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VOLUME IV- ~~ NEWPORT. ARKANSAS. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 7. *904. NUMBER *66.
f RACE IS ON
IN FULL EARNEST
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Ernest Theodore Phillips Out
strip® HisRivals Thus Far in
the Battle of the Ballots
—General Gains Shown.
Ernest Theodore Phillips_ 202
Jas. Edward Wilmans ....... 185
Wm. Wallace Dutton.. 183
Edwin Johnson. 153
Dorothy Stephens. 12S
|| Jeannette Henry—. 93
I Gharles Jones Brandenburg 3S
K The national election of Tues
P -day, when Roosevelt and Parker
P submit their claims to the suf
t frages of the peopl^ of these
I United States, is overshadowed
K in many Newport homes by the
■ baby contest, and the election of
® the sweetest and prettiest under
I two is a much more hotly con
11 tested affair than the lifeless
I campaigns of the two big parties
| in this apathetic year. And
I further, we might say it would
P be a great deal harder to pick
l the winner in the baby field than
I the victor of tomorrow s national
contest.
Ernest Theodore Phillips, who
knows the delightful sensation
of leading all the rest, for he
forged ahead once has
again come to the front and
crossed the 200 vote line.
. He has a number of close com
v ‘petitors at his heels in the per
sons of three other bouncing
boys, Jas. Edward Wilmans,
Wm. Wallace Dutton and Edwin
Johnson, in the order named.
Nearly all the little misses and
masters show remarkable gains
in their total vote, and their
friends are cutting out their cou
pons each day. Several further
entries are expected.
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MONEY BURNED
IN RESIDENCE.
Prairie County Citizen Loses
Savings Stored in His Home,
Which Was Burned.
Des Arc, Nov. 5.-The resi
dence of J. H. Davis at Stine
i ville, a mill place about seven
miles northwest of Des Arc on
[ the S. & D. A. railway, was com
pletely destroyed by fire about
o’clock yesterday morning. Mr.
Davis and family barely escaped
in their night clothes and nothing
was saved from the building. In
addition to his loss he had $1,250
in cash in the house that was
also lost. He had drawn it from
the bank at Des Arc the day be
[ l* J____ Willi V\r»TTW/\ll O 1
jf iuic LU pcljr 1110 iUliA A ^‘
Stineville and at Griffithville,
where he owns a stave factory,
j The place was known as the
Dorris place and was insured foi
$500.
W. W. McMinn has beer
quite sick since Friday, and it is
feared has pneumonia.
AUTRY FAILED TO
RECOVER FEES
I opinion was read Thursday
ng from Judge Moose ir
iseofWm. H. Autry vs
ty officials, says the Jones
Times-Enterprise.
> suit was brought by W. H
r, former city marshal, wh<
it to recover the fees of th<
in which he had served ar
fired term. It was alleget
; complaint that the orde:
ig Jonesboro a first clas
vas not in accord with thi
and that even if it was th
on was unlawful and pre
mature, and therefore Mr. Tur
ner svas not legally the chief o:
police.
The case was decided by Judge
Moose,, who held court here i
week of the second term, and he
decides that Mr. Turner is legallj
tthe chief of police, that Jones
boro is legally a city of the firsl
ela'ss and that Mr. Autry is en
titled to nothing under the law
The case will be appealed.
FINED FOR HIS
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
Probably the first instance ir
many a long day in which ar
offender has been fined for his
cruelty to animals was on Satur
day last, when Lee Fletcher paic
a fine of $10 and the costs in the
mayor’s court for mistreating
dumb brutes.
Fletcher lives on the Cox farrr
three miles east of Newport anc
the offense for which he paid the
fine Saturday occurred last Au
gust in front of Bowen’s store
on Front street. Night Marsha
Geo. L. Robinson made the arresl
and worked up sufficient evidence
to secure a conviction in the
case, and deserves great credii
for the prosecution of offenses 01
this nature, which have become
very frequent of late.
POINSETT TEACHERS
URGE SEGREGATION.
The Poinsett County Teachers
Institute, in session at Harris
burg, adopted the following dec
laration: “God Almighty, ir
his infinite wisdom, created the
two races as far apart as blacl
from white, and also differing as
much in character and principle
as in color; that any law whicl
tries to bring them together is
utterly repugnant to us and con
flicts with the laws of nature,
And, as the negro is the politica
enemy of the South we are noi
in favor of giving him a “bij
stick” with which to down us
therefore we are in favor oi
segregating the school tax. ’ ’
LETTER TO MR. W. A.
SHOOK, NEWPORT, ARK
Dear Sir: The way to reckor
on the cost of paint is to put botl
costs together: the cost of th<
| paint and the cost of putting ii
on.
It would save this countrj
hundreds of millions of dallars i
\ a year; it would save you alone
| (if you happen to be a victim'
! several dollars a year.
See how it works. It costs as
much to put-on one paint as an
another, don’t it?
Yes, if you use the same num
■ her of gallons.
Well; don’t it?
i No, you’ll use twice as man:
gallons of adulterated paint as o:
Devoe; and you’ve'' got to pa:
twice as much for putting it on
Mr N Avery, Delhi, N Y, ha
two houses alike and in sanr
condition. Painted one hous<
with Devoe: 6 gallons. Paintei
the other house with a paint tha
was half adulteration: 12gallons
Same painter, Geo. Gilbert, di<
both jobs. One cost $27; th
1 other $54. Better go by th
name. Yours truly
F W Devoe & Co
New York and Chicag
> The railroad is not here yet
I and the 1st is passed. Thurs
i! day at noon they reached th
II Pittman field about a mile fror
’ j town, and in one or two mor
3 days they will be here. The
j I have laid no steel since yester
^ day at noon account of the rain
- i —Des Arc Guidon.
I
■ j COURT DISMISSES
INFANTICIDE CHARGES.
1 No Evidence Against Searcy
| Parties Charged With Mur
der of Infant.
; Searcy, Nov. 6.—The cases of
■ infanticide against Harve Beck,
Cleveland Johnson and Etta
Griffin were called in Justice
Harlan’s court yesterday morn
ing at 10 o’clock.
It seems that there was no
evidence against the persons so
charged, and the court promptly
dismissed the cases without any
| examination of witnesses.
1 It will be remembered that
these defendants were recently
arrested on a warrant sworn out
; by Constable W. E. King, charg
ing them with placing a dead
child on the campus of Galloway
female college one night last
May.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
A few days ago the Arkansas
Democrat reproduced as a matter
of news from the Newport Inde
pendent without comment the
' following item:
“A curiosity in the way of two
! i pelicans was exhibited on the
streets Saturday by a colored
man, who killed the pair while
they were asleep on a sand bar
just across White river. They
were beautiful specimens and
measured seven feet from tip to
tip..” ,
The questions naturally arise
in our mind what harm were
! these pelicans doing and what
: good did it do this idiot to kill
; them?
s It seems to us to have been
. simply a case of the most damna
i ble cussedness, for which he
out to be sent to jail or to the
workhouse for not less than
. three months.
Some persons are so consti
tuted that they cannot appre
ciate God’s blessings in the way
of beautiful- birds, fowls, etc.,
and when they come upon them
they haven’t any more sense
than to wantonly destroy them.
God will certainly send that
man’s soul, if he has one, to
hades to do penance for tne in
l considerate destruction of his
. creatures.
; VVe are surprised that neither
of the papers printing the above
r item should have made no com
ment. It is up to the Independ-;
, ent to have this negro indicted
! by the next grand jury.—Forrest1
i^ity limes.
- The pelican hearted and not j
. the sporting editor of the Times
i has doubtless not read of the
. j quandary we are in. The baby
i contest consumes our whole time
but when Christmas day relieves
r us of that responsibility.and pro
’ vided the mothers of babies un
t der two years allow us to con
tinue the publication of our paper
5 here in Newport, we may give
i this ruthless, vicious, premedi
5 tated and malicious slaughter of
1 fowl our attention.
t SALOONS WILL LOSE
• COTTON PLANT FIGHT.
2 The Brinkley Argus says that
2 “the stolen petition seals the
doom of the Cotton Plant sa
loons. “When the prohis went to
2 Augusta to make their fight
against license their petition
very mysteriously disappeared.
e The effect of this trick pro
duced a strong reaction and the
e temperance' people at once set to
, work and ‘ now have a much
y j stronger petition than at first,
"' which makes it a pretty sure
• ! thing that whisky will not be
so” ' ~ itton Plant next year.
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