* FIRE CHIEF’S REPORT
SCORES WATER COMPANY.
Council Appoints Alderman W.
R. Thompson to Confer With
Water Company—Other
Proceedings.
1 At a meeting of the council
Monday evening, with all mem
bers present except Alderman
S. Br^?,ch, a report was received
from tne fire chief, J. R. Mayhan,
jv charging the water company
| with failure to fulfill its contract
I with the city. Upon hearing the
I report the council appointed Al
} derman W. R. Thompson to con
fer with the company as to the
trouble, and to require of that
party a full compliance with the
terms of the franchise.
The bid of B. F. Hogan to fur
nish lumber for repairing the
lake bridge at $18 per thousand
was accepted, and bids were au
thorized for work upon same.
The city attorney, S. M. Stuckey,
called attention to fast driving
across the bridgeway, which is
contrary to city ordinance, and
the officers were directed to see
that this violation of the law was
stopped by making arrests of the
guilty parties.
The bonds of Friar and King,
city scavengers we^e submitted
and approved.
W. B. Chastain and others have
called for a copy of the minutes
of the present council, desiring
to look into the issuance of scrip,
and it is the sense of the mem
s bers that they have free access
to all their proceedings, as the
records will show a proper ad
* ministration of the city’s affairs
and finances.
« FIRE CHIEF’S COMPLAINT.
Newport, Ark., Aug. 22, ’04.
To the Hon. Mayor and Council
of the city of Newport.
Gentlemen:
I have the honor to call your
attention to the service and pro
tection the Newport Water and
Irrigation Company is giving the
city. On Wednesday, the 17th
day of August, at about 3 o’clock
p. m., the company shut the
pumps down without notice to
the city or anyone else, and with
out having the tank at the tower
full of water, and in a short time
the tank was empty. The pumps
were not working for twenty
four hours, and during that time
the city was entirely without fire
protection, ine water company
has employed a man who, from
the way he has been running the
machinery, is entirely incompe
tent, as this is the second time
since his employment that the
same conditions existed. At the
time the pumps stopped working
^Jiie elevated lank was less than
dne-third full, when the ordi
nance provides that it shall be at
all times in condition to furnish
water from any four hydrants in
the city four one-inch streams of
water sixty feet high for a peri
od of two hours. And instead of
the tank being in this condition
it was entirely empty. Besides
there being no water for fire pro
tection, there was none for pri
Ivate consumption, consumers
I having to have their water haul
ed from the river or use water
from private wells or pumps.
The water company hi very
prompt in the collection of its
\ water rates, making patrons pay
for water three months in ad
vance, and the company should
ne compelled to furnish them
«>od service at all times. I sug
gest that a committee composed
X one alderman be appointed to
ttll upon the management of the
Inter company and demand in
name of the city and the cit
." ' I
izens of Newport, that it employ
a competent man to run the ma
chinery, so as to furnish the re
quired water at all times in ac
cordance with the terms of their
franchise. Respectfully,
J. R. Mayhan,
Chief of Fire Department.
BOOKER WINN !
ACCIDENTALLY. DROWNED
Son of Representative Winn Lost
His Life While Bathing
in Creek.
Van Buren, Aug. 29. —Booker
Winn, son of Representative
John R. Winn, while in bathing
at Peavy House ford, on Lee’s
creek, yesterday at 2 p. m., was
drowned. This makes the third
| victim for Lee’s creek this year
at that point. The body has not
been recovered yet, and as it is a
very swift and treacherous
stream the corpse may wash out
into the Arkansas river. A boy
was drowned there in the spring,
but was not found until the body
reached Dardanelle, forty miles
down the river.
1 WITNESSES FOR
LIGHTLE CASES.
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The following witnesses have
been subpoenaed in Little Rock
to appear at Searcy next Thurs
day forenoon as witnesses in the
Lightle insurance fraud case:
Sam Powell, H. L. Remmel, 01
Kirkland, W. E. Cox, R. C.
Bright, R. T. Cook, John T. Gi
nocchio, Mrs. M. E. Lightle.
Rev. Mr. Gregory, father of
the implicated boy, is said to be
in Little Rock with his son, Wal
ter, and, according to rumor, the
latter has agreed to make a full
statement of the whole attempt
to defraud the insurance compa
nies and rest his case to the
clemency of the state.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
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Read the Daily and Weekly;
Independent
L. H. Birch has resigned his
position with the Newport Build
ers’ Supply and Hardware Com
pany, and will give up his time
to his timber interests recently
purchased. His family will re
main in Newport for the present,
while he looks after the cutting
of the timber.
The house which greeted Billy
Kersands and his minstrels, j
while top-heavy, was a large
one, and from reports, seems to
have gone away well satified with
the merits of the performance.
Another minstrel Wednesday
night will make four in one week.
Newport must be advertised far
and wide as a minstrel town, and
it is not a very desirable repu
tation to enjoy, either.
A. G. Stacy, a well-known
newspaper man and editor of the
Yellville Republican, was here
Tuesday on his return home from
a visit to Kansas City, where he
happened to quite a serious acci
dent. In attempting to board a
a street car he was thrown upon
the pavement and fractured his
skull. The motorman had start
ed the car with a jerk, and Mr.
Stacy feels that he has grounds
for damages, owing to this care
lessness of an employe, and has
brought suit against the Metro
politan street railway system.
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SOUGHT TO WRECK
MOUNTAIN PASSENGER.
Dastardly Work of Men Near
Homan, on Iron Mountain,
Caused Wreck.
A dastardly attempt was made
near Homan, on the main line of
the Iron Mountain, to wreck pas
senger train No. 8 Sunday night.
The engine left the track and
turned on its side, followed by
the baggage and mail cars, but
these were not damaged to any
considerable extent. The em
ployes of the train at once made
an investigation of. the track and
found that several spikes had
been removed and that one rail
was loose for some distance. The
spikes had been drawn and
thrown off the right of way, and
in some instances none had been
left on the road bed. Several
were found near the place. The
railroad’s best detectives have
been sent to Homan, and if the
men are caught it is said that an
example will be made of them.
It has been some time since an
attempt to wreck a train in this,
state was made and the
officials, as well as the public,
are indignant at the procedure.
Superintendent Tyler has tele
graphed Sheriff Hood, of the
county in which the crime was
committed, offering a reward of
$250 for the arrest of the guilty
persons. It is believed that they
are professionals, as the track
was tampered with on a curve,
and the spikes were removed very
systematically.
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RAYMOND PUGH BOWEN.
Death came into the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Otto M. Bowen
Monday evening and robbed a
happy family and devoted par
ents of their greatest comfort,
joy and pride in the life of
an only son, Raymond Pugh,
aged 7 years, 9 months and 3
days.
The little fellow was taken
sick Wednesday with fever,
which on Monday morning de
veloped into appendicitis and an
operation for this trouble was to
have been performed at 8 o’clock,
as the seriousness of his illness
was recognized, and to preserve
life this step was thought neces
sary. But death forestalled the
skill of surgery an hour and car
ried away the suffering child to
the peace of another world.
To the stricken parents is ex-1
tended the sympathy of all, for
what loss is comparable to that
of such a child, and in this in
stance about his memory will
always hang recollections of the
loving, unselfish nature by which
his sweet character was ever
manifested, to draw tighter the
bonds of parental affection. The
innocence and goodness of child
hood have rich rewards in heav
enly crowns.
The funeral services were held j
at the home Tuesday afternoon;
at 4 o’clock, conducted by Rev.
r. F. Richardson, pastor of the
Christian church, and burial fol
lowed at Walnut Grove.
MARK SMITH’S
REAL NAME.!
Mark Smith, who died here
last winter and was quite a well
known character, lived under an
assumed name, if his brother’s
word may be taken as the truth.
Mr. T. T. Ward is in receipt of a
letter from L. B. Stephens, of
Center, Ala., who claims to be a
orother of the deceased, and
states that Mark Smith’s real
name was John B. Stephens, and
that he was a member of the
Nineteenth Alabama.
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