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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10
BIG CROP ON
 THE STATE FARM
The Prospects Are Fine for a Bale of Cotton to the Acre-ThiS Will En- able the Penitentiary Board to Get Out of Debt.

If continued under the present manage ment. leaving the handling of the convicts and the State farm to Superintedent James Pitcock of the penitentiary, the peniteniary board will again this year be ont of debt with handsome surplus from which to make a final payment upon the farm.
 Never before in the history of the in- stituton was there such fine crop on the farm as this year, and it is now al will be a huge success. Unless there is continued drouth from the present time until harvest, the cotton on the farm Will make an average of a bale to the acre. welding abont 2JOO bales, which will be GOO bales more than ever gathered iron. the farm before This will give the pehi- tentiarv board S:O.0ON at least, more than it ever received with full crop.
 Superntendent Pitcock now has oyer too convicts out working on cohlra''s' An even 10O of these are working on the new Capitol and they are of no expense to the State as the Capitol Commission pays the freight on them. This makes over 5OO out working for the state at from s1 to S1.1O a day, meaning a proi'' of obom so75 a day for the penitentiary on the convic1s.
 There is still left at the farm about -o" negro convicts to attend to the ""fh there Superintedent Pitcock does not onticipate any great SnrinkAge in Tn" nnnhor of conyicts in the penitentary through county judges calling Tor the ''i'- yicts from their counties to work on 'h' roads before next spring.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10
Should Raise Much Poultry.

Nemuhis is destined to become the mar llct place for the greatest roultrYfaiSih& section of the country. for within the past year hundreds of farmers in MisslSslppl Arkansas and Tennessee have embarked III this most profitable business. At the Poultry Show to be held at the Tri-State Fair Memphis. Tenn, Sept. 2Sth-oct "th, over S3.0OO is offered in cash prizes and 1ronhieS which is the largest premium list offered bv any Southern Fair. and 1t k Dc lieyed this show will he the best eyer given on a fair grounds.
 There are classes for all kinds of chick ems. turkeys. ducks. etc. Some are open to All others are for chicken owners in rennesSt>s Arkansas and Mississippi. while the rest are for oeginncrs-persons who have never exhibited at show It ls .aSy to raise chickens if you know how, and no business in more prohtahle me p|ace to learn how to raise chickens l. this biz show Send for a catalogue, ana mt vour chickens on exhibition.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10
DII,I,'S LAWYER
 WRITES LETTER
In Omen Communication to MT. and Mrs. j. R. Fertine. Statement Is Made by RhOtOn That Mrs. Fertine Was Not Responsible for Letter In Evidence.

Little Rock, Ark, Aug. 9.-In a letter made public today by Mrs. J. R. Fcrtine. at whose home Miss Ray Burkhaltcr lived at the time she assaulted in the Pythian hall, the statement is made by Lewis Rhoton, attorney for Earl Dill. that Mrs. Fcrtne was in no way rcSponsi- ble for the attorneys knowing of the eX- istence of a letter written to Mrs. Fertine hy Miss Rnrkhalter. The original letter written by Miss Burkhalter was not in evidence at the trial, but copy was in troduced which Miss Hurkhatcr stated was substantially the same as the original letter How Mr. Rhot"n got possession of the letter did n"t come oHt at tn" trial
 The letter hy the attorney is addressed to Mir. and Mrs J. k. Fertine and is as follows:
 suggestion that you were responsible i4 some degree at least for the defendant having possession of letter that was written to Mrs. Fertine by the proSecut- ing witness in the Dll- case l know and 
 you know that neither directly or indirect ly were you responsible for my having any knowledge of the existence of said deter and l know that no one was more surprised than yourself must have been when in the course of the trial the fact was developed that l knew of the ex- istence of said letter.
 q meant to state this fact in my afgn- ment in this case, but not speaking from notes unfortunately overlooked that matter as l did several others,
 You have my permission to use 'hi' letter any way that you deem proper even to the extent of publishing II II you desire.
 Yours respectfully,
 LEWIS RH0TON.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10

the streets as they should be swept and cleaned and as long as the public don't want it the city council ought to order it out of service.
 A numerously signed petition was presented to the council some weeks ago to abate the nuisance. The coun- cil did not grant the prayers oi the pc titioners. however. The aldermen just ordered a hood added and if anything the sweeper spreads more dust now than before.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10
MAY
 BE MURDERER

tHearst News Special to the Graphic
 Detroit. Aug. 9-The girlhood sweet heart of Mrs. Martha Galahn, whose body was found ill a clump of bushes near here yesterday. is being hunted by the police as her murderer. The wife of the suspect who accused him of improper relations with Mrs. Ga lahn, got him away before the police arrived.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10
KINGS ROYAL GERMETEUR

no equal for urinary troubles. If your kidneys are affected nse Germe-
 tuer. 7-6 If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10
Chjidren cry FOR FLE1ChER'S c A s r ORA BIG TRAIN FROM
 PINE BLUFF
Local Members of Brotherhood af Railway Trainmen to Enjoy Big Out ing on Saline River.

The picnic of the Brotherhood of Rail- road Trainmen. on the Saline River near Benton. promises to he well attended. if the expectations of the committe in charge are fulfilled. It is estimated that there will he an attendance of POGO people from Little Rock. 300 from Argenta and fully thousand from Pine Bluff Ar engagements have been made to run lS from Pine Bluff.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10

'Hello, Is that the Graphic office?@
 "The Graphic office
 Well, this is Mrs Blank. I live at Second avenue and Laurel street. That dirty old street sweeper just passed our houe again and we were forced to run in the house, close all the doc $ and windows and remain indoors, al most suffocating from the intense heat l wish you would appeal to the city council to do something with that be a man so bad in all my life. If had been a man l would have gone cut in the street and pulled that old street sweeper man from his seat and run him off for good. It is simply awful. We just cans stand it any more. l wish the city authorities would remedy the nuisance. We can not stay indoors these hot nights and when we sit outside on our porch the clouGs of dust make it so disagree able that We do not know where to go or what to do. Oh, wish was I man."
 This phone message reached the Graphic last night at 11:30 o'clock.
 And being assured that the Graphic was always willing to do its part to help suffering public the lady thanked the man at the Graphic office and left the phone-not in very good humor. And you cant blame the lady The street sweeper complaints con tinue to come in from all sides. Tn, hood" that the city engineer put or the sweeper is about as effective i, keeping down the dust as was pre- dicted for it before it was installei There is only one remedy and that i to sweep the streets after they hav been sprinkled. If the city cannot af ford to sprinkle the streets befor they are swept the old street sweepe ought to be run in the barn and kep there.
 Of all the nuisances il is the wors1 Clouds of unhealthy dust are throw in the air and enter the homes an business houses, spreading disease i their path. The board of health ough to look into this matter. It does seen as if somebody ought to abate the hui sance.
 For weeks this nuisance has bee] tolerated and it is now time that som definite action should be taken t, abate it. The street sweeper is ab eolutely worthless. It does not sweeI
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10

Elaborate plans have been made for tn" entertainment of the public during the day. large pavilion has just been con- pleted and number of boats have been placed in the river. In the ofternoon there will be d ball game between the trainmen and the fireman. which promises to be interesting. program of races also will be announced, the winners of which will receive prizes.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10

Entered at Postoffice at Pine bluli'
 Ark, as second class mail matter,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10
We Have Money 10 Loan

to the people of this vicinity for the upbuilding of their business,
 Do you realize how much it is lo your interest to identify yourself and your financial interests with a bank that can assist you in case you should need help?
 Why not cone in st your earliest convenience and open an account with us?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10

nssued Every Morning except Monday
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10

Pineules fer all kidney. liver, blad- der, rheumatic and urinary com plaints. They assist in separating salt and water with rAeir posons from the blood. They act promptly. Sold by Dr. McCammon & Son. 316 Main street.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10
LET SOMEBODY ACT.

"Hello,'
 "Hello, Is that the Graphic office?.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-10

Mrs. J. E. T. Hoffman, of Little Rock, is in the city visiting Mrs. T. Havis Nixon, on West Sixth avenue.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-11-22

the apathy of despair, and the songs
they had sung and the stories they
had told no longer served to keep
their minds off their slowly ap-
preaching doom rescue came and
willing hands dragged them from
their prison 800 feet under the
earth's surface and brought them up
to home and friends.
The first news that men We're still
living in the mine reached the sur
face at p. m. For days the interior
iof the mine had been fiery furnace
and all hope that men might be still
living inside had been abandoned
Volunteers had gone down to brins
iup the dead and could scarcely be
| lieve their own senses when they
found living men to bring up.
The news sprad like wild fire
Throughout the stricken village anc
before the first of the entombec
men had stepped out of the cage al
the surface a dense throng surround.
ed the mouth of the pit Men, women
and children deserted their home and
Iran. some of them half clad, to the
mines mouth.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-11-22
Ruroiars at Lancaster.

Lancaster, Texas, Nov, 22.-The
store of f. NJ Hammond & Co. was
broken into Saturday night and
robbed of about $3.50 worth of
goods. The robbery was committed
some time after midnight Entrance
was gained by breaking out win
dow in the rear of the store and en-
tering through the office Among
the goods stolen were about twenty
of the best oyercoats in the store,
two dress coats, two Stetson hats and
a pair of shoes. The only clew left
by the burglars was an old coat let'
in the store 1t is the custom of the
firm to leave the lights burning il
the store during the night. The rob
berry was discovered yesterday a. m
when j. A. Prichard, an employe III
the store, went to turn the lights off
A reward of $50 for the arrest ano
conviction OF the burglars has beer
offered by Mr.. Hammond
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-11-22
WEDDING PARTY DASHED DEAD
Chauffeur Attempts to Light Cigar
ettr and loses Control OF Ma
chine Near Cuthbert, Ga.

Cuthbert, Ga, Nov 22.-Three
persons are dead and two fatally in
iured as a result of an automobile
accident here late last night
The accident occurred two miles
west of this place as the party was
returning from Cuthbert to Cole
man.
With the purpose of being married
James Sheppard and Miss Helen Mat
tox, accompanied by Horace Shep-
pard. brother of the groom, and
Miss Mary MattoX, a sister of the
bride-to-be, secured an automobile
from Herst's garage at Fort Gaines
Yesterday afternoon and were quick
ly driven to Cuthbert by Curtis VIII
lams. On reaching this place, all the
ministers here refused TO marry the
1 couple on account of their youth
/ their twentieth year After being
unable to secure services of min
lister. the party hastily left the town
Speeding along at a speed of thirty
miles and hour and while attempt
ing to light cigarette, Chauffeur
Williams lost control of his ma
chine. crossing a thirty-foot bridg'
over the Central railroad and th'
party was dashed TO the railroad
tracks below, the machine fallin:
upon Sheppard and Williams. VII
liams' neck was broken and dealt
resulted instantly The two Shep
pards We're frightfully injured ant
death resulted in few minutes.
Miss Helen MattoX was severel,
bruised and her face and arms wer
badly lacerated She also received IN
ternal injuries Miss Mattox was ter
| ribly injured The women were re
moved to neighboring farm house
The bodies of the three men weE
brought here on a handcar. William
was 23 years sold and married
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-11-22
FROM OUT LIVING TOMB
AFTER SEA EN LONG WEARY
DAYS SOME BRAVE SPiR-
IT'S SURVIVE.
Mouincd As Dead for IL Week, Min
erS Are Restored to Their
Families al
the Surface Rejoice.

Cherry, H. Nov, 22.-The St.
Paul coal mine has given up its iiv-
ing
At midnight Saturday night there
had come alive out OF the mouth of
the pit twenty-one men who for a
week had been given up for dead. AT
that hour upwards of seventy men
were known to be alive, but had not
yet been brought to the surface,
while it was reported that fifty
others might have achieved the
seemingly impossible and escaped
death.
The return of the men to life one
week after their burial alive, came
so suddenly that the whole commun-
ity was stunned.
The men told tales of hardship
and privation and suffering. They
told of fighting first against death
in the shape of fire and later against
the SLOW death OF suffocation.
For seven days they sUbsisted on
what little food was in their dinner
buckets and the bark of mine tim
bers, and drank the oil from their
lamps and the seepage in the gut
ters of the mine,
For seven days they watched and
waited and prayed for rescue and
turned their ears to sounds from the
ioutside world that would tell them
that rescuers were at hand
Then when all were sinking into
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-11-22
TRINITY STUDENTS HSCiHBf
Money Given Towards +ndowmei't
of Trinity University.

Money Given towards Endowmeitt
of Trinity University.
Rev Lockett Adair of Dallas made
a strong address at the auditorium
of the university at the regular
chapel hour on the morning of Nov
10. At the close of the address he
gave the students an opportunity to
subscribe to the endowment of Trim
ity University. The students respond
ed with enthusiasm in amounts
ranging from $40 to $3.50 each.
In very few minutes the sum of
$1,000 was subscribed. The amount
was afterward increased TO $l,750.
These subscriptions, together with a
Subscription of $1,000 previously
made by student. makes total of
I$2.750 given by the student body.
The faculty subscription, including
the sum previously subscribed,
amounts TO 81 1850.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-11-22
Standard Oil Company New Jersey Is Illegal Combination
Restraint Of Trade and Is Ordered Dissolved
SUPREME COURT IS LAST HOPE Of GIANT MONOPOLY
Every Contention the Government Is Maintained Spectacular Fight
Which Has Been Wagng Tor Three Years Drive the Trust and It's
Barons From Its Giant Monopoly-Vtory Tor Government

St. Paul, Mimi, Nov. 22,--In an
opinion written by Judge Walter II.
Sanborn of st. Paul and cOncurred
| in by Judges Nandeventer, Hook
and Adams, with a special concur
ring opinion by Judge Hook, the
United States circuit court, Eastern
district of Missouri Saturday hand
ed down an opinion, declaring the
Standard Oil company of New Jersey
an Illegal combination, operating in
restraint of trade and ordering its
dissolution. The opinion of the court
was filed simultaneously in St,
Louis and in St. Paul.
In this decision the government Of
the United States wins a sweeping
victory and according to Frank b.
Kellogg of this city, who was the
government special prosecuting of
ficer. the government has won every
point for which it contended
The decree of the court dissolving
the Standard Oil company becomes
effective in thirty days when, no
doubt, stay will be granted for
the purpose of an appeal When the
ldecree takes effect, unless a stay Is
granted, an injunction will be is
sued restraining the Standard Oil
company from further continuance
of its business under its present for
nation.
1t appears from the concurrins
| opinion written by Judge Hook that
the company cannot do business un-
der any other form with the object
of sitting competition, for, says
Judge Hook on this subject, it is
thought that with the end of the
combination the monopoly will natur
lauy disappear. But should it not do
so and the members Of the combina-
| ton retire from it excepting one
who might penetrate the monopoly
! by the aggregation of the physical
properties and insWumentalities, 1t
would constitute a violation of the
| decree of the court.
In the trial of the case the point
was made that the Standard on
lcompany was a benficient corpora
ition. in that by reason of economy in
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-11-22
FARMER IS BEATEN AND ROBBED
II. II. Lindsey Is Brutally Mistreated
by Negro Near Corsicana
Saturday Night.

Corsicana, Texas, Nov, 22.--H. z.
Lindsey, a white man. was beaten
TO Inconsistencies Saturday night
about a mile north of town and rob
bed of $35 by an unknown negro,
Lindsey. who lives about two
miles north of town, was driving
home and a negro asked him TO let
him ride in the back of his wagon.
Lindsey consented, and on arriving
at skirt of timber at the negro's
request stopped the team TO let him
off and Lindsey remembers nothing
more. He was found by the roadside
Ian hour or so later by his wife, who
went out to look for him, He was
badly beaten about the head. Two
Inhysicians were with him yesterday
morning and he is in a critical con-
dition. Officers have been securing
the country in search of the negro
! but he has not yet been found.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-11-22
NEGRO M|STREATS WOMAN
DALLAS PURSE SNATCHER AT
TACkS MRS. NJ. T.. BREWER
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
Many Persons Who Were
Standing on Adjoining
Corners.

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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-11-22

operation it reduced the price of its
product. This Judge Hook says can
have no weight
The suit terminated by Saturday
decision was begun by direction ol
the attorney general OF the United
states in St Louis Nov. Is, 1905
Frank b. kellogg OF St Paul being
special prosecutor, assisted by Chas
B. Morrison of Chicago, Frank II,
HoyIe and J. H. Graves of the de-
partment of justice, II. II. Higgins
of Minneapolis and f. A. Severance
of St Paul.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-24
COMMODITY RATES.

NOMMOlllIA RATES.
Commissioner Prouty then PROFOUND
ed a few questions TO Mr. Babcock
with the purpose OF determining, in
case the commission decide to make a
reduction In rates. what would be sat
lsfactory 20 the shippers OF Salt Lake.
He asked
You have referred in this case TO the
class rates and a great number OF
commodity rates Your testimony in
class rates has been explicit You have
referred 10 no particular commodity
rate Do you think the commission
would be Justified in establishing a
commodity rate without any reference
to individual commodities referred TO in
your complaint? In other words. is any
particular CON modify In your com
plant. that understanding OF the en-
tire situation would justify us in re-
ducing the commodity rate. IL we
came 20 the conclusion that some re-
duction should he made?
Mr.. Babcock-The proposition was
that the rates would be In no case
higher than the trauscontinental rate.
and that certain rates as specified
there should be based on the mileage
proposition. but with the transcontin.
entail rate a. maximum In an cases
Commissioner prouty-Take tho nrst
item. Should a reduction In that rate
be the same "a the reduction in these
other commodity rates?
Mr.. Babcock The commodity rate. /
think. Is sl26.
Commissioner Prouty The transcon-
tinental rate from Mississippi river is
1920. your rate 10 N.25. the rate YOU
ask FOR rs 20 cents From Missouri
river the transcontinental IL 81 20. your
present rate is tlo3, the rate YOU ask
for II 81 cents. 10 sou think the COM
mission. from tho tcstimonN la the
ease. can tell Win these several COM
modities. without any evidence. A. 10
each commodity Is there any differ
encc between the commodities or are
they Az governed by the same cousid-
eration'
MI Bsbcock ny the same general
plan. That H.. the rate being hxcd
from Missouri river 90 Utah of SO per
cent Of the rate from Missouri river 60
San Francisco, then the rate 10 chit
cago li6 per cent u the Missouri river
rate
Commissioner Prouiy- Suppose the
commission should proceed ON that
theory but nevertheless we're conyinc-
ed YOU were entitled 20 a reduction
would the general principle be safe
for us 10 act upon In reducing the com
modify rate
M. Baboock our idea was that
these were merely suggestions on our
part and that the commission would
give consideration 10 each individual
case a. they appear
Commissioner Prouty-HoW are We
going 10 give consideration 20 par
ticulaT commodity unless We have some
testimony about ~ What ! think the
commission win DO al Spokane. where
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DEsERET EVENING NEWS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER p 1909

we are confronted with somewhat
similar situation. Il To take several
Items and call particular attention 10
those items. may be not Introduce any
testimony about each one, but ask
whether there r. anything peculiar n
reference to that Item
MIR Babcock--l think the general
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-24
THE BIG FIRE AT SUGAR

Has not put Hampton Coal Co. out 81
business VIII deliver orders promptly
o. usual Phones f2ic
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-24

Hami;n Paints Signs OF the Better
Kind Both phones.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-24

plan should be applied 60 them oil 7
do not know that there Is anything
peculiar about any of them
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-24
A.Y.P EXPOSITION RATES,

$4,000 from Salt Lake TO Seattle and
return. on sale daily commencing Juno
lst Ask agents for further particu-
lars
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DANCING socIus

A. the Odeon. Tuesday. Thursday and
Saturday evenings