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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-06-02
SHADES, SHADES, SHADES, ALL KINDS, ALL PRICES. Tomlinson & Knox.

ALL ! nxVG0. AOAAAAAAAoOA & Knox.
 The revival services which are be- ing conducted at the Christian church by Rev. Bradley are attracting much attention and large congregations are in attendance every evening. |
 We have rubber hose as cheap as Sc per foot, but if you want some thing good try our ply Dauntless Hose at 17c per foot, or our ply Au- rora at 14c per foot@Cleveland-Ma Mat i thews Hdw. Co.
 The third annual meeting of the National Cotton Congress will be held at Monte Ne, Ark, June Fl to 26. A. M Barrow, of this city, is one of the directors and accompanied by P. P. Byrd and Judge James Gould, will attend the meeting.
 Best selection of high grade Smokes at Belser's Smoke House. We promise you prompt and courteous attention. 5-3Ot6
 SEE CHARLES J. MADDING, DISTRICT MANAGER OF THE MA. TIONAL LIFE OF THE U. s. A. (CHICAGO). HE CAN WRITE YOU ANY KIND OF A POLICY YOU WANT. 3-14 If
 Let the Pine Bluff Moving and Storage Co.,, move and store your household goods. Up-to-date padded moving vans. Under exclusive man. agement of white men. We make specially of packing household goods for shipment Office Union Station. Both phones 61. 4-2S If
 SEE CHARLES J. MADDING, DISTRICT MANAGER OF THE MA. TIONAL LIFE OF THE U. s. A. (CHICAGO). HE CAN WRITE YOU ANY KIND OF A POLICY YOU WANT. 3-14tf
 We have q large and we'll assorted line of Buffets and Sideboards, and need the room for new goods. So this week will make 25 per cent dis. count. Do not miss seeing them be. fore you buy. Union Furniture Co.,. Sl7.3l9 Main street. 6-1-tf
 Lots of leaks this rainy weather, but if you had Malthoid Roof your trouble would be over. 1 ply $1.50, ? ply $2.75 per square, with caps and cement ready to put on, guaranteed at Cleveland Matthews Hdw. Go.
 10 milk cows for sale at Clements Wagon Yard, June 1st and 2nd, 1909, or address H. M. Dial, Kedron,
 Ark. 6-1d2t We, the undersigned, are solicit Ing orders for the American Excelsior Laundry and any favors shown us will be greatly appreciated. Phone sos and the wagon will call for and deliver same. Any other laundry so ilCtlHS uuuer our name are not au- thorized to do so. Mrs. Rosa Lesin- ski and Mrs. Jesse c. Smith. 4-6 Wednesday night-Big opening For.
 est Park. d2t F. V. Bahlau, who has charge of the Pine Bluff band and will direct the movements of the other bands
 that will be here during the Tray
 CTS meeting, announces that there will be open air concerts morning and evening at the band stands down. town. The stands are at the court house, Second avenue and Pine street
 and Third avenue and Alabama street The concerts will begin this evening.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-06-02
Forest Park opens June End, pat.

Forest Park opens June End, pat. ronaEe of \. T.. AS. dst
 +Charles Madding is convalescent froln~a long spell of sickness.
 If you heed-a good Hammock. De sure to come and see our line Of "VudOrs," best made; bed woven. dOu. ble strength and the price is lower than the cheaper grades. Union Fur niture Co.,. 317-3l9 Main street.
 6-1-tf
 Just received a shipment of fine Tennessee country cured hams, shoulders, fowls and side meat. Me Cain Grocery Company.
 We are closing out Buffalo Re frjgerators, and you can buy one at cost, as were are going to carry per feet circulating and odorless Herrick refrigerators in the future exclusive Cleveland Matthews Hdw. Co
 They shut out the SUN and let in the BREEZE, the TUSCULUM Porch Shade. Sold only by Tomlinson & Knox
 The Jefferson County Teachers Institute for white teachers met yes terday at the Sixth avenue school and will be in session for the rest of the week County Examiner A. w. Lowe is in charge of the Institute. Exam nations for teachers certificates will be held on June 17 and IS.
 CRESCENT T l N T SHADES WON'T CRACK. WE HAVE THE EXCLUS- I'VE SALE. See us about your window treatment. Tomlinson & Knox.
 News was received in this c,ty yesterday from Waynesboro, Pa., of the death of l.. R. Nevin. of this citv, who was visiting relatives at that place. MT. Nevin had ben in bad health for some time, but the news was a great shock to his many friends in this city The deceased was about 65 years old and for many years had been connected with the Pine Bluff Cotton Oil Company.
 -Tusculum Porch Shades, the kind that work on a tin shade roller, THE BEST kind, sold only by Tomlin- son & Knox
 The Arkansas Association of Lo- cal Fire Insurance Agents will meet in Little Rock June 17 and IS. The executive committee, of which A. w.. Mills, of this city, is member, met recently in Little Rock and fixed the date for the convention.
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12

losis but for every other form OF
contagious disease.
Among other things constituting
the offenses of this alleged trust,
Mr.. LOTUS charges the following:
THE Pullman company is in col.
fusion with railroad companies to
maintain a monopoly so that tray
elers, including invalids, weak and
aged persons, cripples, women and
children must either pay eXtOrtiOn-
ate prices for the privilege of
sleeping IN possibly disease infect
ed berths or sleep at night in
coach seats. The railroads own a
large part of the Pullman stock,
Sleeping car magnates successful
ly prevent the passage of any
laws that may interfere with their
powers of monopoly and extortion.
They are protected in legislatures,
congress and on the highest bench
of the judiciary by powerful
friends who owe their political ex-
fstence TO the trust
The Pullman company, with
friends in state legislatures, con
gress and courts, arrogantly denies
the right of state or nation to in
quire into its affairs.
A poor carpenter invented the
sleeping car idea. He died poor ana
unknown. George NJ. Pullman took
the idea up. He interested Marsh,
all Field, and when these men
died they had made millions ana
millions out of "sleepers."
All the new money ever invest
ed was the first 100000. This grew
and the profits were reinvested in
equipment SO that in 1867 the $780,
900 represented 100000. Then
the Pullman company was incor-
porated and In 80 years it's capita,
stock was s36.000,O00, upon which
dividends Of from to 20 per cent
were paid In 1898 each stock
holder got back $50 per share ex-
ira. In 1899 the dividends had
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12

ally are encountered in coal mines,
when the elements are ripe for the
harvest of death. And to do this,
the government station has its own
little coal mine, only it is not away
down in the bowels Of the earth,
but lies up on top of the ground in
plain view, and is easy to get at
1t is called the gas and dust gal
lery and consists of a steel tube six
feet in diameter and 100 feet long,
open at one end and closed at the
other by mass of concrete. In this
concrete Is built a cannon, of ex-
actly the same bore as the holes
drilled in the coal when the coal is
to be blown out. Scattered around
the bottom on the long tube, and
on little lodges made for the pur-
pose, are quantities Of fine, coal
dust pulverized at the station until
it is the exact lightness of the coal
dust found in coal mines.
Leading into the tubes are gas
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12
BAD NEWS AWAITED

Particularly sad circumstances
surround the death in Detroit Fri
day morning of Mrs. Archibald
Grant, mother of Mrs. w. w.
Witherspoon, wife of the head of
the street department. Several
months ago Mrs. Witherspoon was
called to her mothers bedside. She
remained there for three months,
and as her mother was much i'm
proved, last Wednesday she start
ed to return home. The train was
delayed by the storms in Montana,
and when Mrs. Witherspoon, her
self sick from the tedious journey,
arrived home a telegram had pre-
ceded her announcing her mother's
death. Mrs. Witherspoon is pros
trated.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12
KANSAS 10 PRINT SCHOOL BOOKS. /"
SAVE MONEY AND SWAT TRUST

by publishing its own documents
and reports.
When the state printing plant
was established. it was not intend
ed for the publication of school
books. But Kansas has felt her
citizens were gouged deeply on
text books, and the state printer
has just completed an exhaustive
investigation. He has figured on
the funds needed to enlarge the
state printing plant, allowed Is per
cent for royalties or copyright, de-
probation of the plant, additional
heat and power and the, cost OF
distribution. After figuring in ev-
cry cost of publication and distri-
button, the state printer finds the
state could have saved in one year
1924 1886, or nearly SO per cent.
Here is what he says after his in
vestigation:
Il unhesitatingly say that there
is not a book furnished by any
publishing house today to the
state of Kansas that could not be
sold at less than the price fixed
by statute and still furnish a fine
margin of profit"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12

pipes, and electric wires, the for
mer to supply the gas and the lat
ter to explode the cannon. A GER
tain length of the tube is screened
off by paepr, and the inclosed space
Is then filed with methane and
ethane, which blended form is the
same gas which Is found in coal
mines and which is practically the
same as the natural gas in use in
Pittsburg. From 1 per cent to 8
and 10 per cent of the gas is made
in the tube and through them are
fired shots from the cannon i'm
bedded in the concrete. the effect
being exactly similar to a blown
out shot in coal mine.
More and more deadly becomes
the mixture, as a higher percentage
of gas is added to the air, until at
last it explodes when the shot is
fired. The vibration which follows
is terrific, and ever since the ex-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12

Special Correspondence to The Press

Special Correspondence to The Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 12.-Subpenas
are being served upon witnesses
who will be heard here the latter
part of this month in the matter
of the Pullman company.
The trouble started when George
s. Lotus of the st. Paul Shippers
association filed a complaint with
the interstate commerce commits
sion against the sleeping car
trust"
The formal complaint is not very
exciting, but it appears to be the
opening wedge which will burst
open a real sensation.
Lotus specifically demands that
the sleeping car rate between Chi
cago and st, Paul of 50 for either
an upper or a lower berth be re-
duced to $3.50 for a lower and 70
cents for an upper.
Such reduction, however
would force a reduction all over
the country, and, more than that.
would establish the rule that the
company cannot charge the same
rate for an upper as for a lower.
But already it appears that the
hearing will go far beyond mere
dollars and cents, and take up the
question OF public health.
1t may be shown that the mod
ern sleeper is a pesthouse on
wheels and that the peril from
contagion and disease is 10 times
greater than the danger from
wrecks.
Lotus claims that he will be
able to prove that the blankets in
a sleeping car are not cleaned OF
disinfected oftener than once in
nine months. 1t viii be argued
that these cars are used by thou
sands of sufferers from tubercu
losis who are fleeing to Colorado
Arizona. New Mexico and other
places.
II will be shown that sleeping
car which runs into these states
these months may be in service IT
New England or Oregon mex
MONTH
Tests have shown that tuberculo
sis germs live more than a year. Sc
that the contagion has every OPP
portunity to spread by means o
the carpets, curtains, blankets an,
plush upholstering of the sleeping
cars.
LOTUS says that the compressed
air cleaning system IL hollow pre-
tense and that the cars may wei
- incubators not only for tubercu
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12

periments have been going on,
have caused no end Of nervous pal
pitations in Lawrenceyille, to say
nothing of breaking windows in
nearby houses.
On such an explosion the 100
feet long steel tube is transformed
into a huge cannon, and from it's
other end bursts forth frightful
discharge Of gas and flame and
liberated energy. At first huge
concrete block was placed about so
feet from the end of the tube to
break the force of the explosions,
but 1t was repeatedly knocked
over, and had to be abandoned.
Then big steel plate was erected,
but this had similar fate. Then
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12

grown so that they were no longer
made public, but the property or
the company is now valued at
over $150,000,000 and in all over
$100,000,000 has been distributed
in dividends-all this on the orig
inal 100000.
The cars cost $4,000 each and
one pays for itself in two years.
The cars have a life of about 10
years and then are worth about
$4,000 scrap value.
Last year the company took in
over $32,000,000 and carried over
half million lawmakers, judges,
railroad friends and other dead
heads" free. ---.. .....-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12

1 -
special corrsspoudencs 70 rhe Rrsss
PITTSBURG, Jan. 12.-Mine ex
plosions to order are made while
you wait, at the new government
testing Enthusiastically one in the
country-in Pittsbarg, as the result
of $4,000 appropriated by con.
gress, In an effort to make more
safe the work of men who toll sun.
der the ground.
At unexpected intervals every
day the Lawrenceville district feels
and quivers under. the vibration of
tremendous explosions that rival in
violence the frightful shocks which
too frequently turn the interior of
coal mines into fiery furnaces and
charnel houses:
These disturbances are caused
by the work of the government ex-
perts at the United States station
for the investigation of mine ex-
plosions, which already is doing a
wonderful work for science and hui
manity, its object being to fix the
cause Of explosions.
In these remarkable tests the
government is not trying to locate
all the leaks in the strata OF the
earth or to place it's finger on
every gas pocket that exists in the
coal formations. Such foolishness
is ignored absolutely. But the
whole attention is turned in the
only available direction, and that is
where man takes a hand in caus-
ing the trouble.
The work of the station begins
with the careful testing Of all
known explosives The powders. of
every character. quality and
strength, are obtained from various
factories of the country, and SUBJ
mitted to thorough chemical
analysis, If any are found not to
measure up to specifications or
claims, or if weaknesses or dam
gerous features of the mixture are
discovered, the manufacturer is
notified e
After leaving the chemical labor
atory the powders and explosives
are carried through a series of
searching physical tests, by which
their descriptive force, the pressure
exerted, length and duration of
fame and the amount of heat gen
Grated, are definitely ascertained.
Then, when all these things have
been placed on record, the powder
is ready to be used in the last and
most important tests of all. These
consist of subjecting it to precisely
the same conditions that occasion
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12

rotary of a lecture bureau, with
which she is connected, adds a
touch of romance to the life of the
American woman who was con-
victed in England on the charge of
poisoning her husband, and who
was liberated on ticket of leave
after strenuous efforts were made
in her behalf by the women of
America.
While she has spent much of her
time since regaining her liberty on
the lecture platform, Mrs. May
brick has been giving some atten-
ton to business affairs. Recently
a Virginia court awarded her and
her mother, the Duchess La Rogue,
title to lands in Kentucky and else
where, which are said to be worth
a comfortable fortune.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12
Have you bought an
Overcoat yet, bet
ter do so tomorrow

Get one while this cold
weather lasts. You will feel
more comfortable, and certainly
you will keep in better health. A
bad cold can be avoided by wear
ing the right overcoat.
All overcoats up to $3.50 are
on sale at .............. $14.O0
All overcoats up to $3.50 are
on sale at ............ $17.50
All overcoats up to 1880 are
on sale at :. $3.50
All overcoats up to $4,000 are
on sale at ....... :. $3.50
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12
CRAEMER IS PARDONED

OLYMPIA, Jan. Ex-Governor
Mead has pardoned Henry Craze
mer, who was convicted at Seattle
and sentenced to hang for killing
Mrs. Josephine Mueller and child.
Thrice Craemer was granted a re-
prieve, finally sentenced, and then
committed to life Imprisonment.
There has always been doubt as
to his guilt, as the evidence was
circumstantial. The case was one
of the most famous in Washington.
At the time of the Tom Blanck
Jail delivery, Craemer refused to
leave prison.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12

roads: The Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul; Illinois Central; Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy and the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern. In
February, 1902, he was appointed
vice president of tho New YorK
Central & Hudson River railroad
and the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railway, and in February,
1905, became vice president of the
entire system, comprising the New
York Central lines.
His hobby is farming.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12
MUST SWEAR TO TRUTH.

BOISE. Jan. 1.-THE house
adopted a resolution providing that
before drawing money from tho
state for mileage, members must
make affidavit that they did not
ride to Boise on pass. Five voted
against the resolution.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12
FARMER PRESIDENT
Of GREAT RAILROAD

Senior vice president who will on
Feb. 1 succeed w. N. Newman as
president of the great New York
Central lines.
Mr.. Brown entered railway serv-
ice in 1869, and during his career
has served with the following
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12

framework was erected, and upon
1T the big steel plate was suspended
like the leaf OF swinging door.
This is found to answer the pur-
pose, for when the explosion takes
place it is merely swung violently
back and forth without heipg de-
stroyed. -
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12

Special Correspondence to The Press
TOPEKA, Kas., Jan. 12-kansas
will renew her war on the school
book trust" at the coming session
of the legislature. This time it
will be on a new tack State pub
LEGATION of texts used in the COM
mon schools will be the weapon
used. Kansas has a state printing
plant comparatively new. Before
1t was established the state print
er graft" was considered one of
the latest gifts of the Legislature.
Since then the state has saved
thousands of dollars, more than
enough to pay the cost of the plant,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12
Working Coats for
the Workingnan---
Bargains

Men who wear Mackinaw coats
should come for share of these
bargains. We are selling every
one in our stock at reduced
prices.
$3.50 and $4.00 Mackinaw
coats are on sale at .$2.75
$500 and $3.50 Mackinaw
coats are on sale at -. 1915
All 800 Mackinaw coats are
offered to you at. .$4.75
A complete range Of sizes in
each line.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12
STARTS FUSS OVER PULLMAN "SLEEPERS''

Sleeping car porters get
} about s25 per month and =
the conductors average $40 Z
} per month. The public,
overcharged for the sleep Z
err service, is expected, with I
tips to make up a living
wage for the trusts en- 4
ployes.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12
PRISON VICTIM
HAS ROMANCE

Special Correspondence to The Press
ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 12.-The
announcement that Mrs. Florence
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12
A 50 PER CENT SAVING

Cost of school books to
Kansas pupils during year
1901-oS, s477,342.
Estimated cost of same
books. published by the
state. s253,152.35.
Saving to pupils in one
year by state publication
$224,1S9.65, or nearly so
per cent.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12

The next and nearest kindness
is the farthest reaching creed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12
Odd Pants, a thous-
and pairs to be
closed out

Best stock of odd pants in Spo-
kane is offered to you at very
great reductions from the regu-
lar prices. We can fit every man
i'll the city, no matter what size is
wanted.
Mems $3.50 and $4.0O pants
are ON sale at. .$2.B
Mems $4.50 and $500 pants
are on sale at. 1878
Mems $3.50 and $500 pants
arc on sale at. =. .$4.75
And all other prices are re-
duced in the same proportion.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12
BIG NINE EXPLOSIONS MADE To 0RDER|

REMARkABLE4TEsTs MADE aY
THE GOVERNMENT At
PLANT BUILT IN PITTssUdo
FOR PURPOSE or FIXING
CAUSES OF NINE DIsAsTEHs.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-12
The Suits move out,
the Stock is already
more than half sold

And NO wonder! The values
are certainly great enough to at
tract any economical man, the
goods are all new, styles are the
very latest and the colors are
fashionable. Here are the sale
prices:
Suits worth up to $3.50 are
on sale at $14.O0
Suits worth up to $3.50 are
VII SdIc DIT Oil NV
Suits worth up to $3.50 are
on sale at $3.50
Suits worth up to $500 are
on sale at ............ $3.50
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