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W Law and Order League.
Bf , Fordyce, Dec. 7.—In the mav
Ws ' or’s court Monday J. A. Cline
was convicted of selling whiskey
without license and fitted $200.
The difficulty experienced in se
curing a verdict (three juries
having been empaneled) when
the evidence seemed so plain
caused considerable uneasiness
among the best citizens of the
town, and last night some forty
representative men met at the
Methodist church and organized
a law and order league and
adopted resolutions expressing
their determination to suppress
the illicit sale of liquor and gam
bling in the community. Every
citizen present pledged his mor
al and financial support to the
movement, and the list was left
at the Bank of Fordyce, where
many new names were added.
The officers were praised for
what they had done already
and encouraged to go on. Among
other things the members of the
league agreed not to disqualify
themselves in the future for
sitting on juries by forming or
expressing opinions on such
cases before the trials.
Compress for McGehee.
McGehee, Dec. 7.—Columbus
Bierce, of New Orleans, was in
town recently and secured from
Mr. McGehee fifteen acres of
land, upon which he intends
building a cotton compress which
will be in operation and ready to
take care of the next cotton crop.
Mr. Bierce personally owns some
very large plants throughout the
country, which he leases to the
mammoth operating companies
known as the Gulf Compress
company of Atlanta, Ga., and has
put in compresses at Little Rock,
Pine Bluff £ttld other places in the
state.
Injured in a Runaway.
Van Buren, Dec. 7. — C. H.
Howe, a prominent lawyer and
attorney for the Frisco system at
Hugo, I. T., received injuries in
a runaway here yesterday morn
ing that, it is feared, will prove
fatal. After a visit with rela
tives he entered a cab to ride to
the Frisco depot, where the team
became frightened while going
down a steep hill, running away
and throwing Mr. Howe through
the door. He struck the ground
on his head, resulting in concus
sion of the brain, and has been
unconscious since.
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TIOERS A PUBLIC MENACE.
People and Stock Art IlHtd by Sav
age Beasts in Mexican
Territory.
Tigers, driven from their mountain
lairs In the territory of Topic by the
oearolty of food, continue to ravage the
kaelendaa of the valleys. They are be
soming such s general danger, says the
Mexican Herald, that the municipal au
thorities have offered a reward of (10
for every tiger's skin.
For the past several months great
numbers of the animals have swarmed
through the marshes of the lowlands
along the coast and In the valleys of
the territory of Topic, having been
driven out of the states of Sinaloa and
Bonora by the floods and tha sxtrsmsly
cold weather. The damage caused to
the baelendados and the danger In
curred by tke presence of the animals
was such that many of them offered
rewards for the skins of the animals
some time ago.
The tigers, however, seem to like the
warm weather and ths good food that
they are getting in Teptc and Instead of
decreasing their numbers have greatly
Increased within the last few weeks.
Now the municipal authorities of the
territory have also offered a reward for
the skins of the animals.
The tigers have become so bold that
they will enter the houses on the plan
tations and heip themselves xo what
ever comes in their path. Several)
deaths are reported In different parts
of the territory. In many sections of
ths state It la necessary to have armed
guards stationed at night, to insure
the safety of the other people in the
settlement*.
Live stock Is suffering more than
anything else. With the slight pro
visions that are necessary for the shel
ter of the stook, it leaves them in most
cases without any protection at all
from the beasts. Even the presence
of numerous guards around a bunch of
cattle is oftentimes insufficient to keep
the tigers from getting away with an
animal or two from along the edges
of ths herd.
Hunting for the animals has been
greatly stimulated by the offers of the
government and scores of hunters are
scouring the country for them. The
number of the skins that have been
turned in thus far is large and it is
hoped that it will not be long before
the animals are driven back to the
seolusion of the mountains.
WAKING IN THE WILDERNESS
How to Get Out of Bed When the
Thermometer Registers Forty
Below Zero.
Tou are awakened in the bitter dark*
ness of the early morning by the
sound of the camp dogs moving among
the frozen pails of refuse. You hear
their padding footsteps passing this
way and that outside of the tents and
the 'brushing of their bodies against
the canvas walls. Then you hear the
sound of chopping wood where some
one is at work in the starlight, says
the Boston Globe. One of the men
stirs and rises in the darkness. The
tent is bitter cold, with everything
frozen as hard as iron. You hear the
man fumbling around in the darkness
for the matches, and presently he
strikes one and lights a candle.
Presently he begins chopping the
wood for the stove, and his big, round
Shadow moves uncouthly and gro
tesquely about the walls as the flame
of the candle wavers in the draught
of cold air. He makes a fire, and in
a moment the flame is roaring up the
stovepipe, which gradually beoomes a
dull red with the gushing heat. He
stands with his back to the stove and
presently the other man rises and
joins him.
Then you yourself move reluctantly
In your warm swaddling of furs, and
with some effort crawl out into the
bitter cold and Joint the others around
the stove. None of you speak, but
each absorbs the scanty heat in
silence. By and by, warmed to some
return of life, you peep out of the
tent; the sky is like black crystal, the
■tars shining with incredible efful
gence. From the stovepipe of the
other tents rockets of flame are gush
ing up Into the air; showers of sparks
rise up into the night high overhead
—hover, waver, and then sink dwlnd'
ling upon the tent and the surroturt
lng snow.
You look at the thermometer {rang
ing against a tree and see by the lifcht
of a match that it is 40 degree* below
■ero. By this time the smell of cook
ing is filling the silent frozen space*
of the darkness and you reenter the
tent to hug again the warmth of the
■tore, with a hug* appetite for M
rude breakfast of BMltet grease sad
gUlettes.
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Explosions on Old Battle-Fields.
The foreets in the mountains kneero
ks Loudon Heights, opposite Harper's j
Ferry, took fire recently and buvged
with great Intensity. AftefNsome time
a series of explosions were heard
which startled the inhabitant#, and the
concussion was so great that It broke
windows in some houses in Harper's
Ferry, across the Shenandoah. The ex
plosions were caused by the bursting
Of shells which had been thrown on
the heights at the time when Gen.
MUlt surrendered to Stonewall Jack
son In 1862. These had failed to ex
plode when they were Bred, and had
remained there for more than 40 years.
—N. Y. World.
A Good Finish.
Blunderalong—Why, Mies Antlke, this
is a pleasure! I haven't seen you for a
long time. You must pardon me, but
you look 60—
Miss Anttke—Mr. Blunderalong!
Mr. Blunderalong-per cent better
than you did the last Urns I met you.—
O tan go Journal.
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