VOLUME II. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. FRIDAY AUGUST 1. 1902. NUMBER 87
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RECEIVED THREE YEARS.
Jury Returned Verdict of Voluntary
Manslaughter Against Dave Allen
—Charlie Dupin Also Sent To
Pen—Other Proceedings.
The jury in the case of Dave Allen,
charged with murder in the second
degree, brought in a verdict Thursday
afternoon, finding the defendant
guilty of voluntary manslaughter and
fixed the penalty at three years in the
penitentiary.
Charlie Dupin was also found guilty
by a jury and given two years time to
expatiate his offense in the convict
camps.
John Cole, a white man, was fined
850 by a jury as an accomplice in the
assault of Mrs. Qruice by Sallie Gray.
Tha prosecution introduced evidence
to show that he held the aggrieved
woman while Sallie Gray beat her
with a club, the assault taking place
on the 16th of June. Sallie Gray is
charged with aggravated assault and
her trial was occupying the attention
of court Friday afternoon. Her at
torneys are M. M. Stuckey and O. W.
Scarborough while Gustave Jones is
assisting the state’s attorney, Mr.
Campbell.
The case of the state against Bud
Jordan Patterson has been continued
by consent and set for Tuesday of
second week of next regular term.
Court adjourns over Saturday and
Sunday this afternoon and Judge
Fulkerson does not feel any hesitancy
in stating that its labors will be com
pleted next week. Only one more
criminal case will receive a bearing.
DIVORCES GRANTED.
Lillian S. Adams versus James M.
Adams, divorce; decree granted,
effective as soon as proof is filed.
John P. Whaley, versus Alice
Whaley, divorce; decree for plain
tiff.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
INCORPORATION OF THE ROCK ISLAND.
An Associated Press dispatch from
New York says:
“Articles of incorporation of the
Rock Island Company were filed in
Jersey City today. The capital stock
is placed at $150,000,000 and a fee of
$30,000 was deposited with the county
clerk of Hudson county, N. J. The
stock is divided into 540,000 shares of
preferred and 960,000 shares of com
mon. The purpose of the corporation
is declared to be “to acquire, pur
chase and hold subscriptions, stocks,
bonds, securities, shares and other
evidences of corporations generally
and to merge corporations, one into
another.
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ANOTHER RAILROAD.
There is apparently a fair prospect
of Craighead county getting another
railroad in the near future. The road
is to be built from Culberhouse or
Scott, on the Frisco road and run to
raylor’s mill near Lunsford, a distance
af four miles. It will be built by Tay
lor Bros., the Frisco people furnishing
the steel for the track. A Frisco en
gineer came down some days ago and
surveyed the route. The question of
auilding has not been fully settled
sve learn, but the prospects are bright
that it will. Although a short line it
will be of much benefit to that part of
:he county and we hope to see it built.
—Jonesboro Times.
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RUMORED PURCHASE.
It is reported that the company pro
posing to construct the railroad from
;his city to Newport, have bought the
Bonnerville Southern and will use the
•ails in the construction of their road.
i\.s Mr. Ed L. Westbrooke, the res
dent member of the new company is
iway, the Times has been unable to
uncertain whether tjiere is truth in
the report or not.—Jonesboro Times.
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The Frisco people have decided to
make extensive reductions in grade
an the main stem of the system be
tween St. Louis and Springfield,
which will require the expenditure of
a large amount of money. At present
the Frisco climbs the Ozark moun
tains to the crest on a hundred-foot
to-the-mile grade, line. After the
new work, just arranged for, which
will require new locations in some
places, the maximum grade on this
240 miles of road will be but 26 feet to
the mile.
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The local freight on the St. Louis,
Memphis & Southeastern, today took
through two passenger coaches, which
were old and dilapidated in appear
ance. The coaches were of the old
style and belonged to the Hoxie, Po
cahontas & Northern and were on
their way to Cape Girardeau where
they will be remodeled. - Poplar Bluff
Citizen.
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Some of our people are becoming
impatient at the delay of the railroad
companies in building a new depot.
We have been assured by those who
have a right to know, that the build
ing will be put up just as soon as the
companies can agree upon the plan.
—Jonesboro Times.
HOPE FOR THE MORROW.
I stood in the postoffice, a day or
two since, after the mail had arrived
and was being distributed into the
boxes by the busy postmaster and his
fair assistant. The usual gathering
was in the room, and light remark and
laughing rejoinder were bandied back
and forth from youth and beauty in
flao rlotr nf lifts a nrl Vioolfh
them it was a resort where, congenial
spirit meeting its like, gave vent to
the bubbling gaiety within. To me
there is always something that pleases
in the contemplation of those the
lines of whose lives have not passed
the boundary which separates the
careless happiness of youth and the
graver contemplation that comes with
increasing years. As my eyes wand
ered over the assemblage they rested
upon the face of a woman careworn
and graven in the wrinkles of years
and sadness. At length the slide in
the delivery was thrown up, and the
awaiting numbers crowded to its
opening. Letters from husbands,
brothers, friends, lovers and sweet
hearts were delivered rapidly as
called for. When the expectant and
careless crowd had departed, there
still remained the black-clothed,
weary-eyed woman, who looked with
appealing eyes upon the official and
asked, with the trepidation born of
frequent disappointment, “Any letter
for me?” The big hearted postmast
er, affecting ignorance, passed, one
by one, through the pile of matter
whose initial letter was hers, and,
after scrutinizing the last, responded
reluctantly, “None to-day,” with a
look that conveyed to her eyes, “hope
for to-morrow.” With a sigh she de
parted, and her lingering step bore
her away to another day of misery
and disappointment. Let her go her
way! It is the way of the world, and
a hard world it is. Yet it has for
every sinking heart its “hope for to
morrow” which God gives to all his
creatures. Neither poverty nor
crime can deprive them of its bless
ing; even despair halts at its thres
noid and slinks away aoasned.
“Hope for to-morrow,” let us all and
every one.—Ironton Register.
% FOLLOWED AND CAPTURED.
Charles P. Poe, of Jonesboro, has
returned from Koshkouong, Mo.,
bringing two horses that were stolen
from his pasture July 17. One belong
ing to E. C. Stuck and the other to a
Mr. Manning were taken, as well as
two new saddles from Willis Salmons’
barn. The deputy sheriff of Law
rence county accompanied Mr. Poe
on the chase, but they were a little
too late to capture the thieves, who
sold the horses and saddles and
skipped. A strong effort will be
made to capture them.
PROBABLE OIL STRIKE
EXCITES TEXARKANA.
Texarkana, July 30.—The city is at
a high pitch of excitement tonight
over the semi-official announcement
that an oil strike has been made at
the well a mile north of town. Work
has been going on at intervals on
driving this well for several months
and the strike was made this morning
at a depth of about 1,400 feet. While
the promoters do not claim that oil
has been actually found, they assert
that there is scarcely a doubt but
there will be in the next few feet.
WORLD’S FAIR
BOARD CONVENES.
Mayor George R. Belding of Hot
Springs, president of the Arkansas
board of directors for the St. Louis
World’s Fair and Mr. J. C. Rembert
of Helena, a member of the board,
were in Little Rock this week to at
tend a meeting of the board. Mr. G.
T. Lake of Fayetteville, was not pres
ent on account of the death of a
nephew.
President Belding, Director Rem
bert and Manager T. W. Milan held a
short session ' at the state house for
the purpose of adopting a design for
the Arkansas buttons which are to be
offered for sale over the state to raise
additional funds for our exhibit. A
number of designs had been sent in
but none of them met the approval
of the board. It was then decided, as
an incentive to bring out the best
efforts of the artists, to offer a gold
medal for the one submitting the best
design. The board announces that
they want something that will truly
be emblematic of the state’s resources,
and in addition be attractive and easy
to sell. The funds now on hand are
wholly insufficient to provide for a
creditable display for the state, and
the board hopes to realize a hand
some amount from tne saie oi tne
buttons, which added to the present
funds, will have to comprise the sum
for the Arkansas exhibit.
The board adjourned for an in
definite time.
RED RIVER ON RAMPAGE.
Texarkana, July 31.—Red river
overflowed the lowlands today, hav
ing risen five feet in twenty-four
hours. All trains entering here have
been delayed beyond record by
washouts. The Cotton Belt passen
ger trains both ways were delayed
four hours this morning. The Texas
and Pacific will start a passenger
train to Shreveport over the Texar- - k
kana and Natchez branch tomorrow,
the first for three days. Business
throughout this section has been com
pletely paralyzed by the water, and
crops of all kinds are badly damaged
by overflows.
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MANY PEACHES.
Van Buren, July 31.—This has been
the peach day for Van Buren. A
train of twelve cars left here this
evening, loaded to their full capacity
with peaches for the northern mar
kets. The adjacent spurs will furnish
about five cars more, and the light
express shipments will amount to
over a carload, making a total of
more than eighteen cars of peaches
shipped in one day. The quantity
and quality rival those of any previous
season.
AUGUSTA PARTY TO DENVER.
A party of ten persons from Au
gusta left on last night’s cannon ball
train over the Iron Mountain route
for Denver and other Colorado points
to spend several weeks. They came
down from Augusta on No. 33 yester
day afternoon and made the start
from Little Rock in order to secure
sleeper accommodations. Those in
the party as registered at Pratt’s
hotel were: T. E. Stanley and wife,
J. R. Vinson and wife, J. H. Stanley,
T. E. Stanley, Jr., J. O. Fittrell, Miss
Jennie Kittrell, Miss Minnie Lightle
and Miss Bettie Lightle.—Little Rock
Gazette.
CAROUTHERS REFUSED.
W. B. Carouthers returned from
Little Rock Thursday night, the gov
ernor having refused to pardon him
from the fines and costs imposed by this
term of court. He had a long peti- ‘
tion whose names embraced many
good citizens.
Whether by this he means to es
tablish a precedent and w ill also re
fuse W. R. O’Neal’s petition is not
known, but reports from Little Rock
state that his action in the case re
ferred to was caused by the trouble
which the pardon of another Newport
man for the same offense has recent
ly given the governor.