HsSCmZENS
■ MAKE PROTEST
||||pbre Court Against Assess
Hpient In Cook Slough Drain
age District.
Upk, large number of Glass
■Hmship and Swifton citizens
Appeared before the county court
||Krt Tuesday to protest against
B assessment of their lands
l|u Swifton lots in the Cook
ijSugh drainage district.
■■Most of those seeking a re
tention of the betterment as
|Hisment claimed that little of
jHeir land would be benefitted
Bid residents of Swifton con
^pided that the town drainage
Bps toward Maple Slough and
Bpt toward Cook Slough. The
Betterment tax on Swifton pro
Bferty was fixed by the board of
Bjsessors at $10 per lot.
■ Stuckey & Stuckey represent
Bd the district organization and
Bpllips, Hillhouse & Boyce most
B the petitioners. Among those
■n attendance as parties or wit
Besses were Frank Dunn, Wm.
pill, Walter Armstrong, A. B.
past, John Ashley, Ferdi
||and Tonney, G. C. and Dock
feudley and many others.
DAUGHTER USED
BY HYPNOTIST
And Located At Searcy After
Mysterious Disappearance
From Capital City.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Oct. 17.—R. E.
Crouch, a Pulaski Heights bar
ber, received information Mon
day evening from the sheriff at
Searcy of his daughter, Miss
Bertie Crouch, aged 17 years,
whose mysterious disappearance
here last Tuesday, a week ago,
created a sensation.
The sheriff said that she is
there under the hypnotic in
fluence of a man giving his
name as Smith, and was being
used as a subject for public ex
hibitions. The father ordered
the sheriff to detain them both
until further investigations
could be made, and that the girl
be brought home forthwith.
She left home Tuesday to an
swer a want ad that had appear
ed in a morning paper for a
young wom'an to do clerical
work. That was the last heard
of her until yesterday, although
the police wTere put at work on
the case and followed every clue
carefully.
Raise Reaches One Million.
The aggregate of assessments
raised by the board of equaliza
tion is from $300,000 to $350,
000, being confined to real pro
perty with two exceptions as
the board did not have time to
go over the personal property
assessments.
This with the raises made by
Assessor Charles E. Smith, will
make the total 1911 assessment
about one million dollars in ex
cess of that of 1910 and will re
turn more revenue to both city
and county. These raises have
been made without much pro
test, largely because there is a
strong sentiment for a reduc
tion of our county and city
scrip, to bring them to par and
place the county and city in a
position to have good roads, a
lighted city and other needed
public improvements.
Masonic Degree Work.
Jackson Lodge, No. 191 F. &
A. M., held a special meeting
Tuesday afternoon in their new
and handsome lodge rooms in
the opera house building. The
session opened at 1 p. m. and
with degree work and a fair at
tendance of visiting brethren
and District Deputy Grand Lee
turer Kent, the meeting was a
y interesting one to all Ma
Preparations
T„he local lodge for
; room prior
n. 4
Going Out For Keeps.
Is there any one who will not,
when he may,save a few dollars?
You know we are going out of
business. All our stock is being
sold at cost—not over and not
below, and there is a good deal
left—things that everyone who
eats, and lives, needs every day
in eyery montK.
We are anxious to close it out
and you are going to buy it from
some. The others will be here
after we le'ave, and we ask that
you will let us have your orders.
Come up and see, what we
have.
Your for awhile.
68btl’ Martin Bros.
MURDER
ARE SUBMITTED
—
Monday To Supreme Court
-—No Relief Given Negro
Thomas Who Is to Hang.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Oct. 17.—In the
supreme court yesterday, the
murder cases of John McElvain
and Henry Coats of Mississippi
county were submitted. They
have been convicted of murder
in the first degree and sentenced
to hang. The case of W. S.
Rhea, of Lincoln county, who is
under indictment for murder in
the first degree for the killing j
of Constable Archard of Saline!
county, was also submitted on
appeal from Pulaski chancery in j
a habeas corpus proceeding in
which he was refused bail by j
Chancellor Martineau. A case!
in connection with it is that ofj
Attorney Sidney J. Hunt of Pine
Bluff, who has been' sentenced
for contempt for withholding a
transcript of the evidence, was
also submitted. The case of Sen
otor Elmo CarILee, of Augusta,
for contempt in Judge Hutton’s
court, was passed until the se
cond Monday in December.
Sylvester Thomas, a negro,
convicted of criminal assault up
on Mrs. Fannie Lindsey, a white
woman on a plantation near Hel
ena, and sentenced to hang, got
no relief from the supreme
court. No brief was filed in his
interest by the counsel assigned
by court to defend him. The ev
idence was wholly circumstantial
and upon this point the court
says;
“The conviction rests entirely
upon circumstantial evidence,
which as it appears in the re
cord, is not altogether satisfac
tory, but the circumstances
proved were legally sufficient we
think, to warrant the jury in
finding that the defendant com
mitted the crime. The jury
heard the testimony of all the
witnesses and had opportunity
to observe their manner of testi
fying. They were, therefore, in
a position to better judge of the
weight of evidence than we are
from the mere perusal of the
evidence in the record. We do
not therefore feel at liberty to
disturb the verdict merely be
cause the testimony does not ap
pear as conclusive as we would
like in a case of this magni
tude.”
The case of Albert Younger,
of Pope county, was reversed by
the court because of the refusal
of the court to give instrupiions
that were asked by the defense.
I
Revival Services.
The revival meeting at the
court House is now under full
i
! headway.
i Rev. Hunt and Mr. Russell are
, giving entire satisfaction in
! their work as preacher and sing
i er, and are having splendid con
• gregations, giving promise of
i great results. At this time two
have professed conversion and
| two names have been given for
church membership and the
I church and choir are catching
the spirit that promises to make
the meeting a glorious success.
; The outside world is also liv
! ing up in a way that is appreci
ated very much and the outlook
gathered from present indica
tions has a promise for much
good to all the churches and
people in th'e good city of New
port.
Services continue indefinitely
at 3 p. m. and 7 p. m.
GRANTS PAROLE
To Doctor Daniel Of Clarksville
Whose Plea Was Un
written Law.
Special to Independent.
Little Hock, Oct. 17.—The
penitentiary board yesterday
granted a parole to Dr. Orville
G. Daniel, of Clarksville, who
was serving a sentence of three |
years on a charge of having kill
ed his partner, Dr. J. W. Mitch-j
ell. The case had been pending!
for severa months,and could not
be acted upon until Daniel had
served one third of his term.
l
The killing occurred in Septem- J
her, 1909, and was the result of
trouble over Daniels’ wife.
Dr. Mitchell, who had been an j
intimate friend and associate of.
Daniel, had been living at Dan
iel’s home, and letters were of
fered in testimony to show that
Mitchell and Mrs. Daniel were
too intimate to please Dr. Dan
iel. The unwritten law was the
defense urged by the accused.
The petition for ’the parole,
which was filed by Capt. A. S.
McKenon, of South McAlester,
formerly of Clarksville, was one
nf the larc-est ever filed with the
Board. Many mmbers of the
jury who convicted Daniel were
among the signers, as well as
numerous court officials. Since
his incarceration Dr. Daniel has
been employed in the peniten
tiary hospital.
Mrs. Albright Drops Dead.
Monday morning about 9:30
■f'clock Mrs. F. P. Albright suc
cumbed to a sudden attack of
heart failure at her home on
Boswell street. Mrs. Albright
had not been in the best of
health for some time past, but
this morning was feeling better
than usual and had announced
[that she expected to do some
work today. She had started
through the hall, when Miss Hel
en Albright, who was up stairs,
heard her fall, and rushing down
found her mother unconscious on
the floor, where she expired be
fore assistance could be render
ed her.
This death is a most grievous
shock to the people of Batesville,
where the deceased was univer
sally known and loved. An
nouncement of the funeral ser
vices will be made later.—Bates
ville Guard.
To The School Patrons.
There appeared in today’s
papers a card of thanks
from the mo1, hers of Newport to
the school board for changing
back to the old plan of school
hours. If the mothers who sent
in that card of thanks will please
send me their names, and this
proves to be a majority of the
mothers of Newport, I will glad
ly stop the petition that is being
circulated among the teachers,
pupils and patrons asking for a
change in the old plan.
Very truly yours,
Ernest McKenzie, Supt.
30 Head of Good Milk Cows To
Be Sold Saturday, October
21.
Sale will be held at Remmel
barn on Remmel Ave. and each
cow will be auctioned off to
highest bidder regardless of
price.
price. W. D. Sprigg,
66b7t Auctioneer.
G. L. Grant left for Walnut
Ridge this morning on business
in circuit court.
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