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IK $187,000 FOR ANII-TUBERGULOSIS NEXT LEGISLATURE WILL BE ASKED TO MAKE APPROPRIA TION FOR CAUSE. NOW HAS 139 INMATES During Two Years the Completion of Buildings Donated Has Increased Capacity of Sanitorium to 145, the Report Says. Little Rodk.— The next Legislature will bo asked to appropriate $187,000 for anti-tuber culosis work and for the maintenance of the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Booneville during the next two years, according to the budget report of Dr. C. P. Meriwether, secretary to the Board of Directors, filed with State Auditor M. F. Dickinson. The report says the last Legislature appropriated $-85,000 for the mainte nance of the institution for two years when it had only 98 patients and that the institution now has 189 inmates and nine other applicants. During the two years the completion of buildings donated, among them the Echols build ing, has increased the capacity of the sanatorium to 145, the report says. Of the $187,000 asked the report Bays that $181,000 is asked for actual and the remainder for improvements, expenses and needs of the institution and additions that should be made. Chief among the latter is $50,000 for building a^d maintaining for two years of a negro tuberculosis sana torium. ^ “It is well known.” the report says, "that negroes are more susceptible to tuberculosis than whites, and that ne gro servants and others of the rac£ are among the widest carriers of the disease." The r.eport says the last Legislature recommended the building of a sanatorium for negroes. In the recommendations for funds "not actually needed for the present institution, but which the importance of the fight against tuberculosis de mands." the report asked for $1,000 for an educational anti tuberculosis campaign: $5,000 for a thildren’s building and $50,000 for a negro sana torium. .— • STATE HAPPENINGS. Capt. Alph Hamberg, well known in Little Rock, and for more than 40 years a resident of Lonoke, will be a full fledged American citizen within a few months. He discovered in 1914 that he was not an American citizen, although he had thought himself one for 35 years. Shortly after Mr. Ham berg came to Lonoke he took out nat uralization papers. These papers were not sent to Washington but were kept in the county courthouse at Lonoke. The courthouse was destroyed by fire and the papers with it. Mr. Hamberg never gave the matter any thought un til two years ago when' he made an investigation and found that he was still a subject of the queen of Hol land. The Commissioner's Court of Bowie county, Tex., at Boston, appro priated $7,000 for completing the good road between Texarkana and New Boston, a distance of 22 miles. Work will be started at once. The good road from Texarkana was built several years ago to within about six miles qf New Boston and this gap will now be closed. The court also appropriat ed $8,000 for repairing other roads. Floyd, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Bd McAllister. of Benton, is not expected to live, following an acciden tal shooting when the lad was shot by a playmate, Ted Ballard, while hunting birds. More than 20 shots have been removed from the boy’s head, throat and back. A timber wolf weighing 70 pounds was killed by John Culp, who resides near the Little Missouri river. Culp was out hunting with his dogs when they jumped the wolf. The wolf turn ed on the dogs and was clase to them when shot by Culp The Woodmen of the World of Ran dolph held a rally under the auspices •f Oak Camp No. 63 at Pocahontas and initiated 140 new members under a dispensation. After the Initiation a banquet was served Farrar Newberry Was the speaker. 1 Former Sheriff John F. McCuistlon of Newport recently suffered the loss of a new steel range when he built a fire in the stove, in which water pipe's were froxen. The pipes burst, demol ishing the range. No one was In jure#. The Bank of Ravenden, Ark., was robbed by two masked men. Two customers were in the bank at the time Both were backed up ugainst the wall, the cashier being held at the same time. The robbers got away with $1,800. They had been seen around town for two days. Charles T Bibes of Benton has re ceived a three-inch shell from a Euro pean battlefield from his stepson. A. C. Kockersmith, who is with the Brit ish government Phillips County officers will be plao ed on a salary basis; the county and city funds will be placed on interest in depositories, and a municipal oourt will be established in Helena if the measures that will be introduced by Representative Skipwith Adams in the Legislature that meets next month in Little Rock do not. fail of passage. Mr. Adams’ bills, already drawn up, are said to have been sanctioned by the Good Government League, of which Maj. Greenfield Quarles, former county judge, is president. County Judge Dade Moore is also re ported to be in favor of the measures. The bill abolishes the fee system and calls for a fixed salary of $2,400 for the county treasurer, $300 for the coroner, $3,000 for the county clerk and ex officio clerk of the probate court, $3,000 for the circuit clerk and ex officio clerk of the chancery court, $4,000 for the sheriff and ex officio collector, and provides for the care of prisoners, etc. The bills requiring that depositors be established for the city and county funds make it necessary for the city council and the county treasurer to advertise for interest bids, and for the bonding of the institutions that take over the money. At present the city and county funds, if placed out on interest at all, benefit only the city clerk and the treasurer. The municipal court bill may give the judge jurisdiction over the court of common pleas. That point has not yet been thoroughly threshed out. The county judge, it is understood, favors* such a move. The municipal judge’s salary is fixed at $1,800. He must be a practicing attorney. It is said that a no-fence law will be introduced at this term by Repre sentative Hudson of Marvell. Farmers of Phillips County have long wanted a no-fence law, and there seems to be little opposition to the measure. • ' The so-called stock law adopted by the 1913 Legislature and referred to the voters of Sebastian county at the recent general election, was not adopt ed. Judge Paul Little decided in the Circuit Court at Fort Smith. The board of election commissioners had certified the law had been adopted, on tha grounds that it obtained a major ity of the vote cast for it. Judge Lit tle upheld the contentions raised in a suit filed by W. T. Quinlev and Peter McMillan of Midland, who asserted it was necessary for the act to secure a majority of all votes cast in the elec tion. In the November election 2.824 votes were cast for and 2,172 against the law, a majority of 652 in its favor, or a total of 4.996, compared with'5,687 cast for governor, which is accepted as the total number of qualified elec tors participating in the election. Moorhead Wright, of Little Rock, president of the Arkansas Bankers' Association, announced that Bradford Knapp, director for the rfouth of the extension work of the United States Department of Agriculture, and Clar ence Ousley of College Station, Texas, director of the extension work of the College of Agriculture of the University of Texas, will be the prin cipal speakers of the 22-day cam paign of Arkansas to be conducted in January by the profitable farming bu reau of the Board of Commerce of Little Rock. The various women’s clubs of Com ing hare started a movement to raise $500 to\d>e used in the beautification of the town. The Iron Mountain rail way will park the station grounds and the right of way through Corning and will plant trees and shrubs. Jacob Lamar, a successful Poinsett county farmer, Bays that thoroughbred stock, notwithstanding the general un derstanding to the contrary, will thrive on the open range. He has tried it with big-boned Poland China hogs and has been successful. The Malvern Special School Dis trict Is considering the building of a new, up-to-date school house for Mal vern. The matter will be taken up at an early meeting of the board. E. C. Rule, formerly a member of the staff of the Lonoke County News, has joined the ministry and has been ordained a minister of the Methodist church. Se.ven carloads of fine cattle and hogs, valued at more than $15,000, were shipped from Piggott to the St. Louis market by local stock raisers. Plans for a systematic prosecution of the campaign to raise $500,000 ad dltional endowment for Hendrix Col lege are being matured. The last number of the Atkins Chronicle was the largest paper ever issued by a Pope county paper, ft contained 40 pages. A carload of turkeys was shipped From Blevins this week. The Eirst Christian church of Bald Knob will erect a new brick church, for which a part of the funds has al ready been raised. The Rev. J. C Ma son of Dallas. Tex., has been called to the pastorate of the church and is con sidering the invitation. The public schools at Tuckerman have dismissed for the holidays, to reconvene Monday, January 1. The school is taking a week’s longer holi days than was intended on account of an epidemic of measles. p FLOODS OF 1915 AND 1916 CAUSED DAMAGE TO EXTENT OF $225,000, REPORT SAYS. MANAGEMENT IS PRAISED »• When the Appraisement Was Made the Commission Still Had 200 Bales% of Its 1916 Cotton Crop and 400 Tons of Cotton Seed. A Little Rock.— According to the report filed by the special commission appointed by Gov. Hays to appraise the state peniten tiary property, Arkansas penal Insti tutions—including the state peniten tiary, state reform school and the con vict farms at Tucker. Jefferson coun ty, and Cummins, Lincoln county have a total valuation of $1,099,602.02. The commission was composed of Senator G. B. Ferguson of Sharpe county and W. H. Furlow of Calhoun county. The reform school, in a sepa rate report, was appraised at $2,000. and the other institutions at $1,047, 602.02. Despite losses totaling be tween $210,000 and $225,000 suffered at the Cummins farm last February, when the Arkansas river broke through levees and inundated the country, the appraisers’ report SRld the farm, by virtue of new and strong er levees, new drainage ditches and new and more modern buildings, was worth as much, if not more, than when appraised in 1914. Real estate on the Cummins farm. Including stockades, administration buildings, barns and sheds, was valued ati435,000; the Tucker farm at $242. 000, and the “walls,” or penitentiary proper, at $100,000. The Tucker farm was purchased by the commission for $209,000, but improvements, including buildings, ran the valuation up t^o $2|2,000. Last February’s flood cut 1,500 acres from the protected land in the Cummins farm. The land now out side the levee was considered the best land on the farm and was valued at $100 an acre. In addition to taking the land, the flood carried away the hospital, two stockades, administra tion building and residences and com missary stores, having an aggregate value of from $60,000 to $75,000. “In our mind land values at Cum mins have been increased,” said the report. “Buildings destroyed by the flood have boon replaced hi' .tuiUej: and more substantial structures. The drainage ditch constructed during the last two years will reclaim for culti vation every acre of wild land on the place. "We feel that too much cannot be ; said in praise of the penitentiary man agement. We found the men well | housed and properly Ted. There seems to be perfect harmony among the em ; ployes.” When the appraisement was made ; the commission still had 800 balas of Its 1916 cotton crop and 400 tons of cotton seed. Exclusive of the cotton and cotton seed, the largest amount invested was In mules, the appraise ment showing the commission had 335 ■ mules, valued at $52,860 • J, Governor Pardons. Governor Hays remitted fines amounting to $200 and $36 criminal tax assessed against Sidney H. Maygr, former clerk at the Stifft jewelry store, Tuesday in the Pulaski Circuit Court, and restored him to citizenship. Mayer pleaded guilty to 12 charges of petit larceny. A petition filed in lus behalf said that he is not a vicious man but had been led astray bv drink; that he has a family to support and an offer of work. The sentence of one year's impris onment for bootlegging against Wal ter Wheatley of Garland county, which was imposed was suspended until De cember 29. W. M Gentry of Pope county, serv ing six years for obtaining money un der false pretenses and for felonies. Gentry was sentenced in 1915. A pardon for Jim Reed, convicted In Jefferson county fit March, this year, of assault to kill and sentenced to nin« years, was issued from the office of the governor. Mrs. S. Vandamme, of Saline coun ty. was relieved of a $25 fine for Sh eath breaking Papers In her case were to the effect that she hiid been fined on the testimony of boys who alleged that they had bought wine from her on Sunday, but that she had sold them grape juice, and tho sale was made on Saturday. Thomas Thornton of Garland coun ty, sentenced to two years, and Fred Woodard of Crawford, sentenced to one year for grand larceny, were pardoned. Tom Pattllo, under three years' sen tence Imposed by the Dallas Circuit Court for burglary', and Paul Curtis of Independence county, sentenced to two years for grand larency": A $200 fine against Tex Williams of Miller county for aggravated as sault was reduced to $50 Mack Shuttlesworth of Johnson county, fined $100 for a violation of the fish and game law was relieved of a fine of $95. A letter filed in bis be half showed that his wife was suffer ing from tuberculosis, and -that he Is a poor man Get 'Ready For Session. Janitors at the new slate capitol spent several hours i« cleaning the huge chandelier suspended from the domo in the center of the building. The apparatus was hung about two yeftrs ago and had never been taken down since. It was necessary to lower it .whk a windlass from the top of the dotibe ffi order to do the work and re plftee burned out lamps. The chain suspending the chandelier in 90 feet lopg and weighs 1,000 pounds. The cliandolier proper is 12 feet in diame ter, of cast bronze, and weighs more than 1,300 pounds. Work of cleaning tl\p Senate and house chambers and tire cQmmlttee rooms has been begun in preparation for the convening of tlje Legislature. Incorporation Matter*. Articles of incorporation were died ! by the Mena Cattle Association of Mena, which will engage in the cattle business, and will also bore for oil j and gas Tt is capitalized at $100,000. : of which $1,300 is paid in. C. C. Mills j Is president. Other corporation matters filed were a- notice of the withdrawal of the De sha Lumber Company of South Bend Ind., and a surrender of its Arkansas j charter, and notice of the dissolution rff the Yarbro Cooperage Company of Yarbro. A certificate of dissolution was filed by the Planters’ Gin Company of Marmaduke. 1 The Bradford Fruit Company Bradford also filed its incorporation papers. The company will carry on a general merchandise and produce bus iness. and is capitalized at $5,000, of which $175 is paid in. The president j js It. L. Hickmon. The Dayton Tire Sales Company of Fort Smith, capitalized at $5,000, also filed articles. '■*18 Have pependants. ' There are 118 Arkansas National Guardsmen who would be affected by the appropriation asked by Secretary bf War Baker for $3,500,000 for the .support of dependent relatives of the guardsmen, according to the adjutant general's office. The information was secured through the company c.om ‘manders recently ^at the request of .Mrs. Jessamine S. Fishbaek-. of Fort Smith, an officer of the National Pa triotic Relief Society. Smallpox Under Control. Smallpox has been greatly reduced at the State Hospital in the last 10 days, according to Dr. C. A. Arke bauer. acting superintendent. There now are but eight eases, as compared with 45 a few weeks ago. he said, and all of these are convalescing. No new cases have been reported in the last 10 days. Quarantine was raised last week oh Ward E. South and the Ward F, North buildings It is expected that the disease will be entirely eradicated \FTfhTnT0 aaysrDf. Arkebader said. ■Fear* of Coal Shortage. To'-urge miners in the coal region of western Arkansas not to follow their usual custom of abandoning work duringChrlstmas week.E. I. McKinley, deputy state labor commissioner, left i for Huntington and Hartford with messages to the miners from Governor Fl^iys and Commissioner of Labor J. C. Clary. Burnside Resigns. Ohmer C. Burnside, member of the board of control, tendered his resig nation to Gov. Hays, and Z. M. Mo Carroll. commissary clerk at the state convict farm at Tucker, was appoint ed to the vacancy. The resignation and appointment has been expected for 10 days. Major Little Resigns. The resignation of Curtis J Little or Rlytheville. major of the Second Battalion. First Arkansas Infantry, has been- accepted by the War Depart j tuent. effective immediately, according j to an order received at the office of the , adjutant general ! Senator-Elect To Resign. It was authoritatively announced ‘•that Senator-elect Ezra Hester of Fort Smith will tender his resigna tion during the Christmas holidays and that Governor Hays will appoint for .mor State Senator A. W. Covington his successor. AN ARKANSAS EPITOME. Mr*. James Gravham, now of Big gers. who was Miss Sally Paterson, a former clerk in a store at Corning, gave birth to three bouncing boys, ail Being and doing well. The Everton Mining and Develop ment Company is unload'»k machin ery for a 150-ton mill on the Billy Hale land near Everton. The town of Rison has granted a franchise for the installation of elec tric lights and waterworks to S. R Morgan. Two possums have been caught re cently on Linwood avenue in Eureka Springs County Judge Oslin of Hamburg bas issued a notice calling in Ashley coun ty road warrants for reissue. The old road districts of the county have been abolished and the present outstanding warrants will be apportioned among the three present districts. The public schools of Arkadelphla have organized a bank and scores oft ^pcountf have been started. The hawlf is under the directions of Superintend ent H. A. Woodward and 12 student directors. WHat -would He give for die coffee vou serve? Like a million other wom en, you can serve coffee that he would give most anything to have—coffee which starts the day “right” for all. Everyone loves the rich flavor of Arbuckles’ Coffee. Of all the coffees in America today, it is by far the most popular 1 One woman says: “My husband used to swallow his coffee and hurry off. Now we have Arbuckles* and you’d think it was Sunday the way helingers over his breakfast.’* Until you try Arbuckles’ you will never know what a difference good coffee can matte in your home. Today there are whole towns where Arbuckles’ is practically the only coffee used. In one State, alone, in a year, four pounds of Arbuckles’ Coffee was used for every man, woman and child in the State—four times as many pounds of coffee as the population of the State! Arbuckle Bros., New York. A Creole Conception. A masculine representative of the "Malaprop'* type has just returned from a recent southern trip. “Were you in New Orleans?” a friend asked. "Oh. yes.” “And did you like the city?” “Very much in some ways." “Did you eat any of the French rooking?" “No." "What made the greatest impres sion on you?" "I think what struck me most was the beauty of the French oriole wom en.”—Oakland Tribune. HEAL YOUR SKIN TROUBLES With Cuticura, the Quick, Sure and Eaay Way. Trial Free Bathe with Cuticura Soap, dry and apply the Ointment. They stop itch ing instantly, clear away pimples, blackheads, redness and roughness, re move dandruff and scalp irritation, heal red, rough and sore hands as well as most baby skin troubles. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Speaking of Women. “Women are certainly peculiar,” re marked the home-grown philosopher. “What seems to be ailing you now?” queried his one-man audience. “I was thinking of the difference in the way they treat a husband after his return from a two weeks' business trip and nfter an absence of two hours past midnight.” replied the philosophical ob server. - 1 Cynical Finance. “Those old alchemists thought they could make gold out of the baser metals.” “Yes. But they didn't get rich.” “No. They devoted too much time to working In laboratories and not enough to circulating prospectuses and stock certificates.” Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOKIA, that famous old remedy for Infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Fse for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria Real Cause. Host—My wife Is worrying ubout there being thirteen at the table to night. Ouest—Superstitious, eh? Host—No, not exactly, but she lias only a flozen silver knives and forks. STOP THAT HACKING COUGH. Mansfield (formerly Hungarian) Cough Balaam heals the inflamed and lacerated membranes and quleta the tickling nerves that lie underneath the Infected portions. Invaluable for ba bies. Price 25c and 60c.—Adv. Alabama spends $1^7 per cupita for maintenance of public schools. North Dakota pays $9.62. Smile, smile, beautiful clear white clothes. Red Cross Ball Blue, American made, therefore best. All grocers. Adv. Belts are not fashionable unless they slant a trifle. The Young Idea Again. The three-year-old son of Dr. B. 3. Potter, superintendent of the county hospital for the incurable Insane at Julietta, has been with his father often In his automobile when his fa ther exclaimed: "Now, I’ve killed It!” as the engihe stopped. The boy was watching his mother use the sewing machine recently, when the needle broke and the machine stopped suddenly. “Now you’ve killed it, mamma!” ha exclaimed. She Needed Aid. “See that man over there? He Is a bombastic mutt, a windjammer non entity, a false alarm, and an encum brance of the earth.” "Would you mind writing all that down for me.” “Why in the world—” “He's my husband, and I should like to use it on him some time.” To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, showing it is Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron builds up the system. 50 cents. The Mechanical Process. “How did Bliggins get his reputation as an art critic?” “Every time anybody calls his atten tion to a picture, he drops his head to one side and squints one eye.” Additional Grip. “There goes that big financial spec ulator, and how well he looks. He is certainly holding his own.” "Yes, and a lot of other people’s." WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY la her hair. If yours is streaked with ugly, grizzly, gray halra, use "La Cra ole” Hair Dressing and change It la the natural way. Price |1.00.—AdT. It’s far better to have a neighbor owe you an apology than money. There was e UtUe lawyer men, who gently nailed aa be began her dear dead hatband '■ will to wan And think «ag or hit coming fee, he aaid to her quite tenderly "You hare a aloe * fat legacy ' " Neat morning aa ke lay in bed with plaatere on hit broken bend, be wondered wknt the deuce he'd «aid The only legacy left to mow people It a poor tMKl with a tendency to nervous indcesdon, or dyanapala end that close coapantoo ol the disorder colled con stipotkw. For aore than hall a century a ready rmmiy in counties* thousands ol ItoaschoMe In ovary dlaa Green’s August Flower ha* been successfully used for the relief of stomach and liver troubles all over the civilized world. All druggists or dealers everywhere have It In 25c. and 75c. sizes. Try it end see for yourself. AJollot propozmtlon of aurtC Holpt to erodlooto dtodrvf. SHOES XT RETAIL BANNUK BTOHH. MCI B. Qnuid, BT. LOUIB. MO W. N. U., LITTLE ROCK, NO. 53~191<i ^hterswths saa P (hillTonic *5*