The Nevada County picayune., 1906-11-16
Before adtourning the Grand Jury

dlctment against c. o. Eveland, chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Garland county who Is charged with having bribed an elector in the last general election.
 H. NJ. Sandifer is on trial at Hot Springs for the murder of Neil Doughtery at the county poor farm. The trouble occurred over the right to occupy a rocking chair, Sandifer felllng Doughtery with an axe. A plea of insanity has been entered.
 The town of Gentry has shipped s1 cars of apples this fall and 3 cars of evaporated. The Ozark Orchard Company have their orchard here, the largest in northwest Arkansas, containing HOO acres of apple or :hard and 7O,OOO trees.
 Dr. Brownson, of Fayetteville, who was arrested on a charge of selling whiskey and fined $500, has compromised his cases with the city by paying $50, and all costs.
 A Fort Smith boy, Charles Cook, distinguished himself at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in the recent examination by stand. |
 ing at the head of his class.
 After sinking a shaft to depth of seven feet, run of lead eighteen inches thick, was struck and 5000 pounds of lead was taken out in one day, near Yellyille, recently.
 The farmers in the vicinity of Jamestown, Independence county, are making arrangements to sell their cotton in lump and have fix ed the price at II cents.
 The city council at Fayetteville requires all physicians to report the births and all cases of infectious or contagious diseases under penalty of a fine of $5 to $25.
 A disastrous fire occurred near Centerton recently when the resi-. dence and all out buildings on the farm of Henry Smith were complete ly destroyed.
 While attending a dance at Fore man recently, Fate Williams shot and instantly killed Tom Holt, and then made his escape Both parties are negroes.
 In order to secure the location of the Browne Wagon Material Com pany in that city, the Texarkana Board of Trade is raising a bonus of $3.0O0.
 Robert Leach, negro, Is under arrest at Arkansas City on charge of stealing six mules and shipping them to Memphis where they were sold.
 F. W. Gist is making his regular quarterly trip through this State se- curing figures for the crop reports issued by the department at Wash ington.
 Mrs. Mollie Lotion, a prominent lady of Jacksonport, wife of ex- sheriff Lotion of Jackson county, died recently at her home in that town.
 Ed Kelly, laborer, was shot and instantly killed at Stuttgart recent ly by City Marshal William Harper, while resisting arrest for fast driv- ing.
 George II. Lower has been ap- pointed county judge of Garland county pending the hearing of the charges against Judge Sumpter.
 Frank Grim and Taylor Brease while at work in a rock quarry near Hot Springs, were seriously wounded in a blast explosion recently.
 A. l.. Bates raised ;5 bushels of peanuts on one acre of ground near Iliawassee, which he sold at a dol lar per bushcl.
 The Lonoke County Bank, new organization, with capital stock of $50. .000, has been established at Lo- noke.
 Persons in Nashville, Tenn are looking for a desirable location to establish a small bank in Arkansas.
 Arrangements are being made for the erection of $40,00O Vaudeville tbootor at Fort Smith