NEWPORT, ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER lit, Nl MISER 1<|$.
UMPHRIES
A CANDIDATE
Announces His Can
r Congress From
nd District.
statement had been
,jy made that Judge
umphries of Salem
candidate for con
ceed W. A. Oldfield,
incumbent) all doubt
] Wednesday, when
ihries, who is now
t at Mountain Home
he announcement of
y through this pa
r papers of the dis
>ars past, since the
he state into chan
s, Judge Humphries
ith exceptional abd
uction to the people
jet as their chancel
lors practising in
ive only words of
s fairness and keen
j and temperament.
Id no public office
s appointment as
id was twice elected
without opposition,
nd esteemed an offi
iroven. For a short
de his home in this
genial, democratic
ndly disposition and
s a neighbor, friend
Wflmp pvfm better
r people.
nphries was born at
Sharp county and
a farm, working his
ough school and the
lich fired his youth
lght him distinction
i is now calling him
has been prominent
''ellow circles of the
s a strong party re
eded to a seat in
will unquestionably
id ably represent
encv and the politi
i of his party.
1 War On Rats.
Nov. 18.— The
has made an appro
pay a bounty for
4 fund will be rais
opular subscription,
d that several hun
will be raised alto
s planned to inter
ns the work of
Pests by paying a
&ch hundred rats
talso a prize to the
he largest number,
“rid the city of the
sly.
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Dr. (. ollins Killed.
Harrisburg, Nov. 18.—Dr.
Dixie Collins was shot and kill
! ed late yesterday when the shot
igun of his companion, R. A.
[Ford, who had been shooting
! ducks in Swan pond, was acci
! dentally discharged. The shot
| struck Dr. Collins 'full in the
jface, blowing the crown of his
ihead off.
He and Mr. Ford, also of Har
risburg, were starting away
from the pond, where they had
been hunting during the after
noon, and were walking in wa
ter about eight inches deep. Mr.
Ford says he was carrying his
| gun across his right arm and
i that he supposed it was cocked.
Without any warning, he says,
it suddenly was discharged.
Death came to Dr. Collins in
stantly.
With the assistance of other
hunters, whom he called to his
side, Mr. Ford carried the dead •
man .to a canal a quarter of a
mile away, where a boat was se
cured. He reached Harrisburg
late last night with his dead
companion.
A coroner’s jury was impan
eled this morning by Justice L.
C. Griffin. Their verdict was
that the death was due to acci
dent.
The death has caused sorrow
throughout the city, Dr. Collins’
wife being almost prostrated.
The funeral will be held tomor- ’
row.
State Crusher Now Running.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Nov. 19.—Work;
began today on the new state
Highway rock crusher and the
commission has promise already
of an active demand for its out
put. Dr. M. I-". Dickinson of j
Paragould will be in charge as |
manager, and the work will be-;
gin with 75 convicts.
; The surplus of stone will be ;
, thrown upon the market at J
first, and such as accumulates;
will be used in building short1
stretches o f demonstration
| roads. Commissioner Dye is
j now in correspondence with' the j
j Boards of Trustees of the fourj
agricultural schools, requesting j
| them to take up with the county
j judges of Craighead. Pike, Col
ombia and Drew counties, the
I question of co-operating in the
j demonstrations out from the ag-:
ricultural schools at Jonesboro,!
Russellville, Magnolia and Mon
. ticello. It is proposed that the
model roads shall first be built
there.
Take Auto Victim Home.
Little Rock, Nov. 19.—Fulton
Grammar of Searcy, who suf
fered serious injuries late Satur
day night in the automobile ac
cident that cost the life of J. N.
Goad of Searcy, was taken to
Searcy yesterday afternoon by
his father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Grammar.
After the accident Mr. Gram
mar was taken to the home of
his grandmother, Mrs. J. J. Sei
mer, 303 East Ninth Street,
where his injuries were dressed
by Dr. Shelby Atkinson.
Dr. Atkinson said yesterday
that Mr. Grammar had suffered
a slight concussion of the brain,
and a contused wound on the
soft part *of the head, over the
occipital region, but that his-in
juries are not dangerous.
Mr. Grammar suffered more
serious injuries than any of the
other five men, who were bruis
jed badly and cut by the glass.
WOULD COMPEL
. jt-CENT RATE
Railroad ( ommissions of Three
States Petition Inter-State
Commission.
Little Rook, LTov. 19.—Com
bining together as one body, the
Arkansas Railroad Commission,
the Corporation Commission of
Oklahoma and the Public Service
Commission of Missouri have
petitioned the Interstate Com
merce Commission to compel the
railroads which were last July
ordered to carry passengers for
2 cents a mile intrastate, to place
the same schedule of rates into
effect for interstate travel be
tween points in Arkansas, Okla
homa and Missouri.
Members of the Corporation
Commission of Oklahoma pre
pared a complaint to forward to
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission?in which they sought to
have the railroads put on a 2
cent rate between points in Ok
lahoma, Arkansas and Missouri.
After doing so they submitted
the complaint to the members of
the Arkansas Railroad Commis
sion and George W. Bellamy, W.
F. McKnight and J. Sam Row
land, the members of the Arkan
sas Commission, signed the com
plaint.
It was then sent on to the
Missouri Public Service Com
mission and the members of
that commission also signed the
complaint. The complaint was
then prepared and sent on to the
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion.
Today the complaint was filed
in Washington by the three com
missions as a whole, and taken
under consideration by the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
The commission seeks to have a
uniform rate of 2 cents for pas
sengers from any given point in
Oklahoma to Arkansas or Mis
souri and for the same rate from
any point in Missouri to Arkan
sas or Oklahoma. Of course the
same rate would be effective
from any point in Arkansas to
either Oklahoma or Missouri.
To Dig Lawrence Ditch.
Walnut Ridge. Nov. 18.—At a
meeting of the land owners in
terested in the digging of the
Running Water drainage ditch
in this city today it was voted
unanimously to cut the ditch on
a bond proposition. The con
tract for digging the ditch has
been awasded to Peter Feld
heiser & Son. Their dredge
boats are being built, a portion
of the right of way has been
cleared and dredging will begin
about January 1. The cost will
be about $3C,o00, and will be of
immense benefit to Lawrence
county.
Says Too Many Carry Gun.
Fort Smith, Nov. 18.—Laxity
of law enforcement and the
i widespread habit of “gun tot
! ing” was ascribed as the reason
'for the many homicides in the
South by Judge Jeptha H. Ev
ans in his charge to the grand
jury at Van Buren today. He
! declared that the homicide re
cord in the South is far in ex
cess of that of the North and
| East, and that in spite of the
larger population. He declared
! that a man’s wealth entitled
! him to no more consideration in
! a murder case or other criminal
'case than is shown the penniless
' defendant.
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Judge Jeptha Evans Retires.
Fort Smith, Nov. 18.—“I
have carried the judicial sword
and scales for twenty years. 1
can say^and tell the truth in the
presence of the Great Judge and
this assembly that I have held
the scales in even balance and
that T. - have never drawn the
sword to smite the innocent.
‘‘I will deliver the judicial er
mine without stain to him whom
you may designate to receive it.
I have no wounds and my heart
is full of gratitude and my life
is full of hope.”
With faltering voice and tear
dimmed eye Hon. Jeptha H. Ev
ans of Bonneville, for 20 years
presiding judge of the fifteenth
[judicial circuit, the oldest and
[probably the most noted judge
in the history of the state, an
nounced before a crowded court
room at the opening of the No
vember term of circuit court at
Van Buren today that he would
not be a candidate for re-elec
tion. Throughout the history
of Arkansas courts there has
never been a similar situation so
dramatic, so intense and so in
fluential as that which was
written at Van Buren this morn
ing. As the venerable judge,
who began life as a farm hand,
or learned instSalemoofhpe etc
educated himself without
schools or learned instructors
but by the continued applica
tion of “midnight oik” read his
onnounpomanj
showed visible signs of enter
taining the same feeling that the
reader did, in that it was only a
questiofi of a few more months
when the tie that has bound
them for a score of years would
be broken so far as its present
identification was concerned.
Three-Cornered Race In Second.
Judge Lankford was in Little
Rock Tuesday when a Gazette
reporter told him that a dis
patch from Batesville stated
that Chancellor Humphries had
made formal announcement that
he will seek the Second district
congressional nomination.
“Well, that will make it a
three-cornered race unless some
one else enters, which I hardly
think probable,” said the judge.
“The contest probably will not
be as warm as in some of the
districts. Congressman Oldfield
will be kept busy in Washing
ton, I suppose. Judge Hum
phries will be handicapped in
making his campaign by his ju
dicial duties, and I certainly do
not intend that my campaign
shall in the least interfere with
my duties on the bench. Such
campaigning as I shall do will be
at times when I have no duties
to perform.”
Found Dead In Bed.
Mrs. 0. K. Byrkett of Minium
who has been visiting friends at
Batesville, was here Wednesday,
being called home by the
death of her husband, who was
found dead in his bed Tuesday
night. Mrs. Byrkett stated that
her husband had not been well
for some time, being a sufferer
from heart trouble. However,
upon retiring that night he was
not complaining. Mrs. Byrkett
was before her marriage, Mrs.
Fair Belle Shirey, widow of the
late A. W. Sh*^, the wealthy
merchant who was murdered at
Minturn a few years agg.
First English Dock.
In England the first dock was Con
structed at Liverpool in 1708.
STARLING STILL
MAKING TIGHT
To Prevent Return to Arkansas
W here He Has Been Indict
ed For Safe Blowing.
Fort Smith, Nov. 18.—It will
require a hearing of the facts
before J. J. Starling of Coweta,
Oklahoma, can either be liberat
ed or brought to Arkansas to
answer for the robbing of the
postoffice at Pocahontas in July
for which he was indicted late
last week tit Jonesboro by a Un
ited States (Jrand Jury.
United States Judge Ralph
Campbell made this ruling at
Muskogee, Okla., today.
Starling was arrested and
charged with robbing the First
State bank at Dardanelle, Ark.
He successfully fought extradi
tion at McAlester, and was rear
rested, charged with the theft of
government funds, as $700 of
the $4,200 taken from the Dar
danelle bank belonged to the
Postoffice Department. The
government, fearing its case
was technical, charged him with
the Pocahontas robbery. Then j
Starling again instituted habeas
corpus proceedings. It was on
this case that Judge Campbell
made his ruling today. The
hearing was set for next Mon
day.
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Curia Gin Burned.
Batesville, Nov. 18.— The gin
of Warren Hall near Curia, was
burned with six bales of seed
cotton, 10 tons of cotton seed1
and 17 bales of cotton Sunday
night. The loss is estimated at ,
$6,000. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
Revival Meeting.
A very large congregation
heard Rev. P>. L. Will'ord at the
Methodist church Tuesday ev
ening.
The speaker took for his sub
ject “Personal Work”, showing
plainly that if a successful re
vival was ever held in Newport it
would be when the members of
the church realized the responsi
bility lay upon their own person
al efforts and prayers and not
upon the pastor, whose efforts
were as nothing if not aided by
the membership.
The cottage prayer services of
thirty or forty minutes, which
are being held in five or siK
homes every afternoon at 3 o’
clock, are doing much lo link to
gether the church and home.
The Wisdom sisters, three
young lady singing evangelists
of Missouri, will arrive on No. 3
and will assist the already large
choir in the music.
Cheney Concert Company At Au
ditorium.
The Cheney Concert Company
composed of three sisters and
two brothers, also Miss Hanner,
a reader, delighted a large audi
ence at the school auditorium
Tuesday evening with a splendid
musical program.
One great feature of the mus
ic was the perfect blending of
the instruments and technique
of each performer. All were
violinists of rare ability and the
two brothers on the cornet and
cello were unusually fine. The
music would have been heard to
much better advantage in a lar
ger building, especially the cor
netist.
Miss Hanner, the reader, was
good, her numbers being loudly
encored.
AT A
GLANCE
the good features of our
SUITS
proclaim themselves.
They have the style of
a Fifth Avenue tailored
garment, but the price
is what you can easily
afford to pay.
The color range and
the different styles we
are showing in men s
suits offers an ample
chance for every man
| to be suited.
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