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■ ANNOUNCEMENT
M^^TFor senate in
9. t0 Independent—
R Will Enter Race.
»arno^nt waTs.;?‘
B made from Little
Bfnews agencies of that
ft'Hon. W- A. Oldfield.
from this district.
Bt a candidate to sue
BZtor James P. Clarke
JE^ry next spring, but
Krtc.a cuerry from the
BLent, asking as to the re
K0f the report. Congress
Bdfield wired the Inde
nt Thursday afternoon
“Telegram received, but
B(je no announcement of
KCv for Senate and do
Bgderstand how papers got
^kf such a story.
K Mr. Oldfield is not now
■Late, he does not say
E ffiH not be, and at the
■time, many of his friends
district believe that his
■cement will be forth
[jrby Expects To Run.
J to Independent,
tfe Rock, Aug. 22.—“While
snot yet made any formal
incement of my candida
emarked Associate Jus
l F. Kirby, “I will say that
i something unforeseen
1 develop, somebody will
to beat me for the United
! Senate next time, for I
jftainlv going to be in the
th former Governor Dona
and Congressman Old
also seeking the toga now (
by Senator Clarke, the
election of a United States
lor in Arkansas under the
popular vote amendment,
ises to be decidedly inter
i
ator Clarke, who is now in '
ington looking after his
8 as a legislator, is expect
i return home about Sep
er 1.
I Pictures
ira House
Jer Week.
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Marion are shat
icws reaches her
- the Schooner
ton, whom she
110 marry, was on board—
e becomes engaged to
^arton, who escaped
®!ne ^eck returns dis
as a stranger, learns that
0Ves bim and he is need
J^ke a bappy home
“b"3 good picture—PATHE
? pictures and good music
orchestra.
^ION 5 and 10 CENTS
Four Struck By Lightning.
Ozark, Aug. 21.—Four per
sons were killed and another so
badly injured that he probably
will die—all within a radius of
! 12 miles of Ozark this afternoon
! in one of the most disastrous
electrical storms that ever visit
ed this vicinity. Several other
persons were shocked, a horse
j belonging to one of the victims
I was killed and a barn set on fire
and burned. All the victims
were struck about the same
time.
The dead are:
Russell Snow, son of Lanse
Snow, a farmer of Watalula
township, about five miles north
of Ozark
Miss Birtie Moore, his sister
in-law, killed at the same time.
Sid Harmons, farmer, living
four miles east of Ozark.
Franklin Kensinger, traveling
across the country, killed 12
miles north of Ozark.
Would borrow btate flag.
Special Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 22.—Harry
Stewart, Secretary to the Gov
ernor, wants to borrow a state
flag for a few weeks, and guar
antees that it will be returned in
good condition. The request1
comes from Mrs. Fayette Van
Deventer, chairman of the Ex
terior Decoration for the Wo- i
man’s Department of the Na
tional Conservation Exposition. |
The flag is to be used on the ;
top of the woman’s building atj
the Exposition which is to be
held ai Knoxville from Septem
ber 1 to November 1. The gov
ernor of each state in the South
has been requested to lend a
state flag for the occasion, and
Gov- Hays has commissioned his
private secretary to provide the i
flag. The state government is
not provided with one, and it
will be necessary to borrow it
from some patriotic citizen.
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Veterans Given Furlough
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug- 22.—For:
the first time in the history ofi
the institution, the veterans!
who are making their home at j
the Confederate Home, have
been allowed a furlough. The
last legislature passed a law giv
ing them a furlough every sum
mer, with $10 traveling expens-1
es, and sixty-two out of the
ninety-two now in the Home
have taken advantage of it. j
Many of these are now return
ing and the population will soon :
again be normal. Improve-1
ments costing about $9,000, in
cluding a new ice plant, are now
under way at the Home.
Family Need Assistance.
The local Relief Society is
now caring for a family of sev
eral children, who are all sick
with malarial fever and in a
destitute condition. One of the
children died recently and the
others are being provided for by
our organization of charity
workers.
The family live near the Fee
Crayton plant and while neces
sary provisions have been sup
plied. they are in need of clean
sheets and ‘children’s gowns.
Some of our people doubtless
have old but derfn garments of
jthis kind and if so. will help
i these unfortunate children by
sending them to the home of
1 Mrs. W. A. Billingsley.
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TAX COMMISSION
RAISES ASSESSMENT
I
Of Many l tiiity Corporations
And Judgment Is Final I nder
Law.
: Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 21—The Ar
kansas Tax Commission, which
was given the exclusive power
,to assess the property .of the
public utility corporations, C
busily engaged on the work of
making the assessments for the
year 1913. It is estimated that
the aggregate assessments of
these corporations will be al
most doubled over that of last
year, and that the increased rev
enue to be derived in taxes will
be about $60,000.
The Little Rock Railway and
Electric Co. is assessed $1,800,
000. In 1908, when the Com
mission entered office, the com
pany was assessed at $560,000.
In 1911 it was assessed at $753.
000. the Board of Equalization
raised it to $1,500,000, and the
county court reduced it to $1,
062.000. In 1912 it was assessed
$1,042,000, the Board raised it to
$2,082,000. and the court reduc
ed it to $1,174,000. Now, in
1913, the only taxing authority,
fixes the assessment at $1,800,
000.
'“This assessment,” said Com
missioner D. A. Gates, “we con
sider ultra-conservative.”
The Arkansas Water Co., last
year assessed at $616,000. is
this year raised to $684,000.
The Little Rock Fuel and
Light Co. is • assessed at $350.
000, an increase of about $80,
000 over last year
The Baring Cross bridge,
which is owned by an independ
ent corporation, and leased to
the Missouri Pacific at an an
nual rental of $39,000, has been
assessed at about SI00.000 in
recent years, but this year the
assessment has been advanced to
$225,000.
The Cotton Belt railroad, as
sessed in 1909 at about $7,000.
000, and last year at $12,574,592,
will this year pay taxes on $14,
087,000, being doubled in four
years.
i ne property or tne corpora
tion owning the street railway,
gas distribution, and electric
systems of FortSmith, is assess
ed now $1,100,000, as com
pared with an ' assessment of
$161,000 in 1909, and $1,250,000
last year- The advances until
this year were secured by the
Tax Commission through the
Board of Equalization.
The Southwestern Tel. & Tel.
Co. property is assessed at $2,
310,000. No intelligible com
parison can be made of this
property, since the company has
greatly increased its holding
every year.
The Hot Springs company
owning the street railway, gas
distribution, waterworks, and
electric light systems, is in
creased from $550,000 to $896.
000.
The Texarkana street rail
way and electric light, and gas
distribution plants are raised
from about 8100,000 to $170,
450.
The Pine Bluff water-works
and electric light and street rail
way are assessed $418,796.
The Helena electric light and
gas company is raised from $80,
000 to $175,000.
The franchise tax, which is a
Tax Commission measure, will
% qV. - ;
yield this year about $175.uoo.
as compared with an old tax that
did not exceed $64,000. This is
distinct from the property tax.
Will Build Hot Springs Road
Hot Springs. Aug. 21.—Coun
ty Judge Robert Mooney has re
ceived a communication from
Sam G. Smith of the Hamp Wil
liams Hardware Company at
Benton, informing him that Sa
line County will have 500 teams
and 1,200 men at work on the
road through that county from
the Garland to the Pulaski line.
August 22. Saline did not feel
able to finance so long a stretch
of road, and will build it with
volunteer labor, with the excep
tion of bridges. Garland county
has been asked to assist in the
way of tools and machinery, and
Judge Mooney will send all the
tools and machinery that can be
gotten together.
Plans Trip to Texas.
Special to Independent.
Conway, Aug. 22.—W. M.
Headrick, coach and physical di
rector at Hendrix college, is
planning a trip to Texas and one
to Memphis during the season.
All the Association games, how
ever, will be played at home.
All nf Inst vpar'.s men will re
turn, and it is expected that
some of the best men the Col
lege has ever had will return af
ter being out a year. The out
look is bright for the best ath
letic records in the history of
the institution. Coach Head
rick, who arrived this week, will
spend from now until the open
ling of school getting a line on
the situation.
Adjusting Insurance.
L. Hirsch, the well known in
surance adjuster of Little Rock,
was in Batesville Thursday, en
route to Cushman, where he
goes to adjust the loss on the
large warehouse of Dennison &
Shell, recently destroyed by fire.
The warehouse was a large
one, and it was worth perhaps
§10,000, including the contents.
The fire was some days ago, but
it had not been reported here
The exact amount of the insur
ance is not known, but it is
said to have been about $2,500.
—Batesville Guard.
Government Funds Save Section
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 22.—Guy 15.
Tucker, former Agricultural
Commissioner, who has been in
i Oklahoma for the past three
months as a special agent under
i Indian Commissioner Cato Solis,
j is now located at Lawton. He
i has been at Gotebe. Anardarko,
and elsewhere
i
Ii: a letter to a Little Rock
friend from Lawton he says:
I “Everything is burned up here.
: If it was not for the money the
government pays out to the In
dians. 1 do not know what they
would do. We are paying out an
average of $5,000 a day
Tells of War In Mexico.
Bntesville, Aug. 21.—W. I).
| Moore, father of it. C. Moore of
I Batesville and himself a former
resident of this city, arrived
here yesterday from Valles, S.
L- P.. Mexico. He is a large land
j owner in Mexico, and says he
! has been forced to leave there
I on account of the fact that his
stock has all been taken by the
■oMiers. and he has nothing to
work his land with. Mr. Moore
will remain here for some time.
He says the Americans or
other foreigners there have no
thing to fear from Huerta’s sol
diers, and that they are ever
ready to protect Americans.
His country is under the Huerta
rule. He says it is his under
standing that Caranza’s men
are equally as ready to protect
foreigners, and that the dread
in that country comes from the
guerrilla bands, who steal stock
and terrorize people in the name
of the federals or rebels- Asked
if he had any trouble in getting
out of the country, he said He
did not. and that except for de- i
laved trains, his travels there
were as uneventful as in the
United States. Mr. Moore has
been living in Mexico for five
years.
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Last Chance.
The last pianos that were de
layed in transit have arrived
and the Baldwin factory people
want to close these out by Sat
urday night. One of the won
derful new type players remains
vet. These new high grade pi
anos, are being sold at $100 to
i SI50 below retail prices. It
Spared Tree Hut Not Reaches.
Special to independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 21. One of
the most heart rending scenes
of the new state capitol is tin
separation of th-- clerks from
their old peach tree. This peach
tree grew in the yard of the old
State1 House beneath the window
of the Attorney (ieneral, and in
the late summer it supplied
peaches to the employes of Un
cut ire building. It grew out of
a hole in the wall, and was nev
ir known to fail, no matter how
dry was the season.
Thi tree lias always produc- 1
luscious fruit about the midi -
of August, so the old employ
of tin' capitol Tuesday after
noon handed together to go bar >.
to the old quarters to see what
was doing there They found
the tree half stripped by Hu
new tenants of the building, bid
priority they considered greater
than the rights of occupancy,
so long sticks and stones were
brought into use so the tree
was stripped in a few minutes,
and the employes of the new
capitol went forth in a few- min
utes munching away on the
fruit i hat the new- employes had
cxpi cted for their feast.
Game Association To Meet.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, 21.—A meeting
of the Arkansas Kish and (lame
Protective Association will
probably be held next Tuesday
night, or at least upon some
other day of the week. The
special business to be transact
ed will be the election of a presi
dent, and the discussion of a
plan of campaign. It is under
stood that former Governor Fu
trell of Paragould has agreed to
accept the presidency, and to
champion the proposed laws
that are to be offered the next
legislature for enactment.
Choir Practice.
There will be choir practice at
the Methodist church tonight at
8 o’clock.
Z. B. Reid and children are
in Newport this week, Mr. Reid
having brought his children
down from Cave City.
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Reductions on All Men’s
Summer Apparel
This is the month when most of |our “House Clean
ing” is done and hence the month when Valurs are at
their height. Such merchandise as we offer is seldom
buyable for so little. Avail Yourself of the opportunity
Radical Reductions On
“CL VPP OXFORDS ' “CROWN TROUSERS”
“REGAL OXFORDS’’ “SUMMER CLOTHING’
“MANHATTAN SHIRTS’’ “ONYX SILK HOSIERY”
“FAULTLESS PAJAMAS
BergeR'S
"57"<AA? CLOTH! H G HOUSE.
We Close Evenings at 6:30 (Except Saturday.)