VOLUME II. NEWPORT. ARKANSAS. MONDAY JULY 14, 1902. NUMBER71
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COURT CONVENES.
Proceedings of Circuit Court—Grand
Jury Empaneled—Final Entries
Made In Many Minor Civil
Oases.
The July term of Circuit Court con
vened in this city Monday morning,
Judge F. D. Fulkerson presiding.
Very little was accomplished during
the day, the work of empaneling a
petit jury being left over for Tuesday,
court adjourning at 3 p. m. to meet at
8:30 o’clock next morning.
The following grand jury was em
paneled: L. Lippmann, J. G. Walker
Wm. Shoffner, Joe Holliday, W. M.
Tims, J. R. Cox, Jake Bengel, Wm.
Harvey, A. J. Grant, W. L. Taylor, J.
E. Hogan, C. C. Burgess, Mark Har
per, Z. T. Calhoun, C. B. Coe, Peter
Huffman. After the election of L.
Lippmann foreman and J. G. Walker,
clerk, the body proceeded to business
and began the examination of wit
nesses.
COURT PROCEEDINGS.
Jno. W. Foster et al. versus Celia
Tucker et al., continued.
J. M. Stayton, trustee versus Jack
Mack and G. R. Hornbeck, ejectment;
continued.
J. O. Burgess versus J. G. Neal,
manufacturer’s lien; dismissed at cost
of plaintiff.
J. D. Goldman versus J. C. Hayes,
debt; continued under former orders.
M. B. Hare, adm’r. estate J. W.
Murphy, deceased, versus Bettie Ham,
possession and damages; dismissed
at plaintiff ’s cost.
Cases\of R. T. Topp and others
versus St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern Railway, in damage cases
over losses sustained in Union Com-'
press fire; defendant filed motion for
change of vehue.
Lemon Gale Co. versus W. C. C.
Wilson, debt; dismissed at cost of
defendant.
Southern Engine & Boiler Works
versus S. M. Bains, dismissed at cost
of defendant.
Sloan Wilson Co. versus W. P. R.
Cole, replevin; dismissed at cost of
plaintiff.
L. J. Dills versus T. E. Thompson,
damages, dismissed at defendant’s
cost.
F. S. Scott versus The Little Lum
ber Co. attachment; dismissed at cost
of defendant.
J. C. Kimbfrlin versus St. Louis,
Iron Mountain & Southern Railway
Co., appeal; continued by operation
rvf 1 n tir
CRIMINAL COURT.
State versus St. Louis, Iron Moun
tain & Southern Railway Co., unlaw
fully obstructing public highway, plea
of guilty and fine of $5 imposed on
one account and second, nolle prose
qui entered.
David Curtis, appeal; dismissed on
payment of costs.
ENGRAVING COMPANY
INCORPORATED.
Articles of incorporation of the
Little Rock Engraving Company were
filed Saturday with the secretary of
state. The capital stock is $1,500, all
of which has been subscribed. The
incorporators are Geo. R. Brown,
president, Frank Alverson, vice-pres
ident, August Probst, secretary and
treasurer, J. A. Ward, Wm. S. Mitch
ell, Herman Kahn, S. M. Powell, Lee
Omohundro, H. M. Bennett, Geo. W.
Rogers, J. B. Bateman, N. H. Wil
liamson, T. H. Hutchinson and H. L.
Remmel. The general business to be
pursued is the making of half-tone
cuts, lithographing stereotyping, etc.
BRIDGE STAGING BROKE.
Wednesday morning a staging gave
way at the Frisco bridge across Black
river and three of the workmen fell
into the water where the current was
very swift. Two of them at once
climbed up onto the piling but could
not hold on, as the current drew them
away. All were saved unhurt.—Black
Rock Telephone.
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one with larger horn and 60 new
records will arrive Saturday. Plant
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SENATOR BERRY’S
VOTE ON CANAL.
Sustains With Argument His Cham
pionship of Nicaragua Route—
Better Route For People of
South.
United States Senator James H.
Berry, who is now at his home in Ben
tonville, explains in the following let
ter why he voted for the Nicaragua
canal route rather than for the Pan
ama.
To the editor of the Gazette: —
Bentonville, July 10.—I am in re
ceipt of your letter of the 8th in which
you ask me to give my reasons for
voting for the Nicaragua route rather
than for the Pana ma.
“I will state in a general way that I
believed it to be the better rpute. My
objections to the Panama were the
extreme sickly country in which the
canal was to be constructed; its im
practicability for sailing vessels; the
great difficulty, as stated by many
eminent engineers, in constructing
dams to secure the requisite amount
of water; and the doubt whether or
not the government could secure a
title from the New Panama Company
that would not make us liable for the
bonds and indebtedness of the old
comnanv.
“But if the conditions had been
equal or even if there had been some
advantage in distance and cost in favor
of JPanama, I would have voted for
Nicaragua for the reason that it is
400 miles nearer the Southern ports
than the Panama and I believed it to
be the better route for the people of
the South.
“The democratic national conven
tion, the Arkansas state convention
and the Arkansas legislature had all
declared in favor of Nicaragua. The
people throughout the southern
states had expected the Nicaragua
route to be adopted. There was a
general belief that many of those who
favored Panama were opposed to any
canal and nearly all of my democratic
associates in the house and senate
favored Nicaragua.
“These are the reasons that caused
me to vote for the Nicaragua route.
“I am, very respectfully, yours,
James H. Berry.”
WILL ELECT SUCCESSOR.
Little Rock, July 12.—Gov. Davis
Friday issued a call for a meeting of
the board of trustees of the University
of Arkansas at his office in Little Rock
on July 15, to consider the presidency
r»f the nniversitv. Prof. Harrison
Randolph of Charleston, S. C., was
elected president at the recent meet
ing of the board at Fayetteville. He
accepts, provided the board will give
him a life tenure and allow him to fill
vacancies in the faculty. It is safe to
say that the board will elect a suc
cessor to Prof. Randolph at the meet
ing July 15. Dr. Junius Jordan, form
er State superintendent of public in
struction, is the choice of the people
of the State for the place.
CALLED TO CONDUCT FUNERAL.
Camden, July 12.—Rev. John H.
Dye, pastor of the M. E. church,
South, here, had a telegram to go to
Smithville tomorrow to_ preach the
funeral of Captain W. C. Sloan, pres
ident of the Imboden bank, who died
yesterday. Captain Sloan was held
in high regard by all Methodists in
the state. He presented to that
church the Imboden college property.
Dr. Dye educated two of his daugh
ters and had been selected by the
captain before his death to preach his
funeral. Dr. Dye mourns the loss of
the good friend he has known in
timately more than a quarter of a
century.
SMALL CABIN BURNED.
About 3 o’clock Monday morning,
the w'hole town was awakened by the
ringing of bells and pistol shooting, a
fire alarm having been turned in from
one of the little tenement houses on
the corner of Second and Pine streets,
belonging to Mrs. Cleveland.
The cabin was totally destroyed and
the white family which occupied it,
lost all their personal goods.
! PROSPECTIVE IMPROVEMENTS.
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Extensive Plans of Engineer Fitch for
Expenditure of #451,000 Upon
Rivers of This District. Two
Locks Above Batesville To
Be Completed.
United States Engineer G. D. Fitch
of the rivers of the Arkansas district
has received the approval of a part
of his plans for the rivers under his
supervision. These improvements
will be made from the appropriation
of the last congress of #451,000 for
the rivers and harbors of this district.
It is necessary for Mr. Fitch to
draw up plans, which he deems ad
visable for the expenditure of the
appropriation of each river and sub
mit them to the department at Wash
ington. There are now a number of
these projects before the department,
which Mr. Fitch expects to hear from
in a short time.
Those which have^o far been ap
proved are for the river locks Nos. 1
and 2 on the the upper White river,
and also the dams which are built in
connection. In the case of No. 1, one
mile east of Batesville, it is his in
tention to complete the dams, guide
cribs, build the lock approach and
the lock house and clear the errounds
of temporary structures. In the case
of No. 2, about seven miles west of
Batesville, he will complete the abut
tal, the lock approaches, lay the pav
ing behind the land wall, f build and
place the lock gates, build cribs, the
main dam and clear the ground of
temporary structures. The construc
tion of lock 3 will be deferred.
The cost of Nos. 1 and 2 will prob
ably be about $132,000. The work,
which will begin at an early date,
cannot be finished until next year.
It is the ultimate purpose of Mr.
Fitch, as the appropriations are made
from year to year, to construct a
series of ten dams and their accomp
anying locks between Batesville and ^
the mouth of the upper White, which
it is estimated would cost upon com
pletion $1,000,000. This would keep
open navigation on the upper White
all the year round, whereas it is now
open for only a few months in the ;
colder season. The ten locks and
dams would give the river a constant
depth of four feet. Each of the dams
will be 175 feet long and 36 feet wide,
with a depth of five feet on the lower
mitre sill. They will be of the timber
type filled with stone.
Another of the projects which has
been approved by the Washington au
thorities is snagging of the Cache
river from James’ ferry to its mouth
on the north side of the White river,
near the Mississippi. The work will
begin at James’ ferry and go down.
The following is a list of the rivers
in the Arkansas district, which also
includes a part of Indian territory and
Missouri, the amounts showing the
relative division of the appropriation
among them:
Upper White, §270,000; Arkansas,
§110,000; lower White, §22,000; Black,
§21,000; Current, §6,900; Cache, §2,
000. The total mileage of the rivers
of the Arkansas district is 1,671.
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