DAILY INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS
RAILROAD TIME CARD.
ST. L. I. M. & S. RAILWAY.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 72. Local Freigrht. 11:45 a. m.
No. 2.,. 3:20 a.m.
No. 4. 2:00 p. m.
No. 12. 8:48 p.m.
No. 6. 10:50 p. m.
No. 8. 10:25 a. m.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 73, Local Freigrht. 7:30 a. m.
No. 7. 11:25 a. m.
No. 5.. 6:00 a.m.
No. 11. 6:37 a.m.
No. 3. 4:47 p. m.
No. 1. 10:50 p. m.
BATESVILLE BRANCH.
Passenjrer leaves. 7:00 a.m.
Mixed •' . 11:45 a.m.
Passengrer Arrives. 8:30 p. m.
Mixed ** . 10:15 a. m.
ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM.
Paasengrer Arrives. 2:20 p. m.
Passenjrer Departs. 3:20 p. m.
Local Freigrht Departs. 6:30 a. m.
On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
Wo are authorized to announce T. T. Ward as a
candidate for the office of representative of Jack
son county, subject to the Democratic primary
election.
FOR SHERIFF.
To the voters of Jackson county.
I am a candidate for re-election to the office of
sheriff of Jackson county, subject to a Demo
cratic primary, if one is held. Feelinsr that I
have discharged the duties of that office in such
a manner as to merit your confidence, and thank
ing you for your support in the past and asking
your help in the future. If elected I will do my
duty. Your fellow citizen, R. W. BANDY.
We are authorized to announce Snell Simmons
as a candidate for election to the office ofJSheriff
of Jackson county, subject to the action“of the
Democratic party.
FOR COUNTY AND PROBATE JUDGE.
We are authorized to announce E. L. Boyce as a
candidate for the office of county and probate
judsreof Jackson county, subject to the Demo
cratic primary election.
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK.
We are authorized to announce John D. Neal as
a candidate for the office of circuit clerk of Jack
son county, subject to the Democratic primary
election. —
We are authorized to announce James S. Jones
as a candidate for re-election to the office of cir
cuit clerk of Jackson county, subject to the Dem
ocratic primary election.
FOR TREASURER.
We are authorized to announce Dr. F. G. Smith
as a candidate for the office of treasurer of Jack
son county, subject to the Democaatic primary
election.
Truthful advertising pays and
newspapers should be practising
exponents of this principle.
\
One point for home-steaders to
remember is that no county in
Arkansas has bonds to pay for
paper railroads- Arkansas Home
stead.
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Newport can be relied upon to
extend the Arkansas travelers a
cordial reception. For if there
is one trait which distinguishes
our people more than another, it
is hospitality.
The man who, wanting a drink,
will not walk one block to secure
it, is still missing. General
opinion inclines to the belief that
the man who really craves a
drink (and it is this class which
prohibitionists would help resist
such temptations) would walk
twenty blocks.
In some localities of this sec
tion there is yet much cotton in
the field. Prosperity must breed
filth, for it would seem present
prices are high enough to stimu
late the farmers to extraordinary
effort to gather the crop that
winter rains, sleet and snow
must soon claim.
The grand jury was in session
last week four days at Corning
and adjourned without returning
a single indictment. The states,
which were once accustomed to
laugh at Arkansas, must now ad
mire a people who walk so well
within the statutes of the law as
to make criminal coiirts unneces
sary.
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Jackson county must be pros
perous this year. Farming and
business are evidently profitable
when county office allures so
few. There are a smaller num
ber of announcements in the pa
pers of Jackson county than any
other in the state, and we accept
it as a good sign of commercial
and agricultural activity.
The fight of James P.
upon Janies K. Jones in
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ing to the latter’s appointment
as a canal commissioner shows a
very small spirit upon the part of
the victor in the primaries of
two years ago. Even the sena
tor’s friends are not slow to con
demn this fight, when no other
Arkansan has a chance to win
the plum. These old animosities
should never be revived, but
i buzied deep beneath a pride in
! and loyalty to a common state.
... —
; Senator Deitrich of Nebraska
has escaped trial for bribery on
the technicality that he had not
taken his oath of office at the
time he was alleged to have ac
cepted pay for his influence in
urging the claims of a certain
postoffice aspirant. While the
crooks of the country are taking
advantage of these fine legal
! points to escape penitentiary sen
tences, we are confronted on the
other hand with a reform cause I
seeking to defeat the manifest
I intent of the law through a simi
lar evasion.
STORED IN BLACK ROCK.
A man from Newport is hav
ing a houseboat built on which
he proposes to operate a bar,
having taken out United States
marine license, says the Black
Rock Telephone. A part of his
stock of fifty gallons of whisky
has already arrived and is stored
on Second street in that town.
Marine license it all right from
Uncle Sam, but Lawrence county
will have something to say about
it.
Great trouser sale Friday and
Saturday, January 15th and 16th. ;
See ad in this issue. Star Cloth
ing House. 19d6t
NEW—EMBROIDERIES—NEW j
First of the season. All the
new designs for spring 1904. At i
Chas. Meyer’s Great Bargain
Store. 16btf
FOR SALE.
Frame store house of two good
rooms good location for mercan- j
tile business at Jacksonport,j
Ark. b30d J. M. Grubbs.
Great trouser sale Friday and,
Saturday January 15th and 16th. i
See ad in this issue. Star Cloth
ing House. 19d6t
It is now said on authority of
Chief Engineer Rohwer that
trains will be running to Yellville
on the V, hite River line by April
1, and that the line will be com
pleted to Carthaere bv Julv 1.
J. L. Sells went to Hot Springs |
Monday morning for a short visit. |
He has not yet decided upon a |
location to re-enter business. It is
reported that his wife may visit;
Newport friends next summer,!
of whom she has a host.
$390 FOR LETTERS TO j
ENCOURAGE EMIGRATION.
The Rock Island system offers
twenty prizes of the aggregate;
value of $390 for letters relative
to the territory along its lines in
Arkansas, Indian Territory, Kan
sas, Oklahoma, Texas and New
Mexico. Letters should deal
; with the writers’ experiences
since he settled in the Southwest.
They should tell how much money
he had when he arrived, what
measure of success has attended
! his efforts and what he thinks of
1 that portion of the country in
' which he is located. Letters ■
j should not be less than 300 nor
I more than 1500 words in length, |
and will be used for the purpose
| of advertising the Southwest.
Letters are desired not only
from farmers and farmers’ wives, |
i but also from merchants, school
i teachers, clergymen, from every- j
one, in brief, who has a story to j
tell and who knows how to tell it.
For circular giving details write
; to John Sebastian. Passenger
Traffic Manager, Rock Island
System, Chicago.
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fjor the news read the Daily
GOVERNMENT BEES.
Bony Inaectn BelmiKlnW to the Affri
cullurul Department Swarm
to Market.
Doubtless the only members of the
government’s gignatic force of em
ployes whogo to workbefore nine o’clock
a. m. and continue toiling until sun
down are the Italian bees kept by the de
partment of agriculture. These, the
smallest of our domestic animals, are
kept by the department for experimental
purposes and for stocking its various
substations, says the Washington Post.
Some time ago these government bees
discovered that Center maket was a
far better pasture than the flower beds
and vegetable gardens of the depart
ment, and there they resort every day.
to no small discomfort and annoyance of
commission dealers, hucksters, gard
ners and restaurant proprietors, whose
stock in trade the industrious little in
sects prey upon.
In some cities the rats and mice are
troublesome, and in others crickets,
grain insects, and various other bugs
prey upon the perishables, but Center
market is the only market in the United
States where the most serious pest is the
insects which belong to the government.
They eat holes in the peaches, poach on
the grapes, gather honey from car.te
loupes, and are the first to find the soft
spots In pineapples and bananas. What
is more, there are about Center market
a number of open-air eating booths, to
•which the bees resort in large numbers
to collect honey from various sweet
dishes, particularly apricot, apples,
peach, prune and huckleberry pie. The
funnv Dart of it all is that the commis
sion dealers, fruit handlers and res
taurant keepers are afraid to offer any
opposition to their intrusion for fear
the plucky little insects will resent it.
Hardly a week passes that some one
does not get stung by the government
bees, who object to rough handling and
treatment. With the juice and wax
which they collect from apples, ihelons,
peaches, oranges, pineapples, grapes,
bananas and pies in the market, they
lay up their store of winter honey. The
only time the restaurant keepers are
able to even up with these little pests is
when they have a batch of hot pies or
bread pudding on hand. They it hap
pens accasionally that some over-hasty
government bee gets his feet scorched.
In such cases they hover about the pies
until they have cooled off, now and then
alighting on the crust to test the tem
perature of the tempting bait.
NEGROES SANG AT WORK.
And Entertained French Opera Sing
ers In the Streets ««f New
Orleans.
The French opera singers were specta
tors of a picturesque street scene a night
or two ago in the vicinity of the old
French opera house, says the New Or
leans Times-Democrat. Bourbon street
was being paved with asphalt, and the
work was being hastened so as to have
that portion of the street near the opera
house accessible for carriages by the
time of the opening of the French op
era season.
On this account an unusually large
force of workmen were engaged, and in
order to push the work to an early com
pletion the men worked at night, huge
torches being used. In one block, be
tween St. Louis and Toulouse streets,
more than 100 men were working.
Every one familiar with the negro
knows that, in so far as he is able, he
sets his work to music. It is a fact often
marveled at that the negro, when he is
singing or chanting in a sort of rhythmic
mood, works with more ardor than under
different conditions. And if an extra de
mand is made on the negro workman he
sings or chants the louder.
The members of the French opera, or
at least many of them, heard for the first
time the real melody of the negro voice
that night. It was that swishful, poetic
thing caricatured in the ragtime of the
stage, a certain subtle, indefinable some
thing which no composer has ever been
able to fit to the well-measured octaves
of musical arrangements. It was the
tuneful, heaving call of the levee, the
mellow sunset cry of the cotton fields.
The flaring torch, the bustling hither and
thither, the heavy fall of the implements
of toil—all those things gave exquisite
tone to the setting.
Paraguay Tea.
There comes from Paraguay to the
Journal of Tropical Medicine news of
an apparently harmless beverage which
is the sole stay and stimulant of the
working classes in Paraguay and the.
Argentine Republic. It is often known
as Paraguay tea or mate, and an at
tempt made to introduce it into this
country some years ago failed because
—as we may guess—there were more
potent competitors in the field. It is
usually drunk as a hot infusion, through
a metal tube, but may be taken like tea,
with milk and sugar. Workmen take it
with them wherever they go and sip it
occasionally. Wood cutters will work
on it for five or six hours before break
fast. and the writer declares that, taken
at night, it makes nursing, study or what
doctors call “night work” real pleasure.
Analysis does not explain these results,
and lifelong and persistent use appears
to have no evil consequences. This
would be a good substitute for the num
berless patent medicines which supply
alcohol to women, or even, in at least
one familiar case, cocaine.—London
Chronicle.
Sew Variety of Pheasant.
The European pheasant is being
crossed with the Asiatic variety. The
result is a larger bird, much quicker and
stronger on the wing, and more prettily
marked.
School* Open ut Migrlit,
Twenty schoolhouses in New York
have been opened this fail as recreation
centers for the neighborhoods in which
they are situated.
Sweeping
Reductions
They can better be
sold cheap than car
ried over to another
season and during the
month of January
prices will be made
such as to make the
goods move* *£ dt
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"BOB S IN TOWN"
He buys cotton seed and
don’t forget it. With no ill
will to any company, he
buys for himself and pays
for the same.
R. L. JOHNSON
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CHAS. R. HITE
Buys and Sells Farms,
City Property, Timber
Lands, etc., Money to
Loan, Farm Insurance.
Notary Public.
Call or write, No. 107 Hazel
street, Newport, Ark. ,
Will Pay Your Taxes.
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