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that oil has broken into his well and it is creating some excitement in the neighborhood. . . . An effort is being made to organize a company of militia in Stuttgart, and the town also hopes to be able to furnish a regimental band of 30 pieces. . . . Fifty box cars belonging to the Cotton Belt Railway Company, at the gravel pit three miles west of Jonesboro, were destroyed by fire, the origin of which is unknown. The average cost of a box car is $400, which makes a loss of something like $20,000. . . David Mitchell, a 17-year-old boy living near Mulberry, was drowned when he attempted to leap onto a moving ferryboat. . . . The Craighead County Sunday School Convention met at Bay last week. Nearly every Sunday school in the county was represented. . . Despondency, it is thought, impelled by the death of his daughter, Mrs. Marie Douglass, at Morrilton, caused John Harrod of Conway to attempt suicide. Just as he raised the pistol to shoot, his wife, Mrs. Martha Harrod, entered the room and, sizing up the situation at a glance, knocked the weapon from his hand just as he pulled the trigger. . . . Crescent College, located at Eureka Springs, was opened last week with a full enrollment. . . . John H. Page, commissioner of mines, manufactures and agriculture, hopes to bring over 1,000 immigrants to Arkansas during the winter months. Mr. Page is in the East now making arrangements for the various railroads to bring the immigrants to this state. . . . Col. W. H. "Coin" Harvey of Monte Ne, leading good roads advocate of the Southwest, and one of the sentral figures of the Bryan presidential campaign several years ago, announced his candidacy for Congress from the Third District. He is the fifth to enter the race. One of Col. Harvey's chief planks in his platform will be good roads, with government financial assistance to build them. Another is to prevent the establishment of great fortunes. . . . Attorney General W. L. Moose, at the request of Governor Hays, rendered an opinion declaring that the Kidder act of 1913, prohibiting newspapers from publishing the details of an electrocution, is valid. The law. the attorney general says, makes the publication a misdemeanor, punishable by not more than one year in prison or a fine not to exceed $1,000. Mr. Moose admits the constitutionality of the law may be questioned on the ground it violates the constitutional right giving freedom to the press. o . . The Little Rock public schools reopened after a summer recess of more than three months. Nearly 1,000 pupils were enrolled in the high school, which is the largest attendance in the history of the Little Rock High School. The graded schools also showed a large increased attendance over last year. o : . Judge George W. Reed, of the Fourteenth Judicial District, since he has been on the bench has paroled and suspended sentences against 450 youthful offenders, allowing them to go their way on probation, but warning them that if they should again be brought into his court for other violations of the law he would not only give give them the full penalty in the new cases, but would revive the old ones against them. Of the 450 boys and young men thus paroled, only one has ever been brought before Judge Reed again. . . . Jonesboro will, at an early date. begin the erection of a $30,000 city hall and fire department, this being the result of favorable action taken at a meeting of the city council. . . . Prof. M. J. Russell of Hendrix College, Conway, will attend the meeting of the American Athletic Union in St. Louis as Arkansas' representative. Arkansas has only recently become af filiated with the union. O . . Acting upon the application of A. M. Heiseman and Morris M. Cohn, executors of the Abe Steiwell estate, Chancellor J. E. Martineau placed the Little Rock Trust Company in the hands of Saw W. Reyburn, president of the Union Trust Company, as receiver Steiwell, who died three weeks ago, was principal stockholder and president of the Little Rock Trust Company The réceiver said depositors and credlitors will be paid in full.
