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V j^wful Affair
Bo independent.
Kurg, Miss., Jui> 17-3
K Lucas Johnson, who
Bin jail here since yes
Bharged with the murder
K Brewer, after a 1 est
■ sleepless night, made a
last confession of the
■ tn a representative oi
lid and Manager W. C.
I^e Western Union Tele
|0 confession came
p pangs of conscience
lied the prisoner that he
to seek the relief from
anguish which had for
it twelve hours been
, him to mental and phy
akness.
Manager Fox asked
i a few questions con
the order of Modern
«of America, the repre
re of the Herald said,
you think it is time that
ould confess and make a
ireast of this crime?” to
the prisoner said, “Boys,
ady to confess.”
Ion then went into minute
Of the life and associa
ween himself and Elston
and said that on last
they had quarreled con
f over differences which
between them. Young
so the prisoner said,
nised him to go to New
Sunday. He said posi
lat he was not going
her down the river but
g to make it toward
Phis provoked Johnson
d Johnson insisted to
hat he had promised to
w Orleans, Brewer call
oade Johnson very an
le time, but they spent
ng quarreling and play
i and later they had
s time playing cards
1 in reading.
iad talked of trading
off for another boat,
hat night they retired
t two o’clock Johnson
he got up while Brewer
i asleep in his little cot
•at, Chinnuck II. Con
ohnson said, “I then
got the axe and struck
tross the forehead once
he screamed and moan
!i£ Pictures
3pera House
*te Per Week.
L OF THE DANCE
HALL
Alice Holister” and
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KALEM.)
WASN’T ON BEN
BOLT.
try to make a fool of
hey unintentionally
— ~ise and he has the
fh on them.
(Comedy —VITAGRAPH.)
greed for gold.
excellent thrilling Western
tare.
(LUBIN.)
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k0°® *osic by the orchestra
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^MISSION 5 an EN,?
H t
ed I became frightened that
some one would hear his cries
for help, so I went back and
struck him in the head; 1 don’t
know how many times, but kept
this up until he was perfectly
still. I knew he was stone dead
before I left him without fur
\ ther blows.
i “I then came up town and sat
i around on the curbing on Wash
J ington street trying to make up
I my mind to go and give myself
1 up to the authorities. I finally
concluded that I would not do
, this and went back to the boat
and tied tb$ stone around Brew
er’s waist then throwing him in
to the Canal from the end of the
boat. I thought I was alright
ias the water was deep enough
land I don’t know how the body
I came to rise again to the surface.
I “I had always intended to con
jfess to the crime but I did not
'want Brewer’s father and other
relatives to come down here and
see the boy’s body in the condi
tion that it is.”
FEARS LYNCHING.
Johnson continued narrating
the details of the cold-blooded
murder, saying that he knew
; that he is a cold-blooded murder
I
er and said that he hopes that
ne win oe given a trial ana al
lowed to die a decent death. He
jsaid that he hoped that they
i would not attempt to have a pre
: liminarv trial as he fears that he
might be lynched.
Johnson said that there was
no need whatever of going fur
ther into the merits of the case
(as there is no further details to
it.
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Marriage License,
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J. K. Burbank of Ingleside and
Pearl WeOO, Newport.
1 Ed Kackley and Mabel Jones
both of Tuckerman. j
j George Barnes and Rosie Til
i ley of Newport.
Grover Lambkins and Emma
E. Davis, both of Newport.
N. J. Johnson and Minnie
Dukes, colored, both of Newport.
| 0. C. Miller and Maggie Scar
borough, both of Judsonia.
D. W„ Massey and Bedelia Saw
yer, both of Jacksonport.
Jim Simmons and Cora Wil
; son, both of Risher.
j A. D. Adair of Newport and
Winnie McGinnis of Newark.
M. C. Daniels and Mrs. Minnie
J. Bowling, both of Union.
Oscar Linebough and Mrs.
Ruth Brown, both of Paroquet.
| J. B. Start and Viola Means,
| both of Saffel.
Trickett Is Appointed.
Little Rock, July 16.—George
' M. Trickett, formerly chief
clerk to the assistant general
passenger agent of the Missouri
Paeifi-Iron Mountain railway in
Little Rock, has been appointed
traveling passenger agent out of
the local general offices, succeed
! ing L. B. Scheur, who has been
transferred to Cincinnati head
quarters.
Mr. Trickett for the past year
has been in the freight depart
ment of the Southern raidroad
at Washington.
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Another Valuable Pearl Found.
Mountain Home, July 15.
Clyde Wolf, son of County As
| sessor J. H. Wolf, found a large
sized pearl in White river, near
j Norfolk. The pearl closely re
sembles one sold by a man nameo
jMaggard. or $300, and may
sbrir- t’i> amount. There is a
of pearl fishers in this
a of the rm
Through Three State*.
Special to Independent.
Columbia, Mo.. July 14.—Laid
up for repairs, not to the ma
chine that has brought us within
five hours run of our destination,
but for one of those human ma
chines, clogged with malaria and
chills, that calls for the services
of the doctor of medicine and
not the expert who fixes the
troubles of a buzz wagon. So
here we are in the Athens of
Missouri, the home of the State
University, awaiting develop
ments and the off-day between
chills to run into Marshall.
Perhaps we may absorb a little
of the learning of the town,
though most of our party are
such thorough Arkansans, that
they have scoffed at everything
pertaining to Missouri, don't
like the water, say its nothing to
compare with White River; be
little the hills, mountains and
valleys of Missouri and declare
they don’t measure with the
Ozarks of North Arkansas, find
fault with model pikes and grav
el thoroughfares and assert that
in a few more years. Arkansas
will eclipse them; as to the peo
ple they are not talking much,
_i-t_ - 'll V- -.2,-1 _
lot ittu ujtj* ijc ^uuitu
overheard,— they']} tell what
they think of Missourians when
they get safely back across the
state line. But with all the
knocks for “Mizzoura,” they
have only boosts for Arkansas
and before we return, the car is
to be fairly ablaze with Arkan
sas pennants.
Of the five days out, two and a
half have been spent as stated
laying up for medical repairs,
and they’re not all made yet- for
the chills hang with us still, with
a grip that fast travel over hills
and dales and the dope of doc
tors en route seem unable to
shake. A malaria chill has a
corner on “the shake” that you
can’t share in getting rid of it.
At least that’s our opinion of it
in the unfortunate experience of
the correspondent’s better half.
Our start in the midst of a
shower, our early resort to
chains in order to pull over slip
pery roads and the mud of Cache
River bottom, our flying first
trip through Jonesboro, Para
gould, Piggott, Rector and across
the St. Francis into Missouri for
a first night’s stop in a hospit
able hotel at Campbell have all
been graphically narrated by a
better correspondent, who has
been a “brick” all the way and
equal to all emergencies, condi
tion, roads and travel.
so we pass to tne .second o«.>
out. From Campbell to Dexter.
29 miles, we made in a jiffy after
a late start and fair roads. Some
long hills, a touch of what were
to come, we reached the back
bone of a mountain range and as
we swung about as the road ran,
great vistas of beautiful valleys
came to view upon either side.
No prettier landscapes nor more
far-reaching are to be had upon
the whole trip. You see the
maximum of the eye, as far as
the vision carries, peaceful, rest
ful valleys beneath, untold crags
and ranges mounting therefrom
and the coloring of sunlight and
shadow superbly lighting it in
the richest color season of the
year.
From Dexter,where Dugan and
Garlick offer motorists a glad
hand, useful information and
some good stories about a pre
vious party of tourists B. W. and
Dr. 0. A. Jamison, we had a
stretch of gravel pike into Bloom
field. county seat of Stoddard
county, eight miles away that
you can clip fast as you want
to go. Here we waited for din
ner and then it, was “off for Cape
Girardeau.”
The trip required most of the
afternoon too, the road being not
well marked and taking many
stops for directions. Beyond
Acquiila, we had the longest
i clay hill to ascend the writer has
j ever seen. They were dry how
ever from a rain oniy two days
'before. You would think upon
ascending each, that surely the
next would be less steep, or the
last only to be disappointed.
Reaching Cape Girardeau
about 5 p. m., we enjoyed sup
per and then made another
splendid run of ten miles into
Jackson, where we found poor
quarters for the night in a regu
lar fire-trap., But as the fire
failed to happen, we have no
tales of heroism to relate.
The third morning, we covered
the best long stretch of road up
on the entire trip, Jackson to
Perryville up hill and down,
through pretty valleys and all
the time roads that know no
speed limit, except through
small towns, where signboards
put the limit at 8 miles, but
where you can safely risk 15 or ;
20 without getting before a
Mayor Paul.
In the afternoon, eight miles
out of pvrryville, you descend a
long, dangerous hill into the
Mississippi bottom and you have
five miles of black bottom soil to
bounce over before reaching
West Chester, where you ferry
over to a picturesqut town, Ches
ter on the Illinois side, and from
here on to St. Louis, you have
about 70 miles of prairie road,
only fair, which we covered that
afternoon, reaching St. Louis
before dark over the Eads
bridge.
I Our first and only tire trouble,
in fact trouble of any kind to the
car, was between Freeburg and
Belleville, where we had a punc
ture of a. rear tire. Here our
feminine passengers had time to
gather in about a shock of
bearded wheat, that hung out
from every corner of the car and j
made us look like an agricultural1
exhibit from the prairie state.
In St. Louis, we charged off
! our time sheet another day and
a half and added it against our
chill account upon which how
ever. we hope to run a balance
before long. As the trip across
i Missouri, following the historic
! Santa Fe trail of the pioneers,!
now marked by a state highway
'is to be recorded by a fellow trav
eler, your correspondent will
jtake up another portion of the
I trip later. .
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Heber Crowd Returns.
The crowd of young people
j who have been sojourning at He
! ber Springs, some for two weeks,
• others for a day or two, arrived
home on No. 24 this morning
| and while reporting a good time
they were certainly a tired look
ing lot of girls and boys.
In the party were Misses Ja
mie and Elizabeth Irby, Kather
ine Morris, Lucy Bailey, Hor
tense Hite, Lutie Mae Stephens
and J. L. Bevens, Warren Duna
way, Lawrence Bailey and Roy
Hinkle.
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! Special for Friday and Satur
day. Big values in dishes, 25
and 35c, on sale for one dime at
■ the 5 and 10 Cent Store. 91dl
Plates, platters and big veg
jetable dishes for 10c Friday and
Saturday at the New 5 and 10c
Store. 91dlt
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Real Estate Transfers.
Dunaway nlvestment Co. to J.
T. Ward. 120 acres 31-KM,
$902.
Carter Shelly and wife to H.
G. Picklesimer. 40 acres 7-10-3,
$1,150.
C. C. Byrd and wife to Edna
Sullins, part of Block 20. town
of Grubbs, $300.
John M. Vaughn to W. F. An
derson, 40 acres 31-13-2, $1.00.
McLain-Holden Land and Lum
ber Company, Lot 7, Block 51,
Cross Roads Addition, Newport.
$100.
Ellen Watson Watkins. 80
acres 34-10-4, $650.
H. L. Remmel to the Busy Bee j
Co., lease EG* Lot No. 12, Block
4, Newport.
Jos W. Phillips et. al to Frank
Schwegman, lots 16 and 17,
Block 2, Cast’s First Addition, 1
Swifton, $800.
G. L. Robinson, County Clerk, ,
to C. L. Campbell. Lot 23, Yel- ;
verton Addition of Tuckerman.
L. Hirsch and wife to Eliza
Fumatter, 40 acres 26-11-2, $1.
Gustave Jones et al to Eliza
Fumatter, 40 acres 26-11-2, $1.
Eliza Fumatter to W. A. Mc
Cartney, 40 acres 26-11-2, $300.
S. D. Bateman to Roberts &
Conner Company, 783.27 acres
18. 19-11-3, $8,615.97.
Gustave Jones and wife to
Roberts & Conner Company,
49.65 acers 18-11-3, $546.15.
R. A. Cook and wife to William
T. Nettles, 40 acres 27-10-4,
$500.
Cleveland Davenport et al to
OtD W. Scarborough, undivided j
half interest ii 10 acres 21-13-3,
$10.00.
Otis W. Scarborough and wife
to VVrn. T. Davenport, undivided
half interest in 40 acres 24-13-3,
$353.
Catherine S. Andrews to Ar
thur Cauley, SO acres 29-12-2,
$525.
R. F. Dunn and wife to Ed
Isbell, 40 acres 2-12-2. $300.
Gates-Townsend Wedding.
Mr. Frederick Townsend Gates
of this city and Miss Gertrude
Lacey of Mount Vernon, Indiana,
were married Wednesday even
ing at the Century Methodist
church in St. Louis, the pastor,
Rev. James N. Broadhead oflici
ting.
The marriage of Mr. Gates
came as a surprise to his many
friends here at his home, whom
he had kept in ignorance of his
matrimonial intentions. His
bride, who visited the groom’s
sister in this city last winter, is
a very attractive young lady, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Lacey of Mount Vernon, and
made many friends among our
people while here.
Mr. and Mrs. Gates will take
a two weeks’ bridal trip before
going to Brinkley where Mr.
Gates is employed and they will
make their home.
The Independent joins their
numerous friends in congratula
tions for a happy wedded union.
Call up Haffner Grocer Com
pany and ask about "Fidelity.”
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Any “Benjamin” Suit In This Store
valued up to $30 at.$16.50
Any “Majestic” Suit In This Store
valued up to $20.00 at.$10.50
AND THIS
Regal 4.00 Oxfords at.2.90
Regal 5.00 Oxfords at.3.45
Clapp 6.50 Oxfords at.4.95
Regal 3.50 Discontinued Lasts at 2.10
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Wt Close Evenings at C:30 (Except Saturday.)
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