Newport Da ily
FIGHT DUEL WITH
KIMS 1I DARK
Mexican At Swifton Saturday Was
Victim of Wounds Inflicted By
Another Mexican.
Louis Costello, a Mexican aged 30
years, is in the Jackson county jail,
after having killed another Mexican
named Francisco Martinez, and who
was about the same age as his slayer,
in one of the bloodiest duels in the
history of this section of the country,
the killing taking place at Swifton
about one o’clock Saturday morning.
Shortly after the killing Costello sur
rendered himself to Constable Ira
Bush at Swifton and was brought to
the jail here Saturday night, follow
ing the verdict of the coroner’s jury
that Martinez came to his death
from knife wounds inflicted by Cos
tello. The inquest was presided over
by Coroner Henry Grant of Jackson
port, the jury recommending that
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without bail.
Both Mexicans came to Swifton re
cently and engaged themselves as
section hands in the employ of the
Missouri-Pacific railroad. Saturday
night the men procured whiskey and
soon became drunk. Costello claims
he attempted to subdue Martinez,
who grew boisterous, he says, when
the latter attacked him with a knife.
They were in a boarding railroad
car, there being others present, and
during the difficulty all lights were
extinguished, after which the Mexi
cans attacked one another for a pe
riod of ten minutes with knives,
k Martinez was stabbed several times
* in the breast and back, and Costello
received ugly and painful slashes
about the head and face, though his
condition was not rendered serious.
Martinez died soon after receiving
tl e fatal wounds.'
Evidence produced at the trial
showed that both Mexicans were
drunk and there is a diversion of
opinion as to which was the aggres
sor.
The whiskey consumed by the
Mexicans is said to have been brought
to Swifton and sold to them by
George Smith, a Newport negro, who
was arrested and placed in the jail
here.
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ITALY GIVES APPROVAL.
Rome, Feb. 15.—The whole Italian
press greets with joy and satisfac
tion the announcement of the founda
tion of the League of Nations, and
praises Presideent Wilson for setting
a concrete basis for the league before
leaving for America. All declare
that the war has not been in vain if
there arises from it a society which
will forever prevent a recurrence of
such a conflict.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the con
crete work to be done by Road Im
provement District No. 4 of Jackson
County, Arkansas, has been with
drawn from the letting previously
advertised in this paper.
J. A. Lindley,
Road Improvement District No. 4
Jackson County, Arkansas. dlt
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PAUL GARDNER IS AC
QUITTED BY JURY ON
CHARGE OF ASSAULT.
The jury in the case of Paul Gard
ner of Tupelo, charged with criminal
assault, returned a verdict of not
guilty last Thursday afternoon late at
the term of Jackson circuit court.
The prosecuting witness in the case
was Mrs. Ida Jones of the Tupelo sec
tion. Mr. Gardner, a young man, who
is a member of one of the oldest and
best families in the county, was rep
resented by L. L. Campbell.
Tom Roseman was on trial charged
with selling liquor when Prosecuting
Attorney Casey asked that the case
be withdrawn, the prosecutor taking
this step because a negro witness,
Will Newbum, he says, swore differ
ent regarding the cdse against Rose
man on the witness stand from the
evidence he gave before the grand
jury. Mr. Casey caused Newbum to
be arrested, charged with perjury, and
the negro was placed under a $500
bond. \
Nathan Hyde plead guilty to as
sault and battery and was fined $25.
CANDIDATE FR GOVERNOR.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 17.—The latest
gubernatorial possibility is Captain
Tom Poe, a young lawyer of Little
Rock. He is said to'be seriously con
sidering entering the race for the
nomination. In the late war he was
editor of the Kelley Field Eagle, and
later was in the office of the director
of military aeronautics in Washing
ton.
The field is open, and their is
plenty of time, since under a law
passed by the present legislature, the
primaries will not be held until the
second Tuesday in August, 1920,
which puts it up nearer the general
election in November.
Secretary of State Tom J. Terral is
a candidate, and Captain Frank M.
Wells announces that he will begin
his campaign at Hamburg March 15
next. Several men who have been
mentioned in connection with the of
fice say that they have no political
ambitions—along that line.
• CHINESE FEAR JAPAN.
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Peking, Feb 16.— Excitement pre
t vails throughout China over reports
concerning Japan’s efforts to induce
the China government to modify the
1 action of its delegation to the peace
conference. Despite the statement
of Yukichi Obata, Japanese minister
to China, that he had acted on his
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fiom Tokio, China’s alarm continues.
It has not been allayed by the declar
ation of the foreign minister that
Obata’s visit to him was a friendly
one.
President Hsui Shih Chang, backed
by the premier, has taken a strong
| stand independently of the cabinet
1 and has telegraphed an expression ol
! confidence to the Chinese peace dele
gates.
j The news that Baron Makino of the
Japanese peace delegation has agreed
to the publication of secret documents
has been received with interest in
Peking, but it is believed here that
not all the agreements will be pub
lished.
There is a struggle now proceeding
! between the president, whose aims are
! democratic, and the cabinet, which
has military inclinations.
| ANNOUNCEMENT.
The School Board announces the
1 resignation of Mr. Edgar Williams as
' Superintendent of the Newporl
; Schools, after five years of valued
: services.
j Mr. Williams is succeeded by Mr
C. C. Blair, formerly superintendent
I of schools at Hope, Arkansas, and foi
the past year an officer in the Uniteic
States Army, from which he was re
: cently honorably discharged.
I We bespeak for Mr. Blair the cor
dial co-operation and support of the
•j patrons of the school.
Tom J Gregg, Secretary.
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NOTICE ELKS.
A special call meeting of the lodge
Ss called for Tuesday Evening Febru
ary 18th, important business up foi
' consideration.
J. M. Gibson, E. R.,
249d2 J- H. Johnston, Sec’y.
Doughboy Once Reported
Dead is Back Much Alive
Edmund Brock, a 19-year-old Jack
son county doughboy, is back home
from Chateau-Th'ierry and Cantigny,
and Vigorously denies the report that
he is dead. Edmund is in fine physi
cal condition, a fine speciman of
young manhood, and easily convinces
one that the report which came to his
father, E. J. Brock, who lives near
Tuckerman, that he was killed in ac
tion last July was untrue, though it
is a fact that he received a machine
gun wound in the left leg on the 19th
of that month which sent him to a
hospital and kept him there six
months.
Young Brock was in Newport Mon
day morning with his father. He
reached New York about the middle
of January, received his discharge
and came directly home.
| Edmund first was under fire at
Cantigny, where he battled with the
i
! hun five days. P'rom there he was
transferred to Chateeau-Thierry,
i where he fought two months and re
: ceived his wound. He very modestly
■ refrains from telling of any of his ex
ploits, but one can easily imagine that
| this brave young man got into some
| close places, defended his country
/with a will—most likely he knows
; what it is to be without food and
jdiink for days, and doubtless he went
| weeks without removing his shoes,
for that is what the boys were up
against at Chateau-Thierry. Such
boys are worthy of the best, and we
can honor them not too much.
Brock enlisted in the infantry here
on August 26, 1917. He was then a
little more than 18 years old.
MR. HOOVER MARVELS
AT LACK OF GERMAN
REGRET OVER CRIMES.
—
Paris, Feb. 15.— Herbert Hoover,
speaking at a dinner of the Circle
Volnay tonight made an extensive
i-eview of the work of the Commission
of Relief in Belgium apd northern
France. He- related experiences of
the American delegates with the Ger
man administration of occupation and
said that, despite the depth of feeling
which he had from two and a half
years of intimate experience with
the then ruling classes of the Ger
man people, he was not prepared to
say that the German race was beyond
redemption or that it was not the
duty of the allied) countries to en
deavor to build up that people to such i
decency as would warrant their ad
; mittance into the League of Nations,
j “There is perhaps one step out
standing today in their progress in
that direction more lacking than any
other,” said Mr. Hoover, “and that
is, total abstinence from any expres
sion of regret. If the 70,000,000 of
Germans were to shed the tears of
Niobe for the next 1,000 years they
could not wash away the human mis
ery for which they have been respon
sible in Belgium and northern France
alone.”
CAMPBELL WILL RUN
It is probable that Tom W. Camp
bell of Randolph county, who is now
serving as assistant attorney general,
will be a candidate for attorney gen
eral in the 1920 primaries, to succeed
John D Arbuckle. He is well-known
throughout the state, and especially
in the first district where he has
made several races for congress. He
has served in the legislature also.
$50.00 REWARD.
I will pay Fifty Dollars for the ar
rest and conviction of the party or
parties who stole my Studebaker car
parked in front of the Christian
church Sunday night.
Otto M. Bowen.
J. W. LEGGETT WILL VISIT
- COLORED PUBLIC SCHOOLS
OF JACKSON COUNTY.
J. W. Leggett, president of Old
Glory College, will visit the colored
public schools of Jackson county,
Arkansas, in the interest of his work.
Each school visited is expected to
make a free-will offering as a test of
its patriotism. This plan is heartily
endorsed by County Superintendent
Land.
FARMERS WARNED.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 17.—Arkansas
farmers are warned against buying
cotton seed or cotton seed products
grown in Southwestern Texas. Thfs
is the section that has been infested
for several years with the pink boll
worm. J. R. Alexander, president of
the Arkansas Pink Boll Worm Asso
ciation, requests all farmers to noti
fy him at Scott, Pulaski county, when
shipments are received from the sus
pected territory so that an investiga
tion may be made. The fight against
the introduction of this pest will be
continued this season as it was last.
It is far more dangerous and destruc
tive than the boll-weevil. A bill is
pending in the legislature to enable
the State Plant Board to combat the
evil more effectually.
THE FIFTH CELE
BRATES THE VICTORY.
The Fifth Liberty Loan, which will
be floated this spring in April, will be
called the Victory Loan. This will be
the last of the great series of loans
growing out of the World War. The
amount has not yet been announced
Neither has the interest rate nor the
exact date. While the Government
will probably require sill mbre money
even afer the Fifth, it is announced
that this will^be the last, to be raised
by popular subscription.
For Rent—Rooms. Call at Mont
gomery’s barber shop. 48d6t.
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Otto M. Bowen is offering a re
ward of fifty dollars for the airest
1 and conviction of the party, or par
ties, who stole his car from in front
of the Christian church Sunday night
and engaged in a joyride of one
hour’s duration. The car was found
Monday morning in deep mud near
the bridge which crosses a branch
one-half mile this side of the Village
j Creek bridge. Mr. Bowen, however,
j is determined to bring the culprits to
' justice. The car was stolen about 7
[ o’clock and one hour later two small
! negro boys saw some one abandon
[ the car at the place where the ma
chine was found Monday morning.
The car was in good condition with
the exception of being deep in mud.
TO SAVE LIVESTOCK.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 17.—At the last
meeting of the State Council of De
fense, Harry Williams, a veteran en
gineer of the Iron Mountain, said that
the trainmen are in thorough sympa
thy with the movement that has been
inaugurated for the conservation of
livestock by preventing it from get
ting upon the right of way. He said
fV.c.4- It nnt anhiraiv a miestiion of
saving the stock, but of saving lives
of trainmen, since many trains are
wrecked by striking horses and cattle
on the track. He made the statement
that there are eight engineers now
sleeping in Oakland cemetery who
were killed in this manner. A tre
“mount of stock is killed
every year, and the statewvICS cilOY
that Arkansas is one of the worsl
states in the Union on this line. It is
the purpose of the State Council ol
Defense to overcome this tendency as
much as possible by enlisting the co
operation of the stock owners, and al
ready good results are'being exper
ienced.
GERMANY NEEDS FUNDS.
Weimar, Feb. 16.— In an address
before the German National Assem
bly Dr. Schiffer, minister of finance,
said there is necessity for credits of
25,300,000,000 marks. Of this ar >unt
the minister said, 300,000,000 larks
should be used for building houses.
He said that the total credits anid
loans aggregate more than 50,000,
000,000 marks, not including 6,000,
000,000 marks in treasury notes.
The bank bills in circulation, he said
amount to 43,500,000,000 marks.
THE GAZETTE’S BIRTHDAY.
The Arkansas Gazette, the second
newspaper founded West of the Mis
sissippi River, the first being that
which is now the St. Louis Republic,
will celebrate its first centennial on
Nov. 20, 1919. It was founded by
Wm. E. Woodruff, Nov. 20, 1819.
It happens that the centennial of
the Gazette is also the centennial of
the formation of Arkansas territory,
and the suggestion of a state-wide
celebration has been made. Gov.
Brough advances the following sug
gestion :
“I understand that the commercial
organizations of our state, recogniz
ing the intimate connection that ex
ists between business development
and newspaper publicity, contemplate
making the occasion a state-wide cel
’ ebration. I feel that this tribute of
respect is due this great newspaper,
which is an honor to the journalistic
enterprise of Arkansas. As governor
of the state, I wish to give this move
ment my most hearty commendation,
bespeaking on the part of the citizens
of all parties and factions a proper
meed of tribute to a paper that has
rendered an invaluable service in
portraying Arkansas’ possibilities and
! treating the public men of our state
I with absolute fairness and impartial
ity.”
$20.00 REWARD!
Estray—Two mules. One blue
black, 16 hands high, branded “3” on
right shoulder. One gray mule, 4
years old, 13 hands high.
S. M. LOVE,
248d4t Fitzhugh, Ark.
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MMISTICE TIME
AGAIN EXTENDED
The Germans Are Required to Cease
Their Offensive Against Poles
and Comply With Terms.
Basel, Feb 16—The armistice has
been extended indefinitely, according
to. a Treves dispatch to the Havas
Agency. The Germans are required
to cease their offensive against th©
Poles and carry out their previous
terms of the armistice until com
pleted.
Count von Brockdorf-Rantzau, the
German foreign secretary, in a speech
Friday before the National1 Assembly
at Weimar, (Discussed the relations of
Germany with Poland and the Cze
cho-Slovaks. He said Germany and
the neighboring states have recipro
cal vital interests in each other’s
prosperity and that the atmosphere
of hate which poisons relations with
Poland must be dissipated “if we are
to have our right of sovereignty in
favor of our brother Germans around
us respected.”
' “We dtesire also to recognize the
same right where it is opposed to us,”
the speaker continued. “It is impor
tant to know what territories fall un
der the scope of Presfudent Wilson’s
point.”
| liberty bonds.
notice. i&fiH
All parties who registered Septem- '-fi
her 12, 1918 and have not receive*,,;^
their registration cards will please ./Jj
call at the office of the local board at
the court house and receive same.
By Order of Adj. Gen. Lloyd England.
The Red Cross workrooms in this |
city will have to be moved in a few
days and like Noah’s faithful dove,
they are at sea with no place to land. ||
If Ly one has a place they can let
the ladies use for a while they w*1
confer a favor and show their willing
ness to help in the great cause- by
letting the ladies know ^out.tngh^
away. There is lots of work t -|g
and more to come, so it w
very important that a suitable room
be secured at once.
Smn. tta. m
day Sunday morning aome
ed' w,w» '7
about $5.00 m small change , m
Sen left in the two
closinjr Saturday ^ the «„ 1
to the store was mad of the.
by !^reakiaf the ’back of the room.
N^-w^Sted- I
rbarles E. Smith, cashier °*
Charles Tuckerman, spent fe|
Citizens Bank baying been .J
Sunday night m our ci y ^ M
to Little Rock, w daughter, *||
day with hi. **•*»*& alone :i
who are there a ^. WvK„,tum home J
nicely. ^ ^Ar^ ot thO month. 3