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ESTABLISHED 1871.
“FEAR GOD. TELL THE TRUTH AND WAKE MONEY.”
VOL. XLI.
FORREST CITY, ARK. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGI ST
ftr LANDVOKT A VADAKDL
23, 1912.
NO. 50.
I
FIST EXTENSION
SCHOOL IN STATE
Being Held at Morriltcn---Many
in Attendance and Good
Results Expected.
VISITORS ARE ENTERTAINED
Furnished Free Camp'mg Grounds, Free
Tents. Free Beds and Free Wood,
Expense Light on Farmer.
Western Newspaper I'niun Newn Service.
Morrilton.—With more than 500 peo
ple in attendance the first agricultural
extension school ever held in Arkan
sas opened here .Monday.
The citizens of .Morrilton had pre
pared everything possible for the com
fort of those attending the course.
Free camp grounds, free tents, free
beds and even free wood were at the
disposal of those attending, so that it
did not cost a farmer a cent more to
attend the school than it did to stay
at home.
The farmers attending expressed
themselves enthusiastically over the
reception given them and the benefit
they were receiving from the course.
The course consisted of lectures on
cotton, soils and fertilizers, corn,
grains and general forage crops, fruit
growing, vegetable growing, hog chol
era. Texas fever, hog, poultry and
dairying.
Certain hours each day wore devot
ed to i ach subject and intense in
terest was displayed by those in at
tendance.
Tln> extension school is under the
supervision of the agricultural depart
ment of the T'niversity of Arkansas
with Prof. Wilson in charge. It is
the intention of the agricultural dt -
part n s • ■ ti t to hold these schools
throughout the s'ate. The school at
Morrilton was in the nature of an ex
periment and it being so succosful
assures that the schools will be nefd
in other communities of the state.
While this work is ned in Arkansas,
it is not an untried experiment, as
other states have been holding them
right along and finding them of un
told value to the farmers who can
not attend the short courses of agri
culture at the universities.
In the school at Morrilton all the
courses were selected to suit the con
ditions and crops of the surrounding
country.
The \isitors and farmers were wel
comed to Morrilton by Mayor J. A.
f risky in behalf of the citizens, lie
spoke of tlie purpose of the school and
RESULTS ARE REVIEWED
State Department of Education Gives
Figures Showing Benefits.
I.ittlo Rock.—The department of
tduca'ion has issued a review of the
work aeconiplished under the state
ai l to high schools plan. The review
follows.
"1. It has made high school in
struction free to all qualified pupils In
the state, except in the counties of
Madison, Desha and Drew.
I' has given free tuition to 1,
•<1- trom outside districts.
It has given free tuition to
diS rural teachers and special traln
uig to 227 normal students who arc
preparing to teach in rural schools.
* * ounting communities of fewer
than 1,000 population as essentially ru
rah it lias given high school privileges
to l’7 children at a cost of less
than $20 per year per pnpil to the
sta,e, most of whom could not have
otherwise had these advantages at all
It has given instruction in agri
oolture to 1,632 pupils in high school
classes
'* 't has increased the high school
enrollment in one year 4S per cent.
In the year ending July 1, 1911, the;
enrollment in all high schools was 6,
*'-■ while in the year ending July l,
1 11 -• the Of! state high schools alone
enrolled 6,0,'18 and 60 unaided high
schools enrolled 2,984, making a total
ur i he year of 9,622, an. increase of
3,140.
'• It has brought nearly all of the
mh schools of the state to accepted ;
standards in course of study, length
of recitation period, laboratory for the
teaching of natural sciences, number of
' a-ily c lasses, per teacher and pupil, |
a-H; the length of the school term. J
s While the money given to high ;
S(hools as aid is taken from the com-!
jn°n school fund, it has not affected
m 1< ngth of term of the common
se.iool or the salary of the teacher at
The cost to a district with 501
enumerated pupils Is about $4—a sum
0 small to effect either. Besides It !
ronies out of the unused balance of
•190,000 constantly carried by the
Summon and special districts of th-; I
to thefT credit.” ,
the part that the people of Morrilton
were taking in the school, lie gave
the visitors i.ie keys of the city and
told them that every arrangement had
t een made for their comfort and en
joyment.
The following subjects were in the
course taken by the farmers at Mor
rilton:
Cotton This course deals with
those facts which have a practical
bearing on the profitable production
of cotton in Arkansas. The struc
ture of tiie cotton plant, the origin
and classification of cotton varieties,
varieties adapted to Arkansas and
practical methods f.ir their improve
ment, and special points in the culti
vation of cot on are some of the points
careful!^ studied.
Soils and Fertilizers- Six lectures,
litis course deals with the practical
no hods ot handling soils and ferti
lizers in Arkansas. It includes a
thorough practical study of the prin
ciples of cultivation and tillage, the
preparation and use of commercial
fertilizers and their relation to the
maintenance of soil fertility.
Corn, Grains- and General Forage
Crops.—The planting, cultivation and
harvesting of corn, varieties of corn
for Arkansas, the selection of corn
for seed and for show purposes are
some of the points studied.
Fruit Growing—This course deals
with the planting, cultivating, pruning,
spraying, diseases, insects, packing
and marketing of the fruits grown in
'he community, with special attention
to peaches and strawberries.
\ egeta'de Growing.—This course
deals with soil, varietes, fertilizers, in
sects, packing, marketing with special
attention to cantaloupes, tomatoes,
etc.
Hop Cholera—In this course the
question of hop cholera is taken up
from al! its phases, with special at
tention to vaccinnation, sanitary con
ditions, etc.
T xas Fever.—This course deals
with the course of the fever and the
eradication of the tick, and dipping
'ats, laws governing the tick work In
Arkansas.
Ho s This was a practical lecture
on hog growing in Arkansas, taking
up the question of types, breeds, feeds,
markets, etc.
Poultry. This subject is a very im
portant one front the farmers’ stand
point. It will be discussed from the
standpoint of care, feeding, breeds,
houses, etc.
Dairying.—These lectures were tak
ed up from a practical standpoint, es
pecially for the farmer who keeps a
few cows for his own use.
In addition to the above course
were two lectures given to the mem
bers of the Boys’ Clubs. The lecture
to the Corn Club dealt with the care
and selection of samples of corn for
exhibition at the county and state
fairs. Cotton Club members were told
how to select and arrange samples of
cotton for the county and state fairs.
CONTRACTOR NOT GUILTY
Acquitted of Leading Mob Contractor
Given Freedom.
tW-orn Newspaper I'nion \cw« P<>r»lc«.
Waldron.—John Stowers, Oklahoma
contractor, charged with being a lead
er of the mob which lynched Sanford
Lewis, a young negro, on one of the
main streets of Fort Smith, March
L’ti. was acquitted here. The jury
was out 27 hours. John Williams,
charged with involuntary manslaugh
ter, following the death of Deputy
Constable Andy Carr, for which the
negro was lynched was blamed, was
also acquitted.
The trials of the two men were
brought here on a change of venue,
after a continuance was denied in Fort
Smith.
Deputy Constable Carr of Fort
Smith, accompanied by Williams, at
tempted to arrest the negro on the
night of March 2fi. The black ran and
several shots were fired, one of which
struck Carr in the head. He died the
following day. The negro was finally
captured and taken to the county jail
at Fort Smith. Within a few hours a
mob broke into the jail and hanged
the negro to a telegraph pole on Gar
rison avenue, the main street of the
city. Stowers was arrested charged
with being one of the leaders of the
mob. Williams was arrested, it being
alleged that he had struck the negro
over the head with his revolver, which
had caused the weapon to explode, the
bullet striking and mortally wounding
Deputy Constable Carr. The negro
was thought to have fired the shot,
but it was later stater that black was
unarmed when the officer attempted
to arrest him.
Killed by Falling Tree.
Sheridan.—Leonard Sanford, about
20 years of age, son of Dock Sanford,
a Prattsville farmer, was accidentally
killed in the Saline river bottoms
Workmen were cutting stave timber
and young Sanford was hauling, and
drove his team near where the hands
were cutting, not thinking the tree
was ready to fall, A limb struct and
killed him instantly. His teaa es
taped without Injury.
STATE CAPITOL,
Committee From Penitentiary
Board Investigates Death
of Convict.
WARDEN HELD BLAMELESS
Prisoner Died From Effect of Over
heating but Ho Had Received Proper
and Immediate Attention.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
I.lttle Koek.—The committee sent
out by tin* penitentiary beard to in
vestigate the death of a convict who
died in the camp of Warden Tinsley,
located near Malvern, has rendered its
report and exonerated Warden Tins
ley from blame in connection with the
death of the convict.
Conditions in the camp were found
to be sanitary and that the prisoners
were not suffering for anything, the
only recommendation of the committee
being that the convicts should be al
lowed to eat their noon meal in the
6hade.
In the case of the dead convict it
was found that he was Lee Edwards,
convicted in Miller county and had
only been in the camp a week before
his death. He had been in jail sev
eral months before his conviction and
was in no condition to stand hard
moor or tne not sun. He was given
only light duties to perform but it was
soon noted that he was ill and he was
sent to the camp for treatment. He
showed improvement, next morning,
and desired to go to work. He had been
working only a short time before he
had to be sent to the camp again to
receive treatment. Immedieate medi
cal attention was given him but he
died a few hours later from the effects
of being overheated.
The only fault to he found by the
committee was with Warden Tinsley,
who it is said expressed his opinions
freely of cornor and coroner's juries.
Since the committee who investi
gated the death of the convict Kd
wards made its report, complaints
have been made that investigation
was not thorough and Secretary of
State Earle Hodges has issued a call
for the entire penitentiary board to
meet and visit Malvern in a body to
make a thorough examination.
"Moonshiner” In Toils.
Tittle Hock.—Thomas P. Tillman a
resident of Perry county is in jail in
this city charged with “moonshining.”
Tillman is 71 years old ami this is the
second time he has been arrested on
the same charge. He was convicted,
with his son, in 1901, and served a
term in the federal prison at Ft. Leav
ensworth, Kan. The prisoner is said
ingto have acknowledged that he was
making llicit whiskey and had been
doing so for finite a while. Commis
sioner Allen held him over to 'he fed
eral grand jury under a $1,000 bond,
Would Organize Cotton Men.
Little Hock.—A committee, compos
ed of cotton men of this city who were
appointed last month, at a meeting
of the cotton men held here, complet
ed a call to he issued to the cotton
dealers in the state as well as the
bankers and merchants for the pur
pose of forming a permanent operat
or's association at a meeting to be
held in Little Hock September 9. It is
proposed to create a permanent as
sociation for Arkansas, with the end
in .view of forming an interstate cot
ton dealers’ association with Oklaho
ma, Georgia and Texas.
STOLEN ARTICLES FOUND
Police Believe Dead Negro Was the
Perpetrator of Many Robberies.
Western N't'wjiDapPr Trs-on Nfw* Sprv1«»*.
Little Hock.—In the effect of "Jack
the Shooter" there has been found
a bracelet belonging to Miss Kathryn
Doyle. This bracelet was stolen some
two years ago when the home of Miss
Doyle was entered twice in succession
and jewelry taken each time. The
bracelet was of peculiar design and
could not be easily forgotten by any
one after once being seen.
The police believe that this conclu
sively proves that the dead negro is
the one who had been operating in
Little Hock for the past three years as
the date coincides with that of the
time of the arrival of the negro Brown
in the city after being released from
the Oklahoma penitentiary.
This case is not the only one In j
which stolen goods have been found
in the effects of Brown. Several vic
tims have Identified and recovered
stolen property which had been mis
sing for Borne time and In some cues
/ears.
SPEAKING DATES ANNOUNCED
Democratic Nominee Plans to Cover
Pert of State Before Election.
Western Newspaper Union News Servtcs.
Kittle Rock.—The speaking dates of
•Joe T. Hobtuson, Democratic nominee
for governor, has been announced as
follows:
Aug. 22—Van Huron, 11 a, m.; Bar
ling. 2 p. m.; Alma, S p. m.
Aug. 2.2 Charleston, 11 a. m.; Par
is, 3 p. m.; Scranton. 8 p. m.
Aug. 2-1 Fort Smith, 8 p. m,
Aug. 26—Huntsville, 11 a. m.; Eu
reka Springs, 8 p. m.
Aug. 27 -Berryville, 10 a. m.; Har
rison, 8 p. m.
Aug. 28—Marshall, 8 p. rn.
Aug. 29—Leslie, 11 a. m.; Heber
Springs, 8 p. m.
Aug. 30—Searcy, 11 a. m.; Bald
Knob, 3 p. m.
Aug. 31—Malvern, 10:30 a. m.; Ben
ton, 2 p. m.: Argenta, 8 p. in.
Sept. 2 Mammoth Spring, 10:30 a.
m.; Success, 8 p. m.
Sept. 3—Corning, 11 a. m.; Newport,
8 p. tn.
Sept. 4—Jonesboro, 1 p. m.; Para
gould, 7 p. m.
Sept. 5—Texarkana (hour not fixed. 1
Sept G—Camden, 11 a. m.; El Dora
do, 8 p. in.
Sept 7—Hof Springs, 7 p. m.
Election on Monday, Sept. 9.
CONTRIBUTION TO MUSEUM
Several Valuable Exhibits Added to
Growing Collection.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Little Hock.—An antique notary pub
lic record is now on display at the
Arkansas Historical Museum. It con
tains protests from the insurance com
panies from the nortary public record
for 1839-40, concerning damages sus
tained by steamboats navigating the
Arkansas river. It also contains a rec
ord of names and of crews of some
fifty or more of these boats. It Is
written in a very legible hand and is
not only interesting, but valuable on
account of the many facts it contains
about river navigation during the early
da>s. It was donated to the Arkansas
Historical Commission by Janies S.
Pollock of this city and is a part of
the John E. Knight collection.
The commission also has a valuable
addition in a record containing all the
important correspondence of Gov.
Archibald Veil, who was elected gov
ernor of Arkansas in 1840, and durtng
whose administration the campaign
was on for the re-annexation of Tex
as. Doubtless this collection will sup
ply a great deal of information con
cerning the attitude of the adminis
tration toward the political questions
of that day. This collection was loan
ed to the commission by T. D. Craw
ford, supreme court reporter.
NEGRO GIVEN RESPITE
Counsel for Condemned Man Claims to
Have Found More Evidence.
Western Newspaper Union Neva Serrlc#.
I.ittlo Rock.—Acting Governor \V. C.
Rodgers has granted a respite of 14
days to Harvey Woods, a negro sen
tenced to l>o hanged for the murder
of Kirk Morford, a white man, near
Des Arc on December 30, 1911. This
is the third respite for Woods. It was
g-anted upon petition of W. A. Leach
of ites Arc, his counsel, who says there
is evidence indicating that another
white man was on the sceuo of the
crime the night it occurred. He will
try to gather testimony to this effect
during the respite.
Morford was murdered in a negro
dive, and his body thrown on the rail
road tracks, where it was horribly
mutilated. Woods was convicted of
the crime, but the evidence is alleged
by the defense to have been unreliable
and conflicting.
CAMP DISCIPLINE GOOD
Gruard Officer Return* From Fort
Smith Target Practice.
k>*t«rn NVw>rp»p«>r Union N»w» Scrrlr*.
Little Rock.—Maj. T. M. Horsfall,
assistant adjutant general of the na
tional guard, has returned from the
range at Camp Wright near Fort
Smith and stated that the camp this
year was the best organized of any
encampment in the history of the
guard. He said that strict discipline
was maintained on the range and there
was not the least semblane of disorder
or disobedience in camp.
Major Horsfall stated that the mem
bers of the guard were royally enter
tained by the people of Fort Smith
and participated in some of the fetes
of the “Border City." The target prac
tice was not quite as good as laet
year, which was due to the high score
required this year.
Little Rock.—State Treasurer John
W. Crockett has been appointed chair
man of the finance committee for Ark
ansas by Frank McCombe chairman of
the Democratic national coumiUA*
Interesting and Valuable Infor
mation Concerninp People
of Arkansas.
NEGROES ON THE INCREASE
Illiteracy Is on the Decrease as Shown
by Comparison of Former
Csnsus Reports.
W»«t*rn Newspaper tTnion New* SerTtr*.
'Washington, I). The composition
and characteristics of the population
of Arkansas as reported in the Thir
teenth decennial census are given in
an advanced bulletin soon to be issued
by Director Durand of the bureau of
the Census, department of commerce
and labor, it was prepared under the
supervision of William C. Hunt, chief
statistican for population statistics.
They are grouped as follows:
For the state and counties, for cities
of 25,000 or more, for cities of 10,000
to 25,000 and for places of 2,500 to 10,
000.
A previous population bulletin for
Arkansas gave the number of inhabi
tants by counties and minor civil di
visions, decennial increase and density
of i>opulation and the proportion urban
and rural. That and the forthcoming
bulletin cover all the principal topics
of the population census, except occu
pations and ownership of homes.
Negro Kercemage increases.
Of the total population of Arkansas,
1,1111,026, or 71.8 per cent, are white,
•and 442,291, or 28.2 per cent are ne
groes. Corresponding percentages in
1900 were: Whites 72, negroes 28. In
26 of the 75 counties, less than five
per cent of the population is negro,
in 14 more than half. In Chicot coun
ty the population is 80.4 per cent ne
gro. In Desha county, 79.4; in Phil
lips, 78.6, and in Lee 78.4.
Tiie white population is divided in
to four groups:
(1) Native — native parentage
that is having both parents natives
of the United States.
(2) Native—Foreign parentage, hav
ing both parents born abroad.
(3) . Native—Mixed parentage, hav
ing one parent native and the other
foreign born.
(4.) Foreign born.
Native white or native parentage
constitute 68.4 per cent of the total
population of the state, and 85.3 per
■cent of the white population. Native
whites of foreign or mixed parentage
constitute only 2.3 per cent of total
population and foreign born white 1.1
per cent.
Urban and Rural Population.
Of the urban population (that is,
population of incorporations of 2,500
inhabitants or more) 61 per cent are
native whites of native parentage, of
the rural population 69.5 per cent. The
corresponding proportions for native
whites of foreign or mixed parentage
are 6.7 and 1.7 per cent respectively.
The percentageforeign-born white is
3 in the urban and 0.8 in the rural,
the percentage of negroes is 29.2 in
the urban and 28 in the rural.
Males and Females.
In ihe total population of the state
there are 810,020 males and 764,428
females, or 106 males to 100 females.
In 1900 the ratio was 106.1 to 100.
Among the whites there are 107.7
males to 100 females, among the ne
groes 101.7. For all native whites
combined, the ratio is 107 to 100, as
compared with 168.3 for the foreign
born whites.
In the urban population there are
100.4 and in the rural 106.8 males to
100 females, the urban being very
nearly evenly divided by sex, while
In the rural the males outnumber the
females.
State of Birth.
Of the native population—that is,
population horn in the United States
—67.8 per rent were born in Arkansas
and 32.2 per cent outside the state;
of the native white population, 31.8
per cent were born outside the state,
and of the native negro, 33.1 per cent.
Persons horn outside the state consti
tute a much larger proportion of the
native population in urban than in
rural communities.
Foreign Nationalities.
Of the forelgn-borr, white popula
tion. persons horn in Germany repre
sent 34.4 per rent; Italy 10; England,
9: Australia, 7.3; Ireland, 6.4; Canada,:
6.3; Switzerland, 4.8; Russia, 4.5; Scot
land, 2.6; France, 2.3. Sweden. 2.3; all
other countries, 10.2. < ( the total
white stock of foreign origin, which
includes persons born abroad and also j
natives, paving one or both parents
born abroad. Germany contributed
38.f> per cent; England, 10.7; Ireland,
10.4; Canada. 5.7; Italy, 5; AustiAlia,
4 8; Switzerland, 3.7; Scotland, 3.2;
Franc* 2.6; Ruaala, 2.6 ,
Voting and Militia Age*.
The total number of males 21 years
of age and over la 395,824, represnt
itiK 25.1 |«'r rent of the population. Of
such males, 71.8 per cent are white
and 28.1 per cent negroes. Native
whites represent *19.1 per cent of the
total number, and foreign-horn white,
2.5 por rent. Of the 9,718 foreign-born
white males of voting age, 5,284, or
.•4.4 per Cent are naturalized.
A^e.
Of the total population. 14.7 per cent
are under five years of age, 24.7 per
cent from five to fourteen years, la
elusive; (2" .6 per cent from 15 to 24;
25.1 per Cent from 25 to 4 4, and 14.7
per cent ai e 45 years of age and over.
The foreign born white population
comprisef comparatively few children,
only 5 p<i cent of this class being un
der 15 yours of age, while more than
five-sixths (85.4 per cent) are 25 years
of age and over. The negro popula<
tion comprises a somewhat smaller
proportion of chidren under five than,
the native white population of native
parentage.
The urban population shows a small
er proportion of children than the rur
al, and a larger proportion of per
sons in the prime of life. Migration
to the city explains this at least in
part. Of the urban population, 33.2
per cent are from 25 to 44 years of
age, inclusive, and of the rural popu
lation, 23.9 per cent.
School Attendance.
The census inquiry as to school at
tendance was merely as to whether
the person enumerated had attended
any kind of school at any time from
September 1, 1909, to the date of
enumeration. April 15, 1910.
The total number of persons of
school age—that is, from six to 20
years, inclusive—is 551,672, of whom
.u.;,i, or !>o.7 per cent, attended
school. In addition to these, 4,324 per
sons tinder six and 5.436 of 21 and over
attended school. For boys from six
to 20 years, inclusive, the percentage
attending school was 58.7 for girls,
58 8. For children from six to four
teen years, inctilslve the percentage at
tending school was 70.1. The per
centage fbr children of this age was
highest in the small group of native
whites of foreign or mixed parentage,
81.2, followed by native whites of na
tive parentage, 74.7 negroes, 58.2, and
foreign-born whites, 55.8. In urban
communities the percentage of chl
dren of that age attending school ww
82.3; in rural communities, 68.8.
Illiteracy.
The census bureau classifies as Il
literate any persons 10 years of aga
and over, who is unable to write, ra
gardless of ability to read.
There are 142,954 illiterates la thd
state, representing 12.6 per cent of
total population 10 years of age and
over, as compared with 20.4 per cent
in 1900. The percentage of Illiteracy
is 26.4 among negroes. 8.9 among for
eign-born whites, and 7 among nativa
whites. It is 7.1 for native whites ot
native parentage, and 2.8 for native
whites of foreign or mixed parentage.
Illiterates are relatively few in ur
ban than in rural communities, 6.4 per
cent, as against 13.6. This difference
between urban and rural appears in
each class of the population, although
in other sections of the country the
percentage for foreign-born whites,
most of whom arrive in this country
when past the school age, is practi
cally the same in urban as in rural
Communities.
For persons from 10 to 20 yeass.
inclusive, whose literacy depends
largely upon present school facilities
and school attendance, the percentage
of illiteracy is 7.8.
Marital Condition.
In the population 15 yearn of age
and ovpr, 34..1 per cent of the males
are single and 23.7 per cent of the
females. The percentage married is
58.9 for males and 64 for females, and
the percentage widowed 5.9 and 11.3.
respectively. The pereentage divors
ed, 0.5 and 0.8 respectively, are believ
ed to he to small, because of the prob
ability that many divorced persons
class themselves as single or widow
ed.
That the percentage single is so
much smaller for women than for men
is due largely to the fact that they
marsy younger. Thus, 21.1 per cent of
the females, from 15 to 19 years of age.
are married, as compared with 2 per
cent of the males; and 63.2 per cent
of the females from 20 to 24 yt'ars
are married, as compared with 35.4
per cent of the males. For those aged
25 to 34 the percentages are 83.3 and
73.7, respectively. In the next age
group, 35 to 44 years, the difference
practically disappears. That there is
a larger proportion of widows than of
widowers may indicate that men more
often remarry than women, but, since
husbands arc generally older than
their wives, the marriage relationship
is in fact more often broken by death
of the husband than by death of the
wife.
Dwellings and Families.
The total number of dwellings la
Arkansas is 327.625, and the total num
ber of families 333,368, indicating that
in very few ctses does more than one
family occupy & dwelling. The aver
age number of persons per dwelling
U 4.1