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The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
Trust Busters to Confer.

Topeka. Kan, June 2l.-fred ?, Jackson. attorney general, is arranging Tor an antitrust conference with Il. S. eadley attorney general of Missouri Attorney General West of Oklahoma and the attorney of Kansas will take mart The conference is to give the three men chance to talk over the antitrust work each has been doing In the past six months.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
Uniform Sunday Lessons Hold.

Louisville, June 21--An important feature of the twelfth international Sunday school convention was the adoption Saturday of the report of the international lesson committee. which prepares the lessons for all Sunday schools. with a membership of about lG .000, 900. The convention instructed the lesson committee. which is to be appointed for the next six years. to continue the work of arranging and is. suing the uniform lessons as hereto fore
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
DELICIOUS BANANA CREAM.

This recipe is highly Recommended by one of our cores pondents; try it for dessert tomorrow.
 Peel five large bananas, rub smooth with five teaspoonfuls of sugar. Add one teacup sweet cream beaten to a stiff froth, then add one l0c package of Lemon JELL-O dissolved in n tea cups boiling water. Pour into mold and when cold garnish with candied cherries. Serve with whipped cream, or any good pudding sauce. JELfs-0 is sold by all Grooers at l0c per package,
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
NEW JAIL CELLS
County Purchased Cages for Jail Cost.
 tug Over Four Thousand Dollars.

The new ccl's for the county jail to take the place of the old cells which have been in use for number of years and condemed as being unsafe after a number of prisoners have escaped, have arrived and will be installed in the jail as soon as possible.
 These cells were purchased from the Pauley Jail Company of St. Louis, Mo, at cost of $4,- 100.
 The cells were shipped in sec. tions and will be put up by an expert at the expense of the jall company The new cells art guaranteed by the company to be proof against jail breakers.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
The Could Meddinn July 1.

New York, June 24- Madame Anna Could and Prince Helie de Sagan plan to be married in a small parish m South England on Saturday, July 4. It is said that when Count Boni de Castellane heard that Prince Helie, his cousin, had won the Gould family's consent he broke his cane over chair in rage and made threat that he would stop the marriage,
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
Forest Fires in Colorado.

Buffalo Park, Col. June 24.-Two destructive forest fires are raging west of Buffalo, in the western part of Jefferson county and the extreme northern part of Park county, the lat ter being known as the Mount Evans district. The value of the timber al ready destroyed by both fires is esti' mated at from $100,000 to s125,0O0.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
ulnlated 28- Hour Law

Topeka, Kan, June 24.--Ihree sults charging violation of the 2s-hoar law governing livestock shipments were filed in the federal court here Monday against the Santa Fe, Mis souri. Kansas & Texas and Frisco. in. yolving shipments from Oklahoma to Kansas City.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
rAa MAJ rhex po t In srusseIs.

Brussels. June 2l-A chauffeur in inc employ of King Leopold was FIT Inv fined $1lO for having upset ana lniured bicyclist last fall while driv' lng his majesty's automobile. King l,eopold was cited to appear m tne .ase but he pleaded diplomatic i'm munitv The summons for him was subsequently, withdrawn.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
A Strike Averted.

Des Moines. la, June 24,-All trouble between the city railway com pany and its employees with regard to the five men who were discharged last week has been settled. An agree ment was reached Sunday between the company and the execntive committee of the men. The men will be rein stated.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
w.,ltbv Kansas Woman Dead.

salina, Kan, June 24.-Mrs. Lti. oretia ClaAin, the widow of the late A M. Clanin, for many years Sa' ina banker, died at her home here Monday, aged 72 years. Mrs. Claiiin was philanthropist and gave freely 10 public enterprise in this city
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
Neu Workers sweIterlna.

New York, June 24.-A severe heat wave. which has enveloped the east ern states for three days, prostrated over a score of persons in and about New York Monday No relief is prom Ised for two days by the weather bu- reau and hospitals are preparing to handle any number of heat cases Tuesday
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
Farmers Must Build Expensive Fences Against Them and Yet Lose Crops
 by Depredations.
HOG LAW SENTIMENT GAINS
But Few but Who Realize the Benefits to Be Derived Therefrom Flood
 Damage and Notes.

Inc average price at Wnlcn CEe common hogs in Polk county are assessed is $l per head. The com mon" hogs referred to are what are known as "razorbacks that can drink from the bottom of jug or can eat from the third row through the crack in tight rail fence.
 On the other hand the uncommon hogs are sometimes found and are assessed as high as $10 per head, A&slich to some would seem like going at1hings wrong end first. It seems like nncing a penalty on the bcne- factor whp has the good judgment to raise godhstock. Of course he profits thereby. makes his hogs a source of revenue, butAin county where thousands upon thousands of dollars are sent out for meat such men should receive double reward for the example they set their neigh bors.
 And there is another source of loss in fact a double one. To pro- tect the cropsof any farm from the mals, led through or over really good fences by some especially pestifi- erous specimen. One man related this week of 15 acres of fine corn so completely destroyed in that manner last year that less than ten bushels were gathered and thSJ hcgs that did it were worth less than S20.
 The people of Polk county art rapidly realizing that just so long as hogs are allowed to run at large depredations of these half wild hogs, the cost of fences are fully doubled, and despite these costly barriers the country abounds with stories of crops destroyed by the dollar-a-head ami there will be few really good hogs grown, and that so long as the poor stock is grown great portion o1 the meat used by the people will be bought at high prices from Okla homa, Missouri and Kansas, where there are laws that prevent hog! running at large. There are less and less people who will talk ano vote against a hog law and then gc into the stores and pay high prices for pork for their tables. In fact the writer has asked many men thsil views on the subject, and has found but one who said he would vot' against law to confine hogs in Poll county. Dozens favor such a law and many say that it would b great blessing--a very salvation t. the people of Arkansas.
 Butchers tell the same story They say the common hogs grow here are unfit for packing and tha they can only obtain good ones b shipping from other states, snd thi is done by carloads, though tn meat thus sent in is but trifie a compared with that shipped fror
 the big packing houses.
 And it is safe to say that withl
 three years from the time a ho
 law wassput in force in Polk count the tide would turn-the stream c
 meats would pour out of Polk cour ty and the stream of dollars in
 thing that would bring more pros perity in five years than will the cu' ting of good timber into 30-cent tic in 20 years.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25

The final count of ballots for Con gressman Hull and Judge Prouty, can dldates for congress from the pes Moines, la. district gives Mir. Hull a majority of 6Oi
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25

Fire in the vigorite powder plant at pinole Cal. caused the nitro-glycerln mixing house to explode. There were ao fatalities.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25

If there is any one lesson to be learned by a trip over Polk county
 at this time it would seem to be that Nature intended this section as the home of the berry. The writer has never seen wild blackberries and dewberries in such profusion. They are on all sides, in the W pods and out of them, in patches and in every fence corner. They are heavily loaded with fruit from green to the big, luscious blue-black fruit that makes the mouth of the passer wa ter. Millions of quarts will ripen to fall and rot this season that would furnish delicacies for thousands il spicked and cared for. Huckleberriei are not quite So plentiful, but soor
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25

Twenty-six railroad companies m inc United states have either pro duced their July dividends or passed them entirely -
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25

Albert Bates, son of MT. and Mrs. T. R. Bates, is but 6 years old and not large for his age. but certainly has the record as youthful fisher man. He spends a good deal of time on the river banks and often makes good catches, but a few days ago surprised his mother by coming to the house with a trout of almost four pounds clasped tightly in his arms. He had landed it while abso- lutely alone.
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The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
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grow in great patches wherever the firessaxe kept off the hillsides.


 T. R. Bates, the merchant whose little store, located near the point where Two-Mile creek empties into Mountain Fork, is known to almost every man, woman and child in cen tral and western Polk county, also has good farm-but not so good as before the two big floods this spring. His best pieces of ground were plowed and planted early in the season. The March flood came and when it subsided the marks of the blow lined the field all the loose soil and the crop were gone. lmme- diately teams and blows were put to work, the hard ground turned up and pulverized and second crop planted. The fate of this was the same as that of the first, and some of what was the richest bottom land now lies bare, the only growth be- ing the pestiferous green briars. Mr. Bates bought $135 worth of barbed wire for refencing.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25

The Rev. s. A. Neighbors has long felt that he had one of the best farms on Mountain Fork, but it's different now. A good many acres of the farm would be valuable if they could be transferred to Mena, as they are composed of clean, pure sand, pretty yellow sand with sparklcs all through it, but contain ing nothing to nourish corn or cot tofi. It would be far superior tc the sand shipped to Mesa at heavy expense for building purposes.
 Mir. Neighbors and his son Jesse are doing their best, however, tc put the farm back in condition, and they will succeed if pluck and indus try receives just reward from g kind Nature.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25

Utica, N. r., June 24.-Word was sent to the family of James s. Sher- man in this city Tuesday that the vice presidential candidate had been compelled to go to a hospital in Cleve- land and that Dr. Finney of Baltimore, who attended Mir. sherman in an at tack of the same trouble in Washing ton last year. had been summoned. Mrs. Sherman and one of her sons have started to Cleveland.
 The news received here is very dis quieting and 1t is said that Mi. Sher- man is in dangerous condition. Ex- tensive arrangements had been made to give him great reception on his return and special trains from all sec tions of central and northern New York had been arranged for to bring people to the city
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25
MR. SHERMAN |s ILL
AM OPERATION POSSIBLE ON THE NOMINEE FOR THE VICE
 PRESIDENCY.
4 GREAT DANGER IN COMPLICATIONS
Illness Supposed to Be From Bill. lious Attack Is Really Due to Gall stones-The Operation Necessary Is Not Serious one--AIways Dan- oer of Complications.

Cleveland, O., June 24.--The illness of James s. Sherman, the Republican nominee for vice president. assumed a more serious phase today, and 1t was announced that the patient is in dangerous condition. He was re moved from the residence of ex-Gov- ernor Herrick to Lakeside hospital, and an operation may be performed some time Tuesday.
 It was learned that Mir. Sherman's s illness. which was at first attributed to bilious attack, is really due to gall stones His condition took a turn for the worse early Tuesday morning, following which he suffered severe chill. following which his temperature went to 102. This was reduced later, and at noon it was announced that the patient was resting more com tortably.
 The advisability of performing an operation will be discussed by the physicians Tuesday afternoon. It is said by the attending surgeons that there is large percentage of recover ies from such operations. but that there is always danger of complica tions.
 MT. Sherman's wife and his son, Richard U. Sherman, an instructor in Hamilton college at Clinton, N. Y., are on their way to Cleveland. Elk Governor Herrick talked with Mrs. sherman. who was at her home in Utica, N. r., over the long distance telephone and tried to persuade her not to come here, but she was much alarmed and insisted on starting at once.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25

Bates mill. the wheels of which for many years were propelled by the clear waters of Two-Mile creek as they turned the corn of the farm CTS around into meal, stands idle today. and probably will never run again. The floods took out the dam and hundreds of cubic yards of earth at the north end, making it imprac- tieal to again confine the waters at that place and force them to do the work of man.
 This locality has long been fa- vorite resort for fishers and picnick CTS from Mena, and even further away. In addition to being the junction of two beautiful stream. : there is famous old spring of cold, pure water, and until recently one of the cosiest hooks on earth for camping. This last has been consid- erably damaged this year by the floods, but still has attractiveness all it's own.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-06-25

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-08-14
Died.


BREZ'-On Wednesday August r. fs0s AZ
old '9-'s
colman Brez VS. an empIoye Of the Az
flcuilufAl Department and was accidentally
killed. lie l. survived By q widow one
son. seiig. and lve daughters Yetta, Flor
ence, sarah, Rebecea and Minnie
cARTER--On August u. 800. At ar
ner residence, l7o5 Fourth street northwest,
sAttAh CARTER, beloved wife OF Walter
=. 11tftsr and daughter Of Mrs. Angelina
Williams.
CoGAN-suddenly. on Thursday August is
Iss AZ the residence Of his parents. SIG +
street southeast. JOSEPH WILLIAM, son
~ ar. ana Mrs Thomas z. Cogan. aged
three months.
L-ENI-F'uneral services for the late JOHN
LEVI vel known retired wholesale gro
Ger ana resident OF Mt Pleasant were held
last saturday IN the chapel al Rock Greek
Cemetery. During his active business life
Mr. Levi accumulated a fortune Of over
halI million dOIlars. This amount he d.
Elqed equally before his death among his
Mrs. Adelaide Gardener and Mrs. Crane. OF
81 Mary county, lid. II
RILEY-On Thursdsy. Angust l3 1905. Cap.
THOMAS F., beloved husband OF Lille
jayne Riley, In the siKty-nrst year OF his
age
ROTHMUND-Depar this life, AUGUST Il
1875. at II ?. n. MAGDALENE ROTH
MUND. beloved wife Of the late Karl
ROthmund.
Nay her soul rest in peace.
buneTaI from her daughters residence,
so jefferson street. AnacosHs, on SATURDAY.
august 10, al s 30 e. m, thence 70 st. Tere-
- 8 Cnurcns where requiem figE mass viii
be offered for the repOse OF her soul IN
teFmeat in 81. Aary's Cemetery. aul5-2t
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-08-14
WEEDS IN ST. LOUIS,
HOME IN CAPITAL
David Wood, of Washing
ton, Married TO Mrs.
Adele Burke.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-. Aug. l4.-When Da-
vid Wood, OF Washington, D. c, ana
Mrs Adele Burke, OF Geneva, Switzer-
land. registered about the same time
at the Terminal Hotel yesterday the
clerk thought nothing of it. When
few hours later they came into the
hotel again and registered as Mr.. and
Mrs David Wood he opened his eyes
and after recovering from his aston
ishment congratulated the couple
Mr.. and Mrs. David Wood left at SlO
o'clock FOR Chicago. Mr.. Wood gave
his age as siXty-fOur and his residence
as the Congress Hall Hotel, Washing
ton. Mrs. Wood is forty.
Nothing is known concerning Mr.
Wood at the Congress Hall Hotel IL
was stated thare this morning that a
d. w. Wood had registered for few
days recently, but there is no one OF the
name given making the hotel his regu-
lar residence.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-08-14
Whips Husband and Affinity
In Street With Leather Belt

out of town on business the Kruger
lad tralleo the couple to Brooklyn,
where they diled and went shopping
together. On Wednesday my husband
said ne was going 10 Glen Cove, L. l.
Instead he went 10 Brooklyn, and met
this WOmgn. He did not return home
until near.y O'Clock this morning.
Her Birthday, Too.
Yesterday was my birthday, and be-
fore ne went TO New York / asked him
il he had a present for me. He treated
me coldly. and said he was going to Al
bany. and would not be back until Fri
day. ] put on some old clothes. dOnned
a heavy veH, and went over 10 Brook
lyn with Harry Kruger and Miss Lor-
eta Kruger. his sister At $50 saw
my husband crossing the car tracks al
Hoyt and Livingston streets arm-in-
arm with his affinity.
Il had brought a heavy belt with
me which belonged 10 Mr. Gee, and
when those two saw me with that bell
in my hand they turned as white as
paper. The woman drew hersef up
haughtily, and IN return plncned her
first on one cheek and then on the
other. / laid the strap over her Shout
ders good and hard until she ran away.
Then / turned my attention 70 MIR. G'se,
and gave him a taste of the strap
a big crowd collected, and a mo unit
ed policeman said that If ! didn't stoF
beating my husband he would errest
me- / dared him 70 lock me up. Then
Mr. Gee had the audacity to say thai
he Intended TO leave me, anyway, and
wanted to TX things up quietly. l told
him that the only fixing up would mean
that the whole world would know that
he had treated the woman he had been
married 10 for twenty-six years Ike q
dog
'iMr. Gee is forty-siX years old, and
am foTty-fiVe, and I am not ashamed Of
nay age"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-08-14

NEW YORK. Aug. i4--AIrs. Edward
c. Gee, the wife cf Edward G. Gee,
an electrical contractor, OF 2 Wan street,
has rounded out tN'enty-six years Of
married life by soundly trouncing her
husband ana his affinity with a heavy
leather belt.
For eighteen months Mrs. Gee said
her husband had neglected her for a
Jersey City woman. Not only did he
remain away from home nights. but he
refused TO take her out IN their auto
mobile and cut her allowance to s14 a
week. Mr.. Gees income, she said, was
5000 year
My husband began 10 show attention
10 this woman about year and a half
ago." she continued, "and she has been
his affinity ever since. The woman and
had been close personal friends and
! did not suspect anything was WRONG
until she stopped coming to see me.
Last April she left her husband and
about the same time my husband said
that his work would require much OF
his time anc suggested that he live a.
some Motel "a New York while 1 re-
maineG ar OF home, 200 Harrison ave
nue, Jersey City. / refused TO agree 10
this and from that time on my husband
was away nearly every night.
An Anonymous Letter.
In May. although / was sick. Mr..
Gee stayed away from the house nearly
all the time. Finally I received an
anonymous letter saying that my hus-
band was running around with a former
intimate friend Of NINE. I started an
investigation and was amazed 10 dis
cover II was my friend
I had nc money 20 employ q pri-
vate Getective Instead I employed
Harry Kruger. a seventeen-Near-O
boy. who lived at 84Is Clinton avenue,
70 trail my husband and the woman
He told me that my husband frequently
met her IN the neighbOrhoOd Of HOyt
and SchermerhOrn streets, in Brooklyn.
Days that Mr.. Gee said he would be
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-08-14
FAVOR ROCHESTER
FOR CONVENTION
New York Democrats in Session
Laying Plans for the
Meeting.

NEW YORK. Aug. 14-Unless the
Democratic State committee. which
meets at 2 O'Clock today, at the Hotel
Victoria, to issue a call for the Demo-
cratic State convention, upsets the
plans Of the leaders, the convention will
meet at Rochester on Tuesday, Septem-
Der Is. 1t had been expected that the
convention would be held later than
the Republican State convention, which
meets at Saratoga on September Il, but
Chairman Corners says the Democrats
DO not propose to give the Republicans
a weeks start on the campaign.
Contra y to custom, Chairman Con-
ners said 1t was not likely that a tenn
pOrary chairman for the convention
would be selected at t0day's meeting
as one of the men eligible to preside
might be candidate for the nomination
for governor. This was taken TO refer
to Martin ". LittletOn, of New York
who has been mentioned both as chair
man and as a gubernatorial candidate
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LEGAL AID SOCIETY
PLANS EXCURSION
Excursion to Marshall Hall on
August 25 Announced by
Committee.

For the purpose Of raising funds to
defrav some of it's contingent expenses.
the Washington Legal Aid Society's ex-
curslon 70 Marshall Hall will be held
on Tuesday, August p.
The society was organized three years
ago 20 aid worthy INDECENT persons by
free legal services, and has an oIhce
in the Columbian Building.
rTbs advisory committee consists OF
Walter c Cfephane, A. A. Browne.
Nathaniel Wilson. William r. Mating
Iv. John p. Earnest, Mrs. Ellen >. MUS
sey. J. J. Darlington, +. II Thomas
Charles r. Foster, Alexander Rritton'
and Charles r Nesbit.
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PRISONERS EXPOSED
TO TUBERCULOSIS
Continued from First Page)

must be turned over to the Govern
CAPTAIN Mckee, who is making every
efTOrt 10 better the conditions existing
at the Jail. said today that IN many
Instances il was absolutely Impossible
for him to 20 anything ReieIIlhs 70
the COnsUmptive prisoner In MS care
he said:
should be in a hospital suitable Tor
such cases. but i have no place , mere
where he could be properly Isolated
and at the same time be under guard.
asked Justice barnard II ne cOulu
do anything in the matter, but ne
seemed to think that ne was without
authority to act. then took II up
with the Department of Justice, and
finally appealed to President Roosevelt
TO either order the mans transfer 10
a hospital or grant a pardon; In ,itisT
that he might personally seek medical
attention. / am now awaiting a reply
10 my letter 20 the President
81 am In hope that I viii be granted
an appropriation which will make i'm
possible a repetition or this state OF
affairs An isolated hospital should be
constructed here, divided in such
manner that we could take care of con-
tagious cases in one. part of the build
ing. tuberculosis patients in another
part, with, possibly part OF. II set
apart fo- smallpox cases The cost OF
such a building would DE small, and as
the preesnt case illustrates the need
of II is very pressing
Sanitary Conditions
The sanitary conditions here are
disheartening, but 1 am doing every
thing in my power to improve them
with the -ery limited means at my
disposal e things exist now the prts-
oners are denied actual necessities
which are necessary not only for their
comfort and convenience, but for the
general health OF the institution. Prac-
tically nothing has been done in this
direction since the jail was built, but
1 could make great improvements with
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-08-14
MAKE COMPLAINT
TO COMMISSIONERS

In a recent letter to the Commission
ers, Stutler & Ready, contractors, al
legged that Notwithstanding they have
the contract, ashes are being moved
from the District building by other CON
tractors.
Corporation Counsel z. II. Thomas,
10 whom the matter was referred, holds
that the Commissioners are without au-
thority to make Independent contracts
for this work unless it can be accom-
plished without cost TO the District