I
Associated Press Dispatch.
Paris, July 8.—A dispatch to Ma
tin from reliable sources in Switzer
land, says that Australians are con
oentrating their forces for another
v-* offensive against the Italians.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, July 8.— A message re
ceived in London from the Russian
wireless service under date of Mos
cow Sunday, says that counter revo
lution started in the Russian capital
but that it was suppressed earlier
than the Wolff Buerau telegram, for
warded from Copenhagen to the Ex
change Telegraph, reported. Fighting
of great severity is taking place in
the streets of Moscow bewteen Bol
sheviki troops annd social revolution
ists.
Several hundred Russians, includ
ing the social revolutionary leader,
Alexandrovitch, have been arrested
in Moscow.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Rome, July 8.—Italian and French
troops in Albania began operations
Saturday between the coast and To
morica valley, which now is in full
and Satisfactory developme.it, the
war office announced Thrvsday.
Pr.soners already '.eve been token.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Rome, July 8.—The war office an
nounces that the Italians have ad
vanced their lines in the regions of
Col La Prible and Monte Grappa, and
that eight enemy airplanes were de
stroyed yesterday.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, July 8.—Emperor William
has ordered Foreign Secretary Von
Kuehman to break off negotiations
with Russia delegates in Berlin as the
result of the assassination of Count
Mirbach, German ambassador to
Russia, according to an Amsterdam
■dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph.
■ Washington, July 8.—An official
dispatch from Switzerland say that
after the assassination of Count Mir
bach, German ambassador to Mos
cow, the assassinators took refuge in
a house occupied by social revolution
ists. The building was defended by
machine guns. Fighting followed but
details are not available.
-BUY W. S. S.
FtKHIlET
Dispatches From Lem burg SaJ's
That Ukranian Government
Has Resigned.
I Associated Press Dispatch.
Amsterdam, July &.— Lemburg
dispatches to Vienna to the Neue
Freire Press, says that the Ukranian
government has resigned, and M.
Markievitch, social federalist, is
charged with the formation of a new
cabinet.
_-BUY W. S. S.
EARTHQUAKE IS RECORDED.
Washington, July 8.—An earth
quake of considerbale intensity, cen
tered about twenty-five thousand
miles from Washington, was recorded
by zismograph at Georgetown Uni
versity this morning.
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Network of Good
Roads for Jackson
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When the work is completed in the.
three districts already formed in
Jackson county she will have a sys- !
i tern of good roads equal to that of !
: any county in Arkansas.
| This is a broad statement when the
' fact is taken into consideration that |
f many of the counties of the state are j
awake to the importance of good j
roads and are forming improvement;
districts and building roads and t j
some of the counties have been build- j
ing a few miles of good roads each
year for several years past.
Four road imProvement districts j
lhave been formed in Jackson county. I
Districts One , Two and Three were
formed in the county court. Districts
One and Four have been in litigation,
the center of some hard fought legal j
battles, which were carried to the su
preme court where their legality
was sustained.
Listrict No. Three, from Newport
to Tupelo, foriped by act of the leg
islature of 1917, also had its round
in court and was knocked out by a
decision of the supreme court, which
declared the act creating it invalid.
There is a movement on foot now,
however, championed by the citizens
: of the lower part of the county and
j the advocates of good roads every
! where to resurrect this district and
form it in the county court, where it
will stand the legal test. When this
district is organized and the im
provements made it will give Jackson
county a network of good roads con
necting all the principal towns of the
county with the county seat and ex
tending to the county lines on the
north, east, south and west.
i
! District No. One is known as the
Newport and drubbs road; it runs
by way of Diaz, and interesects the
j Grubbs road four miles from Grubbs.
I This road has been straightened out,
'drained and graded and is now being
graveled. About two and one-half
miles of this work is already com
pleted and the remainder of the ten
and one-third miles will be completed
! in about three months. These im
! provements will cost $70,000 and the
bonds have already been sold.
I District No. Two runs from New
port to Grubbs, Remmel, Johnstown
i and Amagon to the Poinsett county
line, and by way of Bowen’s Ridge to
| Washburn Bridge, Eight Mile, Al
' goa annd Beejleville, a total distance
of fifty-five miles, and estimated to
cost $305,000.
The right of way has been cut and
cleared out on all except about five
miles of this road and most of the
grading done. The commissioners
are making the assessments now.
I This district has never been in liti
■ gation.
| District No. Four runs from New
port to Tuckerman, thence to Elgin
by way of James’ Store and to Battle
Axe by way of Deckers’ Store, a dis
tance of twenty-nine miles, estimated
S cost being $180,000. This district is
already formed and assessments ai-e
being made. This district will use
the same road as No. One to Diaz,
and is practically complete except
for the gravel as it has already been'
graded.
Four and one-half miles of new
road has been allowed in Bateman
township, which will straighten the
old road to Oil Trough and will form
a part of North Arkansas Road Im
provement Dstrict No. One, Bates
ville, Newport and Little Rock High
way. This road has already been
surveyed and improvement will be
started at an early date.
A Road Improvement District is
contemplated and surveys have been
made in Glass and Bird townships
running, south, west and east from
Swifton about twenty miles, total
mileage. This system would connect
with the other districts and establish
communication bewteen all the towns
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j of the county.
The bridges on all the county
roads are in faii'ly good condition
I and will be repaired when needed,
j We are indebted to Judge W. D.
McLain for the figures which form
the basis of this article, and for much
! other valuable information.
-BUY W. S. S.
!W. U. STRIKE
i WILL NOT OCCUR
—
| The Strike Scheduled for Today, Is
Revoked After Conference With
Secretary Wilson.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Chicago, July 8.—As a result of the
order issued by S. J. Konenkamp,
president of the commercial tele
graphers’ union, the strike of the
Western Union operators scheduled
for today will not occur. Konenkamp
issued orders revoking the strike
call after a conference with Secretary
Wilson of the department of labor.
-BUY W. S. S.
mTm cir\T nri a
JlilU UVUi/lUll kJ
Great as the danger and large as
the losses in the aggregate, the indi
vidual soldier has plenty of chances
of coming out of the war unscathed,
or at least not badly injured.
' Based on the mortality statistics
of the allied armies, a soldier’s chanc
es are as follows:
Twenty-nine chances of coming
home to one chance of being killed.
Forty-nine chances of recovering
from wounds to one chance of dying
from them.
One chance in 500 of losing a limb.
Will live five years longer because
of physical training, is freer from
disease in the army than in civil life,
hnd has better medical care at the
front than at home.
In other1 wars from 10 to 15 men
died from disease to 1 from bullets;
in this war 1 mah dies from disease
to every ten from bullets.
For those of our fighting men who
do not escape scatheless, the govern
ment under the soldier and sailor in
surance law gives protection to the
wounded and their dependents and to
the families and dependents of those
who make the supreme sacrifice for
thei rcountry.
DraTt-Resisters
Being Rounded Up
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Captain Frank Terry and thirty
men of the Little Rock machine gun
company of the Fourth Arkansas
are in Cleburne county to assist the
local officers in running down and
capturing a gang of alleged draft
resisters.
Two battles occurred yesterday
eight miles west of Heber Springs,
between the officers and this band.
One man is known to be dead and
two others are believed to have been
killed. Three of the alleged resisters
are in jail at Heber Springs anci more
than one hundred armed men are
scouring the hills in the neighborhood
of Heber, Pearson and Quitman, en
deavoring to round up this band of
slackei-s and their sympathizers.
A long distance telephone message
from Heber Springs at 4:45 this af
ternoon stated that the troops had ar
rived with two machine guns; the
band of alleged resisters had been lo
located and a fierce battle was fought,
lasting about thirty minutes. No
further particulars were learned.
,-BUY W. S. S.
DISTILLED LIQUOR
TO BE PROHIBITED
/ _
Legislation to Keep Distilled Liquors
From Being Sold After Next
January Agreed Upon.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, July 8.— Legislation
to prohibit the sale of distilled li
quors, wine and beer after January
first nineteen hundred and nineteen
and possibly the manufacture of wine
beer after November next has been
agreed upon by the senate agricul
ture committee.
-BUY W. S. S.
WAR COUNCIL IS ABOLISHED.
• '
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, July 8.—Secretary
Baker today formerly abolished the
war council, its principal functions
being turned over to Assistant Sec
retaries of War, Gen. March, chief of
the staff, and Major Gen. Goethals,
his assistant.
-BUY W. S. S.
Rev. Lyman-Wheaton will be the
4-minute speaker at the Madaline
Theatre tonight.
This Paper
is lOO Per
Cent Loyal
Last Friday when it became appar
ent that one of the Independent’s
employes did not intend to buy War
Savings Stamps, he> was promptly
dropped from the payroll. The n
came here several months ago from
Memphis, was a good worker, and his
exit has crippled the producing ca-1
pacity of this office. He has rela- j
tives in France fighting for his free
dom, he is able to support them, and
why he should refuse to place a part
of his savings in War Savings Stamps I
•is more than he could explain with
| out getting into worse trouble.
| We wish to say here that the Inde
pendent is a 100 per cent* patriotic
institution. It is a 100 per cent War
Savings institution. Every man,
J woman and child in the office has not
only bought War Savings Stamps,
but has supported every move having
for its purpose the support of the
boys at the front.
Not only have the better paid em
ployes of the office invested in the
stamps, but a 16-year-old lad, an or
phan boy, who came to the Independ
ent from Batesville some time ago,
and whom his guardian has taught
the importance of thrift, has man
aged to accumulate $42 worth of
stamps within three months, and this
| week pledged himself to take $100
! more between now and January 1, and
'he will do it.
I * '
The man who is able to do go but
jwill not lend his financial aid to the
conduct of the war, does not deserve
a lucrative position, and if all insti
tutions throughout the country would
adopt the 100 per cent patriptic plan,
there would be fewer slackers enjoy
ing the fruits of honest industry.
-—BUY W. S. S.
Casualty List
Associated Press Dispatch.
, Washington, July 8.—Army casual
ties show killed in action, six; died
of wounds, thirteen; accident and
other causes two; wounded severely,
twenty-nine,
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Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, July 8.—In the army
casualties among those wounded se
verely was Private John Tolleson of I
Waldron, Ark.
-BUY W. S. S.
FOR SMITH WOMAN HAS
TEN NEAR RELATIVES
IN UNCLE SAM’S SERVICE ;
Fort Smith, July 7.—Mrs. Georgej
Laley, wife of a local machinist, to- [
■day lam claim xo naving more near
relatives in the national service than
any woman in the United States,
when her son, Thomas, aged 19, left
home to join the navy. Thomas is
her third son to enter the service. I
Her daughter, Mrs. Eliabeth Riley, is ;
a Red Cross nurse on the battlefields
of France. Her husband is a physi
cian with the expeditionary forces in
the same country. In addition, Mrs.
Daley was advised today that her
five brothers in Pennsylvania had
joined the army in a body. One of j
her sons is a seaman aboard a con
voy for United States trans-Atlantic
transports, while another is at Camp
Pike.
--BUY W. S. S.
“Dash, determination and daring—
also efficiency”—That’s what our
boys at the front are doing. Keep ’em
going! War Savings is a message to
the kaiser that will “get over.”
-BUY W. S. S.
Protect your soldiers with your
savings.
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(Associated Press Summary.)
Allied armies continue raiding Op- ' -
orations, strengthening their posi- i |a
tions in anticipation of the impend-'
ing German blow, for which it is ill
known that the enemy is assembling I
from thirty to forty divisions.
In the Hamel region, south of the ||'
Somme, Australians advanced |heir J||
line four hundred yards along a vODJB I
mile front. 1
American sectors are quiet.
The German artillery is active in -
the Somme region, also north el
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President Woodrow Wilson said tnjjl
regard to National War Savjpgr,f^S«
which is June 28th, 1918, “May thandl H
be none uninlistod in that greftt*|l4§i *8
unteer army of savers on that day.** 5
Make every day a thrift day iaMa J
help your government end the war ;
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