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DISTRICT CONFERENCE.

The Methodist conference and Ep-
worth League OF the Pine Bluff dis
trict convenes at Kingsland tomorrow.
The following are a list of some Of
those who will go from here as dele
gates:
First Methodist church-Conference
delegates, r. H. NJ. Mills, N. B.. Sigh,
Arthur Holland, II. P. Russell. League
delegate, Miss Edward Lemon.
Riverside church-Conference dele
gate, Rev. j. R. Dickerson. League
delegates, Misses Matte Ragan, May
Stearns and Pearl Janneck.
Lakeside church-Conference dele
gates, Rev. w. P Whaley and DR.. J.
W. John. League delegates, Misses
Orrie Reeves, Edith Jackman, Edna
Bridenbaugh and Lydia Alden.
Several of the delegates left for
Kingsland at $3.50 p. m. :
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TIE OLD VETS
HAVE MEETING AT COURTHOUSE
AND ELECT OFFICERS FOR
ENSUING YEAR.
Endorse Capt. N. T. Roberts for State
Commander and Camp Delegates
Instructed for Him.

Pursuant to adjournment, J. Ed
Murray, camp, [. c. V. met at
o'clock p. m, Monday, Commander
Green presiding, and comrades present
were Seabrook, Vance Bell, Foley,
Trulock, Brewster, Bridges, R. NJ
Knox, Clary, J. P. Knox Jordan, Rod
gers, Reidinger and also comrade
Thomasson, of Star City, as visitor.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and adopted. The report of
Treasurer Trulock, showing 5000
cash on hand, was received and ap-
proved.
1t was moved and ordered that an
nual dues become d> and payable on
the fourth Monday of July of each
year.
On motion of comrade Jordan it
was resolved that the camp meet on
the fourth Monday of each month
and that some comrade at each meet
ing relate incidents of his army life.
At the next meeting Comrade ]. S.
Bell will tell what he saw at the seige
of Vicksburg.
On motion, Comrade Dewoody, Bell
and Mccoy were appointed a commit
tee to report at next meeting code
of bylaws for the government CT the
camp.
On motion of Comrade Bell, the fol-
lowing resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, the state commanders of
the United Confederate Veterans of
Arkansaw have heretofore been select
ed from all portions of the state but
this, and believing in equity the next
commander should be chosen from this
section;
Be it resolved, that J. Ed Murray
camp CT United Confederate Veterans,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30
HOW 1T FEELS
TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
PRONOUNCED DEAD. AND
THEN RECOVER.
Experience Of a Missouri Farmer Who
Was Parayzed Last Week by
the Elements.

Sturgeon. Mo. June SO few
days &so G. w. Peacber. 81 years old,
was STRUCK BY lightning and given Up
lar 3ae4 HW he lives to telI the
4t.s9. =pe4cIo,z was Visited al 6is=resf,
4ease- Ten mi.4. souaa of Sturgeon,
zesterdaE.
'.#eH aas .ook EEe a dead
nan. int /, ms = me like was
dead buried ana an now resare4ted.
1t was the closest ea}l ever had. and
if anybody could have been found
about the time | was struck | would
have bet them my farm against a glass
Of huttermilk that was gone for,
How did it nappen? Well, you've
got me. | had no warning and it was
all over in an instant. | had been
balilg hay fer G.. w. Laxton and Newt
Baker and | Judge il was along in the
afternoon about 3 O'Clock, when the
rain began te fall. All tie men start
ed for Ed Seymour's harness-foom,
which adjoins the barn. We were all
laughing and talking, then, in a second
we were all crying.
The lightning struck me on the
left shoulder and burned me to my
toes. Both shoes We're badly torn and
in the photograph here you can see
for yourself how it treated my clothes.
Well, for few minutes | was dead.
The boys gathered around me and |
heard one of them say that l diet
easy.
They talked about what they would
| do with me, and all the time | knew
what they wele saying, but | was
unable to move or speak. It occurred
to me that | might be paralyzed and
| that they might bury me yet while
| was alive | was burning up, thought,
inside of me and that my flesh was
being roasted.
"The boys told me it was fully
| twenty minutes before | moved, and
the first thing | said was a request
for water. This was brought to me
and | drank all of it. My companions
! asked me what physician I wanted
| and | told them that would be dead
| before any of those at Sturgeon could
| be told about the affair.
| "My nelves We're racked, and what
! ever courage | had possessed in for
mer days deserted me. In an hour
| the doctor arrived, gave me an opiate,
and | went to sleep | was brought
to Sturgeon over night and the next
! day my friends took me home.
I've been pretty lucky all along.
A tree fell on me four years ago and
| was given up for dead; horse ran
away with my buggy two years ago
| and I thought my time to die had
| arrived; last winter while cutting ice.
| | fell in the lake and came near freez-
| ing to death. had my left eye
| knocked out | have been shot at once
or twice; and yet am permitted to
live and breathe. l must be tough
critter, all right"
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4. 4i..s - -
l>EG(SEz5. T MOVE no I Z,
VEGETABLE GROWERS IN SIS
SION Ta,S FTERNOON AT
COURTHOUSE
Want to Combine TO Find Profitable
Market for Their Surplus
Products.

Tie vegetable growers Of jefferson
county find that the home consump-
tion Of potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage.
berries and celery, and many otaer
vegetables and fruits does not con-
sume the supply, and the great ques-
ton Of getting them to another mar
ket at an expense that will insure a
profit to the grower is now being
thoroughly considered. There was a
meeting at 2::3O this afternoon at the
courthouse. called by Mr.. Ed Russell,
and he and others are corresponding
with the American Refrigerator Trans
portation company with a view to CO.
operation with the growers by which
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30

the growers can combine in shipping
i'll car load lots. Mr. j c. Sewen. the
proprietor of the cold storage plant
OF this city, together with Mr.=E. D
kussel, viii engineer the matter.
This would suggest a canning fac
tory. The farmers near Pine Bluff tell
various experiences. One said that
last year 80 bushels of tomatoes per
day went to waste ON his place. and
untold quantities OF all kinds of beans
are never picked Corn eeu24 be rails
ed ia sseat quantities for canning
purposc., and sD2h an enterprise
aaula 6c f0stered
TIE etowers' association viii b. :
2esn.aneat oHe and the object in or-
55:.E,4in5 IS ta @at julo 2aJa Wors..#
crdti tf' neN5 g&S0n.
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GET Z, l{.)tz: e, e, T 7 Y I..l,
MAYOR. COUNCIL AND JUDGE
PHILLIPS AGREE ON PLAN FOR
STREET PAVING.
!. +
City Will Pay 20 Per Cent, County
the Same, and the Property
Owners so Per Cent.


The council, the mayor and Judge
Phillips nave formulated plans where
by Sixth avenue can be paved. Now
it seems that the three-wheel chariot
is again on smooth travelling grounds,
and the people OF this city will be
delighted to know it. One OF the
things most needed in this city is
good street improvement, and the
paving Of Sixth avenue will be fine
start
The commissioners of improvement.
district No TO-, at the meeting held
Monday afternoon solicited the finan-
ciai assistance of the council in the
work they contemplate. and received
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30

recognizing in its esteemed comrade,
Ten n T. Roberts, one eminCntly
Competent to perform the duties and
we'll worthy to wear the hOnors OF the
position, declare him to be the Choice
II the camp for major-general COM
manding the Arkansas Division, L. c.
v. and the delegates from this camp
to the next state convention, when
ever chosen, shall be- and are hereby
instructed to present his name tie
said convention and urge his election
to said position.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: Commander. 3.
E. Benton; second commando, ?. =
Bridges; third commander, j. y.
Clary; adjutant, w D. Vance; Guar=
termaster. j. P. Knox; cOmmissary,
n. r. Rogers; surgeon B. r. Donnel-
On: chaplain Jno r. Carr: treasurer.
!. 3. Truieck: officer Of the day. \.
!}sewste=; coior bearer, ". Z. Aden.
o. nEet.an, tie camp adjourned 10
sect at courthouse cn Monday, Juy
y. 1908. at O'Clock p. N.
T5GS GREEN, Commander
E. 2. BENTON. Acting Adjutant
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30
Cotton Outlook in jefferson,

2If. Dave Franklin is just back from
tffp to tie country inspecting the
TOP He reports the cotton crop on
dse Soul place ami the upper Bell
place suffering fer want Of work and
f9o much 9aia. Tie weeds and grass
an net he gotten out as long as the
an continues. f9a il is 50 damp that
s =re=roots as #aoaH as cut down. con-
fa5ant# he work done is not effec-
IEe. However tie cotton locks verH
ea2l. ua4@f the conditions. Al tic
4fa eete9n is sma.. aad not the best
au5.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30
Sold to Rock i5land-F Frisco.

Austin, Ten June 2S.-Is is reported
that the Naiioaa railroad companF CT
Mexicc mas parted with It's read n
Texas, which runs from Eareaa# 10
Corpus Christi, distance OF ice
niles. and tnat tie Rock IsIand-t,isco
interests are the BHi eilasers. Ihis
ed is operated D. the Texas Mexican
Hallway Company. IL connects with
tie main line ol tlle Natlol:.. and with
the !alelnafi0nal and Great Northern
at! retlo and with tie San Antonio
and a ansas Pass at Alice and Cor
pGs GI istl. It is stated that, under
the terms Of the contract recently en-
tered into between the Mexican gov
o1nnanl and tee National railroad
company Of Mexico, the latter was re-
quired to dispose of its Texas hold
ings and that the sale Of the Texas
Mexican has been made in compliance
With this requirement. The st. Louis,
Brownsville and MeXico railroad
which is being built by the Yoakum in
terests from San Antonio, Tex, to
Brownsville will also connect with
the Texas Mexican. The latter road
was recently converted from narrow
to broad gauge.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30
LEAGUE
ORED MEN OF ARKANSAS
40 MEET IN PINE BLUFF
THURSDAY.
,one Address to be Made by DR..
o. w. F.ippin and Response by
prof. M. M. Murray.

lie Colored Mems Business League
he state meets in convention III
I Bluff next Thursday.
fomptly at II O'Clock Thursday, the
ting will be called to order by
president. After the usual exer-
in opening, the president will
Ter his annual address. The re-
! or standing committees and an
election Of officers will then oc-
te welcome address on behalf OF
league and citizens will be deliv-
lat night by Geo. w. Flippin. Prof.
". Murray, of New Lewisville,
will respond. During the meet
some interesting subjects to the
ed race will be discussed. DR.. j.
Rowland will deliver an address
he negro from commercial
point; A. M. Middlebrooks, "Has
Progress of the American Negro
e United States Been Commen-
b With His Opportunities" w.
,enberger, Fort Smith, Business
cs";; T. H. Jackson, "The Negro
sriculture, What 1t Says to U.s.;
IStout, "The Hand and Its Uses.'
long some of the representatives
(e city who will attend and dis
topics pertaining to the advance
sxof the race, are Profs. J. M.
Resident Philander Smith col
tos. A. Booker, Arkansas Bap-
Glege; M. w. Gibbs, Rev. J. T.
~, J. G.. Ish, S. A. Jones and
aside from these, business
d all sections of the state are
swho will consider carefully
ems relating to commercial
dItural advancement of their
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30

that body's assurances that providing
the county Judge will appropriate q
like amount, the city will app opriate
money in the sum Of 20 per cent. of
the cCst of the paving, the property
owners en- the throughfare to pay
90 per cent. of the cost
Tie commissioners have been as
s1ired that the county Judge will do
his share and. as the city's prOpo
siticn is satisfactory, the commission
ers are confident that the street viii
be paved and that tha work will COM
nenGe soon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30
The Bosses Resource.

The operators, having agreed to
recognize" the representatives of the
Miners Union; doubtless will cele-
brate their magnanimity by adding
another half dollar to the price of a
ton of coal.-Philadelph North
American
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30

ace, and the common good of A,
'aA&as
These addhasses, together With tn
2:!e0s reports, and dsta Collected.
should make the meeting a zeaoe~
The officers are ]. NJ. Conner presi-
dent; G. W Hayman, secretary and
J. f. Bush, treasurer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30

The Sanders mill has just COM
pleted a handsome high desk for Nj
G. w. Byington. the obliging ab-
stractor. which makes a valuable ad-
dition to his office fixtures
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30

iamin Bfazelle. a ST. Louis
Et. claims 10 nave made 0la fol
discoVe les which scientists
~ ,ery#here accepted.
ke transmutation u melals naau-
Fturing gold from clay nd iron.
Several new metals.
THAT the three primary clements
Fe carbon, hydrogen and non.
That there is one underlying ese-
TENT and force-efeetl.ie5f.
That the sun is cold. dough sa.-
Funded by an elcctrieaI sphere.
hieh is the light We Sc
That metals viii grow Use 5e1ata-
|es; that metals ami mi4 aa las
(z and tnat 1he vegetable ana min
|sl kingdoms are divided BY no SHARP
be.
Discoveries prophesied for Twen,
fth century:
|Interplanetary communication.
Wireless telephoning. and system by
hich the eye can see and the ear
ar through almost limitless dis
nces.
Navigation of the air. by provid-
the power from stationary plan
which will project electrical en-
BY into the air. whence it can be
thered up and used by air craft,
ls doing away with the necessity Of
Eighty machinery aboard the boat.
complete understanding of elec-
pity, the one fo,ce of nature by
IN man can see much that is now
Ele.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30
Nc lana There.

\ Aming Chieaeo antaoress has dis
refer= that magiage is "hea9t-sui-
de-. TIE aieoaz statistics OF that
city show that The average Chicago
heart has about as many lives as q
r4t-Detfoit Free Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30
Inconsistent.

PostofIice employees on moderate
salaries are gradually having it borne
in upon them that an expression of
injured innocence does not look natur-
al in 5000 automobile.-Ohio State
Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30

j. T. Ross. 612 Walnut street, will
leave in day or two to visit friends
and relatives in Chattanooga and
Knoxville, Tenn He will return home
August |.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30
Pre- 5iuf5 Trust Company.

-'.- - -7T'r.7e'.v:
Nr. =. Z" E&33 - s1s4 tAe Pine
EFF serust eompaaYis now ready for
business. The banking house is 10
Gated Al ~ Pine street. and is one OF
the best financial films in the city
The gentlemen in charge are sure 1
meet With success.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30

Judge John NJ. Elliott has returned
5zcn Hot Springs Whor2 he has been
taking a course of baths for his
health.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30

kiamin Bfaze3se, a 81. Louis
st, claims 70 nave made 5Ia FOL
( discove les, which scientists
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-30

American.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-23
Only Make a Bad Matter worse.

Perhaps you have never thought of
it, but the fact must be apparent to
everyone that constipation is caused
by lack of water in the system, and
the use of drastic cathartics like the
old-fashioned pills only makes a bad
matter worse. Chamberlain's Stom-
ach and Liver Tablets are much more
mild. and gentle in their effect, and
whenN the proper dose is taken their
actionV. is so natural that one can
hardly realize il is the effect of a med
icine. Try a 25-cent bottle of them.
For sale by all druggists.
ChamberIain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets are becoming a favorite for
stomach troubles and constipation.
For sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-23
Has No Waterman.

SuIIlS IHeN are DeIIeE NdlCItu.
Has No Waterman.
The country banker cannot afford
to hire a private Waterman, and the
village marshal sleeps pretty soundly
along about 3 o'clock in the morning.
1t is a poor bank that doesn't have at
least $1,000 in cash in its safe, and
the safe is apt to be old-fashioned and
easy to rob, compared with the eX-
pensive vaults that make the city
banks secure.
The fall season is chosen for two
reasons. The country banks at that
time have a good cash balance on
hand. because the crops are moving
and it takes cash to pay for farmers
wheat and corn. Then, again, the
weather is propitious.
In the summer people sleep lighter,
with open windows, and there are
more of them moving about at night.
In winter the snow on the ground
would point the way to the capture
of the robbers. In the spring the
rains and the softened ground would
make detection easy, even if the cash
balances of the banks were attrac-
tive. which they are not. Therefore.
the yegg man works in the autumn.
While some of these banks are
cracked by tramps who have got hold
of some dynamite which they have
reduced by heating to the form of
nitroglycerine, most of the jobs are
done by men who employ a system.
Many of them lay out their routes
just as an actor would do.
The advance agent, generally some
smooth chap with little roll, goes to
the town and secures diagrams and
all needful information about the
bank. He finds out what nearby far
mer is careless about the disposition
of his horses and buggy at night, he
maps out the way to escape and finds
out what time a freight train passes
through the next town.
Arrives the Same Night.
1t is almost the invariable rule that
the men who do the job seldom see
the town before the night of the rob-
berry. This is done to avoid recogni-
ton. They drop off the cars ten,
twenty or twenty-five miles away
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-23
A Scientific Discovery.

Kodol Dyspepsia Cure does for the
stomach that which it is unable to do
for itself, even when but slightly dis
ordered or overloaded. Kodol Dys-
pepsia Cure supplies the natural juices
of digestion and does the work of the
stomach, relaxing the nervous ten
sion, while the infiamed muscles of
that organ are allowed to rest and
heal. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests
what you eat and enables the stomach
and digestive organs to transform all
food into rich, red blood. Sold by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-23
TO ENLARGE FORCE
Gen. Crozier, Chief of Ordnance,
Tells of Rock island Arsen-
al Plans for Year.
OPERATE. SMALL ARMS PLANT
1 ,O74 Machines InstaIled-Nec es-
sIty or New Hospital EN-
phasized.

Several hundred men are to be add
ed to the force at Rock Island arsenal
during the coming year IN connection
with the operation of the new small
arms plant, according to the report
of Gen. William Crozier, chief of ord
nance, for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1903. The report says:
During the past year the number
of employees at this arsenal has var
led from 300 to 1,500, and with the
present demand for equipments of
various kinds, and the work on the
new material for field batteries, etc.,
it is probable that the plant will be
operated for few years at least
upon the present scale. In addition,
for the operation of the small arms
plant now installed and for which
only special tools, gauges, fixtures.
etc. are required, it will be necessary,
before the close of the coming fiscal
year. in the manufacture of the mag
azine rifles. model of 1908, to add sew
eraI hundred employees to the present
working force.
Lack of Officers.
Il invited attention in my last an
nual report to the lack of sufficient
number of assistant officers TO prop
erly supervise the varied operations
Of the arsenal, and this will be more
severely felt when the small arms
plant is in operation.
Several of the shops which have
been heretofore used for the storage
of field and siege guns, carriages and
limberS and obsolete stores have been
utilized for machines for small arms
manufacture, resulting in a lack of
space for the proper and convenient
storage of the output of the arsenafs
carriage department. As soon as the
issue of the new field material is COM
menced the old material in service
will be turned in for repairs and
storage and will form an excellent re-
serve supply available for sudden de-
mand. At present there is no suita-
BILE place for the storage of this equip
ment, and the necessity for an artil-
lery store-shed is apparent. Such a
building was included i'll the plans of
the arsenal. and estimates for it have
frequently been submitted. The de-
sired building has been planned har-
monious with adjacent structures,
and an estimate for its construction
is again submitted.
Need of Hospital.
Attention is again invited to the
lack of a suitable building for hos.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-23
Arrives the Same Night.

1t is almost the invariable rule that
the men who do the job seldom see
the town before the night of the rob-.
berry. This is done to avoid recogni
ton. They drop off the cars ten,
twenty or twenty-five miles away
from the town and walk the rest of
the distance, cooking and eating their
meals in the woods and repeating the
dope.
This method prevents any tracing
of their movements. No one has
seen them in the town and no embar-
RAISING descriptions are sent out. At
ter making a few good hauls they
strike back to headquarters and fol-
low another route laid out for them
by that time by their advance man.
They never take any percaution to
deaden the explosion. 1t might be
thought that this would be done in
order to avoid arousing the town, but
they are well aware that it is seldom
possible for an armed or organized
posse to get on to their trail speedily.
The explosion tears the safe to
pieces. and it is the work of a few
minutes to rife the cash box. Not
very men are anxious to rush out in
the darkness and face gang of arm
ed robbers, aud by the time the
townspeople do organize there is
nothing to indicate where the robbers
have gone.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-23

Attention is again invited to the
lack of suitable building for Il hos
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-23
WIFE CHARGES THOMAS
BOYLEN WITH CRUELTY

Thomas Boylen is charged with
cruelty and. drunkenness in a bill for
divorce filed with the circuit clerk by
his wife, Mrs. Mary Boylcn, of Moline,
through her attorney, W. c. Allen.
They were married at Seneca, ILL.,,
April Is, 1888. An injunction was
prayed and granted by Judge Graves
restraining Boylen from disposing of
her household goods or from drawing
from the Moline National bank money
he had on deposit there pending hear
ing of the suit for divorce.