The Nevada County picayune., 1907-03-15
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 ARKANSAS

NJ. l.. Caldwell. another Clark coun- ty boy. and student of Ouachita college va, his opponent Mental and physical examinations were con- daeted, and Keith proved the win ntr. although the two men tied on the mental examinations. The sue ces,ful candidate vii leave carly in September and VII enter Oxford about the fri oi u,tabor. Tho -chol- arship is worth >l.5o0 per year, whieiis ample to paz al expenses. Keith i> orc af the most popular students at tie H.ter~.tv of Ar kanSa, and !, the leader ot tAc >oph- more class. He was q member of the Little Rock baseball team lat year for a part of the season, and vii again join the team al the open ing of the present season. Mr. Keith stands | feet inches T height and l> an athlete with a splgn, did record.
 Engineer W. F. Lee on a Cotton Bolt passenger tram, passed over burning trc,tle fifteen miles west ot Memphis, in ArkanSas, and reached that city in safety. Hauled by engine No q. the tram Was travelling up 10 the limit, when the burning tre>tle Was discovered and the tram brought to >tandstill. After a consultation w.th the crew and passengers. the train was backed ID for a fresh start. Several piers q the trestLe were burning and three or four had baen entirely consumed. hat 1he gauge was pushed ta limit. the throttle was opened and tae train dashed across the bridge at= ,n-m5le gate. and arrived n Memphis only a few mlnHtes behind tlme.
 Articles # agreement and iHeor- poration have been flegt m the office of the secretary of state ot the Stuttgart Rice NJ. le1ated at >tatt- eart, with capita! stock of Sso,- ooo. There are x ineorporators of the mil and tie capital stock is di- flded into 2o93 shares ot >25 eaea.
 Dr. !. r Fletcher. one ot tae o.d- est and most prominent physicians of the state Gsel at his home al Eenske. after an illness of severaj weeks with pnemua5a. He wa~ about S4 wears oi= a1e at tac time of hls death.
 l. T. No-n. ot the mercantile firm of Moon X Hughes, If Nurt-y,~boro. states tha, four more daImonds haze bean found iu the P.ke county d.a- moud fields, near NHetree>1orn, and that thel are handsome stones. being among t.e best vet found. This find mal,~ total at thirty -thrse diamonds found ,.nee the first dis eeverT made hv Nr. lIaddle,tou on h.s farm.
 The 'tt'o gfa q pr. and Nr-. !. NJ R.v.r~. | Mineral Springs, was drowned recently. lu- va, lat- er re,a,e..a,e4. Wen ai>,g}erel, m 1ha1 MS a#ays5 . ;ap If tav water in Nil 1-la. ! n an uu1on- >eleas condition. ta. the prompt work oi uay~...ars saved .r, life.
 Jame~ Gibson. Raa Hv-~ about five m3.e. v,~t = laes,an> s. l,#sa resen,'y ot pneumonia. H. was = years old. and was one If ,ac first settlers in that lart ot tae country
 Jacob Miller. an old rc,,d,n, ot Malvern, dropped dead from heart as.ea>e nh'le r.e~.as m lis garden. He Ras native of Switzerland anu Nas so years of age.
 A young man named pjpkin, at tempted h Ai.l himself al Ciark,y.te recently. by taking >trvohn.ne, Dos pondency is asenbed as the cause of his attempt at >H.ei,le
 Charles Lewis, a negro. was killed at Stamps by Isaac RoSemond, an other negro. The weapon used was 8 club. RoSe'uond escaped arrest.
 An illicit di>tillev was captar.a in Newton county. ucar Jasper, and nearly loo gallons ot whi>A,y weye destroyed
 Oliver Leath, a merchant of Tom berlin. Lonoke county. shot and kill ed John Beylls. blacksmith. of the same town. L"th used shotgun.