The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-10-12

'auniy scrip. .............. 3.734 -
Amditots Fcertifcates $40 80
;overnor Jones' note ........ 103el3 70
Three per cent funding bonds. 100000 90
rhree per cent funding bonds ,,- a.
bonds .................. 900 90
bonds coupons 700 90
Total .....#.4........ 1886 CSC Ga
The railroad commission recently
won It's formal suit against a rail-
road company for failure to comply
With the rules Of the commission re-
garling the prompt furnishing of
sars 70 shippers on written notice
If desire for such cars. The Iron
Mountain is the sufferer The ease
was tried before Judge Gilmore at
Melbourne, lard county, and pen
llty Of 1900 was assessed.
Recent heavy rains in Kansas and
along the upper courses of the Ar
kansas have introduced large guam
titles Of salt and alkali into the wa
ter Of that river, and the people of
Little Rock who use hydrant water
have recently been compelled to
boil it to get rid of the peculiar
disagreeablc taste which the salt and
llkali produce.
The largest sale OF tic new season
in Arkansas cotton circles was made
in Little Rock recently. W. A.
Short 4 Co. bought $500 bales from
The Allcn-Wcst Commission Compa-
nv for $4,000. The cotton VIII
be exported to Liverpool, Bremen
and Manchester as soon as it is COM
pressed, delivery being immediate.
Ed Turnago. a prominent citizen
If Beebc, was shot and dangerous
" wounded October A, by Ed
Stcarns. Stearns had been paving
some attention to Turnage's daugh-
Ter, to which Turnage objected.
Two large manufacturing plants
viii soon he established at Helena,
The Helena Woodcnwarc Company
and the Hartung Wagon Material
Mandatory. They will give en-
plOyment to about 200 men.
Mrs. Martha and Mrs. Mary and
Joy Alexander, formerly of Barren
Fork, were lost in the recent storm
of the Gulf Coast. They lived at
Coden, a village at the mouth of Mo-
bile Bay.
Late adyiccs show the yellow pine
in lower Arkansas did not suffer
materially from the storm which
swept the south recently and which
created much havoc in Mississippi.
Judge W. +. Wells, of Monticello,
one of the pioneers of Southern Ar
kansas, died recently at his country
home near that town. He w:s sew
enty-thrcc years of age.
Helena recently purchased a
steam roller of the most approved
pattern, and much good work is
expected to be done in improving the
streets of the city.
TIE unyciling Of the EX-Confed-
crate monument at Camp Nelson,
near Cabot, took place October 4,
and many old soldiers were in line.
Tse Beautiful Ozarks is the name
Of a new monthly publication at Eu-
reka Springs, by W. II. Duff, pub
Usher and Giles +. Miller, editor.
". F. Turner, editor Of the At
kins Chronicle, has retired as county
examiner OF Pope county, and been
succeeded by Hon. A. 5. Hayes.
Sam Neal, of Phillips county, has
raised a squash which measures less
than three inches in diameter but is
Gfty-threo inches in length.
Mrs. Alex Strauss won the Pine
Bluff Graphic's popularity contest
and was awarded a 500 piano.
J. VI. Raincs Of Fordycc has pur-
chased the Cleveland County Her
aid, the only paper in that county,
from Mrs. ". J. Stanfcld.
Ex-senator Sid kilgore recently
picked five bales Of cotton from a
three acre tract of upland on his
form near Magnolia.
Ex-Gov. Dan ". Jones is being
most favorably mentioned as a cam
Iidate for mayor at the election next
nrinp.