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The Van Buren press., 1896-02-08
BUGGIES.
LOCAL and Personal.

LOCAL and Personal.
Mrs. Jerry Washington went to Alma
Tuesday.
Miss Maud Martin went to Alma
Monday.
The open season for deer closed on
the first.
Regular services at Methodist church
Sunday.
ROSES-A nice lot Of healthy plants
Call on L. CRAP.
Ed. Mayer was down from Webbers
Falls Sunday.
Lon Black made his usual visit to
Alma Saturday.
Ed. Somers returned from an extended
trip north Thursday.
Col. ]. N. Brown spent Sunday with
bis family at Clarksville.
The Fort Smith Times is now being
run as CO. operative concern.
Sidewalks, especially on Main street
are not intended for bicyclists.
Mr.. Jno. D. White WAS visiting in
Fayetteville latter Of the week.
Ed. Hinkle came up from Little Rock
Saturday on a visit to relatives.
The Boston Store commenced moving
to the new quarters Wednesday.
Hon. o. L. Miles returned from a
trip to Little Rock Tuesday morning.
Elder D. c. Yeargin returned to
South McAllister Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Lon Black returned from Alma
Monday. accompanied by her mother.
Mrs. Burt Hoffman left Monday for
Fort Smith to make her future home.
W. L. Mace returned from Hot
bprings and other points Wednesday.
Mr.. J. S. Lucas was visiting his
brother, DR.. Giles Lucas. this week.
MAGNOLIAS. SO A full assortment OF
nice plants. Call on L. GRAFT.
Loyett Miles. nephew of o, L. and
\. T, Miles, represented the Memphis
Commercial Appeal at the Jones' Clarke
canvass in Sebastian county this week.
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C. Z. GooDISo. Tkt Agt
CONNECTIONS.
No. |. Connects at Paris Tex. with g. c. 4 8. +.
and Texas 4 Pacific Ry, for points In Texas.
Has Free Reclining Chair Car and Pullman
buffet Drawing Room Sleeper to Dallas, Texas
No. ,. Connects at Burton, Kansas. with A.
T. & 8. r. for points in Colorado, Utah. Nevada,
Idaho. Montana, Oregon, W~ashington ~ New ana ana
reclining chair car and Pullman bnnet
drawing room sleeper to st. Louis; Free
reclining. chair cars Monet t9 burton
Ksns and Anthony Kans.. and Pullman sleep.
er Monet to Burton. Kan. Through Pull
man sleeper Burton, Kan. TO Pueblo, Denver,
ogden. FL Paso. Los Angeles. San Diego and
Station with ell lines for the East, North and
Southeast. Connects at Monett every Sunday
morning with Pullman Tourist Sleeper en- route
change via burton, Albuquerque and Barstow.
No g. Connects at Van Buren. Ark. for points
on L. X. & F. s. Ry. Has coaches to Ft Smith,
No. 4. Connects at wichita Kansas with
A. #. Il s. =. for points in Cherokee Strip
and Oklahoma Connects ct Burton, Kan, with
A. T. & s. +. for points In Kansas. Has reciin-
palace sleeper seligman to ST. Louis. Free
reclining chair car and Pullman palace sleeper
Monett TO wichita and Burton Kan. Connects
ut St Louis with all lines for the east north and
No. S Texas Limited. (vestibuledl. Has re.
eliulng chair cars. lseats free) and Pullman buf.
e. .ns Tssou to
No. 6. 81. Louis Limited (vestibuledl. Con:
meets at St. Louis Grand Union station with al
lines for the East North and Southeast Has
rectiuing chair cars tseats freel ana Pullman
buffet drswing.eoom sleepefs through to ST.
Louis without change.
Through tickets on sale TO all points. For
C. T. GooDISG.
Ticket Agent.
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Hon. Randolph Comstock in this issue
announces his candidacy for re- election
to the Office of Representative of this
county, subject to the action Of the
Democracy. Mr.. Comstock represented
our county in the last General Assembly
and ably so. and is. according to the
usual custom, entitled to second term.
While too we'll known by our readers to
need any introduction at our hands. we
bespeak for him favorable consider
alton of his claims.
Messrs. T. w. Edmondson and T. L.
Beard have been for the past two days
getting signatures from property owners
on Main street for forming taxing
district for paving purposes. They have
high hopes of getting the necessary two
thirds majority of signers. The inten'
ton is to pave the street from Scott s
store at tho head to the Mo. Pacific
crossing.
Since the above was put in type we
are informed by Mr.. Edmondson that
they have succeeded in getting major
ity. The cost will be in the neighbor-
hood Of $40, 200.
Hon. S. A. Miller in this issue
announces his candidacy for the Office
of Mayor Of Van Buren,, subject to the
4f tla na.v,anratta
Sam Is a Democrat of the true blue
order and his friends are many. He ia
also we'll versed in the business of the
Mayors Office, having served as city
attorney several years. and therefore
we'll qualified to discharge it's duties.
Consider his claims before casting your
vote.
Prof. J. G. Massie, Of the College
has leased from j. II. Barr the material
formerly used in the publication OF
The Times, and in conjunction with
his son, Oscar, will start a new paper
the Springdale Leader-the first issue OF
which will appear next week. The
paper will be Democratic in politics
and they will also publish daily in
connection with the weekly. Prof.
Massie will do the editorial work, and
as he is gentleman Of scholarly
attainments will. no doubt, get up an
interesting paper. The News extends
fraternal greetings to the new journal
-Springdale News.
DIED-At the home of her daughter
in Van Buren, on Tuesday, February
4th. in her nd year. Mrs. Catherine
Hollis. Mrs. Hollis has been a sufferer
for many months and had given up al
hope of ultimate recovery some weeks
before the end came which brought hel
relief from long suffering. Everything
possible had been done for her In her
last illness, which will be great con
ISOLATION to those left TO mourn her. She
leaves a daughter, Mrs. Jas. Crockett
and an adopted son. Mr.. Dick Hollis
The remains of Mrs. Hollis were takeI
to Natural Dam for interment
Messrs. Ewing and Rex Little, o.
Dutch Mills. Washington county. cam,
down to attend her funeral at Natura
Dam,
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CONNECTIONS.

Trains 81 and 81 run daily except Sunday. bal
snce run daily.
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IfYou Want...

to Buy, Sell, o. Exchange Lands
or Town Property, give me num-
bers,, improvements and price,
cash or time. II you want to
purchase let me know what you
want. ! will sell on reasonable
eommissien.
WIN. /. TAYLOR.
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THE VAN BUREN PRESS.
VAN BUREN,, ARKANSAS.
RAILROAD TINE TABLES.

Trains 23l, 232, 2S3 234, 243 and 244 will carry
passengers. - ,.
so asl. Arr. $50 pm. Arr. Coffsyville $50 pm
No 24s. 1925 am. tstops at Van BUREN,.
GOING EAST
No. 2s2. Arr. Ills Pm Arr. Little Rock sos p. m
No. 234 GAO Am. :. 100 pm
No. Nl Ly. 1885 am. Coal Hill sos PIN
Trains 23i, 232, 223 234 run daily.
Trains 2i3 and pa do not run on Sunday.
Through trains make stop of minutes.
GREENWOOD BRANCH.
No $685. Arr. ll:25 a. m. stops at Van Bnren).
No 9Os.% Lv $50 pm. Arr Greenwood 5:25 p N
~ Daily. except Sunday.
A. HAYS Agent
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EUREKA SPRINGS R'Y.

Special Notices IN The Locai Columns FiW cents
a Line for first insertion, and ydre cents per
line for each subsequent insertion. Al locals
run and charged for at a6ore rates until or
dered discontinued.
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Blood and Nerves are very closely relate,
Keep the blood rich. pure and healthy witt
Hoods sarsaparilla and you will have IL
trouble from nervousness,
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Hoods Pills are the best after. dinner pills,
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The San Francisco call., 1896-03-20

been admitted to probate early in January of
last year, nobody at that time dreaming, sup
pose, that there was any later Will; supposlng
the will of the oath had been subsequently
discovered what would the parties claiming
under that will have had to do? They would
have brought that will into court and they
would have asked for its probate. If hybody
objected to the probate, after due notice, they
would have come in and filed their contest of
that will, together with the application for the
probate of the later will; there would have
been prayer that the Pwyqbeate ,a OF the for
Honor have done in the method of procedure
at that point? The holders of the probate of
the will of the 21st, would have come into
court and would have said to your Honor,
probably, "Does not the statute say that when
probate is granted of will, it is conclusive
against the whole world until set aside? There
fore, you cannot set up later Will until you
have set aside the probate of the former will. I"
To that would have been replied, "But the in
strument by which we propose to set aside the
probate OF the former VIII is, itself, VIII;
which has no validity until tits probated. And
if you say we must first set aside your probate,
before we can probate our will, and then say
that we can't attack your probate until we
have probated our Will, you are wh1rl1ng us IN
vicious circle without beginning or end"
The courts of New York bave solved that DIFF
hculty in very simple way, Tor whenever IN
those courts-and l cited to your Honor the
authorities - whenever in those courts the
later will is offered for probate, which pur-
ports to revoke former Will which has been
probated, II the court believes In the good
faith of the application it enters an order in its
minutes, an order nisi setting aside the pro-
bate of, the former will, conditioned that if
probate be granted to the later will the rule or
the order becomes absolute, but if probate be
denied to the later will then the rule or the
order expires at that point. and the former
probate is revived.
1 especially call your Honor's attention in
this matter to the authorities in New-York, and
to the very case that was cited in response to
the contention that the first petition should be
dropped from the calendar, which is a case in
the one hundred and seventeenth Indiana. /
think, and the case of Vance VS.. Upson, which
is in the Texas Reports-in the sixty-fourth, if
l mistake not. This Whetton matter, if your
Honor please, suppose you are familiar with.
That case in the matter of the estate of Whet-
ton, is found at page 203, Ninety-eighth Cali
fornia, and read from page 204 the opinion
OF Mr.. Justice Garoutte, concurred in by Mr.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-20
IS TO Be AN OPERA SINGER
Coming Departure Of Miss Daisy
May Cressy, a Local
Vocalist.
The Bright Young Singer Intends to
Go Upon the Operatic
Stage.

Miss Daisy May Cressy leading singer
of the First Presbyterian Church, is about
to leave for New York to continue her
vocal studies, under the direction of Nine.
Pappenheim.
During the Tavary opera season at the
Baldwin, Miss Cressy sang for Marie
Tavary, who was so pleased with the quail
ity OF her voice that she at once recon-
mended her to Nine. Pappenheim, who is
a distinguished operate instructor in New
York.
Miss Cressv's voice is contralto, rang
ing from low D to B, an unusual compass
for one so young. During DIR. Haweis'
visit to this City Miss Cressy sang at one
of his lectures. Although the doc tor is a
theologian, he is also a musical connois-
seur, and pronounced her voice to be al
most phenomenal.
He introduced her to his audience in a
glowing picture of her future success. par
ticularly in comic opera. To this he
thought she was peculiarly adopted owing
to her bright personality, her expressive
face and her joyous laughter.
Miss Cressy is only in her nineteenth
year. While possessing all the exuberance
of youth, she is not lacking in ambition
and capacity for labor that must carry her
to the goal to which she aspires. it has
been observed that California has produced
very many unusually fine voices, and the
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-20
The Man in Hard Luck and
the Man Whose Brother
Needs a Lawyer.
A wIFE,s NUMEROUS DEATHS.
Six Starving Children as a Plea for
Alms--A Railroad Accident
and the Dollar.

The Associated Charities, that make it
their business to investigate and list all
cases of want brought to their attention,
complain of an imposter who is going
about the City with pitiful tale OF his re-
Gently deceased wife and his starving little
ones.
Many times during the last three years
the mythical poor wife has died to order
and the motherless waits have continued
to cling persistently to life after being re-
peatedly at deaths door, with a stereo
typed starvation staring into their pinched
and emaciated little faces. But the soli-
citous father has persistently struggled on
under his burden OF sorrow, varying his
story, his name and his address as he has
appealed to the sympathies of different
benevolently inclined individuals.
Sometimes he is Ward, sometimes he is
Martin, sometimes he is Wilson, but under
whatever name he poses he shuns chari-
table societies in a nice esthetic way that
shows disposition not to make any sys-
tematic organization party to his per-
sonal troubles.
Speaking of the case yesterday Mrs. A..
W. Flint, the registrar of the Associated
Charities 601 Commercial street, said:
tinued operations would seem to indicate
that be has been successful in imposing
upon private persons. He takes good care
to avoid us and our Investigations, but
from time TO time we have had occasion
to look him Up. as people have called our
attention to him as a tit subject for aid. q
"Once remember he applied to Miss
Culbertson at the Chinese Mission, and she
telephoned to US. Every address he gave
when followed up has been found to be
fictitious. About two years ago he went to
Millen GriffithS and stated that he had a
son at the Fourth and Townsend station, a
consum ptive, whom he had brought that
far but had no money to remove him and
care for his critical case. The society's
man went down there, but found no evil
dence OF any such sick man.
again we heard of him as living at 615
Sixth street, in Scott d McCord's hay
barns, with his six little children; his wife
had just been buried. He has told his
story to Mrs. A. N. Drown, to the Society
of Christian Work, to Mrs. Darville Llbbe
of the Second Unitarian Church, and to
several persons that | do not recall;
He told Mrs. 0. w. Briggs that his wife
had Just died and that he and his four
children-one paralytic-were starving.
He declared that he had been major in
the United States army, and that assertion
at once aroused Mrs. Briggs particular
sympathy. The address he gave then
was 4281a Vallejo street We investigated
1t and found two very respectable families
living there and no information whatever
about the man and his children.
"On another occasion he gave the name
James Wilson. said he lived on 428 Six
teenth street; tlIet his children were starv-
ing and sick. Again we were informed,
and we found that no such persons were
known there.
a''It is only fair that the public should
know of such cases.
q 1--WE call attention to them in our pub
lished monthly reports, but they reach
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-20

paper, or it might be composed of many pa
pers The testamentary disposition might be
rag agmentary, one part found in document
eAecuted at one time, one part found in doc
unent executed at another time, and one part
touno IN a document still further on. You
would take all these documents together,
mnatever was presented or had the appear
ance and form of q testamentary disposition,
pleclng them together, if necessary giving
them one by the other, if necessary, and from
the whole mass presented you would deter
mine what was the will of the decedent.
There can be no question upon that point.
AS stated in my argument before, it is not
possible, in the nature of rational jurispru-
dence, that because the holder of one paper
which is testamentary in its character shall
with indecent haste present itself to the
Clerks office one moment after the testator has
expired. that be therefore acquires para
mount right in court over the man who, with
greater deeency, has waited until at least the
ashes are cold before he has acted What would
your Honor do, or what would counsel do, sup
pose a man had held both of these wills in his
possession, and not knowing which was in
point of law the last will had come into court,
had filed q joint petition asking for the probate
determine? % What i would YOUR Honor @ dc if the
petitioners for the will of the Oath had been
equally eager and prompt with the petitioners
OF the will of the 21st and had entered the
Clerks office simultaneously; and had stimuli
taneously filed their petition? What would
youdo then? Why, you would simply say,
which is the most convenient way? And what
Is law but the minister of convenience?
/ have stated here in the argument which
made before upon the contest filed by DR.. Lev
ingSton 10 the win of the 21st-that is. the
formal grounds of contest to that will-that
did not deem such mode of procedure neces-
sary or even proper, but your Honor had lnd1-
Gated in an opinion filed here on the 5th of
May that that was the mode OF procedure. Out
of Difference to your Honor's opinion / en-
deayored to follow it, Your Honor de termlned
that the contestants had, under the law, no
legal right to contest. and therefore disposed
of that matter without passing even Incl
dentally upon the proper mode OF procedure.
But that contestant, or at least that person
who sought to file that formal contest, has in
this case side by side with the petition of the
children of the decedent his own petition for
the probate of this will. You will hear that at
some time. When? If he had filed that petit
tion first-if he had been at the Clerks Office
on the morning after the testator's death and
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-20
SCORES LAMOUREAUX.
Julian Sonntag Says the Miners Never
Expect to Get Any Benefit at
His Hands.

TREY l.. Ford telegraphed yesterday to
Julian Sonntag of the Miners Association
that matters look very favorably in Wash
ington to a passage of the mineral land
bill now pending in Congress.
1.-The Chamber of Commerce." said Mr..
Sonntag yesterday, speaking of affairs in
Washington, "has sent word to Representa-
tive Herman urging him to do all in his
power toward aiding the passage of the
river and harbor bill, and private and
individual dispatches from prominent men
of this State have recently been sent with
the same purport.-
'sThe miners of this State are looking with
deep concern on the attitude of Senators
Mitchell of Oregon and Stewart of Nevada
If these Senators should interfere with the
passage of the mineral lands bill. they
will be met by the Senators from Califor-
MIA.
1.-The BILL" said Mr.. Sonntag. "has re-
ceived the undivided support of the whole
California elegatlon-White, Perkins,
Hilborn, McLachlan, Barham,: Mcguire,
Loud, Johnson and Bowers-and it has
never been known in the history of this
State where a delegation have worked with
so much unanimity of feeling.
1.-The bill has also received the indorse-
ment of all the large commercial bodies of
the State. They all recognize that if it
passes it will rebound millions of dollars to
the advantage of California.
''In Commissioner Lamoureaux we place
no faith. He showed his hand when he
granted for patent to the railroad COM
pany over 100000 acres of land during the
past few days. He is without doubt op-
posed to every interest of the miners, and
the miners of this State never expect to re-
ceive any benefit or even get their rights
at his haudsn
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-20

the orderly method of procedure, as suggested
in that case is to enter n order, as Mr.. Delmas
saws in order nisi, which is virtually reyoking
what | have already done, conditionally, OF
course upon the application of the will of later
date being successful.
These conclusions do not in anv way inter
fere with the proposilon advanced by Mr..
Pierson a moment ago that DR.. Marc Lev
ingston is not entitled to be heard upon the
application to admit to probate the will of the
21st. He is not party to that proceeding,
dence in regard to the validity of that will.
But he is entitled to have hearing upon the
will which he propounds which has been con-
tested; and it seems to me, for the reason that
have given, that the only proper method of
plication. If the application is sue
oeSsiu'; out Of 1.-THE the way, it falls; il T the
application is unsuccessful, this court will
proceed Immediately. 1 take it, to hear the ap-
picstion OF the WHi O. OF +S SSeptemper % ~: And
advised, DR.. Marc Levingston, and no one else
who has not contested or filed proper con-
test to the will of the 21st, is entitled to be
heard.
The evidence has already been introduced.
I suppose no further evidence will be intro
duced to support the will of the 21st of Sep
tember l will simply continue the matter
until the issues as to the will of September "a
have been determined by this court.
Ex-Judge Paterson at the opening of
the afternoon session requested that the
stenographic report Of the murning's pro-
ceedings be read to him. as he had been
called out of court before the decision was
rendered and did not wish to make any
move in the case until after he had learned
what had been done. His request was
granted, and, having heard the reading of
the report, he offered to submit his de-
murrer to the probate of the will of Sep
tember "a without argument.
To this Mr.. Delmas replied that with
the demurrers interposed by the children
to the contests to their petition he had
nothing 10 do, but there was no demurrer
to the contest to the. petition of DIR.
Levingston. The doctor, he continued,
had answered the contest and had de-
manded a jury trial of the issues thus
Joined.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-20
HE BUNKOED WILSON.
A Clever Grafter's Manner OF OBJ
tanning Coin From UnWary
Legal Lights.

The newest game of the grafters, who live
by their wits, is one that is played on men
who are current ly supposed to be the
sharpest, mentally, in the communicable
attorneys.
1t was worked successfully on J. N. E.
Wilson fey days ago, and that legal
luminary is still wondering how he failed
to see the job that was being put up on
him.
A seedy-looking individual walked awk-
wardly into Mr.. Wilson's Office and in
quired for the lawyer. He was asked to
wait few minutes. and when Mr.. Wilson
appeared introduced himself as Mr.. Foster
of Oakland.
'sMr. Wilson," he said, my brother-in-
law has just been badly hurt by the cars
over in Oakland and we want you to come
over and see what you can do with the
company. The claim adjuster has been
around and offered to settle with my
relative for $500, but we don't think that is
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-20

enough. We think he ought to get a
couple of thousand at least, and we want
some smart lawyer to do the dickering
with the company. Besides. my brother
in-Iaw is very badly hurt and may die, and
he wants his will drawn up so that his
property, which amounts to several thou
sand dollars, will go to the right parties. .
"But are you authorized to represent
your relative in this matter?" asked Mr..
Wilson.
''Of course am,'' said the man, "but l
don't want to appear too prominently in the
case, because I work for the company as
watchman, and if I am known to be hgur..
ing in the matter may lose my position.
"All right" replied the attorney. with
vision of fat fee foating before his eyes;
'let us get over there and finish the matter
up, After loading himself up with law
books and legal forms they started.
On the way to the ferry the man talked
volubly of the manner in which the rail-
road company could be handled by the
right kind of man, and asked Mr.. Wllson
to 60 easy on his relative, as the latter was
somewhat close and might object to fee
of more than $3.50. When near the ticket
office the man stopped and said:
"Look here, Mr.. Wilson, it might hurt
me if 1 went aboard the ferry with you
for all these people know me as an en-
ploye of the company and don't want to
lose my job. Now, as matter OF fact
spent my last cent coming over here and
can't pay my fare back. Just let me have
dollar and l will join you after you get
on the steamer"
Under the circumstances Mr.. Wilson
could not well refuse and handed out the
coin requested. That was the last he saw
of his man. He waited on board the boat
until too late to go ashore and had to
make the trip across. He came back by
the next boat and hunted industriously up
and down the water front for the pseudo
relative, but without success. Now he
knows that he was fim-hammed and will
be more careful in future.
It is said that number of other we'll
known attorneys have been victimized in
a similar manner.