The Green Forest tribune., 1899-08-03

Insurance Company and will be- gln work at once, with headquar. ters at Eureka Springs. He also supplied us with the following facts relative to the reunion of O'Neal relatives, which was recently held on White River: There wore present three sons and six daugh- ters of c. G. O'Neal, while two daughters and their entire families were absent, also twenty-five grand children aud seventeen great grand children were present, and twenty six grand children and thirty great grand children absent. Crhis applies only to the families represented at the reunion.) Twenty-three grand children are married and there are tour great great grand children. w. w. Davis was elected chairman, and the following committee to select next place ot meeting was appoint ed: w. J. O'Neal, Yocum, Ark, A. J. and G. w. O'NeaI, Republic, Mo-, with G. w. O'Neal, Eureka Spring, Ark, secretary, and G. W. Jackson, Republic, Mo-, treasurer. Notwithstanding the extraordina- ry heavy rains the crowd was estimated at about $50.
 P. J. Keller, a real estate man of Decater, Ill.,, was a guest of the Maine Sunday night. We had a pleasant interview with him and in the course of conversation we learned that he and c. R. Capps of of Harrison are interested in 5000 acres Of mineral lands in Marion county, and he showed us specimens of mineral from these lands that, from our judgement, IS the best collection we have yet seen. He was taking it to St. Louis to be assayed. He proposes to organizes 8 oint stock compa. ny on 6 portion of these holdings, but one mine in particular they expect to hold individually, and will commence mining in it on a large scale in about 30 days. As to the railroad prospects, he said that there was going to be a road built into that country, but where from he was unable to say, but intimated that one of the most probable roads would be from Chadwick south.
 A party of mineral prospectors, giving their names as Geo. Holmes, Allen Jenkins and Frank Dumas, hailing from the Joplin mining districts, spent three or four days here the past week, looking for mineral. MT. Holmes, who soem- ed to be man of broad experience in the mining business, says the general indication for valuable mineral deposit in this locality is good, but he says there is no way to tell what, IS contained in the earth except to dig it up and make the proper tests. The location of this country, being on line be- tween the two zinc districts, with the outside croppings, leads him strongly to the belief that rich deposits are likely 10 be found hero. The party went east from here.
 The roller mill machinery is still hung up somewhere, much to the disappointment of the company. The boys have met every require anent on their part of the contract, and are unable to understand the delay further than the explanation offered by the agent-that the tac- tory is simply behind in filling orders. The outfit should have arrived the first of last month.
 The Baptist fifth Sunday meet ing, which was programmed for this place for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, was a complete failure. But few members attended and not 8 single item on the program was carried out,
 Perry Andrews, the Harrison printer, musician and base ball crank, was a guest of J. l.. Russell Sunday night. He caught for his team in the games at Beaver in which Harrison so effectualiY