The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-16


 case, which has for three years been s cause celebre in Fort Smith and sas. eral Southern States, came up ir a new guise when the taking of deposi. tions was commenced in a suit in which the United States sues four of the chief defendants in the moonshine cases for the recovery of S466,0 of unpaid revenue tax in the years when moonshine whisky was made and shipped out of this city by the hun dreds of thousands of gallons all over the South.
 The dispositions are being taken be fore Special Commissioner James K. Perkins. court reporter of the West ern District of Arkansas. The defend ants named by the government in the tax suit are John l. Casper. Guy Hart man, Thomas c. Mccoy and J. F Smithhead. The suit is brought in the Western District of North Caro lima. In taking the dispositions here Col. w. s. Thompson. special assis', ant to the attorney general, reprN sents the government and Judge A. [ Holden of Asheville, N C., the de fendants. Counsel in the case ar rived in this city from North Carolina and Judge Youmans named the com missioner before whom the dispositions are being taken.
 A considerable number of the wit. nesses who figured in the various criminal trials in this city growing out of the illicit operations of the Rush & Brewbaker distillery will give dep ositions, as will also members of the local houses that supplied materials to the distilery. Not until the govern ment had far developed the evidence of the operations of the Rush distill. cry did the government unearth evi. dence upon which Smithdeal is charg ed by the government with having been silent partner with the Gas er-HartmanMcCSy combination for beating the government out of the tax on distilled spirits.
 The old Cohn house at Hot Springs on Central avenue and Valley street, condemned by the commissioners and city manager, is being torn down and r,oved away. This is the last of the old landmarks on Central avenue. The building has been condemned several times in the last 20 years, but for some cause it was never removed At special meeting of the com missioners of Road Improvement Dis trict No. 1 of Perry county bonds to the amount of sS5.000 the estimated cost of constructing the 26 miles et roads in the district, were sold to F. J. Hahn of Little Rock. who offered 101 for the entire issue.
 l B. w Seizler of Lonsdale, who ope- rates a travelling thresher, reports | that he has threshed more than 7,001 bushels of wheat and oats in that sec | ton this year. Several crops ef wheat have yielded as high as B bushels to the acre.
 The old students reunion of the l White Oak Academy will be held Au- gust F. A special program is being prepared for the occasion. Many oi the "old students who expect to attend the reunion. who have passed | their 75th year.
 The Rogers Good Roads Club has been organized with the following of. ficers: R. H. Whitlow. president; Ed | c. Baker, vice president; George M. Love, secretary; E. F. Jackson, treas urer.
 Nearly 200 miles of permanent high way will be constructed in Phillips i county, the work beginning this fall, l if plans being worked out by the Hell ena and the Marvell commercial or. ganiZations go through.
 About 400 carloads of peaches were shipped from the Highland Orchard l this season. The peaches were of ex cellent quality and brought fancy | pIiCtS. Stftldl LII SdAld- loupes were shipped also.
 Three thousand black bass from | the government hatcheries have been brought to Philadelphia and placed in 1 Ouachita river. The fish were hand l led here by F. J. Carpenter and John 1 Hinsley.
 Nearly 150 boys and girls from all parts of Washington county met at Fayetteville in the annual club dem onstration work convention. They were guests of the Business Mems l Club.
 The Western Coal Mining Company 1 at Denning is closing out its store preparatory to suspending the opera tion of it's mines at that place. The | ok