NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, TUESDAY MAY 20, 1902. NUMBER 25
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ASSESSOR’S NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the under
signed, as assessor of Jackson county,
Arkansas, will meet the people of the
different townships at the following times and
places, for the purpose of listing the Personal
Property and Per Capita 1 Tax for the
year 1902.
Barren township, McDougal’s residence, Mon
day and Tuesday, June 2, and 3.
DClaize township, Grand Glaize, Wednesday
and Thursday June 4 and 5.
Breckinridge township, Auvergne, Friday
June 6.
Breckinridge township, Weldon, Saturday
June 7.
Breckinridge township, Tupelo, Monday
June 9.
Cow Eake township, Nance’s Store Tuesday
and Wednesday, June 10 and 11.
Richwoods township, Martin’s Old Residence,
Thursday and Friday, June 12 and 13.
Cache township, Burton’s Store, Saturday
June 14.
Cache township, Martin's Sch ool House, Mon
day and Tuesday June 16, and 17.
Grubbs township, Robinson’s Chapel, Wednes
day and Thursday June 18 and 19.
Village township, Barnes’ Mill, Friday
June 20.
Jefferson township, Jacksonport, Monday and
Tuesday, June 23 and 24.
Bird township, Elgin, Wednesday June 25.
Bird township, Centerville, Thursday, June 26.
Bird township, Tuckerman, Friday and Sat
urday, June 27 and 28.
Glass township, Swifon, Monday June 30
Tuesday and Wednesday, July 1 and 2.
Uniou township, Court House, Newport, from
July 7 to August 20.
Please bring along your deeds or last tax
receipts.
Given under my hand this ■ 6th day of
May 1902.
B. F. SIMMONS
Assessor of Jackson County.
First published May 6 Daily Indepeudant 6t.
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Newport, Arkansas.
EXPLODED LAMP
CAUSES CONFLAGRATION.
The Homes of M. K. Upshaw and
Chas. Meyer Totally Destroyed
By Fire Early Tuesday Morn
ing—McMinn Residence
Badly Damaged By
Fire and Water.
Newport has been peculiarly for
tunate for some time in the past, in
the fact that no fires of any conse
quence have visited her homes or
store buildings. About 2:30 Tuesday
morning however, the ringing of
bells, firing of pistols and a well
lighted sky told the story of a fire
which brought many people from
their homes even at that hour.
A lamp, which had been left stand
ing for the night, in the dining room
of M. K. Upshaw’s residence, 303
Laurel Street, is supposed to have
caused this conflagration, which
wreaked destruction upon two homes.
Mr. and Mrs. Upshaw were awak
ened by smoke pouring into their
apartment and upon looking into the
dining room, could see the scattered
fire, thrown about the room from the
explosion of the lamp. The fire was
gaining such rapid headway that no
time eonld be lost for escane. Bund
ling the four sleeping children, they
were carried into the yard. Then Mr.
and Mrs. Upshaw sought to save some
of the contents of their home and
started back. They were driven away
by the flames and smoke however
and compelled to retreat, but the
night latch upon the front door was
locked and an awful death seemed
threatening them.
Mr. Upshaw says that he almost
gave up hope. The smoke suffocated
him and he fell to the floor, but began
beating upon the door and finally
smashed through. All this time he
had been holding his wife with one
hand to keep her from running back.
He was so nearly o v'eroome that he
had to be pulled out of the burning
dwelling. Across one of his temples a
bad gash had been cut and one wrist
was also in a serious condition, both
requiring surgical attention.
The Upshaw dwelling was a mass
of flames when the fire company ar
rived. The residences of W. W. Mc
Minn to the south and Charles Meyer
to the north seemed doomed. The
wind at first carried the flames toward
the former, then switched and blew
northward. Had the company ar
rived sooner, the Meyer home might
have been saved, but the alarm was
not turned in to the hose house until
quite a while. Central could not be
reached by telephone and it was
probably this delay which prevented
the company giving a better account
of itself.
The dwelling house of Meyer’s
seemed to go up in a flash and was
completely burned before the house
in which the fire started. Nothing
was saved except a trunk of Miss
Hannah Meyer. Everything was re
moved from the McMinn home, and
the roof over two bed rooms and the
weatherboarding on the side adjacent
to Upshaw’s were badly burned and
charred.
SHORT ON INSURANCE.
The total loss on the three houses
and furnishings will probably aggre
gate $8000, while the total insurance
was but $4,900, including that carried
upon the McMinn home and contents,
where the loss is more than covered.
The three houses were built upon
two lots, standing but fifteen feet
apart and were the property of Mrs.
Nannie Goldman.
Following are the individual losses
and insurance carried on the damaged
properties:
Meyer dwelling, valued at $1,600,
insured for $860; contents, loss $2,500,
insurance $800.
Upshaw dwelling, valued at $1,500,
insurance $1,000; contents, loss $1,500
to $2,000, insurance $760.
McMinn dwelling, valued at $1,500,
insurance $1,000; contents insured for
$500 covering all damage.
STILL COURT STENOGRAPHER
Little Rock, Ark., May 19.—Attor
ney General George W. Murphy hat
given out a statement to the effecl
that the action of Judge A. B. Grace
of Pine Bluff, in the discharge of Mrs.
Nettie Freeman, as court stenogra
pher, is nugatory. When she was
appointed several years ago Judge
Grace required her to sign a writing
in the form of a resignation without
date, and after the recent primaries
notified her that he had accepted her
resignation. His action is said to
have been based upon the fact that
she worked for his opponent in the
primaries. The Attorney General
holds that Mrs. Freeman had no office
to resign when she signed the paper
in question, and that ,Jthe writing, if
it could have any effect at all, would
be to give the judge a power over her
the law did not intend he should have,
his power of removal being only for
incompetency or misconduct.” The
clerk of the Supreme Court has also
notified her that she is still recognized
as the court stenographer.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
ROCK ISLAND SECURES P. & G.
Kansas City, Mo., May 19.—Con
trol of the Kansas City Southern, run
ning from Kansas City to the Gulf of
Mexico, has been acquired by the
Moores and John W. Gates for the
Rock Island road by the purchase of
the Dutch Stock. The same interests
have probably acquired the iWfe^nsas
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changed hands, but the nam£>f the
purchaser has not been divulged. The
Kansas City Southern voting trust
has three years more to run, but there
has always been a serious question
as to its legality, and it is supposed,
that with the Rock island holding the
majority stock, there will be no ques
tion that the property will be turned
over to it at once.
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L. & A. TO BE EXTENDED.
Stamps, May 19.—The Louisiana &
Arkansas Railway Company has just
bought 40 miles of heavy 4-inch steel
rails, and the road will be extended
north to some point on the Iron
Mountain in the near future. Head
quarters for the road will remain here
as well as the roundhouse, shops, etc.
When extended north it will be one of
the finest short lines of railroads in
the south, though its length will be
now 200 miles through the best tim
ber and farming region of southwest
Arkansas and northern Louisiana.
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Meal service at union station.
It is announced that with the in
auguration of the new schedule and
the dining car service on the Iron
Mountain through trains about June
1, there will occur some very impor
tant changes. The meal service at
the union station in Little Rock is to
be abandoned for all main line trains
except No. 3, which arrives at 2 p. m.
from St. Louis, which will stop as
usual forty minutes for dinner.—Dem
ocrat.
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IRON MOUNTAIN SECURED THE DES ARC
Searcy, Ark., May 19.—It has been
a mooted question until now who had
bought the Searcy & Des Arc railroad.
Everybody believed the Frisco or the
Rock Island had bought it, but it is
now definitely known that the Iron
Mountain is the new owner, and it
took formal charge of the property
Saturday.
REVIVAL AT THE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Many will want to hear Evangelist
Cline tonight on “Why I am not a
Campbellite.” Mr. Cline considers
this one of the plainest discourses of
his entire series.
At the. close of the sermon last
night, three made the confession ol
their faith in Christ and six were bap
tized into the one body. The audience
was one of the largest that has attend
ed the meetings during the three
weeks.
Mr. Cline will speak from night tt
night indefinitely.
RETURNED FIFTEEN TRUE BILLS
Clarendon, May 17.—The Monro<
county grand jury adjourned las
night after being in session five days
Only fifteen true bills were returned
Judge Chapline has recovered fron
his recent attack of sickness an<
court will adjourn the middle of nex
week.
THE FATHER OF TWENTY-ONE.
Pine Bluff, April 19.—Hon. Jesse D.
Bush of Dexter, one of Jefferson
county’s representatives in the state
general assembly, one of the most
conspicuous characters in Arkansas,
familiarly known as the “tall syca
more of Dexter,” has been heard from
again. For the twenty-first time
since his home has been established a
little visitor has arrived to bless the
fond parents. This time the arrival is
a boy. His name will be “David Ben
nett Hill Bush of Dexter.” A pictur
esque feature of Mr. Bush’s large fam
ily lies in the fact that Mr. Bush is
easily able to carry his township with
his sons as voters.
BUTTON FACTORY
INCREASES CAPACITY.
DeVall’s Bluff, May 19.—River traf
fic is good. The sound of White river
steamboats is heard several times
each day.
The Nordman Stave Factory shipped
several carloads of finished staves
Tuesday. The pearl button factory is
laying in a large supply of shells, pre
paratory to increasing the capacity of
the plant here. Mr. Watkins is here
from Erie, Pa., and says he will in
crease the number of machines to 100
soon. He is much pleased with the
business established here. He leaves
his nephew, Mr. R. A. Tidball, as
general manager.
LITTLE ROCK HORSE SHOW.
Little Rock, Ark., May 19.—The
Little Rock horse show, the first ever
hold in the city, will open at West End
Park on Wednesday and continue
for three days. Capt. C. A. Pratt, the
chief promoter of the event, and to
whom belongs the greatest part of the
credit for the work done in providing
this show for Little Rock, has just re
turned from Memphis, where he acted
as one of the judges, and reports that
he secured 150 entries there. There
are 100 local entries. There are $2,
500 offered in prizes.
PEARLS AND SHELLS.
One of the best finds last week was
made by Alicia parties; a fine 36 grain
pearl brought $950. W. H. Judkins
and J. C. Lollar each owned one
fourth interest and Lureco Davenport
owTiPd the other half.—Biack Rock
Blade.
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Charles Sackett twisted and
squirmed every way to get a pearl
ing outfit and landed on the river with
60 cents, and with fear and trembling
went to work. He found a pearl last
week which he sold for $900.—Black
Rock Blade.
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LEVEE TAX.
The tax books of levee district No.
1, are now in the hands of the col
lector.
Books will be kept open at the office
of L. Minor until June 10, 1902.
Parties failing to pay by that time
will be declared delinquent as the
law directs. T. J. Watson,
Treasurer Levee District No. 1.
By L. Minor, Deputy.
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