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The Mena star., 1898-04-06
A COLLEGE FOR rlENA.

Nothing we can now secure will add more to our permanent pros perity and growth than a college, or young ladies boarding school as suggested by the Star last week. The question of its location has not yet been definitely settled but it is believed that if all pull to- gether, and if those most interest ed lend all the aid in their power the school can be secured for thIs place. With such school here Mena would attract many people from the country to the South who would like to go to health full place where pure air and wa ter abound and where they could get above malarial influences to educate their children. This place presents all those advantage to an eminent degree and all we need now is to secure the location of the school.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

militia. They say they are on'y ''o willing to go to war if perm'e''o " fcbt Spain. Most of the lDd'ans "e' v;tb sitting Bull at the massacre oi General Custer and the oeSe"s" cavalry.
 American consuls in Cuba were ih- structed by the Washington au'"o. ties last Saturday to go to Hava"a :" order to be ready to leave the 's'anu at once if necessary for safety. ranoements have also been made TOT inc withdrawal of General Lee should sncb a course have to be taken.
 The state of Iowa has voted $5Oo,oo to be expended by the governor ID case of war in enlistlng and eqniPplns troops. The legislators showed a WIT ;noness to increase the amount oy s5 900. 900 more should it be neeoeo. A hill has been introduced in Ohio to appropriate si, ,0O0 for the same purpose.
 Orders have been sent to the wreck CTS at Havana to abandon the worR on the Maine and come North at once' as it IS not thought any thing more of val ne can be saved There are yet seven v.five bodies of sailors in the wreck
 that it has been impossible to recover. and they are supposed to be disinte- grated before now.
 Eight Pope county moonshiners sur rendered to the officers of the Eastern district of Arkansas last week. The names are q. K. Reynolds. James Reynolds Hugh Reynolds, T. P. Hall, J. W. Gilbert, J. l.. Fisher, Oliver Cal lahan and Albert Jackson. They have been operating illicit stills near Ap- pleton.-Siloam Springs Democrat Fifty.one mules were sold by Louis Reinman, at Little Rock last Monday, to the agent of firm that has con- tract to supply the Spanish govern ment m Cuba with American mules. This was the available supply of pur' chasable mules in that city. The mules are to be shipped at once to Cuba, via Galveston England Cou- rier.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06
Facts About Our Navy.
cago Times Herld.

ffDIu tilt OHlCbEo
 The United States is the fifth naval power in the world. The nayies of Great Britian, France. Russia, and Ita- ly rank ahead in the order named. Germany and the United States are about tied.
 Our present effective fighting force consists of four battleships of the first class, one battleship of the second class. swo armored cruisers, eighteen cruisers. fifteen gunboats, six double turreted monitors, one ram, one dyna- mite gunboat one dispatch boat, one transport and eight torpedo boats.
 The Iowa weighs nearly l2. 900 tons. and as twenty tons is the average load of freight car and twelve cars is 8 good load for locomotive engine. it would take fifty locomotives to haul the great steel structure.
 The powder used is brown and in chunks the size of B caramel. A charge for the biggest guns weighs 500 pounds and is hoisted to the breech by a der rick. the powder being sewed up in burlap bags.
 Our battleshlps have a speed of from fifteen to seventeen knots an hour. Cruisers make nineteen to twenty four knots, while the monitors can travel only five to seven knots.
 The biggest guns in the navy are forty nine feet long, big enough for a man to crawl into; four feet in diane. ter at their largest part, and weigh 135, 100 pounds or whereabouts.
 Some of the guns in the navy can fire shot twelve miles, farther than man can see, for the guns are aimed and sighted by machinery.
 The amount expended by the navy in 1897 was S34, 561, 546. This is a larger sum than has been expended in any year since 1866.
 The fastest vessels in the navy arc the torpedo boats Porter and Dupont each of which can travel 27.5 knots ar hour.
 All of the cruisers are named ir honor of cities. and battleships, ex cept the Kearsarge, in honor of states
 A big battleship has on board ar electric light plant capable of lighting town of 5000 inhabitants
 Battleships are covered with armol of nickle steel from five to sever inches thick.
 At present the total enlisted force of the naval militia is s,870 officers and men.
 It costs $500 every time one of the big guns on board ship is fired.
 Sailors are paid from s9 50 to l2 $ per month and board.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

Making Mena an international money order office, as stated in another place in this issue, calls attention to the rapid growth of the business of the place and emphasizes the fact that the depart ment should make allowance for additional clerk hire. There is always more work connected with an office in new and rapidly growing place than in one long established, and for this reason if no other the department should be liberal in it's allowance for clerks, especially so in this case as the Mena post-office has never been an expense to the depart ment.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06
SMALL WAR TALK.

The House voted an appropriation to build twenty-seven werships before adjournment last Friday.
 Sam Jones, the evangelist, says the Spaniards are not worth the powder and lead required to kill them.
 France displays more sympathy for Spain than any other European gov ernment. English sympathy seems all for the United States.
 Spaniards are actively engaged at the prominent markets of the United States buying mules for shipment to Cuba for army service.
 Arch bishop Ireland has received a request from the pope to use his infiu- ence with President Mckinley in favor of peaceful course in the Cuban question.
 The German am bassador at Madrid has sent word to his government that the Spanish royal family has every thing in readiness for instant fiigh in anticipation of Carlist uprising
 
 Measures are being considered in Washington to greatly increase the revenues of the government for war purposes by increasing the tax on tea, coffee and beer. Whiskey tax may also be increased.
 A member of the Cuban junta in New York says: 'sIf the United States sent us arms and ammunition we could raise an army of 60,000 men. march on Havana and rage the city or storm the occupants into submission. :"
 Six hundred Sioux Indians at Sioux Falls, $. D., under the leadership of six fighting braves from the Pine Ridge agency. have rendered their services to Governor Lee to reinforce the state
The Mena star., 1898-04-06
"THIS OLD NEW COUNTRY, :"

A gentleman in Minnesota writes us: ''I have just finished your article copied into the Mis- souri and Arkansas Farmer and Fruitman entitled Welcome To This Old New Country and would like to know more of your city, etc Please send me copy of your paper"
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

This issue of the Star contains the announcement of Mir. M. K. Durham for the office of county as- scssor. This is one of the most important, if not the most i'm portant, offices in tho county, and the people should see that it is filled by a good man. Mir. Dur nam has been resident of this county for thirteen years and is we'll known, and those who know him know that he possesses all the qualifications for the office to which he aspires, being capable, we'll informed and thoroughly honest.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

In growing town like Mena the business man, if such he may be called, who refuses to adver- tise in or patronize his home pa per has little appreciation of the benefit of newspapers. Such an one possesses many of the char acteristics of the Arkansas ''razor- back" being willing to hog down everything that comes in his way, but never of any value to the country or community he sub- sists on.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06
A SPARTAN MOTHER.

The Federation of Woman $ Clubs of Chicago, recently sent letter to President Mckinley pleading for peace at almost any price, and in which they pledge tour moral support in all that he dues, or in all that he leaves un- done, for humanity's sake"
 Mrs. Shillington, who lost Il son on the Maine. was shown the letter and asked if she thought it spoke for all the mothers of America. and after reading the line, ''on us war will fall the heaviest, for we must give our sons" she replied
 live already given one of mine, my Harry. But with one boy buried in the mud of Havana harbor and anoth- CT on board 8 UHited States cruiser that may be the first to be sunk in case of war. I have no appeals to make to the president for peace I am a mother. and l have suffered as per hsps nut many of tine mothers who have joined in Mrs. Henrotin's appeal have suffered. but do not shrink at the mention of war. We must think of our own. and, heaven knows, no one could have thought more of her boy than did of the one who died on the Maine, but there are mothers in Cuba who must be thought of-moth- CTS who have seen their little ones starve to death by their sides. Their homes have been destroyed, and fami lies sundered and men and women and children allowed to die like cattle. have to think of these things Of course, I know the money interests of the country are entitled to full share of consideration, but 1 believe, too, in honor. l believe in it and 1 taught it to my children, and 1 think they learned the lesson. for the officers of the Name have written to me that my Harry never sweryed from the strict line of his duty. He never shrank from what was right, and neither will l. 1 can give my other boy to my country, if need be, as did my oldest son,
 "Chariie sailed on the government cruiser Alliance to-day. His last let ter to me said that now he had but one thought. and that was for revenge. You see he is only boy of IT, and the death of his brother filled him with hate for those who caused it. I do not feel. of course, the same about ii that he does. do not feel any spirit of revenge. I only want to see the honor of the country vindicated. so that my boy. who is sailor on board a United States ship. can walk the streets of foreign city and feel that the blue uniform he wears is respect ed, and that, if he dies, his govern ment will demand atonement and that he is something more than the iron guns or the plating on the side of the vessel, that can be left buried in the muddy bottom of harbor and for gotton.
 ''I have no criticism to make on the women who have joined in Mrs. Hen rotin's petition. They want to be spared the loss of their loved ones and I pray God that they may be. But if He lets them suffer as 1 have suffered if it is for the sake of the dead and dying in Cuba if it is for the sake oi our country and her flag and for the boys who were killed on the Maine, can only say to them as I say to myself a hundred and thousand times day 1t had to be; it had to be. There was no other way
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

The efforts heinz made to have Mena and vicinity properly rep resented and advertised at the Omaha exposition should be literally sustained by our people, both in contribution of funds and in specimen products of the coun- try. Much good will surely ac- crue to us if we take advantage of the opportunity presented.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06
NEW MATERIAL AND TYPE.

This office has just received an invoice of new display and job type, also improved stands and cases which will enable us to turn out job printing of all kinds in q thoroughly up-to-date style and to set our "ads," in an attractive
The Mena star., 1898-04-06
STATE EXCHANGES.

Several Mormon preachers were rot ten egged near Waldron, in Scott county last week. They tried to get a farmers wife to accompany them to Utah. Alma Herald.
 The strawberry beds which were planted here this spring are all doing nicely. Tn all about sixty-five acres have been planted. It is safe to say that not less than 1000 acres will be planted next spring. -Janssen Journal.
 Charity begins at home, read your home paper and pay for it as you go We can't afford to carry credit sub scriptions much longer Little by little we are doing away with every vestige of the credit system at this shop. Clinton Democrat
 Work on the company fruit farm is progressing rapidly. Tree planting commenced this week, and will Le pushed with all possible speed. 600o peach trees, GOO apples and 400 plumb trees will be planted this spring. = Janssen Journal
 The Gamble nursery at Fit Smith, has originated what is called a sweet Ben Davis apple. and it is said to be beauty. In size, shape and color it is exactly like the Ben Davis but in taste it is deliciously sweet.-Siloam Springs Republican.
 The blues and grsys will unite again on May 30 to pay tribute to the fallen heros on each side. The following committees will have charge of affairs this -year: On part of blues Dr. Foster. Wm. Frazer and M. Farrsl; on part of grays. M. F. Leonord, E. Austin and J. Holt lt-Gravett News
 A carload of apples was shipped from here Monday to Pennsylvania by J. E. Britt. The apples were kept in natural cold storage in Larrabee's hillside cave and were in the best of condition. A good round price can Le got for apples if proper attention is given them -Siloam Springs Herald
 The Omaha buttons are rapidly be- ing sold in all parts of Arkansas. The proceeds from these buttons will do great good for Arkansas, and every patriotic citizen should purchase one, and by this means contribute S1 to the fund being raised to have our state properly represented at the Omaha exposition. Pine Bluff Courier.
 
 There are about i, 200 hills of melons in an acre when they are planted six feet apart each way. and each hill should yield at least ten marketable Hutmegs or cantaloupes. The figures would make an output of i2.00o mel ons. At three cents each S360 would be realized, at two cents, S240 per acre. Suppose each hill only yields six melons. and at the above prices you would have 1,200 melons and 32i6 8144 and $72 per acre How is this for big money in four months time?-- Siloam Springs Republican.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

Send in few new subscribers for the Star and procure a supply of the celebrated African Limb less cotton seed for this seasons planting. Those who grow cot ton at all should be up-to-date and have the best there is.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

The people cannot afford to de- lay the moving of the county seat. The old court house at Dallas is in a dilapidated condition and must ere long be repaired at great expense or abandoned.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

Thousands of sufferers from grippe have been restored to health by One Minute Cough Cure. It quickly cures coughs, colds. bronchitis, pneumonia. grippe, asthma and all throat and lung diseases. Pipkin X Hanes.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

A bran-spanking new court house at Mena, built without ex- pense to the people, is far prefer able to the old dilapidated build ing now in use at Dallas, and so say all the people.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

manner. We have always had the best equipped office and pro- pose to continue to lead the pro cessiOn.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

County Clerk Davis is render ing valuable assistance in behalf of moving tho county seat to Mena.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

General Gomez and his follow CTS, instead of being insurgents and rebels, will hereafter be known as patriots.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

Election news may be interest ing, but the war news is more so, at least to the defeated candidates.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

Everybody comes to Mena and this is the place for the county seat.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

Cuba will be free. This much is practically settled no matter how it is done.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

Mena, the thriving metropolis of Polk county, IS the place for the county seat.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

Now for the county seat remov- al. One pull altogether and we have it.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

Hurrah for Gomez, the libera- tor of Cubal It is grand to fight for liberty anyway, but glorious to fight and win.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

It is not So much a question of politics as it is 'has Mena got q war mayor!'
The Mena star., 1898-04-06
CURRENT EVENTS IN BRIEF.

Gladstone is very ill and the dea,A of the great English statesman is said to be only a matter of few days.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

Pay your taxes before the 10th of April and save the penalty.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

William K. Vanderbilt has aD nouuced that he will present the oov ernment with warship eosiinc s5 GOO, 900 in case of war with Spain
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

Miss Julian Anderson, near Lano ston, o T.. was burned to death h. her clothes ignitiug from burmn. grass in d field being burned to kil os chinch bugs.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

The Utstein. the ship which carried the twenty tree carloads of provisions from New Orleans to Matanzas for the starving Cnbans which was gathered and forwarded by the Kansas City Star, arrived at it's destination ou Sat erday noon. This relief cargo is by far the largest single shipment of pro visions that has been sent from the United States Another carload of provisions left Kansas City for Cuba by the way of New York Saturday The Stars cash collections used Tn the relief work now amount to almost Sl3, 900.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

Cuban bonds are quoted at 60 ,r New York. while Spanish bonds ar. below 50 in London, seeming to indi. cate strongly the confidenc in Cub. being free in the near future.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

W. H. Harvey, generally known a. ''Coin" Harvey, is dangerously i'll in Chicago An operation has been her formed for appendicitis. and hi. family entertain grave fears for his fife
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

A lively rush is going on in Wash ington to the new mining camp of Republic, in Eureka district. Four stages run daily and men are rushing in by the hundreds in wagons, on horse eback and afoot. The mountain roads arc in frightful condition. Experts who have examined the Re public mine report that over g.. 0OO GOO worth of gold ore has been blocked out. The townsite was put on the market few days ago and men stood in line for hours to buy lots. Mining men predict the town will have 10000 people before next winter.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06


 A water bycicle. driven by two men seated tandem fashion, may now daily be seen on San Francisco bay. It was built on original lines by F. O. Win quist, foreman in the Union iron works, and E. Otsen. who propose to take 1t up the Yukon. Their strange craft is constructed of aluminium and steel, and It is said a speed of eighteen knots an hour can be made. Severe tests have proven the claims of inven- tors and owners. They crossed the bay on the squally day the bark Amy was wrecked. and are preparing for q trip to the Farallon, thirty miles out on the ocean.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

The two men who attempted to as. sassinate King George of Greece last month, while riding in carriage with his daughter. Princess Maria, hay. been tried for the crime and sentenced to death.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

C. A. Goodman of Los Angeles, Cal. has returned from the Klondike gold country, and says that conservatiys estimate places the amount of gold that will be shipped out this spring a, twenty tons He reports stampede across the line from British to AmefI. can territory, where rich discoveries have been made.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

W. c. Brann, editor of the Icono- clast, of Waco, Texas whose sensa. Lional writings have caused much trouble and several violent deaths, was shot to death in street duel in Waco last Friday by Captain NJ. T. Davis. who has since died of his wounds Before his death Captain Davis charged " H. Ward. buslress manag. of the Iconoclast, with having shot him while he was lying on the side walk. Ward was arrested charged with murder. Three others were slightly injured by wild bullets
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

The prison commission recommend. ed to Governor Atkinson that the sentence of Mrs Elizabeth Noble. who was to have been hanged Friday last at Macon. Ga. be commuted to Imprisonment for life. The governor postponed the execution. and will no doubt endorse the iniing of the com mission. Mrs Nobles is over 60 years of age and is in failing health.
The Mena star., 1898-04-06

The House voted an appropriation to build twenty-seven warshlps before adjournment last Friday.
The herald., 1898-10-06


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The herald., 1898-10-06
THE FINISH OF THE 2:1o TR0T

few days. and from present prospects 1t
will be mustered out.
There is very little that can tell you
about the regiment" said the chaplain
yesterday, 'for the papers have printed
all that we know ourselves and much more.
There is one thing Iwould like to talk
about, and which l consider proper sub
ject for statement, and that is the re-
ported alteration I had with Colonel
Berry. Usually, in such stories, there is a
grain OF truth, at least on which the struct-
ure OF Misrepresentation and distortion Is
raised, but In this instance there was not
even grain of fact. Colonel Berry and
l have never had the slightest difference;
neither was there any truth in the report
that Major Weller was embroiled with the
colonel. Captain Alfonso? Why, that was
nothing. The captain understood an order
one way, and Colonel Berry did not agree
with him; but that was all.
"Thc prospects of the regiment? That
is something that it does not seem fit
should discuss. I feel free to say that
l deeply regret that the regiment did not
see active service. 1t Is composed of splen-
did men, well drilled and we'll disciplined,
and like all true soldiers they were anx-
ious to see action. You know the number
of applications for honorable discharge
that have been made, but comment or
deductions would not be fitting for me to
make.
"By both officers and men I have uni
formly been treated with the utmost cour-
tesy and consideration. l have only seen
one man under the influence of intoxicants
while In the camp, and our church services
have always been largely attended"
The chaplain Is looking we'll and has evil
IDENTIFY been benefited by his soldier life,
barring his present cold, which, however
will probably yield quickly to the healing
influences of the climate.
The herald., 1898-10-06
At Morris Park

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-There was great
attendance at Morris park in spite Of the
threatening weather today. In the second
race Tyrian, heavily backed favorite,
was left at the post. Swamp Angel. at Is
to l. went to the front at the fall Of the
flag and was never headed. .
In the handicap for 2-year-olds The FIJI
Crane, the favorite, won. hard held, with
Exception and Lepida second and third re-
spectively. in hard drive. Summaries:
One mile and half, hurdle-Governor
Budd won, Widower second, Manchester
third; time, 2:51.
Six furlongs-Swamp Angel won, Head
light II second, Hanton third; time 1:15A.
Six and a half furlongs, handicap-The
Filigrane won. Exception second, Lepida
third; time, 1:24.
One mile-Swftmas won. Ben Ronald
second, Clonsilla third: time. 1:42h.
Five furlongs-Lamity won, Golden Days
second, Avoca third; time, 1:OO1s
One mile and a sixteenth-Bangle won.
George Keene second, Buella third: time.
LATE.
At Hawthorne
CHICAGO, Oct. 5.-Weather at Haw-
thorne cool; track slow.
Five furlongs-Genius won, Jinks second;
Andes third; time, 1:0SA.
Six furlongs-B.shcp Reed won, Gray
hurst second, Amanda third; time, 1:1Sh.
One mile and an eighth-Don Quixote won.
Daisy f. second, George Lee third: time
1850.
One mile and half-Forte won. Plain
tain second. Winslow third; time. 2:A