The log cabin Democrat., 1907-04-18

which has been taken there on change Of venue. was nolic pressed. The case against ]. Y. Roberts j. vet fresh in the minds of the reading public. He was charged with com pIicity in the robbery of a grave at Searcy three years ago and with palmisg off the body a man named Pitts as the body of Dr. A. c. Lightle, who was young physician of the town, who carried $3l,000 of life insurance at the time. Near ly all of the insurance money was collected. but was later returned 10 the insurance companies. Dr. Lghtle died some time after the grave robbery.
 The two-ccnt railroad rate recent lv established by the Arkansas Gen aral Assembly, is now in effect on all railroad lines within the boundar- ies of Arkansas that are affected by the provisions of the new law. Ar kansas is the fifth state in the West 10 have tWo-cent rate law goVern- ing all railroads with a system over eighty miles in length and the third state in which the law is in effect The states which have the twc-cent rate law are: Ohio, Indiana, Nebras- ka. Missouri and Arkansas. Only in Arkansas, Ohio and Nebraska, how ever, are the laws now in effect.
 The United States Government wants a million and quarter feet of lumber to be used in the con struction of a dam in White river, near Batesville. All the large lum- Der companies in the state, and otE- CTS outside the state, have been ask ed to bid for the contract to supply this lumber within a certain time, and all refuse. The mills are crowd ed with orders and the owners are not disposed to tie themselves up with large orders. The lumber will be needed about midsummer.
 Robert Scott, negro living in Little Rock, stabbed his wife and then cut his own throat in an at tempt to commit suicide. His efforts proving unsuccessful, he beat hi. head against a wooden beam and then jumped into the Arkansas riy- CT from which he was rescued by some fisherman. Both Scott and his wife will recover.
 James Morris, young man living near Conway, who had been suffer ing with a severe attack of reheuma- tism for several weeks, committed suicide recently. He placed a shot gun under his chin and pulled the trigger. The charge of the gun tore off a good part of his head.
 While a freight train was on a sid ing at Bradford, some unknown man walked in front of it as a fast mail train was passing and was struck by the mail train and killed instantly. The coroner's inquest failed to reveal the dead man's identity.
 The 2,OO0,0OO foot well brought in recently on the Becker farm on the Massard prairie, near Fort Smith, brings the total flow in that district up to 25,000,000 feet. The territory people have other wells in the ncighborhood nearly down to sand.
 Will Harris and Nelson Stout, negro section hands at F'loyd's switch. 25 miles south of Texarkana, engaged m dispute over game o1 craps. Stout seized an axe and cut Harris head in twain. He then maue his escape and is still at large.
 William Valentine, special writ CT for Fort Smith paper, died sud- denly in his room at an hotel in that city. Some days before he had an Liberated tooth extracted and complications arose which resulted in his death.
 Patrons of the Plumerville school district will erect a brick school building to cost $3,000 or more. Nearly $500 has been raised by cuhccrin+ion and tbp School Board