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VOLUME II. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. MONDAY JUNE 23, 1902. NUMBER 54
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eOMB SATURDAY
And Buy One Dollar’s
Worth And Get
Any 25 cent article in the
house for 10 cents.
115 WALNUT ST.
NEXT TO
L. MINORS OFFICE.
FIVE AND TEN CENT
STORE.
J. C. DICE, PROP.
Newport Builders’
Supply and Hard
ware Company
HIGH GRADE GOODS
-DESCRIPTION.
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Quality 0ur First
Consideration
..PRICES ALWAYS REASONABLE..
ASSESSOR'S NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the under
signed, as assessor of Jackson county,
Arkansas, will meet the people of the
different townships at the following times and
places, for the purpose Jof listing the Personal
Property and Per Capita 'lax for the
year 1902:
Village township, Barnes’ Mill, Friday
June 20. I
Jefferson township, Jacksonport, Monday and
Tuesday, June 23 and 24.
Bird township, Elgiih Wednesday June 25.
Bird township, Centerville, Thursday, June 26.
Bird township, 'fuckerman, Friday and Sat
urday, June 27 and 28.
Glass township, Swifon, Monday June 30
Tuesday and Wednesday, July 1 and 2.
Union township, Court House, Newport, from
July 7 to August 20.
Please bring along your deeds or last tax
receipts.
Given under my hand this 6th day of
May 1902.
B. F. SIMMONS
Assessor of Jackson County.
First published May 8 Daily Independent 6t.
FOURTH OF JULY RATES.
The Choctaw Route wiH sell excur
eion tickets to points within 200 mUes
of selling station, at ^ Mempnis
or the round tripf , gfty oents.
SUMMER IOUrist rates
Cbocfw Ro^lt SfSS?
tickets daily ^e 'p *7.50 for round
azme, Ark., ^ r„aieJSep. 30,1902.
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A. H. MIZE & CO.
^ Manufacturers of ^
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Physician and Surgeon.
Special attention given to dis
eases of Ear, Nose and Throat.
Also Diseases of Women.
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Offices: New Watson Building,
Rooms 12, 14 and 15.
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DR. H. O. WALKER,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office: Redman’s Diug Store.
Newport, - - - Arkansas.
STUBBORN JURY DISAGREE.
Hot Springs, June 22.—Sir Robert
Sanborn was tried here last week for
obtaining $1,200 from the Arlington
Hotel Company under false pretenses.
The jury hung with ten for acquittal.
When Sanborn came here he repre
sented himself as an English lord.
He said he traveled for pleasure and
was a good spender. The hotel
cashed the draft which was protested.
Sanborn skipped, but was arrested
in Boston after a long chase. He was
brought back, indicted and released
on bond, his relatives in England re
fusing to help him. He opened a
patent office here and has since been
living off the sale of his inventions.
The bogus lord is generally regarded
here as about as smooth an individual
as ever came across the water.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
OFFICIALS INSPECT LINE.
A special train, with the private
cars “Cape Girardeau” and “Poplar
Bluff,” arrived in the city over the
St. L., M. & S. E. at noon Saturday,
with President Newman Erb, General
Manager F. E. Blomeyer, Superin
tendent E. W. Cover and F. H.
Prince, of Boston, chairman of the
board of directors, on board. The
special departed at 2 o’clock for a
tour of inspection over the southern
division and will spend the night at
Hoxie. Sunday it will ggo to Lux
ora, arK., aim return to oi. jjouib
over the Memphis division.
General Manager Blomeyer was
seen by a Citizen reporter and stated
that through service would be insti
tuted on the road next week. The
double train service will not be started
until the bridge over Current river,
which is now constructed of false
work, is supplied with a permanent
bridge.—Poplar Bluff Citizen.
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RECORD BREAKING MORTGAGE.
The largest mortgage, both in value
and in number of words, ever filed in
the Jefferson county circuit clerk’s
office was filed Thursday afternoon.
By the terms of it the Missouri and
Arkansas division of the St. Louis
Southwestern railway is mortgaged to
the Bowling Green Trust company, of
which David R. Francis is president,
for §25,000,000. The mortgage is
given to secure 25,000 one thousand
dollar bonds.
The instrument is printed and is
composed of about 23,000 words. The
fee for the circuit clerk for recording
it is about 824. The mortgage has to
be filed in every county through
which the Cotton Belt lines pass in
the division or about twenty-seven
counties. The company is allowed
until i.935 to pay the mortgage.—Pine
Bluff Graphic.
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The round house seems to be a set
tled thing for Hoxie. While that is
not what our people wanted, still they
console themselves with the fact that
it might have been worse.—Walnut
Ridge Blade.
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CHOCTAW OFFICIALS.
Following is the new roster of Choc
taw officials, who will have offices at
Little Rock:
H. G. Clark, general manager,
Little Rock, Ark.
J. F. Holden, traffic manager, Little
Rock, Ark.
J. W. McLoud, general solicitor,
Little Rock, Ark.
H. W. Morrison, general freight
agent, Little Rock, Ark.
George H. Lee, general passenger
and ticket agent, Little Rock, Ark.
H. E. Yarnall, local treasurer and
purchasing agent, Little Rock, Ark.
Geo. H. Moore, auditor, Little Rock,
Ark.
John H. Harris, general superin
tendent, Little Rock, Ark.
NEGRO CONVENTION
TO MEET HERE.
Morrilton, Ark., June 22.—The state
colored Sunday school convention
which has been in session since last
Tuesday closed today, to meet next
year at Newport, Ark. Over 1000
negroes were in the city today attend
ing the services under the auspices of
the convention. Rev. T. S. Sandefur,
of Gurdon, president of the conven
tion, preached this morning on “An
archy and Religion.” This afternoon
Rev. J. R. Bennett, of Hot Springs,
preached, and the closing sermon was
preached tonight by Rev. W. W.
Colley, of West Africa. A resolution
was passed by the convention pro
hibiting any man who is a whisky
or beer drinker or any woman who is
a snuff dipper from holding office or
teaching in a negro Baptist Sunday
school.,
BOTH WROTE IN VERSE.
A North Missouri farmer whose hog
was killed by a train wrote the com
pany’s claim agent. Being somewhat
of a poet he penned his communica
tion thus:
Dear sir:—
My razorback strolled down your track
A week ago today.
Your twenty-nine came down the line
And snuffed his light away.
You can’t blame me—the hog you see,
Slipped through a cattle gate.
So kindly pen a check for ten,
This debt to liquidate.
He was rather surprised a few days
later to receive the following:
Old twenty-nine came down the line
And killed your hog, we know,
But razorbacks on railroad tracks
Quite often meet with woe.
Therefore my friend we cannot send
The check for which you pine.
Just plant the dead; place o’er his head
“Here lies a foolish swine.”
STATE NEWS NOTES.
Three Republican State conventions
will be held in Little Rock this week.
Wednesday the League convention
of Republican clubs will convene at
Glenwood Park to be followed Thurs
day by the regular state convention.
On the same day the insurgents or
anti-Clayton faction will hold a state
convention at the state house to nom
inate a candidate for governor and
adopt resolutions which promise to be
rather vitriolic.
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Prof. A. T. Graber, musical director
of the University of Arkansas, died in
Fayettville Saturday of typhoid fever.
He was a native of Ohio, but came
from Joplin, Mo., to take charge of
the department of music last year,
and was re-elected at a meeting of
the board last week. He leaves a
wife and two children.
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W. H. Ritter, the Paragould banker
convicted of embezzlement and given
a one-year term in the penitentiary,
arrived at the prison Saturday. He
has not yet been assigned to duty.
BRINKLEY BREVITIES.
Chronicled by Argus.
John Barker went to Newport Fri
day to visit his daughter, Mrs. T. P.
Umsted.
The young Misses and Messrs, have
caught the society fever also. On
nPKnT»arlaniffhf t.hov n/prp ftntprt.flinpfl
at the home of Mrs. A. J. Vaccaro,
complimentary to two pretty young
visiting Misses, Mary Alley, of Forrest
City and Hilda Bailey of Newport.
“A Literary Courtship” proved a
very novel and interesting contest for
the Embroidery Club, Tuesday of this
week at the home of Mrs. Joe Scho
lem. A silver paper cutter was
awarded Mrs. GussieMay Fitts (Miss.)
as club prize, Mrs. Wm. Bailey of
Newport, winning guest’s prize, sil
ver embroidery scissors.
An informal reception complimen
tary to her sister, Mrs. Wm. Bailey of
Newport, and to Mrs. Fitts, Misses
Finley and Stainback of Mississippi,
was given by Mrs. Wm. Hooker, on
Wednesday afternoon and was a most
pleasing affair. The guessing contest
resulted in Mrs. James. W. Stuart
winning the prize, an ebony hat brush
and Mrs Wm. Bailey the visitor’s prize,
a hand embroidered table piece.
The river is again on a stand, the
guage register being 2.2 feet.
A number of skilled button laborers
came down from Black Rock Monday
morning to secure work at the Valley
Button Company and more are exJ
pected. The wages now being earned
at the factory run from $1/60 which
some boy beginners have secured, to
$3 per day, earned by skilled labor.
CONDITION GROWS CRITICAL.
Robert High, the victim of robbers,
who crushed his skull to secure what
money he had upon his person, will
probably never recover to tell his
story of the assault.
The poor fellow has either been out
of his head or has been deaf ever
since the assault was committed.
After the operation, he rested well
for several days, but Monday his
fever was quite high and he rested
very poorly.
The age of unselfish politics is past.
The politician of today casts bis vote,
not for the men who will accomplish
the most good for the most people,
but for the fellow who will accomplish
the most good for the politician.
“They used to sing some time ago
A rather plaintive song—
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
/ But nowadays the song is set
To a different rhyme,
Man wants as much as he can get,
And wants it all the time.”—Pop
lar Bluff Sentinel.
TRIED FOR LARCENY.
The three white men, R. E. John
son, Monroe Andrews and Sam An
drews, who were arrested Saturday
afternoon by Sheriff R. W. Bandy,
charged with breaking into and rob
bing freight cars in the Choctaw yards
of this city, were on trial before Jus
tice Martin Monday for burglary and
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Another lot of stolen goods was
found underneath a tressle north of
town Sunday.
The steamer Taylor of the Inman
Decker Packet Company arrived here
Sunday afternoon on its way to points
on Black River.
Mr. and Mrs. George Irby returned
Saturday night from their honeymoon
to Hot Springs and are at home to
their friends at the Experimental
Station.
Mrs. Robert Neill of Batesville, re
turned Monday afternoon from a
missionary conference held at Vann
dale, accompanied by another lady
from Batesville.
Lonnie Campbell and Watson Hawk
began teaching their country schools
Monday. The former has one in
Breckinridge township and the latter
has been engaged seven miles east of
Newport.
Charles Owens of the Rea-Patterson
Milling Company arrived Sunday
night and was calling on his custom
ers today. He succeeds Wm. G. Rea
in this territory and is a very pleasant
and interesting young man.
LODGE MEETINGS.
I. O. O. F.—Every Monday.
Red Men.—Every Tuesday.
Royal Arch—1st and 3rd Friday.
Jackson Lodge—2nd Wednesday.
Jackson Chapter—4th Thursday.
K. of P.—1st and 3rd Wednesday.
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