NUMBER 252.
FATHER OF GIRL
MAKES AFFIDAVIT.
Did Not Make Affidavit Fxoner
ating Davis for Pardon of
Pomp Brown.
Conway, Feb. 17. —The Carroll
D. Wood club of this place held
its second meeting at the court
house last night, several hundred
people being present. Hon. A.
F. Vandeventer of Morrilton ad
dressed the c ,tb and his speech
twas one of the best ever heard
here. It was along the lines of
the speeches made by him in the
present campaign before with
drawing from the race for gov
ernor, and was a severe arraign
ment of Gov. Davis and his rec
ord as governor.
The most sensational feature
of the meeting was the reading
by Mr. Vandeventer of an affi
davit of C. H. McCullough, dated
February 15,1904, relative to the
Pomp Brown pardon case. C.
H. McCullough is the father of
the girl assaulted by Pomp
Brown. In this affidavit Mr.
McCullough denies making the
affidavit which has been circu
lated throughout the state by
Gov. Davis and his friends stat
ing that McCullough did not
blame the governor for his action
in the pardon of Pomp Brown,
and that he is an ardent sup
porter of Gov. Davis and that he
is going to vote for him.
The membership o*f the club is
now about 300.
THE WOODS AND
BRIGGS COMPANY.
0 **The above named company will
open a three nights engagement
mw at the opera house Monday, Feb.
II 22. This company played here
last season under the name of
Hi the Floyd R. Briggs Company.
iThis season Messrs. Woods and
Briggs have a company of fifteen
people; carry a band and orches
tra and travel in their own Pull
man car. During their engage
ment they will produce in an
elaborate manner the Inside
Track, Way Down East and
Monte Cristo, m addition to the
regular play. A number of vau
, deville features will be intro
) duced Monday night. Every
lady accompanied by a person
holding a paid reserved seat
ticket will be admitted free.
Prices 15, 25 and 35c.
REVELERS BURNED.
Little Rock, Feb. 17.—Florence
Rice and Cleo Graham, two young
white women, were seriously
burned yesterday afternoon.
They were Mardi Gras maskers
and are supposed to have stepped
on a match which ignited their
clothing, burning them badly be
fore it could be put out. They
were removed to the city hospi
tal here they are lying in a
critical condition.
MULES FOR SALE.
I will have a ear of young
broke mules, ranging from 14 1-2
I to 15 1-2 hands high for sale at
Yelverton’s barn in Newport on
or about Friday, February 26,
and will remain there until sold.
Come and figure with me, I will
treat you right.
41w2t W. R. Ross.
SORROW EXPRESSED
BY HON. H. L. REMMEL.
Hon. H. L. Remmel, chairman
of the Republican state central
committee, sent the following
! message of condolence to Mrs.
M. A. Hanna at the Arlington
hotel, Washington:
“In behalf of the Republicans
of Arkansas I extend to you
their heartfelt sympathy and
condolence in the great loss sus
tained in the death of your no
ble and honored husband, whose
name will ever be linked with j
the martyred McKinley, both of
whom had grown into the love, j
respect and admiration of the
American people. Sorrow here
is universal.”
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
W. M. Pyles, guardian, to T.
S. Stephens, 39 acres 2-10-3, $120.
B. W. Jones and wife to trus
tees of A. M. E. church, tract in
Tupelo, 20-9-2, $20.
State of Arkansas to J. S.
White, 120 acres 9, 10-11-1.
J. S. White and wife to «J. S.
Wilmans, 160ac 10, 15-11-1, $480.
Sarah Ann Glover to Kate J.
Allen, 40 acres, 35-13-1, $10.
M. M. Erwin and wife to Jno.
Borders, 120 acres 10, 15-10-2.
$1,200.
Mack Petway and wife to Geo.
W. Hyde, 40 acres 32-11-2, $500.
W. M. Pyles, guardian, to J.
W. Grubbs, 350 acres 21, 10-9-1;
40 acres 11-11-1; 280 acres 6, 7
13-1; 40 acres 14-13-2, $2,480.
W. M. Pyles and wife to C. T.
Burns, 160 acres 6-13-1, $1,250.
J. R. Dale to R. Y. Dale, l-4th
interest in 69 1-2 acres 36-10-1, i
$300.
Jno. Comstock and wife to i
Foster Johnson, 120 acres 2-13-2, j
$350.
J. H. Strider and wife to J. S.
Wilmans, 40 acres 4-12-3, $100.
Simeon Bowman and wife to j
W. A. Bowman, 80 acres 34-11-2,;
$75.
Henry S. Poske and wife to
Jack Strother, 80 acres 11-10-2,
$375.
George Yelverton and wife to
T. H. W. White, lot 11, block 2,1
Yelverton’s addition, Tuckerman, j
$25.
FRISCO GAP IS
ALMOST COMPLETED.
J. N. Cornatzar, joint general
agent oi tne r risco, iwck isianu,
Choctaw and K. C.-M., at Mem
phis, is spending the day in Lit
tle Rock and will return to Mem
phis this evening, says the Ga
zette. Mr. Cornatzar reports
that the new Memphis-St. Louis
line will be opened on April 1.
It is the St. Louis, Memphis &
Southeastern, which is now
practically completed and lacks
only the finishing touches on the
roadbed.
It will be the short line be
tween Memphis and St. Louis,
being fifteen miles shorter than
the Illinois Central. Cut-offs are
now being built at Evadale, Ark.,
to the main line and at Caruthers
ville-i Mo., which will leave that
city on a branch half a mile from
the main line. The road is on
the water level and is laid with
heavy rails and ballast, making
one of the finest roadbeds in the
country.
NEGRO MURDERER
MAY BE LYNCHED.
_
Crossett, Feb. 17. — J. D. Ste-!
phens, a prominent farmer and i
deputy sheriff of Ashley county,:
was shot and killed today by a!
negro named Glen Bryant.
The tragedy has caused a great
deal of indignation.
Bryant escaped but he is being
diligently searched for and if*
caught it is probable he will be
lynched. •
Bloodhounds have been placed
on the trail of the fugitive and
it is believed he will be overtaken j
and captured before morning.
)
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THE DAVIS MEN
AND THE NEGOEES.
Do Gov. Davis’ followers in
tend to rest their faith in the ne
groes in the coming primary?
At the meteing of the Pulaski
county Democratic central com
mittee on Tuesday, resolutions
were offered to govern the pri
mary, and it was provided that
“only known white Democrats”
should be allowed to participate.
Dr. J. M. Young, who is the phy
sician for the deaf-mute insti
tute, and thus an employe of the
state board Of charitable institu
tions, all the members of wliich
are Davis men, moved to strike
out the word “white” where it
appeared before the word
“Democrats,” thus throwing
open the primary to negroes, but
there was no second to his motion
At the recent meeting of the
Democratic central committee of
Jackson county at Newport John
H. Keel, one of Gov. Davis’ chief
lieutenants, succeeded in having
the primary opened to negro
voters.
This action of the Davis men is
all the more surprising in view
of the fact that Gov. Davis has
made an issue in the present
campaign the action of Judge
Wood in appointing one negro
jury commissioner in three when
he was on the circuit bench
seventeen years ago.
CRUSHED BY CARS.
John Herring, an Iron Moun
tain brakeman, fell between the
cars of a freight train Wednes
day morning at Hope, says the
Gazette, and received injuries
from which he died three hours
later. The unfortunate man re
ceived horrible injuries and had
it not been for his wonderful
vitality would have been killed
instantly.
It seems that Herring started
to cross between two cars just as
the train started, and at that
moment the engine gave a heavy
jerk, throwing Herring under
noofVl PViTTio
was completely severed at the
hip, and his right leg was cut off
at the knee. His right hand was
also mangled. As soon as dis
covered, the injured man was
picked up and later on put on
passenger train No. 4, which
brought him to Little Rock, but
he died before reaching this city.
marriageTlicenses.
Joe Whittey 24, and Agie Furr
18, both of Swifton.
J. R. Nelson 37, Judsonia, and
Maggie Fullerton 27, Grand
Glaize.
Thos. Houchins 28, and Ella
White 20, both of Hale.
B. H. Eans 27, and Will Tague
33, both of Jacksonport.
Clem Whitefield 34, and Mar
tha Dukes, both of Newport.
Geo. W. Burkley 37, and Mrs.
Hattie Wilson 46, both of New
port.
Seldon Cohn 25, Fulton, Ky.,
and Blanche Bernstein 19, of
Newport.
Wm. Horton 28, and Mrs. Josie
Turner 29, both of Weldon.
Albert Simmons 26, and Lizzie
Henderson 22, both of Auvergne.
Simeon H. Russell 33, and Mrs.
Dora Russell 27, both of Swifton.
EIGHT HUNDRED STUDENTS
Fayetteville, Feb. 17. — The
University of Arkansas today en
rolled its eighth hundredth stu
dent. This is the largest nufri
ber ever reached within the his
tory of the university. Clark
Wood of Paris, Logan county,
has the honor of being the eighth
hundredth student.
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