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APRIL 17, 1914. NUMBER 15.
.HUERTA OFFERS
|f TO SALUTE
American Flag And War Scare |
Has Blown Over For
Time.
j|P Washington, April 16.—The
ftp* United States government to
ll night accepted General Huerta’s
offer to salute the Stars and
m Stripes as an apology for the ar
.. rest of American bluejackets at
Tampico a week ago today. The
Huerta government’s salute to
y the American flag will be ans
swered with a salute to the Mex
P^~ lean flag.
This arrangement, the details
of which were being finally ar
ranged tonight in an exchange of
jr official messages between Wash
ington and Mexico City, ended,
| 'in the view of all high adminis
tration officials, the crisis that
|2 had resulted in the dispatch of
* the warships to Mexican waters.
Until details of the firing of
% the salute are arranged, no fur
k ther orders will be sent to the
American fleets now proceeding
south. It is practically certain,
however, that while many of the
vaccaIc "mill ho tnr*norl hfmV nth
ers will continue south and a
substantially increased naval
vforce will be maintained in Mex
jf ^tcan waters.
+ Huerta’s offer and request for
a return salute, caused Presi
dent Wilson to ask for an opin
ion from the councillor of the
State Department and Navy De
■l partment officials. All reported
3 that if is the invariable custom
iin naval practice to return a sa
lute and cited precedents. The
^president also was informed
that Rear Admiral Mayo, on
g making his original demand for
a salute, agreed to return the
'\ourtesy.
j President Wilson said the form
i of a salute under such circum
stances does not involve recogni
I tion of the Huerta government,
Jf but is merely an act of the same
k character as grasping the hand
of an individual who is apologiz
ing as he extended it.
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Killed Song Birds.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 17.—U. S.
Game Inspector E. V. Visart
has returned from Texarkana,
where he filed complaints a
gainst several negroes and oth
ers, charging them with killing
__ orwl n+Vuav ineon.
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* iverous birds. He is also look
ing after the offense of taking
the young .from their nests,
which is as much a violation of
4 the federal law as the killing of
the birds.
)*• Moving Pictures
atthe Opera House
1 OLD COUPONS
James Cooley and Chas. Vest
Drama—BIOGRAPH.
CUTEY’S WATERLOO
* A laughable Cutey comedy
t Wallie Van and Lillian Walker
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GOOD RESOLUTIONS
ir Wm. Duncan and Myrth
ft Steadman. A high class West
¥*** ern Specialty.
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B Messrs. Davis, Bennett an<
l| Birkhead
W ADMISSION, 5c and 10c
Coxey’s Army Dwindles
Canton, Ohio, April 16.—
“General” Jacob S. Coxey’s ar
my of unemployed, which dwind
led from 200 to a score of priv
ates, camped here tonight pre
paratory to starting on the sec
ond leg of its march to Washing
ton tomorrow.
When Coxey left his home in
Massilon, Ohio, early today, only
a small percentage of the follow
ers he had counted on were in
line. Several had gone on ahead
on freight trains.
However the ranks swelled by
Massilon schoolboys and when
“General” and Mrs. Coxey climb
ed into Coxey’s old phaeton and
the “general” gave the signal
for the start by clucking to the
old mule that drew the phaeton,
he had a fairly large command.
On his arrival Coxey made an
address in the public square.
There was great rejoicing when
Henry Vincent, an old man, who
said he marched with Coxey in
1894, joined the squad and pro
duced a large sack of sand
wiches.
io uive isazaar.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church will give an apron sale
Saturday in the room at the rear
of the McLain building on Se
cond street, and will open at 11
o’clock.
In connection with the apron
sale, they will have cakes and
candy. A lunch consisting of
i sandwiches, creamed potatoes,
peas in patties, pickles and cof
ifee, will be served for 25 cents,
i beginning at 11:30. They will
i appreciate the patronage of the
i people. <12.
Louis Volmer Dead.
Special to Independent,
i Little Rock, April 17.—Louis
Volmer, the aged alderman from
!the Sixth ward, died at his home
jin this city at 3:45 p. m. Thurs
day, from a paralytic stroke of
last Monday.
He was elected to the city
council eighteen years ago and
had been re-elected every two
years since that time, usually
.without opposition. He had sat
in the council of the city under
more mayors and for a longer
.time than any other alderman
.who had ever served the city.
He is the first member of the
i council to die in office in many
years.
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| from his seat in the council
chamber, and when he did not
i respond to his name Monday
j night, and the fact was known
l that he was lying ill at home,
and ndt expected to recover it
I brought a spirit of gloom to all.
A number of years ago Col.
^Volmer was engaged in the dry'
goods business on East Mark
ham street.
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Want New Trial For Whitley.
Special to Independent,
j Little Rock, April 17.—F. E.
Brown, J. G. and C. B. Thweatt
and W. A. Leach, attorneys for
Jesse Whitley, are preparing to
file a motion for a new trial in
the case wherein Whitley was
i last week convicted of second
degree murder and sentenced at
Des Arc for killing a young man
named Munn in a quarrel over a
girl.
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Fresh Car of Bananas.
J. B. Heard, the banana man,
has a fresh car of ripe banan
as and if you want real nice,
1 ripe bananas, see him on the
Iron Mountain tracks, opposite
Wolff-Goldman’s, where he ha?
his car. dtf
SENATOR CLARKE
DECLARED NOMINEE
Kirby Loses Contest Before
Democratic State Commit
tee.
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Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 17—All day
Thursday was spent by the dem
ocratic state central committee,
in the Kirby-Clarke contest,
chiefly “marking time”, and it
was not until midnight that the
committee declared James P.
Clarke the nominee oy 213 ma
jority over W. F. Kirby. The
latter at once served notice of
his appeal to the state conven
tion.
During the day the testimony
of former Senator Benj. Harris,
Senator Clyde Going, L. D.
Freeman, editor of the Modern
News at Harrisburg, Marion W.
Hazel, retiring county chair
man, and others, relative to the
Poinsett county election. All
testified that the election was
fair and honest, the count was
just as the ballots were cast,
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ciuu tuat tucie was nut a laiiui
election in the state; they de
nied that there had been any
padding, falsification, or altera
tions of the returns.
It had been announced that
Secretary H. B. Thorn of the
Poinsett Committee, who had
been dispatched to Harrisburg
the preceding night for the poll
books, ballot-boxes and tally
sheets of the election, would ar
rive on the afternoon train
about 4 o’clock. But he did not
arrive at that hour and at 5 o’
clock the committee adjourned
until 8:30 p. m.
Just before adjournment the
dragging interest of the con
test was revived by the intro
duction of a resolution by P. R.
Andrews, a Clarke supporter,
that when the poll-books and bal
lot boxes should arrive from
Poinsett, they should be turned
over to Chairman Walls of the
committee and four members to
be appointed by him, as a sub
committee to tabulate the re
turns from each precinct, and
carefully scrutinize each ballot,
tally-sheet and poll-book for
evidences of material changes
cr alterations; but that in so far
as the resolution adopted on
Wednesday provided for the
making of a list of the electors
whose names appear on the poll
'books is concerned, it be revok
ed, and no list be made.
Secretary Hutton, who is ad
mittedly a Kirby supporter, of
fered a substitute that the Poin
sett returns be submitted to the
entire committee for scrutiny
and tabulation, and that a list of
the electors be made.
The Hutton resolution was de
feated 17 to 9 and the Andrews
resolution was adopted by the
same vote.
The committee then took a re
cess.
Peaches Killed; Apples Safe.
Calico Rock, April 16.—Farm
ers and fruit growers from dif
ferent sections of Izard am
Stone counties report the frui
crop, especially peaches, kille<
by the cold wave of Thursday
and Friday nights of last week
The apple crop is pronounce<
safe. Ice was reported in man:
places to be a quarter of an incl
thick and garden truck sufferei
materially, much of it being kill
ed. Merchants have cancelle
all former orders for fruit jar
, which were placed subject to th
, fruit prospect this season.
Governor Pardons Crowley.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 17.—Gov.
Hays has granted to J. Louis
Crowley a pardon “upon condi
tion that any further violation of
the laws of Arkansas by the
said J. Lewis Crowley shall ren
der same null and void.”
Crowley was convicted in
Greene county circuit court in
December, 1911, of murder in
the second degree and sentenced
to twenty-one years in the peni
tentiary.
A petition containing about
1200 names wfas presented to
the governor by friends of
Crowley. Among those who
signed it were the trial judge, T.
H. Caraway, now a member of
Congress; the prosecuting at
torney, Frank Smith, now asso
ciate justice; eleven of the ju
rors; Circuit Clerk J. P. Ca
they, former Acting Governor J.
M. Futrell and others.
The petition, originally ad
dressed to the Board of Peniten
tiary Commissioners, asking for
a parole under certain restric
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application to the governor for
| a pardon, and was granted as
! such.
The text of the petition is as
I follows:
“We the undersigned, most
j respectfully request that you
grant Lewis Crowley, petitioner
herein, a parole under following
j conditions and stipulations ;
That is to say, he shall be re
quired to enter into a bond to
the state of Arkansas in the
'sum of $1,000, conditioned that
he will remain within the juris
diction of the courts of the state
of Arkansas and that he will ab
stain from all intoxicating li
; quors; abandon forever all pub
lic work; that he will move to
! tHe country, taking his family,
■ and then and there provide for
jthem to the best of his ability;
|t hat he shall make only such
: visits to the city of Paragould as
necessity shall enjoin upon him
in the discharge of such duties
as usually fall to the lot of any
other farmer, such as selling his
produce and buying his supplies,
'and the payment of taxes and as
a witness in any judicial pro
ceedings! should such be requir
ed; that he shall provide for his
'children such advantages in the
'nature of public schools, Sab
bath schools, and church as is
! possible for him to provide by
studious effort; ancl tnai nc
'shall forever refrain from all
jassociation with any women of
lewd nature or character; and
| should he fail to keep and per
form any of the above stipula
tions it shall be considered a
breach of the covernant herein
made and a violation of the
terms of this parole, and he shall
be subject to an immediate ar
rest and return to the state pris
on, as though the clemfency here
in extended had not been grant
ed. We desire the governorto in
corporate this stipulation in the
j parole herein extended and we
only sign our names hereto for
the sake of his wife and chil
|' dren to the end that his services
may go to them, who need it, ra
I ther than to the state.”
—
I Record In Attendance.
i Special to Independent.
i Little Rock, April 17.— Th
1 attendance at the State Teach
- ers’ Association is the larges
i in its history. Mrs. Ella Flag
s Young superintendent of th
e Chicago schools, will deliver
lecture tonight.
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Attention.
Attention is hereby called to j
Section 24 of Ordinance No. j
169 pertaining to the rental of
property to any party or parties
who make use of same for pur
poses of assignation or prosti
tution.
To Section 25 of same ordin
ance governing visitors or per
sons found in houses of ill fame
or prostitution.
To Section 26 of same ordin
ance governing inmates of such
houses.
And to Section 192 of Ordin
ance No. 15 governing the pub
lic appearance of any male per
son with a prostitute or woman i
of ill fame.
All violations of the above or
dinances or parts of ordinances
will be dealt with according to
law.
A. T. Hubly,
13d3t. Mayor.
Newport Loses To Batesville.
The first game of the season
was played on home grounds,
i Ml OTTMt XT_L
JDattJoviiit; xi i vo.
and was a very interesting
game until the 5th inning, the
score at that time Being 1--0 for
Batesville “Hi”. But owing to
lack of practice, the home boys
went down like the Titanic, and
at the close, the score stood 15
2 for Batesville high school.
BATTERIES.
Newport—Ryan and Stallings.
Batesville—Taylor and Green
| field.
Hits off Ryan—11.
Hits off Taylor—3.
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Do It Electrically.
See Sam Denty about the Vac
um Cleaner before doing your
spring cleaning. Telephone 117.
The Horse.
Singular as it may appear,
there is no danger of the horse
becoming an extinct animal. The
automobile and the auto truck
and the self-propelling vehicle
of every character have practi
cally driven the horse from the
streets as the motor power for
vehicular traffic. But the horse
is more numerous than ever, an&
in greater demand. On an aver
age he costs more than he ever
did.
The census of 1910showed that
in the ten years previous horses
in this country increased in
numjber 13,000,000, making a
total of21,000,000. It is estim
ated that since the census of
1910 the number of horses in
this country has increased by
2.000. 000, making a total of
23.000. 000.
The self-moving vehicle is
doing a great work, but it is
not putting the horse out of
commission in the least. There
is more work to be done than
ever before, and there is room
[enough for both methods of lo
[ comotion. — Memphis News
Scimitar.
Dictator Huerta may be^'nk
all the time, but Fie certaiuly™*"’"'*”"-’
'must be a natural biute, if the
story is true that he cut out the
tongue of Dr. Belasarios Domin
gues, who, as a senator in the
republic, asked for his resigna
tion. We should not intervene
in Mexico, perhaps, but civiliza
tion revolts against such horri
ble atrocities.—Ex.
S. F. Gilmore was here today
j from Swifton spending the day.
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