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Grand Jury Indictment, Dec 8, 1824

News Tidbits, Sept. 2, 1873

National Conference Charities and Correction, June 4-10, 1896

Arkansas Leads Most States in Many Respects, Dec 21, 1911

GRAND JURY INDICTMENT

The Arkansas Gazette says, bill of indictment have been found by the Grand Jury of the Superior Court, against the five Osage prisoners who have been confined for the murder of Curtis Welborn and four others, on Blue River, a branch of Red River, on the 17^th November, 1823.
The trial of Mad Buffalo, who committed the murder, excited unusual interest, and the court room was constantly thronged with spectators. About 50 persons were rejected for cause, but none we believe peremptorily before a jury was empanelled. After a patient examination of a great number of witnesses, the pleadings of counsel for the prisoner and of the U. States Attorney, the jury retired and in ten minutes brought in a verdict of Guilty. – York Gaz. --Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) December 8 1824, contributed by Nancy Piper.

LITTLE ROCK DAILY REPUBLICAN, SEPT. 2, 1873
Contributed by Frances Cooley

--General Dockery has effected a consolidation of his road with the road from the Louisiana line to the Sabine Pass. This is a very advantageous arrangement and will hasten the completion of the Arkansas portion of the road.
--Fishing in the Saline is reported good.
--Cotton picking will commence about the 10th of this month.
--The caterpillar and boll-worm have made their appearance in various sections of the state, and are doing considerable damage.

PROCEEDINGS NATIONAL CONFERENCE CHARITIES AND CORRECTION

TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL SESSION HELD IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

JUNE 4-10, 1896

BY GEORGE THORNBURGH, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

Contributed by Candi Horton

The State conducts a school for the blind and deaf-mutes, an asylum for the insane, a home for ex-Confederate soldiers, and a penitentiary,
all located at Little Rock, the State capital. These institutions are carefully looked after by proper boards and committees.
The insane asylum has a capacity of over 600. There are now in it about 500. The proportion of males is smaller than of females.
The Deaf-mute Institute contains 200 pupils, and has room for 50 more. They teach several useful trades here. They do a good part
of the State printing. The School for the Blind enrolls about 150. The capacity is 250. In all these institutions the colored people
are provided for in similar manner to the whites, though they are separated.
The penitentiary contains 277 whites and 624 blacks and 2 Indians.
The majority of the convicts work on farms, tilling the ground, clearing off l and, etc.
The incoming legislature will probably enact a law for the establishment of a reformatory school for youthful offenders.
We have nothing of the kind in the State. We have some good hospitals under city and church control. The Children's Home Society is at
work in the State with good results. The organization is independent of any other society, having no connection outside the State.

ARKANSAS LEADS MOST STATES IN MANY RESPECTS

Jonesboro Evening Sun, Dec 21, 1911

Arkansas is seventh in the production of yellow pine.
Arkansas has the largest saw mill in the world at Stamps.
Arkansas has the largest fruit distillery in the world at Bentonville.
Arkansas raises one million bales of cotton worth seventy-five million dollars.
Arkansas in 1910 raised agricultural products worth $185,000,000.
Arkansas has more mineral springs than any state in the union.
Arkansas produces the smokeless coal used by the United States navy.
Arkansas has the longest Pontoon bridge in the world at Dardanells.
Arkansas this year sold lumber, shingles, etc., to the value of $195,000,000.
Arkansas has the hottest springs in the world, Hot Springs sixty in number.
Arkansas has more miles of navigable rivers than any other state in the union.
Arkansas has the only diamond mine in the world, outside of Africa--Pike County.
Arkansas produces coal, silver, (illegible), marble, slate, oil, stones, and clay of every description.
Arkansas has the largest spring in the world, Mammoth Spring, a full size river at its source, Spring river.
Arkansas is one of the same parallel or latitude as the Garden of Eden and the climate is the same as that of Los Angeles.
Largest bauxite mine in the world, furnishing ninety percent of all aluminum in the world.
Finest asphalt and cement beds in the world.
The summers are long but the heat never becomes in the least oppressive. The winters are short and mild. The average rainfall in northwest Arkansas is 45 inches, in south Arkansas it varies from 42 to 52 inches.
The temperature, rainfall and general climatic condition make Arkansas almost ideal for health. Three years ago when asking for the State Normal, the people of Conway used as an argument the fact that it has the lowest rate of any.