The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

| Pulaski County leVyng court, CouhIy l Judge Asher recommended no change 1 ii ti1e rate of taxation and but slight increase in the total approprla' ion for county purposes. Last year | he recommended an appropriation ot
 S2OO,OOO, but only $134,600 was appro- | priated, and the county accounts were | overdrawn $159,036. He recommended
 an appropriation of S205,5OO, which
 will include an allowance of little
 more than $66,OOO for payment on the | county courthouse.
 The rate of taxation suggested,
 which does not include rates that are specified by legislative acts, are the same as adopted last year: County general fund, 1-2 mills; courthouse fund, l 1-2 mills; interest fund, three fourths mill special road fund, three mills.
 County Clerk Herbert Turner re- ported that the county was honey combed with roads, many of which now are splendid highways. The en- tire system, if in one road, would reach from Little Rock to Chicago. There are 200 miles highly improved with macadam and gravel and prof. ects now are under way which will mean an additional g miles within the next year.
 Report shows that the new court house cost $S14,665, of which the $50, 900 due is to be paid in installments up to 1923. The total assets of the county are $2.732,500.
 MT Turner said the bonded debt of the county is $240,000. The outstand. ing debt on the courthouse is $56S,- 344. Balance due on the old Quapaw lot and buildings Is S16,408, and on the Fleming building $9,392. The floating debt is $167,O33, making grand total of S1.001, ,179. The esti- mated assessed value this year of property in the county is $4S,000,000.
 Should the United States Supreme Court hold the Federal migratory bird law unconstitutional, as is alleged ;n suit appealed from Judge Jacob Trieber's court, Arkansas will have no law governing open and closed sea. sons for the killing of water fowl, according to E V. Visart, Federal game inspector.
 State Bank Commissioner John M Davis announced the appointment of S. R. Thomas of Rogers to assist in conducting the legal affairs of the defunct Citizens Bank of Rogers He will assist Perry Clark, recently ap- pointed special deputy bank commis- sioner in charge of the bank to sue ceed l.. H. McGill, resigned
 Precautionary measures are recom- mended in statement regarding diphtheria in Little Rock issued fol- lowing a conference at the city hall between Dr. Milton Vaughan, city health officer; Dr. Anderson Watkins Dr. Ida J. Brooks and R. C. Hall, su- nerintendent of the Little Rock pub lie schools.
 Senator J. O. A. Bush of Prescott, chairman of the legislative commit tee that investigated the old State Board of Charities and the State Hos pital for Nervous Diseases, said he did not believe report on the inves- tigation would be filed by the House members of the committee.
 November 15-19, the annual session of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Ar kansas will be held in Little Rock. About 500 delegates are expected. In addition to the members of the grand lodge, many women will attend state meeting of the Order of the Eastern Star.
 Although the financial returns of the Pulaski county fair were not what the directors of the fair association had hoped, there is scarcely a possi- bility that fair will not be held in 1916, John c. Small, secretary of the fair association, said.
 The Arkansas Railroad Commis- sion following Q hearing at it's office fixed the rates which railroads in the state shall receive on joint shipments with the Frisco railroads at 85 per cent of the local rates for distance carried.
 The validity of an act Of the last legislature creating municipal courts in Little Rock and Argenta and prac- tically abolishing the justice of the peace courts was upheld in a decision handed down by the Supreme Court.
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