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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07
RAILROAD NEWS.

Although important extensions will
be made in all sections of the country,
the Southern and Southwestern State 5
will contribute the larger part cf the
new mileage for 1904, over 70 per cent,
1880 miles, CT the lines under contract
being located in those regions.
In the eight Southwestern states and
territories there are 1856 miles re-
ported under contract, of which 1858
miles are in Texas, 526 miles in Okla
homa and Indian Territories, 1862 miles
in Missouri, 331 miles in Arkansas, 1863
miles in New Mexico, lis miles in Kan
sas and 95 miles in Colorado.
In the South Atlantic group, where
1,426 miles are under contract. 621
are within the borders of West Vir-
ginia. 307 miles are in North Carolina,
204 miles in Georgia, 164 miles in
Florida and ia miles in Virginia, and
cf the 69S miles under contract in
283 miles are located in Mississippi,
1873 miles in Tennessee, 121 miles in
Alabama, sc miles in Louisiana and 70
miles in Kentucky In the Middle
Central, Northern and North western
groups there are 263 miles under con-
tract in Pennsylvania, 2O4 miles in
Illinois, 143 miles in Ohio and Ill
miles each in Minnesota and Indiana,
while in the Pacific states, California
has 80 miles, Nevada 213 miles and
Arizona 81 miles under construction.
The Missouri Pacific, which CON-
pleted 241 miles of new road last year,
is pushing work on it's Memphis, Hell
ena and Louisiana and White River
lines in Arkansas and Missouri and on
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07
SAYS ANY ONE PROCESSING TO
BE REAL DEMOCRAT CAN
SUPPORT THE JUDGE.
Former President Discusses in Gener.
al Sort of Way the PIatfor
for the Coming Campaign.

New York, April TN a dispatch
from Princeton, N. j., to the World,
former president Cleveland is quoted
as finding in the movement looking
to the nomination of Judge Alton B.
Parker fer the presidency the great
est possible relief and satisfactiCn.'
Mr.. Cleveland is further reported to
have said:
Il do not see how any one protesting
to be a real intelligent Democrat can
hesitate to accept Mr.. Parker, if he
should be nominated, as a fit represent
atlVe of safe and conservative Dem
ocratic principles, entitled to hearty
and undivided Democratic support
According to the Worlds CORES
pondent, Mr.. Cleveland said regarding
the platform of his party this year:
"There are certain Democratic doc
trines believed in by the conservative
element Of the party which will con-
troll at st. Louis. These doctrines
should be given the greatest prom
cf these as appear TO furnish at this
time the most vital campaign issues
shauld in no event beevaded. Such
nence and should be announced in
such a way as to exclude all doubt as
to their meaning and all appearance
of compromise"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07
DEATH OF MRS. WARE.

Mrs, Martha Ware. mother of Mr.. w.
w. Ware Ct this city, died last night
at Alexandria. La, after a long i'll
ness. The remains will be shipped
to this city for interment, and the fu-
neral will be held tomorrow morning
at 10 o'clock from the undertaking
parlors Of Ralph Robinson. Rev. J..
NJ. Hawley, pas tor of the First Meth.
odist church, will conduct the services.
Ross, J. F. johnson, Sidney Walsh, R
c. Thompson, M. c. Cross and DR.. A.
G. Jordan.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07
JEFF SWAPS HORSES

pointment of Ad Harris, whom he had
reappointed on Monday as a member
of the board of trustees of the ST..
Francis levee district, and appointed
J. A. Bradsher in his place. Bradsher
is the sheriff of Poinsett county and
was renominated at the recent prima-
ries. No reason fer the change was
announced.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

NV that the results CT the primary
are clear it is in order to say that the
Democratic state ticket will be as
follows:
Goveronr Davis of Pop
county
Secretary Of state-o. c. Ludwig OF
Pulaski county.
State Treasurer-H. c. Upton of
Boone county.
Auditor Of state-Avery E. Moore
= Faulkner county.
Superintendent of Public InstIuc-
ton H Hinemon of Jefferson
county.
Commissioner of State Laads-F. f.
Conway of Pulaski county.
Attorney General-Robert L. Rogers
Of Crawford county.
Commissioner II Mines, Manufac-
lures and Agriculture-H. T. Brad
ford Of Lonoke county.
Chief Justiceof Supreme Court
JOS. M. Hill of Sebastian county
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court-E A. McCulloch of Lee county.
Railroad Commissicners-B. B. Hudg-
ms CT Boone county, J. w. Phillips of
Jackson county, j. E, Hampton OF DaI-
las county.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07

ry vote 1.-the governorship. The pre-
yalent idea was that no good could come
Of continuing :. contest upol which
the Democratic voters have passed
aad practically settled, nothing being
left undone save that the state con-
venton shall az the proper time regis
ter tie will of the Majority Demo-
cratic supremacy in Arkansas is the
slogan
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07
WHY SECOND FINE WAS MADE.

There was another side TO the court
affair regarding the fnirg of Mr. Harry
Hanf for contempt of court yesterday,
which the Graphic did not print.
A 3. Grace. who assessed the fine
says that Mr.. HaIf was insolent to
him or the fine would never have been
imposed. The Graphic yesterday gave
an account Ct the affair from Mr
Hanf's statements. Judge Grace says
that the colleetzr came ~ TO him
while court was in session and pre-
sented the draft. Judge Grace told
him that he ought not to interrupt the
him after adjournment, as he was
busy with trial. but Hanf did
not &C. away and he warned him
that he was liable to a fine for
him that he was liable to a fine for
E9ntempt. He asked the young man
to wait until the noon hour, but al
leges that Hanf used insolent language
for which the fine was assessed. Then
the collector said: "You ought to fine
your stenographer and circuit clerk
also.'' Then it was for that for
which the fine of $40 fer contempt of
court was assessed. Judge Grace
says that he has always had the
kindliest feelings toward Mr. Hanf
and his father, Mr. Mo Hanf, but that
the contempt of court was so appa-
rent that he could not overlook it,
Disinterested parties who heard
the affair say that Judge Grace was
, perfectly right in assessing the fine.
Messrs. Bouic and Goodwin says they
directed the young man to the judges
desk, but did not know his busine SIS
with the judge.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07

! number i other shorter extensions.
ard altogether ha, - miles in Lciisi-
ana, Arkansas. Kansas AID Missouri,
on which work is Well advanced.
The Kansas City Mexico and Orient
has 7f3 miles under cons 1uction i'll
Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. with a
good percentage of the grading COM
pleted; the San Pedro Los Angeles
and Salt Lake is now laying track on
the 300 miles necessary. to complete
the gap between Calientcs, New. aud
Daggett Cal. and the Chicago. Rock
Island and Pacific is pushing to COM
pletion its line betwe II S. Louis and
Kansas City. 50 as 70 aave II ready fer
worlds fair traffic About 110 mics
cf this line remained to be completed
on neeember 81. but the grading is NV
finished aHd the track is beng iaia
rapidly.
IL -, I19tfS UllN ST. dA#tai@l. HIS
3S5 miles under contract III Illinois.
Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, TeXas
and Louisiana. most of which will he
completed by July /.
t6mpreheHsiyely, it may he stated
Il al railway construction is now il
progress or=undcr contract on some
hing like see lines, representing every
state and territory. excepting two or
three OF the New England states, and
that this work, with comparatively few
exceptions. is being done by the great
railway companies as extensions tC ex
listing systems.
Thirty companies might be named
which now have $500 miles under con-
struction ~ contract, out of the $500
miles above summarized, and almost
all of the other important systems.
cbeying the inevitable law of growth
are joining in the work Of railway ex-
tension, which last year added
nearly $500 miles of new road in forty
three of our states and territories, and
has a much greater mileage still in
contemplation
In the last five years comparatively
few independently owned and operated
roads have been built in this country,
and the same tendency contineus to be
| noted. But the practical discontinue
ance of railway construction by new
| and financially weak companies, and
elimination, Of parallel road building
for speculative purposes have not
checked the healthful growth of the
railway system; on the other hand,
have made it more healthful, for roads
are Now built, as rule, only where the
needs of the country and prospects for
eventual support seem to justify.
Meantime much money that previous
to the era of consultations might have
been wasted in building independent
and rival reads has gone into the i'm.
provement of existing lines, so that
both, by construction and reconstruc-
ton, the established railway COM
panies have given the ccuntry the full
benefit Of their increased strength and
prosperity, and the railway mileage of
the United States has increased in ten
years from 175,000 to nearly 100000
miles, and is still growing
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07

The "Lumbermen" have already es-
tablished reputation for mudhens
and the wet grounds this afternoon
will not interfere with them. In fact,
Reeder rather likes to pitch with a wet
ball.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07
Mr.. GoyL--'s ACTION ENDORSED.

The Little Rock Gazette says:
"Sheriff James Gould of jefferson cOun-
ty was the author OF resolution adept
ed by the Democratic county conven-
tion at Pine Bluff, deploring any con-
test over the gubernatorial nomina-
ticn in the state convention. The
fesYlution found favor in the conven-
ti3n, composed of men who were
aligned on the losing side in the prima-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07

Mrs. B. A. Thalheimer and Miss
Gussie Thalheimer arrived today from
Pine Bluff to attend the Thalheimer-
Dreyfus wedding.-Little Rock Demo-
crat. E,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07
SENATOR BURTON
GOT SIX MONTHS.

Kansas City, April IA special to
the Star from st. Louis says that Sen
ator Burton was given a sentence of
six months in jail and q; $4,000 fine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07
CUT OUT OF MAILS.

Rhodes-Haverty Gift of stanhops
Comes Under Lottery Act.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07

Henry Longley, who is with the Cor
sicana team, is shaking hands with
many old friends in Pine Bluff. There
are still many of the fans who are
sorry Longley is not one of the "Lum-
bermen" this year.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07
BASEBALL NOTES.

The Pine Bluff ball team was already
here. The men from Corsicana who
were to try their first fall for that
trophy cup arrived on due time last
night, but the rain was some hours too
early That is the story of this after
ncon's baseball game in nutshell
No, they didn't play, but the rain did.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07

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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-07
PAY FOR DRILLS

OF STATE GUARD ATTEND.
ING DRILL,
Pending Bill in Congress in Which the
Citizen Soldiery Will Be
Interested.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-28
MILITIA CALLED OUT TO
COPE WITH FLOOD DANGER
Two Companies from Second Bat
talon Patrol District Where
Robberies Are Reported.
MAJOR CONDE COMMANDS
Officer of Battalion Assists Police
and Sheriff in Patrol
Duty.
MAJOR CONDE COMMAND

With the waters of White river still ris-
ing and menacing further the property in
the lowlands, acres of which were already
submerged by the overflow from the river
and Fall creek of Friday and Saturday,
the city and county authorities yesterday
were forced to appeal TO the State for the
aid OF the militia TO take the place Of the
policemen and firemen, exhausted from
their three days labor in saving lives and
property from the advance of the flood.
In response to the appeal of the sheriff
and mayor eighty men. members of Com
panies III and ID, of the Second Battalion,
Maj H. T. Condo commanding. reported to
the civil authorities last night. Capt Har-
ry NJ. Franklin commanded Company II
and Lieut.. Mark l.. Dawson headed Com
pany ID.
The members of the two companies will
remain in control of the two officers, the
latter receiving orders from Sheriff Metz
ger.
They sworn in deputy sheriffs,
and assisted the civil authorities in pro-
tecting and guarding unsafe bridges.
After being sworn in. the men marched
TO their stations, along the river from
Morris to Tenth streets. Major Condo, in
command of the men. will have his head
quarters at the West Washington-street
bridge.
The men will probably remain there until
this morning when they will be relieved
by a detail of police. The soldiers are
needed badly along the river, as the police
force, under the extra flood duty, needs
rest, and the soldiers, having been sworn.
are acting substitute policemen.
A thoroughly equipped military hospital
will be stationed at Major Condos head
quarters in charge of Lieutenant Somers,
of the hospital corps of the second bat
talon. Sergeants Newcomb and Seaton will
assist Lieutenant Somers at the hospital.
The soldiers were furnished with haver-
sacks, containing food, and are prepared
TO resist any exposure which may be in
CURED in their work of rescue and protec-
ton. Armed with service pieces-formid-
able looking rifles-the guardsmen have
given the flood district a martial appear
ance.
Brigadier General Mckee and Major
Harry Il. Smith were instrumental in
placing the men in the field as quickly as
possible.
Sheriff Metzger and Major Condo in
spected the flood districts last might, pre-
paratory to policing the territory with
soldiers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-28
NORTHERN PART OF CITY
Is A FRESH-WATER LAKE
People Flee from Inundated Ter
ritory in the Vicinity OF
Thirtieth Street.
USE CANOES AS FERRIES
Fugitives Seek Safe Ground III
Boats-Stock Not Seri-
ously Damaged.
Sc CANOES AS FERRIES

A lake of water two and one-half miles
in length and stretching at one point from
the canal at Thirtieth street across the
raging White river through Riverside Park
and over a mile back from the river in
west of the city.
Riverside Park from the Thirtieth-street
bridge to its northern boundary is under
five feet of water. The overflow from
White river has backed in on the other
side of the Big Four tracks at the park
and stretches north over the golf links and
as far as the eye can reach.
Acre after acre of valuable farmland is
inundated and fences were swept away by
the swift current of the overflow yester-
day. Farmers worked all day yesterday
getting cattle and other stock pastured out
of the waters reach. Despite the fact that
all the pasture land is under water farmers
suffered but a small loss by stock drown
ing.
Small buildings have been torn from their
foundations and swept away where the
current was strong. and toppled over by
the steady sweep of the overflow.
Custodian Matthews of Riverside Park.
and his family, were driven from home yes
terday morning and compelled to seek shell
ter in the country home of ]. Clyde Power,
superintendent of parks. The water was
over the first floor of the house and was
constantly rising. Household goods were
stored on the second floor and the custo-
dian removed his family in boats.
1t was feared yesterday afternoon that
the stands in the park might be torn from
their foundations, and that some DANA &c
might be caused to the clubhouse, but last
night Custodian Matthews said all the
buildings would be strong enough to face
the flood
People living in the vicinity of the flood
district and those driven from their homes
yesterday afternoon moved about in ca
noes, and at one time a dozen small craft
were plying between the Canoe Club and
the bluff along the canal bank.
The double-eight railway and the laugh
ing gallery of the amusement company,
just east of the Canoe Club. on Thirtieth
street, are entirly surrounded by water,
and the engines and buildings may be
damaged to some extent Some of the
company's property was stacked high out
of the waters reach, and some was taken
to a dry spot in boats.
The tracks of the street-railway COM
pany leading from the loop TO Riverside
Park are under water. and some fear was
expressed last night that portions of the
track might be washed away. Officials OF
the company, however declared that the
bed is solid, and they claim it can with
stand the water.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-28
BIG BLACK BEARS HOWL IN
FEAR At RUSHING WATERS
City's Pets View Floods from Ele-
waited Perch in Riverside
Park Cage.
ANIMALS HOWL IN FEAR

High up in the tree, in the bear cage at
Riverside Park, five feet above the water
which surged in the floor of the cage
Big Dick and Grey, the two huge black
bears belonging TO the city. chung all of
last night.
Frightened by the sight OF the water
which covered the park. the animals
growled the greater part of the night and
the unearthy sound could be heard by
Custodian Matthews In Superintendent
Powers's house on the hill and by the Gus
todian of the Canoe Club
Fearing that the water would reach to
the bear cage. an embankment was built
about the door, but the water topped that
The two animals crawled TO the top of the
tree early I'm the afternoon and kept high
out of the waters reach.
smaller animals in the cages the
pavilion in the upper park were driven TO
the trees In the yards and to the second
stories of their houses. They howled all
night. The animals were fed early in the
morning. but last night the current was
swift that the custodian decided TO wait
until morning To give the animals their
next meal.
The horses belonging TO the city in the
barns at the north end OF the park were
driven out by the water early yesterday
morning. and the man I'm charge of the
stables moved his household goods TO the
second story Of the house and removed his
family in boats TO the house on the hill
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-28
MAYOR ISSUES WARNING
AGAINST FIRE DANGER
People Are Cautioned and Precau-
tons Urged in Factories to
Prevent CONGREGATIONS.
GREAT ALARM NOT FELT

Mayor Hoffman last night issued a
proclamation in which he advises the peo-
pie of Indianapolis of the extreme danger
from fires on account of the lack of water
supply and urges that all possible care be
used to prevent fires.
Business houses and manufacturing es-
Establishments are urged especially to exer-
else unusual caution to prevent fires, and
the public is advised by the mayor that
an extra force of watcnmen from the fire
department has been detailed to patrol the
business district until the water supply is
normal again.
Following is the mayors proclamation:
owing to the crippled condition of the
plant of the Indianapolis Water Company
1 wish TO caution all people 10 the
greatest care about fires. and to advise
that all business houses and manufacturing
plants be carefully patrolled until condi-
tons are again normal.
1.-The fire department. with its engines
and the aid of the pumping station at West
Washington street. will be able to handle
any ordinary fire. Firemen have been de-
tailed TO keep close watch in the business
district The police department and the
merchant police giving every assistance
possible While there is no cause for great
alarm. every care should be exercised in
this crisis. JOHN w. HOFFMAN,
Mayor"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-28
PLENTY OF MAPLE SYRUP
BECAUSE OF HARD WINTER

New York Commercial.
About now is the time of the year
when genuine maple syrup can be had, in
just the same condition that il came from
the boiling houses wherein the natural sap
of the maple tree is made a merchantable
product. For about ten months of the
year the stuff that is sold under the name
of maple syrup has only very small per-
centage of that delightful sweet in its
makeup. Those who are versed in the
winter auguries as these bear upon the
maple-syrup and the maple-sugar in
dustry predict a great harvest this spring.
A long, cold winter tends to stimulate the
circulation of the sugar maple, and no
patent spring medicine-other than a few
warm, bright days-is needed to bestir a
sluggish and cold-benumbed system.
THAT city man." says the Evening Post,
who bought a farm on which there was
a maple-sugar grove and gave orders to
his overseer to keep the grove working all
the year round, as 1t was the only part of
the farm that paid, no doubt would repeat
his command this year had he not grown
in agricultural wisdom. Already the local
dealers here in New York are beginning to
receive the first consignments of this year s
run They come almost wholly from the
groves in southern Pennsylvania, Della
ware and even farther south. The quail
lily Oh DOlll the sugar syrup
ceived from these districts is admittedly
inferior to that made in Vermont and New
York, but being the first in the market Ii
commands a good price The syrup made
from the first flow of sap, the buyers say,
is likely to ferment and when a can once
begins to work it behooves the needless
bystander TO stand from under A work
ing can that a truckman was unloading in
front of wholesale grocer's establishment
in Chambers street blew up the other day
with a report like a muffied magnum OF
champagne. The truckman. his wagon
and even the windows were besmeared
with the sweet, slippery stuff.
"A couple of years ago an effort was
made by the Ohio maple syrup makers to
form a combination to control the entire
output, but Ii never met with marked sue
cess. In recent years, however, the price
of the syrup has steadily increa sed, until
now it is quoted at S1-15 a gallon. The
tapping of the trees in the spring signal
for many tramp who has hibernated in
city lodging house to begin his rural pill
grimage. The groves offer him work that
certainty of at least two meals a day."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-28
WATER SUPPLY MENACED
At LOCAL POWER HOUSES
Yesterdays Level Is Five Feet
Higher than on Any Previ-
Gus Occasion.


1t appeared for awhile last night that the
lower station of the Indianapolis Water
Company would be submerged and the city
cut off from it's remaining source of water
supply. From early in the afternoon the
water again began to rise until by o clock
IL had flooded the floors of the plant and
was one inch above the high water mark.
At o'clock the water stood seventeen
feet and five inches in the guage. 1t was
still rising and the situation became even
more portentous and by o'clock the high
est point had been reached and five feet
of water stood in the lower floors. The
river was. at that time seventeen feet, seven
and three-fourths inches above low-water
mark This was five feet higher than 1t
had ever been before.
In spite of the high water the company
kept it's pumps working and supplied the
city with a moderate amount of water.
1t was unable, however, to meet the de-
mand and many of the hotels were unable
to get their usual water supply.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-28
FIRE CHIEF SAYS DAMAGE
WILL SOON Be OVERCOME
Decrease in Water Pressure Is
Met by Chief Coots by De-
failing Watchers.
STRONG PRESSURE SOON

Chief Coots, of the fire department, an
nounced late last night that by noon to-
day the city will likely be rid of the danger
from fire caused by the lack of water sup
ply.
"Oficials of the water company informed
me tonight that they will likely be able
to furnish the normal water supply by noon
to-day This means that the extra danger
from fire of the past two days will be over
this morning" said the chief
1--WE are taking every precaution possible
to prevent fires, and in the downtown dis
trict the fire department has detailed a
squad of patrolmen, who are working with
the regular police and the merchant patrol
men. The greatest danger from fire on
account of the lack of water supply has
been In the residence districts-or rather,
outside of the downtown business section.
In the central business district We have
pretty good water pressure, and we would
not be handicapped TO any extent by the
water company's damage from the flood.
Outside of the central business district the
water pressure is lower