The Conway log cabin., January 01, 1901, Image 1

About The Conway log cabin. (Conway, Faulkner County, Ark.) 189?-1901

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The Conway Log Cabin.
VOL. XXII.
CONWAY, ARKANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY i, 1901.
NO. 31
Better get pardoned now. Gov.
Jones’ time as governor will soon
lie out. _______
Taylotv the outlawed ex-govern
or of Kentucky, has entered a law
firm in Indianapolis.
One of the Younger boys has
been arrested for defrauding a board
bill. “How changed, how fallen!”
There is one consolation about
being poor. You will never have
any of your children kidnapped
and held for ransom.
Mr. Cudahy will have to sell
several more hams to get back the
$25,000 he paid for the return of
his son who was kidnapped.
With Alger, Miles and Mrs.
Fitzsimmons breaking into print
again the beginning of the century
doesn’t seem so propitious after all.
Christmas comes but once a year,
and from the crime and disturb
ance at that time, most of us would
be pleased to see the time extended
to two years.
Thirty persons were killed in old
Kentucky on Christmas day. Let
the blessed light of American eiv
ilzation and religion be extended
to the heathen Filipino.
Six more men, this time in West
Virginia, with about half sense,
were killed last Friday by an ex
plosion while thawing out some
dynamite before the lire.
Grover Cleveland, who, it will
be remembered, was president of
these United States a few years ago,
states that he did not vote for Mc
Kinley at the last election. De
mocracy now breathes easier.
The Hawaiian delegate in Con
gress drew over a thousand dollars
for mileage from the government a
few days ago. If we had very
many of these long-distance repre
sentatives, our boasted surplus
would soon be looking like a post
Christmas pocket-book.
This is the year in which we will
give the new road law a trial in
Faulkner county. We feel sure
that the law is all right. If it is
not a success, the fault is ours.
Let us see that it is not a failure,
as in that case many years would
roll by before we could get the peo
ple to try it again.
Grover Cleveland, in a recent in
terview, stated that, in his opinion,
the most needful thing for the
Democratic party is to give the
rank and file of the party some
voice in its council. This is cer
tainly good advice, but it is to be
doubted if this would produce the
effect Mr. Cleveland desires.
Mr. Bryan intends to begin the
publication of a newspaper at Lin
coln, Neb., in a short time. The
paper will lie published weekly and
will lie called "The Commoner.”
In this paper Mr. Bryan intends to
discuss all the political issues of
the day, and it is safe to say that
it will be a high-class publication
of its kind.
Women are strangely contradic
tory. A few days ago a St. Louis
man abandoned his wife and drove
off in a coal wagon. His better
half jumped into another wagon,
overtook him, leaped out of her
wagon and stopped his team and
held them. She then called a
policeman and asked to have her
husband locked up on the ground
that she was afraid of him.
A CLEAR HEAD;
good digestion; sound sleep; a
fine appetite and a ripe old age,
are some of the results of the use
of Tutt’s Liver Pills. A single
dose will convince you of their
wonderful effects and virtue.
A Known Fact.
An absolute cure for sick head
ache, dyspepsia, malaria, sour
stomach, dizziness, constipation
bilious fever, piles, torpid liver
and all kindred diseases.
Tuft’s Liver Pills
Millionaires should get together
and offer a big reward for the cap
ture of persons who kidnap their
children. Very large rewards will
lead to the capture of this class of
criminals. But there is another
drawback; very few states have any
laws to speak of for the punish
ment of this class of criminals.
The Memphis Commercial-Ap
peal expresses the whole thing in
a nut-shell when it says: “The
United States ought not to care a
tinker’s dam whether the Hay
Pauncefote treaty is accepted or re
jected by England or whether that
country falls back on the Clayton
Bulwer treaty or not. England’s
permission to build the Nicaragua
canal is not needed and ought not
to be asked. ’ ’
The last days of 1900 mark the
closing of a century that has been
more replete with world-important
events than perhaps all the centur
ies from the time of Christ. To
enumerate the blessings which the
19th century has bequeathed to
future years is a task too exhaust
ive to be attempted, but we need
not go to the pages of history to
find them. They are written in
the every-day life of all of us.
The Supreme Court of the United
States will soon decide the consti
tutionality of the Porto Rican tar
iff law, and it is believed by many
that that august body will kill this
infamous law. Imperialism is very
plausible when garnished with
rhetorical flowers and punctuated
by frequent references to the “old
flag,’’ “sublime destiny,” and
other catchy phrases, but when it
is expressed in the cold, bare lan
guage of a brief, it is pitifully ab
surd. .
The Helena World is waging a
war against newspapers that use
“wooden” editorials, stolen, in
most instances, from other papers.
This is a righteous cause and we
hope he’ll have all such editors
feeling so mean that they will quit
their evil ways. A paper filled
with stolen editorials is always con
temptible and sometimes amusing,
especially when a country editor
“swipes” a “funny” editorial, the
point of which is only appreciated
by city people, and runs it in his
own 2x4 weekly. These journal
istic misfits deserve all the abuse
and disgrace that can be heaped
upon them.
Every time Grover Cleveland
makes a public utterance of any
kind it seems to be a signal for a
large number of Democratic news
papers to begin to abuse him. We
are not self-constituted apologists
for Mr. Cleveland, for we cannot
endorse his policy of refusing to
obey the will of the majority of his
party, but it is well to remember a
few things that he has done. He
was the first and only Democrat
since the war who has brought
enough strength to the party to
carry the national election. He
had the courage to place Southern
Democrats in his Cabinet and keep
them there, despite the protest of
carping northern critics. He had
the backbone to compel Great Bri
tian to cease her aggression on
Venezuela, and by his Secretary of
State, promulgated a new "Mon
roe Doctrine’’ which was designed
to ever hold the aegis of our pro
tection over the weaker republics
of this continent. Compare this
great victory for Americanism with
the weak-kneed policy of McKin
ley with regard to Great Britain's
seizure of our territory in Alaska
and Cleveland towers above the
man from Ohio like a giant above
a pigmy. And whatever bad
qualities he possessed Mr. Cleve
land certainly had the courage of
his own convictions. Very few
men could have stood the storm of
abuse which he drew , down on
himself without weakening.
Don't use Cough Syrups that Con
tain Opiates.
They are both injurious and
dangerous. Three to five drops of
Gregory’s Antiseptic Healing Oil
will relieve your cough in from
one to n ~ minutes and do you no
harm. It contains no opium in
any form. , 22-tf
So far Gov. Jones and other offici
als of the State and State Uni
versity have failed to answer the
sensational charges made against
them by Prof. Bynum. There can
be but two causes for the failure of
these gentlemen to answer these
charges. * Either they consider
them of so little importance as to
demand no contradiction or they
are unable to deny the accusations
the charges contain. If the former
reason accounts for the silence of
these gentlemen, are they not pre
suming too much upon the faith of
the people in them? If the charges
were directed only against Mr.
Jones himself and concerned him
alone in a personal way, then it
would be his right to ignore them
or deal with them as his own pleas
ure might dictate. But it is not a
personal matter. Mr. Bynum as
serts that most flagrant abuses have
been committed in the management
of our University; that there are
certain ones in the faculty who are
especially favored by the manage
ment, that contracts have been vio
lated for petty and personal reas
ons and that exalted degrees have
been conferred upon certain per
sons, not as testimonials of their
eminent scholarship, nor yet as ac
knowledgments of their profound
learning, but as direct rewards for
political service rendered to Mr.
Jones in his campaign for theU. S.
benatorsnip. inese are matters
that vitally concern the people of
Arkansas, and if Mr. Bynum has
slandered Arkansas’ governor and
Arkansas’ university, our citizens
should have the facts in the case.
State pride demands that our offic
ials should be cleared of this charge
and Gov. Jones should see to it
that this done. If, on the other
hand, these charges are true, then,
in the language of Jeff Davis, we
need Red river turned through a
few of our state institutions, and
possibly some strong disinfectant
-added in with it. We learn that
Mr. Bynum will lay his charges be
fore the legislature and we may
hope to get the truth of the matter.
About the only thing we can be
certain of now is that Prof. Bynum
seems to be courting an investiga
tion and the other side is not.
Beryl Items.
Christmas has come and gone
with all its joys.
P. H. White and family of Frost,
Texas, are here spending the holi
days with old friends.
M. F. Cox, of Otto, is here visit
ing relatives and friends.
Prof. C. H. Nelson, our teacher,
is visiting his wife in Perry county.
Married—December 23, at the
residence of the bride's mother
1 err Vilonia, I.ilburn Cagle, of
Little Rock, to Miss Minnie Hill,
of Vilonia, by It. K. Wilkerson.
Married—At the residence of the
bride’s father J. F. Ilartl)- Dec. 25,
Joe Graddy, jr., to Miss Naomi
Martly by R. K. Wilkerson.
A dining was given Christmas
day by L. C. Dallas. It is said
there were ninety young people
present.
Wm. Martin formerly of this
place now of Center Point, was
married last Sunday to Miss Jessie
Wallace, of Ward, and is here with
his new wife visiting relatives.
Esq. J. F. Martly, J. I,. Vaughn,
Wootson and Jones Martly have
gone to Texas to look at the coun
try.
John Rotenbery and wife of Lit
tle Rock are taking Christmas here
with his father.
Mrs. Sarah Price, of Heebe, is
spending the holidays here with
relatives.
Mrs. Sallie Wilkerson is quite
sick.
James York, of Texas, is here
"Visiting old haunts.
There is considerable discussion
going on over the State about the
adoption of a state flower. The
Federation of Women’s Clubs h$p
endorsed the passion flower, while
the State Floral Emblem Society is
in favor of adopting the apple blos
s. in. We heartily endorse the
| choice of the Floral Emblem So
ciety and hope th it they will be
sui ce sful in their efforts to have
the apple blossom adopted. It is a
beautiful flower, and more typical
jol Arkansas’ products thau the pas
sion flower.
NEWS OF THE WORLD,
The Coffee county bank at Man
■hester, Tcnn., was looted by safe
'ilowers of $5,000.
The window glass manufacturers
announce an advance of 15 per cent
on all window glass.
The Indian police are carrying
out their threats to arrest all hun
ters in the Territory.
The manufacturers of Germany
are organizing for the purpose of
demanding a protective tariff
Cudahy, the Omaha packer, offers
a reward of $25,000 for the capture
and punishment of the outlaws who
kidnapped his son.
Every one of the 10,000 employes
of the American Express company
received a gift from the company of
$5 Christmas day.
A millionaire banker named Stern
berg of Berlin was sentenced to two
and one-half years in prison for
crimes against morality.
A corner in beans is the latest nov
elty in the Chicago market. Within
two weeks the price has risen from
$1.81 per bushel to $2.20.
W. H. Sinythe, grand secretary of
the Masonic order in Indiana, was
probably fatally shot in his office at
Indianapolis by an unknown wo
man.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, a member of
the W. C. T. U., entered a saloon
at Wichita, Kas„ and with a heavy
piece of iron, completely wrecked
I he bar.
The body of II. C. Payne, a prom
inent St. Louis business man. was
found in a subub of the above city
with bis head nearly severed from
the body.
A hill is pendin'? in the lower
hou e of congress fixing the salary
of the vice-president at $25,000 per
annum and that of cabinet officers
at $15,000.
The street railway commission of
Chicago, appointed by the municipal
council, has prepared a bill provid
ing for public ownership of transpor
tation lines in that city.
Lord Methuen’s command in the
Transvaal did not enjoy two wagon
loads of Christmas luxuries destined
for their camp, as they were cap
tured by the Boers.
The war department has decided
that no further action can be taken
with regard to the return of the vol
unteers from the Philippines until
congress shall make provision for
their replacement.
The monthly statement of the
internal revenue shows that during
November 1900, the total receipts
were $25,344 285, an increase as com
pared with November of last year of
1880,851.
The success of the Omaha kid
nappers has resulted in numerous
other crimes of the same character.
The 9-year-old son of Louis Tonhz
is missing from his home at Judd,
la., and the father has been notified
that a ransom will insure his safe
return.
The associated press gives an ac
count of a terrible massacre of re
form forces in Central China. The
reformers are said to have beeu in
duced to visit Chung Tuang, gov
ernor of the district, under pretense
that he was in sympathy with them,
when the loaders were seized and
12,000 imperial troops surrounded
them and began tl e work of slaugh
ter. Tweuty-teven reform leaders
wero beheaded and 1,500 men
killed.
Chief of Police Peverv of New
York will retire ns a result of the
general irusado against vice in that
city. lie will draw a pension the
remainder of his life of $3,000 per
annum.
A squadron of British yeomanry
in nursuit of the Boers near Brist
town were entrapped and made pris
oners by the Burghers. After dis
arming the prisoners and taking
possession of their horses the Boers
released them.
The heavy exportation of Mexican
silver to China and other oriental
•ountries lias caused a money panic
in Mexico. The government treath
•n- to place an export duty on sil
ver.
In Grant county, Oklahoma, a
Voting man named Clyde Hunt,
.vliile under the influence of liquor,
attempted to force his way into the
louse of Wm. Hendricks, when Mrs.
Hendricks, who was alone with her
wo little children, shot him dead.
Archbishop* Ireland denies the
uiblished 'report that he is to visit
i n Ini as a special commisioner ap
ix.iiited by the president to settle
disputes iu regard to church prop
erty.
Sir Alfred Milner has senf an
Manning report of conditions in
South Africa to the London war
itTice, and reinforcements are being
hurried to the front.
Miss Maggie Hoel,aged 18,is miss
ing from her home at Puebolo Colo.,
and it is beleivcd is being held by
kidnappers.
British agents in the United States
have been instructed to puichase at
once 50,000 head of horses for ship
ment to South Africa.
Too much whiskey led to a diffi
culty at Vergennes, 111., in which
Henry Fox was shot to death by Joe
and Jack Davidson, brothers.
Thomas II. Bennet was sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary by n
jury at Warrensburg, Mo., for big
amy. He was confronted in court
by four living wives.
Frank H. Morris, of Ohio, auditor
of the war department, was mur
dered in his office at Washington by
Samuel MacDonald, also of Ohio, a
clerk in the treasury department.
MacDonald afterwards shot himself
and slashed his throat with a knife.
MacDonald imagined that his vic
tim was the cause of him being re
duced in rank in the service, and was
drinking at the time of the tragedy.
Robert IT. Wilcox, delegate in the
house of representatives from the
Hawaiian Islands, has just been paid
$1,000 for mileage. It was the
largest claim of the kind ever made,
livery congressman is entitled to
mileage at the rate of 20c per mile,
bv the most direct and practicable
route from his home to Washington
and return. The distance between
Honolulu and Washington is fig
ured at 5,000 miles. Mr. Wilcox
will draw $1,0*00 more for his return
trip.
A remarkable recor.l of Christmas
tragedies is reported from Nashville,
'Penn. Dave Ferrell was killed by a
saloon keeper. The men had been
tiring at the feet of some negroes
to make them dance, when the sa
loon keeper's wrist was knocked up
by one of the darkies, the bullet en
tering Farrell’s abdomen. The next
fatality was the cutting to death of
Mary Thurman, colored, by Steve
Lyons, her lovor. Jack Burk, a
fireman, while drunk, fell down a
high embankment and was killed.
Lizzie Jones, a colored domestic,
was burned to death by her clothing
catching fire, and many other se
rious accidents were reported to the
police.
An appended report to Gen. Mac
Arthur’s review of the civil affairs
of the Philippines for the past year,
gives some rather startling facts re
garding the introduction and preva
lence of leprosy in the islands. Ac
cording io the estimates of the Frati
•„ m ; rp," I
Getting
Thin
is all right, if you are too fat;
and all wrong, if too thin already.
Fat, enough for your habit, is
healthy; a little more, or less, is
no great harm. Too fat, consult
a doctor; too thin, persistently
thin, no matter what cause, take
Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver
Oil.
There are many causes of get
ting too thin; they all come
under these two heads: over
work and under-digestion.
Stop over-work, if you can;
butj whether you can or not,
take Scott’s Emulsion of Cod
Liver Oil, to balance yourself
with your work. You can’t live
on it—true—but, by it, you
can. There’s a limit, however;
you’ll pay for it
Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver
Oil is the readiest cure for
“can’t eat,” unless it comes of
your doing no work—you can't
long be well and stroftg, without
some sort of activity.
The genuine haa
Ibis picture on it,
take no other.
If you have not
tried it, send for
Free sample, Its a- I
greeable taste will
surprise you.
SCOTT & BOWNB
Chemists,
409 Pearl Street,
New York.
4 iM
50c. and $1.00; all drUMlVta
Edie, the writer of the report, there
are no fewer than 30,000 lepers in
the Viscayas. Leprosy was intro
duced in 1033. when the emperor of
Japan sent a ship with 150 lepers
on hoard to the Philippines as a
present to he eared for by the Cath
olic priests. Thus the seed was
planted, and as no practical methods
were ever adopted to eradicate the
disease or prevent its spread, it has
taken firm root.
The statistician of the department
of agriculture estimates the United
States wheat crop of 1900 at 522,
229,505 bushels, the area actually
harvested being 42,495,385 acres,
and the average yield per acre 12.29
bushels. The production of winter
wheat is estimated at 350,025,409
bushels, and that of spring wheat
is estimated at 172,204,096 bushels,
the area actually harvested being
26,235,897 acres in the former case
and 17,258,488 acres in the latter.
The production of corn in 1900 is es
timated at 2,105,102,516 bushels;
oats, 809,125,989 bushels; barley,
58,925,833 ; rye, 23,995,927 bushels;
buckwheat, 9,566,966 bushels; po
tatoes, 210,926,897 bushels, and
hay 50,110,906 tons. The area from
which the crops were gathered was
as follows in acres: Corn, 83,320,
872: oats, 27,364,795; barley, 2,
894,282; rye, 1,591,326; buskwheat,
637,930; potatoes, 2,611,054, and
hay, 39,132,890.
Patrick Brown, chief of police of
Barre, Vt., was shot and mortally
wounded by an Italian while trying
to quell a disturbance at an anar
chist meeting.
Details of a scheme to fraudently
acquire claims to a vast amount of
m.ning property in the Philippines
lias been laid before the war depart
ment. The scheme was hatched by
Spanish officials and claims put on
record during the last days of Span
ish rule over the islands.
Ex-Gov. Walcott, of Massa
chusetts, is dead.
BRIEF MENTION.
Attorney-General elect Murphy
will appoint his daughter as clerk in
his office.
Will Hillman, from St Louis, was
found dead at the Barber Hotel in
Texarkana.
Theivcs stole a number of fine
horses from Pine Bluff citizens one
night last week.
The Salvation Army furnished
Christmas dinners to 500 homeless
and poor people at Ltttle Bock.
This is the season of weddings,
and consequently the ministers and
lioense clerks are enjoying pros
perity.
J. E. Collins’ big warehouse at
Grannis burned last week. Loss,
ibout $(i,000: partially covered by
insurance.
Helen, the little girl of Mr. and
Mrs. Nix. of Ftiyeficville, was ter
rihlv turned, her clothing catchin,
ire from, a firi'-racker.
The 1 .’ ; ear-old T- ugh ter of A. .1
'luhi'.l/. r=\icg twelve mills fron
c-k. >•';!- hi i • a fa'i.ag tr,
■■ • :•• in ■in* "o-.'st.
James Lee and J. A. Watson
negroes, were arrested near Van
Buren on the charge of horse
stealing. When captured they had
in their possession throe horses
stolen in the Indian Territory.
The election of the following offi
cers made last July was ratified:
President. Jas. H. Abrahams, Arka
delphia; vice-president, (loo. R
Kelley, Benton; secretary, Fred
Sehader, Little Rock: treasurer, H
A. McCoy, Pine Bluff.
E. E. Fluker, a colored merchant
of Pine Bluff, announces that he will
build an exclusive colored town
across the Arkansas river from the
above city. lie has purchased 200
acres of land and will survey it into
500 lots, to be sold on easy terms.
The mill of F. J. Murray, at
Pine Bluff, was destroyed by fire,
together with a largo quantity of
lumber. Several freight cars of the
Iron Mountaiu and March & Riley’s
warehouse were also badly damaged.
Murray’s loss is placed at $10,000,
with $3,000 insurance.
Alex. Nolan, colored, was found
dead near Osceolo. Everything in
dicated that he had been killed in a
fight as he had an empty pistol in
his hand, and there were two bullet
wounds in his head.
An unknown white man, esleoj
on the Cotton Belt track near Wub
asoka, Jefferson cointy, was killed
by a freight engine. From letter*
on the man’s person it is thought
his name is L. C. McDonald. Tin
i letters were written at Ramsey Ark.
Fashionable
Millinery
We have an elegant
line of Millinery this
Fall and propose to
sell it very cheap—
we place the price of
our beautiful goods
in reach of all, and
there is no reason
why anyone should
wear unbecoming or
unfashionable Milli
nery. Those who
seek high quality
and low prices should
see us before buying
elsewhere.
MRS. NETTIE F. ROSS
Marriage Licenses.
County Clerk Bullion has issued
marriage licenses to the following
persons since Dec. 21:
Elbert Henderson and Sallie
Hawkins, of Republican.
Jno. Tillman and Rutha Thomp
son, of Dixie.
W. S. Martin, of Vilonia, and
Jeffie Wallace, of Ward.
W. D. Bailey and Elester Beth
uren, of Vilonia.
B. E. Briley, of Vilonia, and Ida
Tucker, of Otto.
John Smith and Bessie Reynolds,
of Conway.
J. W. Graddy and Naomi Hart
ley, of Beryl.
Burton Madden and Ophelia
Jones, of Conway.
G. P. Carter, of Hamlet, and
Emma Teagle, of Beryl.
J. L- George and Lula McGlass
on, of Saltillo.
Charley Thurman and Alice
Smith, of Conway.
J. G. Glover and Fannie Milam,
of Greenbrier.
Jno. Cunningham and Mollie
Bunting, of Conway.
J. M. Prior, of Wooster, and V.
J. Jones, of Linder.
Frank Griffith and Katie Bailey,
of Mayflower.
Alec Winston and Mattie L,an
drum, of Chadwick.
Sandy Mitchell and Pauline Ow
ens, of Conway.
Robert Robuck and Lula Rey
nolds, of Mayflower.
W. W. Fuller and Pearley Mitch
ell, of Conway.
W. M. Waller and A. C. Cox. of
Vilonia.
J. L. Smith and Sallie Mallett,
of Kendall.
C. H. New and C. S. McCoy,
of Enders.
E. B. Adkisson and Sudie Hen
ry, of Mt. Vernon.
W. Walker and Hattie Simpson,
of Mayflower.
D. A. Hill and Annie Easter
wood, of Conway.
Jo Frauenthal and Ida E. Bari
don, of Conway.
Another Word to the Ladies.
Mr. Editor:
We understand there are still a
few ladies in Conway and vicinity
who did not take advantage of our
recent offer to send an elegant sil
ver-plated sugar shell absolutely
free of charge to any married lady
who would simply’ ask for it, so
we w'ill renew the offer for a short
time only. We sell these shells
regularly at forty cents each. Re
tail jewelers ask fifty to seventyr
five cents for such goods. They
are exquisitely beautiful creations
in high-grade silver plate. To fur
ther advertise our ware, we will
send one, postpaid, to every mar
ried lady who has not received one.
This announcement should be cut
out and returned to us with your re
quest'. (This is important). Al
so please enclose a stamp or two to
help pay cost of mailing. Quaker
Valley Mfg. Co., Morgan and
Harrison Sts., Chicago.