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The Newark journal., 1908-07-24
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NO. 9022 Report Of the Condition of the FIRST NATIONAL BANK At Newark, in the State of Arkansas at the Close Of Business
 July l5, 1908
RESOURCES

RESOURCES Loans and discounts. ..=......s4o 2922 ? L. S. Bonds to secure eircu- ton ............#.#......#... 6,5oo.0o Banking house, furniture and fixtures. ..#.'........#....=..... 1,5oo.co Due from national banks lnot reserve agents ........... S66.69 Due from state banks and bankers ..... ......-.... 2,ol2.6O Due from approved reserve aeent.... ....#. =...-...... 6,935.5 53 Cheeks and other cash items 2l. 10 Notes of other national banks e35.00 Fractional paper currency, niekels and cents... 142,l9 Lawful money reserve in bank Specie ....=zsl .s72.l0 Legal tender notes 5000 ,, ,4B2 10 Redemption fund with U $. Treasurer E per cent of circulation1 ........ ...... }2a.od Total ....-......... ....=.......... 35I 992. 4S
 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in =....s25, ,0oo.oo Surplus fund .......=......... 5ooc0 Undivided profits, less ex-= penses and taxes paid lls..53 National bank notes out standing .... .......... 5,765.oo Individual deposits subjects to check ................... 22, 934 I5 Demand certificates ofdeposit 75.0o Cashiers checks outstanding 10000 Bills payable, Including cer- tifcates Of deposit for money borrowed 7.j0o. 00 Totai..... ............ .96l ,9l2. IS State of Arkansas County of Independence '' 1, C. NJ. Edwards, president of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief
 (. M. EDWARDS, President Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2oth day of July, l903.
 GEO. F. CRossER.
 Notary Public. Ny commission expires January k, 1912.
 Correct Attest: R. B. ADAMS.
 F. E. ALLEN.
 E. II. WILLIAMSON.
 Directors.
The Newark journal., 1908-07-24
NOTARY PUBLIC

Notary work of all kinds done in a careful and correct manner by A. A. Henderson at the Merchants and Planters Bank.
The Newark journal., 1908-07-24

Ed Gardner, a negro was shot and killed by Hosey Henderson. another negro, at picnic near Monticello Saturday.
The Newark journal., 1908-07-24

Detroit is said to have more evil resorts than any city of it's size in tEe United States. The Michigandel $ seem 10 be naughty people.
The Newark journal., 1908-07-24
MONEY FOR DRY CAMPAIGN

Newport, July l6.-A good sized audience gathered tonight in the court house 10 hear Hon. C. w. Trickett His illness in Helena prevented his presence anG Ryg. C. ". Eichelbar- ger filled his engagement. The speaker occupied over an hour in his address on tHow Prohibition Helps Business in Forms and Counties.
 The mass meeting voted unanimously to ask the state board of election commissioners to give through the press due notice of the date when they will appoint county commissioners and permit citizen to be present, to ap- point no saloon keepers on the county board, in no case to appoint majority of whiskey men on any county board, and in all eases to appoint honest men who will see that the votes are counted as east.
 A large fund was raised tonight to help prohibition in Jackson county.
The Newark journal., 1908-07-24

Mountain Home will have two days picnic Friday and Saturday July 3l and August f.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
CANDIDACY OF w. J. BRYAN
Endorsed by Democratic State Central
Committee of Ohio.

Columbus, O., Feb. 19.-William J.
Bryan's visit to Columbus was sig
nalized by the Democratic state CEN
trail committee unanimously endorsing
his candidacy for the presidency. Mr..
Bryan arrived at the Southern hotel
while the committee was still in ses-
sion and upon being introduced to the
members paused long enough to say
that he found "a keen feeling through
out the country that our efforts will
not be in vain" While endorsing Mr..
Bryan, the state committee made pro-
vision in the call for the state con-
vention by which the voters of any
county in which there is a registration
city may express their preference for
a candidate for president by having
the names of candidates printed on
delegate tickets. This action was
taken at the request of Hamilton coun-
ty Democrats who favor the nomina-
ton of Judson Harmon of Cincinnati,
former attorney general of the United
States under President Cleveland, for
the presidency.
After taking luncheon with the
members of the reception committee
of the general assembly at the resi-
dence of Colonel James KilbOurne, Mr.
Bryan addressed the general assembly
in joint session in the hall of repre-
sentatives on the subject of guaran
teeing bank. deposits. Mr.. Bryan was
accorded an enthusiastic reception by
the legislators
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
SMELL JURY DISCHARGED.
Unable to Reach Verdict in Famous
Will Case.

Clinton, ILL.,, Feb. 1S.-The jury In
the Smell $2,000,00O will case has been
discharged by Judge Cachrane, being
unable to reach verdict. Richard
Smell, the contestant, announces that
he will ask for new trial of the case
at the May term of court.
The last ballot stood eight for the
contestant to four for the proponents
IF the will.
The jury had been out since Satur-
day evening.
The suit to break the will of Colonel
Thomas Smell was brought by the
aged and eccentric millionaires son,
Richard Smell. president of the Clin-
ton bank. 1t has been rife with SEN
"Snell letters" written by women and
young girls to the old man, who was
willing to pay lavishly for being loved
and for being told so in affectionately
worded episties in which appeals for
money mingled with expressions OF
endearment. Among the letters were
some from the wife of a clergyman,
who not only expressed her own love,
but told SEell that her daughter, six
teen years old, would love him if he
would send her money. Letters from
the girl herself, bearing out the
promises of the mother, were intro
duced at the trial of the suit to break
the WILL
When Colonel Smell died in June,
1907, he left an estate of $2,OOo,OOO.
To his son Richard he left only an
annuity of $50 per year. To grand
uniece. Mabelle Smell Mcnamara, he
left property valued at $4,000 and an
annuity of $1,000 per year. The rest
of his property he left in trust, inter
est 10 be added each year to the prln'
cipal, unto twenty years after the
death of his youngest grandchild, then
but five years of age.
Richard Smell sought to break his
fathers will on the ground that he
was insane about women.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
Monuments and Cemetery Work
The MankatO Marble
a'rSls se sena@enss @s1n Works aroprssor a @ s@lA
Feb. 81, 2S,. Mar. 6.
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County of
Blue Earth.--Ss. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Ida L..
Dice, Deceased.
Letters testamentary on the estate of
said deceased being this day granted
unto Fred j.. Hoyt
1T IS ORRERED, That all claims and
demands of all persons against said
estate be presented to this Court, for
examination and allowance, at the Pro-
bate Office in the City of Mankato in
said Blue Earth County, on the fol-
lowing day, viz: Monday, the 18th
o'clock in the forenoon of said day.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That
six months from the date hereof be
allowed to creditors to present their
claims against said estate, at the eX-
piration of which time all claims not
presented to said Court. or not proven
to it's satisfaction, shall be forever
barred unless for cause shown further
time be allowed.
ORDERED FURTHER. That notice
of the time and place of hearing and
mands shall be given by publication OF
this order for three successive weeks
prior to the day appointed for such
examination. in the Mankato FREE
Press weekly newspaper printed ana
published at Mankato in said County
Dated at Mankato, the nth day OF
February, y. ID. 1908.
BY the Court.
VIM F. HUGHES.
Judge of Probate.
probate Court Seal)
w. l.. Comstock,
Attorney.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
PREPARING FOR TROUBLE.
Russia Will Convert VIadivostok Into
First Class Fortress.

St. Petersburg, Feb. 12.-The minis
try of war is preparing plans for the
speedy conversion of Vladivostok into
a first class fortress, involving eX'
penditures Of about $6.000,O00. Com
pletion of the work within three years
is held to be imperative in order that
Russia may not be caught mapping, as
at Port Arthur. in case of future
trouble with Japan. Sixty engineer,
ing officers will be employed on the
work. Russian strategy in any future
war with Japan will depend upon the
ability of Vladivostok to hold out for
a year without assistance. The mobili-
cation plans worked out by the gener,
al staff contemplate the concentration
of troops on the line of Lake Baikal
and the abandonment of the interyen-
ing parts of Siberia and Manchuria
until the army is strong enough To
assume the offensive successfully.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
HEAVY SNOW IN NEBRASKA
Ties Up Traffic and Causes Much Suf-
fering to Live Stock.

Omaha, Feb. 19.-Following a con-
tinuous fall of snow the past twenty
two hours accompanied by wind
which formed it into drifts and almost
tied up all kinds of street traffic, the
mercury began a downward course.
All railroad trains are late and in
some instances morning overland
trains did not reach Omaha until
evening.
Nearly fourteen inches of snow fell,
the heaviest in twenty years. There
was heavy run of live stock at the
yards and much suffering from the
storm was the result. Several stock
trains which have been on the road
twenty-four hours have not reached
the yards. Live stock is being hastily
unloaded at it's arrives and rushed to
feeding pens.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
BREAKS AMERICAN RECORD
John Evenson Jumps One Hundred
and Sixteen Feet on Skis.

and Sixteen Feet on SKIS.
Duluth. Feb. 14.-Following a days
postponement on account of soft
weather, the fourth annual tourna-
ment of the National Ski association
Of America was wound up here on
Chester Creek HILL the largest artifi-
cial hill in the world. The weather,
while not conducive to record break
ing. was fair The riders at first
found it difficult to get started down
the slide and sufficient speed could
not be attained to endanger the Ameri-
can record of ia feet, made at Red
Wing last year by Ole Mangseth of
Coleraine, Mimi.
The large crowd that had gathered
with the expectation of seeing new
American record established was get
ting ready to return home disappoint-
ed, when John Wannebo, director OF
the local club, hung up special prize
for the rider that could beat 10 feet.
A number of them tried it, but all fell
short. By this time it was thought
that last years record would have to
stand. While the crowd was prepar.
ing to start for home, John Evenson
came tearing down the mammot ]
slide, shot through the air and Lard ed
116 feet away from the scaffold. The
spectators roared themselves hoarse
and the champion was carried around
on the shoulders of number Of ad
mirers 1t was the greatest jump that
L.
A special tournament will be held
next Sunday, when it is hoped the
weather will be more favorable and
new records be established, which viii
last for years TO come.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
MYSTERY is SOLVED.
Body of Missing Woman Found in Her
Husbands Hotel.

Fox Croft, Me-, Feb. 19.-The mys-
terry of the disappearance of Mrs.
Maud Woodbury., wife of Herbert
Woodbury., wealthy real estate own
er here, who had not been seen since
Nov. d, last, was solved when the
body of the woman was found hanging
to door in an empty room in the
lodging house known as the Exchange
hotel
Immediately after the finding OF the
body Woodbury. was detained by the
police. The Exchange hotel is owned
by Woodbury., who occupied rooms
there with his wife up to last Novenl-
ber. After his wife disappeared
Woodbury. told his lodgers to move,
shut up the house and went to live
with sister. Woodbury. is fifty-two
years old and his wife was thirty-siX.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
HUGHES CANDIDACY.
Supported by Speakers at Meeting
in New York.

New York, Feb. 1S.-Declaratlons or
support to the candidacy of Governor
Hughes for president of this country
and prophesies of his election to that
office were made by speakers at the
formal notification Of General Stuart
L.. Woodford of his selection as presl-
dent of the Hughes League OF the
United States, which took place at
the Hotel Manhattan. Members OF
the notification committee and men,
bers of the Hughes league from many
parts of the country were present. The
speakers included General Woodford,
John e. Milholland, chairman OF the
Hughes league; Ex-Governor Bache[
der of New Hampshire, Congressman
Waldo of Brooklyn and Ex-Mayor
Seth Low of New York.
In accepting the headship OF the
Hughes league, General Woodford
characterized the political situation as
serious and declared that the Demo
cratic party, hungry with long fast
ing, will do their best to get together
and win the coming election
The Republicans must not count
upon Democratic mistakes, as IN the
past, he said. and a mistake now Dy
the Republicans would be crime. ne
paid high tribute to the worth OF GOV
: ernor Hughes, who, he said, ne had
known from his youth.
Governor Hughes, he asserted, was
the man who could undoubtedly OBTAIN
the electoral vote of New York.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
Feb. 81, rs. Mar. g.
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County or
Rluc Earth.-ss In Probate Court
In the Matter of the Estate of Her
man Tiefenthal. Deceased
Letters testamentary on the estate
of said deceased being this day granted
INTO William A. Funk. of said County.
TT is ORDERED hat all claims
and demands of all pers rs against said
estate be presented to his Court, for
examination and allowan' at the Pro-
bate Office in the City cs Mankato in
said Blue Earth County on the fol-
lowing day. viz: Mond ?, the 18th
day of May A. d. 1908. at ten o'clock in
the forenoon of said day.
IT is FURTHER ORDERED. That
three months from the date hereof De
allowed to creditors to present their
claims against said estate, at the ex-
piration of which time all claims not
presented to said Court. or not proven
TO it's satisfaction, shall be forever bar
red unless for cause shown further time
be allowed
ORDERED FURTHER. That notice OF
the time and place of hearing and eX-
animation of. said claims and demands
shall be given by publication of TINS
order for three successive weeks prior
to the day appointed for such examina-
ton. in the Mankato Free Press a
weekly newspaper printed and puDlisneu
at Mankato i'm said County.
Dated at Mankato. the 18th day OF
February, A. D. 1908.
BY the Court:
VIM. r.. HUGHES.
Judge of Probate.
probate Court Seal
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
TAFT IN CONNECTICUT.
War Secretary Delivers an Address at
New Haven.

New Haven, Conn, Feb. 1S.-Secre-
tary Taft was the chief guest and
speaker at the Lincoln day banquet
of the Young Mems Republican club
here and he received an enthusiastic
reception from the gathering, which
made one of the largest public ban
quets ever given in this city. The
tables were set for 500, while several
hundred persons sat in the gallery.
Secretary Taft came here from
Hartford, was entertained at luncheon
by Colonel Isaac Ullman Of Governor
Woodruff's staff, attended the Yale
corporation meeting and received
visits from friends at his hotel and
then went to the Republican club
house, where reception was given.
The banquet itself was served in
Music hall. President Seymour M.
Judd of the club presided.
Governor Rollins Woodruff spoke to
the toast "The Political Outlook"
Following the speech of Governor
Woodruff, Secretary Taft FPS intro,
duced amid a great outburst of ap-
plause, the 500 or more in the hall
rising, cheering and saluting the
speaker, who was designated by the
POSTMASTER as "the next president 'of
the United States
The secretary of war gave review
of the work and continuously growing
strength and solidarity of the Repub'
lican party since the time of Abraham
Lincoln, whom Mr.. Taft styled as the
real founder and constructor of the
party
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
Soft Roads Hinder Racers.

Albany, II. Y, Feb 14.-Four of the
automobiles engaged in the New York
to Paris via Siberia race have reached
or passed Albany. The American, one
French and the Italian reached here
soon after noon and went on west. The
first German car, that in which Lieu
tenant Hopper of the German army is
travelling, stopped here. The other
French car is at Hudson; the second
German car is at Rhinebeck, opposite
Kingston. All the cars have eXpe
rienced great difficulty with heavy
snow drifts and soft roads.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21

surance company went out of business
some time ago and the allegations
have to do with acts committed PRIOR
to 1905 and while voorhees, was presi-
dent and Combes was secretary OF the
company. In the indictments, which
are similar, one being returned against
each, it is charged that in 1904 the
president and secretary swore falsely
in setting forth in a report to the state
insurance department that certain
claimed dividends were not due to
policyholders.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
STATEMENT BY FORAKER.
Deals With the Primary Elections in
Ohio


Washington, Feb. Ex-senator j.
B. Foraker gave out statement as
to the result of the primary elections
in Ohio on Tuesday, when the Taft
forces made practically clean sweep
in the selection of delegates to the
coming Republican state convention.
In. his statement, Senator Foraker
says:
Nobody should be either surprised
or misled by the result of the pri-
maries held in Ohio. 1t has been COM
mon knowledge for weeks that the
call for these primaries was of such
character that my friends throughout
the state refused to participate. Conse'
quently there was no opposition to the
selection of Taft delegates, Under
such circumstances, he would, or
course, carry everything.
"That the result OF the primaries
does not indicate anything conclusive
should be manifest from the fact that
the total vote polled will not repre-
sent more than 10 per cent of the Re-
publicans of Ohio. There were only
two districts in which there was any
approach to contest, and these con-
tests were due to the fact that there
were opposing candidates in each dis
trict for the nomination to congress.
"In the Sixth district. the Taft can
didate was defeated by 1,025, while in
the Fifteenth district, Mr.. Dawes, the
Taft leader and candidate for renomi-
nation, is probably beaten, according
to the latest advices l have received
If there had been a primary in which
we could have participated, similar
results would have been possible, II
not probable, all over the state"
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
VOORHEES, is INDICTED.
Former Governor of New Jersey Ac.
cused of Perjury.

New York. Feb. 14.-lndictments al
leging perjury have been returned
against Former Governor of New Jer.
sey Foster NJ. Voorhees, and Frank H
Combes, following a grand jury in
Guiry into the acts of these two men
while they were officials of the Bank
ers' Life Insurance company. Plead
ings to the indictments soon will be
made.
A special grand jury, which is in
vestigating a multitude of big finan
cial transactions, made an incursion
into the field of life insurance two
weeks ago and the above findings are
the outcome. The Bankers Life In
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
Iowa Boy Drowned.

Marshalltown, Ia, Feb. 1S.--Leslie
Watt, aged fifteen years, was drowned
and two companions had narrow es-
capes in the Iowa river. Four boys
were in boat in the swift current
when it struck cake of ice and
damned a hole in the boat, which up
set. Lewis Arnold scrambled to 9
floating cake of ice and rescued two
cf,the boys after heroic effort. Watt
wan swept under the Ice. The body
waS recovered,
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
IN KANSAS AND MISSOURI
Snow Storm Prevails, But Without
Low temperature.

Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. 19-The
tnow storm that prevailed all day in
Kansas and Western Missouri con-
tinues. but without low temperature,
most points reporting the thermome-
ter above 20 degrees. In Kansas
City the snowfall is about one and
one-half inches, but in Southern and
Central Kansas four or five inches
have fallen. Trains are not seriously
delayed. and the storm is highly sat
isfactory to wheat growers and fruit
men.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.
Held by Governing Board of Bureau
of American Republics.


of American Republics.
Was shington, Feb. 1S.-An important
conference was held here of the gov
erning board Of the Bureau of Ameri
can Republics at which the diplomatic
representatives of the Latin-Amefican
republics, Assistant Secretary of State
Robert Bacon, and DR.. l.. S. Rowe,
professor of political science of the
University of Pennsylvania, were
present. The meeting was called to
consider what questions might well
be discussed at the Pan-American
scientific congress to be held in San
tiago, Chile, next December, and also
with a view to aSGertaining TO what
extent the Santiago congress should
prepare material for the Pan-Amerl-'
can conference to be held in Buenos
Ayres, Argentina, in 1910. A draft of
these questions was submitted to the
conference by DR.. Rowe. At the con-
clusion Of the meeting, Assistant Sec.
retary of State Bacon, in the absence
of Secretary Root, announced the per-
sonnel of the Pan-American commit
tee to act on behalf of the United
States in bringing about closer rela-
tions between this country and the
Latin-American countries. The COM
mittee is as follOws
Andrew Carnegie, Senator Stephen
B. Elkins of West Virginia, William
I. buchanan of Buffalo, \. Y; Repre-
sentatives Charles 3. Landis OF In.
diana and James L. Slayden of Texas;
DR.. l.. S. Rowe, General Alfred b.
Bates, U. S. A., retired; Assistant
Secretary of State Robert Bacon and
William E. Curtis.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
TELEGRAPKIC BREVITIES.

Sir James Knowles, founder and
proprietor of Nineteenth Century of
London, is dead. He was born in 1881.
Mrs. Clara c. Hoffman, president of
the Missouri w. c. T. U., died at her
home in Kansas City after long i'll
ness, aged fifty-five years.
Farmer" Burns, the Iowa wrestler,
announces that he has been engaged
to train Frank Gotch for his mat ch
with George Hackenschmidt, the Rus
sian wrestler, for the worlds cham
pionship. Fse
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
Prohibition in Mississippi.

Jackson, Miss, Feb. 14-The statu-
tory prohibition bill, which was the
special order of the day in the senate,
was passed by vote of 36 to A. The
bill provides that all licenses now in
existence in the state Shall cease on
Dec. 81. The governor has already
signified his intention of Immediately
signing the bill
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
TWO Bodies Recovered.

Pittsburg. Feb. 19.-The bodies of
David Reed, aged forty-five, river
boat fireman, and Edward Hobbs, aged
forty-four, his friend, have been re-
moved from the ruins of two houses
In Penn avenue, which on Monday
collapsed because of the flood under
mining the foundations,
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
Ruhonic PLAQUE in Ecuador.

Guayaquil, Ecuador, Feb. 1.-THE
announcement is made that this city
positively IS invaded by bubonic
plague. Already one death has oc-
Cured from this disease and there are
a number of suspected cases under
observation. The authorities are TAX.
ing active sanitary measures.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
FLOODS IN INDIANA.
Cause Much Suffering and Hardship
to Hundreds of Families.

Hazelton, Ind, Feb. 19.-Hundreds
of fIood-stricken families camped on
the high places in the Wabash, White
ard Patoka river bottoms have spent
q day of hardships and suffering. Dur
ing the day biting wind, accompanied
by hail and rain, made 1t impossible
for them to use boats. Late in the
afternoon the temperature moderated
and the melting snow added to the
torrents. The rivers rose four feet.
covering hundreds of acres seldom
known to go under water. The whole
population of East Mount Carmel
were forced to leave their homes.
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21
Bombs Kill a Woman.

Barcelona, Feb. 18.-Two bombs ex-
ploded here, killing a woman and
wounding a woman and child
The Mankato free press., 1908-02-21

Itch cured in thirty minutes by
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Never
fails. Sold by Lack Drug company.