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Newport Daily Independent.
VOLUME V. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 1905. _ NUMBER H7.
CAPITAL COMPLETION PROMISED, j
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While Governor Says Building Will Never
Be f inished Contractors Assure
Completion in 1907.
When will our new million dol
lar capitol be completed, is the
question being almost daily asked
all over the state. The commis
sion thinks next year, the con
tractors say in time for the gen
eral assembly of 1907, Governor
Davis says— never. At any rate
the work at present is progress
ing too slowly with a total force
of only seventy men to promise
much but the outside walls be
fore January, 1906. To date
only the outside walls for the
basement and first story, five
feet, two and one-half inches
thick and thirty-five feet high,
is to be seen of what will be,
when completed, one of the
finest public buildings in the
United States.
Delay after delay has been en
countered by the contractors on
this building since the structure
was first started over two years
ago; and the force of workmen
is now cut to the minimum owing
„ to the fact that stone for the
twenty-eight massive corinthian
columns which are to ornament
the front of the building cannot
be secured in sufficient quantity
at the Batesville quarries to keep
a full force of men busy on the
building.
Consequently only one stone
cutter is now employed where
4 ordinarily there are three, and
the smallforce of stone-cutters
, rstained is “kept bu3y on the
stone for the cornice work only.
Practically all of the stone for
the outside wall of the building
up to the roof has been cut and
only awaits the erection of the
huge columns to be placed in
position.—Little Rock Democrat.
Wants to Break Will.
Pine Bluff, Sept. 8.—Mary F.
Adams has filed suit in the Jef
ferson circuit court against B. F.
Harris et al and asks that the
will of her father, Ben Harris,
which leaves about $12,000 worth
of property to her brothers, the
defendants, he set aside, alleg
ing that the old man was in his
dotage when the will was made.
Old River Man Dead.
Little Rock, Sept. 8.—The
funeral of Capt. James Bowlin,
who died in Pine Bluff at the age
of 68 years, was held from the
residence, 1119 Cumberland
street, this city, at 3 o’clock this
afternoon, attended by a large
concourse of relatives and friends
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officiated.
Dean Robottom was in the
city Saturday morning returning
g home to Little Rock.
ENCOURAGE
. HOME INDUSTRY
Newport Has One of the
Best Equipped
Laundries
In the State.
\ | Let everybody give us a trial
i Monday and we will show
you the kind of work we are
turning out.
IDEAL STEAM
LAUNDRY.
The wagon will call at your
house Monday.
CLAIMS SftT-DEFENSE.
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Richard Blalock, Alias Richard Jones,
Tells Lillie Rock Police of
Tupelo Crime.
Little Rock, Sept. 8.—Richard
Blalock, alias Richard Jones, a
negro, was arrested yesterday
forenoon by chief of Police Haw
kins and Sergeant Cogswell at
Cuneo’s saloon on North Main
street. He has confessed to the
charge against him, and will be
taken to Newport by Chief Haw
kins tomorrow for trial.
He is charged with having
stabbed a young white man
named Harris to death near
Tupe/o, Jackson county, Novem
ber 17, 1903. Harris was about
18 years old. He and the negro,
so the report goes, had a diffi
culty about passing on the public
highway. A dispute arose as to
who should drive to the right.
Harris got off his wagbn to make
the negro drive to the right and
Blalock claims that Harris stab
bed him three times in the shoul
der. The negro then drew his
own knife and struck Harris
several times, from the effects
of which death ensued.
Blalock fled the country. The
citizens of Tupelo offered a re
ward 'of $200 for the arrest and
conviction of kthe fugitive, but
he succeeded in eluding capture
until yesterday. He says that
he has been in the Indian Terri
tory and Georgia, and came to
Little Rock about ten days ago.
He has been at work in the Ar
genta ice factory, and yesterday
went to Kelley’s employment
agency to ship out as a laborer
on an extra gang. Chief Haw
kins had suspected his presence
for several days, and securing a
description from Sheriff H. S.
Simmons of Jackson county went
out and found his man. At first
the negro denied that he was
Blalock, and that he knew any
thing of the murder but when put
through the sweating process
confessed and told the story ol
the killing as related above.
Blalock is about 25 years old.
Brakeman Killed.
Benton, Sept. 8.—Walter W.
Bennett, a brakeman on the local
freight on the Hot Springs West
ern road, received injuries this
morning while coupling cars
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hour. He was coupling a flat car
loaded with steel rails to a box
car and the cars were pushed to
gether so hard that a rail slipped
forward, catching his neck
against the box car and horribly
mangling him.
Quarantine Withdrawn.
Jonesboro, Sept. 8.—Effective
tomorrow at 12 o’clock the quar
antine now in force' will be re
moved. It is now thought that
the new quarantine by the state
board will be sufficient to protect
the city. If the situation grows
worse and persons from infected
districts should make their way
into the city a rigid quarantine
will at once be inaugurated.
Accidentally Killed.
Jonesboro, Sept. 8.—Word has
been received from Monett, a
station on the J., L. C. & E.,
about twenty miles east of this
city, of a young man named Wm.
Stotts, which occurred Thursday
afternoon. While out hunting ir
Cockle Burr slough he acciden
| tally discharged his gun, the load
| entering his right side and also
| tore off a part of his left hand.
ferry for Sale.
Will sell Jacksonport ferry,
boat, ropes, wire and rights
cheap. Apply to
J 15b7t M. B. Williams.
NEWPORT WON AT TENNIS.
Cotlon Tennis Club Took four Out of
• Six Series in Tournament With
Walnut Ridge.
The Cotton Tennis Club of
Newport in what is said to have
been the first inter-city tourna
ment held in this state bagged
four out of the six series of
games played on the local club’s
court Tuesday and Wednesday.
The visitors were allowed to
have two, which would seem to
be the proper way to express it(
when the score of the final se
ries 6 to 1 and 6 to 1 is called to
mind.
Newport was represented in
this sixth series by Powell and
Anderson and their opponents
were Dutton and Pinnell.
The visitors were A. J. Dut
ton, W. A. Dearmon, Wm. Pin
nell and Ollie Dowell, while the
Cotton club, who took them in,
was represented in the series by
Roy Anderson, J. 0. Powell, Dr.
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Joe Bevens and John Stayton.
SCORE BY SERIES.
Newport W. Ridge.
SETS. SETS.
123 123
1st series.6 7 8 9
2d series.6 10 0 8
3d series.3 6 6 6 2 3
14th series.3 6 3 6 4 6
: 5th series...l.6 4 6 3 6 4
6th series.6 6 11
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Memphis Should Loosen Up.
I Dr. J. P. Runyan, president of
i the Arkansas state board of
i health, has gone to Memphis for
1 the purpose of conferring w ith
: Dr. Heber Jones of the Memphis
i board with reference to the entry
! of Arkansas people into that city,
He will ask that the Memphis
: regulations be modified to the ex
i tent of not requiring Arkansas
people who enter Memphis, when
provided with a health certificate
i of the Arkansas state board, to
i have a special permit from Dr.
i Jones as well. It is contended
by the Arkansas board that this
| works an unnecessary hardship
i upon Arkansas people, since the
quarantine is maintained so rig
j idly that no one from any infect
ed district is permitted to enter
this state. _
Worked to the Limit.
“Cars, cars, cars is the cry
from every point on our lines,”
said an official of the Missouri
Pacific-Iron Mountain. “With
one of the greatest corn and
wheat crops ever raised along
: our lines and a fair cotton crop
already assured, the people are
' in a spending mood and the de
dise for immediate shipment has
never been surpassed in the his
tory of the lines and all the roll
ing stock we own is being work
ed to the limit.”
Preacher and Carpenter Fight.
Cotton Plant, Sept. 8.—Prof.
W. A. Bird, a negro preacher,
who is president of the Cotton
Plant Industrial Academy, a
i negro school supported by the
Northern Presbyterian church,
wa? seriously cut here today by
Lewis Johnson, a negro carpen
ter, in an affray growing out of
a quarrel over some work done
by Johnson. The cutting occur
red in the negro church here.
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For Sale at Auction.
1 will on Saturday, September
9, sell to the highest bidder, on
Front street, all my personal
property, consisting of household,
dining room and kitchen furni
ture, together with two mat
tresses. Terms of sale cash. -
d6t W. W. Weaver.
DR. CHAS. E. CARROLL
Dentist
.Gives special attention to
Crown and Bridge Work,
And correction of Irregularities
of the Teeth.
Office Watson Bi,dc. Phone, 63.
Newport, - Arkansas•
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E. L. WATSON, M. D.
OFFICE OVER MOSBY’S.
NEWPORT, - - ARK.
I CALIFORNIA REMEDY
Stops Chills at Once
Cures Malaria. Agrue, and Chills and Fever
m three days. First dose relieves. A power
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Sold by all Dealers
Scholarship For Sale.
Th e Independent recently of- i
fered for sale a scholarship in j
; the Memphis Commercial College |
j at a cut rate. It was sold the
' second day by ’phone message as
a result of the advertisement and j
the fact that a bargain was
offered.
We have another, a $50 schol
arship in the famous Interna
tional Correspondence School of
Scranton, Penn., for almost any ,
course of study desired. Business (
course, bookkeeping, stenogra
phy, architectural, electrical and
civil engineering, chemistry,
metallurgy, teaching, surveying,
in fact most any line can betaken
up at home and acquired. This
scholarship will be sold first ap
plicant for $35. btf
Sheep Do Not Swim.
Cotton Plant, Sept. 8. —Circuit
court adjourned here yesterday,
after being in session four days,
j The docket was short and no
J criminal cases of importance were
1 decided.
j The somewhat celebrated case 1
I n-F MuWrv vs P.nnstahle White.
which involved the question
whether a sheep could swim was
decided, the jury finding that
sheep do not swim.
Insurance Company Organized.
Foreman, Sept. 8.—The Home
Protection Association of Arkan
sas, a life insurance company
with headquarters at this place,
has just been chartered by the
'state, with the following officers:
• C. B. Aydelotte, president, T. T.
i Cowling, vice president; H. M.
Mclver, secretary and treasurer.
Notice.
The first annual meeting of the
| stockholders of the Bank of Tu
! pelo will be held at the office of,
| said bank on Wednesday, Octo-!
ber 4, 1905, at 10 o’clock a. m.,
I for the purpose of electing direc
tors and the transaction of such
! other business as may be brought
| before the meeting.
A. W. Sweatt, Cashier.
Little Misses Addie and Rosa
i lyn McDonald arrived from Wel
don Friday for a few days’ visit
to Miss Mildred Johnson.
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WE CLOSE EVERY EVENING AT 7 EXCEPT SATURDAY. ||
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MEN'S ~ OUTFITTERS
i We Are
Closing Out
^ Our line of Boys’iTailor-Made Clothing. Our ;
1 $5.00, $6.00, $7.50 and $10. Suits, ages 3 to 11
This weOk, as long as they last, for
$2.50
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When "Honey Boy” needs a new suit
he ought to have the best. Best clothes,
best make, best and latest style, from the
best store, for boys’ and men’s Clothing,
Furnishings, Hats and Shoes.
SEE WINDOWS. |
i "GET THE HABIT.”
ALFRED
KNOX HATS. BENJAMIN
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SS SHIRTS. Aens Outfitters Newport Ark clothing, m
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121 On Your Money!
PENN-WYOMING COPPER CO.,
Of Grand Encampment, Wyo.,
Is paying 12 per cent. now. They are making a
CAR LOAD QF PURE COPPER EVERY DAY.
This is not a mining proposition in which every
thing is prospective.
It is a bona fide manufacturing enterprise, paying
large dividends.
IN JUSTICE TO YOURSELFjrXS
to miss this opportunity. Let me tell you more about
it. Write me today. NOW !
ELMO RIDDELL,
CO OPERATIVE REAL ESTATE AGENT,
Jacksonport, Arkansas.
Over t ,000 Representatives in the United States.
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ST.L0UISSH0EST0RE
FRANK BROS.
310 East Front Street. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS.
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