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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
NEARLY 100 KILLED
By a Tornad at Gainesville Ga. Non lay
Afternoon.
The Condition at Kansas City and Iowa Towns Appalling
But Not So Serious at Topeke as First Reported

at 80 cents a bushel were offered at
S15O. The advance was gradually in
creased. Saturday eggs were at 13
1-2 cents a dozen wholesale, and to-
Gay the price is 25 cents. Uptown the
retail price was 40 cents dozen.
This morning there were about l.
600 eases Of eggs in the hands of the
dealers uptown. There are frequently
uptown There ate frequently 5000
5000 cases in the cold storage ware
houses.
At noon Mayor Reed issued per
emptory order to close the saloons in
Kansas City, which was complied with
in an hour. At noon hundreds of
people were being fed at the conven-
ton hail.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
CLOSING EXERCISES
OF the Branch Normal College Are i'm
Progress

Last night the first prize oratorrical
contest ever held in the branch nor
nal college took place in the college
chapel. The prize is s25 and is known
as the trustees prize, to be given to
that person of either Of the highest
who shall pronounce during COM
mencement week the best original
Grafton on any one of several sub
jects to be chosen by the principal Of
the school. The prize was won by
Pearl Edwards, a mere lad of the
freshman class, his subject being "The
Relation Between Ignorance and
Crime His address fairly bristled
with thought and was well delivered.
The young man received All unani
nous decision from the judges.
VIM. Triplett and Vienna Harris
We're the other contestants, and their
subjects we're Industry the Founda-
ton CT Actual Greatness" and both
&C 5u:tte'i Themselves we'll.
TIE com memo epent exercises occur
n-G.cG,E right. There are five grad
n es--WilIiam Harvey Triplett, Day.
:, BENJAMIN Bolden. Vienna Vermont
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
A SWlRLING LAKE.
lowIands in Kansas City Covered
Deep With Water.

Kansas City, June 2.-The river
gauge shows 35 feet, having risen
from 30.7 during the night. This is
nearly nine feet higher than the pre-
vious high record, made in 1891. There
was eight feet of water in the union
depot
A great swirling lake. dotted with
floating cottages, trees, telegraph
poles and other wreckage, covers the
lowlands as far as the eye can reach
Similar floating objects come rush
ing down the Missouri river, some of
it possibly from Topeka.
The committees having in charge
the work of relief and rescue were
busy today, and a special meeting of
the city council was held during the
forenoon.
Thousands of refugees at the con-
vention hall made their breakfasts
from the liberal rations issued by the
relief committee.
The number of lives lost in this vi
cinity cannot be learned for some
time, and probably never will be
known definitely.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02

Gainesville, Ca, June "A lorna
do of terrific force struck Gainesville
Yesterday afternoon, coming out of a
clear sky and causing fearful loss of
life in this city and in New Holland
and White Sulphur.
AS near as can be calculated, the
results are Eighty-five men, women
and children dead, and perhaps forty
more fatally injured, with property
loss of something like 100000.
The death list is yet imperfect, not
all the bodies having been recovered,
and identified. Many of them are man.
gled beyond recognition, the only
means of identification being the rec.
ords of the two cotton nils, in which
most Of the victims worked.
The death-dealing storm appeared
suddenly little before o'clock, and
within two minutes it had killed near.
ly one hundred people, torn two sto-
ries from the five-floor brick factory
of the Gainesville cotton mills, demol.
ished nearly 200 cottages, razed sew.
eral brick stores to the ground and
blowing down innumerable outbuild.
ings.
BY what appears to be a miracle,
the tornado's fury was confined to the
outskirts of the city, the main business
and residence portion not being
touched. Torrents Of rain accompa-
MED the wind, but within five min
utes after its first onslaught the sun
was shining upon scene of fearful
.,desolation.
The list of dead is confined mainly
Ito operatives of the Gainesville cot
ton mills and Pacelet cotton mills, and
two-thirds of them were women and
children.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
EXAGGERATED REPORTS
Sent Out From Topeka, as the Dead
Does Not Exceed o5,

Topeka, Kan. June 2.-From Man.
haitian comes the report that the
water there is slowly falling At Wa
mego the same condition prevails and
it is now reasonably certain that the
waters will steadily recede.
It is now admitted that the num-
ber Of dead is not known Reports
have been exaggerated. In the ex.
citement all sorts of rumors have
come in. Men have seen persons fall
into the water, and have taken it for
granted that those persons were
drowned. Often the persons con.
cerned are seen later. They tell of a
thrilling experience. but are always
taken from the lists of dead. Some
are still missing. 1t may be days be.
fore trustworthy list is made It
is now thought that not more than
twenty or twenty-five are dead.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
The Session of the City Council Last
Night.
Mr. Peterson Declines Serve as Acting Chief of Police
and Committee Takes Up Investigation of Charges
Against Cupepper.

power of appointment, but not the
power of removal He has the power
to suspend the chief for inefficiency
or misconduct or neglect of duty,
subject to the action of the council,
within five days thereafter. If his
action is not approved within five
days after suspension, by a majority
of all the members of the council
elect not merely of a quorum, and
the chief femeyed from Office by
them, the suspension ceases. Yours
truly G. W. MURPHY.
Allowance for Time Warrants.
Be it resolved, by the city council
Of the city of Pine Bluff, that the
sum of $4,000 be and the same is
hereby set aside out of any future rev.
enues Of the city for the purpose Of
paying time warrants that may here
after be issued, due and payable May
10, 1904 The resolution was adopt
ed
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
WILL SWELL THE TIDE.
Iowa River Sending Big Wave Into
the Mississipni

the Mississippi.
Des Mnines. "a. June 2-The crest
Of the Iowa food IS ranid1v moving
south heast Cndar river at Cedar Pon.
it'5 was the highest in its history
today but is declining The Iowa,
Skunk and tributary rivers emrtying
Into tho Miseieci-~i i, 40 vicinity
OF Keo'5nk are snread out over
vast +errtory
Railways in that section Of the
state ore badly tied up. The Burling-
ton has lost nearly mile Of double
track on it's main line west of Ottum-
wa A washout east Of Des Moines
has held the Rock Island westbound
trains at Newton forty miles east Of
here for three days The work of
clearing the tracks is slow, because
laborers are in such. demand that Of
fers of SIS and even $40 a day are
unavailing.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
SCARCITY OF FOOD.
Kansas City Merchants Consider the
Situation Alarming.


Kansas City. June 2.-Merchants
consider the food situation alarming.
Their supply is limited to two or
three days on everything except can.
ned goods. If the rush of buyers con-
tinues until tomorrow the supply of
food and provisions soon will be ex.
hausted
No provisions can be brought in
until railroad communication is re-
established. The coal situation is also
alarming. Coal companies have but
few tons on hand in their yards
uptown. At II o'clock this morning
prices for many staple articles Of food
began rising.
Potatoes, which were sold last week
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02

Harris, Beulah Ernestine Craig and
Nettie Bendelyne Hollis. The pro-
gram CT the commencement exercises
is as follows: ,
Invocation.
Song-"Reign, Massa Jesus, Reign"
choir.
Salutatory-"A Voice From the Pub
lie Schools of Arkansas William
Harvey Triplett.
"Learning to Obey" David Benja-
min Bolden.
Song-"Anvil Chorus" school.
Results, Not Excuses" Vienna
Vermont Harris
developing From the = 1ryest of
Cod" Beulah Ernestine C.aig.
Song-"Praise Ye the Lord" choir.
Valedictcry-"M Mans Mind Still the
Motive Power" Nettie Bendelyne Hol-
lis.
Song-"America." congregation.
Annual Address. Principal Isaac
Fisher.
song-"Halleujah Chorus" (Han
1el, choir.
Presentation of diplomas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
Or. Waters Much improved.

The many friends Of DR.. John Wa
ters will be glad to learn that his
health is very much improved. Quite
a year ago the doctor suffered Sc
we're nervous p ostration, and he has
not since hcCn a''ie to practice his
rrefas sion. He left Pine Bluff and
went to Little Rock for treatment, and
he has improved greatly.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
Justly Turned Down.

Through the mayor Joe Krumpner
presented claim for $34.10 as an
attorneys fee in the action of w c.
Mitchell against Joe Krumpner, the
locally noted COW case, the mayor be-
ing Krumpner's attorney. City At
tcrney Coleman was of the opinion
that the city was not at all liable, and
the council declined to allow the
claim.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
Near Danger Line at st. Louis.

st. Louis, June 2.-The danger line
on the Mississippi river at this point
will be reached tomorrow, according
to the local weather bureau The
gauge registers less than three feet
of the danger line Rain is fallinfi
and this added to the heavy rrecio-
itation of the past two 'o-e With t',e
flood coming ron, tho Missouri cnd
other +~i,ntario- re-ta is cauring tho
ri--nr to ri0e ranialy. At S.. Charles
where the Missouri river is rising
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
Operation on Or. ConeIson.

Dr. B. r. Donelson, who is now in
New York, has just undergone an
operation By DR.. John A Weyth for a
toror Of the liver The doctor re-
ports that D.. DOne,son is improving
ranid!y from the operation and will
return home in two weeks
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02

ception of those from New York and
Of the eastern states, all have
united in the belief that Mr.. Cleve
land is out of it. He is not a regu-
ar Democrat. He did not support
10 .ieFet in 1896 and 1900 In fact,
f.e neve" was thorough Democrat"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
"Bif" the Mayer Again.

Alderman Clements reported that
the sections house at the cemetery is
in bad shape. Mayor White stated
that the matter would receive prompt
attention. Alderman Nichol made a
motion that this matter be put in the
hands of the cemetery committee,
which motion was adopted.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
HOUSES SURROUNDED.
Mississippi River Forcing Families
From Their Homes.

La Crosse Wis. June 2-Forty.
five homes on the north side of this
city are surrounded by water to the
depth Of four and Eve feet, and many
families have been forced to move
out during the past twenty-four hours.
The river is still rising.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
Claims Allowed.

The following claims were allowed:
City officials, $46S.66; Fox Brothers,
s30; Gus McClendon, $40; Wesley
Williams, $40; Mann-Tankersley Drug
company, $4; Ralph Robinson, $139. .43;
stamps for treasurer's policy, $3.50;
big Store $1.10; Press-Eagle,
$3.50; pay roll fire department, $426;
F. Brunson, SIS; J. F. Hutt and Sons,
$26; L. Fowler, $11.S7; J. F. HUT,
SLIPS; J. F. HUT and Sons, $8.75;
Westbrook Grain and Commission
company, 1926; Voss-Nicho1 company,
$3.50; R. Samuels, 81; w. G. Craw-
ford and company, $7.55; Knox-Wher-
ry company, $5.95; Fox Brothers,
$1.40: Frank ]. Murray, twenty-five
cents; Mann-Tankersley Drug COM
pany, $235; J. F. Hutt and Sons,
Sits; Ryland Queensware company,
s$1.SO; J. A. Paulette 1925; pay roll
police depart ntment, $1,o57.5o; Vo~s-
Nichol company, $5.75; Geo. Doakes,
meals, 1921; ]. Burns, $1.25; J. F.
Hutt and Sons, $11; J. F. Culpepper,
$3.50; Ice company, $3.50; John H.
Dellmon, Jr, 500; Ralph Robinson,
SIS; J. w. Tarver, $3.50; cemetery
pay roll, 80 cents; w. M. Smith, 81;
VIM. .Kellar, $3.50; Fox Brothers,
$50; w. G. Crawford and company,
70 cents; Citizens Light and Transit
company, $475; Press-Eagle, $69.75.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
Cemetery Report.

The cemetery reports show 500 re-
ceipts. S1122O expenditures. The re-
port was received and ordered filed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02

CONTINUED on Fifth Pase.l
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
Lost Scrip Reissued.

A piece of scrip, No. 1908, which
has been lost, was ordered reissued.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-02
AIleys Now Clean.

Alderman Jordan stated that the al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-05
JUSTICE SOMETIMES UNJUST

At a recent trial in the United States
court here a negro, Dudley George, was
acquitted on a charge of selling liquor
to Indians at Horton. George had
waited in the Shawnee county Jail more
than sixty days for his trial to begin.
That was about the length of time he
would have been imprisoned had he
been convicted of the offense held up
against him. Although it would appear
from the evidence to be likely that the
negro received the benefit of the doubt
in his case and that had his case been
harder pressed he might have suffered
conviction, the defendant seems to
have been the victim of an injustice in
his long confinement in Jail before his
trial.
There is now under confinement in the
Shawnee county Jail a man charged
with a postof1ice robbery who has wait
ed for twelve months for his trial, be-
ing unable to secure bond. His first
trial resulted in a hung jury and he is
now waiting for his second sexamina-
ton in court. A man is presumed to be
innocent until he is proven guilty and
the constitution of the United States is
said to guarantee to an accused man a
United States law, grinds slowly. It
was certainly not contemplated by the
constitution of the country that when a
man is held on insufficient evidence to
prove his guilt he should be bound in
Jail before his trial for a long enough
period to cover the term of imprison-
ment he would be likely to receive in
case of his conviction.
A defendant possessed of means is
usually able to secure liberty while
awaiting trial, upon bond. In that case
the postponement or delay of hearing
the case works little inconvenience or
injustice upon him. But does it. seem
right that an accused man, who can
not gain this respite should be held in
jail for seemingly interminable lengths
of time before he can appear in court?
These are the sort of cases which ought,
as the constitution contemplates, be
given the first place upon the docket.
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vice than it gets now. without any In
crease in the salary. There is always a
scramble for the position when an ap-
pointment is to be made.
About all the city physician has to
do is to see to it that the ordinances
are enforced. This does not require a
profound medical education. but it re-
quires tact and executive ability. In
all matters of public health policy, the
city physician is to be guided by the
board of health. He is to be merely
the executive officer of the board. The
most important of his duties will be
the enforcement of the quarantine reg
ul9 tioEs. and the accurate compila ton
Of the health department records and
statistics. The latter have been Woe
fully and shamefully neglected. Be
fore the revision of the health ordi-
nances is completed, the committee
will no doubt make adequate provision
for the proper preparation of public
health records
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TWO KANSAS BArrExs.

An amusing thing in newspaper cir
cles occurred this week. The largest
paper in Kansas City as well as the
Topeka morning paper printed an ex-
tended interview with Governor Bailey
under a Chicago date line. This in itself
is not amusing were it not for the fact
that while Governor Bailey was being
interviewed in Chicago he or his double
was addressing a farmers meeting at
Mission Center, six miles southwest of
Topeka.
Governor Bailey ought to demand an
explanation. The reports of the ad-
dress he made at Mission Center were
printed in all the Topeka papers in
Guiding the one that printed his Chi
cago interview and he is in the rather
uncomfortable position of being in two
places 500 miles apart at the same time.
This is from the Chicago dispatch:
THE Kansas governor while here
formed a companionship with Governor
Tarrassaz of the province of Chihua-
hua, Mexico. They were inseparable.
They took in the sights together, rode
through the boulevards in an automo-
bile together and dined together. The
Mexican governor declared the Kansas
governor the most charming American
he had ever SEEM and Governor Bailey
says Governor Tarrassaz is a. polished
gentleman of broad ideas.
Governor Bailey attended the live
stock show yesterday when $4,000 per-
sons were present. Then Governor
Bailey, with his Mexican chum, went
through the stock yards. All of this
kind of business will be moved to Kan
sas some day not far off,, Governor
Bailey told the Mexican governor.
Along the Kansas side of the Kaw
river in Kansas City, Kan, are now To-
Gated the second largest packing house
and stock center in the world. Soon
they will be crowded out from Chicago
by Chicago's increased population and
then Kansas will get them all Cover
nor Bailey attended the meeting of the
federation of agricultural college stu
dents Of America and educated them on
Kansas great agricultural resources
The governor and his Mexican friend
spent some time dumping the crowds
on State street and both seemed to en-
joy the experiences of being lost in the
throng.'
Are there two Governor Baileys, as
this dispatch would indicate? While
one was hobnobbing with Mexican
statesmen in Chicago the other was en-
gagged in the occupation of addressing
a little meeting of farmers. There must
be a real and false governor and To
pelxa politicians are under the impress
sion that the real one did not get out
side of Shawnee county this week. Il
this is true who is the man in Chicago
4 who gave out interviews and bumped
the crowds on State street.
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sleeping in their blankets in circle with
the spring in the center"
Eleventh mug.
I'VE had to have water That night
took all the canteenS and started to slip
over to the spring. ] got there without
waking an In5un and had filled all but
one of the eanteens, when one of them
woke up and looked at me. knew if he
said a word or made noise was done
for -
Twelfth mug
Il had a double edged bowie knife.
hated to do it, bait I jumped on him.
pinned him to the ground, shut Off his
wind with my right hand and held him
my belt and his belt and tied his hands
and his feet
Thirteenth mug.
Then put a gag in his mouth He
was still unconscious. 1 picked up the
| canteens, slung the unconscious Indian
over my shoulder and slipped back to on.
place behind the rocks. When daylight
came we found that the Indian was the
chief of the tribe. We held him as n
hostage. We let the Indians see hisaa-
Then we started to march away The In
| dams knew that if they made move we
\ would kill him. They let US escape and
when we were safe we turned the chief
loose. It was twenty years after that !
west show and when he saw me he came
over in the audience where I was sitting
| and presented me with his headdress and
tomahawk. He meant by giving me those
| that I was a brave man..
Fourteenth mug Fifteenth mug
Up To Date MunchauSen partakes OF
limburger sandwich and goes home.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

IETOM the AIcnlSCH txloDG-4
The further west you go. the more
apt the people are to refer to q concert
as musicale.
We wish that when we get cross,
people would say, Poor thing, he must
be cutting another TOOTH
There are very few people in Atchi-
son so religious that they refer to a
church as the sanctuary
We have noticed that when a hus-
band is away. his wife tells callers
that she gets a letter from him every
day before she shows them her new
dress.
We have been closely identified with
church work for great many years.
and never yet saw preacher present
ed with a pair of embroidered slip
pers-
When the grandfather visits his
grandchildren he has a great deal to
say about the necessity of breaking
! the grandchildren of their faults while
they are still young.
If this sort of thing keeps up the
newspapers of the future will say:
Hon. Thomas Horn, the noted train
robber and philanthropist, has just
given another hundred million dollars
to found colleges and libraries
Reflections of an Old Married Wo-
man: A married woman is never an
angel. They say the way to a man
heart is through his stomach; but after
he gets dyspepsia the way to his heart
is not known. Before marriage a man
may think woman is too good for
wards. The only reliable records of
good men are on tombstones. A mar
is SO mean he can be Jealous of a wife
he doesn't love
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Po1NTEp PARAaRAPHs.

TF'rom the Chicago News.J
Woman is the extinct ancestress of
the lady.
The Office hunting season is open for
twelve months each wear.
Secrets are like money-good for
nothing unless placed in circulation
Some men make enemies instead of
friends because it is less trouble.
Beware of a chance acquaintance
who wants to put you next to a sure
thing.
When a man is getting the worst of
an argument with a female he is sure
to say: Wen, that's just like a wo-
maar'
BY gaining round after round of ap-
plause the orator climbs the ladder of
fame.
A short girl gets around it by max
ing the stripes on her skirt run in the
opposite direction.
A political demonstration by your
party is synonymous with a street riot
when pulled off under the auspices of
the other 0arty.
Probably no one is jumped on SO
quickly o.. SO hard as the minister who
happens to stray from the straight and
narrow Da<h-
When you hear a married man say
he hasn't made up his mind about a
thing he means that he hasn't asked
his wife about it.
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IAYHAWKER Jors.

Ghost parties are mystifying Detroit
pleasure seekers
Is Editor Hoch to be made a victim Of
the spider and the fly game?
A recent property deal indicates that
Hutchinson is to have a first class
hotel.
A "taffy pulp was responsible for
dislocated thumb of a Wathena partfc-
ipant.
Scarlet fever is giving the Leona
A reward of 1899 is offered by a
Columbus man for the return of a lost
$40 bill.
The mystery of what sort of game a
Columbus hunter thought a mule was is
still unsolved.
Bronson is great town for hunters.
Over 500 pounds of dressed rabbits were
recently shipped out.
A 14-year-old Doniphan county lad
shucked and eribbed 60 bushels of corn
daily for a fortnight.
A fire at Troy developed the fact
that Editor Badgers back yard and
Cyrus Le1and's barn adJoin.
A porter of a theatrical car at Cha
mute took his hurried departure. He
also took a gold watch and $50.
Grass has been discovered at yelling
ton that will make good hemp. But
Kansas laws do not legalize hanging.
A sacrilegious fire at Severance crept
into the cemetery while the inmates
were asIep and married their resting
places.
An Erie married woman inSanely
jealous of a young lady resilient hurts
rocks at her. Preliminary practice for
rock pile duty.
The suggestion that he secure q re-
turn trip ticket, is offered in all friend
Illness to Editor Hoch.
A Troy citizen bought sixteen head
of geese last fail, expecting to have a
great sale of goslings this fall But
some joker had sold him ganders.
A Topeka woman who has broken a
lamp chimney for three successive even
ings insists to her grocer that they are
not what they are cracked up to be.
Several Santa F'e employees were
fired at Ottawa for drinking beer in
the depot. The authorities intimate
that the boys were doing a Joint"
business with other peoples liquor.