The log cabin Democrat., 1908-02-06
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| Lee county, Was dllcoteu dI D"'O' vile Friday by Deputy United Stat e., Marshal Mallory on the charge ot using the United States mails for the transmission of obscene mail matter. and was taken before Com missioner Parse, where she entered a plea of guilty, and was bound over for her appdlrance at next term of federal court at Helena.
 A farmers institute will be held at the city hall at Brinkley Satur- day morning, February 7. Address es will be delivered by W. G. Vim sonhaler, director Arkansas Agrl- cultural Experiment Station; c. r. Norgord and w. s. Jacobs, also of the experiment station, and A. D. McNair of the United States Bureau of Plant Industry.
 Hamburg & Walker, proprietors ot the Eureka Springs and Harrlson telephone line, are preparing to put in standard long distance wire on new poles between Harrison and Eureka Springs, over which com munications can be had with all parts of the United States. The present line will be kept up for local business.
 J. V. Riney of Maynard killed large gray wolf near Maynard re- gently. The wolf was caught ln one of MT. Riney's steel traps Tues day morning, but on the approach of MT. Riney and his dogs it made it's escape, and it was after a chase of several miles that it was shot and killed. The animal weighed ol pounds.
 Preparations are being made to establish an ice and cold storage plant at Prairie Grove in which can be stored 3O,OOO barrels of apples. The company has a capital stock of S10O,OOO. The officers are as fol- lows: President, D. H. Mcdonnell :; vice-president, l.. c. Mccormick :; secretary-treasurer, J. H. Zellner.
 At the recent meeting of the Gen. trv Fruit Growers Association, which has been in existence seven years, reports showed that the or ganization owned property valued at about S5,OOO. The dividends de- clared this year were sufficient to re- pay the 124 stockholders all they had invested in the association.
 W. H. Smothers of Forsyth ar rived at Cotter Thursday with a raft containing 2,500 cedar posts, the largest raft of the kind that ever came down White river. Smoth- CTS has been rafting on White river for many years. Last year he brought down 50 rafts and lost but nine ties all told.
 M. R. Lawson and J. l.. Nestle, while making boards in the Lagrue bottoms near Stuttgart, Friday, found in a piece of timber about ,rx inches from the surface a bullet. The rings on the piece of tree showed that the bullet had been fired about 40 years ago.
 William Cathey, while on his way to Plainyiew, stopped at the shlngle mill. near Rover, to assist repairing a piece of broken machinery. One O.; his hands came in contact with the shingle knife, and three of hls fingers were cut off.
 Clyde Slaton of Lockesburg was seriously injured in the face recent ly by the explosion of a 22-callbre rifle, from which he fired long cartridge The barrel was split into pieces, and the stock of the gun was , demolished
 , The Fort Smith Well Drilling Manufacturing Company was or~" r. ized at Fort Smith Saturday by | Stephanus tnd J. R. Johnson, T. Edwin Gilmore and Styles Y. Rowe. The capital stock is $E5,0o0, of which $15,000 has been subscribed.
 A new telephone line is being con- t structed from Center to Poughkeep- sic and from Center to Ash Flats, l About 50 phones will be installed on the line
 Frightened while loading hay into