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1WWVAM MONTY HCATONE c. B. AN1R6W8, Editor and Prop. PRCBeOTT • ARKANSAS. a-!.--1-- .'--—--= Just now home la as hot as you tnake it. Humanity has been too much sub dued even to swat the fly. When aviators stop flying circus fashion they will stop dying. The summer girl wears a heart on her sleeve—but it's not her own. Still, for popularity tho summer re tort prospectus gathers first place. A coat Is ns superfluous In summer aa a straw hat would be In winter. If there Is anything that makes a man hot It Is advice on how to keep | cool. Avocation is fleeting, but vacation money can give it many points and atlll win. What we need now Is a crusade j among mosquitoes for safe and sane vacations. — Uko tho filling of a sandvrlch. the occasional cool day Is the most ap- j preciat%l part. Icemen nro nothing If not consis tent. The price of Ice always goes up With the mercury. — miiaaeipnia win start a war on mosquitoes—and they do disturb sleep, that's a fact. The textile fabric men complain that the narrow skirts are ruining them. So docs father. t ' Mexico is having earthquakes. Tt ought to bn used to all sorts of dis turbances by this time. A coat of tan Is not always the sign I of a returning vacationist; it may be the badge of the hayfield. Everybody Is giving hot weather ad- ; Wee. The public is on the qui vive to •ee the one man who takes it. The theory that everybody is a bit ofT in hot weather is borne out by j many eccentricities of the day. A prince who had been Jilted by an American heiress tried suicide and Tailed. Nothing remains but to go to work. Official Instructions for keeping cool *r« doubtless the best things possible In the absence of the northeast breeze. By the simple expedient of keeping the thermometer In the Icebox you can rob tlio heated term of some of Its terrors. Now they say we should not make baby laugh In hot weather. It will be comparatively easy to obey this In struction. We have It from a chiropodist that corns cause crime, but even murder Is Justified when a stranger steps on one's pet corn. Persons who desire a houseboat in Which to spend the summer will be In Terested In the news that Hayti wants to sell Its navy. Autumn styles for men decree a waist line. Hut in some cases a sur veying expert will have to be em ployed to find it. Somebody has figured out that a pound of soap will make 25,344,000 bubbles. That man ought to make a good editor for the Congressional Rec ord. A scientist pronounces excessive* talking a disease, and this encourages the hope that a cure for spellbinding will yet be discovered. An advance in the price of writing paper is reported, but the wastebasket contributors of the average newspaper will find the price somehow. The moving picture men don’t care whether there is a buffalo or a Goddess of Liberty on the 5-cent coin. ■mo long as they get the nickel. The report that the temperature In Yellowstone park the other morning was 32 degrees Is considerable boost for the “see America first" crusade. Shad have returned to Maine rivers after being away for 40 years. If we are not to have any sea serpents this lummtr perhaps this shad story will suffice. Now • Chicago chef says boiled beef (■ a treat for all and the cheaper euts Surpass the best porterhouse This last is carrying enthusiasm beyond tike limit. A millionaire who paid $48,000 for a pnlr of ancient andirons seems de termined to have a hot old time, no nuftier what it costs. Curiosity is that passion with dire results which we satisfy when w« con sult the thermometer to find out it Is «wen hotter than we thought it was. An American actor is to marry n French baroness, and the nobility, at wch a reversal of the usual order, aaklng fearfully if this is the be of th® •n<1 STATE CAPITOL NEWS AND NOTES rhe Time for Treasurers to Re port Has Closed—Many Delinquent. . OFFICERS LIABLE TO PENALTY | ■—-—■ * If Report Is Not Received by Certain Time Apportionment of School Funds Gannot Be Made. The last day under the law for coun ty treasurers and county examiners to report to the superintendent of public instruction on school funds and school work has passed, and only about half of each have yet turned in their reports. County treasurers and county examiners also who do not re port before August 10 are liable to a penalty. This information is required in the superintendent's office so the tabula tion of enumeration may he made by the time the State Hoard of Educa tion meets on the first Monday in September to apportion the state school funds. Those counties failing to report at this time will not receive their share of the apportionment of school funds, as these cannot be de termined until the reports are made. The latest reports of county treas urers made are as follows: Lawrence—-Receipts, $.">1,803.11; ex penditures, $45,397.65; balance, $6, 405.46. Cleburne—Receipts, $31,71.3.06; ex penditures, $23,280.91; balance, $8, 432.15. Lee—Recepits, $95,581.51; expendi tures, $34,253.30; balance, $41,328.21. Izard—Receipts, $30,332.38; expendi tures, $24,691.44; balance, $5,640.94. Stone—Receipts. $19,382.49; expen ditures, $12,734.62; balance, $6,647.87. Baxter—Receipts, $25,661.06; expen ditures. $14,096.24; balance, $11,564.82.! Franklin—Receipts, $45,977.54; ex penditures, $20,071.87; balance, $•”>, 970.09. Van Huron—Receipts, $25,678.18; expenditures, $20,071.87; balance, $5, 606.31. Arkansas—Receipts $97,664.91 ; ex penditures, $63,472.34; balance, $34, 192 57. Ueone—Receipts, $>1,522.50; expen ditures, $30,290.73; balance, $11,231.77. Cleveland- Receipts, $36,928.57; ex penditures, $26,852.92; balance, $10, 075.65. (’lark—Receipts, $64,459.30; expen ditures, $47,937.75; balance, $16,521.L>. Randolph—Receipts, $72,705.96; ex penditures, $40,298.36; balance, $32, 407.60. McCombs Accepts Appointment. Little Rook.—William F. McCombs, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has written George R. Brown, secretary of the Arkansas Good Roads and Drainage Association, thanking Judge Harry K. Cook of Lake Village, president, for his appointment to represent the association at the an neal convention of the American Good Hoads Congress, to be held at Atlantic City, September JO to October 5, next. Report of United Charities. Little Rock.—The report of the work done by the United Charities As sociation during July, compiled by Superintendent Murray A. Auerbach, shows that a total of 450 persons ap plied to the association for aid during the month. The majority of the appli cants were "regulars,” only (11 being entered on the books for the firs! time. Plan Pounltry Show. j,jtt'e Rock.—The fifth anmial ex hibition of the Little Hock l’oultrv Association will be held in Little Hock November 25-30, inclusive, and will, it is expected, be one of the largest poul try shows ever given in Arkansas. Members of the association are plan ning an elaborate exhibition and urg ing all breeders of prize birds to en ter them this year. New Railway Chartered. Little Hock.—The Board of Railway Incorporations has granted a charter to the Ashley, Drew and Northern rail way company, which has a capital of $600,000. The proposed line will be gin at a point one mile and a half south of Croseett and extended through Fountain Hill to Monticello, a distance of 50 miles. The company was first organized and the charter granted about two months ago, but it was found that the first charter did not comply with all the requirements of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. and a new charter wk< asked for and granted. Acting Governor Grants Pardcns. Little Hock, — The first pardon granted by Acting Governor W. C. HCdgers was to a man of his own name, who, however. Is a negro. IJav< Rogers of .Miller county was pardoned to restore citizenship that he might testify at an important trial in tha» -ounty, Andrew Jackson and Georg Hogan were promised pardons by Gov. Jonaghey when they had served a eer ain length of time. In fulfillment of .his promise the pardons were issued, j TALK OF ELECTRIC LINE Reports From St. Louis Say Capital ists Are Behind Scheme. 1 St. Louis.—Capitalists here have be come interested in the construction of an electric railway to connect Littlo Rock and Memphis, Tenn. Sufficient capital has been raised to insure the project, and a company will bo organ- i ized, probably within a few days, to begin the enterprise. W. H. Langford of Pine Bluff, Ark., ’ a director in ihe Pine Bluff-Arkansas River Railway, who also is interested in public untility properties in Arkan sas, was in St. Louis in conference with local financiers regarding the proposed railway. Ho departed for Boston to close the financial arrange ments. Surveys for the proposed in terurban already have been completed. The new line will follow mainly the route of the Little Rock-Memphis one of the Rock Island by way of Lonoke, I)es Arc and Forrest City, Ark., enter ing Memphis over the new Burlington bridge, the federal charter for which provides for its use bv electric lines. The electric road will traverse a thick ly settled agricultural section, includ ing the Arkansas rice district. The new company will be organized with an initial capital of at least $ 1 000,000. Owing to the overflow lands of eastern Arkansas, the construction of the line in this section will he ex pensive. It is estimated that the road will cost about $28,000 a mile for a distance of 40 miles out of Memphis. The interurban will be 130 miles long. ERADICATION PROGRESSES South Loses Many Millions Yearly From Cattle Tick. Little Rock.—According to A. R. White, government representative cf the tick eradication station for Ark ansas and Louisiana, acting in con junction with state and county au thorities, approximately 1,500 head of cattle were treated and freed from this pest in Arkansas during July. This is regarded as an excellent showing, considering the present stage of de velopment of this .work in Arkansas. The government estimates that the an nual loss to the South from this pest is $10,000,000, of which $2,000,000 is in Arkansas. The most successful way of ridding cattle of this evil, especially in this section of the country, is by driving them through a vat filled with \vat< r. which contains a solution of arsenic, deadly poison to tin' ticks. The cost of the vats averages around $50. The following counties in Arkansas have been released from quarantine: Ben ton, Carroll, .Madison, Washington, Randolph, Clay, Greene, • Lawreni . Craighead, Mississippi and Poinsett. Roosevelt to Come. Little Rock.—Col. Theodore Roose velt, will arrive in Arkansas during the first part of September to nr- .c four speeches in the state. The time and places will not he announced until later, hut it is the intention of the Progressive party to make a flying dash over the country, speaking from the rear end of a special train. Gov. Hiram Johnson, candidate for vice president of the Progressive party, probably will accompany the colonel on the triii through Arkansas and the South. Bilding Good Road. Little Hock. The east end of *h<i nine miles of the public highway, which is to connect wi h the road to he constructed to Pine Bluff, is about completed. Several representatives of property owners in Jefferson coun ty, interested in the Pine Bluff end of the pike, conferred with County Judge Asher in regard to the work to be done on the road. TO BUILD CENTRAL STATION Little Rock Is Improving Fire Fight ing Facilities. |, Little Hock The original plans and specifications for the new central fire station for Little Hock to be built on the front of the present site of the city Auditorium have been approved by the Board of Public Affairs, and the architects will prepare the blue prints for the contracts as soon as possible. Bid, will be asked for immediately and the contract will be awarded and wort; on the structure commenced be fore the end of August. The esti mated cost of the station is $.10,000, and the contract will call for comple tion bv January I 101.1. According to the {-Ians the structure will be three stories high, one of th° stories being the basement, and will conform iti ar- hi'e-tilr,. iinfl material with the city Lai', a Cog ing which the station will he built The dimensions of the ground spice for the building are 05 fee: frontage and 05 feet deep, Little Hock The Arkansas Tax Commission has commenced the wore of assessing the public service corpo rations >f the state, which is exporter to he completed within a short tint The totil assessment of the puhll* service corporations this year, it : estimated, will amount approximate! to $85,OOt,000, as compared with .*81 000,000 fo-* the previous year. Th assessment of these properties fo the year 1918, the year before the o n mission ass-imd Its duties was $51 000000. BANKERS AIDING THE PROSECUTION Institutions of New York Tell? Attorney Whitman Amounts of Deposits of Snspects. BECKER DEPOSITS $58,485 Accused Police Officer Had Deposited Money in Many Banks After Those -Higher Up.’’ Xew York.—Powerful hanking inter ests, acting through tlie New York Clearing House Committee, came to the aid of District Attorney Whitman in his efforts to lay bare the alleged corrupt alliance between the polieo and the gambling fraternity, founded on graft or blackmail. A virtual command was given by the committee to all hanks in the clearing house to furnish the district attorney with a record of deposits they may have received from any high police officials whom the district at torney suspects of having been col lectors of blackmail from disorderly elements of the city. As a result, records showing that within the last eight months Polite Lieutenant Charles Becker, charged with the murder of Herman Rosenthal and accused of gambling graft, has made bank deposits of $58,485 in his own name or that of his wife, were placed in the hands of the police pros ecutor. These deposits, the records show, were first made in November, 1911, shortly after Becker became head of the "strong arm" squad of gambling raiders, and continued dur ing the time that Jack Rose says he was collecting graft for Becker until after his arrest. MULAI HAFID Mulai Hafid, sultan of Morocco, has abdicated his throne and will live in France. PROMINENT EDITOR DEAD Col. Joseph S. Dunham, Aged 80, Has Conducted Pap.or Many Years. \ an Huron. Col. Joseph Star Dun ham, founder and publisher of the Van Hur« n Press and one of the pio neer newspaper men of Arkansas, died suddenly a. his home in Van Huron, aged 8!' years. Col. Dunham, despite hi: advanced age, continued actively to direct the affairs of the Press and was at his desk only a few hours be fore he died. Col. Dunham was horn In Middleton. Connecticut, January a, 182.'!. He moved to Van Huron and established the Press in IS.V.i. From that time until his death he was the sole propietor and publisher c: tit 1 paper. Durixg President Johnson's admin ir.tration, Col. Dunham was internal revenue collector for ttiis district and ho filled an appointive position it Washington tor a number of years. Ho never sought political preferment at home, however. He devoted his en tire energies to his newspaper and made it one of the most influential papers In western Arkansas. China Wants American Advisor. Washington. I'nofflclally, it is known here overtures have been going on for some time between President Yuan Shi Kai and W. W Uockhill, th ■ American minister to China, looking to the appointment of RockhV! as ad visor to the now Chinese republic. .Ne gotiations have not progressed far enough to warrant Mr Hockhill's res ignatlon, but it is known he is giving tile offer serious consideration. Appropriation Bill Passes Senate. Washington.- The annual postoffiee appropriation bill has passed the sen ate at the end of two days' sharp fight, ing over provisions relating to parcels post, good roads improvement and the affiliation of postal employes with la bor organizations. As it goes back to the house it contains some restrictions upon the righ: of postal employes to oin outside organizations and an en tirely new system of parcels pos based on the "zone plan,” with vary ait rates for varying distances. trains will run again “Arkansas on Wheels” Will Start Dur ing October—Will Be Better. Little Rock.— The “Arkansas on Wheels” exposition train thi3 year will be limited, according to Manager W. B. Folsom, who was in the city, but will be more thoroughly equipped than ever before. The third annual tour will be made during the latter part of October, and will circle through eastern Kansas, Kentucky and western Tennessee. Mr. Folsom has already made arrangements with the leading towns and cities and will close all arrangements by September 10. “The recent announcement that the ‘Arkansas on Wheels’ would make its third annual tour has caused great in terest throughout the state,” said Mr. Folsom, “and this week I have con cluded arrangements with many of the leading towns and cities for rep resentation on the train. One of the exhibit cars will be devoted exclusive ly to showing the products of the towns and cities of eastern Arkansas in the St. Francis and Mississippi ba sin territory with the view of over coming the bad impression that has gone out over the country from ac counts of the recent overflow. It has been arvertised that Arkansas was practically ruined by the high waters. The products on display in this par ticular car will show that only a small area of Arkansas was affected by the high water, and that even the small * section of land that did overflow was j made more productive thereby. -.——— Follows Demonstration Methods. Perrvville.—J. M. N'eily, county farm demonstrator for Perry county, brought a stalk of corn to the govern ment demonstration office, which had j two very large ears. It was grown by O. F. Wood near Perrvville. The corn is known as Wood's mammoth white corn. Mr. Wood says he has three acres of this corn which he thinks will easily make 77 bushels to the acre. The corn was grown under gov- : ernment demonstration methods. Mr. Woods says he has 27 acres of a yel- t low variety of corn that will yield .'0 j bushels to the acre. He used no fer- I tilizer on any of his corn. Schools Show Improvement. Pocahontas. County Kxaminor Hu- ; gene Thompson has completed his re- ! port of the schools of Randolph conn ty for 1912. His report shows a total | \ of 7,261 school children in the county, i of whom 7,11*1 are white anil It * are blacks. There are 2,7:;:: school boys and 2,‘2S si bool girls. The carol! men; for tills year shows an inert ihi* of 201 pupils, 242 whites and a loss of 42 blacks. The value of school | property has increased from $61.*1**0 to $s 1..S0-* during 11 *> past year. Th* average ".alary of teachers lias been Increased $7.70. Republicans Open Campaign. Idttle Rock. The Republicans of this state have formally opened their campaign. A meeting was held in this city and sevc-al speakers wire heard. Mr. A. I. Roland, son of a Confeder ate veteran, is the candidate for gov- j ernor. He addressed the meeting at tacking son.*1 tip- referendum laws about to be voted upon. Doing Geod Road Work. Thornton. Work was begun on tha section of the much talked of Fordye - Camden automobile road, between Fordyce and Thornton, about six mil s in length. A corps of experienci*d men with dynamite has blown out tlit* larger stumps and are being followed by a crew of road workers, consisting j of 27 team ; and 2.7 men, with plows, scrapers and road machines. They will continue work until this section I of the toad i completed. Ozark. Recent rains have revived garden truck and gra-s. An unusual ly good corn crop is assured. Where it 1ms bet n properly cultivated it was never better. Rate corn is in ex cellent condition. Cotton is doing nicely, and has progressed more in the last ten days than for weeks pre viously. The yield promists to be good, provided there is not excessive rainfall from now on. Arrested on Murder Charge. Jonesboro As the result of the death of Rudolph Zaean at Weiner, ihU county, Richard Huffstetter of that place Is under arrest charged with murder in the second degree. According to the story told by eye witnesses, tile two men were working on a dredge boat near Weiner and Zaean was cursing and sfearing in the hearing of some worm n. it is said that Huffstetter remonstrated with hint for this, Zaean ran at him with a knife, and tiiat Huffstetter, in sel» defense, struck him over the head with an axe handle. Oillett. The heavy rain which fell here was accompanied by a hard wind storm, Harrisburg. J. H. Vandiver died here from heart failure, with which he has been afflicted some time. He ate breakfast and was sitting on the front porch of his hotel talking with some friends. He started to laugh when his chin dropped down and he never breathed again. Synder.- As the result of being stung on the temple by a wasp on July 2G, Mrs. (!. ><. .Mathews died at borne in Snyder, REBELS KILL | | Train Is Attacked and G«a»i„ Soldiers Kiiled-Trai" ^ Set on Fire, OVER FIFTY ESTIMATEDSLAt^ Only Those Able to Crawl Fro Escape Burning—Women'* c "" C,ri Chopped off. Stf‘ Mexico City. — Thirty.sJx and more than JO passengers ,!] slaughtered by Zapatistas in a 1 yon, one kilometer nor.h Tiniman miles southeast of Mexico City y ger details, which indicate the X ery displayed was not less and X ably was greater, than that X characterized the massacre of tX and passengers on a train betX Cuernavaca and Mexico City on 20. So far as can be learned only •' part of the train crew escaped ine nrsi story ol the assault sent hack to Mexico City by Conduct#* Marin and Collector Dominguez, wju* although wounded, had managed •<’® make tiieir way to Yautepee, 12 miletB away. They were forced to stetil through the Zapatistas lines and did■ not arrive at the telegraph statiot* until soi'.tc time. ■ After firing had ceased the rebeli® swarmed down the hillside and set® fire to the three cars attached to *| train. A few of the wounded hatil crawled out on the right of way, thin® escaping tne late of those unable to® leave the cars. They were burned® According to reports received, the® leader of the rebels made absolutely® no effort to restrain the men from acts® of brutality greater than any that haa® marred the campaign in the South® The wounded, pleading for their lives,® w re struck down w ithout pity by the® bloodthirsty rebel., and even looUnj® was held in abeyance until the siaughl ter was complete. ! Not satisfied with robbing their viz.® finis in ordinary manm r the iingen® of men and women were e mptied off® with machetes in order that he rinp® they wore tnigh? be i tor • quickly ob-® tabled. »Irnnments were tern (raj® the cars of women and their bodies! other vise were mult Hated. I Sultan of Morocco Pes-grs. I T‘aris. It is offic ad lounced! that the sultan of \ii.ru o is con-! eh ted all the formali'ies dt matided by! France and that his abdication is as® accomplished fact. Mill?. Ycssef, hill brother, is to be prociaimcd imraedi-1 a tidy. The abdication of Mulai wail voluntary, it was arranged between! him and the French resid nt governor! who urged upon the sultan the an nounce that it was for reasons of health at*d in order to avert a possi Ide fanatic outbreak that he had de cided to take the step. Union Men Win Strike. Sedalia, Mo. The df. Missouri Pacif fie boilermakers who were discharged recently because of their refusal to work with four nonunion helpers were reinstated with full pay for the time they had lo-t. The objectionable helpers were removed, by order of Superintendent Turnbull of St. Ixiuifl Girl Has Many Accident*. New Orleans. l.ast week Maui Nash, tin 11 year old girl 1' re. ran o splinter into her foot, fell upon a pin that entered her back, and then, tu cap the climax of h<r series of acci dents. was bitten by tier pet terrier. She is now in the Charity hospital suffering from lockjaw. The physi cians say that splinter ha- caused the trouble. Her recovery is considered doubtful. Montreal.- The Allan line steaicr Corsicana, which sailed from Montreal with 200 passengers hound for Liver pool, struck an iceberg east of Belle Isle, near Newfoundland, hut aPPar’ ontly was not seriously damaged. There were reports that the steamers La'* Champlain and Seandanavian proceeding to the assistance o 1 Corsicana, tut this was declared « the Allan line offices to lie iucorn Rebels Press Towards Line. 151 paso. Tex. Generals liabago and Tellez, with an army of 5.000 reb*|*' are pressing toward Juarez on > Mexican Northwestern railroad, cording to advices recelv. d by federal Officers here. It is »nn0“ that tjio federals have reached ■ ; Casas GrancVs, 100 miles south of Juarez, where Genera Oro^jJ less than TOO rebels is . Strong detachment have hi. into the abandoned .Mermen <o to prevent further disorders. Catlin is Undated by House. Washington.- Represen' at tv ron K. Catlin of Missouri. l>"-' • was unseated as a 1 °I)em. house of representatives am ocratic opponent, who contested^ election, Patrick P. ' (>nl(> amid wild enthusiasm I'1 ■1 11 t. cra.ic side. The vote to uM«» ' ^ Hn. who was charged with the Missouri law governing • ^ expenses, was 121 to ' with 23 seated by a vote of 100 to voting present.