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Kork Convicts.
■ Independent.
Bock, Feb. 28.—The
■penitentiary Commis
■lect to make the Ark
Kfarm a very profit
Etion this year, and
E leased 1800 acres of
Eng the farm, which
Eed in cotton. The i
■7OO acres of land on
■hich has been cleared
El], and it too will be j
■cotton, making an in-1
B5OO acres, and each j
■pected to produce its
Btentiary board has
■0 acres of land from
■ plantation, which ad-!
■ state farm on the
■ 800 acres from Capt.1
Be west. This will1
■state’s land within a j
■of the station at Var- j
1 tsfnta ■
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j a road to the farm 1
ier, and eight bales of
'be hauled to the rail
e rainy season, where
flit mules to pull six
dgh the deep mud be
50 additional head of
com crop must be in-!
id with it comes the
Sn of four silos on the
ese silos will make it:
br the increasing of ,
bck and the commis- i
lect to see the farm
high meat for all the
rithin the next few
■ j
peas, potatoes, pump
age, tobacco and other
D be grown to assist j
g the convicts through
rat small cost to the
Iftace On Ticket. I
fa View, Feb. 27.—
of the 28 candidates i
ferious county offices i
fity have signed the j
ifred by the election I
he County Central.
! his refused to place
of those who have
the pledge on the
le time for signing
and many of i
candidates are very I
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I me matter, me ,
! the corrimittee has
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Falls’ —an extra
stor.v in 4 parts.
1 over the falls in
“Nuisance Act Near Beer” For
Memphis.
Memphis, Feb. 27.—Bearing
a gaudy label and inclosed in a
regulation pint bottle with a
metal cap a "Nuisance Act Near
Beer” will make its appearance
in Memphis after March 1, ac
cording to an announcement by
managers of the Tennessee
Brewery, in a communication to
Prosecuting Attorney Estes.
The label will display the name
"Brewett.”
Intimations that a number of
retail liquor dealers have prepar
ed to surrender their govern
ment license only to take out
others have reached the ears of
the prosecuting attorney, the
latter declares.
"I have arranged for a man to
keep in touch with places of this
sort,” said Estes, "and we intend
to keep a close watch for evas
ions of any kind. Beer manu
facturers have notified their pa
trons to comply with the “Nui
sance” law, but there is always
a chance that somebody will at
tempt to get by.”
The prosecuting attorney de
clares he has not altered his de
termination to prosecute all vio
lators without favor.
Children’s Day. Popular.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 26.—Gov
ernor G. W. Hays is writing to
the governors of other states,
asking them to assist in the
movement started by him. to
make the annual children’s day
of Arkansas a national event.
Governor Hays is calling atten
tion to the other chief execu
tives to the success of the event
in Arkansas last December, and
asks them to give the proposi
tion a trial, feeling sure that all
governors will be pleased with
the results. As this movement
started in Arkansas, being sug
gested by E. C. Hardin, a proba
tion officer of Fort Smith, Gov.
Hays is quite proud of it, and
feels that childhood will have
something to thank him for if
he can extend the day for them,
oyer the entire United States.
Once the mbvemerit has gone
this far it can easily extended
into a wirld-wide movement.
Jury Says Killing Was Justifi
able.
Fort Smith, Feb. 27.— That
his action was justified was the
verdict returned by a coroner’s
jury today, investigating the
killing of Thomlas Choate by his
20-year old son, Hobart Choate,
at Booneville, Wednesday night.
The boy has not been released
from jail. He and his father
Quarreled because the lad mar
ried Sunday against the wishes
of his father, who was under a
15-year sentence for killing the
city marshal at Beebe and
whose case was pending on ap
peal before the supreme court
The boy’s grandmother, Mrs
E. A. Choate, mother of the
slain man, at whose home the
killing occurred, told the jury
her son attacked her grandsor
with a knife after he had threat
ened to kill all members of the
family.
Edison Mazda lamps, with im
proved drawn wire fillaments
at the following prices: 10, 15
20, 25 watts, 35c each; 40 wati
each 35c; 60 watts, 45c; 24 c
p. gems 20c each. These lamp!
have no equal in life and efficien
cy. Call Sam J. Denty. Tele
phone 117.
AROUSED OVER
INCREASED RATE
City Officials And Citizens Hear
Argument Of Com
pany.
Special to Independent
Little Rock, Feb. 28.—'i he cit
izens of Little Rock are up in
arms over the proposed rate in
crease by the Little Rock branch
of the Southwestern Telegraph
and Telephone Company, an
nounced to become effective
April 1.
A largely attended conference
was held Friday afternoon at
the office of Mayor Taylor to dis
cuss the situation, and enter a
vigorous protest against the pro
posed increased. There were
committees present from-the
three cities of Little Rock,-Pu
laski Heights and Argenta, the
Chamber of Commerce,. the
Board of Trade, and the City
Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Several officials of the telephone
company were also present.
General Manager J. H. Hiss of
the company addressed the
meeting, in support of the pro
posed increase, and for an hour
was a target for a volley of
questions propounded by city of
ficials and citizens.
Mr. Hiss explained that the
raise is not so great as permis
sible under the franchise passed
In 1904, and that all the compa
ny seeks is a reasonable return
on their investment. He esti
mates that the increase will pro
vide $15,000 a year more reve
nue, and this is to be expended
in raising the salaries of the op
erators. He said the company
had expended $207,000 in bet
terments in the city in the last
eighteen months, and that plans
for the expenditure of $60,000
| more in the near future. They
have a total of one and a half
millions invested in the city, and
the net earnings under present
conditions are about 2 per cent.
During the last year the compa
ny has practically rebuilt about
twenty plants in the state.
After discussion and cross ex
amination lasting for more than
two hours, a sub-committee on
investigation was appointed,
consisting of the mayors of the
three cities, one member from
each council, State Labor Com
missioner J. C. Clary, and one
representative each of the
Chamber of Commerce, the
Board of Trade, and the City of
Federation of Women’s Clubs.
This committee held its first
conference Friday night with
representatives of the telephone
company, in an effort to get to
gether on terms that will be
mutually acceptable, and keel
the matter out of the courts if
possible.
Chief Sam Gets Recruits.
Boston, Feb. 27.—D. B. Garret
of Boley, Oklahoma, who call
himself a recruiting officer fo:
Alfred Charles Sam, organize:
of a proposed negro colony i)
Africa;, declares that he has en
1 rolled more than 100 Boston ne
groes as prospective colonists
Garrett and G. W. Lane hav
established headquarters in i
restaurant in the negro quarte
in the south end. Sam’s opera
■ tions are under investigation i:
> New York.
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Carload of Bananas.
J. B. Heard has a carload o
1 nice ripe bananas on the trac]
■ opposite Wolff-Goldman’s. Ear
■ j ly buyers get the best, so com
1 early. Prices are just right.
Large Estate Involved.
Special to Independent.
| Little Rock, Feb. 27.—Andrew
J. Hunter of Little Rock says !
j that only 400 acres of the large I
' estate in many counties, left by
iS. F. Field, and not 300,000, is
| involved in the case which he
j has appealed to the Arkansas su- J
Ipreme court from the Pulaski'
chancery court. This land was
purchased by Mr. Hrnter and
sold to W. A. Field in 1911.
“It is true”, says Mr. Hunter,
I “that Judge Martineau held that
I had bought the land in ques
tion as a trustee, and from this
decision 1 appealed, and I am
quite sure the higher court will
reverse the decree of the lower (
court. The land was purchas-1
ed by me at a foreclosure sale, |
i February 6, 1899, in my own
name, with my own money, bor-1
rowed from a bank on my own
note, secured by a mortgage on
my own property, and which I
have held as my own ever since.
The land had belonged to S. F.
Field, who in his lifetime had
oriven a mni'forflo'p tn R .T Rrnwn i
who foreclosed same and had the |
land sold. The heirs were unable |
to protect the property, and as
they had other lands which were
liable under the judgment, I de
cided to bid up the property to
protect the other lands from ex
ecution and sacrifice, m{y wife
having an interest in them. This
I did and the land sued for,.
which was with other property
sued for covered by the mort
gage, was sold to me, and a deed
for same issued vesting the title
in me forever, the sale being ap
proved by the court of record.”
Gored By Bull.
Rogers, Feb. 27.—Tom Brew-.
ing barely escaped death here
yesterday when he was gored by
a bull in the Rozelle pasture. The
boy had been cutting wood and
returned for his axe when the
animal attacked him. He was
rolled through a wire fence,
where he could not be reached
by the bull or he probably would
have been killed. A gash was
cut oh the boy’s chin and a
wound six inches long made in
his side. Ten stitches were tak
en in his chih and six in his
side ta sew up the wounds.
Thompson Has Good Alibi.
Fort Smith, Feb. 27.—George
Thompson, serving two years in
the penitentiary for robbing the
First State Bank of Dardanelle,
October 1, and also charged with
robbing the Bank of Fulton at
Fulton, Ark., October 3, has a
good alibi in the latter case in
the records of the local police de
partment, it was discovered to
day. Thompson was /arrested
here on the night of October 2
and was sentenced in police
court October for breaking away
from a gang of prisoners in
August when he was sent to
jail for 60 days without his iden
tity being known.
Thompson, C. H. Barton and
Will Starling, recently pleaded
guilty to the Dardanelle rob
bery. Barton and Starling are
also charged with the Fulton
robbery, as is Starling’s broth
er, Jinks, who is held in the
state penitentiary awaiting his
trial, Richard Reynolds, who was
arrested charged with the Dar
danelle robbery, was recently re
arrested in that city, following
the quashing of the indictment
_• i i- !_ _ i_*n _:_
agaiiiai min un ci wjh uuu^jh^
him with robbing the Fulton
bank.
Farmers To Organize.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 28— The
farmers in the vicinity of Cam
den, in an effort to secure for
their cotton something near its
real value, are planning to or
ganize into a corporation some
thing similar to that of the far
mers at Scotts. G. S. Rumph
of Camden, a merchant, has
written to Commissioner John
H. Page, asking him for his o
pinion on an organization which
will erect a warehouse, store
cotton, and have it sampled,
then offered to spinners in a
quantity. Commissioner Page
had replied to the letter approv
ing the proposition, and sending
a copy of the articles of associa
tion of the Scotts organization,
which has been adopted by the
United States Department of
Agriculture, as a model for other
farm organizations.
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Miss Ella Anderson is in the
city the guest of Mrs. Ida Say
lots and will sing at the morn
ing services of the Presbyterian
church. .. „
Business Men To Help.
Special to Independent,
j Little Rock, Feb. 28. —Mayor
Charles E. Taylor has called a
meeting of the business men’s
committee which will raise the
funds for the entertainment of
the Arkansas State Press Asso
ciation ,and work out the plans
to put the money into circulation
for Monday afternoon. Mayor
Taylor is the chairman of the
committee, which is composed of
three members of the Chamber
Of Commerce, three of the Board
of Trade, and three from the
Little Rock Press Club.
On the committee are, Sam W.
Reyburn, president of the Uni
on Trust Company, and W. E.
Lenon, president of the Peoples
Savinks Bank, representing the
banks; Max Ileiman, president
of the Gus Blass Co. and the
Mercantile Trust Company, rep
resenting the retail interests;
H. M. Bennett, president of the
! Arkansas Fertilizer Co., repre
senting the manufacturers; W.
N. Brandon, of the Brandon &
Turner Stove Company, repre
senting the wholesale mer
chants; (J. J. (iriffitn, general
manager of the Little Rock
Street Railway Company; and
Fred Heiskel of the Gazette# A,
D. Murlin of the Western News
paper Union and A. W. Parke of
the Parke-Harper News Service.
The executive committee of
the Little Rock Press Club will
I meet previous to the other meet
! ing, and decide what amount
1 they desire to put on the big en
tertainment they are planning,
land just what it will consist of.
Their plans are very elaborate,
and if the merchants co-operate
with the Little Rock newspaper
men, the event will be the most
successful since the Confederate
Reunion of 1911.
The candy sale at I. D. Price’s
bookstore this morning from 10
to 12 o’clock by Misses Leah
Jones, Bertha Hirsch, Frances
! Bailey and Willie Overton Min
or, netted $15.00, which will be
used for material to further the
p’an of making St, Paul’s one
of the model Sunday Schools of
the state. The girls were as
sisted by all their friends, who
either bought# donated, tasted,
recomended or encouraged by
their presence all of which is
; highly appreciated by the Sun
day School.
Our Spring Hats
Now Make Their Bow.
We’re showing all the correct blocks
and styles from the most noted hatters.
; We’ve hats in right proportions to jibe
with every cast of countenance.
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$3.00, $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00
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5 Stiff Hats in extreme or conservative shapes.
1 Soft Hats-There are *o many styles we can’t begin
to tell you about them.
1
Come in, try on as many different styles as you like and choose
your particular hat.
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