DAILY INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE, ^
Publisher and Editor./
NEWPORT, - » /ARKANSAS
FOR REN1
‘ ‘ H o t e I
Creighton”
On Walnut street Newport,
Ark. This is the best hotel town
in the state and is centrally
n. located, being one full block
from St. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern Depot and opposite the
Jackson county court house.
Will be Finished About
January 15th, 1904
And will contain twenty-eight
sleeping rooms, office 25x30 feet,
dining room 20x45 feet, one par
lor on first Floor and one on
second floor, three bath rooms,
large kitchen, pantry and store
room, will be equipped with
electric return annunciator to
each room, long distance and
ocal telephone.
Electric and Gas Lights
Laundry and servants’ apart
ments in yard adjoining. When
completed will be very conven
ient for the commercial trade.
Apply to,
J. h. McHugh.
Here and There.
Fresh oysters at Riley May
hans.
Cranberries at Bowen’s Cash
* Store. 87dtf
Huyler’s candy at Bracy Con
fectionery Company. 88dtf
We \yant to sell 200 turkeys.
~£>owen’s Cash Store.
Pure sugar house molasses at
Bowen’s Cash Store. 185dtf
Dressed spring chicken at
Huffman’s restaurant. 87dtf
Dr. G. D. Clements came up
from Auvergne Friday.
Tom Payne, the Fairbank soap
man, was in town Friday.
Mrs. F. I. Inman came in this
morning from a trip on the boat.
The first in town—fresh oys
ters at Ira’s Chop House. 99dtf
Huffman’s restaurant never
closes, open at all hours. 98dtf
Eggs and chickens can be se
cured at Bowen’s Cash Store. 77
Cotton sold for 11.62 1-2 cents
on the streets of Newport Fri
day.
J. W. Byler, Diamond Brand
shoe man, was in the city Thurs
day.
Cash Benson, a prominent
farmer, was in town trading Fri
day.
The up-to-date cash grocer, 0.
M. Bowen, has a new delivery
wagon.
Nothing but first class mate
rials used at the “Little Bakery
on the Corner." 87dtf
Love Grant, who went to Hoxie
and Walnut Ridge Thursday
night, returned this morning.
J. M. Davis has accepted a po
sition with W. W. Dutton as a
clerk during the holiday season.
For sale—Household furniture
consisting of cook and heating
stoves, bed-room suits, chairs,
etc., at a sacrifice. A. Jackson,
321 Ash street.
1000 selections of music at I.
D. Price’s, vocal and instrument
al, violin, piano, guitar, mando
^ lin and banjo. Any music not
•ySfefrk in stock will be ordered prompt
ly', 87btf.
Sheriff Burke and Jailer Black
^hnirn have bought two blood
§§|nds from Ohio to be used for
^^MnSpining down prisoners who per
jflsEt in giving leg -Jones
boro Times._
Capt. J. E. Wilmans is collect
ing the subscriptions for the
town clock, sufficient money hav
ing been appropriated and raised
to pay for that ornament to our
new court house tower.
Mrs. J. G. Walker left for her
future home in Albuquerque.
New Mexico, Thursday night.
She was accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. Dills, as far as
Hoxie. Mrs. Dills will return
today.
Did you know that you could
buy indemnity against burglary
just as you can against fire? We
will sell you a policy in one of the
best companies in the world very
| cheap. Call or ’phone Phillips
: & Ferguson Agency. 176
Dr. Edgar Johnson of Weldon
has been called to Prescott on
account of the serious illness of
his niece, Laura Johnson, who
is quite ill with typhoid fever at
the home of her sister, Mrs.
Harry Herring.
Arrivals over the Choctaw Fri
day afternoon state that a mob
gathered in Clarendon last night,
seeking to lynch a negro on trial
there, and the sheriff was kept
4 . ■ t • • T j
DUSy protecting ms prisoner, il
is thought that the mob will re
turn tonight, so deer ly are they
bent upon lynching the negro.
C. H. Wilmans and Bullock
Samuels returned Thursday night
from a trip over in Poinsett
county, where they purchased
considerable timber. They came
home by way of the Cotton- Belt
and Aitheimer branch to Little
Rock, where they met Mrs. Wil
mans, all reaching here Thurs
day night.
C. E. Maynard returned Thurs
day night from Pine Bluff and
will resume his old run on the
White River branch. Harry fol
lowed next day and will take a
position with George Tremper of
the local Pacific express office.
Neither Mr. Maynard nor Harry
liked Pine Bluff, and we are glad
to know that they will continue
to make Newport their home.
The Ananias club, composed of
C. R. Hite, S. M. Stuckey, G. A.
Hillhouse, E. L. Boyce and S. R.
Phillips, the latter a proxy for
Alcorn Ferguson, disabled from
a bursted cylinder head, caused
by an over discharge of hot air
at the Hartford convention, leave
tomorrow by automobile and air
ship for the happy hunting
grounds on the St. Francis river.
NOTICE OF EXAMINATION.
Notice is hereby given that
there will be a public examina
tion of teachers at Newport,
Arkansas, on Thursday and Fri
day. the 17th and 18th days of
December, 1903, to ascertain the
professional qualifications of all
persons desiring to teach in the
public schools of Jackson county.
The examination will begin at
8:30. Be on hand at that hour,
as it will take the full time to do
the work. J. D. Neal,
County Examiner.
NoihlitK But Envy.
Chicago insists that typhoid germs
cannot live during the 250-mile trip
to St. Louis in the drainage canal, but
we know, remarks the St. Louis Re
public. that any germ native of the
Windy City is sufficiently lusty to
swim the Atlantic ocean, land In Eu
rope and organize a germ trust which
would greatly increase the foreign
typhoid fever business.
Tit* Stronaoua Education.
The women of Kansas have won
their campaign for reform In the
schools, the principal feature of which
was that courtship may be carried on
In school hours. The classes in higher
education In that state hereafter, says
the Philadelphia Inquirer, will be un
der the direction of Prof. Cupid,
Still of Some l'»t.
In some parts of Switzerland they
have laws which makei.it necessary to
have horses hitched to automobiles so
that other horses wllf, not be fright
ened by them. The hoi^se still has his
uses.
The war rticularly
conspicuou, — — - of the
football field Just at present
HM|the news ruadtne Dalj:
HUNTS HUMAN SKULLS
Peculiar Hobby Which Occupies
Leisure Time of a Texan.
Has Vlxiteil Many I. a nils and Conn
trim in Search of the Odd Carina
und He Has an Interest
ing Collection.
The following advertisement appeared
in the newspapers of St. Joseph, Mo., re
cently:
“Wanted—Human skulls! must be in
good condition; will pay liberally for
fine specimens. Apply Hotel M. Charles
W. Jenkins.”
Jenkins wa3 a temporary resident of
St. Joseph, where he has considerable
realty interests, but his real home is in
Corpus Christi, Tex. He has probably
the oddest fad of any collector of curios
who has ever been a resident of that city.
Mr. Jenkins is very anxious to increase
his collection of skulls, and in the pos
session of medical students, physicians
and colleges of St. Joseph are specimens
taken from various burying grounds
that have been unearthed in the ex
cavations for buildings on sites that
hundreds of years ago were repositories
for the dead of the ancient red man.
“I have now in my possession 348
perfect specimens of human skulls,” says
Mr. Jenkins. “They represent the hu
man of many ages, and I find them an
interesting study indeed. How did I
come to indulge in such a strange fad?
Well, in my youth I made a study of
anatomy, and became intensely inter
ested in the construction of the human
frame. I gradually acquired a taste for
this form of bric-a-brac.
“I got my real start as a collector of
skulls in 1887. During excavations in
of my father several specimens of an
ancient race were exhumed, and
straightway found a resting place upon
a shelf in a cabinet in my home. I vis
ited the former home of the mound
builder in Colorado and New Mexico,
where other specimens of the ancient
inhabitants were discovered. They dif
fer materially from the skulls found in
St. Joseph. Then I visited the holy land
in search of specimens. From there I
drifted to the lands of the Ptolemies of
Egypt. Here some valuable acquisi
tions were made. I have tramped over
the Pampas of South America, the moun- ■
tains of Peru and Chill, and even pene
trated into the wildernesses of the Ama
zon, where, in deposits of earth and
stone, I have brought to light perfect
specimens of human skuHs, represent
ing periods which history does not
chronicle.
“In my experiments I have found that
some skulls take on a very beautiful
polish, and I must say that, under the
hand of a skilled artisan, they are made
magnificent. These specimens occupy a
cabinet by themselves. I have a nhmber
of skulls taken from the wreck of the
Galveston storm. I also have specimens
from other disasters on this and other
continents. Five victims of the Mont
Pelee disaster are represented in my
collection. This business of collecting
3kulls is a great aid in the study and re
tention of important facts in history. I
have in my possession the skulls of men
at times prominent in the history of
this nation. How I came to have them
I do not care to say. However, money
is a means of gratifying the tastes of
anyone who cares to make a collection
of this kind. Because I have acquired a
liking for this work, I spend much time
during the winter months wandering
about between rows of grinning heads,
phllisophizing, after the fashion of the
grave digger in Hamlet, upon the brev
ity of human life ”
“SUICIDE CLUB” FLOURISHES.
YomtR Women of Boise, Idaho, Have
Organisation nnd Choose
Victims by I-ot.
"
Boise. Idaho, has a ruuy organized
suicide club. That it is ready for busl
j ness and has already transacted con
j slderable business is shown by the fact
I that at least three of its members have
I “shuffled off” by the suicide route with
! in a period of as many months.
The fact of the existence of the organ
! ization became known to the police in
an investigation into the death of Grace
! Ashton, its latest victim. She died from
i morphine poisoning on a third attempt
at suicide, both of her ifrevious attempts
! having been frustrated through season
i able discovery by friends.
Another young woman friend of Miss
Ashton attempted suicide by taking poi
son, but recovered, and it was through
her that the existence of the club was
| made known. The club is regularly or
ganized with a strong membership—all
| young women—and holds meetings at
| regular Intervals. It transpires that at
each meeting a new victim Is chosen by
lot, who Is to “pass off” before the time
tor the next meeting by one of the usual
methods adopted in such cases, the par
ticular mode being optional with the can
didate.
Philippine Position* Wot Wanted.
Positions in the Philippines seem to
go begging. Several months ago Col.
Edwards, chief of the insular bureau,
called upon the civil service commis
sion to certify candidates for 160
teachers’ positions paying from $2,000
to $900 per annum. There were few
applicants, fewer took the examina
tion, and only 42 were found eligible
for appointment. Another examina
tion will, therefore, be held early in
October. The insular bureau will not
j permit women to take the examina
tion for these positions, and the du
ties or pay of pedagogue do not seem
to appeal to the young men of the
country.
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Part of th* Population.
Paris uses 200,000,000 snails as food
rinially. And yet, say/s the Washing
t eo slow.
Select a I
Your 1
NOW while out stock is complete, We are already patting
some of oar most asefa! articles for shipment to nearby!
3® Never in the history of Newport has there been displayed Sj
Elegant Line of Furniture and useful household article s* Our st|
sisis of almost I
Every Article in the Housefurnishing I
From very cheap and medium grade goods such as carried by cm
pctitors to the very highest class of artistic and up to date furniW
chased direct from the leading furniture manufactory in the Unit*
Bedroom Sil
oneers
Beautiful !■
construe®
$24.00 a®
An elegan®
Our hall^B
See our
are ele®|j
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GvKrad\tced
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CHIC A O O'
At the close of the Chicago Furniture Exposition in July and the J
arrive and we now have over fifty different patterns on display at ■
are on sale at prices that will move them quick. Remember too thaiH
is complete e'.vy jvhen fitted with one of our H
ick Meal Rani
1 name tells the story. We are Newport’s ExcliH
1
RHEUKATiSi
and CATARRH
IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH
A WHOLE FAMILY CURED 3Y
Johnston’s Tonie Oapsules
Mrs. C. H. Kingsbury, who keeps a millinery
and fancy goods store at St. Louis, Gratiot Co.,
Mich., and who is well known throughout the
country, says:
“I was badly troubled with rheumatism,
catarrh and neuralgia. I had liver complaint
nnd was very bilious. I was in a bad condi
tion; every day 1 began to fear that I should
never be a well woman; that I should have to
settle down into a chronic invalid, and live In
the shadow of death. I had JOHNSTON’S
TONIC CAPSULES recommended to me. I
TOOK FOUR PACKAGES AND IT CURED ME,
and cured my family both. I am very glad that
I beard of it. I would cheerfully recommend
It to every one. I have taken many other kinds
of medicine. I prefer JOHNSTON’S to all of
them." Michigan Drug Co., Detroit, Mich.
Dl. KCKMOTT'S LIVE1 KEGULATO*
Positively Cures Pimples and Dyspepsia.
Shedden, May to, IS91.
OsHTunreK — One year ago now my faca pre
sented a horrible appearance from pimple* and
blotches, 1 also wa» much troubled with dyspepsia
and constipation; had tried physicians and patent
medicines, but received little good. A friend recoin*
mended Dr. Kermott’s Liver Regulator. I found it
all that could bedesired.it having removed all my
troubles and willingly bear ray testimony.
Mrs. Wkslkt Stafford.
Price 95 cents per package, or five packages for $1.00.
Ask for FREE sample.
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BOY CONVICT PARDONED.
A pardon was granted yester
day to Luther Berry, 16 years
j old, who was convicted in Sep
; tember in Yell county and sen
| tenced to two years’ imprison
ment in the penitentiary for the
i offense of forgery. The petition
I for the pardon states that young
Berry forged an order on his
father for $6.50. The petitioners
expressed the belief that he had
been sufficiently punished
offense.
LIVERYMEN
FARMERS
DRAYMEN
And all users of axle
that want the best grease
market and that
thing when
recommend
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Newport* Ark.
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Curbing, all lands of Brick Work. H
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