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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07
CONDITION IS CRITICAL
"Puck" Darby May Not Survive the Stab Wonn" inhittri by G. x.
 Gamble Sa;nm;s.,, Night.

Clarelece, Puck Darby, of No I'll West Fourth avenue v-ho WIS stabbed Saturday nigtt ht q. N. Gamble, carpenter. wnC. says bis home is in Memphis, Tenn, is :n a critical condition and attending physicians say that his .laatl, may occur at any minute. Gamble is still being hcl " the police. no charge having been docke:ed against him.
 Doctors Thompson, Troupe and Tuck are in attendance at the betl- side of young Darby. Miss Dofr, a trained nuurse. is also attending him. Darby was stabbed tilr"n@,. the liver.
 Witnesses to the fight in which Darby sustained the injury that may end his life, say that Darby had not been drinking previous to the stabbinS. Gamble was under the influence of liquor when taken to police headquarters a short time afterward Those who saw the quartntte enter the saloon of Cole man and Wilson, on East Fourth avenue, among whom were Darby and Gamble. say that Darby was passing the place when he was called in by one of them. A dispute arose over a stairway and, Gamble claims. Darby slapped him. In the mix-up that followed, Darby re- ceived the serious stab wound in the abdomen.
 George Darby. another son of Mrs. Anna Darby has been sick for some weeks and is still unable to leave his room.
 Gamble has been transferred to Justice l.. F. Cheek court. He is charged with assault to kill In the event Darby's wound proves fatal, he will be re-arrested on a murder charge
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CHAIRMAN w. B. ALEXANDER
Announces Everything in Readiness for Primaries to Be Held
 Tuesday.

Chairman w. B. Alexander, of the Democratic City Central Com mittee, is today asserting the bal lot boxes, poll books. tickets and other necessary articles to be used in the four wards at the primaries Tuesday.
 No changes are to be made in the polling place or the list of judges, he says, and everything is in readiness for the battle of bal lots. The polls. as announced, will open at s a. m. and close at 6:30 D. m. Although no trouble is looked for, policemen will be on duty in each ward. A mayor, city treas urer, police judge and four alder men are to be nominated. The city election will be held in April.
 At z o'clock Tuesday night ward meetings will be held in each of the four wards for the election of 8 central committeeman for the en- suing year.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07
ROAD OYERSEERS
List of Appointments Being Prepared by County Judge James Gould
 TOday-COunty Court.

County Judge James Gould is today preparing his list of appointees to serve as road overseers in the var ious townships. One will be named for each precinct. The names will be announced later in the week.
 Judge Gould also opened county court this mo Ding and is busy pass ing on accounts, allowing claims against the county and disposing of other important business The quar- terly reports of all justices of the peace are also filed for approval
 County court will be in session sev- eral days. The saloon contest case of W. s. Stewart, an applicant for a dram-shop license for saloon he wishes to establish near Wabbaseka, is to be heard this afternoon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07
IDENTIFIED AS
 R0LLO STEELE Effects of the Philadelphia Bomb ThroWer Located by Police of Quaker City Yesterday.
RESULT OF HIS WORK
Movements "f the Maniac Traep8 Before Bank Tragedy and tha Police of Philadelphia Ire Surs of His Identity.

Philadelphia, Jan. With the hnding yesterday of the personal eff. 1ects of tue man who threw the bomb in the Fourth Street National bank on Saturday, killing Cashier W. /. Mclean and himself, there is little doubt left in the minds of the police officials that he was Rolla Steele of Garner, Ia.
 The bomb-thrower was found to have slept Friday night at the Grant house, a hosteTry on the out skirts of the tenderloin, frequented mostly by respectable working peo- pie. The man registered as J. F. Steele of New York He arrived at the hotel about z o'clock Friday night and engaged a 5O-cent room. He carried a grip which he refused to allow the colored porter to carry to the room
 When detectives searched the room today they found several yards of slow fuse, a number Of detonating caps, a revolver and 3 boX of cartridges in the grip to- 2ether with a number of tools and some clothing There was a suit bearing the tag of Chicago cloth ing house and d pair of overalls marked with the name of d Lynch burg, Va, merchant There was also a waybill for a box shipp1d over the Southern Railway. As Rolla Steele was reported to have been in Chicago and Lynchbure. tthe latter place within few days) the police say there is little doubt as to the bomb-thrower's identity. It is probable that none of those hurt by the explosion will die. Will liam ]. Crump, the negro messenger in the bank and body-guard or President Richard H. Rushton Of the institution. who is the most seriously injured. was today oper- ated upon. His condition was such few hours after the explosion that he was reported dead, but he rallied and the physicians operat- ed in an effort to save his eyesight, though his eyes will never regain their normal condition.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07

do not think so. It is the duty of Catholic Americans to register their protests, ar.1 when this has been done by all and others who may so desire. then the United States may voice this protest as it did in the case of the Jewish nlassacres in Russia.
 The appeal today is not to the government of France, but to all those who cherish the church and Christian civilization as coming from Christ. The appeal is to the united powers of Christendom and to the Deity who guards his own.
 We do not despair for these faithful, patient and suffering Cath ollie people, for We cannot forget the France of honored history. Already I feel that the reaction will come from the people to say that they shall not be slaves in a supposedly free land.
 "A Catholic people that only be- comes indifferent invites spoliation and every nation that believes in Caesarism is always prepared to play the part of the despoiler. v
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07
ARCHBISHOP GLENNON
Does Believe That tllt. United States Should Protest. but Might "
 Voice Catholic Protest.

St. Louis. Jan. .1.--zTaking as his subject "The Church and France. /" the. Very Rev. John J. Glennon. archbishop of the diocese of St.. Louis, devoted his sermon, Sunday to the condition of the Catholic church in France. He spoke in part as follows:
 There is for our beholding today the saddest tragedy of modern times. It is the destruction of an ancient church, the spoliation of a time-honored religion and that in a land that for centuries claimed her as a mother and gave to her a home
 Does it not appear strange that this should not arouse widespread agitation over all the world. and yet it does not? Some say the United States should register protest.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07
A NEW YACHT FOR UPTON.

London, Jan. 7.--Sir Thomas Lip ton arrived here today after spend~ ing a week in Scotland. Sir rhom- as had several heightened interviews with the Flies, the yacht designers at Dumbarton. which resulted in his giving orders for the construction of a yacht which he intends to srac6 in the Jamestown International4 Ex- position contests Sir Thomasahas al- so announced that he will visit the Exposition and be on board his own yacht during the races. It is stated that he will cross the Atlantic in his magnificent. steam yacht Erin and make heightened stay in Hampton Roads during the exposition.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07
WANTS MAMMA"
 SAYS LITTLE BOY James Simpson Wanders Away From Home and Mother Is Almost Hys- terical.
COMES TO GRAPHIC
Plays With Editors Scissors and Is Having Good Time When His Mother Finds Him-Talks Baby Talk.

While his mother was running about the streets almost hysterical from fright, James Simpson. the two and one-half-year-old son of Mrs. J. M. Simpson, who lives at Barraque and Beech streets, walked into the Graphic office and asked for his mother.
 II want my mamma the little fellow said, looking around as if he expected to find her in among the big printing presses, then he burst into tears and it was sometime be- fore he could be quieted.
 Every effort was made to ascer- tain the boys name, but all he would say was something about wanting to see his mother. He said other things in baby talk, but there were no other babies around ahd his line of conversation could not be figured out"
 A few sheets of paper, a printers s stick, a pencil, pair of scissors and other implements" so necessary in newspaper office, were convert ed into toys and, working on the good nature of the patient the office devil managed to keep the Noungster quiet
 Chief of Police Stewart was in formed that baby was at the Graphic office awaiting an owner. He stated that no baby had been reported lost at police headquarters. but added that the police had sev- era white elephants in the ma ture of horses and cows in the pound that he would like to get rid of. Deliver me from lost babies. v he exclaimed as he hung up the telephone receiver.
 The baby was playfully enjoying itself in the Graphic office when Mrs. Simpson. who had been run-- ming about the streets for nearly an hour hunting the child, passed the building and spied the little fel- low.
 She rushed into the office, grabbed the boy into her arms and hugged and kissed him as only a mother can Her eyes were filled with tears and she could hardly speak. When she recovered sufficiently to tell her story she said the boy wandered away from home shortly after ? o'clock and she did not discover his absence for some time -afterward. When she did she searched the neighborhood, but could not find him. She then hurried about town. making inquiries, and having given up holes of locating her child she vas on n Yy ts re6ots thsms ter, ter to @ tAs .!:8 e8'c4aswAh 4 ' tousd 9le boy. 'Tss \ 'As
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07
WAS HASTINGS
 |NSOLvENT? Suit Brought in Memphis, Tenn, Against Estate of Former Citizen of Pine Bluff
BY BANK OF WILMAR
Same Collateral on Another Alleged Loan-COurt Asked to Clear TanxIe
 Ho Hastings Died Suddenly in Mem- phis, Tenn.

Alleging that E. E. Hastings. a former Pine Bluffian, who was found dying in room at "Josh's'' rooming house six weeks ago in Memphis. Tenn, supposedly from heart dis ease, was insolvent at the time of his death, and that he had given three trust deeds on the same piece of prop
 erty to secure indebtedness, the total of which it is said will exceed the assets of the estate greatly, the Bank 1 of Wilmar, Ark, has filed aut in l the Chancery Court at Memphis against the Bankers Trust company. Lena Hastings, Jamie Hastings and the American Building & Loan Asso- ciation.
 The object of the suit is primarily to collect an alleged debt of $/743.54. This debt, said to have been contract ed by Hastings in October, 1906, was secured by trust deed on riece of property at Forest and Lumpkin ave- nues there 1t is alleged that the Bakers Trust company, to secure an indebtedness of $10,000, was given a trust deed on this property last July, in connection with trust deed on land in Jefferson county, Ark The court is asked to have the Bankers Trust company's deed apply only to the Arkansas property.
 It is alleged, further, that on the Memphis property the American Building X Loan Association was giv en trust deed in 1904 to secure an indebtedness of $2,500.
 The sale of the property to satisfy the claims upon it, as far as the pro
 seeds will go, is sought in the bill, which was filed through Cary & Rog- CTS as attorneys.
 B. E. Hastings was supposed to be well off. He was president of the Hastings Lumber company. About six weeks ago he went to Memphis, and, instead of going home, took room at "Josh's" rooming house on South Main street near Beale. At 10 o'clock in the morning he was discovered un- conscious. He died at noon, and death was attributed to heart disease.
 B. B. Hastings was we'll konwn in this city, having been connected with the Bluff City Lumber company for a number of years. He was brother in-law of Jim, Nat and Ike Allen of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07
:.
 NEGRO STILL AT LARGE.

The negro who attacked Mrs. Theo- dosia Crawford, of No. 314 East Fifth avenue, Saturday night. and relieved her of handbag containing $9.40 and ss@estripkets, is still at large. \ TM police say they have no clue, Sut tlsarea working on the case The purse snatching is the first to occur in Pine Bluff in some months.
 The handbag taken from Mrs. Craw- ford was found in the street near the plant of the Arkansas Cotton Oil com pany Sunday. The handbag was empty.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07
Weary Travellers Unable to Leave City Sunday Slept on Concrete Floor at Un- ion Station.
NO TRAINS TO SOUTH
Service Reopened Today Between This City and Texarkana-Saline River Bridge Safe, but ROadbed Badly Damaged.

More than one hundred weary. worn-out travellers slept upon the hard concrete floor in the union station a greater part of last night because of the inability of the Cot ton Belt railroad to run trains south from this city yesterday
 Southbound trains and all north bound passengers were discon- tinued between this city and Tex arkana because of the washout which occurred on that line Satur- day night near Rison.
 All of yesterday saw no trains from Texas points here. The food ed condition of the territory adjacent to the Saline river in Cleveland county, several hundred feet of trestle and Cotton Belt road bed being washed away, made it impossible to run trains further south than Rison. The reports to the effect that the Saline river railroad bridge had been com pletely destroyed. was denied this morning. It was also announced that the damaged tracks were being rapidly repaired and that train service would be resumed today One train came through from t,,tr .+ the first to come over the deranged roadbed. Crews of men are at work replacing the tracks and repairing the damaged property
 Several hundred home seekers. with their families. which included many children, came to Pine Bluff Sunday from points south on the Iron Mountain railroad, on their way to Texas. They were to have taken Cotton Belt trains south from this city. After arriving at the union station they learned of the dlscontinuance and more than a hunudred of them put up, with all their baggage, in the station wait ing room and remained there a greater part of the night. They spread blankets on the concrete floor and slept as best they could At midnight the interior of the station had the appearance of d large One-f1oor, Scent lodging house, the kind one sees in the big cities. Old men were snoring and
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07

babies, those awake, were crying and the unusual sight attracted much attention from those who were out at that hour.
 Northbound trains were made up at the Cotton Belt shops during the night and were run to Memphis minus Pullman cars. Travellers were compelled to use chairs be- cause of the absence of sleepers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07
FIRST RAILS LAID.
East Sixth Avenue Car Line Exten. sion Will Be Finished in Sixty
 Days.

The first rails on the East Sixth avenue extension of the street car line of the Citizens Light and Tran sit company were laid this morning. The management gives out the an- nouncement that cars will be running on East Sixth avenue within sixty days. The rails are being laid from Main street east and will include a mile and half of trackage when com pleted. It is the intention of the car company to make other extensions on their lines during this year. .,=
 The ministers of the city held a conference at the Y. M. c. A. building this morning at 10 o'clock.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07

Candidates carnival. All the candidates will be repre- sented. Tonight at Bluff City rink.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07

There is something suspicious about it when you are offered some thing for nothing. We maksNsuits from $25 up and guarantesrthe style the latest and perfectrin fit and finish. Eisenkrams the Tailor. Over Citizens baak, Second and Pine street.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07
.#@z2 Our Stock of
 .:z z> Carpet Remnants Look over the list and if there is anything that will fit your room. Come early and get pick
VELVET CARPET.

8 1-4 yards, red .................5 .59c 16 yards. red ................ .65c 20 o-3 wards, tan n...........7O .7Oc 19 3-4 wards. mottled ............6 soc 29 wards. red ....................7 75c 20 yards, tan .................. 7Sc B IA yards, green .............S SOc 9 1-2 yards, tan ...............7 .7Oc Al IA yards, red .............'Oc 'Oc 21 yards, green ................S SOc
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07
NAVIGATION CLOSED
 IN GREAT LAKES.

Buffalo, N r., Jan. 7.--Navigation On Lake Superior closed today. "A large fleet was released from the ice a few days ago and is coming south. During the season 137 lives were lost on the lakes, 47 vessels were totally wrecked, the cost amounting to near ly $3,OOO,00O. Navigation closed this year earlier than was expected, so it is calculated that iron will greatly increase in price before navigation opens in spring.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-07
BRUSSELS CARPET.

THESE ARE YOU CAN FIND WHAT YOU WANT oNE.uLF THE REGULAR ys$ls ,sl1ln1
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-12-09
WILL TAKE YEARS TO
COMPLETE THE WORK
Special to the Herald.

special 10 lHe heTaiu.
Washington, d. c., Dec. "a sub
committee Of the uniform classified
ton commission. organized by the
railroads Of the United States for the
purpose of arranging a universal
freight tariff to apply to all the rail-
roads of the country, met here today
to determine upon the time and to ar
range other details in connection
with the meeting Of the commission.
1t is expected that the sessions Of the
commission will begin soon after the
first of the year and that they will be
held either in New York or Chicago.
The time that It will take the COM
mission to perform its work is prob
lematical. The sessions of the COM
mission may extend over a period OF
three years, and longer. If necessary.
II satisfactory progress is not made
within that period the commission
will be dissolved.
The commission OF fifteen men,
bers represents every railroad in the
country. and II will endeavor to ar
range a universal schedule. There
are at present three classifications
used by the railroads of the different
territories. These are the official. the
southern and the western. Each diff
fers from the other and is a source Of
much annoyance to shippers and rail
roads alike.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-12-09

President Roosevelt and his politi
cal friends have discovered what they
claim to be absolute proof that the
first installment of the corruption
fund to put the Roosevelt policies out
Of business has been turned loose by
the trusts and corporations. The
country might think this charge Is
made to boost Roosevelt for a third
term IL the president was not so per.
sistent in declaring that he will not
again stand for the nomination, but
under the conditions as they exist
the story will be credited There is
no doubling that the trusts would
like very much to get rid of the
Roosevelt theories in the national ad.
ministration. The Herald suspects
that these corrupt influences would
much prefer a Wall street kind of
democrat in preference to the present
man of the big stick. For this reason
the democrats should be exceedingly
careful in the selection of a candi-
date. for it is a prophecy waiting to
become history that any candidate
for the presidency, of whatever par
ty, endorsed by Wall street will be
repudiated at the polls by the great
masses OF the nation This has been
so in the past in a sense, but the lines
are more clearly drawn now than
ever, and the people are not going to
stand for a trust hugger.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-12-09
DEMAND FOR CEMENT
IS ON THE INCREASE
specinI to the Herald.

New York. Dec. According to
the members of the American Port.
land Cement Manufacturers Associa.
ton, who assembled in annual meet
ing here today. there is one industry
that so far has felt no i'll effects from
the business depression supposed to
prevail at the present time. More
cement has been used for building
purposes during the past year than
ever before since its introduction, and
the demand promises to continue on
the increase indefinitely. In addition
to transaction of routine business the
annual meeting Of the association will
discuss a number OF questions of in
terest to the trade.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-12-09
DECEMBER g IN HISTORY.

1776-Sierra Leone founded as an
sylum for destitute negroes
from the United States and
West Indies.
1779-Moritz Retzsch, celebrated Ger.
man artist, born. Died July II,
1857.
179S-King of Sardinia abdicated.
1S24-Peruvians achieved independ-
ence by defeating the Span
iards at Ayacucho
1S44-Bill for the annexation of Tex
as introduced in both houses of
congress.
1S56-Father Matthew, apostle of
temperance, died in Ireland.
1S74-Ezra Cornell, founder of Cor
nell University, died. Born
Jan. II, 1907.
1S97-Strike of cotton mill operatives
at Atlanta, Ga.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-12-09
PALESTINE, TEXAS, DECEMBER 9, 1907.

five full pages in both the Post and
Chronicle of Sunday. Such an amount
of advertising cost the firm a pretty
penny, but it evidently pays or else
the money would not be spent The
fact is the firm was built up through
its intelligent advertising and good
store methods. The Houston papers
are indeed fortunate in having such a
patron as the Kiam house.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-12-09
Weather Conditions.

A storm center is over the state Of
Missouri; its trough extends from
the lakes to the Gulf, and from Okla.
homa to North Carolina. 1t has car.
ried precipitation and warmer wealth.
er over that area and the Southwest,
West and South 1t is raining in the
eastern portion of the cotton belt this
morning. A high pressure and cold
area is over Montana, attended by
zero weather. The line of freezing
temperature extends through Kansas
and the Panhandle.
Fair and colder weather is indicat-
ed tonight and Tuesday in the vicinity
of Palestine, with freezing condits ~
Tuesday night
G. HASS HAGEN,
Official in Charge.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-12-09

The railroads in south and south
west Texas have been great factors in
bringing that section Of the state into
great publicity before the people Of
the United States, and the work done
by these roads have borne good fruit
More money has been spent in adyer-
Using the Texas gulf country than
has been spent on the entire rest Of
the state, and the results are appar-
ent East Texas offers more adYan-
tages to the homeseeker than any sec
ton of Texas, but it has not been
pushed like the coast country and has
not received the attention from the
people looking for homes. It is time
this section was getting busy
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-12-09
Civic Federation Meeting.
Special TO the Herald.

Special 20 the Herald.
New York. Dec. g.-The National
Civic Federation began its annual
meeting in this city today with an
attendance of members from all over
the country. The prominence of the
participants and the umeliness Of the
questions listed for discussion com.
bine to give promise Of a session Of
more than ordinary interest.
Currency reform, wage earners' in
surance and postal savings banks are
the three principal subjects to receive
attention.