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mendment Providing For
[enant Governor and Al
low People A Chance
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al to Independent,
tie Rock, April 14.—An in
ting Question has come up
t the regularity of the Kud
esolution adopted by the
legislature submitting a
ised amendment to the con
ion providing for the crea
rjf the office of Lieutenant
•nor. It was believed that
mild be a happy solution
2 political muddles that
kept the state in a furore
g the last four months. It
jchnical flaw that has been
rered which may have the
of preventing the submis
if the amendment.
> resolution specifies that
m 17, Art. 5, of the Consti
, be amended. This sec
efers not to the lieutenant
nor, or succession to the
of Governor, but to the
i of the Legislative session,
n 1, Article 6, is the ses
hat the author sought to
1.
Should the question be sub
itted to the people in its pres
t form,—and no one has au
ority to make any change in
-there would be two sections
the Constitution referring to
e succession to the office of
vernor, should the amendment
adopted. This would leave it
the courts for a decision. It
ight be possible for the Su
eme Court to straighten out
le tangle, in accordance with
le evident purpose of the au
lor of the bill, but this is a
latter open to serious doubt in
ie minds of those who have
ioked into it. And it is there
)re possible that the people
'ill yet be able to initiate one of
he three possible amendments
or next election.
City Council Not Wili^ig.
At a regular session of the
:ouncil Monday evening, at
'’hich routine business was
ibout all under consideration,
Alderman Wishon presented the
'equest of the commissioners
n the Lake bridge improvement
listrict, asking for $5,000’ from
the city to assist in the con
struction of the proposed bridge
ft’ay, Mr. W. D. McLain, one of
the commissioners was also
present to present the case of
the commission.
, While the council took no de
inite action upon the request,
he members were unanimously
Pf the opinion that the city’s re
venue was needed for other pur
poses and general street work
particularly and if so large a
>um as $5,000 was appropriated
or the bridge building, the city
night later be reduced to a scrip
lasis whereas the district re
:ently organized will probably
mly pay about 5 per cent for
noney secured through bonds.
Batesville Home Burns.
Batesville, April 14.—-Fire of
ln Unknown origin destroyed the
P°me of former Circuit Clerk
i e°rge Bevens Saturday after
noon. The loss is about half cov
B*e by insurance. The house
Has c°mp!eted but a few months
-go and was one of the handsom
sst m Batesville.
Law Plates Now Buried,
i Special to Independent.
| Little Rock, April 15.—Some
thing stronger than an injunc
tion will prevent a portion of the
plates from which the Arkansas
Supreme Court reports were
i printed, being used by the New
| York law book publishing con
cern, which loan was authorized
by the legislature. A restrain
ing order was then asked to pre
vent Secretary of State Hodges
j permitting the plates to go out
! side the state.
| The plates, which are of a
metal composition such as are
used in printing work, were
packed in boxes and stored in
the hospital building of the old
j penitentiary. The laborers who
| handled them were careless and
I many of the boxes were per
'mitted to break open and their
j contents to spill out. The work
I men did not pick up the plates
j when the box broke, but tramp
; ed on them until many were de
| stroyed. In the few instances
in which the plates were picked
j up, they were thrown into a pile
and jumbled up with plates from
other volumes until it would
j take a Philadelphia lawyer to
solve the puzzle.
i Pending the decision in the in
i junction suit, the boxes contain
ing the plates are being stored
j beneath the steps of the new '
. L,apiT01.
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Traffic Again Resumed.
Little Rock, April 15.—Slowly
traffic over the Chicago, Rock Is
land and Pacific and the Missou
ri Pacific-Iron Mountain lines,!
! i
following the disastrous flood of;
last week, is being restored to a !
normal condition. Sunday the,
right of way of the latter road
through the Fourche bottom, a
few miles southwest of Little
Rock, was resumed, as was also
the badly damaged track and ,
bridge near Hurricane creek. ;
The first train to pass over,
the restored portions of the
track was No. 233, which left
Little Rock for Texarkana at 5 :
| o’clock Sunday afternoon. Train :
No. 35 from the southwest ar
rived at 6:15 o’clock Sunday on
time. All trains left Little Rock
yesterday, according to schedule.
According to officials, the situa
tion near Memphis has cleared
l and they expect no more trouble
from the Mississippi river at
I that point.
A Chance For $10,000.
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j Little Rock, April 15.—Act
I ing Governor Futrell has issued
! a proclammation setting forth
! the fact that the government
! has allotted $10,000 to be given
to some road district to assist in
building 50 miles of demonstra
jtion road, and that it will
| be given to a district to be se
lected from those raising $20,
000 to go with the fund. The
proclammation requires all ap
plications for the award to be
made by May 15
River’s Decline to Be Rapid.
White River reached the high
j water mark of this last rise up
on Monday, when the gauge
; showed a depth of 24.4 feet
j above low water mark. The fall
in the first 12 hours thereafter
was exactly 6 inches, showing
that the decline this time will be
rapid as Black River was alrea
dy falling before White’s fall set
| in, which is rather unusual and
therefore pressages a rapid de
cline unless further rains occur.
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SHORT, SHARP
AND SPIRITED
A\ ill Be ( ampaign For Governor
ship And Devoid cif all I’ei
sonalities Is Promise.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 15.—Short,
sharp and spirited will be the
campaign for the gubernatorial
nomination to be conducted be
tween this and June 21, less than
two months, but it will be ade
quate. The people want to se
lect then' own governor, but it
cannot be denied that they are
aweary of much politics and will
welcome a relief for a few
months before they will have to
go into the 1914 campaign, which
will be along next winter some
time.
Col. S. Brundidge and G. W.
Hayes have opened their head
quarters for their furtherance
of their candidacy and it ap
pears that they will have a free
course. Other entrants have
until April 23 to get into the
running, but they are wary. Dr.
C. H. Brough of the University
was the last of the lingerers a
waiting a conference with
friends before making definite
announcement, but it is not at
all probable that he will be a
candidate.
Col. Brundidge in entering the
race, freely asserts that he does
not endorse the administration
of Gov. Joe T. Robinson, which
lasted only two months, and de
clares that he will tell his reas
ons for it on the stump if it be
comes necessary.
“If elected to the governor’s
office, so long as I hold it it shall
never be used to elect either my
self or anyone else to any other
office,” said Col. Brundidge,
“but I am not prepared to sell
my birthright by promising any
man or set of men that I will
never be a candidate for any
other office. That is a matter
which belongs to the future and
we will let future conditions
take care of it.’
Col. Brundidge will invite oth
er candidates for the nomina
tion to join him in a canvass of
the state. The statement quot
ed is interpreted as meaning
that while he will not use the
office of governor to hoist him
self into the Senatorial office, as
was done by Governor Robinson,
he does not pledege himself not
to run for that office at such
a time as he may be able to do
so without using the governor’s
office as a means to the end.
In making his announcement,
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construed as a covert reference
to the fact that Col. Brundidge
ntay at some time be a candidate
for the U. S. Senate, “The Gov
ernorship is the only office I
have in view.” Judge Hays adds
that he is not a factional candi
date, and that it will be his pur
pose to eliminate factions by
trying to unite them. It is ex
pected that the campaign will
differ from any that have been
Held in recent years by being
free from virulence and bitter
ness, as there are none of the is
sues pending which call for per
sonal attacks. And moreover,
the two candidates now before
the people for the nomination
are not that kind of men, al
though both Have demonstrated
their ability on the stump to
take care of their political inter
ests.
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Special Train To Batesville.
Newport has been filled since
i Monday night with delegates to
the Twenty-fifth Annual Sunday
School Convention to be held at
Batesville for the next three
days, and all trains coming from
any direction have been full to
overflowing.
No. 1 came in from the south
this morning with delegates
from Texarkana, Pine Blutf, Lit
tle Rock and Hot Springs and all
smaller stations. It had attach
ed four special coaches, two Pull
mans and two chair cars that
were sidetracked here and later
attached to three other coaches,
which made tip a special train
leaving at 12:20.
Owing to the late arrival of
No. 4 here (11:40) a message
I was sent to the Hazel hotel to be
ready to serve one hundred and
twenty dinners.
| Batesville expects to entertain
j five or six hundred people and
I in honor of the occasion have
decorated their city profusely.
;Some of the most noted Sunday
I School workers of all denomina
tions throughout the United
, States are to appear on the pro
gram during the convention.
All the Newport people— a
large number in all—expect to
|go to Batesville on the morning
' trains and return home at night
as the distance is so short.
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Girl Sues For $50,000.
Jonesboro, April 14—As the
aftermath of sensational charges
preferred against Thomas H.
Musgrave, a wealthy planter of
Blytheville, Arkansas, by his
wife in connection with a di
vorce suit, Miss Celia Roth, aged
18, of St. Louis, today filed suit
against Musgrave for $50,000
damages. She charges that she
was one of the victims of Musg
I
I rave in an alleged scheme to ad
vertising for girls to live with
1 Musgrave and his wife as a
! “companion.” In her suit Miss
;Roth alleges that Musgrave for
; cibly detained her at his home
i when she wanted to return to
St. Louis after learning the.con
I ditions at Blvtheville. She says
I
i he refused to give her money and
i had her watched.
Found Dead In Room
Mrs. Mattie Lockhart, living
ion Vine street and aged about
65 years, was found dead in her
room about noon Monday. She
was found lying on the floor in
front of her dresser and had
been combing her hair,apparent
ly to go out on the street as her
; clothes were lying on a chair in
j her room.
! A snort luneicu bCl v itc war*
held at her home this morning
conducted by Rev. B. L. Wilford
of the Methodist church, burial
i following at Walnut Grove.
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State Sunday School Meeting.
Batesville, April 14.—The lo
cal committee for the State Sun
day school convention, which
meets in Batesville tomorrow,
April 15, at 3 o’clock, announce
that they have arranged for a
special passenger train to leave
Newport for Batesville Tuesday
at 12 o’clock.
This train will leave Newport
in time to allow all delegates to
reach Batesville in time to get
located and to attend the open
ing session of the convention.
Many of the delegates and oth
ers will come to Newport Mon
- day night, and will reach Bates
ville at 8:30 on the morning of
(the 15th. Buya great many will
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The local committee at Bates
ville who are arranging for the
entertainment of the visitors,
urge that all who expect to come
as delegates send their names to
Charles D. Metcalf, of the com
mittee on arrangement, so that
they may be assigned to homes
here before they arrive. All
who do this will be taken from
the depot to the home assigned
them as soon as they get here,
and will not have to wait after
ward to be assigned a home.
It is expected that fully 1,500
visitors will be here during the
three days of the association,
and homes have been provided
for all who come. Batesville is
going to entertain the delegates
froo nf and everv home in
the city will be thrown wide
open.
The program for the associa
tion meeting has been arranged,
and is one of the most interest
ing programs the association has
ever had. This is the twenty
fifth annual meeting of the asso
ciation.
Fatal Fall From Hotel Window.
Julius Lancaster, who was in
jured in a fall from the Arling
ton hotel window at Batesville at
an early hour Friday morning,
died at the hotel Sunday morn
ing, and the remains were sent
to Mountain View' Sunday for in
terment, says the Guard. His
father had been advised of his
condition, and reached Bates
ville Friday afternoon.
It is not known just exactly
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how the young man happened to
fall from the window. He had
retired for the night, and if 'jfik
supposed that he walked in Vr.JT
sleep. A guest next door to him —,
heard him walking, and heard
him fall. He went to him a," ’
found him unconscious.
A doctor was summoned, an ^
at first it was not thought thfif
his injuries would prove fatal.
An examination, however, show
ed that he was injured internal
ly, and there was no hope for
recovery.
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