, 1872-10-25
y that bank proved to be, that, in theyear 1870

it by tie State 'Drs we're :esusa resssumed i
for for as fraudulent . motive as they had beer
more 5a than thirty years before The ole
the M new one has taken them up and paid back
interest for thirty-four years, or about $40 per
cent,-thus paying 81, 700, 900 for bonds hypothe-
Gated Gated at 9125,Qo0. Who shall say which .genera-
| turer? ~ "0'e
| The President Of this corrupt bank, Wilson,
With q majority ct his back, had been selected
! speaker for his power to intimidate. He like
~ the rest, went armed in and out Of place, and
O. O. practising. with firearms in grove on the
state House bluff, within hearing Of the Gov
ernment- Wilson had grown very sensitive
boms a1ons ths aaeks made upon the bank and An
tience in this ;. fatal. days proceedings. I es
It was tho immemorial question in
arkansas Of paying rewards for wolf scalps. to
annlhllate wolves. The question was, Who
should constitute the Board Of Certidcation' fo
prove that the wolf had been killed once and no
more. member proposed that each certificate
Pc signed by Two Judges and certain Justices Of
prsldnoE ot to ts amend end hy adding And by the
1t was Anthony who made the amendment. He
got III his joke, but it lost him his life. The
general laughter had hardly subsidized before the
1erocloqs Speaker had drawn his Bowie-knife,
@Aa %1Q1406AaL614 WalHEQ L0IQuRn the HQuHH
toward the Jester. His knife had q blade nine
inches !;i IN length: Anthony also drew knife
with blade twelve inches long, the veritable Ar
kansas tooth-pick. Face to face, dead silence in
tho House. none interfering, these two began to
pass at each other, till Wilson was cut in tie arm
badly, and both wore gashed in othor places.
BLOOD ran, and the place looked like q slaughter
house. While Anthony seemed yet to have the
advantage, be threw his great knife at Wilson,
expecting that it's size and weight would answer
n ~ 1r11rp Nal e.. 1un
ringing on the floor, and then the manned wretch
stood with nothing between him and eternity but
raised chair. It was in tho power Of any hu-
name man in the House to have saved & fellow
beings life at that instant, but no man raised
voice or hand. The Speaker gave tho chair O
twist, and reached bis knife beneath it for
nothing short OF vital spot. Tie knife |
vent straight as the murderous wish, and An
thony fell upon tho floor OF the Legislature, |
dead. Tho Moderator vas the murderer; the |
Law was the first desperate in Arkansas. |
Ihe party, OF course, and the bank-lobby, |
rallied around the living hero. He had fought !
N the war Of 1872; he had only obeyed q pas |
elonate instinct, they said; and they had tantal-
by q jury Of his peers, ,-peers truly in this case,
\ either more nor less,-under this form: |
Guilty Of excusable homicide" But it WAS /
thought best, as there might be some State
Wilson from the Legislature. This freedom the
hero did not resent. He is said to have lived
many years between Texas and Arkansas, |
- 'regrettlng" the occurrence; but Mr.. Woodruff, !
Jr., OF the Littlo Rock Gazette, assured me that
be WIS m estimable man." and that 'sit," the
murder, was all done in minutes passion,
ARKASsAs STEALS TIE SMITHSONIAN FUND.
In September, 1885, the Hon. Richard Rush
having deposited in the United States Treasury
lie sum Of S515, 1000, the legacy in full Of the
late James Smithson,-it was invested in Arkan-
5as State funds. It VAS lost, and the United
States had to replace it.. Thus political and
capital set aside by liberal foreigner to. found
he Smithsonian Institution About the same
line, the New York Epening Post attacked Sena-
;or Sewer and the Vice President, Richard II.
Johnson, for negotiating Arkansas funds in tho
East.
ARKANSAS CROSSES TEE GREAT DESERT.
May !, 1889, the first Of series OF Caravans
% follow the same long and romantic path, |
'tarted from Van Buren,, Ark, to chihuahua,
dexico, via Santa Fe,-a distance Of 700 miles. |
Forty men and eighteen wagons con-
tituted the train, and forty dragons
scorted it part Of the way. This feature
i Arkansas life Was for years alluring to young
nen aud lads Imaginative about wandering
raVel. We hear at this time that the bonds
ave been sold in Europe, and that there are
nov only 81, 800, 600 Of them left" The CEN
US Of 1910 showed 81, ,903 people in Arkansas,
Inclusive Of 18, 1863 slaves; the male population
1ceeded the females BY above 5000. Violence
'holesale plan Was adopted By entire commu-
tiles. T.
resent, to resume it in 6nal letter.