White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-06-29

carry-over weevils, | mean those which
have survived the winter"
Harrison.-J. w Armstrong, for
mer station agent at Fairview, Mo-,
and Will Shelton, former section hand
on the M. and N. A, narrowly es-
capped being burned to death by mob
on the railroad bridge which they
are charged with burning, it was
learned on the arrival of General
Manager ] c. Murray from Wheaton,
Mo. Timely arrival of officers from
Neosho, Mr.. Murray said, saved the
men from lynching
Gillett.-Aroused by the explosion
of three charges of nitroglycerin used
by four yeggmen to destroy the safe
of the postoffice at Gillett, Mayor A.
Fl. France, Postmaster Ray Walker
and Deputy Sheriff Ollie Holden en-
gagged in a gun battle with the robbers,
in which about 30 shots were fired.
The bandits escaped on horseback.
They were trailed by posse %
miles east, where they separated and
escaped.
MalYern.-Returns from five car
loads Of hogs shipped comparatively
by the farmers Of Hot Springs county
indicate the value of that plan Of mar
keting to the farmers. In these cars,
So farmers shipped a total of 524
hogs, for which they received gross
return of $569238, and incurred a
shipping expense of $625.63, on a to-
tai weight of $3.50 pounds, a total
shipping and selling expense of less
than 80 cents a hundred pounds.
Nashville.-Sale of the Memphis,
Dallas and Gulf railroad is postponed
again by Federal Judge Youmans, if
ficials in this city receiving their first
intimation of the postponement of
sale in a telegram. This is the third
time the sale of the road has been
postponed. The date for the sale has
not as yet been set, but will be an
nounced after a conference on July 5.
Hot Springs.-An insanity commits
sion probably will be appointed to ex-
tempt of the 31-year-old farmer to cut
his juglar vein in the county Jail here.
Moye shot and killed his wife, telling
story of infidelity, which later on
investigation was found to exist only
in the imagination of the man He
and his wife and two boys, aged two
and four, camo here from Lee county,
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ton there, where they had formerly
lived.
Harriso Moore than $3.50 was
pledged by residents of Harrison to-
yard a reward for the arrest and con-
viction of anyone guilty of setting
fire to bridge or bridges On the Mis-
souri, and North Arkansas railroad,
Immediately following receipt OF news
that a bridge at Freeman, Ark, near
Berryville, was damaged by fire The
subscription list is not complete, and
it was said that considerably more
than $1,000 would be pledged
Helena.-The first car Of cabbages
ever known to have been shipped
from Arkansas to the northern mar
kets left here for Chicago
Fort Smith.-Frank Allen, railroad
te1egrapher, who shortly after 2
o'clock on the morning of June IA
shot and killed Ausenbury Beasley, son
of the first mayor of Salisaw, Okla,
was arraigned in Justice court at Sail
fol
state witnesses and one for the de-
tense, was bound over to the District
Court without bail.
Little Rock-The State of Arkansas
at the auction sale at Camp Pike
bought $500 gas masks paying 10
cents each while the government paid
about $40 mask
Heber Springs. = Mrs. Elizabeth
Kaufman, the oldest woman in Gle
hurne county, whose exact age is
not known, but who was known to be
very close to 100, was killed this morn
ing in fall from motor truck. The
accident occurred about 10 miles south
of Heber Springs on the Rosebud
road
Fort Smith.-Lee Colt and Hubert
Mills Us and 16 year old boys) were
killed, two miles from Springdale
when southbound Frisco passenger
train No. 5 struck the tractor on
which they were riding.
Ozark.-A girl giving her name OF
Marie Clark, aged 10, of ST. Joe, Mo-,
is being held in the county Jail here
on charge of being an accompliee in
the recent depot robbery here She
has told officers part of the story