The Mena star., 1899-01-18
STATE EXCHANGES.

The headquarters of the operating department of the Ptsburg & Gulf is to be located t Mena De Queen Bee.
 ". J. Lloyd returned Friday from a two weeks visit to relatives in Texas. He also stopped at Mena and sold his business at that place to his brother. Eureka Springs Flashlight.
 Near Texarkana band of cattle thieves operate in a most fragrant manner They drive cattle from far mers' lots into the woods, kill and ~dress them and carry the beef back to Texarkana and sell it.-Clinton Demo crat
 With big fruit crop this year Tn Ar kansas. and President Mckinley con ducting the ship of state from Wash ington, take courage ye professional howlers of hard times Make the best of the opportunities you have and don't wait. like old Micawber, for something to turn up.' = Siloam Springs Republican. Col w. C. McPhetrige is the only man in Siloam Springs who can tell about funeral services being held over him. While crossing the plains in 1854 he was seized with the cholera and in short time was given up for dead. | The wagon train was stopped and a minister among the emigrants con ducted the services. Col McPhetrige Srallied, however, and was soon able to continue hls journey. Sloan Springs Democrat. Ike Shelley lies in a precarious con dition on account of being horribly burned Saturday night at the Fayette- vile foundry with molten metal He was pouring the metal out to be moulded snto pattern when it sudden ly spatte-d on his right arm, hip, leg and foot with deadly effect The leaders of his arm are laid bare and the other burns are most painful. 1, is said that in all probability Mir Shellys arm will have to to be ampu tated Fayetteville News.
 Tn the past few years Arkansas has come prominently before the eyes oi capitalists and homeseekers. Railroad' have been built and many more have oeen prospected. It's timber and its other myrids of natural resources hay advertised it to the commercial world It's mild climate, cheap lands and fer tile soil have turned toward her bor ders a oeaseless strea m of fhomeseekers. With new railroads, new enterprises 0 all kinds. new people and new energ, we are going to be the queen state o1 the South. h.-Arkansas Gazette.
 Last night between and ' o'clock while sit ting by the fire playing his fiddle at has home in Georgia township Charlie Mpricl, young man 25 years old, was shot and killed by an un known assassin, who fired the fatal shot through a glass window. Twelve bnckshot pierced his right side and one took effect in his arm. He got up from the chair, laid down the fiddle, told his father and mother good bye and died in thirty minutes. There is no clue more than suppositlon to the identity of the murderer, who made good his escape under cover of dark ness. s.-Magnolia Journal
 Marion Moore. the negro mail rider, riding the mail from Lockesburg to Horatio. was drowned in the Cossatot last Friday evening, at least that is the conclusion. The horse ridden by him went to Loclxesburg Friday night riderless and with a wet saddle on. He was tracked to the rlver at the trail crossing above the ford, it being shall lower the rider evidently thought he could cross there. The mail sacks were found afterward, but the body had not been discovered at last account The Cossatot is treacherous river when swollen and people should be cautious when venturing into it. It will con- flnue to find victims until it IS spanned By good bridge De Queen Bee.