Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-04
CONVICTS 10
 RIDE IN AUTO Penitentiary Board Consid- ering the Purchase of One to Take Them to Depots.
OTHER CAPITAL NEWS
TeXarkana Attorneys Pleading for the Life Gf Oscar Pulen, Sen.
 tenced to Hang.

Little Rock, Aug. 3.-At the nex: meeting of the Arkansas Penitentiary Board the proposition of purchasing an auto patrol wagon to carry con- victs from the new penitentiary to the deDots of the city, and to receive new convicts at the depots, will be taken up. The new penitentiary is at least miles from any of the Lit tie Rock depots, and as most of the sheriffs leave home in the day and arrive in Little Rock at night, the question of transporting the convicts to the penitentiary is a serious mat ter Sheriff Norris of Sebastian coun- ty arrived in Little Rock with two prisoners last night and found the penitentiary moved but finally secur- ed place of safety for his convicts in the old walls until morning, when they were taken to the new prison The old walls will not be there by the end of the week and other sheriffs will have to make the trip to the penitentiary at night. The auto patrol is an absolute necessity. Since the removal of the penitentiary, the people who reside in that section of the city feel as though their protec- ton has been removed, as guards were on duty there both day and night which meant assistance was near at hand in time of want
 To Save Mans Neck.
 Judge L. A. Byrne, of Texarkana, and A. D. Dulaney, of Ashdown, ar rived in Little Rock Wednesday car rying the volumnous petition signed by Little River county citizens asking for the communication of the death sen- tence of Oscar Pullen to life impris- onment. The two attorneys were closeted with Gov Donaghey for over an hour when they filed the petition and argued for communication. Re quests for life imprisonment, instead of capital punishment, were also made by the judge who presided at the trial, as we'll as by the prosecut- 1 ing attorney. Over GOO citizens of Little River county signed the peti- Lafayette Deloney, the man assassin ated by Pullen. Gov. Donaghey pro- missed to make a statement in regard ! to the petition, giving his reasons for whatever action he would take, by the end of the present week. The attorneys explained that the senti- ment in Little River county is all with Pullen since the jury returned verdict acquitting Mrs. Deloney of complicity in the crime, even after Pullen admitted his guilt and charg
 ed her with persuading him to fire the shot through window of the De- : loney home, which killed Deloney as Deloney with holding a light so he could see to fire the fatal shot, as well as holding the window open. Pull len is a safe keeper in the Arkansas penitentiarv.
 How One Farmer Figures.
 The counties which are above the quarantine line for cattle ticks are going to figure most heavily in land ing immigrants to the state as is shown by statements made by T. J. Scranton, a well to do farmer from Nebo, III. who came to Arkansas to- day to look for location for his son. Scranton purchased a farm near Nebo, H., 20 years ago, which con- tains l60 acres, and which cost him $20 an acre. Today this farm is worth $125 per acre. His son is now grown and the father wants to start him out on a good farm, but as there is not sufficient land on the old homestead in Illinois to make a div ision, he has turned to Arkansas as the next best place. Immediately af- ter arriving in Arkansas, Scranton called upon Land Commissioner Golf man and asked regarding the differ ent counties of the state, the charac, ter of the land and it's probable value. He was much taken with the lands of
 Southeast Arkansas, but when he made inquiries about them and found it would be a number of years before they could hope to be above the cat tie tick quarantine line, he dropped them and said he would investigate the quarantine counties only. He said northern farmers had discovered they must raise stock to make a farm pay and he would never think of going below the quarantine line to raise stock. He says all other northern families coming to Arkansas will consider the same thing before pur- chasing farms