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The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
2,OOO MINERS MAY STRIKE
Controversy Over the Employment of Shot-Fires by Western Coal and
 Coke Company Not Yet Settled.

Fort Smith, June 24.-Unless some understanding can be reach ed between the officials of the United Mine Workers of this district and the Western Coal and Coke Company strike of 2,0oO mipers of this district will be declared. Last March a strike was called on the company be- cause it refuses to employ shot firers at the mines at Denning. The matter was left to the com mittee at the Kansas City confer ence.
 The local mine inspector ruled that shot hrers were necessary at Deuning. The company refused to abide by his ruling. Upon agreement a committee, consist | ing of representatives from the operators and mineworkers was appointed and instructed to SC. lect foreign inspector to make an investigation of the Dennine mines. Inspector Sweeney oi Iowa was secured and after an
  examination of the mines at Den ming he also declared that shot frers were necessary. The com pany is not inclined to abide by the decision, it is said, and the m,ne officials state that a strike will be called if the shot-hrers are not put to work.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
SUSPECTED MAN HAD GONE.
Officers Failed to Find Jasper Davis
 Charged With Arson.

Sheriff ]. w. CunniDgha ac- companicd by Constable Johnson of Franklin county, drove out to east part of the county Thurs day afternoon tor the purpose of placing under arrest party by the name of Jasper Davis, wanted in Franklin county on a charge of arson. On arriving a, their destination the officers were informed that Davis had left tha, community several days ago for parts unknown.
 It is said that about month ago Davis set fire to his home which was destroyed with all it's contents, after which he left the country, leaving his wife and children in destitute circum- stances.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
BROTHER ESCORTS
 IKE PIPKIN HOME
Was Parolled for the Purpose as Par. doned Man Was Too Weak to Travel Alone To Spend Day
 and Night With Mother.

Little Rock, June Ex-Governor X. O. Pindall yesterday afternoon granted pardon to Ike Pipkip. sent up from Polk county two years ago on charge of murder, to serve 2l years, because the poor fellow was So far gone with consumption he could hardly walk. At the same time that Ike Pipkin was sent to the penitentiary, his brother, Tom, came along to serve 15 years for being connected with the same murder. The time came for the two to part yesterday afternoon, one brother with thirteen years more to serve in the prison walls and one to return to the home of his widowed mother to be a corpse within a few months. The parting was too much for Ike Pipkin, who could not walk when separated from his brother. Super lntendent Pitcock, contrary to the penitentiary superintendents as they are commonly depicted, did not rush the dying brother away to his train. but sent for Tom Pipkin, who has been a trusty and model convict from the time he entered the prison walls. He asked this convict how he would like to accompany his brother home. Both convicts frightened as though supreme power had come to their aid. Superintendent Pitcoek then told him to go to Polk county with his brother and return to the prison walls as soon as the destina- tion was reached. Tom Pipkin promised to return as soon as he reached Mena, leaving Ike in the hands of friends, but Superintendent Pitcock refused to hear to this, telling him to go on and stay one day and night with his widowed mother. The overjoyed brothers left last night and Superintendent Pitcock says Tom Pipkin is as sure to return to the prison walls Satur- day morning as the sun is to rise.
 The Pipkin boys arrived in Mena on No. 4 Wednesday afternoon and were met at the depot by their aged mother, Mrs. Nancy Pipkin. After an affectionate greeting between the mother and two sons and handshak- ing with several old acquaintances present, they entered surrey and were driven to their home at Dallas.
 Ike was greatly fatigued by the journey and was scarcely able to walk.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
SILK THIEVES MAKE HAUL
Secure From $1,500 to $2,000 Worth of Best Goods From Hammett &
 Katter of Fort Smith.

Fort Smith, June 24.-The largest and most successful bur glary ever committed in Fort Smith took place last night.
 Hammett X Katter, wholesale dealers in silks and oriental goods, were the victims and thelr loss is $1, 800 to S2,000.
 The burglary took place some time between ll:00 o'clock last night when Mir. Hammett left the store, and 6:30 this morning, when one of the employees opened the place of business. He dis covered an iron bar on the real window was hanging down. He immediately called MT. Hammett When Hammett came to the store, he discovered one of the silk shelves empty and the wrap. pers of the bolts scattered about the floor.
 The police were immediately notified and seut wires to all the cities, where the goods might bt disposed of, giving description of the goods and offering a reward tor the capture ot the thief or thieves and the goods.
 Silks. the finest of jewelry ir stock and a red leather suit case, 3Ox20xS inches were the goods taken. The fact that all dis tinguishing marks were removed and that only the finest silks were taken shows that the thief is not novice. In fact, everything points to his being a member ol regular organized band of silk thieves, who are plying theil trade all over the country.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
HAS PlNDALL HAD
 CHANCE OF HEART?
uoes to Ball Game While Aged And Sick Mother Waits In Vain With Evidence She Thinks Will
 Prove Son Innocent.

Little Rock, June a5.-A pitt iui spectacle was seen yesterday in the treasurer's office at tI 2 state house, where Mrs. Ribb Williams, aged 70 years, of Wal nut Ridge, exhausted by a long journey made for the purposa of attempting to free Ter son and only living relative from the state penitentiary, lay on a couch for hours and waited for au audience with Acting Governor X. o. Pindall, whom she had expected to convince that her son had been convicted of a crime which he did not commit. Realizing that the woman could net climb the stairs to the governor s office, the clerks iu the treasurer's office several times requested Governor Pindall to come down to where she was lying and hear her story. At 5 o'clock she was removed to the city hospital without having obtained the hearing. It was said the governor refused to see her. The aged woman was overwhelm- ed when she was carried away from the state house by friends whose sympathies had been aroused, for she believed she could prove the innocence of her son. She said the girl who had sworn she had been betrayed by Mrs. Williams son had confessed recently that she swore to lie and admitted the convicted man was innocent.
 In broken sentences Mrs. Will Hams, shortly before she was removed to the city hospital, and alter she had learned that Acting Governor Pindall had left the state house and gone to a ball game, told Gazette reporter the story of her sons conviction and her journey to Little Rock.
 Mrs. Williams son is Dave Moore, aged B years, convicted of betraying Cassle Aldridge, a young girl who lives near his home. He was sentenced to seven years in ths penitentiary and be- gan serving his tune in March. He is Mrs. Williams son by her first husband.
 Further attempts will probably be made today to induce the governor to hear the woman's story.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
PLEASED WIlH OUTLOOK
Engineer Gilbert, on Looking Over Pro- posed Line of Railroad to Womble,
 Was We'll Satisfied.

Gilbert $. Gilbert, who was sent to Mena to go over the line of the proposed railroad between Mena and Hot Springs, on arrival st Womble said to Judge J. 5. Kelly, who accompanied him to that point. that he found condi- tions more favorable than he had expected.
 Aside from the statement, in- dica'iu that thus far he felt he could make favorable report to ihe capitalists in whose iuteres he IS working, and the reitera- ton of the fact that the necessary funds to build the road were pro vided, Mir. Gilbert had bur little to say on the subject.
 Judge Kelly returned to Mena Wednesday night.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
TO BAPTISE ls SUNDAY
The Protracted Meeting of Baptists Bearing Much
 Fruit.

The Baptist protracted meeting. which has been in progress sev. eral weeks, continues to grow in interest with large crowds in at tendance. At services Thursday night there were four additions to the church.
 Sunday afternoon thirteen per- sons who have been converted during the meeting will be bap- tised in the Janssen park lake.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
OFFICIALS HAD
 A LIVELY TILT
Commissioner of Agriculture Tucker and Attorney General Kirby Were About to Mix Governor
 Pindall Interfered.

Little Rock, June 25. A lively tilt occurred at the meeting of the penitentiary board this morn ing between Commissioner of Agriculture Guy B. Tucker and Attorney General w. F. Kirby. In a heated discussion of the con- vict lease system Tucker called Attorney General Kirby falsi- fer. The men, white with pas sion, were advancing upon each other, when Governor Piudall jumped between them, at the same time making a motion to adjourn the meeting. The mo- ton carried and the warning officials were hustled from the room. The altercation followed a red hot speech which Pindail made against the leasing system, saying that plank in the Dem- ocratic party demanded the abo- lition of the leasing system. The insertion of the plank in the Democratic platform was occas. toned by speeches which Kirby made over the slate during the recent gubernational campaign. Kirby's retort brought Commits siouer Tucker to his feet to begin his attack on Kirby.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
Injured by Falling Glass.

Mack Clifford met with a pecu- lar accident last Thursday about Q O. clock while standing in front of inc Dickson barber shop on Sherwood avenue. In some man ner large glass was broken Tn a window of the shop which fell on young Clfford's right foot, inc sharp end cutting gash. The wound is not serious one.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
Iowa People Coming to Mena.

l.. E. Wilson, secretary of the Greater Des Moines committee, has written to his friend, F.. N. Hopkins of this city, iustructing him to find suitable small acre ee property for home for his wife's father and mother, MT. and Mrs. Pope. This step is taken because of the benefits ex- pected from the climate of this loc2 lity.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
Poor MIX

;s often thought to be responsible for an infants loss in weight or general noor health. The cause usaaiiy ls ihat pvu inc child has worms. They get .hs shSs nomrishment in the food and the hahr G starves. actually starves v1bl,ais vabl Cream vermifuge expels the worms and nourishes the child, sure 'o5 safe. Price 25 cents. Sold oy Jackson fac Drug & Furniture Co
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
oeo FOR 0.0.0e BAD BLOOD

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  affecting all parts body, poisoned the blood remain the system the disease will finally wreck the health and break
 
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 THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,, ATLANTA, GA.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
BIG SPRINKLER HERE
Daniels Transfer Company Began a War on the Dust Nuisance
 Last Monday.

The Daniels Transfer Compa- ny, which has the contract for sprinkling the main business streets of the city, received it's sprinkling wagon last Thursday which was put in operation Monday morning.
 This sprinkler was built by th Austin Manufacturing Co.,, oi Harvey, H., and is fitted up with the latest and improved auto. matic attachments and has a tank capacity of 600 gallons.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
The Big Head

is of two kinds -eonceit and the big head that comes from sick headache Does vour head ever feel like a gourd and your brain feel loose and soreY You can cure it in no time by acting on your liver with Ballard's Heroine. Isn't it worth trying for the absolute and certain relief you'll get? Sold by .Jockgou Drug X Furniture Co.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
CHARGED WITH THEFT OF RIFLE
Fred Blake of Janssen Bound Over
 to Grand Jury.

Fred Blake of Jansseu, charged with larceny, was brought to Mena Thursday afternoon bJ Deputy Sheriff Johu Weeks and placed in the county jail.
 The examining trial of Blakr was held yesterday before squire I. K. Allen of that place, who was bound over to the grand jury.
 The charge against Blake was the stealing of a Winchester rifle,
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02

Wanted-15 teams at $2,50 to $3 00 aud 30 men at sl.25 to Sl. so to work in hsy-two months, work. pr. c. H. Mahar, Spiro' Okla. 24 fl
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
Annual Picnic at Cove.

The third annual picnic at Cove will be held next Saturday, June 27, and the affair promises to be bigger and better than ever be- lore. Good speaking will be had curing the day and grand display ot fireworks will be gwen at night.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
Where Others Failed .

Each spring for five or six years l nroke out with kind of Eczema which nothing seemed to relieve permanent iv. Finally tried box of Hunts Gure. which promptly cured me. Two years have passed but the trouble has not returned 7, Mrs. Kate Howard,
 Little Rock, Ark
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
TROUBLES BEGIN
 FOR TAFT FAMILY
Presidential Candidacy Brings Train of Annoyances Newspaper Corres- pondents Would Throw Glare of
 Publicity Upon Private Life.
special to The star.

Washing ton, June z4.-- ne family of William Howard Taft is beginning to pay the penalty of greatness, and, to tell the truth, the family doesn't alto- qether like it. As the family of a member of the Presidents Cab inei, that privacy so hig hly prized by right-minded Americans was not seriously encroached upon As the family of the candidate of one of the leading parties for President, the general public doesn't feel called upon to accord any privacy at all
 Immediately following the Sec. retary's nomination at Chicago, there was an influx of special writers" from metropolitan news papers. especially from New York. Most of them were women.
 There wasn't anything these women didn't want to see and know. They would have invaded every room in the house from cellar to attic and would have photographed Mrs. Taft in bed,
 
 if she would have consented. They asked questions so personal that a hottentot would have re- sented tnem, and were much grieved that prompt and detailed answers were not forthcoming.
 But young woman from one of the New York "yellows' cap ped the climax. s'oh. dear Mrs. Taft,n she gurgled, ''won't you just let me stay here three or four days as your guest, so that 1 can see how you live and write a dandy article on the family life of our next President P
 Now, Mrs. Taft is widely famed for her hospitality, but this was the first time in her ex- per,ence any one had asked to be taken into the household in order that the getting-ups, the goings- to-bed and the in-betweens of the family's doings might be told an eager and palpiiating world. She was staggered for moment, but finally managed to get out of 1T by explaining that her engage ments just now would not admit of her entertaining a house guest.
 The morning following Secre- tary Taft's nomination members of his family became much work ed up because policeman was pacing up and down in front of their house. More than that, he kept his eye on the front door, as if waiting for some one inside to come out.
 "l'm going to see what that cops doing out there," declared young "Charles" Taft, after a family council had decided that the situation was no longer bear able.
 He bolted~forth like a rocket.
 Say, what's the matter?" he demanded of the big blue-coat; "ain't nobody in our house done anything, have they ?"
 "Ain't your father nominated for President ?" inquired the po- liceman in turn. ''I've got orders 10 guard your house.
 Huh" announced young Charles" to his waiting family. they're afraid some one will steal papa just because he's nom mated President. Just as if he wasn't big enough to look out for hiuself Y
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02

For Sale 2 horses, COW, buggy. sac K. Turner, Rock y, Ark. 74 4
The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-02
KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN BY.
 QUICK TIME--FINE ROAD BED--ELEGANT EQUIPMENT

Special Excursion Rates to Mena from Texarkana and points South June to Sepemper 30. with final limit October 30. For further particulars address D. Salee Agent Mena Ak S. G. Warmer c. F. & T. A.. Kansas City Mo.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-05
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles..

"See that" said old Joe-Dad, as he
rose from the skiff and peered into the
surrounding timber. "Mmm," went on
the ancient "~pusher," II reckon they's
a bee-tree round here somewhere's.
How'd some honey taste on them
fiap-jacks we're havin' at camp?"
We've got plenty O. rope" said the
"pusher," knocking the ashes out Of
his short-stemmed pipe. land two good
axes. We may have to build a
'smudge,' and agin mebby we won't
have to-"
You must have been an interested
party in some bee scrape, joe" was
my answer
Fur awhile, fur awhile" was the
"p%usher's" response. Yes, l reckon
l vas about the most p~izenously inter
ested Teller in a chunk O. rope that
v e happened into the timber"
"Why, that sounds like a story, joe"
said l, tell me about it."
WELL" begun Joe-Dad, it was this
away. l wa young, an l wuz green
as to bees. l wuz the best climber
next to a squirrel that ever Skinned
up a saplin'. I'd lived in the woods,
an yit / wuz so busy huntin' an fish
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-05
Collection of Rare Bulbs.

The collection of are plants at the
Phipps conservatory and the cabinets
in the Carnegie museum will be en-
riched by a number of donations from
Miss Ida Vera Simonton, who has just
returned from Africa. To the con-
servatory Miss Simonton will give d
package of bulbs of the famous cam
melia rose, which on the stem or ID
a bouquet is ever changing in colol'
White in the morning, it becomes d
delicate pink at noon. At sunset Ito
petals are a brilliant red. Some rare
orchids and the famous lily, glorlana
superba, are in the collection. Inc
savage tribes of western Africa sun
perpetuate in a crude way the io''
arts of ancient Egypt. Their IDOLS az
t~ypically Egyptian and their methot
of handling dyes is the same as 'nas
of the subjects of the mummy culI
of the pharaohs on the Nile. Arlloio
in turnt wood, pieces of clotn uye
with gay and everlasting colors ,no
the g%rotesque idols will go 10
MISUNDERSTANDING Dispatch.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-05

Canada is doing a great deal to help
its farmers. The latest scheme is to
advance 81, 200, 900 to those in the
provinces Of Alberta and Saskatche.
wan whose crops were a failure last
year and who are therefore crippled In
facing the needs of another season.
The announcement will come as a sur
prise to many, however. for the idea
has been sedulously inculcated that
the Canadian northwest was a region
OF unfailing prosperity, and thousands
have been induced to i~mmigrate in the
belief that 1t was a veritable promised
land. In view of the outcome, says
the Troy IN. " Times, the Dominion
authorities may feel morally bound to
go to the aid Of the unfortunate ones.
And II the news Of the crop failures
gets abroad it will be still more diff
cult to put into practice Rudyard
Kipling's idea of pumping in" immi-
grants from England.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-05
old


Old maidhood, like fever, Is a thing
which seizes those who are too weak
TO resist it. Who are the most likely
victims? Certainly one is the girl
who has been too much a girl, and too
little a woman. Finding girlhood q
very attractive state at IS, she has al
ways chung to it desperately until
fading looks force her to see that 1t
has flown from her. Then follows dis.
appointment. The woman who re
sists old maidhood is she who has
only regarded glrlhood as a pleasant
prelude to a bigger phase of life. Her
zenith is to be womanhood. At 18 she
has only just entered into the contest,
at "a she is getting into the thick OF
1t. II must be many years before she
can possibly pass the meridian of fe-
male life, so 30, and even later, finds
her at her height, not like the other,
many years gone in decline. Why does
a man not care, generally, when he
find himself passing the period of
youth? Because he has gained in ex-
perience and knowledge, has seen the
folly Of youthful dreams, I'M learns
to see life as it is. Youth gives way
to manhood, and, in that state, he is
content to flourish. To avoid the
stigma of old maid a woman must fix
her eyes on the things that matter In
life. She must not allow the knowI
edge Of passing youth to sour her. She
must not allow her youth to pass, but
must vigorously fight the touch OF
that arch cynic, Father Time, and try
to shine in the sphere of womanhood.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-05

pexty for its solution depends upon the possibility of controlling the
production of offspring from human beings.
By no process of comparison can this be done The controlling power,
if it is possible to evoke it in the interests of the race, resides exclusively
with the individuals most Immediately concerned. This fact, 1 think,
should be recognized as fundamental. Our processes, therefore, should be
persuasive rather than mandatory.
The great hope lies in the fact that human beings possess intelligence,
and a desire that their offspring may be fully up to the average of the
race In every particular, if not superior. 1t is certainly the case that no
man desires that his children shall be weak, sckly defective, OF in any
way inferior in physical or mental endowments.
If it should be clearly shown that certain classes of marriages are hurt
full to the offspring and others beneficial, the mere dissemination of that
knowledge would of itself tend to promote desirable and prevent undesir-
able unions of the sexes. Would any reasonable person, TO. instance, think
of marrying a first cousin any more than he would dream of marrying
his sister if he really believed that any harm would result to the off
spring? And if you could find one such person, could you find two
for it takes two to make a marriage?
Throw wide the gates of marriage, and, where children are produced,
close tight the doors of divorce. Every child is entitled by nature to a
father and mother; and no people should produce children who are not
prepared to give them parental care for life.
Without going to extremes would say that the interests of the COM
munity demand that we should make marriage easy and divorce difficult.
Under the best conditions it would require several generations to
produce sensible results in improving the race, but in the United States
we have, in the new blood introduced from abroad, an important means
of improvement that will act more quickly and that is eminenty suscep-
the to control.