Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-01-20


pany paid MIR. Connaughton all they
owed him on last month except six
dollars. How it will end | can't say
but if few men could have their
way there would be trouble.
No. 2 mines has suspended work.
The vein Of coal is only IS inches of
solid coal with 4-inch Black Jack or
wild coal at the top and Is inch slate
This is very disagreeaDle to work.
The Ouita Coal Co. spent $4,000 on
a plant at this place two years ago,
and hasn't paid the Company by half.
The pigeon holes are getting out
moro coal than the main slope.
VIM. Laughter has worked out a
ten days notice and is taking in the
sights.
Dock Coppinger is talking of 60
ing further west. Good 10y, Dock.
Burt Foster IS at Anawalt mines.
Joe Payne amt in this country
Who said he was?
S. P. Cline has a long face, but il
will all come out in the washing.
A robbery was committed at Potts
Station an 7. The sheriff and pos
Sc with blood hounds were on their
track at last accounts.
A rumor is afoat on Alf Sousby
regarding a shooting scrap6. 1t
seems that man who lived near
Sousby shot and fatally wounded
another man and Sousby was harbor-
ing the would be assassin near his
house in the woods. So Sousby
went to deputy sheriff Garner and
told him that Brewer, the man Kho
did the shooting, would come in and
surrender as soon as the officers quit
hunting for him. The deputy asked
if he had seen him. eyes, said Mr.
Sousby, "and he will give himself up
III the near future" SO the deputy
apparently went away, but only a
short ways off in the wood and watch
ed Sousby until such time as he con
WINGED himself that he was harborinp
Brewer So the sheriff went again
to SOusby and asked him: DWELL,
when is Brewer coming in to give
up? "When things get quiet" So
Garner just acted on the impulse Of
the moment and said. .'Now, Mr.
Sousby, yon are doputized to arrest
HIM and bring HIM in, and if you re.
fuse will arrest you. SO Mr. Sous
| by toed the mark and brought tn,
shoOtist into Russellville for trial
Mr.. SouSby is a Justice of the
Peace and a Methodist preacher
This is some Of the set that this saw
has in it,
Mr.. Banner Lewis and mother
who went to Texas on a visit befcr,
Christmas has not returned yet.
Mr.. Emanuel Butler, of Ouita, il
out of sight. He came rushing into
his room in the mines the Other
morning and made signs and every.
body came out thinking of eminent
danger Some men rar out witt
their picks and shovels to ascertain il
they could what was the trouble
When they got to the entry sweating
painting, and exhausted with the rush
they asked Butler what happened in
there. Butler went into a fit of hvs.
terics, but when he gained his mind
again he said: "Nothing IN here
outside:" The miners made a break
for the outside as they supposed ia
save their lives, but Emanuel SAID,
"Bo-bo-ys, 1t Is at my house. -
"What is at your house?" He faint
ed as be said "I.ord, boy, a boy"
The proposed railroad that has
been talked of so much south of the
Arkansas River from Little Rock to
Fort Smith, Ark, thence into Indian
Territory, thence to Bridgeport
Texas, and north from Little Rock
to Springfield, Mo, is sure coming
through and it will cross the finest
country in the United States, the Pc
lite Jeanne Valley, for instance is a
beautiful country, a fine country for
farmers. The road will be a God
send the people south of the river.
Talk about public roads in Tenn.
being impossible you want to make
a flying trip 10 Ark. The streets in
RusseIIville are about l6 inches deem
IN mud, and water The wagon roads