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VOLUME II. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1903 NUMBER 266
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820.00 to Butte, Anaconda and
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825.00 to San Francisco, Los Angeles
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RAILROAD TIME CARD.
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NORTH BOUND.
No. 72 Local Freight. 6:45 a. m.
No. 2. 4:06 a. m.
No. 4. 11:05 a. m.
No. 12. 8:48 p. m.
No. 6. 10:50 p. m.
No. 8.11:32 p. m.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 73 Local Freight. 7:00 a. m.
No. 7. 4:05 a. m.
No. 5. 4:40 a. m.
No. 11. 6:15 a. m.
No. 3. 11:39 a. m.
No. 1. 10:50 p. m.
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Mixed “ . 11:45 a. m.
Passenger Arrives. 6:45 p. m.
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GOVERNOR DAVIS
ADMITS CHARGES.
Offers To Shorten Investigation Ac
knowledging That Contingent
Fund Had Been Used For
Private Telegraph And
Telephone Messages.
Little Rock, Feb. 25— Governor
Davis admitted fo the committee on
ways and means last night that he
had drawn on his contingent fund for
telegraph and telephone tolls which
were not technically state business.
The announcement came somewhat as
a shock to the large crowd who were
present, and during the rest of the
evening every word uttered in the
proceedings was listened to with the
closest attention.
Governor Davis made the announce
ment when the committee proposed
to give him a list of the vouchers to
which exception had been taken, in
order that he might prepare his
answer to the charges. He said that
he thought he could shorten the mat
ter considerably, and would admit the
fact, that that feature of the investi
gation might be closed. This was not
acceptable to the members of the com
mittee, however, and the investiga
tion will go ahead without interrup
Iliuu.
The session held last night was a
brief one, owing to the fact that ad
journment was taken in order that the
governor might have time to prepare
his answer. The latter said he was
perfectly willing to go ahead right
then, inasmuch as the committee had
refused to point out the objectionable
feature in the vouchers under discus
sion. Only one witness was examined
last night, T. H. Bunch, the coal man,
but he was excused after a few min
utes, owing to the fact that it was
proven that he knew absolutely noth
ing about the case under discussion.
The committee will meet again to
night at 7:30 o’clock, and at that time
the committee will resume considera
tion of the telephone and telegraph
charges.
ARKANSAS ANTHRACITE
HELPED BY STRIKE.
E. T. McConnell of Clarksville,
formerly the superintendent of the
state penitentiary, who was in Little
Rock Wednesday, says the prospects
for the further development of the
coal mines of the Spadra or anthra
cite district are improving every day.
There are now in operation eleven
shafts in the district, and in the
course of the present year there will
probably be a number of others be
gun, if not completed. It would be
hard to estimate, he says, the total
output of the mines from the fact that
there are several stations from which
the coal is shipped. He is himself
largely interested in the fields, but
has never had anything to do with the
active management of the properties.
Two of the mines have turned but in
the present season not less than 80,
000 tons of the best semi-anthracite.
Mr. McConnell emphatically says that
the great Pennsylvania strike of last
year was the making of the Arkansas
mines. Before that time their pro
duct was hardly known outside the
state, and if known the consumers
were suspicious of a change from the
Pennsylvania anthracite. Now that
they have been forced to use the
Arkansas coal they have found that it
is just as good, and in some cases bet
ter, than the Eastern product, and
the orders from the large Western
manufactories continue to come in
though] the Pennsylvania trouble
stopped several mbntl^s ago.—Arkan
sas Gazette.
SUPREME COURT
REVERSES DECISION.
Among the decisions handed down
by the supreme court last week was
an opinion reversing the judgment of
the lower court in the suit of J. D.
Goldman versus J. C. Hayes on a
debt.
A jury in Judge F. D. Fulkerson’s
court on July 26, 1900, returned a
verdict for plaintiff in sum of 875.00
for some disputed rents. On August
7th, 1900, the defendant took an ap
peal and two other similar suits have
been continued from term to term,
awaiting the decision of the higher
court in this case.
FIGHTING FOR TERRITORY.
Contest Between Frisco and Gould
Systems at Carthage for Use of a
Street Taken Into Court.
The Missouri Pacific and Frisco
interests have clashed at Carthage,
Mo., over the question of right of
way, and the matter has reached the
courts.
About midnight Monday Sheriff
Owens of Jasper county, Mo., served
a writ of injunction upon the Frisco
officials at the instance of Mayor
Chaffee of Carthage. The object of
this proceeding is to prevent the
Frisco from finishing 166 feet of
switching track on Mound street,
which is near the termination of the
railroad’s yards in the northeastern
part of Carthage. The company
started a large force of men at about
6 o’clock Monday afternoon. Mayor
Chaffee and a large number of citi
zens and officers at once went to the
laborers, and by threats of force com
pelled them to desist. A few minutes
subsequently the injunction papers
were served.
It is understood that the highway
involved is one secured by the city of
Carthage for the Gould White river
line. Engineers for both the Frisco
and the White river line have recent
ly made surveys along this route.
From the intense manner in which
the point is being contested it is pro
bable that the two Kansas City-Mem
phis lines will frequently lock horns
hofnro thft tranlrs am wartv tn reneive
trains.
MARRIAGE LICESE.
J. S. Payne and Etta Reeves, both
of Tuckerman.
A. E. Watts and Rosa Gibbs, both
of Newport.
Billie Fults and Mrs. Kate Bane,
both of Newark.
Will Holliday and Lonnie Wilson,
both of Auvergne.
Lucius Graham and Mrs. Maggie
Spears, both of Weldon.
John Isbell, Swifton and Mrs Arena
Blevens, of Newport.
Geo. W. Montgomery and Mrs.
Rachel 0. Jones, Grubbs.
Albert Galloway and Mrs. Nora
Stephens, both of Tuckerman.
George Loyd and Millie Scott, both
of Newark.
Cornelius Wallace and Roxie Mallo
ry, both of Newport.
MODERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Daily Eagle
in its Monday edition publishes two
pages of verbatim reports of sermons
preached by the leading divines of
New York City and elsewhere. This
edition is sent to subscribers for #1.50
a year. This is a unique feature for a
daily newspaper, no other paper of
the country carrying so many pulpit
reports. The ^sermons of Rev. Dr.
Hillis, the successor of Henry Ward
Beecher, are published every week.
d. It.
CHARGED WITH PERJURY.
Eureka Springs, Ark., Feb. 25.—
Riley and .Will Vandevor, living at
Rogers, Ark., and by whom the de
fense attempted to prove an alibi for
“Poly” Carlisle, the convicted Sring
dale bank robber, were yesterday
tried in an examining court here for
perjury. Riley was held in $500 bail
to await the action of the August
grand jury, but his brother Will was
released.
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