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Newport Daily
VOLUME V. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY JO, J906. NUMBER 246.
CONTEST FOR CONTRACTS.
Rates Accorded Railroads for Carrying
Mails Make Them Worth
Trying For.
The speed contests between
IS? various railroads of the West
and the Southwest, under the
direction of the government, the
purpose of which is to decide the
postal department in awarding
mail contracts, brings up another
important question upon which
Bryan’s Commoner submits these
remarks:
“It is announced that some
time this spring the government
will weigh the mails west of the
Missouri river for the purpose of
fixing the compensation the
railroads shall receive during the
next four years for carrying the
mails. The weighing will occu
py about 100 days. The railroads
will ,;e paid for four years on a
basis of what is carried during
the weighing period. This plan
makes it easy to pad the mails
during the weighing period. It
has been charged time and again
that during the mail weighing
season the mails have been
loaded down with public docu
ments sent out under congress
ional frank and shipped from
point to point, weighed and re
weighed time and again during
4- k tiTAi i nrt v, r I ' k n4- 4" k /A
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payments made the railroads for
transporting the mails are res
ponsible for the deficit in the
postal department is well known.
Forty millions of dollars are paid
every year to railroad corpora
tions for mail service. Pound
for pound the railroads charge
to-- - 800 per cent, more for mail car
rying than they do for express
carrying, and instead of furnish
ing cars as they do for express
carrying, they charge Uncle
Sam a rental for the mail
cars that annually equals the
cost of the cars, and in many
cases exceeds it.”
Little Katherine Bandy.
At twenty minutes past two
Saturday morning, February 10,
the spirit of little Katherine
Bandy, took its flight to the God
who gave it.
This sweet little babe whose
life on earth numbered six
months and four days, had been
a great sufferer her entire life,
until death came to her relief as
a result of pneumonia, contracted
Wednesday morning.
To the heart broken parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Lockard Bandy,
and many others whose idol she
was, the heartfelt sympathy of
many friends is extended.
The funeral services were con
ducted Saturday afternoon at 3:30
at the family residence, by Rev .
M. B. Umsted of the Methodist
f church, the burial following at
the Walnut Grove cemetery.
Thrown Down a Bluff.
Eureka Springs, Feb. 9.—Har
ry Kimberling, the 8-year-old
son of Arch Kimberling, pro
prietor of the Crescent Transfer
Company of this city, met with
a serious accident today, which
came near resulting in his death.
While snowballing with some
companions and being chased by
them he ran into a swiftly mov
ing electric car, which knocked
him headlong down a bluff, rend
er* ering him unconscious. Physic
ian- pronounced his condition
not necessarily fatal, _
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Davis at Jonesboro.
t Jonesboro, Feb. 9. —Governor
Davis addressed a large crowd
of ladies and gentlemen at Ma
lone Theater last night. Noth
ing new developed. He spoke
along the usual lines of his form
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er speeches. He paid his re
! spects to Attorney-General Rob
ert L. Rogers, who is a candi
date for governor, and to the ■
boodlers in the last legislature.
He said in about sixty days Cook
and Cox and others who had
; been indicted would be in the
penitentiary. He claimed that
j this county went against him
| two years ago unfairly, and said
the machinery now was against
him, but he demanded that he
be given a representation in the
'selection of judges, and asked;
Dr. B. L. Harrison and Walker
: Higginbotham to furnish them I
I with a list. He spoke for two I
I hours.
Relielf Society Report.
I beg leave to submit my an
nual report of the fiscal year i
ending January 15, 1906:
RECEIPTS.
Hotels, banks and Wolff
Goldman boxes.$ 10.68
W. H. Barnes & Co. Xmas
gift. 10.00
Elks Christmas gift. 25.00
Coll, from members and
others. 166.201
Thanksgiving gift. 6.00
House rent for 1905. 72.00
Sold sewing machine. 20.00
Amount to Bal.. 116.74 i
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Total.$426.62
EXPENDITURES.
Grocery bill. $114.55
Drygoods.. 32.07,
Wood bill. 12.00!
Nurse for sick. 78.50 j
Taxes for Mrs. B. 14.25
Drummond for coffins 6.00
Rent for Mrs. S. 6.00
Lee family. 3.60
Railroad tickets.X 55.20,
Drug bill. 33.25!
Cash. . 85
Comm’s. Mrs. S.. 8.80
Hauling. 1.35 j
Board bill.. 18.55
Thanksgiving box. 8.65}
Christmas gifts. 19.00
Papering 1 room in Relief
house Remmel Ave 5.00
Ins. 3 yrs. Relief house . 9.0o;
Total.$426.62
Very respectfully submitted.
Lou Minor,
Treasurer.
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Omission in State Digest.
Attorneys are now busy look
ing up an error recently discov
ered in the digests of the state
laws, regarding the act regulat
ing the sale of property under;
mortgages and deeds of trust, i
which may haue more or less far j
reaching effect. The error oc
curs in an omission in section
5416, Kirby’s digest, which'
omission, it is claimed, has been
copied from Mansfield’s and
from Sandels & Hill’s digests of!
the state laws. The omission, I
which is the last section of the!
amended act of March 17, 1879,
and amended March 17, 1883, is
as follows:
“And provided further that
the mortgagor or mortgagors,
grantor or grantors in any mort
gage or deed of trust, when the i
sole consideration of the mort- j
gage or deed of trust is money j
loaned to the mortgor, shall, if
he or they desire, have the right
to waive any and all rights of
appraisement, sale or redemption
provided for in this act, by a'
clause in said mortgage or deed
of trust to that effect.”
While it is a fact that the
omission of the above clause does
not change the law in regard to
the matter, yet, it is stated, this I
omission might in some cases i
lead to adverse decisions. The
clause in question, it is said, has j
never been repealed. —Democrat. I
CUTTING THE SCHEDULE.
Gould Roads Puts On Still faster Mail
Service to Get Contract.
St. Louis, Feb. 9-A persist
ent rumor was going the rounds
in railroad circles here today to
the effect that the Gould lines
intended cutting off two more
hours in the fast mail schedule
between St. Louis and Dallas.
It was further stated that the
Frisco-Katy combination had
learned of this cut and that it
would be promptly met. If such
a schedule were carried out the
Iron Mountain fast mail train,
leaving St. Louis at 3 a.m., would
probably have two engines to
carry it through the hilly
stretches in Missouri.
Then between Hoxie and Lit
tle Rock a much faster schedule
would be carried out, and the
fast mail would arrive in Little
Rock probably an hour and fif
teen minutes ahead of its pres
ent time. It would thus reach
the Arkansas capital about ten
o’clock, making the run of 345
miles in seven hours.
FAST TIME IN ARKANSAS.
The Gould officials, in figuring
on a further cut, are said to have
mapped out a schedule whereby
thp o-rpater r>art of the two hours
is lopped off in Arkansas, where
the Iron Mountain has an excel
lent roadbed. Railroad mer
here expressed doubts as to
whether the Frisco-Katy combi
nation would be able to meet the
cut.
On the Iron Mountain road the
distance between St. Louis and
Dallas is 686 miles. On the
Frisco-Katy roads it is 657 miles,
thus making the Iron Mountain
route 29 miles longer than the
other road. But the Iron Moun
tain tracks through to Texar
kana are in much better shape
than the Frisco-Katy and this
advantage more than overcomes
the 29 miles.
MAKES UP AN HOUR.
That the rumor was well
grounded was proven Saturday
when No. 7 passed Newport 48
minutes ahead of the late sched
ule. If the train does that well
from here to San Antonio, the
time should be reduced more
than two hours.
Candidate for Coroner.
J. C. Masters of near Elgin,
Bird Township, requests the In
dependent to announce his candi
dacy for coroner of Jackson
county, subject to the democrat
ic primary.
Mr. Masters has been a resi
dent of this county the past 25
years and has a wide acquaint
ance with whom he stands well.
For 17 years he was in the mer
cantile business at Tuckerman,
but for several years past has
been farming in Bird Township.
He is genial and pleasant and
well qualified to make a good
officer.
Governor Sets Date.
Gov. Davis has issued a proc
lamation fixing February 27 as
the date of execution for John
Dow at Batesville, for murder in
the first degree. He was con
victed at the spring term, 1905,
and sentenced to hang on De
cember 15, 1905, but took an ap
peal to the Supreme court, which
affirmed the lower court.
Shooting On Train.
Hoxie, Feb. 9—The news
butcher on an Iron Mountain
passenger got into a difficulty
with a passenger yesterday near
Okean, resulting in the butcher
shooting at him with a 38 Colts.
That’s an
Expensive
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