The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-09
SAYS GOVERNMENT
 OWNS SUNK LANDS"
JUDGE TRiEeER's DECISION IS AFFIRMED BY U. S. COURT OF
 APPEALS AT ST. LOUIS.
LAKES ARE ALSO INCLUDED
Claims Survey Made By Government Engineers in 1e41 the Lands in Dispute Were Erroneous'y
 Shown as Lakes.
Little Rock

Little Rock i. According to telegram received by J. A. Teller, special assistant to United States Attorney General Greg ery, the United States Circuit Court ct Appeals at St. Louis affirmed the decision of Judge Jacob Trieber in holding that the sunk lands of Mis- sissippi county belong to the govern ment and not to the present claim ants. The case has been pending for more than six years and has creat- ed wide interest. More than 200 families, according to MT. TelIier, now live on the 12o,000 acres involv- ed. The land is valued at more than S6.000,000. The case is one Of 10 brought by w. N Mills and the late Col. W. G. Whipple, special assistants to the United States attorney general, to recover the land from the present claimants. It involves Moon lake, which has been held by Lee Wilson, president of the Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern railroad, and well-known capitalist of eastern Arkansas. The lake comprises $50 acres.
 In survey made by government en- gineers in 1S41 the lands in dispute were erroneously shown as lakes. They were not included in the land opened for settlement At the time the lands were opened the water which forrned the supposed lake at the time of the land around it claimed it under repar- ian rights. Later the St. Francis Levee district claimed to have acquired a large part of it under the swamp land reclamation law. Much of the land now involved in the suits was pur- chased from the levee board.
 Matthew E. Gormly, statistical ex- United States Department of Labor, arrived in Little Rock to gather ma terial for report the department is preparing on the administration of la bor laws in the states. He spent the day in conference with Commissioner of Labor J. c. Clary and Deputy Commissioner E. I. Mckinley. He will be in Arkansas week.
 The game fund created under the act of the last legislature establishing the State Game and Fish Commission is increasing at the rate of from $l00 to $200 per day, and now amounts to approximately s15,000. Most of the money is for licenses to use hunting dogs or to fish.
 book boards this year, according to un- official information received by Ray Gill. deputy state superintendent of public instruction. The counties are: Baxter, Crittenden, Sebastian, New ton, Hampstead, Jefferson, Fulton and Cleburne.
 The Wolfert-Booth Lumber Com pany of Little Rock, capitalized at $5.- 900, filed articles of incorporation. It will do a general manufacturing and jobbing business. J. s. Wolfert is president and J. H. Maassen and Ed win Booth the other corporators. denied to the Midland Valley Rail- road an application for reclassifica- tion in the commissions tariff No. 5, which would permit the raising of rates on coal shipments to South Fort Smith.
 The Pine Ridge Mining Company of Jonesboro, capitalized at s40000., filed articles of incorporation in the office of the secretary of state. The corpo- rators are c. L. Kennard, H. K. Brown and M. H. Rhodes.
 Governor Hays issued proclama- ton relieving Charles Oracle of pay ing a fine of $25 and serving sen tence of six months on the Pulaski county farm for petlt larceny.
 Governor Hays issued a proclama- tfon calling a special election for De cember in the Fifth Judicial Dis trict to elect circuit judge.
 Outbreaks of diptheria at Blythe vile and smallpox at Heber Springs were reported to Dr. c. w. Garrison, state health officer.
 Women bundle wrappers now are entitled to S1 per day, under a ruling of the Minimum Wage Commission, announced at it's meeting. The rul- ing had been under consideration for some time, but because of depressed business conditions last summer was not enforced.
 There were 14,329 births and 6,s11