books
schools
next
by the
pur
heldf in
ing made to
books used
county and cit
Tuckerman,
other special dis
e commission’s se
probably be adopt
oards of these dis
though the county
does not include
nissioners ap
the selection of
capable men, who
fi#n per
• J.1. A n/iVlAA
which has become famous since
the city marshal of Mammoth
Spring, a few weeks ago, arrest
ed a party composed of the most
prominent citizens of the town
for pouring its strains upon the
air at the midnight hour. The
song runs this way:
“Everytime I come to town, j
The boys keep a-kicking my dog
aroun’.
Makes no difference if he IS a
houn’,
They gotta quit a-kicken’ my
dog aroun.’ .
The Republic corresponden
claims that this classic u
the oldest in the country, ^
eloquently says: Kentucky
song of the Virgml ’ tains and
and Tennessee ni drift,
came to ^
of the earfie ^.g home.
iel Boone a” it in the1
5?nun cronies ,...mr TVTiocrwiri it
Special to Indepew
Little Rock, .
there is no joint *'*»■■>
among the candi ®0'
emor, the three i delates, tw
at a time, do somefimes get to
gether in their individual tours
Gov. Donaghey and Gen. Nor
wood met at Harrison Monday
in tile county court house, anc
divided time in a very amicable
discussion of state issues.
Gen. Norwood, who was in
Little Rock Tuesday, said that
the speaking was free from per
sonalities on both sides, and on
a high plane of gentility. This
was their first joint debate, al
though they had discussed the
Turner-Jacobson bill twice be
fore in the same town on the
same daw Gen. Norwood has
ilso met*Mr. Robinson twice,!
ut Robinson and Dnnno-hpv
nd the Santa re zran sang h
at night around their camp fires.
And the original Missouri pion
eers carried it with them over
the plains and throughth'e Rock
ies to the Western Ocean. I
first heard it on the lips of Thad
Bass, an exiled Missourian from
Columbia, punching cows on the
staked plains of New Mexico.
He used it to lull to rest many a!
herd of long-horr s on the trails1
^ ' i
}
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/
'o Pay License.
g ha\ 3 never met on the stump.
e -
-1 Warning.
; j To The Public:
| You are hereby notified that
| you are violating the Rules of
j the Water Company by letting
your Faucets run in order to
keep the pipes from freezing, '
and you must STOP as we have
a man looking after this and we j
will cut the water off and refuse f
to sell water to any persoi*
found violating this rule. Jj
The*practice is very Diw]sj
GEROUS as we would ndj^ be
able to give the Fire Djfpart
ment any pressure during a fire
as the water would bf^wasting
through the faucetsjf
Newport Water, LiJ^t & Power
Company. jW
®^mckburn. SuDt.
10 ine pay-1
oodtf. JV
|| j.—
Jeffries l>
Brundidge hdU list of
speaking appoj||J , for the
next courteous
ly inviteg^H mis.
Da
assuring
' ent and
to which
1^1 nay,
have
01*
epgm ie fire is unknowh.
? A definite is known as
- to h ickey failed to/escape
d j from the burning hfcusesjind on
- ly after t, e fire had completely
. destroyed I the hou^e and his
. charred remains were found in
, (the hot ashes, was it known that
j he had burned to dejith. It is
I thought that he was suffocated
by the dense smoke and lost
consciousness before he could es
cape from the house.
Mrs. Dickey said that she was
(in another room when the fire
wa^ discovered and quickly
made her escape, thinking that
her husband hud preceded her.
She aided the citizens in carry
ing out many pieces of household
furniture, which were saved
from the flashes.
Mr. Dicjkey was a bridge
watchman fhere in the employ of
the Iron Mountain Railroad Com
pany, by(which’ company he had
been emiployed during the past
25 yea/rs. He is survived by his
wife a^nd four sons.
Thjfe loss on the house was esti
nat^d at about $2,000, without
nsiprance.
j 14,332,756 Bales Ginned.
Washington, Jan. 9.—The
census bureau’s eighth cotton
ginning report of the season, is
sued at 10 a. m. today, and show
ing the number of running bales,
counting round as half bales, of
cotton of the growth of 1911
ginned prior to January 1, with
comparative statistics for last
year and other years, is as fol
lows:
United States, 14,332,756
bales, compared with 11,084,515,
bales last year, when 95.8 perl
cent, of the entire was ginned
prior to January 1; 12,465,298
bales in 1908, when 95.3 per
cent was ginned, and 11,741,039
bales in 1906, when 90.4 per
cent was ginned.
Has Half The Number.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 10.—Gen.
Norwood reports that up to the
present time, 147 of the 2000 pe
titions which he scattered over
the state in behalf of the Nor
wood amendment have been re
sumed, with 6,174 names. This
»ut half the number re
!or the initiation of the
ure restricting the
slature to
he will
sd by
c*r
no
Cuts Jugular Vein of
DM Martin In Drunken
Brawl.
Ada Sanderson, a negress liv
ing in the third house this side
of the lake bridge, who only last
week figured in a cutting affray,
used a knife or razor to danger
ous effect upon a negro Dick
Martin, better known as “Cher
okee Red” at her home Tuesday
night.
Gus Smith and Henry Broth
ers were also in the house at the
same time, when it seems that
in a drunken brawl, the negress
proceeded to cut Martin’s jugu
lar vein and wind pipe. The
wounded man ran to the street
and thence to Mayhan’s restau
rant seeking a doctor and leav
ing a trail of blood upon the
pavement traversed.
Officer Eaton spent the night
in a search for the Sanderson
woman, whom he found next
morning at a house near Wal
nut Grove cemetery. She was
arrested and placed in the coun
ty jail while Brothers and
Smith were confined in the city
bastile.
Martin was still alive Wednes
day morning, but his chances of
i. • - l.-l __ •_ TT/x
living arc icgaiucu 0.0 011x11. no
refuses to talk of the cutting.
Putting Arkansas On theMap.
Hon. Gustave Jones, of New
port, in introducing Senator Jeff
Davis to his home people refer
red to Jeff as "the man who
came nearer putting Arkansas
on the map than any other citi
zen.” But when Jeff put the
state on the map it was pointed
out by the effete East and North
as a country peopled with coon
hunters, illiterate backwoodsmen,
red necks and hill-billies, bull
frog$ and mosquitos. The state
is outgrowing this unmerited
distinction, however, as it is
drifting further away from Da
visism and “his policies” have
no voice in shaping the destinies
of the ship of state.
Under the broad light of pub
licity, Arkansas is making rapid
advancement and the eye of tfye
public is upon this state. Capi
tal and labor, industrial plants,
scientific farm experts, are cen
tering within our borders. The
organization of corn growers
clubs, erection of agricultural
schools and ^careful study now
being made £o improve our con
ditions is being marveled at by
the outside world. In this rapid
pace the voice of the calamity
howler who arrays class against
class, high collared roosters
redneck hillbilly has ho
will not be heard,
class of campaigning
saving” is a child
when the state was
and if con
its perpetrator will
as the common en
l
!
i
ing their conditions and will not
be retarded by the agitator. In
this rapid march of progress we
should cling to the motto, “Unit
ed we stand and divided we fall,"
and all work for the common
good and advancement of the
whole people of this and grow
ing commonwealth. — Jonesboro
Tribune.
Bowman A Candidate. >•
The Independent is authoriz
ed and takes pleasure in pre
senting W. A. Bowman as a can
didate for re-election as survey
or of this county. He has made
a splendid record in his twelve
years of service as an of^ial or
deputy and seeks/re-election <Jn
the ground that his experience
in the work and acquaintance
with lands and conditions in the
county enable to do the work in
half the time possible when he
first entered office or that could
be accomplished by any new
man. Mr. Bowman is also thor
oughly experienced in drainage
survey work and well equipped
for this class of business. He
feels that it is to the interest of
the people of the county to con
tinue a man in this office, where
his record is good and satisfac
tory.
Mr. Bowman has the ample
confidence of the people in his
thorough honesty and has prov
en his grit and industry in all |
sorts of weather and difficult 1
work. He is a pleasant gentle
man, who makes friends where*
ever he goes and again*1* whom
we have never heard ■ifnkind
word expressed. Jf
He has Well demonstrated his
capability and the people need
no assurance that the office will
be creditably filled if he is again
honored by nomination in the
party primary.
The Perpetual Politician.
There was a perpetual politi- ,
cian in Arkansas who had a ma- g *
nia for or e and was continual- ,
ly running for office. He made
the race for a certain office and
was ingloriously defeated and
was so humiliated over the de
feat that he resolved to commit
suicide. Going to a drug store
he procured some arsenic and a
can of kerosene, got a rope and
his pistol and went to the river
where he had a boat, rowed out
under a tree and placip^W^
rope around his neck threw it
over a limb, swallowed the arse
nic, poured the oil over his
clothing and set fire to same,
placing the revolver against his
head, pulled the trigger and
kicked the boat at the same
time. The bullet glanced and
cut the rope throwing him into
the water and put out the fire.
He swallowed so much water
that he threw up the arsenic,
waded out to shore and is now
figuring on making the race for
some office on the reform ticket.
Danville Politics.
Medical Society Officers.
The Jackson County Medical
Society at a meeting Tuesday
night at the office of Dr. A. L. «
Best elected officers for the en- * ft
suing year, as follows:
Dr. C. W. Martin, president ;Jj
Dr. W. F. Wilson, vice president %]L
Dr. Ira H. Erwin, secretary and /
treasurer; Dr. L. E. Willis, d**l
egate to the state medical <»s
ciation at Hot Springs; Dr,
R. Gray, alternate.