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The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1906-02-16
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Know anything about Arkansas
Possibly you may recall hearing
mention of Italy and the Congo
region and Jersey flats and few
other lands you will never see in
the flesh or the spirit; but the
question now awaiting reply is:
What do YOU know about Arkan
sasI" Hold on. You are expos
ing your ignorance the first dash
out of the box. The last syllable
of the name is neither sass" nor
'suss,n but must be pronounced
to rhyme with the sixth note in the
musical scale The state legisla-
ture says its All kan. sab, and if
you pronounced it differently It's Il
breach of statute. Butwhy should
Arkansas be IN closer touch with
the rest of the world!
Arkansas Is a trihe more easy Of
access to average mortals than
some of the other countries enum-
Grated or limited at IN the proceed
ing. paragraph The Iron Noun
tain system reaches the state and
runs through it and eriss.crosses
in every which way. Great state
for railroad building, anyway
Got started to string out cross ties
and laying rails long before the
civil war, and somehow she can't
stop. Built HI miles in 1901, 81
in 1902, 1872 In 1903 and 261 III
1901. Too early to give the fig
ures for last year, but twelve
months ago there were 1917 mites
in operation. Only two states IN
the south have more miles of rail
road, and there is not one that
gives its roads better local support
in the way of steady traffic.
You presume that every citiz n
is an Arkansas Traveller! Well
you've got another guess coming
Recent statistics show that Arkan
sas has within her borders go Dds
families, and of these 40, ISL own
their homes. Again, for these
265.23o families there are 259, goo
dweIlings-not flats, but whole
houses. Consequently, Arkansas
has only in the neighborhood Of
5000 men living with their wives
people or in some other man :
back kitchen.
There never was but one Arkan-
sas Traveller. He died long years
ago, but to this day his stay-a at
home, Woodworking neighbors
have not ceased to discuss and cuss
his peculiarilies.,
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1906-02-16

of romance; how about the real
facts in the case!
In 1904 Arkansas paid 1862
teachers the neat little sum of
81, 472, 625, Just to look after the
mental training of 33S, 542 pupils.
This gives you line on what the
kids we're doing when the nov
elists suspected them of being I'M
der the bed. Coming down to a
later date we fine that in the last
three months of 1905 there were
ninety-seven important industrial
enterprises established in the state,
ranging from cotton congresses
and gas works down to canning
factories and rice mills. Evident
~ the colonel" has got off the
fence and gone to work, with a
view of buying his tobacco. Per-
haps his experience as sang"
digger got him into the notion of
going deeper to see what he could
find, and the result Of his mining
operations in 1904 footed up ST.
100, 39l. The wonderfully rich
mining region on the upper White
river, lately traversed by one OF
those many branches of the Iron
Mountain system, has been re-
noWned for its sang" since the
days Of the earliest settlers. Lum-
bering is an older industry than
mining, down there, and so it is
natural that we should find several
of the colonies operating saw
mills and woodworking plants.
The census man. six years ago,
found 1899 such establishments,
representing an investment Of
some so 900, 900, and with an
annual product amounting to con
siderably more than that sum.
By doubling the figures all around
the present status of the business
would be pretty accurately reached,
for the world has awakened to the
fact that Arkansas has the greatest
visible supply of oak, gum and
cypress, to say nothing of her pine,
cedar and other woods that the
aforesaid world cannot very we'll
get along without.
Now, you can't well help being
edited by learning these facts,
even if you forget them the next
minute-as you probably will.
Statistics are not to be rememb~
cred in detail, but merely to inn
press upon your mind hazy idea
that certain things or certain re-
suits we're a whole lot bigger than
you origalIy imagined. People
can't get intimately acquainted
with Arkansas at long range-the
only way to properly accomplish
this is to cross the state boundary
at Moark and take leisureIy, OPP
enjoyed jaunt through the big
woods, wonderful mineral regions
and rich agricultural lands, with a.
casual glance at the prosperous
and growing cities along your
route. Well try to see you again.
when you come back to wind up
affairs preparatory to going To
Arkansas to stop, and will then De
pleased to give details where we
have been content for the present
to deal with generalities.
HeaIiuU GOSDeI
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1906-02-16

+. f. Allen has just opened d
nice stock of staple and fancy
groceries in his building on tbs
corner of Main and Front streets,
and extends to his friends cordial
invitation to call and see him
when in need of groceries of any
kind.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1906-02-16

ing Is, 1916, 10 acres, or trife
over 93 acres to the farm if YOU
care to strike an average. The
estimated value of these farms,
with movements aud buildings,
was S135, 1S2, 40. If land may be
valued by what 1t is capable of
producing, the figures Just given
are likely to misIead Let US see
what these Arkansas farms yielded
last year: Cotton 1904 05), S37,-
SO, 531; corn, $21,07s, 056; wheat,
81, lbs, 327; eats, 81, 639, 217; rye,
S23, 81; hay, 81, 254, 374; tobacco,
1912, S02. Over sixty-three and
one-third millions for the farmers
to devide-but wait minute. We
are forgetting l,040, It's worth of
potatoes, and the little sorghum
patches with their yield of S36s.-
sic, and the vegetables, represent
a value Of s., 635,343. We are
forgetting how the good wife hus-
tied around in the spring rains to
feed and coop the young chickens,
aud how we figured up receipts
fer poultry and eggs that fall and
found a total Of 81, sos, 143 -in
spite af all losses by hawks and
egg sucking hounds Mayb chick
ems and eggs can't be classed as
products OF the soil, but how about
the fruit crop Losing sight of
that, too, it amounted to a snug
little sum-$L9 GI, 625. Oh, yes,
Arkansas raises a sight of diff
ferent crops, and right smart"
Of every one of them. That's the
reason they needed railroads down
there and have got 5em.
Opie Read and a lot of other
writer's have spread the impression
that the sole end and purpose of
life in Arkansas is to sit on the
fence and watch for the passing of
some stranger with a generous
heart and Il plug of store terback-
er. > As matter of fact, every
body works down there, even to
the bees, as is evidenced by the
million and a half pounds of honey
produced last year; and it is an
easy guess that for every colony
of tame bees in the state there are
n hundred wild ones that statisti
clans never hear about. Turning
from domestic insects to domestic
animals, Arkansas possessed on
the 1st day of January, 1905, 253,-
40 horses, 15S, 800 mules, $50, S63
mich cows and 473, 654 head of
other cattle, to say nothing of up
wards of 100000 sheep and the
Lord only knows how many goats
and coon dogs. There was no use
trying to count the hogs; for a
larger part of them were in the
woods hustling for themselves and
getting fat as butter on acorns and
wild fruits in their proper seasons.
1t isn't fashionable to feed your
hogs in Arkansas, and when one
speaks of his possession of swine
it is only in approximate numb ers.
Ehe pigs are marked and ski
dooed into the thicket, and no one
bothers about them until it comes
time to restock the smokehouse
with nice, juicy hams and slabs of
side meat. This Is done in Arkan-
sas, mind you, where novelist de-
sribe the natives as eking out a
miserable existence by digging
ginseng and making moonshine
whisky; where we are told the
children wear buta single garment
of homespun and home woven
cotton, and hide behind the chin
ney and under the bed upon the
advent of strangers; where citi.
zen with q knnMledne of the "three
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-23
AT THE PACK-MULE CLAIM
By PhIIlip VerrlIl N1IcheIa

Copyright, 1906. by Joseph B. Bowles. )
 Four men. bound hand and foot, were standing beneath a truss of the rail way bridge, and above their heads four ropes came dangling down. each with moose at the end. A grimly silent throng of cowboys and miners hedged them in.
 One of the four. whose appeals and protests were of no avail, appeared to be the merest youth. He quaked with terror as the moose was deftly slipped about his neck.
 "oh, let me go-let me go!' he sobbed: I'm a girl-Im only a girl'
 The man addressed and all the men who had a grip on the end of the rope ready to pull at the signal. gaped with open mouths.
 Girl" said Joe Merrill. the leader. What are you doing here? How do you come with -his gang O. thieves% He took off her small felt hat. and saw that her short, curly hair was as black as velvet.
 The girl continued to cry convulsive- ly Merrill dropped her hat from nerveless fingers. His face became as
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caslon had left this stepbrother minus

oasion had left this stepbrother minus half an ear. , eocteA in his ingenious brain, He
 meant to possess the Drew ranch alone Eis father was dead; Mrs. Drew-Mar- shall was i'll; Bronson Drew was ir his mower. and Maggie-he was plan ming concerning the girl.
 m the late afternoon he composed note to Maggie Drew. urging that she come at once to render aid. This ne signed with the name of his prisoner and certain old-time pet names whicl he had heard frequently pronounced he employed to give his note genuine flavor.
 Then he walked rapidly up the ra- vine to a spring, where his horse was concealed in the willows ana rooe away to the north.
 Bronson Drew, half choked, cut by the ropes about his arms, famisning for water, was keenly alive to suner- ins. |. Now an odor stole to his senses; ii was faint and fleeting. Before he could catch it the air had diluted its essence. It came again-smoke! Something was burning!
 Suddenly a slender flame went lick ing upward in a corner. In the silence i a twig crackled crisply. Drew was numbed with horror. Tc be roasted alive-this was to be hii fate! He worked and wrenched at nii fastenings madly. Then he thought oi 1 trying to twist himself about. this tt snap the rope. He tried it; the col
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As a result of two very costly err the Memphis hassoin -ilnvQ Blusy--.n D TOTS by Hickman in the first inning the Memphis series went to the Egyp- ttans by score of to l.
 Ma1arky and Suggs pitched good game of ball, and with the exception Of the first inning Bahbs men were completely at the ,merey of Malarky. .,
 Oflly two more hits were made oil him after the first, one in the second and one in the eighth, The nit Tn the second was when Manush beat out a slow hit to Perry and in the ninth Charley Babb hit clean.
 Both pitchers had unusual cont,ol' Malarky giving only one base on oaiIs, smgTs seven. Of the four hits made off Suggs two of them were bunensa m the seventh inning when the Climb CTS got in their only run
 first inning and the Climbers only scored in the seventh. Memphis should have been retired in the first without a run and the game should have end- s1,mSsrs' ed SSs to but nothinK il dKidn9t. nn iAV
 In the last half of the first Thiei nit one just over Perry's head. Bapo punt ed and beat it out, both Of them az dToya s line fiy at Busch which the Kid held. Babb had started to third ana fhe Kid threw the ball to Hickman 10 make the double which would nave retired the side one being out alreadN sprinted from third in. Hickman, ln irving to stop him at the plate, threw wild fo MsAlees, Thiel and Babb SCOT ing. Then came that terrible French Pisss ending 1t with bunt to Malar-
 In the fourth inning Hausen reliev- cd McAlees.
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Almost immediately she raced about a curve. and felt that the wolves were near at hand. The light had increased. In second she saw the animals. standing at bay before a man, who was bound hand and foot
 "Hi' cried Maggie, instinctively. forgetting herself for the second.
 "Magg!e"' shouted the man, who had rubbed off the gag on the rocks.
 That second Maggie slipped to the ground, fell headlong, regained her feet and went running back along the trail She panted; her hat was gone; her knife was clutched wildly in her hand.
 The wolves-their voices were in her ears! She raced upon the scene as the brutes. recovered from the fright the horse and rider had compelled. came snarling and circling about their helr- less but desperate prey.
 HI Iii! lIi% cried the girl again. The cowardly beasts ran a rod 4.nd stood to gather courage. Her knife slipped quickly across the ropes-her brother was free-to defend, to protect, to fight.
 "Bronnv" she cried, and fainted in his arms
 Marshall. the hunted. rode like fiend that night, to escape his pursuers, but they caught him in the Pack-Mule ravine and strung him up to the near est tree
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REPORT OF CONSUL BoPp.
May Compel German Insurance Com
 panies to Pay up.

panies to Pay up.
 San Francisco, June 22.-Franz Bcpp, the German consul in this city, is about to file an official report with his gov ernment upon the insurance situation here. In regard to the position of the German companies involved. he is quoted as follows:
 There is no doubt that the German government has the right to control th actions of all the commercial compa- nies incorporated under the laws of Germany: and where it can be demon strated that any insurance company Is not acting honestly by its patrons, the government undoubtedly is empowered to bring it to reason.
 T am forwarding to the German government my of14ial reports upon conditions in San Francisco and upon the insurance situation. The govern ment will undoubtedly give its attep ton to the situation and will not per init any insurance company that Is able to meet it's obligation to eseane them"
 The German insurance companies do- ing business in this State are Aaehcn and Munich. Hamburg Bremen, North German of Hamburg. Prussian Nation al. Rhine and Moselle and Trans-Ats lantIc.
 The latter.it is said. has now ceased to write insurance in California,
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that passed over his neck now came against the bone of his jaw and chin. Enduring the pain of this, he exerted his utmost power. He lowered his head-the rope slipped across his jaw and nearly. tore away his ear as he scalp
 By this time the whole interior was lurid with the leap of the flames. A knot gave way. The rope was as good as broken. With great contor- ton Drew squirmed himself free. He
 rolled over, got on his knees, and jumped, with his feet tied together and his hands behind his back through the door,
 Five minutes later, the blaze had the | whole structure wrapped about in sinu- ous tentacles of red and yellow. The glow lighted the sides of the canon afar.
 Laboriously and painfully Drew went leaping up the hill This was a des- perate measure, when he, might have gone down the ravine; but having rec ognized the place, he knew the nearest way to the three essential things-wa- ter, a ledge of rock on which to scrapo his letters till he wore them in twain, and the town of Pizen. seven, good
 miles to the west.
 It was dark and early, the second morning after Maggie Drew's narrow escape, when a silent figure Rlided from the brush to the stable where
 Merrill" kept his horse. He led the animal forth. saddled him hurriedly
 and then proceeded to make him wet at a watering trough and to make him
 foam with soap. Next he took a piece
 of folded paper from his pocket and
 tied 1t to the stirrup.
 Leading the horse across the road
 beneath the windows of the Russell
 house, where Maggie Drew was stay ing, the inhumaa being cut tendon near the hoof in the right foreleg of
 the horse and thereby rendered him
 helpless The agonized creature gave shrill cry of pain.
 Evidently satisfied, the man-form glided again to the brush and disap-
 peared. At the second neigh of the helpless horse a window went up and
 Maggie Drew was looking forth. The
 pitiful horse-cry continued. Presently came a noise of shutting doors, and
 then the faces of the two Russell girls
 were also at the window
 T know that horse is in pain" said the voice of Maggie. She soon came
 running out half-clad and wrapped in
 a shawl. Her quick eyes rapidly took | in the situation. She knew the horse | could barely hobble. she thought he had come on a terrible chase. Then
 she found the paper at the stirrup. One of the chattering girls brought a light and read the note which Charlie
 Marshall had written at the Pack Mule | claim.
 Maggie made no sound when the end | was reached.
 She put on her boys clothes as if by | instinct. With the note in her shirt | she ran to the shed
 She saddled an astonished broncho
 and like a spirit of the wind he shot
 away al the top of his speed. The miles of sandy country seemed to slide to the rear beneath the bron- | cho's hoofs. He raced up the Free ] town canon, going like an engine A cry came floating down the gulch | then a series of yelps. She knew the voice of the timber wolf, when three or | more are banded together. and the sound gave her thrill of dread.
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TnIon SrInge Won.

Union Springs, June 22.-(Special. > Union Springs defeated Troy here to- day in a game of ball. The score was 15 to 2. Troy came near being shut out. but in the last inning played two runs were made on wild ball that was lost. This was during the first half of the eighth inning. after which the game was called by mutual consent. The fol- lowing is the lineup and record:
 The lineup:
 Union Springs-Weerns, S, pitcher; Leslie, H., catcher; Alexander. first base; Ely, NJ, second base; Farmer, third base; Parker, short stop; Weems. NJ
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Summary-Innings pitched. by New lin 5, by Quick 6, by Harley g. Hits, Earned runs, Little Rock o, Atlanta Two base hits, Smith. Jordan. Three base hit. Fox Sacrifice hit, Stinson Base on balls, off Newlin 1, off Harley 2. Hit by pitcher. Hewlin 1. First on errors Little Rock 1. Atlanta :. Left on bases, 2Altle Rock 5, Atlanta 5 Dou- ble plays, Johnson to Douglass, Drennen to Douglass, Johnson to Watt to Doug lass, Srozicr to Fox. Time, 1:30. Cm- pire, Ruddernam.
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right fioId; McMillan. center field: Les lie, D.. left field.
 Troy-Steger, pitcher; Cameron. catcher: Compton. W, first base; Bald Compton, O. short stop; Carroll. right Held. Goidthwaite. center field; Gold son. left field
 Score by innings
 Union Springs. .s10 530 2s--f5 Troy.,, 0o0 GOO 02-- 2
 Summary--Struck out, by Weems 8. by Steger 3. Hits, off Weems S. on Stager 9. Base on balls. of Steger g. Two-paso hits, M. weems and Parker.
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MIR. BUCKLEY
CUSHIONS FIRED AT THE UMPIRE BY SPECTATORS.
ehrevep0rt Loses To Birmingham By punrhiuce Errors With the Hits of fine Harons--Reagan Receives
 FamIfleaa Support.

' chrnvar,orf I,a June I2-BlfmlhS- haTa took toSays game by punching Ssts with inc locals errors. Fritz out. pitched Reagan but the latted secnaed faultless support. Buckley Who naIfea If veith cushions by the spectators at the s.cnel,Ssior of the game. Bernstein, s focal man, who was yesterday appoiinitt- .sd hv President Kavanaugh, did credit sl,le work on balls and strikes. Score:
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Americnn Leanue.

Washington, June 22.-Patten easily outpitched Orth and was given per feet support, Washington defeating New York.
 Washington .... o01 100 cox ? g 0 New York ..... .001 900 000-- 2
 Batteries: Patten and Heydon; orth and Kleinow. Time, 1:45 Umpire. OLoughlin
 Chicago, June 22.-Chicago shut out Detroit today White kept Detroit's hits well scattered.
 Chicago =. .010 040 COX } s 7 Detroit ... 1000 900 000-- o 3
 Batteries: White and Sullivan: Siv- CT and Payne. Time, l;3s. Umpires. Connolly and Evans. "*
 St. Louis. June 22.-Cleveland pound ed Smith hard and often and won St. Louis 200 900 oOo- 2 [ { Cleveland .203 100 006-13 If 0
 Batteries: Smith and Hickey; Bern hard, Hess and Clark. Time, 1:57. Um- I pire, Sheridan.
 Philadelphia. June 22.-Boston de- | feated the American League champions | today in hotly contested game of twelve innings.
 Boston .. 200 o2o 900 oo?-- IS l Philadelphia 900 oo1 0oS Ooo- 1S l | Coakley, wadde1l, Dyg ert, and Sohreck. Time, 2.55. Empires. Connor and l Hurst. +-.~..
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x+one out when winning run Scored.

afY---otoIen ndses' OdIEU, VT bert lansing. Sacrifice hits, Stratton, Beck. Double plays, Castro to Bohan- non, to Frary Struck out, by DuRan 2. by Breitenstein 5. Bases on balls. by Dugan 5. by Breitenstein 3. Hit by pitcher. Stratton Left on bases, New Orleans. 6; Nashville 4. First on er TOTS. New Orleans 1. Nashville 3. Time 1:4s Umpire, Jake Atz.
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summary-Home run, Nadeau. Stolen bases. Perry, Tniei. Struck out, by Ma larky 4. by Suggs 6. Passed ball, Mo- Aces. Sacrifice hits, Carey 2, Nadeau, Hurlourt Double play, Carel to Nich- ols to Carey Time. 1:S0. Umpire. Pfenninger.
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EGYPTIANS GOT FIRST ONE
 FROM MULLANEY'S CLIMBERS
Hickman's Error in First Inning Caused Loss of Contest for Montgomery--Th Score
 Was 3 to 1.

In the first of the seventh Mulianey beat out a hit McCann hit safe but was forced at second on Perrys hit tc Nichols. Mullaney going to tnlrd on to Manush, Malarky striking out.
 Nothing more was done by either side and the game ended three to one Tn favor of Mep phis.
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summary--Two base hits. Evans Gear. Walters Three >ase hit, King Sacrifice hits, Absteln, Moleswortn GAar. Vaughan Double plays, Graf1us fo Eess: AIcock to Vaughan; Moles- worth to Vaughan. Struck out, by Fritz 6: by Reagan '. Base on balls of Fritz. I; of Rea@an, 3: Wild pitch Reagan l. Left on bases, Shreceport 8. Birmingham 5. First on errors Shreveport, o; Birmingham, 9 Time f:40. Umpires. Bucklev and Bernstein
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ST YoYus CHASING MARKETS.

St Louis uJne 22.-The St. Louis grain market today ranged as follows: Juiy Ss% range 7sb to 7sE 9sO september sO& Qso%; range sos to Slh h' December S2h. JuIy isll bid; range @ hto 4s%. September 50 < c 50% bid; range So% a SON
 to 51h
 oats: July 3sA. .,, a.,, September s6% bid; range ssA to ssA.
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HARLEY EFFECTIVE
ATLANTA PLAYERS HIT PITCHER
 NEWLIN HARD,
Quick, Who Succeeded Him, Wns Pug zle to Visiting Batsmen, Allow ing But Three Hits in
 Six Iuniu-N

Little Rock, Ark, June 22.--Atlanta pounded out victory in the second and third innings today and Newlin's with drawai came too lato for the local team. Quick succeeded him and held the vis- itors to three hits after the third.
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AMERTCAN AssocIATIoN.

Southern League Atlanta at Little Rock. Montgomery at Memphis.
 Birmingham at Shreveport.
 Nashville at New Orleans. American League Cleveland at St Louis New York at Washington.
 Boston at Philadelphia.
 Detroit at Chicago. National League Brooklyn at Boston Philadelphia at New York.
 Chicago at Cincinnati. American Association Columbus at Louisville. Indianapolis at Toledo
 Minneapolis at Milwaukee.
 St. Paul at Kansas City. South AtIanfic-- Charleston at Macon. Augusta at Jacksonville
 Columbia at Savannah
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GAVE BUT TWO HITS
BREITENsTEIN IS STILL TO THE
 GOOD.
In Pitchers Battle the Former Rig League Star Beats DugHn-NO Regular Umpire Has Yet
 Appeared.

New Orleans. La. June 22.--In an interesting pitchers battle New Or leans defeated Nashville today by score ot to 1. Breitenstein allowed but two hits. No league umpire has as vet n1rf in an appearance. Score:
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Casino Matinee today, Children 10 cents, entities them to admission to Ca- sin0, free ride on Slide or Carousal and free cnr ticket returning to town.