THE INDEPENDENT
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WHITE COUNTY
MAY DELAY
Inauguration of Governor Hays
Full Thirty Days Allowed
by Law.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 4.—Two
counties have now failed to
make their official returns on the
recent special election, and the
attention of Gov. J. M. Futrell
and Secretary of State Earle W.
Hodges is now turned to Missis
sippi and White counties in an
effort to oret them in.
shed, and was sitting on her fa
ther’s lap when the lightning
struck- Her right arm, which
had been around her father's
neck, was terribly burned and
her lower limbs, where she had
been sitting on her father's lap,
also showed the marks of the
electric bolt.
Davis is survived by a wife
and several children. West is
survived by his wife. Funeral
arrangements have not been
completed.
Says Depositors Will He Paid.
Forrest City, Aug. 3.—A
threat simmering in the melting
pot of east Arkansas politics;
a knowledge that his bank would
be wrecked by a run should the
threat be culminated ; an inabil
ity to negotiate loans owing to
an alleged stringency in the
money market, and a desire to
ask for, rather than be forced to,
an accounting, are the causes
set forth here today by Eugene
Williams, cashier of the Bank of
KIRBY WILL
MAKE RACE
Against Senator Clarke and lion
aghey and Powell Will Prob
, ably Not Run.
Special to Independent.
Little Pvock, August 4.—Un
less signs fail, William F. Kirby,
now associate justice of the su
preme court of Arkansas, will
be a candidate against James P
Clarke for the United States
Senate in the primary to be held
next March.
Judge Kirby has so far made
no definite announcement. He
was defeated by; Geo. W. Dona
ghey for governor, and was lat
er named as one of the special
attorneys for the state in the
rate litigation through the in
fluence of Governor Donaghey.
They have been very close
friends and many believe both
will not make the race. Gov.
Donaghey announced some time
ago that he would be a candi
date against Senator Clarke.
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SEPTEMBER 17 |1
For catalogue and special bulletins giving complete inf !■
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PRESID ENT OF THE UNIVERSITY 9
It is the desire of Governor
elect G. W. Hays to be inaugu
rated next Wednesday, at which
time a special train will proba
bly be run from Camden and El
Dorado, bringing friends of the
new chief executive to attend
the exercises- Unless the out
standing counties report prior to
that time, the state Board of
Election Commissioners cannot
meet and canvass the vote, and
until this is done they cannot is
sue a certificate of election to
Judge Hays. There is fear ex
pressed that White, the home
county of Judge Stephen Brun
didge, will hold out the full 30
days allowed it under the law,
delaying the inauguration until
August 25.
Acting Governor Futrell is so
anxious to get away, and back
to his home in Paragould. that
he will probably go to Searcy
and make a personal appeal tor
the early returns, it letters and
telegrams do not bring a favor
able action from the county elec
tion commissioners.
There has been considerable
talk of an opponent to Judge
Hays who must again be a can
didate in the primaries next
March, if he expects to serve
more than the unexpired term of
Joe T. Robinson. This is proba
bly “hot air,” for prominent pol
iticians, who would influence a
candidate to enter the race,
should there be opposition to
Judge Hays, deny they contem
plate such a course. They are
holding back, and declare they
will permit Judge Hays to enter
office unhampered with the
threat of opposition. If he
N makes good in the office, there
will be no opposition.
Strikes Father, Leaves Child
Dos Arc, Aug. 2.—Lightning,
which struck a shed of the Con
ron Cooperage Company during
the rainstorm of yesterday af
ternoon instantly killed Ik Ik
Davis, 55 years old, his son-in
law, N. West. 2d years old. and
paralyzed the arms and lower
limbs of Davis’ seven-year-old
daughter, Bernice, who was sit
ting upon her father’s lap.
Fight other employes of the
cooperage company, who also
had sought shelter from the
storm beneath the shed, were
uninjured.
Davis and West were employ
ed in the yard of the cooperage
company and when the storm
broke, with other employes,
quickly ran beneath the protec
ting cover of the shed. They
- had been there probably five
minutes when the lightning
struck. Davis’ little daughter,
who was waiting for her father
to quit work, to accompany him
home, had been playing in the
yard before the storm began.
After the rain began falling, she
also sought refuge beneath the
Forrest City, that moved him to
seek a receivership and a sus
pension of the bank’s busi
ness yesterday. It was Mr. Wil
liams’ first statement in explan
ation of the closing of his bank.
“I have nothing to conceal,
neither am I attempting to run
away,” said Williams. “We are
simply able to meet all liabilitie
and were we not I might add
$60,000 to the assets by blowing
out my brains and permitting
the insurance money to be col
lected- But that is unnecessary.
Our creditors and depositors,
approximately 3,000 in number,
will lose nothing now that we
have asked an accounting and
will have sufficient time to come
to a complete settlement.
“I sought the receivership
when confronted with the seem
ingly inevitable and disastrous
possibility of being forced into
litigation, which would incite ?
run and wreck the bank. We
have the receivership and I a
certain that our liabilities, ap
proximating $300,000. will be
more than covered.”
Asked for a definite state
ment concerning the assets anc
liabilities, Mr. Williams explain
ed that he desired the receiver
to announce the condition of the
bank’s affairs after he has com
pleted his investigation.
Ed E. Parrott drops the edi
tor a card from Colorado
to tell of snow clad peaks, which
sound good and would look bet
ter to people at home, where the
present summer is regarded as
a warm one. He reports meet
ing many Jackson county peo
ple there.
J. W. Outlaw was down from
! Oil Trough today arranging foi
| the Woodmen picnic there next
j Saturday.
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! Every Minute
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Drop tne worry about where ’
to go—Colorado is the place.
And the way to go is
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G. P. COFFIN, Afent
Newport, Ark.
Smead Powell of Camden is an
other mentioned as a possible
candidate for the senatorial to
ga, but his strength is practi
cally in the same place as that
of Judge Kirby, and with him in
the race it is hardly probable
that Mr. Powell would be a can
didate.
Caught 47 Bass
Last Saturday afternoon, in
less than three hours, T. F. Flip
pin of Cotter caught 47 bass.
He used neither rod, reel, line,
hook, net or trap, but caught ev
ery fish with his bare hands. He
was assisted by his little son
Paul, nine years old. At that
time the river was up about
four feet, and the muddiest it
has ever been. Flippin had gone
up the river to the Narrows tc
set trot lines. The lines were
stretched and baited, but not t
fish was hooked. He gave it uf
! and started home, and in mak
j ing the start he swung his boa*
I in against a weedy bank, at a
place where the weeds extended
into the shallow water. To Flip
I pin’s surprise, when the boat
struck the weeds, the spot prov
ed to be alive with bass. The
fish scurried here and there in
their fright, jumping clear of
the water. Some fell in the
boat, others struck the boat, and
many went entirely over it.
from two to three feet in the air
Some of the bass caught weigh
ed more than three pounds
This gave Flippin an idea, and
he repeated the operation at
other weedy points, and in a
short time had caught 47 bass,
many of them weighing nearly
four pounds. The small fish
were not counted, and consisted
of perch, little bass and crappie,
| These were thrown back, and
Flippin arrived in Cotter with
42 large bass.—Cotter Record.
, The Cotter Courier is publish
ed by a minister, but not the
Record.
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Emancipation Day Celebrated.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 4.—Today
being the fiftieth anniversary of
the emancipation proclamation is
being fittingly celebrated by Lit
tle Rock Negroes. It is a gener
al holiday, though there is little
celebrating going on in Little
Rock. The negroes have flocked
to Argenta, Sweet Home and
Lonoke, while still others have
gone up the Arkansas river on
an excursion. The real big pic
nic is near Lonoke, and one mel
on grower sent six wagons
heavily loaded with the fruit
which no negro can resist, from j
his farm near Little Rock.
Notice to Loafers.
Anyone found loitering in or j
around the jail yard without1
permission from the sheriff or!
the jailer, will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law for
tresspassing.
J. F. McCuistion, Sheriff
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