NEGRO INDICTED
IN SHORT ORDER.
Rapist in Penitentiary to Stand
Trial for Crime Committed
Near Pine Bluff.
Pine Bluff, May 15. The Jef
ferson county grand jury met
Saturday morning and promptly
returned a true bill against Rob
ert Davis, the negro who assault
ed little Katie Ross at Kearney
last Monday.
4 The grand jury was not long
in returning the indictment, for
Prosecuting Attorney Jones had
the witnesses ready and the case
was brought before the jury at
once.
Judge Grace is out of the city
and the trial was not set, but it
will be up for trial Monday or
Tuesday.
Sheriff Gould says he will allow
Davis to remain in the peniten
tiary at Little Rock until his case
is called for trial.
SNODDY GIVEN DAMAGES.
Little Rock, May 15.— Robert
C. Snoddy was given $250 dam
ages by a jury in the first divi
sion of the circuit court for
ejection from an Iron Mountain
passenger train at Jacksonville
in Januarv.
The conductor refused to ac
cept the ticket held by Snoddy,
claiming that it had expired,
and, stopping the train at Jack
sonville, put off his valise, Snod
dy following. Snoddy called the
attention of bystanders and pas
sengers to the fact that he had
been put off and again boarding
the train, paid his fare. Then
he-brought the suit.
FALL OF PORT ARTHUR.
London May 15. — A telegram
from Paris says a rumor is cur
rent there that 10,000 men were
killed during the engagement.
Nothing confirmatory is obtain
able in London.
DENY THEY WANT LOAN.
Berlin, May 15.—The National
Zeitung, which maintains close
relations with high financial cir
cles in Berlin, denies upon trust
worthy information the state
ment printed in London that
Russia has opened negotiations
with Berlin banks for a $175,
000,000 loan.
MENA’S WATERWORKS,
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Mena, May 15. — The Mena
I aterworks commission has ac
spted the $8,000 bid of W. E.
atkins of the hardware firm of
1 atkins Bros, of this city to con
duct a dam in Ward creek above
e city.
'he dam is to be built for the
purpose of forming a 10,000,000
Iir gallon reservoir for the water
[ ^vorks, so that a practically in
l exhaustible supply of water will
^ always be4in hand.
P* AGED MAN DEAD.
Quitman, May 15.—Asa Lynn,
one of the oldest citizens of Cle
burne county, died here the past
week. He was born in Jackson
county, Tennessee, July 12, 1819.
He joined the Baptist church in
1882 and was a prominent mem
ber. He had lived in Cleburne
county for the past forty-eight
years.
NEGRO BOY KILLED.
Pine Bluff, May 15.—Charles
Balknight, a negro boy about 7
years old, was killed here Satur
day night by being run over by
a train on the Pine Bluff and
Western road, a few miles west
of the city* From all the ac
counts, the boy was asleep on the
track, and the engineer did not
see him in time to stop the train.
The body was brought to this
city and an inquest will be held
Monday.
THE AD FOUND
THE LOST HORSE.
L. M. Conditt of Bird township
writes the Independent that the
advertisement for his estrayed
mare located the animal, which
has been returned to him.
The horse had strayed fifteen
miles south on Cache river and
though the animal had a week’s
start she failed to walk outside
the circulation of the Weekly
Independent.
BOAT EXCURSION.
The steamboat excursion to
Grand Glaize aboard the Joe
Wheeler Sunday afternoon in
charge of Capt. Albro, proved a
popular diverson and wras en
joyed by about a hundred pleas
ure-seekers.
It is probable that these ex
cursions will be made every Sun
day and that the next trip will
be up Black or White rivers.
MISSOURI CAPITAL
BEING INVESTED.
Ashdown, May 15. — Missouri
capitalists bought last week six
thousand acres of land at Arden,
in this county, for which they paid
$15,000 cash. A large portion of
it will be cleared at once to have
it ready by winter to set in fruit
trees. There seems to be a great
demand for land, as there are
land buyers here every day or
two.
LETTER TO PHILLIPS & FER
GUSON, NEWPORT, ARK.
Dear Sirs: Your business is,
when a house burns down, to
give the owner some money to
build a new one. It is a good
business. Queer that the world
got on so long without it.
We paint the one that burnt
down and the new one too. What
is better, we paint the houses
that don’t burn down.
You insure the houses that
burn; we insure the houses that
don’t. You have the ashes and
smoke; all the houses are ours.
We paint lead-and-zinc; Devoe.
We sell the paint to painters; we
don’t paint.
Lead-and-oil is the old fashion
paint. Devoe is zinc ground in
with lead and linseed oil; the
best paint in the world, and the
cheapest, because it takes fewer
gallons than mixed paints and it
wears twice as long-as lead-and
oil. Nobody wants poor paint:
there’s lots of it, though, in the
world.
A. M. Griffin, Plainfield, N. J.,
writes:
“Mr. Aaron Higgins, of Plain
field, always used 15 gallons of
mixed paint for his house. Last
spring he bought 15 gallons of
Devoe and had four gallons left. ’ ’
Yours truly,
F. W. Devoe & Co.,
94 New York and Chicago.
KEPT MARRIAGE SECRET.
Yellville, May 15.—It has just
come to light that Foscoe Cowdry
and Miss Ethel LeSieur were
married at Berryville March 22.
The marriage has been kept se
cret until recently and now that
it is known their many friends
have been offering their con
gratulations.
WORK ON OTHER END.
Progress of Construction of White
' River Road From Joplin
End — Should Be In
Operation First
of Year.
Early Tuesday morning an en
trance was made through tunnel
A at Reed Spring, ten miles
southeast of Galena. This tunnel
is 2745 feet in length, most of the
way being through solid rock.
The work has been pushed very
rapidly, the first blast on the
tunnel proper having been fired
May 6, 1903. It will take about
a month to entirely complete it.
When commenced it was thought
by experts that it would require
from eighteen months to two
years to do the work.
The next tunnel is C, known
as the Turkey creek tunnel. It
is 3455 feet long, and only 700
feet remains to be taken out. It
is on the east side of White river
and about twenty-four miles east
of Red Spring tunnel. The Tur
key creek tunnel will be finished
sometime in July. The road bed
between Carthage and Turkey
creek, a distance of nearly 75
miles .practically ready for tie and
tracklaying. Burns & Richmond
have completed their two miles
ot grading tms side oi runnei a
at Reed Spring, and Yandell
Bros, have finished their work
two miles east of there.
The track is laid between Car
thage and Aurora and the work
of laying between Aurora and
Galena, it is said, will begin soon.
The bridge across James river at
Galena cannot be built until the
material can be brought here
on cars. The piers upon which
the bridge will be built are now
ready and the structure can be
put up in a short time.
It is now reasonably certain
that trains will be running over
this 75 miles of the White River
railroad before the close of the
present year.—Galena (Mo.)
Oracle.
SENATOR BERRY'S
NOTABLE TRIUMPH.
Too much credit cannot be
given Senator Berry of Arkansas
for his indefatigable work in sup
port of the amendment to the
rivers and harbor bill, making
immediately available $1,000,000
of the appropriation of 1906 for
the sorely needed present en
largement and betterment of the
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Mississippi river levee, muse
who know the facts in the case
unite in declaring that to the
Arkansas senator is due the pass
age of the bill. In its defense,
he marshaled all the forces of his
eloquence, his personal populari
ty with his confrerers in con
gress, his ingenuity and energy,
and he used them unsparingly
one and all. He originated the
amendment to the original bill,
and he resuscitated it and gave
it life and made it a thing of fact
when it had been abandoned by
everyone else concerned. —Mem
phis Commercial-Appeal.
DEAN-HARRISON.
Mr. Con F. Dean and Miss
Minnie Harrison were married at
the home of the groom Sunday
afternoon at 4 o’clock, Esquire
Guy Smith officiating.
Mr. Dean is one of Newport’s
best citizens and an enterprising
business man who has a host of
friends ^j|o wish him and his
fair bride a happy journey all
i through life.
For good board and beds, in
I quire at 209 Hazel street. tf
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JURY FOUND
FOR DEFENDANTS.
The hog case of H. F. Foster
versus Mark Roberts and Fred
Tucker, which came up for trial
before Justice Guy Smith Satur
day afternoon, was decided in
favor of the defendants by a
jury.
ROAD NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
w ll apply to the county court, at the July term,
190-1. thereof, for an order establishing a new road
in Village township, to run as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the Newport and Jonesboro road
at or near the northeast corner of the southeast
quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 34,
township 12 north range 2 west, thence run south
on the ha ' mile section line to the center of sec
tion 10, township 11. north range 2 west, thence
in a southwesterly direction, diagonally across the
northeast quarter of the aouthwest quarter of
said section 10 to the southwest corner of the
northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of
said sc ction 10, thence south on the quarter sec
tion line until it intersects the Memphis and
Newport road at or near the northwest corner of
the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of
section 15, township 11, north range 2 west.
JOHN MELVILLE,
M. S. LITTLETON Et Al.
This May 7, 1904.
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WARNING ORDER.
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B. S. Blackledge, Plaintiff,
vs.
Luella Blackledge, Defendant.
In the Jackson Cria^-y Court.
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