The log cabin Democrat., 1906-08-09
After whipping a deputy consta-

SouIh 1oC springs preacher Bud Davis preached two sermons The attempt of the deputy consta- ble to bully citizens who had re- monstratcd with him for beating his horses, was the cause of it all.
 The Mountain Home Bank has suspended payment It is a private institution with capital of $1O,OOO, which the last report showed fully paid in, the surplus at that time showing $G,5OO, with deposits amounting to $40,OOO. Loans were stated to be $40,0O0 with cash on hand of $12,500.
 Mrs Mary Jane Wignall, of Van- dervoort, Polk county is an heir to part of Russell Sage's millions. She will, under ~bequest of the will giving $25,000 to each nephew and neice, get that amount, that IS un- less she joins with others who are contesting for more, in which case she may get large sum, or nothing.
 The Times-Democrat report of the cotton crop in Arkansas gives general conditions as pointing to largest crop in the history of the state; insects are doing only little damage at this time. Labor is scarce, but there seems to be enough to cultivate the crop.
 Since the departure of over a hundred men from Fort Logan H. Roots some time ago for the march from Fort Sill, Okla, to Fotr Riley, Kan, the Fort has assumed lone- some air, only twenty soldiers being there to ''keep company with one another.
 President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association has ac- cepted the invitation of the Busi- ness Mems League of Hot Springs for the meeting of the executive committee there September 6 to 8.
 The Gravette Fruith Growers As sociation has been receiving protests from growers in that vicinity re- garding unsatisfactory prices paid by nonresident buyers.
 Maj. Gen. W. H. Haynes of the Arkansas State Guard has received a shipment of twenty-three boxes of uniforms, making 1t possible to carry out the full orders regarding the trip to Fort Riley, Kansas.
 Two men robbed saloon in the wild western style on Sunday se- curing $50, the proceeds of illegal liquor selling. It is said the police are looking for them but it might be best to let them go.
 A Little Rock Machinists' lodge has instructed its representatives to the Central Trades Council to vote against the proposed Labor Dsy pa- rade, saying that a march in the hcs sun would be harder than work.
 A Fort Smith bartender has patented a device for saving ice, all of which may go to show that some good may come out of the Nazareth of liquor selling,
 Robert Eaton, @ negro, has escaped from the state farm. He has but one leg, and was sent up for twenty-one years for havng killed a peddler near Little Rock and robbing him.
 Gov. Davis offered six rewards in one day for as many men, five of whom are wanted in Nevada county for burglary committed on March 23.
 Lawrence A. Mclaughlin of Jonesboro, has been admitted as a midshipman to the Annapolis Naval Academy.
 The Little Rock school board wants 900 desks and 5,400 square feet of blackboard for the schools of that city.
 The proprietor of Little Rock skating rink was arrested for having work done on his establishment or Sunday.
 The Crossett Lumber Company will bring settlers to locate on large tract of land which it owns near the town.
 The hoard of directors of the Mur.