The Carlisle independent., 1909-09-09
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Vuu AaS been organized at TeXarkaDa.
 The opening of the zine milling plant at Rush was celebrated with a barbecue.
 J. N. Esbeck is converting his farm at Lockesburg, Sevier county, into a sheep ranch.
 It is estimated that the crops at the state farm will not yield more than 50 per cent.
 More than 150 men are at work on big drainage canal in the Tupelo district near Conway.
 A Springfield, H., company recent If paid s100,000 for 1000 acres of land in Desha county.
 Warren has inaugurated a monthly trade and sales day, free show be- ing offered as an attraction.
 Fort Smith merchants are trying to secure the same freight rates from the east as apply to Little Rock.
 The entire population of the state schools is estimated at 557,000, an increase of 12,500 over the returns for 1908.
 Paul Sanderson, son of a wealthy lumberman, had one of his legs torn to pieces by a cutoff saw at a mill near Texarkana.
 B. L. Carter, a farmer living about twenty-five miles from Argenta, in Bayou Meto township, was killed in a runaway accident
 Everett Andrews, aged 45, died at Little Rock. He was brother of Leo M. Andrews, one of south Ar kansas wealthiest planters.
 Governor A W. Gilchrist of Florida was a guest of Governor George w. Donaghey while en route home from the Alaska Yukon-Pa exposition.
 B. L. Carter, a farmer living about 25 miles from Argenta, in. Bayou Meto township, was instantly killed in a runaway which occurred near his home.
 A horse belonging to W. c. Trout, editor of the Jonesboro Sun, was in- stantly killed by a runaway team driving the tongue of a wagon into the animals breast.
 Wallace Wayne, aged 15 years, was ,y;, ho+ the Y. M c. A. swimming pool at Lit tie Rock. He dived and struck his head against the concrete bottom.
 The Old Folks camp meeting at Sweet Home was attended by 5000 people Sunday, excursions being run by the Memphis, Paris & Gulf and the Prescott & Northwestern rail- roads.
 Governor Donaghey has issued proclamation offering S100 reward for the capture and conviction of Troop CT Stokes, who is charged with mur- dering his wife in Drew county Au- gust 24.
 The rice harvest is in full swing at Lonoke and Carlisle and an in- creased acreage next year will result. The yield is heavy and the crop is regarded as more dependable than cotton.
 The annual meeting of the Ozark Fruit Growers association will be held at Monett, Mo, September 13 and IA. Twenty-six of the sixty-six locals in the organization are located in Arkansas.
 Bront Dobbins and Levi Perry, two trust" convicts, walked away from the new penitentiary and left the country. Dobbins was sent up from Phillips county and Perry from Johnson county.
 The Little Rock Taxicab and Transfer company, with capital stock of s2O,O00. s7,000 of which has been subscribed, will engage in a general taxicab transfer business in Little Rock. Incorporators: Louis Wolfort, c. s. Wolfort, l.. Reinman and Aired Mayer.
 The Peoples Cotton company, with a capital stock of s2O,000, all of which has been subscribed, will engage in a general cotton business at Angus to. Incorporators: T. E. Stanley, Ed Roddy, B. A. Fletcher, J. H. Dale, Steve Davis, L. J. Crocker, A. H. Campbell and others.
 The preparations for the eighteenth annual meeting of the Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo at Hot Springs September 8 to II proceed unabated. Preparations are under way for the old fashioned southern barbecue to be given at Wilmington park on the afternoon of the last day of the an nual.
 When Jim Tolsen, a well known resident of Pine Bluff, was awakened by noise in his room at his home, he saw negro burglar standing over him. Tolsen leaped out of his bed and the negro jumped through win dow.
 Sam West of Philadelphia, who