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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23
letters From Tots
to Santa Claus

write and tell you what | want for
Christmas. | want you to bring me
an air gun. little wagon. nuts, candies.
| remain. your little boy.
HUNTER MGIIEE.
1920 West Sixth avenue.
Pine Bluff. Ark. Dee. Is 1907
Dear Old Santa: | thought | would
write and tell you what want for
Christmas. Please bring me a nice
story book, gold lock, and candy,
apples, oranges, nuts and anything
else you wish to bring me Well,
goodbye. Your little friend.
PAULINE FOSTER.
S04 South Main street.
Z. 81 will go to bed at : O'Clock
and shut my eyes tight.
+
Pine Bluff Dec. 22-Dear Santa
Claus: AS it is 50 near Christmas |
thought | would tell you what | want
| want bicycle, little wagon and
some candy, nuts and oranges. Your
little boy. ANDREW SADLER
Pine Bluff. Ark, Dec 1S.-Dear
Santa Claus: Please bring me a doll,
set of dishes, a table, a trunk, a doll
buggy, bed, and anything you want
to bring. | am your little girl,
DORTHY BUCK.
Dear Santa Claus: | am good
little boy. Please bring me monkey
that will climb up tree, also slate
and jumping jack. Your little boy,
CHARLIE MUELLER.
Dear Santa Claus: | have been a
good girl this year | want little
doll that will go to sleep and a little
bed for it, also some green and purple
ribbon. Your little girl.
LEICESTER O'CONNELI..
=. 10
Dear Santa Claus: As Christmas
is near Will tell YOU What want
Please bring me doll, also some fire
crackers and little goat and wagon.
anl. es ever yonr little boy
CHARLIE O'NEAI..
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23
PROPOSE ~
Walk to the North Pole

tried and true Alaskan prospector and
noted traveller of the North.
Both men know-and they know
me under all conditions of hard
ship. fatigue, hunger to the verge Of
starvation. of unprecedented distances.
cold and every conceivable form of
privation.
Il know the temperaments Of both
and what each will do under given cir
cumstances
In the modest town OF Tonawanda,
n. y. livers Oliver Lawson tent
maker, who has been invited to ac-
company Mr.. Pelletier.
He says they expect to start for the
North Pole before spring, probably
from San Francisco.
They will be thoroughly equipped
with necessary provisions and one
or more Eskimo guides.
Mr.. Lawson, now in the prime of
life and of fine physique, was born in
Norway and educated in Bergen.
Mr.. Lawson has sailed the Arctic
seas, as we'll as over the globe.
He finds there is no mascot like the
American flag.
Part of his service was spent on the
American flagship Pensacola.
He was one of the first at the Klon-
dixie gold fields and one of the found
ers of the Dawson City camps.
Mr.. Lawson's brother Martin, an ex-
tensiye explorer. may accompany the
party.
He has summered and Wintered N
the Arctic, been frozen in while in tn"
employ of the Hudson Bay Colony.
md lived without food while animals =
ard sea lions were starving around
IN, bs cause they could not stand ths
native lamp OIL
MI Martin LAWSON. a younger bro1h
r. is now on he coast of Greenlana
hurting seals
They are all brave, hardy, indus+.'-
ion; men the greatest travellers ar.3
hunters of tie day, and their names
are worthy to De discussed by frosty
@eosl aphical s.=tiCties.
This cApetit. ii viii differ from al
others lasJeac of Pullman trains,
chartered stea ess. relays OF canned
fuit and :e..lsizin Ia travelling bags, with
a re@;lteH) y { Sc6ntentea, half-stary-
e# 80, moHr q less abused assistant. >.
tfteR= se1H#ea sat first lteutenan@.
es tic eAi41!.tJoH, there Will be ia
H3ea ~ #rs, sha propose to walk
and depend nj the sea for thai, pro
Als) us ~ ll.c. = i tae Arctic.
l.. Il s2s.,jilaf ,9e' tliat at tha
pee VA a,a@ VII uad TIE entire
eto..e in aH 2lt}iiltfH.
i one 1VN9n't find the entrance to
tie ecu,nl Of the globe, he can explore
eI cry side of the world in a couple of
days and come home with it all in
falf dozen photos.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR.

For the above occasions the st. L. &
S. W. Ry. Co. will sell tickets. one
fare for the round trip, minimum soc,
to all points within 200 miles of Pine
Bluff. Tickets on sale December "a,
25. 81, and January l. 1903 Good to
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23

thief is in dis house right now, an
hereby countoraign hiM 10 eyerlastin'
pHni#l ment. De nig2er dat stole DEM
ishens is agwinter burn far it sho,
Sou hvoah ne. De cree has gone
forth.
Next morning a colored man with
tNo fine hens came UP to the preach
er's door. He said:
Parson, hyeah's yo chickens.
No. sab" said the preacher, eying
the chickens closely, desc amt nah
chickens.
Il knows dey amt perZactly yo
own" explained the parishioner, "but
desc is to TAX Gle place of yo own.
Yo' chickens wuz ct up TO de cree
went forth An las night after went
to bed, my conshunce hurt me so
tell l had to get up and go oyah to
Marse Bob's house an git two mo-
chickens. Parson. do TEX desc chick
ins, an fur de Lords sake TEX dat
cree back, too. o.'-Lippincott's Maya
zine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23
Got Even With Mrs. Rorer.


The wife of minstrel in Philadel-
phia is fond Of telling about her ex-
perience in getting even" with Mrs.
Sarah Rorer, the cooking school lee
turer. At a food show Mrs. Rorer re-
proved with some acerbity, two or
three women who who were interrupt.
ing her lecture on the hygienic prepar-
alton of food by thumbing over books
in which were pasted recipes that had
come down as family heirlooms.
Mrs. Rorer, " and you will be health
ier women with happier homes
Il consider that an insult to my
dead mother" said one woman as she
left the hall.
She was the wife of a member of a
stock minstrel company in Philadel-
phia in which she is tolerated a lati-
tude in it's local "skits" that put Weber
and Fields at a standstill That was
why it happened that within a few
days Hughey Dougherty and his as
sociates did a minstrel burlesque of
the cooking lecture in which Mrs.
Rorer gave Mr.. Rorer one of her
cream foam" biscuit and he promptly
dropped dead-New York Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23

One fare for the rsund trip to AN
the Iron Mountain route Tickets on
sale December "a, 25, 1902, and Janu.
airy I, 1903. Tickets limited to Jan1-
ary 2, 1908. For further information
call at Or telephone the Valley depot.
II. N. ATWOOD, Agt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23
LITTLE STORIES.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
Can't Head the Irish.


The prominent part which Wayne
MacVeagh is taking in the coal strike
investigation is causing a number
of anecdotes about him to be revived
One of them is told by Judge Lester, of
the appeal tax court, who imbibed
some of his legal knowledge from
the former attorney general of Phila-
delphia.
Some years ago." said Judge Les
ter, the late George B. Roberts, presi-
dent Of the Pennsylvania railroad.
gave a dinner party at his home, near
Philadelphia, at which the guests in
cluded Archbishop Ryan and Mr. Mac
Veagh. then solicitor for the railroad.
Things were going very pleasantly,
when Mr. MacVeagh turned to the
archbishop and said "Mr Roberts
has given us all free pass out here;
can't you return the favor by giving
him a free pass to heaven?"
There's one thing in the way
replied the archbishop, thoughtfully.
I'm afraid it might separate him from
his solicitor r"-Baltimor Sun.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23
Christmas and New Year Holiday Ex.

Christmas and New Year Holiday Ex.
cursion.
The Cotton Belt will sell tickets to
ST. Louis and Kansas City and to
certain points in Illinois, Michigan,
North Dakota, Colorado and Wyom-
ing at one fare plus two dollars for
the round trip. Tickets good thirty
days for return. Tickets on sale Dec
ember 13, II, 21, %, 90, and 26. Call
at the Cotton Belt depot and we will
explain rates, etc.. to you. H. B.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23

The Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf r..
R. will sell holiday excursion tickets
locally at one fare for the round trip,
December "a, 25 and 81, 1902, and
January /, 1908. limited for the re-
turn until January 2, 1908.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23

Some times the absent cashiers ac-
count book looks suspiciously like
figured screen.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23

Whiskey straights make crooked
paths.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23
DR.. M. s. COHEN,

DR.. M. s. COHEN,
The only x-ray Specialist in Southern
Arkansas.
Chronic Diseases Of Men, Women and
Children; Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
CONSULTATION FREE.
Offices, 202 IL Main St, over J. Il
Simon Cos store.
PINE BLUFF, ARK.
Office Hours: 8 to IL, to 6 p. M, to
8 Evenings.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23
HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS

Via the Iron Mountain to All Points
in Northern and Southeastern States.
Rate: One fare plus two dollars for
the round trip: tickets on sale De-
cember 13. II, 81, 90 and &c. limited
to thirty days from date Of sale.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23
. ~
dnd Surgeon.

Ohico over j. \. Coles drug store. -
Main street, and both phones in the
above named drug store. Residence
1907 Georgia street New phone 96
old phone 2G7.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23
vicarious Restitution.

VICdrIUUS HeStTIUtT0n.
Not long since a respectable colored
preacher, who was noted for his ability
to "cuss out" people from the pulpit,
was hurting thunderbolts of invective
against his congregation because of
great wave Of lying and stealing thai
was sweeping over the city. Among
other things he said
mo lOnger'n las night some one
come an stole de las chickens dat
me and nah oil oman had. blieve de
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-12-23

Piae Buff. Ark, Dec. -. i902-
Dear Santa Claus: thought would
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-06
vii | ANSWER FOR BlGAMY.
Jesse Adams to Face Wife No. 2 In
Police Court.

Jesse A. Adams, accused of big
amy, will face Recorder Myrick this
morning in the Police Court, when his
commitment trial will be held In
formation was received yesterday af-
ternoon by counsel for the prosecutrix
that Mr. and Mrs. Forbes, the brother
ln-law and the sister of Mrs Causey
would arrive on the early morning
train to-day.
Mrs. Causey is the second wife of
Adams. AS soon as information was
received that these witnesses would
arrive, the case was set for trial. Mr..
Marion K. Long. a brother of Mrs.
Causey, will probably be here also.
Other witnesses have been summoned
and the trial of the case promises to
be interesting.
1t Is not probable that the defense
VIII institute any other defense than
that of jurisdiction. The second mar
riage was contaminated in South Car
DINA and the crime of bigamy was
then committed. Adams will probably
be bound over pending further infor-
nation from South Carolina. lie is
being held now for carrying concealed
weapons, for which offense he was, en-
the commitment trial before the Re-
corder, bound over to the City Court.
Mr.. F. NJ. Oliver will appear for the
prosecutIix, while the defense will be
represented by Mr.. Robert l.. Colding
and Mr.. w. F. Slater
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-06
BUGGY STRUCK STREET CAR.
Man and Woman Thrown and Horse.
man Took Header Into Mixup.

MAIN una w oman thrown and Horse
man Took Header Into Mixup.
What came near being serious COL
lision between a horse and buggy and
a car of the Thunderbolt line occurred
in front of Ambrose's place, Thunder
bolt. night before last. AS the car was
passing Ambrose's a buggy was driven
against it, the horse striking the car
little forward of the center The
force of the impact Slowed the buggy
around so that it struck the car broad
side. Both of the occupants a man
and a woman, were thrown out. and
man who was following the vehicle
on horseback also was thrown into the
tangle through the sudden stopping of
his mount.
None of the parties We're injured, or
at least to no extent. They all appear
ed most anxious that nothing of the
matter should be known and to that
end not only refused to report the mat
ter, but even refused to give their
names. They returned to the city on
later car. The buggy remained at
the resort over night and was brought
to Savannah yesterday The matter
was reported to the officers of the
street car line and an Investigation
was begun, but the above facts repre-
sent all that has been found out about
the case
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-06
STABBED BY SON-IN-LAW.
Henry Fair Dunned a Boarder and
Got a Knife

In quarrel over a board bill Henry
Fair, colored, living at No AIT Purse
street, was stabbed three times by his
son-in-law, Henry Sheppard, yesterday
morning. The wounds are serious and
necessitated the removal of the negro
to the Georgia Infirmary. Besides an
ugly cut over the right eye, he was
stabbed in the back and in the left
arm. The stab in the back is between
the shoulders and is a very painful as
well as a dangerous one.
The negro who did the stabbing
escaped. Shortly afterward Fair was
taken to the inf1rmary in the police
ambulance. He made no complaint to
the police about the cutting ARRAY at
the time, but said last night that he
wanted the boy caught and locked up.
SThe quarrel was over a trivial mat
ter. Sheppard felt that he had been
insulted because he had been approach
ed on the subject of his board bill in
the presence of friend Fair claims
that he was unarmed and that his son
ln-law did not run until he thought
that he had finished him.
A telephone message was received at
police headquarters at an early hour
this morning asking that Sheppard be
arrested. In pursuance of the request
the sergeant on duty sent Officers Fog
arty and Goodman to Sheppards home
The officers reported later that the ne
gro was not there, but that they would
endeavor to locate him by spoilers who
know him.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-06
A SLUMP IN VALUES
COUNTY TAX RETURNS DECREASE
$442,3O3 FROM LAST YEAR.
MANY THINGS ASSISTED
TO REDUCE TAX DIGEST FROM
$31,659,612 To $31 ,217,311.

The Latter Figure the Amount of
the Digest for 19O2-AbsorptiOn of
Edison Electric Illuminating Com
pany, Retirement of Building and
Loan Associations and other
Causes All Helped to Make De-
crease-DispersiOn of Large Es-
tates Also Played Its Part-Some
Decreases l4re Not to BE Under
stOOd-COmparative Statement of
Digests for Two Years.
In common with many other coun-
ties of the state, representing two
flfths of those yet heard from by the
controller general, Chatham county
shows this year a decrease in tax re-
turns from those of last year. The
tax digest was completed by Tax Re-
ceiver Marcus S. Baker yesterday, and
shows a total valuation for taxation
Of $31.217 81. This is a decrease If
S442.612 from the digest of last year.
The decrease and it's approximate
amount have been predicted by the
Morning News, and some of its causes
indicated. These have been numerous
and various. The absorption of the
Edison Electric Illuminating Company
by the Savannah Electric Company and
the consequent return of its property
direct to the controller general, a slump
in bank stock at the time, March 1,
when values were estimated, the ma
turity of the stock and retirement of
several building and loan associations,
tates, the owners of which have died
since the last digest was completed,
and other like causes have all con-
tributed their share.
In addition Mr.. Baker has permitted
reductions in the amount of returns
of numerous pieces of city property,
on which he thought taxes were too
heavily laid.
Some Decreases InexplicabIe.
These causes are more or less evil
dent, but the decreases in the values
of some classes of property, notably
iron foundries and machine shops and
mercantile stocks, are entirely mex
plicable. Mr.. Baker does not under
stand them himself.
The following table shows the tax di-
gest for the year, with a comparative
statement of the increases and de-
creas, the white and colored holdings
and the number of polls of both races:
UalueS-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-06
GILL METERS NABBED.
Fish Wardens Arrested ViOIators of
the State Laws


Three violators of the state law that
prohibits the use of gill nets in the
capture of fish at this season of the
year were arrested at Isle of Hope
night before last by Fish Warden
O'Connor and Westcott. They were
Ben Aiken. Ned Hargraves and George
Howard.
The other violators of the law, AL
bert Griffin and Walter Grant, were
caught redhanded by the fish wardens
some time ago, while they were en-
gagged in the use of their nets and af-
ter they had already landed a boat
load of fish. These were used to Sc
cure indictments against the others,
and the indictments were returned by
the grand jury on last Friday.
Saturday night the arrest of the trio
was effected. Old Ben Aiken, a leader
of his people on the salts, and familiar
ly known to many of them as 1.-The
King of Isle of Hope" was exceeding
ly disgruntled that his majesty should
be so offended.
"Fo Gawd," he told the officers. 81
been living on de coas' twenty-five
yeah and dis de frs time anybody lay
he han on me-"
Old Ben was carried with the others
to the Jail, but on yesterday morning
bondsman for him was secured and
he was given his liberty.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-06
TO SURFACE NEW ROADS.
LaROcbe Avenue and Other High
ways to Be Improved.


An extensive scheme for the surfac-
ing of several country roads was
adopted at the meeting of the board of
County Commissioners held at the
court house yesterday morning. The
clerk was instructed to advertise for
bids to furnish material and as soon
as these have been received and the
most favorable accepted the work will
be begun. This will be in five or six
weeks.
The scheme contemplates loop road
from Savannah to Isle of Hope and re-
turn, all the extent of which will be
paved with Augusta gravel The prin-
cipal road to be paved will be La
Roche avenue, which runs from the
vicinity of Thunderbolt to Isle of Hope.
The announcement that the commits
sioners had this Improvement in con-
temptation and would probably decide
to make it was made IN the Morning
News some days since.
In addition to LaRoche avenue the
commissioners will pave the Parkers-
burg road, that runs along and behind
the bluff at Isle of Hope, so as to con-
meet LaRoche avenue with the Skid
away road, and the SkldaWay road
from the present terminus of the
paving to the end of the Parkersburg
road.
When these improvements are COM
pleted one may leave Savannah by
Estill and Dale avenues, follow the
Thunderbolt shell road to it's intersec-
ton with LaRoche avenue and on La
Roche avenue reach Isle of Hope. Still
driving along paved highway he may
return by way of the Parkersburg road
along the bluff and the old military
causeway, which is now being widened,
reach Montgomery cross road and
over it the Waters road and so reach
vannah.
All the surfacing will be with Au
gusta gravel. The entire distance to
be paved is something over five miles
and considerable time must necessari-
ly elapse before it is completed.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-06
WHOLE DAY FOR PRACTICE.
Opening Day of Interstate shoot
VIII So BE Given Up.

VIII So be Given Up.
The plan for the Interstate Shoot to
be held in Savannah Aug. $3.50, con-
templates an entire day of practice on
the Avondale range. The 25th falls on
Monday. and that day will be devoted
to practice. The matches will rot be
commenced until the day after This
day of practice will be appreciated,
particularly by the visiting rinemen,
most of whom will have had no earlier
opportunity to try the range. II is
possible that some of the teams or
members of them will arrive the week
preceding that of the shoot, in which
event they will have the same orivi-
leges for practice as those enjoyed ny
the Savannah teams.
Capt. Walter f. Coney and Sergeant
Major John Bell of the First Infantry
leave this morning for Charleston,
where they will meet with officers of
that city who are interested in the
shoot and who expect to have teams
visit Savannah. Capt. T. T. Hyde of
the Sumter Guards telegraphed Capt.
Coney, saying that he would arrange
a meeting of the Charleston officers for
a discussion of the shoot with its Sa-
vannah representatives.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-06
LONG TERM FOR jim YOUNG.
Attempted Murder of Howe Must
Serve State for Six Years.

Attempted Murder of Howe Must
Serve State for Six Years.
Jim Young was tried in the Superior
Court yesterday for assault with intent
to murder Jesse Howe. The assault
which the jury said was designed by
Young to result in Howe's death, was
committed with a knife on June Is
last.
Howe was seriously wounded by his
violent and passionate aggressor under
circumstances of peculiar wantonneSS
and viciousness, and without any
seeming provocation whatever to justi-
fy the assault. The verdict of guilty
followed naturally and as a matter of
course, and Judge Barrow sentenced
the defendant to serve six years at
hard labor in the penitentiary of the
state.
Chester Sexton, a white man we'll, if
not favorably, known about town. en-
tered pleas of guilty to two indictments
charging him with forgery. In both
cases the defendant had sent forged
and fraudulent orders to the A. Hanley
Company, calling for consignments of
paints and brushes. These purported to
have been signed by Capt. NJ. P. Usina
and though the signatures were not
perfect limitations of that of Capt.
Usina they created no immediate sus-
picion and managed for a time ito ac-
| complish their purpose.
After a brief space the forgery was
| detected, however, and the arrest of
Sexton promptly followed A week
ago he was indicted by the grand jury
and on yesterday, upon the plea of
| guilty offered by him in each case,
was sentenced by Judge Barrow to
serve six months on the chaingang of
the county. Each changing SEN
tence was in lieu of a fine of 500 and
| all costs
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-06
SALES AT COURT HOUSE.
How Realty Changed Hands Under
the Hammer.

How Realty Changed Hands Under
the Hammer.
The August sales of property at the
Court House yesterday included few
transfers of any considerable impor-
lance. Mr.. S. K. Platshek sold seven
houses on Reynolds street to D. O'Don-
ovan. agent. for $3O36. He sold the
property of the late Eva Belle Wimpy,
lot No. AZ, Jackson Ward, to Mr.. Emile
Newman, agent for $6,66O
The property at the southwest cor
ner OF jefferson and McDonough
streets was sold by Mr.. r. H Tatem
to Mr.. George H. Miller, agent, for So
$50
Mr.. H. E. Wilson bought lots in
Swollville from Mr.. Platshek for $555.
Mr.. l. d. LaRoche sold lot No. II.
Padeiford ward. New Houston street,
TO Mr.. John Cell for $1.225. Two two
story frame houses, Nos 313 and 315
York street, were put up and $3.50
was offered, but was refused Mr.. La
Roche sold two houses for the estate
of George Meyer, oIA going to Mr. E
Moyle for $40 and the other to Mr..
H. Brown for $3.50
Mr.. Walter Woledge bought the
equity in redemption on a lot on Bar
nard and Lawton streets for $55 from
Mr.. LaRoche The lot belonged to the
estate of the late j. f. Way, and was
mortgaged for 81 ,203.25.
A quantity of household goods, in
parcels, was sold by Sheriff Horrigan
of the City Court