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VOLUME II. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. TUESDAY AUGUST 12. 1902. . NUMBER 96
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COUNTY CONVICTS
TO WORK ROADS.
Judge Scarborough Makes an Innova
tion In Requiring County Con
victs to Serve Sentences
Working Public Roads.
Judge O. W. Scarborough has given
an order to the sheriff for the work
ing of the public roads of Jackson
county, by the county’s convicts,
which is a decided innovation on the
past order of maintaining such prison
ers.
The order of the county judge re
cites the fact that the court having
duly advertised for bids for the main
tenance, safe-keeping and working
of the prisoners committed to the
county jail, none were submitted,
whereby a satisfactory contract might
be concluded. Wherefore, it appear
ing to the best interest of the county
for such prisoners to be worked on
the public roads, bridges, levees and
other improvements for the county,
the court orders that all convicted
prisoners committed for contempt of
court, except those sentenced to the
penitentiary, shall be worked on such
works of public improvement as ar
named above.
John H. Dye, Jr., has been ap
pointed to act as superintendent of
such county convicts, being author
ized to employ such guards and adopt
such rules to prevent escape of the
prisoners as are necessary, and the
sheriff is ordered to deliver to said
superintendent, all prisoners in his
custody, and receive them back at
any time the superintendent shall so
desire. The term of such manual
labor of each convict shall be as many
days as $.75 is contained times in the
total amount of such prisoner’s fine
and costs including Sundays, in ex
cess of any liability for care and sick
ness of such prisoner.
Four negro prisoners were taken
out Monday morning under the terms
of the above court order and are
being worked on the Newport-Augus
ta road near McLain’s mill about five
miles from town. They were Broom
Couch, Nathan Allen, Joe Westbrook
and “Big Boy.”
AUTEN TO SPEAK
TUESDAY EVENING.
Hon. H. F. Auten of Little Rock, in
accordance with dates announced,
will speak at the court house Tuesday
evening August 12, at 8 p. m.
In the hand bill announcements
sent forward, it is stated that he “will
speak upon the issues of the day and
discuss the boodling and corrupt
methods of the Clayton gang.” Mr.
Auten is one of the leaders of the in
surgent wing of the republican party
and is supporting Charles D. Greaves
in his candidacy for governor. He is
recognized as an able attorney and
his campaign address will no doubt be
such a severe arraignment of the
regular party organization as to be
interesting to democrats and repub
licans alike.
PRESIDENT ERB’S LETTER.
President Newman Erb, of the St.
Louis, Memphis and Southeastern has
written Secretary George R. Brown
of the Little Rock board of trade, the
following letter:
“As you are doubtless aware, the
St. Louis, Memphis and Little Rock
Railroad Company has been organized
under the Arkansas law in the in
terest of the St. Louis, Memphis and
Southeastern Railroad Company, for
the purpose of authorizing the con
struction of our proposed extension
from Hoxie to Little Rock. In order
to preclude the possibility of your
being misled, it is proper that I
should say to you that the organiza
tion of the new company does not
necessarily imply that the extension
will unconditionally be entered upon.
It is intended to give us a status for
the purpose of completing the neces
sary engineering work incident to as
certaining the probable cost of con
struction and to enable us to deal with
matters incident to the construction.
As I pointed out to you while in Little
Rock, we have been so favorably im
pressed with the conditions prevail
ing in your city, which you brought to
our attention, as to induce us to be
lieve that an extension of our road tc
Little Rock might be made to serve
important interests in your state, and
at the same time be made a profitable
investment. The roads that we now
have under construction will all be
low grades, not exceeding ten and
one-half feet to the mile, and if we
can build this extension with these
grades and within reasonable limits of
cost, and your people will treat us
fairly and liberally, as they did the
Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf, we
shall be prepared to enter upon the
work immediately. It will perhaps
be another thirty days before the re
ports of our engineers will be before
us.”
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MARIANNA SECURES RAILROAD.
Sixty days ago the leading citizens
of Marianna raised a bonus of about
$7,000 and promised the right of way
through the city to the company that
would build the proposed railroad from
Memphis to this point. This proposi
tion to remain open for acceptance
for sixty days only. The limit expired
last Tuesday, but the day previous the
Missouri Pacific railway system tele
graphed Hon. E. A. McCulloch, who
represented the citizens in the dicker,
that the proposition was accepted on
their part. This, we presume, assures
the building, by way of Marianna, of
the road, which has been in contem
plation for some time by that compa
ny, from Memphis to Trippe, Ark.,
giving the shortest and most direct
route from Memphis to New Orleans.
The building of this road will redound
much to the general interest and pro
gress of our little city, and it is to be
congratulated on having secured it
mainly through the instrumentality
and liberality of its worthy citizens.—
Marianna Courier.
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AT BUFFALO CITY.
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Yellville, Aug. 11.—It is said the
railroad will not make a switch at Buf
falo City. This seems to prove that
they are going to cross the river at
Buffalo City and come up on this side.
There are two corps of surveyors in
the field on this side of the river just
west of the crossing at Lake’s Ferry.
One is coming up on the south tide of
Falling Ash creek and the other on the
north side. These are preliminary
surveys and it is thought that if they
should build on either one that the one
on the south side of Falling Ash will
be taken. Should they do this, Yell
ville will be within less than one mile
of the main line. They will pass along
the base of Lee’s mountain, just north
of town. It is said that the road will,
without a doubt, be built up Crooked
creek from White river by way of
Yellville, or it will be bhilt either on
the south or north side of Ealling Ash
creek. In either case the road will
pass within three miles of Yellville.
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COUPLING PINS.
The Frisco road has orders from J.
G. McNair, the peach king at St. Elmo
for thirty cars a day for several days
to be used in shipping his immense
peach crop.
The Western Tie and Timber Co.,
one of the largest concerns in South
Missouri, is preparing to raft 300,000
ties from Doniphan to Black Rock,
where they Will be loaded by the
Frisco and transported to the West
ern States. Itfwill take three months
to get the ties down Black River and
it will cost 815,000 to get them to
Black Rock. ,
MILKS-JONES.
On Monday afternoon at the home
of the bride on Remmel Avenue, Mr.
Harry Milks and Miss Lizzie Jones
were quietly married in the presence
of a few friends of the contracting
parties, Rev. J. W. Smith, pastor of
the Methodist church officiating.
D. R. O’Brien and family returned
home to Jonesboro Tuesday on the
noon train. They stopped off here on
their way home from Hot Springs to
visit Mr. O’Brien’s daughter, Mrs. J.
J. Sinclair, who accompanied them to
Jonesboro^
The burial of Mr. J. J. Sinclair’s
mother took place Monday at Dallas,
Texas.
INJUNCTION SUIT FILED
BY REGULARS.
Trump Card of Regulars Played, Seek
ing to Restrain Secretary of State
From Certifying Greaves’
Name as Nominee
for Governor.
Harry H. Myers, regular Republican
nominee for governor, filed a petition
for injunction in the Pulaski chancery
court Monday morning to prevent
Secretary of State John W. Crockett
from certifying the name of Charles
D. Greaves as a Republican nominee
for governor. The argument was be
gun that afternoon before Chancellor
Martin, Col. W. G. Whipple represent
ing Mr. Myers and Col. W. F. Hill, of
the firm of Hill & Auten, and Scipio
Jones appearing for Secretary of State
Crockett and Mr. Greaves. The pro
ceedings will be resumed Tuesday aft
ernoon, the further argument of the
opposing attorneys to begin at 2
o’clock in the chancery court room.
The case was postponed at the request
of Col. Hill, who said he had not had
sufficient time to look up the law.
PASSENGER DISCONTINUED.
Announcement was made Monday
by the Choctaw officials that the pas
senger train running between New
port and Brinkley on the White and
Black River branch of the Choctaw,
Oklahoma and Gulf Railway would be
discontinued, effective Wednesday,
August 13th.
The reason assigned for this retro
grade step was that the passenger
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such a service, and while it came from
subordinate officials, General Superin
tendent Wentz is no doubt responsible
for the change.
The only train on the branch
now will be a mixed train, leaving
Brinkley about 5:30 a. m., arriving
here between 10 and 11 a. m. and de
parting about 1 p. m.
The action of the new management
is surprising in view of the fact that
the passenger business has shown a
steady increase. At Newport alone
the receipts for the month of July
showed an increase of 120 per cent,
over the same month of last year.
Without a passenger service the Choc
taw can hope for nothing but local
business from here, and the branch
will no longer prove the feeder it has
in the past.
It is to be hoped and many believe
that the discontinuance of such service
will last but a short while, as the de
crease in receipts must becoml appar
ent at once to the road officials.
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