The Springdale news., 1909-09-03
State neWs.

secure one of the four agricultural general assembly.
 A special train. containing 1,700 negroes, on an excursion from Shreveport to Kansas City. passed through Siloam Springs last week. The train was labeled "Darktown Special !"
 Joe Couch and H. C Lathrop of Rudy. Crawford county, were each fined $50 and costs in Justice of the Peace Crutcher's court at Van BGren recently. on the charge Of dynamiting fish in stream near Rudy recently.
 The watermelon crop of Crawford county. which promised three weeks ago to be one of the largest ever grown in the county, has been cut so short by the drouth that most of the melons are being fed to hogs. They are being sold in the field for this purpose at s1 per load.
 Secretary of State O C. Ludwig yesterday announced that the vol ume of new acts, enacted by the recent legislature, will be ready for distribution by September 10 or 15. according to the information he las received from the printers L. R Gazette
 Mrs z T Freeman of Mena spent 10 cents for tomato seed this season and from the vines of the same sold SIS worth of tomatoes, canned 90 quarts, put up l2 quarts of preserves and has enough left to make all the eatsup and pickles needed for the use Of the family.
 The crop of candidates in Sharp county at the next primary will be prominent men in various parts of the county have announced their candidacy for sheriff and old poli- tieians declare that 300 votes will be sufficient to nominate under these circumstances.
 Two state candidates have rent ed rooms for headquarters in the Fulk building across the street from the state house They will not op- ICY time. however. No headquarters of state candidates are expected to De opened for several months at least.=L. R Gazette.
 According to reports published in the Little Rock Gazette cotton prospects in this state are in verse condition than since the dis astrous year of 1881, due to the unprecedented drouth The states age. but it's condition is nothing like as bad as the condition of cotton.
 NJ. F. Stapleton, representing the United States Fish Hatchery at Washington. is in Helena having been sent there by the government to rescue black bass and other game fish from ponds and sloughs on the overflowed lands in Arkansas along the Mississippi. The fish thus rescued will be placed in the Mississippi or other inland streams.
 The commercial organization known as the DeQueen Boosters have guaranteed to poultry fanciers of the Southwest the expenses of holding a poultry show at DeQueen, and November 9 to II has been agreed upon as the time for hold iLg the show Entries are expect ed from Arkansas, Louisiana. Tex as. Oklahoma. Missouri and Tenn essee
 If the recommendations of the board of health are acted on fay- orably by the city fathers it will be impossible to purhasce books sec ond hand in Monticello after Jan uary 1 The board has declared in no uncertain language that con tagious disease such as small pox. and the like have become prevalent here by the use of second hand school books,
 Gen Clement A Evans of Allan ta. general commanding United Confederate Veterans of the South. has written Col ! R. Thorn ton of Camden that he will be at that place on Confederate Veterans Day of the Ouachita Valley Harvest, which is Wednesday. October 20, and deliver an address. This will be Gen Evans first visit west of the Mississippi river since the war.
 Frank Lash. engineer, was in- stantly killed and Wylie L Rhodes.