The weekly soliphone., 1916-11-10
Gossip From Little Rock

Little Rock, Nov S.--A high of fictal of the Rock Island says that the car shortage situation is very serious in Arkansas and is not inn proving. All commodities are sui fering from the congestion. Plat forms are loaded with cotton await ing shipment, and cotton seed is piled up on the ground. Lumber interests are suffering, mad all shippers are feeling the effects of the shortage The prevailing high prices, and the favorable weather Ithat has permitted the rapid gath ering of the crops are among the elements that have contributed to the conditions. The shippers in some states, although this is prob Iably not so true of Arkansas as other localities, are in a measure responsible, for they are willing to bay demurrage on car loads of their products which are advancing so rapidly every day. While they are making thousands of dollars, by holding up their shipments, the freight cars are tied up, and it is impossible to secure enough cars to keep the products moving. There never was before in the history Of Arkansas so great a volume of freight moving out of the state, and it is interesting to observe that the volume of incoming freight is less than normal. Arkansas is liy- ing at home, and sending it's surplus abroad.
 The importance of orchard in spcction and the quarantine of fruit trees is obe presented to the next session of the legislature. 9th CT states are taking an advanced position on the subject of orchard protection, and in self-dcfenso Ar kansas must adopt similar measures or permit an impairment of it's SUI Iprcmacy a8 a fruit center.
 For instance, Oklahoma's state board of agriculture has ruled that | all fruit coming into that state from Arkansas that does not bear certificate of inspection, shall be inspected and if found infected shall bc confiscated. While this quarantine is not aimed directly at Arkansas, this state will suffer most from ifs enforcement
 Attention is called to the fact that Arkansas growers are put to a special disadvantage because their competitors in states having or chard inspection laws are able to ship in apples without inspection but Arkansas apples must bear a certificate of inspection or else are held up.
 Those who are not satisfied with Arkansas diamonds or Arkansas pearls for scarf pins might bo5 will ing to accept the next most valuable thing, and that is Arkansas cottor seed. Tom Branch, manager of the Dcs Are Cotton Oil Mills, has haC
 a large number of scarf-pins made
 with cotton seed settings. and i' giving them to his friends as val juablo relies of tho 1916 season
 which has established record fo
 cotton and it's products. He say
 that he does not know anything
 more valuable at this time thal
 cotton seed at $6O ton. Ant
 twenty-five years ago gins pait
 haulors to take it away and dumI
 it into the nearest creek.
 Col. s. Brundidge, the Grand Ol'
 Man of White county politics, wh'
 has lived in searcy all his life, am introduced all the political speaker
 that ever come there, and preside' , at the citizens meetings, and bcel sent to congress, and voted for gov .ernor, but he had never made
 political speech in Searcy until on Iday last week Then his friends ap Epealcd to the state committee tt assign Col. Brundidge to mako
 speech in his home town. The dat was announced and the bushes
 houses of hto city closed up to hca
 him. His audience overflowed tn
 court house and disproved the olt
 proverb that "a prophet is no
 without honor save in his owl
 country and among his own kin
 drcd.'