Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-09-02
State University Faces One of it's Most Prosperous
 Years.
BANKS GET NEW FUND
School Money to be Distributed Soon Tax Commission Actiye-Rail.
 roads Commission to Meet.

Little Rock, Sept. John E. Neel- ey, secretary of the Board of Trus- tees of the University of Arkansas is in Little Rock today transacting busi- ness in connection with the Univer- sity, and says the coming year will be the biggest in the history of the state institution. He expects the enroll ment to reach 1,500 this year and the athletic prospect is flattering in spite of the large number of men who as- sisted in building up the reputation of the institution last year being absent.
 Michaels Leaves.
 Rev. J. w. Michaels, the deaf mute field missionary of the Baptist Mis- sion Board, who has worked among the mutes of Arkansas for many years, has been ordered to Louisville Ky, where he will make his head quarters after Sept. IA. He has dis posed of his Little Rock property and will make frequent trips to Arkansas in the future to hold services for mutes in the different sections.
 Rifle Team Ranks Higher.
 In future years the Arkansas rifle team to represent the state at Camp Perry, O., in the national shoot, will not be permitted to participate in the annual joint manouvers or other ex- ercses which will tire them out be- fore the big shoot. The members of the team have returned to Little Rock and all are in the last stages of physical collapse due to the continued duty which has been imposed upon them. The team, in spite of the ob- stacles it had to overcome, finished 10th this year, in stead of 45th, the place it filled last year. Six nem- bers of the Arkansas team were sick all the time they were at Camp Per- ry and two members of the team were sent home, being too i'll to remain The other members of the team were two weeks at rifle practice at one of the Arkansas camps, the most of the men then went through the two weeks manouvers at Leon Springs, and then when they reached Camp Perry they were too worn out to do much shooting. By sending a fresh team to Perry next year, with week to rest in and get used to the grounds, the members of the Guard believe they can make a decided rise in the shooting. The state range will be constructed after the Camp Perry style before the team is sent next year, so it will have this much ad- vantage also.
 Capitol Work Progressing.
 The work on the new State Capitol is now looming up big to the outsider who does not make the building a daily visit, as the dome is going up and that is what shows. The stone on the outside of the steel frame has gone up one thi. d of the way to the top and now the massive stone col umns which stand outside the dome are being put in place. Each sec tion of the round stone weighs four tons and the strength of two derricks is required to put them in place. The have been put in place and by the end of the week the stone should be one half the way up the dome and the full columns be in place.
 School Fund Coming.
 Next Monday the school fund will be paid out by Treasurer Yates and $1,200,O00 will go to the banks over the state, going this far to relieve the money pressure. As the banks are usually waiting to get this money as socn as it is issued, about $S00,O00 will be paid out Monday. Another big haul will be made on the cash in the Treasury Sept. If when sSOO,0o0 pen sion money will go out.
 Tax Commission Active.
 Members of the State Tax Commis sion are now scurrying over the state calling on the tax assessors in order to study their books before the boards of equalization meet in the various counties two weeks from last Monday. The members of the con- mission are studying merchandise as- sessments as they believe this class of taxation has been too low, and the attention of the Board of Equalization will be called to it wherever it ap- pears there has been any tendency to show favor to the county merchants.
 Railroad Commission.
 There will be a regular monthly meeting of the Arkansas Railroad Commission next Wednesday, Sept. 7, instead of postponing the meeting for week on account of the Bryan tour. The members of the commission met and decided it would be too difficult