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VOLUME XVIII. 255. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS |
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Evidence Secured to Prove That Ar
rested Bolsheviki Intended to
Take President’s Life.
New York, Feb. 23.—Fourteen
members of the Spanish branch of the
I. W. W. were arrested by Secret Ser
vice men and members of the police
bomb squad in two raids here late to
day. While they are charged formally
with having seditious literature in
H their possession government agents
■ claimed to have evidence they were
hatching a terrorist plot.
The grave nature of the alleged plot
and the imminence of the attempt to
carry it into execution, it was said,
made it essential the men be impris
H oned at once.
After being questioned at police
headquarters, where their finger
prints were taken, the prisoners were
locked up without bail pending ar
raignment before a United States
it commissioner tomorrow.
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signed to assemble a complicated ma
chine found dismantled in one of the
rooms raided. The Secret Service
agents said they were at a loss to ex
plain its purpose. Translators were
put to work on a mass of papers and
pamphlets seized.
One of the houses raided had been
under police surveillance for several
djys as a result of meetings held
there, it was said.
Eleven of the prisoners, when book
ed at the police station gave New
York addresses, two said they lived
> in Philadelphia and a third said his
home was Elizabeth, N. J. All the
men, it was said, are Spanish aliens
who have come to the United States
during the past three years.
According to the Secret Service
men a youth of 25, who gave the name
of Jose Grau, is the chief organizer of
the Spanish I. W. W. here and is the
editor of a radical Spanish newspaper
published in New York. In the I. W.
W. organization, it was said, he was
known as Armoldo Sapatena.
Franco Francisco and Edward J.
Dowd of the Secret Service, as well as
New York detectives, who assisted
them in the raid, declared they had
obtained evidence which would be
’ Uged in an attempt to prove the pris
oners had planned to assassinate
President Wilson tomorrow, but this
assertion was discredited by Captain
Peter Rubino of the Secret Service,
who directed the raid.
NOTICE, ELKS.
There is to be a regular meeting of
the Lodge on Wednesday evening,
February 26th, we are to have nomi
nation of officers for coming term, to
initiate several who have been elected
and to ballot on other applicants. Al
so, other business to come before the
lodge. Members are urged to attend,
i J. M. Gibson,
Exalted Ruler,
J. H. Johnston,
55d3t Secretary.
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The Baptist Woman’s Missionary
A Union will meet Tuesday afternoon at
* two:-thiriy with Mrs. Gus Jowers.
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TAKES PRISONERS TO
LITTLE ROCK AND AT
TENDS CHURCH SERVICE.
Sheriff J. M. Ivy returned Sunday
night from Little Rock, where he
turned over four prisoners to the au
thorities at the state penitentiary.
The men were Jeff Thomas, a white
man, sentenced five years for carnal
abuse; Edgar Robinson, a negro,
sentenced two years for selling whis
key; Walter Thompson, four years
for arson, and C. T. Smith, a negro,
two years for forgery. The men were
convicted at the late term of circuit
court.
Sheriff Ivy remained at the peniten
tiary through Sunday, saw his men
diessed in prison garb and attended
church service with them, being the
guest of Chaplain E. M. Pipkin.
LACEY JftNES GIVES PARTY.
GGorge and Martha Washington
were much in evidence at the home of
Lacy Jones Saturday evening, when
he entertained with a colonial party
in honor of his little guest, Carolyn
Moore of Little Rock, who came up
especially for the occasion. Flags
and bunting were the patriotic feat
ures in decorations but the little folks
in costume were- the sweetest things
in the world, the boys all being dress
ed to represent the illustrious George
Washington, and the girls Martha
Washington. We hardly believe their
elders could have equalled them, with
powdered hair, paint and powder, and
black patches, which made their rep
resentation perfect. The girls with
full skirts and long trains were very
much admired by the sereval Georges,
who had powdered hair and wore
short waistcoats and knee breeches,
and patent leather shoes with their
prominent buckles. They had a good
time playing games, and later in eat
ing cream and cake around a decor
ated table, where the places were
marked with little red hatchets.
In the party were Carolyn Moore,
Mary Elizabeth Thomas, Frances and
Kenneth Reed, Jewell Edgar, Stew
art Stephens, Kathryn Erwin, Eliza
beth Owens, Billie Parish, Henry
Owen, Jr., Ruebelle Gray, A. L. Crit
t nton, Jr., Kathryn Blackwood,
Charlotte and Mary Carroll and the
little host.
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There were 170 present at the Sun
day school with $7.80 collection. The
Sunday school voted to take its part
in the Centenary and will contribute
about $200 annually to Missions*§pec
ials. The Epworth League meeting
was well attended, the lecture room
being crowded. The program was ex
tra good and the leader, Jeff Avera,
conducted the meeting with skill and
power. Our young people uie great
ly interested in their work and are
laying out a very fine program for
themselves. All young people are in
vited to join these workers. At the
eleven o’clock service the pastor
pleached on the League of Inte^es
sion to one of the largest congrega
tions that has assembled in the church
this’year. At the close of the service
more than 100 people signed the In
tercession Pledge, thus j'oining the
Methodist Million of the Fellowship
of Intercession. It is expected that
100 more of the membership of the
church will sign this prayer pledge
during this week.
The evening service was well at
tended, the pastor, Rev. J. F. E. Bates,
preached on The Assurance of God’s
Help to the Man and the Nation that
turns to Him. The speaker declared
that the greatest destructive forces of
a man are within, and not without.
The greatest destructive forces of a
community and a nation are within
and not without. Statistics show that
90 per cent of the men who fail and
go down in life defeated are defeated
from the forces of sin within and not
from influences without. “There is
no danger” he said, “that our Nation
will be destroyed from the enemy
without, but there is cause of great
fear and anxiety fro mthe destructive
forces within.” “God through the
Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only
hope of our nation.”
Reporter.
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Commissioners Will Meet
to Consider Improvement
Judge W. D. McLain and Junius
Cox, commissioners in Newport
Bridge Improvement District No. 1,
will hold a meeting today for the pur
pose of deciding on what steps are to
be taken v, ith regard to the causeway
which connects the East Side with
Newport proper. The third commis
sioner is James Grubbs, who is resid
ing temporarily in Little Rock and
who will not attend the meeting. .
Commissioner McLain says he is in
favor of an improvement being made
for the relief of .the people of the East
Side, but could not forecast the devel
opmertts of today’s meeting. He stat
ed that the causeway had not been
placed in order because of the status
of the levee proposition. The com
missioners do not favor spending any
| considerable amount of money on the
I causeway so long as there is continued
I danger from overflow. An improve
i ment that is contemplated should it
be decided to build a levee in New
port amounts to the building of a
! bridge across the lake, to be 100 feet
long and 42 feet wide, affording two
G-foot walks on either side and a
driveway 30 feet wide.
Commissioner McLain added, how
ever, that it is not improbable that
| the commission would decide to build
a board walk across the causeway at
once in order to afford temporary re
lief, the expense of which would
amount to about $100, he said.
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WAR THEN BREAKS BACK
* IN CIVILIAN LIFE.
Jonesboro, Feb. 22.—M. J. Rednow,
I a young man about twenty-five years
I of age, who is a resident of near Bono,
! Big Creek township, is at St. Ber
nard’s Hospital in a very serious con
dition, having sustained a serious in
jury while working for the Roberts
Cotton Oil Co. He was handling some
bales of cotton, and in some way a
bale fell on him, breaking his back,
which resulted in a severe case of
paralysis, his entire lower limbs be
j ing paralized, rendering his case al
j most hopeless.
This young man had only recently
returned from France, where he was
| a member of the American Expedi
j tionary Forces, and did valient' ser
vice for his country and was wounded
several times, but recovered and re
turned home, only to be seriously
! wounded, perhaps fatally. The unfor
I tunate young man is being treated by
' Drs. P. W. and C. M. Lutterloh, who
i are doing everything they can to re
j lieve his sufferings and restore him to
health.
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Mrs. J. S. Graham at Tuckerman
entertainpd with a very elaborate re
ception and miscellaneous shower Sat
urday afternoon in honor of Mrs. R.
W. Bandy of our city, whom it is
said received more than one hundred
beautiful gifts from her friends in
that city, where she is much loved and
esteemed. Everything that goes to
ward the comforts of home even to
feather pillows, blankets, quilts, china,
cut glass and other pretty and useful
things were bestowed upon her. A
more deserving write-up of the pretty
Martha Washington affair will be
given later In week.
The congregation of the Presbyte
rian church were very much delighted
with, the visit of Rev. Mr. Mar Yosip
of Cotton Plant, who preached a
most excellent sermon for the congre
gation Sunday morning, returning on
the afternoon train. He was the
guest while here of Mr. and Mrs.
Meadows on Hazel streets.
PUBLICITY OFFER OF
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THIS PAPER ACCEPTED
BY THE METHODISTS.
The Methodist church has accepted
the offer of publicity made by the In
dependent in Saturday’s paper, and
today will be found a condensed re
port of Sunday’s services at the
Methodist church. This paper’s offer
to aid in promoting the churches of
the city as much as possible was men
tioned at Sunday school service and
at the meeting of the Epworth League
of this church, and it is the hope of
the Independent that the Methodists
will keep their good work constantly
before the public.
We are also anxious for all the
other churches to furnish the paper
with news of their progress and hope
other churches to offer the paper
ergetic correspondent before another
week is gone.
SIX PINTS AND ONE
QUART WHISKEY ARE
FOUND ON BOAT HERE.
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Sheriff J. M. Ivy Saturday morning
made a search of a house boat on the
front of White river here and confis
cated six pints and one quart of whis
key. George Barker, who resides on
the boat, was placed under arrest, and
he will be given a hearing before Jus
tice of the Peace H. C. Nuckolls soon,
Sheriff Ivy says.
DAVIS—HALF ACRE.
Married, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. A. C. Bradley, Mr. Henry
Davis and' Miss Lura Halfacre, Rev.
G. L. Fink officiating. Mr. Davi3 is
just from France, where he saw ac
tual service in the world war, and de
sires to settle down to private life.
Miss Lura is a charming young lady
of the Bridge neighborhood.
Mr. and Mrs. L L. Johnson of
Batesville were ‘ guests at the Hazel
hotel Sunday night, returning from a
trip out on the road. Mr. Jdhnson
represents the Brown Shoe Company
and his wife accompanied him on the
trip.
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AS AN INSTITUTION
OF ABOLISHMENT THE
HOUSE LEADS ’EM ALL.
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The Arkansas Legislature is great
on abolishing things this session.
Few of the abolition bills have gotten
through both houses yet, and none of
them has been signed by the governor,
but some have passed one or the
other of the houses.
The house is more disposed to abol
ish than the senate, and it seems
quite probable that a number of the
bills will get on the statute books.
They began by abolishing pool halls
and billiard rootfis in about half the
counties of the state. This move- j
ment was started by Judge J. D.
Doyle of Lawrence county, and a
score of counties followed in his foot
steps. One bill applying to a num
ber of counties has passed both
houses, and now another has started
in the lower house, to include several
counties that did not get in the orig
inal bills. It is needless to say that
the counties of Pulaski, Sebastion, i
Jefferson and Garland are not includ
ed in the list of prohibited counties.
Then Judge Doyle started another
movement > to prohibit all kinds of
horce-racing within three miles of
any church or school house in the
state. This would bar the races at
Hot Springs or anywhere except in
remote sections of the Ozark moun
tains. But the committee Tm Agri
culture, to whom the bill was referred,
returned it with an amendment to
nnvrwif aminttf ■fait* of
the state to hold a race meeting not
exceeding ten days in any one year,
provided there was no gambling in
connection with It.
Mr. Choate, of White, introduced a
bill the second day of the session to
abolish the Fish and Game Commis
sion, and it was permitted to lie dor
mant on the calendar until an oppor
tune moment last week when it was
called up and passed. The house had
just tabled a bill carefully prepared
by a special committee appointed to
draft a bill which, it was thought,
would meet the objections. But a
majority of the house does not ap
pear to be favorable to the conserva
tion of fish and game by placing re
strictions upon the hunters and the
fishers.
Then Mr. Dillard of Garland has
designs upon the abolition of wild
cats, panthers, and other “varmints”
that pester the farmers. He seeks
to abolish them by meant of heavy
bounties to be paid for their scalps.
The house and senate very early in
the session jumped with both feet on
to the blind tiger and proceeded to put
him out of business—if the law-en
forcing agencies will do their work
as effectively as the legislative has
done its duty. The saloons were
abolished two years ago,—and every
body is glad of it,—and so the law
makers proceeded to' pull the claws
I of the eyeless brute that had taken
I iun nlono r\f cnlnfm
Very early in the sessioh, also, the
members began shooting at the fire
insurance companies through the Ar
kansas Actuarial Bureau. The com
panies agreed that it would be all
right to place the supervision of the
Bureau under the State Insurance
commissioner, and the senate has
passed a bill to that effect. But that
did not satisfy the house, which last
week passed the Beard bill to abolish
the Bureau by repealing the Act of
1913 which authorized the insurance
companies to employ a common ex
pert for the making of rates and
classification of risks. This bill now
goes to the senate, and its further
fate will be watched with interest all
over the state.
And one of the favorite, diversions
of some of the members, particularly
of the house, is to abolish high sala
ries and bills for the creation of
new offices. The house has gone on
record frequently against both of
these propositions.
The abolition of bad roads is also
a popular pastime and one that meets
with general approval.
There are some members of the
house that have been trying to abol
ish the Boiler Inspector, and the Alex
ander {toad law, and the ailen fruit
tree peddler, and high rates of in
terest, and fence districts, and illiter
acy, and various and sundry other
things. And with it all there is much
that adds to the gaitey of nations.
The house, incidentally, abolished the
Publicity act, but refused to abolish
the present spelling of Arkansas.
And there are four weeks more.
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ELKS'. M1STIEI 1
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Committees Are Appointed to Con*
plete Preliminary Arrangements
For Performance.
Committees were appointed at »' Jjj
meeting Sunday afternoon at the Elki
Club to proceed with preliminary av» ■
rangements incident to the minstrel 1
which will be given at the Newport
Opera House Monday and Tuesday
nights, March 10-11. Committees to
secure advertising for a “booster,” to
obtain talent, look after the financial
features and complete other arrange
ments were appointed, and the mem
bers began their work Monday. The
entertainment will be directed by Joe "m
Brenn, the well known show man. , |
Either Mr. Brenn or one of his repre- '
sentatives will come to Newport
shortly to assist the lodge in perfect- ,‘fjj
ing plans. Rehearsals will begin
about the first of next week.
Every Elk is boosting the minstrel, "3
and the lodge is determined that the
performance will be the best ever *
given by the lodge in Newport.
NO CARS BEING S6LD
BY WAR DEPARTMENT. ,‘,j
The Official U. S. Bulletin Published
By the Government, Contains An
Important Notice.
“The War' Department authorises 3
the following from the office of the J
Director of sales:
“There are persistent rumors all T
over the country to the effect that the
war department is disposing df a
iarge number of automobiles by SUB-'
tion or private sale at reduced price*
and in many cases to brokers. At the
present time there are available no ^
passenger automobiles for sale.
cars will be turned back to the origi- |
nal manufacturer in every case
where practical.
“It has been noted that a number ||
of second-hand dealers have advertis
ed from time to time quantities of ! i
nearly new material which they Claim > |
to have porchased from the War De
partment. These cases have been in- t -
vestigated and in every instance, so
far, material advertised has not been ;||§f
property of the dealer^and the gov- -jiBS
ernment had no intention of selling
him this property. In this connection, A
it should bo distinctly understood that ||
it is not the policy of the war depart-,,, jl
ment to sell property to anyone for ■J|
speculative purposes.”
MR. GOODRUM IS HERE
TO HELP YOU FILL OUT * ■
INCOME TAX RETURNS.
J. C. Gooclrum of Lonoke, deputy
revenue collector, arrived in Newport .*||
Monday morning from Little Rock, , y
and has an office upstairs in the post
office building, where he can be J
found by persons who desire his as
sistance in filling out income tax re- y
turns. Mr. Goodrum will be here un
til March 1, inclusive..
B. W. Williams was down from
Jacksonport this morning, coming to
bring his daughter, Miss Sallie Wil
liams, who was returning to Bates
ville, where she is in school, having ||
spent the week end at her home at |
Jacksonport.
Mrs. James E. Byrd! and Mrs. Web
ster of Grubbs were at the Columbia
hotel Sunday night, going home this
morning. The two ladies have been
to Mountain Home to visit their M
daughters, who are in the Academy
there and doing nicely in s<Jiool.
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Mrs. Lucien Harris, formerly of
this city, but now of Claremore, Okla.,
and J. C. Helm, a jeweler of that city,
were married Monday of last week |
and are at home at the Bird hotel at
Claremore, of which the bride has
been proprietress for several months. ;J
Mrs. Helm’s many friends of her for- |
mer home learn with interest of her
marriage.
NOTICE.
As gardening season is approach- .Jj
ng, attention is directed to Ordin- . J
ance No. 203, prohibiting CHICK- yM
ENS, or fowls of any kind to run at J
large inside of City limits, providing . j
a penalty of $1 to $5 for each offense,
rhis ordinance will be enforced.
>5d3t C. M. ERWilN, Mayor. | |j