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Forrest City Times
LANDVOIGHT & VADAKIN.
FQPFFCT city,_ARKANSAS.
’ Man; an old man In years Is a
young man In mental activity.
An Insane man was found wandering
!a Wall street, says an exchange. Only
one?
London proposes to build a liner
that contains everything but an avia
tion flelt.
Chicago women are about to start a
department store, which will have six
bargain days a week.
A New York state man killed a deer
Cth his automobile. Some men are
sdly shots with their autos.
Princess Eulalia may merely be pre
paring to come over and show us what
•he can do In vaudeville.
A lecturer down east says that
"woman should be more conspicuous
than her clothes.” Sometimes In the
ball room she Is. *
A Chicago man committed suicide
after a card party. The ordinary man,
however. Is satisfied with being mere
ly bored to death.
Fire destroyed 25 automobiles In a |
New York garage. Yet when they are
led out they do not rush back Into the '
Dames.
An X-ray examination of a Michigan
nan discloses the fact that his vital
organs are on the wrong side. Rail
road train or football?
We refuse to become excited over
the fact that Sir Walter Raleigh's pipe
la for sale. Our old reliable corncob
la good enough for us.
"A man of 20 Is worth $6,230,” says
k statistician. This will he good news
to a great many men of twenty who
are looking for meal tickets.
!It may be easy to fly across the At
intlc as Willis Moore says, but If any
ody contemplates trying It we advise
lm to take along a bathing suit.
Maeterlinck says that It will be easy
to die In the future Evidently he has
come to the conclusion that no im
provement In vaudeville is to be look
ad for.
Citizen of Ohio wants a divorce be
cause his spouse smokes cigars If she
goes through his pockets at night, and
confiscates his best ropes, we sym
pathize with him.
You can’t hold the women down;
soon they'll be invading the realm of
blgh finance. A New York woman has |
been spending $21,000 yearly on an in
come of $18,000.
Several Cincinnati schoolgirls have
aucceeded In living on seven cents a
day It Is hard to tell whether they
did It In the Interests of science or
merely to catch husbands.
Dispatches from the east tell us that
t ton of oil recently was taken from !
Mie tongue of a whale We have not j
been able to learn the details, '
but we have a hunch that It was a lady
whale.
A farm Journal says the result of
the experiment of mixing wine with
feed for chickens was to Increase the
yield of eggs by 100 per cent. Prob
ably the hens were unable to count
straight
If the European picture thieves will I
come over here and give their atten
tion to the studios of some of the art
ists who get out covers for the maga
lines they will meet w ith a hospitable
welcome.
There Is a birth every four minutes
In New York. Even at that. New
Yorkers are often hard pressed to
take care of the money constantly
handed them by outsiders.
A man In New Jersey estimates that
In the last thirty years ho has walked
25,000 miles between his home and
church. This may be defined as real
ly taking steps to be saved.
In France the bicycle has become
the most popular of all vehicles, while
the craze for the motorcycle Is begin
ning to abate You never can tell what
the French are going to do.
Word comes from Chicago that two
burglars bound and gagged a woman
is she played the piano Never hav
ing heard the lady play, we find It Im
possible to Judge whether they were
burglars or simply neighbors
A man and a woman who had a
lovers' quarrel thirty five years ago
have Just been married in Ohio If it j
is going ic take them that long in each
cate to make up they are not likely !
to have many family quarrels
A woman get-rlch quick promoter
has been arrested She may have ihe ;
credit of proving that in swindling
fields hitherto regarded as exclusively ■
mau's province the female of the spe
ctes gathers victims as slickly a3 the :
■rale
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A Judge in Seattle has ruled that a
dog has a legal right to bite a man
who treads on his tall. It uiay be add
h^ benefit of those whom if
iua> that few dogs are likely
la the emergency cited, to wait fo«
*l*eir legal right to be tested.
AFTER GRIMES
Steals Engine In Van Buren
Yards and Makes Way
Into Oklahoma.
FARMER AND WIFE VICTIMS
Murderer Aaked to Be Admitted to
Home to Get Warm, Kills Man
and Assaults Wife.
Wentern Newspaper T'ninn News Sersie*
Fort Smith. Gliding his career on
earth in a mad orgy of crime and
bloodshed, Including the stealing of
a switch engine, the slaying of a
farmer, who had befriended him, and
the assaulting of the dead man's wife,
a negro named Turner was lynched by
the maddened citizens of Muldrow.
Okla., 13 miles west of here. Turner
went to Muldrow in the cab of an Iron
Mountain engine, which it is thought
he and another man had stolen fr m
the railroad yards at Van Buren.
When the runaway engine was dera ’.
ed by the railroad employes at Muld
row, the negro escaped under cover
of darkness. He next appeared at
the home of George Cason, a farmer
living near Muldrow. Adn itted to the
home by Cason, he rewarded h.s bene
factor by dashing out his brains with
an axe. He then repeatedly assaulted
Mrs. Cason and plied hu. self with
whiskey until he fell into a drunken
stupor. He was found lying in bed
beside the corpse of the man he had
slain, when the lynching party reach
ed the Cason home, after Mrs. Cason
clad only in her night gown and with
bare feet, had run across the snow
covered fields to sound the alarm.
HUGHES SURRENDERS
Arkansas Man Surprised Officers by
Walking in Unexpected.
Wc«tcrn Newspaper Union News Service.
Memphis, Tenn.—Ixioking hale and
hearty, but with a growth of beard
that created some doubt in the minds
of Tennesse officers as to his identity,
J. J. Hughes, reputed millionaire of
Haynes, Ark., surrendered to the jailer
here, and was locked in his cell to
await trial early in the new year for
alleged murder of Tommy Dolan, a
jockey, Hughes has been at liberty
at his Arkansas honje for nearly two
months on $50,000 bond granted by
the lower Tennessee court, but was
ordered returned to jail by the su
preme court.
Part of Population in Jail.
Washington. — A preliminary state
ment of prison statistices for the year
1910 was issued by the bureau of cen
sus, department of commerce and la
bor. The prison population of tne
United States on January 1, 1910, was
113,597, and the number of commit
ments to prisons or other penal insti
tutions during the year 1910 was 179,
703. These figures include every class
of offense, from vagrancy to murder
in the first degree. They also Include
cases in which the offender was com
mitted to jail or prison for the non
payment of a fine. The ratio of pris
oners to population shows that there
were one committed to every Soo per
sons.
Aviator Reaches New Orleans.
New Orleans, La. Robert (1. Fow
ler, the aviator, after numerous de
lays on account of engine trouble,
reached New Orleans, lie fiivi from
Ama, about 18 miles above New Or
leans. and landed in the City .Park
race course. Jle will give exhibition
flights here.
Tampa, Fla.—.Vs a result of a near
riot between factions of the First Con
gregational church at the conclusion
of the morning's services, the police
arrested six persons, and the pastor,
Kev K. K. Kirkland, spent the after
noon in bed. In a written statment
he declared he had been kicked by
some of the women members of iris
flock.
Employes Barred From Politics.
Washington. Sewral thousand ru
ral free delivery letter carriers are
barred from active participation in
politics by an executive order signed
by President Taft It fori ids the rural
letter carriers from pernicious activ
ity iii politics and empowers the civil
service commission to dismiss any
found to be so engage.1 The term
"pernicious activity !:, politics" j„
elastic one and it in the past s
worked on other classes of fed, ..• >
employes as an effectual far
New Judicial System in Effect.
Washington. Through! i;t ti c flut
ed States the new year marked the
passing out cf existence of the va
rious federal circuit courts, tribunals
as old as the nation, and more promi
nent in the early days of the republic
than the supreme court itself The
new judiciary code, whirl, went into
effect provides for Ihe abolishment of1
the circuit courts. In the main ,hc
business ,f lh cir nit courts will ho
transferred Jo the federal district
courts
I TRYING THE CHRISTMAS TOOLS 1
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COTTON OFFER
IS WITHDRAWN
Financier Says Southern Mis
representation Will
Ee Costly.
Western News-paper Union News Servirs.
Fort Worth, Tex.—Col. Robert M.
Thompson of New York and Washing
ton, who proposed a plan to finance
2,000,000 bales of cotton, has with
drawn his offer for the reason, as he
states in a letter, that certain South
ern newspapers are making misrep
resentations concerning it which may
tend to prevent its future adoption.
It is his opinion that the South would
3ave $50,000,000 a year by this plan,
or some plan on the same line. Fol
lowing is Colonel Thompson's letter
to the committee who conferred with
him in New York: “As a result of
the meetings recently hold throughout
the South, I am convinced that there
is no chance this year of my cotton
plan being accepted by the farmers,
and to prevent a misunderstanding
hereafter, I think it better to formally
withdraw my offer. You will there
fore please consider my offer to re
ceive cotton and make advances upon
it as cancelled.”
CHINESE FLAG FLIES
Demonstration in New York Over
the New Republic.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New York.—A celebration of the es- I
tablishment of the Chinese republic
coincident with the inauguration of
its first president was held in China- j
town. Hundreds of Chinese rushed
to their barbers early in the day and
had their (pieties cut away, severing, I
as they said, the last symbol of Man
chu domination. Many of the China- ;
men also shook off t.ielr sandals, and '
in heavy American shoes climbed the ;
stairs of the old Joss House, in crook- j
ed, narrow Mott street, whl h was re- j
christened 'The Chinese Public Hall." j
and gravely bowed before a large por- j
trait of the new president, Dr. Sun j
Yat Sen.
WOMAN ACCUSED OF MURDER
Kills Her Son-in-Law in Eed: Two
Husbands of Woman Murdered.
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V- ''in Ni wspppi r t'niun Xews Service.
Mobile. Ala. After an inquest over
the body of Police Officer Fn derick j
W'asserlebien, who was shot and killed
in liis home, the coroner’s jury ren
dered a verdict that his death was
brought about by gunshot wounds in
the head received at the hands of
Mary T. Godau, his mother-in-law. j
At the inquest Mrs. Godau testified '
that she shot Wasserlebein while he
was in bed because he invited her to
kill him after he had offered her an
insult. Two husbands of Mrs. Godau
have been found killed and *#*1 carry
ing heavy life insurance.
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Girl Saves Mother's L fe: Is Killed.
New York. Meniia IN Ina, a l-l- j
year-old girl, threw herself in front of
a revolver in the hands of her step
father. George Hen/.. ... salesman, and
n i riv( <! two bullets, which, resultant !
! of a quarrel, had h m intended for
1 111 r H’Oth* r. The girl dU d in an am- '
buiaiice ha i si. hear a ter; the mot, cr
v. as uninjured. Uenz fled do n the
street, l ilt v. a; captured and held
without bail on a charge of murder.
Atlanta, Ca As the result cf the 1
laths. niu.i cf the i> tour per week
law enacted !y the l;-gi -.laiurs, about
GO weavers, loom fixers and other
employes went on a st ike at the Rx-;
position cotta t r i-s ft- The men I
had previou \v b > n >• «.r. g 66 hours
a week, and clj' tcd to a out in
wages correspond.r.g to the cut in !
hours. Company officials In a state
ment declared t at ‘commercial and
economic co:.dit. s" made it impos
Kiblo to pay as much for 60 hours’
work as was paid for C6 hours."
SMITING CASE
Grand Jury In Los Angeles Re
turns Indictments Against
Labor Men.
Western Newspaper Union News Seeeice.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Three labor lead
ers of national prominence were In
dicted and arrested in the govern
ment's first roundup of inen alleged to
be connected with alleged national
dynamiting conspiracies which federal
grand juries began investigating here
and in Indianapolis directly after the
McNamara brothers confessed on I>e
cember 1. The men arrested are Olaf
Tveitmoe, secretary-treasurer of the
California state building trades coun
cil and head of the Asiatic exclusion
league; Anton Johannsen, organizer
of the state building trades council
and J. E. Munsey, head of the Salt
I^ike City local union of bridge and
structural iron workers, of which or
ganization John J. McNamara, now
serving 15 years in prison, was inter
national secretary-treasurer. E. A.
Clancey, formerly business agent of
the structural iron worker’s union in
San Francisco, is charged with the
same offense in the same indictment,
but he lias not been arrested. In ad
dition to these four men, five others
are named in the indictment. They
are Ortie MeManigal. confessed ac
complice: the McNamara brothers,
and David Kaplin and O. Schmidt, al
leged confederates of James B. Mc
Namara in tiic blowing up of the Ix>s
Angeles Times building.
TREASURQ HAS DEFICIT
wnd cf 1912 Shows Disbursement of
Millions in Excess of Receipts.
Western Xi ws'pap' r Union Sm Service.
Washington.- Tho end of the year
1911 is bequeathing the federal gov
ernment a materially increased deficit
as compared with- the close of 1910-11,
to be wiped out, if possible, during the
remaining half of the current fiscal
year. The general fund, representing
the available resources of the treasury
ho wed a big growth, due to the sale
of $.i0,000,00u in Panama Canal bonds
during the year. While Secretary
Mac \ t ugh had not received complete
returns, it is known that the disburse
ments exceeded the receipts during
1 he last six months exclusive of the
Panama ( anal financial operations, by
about $21.’,000,000, while during the
corresponding period last year the
deficit was only $3,870,000.
Holding Movement Is Strong.
Montgomery, Alabama. The total
amount ol cotton in Montgomery
warehouses held for better prices is
190 bales. This shows an increase
o! 18,625 bales over the same period
of last year. I he last week in I)e
(cm her, 1910, showed 34,565 bales on
hand. Cotton then was selling for
1 1 9-16 cents.
Iriquois Victims Fverhembered.
( luc.ago. - I he eighth annual memo
rial services for hundreds who per
ished December 30, 1903, in the Iro
quois theater fire panic here, was
held here in the Iroquois Memorial
hospital, which is maintained by an
association formed to perpetuate the
memory of the martyred dead who
sacrificed their lives on the altar of
future public safety.-’ A bronze tablet
bv Lorado Taft was unveiled.
Federal Ownership in England.
I .cation. At the stroke or midnight,
ushering in 1912. the liritish govern
ment t-ok formal possession of the
li e 69 telephones owned by the Na
titm.l Telephone Company and there
to.' afturned actual operation of all
public telephones in the United King
dom. The 13,000 employes of the Na
tional Telephone Company will here
after be government employes, pro
'ected by civil service against the loss
of positions ana will enjoy other
rights.
PACKERS’ TRIAL
Government Has Another Star
Witness In Beof
Case.
EVIDENCE IS CONTRADICTED
Was Manager of Packing Concern and
Has Correspondence Said to
Show Price Fixing.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Chicago. — Documentary evidence
that the price of meat was fixed and
the business apportioned on a non
competitive basis by the packers at
their weekly Meetings was introduced
by the government at the trial of the
10 Chicago packers before Federal
Judge Carpenter. Special Counsel
Pierce Butler read several letters re
ceived by W. D. Miles, manager of
the Armour Packing Company at Kan
sas City, in June of 1007, in which the
amounts to be shipped to certain
Eastern markets were given, and the
price to be charged, based on the
margin of 50 cents on the uniform cost
estimates used by the packers, was
named. Tiie letters also flatly refuted
the statement of Henry Veeder on the
witness stand that no motings of the
packers to fix prices and apportion
business were held between April,
1897, and January, 1898, when a sta
tistical boreau was maintained to com
pile reco.ds of meat shipped and
prices obtained at different points.
IMPERIALISTS CONFIDENT
Manchu Throne Seems to Have New
Lite in Spite of Republic.
Western News-paper Union News .Service.
Pekin.—The feeling in Peking is
that that throne has taken on a new
lease of life. Indeed, there are some
competent observers who believe that
Premier Yuan Shi Kai will yet pre
vent the consummation of a republic
despite the inauguartion of President
Sun Yet Sen. The imperial cabinet
has accepted the resignation of Tang
Shao Yi, who was sent to Shanghai
as the representative of Premier Yuan
Shia Kai and the imperialists at the
peace tonference. The government
has also telegraphed \Vu Ting Fang,
the leader of the revolutionaries at the
peace conference, stating that in the
future it will negotiate telegraphically.
The government, declares that Tang
Shou Yi went beyond his instructions
when he signed the agreement calling
a national convention to decide upon
the future form of government.
Accuses Negro of Assault.
I.ittle Rock.—While standing in line
with 12 other negroes, Lee Williams
was identified at police station by Mrs.
C. W. Presley of 810 Cross street as
the negro who entered her home about
3 o'clock on the morning of December
18 and asasulted her. Williams d d
not flinch under tUe searching gaze
of Mrs. Presley and the detectives.
Mrs. Presley stated that the negro,
with a companion, who covered her
with a revolver, commanding her to
"keep still," entered her residence on
the morning cf December 18 and a=
saulted her.
Must Leave Out Jews.
St. Petersburg The Rossia publish
ed an editorial criticising the proposed
reprisals against the United States as
premature and overhasty. It says that
Russia must wait until the United
States frames proposals to ascertain
if these prove acceptable. The decla
ration of the abrogation of the treaty
of 18..2 did not indicate the question
of the Jews constituted the reason
for the abrogation. "Tho con
clusion of a new treaty,” says the
paper, "is only possible if the great
republic does not introduce the inter
ests of Jews into the substance of the
negotiations.”
Revolutionists Destroy Bridge.
f’autla, Morelos, Mex. — Zapatistas
attacked the town of Yuctepec, but
wore repulsed by the fodorals. The
causalties are said to have been few.
After the fight the crew and passen
gers of a train which left here over
the Interoceanie railway arrived at
Yuetepee on foot, having abandoned
the train, which was stopped near Ti
eunian by a bridge having been blown
out by the Zapatistas.
Block Destroyed by Fire.
Jonesboro.—Fire resulting from th0
explosion of a can of gasoline serious
ly burned J. H. Hogan and swept an
entire block at Monette. The loss is
estimated at $50,000. Only meager
details couia be obtained, as all tele
phone connections were cut off by tho
flames.
Constitution May Block Move.
Washington. Democrats of the
house v.ho contemplate eliminating
this year tho 125,000 appropriations
for the president's traveling expenses
have had called to their attention a
clause in the eon-iiutiou of the United
states w.tich says. 1 he president
si : 11, at -tated time-s, receive for his
cervices a compensation, which shall
neither be increased nor diminished
during the period for which he shall
have been elected."
A HEALTHY,
HAPPY OLD AQ
May be promoted by those ^
gently cleanse the system, now
then, when in need of a laxatn
remedy, by taking a deseitsp-x^
of die ever refreshing, wholes^
and truly beneficial Syrup of Fa
and Elixir of Senna, which is 2
only family laxative generally *
proved by die most eminent pL,
sicians, because it acts in a nattaj
strengthening way and warms a
tones up the internal organs witl^
weakening them. It is equally beo£
ficial for the very young and the
die aged, as it is always efficient uj
free from all harmful ingredients. Ti
get its beneficial effects it is alwqi
necessary to buy the genuine, bets
ing the name of the Company^
California Fig Synip Co.—plajjL
printed on the front of every packjj*
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THE WEAK POINT.
Bquilbob—Don't know how to coat
the girl? Well, my boy, you Just te#
her that you know she despises “Job
lying" and 13 the one woman In ti#
world who can’t be flattered.
Bquilllgan—Well? 1
"That sort of guff will flatter hell*
Never Fail.
"My wife can't decide on a car.”
"This model Is the last wurd ii
touring cars.”
"The last word, eh? Then ihe1
have it."
Not Affinities.
Mistress—And why did you lean
/our last place?
Maid—Me and the missis was sot
congenial.—Harper's Lazar.
The Sixth Sense.
"Mrs. Meddle makes so mud
trouble in the neighborhood."
‘‘Yes. she has such a fine sense tf
humor!”—Life.
TIED DOWN.
20 Years’ Slavery—How She Got Free
dom.
A dyspepsia veteran who writ#
from one of England's charming ruraf
homes to tell how sho won victory ia
her 20 years’ fight, naturally exults!»
her triumph over the tea and coCee
habit:
“I feel It a duty to tell you,"
Bays, ^how much good Postum btf
done me. I am grateful, but also d*
Biro to let others who may bo sufferitj
as I did, know of the delightful med
od by which I was relieved.
i naa suiiered ror 20 years in*
dyspepsia, and the giddiness that as*
ally accompanies that painful aiinu&t
and which frequently prostrated E*
I never drank much coffee, and coc*
and even milk did not agree with Ef
Impaired digestion, so 1 used tea, t*
clusively, till about a year ago. wM
I found in a package of Grape-Nuts tM
littl* book. ‘The Road to Wellvilie.'
“After a careful reading of th“ boot
let I was curious to try Postutn
sent for a package. I enjoyed it fro®
the first, and at once gave up tea i*
Its favor. ;
“I began to feel better very 60ca
My giddiness left mo after the *rS*
few days’ use of Postum, and my stoE
ach became stronger so rapidly that!*
was not long till I was able (as 1 ®:!!l
arn) to take milk and many other ®-f
tides of food of which I was ft rtnefU
compelled to deny myself. 1 ha**
proved the truth of your eta eoo®*
that Postum ‘makes good, red blood
“I have become very enthusiastIcors*
tho merits of my new table beveraf*
and during the past few months, baf*
conducted a Postum Propaganda auiobf
my neigitbors which has brought be®*"
fit to many, and I shall continue to tc*
my friends of the ‘better way’ in whit&
1 rejoice.” Natno given by Pcstu®
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, “Tho R ad 15
Wellvilie,” In pkgs. “There's a r*>
son."
Kver read the above letter? A
one npprnra from time to time.
are genuine, true, and full of 1*“*^
latereat.