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The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-12
Town of Malvern Hard Hit,

Malvern.-A tornado which struck Malvern about 5 o'clock Monday af- .ternoon totally destroyed the Metho- dist church, carried away the cupola from the Baptist church, unroofed a portion of the court house, destroyed awnings, telegraph and telephone poles and did great damage generally to property. No loss of life is report ed. The tornado was followed by a violent rain. The loss on the Metho- dist church is estimated at F6,C00 There is 10 insurance.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-12
HEAD SPLIT; NEGRESs LAUGHS.
She Visits Surgeons Office Next Day
 in Cab.

Helena-What is claimed by Dr. G. G. Altman to be the most remark able case it has ever been his for tune to see is that of Elnora Jenkins, a negress who had her head split open with an ax, in the hands of Mike Co., zelli, another negro Dr. Altman says both layers of the scalp were laid open and the covering of the brain split, and despite this the negress sat up in bed and laughed while he dress ed the wound. He left feeling sure she would be dead before morning, but the negress came to his office in a cab for treatment Dr. Altman states, however, that she is now developing pains in her neck and he thinks men, ingitis will cause death shortly, but that even at that it is the most re- markable case he ever knew of.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-12
ROOSEVELT ON HAITI LETTER.
Former President Says It's Pretty Sure
 to Be GarbIed

Oyster Bay, N. Y.-The attention of former President Roosevelt was called to the publication of the portion of a letter which he was said to have written to Sir Harry Johnston, the English author and explorer, last De- cember, in which he was quoted as writing that the United States ought to have interfered in Hayti during the last revolution there and also in Vene- zuela and Central America. Mr. Roose. velt's only comment was:
 "As a general thing, when private letter has been diyulged as this one has been, it is pretty sure to be more or less garbled."
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-12
Champion Post-HoIe Diqqer.

w. T. Meyers of Batesville is re- garded as the champion post-hole dig ger of north Arkansas. On Tuesday he dug 70 post holes and set the posts in four hours and 30 minutes. In dig ging one of the holes he dug into the roots of a gum tree and spent eight minutes on that single post Realiz- ing that he was making record, .Lr. Mayors dug the holes for and set the last IT posts in 50 minutes. The strange part of it all IS that Meyers is employed by the day.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-12
IN THE HOUSE..
Bills Pass ed.

Senate Bill No. 191 (Toney), to pro vide board of commissioners 10 build q bridge for highway purposes across the Arkansas river at a point at or near Pine Buy. Explained by MT. Miller. Vote, 73 to O.
 Senate Bill No. POS Logan). to vali- date the ordinance of the city council of Mena granting a franchise to H. w. Cardwell. Vote, 64 to 1.
 Senate Bill No. 122 (HollandD [, amending section 3905 of Kirbys Di- gest so that the word time" is strick- en from the provision that "the time wages of all balorers and mechanics" shall under certain conditions be ex- empt from legal process. MT. Hogan and Mr. Rowe explained the measure. Vote, 67 to ?.
 House Bill No. 102 (Holt of Hemp stead), providing that shares of stock in any joint corporation may not be less than $5 instead of S25 each. Vote, 59 to 8.
 House Bill No (Estes), making the certificates of United States collector of internal revenue sufficient evidence of violation of anti-liquor laws in liquor cases. Vote, 75 to l.
 Bills Introduced.
 House Bill No. 23S (Rowe), prohib- iting the making or publishing of false statements concerning the stock of any company, directed at statements, concerning "watered" stock, and pro- Viding a fine of $1,000 and from one to five years in the penitentiary for violation. Read twice and referred to judiciary committee.
 House Bill No. 239 (Ard), prohibit ing the manufacture of coca cola or celery cola in Arkansas, and making it misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of from $25 to $100, for any viola tion.
 House Bill No. 243 (Granger), {, amending section 7087 of Kirby's Di- gest so that all lands sold at tax sales shall be purchased by collectors for the state.
 House Bill No. PA Hamilton of Ouachita), amending section 1909 and repeating section 1910 of Kirby's Di- gest, relating to the carrying of con cealed weapons.
 House Bill No 250 (Hurst), amend ing the act prohibiting the sale of liquor within five miles of the Univer- sity of Arkansas so that any person who buys for himself or anyone else, or who is in any way interested in the purchase or illegal traffic of liquor un- der the provisions of this act shall be punished and held guilty as others. Read twice.
 House Bill No. 251 (Johnson, by re- quesD, appointing T. M Neale of Rus sellville as state capitol commissioner to take the place of the late commis- sioner, W. B. Alexander of Pine Bluff: making he governor ar el; 0ficio member of the commission discharg- ing George R. Mann as architect of the new capitol authorizing the com | mission to employ new architect, and appropriating S500,000 to be used in the completion of the capitol. Read twice and referred to state capitol committee.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-12

Pine Bluff.-The Pine Bluff School Improvement Association has been or ganized. with Mrs. w. T. Young, presi- dent; Mesdames A. M, Barrow, I. J. Kaiser and Leo Raster, vice presi- dents; Mrs. w. T. Woodbridge, secre- tary, and Mrs. R. E. Lee, treasurer. The association is for the improve ment of the school grounds at the various schools of the city and the general improvement of both inside and out of the buildings. The new high school grounds are now being graded and will be made beautiful campus
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-12
New Penal Code Enacted.

Washington.-A new penal code code was enacted into law Wednes- day through the adoption in both houses of Congress of the conference report on the bill drafted by the con- mittee and originally presented in 1897 and represented at the close of the Forty-ninth Congress.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-12
Would Revise Assessing System.

MT. Brawner introduced an impor- tant measure, being the bill provid- ing for a revision of the state asses sing system. The bill is known as the Assessors Bill" having been cor dially endorsed by the State Asses sors' Association.
 There was a lively round over the pistol carrying bill by Senator Rob- ertson. The bill is designed to pro- hibit the carrying of any concealed weapons, but members of the House, including the speaker, were of the opinion that the bill is little better than the present law, unless amend ed so as to place the burden of proof upon the defendant, where he is charged with carrying a pistol and seeks to evade conviction by show ing that the said weapon is such as is used in the army and navy. The bill was finally placed back on it's second reading for amendment.
 The bill authorizing Jefferson coun- ty to lease right of way for foot and vehicle traffic over bridge to be located near Pine Bluff was unani- mously passed.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-12

After more than two hours of hot debate, the House voted to reject the Simpson substitute bill, providing for a submission of the question of state wide prohibition to the people at a special election in July, the vote on rejection being A to 35. Immediately following this, the motion to recon sider that vote and lay on the table was made by MT, Thompson of In dependence, resulting in vote of 49 to 29 in favor of tabling further con sideration of the substitute This brings the House up to the considera- tion of the adoption of the Gam bill, providing for statutory statewide prohibition.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-12

There is a prospect that an audi torium with seating capacity of 1000 will soon be erected at Conway.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-12

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The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
THE FRUIT OUTLOOK.

The prolonged cold and wet wealth
er is very disagreeable, but it may
prove a blessing so far as the out
look for fruit is concerned; and the
fruit crop of Colorado is so import
ant a factor in the prosperity of num-
erous localities that il is a matter of
general public concern.
1t will be recalled that last spring
the fruit crop was to a large extent
killed by freezing temperature oc-
curing on the nights of the twenty
fifth and twenty-siXth of April. cor
responding to next Sunday and Mon
day. 1t is possible-although there
is nothing to indicate it now-that
we shall have equally as low tenn
peratures before the end of this
month; but the situation is rendered
very different by the fact that this
spring the fruit buds are not nearly
SO far advanced as they were at this
time a year ago.
At present the indications point to
a very large crop of all kinds of fruit,
practically no damage having as yet
been done except to few apricots on
the western slope. Unless the wealth
er should turn very warm in the next
day or so, fruit will not be any farth-
er advanced by the first of May than
it was when the freeze occurred last
year on the twenty-fifth of April. So
our readers may find some comfort
in the fact that, while the low tenn
peratures have been unpleasant, they
have had beneficial tendency to
check the development of the fruit
buds at a time when killing frosts
may be looked for almost any night.
Denver Republican.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
TOURIST BECOMES INSANE
AT A MOUNTAIN RESORT
Especial to The Sentinel.

Los Angeles. Cal. Apr. 23.-How-
! ard Ramage, tourist. about % years
old, became suddenly insane in the
lobby of the Alpine tavern, on the
summit of Mount Lowe, yesterday.
and was subdued only after terrific
struggle. 1t required twelve men to
hold him until his hands and feet
could be tied.
w. H. Hall. the conductor of the
Mount Lowe railway line. was badly
choked. The maniac obtained a wise
like grip on Halls throat, and the
strength of several men was required
to pry him loose. Manager Brown of
the hotel was severely kicked in the
chest.
Ramage appeared to be rational
until he walked to the fireplace in
the lobby, where he knelt in the ash
es and began praying. When spoken
to he became violent and attacked
the guests that crowded the lobby.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
SOON TO BE HERE.

A moving picture exhibition of de-
cidedly a first class nature will be
the reproduction at the Park opera
house for matinee and night per-
formance on an early date of the
Burns-Jo ohnson fight which occurred
in Sydney, Australia, last December.
These pictures. said to be marvels of
Photographic art. were taken in the
open air on the morning of a bright
summers day. Every detail of the
fourteen rounds of fighting from the
tap of the first gong until Superin-
tendent of Police Mitchell stopped
the battle to save Burns from further
punishment, is clearly shown.
The pictures are reproduced here
by a travelling organization under
an arrangement with Mr.. Hugh d..
Mcintosh, the famous Australian pro-
moter of boxing, who was the referee
on this occasion.
Despite the expense in taking them
and reproducing them in America,
popular prices will be charged for
the performance.
An expert lecturer, who was pres
ent in Sydney at the fight, will be in
charge of the exhibition here and will
give interesting data during the pro-
gress of the pictures.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
600 MISSING LETTERS
UNDER CAR FLOOR
Especial to The Sentinel. ]

Denver. Apr. 23.-W. E. Cochran,
postoffice inspector in charge of the
Denver district, has just received
word of one of the most remarkable
happenings that has ever taken place
in the service On the mail car run
ming from Salt Lake City to Butte, a
part of the Denver district, 500 let
ters were found under the floor of the
car. where they had lain for as long
as four years in some cases.
1t was accidentally discovered that
there was a crack in the back of the
pigeon hole case where the letters
are thrown and that mail had been
slipping down through this crack for
four years. When the discovery was
made carpenter pulled up several
boards and found the hidden letters.
Aall in good condition.
They will now be forwarded to
their destinations the same as If they
had been mailed recently.
"It shows one significant thing"
said Chief Cochran, "and that is the
manner in which people neglect to
report loss of mail. There must have
been many people among those 500
who sent or expected to get some of
that mail; but, as far as know now.
there was not one complaint. Our
clerks are checking up the lists to
see II there are any such persons.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
FOREST RESERVE MONEY
MAY BE TIED UP FOR YEARS
Especial to The Sentinel. j

Denver, April Ex-Governor Sha-
froth yesterday signed Senator Ma
piers bill relating to the distribution
of the moneys collected from the for
estry reserve service. There is about
$4,000 on hand for distribution, 1t
must go to the road and school fund
of the counties in which the forestry
reserve is located. Owing to the
wording of the bill 1t Is very doubtful
If the money can be distributed at all
during this biennial period. The in
tention was to give 10 per cent to the
road fund and 80 per cent to the
school fund. but for some reason or
other the grammatical construction
of the statute is such that only 5 per
cent is segregated for either fund.
While the governor signed the bill
he expressed very grave doubts as to
whether the money could be dis
tributed.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23

AS soon as the census bill becomes
a law the director of the census will
appoint supervisors in Western states
as follows: Colorado, three; Mon
tana. two; Utah. Wyoming. Idaho
and New Mexico. one each. Super
visors will be selected upon recon-
mendation of senators from the re-
spective states and will be paid ST.
500 per annum, with 81 for each
900 names listed. Supervisors will
have the selection of enumerators as
follows: Colorado, 500; Utah, Mon
tana and New Mexico, 800 each; Ida
ho, $50: Wyoming, $50. Enumera-
tors will be paid two to four cents a
name in cities and from SO to $6
per day in country districts.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
CHILDREN UNDER 12 YEARS
LIE AND ARE VENGEFUL
Especial to The sentinei.l

Amherst. Mass. April 23.-Prof
Earl Barnes. of Philadelphia, said
yesterday that children under the
age of twelve years are liars and nat
urally vengeful as a class.
Prof. Barnes was speaking on
moral education in the public
schools before a high school teach
ers' institute and educational confer
ence at the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural college. The professor, who is
forty-eight, and has been married
eighteen years, is graduate of Cor
nell and has been a professor in
Indiana and Stanford universities.
He traced the moral evolution of the
race and declared that the life of the
child reflected in a way some stages
of that evolution.
Statistics gathered in England
and in this country among school
children, showed, Prof Barnes said,
that 20 per cent. of those under
twelve years of age. of whom opin-
ions were asked regarding a story
which was related to them, gave re-
plies showing that they considered
lying and vengeance justifiable in the
case cited.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
TRINIDAD PREACHER
ACCUSED OF CRIME
ISpecIal to The sentInel.l

Especial to The Sentinel.l
Trinidad. April 23.-Rev. David r.
Francis. who it is alleged left this
city six years ago under a cloud
while pastor of the Congregational
church, is accused by Miss Daisy
Lambert of Ironton. Ohio, of being
the father of her illegitimate child.
This news was contained in advices
received from the East yesterday.
Francis, who is a married man, de-
MED the charge and his congregation
is standing by him.
The charges against Francis have
aroused a storm and newspapers have
taken the matter up editorially, de-
manding his expulsion from the pull
pit and declaring that he is a dis
grace to the church.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23

Musical and comic opera managers
are constantly recruiting their COM
panies from the ranks of the vaude-
viIles. Mcintyre and Heath. Ward
and vokes. Lillian Russell. Geo. Co
han, Mabel Hite, Richard Carle, Ed
die Foy, Geo. Primrose, DeWoif
Hopper, Frank Daniels and many
more stage celebrities were. former
vaudevillians. Manager VIM. P. Cul-
len has induced the famous Sisters
Lockhart, novelty terpsichorean stars
to leave the vaudeville stage and join
"The Burgomaster," that big comic
opera success which comes to the
Park opera house tonight.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23

From railroads to real estate and
lands is the transition made by ]. G.
Vining, for 10 years general super
intendent of the Colorado Midland.
who has opened land office with
Wilkins & Cornish, the local real es-
tate people. If Vining makes as big
a hit in this new line as he did with
the employees he formerly handled on
the Midland, his success is assured.
Saturday they came from Leadville.
a committee strong, drawn from en-
gine and train crews, and announced
to Vining that they thought he still
needed a headlight, despite his di-
vorcement from the railroad busi-
ness. So saying, e. r. Davis, Lead
vile jeweler. acting as spokesman.
bravely presented Vining with $500
spark" When Vining was station
agent for the Midland at Grand juno
tion 20 years ago. he conceived the
idea that the irrigable land in that
neighborhood would be immensely
valuable some day. He has finally
gone into the business of selling it,
believing that he was a fair sort of
prophet.-Denver Republican.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
FORT MORGAN HAS
TWO CITY COUNCILS
Especial to The Sentinel. ]

Fort Morgan, Colo. April a.
This city is in a peculiar position,
having now two city councils. Tues
day night the new council was sworn
in while at the same time the old
council decided to hold over until
the question of legality of the cleo
tion can be decided. The old council
has control of the city funds and
VIII not surrender them to the new
council until this matter has been
settled in court.
AT Tuesday nights meeting 1t was
thought this matter would be set
tied, but 1t is said today that this will
not be the case and that the old
council will hold over for two years.
The new council is anxious to take
the reins and has asked the city
treasurer for the funds. but he has
refused to turn them over.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
AN ELoPING COUPLE
COMES TO GRIEF
Especial to The sentinel.1

Especial 70 The Sentinel.
Pueblo, April 23.-While in the
alleged act of eloping from their
home in Florence, Anna Loring, a
15-year-old girl, and Roy Seit, aged
20. were. taken in custody yesterday
by the police. The couple had pur-
chased tickets to Dodge City, Kan,
but decided to stop here and be mar
ried. They were waiting for the
courthouse to open when arrested
An officer arrived from Florence at
noon and took the couple back. The
mother of the girl declared that the
only objection she had to the mar
riage was the age of her daughter
and that when she has reached wom-
anhood she can marry the man of
her choice.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
CANON CITY CITIZENS
WILL HELP SMUDGE
Especial to The Sentinei.I


Canon City, April 23.-At an i'm
portant meeting of the Canon City
chamber of commerce at the office of
the secretary, ID. w. Ross. several
important matters were considered.
Steps were taken for organizing the
community for systematic work in
aiding the fruit growers in minimiz-
ing the danger of a possible freeze.
Two hundred business men today
volunteered their services to help the
ranchers. If needed, to build fires in
their orchards in order to save the
fruit crop. Provisions have already
been completed for heating not less
than 500 acres of orchard with oil
pots. Arrangements have been made
with the local telephone office to
notify the fruit growers in regard to
the weather forecast and sudden
drops in temperature.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
seedless watermelons will be OF

Seedless watermelons will be one
of the products grown on 2. P.
Houses experiment farm near Gree
ley this year, II he is as successful
in growing watermelon plants as last
year When the parent plant sends
out a strong shoot 1t is carefully
watched until it produces a healthy
flower at a proper place, when a
shovelful of dirt is thrown over the
blossom and under favorable condi-
tions the plant at this point sends
down tiny rootlets which in turn
produce a second plant. The fruit
of the second plant. it is claimed, will
be found to be without seed. The Sc
cret was given to House by Dutch
gardener years ago, and House tried
1t last year with success.
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
FREEZE HURT CHERRIES
IN ROCKY FORD DISTRICT
Ispecial to The sentinel ]

Rocky Ford. April Senator ].
H Crowley. who has a seventy-five
acre ranch near this city, reports
that the freeze of Monday night dam
aged the early cherries that were out
but otherwise the damage will be
slight. The later cherries and other
fruits are somewhat backward this
year which fact will save the larger
part of the fruit crop. The wind is
blowing and it is quite cold but IL the
wind continues it will prevent a
heavy frost. 90
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
AN ORDINANCE NO


TO amend an ordinance entitled
AN Ordinance No. 152, Grant
ing to Horace X. Devereux and
Eugene A. Sunderlin, Their
Heirs and Assigns, the Right,
Privilege and Franchise to
Erect. Construct, Operate and
Maintain Street Railway on
Certain Streets, Avenues, Alleys
and Public Places of ana Within
the City of Grand Junction, and
to Use the Same for Such Street
Railway Purposes
jassed July II, 1908. and approved
July 81. 1908.
Be it ordained by the City Council
of the City of Grand Junction:
Section 1. That upon the written
consent heretofore submitted to the
City Council and filed with the City
Clerk of the owners of the land rep
resenting more than one-half of the
frontage of the following described
portions of streets and avenues
sought to be used for railway pur-
poses. Section l of an ordinance en-
titled
"An Ordinance No. 152 grant
ing to Horace X. Devereux and
Eugene A. Sunderlin, their heirs
and assigns, the right, privilege
and franchise to erect, construct.
operate and maintain a street
railway on certain streets, ave-
nues, alleys and public places of
and within the City of Grand
Junction, and to use the same
for such street railway pur-
poses,"
passed July II. 1908, and approved
July 21. 1908. be and the same here
by is amended by inserting at the end
of said Section 1 the following words.
to-wit:
Second street from north line
of Pitkin avenue to the east line
of the lands of the d. & r. G.
Ry. Co.; South avenue between
Third street and the east line of
the ID. & r. G.. Ry. Co.,
and between the west line
of Eleventh street and the
east line of Twelfth street; and
on Twelfth street between the
north line of Pitkin avenue and
the south city limits; and on
Tenth street between South
avenue and south city limits and
on Fifth street between South
avenue and a point at right
angles with the south line of
block 161 as shown in the orig
inal plat of the townsite of the
City of Grand Junction"
Section III. That said amendments
and each of them shall have like force
and effect from and after the passage.
approval and publication of this ord
nance as if originally contained in
iaid Ordinance No. 152 as passed
fuly IT, 1908, and approved July 81.
1908
Section III. This ordinance shall
be in force from and after it's passage
and publication as required by law
The daily sentinel., 1909-04-23
KIDNAPPED CHILD
RECOGNIZES OLD HOME
Ispecial to The Sentinel

tSpUsiAi " Nc SSutihci'J
Pottsville, Pa, April 23.-Mrs.
William Francis, of Brooklyn. N. Y,
was kidnapped from the home of her
grandparents in fremont, near here.
eighteen years ago. She was then
Nellie Smith. five years of age
She was never afterward able to
locate the home of her childhood un-
til a few days ago, when she was
travelling in the anthracite region
and recognized the old familiar
scenes. Soon she found relatives,
who were overjoyed at the chance
meeting