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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-12-23
STATE NEWS.
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v l.ANT.NllLL BE ENLARGED.
The Ty;salts Valley Glass Company
located at Grafton. has closed down
and viii make extensive repairs be-
fore opening again. The plant will be
sconsiderabl enlarged. the tank used
now Is q 80 ton tank and this tank
viii be replaced by one OF 100 tons
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-12-23
NOTICE 70 EfEN HOLDERS.

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To all persons holding liens by judg
ment or otherwise on the real es.
tate, or any part thereof, of Cyrus,
+. Boyers:
In pursuance ;of S8a decree Of the
intermediate Court Of Marion county,
West Virginia, made In the cause
therein, pending, to, subject the real.
estate OF said Cyrus F. tBoyers to the.
satisfaction of the Hens thereon, you.
are hereby required to present all
claims held by you and each OF YOU
against the said Cyrus T. Boyersr
which are liens on his real estate,
or any par. thereof, for adjudication
to me at my Office In the City iof Fair
mont in said Marion county, on or
before the 26th day OF December, 1910
Given under my hand this Isl, day oil
December. 1910, 2
A. L. LEHMAN,
Commissioner,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-12-23

10. Much important business viii
come sbeforesthis committee.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-12-23

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stainly most pleasing to the eye,
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but more particularly az that
greatest Of all the feasts of the
year, THE CHRISTMAS Din.
sNER. Il
We are going to- try very hard
to help you all to have "a Il I.
MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-12-23
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other foreign substance To cause
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During the holiday season we
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any flavor YOU wai also in zig
lures, such as
BRICK TURKEY, DOVE Or
AZ PEA E R0sE GRAPE,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-12-23
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The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Helena Docks Kent BuSY.

Helena.-The Helena Shipbuilding Company, which was organized six or eight months ago, is springiug into wide prominence as one of the finest shipbuilding concerns on the Mississippi river. They have just closed a contract with the Paducah and Illinois Ferry Company of Paducah, Ky, to construct for their concern an immense ferry boat. This contract was won over four other competitors.
 About six months ago the Helena Shipbuilding Company purchased the Paducah floating docks of nine sections, which the the largest dry dock on the Mississippi river, since which time they have had on the dock the follow ing steamers Butteroff of Memphis, Brockman of Arkansas City, Birming- ham of IIclena Star of Newport, George Pope of Black Rock, and the following yachts: White Sox of Chicago Lillian IT of Chicago and Trixie II of Union City, Mich, and are now building the F. M. Owen, modern excursion boat, with a beam thirty five feet over all, 153 feet lono and six-foot hold. It will be a threc-derk steamer, with main cabin and six staterooms, a handsome hardwood ballroom of floor area of 22xS0 feet, with sleeping compartments on the hurricane deck for seventv-fve persons
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
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FARMER KILLED BY NEGRO.
Black Used Winchester When Requested
 to Move Of Farm.

Marion. = Another cold-blooded as- sassination took place in this county, when William Sidle was shot down by Steve Green, a negro, at the Sidle farm, five miles north of Marion. It seems that Sidle had had some trouble with the negro during last year and wanted him to get off the farm. Sidle, in com pany with his nephew, Claude Burtinett, a young man about 20 years old, went to the home of Green for the purpose of asking him to move from the place without the necessity of lawsuit. Words passed and the negro went into the house and returned with a Winches ter rifle and fired once at Sidle, the ball passing entirely through the body just aboye the hips. Sidle fell, and as young Burtinett started to his rescue the ne gro covered him with his gun, telling him to remain where he was, and then backed off and escaped.
 Neither Sidle nor Burtinett was armed at the time, and really expected no difficulty with the man, as he had been considered peaceable negro, but worth less so far as work was concerned. MT. Sidle was carried to his residence, 8 few yards away, and medical aid sum moned, but he died within a few hours.
 Mir Sidle is man of family, and had home near Mapleville, Tenn, and look ed after his farming operations in this county.
 reward of $25O was offered for the capture of Green.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
STAFF SELECTED FOR SCHOOL
Professor A. K. Short of Fayetteville Is
 Named as the Superintendent.

Russellville. - The superintendent. foreman and a part of the corps of teachers for the new agricultural school being built here have been selected by the board of trustees of the institu- tion. The instructors are the first to be selected for any of the new agricultural schools theat are to be built in different parts of the state
 A. K. Short of Fayetteville was SC. lected to fill the office of superintendent of the school and farm MT. Short has been connected with the agricultural department of the University of Ar kansas at Fayetteville for some time. Prior to his connection with that institu- tion he was instructor at the Texas Az ricultural school
 T.. J. Hamm of Van Buren was select ed as foreman of the farm. He is one of the state lecturers of the Arkansas Farmers Union. His two daughters will be employed as assistant instructors in the domestic science department.
 Bruce Oates of Fayetteville will have charge of the teaching of animal hus- bandry.
 Miss Heacock, who is now taking a stgraduate course in domestic science in Mississippi, will be in charge of the domestic science department. The other teachers will be selected later.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
FooTPADs SHOOT PLANTER.
c. M. Beavers Assaulted by Two Ne
 groes Near Menefee.

Little Rock.-Colonel c. M. Deavers a prominent farmer, living six mles northeast of Plummerville, was shot down near Menefee by two unknown negro footpads.
 Colonel Deavers was going to the train, when he was seen by the two negroes, who evidently mistook him for an officer. They closed in on him, talk ing his pistol away from him, but mak- ing no attempt toward further robbery. One of them ran and the other shot Col onel Deavers with his own pistol, the bullet shrinking him just above the heart and passing through his left lung,
 The shot was heard in Menefee, and citizens, upon investigation, found the farmer in what was thought to be a dy- ing condition.
 He was taken to Plummerville, about four miles, and his wife and four chill dren hastily notified. His wound was pronounced very serious.
 It is thought the negroes who made the murderous assault upon him are the same as those who robbed the stores in Conway Wednesday night of last week.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
GUARD SHOOTS FIVE CONNECTS.
Misses Fleeing Man But Wounds Sew
 eral in Gang

Benton.-One white man and four negro conyicts were hit by buckshot fired from gun in the hands of a guard when a negro convict working on the Rock Island railroad here made a dash to escape. The guard missed the man for whom he intended the shot and he escaped
 The white man is W. P. Taylor, an assistant foreman in charge of the la borers. He was wounded in the face and shoulder and was hurried in the work train to Little Rock, where be was placed in St. Vincent s Infirmary Three of the wounded negroes, injured about the head and shoulders, were also taken to Little Rock and placed in the penitentiary hospital. It is said that the negroes will recover. The fourth negro, who was wounded in the chin, continued at his work.
 The convicts are state prisoners and their name are not known to the men in charge
 Makes Break for Train.
 About I clock in the afternoon a
 
 drew out of the Benton station. One hundred yards from the station it pass ed the gang of convicts. The Iaborers were between the guard and the train,
 As the passenger engine approached a negro in the gang of convicts sud denly dropped the tools with which he was working and made a dash toward the approaching train. The guard, sud denly awakened to activity, leveled his shotgun, loaded with buckshot, at the fleeing man and fired. Cries of pain arose from four men in the ranks of the laborers and Taylor, the white foreman, dropped to the ground, uncon- . scious.
 The fleeing man darted across the railroad tracks in front of the engine and sought safety in a patch of woods short distance away. By the time the train had passed the man had dis l appeared and no trace had been found of him at late hour.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
THREE BREAK JAIL.
Third Delivery at Arkansas City Within
 the Past Fourteen Months.

Arkansas City.--A jail delivery oc- cured here, in which all three of the prisoners escaped. The following are the names and crimes for which they were imprisoned: Will Davis, color, yellow, horse stealing; Sam Trimble, color, black, murder; James Adams, color, black, burglary.
 The prisoners made their escape by cutting out of the cell with some instru- ments which must have been manufac- tured or seereted within the cell. After getting out of the cell the prisoners gradually battered their way through the brick wall, which is constructed of cement and brick, with some bars ob- tained on the inside.
 This is the third jail delivery which has occurred here within the past four teen months.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Will Develop Cross County Land.

Paragould.-The Arkansas Land and Development Company is a new organi- zation just launched in Paragould. The promoters are w. c. Poole, assistant cashier of the Security Bank and Trust Company of this city, and J. R. Kibler of Funally, Ohio. The company pro. poses to buy and develop lands in this section of the state. It is preparing 160 acres of land near Hickory Ridge, in Cross county, for rice cultivation this year. Next year the promoters expect to increase the acreage considerably.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Extending Line to Van Ruren.

Van Buren.-Work on the extension of the Fort Smith Light and Traction company's street ear line to Van Buren is being pushed rapidly, and it is ex- pected the line will be in operation within the next thirty days. The trol- ley poles have been distributed over the extension from the park in Fort Smith to the river front opposite Van Buren, and the ties and rails are being assembled on the right of way. After the completion of the extension motor ferry that will carry fifteen passengers, to meet every car that comes to the river, will be installed at Van Buren,
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Senator Davis and Congressional Committee in Tilt Over Lands in Northeast Arkansas

to them was outlined before the com mittee by Senator Davis. He contends that under the land grant of 1850 title to thousands of acres of swamp lands in Arkansas passed to the state for the purpose of building levee. The state board controlling these lands was known as the St. Francis levee board. The question of the state s title to the lands was passed on by Hoke Smith when he was secretary of the interior; later by Secretary Hitchcock of the same depart ment, and in both cases it was held that the lands belonged to the state of Ar kansas.
 Perfect Title Necessary to Win Suit.
 ''The levee board finally sold a large quantity of this land, about S0,000 acres, at $l.50 per acre. Some of Mr. Davis friends were among the purchas- CTS. In the meantime, however, accord ing to Senator Davis, many people had begun to denude the lands of timber un- lawfully.
 '' 'The St. Francis levee board, said the senator, employed me to assist the regularly employed attorney, Mir. Robe son, to bring suit against the timber thieves for the value of this timber. We brought these suits in Poinsett and Mississippi counties, and perhaps in one or two other counties
 Senator Davis said that the timber grabbers challenged them to prove their title to the lands, and they had been unable to do that.
 fOne of the best lawyers of the house said that Davis might not be tech nically liable under section 110 of the Revised Statutes, governing members of congress and their relations before executive departments and congress in promoting private claims for which they are to receive a fee, yet he would be in bad morally. Again, if man had accepted fee contingent upon his getting something through congress when he was a member it ought to be good ground for the body of which he is member to expel him..
 Denies He Is to Get Fee.
 fSenator Davis gave out a formal statement, in which he denounced as absolutely false and without founda- tion the report that he was to get fee in the event of the passage of the bill. He declared the bill was just and was introduced merely to quiet the title to lands bought by friends of his in For rest City from the St. Francis levet board, the purchases having been made on the strength of opinions rendered by former secretaries of the interior Hoke Smith and Hitchcock
 ''President Roosevelt, the statemen, continues, agreed with the senator that the mag t ought to be adjusted so the government should not defraud innocent purchasers. Accordingly, the bill was introduced, the statement continues, by MT. Oldfeld, at the request of Sen, ator Davis, and this is all the interest he (Oldfield) has in it.
 ''The senator declares the bill is not intended to disturb the rights of any bona fde holders of property under the government, which property was ac. quired after decision by Secretary Garfield that the title reposed right. fully in the government ''
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Rice Culture Extends.

Lonoke.-The lure of rice is attract ing men from other fields of occupation in this and adjoining counties. Several of Lonoke $ business men have become rice farmers in the past year. The lat est to take up rice culture is Dr. J. w. Fuller, prominent dentist here Dr. HHtef will have charge of the T. w. Fletcher farm, about seven miles south of town, where he will plant 100 acres in Honduras and Japan rice. The land is what is known as bottom land, and lies just adjacent to bayou, from which water will be drawn, thus saving the expense of sinking a well.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
THE EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE.
Hotel Reservations Being Made in Ad-
 vance of Big Event


 That the conference for education in the south, to be held here April 6 to s, is attracting national attention and will be attended by educators from all over the country, as well as by fearing business men, is evidenced by the num- Der of requests fofr hotel reservations already received, although the confer ence is yet four weeks off.
 Among the requests received by the department of education, which is standing in measure sponsor for the great gathering here, are those of Sen ator J. H. Stout of w. c. Ribenack of Menominec, Wis. and Dean Harvey of the celebrated Stout training school at Menominee.
 MT. Stout, in addition to beind state senator, is prominent business man, being president of the First National Bank of Menominee.
 MT. Ribcnack is vice president of the same institution.
 Senator Stout founded the industrial training school at Menominee which bears his name, and which is said to be the greatest of its kind in America.
 Dean Harvey stands pre-eminently at the head of industrial educators, and the fact that he is to attend the con- ference has been received with much qualification by the department of ed. ucation.
 These are merely few of the notif- cations that have come to the depart ment, and while it is naturally expected that the most liberal attendance will be from among the business men and edu cators of the south, the indications arc that there will he many prominent wis ieors from the north and east.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Bankers to Meet.

Hope. - Group 6 of the Arkansas Bankers Association will meet at Hope March 16. During the session Colonel T. c. McRae, president of the associa- ject of the proposed postal savings bank, bill for which is now pending in congress. Guy B. Stuart, immigra- tion agent for the Cotton Belt, will speak on immigration as the best way to develop southwest Arkansas.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Kills Brother With Hoe.

Fl Dorado.-Eight yearold Riley Will son killed his 5-year-old brother, Roy, by splitting his head open with hoe. Death was almost instantaneous. The two children are sons of Mrs. Jenny Wilson, widow, living three miles north of Fl Dorado. They were out dig, ging warns, getting bait to go fishing, when the accident occurred. The little fellow says he was operating the hoe and did not know his brother was near when the accident happened.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Pulaski Jail Delivery.

Little Rock.-After wiggling through an opening in a barred window scarcely large enough to admit his body and climbing down sixty feet on blanket rope, Bert Pierce, charged with blowing a postofice safe, and George Jones, an alleged bootlegger, escaped from the Pulaski county jail. The opening was made in the window by filing through one of the seven-eighths inch steel bars and bending the bar until it left hole about five inches wide and twelve inches long.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Mining Company Installs Electricity.

Rrssellville.-The Southern Anthra- cite Coal Company is installing electric power from the dam on the Illinois river to its mine near Russellville The current vii. be used in operating fans in the mines, for hoisting coal and for hgFting' thc riness sad cottages of the minors, of which there are more than a hundred. The two dyaamos, one sev- enty-fve horsepower; the other thirty five horsepower, will be used for the purpose.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11

The principal topic of conversation at the state house, in hotel corridors and among men of all classes during the past several days in Little Rock has been Senator Jeff Davis attitude on a bill introduced in congress to quiet the title to certain sunk lands in northeast Arkansas
 A dispatch from Washington, dated March ?, says:
 Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas has developed far greater sensation than any that ever attended the deliverancc of his antitrust speeches in the senate by admitting to the house committee on public lands that he was to get q good fee in ease bill which he was pressing before that committee be came a law and then attempting to strike out the admission from the rec ord of the hearing. The committee de- nied his request that he be permitted to strike out this sentence: There is a good fee if 1 can recover the price of that timber.
 "The bill under consideration relates to the Arkansas sunken lands, about which there has been a controversy for many years, or ever since the New Madrid earthquake. TAa state, the government and private parties have laid claim to the lands, and the St Francis levee board of Arkansas has been trying to clear the title. Senator Clarke of Arkansas appeared before the committee to deny the statement of his colleague that he (Clarke) was for the bill.
 Oldfield Introduced Bill.
 " The bill in question was intro duced by Representative Oldfeld for the quieting of title to abouc 100000 acres of swamp lands in the eastern part of Arkansas. Oldfeld asserts he intro duced the bill at the request of Senator Davis. Several days ago Senator Davis appeared before the committee in advo- cacy of the Oldfeld bill. At that time he frankly told the committee that he | had been acting as attorney for the | levee board, one of the claimants to | the land, and that for his services he expected to receive a large legal fee While the senator s bill was to recover the price of timber upon the land, il was necessary for him to perfect the title to the land before he could win the suit.
 Davis Explains Position.
 The senator explained his position by saying he thought his statement might be misunderstood and he desired to strike it from the record. After the senator had been heard the committed held an executive session lasting al hour, at which it was voted by nearly unanimous vote that the senator :, original statement should remain il the record. The senator was allowed to change the verbiage of his statement but no material alterations.
 Attorney J. A. Tellier of the firm o1 Teller & Blaisdell, Little Rock repre- senting a number of homesteaders be fore the committee was present at the committee session when Senator Davis made the statement which he attempted to have stricken from the record.
 "The history of the sunken lands legislation and Senator Davis relation
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Deputy Game Warden Active.

Helena.-Deputy Game Warden East of Helena recently made an effort to hold the steamer Kate Adams, bound for Memphis, for alleged violation of the game laws of the state. It was charged that the steamer had aboard two barrels of game fish, which were to be taken to another state. The mat ter was satisfactorily explained and the charge was withdrawn, the steamer be- ing allowed to proceed on its way to Memphis.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
TWO SAFES CRACKED.
Yeggemen Rob the Postofice at Green
 wood and Get Away With Cash.

Fort Smith. - Yeggemen blew two safes in the postoffice at Greenwood, twenty miles from here, and secured about $500 and escaped. All but $50 of the amount taken was in stamps. The explosion wrecked both safes and awakened many of the residents, who took to the street to learn the cause. Word was immediately sent to Hackett City for bloodhounds, which were sent. They followed the trail to point where it is supposed the yeggs had horses, upon which they escaped.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
RurolarS Make Biz Hanl.

Texarkana.-Burglars entered J. s. Gaines store at Texarkana Friday night and secured goods to the value of about $400. Among the articles stolen were three typewriting machines, 2,000 cigars. three dozen razors and quantity of miscellaneous merchandise.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Judge Eagle a Suicide

Little Rock,-John Eagle, who com mitted suicide at Fordyce, was one of the best-known life insurance solicitors in the state, and his untimely death was universally regretted by the army of travelling men in this state
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
The Southern Manufacturing (

The Southern Manufacturing Com pany of Little Rock, capital stock $25, GOO, of which $2,500 has been sub scribed, was chartered The company proposes to own and operate sawmills and buy and sell land and timber and improve such property as it may ac uuire
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Pencil Company Enters.

The American Lead Pencil Company of New York made "its mark" in the state by paying charter fees amounting to $326. The statement filed gives the assets of the company at $S79, ,504, with liabilities of $465,513. and shows $1o,- 900 invested in this state.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Woodmen of fine union Renort

The Woodmen of the Union, fra ternal order having its home office at Indinanapola, Miss, has filed it's an- nual statement, showing income last year of $27,007 and disbursements of $o4 130
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
Fine New School Ruildino

Arkansas City.--C. r. Dunnington of Pine Bluff has been awarded the con tract for the construction of a new school building at Arkansas City. His bid was $15,39750.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-03-11
GEORGE CLINTON.
Wa sted Life

He who lives solely for himself, lives not at all.