The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-05-10

A total of 100000 worth Of model
road work has been done in Nicholas
| County since the road bonds we're
voted at Carlisle. This leaves about
$4,000 available for good road work
this year under state aid, besides about
1900, which will be expended in re-
pair work on the wide roads of the
county.
With a posse Of officers hot on his
trail in the hills Of Boyle County, Pack
Montgomery, who shot and killed Polk
Pendergraft at Parksville a few days
ago, committed suicide rather than be
arrested. He shot himself through the
heart. Montgomery and Pendergraft,
| both young men, quarreled over the
ownership of a dog.
Four thousand fly swatters made by
pupils of the manual training depart
ment of the Lexington High School
were distributed yesterday to children
in the various schools. Swat the
common enemy of mankind-the pesky
fly" is now the slogan in this city. The
swatters, which are of wire, are delft
and handy to manipulate.
The Appellate Court at Frankfort de-
cided that the 100000 bond issue re-
Gently passed in Pulaski County is
valid. The vote for the bond issue was
1905, and that against 1t was 1859.
Lincoln Denton, taxpayer, brought
suit to test the validity of the election
and every point made by him was over
ruled.
The state road department will be
called upon o settle the controversy
between Henderson and Union Coun-
ties regarding the selection of the
inter-county seat road between Hen
derson and Morganfeld. Henderson
County selected the Morganfield-Smith
Mills road and Union County selected
the CorydonWaverly road. They are
ten miles apart at the boundary line.
The vote in the good roads bond Is.
sue election held at Henderson stands
1896 against to 1913 in favor of issuing
the bonds in the sum of 100000. The
fact that the fiscal court refused to
appoint a road fund commission on
petition of more than so per cent of
the voters and the Good Roads Associa-
ton was responsible for the bonds
defeat.
At the meeting of the State Railroad
Commission at Frankfort 1t was de-
cided to meet with the telegraph and
telephone companies in Louisville
May 29 to talk over the plan of bring
ing these lines under the control of
the commission. The commission will
meet with the express companies rep
resentatives May so and with the
steamboat line representatives May 81
in Louisville for the same purpose.
Nearly every forest fire reported to
State Forester j. Z. Barton this spring
in Eastern Kentucky was traced to a
clearing, and Forester Barton said it
bespoke an awakening realization of
the menace of carelessness in burning
over ground. Arrests have been made
in Bell and Harlan Counties, one man
has been fined in Bell, and several cases
are to go before the grand jury in
Leslie.
William Stanley, brother of Govern
or A. o. Stanley, has been appointed
by Collector Ben Marshall at Lexing-
ton to succeed Paul L. Sidebottom as
field deputy in Division No. 1 Of the
Seventh Internal Revenue District. He
will assume his duties next Tuesday.
Sidebottom resigned to accept a civil
service commission in the Insular
Bureau Of the Philippine Government.
A warrant for the arrest of former
Representative w. A. Shawler. Hardin
County, charging the uttering Of a
worthless check, and sworn to by L. C.
Yeast, was issued at Eilzabethtown.
Yeast charges that Shawler gave him
a check for $500 on March 80, 1916,
and says that payment was refused
when 1t was presented at the bank.
Shawler was a member of the 1912 and
1914 sessions of the Kentucky Legis.
lature.
Prominent business and professional
men of Hopkinsville discussed the
business side. of the church at the
session of the Western Kentucky Pres
byterian Laymen's Convention held in
that city last week. Short talks were
made by r. s. Triplett and DR.. ]. NJ.
Coffman, of Owensboro; j. E. McPher-
son, Of Hopkinsville; A. H. Taylor, of
Bowling Green; George M. Crider, of
Marion; w. G. Duncan, of Greenville,
and w. e. Fowler, Of Central City.
Circuit Judge r. L. Stout at Frank
fort decided that sheriffs should be
paid mileage to and from penal insti-
buttons when they take convicted pris-
oners for Incarceration. Sheriffs ]. B.
Jones. Pulaski County, and Tom Lo-
gan, Hopkins County. sued State
Auditor Greene, to compel him to is
sue warrants for mileage to and from
the State Penitentiary when they had
taken prisoners. He declined to issue
the warrants. The case will be ap-
pealed by the state.
Plans for division of the South be-
tween the Louisville q Nashville Rail-