The Osceola times., 1888-02-11
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.


from Alabama recently, ana nave iooa'eu
On farms in that vicinity.
Conductor White, OF Miller County has
been appointed trainmaster on the Mount
Pleasant and sherman division OF the
'otton Belt road.
James Edwards, who was injured IN
railway collision at Judson ia, several
weeks ago has sued the railway company
for 5000.
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 Fayetteville Light 81 Pow
er COMPANY the exclusive right 10 genc--
ate electricity for light and motive power
within the city for twenty five years.
DEPUTY Sheriff f. B. Milton of Frank
lin County recently placed Sam Was-
ington in the penitentiary for one year
for larceny.
The citizens Of Little Rock held a meet
in x 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 its
passa ge 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, a few days ago, and then
made his escape. Several years ago
Charles Macey, one of the men who was
kJled, assisted in arresting Coulter for
crime that he had committed in Georgia.
He resisted the arrest, and in the mel ee
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, Mr.. Skinner.
The Farmers convention met last week
at Little Rock with President " F. Locke,
, of Alma in the chair. Papers were read
before the convention as follows: :. p.
! Hughes, "Best Stock for Arkansas;" j.
| 7. Eagle of Lonoke, "Labor as Adopted
+, by the State;" Hon. W. NJ. Fishback,
"Grasses Best Adapted TO our Soil, and
Best Method Of Producing the same;"
i Colonel Manvllc. "On the Improvement
= of Farminc;" Zeb Ward, Marketing OF
: Cotton and Cottou.secd;" p. ID. Williams,
! "The Best Road Leading Out Of the Credit
I System"
New post ounces nave beeH tHNuullSu'u
n at Dempsey, Columbia County, John G..
Bea sley, postmaster; Pontiac, Polk Coun'
j 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
. ago and was killed.
/. Rachel Sanders and Annie Williams,
q mulatto girls, were shot and fatally in-
jured at Little RDcy a fow nights ago.
e The Sanders woman was shot through the
n hips, and her companion in the right
breast. The murderer had not been ca p.
q tured.
d The return Of mild weather has brought
u great activity in the building industries
g in the cities.
z River-bottom cotton-planters in Jefer.
IT son County will this year need about $780,
Z 900 bushels Of corn more than they raised
y the past season.
y Fort Smith has passed an ordinance
l. prohibiting the smoking of cigarettes up
IS on the streets by minors.
, The farmers who raise vegetables for
y the canncry at Sprinpdale realize from
> $40 to so per acre for tomatoes, and an
" acre of tomatoes can be raised and saved
II with the same labor required for an acre
l. Of corn. Land that will produce twenty.
II five bushels Of corn per acre will pay the
!. producer Sa2 per racre, whereas, il this com
o' was allowed to riVen and marketed NJ 3
r cents per bushel, it will bring only 81 81
,e per acre. Pease will average from $40 tc
l. SO per acre
Arkansas has lately shown great energy
IL in the development of its resources. The
State EXPOSITION held at Little Rock last
y fall exhibited its natural wealth and
81 igtrfs ipo
'e and forest. II has now supplemented TIA,
/, good work then done by a convention and
d a State immigration rs socia'ion that will
n work 10 bring capital and immigl atior
q into the State Arkansas is a'rC ady re
r ceiving many new settlers. " increased
ie in population between 1870 and lSsi
= nearly as fast as any state in the Union
but great as that increase has been il 4
e felt that the State has not eujoved all the
a benefits It's natural wealth warrants.
Delegates 30 the Farmers convention al
Little Rock report preparations by farm
ers for the crop of 1883 progressing splen
3 didly. Many planter have turn1d ovei
their land during the win ter, and will b,
ready for the planting season with nearly
half the work Of making a crop already
done. The farmers of the commonwealth N
al are fast learning TO apply the practical
IN principles of agricul ture at home, and as
3 a result much good has accrued TO the
State.
n A coal basin Of cons derabla exten and
= Of great commercial Importance extends
10 from near Little Rock westward into the
Indian Territory, ths coal being sem-
: anthracite South Of this basin the lower
u carboniferous rocks are much folded,
broken, faulted and, in places, metamor.
S phosed. North of the coal basin the lower
II carboniferous and sub carbon ferrous rocks
are much less folded and modi fed. These
rocks cover almost all the northern par,
: of the state, except a considerable area
over which the siurian rocks are ex-
posed Oil and gas has been found
> in small quantities IA various
D places throughout the mesozoic
e region but no attempt has baen made to
, develop the deposits. Oil-bearng rocks
occur in the western part of the State, but
as yet no drilling has been done \ deep
l well Is now being sunk at Fort Smith in
search of natural gas, but so Tar without
results. Natural gas has been found in
TIE coal measure at FavcttoviIie, in
Washington County. The discovery was
made in sinking well for water. The
amount of gas is insignificant and no at
tempt has been made TO determine
J whether or not it may ex - IN paying
/ quantities. American MRiJuctrer
The rivers are all booming.
There were only six draths from
natural causes durin9 1887 in Boebe, a
9 town of 1,5ll inhahitants, also surround.
z ing country Il n radius of ten miles.