The log cabin Democrat., 1907-08-29
f ARKANSAS A ESTATE NEWSq

According to the oplhlous LII eohie of the best known lawyers in the Pulaski county bar, circuit judge has no authroity to convene a special term of court to try person accused of crime unless the accused is in jail. The question has arisen because 1t IS understood that W. c. Faucette, who was indicted by the Perry Coun- ty Grand Jury for an alleged con- spiracy to bribe the Gross jury, will ask for a special term of the Perry Circuit Court be held to try the case. MT. Faucette is under bond. The Arkansas statutes make no provision for special term of a court to try a man who Is on bail. The authority to hold a special term, 1t is argued, is vested in judge only when some person is in jail who may be lawfully tried upon some criminal charge.
 In the Howard circuit court the indictment charging J. R. Mcclure, of Corinth, with the murder ot F. F. Jones, tenant of his farm, was dismissed, and the defendant was al- lowed to enter a plea of guilty to aggravated assault. His punish ment was fixed at fine of $50 and one minute in jail Mcclure and Jones became involved in a difficulty on the farm of the former September 2S, 1906, in which Jones received knife wounds, dying few days later.
 After the police, the sheriff and scores of neighbors had sought Miss Alice Hildreth a pretty seventeen year-old South Hot Springs girl for several hours, looking through the woods and securing the mountains, she returned home at midnight sur prised at finding that she had raised commotion by setting up With sick girl across the street from her home.
 The fve-year-old daughter of Mrs. William Morgan who lives near Beatty. was badly scalded recently. Mrs. Morgan had poured two buck cts of boiling water into a washing machine and had gone to get third bucket when the child took hold of the side of the machine. which tipped over, the scalding wat CT being poured upon her.
 The report of the superintendent of schools for Pulaski county, re- gently filed, shows total enumera- tion of 27,645; total enrolment, 1O,2S9; teachers employed, 255 ; number of brick school houses erect ed during the year, 5, at cost of S1O4 ,299; amount expended for teachers salaries, etc., $24O,601.23.
 James T. Martin, aged 25 years died at the Physicians and Sur geons' hospital at Little Rock of ty- phoid fever. MT. Martin was prl- vate secretary to United States Sena- tor James P. Clarke He formerly lived at Batesyille. where he occupied the position of court stenoghapher in the Batesville circuit.
 The bondsmen of the Baxter coun- ty treasurer, who lost heavily in the Mountain Home bank, will at once pay off the indebtedness of the ten school districts which voted them a compromise, the amount being ST. 214. The entire county and school district indebtedness is to be paid by November 20.
 Potash Sulphur, six miles south of Hot Springs, containing we'll known mineral springs, has been purchased by a syndicate for $65,- 900. A large sanitarium will be built, and the water Is to be again placed on the market. An electric line connection with Hot Springs Is also projected.
 George Beasley, Garland county farmer who killed his friend, James Burrough, over drink of whiskey in September, a year ago, is on tria- in Grant county, whither the case was sent on a charge of venue from Garland county.
 The Ozark Orchard Company ot near Gentry, estimate their loss by the fire of two weeks ago to be ST.