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NEWPORT, ARKANSAS MONDAY. JULY 14. 1913. NUMBER N8.,
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:: fcME court
I DENIES bail
C' I -luthersand”Affirms Law
K' county Contempt Cases
n°; Kith Modifications.
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K. court today reversed
K of L B. Poindexter :
r Kg fined and given a jail
, Keinthe Lawrence Cir
- ■Court- for contempt of;
■ jt being charged that he, i
■. Going, J. W. Mosley and
■ct were guilty of violating
■ourt rule that jurors in a
■sal case should not com
■cate with outside parties.
■ other petitioners, Going,
)/■ and Moseley, were reliev
the jail sentence, but
■ pay the fine imposed by
■the case of W. H. Carouth
•■charged with the killing of
_■, Albright,, the order of the
‘jit Court, denying bail, was
jed.
[uthem Cotton Oil Company
.fepoleon Hill Cotton Com
i, from Independence Cir
court. motion to modify, |
overruled.
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w Theatre to Open Soon, j
r some time work has been j
r on remodeling the room
azel street formerly occu
fcy the postoffice, prepara
to opening a new picture
in our city.
e new playhouse is owned
jperated by Miss Mamie j
and son Martie Paul, who
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t to throw open the doors
i public Friday or Saturday j
i building has been thor-'
y overhauled and a new
built which will make it
attractive when completed,
the interior an incline floor ;
een laid and new opera j
i to seat two hundred and
people have been placed,
are six ceiling and four
ing fans, which will be us
keep the audience cool and i
ke the air in the room pure !
lore sanitary. There are !
eilmg ventilators and two 1
st pipes.
ix piece orchestra under j
rection of Mr. Ensinger1
irnish the music and the [
es used will be from the ,
•3 Film Company,
building will be modern in ■
feature and as a preventa- ■
gainst fire the machine
‘1 lighting apparatus will
the rear just outside the
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Wovingr Pictures
t the Opera House
18 Reels Per Week.
iE RANKER'S MESSENGER
A good story—(SELIG)
THE LOCKET.
k® Rad when his wife finds
0 er woman’s locket in his
10 good comedy, featur
1 ‘‘J°hn Bunny,” “Flora
m and “Leah Baird.”
(VITAGRAPH)
THE insurance agent.
A good Western picture
(LTJB1N)
Tniu ^Us,*c Ry the Orchestra.
^mission 5 and 10 cents
Negro Waiters Take (he Place
Whites.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, July 14.—Negrc
waiters are leaving Little Rock
in large numbers bound for St.
Louis to take the place of the
white union waiters who are on
a strike, and were it not for the
light business being done by lo
cal hotels during the summer
months, they would be operating
with short crews.
“The time will soon be here
when all large hotels will be
forced to use negro waiters."
said Manager Saux, of the Ho
tel Marion, who recently came
to Little Rock from the Hotel
Grunenwald of New Orleans,
which institution employs white
servants.
“The white waiters in hotels,
for the most part, are a low class
of foreigners, and they are an
archistic in their ideas. They
grow more and more arrogant
as the years pass, and attempt
to run the hotels. They get
more than the chefs, and in many
cases more than higher employes
about the hotels Instead of be
ing a mere go between from
kitchen to dining room, they
rise above this, and no hotel can
stand their demands. I believe
that in a few years fiftv per
cent of the large hotels of the
United States will employ negro
waiters, which is a more eco
nomic, as well as more satisfac
tory arrangement.”
Banking Law Great Benefit.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, July 14.—“No
law passed by the last legislature
will be of more benefit to the en
tire people of the state,” de
clared H. L. Remmeb former
president of the Mercantile
Trust Company of Little Rock,
and the head of the new Bank
ers’ Trust Company which has
been organized to open business
in the Capitol City this fall,”
than by creating the State
Banking Department.
“The government bank exam
iners keep an absolute check on
the national banks, but the state
banks have been operating with
out any system but their own.
In many of the small banks the
directors are the chief borrowers
of the funds from the bank.
This is all right where the securi
ty in sufficient, but in cases it is
not. A bank examiner will pre
vent this, and the depositor, as
well as the stockholder in the in
stitution, will be amply protect
ed. Safe and sane banking by
people who understand the busi
ness, is a great protection to a
community.
me state inspectors wju iwi
only keep the banks in condi
tion or force them to close, but
they will be a great assistance
to the small banker, in teaching
him the business. Ignorance
causes many of the little banks,
and some of the larger ones, to
make costly mistakes and the
bank examiners should be able
to steer the bankers clear of
these, by informing the bankers
of the mistakes made by others,
and the costly lesson it taught,”
Page Goes Fishing.
John H Page, commissioner
of Mines, Manufactures and Ag
riculture, who is a large land
owner near Swifton, was a pas
senger through our city on No.
3 Saturday on his return home
to Little Rock from a fishing trip
' on Cache river.
| Mr. Page says he caught one
hundred and one fish on his trip
which sounds rather “fishy.”
Short Run to Springs.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, July 14.—One
hour will be the time consumed
in reaching Hot Springs from
Little Rock. when the interurban
line now projected is completed.
The revised survey shows a
route with a grade of not more
than tw’o per cent, which bur
rows thrcugh hills and over high
embankment- but which brings
Hoi Spring- within 50 miles of
Little Rc ck instead of the 65
miles --hewn by the old, circuit
ous route. The new air line will
cost in the neighborhood of $2,
500.000 to construct, while the
old route would have cost less
than $1,000,000. Those who ex
pect to put large sums into the
line, declare that the shorter
line will be a paying investment,
in spite of the increased cost,
while the old route would never
have been profitable. The rea
son given for this is the luxury
of the railroad trains which now
operate between the two cities,
and which would be taken in
preference to the electric line, if
the running time and length of
route were the same.
There is still a draw back to
me eonisrucuon ui me niit, arm
if this is removed by the Little
Rock city council- the construc
tion of the line will soon com
mence. The Little Rock council
insists upon the completion and
ready for operation, of 15 miles
of line adjacent to Little Rock,
[and outside the limits, before
| the company may enter the city.
I The promoters ask that the
I equivalent in work, or in cost, be
permitted in grading. They
point out that electric lines are
! first graded in order that the
laying of ties and steel, and the
stringing of the overhead wires,
be completed about the same
time. They state that the fif
teen miles of line would be
standing at a Joss for months
(before it would be of' use, and it
is not practical to bring the
track laying and wire stringing
crews to the city at two different
times. So far the council has
declined to recede from its posi
tion, and some of those who of
fered to put large sums into the
road have withdrawn their sup
port.
The promoters are proceeding
along trie lines suggested by the
people who came and made the
short line survey, and hope soon
to be ready to proceed with a
fresh lot of capitalists backing
the proposition.
Price of Peaches High
St. Louis, Mo., July 13.—
Wholesale peach distributors
and buyers who hfttve congregat
ed in St. Louis say the scarcity
of peaches as compared to the
crop last year wTili boost the
price. Texas peaches now being
marketed in St. Louis are selling
for $2 a bushel at the Texas or
chards. It was estimated this
means $4 a bushels to the con
sumer in St. Louis.
Very few Texas peaches will
grace St. Louis tables, the deal
ers say, most of them being
shipped north and east. All the
Texas peaches are shipped to St.
Louis, where the cars are opened
and the fruit is inspected. It is
estimated between 700 and 800
cars of Texas peaches will be
handled through St. Louis.
The Southern Arkansas crop
will be the next to ripen and
then in turn the peaches in
Northern Arkansas and South
ern Missouri. The latter crop
will be on the market the middie
1 of August, the dealers say.
JUDGE HARROD
LAID TO RES!
Emminent Attorney Buried In
Oaklawn Cemetrv, Little
Rock—Beautiful Floral
Offerings.
I Special to Independent.
| Little Rock, July 14.—The
funeral of Judge J. H. Harrod
was held from the family resi
dence, 2000 Broadway Sunday
j afternoon, with interment in
Oaklawn cemetery. The cortege
was one of the longest ever seen
in Little Rock, attesting the pop
ularity of the distinguished bar
rister who was killed in an auto
mobile accident Friday. The
floral offerings were profuse and
many came from cities of adjoin
ing states.
Among the messages of condo
lence received Sunday was one
from President Woodrow Wilson
a college classmate of Judge
Harrod who had just heard of
the fatal accident. The message
was sent from the summer home
of Pres. Wilson. Senator Clarke
and the Arkansas representa
I lives in congress also telegraph
!ed their condolence to the be
| reared family.
j Little Rock is much divided in
its feeling towardJames E. Mad
ding. the young man who was
driving the automobile which
j struck Judge Harrod and many
believe that he Has been suffi
! eiently punished. Fully as many
! believe that the law should make
| an example of young Madding,
l for the protection of others.
They argue that had Madding
(been driving the car carefully,
! he would not have been going at
| such a rapid rate of speed that
I he could not stop his car when
he saw the street car stop at
jthe street crossing.
Madding was exonerated by
the coroner’s jury, it being de
clared an unavoidable accident.
This view was taken because
when Madding saw Judge Har
rod, it was then impossible for
him to stop the car. Those who
favor a strict enforcement of
the law, which Deputy Prosecut
! ing Attorney M. E. Dunaway as
| serts is coming, declare that had
Madding been driving his car at
a safe rate of speed, there would
have been no "unavoidable acci
dent."
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The car being driven by Mad
ding was capable of making bet
ter time than any other car in
Little Rock, experts saying it is
the only one which can make
75 miles an hour.
James Coates, the 11-year-old
son of John Coates, who was in
jured at the time Judge Harrod
wras killed, saved himself from
‘instant death by grabbing the
fender of the car. He sustained
; a deep cut across his throat, a
gash in his forhead. a slight con
' cussion of the brain, a dislocated
hip and internal troubles, due to
‘ the jamming of the car truck in
i to his stomache as he was drag
ged along. In spite of all this
! the boy is recovering and will be
jonly slightly disfigured about
' the face.
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Dead! Dead! Dead!
j The deadest things on earth
are bedbugs, ants, fleas, roaches
chicken mites, lice, and other in
sects sprayed with Ross’ “Deac
Quick” spray. It kills their eggs
1 and breaks up the tribes. Kills
and keeps away mosquitos. Nice
and clean. Nothing like it. Sole
in Newport by your druggists.
Bus* Bet Closed.
The Busy Bee. Newport's
popular cafe and ice cream par
lor, has been osed to ad t easi
ness since Saturday night.
Mr. .J. L. Howery, its owner
was forced to close hi- place bv
reason of dull times which his
friends regret exceedingly. The
Busy Bee has always been a
very popular place for cur peop t
who hope- some one car. take It
over and open It up agar. .
Bids For Concrete Walks.
Notice is hereby given That the
'Board of Directors of the School
District of Newport will re
ceive sealed bids up to F o'
clock p. m. Saturday, July 19th.
1913, for the building of con
crete curb and walks on the new
high school lots.
Each bid must be accompanied
by a certified check in the sum
! of $50.00, payable to T. F. Um
sted, secretary of the Board, to
guarantee that the successful
bidder will enter into contract
and bond to do the work. Plans
and specifications for the work
| may be seen at the office of S. R.
•Phillips, chairman of the Build
ing Committee.
i The Board reserves the right
to reject any and all bids. Bids
l should be addressed to T. P.
iUmsted, secretary of the Board
j of Directors.
j E. L. BOYCE. President,
T. P. UMSTED. Sec-y.
Board of Directors of School Dis
trict of Newport. F7d5t
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Henry Shetter. a good farmer
from Bird Township, was a visi
tor to the county seat today.
Warm Weather To Continue.
Washington, July 13.— Warm
and generally fair weather, ex -
cept for local thunderstorms, is.
promised by the Weather Bu
reau for the coming week.
'A disturbance now over tin;
northern Rocky Mountain re
gion." says the weekly bulletin,
“will develop eastward and will
be attended by local thunder
storms that will occur Monday
over the Northern plain states
and will extend eastward over
the central and northern por
tions of the country, reaching
the Atlantic states Wednesd
or Thursday. Another distur
bance should appear over tin?
extreme Northwest about t“
end of the week, bringing will
local showers in that section.
No other precipitation of con
sequence is indicated during the
week, except in the South At
lantic and East gulf states,,
where local thunderstorms will
| continue.
“There are no present indica
tion of a West Indian disturb
! ance."
Bov Sees Brother Drown.
Fort Smith. July 13.—Seven
year old John Wilson, son of a
j widow residing in a tent along
Torto and Arkansas rivers, was'
drowned while bathing today.
His brother Harold, aged 10, al
1 most met a like fate in trying to
^ rescue the lad. A fisherman sav
ed Harold from death. The old
er boy thought his brother was
I joking when he caled for help,
and did not offer to assist him
until he sank for the third time.
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