The Green Forest tribune., 1913-12-05
STATE NOTES

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 Attorney General Moose held that the Monroe county game law is void under the dicision of the supreme court, because it assesses a license of $15 against nonresident hunters and only $2 for resident hunters and is, therefore, discriminatory.
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 Chancellor Martineau dissolved the injunction issued against the Arkan- sas Railroad Commission in the con- troversy over the location of the de- pot at Benton. The depot will now be built on the site approved by the commission.
 The 16-months-old child of Jasper Murphy, living near Rector, fell into a 10-gallon jar of water and was nearly drowned.
 An agricultural school will be con ducted in Newark, Independence coun- ty, during December.
 The entire police force of Little Rock was invited to a Thanksgiving dinner by Mrs. Lucy Moose, a board ing house keeper.
 The infant child of Mr and Mrs. Phillip Bradford was drowned when buggy was overturned in an attempt to ford a swollen stream near Shirley.
 Mammoth Spring broke local rec ords for cotton receipts when 104 loads of seed cotton and 52 bales were received in one day.
 A party of hunters from Paragould spent two weeks in the woods and re. turned with three deer and much small game.
 The foundation for new Methodist church has been laid at Conway.
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 About 200 members struck at a Hart ford mine last week because the new mine owners refused to place watchman on the yentilating fan.
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 Leo Fuchs, aged 12, of Dewitt, was accidentally killed while hunting. The boy and young companion were re. turning from hunt when a shotgun was accideataE.. discharged.
 Frank Warner. miner of Hartford, who was terribly crushed by fall of rock in the Blackburn mine died of his injuries.
 The annual reunion of the Scottish Rite Consistorv closed last week at Little Rock. The third and final ses- sion was held when the 32d degree was conferred on 49 candidates. The class was rendered reception at the con- sistory. Several hundred couples at tended
 Regardless of the low price of zinc. caused, it is said, by large reserves of smelter accumulated by the Ameri- can Shelter Company, the zinc mines of Marion county are making big ship ments of ore from the shallow ground workings of that district. which is giving work to about 100 men.
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 Congressman w A. Oldfield has recommended the appointment of L. B. Sharp as ostmaster at Black Rock, Ark, to sut ceed Sol w. Isaminger, who has just died The office pays S1,200.
 John Cooper, mail carrier of Bates vile, who was arrested in Little Rock on a charge of wife desertion, was fined $200 and given a sentence of six months in jail at Batesville. However, both were suspended upon his promise that he would care for his family.
 Seventeen candidates have announc- ed thus far for county offices in White county.
 A romance of college days culmin- ated at Philadelphia when Miss Julia Gaskill, teacher of voice at Henderson Brown College, was married to Ray McNeal, a former student of the col lege, now a druggist of Fordyce.
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 Sixteen novices were lead over the hot sands at Pine Bluff at big eere- monial session held under athe aus pices of Sahara Temple of Shriners. The ceremonies were attended by many visiting Shriners, who with their ladies, were entertained with an elaborate banquet and ball.
 Not less than 20 sheep from a sin gle herd and probably half dozen sucking pigs have been devoured by timber wolves within the past two weeks in the neighborhood of the home of James Bailey. five miles from Lead surrounding that town indicate that these beasts are very numerous this year.
 A party of officers from Fort Logan H. Roots, located near Little Rock, re turned from a hunt near Stuttgart with several hundred wild ducks.
 Fire built by vagrants against one of the doors of the Rock Island sta tion at Benton came near causing a serious blaze, and would have done so had it not been for the fact that the fire was discovered bv tbn uatob