held at Little
Rock in August. A detail of army
officers will l»e presentt o give in
structions to the hoys.
The anti-gambling association of
Little Rock ha> caused the officers
to issue an order prohibiting the
operation of slot machines in sa
loons and other places.
The body of a white girl was
found at the mouth of St. Francis
river a few miles from Helena.
There was nothing by which the
girl could he identified.
Jn a fight near llot Springs be
tween Lum Curley and Garfield
Ijewis, two young white men, the
former was probably fatally stab
be<l, receiving five wounds.
The working hours in the Iron
Mountain shops at Little Rock have
been reduced from ten to eight,
with only five days a week. This
condition will prevail all during
the summer.
The secretary of war has allotted
Arkansas, under section Midi, re
vised statutes, and available July 1,
190.1, $17,952.93. This is 'the
amount the state gets to pay the
expenses of re-equipping the mem
bers of the Arkansas state guard
and to hold a state encampment, as
provided in the act of the last con
gress.
The city council of Hot Springs
lias passed an ordinance prohibiting
the keeping open of all cigar and
confectionary stores on Sunday.
The Kline bakery and confection
ery store at Texarkana was destroy
ed by fire. Seven hundred barrels
of flour were included in the loss.
Young ladies acted as conductors
for one day on the occasion of open
ing the new Ohio street car line at
Texarkana, the proceeds being de*
voted to charity
DOUBLE HANGING.
Fred Underwood and George Dur
ham Executed at Clarksvillefor
Murder of Sheriff Powers.
Fred Underwood and George
Durham wore hanged at Clarksville
on the 19th inst. for the murder
of Sheriff John H. Powers. Both
men displayed remarkable nerve
and walked upon the scaffold with
out the support of attendants. Un
derwood made a confession at the
eleventh hour, which probably lost
Durham his life, although the con
fession was made with the hope
upon Underwood’s part of saving
his partner, in crime.
On the day before the execution
Underwood made a confession, in
which lie assumed the blame for the
robbery, but stating that John P.
Dunn, who is at large, fired the fa
tal shot at Powers. In his confes
sion Underwood said: “I have been
a safe-breaker and robber all my
life. 1 have made my livvig that
way. I realize the enormity of
crime, the dishonesty, the shame,
and disgrace, but J was almost
brought u]> to it. 1 have taken
many a dollar from rich men, but
they were well aide to afford the
loss. They had insurance to got it
back, and, any,way, it would not
have hurt them to lose it. They
had mi'lions and 1 had little. 1
had never a desire at any time in
my life to take a human life. It
was always my motto and inst mo
tions ever to kill. 1 am very sorry
for this crime and all the rest 1
Hit > \ l'1111 11111 it H,
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only to be hanged, hut Coorge Dur
ham ought to have clemency. It is
my honest prayer that the govern
or will show it. 1 led him into
this business, being old and expe
rienced at it myself. When I say
that Durham is not to blame 1
mean it. If 1 ever told the truth
in my life J am telling it now. If
I had listened to what Durham said,
John Powers would not have been
killed. I want it thoroughly under
stood that 1 am not asking anything
for myself. I ought to be hanged.
But 1 believe Durham ought to
have clemency.”
Sheriff Powers was killed on the
night of February 5, 1002, when he
discovered Underwood and his com
panions in the act of robbing the
Bank of Clarksville. The murder
ers and robbers escaped on a freight
train, going to Coal Hill, thence to
Fort Smith and succeeded in get
ting out of the state. Durham and
Dunn, the latter having received a
wound in the batte with Sherid
Powers, were captured at Wichita,
Kan. Dunn was in the hospital
when arrested. A guard was placed
over him, hut soon after he suc
ceeded in eluding the vigilance of
the guard and made his escape. A
heavy reward was offered by the
governor of Kansas for his appre
Bension, augmenting the rewards
of $.">,00rt offered by the' governor of
Arkansas. $300 by the Bank of
Clarksville, $500 by the Bankers’
Association of Arkansas, and sev
eral other smaller amounts offered
for tlie arrest and conviction of the
murderers. Dunn was never recap
tured, although his arrest has been
reported several times in various
parts of the country. Underwood
was captured at Evansville, IuJ.
Both men were placed on trial and
convicted December 11, FJ02. Their
cases were taken to the supreme
court, and the jury verdict was up
hold. Two other men, Joe Clark
mil Jim Wallace, are conlined m
jail at Little Rock, awaiting tr'al
for complicity in the crime It is
believed Durham’s life would have
been spared had not Underwood
made his confession, as his brother
was endeavoring to get his sentence
commuted on condition that he
make a complete confession. Doth
men embraced the Catholic faith
and stated that'they had made their
peace with God.
Charged With Horse Stealing
John Brice and Jot; Hayden were
arrested at Hot Springs on the
charge of stealing two horses in
Perry county. The men had the
horses in their possession, but
claimed they had hired the animals
and did not intend to steal them.
B. L. Brower, a car repairer, was
killed while at work in the Cotton
Belt yards at Pine Bluff. Brown
was underneath a ear when an en
gine backed it over his body.
Elbert Stettman, a brakeman on
a log train, was run over and killed
near Warren. He was riding on the
front of the engine when he lost
his balance and fell under tk«
wheels. .
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News of the World
&
TL F. fircone of Minnesota, a
gold democrat, lias been appointed
a member of the civil service coin
mission.
In the recent national election in
Germany of members of the reieh
stag, the socialists made gains of
25 per cent.
The Cunard steamship line has
withdrawn from the combine of At
lantic steamers, and a bitter fight
between the White Star, the Mor
gan combination, and the Cunard
lines is predicted.
The postoffice department is mak
duct of the Now York City postof
ing an investigation with the con
fice. It has been charge that heads
of departments secured rake-offs
from appointees to lucrative posi
tions.
Major J. B. Harlow, former post
master at St. Louis and for thirty
seven years in the postal service, is
dead. He was a civil war veteran
and after the close of hostilities en
tered the postal service at St. Louis
in 186(>, where he remained till
his death.
After serving twenty-seven years
in the New York state penitentiary,
Airs. Emma Wimple was pardoned
last week. At the age of 18 years
Mrs. Wimple, from jealousy of an
other woman, poisoned her husband.
She was convicted and sentenced to
life imprisonment.
A contract to build the first
twentv-five miles of railroad of the
Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas
railway lias been awarded and Kan
work will begin at once. The $13,
000,000 worth of bonds of the road
have been purchased by an Eng
lish syndicate. The line will ex
tend from Memphis, Tenn., to
Chanute, Ivan., a diotance of 450
miles.
lloports received at the Washing
ton weather bureau show that from
May 24 to 27 fifty persons were
killed and sixty injured by torna
does in the states of Iowa. Kansas,
Nebraska and Missouri and the ter
ritory of Oklahoma. For the week
ending May 27 the loss of lives in
these states and in other states of
the middle west aggregated 100. If
to this total the tornado at Gaines
ville, (>a., is added the total of lives
lost through tornadoes for the year
aggregates about 250. Aeurrate re
ports of the loss of life bv the floods
have existed for years, in some in
tal is known to be approximately
four times that of the loss throng!
tornadoes. This brings the total of
loss of life in the United States
through tornado and flood to ap
proximately 1,250.
A dispatch from Belgrade says
the position of King Peter, the new
Servian monarch, promises to be
little more than that of a royal cap
tive, and the real government of
the country will be a military dic
tatorship under the leaders of the
revolution, Col. Maschin and Col.
Mitschitch. Tbc new king is al
most without any personal adhe
rents, and the ruling spirits of the
army, it is thought probable, would
just as readily murder him as they
did his predecessor, should he op
pose their aims. At the present
moment the whole country is under
militarv rnlrv nnr) nlfrVimicrh
prefects in the country districts
have been removed, each is accom
panied by an army officer, who at
tends the prefect wherever he goes,
even to the telephone. This policy
tends to lead to one good result,
not a single case of disorder any
where has been reported. Extreme
ly forcible arguments were found
necessary to suppress the aspira
tions of the radicals for a republic.
Fred Mink shot and killed N.
W. Harris near Pittsfield, 111., be
cause Harris forbid him keeping
company with his daughter. Mink
then murdered his stepmother and
made an atetmpt to get away. He
was pursued by a large posse and
captured after a desperate battle.
In its annual report, the Ameri
can Tract Society shows that the
Bible is now printed in 155 lan
guages and dialects. The demand
for Christian literature in the mis
sion stations throughout the world
is greater than it has been for
three-quarters of a century.
,The textile workers of Massachu
setts, who went on strike about
thifce weeks ago, have given up the
struggle and returned to work at
the old rate of wages.
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The body of J. M. Pidlook, a
prominent politician, was found sus
pended from the banister of a stair
way at his home in Greenfield, Mo.,
His friends declare she was murder
ed.
There is much suffering from the
results of floods at Kansas
Kas., and Armondale. Cond’ith
at the latter place are do-■■lu'-sm as
more appalling than those /follow
ing the great Galveston floftd.
Ambassador Clayton A)bled the
state department that twe Mexican
government has deposited to his
credit $1,420,G82 on /account of the
I’ius fund award. This promptness
on the part of the Mexican govern
ment in meeting its obligations has
broken all recaVds in arbitrations.
Citizens of Jackson, Ky., have
petitioned (mr. Beckham not to re
move state troops from that place,
stating that such a move would be
followed by wholesale assassination.
The foreman of the grand jujtj^that
found indictments against Jett and
White has been threatened with
death.
Capt. Oberlin if. Carter, who i3
serving a sentence in Fort Leaven
worth for defrauding the govern
ment out of over a million dollars
while in charge of river improve
ments, will complete his term and
ho released in December. It is
y
k
said Carter
xr_ .
will
in mining
g
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James T. Metcalf, head of thew
money order system of the govern
ment. has been summarily dismiss
e<l on account of fraudulent prac
tices in his department. The in
vestigation into postal affairs has
disclosed gross irregularities that
have exsited for years, in some in
stances one individual drawing sal
aries of two positions when no labor
whatever v,<y performed.
John kdelstein,' a wealt'rr*--Wrffnu5^1
facturer and politician of New
York, is dead from a peculiar acci
dent. But three weeks ago he
dreamed that burglars had entered
his house, and that one was attack
ing him with a knife, lie sprang
out of bed and struck his head on
a projection. The shock caused a
clot of blood to settle on bis brain,
resulting in meningitis, which caus
ed death.
The hotel at Jackson, Ky., owned
by Capt. Ewing, who testified
against Jett and White in the Mar
cum murder trial, was burned by
an incendiaries, ('apt. Ewing and
his family will leave Breathitt
county, as it is almost certain he
would be assassinated if he remains.
At Lexington a fund is being raised
for Capt. Ewing by public subscrip
tion, as he lost almost everything
he had by the fire.
The great American derby, run
at Washington Park, near Chicago^
was won by The Picket, a horse that
never before won a race. He set
the pace every step of the distance,
was never challenged and won in a
gallop by six lengths. He ran the
derby distance, one ami a half
miles, faster than it was ever run
before in the race. His time was
2:33. A crowd of 70,000 people
witnessed the event, which was
worth to the owner of the winner
$35,000, to say nothing of what he
might have bet. The Ticket was at
odds of 20 to 1 in the betting.
Tiie anthracite coal miners, in
convention, decided against a strike
on account of the refusal of the
operators to recognize the creden
tials of District Presidents Nich
olls, Fahey and Dettrey, instructed
by the joint executive board of the
United Mine Workers as the mi
ners’ representatives on the board
of conciliation. The convention of
the United Mine Workers elected
three district presidents by dis
tricts as their representatives, and
the operators, through President
(leo. F. Baer of the Reading compa
ny, announced that this action was
satisfactory.
An Illinois Central passenger
train collided head on with a freight
near Raymond, la., and ten passen
gers were instantly killed. Tha
trains met at a curve. The passen
ger train, which had the right of
way, was going fifty miles an hour.
The freight crew is said to have
misunderstood their orders.
It is claimed that one juror alon#
saved Curtis Jett from corvictioa
at Jackson, Ky., of the murdw fit?
of Attorney Marcum* " *