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I Newport Daily Independent.
VOLUME IV. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1904. NUMBER 202.
SEARCY SCORCHED
BY TWO FIRES.
Seven Brick Buildings of Sister
City Destroyed by Fire and
Stocks Lost.
^ Searcy, Dec. 19.—Two fires,
Originating in a different
part"'©#, the town, destroyed
many thdusand dollars worth
* of property bere Sunday and for
a time threatened to wipe out
the business district.
\ The first blaze was discovered
■ at 7 o’clock in Alexander’s bil
liard hall; which was destroyed,
entailing a loss of $2000, with
only a part covered by insurance.
Spreading to the adjoining build
ings, the flames next attacked
the confectionery store conduct
ed by John Good, whose loss is
$2500. partly insured. Chand
ler’s undertaking establishment
and Worth & Benson’s grocery
store were consumed before the
fire could be gotten under con
trol.
The local fire fighters, with
the help of citizens, had just ex
tinguished the last of the flames
when a new alarm wasr turned
in from the west side; a vicious
fire having started in the Mc
Queen general merchandise store.
The losses from the second fire
are as follows; Searcy bank
$1000, fully covered by insur
ance; McQueen general merchan
dise company $4000 with $1000
insurance; Woodson grocery
| store $3000, partially insured;
Smith’s general merchandise
$1000, no insurance; damage to
a Shumate’s stock, $1000.
This is one of the most de
structive fires in the history of
the town and is thought to be of
incendiary origin.
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McFarland
celebrated their fifth wed
ding anniversary at Homan, Sat
urday evening, Dec. 17.
Dainty refreshments were
served, and many very pretty
and useful presents were receiv
ed.
Those present were Messrs,
and Mesdames T. R. Eldridge,
H. G. McBurney, H. G. Tarvin,
T. E. Brock, S. M. Bird, H.,E.
Hill, Mesdames John Nugent,
S. W. McFarland, Misses Laura
Evers, Ida McFarland, Messrs.
C. B. Kelley of Chicago, T. J.
Hawk, Carlisle Johnson, Paul
Booker, I. T. Ford and John Mc
Farland.
COUNCIL ADOPTS
TWO ORDINANCES.
At a regular meeting of the
council Monday evening, at
which all the members were
present, two ordinances were
finally approved and a third giv
en second reading.
One repeals a recent enact
p ment relative to an Iron Moun
tain spur track to the Wolff
Goldman warehouse and grants
that road a lease for such a track
for twenty-five years.
The second ordinance calls for
a flagman at the Beech street
crossing on the Iron Mountain to
warn the traveling public of ap
proaching trains. Refusal to
conform to this ordinance makes
the railroad company liable to a
fine of $25, and $5 for each ad
ditional day.
The ordinance under consider
ation forbids the posting of bills,
cards,signs,etc.,to telegraph and
telephone poles along the streets
of this city and strikes at a nuis
ance thac keeps filthy our streets
with waste paper.
Aside from the allowance of
accounts and referring of re
quest for arc light at ferry to
street and alley committee, no
further business was transacted.
SUPERB MOVING PICTURES.
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Louis Salisbury’s high class,
life like, life sized moving pic
j tures will be the attraction at
the opera house Wednesday even
ing, December 21. d2t
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WEEDING OUT
NEGRO LABORERS.
Preponderance ofWhite Labor
Now Employed In Lum
ber Mills of Eastern Ar
kansas.
Marked Tree, Dec. 18.—For
twenty years the mill owners
have been more or less troubled
with the labor question. They
have found it impracticable to
secure enough white labor and a
certain proportion of native ne
gro labor was found to be unre
liable and lacking in energy.
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ine importing ui ncgiu
from other states did not ma- j
terially relieve the situation.
During the two years past, a1
a consistent and steady process
of weeding out the jeast desira
ble labor has been in vogue in!
the various mills near here, this
being made feasible by the in
coming of whites from Missouri,
Illinois and Indiana. As a re
sult of the latter’s advent more
than 50 per cent of the mill
hands now employed are whites,
where formerly there was a con
siderable preponderance of ne
groes.
TUPEPO’S NEW
SCHOOL BUILDING.
Tupelo, Dec. 20.—The Tupelo
public school, which has been
under organization for the past
few days, will continue after
January 1 with the following
faculty: •
Mr. Spence, principal; Miss
Bettie Higgs, assistant; Miss Gul
ley, teacher of music.
The school will be strictly a
graded one.
We have nearly completed a
new school building which will
cost upwards of $2,000.
An entertainment will be given
in the music hall of the public
school building at Tupelo on the
evening of December 31. The
program will consist of a recep
tion with light refreshments, to
be followed by piano and vocal
music and recitations.
Admission 25 cents, proceeds
to go to the furnishing of the
music room.
“BLIND JOHN” DEAD.
“Blind John” Stacey, for many
years a resident of this city,
died at his home at 3 o’clock
Tuesday morning from pneumo
nia, leaving a widow and one
daughter.
Services at the grave Wednes
day in Walnut Grove cemetrey.
The day was never too cold
nor the weather too stormy for
Blind John, as he was familiarly
known, to part conpany with a
public upon whose charity he
could ever rely, and a fiddle
whose strains were ever famil
iar to the ear. In his separation
from the world, his lonely lot ap
pealed to his fellow "men and he
was the recipient of much kind
ness, but another world holds in
store much richer blessings for
the poor unfortunates of a brief
existence here below and may
these reward the mortal life of
this blind man.
LITTLE MISS JEANNETTE
COMES FORWARD.
Final Poll Commencing That
May Make Many Changes in
Baby Vote.
Edwin Johnson. 1680
Wm. Wallace Dutton 1432
Jeannette Henry. 1337
Dorothy Stephens . 1244
Ernest Theodore Phillips 1242
Jas. Edward Wilmans. 1099
Charles Jones Brandenburg 857
Thelma Smart.. 85
The finish of the contest to de
termine the sweetest and pret
tiest baby in our home county is
just four days away, and the goal
is reached that tells the fate of
the eight deserving contestants.
Little Miss Jeannette Henry,
who lagged for some time be
cause her friends and supporters
were accumulating their votes to
make them telling on the home
stretch, but who was never for
gotten and climbed steadily the
ladder of popularity, now passes
a whole bunch of her baby com
panions and lands in the top
ranks, a close third, not far be
hind a good second in Wallace
Dutton, who also moves up, but
makes no relative gain, as Edwin
Johnson adds another hundred
odd votes to his total.
Again all records have been
broken and Miss Henry has
made the biggest day’s gain,thus
far in the event, of 794 votes.
Edwin Johnson lacks but a few
over 300 of reaching the 2000
mile post and is not trying to en
courage his competitors to catch
up, but seems to want to keep
out of sight.
Thelma Smart has a friend,
who has donated another 25 bal
lots to her cause and every baby
in the race has friends and rela
tives, who yet hope to see their
favorite win, though they may
not admit as much. The untold
story is a very brief one, yet
time will have it to tell,'as fore
casts on an election are not in
our line.
DOHERTY’S STOCK
SEIZED BY SHERIFF.
Liquors Confiscated to Await
Hearing in Court—Goods
Stowed Away in Court
House Tower.
On a search warrant issued by
Justice Guy Smith, upon an affi
davit of R. T. Simmons, Sheriff
H. S. Simmons on Tuesday morn
ing closed the saloon of J. E.
Doherty & Co. in the First ward
and seized the entire stock of
liquors held by that firm at their
place of business in the First
ward.
The work of moving the goods
"to the court house tower was be
gun at once and there they will
be stored away until the party
against whom the search warrant
was issued, has his day in court
and the legality of the seizure is
determined.
The action was taken in pur
suance of the mandamus granted
by the supreme court December
3 against Judge F. D. Fulkerson,
compelling him to issue an order
of seizure for the liquors alleged
to have been unlawfully kept for
sale in the First ward by J. E.
Doherty & Co.
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