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The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05

ment of waterways had been carried forward in haphazard fashion in the past, and that new method should be adopted.
 q believe in the deep waterway" said the president. T am for it, and I shall use all the power that I pos sess in doing what may be accom- plished to give you citizens of this great valley what you so earnestly de- sire. It is all a part of still great CT movement inaugurated by Theo- dore Roosevelt, and properly called by him the conservation of our na- tional resources.
 "The projects for irrigation and for the improvement of waterways in the future are not to be for the purpose of distributing pork to every part of the country. Every measure is to be adopted on the ground that 1t will be useful to the whole country. They are not to be adopted for sending certain congressman back to Wash ington or for making certain parts of the country profitable during the ex- penditure of the money.
 We should take up every compre- hensive project on its merits and de- termine whether the country where the project is to be carried out has so far developed as to justify the enor- nous expenditure of money and if it will be useful when done. When we decide in favor of project, 1 believe in issuing bonds to carry it to com pletion as rapidly as possible. It has
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
PhiIateIy of Aviation.

One of the very few genuine "vari- cities" in stamps is announced. It would be more correct to say it is a rare postmark. Rare it will be if in. terested parties did not take advan. tage of the occurrence and have ad- dressed to themselves thousands of envelopes bearing the mark. It seems that during the now historical avia- tion week at Rheims a temporary postoffice was set up on the aviation ground and all letters there posted bearing the ordinary French stamps were postmarked "Betheny-Aviation, 1" besides the various service marks. The marking stamp was hexagonal instead of round. These stamps will. no doubt, be curiosities. Time will tell whether they will be sought after like the unnecessary Brunei provision. als, which in the aggregate must have fetched just as high a sum as the years revenue of the swamp in which they were issued.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
WATCH LEGAL POINT
DECISION WILL HAVE BEARING
 IN ELECTIO~ CONTESTS.
Supreme Court Called Upon to Show Wherein the Writ of Man
 damas is Employed.
Little Rock, Ark.

Little Rock, Ark.
 In order that the supreme court should determine the question as to the jurisdiction of circuit courts to require a recount of the votes cast ill an election for state senators, the response of the Sebastian County Election Commissioners to the mo- tion of Thomas Boles to dismiss the appeal in the case of Boles against the Sebastian County Commissioners was presented to that tribunal.
 The ground on which Boles asked for a dismissal of the case was that the order of the Sebastian Circuit Court for writ of mandamus di- recting the election commissioners to recount the votes in certain wards and townships in Sebastian County cast in the Twenty-eighth district at the election held September 4, 1908, had been superseded before the order of the court has been complied with, the Senate having declared Holland entitled to the seat. On this account, Boles, the Republican contestant, contends that the question presents no real controversy, and that the appeal should be dismissed.
 The Sebastian County Election Commissioners, who are the appel lants ill the case, raise the follow ing questions to prevent the dismiss sal of the case, and have asked the supeme court to pass upon them:
 Have circuit courts jurisdiction to issue a writ of mandamus to con- trol or cause a recount of the cleo tion returns of state senatorial cleo tions?
 Have they jurisdiction to issue such writ after the certificate has been issued to the person whom the returns how to be elected?
 Have circuit courts the power to grant writs of mandamus to compel the performance of ministerial acts after they have been performed as required by law2
 Have circuit courts the legal pow CT to issue writs of mandamus to obtain proof to be used in a sena- torial contest2
 Gan the process of the writ of mandamus be used as a means to aid and assist, and as an auxiliary 10 pending proceedings contesting a state senatorial election?
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
TAFT FOR WATERWAY
TELLS CONVENTION AT NEW OR LEANS HE FAvORS THE
 PROJECT.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL
President Promises the Support of the Administration, But Will Not Stand for Any "Pork Barrep- Sherman, Cannon and Dickinson Pledge Aid.

New Orleans, Nov. 1.-Ringing de- mands for "A feet through the val ley" and elaborate argument in sup port of the program for the creation of a deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf have marked the great con- vention of the Deep Waterway asso- citation that opened here Saturday.
 President Taft, Vice-President Sher- man, Speaker Cannon, governors of the Mississippi valley states, innumer- able senators and representatives and a mighty throng of private citizens who believe in the big river project are here and all urge that it be un- dertaken and carried to speedy con- clusion.
 President Taft Promises Support.
 President Taft, who arrived in New Orleans escorted by a great fiotilla, after an Illuminating trip down the Mississippi river from St. Louis, land ed from the lighthouse tender Clean der about eight o'clock Saturday morning, and was driven to his ho- tel through streets that were cano- pied with magnolia barnches, palmet- toes and southern moss, and every where the notices Fourteen Feet Through the Valley" and "River Rate Regulation Is Rate Regulation" At the Athenaeum in the afternoon the president aroused a storm of cheers by promising that if the Affect project proved feasible and advisable, the present administration would favor the issuance of government bonds to defray the cost
 Not for "Pork Barrel"
 At the same time MT. Taft made 1t plain that he would not stand for any plan to make a pork barrel" of the project. He said he opposed any such general bond issue of s500,000,- 900 or s1,000,000,0o0 for waterways improvement, the money to be cut up and parceled out to different sec tions. He declared that the improve
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
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At a recent meeting of the Wombis Townsite Company it was reported that the sales had amounted to s14.. 193. The original cost of the town. site lands was $2,000.
 The rice mill at Lonoke is being operated to its fullest capacity. Two shifts are employed, and more than 100000 bushels of rice have been milled since the beginning of the sea son.
 J. F. Wise, farmer who resides near Hope, planted corn in July, on a piece of land from which he had just harvested a crop of potatoes. and now reports yield of forty bushels per acre.
 Prof. J. N. O'Neal, principal of the Scotland public school, has been ap- pointed county examiner of Van Blu. ren county, to succeed F. M. Flu banks, resigned.
 The order disGontinuing the post. office at Bills, Pike county, has been rescinded Thomas J. Rice has been commissioned postmaster at Yaueo> pin and Nathaniel B. Moore al Brink.
 H. D. Morton, of Russellville, won six prizes on apples at the state fair.
 The business men of Batesville want a free bridge constructed across White river at that place. They argue that bridge would cost only s40,OO0 and that it would be the means of attracting $100,000 of trado annually from the south side of the river.
 w. F. Campbell of Carlisle claims to be the champion potato grower in that section of the state. He recent ly dug forty bushels from measur- ed half acre of ground, and raised twenty-seyen bushels of first crop DO. tatoes on the same ground.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
Arkansas News
AUTHORITIES IN A CLASH.
Clever Ruse By Bondsmen keepe
 Witness at Home-in Jail.


 Hot Springs.-State and federal of ficials have advanced a point in legal complication here concerning the pos session of George Ryan, who is want ed by the government at Des Moines in connection with the famous Ma bray footrace operations, now being probed by the United States author ities.
 Ryan has resided in Hot Springs about two years. He is under in- dictment on a charge of intent to kill in connection with a fight in which he participated some time ago, and when Deputy Marshall Bickers arrived here to serve a warrant on Ryan and take his away his bonds men objected, on the ground that he might not be returned in time for the criminal trial docketet in the Garland county circuit court. The federal officers pressed their case and insisted upon taking Ryan, and the bondsmen made a flank move and surrendered Ryan to the sheriff and asked to be relived from the bond
 The federal offifficials declare they | will take radical steps to secure pos sesion of Ryan, who is now in jail awaiting trial-and the next move of | the government authorities.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
THE TRADES WEEK IDEA
England Prepares for Week of A.
 fractions to Farmers.

England.-The Trades Week idea, which is spreading rapidly in Ark ansas and throughout the Southwest. has reached England, Lonoke county, and the merchants and citizens of this place in general have joined in a move to entertain the thousands of visitors invited; and prizes of sub- stantial form have been provided to make the farmer doubly glad of his visit to this hustling, growing town.
 From November to 13, inclusive, England will hang the latch string on the outside, and program which is both entertaining and instructive has been prepared for the occasion. The Trades Week plan is employ ed regularly in many progressive vil- lages and towns, and as trade win ner, it is doubtful if better idea could be put into effect for the same outlay in expense and individual eff fort
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
Our Geographical Center

If Alaska be excluded from consid. eration. Kansas is geographically the central state of the United States It lies between longitudes 94 degrees 3S minutes and 102 degrees west. and be- tween latitude 37 degrees and 40 de greeS north
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
Neluhborly nsideration.

T heard your baby crying nearly all night What was the matter with it?'' T think she wanted me to get up and carry her around. but I was afraid if did you'd be disturbed by hearing me tramping the floor over your head"
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
REPLENISHlNG GENERAL FUND.
Commissioner Tucker Would Provide Money for Horticultural Schools.

Commissioner Tucker Would Provide Money for Agricultural Schools. With a view of assisting the new board of trustees of the four agri- cultural schools, which are to be es- tablished in Arkansas, Commissioner Guy B. Tucker has urged the pen itentiary board to transfer $10,000 to the general revenue fund from the penitentiary fund for the use of the agricultural school trustees to assist them in their preliminary work. The trustees of the four schools will meet in Little Rock November 13, for the purpose of making ar engagements for the establishment of the four schools There have been no funds available for the purpose, the appropriation for the schools be- ing withheld by the governor, togeth- CT with other appropriations, to pre- vent a deficit in the general revenue fund.-
 The recent legislature appropria- ted out of the general fund about $9S.000 to make good deficit in the penitentiary fund with the under standing that the amount should be paid back into the fund as soon IS the penitentiary should have earned the amount.
 MT. Tucker, in view of the high prices paid for the cotton which was raised on the state farm, and the money received for the labor per formed by the convicts under con tract, believes that the penitentiary is now able to reimburse the gen eral revenue fund to the extent of $10,000, and that amount would then be used to the advantage of the en- tire state in establishing the four agricultural schools.
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 SCHOOL PRINCIPALS TO MEET. Oklahoma Educators Will Join in
 the Discussions.
 A communication from Prof. J. w. Kuykendall of Fort Smith, president of the Association of Principals and School Superintendents for western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma, has been received by the department of education, calling attention to the convention to be held in Fort Smith November 26-27, this year. The pur- pose of the organization is to discuss problems that pertain particularly to the work of superintendents and school principals, and does not in any way conflict with the larger field If either of the two state associations of teachers. In addition to President Kuykendall, the executive committee contains number of prominent school men from the two states.
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 Masons Adjourn Until 1911.
 Arkansas Masons are interested in learning t hat the Supreme coun- cil for the Southern jurisdiction Council for the Southern jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite Masons adjourn ed in this city to meet in 1911 The most important action was to elect four members of the order to active membership on the council. The new members were inducted into of fee with the ritualistic ceremony. The council also provided $1,000 to be used in painting portraits.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
Sometimes a Hard Task.

"WAen man says, and I know what I'm talking about" says the Philosopher of Folly, the only way l can get even Is by asking him 1o prove It."
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
Lost In the shuffIa.

Scribbler-"So old Skinfiint's family didn't like the obituary wrote?" Ed itor-"Oh, the obituary was all right. but the fool foreman ran 1t under the head of People and Pleasant Events.''
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05

been proposed that we issue bonds for s5oO,OOO0OO or s1,Ooo, 100000, and cut it up and parcel the money out in this and that section of the country. l am opposed to any such proposition, because it not only smells of the pork barrel but would be pork barrel'"
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
Sherman, Too, Is for It.

Vice-President James s. Sherman has brought to the people of the mid dle west the message of the east, promising enthusiastic support of the waterway program. "We people of the east depend on your people of the west" said he. When we help you, we help ourselves, so there is every reason why we should do all in our power for you, as soon as we realize what you want and why you want it. :"
 Speaker Cannon and Secretary of War Dickinson are no less outspoken in their assurances of support, and many senators and representatives, among them Senator Lorimer of Illi- nois, the father of the deep waterway movement, this afternoon made ad- dresses full of hopeful enthusiasm.
 kavanaugh Opens Convention.
 William K Kayanaugh of Missouri, kl Ia {
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
PAYMENT OF STATE FARM DEPT
Attorney General NorWood Renders
 Opinion in Matter.

That the payment of the remainder of the indebtedness on the state farm, approximating S65,000, cannot be paid until the $98,000 borrowed from the general revenue fund is paid back out of the penitentiary earnings, is the opinion of Attorney General Norwood in an official com- munication to State Auditor lobe, who had asked as to which obliga- tion would take precedence.
 The opinion further holds that the state auditor, upon order of the peni- tentiary board, will have the right to transfer on the books of the au- fund to the general revenue fund, all or any part of the $9S,000, when a surplus accumulates in the former fund.- In other words, he holds that the appropriation to repay the $98,- 900 to the general revenue fund is as specific as the appropriation made originally to pay the penitentiary de- felt from the general revenue fund.
 The ruling of the attorney general relative to payment for the state farm is based on the ground that it was never the intention of the legis- lature that any payment should be made on the farm out of any mon eys not earned by the penitentiary; and, since the S9S,000 was paid from the general revenue fund, it was paid firm a source not derivable from the penitentiary, and, hence, to make a payment on the state farm before this appropriation of $9S,000 was re paid would be equivalent to using money derived from taxation to liqui date the state farm indebtedness This course is forbidden by law, says the attorney general.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-11-05
Kavanaueh Opens Convention.

William K Kayanaugh of Missouri, president of the association, called the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-29
PLEADS GUILTY
 TO ONE COUNT
Brigham, Former Bank Bookkeeper, Gets 5 Years
 In Federal Prison
HE MADE FALSE ENTRIES
Special from United Press.)

Especial from United Press.) New Haven, Sept. 29.-Pleading guil- ty to the End count of indictment which charged him with making fAse entries in the books of the bank, Fred eirek H. Brigham, the former book keeper of the Merchants National Bank, was to-day sentenced to 5 years in the Federal prison at Allan ta, Ga, by Judge Platt in the United States District Court. The first count, misappropriation of the banks funds amounting to $92,0O0, was noll- ed owing to the fact that Brigham had restored $87,00O of this amount, $40, 900, however, being represented in mining stocks of questionable value.
 Brigham was in court with his wife and took his sentence calmly. He will leave late this afternoon in charge of a Federal officer for Allan ta, where good behavior will shorten his sentence to three years and nine months.
 Brigham's arrest in the early part of June caused quite a sensation, as he had been a trusted employe of the bank for eighteen years. While an ex- animation of his books showed that his peculations only covered a short period, they amounted to $92, 900. His method was to sign checks, cash them outside and when they came back from the clearing house.. destroy them. Al misled check for $23 led to his dis cOVery,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-29
WIFE SUES FOR
  DIVORCE AND
 LARGE ALIMONY
Property of William w. Constock Attached By
 Sheriff Beck for $75,OOO
IS WEALTHY NORWALK MAN

Mrs. Lottie Comstock, a prominent woman of South Norwa1k, has brought suit against her husband, William w. Cornstock. a wealthy retired grocer of South Norwalk. for divorce, alleging intolerable cruelty. She asks for S75 900 alimony. The papers have been served and the property of the husband has been attached. or garnished, for $75 000 through DeFOrest 6 Klein of this city, City Sheriff James Beck served the garnishee processes yesterday upon 20 parties and attached real estate in East Norwalk and South Norwalk Beck was specially deputized by Sheriff Sidney B. Harwley to make the service
 The Conrstocks. husband and wife, are past middle age.. The knowledge that they were not happy in the matri- inonial relation had been whispered among their friends for some time The name of a certain beautiful wom- an had been mentioned and it had been said that when the wifes applica- tioa for divorce should come it would be for another reason than intolerable cruelty. The acts of cruelty are not described in detail in the complaint.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-29
POLICE GET MAN
 WHO WORKS GAME
 NEW TO THEM Edward A. Burcheil Had Cards Showing Debtors of
 Singer Company Arrested While Attempting Collection from Compa- ny's Customer.

Edward A. Burcheil, aged about 38, of good appearance and intelligent, who has been collecting money mis- representing himself as an agent for
 the Singer Sewing Machine Company, was arrested this morning on Summer street by Policeman F'innegan and locked up charged with obtaining money under false pretences. He had $25 on him when arrested and several index cards which he had obtained from the files of the company at. the office. He refused. to- give his name, but he had several personal cards in his pockets bearing the name given. John R. Sherwood, manager, of the local Singer office, said that Burcheil was wanted in several other cities for similar offences.
 It was Mr. Sherwood who concocted the scheme whereby Burcheil was caught. When MT. Sherwood learned that the index cards were missing he got the names of the missing ones and notified the persons concerned to no tify the office at once upon the arrival of a collector. This morning Mrs. John Larson of Waldorf avenue, telephoned that a collector had been to see her. MT. Sherwood, with Detec- started on the trail. It was thought that Burcheil had gone to Fairfield where lived woman whose card was missing from the file. MT. Sherwood vent to this place but the man had not been there.
 Meanwhile Burcheil had gone to the home of Mrs. Charles Staponaites of Il Summer street. Mrs. Staponaites was wise and asked him to wait while she got some change. She telephoned to the office and Joseph A. Minto, a salesman for the company, notified the police and drove to the house at once Burcheil was arrested and handcuffed. When Detective Fox and MT. Sherwood returned they found an- other hunter had bagged their game.
 How the index cards were taken from the file is a mystery, but it is thought they were taken by him dur ing the day time when he might have dropped in casually and while the at tention of the saleslady was distracted taken the cards
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-29
BATES KILLED
 IN AUTO RACE
 AT RlYERHEAD
GAccident Occurs at Opening of Suffolk Course, Safest
 in the Country
fDead Man Mechanician for Herbert Lytle, Who Was Also Seriously Injured.

Riverhead, L. T., Sept 29.-The open ing of the new Suffolk County Auto mobile course which had been widely advertised as the safest in the coun- try" was today marred by an acci- dent which cost the life of Joe Bates, the mechanician for Herbert Lytle, and in which Iiytle himself was so badly hurt that his recovery is doubt full. Their big Apperson car was smashed to pieces and the wreckage caught fire.
 Lytle was thrown 50 feet ahead of the machine, but Bates was caught under the car and his skull and both legs fractured. Help was quickly at hand and the two men were carried to a nearby farmhouse and doctors summoned The big@ Apperson car is total wreck.
 Bates died within an hour after the accident in the home of Benjamin C.. Kirkup to which he had been carried. Lytle is in a very serious condition at the same house though the doctors who are working over him say he has a chance for recovery.
 So soon as the news of the accident reached the grandstand Mrs. D. w. Loft, owner of the Mercedes car, the biggest in the race, stopped her ma- chine and announced that she was through with automobile racing, al- though she bought this car from w. K. Vanderbilt especially for contests.
 While the feature of the race was the so-called Long Island Derby for stock cars, a. lively program had been arranged which took into consideration all classes of cars ranging from those which cost $4001 and over, down to those which cost less than $1,250. In Class 4sjn which were machines cost ing between S1,250 and $2,00Os Louis Chevrolt, driving a Buick, hung up a rev road record of 70 3-10 miles, an hour for the distance winning the event easily. He covered the distance of about 113 3-4 miles in about 97 min utes 36 3-10 seconds.
 Robert Burma8 in a. Buick was sec ond, and H. J.@Droge in a Chalmers Detroit third.
 Class 5 for the cars costing from $851 to $1,25o, was won by Arthur Seet in his Maxwell, he covering the 91 miles in 1O1 minutes p seconds. Thomas Costello in a, Maxwell was second, and Jack Finch in a Buick third.