The Monticellonian., 1906-07-26
ARKANSAS BRIEFS


 known bottom. It is called the Gar Hole" and is known by that name throughout the neighborhood. Men have dived into this hole and used various methods to find bottom. Two hundred feet of rope, with heavy weight attached, was let down re- gently. Across the top of Gar Hole Is 130 feet, and it tapers in funnel shape. Uncle Isaac James diyed into this hole at one time and seemed to strike a current that carried him down and down. in spite of his effort to ascend, and when he did reach the surface he was completely ex- hausted. Andy Beller is another who has had some experience in Gar Hole. At one time he dived into the hole and was going to bring up signs of bottom. His head wedged in the forks of tree and he came near drowning before he could extricate himself. This hole is full of gar, pike, perch, cat and other good fishes, and recently the people of that neighborhood assembled at Gar Hole and caught with hook and line and gun about 75 pounds of fish.
 Carter Murphy has some corn at Fairfield that will make the farmers of Jefferson county and southeastern Arkansas feel good when they see It. No such corn has ever been raised in Arkansas, and if it produces on a large scale like it has at the experi- ment station Jefferson county will be champion corn raising section. The corn is being grown by MT. Murphy on the government experiment sta tion at Fairfield, and will produce 100 bushels to the acre. It is known as the White Wonder" and is the result of long experimenting and cul. tiyation by the agriculturists of the government. The stalk is flat, and no stalk has less than two ears, and most of them have three, some having as many as five, the ears being full and well formed. MT. Murphy is go- ing to pick the best ears, and the government will see that all those who desire seed can get it
 Hon. John c. Holland of Searcy is dead, after an illness of only few days duration. MT. Holland had but recently returned to his old home at Searcy after a brief residence in Little Rock. For a number of years he was editor of the Searey Beacon and prominent member of the Ar Ea1 prnGC Tn MT. Holland was a clerk of the House of Representatives. After that there is to his credit the extraordinary rec ord of being elected six times in sue cession secretary of the state senate, the nearest approach to that record having been held by the late John D. Kimball, who, in ante-bellum days, was four times, successively, secre- tary of the state senate. Deceased was about 60 years of age and had lived in Arkansas practically all his life.
 W. D. Atwood. president of the Bank of New Edinbsrg, has evolved | scheme for an electric railway in | southeastern Arkansas which will make circle of four hundred miles and will touch Little Rock, Hot l Springs, Philadelphia, Camden, Fl Dorado, Felsenthal, Crossett, Ham burg. Monticello. Cornersville. Star City, Warner. Pine Bluff. Jefferson Springs and Redfield. The road is to be known as the Atwood Electric Circle Car Line and the probable cost is twenty million dollars. The | scheme includes the running of eigh- | ten cars each way each day on the line, which is to be double-tracked | for the entire 400 miles. Each car | arrives at it's home each night at 12 m. and leaves each morning at a. m. The scheme includes right of way sufficient for the double tracks and a driveway of 200 feet on each side for building lots.
 Art Yerby of Van Buren has an egg that is curiosity. It is an egg within an egg, both perfectly formed. the outer egg being of unusual size or more the size of a large goose egg, while the inner egg is the same size, and form of the average hen egg. There is space of nearly a quarter of an inch between the two eggs that was filled with the white of an egg, but this part contained no yolk. The inner egg has not been broken, but it is thought to contain the yolk and white of a perfect egg
 Contrary to general impression over the state the knocking out of the poll tax amendment would have little effect on the state school fund. The poll tax amendment does not make provision for the collection of the tax. It simply makes the pay ment of the tax a prerequisite to citi- zenship. The poll tax is assessed under article IA, section 3. of the state constitution. This section of the con- stitution provides far the collection of his tax, and provides the tax, when collected, shall be turned into the state school fund.
 Major E. B. Jett, military secretary of the Arkansas State Guards, has turned back $S2313 into the state treasury of funds not used during the past six months for the purposes