The Springdale news., 1909-08-06
State 'news.

The work on the dam near Rus selville is nearly completed, The race was finished recently and the turbines and other machinery re- ceived and are now being placed in position.
 E. c Horror. president ot the Business Mems League of Helena, has closed a deal by which Helena is to secure wagon factory, the output of which will be 1.500 wagons a year.
 The Republican Central Com mittee of Sebastian county has un- animously endorsed Frank Bnm- gardner to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Col. James ,i1ZZolara as postmaster of Fort Smlszz.
 Five thousand acres of land near Waldron have been leased by Ok lahoma promoters who will begin at once to drill on the property for gas, At present the nearest gas field to Waldron is at Mansfield, , miles northwest
 The plans for the new depot of the Missouri and North Arkansas railroad to be built at Helena have been completed The building is to be two stories, of mission style and will be constructed of concrete and pressed brick with tiled roof.
 Friends of Representative A. D. DuLaney of AshdoWn are urg- ing him to enter the race for sen ator from his district MT. Du- Laney has served three terms as representative from Little River county. which has not furnished a senator for 20 years.
 A handsome profit in peaches is being realized from growers in the vicinity of Altus The crop is shy in quantity. but the quality is bet ter than for several years. The growers began marketing at S3s50 per bnshel, but the price has been dropping steadily. the last sales be ing at 70 per bushel
 4 N Bonn of Mammoth Spring during the recent electric storm and while riding along the read was thrown from his horse upon q hill- side and the horse was hurled in an opposite direction and rolled under a wire fence The lightning struck six or eight times about him. Neither Mr Bonn nor his horse vas injured
 Deputy United States Marshais Anderson and Johnson left Fort Smith last week with Thompson Patterson and Bell, the three yegg- men recently convicted of blowing the safe in the postoffice al Hunt ington, to place them in the federal prison at Fort -Eeavenworth Kan where they have been sentenced to serve eight years imprisonment
 Typhoid fever has resulted i'll the death of three of Rev c < Cross children at Cove within the past tive weeks and his two other children are afflicted with the same disease His three-year-old daughter died Wednesday and two other daughters aged 19 and 2 years, respectively. died July T.. The two surviving children are prostrated with the dis ease and both are in a critical con dition
 The reserve supply Of water at Mena is becoming scarce and ar engagements are being made to sink another we'll to supply the defiei- ency. The reservoirs at present contain only about one-haH of their capacity. The WaterWorks Com mission has under consideration the question of cutting off the mains for a few hours each day in order to preserve d supply of water for fire purposes.
 Greene County breaks over the line and will hold an early primary for the nomination of candidates for county offices separate and apart from the primary for the se- lection of State. congressional and district officials This was decided at meeting of the Greene County Democratic central committee last week when the matter came up for final action. The election will be held Saturday October ,
 In short, concise petition which has been presented to the Railroad Commission the citizens q Fort Smith ask that an order he .saed by the commission requiring the Iron Mountain to erect and maintain suitable station The petition states that the present station is wholly inadequate and insufficient and that the traVe1iuo m, blfa i,- t.5.;