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VOLUME II. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY JULY 5, 1902. NUMBER 64
Clearance
©f Colored and Fancy
Dress Goods
COMMENCING JUNE 27TH.
SALE FOR CASH.
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| FOR TEN DAYS ONLY.
MATCHLESS BARGAINS IN DRESS
LENGTHS, WAIST LENGTHS
AND FULL PIECES
Fancy Cottons, fladrasses, Linen Waistings,
Lawns, Swisses, Organdies (except
Fancy White Ginghams, white and black.)
Goods, Wash Silks, Fancy Silks,
Mercerized Fabrics.
I arasols at half and three-fourths former
prices.
Millinery, hats trimmed and untrimmed at half
price.
Flowers at half price.
20 per cent off on all fancy hoisery.
•* FOR TEN DKYS ONLY.
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Newport Builders’ Supply
and Hardware Company
HIGH GRADE GOODS
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
Quality Our First
(Consideration
,.PRICES ALWAYS REASONABLE..
* PEARLS.
We pay the highest prices for
Pearls, Slugs, Points or Baroques.
Send your pearls to us, if our offer
is not accepted, we will return/them
at our expense.
< Try us on a small lot.
Wm. Barthmaim.
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WON IN A WALK.
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Newport Athletic Association Wins
First Game With Bernstein’s
Drummers on the Lake
Grounds Friday
Afternoon.
The Newport Athletic Association
met “Bernstein’s Drummers,” a nine
selected for the day, and composed
not only of traveling men but home
talent as well, on the base ball diamond
Friday afternoon and came out victors
in a hotly contested struggle. The
Newport boys batted out enough runs
in the early part of the game to give
their opponents a bad case of the blues
and then proceeded to cinch the game
by holding the drummers down to a
few scattered runs, except in the ninth
inning, when in a last desperate rally,
aided by costly errors upon the part
of the home team, they came very
near evening up the final score.
The game was free from rowdyism
and was a very fair exhibition of am
ateur ball, calculated to win the New
port boys the moral encouragement
and financial support of the town.
One great disadvantage is the grounds,
as the outfield is not only very rough,
but contains several ditches and mud
holes, where the ball is forever lost
when once it goes that way. The
crowd manifested its approval of ev
ery piece of clever work by a dis
charge of torpedoes and other explo
sives of the Fourth. Henry Owen
wnn fl.TYnlfl.nnn of the motors fro
quently by good field work and timely
hits, while “Panilla” Morton kept the
crowd in a laughing humor by his
witty coaching.
Following is the line up:
NEWPORT DRUMMERS.
Roberts, c G. Richardson c
R. Richardson, p Morton, p
Parrish, lb Adams, lb
Owen, 2b Brown, 2b
Carter, 3b Marris, 3b
McDonald ss Mahoney, ss
Hare rf Johnson, rf
Dillard, cf Allen, cf
Buford If Bandy, If
Jas. Duffer, Umpire.
Score by innings.
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Newport 43002031 *-13
Drummers 2 1120000 4-1
INDUSTRY INCREASING.
“The pearl business in Black River
is not at all active, as most of the
fishermen have hastened away to the
new fields on White river, with the
greed and excitement of miners when
a new gold field is discovered, ”
said Judge J. H. Townsend of Black
Rock, in an interview in the Mem
phis Scimitar. “There is not a mile
on the river nowever, where a few
persistent fishermen can not be found,
and from time to time one of them
will appear in Black Rock with a
pearl of great beauty that will readily
bring several hundreds of dollars.
“Perhaps the latest valuable find
made in the Black Rock territory was
that of last week by a negro named
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remained faithful to the region. Dunn
discovered a beautiful round pearl
that he readily sold for §900.
“Newport may be considered tho
present market center of the most
active pearl region of Arkansas, and
the weekly sales at that city will
amount to a very considerable sum—
a sum so considerable that those who
have not visited a pearl region in its
stage of eruption would laugh skep
tically and think that Baron Mun
chausen had returned to life after a
sleep of many years in the great void
where heroes of popular novels find
rest and forgetfulness. It may be
stated that the sales for a single day
at Black Rock in the palmy days oi
the Black river region have amounted
to more than §12,000.”
CROSSING GATE BROKEN.
The gate constructed by the Iror
Mountain at the intersection of that
road and the Choctaw track, was rur
into Friday night by an Iron Mountair
engine and almost completely de
molished. When constructed, it was
supposed to serve as a gate for th<
Choctaw, except when trains on th<
latter road were passing, but proved
an obstruction as a rule to the Moun
tain trains.
GOVERNOR OFFERS PROTEST.
Davis Appeals To President Against
Appointment Of Senator Jones On
Canal Commission.
The following letter addressed to
President Roosevelt Thursday by Gov.
Davis, will be read with interest:
“1 notice in the metropolitan press
of a few days ago a statement that in
all probability Senator James K. Jones
would be by your excellency appoint
ed a member of the canal commission,
should the Panama route pass and
become effective. Of course I know
that you have not overlooked the
constitutional provision which pro
hibits his holding any office till the
fourth of next March, save that of
senator, and I desire, Mr. President,
to say in behalf of the people of Ar
kansas, with all due deference and
respect to yourself and your power of
appointment, that if you contemplate
appointing Mr. Jones as a Democrat
from Arkansas, as an honor to our
State, we would like to have an op
portunity to protest against the prof
fered honor. He has been repudi
ated here by the Democracy, and by
his recent utterance and actions has
put himself beyond the party line; but
if you desire to appoint him as a Re
publican pure and simple, of course
we can raise no objection,though if you
appoint him as a Democrat we would
like to be heard. Perhaps I should
not have addressed you tnus plainly,
and I should not have done so but for
your kind consideration or me on my
recent visit and the expressed desire
on your part to have me communi
cate with you freely about any matter
in Arkansas. I feel that this is of
great importance to the Democracy of
this State, that if this recognition is
given Senator Jones, it will not be
given to him as a Democrat without
the protest of the Democracy of this
State.”_ __
DAY OF PICNICS.
The Fourth of July, as observed at
Newport, is hardly a day commemor
ative of the great event of 1776, when
Jefferson and other patriots of col
onial days attached their signatures
to that, immortal Declaration of Inde
pendence. The reason cannot be as
signed to a lack of patriotism, but
rather to the prevalence of the opin
ion that there is no need for such
demonstration.
Independence Day was conspicuous
more for its excursions and its picnics
rather than for its cannonading and
fireworks, though the militia com
pany fired a salute of 47 guns at 6:16
in the morning, 23 with the field piece
that has laid idle in the court house
yard and 24 with the rifles. The in
termittent explosions of the small
boy’s fire cracker might be heard
throughout the day, and in the early
evening the flash of the sky rocket
and Roman candle contributed to the
light of the starry firmament above.
But as a day of picnics, it takes rank
along with other seasons of festivity
and merrymaking. In such manner
Tim c? linli/lQxr r*V»aAr\7Af1 fit til A IVTnr.
ris field, Bergon Lake, Campbell
station, Pickett’s Lake, Newark and
other points over Jackson and Inde
pendence counties.
At the Morris field, north of town
Messrs Charles, Ed and Dorsey Wil
mans gave a picnic and barbecue to
relatives and friends, that afforded all
their guests a day rich in the pleas
ures of a picnic outing. The barbe
cued kid, mutton and pork had been
prepared by old time darkies who
proved excellent chefs in this art and
seasoned to so good a flavor these
tender morsels, that the many other
prepared delicacies that graced this
picnic spread, were rated second.
At Campbell station, there was a
large gathering,embracing many from
Jacksonport and some from Newport.
Beside the usual spread of good things
to eat, a dance was enjoyed upon a
platform constructed for the occasion.
About fourteen members of Company
Q of the Arkansas State Guard, with a
number of others, went to Newark to
i spend the day and affirm that they
were well treated in our hospitable
i neighbor city.
s The whole of Breckinridge township
> .is reported to have been in attend
ance at the Pickett Lake picnic, and
none fail to speak in glowing terms oi
their enjoyment of the day.
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Chief Of Whiteeappers Suffers Fright
ful Death From Explosion Of Dy
namite Intended For Their
Victim.
Mammoth Springs, Ark., July 4.—
Details have reached here of a fright
ful tragedy which occurred at Union, ,
a small village in this county, Wed
nesday morning, in which Pink Gib
son, a well-known citizen, was blown
to atoms and nine other men more or
less seriously injured.
Several weeks ago a number of
people living near Union formed a
gang of white-cappers and ever since
have been terrorizing the neighbor
hood. Tuesday morning this -party,
led by Pink Gibson, and numbering
about fifteen went to the house of a
widow named Guest, and taking her
out, severely whipped her. So harsh
were the party in their treatment of
Mrs. Guest that when they left her
place she was in an unconscious con
dition.
The case as reported is a most pe
culiar one. Harvey Sexton received
warning that a baud of whiteeappers
were to visit his home with the
avowed intention of killing him and
dynamiting the building. Sexton
barricaded the doors and with a rifle
kept a sharp lookout.
Wednesday morning the alleged
whiteeappers made their appearance
and Sexton fired, the bullet striking
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ing through a pocket in which a stick
of dynamite was carried. Immediate
ly there was a terrific explosion, and
the ground for a number of yards
around where Gibson stood was torn
up. Gibson met instant death, while
nine of his companions were more or
less injured. ’ The party immediately
retreated. Gibson was literally
blown to atomd, small portions of his
body being found long distances away.
SUNDAY SERVICES.
There will be services at the Catho
lic church tomorrow, conducted by
Rev. Father Thum of Jonesboro.
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Preaching at the Baptist church to
morrow by the pastor, H. E. Gabby.
Subject for the morning sermon is
“Enthusiasm;” and the subject for the
evening sermon is “In What Shall I
Glory?” Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
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At the Methodist church—Sunday
school at 9:30 a. m. and Juvenile Mis
sionary Society at 4 p. m. Preaching
at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. by the Presid
ing Elder, Rev. M. M. Smith. “God’s
Tender Regard for His People” is the
subject of his morning sermon, and
he’ll speak on “The Proposition of
God to the Unsaved” at the evening
hour.
SUMMER RATES.
Searcy, Ark., rate $2.00 round trip.
Ravenden, Ark., rate $2.65 for
round trip. These rates in effect to
September 30 and return limit Octo
ber 31. W. M. Gregg, Agent.
Swiss and cream cheese at Huff
man’s. 53 dtf.
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& Jkr
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