The Carlisle independent., 1915-09-09

pensions granted through the chang 2 ing of requirements by the last legis- S lature. The legislature also increased Q the pension tax levy, but the increase will not be shown in the pension fund
 until the 1915 taxes are collected. The f, fund this year amounted to $634, 4,5543G | There were 10,502 applications this ii year and $500 last year Warrants s to pensioners will be mailed Sep I, tember Is. c FOR HURRIED READERS. W
 After hearing evidence on the peti- u tion of shippers of Fayetteville ask u ing that the Frisco railroad be requir n ed to maintain an interchange track at Fayetteville with the Kansas City and Memphis railroad, the Arkansas Railroad Commission ordered the road d to submit brief of the case before Il | September 15. The shippers were given a week in which to answer the s | brief A decision probably will not U | be given by the commission until Oc- :. tober 6. n
 a
 Governor Hays pardoned w w. Full Ter of Searcy county, fine' $200 last May for malicious mischief The par e don was granted on condition that q should Fuller again be found guilty h of an offense he shall pay the fine, n and that he pay the costs attached to . ha ran
 Hearing of the petition of the Ar F kansas Railroad Commission for an b interpretation of Judge Jacob Trieb- CTS modifactcation order in the Fris
 co rate case probably will be heard 1; in Little Rock the third week in Sep c i tember. according to a letter from |, Judge Trieber received by w. F. Me a i Knight a member of the commission. n Dinner Burnside, former assistant t secretary to Governor Hays, accom-
 panied by his bride, formerly Miss
 Audrey Clary, whom he married in W San Francisco. arrived in Little Rock. E MT. Burnside has been executive clerk a at the Panama-Pacific exposition. No S appointment has been made by Gov t' ernor Hays to succeed him. E The third quarter of the Ga per cent ' assessment levied on stockholders of | the defunct State National Bank is C due. but Lloyd England, receiver for the institution, would not say when
 dividend might be expected by the de 1 positors One dividend of 10 per cent | has been paid p
 According to local bankers and mer- :, chants a large quantity of counterfeit ', money has been circulated in Little Rock in the last few weeks. Several o lead half dollars have been found, many bad dollars bearing the date 1879
 and 1889 and few S20 gold pieces
 dated 1S4S.
 The Railroad Commission dismissed . a petition asking for the establish D ment of crossing on John Lynn's . place on the Texas and Pacific Rail- ', road. in Miller county. similar pe-
 tition from Crosses, on the Frisco. in
 Benton county, also was dismissed. Il
 The amount of common school fund g per each child of school age in the IT state will be increased this year from S s205 to s2.12, according to figures s compiled by Ray Gill, deputy superin- 0 tendent of public instruction.
 Cash C-o1iaptpd from inheritance | helped state officials to get their sal S ary warrants cashed at par The of- f 1 fee of the attorney general turned Tn \ l s12.602 in cash collected in inheritance V 1 tax. q
 The Arkansas Railroad Commission
 announced it will bring suit agains,
 the Frisco railroad to recover over T charges on freight shipments. amount f ing to s191. f
 Governor Hays pardoned Jimmie
 Allen, fined s25 in Pulaski county An f gust 24 for disturbing the peace and r John Nichols of Franklin county. sen. , fenced in September, 1911. to two i years for grand larceny and disposing s of state property.
 Assessment records for real and per [ sonal property in Pulaski county, com { l pleted by Deputy Assessor John c T 1 Morrison, show totals of s29,s94, ,9go and ss.599,740 respectively, or s3S.- [ 694130 combined. {