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2,415 BALES OF COTTON BURNED Gulf Cotton Compress at Little Rock Destroyed by Fire at Loss of $20d,000—No Cause Assign ed for Fire. Little Rock, duly 18.—The plant of the Gulf Compress Com pany, near the Fort Smith Cross ing, in Argenta, was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. There were 2,415 bales of cot ton in the compress, and they were also destroyed. As middling is quoted th:s morning at 12^4, the average price of a bale being $(,1.87, this means a cotton loss of $149,416 05. The loss on the plant is about $50,000, making a total loss of I $200,000. The plant of the Gulf Compress i Company was almost entirely de stroyed, there remaining only 25,000 square feet of platform, a mad seething form which resem ble baked cotton, a dismantled press and boiler to show where the plant once stood. The com press was one of the largest and most prosperous tn the state. The immense shed, which was destroyed, was 500 by 100 feet and sheltered 2,215 bales of cotton ! which was stored awaiting the shipping orders of the owners. There is no reason assigned as to the origin of the fire. JEALOUS, MURDERS HIS WIFE. Cuts Woman’s Throat and Brags About It to Officers. Fort Smith. July 17. — In a fit of jealous rage last night about 10:30 o’clock, A. O. Gholston cut the thront of his wife with a j-ick knife, the wounds causing almost instant death. lie was in an in toxicated condition, it is claimed, and accused his wife of being tickle. He declared that he saw her kissing a man in a hallway. Gholston was seen to go up the j steps to his home and in a few minutes the screaming of a wo man was heard. People in the street rushed up to see what the matter was and found, it is al leged, Gholston in the act of driving the knife into the throat of his wife. Deputy Constable C. P. Jones whs called. He drove Gholston into a corner of the hall and kept i him at bay until other officers ar-1 rived. On the wav to the jail the officers declare Gholston bragged about his deed. While the officers were caring for Gholston, physicians were summoned to try to save the life of his wife. She died, however, in a pool of blood before a physi cian arrived. 160.000BUSHELS0FC0RN ROTTING. Has Lain in Great Heaps on Ground for Six Months. Muskogee, I. T., July 17.—At B uejacket in the northern por tion of the Cherokee nation on the M. K. Sc T., railway there is piled up 160.000 bushels of corn that has been exposed to the ele ments for the last six months, because there was not sufficient warehouse room, and the railroad could not handle all of the corn, or at least failed to furnish cars to move the corn. This corn is exposed to the winds and rain on its surface, and the tops of the great piles are bleached and whitened, as is the corn that is exposed on the open sides of the cribs. The corn is rotting on thu ground and the | moisture comes up in it as thej weather gets hotter. There are; N0,000 bushels of corn in one; group of these exposed cribs. LINKED ROOSEVELT AND BRYAN. A Preacher Said They’re the Greatest Enemies of Graft. Seattle, Wash.-^Before a l.arge gathering of Christian Endeav oreis, the Rev. Ira Laudrith, regent of Belmont college, Nash ville, Tenn., in an address on “Craft and Grafters," linked the names of Roosevelt and Bryan as the greatest opponents of graft and corruption the country has ever known. He said that grsft, such as is practiced in many parts °f the country, is little less than murder, bringing in, as it does, impure inilk and impure and adul terated foods that cause alarming mortality. * he Only Qua^anteeJ Kidney Cuie is Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure. Your druggists will refund your money u after taktng one bottle you are not satisfied with results, 60 cents by Jackson Drug Co. Nov. 1 • m • _ * .. .— AN IMPROVEMENT AT STATION. Broad Concrete Platform May Soon Re place the Old Planks. Inquiries have recently been made regarding the building of concrete platforms around the passenger station here. t is expected that bids tor the work will soon be asked for by he engineering department of he Kansas City Southern, as in qunes have recently made here regarding the matter. 2-CENTRATEON K. C. S. THURSDAY Tickets Are Now Being Sold to All Points on the Line at Prices Giving Passengers Benefit of New Rate in Arkansas and Missouri. The Kansas City Southern has now put into effect its new pas senger rate card which gives all purchasers of tickets the advan tage of the 2-cent rate on all milage in Arkansas and Missouri. The new rate is called a com position rate, giving as it does the full advantage of the 2-cent rate in Arkansas and Missouri, but charging 3 cents for the mil age covered where the road crosses into 3-cent territory, as in the Indian Territory and Kan sas on the north. The rate to Fort Smith was reduced July 5 from $2 55 to #2 34. The old and new rates to other points on the line are as follows: Old Kate New Kate Kansas City .$11.40 $8.14 Joplin. 6-75 5.54 Fort Smith. 2.55 2.34 Texarkana. 3.25 2.32 Shreveport. 5.45 4.42 Port Arthur. 12.30 11.12 (iERYIAN COLONIZATION TO BE PROMOTED Plans Are Being Made by the K. C. S to Promote Rapid Development of Mena and Polk County. In order to reawaken the move ment to promote German colon ization in Polk county, the Kev. George Kirschke, pastor of the German Lutheran church of Mena, went to Kansas City this week and called upon F. E. Ross ler, immigration atrent u( the Kansas City Southern. In reply to questions Mr. Kossler informed Mr. Kirschke that a large appro priation had already been asked for to be used in an extensive ad vertising campaign in the German publications, and that he expected it would be granted and that he would soon to be in position to do much toward building up a German colony in and near Mena. Mr. Roesslcr is a firm believer in Polk crunty and also that the sturdy and industrious Germans are the ones that will the quick est develop its tesources. , --- AN ATTRACTIVE PARK ENTRANCE Curbings, Guuerings and Crossing of Concrete Now in Place. Father Gallagher has now completed the work of improve ment at the entrance to Janssen park by having built a solid con crete guttering and curbing from the sidewalk line to the turns of the driveway and a concrete crossing at the sidewalk line. The guttering was found neces sary to carry off the water with out washing the gravel from the roadway. I'his is the first guttering of the kind in Mena. This work was done by Lon Goff, who gave free of charge his own time an<l the use of his machinery and tools, making a large saving to the park improve ment fund. Father Gallagher is doing all he can to promote the growth of the grass and clover with which the park has been seeded by keep ing weeds cut and thus prevent ing the ripening of the seed that would make trouble next year. J, L. Pipkin to Build Home. J. L. Pipkin, the genial and affable clerk at Petty's store, ><s showing his faith in Menas fu ture prosperity by commencing the erection of a large residence ou the South Side, which he will use for bis home. Mr. Pipkin owns a number of vacant lots in South Mena, and if is bis inten tion to build cottages on them in the near future for rental pur poses. Your Liver L, out of order. You to bed In « bad hum. .! and wake up with a '-ad Uate lnyour m.mtb you want aomethin* to*Uu«»l«*you» I ok, try ll.r blue, tin- liver regulator. A]">* ;ave‘u,^rxT.^w« liver complaint*- Mrs- r "T‘,Uve used Her bine In my family for year* ? ,.Hnl „pre*i what X think about It V rv,*.dyln our ..-hold la Happy well,'and *e owe It to llerbluc. soljl tv jackson oruf *'«• *% *■ • * * '* ‘ ‘ * - __in. COTTON graders ARE IN DEMAND ---- The Business Requires a Man With a Keenly Developed Sense of Touch and Accurate Eyesight—Sal - Is Good. The fact that the state’s first cotton school for the farmers is now in progress at Conway, has created considerable comment, among the cotton men in Little Rock, and shows grader5 are in demand. The school is being run under the auspices of the 1‘armers’ Union, and the primary object is to teach the art of grad* ing cotton, so that those who complete the course may be ready to take charge of the cot ton warehouse belonging to the union. A cotton buyer who has had considerable experiance in grad ing cotton, said yesterday that a successful grader must possess a keenly developed sense of touch and accurate eyesight. Salaries of graders range from $1,200 to $0,000 yearly. Except in mar kets where cotton is received every month in the year, the graders enjoy a vacation in the summer, and thpir nav trnps on just tbe same, A grader working from 9 o’clock in the morning till 3 o’clock in the afternoon will grade anywhere from 700 to 1,000 bales By the touch he will determine the fineness of the fiber and the length of the staple and by the eye ne will determine the color. There are six grades on a middling basis. The grades are middling white uplands, mid dling light spotted, middling tinged uplands, middling stained uplands middling light blue and blue. The lengths of the fibers are classified as an inch and a sixteenth, inch and a sixteenth, inch and an eighth, etc. “A cotton grader is something of a genius,” it was explained “Whether he acquires the art Dy education, whether he comes by the art as a gift, it makes little difference. He must know at a touch and a glance what kind ot cotton he is handling. A man might tak a asample of cotton and keep it a week, and if ho knew nothing about grading he would not know any more at the end of the week than he did at the minute the cotton was banded to him.” Concerning the length of time required to learn the art, the cotton men differ. Some were of the opinion that a cotton planter might learn tha art in a year. Others placed the minimum time I required at five years. PROTEST FROM PREACHERS. Half Rates Cat Off by the Katy and a Fnss Is Created. Dallas, Tex., July 18.—The action of the passenger depart ment of the Missouri, Kansas and ! Texas Railroad Company in issu ing a circular to agents and con ductors instructing that all regu ! lar clergy permits be not further recognized for half-rate tickets has resulted in bringing down the criticism and censure of the min istry of Texas. The railroad company claims there are fully 3,000 holders of clergy permits in Tvxas who are not entitled to hail-rate rides under the recently enacted anti-pass law of Texas, which provides that only regu larly ordained ministers shall teceivo this courtesy. General i Passenger Agent VV. G. Crush has slated that all ministers en titled to half-rate tickets will be taken care of, pending the issu ance of « list of holders of clergy permits who are entitled to use same under the laws of the state. Money For High School at Salem. Salem, July 17.—The citizens of Salem had an enthusiastic school meeting last night at which a stock company was orig inated and nearly #1,000 was sub scribed toward maintaining a high school. This town has long been uoted as one of the beat school towns in north Arkansas, ! and it expects to lead this part of i the state in edncational advan tages. A splendid corps of teach ers will be employed. __. Op Vou Suffer From Kidney Trouble* ? We guarantee one bottle of Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure to benefit or Cure, or ! vour druggists will refund your money. Price 50 cents at Jacksons Drug Store Nov. 1 Cj iJJL 1% I'M iVJiUjJVLY O i A SEIZED SACRAMENTAL WINE Officers in Indian Territory Confronted With a New Proposition. Muskogee, I. T„ July 18. — “This box contains 50 quarts of wine for sacramental purposes. It is introduced in Indian Terri tory by special permission of the War Department. Anyone who interferes with it will be prose cuted.” That’s a proposition that the officers ran up against at McAl ester Wednesday. The wine was consigned to the Rev. Peter Layman at Alderson. The wine was confiscated by W. E. Johnson and has been stored in the vaults of the marshal’s office at McAlester. Johnson wired the Department of the Interior to ask what should be done with the wine and he has not yet been advised. It is the first instance of the kind that has come up before the authorities. The wine was shipped from Ft. Smith. TEXAS MERCHANTS ALARMED. Will Ask Extra Session of Legists tare to Repeal Anti-Trnst Law. Houston, Tex., July 18.—The merchants of Texas are alarmed by tbe neto anti-trust law of this state, and a meeting is to be held here today, at which it is expected resolutions will be passed request ing every merchant in the state to petition for an extra session of the legislature for its repeal. Under the provisions of the new law every Business man is in peril. The sale of trust-made goods is declared a felony, and it applies to employees of a business house as well as to the merchant himself. No merchant can have exclusive agency for special makes of any character. The business men are much aroused over the situation, and they be lieve that if enforced the statute will paralyze business in Tex ts. Fruit Special in the Ditch. Van Buren, July 18.—An east bound Iron Mountain fruit special that left Van Buren early Wednesday night, went in the ditch near Spadra, 55 miles east of here, about midnight, the en gine and eight cars of peaches going into the ditch. None of the particulars of the wreck could be learned here this morning, beyond the fact that the conductor and two of the three brakemen were slightly injured. Willing to Try. Tho discouraged housewife could not keep her mind and her conversa tion long away from the servant problem. “It is really the burning question of the day, you know," she said. "They expect so much money, and they know so little—that is, many of them. 1 had a girl last winter who thought the finger bowls were a kind of wine glass, and another who laid out the butter knife for me to carve the steak with, but my latest recruit, I am sure, reached the limit. She came to me well recommended—by the way, the worst ones seem able to get good references—and I agreed to pay her $20 a month. The second day she was with me I asked her if she could make tea biscuit. “ ‘Well, ma’am,’ she said, hesitat ing, as if not quite sure of her ground, ‘I never did put tea leaves in the dough, but I s’pose I could.' ” following the Ponies. “Our Hiram’s •writln’ agin from Yar vard,” said Farmer Richley, “fur more money fur books.” “Air ye sure he really wants that money fur books, Silas?” asked his wife. “Yaas, he sez he'll take his oath every cent I send him goes to the bookmakers.” A fellew-feeling. “I don't believe," said Mrs. Henry Peck, “that I would be afraid of a man eating tiger.” “I don't believe you'd need to, M'rla,” responded Henpeck, "he’d reo ognize a kindred spirit.”—Houston Post. it's Kini. C. M. Johnson, Louisville, Ky„ writes: “I have used your Hunt'* Cure and It la tine.” We have many similar letters. Hunt's Cure Is a strictly guaranteed remedy for any variety of skin diseases. It stops Itching In stantaneously. JULY 26. 27 AND 28. Dates of Meetings of Churches of Christ at Board Camp. The churches of Christ of Polk county will hold their convention at Board Camp July 2<>. 27 and 28. instead of dates previously announced. Dinner on the grounds. A. T. Wright, Chairman. The Smile that won't ionic otT, appears on hahy’s fare after one taking one bottle of White’s Cream Vcrdiafuge, the great worm medicine. Why not keep that smile on baby’s face. If you kt*p this mcgllrtne on hand, you will never see anything else but smiles on hla fitce. Mrs. H—., Blackwell, Oklo., writes: "My baby was peevish and fietful. Would not eat and 1 (eon d he would die. I used a bottle of White's Cream Vermafuge and he has n»l had a sick day since. K. JEFF DAVIS DID f NOT MEET HAMITER I _ Former Speaker of the House of Repre- j sentatives Sorry That the Senator Was Not Present—Says Jeff Is Bluffing. Walnut Hill, July 18.—United States Senator JclT Davis failed to make good the promise he made in the Fourth of July speech at Camden and in other recent pub lic addresses that he would, should the people of Lafayette county give a barbecue and invite him to attend, go there and “camp on the trail” of lormer Speaker of the House of Representatives Allen Hamiter. Senator Davis denounced Mr. Hamiter in unmeasured terms at ; Camden and on other stumps, | making charges as to his conduct while speaker of the house. Yes terday at Walnut Hill a great barbecue, attended by between 4,000 and 5,000 people, was given, but Senator Davis, who had been invited to be present, was con spicuous by his absence. Mr. Hamiter called attention to the fact that. Senator Davis had been invited to be present and speak. He denied the charges made against him by Davis and said Davis was only running one nf his hluffs when he told the people in other sections of the state that he was coming into Lafayette after his (Hamiter’s) scalp. He charged that Davis was attempting to control the Democratic party in Arkansas by the machine he used when he was governor of the state. He said j he was sorry Davis was not pres- j ent so he might hear what he had j to say of him, and said that be- I cause Davis was not present he | would consume no more of his time by talking about him. ARKANSAS IS TO EXHIBIT Fruits and Other Products to Be Shown in Fair at Kansas City. From the Gazette. ArKansas is to have an agricul tural and horticultural exhibit at the interstate fair and exposition which is to open at Elm Ridge race track at Kansas City, Mo., September 23, and continue to October 5. The exhibit is to be made by Sevier county, Arkansas, and the farmers and fruit growers in other sections of the state, who say they will show the Mis souri, Kansas and Oklahoma farmers what Arkansas can do The fruit growers in Sevier coun ty say they will ship 700 or 800 cars of peaches this year, in ad dition to a large yield of farm products. For Twenty Years. other chill reined lea have sprung up, nourished for a brief aeaaon, then passed away—even from memory—hut for twenty long year* Cheatham’* Chill Tonle hat* been In the Held of action. The reaaon 1* simple, it ha* merit. It actually cure* Chill* and Fever while the majority of other* only proml*e to. One bottle guaranteecd to cure any one cane. Taft In Oklahoma August 24. i _l - Ml. -to P/M. L'ennlo received word Tuesday from Secre tary Taft saying that August 21 would be an acceptable date fur him to speak In Oklahoma City. Gov. Frant* replied that, arrangements would he made accordingly. INDIGESTION A Disorder that Breeds Dis ease in the Body, and an Easy Way to Cure it. — Take care of the stomach and you will have little need for the doctor. When the stomach begins to show signs of disorder; when the food digests slowly and with discomfort; when you have heartburn; feel bloated and uneasy, you are in a condition that needs atten tion. Prickly Ash Bitters corrects the dis ordered stomach by strengthening and toning up the digestive organs, driving the badly digested food into the bowels and thence out of the system. Constipation is nearly always pres ent when the stomach becomes sour or disordered. Prickly Ash Bitters con tains the medicinal qualities which act as a restorative and regulator for the stomach and bowels. It strengthens the digestive organs, cures constipation and prevents the return of bilious conditions. Thousands of people who have re ceived lasting benefit from this great remedy willingly testify to its power in curing indigestion, constipation and kid ney trouble. "I suffered from constipation for years, »nd tried many remedies, but Prickly Ash Bitters it the only medicine that has ever done me any good. Through its use I am now in good health and entirely free from all tracee of my former trouble.”—B. P. Stigali , Winnsboro, Louisaua. Get the genuine with the figure ••3” in red on front label. Sold by druggists. Price f 1.00. W. C. Vandiver, Special Agent Nothing Like a “Star” Plug The man wno drives a wagon or the man who rides an automobile finds there’s nothing like a chew of | “Star” to satisfy tobacco 1 hunger. On nearly every automobile lidc “Star” u part of the outfit. Those whotake theirpleas lixire in this va\ dc " mat’d the best and only the high quality of j PLUG CHEWING TOBACCO is good enough for them. N > ot!v r chew is ro wholesome, so clean, so rich, because no other c’ v is made of such choice, ripe leaf. No chew is so economical as ct Star ” because its full-bodied leaf is clastic and lasting. A ioc. piece of “Star” will “out chew” ioc. worth of any other kind " sold — and give far greater satis faction in the bargain. “Star” plugs are full 16 oz. weight and honestvalue. “Star” sales equal those of any five other brands. rjo,000,000 ioc. pieces sold annually In All Stores r - i It. HI. RIIGLEY, PKiMrat. F. V. HANCOCK, CaHhlrr. JAS. I). SHAVER, Vl»f Prnlilrnt. II. A. BABCOCK, Aaa’I Cnahler. NATIONAL BANK OF MENA MENA, ABK. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $60,000.00 *THE OLDEST BANK IN POLK COUNTY Safe, Conservative and Accommodating To insure safety its funds are loaned to its customers and not to its officers Its by-laws prohi nt the loaning of any of its money to its office, j, directors or employees. Its officers and employees arc bonded in the American Surety Co., which has a paid up capital of $1 000,000.00. We solicit your patronage, Latest Improved >afe Deposit Boxes for Bent. None of the funds of this bank have been loaned to its officers directors or employees. -DIRECTORS R. M QUIGLEY. F. N. HANCOCK. JAS. D. SHAVER. EDWARD KOEGII. M. A. STRATTON. V __ __— — COPELIN & WlflBERLEY Hardware and Furniture Second hand Goods Bought and Sold. South Mena Street. Phone 169. EDISON Records for July are here. Come and hear them. Donaldson’s Book Store.