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VOL. VI.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNK 20, 1907.
NO. 31.
ARKANSAS
Estate news?
Opening New Mines.
Very large development In the coat
Industry is taking place between
Huntington and Montreal, all the ter
ritory being underlaid with coal. The
Central Coal and Coke Company is
kinking a shaft which will be known
as mine No. 6. It will develop the
largest body of coal in the state and
will be the deepest and largest mine
ln Arkansas. The Dallas Coal Com
pany is preparaing to sink a shaft on
the Bishop estate. This will also be
a very large and extensive mine. The
Montreal Smokeless Coal Company is
pushing the work in its new shaft, and
this company will soon be producing
coal. Bache & Denman’s new shaft on
the Boone land is nearing completion.
Explosion In Powder Plant.
An explosion occurred in the corn
ing mill of the Equitable Powder Com
pany, located about four miles south
of Fort Smith recently, wholly destroy
ing the building and burning to death
William Coleman, one of the employes.
The corning house is where the pow
der is ground from the pressed cake,
and was the largest of the many build
ings composing the plant. 'The explo
sion was so violent that it uprooted
trees in the immediate vicinity. The
concussion was felt for a distance of
five miles.
Killed Wife Through Mistake.
Frank Brown, a carpenter, living
on the outskirts of Batesville, shot
and killed his wife, thinking she was
a burglar. They were disturbed dur
ing the night by a noise among the
chickens, and he secured a pistol, and
went into the kitchen, bidding his wife
return to bed, as she was sick. See
ing a form crouching at the window he
fired and killed his wife. The jury
fully exonerated him.
File Charges Against Sheriff.
The Grand Jury of Mississippi coun
ty, has filed charges against former
Sheriff Sam Bowen, claiming that he
is short in his accounts in the sum of
$3,539.71, and that Sheriff John A.
Lovewell, the present sheriff, is short
in his accounts $11,801.35. In addition
to these charges the jury reports that
the books of County Clerk James Love
well are not correctly kept.
Red Cloud Mine Sold.
An Eastern syndicate has pur
chased the Red Cloud mine on Buf
falo river, near Yellville, for a con
sideration of $05,000. The ore is said
to be of a very high grade, and it is
the purpose of the purchasing com
pany to begin active mining opera
tions as soon as arrangements can be
made for installing an ore dressing
plant.
Prisoners Make Their Escape.
Three prisoners made their escape
from the new Johnson county jail
recently. One of them sprung the
lock of the door loading into the third
story, which was not completed, with
an iron bar, and the three then made
their escape through a window by let
ting themselves down to the ground
hy a rope made of blankets.
Accident At Mill.
John Burton, an employe of the Cad
do Lumber Company, three miles east
of Black Springs, lost his arm recently
by the accidental discharge of a re
peating shotgun. The arm between
the wrist and elbow' was shattered and
bad to be amputated about two inches
below the elbow joint.
Fireman Badly Hurt.
C. W. Zigler, foreman of a gang of
Italians working on the railroad south
of Leslie, was beaten into insensibil
Ky by several of the men who nad a
grudge against him recently. One of
bis eves was badly gashed and two
°f bis ribs were broken.
Mistake May Result Iri Death.
As a result of a mistake made by
the cook, who used rat poison for bak
lnB powder, Henry Page, wife and
three children of Blytheville are very
ill. with little chance of the recovery
°f the husband. The wife and child
ten may recover.
Fireman Joe Selzer injured.
fireman Joe Selzer was dangerously
■wounded near Mountalnerg by the
dropping of a side rod on a Friscc
engine. He was thrown from the en
Kino and had his right arm and should
er crushed and also received a bad
wound In the head.
Degrees For Sixty.
1 he graduating class of 1906-07 o
tbe University of Arkansas number 6(
young men and women, the larges
class ihat the university has ever turn
eel out.
Faim Demonstration Work.
The farmers co-operative demonstra
tion work as carried on by the United
States Department of Agriculture,
Bureau of l’lant Industry, Dr. F. F.
Gallaway, chief, and Dr. S. A. Knapp,
special agent in charge, witli office at
Lake Charles, Da., is progressing nicely
in Arkansas.
This work is carried on now by six
special field agents and the state is
subdivided as follows: Little River,
Polk, Sevier and Scott counties, with
A. J. Utis, headquarters at DeQueen,
in charge; Miller, Lafayette, Hemp
stead and Nevada counties, with C.
H. Moore, headquarters at Hope, in
charge; Columbia, Union and Ouachita
counties, with A. J. Apple, headquar
ters at Little Rock, in charge; Cal
houn, Bradley, Dallas, Drew and Ash
ley counties, with D. R. Swaty, head
quarters at Monticeilo, in charge; Ar
kansas, Monroe, Phillips, St. Francis
and other counties on the eastern bor
der of the state, with C. P. Davidson,
headquarters at Forrest City, in
charge. The balance of the cotton
growing section of the State is in
charge of A. V. Swaty, with head
quarters at Little Rock. There are
about sixty demonstration farms and
from 1,300 to 1,500 corporators in the
state at present, and in all probability
there will be several more agents ap
pointed by next fall, and the terri
tory further subdivided to carry on
the work more extensively. The out
look on the several demonstration
farms is said to be about as good as
can be expected, taking into consider
ation the unfavorable weather condi
tions. It is still hoped by the several
agents that a fair crop can be pro
duced by looking closely to the culti
vation of these farms.
Negro Killed By Train.
Will Driver, a negro drayman, was
run over and killed by a switch engine
at Texarkana recently. He had been
to call on a negro woman, and in the
course of a quarrel that came up be
tween them he drew a razor and slash
ed her across the neck. This so fright
erfed the woman that she fell to the
floor in a swoon. Driver, thinking he
had killed her, ran from the house
and dashed across the railroad tracks
in an effort to escape, but was caught
by a passing engine and crushed. The
wheels passed over his body at the
waist line cutting him literally in two.
The negro woman was not seriously
hurt.
President Tillman Re-elected.
The University Board met recently
in Fayetteville and re-elected Presi
dent John N. Tillman for a term of
five years, and raised his salary from
$".00 to $400 per month. Col. Vincen
heller was also re-elected dean of col
lege of agriculture for a period of four
j years, with a raise of $100. All other
heads of departments were re-elected
for four years. Heretofore election has
been for one year only. Neil Caroth
ers, the university’s representative
who will be graduated this year from
Oxford, the university of England, was
given a position as associate professor
of economics.
Freed of Pests.
Four months ago the town of Alma
was overrun by rats, but now there is
none to be seen anywhere in the town,
all having been destroyed by ferrets.
At first traps and poison were resort
ed to, without the least effect in di
minishing the number of rodents. Two
weeks ago a ferret was secured, and
its work was so successful that three
more were purchased an^ a vigorous
campaign against the destructive ani
mals was inaugurated. In one week
there was not a rat visible in Al
ma.
Aged Negro Dead.
Eliza Whitmore, an aged negress liv
ing at Center Point died recently at the
advanced age of 107 years. "Aunt
Liza” was born in South Carolina, in
1800. She remembered distinctly the
war of 1812, the visit of Lafayette to
the United States and other notable
events occurring in the early years
of the last century. She was brought
to this country from South Carolina
sixty years ago by her master, Maj.
Whitmore, who was a pioneer of the
state.
Died From Morphine Poisoning.
J. O. Clements, a carpenter living
in Little Rock, was picked up on the
streets in an unconscious condition
and taken to the hospital where it
was discovered that he was suffering
from morphine poisoning. He died
shortly after reaching the hospital.
Highwayman Stole Bible.
As Mrs. Martha Lee, a mission work
er, at Hot Springs, was returning to
her home recently, a highwayman
snatched what he supposed to be her
purse, but found later that he had
stolen a Bible.
Establishing Evaporating Plant.
A. M. Rodgers of Gravette, who re
' cently patented a rotary evaporating
i machine, is installing a large evapor
ating plant in that town. The capa
• city of the plant will be 400 bushels
per day.
ACTS OF ARKANSAS
Laws Enacted By the Thirty-Sixth
General Assembly.
Act 323 (Senate Bill No. 43)-—An act to
appropriate money to supply deciencies in
appropriations heretofore made and to pro
vide for the payment of demands below
enumerated for services and supplies rec
ognized by the existing laws of the State.
Act 324 (House Bill No. 288)- An act to
provide for the support, maintenance and
necessary repairs lor the Arkansas School
for the Blind and for other purposes.
Act 325 (Senate Bill No. 351)—An act to
authorize the hoard of directions of the St.
Francis Levee District to issue bonds for
the purpose of building, rebuilding, repair
ing. raising and maintaining levees on the
right bank of the Mississippi River, within
the limits of said district, and for other pur
poses.
Act 320 (Senate Bill No. 357)—An act
to organize certain territory in Desha Coun
ty into a special school district, to be known
and designated the MeOehee School Dis
trict.
Act 327 i Senate Bill No. 369) An act to
ratify and make valid the organization of
special school district. “School District of
Springdale.” Springdale, Washington Couu
ty. Arkansas, and the organization of hoards
of school directors of said special district
and their official acts.
Act 328 (House Bill No. 452)—An act to
provide for the support ami maintenance
of tin* Confederate Home of the State of
Arkansas for the next two years, begin
ning April 1. 1907. and ending March 31.
1909.
Act 320 (House Bill No. 486) -An act to
appropriate money to supply deficiencies In
appropriations heretofore made, and for
other pin poses.
Act No. 350 An act t«» amend Section
1652 of Kirby’s Digest.
Act No. 331- -An act to authorize and
empower the council of the incorporated
town of Bonneville, Ark., to vacate certain
sections of lCIlsworth avenue and Fifth
streets in the Choctaw. Oklahoma & Mem
phis Townsite Company’s supplemental plat
of said town.
Act No. 332 An act to prohibit the sell
ing of game in certain counties.
Act No. 333 An act to amend So; tion
2 of Act 66 of the Acts of Arkansas of 1905,
which became a law March 3, 1905.
Act No. 534—An act to require the St.
Louis, Imn Mountain vV Southern Railway
Company to erect and maintain a depot at
or near the postoffice of Montana, upon
the line of its railroad in Johnson County.
Arkansas, and for other purposes.
Act No. 535 An act to authorise the
school district of Columbus to borrow money
and mortgage its real estate for building
pu rposes.
Act No. 536—An act to require the St.
Louis Southwestern Railroad Company to
establish and maintain a depot agent at
the town of Beuna Vista, Ouachita County,
Ark.
Act No. '137—An act to provide for the
support and maintenance of tije Reform
School and for other purposes.
Act No. 338-—Au act to increase the
power of the board of railroad commission
ers of the State of Arkansas and for other
purposes, approved April 5. 1907.
Act No. 339—An act to organize certain
territory in Howard County Into a special
school district, to be known and designated
as the “Dierks Special School District.”
and for other purposes.
Act No. 340- An act to amend Section
6682 of Kirby’s Digest.
Act No. 341—An act to prevent the sale
or giving away of native wine or other in
toxicuuts within ten miles of the public
school building. Ash Flat. Sharp County.
Act No. ">42-—An act to require the Sr.
Louis Southwestern Kuilway Company t * >
... establish and keep open a depot at
Tilton, in Cross County. Ark.
Act No. .".43- An act for the benpfit of
Blue Mountain. Ark.
Act No. 244 —An act to require the St.
Louis A San Francisco Itailroad Company
to erect and maintain a depot at the town
of Yarbro. Mississippi County. Ark.
Act No. 245—An act to amend Kirby's
Digest, Sections 242 and 24:t.
Act No 240—An act amending Section
.-,728 of Kirby's Digest.
Act No. 347 —All act to require the St.
Louis & San Francisco itailroad Company,
the operators and owners thereof, to erect,
maintain and keep open a depot or station
house in the incorporated town of itocky
Comfort (Foremani. Little Kiver County.
Ark.
Act No. .'’>48—An act to protect owners
of riparian lands on navigable streams.
Act No. 349- An act to authorize the
Special School District of Humphrey to
borrow money to build, construct, erect and
equip a suitable school building or build
ings.
Act No. 850—An act for the better pro
tection of game fish.
Act No. hot -An net to appro],riate mon
ey to pay for supplies and provisions fur
n'ished aiid services rendered the State of
Arkansas during tDo quarantine period of
lOOo.
Act No. 352—An act conferring upon
cities of the tirst class tile power to bet
ter regulate the building, razing or re
moving of houses.
Act No. 3.->3 An act to cure the irregu
larities in tile organization of Drainage
Districts Nos. .'!. 4. 5 and 7, in Mississippi
County. Arkansas.
Act No. 37,4—An act »o provide for Hie
appointment and salary of an official court
stenographer for the Second Judicial Dis
trict of Arkansas.
Act No. 855 An act to amend Section 1
and repeal Section 2 of Act 188 of tne
Legislature of 1905. and for other purposes.
Act No 356—An act to require the St.
Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern Uaiiwa.v
Company to establish and maintain a de
pot at Nettletun. in Craighead County. Ar
kansas. and to keep an agent thereat, anil
for other purposes.
Act No. 357- An act to provide for tin*
support and maintenance of the Arkansas
Hospital for Nervous Diseases.
Act No. 358 An act to amend Seetion
72S9 of Kirby's Digest of tlie Statutes of
Arkansas. . .
Act No. 359—An act to organize a drain
age district in Laconia Circle, Desha Coun
ty, Ark. . „ ,
’ Act No. 300—An act to provide for the
support of the Branch Normal College, the
University of Arkansas.
Act No. 361-An act to organize eertal.i
territory in tlie town of Tinsman. Calhoun
Countv. Arkansas. Into a special school dis
triot to lie known as the Tinsman Special
School District.
Act No. 362—An act for the protection
of "fish in Washington and Madison coun
tlt?Act No 363—An act to permit shippers
and consigners of freight within the State
of Arkansas to execute bonds to common
carriers within the State of Arkansas, in
order to obtain possession of goods when
they are unable to present and deliver the
original bills of lading and receipts.
Act No 364—An act to organize certain
territory in Searcy County into a special
school district to be known and designated
as the Leslie Special School District.
Act No 365—An act to promote the ef
ficiency of the Arkansas National Hoard, to
prescribe rules and regulations for tile gov
ernment of same and for other purposes.
A,-t No 306 An act to organize School
District No. 20. in Montgomery County.
Into a soeclal school district, to be known
and designated as the Mount Ida School
District. , . . „
Act No. 307—All act to amend Act No.
311 of the Thirty-fifth General Assembly of
the State of Arkansas, entitled "An net
to Improve the Character of Teaching in
the State of Arkansas.”
Act No 368—An act to provide for a
topographical survey of and to authorize
ll,,. drainage of certain portions of the
Western Distriet of Clay County, Arkansas
bv ami under the supervision of a board
of directors, to be vested with corporate
powers and to be named "Western Clay
Drainage District." and for other purposes.
Act No. 361* An art to amend Section |
3600 of Kirby's Digest.
Act No. 3<u -An ad to create a drain
age district in Monroe and Lee rount.es.
Act No. 371— An act to organ!/-- the J
Leola Special School District, in < it a.nt
County, Arkansas, and to authorize said
district to borrow money and to mort
gage its property.
Act No. 3(2—An act to abolish tin* im
provement district of the town of Ham- i
burg.
Act No. 373—An act to create an im
provemeut district composed of certain
territory within the city of Helena. Ark.,
for the purpose of providing and maintain
ing a system of street sprinkling within
said district, and for other purposes.
Act No. 374— An act t<> require the Chi
cago, Lock Island & Pacific Hallway Com
pany to construct and maintain a crossing
over its tracks at the eastern end of Last
First street, in the city of Newport, Ark.
Act No. 373—An act to amend Section -
of Act 383 of 11*03 of tile State of Arkan
sas. entitled "An Act to amend Sections
3*A>7. 3001*. 3070. 3071, 3073 and 3**73 of
Kirby’s Digest.”
Act No. 376—An act to organize the Suc
cess Special School District in Clay Coun
ty, Arkansas, and to authorize said ’district
to borrow money and mortgage its property.
Act No. 377 An act to tix the salaries of
the county officers of Columbia County,
and for other purposes.
Act No. 378—An act to require the Chi
cago. Hock Island & Pacific Hallway Com
pany to fence their right-of-way in Prairie
and White Counties, between DcVail's Bluff
and Searcy, and to prevent the injuring
and killing of stock.
Act No. 370—An act to regulate peace
officers in committing defendants In exam
itiing trial and taking recognizances of
witnesses.
Act No. 380—An act authorizing the Spe
cial School District of Warren, in Bradley
County. Ark., to borrow money and t«» mort
gage certain property of said district to
secure the payment of the money so bor
rowed. and for other purposes.
Act No. 381 -An act to create a special
school district in Van Huron County.
Act No. 383 An ait to organize tie* Her
mitage School District, in Bradley County.
Arkansas, known as "District No. 13.” and
to authorize said district to borrow money
and to mortgage its property for the erec
tion of suitable school buildings, and for
other purposes.
Act No. 383- An act to require the Ar
kansas Midland Hailway Company to erect
and maintain a suitable freight aiid passen
ger depot at Poplar Drove, in Phlilips Coun
ty. Arkansas.
Act No. 384—An act to provide for the
care and treatment of any inmates of the
Confederate Home who are now or may
hereafter become insane.
Act No. 385—An act to require the St.
Louis Southwestern Hallway Company t«>
build and maintain a passenger depot at
Texarkana, Ark.
Act No. 386—An act providing for the
free distribution of the geological reports of
the State of Arkansas.
Act No. 3.87—An act to require the St.
Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company
to erect and maintain a depot at tin* town
of Bonanza, Sebastian County, Ark., and
for other purposes.
Act No. 388—An act to require the Chi
cago. Hock Island & Pactfic Hallway Com
pany to erect aud maintain a depot at the
town of Ingalls, in the county of Bradley.
Ark., and to maintain an agent at said
place.
Act No. 380—An act to provide fftr the
transfer of insane convicts from the peni
tentiary to the State Hospital for Nervous
Diseases.
Act .No. .iiii—An aot to authorize the
board of levee inspectors of Chicot County.
Ark., to issue bonds for rite purpose of build
in". rebuilding, repairing, raising and main
taining levees in said county, and in the
county of i»esha, on the Mississippi River.
Act No. 392 -An act to authorize the
hoard of directors of the Piggott Special
School District to borrow money for the
purpose of erecting school buildings, mort
gage the property of the district, issue
notes, warrants or bonds and coupons there
to and pledge a portion of the annual taxes
i<> pay the game.
Act No. 393 An act to authorize chan
eery courts to set apart a life estate in part
of the real estate of a husband of an insane
wife, in lieu of the (lower in the whole of
j the real estate, and to authorize tin* hits
! hand to convey the remaining part free of
dower.
Act No. :*-!i» An act to repeal Section
1 256 of Kirby's Digest.
Act No. 395 An act to correct the error
in tin* motto of the State.
Act No. 396 An act providing additional
funds to tarry out the provisions of Act
117 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of 19(>5. entitled. “An Act to Provide for the
1 Reprinting and tin* Sale of the Arkansas Su
prerne Court Reports.”
Act No. 397 An act to render more effec
tive the revenue laws of Madison County
in relation to the assessment and equal
ization of real and personal property and to
abolish the county equalization board for
Madison County.
Act No. 398- An act to provide for and
regulate the registration, sale, inspection
j and analysis of commercial fertilizers, acid
i phosphates, fertilizer materials and cliem
! icals i:i the State of Arkansas.
Act No. 510!) An act creating the office
! of county superintendent, fixing his salaries
! and delining his duties.
Act No. 400 An act to regulate mutual
live stock insurance companies in the State
of Arkansas.
Act No. 401—An act for the benefit of
Houston. Ark.
Act No. 402 An act for the better pro
tection of railway employees and the pub
lie.
Act No. 403- -An act to compel the St.
Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern Railway
Company to open a depot at Woodson. Saline
County. Ark., and for other purposes.
Act No. 404 An act to Increase the sal
j ary of the county and probate judge of New
| ton and Marion Counties. Ark.
Act No. 405 An act to require the St.
| Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern Railway
I Company to stop certain trains at Prescott
j and Hope. Ark.
Act No. 400 An act to amend Section
j 2 of Act No. 107 (House Rill No. 2001. on
I titled. "An Act to Amend Sections .">070 and
j -">077 of Kirby’s Digest of the Statutes of
; Arkansas." approved April 13, 1007.
Act No. 407 An act to prescribe the
qualifications of persons entitled to vote for
I levee inspectors in the Red Fork Levee Dis
' trief .and the method of electing inspectors
in said district.
Act No. 408—An act to create an ira
| provement district composed of all the real
| estate within tin* corporate limits of the
! city of Rrinkley. Ark., and for the purpose
j of purchasing, providing, constructing and
I maintaining a system of waterworks and
electric lights therefor, and for other put
poses.
Act No. 400- An act to prevent the intro
duction and spread of contagious and infec
tious diseases of animals in Arkansas.
Act No. 4It)—An act to provide for the
election of road overseers in Greene County
and for other purposes.
Act No. 411—An act to amend Sections
7410 and 7430 of Kirby’s Digest of the
Statutes of Arkansas.
Act No. 412 An act to amend Section 3
of Act No. 310 of the regular session of
1905.
Act No. 4 13—-An act to provide for the
appointment of inspectors of oils ami fluids
and for other purposes.
Act No. 414—An act to amend Section
7377 of Kirby’s Digest and Section 2 of
V 92, Acts of 1905, approved March 15,
1005.
Act No. 415—An act to lay off and es
tablish a part of Hempstead and Lafayette
counties, Arkansas, into a levee district
to be known as Hempstead County Levee
District No. 2.” for the erection aud main
tenancy of a levee in said district, and for
other purposes.
Act No. 416—An act to create on im
provement district composed of all (lie real
estate within the corporate limits of the
city of l’ine Bluff. Ark., for the purpose
of buying or leasing from any person or cor
poration owning the same any waterworks
system, and all buildings, machinery, real
estate or other attachments or appurten
ances thereunto providing for or constructing
and maintaining a system of waterworks
for tlie oily of Pine Biuff and for other pur
poses.
Act No. 417 An act providing for a geo
logical survey of the slate deposits of Ar
kansas. in co-operation with the United
States Geological Survey.
Act No. 4IN -An act. to amend Section
5140 of Kirby’s Digest of tne Statutes of
Arkansas.
Act No. 410—An act to authorize th**
county court <>f Crittenden County to sell
the timber on Section Id, township 9 North.
Range 0 Hast, and place the land in culti
vation and to use the proceeds of the tim
her for that purpose.
Ate No. 42U—An act to create, lay off anti
establish a drainage and levee district in
Pulaski County. Arkansas, to be known as
the Fourche Drainage District, for the
drainage of certain portions of Fourche But
tom and contiguous territory in said dis
trier ; to create a board of directors for said
district, and for other purposes.
Act No. 421—An act to authorize the
board of directors of the Linwood and An
burn Levee District, in Jefferson County,
to issue bonds for the purpose of building,
repairing, raising and maintaining levees
on the South bank of the Arkansas River
iu Jefferson County.
Act No. 4 22—An act to enlarge the pow
ers of the Railroad Commission of Ar
Kansas, to prescribe for it additional du
ties, and for other purposes.
Act No. 42:4—An act to authorize the cor
oner of the county of Sebastian to appoint
a deputy.
Act No. 424 An act amendatory and
supplementary to the Improvement Dis
trict Act embraced in Section 5004, to Sec
tion 3742. inclusive. Kirby's Digest of the
Statutes of Arkansas.
Act No. 425 An act to regulate tele
phone service in Madison and Franklin
Counties.
Act No. 42d An act to regulate the title
and right of possession of alleys, streets
and public parks in cities and incorporated
towns.
Act No. 427 An act to amend Section
3U07 of Kirby's Digest of the Statutes of
the State of Arkansas.
Act No. 42K An act to annex certain
territory to the town of Blythesville. Mis
slssippi County. Arkansas: to organize all
of the territory within tlie corporate lim
its of said town into an improvement dN
tric-t and to authorize said Improvement
District to issue bonds or other interest
bearing evidences of indebtedness.
Act No. 421* An act requiring railroads
to maintain track scales in certain cases
and to furnish consignees with weights, and
for other purposes.
Act No. 4.“.‘»—An act to provide for con
tinning tlie work <>f the Arkansas History
Commission, and for printing and distribut
ing Volume 2 of the publication of the Ar
kansas Historical Association.
Act No. 431 —An act preventing the man
nfacture or sale of adulterated or inis
branded or poisonous or deleterious foods,
drugs, medicines and liquor, and for other
purposes.
Act No. 432—To amend section of an act
to enable owners of swamp and marshy
lands to drain and reclaim them when tlie
same cannot be done without affecting the
lands of others.
Act No. 455 To provide for the election
of road overseers in Fraifie. Drew. White.
Newton. Calhoun. Dallas. Desha. Lee. How
ard. Pike and Faulkner Counties.
Act No. 434 -To fix thp time for holding
Circuit Court in Ouachita and 1 nion Coun
ties of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit.
Act No. 435- To organize the Special
school district of Owen Township. Pulaski
I County.
Act No. 430—To require the St. Louis
ana ruin r ranciseo uaimmu »
maintain end keep an agent and telegraph
operator at the town of St. Paul. Madison
i 'minty.
Act No. 4.17—To organize certain terri
tory in Green County iuto Special school
district.
Act No. 43N -To amend Sections 110 and
224 of Kirby's Digest of the statutes of the
State of Arkansas, and for other purposes.
Art No. 43b To regulate hawking aud
peddling in Johnson County.
Act No. 440- To authorize a general sen
fence for those sentenced to the peniten
tiary or to tlie reform school and to pro
vide” for the paroling of certain prisoners by
the penitentiary board.
Act No. 441 —To lay off and establish
Hempstead County Levee District No. 1.
and to incorporate a board of directors to
govern same.
Act No. 442—An acr to amend an act on
titled "An act to lay off and establish parts
of Pulaski. Lonoke‘and Jefferson Counties,
Arkansas, into a levee district to be known
as the Plum Bayou Levee District: for the
erection and maintenance of a levee in said
district ; t<» incorporate a board of levee
directors for said district, and for other
purposes,” returned by the Governor with
out veto or approval, iu the mode pres
j cribed by law. on February 13. IS >05. and to
; authorize the issue by said district of $1U0,
oou additional bonds.
Act No. 443—An act to require corpora
tions to pay an annual franchise tax.
Act No. 444 An act to compel the St
Louis. Iron Mountain and Southern Rail
way to put «>u. operate and maintain day
passenger trains between the cities of Lit
tle Rock anti Fort Smith, on the Little U»>. k
and Fort Smith branch of the St. Louis.
Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, in
addition to the service now given on said
branch road, and to be known as ’Accom
I modation Trains.” and what is to be deemed
a compliance with this act.
Act No. 445- An act To prohibit the sale
or giving away of intoxicating liquors within
three miles of Parthenon schoolhouse. iu
Newton County, Arkansas.
Act No. 4411 An act to require pnssen
ger trains to stop at Alix, Franklin Coun
ty. Arkansas.
Act No. 447- An act to prohibit all scrub
or mongrel bulls from running at large in
St. Frances County.
Act No. 44S—An act to prevent the im
proper wearing of the badges or insignia,
and the improper use of same, of secret
societies.
Act No. 44b An act to organize School
District No. 46, in Lawrence County. Ar
kansas. into a special school district, and
to be known as The "Hoxie Special School
District.” Lawrence County, Arkansas, and
to authorize said district to borrow money
for tlie purpose of building a school house
and to mortgage its property.
Act No. 45b An act to organize certain
territory in Madison County into a special
school district, to be known and desig
n a led as the Huntsville Special School
District.
Act No. 451 An act to amend Section
<5636 of Kirby’s Digest of the statutes of
Arkansas, ami to provide for the manner of
assessing the personal property of corpora
tions. companies and associations.
Act No. 452 An act to amend Section
7422 of Kirby's Digest aud tor other pur
poses.
Act No. 453—An act requiring passenger
trains to stop at Hunter, a station on the
St. Louis Southwestern Railway.
| Act No. 454—An act to create the office
of tax collector for Garland County, Arkan
sas.
Act No. 455—An act to authorize the
teaching of elementary agriculture iu the
public schools.
Act No. 456— An act to regulate the em
ployment of children in factories and man
ufacturing establishments in this State, and
to provide for the punishment of violations
of the regulations prescribed, and for other
purposes.
Act No. 437 —An act to authorize School
District No. 61. in Baxter County, to bor
row money and to mortgage its property to
secure the payment thereof, aud for other
purposes.
Act No. 458—An net to organize the
special school district of Jackman, in Frank
1 iu County, Arkansas, and to authorize said
district to borrow money and to mortgage
its property.
Boy Drowned.
Earnest Bateman, a boy 17 years of
age. was drowned in White river, near
Oil Trough, while swimming in the
river with two companions.
COUNCIL DISSOLVED
Imperial Ukase Issued Closing Rus
sian Douma Until Next Novem
ber.
St. Petersburg, June.—An imperial
ukase was issued Sunday proroguing
the Council of the Empire until No
vember 13. The dissolution of the
second Houma was received through
out St. Petersburg with perfect tran
luility, thanks to the precautionary
measures, and in no place in Russia,
so far as known, were there any seri
ous disturbances.
Demonstrations among St. Peters
burg workmen are anticipated, but
the authorities are not alarmed. They
profess to be chiefly apprehensive
over the possibility of rioting and ra
cial excesses in Odessa and Kiev and
other cities where party feeling runs
high. An outbreak of agrarian disor
ders in several regions of the empire
is anticipated later, when the peas
antry learn of the dissolution, but a
spirit of quiet, confidence in the abil
ity of the government to handle the
situation prevails in administrative
circles.
News of the dissolution reached St.
Petersburg papers too late for their
last editions, but the public was quick
ly informed through extras and great
posters sent out by the police at, all
street corners, containing the ukase
announcing the dissolution and the im
perial manifesto.
Little knots of readers clustered
around the streets the whole day,
attentively perusing the manifesto, the
phrasing of which was calculated to
appeal to the patriotism of the lower
classes. Little enthusiasm or excite
ment. however, was evoked, and
many of the readers, as they turned
away, spat silently on the ground as
a sign of contempt.
Reports were in circulation during
the day that the workmen were plan
ning a great demonstration in front
of the palace, but. they did not appear,
and only occasional sightseers visited
the building.
Operators Make Demand.
Chicago, June.—Fifteen hundred
telegraph operators, members of the
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union at
a meeting here Sunday afternoon vot
ed to support the Executive Commit
tee of their organization in any meas
ures they deem necessary to bring
about an adjustment of the operators’
grievances. Those present were chief
ly operators of the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph companies. Separ
ate resolutions weit presented by
each group of employes the Postal
men advocating "drastic measures’’ to
enforce their demands and the West
ern Union operators serving ten days’
notice on the officials of the com
pany in New York that ’’they must
meet employes’ committee as present
ed by the Commercial Telegraphers’
Union of America for discussion and
adjustment of grievances or bear the
responsibility for interference with
public business which would follow
action that will be incumbent, upon
the Chicago local.”
Buying Warships.
Mexico City. June.—Rumois are
current here to the pffect that the
Mexican government is negotiating for
two men-of-war transports anti two
new battleships. One of these trans
ports, it is said, will be built in Eng
lish shipyards and one in New Or
leans. Negotiations are said to be
in progress with a European p<wer
for the purchase of two new war
ships which were recently launched
and can be delivered at once. A semi
official denial of the truth of the rum
ors has been made. As a matter of
form, the governors of the various
states of Mexico have communicated
to President Diaz a statement of the
strength of the National Guard and
military resources of their states.
Goes to Neil.
Oyster Bay, June.—President Roose
velt has referred to Charles F. Neill,
commissioner of labor, without com
ment, the various applications which
have been made to him by wire and
by mail to intervene to prevent the
threatened telegraphers’ strike. The
position is taken that no emergency
exists as obtained at the time the
president intervened in the anthracite
coal strike, but on the contrary, the
situation presented is one where ac
tion by the government, if taken at
all, may properly be initiated and di
rected by the Bureau of Labor, of
whch Mr. Neill is the head.
Suspect Suicide.
Oaxaca, Mex., June.—After a me
teoric career in Mexico as the mana
ger of large agricultural interests be
longing to an American syndicate, J
W. Johnson of New York died a very
remarkable death near here, falling
from among the branches of the fa
mous "Arbol del Tule,” a great tree
said to be the largest in North Amer
ica, and located near this city. The au
thorities are of the opinion that John
son’s death was suicidal. The tree of
Tule is of enormous growth, and wit
nesses state that Johnson fell from
branches 50 meters above the ground.