The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1904-04-08

Hon. Elihu Hoot, former seereta-
ry OF war, will likely be the next
republican nominee for governor of
New York. In the event this pro-
gramme Is carried out and he car
RES the state by big majority, he
will be formidable candidate of
his party for the presidency in 1908.
Richard Jenkins, a noted Ken
lucky feudist, was assassinated at
his home twenty miles from Pine
vile by unknown parties. For a
number of years jenkins had lived
quiet life, but up to ten years ago
he was most active with his Win
chester, having killed no less than
eight men.
Col. William F. Cody declines to
discuss the divorce suit which is now
being tried in the west, and will say
nothing regarding his wife's allega-
tons concerning his acquaintance
with women of the stage. at is a
private matter" says Col. Cody,
and will all be settled in court. 1t
concerns no one but myself
Sixteen more indictments have
been returned against prominent
citizens Of Oregon, charging them
with defrauding the government
out of stone and timber lands. 1t
IS alleged the accused are men of
wealth and employed homesteaders
10 enter the lands which was decided
to them after being proven up.
When, a little less than three
weeks hence, the Worlds Fair gates
swing open, practically all of the
constructive work will have been ac-
complshed and virtually all of the
exhibits will be in their places. Ev-
cry one of the great exhibition pal
aces IS completed except in the mat
ter of painting, and this will be
finished long before April 80.
John B. Alton and wife, aged
respectively G8 and II, years, COM
mitted suicide at their home in
st. Louis. The aged couple
after swallowing morphine and sat
urated their clothing with chloro-
form, turned on the gas in their
room and calmly lay down in bed.
Alton was formerly wealthy, but
reyerses had reduced him to ex-
IRENE poverty. il
Rev. DIR. Dewing, a worker among
the slum population of Chicago, ar
raigned on the charge of robbing
railroads by procuring mileage
books at the rates given ministers
and selling the same TO scalpers,
pleaded guilty, claiming that he re-
sorted to this method of raising
money to help the poor. As his
story was believed the railroad COM
panies he defrauded expressed salts
faction with small fine.
The secretary of the interior es-
Inmates the recent order of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, placing all Union
soldiers who have reached a certain
age limit on the pension list, will
increase the pension appropriation
81, 100000. There are supposed to
be living today about $4,000 ex-
Union soldiers of the civil war. OF
these are pensioned under the act Of
July II, 1862, known as the gener-
al law, about 265,000, and under
the act of June 81, 1890, about
$4,000, aggregating $4,000,
which, deducted from the whole
of survivors, leaves 1872, 900
who have not applied fog pensions.
A correspondent of the Globe
Democrat, speaking of the convic-
ton in federal court of Senator
Burton of using his influence in
favor of a fraudulent concern, says:
''The downfall of Senator Joseph B.
Burton removes froh official life
character which, in many of its
phases, defies analysis. Through
out his career in Kansas Burton
roamed with indiscretion and
"neighbored' with folly. From the
friendship with Burton