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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-23
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-Call ON U. ". Poss for pure su
&afhouse molasscs.
a full line of fancy groceries at
|. ". Poss' grocery.
Esquire j. l.. Knox celebrated his
slxtleth birthday Thursday.
Attend our sale; it is always go
ing on. j. II. Atkins furniture store
Pride of Havana. The best S.
cent cigar. At Kaufmans confcction.
cry.
Prices always tow. Don't forget
our beautiful line OF furniturc j. II
Atkins.
-t'or stove wood phone Pine City
Bedding Co. New phone SO; old
phone 322.
MIR. George Clements has valu-
bic hound which had a foot badly
mashed by being run over by buggy.
Call on Hicks fee and Coal COM
pany for all kinds of coal Prompt SER
vice. Old phone 92; new phone 1913.
Drink our delicious hot drinks
coffee, chocolate chicken, beef, to-
mato and clam. Kaufman's confec.
tioDery.
The Meyer market house has
lust received fifty new bread boxes
that are to be used in the distribution
o. the staff of life
j. II. Dellmon Sr., is quite i'll at
his home at G29 Texas street. Mr.
Dellmon is an Old soldier and is now
siXty-one years Old.
The Woman's Home Mission so
ciety will give tea at Riverside par
sonage Monday, January 26. from 3
TO II p. M. Admission 25 cents.
For Sale-The brick building
Nos. 201 and 203 West Barraque st.
at low price and on long time pay
mcnts Address, c. 7. Dondore San
Diego, Cal.
Joseph I. TENN, is the new drug
clerk at the Anderson Meyer Drug
company Mr.. TENN has had Six
teen years experience. He came from
81. Louis.
"A writ of possession was filed to-
day in which j. f. Clemmons declares
that Luther Gill holds the II of
the NV Ia. section 9-6.6 willfully and
tnhlaWfully.
During January we are making a
special run on soaps, fine leather
goods bristle goods. Foleys cough and
kidney medicine. L. 3. Coons drug
store ol0 Main street
w, G. Myriek. who has been con
neeted with the Smith Premier Type
writer company, has established him
self in the typewriter supply business
in ct. Louis.
The Empire Dramatic company
gave a very creditable entertainment
at Homes hall last night. Billie Young
sang solo for which h. WAS heartily
encored. \ large crowd was present.
Another performance will be given
tonight.
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New Enterorise for Benton.

Benton, January 23.-The prelimin
arie, are being arranged looking TO the
establishment OF cotton compress
and an oil mill at this place in the
ntar future. No particulars can be
disclosed as yet. but from the charact-
er and enterprise of the gentlemen
who are interested in the enterprise
there is no doubt that the deal will be
arranged
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PROSPEROUS Business.

Mr. w j. Savage, of the Valley
Telephone company was in the city
Thursday and reported prosperous
development of the company Many
new phones are bing put in and the
lines are being extended The year
1902 shows considerable Increase
over the previous year.
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Crazy Negro Locked Up.

Lewis Turner a negro VAS brought
to thttity in a crazy condition. He is
afraid some one is tr4ins TO XIII
him, and i'll his endeayor to save him
self he shot a gun through house in
which he had been residing, about
two miles west OF the city The neigh
ba,s We're afraid of bodily harm at his
hands. and brought him to the city
He was placed in jail, and he scared
about twenty OF the inmates of the
jail into nervous fits by placing mat
tress on his head AMI parading
through the gangway between the
cells.
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Fine Rat Doq.

Wade Knox has fine rat dog. The
other day trap was set in butcher
shop The next morning the trap
contained eighteen rats. They We're
taken TO the corner of Barraque and
Chestnut streets and turned loose one
at time and the dog got them all,
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\ finch party was given by Mrs
John Thompson at her residence on
East Second avenue Thursday evening
in honor Of Miss Ada Belle Gardner,
Cf Martin. Tenn; Miss Gertrude
Moore. of New Lewisville Ark. and
Miss Matte Rocks. of HumboIt, Tenn.
Refreshments We're served.
After the reception at the home OF
Mr. and Mrs. Will Collier last night
a number OF the young people went
to the jefferson Fencibes hall and
danced until the wee sma hours The
young people report having an exceed
ingly good time.
The members OF the Current Topic
club We're entertained last night at
the home of Mr. and Mrs Will Collier
The home was beautifully decorated
and many guests were present TO par
take ot tie hospitality extended to
them The gowns of the members of
Tie club We're elaborate.
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Capital Stock Increased,

The Southern Mercantile company
have increased their capital stock
from $4,000 to $4,000. Ferdinand
Havis is president, and Wiley Jones,
NJ. r. Perry and Ferd Havis, directors
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Suit on Land Note.

L. Roth filed suit in ehaneery court
against Susan Conyard and others to
recover on note Of sos 30. part pay
nent ON so acres of land.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-23

'Tisn't safe to be day without DR.
Thomas Eclectric Oil in the house
Never can tell what moment an aeei
dent is going to happen.
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Cotton Movement.

Tie folliwing is Secretary E. D.
Irssell's report of cot cotton move
meat Tor the present season. compared
for the same period for the two prior
season.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-23
United States Newspapers

The aumber ot copies of daily news
papers circulated last year in the
United States was MS. .466. .Q0u. and
of weekhes, l.20S 1870. 600.
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Jack Luster, trespassing, s..
John Burris, tresDassing, $.
Harry Williams, trespassing, s..
Oscar Frederick, passing. s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23
THE STORY OF THE "oUTLAW QUEEN"
Kansas Journa,


!. Dora Fox, the queen Of the outlaws of
ever led stranger life than has Dora
Fox. She is only % years old, but for
eight years this slim, bronze-faced girl,
with a mouth and features that not even
her life in outlaw camps has relieved of
their beauty, has been the leader of an
outlaw band. She has escaped from jail
under the eyes of her guards; she has
led her band thru a dozen different fights
with sheriffs; she has disguised herself
and visited towns where the officers who
were after her were resting, and now at
last she has been captured after chase
of years, which extended across three
states and has been participated in by
dozen determined sheriffs. The story of
this remarkable girl told by herself is as
follows:
my parents died when I was very lit
tie. They left nothing. I had lived all my
life on the plains. I knew horses and
cattle, and I knew nothing else. Natur-
ally, turned to the cattle camps to earn
living. That was when I was H. I
cooked and sometimes I helped the cow
boys. A year after this I commenced the
life that has brought me here. I was
working on a range in eastern Texas.
There was a pretty hard crowd Of boys
on the ranch and at last overheard a.
conversation which showed me that three
Of the men on the ranch were Martin,
Jack Simmons and Bert Casey, all motor
ious outlaws. They were planning, a raid
one evening and overheard the whole
thing. In my excitement I made little
noise and they discovered me. I was
seized and in half an hour T was gallop-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23
Nebraska State Journal.


Erastus Smith is full Of years, but he
was in the prime of robust manhood
when he came to Nebraska thirty years
ago and bought half section Of railroad
land in the northeast corner of Buffalo
county. He also took a homestead and
tree claim adjoining, making full sec
ton, located between Beaver creek and
the south fork Of the Loup river. He
was the first settler In the present pros
porous village of Ravenna, the site OF
which was carved from his land. When he
landed there contemporary with the fail
ure of Jay Cook and the crimeof 1873, there
were no trees in sight in any direction:
no neighbors nearer than fifteen miles,
and not so much as a rumor that rail-
road would ever be constructed up that
valley Mr. Smith was a courageous man
and set about making the most Of his
lonely situation. He landed In the sum
nler season, In time to build a modest
cottage and put up hay for wintering his
cattle, and In the spring he broke sod
along both banks Of the creek for over
mile and began Systematically to subdue
that part of the desert by planting trees
He has followed the practice every spring
for thirty years, until the once treeless
region has the appearance Of a native
forest glorious to behold. In doing this
he has benefited the entire community.
and his name will be revered by the peo
pie Of Havenna years after his bones
shall have crumbled to dust. It is good
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23
DOC BIxBY ON ERAsTUs SMITH

to do the things that he has done. and
feel that in enriching yourself you have
enriched others. Rayenna is the first
division station out of Lincoln on the
Burlington road to Billings, which adds
nightly to its Importance as a business
point, and no man takes such personal
pride In the place as Erastus Smith. But
Mr.. Smith Is not distinguished alone as
the oldest settler and largest property
owner in that region. He is man who
studies. He understands astronomy and
has builded from his studies a philosophy
OF his own respecting the movements Of
the heavenly bodies and the forces that
prevent these great bodies from getting
into disastrous nnixup as football play
ers sometimes do. Mr.. Smith denies that
there is such law as "gravitation." He
declares that magnetic and electrical
forces, attractive and. repellant, are re.
sponsihle for the order that obtains in
the universe of worlds and are all that
keeps fellow from falling off when the
earth turns over. When you stop to think
about It for two or three hours at time,
the scientific" talks you have heard
about the power of ''gravitation' do In
deed, sound like the babblings of brook,
and you are none the wiser for what you
have heard; but the philosophy of Mr.
Smith appeals to you as having behind
it something that is based upon demon
strable truth. We feel that it is good to
have met Erastus Smith. for such men as
he are the very salt AZ the earth.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23

Some people who are apparently a good
deal more concerned about the distribu
ton Of federal patronage where it will
serve the best purpose as reward for
political activity than they are about
filling places Of trust with men who are
well equipped in every way for the work
demanded, are exhibiting little soreness
thru the democratic Globe over the ap-
pointment Of Hay to the board Of APP
praisers There doesn't seem to be any
disposition to dispute his capacity and
general fitness, but there is complaint
that he oughtn't to have had it because
he hasn't hustled enough in ward poll
tics That's the only disqualification
we've heard OF. sz .54.a.ats
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23

Mr. Eustis' very generous suggestion
to Secretary Shaw that his name was not
to be considered If to do SO would en-
barrass him or the president In their
task Of distributing federal patronage,
may send him to congress 1t is generally
conceded that Mr.. Eustis did very hand
some thing and the recognition of it by
the public has suggested to more than
one the fact that the ex-mayor possesses
qualifications for representative of a great
district like this one.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23

Carroll D. Wright, whose figures COM
mand confidence everywhere. will shortly
publish a report regarding the rise in
wages and the advance in prices during
the past five years in which it will be
shown that, in his opinion, Eat no time
in the history Of the country were the
workingmen Of America in such good
condition in respect to their earning ca
pacity and the cost Of their living as they
are o-day.' This Is as it ought to be.
The workingmen are entitled to the best
the conditions will allow. At the same
time they cannot afford to demand more
petuation Of their own prosperity is very
largely in their own keeping. s-...s 49,. f.. 49,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23
A Cure for Wall Street Blues.

Hamilton Fish, assistant United States
treasurer, told the New Workers some
thing yesterday which may do them some
good. He said that Chicago appeared to
be the dividing line between the pessimism
of the east and the optimism Of the west.
Those in Wall street who are SO very
blue ought, he thought, to go west and
discover for themselves that there is no
occasion for dependency from a com
mercial point Of view. The people out
west, he reports, cannot understand why
conditions should be as they are in the
stock market and that the leading ques-
ton they ask is, What is the matter
with Wall street?''
There is one comfortable conclusion to
be drawn from the present compla cency
and satisfaction with the situation which
depression and concern In Wall street, and
that Is that that financial center does not
dominate the country at the present time
Jas it has done in the past. 1t is possible
for Wall street to be depressed and for
speculative stocks to suffer heavy de-
cline without the general Industrial and
commercial interests of the country being
affected thereby. The productive capacity
of the country continues undated and the
consumptite capacity Is not affected.
Money is abundant turnout the west and
resources of Wall street are in compar-
tatively minor degree necessary to the
operation of business in the west
While these conditions prevail the west
can see no reason to doubt the eontinu-
ance of prosperity. New enterprises are
being taken up and old ones carried for
ward with undated zeal and enthusiasm.
The only shadows which fall upon the
pathway ahead are occasional differences,
more or less serious and threatening, be-
tween labor and capital, but which, 1t is
hoped. may all be resolved happily and
fortunately in due time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23


ing over the range in the direction of the
rendezvous with arms bound behind me.
when we reached the place Simmons
told me on account of what I had over
heard I would have to remain a prisoner
in the camp or become one of the gang.
Take your choice, little girl, he said. I
know you well enough to know that if
you take an oath to stand with us, you'll
do it like a man. Don't do it, tho, unless
you want to-. At first it seemed an
awful thing for me to do, but had no
other friends, so I swore to be true to
them.
IT had not been with the gang two
weeks when they were surrounded by
posse and we bad to fight our way out.
had committed no crime, but was
pointed out as the most desperate woman
on the range. There were stirring years
after that. We were in Old Mexico and
all thru the southern states. Half of the
time posses were on our trail, but we
fooled them time after time. Once we
were cornered and had to fight again.
Three Of the boys were captured, but
Simmons and I escaped. In these years
was compelled to wear mems clothing
as disguise. After the fight we were
pretty we'll broken up and 1 went to
work on a cattle ranch as a cowboy.
Some one recognized me and was cap
tured.
'"They say am an outlaw: They say
am thief, a leader Of train robbers.
horse thieves and murderers. Well,
don't care about that. They say I am
cruel. and even tho I have lived my life
on the prairie and in hard camps I have
a woman'S heart
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23
Undervalued Assets.

There is a good deal Of Impotence ex-
hibited at times over appropriations made
for the preservation Of game and the
ter of game and fish in this state This
contempt for the game and fish resources
of the state is exhibited chiefly by two
classes of people, those who never hunt
or fish themselves and have no appre-
citation of the natural resources of the
state in the point of game. and those who
make a business of hunting and fishing
! for the market and do not like to be in
terfered with in it's slaughter
~ There are those, however, who appre-
ciate what the game resources Of Minnie
sofa are and may become to this state.
Emerson Hough, who spends his summer
vacations in this state, and who as a
sportsman appreciates the attractions
which the state has to offer in that line,
says that Minnesota with little more
advertising and little better general
knowledge Of her opportunities would
4 draw thousands from the east and other
parts Of the United States every year
, who would come to hunt and fish, and
would spend an average of $500 each
while here. These sportsmen, he points
I out, are natural-born game wardens; they
are not out to slaughter Unfortunately,
but are interested in the preservation
and protection of the game.
The visits of such sportsmen will bring
to the state in actual money many times
what the protection Of the game costs,
while reasonable protection of the natural
onstrated in other states, will return more
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23
HARMLESS SINGING BULLETS
Exchange.

heard whistle" said an old soldier. IF
it sings in your ear rest assured that it
will never harm you. It is fact, as any
old soldier will tell you, that you never
hear the bullet which hits you. The bull
let which you hear sing has already sped
past you, and the bullet which hits you
has Missed in the ear Of some other fell
..The singing Of the bullet is the at
mospheric vibration which Is created, and
the resistance which the air offers to the
progress OF the bullet This cannot be de-
tected by the ear until the bullet has
crossed a line parallel with the ear. 1t
may sail over your head or whiz close to
the ground, but If it passes you at all
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23

The st. Paul chamber Of commerce is
about to be reorganized and rejuvenated.
One hundred business men have pledged
financial support to the organization and
1t is said that q permanent feature Of
the work will be the maintenance OF
department Of statistics. The chamber
will compile for dissemination facts and
statistical information regarding st.
Pauls industries and make this material
available in the promotion Of new enter
prises and in spreading knowledge OF
the Importance OF the city. This is useful
work, and bureau Of this kind in con-
nection with the Commercial club Of Min
neapolis could be made Of great value to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23
A Servant of His Country.

The United States court of appeals at
San Francisco rendered decision yes
terday in which occurs the judicial deliv-
erance that "a dog is a chattel and next
to man is the most important factor in
the past and present history Of the coun-
try" This testimony to the usefulness
and faithfulness of the most intelligent
and most affectionate Of the brute crea-
ton occurs in decision rendered by the
court on the petition of a man now serv-
ing sentence for larceny in the Rampant
Jail, Alaska, for writ of habeas corpus.
The writ was asked for on the ground
that stealing dog In Alaska Is not lar
ceny. because this animal is not specific
ally mentioned in the statutes.
Rampant is a town on the Yukon, ac-
cessible in summer by river boats but in
transportation except dog teams. In
Rampant the "Huskie" and the ..Mala-
mute" are treated with great considera-
ton. In: summer they lie about the
streets, on the docks and in the doorways,
sun themselves on the sidewalk and thor
oily enjoy their vacation. But in winter
the scene changes; their busy time has
arrived. Almost any kind Of a dog can
be taught to pull load. There are not
a half dozen horses in Rampant; there are
hundreds of dogs and in winter these ami
mails travel the trails and the river, car
rying the mails from one station to an
other, hauling to the mining camps the
supplies which are to subsist the miners
during the following summer, and doing
the transportation work of the country.
No wonder the dog Is treated with con-
sideration, for he deserves it, and with
out him the business of the country could
not be carried on. He is next to man the
most important factor in the past and
present history of that country" He may
presume upon his privileges in summer
by blocking the sidewalk, baying the
moon, fighting at night and making him
self more or less Of a nuisance generally,
opportunity, but he makes up for it in
winter by mis- indispensable services, and
it does not make any difference to the
cause of justice in Alaska whether he
happens to be mentioned in the statutes
as item Of SO much value that the
theft Of him ranks as larceny, he has es-
tablished his legal standing by his serv-
ices to his country. r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-23
Railway Tonnage Figures.

The railways are publishing their annual
reports for the year ending Jine 80, and
for those who have an interest, whether
financial or curious, In what goes on
in the railway world, they are very at
tractive. -s
I One interesting feature is the growing
diversity Of sources from which revenue
for carrying freight is derived. The roads
of the middle west are no longer dependent
upon any one commodity for prosperity.
In fact, the stock market probably pays
too much attention to certain crops, such
as corn and wheat, in making up an es-
innate Of the probable future value Of
middle western railways securities.
Take the report Of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul, for example. 1t shows
that the road carried less flour, less wheat
and less corn in 1903 than in 1902, yet It's
total freight tonnage increased and its
earnings are larger than they were before.
It is true that the decrease in the total
volume Of agricultural products carried
was very small being only 1.S per cent,
but the decrease in the staples, wheat and
corn, was pronounced, being 1866 tons
for the former, and 16S,2O7 tons for the
latter. At twenty tons to a carload, these
decreases alone mean IA, $50 fewer carloads
for the year.
But while corn and wheat and flour were
short, there were good gains In other
agricultural products. Mill products (indi-
rectly agricuturaD increased 11,917 tons;
rye, 1928 tons; barley, $500 tons; oats,
1905 tons: hay. 9,S71 tons; fruit and
vegetables, 64,S5O tons; other agricultural
products, q 1927 tons. e.,
Among the decreases outside Of agri-
cultural products, 1t Is significant that
lumber, lath and shingles decreased IT,
979 TONS OF equal significance is the in
crease Of 7S,01S tons in brick and 1922
r 553 tons of stone, sand, etc. AS the lum-
Der traffic wanes, that in more substantial
building material increases.
Altho the Milwaukee is a granger road,
agricultural products last year made up
{ only 23.10 per cent of It's total freight
I traffic. But it must not be forgotten that
a large portion of the traffic is con-
trbuted by manufactured products which
vary in volume with the state of agri-
!. culture, from which they draw their raw
material.
r. The railways Of the west reflect the
change of conditions in the west Agri-
culture and industry are becoming more
diversified and thus the number Of i'm
portant sources Of revenue derived from
transportation is Increased. With this in
Z crease goes, of course a decrease in the
.rdegree of dependence upon any one staple
for satisfactory earnings showing.
Neither the railways nor the people will
ever again see such fluctuations as they
have experienced In the past