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The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28
Classes Them as Liquor Dealers.

Classes Them as Liquor Dealers.
Deputy Revenue Collector True is
having an unhappy time trying to con-
vince those who run soda fountains
that they will have to take out liquor
licenses il certain conditions are contin-
ued in the business. Mr.. True said
yesterday that the duty Of enforcing
the rulings of the department was u
decidedly unpleasant one, but it had to be
done and would be done without fear or
favor. The circular recently issued
says IAN examination of tho facts in
cases which this office has recently had
under consideration led to to the con-
clusion that more stringent ruling IL
demanded in regard to the sale by
druggists and others Of beverages called
"claret soda and other drinks sold Mt
soda fountains containing small proper
tions of distilled spirits of wine or com
pounds thereof Each collector is,
therefore, directed to give immediate
notice to druggists, confectioners, and
other persons concerned in his district,
that on and after January | 1903, the
special tax of "a retail liquor dealer is
required to be paid by every person
who sells or offers for sale any soda
water drinks or other beverages to
which is added distilled spirits of wine
(the fermented juice Of small fruit) OF
compound thereof. Fort Smith
Times
Major True has already visited oui
soda fountain proprietors and they
"ponied' up.
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28

Judge c. f. Harvey recently secured
pensions Of IS per month for Milton
Brewer of Rudy aud Mrs, Mary Burn
ham of Jenny Lind.
j, g. West was in from Oliver Springs
Wednesday and reported farmers as
busy ~ they conld be aud that many Of
them had begun planting corn,
Rev. $. II. Kelton left Wednesday
for Augusta, Ark, where he expects
to stay sometime assisting in the cree
ton Of a building for an oil mill.
The Tolson Stock Co. opens n week $
engagement at the opera house Monday.
They have been given the brightest
recommendation by the press of Fort
Smith and are no strangers here.
Capt Jas, Bowlin who follows the
river AZ pilot on the packet Lucille
Nolan, between Pine Bluff and Mem.
pitts, arrived Wednesday on Il brief
visit to his brother, Capt, VIM, Bow
lin,
Brennan, the man who received such
severe burns about the face by falling
into the mortar box near the new Pres
bylerian church, is getting better.
For awhile the doctors feared he would
lose his eyesight, but now the chances
are much more IN his favor,
Senator Cotton 8 bill regulating the
sale Of dynamite which passed the house
by big majority Tuesday, having al
ready passed the senate, will make 1t
harder for the gentry who have been
dynamiting the streams destroying the
fish TO get the explosive. II Is not
likely that the governor will veto the
measure.
The residence Of Rev, D, W, Cham.
bless was the scene Wednesday even.
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Prospects are natterng that Van
Buren, will yet get n Y, NJ G, A,
Early In the week Mayor Woolum, who
heretofore has eyiDced great interest In
the establishment Of a branch hore 70.
coived letter from State Secretary
Schoheld, asking him to call u meeting
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28
Money Their God.
From the Commoner

From the Commoner
The Chicago Record. Herald Of
last week contains q report of a
sermon delivered by DR.. ii. Il.
Kittridge of the Madison Avenue
Presbyterian church, New York,
at the Third Presbyterian church
of Chicago. DR.. Kittridge had
formerly been pastor of the Chi
cago church and the paper reports
the audience az "dumbfOunded'
and adds that the congregation
'left the church in silence.n
! Bravo, DR.. Kittridge! The coun-
try needs more sermons like that
if it is TO be saved from the cor
roding influence Of greed and
avarice. The following extracts
show the nature of the reproof
administered to those who profess
the name of the meek and lowly
Nazarene and yet allow a love Of
money to lead them into all kinds
of conspracies against their fel.
lows:
thousands Of our prominent
business men who call themselves
Christians aud 90 regularly to
church are being driven.-driven
rapidly against the rock of de-
struction by their tremendous alb
sorption in money making, which
ia one Of the greatest perils of the
land today. We see it in the bus.
mess of daily life. They are dill.
gent in business, fervent in spirit,
aud think they are serving the
Lord, but all the time they are be-
ing carried away by this lust Of
money.
stake il in social life; DO you
not know Of multitndes of men
aud women who have good enough
intentions, but because Of the lux.
ury in which they live and the
society IN which they move day
after day, their lives are lives Of
absolute idleness, bent wholly up
on self gratihcationi They are
animated solely by the low, mean
motive Of disqualification. TO
me- there Is no spectacle more
pitiful than that ~ men or women
trusting their souls TO God and
hoping for salvation while they
spend their efforts aud time day
after day in quest of selfenjoy-
ment When their lives have
been closed they are empty of all
real joy.
$50 | have come here tonight
simply Judging Of you In the time
IN which left and went to another
city to speak a few plain words Of
warning, Let me tell you, young
men and women, If ever there was
u time for men and women to act
AZ the children ofGod aud to real.
ise tho full possibilities OF such
life, that moment In now, Here,
| may say, ~ in New York, the
cry raised is that the great peril
Of civilization Ia the constant iric.
ton between labor aud capital.
4 But there IN question far more
thrilling, It IL this tremendous
current OF passion and Of love for
money aud show which IL sweep.
ing Gods people away from the
passion Of the Lord aud the teach.
tngs of Jesus Christ
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28
Three More for Stealing Horses.

Saturday three men rode up to Boat.
right s livery barn in the East End
and, when they proceeded to dismount,
Constable Smith was there to receive
them, for they were riding stolen
horses and he had received wind of
their coming and WAS on the lookout.
The horses had been stolen from near
Webbers Falls, They gave their
names as Eric Simpson, A. H. Dolby
and |. II. Hendricks, They were
lodged in Jail and may be tried for in
Producing stolen property,
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28

Last Saturday night about o clock
u stranger named Brennan, evidently
under the influence of liquor, stumbled
and fell into box full OF quick lime
while walking along the site of the new
Presbyterian church. Brennan fell into
the mortar face down and when taken
out was In bad shape, his mouth and
eyes having become filled with the
caustic fluid, while the face and upper
portion Of the body was badly blistered
He was taken to the Farmers hotel
and suffered great pain for several
days. The box, II seems, projected on
the sidewalk and there being no light to
warn pedestrians 1t made 1t dangerous,
especially for n man ''in his cups.
d. A. Pierce Of the Argus force
has been on the sick list this week be.
ing threatened with pneumonia.
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28
LOCAL and Personal.

Work on the new Frisco depot at
\ Fort Smith has been begun,
Window Glass and Putty at JOHN
O KANE DRUG STORE,
The Floto dog and pony shows are
billed for two performances here to-
day.
Miss Leila Logan of Coal Hill has
been visiting the family of W.P, Sadler
this week,
Mrs. Ernest Fontaine was up from
Spadra this week visiting the family of
c. b Fontaine,
II. ]. Hewitt, editor Of the Lowell
(Ark, } Leader, - favored us with a
short call Saturday,
Safety Cough Cure-only ''2
Dimes bottle at JOHN O KANE $
DRUG STORE.
Mr., and Mrs Frank Green returned
TO Seegeeyah, /. T. Monday, after a
few days visit to friends here.
Sunday was an ideal spring day, only
to wind mp with shower, and consid-
erably cooler weather Monday.
Several new members were initiated
into the mysteries OF the order by the
A. o, Z. W, lodge at It's last meeting,
Safety" Chill Tonic-oply ~
Dimes n bottle, and guaranteed ut
JonN O KANE 5 DRUG STORE.
Up,to.date high class Watch aud
Jewclry Repairing by Ramsdell at W.
j, Martin =, 5l2 Main ST., Van Buren,
Ark AZ
The Fort Smith News Record
says Mr. and Mrs. r. d. Bourland are
back from three weeks visit to st.
Louis,
Safety" Liver lnvigorator only
''2 Dimes u package at JOHN
v KANE \ DRu0 STORE.
The funeral Of Judge j u Smith at
Alma was attended by quite number
Of The members Of j, T. Stuart camp,
U, G, V,
All the carpenters In Van Buren, have
their hands full Of work, and the sound
VI the saw aud hammer can be heard
on every hand,
I'd BrIscoe IN preparing to retire
from the grocery business and devote
his entire time exclusively to dry goods
aud furnishings.
Abundant Health Ia assured when there \
Rool blood IN the youS Hoods snrsaphrllla y
we medicine ~ make good blood, Begin tAklnl
now. Ills lust What tho system needs nj thi'
ueo ana VIII DO Won great good, sharpen. lh'
appetite, sehdles the nerves 6i
More or less cotton IL coming 10 town
eoch week and while the quality Ia TAI
ron trsl.cNss the price IL such Ms t
pay well for the gathering OF the STAPLE
yet In the fields.
beo, Brown left Monday for Ard
more, ! r., to look up the location
'here, aud II satisfactory may open
mNehino shop ut that place He expects
GA his return To take his family on
Vlel' 70 his parents IN Illinois
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28

win Fautner, residing in the terri.
tory, while crossing the Lees creek cut
off near the Bowdin place last Monday
nearly lost his mules. The late rise
had changed the ford some leaving q
heavy deposite Of sand ut the crossing
and In trying to avoid this he drove
them of into deep water, 1t WAS with
some difficulty that the animals were
rescued.
The close Of tax paying time Is draw
ing near and the Office force Of Collector
Pitcock is being kept busy,
j. l., Mcintyre, n prominent citizen
OF Alma, for the past two years engaged
In the saloon business there, died ut
his home Wednesday.
The citizens Of Alma have formed u
commercial league, and that body Is
hard at work raising funds by su6scrip.
tion for the erection Of wagon bridge
over Frog Bayou ut Rector ford,
Won't our business men wake mp and
do something toward holding the trade
Van Buren, now controls and try TO ex.
tend It's sphere Of influence In these
days the community, the same ~ the
lnJlyI1nnl that p.uohna ,nt uftap thn
plums ge,s them, No matter what nd.
vantages u town may have Tor the pur.
chaser or manufacturer, unless such
advantage Is presented 20 the people
interested the advantage might NJ well
not exist, 40 far M any benefits tina,
accrue are concerned,
The Collins Hotel IL short n colored
porter and the city IN better of for his
absence, Wednesday evening " lady
arrived here from some point IN Kansas
and repaired to the hotel during the on
forced stop here between trains. The
porter, late in the evening, under pre-
tense OF getting her u pitcher Of water,
forced his way into the room and be-
came 80 familiar that the lady screamed
for belp When the officers arrived
they took the negro out and gave hin
advice TO the effect that he'd better
leave town aud not stand on the order
Of going, They knew that while thorc
was no law under which the Negro
could DO punished, that If hib action
became known he would be- roughly
handled and they were not mistaken III
their surmse, for n short time after u
party OF men made diligen, search foi
him mud n he had been caught II II hard
10 tell what would have happened,
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28
Attention, U. c. VS..

All members of the j. T. Stuart
Camp, . c. ", are requested to meet
at Mayor WoOlums Office in Van
Buren,, Saturday, March 2sth. at ? p.
IN. sharp. This is the date of the an
nual reorganization of the camp and
for the appointment of a number of i'm
portant committees, such as transport
tation etc. and the election of delegates
to attend the national convention at
New Orleans, May 10Th.
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28
MISSOURI PACIFIC.

MISSOURI PACIFIC.
GOING WEST.
Daily
No. IS Arr, 5:0j pm. Depart $40 pm
No So " sos am $40 am
Daily, except Sunday.
No. Is d" l:l2 pm lStops at Van Buren,.
GOING EAST.
Daily,
No 81 Arr. 9:i5 pm. Depart, 1000 p,
No.a ll;0j am, ll;lO am
Daily except Sunday,
No. 70 Goal Hin Local Depart at $50 pm,
GREENWOOD BRANCH.
Daily. except Sunday.
Greenwood Local Arr. lij pm. Depart $50 ?. m.
Pullman sleepers on SO and 81. Through
tickets on sale to all points For further inform
alton telephone 40, q or call on
W. HYNESS Agent
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28

Train No / connects at Terrell with 7, n =
cannon Hall for " Louis and luh train Tor
New orleans. at Kaufman With y q \. train
for Jacksonville, at Ennis With II 4 T. &, train
for Houston
Train No, connects ut Paris with Frisco fast
train from 81 Louis Mt Terrell WITH Y, y J.
ulRht express trains for ~ Louis and New
orleans ~ Ennis with H. T & g, train for
Houston etc.
Tmin 30 connects NJ Ennls with II T1C.
trains from Houston Dallas Hud NnXAhatchle,
al Kaufman with 7 & n ~ train from Jackson.
vile, NJ Terrell with Y n y train Tor Dallas and
Fort worth, wills Point w. Louis aud New Or
leans, M Paris with Frisco train Tor NJ LOnls
Ifaln No u connects NJ bnns Win u Y =
train from Houston, NJ kaufman win Y \ q
train from jacksonyilel AZ Terrell with 7 "
trains for Fort Worth DALLAS, - Louis aud New
Orleans NJ ufponyilc with N X n T "Flyef'
nofthbound nj Commerce with Cnlton belt
train for Memphis, NJ Paris Win Frisco last
train for ~ Louis
Cafe cafs-mcals n Ia cartc--will be operated
90 trains Nos 4 aud ~ heretofore,
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28
THE COURTS.

ClRCUTr COURT meets at Van Buren, on the
I third Monday in june and November J, II.
swans Judge r, l.. Rogers Prosecuting Atty.
COUNTY COURT meets In Van Buren, on the
< lst Monday in January April. July and Oc.
tober
DROBATE COURT meets the third Monday
| In February, May, August aud November
Sgsciai Notices in the Locai Columns Fire cent?
lime (oy dr,t insertion, and ire cents PEI
line toreaci subsequent insertion. An locais
RIM and charged for at ADORE rates until on
JGed discontinued.
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28
S6))P !
$4,000

worth was sold in one day, and
it sold so cheap that he bought
as long as his cash held out,
and we now have it on sale at
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28
Unclaimed Letters.

Unclaimed Letters.
The following IA n list Of letters IN the Pos,
oiiCo tNun Buren,, Arm. remaining uucailvd
Tor aud advertised March "a lpOi
Andrew II y benton II
lialcn0, Luther l. Harper W II
bensanc, nuok Hatfield ueO
Coleman, II l. jones' j I
Cauplef Jake Lawafy, CIV
Downs, I'm Pratt Y 9
Henderson, Clarence
Parties oalling FOE above VIII please aay al
yeftised aud give date A foe VI one uant will
bs charged on all advertised letters
Mira A, NJ, Ohhltk y, N,
aaa-. y
Judge Gross has appointed Geo,
smith OF ALMA township road oycrseor
for that township,
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28

We can assure you that we
have the largest stock of Cloth
inc ever shown in Van Buren,,
at prices to you that other
merchants can't buy them for
at wholesale. It will be. big
money to you to come and look
through our line.
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28

The following passenger train schedules were
lnaugurntcd ON this line beginning March ID, o.
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28
eureka SPRINGS

The Frisco System operates wide-vestibuled,
trains. All cafe cars and dining
nails under the management OF Fred Harvey
Time OF trains at
The Van Buren press., 1903-03-28
soc on the Dollar

or about half what it is worth.
Arizona republican., 1903-01-06
Disquieting News From Mexico.

The brief dispatch from Laredo, Texas. published yesterday. stating that a special from Hermosillo, Mexico, reported the appearance of the bubonic plague at Ahome, may have no foun- dation in fact. The public has learned to look with suspecion on all Mexican news that comes by way of the border towns of Texas. Irresponsible corre- spondents at Fl Paso and Laredo are in the habit of making up sensational stories about Mexico and telegraphing them abroad, and the announcement that the plague has appeared at an other point on the Mexican coast is therefore not as alarming as it would be had the news come from q reliable source.
 Nevertheless, it is entirely possible that the story Is true. Pt Ahome IS situated on the west coast of Mexico at the mouth of the Fuerte river, and about midway between MaZatlan and Guaymas. The plague undoubtedly ex- ists at Mazatlan. and numerous deaths have occurred, the mortality being fully 50 per cent. The residents of that port have been fleeing in all directions, and it will be strange indeed if the pestilence does not appear at other points in Mexico. The Mexican author
Arizona republican., 1903-01-06
A Great Field for Official and lndivid-
 uaI Philanthropy.

The merits of the outdoor" cure for ccnsumption are made evident more and more as the reports come in from the sanatoriums which have been es- tablished at different points in th2 eastern states. It is not strange, there Tora that there is a general movemen for state aid in taking care of those who are afflicted. Reference was made in these columns a few days ago to tn" excellent results which have been ob- tained in Pennsylvania, and similar news comes from Massachusetts.
 At Rutland, in the latter state, a san atorium which has been in operation by the state a short time, has abundantly proved it's value. In 50 per cent of the eases the disease has been arrested en- tirely, F per cent were ''very much inn proved" and 90 per cent were i'm proved" In other words, 92 per cent of the patients received substantial benefit. The average stay of the pa tients was five months. We learn from the Providence Journal that the state of Rhode Island has established a san atorium on the shores of Wallum Pond in that state, from which much good is expected. In Vermont a tuberculosis commission has been appointed. in com pliance with a law recently enacted, and this commission is to study the disease and devise means to check and prevent 1t.
 In providing sanatoriums for con- sumptives there is an immense field for state endeavor as we'll as for the be- nevolent rich. Indeed, it Is incompre- hensible that the boundless opportuni- ties for good in this direction are so persistently ignored by men whose benevolence cannot be doubted. Car negie. Rockefeller, and a host of oth- CTS in their train are giving millions by the score for education in a country where every child already has an op- portunity for a good education. That so little is done in the way of providing for the helpless sick. passes under standing. The argument that direct charity pauperizes the beneficiary does not explain the backwardness of phil anthrOpists in taking care of con- sumptives and others who cannot care for themselves. In protecting human ity in general from contagious diseases. no millionaire need fear that he is pau perizing his fellow citizens. And as for those who are more directly interested the afflicted ones themselves-they are as little likely to be made morally dependent by aid in restoring them to health as are the thousands of people who have their reading matter fur nished free by Carnegie.
Arizona republican., 1903-01-06

ities have shown commendable prompt ness in establishing quarantine lines against Mazatlan, but there is little to reassure the American public when it is remembered that the Mexican soldiers and rural police constitute very weak instruments wherewith to control the plague-both intelligence and energy are lacking. No matter how energetic the chief authorities may be. they will be handicapped by irremediable defects in their subordinates. It cannot be ex pected that the petty officials and the local cOnstabulary will have a proper appreciation of the gravity of the sit uation, or that they will show the requisite firmness in dealing with their friends who attempt to break through the quarantine lines. Moreover. the difficulties in the way of preventing the panic c-stricken people of Mazatlan from escaping in small boats at night, are obvious. As we have pointed out here tOfore, it will be remarkable if the plague does not appear at other Mex ican ports, and among them Guaymas. Extreme vigilance should be exercised by the authorities of Arizona and Cali fornia and by the federal authorities in seeing that the pestilence is not intro duccd across the border.
 One of the most unpleasant features of the whole situation is the fact that when the bubonic plague has once gained a foothold anywhere it is eX- tremely difficult to stamp it out. Among it in check by employing all the re- sources of modern sanitation, but it continues to appear from time to time with a persistency which is baffling Herein lies the greatest danger from the plague in Mexico. At first there will be energy and vigilance in dealing with the trouble, but sooner or later energy and vigilance will be succeeded by incidence and carelessness-racial characteristics will control, in the end and the oriental fatalism which forms one of the Spanish characteristics will lead the Mexicans to accept the plague as a necessary evil which must be borne, and it may not be eradIcated in years. Since it appeared in India sev- eral years ago, the pestilence has not been completely stamped out at a single place where it has made ravages of any extent, and sanitary conditions in some of the rural towns of Mexico are not greatly superior to the situation in India.
 For these reasons the American au- thOrities must make up their minds to q prolonged and alert watch of the iE- ternatiOnal boundary line and the Mexican coast.
 However, nervous people should re- member that if due precautions are taken the plague cannot enter the United States. and in any event Ameri- cans have little to fear from it. It's greatest menace is to the business re- lations existing between Mexico and this country.
Arizona republican., 1903-01-06
Municipal Corruption.

McClure's Magazine is doing a public service in exposing in detail the official corruption which exists in some of the cities The word some is used be- cause it is not reasonable to expect the magazine to give the situation in each of our great cities, but there is only too much reason to believe that there is no great amount of difference between the municipalities which are being shown up and those which have not as yet been overtaken by q wave of re- form. The leading article in the Janu- ary number of the magazine is devoted to "The Shame of Minneapolis" and the writer, MT. Lincoln Steffens, tells of the fall, rescue and redemption" of the metropolis of the northwest in a style which is thoroughly interesting. The newspapers during the past year have published the news of official cor ruption in Minneapolis, and have told of the arrest and trial of the chief off cials of the city. but it is only when the facts are brought out In single article that one appreciates the extent 10 which Minneapolis was made helpless victim in the hands of a coterie of political thugs. The thieves in high places in St Louis who are being sent to the penitentiary by fear less Joseph Folk, prosecuting attorney, never became as bold as their brethren in Minneapolis.
 The story of the rise and fall Of Doe Ames, mayor of Minneapolis. would be regarded as incredible if told as a piece of fiction.
 "Skilful as a surgeon, devoted as a physician" we are told, and as a man kindly. he was the best loved man in the community. He was especially good to the poor. Anybody could sum mon Doe Ames at any hour at any distance. He went, and not only gave his professional services, but sympathy. and often charity. So there was basis for his good fellowship There always is. These good fellows are not frauds not in the beginning. Ames was sunshine not to the sick and destitute only. To the vicious and depraved he was also q comfort. If a man was a hard drinker, the good doctor cheered
Arizona republican., 1903-01-06
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