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Evening journal., 1905-07-15
WILL MOI DISBAND
Merchants Decide to Keep the Msrcan.
tile Association Up.

The Mercantile Association at its
meeting last night decided TO not dis
band. The members felt that the
association had been good thing for
the merchants OF the city. and they
declared that taere was much that
could be done. For this reason they
decided TO continue the organization as
the only association through which
rhey could hope TO accomplish any
thing.
r. l. Peacock. president presented
his resignation last night and IL was
accepted. When elected TO the once IN
ths spring, Mr.. Peacock announced
thar he would hold the position only
for q short time. He stated thai he
could not md the time 10 devote 20 the
~ork that should be done by the presi-
dent cf slah an orEaniz4pan. BY a
unanimous vote James OfNnil was
slscted presld
Evening journal., 1905-07-15
SLOT MACHINES STOLEN
Supposed Owner Charged With Steal
ing Them From chester's City Hall

ing Them From chester's City Hall
Chester, July 15-Charged with the
larceny of a number Of nickel-n-the-
slot machines from the basement of the
city Hall, Harry Lowe Of Philadelphia
who Is satd to be the owner. was held
by Magistrate Rhoads under $500 bail
for a further hearing. Lowe was ar
rested In Philadelphia by Chief of
Police McGrann who has been working
on the case since the discovery was
made toat the machines had been
stolen.
Chief McGrann has also issued a
warrant for the arrest OF James Null
len proprietor of the Drove Yard
Hotel, formerly sergeant of police on
the same charge.
The machines. which number about
thirty. and represented total value
Of $1,000 were found about a month
ago in an old stable on West Second
street, hidden beneath hay in the
loft
The stolen machines had been con-
fiscated in raids In cigar stores and
saloons shortly after William II. Berry.
the reform Mayor took his seat
Evening journal., 1905-07-15

The Judges at Nevada (Mo) baby
show last week gave every child a
prize. As the mothers Of the babies
were all there they didn't dare do
otherwise.
An ingenious Greene county CMo)
farmer has rugged his farm wagon up
with gasoline motor and runs into
Springfield several times "a week auto
style.
A bee that works only at night Is
found in the jungles Of India. IL is
an unusually large insect The combs
are often six feet long and from four
TO six inches thick.
Evening journal., 1905-07-15

The Every Evening makes another
thrust at the President by inquirine
whether Secretary Bonaparte's re-
fusal to accept railroad passes was
to rebuke Mr.. Roosevelt for accept
ing free transportation on his late
hunting trip Wen. everybody
knows that the President paid out
several thousand dollars for trans
portation on that trip, and we believe
an item to that effect appeared in
the news columns OF the Every
Evening
Evening journal., 1905-07-15
Has An EnviabIe Record.

Special TO The Evening Journal.
Dover, July 15.-Former Assembly
man Oliver A. Newton. representing
the Bridgeville district the young far
mer who is said to have made a for
tune in the cultivation OF small fruits,
has added another big success to his
already enviable record. One acre
alone netted Mr.. Newton $500 quarts of
Strawberries. from which he realized
s5O3.62. These berries were all Of the
Candy variety. which are very popular
as a market berry in the cities.
Evening journal., 1905-07-15
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

Part Of the old Speedwen iron works.
near Morristown. n. j.. in which Pro-
fossor 5. +. b. Morse and stephen Vail
perfected their first telegraph instru-
ment, was destroyed by fire recently
For the purpose Of scientifically ex-
poring the atmosphere Comte de Cas-
tillion de Saint-Victor made an ascent
on June in his balloon Centaure, TAX
ing with him M. Joseph Jaubert, di-
rector of the municipal observatories
Of Paris and DR.. Jolly Other
aerostatic ascents were made on the
same day from Berlin Strasburg. Bar
man, Munich, Vienna, Zurich, Rome,
and Trappes.
Evening journal., 1905-07-15
Death Of Mrs. Purnell.
lecial % The Evening Journal

9Pco'"i 10 Inc evening journal
Georeg town, July 15.-Mrs. Mary
lCatharine Purnen, wife of David $.
Purnell. Of this town. died at her home
on East Market street Thursday night.
Mrs Purnell had only returned the
evening before her death from the
German Hospital Philadelphia. where
she had received special treatment for
pefitonius She Is survived by a
husband and daughter Mrs Linda
Rodney. Funeral services will be held
n Wesley NJ. +. Church of which she
mad been member from childhood
tomorrow afternoon at > o'clock. In
lfermeHt viii be made In Union Gem
eiery. Mfs. purnell was "a yeara Of
age,
Evening journal., 1905-07-15
SERVICE.

orders for The Evening Journal may No., y,
ssr, a,reot 10 the paper or to the nearest
rews agent In the city 1t Is serVeu Ds
so,nor,zed agents. and all orders received
.r.~sfron, will be turned over to theh'
~ aeli,erv IS irregular notify carrier
or agent If irregularities continue "0'"S
The Evening Journal
persons leaving the city 'einpVrains i.,'
snoo.d have the Evening Journal lot
uar6td 10 them and thus keep IN toucn
u,th local happenings. Send orders direo'
10 the ofice
Evening journal., 1905-07-15

Russia's Mutinies have now reached the
hanging stage. Yesterday twenty
four We're executed and others will
follow. But the victims have friends
and the friends have memories. The
Car above all else desires loyalty.
and hangings do not produce loyalty.
Evening journal., 1905-07-15
New Bicycle Ksssrs.

ogdeE Ctsn. July ls-w. E samueIson,
Of Provo. Utah. has broken the world 5
bicycle record for half mile, unpaced.
professional, az che saucer track mere He
covered tse distance IN 81 l-5 seconds.
This IS ! 70 seconds better than his Own
preyisus record of 81 - eseondE
Evening journal., 1905-07-15
For Sale or Rent

Tract of land on Brandywine
Creek having about 900 feet Of
water front Good wharf and a
building which can be changed to
suit small manufacturer.
Will sell or rent cheap to good
party
Apply at Evening journal once.
12l-2w
Evening journal., 1905-07-15
FOR sAr,F-Nsw 1s-room bo,

FOR SALE-New Is-room houses.
Beautiful location. 2 porches. open
fire places, laundry tubs and other at
tractive conveniences. Lot 21.9 by 1898
All car lines handy. Reasonable terms
end VIII assume your rented house, II
you buy. Thirteenth and Clayton StS.
Four sold. Charles c. Kurtz.
April TT.
Evening journal., 1905-07-15

Postage free In the United States out
SIDE the limits of the city. suoscrip'ons
nsvable in advance as follows hy 'He
week &c. month. &c; year. $500 .
N orderinr change Of address give oiu
well AS new. The Evening Journal Is
fer ale al all the News stands IN VII
r,inrton and at Broad Street station
Evening journal., 1905-07-15
AnNrRrIsING RATEs.

DISPLAYED q cents per inch. Dis
counts on. continued advertising will be
forwarded on application.
CLASSIFIED; situations Wanted Free
BOARDING or Rooms 10 Rent y cent
word.
Help wanted. y cent word.
Real Estate (solid) = cent word.
Evening journal., 1905-07-15

Lattle Wiiie-Do you always pry
WAer your papa aAipz you?
Latoe Johnryr-Yss. q courFe then
mamma Elyes ms candy.
Evening journal., 1905-07-15
COMMUNICATIONS

Brief communications on all subjects OF
interest temperate in their nature ana
signed BY the writer name not TO be pub
lshsd unless desredl are always ~eltoma.
Evening journal., 1905-07-15

Some Person writes to one Of the Phil
adelphia papers deprecating ten
oency on the part Of certain writer's
10 ~belittle the memory Of John Paul
Jones Some things are dhicult
and this is one Of them. but a man
may easily bentte himself by at
acizing the career Of Jones.
Evening journal., 1905-07-15

rrunSs. suit cases ara s1lps. Largest
stock IN town az lowest prices.
Yerger's u East Fhirg Sfrsft.
Evening journal., 1905-07-15
LUNCH

LJ N1h.
sHspper Lunch tonight al Lynch s
No Q Vest FeuFtA sirsst
Evening journal., 1905-07-15
SUBSCRIBERS.

Entered at the Wilmington Postofhee as
second Glass Matter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-06
BOY BURGLARS NABBED
PAT o'DoNALo, coLoREo AND 10 WHITE NEITHER
OVER THIRTEEN YEARS OF cE, CAUGHT IN BUR-
BROTHERS


Accused of burglarzing the Fox
brothers retail hardware establish
nent, Pat O'Donald and John Todd,
the former a negro boy and the latter
white boy, neither Of whom is more
than twelve or thirteen years old, will
be tried On charge of burglary in
cases will be transferred to one of
the magistrates courts, which is more
probable.
The two boys were caught in the
very act of burglarizing the store, af
ter having entered the building and
having made ready to make way with
some of the goods. 1t seems that the
negro boy, who is some smaller than
the white boy, entered the rear of the
building, over the transom, and un-
locked the rear door. This permitted
the white boy to enter, and the two
boys proceeded to go through the
store, picking out such goods as they
wished to take away.
1t was while they were thus engag-
ed that they we're discovered by ne
sro man, who hal >pened to be passing
the rear Of the store about this time
and he hurriedly summoned an officer
who was standing on the corner near
hy The officer was Mr. Higoin-
bothan, who not knowing who the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-06

The fact that the manager of the
state convict farm had sold cotton
to Little Rock buyers for from one to
one and half cents less than the
prices paid by the Pine Bluff buyers
of the staple, was received here with
no little amount of discussion 1t is
claimed on the part of the local cot
ton buyers that the management Of
the state farm never once gave the To-
cal cotton buyers an opportunity OF
bidding on the cotton. Not only this.
but the claim is also made that
local buyers have never in the history
of the Cumnins farm been permitted
tC bid on the cotton production of the
farm. although the farm is fifty miles
nearer to Pine Bluff than Little Rock.
Cotton buyers of this city are loath
to express an opinion Of the matter,
but it is easy to read between the
lines of their conversations relative to
the matter, and there is scarcely any
doubt as to the concensus Of opinion
among the initiated.
Several weeks ago, it is said that
$50 bales of cotton were sold to Little
Rock buyers for one cent less than
the prices paid by Pine Bluff buyers,
but no attention was paid to the mat
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-06

ter. When the last bunch of the sta
pie was shipped to Little Rock, how
ever, and sold without giving this city
an opportunity to bid on ii. some Cos
sip was occasioned and this gossip
has not yet subsidized
Perhaps the general opinion of To-
cal cotton buyers can best be express
ed by the expressions of one gentle
man most interested i'm the subject.
He said:
81 don't mean to insinuate that there
is any graft in connection with the
matter. for OF this | know nothing !;
hut | do say that as long as the Cum
Minis farm has been in operation Pine
Bluff has never been given the remot-
est opportunity of bidding on the cot
ton production of the farm. NotWith-
standing the fact that Pine Bluff is fifty
miles nearer the farm than is Little
Rock, the latter city has received all
the benefit from the production of the
convict farm. all cotton being shipped
to that city without giving Pine Bluff
an opportunity Of bidding on it. The
cotton has passed through this city
without even an opportunity of the 10
cal buyers seeing it, unless they went
to the trains to examine it there"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-06
DEPUTY SHERIFF PHilPoT
Did the honors at a 'Possum Supper
Saturday Night.

Deputy Sheriff Mason Philpot ten
dered his friends 'possum supper at
the Office of Justice p. T. Culpepper
Saturday night, and it was largely at
tended by some of the most famous
'possum eaters of the state. They in
cluded such we'll known 'possum char
acters as Sheriff James Gould and
Judge w. D. Jones, whose regulations
extend over territory as broad as
Arkansas 1t is needless to say that
they maintained their reputation on
tSis occasion, coming fully UP to the
standard of 'possum perfection expect
ed of them.
The supper was a magnificent sue
cess in every particular, and added
materially to Deputy Sheriff Philpot's
reputation as host and an al-around
good fellow
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-06
WILL THE COUNCIL INVESTIGATE
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
TROUBLE.
Both Sides Demand It, and in Justice
to Those Who Are Innocent 1t
Should Be Made.

Tonight will be the last opportunity
perhaps, for the investigation by the
city council, of the troubles of the
city fire department. In other words.
unless the council orders an investiga-
ton at tonights session, it is prob
able that that no investigation what
ever will be ordered. AS both sides
to the fire department embrOglio have
asked for an investigation, it is in
conceivable to the public just what ex-
cuse that body will have for not order
ing the investigation.
If the charges brought by the fire
boys should be correct, there is ample
reason why the council should order
an investigation of the most thorough
nature, since the fire boys declare
emphatically that their discharge was
not due to insubordination, but to
graft" If the chief is correct in his
statements, then he should be clearly
exonerated from all blame in the mat
ter, and the whole trouble should be
settled once for all time to come.
So much has been said and written
about the fire department trouble dur
ing the past week or two that the city
council can not afford longer to treat
the matter with silence Something
should be done, and the only thing to
be done, according to the wishes of
both sides to the controversy, as ex-
pressed to the Graphic reporter, is to
have the whole trouble sifted to the
bottom.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-06

wholly unable to complete even u
large part of the electrical inspection,
required of him in Ter the ord finance
creating his position. AS he is the
first to hold the responsible position
given him under this ordinance, there
is much maiden fed te cover. and he
is making a cerful, painstokihg ef-
fort to cover it thoroughly while he is
about it. For this reason he is taking
it slowly. Out of the estimated l,o0O
inspections of wiring to be made. be
has examined only .iaety-seveh up TO
the present time Out of those extM-
ined and reported upcn, Mr.. Bloom
a, nounces that naly Of the parties
interested are SLOW TO obey the orders
of the city electrician. He hesitates
to take action against them, although
his rules with reference to the gov
ernment of his official duties are back
ed by the city ordinance, which re-
quires the citizens of Pine Bluff to
obey his orders at the cost of being
arrested and brought into police court
if they refuse. Mr. Bloom is a conser-
sative young man, however, and will
not proceed against the offenderes I'M
less all further efforts of his fail.
Mr.. Blooms position is one of the
-st
ment, and the affairs of his Office once
Strengthened out and running smooth
ly the city electricians orders will be
enforced rigidly by the city admins
t1ation, for it is realized that without
discipline along these lines the city
will be endangered to the loss of both
property and life, and this must be
avoided.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-06

burglars were, and naturally suppos-
ing them to be men, summoned Officer
Rankin. The two men went to the
rear of the store, and entering it call
ed upon the burglars to throw up their
hands, Higginbotham entering just in
time to see one of the boys duck down
behind the counter. The boy got out
of sight so quick that the officer did
not know he was merely boy but
deal with, drew his gun, and covered
the little burglar with it, or rather
that spot where he was supposed to
be in hiding.
When the officers called upon them
to surrender, however, the two boys
made their appearance. Officer Hig-
ginbotham hasn't recovered yet from
the effects of having drawn his gun
upon a thirteen-year-old boy.
The boys were locked up in the city
Jail Sunday night, after the burglary,
and were arraigned in police court
Monday morning, but their cases were
continued until in the afteroon.
Both of them are old offenders, hav-
ing served time on the county farm,
young as they are, and it is very prob
able that they will be given another
sentence, for the officers find it impos
sible to control them in any other way
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-06
Bible reading. Mrs. Pipkin.

Bible reading. Mrs. Pipkin.
80 p. m.-Devotional, Mrs, Hearn
How Can | Enlarge My AuNiliary?"
discussion led by Miss Wadlcy.
Duties of the President" Mrs. Bur.
ford.
Report of the Annual Meeting" ="
Mrs. T.. Brewster.
Duties of the Corresponding Secre-
tary,' Mrs. Farrar.
The reporter, delegate from Stutt-
sart
"'Dnties Of the First and Second Vice
Presidents
Reports of delegates.
Bible reading, Mrs. Pipkin.
30 p. m.-Devotional. Rev. Pipkin
Talks by Mesdamcs Hotchkiss and
Vance.
Thursday.
9 a. m.-Devotional. Mrs Hotchkiss.
Report of delegates.
ONf Literature, MIS-. MacLellan,
general discussion.
"Thc HoI.5e Mission Work" Mrs. f.
NJ Williams.
Our Finances: How to Collect the
Dues and When to Report. Mrs. f.
O. McGehee.
Bible reading, Mrs Pipkin.
2:30 p, n.-DevotionaI, Rev. Kea-
die
Survey of the Field" Mrs Vinther.
Paper, Mrs H. A. Cantrell.
Reading resolutions of annual re-
ports and adopting same.
"Missionary Societies as a Means
Of Spiritual Development" discussion
led by Mrs N. r. Roberts.
what Have They Done for Me?''
Mrs. r. r. M. Mills.
7:30 p. n.-Devotional. Rev. ]. S.
Hawkins, Mesdames F.. NJ Williams
Pipkin and Mcclellan.
Benediction.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-06
TO BE PUT DOWN IN VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE CITY
AT EARLY DATE.
Great Complaint Has Gone Up All
Over City as to the Miserable
Crossings.

The board of public affairs, it is
said, will soon let the contract for
stepping blocks for various parts of
the city, where needed most. There
are many points where these blocks
are badly needed, and great complaint
has gone up from certain sections of
the city because of the fact that the
blocks had not been provided by the
city. Hundreds of new blocks, il is
said, will be put in soon, in time for
the present winter season, and the
contract for them will be awarded by
the board of public affairs at an early
date, probably this week.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-06
PREACHERS POORLY PAID
AVERAGE FOR THOSE IN LITTLE
ROCK CONFERENCE LESS
THAN So A DAY. +,
Pessimistic Interview Given Out by
Rev. w. p. WhaIey, Well
Known Here.
Known Here.

The following interview with Rev.
w. p. Whaley, who is we'll known in
Pine Bluff. was printed in the Little
Rock Gazette. and will be read with
interest by his many friends here:
Rev. W. p. Whalcy is authority for
the statement that three-fourths of
the preachers in the Little Rock con
ference territory of the NJ. f. church,
south, are paid less than 81 per day.
'In the Little Rock conference the
average salary of our 134 pastors is
$596.3S, or $1.9l per day, leaving out
the Sundays,' he says in the Arkan-
sas Methodist "This is less than $50
per month Not only do all other pro-
fcssonal men get more, but clerks,
bookeepers, stenogrOphers and day la
get third more.
"a group of fifty preachers in this
conference get an average salary Of
$24390 or 7S cents per day, except
Sunday That day that get dinner and
horse feed. The highest salary among
these fifty last year was 1919, or $1.2l
per day. The lowest was $35, or II
cents per day.
"Worst still" adds Mr.. Whaley.
twenty of these charges have no
parsonage, and some Of these were
served by men with families. Think
of a preacher giving his whole time to
the ministry receiving less than 80
cents per day, paying house rent and
supporting family, and in these
times. when the unskilled laborers
all around him are receiving more
than twice as much, and the cost OF
living is higher than ever before
eff | had to preach the gospel at a
sacrifice like that | would preach it
to the heather. | would not preach 1t
IL Arkansas preacher must be
ready to make all necessary sacrifice
for the gospels sake, but 1t not neces-
sary for preacher In Arkansas, in the
twentieth century, to make the sacri-
fees these heroic men are making
Whoever goes into the Methodist min
istry voluntarily surrenders all pros
poets for money, delicacies and luxu-
ries; he agrees to be content with
the commonest necessities of life, and
the church he serves should not stand
by with folded arms and witness his
martyrdom. Such church is guilty
Of martyrs blood. know these men;
l have been one Of them The stake
or the dungeon could not be more
cruel than their present mode of sacri-
| fee and would do the church great
er service"
| Mr.. Whaley has addressed the lay
men In behalf Of fifty preachers in the
Little Rock conference on this SUBJ
ject
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-06
SWAP JOBS.

Night Chief John Perdue and City
Detective Ed Cheek have swapped
jobs temporarily, during the illness of
Mr.. Perdue, who has been in poor
health for week or two. Until he
recovers his usual good health, he will
do the day work of the city detective,
while the regular city detective, Ed
Cheek will attend to the duties of the
night chief.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-06
LOCAL SOCIETY TO MEET AT
LAKESIDE CHURCH ON
WEDNESDAY,.
Session Will Last Two Days, and
Splendid Program Will Be
af =
Rendered.

The district meeting of the Woman S
Home and Foreign Missionary socie-
ties of Pine Bluff district will be held
at Lakeside Methodist church Noven.-
ber and 9. Every member of each
society is earnestly requested to at
tend these services, and the public
cordially invited.
The following is the program to be
rendered:
November 8, 9 a. m.
Prayer and praise service, Mrs. R.
H. NJ. Mills.
"How These Societies Can Aid the
Pastor" Rev. w. G. Watson.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-06

During the short time that City
charge of his new duties he has given
ample evidence of the necessity of
the new position so recently created
by the city council; but perhaps in
no other way has he given better evi-
dence of the Importance of his job
and his own worth to the city than in
the matter of compelling the light COM
panies to install what is known as
Circuit breakers.
To the casual observer, "circuit
breaker" looks like worthless little
green bauble, without purpose and
without value; but to the electrician
it is recognized as one of the great
fife-saving and property saving devices
of the century. The object of the lit.
tie green bulb is to protect life and
property from the deadly electric light
poles supporting the arc lights, and
while they are probably not a positive
preventative of danger, there is no
case on record where one has ever
failed yet in it's mission.
The installation of these bulbs has
just been completed, having been or
dered by the city electrician some
time ago. And it may be added in this
connection that it was solely through
his direction that the Circuit break
ers' were installed at all, as he gave
orders to the lighting companies i'm
nediately after his installation into
Office that such precautionary meas
ures should be taken.
The effect of this innovation will be
to greatly lessen the chances of de-
struction to life and property through
out the city. There have been several
cases where valuable property, such
as horses, have been killed blythe elec-
trio currents of an electric light pole
charged with electricity. 1t will be
remembered, too, that man was kill
ed in the SAME manner here last win
ter while on East Barraque street.
The day was a rainy one, and in trying
to step around a mud hole in the
street, he grabbed hold of pole sup
porting an arc light. The wiring was
imperfect, and the pole had become
charged with a strong electric cur
rent. No sooner than he touched the
pole, he dropped dead
The new contrivance does away
with this danger to a very large ex-
tent, though not entirely eliminating
it. The danger, however, is reduced to
the minimum. Even though but one
human life were saved by the inno-
walton, it were worth the new position
created by the city council, and City
Electrician John Bloom deserves the
credit for so radical step toward the
safety of life and property in Pine
Bluff.
Mr.. Bloom announces that as soon
as practicable the electric light COM
panfes will be forced to test all series
lights, removing all dangers from
pipes now in use throughout the city.
Although he has been in Office now
for sevral weeks, Mr.. Bloom has beeM