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The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
FARMER ASSUMES
 HIS OWN RISK
Legal Opinion on Operation of Southern Cotton Corporation Not Under Provision of Blue
 Sky Law.

Little Rock, Aug, l1.-Through an official opinion rendered by Attor- ney General w. L. Moose Saturday afternoon at the request of H. S. Mobley, president of the Arkansas Farmers Union, the man who sells his cotton to the Southern Cotton Corporation with the hope of get ting l5 cents per pound for it, does so at his own risk.
 The Southern Cotton Corporation has been doing business in Arkan- sas for some months, agreeing to pay l5 cents for cotton, delivering scrip against the weight of the cot ton delivered to the company, to be redeemed, with interest, when the cotton is sold One form of con- tract calls for a part payment, at market prices for the cotton, the balance being issued in scrip to be taken up when the cotton is sold.
 Attorney General Moose states the man who delivers the cotton to this concern accepts scrip for it, and the cotton passes from his con- lrol. so he has nothing to fall back upon but his contract. He points out that If the cotton is not sold the farmer cannot expect to receive anything.
 It has been stated that the con- cern would be prevented from do- ing business in Arkansas under the Blue Sky law, but Attorney General Moose says this law has nothing to do with the company. The Blue Sky law pertains only to invest ments and the sale of stocks. The state is without authority to pre- vent the company doing business in the state, but the warning should he sufficient for the farmers, for If they do no business with the con- cern it will be driven from the state through lack of business.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
TREAT FREE PERSONS
 BEATEN BY RADID DOCS
Arkansas State Board of Health Prepares to Care for Persons un- able to Pay for Life Saving
 Service.

Judge w. x. Martin has received official notice from Morgan Smith, state health officer, that the Arkan- sas State Board of Health has pre- pared to give free antl-rablc treat meht to all indigent persons Dltteh bv rabid dogs OF by a dog suspected of being rabid. In order to secure this treatment application must De made 10 Judge Martin, who will, II proper showing is made issue a certificate to that effect.
 There are several hundred such eases in Arkansas each year. It Is said. Aa
 In no instance will the state board give treatment for pay.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
DEFENDS MOTHER,
 KILLS STEPFATHER
Oscar MittS, Age 16 Years, of Near AShdOwn Surrendered Himself to Officers After the
 Killing.

Ashdown. Aug. 6.-0scar Mitts, aged i6 years, is confined in the county jail here charged with kill ing his stepfather, Will Norris. The boy surrendered after he had shot Norris to death. The shooting took place near Pine Prairie last SatuP- day.
 According to members of the family, Norris and his wife sep arated. Norris is the woman's third husband. Her first husband died and she divorced the second, J. P. Chester. Recently she induced Chester to move from Louisiana to Pine Prairie to assist in caring for his children. This angered Norris and he threatened her.
 Last Saturday he sent a note to her in care of Henry Milan, to the effect that if she did not meet him within an hour and a half away from her house he would kill her. The note was ignored Later Nor ris and Milan were seen approach ing the house. Both carried guns. Young Mitts concealed himself in a chicken house with a shotgun. When Norris appeared in the yard he spied his wife. He immediately threatened to kill her, she says, and cooked his gun. As he did so the boy fired both barrels of his gun. Norris was filled with buckshot from his heart to his waist.
 Immediately after the tragedy the boy started to Ashdown to sur render. Milan is in jail pending an investigation.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
PEACEMAKER SHOT AND
 KILLED BY COVENANTS

Philadelphia, Aug. li.-George Pierce was shot and fatally wound ed in an early morning fight Sun day, and Peter Jones was seriously wounded. Pierce died a few hours later The fight occurred in the west end, the negro portion of the city. All of the eombatants are ne- groes.
 The trouble arose over the atten- tions of the Jones negro to the wife of Will PIatt, and it is said that Pierce was acting in the role ot peacemaker, when someone shot him in the side. Ben Franklin, a i3-year-old boy, is charged with the shooting.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
STOCK GROWERS AT FAIR.

Friday, August 9, is the day chosen for a meeting of the Polk County Stock Growers and Forage Crop Association, and ? D. m. the hour, Gather at the headquarters tent on the Fair Grounds at that time, and make this same tent headquar- ters during all the days of the Fair. Good literature will be there for your perusal and to take home for study.
 A. F. Wear, Pres.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
FREEDOM NEAR FOR
 R|DL|NC AND LYMAN

The following telegram from the Rev. Francis N. Brewer and Attor- ney w. M Pipkin brings good news to relatives and friends of Harve Riding and E. R. Lyman;
 Governor George W. Hays has positively promised to liberate Rid ling and Lyman first of September.
 Francis N. Brewer,
 w. NJ. Pipkin."
The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
EXT WEEK AND BKING FAMILY AND YOUR NEIGhBoRs
RANCHMAN DUEL VICTIM.
Formal Meeting Said to Have Fol
 lowed a Game of Dice.

Lawrence, Kas., Aug. 11.-Dean Warren, q, a ranchman, died yes lerday, the victim of bullet sent into his brain in a formal duel staged here at midnight Saturday Douglas county authorities are looking for the young ranchman's antagonist.
 According to information said to have been given by persons who overheard plans for the duel, the men stepped off 30 paces and fired their pistols.
 Four shots were fired, one of which struck Warren in the head A game of dice is said to have been the cause of the quarrel that pre- ceded the duel.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
HAYS GRANTS DAVIS RESPITE

Fayetteville, Aug. t2.-Omer Da- wis. the is-year-old boy convicted for the murder of Nellie MOneyhun, daughter of Holiness minister near Springdale, will not hang here Tuesday, the date set for his exe- cution. Governor Hays yesterday advised the sheriff's office that he had granted respite of 30 days. The Moneyhun girl was shot to death in her home by Davis.
 Davis has never appealed the case and the respite was granted for the purpose of giving him time to carry the case 10 the Supreme court
The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
VALUABLE PROPERTY SOLD.
N A. Worthington Gets the Card
 ner Brick Block.

w A. Worthington of Cove, who is planning to return and make his permanent home m Mena' has closed a deal by which he becomes owner of one of the best business structures in Mena, the Gardner block at the corner of DeQueeh street and Jansen avenue. HIS building is two stories Tn helghl has three very large storerooins downstairs, one with concrete floor full length, and is fitted for a hotel upstairs.
 Mir. Worthington is greatly pleased with his acquisition and saws he expects soon to return here with his family and make Mena his home for the balance oi his life.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
For Sale-Good River Farm.

9OOa. about 100 cleared and un- der fence: ' miles from Mena; inn provements above average for this section. One-half cash, balance terms. See owner, A. D. Gilbert, 703 Ninth St. 13S-12 55-2
The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
i3 Killed in Big Slide on ISthmus

Colon, Aug, 1l.-Thirteen men were killed today by an unexpected slide at the porot Bello quarry, which completely buried steam shovel where there were working.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
For Weakness and Loss of Appetite

The Old Standard general Strengthening tonic, GROVES TASTEIEsS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds LID the system. A true tonic and sure Appetizer. For adults l5 children soc.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
THE STATE FUNDS
 WILL RUN LOW
With Exception of Settlements of Four Counties No Money Is in Sight Until First of
 Next Year.

Little Rock, Aug. l2.-Four coun- ties have not yet made their annual settlement with the state treasurer They are Poinsett, Little River, St. Francis and Yell. St. Francis cOun- ty funds were tied up in the re- ceivership of the Bank of Forrest City, and the settlements will be for large amounts, but probably not exceeding SlOO,0OO for all four coun- ties. Out of this the general reve- nue fund will probably not be boost ed more than S30,000, the remainder going to pensions, school, capitol and other state funds.
 The payment of warrants on the general revenue fund has kept up steadily during the time the county collectors have been making their annual settlements, and the result Is that there is now nothing in that fund. There are probably enough warrants outstanding to "eat up" the amount that will come into the general fund from the four counties above mentioned, so that the state practically faces an emtpy treas uIy. SD far as the general revenue is concerned.
 During the last few weeks the warrants have been dumped upon the state treasury in great punches. The four state agricultural schools have been especially active in se- curing their building funds author ized by the last legislature, and thousands of dollars have been paid out to these institutions within the past month. One school has just drawn on the treasury for about s30.000. and this is just a small part of the total amount paid out for these schools.
 No Relief in Sight.
 There is little or nothing in sight to relieve the famished fund before January 1, and as the general eX- penditures run about S75,000 per month it is easy 10 see where the general fund will stand by the first of the year. Even state officials face the alternative of having their warrants for salary discounted by the banks. if they get them cashed at all. The state university will be a great sufferer, as it depends on the general fund and cannot draw in advance an amount to exceed one months expenses. It will probably have to go into the business of dis counting warrants for teachers sal aries. etc., when the next term opens. This has been done before, but for only short periods at time. Now there is absolutely nothing in sight. except the Sl00,000 to he col lected early in the year from the in surance companies, until the col lectors again settle next summer, as the liquor license, amounting to s75,O00, stands to be cut of through the recent statewide act.
 The franchise tax money, amount ing to about si75,000, has already been paid in and spent, to the tune of at least sll2,000, when the books were balanced in the treas urer's office Monday. This tax is paid into the general fund,
The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-14
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 The opposite end was given up largely to a display that, while not entered for premiums, yet attract ed much favorable attention. This was provided and presided over by
 Continued on Fifth page)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02
sUL.zER SIGNS FULL CREW BILL.

Governor Sulzer is evidently Of mettle. Des-
pte the attacks made bill by the presidents of the
railroad systems entering York and the advertising
campaign waged by the companies in the great
newspapers of New York State the Democratic executive
signed the bill
There need for such law, both in New York state
and in this state. A similar bill for such law is now
pending before the General Assembly It set down for
hearing before railroad committees next week
The bill in earlier days almost passed the General
Assembly, being finally beaten by few votes The EVIL
at that time showed that freight trains IN this
frequently unprotected at the end and that
they for many miles without anybody IN the caboose
The accident at Westport furnished example OF
what it sufficient train The test1-
nony before Coroner Phelan that something might
have been the four who were burned
Westport wreck, if members OF the train
ready to yield assistance They were not
The conductor had gone direction to give notice to
the company and the head and brakeman had gone
in opposite directions to flag approaching trains
! After carefully scrutnizng the evidence Coroner
PheIan found that the train undermined and made
element in his finding of criminal negligence
upon part of the corporation operating the train
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02
Established 1867

The rivers and canals divide Client
into what are virtually over a score
of islands, connected by some two
hundred bridges, giving the city some
what the appearance and characteris-
tics of Venice
The Anglo-American peace treaty
was signed in the old convent of the
Chartreux, and the room where the
peace commissioners deliberated has
been restored to its original condition,
for the benefit of English and Ameri-
can pilgrims. The signing of the
important document was followed by
a banquet in the throne room of the
Client City Hall, and a feature of the
Client program will be the serving to
American and English notables of a
dinner exactly like the original, in
so far as it can be made SO. This
room contains the throne on which
Joseph II was crowned. Although
Client has taken advantage of the cen
tenary of peace between the two great
English-speaking powers to advertise
itself. no fault can be found with that.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE BILL

The General Assembly, represented by the House,
is apparently ready short work of the constitu
ona amendment striking the word ''male'' from the
constitution that part Of it which prescrbes the quail
fications of electors
The Democrats on the committee present when the
vote taken voted against the unfvorabe report but
did not make a minority report
This will have bearing upon the progress OF the
legislation since the question will directly
motion reject the BILL and if that motion is beaten
ton for the passage of the bill would follow.
The outlook is that the bill will be beaten. Republi-
have failed to make of the
matter although it will be urged that the Democratic plat
promised the further extension of the ballot to
women.
The failure Of the bill will be disappointment to the
sragist leaders who have made splendid fight for the
measure and who had to hope for better results
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02

1T is useless to consider the achievements of great
without the times in which he lived That
impossible to be done at epoch which is easily
compshed at latter period Mr.. Morgan born into
the of consolidation combination and monopoly He
did invent the principles that undere those matters
He not alone in Promoting and consolidating onopo
lies The field shared by many men, beginning with
he elder Astor and including Jay Could the Vanderb
Hartman Huntington and many others Notable among
the leaders in this field was and is Mr. Rockefeller In
fact Morgan did not attain commanding position
socaizer of national wealth until he well past middle
age. He dealt most experty for time with situations
which bound arrive, and which somebody else
would have mastered if he had not.
Morgan is dead But the work of combining and uni
flying small businesses large enterprises and those
to larger and larger goes forward The process
not stopped by Morgans death. It is not halted
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02

Historic Client, in Belgium, where
in 1914 the United States and Great
Britain entered into a treaty that
ushered in a century of peace, inau-
gurates to-day an international cell
ebration with "a thousand and one
attractions worth crossing half the
globe to see." (The language is that
of the official press agent,) The
program of festivities will continue TO
November. A universal and interna-
tiona1 exposition is the main attrac-
ton, and, while it does not compare
with the great worlds fairs of Paris,
Chicago, st. Louis and other cities, it
is quite a magnificent affair. Prob
ably thousands of Englishmen and
Americans will visit the city this year
attracted not only by the exposition,
but by its historic associations with q
century of Anglo-Saxon peace.
The Client of to-day is a city of
some IT'S, 900 people, and has become
quite an important Industrial center.
For centuries Client was the center of
military operations, warlike plots and
revolutionary conspiracies, but now
the thunder of the cannon is silenced,
and the hum of industry and COM
merce alone is heard. Client occu-
pies a beautiful site at the confluence
of four rivers, about forty miles from
Brussels and is practically a seaport
because of the canal connecting the
city with Antwerp and deep water
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02

Mexicans enjoy multitude of hol-
idays, and have recently been engaged
in adding others to the list, and one
of these patriotic festivals will be eel
ebrated to-day. 1t comm emo crates
the taking of Puebla by the repubE-
can troops under Gen. Diaz on April
2, 1867 Last year this holiday was
stricken from the calendar, but under
the new regime it has been revived.
The battle which Wrested Pueblo from
the imperial army of Maximilian was
full and complete victory for Diaz,
and paved his way to future glory.
Puebla had been held by the forces
of the invader for four years, and its
capture was the decisive action of the
war. which soon ended with the resto-
ration of the republic" and the cap
ture and execution of Maximilian.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02

william Bauchop wilson, Secretary
of Labor in President Wilson's cabi-
net, is a, native OF BIantyre, Scotland.
where he was born dfty-one years ago
today, April 2, 1862. The holder of
the newest portfoho-for the creation
of the department. of labor was Ipne
Of Mr.. Taft'e last official acts-came
to America at eight, went to work
in the Pennsylvania coal mines at
nine, married at twsnty-one, and is
now the father of nine charming
children. He still retains his card
in the United Mine Workers of
America, of which he was secretary
and treasurer before he was elected
to Congress in 1907. In creating the
department of labor, no provision was
made for salary, and Mr.. Wilson will
get no pay envelope until Congress
meets this month and makes an APP
preparation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02
REYNOLDS OPPOSES
APPLICATION OF
PEKAR FOR LICENSE

Former Mayor Marcus L. Reynolds
on behalf Of the Lakeview Cemetery
association, has demonstrated against
Paul Pekar transferring a liquor IL
cense from 784 Ha1leett street to Penn
broke and Putnam streets. 1t is al
legged that the location is too near
a public school, that the section is
residential and there are already too
many saloons there.
The county commissioners, who re-
Ceiyed the renonstrance today, said
they had assigned no date for a hear
ing.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02

Flora Annie Steel, the popular Eng
hsh novelist who has lately come into
prominence as one of the leaders of
the spiritual militant suffragettes,
will celebrate her sixty-sixth BIRTH
day today. The author of THE Flow
er OF Forgiveness f"The Hosts of
the Lordg' and other wide1y-read
books, was the daughter of a sher-
ifs clerk and a Jamaica woman, and
has spent a, large part of her life in
India, where she served as an in
spectress of schools and gained much
of the material for her novels. She
was past forty when she wrote her
first story The Spiritual Militancy
League for Womenfs Character,
Rights and Liberties of which Mrs.
Steel is one of the founders, is a
new organization OF women who hope
to win the ballot by concentrating
attention on the spiritual and vital
issues involved in the Women's move
ment'' They hope to win over the
clergy to their cause and so to in
fluence the great body of church-go-
ing women who have remained aloof
from the movement. By their activi-
ties Mrs. Steel and her co-workers
hope to take the cuss Off of the
tactics pursued by the material mill
tants.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02
STATE TAX AvOIDABLE

The finance committee has of the import
ant work Of the General Assembly before it, The
mission appointed by Governor Baldwin two years ago
has reported important proposafor changes the
system by Connecticut raises it's tax revenues
These bills include change in the method of taxing rail
road companies change in the method of taxing
railway companies and the imposition of tax upon the
franchise of manufacturing corporations IF these bills
passed state tax may be avoided Otherwise
will be necessary. 1t is needless say state
tax falls upon the grand list of cities and hence largely
upon homes and farms
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02

The first step toward the abolition
of imprisonment for debt in England
was taken sixty-nine years ago to-day,
when Fleet Prison, inmorta1ized by
Dickens and other writers, was aboI-
ished. For over two centuries this
had been a debtors prison. 1t was
burned during the Gordon riots in
1850, but was rebuilt. The site is
now occupied by a railway station.
The debtors, constantly growing few
er in number, were lodged in Queens
Street Prison until 1861, when Inn
prisonment for debt, except when
frauduIent1y contracted, was finally
abolished. In eighteen months after
the panic of 1925, over 100, 900 Eng
1ish people were jailed for debt. In
1910 there were only 1,732 impris-
oned debtors in England and Wales.
While imprisonment for debt has been
abolished, imprisonment for con-
tempt of court by reason of failure to
pay debts still continued in both Eng
land and the United States.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02

A future peer who will reach his
majority to-day is Hon. r. H. Brins-
ley Norton, only son and heir of the
fifth Baron Grant1ey. His mother,
who died in 1897, was Katharine Nc
Vickar of New York, and his father
later married daughter of the late
Viscount Raneleigh. The Grantley
title dates from 1892. The present
Baron is noted as a collector of coins
and antiquities. Other future lords
who will come of age this month in
cIude the sons of Lord Louth and the
Earl of WharncIffe.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02
HURT BY PARCEL POST
Express Companies Say Their Small
Package Business Has Suffered.

Washington, April 2-The express
companies of the country have been
hit hard by the new parcel post sys-
tenn. according to statements just
submitted to the Interstate Com
merce Commission by counsel for the
companies in their final arguments
against the reduction in express rates
proposed by the commission. It was
said that the companies had suffered
a loss approximating 25 per cent. in
small package business loss which
amounts to about 6 per cent of the
gross revenues of the companies.
Walker D. Hines said that for the
five companies he presented-the
Adams American, United States,
Southern and Wells Fargo-applica-
ton of the proposed rates to present
business would reduce revenues about
SIG, OO0, 900 a year, or 5.85 cents on ev-
cry dollars worth of business done.
Such a reduction in revenues, he said,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02

Busters, spare that trust is the
advice of Prof. James Laurence
Laughlin, the famous political econo-
mist of John d. Rockefener's pet in
stitution, the University of Chicago.
Prof. LaughIin, who was born at
Deerfield, o., sixty three years ago
to-day, recently asserted that monop-
oily is a benefit, to the consumer, and
that it is not the province of govern
ment to protect the small retailers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02

A geld, stern and unrending per-
sonage is the president of Columbia
Ter, who was born in Elizabeth, N.
J., ffty-one years ago to-day. Irrev-
erent undergraduates have referred
to their "Prexy' as the human
icycle'' and not without reason. In
the light of results, however, Presi-
dent Butler is a success, for Column
bia now has more students than any
other American university.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-02
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until entirely freed of all trouble and
suffering That's why recommend
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