Newport daily independent., 1902-06-24

frank Ware Tabor, the l-year-O Old son of MT. and Mrs. Edward A. Tabor, died Saturday in Little Rock and was buried Sunday evening Mr. Tabor is superintendent of the Arkansas Anti saloon League, and is publisher of the Searchlight, a prohibition paper in Little Rock.
 
 About twenty hands began Monday morning making preparations for ac- tive work on the locks and dams above Batesville. During this season the dams at locks Nos and 2, and the lock at No. 3 will be completed. This will carry the work for the first thirty miles up the river At this rate in a few years the locks will be com pleted to Buffalo
 The St. Paul Mountain Air contains an account of Capt. ]. w. Bivens, who lives just west of St. Paul, being robbed last Friday night by a sneak thief of $6,500, which he kept in gold in a bureau drawer at his home. Cap tain Bivens has lived on his farm in Madison county some seventy years, and is well known in this part of the state. He is quite wealthy, and al- though his loss is quite an item it will not fall as heavily on him as on man of smaller means. Fayetteville News.
 
 Last Tuesday Deputy Pro Tenn J. c. Haralson arrested Rev. L. Stewart at Fitzhugh and brought him to Augusta that evening, turning him over to James Hill for safe keeping. Rev. Stewart was at one time a Baptist preacher near McCrory, but now he is fallen angel, being charged with the murder of another negro in Crit tenden county. Stewart, known to quite a number of our citizens as ''Old Seven Hundred," is an ex- x-farmer, ex- preacher and now an detective. He claims that he was doing detective work at the time the negro was killed. The trouble seems to have been over some negro wench.-A gusta Free Press.
 
 c. 0. Andrews the liveryman at Al myra, was killed one day last week willie driving on his way to Stuttgart. Tn company with two little girls he was approaching the Cotton Belt track between here and Almyra just as the train came by. His team be- came frightened and started to run. MT. Andrews was thrown from the buggy and struck on his head, being rendered unconscious. The train stopped and picking up the body, took it back to Almyra. An examin- ation by the physicians showed that the skull had been fractured and that the patient could not recover. He died the day following and was buried in the Almyra cemetery. He l5dN6S llN1uS nSIS d WlIC3 OoO LID SHA4- dren all reside in the North.
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 At meeting of the state railway assessment board, Governor Davis presiding, it was voted to assess the railway, telegraph and express com panies in the state for taxation on the same basis used last year, when the total assessment valuation was $28,- 29S, ,031. Of the total last year the Gould system lines in Arkansas were assessed S11 ,349, ,354, the Cotton Belt S4. 127, ,132 and the Choctaw $2,689, ,470. Increased mileage will increase this years grand total of assessed valu- ation to about s29, 100000. The totals have not yet been computed by the secretary of state. The rate of as- sessment per mile is: Cotton Belt, $8 800; Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf, $7 800; Kansas City Southern, S7,5O0; Frisco, s1O,OO0; Iron Mountain (new line), S14,0OO; Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis, $1O,OOO.
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