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The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
State Capital Notes
Commissioners Pay Their Expenses.

Commissioners Pay Their Expenses.
Indignation is arising among ship
pers because the state legislature fail
ed 10 provide the Railroad Commission
with enough funds suitably 10 meet
the crisis that eonfronts the commits
sion in it's fight to maintain low rates..
For more than year the commits
sion has had, not only no money for
such emergencies, but no money for
ordinary expenses. If the commits
sioners were not so cons cientious a
set of men. one shipper said the af-
fairs of their board would be in sad
condition. Instead OF letting the work
slip by. undone. the commissioners dig
into their pockets and pay the ex.
penses necessary to insure its being
done we'll
When it became essential for COM
missioners Allen and Crockett and
Rate Clerk Swain to go to ST Paul and
do their best TO block the attempt of
the railroads 10 tie UP regulation in
Arkansas through iniunctions. they
NNhA anu Ilid ll4t tb9A VI III - ~
themselves When it became neces-
sary 10 send Rate Clerk Swain 10 ST.
Louis to help Attorney General Kirby
with the case against the Kansas
City Southern Commissioner lamp
ton footed the bill So il has been all
along
The legislature requires that when
ever the commission receives petit
tion for siding. station, crossing, etc.
it must go personally to the spot and
investigate whether the petition states
an actual need. However, the same
legislature allowed the Commission on.
ly $3.50 for expenses. Obviously, this
was soon spent, thus throwing the
heavy cost of making these long trips
on the commissioners themselves. To
be sure, the members are allowed by
the legislature to receive free trans
portation from the railway companies,
but this does away with only a part
of the actual expense involved
On October ) the suit of the trunk
lines TO secure a permanent injune-
ton, enjoining the commission from
interfering with the fixing of rates,
will be called by Judge Trieber. With
in several months the case will be
tried Meantime. while the commits
sion should be collecting the evidence
for its arguments. from railroad and
accounting experts, its hands are tied.
They must rely entirely on the spon-
taneous and voluntary efforts of the
shippers in this section, to provide ex.
pert testimony and hire additional
counsel TO aid Attorney General Kir-
by. The shippers have already borne
the expense of two previous suits. but
do not feel able to contribute the sum
necessary TO meet the great outlay
necessary before the commission can
expect to meet adequately the splen-
did array of talent which the rail
roads always have at their CALL.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
State Sanitation Society Proposed.

State Sanitation Society Proposed,
The organization of an Arkansas
Sanitation Society. 10 be composed of
the members of Boards OF Health
throughout the state. property owners.
doctors, lawyers and business men and
70 have for ifs purpose the prevention
Of disease by sanitation. IS now being
| talked by many physicians through
=the=state
Definite steps toward the organiza-
tion of such society will probably
be taken soon.
Already Dr. j. G. Minor of Hot
Springs, major surgeon of the Arkan-
sas National Guard whose methods
in keeping the Arkansas encampment
lit perfect sanitary condition at Leon
Springs. Tex. brought forth many
compliments from regular army Off
GERS. has taken up the project and is
pushing it as rapidly as possible. He
has announced that he will attempt TO
interest state and municipal officers
in the movement.
Concerning the project and the COM
ing tuberculosis congress at Wash
ingtan5 a. c., which Dr. Minor viii at
tend as one of the delegates from Ar
kansas, Or. Minor has the following
10 say:
In accepting the commission to rep
resent the state OF Arkansas at the
International Congress- on Tuberculo-
sis in Washington now assembled |
desire TO say that The subjects to be
considered there are necessarily so
wide in scope, both scientifically and
practical. that | will be unable to take
interest in any but the practical pa
perss believing that such attention can
be better transmitted to the people
of our state and give more satisfactory
returns in the way of preventing dis
ease. / presume the other delegates
will look after the scientific end of
it.
TO assist in the practical part of
the great work, ! am going 10 ask the
press to advise all state and munich
pal officials 10 become interested in
State Sanitation Society, the society to
be composed of the members of Boards
of Health throughout the state. togeth-
er with property holders, doctors,
lawyers and business men. The or
ganiZation should meet in general con-
vention once year. and discuss the
points of interest presented by local
or municipal boards.
THE state organization should be
encouraged by the legislature. All
practical work done by the organi
cation will be appreciated by the in
dividual citizens; all scientific work
will be recognized and valued by the
national association.
The real work of prevention of dis
ease is to be done first, last and all
the time by the local boards of SAM
tatfon. the scientific bodies only point
the way.
is the preservation of health worth
the trouble? Talk is cheap; then
talk"
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
'''''-'''--@''nAN
NEWS OF
ARKANSAS
Mcculloch Makes Request.

McCulloch Makes Request
The present situation. due 10 the
alleged appearance of night riders in
Arkansas. which has already had a
marked effect on the cotton market
in some parts of Arkansas, appeals
10 Inc as being a very serious one. /
intend TO write To John Bowers of
Jacksonville. president of the Arkan
sas Farmers Union. Immediately and
ask him to either call an emergency
meeting of the Arkansas union for
the purpose of taking steps 10 check
the night rider movement, or write
letters 10 all parts of the state at
once and ask the union leaders to do
everything possible to check the
growth of this movement. | believe
that the proper solution is 10 appeal
to the business men and cotton buy
ers and ask them not TO buy cotton
The foregoing declaration was made
by X. H. McCulloch OF Beebc, chair
man of the Executive Committee Of
the Arkansas Farmers Union and sec
rotary OF the national organization Of
the union The statement was given
cut upon Mr.. MeGulloeh's return from
Little Rock
The statement is considered 10 be
of unusual importance as indicating
the position that may be taken by the
Farmers Union in the present threat
ened night ride ~ e1ovement in this
state 1t is interpreted to mean that
the union will ask the cotton buyers
and merchants of Arkansas 10 cease
business entirely as far as the buying
of cotton is concerned.
The union is opposed to such
thing as night riding declared Mr..
McCulloch Saturday. land will do all
that it can 10 stamp out the growth
of such a movement. However 1t
seems to me that the only possible so
luton of Me situation at this time IS
to ask the merchants to stop buying
cotton throughout the entire state.
This is being tried at Paragould and
is successful in checking the further
appearance of night riders. II the
merchants want to take the cotton on
Indebtedness that would be all right,
but we would ask that he cease buy
ing any
But if merchants are allowed 20
take the cotton to apply on indebted
ness would not the result be another
scheme for financing distressed co..
TONI" was asked Mr.. McCulloch.
In a way it would" he replied.
"However there is no doubt but that
the distressed cotton will be handled
all right and without trouble without
the aid of any such scheme as that
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
Placed in the Penitentiary.

The following from ST. Francis
county were. placed in the peniten
tiary Sunday: Ed Brandon, negro. con
vieted of forgery and sentenced to
four years; Harry Hill. negro. assault
to kill one year; viii Mcintosh. ne.
gro. assault to kill, one year; Lon
Nichols. negro, receiving stolen prop
erty. one year; Irwin Perkins, negro
burglary and grand larceny, -four
years. Mamie Peoples. negress. muir
der in the second degree. five years,
Walter Watts, white, grand larceny
one year
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
ORGANIZE New Railroad.

The Gulf and Magnolia Railroad
Company, capitalized al 100000. OF
which 100000 has been subscribed
has filed articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state and has been
granted charter TO build the road
The road will be an extension of a
railroad now in operation from Nat,
chitoches, La, 10 Magnolia, Ark, a
distance of 100 miles. with proposed
extension of IS miles to Hope The
principal stockholders are business
men Of MAGNOLIA and Hope.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
Program for the German Parade.

The Executive Committee for the
German Day celebration, October 6,
has practically completed arrange
ments for the celebration. The festi-
vities will begin at 10 o'clock in the
morning with parade, followed by
speaking program and will close with
a ball
The parade will form at Second
street and Rector avenue. Louis
Reichardt will he the grand marshal.
A platoon of mounted police and
band will be at the head of the column.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
Civil Service Examinations.

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces examinations
for applicants for positions as libra
rians in the Naval War College and
aid in the Division of Insects in tn
National Museum. In Arkansas the
former examination will be held at
Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Texarkana
and Little Rock on October u and %
and the latter at the same cities on
October IS.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
Will Redeem Property WiIIed.

At the meeting of the trustees OF
Little Rock Public Library Monday
afternoon, too few attended to con.
stitute quorum Those trustees who
were present however, took steps by
which $l50 was raised to redeem four
lots in Pullman. III. This property
was left to the library by Mrs. Sarah
G. Henley, and is valued at between
$4,000 and $1,000.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
To Foster Pretty Schools.

State superintendent of Instruction
George B. Cook Saturday night an
nouneed that he had appointed Miss
Eva Reiehardt of this city to the po-
sition OF instructor in the various
school Improvement associations
throughout the state She will visit
the various places throughout the
state and interest mothers and rela-
tives of students in the identifying OF
school rooms. The position which she
occupies is a new one, just created.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
Ten Years for Miles HaIfacre.

Miles Halfacre was found guilty of
murder IN the second degree Wednes-
dag afternoon by jury in the Jack
son circuit court at Newport and was
sentenced to ten years in the peni,
tertiary He had been indicted for
murder in the first degree In the kill
ing of Charley Hunter, August 4.
1907, near Grubbs. in the eastern part
OF the county.
The first trial of the case resulted
in a hung jury"
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
CHARGED With Bootleaaine.

Viii Johnson of Cleveland. Conway
county. was arraigned Saturday be.
fore ". S. Allen, United States com
missioner on charge of selling liq-
uor at retail without having paid the
special tax AS result of the hear
ing Johnson was bound over to the
Federal Grand Jury in the sum O.
$3.50 He made the bond and returned
10 his home.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
Total Population Is 67,047.

The population of Little Rock, &C
cording to the estimate based on the
number of names in the new direc-
tory, is 67.047. This is gain of
1927 since the last issue. The ap-
proximate population is estimated by
multiplying the individual names, ex-
elusive OF firms, non-residents, etc.
by three, the multiple now considered
most accurate for representing the
names of women and children in the
published list. In Argenta the popu-
lation Il 1880, a decrease Of $50.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
Federal Court Meets Oct. 10.

The federal court will open Mon
day. October 10. and on the day fol
lowing the Grand Jury will report
The majority of the Jail and bond
cases to be investigated are alleged
violations of the internal revenue laws
relative TO the retailing of liquor
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
kilIs Huqe RattIesnake.

A rataesnake l6 feet long with Il
rattles. was killed near jacksonville
Tuesday by l.. p. Montgomery a we'll
known planter Mr.. Montgomery was
picking cotton when he saw the snake.
Calling others TO his aid he managed
10 pin the snake down with a forked
stick and kill it.
The body OF the snake will be sent
to Hot Springs TO be displayed at he
state fair
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
To Extend to Hot Springs.

Project is now on foot to extend the
De Queen and Eastern Railroad, a
lumber road owned and operated BY
the Dierks Lumber Company of De
Queen. TO Hot Springs The road IS
now 81 miles long. and extends from
De Queen to the Dierks lumber camp
About 40 miles more OF trackage
would have to be built to extend il
or to Hot Springs.
The road, however, has the repu-
tation of being prosperous one, and
it is believed that it would pay il
extended into Hot Springs.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
Charged With Selling.

John Prince of Arkadelphia was ar.
raigned Tuesday before W. S. Allen,
United States commissioner, on
charge of selling liquor at retail with.
out paying the special tax Witnesses
were examined. and Prince was held
on a $3.50 bond to await the action
of the federal Grand Jury.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01

The story OF two gins beius bum
ed in the vicinity OF Newport by night
riders is without foundation.
J. II. Laid of Judsonia. after tele-
phoning persons at Bradford. states
that two gins in that section. one at
Denmark and The other at Fairview,
Independence county, We're posted
Monday night, and the owners ordered
10 close down or run the risks OF fire.
BY most Of the people here he matter
is treated as a Joke played upon the
owners OF the two gins.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
Liquor Men Plead Guilty.

Joel Norman, of Van Buren, county,
and James Jones. of Russellville,
went before Judge Trieber Wednes-
day afternoon and pleaded guilty to
selling liquor at retail without pay
ing the special tax. Each was fined
$500 and sentenced to 80 days in the
Pulaski county Jail
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-10-01
aorsn ls Killed bv Lightning.

Lightning killed valuable saddle
horse owned by 7. R. Billingsley OF
Hope Wednesday night. The animal
was in a vacant lot at the time 1t
was killed
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-05-14
MAINE INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

The Turner Center Creamery Co, who
recently bought the farm of Ed Wood in
Troy, will make quite extensive repairs be-
fore taking possession.
The sheepskin tannery at Clinton, F. L.
BeSse manager, resumed operations the
middle of February with one-half crew.
Twelve hundred sheepskins per day at the
present time are turned out, of which
MessrS. Besse, Osborn and Odell of Boston
take the entire product
The Mt. Waldo Granite Works at Frank
fort have contracts to furnish the granite
for the New York docks, the approaches to
the Black well Island bridge and the big
cathedral of ST. John the Divine. A busy
season is anticipated and about 800 men
will be employed in the quarrieS and cut
ting sheds.
The Frankfort Supply Company have a
new saw mill in operation, located near the
bridge in Frankfort, where dimension lum-
Der is sawed, also slaves and box shocks.
The mill is equipped with up-to-date run
ming gear and is under the direct manage
ment of A. I. Snow, who is also manager of
the Frankfort Supply Company.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-05-14
Maine News Items.

The valuation of Rumford Falls is So, 1884,
615, an increase of $l23,OO0 over last year.
The rate of taxes will be $40 per $1,000,
which is p mills less than the rate assessed
last year.
The Dexter school board has voted to
allow no more dancing at high school
functions. The edict came as the result, so
the committeeman say, of much fault-fnd-
ing from the parents of students over late
hours kept by pupils
The Bates college inter-claSS track and
field meet, which was to be held at GarcelOn
field, Lewiston, May LIST, had to be pOstpon-
ed on account of the condition Of the track.
No date has been fixed for the meet, but it
probably will not be until after the Maine
inter collegiate on the 10TH
The James G. Blaine mansion in Augusta
has been opened for the season. Mr.. Blaine'S
daughter, Mrs Walter DamrOsch of New
York, has arrived with her three younger
daughters and her nephew, Walter Blaine
Beale and others of the family will come
soon.
The tax rate in Skowhegan this year will
be 10 mills. Last year it was 20. This is
So lower on 1000 than the average rate in
this State. The value of real estate is ST.
674,775. personal estate, $685., 1896, the net gain
in the towns valuation being $15, 1876. There
are 140S polls, loss of 125 in one year, due
to the local manufacturing plants running
slack since last fall
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-05-14
THE GASOLINE ENGINE.

Let us, for moment, consider the
gasoline engine, not merely as piece
of machinery, but in its relation to the
development of its owners character.
The first season that you live with
that engine you never cease to wonder
why in Sam Hill you were fool enough
to throw away your good money on
such diaboiical invention. You realize
that the language you sometimes use
in addressing the thing is not at all
what it should be, and you cannot help
but feel that the whole connection is
having distinctly bad effect on your
morals. And. of course. it is the en-
gine's fault. But later, with the growth
of knowledge, experience, and under
standing, you learn to paraphrase Mr..
Kipling's celebrated piece of advice to
the raw recruit of the rifle corps
When arr of your bullets fly wide in the ditch.
Don't call your Martini a crOsSeyed old bitch
she's human as you are-yOu treat her as sich,
And she'll fight FOR the young British soldier.
Among all the creatures of steam and
iron and brass ever devised by the mind
of man, there is none more human-I
had almost said none more feminine
than the gasoline engine. Surely there
is none more responsive. You treat
her as SIGH, and she'll work for the
young Yankee yachtsman.LW. d. HUI
bert, in the May Atlantic.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-05-14
AUTHORS SUMNER HoMes.

A recent article in the New York
Saturday Evening Post comments upon
the notable fact that the Maine coast
appears to have peculiar attractive
ness for authors. 1t cites numerous
instances and describes the homes of
William Dean Howells and George s.
WATSON at Kittery Point; that of
Thomas Nelson Page at York Harbor,
and speaks of his every summer guest,
John Fox. Then it'passes on to note
the residences Of Mrs. Margaret Deland
and Meredith Nicholson at Kennebunk-
port, and the various authors living
upon the islands of Portland Harbor,
among whom the best known are Mrs.
Clara Louise Burnham and Command
er Peary.
But the Saturday Evening Post has
omitted many writers of prominence
who have summer homes in this i'm
mediate locality. There is, for in
stance, f. P. Dunno, who had house
last summer at York Harbor and ex-
poets to come again this year. Ten
miles back in South Berwick is the
home of Sarah Orne Jewett. Just
across the York line in Ogunquit and
near famous High Pasture directly on
the sea is the beautiful residence of
John Kendrick Bangs just built last
year. Only a few miles back in Hollis
is the summer home of Mary Wilkins.
Nathan Haskell Dole also makes his
summer home at Ogunquit and has for
many years. There are many other
well known writers, of lesser note per
haps, who spend their summers in this
locality, although not owners of prop
erty here and to name them all would
vNrn Iny,s 1H~k .,Ir
has been favorite resort of noted
authors for many years, and their num-
bers are constantly increaslng.-York
Transcrjnt
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-05-14
WINTERPORT.

Maria, widow of the late Capt. John
Sprowl, passed away suddenly April 2Sth
after a few hours illness, at the advanced
age of Sc years. She is survived by two
sons, Capt Theophilus Sprowl, our post
master, and Capt. Henry Sprowl of Mobile,
Ala. by one sister, Mrs. Mary Tufts of
Pasadena, Cal, a niece, Mrs. T. L. Keppler
of Boston, and one granddaughter, Miss
Lena Sprowl. The funeral was held Sat
urday at the family residence, Rev. l.. ii.
w. Wharf, officiating. ..:. Mrs. George Jor-
dan and infant son of Waltham, Mass, are
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
Weed. .... Rev. Arthur j. Lockhart and
family arrived by steamer Thursday from
East Boothbay and have moved into the
Methodist parsonage 80. MIR. and Mrs. JOS
eph Liable oENewburgh were in town last
week calling on friends. :. Miss Olive New
comb has been quite i'll. DR.. A. r. Fellows
has been in attendance and Mrs. Jose,
phine Wilson is caring for her. Rev. and
Mrs. f. L. Provan left town Wednesday for
West fremont. Miss Elizabeth Fernald
spending the Easter vacation with her par
ents, Capt and Mrs. A. E. Fernald. Mrs.
Sarah GOodnow returned home from Bangor
Saturday. Mr.. and Mrs. James Foley are
receiving congratulations on the birth OF a
daughter, Barbara Avery. Miss Maria
day.. Capt. John Clifford of Camden has
been in town recently, called here by the
illness of his brother, Capt. Odin G. Clifford.
49,. Rev. Arthur j. Lockhart, the new pas
tor of the NJ. E. church, delivered
very able and interesting sermon Sunday
morning, May 3rd, from the text, off we suf-
fer we shall also reign with him; if we deny
him, he also will deny u.s." The topic of
the discourse, To bear the cross of Christian
ity is our duty. .......The Winterport ORA
matte Club presented "The Penalty of
Pride" to large audience at Union Hall
Friday evening, May LIST, complimentary to
the graduating class of the W. Ii. S. The
cast was as follows:
Frank Eastwick, Oscar Cole
Vivian Kirk, G. r. LOugee
Robert Chalmers, bank president,
Edward Neatly
Tom Gresham, devoted to SalIie,
Joshua Treat
Tim Travers, not so bad after all,
W. B. BelcheS
Baker, a detective, H. E. Kneeland
Emily Fastwick, Frank S wife,
Mrs. C. c. Moody
Sallie Clegg, her sister,
Miss Marion Fhilbrook
Mrs. Dalsimer, whose bobby is reform,
Mrs. c. r. Lougee
Elizabeth Ann Cripps, saved from the
Sums, Mrs. III. j. Weber
Following the drama was social dance,
music by Levels orchestra.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-05-14
John .. Johnson of Liberty

Elected Commander of the Maine Loyal
Legion.
PORTLAND, Me, May 6. The annual
meeting of the Maine Commandery
Loyal Legion was held this evening at
Riverton castino. A banquet was en-
joyed and tine following officers elected
for the ensuing year: Commander,
Acting Master, John o. johnson, Lib
erty; Senior Vice Commander, Captain
and Assistant Surgeon, Alfred Mitchell,
Brunswick; Registrar, Major Charles
H. Boyd, Portland; Treasurer, Captain
Thomas J. Little, Portland; Chancellor,
First Lieut.. Chas. w. Roberts. Port
land; Chaplain, John S. Sewall, Bangor;
Council, Lieut.. Henry N. Fairbanks,
Bangor; George S. Roweil, James E.
Hewey and Lieut.. Casper E. Marshall,
Portland; Lieut.. Danville B. Stevens.
Lewiston. The paper of the evening
was read by Gen. Selden Conner of
Augusta on the Battle of the Wilder
ness"