THE INDEPENDENT
I ERCY h. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
COURT’S CHARGE
TO TWO JURIES.
Judge Allen Hughes Defines Du
ties of Grand and Petit Ju
rors in Opening Charges.
Judge Allen Hughes of Jones
boro, who presides at the Septem
ber term of circuit court in the
absence of Hon. F. D. Fulkerson,
owing to the latter’s ill health,
delivered a charge to the grand
and petit juries, which is gener
ally regarded by members of the
bar as one of the ablest exposi
tions of the duties of jurors ever
rendered in the courts of this
section.
Judge Hughes is not only a
young looking man, but a young
man in point of years. In his
court deliverances, both in style
and subject matter, he impress
es the hearer as a jurist of expe
rience, whose vigorous, yet con
servative expressions bear the
stamp of a mature mind drilled
in actual practice.
In addressing the grand jury
he urged upon them as enforcers
of the law and public servants as
much as officials elected for a
term of years, a close and care
ful inquiry into infractions of the
law, distinguishing between that
disregard and violation of its pre
visions which becomes criminal
and that for which pecuniary
damages must satisfy the wrong.
Stress was laid upon the in
junction that all party and re
ligious, race and factional feel
ing be disregarded in their inves
tigations, and that even friend
ship had no right to expect other
than an impartial searching af
ter the ti’uth. The rights of all
were the same under the law,
and as public servants they
should do their full duty, untram
meled by personal obligations or
■fool in rra
The speaker referred to the re
cent trouble in Crittenden coun
ty, where warring political fac
tions had threatened riot and
bloodshed, and as a protection
against such conditions, he be
lieved the statute against the
carrying of concealed weapons,
so commonly disregarded, should
be rigidly enforced and prosecu
tions brought wherever the law
had been violated. The remedy
he found not in the severity of
the penalty for its infraction,
but the certainty of conviction
for the offense.
There were a score of other
good points touched upon in a
convincing manner by the court,
and to the petit jury, his honor
made an equally effective and in
structive charge.
To the latter body, the finality
of whose decisions from which
there is no appeal upon their
Aiding of the facts, though the
court might err and be reversed
by the higher tribunals on inter
pretation of the law, he urged
the importance of their duties,
that while the grand jury might
charge, it fell to them to deter
mine the guilt of the defendant.
And in civil cases, with them
rested the property rights of a
citizen as set forth under the
law, which was ever to be up
held. The juror’s idea of jus
tice was not to be consulted; he
' must determine the facts and
follow the law of the state which
v. as the embodied wisdom of
res and most nearly represented
stice in all cases. It was the
vv which a citizen must respect
id feel that he and his property
Serests were safely guarded
ereby, and whether he be
K*k or white, a native or non
'ident, corporation or individ
1, his rights under a common
w were the same. Upon the
edibility of witnesses, which
ist be determined largely by
3 judgment and common sense
b the jurors and upon whom
" ould rest the buripn of proof
in any case, which was shown to
often fall upon the defendant,
his argument was plain and logi
cal and the members of that body
could not have been other than
edified and enabled to better ful
fill their duties.
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NO UNION MEN MARCHED.
Cripple Creek Has an Unusual
Labor Day Parade.
Cripple Creek, Col., Sept. 5.—
Labor Day was observed here
with a parade of 3,000 independ
ent workmen. It was the first
time in the history of the camp
that the union men failed to pa
rade, and probably the first ob
servance of Labor Day by strict
ly non-union men in America.
Banners reading,” ‘‘They Can
not Come Back,” “Cripple Creek
is Still in America,” “198 Ship
ping Mines” and “We Don’t Hire
Salaried Agitators” were carried.
Army officials, the fire company
and the local militia participated.
It is thought to be the first
time the militia ever marched in
a Labor Day Parade.
SHANGHAIING OYSTERMEN.
Trick* by Which Sailor* for the
Dredged on Gheaapeake Bay
Are Obtained.
This is the time of the year when
tales of the shanghaiing of men for
the oyster dredging vessels on the
Chesapeake bay reach the ears of the
Baltimore police. Formerly the shang
haiing was done with violence. Now
it is a kind of confidence game, says
a recent account from Baltimore.
‘‘Thib is the way it is done,” said
Police Captain League. “A runner for
one of the shipping firms strolls along
the water front and finally sees a man
who seems to be looking for employ
ment. He approaches him in a tact
ful manner and inquires if he wants to
make a little money. The answer is
generally ‘yes,’ spoken about as quick
ly as a man can get the words out of
his mouth.
“ ‘Well,’ says the shipping agent’s
runner, becoming confidential, ‘I know
of a way we can turn a couple of dol
lars. I’m looking for men to ship to
the oyster beds. We’ll get two dollars
for each man, a dollar for me and a
dollar for you, if you’ll help me. All
we have to do is to find a man who’s
looking for work, take him down to
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the vessel. Then we go back to shore
and collect the money.”
“Just about this time along comes
the runner’s confederate, sauntering
around the wharves with the manner
of an idle man. The ruuner calls the
attention of the stranger to the second
actor and intimates that he is possibly
a candidate for a berth on an oyster
dredger.
"Together the runner and the man
he has picked up approach the confed
erate. After a little conversation tbf
proposition is made and the confed
erate accepts it. The trio have several
rounds of drinks, paid for by the run
ner, and then they go to the shipping
office.
“There the prospective victim Is told
that he must sign for the man he has
shipped. He does so. If he cannot
read or write he makes his mark on
the agreement He is told that a sec
ond paper must be signed aboard the
oyster boat.
“Then the runner and the man who
is really the victim, but who thinks he
has ensnared another man, are rowed
out to the oyster dredger. After they
get aboard the victim is decoyed into
the cabin by the captain, the runner
and his confederate jump into their
boat and row ashore, and after they
are once away the real victim is told
that he has shipped for a certain
period.
“If he kicks, as he always does, he
is shown the shipping agreement,
which he has signed or marked under
the impression that he signed for an
other man. When a man gets shang
haiied in such a manner he is not en
titled to sympathy, and as a rule
doesn’t get any more than is coming
to him.
“Frequently men are decoyed upon
oyster vessels by being told that they
are wanted for one trip down the bay,
and are promised large wages. After
they get down on the oyster beds they
are transferred from one vessel to an
other. and the trip, instead of lasting
ten days or two weeks, continues until
the close of the season.
“The work Is, of course, hard in thii
wintertime; but, then, it is not so
nard or so dangerous as a sailor’s life
aboard a coasting vessel at the same
season of the year. For a man in good
physical condition, oyster dredging is
not terrible labor.
Of course, there are brutal captains,
unfit food and filthy sleeping quarters
on many boats, but there are also
many boats on which entirely different
conditions prevail.”
n* itrenunua BAaeatlma.
The womem of Kansas have won
their campaign for reform In the
schools, the principal feature of which
was that courtship may be carried on
In school hours. The classes tn higher
education In that state hereafter, says
the Philadelphia Inquirer will be we>
dw the direction of Pmf CnpM.
WASH BLUE ^
Costs 10 cents and equals ao cents
worth of any other kind of bluing.
Won’t Spill or Break
Can’t Spot Clothes
DIRECTIONS FOR USES
YWfle-Stlds
around in the Water•
CO-EDS FOREGO MARRIAGE.
Statlatlca Show That Chance* of Col.
Ua« Women Becoming Wlrea Art
Rapidly Decrcaalng.
Over four-fifths of the women gradu
ate* of the University of Chicago are on
the high road to splnsterhood. This la
the startling result of researches con
ducted by Mayo Fesler, who, as general
secretary of the Alumni and Alumnae as
sociations of the Institution, has com
piled statistics of the university and its
students in the form of a general register,
covering the first decade of the univer
sity’s history. The figures do not include
the women who have taken higher de
grees, but only those who have completed
the undergraduate courses and who,
therefore, might be expected to be win
some enough to tempt the heart of the
average man.
The register contains the .names of
598 women who have received bachelor
degrees from 1898 to 1902 Inclusive. The
fate of these coeds la shown by the fol- j
lowing percentage table:
Percentage women married. .18
Percentage women teachers.SI
Percentage women “at home".SI
An examination of the table for each
class shows that the chances of the ex
co-eds for becoming wives are steadily
growing less. The first class that gradu
ated In 1893 contained three women and
all of them married. The next class had
nine feminine members and not one of
them has yet entered the bonds of matri
mony. The class of 18y5 has a higher
percentage and then comes the class of
1896 with a marriage percentage of 33
among its women members. From that
time there has been a steady decrease. Of
:he 125 women graduated in 1902 but sis
n*r cent are married.
SNAILS OVERRUN A CITY.
Inhnbltnnta of Indians Town Orgraji.
Ize Nlghl Hants and Kill
the Peztz with Salt.
A plague of snails, or slugs, as the af
flicted people call them, lately struck
Jeffersonville, lnd„ in full force, and
Instances are cited where persons have
been compelled to move. Their first
appearance was after the flood of Feb
ruary, 1884, but they have never been
so bad as at present. The pests are
not exactly like ,a snail, but resemble
them in some respects. They have no
shells and are night raiders, says ths
New York World.
At no place in the city where the
flood water failed to reach has one of
the slugs been seen, but in the most
fashionable quarters the pests are
numerous. In size they range from
one to six inches in length, being from
a quarter to an inch in diameter. It is
not until ten o'clock at night that the
snails come out of their hiding place*,
under houses, and-slug hunting partle*
have become fashionable.
Armed with a lamp and a cup of salt,
the people hunt for the pest, and when
a slug is found its days are numbered-,
for the smallest particle of salt mean*
death. The more salt the quicker the
work.
They leave behind a slimy track, that
furnishes a clew to their movements.
In some places fine carpets have been
ruined, the slimy tail eating like acid.
One of the most peculiar character
istics of the slugs is their ability to get
their large bodies through a small
space. They flatten out almost as thin
• s a knife blade, allowing them to crawl
through a good-sized door crack.
Road Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
will apply to the County Court of Jackson county,
at the October term thereof, 1901, for an order to
establish a new road in Bird Township, to run as
follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the southeast corner of Section 17,
Township 13, north, Range 1 west, running thence
west on the section lines between Sections 17 and
20, 18 and 19, of Township 13 north, Range 1 west,
to the southwest corner of Section 18, thence
south on the township line one-half mile to the
southeast corner of the northeast half of Section
24, Township 13 north, Range 2 west, thence west
on the half section lines through Sec
tions 24 , 23, and 22 to the west side
of the right of way of the St. Louis, Iron Mount
ain & Southern Railway, there intersecting the
Tuckerman and Swifton road.
J. E. Johnson,
Bud Graham,
William Watson.
This 26th of August, 1604.
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OPENING
OF A NEW AND THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED LINE BETWEEN
ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO.
SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1904.
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Uafter the arrival of incoming trains), arriving either city the
following morning. .
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