The Nevada County picayune., 1907-01-18

Ill cave uedf Ml. Iud, iol soooiH5 flour and meat. He was dirty, lean and lank, long-haired and lame, and was suffering from an old gunshot wound in the body. He says there is a reward of $500 for him.
 A mixed freight and passenger train on the Arkansas Midland rail- road jumped the track near Holly Grove and several cars were turned completely over The track was torn up for a distance of two hundred feet, but no one was hurt by the accident.
 Willie Bennett, a negro boy, aged 12 years, is under arrest at Little Rock, charged with the murder ot Clark Strong, another negro boy Of about the same age. It is claimed that Willie Bennett shot the Strong boy while out hunting.
 The business men of Helena have movement on foot for the forma- ton of an anti-street taxpayers league, the purpose of which will be to bring sufficient influence to bear on the legislature to effect the repeal of the present street tax.
 W. W. Cartwright, democrat, will contest the election of John W. Webb, republican, as representative from Stone county in the General Assembly, charging error on the part of the election commissioners.
 James Thomas, a negro contract or living at Little Rock, was ar rested on a charge of embezzlement of more than one hundred dollars, but escaped from the officers while on the way to the county jail.
 Mrs. A. Hinson, who lives near Fl Dorado, sold last year 475 pounds of butter made from the milk of three COWS, after supplying her family, consisting of five persons, with milk and butter.
 A man supposed to be one of the two who held up and robbed the Bank of Horatio of $4,500 was ar rested in Indian Territory and taken back to Horatio and placed in jail.
 The Casa Valley Railroad Com pany will install a motor car on the mule car line between Walnut Ridge and Hoxie, and 15-minute trips will be the schedule.
 W. l.. Beck, brakeman on the Fort Smith and Western road, re- ceived injuries while on the road that resulted in his death at Fort Smith recently.
 Two large sawmills are being erec- ted at Amity, one by k. Kllgore and the other by Mr. Treckle. The mills will have capacity of 30,O0O feet day, each.
 The sawmill of E. c. Shore, which has been in operation at Point Pe- ter, Searcy county, about year, has been moved to the pinery north of Buffalo river.
 The Martin-Massey Lumber Com- pany of Bentonville handled over 5OO,O0O feet of lumber last year. One of the company's mills cuts 10000 feet a day.
 James J. Foster, an old citizen of , Clarksville, and an ex-Confederate veteran, died at his home in that city from the effects of paralytic stroke
 J. Y. Erwin, a prominent planter of Monticello, choked to death dur ing a violent fit of coughing on one f his plantations on Bartholomew bayou.
 Rev. F. NJ. c. Hamilton, a prom inent minister of the Methodist church, died at Van Buren after several weeks illness.
 Rufus D. Anderson, an old citi- zen and prominent farmer and stockman, died at his home at Brinkley recently.
 The Sheridan staye factory has been moved from that town to Le- ola. Scarcity of timber was the cause of removal.
 Roy Apleby, aged IS years, who lived with his parents in Midland, committed suicide recently by tax.