The Pulaskian., 1915-06-25
AMERICAN BAUXITE
 CO WINS VICTORY
SALINE COUNTY ASSESSOR AD JUDGED PROPERTY WORTH
 $4o,ooo, ,ooo.
s6a6,Ooo HELD FAIR RATE
The Company Then Appealed and Gained Adjustment on Self
 Made Basis.
Little Rock.

1 Little Rock Victory for the American Bauxite Company in it's Saline County assess ment fight, which has caused the conl- pany to discontinue working it's hold 1ngs in this State, was won in the | Supreme Court, when it reversed and remanded the suit of the Board of Equalization of Saline County against the company, and cut the assessment Of the company's holdings, originally fixed at $470O0O0O, to $492,00O, the figures presented by the company The Supreme Courts decision In- structs the lower court to make the assessment at this figure
 The original assessment of the property, made by the assessor of Sa- line County, fixed the value of the company's holdings at $47,000,00O. The assessor based the assessment on the value of bauxite which an engineer said was in grounds owned by the company. The board of equalization cut the assessment down to $2,500,000, and when an appeal from the board s decision was taken to the Saline Cir cult Court the assessment again was reduced, this time to $637,000. The company appealed, declaring that 8 true assessment should be in the amount of $492,O0O. This contention was affirmed by the Supreme Court.
 Governor Hays appointed as dele gates to the convention of the Asso- l citation of Governmental Labor Off cials of the United States and Canada the officials of the State Bureau of Labor and Statistics and the members of the Minimum Wage Commission 1 They are: J. c. Clary, commissioner of labor; B. l. Mckinley, deputy conl- missioner of labor; Miss Mary H. McCabe and Miss Eva Reichardt, Of Little Rock. The convention meets in Detroit week beginning June 28.
 The State appealed from the verdict of the Pulaski Chancery Court hold ing the Municipal Court bill, passed by the last legislature, constitutional and valid. The measure was attacked by the State, through w. L. Moose, attorney general through suit alleg- ing it unconstitutional.
 A larger number of teachers than ever before will attend some summer school or normal this year, according to J. l.. Bond, state supervisor of ru- ral schools, who returned from trip over the state visiting teachers in- stitutes and meetings. He reports the institutes in Johnson, Franklin, Lo- gan, Clark and Dallas counties well attended.
 J. L. Bond, supervisor of rural schools, received the catalog and pre-. mium list of the Monroe County school fair at Brinkley, October IA and 15 This is the third annual school fair that is being held in Monroe County and the contests are much more elaborate this year than ever be- fore
 President R. H. Baugh of the South ern association has submitted pro- posal to the club presidents to set aside one day in the season when the proceeds of the game shall be dedi- cated to the fund being subscribed to erect a monument to the memory of the late president, w. M. Kava- naugh.
 Hugh Carter, State highway engi- neer, addressed a good roads meeting at Appleton and helped start work of perfecting plans for road running from the Arkansas River through At kins and Appleton and on to Hector, where it will meet the Russellvine- Harrison road, distance of thirty miles.
 No bids for deposits of state funds were accepted by the state depository | board pending an investigation of the 43 banks making bids.
 The St. Joseph's Hospital Training School for Nurses of Hot Springs filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state.
 Receiver Lloyd England announced that he will pay dividend of 10 per cent to depositors of the defunct State National Bank.
 w. B. Owen, chairman of the State Highways Commission, received his certificate of membership in the Ma | tional Highways Association. The as sociation is composed of Highway en- | gineers, state highway officials and l others interested in good roads. Gov r.fE Eoi0 ,l,x-