Bernor grants
■ FIRST pardon
lanawy’itoy’who Burglar
■ ized Store In Sevier
■ County.
Hial to Independent.
Ktle Rock, April 18.-Touch
■y the appeal of a gray head
Kther, and on recommenda
■ of the grand jury of Sevier
B^y prosecuting attorney,
L and all other court offi
K and many prominent citi
B 0f the county, Acting Gov
Kr Futrell on Wednesday
Kted his first pardon, and ev
Btly imagining the ice had
■a broken and pardons would
Basy to get thereafter, a per
B deluge of pardon petitions
Bed upon the chief executive
HircHflV.
Jot a pardon was granted,
pever. The Wednesday par
was issued to free a youth
) Had run away from college
owa to seek his fortune, and
lecure bread and butter, had
glarized a store in Sevier
nty. The boy was given 4
rs in the penitentiary, and
1 worked two weeks on the
te farm when liberated. Many
te officials and prominent cit
is of Iowa appealed for the
•don of this boy.
Jo set is Acting Governor Fu
ll against pardons that he has
dined to issue pardons to pa
ed convicts who have been out
; months and have good ree
ls. The law says the govern
may pardon the paroled con
cts at the end of this time,
it Acting Governor Futrell
ates he does not care for the
sponsibility of “taking the
idle off of these fellows.” He
lieves in holding the peniten
iry sentence over them to in
re good behavior in the fu
re
The penitentiary commission
’s recommended the pardon of
boy in the reform school, as
id the former superintendent
f that institution, who has serv
d more than half his term, and
as a model record. The com
lissioners stated they would
ave paroled the boy, but his
arents have moved to Canada,
nd a parole would not permit
iim to leave the state and fol
dw them. Acting Governor Fu
rell heard the plea and gave
>ut no decision, which means
hat the punishment must con
tinue and the law be upheld.
Baby Drowned in Bath Tub.
Little Rock, April 17.—Fred
erick Ray Becker, the one-month
old son of Mr- and Mrs. A. C.
Becker, of 2314 Battery street,
was drowned about 10 o’clock
this morning in a bathtub at the
family residence. Mrs. Becker
was bathing the baby. The tele
phone rang, and she went to an
swer it. While she was absent
her small son, Arthur, turned
the water into the tub. She re
turned to find the baby strangl
ed.
Dr. Oscar Gray was called, but
when he arrived the baby was
dead. He made a call for the
pulmoter at the City Hall. This
arrived later, with Dr. Mahlen
D. Ogden in charge. From 12
o’clock until 1:30 o’clock these
two doctors, together with wo
men, who came from nearby
homes, worked to save the ba
by’s life, but their efforts were
futile. Mrs. Becker is prostrat
ed.
Tuckerman High School Com
mencement Program.
The editor acknowledges the
receipt of an invitation to the
commencement exercises of
the Tuckerman High School,
Saturday evening, May 3 at 8
o’clock. Miss Clara R. Harvey,
one of Tuckerman’s brightest
; and most accomplished young
ladies is the only member of the
class of 1913 and the following
| program has been arranged for
; the commencement exercises
! Invocation—Rev. W. P. Talk
ington.
; Duet, “Cujus Aninam”—Ros
’ sini—Misses Davis and Sylla
Harvey.
Reading, Selected—Miss Lind
■ ley.
Vocal Solo, Selected—Mrs. E.
R. Williamson.
Essay, “What Constitutes a
Woman’s Education”—Clara R.
Harvey.
Address—Dr. C. H. Brough.
Music—Selected.
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To Publish Life Of Davis.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 18.—L. S.
Dunaway, known to three
fourths of the voters of Arkan
sas, who is writing a sketch of
the life of former Senator Jeff
Davis, while in the city Friday
stated he would complete the
work about June 1, and it would
be published and on sale a
month later. The book will con
tain many sayings of the de
ceased senator.
Dunaway heard Jeff Davis
make over 250 speeches, and has
been collecting data for the
book for a number of years,
j Dunaway stated that he has re
ceived letters from book a
: gents all over the country de
5 siring the right to sell the book
in their communities.
i To Fix Date of Hanging.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 18.—The
'attention of Acting Governor
Futrell has been called to the
case of Clarence Schumann, a
Hot Springs murderer, whose
case was affirmed by the Su
preme court February 21. The
: Acting Governor looked up the
papers in the case Thursday,
but did not fix a date for the ex
ecution. It is the first time the
official had ever been called to
pass upon a case which will take
the life of a fellowman, and for
that reason he is going slow.
Schumann killed his wife. It is
probable that Friday, May 16th
will be the date decided upon,
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! Wants to See His Town.
Special to Independent.
| Little Rock, April 18—Secre
tary A. V. Smith, private secre
: tary to Acting Governor Futrell,
has gone to his home in Banks,
Bradley county, to remain until
Monday with his family. Banks
is the railroad junction, where a
traveler leaves the Rock Island
! to take the Warren & Ouachita
| Valley Railroad to Warren.
| Since he came to Little Rock as
i a member of the legislature, and
'to remain as private secretary
! to the Governor, two brick
! stores have been started in
I Banks. Reports of the progress
daily reached Secretary Smith,
and he had to give in to the de
: sire to go home and watch the
| town boom.
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Choir Practice.
I There will be choir practice at
St. Paul’s church this evening
at 7:30.
I
FRAUDS MUST
GO TO PEN
Advertised To Sell Detective
Badges and Were Betting
The Money.
I *
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 18.—Asa H.
Emenh'eiser, of Hot Springs,
was convicted in federal court
Thursday afternoon on a charge
of using the mails to defraud,
and sentenced to a year and a
day in the penitentiary at At
lanta.
About February 2G he and
Joe Prigden established at Hot
Springs what they called the In
| ternational Detective Bureau.
They advertised in several hun
| dred papers that they would
send an appointment as detec
tive and a badge and other cre
dentials to desirable persons
who would send them $3. When
they were arrested March 13. i
they had received about $90, and
since that time a large number
of other letters addressed to
J /> /-i Vk 4 n 1 n i n 4 ll /I C? O vn
I UliU VVUIUIJIJU^, UJV ^
mittance, has come into the
hands of the postoffice inspect
or. Prigden turned state’s evi
dence.
The two men came to Arkan- i
sas from Oklahoma. They claim
ed they were running a legiti
mate detective agency, but the
government convinced the jury!
to the contrary. j
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LOOK HERE FOR IT.
Many a Newport Reader Will B®*
Interested.
When people read about the (
cures made by a medicine en- j
dorsed from far away, is it sur- J
j prising that they wonder if the ,
! statements are true ? But when
I they read of cases right here at,
home, positive proof is within ,
their reach, for close investiga- j
tion is an easy matter. Read |
! Newport endorsement of Doan’s j
I Kidney Pills. ;
j .J. H. Willis, farmer, R. F. D. j
| No. 2, Newport, Ark., says: “I
| was suffering intensely from kid
ney complaint at the time I pro
cured Doan’s Kidney Pills at
Dutton’s Drug Store. I had
what I thought to be inflamma
tion of the bladder, at any rate
the symptoms pointed to this
trouble. The secretions from
my kidneys passed too frequent
j ly, particularly during the night
| and my rest was thus broken. I
ittributed my trouble to the poor
I * • * • _i.... Zv> 4-Kir* lA/'ollfV
j ariiiiiiiig waici m -*
j Thinking that Doan’s Kidney
! Pills would help me, I got a sup
| ply and they permanently rid me
' of the trouble-”
j For sale by all dealers. Price
150 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
^ for the United States.
! Remember the name—Doan’s
’—and take no other. (Adv.)
I •
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Arkansas Will Boom.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 18.—W. A.
Brown, an Iowa visitor at the
Department of Agriculture
Thursday, after having travel
ed over a portion of the state,
was free in his praise of Arkan
sas, and declared immigration
will soon head this way in gieat
volume. He says Canada is not
entitled to the settlers it has
been getting when it is so far be
hind Arkansas in natural re
sources.
Clean-Up doing On.
v The general cleaning up is go
ing on in our city today and cer
tainly is very gratifying to the
Civic Improvement Club and is
no doubt, to every person in
Newport who loves clean streets
and yards. It is also a pleasure
to the club to have the co-opera
tion of the Board of Health jn
this work, which means a great
deal to the cause.
Two wagons were kept busy
all day,carting away rubbish and
many were the words of praise
heard on every hand; that neve
before had Newport been so
clean.
A committee from the club
rode up and down the alleys all
day inspecting the work and
in most cases report very little
trouble with those who have not
entered into the spirit of clean
ing up.
The committee was delighted
with the wTork on Remmel av
enue, saying it was the joy of
the day’s work, but also declare
that Front street looked worse
than any part of town, but it is
hoped it will come in for its
share of leveling and cleaning
up later on.
Arkansas’ Law Better.
Little Rock, April 17.— That
Arkansas has even a better
“blue sky” law govering stock
corporations and the promotion
of new concerns than has the
state of Kansas, where the au
thorities have been enforcing
a statute of this kind for the
past two years, is the opinion of
Col. J. W. Oath'out, state audit
or,- who with J. J. Beavers, the
special deputy in charge of the
enforcement of the new Arkan
sas statute, today returned
from a week’s visit to the Kan
sas capitol to investigate the ad
ministration of the law in that
state.
The advantage of the Arkan
sas law, thinks Col. Oathout,.
and in this he is joined by the '
Kansas authorities, lies in the !
fact that in Arkansas a new con-!
cern promoting a stock propo
sition where the stock is paid
for in installments must give
a good and sufficient bond to
fortify the buyers against pos
sible failure of the company. In
Kansas no bond is required, the
authorities merely relying on
the stringent examination of the
company made at the time of
entrance. Kansas, perhaps, has
a more exacting law in the na
ture of entrance r equirements,
dut, lacaing xne Dona ieature, it
is not regarded as secured a
gainst fake promoting concerns
so well as the Arkansas statute
Fish Law Not Popular.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 18.— The
legislative act of the last legis
lature creating a fish law in
Boone county, is very unpopular,
especially with certain classes,
and they are looking for some
way in which to defeat its pur
poses. One resident of the coun
ty appealed to Secretary of
State Earle W. Hodges, to see
if the people of the county could
not petition for a reference of
the bill.
Secretary Hodges put the mat
ter up to Attorney Geperal
Moose, who promptly produced
a supreme court decision which
states that no local matters can
be referred to the vote of the
county, ttte Constitutional a
mendment, permitting only
state wide issues to be submit
l
j?;1".— 1 ■— .i_ ■_ ■ ■
ted.
This decision was rendered at
the time the citizens of Dallas
county wished to vote on a court
house question, citizens of
Garland county wished to vote
on gambling in Hot Springs, and
citizens of Hempstead county
desired to vote upon liquor li
cense for Fulton. The citizens
of Boone county have been no
tified they will have to put up
with the fish law and ask the
next legislature to repeal it.
Looks Like Blackmail Scheme.
Joe and Dick Bandy, sons of
Mrs. 01 Bandy of Tuckerman,
were arrested Thursday at Tuck
erman on the charge of seduc
tion, alleged to have occurred in
Fort Smith last Christmas. The :
young men were brought to
Newport by Deputy Sheriff Gro
ver Gardner and were allowed to
return home next morning, ar
rangements having been made
for their appearance next Mon
day in Fort Smith, to which
place they will be accompanied
by their attorney, Judge M. M.
Stuckey.
Both boys enjoy good repu
tations at home and come from
an excellent family. The whole
affair looks like a blackmailing
scheme to their friends at home
and we believe that upon an in
vestigation of the charges, they
will be proven groundless.
Governor Seeks A Rest
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 18.—Act
ing Governor Futrell will proba
bly go to Hot Springs the last
of next week for a day or so of
rest. He is much interested in a
number of propositions which'
have been placed before him re
cently by people of Garland
county, and wishes to get a bit
of information at the same time.
Prominent residents of Hot
Springs have invited the Acting
governor to come over and en
joy a trip over the route of the
proposed Hot Springs-Little Rock
pike, which they hope to have
improved by the award of the
$10,000 offered by the govern
ment, for which many road dis
tricts are competing.
Another Death From Meningitis.
Jonesboro, April
other son of W. H. Fan
last night near Cash of mei
tis. He was thirteen years of
age and was taken ill last Friday
at noon. His older brother, age
19 years, died Monday. This
makes four deaths of meningi
tis at Cash a' there are yef"*'—
four cases.
One new case developed last
night. It was the child of Mrs.
Walters, a widow lady, and is a \
grand-child of J. W. Walters, a
prominent farmer living west of 1
the city. It is about six years of
age.
The people of that vicinity are
greatly alarmed, while the wea
ther conditions are favorable for
stamping out the disease, yet it
is feared that there will be many /
more cases yet.
Several cases and deaths are
reported at Deckerville. A man
died there last night and Under
taker James Oregg was called1
there today to embalm the body
for shipment to his former
home. His name could not be
learned- it is tnougnt tne pny
sicians have the situation undpt**0
control there and the epidetnic
will soon be over.
Dr. Oscar E. Jones on Thurs
day bought the home place of
Mr. \T. H. Morris on Laurel
street* occupied by Mr. Gullette
and fi ..ily, and will make eorr- i
siderable improvements. ‘
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