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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

Prof Langley is quoted as having said that with
$4,000 he could fly to Canada That feat has al
ready been performed by defaulting cashiers for q
much smaller sum.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

Colonel YOunghusband reports that be viii have
no difficulty in teaching the Tibetans the beauties
Of civilization if his ammunition holds out
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

A man has been sent to the penitentiary in Min
nesota for stealing locomotive, while in New York
men steal whole railroads with impunity.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

The savage Flipinos at St Louis look upon the
bright new so bills as ornaments The sayages are
not alone in the possession Of that kind Of artistic
taste.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

Those who are criticising congress should remem-
Der that there is one thing the credit of that body
1t always adjourns.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

The Russians are praying for spring, while the
Japs are hoping for fall in the Port Arthur district
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

The japanese are courteous and eonsiderate na-
ton. But this fact does not prevent them from
hoping for few accidents on the Siberian railway.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

Grover Cleveland must feel that the present stu
alton Of the democratic party is enough to tempt any
man to quit work and 90 fishing
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

If the law of supply and demand holds good in
war times Russia will not lose many more battle
ships.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

The political crop is one that is never blghted
by unfavorable seasons
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

Japan knows where to get quick results for her
money, having ordered Is steel bridges from an
American firm.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

Russian would be more impressive if she were to
shoot Japs and talk less of killing correspond
ents
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

Senator Aldrich is said to be the best golf player
in congress The poker championship is still in dis
pute.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-17

The japanese are again bombarding Port Arthur.
How refreshingl
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30
DOCTOR BROWN
 DEAD AT HELENA.
Pneumonia Takes Brilliant Meth odisr Minister Well Known
 in Newport.

Helena, Dec. 25. pr. Julien c. Brown of Hot Springs, for merly pastor of the Methodist church of this city, died this afternoon at the home of his wife's mother here.
 Dr. and Mrs. Brown came to Helena a few weeks ago on a visit and the doctor was taken i'll with pneumonia. His daugh- ter, Miss Katie Brown, was sum- moned to his bedside, and his sister, Mrs. s. M. Bains of Well don arrived Friday.
 Dr. Brown was one of the foremost ministers of his church in the state and his fame as a pulpit orator was widespread.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30
A STINTED BOY.

happened in where one of my neighbors was filling a Xmas box to send to their boy, who is in school at Fayetteville, and this was all of the scant bill of fare. Read it and then ask your self if love ever reasons:
 One ham, nicely prepared, big turkey, potted beef, potted ham, salmon, parsley, pickles, chow chow, deviled eggs, tomato-mus- tard, olives, cranberry sauce, home made sausage, doughnuts, caramel cake, cheese cake, choc- olate cake, cocoanut cake, fresh butter, fruit cake, mince pie. cocoanut pie, oranges, tooth- picks, flowers from home, sara toga chips, and last, but just as good, nice check from the father, MT. W: W. Campbell.
 Well, son, I wish you happy Xmas and good digestion, but fear the latter is out of the ques- tion. MRS. M. J. LUCAS.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30
MASQUERADE PARTY.

Miss Lura Hawk and MT. Watson Hawk were the host Monday evening at the home of their parents, Mir. and Mrs. F. J. Hawk, when they enter tained number of their friends with masquerade party.
 The very inclement weather prevented many from attending, but those present had a most en- joyable time.
 Christmas decorations were in all the rooms, and Christmas merriment reigned supreme.
 Fruits and candies were served by the hostess, which concluded the pleasant evening" entertain ment.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30
IN SOCIETY,".
SIX O'CLOCK DINNER.

Mr. and Mrs. Claude Erwin entertained their bridal party with a six o'clock dinner Monday evening at their handsome home on Main street.
 The dining room was beautiful with it's Christmas greenery and cut flowers. An elaborate course dinner was faultlessly served and the evening delightfully."- spent.
 Those present were Misses Dove Erwin, Hester Phillips, Messrs. Joe Bevens, Jno. w. Stayton, Ira Erwin, Alcorn Fer guson.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30

fore the inquest jury that he had examined the body of Mrs. Maul- din and believed that she had been outraged. He found that one bullet, entering the back of the head, had gone through and broken the chin bone. Another bullet had struck the throat to the right of the Adams apple, taking downward course into the right lung, striking and breaking the eighth rib and lodg- ing in the upper part of the pleural cavity. The right part of the head, ear and face were badly burned, caused doubtless from the bonnet being set afre in the close proximity of the pistol when discharged. Both bullets weighed about eight grains and were from a 45 Colts U. M. c.
 ADJOURNED TO DEC. 29TH.
 The taking of evidence before the inquest was not concluded Monday afternoon, and Esquire Smith adjourned the hearing un- til Thursday, Dec. 18th, before which time the officers hope to recover the body of Mrs. Kinkan- non and make arrests which may clear the mystery.
 The remains of Mrs. Mauldin were buried Monday morning in the potter's field.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30
CHARGED WITH
 BLACKMAIL ATTEMPT,
Threatened Exposure os School Buildings Contract Gets Sub-
 Contractor Into Trouble.

Texarkana, Dec. 21. William E. Sheldon, a local brickmason and contractor, was, arrested and lodged in jail today on a warrant issued out of the United States district court, charging him with attempted blackmail and using the United States mails for frau dulent purposes. The warrant was issued on the affidavit of E. N. Pratt, a widely known build- ing contractor of Fort Worth.
 Last summer Pratt built a $30, : GOO brick school house for the school board on the Arkansas side of town, and Sheldon was a foreman or sub-contractor under him.
 A short time ago Pratt alleges he received a letter through the mails from Sheldon threatening to tell the school board that the walls of the school building were hollow unless Pratt should send him at once the sum of SIPS.
 Instead of sending the money Pratt turned the letter over to the federal authorities, with the result stated.
 The arrest has created a deci- ded local sensation and the school board will make a thor ough investigation of Sheldon's charges, which he has boldly re- iterated since he has been held in jail.
 Pratt is expected to reach here from Fort Worth by tomorrow morning.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30
ERNEST THEODORE
 OFFERS CONGRATULATIONS
Newport, Ark. .Dea. .26. ,O4.

Newport, Ark. ,Dee.26, 'o4, To the Independent:
 Please accept my thanks for the pretty ring you so kindly sent me. I think it was so very nice of you to remember all the babies in the contest, even if we couldn't all be winners. I ran my best, but, you see, Pm so fat I fell behind and couldn't help myself. My congratulations to the successful candidates and best wishes for a happy new year to the Independent.
 Yours truly,
 ERNEST THEODORE PHILLIPS.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30

Miss Mary Hencke, who is at- tending school at Hot Springs ar rived Friday for a few days visit to her father, Jno. c. Hencke.
 Lon Rutherford and wife of Greenville, Tex, were in the city Friday morning, going to Bates vile to spend Christmas with relatives.
 David Bowen, now principal of the Heber school, and a success ful educator, came over Thurs day night for the holidays.
 Boswell Umsted arrived from Grayville, H., Thursday night to spend the holidays with Rev. M. B. Umsted and family.
 Harmon Younger and Miss Jetta Ross, who have been at tending Ouachita college at Ark adelphia, arrived home early Fri day morning.
 Will Germany and wife of Batesville passed through New port Thursday night going to the southern part of the state to spend Christmas.
 Dr. F. G. Smith and wife left Friday afternoon for Marianna to spend the holidays with their daughter, Mrs. J. E. Mann.
 Miss Dove Erwin, assistant el- ocution teacher at Galloway Col lege, came home Thursday night to spend the Christmas holidays.
 Miss Frances Jackson, teacher of ancient languages at Galloway College, was a passenger on No. 4 Friday on her way home to Paragould.
 Rev. Sydney Babcock of For rest city, passed through New port Thursday night with his two sisters, Misses Mary and Hulda. Babcock, who are at Galloway college this year, on their way to Jonesboro to spend the Christ mas holidays with their mother, Mrs. s. H. Babcock.
 Miss Kirk Martin, librarian at Galloway College, was in the city Thursday night, the guest of Mrs. s. R. Phillips, on her way home to Batesville.
 W. T. and Frank Dunn, popu- lar Newport young men, left Fri day afternoon over the Choctaw for their home in Greenvala. Miss, to spend Christmas. Mrs. J. o. Thomas and daugh- ter, Miss Helen, of Cotter were here Thursday night going to Little Rock to visit Mrs. Sid Walsh.
 Misses Jamie Irby, Ruth Wal lace, Willie Howell, Maude and Emma Drummond came up from Galloway college at Searcy Thurs day night to be at home for the next ten days.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30
rustee's Sale.

Notice is hereby given thatI, the undersigned Trustee, will, on
 TUESDAY, JANUARY 10TH. 1905, At 10 o'clock a. m.. at the east Third street door of the Court House, in the city of Newport, Arkansas, offer for sale at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, the following lands in Jackson County, Arkansas, to-wit:-
 The northeast quarter of Section Ten f10l Township Fourteen d4) North, Range Two (2l West of 9th D. m.
 This sale will be made by virtue of authority glven me in certain deed of trust executed by W. l. Rains. dated March 31st 1903 and of rec ord in Mortgage Record 36,'' at page 271. of the records of Jackson county, Arkansas. which was gwen to secure certain indebtedness therein mentioned. GUsTAyE JONES, Trustee. Given this December 18th, 1904.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30
Awful Crime Christmas Morning Almost in
 Limits of City.
COMMIT RAPE AND MURDER.
Body of One Woman is Found Horribly MutiIated and An other Supposed 10 Have Been Thrown Into White River.

The Christmas of 1904 is to be memorable for it's crimes. Under the mask of festivity the passions of brutes have broken forth and lamentation goes up over our whole land over the many shock ing outrages that have resulted from the excesses of celebration.
 Under the very walls of our own city a double murder, to hide if possible, a more fendish crime, has been committed in open day. light upon a public highway. Upon Christmas morn, when men's hearts are supposed to warm with best impulses, have these fiendish horrors stained the reputation of this community and brought consternation among a people who resent deeply the double crime of this dual tragedy and would bring speedy punish ment to it's perpetrators.
 The villainy of unknown men has claimed two victims, Mrs. Mauldin, a bride of but few weeks, whose mutilated body was found beneath the second bridge on the Jacksonport road, and her motherj Mrs. Rachel Kinkannon, wf f6se watery grave ..llsax ..lsasx set yet given up the mystery of her awful death.
 Christmas morning, about 8 o'clock, these two women, living across White river from this city, were rowad across to the New port bank by the son of the elder lady, bound upon mission of charity and love. The husband of the girl lay upon a sick bed in Jacksonport, suffering from pneumonia, and with a few small Christmas remembrances for they were poor the mother and daughter had set out to ad-
 
 minister to his illness and bring cheer unto his bedside.
 They walked upon the Choctaw track, as the recent rains had muddied the road, and were seen to pass the pearling camps at the Confederate park about 8:30 o'clock by J. w. Stafford and R. B. Nicholson. The former has also testified that he saw two men following, probably a quar- ter of a mile behind, who should have been able to catch up with the two women near the second bridge, where the crime oc- cured.
 James Thomas, a negro hack driver for Hobgood & Robinson, was driving a party to Jackson port that morning and testified before the inquest hearing that he passed the women and cor roiborates Stafford's story of two men following, one of whom he thought was white and the other a negro.
 Upon the return of the driver from his Jackfonport trip, be- meath the secend bridge above the park he discovered the body of the murdered woman, who proved to be Mrs. Mauldin, and he forthwith hastened to New port to report his story to the proper officers, who went imme- diately to he scene, and the story of the mystery is perhaps best told 1T the evidence brought out in the inquest hearing before Justice Guy Smith.
 MURDER INVESTIGATED.
 Sunday a jury was impanelled and early next morning, with Prosecuting Attorney Oldfeld present, the testimony of all who
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30
MUIR DER INVESTIGATED.

Sunday a jury was impanelled and early next morning, with Prosecuting Attorney Oldfeld present, the testimony of all who
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30
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I Mrs. Jean Diaz and little son left Saturday morning for Bates vile to spend Christmas.
 Mr. and Mrs. Claude Erwin have returned from a two days visit to relatives in Little Rock.
 Miss Genevieve Rutherford of Batesville spent the night in the city, the guest of Jno. W. Wal lace and family.
 Miss Ethel Annette left Satur- day for Little Rock to spend Christmas.
 Mrs. Dora Albright and sister went to Barren Fork Saturday to spend the Christmas holidays.
 Mrs. Maude Marshall arrived in the city Saturday morning to spend the Christmas holidays with relatives. Mrs. Ed Ponder of Walnut Ridge passed through Newport Friday. going to Batesville to spend Christmas with her father, M. E. Duffie. |
 Mrs. Rina Wishon, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. N. B. Wishon, at Little Rock, re- turned home Friday noon. Mrs. Hattie Brown and little niece, Ida Davidson, leave Sun- day for Mena, where they will visit relatives for 9 week.
 W. H. Pearson will leave Sun day for Pleasant Plains to visit a few days.
 Garland Hurt and Homer Blu ford returned home Friday after noon from Fayetteville to spend the Christmas season.
 Misses Linnie Sinquefield and Bulah Ard of Tupelo came Satur- day and will spend Christmas with their aunt, Mrs. Walter Campbell.
 Fred Suits of St. Louis has been in the city several days with old friends, and will make this city his home. He is a nephew of M. M. Stuckey. Misses Hilda Bailey, Irma Hooker and Annie Dutton ar rived home Friday afternoon over the Choctaw from Nashville, Tenn, where they are attending Buford college.
 Ralph Wolff came down from St. Louis Saturday morning to spend Christmas with his old Newport friends. J. P. Berman, formerly head of the dry goods department of the Wolff-Goldman Mercantile Company of this city, but now connected with the Drygoods- man, leading business journal Iof St. Louis, visited his many Newport friends Saturday on his way to Fort Smith to spend the holidays with his parents.
 Jesse Robinett of TupeIo was a Newport visitor Thursday night.
 Miss Esther Neill left Friday morning to visit her parents, Col. Bobt. Neill and family.
 Miss Alma Futrall left Friday noon for Marianna, where she will spend Christmas with her parents.
 Mrs. Emma Minor of New York city arrived Thursday noon for visit to her father, Dr. F. 1 c. Smith.
 S. R. Hinkle of Melbourne was here with his daughters Thursday night on their way home from school.
 Mrs. L. H. Wirthlin of Min turn and Miss Pearl Jones of Alicia were Christmas shoppers in Newport Friday.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30

could throw any light upon the tragedy was taken. Five men, J. c. Fields, two brothers and two other men from Marion county, who had camped the night previous to the murder near Jacksonport, were overtaken by Sheriff H. s. Simmons in In dependence county, for they had crossed the river at the Jackson port ferry, were soon dismissed as it became evident they were not the guilty parties, and only the fact that they were all heav- fly armed had led to their deten- ton.
 Sheriff Simmons testified that upon hearing of the murder from the negro hack driver he had rushed to the scene, where he found the body of the younger woman, not yet cold in death, and the bonnet about her head still smoldering. One white man and a negro were there, and the latter was sent to Newport for R. w. Bandy's blood hounds.
 He proceeded to an investiga- tion and found that the two wo- men, probably fearing to walk the railroad trestle, had quit the track near the bridge and cross ed over to the public road. When the bridge was reached the as- sault must have occurred, for the tracks of only the younger wo- man were apparent further. The mother must have been dragged down into the rayine and her daughter thought to escape in flight. About 100 yards north beyond the bridge, evidence of al struggle in the road could bel plainly seen, and there lay a mans cap, bearing stains of fresh blood. The imprint of al a body thrown to the earth was evident in the mud, and from here the tracks of the girl led toI the ravine between the railroad and public road bridges.
 She had evidently been run ming, judging from the long stride. and had plunged down. ward from the embankment without looking below. The mud showed how she had fallen head long and only a few feet away were the tracks of her pursuer who had alighted upon his feet in jumping. Here were appar- ent the first blood stains upon the ground, and just a few steps to the west were a cloak, and on 20 feet further, marked by al trail of blood, was the prostrate form of the murdered, ravished woman.
 The mother must have been beneath the bridge by another man, whose tracks led from thence to the edge of White river. There some be- lieved they could see the imprint of a woman's stocking, as she clung to the bank upon her knees, doubtless begging for her life, and the gradually deepening waters were sufficiently clear to add another awful chapter to this mystery and show the i'm press of some human form slip ping away from life and hope in- to an unknown grave. Others think that 9 boat may have been anchored there by means of which the brutal murderers es- capped trom the scene of their joint crimes. There are others, we'll informed, who think that the parties, a man and woman, who burglarized Parker's store early that morning, were caught displaying their stolen goods be- heath the bridge by these two women, whose murder was then committed to hide the lesser crime.
 IDENTITY OF TWO MEN
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30
CHRISTMAS MELEE.

Jim Brady, living on Bader's Ridge, struck another resident of that section Christmas eve while engaged in a drunken brawl, with jug, inficting 9 bad injury,
 Sheriff Simmons telephoned Constable Hardin of Breckin- ridge township to look into the the matter and make the arrest.
 Judge J. w. Phillips went to Little Rock Thursday on busi- ness,
Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30

q There is no specific for consumption. Fresh air, ex- ercise, nourishing food and Scott's Emulsion will come pretty near curing it, if there Is anything to build on. Mil- lions of people throughout the world are living and in good health on one lung.
 q From time immemorial the doctors prescribed cod liver oil for consumption. Of course the patient could not take 1t in its old form, hence 1t did very little good. They can take
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HEARsE NOT SEEN AT NIGHT
Undertakers Make it a Point to Have
the Vehicle in Before
Dark.

"NObody gives us fellows credit
for having a large bump Of sensi-
tiyeness," said an undertaken,
to a New York Times man,
"but the fact is, we go to a good
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For one thing, we try never to
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Gwen in the daytime a hearse
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Miss Jennie Grimes will go to Ken
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While firing a toy cannon Monday,
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in a sack Of powder Arthur had Just
touched off the cannon and without
thinking returned to the sack ;or
more powder with the lighted match
In his hand. The powder became
ignited and flashed in his face.
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