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VOLUME XVII. NO. 265. I NEWPORT, ARKANSAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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ENGINEER LOSES
IIFEJN WRECK
West Bound Passenger Train on
White River Road Strikes Boul
der Near Crickett Wednesday.
J. F. Rice, who resides on Walnut
street, reached Newport this morning
at 5 o’clock and told of the wreck of
west bound passenger train No. 210,
cn the White River road near Crick
ett,. north of Cotter, where the train
struck a huge boulder, throwing the
engine from the track and resulting
in the death'of Engineer John R. Fol
som, who was scalded to death, and
the serious injury of Rireman Clif
ford Innis, who may die from wounds.
Mr.'Rice, who hac( charge of the bag
gage car of the train, was uninjured,
though slightly bruised. The wreck
occurred Wednesday afternoon at 3
o’clock. -
The wreck occurred at the opening
of the Crickett tunnel, to which
point a big rock measuring 20 x 12
feet had rolled from the mountain
side. The engineer did not see the
obstruction in time to greatly check
the speed of the train and the boulder
was struck with considerable force.
The engine turned over on its side,
and Engineer Folsom was pinned be
neath the wreckage, being fatally
scalded. He was taken to Springfield,
Missouri, where he died yesterday
morning at 11 o’clock. Mr. Folsom
was one of the oldest engineers in the
employ of the Missouri Pacific, being
sixty years of age, and lived at Cot
ter.
Fireman Innis was badly scalded
and otherwise injured. He is reported
to be in a pi-ecarious condition at his
home at Cotter.
The baggage car, in which Mr. Rice !
was riding, left the track, but did not;
turn over.
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SECURE STAMPS
War Savings and Thrift Stamps Are
Now Obtainable at Designated
Stores In Newport.
War Savings Stamps and Thrift
Stamps are now obtainable, not only
at all postoffices and banks in Jack
son county, but at the following
stores in Newport:
Bevens’ Drug Store, Cooksey’s Cafe,
Newport Jewelry Co., Johnson-Cloyes
Hardware Co., Wolff-Goldman Merc.
Co., Walker’s Pharmacy.
It is expected that this list will be
rapidly added to, at which time the
names of firms will be published.
Miss Ulrich, of Chicago, arrived
last evening and has begun her work
at Miss Eva Graham’s. She is a most
capable trimmer and charming
lady whose friends are glad to know
she is to be with Miss Graham again
this spring.
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FOURTEEN MORE
BODIES FOUND
Valient Efforts of Nuns Bring About
. lleScuevof Soldiers In Mon
treal Fire.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Montreal, Feb. 15.—The bodies of
fourteen more children were recover
ed this morning and raised the death
of the fire in the Grey nursery last
night to fifty-two. The origin of the
fire has not been determined. Nearly
a thousand other inmates, including
wounded soldiers, were enabled to es
cape from the fire through the valient
efforts of the nuns.'
Planes Attack U-Boat In the English
Channel, According to Admiralty
Statement.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Paris, Feb. 15.—In an encounter
between two French hydro-airplanes
and a German submarine in the Eng
lish channel recently it is believed
the U-Boat was sunk after being
bombed by the planes, according to
an official admiralty announcement.
F. IS WIFI
TO ENTERCONTEST
Members of the I^ocal W. C. T. U.
Petition Him to Make the Race
For the Legislature.
Hon. Fred R. Suits, a well known
attorney of Newport, was approached
by members of the local Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union yester
day and presented with resolutions
drawn up by the organization which
carried a strong petition for him to
offer himself as a candidate for the
legislature from Jackson county.
The resolutions were adopted one af
ternoon of this week at a meeting of
the Union. Mr. Suits is seriously
considering the matter, and will reach
a decisiop within a short time.
Mr. Suits is one of the county’s
best citizens and has a large follow
ing of friends who are encouraging
hirti to make the race for representa
tive since the fact of the resolutions
by the temperance union became
known.
TEN OFFICERS
AND MEN DEAD
British Stean cr Carrying Wheat to
France Floundered in Mid
v Ocean February 6.
Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, Feb. 15.—Ten men and
officers of the crew of the British
steamship, Miguel de Larrinaga, per
ished in mid-ocean February 6, when
the vessel was floundered. A cargo
of {.rain bound for France went down j
with the ship. A British warship j
rescued twlenty-seven from small
boats and some of the survivors
reached here today.
WHY PAY MORE?
Today you can buy:
One bu. sweet potatoes for-$1.75
6 lbs. B. E. peas_ $1.00
Country' butter-40c
Best head rice-11c
Peanut butter, per pound-29c
40c olives_29c
Can table peaches—J-21c
Can hominy-10c
Can kraut -17c
Weiners, barrel kraut, fancy mack
erel, graham flour, grits, flake hom
iny.
265d4t Bowen’s Cash Store.
Vernon Castle, Hero of
War and Noted Dancer,
Killed Near Fort Worth
Associated Press Dispatch. I
Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 15.—Ver- j
non Castle, the noted dancer, and
captain of the Royal ‘ Flying Corps,
was killed in an airplane accident
near this city this morning when he J
fell from his machine. He attempted
to make a sudden turn to avoid a
collision with another machine. The
plane failed to respond to his control
and he dashed to earth. Before com
ing to the field here Instructor Castle
served on the British front in Flan
ders, where he made more than a
hundred flights and was the hero of
many exploits.
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Odd Fellows Lodge Wants
Extra Session of Legislature
The following resolutions were un
animously adopted by Newport Lodge
No. 71, of the Independent Order 'of
Odd FelUws of the State of Arkan
sas, at a regular meeting held Mon
day night, February 11th, 1918, peti
tioning Governor Brough to call a
special session of the General Assem
bly to enact a new Bone Dry Law:
“Whereas, it is the duty of Odd
Fellows to “war against vice in all
its form;” and,
“Whereas, the Grand Lodge of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows at
its Sixty-Seventh annual session held
at Hot Springs, Arkansas, October
24th, 1916, as shown by its Journal
of proceedings for said session at
Pages 80 to 82, by its Resolution No.
4, unanimously adopted, went on re
cord in no uncertain wbrds against
the liquor traffic and the vice and
evils resulting therefrom; and,
“Whereas, the General Assembly
of the State of Arkansas at its Forty
First session, by its Act No. 13, ap
proved January 24, 1917, which is
published in the Acts of Arkansas,
1917, Vol. 1, Pages 41 to 52, enacted
such a law as lead the people of the
state to popularly understand and
believe that it was unlawful to im
port intoxicating beverages (into the
State of Arkansas, or to transport
them therein, in any manner or by j
j any means, which said Act was so
j enforced and understood by many
public officials; and,
“Whereas, said Act was so enforced
and understood long enough for the
good people of the state, and the
members of this Order, to see that
much good resulted therefrom; and,
“Whereas, by a decision of the Su
| preme Court of Arkansas, handed
down February 4, 1918, it was held to
be lawful, under said act of the leg
i islaturc, for a person to carry into
| the state such intoxicating liquors;
and,
“Whereas, since said decision of the
Supreme Court was handed down we
have evidence of the bad effects of
permitting intoxicants to be carried
into our state, which b»d effects will
accumulate and grow worse as times
goes on; and,
“Whereas, the General Assembly
of the State of Arkansas will not
meet in regular session until the se
cond Monday .in January, 1919* which,
together with the known ravages of
the liquor traffic upon the moral fa
bric of our state, creates an emergen
cy and extra-ordinary occasion which
can only be met, under our constitu
tional form of government, to which
we adhere so preciously by a spe
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PLACE EXPORTS
UNDER LICENSE
Action Is Taken to Release Ships for
the Movement of Troops and
War Materials.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Feb. 15.—The presi
dent today issued a proclamatiort
placing all exports under a license
war trade board after tomorrow. The
proclamation also applies to the li
cense system to imports. This action
was taken to reduce ocean carriage
of non-essentials as a means of re
leasing ships for troops and war ma
terials.
TO Till PEflCt
WITHJOUIIIAIIA
German Newspapers Say Negotia
tions About to Be Opened With
Roumania.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Amsterdam, Feb. 15.—Berlin news
papers Thursday intimated peace ne
gotiations are about to be opened
with Roumania. According to the
papers an armistice first is to be
be taken up.
WILL PUT ON SILL
OEM PROPERTY
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J. S. Hazeldon and P. W. Wells Will
Probably Sell Taggart Property
and Diaz Farm Lands Soon.
J. S. Hazeldon and P. W. Wells,
representing the United Realty and
Development Company, are in the
city, and state they will probably
conduct a public sale soon of ^he
Taggart property on Malcolm avenue
in East Newport and also sell the
Gustave Jones farm at Diaz. Ar
rangements for the sales have not
yet been completed, nor the date de
termined.
Recently Mr. Hazeldon conducted
the sale of the Stuckey home proper
ty in East Newport, and his company
was found to be a reliable concern in
every way, the sale Toeing disposed of
in the fair manner advertised.
ZEFF MIMMS IS
GIVEN FREEDOM
Jury Was Out On the Case Ten Min
utes— Minnie Willard Pleads
Guilty and Given 5 Years.
The jury in the ease of Zeff Mimms,
a young man of Newark, charged
with first degree murder, returned a
verdict of acquittal shortly before
noon today. The jury deliberated
about ten minutes. Mimms was
charged with having been connected
with the killing of Herman Harmon
here several months ago, for which
Jess Kelley was sentenced to the elec
tric chair. Kelley’s case is now be
fore the supreme court. The case of
Mabel Sherman, charged also with
murder in the first degree in connec
;ron with Harmon’s death, is set for
.his term. |
Mrs. Minnie Willard yesterday
dead guilty to murder in the second
legree and was sentenced to five
/ears in the penitentiary. Mrs. Wil
ard shot and killed Grover Osborne
lear Swifton, and was indicted for
first degree murder, but the jury
iarly in the week failed to agree on
;he case. Following this disagree-,
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I” ELLIS
IS GIVEN POT
Negro Who Made Disloyal State
ments Is Escorted to the Edge of
Town and Whipped Last Night
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The Reverend (?) J. H. Ellis, a
negro man who says he was called to /'
preach, was a much wiser, thoujjjpr
pain-racked personage when he-'tvoke
up this morning—that is, if he stop
ped running long enough to go to
sleep. There was some doubt this
morning also, as to wehther he feels
until now his call to expound the gos
pel. It is believed, howevor, that if
he feels any call at all it is to preach
the right sort of doctrine and not j
German sabotage. He was whipped* -
and whipped hard last night about 10 i
o’clock.
It will be remembered that E11U(. V
wasanested several weeks ago on a 1
charge of treason, following Bome J
speech-making in this county in s
which he admonished his race that v
this war is the white man’s war, ete,'f|
etc. Ellis was taken to Batesville for i
safe-keeping for a time. The pres-*
ent grand jury took up the matterfig|
but found that the case did not ooinie
unilfr that body’s jurisdiction, henee ■
the “preacfe|r^ was released from the
Jackson couf% jail last night
' 10 o’clock.
It so happened that somfliHNU|iHBJ
or seven white citizens of NaHtM
learned that the negro
liberated, and these men were tflf
ing in territory ^adjacent to tho j|jH|gg|
As Ellis walked out to fresh aj|yflN||
was met by these men, who.:
him to an automobile, fillll begaA^M
to yell bloody murder when
the waiting car, but at this point, &lijr|
rumored, one of the party, who J
armed with a bath towel, p*fcpipl|j|||
gagged the. self-styled minift^H:|
whose protests were thereby
The “pawson” was driven
point somewhere near the edge of"1; .
Newport, south, where he was told te'%
disembark from the automobile and i
take his medicine. The medicine he
received was applied with a strap, i
which is reported to have been laid on
the bare hide according to Hoyle#
Ellis is reported to have promised
to develop himself into a good Amelv^
ican, and added that he would leave 4
for parts separated from this sectio%^
which part of the program .he is* bl||§ ,
lieved to have executed thoroughly.
Such entertainments as these ar#t| ;
being put on in many sections of th|&| :
United States at this time, and is thfgS
penalty for disloyalty, though somh ,|
are lucky to escape a worse punish- 4
Ellis came to Diaz some montM m
ago from Mississippi and preached in jj|
that neighborhood. He is reported to J
have made disloyal utterances against
the United States government
President Wilson.
WHITE RIVER
AGAIN FALLING J
After Reaching a Stage of 16 Feet ||
and 4 Inche8, River Begins to Jjjfl
Recede Steadily.
White river is falling again, after s
having reached a stage of 16 feet and
four inches on the local gauge. This |j
morning early the river was on a 1
stand, but at noon began to recede.
No damage has resulted to lowlands .%i
along the river.
There has been a marked change
in local weather conditions. Running
true to form the weather man sent
along a siege of cold weather late :Jj
last night, to which he promises to •/*
add an additional supply tonight and
tomorrow.
Fine eating sweet potatoes, 50c a if
peck at Bowen’s Cash Store. 262d6t. s|
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