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VOLUME V. RKANSAS. SATURDAY. MAY 20, *905. NUMBER *8.
BAKING POWDER -i
BOODLE BOBS UP
In Arkansas, Which Is Said to Be
Responsible For Indictment
of Senator Gross.
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Little Rock, May 10. — A Pink
erton detective from St. Louis, j
one C. A. Truett, who posed a? a
baking powder man, was the
cause of two indictments against
Senator A. T. Gross, who came
from the bucolic shades of Cedar
ville, Crawford county, to rep
resent the Twenty-fifth senato
fr*rial district in the last legisla
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v Senator Gross was indicted last
Wednesday afternoon by the
Pulaski county grand jury, on
two charges, one of soliciting a
bribe of $2,800 from the “baking
powder man” on March 28 to
vote for the pure food bill. The
other indictment charges Gross
with having committed perjury
before the Pulaski county grand
jury last Monday ip having testi
fied that he did nothing of the
kind.
The bench warrants were
placed in the hands of Deputy
Sheriff A1 Chichester, who went
to Van Buren Wednesday night,
and with Sheriff Garrett drove
to the home of Senator Gross,
At 4:45 p. m. yesterday Sheriff
Kavanaugh received official in
'■* formation that Senator Gross had
been arrested, and that he was
at the time in Van Buren trying to
make bond. Unless he should
do so by midnight he would1
Ibring him to Little Rock.
BONNERVILLE SOUTHERN
EXTENSION SOUGHT.
The Bonnerville Southern has,
always been a timber road and
like the B. & B. road, will some j
day be made one of the connect-!
ing links of a great system, says
the McCrory News. The exten
tion of this road can be utilized
for years yet, especially and pri
marily for the development of
the timber interests. By extend
ing this road south on the ridge,
on which the company has been
extending it by degrees and by
continuing same through Mc
Crory, Tip, across the bayou to
Hunter and then on through St.
Francis county to some point on
the main line of the Choctaw,
would open a magnificient body
of timber lands. Mr. Hay of
Hunter informed us that that
town alone would give $6,000'
to have this road come through j
K,there. What the ultimate deci-1
Sion of this route will be, we do!
not know, but from a timber,
standpoint, the suggested course j
would no doubt be a money I
coiner.
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LIGHT VOTE POLLED
IN SCHOOL ELECTION.
The election of two school di
rectors in the Newport district
did not seem to arouse much pop
ular interest Saturday, judging
by the light vote cast. The five
| mill tax doubtless carried, as it
had no opposition. The names
presented for the two vacancies'
on the board were Gustave Jones,
Charles Meyer, 0. I. Hubert and
T. J. Gregg.
AFTER CIGARETTE SMOKERS
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They are certainly going after |
cigarette smokers up in Indiana. j
About the strongest effort being j
made to suppress the evil that
has ever come to ©ur notice took
place at South Bend a few days |
ago. A dispatch from that place j
says. “During the performance |
held in a police justice court.
This is the most rigid enforce
ment of Indiana’s new anti
cigarette law yet reported.”
NEW PASSENGER
DEPOT FOR HOXIE.
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The Van Noy News Company
Will Erect Handsome Hotel
And Depot Building.
Hoxie, May 19.—It is stated
here today on what is supposed
to be good authority that the
passenger station recently burned
will be replaced by an elegant
brick structure that will be a
credit to the place. In this con
nection it is said that the Iron
Mountain and the Frisco, the
roads which are interested here,
will have nothing to do with the
erection of the new station be
yond the approval of the plans.
According to the statements
made here today, the Van Noy
News Company will erect and
own the new building, which will
be used as a union passenger sta
tion, a hotel and eating nouse all
in one. The plans are said to
have been approved by General
Superintendent Tyler of the Iron
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lVAUUIllcllIl clilU VjeiltJIcU OUptJllIl
tendent Rainey of the Frisco,
and that work will begin within
a very few weeks. The building,
it is said, is to be composed of
compressed brick, trimmed with
Arkansas granite or marble, and
will be large enough to care for
the business of the two lines en
tering here and for an up-to
date hostelry. Hoxie has long:
needed a first-class hotel, and
the fact that the Van Noy News j
Company is supposed to be be-,
hind the proposition to erect one
here is especially gratifying to
the people.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
The regular services at the Bap
tist church Sunday at 11 a. m.
and 7:30 p. m. by the pastor, H.
M. Long. Sunday school at 9:45
a. m. A cordial invitation is ex
tended all strangers in the city to
attend these services.
METHODIST CHURCH.
The regular services of the
Methodist congregation will be
held at the courtroom Sunday
morning and evening. Sunday
at 9:30 a. m. Strangers and vis
itors in the city will be gladly
welcomed to worship with them.;
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ST. PAUL’S CHURCH.
Divine services for the fourth
Sunday after Easter. Morning
prayer and sermon at 5 o’clock, j
Sunday school 9:45 a.m.
Geo. B. Norton, Rector, j
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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Protracted services in progress.
Everybody invited. Services on
Sabbath at 11 o’clock a. m. and
8 p. m. R. B. Willis, Pastor.
MRS. JULIA FARMER.
Mrs. Julia Farmer, aged 59
years, died Friday evening at 8
o’clock, at the home of her son,
J. F. Farmer, five miles north of
Newport, from consumption.
The burial was at the family
graveyard at 2 o’clock Saturday
afternoon.
§ FEW
AL MAIL ROUTES.
Little Rock Postmaster Talks to
Gazette Man and Says Farm
ers Themselves are Re
sponsible for Poor
Mail Facilities.
Instead of being near or at the
foot of the list of states in the
number of rural free delivery
routes, Arkansas might be near
the top if the farmers of the
state would take enough interest
in the matter, said Postmaster
W. S. Holt of Little Rock in an
interview with the Gazette.
He said that the success of the
rural free delivery service has
now been established and the de
partment has ample means to
extend the service, so that it is
now entirely a question as to
whether the farmers care enough
about securing the service to
make the little effort required.
Arkansas has now only 187
rural routes established and only
sixty-three applications for
routes pending. A number of
states already have more than
1,500 routes established and as
many more applications pending.
Arkansas had one of the first ex
perimental routes. This route
was started out of Clarksville,
uctODer iy, ioyo, nut tne exten
sion of the system in this state
has been slow, as compared with
almost every other state in the
country. Tennnessee has several
hundred routes and other south
ern states have many more than
Arkansas,' Up to October 15,
1905, only fifty-seven petitions
for rural routes had been filed for
Arkansas. At the same time
over 2,000 had been filed from
Illinois over 1,900 from Iowa, 632
from Texas and 473 from Vir
ginia.
A rural route can be secured in
practically any community, Post
master Holt states, if the roads
are passable the year round. It
is only required that between 75
and 100 families live on the route
and on routes twenty-five miles
in length the number of families
will almost always exceed that
limit.
If the farmers in any locality
desire to secure a rural route,
blank petitions are furnished by
the postoffice department and the
applicants are required to secure
the names of about seventy-five
heads of families to this petition.
This petition, after being in
dorsed by the congressman from
that district or one of the sena
tors, is sent to the fourth assist
ant postmaster general. An in
spector is then sent to look over
the route and make a report to
the department. The principal
point as to whether the roads are
passable, and if the inspector
finds these conditions satisfac
tory, the route is generally estab
lished.
The carriers cover the route
daily, collecting and delivering
mail. The carries also register
letters and also take money for
money orders, giving a receipt
and delivering the money order
the following day, or mailing it
to any point desired.
The last report of the depart
ment on the rural delivery service
contained a statement from a
farmer in Missouri who estimated
that during the fifteen years be
fore he became a patron of a
rural route he traveled 12,000
miles going to the postoffice for
his mail. It was also estimated
that the aggregate time repre
sented by the trips of farm^;,
for their mail represented *^^
of millions of dollars in tir
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Price 50c and $1.00, by leading druggists or mail. |
NATIONAL TOILET CO. PA^.
Sold in Newport by W. W.
Dutton, W. A. Joyee and all
leading druggists.
HENRY OWEN,D. HENRY M. OWEN,M.D.
Drs. OWEN & OWEN,
Physicians and Surgeons
Will practice medicine and sur
gery in Newport and sur
rounding country.
NEWPORT, ARK.
! OFFICE: Bevens’ Drug Store.
Newport Laundry.
SAM LEE, Prop.
All kinds laundry work done
neatly and promptly.
Also clothing cleaned and
dyed. Prompt service and rea
sonable prices.
Laundry in L. B. Harris’ old j
stand, near Chastain’s grocery.
VICTIMS OF ACCIDENT
AT MAMMOTH SPRING, j
Mammoth Spring, May 19— j
Two men were found dead about
four miles south of here yester
day afternoon, one on either side
of the Frisco railroad track. One
j is supposed to be Redford Allen
!of Gainsville, Mo., and the other
his nephew. They are supposed j
to have climbed on top of the!
fast train at Thayer last night j
and to have fallen from it just!
below a sharp curve.
The bodies were brought here
i by Acting Coroner Wallick.
The verdict of the jury was
that they came to their death
by causes unknown.
One theory, however, is that
i the two men, climbing to the top,
of the train, encountered thieves
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I who were escaping after having
I robbed the depot at this place,
and that the thieves killed them
| either for robbery or for fear of
detection.
SPECIAL EXCURSION
TO ST. LOUIS, MO.
May 20, 1905. $4.00 round trip.
Special train will pass Newport i
at 9:30 p. m., Saturday, May 20.,;
and will arrive in St. Louis at i
8 o’clock Sunday morning. Re
turning, leave St. Louis about1
9 o’clock Sunday night, arriving j
at Newport Monday, 7:3( a.m.!
Tickets sold at this rate will only
on special train going
Reamey, Agent,
and Weekly
WE CLOSE EVERY EVENING AT 7 EXCEPT SATURDAY.
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They are the realization of
the Tailor’s dream.
$15.00 to $30.00.
STIFF, SOFT and STRAW
HATS
A spring suggestion—A
new light-weight hat of
rakish style. Don’t mar
the effect of that new spring
(! coat by the false economy
!j of old-hat-wearing.
$2, $3, $4, $5.
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DON’T
HOARD
Your money in unsafe places. The
safest place for your money is in
a good bank. Start a bank ac
count with us and
YOU CAN SLEEP BE ER
AT NIGHT.
Arkansas Bank and Trust Co.
NEWPORT, ARK.
Capital $100,000.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
J. W. Grubbs, President. Nathan Graham, V.-Pres.
Chas. G. Henry, Cashier.
Jos. M. Berger, Jr. R. F. Drummond, C. J. Saenger,
B. B. Bond, M. D. Campbell, S. D. Campbell,
G. D. Clements, J. P. Duck, W. W. Dutton,
0. D. Watson, L. E. Willis, F. D. Fulkerson,
R. K. Fitzhugh.
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