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The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Citizens Are All Delighted.

The two factions of the democratic
party in Garland county, which have
been at loggerheads for the past two
years, met in convention at Hot
Springs Saturday afternoon and buried
the Ratchet at a genuine love feast.
The old line Democrats conceded
practically everything demanded by
the members of the Citizens Improve
ment Union, the local reform organ
ization which was responsible for the
split in the ranks, and everyone
agreed to support the nominees at
the coming primaries The true blue
Democrats compromised by allowing
the c. |. u to meme two election
judges out of every three in each
ward and precinct, and demanding of
them a fair count. The c. |. U. has
been -contending for honest elections,
and now that the machinery has been
turned over to them completely, as
it were, there appears to be no further
necessity for opposing the party.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
MISCELLANY OUS.

Fire destroys the establishment of
the bankrupt firm of Heath & Milf
gan and downtown Chicago chokes I'M
der the fumes from burning paints and
oils.
Fire in the job print shop of the
Buffalo Courier Co. did great dam
age to paper stock and completed
work. The cause is not known. 1t
is estimated that the loss will amount
to s250,OoO.
Bryan first, last and all the time, .
was the unqualified instructions to the
democratic delegates from Wisconsin
to the national convention at Denver.
Fred Slocum, who was recently
taken to the insane asylum at Elgin
from Woodstock Ill, committed sui
eide by cutting his throat with piece
of glass.
Liquor advocates tell House commit
tee that mince pies cause more crime
than strong drink.
In a double explosion at Furnace
No. 1, of the Monongahela plant of
the National Tube Company, two men
were burned, perhaps fatally, three
others badly scorched, and many
thousand dollars worth of property
damaged witllii radius OF mile.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Civil Service Examinations.

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced that on
March an examination for applicants
for the position of meat inspector. car
rying a salary of $1,000 will be held.
At the same time announcement is
made that on March 25 examinations
will be held for applicants for places
as magazine attendants, $2.56 per
diem; public document cataloguer,
5000 per annum; plate cleaner, $S4O
per annum; assistant superintendent
of seed warehouse and seed distribu-
ton, 5000 to $500, and Waterman,
1920 per annum. All these examina-
lions will be held in Little Rock.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Proposal to Pipe Natural Gas,

A representative of a Shreveport
concern has been in Texarkana the
past several days circulating among
ing contracts to supply natural gas
to consumers The Shreveport con-
Germ proposes to bling natural gas
fran the Caddo City field within 18
months and to supply the same to
consumers at Texarkana at a rate
not to exceed 35 cents per 1000 feet.
So far only few citizensgfersf. built
So far, only a few signers to the pro-
posed contracts have been secured
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Pindail Loses In Custer Suit.

Judge e. w. Winfield of the second
division of the Circuit Court Thursday
rendered his opinion in the State
Board of Charitable Institutions custer
suit, deciding that the governor of Al
kansas, though he has the power to ap-
point, has not the right to remove
from Office members of the board. The
suit was brought by the four new ap-
pOintees to the board, who were ap-
pointed by Governor Pindall to succeed
four members of the board who had
not served their full terms, and was
for the purpose of having the old men,
bers removed from their seats, which
they declined to vacate The new ap-
pointees are Walter Bruce, Aylmer
Flenniken, A. L. Hayes and E. G. Par
sons. The old members and the ones
whom Judge Winfield has decided are
the rightful members of the board are
E. c. Matlock, J. l.. Davis, G. e. Cruce
and T. j. Williamson.
James Stevenson, attorney for the
aspiring members of the board, was
present in the court room when Judge
Winfield announced his decision, and
Immediately filed his petition for an
appeal to the Supreme Court, which
was granted.
The case was tried before Judge
Winfield two weeks ago, with Judge
Robert Lea and Chancellor J. M. Mar
tineau on the bench, at Judge Win
fields invitation as associate Judges.
The whole question at issue is as to
the right of the governor to remove
members of the board from their office
without a just and reasonable cause.
His power to appoint the new mem
bers was not questioned. The attor-
ney for the old members was Charles
Jacobson.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
To Erect Church For Deaf Mutes.

Plans have been inaugurated to
raise a fund for the purpose of erect
ing a brick or cement block chapel
for the deaf and dumb of Little Rock.
The movement originated Wednesday
evening at prayer meeting held at
the home of the Rev. J. w. Michaels,
103 Park avenue. The Rev. Mr.. Mi
chaels has been offered lot by the
Midland Hills Addition Company,
through Moorhead Wright. Active
work is soon to be commenced, and
the friends of the movement look for
success in having a creditable house
of worship for the dear and dumb.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Mena City of First Class.

Mayor Olney Thursday received
from Secretary of State Ludwig the
proclamation of Governor Pindall, adj
vancing Mena from a city of the sec
ond class to one of the first class,
and officers as such will be elected at
the coming election in April. Mena
has long had the necessary population
for this advance, but councils have
hesitated to make the change, think
ing there would be added expense.
There are four candidates for mayor
and five candidates for police Judge al
ready in the field and a like number
for other offices.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
$3.50 EaIes cf Cotton Sold.

julius Altman, Fort Smith manager
for the Lesser-Goldman Cotton Com
pany, Monday bought 1,750 bales OF
cotton frcm the Farmers. Union ware
houses at Sallisaw, Okla, paying an
average of II IA cents per pound.
J. L. Rea of Van Buren, bought 1900
bales of Farmers Union cotton at Sal
lisaw, Okla, Monday morning, paying
II Ia cents for it on middle basis.
This cotton had been stored for the
minimum price of Is cents, as fixed
by the national organization. Growers
in the territory tributa to Van Bur-
en- have 5000 bales still in storage.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Water Supply Giving Out.

The box spring, one mile northeast
of Sloan Springs, and which sup
plies the city with water, is said to
be changing its course, consequently,
the water supply is decreasing. Many
years ago when the officers of the
city first conceived the idea of appro-
priating the water for city purposes,
a large stone wall was built around
the place where the water bubbles
out, leaving only one vent. A pipe
line was connected with this and the
water is delivered in the city by the
natural fall of the ground. Now it
seems the water has made itself an
other outlet and steps will be taken
to repair the break. as the water sup
ply is inadequate for the demand.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Fee-Grabbns Is Charged BY Jury.

In its final report Tuesday the Jeffer-
son County Grand Jury, which has
been in session at Pine Bluff for many
weeks, made sensational charges
against J. H. Brooks and ]. H. Bald
win, justices of the peace of Pastoral
and Washington townships, and init
mated that other officers of the town.
ships and the prosecuting attorney and
assistant prosecuting attorney in Pine
Bluff were receiving fees little too
often, and in manner that caused
suspicion. The jury says that 1T found
fourteen cases on the docket of J. H.
Brooks, justice of the peace of Pas
toria township, in which information
was filed by the assistant prosecuting
attorney, and that these cases were
dismissed upon his motion after the
victims had been muleted in the sum
of $40 attorneys fees paid for get
ting them OUT Of alleged trouble.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
An AlI-RnIInd Man

William V. McManus, the new pres
ident of the Letter Carriers associa-
ton of New York, had been discussing
the ideal letter carrier.
With a laugh he ended:
eyes, the ideal letter carrier needs
to be as all-round, as many-sided, as
divinely gifted, as the man a Cincin-
natl suburbanite advertised for last
month.
"The advertisement ran:
'Wanted-A man able to teach
Spanish, water color painting, and the
violin, and to look after the bull"
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Private Claim Bills.

Senator Clarke has introduced the
following private claim bills which had
been introduced previously in the
house by Congressman Macon: To ap-
propriate $14,2S0 for Allen J. Polk fof
stores and supplies taken by the Fed
eral troops during the war; appropriat.
ing $S,965 for Joel Higgins, Brand Hig
gins and estate of Annie G. Higgins for
supplies and stores; $1,790 for the
First Baptist church of Helena and the
Old School Presbyterian church al
Helena, $4,000 for damaes to the prop
ertyg during the war.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Iron Mountain Laying In Coal.

All Iron Mountain coal cars that are
available are being rushed to their
bituminous coal mines along their line
in Sebastian county. For several
years the iron Mountain has been stOr-
ing coal in anticipation of-strikes that
we're happily averted, but never be-
fore did the management show such
haste as ig being shown at present.
Coal will be stored at Van Buren,, Wag-
oner, Coffeyville. Russellvile and Ar
genta from their Arkansas mines.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Saw Bars to Escape From Jail.

VIII Jones and Gilbert Harris, self
confessed purse snatchers, and Ben
Thorne, charged with grand larceny,
all negroes, escaped from the county
Jail at Hot Springs Sunday night by
saving the bars of their cell in two.
Tailor M. G. Barnett had gone to a
nearby drug store to get medicine
for a sick prisoner. Jones and Har-
ris are believed to have been guilty
of long series of purse snatchings
and Eold-ups.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Concerning Cotton Withdrawals.

the Crawford County Farmers Union,
in discussing the meetings of the un-
ion called by him for last Saturday,
stated that about the only business
transacted was to pass resolution re
curing all members Withdrawing their
cotton from the warehouses to SO 70
tify the county agent that he in turn
could notify tho state agent. This is
considered necessary in order that the
state agent might know at all times
just how many bales he had to sell in
the event of his having a bid on the
holdings of the union.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
How 1t Was Done.

Mother examining school report)
How did you come to have such
good marks in arithmetic this week?
Tommy-Well, you see, it was this
way: We had ten examples day,
and l got the teacher to help me to do
five, and Eric Jones got her to help
him on the other five. Then we
snapped helps, see?-Harper's Bazaar.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Miners Return to Work.

Advices from the mines at Jenny
Lind, state that 200 striking miners,
who have been idle for a month will
return to work for the Western Coal
and Mining Company, pending a set
tlement of their grievances at fu-
ture conference. The miners, it is
said, claim that the underground pas
sages are unsafe, and ask the company
to employ shot firers. The company
has agreed that the shot firers go to
work under the regulations demanded
by the miners At the next confer
ence it will be determined whether
the company or the miners pay the
shot firers.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Wounded Negro Dies From Wound.

Jesse Austin, negro employed at
the Fourche River Lumber Company's
plant at Bigelow, died Sunday at st.
Vincent's Infirmary from wounds sus-
tanned last Friday when, it is alleged,
he was shot by white man by the
name of McHenry, also employed at
the Fourche company's plant, follow
ing the killing OF George Hames.
white, who was shot and killed the
day before by Henry Lee, negro
employed at the same plant. The
shooting of Austin is said to have
been connected with the killing of
Hames. Austin, according to reports,
made some remark about the killing
of Hames, which it is alleged, SO an
gered McHenry, that the latter shot
the negro.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Judge w. S. Mccain Dies of pneu-
mCria.

| Judge William Smonton Mccain,
one of the most prominent and respect
cd citizens of Little Rock, die dat 1: 80
o'clock Tuesday afternoon at his home.
317 Gaines street, after an illness of
only two weeks. Death was caused
by pneumonia.
Judge Mccain was taken sick Sat
urday, February 1, with la grippe.
Within two days it developed into
pneumonia The sickness was brought
on, it is thought, as the result of his
venturing out into a hard, cold ram,
and getting his feet wet, after recover
| ing from a few days illness with la
grippe only a short time before he was
| taken down for the last time. Kidney
trouble also set in few days ago, his
death being caused by the compiled
| ton of diseases. His death was not
unexpected, as his condition had been
considered very critical for a week,
and the physicians gave out practically
no hope for his recovery.
Judge Mccain was born in Upton
county, Tenn, MAY 81, 1S4S. He was
left an orphan at the age of II years,
and from then on had to struggle hard
for living and education. His active
mind and sterling ambition carried
him through. He toi1ed especially
hard in securing an education under
many difficulties and succeeded in Sc
curing not only a liberal education
along common lines, but became a
scholar in both Latin and Greek.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Prof. Frank Bell Yates Is Dead.

Frank Bell Yates, for 10 years SUI
perintendent of the Arkansas Deaf
Mute Institute, in Little Rock, and by
many recognized as the real builder
of that institution, died at 5:25 o'clock
Tuesday evening at his home ZIG Sum-
nit avenue, after comparatively
short sickness. Three week ago he
was taken sick with grip. The Thurs
day following his sickness developed
into pneumonia, which finally caused
his death.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Burglary at Cotton Plant.

About o'clock Thursday morning
the grocery store of John T. Dunlap at
Cotton Plant, was entered by bur-
glars and goods to the amount of $500
were taken. The place, d brick build
ing, was entered at a rear window.
The police have several suspects lin
der surveillance and arrests are like
lv to be made soon.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
pine Bluff Cotton Rece;pts.

The cotton receirts in Pine Bluff
for tne present season, as shown by
the daily report of the Pine Bluff
Board of Trade, were $4,000 bales UP
to Saturday. compared with $1,000
bales up to the same day last year.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Charged With Awful Crime.

John Vassar, employed as a messen.
ger by store at Jonesboro, was ar
rested and jailed Tuesday, charged
with an awful crime, his daughter, who
is not yet in her teens, being the al
legged victim. He denies the charge.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Fire at Texarkana.

The residence of Mrs. e. Howard,
on Rose Hill. Texarkana. was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday night, to-
gether with all its contents The total
loss is estimated a. $4,000; insured
for $1,40O 1t is not known how the
fire ORIGINATED
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Special Officer Acquitted.

Special Officer J. l.. Boone was tried
before a jury in a justice of the
peace's court at Hot Springs, Thurs
day, and acquitted on the charge of
disturbing the peace by using abusive
language toward w. c. Bayne, hotel
man.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Village of Wampoo Burned.

Wampoo, hamlet six miles west of
Kio, was destroyed by fire Saturda!
night. Three stores, the postoffce and
two or three dwellings were burned.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Killed By Falling Bucket.

While employed in digging a we'll
at Cove, Thursday, for Mr. Hilton, w.
H. Rushing, aged so, of Hutton's Gap
was killed by a falling bucket of clay.
Rushing leaves a family.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Illness in Franklin County.

Grip, pneumonia and measles are
very prevalent throughout Franklin
county. There were only half a dozen
fatal cases, and they were cases Of
pneumonia
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Found Dead In Bed.

Mrs. Carrie Seay, aged 70 years, and
a pioneer resident Of Hot Springs, was
found dead in bed Tuesday morning.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-02-22
Oniona. Onions. Onions.

600 bu. of Salzers Red Globe Onion
per acre at SOC a bu. brings $4,000. That
pays.
$950.00 from acres Salzer's Morning
Star Cucumber is we'll worth taking along.
$40 bu. Salzer's u Fodder Earliest and
Best Pea sold in the green state at $l.50
a bu. makes $4,000 per acre. Such yields
Salzer's pedigree vegetables stand for.
For 12c
and this notice the John A. Salzer Seed
Co., La Crosse, Wis, in order to gain
250,000 new customers during 1908, will
mail you free their great plant and seed
catalog together with
pkg. Quick Quick" Carrot ...S 10
l pkg. Earliest Ripe Cabbage ..... 10
l pkg. Earliest Emerald Cucumber. Is
l pkg. La Crosse Market Lettuce. -. Is
! pkg. Early Dinner Onion. $500. 10
! rkg. Strawberry Muskmelon Is
l pkg. Thirteen Day Radish ....... 10
1000 kernels gloriousy beautiful
flower seed. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Is
Total .sl.OO
Above is sufficient seed to grow 35 bu.
of rarest vegetables and thousands of bril-
liant flowers and all is mailed to you
POSTPAID FOR lie,
or if you send Ice, we will add a package
of Berliner Earliest Caulifower. John A
Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse. Wis K. & w.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-09-04
n DOOR TO INDIA.

The British have placed at the
entrance of khyber Pass signboards
with the words: open to traffic on
Tuesdays and Fridays only" One
might think the pass a back street
in some city. However, it is the
northwest portal of India, a natural
cash 80 miles long in the towering
Hindu Kush mountains. 1t is the
door connecting the bleak heights OF
Afghanistan with the fertile plains
and tropical country beyond, and
the landed interests of India did not
care to have it too much open. Fierce
anG hungry tribes dwell on the
Afghanistan side. Therefore, sol
diers are ON guard to see that the
regulations of the signboards are
observed. If the hungry natives try
to break through on Wednesday, the
photographs and telegraphs send
word to the British garrisons, and
reinforcements are detailed to guard
the pass.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-09-04
SHOULDER BLADE A NUISANCE

Peter Stroup, who lives in Ger
mantown, has an inconvenient shout
der blade. says the Philadelphia
North American. Yesterday he
threw it out of joint for the hun
dredth time.
The elusive bone reached its GEN.
fury accident mark while its owner
tried to tie his shoe. But Peter does
not need a shoe for. an excuse to
play hide and seek with that shout
der blade. It's all the same whether
he reaches in his hip pocket for his
bandana or lifts his knife to his
mouth at the table. Every time the
shoulder blade takes a notion, it
slips its trolley and then, until the
doctors patch it up, its power is off.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-09-04
REVEAL THE TRUE CHARACTER
Typewriter Pages, 1t Has Been
Proved, Convey Sense of Indi-
viduality to the Expert.

Experts in handwriting are often
called ON to read i'll it individual
traits of character and there Is no
doubt that they can do it. Type
writing has now become 70 common
that similar tests are being applied
to it. Here Is a case in point 3 In a
law suit in England recently. ex-
perts showed that one Of the pages
of a long typewriter document had
been substituted for another. They
found the difference in the spacing,
the punctuation, the p%aragraphing
and the appearance o. the letters, the
latter depending on the touch of the
fingers. The experts further said
that the writer of the substituted
page was a young woman that she
was nervous, not strong, Of only fair
education, and a beginner in type
writing. Thus, you see, no matter
what we do, we leave a sort of char
acter-trail behind u.s..
The Falls City tribune., 1908-09-04
SOME ONE HAS FOOLED THEM
English People Who Have Strange and
Wonderful Ideas as to Slang
Used in America.

The sea was turquoise, and IN
their deck chairs the sehoolmarms,
laying down their novels, talked OF
the little island country they were
soon 10 reach.
"What amuscs me- said the gray
sehoolmarm. rs the English idea OF
American slang. IN English philo-
logan at a dinner at Oxford once
g%rayely tried to talk to me in ou1
own easy colloquialisms. The things
he said:
"'But now I'm shouting turkey,
was one. He thought it meant talk
ing nonsense. Flowers he called
dummies He didn't care a hate,
he said, for b%allooning. \ neat per-
son was gin and tidy \ friend OF
his had seen the elephant'-that Is.
had gone bankrupt. So he rambled
on. tickled to death with his clever.
ness, as proud of his American slang
as a George AIDE. Where did he get
all that nonsense of dummies and
shouting turkey gin and tidy, and
caring a hate?'"
The Falls City tribune., 1908-09-04
ISLANDS PLAGUE OF RABBITS.

Rabbits have of late increased in
numbers 81 enormously in the north
ern portion of the Isle of Man as to
constitute a mena to agriculture.
Recently the house of keys passed
a bill having for its object the aboli-
ton Of the pest. The bill treats rab-
bits as yermin, and empowers occu-
piers of land to carry a gun without
license for their destruction, and to
authorize other persons to carry guns
without license for a like purpose
London Standard.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-09-04
CHARITY WORK FOR WOMEN.

Reports of local happenings in pa
pers in all parts of the country show
that women are actively engaged in
charitable work, and society women
seem to have little time for anything
else a great part of the year, so alb
sorbing are the interests of the char
tiles in which they work. The la
mentable condition of the poor chill
dren of the East side in New York
has aroused great interest among the
society women of that city.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-09-04
HOT ALCOHOL FROM TABLE.

If spots are left or your table
from hot alcohol in your chatting
dish, try the following remedy: First
rub in we'll a little wood alcohol
then to remove the resultant whitish
mark wet a piece of very soft flannel
with camphorated oil and rub the
spots thoroughly. Leave the sur
face very oily for several hours and
finally polish theoretically with a
bit of channels.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-09-04
THERE'S NOTHING BETTER.

"T crossed the Atlantic last month
with that beautiful young singer.
Miss Geraldine Farrar," relates q
Savannah banker.
"At dinner n night the captain
of the ship gave a loud laugh, and,
looking at the rows of pretty female
faces in the salon, he said:
"'Why do men never kiss one
another, while women continually dc
so?
"Miss Farrar answered.
"'Men have something better tc
kiss, but women haven't"
The Falls City tribune., 1908-09-04
NO S JAM ES.

"What are you looking so sou1
about, Petey?" asked the lanky mes
senger boy.
cav, I'm disappointed" grum-
bled the short one.
Disappointed?
"Sure. l put in two whole hours
squeezing through a fence to see
what was billed as OUTLAW races and
when I got inside | got walloped wild
a club and | amt seen any outlaws
yet. Wish I'd stayed home and
bought a dime novel"
The Falls City tribune., 1908-09-04
A BAD BREAK.

Wife-Why did you give that
monograph away just before we
were married? Didn't you think L
could use it?
Husband-My dear, l gave it
away to keep peace. Don't you
know that no house is big enough
for two talking machines?
And at the last report he was still
trying to square himself.-Detroit
Free Press.