HYDRICK ON
TRIAL FOR LIFE
Jury Was Completed At 2 P. M.
Tuesday—Herron Case
Continued. ^
Isom Hydrick, charged with
murder in the first degree for
% the killing of Lee Mercing, un
der an indictment returned by
the last grand jury, was placed
on trial for his life Tuesday
morning and judging from the
long line of witnesses called by
each side, the trial will con
. • sume at least two days.
At 2 p. m. Tuesday, the jury
had been completed and the at
torneys made the opening state
ments. Stuckey & Stuckey are:
assisted in the defense by Grant
-& Mack while W. P. Smith of
Walnut Ridge is associated with
State’s Attorney C. M. Erwin
in the prosecution.
The jury is composed as fol
lows:
B. F. Polston, A. N. Nance,
Frank Fitzsimmons, Arch
.Qualls, L. M. Ferguson, Charles
Riggs, J. A. West, M. H. Dague,
N. W.- Daniel, R. C. T#isley, S.
E. Murray, J. C. Ball.
Herron Case Continued.
In the sit brought by Charles
Herron versus J. F. Balch and
V W. E. Moore, contractors of Wal
nut Kidge, for damages by rea
son of an injury sustained from
a falling brick, th'e cause was
continued and set for Tuesday
of the first week.
Among the witnesses from
Tuckerman in this case were L.
D. and Ralph Smith, Dan and
' Charley Hogan, C. P. Helm, R.
C. Tinsley and George W. Yel
verton.
Docket Record In Brief.
A. D. Bailey and H. C. San
ders versus C. West et al, dam
ages; response of Bailey and
I .Zanders to motion to dismiss
I appeal and case carried over un
r •til 'Saturday.
H State versus Virgil Cox, mo
| tion for new trial overruled, ap- j
Wt peal granted and bail fixed at
K • State versus Ed Parrott and
ifrjyade.'- Denty, perjury; each
defendant demfurs to .four
M^ounts in indictment.
State versus Dt^se Rutledge,
^Bkrch Williams, John Manion,
Ifjyaltef Chandler and Andy
llpMrench, each pled guilty to dis-|
HRhrbing peaoe and was fined $5.
■HBot Machines Under Ban.
i91!§|Htai to Independent.
l^Xl||&ttle Rock, Sept. 2G.—Judge
in charging the Pulas
TfuTCTM|liil jury, gave specific in
Principle of Road Making.
We are gradually learning
that public road improvement
requires skill in the planning
and execution. Only a road en
gineer of approved skill and ex
perience should be permitted to
lay out a public road and make
plans for its construction and
improvement, and no road
should be built except under his
supervision.—Texarkanian.
Much has been done in Ar
kansas toward improving the
roads, during the past few years,
but a great deal of labor ex
pended has been lost through
ignoring the most vital features
of road building, and that is the
foundations. Roads are built
which have a good appearance
and answer well for the purpose
of highways until wet weather
comes on. Then the surface
washes away, and bottoms be
ing absent, the roads are gone.
There is where the engineer
comes in. He understands how
the road should should be
laid and how the bottoms should
be made. No road can be made
permanently good unless con
structed upon scientific princi-j
pies.—Fort Smith Times-Re
cord.
That these facts about road
building are generally known is
shown in the almost unanimity
of sentiment that road officers
should not be elected, but the
whole system placed under the
+ on/1 /I i nn/>f inn /vf* on cn_
gineer and let by contract the
same as is now done in the con
struction of our bridges.
If we are to have real roads
the politics must be eliminated.
The office of road overseer must
not be a political sop or snap.
Instead of a three mill tax for
maintenance as in past years,
Jackson county should be organ
ized into an ' improvement dis
trict, sufficient money borrowed
to build roads and a tax levied
to retire the bonds and main
tain the roads.
Southern Musical Maids Co.
Scored a tremendous hit last
night at the Majestic Theatre
at Jonesboro. Miss Bonnie Zar
lington in her clever singing
and dancing received deafening
applause and was encored sever
aj times during the evening, and
also Miss Flo Moran made the
hit of the evening singing her
own Indian song which is the
talk of every town in which it
is sung. Mr. Raymond Zarling
ton, the boy with the talking
feet, was applauded several
times by his wonderful dancing
and in fact the whole company
was very clever and all in all
the -whole company is very
good. *
Road Work in Craighead.
With the opening of thous
aJTSs of acres of farming lands
in Eastern Arkansas, the prob
lem of road building is agitated.
Work has been commenced upon
a road to Black Oak through the
forest, so the cleared land on
the other side may be connected
with a closer market. This
roac} ^(vill be topped with si- j
licia. It is estimated the road
will cost property owners about
$4.00 an acre or a total of $40,
000.
The road from Marked Tree
to Bridge Junction, or West
Memphis is partly built and
could be completed at a nominal
cost.-^onesboro Tribune.
Received Daily
Sweet Potatoes, Pears, Celery,
Grapes, Cocoanuts, Apples, Lem
ons and Bananas, —Snetzer’s i
Grocery. 44dtf.
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BETTER SERVICE
OR NEW COMPANY
Poor Service Brings Threat
From Patrons Of New
Company.
Poor telephone service in this
city has reached the limit of en
durance upon the part of a pa
tient public and a remonstrance i
that must bring improvement
or a new home company into
the field has been mailed to the
management of the Southwest
ern Telephone & Telegraph
Company at Dallas.
Mr. C. G. Henry, cashier of
the Arkansas Bank & Trust
Company took the matter in
hand and every merchant in the
city who could be seen, except
two, gladly signed the protest,
and stock to the amount of near
ly $75,000 was also subscribed
to place a new line in this field
if better service cannot be se
cured.
Following is the remonstrant
signed:
“Newport, Ark..
Sept, 25, 1911.
General Manager Southwestern
Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
Dallas, Texas:
Dear'Sir: Knowing that it is
your desire to give us first class
service, we beg to inform you
that the quality of the service
we have been getting for sever
o! mnnfliH nast Iisq luicn sn nnnr
that we do not intend to toler
ate It any longer. For some
reason your company does not
consider >$2wport of enough im
portance to have a manager
here On the ground who has au
thority over all the operators.
We do not pretend to know all
the reasons for the poor ser
vice, but only know that it is
the \vorst we have ever had
here.
; “We serve notice on you now
that although we would dislike!
very much to see another tele
phone system here, but unless
we do' get better service, and im
mediately, that wre will organ
ize a company and put in our
own exchange. We know' that
this office pays enough to war
rant first class service and we
will thank you to take some
steps to see that we get it."
The Bell telephone company
by paying better salaries to op
erators could soon improve lo
cal service and we believe this
has been the great drawback ali
along. A young lady soon be
comes proficient in the local ex
change, but finds at the same)
time that she can hardly live
in town upon the salary paid or
that she can earn more money
in some oiner nne 01 worn.
If the company will increase
salaries of operators to make |
the employment attiactive toj
girls that are experienced and |
capable operators and to make |
these positions desirable we j
feel sure the company will elimi
nate a great deal of the criti
cism aroused here.
Special Rates Via Iron Mountain, j
Memphis, Tenn.—$3.10 round
trip. Account Tri-State Fair. j
Tickets on sale Sept. 25 to Oct.
3rd inclusive. Return limit Oc
tober 5, 1911.
Little Rock, Ark. — $4.15 j
round trip. Tickets on sale Sep- j
tember 23 to 25 inclusive. Re-j
turn limit September 28, 1911.
Little Rock, Ark. — $3.35
round trip. Account State Fair.
Tickets on sale Oct. 7th to 13
inclusive. Return limit Octo
ber 18, 1911.
G. P. Coffin, Agt.
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Made a Good Record.
Eugene Smith, a motorist of
Paragould who spent a month
on an overland trip from his
home to Chicago and return, ad
vertising Greene county and its
resources wherever he went, on
his going trip of 576 miles, he
actually travelled only 48 hours,
consumed 52 gallons of gaso'im.
and 3 gallons of oil or an aver
age of 11 1-6 miles per gal’rm
of gasoline.
The total distance covered on
the return trip was 741 miles:
total gasoline used 71 gallons;
oil used 4 gallons; average of
10 1-2 miles for each gallon of
gasoline. On the road 16 days;
not.traveling 6 days on account
of mud.
On the way to Chicago Mr.
Smith advertised this section of
Arkansas in 49 different news
papers and in 51 on the returni
trip.
His total repair bill was 50
cents for a broken truss rod and
$44 for one new tire.
Before he returned home the
mail forwarded to him contain
ed numerous letters from pros
pective settlers making inquir
ies about Greene county land
and since he has returned his
mail has been flooded with re
quests for more information
JACOWAY PREDICTS
PARTY VICTORY
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Congressman Says If Taft Is
Renominated Democrats
Will Win.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Sept. 26.—Hon.
H. M. Jacoway, of Dardanelle,
member of congress from this
the Fifth district, was in Little
Rock yesterday. Discussing
National affairs, he says that
the future of the Democratic
party depends upon what they
do in the next session of con
gress. With the majority in
their control, the party should
accomplish something even
against the opposition of the
Republicans in the senate. “If
the Democratic Congress does
the right thing, and the Repub
licans JiOminate Taft again, we
can carry the next election,”
declared Mr. Jacoway confident
ly.
He said that in pursuance of
the plan of tariff revision that
has been agreed upon, that of a |
gradual revision, by piece-meal, I
Council Holds Short Session.
At a regular meeting of the N
city fathers on their customary ^
session night, Monday, little was
done and an adjournment tak
en until Tuesday evening to ^
consider adding a part of or the
whole block in which the Metho
dist church is located to the fi^e - -JI
limits of the city.
An ordinance was presented
by property owners of that sec- „
tion through their attorney S.
M. Stuckey, asking that the
half of a block between Second
and Third Streets facing Hazel
be placed within the fire limits,
which would prevent the con
struction of frame buildings
there as contemplated by the
Stayton estate.
While the council took no ^
tion upon the matter, reserving
a decision until Tuesday night,
there was an expression of senti
ment from some of the members
of the injustice of adding only
the half block to the fire limits
and the ordinance will probably
be amended when presented-to
night so as to include the entire
block.
Secures Local Agent.
A. W. Parke of the Park©
Harprr N«*ws .Service of L'Stle^Jgys
Rock, publishers of the Fr||KdMWMg
Lance, a semi-weekly state ij! J||
per of Democratic. *m ■:
purpose is to expose corrupciwjtpo® ^
and support clean politics
gether with boosting Ark
in many other good ways, s
Monday afternoon in this ci
and arranged for a local repre
sentative and solicitor, Miss
Birdie Marion, a popular and
capable Newport girl.
The Free Lance in its first flu
numbers verifies all it promised. ejl
Both editorially and in a ruwwlp rV
way, it is spicy, yet refined^ JJ :
courageous in the truth, yet
careful in its statements and has I
no yellow tendencies. The pub- I
I Ushers deserve success. 1
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All persons who bought mems
orial windows in the Methodist
church will please call at once
at J. W. Wallace’s store and set-V|
' tie for same as I have to malt©'' ,.D
settlement, with the nianufaC- Am
T. P. Umsted, TreasT * „|jj
instead oi a complete re-writmg
of the tariff law, .the steel and
sugar schedules will be taken up
at the regular session, and fur
bish much material for contro
versy.
The Democrats stand pledged
to a strong reduction. The
Congressional Committee ap
pointed on the Sugar Trust in
vestigation, of which Mr. Jaco
way is a member, has practi
cally completed its work, and
will be ready to submit their re
port in December.
Johnson Being Tried.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Sept. 26.—The
case of Richard Johnson, a
young man charged with mur
der in the first degree for the
killing of W. R. Griffith on West
Sixteenth street, this city, a
year ago, was called yesterday
afternoon and the first day de
voted to securing a jury. Grif
fith was an old man, one of the
old citizens of Little Rock, and
the killing came up over some
domestic differences. The case
was originally set for last
spring, but was continued on
account of the absence of a ma
terial witness.
about Greene county. A num
ber of those interested have vis
ited Paragould during the past
week and will more than likely
make investments there.
Valuable Advice
For Consumptives.
Think nealth, not disease; stop;
experimenting, follow nature;;
look up, not down, above all re
solve “I will get well.” Our lit
tle “Sunshine” booklet brightens
the way. Postal addressed Na
ture’s Creation,” Columbus,
Ohio, brings it free of charge.
Notice To Contractors.
Bids will be received for the
erection of an additional room
to two school buildings for j
School District No. 31 at the
store of Lindley and Guiltner at
Tuckerman, Arkansas, where
specifications may be seen.
The right to reject any and
all bids is expressly reserved.
J. A. Lindley, Sec.
Sept. 25, 1911. 50d2wl
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