THE INDEPENDENT J,
FERCY H. VANDYKE,
F’ublisher' and Editor.
NEWPORT. - - ARKANSAS.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY;TICKET.
For Representative.
JOHN H. KF.EI.
.County Judge,
E. L. BOYCE.
Circuit Clerk.
J. D. NEAL.
County Clerk.
GEO. A. LOCKARD.
Sheriff.
H. S. SIMMONS.
Treasurer.
DR. F. G. SMITH.
Assessor,
R. L.iCONDITT.
Surveyor.
W. A. BOWMAN.
Coroner,
—~r J. JHARRISON.
^Constable—Union Townahln.1
W.'H.lCAROUTHERS. I
J ustioe of the Peace..
GUY SMITIIJ
FOREST DILLARD.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
We are authorizedjto 'announce the fcandidacy
of H. M. Woodard of Elgin for Justice] of the
Peace of Bird township.
WOOTEN MARRIES
MISS M’BEE.
Two ofjthe popular young mem
bers of Cotter’s society circles
sprang a surprise on their friends
last Friday night, says the Cot
ter Courier. Mr. Frank Wooten,
son of Mrs. Lena Wooten, is a
resident of Dahlonega, Ga. He
has been visiting his mother for
some time, and became a favor
ite in society. Miss Myrtle
McBee, beautiful, accomplished,
and the only daughter of Mrs.
Winnifred McBee, of McBee’s
Landing, captured Frank’s heart,
and in turn gave him her troth.
But their young associates were
none the wiser until last Friday
night when a telephone message
announced that they had been
married at the Hartford Hotel in
y*'oilville. The happy couple
gave a reception to their friends
at the house of the groom’s
mother in Cotter Wednesday
night, and were the recipients
of hearty congratulations. Frank,
here’s to you; may you live long
and prosper. The young couple
will go to the world’s fair next
week and then tour the northern
i
states.
THE COOKE SISTERS.
In speaking of the exquisite
and altogether inimitable bare
back riding of the Cooke sisters,
Anna and Edna, there is no lan
guage too strong to proclaim
their merits, nor is it claiming
too much to aver that they are,
beyond all question, the most
daring, the most accomplished,
and in every wav the most finish- j
ed equestriennes the world has
ever produced. Their riding is a
revelation and a poem. Beauti
ful and as graceful as a fawn,
Anna and Edna accomplish on
their flying coursers numberless
feats none else ever dared at
tempt, and backward and for
ward somersaults are to them the
merest bagatelle. There are
many equestriennes in the pro
fession, but there is none that
can compare with Anna and Ed
na Cooke, who are with the Pan
American Show which will ex
hibit at Newport, Thursday,
Sept. 1.
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MAKING PORT ON ONE LEG.
n« Disabled Steamer Bulgaria Pro
ceeding Slowly- I'nder a
Single Propeller.
London, April 20.—The disabled
Hamburg-Ameriean line steamer BuV
garia, from New York, April 6, la
Hamburg, which was reported havli^ i
lost her starboard propeller and frg»
tured the shaft on April 12 at sea,
passed Prawle point, in the English
channel, slowly proceeding under her
port propeller to her destination.
Palmh lor President.
Washington,April 20.—The adminis
tration is informed, through official
channels, that a strong movement it
setting in among Cubans "to r.iak*
Tomas Estrada l’alma the first presi
dent of the Cuban republic. The sug
gestion is eminently satisfactory t«
tfcfe (Wind uovgrinueut.
The Old Thing Won’t On.
Hewitt—First be sure you’re right,
then go ahead.
Jewett—Tou may be sure you're right
and not be able to go ahead, If you are
Ib m automobile—Breofclya Ufa
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ONLY A RIVER WHITEFISH.
Story of Man Who Knew Fish WhpA
He Saw Them, Also a RaiP
road “Ad.”
William C. Harris, angling ed
itor of Outing, and rightly called
the Izaak Walton of America, is a
man who can come pretty near to
telling exactly what fish you will
find in Blank brook, in Blank
township of Blank county, Idaho,
Texas or Rhode Island. New fish
es and new facts about them, he
loves as a miser loves gold, only
he does not hoard them, but gath
er* them to give out again.
One day Harris chanced to be In
8t. Paul. He was talking with
General Passenger Agent Charley
Fee, who said Harris should go t*
Montana to catch grayling in a
stream at that time much adver
tised.
Harris said there were no gray
ling in the stream. The railroad
man laughed at him as a New
Yorker who pretended to know
more about a certain Montana
river than a man who had fished it.
The dispute waxed warm. Har
ris was due in New York on a
certain day, and by taking the first
train west he could have six hours
on the stream and still keep his en
gagement. In 36 hours he was on
the stream with a local represen
tative of the railroad. He waded
in, made one cast, and was fast to
a silvery thing that tore about
mightily line mat oia
It came to the net, and the local
representative of the railroad
fairly shouted:
“There, there; it’s a grayling!”
“Pack this carefully in moss,”
said Harris. “Send it to your gen
eral passenger agent.” Then he
walked to the telegraph office and
wired that official:
“Am sending one of your gray
ling. It’s an infernal old river
whiteflsh.”
Then he took the train for New
York and kept his engagement.
A MAN AND HIS SHOES.
The Thicker the Soles He Wears th«
Larger the City from Which
He Hails.
“You can almost tell from
what country a man comes by the
weight of his shoes,” said J. W.
Davy, of Chicago, who represents
a shoe company, to a Milwaukee
Sentinel reporter. “You might
not believe it,” he continued, “but
the thicker the soles of his shoes
the larger the city from which he
comes. In New York it is almost
a fad, and the soles of the shoes
there are exceedingly heavy.
They are almost as heavy in Chica
go. Men there wear shoes to pro
tect their feet. They have not
time enough, it seems, to bother
with rubbers. So they make one
pair of shoes do the work for all
kinds of weather. Here in Mil
waukee and in other cities of this
size, I notice, the men wear light
shoes and rubbers. I suppose
they have time enough to wear the
overshoes. Up in the country I
find that in many places leather
boots are not worn at all for sev
eral of the winter months. They
wear heavy socks and then put
rubber overshoes over these.”
German "Sunday ocnoois.
In England the term “Sunday
school” has a definite meaning,
and is exclusively used to denote
a place of religious teaching. Iu
Germany, however, the race for;
commercial supremacy has led to ;
the establishment of Sunday;
ichools at which mechanics are (
given practical instruction in
their trades. There is, for exam
ple, a school for masons, at which !
the students, many of them me-!
chanics who work during the
week, spend several hours on Sun- j
flay morning in learning the high
er branches of their craft. Sim
ilarly there are Sunday schools for
tailors, ironmongers, bookbind-,
ers, and followers of other trades
—even barbers and blacksmiths.
Gold in New South Wales.
Preliminary returns issued by
tlie department of mines, New
South Wales, show a big increase
in the goid production of that
state for 1903, as compared with
the output for 1902. The yield for
1903 is valued at £1,0S0,029, which
represcuts an increase of £395,059
over the total of the previous year.
The Adjutant.
The adjutant, or marabout, Is
d tall bird of India, about six feet
Ingh. The wings expanded meas
ure about 15 feet from tip to tip.
It readily swallows a cat or a haft
whole.
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W«le-5«2s
Wash BLUE
For Sale By
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WISE
3 \\ | | GROCERS
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DIRECTIONS FOR USE:
Wiggte-SUck around in the water.
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WHEN LIFE IS "DEPARTING.
phenomena Which Kleetrlclty Ha*
Dl.closed In Animate
Nntnre.
A. D. Waller, of the Paris Academy
of Sciences, has devised an electrical
means of distinguishing between liv
ing and dead matter. His statement
of tlie method is somewhat ns fol
lows: Living matter responds to an
electrical stimulus by yielding an
after current in the same direction.
The same matter after it has been
killed by heating or other method
does not respond to excitation unless
it does so by causing a reversed cur
rent, due to polarization. This phe
nomenon is characteristic of all living j
matter, animal or vegetable. The
similar induced current is the last
sign of life and its amount may eveiN,
be used to measure the amount of 1
vitality remaining. In order to make
this test the bcaty is first connected
to a delicate galvanometer and if
there is any deflection caused this is
corrected; an electrical stimulus is
administered to the body and then
the galvanometer again connected
to it. If there is now a deflection of
the latter the body is living; no de
flection shows that it is Indubitably
dead. __ ___
cK-ss-aCi. -
Lumbcrmen’i Libraries,
Among the sawmill towns and log
ging camps of northern Wisconsin 28
small libraries are circulating under
the care of Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop,
of Ashland. Often this is almost the
only good literature that reache*
these places, where most of the peo
ple are too poor to buy books. Many
more libraries could be used to ad
vantage; also illustrated newspaper*
and back numbers of magaines.
WORLD’S FAIR RATES.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
St. Louis, April 30th to Decem
ber 1, 1904. Rate for ten day
excursion ticket will be one fare
and one-fifth for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 27th
to November 30, 1904. Rate for
sixty day excursion ticket one
fare and one-third for the round
trip. Tickets on sale April 25th
to Nov. 20th. Rate for season
EXCURSION TICKETS eighty
per cent, of double the standard
one way fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 15th
to Nov. 15th, Final return limit
Dec 15, 1904.
Thos. H. Reamey, Agt.
Read the Independent.
SINGER
SEWING MACHINES
At Bargain Prices.
We Suit Payments
' to Your Income
You may test our machines
before purchase and they will
he delivered to your home.
Guaranteed to be a simpler,
stronger and more durable
machine than any other.
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The Singer Manufacturing Co.
FRANK W. LYNN, Mgr.
M. A. UMSTED, Ass’t. Mgr.
121 Hazel Street, Newport Ark
^^ ^^^mmm
M. — THC—
gyjfe LONG
JMI DISTANCE
^|Ptelephone
places you in direct and
instant communica
tion with all important
towns in Texas and
Arkansas and many
other states. Its use
will often save you a
fatiguing journey.
TRY ROUND TRIP TALK.
The Southwestern Telegraph
and Telephone Co.
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Road Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
will apply to the County Court of Jackson county,
at the October term thereof, 1904, for an order to
establish a new road in Bird Township, to run as
follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the southeast corner of Section 17,
Township 13, north, Range 1 west, running thence
west on the section lines between Sections 17 and
20, 18 and 19, of Township 13 north, Range 1 west,
and Sections 13 and 24, 14 and 23, and 15 and 22,
Township 13 north, Range 2 west, to the west side
of the right of way of the St. Louis, Iron Mount
ain & Southern Railway, there intersecting the
Tuckerman and Swifton road.
J. E. Johnson,
Bud Graham,
William Watson.
This 26th of August. 1604.
NEW YORK
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m THE WORLD.
$4.00 Per Year. Single Copy, 10 Cts.
ISSUED WEEKLY.
Sample Copy Free.
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ALBERT J BOMB, „ _ PUBLISHERS,
Manaukk. 4T W.2STU ST., NSW 1 OBJC.
LIVERYMEN
FARMERS
DRAYMEN
And all users of axle grease
that want the best grease on the
market and that recognize a good
thing when shown its merits, we
recommend our Golden and Cas
tor Oil brands of Axle Grease.
It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes
and 3 pound tin buckets. For
sale by all up-to-date merchants.
Ask for it and take no substitute.
It is guaranteed to have no equal
for quality on the market.
WATERS-PIERCE
OIL COMPANY.
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OPENING
OF A NEW AND THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED LINE BETWEEN
ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO.
V SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1904.
Thoroughly equipped trains leave St. Louis and Chicago nightly
(aftej-the arrival of incoming trains), arriving either city the
following morning. .
Evuipment entirely new; lavish in design, elaborate in furnish
ings. Ask your ticket agent or address
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r iBREAKFAST ROOMS. I
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tinual source of pleasure. If your 1
breakfast is served among cheerful, har- I
monious surroundings it gives you a X
good start for the day. 1
DINING ROOM SUITES. H
We have a nice line of Dining Chairs,
Sideboards, China Closets, Dining
Tables—in fact, anything in thfe Furni
ture line. Come and see us.1 We are JK
are ready to show you what we have.
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BANK OF TUCKERM
CAPITAL STOCK $20,000J
We are open to the public forall bui
which constitutes safe & reliable banking
DIRECTORS:
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J. W. LINDLEY, L. T. SLAYDEN, D. C. DOWELL,
GEO. L. SMITH, W. E. TALLEY,
J. A. GREENHAW, L. D. SMITH.
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY.
Your Patronage is Solicited.
Tucker man>,
Low Rates from Me
ROUND TRIP, $15.00.
To Amarillo, Quanah, Vernon, Fort Worth,
San Angelo, San Antonio, Colorado,
Houston and other Texas points. Also
points in Oklahoma and Indian Territory,
where one fare plus $2.00 makes less.
Tickets on sale Aug. 23d, Sept. 13th and 27th.
ROUND TRIP, ONE FARE PLUS $2.00. J
To all points in Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Terri- J
tory. Tickets on sale First and Third Tuesday of M
each month. H
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OUT IN CALIF OR
The Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar will
held in the early fall. Thousands are going. It’j
good time. There is no doubt but that all good
icans desire to see the Golden State some time. Hi
an opportunity. Is there anything to prevent
taking advantage of the exceptionally'low r
nounced for this occasion.
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