Woodruff County news., 1908-09-17
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 whose death occurred Saturday, was buried Monday in a casket she pur- chased for that purpose 20 years ago. Mrs. Hill had been a resident of Prescott 25 years and formerly owned and conducted the Parker hotel, which was destroyed by fire two years ago. After the destruction of the hotel she was married to W. H. Hill and resided on a farm two miles north of Prescott. Mrs. Hill. 25 years ago weighed over 400 pounds. Realizing that in case of death a casket large enough to con- tain her body could not be had in Prescott, she ordered one made and kept it in her residence up to the i time she died. She lost about half her weight during the past two years, but the casket she bought was used at the burial. Mrs. Hill had been in feeble health for some time and recently one of her legs became affected and complications developed which necessitated the amputation of the limb above the knee, from the effects of which she never recovered.
 Found unconscious and alone in his cabin near the plant of a shin gle mill at Scott, last Tuesday, Ed ward Masters, 28 years old, was talk en to the Battle Creek Sanitarium at Little Rock, where he fingered until 10 o'clock Thursday morning, never regaining consciousness. Her morrhetic fever was the diagnosis of the physicians. Masters home is at Littles, Ind, but he had been employed at the shingle mill for more than g year. When the plant closed down about eight months ago, he was retained as custodian. He was last seen Sunday morning by neighbors. It is supposed that he became unconscious and was therefore unable to call for assis- tance.
 Gold and silver bearing ore is said to have been discovered on the line of the Prescott and Northwest ern Railroad near Murfreesboro, which, it is claimed, assays at $100 to the ton, the assays having been made at Denver and Fl Paso, each report being the same. The discov- cry was made by George W. Holland, who has filed contest in the United States Land Office at Camden /, against the owner of the land who entered it under the timber and stone act. The land office will hear l the case to determine whether the land is more valuable for its miner al deposits than for the purpose for which it was entered.
 Norval Green, who is said to have been thrown from the roof of a house at Fort Smith Tuesday night by Ot- to Quinn, another negro, failed to appear in Justice Danner's court Wednesday to answer to the charge, and the case will probably be dis missed. Tuesday night party of negroes had mounted to the top of house to witness a dance at the ne gro skating rink. Stones and clubs were thrown at the negroes on the roof. Finally Quinn, 1t is said, climb ed to the roof and threw Green to the ground, which resulted in the breaking of Greens arm.
 In the county building at Fort Smith Wednesday child-mother wept for over an hour after giving her legal consent to the adoption of her baby to another. The legal doe uments had just been completed which gave the child of Mrs. Maud Barnett to Mrs. Maggie Schneider. The husband, scarcely more than a boy himself, sought iu vain to com fort the little mother. Circumstances which precluded their keeping the child led to its transfer.
 Charels Eagen, arrested Monday at Fort Smith on the charge of drunkenness and who is alleged to have charged that his money was taken away from him and retained by the police, was arrested Tuesday on a warrant sworn out by Chief Surratt, charging him with slander-