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THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
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ACCOMPLICES MAY
ALSO BE INDICTED.
Forecast of What Next White
County Grand Jury May Do
in Roberts-Lightle Cases.
It is understood that Dr. R. G.
Lightle, J. V. Roberts and Wal
ter Gregory will not be the only
ones of Searcy to be indicted by
the grand jury for complicity to
rob the grave of Ed Pitts and al
so of attempting to defraud the
insurance companies, says tne
Little Rock Democrat.
From a gentleman who resides
in Searcy,and who has been and
is yet in close touch with the sit
uation, it is learned that the
grand jury will probably indict
several others whose connection
with the famous case has been
talked of for some time. Greg
ory will of course be indicted for
his connection with the offense,
but it is not thought that he will
be prosecuted on either of the
charges on account of «his turn
ing state’s evidence.
Since the trial of Dr. Lightle
for grave robbery it has develop
ed that the charge of attempt
ing to defraud the insurance
companies will be the only one
against him hereafter. Under
the statute of Arkansas, which
has been upheld by the supreme
court, a man cannot be charged
with arson for burning his own
property, provided the destruc
tion of his property does not en
danger the property of others.
WEATHER FAVORABLE
FOR LATE CROPS.
Cotton Opens Nicely—Picking
Reaches 35 per cent, of
Year’s Crop.
For the week ending October
10. —The week was favorable for
all late crops, the temperature
being about normal, and light to
copious showers falling over
most of the state benefiting the
late crops which have generally
been suffering from lack of moi:
ture. Cotton is opening nicely,
and in some localities is nearly
-all open. Picking made good pro
gress and about 35 per cent of j
the crop has been picked. Early1
corn is being gathered and a j
good crop secured; the late will
be a poor crop owing to lack of
moisture at the critical stage of
development. Late po.atoes are
a poor crop; sweet potatoes are
fair to good, and turnips are fair.
Some fall plowing has been done
and in some sections winter wheat
has been sown, but up to the
present,, much less than the usual
amount of this work has been
done owing to continued dry
weather, which has prevented
plowing. The apple crop is be
ing gathered: the yields are fair
and the quantity medium. Stock
is generally healthy, although
there is some complaint in iso
lated localities of hogs dying.
ONE-WAY RATES.
Every day from September
15th to October 15th, 1904, inclu
sive, the Union Pacific will sell
one-way tickets from Missouri
River Terminals ( Council Bluffs
to Kansas City, inclusive) as
follows :
$20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake
City. '
$20.00 to Helena and Butte,
Montana.
$22.50 to Spokane and Wen
atchee, Washington.
$22.50 to Huntington and
Nampa, Idaho.
$25.00 to Portland, Tacoma and
Seattle.
$25.00 to Vancouver and Vic
toria.
Correspondingly low rates to
many other California, Oregon,
Washington, Montana, Utah, and
Idaho points.
Through Tourist cars run every
day on Union Pacific between
Missouri River and Pacific Coast:
double berth $5.75. For full in
formation call on or address,
J. H. Lothrop,
903 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
18tilOct. 10.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
R. M. Carter, wife and three
sons, Wade Luckett, W. L. and
Roy Landers, all of Batesville,
were guests of the Creighton
Tuesday night, returning home
from the world’s fair.
Among Newport people enjoy
ing the fair this week are Mrs.
Gustave Jones, Miss Carrie Ste
vens, Col. L. Minor, Dr. Ira Er
win, Fred Reiff, V. G. Richard
son, Ernest McDonald and moth
er of Batesville.
Mrs. Sam S. Wassell and Mrs.
H. S. Dees of Little Rock were
in the city early Tuesday morn
ing, returning from St. Louis,
where they attended the Nation
al U. D. C. meeting and left for
Batesville to attend the state con
vention of this organization.
W. L. Lyons and wife of Mun
cie, Ind., who will be remember
ed by our people as among the
first settlers in Newport, came
down from St. Louis Wednesday
morning, where they have been
enjoying the world’s fair for sev
eral days. Mr. and Mrs. Lyons
are enjoying the best of health
and will spend ten days in the
city with old friends.
The Union evangelistic servi
ces will be held at the Methodist
church at 4 and 7:30 p. m. each
day until Saturday, when Mr.
Crittenton goes to Batesville to
hold a ten days’ meeting. The
speaker’s subject for tonight will
be “Consecration,” and promises
to be the most interesting ser
vice held. He will detail some
thing of his own experience
which is one of the most remark
able ones of modern times. The
people of Newport should hear
Mr. Crittenton while he remains
with us, and profit by his evan
gelical and earnest efforts for
their good.
ONE-WAY" RATES.
Every day from Sept. 15 to
Oct 15, 1904, the Union Pacific
will sell one-way colonists tickets
at the following rates, from Mis
souri river terminals, Council
Bluffs to Kansas City:
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City. !
$20.00 to Butte, Anaconda and
Helena.
$25.00 to San Francisco, Los
Angeles, San Diego and many
other California points.
$22.50 to Spokane and Wenat
chee, Wash. .
$25.00 to Everett, Fairhaven,
Whatcom, Vancouver, and Vic
toria, via Huntington and Spo
kane. ...
$25.00 to Portland and Astoria;
or to Tacoma and Seattle, via
Huntington and Portland or via
Huntington an4 Spokane.
$25.00 to Ashland, Roseburg,
Eugene, Albanyland Salem via
Portland.
From Chicago and St. Louis
proportionately low rates are in
effect by lines connecting with
the Union Paciffc to all above
points.
For full information call on or
address J. H. Lothrop. j£J
903 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
18tOctlO_ _ _
COACH EXCURSIONS TO ST.
LOUIS, MO., VIA THE IRON
MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
Coach Excursion tickets will be
on sale daily, except on Friday
and Saturday-September 14th to
September 30th inclusive. Rate
$5.60 round trip; childen under
12 and over 5 years of age $4.00,
return limit on these tickets
seven days from date of sale.
Tho$. H. Reamey, Agent.
TAX THE “DRUMMER" PAYS
A Considerable Item in Commercial
Traveler’s Expense Account In
ICost European Countries.
Three or four drummers, Bays
Comfort, had engaged in a warm
discussion over the bane of the
drummer’s existence on the road,
the “drummer’s tax”—not so bad
as it used to be, however, whea
small towns all over the country
levied tribute on every traveling
man who visited them.
“By Jove,” said a man from a
New York silk firm, “you ought
to try it over on the other side.
What they do here isn’t to b«
spoken of in comparison. Here
it is merely a small local matter.
Over there it is national. At least
it is for any of us who come from
foreign countries. In Denmark,
for Instance, there is an annual
tax of |42.88 if a man represents
one house and half that for each
other house represented. In Nor
way you have to have a trade pass
good for 30 dayB, costing $26.80.'
France is easier and you don’t
have anything hut a business
passport, which costs no more
than you want to pay. In Hol
land you have to have an indus
trial tax receipt, which costs six
dollars. In Sweden the price is
the same as in Norway, $26.80,
and if you try to get. out of it you '
will catch a fine of from the price
of the trade pass up to $184, and
they are strict about it, too.
“In Austria you have only to
show a proper trade license and
in Switzerland a business pass
port. They don’t cost any more
than you want to give up to the
chaps who let you have them. In
Russia the price is $25.75 as trade
tax and $5.15 extra as a communal
tax. And if yon are a Jew you
don’t want to go to Russia to sell
goods. You may be all right, bm
Russia doesn’t like that kind and
shows it by pushing the ‘drummer
tax’ on Jews up to $275.50, be
sides the communal tax of $5.15.
England’s the place, though,
where you want to go. That’s the
great free trade land and you can
go anywhere and everywhere and
sell to anybody and everybody and
never pay a penny. They are so
free over there that, by Jove, you
almost feel like asking.the coun
try to pay you a few hundred a
year just because you are there.”
FAVORABLE FOR OYSTERS,
English Royal Commission Report!
That Danger of Typhoid Infec
tion Has Been Exaggerated.
The English royal commission
on sewage disposal has issued a
report that should tend to allay
the frequent “oyster scares”
caused by the assertion that shell
fish are polluted and made unfit
to eat by typhoid germs. They are
of the opinion that there is not at
present exact knowledge warrant
ing such sweeping measures as
the compulsory purification of
sewage before discharge, for there
is nothing, they state, in the ap
pearance of shellfish to distin
guiah those wnien hare been ex
posed to sewage contamination
from those which hare not been so
exposed.
The denial of the validity ot
bacteriological examination as a
test is very important, for this
test has rested on the assumption
that the bacillus coll communis, or
other allied organism, does not
normally occur in the oyster. Over
1,000 oysters taken from the pui
•st waters and from beds obviously i
liable to pollution were examined,
and the bacillus coll was found ih
nearly all of them, from whatevei
laying they were taken, though as
a rule a very much smaller num-1
her of bacilli was found in those
from pure than in those from
polluted waters. The commis
sioners say:
“If it should be seriously con
tended that the mere presence of
bacillus colt, or colilike microbes,
In an oyster should condemn it,
few oysters would probably es
cape condemnation.”
Concerning the possibilities ol
the communication of disease by
shellfish, they state that there is n
prima facia probability that at
times living typhoid bacilli might
be conveyed by shellfish to the con
sumer and produce enteric fever,
experience confirms their views
that the extent to which the ill
ness is actually conveyed cannot
be determined, the present state
of knowledge on the subject not
making it possible to make an ao
oar ate numerical atatemeat.
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You may test our machines
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FRANK W. LYNN, Mgr.
M. A. UMSTED, Ass-’t Mgr.
121 Hazel Street, Newport Ark
What Drives so Many
People to This DarR
Path, and Why.
If * man—before taking a step mad*
possible only by brooding and despair—
■would consider that his feeling of dark
ness is only a question of nerves—ha
■would be saved.
For. the depression leading to self de
struction is truly a disease of the nerves.
This nerve depression or melancholy
J. W. Lindley, Pres. L. T. Slayden, V-Pres. E. V. Holt, Cashier
BANK OF TUCKERMAN .
CAPITAL STOCK $20,000.00.
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We are open to the public for all business
which constitutes safe & reliable banking
DIRECTORS:
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GEO. L. SMITH, W. E. TALLEY,
J. A. GREENHAW, L. D. SMITH.
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. • rr '
Your Patronage is. Solicited.
Tucker man, - - Arkansas
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Low Rates from Memphis.
ROUND TRIP, $15-00. 1
To Amarillo, Quanah, Vernon, Fort Worth, Dallas,
San Angelo, San Antonio, Colorado, Galveston,
Houston and other Texas points,. Also to all
points in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, except
where one fare plus $2100 makes less.
Tickets on sale Sept. 13th and 27th. I
ROUND TRIP, ONE FARE PLUS $2.00
To all points in Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Terri- i
tory. Tickets on sale First and Third Tuesday of
each month.
$6.00 one way to all points in Oklahoma and Indian Territory,
i $8.50 one way to many Texas points, including Amarillo, Dal
hart, Colorado, San Angelo, Kerrvile, San Antonio*
Galveston, Beaumont and points east.
$11.00 one way to many points in New Mexico, tickets on sale,
Sept 20 and Oct. 4th and 18th.
$3a<»to CALIFORNIA
Other Pacific Coast points in proportion.
Tickets on sale at Memphis Sept. 15th to Oct. 15th, inclusive.
For full information write
J. N. CORNATZAR,
l General Agent, Memphis, Tenn. 1
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Is often accompanied or preceded oy
severe or constant Headache, Dizziness.
Dullness, Loss of Memory, Sleeplessness,
Muscular Twltchlngs. Nervous Prostra
tion, Spasms, Brain Fag, and! other
signs of serious nerve trouble.
The cure is Dr. Miles' Nervines
H fs a nerve medicine for weak nerves
and can be depended upon to make you
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No matter what form of nerve trouble
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It will do what no other medicine or
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Save you from that black hour of brood
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“I had several attacks of nervous
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no relief. I saw Dr. Miles’ Nervine
advertised and bought a bottle. After
using the first bottle, I was much bet
ter, and when I had taken six bottles
was entirely cured. I have never been
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Stillmore, Ga.
The first bottle Is guaranteed to benefit
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LABORATORIES, ELKHART, IND.
DR. HARRY E. DOWELL,
DENTIST,
PRACTICING IN
Tucker man, Arkansas.
J.M. Robinson,
M. D., Oph. D.
Eye, Ear, Nose,
Throat and Lungs.
NEWPORT, ARK.
I For a week or so this fall. See your old friends; talk
over old times with them; tell them what you are do
ing in the Great Southwest, and if possible induce !
them to come back with you and look the ground over.
LOW RATES--=
On September 20, 27 and October \ t Round Trip
Tickets will be Sold at
ONE FARE PLUS $2.00
To nearly all Indiana and Ohio points and certain
destinations in Kentucky. Tickets good returning
30 days from date of sale.
Full details from your nearest Rock
Island agent.
GEO. H. LEE, JAS. HARRIS,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Dist. Pass. Agt.
UTTLE ROOK, ARK.
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