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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-04

"the street,: is said by Cortelyou's friends to be at an end. Certain it is that MT. Shaw smashed all rec ords of the treasury department by the loaning of government money to national banks. While his ser vices were highly appreciated by the interests" they failed to meet the approval of the smaller bankers and the general public, and it is more than rumored that the discon- tent caused by this policy led to his resignation.
 Another reform which MT. Cortel- you is expected to undertake is that of stopping the leaks in the depart ment, whereby persons high in the financial world have been enabled to secure advance information of important fiscal projects, much to their profit and to the disgrace of the administration. Every effort will be made to discover the iden- tity of employees who have 'leaked" information and they will be sum- marily dismissed.
 The retirement of Ethan Allen Hitchcock from the interior depart ment marks the passing of the most unpopular man in the public ser vice. All over the country the pol icy of MT. Hitchcock has been se- verely criticised, and this spirit of condemnation has often spread to
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-04
PARK, FAIRGROUNDS
 IDEA APPROVED
Many Property Owners Favor the =. Plan to Purchase Jones' Park .... and Give the City a Place
 of Recreation.

The improvement district idea to secure for Pine Bluff a popular amusement and play grounds in purchasing Jones' park, made by the Graphic Sunday, has met with general favor throughout the city. Many of the property owners ex- pressed themselves as favoring the improvement district for that pur- pose and declare that they would be only too glad to pay their portion of taxes If tine city was enabled to offer it's people a popular park for recreation.
 One of the letters received by the Graphic today, endorsing the move ment, comes from I. J. Moore, a South Main street porperty owner. He says:
 Your notice in Sundays issue of the intended sale of Jones' park in the near future and suggestion as to creating an improvement district for the purpose of purchasing it and making public park of 1t, is one of the best moves that the citizens could make, coming next to the pro- posed waterworks improvement dis trict, in general good to the city. It seems to me that now is the op- nortune time and may be the best presenting itself in great many years. The assessment of one mill would not hardly be noticed in the payment of taxes, being only $1 on the $1,000. hope some citizen with more time and ability than I have will take the matter up and let IS secure this muchly needed park"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-04
SENSATION IN
 NEW ORLEANS Occupants In Fashionable Boarding House Kept On The Jump By Antics of Arkansas Woman.
SUICIDE THEORY
Woman Declared She Suffered Faint. ing Spell-Had Small Vial in Her Hand, And Exciting Scenes Were Enacted.

Special to the Graphic.
 Miss Francis Putnam, of Portland, Ark, who came to this city with Mr. and Mrs. Claude Johnson and two young men, one of whom is Al Ran dolpb, really attempted suicide Or was only feigning is not clear to all par ties concerned in the case, but no mat ter which it was, the affair created no end of excitement at St. Charles ave- nue and Thalia street where the fash ionable boarding house is located, and kept two men, house full of board CTS, battalion of police and the char ity hospital ambulance on the jump for an hour.
 It is. understood that Randolph called, that she went into the house and and he found her. She was lying On the floor with vial in her hand as if dead. What had happened at the house just prior to the arrival of the students was even more dramatic. Some of the lady boarders of the house who looked upon the prostrate form did not believe it was genuine sui eide or was even a genuine attempt. If you don't get up I'll pour a bucket of water all over you in minute,'' g was what one of the boarders is re- ported to have said to the attempted suicide. She got up. Anyway, that was the report turned in. Miss Put nam explained that she had suffered one of her fainting spells and that there had been no attempt at sui eide. JOHN l.. SULLIVAN.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-04
INTEREST IN
 TRIAL 0F MINERS Three Men Charged With Murder of Former Cover nor Steunenberg of Idaho, To Face Jurors Tuesday.
STORY OF THE CRIME.
Former Governors Home Blown to Pieces With Bomb Which Was
 Left At His Gate-Thousands of Dollars Inyolyed-Interestin Case.
Special to the Graphic.

Special to the Graphic.
 Boise, Id., March 4.-"This is just an ordinary murder trial, pure and sim- pie. If the indicted men are innocent, they will be acquitted, if they are con- victed they will be hanged by the nedk until dead. That is all there is to it. ,"
 This is the opinion publicly express ed by Governor Frank R. Gooding, of Idaho, in regard to the trial of Charles H. Mover, president, William D. Hay wood, secretary, and George Pettibone, ex-executive board member of the Western Federation of Miners, for the murder of former Governor Frank Steunenberg, set for tomorrow at Caldwell.
 Just an ordinary murder trial-and laboring men in every industrial cen- ter in the United States have held mass meetings denouncing the arrest of the federation leaders and have rais- ed hundreds of thousands of dollars for their defense.
 Just an ordinary murder trial-and the state legislature of Idaho has al- ready passed an appropriation bill for $54,516 to cover the expenses of the prosecution of the indicted men. Of this sum, $13,O15 went to the Pin kerton Detective Agency, of which James Mcfarland, the chief figure in the prosecution, is the western head. Elliott w. E. Borab, who today became United States senator, re- ceived 5000 for his legal services in the case, and the balance was dis tributed among the other attorneys.
 Innocent or guilty, the Socialists of the counry are determined that the indicted men shall be acquitted. In- nocent or guilty, the mine owners are equally determined that the indicted men shall be convicted. Back of the former are the organized workingmen of the country, forgetting all differ ences in the face of a common peril which threatens to bring union labor into disrepute. Badk of the latter are the great financial interests of Wall street, eager to overthrow any insti- tuition which threatens dividens.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-04
NEW UNION FIR
 PRESBYTER|ANS Amalgamation of Presbyter- ian Church, U. S. A. and Presbyterian Church En- dorsed by Presbytery. l
IMPORTANT SESSION
Held at Bonneville Declared
 To Have Been Tie Best in the
 History of the Presbytery-DeIe-
 gates Elected to General Assembly,.

Bonneville, March 3.-The Fort smith Presbytery of the Presbyter- ian church, IT. s. A., has just closed what is declared to be the best ses- sion in it's history.
 At this session the Presbytery went on record as favoring a fur. ther amalgamation of the Presby- terian churches of the country, by adopting memorial endorsing the proposed union between the now re- united Presbyterian church of the United States of America and the United Presbyterian church. The memorial will be presented to the. next General Assembly of the Pres-3 byterian chruch. In this Presbytery the disaffection which followed the union of the Presbyterian Church, U. s. A., and the Cumberland Pres-1 byterian church does not seem to1 have affected the work in the least. and the Presbytery is in betterI shape now than ever before.
 Practically all the churches inh the Presbytery are now suppliedS with preachers for the first time inS years. The Presbytery appropria1S ed $2,O00 to supplement pastors6 salaries and $5,O00 to assist weaM churches in building new houses. F
 Rev. G. w. Eichelberger, D. D. of Fort Smith was elected principal commissioner to the General AssemE bly, at Columbus, O., and Dr. J. O Harrod of Denning was elected del egate for the laymen. Rev. J. A Conley of Clarksville and Mayor WI H. Wilson of Lamar were electe alternate commissioners.
 l.. D. Blakemore was ordained the ministry and dismissed by le| ter to Mound Prairie Presbyter He becomes pastor at Ashdown al Cove. F. P. Brewster was licens l to preach. Rev. J. A. McDona was dismissed by letter to Cherold Presbytery.
 Rev. l.. J. Coats was received ] letter, and his engagement at N Smith was ratified. Rev. J.
 Barkwell's engagement with
 Denning group was ratified
 Calls received by Rev. w. c. q ter to Bonneville, Rev. T. E.McSl den to Hartford, Rev. T. R. Hu to Huntington, Rev. F. P. Ere to Waldron, Rev. o. F. Bette
 Dublin and Rev. A. s. McClamI to Charleston were among the
 pointments confirmed.
 A Christian Endeavor and
 bath school convention was hel conjunction with the Presbvt
 the program being prepared
 Prof. w. F. Welty. and MT. H
 Wilson.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-04

Friends incarnate are Mover, Hay wood and Pettibone, according to their nemies-members of the mysterious timer circle" of an anarchistic or ganization, their word law, their law assassination. Saints and angels they are said to be by their defenders, men of noble lives and most exalted mor- als
 Story of the Crime.
 Frank Steunenberg was assassinated at his home at Caldwell on the night of December 30, 1905. A dynamite bomb was attached to the gate lead ing to his residence, and when it ex- ploded the body of the ex-governor was torn to pieces, Two days later Harry Orchard was arrested in his room at a Caldwell hotel Powder, fuses and otber discriminating evidence was found in his room mo effort hav- ing been made toward concealing the James Mcfarland, a Pinkerton detec- tive, publicly announced that Orchard had made confession, embraced in typewriter document of 10000 words, admitting his guilt and declaring that he had been hired to do the deed by Mover, Hay wood and Pettibone. It is said that in this confession he also admitted to tWenty-six other murders. Although the method of the arrest of the accused men has been declared legal by the supreme courts of Ida ho and of the United States, it occa- stoned a great deal of criticism. Act ing upon the information of Detective Mcfarland, County Attorney o. M. VanDuyn of Canyon filed a complaint against Mover, Haywood and Petit bone, swearing that they were in the state of Idaho at the time of the mur- der of Steunenberg, and that they were fugitives from the state It has been repeatedly charged that the county attorney wilfully committed Iperjury in swearing to this statement, but no action for an investigation of the charge has ever been made. Governor Gooding immediately is sued a requisitiOn on the governor of Colorado for the three men, which was honored by Governor Jesse Me- Donald. The Idaho officers arrived in Denver on the morning of Thursday, February 15, 1906, but waited until late Saturday night to arrest the men. Early the following morning the three prisoners were placed on board of a special train and hurried to Idaho. They were given no opportunity to see their relatives or attorneys before be- ing taken from the state. The arrest was made by Pinkerton detectives, as- sisted by state troops.
 The manner of making the arrest created great sensation at the time among laboring men and is probably chiefly responsible for the great in- terest taken in the case and the tre- mendous amount of money raised for the defense of the indicted labor lead- CTS. This sum is now said to be over $150,000 and the fund is constantly growing. Clarence Darrow of Chi cago is the leading attorney for the defense
 E,0r wa1I nanor and nofnf' eaa Gland
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-04

the members of congress- Mir. Hitch cock has not lacked for defenders. however. his friends declaring that his critics were mainly land thieves and grafters who hated hih because Of his unwavering defense of the interests of the government and the rights of the redskins who were his of Hitchcock have at last succeeded in their long effort to drive him from the cabinet
 G-T. Hitchcock is now 72 years of age, while his successor. James R. Garfield, is thirty years younger. The latter will need all the years presumably allotted to him if he sue ceeds in settling satisfactorily to all concerned the problems of admin istration which now confront him. The Roosevelt policy concerning In- dian lands and western forest re- serves has met with determined op- position on the part of the white settlers and cattlemen, and Mir. Gar field will need all his ingenuity and ability to save the west to the Re publicans. That Mr. Garfield is the right man in the right place and that he possesses the attributes nec- essary to bring about peace among the warning interests is the firm be- lief of all who know him.
 To Try Standard Oil.
 At Chicago today the Standard Oil company of Indiana will answer in federal court to eight indictments recently returned by a federal grand jury in that city, charging the cor poration with the acceptance of re- bates on oil shipments to Whiting, Ind. Federal Judge Landis will sit in the trial of the case and District Attorney Sims of Chicago will have charge of the prosecution MT. Sims recently visited Washington and had several conferences with the president and administration officials in regard to the case. Ques- tions affecting the evidence to be submitted and other important de- tails were settled and the district attorney was instructed to push the case with all possible dispatch At torney John s. Miller will represent the defendant corporation and will urge the plea that the 1903 counts contained in the eight indictments in reality charge but one offense. If this contention should be sustain ed by the court the possible penal ties to be assessed would be reduced from many millions to only $20,- OO0.
 Supreme Court Rate Hearing.
 The supreme court today heard arguments in the case of the inter- state commerce commission against the Chicago Great Western railway, involving what the commission al leges to have been an illegal change of rates on live stock products from western points.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-04

Miss Edith Jackmon of No. West Fourteenth avenue, will tomorrow for Fayetteville, \ she will visit friends for the two months.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-04

Mamie Pollock and wife of Rock, returned home yesterday a brief visit here with relatives.]
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-04

For wall paper and paint, see Claud Clegg and company. AT Main street
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16
WHY 1T is EASY TO STEAL $5OO,OOO|

institution a short time ago. The ques.
tion doubtless occurred to everybody
who heard of this robbery, one of the
most daring and remarkable crimes of
recent years. Yet no one comes forward
with an answer from Wall Street.
where there must be many bankers and
accountants able 10 settle the curiosity
of the ignorant, though rightfully in
torested pubhc.
A 1aw, vital fault, exists some
where in the system that permits such
theft That much is certain
This fault is either .the lack of what
are called "audits. - Or in the laxitv
Of those audits, which are the inspec-
tions of books and records made for
the banks by expert accountants, either
firms or individuals 1t is an undcni-
able fact-the authority for this asser-
iion is a skilled accountant for wears
employed by a firm of national reputa-
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16

tiou-that no theft of bonds or sccur.
ities is possible without speedy detec
tion if the audits are properly conduct
ed. No bank or trust company can be
victimized by methods such as were
used IN the recent case so long as care.
full expert accountants regularly and
adequately audit the books. The thing
is utterly absurd from the accountant S
point Of view.
Whether the trust company that was
robbed engaged experts TO make regn.
lar audits have not been divulged. It
it did. the audits were faulty, II it
did not, there is no reason for the di-
rectors to be surprised at the vanishing
of 100000 or even more. ANY one
who believes otherwise is at liberty 10
accept the challenge of the reputable
accountant, who. naturally without
wishing his name 10 he disclosed, thus
described what was the matter with
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16

1t is fortunate for the public that
the really trust worthy chartered ac-
countants of this country do their work
with great tboroughness, skill, and hon
esty. In New York they daily are
engaged in inspections that show no
flaw. and the same may be said of the
best of them in other cities. However,
confidence in the pick of the profession
does not altogether dispel fears of
those who are discredit to it. The
conscientious accountant will he first
10 endorse the plea that all the men
i'm his business should be compelled by
law 10 attend to their contracts effici-
emily.
There has been no explanation TO
show how it was possible for a clerk
10 steal securities worth from 100000
to $500, 600 from New York banking
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16

counting. except so far rs the best
firms are concerned, has undeveloped TO
such an extent since it became gener-
ally known in America, ten years ago,
that even some of The recognized con
Germs no longer give the same atten.
tion to details they gave in the be
ginning: cheap help. to large extent,
has come to take the place of personal
superrisinn-hy the men who built mp
The business. ard there is a tendency
to rush Mrough Jobs imperfectly, as
the extent of the business increases.
"In order ia understand that it is
entirely impossible for robbery of
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16

the system of safeguards against thefts
of securities:
"In the first place, some Of the
banking concerns do not have audjts
by competent accountants at stated in
tervals. Either they are unwilling TO
pay the price, or they consider that
occasional inspections by insiders are
sufficient complete audit by repu
table firm Of experts Is costly, The
sum each time may reach $4,000. For
every fullnedged accountant the firm
charges S25 day, and for. the assist
ants, two or three Of whom are under
each accountant, - day. The length
Of the inspection depends, Of course,
upon the number of men making it.
20 Secondly the hnsimess Of exnert &c.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16

Mems sl.25 Muslin Niei,
cut extra full and g@
embroidered fronts, WITH
out collar, all sizes. sp'
week only,
nach ...s a
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16

securities to take place in a bank and
remain undiscovered by the expert
auditors, il is necessary to know what
they are expected TO do. Besides SEQ.
ing that the books are straight and
the records complete. it is their dutyl
theoretically, to count every bond or
other valuable paper in the possession
of the bank. Tho Institutions that
hold back any information from the
experts are too few TO he considered,
thought there are instances Of banks
refusing TO allow the men they employ
TO examine all the holdings, on the
ground that some features of their
business must be kept private: In
almost all cases the special auditors
have q free swing.
off. then, every book and every
bond is scrItinized, it is mauifestly
ridiculous to suppose that an employee
could steal securities from the vaults
throughout n period puuctuated by an
expert audit. Where there is a proper
audit every three three months, as is
the case in many Of the safest banks,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16
Cholic and Diarrhoea.

Pains in the stomach, collie and diar-
rhoea are quickly relieved by. the use
Of Chamberlain Collie. Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. When in need of
such medicine, give it trial. For
sale by all druggists
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16
YOUTHS LONG PANTs

Choice Of any $1,000, SUI y I
Only 80 suits to sell -
They are in single
breasted styles, IN a;,
shades, light and meas,, =,
sizes il to 20 years
week only,
per SUIT ...-.' '''-
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16
cH1LDREN's S SUI

We are showing the mos|
i've line of Children S Su
ter Pan, Sailor and Kan;
in the city. There an
different patterns TO
from. All the latest
stripes, checks. pinas s.,.
serges, sizes 2la TO , ye'
800 values. Spec'st =
only, per
sulI ... -.-.s-.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16
BOYS VACATION SUIT

For suits that sell every
$3.50. Nobby patterns
mixtures, light ana
shades. double-breast q
erbocker styles, sizes
years. Special this week
only, per suit '..--- 4.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16

the the ; thief can operate fo, :,
y ana twenty'nine days wiz X
ccaught-but that Is an ,mIis'
Graves, in Harpcr,s WcsEi.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16

4. : :, When yon feel the no.s'
take a Dewitt Little IN need
Dy Anstee-Bricc Drug Co q
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-25

forgcd that many of the Protestant
bodies gladly received aid from the
federal government, as in the case of
denominational Indian schools. Con-
cernlng this latter matter of Indian
schools, the well-known Protestant
thediogian, DR.. Starbuck, writes in
the Sacred Heart Review:
1--WE know that the churches were
neither startled nor scandalized
WHEN President Grant, in a message
TO congress. said that the government
was ready to receive them as aids in
civilizlng and Christianizlng the Indi-
ans was then out Of the country,
but no echo, private or public, reach
ed me of any dissatisfaction with this
sensible people that there was here
any union of church and state than 1t
would that the British government
was establishing Cathollcity in India
II it should grant a subvention to
some successful missionary on the
Afghan frontier, where conversions
were widening the circle of native
good will towards the Christian en-
-peror.
"As we know, the churches helped
by the government, went on quietiy
among the Indians for several years.
until It was found that SO per cent
of these were for Catholic schools,
and only 40 per cent for Protestant
Then first the heinousness OF this
imagined union OF church and state
began to dawn on Protestant vision.
Even then we should probably
have stifled our scruples-for govern
ment greenbacks are a very soothing
application to conscience-had we not
been reminded by Presbyterian min
ister-cited by Colonel Higgfnson-
that the loss would fall mainly on the
Catholics, inasmuch, he remarked. as
the government schools would still be
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-25
RAINED IN BLUE MOUNTAINS.
Otherwise Little Precipitation During
the Week,

OtIeTnise Little Precipitation During
the Week,
Tbe temperatures daring the week
were nearly normal. There were no
hot winds, but on Saturday temper
attres of ninety degrees or more were
common in Willamette valley, south
ern Oregon, and h the central and
northern counties between the Cas-
'cades and Blue mountains. West or
ithe Cascade mountains the afternoon
averaged from two ~
four degrees cooler than they did dur
ing the preceding week, but in east
ern counties both the night and day
temperatures were slightly higher
than they We're last week.
No rain Of consequence occurred
except in the foothills of the Blue
mountains, where afternoon thunder-
showers We're almost of daily occur
renee. The rainfall attending these
showers was generally very light. In
the coast counties there were many
foggy mornings, but the afternoons
were generally clear. The percentage
of sunshine was less than usual in all
parts of the state.
Columbia River Valley.
Mountain Park, Wesco county, Rey-
mond Markley.-Cool weather pre-
vailed, with clear skies, except on
Thursday, which was cloudy. West
erly winds predominated.
Pendleton. Umatilla county, H. F.
Johnson.-The day temperatures
throughout the week varied consider
ably, ranging from IA to 81 degrees,