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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11
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TIE PENNAMT FIGHT.

ne closing days of the week past
es Pine Bluff to the front as the
Ier OF the Cotton States league
tht tor the season of 1904; an hon
ven earned and we'll deserved, for
flne Bluff association has spent
money and paid better salaries
players than any other in
league. The pennant was WON
n Pine Bluff took the first game
baton Rouge Thursday afternoon,
Oy Winning that game the men un-
0eofSe Reed obtained such a lead
II cannot be overcome by the
yet to be played. There re
btt one more series of three
- YET to be played, not including
'"haay games. and the season will
! As the race row stands in-
. '1e games OF Friday the lead
Stand:
Pl. Won Lost Pct
pioH ..113 II AZ G29
ours .112 G5 AZ $50
using the remaining four games
snouid Vicksburg win all of hers,
''i'ion Of the teams would not be
hged.
'nn d. n, ~ -
/. niuf finishes the season at
||sOurg and the last three games
watched with interest. Vicks-
WI make every effort to win the
|n'ng three games to show that |
1e good finishers and in order |
uuce Pine Bluffs lead as much |
.'1oie. while the Lumbermeu
'ue three remaining games with
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11
FRIDAYS GAM 6.

kne Bluff lost Fridays game to
bn Rouge through the inability of
kkins and other members of the
II team to knock home runs at op-
|une moments. Deaver was moi
hard, but the Cajans made enough
off him at the proper time to
The only regret expresse in
G Bluff was that Deaver should
credit for losing the game. He
bably did not need the game TO
the pitchers Of the Cotton States
,ue. but every game counts. As
peanant is safely won. the loss Of
game VIII not affect Pine l3iait
ding in the percentage Column.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11
BASEBALL. IN TIE SOUTH,

Next "Wednesday will See the final
games OF the season played in tic
i league and the players Vito have spent
the summer in the south will betake
| themselves 10 their several homes.
/ the directors will cease for a time
the coughing up process. and the fans
III and around the circuit will devote
| themselves to looking after business
interests and discussing politics. The
season this year. while not proving a
glorious success financially, has seen
many improvements from strictly
baseball standpoint. The players
have received better salaries and have
played better ball, while the crowds
which have attended the games have
taken a keener interest in the game,
because they have known more about
than ever before, II has been cam
paion not only for the pennant. but
camrai@n Of education in more ways
than one Al the Associations through
out the circuit claim to have gained
experience that will prove valuable 10
hem #ia=the u+ure. and from everzs
y int there coaes The saying that
hasa6al1 IN the sonth. especially in
lie s@s1ler cities, is stronger =thaa
ever before
From the Cotton States loaene
there has arisen two other leagaaa-.
the Delta and tho South Atlantic
and both these leagues have proven
a success tho first yer. II may he
'hat other leagues viii vi be formed
foI the season Of 1865 ana it may be
that the present leagues Will remain
the same. The cans anG directors viii
have five Or tx l1re winter months
IL which To discuss tho question, haf
Tho act remains that baseball has f57=
yaded The southern etates and has
eaDtuted for Itself a place in fGe
hearts Of the people that it will ta}e
many years to remove The nat.afal
came may not pay big money in t''a
mailer cities, but ii bridges over =
ong Wearisome gap between cotton
seasons that can be filled in no other
gay
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11
Iohacca Crnn Of 1902

The tobacco crop of S15,972,425
pounds, at an average price of G.s
cents pound produced revenue of
$5o.5l4,G27 last year. The averape
crop to the acre from 1.037,7335 acres
was 1862 pounds
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11
Gold in the Vatican.

The gold contained in the medals,
vessels, chains and other objects pre-
served in the vatican would make
more gold money than the whole OF
the present Eurouoan circulation.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11

core by innings:
bn Rouge % 0 o o i 0 8 81
F Bluff ......1 0 0 0 0 o 0 0 o.
fmmary-Two-base hit. Berry;
be run, Tarlton; double plays,
|bb to Kennedy. Dawkins to Ken
y; struck out, by Howard 8, by
yer L; bases on balls, off Howard
off Deaver 2. Tmpire-Baker.
|e-1;40.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11
LABOR DAY CROWD

While the labor day crowds were no
= large as those CT the Fourth of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11

lev, the tl.ree cities n the leasae
where tie games We're piayd drew
we'll 9nd all the cllhs will get a neat
SUM- The receipts at 9H In cities in
tho lea@ue We're pooled and each club
viii oct is share.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11

\ iIoh but pleasing entertainment
is that offered in "A Girl from Dixie. :"
at the Grand opera house The mI-
steal comedy is now to Kansas Citv.
1t Was rut out last season, but since
that time has been rewritten and re-
cast. It is founded on pretty story
OF Maryland life, It's heroine being ono
OF the blue-blooded Calverts. There
are many pretty numbers, with words
by Harry b. Smith, author of MANY
comic opera and musical comedy
looks. and melodies by a number of
dtnercnt composers. Old airs come in
a'tractlVely. There is plenty of low
comedy. A good cast of comedians
aid several good singers, as well as
an attractive and well trained chorus
make the performance brisk. I'm the
last act, where the scene. shifts from
Maryland to New York, some beauti-
1ul costumes are Observation-Disclosures
City Star
This show will be at the Elks the
ater October Is.
In wild sensationalism eDarkcst
fussia,' which last night opened
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11

hsides the remarkable Little Chip,
Justly regarded one of the foremost
cohmedians of the day, and that su-
perlatively fine actress Mary. Marh,a
VINO has scored innumerable hits.
there will be many persons prominent
III New York theatrical circles with
'ae great road production of Babes in
Ioyiand. which Hamlin and Mitchell
Will soon send out for an extended
tour OF the entire country.
Iheater goers will remember with
pleasure Marie Fanchonetti. the bean
tful dancer who created Juror of
favorable comment from New York to
Frisco in vaudeville few years ago.
MISS Fanchonetti has been enpaoad
10 lnternret the mart of Hilda in
Aaees - Fo'lana," which will be
%iVen at tho Els theater the corire
season. and she will introduca severa,
now dancos reeentlv nut on at tho
opera CommioUe. Paris.
Helen Nav. voune Salt Lake Citv
eirl. who hos eprnricad some Of tha
New York masters with the quality
and range Of her fne soprano voice
VIII be cast as Tom Tom in Victor
Herhert and Glen NcDonoueh's bean
tif"l ronsical evtravaeanza.
Another person recently soucred
hv Moee~c uar,,li, and Nr;tcholI of
whom thew exnect great things is
Miss Aves Hale, a young and charm.
ING southern girl. who is an accom-.
plished vocalist
The above names will fully con-
vince the most skeptical that "Babes
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11
(HAT IS GOING ON IN BASEBALL CIRC(I e

Eicksburg in ORDER to break even on COP
the season, ah11
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11
=tlAter tnoagnr.

q 1ater tnoaenr.
An eager pursuit. Of fortune is In
consistent With q severe devotion to
ruth. The heart must grow tranqnil
bafn"o lie fEen.ht can hge9ao search.
9a- aoeoa
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11

80 hold its eWn With anS1H,ns be
hind The footIi&hls. The play is not
GcW 10 Louisville and therefore detail
concerning its plo6 need not nc enter
el upon, It is eEough 10 aay that taa
tleme is the love Of EHsian a1is-=
tocrat and officer in The imperial
army for a poor Je YsH girl, whose
father has been cXiled and whose
brother has suffered himself tc be cri-
trapped into the councils Of tho Nj
hilists, says the Louisville, Ky, Her
aid.
The naughty mother of the young
officers betrothed PANTS TO avenge the
insult of his declining an alliance
with her family to marry the Jewess,
and displays a wonderful fertility OF
Invention in seeking to accomplish,
Eer wicked ends. There are the in
evitablc bands Of Nihlists that must
lisnre in all Russian plays, and the
customary number of unf0rtanates are
Waltzod off TO Siberia At the Elks
theater October Il.
Miss Narcotic Julien Dolores Tas-
eherau Of the Miss Bob White compa-
~. It typical New Orleans belle, one
at=4Aa faire=t flowers Of the southern
soil. and as her namc implies, Gre
Gle Of the sweetest type aaaahIar of
leIiaa TaqebeeaH who - he way,
was one of the governors party n.
tending Miss J0anta I.allande, the
zH#.zz3r Of tae =h.9 IattlashiP Eouisi-
ana, has created quite a sensation IN.
Atlantic City, whore She made all her
friends and companions do homage to
the christening of the Louisiana at
ha 2aaY h4aa 4er playmate, Miss Lai-
la5.1o. eest 1he SPARKLING vino 4ashing
si Is bow.
Mss TaseheraH has selected the
staae for har future aad while she =
comfortably fvol AID not REQUIRED to
WorH. he prefers the romantic l{fa
With lis excitement aud yaearfe3 tn
the tame home life Of the big river
town. Although, with it all. she is
IA loyal southerner and ias been pre-
pairing for weeks for a fitting colobr7-
ton Of the Louiaiana's Christening
marking triple event to her tb,
naming Of big ship after her dear
Louisiana, the achievement of her
dearest friend and playmate. and last
but not least, her ability to have the
residents Gf fofrt con states qna civ
nations, all summering at the famous
Atlantic CITY, worshipiag at her shrine
and doing HOMAGE to hor native ctato
and all attended in p BODY the ovo,.
ing performance Of "Miss. Bob White,
IA which attraction she is Dlavjne
small part. Appears at Elks tbeater
the coming season
Rsides the remarkable Little Chin
Justly regarded one of the foremost
commedians of the day, and that SUI
6v.I .Inf II,
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Flew Could There &c 3ijcnoe.
"The silence she said, "Nas some.
thing arpa1lirg."
'*Si1e1eei9 lie repeated
eYes.'
''F}'-' l=-71e.-,'e ----' ~ a.... T."
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s+andina of the Teams.

Results Friday.
kne Bluff /. Baton Rouge /.
|atchez 2, Vicksburg 0.
h games scheduled Saturday,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11

In wild sensationalism "Daricst
Russia, which last night opened a
weeks engagement at the Masonic
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-11

WELCOME FOE LJMB=aMEN.
fiee Blutf hes woa tie pcrNant II
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sets in. but It is not the dreadful sea-
son that, till the facts about western
Canada were better known, it was
commonly believed. The residents
thoroly enjoy the dry, clear, crisp, in
vigorating air. A mere record Of tenn
perature and a snowy landscape do
not give any just idea either Of the
real discomforts or comforts that pre-
vail among q people prepared for such
climate. Western Canadians would
not exchange their climate for that Of
western Europe or the eastern states.
Transportation.
In order to secure a ready access
to the worlds grain markets, the Do
minton government and Its provincial
legislature have We'd with one another
to furnish the people of Manitoba and
the Northwest Territories with every
available means Of transport by land
and water. The building of railroads
has kept pace with the settlement Of
the land, and now the service is quite
adequate to the demands made upon
it. Nearly every farming settlement is
within easy access Of one line Of rail-
way, while branch lines are being con-
structed as development requires.
Stock Raising.
This article is already too long, and
the remaining topics can only be men
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LAST MOUNTAIN VALLEY
District That Is Attracting Wide
Attention.

tremely fertile, and some Of the heav-
lest wheat crops have been raised in
this belt.
Passing northward, the park coun-
try changes to open, rolling prairie,
covered with rich grass and pea-vine
growth. At the northern end Of the
valley. the prairie becomes practically
fiat and level. The water supply is
everywhere excellent, good supply
being obtained at from Is to 20 feet.
The lake forming the western
boundary Of the valley is very pic
turesque and contains excellent water.
Its banks are from so to 100 feet
high and the depth of water is from
80 to 100 feet. There are a number
ing is very good. It requires no great
effort Of the imagination to look for
ward to g. time when the favorite
summer resorts for Regina and the
other cities Of the northwest will be
situated on the shores Of Long lake.
Thru the enterprise Of the coloni-
zation firm which is occupied in set
Ting the valley. a steamboat is being
placed on the lake this season. which
will materially assist in solving the
problem Of easy access to the valley
until the new railroad now under
construction Is built.
The change in conditions in the
district during the last eighteen
months is marvellous and speaks vol-
umes as to the energy and ability OF
William Pearson g. Co. OF Winnipeg,
who are actively engaged In coloniz-
ing this fertile tract, which they ems
Enthusiastically describe az the garden
Of the northwest. Where a short
time ago no sign Of man appeared as
far as the eye could reach, now In
every direction may be seen the
houses Of new settlers, fenced fields
and herds Of cattle. In driving up
thru the valley, one constantly over
takes the newcomer with his family,
teams and all his household effects,
pushing forward eagerly to begin do
ing his part in the building up Of the
great Canadian northwest, and more
particularly that especial spot known
as the Last Mountain Valley.
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toned. No country in the world is
better for grazing, and the cattle bust
ness is an important industry. Dairy
ing has reached a. high state Of per-
lection, the government having ma
terially assisted in this by the estab-
lishment Of creameries. Sheep rails
ing is carried on with success, SO also
is the hog-raising industry. The culti-
walton of fax is on the increase, as
also is that Of beets for sugar. There
is any amount Of small fruits, which
yield abundantly, Fuel is plentiful,
SO also is good water. Fish and game
abound.
Room for Multitudes.
Western Canada has room for hun
dreds Of thousands-for the thrifty
and the Industrious, Of any cline or
state, who desire by labor to better
their condition. AS surely as flowers
turn toward the sun, SO surely will
earnest endurance and skillful toll be
rewarded by success In the granary Of
the north. Blight, drought, scorching
winds and cyclones are there un-
known. Life Is safe; law is respected:
property is secure. Taxation Is low.
education cheap, government is hon
est and religious liberty prevails. Is
not country that offers these adj
vantages one worth living in?
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being covered with rich grasses; and,
as snow never lies long, cattle can
Craze all the year round, requiring no
hay, except a small reserve as acct
dent insurance against few days of
exceptional cold In exceptional win
ters; neither, on account of the eli
mate being much warmer than to the
east, do they require any shelter.
These cattle are sold off the grass
for the British market every fall and
bring from $40 to SO for Swear
ODDS at the shipping point. AS these
animals rear themselves. the profits
Of the ranchers are very large.
Along the foothills Of the Rockies
the country Is much broken, but to the
sufficiently watered for ranching pur-
poses by running streams and ponds
which seldom freeze. The streams
are Of enough volume to supply irriga-
ton wherever necessary.
The Wheat Zone.
The next zone is a country less ele-
waited. where snow lies in the winter,
and where there Is everywhere suff-
cient rainfall in summer to grow
wheat. 1t is a rich grass-clad belt,
almost devoid Of timber, except along
the sides of the hills and rivers.
There Is abundance Of coal. It's long,
level or gently undulating expanses
lend themselves readily to wheat
growing on large scale, and it Is the
principal crop, tho sowing flax Gre
quently on breaking) Is also a favortte
practice of the newcomers from the
| United States. But wheat is king, and
| here it is raised in the greatest posi-
BILE perfection.
Speaking roughly, this belt occupies
middle Alberta, a diagonal strip run
ming thru northwestern and south
eastern Assiniboia, also the south
west corner of Manitoba. The por-
lions of the bonanza wheat belt are
we'll supplied with present and pros
ern Assiniboia, but the great space
lying between the settlements along
the branches Of the Canadian Pacific,
which leave the main line at Regina
and Calgary, respectively, and cross
this belt on their way to the mixed
Alberta and Edmonton, Is as yet I'M
provided with railroads, and in conse-
uuence remains almost entirely unoc-
cupied by wheat growers, leaving an
untouched area for new corners to Sc
lect from.
Tho this belt is colder than the true
ranching country and Is less sheltered
than the mixed farming zone, 1t Is con-
sidered by people who make wheat
their speciality, an ideal region.
The Mixed Farming Zone.
In length, breadth and consequent
area this fertile belt exceeds those OF
the two other prairie zones together
On it's southwestern border the
prairies become dotted occasionally
with groves of small trees, principally
aspen, gradually the trees and the
groves become larger and more nu-
merous and finally upon it's north
eastern fringe 1t becomes bushy lands
dotted over with prairies. Many vari.
, cites of tall grasses, pea vines an6
, yetches clothe upland and meadow
Rivulets and rivers, ponds and lakes
: |, provide ample water The variety OF
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the park-like pleasing scenery de-
lights the eye Of the home-seeker, who
here finds all conditions favorable for.
family life. True, the climate is
steadily colder than that of the land Of
the ranchers, but 1t rejoices in COM
mon with all western Canada in skies
of cloudless splendor and an atmos-
joyable turnout winter as we'll as
summer, that men never return again
to their birthplaces in the damp,
gloomy and chilling climate of Brit
ain and eastern Canada for the sake
Of the climate.
This fertile belt includes the greater
part of Manitoba, in fact, all but the
southwest corner specially devoted to
wheat, and the portion cut off by a
curving line sweeping northwesterly
from the Lake, of the Woods along the
east Of Lake Manitoba, the west Of
Lake Winnipegccsis, and on around
the famous Swan River valley into
Assiniboia and Saskatchewan. It
takes in all of Assiniboia, not includ-
ed within the ranching and the wheat
belts; all southwestern Saskatchewan
and northern Alberta. Within it lie
the famous grain-growing valleys Of
the Red, the :Assiniboine and the
North Saskatchewan rivers, in which
patches of land have been successfully
cultivated ever since the advent of the
whites, over a century ago, and in
| which the most populous and prosper
GUS settlements thruout the whols
west exist to-day. In this region OF
the prairies the experimental stage
was passed half a century ago, where
| as the capabilities Of the wheat and
irrigation districts are compare
lively recent discovery.
It Is fortunate thing for the land.
| seekers Of to-day that the origina
plan of building the Canadian Pacific
| transcontinental line from Winnipes
to Edmonton, via Battleford, thr,
this fertile belt, was not followed
and that the line was diverted to it
| present route across the treeles
wheat and stock-growing districts
which, to the confusion of old proph
cts of evil, it has developed and mad,
phenomenally prosperous. The sam
progress and prosperity which mari
the lines Of road in other portion
Of similar country in all the western
provinces from Manitoba to Alberta
will within the space Of two or thre
years be witnessed in the Saskatche
wan valley along the routes of tn
Canadian Pacific and Canadian North
ern railways now located and unde
construction. These great rival sys
TENS, by lines paralleling each othe
at convenient distances apart, will
open up an immense area for tn
mixed farmers now coming in to pic
i and choose from.
There is yet another zone Of pres
ent practical Importance, the fores
belt, lying north, northeast and cas-
Of the prairie provinces, which de
serves brief mention. The impor
A lance Of this belt Of valuable spruce
tamarack, jack pine, birch and pop
lar timber to the adjoining treeles
prairies is very great. British Colum
bia, by the main line of the Cana
dian Pacific, supplies large quantitie
of lumber not procurable on the east
ern side of the Rockies as well a
; much Of the same kinds as gro
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The prairies Of western Canada
have millions Of acres Of arabic lands
and lnestimable virgin resources wait
ing for the touch of the agriculturist,
the stockman, miner and logger. The
homeseeker and investor will never
again have such opportunities.
When the powerful searchlights of
the American press were directed
northwest over the border 1t was
shown that three-quarters Of the total
area of North America, capable of pro-
ducing No. hard wheat, lay upon the
Canadian side Of the international
boundary. The small patches Of this
vast vacant space which had already
become peopled were scattered from
Lake Winnipeg westward to the Rocky
mountains and from the forty-ninth
parallel to beyond the North Sas-
katchewan river. These patches
proved, by their splendid yields of
grain and their flocks and herds, that
the accounts Of the early explorers
and the predictions which students
had founded upon them were not
mere dreams of enthusiasts, but &C
curate statements Of amazing facts.
Since two years ago, when the at
tention Of these Americans was d.
rected northwest, enormous crops
have been garnered, filing granaries
and elevators to overlooking, taxing
the railroads beyond their carrying
power, ana competing llASAA W al
crease enormously their capacity to
handle present and continually In
creasing products.
The fame Of Manitoba and the
Northwest Territories has spread un-
til the land hungry of the great mid
die east, reinforced by the investor OF
the same region, have started move
ment for the border which will not
stop until thousands upon thousands
are established in new homes in Can
adam territory and have entered upon
the vast work of It's development. The
states Of Indiana, Illinois and Wiscon-
sin have recently caught the refrain
and are swelling the formidable move
ment started few years ago by states
Of the middle west. Indiana alone
will this year contribute many thou.
sands to the peaceful conquest and
settlement of the Canadian Northwest
The Thpee Prairie Zones.
Like old Gau1, western Canada i.
divided into three parts, not generally
by sharp boundaries, but rather by 6
blending Of their borders. These
parts are zones, running parallel tt
each other in generally northwes
and southeast direction. They are
bounded on the south by the United
States frontier, along the 49th parallel
and on the west by the Rocky noun
tains and by the forest on the north
the northeast, and east in Athabasct
and Kewaytin territory.
The Ranching Zone.
The ranching zone, where cattl
craze out-of-doors all the year round
lies in the angle between the Ameri
can boundary and the Rocky noun
tains. Nominally, it Is known a
Southern Alberta and Southwestern
Assiniboia. Dramatically it receive
the fullest and most frequent benefit
Of the drying chinook to such an ex
tent as to render irrigation necessar
in some localities to procure reliabl
crops Of grain. Except in the noun
tains, 1t is treeless. the whole countr
r1 pEn