The Green Forest tribune., 1914-12-04
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 and lump coal sought by the railroads of the railroad commission will mean a cost of approximately S3O,O00 year to the consumers of the state and a handicap on Arkansas operators which will lead to an invasion by Kentucky and Illinois dealers, accord ing to statements made by Manager R. P. Allen of the shippers traffic bureau.
 Ex-State Senator David L. King of Sharp county has been mentioned by the Sharp County Record as a prob able candidate for Congress.
 Congressman w. A. Oldfield, when asked the question:: Will you be a candidate for governor at the next primary" said No, I will not; pre- fer my seat in Congress, and will again be a candidate for that office" Four hundred bales of Arkansas cotton have been sold through Phifer &s Heagen, cotton dealers of Little Rock, to Mitsuit, of Kobe, Japan, said to be one of the largest concerns in the Japanese empire.
 A fine of S1,000 was imposed by the United States court at Jonesboro against the Frisco Railroad for work ing men overtime, it being agreed that the fines are not to be paid until January 1.
 According to General Passenger Agent Kerr of Harrison, who has just returned from trip through Tennes- see and Georgia, several hundred per sons from those states and other southwestern states will visit the territory along the Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad during the next two months with view to locating.
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 It is announced that there will be no so-called "gunmen" in the non- union coal camps in the Prairie Creek district so long as Maj, Nathaniel F. Mcclure is in command of the United States troops there.
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 Melvin Cantrell, 19 years old, of Hobbs, was found guilty of murder in the second degree by a jury in the Crawford County Circuit Court at Van Buren and sentenced to serve six years in the Arkansas penitentiary. He was charged with killing Boaz Mullen, 22 years old, at church near VT~I T oIq defense.
 Unless immediate attention is given to it, many persons subject to the new war revenue special tax, will be penal iZsItS0 per cent of the taxes due un- e act effective November 1. The payl ,ts are now due and should be paidf to the internal revenue collec- to1 Jack Walker, at Little Rock, be- fore December l, 1914 These include payments by bankers, brokers, pawn brokers, commission merchants, pro- prietors of theaterS and circuses, and tobacco dealers and manufacturers.
 Henry Starr is again a fugitive from Justice, according to dispatches from Denver, Col, and it is reported he has fled to South America with pretty woman from Oklahoma. Starr was released from the Canon City (Colo- rado) penitentiary two months ago on parole. It is believed he returned to Oklahoma and that Sand which he gathered consisting of former part in o~IY iJ ncIh Ia fnr h recent bank robberies and hold-ups ir Oklahoma. Henry Starr is Chero- kee and formerly lived at Tahlequah, Okla. He was a prisoner in the United States jail at Fort Smith many years ago and gained his liber- the officers in disarming Cherokee Bill after the latter had killed guard at the jail and was standing off the other guards.
 Mrs. Lizzie Cottrell of Sacramento, aged 59, former resident of Little Rock, was drowned in the wreck of the steamer Hanalei, which went ashore Monday night in a dense fog on Duxbury reef, nine miles north of the San Francisco harbor, with a loss of IS lives. Mrs. Cottrell was return ing to her home from visit to Eu- rekay Cal. She is survived by three sisters, Mrs. J. P. See and Mrs. John Humphrey, both of Little Rock, and Mrs. s. L. Clark of Los Angeles.
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 "Wanted-1,000 men to help build Little Rock" is the new slogan of the Chamber of Commerce in their cam paign to double their membership.
 Dr. J. c. Mahr, state health com missioner of Oklahoma, delivered the principal address before the annual conference of the state sanitary off. CT Tuesday at Little Rock
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 sAg for home-making and citi- sensEs1 is the object of plan to give credit to school children for home work which is now heinz mt into ef