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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08
NEGROES HOUSE
 BLOWN UP

Camden, Aug. 7.-The home of Amelia Arnold, colored widow, in South Camden, was blown up by dy- namite at about 6 o'clock this morn ing.
 There were II people in the house at the time, and three children were killed outright and four others are dangerously if not mortally wounded.
 Great mystery surrounds the tras edy.
 The dynamite had been placed un- der one end of the house and was eX- ploded in some manner and by some person as yet unknown.
 The explosion was heard all over town. and has caused great eXcite- ment.
 The house was completely wrecked, and the three children sleeping in the room immediately over the point where the explosion occurred were blown to pieces.
 Those who were uninjured were sleeping in the other end of the house.
 Amelia Arnola, owner of the house, was not there at the time, being away cooking for a fishing rarty.
 Suspicion points to a negro with whom two of the girls staying at the house had trouble recently, but no ar rests have been made, and it is not known whether this negro is in the city Or not.
 An inquest was held today by Cor oner T. F. Scott, and an effort will be made to run down all possible clues.
 The owner of the house recently moved here from near McNiel, and so far as generally known the reputa- ton of her house has not been ques- toned.
 The tragedy has aroused great in dignation among the negroes, and should the perpetrator of the deed be discovered, it would likely go hard with him unless the officers could succeed in protecting him.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08
BRYAN'S CALL FOR FUNDS.

The Democracy has long since dis covered that a liberal campaign fund the coming presidential election, but this knowledge seems to have made little change in the amount of contri- fund originated by MT. Isaac Reese of Memphis met with some success at first, but the response was not course, not too late for revival of enthusiasm. but every day without it's healthy total of donations to the peo- ple's cause must be reckoned as an opportunity gone forever,
 This journal has taken the position that the dollar donation has a Salue beyond mere dollars and cents. Such a donation, while worth exactly one hundred cents as an investment in Democratic principles, has an added the attitude of a stockholaer ip the movement for good government and will naturally increase his interest and very possibly his activity-for the cause.
 Everybody knows that the Repub!i- can party has never lacked for funds with which to carry on it's cam paigns and it requires no great depth of penetration to understand the method in this particular brand of madness It is intended to capture the balance of power which is held by She floating vote-the vote which Acknowledges allegiance to no party Ind which can be swayed only by the use of money-much money-in a lib- sral educational campaign.
 The Democracy has failed hereto fore. not because it lacked good men ard sound principles, but because it was unable to place these men and these principles before enough voters. It lacked the price of an adequate educational campaign. We recall the words of the late Senator James K. Jones, who thought to the day of his death that the defeat of Bryan in 1896 was due to party poverty His graphic picture of his own poorly equipped 6eadQuarters in Chicago and that of t6e Republican chairman just across
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08
HEADQUARTERS
 ARE NOW OPEN
Chairman Mack Formally Opened the Democratic National Campaign at Chicago ay-CulbersOn'S Selection Approved ny Party.

Chicago, Aug. 7-Headquarters of
 the Denocratic National Committee in
 Chicsgo were formally opened here
 today on the arrival from the East of
 Norman E. Mack, national chairman,
 who announced that from now until election day the campaign would be
 waged actively throughout the coun-
 try.
 Upon reaching the new offices in
 the Auditorium Annex Chairman Mack issued call to the heads of the various subcommittees of the nat ional committee to meet him here Monday to confer on general plans for the campaign, which have been outlined.
 Chairman Mack will leave Chicago
 next Tuesday to attend the Bryan mo-
 tification at Lincoln.
 During the day MT. Mack held con. ferences with Roger Sullivan, nation-
 al committeeman from Illinois, and
 other committeeman and Democrats influential in the party council MT Mack said:
 While the campaign is young, it has made a degree of progress that is extremely gratifying to the Demo- cratic management. States in all parts of the country heretofore re- sarded as Republican strongholds are now debatable ground, and may be swung into the Democratic column. q found conditions in the East pre- sage Democratic victories.
 The selection of Senator Culberson of Texas chairman of the advisory
 committee to succeed former Gover- nor Francis of Missouri meets with the entire approval of the former Missouri governor, who himself will do all in hiG power to aid in the cam paign. Mr. Francis is still a member |of the committee, but was unable to serve as chairman because he expect ed to be abroad much of the time dur ing the campaign"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08

 show the advantage of opulence and the disadvantage of poverty in presi- dental campaigns. Prom our own bare qnarters.' said the Senator, where few loyal clerks worked without hope of reward unless the Democracy was successful we could see the imposing exterior and much of the princely trappings of the Re- publican headquarters, with It's scores of highly paid clerks and at taches It was easy to see that mon- ey was talking in most convincing manner"
 The balance of power is sWayed by the sight of wealth, for, having none of it's own, it naturally prefers to be forrI in company with those who lave. The Republican party realized tals important fact long ago a.lG the result you hay seen in repeated Democratic defeat.
 The possession and use of c2a:- paign fund does not necessarily CO., sti!ute proof of rascality, nor of or. rnption, although it has undoubtedly been thus prostituted. As matter of fact, the man be he ever so capabl" who attempts to win presidential! election by the actual purchase ee votes will find that his task is Hercu- lean, and it is our candid opinier that the common idea that the Rerup- lear party has won victory by tiie purchase of votes at dollar each-oi two dollars each-is the merest tom rayrot. 4 FS
 There are, shameful as it is, mo4l who would sell their votes, their pr'n- ciples or even their immortal souls, for a dollar; but, thank God, they are few, and the party manager who wants such support must be in des- perate straits indeed.
 The object of campaign fund is not to corrupt and debase the minds Of men, but for the purpose of edu- eating the masses, by means of liter ature and oratory, on questions of vi- tai interest to the nation, and to put them ill position to vote intelligent ly upon these questions. This is what the Democracy needs. It has the men and the principles, but it must also have the money to place these men and the principles they represent be- fore every voter in the Union. The number of Democrats already in line is sufficient-if each will contribute a single dollar-to provide ample funds for the purpose, and we trust that the enthusiasm which manifested itself at the beginning of this movement will be revived and that there will be no lack of donations.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08
GREATEST NAVAL
 BASE IN WORLD
Will Be Built at Pearl HarbOr-SchrO. eder Board Completes It's Report Work to Begin soon and Be Pushed Rapidly.

Honolulu. T. H., Aug. IA few hours before the Atlantic fleet sailed from here for New Zealand on it's around-the- world cruise, the naval board presided over by Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder completed it's re- port on Pearl Harbor which has been forwarded to the Navy Department at Washington for approval. As soon as this is secured work on the construc- tion of what naval officers declare will be the greatest naval station in the world will be at once begun.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08
GOING AWAY FOR THE SUMMERY

If you are going away for the sum- par and want to keep in touch with vents in Pine Bluff the Daily Graphic Fill be mailed to you regularly upon .eouest. Regular subscribers can have heir addresses changed at any @ue. If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08

A prime occasion for an adequate ,istribution of the Standard Oil Con- rany to the Republican campaign fund is now presented. If given in the names of Rockefeller, Rogers, Archbold and other Standard mag mates the law against corporations can be happily evaded.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08

The Roosevelt deficit for las, month has passed the $2O,O0O,OOO mark This is. nearly double the deficit for the same period last year and year before and this is also the last year of Mir. Roosevelt's administration
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08
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At Fresno. Cal. a butcher has been arrested on the charge of gathering ir many stray dogs and working them Ep into bologna Somebody must have found piece of the muzzle in his sausage.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08

The rumor is not confirmed by pr- vate Secretary Loeb that President Roosevelt was delighted" on learning Of the remission of the $29 24O,090 fire of Judge Landis.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08

Various newspapers are comment ing on the fact that MT Kern looks like a farmer" There is a powerful lot of farmers in this country.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08

What could be more appropriate than that Candidate Taft should first read his speech of acceptance 10 the man who presented him with the nomination?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08

At the Olympic games John Bull treated Uncle Sam like cousin he'd like several times removed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08

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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08

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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-08
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Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-09-11
For Mic ols g Britt's Big
Sale on Sept. 3Oth, Os
AT Beach

They win have a big bunch.
Of broke and lnbroke horses
they are all young western
draft horses Just the thing
for farm work all halter
broke. Will be guaranteed
IS represented or money re-:
funded s.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-09-11

The man who does the plel,ine when thsS
load Is % the
Isthe man that keeps III from going
back 81 standin sss;
But the man that SITS a. wonder Il things
will 90 dead
Adds aburden 70 the load of those who push
ahead. sS;.
is syou can say sotnething worthy ii this
city bulk ding race.
Batter move along and i've anothe MAJ
your place.
Its brains and push Tint counts and there's
work enough III al;
Don't try . skin your neighbor and travel
on your gall
/ Be a builder and q pusher help 70 make
your. city gre
When your townsne call a meeting don ts
forgetit, always 81.
who sulks and he who knocks are Ola
class that just the same;
SBea bnilderand a plsher tote your load
fs;s sBsss or quit the game. sSs
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05
DROPS PROSECUTION
OF KINGS SLAYERS
PLOT IN PORTUGAL EXTENDS
TOO FAR
pIlcated and Government De.
cIdes to End Inves-
tigation

By Associated Press.
LISBON, May 4.-The government
has completed it's investigation into
the plot that led to the assassination
last February of King Charles and the
crown prince of Portugal. but 1t would
appear that the conspiracy had so
many ramifcations and that so many
persons of position are either suspected
or implicated that it has been decided
not to bring any prosecutions.
Nevertheless, in order to keep up ap-
pearances King Manuel, when he takes
his oath of office. will grant a general
political amnesty.
This, however, will only cover Of
fenses up to January 80. The assassin.
alton occurred February 1.
Although King Manuel has expressed
his Willingness to repay to the treasury
the money advanced to the late Kine
Charles, the cabinet, on account Of
| the present condition OF the finance.
of the royal house. has decided to ash
parliament to cancel these debts.
DIR. Jose de Alperm, chief of the pro
| gressive dissidents. who has been 9
thorn in the side of the monarchy, is
believed to have made a deal with the
government by which one of his follow.
ers will enter the cabinet at the earliest
opportunity.
The civil governor of Lisbon has
issued orders that all arms in the DOS.
! session of private persons be surren.
dered Immediately. After May per.
sons having arms in their possession
without the proper permission will be
severely punished
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05
HARTMAN RAILROAD
NEEDS $1OO,OOO,OOO
MAGNATE TO BOND UNION
PACIFIC
Half of Amount VIII Be Reserved for
Issue Until Required for Con-
structIon and Acqui-
sition
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 4.-E. H. Harri-
man announced today that the stock
holders of the Union Pacific Railroad
company will be asked at their meet
ing at Salt Lake tomorrow to authorize
an issue of $1O0,000.00O of bonds. He
said $4,000 900 of this amount will be
reserved for issue under strictly guar
anteed provisions for construction and
acquisition of new lines and additions.
Mr.. Harriman's statement follows:
1.-THE financial requirements of the
Union Pacific have been much exag-
gerated. The maximum amount need
ed at this time to put the company In
funds does not exceed $25,000,OOO, but
we want to resume development and
put our people to work. In no event,
however, will over $50000,000 of the
bonds be issued against the properties
now owned.
Instead of mortgaging new lines as
constructed or acquired and thus hav-
hing separate mortgages on difrerent
divisions, it is deemed best to provide
| In one mortgage for future extensions
and new lines.
"The mortgage is a preliminary step
to put the company in a position to
| take advantage of the favorable op-
portunities 70 raise additional capital
to the best advantage"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05
COURT QUESTIONS
ROOSEVELT'S ACT
FEDERAL JUDGE HEARS ARGU-
MENT FOR SOLDIERS
Private Sues for $122 Which He Says
He Would Have Earned Had
He Served Term of
Enlistment

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 4.-For more than
three hours tonight Judge Hough III
the federal district court listened 10
arguments which involved the question
of the right of President Roosevelt to
summariiy dismiss the three companies
of negro soldiers of the Twenty-nftn TN
infantry for alleged participation IN
the Brownsville riot.
The argument was on a demurrer
interposed to a portion of the answer
of the government in the action COM
menced by Private Oscar w. Reid 10
recover $i22, which sum represented
his wages as a soldier from the date OF
his dismissal without honor, and the
date of the expiration of his enlist
ment.
The suit was commenced in the fed
eral court in this district.
To the complaint filed in behalf or
Private Reid, United States DISTRICT
Attorney Stimson entered general de-
NAL, and for additional defense alleged
the right of the president to dismiss
the soldiers of these companies, and
also referred to the reports or the var
ious army inspectors recommending
such action, making the reports a por-
tion of the record of the case.
n was to this portion in the govern
ment's answer that Charles e. Mellen,
counsel for Reid, demurred.
Counsel Mellen contended that the
enlisted men are protected by consti-
tutional rights, which the president
had not the power to ignore. even as
commander er-in-chief of the army ana
navy, the enlistment operating really
from a. legal viewpoint, as a civil con-
tract between the soldier and the gov
ernment.
Judge Hough reserved his decision,
but told Mellen plainly from the bench
that it would require considerable le-
gal proof to convince him that the re-
lations of the enlisted soldier ana the
government amounted simply to civil
| contract
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05
RUEF'S FEE FOR
BRIBERY $4,000
Co-DEFENDANTS GO FREE FOR
TESTIFYING
Brobeck and Umbsen, Jointly Charged
with Former Boss, Get COM
plete lmmu-
nifty
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 4. = The
prosecution this afternoon in the tria
of Abraham Ruef, charged with offer
ing bribe to Supervisor Jennings j
Phillips in connection with a trolley
franchise for the ParkSide Realty COM
pany. one of III Indictments against
him. dismissed the indictments against
W. l.. Brobeck and G. H. Umbsen
who with j. e. Green were Jointly in
dicted with Ruef fourteen times in the
Parkside matter.
This followed the action of last Fri
day of Assistant District Attorney
Francis j. Heney in dismissing the
Graham after he had refused to tes-
tify on the ground that he was a CO.
defendant
Brobeck has already given his testi-
mony and Umbsen will follow Green
on the stand, testifying for the state.
now that the indictments against him
have been dismissed.
Green, who is the president of the
Realty company, again took the stand
this afternoon and told of employing
Ruef as an attorney for a fee of $50,
900 to get a franchise from the board of
supervisors after other means to get
the special committee to which it had
been referred to take some action upon
the application had failed.
Shows Immense Profit
Henry Ach, chief counsel for Ruef,
| brought out upon the cross-examina-
ton of Green that the Parkside COM
pany had been organized to speculate
in real estate and exploit tract of
| land south of Golden Gate park of 106
blocks of fifty lots each, purchased for
$500 900, which was to be graded.
streets, sewers and water put, in, and
all sold aggregating $5,Ooe.OOO.
1t developed that the company had
practically guaranteed to purchasers
that street railway would be built
to the lots; that the Parkside company
had. made application to the United
railways for an extension of it's lines,
offering a subsidy of more. than $780,
600. which was refused, and that sub
seouently the realty company offered
slO0 900 to anyone who would build a
line to the tract.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05
TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYERS BATTLE WITH HEAVY WIND AND SEA
LORD CURZ0N WILL
VISIT AMERICAN FRIENDS
DURING PRESENT YEAR
Is Fond of the Letters, Family of His
Late Wife, and VIII Come
Over to See
Them

LONDON. May 4.-Susceptible girls
in the United States had better watch
out. for in the near future they are
to have a visit from Lord Curzon. The
distinguished former viceroy of India
appears to be wrapped up in the fam
lily of his late wife, and never seems
content unless he has the companion
ship of Lady Suffolk or Mrs. Colin
Campbell his two American sisters-in-
law He is also devoted to Mrs. Letter,
and 1t is to pay her visit that he is
shortly to cross the pond with his
three little daughters and his two sis
ters-in-law. Mrs. Letter Is said to re-
ciprocate the fondness of her son-in-
law and is determined that he shall re-
main a widower.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05
CHURCH MEMBERS SAY
TREASURER SKIPPED
WITH LARGE AMOUNT
j. C. conklin Sought by Police on
Charge of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Been Missing Since
Thursday
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SANTA MONICA, May AIT a
meeting of the trustees of the Baptist
church this morning a committee was
appointed to confer with the district
attorney relative to securing war
rant for the arrest of ]. c. Conklin on
charge of embezzlement.
Conklin. who is treasurer of the
church, has been missing since Thurs
day and is said to be short about $1100
In the funds Of the church. When the
shortage was called to his attention he
asked until Saturday last to make 1t
good. He left the beach Thursday and
has failed to return
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05

NEW YORK, May 4.-Elinor Glyn
got back from England on the Maui
retania last week. She is going to
California to meet some dear friends.
In the dramatization of her famous
novel, she said, she would make very
obvious the moral In it.
"I am very much misunderstood on
a single point in Three Weeks said
the author, "but in the play form 1t
will be very obvious"
For the play she has received
number of offers, the most fiattering
from James K. Hackett, but she is in
no hurry to sell and intimated she was
coming back here by and by.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05
Quiet In Guatemala

GUATEMALA, May 4.-Everything
is ouiet here today and it is declared
in official circles that there is no cause
for apprehension. The punishment of
attack on President Cabrera has not
been followed by any disorders. Will
liam Heimke, the American minister,
was received by the president officially
vesterday
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05
LOCAL

Charge of insanity against Mrs. Beu-
lah Hawkins may be dismissed.
Wife's actions betray husband to de-
tectives.
English and Memsic fight tonight.
Confined murderer applies to govern
or for pardon.
Prisoner thanks judge for prison SEN
tence
II. r.. Huntington returns to Los An
geles and takes charge of great street
car system.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05
millionaire May Lose slaht

CHICAGO, May A dispatch from
Muskegon, Mich, says: Specialists
announced last night that Charles
Moore Hackley, Muskegon's young mill
lionaire with fondness for common
labor, win lose the sight of both eyes
as the result of dynamite explosion
last week.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05

"I am not going into any specula-
tion with the play she said.
Her husband and three children,
whcm she has not seen since last
September, are in Japan. They were
coming here across the Pacific, but as
they could not secure outside state
rooms they are going to return across
Siberia.
Mrs. Glyn is in much trouble to de-
eide on an actress for the role of the
Russian in her play. She said she
would not have Madame NazimOva
anyway, for she was too stacy. She
believes that only a French woman
can catch the inspiration of the role
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05
PLOT TO SLAY FOREIGNERS
is WIDESPREAD IN INDIA
Rv Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
CALCUTTA, May 4.-The police are
investigating the native plot revealed
here yesterday to murder Europeans
by means of bombs and the more thor
oughly they go into the matter the
more widespread does it become.
The authorities believe they are fac
ing an attempt at revolution. num-
Der of prominent Bengalese are impli-
Gated and sensational arrests are ex-
pected to follow.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05
clark Gives Himself Up

SAN FRANCISCO, May 4.-F'red B..
English. formerly chief clerk of the
local United States land office. discov-
erred today that two federal indict-
ments were standing against him and
gave himself up to United States
Marshal Elliott.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-05
BOARD OF PARDONS MAY
FREE HARRY ORCHARD
Slayer of Former Governor of Idaho
Is Likely to Escape the Gall
lows at Request of
Judge

BY Associated Press.
BOISE. Idaho, May 4.-The case of
Harry Orchard will be taken up by
the Idaho board of perdons at special
meeting tomorrow. Orchards attorney
will ask that sentence be committed
as recommended by Judge Wood. 1t
is believed that no one will appear
before the board to protest against
Communication of the sentence.