The Spectator., 1914-12-18

| final liquidation of depositors' claims against the defunct Little Rock Trust Company. The money will be dis tributed among slightly more than HOO former depositors of the bank.
 The first carload of oceans ever shipped from Pine Bluff was sent out Saturday by the ArKansas Brokerage Company, the shipment representing $3.0O0. The company expects to make other shipments, and will spend $6,00O in buying oceans.
 Congressman Wingo announced tha. he had named Raymond c. Gibbs of Fort Smith, Ark, as principal to the West Point Military Academy; James Housely of Van Buren as first alter nate and George McGraw of Fort Smith as second alternate.
 Settlement of the protracted la- bor troubles in the Hartford Valley coal mining district of Arkansas will not be effected for some time, and at least not until the winter is over. City by Ethelbert Stewart, in vestigator for the United States De- partment of Labor, who has spent al. most a month in the field going over every phase of the situation.
 1T IoR, Pine Bluff will get Christmas pres ent in 10 per cent dividend. the second since the bank failed. Chan cellor J. M. Elliott paved the way for the second dividend by ruling adverse ly on an intervention filed by Mo Cloy & Trotter of Monticello and others. They sought to have the bank commissioner pay them whatever div idend would accrue to J. s. McDon- nell, president of the bank when it failed, on a claim of $57,OS37S. The dividend will exceed $55,000.
 An ordinance has been introduced in the Argenta City Council to pro- vide for the following salaries: Mayor, $50 per month; city clerk. $90 per month; police judge, $75 per month. and each alderman S5 per month. It would go into effect April Is, 1915. At present the mayor receives $l2o per year; city clerk, SS5 per month; police judge, $60 per month, and each alderman $2 per month.
 F. E. T. Hollenberg, Arkansas com. missionergeneral of the Frisco expo sition. speaking at the banquet of the 1 Northwest Arkansas Fruit Growers Society at Bentonville. urged that the exhibits shown there last week be sent as part of the states exhibit at the exposition.
 | Breaks in Louisiana in the pipe lines of the Arkansas Natural Gas | Company are ascribed as the cause of the low pressure and in some in- stances the entire lack of gas in Lit 1 tie Rock homes. The breaks are in the new reserve field south of Elreve- port. The field is the principal source of supply for Little Rock, and when the pressure was cut of at the wells to allow the repair of the pipes, the pressure in Little Rock. Pine Bluff and Hot Springs was diminished ac- cordingly.
 In an opinion furnished NJ. l.. Dun- away. prosecuting attorney at Little Rock, Attorney General Moose holds that persons practicing chiropratic in Arkansas, not having complied with the law regulating the practice of os- teopatiy, are doing so in violation of the law. The question of the right of chiropractics to practice in Arkansas without fulfilling the legal require ments governing osteopathy has long been mooted one, and it is possible that the attorney generals opinion may be used throughout the state in campaign to compel chiropractics to qualify in some manner under the states direction before they are per mitted to practice.
 A dual debate will be held in the auditoriums of the Little Rock and Memphis High Schools on the night of December Is, the question to be, Resolved, That the Public Should Own and Operate Its Telephone and Telegraph Systems" Two teams, of three pupils each, are peifecting their arguments at each school A team of Little Rock High School boys will go to Memphis and team of Memphis girls will come to Little Rock. Because he told a Grand Jury TO- gently that he did not know one play ing card from another. Postmaster P. M. Cody of Vaudeville. nine miles north of Texarkana, was found guilty of perjury by jury fin the Miller Cir. cult Court.