■JJpfTITION
R |S WITHDRAWN
■ rt Se^e1*ntent'e “Like
M“lejnen” Since Govern
Refuses Pardon.
to Independent.
■jock, July W--The pet1'
■,.,-pjr for the parole or
■"0f Harvey Riddling and
■Lyman, the two Polk
■ residents who "lied like
■en" in denying they had
■Lied in a poker game.
Betting into the penitenti
■a perjury charge, is to
Itor Elmer Lundy states
K will not press the mat
■ther,even though Ridding
E sick, and the physicians
Kjs health is in danger if
Ept on the state farm.
Ran and Riddling claimed
Kerely kept their part of
leement not to divulge the
Rants in a Mena poker
■ when they denied taking .
I it. ;
r their conviction, practi- ;
every citizen of Mena, j
ier as well as the more lib-;
itizens, signed a petition
r for a pardon. Governor |
II declined to issue the par- j
nless the presiding judge j
rosecuting attorney would j
mend it. This they de- 1
to do and Governor Fu- j
las taken no further action
I case.
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>tice of Bankruptcy. i
District Court of the |
ed States for the North-!
Division of the Eastern j
•ict of Arkansas,
matter of Luella Cook,!
Creditors of Luella Cook, j
ewport, in the County of j
son, and District afore-!
abankrupt:
:e is hereby given that!
ve named Luella Cook j
m duly adjudged bank
id that the first meeting
creditors will be held in j
:e of the Referee, in the |
Bates ville, Arkansas, on !
day of August, 1913, at |
ek a, m. at which time |
1 creditors may attend, j
leir claims, examine the
it, appoint a trustee, and !
; such other business as j
iperly come before said j
• !
"has. F. Cole, Referee, j
ville. Ark.
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era House:
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Report of Dairy Inspection For
the City of Newport.
Fayetteville, Ark.,
July 9, 1913.
This work was undertaken by
I the request of Hon. John P. Paul,
' Mayor of Newport, Arkansas.
The price agreed upon was one
dollar per head for each animal
'tested by the subcutaneous or
thermal tuberculine test and all
the expenses of the trip was to
be paid by the City of Newport.
Six herds of cattle were tested,
which represented seven owners
namely, R. L. Robinson 17 head,
S. W. Taggart 11 head, M. W
Burkett 7 head, T. O. Oliver 5
head, J. D. Neal 12 head, W. M.
Kidd 7 head and W. M. Beard 29
head, making a total of 88 head
tested. There were no reacting
animals in this number tested.
A number of registered and good
grade animals in this number
had previously been tested in
compliance with our state Jaw
which requires that cattle for
dairy and breeding purposes
be tested before movement in
terstate into the state of Arkan
sas.
A general survey of the
grounds, buildings, dairy equip
ment, methods of milking and
handling of the milk at milking
time were carefully noted, the
following recommendations are
made.
1. All cattle furnishing milk
to the city should be annually
tested with tuberculine and in
case a reactor is found a test in
that herd should be applied as I
often as the city veterinary In
spector deems it necessary
(three or four times yearly),
such reacting animals should be
killed in compliance with our j
state law. A post mortem should
be held upon all carcases of such
animals killd, this should be
done by the city inspector aided
by some Federal Veterinarian
and before such animal or any j
part thereof is posted as edible j
product of same should meet the j
requirements of the Federal
meat inspection regulations.
2. All overhead feed bins and
hay lofts should be made of
tongue and grooved lumber to
prevent dust falling into stalls
where cattle are milked. No dai
ry barn in the city of Newport
inspected meets with this, recom
mendation.
<5. c,are oi miiK ai uiiit oi
milking: Only orie dairyman,
Mr, M. W. Burkett had a screen
ed retaining room for the com
mon milk can to which milk was
strained into when milked from
the cows. All other dairymen
exposed the milk to the retain
ing milk to the flies and such
methods is dangerous as aU
know., since a number of open
family privies are in the near
vicinity of the dairies.
4. The herdmen and milkers
should be required to wear white
suits when milking and same
should be laundered three or
four times a week. Such suits
are cheap and the dairyman
should see that their milkers
are supplied with such suits. In
a number of the dairies inspect
ed the milking was done by ne
gro boys, who were not only half
clad but were also dirty and fil
thy. The udder of the cow
should be washed well with a
clean, moist cloth before the
work of milking is undertaken
and in most cases in Newport
j this is being done.
5. A city ordinance should be
passed if not now enforce to
! require all physicians practicing
| ,;n the city to report all conta
gious and infectious diseases to
some city authority whose duty
ns to notify the dairyman fur
nishing milk to such stricken
family and such dairyman
should be prohibited from fur
nishing milk to such family un
less a vessel was furnished by
the family for the purpose of
emptying the milk into and thus
avoid the spread of the disease
to other milk customers by the
careless handing of the infected
mi:k bott.e. Milk bottles often
trrries' become a means of spread
ing infections or contagious
diseases when left over night in
a home where such a disease ex
ists.
6. The milk or bottling house
should be well washed out twice
a day or after each milking.
One such milk or bottling house
in Newport was found to be very
unsanitary.
7. A tax should be placed on
all families that furnish milk to
their neighbors and their cattle
should also be tested for it is of
fen found that the family cow
has tuberculosis. This tax
would be an inducement to all
dairymen that are in the busi
ness for a profit to properly
equip themselves for the dairy
fvi'l ilincq;' OrtiT'l TrT: 4 Tbt f . . ■»-* A
state sanitary regulations.
8. The dairy barn should be
cleaned of ad manure ■ twice a
day during the warm season and
once a week during the cold sea
son.
R-es 1 pectfully submitted
J. F. Stanford.
Veterinarian.
Assessing Railroad's. j
Special to Independent.
Little Rock. July 18.— The i
Arkansas Tax Commission is j
now devoting its time to the ;
assessments for railroads and (
public service corporations and j
when the work iscompletedabout ;
$20,000,000 increase will proba- j
bly be upon the tax books of the J
various counties of the state.
The commission is now work
ing upon the assessment of the |
St. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern Railroad. The assess
ment of this road has been about
$60,000,000, and the commission
expects an increase here of a
bout ten per cent. The Iron
Moutain has completed about
40 miles ol road This year, con
necting Marianna with Mem
phis. The Rock Island will also
show some mileage in the com
pletion of the line from Mal
vern to Camden.
The commission has complet
ed the work on the small tele
phone systems, and will soon be
gin working on the larger ones
Editor Snetzer Retires.
With this week’s issue Mr.
Fred Snetzer of the Marianna
Index, retires from journalism,
having sold his paper to Dr. Z.
T. Bennett of that city and a
former pastor of the Methodist
church in this city.
Mr. Snetzer was one of the
ablest newspaper men in the
state and the Index is easily
classed among the best weeklies
that come to our exchange table.
Dr. Bennett is an old and exper
ienced newspaper man, for years
editor of the Arkansas Metho
dist at Little Rock. The many
Newport friends of the retiring
and incoming editors wish for
them the best of success in their
business interests.
Miss Jessie Dean has returned
home from a pleasant visit *o
Sulphur Rock relatives.
To Reform Baling Method*.
•Special to Independent.
I The Hague, July 1C.—A
committee of the American
1 Commission on Agricultural
i Co-operation represented the
j cotton growing interests of :ne
j Southern states at the biennial
! convention of the International
i Federation of Master Cotton
j Spinners and Manufacturers As
sociation, which opened here
j last week. The Americans de
Ivoted their attention to the ques
Ition of reforming the methods c
icotton baling, handling, and mar
keting. and placed before the
convention recommendations,
which, if adopted, would save
the American cotton growers
$75,000,000 a year, according
to their estimates, and result in
material saving to spinners of
American cotton.
Col. Harvie Jordan of Georgia,
president of the Southern Cot
ton Growers’ Association, acted
as chairman of the delegation
from the American Commission,
and invited three hundred rep
resentatives of foreign cotton
manufacturing interests to at
tend a conference in Mobile. Al
abama, of American cotton man
ufacturers, growers and ginners.
at the time of the fifth annual
convention of the Southern Com
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next October. The invitation
was extended in the name of the
Southern Commercial Congress.
The National Cotton Manufac
turer’s Association, the Ameri
can Cotton Manufacturers' As
sociation. the Southern Cotton
Association, the Farmers’ Union
and the states of Georgia and Al- ,
abama. Other members of the
American delegation were Col.
J. S. Williams, Judge S. A. Lind
sey, and Clarence Quslev, ,
Texas; T. J. Brooks. Professor
of Markets and Rural Economics
of the Mississippi Agricultural
College; Edward Ware Barrett, j
of Alabama, and Robert I. and j
E. F. Woodside of South Caro
lina. 1
It is estimated America cotton ;
growers lose about $5 on every j
bale of cotton they sell through {
bad methods of baling and mar- |
keting. On a fifteen million bale
crop this means $75,000,000. At
the convention at the The Hague
representatives from England.
Russia. Japan, Germany. France,
Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, j
Belgium, Switzerland. Sweden, |
and Holland were present and
all of these countries are direct
ly concerned with reformation
of the American system of hand
ling cotton. The American cot
ton crop represents nearly a
billion dollars a year and $600.
000,000 of the export trade of
the United States.
A special effort has beer, made
by the American Commission
during its investigation in Eu
rope, to discover some possible
application of the agricultural
credit systems of the Old World
to better the financial position
of American cotton growers.
The handling of the enormous
cotton crop of the Southern
states is one of the most diffi
cult problems to solve in Amer
ican agriculture. It sometimes
happens that an unusually large
cotton crop will sell for less mon
ey than a small crop. Lack of
I storage facilities and above all,
lack of credit accommodations,
to enable planters to hold their
crops until market conditions
'improve, is responsible for this.
The American Commission has
| made a thorough study in this
l connection, of the co-operative
■ warehouses of European coun
|
tries. patrii-uiuuriy those <*i
the silk growers of northern Ita
ly, which enables the Italian far
mers to place their product in
storage and to borrow on heir
warehouse receipts and hold
their crop until the temporary
decline in the market, which al
most invariably follows the mar
ku : g .• a t g crop has passed.
Ice Cream Test.
Sre.-taJ to Independent.
Little Rock, July lh—-Ice
cream was a drug on the mar
ket m the capitol Thursday af
ternoon. A wager was made
between those who work about
the capitol as to the probable
outcome of the supreme court's
review’ of the gubernatorial
contest. Five gallons of ice
cream was the pr:c.» to be paid.
The loser came up cheerfully
Thursday afternoon and state
officials and employes from the '
supreme court, the office of the I
governor, and all the other de
partments. enjoyed the re
freshing ice in the heat of the
day. There are other wagers
yet to be paid, in which the em
p.eyes expect to participate.
A. 0. IT. W. Entertains.
The Ancient Order of United
Workmen entertained their
friends at the hall in the Board
building Thursday evening ami
everyone reports a fine. time.
The opera house orchestra fur
nished music for dancing and
those who wished played cards
or rook at tables provided.
. The order expect to make
these entertainments monthly
affairs.
Makes Good Suggestion.
Father Lucey, at Pine Bluff,
makes the good suggestion that
mob violence may, to a large ex
tent. be eliminated in Arkansas
by the formation in each com
munity of 100 minutemen, pledg
ed to uphold the law and protect
the victim sought by the mob.
Had there been such an organi
zation here, Sanford Lewis, ne
gro though he was, would never
have been beaten and tra.mpled
and strung up on a Garrison av
enue trolley pole. Ten men—
yes, one brave man, bent on do
ing his duty could have saved
Fort Smith that disgrace and
saved the irresponsible members
of that mob from the commis
sion of a brutal crime.—Fort
Smith Times-Record.
All Signs G<n»d.
“A dry June for a good crop",
is an old and true saying in Ar
kansas. W<> have had the dry
June—the dryest for twelve
years, and within the last ten
days, rains have been pretty
general. Reports to this office
indicate bumper crops. The
long dry period has given our
farmers an opportunity to get
their crops free from weeds and
grass, and the recent rains
came at an opportune time.—
Newark Journal.
Notice.
On account of so many wanting
to attend the Sunday School
convention, our Sunday School
will open promptly at 9 o’clock
next Sunday.
James Graham was down
from Tuckerman this morning
for a short business trip.
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