VOLUME III NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, TUESOAY, AUGUST 1. 1903 NUMBER 84
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WE CARE.
•People get more than they ask for when they have us
till their prescriptions. The public at large is not half
so particular as we are in these matters.
We know that our drugs are both pure and of standard
strength. We take no chances whatever, and never hesi
tate to pay the cost of making sure.
Your physician writes a prescription expecting defi
nite results; we see to it that he is not disappointed.
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All prescriptions have careful,
scientific compounding, and we
also make the price right.
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Low Rates
via
Denver, Colorado Springs,
Round Round
Trip ' Trip
Through Sleepers. Tickets on
Sale August 15th.
Write for full information to
J. N. CORNATZAR,
Div. Passenger Agt.
Memphis, Tenn.
WEST BOUND RATES.
Special west bound tourist rates via
the Iron Mountain Route—One fare
plus 50 cents to Denver, Colorado
Springs, Pueblo and Glenwood
Springs. Tickets on sale June 15th to
September 30th, with final limit of
October 31st for return.
47btf T. H. Reamey, Agt.
The ice cream at “The Little Bakery
on the Corner” is flavored with the
fruit itself and not with compounded
extracts. 38 dtf
SELLS’ DRUG ST0RE
NEWPORT, ARKANSAS.
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HENRY OWEN,
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND
OCULIST.
JACK JONES,
The Crack Barber, keeps a neat
and busy little shop. Upper end
of Front street. Expert tonso
rialists. Easy shaves and the best
haircuts. Our work pleases.
“Come on, ye stubby beards.”
JOHNSON PARDON
FIGURES IN CAMPAIGN.
Vandeventer Arraigning Davis for His
Connection With Eureka Springs
Attorneys’ Hold-Up of Their
Client.
Little Rock, Aug. 3.—The manner in
which Dr. Lee Johnson of Sebastian
county was given his liberty after
serving two years of a sentence of
seven years in the penitentiary, has
become an issue in the gubernatorial
campaign. It has already been told
in the public prints that the pardon
was granted by the governor and the
document forwarded by him to Dr.
Johnson’s attorneys, James and Fuller,
at Eureka Springs. The pardon was
not turned over to the beneficiary un
til Dr. Johnson deeded to the Eureka
Springs law firm property said to be
worth $400 in compliance with the
demands of the Arm.
Hon. A. F. Vandeventer, one of the
candidates for governor, is making
use of the incident in his speeches.
Yesterday it was ascertained that
Governor Davis will produce in his
speech at Cotton Plant today an affi
davit sworn to by Representative C.
A. Fuller of the law firm of James &
Fuller. Mr. Fuller avers that Dr.
Johnson importuned him to apply for
a pardon, and that the governor
promised to exercise clemency in the
case if he were furnished with a ceA
tificate from the penitentiary phy
sician, Dr. C. E. Witt, showing that
Johnson’s health was failing and he
could not live out bis sentence, and
that a pardon was necessary in order
to save his life. Mr. Fuller alleges in
the affidavit that Dr. Witt refused to
issue the certificate because he (Ful
ler) “was voting against tne peniten
tiary interests.” Mr. Fuller says,
further, that he never disclosed to
the governor that he was getting any
fee for the pardon.
The Johnson pardon promises to
become an important question in the
campaign, and it is likely that the
Fuller affidavit will be followed by
other statements bearing upon the
subject.
Dr. C. E. Witt, penitentiary phy
sician, when asked for a statement in
regard to the Fuller affidavit, declared
that he refused to give a certificate
showing that Dr. Johnson was in poor
health solely on the ground that John
son’s health was not bad. Dr. Witt
further declares positively that he did
not refuse to grant the certificate be
cause he (Fuller) “was voting against
the penitentiary interests.”
SENATOR BERRY
SPENDS NIGHT HERE.
United States Senator James H.
Berry of BentonviHe, and one of the
grandest old men in that highest leg
islative branch of our government,
came up from Little Rock Monday
night, leaving next morning on the
White River branch passenger for
Melbourne, where he is to deliver an
address to the ex-Confederates in re
union there assembled. Senator Berry
had a twelve mile drive before him
over the hills and rocks of Izard
county, but as his campaigns date
back to tnose years when this was
about the only method of travel, no
thought of this long jolt was apparent
upon his good-natured and even
tempered countenance.
The Senator wanted to know more
about crops than the campaign in this
section and expressed himself as
highly gratified that conditions and
prospects for a large yield of cotton
and corn were so greatly improved.
When told that the candidates for
governor were to speak here Thurs
day night, he only smiled. State
Treasurer H. C. Tipton accompanied
him upon this trip.
DRUMMER DUNN DROWNED.
Texarkana, Aug. 3,-J. A. Dunn, a
drummer for a Kansas City packing
house, was drowned in a lake near
Ashdown, twenty miles north of here
i on the Kansas City Southern Saturday
night. He was in bathing with sev
I eral friends, and when some distance
j away from them, swimming in deep
] water, was suddenly seized with
I cramps and sank to the bottom. His
body was not recovered until Sunday
afternoon and then only by the liberal
use of dynamite.
BARBECUE AT SWIFTON.
Justice Carroll D. Wood and Hon
A. F. Vandeventer have been invited
to divide time with Governor Davis al
the Swifton barbecue upon Thursday
August 6th, given under the auspicei
of the Swifton Cornet Band. A bal
game will also be a feature of the daj
and arrangements have been made tc
provide for a big crowd. d3t
HEADED FOR POCAHONTAS.
Frisco Surveyors Mapping Out Route
From Grandin—Burial of
Mrs. Miller.
Pocahontas, Aug. 3.—A corps of
railroad surveyors are coming this
way from Grandin, Mo. They are
supposed to be in the employ of the
Frisco company. It is stated that the
Frisco wants a connecting line between
Grandin and Pocahontas by way of
Doniphan. The surveyors are now in
Ripley county, about forty miles north
of Pocahontas.
Prof. J. M. Snaw, who has been
elected principal of Maynard Ouachita
academy for the coming year, was in
town Saturday. He is confident that
the Bchool will open with an enroll
ment of 100 students.
The school board is receiving bids
for the erection of a new $5,000 school
building at this place. The contract
will be let in a few days.
The remains of Mrs. C. L. Miller of
Helena were interred at the Masonic
cemetery in Pocahontas yesterday at
2 p. m., in the presence of a large as
semblage of friends and acquaint
ances. Mrs. Miller was a daughter of
Capt. F. I. Inman of Black Rock and
was reared in Pocahontas.
Judge Meeks, who has been holding
circuit court here for two weeks, was
confined to his room two days of last
week, suffering from boils. Hon. R.
P. Mack of Paragould presided during
the judge’s illness.
NO RECEIVER APPOINTED.
Danville, Aug. 3.—No receiver has
been appointed for the Bank of Dan
ville. The matter was before Judge
Wallace, when a telegram came from
Mr. Morehead and Judge Duffle of
Malvern, stockholders in the bank,
asking the court to take no action ap
pointing a receiver until Friday, when
they would be here prepared to pay
off the depositor..
The matter of appointing a receiver
was postponed until Friday. No in
formation as to the whereabouts of
Mr. Douglass, the missing cashier of
the bank, has been received as yet.
Mrs. M. J. Anderson, mother of the
missing cashier, has given out an in
terview at Malvern in which she says:
“My sou’s personal notes do not
amount to fifteen thousand dollars,
and he has real estate and other secu
ties sufficient to cover all he may owe
the bank. It is not a fact that a re
ceiver will be appointed, as the bank
will meet all demands on it from any
creditors, and the stockholders stand
ready to put up whatever money may
be needed for present and future de
mands. The stockholders all signify
a willingness to stand by Douglass and
are willing that he shall resume the
management of the bank if he is alive
and can be found.”
PANTHER ON TRAIL
OF TWO YOUNG GIRLS.
Maudie Hancock, an 11-year-old
daughter of J. W. Hancock, who lives
five miles west of the city near Big
Creek, and Ethel Logan, a girl of
about the same age, had a very nar
row escape from a panther last week.
They left Mr. Hancock’s home and
went down to the creek, about a half
a mile, and after wading in the water
awhile, started on their return home.
They hadn’t gone far till they saw
something which they thought was a
large yellow dog with its head down,
about 100 yards away, trailing along
the path which they bad taken on
their way to the creek. Thinking it
was a dog, they called to it, when,
raising its head, it ran towards them,
but on coming to a log in the path di
rectly in front of them, stopped and
reared back on its hind feet and stood
in that position, looking at them.
They were too frightened to run or
move, but stood and looked at the
panther a moment when it screamed
and turned around and ran off in the
woods.—Jonesboro Times.
NEW SLEEPING CAR SERVICE.
Trough Buffet Cars on Iron Mountain
Route Between Little Rock and
New Orleans.
The Iron Mountain Route has ex
tended its Bleeping car service be
tween New Orleans and Monroe, La.
to Little Rock, so that through Pull
man Buffet sleeping cars are nou
operated between Little Rock anc
New Orleans daily. These cars leave
Little Rock at 9 a. m. arriving at Nev
Orleans at 7:30 a. m. the next day
and returning, leave New Orleans a
6-20 p. m., arriving at Little Rock a
7:46 p. m. next day. Direct connect
ions are made at Little Rock witl
trains to and from St. Louis. d3t
ATTEMPT TO LOOT \
COUNTY REPOSITORIES.
Helena, Aug. 3.—A damaging effort
was made Saturday night by burglars
to enter and burglarize two vaults
and one safe at the county court bouse
in this city. The fact that none of the
county offices were opened yesterday
delayed the discovery of the attempt
ed robbery until this morning. In all
thr6e attempts the efforts of the bur
glars were unsuccessful, as they only
damaged the safe door and broke off
tbe combination knob. They also
damaged the vaults considerably. Had
their effort been successful, they
would not have been paid for their
trouble, as the officials do not keep
any money in these offices on account
of the secluded location of the court
house. No clue to the Identity of the
would-be burglars is obtainable, but it
is evident that they were amateurs in
the business.
SUMMER TOURIST TICKETS.
The Southern Railway has on sale
cheap summer tourist tickets to some
215 mountain and seashore summer
resorts in Tennessee, North and South
Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and
other states. Good for return until
October 31 with liberal stop-over
privileges both going and returning.
Three daily trains carry sleepers
through without change into the heart
of the resort section. Dining cars and
good meal stations add to the comfort
of the tourist. Maps, guides, time
tables and lists of hotels and board
ing houses, rates of board and names
of proprietors sent on request, and all
inquiries answered promptly. Berths
reserved any time in advance. City
ticket office under Peabody Hotel.
Both phones No. 140.
L. M. DeSaussure,
C. P. and T. A.
C. A. DeSaussure,
D. P. A.
C. A. Benscoter,
82tsl5 A. G. P. A.
WHISKY FLOWED FREELY
IN PROHI SEARCY.
Searcy, Aug. 3.—The White county
circuit court adjourned Friday, after a
two weeks’ session. Judge Hutton
held court. Among the cases of note
disposed of on the last day was the
blind tiger charge against J. M. Good.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty
and assessed a fine of 3125.
The sheriff broke twenty-four bot
tles of whisky in front of the court
house, and a large crowd saw the
liquor flow down to the gate, twenty
feet.
A TERRIBLE TALE.
The story is going the rounds that
you can get everything nice to eat at
“The Little Bakery on the Corner”
and that everything is fresh and clean,
too. 48 dtf
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whom you would like to
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A NEW TRAIN
— TO —
Little Rock
VIA THE
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Leave Van Buren. 9 00 p m.
“ Fort Smith. 9 15 “
“ Bonanza. 9 40 “
“ Hackett..„. 9 55 “
“ Montreal... 10 17 “
“ Burma... 10 22 “
“ Huntington. 10 34 “
Arrive Mansfield.. 10 40 “
; Arrive Little Rock —. 3 35 a m.
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