The log cabin Democrat., 1907-08-01
f ARKANSAS N ESTATE NEWSQ

While a section foreman of the Iron Mountain Railroad was having
 grave dug for a horse which was killed on that road, near Jefferson Springs, recently, he discovered a layer of coal about three feet from the surface of the ground. The place IS about a quarter of 8 mile from the railroad station, and steps have al- ready been taken to make a further investigation of this important dis coyery. The layer of coal which was found is between two and three feet thick, and is very soft, known as blossom coal, but when it was set on fire 1t burned with ease.
 A number of accidents have oc- cured at Nashville within the last few days. Mrs. W. Feazel was bit ten by a spider. W. J. Risinger, foreman of the Nashville Lumber Company, got his fingers crushed between cars. Hugh Caruth, man. ager of the Nashville Telephone Company, stuck large nail in his foot. An employe at Will Smiths mill had his foot crushed, and c. W. Smalling had his head badly bruised by being thrown out of q wagon.
 Mir. McFatridge, a farmer 80 years of age, living in Saline county, near Tatumville, fell into the we'll on his premises a few days ago and was drowned. His body was found in the we'll on the following day. It is supposed that he went to the well to draw a bucket of water, and was overcome by the heat, and the curb ing being weak, fell into the we'll.
 Two dead bodies were found in the Mississippi river near Lake Vil- lage recently. They were both whites, but the flesh was so much decayed, and the skeletons so nearly bare that no means of identification could be discovered, nor even any evidence of whether they were drowned, or first killed and then thrown into the water.
 Anderson A. Fulk, foreman on log loader at Piggott, was killed while attempting to jump from the loader in front while it was in mo- tion. In doing so one foot caught in coupler link causing him to fall only a few feet ahead of the loader and was run over before he could get out of the way or the machine could be stopped.
 A move is on foot to have a shaft sunk to the depth of from 800 to 1,50O feet, as will be required, to test the ore depth in the town of Melville. Every well that has been dug or bored in Melville has dis closed zinc, and it is believed that the twon is underlaid with zinc, and that is the purpose of sinking the shaft.
 Frank Moody, of Lexington, was ds< gerously cut by man named McClosky and his death is moment arily expected. It is said that Me Closkv was drunk at the time of the trouble. MT. Moody has always been a strong advocate of the temperance cause and seems to have been a vic tim.
 Sam Gay, the only prisoner in the county jail at Huntsville, who had been confined there since April charged with grand larceny, com mitted suicide recently by hanging himself with a piece of No. 12 fenc- ing wire which had been used to swing the water bucket in the corri- dor of the jail.
 As indicating the rapid advance in the value of Arkansas timber lands it is worthy of note that tract of 2S,000 acres near Harris burg sold recently for $28 to $50 per acre. Five years ago smaller tract near the one just sold brought $5 per acre.
 Harold D. Chimney, a Frisco brakeman, was killed by train at Winslow. He had been sent back to