The log cabin Democrat., 1908-01-30

At Little Rock, Sunday night, burglars placed a ladder agains the building, climbed a distance of fourteen feet to smash window. crawled through the aperture and unlocked the door from the inside. and then loaded their vehicle with five barrels of flour, six hams, a number of cans of lard and a large quantity of other canned goods, valued in excess of $100, and made good their escape.
 The Forrest Service has just an- nounced the appointment of the first three forest guards who are to assist Supervisor Samuel R. Record in the administration of the new Arkansas ,, national forest. The Arkansas men who are to take up this forest work are: Anderson T. Wright, Will A. Gardner and James B. Cassada. The latter two have already entered upon their work and Mr. Wright's ap- pointment takes effect January 20. The National forest headquarters Is at Fort Smith.
 City Collector RoWeles of Hot Springs has again preferred charges against the Waters-Pierce Oil Com pany and the Gay Oil Company for failure to pay license on the oil tank wagons used by them. Both com- panies contend that the license de- manded by the city is excessive, sev- eral months ago a test case to deter mine the equity and validity of the ordinance fixing the tax was taken to the Supreme Court
 Arrangements are being made by Lawrence county sportsmen for the organization of company to build a club house at Sedgwick. It is pro- posed to erect building 40X40 feet, containing 20 rooms, each opening on a balcony which will run along the four sides of the upper floor of the building.
 The sandbars in the Arkansas rievr few miles below Van Buren are covered with crude petroleum to a depth of two inches in some places. The oil is supposed to have been car- ried into the river from its smaller tributaries running through the oil fields of Oklahoma.
 At a recent meeting of the Busl- ness Mems League of Hot Springs 1t was decided to inaugurate a cam paign of advertising to induce man. ufacturers to develop the natural re- sources surrounding Hot Springs, such as clay and slate deposits and oil stone fields.
 William Wilson, a prisoner in the county jail at Morrilton, died of con- gestion Sunday He had expressed a wish for an orange and Sheriff Hutto had gone for one. Upon his return he found him sitting in a chair near the window dead. The Bear State Lumber Com | pany is building large blaming mill at Womble. When completed it will be the largest industrial plant in Montgomery county. The machinery in the mill will be driven by 150- horse power engine.
 The fve-year-old daughter of James Jones, who lives near Cush- man, was burned to death recently. The girl was playing near an open fire place when her clothing caught fire, death resulting a few hours afterward
 Griffin's general store and the post office of Brookland were entered by burglars Monday night and a quant- ity of clothing was taken from the store and a small amount of cash from the postotfice.
 Four thousand railroad ties be- longing to the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Company were destroyed by fire at the Poe ranch near Clinton recently.
 George Council, the young negro recently convicted in the Logan county circuit court of assault, has been sentenced to be hanged February 2S.
 William s. Sprigg's residence at Diaz and his barn, containing about I f