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The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1908-03-19
OUT OF PRISON
INTO HIS GRAVE
"a j. 0'csmnsr. sens 10 Psnitsntiary
for Assaultinx Brother In Lac.
Killed After Assaniting Msn
sscond Tims.

Lake Village. Match i1.-Ed
\. Oconner. who was released
from the state psusteutiasy
Feorusry II. was shot ard allied
IT Eudora yesterday by bis
brother in-law. Willie Maule,
whom O'couner bad attacked
with : razor.
O'Conncr. who = said to be .
bad mar. hid Just finished term
OF one gear in the penitsutiaTy
for assault with iutest 70 kill.
The assault which led 20 hts Inn
prisonmsnt krew opt OF tfoubie
with the brothes-iz-law who
killed him. Ii II said there has
always been bad tlood between
the men.
When O'conner's term 10 the
peusteutiary ended The sheriff al
Chicot county brought him back
here on a charge 81 carrying con.
cealed weapons. As he left the
peniteutiary with the sheriff
OCouuer Is said 10 have remarked
iii you take me back there they
will kill me"
After the misdemeanos charge
had been settled, O'Conner u said
to have pretended friendship
with his wife and her family,
with whom she was living. Thev
invited him 10 the home. and on
arriving there he told them, II =
said, that his friendship was only
feigued for the purpose OF getting
into the house, and then, drawing
a razor, he attacked his wtfe's
brother, Willie Maule. Maule
drew revolver and shot the man
dead.
OConner was a oue.armed man
about IS years old. Ills record
10 the penitentiary was a good
one.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1908-03-19
Mnrdook.s Mall ann ln-

Washington. Mar. 1.-THE house
aas incorporated in the postofiice APP
preparation bill the new system OF
weighing the mails. This will result
Ia saving TO the government Of hun.
8rcds Of dollars. The new system has
aeen urged Ia congress for the last
$50 wears hy Representative Murdoch
81 Kansas Tho house turned 1t down
ast year and since then Postmaster
General Never has put Il into opera
fioa hy a departmental order II in
wolves corrected divisor in estimat
De TIE naY due the railroads.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1908-03-19
MANY Poisoned at Church Social

Upper Sandusky, o.. Mar, 14.-Five
hundred people were poisoned here
Thursday night at a social given b.
the ladies Of the English Lutberal
church. by eating chicken and waffles
Many 81 the people did not become
IN until after they had gone home and
by midnight all the doctors in the city
we're busy Friday some OF the stores
could not run because all the clerks
were unable TO appear. 1t is believed
THAI no one win die.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1908-03-19

Denver Mar if~tag Bnchtei Fri
day received an Anonymous letter la
which the writer threatened e. destroy
she federal building and ti~ eity hall
m this cisy unless something IS done
20 relieve the condition ~ che unem
eloyed O. Denver within the nexi "a
aoars The icttsg Was slaned a re.
publican nao has voted under the
leash 81 me masier Althoueh ihe
governor ala un aiNer ta take the
threat seriously. q IS said that extra
precautions win bo taken 10 keep SIS.
Mcious characters out 81 the capitol
and other public buildings
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1908-03-19

Denver. Mar 14.-Corporal Charles
Griffn. of Company I, Twenty-first in
fantry. was badly injured at Fort
Logan Thursday by the bursting Of
cannon, which was being fired in
salute. One OF the arms of the soldier
was shattered and he was otherwise
bruised and hurt. He is in the hos
pital at the Fort and may recover.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1908-03-19

said, "tt wasn't money he wanted
bus somebody 10 scratch his back. y
There are many with strong arms and
willing hands that have that same
Yearning. Hunts Cure will make
back scratching or any other old
scratching totally unnecessary. II
knaeks out any itching sensation that
eRaa happened, and II dot il sight
nov enc application relieves
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1908-03-19

st. Paul, Mar. l4.-Gov. Johnson
Friday accepted an invitation TO adj
dress the students OF Tuskegee Uni
vsrslty OF Alabama on May 25. The
governor said he had no other dates
for addresses and that the report that
he was 70 go to Kansas City to speak
there on March 80 was Incorrect.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1908-03-19

~lmmans bieeF tMf2aer f. fhe most
valuable rcmetF : ever tried for com
stipation and Uisordered liver III
does rs work thoroughly, hul does
nat gripe llkr mUst rWMaaiee Of les
Whenever the opportunity occurs
81 81. TomiinsCu.
Price Ia 9ehaG0. Kansas.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1908-03-19

Joplin. Mo, Mar. if.-Mrs. Katie
sulilnger. aged % years, a cousin OF
Abraham Lincoln. with whom she
played IN childhood. died Thursday
night al her home four miles from Jop-
iin. Mrs. sullinger was a Missouri
pioneer and lived IN Jasper county
hfty ave years.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1908-03-19

have appointed Pope Bros.
as selling agents in Mena for
shingles manufactured at my mill
east Of town. These Shingles
will be tored in Meua in large
quantities and will be sold al the
low price Of sl.30 per thousand.
Parties buying shingles al the
mill will be charged Sl.l0 mar
thousand, Jerry Balm,
81 w.t. Che Sbiugle Man
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1908-03-19

she approached the roorwalker and
asked: Where shah fad something
aicc IN ull for the dlniaz Foom7~ "on
the fiftA--" began the naorwaiker.
Thsa paussn1. he locked doubsfnlly az
The la4uiFeF % gCe want paint.
Gns CT something Ia tbs sasdlas liner
success MagaxlzA
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1908-03-19

Is The touch I'D Huckleu's Arnioa
salve IFS the happiest combination
of aruloa 1owcrs aud healing halsams
eyer compounded. No matter how
es9 TIC sore or ulcer Is, fhis salvu
Wall n4te ~ For burns, scalds. cutA.
woNhas on piles, 10 has no equal.
S0sfantsed hF Jackson Drug Cs
2sss
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1908-03-19
lis a liustIer-

Hunts Lightning Oil is up and do
Ing an the time. ltcures your aches,
pains, cuts, burns and bruises while
sou sleep. Rub little on your mis-
cry and feel ID disappear.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14
Mile-a.MInute Balloon.

Washington.-Peter Cooper Hewitt
Of New York, electrical engineer and
inventor of the hydro-plane skimming
boat, intends to build a dirigible bal
loon for the government which will be
more powerful as fighting machine
than anything now under considera-
tion by the War Department.
He will build the balloon at his own
expense, the machine to be bought by
the government II satisfactory.
Mr. Hewitt will be aided in his work
by Miller Reese Hutchinson. Both
have received encouragement from
President Roosevelt and the War De-
partment.
The dirigible Mr.. Hewitt expects to
build will be worth from $4,000 to
100000, and will probably make a
speed Of sixty miles an hour. Plans
submitted to the signal corps by Mr..
Hewitt have been approved by dirigible
experts.
His proposal is especially welcome
to the signal corps, because no appro.
priation for dirigibles will be made by
Congress this year.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14
Only Two sattIeships.

washington.-By a vote of thirteen
to five, one member absent and not
voting, the house committee on naval
affairs Monday rejected the Presidents
urgent recommendation that Congress
at this session authorize the building
of four battleships at total cost of
$38 100000, and by unanimous vote
there was included in the navy appro-
priation bill an authorization for the
construction of two, to cost $9,5OO, 900
each. and to be Of the Delaware type.
These representatives voted in ac-
cordance with the Presidents recon-
mendations: Lilly of Connecticut,
(Rep); Thomas, Ohio. (Rep.); Myer,
Louisiana, Dem); Talbot, Maryland,
(Dem.), and Hobson, Alabama, Dem.
Representative Hobson announced
after the committee meeting that he
intended to make minority report
recommending authorization for four
battleships.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14

American cartoonists represent the
Dernocratic party as donkey, the Re.
publican party as an elephant. These
symbols have grown tiresome and have
exhausted the ingenuity of comic
craftsmen One Of the best of the
Joyous brotherhood of cartoonists, Mr..
John T. McCutcheon of the Chicago
Tribune. suggests several animals
from which new party symbols may be
chosen. Among them are the owl, the
symbol Of wisdom, says nothing, promi-
nenf In Hoo's Hoo in America; the
dog. the friend of the common people,
symbol Of vigilance and fidelity, in
digenous to all parts of the country;
the turkey. the most popular thing in
November. when the elections occur;
the cat. hard to kill, having nine lives,
symbol Of the home; the buffalo, ex-
clusively American and nearly ex.
dnct; the goat. can leap from crag to
crag and from platform to platform,
can live ON anything. knows how to
take q joke, and butts in where angels
fear to tread; and finally, the turtle,
slow but sure. long-lived and hard to
kill. carries its own house and can vote
in any ward.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14
Medals for Service.

Fort Logan Colo.-Colonel Williams
and the majors and captains of the
Twenty-flrst infantry have received
their medals from the War Department
for service In the Spanish-American
war and the Philippine insurrection.
They will be furnished to all officers
ana men entitled to them as soon as
they can be supplied. Medals for SER
vice in the Indian wars and for those
who participated in the invasion of Chi
ma will be issued later. Recruits were
forwarded from this post to Fort
Myer. Virginia. Fort D. A. Russell, Wy
oming. and Fort Rosecrans, California,
during the past week.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14
rwentx rhou..nd Acre. Of neet..

Denver.-A Greeley dispatch says:
Already arrangements have been made
by the farmers and the sugar company
for raising 10000 acres of beets in
this district this year. Heretofore it
has been necessary to ship in labor dur
ing the beet season, but this will not be
the case this year, and the 1900 Rus
slams, Japanese and Mexicans required
to handle the beets are permanent resi-
dents. The sugar company predicts
that in five years the beet crop of the
district will be grown by Russians and
Japanese to whom the farmers will
rent their lands.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14
insanity and the Nation.

! Not long ago the United States GEN.
sus bureau issued a report which
should have provoked instant and
widespread discussion. OF all the
publications giving the results Of the
twelfth census there is hardly any Of
such importance to the American peo-
pie. For in language the. most ex-
.plicit, and supported by statistics
gathered with the scrupulous care that
has characterized all the enumerations
of. the lstent cenlus. It revea1s the ex-
istencs Of conditions making strongly
against the continued prosperity of the
United States and its continued prog
ress to headship among nations. The
reference Is to the special report on
Insane and Feeble-minded in Hos
pitfalls and Institutions" At first
glance" remarks H. Addinston Bruce
in North American Review, nothing
alarming is to be seen in the state
ment that in 1903 there were in the
insane asylums Of the country total
OF 160,151 inmates. What is this, It
may be asked. in population exceed
ing 80.000.000? But the matter quick
" assumes another aspect when it is
observed that in 1890. the year of the
preceding census. the insane asylums
held only 74.02s unfortunates; and
that, ten years earlier. the asylum
population was but 40.4s2. In other
words, there has been a progressively
more rapid increase in insanity than
in population. Just what the differ
enceis It is impossible to say. statis-
dcally It ID enormous.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14
GOT IT.
Millions In Oats and Barley.

Nothing will pay you better for 1908
than to sow a plenty of big yielding oats
and barley with oats at l0c to Soc bu.
(Salzers new Emperor William Oats av-
eraged SO bu. per acre more than any
other variety in 1907 would pay immense
ly while Salzer's Silver King Barley which
proved itself the biggest yielder at the
Wisconsin Agricultural Station during
1907 if you had planted SO acres would
have given you in 1907 just So, $1,000 on so
acres. 1t is an enormous yielder.
JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 10c
to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse. Wis, and We will mail you the
only original seed catalog published in
America with samples of Emperor Will
liam Oats. Silver King Barley, Billion Dol
lar Grass which produces u tons per acre.
Sainfoin the dry soil luxuriator. ETC.. ETC.,
and if you send l4c we add a package Of
new farm seeds never before seen by you.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14
rAaMsRs FORMING A UNION.
Equity oeeisty Pushes Its Organization
In Colorado.

Equity oeeisty Pushes Its Organization
In Colorado.
Denver. - Colorado farmers have
taken up a national movement for or
gAnixation and within the last two
months 5000 have enrolled themselves
In the Farmers Equity Society-a
farmers union. says the Denver Re
publican. Union labor seems to be
reaching cut and tying up with two ex-
tremes in the state. Recent evidences
have been advanced where one union
formed compact with trust and now
the whole power Of organized labor In
Colorado proposes combination with
the farmers. Any old alliance to win.
there Is talk OF the farmers and labor
ers going to the polls together.
Yet the American Federation OF La
Dor has several times refused to issue
q charter to the Farmers Equity So
ciety, although that body has applied
for one. The A. F. of L. has accepted
the advances of the society. but has
not admitted 1t to the laboring ranks
for tho reason that there are q great
number Of farmers in it who own their
own farms and are therefore to be
classed with the capitalists.
In Boulder, Weld and Jefferson coun-
ties the movement has become large
and within the next sixty days a con-
vention will be held at Golden where
the labor ranks will be one Of the prin-
cipal topics Of discussion.
1t has been asked what the two
bodies have in common. This was an
swered by Max Morris, fourth vice
president Of the American Federation
of Labor last night, who said that the
ultimate object is to sell the product
of the producer to the consumer direct.
It Is said that the society intends to
establish distributing points where the
middleman may secure goods and sell
at retail without being forced to pay
extortionate rates to trusts. 1t Is one
plan for the abolition of trusts-the
most ambitious trust-busting scheme
that has been devised for many years.
Necessarily, this plan will require
years to work out. At least the trusts
have not displayed great deal OF con-
cern yet.
The society of farmers has. 1t is said,
a membership Ct over 1.000, 900 persons.
and is very strong in Texas and Okla
homa. AS political power it has
great promises.
Since its inception two years ago 1t
has sent fraternal delegates to the A.
F. of L. conventions, where they are
given a voice. Many central labor
bodies Of various cities have also ad-
mitted the farmers to membership and
1t is possible that closer amalgama-
ton may be effected in Colorado. Mr..
Morris would not commit himself on
what attitude labor leaders of the state
take toward such union, but said that
the principal bodies of centralized la
Dor would have delegates at the con-
vention in Golden. The society has
been working here through local execu-
tive committees, drumming farmers
association seems to be more for politi-
into line. Farm hands as well as own
ers are said to be admissible to men,
bership. At present the object OF the
cal purposes than anything else.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14

Laundry work at home would be
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces-
sary to use 80 much starch that the
beauty and flneness of the fabric is
hidden behind paste Of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality OF the goods. This trou-
BILE can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because Of its great.
er strength than other makes.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14

A couple in New Jersey have given
social theorists. legislators and moral
lists q hint as to the war against di.
vorce. They wished to be separated,
but finding that $40. the limit Of what
they were willing to pay for expenses.
would not be enough. declared they
would stay married. and went away
together. presumably to live happy
ever after. The idea Of making d.
yorce costly luxury. instead Of en-
couraging its present trend as cheap
necessity, might do much toward curb
ing tho fiood Of martial unrest
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14
To Kill Wild Horses.

Reno. Nev.-The forestry depart.
ment has issued orders to the rang
ers on the Toeylabe, Toquima and
Monitor reserves in Lander county
to kill on sight all wild horses found
on the government domain. There are
about $4,000 wild horses on the re-
serves. They are doing much damage
to vegetation and attracting domestic
animals t. their herds. In the opinion
Of Attorney General Stoddard, the for
estry department will be fully war
ranted in adopting measures looking to
the determination Of the rapidly in
creasing herds.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14
Satan Terrified.

There is as great genius displayed
in advertising as in the higher
branches of literature. No problem
daunts the modern advertising man.
In the window Of little bookstore in
Eighth avenue, New York, was re-
Gently heaped great pile Of Bibles,
marked very low-never before were
Bibles offered at such bargain; and
above them all. in big letters, was the
inscription: Satan trembles when he
sees Bibles sold as low as these
Woman's Home Companion.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14
rhs Marrying Aes.

H hnD ofte1 been said that "a wonr
IN 10 - older than she looks" and
this b ssally true. Soms women are
younger Ct %. in appearance and man
ner. than others are at 30. In this
connection It IL proper to consider the
most suitable age for . woman to
marry. This depends upon circum-
stances. for the reasons above given.
A generatlon ago. when Is was not far
from the average marrying age. .
wo.ian may hsye been considered
verging on old nnaidhood at 90. Now
adays, however. the tendency IL to
marry late rather than early in life.
and the sensible woman who at 35
flnds herself stiii unwed by no means
despairs Of being LED to the altar. AS
= matter OF fact. the majority Of men
only consider q woman old when she
10 close to the fifties. and even then
they often md attractive qualities in
her which younger women lack. Gone
are the days when a man regarded
youth and beauty as essential to the
happiness Of married life. He looks
for a matured. steady and practical
mind. usually found in the woman of
IS and 40. and forgets her age. Where
women make the greatest mistake,
however. is in trying to appear
younger than they generally are. thus
placing themselves in false position
and utterly marring whatever other
charms they may possess, says the
New York Weekly. No woman, Of
course. likes to advertise her age. and
she owes 1t to herself not to add to
the same by unsuitable or dowdy
dress. for instance. On the other
hand. it 10 ridiculous for her to en-.
deavor to take i've or ten years of her
age by dressing in the garb Of .
younger sister. and striving to cover
telltale wrinkles with powder and
rouge. Men easily see through such
articles and regard the woman who
practices the same with feeling bor.
dering on contempt.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14
WoIve. Destroy stock.

Laramie. Wyo.-Reports from Glen.
eyre, Colorado. just across the state
line southwest of here, are that ranch.
men are suffering from the ravages of
wolves. recent heavy snowstorm in
the mountains near Gleneyre sent the
hungry beasts to the ranches and with
In the last few days Ranchman Burns
has lost cattle. sheep and calves.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14

ONLY ONE .BROMO QUININE"
That IL LAXATIVE BROMO QUlNlNB, Look fos
the signature Of r. W: CROW. Used the World
over 70 Cure = Cold in One Day. &c.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14

The best swimmer is the first to
drown himself.-Italian.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14
Different.

Different.
The good die young. but this isn'r
true of jokes.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14
Personal.


DR.. L. H. Laidley. one of the most
prominent physicians Of st. Louis, and
who was medical director of the
worlds fair, is dead.
Con. o. IL. Lagrange, governor of
the National Soldiers home at Saw
telle. Cal. has resigned.
Charles H. Danner of Fort Scott
has been chosen president Of the
Kansas State Society OF Labor.
Ex-Premier Franco, Of Portugal,
who fled from Lisbon after the as
sassination of King Carlos, has ar
rived in Paris. His ultimate destina-
tion is Switzerland.
Frank H. Hitchcock, first assistant
postmaster general, is to retire from
the postal service to assisL in the
management of the presidential cam
paign of Secretary Taft.
E. S. D. Shortridge, former gov
ernor of North Dakota, is dead, a4
lis Lake
DR.. W. H. Carruth has returned to
the Kansas university after six
months spout in Germany.
The Dolores star., 1908-02-14


to the interstate commerce commits.
sion.
At the request of the house COM
mittee on printing, President Roose-
welt has suspended Public Printer
Charles A. Stillings, pending an in.
vestigation of the government print
ing office. William s. Rossiter is tenn
porarily in charge of the plant.
The president. by proclamation, has
added 350,471 acres to the Trinity for
est reserve in California.
There were II strikes in Kansas
last year, involving 93S men, and a
loss in wages of $113.O16
With the swearing in of George p.
WetmOre as senator from Rhode Island
the membership of the senate is in
creased to 80 for the first time In the
history of the country.
Three boys aged five. eight and 12
years respectively have confessed to
burglary in st, Louis.
The five-year-old adopted son of DR..
Eva Harding of Topeka was recently
burned to death while playing with
matches.
The Missouri supreme court has ap-
pointed Judge Bruce OF Paris, Mo-, a
commissioner 20 take testimony in the
custer suit against the International
Harvester company.
The Third Ward Foraker club of
Cleveland, o.. has indorsed Secretary
Taft for president.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-02-22

Mcssrs+ Editors: have been read
inx your valuable paper over Arc
years: and. without any sucsswork.
I know II gives ms moro Information
shan all the other farm parrrx put 10.
esther. and ! take sir. why. lie.
cause II deals right with sho auc~.
siona ~c need hero In tho South.
I and very n,sr said about the mos,
valuable crop used for dairy cattle.
and this II . dairy counsry~~t~cnsy-
nnc daIr.cs inside Of ten miles square.
Tho crop I speak Of In sorghum. I
cleared this year es-.S0 . acre
fcrdlns II 10 dairy COWS. cut and
housed = fc~ tons In fccd To my cat
Ito when I kns~ they ~~rc al their
lowest. commenced December asd
in fcrd sorghum. and In four dayn
hey had Increased ton gallons: In
afsoen days. aficcn gallons. I milk
,hir,y-nvc cows. II I can I win Try
and raisc enough tho coming year
10 u ms through tho winter. viii
aiao try pumpkins. We must do
away with costonsccd huils. II wc
compete with our Northern dairy
would bc moro than glad TO 600
In your paper the feeding vaiue OF
sorghum. II In nothing TO raise and
save. Rcdtop In tho best for upland
and Amber cane for bottom land.
Would like 10 Gee more about
dairying In your paper, No doubt.
In time this will bc ono of tho lead
Ing States In the dairy business.
This In the first letter I ever wrote
TO you. ns I am not much given to
letter writing.
NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI"