The log cabin Democrat., 1907-03-07

l ''AC PAV- itf>S IidS DtCll IlduC Oll the road. The various subcontracts have not vet been made, but 1t is eX- pectedthatwork will be in full swing along the stretches into which the line has been divided within a few weeks. The route of the line as laid out by the engineers, runs from | Shreveport to Minden and Homer, La. From Homer the tracks will extend north across the Arkansas state line to Fl Dorado. The route of the road will be northeasterly from this point to Bridge Junction, where it will cross the Mississippi and enter Memphis. The new road will be a great boon to Arkansas. It runs through a country which has no northerly railway outlet and shipments will be saved long de- tour in order to reach a Northern or Northeastern destiaation. The rich agricultural district penetrated Is al- so largely undeveloped and 1t Is prob- able that small towns will spring up along the route, while established towns will become larger shipping centers.
 Suit has been filed against c. B. King, administrator of the estate of Will Robinson, deceased, by Se- rena Adams, wife of Charles N. Adams, who was shot and killed by Robinson. negro saloonkeeper of Argenta, last July. Robinson died without having been brought to trail for the killing of Adams, and Mrs. Adams demands $5,000.
 Mrs. Laura Springer, whose hus- band was caught between two Cotton Belt freight cars and crushed to death at Pine Bluff, has entered suit against the Cotton Belt Company for $30,000. She alleges that her hus- bands death was due to negligence and carelessness of the Cotton Belt employees.
 The Frisco management has awarded contracts for new equip ments, which will involve an outlay  of $1,000,000. Ten passenger loco- motives, ten switching locomotives and 25 consolidated have been order- ed from the Baldwin works and all will be delivered by the end of the year.
 The increased rates on the shi D. ment of lumber have gone into effect on the railroads, and the hopes of the dealers that the new rates would be abandoned, have been blasted. They must stand the increase for a time even if they win out ultimately, as is predicted.
 A fight between two negroes, in which one of them was stabbed to death, occurred at a sawmill near El- liott. The negro who killed the other, was later captured by blood hounds and is now in jail at Cam den. The trouble arose over the owership Of pair of mill trucks.
 Siloam Springs Is to have $25,- 900 school building to be ready in time for school next fall. The plans provide for 11-room, modern school building two stories and basement, and steam heated.
 A. Hanna, of Barring Cross, en- ployed as carpenter in the Iron Mountain shops, had his foot crush ed by piece of falling timber, which he was attempting to move.
 Contracts have been let by the county court of Logan county for the following bridges: Short Mountain, s1,47O; Revilee, $2,000; Six-Mile, $1 400; Shoal Creek, $2,295.
 Henry Goldman, a travelling man who lives at Memphis, fell to the platform while trying to board a moving Cotton Belt train at Para gould and broke his nose.
 A petition is being circulated in Saline county asking that ex-Senator F. o. Butt of Carroll county, be par doned, the signers believing that he has been punished enough.
 The county judge of Little River county has appointed commissioners to take charge of the building of the