The Forrest City times., 1894-06-01
INTERESTING TO ARKANSANS.

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 A passenger was robbed at Hoxie the other evening by falSirs, of seventy odd dollars and gold watch.
 A fine of S2Oo assessed against J. w. Wallack by the Lawrence circuit court last August for selling liquor without license has been remitted by the gov ernor
 Gen. D. c. Govan, of Arkansas, re- gently appointed Indian agent at a point on Puget sound, state of Wash lngton, and who had been in Washing ton since his appointment, has left for his post.
 Congressman McCulloch has secured an allowance of S20O a year for the postmaster at Hoxie. Lawrence county, the same being extra pay for the trans fer of mails at that point. Until nov the postmaster performed the work without compensation.
 A meeting of the republican state central committee has been called for Wednesday, June (, to be held in Little Rock, when call for state conven- tion will be issued. A poll of the com- mittee shows that it is in favor of put ting state ticket in the feld.-Little Rock Democrat.
 Another killing occurred in Logan county the other evening. A man named. Henry Weldon, who lived in the eastern part of the county, was shot in the back of the head while blowing in his field. Weldon was the prosecuting witness in larceny case against one John White for stealing hogs. White skipped his bond short time ago. While in Washington with the Ar kansas editors Register Beavers of the Little Rock land office combined busi- ness with pleasure, and was able to secure from the commissioner of the general land office an increase of salary for his chief clerk, Mir. J. J. Shoppach. Mir. Shoppach will now receive Sl 200 a year. Senator Berry introduced Regis .cr Beavers at the department. John q. Fletcher, chairman of the Woodruff bondsmen, the other day paid in the following amounts on the Woodruff shortage, aggregating S6,-
 
 bondsmen: Geo. E. Dodge, Sl, $50; Geo. | w. Hughes, S100; Jas. Cook, 5,100; H. II. Rottal1en. S1O0; X. J. Pindall, S1,. 750; c. $. Collins, $500; Anderson Mills, | S1 1000. This makes the total paid in | S34,s 800, leaving about S6,000 yet uD paid.
 The secretary of the interior has ap- pointed John l.. Tullis, the well-known Arkansas newspaper man, member of the commission to negotiate with the Osage Indians to surrender such DOT tions of their lands in Oklahoma as | they are willing to cede. The salary of each commissioner is S13 day and travelling expenses It will require the commission several months to complete | the work.
 | Mrs. Berry, who spent the winter in Washington, with the senator has re- turned to Bentonville. Mrs. McRae and children are preparing to return to Prescott and later the families of Sena- tor Jones and Congressman Breckin- | ridge, Neil and McCulloch will return home The ladies of the delegation express their eagerness to get back to Arkansas among relatives, friends and | neighbors, where they will be free | from the confinement and convention alities of Washington life.
 The Arkansas plantation singers is a company composed of eleven young colored men, students of Philander Smith college, who propose to make tour of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Iowa for the purpose of raising funds for the building of Budlong hall, an annex to the college, the present building being inadequate to the de- mands of the growing institution. They expect to raise S9,0GO by the first of September. "Tm a-Rollin," Lay Yo' Head in de Window" Three Crows," Way Down In My Soul Preachin' in de Wilderness" ''Steal Away to Jesus," and many other songs are included in their repertoire. Judge J. N. Cypert, of Searcy, writes the Little Rock Democrat. from which the following is taken: "As to the con- troyersy between lawyers on the sub feet. Attorney General Clarke is well sustained in his conclusion by the long established rules of construction of statutes. The law provides no time at which a special election shall be held for the filling of vacancies; that question is left entirely with the gov ernor. The people can not come together and fill vacancy with out the proclamation of the governor calling on them to do so. But gen eral election to fill offices that have ex- pired can be held by the people with out proclamation"