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In a civil suit growing out of the famous horse racing swindles at Hot Springs several years ago, the court a refused to give John H. Rumping judgment of $3,788 against the Arkansas National bank at Hot Springs for drafts which the bank paid. Rump. ing, a Montana resident, put up drafts as a bet on a fake race. Ed Spear, now awaiting a second federal trial in connection with the cases, procured the money from the bank on the drafts. Rumping sued Spear and the bank in the Garland Circuit Court to recover his loss. He was given a judgment against Spear, but the court held that the bank was not liable unless it could be proved it was a party to the swindle. The Supreme Court affirmed the decision. Rumping, while visiting Hot Springs in January, 1913, met two men, calling themselves Minor and Hamilton. They interested him in a horse race proposition, the returns from the race being received at a pool room. Rumping put up $3,788 on the race, and shortly afterwards his friends announced their joint winnings on the race were $108,000. Before payment would be made the poolroom keeper demanded that the amount of their bet should be paid in cash as an evidence that it had been made in good faith, and Rumping turned over drafts on a Chicago bank tor his part. The drafts were collected by Ed Spear, to whom they had been delivered through the Arkansas National bank, and when Rumping found out that he had been swindled, he brought suit against Spear and the bank. The money was collected and checked out of the bank by was but the against Spear. Spear, Judgment bank defended rendered on the it acted as the successfully merely ground agent of that Spear, who was a customer of the bank, in the collection of the drafts, and that it had no knowledge of the fraud being perpetrated. W. W. Hurst, who was president of the defunct Valley Savings Bank of Argenta, convicted about 18 months ago of receiving funds on deposit when he knew the institution to be in a an insolvent condition, and given three-year term in the penitentiary, was paroled by the state penitentiary board. For several months past Hurst was employed as a clerk in the office in the institution. Immediately after his he went to Springs release with Hot relatives. to spend a few days An epidemic of smallpox at Heber Springs is practically under control, according to Dr. C. W. Garrison, state health officer, who returned from a and an order by Dr. mayor there. Under proclamation Garrison, of the no child is allowed to enter school without showing a vacination certificate. All persons who have been exposed must be vaccinated or remain quarantined 14 days. Efforts of department and mercantile store owners and managers to have permits Minimum special Wage Commission issued to by permit the to day nine women hours employes per during work longer the consid- Christ- than mas holiday season was ered by the commission, according to Commissioner of Labor Clary, the chairman. Lloyd England, as receiver for the State National bank, filed suit in Circuit Court against L. J. Menton for of two on he and on the is collection principal another notes which which he is surety, totaling about $2,500. Judgment for interest on the notes dating from the early part of 1914 is also asked. On account of the Arkansas Stock Growers' annual convention and farmers' week .in Little Rock, January 10Rock Island announces rates from on its 13, excursion the all points special lines in Arkansas. Tickets will be on sale January 10-12, with return imit of January 15. Only routine business came before the meeting of the State Highway Commission. The three members of the commission, W. B. Owen, chairman; A. S. Kilgore of Magnolia and Thomas Burress of Jonesboro, at tended. A date for the Democratic State Convention and apportionment, by counties, of delegates to the convention, will be among the important matters taken up by the Democratic State Central Committee at its meeting here December 9.
