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_ Mena, ark., Wednesday, june 9. 1S97. number 41.
ANNOUNCEHENT.
I have this day sold to A. W.
St. John & Sons, proprietors of
the Mena Star, the subscription
list and good will of the New Era
paper and job printing office, and
after this week’s issue, will discon
tinue the publication of said
paper. All paid up subscriptions
to the New Era will be tilled by
the Star, and all due the New Era
on subscription is the property of
and payable to A. W. St. John &
Sons, of the Star.
M. VY. Lindsay.
Mena, Ark., June 1, 1897.
The foregoing card from Mr.
M. W. Lindsay explains itself,
showing that we arc now the own
ers of the subscription lists, good
will and business of the New Era
paper and job printing office. All
paid up subscriptions to the
New Era will lie filled by us and
all due on said lists is payable to
us.
The New Era is the oldest pa
per in Polk county, having been
established thirteen years ago at
Dallas, as the Dallas Courier,
changing name and moving to
Mena when the town was estab
lished last August.
With a largely increased sub
scription list—one that goes to
every community and nearly evp.rv
farmer in the county—the Star's
influence and usefulness is vastly
increased, especially to advertis
ers who desire to reach the peo
ple.
With new presses and the best
printing establishment in the best
town, the Star will move steadily
along as the best paper in West
ern Arkansas.
A. W. St. John & Sons.
A few weeks ago when many
people in northern and eastern
states were “seeing'' airships, it
was reported that a member of
the Arkansas legislature proposed
a bill imposing a tax on snips that
pass in the night with glaring
light. Since that several editors
of eastern Journals, who should
have known better, have stated
• that our legislature actually
passed -uch a bill, and then pro
ceeded to write wise editorials on
the folly of such a measure.
Much to the credit of the people
of Arkansas none of them have
ever been known to have seen an
airship as yet.
According to our friend D. L.
Stump, of the Port Arthur News,
the mosquitoes of that town had a
hard time during the visit of the
Southwest Missouri editors as re
corded in the following:
A frisky skeeter buzzed to his work
And various things did tackle;
He bit a l>oy and then a dog,
Then made the roosters cackle;
At last upon an editor's cheek
He settled down to drill;
He prodded there a little while
And then he broke his Wm.
A Kansas jointist was recently
heavily lined for violating the
prohibitory law. The circuit
court judge assessed a tine of $300,
costs $000 and sent the fellow to
jail for 100 days. if all courts
would execute the law thus forci
bly prohibition would soon pro
hibit.
Missouri papers say that the
strawberries are giving way to the
large blackberries being shipped
from Arkansas. They are mis
taken. It is the dewberries that
are being shipped now and the
black! jerries will come a little
later and be much larger.
Nice huckleberries are in the
market selling from wagons at
twenty-five cents a gallon, and
home grown peaches are coming
m and will soon be plentiful,
blackberries are beginning to
turn and there will be an abun
dance of nice ones ere long.
.ft is announced that congress
'"II pass a “currency reform
measure" as soon as the tariff bill
18 adopted. No currency reform
measure- contemplating hank is*
"Uos should be adopted.
1 lie greenback is the best pa
l'd money ever devised and is*
!Ue(f—far better in every way
,t,r the business man and producer
>an any bank issue ever can be.
The Excursion.
Between one and two hundred visit
ors came up on the excursion from
Shreveport and Texarkana Saturday
afternoon to spend Sunday in Mena.
They came on the regular evening
train which brought them in just in
time to console the Texarkana ball
team after its defeat at the hands of
the Mena Fans.
The Texarkana band which accom
panied the excursionists furnished
some good music on the streets, and
quite a number of the visitors and
home folks danced to their music at
Jackson’s hall in the evening.
The negro part of the excursion
failed to materialize, which caused the
cake walk and dance, vvihch had been
prepared for their amusement, to be
failures. Most of the crowd returned
Sunday and Monday.
Place For a Canning Factory.
J. K. Holdar and wife, of Rich Moun
tain, have been in Mena this week
visiting a son and Mayor Carder and
family, returning home yesterday. Mr.
Holdar is quite enthusiastic in sug
gesting that a canning factory be es
tablished in Mena to make a market
for the surplus fruit and vegitables.
He thinks that the value of the huckle
berries and blackberries that will go
to waste in the woods of Polk county
inis season would be more than the
entire cotton crop will be worth, and
that all this could be saved if arrange
ments could be made to properly pre
serve them and send to the markets.
Runaway Boys.
C. Sand, of Nashville, Ark., was
traveling through Polk county Satur
day and Sunday in the effort to find
some trace of his sod, John, who, in
company with another boy named Jeff
Thompson, ran away from their homes
Sunday, May 30. The last heard of
the boys they were at Janssen and
were coming to Mena. They are each
about sixteen years old.
A Big Mill at Heath.
Mr. E. Idle, from White Cloud, Kan.,
is putting in a large sawmill, planer
spoke and felloe mill at Ileath, th(
first station north and six miles from
Mena. He finds plenty of good wagon
timber near that place and will manu
facture and ship in large quantities.
ATTEMPTED SKLF-DKSTKUCTION.
Kanxax City Girl Goim to 8t. .Joseph to Mar
ry a Gambler and Trie, -utclde.
St. Joseph, Mo., June 8. —Nina Lamb,
a 17-year-old girl, whose parents re
side in Kansas City, jumped into the
Missouri river here yesterday and
would have drowned but for Jack
Ring, a fisherman, who leaped in after
her. The girl says she came to St.
Joseph from Kansas City to wed Wil
liam McIntyre, a gambler, but he re
fused, and she tried to catch a train
buck home. She failed and suddenly
decided to kill herself.
Tent of Democratic Faith.
Albany, N. Y., June 8.—“The demo
cratic party will not force national
issues in the various state campaigns,
and, while repudiation of the Chicago
nlnt.fm-m will not. hi* nllnwpfl it. will
not be brought forward as an issue
paramount to anything else.” That ia
the statement of National Committee
man Frank Campbell, of Bath.
Youiik to .Succeed SpofTord.
Washington, June 8.—A gentleman
close to President McKinley says that
John Russell Young, minister to China
under President Harrison, is to be ap
pointed librarian of congress to suc
ceed Ainsworth R. SpofTord. It is said
that Mr. McKinley has never given
Mr. SpofTord’s application for reap
pointment serious consideration.
Sunday's Baseball (lames.
Western league—Columbus 13, Kan
sas City 3; Detroit 4, Milwaukee 2;
Minneapolis 9, Grand Rapids 8.
National league—No games.
Western association—St. Joseph 9,
Quincy 7; Burlington 5, Des Moines 4.
An Earthquake In Iowa.
Decorah, la,, June 8.—An earth
quake shock was distinctly felt in this
vicinity shortly after daylight yester
day morning. No damage is reported.
■More Turkish Excesses.
Athens, June 8.-It is officially an
nounced that the Turks have commit
ted serious excesses in Epirus, violat
ing women, defiling churchy and en
gaging In general pillage. The Turk
ish irregulars, it is further announced,
have committed similar excesses in
the Tillages around Larissa.
Fatal Drop from a Balloon.
Centerville, la., June 8.—Aeronaut
John Walters was killed here yester
day afternoon while dropping from his
balloon with a parachute. Walters
was caught in a cluster of telegraph
wlivs the parachute rope broke and
be fell 40 feet, dying shortly afterward*.
DUNK ARDS MEET.
The American Baptist Church Holding
Its Annual Conference.
SHORTAGE OF HOGS IN IOWA.
Farmers I.ose Heavily by Their Animals
Dying of Cholera—President Uontpers
Speaks for an Eight-Hour IJay—
Strikers Resuming Work.
Frederick, Md., Junes.—The annual
conference of the American Baptist
church of the United States, otherwise
known as the Dunkards, which began
here this morning, has brought to
gether no less than 4,000 men, women
and children from points outside of
Maryland, and promises to be the
most interesting meeting in the
history of the organization Twenty
thousand strangers were in the city
Sunday and services were held in all
the churches. The missionary and
tract board has made up its report,
which will be submitted to the general
conference to-morrow. The total re
ceipts were $17,400; the disbursements,
$20,210. Through the endowment fund
the assets of the committee were in
creased from $175,884 to $224,017. The
earning power of the increased assets
will much more than cancel the ex
pense.
A Shortage of Hogs In Iowa.
Cedar Rapids. Ia.. June 8.—The
! packing-house at this place has found
much difficulty in securing the desired
number of hogs for slaughtering pur
poses. A resort has been made to the
Dakota markets aud even then the
killing is only 2,500 a day. The cause
I ikl- r.V. ,.4-n i „ - 1 — riv*. 1*
LM 011X0 OllV/1 UUfi'C IQ OllUlCl tt. J. 1IC U1S"
ease prevailed to an alarming ex
tent during the fall and early winter
months. The exact loss to the farmers
will never be known,but Director Sage,
of the weather and crop bureau, has
been gathering valuable statistics. He
sent out requests that the assessors
take figures and the returns are in
from 21 counties. In these the number
lost is given at 501,000 head. If that
proportion of loss obtained throughout
the state the number will reach 2,380,
000.
Cl om per a Speaks for an Eight-Hour Hay.
Cincinnati, June 8.—President Sam
uel Uompers, of the Federation of La
bor, addressed 10,000 people here yester
day on the advocacy of an eight-hour
working day. Mr. A. Catterraaul,
chairman of the executive board of
the Carpenters’ and Joiners' union,
made a similar address. Other promi
nent labor leaders were in consulta
tion with President Uompers. Among
them was Vice President Hanrahan of
the Locomotive Firemen and Engi
neers. The proceedings were behind
closed doors.
Strikers Resuming Work.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Junes.—The strike
at Jones & Laughlin’s iron works is
broken and a general resumption is
expected in a few days. When the
gates were opened this morning the
machinists, chain-makers, bolt-makers
and foundrymen returned to work.
Over TOO men are now working and the
impression is general on the south side
that all the old men will go back be
fore the end of the week. There was
no demonstration and all is quiet
about the mill.
HARING EXPLORERS.
Frlnceton Men to Use Mortars and Kites in
Sealing a Hifltcult Rock.
Bayonne, N. J., June 8.—Prof. Wil
liam Libby, Jr., of Princeton univer
sity, will leave for Albuquerque, N. M.,
early in July with a party of six ex
plorers. They will attempt to scale
relatively a rectangular table with
perpendicular sides 700 feet high. The
outcroppings of red sandstone project
from the face of the walls, making it
almost inaccessible. There are indica
tions of occupancy by a prehistoric race
in the pieces of pottery at the base of
the formation. Prof. Libby has ar
ranged to throw a line over this table
land, which is several acres in extent
on top, by means of tandem kites. He
has a mortar and life line packed ready
for shipment, with which an attempt
will be made to fire a line over the
table land in case the wind is too light
for the kites. Larger lines will be
dragged over and the ascent made in a
boatswain’s chair.
Nay Sattley In in California.
Kansas City, Mo., June 8.—A dis
patch from Sedalia says that the rela
tives there of E. C. Sattley, ex-cashier
of the wrecked Kansas City Safe De
posit and Savings bank, who was re
cently pardoned out of the penitentiary
by Gov. Stephens, and who is wanted
by the prosecuting attorney of Jackson
county, say that he went direct from
Jefferson City to Del Rosa, Cal., where
he is now, with his wife, at the home
of Cyrus Newkirk, ex-president of the
wrecked First national bank of Sedalia.
Northwest Kansas Editors Kleot.
Colby, Kan., June 8.—At the recent
meeting of the Northwest Kansas
Editorial association C. V. Kinney, of
the Oakley Graphic, was re-elected
president; E. M. Coldern, of the Ober
lin Herald, vice president; N. A. Tur
ner, of the Colby Tribune, secretary;
Clarence Thompson, of the Iloxie Pal
ladium, treasurer, and F. II. Stewart,
of the Goodland Republic, member of
the board of trustees.
BIO CLAIM PRESENTED.
Negotiation* with the Chorokeo Indian*
Deceive a f’rotiable (Julctu*.
Ci.arkmork, I. T., June 8.—The nego
tiations between the Cherokees and the
Dawes commission have received a se
vere, if not a permanent check, and the
entire tribe is in a state of feverish ex*
j citement over a claim presented to the
! commission by R. C. Adams, John Bui*
! lett and R. L. Owens, in behalf of the
Delawares, asking for the segregation
| to that tribe of 167,000 acres of land,
i Adams and Builett are both Delawares,
! but citizens of the Cherokee na
tion. Owens, ^a Cherokee citizen,
: who is acting as attorney for the
Delawares, has figured largely at the
Washington end of all the big money
deals of these tribes for several years
past, and is one of the richest men in
the territory. The Delaware claim
rests upon a treaty entered into with
the Cherokees several years ago,
through which, upon payment into the
general funds of the Cherokee tribe of
a certain sum, they were to become
! equal citizens, and upon final allot
ment to have not less than 160
acres each of the public land. In
addition to those named, there are
behind the movement ex-Chief Bushy
head and ex-Attorney-General Hast
ings, both heretofore influential men
in the tribe. The commission has left
Tahleaunh and exnress but little hone
of reaching an agreement.
OLDEN FRUIT FARM.
1,. T. Moore, a Kansas City Capitalist, lluys
a One.Hall Interest.
West Plains, Mo., June 8.—A one
; half interest in the Olden fruit farm
in this county has been bought by L.
T. Moore, a Kansas City capitalist. It
is the largest farm in the world de
voted exclusively to fruit. The farm
is valued at between $200,000 and $300,
000. It consists of 2,280 acres on which
are over 100,000 peach trees, GO,000
apple trees, 2,000 pear trees and 40 acres
in blackberries, besides a large vari
ety of other fruits. On the property
are a large warehouse, a cannery with
a capacity of 10,000 cans per day, a
cold storage building holding 15,000
barrels of apples, a hotel, a sawmill
and a number of houses for the use of
the manager.
THE WAR MUST STOP.
Purported Interview with the President In
Which He Is Quoted an Saying Such.
New York,June 8.—Herbert J. Brown
wires the Journal an interview by a
third party with President McKinley in
which the latter said, concerning Cuba:
Unless Mr. Calhoun's reports differ very ma
terially from the overwhelming facts already In
my possession, I can have but one policy In the
matter. This bloody war must stop, as well In
the Interests of humanity as on account of the
lives and property of Amerieans which have
been and are being needlessly sacrificed. I
have every confidence In Consul-General Lee,
his Integrity and his painstaking accuracy In
reporting the situation. But I felt that the
American people would be better satisfied were
my action based upon reports obtained by the
confidential agents ami advisers of my own ad
ministration. and for that reason I concluded
to send, in the first place, Judge Day, and later
Mr. Calhoun, to make the Investigation. The
situation does not admit of delay.
SETTLERS YET IN TERROR.
Prowling Cheyennes Continue to Threaten
Trouble in Montana.
Miles City, Mont., June 8.—The ru
mor sent abroad that settlers were re
turning with their families to their
homes is not true. About 50 fanmies,
refugees from the Iudians, are still in
tnis city ana other* are coming in
daily. A* many a* seven and
eight families are huddled to
gether in one cottage, with no
thought of returning to their
homes, while the Indians are off the
the reservation. Over 200 Indians are
off the reservation, scattered in small
bands roaming the country and com
mitting depredations and devouring
everything in their line of march.
A TREASURY SCANDAL.
The New York Post Charge* Kill* Roberta
with Previous Moral Obliquity.
New Yohk, June 8.—The Post says
editorially:
The appointment of Ellis H. Robert* to the
position of treasurer of the United States by
President McKinley, in the face of notorious
facts, is a matter which ought not to be passed
over in silence. Mr. Roberts was ap
pointed by President Harrison assistant
treasurer Ip New York, an office
in which his relations with the banks are too
well known to flnanclers to need particular at
tention. Mr. Roberts almost immediately be
gan to solicit loans of money from the leading
bankers, offering a kind of security which they
would never have looked upon a second time if
he had not held the office which he did.
DID SCHLATTER STARVE?
——
I Alleged Body of the “Divine Healer" Said
to Have Been Found in the Sierras.
Denver, Col., June 8.—A special from
Ei Paso, Tex., says that Francis Schlat
ter, who claimed to perform miraculous
cures by divine power, was recently
found dead in the foot hills of the
Sierra Madre, 35 miles southwest of
Casa Grande, in the state of Chihua
hua, Mex. He had been fasting and
apparently starved to death. While in
Denver, from August 22 to November
13, 1895, about 200.000 people visited
Schlatv^r to receive treatment.
FINANCIAL PLAN.
Secretary Gage F reparing a Measure
to Be Subrr.itted to Congress.
GOOD TIMES NEAR AT HAND.
TIi* Secretary of the Treasury State* That
the Commercial Outlook at the Pres
ent Time I* llriglitcr Than It
Ha* Ever Been.
N\ A.8HINOTON, June 8.—Secretary
Gage is preparing a financial measure
to be submitted to congress next win
ter. In pursuance of this plan he has
sent out a letter to 300 leading bank
ers and merchants inviting suggestions
for reforming the currency. Saturday
he invited Former Secretary Carlisle
to a conference. There is no differ
ence of opinion between Secretary
(iage and ex-Secretary Carlisle on the
money question. When Mr. Carlisle
was secretary of the treasury and Mr.
Gage a banker in Chicago he was fre
quently consulted by Secretary Carlisle
when the fight for the repeal of the
Sherman law was in progress. It was,
therefore, as a gold democrat, as well
as a financial expert, that Mr. Carlisle
was consulted. He represents fully
the views of Mr. Cleveland and the
gold democrats in the matter of finance.
The two men were together uninter
ruptedly Saturday ufternoon for nearly
an hour. In outline the scheme will
embrace the gradual retirement of the
greenbacks and the substitution of
national bank notes therefor; allowing
national banks to issue to the full
limit, instead of 90 per cent, as
now; reducing the tax on na
tional bank circulation from ou<* per
cent, to one-fourth of one per cent.,
and limiting the denominations of
bank notes and all other paper money
to 810, and substituting silver for all
below 810. There probably will be a
provision for branch banks, and there
is a suggestion that state and munici
pal bonds may be used as a basis for
not to exceed 50 per cent, of the note
circulation. Secretary Gage has, in
fact, already commenced to carry out
his scheme for retiring greenbacks, as
far as possible under the present law,
by locking up in the treasury green
backs and treasury notes. These
classes of notes have greatly increased
since March 4, and on June 1 there was
held in the treasury of both classes
about 8*50,000,000.
Good Times Near at Hand.
Washington, June 8.—Secretary
Gage talked interestingly yesterday
afternoon of the general improvement.
He said:
Some may charge that I am a rainbow chaser,
but the facts can speak for themselves. The
commercial outlook is to-day brighter than it
has been for several years. The conditions are
all right. Ail we need is coniidenoe. Confi
dence is fostered by exchanging words of en
couragement and pulling together. The men
tion of the evidences of progress toward better
times does good. Everybody who knows some
thing that points to improvement ought to let
the rest of us hear about it. That will
strengthen the general hope and faith.
The reports show that the failures for
May were the smallest in number of any
month since September, 1895. The mercan
tile failures were fewer than they have been
In any other month since September, 1894.
Failures of general merchandise establish
ments were never less In magnitude. The
significance of such facts cannot be mistaken.
The volume of transactions Is now larger than
in 1892, which was the high-water murk of na
tional prosperity. In fact the situation to-day
is very like what it was early in 1879, wheu the
most remarkable advance in production and
prices ever known in this or any other country
was at hand. While, perhaps, it cannot be said
there has been pronounced improvement in the
market for farm products, the reports of crops
auu prospects m an sections oi tne uniteu
States are most favorable.
TO RIVAL WEST POINT.
Scheme to Establish a Great Western Mili
tary School In Nebraska.
Omaha, Neb., June 8.—Nebraska is
going to try to establish an institution
which shall rival West Point as a mili
tary school for young Americans. A
bill has just been introduced in con
gress donating the military reservation
of Fort Omaha to the State of Nebraska,
and the state will establish a school
for the education of its own and young
men of other western states in the
arts of war. The more enthusiastic
promoters of the scheme declare
with much emphasis that the proposed
school will be to the west what West
Point academy is to the east. Fort
Omaha comprises 80 acres of ground
five miles north of Omaha. A number
of handsome buildings have been erect
ed there and the grounds are beauti
fully parked and splendid trees are on
the sides of the place.
BIO COMMERCIAL SCHEME.
British Traders to Operate on the Ynkoa
River on a Large Scale.
Seattle, Wash., June 8.—Eli A.
Oage, manager of the North American
Transportation & Trading Co., is in
Seattle on his way to the company’s
trading posts on the Yukon. To a
press correspondent he said that a
ohartered British company is preparing
to operate on the Yukon on the same
plan and Beale as that of the famous
ohartered South Africa Co. It is pro
posed to build and govern towns and
cities, maintain a force of soldiers, op
erate mines, build steamships, etc.
The company is admitted to have mil
lions of money back of it