THE CITY OF *
NUMBERED DAYS
6/ FRANCIS LYNOE • • •
ILLUSTRATIONS by C.D.RHDDES • • •
COPYRIGHT BY CHARLES SCRIBNER 3 SONS
SYNOPSIS,
CHAPTER I—Brouillard.•chipf rngtnfrr
on the Niquola irrigation dam. goes out
rr°irl*ca,nip *° Investigate a strange light
and ntuis an automobile party camped at
the canyon portal.
CHAPTER II—Brouillard meets J Wes
ley Cortwright and his daughter Gene
vieve of the auto parly and explains ttie
reclamation work to them.
C HAPTER III—Cortwright sees in the
project a big chance to make money "arid
no chance for a man to get In anywhere.”
Brouillard Is Impervious to hints from the"
financier, who tells Genevieve the eugl
,n*fr wi, ,corntJ, down and hook himself
if the bait is well covered.”
CHAPTER TV—Cortwright organizes a |
company and obtains government con
tracts to furnish power and material for
tne dam constru.-tlon. A busy city
springs up about the site. Steve Massin
gale threatens to start a gold rush if
Brouillard does not influence President
f ord to build a railroad branch to the
place, thus opening an. easy market for
the ore from the “Little Susan” mine.
CHAPTER V—Brouillard and the com
® promoter clash, but on orders from
\> nshington Brouillard turns over th«
plans for the power installation.
CHAPTER VI—On a visit to Amy Mas
slngale at her father’s mine Brouillard
finds she understands him better than he
had thought.
CHAPTER VTT—He tells her of his need
for money to pay off his dead father’s
debts and that be free he would sacri
fice anything sa. e his love for one wom
an. Though his influence is vital to the
building of the railroad extension she
tells him to be true to himself. He de
cides for it.
CHAPTER VTTT—Mirapolls. the city of
numbered days, booms Cortwright per
suades Brouillard become consulting
engineer of the consolidated electric pow
er company in return for >100.000 stock.
CHAFTER TX Rumors that the govern
ment will call a halt on the dam cause
Grlslow to tell Brouillard that he is lean
ing to the Cortwright side to make the
city permanent. Brouillard denies It
CHAPTER X—Permanent building in
Mirapolls and a real estate boom are in
full swing W'hen the stoppage of work on
1he railroad threatens a panic. Brouillard
spreads the Massingale story of placer
gold In the river bed and starts a gold
rush.
CHAPTER XT—The gold rush promises
to stop the reclamation project.
CHAPTFR XTI-Amv tells Rronlllnrd
that he father has Incorporated the "hit
tie fiusai '* and Is In Cortwrlght’s elntches
financially. He tells her he has made
$100,000 and declares hts love. Amy loves
him but shows him that he has hccomi
demoralized.
CHAPTER XTTT— Mssslngale's place,
(told find was a fraud, hut a real find 1>
made.
CHAPTER XTV—Broulllard sells his
Stock hut does not pay Ills father’s debts
Cortwrlght's son shoots Steve Massln
gale.
CHAPTER XV - Rroutltard threatens
Tortwrlght with exposure of had title to
Mlrapolls land If he pushes Masslntale to
the wall. The magnate promises to give
the old man a free field.
CHAPTER XVI Stories of the dam's
abandonment revive. Foreclosure on the
"TJttle Susan" Is Impending and TTrnull
lard loans Dave Massingulo his JWfl.tVH) to
clear him.
CHAPTFR XVTT—Masslngale gambles
away the $100,000.
CHAPTER "X VTTT-Cortwrlght proposes
to Broulllard to carry on the dam work
until the last minute and then call II off
and make Mlrapolls permanent. Broull
lard agrees to rush the work.
CHATTER XIX—l.onded with Mlrapolls
real estate he Investigates land titles
and prepares a telegram to Washington
asking for men and money to push work
on the dam.
CHAPTER XX-After a talk with Amr
who la horror-atrlckcn at the plot, he
Bends the telegram.
CHAPTER X“XT—Broulllard drives the
work too fast for Cortwright, who oh
JectS; but Is In turn threatened and told
to release the "L#lttle Susan" or be ex
posed.
CHAPTER XXTT-He Is told that evi
dence of fraud In the land titles Is com
plete and that the date for turning on
the water at the dam Is 8«'t. Broulllard
tells Amy he has chased down the hack
track like a little mail.
‘‘It does. I have the department's au
thority. You know as well as 1 do that
unless a fixed aay is set there will be
no move made. We are all trespassers
here, and we've been warned off.
That’s all there is to It. And If we
can't get our little belongings up into
the hills In three weeks it’s our loss:
we had no business bringing them
here.’’
The editor looked up with a light of
a new discovery In his eyes. “You say
‘we* and 'our.' That reminds me;
Garner told me no longer ago-than this
afternoon that you are on record for
something like a hundred thousand
dollars' worth of choice Mirapolis
front feet. How about that?"
Brouillard'a smile was quite heart
whole.
"I've kept my salary In a separate
pocket, Harlan. Besides that—well, I
came here with nothing and I shall go
away with nothing. The rest of it
was all stage money.”
"Say—by hen!" ejaculated the own
er of the Spotlight. Then, smiting the
desk: "You ought to let me print that.
I’d run it In red headlines across the
top of the front page. But, of course,
you won't. . . . Well, here goes
for the fireworks and a chance of a
soaped rope." And he pushed the bell
button for the copy boy.
Late as it was when he left the Spot
light office, Brouillard waited on the
corner for a Quadjenai car, ami, catch
ing one, he was presently whisked out
to the ornate villa in the eastern
suburb. There was a light in the hall
and another in a room to the rear, and
It was Amy who answered hts touch
of the bell-push.
"No. I can’t stay.” he said, when she
asked him In. "But I had to come. 11
it was only for a minute. The depd is
goup l’vo had my uoxUto thq last
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round-up with Mr. J. Wesley Cort
wright, and tomorrow's Spotlight will
fire the sunset gun for Mirapolis. le
your father here?”
"No. He and Stevie are up at the
mine. I am looking for them on every
car."
"When they come, tell your father
it’s time to hike. Are you all packed?"
She nodded. "Everything is ready..’1
“All right. Three of my teams will
be here by midnight, at the latest. The
drivers and helpers will be good men
and you can trust them. Don't let any
thing interfere with your getting safe
ly up to the mountain tonight. There’ll
be warm times in Gomorrah from this
on and 1 want a free hand—which 1
shouldn't have with you here.”
"Oh, I’m glad, glad!—and I’m Just as
scared as I can be!" she gasped with
true feminine inconsistency. "They
will single you out first; what if I am
sending you to your death, Victor! Oh.
please don’t go and break my heart
the other way across by getting
killed!”
He drew a deep breath and laughed.
“You don’t know how good it sounds
to hear you say that—and say it In
that way. I sha’n't be reckless. Hut
I'm going to bring J. Wesley and his
crowd to book they’ve g".t to go, and
they've got to turn the ‘Little Susan’
loose."
“They will never do that,” she said
sadly.
"I’ll make them; you wait and see.”
She looked up with the violet eyes
kindling.
"I told you cnre that you could do
anythin* you wanted to—if you only
wanted to hard enough. I believed it
then; 1 believe it now.”
“No,” he denied with a smile that
was half sorrowful. "I can't make two
hills without a valley between them.
I’ve chased down the back track like
a little man—for love’s sake. Amy—
and I’ve burned all the bridges behind
me as 1 ran; namely, the sham deeds
to the pieces of reservoir bottom I'd
been buying. But when it is all over
I shall be just where I wras when we
began—exactly one hundred thousand
dollars short of being able to say:
'Come, girl, let’s go and get married.’ ”
“But father owes you a hundred
thousand dollars,” she said quickly.
“Not In a hundred thousand years,
O most inconsistent of women! Didn't
we agree that that money was
poisoned? It was the purchase price
of an immortal soul, and I wouldn't
touch it with a pair of tongs. That is :
why your father couldn't use it; it be- (
longed to the devil and the devil want
ed it back.”
"Father won't take that view of it,"
she protested.
"Then you'll have to help me to bully
him. that’s all. But 1 must go and re
lieve Grizzy, who is doing guard duty
it the mixers. . . . Tell your fa
ther—no, that isn’t what I meant to
say. it's this—” and his arms went
suddenly across the hundred-thousand
dollar chasm.
gy CHAPTER XXIII
Exodus
In the Yellowstone National park
there is an apparently bottomless pit
which can be instantly transformed in
to a spouting, roaring Vesuvius of boil
ing water by the simple expedient of
dropping a bar of soap into it.
The Spotlight went to press at three
o'clock, By the earliest graying of
dawn, and long before the sun had
shown itself above the eastern Timan
yonfs, Brouillard's bar of soap was
melting and the Mirapolitan under
depths were beginning to heave. Like
wildfire, the news spread from lip to
lip and street to street, and by sunrise
the geyser was retching and vomiting,
belching debris of cries and maledic
tions. and pouring excited and riotous
crowds into Chigringo avenue.
Most naturally, the Spotlight office
was the first point of attack, and Har
lan suffered loss, though it was incon
siderable. At the battering down of
the doors the angry mob found itself
confronting the young reclamation
service chief and four members of his
staff, all armed. Brouillard spoke
briefly and to the point.
“I am the man who wrote that ar
ticle you'vo been reading, and Mr. Har
lan printed it as a matter of news. If
you have anything to say to me you
know where to find me. Now, move
on and let Mr. Harlan’s property alone
or somebody will get hurt.”
Nobody stayed to press the argu
ment at the moment. An early-morn
ing mob is proverbially incoherent and
incohealve; and, besides, loaded Win
chesters in the hands of five deter
mined men are apt to have an elo
quence which is more or less con
vincing.
But with the opening of business the
geyser spouted again. The exchanges
were mobbed by eager sellers, each
frenzied straggler hoping against hope
that ho might find someone simple
enough to buy At ten o'clock the bank
closed—"Temporarily.” the placard no
tice said But tllflre were plenty to ho
lieve that it would never open again.
Rv noon the trading panic had ex
hausted itself a little, though the lobby
and cafe of the Metropole were crowd
ed, and anxious groups quickly formed
around any nucleus of rumor or gossip
in the streets.
Ret ween one and two o’clock, while
Brouillard, Leshington and Anson were
hastily eating a luncheon sent over to
the mapping room from Rongras', Har
lan drifted In.
"Spill you;- news,” commanded Lesh
ington gruffly. "What’s doing, and
who’s doing It?”
"Nobody, and nothing much,” said
Harlan, answering the two queries as
one. "The town is falling apart like
a bunch of sand and the get-away has
The Spotlight Office Was the First
• Point of Attack.
■set In. Two full trains went east this
forenoon, and two more are scheduled
for this afternoon if the railroad peo
ple can get the cars here."
“ 'Good-by. little girl, good-by,’ ”
hummed Grlslow, entering In time to
hear the report of the flight.'
But Leshmgton was shaking his big
head moodily. "Laugh about it if you
can, but it's no joke,” he growled.
•‘When the froth is blown away and
the hubbies quit rising, there are going
to be some mighty hitter settlings left
in the bottom of the stein.”
“You’re right., Leshington,” said
Harlan, gravely. "What we're seeing
now is only the shocked surprise of it
—as when a man says 'Ouch!' before
he realizes that the dog which has bit
ten him has a well-developed case of
rabies. We’ll come to the hydrophobic
&tage later on.”
By nightfall of this first day the edi
tor's ominous prophecy seemed about
to reach its fulfillment. The avenue
was crowded again and the din and
clamor was the roar of a mob infuri
ated. Brouillard and Leshington had
just returned from posting a company
of the workmen guard at the mixers
and crushers, when Grislow, who had
been scouting on the avenue, catne in.
"Harmless enough yet,” he reported.
“It’s only some more of the get away
that Harlan was describing. Just the
same, it’s something awful. People
are fairly climbing over one another
on the road up the hill to the station—
with no possihle hope of getting a
train before some time tomorrow.
Teamsters are Chardins twenty-five
dollars a load for moving stuff that
won't find cars for a week, and they're
scarce at the price.”
Leshingtop, who was not normally a
profane man. opened his mouth and
said things.
"If the Cortwright crowd had one
man in it with a single idea beyond
saving his own miserable stake!" be
stormed. “What are the spell binders
doing, Grizzy?”
The hydrographer grinned. '‘Cort
wright and a chosen few left this aft
ernoon, hotfoot, for Washington, to get
the government to interfere. That’s
the story they'd like to have the people
believe. But the fact is. they ran
away from Judge Lynch.”
“Yes; 1 think I see ’em coming back
—not!” snorted the first assistant.
Then to Brouillard: “That puts it up
to us from this out. Is there anything
we can do?”
Brouillard shook his head. “1 don't
want to stop the retreat. I've heard
from President Ford. The entire west
tern division will hustle the business
of emptying the town, and the quicker
it is done thtf sooner it will be over ”
For a tumultuous week the flight
from the doomed city went on. and the
overtaxed single-track railroad wrought
miracles of transportation. Not until
the second week did the idea of mate
rial salvage take root, but, once start
ed, it grew like Jonah's gourd Hun
dreds of wrecking crews were formed.
Plants were emptied, and the ma
chinery was shipped as it stood. Houses
and business blocks were gutted of
everything that could he carried off
and crowded into freight cars. And
_
most woncicrful or ov, cars wore fo'Oni
and furnished almost as fast as they
could be loaded.
"It begins to look a little better.”
said Anson on the day in the third
week when the army of government
laborers began to strip the final forms
from the top of the great wall which
now united (ho two mountain shoul
ders and completely overshadowed
and dominated the dismantled town.
“If the avenue would only take its
hunch and go, the agony would be
over.”
| But Brouillard was dubious. The
avenue, more particularly the lower
Avenue, constituted the dregs. Bongras
whom Brouillard had promised to in
demnify. stayed; some of the shop
keepers stayed for the chance of
squeezing the final trading dollar out
of the government employees; the sa
loon keepers stayed to a man. and the
dives were still running lull Idast—
| chiefly now on the wages of the gov
ernment force.
“It will be worse before it is better,”
i was the young chief’s prediction, and
the foreboding verified itself that
night. Looting of a more or less brazen
sort had been going on from the first
and by nine o’clock of the night of
prediction a loosely organized mob of
drink-maddened terrorists was drifting
from street to street, and there were
violence and incendiarism to follow.
Though the property destruction
mattered little, the anarchy it was
breeding had to be controlled. Brouil
lard and Leshington got out their re
serve force and did what they could to
restore some semblance of order. It
was little enough; and by ten o'clock
the amateur policing of the city had
reduced Itself to a double guarding of
the dam and the machinery, and a
cordoning of the Metropole, the re
clamation service buildings, and the
Spotlight office. For Harlan, the dash
of sporting blood in his veins assert
ing itself, still stayed on and continued
to issue his paper.
"I said I wanted to be in at the
death, and for a few minutes tonight I
thought I was going to be,” he told
Brouillard, when the engineer had
posted his guards and bad climbed the
stair to the editorial office. Then he
asked a question; “When is this little
hell-on-earth going to be finally extin
guished, Victor?”
Instead of answering, Brouillard put
a question of his own : “Did you know
that Cortwright and Schermerhorn and
Judge Williams came back this eve
ning, Harlan?”
•'I did. said the newspaper man.
“They are registered at the Metropole
as large as life.”
‘‘What’s up?”
“That is what I’d like to know.
There’s a bunch of strangers at the
i Metropole, too, a sheriff’s posse,
Poodles thinks; at least, there is a
deputy from Red Butte with the
crowd.”
Harlan tilted back in his chair and
scanned the ceiling reflectively. "This
thing is getting on my nerve, old man.
I wish we could clean the slate and all
go home.”
“It is going to be cleaned. Notices
will bo posted tomorrow warning
everybody that the waste-gates will be
closed promptly on the date adver
tised.”
“When is it? Things have been re
volving too rapidly to let me remember
such a trivial item as a date.”
“It is the day after tomorrow, at
noon.”
The owner of the Spotlight nodded.
“Let her go. Gallagher. I've got every
thing on skids, even the presses. Au
revoir—or perhaps one should say, Au
reservoir.”
Fresh shoutings and a crackling of
pistols arose in the direction of the
plaza, and Brouillard got up and went
to a window. The red glow of other
house burnings loomed against the
somber background of Jack’s moun
tain.
“Senseless savages!” he muttered
and then went back to the editor. “I
don’t like this Cortwright reappear
ance, Harlan. 1 wish 1 knew what it
means."
“Let's see,” said the newsman
thoughtfully; "what is there worth
taking that they didn't take in the
sauve qui peut? By Jove—say! Did
old David Masslngale get out of J.
\\ esley’s clutches before the lightning
struck?”
"I wish I could say 'Yes’. and he sure
of it,” was the sober reply. “You knew
about the thieving stock deal, or what
you didn’t know I told you. Well. I
had Massingale, as president, call a
meeting of directors—which never
met. Afterward, acting under legal
advice, he went on working the mine,
and he’s been working it ever since,
shipping a good bit of ore now and
then, when he could squeeze it in be
tween the get away trains. Of course,
thero is bound to he a future of some
sort; but that is the present condition
of affairs.”
“How about those notes in the bank?
Wasn't Massingale personally involved
in some way?”
Brouillard bounded out of his chair
as if the question had been a point
blank pistol shot.
t'uonttnued Next Week.j
Welcome Addition to Family.
Modest Suitor—“I have only $5,000
a year, sir* but I think I can sup
port your daughter on that.” Father
(enthusiastically)—“Support l»or, my
dear boy—why, you can support her
entire family on it."
Technical Rights.
A man should not be too strong in
insisting on his technical rights You
have a perfect right to wear a red
necktie in a field with a bull, but you
shouldn’t.- South Bend Nsws-Tiines.
God's Jewels.
I love (he little stars the best
That gleam with modest light.
The tiny orbs that hardly show
Upon the breast of night.
I choose the blossoms wee that
spring
In hidden nooks and aisles;
1 crave their glad humility,
The sweetness of their smtles.
The shy bird of the forest
To me is doubly dear;
More than the eagle's boldness
Its sad reproof 1 fear.
Not in extent and vastness
Did God his jewels mold,
1 love the meek and shrinking
More than the proud and bold.
—»W. H. Chamberlain, in Spring
field Republican.
Don't forget to disinfect the incu
bator after each hatch with some good
coal tar disinfectant. Then let it air
out for a day or two with the heat on
before putting more eggs in.
Half-matured chicks cannot stand
the hot summer sun, and ducks much
less. Trees or bushes are fine. But
if nature ha3 not favored you, make
a refuge of boards, lath or brush.
Shade is the main thing, not style.
Don't try to feed the little ducklings
dry food like you do chickens, but
give them moistened mashes contain
ing a little grit, a little charcoal and
a little meat food.
Ducks seldom lay after June, but
they begin laying very early in the
year, frequently as early as January.
If well cared for some will lay eggs
nearly every day.
Incubate only good-siz^d eggs,
weighing not less than two ounces
each and of a color characteristic of
the breed. Abnormally large or small
eggs should not be hatched.
When the eggs for hatching are pur
chased it is advisable to dip them into
a 92 per cent solution of alcohol or
in a 2 per cent or 3 per cent solution
of some standard disinfectant because
sometimes disease germ3 adhere to
the outside of tfce shell.
Feed grit to aid digestion by grind
ing the food; shell and bone to sup
ply lime for bone development^ char
I coal to keep digestion in order.
A very satisfactory turkey house is
a long, open front shed, with a sin
gle pitch roof, that can be div’eled into
j compartments, each connected with
a separate runway, so it faces toward
( the prevailing winds.
Hens are like humans—tlir.y can
not do their best work unless tfiey live
in proper surroundings.
Electrocution Trap For ' j * '
Insects Brings Comfort
For Summer Even/ngs.
An electrocution trap for ins<»cts is
one of the latest inventions to bring
comfort to mankind. Now it will be
possible to sit reading in p*oace on
your porch at night while the electro
cution trap kills off the insects that
would naturally seek you ufe their prey.
Upon an insulated frame two naked
metal conductors are coiled in a spiral
with sufficient space hot ween tlie wind
ings. The two conductors aro 'connect
ed with a source of electricity in such
a manner that the current canned. cir
culate until It is actually used in kill
ing an insect.
Tills is one of the advantages of the
invention, for in this way no current
can he wasted. Insects may be , at
tracted to the electrocution either* by
water or by any other attractive sub
stance. At night time electric lights
are the best.
As qsickly as an insect touches tfc e
bait or the light and comes in contact
with any two of the live wires they
drop down into the bottom of the trap.
The current is very slight and passes
through the insect only for a moment.
THE CITY 0? Kuiv'iHcflcD' WiYS
By Francis Lynde, 'Author of “The
Price" and Other Stories of the
American World of Today. ,
A valley about to be flooded.' by"Vttae
United States reclamation service
seems hardly a spot for an lcis-al town.
Yet it forms the setting far Kr-gnels
Lynde’s story, "The City of Numbered
Days," and from the moment the
young government engineer begins the
work upon the great daa\ that is^ to
store water for the thirst y plains foe
low the valley’s portals it is the scone
of the maneuvers of bfj; business amt
of the making and unrjviklng of mm
“Mirapolls" grows i/p In the valley
under the manipulatJon of a Chicago |
millionaire, a “magic city.” despite the .
engineers protects, who in turn 1
eaiehes the frwr amd almost loses
sight of his moral obligations. Dur
ing the city’s short life ho becomes in-,
volved in schemes to deceive the
people, induce s|>orulalion. and even
to make the cit.y permanent. Rut
tinder the influence of the girl he loves
he finally "bar.ktracks.’' and the short
lived city Is oovered hy a lake of smil
ing waters.
The story is not only uninterrupt
edly thrilling; it is big In its concep
tion, worked out with brilliant Ingenu
ity of detail, and is told In a manner
most delightful.
HEPONT op THE COND11 ION or
VICTORIA BANK,
At Strong, Union County, Arkan
sas. at the close of busi
ness June 30, 1916.
RESOURCES.
Loans and DUcounts . $51.510.17
Loans on Real Estate 30,596.47
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 4.10
Other Bonds and Securities, Including
State Warrants, County and City Scrip 1.926.00
Furniture and Fixtures 1.000 00
Ban King House . 2,500.00
Other Real Estate .. .... 520 00
Cash Items 112 04
Cash and Due from Reserve Banks . . 7,692.48
TOTAL . S75.86 1.26
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock, Paid Up $20,000 00
Surplus Fund. Certified. 1,000.00
Undivided Profits, Net. 530.07
Bills Payable 10.000.00
Individual Deposits, Including Public
Funds . 41,045 41
Time Certificates of Deposit . 3,218.00
Casnier’s Checks . 67.78
TOTAL . $75,961.26
State of Arkansas, j
County of Union. \
We, A. P Kirby, President, and W, A. Murphy,
Cashier, of the above named Bank, do solemnly
swear that the above statement is true to the best of
our knowledge and belief.
A. P. Kirby, W. a. Murphy,
President. Cashier,
Attest:
A P. Kirby.
W. A Murphy
W. E. Clark,
Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1 1th day
of July. 19i6. My commission expires March 13,
i919. Chas. H Lewis,
Notary Public.
RECAPITULATION.
Resources.
Loans and Discounts .... ... $62,106.64
Overdrafts 4,10
Scrip . 1,926.00
Banking House. Furniture and Fixtures 3,500.00
Other Real Estate 520.00
Cash on Hand in Bonks .. 7.804.52
Total $78,861.26
Liabilities.
Capital Stock .
Surplus .
Undivided Profit, Net
Bills Payable .
Depcs ts
Cashiers Checks .
$20,000.00
1,000.cO
530 07
10,000 00
44.263.41
67 78
Total
$75,861.26
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO TIIR
CONSTITUTION OK THE STATE
OF ARKANSAS.
Notice la hereby given that the fol
lowing Joint resolution, proposing an
amendment to the State Constitution
was passed by the General Assembly
at Its regular session of 1915, and that
the same will be submitted to the elec
tors of the State at the next general
election, to be held Tuesday, November
7, 191*, for adoption or rejection.
Proposed Amendment Nn. 14.
That the following Is hereby pro
posed as an amendment to the Consti
tution of the State *f Arkansas, which,
when agreed to by a majority of all
members elected to each house and
adopted by a majority of the electors
of the State voting at the next gen
eral election for senators and repre
sentatives, shall become a part of the
Constitution of the State of Arkansas’.
"Section 1. The county courts In
their respective counties. In addition to
tne county tax now allowed to he ley
led, ahall have power when authorised,
as hereinafter provided, to levy en an
nual tax not exceeding three mills • >»
the dollar on all taxahle propertv,
which shall he collected and expended
In making and repairing public roads
and bridges In their respective coun
ties; and said court shall have power,
after authority given as hereinafter
provided, to levy a lax not exceeding
three mllla on the dollar on all taxabla
property for a period of time not to
exceed thirty years, to hnrriiw money,
issue bonds, and pledge the revenuea
arising from the tax levied for a pe
riod of time, to pay the Interest and
principal of any sum or sum* so bor
rowed. All bonds Issued by authority
herein given shall bear a rate of Inter
est not to exceed C per cent per annum.
All sums so borrowed shall be uaed ex
iluslvely In making and repairing the
public roads and bridges In the county.
THe annual tax and the tax for period
of years shall not both be levied and
be In force at the same time In any
county—the levy of one shall exclude
the levy of the other.
Refore any levy of taxes herein au
thorised shall be made, the question
of levvlng such tax shall be submitted
to the' qualified electors of the county
at a general or special election called
for that purpose, at which a majority
of the qualified electors voting at such
an election shall have voted in favor of
such levy of taxhs.
Approved February I, 1911.
The above resolution was filed In tho
office of the Secretary of State on Pnb
yuary l. 1915.
ICaqh elector may vote for or against
th f above amendment.
Witness my official signature thin.
lftth' day of April. 191*.
l»th uay EARLE Hf. HODGES.
(Se.vll Secretary of Stain
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Physicians and Surgeons
At Company Hospital
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Sundays—9 to 11 a. m., 3 to 5 p. m,
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ARKANSAS
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Office first door west of barber shop
Office Hours: 4 to & and 7 to 8 p.m.
Telephone No. 43
,'JUTTIG, ARKANSAS
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Lawyer
Practice in All Courts. Rocms 15 and
16, Postoffice Building
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