The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-04-21
STATE NEWS.
There ESQ students on the rolls of

Marion county mas let tue Soii-
tract for 81, 100 jail.
A Rogers firm will manufacture
syrup from the surplus berry crop of
that section.
"a concentrating plant will be es-
tablished at the Hawkeye mine in
Baxter county. >
1t took $3.50, 1913 to defray the
expenses OF the Little Rock city gov
eminent for the year 1899, as shown
by the report of the city clerk,
Oyer in Van Buren, county not a
single applicant for census enumera-
tor passed the necessary government
examination.
The Sixty-sixth Arkansas Supreme
Court Report is now out aud is in
the hands of the secretary of state
for distribution.
Prof. ]. H. Shinn has made a prop
osition to the owners of the Audito-
rum at Eureka to conduct an assem-
bly, there this summer.
General Manager Harding, of the
Iron Mountain, says no new lines of
road will be built in Arkansas by the
Gould system this year.
A windstorm blew the Baptist
church from its foundations and
damaged other buildings at Tupelo,
Jackson county, Sunday night
The smallpox scare knocked out
the March term OF court and has in
creased the value of county scrip 100
per cent.-Baxter County Citizen.
Smallpox is raging at Springfield
and Plummerville Three persons
died last week at Springfield, and
there is much excitement over the
pest.
Gazette stock is quoted in Little
Rock at 10 cents on the dollar, and
the Democrat stock at 154. The
latter is dividend-payer, evidently,
while the other is not,
Forty counties of the state have
held, or will hold primaries before
June 9th and will have a delegated
vote of 241 in the state convention.
There will be 500 delegates and it
will require 252 votes to elect.
A call has been issued for a conven-
ton OF the Prohibition party to
meet at Little Rock. April "a, for the
purpose OF nominating a state ticket
and selecting delegates to the ma
tional convention.
In his instructions to the grand
jury of the Pope county court, Judge
Moose called attention to the fact
that it was violation of the law
for man to use profanity, whether
in the heat of passion or through
force of habit.
Jackson County Herald: DR.. Mey-
ers has had a dredger made for drag
ging the bottom of Black river for
pearls. He has bought the gasoline
boat Of Martin Bros, and has had
eight other boats made, and pearl
fishing will be a distinct business
with him this year.
John Y, Blake, who formerly lived
at Fayetteville, Ark, commanded
the Irish brigade with the Beers in
trapping the British at Bushmans
Kop, east Of Bloemfontein, April LIST.
The Beers captured seven guns and
all the baggage of the British col
umn, while the casualties on the
British side numbered $50 men.
Our next legislature should make
an amendment to the pistol act
make "toting" Of these pops thir-
ty days in jail-no more, no less.
Nothing short of such a law willever
put a stop to this Internal business,
instead of the $50 fine, for which
nine times out OF ten, some poor
dear father has to pay.-Melbourue
Register.
w B. Moss, of Jasper, census SUI
pervisor of this district has decided
to make Eureka Springs headquar-
tiers during the collection OF his re-
ports and gathering statistics for
the census of 1900 says the Times
Echo His district is composed of
Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford,
Madison, Marion, Newton, Searcy
and Washington counties His list
of enumerators, 126 rftmes, has
been forwarded for appointment.
The compensation OF an enumerator