m AGAIN
GETS 2 YEARS
n"r^r,c
lW8;ra»or cases.
, t Webster, the negro
Ld'rith foref* an order to
“f. shipment of whiskey
,ht express office at New
" again found gni'ty by
' in circuit court Tuesday
Ss punishment fixed at 2
ci, the penitentiary
J, is the same penalty pre
L in his first trial, though
"Lent was later reversed
Sreme court. Judge M.
Stuckey was counsel for de
executing Attorney Erwin
also scored convictions . m
pi misdemeanor cases tried
, week, L. R. Mack and Lee
h being given fines of $1.00
, for disturbing- the peace
Louis Hare was fined $50.
Lowe, tried with Clark &
h was acquitted by the jury
(as also Sam Johnson in an
>al case.
I CORD IN BRIEF.
Thomas Gibson,
prossed.
ce, carrying a con
1, nolle prossed.
$by, selling liquor,
irry, gaming, nolle
ner, gaming, nolle
. McCall only Wit
?aming and selling
irossed. Jim Mc
ess.
m, burglary and |
, nolle prossed.
assault- with in
intinued.
, dismissed at cost
cer, burglary and
, continued.
?, burglary and
', continued
slander; demurrer
sustained.
j to Foreign Trade.
ireaty and other ports
To Conserve Mussel Supply,
[Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 11._ The
■ Department of Commerce at
[Washington is endeavoring to
laid the people of Arkansas in a
movement for the conservati
of the mussel shell industry of
the date. Investigation has
shown that the pearling industry
is causing a great waste of mus
sels, and at the present rate the
supply will be exhausted in a few
years.
1 Secretary Win. C. Redfield has
written Governor Hays as fol
lows concerning the matter:
| “For a number of years this
| Department, through the Bu
I reau of Fisheries, has been con
ducting investigations and ex
periments for the conservation
and improvement of the fresh
'water miussel resources of the
United States, and it has recent
ly estabilshed for the propaga
tion of these mussels a station
which will distribute about two
million young ■■ mussels in the
Mississippi valley during the
current year. It is the purpose
of the Department to increase
tmo uuipui <x& l lpiuiv as possi
ble, but to make the work fully
effective it will be necessary for
the several states to take legis
lative measures for the correc
tion of abuses which the inves
tigations of the Bureau of Fish
eries have shown to exist.
“The fresh-water mussel fish
ery, in which the state of Ark
ansas participates, yields a prod
uct whose value to the fisher
man is $700,000 per annum, and
it furnishes the raw material
for a button-making industry,
the value of whose annual out
put is estimated at $9,000,000.
The shells produced in Arkan
sas are of unsurpassed quality,
but in no state is there such
waste of potentially valuable
mussels through the taking of
those too small for economic use
from the streams. That the re
sources of the streams are be
ing depleted is evidenced by the
fact that in the White, Black
and St. Francis rivers, which
have been fished for 12 or 15
years, the catch per man per
day is but one-sixth of the yield
when the streams were first ex
ploited and the men are earning
i — nrfufinnr
Evidence of Payment jjj
The man who keeps a checking account at this bank need not J|
if himself about keeping receipts or other evidences of payment. f|
eancelled checks with the endorsements of the persons to whom K
were issued are indisputable receipts. J
to WELCOME SMALL AS WELL AS LARGE ACCOUNTS.
he Farmers BanK
oi NSitfPOar. ARKANSAS
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Ijjever Mind Hitching Up—
I Just Telephone |
I^HEN you have something to at- ||||
I, ( tend to in town or at a neigh
I. rs> instead of hitching up the horse
u-e the Bell Telephone. j1
■be having the house—without the
Ibi 1 a drive, you can transact your
^ over the Bell Telephone in a few
I ^0u ^ave a Bell Telephone, haven't you?
■ The Southwestern Telegraph [|
snJ Telephone Company
J. P. WHITSON, Manager,
H Newport, Ark.
less now when shells are valued
at from $18 to $23 per ton, than
they were when they sold for
but $4.”
Secretary Redfield adds that
the Bureau has prepared a pam
phlet on the protection of fresh
v 'er mussels which embodies
jvactical recommendations con
c--ruing legislation, and these
" .H be sent to each member of
the General Assembly.
Tarrell In Penitentiary.
Little Rock, Feb. 11.—Farrell,
the blind spirit medium of Pike
, county, who was convicted of
.complicity in the celebrated sui
cide pact case at Glenwood, is
now in the state penitentiary,
having surrendered voluntarily
1 Tuesday forenoon to enter upon
a five year sentence.
On Monday Farrell called on
Gov. Hays at his office, and
anade a personal appeal for cle
mency, but was told by the gov
i ernor that lie could consider the
application only in the regular
■form, which would be by peti
tion. Farrell said that he could]
get a petition signed by practi
cally every citizen of Pike coun
ty recommending his pardon.
After leaving the state house,
Monday evening, he went to a
boarding house down town
where he spent the night, giv
ing rise to a sensational ston >
that he had mysteriously disap- j
peared. He had until Thursday, j
February 12, however, to deliver
himself up at the penitentiary,
and so he was not in a hurry to
don the stripes. He has not been
put to work yet, as the warden
must first determine what he |
can do. He is not totally blind, j
Relieves Penitentiary Board.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 11.—J. V.
Ferguson, penitentiary Commis
sioner, has secured an affidavit
from Robert Bowen, an ex-con-1
vict who is now in the Little!
Rock city hospital, that relieves!
of all liability for the condition
in which Bowen came to Little
Rock. His feet are frozen and
he is practically unable to walk.
At first the statement was giv
en out that his condition was
due to treatment received on
the state convict farm in Lin
coln county, and a report was
made to the governor concern
ing the case, in an effort to
brand it “a convict farm out
rage.”
Bowen makes affidavit that
his feet were frozen after he
left the penitentiary, and that
on the day he was discharged he
; walked seven miles to the rail
road station. He says that
“somebody” told him to say
that his feet were frozen on the
farm.
Convincing.
“Do you love me. Esmeralda T" "01
course I love you. Since I became ac
quainted with you I have really gotten
to admire pop eyes.
Ma’s vVay.
Little Lola, a0ed flve, upon being
el'" vn her twin brothers that had ar
rived the nleht before, said: "Well,
I never saw such a woman as mamma
)' or hunting up bargains.”—Chicago
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Attacks Moose Opinion.
Little Rock. Feb. 11.—Criti
cising Attorney General William
L. Moose's opinion holding the
Going Act unconstitutional, Gus
tave Jones, an attorney at New
port, yesterday addressed a let
ter to Judge Moose. The writer
suggests that the attorney gen
eral’s line of reasoning would
also make the "Jim Crow’’ and
other similar acts unconstitu
tional.
Attorney General Moose said
last night over the telephone
that he had not yet received the
letter. He said, after the com
munication was read to him,
that he believed all the things
suggested by the Newport attor
ney might be true and yet his
opinion on the Going Act would
hold good.
The letter read' as follows:
“Newport, Ark., February 10, ’14
“Hon. William L. Moose, Attor
ney General, Little Rock. Ark.
“Dear Sir: 1 have noticed
with much interest your ‘opin
ion regarding the constitution
ality of the Going Act.’ which
-terns to have been released at
the opportune time for the li
quor interests, pending the hear
ing of the matter at Newport.
You seem to think that it draws
'he color line.
“Is the color line drawn in the
act that was introduced by John
Tillman and passed by the legis
lature providing for a separate
coach law? Does the miscegen
ation act violate the constitu
tion, which prohibits whites and
blacks marrying? Does it vio
late the constitution to Have sep
arate- negro and white schools?
“There might be a number of
other illustrations ad libitum
where the privileges and immun
ities, as you call them, are not
at all the same, and in the high
est courts of the country, includ
ing the United States Supreme
Court, the constitutionality of
th acts was upheld.
“It looks as if it was a very
far-fetched conclusion that you
have reached, wholly unsupport
ed by any law or decision of any
court.
“Yours truly,
“Gustave Jones.”
I Pr. 8. E, Dowel! I
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' MORE TROUBLE IN A GARDEN
Old Gentlemen Went Too Far in His
inquiry inci Demonstration
. , w . *» .. r. it; UHutC,
\n ri 1 * ■ * * ’ ■ r ntlemnn wn'hing
.un; .gii ins k i i n *i one day sloiqici.i
i•: • •« • • • v;*•*<•’ >"•" *
r!gs iqrci r';M'!':r:<r Ills favorites wore
ties, and summer often came and
went withou. ...o fruit coining to ma
turity
Shortly after, he met Ids gardener
who, assuring him the tigs were quite
ripe, was requested to send them to
the summer house, where. Ids master
was about, to rest.
Picking the tigs, the gardener sent his
little boy of seven with the basket. On
the way the little fellow stopped and,
removing the leaves, gazed upon the
tempting fruit.
The attraction was too great; he ate
one. Covering the other with the
leaves, he proceeded upon his errand
On being asked if the gardener had
not sent two figs, the boy, after a mo
ment's sHenco, answered: "I ate one."
“You ate one? How?" exclaimed the
old gentleman, angrily. "How did you
come to do lhai?"
Dropping his eyes to the basket. ‘‘I
took it, like tliis." said the child, taking
the remaining fig. and 1 ate it like
• his."
And. suiting the action to the word,
he consumed the second tig before the
astonished eyes of the old gentleman
LITERAL !N HIS THEOLOGY
Darky P.eacher's Humorous Comment
on Biblical Text As He Under
stood Us Meaning.
Of old the right, of individual private
r»\orpP’tiition of tin* scriptures was
not accorded to the laity. Only the
priests nr preachers were authorized
to say v. hat was meant by the sacred
text. That has all been changed, and
no man will now be expelled from the
most orthodox church for believing
that I Balaam's palace mule did not
really address his fallow citizens of
Tudea or, *he political issues of the
duy, or considering that the statement
of the sun’s standing still at the order
of Captain Joshua was an illustrative
allegory and not the record of a frozen
fact.
This advance In theology is illus
trated by tho story of tho darky
preacher who delivered a sermon from
the text, "These eight did Milcah
bear."
“MufTrinds." said he. “you is singu
larly blessed by do Dawd til dls gen
eration. If you wants some milk you
done goes to youah cow, and at one
milk you gets enough of de laciferous
fluid fob eight people. In de olden
times of which de ltitole Bpeaks it
took eight folks to milk a bear, en I
specs dey gets mighty little milk at
4*t."—Los Angeles Times.
Spiders Catch and Eat Fish.
Specimens of the spider known am
Thalassius Spenceri are in tho mu
seum at Durban, Natal, and the cu
rator, E. C. Chubb, has just made sci
entific announcement of the discovery
of a member of this species in the act
of catching fish for food.
One of the spiders was captured
several years ago by the Rev. N.
Abraham at Greytown, and it was
placed in an aquarium. A servant
boy soon noticed the creature eating
a pet fish, and the startled clergyman
left his study to watch.
The spider, three iuches across with
legs extended, stationed itself at the
water's edge, with two legs on a
stone and the eight others spread out
on the water. After a time a fish
came under the outstretched legs;
which were suddenly thrown around
It as the spider made a plunge, driv
ing Its fangs into its prey, and then
at once climbing out on the rocks. It
soon ate a fish of four times its own
weight.
Bagdad and Queen of Sheba.
The Bagdad of the “Arabian Nights”
still exists, but in a greatly diminished
form. In fact the grand old palaces
and mosques of its prime are nearly
all In ruins, and only a small popula
tion lives where once was a city of
2,000,000 people. A new city is
gradually coming int® existence on
the opposite (east) bank of the Tigris,
the site being valuable from a com
mercial point of view. The inhabitants
number about 200,000, and are mainly
Bedouins. The famous palace of liar
oun-al-Raschild has disappeared, and
the foreign consulates occupy its site.
It is only a tradition which asserts
that the queen of Sheba, who once
visited King Solomon, lies buried un
der an eight-sided brick tower bear
ing her name in old Bagdad. The citt
zens have ceased to venerate it, we
are told, and the tower is approaching
a state of ruin.
Concerning Men With Tails.
It wouid not be wise to build upor
1 the story of the coast natives th^t lr
I the interior of Bapua there are mer
with tails Similar beliefs have beer
held in many parts of the world anc
many ages, sometimes from impres
sions of apes, sometimes from more
or less spiteful credulity about a peo
pie's neighbors. For centuries it was
i a common gibe on the Continent thai
Englishmen had tails. It originatec
from the story that the people o
Canterbury or Strood, having mocker
at St. Thomas riding upon a little ass
and cut off its tali, were puulshet
with the cuTse that thenceforth al
their boys should be born with tails
And the scoffs of other Englishmen a
the “Kentish longtaila” rebounded up
on the whole nation, so that even i:
the t>"e of Edward VI. Englishme:
a to? «« suffered from the taunt
CAN’T I ^
H This Had Happened raua*
Instead of Newport* “jyj>
Might Doubt it.
-- MR
The average man is a dou^|
' this is not surprising—the pi.
| siaiiu investigation. it cannot
! t>e disputed.
I J - II. Willis, farmer, R. F. D.
i No. 2. Newport, Ark., says: “I
[suffered intensely from kidney
complaint. I had what T thought
was inflammation of the blad
der. The secretions from my
| kidneys passed too frequently
[particularly during the night
j and my rest was broken. I at-,
itributed the trouble to the poor
[drinking water in this locality,
i Thinking that Doan’s Kidney
Fills might help me, 1 used them.
They permanently rid me of the
1 rouble.”
Price 50c., at all dealers.
Don’t simply ask for a kidney
remedy—get Doan’s Kidney
Pills—the same that Mr. Willis
had. Foster-Milburn Co-, Props.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
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Crow "Helped'' in Golf Game.
An unusual gulf story comes from
Scotland. Mrs. IWnett, nil American
lady Urfnit at North Berwick, while
playing on the course recently, had
her game consIderAbly interfered with
by a persistently ir-iulsltlve crow. She
hnd Just made a tee shot when the
crew secured the ball, and, after flying
with It for some distance, dropped if.
The lady made two other shots, and
the crow, to her amazement, twice re
turned and lifted the ball after ah*
had played It.
First English Dock.
In England the first dock wad QOQ>
vtructed at Liverpool la 1701. . ,.
NEWPORT. ARKANSAS
RAILROAD TIME TABLE
IRON MOUNTAIN
SOUTH BOUND c
No. 3 leaves.6:20 p. m.
No. 29 (arrivee 6:28) departs
at.6:38 a. m.
No. 5 leaves.6:10 a. m.
No. 17 leaves.4:43 a. m.
No. 7 leaves.9:06 a. m.
No. 23 (arrives 7:20) leaves 7:45 p. m
Vo. 91 (local freight) leaves 8:25 a. m.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 24 leaves.........9:20 a. m.
No. 4 leaves.10:20 a. m.
No. 28 leaves.8:35 p. ra.
i No. 18 leaves.10:15 p. m.
I No. 6 leaves.10:45 p. m.
' No. 92 (local freight) leaves 2:10 p. m.
WHITE RIVER DIVISION.
WEST BOUND.
No. 210 leaves.7:00 a. m.
> No. 232 leaves.9:00 p. m.
i No. 246 (local freight) leaves
.11:15 a. m.
EAST BOUND.
■| No. 209 arrives.7:30 p. m.
No. 231 arrives.6:18 a. m.
No. 245 (local freight) arrives
.9:40 a. m.
No. 607 arrives 12:35 p. m.
No. 608 departs 1:50 p. m.
Local freight arrives Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday; departs Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday.
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