The Green Forest tribune., 1915-10-15

The ruling of the Supreme Court ! will not affect the settlement between | the district and the commission, it is said. Under terms of the settlement the commission is to erect a levee to replace the one originally proposed by the levee district.
 In the Lincoln Circuit Court the l States contention that State land can ! not be condemned for sucn purposes without a special act of the legisla- l ture was upheld.
 Work on the new $40,000 school building at Wynne is being pushed by the contractor. w. '. Bell of Menl- phis. The contract calls for the com pletion of the building within 90 days, and Mir Bell says he will be throue!: before Christmas. The building will be one of the most complete and mod eTn in the state.
 Judge Jacob Trieber, at an informal hearing in chambers. practically sus- tained the contention of the Arkansas 5 Railroad Commission that the Frisco railroad should include in the tariff used joint haul rates and switchins; charges, pending the hearing of it's rate case in St. Louis December 10. Montgomery county again will vote on the question of removing the coun- ty seat from Mt. Ida to Womble on November IS, County Judge J. B. Kel- ly at Mt. Ida having granted the peti- tion of the Womble constituents.
 So great has been the activity and prosperity in the zinc mining districts of Marion county since the war begun that Rush, a village year ago, is now Q bustling little city of 1000 inhabi- tants and still is growing.
 Petition for a pardon for James Me Namara, former alderman of Hartford, now confined in the United States pen itentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
 
 Wilson.
 TWO negroes. who attempted to ford Old river, near Forest City. in a bug gy drawn by mule, encountered wa ter 10 feet deep and were drowned be- fore hep could reach them.
 Arkansas mills ara finding a ready sale for ashes, which are refined and converted into potash. slave mill at Depanto expects to ship 20 cars of ashes this week
 The crop of sweet acorns in the Ozark section is said to be the largest in years. Many hog Jaise~'s will fatten their hogs on acorns and save their corn for other purposes.
 A large deposit of manganese has been found at Nelson mountain, three miles north of Glenwood. The quality is said to be 62 per cent and It runs in la1g ge quantities. s. Louis capitalists have visited the deposit
 While opening up zinc prospect near Yel1ville. hole was blown into an immense underground cavit. thought to be subterranean water. way.
 United States Senator Joe T. Rob inson of Lonoke said he does not be. lieve the president will call special session of the Senate. "I see no oc- casion for special session." he said.
 The municipal waterworks plant at DeQueen was established February I5. 1910, at cost of $24,G00. A recen. report shows the outstanding indeht. edness at present to be s16,0O0.
 A religious argument between three ministers and their followers on tie depot platform at Mena grew so warm that the police interfered in order to avert an unpleasant termination.
 Fort Smith has begun to talk about a fitting celebration of the one hun. dredth anniversary of the establish ment of the old fort in 1917.
 The total enrolment at the Jones' horo schools has reached 1,70O the largest number ever enrolled.
 Frank Durivage of Sulphur Rock is seeking wife through a display ad vertisement in the Batesville Record.
 The feasibility of municipal cleo. tric light plant is being considered by the City Council of Mansfield
 Nonsubscribers who talk over a neighbours telephone at Cotter must pay cents per conversation.
 The White county quorum court fig expected to appropriate sufficient