The log cabin Democrat., 1908-03-12
Engine s742. pulling the passen-

| | is one of the oldest locomotives oL the Iron Mountain or Missouri Fac fc system, says the Cotter Courier It is now considered small engine, | but when new was rated as being one of the largest passenger engines on the road. For some years It was used to pull the fast express tram from St. Louis to Texas. On one of its trips. more than 20 years ago. She train it was pulling was held up and robbed bv the James boys at or near De Soto. Mo. This event IS duly chronicled on the steam chest of the old engine, where the date and occurrence is deeply cut. Inns was the last raid by the James boys | in Missouri. if not the last they were engaged in. The old engine has been rebuilt. overhauled and re- modelled till but little of the orlglnal locomotive remains, and few people who ride behind it up and down the White river route know of its event full history.
 J. R. Richardson turned val auble horse cut of his stable recent lv, and the animal immediately plunged through the lot fence, through two railroad barbwlre fences, then jumped back and took the dirt road toward Clarksvllle. The horse when near ClarksVllle turned and struck the railroad track at the depot, and ran down the track toward Spardra. He ran across the first trestle safely, but while crossing the 65-foot trestle north of Spudra he fell and broke one foreleg and one hindleg. When approached he was biting at his broken foreIeg. A rifle was procur- ed and the horse killed. The SUD- position is that the horse had been bitten by mad dog.
 The Farmers Union of Craig head county has organized far association with a capital stock of l $10,000. Steven Ryan was elected president and Thomas Buffalo of Black Oak secretary. It was stated that the business men of JOnesboro lad agreed to bear half the expense of the organization and to subscribe for one-half of the stock. The fol- lowing committee was appointed to visit adjoining counties and enlist the Farmers Unions i'll the fair movement: w. T. Buffalo for Mississippi county, J. R. Davis for Lawrence county, $. Ryan for Poln- sett county. Dr. Barnes for Greene county and Dr. Morehcad for Clay county.
 Charles Napper, the alleged anar- chist who is in the county jail at Fort Smith. is believed to be crazy. He has become 50 violent that on | Wednesday night it was found neccs- sary to chain him to prevent him from assaulting othc" prisoners. He is very cunning Of action and has crcpt up behind some of the prison CTS and slugged them before any one could intercept him. He has deyel- opcd no anarchistic tendencies, and | is not voicing the wrongs of the peo- pie and the tyranny of the rich over the poor. He has not even enun- ciated the doctrine that the rich are growing richer and the poor poorer every day. His dementia ap- pears to be of the common kind. | W. T. kinman, a citizen of Newark. shot and wounded Walter Pascoe in that town Sunday morn- Ing. lie then began a search TOT his wife, who is said to have only recently returned to Newark in company with Pascoe, from a three weeks trip away together. Failing to find Mrs. Kinman the enraged man took his own life by shooting himself with a gun. Jealousy over the assertion of his wife is said to be the cause of the tragedy. Pascoe, it is thought, will recover, his wound being through the arm and into the body.
 | Charles l.. Sigler has purchased | w. R. Faces interest in the Buford- Pace Mercantile Company at Nam moth Spring.
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