The Spectator., 1915-12-31


 It is said Governor Hays charged pr. Coulter with absenting himself from the farm too frequently. and War. den Martin with having been cruel to convicts.
 Political enemies of Governor Hays in Little Rock declared that the dis. missals were part of move in the gubernatorial game The governor is out of the city and it was impossible to get into communication with him.
 w. H. Hall, chairman of the Board of Control of the State Charitable In. stitutions, said the board has no statement to make relative to the changes at the State hospital.
 Suit to enjoin State Auditor M. F. Dickinson from issuing warrants on three state funds was ned in the Pu laski Chancery Court by Hal Norwood, attorney, on behalf of H. F. Jackson of Austin. Lonoke county, on the ground that no specific appropriations for payment was made by the 1915 legislature. The funds are the game protection fund" the fund derived from payment of fees and licenses un- der the act regulating the practice of veterinary surgery. medicine and den- tistry. and the fund secured from fees for the examination and registration of nurses.
 Nearly 100000 fewer bales of cot ton were raised in Arkansas in 1915 than in 1914. according to a prelimi. nary report by Sam l.. Rogers. direc tor of the census in Washington, D. C. The report, which shows the cotton only seven of the 75 counties were cotton crops increased, and in no county was the increase as much as 1000 bales. One county raised 14,000 bales less and many counties raised as high as 400 bales less in 1915 than in 1914.
 Should the courts hold in the maEda. mus suit recently brought against John H. Page, commissioner of mines, manufactures and agriculture, that the sale of fertilizer will be illegal until the next legislature appropriates for its inspection, the farmers of Ar. kansas will be the real losers. This statement was made by Haley M. Ben nett, president of the Arkansas Fer tilizer Company, the plaintiff in the suit to compel the issuance of inspec. tion tags.
 Arthur ScrogginSs of Conway coun. ty. arrested by Deputy United States Marshal x. P Burns on a charge or bootlegging. was brought to Little Rock by Deputy United States Mar, shal C. O. Payne and given hear ing before United States Commission CT w. & Allen. Commissioner Allen bound him to the federal Grand Jury and allowed him to furnish pond fer S250.
 Encouraging success in the work of
  is reported by Mason F. Mitchell, who is in charge in Arkansas. MT. Mitchell has made several addresses over the state and says he has found much in terest, He has received literature from Washington and has been send. ing it out.
 A sale of pure bred stock IS to be feature of the annual Stock Growers in Little Rock Farmers Week." january II. F and 13. It is said that pure bred cattle. hogs. horses and jacks can be bought at lowest prices. The animals will be on exhibition so that buyers may ex. anime them.
 A table compiled by Geo. E. Cook. state superintendent of public instruc. tion, shows that while there are only 1O.662 public school teachers in Ar kansas, the attendance at the l24 normal schools conducted last summer was l1,777.
 The Pine Bluff Lumber and Box Company. by it's president, Edgar Brewster, filed a voluntary petition Tn in the United States Dis trict Court in Little Rock The com pany operated principally at Clio. in Cleveland county.
 Although several deals for lsrm .or white convicts have been practically completed in the last few months, the lry Commission is no nearer the purchase of a farm than last sum- mer. members said.
 The Little Rock Board of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce signed an agreement of consolidation. The new