NEWPORT
luMEXIII- NEWPORT, ARKANSAS SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER, h. 1913. M MURK l:i.V
■springs
■s CONFLAGRATION
llsecond Time In Present De
Kcade Has Big Fire
■ Loss.
I>t Springs Sept. 5.—Glow
Mmbers, twisted masses of
Knd steel, smoking ruins, in
Mwith an occasional
K where the flames are still
King up a a white light to
K] the shadowy gloom that
Ka;ien. cover an area of one
■one-quarter miles east and
I and at least half a mile
K and south, the result of a
■that originated in the rear
■ negro shanty a few hours
U Hot Springs, the mecca of
■southwest and one of the
■thiest resort cities in the li
ft States, sustained a loss
ftd at $10,000,000, with the
Red territory covering 50
fts, 35 of which contained the
■ial residences of the city.
■ thousand people were made .
leless. Two congregations j
■without an edifice in which I
■orship; Garland county is '
■out a courthouse, Hot J
|ngs must find a temporary
|e for the students of the high 1
lol; only one laundry of the j
Be that formerly were over
id to carry the city’s busi- i
i, remains; power, electric .
t power will not be available
nearly 60 days. These are
a few of the big losses in to-1
s fire.
veeping eagerly from east to
t and north to south, the ,
lagration spread steadily:
l the start, relentlessly push- (
its way through the big bus-'
s blocks on Malvern and Ou
ta avenues and continuing
land south into the beautiful
* i
dence sections on Prospect
Qliannw nupnnes
Jbizens patrol streets.
■ore than a thousand men vol
■eered their services in fight
ftoving Pictures
■theOpera House
I 18 Reels Per Week.
I 4 extra good pictures.
■HE THWARTED PLOT
Brief in a Western town poses
■ doctor. He pretends his pal
■.He robs the miners and con
Bs the gold in a coffin, suppos
Bo contain his dead pal. See
B the plot fails. Extra good
I (PATHE)
I minme. the widow
F widow and her daughter are
■ fashionable Southern resort,
■isnful scenery taken in Flor
| (Comedy—LUBIN.)
I ONE ON ROMANCE
BWs how a young man to win
Betty girl has to act as a con
st, but he wins her after many
By scenes.
I (Comedy—LUBIN.)
I LIEUTENANT JONES
■is accused of stealing money.
■ leaves and discovers some
Ftile Indians, they attack the
P • for his bravery he is pro
fted and wins the girl. Myrtle
feadman in the lead.—A good
ditary drama.
(SELIG.)
ex.ra good pictures and good
wu.sie by the orchestra.
“MISSION 5 and 10 CENTS.
jing the flames, while 350 other
i were sworn in to aid Chief of Po
lice Tom Ellison in maintaining
i the fire lines and in patroling the
desolated district. 1^. X. Whit
| comb, chairman of the Little
,Rock City Council Fire and Wat
jer Committee, and Captain B. S
’Harman, who with six firemer
i and the high power motor engine
of the Little Rock Central Sta
tion, arrived at 8 o cock tonight,
| took command of the fire fight
; ers and, pumping water under
great difficulties, aided greatly in
stemming the flames in South
Hot Springs. The Hot Springs
equipment was rendered almost
useless early in the struggle by
the burning of more than half of
the available hose. The Little
Rock special brought 1,500 feet
of hose- Three lines, each capa
ble of throwing 250 gallons to
the minute, were attached to the
engine which was hurried to the
burning district. It was neces
sary to unload the apparatus
half a mile outside of the burn
ing area, the fire having burn
ed through the Iron Mountain
yards at Valley street.
Division Superintendent C. L.
Mayne of Little Rock, Assistant
General Passenger Agent F. E.
Schroeder and Machinery Su
perintendent D- W. Cunningham
accompanied the special here
from Little Rock.
MANY LOSE EVERYTHING
The hand of man was too weak,
the flames greedily licked up
everything in its path, advanc
ing at will and leaving behind a
scene whose desolation beggars
description.
“How is it with you?” the qu
ery would be, and the answer:
“I’m burned out. Not a thing
left,” came in dozens of instanc
es. There Is probably no resi
dent in Hot Springs who does
not feel in some way the damage
rlnnp in tho hie'p’pst confiavra
i tion ever known in Arkansas’
history. The streets are lined
with homeless men, women and
children.
Property estimated conserva
tively at $10,000,000 was de
stroyed in today’s conflagration,
which began within three blocks
of the east city limits and cours
ed northwest and south, wiping
out business, commercial, public,
church and private property. At
10 o’clock the fire is apparently
burning itself out in the resi
dence section of South Hot
Springs, extending to within a
few blocks of the bordering West
Mountain.
Little or no water has been a
vailable throughout the after
noon and night, neither the Hot
Springs equipment nor that of
Little Rock, which arrived over
the Iron Mountain at 8 o’clock,
doing effective work because of
inadequate water supply.
There is not an electric light in
the city and the telephone serv
ice was out of commission early
in the afternoon when the South
western Telegraph and Tele
phone Company’s cables were
; burned.
1 The streets are lined with ve
hicles of every description load
ed down with the entire worldly
posessions of Hot Springs resi
' dence owners whose homes were
■ destroved in the raging flames.
AREA OF FIRE.
The burned area is bounded on
I the north at the junction of Ou
jachita and Central avenues, west
practically to the city limits, east
across Grand avenue, a pike
which encircles the city, and is
now burning .south at Hale street
about two blocks from the south
j limit.-. It will probably reach
' limits before checked.
The wind is blowing in a south
erly direction tonight and this
1 tact is the only reason the dis
trict west of Central avenue in
the middle of the city is not de
stroyed.
Fire swept across the frieght
and passenger yards of the Iron
;Mountain railroad at the end of
alley street, between Malvern
and Central avenues, destroying
both freight and passenger de
pots. cutting off railroads from
all wire connections except that
through the Western lines. The
Iron Mountain estimates its loss
according to Superintendent C
L. Mayne, who came here on the
special from Little Rock, at a
bout 830,000. No equipment
was burned. Three switch en
gines were used to move rolling
! stock in the yards to the south
Iern end. Passenger trains are
forced to stop three-quarters of
, a mile from the station site.
The Rock Island’s olss is believ
ed to be small despite the fact
. that the fire originated within a
few blocks of its depot- Wind car
ried the fire north to the junc
tion of Central and Ouachita
avenues, coursing back south and
west, the flames being carried
a distance of more than block a-:
cross the wide yards of the Iron
Mountain.
Ouachita avenue, on which is
located some of the largest com- j
mercial houses in the city, was
gutted on the east side only for
a distance of four blocks, when
the flames jumped across the
street, burning everything south
and west of the new Lindell ho
tel.
The court house, high school
and a negro school were de
stroyed. The government is in
terested in the baths destroyed
| with’ the Parke hotel, the aggre
gate loss of the latter being
! $500,000.
Road Work At Batesville.
Batesville, Sept. 30.—Showing
[what may be done with a defin
ite plan, the road from here to
i Newark yesterday and today is a
' fair sample. More than 1,200
'' loads of gravel were hauled and
! just six miles of road made good.
The making of that much good
[road gives Batesville not only
[connection with all that section
!along the route but away beyond.
1 For the road from Rutherford to
I Newport, a distance of 24 miles,
i was already good, and the mak
ing of this six miles completes
the road to Batesville.
The Rutherford Brothers, who
own several plantations out in
[that section, ha lalready cut a
'new road of a mile connecting
with the very same road and e
vading a long steep hill. This
new mile of road reduces the dis
tance from here to Rutherford
, exactly one mile and at the same
time evades Pine Hill, which was
always impassable in winter.
'Hundreds of dollars have been
spent on that hill, and just why
it never occurred to roadmakers
before to go around the hill is
not very clear, but it never had,
and each year load after load of
[gravel was placed on it, only to
:be washed away with the first
big rain
The road work in this county is
a big success, and it will be
worth thousands of dollars to
the county.
NOTICE.
No one has called for their
dishes at the court house and as
they are piled up in the hallway,
it is requested that the owners
remove them as soon as possible.
. \ \
I SCUFFLE MAY
PROVE FATAL
: Homer Atchison Receives Acci
dental Knife Wound At
Hands of Walter Huff
man.
An apparently friendly scuffle
between two boys, Homer Atchi
son and Walter Huffman, over an
open knife may have resulted fa
tally to the former, whose condi
tion is very critical as the result
of a very serious knife -tab into
the lower part of the left lung
The young men were in Earn
er’s store room on Hazel street
and there was no ill feeling be
tween the two according to all
'present, who did not know until
later that Atchison had received
a serious and perhaps fatal
wound. Each had been banter
ing the other and young Huff
man had an open knife in his
hand, when the scuffle commenc
ed- When blood was first notic
ed, it was thought that Walter
Huffman had been cut and then
discovered that Atchison’s shirt
was bloody. Upon examination.
it wcifc iuuiiu mat me Kmie nact
been jabbed between two ribs be
low the left shoulder and was
producing quite a flow of blood.
Even then the wound was not
regarded serious and Atchison
asked Huffman to accompany
him to the doctor, for he must
report to the Wells-Fargo ex
press office for his night work.
The boys went to the office of
Pr. L. E. Willis, who opened and
dressed the wound and at once
discovered its serious character.
Atchison was then carried upon a
cot to his home on Laurel street,
where he passed a bad night, suf
fering from cramping and stran
gulation, as interna! bleeding
continued.
No one regrets the accident
more than the other young man
and all present exonerate him of
intentional guilt.
The injured boy is eighteen
years of age and an industrious
young man of character and
reputation, whose friends hope
that he may yet rally and re
cover.
Canadians Fear Fs.
In -pile of all the talk we have
heard about mutual interests,
similar destinies, a common lan
guage, and consanguinous re
lations, the Canadian people
have no love for the people of
the United States, and they
| make manifest their slumbor
j bering hatred on every occasion.
The Thaw incident is not singu
lar in this respect. It. showed
I itself in a late election when re
ieiproeity was defeated. It shows
j itself every time an American
i flag is torn down and trampled
upon, which has not been seldom
jof late. The Canadian newspap
I ers. for prudential reasons, do
not voice this sentiment, but
j'Iake care to conceal it. But
when the people are aroused
they make known their true sen
timent. Canada hah s us be
cause she fears us- I u* whole
Dominion contains only about
as many people as inhabit the
state of New York, while the
superficial area of her territory
' is greater than that of the Unit
' ed States if we exclude Alaska.
(The people have been taught to
j believe that the United States
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'resent it bitterly- It is not be
! cause they are so loyal in their
I allegiance to Great Britian, as
| it is because they have hopes of
an ultimate autonomy, when the
vast stretches of Canadian terri
tory will be organized into a na
tional state, and Canada take
the world- Nations, like indi
viduals, hate only those whom
they fear, and until the Canadi
ans are convinced that we have
no ulterior designs on their ter
ritory, and that we would wel
come them into the family of na
tions, this latent hostility and
I hatred of us will remain.—Mem
pb;<-’ News-Scimitar.
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Seized Booze Stolen.
jl Jonesboro, Sept. 5.—Chief of
Police Montague seized 12 quarts
| of whispey from the express of
fice last night and placed it in
his office. This morning when
he arrived on the scene he found
that someone had entered the
place and stolen the whiskey.
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o CHURCHES. o
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ST. PAl'l/S CHURCH.
The services for tomorrow
Sixteenth Sunday after Trin
ity-will be as follows:
Sunday school, 9:45.
Morning service at 11 o'clock.
Evensong at 7:30.
There will be extra and special
music.
The subject of the morning
sermon will. Ephesians 2:8—
“By grace are ye saved through
faith.’’ The Rev. Henry E.
Spears officiates. You are cordi
ally invited to conn1 and bri :g
some one wit h you.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Meet your friends at 9:30 a.
m. in the Bible school, the best
place we know of. We have or
ganized classes, with trained
teachers. Our slogan is 100 be
fore October 1st, boost! boost!
boost!
Communion service at 10:45.
I Christian Endeavor at 7:15 p.
m. You will receive a cordial
handshake if you only give us a
chance
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
I?pv Mr. .Tones of Rntesville
'state Presbyterian evangelist,
I will preach at the church in this
|city Sunday morning and even
! ing at 11 and 7:30. Sunday
'school at 9:45.
I,
METHODIST CHURCH.
' Sunday School at 9:45 a. m.
i Preaching morning and night
, by the pastor.
} Epworth League 7:00 p. m.
I, There is a cordial welcome for
! all who will come.
B. L. Wilford,Pastor.
Lost
Between Fire Department and
Arkansas Bank and Trust Com
pany Friday evening one pair
spectacles in ordinary case.
Please return to W. C. McDou
j'gald and receive reward.
No. 666 f
Thit it a prescription prepared especially
lor MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
i if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
return. it acts on the liver better than
'"vi.n,--.,.! doe'- no* erioe or licken. 25c
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