Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-20
FRUIT BELT LINE" TOWARDS CAPITAL. Railroad for Apple Region Planned-Prizes are
 Announced. ND GHTTXUNNn uyrrAnD
NO CHITWOOD REWARD
Will Be Offered by the State-Not in the Fund-Smith to Oppose
 CarlLee-Poe's Fate,

Little Rock, Aug. 19.-Northves Arkansas is flirting with another road which is headed for Little Rock and the promoters expect in a short time to appear before the towns along tba route and ask for bonus and right of way. This railroad is the Arkansas, Oklahoma and Western, the "Frl,it Belt Line This line is now building from Rogers to Huntsville, in Madison county but George D. Locke, the vice president and general manager is now Ill New York, making the necessary arrangements to make the extension on to Little Rock, via Jasper, Clinton and Bee Branch. As soon as he has made the negotiations in New York he will make trip to Little Rock to see what encouragement the citizens here will offer to get another feeder, in from the rich northwestern aart of the state. This line would put Little Rock in direct communication with that part Of the state, something 1t now lacks even though there are sev- eral trains running in that direction each day. Vice president Locke has confided his plans for extension to Little Rock from Huntsville, to friend in Little Rock in letter writ ten from New York.
 Press Assn. Prizes.
 At the last meeting of the Ark ansas Press Association, held in Nor r1lton, purse of $50 was raised by the merchants of that town to be dis tributed in prizes to the editor of the state writing the best aricle on Nor rilon and gone over by the committee and Secretary B. w. Hodges today an- nounced the prize winners as follows: First, w. B. Williams, editor of the Citizen, Brinkley; second, L. s. Duna- way, proprietor of the Farmer, Con- way; and third, Miss Ada Hite, editor of the Saturday Item, Fort Smith The first prize was $25, the second $15 and the third, s10 There were about 100 editors attending the Mor- rilton press association meeting and most of these competed for the prizes, so the town received much advertis- ing over the state for the $50. Ozark offered smaller prizes for stories writ ten about that town, and also re- ceived much favorable comment, but the awards have never yet been made of the prizes.
 No State Reward.
 Gov. Donaghey has notified the of- ficials of Hot Springs that he cannot offer reward for the capture of Os- car Chitwood, the escaped bandit, be- cause there is no more funds in the treasury which may be expended ill this manner. Gov. Donaghey stated the fund will remain exhausted until the legislature makes another appro- priation, and while he would like to make the states part of the Hot Springs reward large one, he is u1- able to do so at present unless he of- fers the reward himself and pays it out of his own pocket.
 Harry Poe Will Soon Hang.
 As the time grows shorter for Har- ry Poe, the negro sentenced to die Sept. ? for criminal assault, some ef- fort is being made to have his sen- tence commuted to life imprisonment, and these efforts are being made by people who lead in charity work in Little Rock Poe was convicted or criminally assaulting II year old girl in Hot Springs and sentenced to hang. The state supreme court af- firmed the decision and then declined to re-enter the case. White women of Hot Springs then took the matter up with the governor, claiming they saw Poe at his motherE house at the time the assault was committed, so he could not be the one guilty of the crime. Governor Donaghey at that, and other times declined to change the decision of the court. He has now been called on by woman who leads in the Humane Society work, who asked for the communication on the grounds that Poe was not being