Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-02-06
NEWS FROM THE
 STATE CAPITAL

stopped thrOu1h the general Wdih-ou' which followed the strike of the tin ners who refused to work for con cern which would not employ union men all over the city.
 There are bricklayers at work on the buildina though they are in the employ of William Miller X Sons, the general contractors, who will com plete the building. The bricklayers yesterday began to put in the tiling partition walls, after completing the brick work on the dome foundation.
 About ten bricklayers are working at present, putting in the corners, and as soon as these are in the force will be trebled so the partitions will all be in within the next two weeks.
 The contractors figure they will be ready to commence clustering about the first of next week, for which pur- pose the windows will be covered with muslin. to keep out the air. The State Capitol Commission is today holding session extraordinary for the purpose of arranging some way of continuing the work on the building. There Is only about a weeks more work for the commission to do on the building before turning it all over to the general contractors, and for this reason the commissioners are de- cided1y anxious to have the men all back at work
 The concrete is nearly all in, and had there been no strike, this portion of the work would have been con- pleted this week. The concrete gang of convicts have been used in clean ing up the building since the work men walked out, having no concrete to pour on account of the lack of en- gineers at the mixer and holster. The commission is in no way at fault in the strike. and it is doing everything in it's power to get the men back at work. The contract with the timers, IS that union men shall be worked on the building. There is no time limit in the contract. The contractors hir- ed union men on the capitol building. but declined to hire them on other work they have in the city in prefer ance to other workmen. Unless the contractors recognize the union. the men will not work on the capitol, and the other union men will not work there either Thus the loss of bolt is stopping all the machinery.
 No Coffin Nails.
 No cigarettes. no coughing. This is one of the theories of Superintendent James Pitcock, of the Arkansas peni. tentiary, who has just issued an or der that no convict is to smoke a cigarette, nor shall any employe while on duty. Superintendent Pitcock has had this order in effect for about a ter than he anticipated, for the coughing among the men has almost stopped. The convicts who smoke are now all armed with pipes, from which A Of throu ln iaDe~ rol.
 Superintendent Pitconk says 1n is pot practicing reform s>r ttc' saEs of putting stop to a great evil Ut because he says the cigarettes were ruining the health of the convicts, and the effect of his order has prov ed he is right in diagnosing the cause
 Fighting Boil Weeyil.
 Nothing will be done to fight the boil weevil in eastern Arkansas until the weevil arrives, says Col. John M. Oracle, Arkansas largest planter. who is spending few days at his Little Rock home, though great prep arations are being made to turn the pest back South when it hits Jeffer- son county. Col. Oracle says there are two experimental stations in that county now devoting the most of the time to preparing for the coming of the boil weevil.
 One of these farms is in the up- land and the other in the bottoms Each are experimenting with short staple cotton. which the planters ex- pect to use to beat the weevil to the crop.
 Col. Oracle says the stations will DICK out the hardest and earliest fruiting short staple, according to its adoption to upland and bottom. and the seed will be produced in suf- flcient quantities to supply all the planters in that section in order that they may be able to bring on their crop before the boil weevil gets busy, and thus starve the little bug to death and turn him back in the direc- tion from whence he came for some thing to eat
 Sells His Paper.
 Col. J. L. Wadley, one of the old est editors, in point of service. in Arkansas, spent a part of the day in Little Rock yesterday-the first absolute 1oafiing he has done in 2e