Isesays
I CITIES HAVE
110 Refer to Vote of Peo
Be a Franchise Given
■ By Council.
L to Independent.
■tie Rock, May 23.—Attor
■eneral W. L. Moose has
Ed the Secretary of State
Khe citizens of Mena, in his
Kn, have a right to file their
|sed referendum petition to
Itoavoteof the people a
|hise for an electric light
■ in that city. Secretary of
I Hodges, however, will
■up the petition for several
I to enable those who are
■gting against it to bring
■for an injunction, which
■propose to do.
|e ordinance granting the
Ihise was passed by the
I council, Feb. 27, and the
lendum act under which it
■ought to refer the fran
■ was not passed by the leg
ire until the following
torney General Moose
I However, that the ordin
is referable under the En
l Act of 1911, and adds:
i my opinion that part of
enabling Act that provides
municipalities may initiate
is void because unconstitu
1, but that that partprovid
or the referendum is separ
from it and within the con
Ie hearing before Attor
leral Moose and Secreta
jes Thursday, J. I. Alley
t appeared on behalf of
on Bros., who hold the
ie, while W. M. Pipkin
d on behalf of the city.
n Don’t Want to Vote.
is not wanting evidence
s where full suffrage ex
t woman’s interest in
)t wanes as soon as the
wears off. In a recent
iction at Berkeley, Cal.,
stion before the voters
t of securing adequate
mds for seven thousand
hildren. one in which
would naturally be sup
1 exhibit more than or
nterest. Yet of the
ousand women voters in
only about fifteen hun
nt to the polls. The
lifFerence has been man
n other states where fe
frage prevails. Even in
where the agitation
i most aggressive, it is
v and then that a ques
rises which creates
interest to bring the wo
the polls.—Fort Smith
ecord.
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Tonight.
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1 Deaf Mute Commencement.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, May 23.— The
44th annual commencement of
the Arkansas Deaf Mute Insti
tute will be held at the chapel on
ithe afternoon of June 2. There
will be five graduates this year
as follows: Lila Hall, of Hot
Springs, Myra Wood, of Grape
vine, Mary Jefferies of Claren
don, Ada McDougald of McRae,
and Oscar Vinson of Danville,
four girls and one boy.
Immediately after the close of
school work will begin on re
repairs and new building at the
institute. About $16,000 will
be expended during the summer.
There will be a new barn and an
addition to the trades school
building erected, and many re
pairs made.
Bridge Men Are Here.
Messrs. Canfield & Kersting,
representatives of the Missouri
Valley Bridge Company, both of
whom have been here before,
are here in the interest of a
bridge across White River.
Mr. Heinemann is introducing
them to our business men and
securing subscriptions for the
stock. No greater proposition
was ever open to Newport and
the time for positive action was
never so opportune as now.
To our men of means and the
land owners of the rich Oil
Trough section, we hope that the
advantages of a bridge will ap
peal so strongly that this great
improvement to our city and
country will be financed and the
country west of White River be
brought into closer trade rela
tions with Newport and a new
era of development.
Handsome New Sign.
The Wolff-Goldman Mercan
tile Company has just installed
a very metropolitan and hand
some electric sign at the corner
of Hazel and Front' Streets,
bearing the inscription “Wolff
Goldman Merc. Co.—The Big
Store.”
The sign attracted much at
tention and favorable compli
ment Thursday night and con
tributes materially to the city
appearance of our business sec
tion.
Contractor Pays Costs.
The costs in the Jewel Best
cases amounting to $214.25
w’ere paid to the county Thurs
day by the convict contractor
ex-Senator John H. Keel. Un
der the terms of the county’s
contract, the contractor secures
'the services of a prisoner to
the amount of fine and costs up
on payment to the county of
the court costs.
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Tie last
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openings separated — no gaping.
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of this style licensed under the
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I
Two Negroes Captured.
! Batesville, May 22.—Deputy
Sheriff Tom Hulsey of Magness
captured Winifred Tomlinson,
; who made his escape with two
; other men from the Independ
| ence county jail Sunday night.
! Tomlinson had lived near Mag
1 ness, and he simply went to his
1 home there and went to sleep,
i Deputy Marshal A. A. Web
ber caught Walter Ridley, the
federal prisoner, at Paroquet.
Mr. Webber had been in that
section summoning witnesses
for the federal court, and was
surprised when he saw Ridley
standing near a barn on the
road. He asked Ridley how he
; came to be there and Ridley
I told him “they let me out.” Of
; course Mr. Webber knew that
I no one had let him out on pur
jpose, and brought him back to
! the city.
Ridley told Mr. Webber that
the negro, Will Jones, had lib
erated him and Tomlinson by
picking the jail door lock with a
poker. He stated also that the
negro was with him at the time
when Mr. Webber came upon
him, but Mr. Webber did not
know the negro was out, and
when he saw him he just sup
posed the negro belonged on the
place.
Later it was reported that
Jones was seen at Diaz. It is
said that this negro is an ex-con
vict and a bad character. He
was in jail here on a charge of
drunkenness, and had been ar
rested by the city authorities.
If he is captured, there will be a
charge of jail breaking against
him, and that will hold him a lit
tle longer than the one of
drunkenness.
ine escape or cnese men nas
revived the sentiment for a
new jail. The jail here is not
adequate, and it would not safe
ly keep a man who had commit
ted any grave offense, if he had
| a disposition to want to get out.
Over 12,000 Names Secured.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, May 23.— There
are 12,158 names on the refer
endum petition filed Thursday
with the secretary of state by
Joe Lyons, representing the li
quor interests of the state, for
the purpose of referring to the
people Senate Bill No. 118,
known as the Whiskey Bill of
the last legislature.
There were 109,600 votes cast
for governor in 1912, and there
fore only 8,483 signatures are
needed to refer the act, or five
per cent of the total votes cast
for governor.
The secretary of state is hold
ing up the petition pending an
opinion from the attorney gen
eral as to whether the act is
referrable. It contains the e
mergency clause, but it is spec
j ified that it shall not become ef
fective until January 1914.
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First Call Has Disappeared.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, May 23.—The
proceeds of the first call made
by the state auditor for the pay
ment of 25 per cent of the col
: lections by the county collectors
! has long since been dissipated
and for several weeks the hold
ers of warrants are unable tc
get cash upon them at the statt
treasury. Occasionally a few
i dollars is paid in but it does nol
last long enough to write out £
receipt. It is estimated that an
other call for 25 per cent would
about meet all outstanding war
rants. Final settlements wil
1 not be made until after the mid
die of July.
i
1 The Cost of Mo-ion Pictures.
Few patrons of picture thea
tres have any idea of the
| trouble and expense involved in
'producing the various “battle
j pieces” now so popular, says
| Answers of London.
In order to film “The Siege of
j Petersburg” for instance, the
I Kalem Company built a bridge
j longer than London bridge a
| cross an arm of the Mississippi
jand set fire to it. The struc
jture cost several thousand lol
: lars and took several weeks to
I
; construct, yet it was destroyed,
; for the purpose of the play, in a
1 few minutes.
The fort that is mined and
' blown up in the same place was
built, bv contract in less than
!one week, but then the contract
! or had more than 800 workmen
! employed at the job, day and
! night. Nearly a quarter of a
ion of dynamite wai used in
the explosion which destroyed
it.
I Besides the dynamite, consid
erable quantities of gunpowder
were used in the preliminary
bombardment, and this was
kept stored in barrels till want
ed. One day, at rehearsal, a
super was discovered seated
upon a barrel puffing contented
ly at his pipe.
“Put up your pipe, Pill,” some
one shouted. “You’ll blow us all
up!”
Bill grinned, and to everyone’s
horror slowly knocked the ashes
from his pipe on the top of the
barrel.
“It’s all right,” he said cheer
fully. “It’s a cask of beer!”
FIFTEEN HUNDRED SUPERS
Fifteen hundred supers, of
whom! one thousand were Indi
ans, took part in the popular
film, “The Massacre,” and the
American Biograph Company,
which produced it, had to give
each of the redskins a horse a
piece in order to retain their
services in the long preliminary
rehearsals.
They thoroughly enjoyed their
Avork—so much so, indeed that
of those who were told to “die”
early in the play, the majority
preferred to stay “alive” end
fire off their blank cartridges;
so that the first rehearsal only
resulted in three “fatalities, in
stead of about three hundred.
In another film of this kind
the principal scene was the de
_ i ll__
Struction OI « scuicmwu
whites by a band of Indian raid
! ers, and, so that the sacking of
i the houses might lack nothing
: in realism, a small frontier
'town, containing some sixty
dwellings of the usual western
i wooden frame type, was pur
chased and fired.
| TWO LOCOMOTIVES DE
STROYED.
In “War’s Havoc”, another fa
Irrious Kalen film, two locomo
tives meet in a spectacular col
lision on a high bridge, both be
ing reduced to scrap iron. That
one episode cost the company
more than $20,000, yet it occu
pies less than four minutes in
• the showing.
| Perhaps, however, the most
i realistic thing ever done in the
i way of battle scenes was recent
ly undertaken on the spur of the
I moment by Wilbert Melville,
managing director of one of the
Lubin Film Company’s travel
ing organizations.
He was with his company near
• El Paso, Texas, when a band of
i revolutionists, several hundred
strong, suddenly hove in sight
on the Mexican side of the Ric
Grande. The opportunity was
thought to be too good to be
i
missed. Mr. Melville hurried a
eross the river and bargained
lor a fight—a sham one — to
take place then and there.
Contribute to Silver Service.
The Civic Improvement Club
of this city has contributed $5
to the fund to be raised in the
state to furnish a silver service
for the Battleship “Arkansas.”
This club hopes it will be
joined by other clubs of the
city who are willing to contrib
ute to the service, which is a
custom of all states who are
represented on the seas by a
monster warship, and it is noth
ing but right that Arkan a
should be willing to render this
service to the dreadnought th i
bears our state’s name. If
there are any individuals in
Newport who wish to contribute
any amount from twenty-five
cents up they can do so by send
ing it to Misses Leah Jones,
Bertha Hirsch or Lizzie (Juliette
any of whom will gladly re
ceive the amount and give you
credit and will forward same to
Mr. Charles Stifft at Little
Rock, who is chairman of the
state committee.
Appointments Expected Soon.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, May 23.— The
term of Col. W. G. Whipple as
U. S. District Attorney for the
Eastern District nf Ark:m«!i«
expired May 18, and the appoint
ment of his successor is expect
ed to be announced any time
from the White House. It is
generally conceded that this
will go to Hon. J. H. Harrod of
Little Rock, one of the truly o
riginal Woodrow Wilson men
of Arkansas, and the man who
did as much as any one individ
ual to mold Arkkansas senti
ment in favor of the New Jer
sey governor.
The time of Judge Worthing
ton, district attorney for the
Western district, also expires
the latter part of this month,
and it has been surmised that
the president is waiting to ap
point the two together. There
are a number of strong appli
cants for the Western district,
but in the Eastern district it
seems to be conceded to Col.
Harrod.
$10 Reward.
Est rayed— One bay mare
branded “V. N.” on left thigh
and one iron gray filly colt
wearing bell, barb wire scars on
each hind leg. $10 reward for
j return or information lead.ng to
recovery.
G. R. Baker, Grubbs, Ark.
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Faucette Settles With (iirl.
Little Rock, May 2.‘>.—Attor
neys for Lotta Anderson, aged
IS, yesterday aeepted from at
torneys for William C. Faucette
of Argenta, a check for $12,
500. This marks the final step
in the girl’s suit for damages
for breach of promise against
i the former mayor of Argenta
and former representative in
the legislature from Pulaski
county.
The compromise was reached
I at a conference between Attor
ney Horace Chamberlain, rep
resenting the plaintiff, and
Judge John W. I’lackwood, foi
Faucette. In addition, it is said,
Faucette agreed to pay all costs
in the case.
The Cost <»!' War.
(doing into an analysis, the
Savannah Morning News says:
“One of the very best argu
ments against war is its cost,
l not only in men killed and pow
der burned and supplies* con
sumed by her soldiers, but in
the loss of business. The Bal
kan war is said to have cost
Russia, not a participant in it,
$60,000,000, because her trade
with the Balkans was greatly
injured by it. International
commerce has been the frequent
cause of war, yet at the same,
time it is a very active agent \
against it. Merchants whose
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are not going to be enthusiastic
at the prospect of fighting.”
Then there might be mentioned,
too, reflection upon the proba
bilities of augmentation of the
i pension budget. That in itself'
j in figuring upon the conse
1 quences of war, is enough to de
(ter at least the United States
from taking up the cudgels ex
cept when there’s no other way
out.—Fort Smith Tirr.es-Re
cord.
Humbugs, Bedbugs, Etc.
Ross’ “Dead Quick” spray kills
all bugs alike except humbugs.
Its application being instant
death to ants, fleas, roaches,,
mites, lice, potato bugs, bedbugs,,
etc., it starves the humbug to
death. It is nice and clean. Kills
and keeps away mosquitos.
Nothing like it. Sold in Newport
by your druggists. (adr.)
The Independent telle you all abottt
it before you get the other papers.
If you use ball bluef ret Red
Cross Ball Blue, the best ball
blue. Large 2 oz. package 5
cents.
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