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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
Pine BLUFF
Viii! Play Little Rock-An Inter s.
ing Game Anticipated,

Preparations are now N progress
for match game of ball between
the Pine Bluff Athletic Club and
the Little Rock team, to occur on
the 9th and 7th of next month.
Great anticipations are being nursed
by these two teams, and should ar
engagements be perfected and this
contest take place, no doubt but it
will prove a most interesting and
attractive occasion. A game of ball
never fails to excite considerable
interest, and when the contesting
factions are scuh as those of the
Pine Bluff Athletic Club and the
Little Rock base ball team, the pub
lie may feel assured of an entertain
ment worthy its attention.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
DROPPED DEAD
Was on Her Way to Church Last
Evening.

An old and well-known colored
woman. who cooked for Mrs, E. B.
Houston, after finishing her eve
ning's work, and apparently as well
as ever, left for church YESTERDAY !,
g 9 q r rriad hack to Mrs. Houston's by
e same co lore people, in an iasensible
inc 1e' home, size fell in company with
lux u Sn miner OF other darkies VINO were
also np going to churc h, and when zen they hey
t were well on the way, this Ola No NO
mar suddenly dropped to the the sl 6er
w ~ ell Her companions had ne her
c y "'T home, and medical assist
ance was summoned, when II was vac
ans ertained that life was extinct, she
having died OF heart disease
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
The COMMISSION.
MEMBERS ACTIVELY AT
WORK-ON PENlTEN-
TlARY GROUNDS.
PUSH IS THE WATCHWORD.
ConYicts Will Soon be Getting out
Grnite for the Struc-
ture.

The Gazette, OF today, says: "The
state capitol commission has gone
actively to work and in short
time, according to present indica-
ti0ns, the convicts will be getting
out granite and Col. bud" McCon-
nell will be moving his headquarters
from the present penitentiarY site to
some point outside the city yet to he
selected. Push" is evidently the
watchword with the commissioners.
Yesterday morning they went in
body out to the penitentiary site
and made a close inspection of the
grounds upon which the new capitol
is to be erected. Col Mcconnell had
a special dinner prepared for the
visitors.
1.-The commission is at present
wrestling with the question OF plans
for the new building. In so import
ant a matter they are making haste
slowly. Another meeting will be
held today and further consideration
will be given the subject. Two well
known architects are in the city to
confer with the commission relative
to plans. They are Mr.. Frank P.
Milburn, OF Charlotte, n. C., and Mr..
Il. ". Mann, of Sedalia, No.
AS to when then the convicts will
be put to work getting out granite
is not vet settled, but that will be
one of the questions disposed of by
the commission. Possibly a draft
will have TO he made on the quota
OF conyicts being worked on the
Choctaw railroad under contract
with Mr.. ". L. Reaves and others.
There are between 200 and 800 of
them and under the terms of the
contract the state can secure the
whole or any part of them upon
giving due notice to the contractors.
About 100 conyiets will be put to
york on the granite.
.'Col Mcconnell is very eomplaeent
over the matter of a new site for the
peniten,iary It's said no trouble
will be encountered when it comes t.
securing new pen grounds, even if
the State has to avail itself OF the
provisions OF the act OF 1897 which
provides for the purchase OF Stat
convict farm and the payment there
for out of the profits aecruing to the
State from the crops. As the State
has made big money for Others on
the share coop system, It is argued
that it can certainly make enough
to pay for farm of It's own out OF
the crops raised bg convict labor.
1.-The commission seems to be
progressive and liberal to1y. In the
adoption of plans it will undoubted-
" act in a spirit commensurate with
the growing greatnes4 of the State.
and adopt only such plans as VIII
insure creditable new State
house
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
COSTLY LAND,
Bank of England Site EcIipsed in
Value by New York Dirt.

The land or which the Bank of
England stands has been regareed
as the naost valuable piece of ground
on the planet, but a real-estate
transaction in New York probably
represents the highest price ever ac-
tually paid. The c. P Huntington
and Waldorf-Astor properties on
Fifth Avenue adioin each other. To
spiece out" his own lot, Mr.. Hunt
ington bought of his neighbor strip
ten by one hundred and twenty-five
feet, paying therefor ffty-four
thousand dollars, or four hundred
and three dollars per square foot,
being at the rate of over thirteen
million FIVE hundred thousand per
acre. A smaller plat, Of three hun
dred and fifty square feet, at the
corner of Broad and Wall Streets,
has also been sod for three hundred
and twenty three dollars per foot,
or at the rate Of nearly eleven mil
lion dollars per acre.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
PINE BLUFF
c.mn.titOr in JOnesbOrO for
). lamb & Company's Plant.

,onesboro Sun has the follow
- roIatlve to Lamb & Company
~. manufacturing plant they
nose establishing in Arkansas:
pOI Ennk, OF Chicago, represent
= a - & Co., OF Freeport, ILL.,,
lecturers OF windmills. pumps,
], urindipg mills. corn and cotton
i &c vas here last Thursday
= ,ooked oven the city with
Y R.aootive view to locating this
n Ionesboro. BY direction OF
] nrosident of the Business Mems
s,r - . Mr.. Funk was shown over
4 citv Thursday afternoon, and In
] evening laid his plans before a
'.sting OF that organization for
.ssideration until his return from
.Eer noints south. Mr.. Funk stated
Unn man that as a result of his
4 sonth there would be several
i - northern manufacturing plant s
come to the land OF fig and POM
.aneate II suitable locations could
.ocured. as he is authorized to
81 q lookout for localities. The
81 of northern capitals turned this
81, and the next few years will
|RDess great changes to the, south's
Vantage in the seat OF the manu-
turing center. Arkansas will be
.Feely favored by this change, and
behooyes Jonesboro to keep a
IL out. Just such g factory as Mr..
En- proposes moving here will
I've Of lasting benefit. Let US, by
D means. secure 1t. and others.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
COMING AGAIN
Mr.. a, Blum Has Removed and
Enlarged His Stock,

Il is with considerable pleasure the
many friends of Mr.. A. Blum note the
progress he is making toward rein
stating himself in commercial way.
For many years MIR. Blum was a
very successful mercantile man of
this city, but financial distress came
at time when he could not with
stand it's pressure, aud he " as earri.
ed to the wall last fall But he fl
nally adjusted matters, opened with
small stock of goods ON Main
street, between Third aud Fourth,
ard has since done fairly well. He
has now moved his stock into more
comfortable and cor modious quar-
ties on Main street, next door TO
kastor & Bluthenthal's. He has
greatly increased his stock of goods,
fitted up his house in a most attrac-
tive manner, and is now entering the
contest for q business with fair pros
poets of his efforts being rewarded in
a way that will soon place him upon
the successful plane he SO long en-
joyed
The Graphic has nothing but the
best of wishes for Mr.. Blum.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
BIG CLOUDBURST
DAMAGE REPORTED
TO PROPERTY IN
CONSEQUENCE.
ANOTHER RISE FEARED.
All Eyes, So to Speak, Turned
Toward Head-WaterS of
Arkansas.

Report reached here about noon
today that a big c,oudburst had
occurred sometime during the morn
ing near the head-waters of the
Arkansas. This cloudburst as re-
ported here, did great damage to
property in that section, and with
previous rains furnished water for
another rise in the Arkansas river.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
A PRINTERS LUCK.

An unknown man was recently
found dead on the outskirts of a
small town in Kansas with revol-
yer and 800 in, money on his person.
The coroner held an inquest, and it
took $50 to pay the expenses and
bury The body. The police Judge
fined the corpse $50 for CARRYING con-
cealed weapons and contscated the
revolver. The newspaper man who
published the obituary got nothing.
-Ex.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
DEAD, YET ALIVE.

A woman in California is very
much alive. but in Pennsylvania, her
old home, she has been declared le-
gally dead. She disappeared in 1888
and nothing was heard of her till
lately. In 1897 her son administered
on her estate and the court declared
her legally dead. It now transpires
that she is both dead and alive.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
SEED SCARCE.
aanting Necessary in Sections of
River and Bayou Country.

I L. Roth informed us today
he had received quite q number
etters fTom different sections OF
fiVer and bayou country stating
I cut worms were playing sad
y with the crops. One letter
u rom Humphrey, and stated
7some plan tiers in that section
w have TO replant, in conse-
We OF the pesky insects ravages.
information was supplemented
~ statement that cotton seed
sat a high premium there, and
RTOat In some instances il was
#sslole to procure seed at all. In
NcasA seeG will have to be ship
'slefe from Pine Bluff. With the
FaS and the almost incessan t
u the young crops are indeed
eNng with a n ost damae ing
Il ana one that is being sorely
E'y the planters throughout the
|Atry.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
GOVERNOR OF TWO STATES.

Hon. Preston B. Leslie. OF Heleaa,
bht., enjoys the unique distinction
having been Governor OF two
Ates. He was Speaker Of the Ken
civ Senate in 1867. and succeeded
the office OF Lieut.. Governor and
vernon In that year on account OF
Iesn:les occurring. After serving
Ibis terms as Governor he was
LED to a second term, which he
Hee for four years. In 1896 he @as
|gpinted Governor Of Montana by
|Nldent Cleveland and ser ed two
Hfs in the office. He is now so
sas old.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
TIME WASTED,

An old Arkansas planter, on being
told that monkeys were being train
ed to pick cotton. replied: There
amt no use OF gettin them monkeys
and trainin 'em ter pick cotton, fer
us soon as we get 'em traiLed the
burned Yankees Will come down
here and free 'em, and before long
they'll vote ies like the niggers."
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
A Man Who Is Tired

all the time, owing to impoverished
blood, should take Hoods Sarsapa-
rilIa to purify and enrich is blood
and give him vitality and yigor.
A good spring medicine is i neces-
sity with almost everyone. Hoods
Sarsaparllla is what the m illions
take in the spring. It's great power
to purify and enrich the blood and
Lulld up health is one OF the facts OF
common experience.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
DECLINED TO SERVE.

Rev. A. S. Petite. who conducted u
revival meeting at the Baptist
church in this city some weeks ago,
and who at his solicitation was
afterward appointed city marshal
of Jonesboro, declined, it is said.
after receiving the appointment, to
serve in that capacity. Is Jones'
boro so tough as that?
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
PINE BLUFFS BIC BOOM.

Pine Bluff is to have a boom, no
doubt OF it. Several mills, factories
and other industries are about to
locate IN our city; others will follow.
The present indications are that
within a year a number OF these will
be in opera ton. This means new
positions open for those who are
ready for them. Enter Nettleton' s
Commercial College at once and pre-
pars to take advantage of thu splen-
did openings that certainly await
wide-awake young men and women.
Mr.. T. W. Rawles. OF Little Rock,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12

RIVER FALLING

The Arkansas river at this point
is falling slowly at present. The
water has gore down barely
enough to be discernabe, and it is
feai ed that recent rains above will
check this tall and cause another
rise.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12
MILLIONS AND FAMINE.

While Russia is spending many
millions on military equipment, and
as much or more on her big railway
through Siberia, gauntfamine stalks
through a large part of the Cars
kingdom, and the government is
doing little or nothing to keep the
people from starving.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12

There eeoS a man IN oar torn,
Who thought that he toos roise;;.
TO SAGE enpease, he had no phone,
And ceased to adgeytise.
But ro1en he .found his trade all gone
With all his might and main,
He stfaightmay had a phone pat IN
And advertised again.
Now all day long, he's on the run,
HIS phone rings dag and night;
Jpsthear him shout: "Aurrah, hurrah,
Tn strictly an the fght"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-05-12

We call the attention of our read
ers to the change of advertisement
of Mr.. A. Friedman. Mr.. Friedman
has a number OF bargains to offe. in
the way OF unredeemed watches, di-
almonds, rings, etc.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
ANT, RECONSTRUCTED BY THE LATE PROFESSOR MARSH.

posed upon the latter is stratum. Of
thickness varying from seven feet to six
ty feet, almost entirely made up of casts
of unios and peeteus in 'dog-tooth spar
(crystallzed carbonate OF lime). This
stratum l consider as the most remark
able of all, both on account of its i'm
mense thickness and the enormous num-
Der of shell-casts that are contained in 1t
not less l should say, than 10000 per
cubic foot Above the last described
stratum there exists layer of reddish
sandstone one and one-half feet in thick
ness, containing remains of two of the
aforementioned bivalves.
Last of all and latest in its formation
is the familiar white. soft material called
'chak-rock by the farmers, but which,
in reality, is no more chalk than a brick
is chalk. 1t is simply hardened clay, as
may be felt by applying the tongue sub
stances composed of or containing clay
always sticking to that member. The
rock is white, with a conchoidal fracture
and is of light specific gravity. In some
localities the color shades somewhat. but
still the rock possesses nearly the same
characteristics. In the tertiary epoch,
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

when this clay rock was soft clay grow
ing in thickness by deposition from the
everything sea or lake, many shells of tur-
rite1la and fewer Of a smaller mollusk;
with a few scattered specimens of a uni
valve almost microscopic in size, became
imbedded therein. Afterward, both be-
fore and since the hardening of this clay,
the surrounding country has been sub
ject to many upheavals. and disturbances
which have resulted in the extensive
fracture and variable dip of the stratum
the latter varying from u to 40 degrees.
All these strata belong to the tertiary.
This Is merely an outline of the dis
coveries L have made in this hitherto
neglected field OF the fifteen or more
species of fossils, have identified nine
all belonging to the department OF mol
lusks."
Recent discoveries have shown the field
to be both larger and richer than former
ly known, the already discovered fossils
ranging from microscopic remains Of
diatoms, sponges and other organic
structures to those of mammoth prehis
toric animals.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

try he did not have sufficient knowledge
of their position. surrounding formations
and other conditions to be able to deter
mine their approximate and scientific
value.
That Monterey County has long been
known by scientists to be wonderfully
rich geologically Is attested by the fol-
lowing extract from a letter written in
1877 by Professor H. D. Long of the State
Universty:
II have never seen a section of country
so rich in fossil remains as Monterey
County, nor one so easy to study. The
part lying in the neighborhood of the
Corral de TERRA contains strata whose
relative position is so plain to even the
slightly practical eye that he who runs
may read its geological history.
II note in that vicinity five fossil-bear-
ing strata: the lowermost being of an
average thickness of five feet and con-
tanning remains of at least four mol
lusks, cypoena and unio being repre-
sented. Above this I found, in very soft
sandstone, many univalve shells of the
type of barnacles, contained in a stratum
about one yard in thickness. Superim-
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

from the Sheffield Scientific School, ne
was offered seat in the university fac
uty as professor of paleontology
Discovered Bird With Teeth.
With such unusual recognition as this,
Professor Marsh began a scientific career
In which he was destined to accomplish
more than any other one man perhaps
in establishing the theory of evolution by
actual discoveries. Darwin had built
magnificent hypothesis; Huxley had been
its great expounder. and now came
Marsh and other brilliant younger scien-
lists, TO whom whole universe had been
suddenly laid bare by a great idea, and
by adding link after link to the chain of
extinct life, helped to make the theory
of development a scientific truth, capa-
BILE of actual objective demonstration AS
a single instance, opponents of evolution
had cited the wide break between the
two classes of birds and reptiles. declar-
ing that doctrine could not bridge 1t over
In their definition of birds the biologists
of the time made toothlessness a cardinal
characteristic: no birds familiar to sci
ence possessed any teeth. But Professor
Marsh, exploring our own Rocky Noun
tain region. found the remains OF a
strange swimming bird with two we'll
developed rows of teeth. A little later he
discovered other reptilelike birds ana
birdlike reptiles, showing some Of the ac-
tual steps by which the saurian of mil
lion years ago became in the slow prog
ress of the ages the feathered and tooth
less bird of to-day.
MY first great ambition" Professor
Marsh once told me, was to shoot as
we'll as old Colonel Jewett," a famous
hunter of Western New York. and great
friend of his. II was not satisfied until
could bring down a squirrel from the
top crotch of big hickory, where could
see only tip of a red nose and one eve"
His rowing outdoor life made him a
keen observer. and gave him the rugged
vitality to Withstand any degree of hard
ship.
IF I had known what my future ca
reer was to be- he said. II could not
have mapped out my boyhood better"
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
Special to The Sunday Call.

~ NLY two or three men in
century possess the regal gift of
being q genius in many things.
4 Professor o. c. Marsh Of Yale
~ University, who died recently,
was endowed with such gift to
a remarkable degDee. Besides be-
ing one Of the most distinguished Of
American scientists, and perhaps the most
famous paleontologist in the world, he
won wide renown outside of his scien-
tific work as daring and successful ex-
plorer, as connoisseur in Japanese art,
as lover and collector of rare orchids, as
a champion Of the American Indians, and.
supremely, as story teller and writer of
many scientific works.
He spent long life and a considerable
fortune in building up great public nu-
scum at Yale College. He never drew
penny of salary for his services as a pro-
fessor, and about year ago, when his
health began to fail, he made over all his
versity and died comparatively poor
man.
Two Small Bones Led to Fame.
Fame and science are supposed to come
with gray hairs Professor Marsh was
known everywhere in the scientific world
at the age of 81. This sudden rise to fame
made while he was yet a student at Phil
lips Academy, Andover. During one of his
summer vacations he was tramping
among the cliffs of Nova Scotia and he
picked up by accident two odd bits of fos-
sill bone. He found them lying close to-
gether, like two checkers, one partially
overlapping the other. They were cylin-
drica In form, with sauserlike hollows at
each end and so insignificantly small that
NAV ,,,fob4 oloSa hfa hand aro1lnd tbayr,
Young Marsh. already deeply interested
in geology and mineralogy, dropped the
bones into the pocket of his shooting
jacket and carried them with him. He
passed from Andover to Yale. where he
was graduated with honors in 1860. and
then he entered the Sheffield Scientific
School. All this time he treasured the
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

two fossil bones and their significance as
geological discovery became palmer to
him with every added year of study
From the shape, size and relative posi-
ton In which they were discovered, he
knew them to be the vertebra of some
enormous animal Of prehistoric origin;
but he had found them In q coal forma-
ton and the authorities gave no hint of
creatures so highly developed In q geo.
logical age so remote. He believed that
the two vertebrae indicated a hitherto
unknown link between the fishes and the
reptiles He showed the bones to the
famous geologist, Dana, and to Professor
Jeffries Wyman of Harvard. They told
him to see Agassiz, who knew more
about fishes, living and extinct, than any
other man. Agassiz examined the bones
with keen interest, and inquired where
they were found. When young Marsh
told him the story of their discovery and
ventured to outline his theories. the great
scientist shook his head emphaticaIly.
Impossible he said.
Studied Two Bones for Months.
But young Marsh was certain that he
had made an important discovery. At
the suggestion Of Professor Wyman he
devoted six months to the study of the
two little bones and their relationship to
the remains of other extinct monsters:
then he described them accurately in a
published account, naming the animal
from which they came the Eosaurus. the
dawn OF lizards the first reptlian re-
mains to be found in the coal measures
of America The discovery of the Eosau-
rus came as strong affirmative evidence,
showing conclusively the relationship be-
tween two widely different classes of an
irnal life. At the instance of Sir Charles
Lyell. the eminent English geologist,
young Marsh's paper was read before the
august Geological Society of London and
its author was voted a fellow. 1t was
translated into German and the young
scientist was asked to accept the honor
of membership in the Geological Soci-
ETY. of Berlin. In America Yale College
was prompt with its appreciation of the
value of the discovery, and although
young Marsh was then just graduated