Newport Daily Independent.
VOLUME IV. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1904. NUMBER 167.
NEWEST ENTRY
TAKES THE LEAD.
—
Chas. Jones Brandenburg Heads;
the List in Baby Race-Heavy
Voting Makes .Radical
Changes in Contest.
' "^Charles Jones Brandenburg 320
Jas. Edward Wilmans. 278
m Ernest Theodore Phillips 202
Edwin Johnson. 183
Wim Wallace Dutton. 183
, Dorothy Stephens 129
Jeannette Henry 101
With a meteoric jump from the
rear guard Charles Jones Bran
denburg today appears in the
lead for the baby prize with 320
votes to his credit.
James Edward Wilmans came
in for nearly a hundred votes
and retains his relative position
of second. Ernest Theodore
Phillips stands third and Edwin
Johnson and Wallace Dutton tie
for fourth place.
The boys seem to have it all
their way just at present and are
riot a bit inclined to be gallant to
their fair competitors. But
Tuesday, Nov. 8, doesn’t settle
their fate as it does Parker or;
Roosevelt, and none are the least
bit discouraged.
COTTER TERMINAL
IMPROVEMENTS.
Official of Iron Mountain Talks
JV Entertainingly of Future of
M the Prospero^ Town.
W,- “WJ’at will be the most im
portant step taken by the Iron
Mountain within the coming
year?” was asked an official of
that road recently.
The opening of a division point
at Cotter on the White River
road,” was the reply. It has
been stated in the railway jour
nals of the country that there is
no piece of track in the United
States which will cost as much
as will the White River line of
the Iron Mountain.
The natural conditions which
were to be overcome in reaching
the great section of the country
which has heretofore been with
out transportation facilities were
well nigh unsurmountable. The
statement has been made by
rvf +V10 tVinf flip pn
tire line would be built at a cost:
of not less than $75,000 a mile, j
There are five tunnels on the j
line which it is said were bored
at an average cost of $150 per
foot. What was all this ex
pense put out for? There is
lying in that undeveloped section
of the great state of Arkansas
untold wealth awaiting the rail-'
road to take it to the markets of |
* the** world. In the center of this
country, nestling between the
White river, far famed for its
great beauty, and the foothils of
/the Ozark mountains, is Cotter,
which is destined to become the
second largest and most import
ant railroad point in the state.
Named for former Manager
William Cotter of the Iron Moun
tain, now general manager of
the Pere Marquette, situated as
it is in the center of the line,
there is no possibility of its not
becoming a point of extreme im
portance. A short time ago Di
vision Master Mechanic A. M.
Machin of the Iron Mountain
here announced that a temporary
shop for the repair of such en
gines as were compelled to lay
over there would be established
•soon. As soon as the road is fin
ished the division point will be es
shed. A commodious round
i 1
house will be erected. Shops
which will be able to care for the
current repairs of the line will
be built. The families of the
men who will be employed on the
linte and in the shops will per
force move to the new and grow
ing town. The Iron Mountain
has plans drawn for the laying
of numerous storage and switch
ing tracks there. The fact th^t
Cotter is midway between Kan
sas City and Memphis will add
greatly to its importance as a
railroad point. A great deal of
freight traffic has been sent to
the southeast down the western
bank of the Mississippi river
which will soon go via the White
River road, thereby providing
more men to operate the long
trains which will be necessary to
handle the business.
BRUNDIDGE’S HIT WAS
TRIBUTE TO BRYAN.
Nebraskan Still the Idol of Mass
es of His Party and Will be
More So After Today.
, l
“Hearing a splendid speech by
Congressman Brundidge of this
state at Batesville last Friday
night, I was forcibly reminded of
the fact that William J. Bryan is'
still the idol of the plain people !
whom God must love, . because
he made so many of them,to bor
row one of Abraham Lincoln’s
epigrams,” said Henry R. Read,
a St. Louis traveling man, to a
Little Rock reporter.
“Mr. Brundidge’s tribute to
Mr. Bryan made the rafters ring
with the applause of the audience.
It is that way, not only in Ar
kansas, but elsewhere. Even
the conservatives who have fear
ed Mr. Bryan’s radical views and
tendencies concede now that he
is greater than a time-server and
enough of a patriot to do no act
knowingly which would bring
woe to his country. 1 heard Mr.
Bryan deliver at the state house
in Little Rock, in March, 1899,
the greatest public speech it was
ever my lot to hear. In it he ut- j
tered these fine sentiments:
“‘No man can build for him
self a pedestal made up of the
misery and suffering of his fel
lows. When night comes we
want peace without as well as
peace within. We don’t want
the streets filled with hungry
men who believe they are driven
to hunger by those provided with
„1_‘‘J
“That speech caught me and I
have been an enthusiastic Bryan
man ever since. The number in
the same boat is increasing. It
has become a grand army sipce,
and in the campaign now at an
end he has shown that he does
not put himself above the party;
that he is honorable enough to
abide by the action of the ma
jority.
* ‘Some of the eastern papers
declared not long ago that ‘Bry
anism’ was on the wane in Ar
kansas, judging from the re
duced vote for the Democratic
nominee for governor in the state
election in September. They
are sadly in the dark if they be
lieve that down east.”
RESIDENCE BURNED.
Hamburg, Nov. 6—The -resi
dence of Will Gardner, a well-to
do farmer living about five miles
north of this place, was entirely
destroyed by fire, together with
all the household furniture and
clothing qn Thursday. Mr. Gar
ner was away from home with
the children at the time, and no
one was at home. It caught from
the kitchen stove. There is no
insurance.
HUNT FOR SLAYER
OF SUTHERLAND.
Lynching May Result if Guilty
Negro is Apprehended—
Arrests at Searcy.
Des Arc, Nov. 7. —The negro
who killed Webster Sutherland,
the timekeeper on the track-lay
ing force of the Searcy and Des
Arc extension Saturday, ha^ not
been apprehended. Four ne
groes were arrested atHigginson
yesterday and brought to Des
Arc today, but none of them was
the negro wanted. After put
ting them through a sweating
process this afternoon, three
were released and the other one
held on charge of robbery, and
as accessory. Another negro,
supposed to be implicated, was
put in jail yesterday and two
others are now held at Hazen.
There was great excitement
here yesterday and today, and if
one of the negroes had proven to
be the guilty one a lynching
would have probably followed.
Searcy, Nov. 7.—Will Smith,
Lon Watson, Hamp Alexander
and C. J. Scott, negroes, were
arrested yesterday at Higginson
by Sheriff Wood and Deputy G.
M. Walters, at the request of the
sheriff of Prairie county.
PASSENGER WRECK
IN HOXIE YARDS.
North Bound No. 4 Ran Into a
Freight—Nobody Injured
Blame Engineer.
Hoxie, Nov. 7.—Iron Mountain
passenger train No. 4 going
north at 1:50 today, running fifty
miles an hour, ran into a freight
going out on the main line in the
yards. Seven box cars loaded
with lumber and other merchan
dise were completely wrecked.
The engine, mail, baggage and
dining cars remained on the
track. A smoker filled with pas
sengers turned over, but no one
was seriously injured.
The blame for the accident is
attached to the engineer of the
passenger train.
CUMBERLAND SYNOD
URGES STATE LAW.
Clarendon, Nov. 7.—The Ar
kansas synod of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church resumed its
session today. Yesterday the
pulpits of the town were occu
pied by the ministers in attend
ance on the synod, and good con
gregations greeted the visitors
at all the churches.
A strong report on temperance
was brought in by that commit
tee and adopted. One of the
items of this report calls atten
tion to the fact that at the last
general election a majority of
the votes cast in Arkansas were
against license, and urges the
passage of a state prohibitory
law.
ELECTION VERY QUIET.
The election passed off very
quietly Tuesday, little interest
being manifested, and probably
a very light vote polled. The
Second ward had polled only 83
votes at 1 o’clock out of a regu
lar 300.
The country precinct in this
township cuts down the election
crowd in Newport. " ,
Returns will probably be re
ceived at the city hall and t}he
members of the Newport club
will receive bulletins at thteir
rooms. I
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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
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B. B. Bond, M. D. Campbell, S. D. Campbell,
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