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Newport daily independent., 1906-01-09
Dr. F. C. Smith.

Doctor F. G. Smith, we are pleased to announce, as a candi- date for reelection to the office of county treasurer. He has made a good official and should receive the endorsement of a second term. Moreover, the genial doctor made a reputation as a campaigner and stump speaker that is not very inviting to any opponent.
 He has given the duties of his office close attention and proven his qualifications to efficiently administer the office.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-09
Jug Has Rght-of-W Way.

Paper shipped from Little Rock on the 18th of December is hung up somewhere and in con- sequence, says the Yellville Re- publican, we are forced to print half sheet. All the ter ritory traversed by the White River railroad from Newport to the Missouri line is dry" and the jug traffic has been so heavy
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-09
NEGRO TRUE TO FRIEND.
Dying Man Refused to TeIl Who Shot Him Because lie Knew the Shot
 Was Accidental.

Little Rock, Jan. 8.-Frank Conway, a negro employe at Wm. Heibach's saloon at Sev- enth and Ringo streets, acciden- tally shot Albert Stratford, a negro several weeks ago, as a result of which Stratford died Friday night at the home of his brother-in-law, 1516 High street. The identity of the person who fired the fatal shot was not known until Conway told the story at the coroner's inquest Saturday evening.
 He said that he had made no effort to conceal the fact that he had accidently shot Stratford, and called to see him when he heard that he was dying.
 The fatal shot was fired from an old muzzle-loading musket, and it is said to have been pure ly an accident, which was the finding of the jury.
 Stratford steadfastly refused even in the face of approaching death, to reveal the name of the man who shot him, saying that he desired to shield his friend, who did not do the deed inten- tionally.
 Conway was not arrested.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-09
IN SOCIETY,".
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BRIDGE WHIST.

A party of congenial friends spent the af .ernoon with Mrs. R. M. Johnson Monday afternoon, and enjoyed bridge whist for two hours. The afternoon was spent most pleasantly, as these overs of whist meet often in each others homes. Those pre- sent on this occasion were Mes danes o. D. Watson, Gus Mar tin, w. A. Billingsley, T. J.. Gregg, B. w. Stainback, B. B. Bond, Misses Lotta Thompson and Stephanie Pagan.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-09
Little Rock Girl Breaks the Record.

The following is taken from a Washington, D. C., paper:
 Miss Florence B. Alexander, a typewriter and stenographer in the United States Patent Office, copied 32,OO0 words on Wednesday on a typewriting ma chine in filling an order for a certified copy of the file wrap per and contents, thus breaking the worlds record for rapid typewriting.
 Previous to Miss Alexander's accomplishment the record was held by Miss Laura Hopkins, of the same office, who copied 30,- GOO words in a single official day of seven and a half hours.
 Tt is stated that the Patent Office has some of the speediest tS peWrlters Tn the departmental service or in the world. With such efficient operators the bus mess of the office is properlp maintained, and an examination of the work of these typewriters shows that they not only excel in rapidity, but also in accuracy. The daily average of words cop jed by these experts is 15,O00."
 Miss Alexander is we'll known in Little Rock where she resided until only a few years, ago. She, in company with two other sis ters, removed to the national capital about four years ago, and all are now employed in the gov- ernment offices.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-09
The Great Change.

It was only the other day that the boom of French cannon ech- oed throughout the length and breadth of Europe. The En- peror Napoleon dictated fashion for the world, and the splendor of his establishment outrivaled civilization.
 And now?
 On February IS, President Loubet will go out of office, glad ly, willingly, quietly, and retire to-where?
 To simple Paris flat. And when the door is closed and the world is outside, he will sit by the fire, rest his weary bones, and forget the fret and tumult of life. He will ask little but rest from the turbulent world. But what a contrast!
 The world still worships and reveres an emperor, who has long since turned to dust in his coffin.
 It says "vale" to a president and all but forgets him.
 It is all right. It is the grow ing equality of things. It is the day of the plain people. Once a king stood out from the people, like a giant among pigmies. Now the world is full of men equipped to rule and birth is not a handicap.
 Today the peasant of yester- day governs a province, and there s no higher title than that of good citizen.
 And while Loubet, of France. who has served his country fifty years, sits by the fire and mods over his pipe, the world may marvel over the rising tide of freedom and the recession of all that stands for personal gov ernment and monarchlal op- pression.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-09

that other freight probably had to be sidetracked at Newport. The kind of booze shipped into prohibition districts is very per- ishable, and it is safe to assert that in case of suit for delay of other goods in transit a jury could not be empaneled in any "dry' county that would not exculpate the railroad company from all blame in giving the right of way to the jug.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-09

ployed by a school board in this state, who has not a certificate either from the state or the county examiner. Yet the 1nde- pendent is informed that three teachers are holding such posi- tions in Jackson county.
 While the law does not pro- vide penalty. the duty of the school boards is clear. An ap- plicant should be required to show such a certificate before the directors enter into an illegal contract.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-09
RELIEF FUND SURPLUS.
Hot Springs Has Eight Thousand Dollars
 Left of Fund For Fire Sufferers.

Hot Springs, Jan. 8.-This af- ternoon a mass meeting of con- tributors to the fire sufferers relief fund, which was made up almost a year ago to alleviate the suffering of hundreds made homeless and penniless by the great fire of February 25, will be held to decide, if possible, what to do with a surplus of $8,00O, which has been found to remain unused.
 Several suggestions as to dis posing of the money will be considered, the most popular of which seems to be that it be prorated back to the donors as far as possible, and the remain der, for which claims cannot be established, be devoted to chari- ty.
 Other plans provide for the division of the whole sum among churches burned by the fire, and charitable institutions of the city.
 Much unfavorable comment has been aroused among citizens by the fact that the money was allowed to remain on hand with out a report having been made by the relief committee long be- fore this. It had been believed that perhaps $1, ,000 remained of the fund, but none had an idea that the surplus would amount to $8,000. The report of the committee was secured by agita- ton of the matter by the press.
 Chas. N. Rix, president of the Arkansas National Bank, was treasurer of the committee, and the money is said to have been on deposit in his bank.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-09
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

The partnership heretofore ex- isting under the name of South ern Land Company" wherein T. J. Copeland and H. E. L McCollum were partners, is this 3Oth day of December, A. D. 1905, dissolved by mutual con- sent.
 The business will be contin- ued under the same name, and at the same location. (room 4, Chastain Building) by H. E. l.. McCollum, who is authorized to collect all accounts due said firm, assumes all liabilities, and solicits a continuance of the lib- eral patronage of the public.
 T. J. COPELAND.
 H. E. L. MCCOLLUM
 Pursuant to the above notice, 1 have this day withdrawn from the Southern Land Co.,, and bespeak for my successor the same liberal share of the public patronage, which has heretofore been accorded the company. 12b14 T. J.COPELAND.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-09
Sixty-Seven Inches of Rain.

Fayetteville. Jan. 8.-The re- cord at the state experimental station shows that 67 inches of rain fell in this section during the past year. The coldest day was, February 18th, When the thermometer registered IS de- grees below zero, and the hot test day was on August 24th, when the murcury stood 95.5 degrees above zero. The mean average temperature was 56 de- grees above.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-09

The greatest sale ever held in Newport is now go- ing on. Wolff Goldman Mercantile Go. 12w-btf
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-09
You Can Always
 TelI a Benjamin
 Suit or OverCOdt

INDIVIDUALITY in design IS \ feature of Benjamin garments. There is, too, an Tn describable something about them that all tailors aspire to and nearly all fail in accomplish ment. If you'll take a little time we want to show and eX- plain to you all those details that go to make Benjamin" Suits the best.
 Possibly the matter of cost is of small moment to you, but, if you can save half and be better dressed, it's worth while, isn't it? That's what the difference is between buying Benjamin. clothes and going to the tailor. 'Tis Now Overcoat Weather.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-29
TO AVOID DISCRIMINATION
New York Produce Exchange Com
mIttee Discusses Flour Storage

BY Associated Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 2s-The flour mill
committee Of the produce exchange
has received a letter from the trunk
line roads requesting a meeting to dis
cuss a reduction in the time Of free
storage of flour on their docks in this
port from twenty to ten days for the
domestic trade and from sixty to ten
days for export, and to raise the rate
per car from S4 for ten days storage
to 81 per day
This is made necessary, the railroads
claim, under the Hepburn law, which
goes i'm force today.
Under the present arrangement with
the produce exchange the present rules
will be a discrimination against other
ports, which is forbidden and in favor
of New York.
The members of the flour trade were
much excited over this action and the
flour trade committee is to visit Wash
ington and lay the proposition before
the secretary Of commerce and labor
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-29
TO TAP THE IMPERIAL VALLEY
Larabee, Formerly Of Los Angeles,
Promotes New Road
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 2S.-Investigation
of a proposition to construct railroad
from San Diego along the line of the
old Richards survey through Imperial
Valley to Yuma has been started by
w. d. Larabee, who was formerly with
the Los Angeles-Pacific railway.
Mr.. Larabee is supposed to he backed
by Portland, Ore, capital, although he
declines to discuss the matter.
The line in contemplation would be
standard gauge and would tap one of
the richest districts in Southern Cali
fornia 1t would give Imperial Valley
a direct outlet to San Diego and place
this city and the big districts in the
eastern part of the country in close
touch with each other.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-29
THIS CITY DRINKS BEER
corninss Aqueous Supply So Bad 1t Is
Blamed for Paralysis, Gall
Stones and Appendicitis
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
CORNING, Aug. 2S.-"This city's
water supply is responsible for much
of the appendicitis prevalent here" is
the declaration of DIR. F. S. Swain, Sec
retary of the City Medical society.
MOT only does it cause appendicitis,
but is also responsible for nine-tenths
of the paralysis cases, as well as heart
disease and gall stones"
This Indictment of the drinking water
of Corning is concurred in by other
members of the medical association. 1t
is explained that the percentage of
alkali in the water is high, and when it
gets into the human system causes a
scaly formation in the arteries. The
scale becomes brittle, breaks off. and
the little particles are carried in the
blood to the brain, causing paralysis;
to the liver causing gall stones, and to
the appendix.
A water commission will spend sew
eral hundred thousand dollars, if neces-
sary, on a new supply. Temperance
advocates are aghast at the way beer
drinking has increased for "hygienic"
reasons.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-29
FLOATS ASHORE IN Go-CART
Oar Wedged by Accident in Wheel
Supports Tiny Craft That Alone
Survives
Special to The Herald.


PORTSMOUTH, r. l., Aug. 2S.-By
the capsizing of a small sailing skiff
today Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Anthony
and their daughter, aged 4, were
drowned. while their baby, year old,
VISA saved.
The baby was strapped in a small GO
cart, and an oar had been placed, prob
ably by accident, so it was wedged
between the axles and the body of the
carriage. When the boat capsized the
baby fioated securely in its go-cart,
sustained by the oar. and drifted over
to the Prudence lighthouse ledge. The
lighthouse keeper and his wife rescued
the child, apparently uninjured by the
Wetting.
A dory was put out from the light
house when the skiff was seen to cap
size ond the body of the 4-year-old girl
was brought ashore. 1t was while an
attempt was being made to resuscitate
this child that the baby was noticed
floating to the rocks. The bodies of the
parents were not recovered.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-29
RUN TO SEE DEATH STRUGGLE
Saloon Keeper Commits Suicide Be-
cause His Daughter Died--Women
Stand on Ash Barrels
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2S,-Frank Schus-
ter, a saloon keeper of 1888 Broad street,
Newark, N. j., who shot himself on the
sidewalk on Thirty fifth street, near
Broadway, last evening, died in the
New York hospital, to which place he
was removed. at o'clock this morning.
When received at the hospital Schuster
said that his daughter had committed
suicide recently and that he did not
care to live. He shot himself in the
right ear.
The firing of the shot created great
excitement. In the vicinity Of the place
where Schuster sent the bullet into his
head are several hotels and cafes. The
dining rooms were filled with patrons
and when the report of the revolver
was heard all rushed to the street and
surrounded the dying man. Women, in
their curiosity to witness the death
struggle of the man, stood on ash bar
rels to peer over the heads and should
ers of the crowd that quickly gathered.
Stoops of houses along Thirty fifth
street were also crowded with men and
women anxious to satisfy their GU
riosity.
An ambulance from the New York
hospital finally arrived and took
Schuster away.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-29
TIE HEART TO A TRoUT'S Jaw
Pretty Lass Beset by Sutors Weds
One Who Catches the Fish
She Marked

MISSANABIE, Ont, Aug. 2S.-A
pretty lass of eighteen, living in a
cabin with her father some miles west
of North Point, James Lake, took a
novel means to decide among three
suitors, who were ardently presenting
suits for her hand and heart. James
was tall, strong and bewhiskered, but
possessed an unruly temper. John was
handsome, lazy and agreeable, and
Peter possessed many admirable quail
ties, but shot so poorly that Michael
Peaureau the father of the lass, de-
clared he would never allow his daugh-
ter to wed him.
Thus matters stood a year ago, the
father set against Peter and the girl
vacllating from the one to the other,
while all three paid assiduous court, to
the interference of their trapping and
other pursuits. Finally the father COM
manded that his daughter make selec-
ton.
Choose one or the other, even Peter
if you must, but have it settled. Soon
they will call you a coquette, and no
daughter of mine shall play man as
man plays trout before he kills him."
"I will choose, father" the lass re-
Piled but / must do it my own way"
Summoning the lovers before her, she
led them to a little pond half a mile
from the cabin and, casting in, soon
landed a handsome speckled trout
weighing half a pound. Instead of TAX
ing it from the hook she deftly pulled
the barb through the jaw, knotted the
tough smell, cut the hook and liberated
the fish.
There" she said as the trout slipped
into the water and disappeared with a
frightened slap of it's broad tail. "you
have seen me tie a bit of smell through
the jaws of the fish. It will remain
there as long as it lives and will neither
injure it nor interfere with its feeding
The one who brings me that trout
taken in fair fight with hook and line
will marry that day"
But" gasped James, irritably, "he
will not touch a hook for a year and
maybe longer
"True," replied the girl, "but L am
satisfied for do not wish to wed this
summer"
How the three fished day and night,
using every known alluring kind of
bait, and how they examined the jaws
OF every trout they caught is an old
story at North Point and among the
trappers. But the season went by
without result and in the winter they
dreamed and courted and dreamed
again. None had dared use subterfuge
and tie smell upon a trout, for none
had seen by what manner of knot the
lass had bound he love promise.
This spring the fishing began and one
day when Peter felt an unusual tug
upon his line and saw a rrayed strand
in the mouth of trout he was draw
ing toward him he suddenly shook so
that he could hardly bring the fish to
bank. It was the love trout messen-
ger at last and with 1t still attached
to his line he dashed for the Peaureau
cabin.
"You shall have her, for she shall not
break her word, but you must learn to
shoot, or we will go to the poorhouse
when l am DID, said the father. II
will do my best TO teach YOU"
So they were married a few DAYS ago
by the settlement priest, and Peter is
now spending his honeymoon back of a
rifle and in front of a target.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-29
Railroad Notes

The Rock Island is rapidly equpping
its main lines from Omaha to Chicago
with the block system. The system was
completed on the Iowa division and put
in condition August 1 and the work is
now being pushed on other portions of
that system.
The traffic on the Lake Shore electric
railway is growing at such rapid rate
that the boadr has decided to double
track the whole road between Cleveland
and Toledo. The work will be COM
menced at once and double tracking
pushed until completed The cost of
the work will be 100000 and it will
take one year to build it.
Fourteen carloads of S0-pound steel
rails were unloaded for the Mississippi
Central railroad, now in course of con-
struction between Natchez and Scran-
ton, making new outlet for the Mis-
souri, Pacific system to the gulf coast.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-29
Ticket Agents to Yellowstone

F. S. Montgomery, agent of the Big
Four line at Vincennes, Ind, is presi-
dent of the international Association of
Ticket Agents and has sent out an itin-
erary of the thirteenth convention of
this body of railroad men, to be held at
Milwaukee September to g. Follow
ing this tour of Yellowstone park ex-
tending from September to the 18th.
Special Pullman trains will be run via
the Chicago & Northwestern, the Mil
waukee & st. Paul and the Northern
Pacific railway, returning by the Burl-
ington. The convention will be un-
usually interesting, as a number of
speakers of note have been engaged for
this occasion.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-29
RAILROADS WILL
LAY NO OBSTACLES
NEW HEPBURN FREIGHT LAW
IS NOW EFFECTIVE
Five Commissioners Present at Inl-
tIal Hearing in Washington.
New Imperial Valley Line.
General News
Rv AssocIated Press.

Nv Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-Five mem
hers of the interstate commerce COM
mission, Chairman Knapp and com,
missoners Clark, Clements, Cockrell
and Lane were present today at the
tnit,al hearing under the new railroad
freight law.
The law recently enacted by con-
gress became effective today.
Already. in partial compliance with
the law. tons OF tariff rate schedules
have been filed with the commissioners
by the various railroads and common
carrier lines of the country and addl-
tional tariffs are being received py
the commission in every mall.
The commissioners conducted near
ing today, at which the trunk lines,
New England and Central railroads
were heard through their representa-
tives as to some phases of the opera
tion Of the new rate law.
Every speaker representing the rail-
roads informed the commission That
the railroads of the country had no
disposition to lay obstacles in the way
of the enforcement Of the act.
Commissioner e. e. Clark, who re-
Gently was appointed by the president
hs member of the commission under
the new law, arrived in washington to-
day. He did not appear at the morn
ing hearing of the commission but
after the intermission of the hearing
for luncheon he sat with the commits
sion for brief time. He took the oaln
of Office about two weeks ago at his
home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. After
the meeting he was in conference with
other members of the commission in
the office of Chairman Knapp.
1t is not known at the offices of the
commission whether Commissioner
Harlan has taken the oath of office.
He is not expected in Washington for
several dayS
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-29
NO MORE MILK PUNCH

CHICAGO, Aug. 2S.-As a result of
the action of Business Agent stephen
Sumner of the Milk Wagon Drivers
union, i'm issuing summary edict
against drinking in saloons by members
of his union the saloon men have re-
milk on tap.
There are 5000 saloons in Chicago,
using in the aggregate 10000 gallons of
milk 1t is said that they consume
about two-thirds of the milk that comes
into Chicago-sweet milk and butter
milk.
Sumner has also started a war on
the use of tobacco.
when the labor unions have ban
ished alcohol and nicotine from their
midst" he says, "the unions will boss
the nation, win regenerate society and
will usher in the millennium of peace
and good will on earth"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-29
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