The Springdale news., 1915-01-29

| for Springdale. This is the same firm that made the preliminary here some years ago. The representative was highly elated over the prospects 1 for SpringdaIe to have waterworks, 1 and the firm will be ready to make permanent survey at any time, should their services be secured.
 The legislature of Oklahoma nas appropriated the sum Of s15 ,000 to be paid out for the arrest of bank rob- bers in that state. Since January st fourteen different banks have been robbed in Oklahoma, and captures have been exceedingly scarce. The money is to be paid whether the rob- Der is captured dead or alive, and will probably cause more man hunts that characterized the early days of our neighboring state. Arkansas don't need such an appropriation; make it for the University.
 If The News could charge as much for legal printing as was charged in one instance, by the publisher of a paper published in this county, the life of a newspaper man would be one grand time Of six-cylinder autos. | fine trotting horses and trip to the Panama-Paeifie Exposition. Spring dale citizen had occasion to have a 1 legal notice published in certain paper in this county; the notice was about ten lines long, and appeared six times. When the bill was rem dered it called for s15o0. Rather high. don you think?
 People of Washington county will have an opportunity Of voting on the question of larger school tax at the election in September, 1916. Geo, B. Cook, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. acting on behalf Of the Arkansas School Directors As sociation has filed with Secretary Of State Hodges an initiative peti- ton to submit an amendment to the people Of the state changing the maximum amount to be voted for in school elections from : to 12 mills. The cons scitution provides that only three amendments may be voted on at a general election, and this amend mcat will be known as No. The amendment itself does not change, nor increase the amount Of taxes, but gives the voters in each school dis trict an opportunity to vote more school taxes. It is an amendment that will be eagerly looked for in this special school district, as the limit has been voted for several years, and has not been found enough to care for the expenses. With the added five mills Springdale schools should soon be in good financial condition. This is an amendment tha has been sought after for several years, by a number Of the leading educators of the state, and if will give an opportunity to vote tax sufficient to put schools oa busi- ness basis.
 Ex-sheriff S. N Caudle is get ting a good bit of adver.i ising through the colums fo the papers Of this sec tiol Of the state, causedby his refusal to give up sum Of money which he has received as delinquent taxes. Caudle admits that it belongs to the state f the stories given in the var ious papers are true, but on account O. the custom" with his predecessor of keeping the money, he will net give it up unless those who came be fore him are made to do SO Just the real facts, and the jist of the entire matter, has never been investigated by The News, and We are not in a position to make any statements de rogatory to the manner in which the funds were handled. and make them with full and unclouded view Of the situation The Faye t.eville Democrat, both daily ard weekly, in much
 
 better position 10 ascertain the facts, alleges through it's columns that Mir. Caudle is keeping more than Sl 900 that rightfully belongs to the county; that he promised at one time to pay this sum, but has since refused, stat ing that he would do so. if all the other ex-sherffs of the county would do likewise Just what amount of funds has been going into the pock- cts of the retiring sheriffs in this manner, has never been made public. but with the present agitation that is being carried on, it seems high time that some one was making an inves- tigation and getting at the true f icts of the matter If ex-aheriff Caudle has this money and it right fullv belongs in tho county treas