The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

ievee and will drain 30,000 acres of the finest farming lands in this terri tory. Work will start at once.
 The contract was awarded at Corn ing. Joseph Sellmeyer, R. Whitaker and James L. Smith are the commis- sioners. James Rhyme of Corning is the chief engineer.
 The quorum court, with Judge R. l.. Edwards and 21 of the 34 justices of the peace of the county in attendance, met at Jonesboro for the purpose of making the levy of taxes and various appropriations for the current ex- Penses and other special appropria- tions. A levy of five mills for general county purposes and three mills for roads and bridges and the state levy as certified by the auditor was voted unanimously.
 A log bungalow of three rooms, with front and back porch, was built in 04 hours at Leslie for s. P. Davis Jr of Little Rock, who was married in this city a few days ago Young MT. Davis found some land which he liked, but there was no house on it. The Leslie Land Company agreed to get the house ready in time for MT. Davis and his bride, and did so.
 
 Charles B. Wilson, who came to Gen. try from Colorado several months ago to look up some lost mines, thinks he has located one and has taken lease on the property where he thinks the mine is. The lease is for 20 years and the owners of the property are to have royalty of 10 per cent of the mineral produced.
 Edward Dixon, 21, a carpenter and Mrs. Claude Buck, young married woman, were arrested at Philadelphia, the officers say as the result of sus- picious circumstances attending the death of Dixon's wife October l. No formal charges have been preferred against either. Mrs. Buck and her husband are separated.
 A horned owl plunged Van Buren into darkness recently when he be came entangled in the wires support ed by the steel tower on the Van Bu- ren side of the Arkansas river. The owl was killed. Enough electricity passed through it's body to kill an ele- phant.
 A thief entered room in the Zine hotel ana obtained a few dollars in cash and some clothes from Jack Watson, ground boss at the Coker Hol- low mine. In a room adjoining, the door of which was open, was S50O diamond stickpin. This was oya-' looked.
 The greatest exposition of fruits and fruit products ever held in the territory embraced by the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River will be held in F't. Smith December / to 10, inclusive, according to plans ol the Arkansas State Horticultural As sociation.
 Mace Owens, a farmer who lives near Russellville, has installed a pea hulIer and gasoline engine on wagon and is going from farm to farm hull ing the pea crop. He works on the share plan, taking one-tenth of the hulled peas for toll.
 T. C. Logan was shot and killed at Ozone by John Winfield. Bad feeling had existed between the two men for some time, it is said. Logan, it is said, appeared at the Winfield home and began to abuse Mrs. Winfield. A shot gun was used, Logan dying instantly.
 The campaign against increased cot ion acreage next year is being ably assisted by the country correspond ents of the county papers in Arkansas who are advising their neighbors against running cotton prices by pro. ducing too much cotton.
 Tn building a spur track near Hat chiecoon the skeleton of a man was found in shallow grave. The man baad had been crushed. The condition of the bones indicated that the body had been buried several years
 A pumpkin has been found lodged in the fork of hickory tree 20 feet from the ground near Strawberry river. The pumpkin f1oated into the tree fork and lodged during the hlgh water of last August.
 The Ozark Fruit Growers Assoclaf +ion which marketed the peach crop of the mammoth Highland orchard this year, paid to Bert Johnson, man aeer of the Highland, S144,00O, attef deducting all marketing costs. According to information lately re- ooiyod at Mountain Home, no more