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LANE, NEW YORK, N. Y.
DEALER IN DIAMONDS, WATCHES
AtyD JEWELRY.
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■ Newport, - Arkansas.
A REMARKABLE RAILROAD.
It Has Been Operated at a Cost of $25
Per Day and Its Daily Receipts
Have Only Averaged One
Dollar.
For seventeen years the people of
Colorado have wondered why the
Colorado and Eastern Railway com
pany operated a road at a cost of $25
a day when the receipts, all told,
amounted to less than $1 a day. The
problem has at last been solved. The
company owned rights of way worth
probably $5,000,000, and .to suspend
operation meant to lose the franchise.
Purchasers of the road have been
hard to find until now, from the fact
that the owners had nothing to sell
except rights of way and a little real
estate, and neither has been of any
value. The Denver, Northwestern &
Pacific is, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord, about to begin the construction
work on its line from Denver to Salt
Lake, and the Chicago and Rock Is
land company wants a right of way
into Denver, and, as a result, the two
roadB have purchased the Colorado
and Eastern, which has a most inter
esting history.
The road was built in 1885 from
Elyria, a suburb of Denver, to the
Scranton coal fields sixteen miles east
of Denver. The company before
building the road, secured several
thousand acres of land, which con
tained millions of tons of coal, and for
a time it looked as if the market
would be flooded, but before the
world knew w hat had happened the
company was buying coal to burn in
its lone engine, and it has done so
ever since.
Great bodies of this Scranton coal
were opened up, ai|d it appeared to
be the best on earth, but almost im
mediately after it was exposed to the
weather the stuff went through a
chemical process similar to the slaking
of burned limestone.
The railroad had hardly been fin
ished before th's st i*tling announce
ment was made public. A million
dollars had been expended. The
franchise was granted with the un
derstanding that the property was
continuously in operation and from
that day to this, with few exceptions,
the one train, consisting of a dinky
engine, a combination coach and flat
car, has made a trip to the Elyria coal
fields and return every twenty-four
hours. Hundreds and hundreds of
times the engineer and fireman made
up both crew and passengers.
From the 1st of December, 1898, un
til the last of March, 189i>, it is said
the train did not make a single
through trip. The snow during those
months was from ten to forty feet
deep all over the mountains of Col
orado, aad for three months not a run
was made. One entire week of the
time the train and crew were lost and
searching parties were sent out. .
In 1888 Jay Gould made a trip to
Colorado with the hope of securing a
right of wray into Denver for the
Missouri Pacific, and probably but for
one little incident his road would to
day be running into Denver, and the
idea of the Denver, Northwestern and
Pacific might never have been con
ceived. Mr. Gould had heard of the
Colorado and Eastern and determined
to buy it. One morning he notified
the officials that he would take a trip
over it.
The engineer got a tip. He knew
his rolling stock was light and that
the rails weighed but eighteen pounds.
There was only one thing to do if he
wanted to avoid a wreck and give
Gould a good impression of the road,
and that was to run his train not much
faster than a horse car.
The officials of the road and the
then great railroad king got aboard.
But a few miles had been covered
when Mr. Gould, who stood on the flat
car not far from the engine, asked the
engineer to run faster, but there was
no change in the rate of speed. Two
or three times Mr. Gould asked tnat
the train be run faster, but the i engi
neer, knowing what the result would
be, kept the even tenor of his way.
“Pull that throttle wide open and
let her go!” demanded Gould, and
the engineer obeyed. The engine
shot along the track at a fearful rate.
Sometimes the flat car was a foot
from the rails, and then again it was
high up in the air.
From that day until the day he died
he never said another word about
buying the Colorado and Eastern.
STATE SCRAPS
Scissored from Our Exchanges—Ac
counts of Things In General.
Chicago parties bought 1,000 acres
of timber land in St. Francis bottom
Saturday and will erect a saw mill at
Round Pond on the Choctaw.
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It is expected that Admiral Schley
will visit Pine Bluff immediately af
ter his visit to Fort Smith. Pine
Bluffians hope to entertain the ad
miral during the progress of the Piije
Bluff State fair in October.
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A series of refreshing showers fell
in the vicinity of Pine Bluff Saturday
and greatly relieved the drouth
which has lasted about twenty days.
Cotton was sadly in need of the rain,
and will be greatly benefitted.
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Albert Smith took to the Clarendon
Sun office a few days ago a cabbage
stalk upon which were growing ten
well developed heads. Some of the
heads were as big as a baseball, and
all were sound and hard. Mr. Smith
lives eight miles below Clarendon on
White river in a section noted for the
productiveness of its soil. He says
he has a number of similar cabbages
in his plot, some having six to eight
heads to the stalk. The cabbage is
not any special variety, but just grew
that way.
JAMES JOHNSON MARTIN.
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James Johnson Martin died at the
home of his daughter Mrs. Geo. Sink,
in this city Monday morning at 9
o’clock after an illness of about two
weeks. The immediate cause of his
death was congestion of the liver,
aided by malarial complications.
Mr. Martin was born at Paris, Tenr>.
in the year 1840, and when a young
man moved to Memphis, engaging in
the profession of book keeping, where
he met Miss Sally E. Street, to whom
he was married September 14, 1864.
In 1879, while yellow fever was raging
in Memphis, Mr. and Mrs. Martin
came to Arkansas as a refuge from
the awful ravages of that dread dis
ease, locating at Bradford. Eleven
years ago they moved to Newport,
Mr. Martin securing employment as
book keeper for a firm here.
Eight children were born of the
union, four of whom are now living
—two daughters arid two softs, one of
whom is in business here and was as
sisted by his father.
At the democratic primary last
April, Mr. Martin was one of the suc
cessful nominees for the office of jus
tice of the peace of this township, an
office which he held for two terms
before with great credit to nimself
and justice to everyone who had any
dealings with him.
He was a member of Newport
Lodge No. 71, I. O. O. F., filling the
position of permanent secretary,
which order will participate in the
funeral ceremonies tomorrow as
sisted by Rev. C. C. Cline, a Christian
minister who baptized him in the
faith last May during the progress of
a revival conducted at the Christian
church in this city.
The bereaved family have the con
dolence and sympathy of the entire
community in their sad hour of dis
tress.
THE SOUTH’S PROSPERITY.
With a just recognition of the truth
that prosperity in one section of the
Union should be a cause of satisfac
tion to all, the Boston Globe com
ments in a congratulatory spirit on
the great industrial advancement of
the South now becoming so apparent
to the world.
“The South,” remarks the Globe,
“is keeping pace with the general
progress of the country, all things
considered. In fact, the bank clear
ings for the first six months of the
present year show that in one respect
she has done better than the Middle
and New England States combined.
The Southern States gained 13.7 per
cent in bank clearings, while the
Middle States repor t
15 7 and New En giant
cent.”
This is i ideed, Mtignifiog
and Is necessarily
record of c< aM
development that explatW
ble gain in ba nk clearings,
of Southern business man
faoturer now in evidence is the purely
modern type, evolved by condition*
which demand the highest order of
practical ability. Alert, enterprising,
bold on proper occasions, thoroughly
posted in the details of his calling, he
is upbuilding the South on the firmest •
foundations. The younger men of
that section are admirably trained
and equipped for success.
Within the next ten years the truth
that the South has taken a foremost
place as a commercial and manufact
uring section will be more than ever
convincing. The Southern States
have vast natural resources yet to be
developed. The men now at the
front possess the character and the
skilled forcefulness necessary to such
development. The attention of out
side capital is directed to the South as
never before. It is a safe prediction
that no Bection of the Union will make
greater strides in development along
the best lines than will the South in,
say, the first quarter of the new
century.—Republic.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
The Iron Mountain has about DM)
cars of coal standing in the yards at
Poplar Bluff.
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Charles E. Gibbs has resigned the
position of general manager of the
Searcy & Des Arc railroad, and is
succeeded by H. C. Brown of Kansas
City.
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The ground selected for a round
house, tracks, etc., for the terminal of
this division, lies a quarter of a mile •
south of Hoxie ana extends down the
road two miles, embracing ninety
one acres.
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The Iron Mountain is having the
largest shipment of peaches going
over the road at present they have
ever had. There are from seventy
five to eighty cars going to St. Louis
every twenty-four hours.—Poplar
Bluff Sentinel.
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Friday morning as the Memphis
branch crew was setting out some
cars at Knobel, Ark., Brakeman
Looney got caught between two cars
and was seriously injured. Dr. Nor
wine went to Knobel on No. 1 and
dressed Mr. Looney’s wounds and
sent him to the hospital on No 10
Saturday morning.
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The Jonesboro and Lake City rail
road is laying track within two miles
of Blytheville and the railroad will be
completed by August 16, and regular
service will start at once. The Para
gould and Southeastern railroad is
nearing completion, too, and the peo
ple of Blytheville are trying to work
up a union depot spirit between the
two above roads and the St. Louis,
Memphis & Southern, which extends
from Luxora to Caruthersville, Mo.,
a distance of thirty miles.
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Articles of incorporation for the
Arkansas Southeastern Railway Com
pany were filed Saturday with the
secretary of state. The state railroad
board was in session during the day
and granted the application of the
concern for a charter. The railroad
will be capitalized at #200,000, of
which #166,000 has already been sub
scribed. It will be divided into 1,000
shares of #100 each. The track to be
laid by the company will be twenty
five miles long, extending in a south
easterly direction from the town of
El Dorado, Union county, to the line
of Arkansas and Louisiana. Though
no statement of such intention was
i ade in the articles, it is understood -
that the railway will extend for a
considerable distance into Louisiana
and effect a junction with one of the
largest railroads passing through the
section. In that case the company
will also be chartered in Texas for the
portion of the line in that state.