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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
FRENCH WOMEN
GO TO PRIZE FIGHT
Les Petites Fcmmes Give i,p Dinner
Dances For Glamour OF
Prize Ring.

Paris, June 21.-PriZe fights are the
latest to absorb the attention of the
Partisan society women. Within the
last week three large dinner dances
have been Cancelled, owing to the fact
that the prospective guests, as we'll as
the hosts and hostesses, expressed a
preference to witness prize fights. At
one Of the prize fights Wednesday
women dressed in the height of fash
ion were among the keenest specta-
tors Of the brutal exhibition which en-
sued. All the women were in evening
dress, and apparently We're bent on
seeing one of the men placed hors du
combat. They go there, as a matter
OF fact, for that purpose. They want
to see blood flow. and men go down
and out.
lie knoc out is the latest cry and
sensation.
One particular culb holds an exhi-
bition once a week, when professionals
appear. During the week it's amateur
members take lessons from the pro-
Iessionals. Each fair one has he.
special favorite
The star bout Of the week was he'd
Thursday night. All Paris that was
interested in the manly art was there.
Prices were raised because a fight to
"a finish was promised The elite of
Paris clubdonl-all in evening dress
bought seats. And in the front rows
sat 200 women who wanted to be iii
verified and amused, as one portly
dame expressed it.
What One Paper Says.
The sporting editor of prominent
paper thus reported the battle:
"Three thousand persons, among
them 200 elegant young women. press
ed around the platform surrounded by
a barrier OF ropes"
Boxing Is SO new in Paris that he
feels in duty bound to describe the
ring. 1t is platform surrounded by
{. ps'A VI 1CpCo, AC Say the
general satisfaction he continues,
there was blood In the second round.
In the fourth K rolled on the
ground and could not get up. The
referee gave the victory to b, who
stood over his victim in the pose of
victorious gladiator before the de-
lighted eyes of the women companions
of OUR Partisan clubmen.
ct was stiff fight. k was not
whipped until he was knocked out He
made the giant b put forth every
endeavor, and after being counted out
he allowed himself to be lifted to his
feet to be photographed with his negro
conqueror How the audience-the
women in front-cheered them! I'm
marvellous knoc OUT" they cried, but
they complained the whole thing last
ed so few minutes"
The French society women are tired
of Gin savate," the French method of
boxing.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
NEGRO FARM HAND
ARRESTED

Jack Heston, negro, was arrested
at Lake Farm, yesterday by Deputy
Sheriff ]. F. Bono, with a bench war
rant issued recently, after an indict-
ment was returned by the Jefferson
county grand jury against him, charg-
ing Heston with murder in the first
degree. 1t is charged that he struck
Ia young negro with stick some
months ago and that the negro died
Mom his injuries.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
OFF FOR TWO BIG
-------------GONVENTIONS

Edgar Brewster, circuit clerk of
Jefferson county; c. H. Puddephatt, a
prominent furniture dealer of this
city, and Ed L. Westbrook, capitalist
Of Jonesboro, will leave tomorrow for
st. Paul, Mimi. where they will rep
resent Sahara Temple of this city at
the annual Imparial Council of the
shriners Thirty thousand shriners
will ATTEND the big meeting The SEES
sions will be held July II to IS. in
elusive. The local Shriners will also
attend the big Democratic convention
at Denver
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
n0LLE PROS ENTERED
# in SCHLENkER CASE
Prosecuting Attorney Med onald Declared He Was I'm
able to Go Into Trial Without Witness Whose
Name He Did Not Know

that such move would be equivalent
to continuance, but the court enter
ed the order and declared the case
dismissed and the defendant dis
charged
A score of the friends Of Mr..
Schlenker gathered around him to
shake his hand and congratulate him
on his discharge
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28

| Manager Walter H. Beaver of the
Pine Bluff baseball team says that
<here will be but one ladies day each
week, as the constitution expressly
forbids more. Until further notice
Friday will be ladies day
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28

Today we ma he an important offer.
ing on all $25tp0 and $3.50 suits at
$3.50 KastN1 & Bluthenthal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
The BANK OF PINE BLUFF
KNIGHTS OF PYTHJAs
MEMORIAL SER"aav,

A Joint memorial service a.
held by mperial-Juliet and I .
Lodges, Knights of Pythias, tH
noon at $3.50 o'clock in th(1Ao
Hall Of Lafayette Lodge. An fa'
ing program will be renderd'
ladies are specially invited. Tlous
room will be we'll provided WI ei'0
trio fans.
Miss Alice Frazier, a populf We,
lady Of the East End, will leAve) a
day afternoon for a. three veeE 1
to relatives and friend
| Springs. Ark.
The weather man says
generally fair today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28

The weather man says
generally fair today.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
LIFE SENTENCE
AFFIRMED
John Clark Must Pay Penalty For
Murder of Coke Near Har-
din Springs.

The Court of Appeals of Kentucky
has affirmed the Breckenridge Circuit
Court in the case of the Commonwealth
VS.. John Clark, who was given a life
sentence in the pen for the murder of
John A. Coke near Hardin Springs in
March 1906. This case has attracted
more attention than any tried in this
section for several years. Coke was muir
dered by Clark, it is alleged for mis-
money. The first trial of the case was
in February 1907 which a life sentence
was given but was reversed and on the
next trial the same penalty was fixed
which was affirmed. Commonwealth
Attorney. R. Layman conducted the
prose sutton IN both of the trials. -Etown
News.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
HOME WEDDING
Miss Irene CarOn Smith and Mr..
George Keats Hull, of SChenec-
tady, N. Y, Were Mar
ried Last Night.

Miss Irene Caron Smith and Mr..
Keats Hull were married last night at
o'clock at the home of the brides par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Steven ID. Smith,
1885 Second street. DR.. W. Beauchamp,
pastor of the Fourth avenue Methodist
Church, oficiated. The house was
beautifully decorated in palms, ferns,
and pink and white cosmos. On the
mantel vases of cosmos were effectively
arranged. Palms and ferns, which bank
ed the fireplace, served as an altar
The bridal party entered to the Men
delssohn Wedding March. The ribbon
bearers, Misses Stella Sale and Mar
jorie Caron, came first, followed by the
flower girls, Misses Francis Hartwell
and Fanny Whiting. Mrs. Morton Cald-
we'll Immediately preceded the bride,
who entered with her father, Mr.. Steven
d. Smith, and were met at the altar by
by Mr.. James p. Hull, the best man,
and the groom. During the ceremony
the Evening Star" was played.
The bride wore a beautiful gown of
white satin, made empire and trimmed
in Duchess lace. Here tulle veil was
caught with orange blossoms and she
carried a shower bouquet of lilies of the
valley.
The matron of honor was becomingly
gowned in pink corded pink, made EN-
pire, and carried white cosmos.
The ribbon bearers aud flower girls
wore dainty northumberland white
lingerie dresses and pink ribbons. The
flower girls carried baskets of pink
cosmos.
After the ceremony there was an in
formal reception.
The out-of-town guests at the we l.
ding were Mr.. James P. Hull, of Schen-
ectady, N. Y; Mrs. David Van Alstyne,
of N. Y; Mrs. John Whiting, of Brook
line, and Mrs. Emily Hull, Of Provi-
dence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hull left last night for
the East, where they will make their
home in Schenectady louisville Her
aid
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
The New Campaign Secretary.

Mr.. Rogers Gore, the new Campaign
Secretary who succeeded Mr.. r. G..
Philips, of this city, is one of the
brightest country newspaper men in
KY. He is the editor of'the Springfield
Sun and every issue of his paper is
worth reading. He is from our neigh
boring county, of Larue, and is we'll
known to many of our readers. 1t was
the brilliant campaign which he made
with his paper that put Washington
county in the dry list and it was probab-
ly this fight that cost him a seat in the
State Senate, when he could have had
it without struggle by compromising
his convictions. He is chairman John
sons closest friend in the district and
as his Secretary will give a good ac-
count of himself in the campaign in
Kentucky .-Elizabethtown News.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
NEW MARK
FOR PENSIONS
Disbursements in the Last Fiscal
Year--$I50, 4O5, 7OI, the Larg-
geSt in History of Bureau.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The dis
bursements' for pensions in the fiscal
year ended June 30 last we're $3.50, 495,
7O1, the largest in the history of the
bureau, and an increase of SIS, ga, 1921
over last year, according to the re-
port of the commissioner, which has
just been made public.
The report gives prominence to the
fact that during the year there we're
"a, 1873 deaths among survivors of the
civil war who were on the pension
roll. This falling off was equal to
about per cent of the total, and left
628, 1884 survivors.
The total number of petitioners at
the end of the year was 951, 6S7. Dur
ing the year 54,366 pensioners of all
classes we're dropped and 80, 6S2 added,
making a net loss of 1854. The state
ment also shows that 1SS,445 widows
of soldiers already have taken advan-
tage of the law of the last session of
Congress increasing to $12 a month
the pensions to widows.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
DAVID s. MURRAY
SUPERINTENDENT.
Brother of Mrs. Morris Beard
And Cousin of Mrs. Fred
Ferry Makes Success In
The Far West.
WAS FIRST COLLECTOR.

The Pacific Telephone Magazine
says
AS a frontispiece this month we re-
produce the photograph of Mr.. David
S. Murray, who on August LIST, under
the new reorganization, assumed the
position of General Superintendent of
Plant.
Mr.. Murray is a Kentuckian, having
first made his appearance in the blue
grass State on August Is 1868. AT the
age of twenty-one he went to Salt Lake
City, his uncle at that time being Gov
ernor of the Territory. His first con-
nection with the telephone business was
employment as a collector for the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone Company.
Five months later to day he was made
manager at Butte and in another year
was Division Superintendent of the
Montana Division. He continued in
this position for something over three
years and was then called back to Salt
Lake City to act as Assistant Secretary
of the Company.
In 1890 he was made General Super
intendent and in 1896 became the Gen
eral Manager of the Company, continu-
ing in that capacity until his transfer
to the Pacific Coast
During the time Mr.. Murray was with
the Rocky Mountain Company its in
vestment increased from 81 100000 to
IS, 900, 900, with a proportionate growth
of subscribers.
No telephone manager has been com
PEELED to meet more varied and intri-
cate problems. The difficulties of the
maintenance of toll service in his terri
tory have presented peculiar conditions,
and the recent abor troubles in that
section, now adjusted through his efforts
to the satisfaction of both company and
employees, have attracted great inter-
est outside the telephone field.
Mr.. Murray takes up the duties of
his new and larger field in the vigor of
early manhood and fortified by an un.
usual experience in matters pertaining
to his business.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
VISITED CLOVERPORT
IN SEPTEMBER.
". E. Smith, The Missing Student
From State University, A
Nephew Of Mr.. Benton.
WAS A SPLENDID BOY.

w. E. Smith, who is thought to be a
victim of foul play at State University,
was here in September visiting his
uncle, Mr.. Carl Benton. He was then
enroute to college.
In speaking of the young man, Mrs.
Benton said Monday, 1--WE are deeply
grieved over the affair, and better
boy never lived. He said when he was
here he would like to take a mechanical
course, but did not want to engage in
any kind of business where he would
be compelled to work on Sunday"
The latest report received is:
Lexington, KY, Oct. 4.-(Special. y
Ernest Smith, brother of w. E. Smith,
the student of Kentucky State Univer-
sity, who so mysteriously disappeared
thirteen nights ago, late tonight, in
his anxiety and grief over the loss of
his brother, cast aside all fear of the
vengeance Of the students which has
before kept him silent and made the fol-
lowing statement;
Il am Of the same opinion now that
l was on the morning after my brothers.
disappearance, namely, that he has met
with violence at the hands of other
students of the University. l do not
believe that l shall ever see him alive
again. l am firmly convinced that he
is now dead. believe that my brother
went to some meeting of the students
that night and some of them picked
him to play some hazing prank upon.
My brother was not man who would
submit to any treatment of that kind,
and feel sure that they, maybe with
out intending to, inflicted serious or
fatal injuries or disposed of him in some
way that has resulted in his death"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
LOUISVILLE DRY
GOODS COMPANY
SELLS STOCK.
W. S. BOwmer Former CIOYerpOrt
Man Will Move To ST. Louis.

The Louisville Dry Goods Company
with a place of basin SIS at 63l-33 West
Main street, yesterday sold its stock Of
merchandise to the Ferguson Mckinney
Company of St, Louis. The, Ferguson
Mckinney Company will move the
entire stock to St. Louisiana practically
every salesman connected with the
Louisville Dry Goods Company will
go with the Ferguson-McKinney
Company.
J. M. Dyer, president of the Louis
Vile Dry Goods Company, said that
the price paid by the Ferguson McKiu-
ney Company was confidential. He said
that the affairs of the Louisville Dry
Goods Company would be wound up
and that the probabilities were that both
he and w. S. Bowmer, secretary and
treasurer of the Louisville Dry Goods
Company would 60 with the Ferguson
Mckinney Company in st Louis.
The Louisville Dry Goods Company
until one year ago, was known as the
Gorman-Henchey Company. The con-
Germ began business in Louisville about
five years ago and employees a large
number of salesman. Courier Journal.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
HOW RUSSIA OBTAINS
NAVAL STORES

A glance at the way in which naval
stores are obtained in Russia serves to
show what is likely to happen in this
country when the longleaf pine forests,
from which our naval stores industry
derives the raw material for turpentine,
rosin, tar and pitch, have been depleted.
Red Pine, called by the botanists
PINUS SYLVESTRIS, is the tree which
the Russians exploit for resin, as the
longleaf pine of the Southern States is
exploited in this country. In securing
the resin the Russians chip the trees
much as we do, but a far smaller yield
is secured.
Each years chipping extends about
three feet vertically, and all the way
around the tree except for strip of bark
about two inches wide, just sufficient TO
keep the tree alive. After five years
chipping this strip of bark is also cut
and the tree soon dies.
On account Of the coldness of the
climate where the red zine grows, the
resin does not flow readily, but hardens
soon after it exudes from the tree. 1t is
necessary, therefore, to expose a large
surface in order to get sufficient yield.
Nor does the resin flow far enough to be
caught in liquid form in "toxes" or cups,
as it does in this country. Therefore it
has to be scraped off after it hardens.
The whole product, which amounts to
only about two ounces year from each
tree, is comparable with the "scrape"
which forms only a small part of the
yield obtained in warmer climates.
Spirits of turpentine and rosin are
prepared from this crude resin by dis
tiIlation with steam in the usual manner.
The tree is utilized further than this,
however. The outside slabs with SCARED
surfaces, to which some resin still ad-
heres, are treated either in the old fash
toned pit kiln or IN closed iron retorts
for the production of tar, charcoal, and
wood turpentine. The rest of the tree
is used for fuel and for making the car
rels in which the products are shipped.
It Is possible that after our southern
turpentine pine becomes commercially
extinct, some of the resinous trees of the
colder parts of the United States may be
utilized like the red pine of Russia as
source of naval stores, although the
yield may be small and the process
tedious.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
A REMARKABLE SHOWING

a year ago the railways of the
country were staggering under a bur
den of freight traffic which seemed
too great for them to move. There
were many complaints of insufficient
cars, and operating officials were at
their wits end day and night to meet
the demands of shippers. Last au-
tumn was a banner season for the rail-
ways and knowing this it cannot but
surprise the public to read that the
gross earnings of thirty roads for the
third week of September show a de-
crease of only 3.44 per cent when
compared with the records of last
year.
To appreciate the wonderful recov-
cry made by the business of the coun-
try it must be borne in mind that the
depression of year ago did not affect
the railway until well in October, so
that the figures with which the pres
ent years business is compared
marked the high tide of traffic in 1907.
The present seasons gain is shown
even more conclusively by COMPARE
son with the records of 1906, and
when so compared reveal large in
crease. The gain in business this
year is not confined, moreover, to any
particular line or lines of business,
but embraces practically all, manu-
featured products, building materials
and iron and steel among them.
Nor is that all that may be said of
the quickening industrial life. AS
stated yesterday in The Evening
Post, the United States Steel Corpor-
alton has added no less than 100000
men to its working forces in recent
weeks-and put them on solely be-
cause the increasing orders at the
mills demanded them-a fact which
even the habitually incredulous must
admit when shown that the re-em-
ployed men are in Pennsylvania where
political influences are no more need
ed than artificial ice at the poles.
The ebb of prosperity was so sud-
den as to be stunning. The returning
flow, gradual at first, is now sweeping
swiftly in with a might which cannot
but overcome doubt and hesitancy
and float the ship of confidence which
has been stranded since last winter
Chicago Evening Post.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
MRS. POTTS DIES.
Young Mother Taken From Home
Death Was Expected By
Family And Friends.

After lengthy illness of consumption
Mrs. Potts died Wednesday evening at
$50 O'Clock at the home of her husband,
Mr.. William Potts, well-known man
of this city. Besides her husband, Mrs
Potts is survived by one little daugh-
ter, Katie Potts.
Mrs. Potts was twenty-five years of
age. She was a member of the
Methodist church and was a lovely
character. She had a beautiful dis
position, and bore her suffering patient
ly until the end came.
A brief funeral service was held from
the residence Thursday, the Rev. James
Lewis officiated. The remains we're
taken to West View Saturday for inter
ment.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
PRETTY WEDDING.
Kentucky Girl And IGdiana Man
United In Marriage Last We'd
neSday Afternoon.

The marriage of Mr.. Jesse Clyde
Davis and Miss Jennie B. Johnson took
place last Wednesday afternoon at the
home of the brides parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. P. Johnson. The ceremony
was solemnized in the presence of a
large number of relatives and friends.
The Rev. James Lewis officiated at 2
O'Clock.
About forty guests were present and
an elaborate supper was served to
them, after which the young people
enjoyed dance.
After a wedding trip the bride and
groom will be at home at Rockport,
Ind.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
The Government and The Ohio

When China, ancient and for centur-
les isolated, and only coming into the
family of nations within comparatively
few years, has discovered that in water
way transportation lies the chief hope
of her future development and when
she recognizes the inability-not the un-
wilingness-of her railways to cope
with the increased volume of freight
offerings and proceeds to widen and
the government of the United States
while officially recognizing the vast inn
portance of canalized Ohio River has
not yet completed the great work, is not
wholly creditable.
Neither is it wholly pleasant to note
that-as President James ]. Hill plainly
states-"Our neighbor on the North,
young ami comparatively weak in re-
sources, shames us. Canada has spent,
in proportion to her population, dollars
on her canal system where we have
spent dimes. Because she has work ed
to an intelligent plan, she has more to
show for dime that we for a dollar. "
Yet in the blunt address of President
Hill, the reason for Canada's surprising
the United States in results of canals
and canalized rivers is readily SEEM
Canada "has worked" So must the
people of the Ohio Valley work, and
each and every community and organi-
zation in the Ohio Valley must work,
to attain the accomplishment of Nine
Foot Stage from Pittsburgh to Cairo.
Much, very much and most effective,
work has been done in that direction
and it is largely due to the work OF the
Ohio Valley Improvement Association,
supported and aided by the commercial,
industrial and other organizations and
the communities III the valley, that the
one great obstacle in the way of success
has been removed. Today the question
OF waterway improvement is consi cred
from a commercial, an industrial and
an agricultural standpoint. In the be-
ginning of the work of the Association,
the "pork barrel' was largely IN evil
dence. So completely has the Assocla-
tion demonstrated the value of water
way improvement that the pork barrel
has been eliminated and merit rules
but to bring the merit rule to practical
results more work aud greater work is
needed, and the Ohio Valley should re-
spond to the call of the Association for
its fourteenth annual meeting at Louis
Vile, on October 1928, with a gener-
Gus and an active and a sympathetic
response.
1t will be a great and an important
convention. Louisville has made every
possible arrangement for the entertain
ment of the delegates and for facilita-
ting the business to be brought before
them. This community and each and
every trade and commercial organiza-
ton within 1t, should be represented in
the Convention. 1t is of the utmost i'm.
portance that we, in common with all
other communities, should make selec-
ton Of earnest and enthusiastic dele
gates, that the work of the Convention
may be forwarded throughout.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
Mr.. McGaVOck III.

Oscar McGavock was taken suddenly
i'll Sunday afternoon at his home near
town. His many friends sincerely trust
his illness is not serious.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
BRYAN and Kern Club.

A Bryan and Kern Climb was organ
lied at Hardinsburg last week win
Ill members. Judge Mercer is pres
ident and Judge Norman, secretary.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
Rev. Cufrie Back.

The Rev. B. M. Currie has again
been given the Cloverport charge by the
Methodist Annual Conference. This is
the fourth year in this city for Rev.
Currie and the people here are highly
elated over his return.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
Card Of Thanks.

We wish to thank our many friends
and neighbors for their kind attentions
and favors during the illness and death
of our little daughter, Virginia.
Frank Storm and wife.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07
Victoria Defeated.

Balltown defeated Victoria at the
former place by the score Of Is to IL.
Tucker and Graham, of this city,
formed the strong battery for Balltown.