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Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1906-09-19
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Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1906-09-19
To Land BUYERS.

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Newport daily independent., 1906-04-13
FIRE BUG GtTS PARDON.
William Expert of little Rock Will Not be Compelled to Serve PenitentlarY
 Sentence.

Little Rock, April l2. William Eppert, the self-confessed fire bug, who was responsible for a number of incendiary blazes in Little Rock Q few months ago,
 was sentenced to five and one half years in the state peniten- tiary and two years in the fed eral reform school today, but Gov. Davis tonight notified the officers that he would issue a pardon to Eppert in the state cases tomorrow morning and he will then be required to serve only the two years sentence in the federal reform school. Ep- pert was arraigned in the circuit court today to answer to two in" dictments. One charged him with burning a barn belonging to Judge R. ]. Lea and the other with burning 8 stable owned by Theo. Treadway. Eppert plead- ed guilty U a charge of arson in both cases. Judge Winfield of the second division passed sen- tence in the former case and fixed his punishment at two years in the penitentiary. In the other case Judge Lea sen- tenced Eppert to three and one half years 5n the penitentlary,
 In the meantime the federal grand jury returned an lndlct- ment against Eppert today, charging him with petit larceny in two counts. The indictment charged that he stole 70 cents at one time and 20 cents aC another from Grover BratCon. The case was in the federal court because of the fact that the money was stolen in the federal building, over which the federal govern ment has jurisdiction. Epper' entered a plea of guilty to potf counts. Judge Trieber sen tenced him to one year IT. the
 federal reform school at Wash ington, D. C., on each count.
Newport daily independent., 1906-04-13
4 Blind Deaf Mute Insane.

An unusual case is reported by
 the Conway Log Cabin-Deno-
 crat. Hezekia z. Hawkins,
 whose home is near Vilonia, was
 taken to Conway for examination and adjudged insane by the county court. Besides this in- firnnity MT. Hawkins is a deaf mute and is totally blind. An attack of meningitis when he was : years of age resulted in the loss of his hearing and the sight of one eye. Last Friday while cutting sprouts on his field he was struck in the eye having the power of sight, putting out that eye. The pain and intlam- nation from this was so great that his mind was affected anc he has since been raving. He was taken back to his home pending his admission to the asylum, but physicians believe that he is not likely to live long.
Newport daily independent., 1906-04-13
WORN FOR C0NVtN7i0N-
Two Nominations at least Ate t(s be Nade By Mot Springs
 State Convention.

L:crle Rock, April There will be plenty of businessfor the democratic state convention which will meet at Hot Springs, June ,, and it is quite probable that three days will be consumed in the meeting. There will oe at least two offices which must be settled by the convention, the candidates and their standing being as follows:
 For Agricultural Commissioner Guy B. Tucker, POS; John r. Logan, 100; B. F. Witt, 96; Ran som Gulley, 61;J. T. M. Holt, 47; necessary to a choice, 257. Railroad Commissioner, North western District Polk Fancher, 63, R. P. Allen, 57; J. H. Fry, II; George M. Heard, 10, Oscar Vim, 10. This nomination will be made by the delegates to the state convention from the seven teen counties composing the district.
 ;, There is also a prospect ot 2 contest in the matter of the cer. tifcation of the vote for United States senator. There will bt contesting delegations from Poin
 sett, Hampstead, Cross an'
 Mississippi counties and proba
 bly, others.
Newport daily independent., 1906-04-13
Burglar After legislator.

Senator T. c. lobe frustrated the plans of a burglar at Hope a few nights ago. Senator lobe was awakened by a noise in his room and upon leaping out of bed he began a lively chase with a white man who had evidently just begun operations. The bur- glar succeeded in slamming the front door in the senator's face and made good his escape. The only article stolen was one ot Mir. Jobe's house slippers, which the burglar grabbed as he left the room.
Newport daily independent., 1906-04-13

There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was sup poseG to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pro- nounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by CO., o;-5tantly failing to cure witt local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be q constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,, Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts direct /. ly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circu- lars and testimonials.
 Address: F. J. Cheney & Co.,. , Toledo, Ohio.
 Sold by druggists, 75c.
 Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Newport daily independent., 1906-04-13
RaiIfoad to Be S4 c.

Little Rock, April -z-W. !. Smith. an attorney o1 -t1s c.~,ll-, returned yesterday lr3n1 Harri- son and reported that ne sui of the bondholders o1 the S. 1lo@ls and North Arkansas Railroad for foreclosure on Ire line "as decided in favor ot the complain ants by United States District Judge John H. Rogers. Tie oe- cision was based on proof, and May % was fixed as the date of the sale, which will be helt3 at Harrison.
 At the sale the road will in all probability be bought in by a representative of the re0rgani- zation committee of the railroad company and it's purchase will mean the extension of the line at the western end from Selig- man, Mo-, to Joplin, Mo-, via. Neosho, and from the eastern end at Leslie, Ark, to either Helena, Ark, or Memphis Tenn, with a possible brancE line to Little Rock.
Newport daily independent., 1906-04-13
Gave Away Whiskey.

Marianna, April 12. The Lee county grand jury returned an indictment against l. N. Vale of Oak Forest township, Lee coun- ty, charging him with giving away whiskey on the day of the legalized primary, March 2S. It is understood that several others have been indicted for the same ofTense.
Newport daily independent., 1906-04-13
DIRECTORS DENY CHARGES.
Declare They Faithfully end Honestly Managed Affairs of DofuacC Ir-
 SuranCe Company.

Little Rock, April l2. In g response ot k. F, Wait and II. P. Edmondson 70 ne petition of Chas. Mckee, receiver. against the directors @1 t5e insolVent Security Fire Insurance Go, filed in chancery court Tuesday afternoon, reSpondents state that it is not true that the Security Fire IHouYance 70. has 3een damaged U the e,:te12@ U %59,- GOO by any n1isnanagemeAt, neglect OF care?ess,sess o'e he part of the respondents. ont these respondents sa3 ta&c hey have in all things -a.t5.2]ly, honestly anG d;1ig4ree.]g Gis ::.&rg- ed their duties in said c.2rDo@a- ton and have 6 al times acted with a view solely 10 ics 1@7s- IT, terests. It is nor trGe l.s,- ase respondents are 6::r2s.o. 3- any of tn cir property with he 11~9.-22tt to defeat judgment which nay be recovered herein. "a- E t true that they have a-.y ]~]t4n- tion of doing SO,
Newport daily independent., 1906-04-13
1a,i Pink 5asaa .,'d ' FoRT IS GROWING. An onNsttory Under Compilation VIII
 Nhow Newport's Population to N Be Over Five Thousand.

/ The canvassers' books for the city directory, now being com n;led under the direction of Ma iorD D. E. Castle and to be pub Iished bv the Independent, show | s04 names and there are prob ahlv 100 more to be added, m districts that could not be reached on account of. the high water.
 A total of 1700 names, means a population for Newport of ever 5000 figuring on the very con- servative basis of 3 people to every head of a family,
 While the canvass shows a large number of unmarried males and females, as well as many temporary residents ard would thus cut down the average per cent. usually taken in estimating population from directory sta tistics, we find on the other hand numerous entries o1 large families especially among the negro population.
 Newport thus shows all ln- crease of about 70 per cent in the six years following 1890, when her population was but 2s56, compared to l5571 in 1890.
Newport daily independent., 1906-04-13
Shadowed the Sheriff.

A difficulty arose Tuesday De- tween Allen Morris and Sheriff Jno. T. Logan which came near ending in a serious affair. The trouble started on the night of the Democratic primary when Morris "shadowed' Logan while on his way home.
 Morris claims that Logan had tywned on the combination at the vault where the Jonesboro roWn- ship ballots were kept. Logan said he diE it to keep Ferguson s friends from stealing the box as Logan carried the boz b. a hun dred majority over EeTg1son, Morris is a brother-ln-laW o1 Ferguson. He approached Logan Tuesday and said Logan had told a lie about him. This started 2 rough and tumble fight and 1T the fracus Logan pulled his pls' tol, but further trouble was pre- vented by County Judge Rains and Clerk Armstrong. Jones boro Tribune.
Newport daily independent., 1906-04-13

Everything fresh and good in the grocery line at F. D. Den nis.' Phone No. l61. -7d-tI
Newport daily independent., 1906-04-13
GOING TO MOVE :?

There are four things to consider The location of your new home The community in which yol intend to locate.
 How best to dispose of your olt property (if you be an owner).
 How best to secure your mon ey's worth" in the new home.
 Whether you are contemplating any one of the above you can Sc cure the most advantageous term' through
 THE SOUTHERN LAND CO.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08

An instance of the remarkable prices of land in the financial district is evil denccd by the amount, $1.S00.000. paid for the $500 square feet on which the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08
GOTHAM SEEKS L0ND0N'S TITLE
Hopes to Be World Metropolis Soon0ver Billion Nekels Paid for Transit Companies in 1so5Proment State Railroad Com missioner Talks on Regulaaon-New York's Treasure
 Street-Dove of Peace Roosts in Chinatown.

New York April s.--That New York will within comparatively few years outstrip London and become the larg- est city in the world is within the prediction of competent statisticians, and accordingly Father Knickeroocker has been batting himself on the back According to figures made public this week by the New York Federation or Churches, Gotham will catch up with London about 1920, when the popula- tion of the metropolis and its supurps, within radius of nineteen miles or the cording to these statistics, eighteen new inhabitants are added to the me- tropolis every hour. The growth of New York between 1890 and 1905 was 2.077.61O. For several days of last week immigrants poured into New York harbor from Europe at the ra.s of 5,0,0 day, and the majority 70 these remained in the metropolis to swell the population.
 Probably in no other city in tho world is there such congestion of pas sengers on the traction lines as Tn New York. This is particularly appar r. ent in the Borough of Manhattan, which is a long finger of land point ing down into New York bay. Every resident of Manhattan has to fight his way into the car that bears him down town to his business. and in the eve nine there is a similar struggle to get home. The Rapid Transit Commission. a self lf-perpetuating body of very re- snectable gentlemen who were appoint ed many years ago. for the purpose ot solving the transit problems Of the city, after years of slumber. gave New York a single subway-which IS haoi- tualIv so crowded that one IS glad to escape from it with all ones clothing intact. At present there are no addi- tionaI subways in sight in Manhattan and the number of passengers carried is increasing at the rate of over mil lion a week. The report or the state Doilroad Commission, published this wyeek shows the enormous business done by the transportation companies of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08

was famous trysting place, a sort of lovers walk. No lovers meet there to- day. but the street preserves an odd. old fashioned appearance, for the mod ern skyscraper has scarcely invaded it an it's shabby little buildings con trast strangely with the modern struc- lures of adjoining thoroughfares. It is a curious fact that the police arrest on sight any crook or suspicious charac- ter seen lurking about Maiden lane. But this is not so curious when ore knows. that the little street contains wealth of orIius and of Ind. It is New York's Diamond Street." For three streets 1t is lined with the offices of thousands of dealers in precious stones. not a few of whom keep on hand 8 stock valued at N,9e0.000 or over. Great profits are made in the little street, for since 1900 the price of diamonds has risen 140 per cent. A curious illustration of how these profits pile up was shown this week in the course of a suit for divorce in- stituted by the wife of one of the dealers. The dealers statements to the m. rcsntils agencies wee put on file W >rth. above all liabilities. $1S,300; $53.92S in 1903. and $s2,720 in 1904.
 These are great days for New York's Chinatown. The two Tongs, the rival Chinese gambling societies. which have waged fierce and bloody war for years, took part this week in a great love feast at which the dove of peace (stuffed) hung conspicuously over the banqueting board and Judge Warren w. Foster, who brought the Tongs togeth- CT. was hailed as the Roosveltian har- monizer of the disturbed East Side. About 150 Tammany politicians attend ed the feast, and fully thirty Chinese were present. and the occasion was not marred in the slightest by the fact that at the time several members of one of the Tongs were in durance vile for at tempting to make chop suey out of some of their rival countrymen. Nor were the feasting Celestials at all em- barrassed when Central Cdfice deteo- tives "frisked' them for guns before they were allowed to enter the ban quet hall. As Guy Maine, the Chinese orator, expressed it, all was peace and ''plosperity." However, Police Com missioner Bingham continues to send double squads of policemen into China town at night--just to keep an eye on the Dove of Peace.
 An instance of the remarkable prices of land in the financial district Is evil denced by the amount, $1,S00.oo0. paid for the $500 square feet on which the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08

fore moving. even so after moving he whips out his penknife and cuts the strings and sets these various house. hold appurtenances free. At night on the day of moving he goes home wltn a lame back, broken finger nails and a skinned thumb, but not even when he steps upon a tack in his slippered feet does he say single bad word
 On the contrary, after another cheml- calized canned goods supper, while his wife puts the children to bed. he wash es the dishes and murmurs in loving tones, How delightful it is for man to be married and have d nice home of his own" Jane Moses
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08

metropolis During 1905 they collected a total of 1,171,151,s9S fares day. an increase of 93,490,000 over the previous year. The car mileage of all the conn panies during 1905 aggregated 2So,249.- 455.
 Many New Workers interested in rail- road rate legislation went to Wash ington this week to attend the eigh- teenth annual convention of the Ma tional Association of Railway Commis- sioners, and much interest was aroused in the metropolis by the speech of W. c. Smith, Railroad Commissioner of South Dakota and President of the As sociatfon. Particularly pertinent was considered Mir. Smiths dictum that Any law passed that does not contain absolute rules for deciding what is a reasonable rate. what is a reasonably remunerative rate, and does not estab- fish the constitutional right to appeal, will in my mind fail in it's object for good. On the other hand tariff charges are bound to be adjusted by the con stant pressure of commercial and eco homie principles" MT. Smith went on to point out some of the possibilities of made maximum rates. Suppose" he said. "an article was beings trans ported from Chicago to New York over the shortest route, the best and cheap est managed and the best paying road would not this railroad maximum rate, if made by the commission, apply to every article in that classification be- tween Chicago and New York? If this maximum rate applied between Chicago and. New York, would. 1t not apply on each of the railroads, the longest as we'll as the shortest? Might not this commission made rate be con- fiscation for tho long road?"
 Probably there is no street in all New York more interesting than the narrow little thoroughfare known as Maiden lane, which twists it's crooke way from the midst of Broadway S lower business district to the East River. In the old Dutch times this
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08

latest Wall street skyscraper Will pc built. On this precious plot will be erected the twenty-three story Duilo- ing of the Trust Company or America a newly formed financial institution. combining three of the oldest trust companies in the city me nn nno will cost considerably over $l,000'ooo' If will be remarkable in that the bank ing offices on the first floor will prop ahIv he the most magnificent ana clap = crate offices in the city. The celnng oI this story will be almost thlrty-IIVe feet high and the spacious chamoei will be an impressive study in marble, Sran.s and mahogany Eight huge roarhIe pillars will support the ceiling. Externally the building will De Tn ished expression of the Colonial archi- tecture which is seen to advantage nrincipally in old Philadelphia houses
 .,x,,a. ,s a rentlemang' is the query
 ,'na which violent controversy has S,s. rua oin9 in one of the local news ,o ners during the past few weeks. Ihe trnrble was started by correspondent who suggested that gen nueinsn was "a man who dresses Tor olhher. Ar,inst this military democracy pIo taStnd gentlemen. it was declared was ,s'a,, who cared for the comfort or evrevone save himself, or man wno yas at home in whatever society ne sna'nd himself. Definitions flowed in bv wholesale. An lndiVlouai Wno signed himself stock Exchange wrote that a gentleman "is a man Wno re Leeis ID described a gentleman as "a man who always looks as if he had just been shaved" A further definition was a man who never wears naoe-up era vat The hotter the controversy grew the farther away did the varying sus
 
 thst Andrew Carnegie recently said that his old butler was the finest gen tienan he knew. Probably a butler hast fitted most of the definitions of- fered.
 The Jungle is very quiet place tbase niThts, It is the region along tenth avenue in the Fiftieth streets, inc haunt of the Fat Alger" gang. hand of youthful ne'er do wells, the least harmful of whose activities Is conRregating on q corner to insult the passersby Not only has the pedes- trian found the Jungle an unwhole- some district to walk through after dark. but seasoned policemen dread the heat that includes the hangout of the Fat AIgers. A few nights ago there came into the Jungle new policeman, John Roos by name. young fellow with fuzzy lip and the face of a boy. tIe found the Fat Algers loafing noisi- iv at tho corner of Fifty-fourth street ard Tenth avenue and ordered them to rnnve on. "Hurrah for the new cop," nrjed the gang. nd sailed into him. It was a bad night for the Fat Algers. poos plied about him with his night stjck and when another policeman came to his aid. he was sitting on two of the gang and the rest lad fled. An sr,bnIance surgeon had ito patch up inc captives before they could be put
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08
SPRING MOVING AND
 THE MODEL HUSBAND.

For a week before moving day the model husband spends his evenings helping around the house. He takes down the pictures and sets them against the walls for the women folk to go over with dust cloth. soap and water or other cleasing fluid, following up by a polish with soft leather Next evening, after the pictures are cleaned, the model husband amuses himself till bedtime in packing them. He lays a long strip of heavy muslin upon the floor. lays a picture face upward upon 1t and puts a cushion or pillow upon that. Then he gives the cotton cloth lap over the cushion and lays anoth- CT picture upon it: then another cush- pile is finished. After that he ties strong rope about the batch of pie lures and goes to something else.
 The women folk wipe the dust off the books and wrap the especially choice ones in tissue paper The model hus- band again amuses himself in the even ing by packing the books in boxes. not too big. If the boxes of books are very heavy the move man will grant and grumble awfully and likely hurl them to the ground with fierce impre- caution and with such force that they will burst open and some of the most precious volumes be lost or have the backs wrenched off.
 It's odd, but 1t generally happens that the model husband has for a wife one of the old timey women who never learned to drive a man. The day be- fore the final moving event he says to her:
 My dear, don't attempt to head the barrels or lock the big trunks or nail up the boxes. Just leave them for me, and will do 1t when I come home tonight"
 Then, no matter how hard day the model husband has had in the store or office, in the evening he sits upon trunk and drinks cold tea and cats two days old bakers bread and aniline dyed sausage for dinner, while he holds the baby under his left arm and sings to it between mouthfuls. He has en- loved recreation during one evening in taking down the curtains, and as he did not utter one nasty interjection. when he got his mouth full of dust, so now not a kick is manifest when he pulps down cold borax and saylicync acid preserved alleged eatables and re- members how he has read that food analyists lately dyed pair of stock ings brilliant red with the crimson i've extracted from a batch of fresh country sausage" He feels as though he might he now eating a pair of red stoclxings. but even that draws from this saint and hero no bad language.
 As he sat up nights to swsthe the piano legs. the brass bedstead legs and the inlaid table tops In newspapers be-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08
The Hens and the Monograph.

Hudson (N. Y) Register.
 A stockport poultry farmer has had great trouble of late because his hens were not producing the proper number of eggs. nearby neighbor has me flock of hens which were working over time to produce eggs. While hanging over the back fence listening to the triumphant cackle of his neighbor's hens an idea struck the luckless owner or hens. He went into the house and brought out his photograph inserted blank record and succeeded in getting a fine imitation of the cackling of the layinE hens He then installed the photograph in his own henhouse anu started it going. The first day the