Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-05
". '. ELLIS IS IN GOOD HEALTH Pine Bluffian, Serving Term for Killing Parker Willis,
 Visits Little Rock. CARL LEE IN THE RACE Says smith Will Have to Contest for
 Senator>hip Educational
 Committees Named.
CARL LEE IN THE RACE
Says Smitl, Will Have to Contest for

's7. of William Miller and Son Co, con tractors on the new state capitol, has returned from q trip to the Pfeiffer auafles at Batesville, where the stone is being quarried for the steps of the building. Supt Charles says tn" stone in Quarry A is the best he eyer saw and much superior to any stone every qHarried by the Bedford Indiana companies. He says if would have been an impossibiIity to get stone tfofQ the EatcSvillc quarrieS in time to complete the building on ae- count of the small equipment there. Supt. Charles says there are but ixe gang saws at the qaarric8, where 15 should be in Use. The stone for the steps of the bull lng is about all Quarried, says Supt. Charles. and a finer lot of stone he never say. The first of the stone will be shipped from BatesEille before the end of the week
 Old Soldiers Home.
 After being in session for three days the board of trustees of the Ark- ansas Confederate Home adjourned the monthly session Thursday, much important business having boon at tended to. There were three deaths at the institution during the month of July. the highest for any month since the institution was established Two of the old soldiers died suddenly, one being stricken with paralysis while picking berries, and the other re- tired apparently in healthy condition one night and expired of heart fail ure before morning. Four new in- mates were accepted by the superin- tendent of the home, by order of the board. For three months the board has been looking for heirs of John Charlton, who died at the institution and two grandsons were found in Yorkshire, England. Secretary Mar tin Thursday expressed to the heirs
 
 Honor the only property left by Charlton. The grandchildren were very anxious to get hold of the Con- federate Cross of Honor as keep sake
 Ellis Visits Little Rock.
 Clad as any citizen, w. Y. Ellis who about a year ago shot and killed i Parker Willis, of Indianapolis, Ind in the private rooms of Judge Guy Fulk in the Pulaski county court house in dispute over child, walk ed down the streets of Little Rock Thursday and as few knew or re- | cogniZed him, he passed with little i notice. Ellis is serving three years sentence with the county road gang | for the killing of Willis. He acts as assistant to Warden Morgner and is not compelled to wear the stripes. FL lis is trusty and is often sent to Little Rock to purchase supplies When in the city Thursday he appear ed tanned and in very good health At the time such a strenuous effort was made to secure pardon for FL lis, it was stated he had tuberculosis and would not live a year, but his appareance yesterday was much more healthy than it was when Ellis was first arrested.
 Carl Lee Still in the Race.
 My name will go on the ticket as the regular Democratic nominee for State Senator of the Cross Woodruff county districs, stated Elmo Carl Lee when in Little Rock Thursday, "and I will run the race as the nominee. l have a certificate as the nominee from the district Senatorial commit tee, issued April 13, and it is suffi- cient to put my name on the ticket as the nominee. The state committee has no jurisdiction over the race, and for that reason I ignored the order of thc committee for new primary in Cross county alone. If Smith wants to con. test me for the office, he will have ' to compete in the September primar