The log cabin Democrat., 1907-05-16
Mrs. Cal Green, a farmers wife

perllous position TOT Hearly all hour. Mrs. Green went to the well to wash some vegetables. She says that she does not remember what caused her to fall, but when she struck the water 30 feet below she grasped a projecting rock in the curbing and clung to it, being en- couraged to do so by neighbors who went to her assistance. The bucket was at the bottom of the well, but the rope was not of sufficient strength to bear the weight of the woman. Her rescuers procured some trace chains, fastened them together, and, attaching one end tc nail keg, lowered it into the well. Mrs. Green stood in the keg and held to the chain and was hoistei to the surface in safety.
 The Bureau of Mines, Manufac- lures and Agriculture, in response to letters sent out to the principal cotton growers of all the cotton rais- ing counties of the state, asking for comparison of the acreage and prospects of the cotton crop this year compared to that of 1906, has received large number of replies, from which the department has es- timated that the cotton acreage this year will be about 90 per cent of that of last year, and that most of the cotton will have to be replanted. This estimate, however, was made without regard to the storms of the past few days, and upon the as- sumption that the cold and wet weather was ended for time at least. It is probable that if the ex- isting weather conditions are taken into account that the percentage of the crop this year will be materially reduced.
 Sam Fleming, a negro was taken from the jail at McGehee by par ty of 25 masked men and hanged to the limb of tree. The lynching was done so quietly that not even the young woman employed in the tele phone office just across the street from the point where the negro was lvnched. knew of the incident. The lynching was the outcome of some trouble which occurred in a saloon at McGehee. Fleming and Henry Vaughn, a white bartender, engag- ed in a fight in which Vaughan was bested. Fleming is said to have made the remark that a white man was mo good anyway" or some thing to that effect.
 Mrs. Dora Jasper of Eureka Springs, discovering a bridge on the Missouri and North Arkansas Rail- road burning, after prolonged but futile effort to extinguish the fire alone, mounted a horse and, bare back, rode rapidly three miles to warn the crew of an approaching train. The railroad company has ordered the finest saddle a local manufacturer can produce with an appropriate legend stamped on the skirt to be presented to her.
 Chester Smith of Paragould has secured papers from the patent of flee at Washington for a new hay press, which, it is said, will revolu- tionize the present system of baling hay. The press is inexpensive and can be easily operated by a two horsepower gasoline engine. It is claimed that the machine will turn out bale in less than a minute. The value of the machine Is in the simplicity of its operation.
 The Arkansas Reform School, sit uated about six miles west of Lit tie Rock has been formally opened, and eight boys, all under IS years of age, who have been serving at the penitentiary on felony charges, were transferred to the school. Negro children are admitted by a specific clause in the law, but they are to be kept apart from the white in- mates. Only boys and girls con- victed of felonies will be received in the institution.