The Spectator., 1915-06-18
RAILROADS FAILURE TO RE. STORE OLD RATE WILL CAUSE
 SUPERVISION OF WORK.
LARGE TERRITORY AFFECTED
of Uncut Timber of 142,ooo Carloads.
Little Rock.

ana iron Mountain railroads ana the Black and White River Transporta ton Company and other boat lines are restored. the lumber industry on the upper Black and White rivers will be suspended, according to testimony before the Interstate Commerce Com mission last week by H. M. Gregory, rate clerk of the Arkansas Railroad Commission. The testimony was given at Newport, before a hearing on a petition from shippers of the region, asking that the participating rates be re-established.
 The participating rates were estab- lished in March,. 1909. Under the tariff the rates from any point on the rivers was as follows: St. Louis, 1Sc per 100; Thebes, H., 10c per 100; Memphis, 14c per 100. Ill June, 1909, these rates were reduced l per cent per 100 pounds. In January, 1911, the rates were raised to the former standard, and last year the participat- ing rates were withdrawn, and some Rates made to apply on shipments Aion 4NCWpOIl dlu ottttt idilIOdu points on the rivers. This caused shippers from the upper basins of the rivers to add cents per 100 pounds to the freight rates for river transpor- tathon to points of delivery to the rail roads. AS result, they have been unable to compete with other indus tries enjoying lower rates, and many have been forced to suspend opera tion, MT. Gregory said. He said that the territory affected covers 300 square miles and includes 117,000 acres or 142,0O0 carloads of uncut timber. The cutting of this timber would open up many thousand acres of fine farming land, he said.
 That part of the new court practice law. passed by the last legislature, which will shorten the length of time which may elapse after the issuance of warning orders to defendants in Chancery Court complaints before ac- tion is taken. went Into effect today Heretofore when warning orders were used to obtain service upon nonresi- dent defendants, it was necessary to wait 50 days after the first publica- tion of the order. Under the new law, only 30 days may elapse after the is- suance of the warning order.
 Bids for deposits of state funds, af. ter the annual settlements of county sheriffs and collectors, were to have been opened today by the State De pository Board, composed of the gov ernor, attorney general, state treas urer and state bank commissioner. Because Attorney General Moose and Governor Hays were not in the city the meeting was postponed until June 22.
 The State Department of Public h. struction has received notice of two scholarships at the Seaman A. Knapp School of County Life, of the George Peabody College for Teachers. They are to be awarded one Arkansas boy and one girl each year, and are valued &i piVV VaNH- ACN dlC UN a committee of which the state s,l- perintendent of public instruction is a member.
 Officials of the state treasury ey. pect a payment of $4S,75 to be made within few days by the Iron Noun. tain Railroad as a part of s65,O0 it and the Cotton Belt were to pay the state for the costs of appealing the rate cases to the suprema court ur- der the compromise made March 8. Last week the Cotton Belt paid it's $1s,5O0 of the amount.
 Dr. c. G. Carroll, professor of chemistry at the University of Ar kansas, declined the position of chem istry at the University of Utah. Salt Lake City, although the salary offered him there was considerably more than he is receiving here.
 Representative Robert R. Posey of Grand County filed in the Supreme Court friendly suit to test the grounds on which an injunction was recently asked in the Grant Chancery Court to keep the road commissioners of road district from issuing bonds.
 Secretary of State Earle w. Hodges returned from Corpus Christi. Tex, where he represented the Texarkana
 
 range for joint meeting of the Texas Press Association with the Arkansas association at Texarkana in 1916. The Texas association declined the invitation.
 Hugh Carter. state highway engi- neer, was in Camden blaming pre- ,svxtr q ry curvoy Of a road frov,, Cn~.