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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-25
MARDI GRAS
 COMES EARLY.
Falls on February 12 This Year, Same Day as Lincoln's Birthday-Earlier
 But Twice in Twelve Years.

Mardi Gras this year falls on Feb ruary 12, Lincoln's birthday. But twice in twelve years has it been earlier than this. The date for Mardi Gras is regulated by the date for Easter and this year, for the first time since 1902, Easter comes in March. Twelve years ago Easter came in March, the three exceptions being the only ones in twelve years, however. It has always been in April with these three exceptions.
 Mardi Gras is observed in practical ly all the Southern states, but is a holiday only in Alabama and the par ish of Orleans in Louisiana. It was the custom in former years in this city and other cities of the South to have elaborate celebrations, but in most of the cities with the exception of New Orleans, it has become a day of much rowdyism and police regula- tions have diminished the glories of the day.
 No orders have been issued as yet in this city for the observance of the day, but it is probable that Mayor Caldwell will issue a statement later.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-25
Basket ball game, Main rink tonight. Rink te3tn vs, High School.
WABBASEkA NOTES.

Special to The Graphic.
 Wabbaseka, Ark, Jan. 22-W. J. Clary, MT. and Mrs. w. c Crittenden, Doctor Wright and wife were visi- tors here Sunday
 Ben Words old COW was up this morning to see if cotton seed had talk en fall yet.
 Miss Minnie Dardine was in town yesterday.
 w. s. Stewart has turned his hard ware store into dwelling house.
 A new cotton gin has been built here, known as the Mckee gin and MT. Mckee says that he has ginned fourteen bales in the last two weeks, and says that he expects to get an- other weeks run anyway.
 B. F. Miller and Lloyd Garret of Altheimer were in the city Sunday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-25

rate of 30 cents an hour be paid for all substitute work, whether for em- ployes absent with or without pay for temporary service.
 It is proposed to grant thirty days annual leave to post office clerks and carriers instead of fifteen days as at present, thus placing the employees of the post office department on an equal ity with other government employees. It is shown that the overtime served daily by post office clerks, figuring on an eight-hour basis for the month of October last, was 4,319 minutes, and Mir. Hitchcock urges that sufficient number of clerks be employed to keep the workday as near at eight hours as possible.
 The classification of clerks under this plan does not go as far as their friends have deemed was just to them, but it is long step ill the right direc- ton, and is the first recognition of the principle as applied to them by the department.
 The promotions scheduled do not comply with the demands of the car riers in many respects. The more liberal grant of annual leave recom- mended is a graceful concession.
 If congress shall see fit to approve the recommendations of the depart ment it will be decided advance in the direction of postal reform.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-25
SEVENTY FOOT
 EXTENSION PLANNED
Bluff City Rink Management to En. large Rink Building and Make Other Improvements on
 Building.

A contract will be let this week by the management of the Bluff City rink for an extension, which is proposed for the present building. When the extension is made the rink will have a skating surface of PIP by GA feet.
 It is the intention of the manage ment to extend the rink proper sev- enty feet to the norh. The work is to begin at once and will be completed within two weeks. The management is to incur large expense in making the extension and other improve ments.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-25
LOCAL FIRM
 GOT CONTRACT
Plumbing Work in New Mcck's Home to Be Done by Robil,-
 son Brothers.

Robinson Brothers, local plumb CTS, have been awarded the steam heating ali plumbing contract for the ney NJ: IS's .'esidence at War "en, Ark. .he necessary material was senr .o Wal.-l this morning and the work will begin at once. The cost of the plumbing work alone Will De abo4t $1,S00.
 The residence is being b..i't by Contractor R. W Lane of this city. at cost of SIS 900 and will be oue of the most attractive in southern Arkansas when completed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-25
LETTER 0F THANKS Organizer and Financial Agent of the Southern Cotton Association for Ar kansas Division in the City Today.
BENEFITS IN STORE.
Will Soon Be In Posi- tion to Support Itself-After the Wall Street Gambler and Illicit Wire HOuse-Of Interest to Cotton Pro. ducer.

M. N. Gaines, state organizer and financial agent for the Arkansas Di- vision of the Southern Cotton Asso- ciation, who is in the city in the in- terest of that organization, today ad dressed the following letter to The Graphic. The communication, which is self-explanatory, follows:
 "In behalf of the Arkansas Division of the Southern Cotton Association, kindly allow me space in your valued columns to express my thanks to the Pine Bluff Board of Trade for the resolutions adopted at the meeting of the board yesterday, in which they urged the merchants of the city, who buy cotton, to exert themselves in the matter of collecting the , cents per bale revenue provided for the sup port of the association by the state executive committee in January, 1906.
 "In asking this modest sum from the cotton raiser, and also asking the purchasers of the cotton to kind ly collect it for us, the association was guided by a conviction of the reel procity for the successful execution of the plans laid down governing the development of the obligations impos- ed upon it; that of demanding and striving to maintain a just and fair price for the South's staple crop, cotton.
 "For two years the association has been waging a relentless war against all combinations and conditions which hamper the progress and advancement along the lines which mean the bet torment of the material conditions of the rank and file of Southern farm- CTS, merchants, bankers, mechanics and all classes of industries, the pros- perity of all of which are based up- on the value of their staple crop, cot ton.
 "But in order to accomplish full measure of the benefits in store, it Is necessary to have both the moral and financial aid of the people of the South, which means, you, for irres- pective of avocation, every one is iden- tified with the prices for which the staple is sold. As general organizer and financial agent of the state, I appeal to the manhood and loyalty of her citizens to support us in the great battle against the Wall street gamb- lers and their co-workers, the bucket shops and illicit wire houses. After this season the association will not be under the necessity of asking for donations. By the plan of organizing.
 they will finance the association
 through its own membership.
 ""I am now having twenty-eight
 counties provided with organizers, and
 ask that the people manifest their ap.
 preciation of the effort of the asso- ciation by enrolling their names with
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-25

 BILL PASSED.
Missouri House Adopts the Measure by a Vote of One Hundred
 to Twenty two.

Jefferson City, Nd. Jan. 25,-rhe house this afternof fn passed the anti-cigarette bill By a vote of 100 to P. The bill prohibits the sale, manufactureRr/giving away of cigarettes or cigarette papers to any person.
 Under the provisions of the bill a man may make his own cigarettes without violating the law, but he cannot give them away. Violation of the law is punishable by fine of $1O to $2OO.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-25
CONFERENCE OF NEGROES.

Columbia, o. C., Jan. 25.-The negro race conference which con- menced here on Wednesday closed today. The conference was called
 rough ,..e e..~-.- of Rev. f,ichard carroll, a negro educator of this state. Among those who addressed the conference and took part in the discussions were Governor D. C.. Heyward, Governor -elect M. F. An sell and the Rev. Booker T. Wash ington the well-known negro preacher. ~. w,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-25

the organizer of their respective coun- ties and townships.
 Thanking those who have hereto fore contributed to our support, and also extending thanks in advance for future support, I am, very respectful ly. M. N. GAINES, "State Organizer and Financial Agent,
 Arkansas Division Southern Cotton
 Association <
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-25
RE.ARRANGEMENT IN THE POST OFFICE.

The Post Office Department comes vigorously to the rescue of it's en- ployes and introduces a plan for some radical changes as to some of them.
 Failure at this time to increase ma terially the compensation of post of- lice employees, thus keeping pace with the advancing wages in other lines of employment, will seriously jeopardize the efficiency of the service This statement is taken from the annual report of First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock.
 The urgent need of new legislation to make the postal service more at tractive in order to retain present em- p1oyes and as an inducement for good men to enter the service is treated Extensively by Mr. Hitchcock, who pre- sents plan for the consideration of congress. Higher wages in other classes of employment taken with the increased cost of living have rendered pronounced the inadequacy of post of flee salaries. As a result the resigna- tions from the service have increased at an alarming rate, and the standard of men going into the service has greatly deteriorated in the last fiscal year.
 Their resignations principally af- feet the clerks in our large post of- hces, an occupation requiring excep- tional ability as we'll as years of care- ful training and involving long hours of daily or nightly labor. MT. Hitch cocks report shows that in first class and second class offices there were ap- proximately 10000 clerks in the grade ranging from $500 to $1,OO0, and of these clerks 2.340 or about 12.3 per cent resigned during the year. Of 23,O0O letter carriers attached to those offices 601 Or about 2.6 per cent vol nntarily left the service.
 After a careful study of the prob lem of devising a satisfactory scheme of salaries applicable to clerks and carriers alike, this plan has been sug- gested by Mir. Hitchcock Establish ing for both these classes of employees six grades of compensation, the annual salary to be $500 for the initial grade, $500 for the second grade, and for the fousrucc v6g qvbgkq k mmmm the four succeeding grades, $900, $1,- 900 SLIGO and $1,200, respectively, and of providing for the advancement of clerks and carriers in first-class of tices from the $500 initial grade to $500 alter one years service, to $500 after two years service and to S1,O0O after three years service and for the advancement of clerks and carriers an second class offices to $500 after one years service and to $500 after two years service.
 The proposed plan leaves to the de- partment the distribution of promo tions based on efficiency above the $1,000 grade in frst-class offices anG above the $500 grade in second-clas offices, the eX,eat of such promotion: being limited, of course, by the appro priations provided. The severa grades ranging from $500 to $1, 900 ant to $1,200 will not only make it possi ble to reward exceptionally faithfu and efficient men throughout the cler ical and carrier services, but they vii enable the department to raise tn standard of remuneration when dt manded by local conditions.
 The suggestion is made that ike
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-25
DAVIS GIVES BOND.

F. H. Davis, white man charged with embezllement of the sum of $123.70 from the Hollenberg Music company, was released from jail this morning after making a $500 bond. J. R. Core, w. B. Sorrells and s. B. Riley are his bondsmen.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-25
Bluff City rink tonight, prize for most graceful cQu- pie. Contest open to all.

Long runs speciality at this of- flee. Come in and see our web-per. fecting job press run-just the thing for long runs.
 ADAMS PRINTING co.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-29
THE INJURED

Ackerman, Fred, Ithaca NJ Y.
Allen Ruth Florence Roberts company knee severely injured
Brown, John, Los Angeles, scalp wounds and bruises
Clapp, Victor Los Angeles fireman. legs and hands scaded
scalp wounds
Day, w. ST. 2o4 North Fremont street. Los Angeles dsocat-
ed hip
Davis, Thomas, Tucson, Ariz. leg crushed.
Defoe, John, Florence Roberts company head and scalp
wounds.
Dennston G., Imperial side bruised CUT severely
shocked
Dennston, T. J.
Dennston T. Co., Imperial aged 49, seriously shocked
hands laceraed, chest injured
Falconer J. H., Roseville, leg broken.
Faulkner H. Imperial Junction face and back injured
Griffin, Patrick, Lynn Mass
Grimes, Seth Imperial head and face cut.
Glenn, Max F. $50 South Figueroa street, Los Angeles
Grand, Seth.
King, F. T, Los Angeles, neck and eye injured
Kretch Julius, Coraopois, Pa. badly cut and bruised
Nelson, Oscar, Los Angeles
Rogers, G. G.. Arnidor City, head
Rogers Gregory Co. San Francisco member Florence Roberts
company; head badly cut, leg and back injured.
Twenty-nine Italians way to San Francisco.
Schuman Ida, Giaway, Neb head cut and mangled.
limb broken
Staey Cora Bowie Tex, foot crushed otherwise injured
Two Falconer children, aged and and bruised.
Wilthorn A. R., Sacramento, crushed destroyed
will die
Walton, H. F.. Mattoon ILL.,, and bruised
Walters, H., Rockin ILL.,, leg badly cut.
Warrington Clarence E. Los Angeles engineer badly cad
ed about face and chest right off, badly bruised
Wigren, Justice Chicago.
Wells, Robert Cannanea, Mexico
Woods Stephen, Richmond, CAL right hand seriously
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-29
ONE OF THE WORST
WRECKS IN HISTORY
OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
COTTON, March 2S.-One of the most
disastrous wrecks in the history of the
Southern Pacific occurred one and a
half miles east of this town shortly
after o'clock this afternoon, when
westbound passenger train No 9, from
New Orleans for San Francisco, ran
into an open switch while going at the
rate of forty miles an hour and ten Of
the fourteen coaches were derailed
with frightful results.
Thirty people are known to have
been killed and the final list will total
much higher than this number. The
injured number about one hundred,
many of whom are seriously injured
and will die,
The wrecked coaches. were hurled in
every direction. Four of them were
smashed into splinters. Most of the
dead were Italians from New York and
New Orleans going to San Francisco.
They occupied the smoker and day
coach.
The dead were terribly MANNED and
mangled. Eighteen of them were taken
to the d. c. Schwartz undertaking es-
tabllshment at Cotton by o'clock and
eight additional bodies could be seen
underneath one of the overturned and
demolished cars.
This car could not be raised until a
derrick was brought from Los Ange-
les. sixty miles away.
The injured We're carried to the city
In vehicles of all sorts and the Cotton
hospital was quickly filled TO its ca
pacity. Many were then taken to the
Presbyterian church and TO private
residences IN the vicinity.
But two Americans are known to
have been killed, although several OF
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-29
ISSUE ULT|MATUM
TO THE RAILROADS
Employees Declare Wage Scale Cannot
Be Arbitrated, and Strike viii
Follow Unless Demands
Are Granted
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 2S.-The contro-
versy over a wage scale between the
general managers of the western rail-
roads and their employees in the train
service cannot be arbitrated.
The only way in which strike can
be averted is for the officials of the
roads to make terms with the men.
This is the ultimatum issued by the
representatives of the two unions in
volved in the difficulty after meeting
tonight to consider the decision of the
railroads in asking the federal govern
ment to try to bring about settle
ment by mediation along the lines pro-
vided by the Erdman act.
The arbitration move of the general
managers was considered at much
length by the union representatives, but
the proposition was finally rejected and
a resolution passed refusing to arbf-
trate the wage scale question.
The general managers tonight for the
first time admitted that the situation
was grave. The crisis was intensitied
by the fact that no compromise had
been effected with the representatives
of the $4,000 locomotive firemen who are
here negotiating for higher wages ana
an eight-hour day. Another conference
was held today between the General
Managers association and committee
representing the firemen. but nothing
in the way Of settlement was accom-
plished.
Secretary Thompson of the General
Managers association said tonight;
1--WE are waiting to see what the gov
ernment will do. We do not expect to
hear directly In answer to our request
that the whole c liculty should be ar
bitrated along the lines suggested by
the Erdmann act. but we believe when
the labor leaders involved receive word
from Washington that the government
has been asked to take hand in the
matter that they will look at the mat
ter in a different light and will be
willing to submit the question to arbi-
tration. We are not looking for trou-
BILE, but we have made all the conces-
sions we can AFFORD under the present
conditions and the sooner the men be-
come reconclled to this the better 1t
will be for every one concerned
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-29
BODIES TERRIBLY MUTILATED
Train Runs Into Open Switch While Speed
ing Toward Los Angeles at the Rate
of Sixty Miles an HOur-Mail
Clerk Among the Victims
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
RIVERSIDE, March 28.-
Thirty persons are dead, probably
twenty will die and 100 are more
or less seriously injured as a re-
suit of one of the worst train
wrecks in the history of the
Southern Pacific railroad.
The Train, known as the Sunset
Limited, ran into an open switch
mile east of Cotton this after
noon about a o'clock, while speed
ing toward Los Angeles at a CO.
mile-an-hour clip.
Engineer Clarence E. Warm
ington had crowded on every
ounce of steam possible in an eff
fort to make up time lost between
New Orleans and the point where
the wreck occurred.
Fourteen coaches were derailed.
Many of them were crushed
into splinters and the bodies of
the dead were so terribly rnutilat-
ed that many of them could not
be identified.
The injured, who were to be
found in the wreckage of every
coach, sent forth dispairing cries
for aid, and even those who es-
capped were so affected by the
scene that scores wrng their
hands in agony as they ran here
and there in an effort to find
friends or relatives. Eventually,
however, the work of rescue was
carried on by the passengers in a
systematic manner.
Within a short time eighteen
bodies had been taken to a local
undertaking establishment and
the injured were being transferred
to the Cotton hospital.
Eight additional bodies could
be seen beneath one of the
coaches, but these could not be
taken out until the car was raised
by the aid of derrick.
Albert w. SHE, the mail clerk,
was instantly killed.
He was married and lived at SIS
Ruth avenue, Los Angeles.
He was SO years old and for five
years had been in the mail serv-
ice, running on the Southern Pa
cific between Los Angeles and Ell
Paso.
The postmaster at Cotton, after
looking over the contents of the
mail car last night, said that most
of the mail was badly damaged
but none of it was destroyed.
The engine was No. 24l6, the
largest in the world and built
especially for Engineer Warming
tons run.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-29
RICH SOAP MAKER
COMMITS SUICIDE
President of Proctor & Gamble Com.
pany Dies of Bullet Wound
SeIf.InfIicted-No Cause
Assigned
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 2S.-Wil-
liam A. Proctor, president of the Proc
tor & Gamble company, and son of
one of the firms founders, died today
from a bullet wound self-inflicted at
his home in Glendale, a suburb of this
city Coroner Cameron began an in
vestigation of the circumstances of the
shooting and in the meantime refused
to make any statement except to say
that Mr.. Proctor had died from a bull
let wound.
Mr.. Proctor was widely known IN
business circles and was a prominent
layman in the Protestant Episcopal
chuch to which institution he was a
liberal giver.
His wealth was estimated at many
millions, most of which had been made
by himself. He was noted for the CO.
operative scheme for a division of pro-
fits with employees, which he had de-
signed for his company.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-29
MAN WHO MURDERED
MOTHER KISSES CORPSE
AND FALLS IN A FAINT
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
i OAKLAND, March 2s.-Stooping i
+ to press a farewell kiss upon the !
+ cold lips of his murdered mother, i
i Erland II. Soderberg was over !
! come by the horror of his awful !
i crime and with a bitter cry of !
J. anguish staggered back from the !
+ casket and fell fainting to the !
\ floor. !
i Recovering, the confessed matri- !
j. eide, supported by Detectives !
\ Hodgkins and Flynn, who had ac- \
+ eompanied him to the funeral, tot I
+ tered to couch and burying his I
+ face In his hands gave way to a 4
= paroxysm of grief. !
: The murdered woman was buried !
y this afternoon. =
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-29
Second Term for Carter
BY Associated Press.

By AsSUCIdIbU IItss'
HONOLULU. March est is stated
here that President Roosevelt has Of
fered to appoint Governor Carter for a
second term. The governor is consid-
ering the matter and probably will con-
fer personally with President Roose-
welt before reaching a decision.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-29
limited WRECKED; 80 KILLED
VICTIMS OF THE COTTON WRECK
THE DEAD

ANDRE -
ANGELO, PRITELLO
CARLO, FACANEDINI
DONENCIA, GALA
EMILIO, SEARMELLA.
FIFTEEN UNIDENTIFIED ITALIANS, all of whom wei
route to San Francisco
FERDINADO, GUINTO
FRANCISCO, BASSI
GIOVANNI, GROFFO
GUISEPPI, CAMURATI.
GUISPPI, SQERI.
GIACOMO, SARACHI.
HILL, MILTON, New York
SHARP, GEORGE L., Muncie Ind.
SHE, ALBERT W.. Los Angeles, mail clerk.
LUCE, SCIUTTO.