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Sharp County record., 1911-12-01

An order has been made calling
in Fulton county scrip for reiSsu-
ance.
The lead and and zinc mill at
Powhatun began operations this
week.
e. During November the clerk at
Melbourne issued twenty marriage
licenses.
The school teachers of lizard
county will meet at Mt. Olive the
18th and 18th Of this month.
Tom Brown of Salem owns a
grown wolf which he has tanned,
and the animal roams about the
town at will.
Charley Stickney of Baxter coun-
ty caught a rattlesnake in trap a
few days ago which he had prepar-
ed for 'possums,
A cattle dipping vat located near
Barren Fork was damaged to a
great extent by some unknown par
ty one day lately.
Ed Stinnett of Mountain Home
was painfully injured one day lately
when his team ran away and threw
him from the wagon.
During the absence of the family
someone entered the home of I'm
Gle Tom" Haynes near Pineville
and stole $3.50 one day last week.
John Newman, a Calico Rock lad,
is under arrest upon the charge of
stealing the contents of a drum
mer's trunk some time ago at a Cal
leo Rock hotel.
A movement is on foot at Calico
Rock to interest sufficient number
of farmers Of that section in peanut
growing to justify the purchase of a
peanut thresher.
Many Islands, in Eulton coNpty,
is the only town on the Frisco rail
road between Springfield, No., and
Birmingham, Ala, where licensed
saloon is operated.
Up to several days ago the com
presses at Newport had handled
$4,000 bales Of cotton this season,
and the Independent says the total
receipts for the season will be about
$4,000 to 100000 bales.
At Black Rock one day lately the
residence of Chubby Spades, togeth-
er with the contents, was burned to
the ground, and it is said the occu-
pants of the building had narrow
escape with their lives. No insur-
ance
Sharp County record., 1911-12-01
DoRtb HRkansas

Exchanges from over the state
bear the report that more wheat
than usual is being sown this win
ter. Also the papers indicate the
determination of a great many
farmers to stop the raising of cot
ton and give better attention to al
falfa growing and other profitable
crops.
An Iron Mountain passenger traia
ran over and killed Silas Burch, a
telegraph lineman, at Hoxie a few
days ago. Burch was riding on a
Speeder just ahead of the train fac
ing a binding rain storm, and did
not note the approach of the train
in time to escape, The coroner's
jury held that Birch came to his
death through carelessness on the
part of the engineer on the train.
The Miners and Citizens Bank of
Yellville publishes the following
notice in the Yellville Echo: The
country banks all get from two to
three per cent for their idle sur
plus in other banks. Hereafter the
Miners and Citizens Bank will pay
same per cent for all money depos-
tied with it, that belongs to widows
and orphans. We hope all the
banks in North Arkansas will see
that this is the decent thing to do.
We ought to have been doing this
all the time.
Joe Nelson, a young man, was
arrested at Cushman last week on
the charge of carnal abuse, the Girl
in the case being Dolly Simpson, 49,
year-old daughter of Dick Simpson,
a leading merchant of Cushman.
and at preliminary trial was al
lowed bail, which he failed to fill.
and he is now in Jail at Batesville
awaiting the action of the grand
jury. 1t is alleged that several
nights ago crowd of men and
boys were drinking whiskey in a
cold drink stand or restaurant in
Cushman when the little girl came
in. She was invited to drink, and
did so, and later Nelson induced
her to take walk with him, when,
according to the girls statement, he
took advantage Of her and shame
fully mistreated her.
DEATHS
Mrs. Logan Garner, at Newbure.
Mrs Josie Clark, near Melbourne.
Capt. I. B. Stallings, at Newport.
WEDDINGS
Wilson Tomilson and Miss Mynie
Burnes, at Maeness.
A, W. Grinaee and Miss Nina
Shaver, at Lunenbure.
Sharp County record., 1911-12-01

Yesterday h as a constitutional
crouch for which there is no rem
edy under the sun. When one be-
eins to give the matter some SER
ious thought he finds it would re-
quire a considerable amount of his
k5time to make a candid enumera-
zion of the things he has for which
he is due gratitude to the Supreme
Being on Thanksgiving Day, and
every other day as we'll.
In the United States the first
Thanksgiving Day was observed by
The earliest settlers of New Eng
land. These first settlers of now
great country thought they had
very many things to be thankful
W for, and they had. They had es-
caped religious and political op-
preston and were enjoying a free
dom they had never known before.
In the new world and new life they
had great causes for rejoicing and
were as happy as kings. But, if
The first settlers of this country
With their scant settlements, frugal
< crops and primeval methods of liv-
Ing; with all the dangers of new
wilderness constantly before them,-
If these people had reasons for
thanksgiving, how much more
abundant are the causes for thanks
Giving among the people who live
\ Today? The custom of an annual
\ Thanksgiving Day has prevailed in
this country since the days of the
. pioneers, but we very much doubt
II the real spirit of thanksgiving
has kept pace with the years
:. ::
Only a few years ago we remem-
Der that Thanksgiving Day meant
somethins to this community. On
that day the people had a day of
rest from their usual labors for the
proper observance of the occasion.
The stores and other places of busi-
ness would be closed tight. There
would be a sermon at the church
IN the morning and in the evening
With perhaps a program by the
young folks in the afternoon, and
The house would be full Of people
The church would be decorated for
sthe occasion and about the building
You would see displayed products Of
The field and garden, all bearing
eilent testimony that there was
plenty in the land People enjoyed
M Thanksgiving Day those days be-
&cause they observed it. But, that's
! Old-fashioned, did we hear you sayY
Perhaps So We guess too, that's
2!what went with the real spirit Of
thanksgiving. 1t grew old-fashioned.
People were better then to them
SELVES and to one another than they
are now, Has 1t also grown old
.Nfashioned to be goodY
8 o
There are now eight candidates
for sheriff in Marion county. And
\ 8several back townships are yet to
&be heard from.
M o.
Up in Kansas seven or eight men
are going to serve terms In the pen
itentiary for the crime of applying
Star and feathers to a young lady
{school teacher. The cause of the
crime was nothing more or less
ythan tales" told on the young
woman by some women of the
community, which were without
foundation and untrue. So much
for the tattling tongue, What a
pity that the tattlers, the starters
of the trouble, are not Going to the
penitentlary also.
o
W. r. Jones, editor of the Yell
vile Echo, offers to loan every
Sharp County record., 1911-12-01
A FEW THOUGHTS AS WE PASS


no man can get his head above the
water if he has to buy his meat,
and he proposes that every Marion
county citizen shall have the oppor-
tunity of relieving himself of this
expense.
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From across the big pond comes
the news that France is seriously
alarmed because of the fact that
the death rate is exceeding the
birth rate in that country. France
might get helpful recipe from
Poughkeepsie,
The world may be growing bet
ter; we do not say it is not. But as
a reader of the daily papers for
many years, we know this one
thing: More crime is being report
ed in the press right now than is
good for the contention that the
world grows better. The papers
are full of murders and all sorts OF
terrible crime every day, and the
proceedings of one famous court
trial or another run through the
daily press day after day like a SER
ial story. A few days ago the
Memphis Commercial Appeal re-
ferred to the year 1911 as year
of crime" in the United States.
o.
In almost every exchange we
pick up we see that some citizen
is returning from Texas and buy
ine land in Arkansas. Arkansas is
mighty hard to beat, but lots of
people have 10 buy some exper-
ience at fancy price before they
will believe it.
o.
Henry Clay Beattie, young man
in the twenties, paid the penalty
for wife murder in the electric chair
at Richmond, Va, last Friday, A
few weeks ago the daily papers
were literally full of the Beattie
trial, and perhaps there was not
person in the whole country who
kept up with the testimony that
believed the young man innocent Of
the murder of his young wife in a
most atrocious manner. The day
before his death he signed a state
ment admitting his guilt, Beattie
furnishes the country a splendid
example of the fate of the spoiled
boy His father was rich and the
young man had all the money he
wanted to spend without working
for It. The testimony at his trial
showed him to be of dissolute char
acter almost his entire time and
attention being taken up by disso-
lutte women, whiskey and gambling,
Finally, firing of his young wife,
the mother of his son only a few
months old, he killed her. Then
the law called a halt in his wild
career and took a life for a life.
" I" "
The Arkansas Gazette, on the
day of Beattie's death, said editor
ially
IF Henry Clay Beattie Jr, after
he crossed the dark river this morn
ing saw his wife with the ragged,
red wound In her frail young body
then indeed there Is He'll"
Everyone may have his own
opinion as to the probabilities Of
the proposition advanced by the
Gazette, but the thought Is a good
one for use in the final analysis Of
the awfulness Of crime,
o
This Is the way the lmboden Ga
zette puts IL
"lf you are taking the Gazette
lust because 1t doesn't cost any
thing, for the love Of Mike come In
Sharp County record., 1911-12-01

Bring your dollars to Edwards Mere Co.,
where is now offered Special Bargains in
Clothing for men, women and children;
shoes for everybody, and other things the
approaching winter tells you will need.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
TO END A DRAINAGE FIGHT.
Martial Law May Be Asked in Kaw
Valley District.

Kansas City, Feb. 1.-THE Kaw
valley drainage district will be put
under martial law, in all probability,
unless the efforts of the corporations
affected by the provision for 1874
foot channel to obtain an injunction
from the federal courts, effectively
stopping dixie work in the district,
cease. Also, the supreme court of the
United States will be appealed to to
take the control of drainage matters
from the hands of Federal Judge
John c. Pollock. by the issuance of a
writ of prohibition, and turn that con-
troll back to the state courts of Kansas,
where. by the recent enactment. of a
new statute, it properly belongs.
So that work on the bikes and revet-
ments along the Kaw river may be
pushed toward completion with all
possible speed the appeal for state
militia will be made to Governor
Stubs, unless the present efforts of
corporations in the district, suing to
prevent the conf1scation of whatever
land lies within the prescribed limits
of the channel, are halted immedi-
ate1y.
These efforts, and they entail an
immense amount of litigation, are be-
lieved by members of the drainage
board to be an attempt to use the
courts to delay the work in the hope
that the near approach of the flood
season will brighten them into paying
an exorbitant pdice for the land. Every
/ minute lost from the work on the
bikes right now may mean the loss of
millions of dollars worth of property
in the June rise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
FOREVER ENDS INDIGESTION
No Heartburn, Gas, Sourness or
Dyspepsia Five Minutes Later.

Every family here ought to keep
ONE Diapepsin in the house, as any
one of you may have an attack of In
time, day or night.
This harmless preparation will di-
gest anything you eat and overcome a
distressed, out-of-order stomach five
minutes afterward.
If your meals don't tempt you, or
what little you do eat seems to fill you.
or lays like lump of lead In your
stomach. or If you have heartburn, that
Is q sign of indigestion.
Ask your Pharmacist for a 50-cent
case af Pape's Diapepsin and take
little just as soon az you can. There
will be no sour risings, no beIching
Of undigested food mixed with acid.
no stomach gas or heartburn, fullness
or heavy feeling in the stomach. Nau-
sea, Debilitating Headaches. Dizziness
or intestinal gripping. This will all go,
and. besides, there will be no sour
food left over in the stomach to pois-
on your breath with nauseous doors.
Pape's Dtapepsin is certain cure
for out-of-order -stomachs, because 1t
prevents fermentation and takes hold
Of your food and digests It just the
same as IL your stomach wasn't there.
Relief in five minutes from all stom-
ach misery is at any drug store, watt
ing for you.
These large 50-cent cases contain
more than sufficient to cure almost any
chronic case of Dyspepsia. Indigestion
or any other Stomach trouble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
TURNED DOWN A MONEY WIRE.
Morris, Kansas, Banker Also Caused
Arrest of the Applicant.

Kansas City. Feb. IA man who
refuses to tell anything about himself
is being held by the Johnson county,
Kansas, authorities while they investi-
gate a telegram received by the Nor
ris State bank of Morris. Kansas. in
structing it to pay $1,700 to G. B.
Scott. The telegram might letter.
arrived through the mail. It was
postmarked Kansas City. 1t instruct
ed the State Bank of Morris. a small
town seven miles southeast of O1athe,
to pay Mr.. Scott the $1,700 without
troubling him to identify himself. The
telegram was signed 1.-THE National
Bank of Commerce of Amarillo, Tex"
There were several things about the
telegram and the envelope that made
c. M. Way, the cashier of the bank,
suspicious. When a we'll dressed man
who said he was G. B. Scott, appeared
at the bank and asked for $1,700 Mr..
Day refused to let him have it. The
man went out of the bank and started
hurriedly along the railroad track.
Mr.. Day notified the sheriff's Office
and deputy sheriffs arrested the man.
Blank kilograms were found in, his
pockets. He would not tell where he
lived or where he worked. L. L. Cave,
sheriff of johnson county, wired Anna
rillo last night to learn if the telegram
was good. A reply has not been re-
ceived. The man is in Jail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
SATURDAY..

Gals in the land, who have come here
for the purpose of preventing the en-
actin lent of laws which would mean
greater safety to the lives and limbs
of railroad employees in the operation
of the railroads as well as to the gener-
al public riding over them; and only
yesterday, the railroad attorneys of all
the Kansas lines appeared here in q
body to protest against the enactment
of an, employers liability law-such
law as has long since been. in force
in twenty-five of the civilized countries
of the world-a law, in view of mod
ern business conditions, now an ac-
companim of civilization the alb
sence of which with us greatly lowers
our rank in the sisterhood of civilized
nations.
This is Inconsistency itself; and.
whether as between the arrangements
and the employees, or, as between the
railroads and the general public, is
now, always has been, but, we may
hope, will not always continue to be
the attitude, policy and conduct of the
railroads. Sometime. we entertain the
hope, things will be otherwise; but, we
are sorry to say, the prospect is now
one of hope only.
| A. A. GRAHAM.
| February 3. 1911.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
WOMEN DIVIDED ON SUFFRAGE.
Majority of One Favor New Plan as
shown hY Atchison Canvass.

Atchison. Kan, Feb. 11.-FolloWing
the announcement of the passage OF me
equal suffrage measure IN the Kansas
legislature, the Atchison GLOBE inter
viewed many women and several men.
of the women interviewed majority
favored it. but the majority was only
one.
Mrs. John ]. Ingalls, said she mao
always opposed women'S suffrage ana
still opposed it as it is against all her
ideas and principles. Mrs w. j. BalIey'
wife of the former Kansas governor,
said she had formerly opposed 1t put
that she is beginning to bel1eVe ina
time has come when women shoulo
lave the right to vote. Mrs y. r
Waggener announced that she Is en-
phatically against the measure Nls
+. M. Baker, widow of a FORMER Kan
sas grain dealer and owner OF the m
est house in town, declared herseli
heartily in favor of the measure
One of the most aggressive inter
views against the measure was given
by Captain W. s. Cain, VINO as a Ineil.-
Der of the legislature OF 1866 was on
fha committee which handled a suffrage
measure. Although in the minority II
The committee, Mr.. Cain carried MS
f1pht to the floor Of the house, ana ms
work was largely instrumental IN os-
feating equal suffrage at tnat tlnle'
Cain, although a strong church maiI
heIieyes preachers and priests Woliio
control the votes of women and the
result would be clerical rule.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
SAYS THEY'RE NOT CONSISTENT
A. A. Graham Complains That Rail-
roads Are Not Fair i'll Demands.


To the Editor Of the State Journal:
In view of the many recent adj
dresses of the railroad officials to their
employees, exhorting them to loyalty
to their companies interests as indus
trial concerns, and to support such po-
litical policies as the officials might in
dictate to them as desirable to the
companies, and then. as is now pass
ing before our eyes in Topeka, all the
officials of these roads from the very
highest on down, appearing before
our legislature, and unitedly opposing
every measure pending before that
body for the benefit of the employees
of these railroad companies, for the
better protection of their lives and
limbs, or a just compensation for in
juries suffered in this extra hazardous
occupation, and to better and more
safely serve the pub1ic-in view of all
this, have been asked to publicly ex-
press my views on behalf of some
whose positions have closed their
mouths, and this I do, not SO much to
accommodate my friends as because
the matter is of general public con-
Germ.
The address of Mr.. G. W. Martin.
general agent of the Rock Island
lines at Denver, published in the State
Journal, affords me convenient start
ing point. Mr.. Martins address, like
that of Director Gleed of the Santa
Fe. delivered at the Topeka Railroad
z. M. c. A, is an appeal to railroad
employees for their loyal support of
the business and policies of their COM
panies. Mr. Martins address, business
like and persuasive, reflects the man,
while Mr.. Gleed told his hearers
bluntly, in effect, to act on advice to
be sought from the officials of their
road
1 need not multiply instances nor
consume space, because the addresses
G Mt o,,l ~ q ~
samples of all the official talks recent
ly made to railroad employees.
All must, and, I am sure, will con-
cede the right and the propriety of
railroad companies, or other business
concerns. to exhort their employees to
loyalty to their interests; but. when
this persuasive eloquence is brought to
bear for the purpose of advising their
employees to unite and form associa-
tons for political control, then the
country at large acquires profound
interest in the result.
The work now going forward, as
between the official and the employee,
is a propaganda to enlist the efforts
of the employee to procure, on be-
half of his company, legislation favor
able to such company with resultant
benefits, in the way of increased wages
and better conditions generally to the
employee. This all sounds very nice;
but Notwithstanding this contention
and in the very face of all these prom
ises, the same Identical Individual of
f1cials, in violation of all their repre-
sensations to their employees, are, at
this moment, and for some time have
been, appearing before our legislature,
and opposing with all their might the
enactment of any and all laws for the
benefit of their employees or the pub
lie, although such laws would, in the
end be equally beneficial to the rail-
roads themselves
Today our city is full of private cars
containing the highest railroad OFF,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
TELLS HOW BANKS ARE ROBBED
National Agency Detective Talks of
Operations in Kansas.

Leavenworth, Kan, Feb. 11.-That
the many recent bank robberies in
Kansas are the work of a large and
well organized band of criminals is
Kansas City, division manager of the
National Detective agency represent
ing the American Bankers associa-
ton, is visiting at the State peniten-
tiary.
ct think that it will be found, in a
short time, that one or two men are
responsible for the recent bank rob-
beries," Mr.. Tobie said. They are
known as generals, and employ
roughs and toughs to help them with
a job for SIS or 800 just to bluff the
citizens of the little towns. Each rob
berry is planned months and months
ahead of time. Kansas now acts as a
working ground for one or two Grim
inals who have the bad men of thirty
and forty years ago beat In many
ways. They do not want to spill blood.
OF course, they would, but it does
not appear that they will have to-.
Their bluff and the way it is worked is
sufficient
Certainly the robbers will be
caught but it will take time. The de-
tectives are handicapped. Our men
are never able to get OF the scene OF
| the robbery until hours after 1t has
taken place. Then the robbers are
! miles away or have had time to cover
their tracks 1t is this way in every
case and we never know where to
strike. But never fear, the two gen.
erals will happen in the wrong place
some day soon.
1.-THE Kansas banks are protected
by the banking insurance companies.
| The banks or the depositors do not
| lose by the robberies. They are pro-
| tected and do not take the precautions
that they should. Just let the d1frer-
emf banks of the state employ night
watches and you will see that the ROB
berries will Immediately cease. The
| generals will not try to visit where
+bev are liable to meet face to face
with a gum"