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The Newark journal., 1917-02-08
DR.. E. c. LANE

1876; forgery, 142 involuntary
manslaughter, 81; manslaugh-
ter, 81; first degree murder,
81; second degree murder, 121 j;
and embezzlement, 80.
Thirty-nine convicts in the
penitentiary ana on the con-
vict farms are serving life SEN
fences.
Fifteen men were sent to the
penitentiary during 1915 and
1916 to be electrocuted, and
five were executed. Six receiv-
ed combinations to life i'm
prisonment, and litigation now
is staying execution Of two
others.
The men electrocuted were
Sam Derrick, white; and VIII
Medley, John Hall, Walter
Owens and Clay Simms, neg
roes. Of the Is men received
for execution four were white
and II negroes.
Pulaski sent 246, or more
than twice as many convicts
to the penitentiary as any 9th
er county in the state. Three
counties tied in sending the
fewest number. They were
Boone, lizard and Marion, with
only one prisoner each.
The Newark journal., 1917-02-08

they can build.
The city has said that taking
the Grand Central Station at
42nd street as center, and in
a fifteen mile circle around it,
there dwells eight million peo-
pie.
Take New York City alone
and it contains nearly three
times the inhabitants of the
state of Arkansas. 1t isn't any
wonder that the city is con-
gested. The city's transit cars
move one million people daily.
Another problem, Billy Sun
day is coming to town in the
spring for a three months meet
ing. They are building a taber-
nacle for him with a seating
capacity of $4,000, are organ
izing a choir Of 5000 trained
singers, male ana female, who
will alternate in singing.
Quoting from a daily paper,
it says: "You will hear a lot
more people whistling hymns
than ragtimes when Billy gets
to town."
George, his son, said here in
this city that if it was money
his father was after, he woui,,
have accepted million which
he was offered to go in the
movies but refused. He also
refused $350,000 for five days
work in the movies. 1t is said
that Billy Sunday has repeat
edly refused to commercialize
Christ.
SUBSCRIBER.
New York City, Feb. 5.
The Newark journal., 1917-02-08
TESTED AND PROVEN
There is a Heap of Solace in
Being Able to Depend Up :,
on a Well-Earned Re-
putation

For months Newark readers
have seen the constant express
sion of praise for Doan's Kid
ney Pills, and read about the
good work they have done in
this locality. What other rene
|dy ever produced such convinc-
ing proof of merit?
John Edwards, Hoxie, Ark,
says: Il had a dull, heavy ache
in my back and any exertion
or a cold made it worse. My
kidneys acted too frequently
and the kidney seeretions pain
ed when passing. Then Doan's
Kidney Pills were brought to
my notice, | got some and one
box made me feel much better.
After | had taken three boxes,
not sign of kidney trouble
remained. The cure they gave
me has lasted"
Price soc, at all dealers.
Don't simply ask for a kidney
remedy-get Doan's Kidney
Pills-the same that Mr.. Ed
wards had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, n. Y. z
ADVERTISEMENT
Onion sets at HOyt q Co,
The Newark journal., 1917-02-08
YOUNG MAN is
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT

Calico Rock, Feb. Bart
Baker, a young man of near
Newburg, IL miles east of Cal
leo Rock, was accidentally shot
in one of his legs yesterday
while he was carelessly hand
ling a pistol. Physicians immed-
lately removed the bullet and
no serious results are expected.
The Newark journal., 1917-02-08
PRINTERS,DOCTORS AND
LAWYERS ESCAPE PEN
Arkansas Prison Population
Shows Many Churches Rep
resented Among Convicts

The population of the Ark
ansas penitentiary, during the
past two years, increased ap-
proXimately 20 per cent, ac-
cording to the report of the
Penitentiary Commission, made
public few days ago.
The report shows that there
were 1893 prisoners in the pen
January l, 1915, and that
there were 1886 prisoners Jan
uary /, 1917.
During the two years time
covered by the report, 485 con-
victs were pardoned, los were
paroled, 90 died and 245 es-
| capped.
The total number of prison
ers received during the two
years was 2,002, and the total
number released by expiration
of sentence, death, pardon, es-
| cape, ETC., was l 1853.
The following interesting
facts are taken from the report.
Occupations of prisoners
ranged from schoolboys to sail
ors and from farmers to bank
ers. Newspaper men, dentists,
laWyes and doctors apparently
were exempt. Common labor
ers ranked first in numbers,
| with COL, while farming was
the second occupation in the
number of representatives in
the institution. During the two
years 251 farmers began pris-
on sentences.
There were but few voca-
tons and occupations which
| were not represented in the
prison ranks, bankers, BARRIERS,
bartenders, brickmasons, car
lpenters, blacksmiths, cooks,
butchers, electricians, lumber
men, laundrymen, railroad men,
plumbers, shoemakers, soldiers,
teachers, veterinarians and
ipersons of other occupations
make up the prison population.
| Seven religious denomina-
tons were represented in the
institution, while 40 convicts
| declared they believed no re-
ligion. According to the report
of the commission, the convicts
eXp1 essed themselves as be-
longing to the following de-
nominations: Baptist, $50;
Methodists, 622; Presbyterians,
1905; Episcopalians, II; Cath
olics, rs; Holiness, 80; Christ
ian Scientists, 2.
Eight conviets were serving
| their third prison sentence,
while 1851 of theiconvicts were
first termers.' y Sixty-four
were serving second terms.
Results OF the Statewide pro-
hibition law were seen in the
number of convicts-155-who
were serving sentences for il
legal sale of liquor. The most
common crime, according to
the number of convicts serv-
ing sentences for such, was
grand larceny, for which SOP
were under prison sentences.
Crimes for which the great
er number of convicts were
serving sentences follow: AS
sault to kill, ISL; burglary,
The Newark journal., 1917-02-08
SHARP COUNTY MAN
HAS PROFITABLE COW

J. F. Holt of Corinth, Sharp
county, has sold during the
past 10 years $580.25 worth of
cattle, all being the increase
from one cow, and he now has
on hand Is head of cattle
which are the increase from
the same COW, and are worth
$500.
The Newark journal., 1917-02-08

now breeding up to Polled-
Durham stock.
Mississippi county has given
a good account of herself this
season in all classes of stock
marketed at this point, and
evidence is plentiful that her
residents are utilizing the ma
tural live stock resources there
in a highly efficient manner"
The Newark journal., 1917-02-08
TELLS OF CONDITIONS
in new YORK CITY
Says There Are So Many Peo-
pie in Great City He Can't
See Anybody

Mr.. Editor.-The city is
agog with war news, even the
churches are stirred on the war
problem. While some are pray
ing for peace, some say stand
by the President whether it is
war or peace, with all the en-
thusiasm that Anericanism can
produce.
The city fathers and the citi-
zenship have other problems
it seems they cannot solve. One
is what they term the River
side grab by the New York
Central Railroad. Should the
railroad succeed in getting it, it
would destroy River Side Park
along the Hudson river front.
For miles along the bank are
many shade trees and rest
places for the women and
children, and the women are
making the biggest fight for it
by holding mass meetings to
arouse the public to greater
activity to save the park.
Another problem is what is
the city going to do about its
traffic. The different avenues
ire SO congested, especially
9Th avenue, which would be
impossible to cross almost if it
were not for the traffic police
to hold up 5th avenue until
some of the cross streets could
get by. By actual test made by
the city, the pedestrian on the
sidewalk of 9Th avenue made
better time than the auto or
taXicab, on account of the con-
gestion. 1t has been figured
out that on some of the streets
if the apartment houses, flats
and hotels were to be emptied
and their occupants file into
the streets it would fill the
street three deep as thick as
they could stand. By actual
count as many as twenty thou
sand people live in one block.
This is city authority. That
isn't the worst congestion
either. When you enter a sub
way or the elevated q don't
know about the surface cars |
have never ridden on them) but
you see a circular on the wall
of the cars which reads: sIf
you know anyway to better
handle the traffic, will you
please tell lis or suggest to us?"
The subway has four tracks,
two for the local and two for
the express. So has the elevat-
ed. Then the surface cars, and
they all cannot handle the
traffic in rush hours. As | be-
fore have stated, they hitch a
long string OF cars together. AS
quick as one train is filled up,
it moves out and another fol-
lows right after.
Congestion? A sardine box
isn't in it. They are standing SO
thick, the short ones-Well, |
would hate to be one. Why, a
man could hug and kiss one of
those fine Jewess ladies and
she would never know it. If you
don't hold a stiff neck you
might come in contact with
some face that you did not ap-
preciate.
The city is building more
subways and more elevated
roads all the time, but the pop
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05
APPAM RETURNED
 TO THE BRITISH

Norfolk, Va, March 29.-The United States district court here yesterday, on order of the supreme court. turned over the prize ship Appam to Floyd Hughes, represent ing the British African Steamship Navigation Company, owners of the vessel prior to her capture by the Germans. What disposition the owners will make of the Appam is not known here.
 The court also ordered that $59O,- 1000, the proceeds of the sale of the cargo, be paid to the English own CTS. The money is in Norfolk and Richmond banks.
 Thomas II. Wilcox of Norfolk was appointed by the court as spe- |cial commissioner to ascertain the costs and damages suffered by the |owners.
 The unsold portion of the cargo consisting of ore, is ordered to the owners. The German defendants are orderde to pay all costs in con nection with the case.
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05
WOMEN OFFER 10
 SERVE THE UNION
Americans Drift Toward War Finds Thousands of Fair Sex" AnX-
 ious For Opportunities.

New York, March 30.-The hand that rocks the cradle rules a good share of the world of American preparedness.
 Nationwide reports to the United Press today showed the women of the country offering to serve as sign painters factory inspectors, naval stenographers, nurses, drug clerks. cooks, laundresses and any thing else they might be needed for.
 Hundreds of patriotic women have answered the navy's call to colors and other hundreds have answered in other branches without being called.
 In New York there was a big rush of women of all ages to help Uncle Sam get ready to fight. Of these three stood out for unique meth ods.
 Viola McGucken, 20, got permis- sion from the navy to recruit men and opened her own station in a branch post office. She sent nine recruits, five of whom were accept ed by the navy department
 Under sanction of Secretary Dan iels, Mrs: Margaret M. Crumpacker, widow of the late Judge Crumpack CT Of Indiana, and Mrs. Charles BedelI made an auto speaking tour along Broadway telling crowds of men their duty.
 Although no women have offered
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05
HOW THE BRITISH
 CAPTURE U-BOATS

A submarine net is made of wire rope. about as thick as a lead pen ell. and the meshes are of great size-about ten or fifteen feet souare. The net has floats on top that keep bobbing up and' down like the float on fish line, and on the bottom are weights that keep the whole thing in perpen- dicular position. The submarine can not submerge to very great depths on account of the pressure-2OO feet being about the limiting depth. It sails innocently along, therefore
 until it pushes it's nose into these meshes. The net now trails along on both sides of the submarine-its progress revealing the fact that something below is supplying the motive power. Perhaps the net sud rently. stops; that means that the hidden submarine has stopped, it's navigators having made the horri- ble discovery that they are trapped or perhaps the net has become twisted in the propeller. Under these conditions the wise submar- inc rises to the surface. It surren- ders, becomes the property of the
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05

to enlist in the navy at Cleveland they have organized a complete Red Cross unit ready to move the mo- ment war is declared.
 Plans for a big woman's pre- paredness camp at Chevy Chase were rapidly being completed by Miss Alice Carpenter. who is back cd by Mayor Mitchell and who will go to Washington today to discuss New York women's preparedness plany with government officials.
 In Milwaukee forty-two women have applied for enlistment in the navy. Milwaukee women have or ganized base hospital with fifty nurses and twenty-five sides large enough to care for five hundred pa tients. San Francisco naval recruit ing officers report 150 women ap- plicants for enlistment.
 Red Cross training courses have been taken up by the St. Paul, Minn., Y. w. c. A. Among the wo- men applicants for enlistment in the navy at St. Paul is Miss Jean Bishop, who has two uncles in the British navy.
 A corps of homo guards has been by the women of Port and Ore. Twenty-Five women and girls offered their services to the navy there. A body of women pledged itself to aid in recruiting men for the naval services.
 The National League for, Wo- mems Service organized in Colum- bus, O., few days ago with 150 and is rapidly growing. Tho local Red Cross has five hun fred members now and is after 20,- poo.
 St. Louis women have organized Red Cross units and already have started civilian girls classes mak- ing bandages and kits and collect ing Red Cross funds.
 One woman has enlisted in tic navy at Kansas City and four oth- .s.-.-----~---.----------
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05
Analysing the Steel Business

James A. Farrell, president of the steel corporation, says that not more than 25 per cent of the G. 100000 tons of steel exported last year, which was double the eX- ports of any previous year, went into the manufacture of munitions. With cooperation between busi- ness men ad the government, he thinks, this country should be able to retain a large part of the ex- port trade it has built up during the war He says: ''As a nation we should approach the conclusion of the war better qualified to do a foreign trade comparable with our industrial potentialities than ever before"
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05

resulted in the loss of two lives. Immediately following the eXplo- sion the tipple caught fire and was completely destroyed. August Quoss and Charles Vickers, shot firers, were the only occupants of the mine at the time of the explosion. Entfance to the mine is impossible owing to the wreckage.
 There is no hope of rescuing the entombed men alive. In February two shot firers lost their lives in the same mine, in an explosion due to dust It is believed dust was responsible for the explosion last night. Since the first of February six shot firers have lost their lives in coal mine explosions in Sebastian county.
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05

enemy, and it's crew are made prls- oners. If it does not take such action one of two things will happen. The enemy will wait upon the surface until the submarine comes up, or, if it starts moving the enemy Will follow until the inevitable upris- ing. But perhaps the surface com mander gets inpatient; in such a case he can let a bomb down into the water, which will explode when it touches the roof of the submar- inc. Of course, the submerged Ger mans know that this bomb is likely to drop at any minute; the "psy- chology" of such situation tends to persuade the imprisoned crew to surrender.
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05
MAKE
 PRINCELY GAINS

Washington, March 29.-Al- though the railroads have contend ed that there have been heavy in creases in operating expenses, and that net incomes have been great fly reduced, an estimate of January net earnings by the leading roads, as announced by the interstate com- merce commission today, showed a gain of seven million dollars over the corresponding period for last year.
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05

CT applications are being consid- cred
 Chicago society women are or ganizing Red Cross classes They have instituted night classes which hundreds of women attend. Other hundreds have enrolled for active service in case of war. Thirty-five women have applied for naval en- listment. Red Cross units have been organized among high school stu dents and among the co-eds at Northwestern and Chicago Univer- sites. Many debutantes and society women are assisting in recruiting work They personally interview men prospects for the naval branch of the defense and distribute post CTS from door to door, The Red Cross has issued call for ten thousand new members and the re- sponse was instantaneous.
 Five Trenton, N. J., women have applied for enlistment in the navy and have been accepted.
 One woman has been enlisted and several others have applied and may be accepted at Philadelphia Wo- mems clubs and other organizations are stirring up interest i'll the pro posed womens preparedness camps.
 Fifty women have registered for emergency aid, offering to work as sign painters, factory inspectors, and other trades. Three girls class cs in wireless instruction have been started by Miss Eleanore Bonsall.
 Twenty women have applied for naval service at Pittsburgh and To- cal women are organizing Red Cross unites.
 A half dozen women have offered to serve with the navy at Harris burg, Pa, most of them being stenographers. The local Red Cross is being recruited to full strength. A class of Red Cross students is in training.
 Half a dozen women and girls have offered to serve with the navy at Detroit. Leaders are working to enlist a quarter million Wisconsin women for social econom- ic preparedness in war
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05
PREMIER E FAVORS
 EQUAL SUFFRAGE
British Official Makes Declaration In House of Commons-Asquith
 Also In Line.

London, March 29.-Premier Lloyd George made declaration in the house of commons yesterday in favor of woman suffrage. The ipromier said he welcomed the recommendation in favor of woman suffrage which was made in the program for electoral reform moved yesterday by former. Premier As quith.
 Tho other reform measures also were approved by the premier, who said that in the opinion of the government it would be national waste # the results of the confer ence at which the reforms were outlined should be thrown away He favored a generous extension of tthe electoral franchise by reducing to three months the period for qualifying for voting and by assum- ing the qualification of every sol ,;icr and sailor.
 Former Premier Asquith said that he and other members no longer regarded the question of woman suffrage from the standpoint they occupied before the war. MT. As quith made this statement in nov 1 ing the adoption of plan for cleo toral reform.
 Mir. Asquith said his opposition to woman suffrage always had been based solely on considerations of public eXpediency. The women had now worked out their own sal vation. The war could not be car ed him especially, he added, was the problem of reconstruction after the war. He considered it to be neither just nor expedient to with | hold from women the power or the right to make their voices heard directly.
 FORGE CAMPAIGN ENDED.
 The fact that for three years there had been no recurrence of the "detestable campaign which had disfigured our public life," said MT. AsQuith, would make it impossible for any one to say that in changing their position in regard to suffrage he and his associates had yielded to force what they had refused to lyield to argument. With the eX- ception of the actual bearing of arms in the field, there was hardly "a service which had contributed to maintenance of the cause of the Iallies in which women had not been as active and efficient as men.
 Wherever one turned might be Esccn women, who, without detri- ment to the prerogatives of their sex, were performing work which three years ago would have been regarded as falling exclusively with
 in the province of mea. After the war questions would arise with re- gard to women's labor functions and festivities. in which the women must
 have a voice.
 II MT. Asquith also supported
 strongly the other proposals for
 electoral reform and expressed the |topinion that the recommendation
 that all elections should take place
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05
How's This {?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
 F.J. CHENEY C CO. Toledo. O. We, the undersigned. have known r. J. Cheney for tine la1t 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable ia all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations nlado by his firm. NATIONAL. BANK or COMMERCE.
 Toledo, O. Halls Catarrh Cure h taken internally. acting directly GDon the blood and mu- cous surfaces of the cyStem. Tcstimonials sent free. Price i5 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
 Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05

on one day dealt with one of the greatest reforms which could be introduced. He understood that the life of the parliament would be extended further until the end of November and hoped that new register on the lines of the reforms suggested would be ready, should an election be necessary at that time.
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05

struction of a batch of submarine chasers have been made by the na- wy department. No mention is made of the price paid, or the num- Der ordered. Immediate construc- tion of additional ships in the New York navy yards is planned. Plans for the building of new battleships are being drawn.
The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05
TWO LIVES LOST
 IN MINE BLASTS

Huntington, Ark, March 29.- An explosion in the Central Coal X Coke Company's No. mine. here last night, is believed to have
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-25

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 20.
President Wilson Joined with
his grandchildren today in cele-
brating Christmas at the White
House. Sitting on the library
floor beneath a magnificent tree,
the president was initiated by
Francis and Ellen Sayre into the
mysteries of electric railway trains
and mechanical dolls.
Mrs. Wilson and other members
of the White House family Joined
In the fun.
1t was early and rain, instead OF
snow, was pattering on the roof Of
the executive mansion when Little
Francis and Ellen stirred in their
beds. 1t was not afterward that
the president was ruthlessly rous-
ed by the youngsters and ordered
to open the mysterious doors OF
the library.
Plays With Children.
Soon the whole mansion was
astir at the call of the youngsters
and shortly after 8 o'clock the H.
brary doors were opened. There
stood great tree, emblazoned
with myriad electric lights; silver
and gold tinsel shimmering thru
the green fir branches. It's boughs
were laden with gifts for the
grandchildren, Mrs. Wilson, the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-25
Special Session Opposed
by Central Labor Council

1T would further mean that the
workers could not quit work in
protest against the intolerable
conditions which they are asked to
work under.
THE legitimate men and women
workers Of this country, of this
our great state of Washington, are
loyal, and we resent any SANDER
to the contrary. Thousands and
thousands of our fellows are at
the front or in training, hundreds
of thousands more will go to fight
for that which some unscruplous
employers would take away from
us here at home.
1--WE will go with more spirit
and more energy IL we know that
while we are gone to fight democ-
racy's cause our loved ones and
fellow workers at home are not
being robbed by such laws as this
association would have your honor
call the legislature together for"