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Newport Daily independent.
|ME XIII. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS MONDAY, APRIL I I, 1915. M MI5EK 12.
reme court
affirms case
L. Howard Versus Mrs.
e Grant On Appeal From
,ckson Chancery Court.
jl to Independent.
tie Rock, April 14.—The
me court today affirmed
udgment of the Jackson
,ery court in the appeal of
Howard et al versus Mrs.
t Belle Grant, fixing the
t0 40 acres of land worth
$1200 to $1500 in the lat
. case was argued orally
londay by Ira J* Mack and
W. Stayton for appellants
udge J. W. Phillips for the
lee, who was represented
lillips, Hillhouse & Boyce,
the appeals of Jewel Best,
T. Gist and W. P. Sander
rom convictions secured by
tate for the illegal sale of
cey, the same were dismiss
It MANAGE
[ HIS CAMPAIGN
■i Searcy Instead Of Little
Ick—Moore, Jobe and Mil
Ivee Considered as Man
1 agers
■al to Independent.
■tie Rock, April 14—Little
■ge is noticed in the politi
lituation. The entries some
I ago narrowed to Stephen
lididge of Searcy, and G. W.
Is of Camden. Both have
led the city since making
I' announcements, and Judge
Is returned to Little Rock
ly to make arrangements
■opening his headquarters.
Is consulting with a number
1 llose frinds about the selec
I of a campaign manager, the
louncement being expected
fudge Brundidge is also coll
iding a campaign manager,
|l among those mentioned for
I place are Dr. A. E. Moore,
fmer State Auditor John R.
f>e and Judge R. F. Milwee of
Irendon. Dr. Moore managed
1° campaigns for Judge Brun
ge, uui nas now retired trom
'tics and is practicing medi
e in the northern part of
ulkner county. He will assist
the campaign work when pos
le, but cannot be counted on
' the grind.
Mr. Jobe will also assist in
3 work, and lend his advice,
t as he is now connected with
5 office of the State Treasurer,
will not neglect that to go
0 a political campaign.
Judge Milwee managed the
>t two Donaghey campaigns
has always been considered
winner. Others have been
I Rationed as possible managers
e Brundidge campaign, but
all be guess work until the
n of Judge Brundidge to
definite announcement.
ere is some doubt of the
didge headquarters being
tained in Little Rock, the
date looking with more
upon Searcy, his home
' . branch headquarters
’ in this case, be located in
! Rock, but the bulk of the
would be done in Searcy.
Plan originated with form
wernor Donaghey, who did
his circular work from
STORY OF THE “CLANSMAN*
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Plot of Famous Play Known to
All Theatregoers.
i The story of Thomas Dixon’s
.celebrated drama, “The Clans
|man,” which will appear in this
'city tonight in a big tent, is well
known to all theatregoers. How
lever, in view of the coming en
! gagement of the play, it may be
well to mention it.
“The Clansman” is briefly the
story of how the descendants of
j the Scottish clans, living in the
South Carolina hill country, rose
up in the year of 1867 and threw
off the carpetbagger yoke. Their
agency in effecting this result
was the celebrated Ku Klux
Klan. The hero of the play, Ben
Cameron, is a leader of the Klan.
His sweetheart, Elsie Stoneman,
is the daughter of an Abolition
ist, the organizer of the hated
Union League. Here is the in
terplay of love and hate, of pas
sion and circumstances, in
which the dramatist delights
Elsie’s father put forth every
effort to enforce negro domina
tion, and Ben as stoutly resists.
The latter is arrested and clap
ped in jail by the scalawag
white governor ot the state,
who is eked on by the mulatto
Lieutenant-Governor, Silas
Lynch. A Federal Court mar
tial sentences Ben to death. El
sie begs the Lieutenant-Govern
or to save him. The latter says
he will if Elsie will marry him
(the mulatto.) Elsie faints at
the shocking proposal. Stone
man enters and is maddened on
learning what his trusted pro
tege Lynch has done. He has
encouraged Lynch about social
equality and indeed has told him
to go ahead and marry a white
woman, but when he learns
Lynch wants his own daughter,
that is another story and his
| rage and disgust are beyond
bounds.
Yet Stoneman and his daugh
ter are helpless in the hands of
' the mulatto. It is the Ku Klux
Klan who, headed by the rescu
ed Ben surrounds the house,
make Lynch a prisoner and free
the old man and his daughter.
Stoneman at last sees his gigan
tic mistake in trying to rule the
country by carpetbaggers and
negroes and in instilling lalse
ideas of social and political
_Uo vt nrmilPP^ that he
ucixiL.y . ...
will make yet another trip tc
Washington to induce the au
I thorities there to withdraw the
: Federal troops and allow the
I Southern people to manage theii
'affairs in their own way. Ben
I and Elsie are united. A fairei
! day begins for that portion of
the stricken South, thanks tc
| the high purpose, steadfasl
i courage and heroic achievement*
' of the “Ku Klux Klan,” “an in
visible Empire which within £
few months overspread a teni
tory larger than modern Europe
j snatched power out of defeal
! and death, and tore the fruits oi
| victory from twenty million con
! querors.”
I Convicts To Red Fork Levee.
' Little Rock, April 14. —T. P
Murrey, a member of the Stat(
Penitentiary Board, left Littk
! Rock Sunady afternoon for th<
j State Farm to superintend th<
j loading of 150 convicts on a boa
from Pine Bluff, which will car
! ry them to the Red Fork Leve<
in Desha county near Yoncupin
t The convicts will be used ther<
to strengthen the Arkansas nv
er levee. v
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LIFT QUARANTINE
FROM JACKSON
Is Recommendation of North
east Arkansas Tick Eradica
tion Commission.
Walnut Ridge, April 13.— The
Northeast Arkansas Tick Eradi
cation Commission met in Wal
nut Ridge Friday. The mem
bers attending were: J. H.
Washburn, Imboden; E. Dalton,
Pocahontas; M. M. Rutherford,
Batesville; John E. Newberry,
Paragould; H. T. Mitchell, Til
ton; J. G. Richardson, Walnut
Ridge.
Regulations regarding the
movement of cattle and the work
in this district this season were
; adopted. The commission plans
| to increase the scope of the work
and will recommend that Baxter,
Jackson and Izard counties be
placed above the United States
! quarantine line. The following
counties are now above the line:
Clay, Greene, Randolph, Law
rence, Mississippi, Crittenden,
Fulton, Craighead, Poinsett, and
north Sharp.
The government force this year
will include Dr. E. P. Yeager,
Dr- Sidney False, Dr. H. L. Dar
by, Dr. A. C. Jerome, Don Boden
; heimer, J. 0. Lenoard, J. G.
Simpson, R. C. Stubblefield, Jas- j
per Hutchinson, I. N. Price, W.
H. Rodgers, T. A. Sharp and W.
H. Landreth.
i The state force is composed of
J. B. Cone, A. F. Battlestone,
A. J. Guimon, A. G. Steadman,
W. C. Wilson, C. W. Ford, W.
B. Headstream, J. S. Griffin and
A. C. Smart. The alternates are
Dolph Hughey, J. I. Stalnacher,
I J. E. Mitchell, J. S. Cleveland
and J. Faltinger
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Warmer Days Predicted.
> Washington, April 13.—Slight
! ly warmer temperature, less
| rainfall and fair weather gener
ally east of the Rockies during
; the fore part of the week are the
! probabilities offered by Chief
i Willis L. Moore of the Weather
Bureau in his weekly bulletin is
j sued tonight.
' “The distribution of atmos
' pheric pressure over the north
jern hemisphere'” says the
; bulletin, “is such as to indi
| cate that temperatures will aver
age near or about the normal the
coming week in all parts ol the
country east of the Rocky moun
tains and slightly below normal
on the Pacific slope. The rain
fall during the week will be gen
erally below normal.
“Fair weather will prevail dur
ing the next several days over
the greater part of the country
east of the mountains, while
rains will be frequent during the
week in the north Pacific states.
“The next disturbance of im
portance to cross the country
will appear over the Far West
■ Monday or Tuesday, cross the
Rocky mountains about Wednes
day, the great central valleys
i Thursday or Friday and the
Eastern states near the close of
the week; this disturbance will
be preceded by warm w’eather,
! be attended by showers and
' thunder storms and be followed
“ by cooler weather wfith frosts in
s the Northwest states and the
: Rocky mountain and plateau re
■ gions.”
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SPECIAL MUSIC SALE
; Anything in our window—this
- week only—10c per copy.
BARKERS.
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Machines to Supplant Miners.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 11.—An of
ficial of one of the Sebastian
county coal companies, was in
Little Rock attending to busi
ness yesterday and stated that
two years hence the mine run
law would be repealed or ail op
erators would be forced to put
in machines with which to mine
the coal, and have laborers load
it on the cars in the mines, thus
doing away with the experienc
ed miner entirely.
The Central Coke & Coal Co.
has already installed machines
in its mines at Hartford and will
follow with similar equipment at
Huntington, Bonanza and the
other mines of the company.
The Bache-Denmark, the Belen
Darnell and the Western Coal &
Mining Company are expected to
follow
The operators claim the coal
as now mined, is so dirty and
has so much slack in it, that
they find difficulty in finding a
market for it. They claim the
miners would receive as much,
or more, putting out coal of a
superior quality, as the scale for
mining lump coal is almost dou
ble the present price paid. Un
der the present scale the miner
weighs everything mined by
him, but if the law was repealed
he would lose the weight of the
slack, but would get a higher
price for clean coal.
CLUBS SHOW
SPLENDID INCREASE
Many Prizes Are Offered By Con
gressmen and Cotton
Companies.
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Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 14. — The
corn, cotton and canning clubs of
Arkansas are growing rapidly
under the encouragement of
W. J. Jernigan, the state agent
in this work. He has just com
pleted a brief outline of the
work done in the past four
months, which shows he has
traveled 4,530 miles by rail, 45
by team, held 18 meetings with
an attendance of 1,950, visited
28 agents and 3 farms. His re
cords show the corn club en
rollment to be 1896, the cotton
club 617, and the canning club
has 547 members. This is a
material increase over last
year.
mi. _ /' ll_•_ „_ XI- ~
| i. lie lUlIUWing die me p
| offered to the club members this
! year:
' Corn Club—Washington trip
; by Chamber of Commerce, Pine
| Bluff.
Washington trip for winner in
I Seventh Congressional District,
Congressman W. S. Goodwin
Washington trip for the win
ner in the Second Congressional
District, W. A. Oldfield, con
gressman.
; Cotton Club—Washington trip
for the winner, Southern Cotton
Oil Company.
$100 to the boy making the
j best yield of 1 1-8 inch cotton,
P. P. Byrd Cotton Company,
Pine Bluff
Canning Club—Latest improv
ed canner, complete, Dixie Can
ner Company. Plows and other
additional prizes are offered as
additional prizes in the differ
ent classes.
For Sale.
300 ranks dry cook wood cut
from dry lumber. $2.00 per
rank delivered.
Fee-Crayton Hardwood Lumber
Company. 7dtf.
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look here for it.
Many a Newport Reader \\ il! Be
Interested.
When people read about the
cures made by a medicine en
dorsed from far away, is it sur
prising that they wonder if the
statements are true? But when
they read of cases right here at
home, positive proof is within
their reach, for close investiga
tion is an asy matter. Read
Newport endorsement of Doan’s
Kidney Pills.
J. H. Willis, farmer, R. F. D.
No. 2, Newport, Ark., says: “I
was suffering intensely from kid
ney complaint at the time I pro
cured Doan’s Kidney Pills at
Dutton’s Drug Store. I had
what I thought to be inflamma
tion of the blcVder, at any rate
the symptoms pointed to this
trouble. The secretions from
my kidneys passed too frequent
ly, particularly during the night
and m,y rest was thus broken. 1
attributed my trouble to the poor
drinking water in this locality,
Thinking that Doan’s Kidney
Pills would help me, I got a sup
ply and they permanently rid mt
of the trouble ”
Fcr sale by all dealers. Pric<
50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.
Buffalo, New York, sole agentf
for the United States.
Remember the name—Doanh
—and take no other. (Adv.'
Secretary To Robinson.
Special to Independent.
Little’Rock, April 14.—Grad;
Miller, brother-in-law of Sena
Y
tor J. T. Robinson, and his for-''-*——
mer secretary while congress
man, and assistant secretary
while governor, leaves today for
Washington, where he will be
come assistant secretary to Sen
ator Robinson. He will also be
a clerk of a committee of which
Senator Robinson is a member.
WILL PAY TEN DOLLARS.
The manufacturers of Ross'
“Dead Quick” spray will pay $10
apiece for “any old” bug it will
not kill. Bedbugs, fleas, ants,
roaches, mites, lice, etc., die the
moment it is used on them. Also
their eggs, and mosquitoes too.
Sold in Newport by your drug
gists. (Adv.)
Moving Pictures
at the Opera Houi
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18 Reels Per Week.
BUCK’S ROMANC
(Comedy—SELIG) *
THE MOTHER STRATEGY
(LUBIN)
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A story of a moonshiner ^ ,
, pretty daughter up in thi. 1 ' ' “
, tains. Carlyle BlackwSj E* E*1
revenue officer is sent tciA i
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the moonshiner, but he f/
. love with the daughter ar x.v
in his mission for the JL
^hestra.
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