The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-09
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

|
 Several families arrived in Clark County | from Alabama recently, and have located on farms in that vicinity.
 Conductor White, of Miller County, has
 been appointed trainmaster on the Mount | Pleasant and sherman division of the | Cotton Belt road.
 | James Edwards, who was injured in 6
 railway collision at Judsonia, several
 weeks ago has sued the railway company for g., 900.
 A large number of fruit growers in Lonoke and White counties are making
 preparations to enlarge their strawberry
 acreage the coming spring. The City Council of Fayetteville has
 granted to the Fay Light & Pow | CT Company the exclusive right to gener- ate electricity for light and motive power
 within the city for twenty five years. Deputy Sheriff E. B. Milton of Frank lin County recently placed Sam Wag-
 ington in the penitentiary for one year for larceny.
 The citizsns of Little Rock held meet | ing at the Board of Trade rooms on the 1st to protest against the passage of the
 Dawes Cottonseed Oil Tax bill recently in
 troduced in the Senate, as they claim it's passage would practically ruin the cotton
 seed oil industry of the South. Oscar Coulter, an ex-convict, killed two
 respectable white men in Garden City, Logan County, few days ago, and then
 made his escape. Several years ago Charles Macey, one of the men who was | killed, assisted in arresting Coulter for crime that he had committed in Georgia. He resist ted the arrest, and in the mel that followed he was twice shot. He was
 sent back to Georgia, where he was con-
 victed and served a term in the State | penitentiary. Coulter swore when he was arrested that he would some day kill Macey, and he executed his threat. The | other man that was killed was Macey's clerk, Mir Skinner.
 | The Farmers convention met last week
 at Little Rock with President NJ. F. Locke, | of Alma, in the chair. Papers were read 1 before the convention as follows; $. P. Hughes, "Best Stock for Arkansas;" J.
 P. Eagle, of Lonoke, Labor as Adopted l by the State;" Hon. ". NJ. Fishback. "Gra sses Best Adapted to our Soil, and
 Best Method of Producing the Same;" | Colonel Manville, son the Improvement | of Farming;" Feb Ward ''Marke ting of | Cotton and Cotton-seed;" B. D. Williams,
 "The Best Road Leading Out of the Credit | System."
 | New post offices have been established
 at Dempsey, Columbia County, John C.. | Bea sley, postmaster; Pontiac, Polk Coun- | ty, Martha C. Williamson, postmaster.
 Richard Gee, laborer at Buchanan's | m i'll, near Texarkana, aged sixty years, | got caught in the machinery few days l ago and was killed.
 Rachel Sanders and Annie Williams,
 muatto girls, were shot and fatally in- | jured at Little Roc'S n few nights ago | The Sanders woman was shot through the | hips, and her companion in the right l breast The murderer had not been cap.
 tured.
 | The return of mild weather has brought | great activity in the building industries
 in the cities.
 ! River-bottom otton-planters in Jeffer son County will this year need about l50,' GOO bushels of corn more than they raised ! the past season.
 | Fort Smith has passed an ordin ance | prohibiting the smoking of cigarettes up-
 on the streets by minors.
 1 The farmers who raise vegetables for | the cannery at Springdae realize from | S40 to $50 per acre for tomatoes, and an
 acre of tomatoes can be raised and saved
 with the same labor required for an acre
 
 | five bushels of corn per acre will pay the
 producer $22 per acre, whereas, if this corn
 was allowed to ripen and marketed at go
 cents per bushel, it will bring only S7.50 per acre. Pease will average from S20 to | S35 per acre.
 | Arkansas has lately shown great energy
 in the development of it's resources. The | State Exposition held at Little Rock last | fall exhibited it's natural wealth and
 varied resources, agricultural, mineral | and forest. 1t has now supplemented the | good work then done by convention and
 State immigration association that will work to bring capital and immigl ation | into the State. Arkansas is already re- l ceiving many new settlers. It increased in population between 1870 and 1880 nearly as fast as any State in the Union,
 but great as that increase has been it is | felt that the State has not enjoyed all the | benefits it's natural wealth warrants. | Delegates to the Farmers convention at | Little Rock report preparations by farm
 CTS for the crop of 1888 progress sing splen- | ddly. Many plan ters have turned over | their land during the win ter, and will be | ready for the planting season with nearly | half the work of making a crop already | done. The farmers of the common veal tn are fast learning to apply the practical | principles of agricul ture at home, and as
 result much good has accrued to the | State.
 | A coal basin of cons derablo extent and | of great commercial importance extends | from near Little Rock westward into the | Indian Territory, the coal being semi anthracite. South of this basin the lower | carboniferous rocks are much folded, f.,, ,,In. l phosed. North of the coal basin the lower carboniferous and sub.carbon ferrous rocks are much less folded and modified. These
 rocks cover almost all the northern past
 of the State, except considerable area
 over which the silurian rocks are ex- posed. oil and gas has been found
 in small quantities in various | places throughout the mesozoic
 region, but no attempt has baen made to
 develop the deposits. Oil-bearing rocks occur in the western part of the State, but
 as yet no drilling has been done. A deep we'll is now being sunk at Fort Smith in
 search of natural gas but SO far without
 results. Natural gas has been found in tEe coal measure at Fayetteville, in | Washington County. The discovery was
 made in sinking well for water. The
 amount of gas is insignificant and no att | tempt has been made to determine
 whether or not it may exist in paying quantities. .-Amerieaa Mdnu Jact'Ter.
 The rivers are all booming. | There were only six deaths from
 natural causes during 1887 in Beebe, a
 town of 1,5O0 inhabitants, also surround. | ing country of radius of ten miles. l This speaks we'll for the health of Arkan
 sas, and will favorably compare with
 many Northern town of the same popu- | lation.
 | Tom Haralson left Atkins a few days | ago for Cal alifornia. At Little Rock he
 met his best girl, whom he wanted to
 take with him. She was willing, but | funds wore short, SO he stole horse to
 raise the needful, and his Western trip