The log cabin Democrat., 1907-07-11
Another sensation was added to

| the recent episodes that nave Start- led the people of Helena recently. when J. M Scott, the managing edi- tor of the Daily World was called to the rear of his office and fired upon by some unknown person. Sev- eral weeks ago the World began a crusade against the police force, and the result was a street fight between MT. Adams, president of the World Publishing Company and two mem- bers of the police force, and later an attempt made to end his own life by Chief of Police Clancy. Whether the attempted assassination of MT. Scott has any connection with the | recent trouble Is not known, as there is no clue whatever to the identity of his assailant.
 Sid Dumas, farmer living near Huttig, in Union county, has dis covered a strange-looking black bug which he says is devastating the cot ton plants in his locality. Instead of working on the leaves and young squares as do the boil weevil and cotton worm. it cuts the whole stalk of cotton down, doing its work just above the ground. MT. Dumas has watched them at work and says that it is surprising how quickly they can cut down cotton plant. The bug is black, about one-half inch in length, and has very much the ap- pearance of a betsy-bug.
 Joe Johnson, a 16-year-old boy living at Mammoth Spring, has re- gently purchased property in that town. paying his own money for it, which rents for $6 per month. Twelve years ago when Joe was only 4 years old, his father gave him a pig, and starting from this pig the boy has climbed. After a while he traded for heifer, then he and his brother bought so acres of land for a small sum; then Joe sold his in- terest at a profit of more than $200.
 Cotton is blooming on the state convict farm in Lincoln county. The crop as an average is considered 35 days late. but has been benefited by constant working. It is still very small and the stand is poor, but with favorable weather it will make, it is estimated, two-thirds of a crop. On the farm there are 400 acres of corn. The corn is in fine shape, and will probably produce between 50 and 60 bushels to the acre.
 ! Three men, Robert Brown, John Kendrick and Bud Van, were kill ed and William Clark was probably fatally injured, in gas explosion in the Franklin mine at Coal Hill. Gas had been noted in the shaft and the four men had been sent down to ascertain the origin of it, and were the only persons in the mine when the explosion occurred.
 The Citizens Bank at Eureka Springs, one of the most important financial institutions in that city, | has been thrown in the hands of a receiver. The bank had overdrawn its account with the National Bank of Commerce of Kansas City, $15,. 900, which precipitated the assign ment.
 Clarendon was out of feedstuff for a week recently. There was plenty of hay, but no corn, oats, bran or chops, and several farmers had to stop blowing because their mules and horses could not do the work on a grass ration. One man was feed ing his chickens on "store" hominy.
 Conductor Elmer Ryan was killed at Siloam Springs by falling from a flat car on the Kansas City, South ern. He started to leave the car to get orders and, stepping upon a rolling timber, lost his balance and fell to the ground. A 6x6 scantling fell upon him fracturing his skull
 The body of John W. Westerford who recently leaped from the free bridge at Little Rock to escape from officers of the law who had him un- der arrest, was found floating in the river about six miles below the city by some fishermen and brought back to Little Rock for burial.
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