The Springdale news., 1909-08-20
State news.

citation of Title Men at the meeting held in Seattle last week
 Senator Otis T. Wingo has pur- chased 1 acres of land near De- Queen upon which he expects to build handsome modern residence
 The Arkansas Rice Growers As sociation's report for August states that the total rice acreage in Ark ansas this year is 2S,004, of which 14,712 acres is in Arkansas County
 It is reported that George H. Adams, publisher of the Helena World, Pine Bluff Graphic and Hot Springs Bulletin, is organizing a company to start another after noon paper in Little Rock
 The recent grand jury for the western district of Carroll County returned 1S0 indictments against the Missouri X North Arkansas rail- road company for failure to keep it's right of way properly fenced
 J. T. Lunn, farmer living two miles from Mammoth Spring, is the father of 26 children. 19 Of whom are living He has been married three times He is 76 years old and is able to walk ten miles. or do good days work
 A. M. Morrow who was awarded the contract for the construction of the Crawford county levee. and his foremen arrived in Van Baren re- gently with car load of mules, tools and implements, and will begin at once the work of building the leYee.
 The strawberry vines in Crawford county have been greatly damaged by the drouth and many have been killed Vines that have been eulti- vated have Withstood the dry wealth CT much better than those i'll the uneultivated fields. Those set out in the new fields have been hard hit and many &ill have to be reset this fall
 The Kansas City Southern rail road is making arrangements to move it's division from Mena to De Queen The citizens Of the latter place have been asked to raise q bonus of from s6, 900 to ss,000 which proposition was accepted and committees are now at work and there seems to be no doubt but what the required sum will De raised.
 It k estimated that 6o cars of watermelons will be shipped from =Portia. Lawrence county. this seas on All the melons are grown with in radius of 10 miles of Portia. The shipments will exceed those of any previous year. Nearly all will go to St. Louis and Kansas city. The quality of the melons this year is excellent, but not as large as in former years.
 Jake ChildresS was fined Sl and costs in a justice of the peace court at Bingen recently for violating the Hempstead county stock law and gave notice of appeal Chlldress turned his hogs out with the state ment that he would not observe the law and purse was made up by others opposed to the law to help him fight the ease The suit was for the purpose of testing the law.
 Dr. ] R Davis of Mena has made bid of $1S.000 for the DeQueen Light and Ice Plant. which IS to be sold to the highest bidder. The property includes light and ice plant and bottling works. The plant. which originally cost about s60.000. was recently offered for sale at auction. the highest bid be ing $14,000. which was unsatlsfac- tory. and the sale was called off temporarily.
 Judge Smith of the Clay County Circuit Court ordered a mistrfal i'll the case at Corning last week Ill which Tom Harper was on trial for felony. Five members of the jury attended d revival in the Bap- tist church one evening, at which Rev. Emmett Curl of Osceola, Tn his sermon made remarks deroga- tory to the defendant. On this ae- count ] A Taylor. attorney for the defense, made motion that the court order a mistrial. The motion was sustained and the court dis charged the jury.
 John R Youngblood formerly Carroll County boy but now the Governor of one of the subdistrictS of the Moro Province of the Phil lipine Islands, was a visitor in the a; daN