U MS WINS
IN FIRST CASE
springs Sheriff Acquitted
i Trial of First of Eleven
Indictments.
ot Springs. May 8.—Sheriff
l William's, indicted on
.ges of non-feasance in office
the first of the 11 cases
nst him this afternoon. Im
iatelv after the state an
!ced it had concluded its
of the case. Judge Guy Fulk
jttle Rock, who is presiding
he absence of Judge Calvin
;0tham, retired to the cham
wth Bruce Gotham court
ographer, looked over the
imony for a few minutes and
i dictated a peremptory in
ction to the jury to bring in
rdict of acquittal. The jury
not leave the box.
Die state has failed to make
a case against the defend
' said Judge Fulk, “and the
t instructs you to find him
guilty.”
ttomey Vaughan of Little
c, who is assisting in the
ecution of Sheriff Williams,
d permission of the court to
leard on that ruling before
verdict was rendered,
t is not necessary,” replied
;e Fulk. “The court has de
ll, and if the verdict had
i anything other than what
court ordered, the court
Id have set it aside.”
rnnsel for the defense to
ri that one of the remaining
:tments against Sheriff Wil
s be tried immediately, but
state announced it was not
y to proceed before Monday,
1 it is hoped that Judge Co
i will be back in Hot
igs. He is wanted, the state
lunced, as a very material
ess. Judge Cotham is tak
a vacation of three days at
lome in Monticello.
Westminster League Social
ie Westminster League of
Presbyterian church will
their regular monthly so
tonight at the home of Mr.
Mrs. J. J. Blanshard. All
bers are urged to be pres
tnd bring a friend. A good
is assured all who attend.
J. F. McKenzie,
Pastor.
oving Pictures
the Opera House
_18 Reels Per Week.
tra Good Pictures Tonight.
IE POWER OF A HYMN
werful dramatic production
le hands of the law-—Carlyle
!hwell and Wm. West as the
(KALEM.)
! FIRST SETTLERS’
STORY
v'ng the husband and wife
£ mto the wilderness to
I their home. Showing a
st fire and how the faithful
loses her life.
(EDISON.)
THE WIDOW’S MITE
e Price and Hughie Mack in
farce-comedy.
(VITAGRAPH.)
usic.
MISSION 5 and 10 Cents.
To Organize S. I. A.
The public is cordially invited
i to attend the exercises this ev
ening at 8 o'clock at the High
School Auditorium, when Miss
Eva Reichardt of Little Rock
.will deliver the principal address
upon how our schools will be
benefitted by the organization
of a School Improvement Asso
ciation.
Judge Boyce, president of the
Board of Education, will also
make a short talk upon the fin
ancial condition of the district
| and how the bond issue has been
; spent in the construction of the
new building. There will also
be several musical numbers and
| upon the conclusion of the pro
jgram, a School Improvement
Association will be organized
for the Newport district.
Miss Reichardt is a very inter
esting speaker of broad experi
ence in her work and the success
of her mission here means much
in the development of our
schools and the growdh of a
healthy public interest in their
advancement.
! The musical program will in
clude a number of selections by
the New-port Theatre Orchestra
and a vocal solo “A May Morn
ing,” by Miss Birdie Marion.
Our public schools more than
any one interest, represent all
of us. They bind us together in
our democracy, in leveling all ar
bitrary distinctions. They ele
vate our families and our citi
; zenship and appeal to us doubly
through our love of home and
country, blood affection and pa
triotism and the organization of
a movement here that has im
proved schools elsewhere ought
to enlist the hearty interest and
co-operation of all our people.
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May Require Extra Session.
Little Rock, May 9.—A spe
cial session of the legislature
jmay be inevitable if the point
(should be raised and the courts
should decide that an irregular
ity, recently discovered in the
general appropriation bill, pass
ed by the last legislature in the
closing hours of its 1913 session,
invalidates every item of the
measure which provided for the
expense of operating and main
taining every department of the
j state government for the next
tw’o years.
Every state official is aware of
the discovery of the flaw and
there has been much discussion
of the matter behind closed
doors at the state capitol. It is
not probable that a state official
will question the validity of the
appropriation bill, because each
j is satisfied with the appropna
I tion given his particular depart
! ment and does not care to risk
| losing a part of his allotment at
j the hands of the general assem
i bly in special session.
Flaw Exists in Bill.
! The flaw in the passage of the
1 appropriation bill consists of the
fact that the house passed the
(appropriation bill in its entirety
jand the Senate passed an
I amended bill which cut off an
j item providing $9,600 for the
| expenses of commercial feed in
I spectors in the Departmient of
1 Mines, Manufactures and Agri
culture, after the house had re
fused to concur in the amend
ment.
Hot Point Day.
At S. J. Denty’s May 10. See
the El Tostovo work. They will
be sold at half price for the one
day. 33d2t
PENALIZE BADLY
GINNED COTTON
Steamship < ompanies to Require
Better .Marked and Better
(tinned Bales.
lhat cotton be hereafter com
pressed to a density of 22' ■_> lbs.
per cubic foot, well marked ami
properly covered, is a require
ment the big steamship lines
operating from Southern ports
have announced they will not
only insist upon hereafter, but
will penalize bales that do not
come up to these specifications.
The buyers are appealing to
the ginners for protection from
any such exactions, because the
gins can provide the remedy and
a letter along this line from T.
J. Gregg, manager of the Les
ser-Goldman Company here will
be of interest and profit to our
readers and is published below:
Newport, Ark.,
May 7, 1913.
“At a meeting held in New Or
leans on Feb. 4th, and in Dallas,
Texas on April 11th very string
ent resolutions were adopted
relative to condition of cotton
upon receipt at ship side. As a
result of these meetings, steam
ship owners have served notice
that they would rigidly enforce
rules requiring all cotton to be
compressed to a density of 22Y>
pounds per cubic foot, and would
penalize cotton imperfectly
marked and insufficiently cover
ed with bagging. To meet the
requirements of the steam ship
lines and railroads, the com
presses will naturally be forced
to look to the buyer for protec
tion, and we, to escape penalty
and excess compress charges
must look to the ginners to rem
edy existing conditions.
“To be able to compress cotton
to a density of 22V* pounds per
cubic foot it is necessary that
cotton should come from the
gins in a uniform or standard
sized bale. The standard size
adopted at the above meeting
(and it is the size bale that is
generally regarded as standard)
is 27x54 inches. The weight of
the bale should be approximate
ly 500 pounds. In the matter of
bagging, it is not necessary that
side pieces should be put on the
bale, but the top and bottom
should be covered with good
quality bagging and the heads
well covered and sewed. It is an
acknowledged fact that cotton
receives less care in handling
and preparation for market than
any other of the South’s agricul
tural products.
“Government experts have es
timated the loss in MONEY
due to the present careless me
thod of handling cotton, as high
as $50,000,000 per annum. When
one takes in to consideration the
fact that this annual waste
would provide ample food for
every man, woman and child in
the United States for three days,
and it means an amount equival
ent to $32 for every living per
son in the state of Arkansas, it
can be better understood what a
little more care of THE
SOUTH’S GREATEST CROP
would amount to.
"We desire to urge the univer
sal adoption of 27x54 gin boxes,
i Your use of good quality bag
ging. Protection of the cotton
from the weather and conse
quent country damage. The
practice of wetting cotton in the
I gin boxes is a dangerous one and
often results in damage to the
cotton. In order to protect our
selves we will be forced to pen
alize odd >ized bales, light
weight', torn and poor quality
bagging, country damage, water
packs, weather stains, caked etc.
"It i' very probable that with
in the year a merchantable bale
of cotton will lie 27x54 inches,
not under 400 or over t>00 pounds
in weight, well covered with
damage and of merchantable
good quality bagging, free from
grade. Help us to avoid reclam
ations by .'hipping cotton com
ing under these specifications.
Advices received so far indicate
an excellent crop condition. We
will appreciate any information
that you may be able to give us
on this subject."
Our Undignified President.
President Wilson is "undigni
fied” when he goes into New
Jersey to fight Jim Nugent in
the interest of honest juries and
clean elections, quotes the St.
Louis Republic, and adds: It is
“unworthy the traditions of
high office.”
Of course it is. This plea of
the damage done to “dignity”
when wrong is rebuked in the
concrete and the beneficiary of
corrupt politics confronted in
his lair is as old as the history
VlV'TX/'L/". ^
"V I-- *7 •
As Lowell says:
I'm wilin’ a man sh'd go toler’
ble strong
Agin’ wrong in the abstract,
cause thet kind o’ wrong
Is aliers unpop’Iar. an’ never
gets pitied,
Because it’s a sin no one never
committed!
But he mustn’t be hittin’ partic
oolar sins,
’Cause thet w’d be kickin’ the
people’s own shins.
President Wilson might con
fine his activities in the interest
of honest government to making
talks on “good citizenship” and
civic purity before applauding
audiences of sympathetic audit
ors who were in agreement with
him before he began. But to go
into a region where the fight
hangs in the balance, where
men, backed by the power of
the "organization” and fat with
the spoils of years of profit
through the people’s wrongs,
are ready to contend with him
for the “right” to despoil their
fellow citizens further—to gc
into such surroundings, call the
bosses by name and lay bare
the burrowing of the forces oi
political corruption through the
tissues of the body politic, a;
w... r. 1---- A. /< L Vl 1 1 Wt ( l V
U . »./U JL J V* r? IXIi UMiimi
flesh—this is unspeakable! Hov
can a president so demean him
self?—Fort Smith Times-Re
cord.
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$12,500 For Newport Building
Washington, May 8.—By th<
passage of the sundry civil ap
propriation bill by the senate
the house already having pas sec
I the measure, Hot Springs, Ark.
'will get an appropriation 01
$237,840 for an improved storrr
sewer system.
Other Arkansas items includ
ed in the bill are an appropria
tion of $10,000 for the comple
tion of the federal building ai
Jonesboro; $12,500 for comple
.tion of Newport building; $5,
1000 for completion of Paragoulc
'building; $34,000 for continua
tion of the building at Searcy
and $150,000 for completion of
locks and dams numbered 2, 4, 6
and 8 in the Ouachita river.
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Cancelled Mill Company’s Right
Special to Independent.
Little Rock. May S>. —Com
missioner John II. Rage has can
celled the right ol’ the Charles
ton Milling Co., of Charleston.
Mo., to sell mixed feed in Arkan
sas. on the grounds of violating
; the Commercial Feeding stuff
Law. The company had some
corn chops in the hand of W. C.
Lander, at Harrisburg,and Feed
Inspector Young found that it
did not show the weight on the
information tag, did not have a
clause on the tag showing the
presence of the cob in the chops,
and was three pounds short in
weight.
“The company was given am
l pie opportunity to comply with
the law,” said Mr. Rage, “as we
give every other manufacturer
; of feed, hut it failed to do so.
i One of its representatives called
our attention to the fact that
j they were in Missouri and the
, feed in Arkansas, which is not
(the proper spirit.
“The law requires that the
true weight be shown on the
bag, tag, or package, which was
not done; the weight not only
was not shown, but it was three
pounds short of what it wa
represented to be. The law
j clearly says t hut feed shall be of
! standard weight. The law also
j requires a statement of its con
sents on the tags so that the
j buyer may know what he is buy
ling.”
| “It is not our purpose to in
; flict hardships but I shall insist
i upon a strict compliance with
' the law.”
I
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For Sale.
1 Several thousand bushels of
corn and large quantity of timo
thy and alfalfa hay at Kinman
farm. For information inquire
at T. D. Kinman’s or Arkansas
Bank & Trust Co. 32btf
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i Chickens, eggs and fresh
j country butter at Bowen’s Cash
I Store. 33d6t
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Stork Browers Meet.
Special to Independent,
j Little Rock. May 5). A me
ing of the Executive Comn i
! lee of the Arkansas Stock (Jri<v -
ers' Association was held <t
(Henson's hotel Thursday after
[noon, with the following mem
bers present; Judge II. L. ft'
iShers, Fulton, President; Love
Banks. Smithdale; M. M. Rutli
, erford, Batesville; Lee H. fti
i graham. Fort Smith; T. J
^ Jackson, Little Rock; J. W.
Williams. Monticello; J. M.
Waddell. Morrell; John H.
j Page, Commissioner of Agricul
I tu re.
The |)urpose of the meeting:
was to discuss plans for advar.e
I ing the interests of Arkan.su>
stock growers. One of the sug
gest ions offered by Presidenr
B’Shers is as follows;
"It has been suggested, and it
: occurs to me that one of ttw; best
things that could be done fot
■ this association would be {ojw
■ ganize a company with a cwp.v
: tal of sufficient amount to buy
four or five hundred acres of
I land in some central locality, the
j company to be called the Arkan
sas Stock and Poultry Farm..
[get experts to run the farm, and
let if be an example from whirfo
all stockholders mAnbers af
| the association, could ^dal.e iu
j struct ion and improve\ then
breeds.” \
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Play Ball At Augusta. -
I The Newport High School
ball team, through inability of
the Augusta High school boys tc?
fill an engagement here Friday.
, went to the latter city for a
game and a return engagement
between Augusta and New
port will be played here next
Saturday May 17.
Dry Summer Wood
at Fee-Crayton’s delivered.
Sawed from cull lumber. Phone
294, or see Hopper or Fisher.
Leave orders with P. S. White..
18dtf.
Your athlete demands free-play boot for the I
bones and muscles of his feet— The Gotham is «
Are you one of these men who have a oretty definite |
idea of what they want in a shoe ? “Hang the styles," |
say you. “Give me a good natural shape, with I,,
plenty of toe room and a sensibly rounded toe.” If &
• you say that to a salesman, you are pretty sure to get I
one of the handsomest shoes in the Regal line — the 1'
Gotham. This shape was good ten years ago and I
will be popular ten years hence. It comes as near I,
> j being right as any shoe that was ever built. |
Gotham Black King Cali |
and Tan Ruaaia Calf I
Brogue Bluchar Oxford >
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