II CLARKE
STILL LEADS
jjlRace, Although Of
pj will Be Required
Settle Contest.
ick, March 28.— The
race between Senator
judge Kirby will not
until the official vote
i Gazette’s last totals
jyday) morning ac
r 120,004 votes, of
ke had received 60,
^by 59,738. Clarke’s
528. Between 200
jng precincts in the
! are yet to be heard
be vote in most of
e small. If the vote
re state in this race
10,000 it will surprise
Ed politicians,
tte this morning has
it unofficial returns
nties on the senator
i v_am ziAiivitino
I.I1W vvv%*l
to five voting
ng. In some
;cincts no e
rhere will be
is in the fig
to errors in
hese changes
and not suf
j general re
sett is given
mplete, but
a small
the other, as
r some of the
;k townships
hone, and in
given from
net officials.
I Kirby forc
when the of
oinsett is in.
claim a ma
j larger than
Gazette’s fig
in the totals
ce last night
.Tere striking,
narow range,
ce’s majority
and a short
only a few
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| more than 400. It ranged up and
down to finally settle at 528 for
the night.
FIRST NEWS FROM MADISON
A feature of the night was the
receipt of the first figures from
Madison county. They were
brought from Huntsville, the
county seat, to Fayetteville by
a newspapper correspondent and
sent in from! there. His re
jport covers 20 out of 24 town
ships in the county and gives
| Clarke 482, Kirby 881, a majori
; ty of 399 for Kirby. Downing
'carried this county over Hodges
Tor secretary of state. It is the
second county in the stae to be
carried by him.
BIG COUNTIES NEARLY ALL
IN.
In Pulaski county, all boxes are
in. In Garland county four box
es are out, but they are back
townships and are of small im
portance. St. Franois county is .
complete except for two pre
cincts, and Jefferson is compplete j
except for one precinct. There
is one precinct missing in Phil- j
lips and there are three missing i
in of i on
WHERE THE VOTE IS DE- j
LAYED.
Only a small percentage of the j
townships in Howard county has
been reported. Two out of 24
boxes in this county give Clarke
165 and Kirby 295, while six out
of ten in Desha county give
Clarke 404 and Kirby 38. Atten- i
tion is called to these figures to
show that the ratio of increase in
counties where one or the other j
candidate has a decided advant
age will be about evened up. But
this leaves enough townships
out to make it anybody’s race,I
even though the votes in the
missing precincts be few.
BOTH CLAIM VICTORY. j
Both the Kirby and Clarke
forces stoutly claim victory. R.
P. Allen, manager for Clarke,
made the following statement
this morning:
“We feel confident that Sena
tor Clarke has been nominated
by a majority of about 2,500.
This estimate of Senator
Clarke’s majority is based on
complete returns from 65 coun
ties. In the remaining 10 coun
ties we have the complete vote
_x X* f num.
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'ships. We Have added to these
returns an estimate for the miss
ing townships, which is made
by men in close touch with the
i situation.
“We spent all of yesterday ver
ifying our figures and consider
them very conservative and
feel more than ever confident of
Senator Clarke’s nomination.”
The following statement was
made by Judge Kirby this morn
ing:
“A comparison of the Ga
ette reports on the election re
turns from day to day and a
parallel comparison of the claims
! made by the opposition from day
to day is within itself a suffi
cient argument and convincing
proof of the fact that the re
turns are steadily showing a
gain for me. That my majority
is substantial and cannot be ov
ercome, as I reported in the Ga
zette of yesterday is establish
ed beyond all controversy by ac
curate reports from each and
every county in the state.
“My friends throughout the
state can rely on this being the
true state of facts. I have this
election won beyond any ques
tion of doubt.”
NATION-WIDE INTEREST IN
RACE.
I The interest in this senatorial
race is now nation-w ide. Thurs
r~r
state newspapers, giving Clarke
a bigger lead than the returns at
hand justified, but these were
corrected during the night. Ow
ing to Senator Clarke’s position
as president pro tern of senate,
to his long term of service as a
senator and to his prominence in
Washington and in the Senate,
interest is aroused in quarters
rarely touched by elections in
Arkansas. The Associated Press
has asked for and received fig
ures on this race almost hourly
each night and correspondents of
Eastern papers are sending from
Little Rock long stories on the
contest.
NOTHING DEFINITE UNTIL
MONDAY.
Little Rock, March 28.—3 p.
m.— (Special to Independent.) —
There has been little change in
the race for United States Sena
tor. It is highly probable that
the missing counties will not be
heard from before the votes are
canvassed by the county commit
tees Monday. Both Clarke and
Kirby claim the nomination.
Rogers, candidate for Super
intendent of Public Instruction,
claims he has good lead over
Geo. B. Cook. Coffman wins au
ditor’s race.
Court Can Exceed Appropriation
Special to Independent.
Little Reck, March 28.—It is
not necessary that a public im
provement made by a county
shall be kept within the appro
priation. This is the gist of an
opinion given by Attorney Gen
eral Moose to County Judge J.
W. Scott of Independence, who
has an appropriation of $1500 to
build a bridge and who writes
that it cannot be built for that
amount. The attorney general
cp VQ *
“It is not necessary that an
appropriation sufficient to cover
the entire expense should be
made. It is only necessary that
the courts should have determin
ed that t was desirable to build
the bridge and make an appro
priation.
“The contract would not be
limited to the amount of the ap
propriation, but an appropria
tion must have been made and
part of it m|ust be unexpended at
the time the contract is made.”
Basket Ball Girls Go To Searcy.
The high school basket ball
girls chaperoned by Mrs. Wil
liams and Harmon Younger,
1 went down to Searcy this morn
! ing to play the girls of that city,
j They will return this evening.
-The girls in the party were, Miss
es Mary Bains, Lottie Ballew,
I Lucy Sprigg, Rita Whitten, Ju
lia Younger, Jessie Littleton and
; Alberta White.
Mr. Whitten and Harry Little
1 ton went along to cheer the horn*
| girls to victory.
I Three Killed In Pope County.
! Special to Independent.
Little Rock, March 28.— In £
difficulty growing out of a feud
over the claim, to government
| land, John Church, Francis Mc
: Cuin, G. W. Hart were killed and
Mrs. Church fatally wounded,
' near Nogo, in the wilds of north
j ern Pope county.
Hats Cleaned And Blocked.
Old hats made new again. Now
is the time to have your old
spring hats made new. All work
guaranteed- Phone 78. Bee
Robinson.
\
CONDEMNED NEGRO
I IS CONVERTED
[.Spends Last Hours In Making
“Peace” With His God
Writes Poetrv.
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Little Rock, March 28.—The
shadow of the electric chair, the
silence of the death cell, the
wails of an aged negro mother,
have no terrors for Fred Pelton,
condemned negro murderer, who
will die in the electric chair at
the Arkansas penitentiary at 10
o'clock this morning.
Out of that same cell from
which Pelton is to be led to his
doom? today have gone Lee
Simms and Ed King, and and the
grotesque figures and nervously
scribed signatures that bedeck
the walls of the death cell are
mute evidence of the nerve-rack
ing strain that the condemned
ones undergo. But thus far Pel
ton is unmoved. He gave no
outward evidence of fear over his
late yesterday afternoon and
said that he is prepared to meet
his doom.
Pelton was condemned to die
for the murder of an aged ne
gress near the state convict
farm at Varner, and committed
the crime fo^ the purpose of rob
bing the old woman of 50 cents.
At the time the murder was
committed he wsa serving a sen
tence of 115 years for atempted
assault upon five white women
of Little Rock.
Most of Pelton’s spare mom
ents in the death cell have been
devoted to “getting right with
God,” as he expresses it. This
task he says he has completed,
and he has turned to writing re
ligious poetry and prose, and
mailing copies of each article to
his friends.
SING HYMNS IN DEATH
CELL.
The penitentiary walls yester
day afternoon reverberated with
the sounds of hy mns being sung
by a number of Pelton’s rela
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tives and the loud voice of a ne
gro preacher. When the last
hymn was sung and the last
prayer offered in Felton’s behalf
and after each friend and rela
tive had grasped his hand, Pel
ton said:
“I have nothing to fear, for
He is with me, and don’t forget
to give everybody my best
wishes. We shall know each
other when the mists have rolled j
away.
“I have no confessions to make J
and do not care to say anything !
relative to the crime I am accus
ed and condemned for commit
ting, but I am writing a letter
which 1 want the public to read
after I am gone. 1 will have
something to say for everybody
before I die tomorrow.”
Lawrence Circuit Court.
Walnut Ridge, March 27.—
Circuit court convened Monday
for the third week of the term.
Judge Jefferys was detained at
his Newport home with a bad
case of lagrippe and could not be
present. The bar elected ex
Judge W. A. Cunningham to pre
side. He held court Monday and
Tuesday. There was no court
held Wednesday, owing to the
fact that it was primary election
day.
There were 18 Iron Mountain
cases on the docket all set for
this the third week of the term.
On Tuesday R. C. Waldron of
Black Rock, was admitted to the
bar and passed one of the most
creditable examinations ever
heard in the Eastern district. |
The committee on examination ,
was composed of H. L. Ponder, '
Si Campbell and Geo. M. Gibson. '
On Tuesday Joe Freer brought j
in Charley Hensley and landed
him in jail. Hensley is charged
with having murdered a man
who was found floating in Black
river some time last year.
The time of the court was tak
en up Monday hearing the case
of the Hadley Milling Company
against J. P. Kelley of Minturn.
This case grew out of the fact
that Jack Burke sold to Kelley
for the Hadley Milling Company
a car load of flour collected the
money and did not turn it in.
The Milling Company brought
cnif n<rain«t T£plle\r to recover.
«-» 4/
the verdict was rendered in fav
or of Kelley. J. C. Hawthorne
of Jonesboro represented the
Milling company. J. N. Bleakley
represented Kelley.
As we go to press the case of
the Iron Mountain against T. J.
Sharum, involving a player pia
no, was called.
Judge Jeffery resumed his po
sition on the bench this ntorning.
The grand jury, which ad
journed for a few days last week,
after returning 58 indictments
lesumed business at the old
stand yesterday, for a day or so.
One of the cases, which is t(
be called probably tomorrow is a
case against the Frisco railroad
brought here from Sebastiar
county. The Frisco is sued for
the killing of Attorney Jacobs
who was a law partner of W. E
Atkinson of Clarksville. Jacobs
was injured in a wreck and died
fromi the effects of same. Suit
was brought for $60,000 and a
change of venue brought th«
case to Walnut Ridge. THt
plaintiff is represented by W. E
Atkinson, E. H. Patterson, Ma
rion Sewell, Davis & Pace, Litth
Rock. The Frisco is rejfresentec
by W. J. Orr, Ponder & Ponder.
Do It Electrically.
See Sam Denty about the Vac
| um Cleaner before doing youi
I' a\ cttei ii-Je i
.‘special to lmi<|x
Little Rock, Mai
Highway Engineer L
left last night lor
where he will meet the ..
judges of Craw lord and
ington counties for the eonside.^X^
at ion of a project for the build
ing of an improved highway
from Fayetteville to Fort Smith
The Highway Department will
begin work April (> on the pre
liminary for an improved high
way fom Vilonia to Conway, a
distance of fifteen miles. It is
estimated that it will cost about
$50,000. W. R. jVTcHenry. Coun
ty Road and \Bridge Commis
sioner of Fat(l$ner County, con
ferred with Httote Highway Car
ter about it yesterday.
Oil for thmpsifeets will keep
down the dust arid mak: Wynne
a better town to live in.Make
the city more sapitary and make
health beter. Let us wake up
and get busy with the work of
beautifying our town and bl'ing
ing more people to this cilv to
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The fly-swatting committee of
the Young Men’s Chamber of
Commerce, of Little Rock, are.
advertising to pay 10c per hund
red for dead flies this season.
Last year they paid only 10c a
pint for flies. Thus, you see, the
market price of dead flies is ad
vancing rapidly in Little Rock.
What kind of co-operation will
the citizens of Newport adopt
this year to extinguish these
pests? Let’s go after them in
earnest.
Log Teams Wanted At Once.
Have a large amount of tim
ber cut in the woods and nuns';
move. Will pay good price foe
moving same. It will pay you.
to come and investigate. For
particulars call Newport phone
1608-5 or write Muirhead Lum
ber Company, Weldon, Arkan
sas. Obtf.
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