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VOLUME V. NEWPORT, ARiC'^SAS. SATURDAY. APRIL A : P6, NUMBER 306.
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UNDER CONTROL
Caring for Horr-eies-: Most
Vexing Problem.
Most Liberal Response fo Cal1! for Aid
, from All Parts of the Country
and from All Classes.
San Francisco, April 20—The
great fire following the earth
quake was practically under con
trol at 2 o’clock today, having
destroyed wiiat remained after
Hhe earthquake in almost three
fourths of the entire city.
The greater part of the west
ern addition, a beautiful resi
dence section west of Van Ness
Avenue, was saved. Expert use
of high explosives checked the
flames in in their western pro
gress.
Small hres were burning in
different parts of the city but
were no longer regarded as dan
gerous.
Two hundred thousand home
less persons are encamped at
Golden Gate Park, while 150,000
more are scattered through va
rious camps in the extreme west
ern part of San Francisco county.
Every effort is being made to
nerfect a system for providing
the unfortunates with food drink
and shelter.
Supplies began arriving at San
Francisco yesterday, but, owing
to the lack of organization, many
went hungry.
Thousands of refugees are in j
p Oakland, Berkeley and Almeda,!
across the bay, where extraor-1
dinary efforts are being made to i
feed and shelter them. An un-;
ending procession of fugitives
from the ruined city is passing
southward, filling all the towns
from San Jose to Los Angeles.
The losses in Southern Cali
fornia towns are very heavy.
The losses in towns between
San Francisco and Santa Bar
bara are very heavy, but accur
ate estimates are as yet impossi
ble. The number of casualties
in almost every instance has been
exaggerated.
A committee of bankers re
port that all the bank and safe
deposit vaults in San Francisco
are intact. A vast hoard of gold
and silver in the United States
; Mint and the Government cash
the Snbtreasury will be avail
; able in a few days.
Soldiers shot and kil’ed four
t teen vandals, who were attempt
ting to loot the Mint. Many oth
er instances are reported of rad
ical action on the part o‘‘ the
military in suppressing lawless
ness.
The country has responded
quickly and liberally to San Fran
co's appeal for help. Three
million dollars has been raised,
and many carloads of tents and
jproviftf ns are now speeding to
| wart/che stricken city.
Representative business men
; declare that a greater and grand
, er city will arise immediately
I from the ashes, and that the
work of restoration will begin
at once.
RUINING ARKANSAS.
Jeff Makes Another Assault On the
Fair Name of the Common
wealth and Paints
It Red.
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In his speech before the con
vention of commercial clubs in
Si;. Louis the other day Gov. Jeff
Davis made another assault upon
the fair name of Arkansas in
which he said:
“Arkansas is no longer a back
woods state, but is in the fore
front of civilization and advance
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ment. e>ne proauceu uie great
est constitutional lawyer in the
government, Augustus H. Gar
land. She produced the greatest
soldiers of the Confederacy, Pat
Cleburne and Thos. Hineman;
the head of the Great Mystic j
Rite that binds all mankind to
gether, the poet, philosopher and |
statesman, Albert Pike, spent'
his boyhood, young manhood,
old age in Arkansas. Arkansas
is one of the few states in the
Union that are absolutely free
from debt, with half a million
dollars in her treasury. For
variety of soil and climate she is
unsurpassed and unexcelled; her
coal, her asphalt, her fruit, her :
cotton, her grain, her hospitable
and kind people make her the
Mecca for homeseekers and cap
italists. ’ ’ — Paragould Soliphone.
Don’t cost much to make your
clothes look new all the year
round. £l a month in Barker’s ;
club pavs the bill. 90d6t
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E. LESS, President, ALEX BERGER, Secretary-Treasurer. ;
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The country bank located in a rapidly developing
section, where there is a good demand for money
at 8 and 10 per cent is just as sound as the big city
S bank, and can make more profit on a 5 per cent
l' | dollar than Pittsburg and’Cleveland can make on
a 4 per cent dollar. And it is in a better position
to explain how it makes its money than the city
nril' ic * * * * ...
The American Trust Company pays 5 per cent
t interest on money ’eft. for 12 months on amounts
• of $200.00 and upwards. Write for particulars.
Write today.
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MURDER OR SUICIDE M COTTER.
A Jeweler Found D<ad in Hb Room in
Hotel Tremaine Elan Been
‘sip3tmg LiHfe Gib With Him.
News re u_-h< i - this morr ing
of a myster; iw death at (.'otter,
some time Wednesday night or
Thursday morning.
A jeweler named Nelson came
to Cotter several months ago and
opened up a jewelry store, and
was doing a nice business, some
think he had a family elsewhere,
but he only had one child with
him, a little girl about six years
old.
A Jew peddler came in to v 'ot
ter a few days ago, handling
jewelry and spent a good deal of
his time with Nelson. Wednes
day night Nelson was taken sick
in his room at the Tremaine ho
tel. His little girl was sleeping
with him. About midnight some
one went to his room and he
seemed to be getting along al
right, but the next morning
early he was found dead and his
condition showed he had been
dead some time.
The jewelry peddler claimed a
grip that was supposed to con
tain most of Nelson’s valuables,
and was seen looking through it.
He was arrested, and is held
awaiting an examination. An
inquest was held hut we have;
Koon dklo trj o-M anv fnrthpr
facts than above mentioned.— ’
Batesville Guard.
POSTAL CLERK ARRESTED.
Charged With Opening Letters and
Placed Under Bond.
Rogers, Ark., April 19. —T. S. j
Wunder, of Rogers, postal clerk
between Rogers and Grove, I. T.,
was arrested here this morning
by Inspector Madiera and a
United States marshal on the
charge of opening letters. Wun
der was taken to Fayetteville
and after an examination before
the United States commissioner
was placed under bond of $750
to await the action of the federal
grand jury. Postmaster Cady
of Rogers and Postmaster Foster
of Gravette are the complaining
witnesses, and if was their pri
vate correspondence the defend
ant is charged with opening.
Wunder has been in the postal
mail service for eighteen years,
and is one of the oldest and most
popular mail clerks in the South
west. Pending the action of the
grand jury Wunder was relieved
of his run.
Walnut Ridge News Notes.
Walnut Ridge, April 20.—
(Special to Independent.) —Street
commissioner Surridge is having
some much needed improvements
done on the streets here this
week.
Mr. S. D. Campbell, assistant
attorney for the St. L., J. M. &
S. Ry. Co., of Newport, was in
this city Friday on legal busi
ness.
C. W. White, cashier of the
Bank & Trust Co., and D. Sloan,
cashier of the Lawrence County
Bank, are attending the Bank
ers’ Association at Little Rock.
Mrs. E. E. Baber received a
telegram today from her daugh
ter, Mrs. Modisett, of Helena
stating that a small daughter of
Mrs. Modisett was missing arid
that it was thought she had been
drowned in the river there. Mrs.
Baber left for Helena on the
afternoon train.
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baseball supplies at I. D. Price’s
also marbles, tops, and other
sporting goods. tf
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