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AY. OCTOBER 21, 1913. Nl MliER 173
jiaz Citizen
Shtrtby Negro
ried To Prevent Black From
Shooting J- S. Wilmans, But
Received Charge In Aim.
In an altercation with a ne
r0 George Miller, at Diaz,
onday afternoon Mr- Walter
i Harris received Quite a pain
i wound in the fleshy part of
is right arm, between the el
ow and shoulder.
Mr J. S. Wilmans and his sis
* Mrs. I. Sprigg, had driven to
iaz in the af ternoon and when
,out ready to start home
eorge Miller, employed by the
rjimans Mercantile Company to
„ hauling, drove up in front of
te store and began beating and
(using tiie team of mules
tched to his wagon.
Mr. Wilmans called to him to
op his abuse or give up his
ib. Miller, who has a pretty
,ugh reputation, began giving
r. W’ihnans some impudence,
hen he (Wilmans) told him to
j in the office and get paid off,
j his services were not wanted
irther. The negro returned a
pient later with his gun and
veling it at Mr. Mailmans, emp*
Viim Mr.
CU no
arris, seeing Miller raise the
in, jumped in front of him,
linking to knock it out of
is hands, but instead, received
ie load in his-arm.
The Wilmans Mercantile Com
iny have offered a reward of
(00 for the capture of Miller,
ho has so far, made his es
ipe.
W. C. T. U. Meeting.
The W. C. T. U. will meet
Wednesday afternoon at the
ome of Mrs. T- S. Stephens,
he program will begin prompt
at 2:30 and last only an hour.
The subject of study will be,
Personal Service.”
Rev. B. L. Wilford will lead
ie devotional exercises and
lake a short talk on Personal
ervice.
Rev-J. Murray Taylor will give
ome incidents from the bible of
ersonal Service.
Rev. Grumbles will speak on
Personal Service by Proxy.”
Mrs- E. L. Boyce will also give
few thoughts on Personal Serv
te. Mrs. J. W. Grubbs will
ng.
All ladies of the town at all
iterested in the cause of tem
erance, are cordially invited to
ttend this meeting.
1 Germans Celebrate.
Special to Independent.
■ Little Rock, Oct. 20.—Several
Bundred Germans of prominence
■Ver the state arrived in Little
»ock Sunday to attend the Ger
i|ian Day celebration which is
held in the city today. The
festivities are being held at
Ptim Verin hall.
■Moving Pictures
P^hgOpera House
Excellent Two-Reel Feature
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|0R MAYOR: BESS SMITH
I A Suffragette Comedy
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F*** Good Pictures and Good
1 Music By The Orchestra
I ADM1SION, 5c and 10c
j Evangelist Taylor At The
Christian Church.
“What is man, that thou art
mindful of him, and the son of
man, that thou visitest him?’’
This question, from the
Psalms, Evangelist Taylor put
before his audience for careful
consideration last evening at
the Christian church. Then
letting God’s own word give the
answer, “Thou hast made him a
little lower than the angels, and
hast crowned him with glory and
honor’’, Mr. Taylor in a very
forceful way commented upon
j the beautiful dignity and God
likeness of man as he comes
jfrom the Creator’s hands, and as
| the Father in heaven intends
j him to be. But man has a part
! to play. He must sustain this
(dignity unto which he is an heir,
i that the image of God stamped
upon him in the beginning may
not be erased
The address of the evening fur
ther showed how this responsi
bility of man to appreciate and
maintain the high estate where
unto he is bom, is in nowise les
sened by the fact that the man
remains out of the church. The
civil law does not excuse a man
who has stolen, just because he
does not pi’etend to be an hon
est man. Neither does God ex
cuse the thief just because he
does not px’etend to be a Chi'is
I tian.
I But the church of God through
Christ, who is the door of en
trance, is ever open to those who
acknowledge their dependence
upon God and wish to have part
in the beautiful relations which
the Father wills should ever
exist between Him and His
children.
All the points in Mr. Taylor’s
argument were logical, were
forcefully put, and were clinch
ed with an aptness of illustra
tion which one seldom hears
from a public speaker.
You people of Newport, who
ever you are, if you missed this
! sermon, missed a splendid dis
! course. And all these thoughts
are, of necessity, vastly weaken
ed in the reporter’s re-telling
them. Come this evening and
i hear the address first hand. If
you sing, come and join in the
singing- Good music is a help
| ful part of each service. If you
do not sing, come and aid with
your presence.
The invitation is open to all,
the Christians and the uncon
i verted—come and bring some
one with you.
Sulzer Nominated For Assembly
Seat.
Albany, N. Y., Oct. 20. —A few
minutes after the Progressive
] convention that nominated him
(for assemblyman met in New
York tonight William Sulzer is
sued a statement telling why he
had “consented to come back to
Albany ” Throughout the even
ing he was in communication
by telephone with Progressive
leaders in New York.
There never was any doubt
but that he could have the nom
ination if he wanted it, he de
clared. Nor does he doubt that
the first of January will see him
back where he began his politi
cal career 20 years ago. He and
. his friends also are convinced
that he will go from there to the
speakership and thence back tc
the governor’s chair
V. G. Kaiser, the popular Iror
Mountain traffic agent of the
freight department, spent thn
morning in our city.
jBoth Want j
Freight Rebates
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| Wholesale and Retail Lumber
| men Contesting for Pos
session of Hills of
Lading.
| Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Oct- 20.—Special
Master J. G. Wallace has an
jnounced that he will render an
i opinion in the dispute between
| wholesale and retail lumbermen,
who are contesting over the re
i bates due from the railroads, on
I Wednesday morning. It is
j thought that he will declare the
j wholesalers, who are now in
j possession of the bills of lading,
| for the lumber shipments, entit
I led to the rebate and permit the
case to go on to the United
States Circuit Court on ap
peal. No matter what the de
cision, the case is destined to
go to the higher court, and for
this reason, Judge Wallace is
not expected to give the* matter
the consideration demanded if
his decision was final.
The retailers, if anything, have
the preponderance of the evi
dence so far as taken. They
claim the wholesalers added to
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up, and not to the price of lum
ber, and that all lumber was
sold at the mills. The whole
salers assert the lumber was all j
sold delivered to the retailer. In j
answering the retailers under
take to show that the wholesal
ers, all interested in tap line
roads, testified in the Interstate
Commerce hearings, that their
interest in the lumber ceased I
when delivered to the railroad.
The retailer further denies the
claim of the wholesaler that they
advanced their prices and forced
the consumer to pay the increas
ed rate, by declaring the retailer
does not advance his selling price
| unless the change warrants an
j additional $1 per thousand feet.
| The advance in freight rates was
! only about 50 cents per thous
and, so this came off the profit
of the retailer in most cases. The
i retailers also showed cases
where the wholesaler had re
fused to stand for loss in trans
it, and the retailer had to take
the matter up with the railroad.
Only about $100 is represent
ed in the litigation, which is be
ing made a test case, but there
is $300,000 involved in the whole
question.
The retailers contesting are:
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David Thornton, Beebe; Conway
Lumber Company, Conway; W.
T. Mosely, Morrilton; East Ar
kansas Lumber Company, Para
gould; Arkmo Lumber Company,
Little Rock; and the Retail
Lumber Dealers’ Association of
Arkansas. The case for the
wholesalers is being fought out
by attorneys for the Wisconsin
Arkansas Lumber Company,
Waldo; Long-Bell Lumber Com
pany, Pine Bluff; Fordyce Lum
ber Company, Fordyce; Free
man-Smith Lumber Company,
Millville; Southern Lumber Co-,
!Warren; A. J. Neimeyer Lum
ber Company, Little Rock, and
! Eagle Lumber Company, Eagle
| Mills.
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Farm Brings $10,500.
Texarkana, Oct. 20.—E. W.
Frost and wife, wealthy resi
dents of this city, have sold to
; g Anderson a farm m Miler
! county of 1,00 acres for $10,500.
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i Couple Seriously Burneg
Jonesboro. <
Jonesboro, Oct. '20.—4 ' bad
accident occurred this triorping,
in which Mrs. Jane McBee, who
resides .at the corner of Burke
‘avenue aiid Mills street,, anc] her
stepson, Otho McBee, werd se
j-nousty burned by the explosion
'jpf coal oil, which was poured into
|i heating- stove by the stepson.
; ‘They are both in a critical con
dition. Mrs. MqBee is pot
j expected to live over foriy-eigiit
| hours and Mr. McBee may live
| three or four days, but it is not
. thought by the' Physicians that
inhere is any probability of his
. recovery.
! • This morning about ten o’clock,
I Otho McBee, who is about thirty
j years of age, came into tbd-sit
ting room in which Mrs. Mc
Ifee and her baby were and open-,
ej the top of the heating stove
in which there was a small fire,
a^d pourqd “a stream of coal oil
sd as to make the fire burn bet
»• i 1
teir. When he poured the oil in,
a huge flame swept out over the
room first catching the baby
afibe.
Mrs. McBee seized a blanket
from the bed which was nearby,
and wrapped it around the child,
thus extinguishing the flames.
While she was attending to the
child her clothes caught fire
and burned entirely off. Her
bpdv, was burned all over from
bead to foot.
Conference of
Railroad Surgeons
Iron Mountain Physicians Will
Be Banqueted at Hotel Ma
rion Tonight.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Oct. 20.—The an
nual conference of surgeons of
the Iron Mountain rialroad will
convene in Little Rock Tuesday
morning with Dr- W- F. Smith
presiding. Dr. J. W. McClendon
of Hot Springs is the secretary.
A banquet will be tendered the
surgeons by the railroad com
pany at the Hotel Marion Tues
jday night.
Dr. F. Vinsonhaler of Little
[Rock will open the convention
with a discussion of the injuries
to the eye. Dr. Vernon Mc
Cammon of Arkansas City will
speak on first aid to the injured
and how to prepare a patient for
transportation. Dr. C. T. Cana
day of Cotter will discuss scalds
and burns. Dr. A R Simpson of
Hoxie will talk on the relation
ship of the railway surgeons to
each other and to the railroad.
C. F. Ellington, district claim
(agent, will speak of the con
(nection between his department
'and the local surgeon, while T.
!B. Pryor, general attorney at
Fort Smith, will discuss the re
lationship between legal and
hospital department. I)r. W.
F. Smith will discourse on the
doctor as a witness. Dr. W. B.
Barner of Wynne will lecture on
spinal injuries.
The program will be continued
over until Wednesday to hear
a number of additional lectures.
Dr. Earle Hunt of Clarksville
will speak on swamp fever, R
L. Smith of Russellville on sur
gical shock, Dr. E- L. Watson
of Newport on meningitis, Dr,
F. O. Mahoney of Huttig on the
ups and downs of a country doc
tor, Dr. W. R. Bathurst of Little
Rock on trade dermatitis, Dr
H. N. Dickson of Paragould or
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the leather, is chosen with an eye to that particular use. jij
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emergency treatment ot irac
tures and dislocations, Dr. R.
j Q. Patterson of New Augusta on
the “Colles” fracture, Dr. T. J.
Newman of Little Rock on the
fracture of the lower jaw, Dr
A. H. Tribble Hot Springs on in
testinal perforation and Dr. F.
T. Murphy of Brinkley on sani
tation.
About fifty physicians will at
tend the meeting.
Mrs. Pankhurst Permitted To
Land.
Washington, Oct. 20.—Ameri
ca’s doors were opened today to
Mrs. Emmaline Pankhurst, and j
during her lecture engagements
the British militant suffragist
leader is free to go where she
will in the United States. An1
order releasing the much dis
cussed visitor from detention at
Ellis Island, N. Y., and revoking
the deportation order issued af
ter President Wilson had confer
red with Secretary Wilson of
the Department of Labor and af
ter a formal hearing before Im
migration Commissioner Cam
inetti ond Mrs. Pankhurst’s ap
peal had been concluded.
Heber Militia Mustered Out.
Heber Springs, Oct. 20.—Com
pany I, Second Regiment, Ark
ansas State Guard, located at
Heber Springs, was this week
mustered out of service upon
the recommendation of Capt.
A. B. Sloan, inspector of the U
nited States army, who recently
inspected all of the military
'Owi'HQTOP5? "fVlP n4-ntr>
company did not come up to the
: government standard, particu
larly in regard to the caring for
1' the property.
New Postmaster Gets Commis
sion.
Little Rock, Oct. 20.—W. E.
Floyd, newly appointed post- .,
master of Little Rock, is ex
pected to take office in the next
two days. His commission ar
rived this morning and his bond
was accepted.
Last week Mr. Floyd resigned <
as secretary of the railroad com
mission. He expected his com
mission to arrive at any mom
ent- At the time he announced
that a change would not be made
before November 1"
It is thought Mr. Floyd an
nounced the change for that
date because he did not expect
his commission to arrive before
then. Now that he has been of
ficially notified of his appoint
ment, it is likely the change will
be made as soon as possible.
The next few days will proba
bly be spent in checking up and
getting everything in shape for
the formal change. U. S.
Bratton, who has been postmas
ter for some years, will vacate
the position and Mr. Floyd will
be formally installed.
Mrs. Lewis Dead.
A card was received by the
family from Mrs. A. J. Woll
[who is at Forney, Texas, an
; nouncing the death of Mrs. P.
|M- Lewis of that place, which sad
j event occurred Monday at 3 o
, clock from a long illness, from
I a complication of diseases.
! Mrs. Lewis was formerly Mrs.
'Ellen Bond of Jacksonport and
‘ was well known and loved by a
large circle of friends, who are
grieved to learn of her death.
She is survived by one sister,
Mrs. A. J. Wolf, of this city, who
was with her when the end came.