Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-12-15

Leasing land for oil and gas rights in Crawford and Sebastian counties shows no abatement and it is said more than 60,000 acres has been leas- ed. These leases have placed thou. sands of dollars into circulation. The Clear Creek Oil and Gas Com pany. whose big gaser at Kibler, | Crawford county, started the excite. | ment, has the largest acreage. It has | leased 2S,000 acres. It has taken leases on about 4,OO0 acres since it brought in it's first we'll.
 John H. Ray of Fort Smith stands second with 15,000 acres leased in | the Greenwood district
 The fifth Fort Smith corporation to be formed to develop the big gas field | discovered recently in the region of Kibler and Alma, Crawford county, was organized. The company will be known as the Sarah Oil and Gas Com pany.
 The company has a capital stock of i $32,000, nearly all subscribed The cor l poration has 2,699 acres under lease. The Dora Oil and Gas Company of Fort Smith, which has 1,2OO acres l leased at Dora, Crawford county. IS moving rig on it's place preparatory to begin drilling we'll No. l. l A surprise was sprung when 1t be, came known the Clear Creek Oil and Gas Company, which has leased 27- l 900 acres, leased in Crawford county had secured leases on 1000 acres on Arbuckle Island in this county. The | company contracts to sink a we'll within 30 days Another company has been drilling on the island.
 Near Jethro, Franklin county, off cers found Mrs. Minnie Tucker, and her two small children living in cave. One of the children is 10,
 month-old baby which is sick, and the other is girl about 8 years of l age. The children needed food and were poorly clad. After being fed and clothed they were cared for by resi- dents of the Jethro neighborhood. The mother refused to give up the chil- dren, and they were taken from her
 by force. It is stated she may be sent ] to the Hospital for Nervous Diseases.
 Charging that the United Mine | Workers of America are engaged 1n national conspiracy to monopolize the employment of labor at coal mines n the United States, the Pennsylvania
 Mining Company, operating at James town, Johnson county, sued the or. ganization and it's local, district and | international officers in the United States District Court here at Ft. Smith for s60O,OOO damages.
 A feature of the Christmas edition of the Arkansas Teacher, a monthly
 publication edited by the faculty of the State Normal School at Conway, 1 in an article on "The Educational Neglect of the Nation" by Joe F. Sul-
 an. special instructor in the Van LenAs sen Brown Scnool TOT OrrpeIes ol Detroit, Mich., a former Arkansas young man.
 Transcript of appeal was filed in the Sebastian Circuit 0ourt in the cases of former Fort Smith saloonists, who are attempting to compel the court district to recompense them for money they paid for liquor licenses which later were cancelled. There are 7S claims for $S.000 each, or a total of $624,000.
 The Clear Creek Oil and Gac Com pany has perfected an abstract on the property where it's second we'll is to be drilled in the Kibler field of Crap'- pany's attorney passes favorably upon the instrument arrangements will be made to drill.
 A development company is being organized at Alma to mine for lead The concern has taken options on considerable land and expects to be- gin operations soon. The find on the Atwell farm is said to be very en- couraging.
 A little son of Mir. and Mrs Elnor Gresham fell into a pool of water near Fordyce and was pulled out ap- parently dead. His mother and some of her friends worked with him for several minutes and succeeded in re- suscitating him.
 Fire which started in the boiler room and the water used to extinguish it caused about $500 damage to the Arlington hotel at Hot Springs. The fire was confined to the boiler room. A vicious mule knocked down Frank Robinson, a negro, near Roe, paved him and then seizing one of his feet in his mouth broke several homes in if If was npcessarv tO am.