SENATE RAILROADING
LEGISLATION THROUGH.
i-Trust Bill Has Passed
Awaits Action of
Passage
Conceded.
—The sen
hich adjourned at noon to
ti| Monday morning at
has perhaps trans
within the
its present session
as accomplished in twice
"gth of time last session.
_jy-six bills have been in
ioduced and of this number
tthree hsve passed the final read
Jteg. ^g Logah
4 measdrl casing the identical
provisions of the King anti-trust
mm wwdon mmm
lag thia morning and forwarded
to the lower body for action.
The opposition to this measure
vis passive and there appears to
i disposition on the part of all
L_. _ hr* _.therto opposed it and
■are now convinced of its evil ef
■ facts to do or say nothing to pre
I Um passage. The Demo
I platform demands it
I gued that the sooner
I »»ed the sooner will the
I be over.
Bmo. 1, authorizing the ap
tion of $500,000 to the
school fund, has been read
,nd the measure of Senator
‘$k appropriate sufficient
to pay the salaries of th i
and attaches of the d«uf
mute institute from March, &&&,
to March, 1905, has been mede a
law, in so far as the senate is
concerned, r: J
Noltnfrbf the session will per
haps be of more general interest
than the one introduced yester
day by Senator Pennix authoriz
ing the appropriation of $5Q,QC!Q
for the erection of a building for
a normal schod in little Rock.
The city is to donate $10,000 and
twenty acres of land to the insti
tution.
FISHER INSPECTS
FREIGHT DEPOT.
E. Fisher, superintendent of
bridges and buildings for the
Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain
system, over whom M. L. Byers
was recently appointed as engi
neer of maintenance of way,
spent Friday in Newport, in
specting the work of the new
He upheld his assistant in his
condemnation of poor brick be
ing used, but allowed the work
to proceed, provided the good
brick were assorted from the
bad. The time of Mr. Fisher’s
department is now largely taken
up with the construction of car
^pps in Sedalia, Mo.
ONE OF HIS LAST
OFFICIAL ACTS.
One of the last official acts of
Col. Geo. W. Murphy as attorney
general, says the Little Rock
Gazette, was to answer an in
quiry from Mammoth Spring in
regard to the non-resident clause
of the game law of 1903. The
answer was:
“Non-residents can fish or hunt
on their own land, if they own
any, in this state or on the land
of others who grant them per
mission. This is the limit of
their right, in the lawful sea
son.’’
HIGHER COURT
REVERSES LOWER.
The St. Louis court of appeals
has reversed the opinion of the
circuit court that Lillie Belle
Pierce is not the common law
widow of L. E. Imboden, for
merly of Pocahontas, but later a
vary wealthy resident of St.
Louis.
The trial was a very sensation
al one, and the higher court
found that the lower erred in the
admission of evidence, as well as
in its instructions.
FATAL ACCIDENT
HANDLING GUN.
One Young Man Killed and a
Boy fatally Shot in Acci
dental Discharge of Gun.
Texarkana, Jan. 1$. — Two
young men, aged about 19 yeats,
were {haying with a shotgun,
Which he did not know was load
ed, at their home a mile north of
town yesterday morning, when
the weapon was discharged, the
load entering the body of one of
them, producing a ghastly
wound, fiwra the effects of which
death resulted two hours later.
The name of the dead man is
Ed $tcpxihey, and that of the
other is Henry Roden. An 8
year-old boy named Luther Ear
nest, who waB in range at the
time, received several of the
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but not fatally wounded,
The coroner found the facts as
given above, but deemed a for
mal inquest unnecessary.
STATE HISTORIAN
SEEKS DATA.
Mrs. Richard B. Willis of
Searcy, state historian of Arkan
sas division, United Daughters
of the Confederacy, has issued
the following to all ex-Confed
erates in Arkansas:
“For the past two years I, as
state histdriaft, have sent out cir
cular letters to every chapter and
cathp in Arkansas, asking for
material for my annual report.
As few responses have been re
ceived I have asked permission
of our president to address you
through our state and local
newspapers, explainieg the kind
of data available for my report
“If there comes to your knowl
edge any act of daring or self
sacrifice, which belongs to the
period of our war between the
states, and which has never yet
been published in permanent
farm, please have it fully record
ed, deliver to your chapter his
torian and sent by her to me.
This is necessary in order that
tnese records oe autnenuc. ix
we do our duty we shall preserve
for our children anecdotes and
narratives of heroism which we,
as children, heard from the lips
of the veterans who are now
leaving us so rapidly.”
TOOK STRYCHNINE.
Jonesboro, Jan. 13.—A man
giving his name as George Tum
berson was found in an uncon
scious condition here last night
at 10 o’clock in a box car and
was taken immediately to a place
| for treatment. Upon an exami
nation it was found that he had
taken strychnine and was in a
most dangerous condition. In a
short time he was much improv
ed, and today he is all right.
Trumberson is from Bismarck,
Mo., and said that he has no idea
what caused him to take the
drug, and thinks he was the vic
tim of some designing person.
He is a railroad man, and is, so
he says, a car inspector. He is j
apparently apout 40 years of
age.
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Read the Daily and Weekly
Independent.
HID MONEY IN
GARDEN CORNER.
Jim Pumphrey Didn’t Believe in
Banks and Now Mourns Loss
of $1,200 in Gold—Two
Are Under Arrest.
Harrison, Jan. 13.—James
Pumphrey of Lead Qill, Boone
county, is or has been afraid to
trust banks, so he hid his life’s
savings, $1,200 in gold, in the
edrner of his garden.
A few weeks ago he went out
to the “garden bank” to see If
everything was right. Upon in
vestigation he found his treas
ure tiras gone. He jkept rather
quiet about &e matter and'tried
to fnd some clue by which hie
could locate the guilty party or
partita.
Last week he caused the arrest
of Jeff Blankenship, a School
teacher, and hie wife’s sister.
They were to have haft a hearing
before e justice of the peace at
Lead Hill Saturday, but as circuit
court convenes here Monday if
was decided to dismiss the case
and let the grand jury investi
gate the matter. The evidence
is entirely circumstantial.
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ANOTHER FREE
DELIVERY ROUTE.
An examination was held Satur
day at the local postoffice under
the direction of Postmaster W.
B. Empie and Deputy H. E.Cobb
for the position of carrier on a
new rural free delivery route out
from Newport
The applicants examined were
Passmore White and W. H. Bar
ker. :
The new route, to be known as
R. F. D. No. 8, will probably
have about 100 patrons and cov
er about 21 miles. Leaving
Newport via the experimental
farm, the route takes the island
road to Sam Anthony’s farm,
then east to the Auvergne road,
thence south to the edge of Au
vergne and turning east in front
of Dr. Clements and going two
miles in that direction to the in
tersection of the Eight Mile road,
thence north' to McLain’s Mill
and back to town via the Litch
field bridge, Auvergne road.
ADVERTISING THE
CLEARING SALE.
What’s the use of having a
clearing sale if nobody knows it?
You might as well not have
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If you don't sell more goods, if
you don’t clean up the stock
right, if you don’t derive any
advantage what’s the use of a
sale, anyway?
If you expect % sell only to
the ones who happen in, you
could just as well get full prices
and done with it.
When you get ready for a
clearing sale make a virtue of a
necessity. Make it a big thing
by letting every one know about
it.
And don’t do it in a ten-cent
sort of a way. Do it boldly. Do
it with a broad smile on your
face and a page ad in the papers, j
A page ad? Why, for heav
en’s sake, I never take over for
ty inches. I can’t afford it.
Suppose you don’t use over
forty inches ordinarily, what of
it? Isn’t this an extraordinary
occasion?
Look at the matter coldly.
Wouldn’t you pay $125 commis
sion to get rid of $2,000 worth
of left-over goods, and sell them
below cost at that?
If you unloaded to some job .
lot house at 75 cents on the dol-:
Don’t Travel;
IT’S CHEAPER
the use of the Long
Distance Telephone lines
of this company will save
you many a journey, long
and short—Every town
of importance in Tex*st
Arkansas, Oklahoma ana
Indian Territories within
reach. Also far distant
points in the North and
tost:
The SonthwesternTelegraph
and Telephone Co.
JAMES L. JONES,
Solicits your
NOTARIAL BUSINESS,
And promiees .
Prompt and Careful Attention
To Your Bumness.
REAL ESTATE.
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List yotff Property
For Quick Salem ,
With me. I guaran
tee best resold.
R. W. BANDY,
CHASTIAN BUILDING.
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DR. CHAS. E. CARROLL
Gives special attention to
Crown and Bridge Work,
And correction of Irregularities
of the Teeth.
Ornos Watboh Bum. Phokb, 68.
Newport, - Arkeneoom
Jack Herron
For Granitoid and Stone Walks,
Curbing, all kinds of Brick Work.
Don’t fail to get my figures
before contracting.
My Work Talks For Itself
Parties wanting crushed Lime
stone Walks apply to me.
lar, you’d be making a good deal,
even then.
Now, if by taking 100,000 peo
ple into your confidence you could
sell $2,000 worth of goods at 90
or 100 cents on the dollar by
means of a page ad costing $125
or less and get a reputation for
enterprise into the bargain, isn’t
that a better deal than the other?
Got a small business with only
$1,000 worth of stock to sell?
Then make it a half page.
At any rate, experience has
proved conclusively that it pays
to do clearing sale advertising
on a generous scale.
Don’t pare down the expense
until you lose the effect. It
doesn’t pay. There’s no econ
omy in it.—Edgar A. Pettingill
in Memphis News-Scimitar.
Wanted — Hickory logs and
poles delivered f. o. b. tracks
Choctaw Railway. Write for
prices and particulars.
James Colbert & Co.,
92btf Tupelo, Ark.
Everything in out entire
store has been reduced dur
ing this sale. Wolff-Goldman
Merc. Co. 13btf
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F. D. Fulkerson, C. J. Saenger, Abe Heilegero,
0. D. Watson, L. Minor. L. E. Willis,
J. S. Wilmans.
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