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ESTABLISHED 1871. VOL. XLI. ‘FEAR GOD. TEU THE TRUTH AND MAKE MONEY.” Br LANDVOiGT ft VADAKDL IQRRKST C ITY, ARK. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 2, 1912. NO. 47. UK H DUE TO SPEED Judgmant of British Inquir Announced—Ismay Held Blameless. RE COMMENDS MORE BOAT Crews Should Be Better Trained and Better Lookout Kept—Ship Could Have Aided. Wester: Newspaper Union News Service. London Tlu» judgment of the Hrii jsh Hoard of Trade court of inquiry into I lie disaster to the White Star liner Titanic announced concludes that the collision of the Titanic with the iceberg was due to the excessive speed at which the ship was navi gated: tint a proper watch was no. kept: that the ship's boats were prop erly lowered, but that arrangements for manning them were insufficieti that the i>*yland liner California might have reached the Titanic if site had ait. mpted to do so; that the trad; followed was reasonably safe with proper vigilance and that there was no discrimination against the third class passengers in the saving of life. The court of inquiry exonerates J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line, and Sir Cosmo Duff Cordon, one of the passengers, from any charges of improper con due. The judgment recommends more water-tight compartments in sea-going ship , the providing of lifeboats for all on board, and more efficient drills of ib ■ crew, as well as a better look out it of the judgment is high!' technical In it there was no argu ns ’ ' !' d no direct reference to th in b ■ by the committee of the t’nit ed stmt, senate. la'il Mersey said it was not the VuKin< s of the court to inquire Into atiacks on the moral conduct of Sir t'csniu Duff-Gordon, who. with Lady Durr (Jordon and .1. Bruce Ismay, had be n criticised, but silence might bo tr : ! -stood: He continued: ■ ! i very gross charge against Sir Duff (Jordon that he bribed the boat not. i row away from drowning peo ple js i ufounded. At the same time i think it he- had encouraged the men to return to where they had foundered they probably would have made an ef fort to do so, and could have saved some- lives." 300 Lives Are Saved. Boston.— More than 300 vacationists returning from .Maine resorts went through a harrowing experience off the New Hampshire coast amid fog and darkness, when the how of the side wheel steamer, City of Rockland, from the Kennebec river for Boston, was crumpled by a collision with the corner William Chisolm. Staunch bulkheads kept the Rockland afloat "bile a smooth sea and the fact that fhe Chisholm swung alongside imme du < : . after the collision, enabling <he passengers to be transferred to the collier without loss of life. Nations to Be ‘‘Warned Off." Washington. — The vigor of the Bruts the senate shall use in declar ing no foreign country shall estab irh a naval base at Magdalena bay nor at any other point on the Ameri can continents was the subject of the creign affairs committee of the sen * 1 Within a short time it is he ated the senate will bo called upon 0 Pass a resolution stating in une quivocal terms that the .Monroe doc trme °r the settled policy of the Unit e< Stales requires that no foreign Power be thus permitted to get a mili ary or naval foothold in the Western hemisphere. Denies Giving Information. 'nshington.—Detailed denial was rn,l<*,‘ to the house interstate com fflt rce committee by Chairman Clem ents of the interstate commerce com mission that the commission favored !"‘7n railroads by giving them “in .1( H 'nforniation,” concerning changes |n rates or rulings. Luther M. Wal vr. tepresenting a group of tap lines, ‘arged this had been done. He in troduced a copy of a letter written }y A r- Clements in June, 1910, to 10. 1''tree, a Rock Island railroad of “ giving some data concerning an ■onion of the commissioner, the ex u meaniug of which was not clear o the tap lines, but which affect*-.i “if contracts with the larger sys ■ -agrit, N. J.—Governor Wilson an ounced that W. J. Bryan had con 1 oited $1,000 to the Democratic na °nal campaign fund, addressing the Contribution to Seagirt, WOULD OUST COMPANIES Commissioner Files Report Showing Combination in Missouri. Srwspsper Union N>w» Semes. Jefferson City. Mo. The report of special Commissioner Reynolds in the States ouster suit against cer tain lumber companies, alleged to be in a trust, which was filed in the su preme court, was against the lumber companies. The suit was filed against .‘55 luin "'I companies. The commissioner found that 29 of them are in a trus on four allegations. Tlie first of these is that the lum ber companies had price list commit tees and used what was known by members as an “association price list." second, that members of the as sociation curtailed the output to con sumers; third, that there was a joint trade agreement in 1904 between the members of the Yellow Pine Manufac turers Association and members of the \arious retail dealers’ association, whereby the manufacturers and whole salers agreed to sell only to certain retail dealers who were regarded as legitimate dealers; and, fourth, by blacklisting certain retailers known as poachers, who did not obey trade regulations established by* the yello v pine manufacturers’ association. The 29 companies, which were found Kinlty have an aggregate capital of $1,9,000,000. The report w ill be set for hearing before the supreme court at the October term. Seven of the 29 companies are foreign corporations, and 22 incorpo rated in Missouri. The list of foreign companies and their capital stock in Missouri follows: M R. Pickering Lumber Company, Louisiana, $2,000; Arkansas Lumber Company, Warren, Ark., $2,000; Chi cago Lumber and Foal Company, Iowa, $.->00; Detroit Timber and Lum ber Company, Michigan, $9,000; D. I Lrks Lumber and Coal Company, Ne braska. f.10,000; Freeman Smith Lum ber Company, Iowa. $10,000; Glen Lumber Company. Kansas, $]O,000. U. S. NOT RECOGNIZED Consul Not Received as Agent But a? American Citizen. Western Newspaper Union N#w« Service. Jaurez, Mex.-—General Pacual Oroz co, commander in chief of the Mexi can rebels, declared he did not recog nize the United States government. He made the remark to Thomas Ed wards, American consul here, who called at the rebel leadsr’s Quarters to deliver a message from Secretary Knox. The message, belated through diplo matic channels was regarding the treatment of the American settlers in northern Mexico hv the rebels, grow ing out of the disarming of the Mor mon colonists recently. General Orzoco told Consul Ed wards he did not receive the Ameri can as a representative of the United States, which government, Orozco said, he did not recognize. However, he was glad to see Mr. Edwards and to receive him as an American citizen. Orozco accepted the message from ill* consul without further comment. BIG LOUISIANA PROJECT Company Formed to Develop State'3 Water Power. Western Newspaper Union News Service, Baton Rouge. A $15,000,000 corpo ration for reclamation and drainage purposes and the development of elec trical power in southwest Kouisiana has been practically formed, accord ing to representations made to the state tax commission here by Wel bourne Bradford, representing New York interests. The company plans to divert water from the Ked river by means of a natural and artificial wat erway system through the southwest ern portion of the state to supply transportation and power for electri cal transportation in that section. Mr Bradford asked for a tax exemption for 10 years for the enterprise. Mexicans Hang Americans. Mexico City.—Two Americans were hanged near Cananea, Senora. Their bodies were found and the incident re ported to the president by the gov ernor of Sonora. Tift? governor stat ed that he had ordered an investiga tion. His opinion is that the execu tion of the two men was done by reb els in order to precipitate American intervention. The victims have not been identified. —-5 Sailor Takes High Dive. Cleveland .O.—To win a $10 bet Jo seph Schmidt, 25 years old. a sailor of Detroit, dived into the Cuyahoga river from the Superior viaduct 100 feet above the surface of the water. He struck the water head foremost ,n a graceful dive, came to the surface and swam ashore, none the worse for his dare-devil feat. Two women faint ed when they saw Schmidt leap from the parapet. They thought him a sui cide. I BELIEVED KILLED "Jack The Shooter” Who Has Terrorized Little Rock Meets Just Fate. EVIDENCE IS CONCLUSIVE. Many Midnight Assaults and Attempt ed Assaults Believed to Have Been Committed by Negro. ■ Western Newspaoer I'ninn New* Service. IjIitlf» Hock. "Jack the Shooter" is | dead. J. li. Brown, a negro, known as a sport ami bad man, was killed whim trying to break into the house or a negro poolroom keeper. Shortly before the shooting of the negro a man entered the bedroom of two worsen and when discovered threatened to shoot, one of the women screamed and lie fired three shots, one of them taking effect in the hand of .hiss .Maud Summers, one of the occupants of the room. He then made | his escape by the window he had en ; tered. Police headquarters was immediate ly notified anil arrived on the scene I w‘th bloodhounds and took up the | trail of the marauder. The trail led | the officers through a negro portion j of (he town and west about a mile, i the fugitive then doubled back oil his uan ana stopped within a short dis tance of the scene of the attempted asault. Seeking refuge from the police he tried to effect entrance into the resi dence of Sam Collins, a negro pool room keeper. Collins hearing the noise at the window secured his re volver and went to the back of the i house. The back window was down i and the sash nailed, the shade also being down Collins was unable to see anyone, so listening a moment he fired three shots*through the window and not hearing any more noise did not go outside thinking lie had scared away whoever was there. When a policeman arrived a few moments later to investigate the noise he found a man laying in the back yard of Collins’ residence dead, lie looked to be a white man in the dim light and the police supposed he was until he was takeh to an undertaking shop where it was found that the dead man was a yellow negro with his face whitened with some white sub stance like starch. In the meantime the posse was still following the trail of the man who at tempted the assault, when within a short distance of the place where the killing occurred the trail was lost by the hounds. However, continuing in the direction the trail had been lead ing the posse came to the scene of the killing. Being sure that the dead man was the man wanted the officers took charge of the situation and had the dead negro taken to an undertaking i shop. Cpon examination of the body it was found that the supposed white man was a negro. His face wa3 whit ened with starch or some other sub stance, he wore ladies fancy hose and his clothes and handkerchief were highly perfumed. The officers are positive that the dead negro is the one who has been perpetrating most of the assaults upon the women of this city. Every hit of the evidence so far gathered points to the dead man as the man wanted. On his person were found clippings of the daily papers of this city coneaining accounts of the deeds of the fiend who had caused so much terror in this city. In the radius of a few blocks of the killing there had been several rob beries and people shot at within the last few days. Among the crimes that have been charged to that mysterious prowler, ‘"Jack the Shooter,’’ are: Assault with knife on Mrs Tern pie Parker, for which Reginald D. Red cliffe, a professional trained nurse and “jack-at-all-t rades’ is now held in the county jail. Stabbing Mrs. A. D. Rourne. Attempted assault of Mrs. Xettie Nesbit. Attempt to kill Police Captain T. M. Clifton. Attempted assault on Miss Katie Pozza. Shooting and wounding Miss Mar guerite Martin. Attempted assault on Mrs. Helena G. McXutt. Robbing the home of S. A. Poe. Assault on Mrs. C. R. Smith, for which 1,. H. Keeling, the first suspect, wlto died recently from heat prostra tion on the county farm was arrested. Pointing revolver at Mrs. S. J. Drilling. Wounding R. B. Wilson. Setting fire to home H. II. Sloan, and assaulting the mother-in-law of Mr. Sloan, for which crime John llenry Warren, a negro, is now serving a sentence of 28 years in the peniten tiary. Setting fire to home of W. O. Doug las. Wounding daughter of G. E. West. Attempted assault on Miss Virginia Howell. Murder of Paul, the nine-months old son of Mr. and Mrs. 1). B. Coulter. Attempted assault on Mrs. M. M. Hankins. Attempted burglary at residence of R. H. Walker. Robbing residence of P. H. Miller. Tiiree attempts to enter residence of A. M. Few ell. Entering the Major P. W. Crawford home, and threatening Mrs. Amy Campbell. Entering and attempted burglary of residence of C. 15. Vail. Entering room of Miss Daisy An drews. Entering home of C. W. Presly, where it is thought the dead negro received a bullet wound in his hand which caused the amputation of part of his finger. Attempt to kill Airs. Alex Peterson. Entering residence of \V. W. Wil son, and threatening Miss Ada Wil son. Attempted entrance and shooting of Mrs. R. Miles. Attempted assault and wounding of Miss Maud Summer. In the above list of crimes many are attributed to "Jack the Shooter” of which the' dead negro, Brown, is believed to be the original. Peonage Charged Prominent Man. Jonesboro.—A prominent business man here is under arrest on a charge of peonage. The defendant was taJien before United States Commissioner Minor M. Markle, where he readily gave bond in the sum of $3,000 for his appearance before the commissioner, when he will be given a hearing. It was charged by one J. I. Martin, that some time during the year 1911 Ber tig and Dave Johnson, who was at that time an overseed on one of the ; plantations of Mr. Bertlg, that they intimidated and conspired to intimi date and drive him, the said Martin, from some unserviced lands of the United States government in Greene county. - Bentonville.—Capt George T. Lin-1 coin, one of th.e leading apple grow ers of this section, has closed a con tract for 800 barels of apples to bo shipped to a New Orleans firm. The apples brought a fancy price and the name of the grower and the name of his orchard will appear on each bar rel. B. Y. P. U. CLOSES MEETING Ninth Annual Session at Arkadelphia Best Ever Held. Western Newspaper Union News Ssrrlfls. Arkadelphia. — The ninth annual meeting of the Arkansas B. Y. P. U. Summer Assembly closed here, there being in attendance a larger number than ever before. One of the most in teresting reports of the assembly was the report of the corresponding sec retary. \V. A. Ramsey. Mr. Ramsey of Fayetteville showed that during the past six months the B. Y. P. P's in creased in membership lid per cent and that the number of unions was an increase of HU per cent over the pas. year. It was decided to hold the encamp ment at Ouachita College campus in Arkadelphia again next year and W. P. Wilson was again chosen superin tendent of grounds, buildings and en tertainments. Next year the handling of the crowd will he done by a board of gov ernors and a legislature, to be eleet ed by the i.sstmbly delegates. Dr. E. M. Poteat, president of l'ur nian University of South Carolina, was re-elected as "chief guest” for next year. The following officers and district leaders for the following year were elected: President, H. L. Winburn, Arkadei phia; vice president, Hoy L. Bilheim er, Little Rock; recording secretary, C. S. Leavell, Little Rock, extension leader, O. J Wade, Little Rock; A. M. Wright, Camden, superintendent of grounds. Hold Record for Attendance. Imboden.—The Methodist Sunday school of Pocahoatas boasts the best record of attendance in the state of Arkansas, and probably unparalleled In the United States. Harry and Les ter Childs, 16 and 13 years, respect ively, have attended the one Sunday school regularly for the past eight years. During the last six years they have not missed a single Sunday, and the only two Sundays in the past seven years and that wa* when tht<y were away from Lota* NEW PARTY HOLDS Progressives Elect Delegates to National ^Convention In Chicago. DELEGATION WALKS OU1 Faction Wanted to Bar Negroes Frorlt Participation in Party as Delegates. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Utile Rock. Tht‘ new Progressive party, at its first state convention it Little Rock, nominated electors to be voted upon tit. the November election, eighteen delegates and eighteen al ternates to lie National Bull Moose convention it. Chicago with half a vote each and affected a state organiza tion for Arkansas. The convention was marked by a fight on the part of some of the Pu laski county members of the party tc prevent negroes from being elected as delegates to the national conven tiou or as members of any committee oi me new party. The "lily white" faction was led by a contesting dele gation from Pulaski county, headed by J. B. Cox and E. 13. Downie. The ‘‘regular’’ delegation from Pulaski county included J. A. Comer, W. S. Iiolt, H. K. Cochran, and other lead ers in the Hoosevelt movement in the state. The contesting delegation was defeated by a vote of 88 to 9 in the convention and the members then left the hall. A personal encounter between Col. A. S. Fowler and E. 13. Downie was threatened as a result cl the bitter feeling that had grown out of this fight. Col. Fowler branded as a lie a statement which Downie was reported to have made at a previous meeting. Downie advanced down thy aisle toward Col. Fowler with his cane raised but a number of delegates sprang between the two men and kept them apart. After the settlement ol the "lilly white" question, the con vention was very harmonious. The platform adopted by the con vention demands the enactment of a direct primary law in Arkansas which will provide for the selection of deH gates to conventions a well as can didates for office by direct vote ol the people. The ‘‘grandfather clause" is condemned and woman's suffrage .is endorsed. The platform further en dorses the initiative, referendum and recall, downward revision of the tariff and regulation of the trusts. The delegates to the national con vention were instructed to vote for the nomination of Theodore Hoosevelt for president as long as his name is before the convention. The delegates at large to the na tiotial convention are A. S. Fowler ol Little Rock, J. A. Comer of Little Hock, J. A. Ttller of Little Hock and Dr. H. M. Suggs, a negro, of Little Hock. The alternates at large are. C. Phil Waters and H. F. Auten ol Little Rock, It. R. Harney of Moun tain Home, and R, L. Torrence, a ne gro, of Hot Springs. Hary M. Trieber and W. E. Pearsel! of Little Rock were nominated for electors at large. The delegates from the congression al districts and the presidential elect ors are: First District—Delegates, E. E. Hit ter, Marked Tree; E. J. Alexander, (negro), Helena. Alternates, D. A Johnson (negro), Helena, John Krier, Marked Tree. Electors, T. A. Waters, Tally. Second District—Delegates, F. E Adolph, liatesville; W. i. Whitton. Newport. Alternates,,Carl Spillman, lleber; G. W. L Brown, Sedgewick Electors, Ira J. Mack, Newport. Third District—Delegates, E. C. Pritchard, Fayetteville; W. H. Cecil, Harrison. Electors, B. F. Kuble, Jas per. Fourth District—Delegates, B. M Foreman, Texarkana; G. W. Harper, Fort Smith. Alternates, W. E. Wat son (negro), Texarkana; S. C. Cohn, Fort Smith. Slectors, George F. You mans. Fifth District—H. B. Wright and Bishop .1. M. Connor (negro), Little Hock. Alternates, Dr. A. K. Sweat laud. Little Hock and C. C. Harris, Morrilton. Electors, W. S Holt. Sixth District—Delegates, M. V Lisle and C. C. Sparks, Hot Spring and S. M. Twine (negro), Pine Bluff Alternates, L. G. Saunders, Pine Bluff; ' C. F. I^ingford, Benton and Rev. Wa j son. Hot Springs. Electors, G. Strauss j Hot Springs. Seventh District—M. A. Elliott i Camden, and M. Dulatigh of Eudora Alternates, J. C. Curran, Eudora, an li. W. Ferguson of Hope. Elector, M A. Elliott of Camden. H. K. Cochran was elected national •eaunltteeman from Arkansas PEST IS A MENACE TO THE PUNTERS Expert Makes Trip Over State And Sees Damage Done By Worms. METHOD OF EXTERMINATION Farmers Must Act Quickly to Sav* Great Loss—Agricultural De partment Advising. I : Western Newspaper Union New* Barries. Little Rock.—The Arkansas farmer Is threatened by a new insect pest this year and only hard work will prevent great damage being done to tlie cotton and corn crop, according to experts connected with the agricul tural experiment station of the Uni versity of Arkansas. The euw pest is the fall army worm or the grass worm, a3 it is most commonly known. tl. Becker, acting entomologist ot the agricultural experiment station ot the state university, who has just completed a tour of a part of the state for the purpose of studying the In sect and making recommendations as to how it may be successfully combat ted, declares that the worm has ap peared, apparently, in almost every part of the state and has already In flicted great damage. He states that further loss can be prevented, to a large extent, by the exercise of cer tain measures by the farmers, but ha asserts that unless these precautions are taken inestimable damage will be done. The fall army worm has been known to exist in the South for more than 100 years, but it is only occasionally that it becomes a menace to the farm ers of the country. There has been no official record of any serious dam age from tlie pest in Arkansas before the present year. Complaints had been received at the agricultural experi ment station from points in various parts of the state of the damage in ! tiicted by the worm this year and in , order to determine how serious the ' damage lias been and to determine what means could best be adopted to destroy the pest Prof, llecker has made a trip over a part of the state. Prof. Parker states that he believe* the worm ij at work in practically all of the low lands of the state but that it has not appeared, so far as is known, in the higher lands. The worm has preyed mostly upon the com but has also damaged cotton to a considerable extent in certain parts of the state. The worm only eats the cotton stalks, however, when it has no other vegeta tion upon which to feed, according to Prof. Becker, and for this reason tha damage to the cotton has not beea extensive. "To much stress cannot be laid upon the Importance of clean culture,’ hs declared. “1 found that wherever there was the greatest infestation tbs cause could be traced generally to the poor culture. Where grass is al lowed to grow In a cotton field, fe male moth will be attracted aaid will deposit eggs. After hatching, tbo young worms will eat the grass and when tliis is gone they will go to the cotton. The same thing Is true to a larger extent of corn for corn forma a more natural food for the worms than does cotton. As to the methods that should be adopted to destroy the pest. Prof. Becker, said: .-iiot-uaie oi ieaa iiowaer should bo applied to the cotton field. In dual* Ins this on the plants, it should be ap plied undiluted at the rate of five pounds to the acre. Care should bo taken to get the powder on so that the poison gets in on the stalks and branches of the plant. Paris green should never be used where it is poo Bible to get arsenate of lead, as the former is apt to burn the foliage. Where the planter cannot get arse nate of lead he should use paris green, diluted with equal parts of flour and lime. Since flour does not correct the burning property of paris green, it is well always to add the lime. The parts green-lime-four mixture should be ap plied five pounds to «he acre. "As far as possible," he says, “avoid giving the, moths favorable place to breed, such as unused grass lands, as grasses, cereals, etc., to the crops which are most affected, it is advis able not to plant w'heat, eorn or any other cereal in pasture lands, unless a crop not so subject to infestation In tervenes. This fall the planters should go over all infested lands and burn them over. After this thejr should plow such lands very thorough ly. Hunting and plowing for this pest may be done in the early spring, but1 it must bo early. The object here la to burn and bury the wintering pupa* before they emerge in the spring an moths."