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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-17
MARK TWAIN AT COURT.

When Mark Twain visited Ger many he wa: commanded to dine with the emperor. At the dinnsr the emperor did mes of the talking. A few days later a gentleman called upon the American author With message from the emperor: Convey to Mr. Clemens my kindest regards Ask him if L,e remembers that dia- Ter, and ask him why he didn't dc any talking.
 Mark explained in his autobiogra- phy why he failed to give rein to his elouuence at the empercr's table using a story as an tration: "A man was approached by friend who adds: I think it's shame that you have not spoken to your wife for fiji teen years. How dc you explain is How do you justify it?'
 "I didn't want to interrupt her, said the poor man.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-17
DEATH SENTENCE
 PASSED ON NINE
Conviction oi Murder ih tie Weave. Case Makes NiHn for
 the Year.

Forrest City. Dee. l1. = Pros it. Attorney R. ] Williams taas jus rz- turned 10 his home in fhis city from Mariana. where he has heen e1- gagged d d special fEml ot the 31et Circuit Court. convened fe2. the Dtir- pose of E ying one Nat Jew Weaver. charged with the crime of murder, Weaver having killed . Waite man hF fhe name of Charles &a}dheF aa Ronao or November 1S. The trla. Of ths accused con-umed one day ut the cours $ time. at 5be eonclus sion of which. af.ar delberating nine minutes, ,':e jury brousht in a yer dict of guilty ot murder il the tifst degree and Weaver 0@s sentenced by Judge Hutton 10 hang betWeen the hours of sunrise and sunset oa Friday. January F.. 1912.
 Tine conVie ion and sentence .. Weaver make. q total Of nine men whom Prosecuting Attorney Williaas has sent 10 .ue gallows during Lhe year 1911. Williams has prosecu i and secured the conviction Of min men charged with capital offens5s S ! during .le year just | wing to close. vel so deeply is the pres se,l- tor imbued with the higher sem! : m nts ef humanity and kindly feel ] ings for his unfoitunate victims ] yha1 he 3as never ben known t remain in. cour to hear 'he ver.ie' i T ndered in 2 capital case. nor t 1 listen 70 the judgmenj Of 1lle co1. P l in passing the deal sentence.
 Prosecutor Williams said tod Z
 Lat he even tried fo forget Us quit < ly d. possible the names 0. the hi"l whom he had prosecuted and con
 victed ot capital crimes. and Una
 it was his constant effort 10 blot h' memory Of such crimes rom ii
 mind completely
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-17
SOUTHWESTERN IS
 LETTERING SERVICE
"pupin COif' Has Been Adopted tH. :.bling Longer Distance
 Conversation.

" / :,.option, ol tle part of le ron Ase- rn Telegraph & TeleohcEe .sY Y. of a recently perfected de-
 ." l,lown as the "Pupin Coil, Pine
 IL be brought in the zone of fueg telephone talk that knows =}cles within the radius of ;t las. 2.5oO miles and possibly 5.- e00 nile.
 Tho work of installing these coils en all through circuits in the stat "a commenced and will coninua until every city and town in the 5a' Southwest is within speaking and hearing distance from the Great Lakes.
 The Great Lakes to Texas higa- ways will be open almost simui7a- eously with that from New England 70 the Rocky Mountains. Both were made possible by the 'Pupin Coil.
 The present radius of the ordinar! telephone voice is between 1900 ant 1.750 miles.
 This first long distance telephone lines in the Southwest were betweel Houston and Galveston, Dallas an, Fort Worth and Little Rock and He SD ings. 4 single iron wire made i
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-17

possible to talk - sometime es-be- .veen points 50 on 60 miles apart. The line through the Arkansas Wilds was, however, supposed to be possessed of a ghost voice and those who tried to use it carried on their conversations at intervals between the strange, unearthly shrieks, the sources of which could never be as certained
 Almost constantly new devices are D ing offered by which the scope of the telephone service may be eN- tended. AS fast as they are shown to be practical they are being tdopt- ed by the Southwestern Telegraph X Telephone Co.,, and for every mile added to the radius of conversation al communication, hundreds and thousands of men and women are brought within talking distance Who were previously beyond the reach of your voice, so vast is the circle around every individual telephone o1 the universal system.
 Already the Southwest m officials are looking to the time when the mayor of Pine Bluff may call up the mayor of Shanghai to say "good night
 And what do you think the answer , will be?
 Why good morning" of course even in the ins ssantaneous reply There is that much difference in the tine between the two cities.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-17

side of tbe Arkansas Biyer have inea= gurated 9 4set-fog4taef2 moveuea1 and have bdilt several niles Of fins highways along the base 0i he Ievee
 Fl is god move. cae that wi eventually pe'mea1e and ake posseS- sion of tie entire coaary. II will llFf' iu the chain of one of inc Great Na- fioHaI II ghWays that will some das nos far distant we hope. oe bnj' across 5he continent, =ast and w-s4 north and S9u1h.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-17
JUDGE CHAPLINE
 APPOINTED REC lYtR
Bad Real Estate Loans and With drawal of Deposits Caused F.,il. ure of Merchants and Plnn-
 ters Bank of England.

Little Rock, Ark, Dec. 15.-Inabil. fly to realize on real estate loans. which constituted a greater part Of is bills receivable, caused the fall- ure of the Merchants and Planters Bank of England, Lonoke county, Thursday. statement of t.e banks condition was made today to Chancel Tor J2hn k. Martineau and he ap- pointed Judge Geolge M. Chaplire, of Lonoke, receiver, under $25,O00 bond.
 The bank had capital stock oF s25. .OOO and had been in business for ten years. The liabilities of the insti- tuition amount to about $27,OOO of which about $25,O00 is deposits. It's assets consist of about $45,000 large | part of which is real estate loans. There had recently been rather heavy withdrawals of deposits and under the circumstances no other course seemed open except to close the doors. It is said that the receiver will be able to realize enough to mesf l the banks obligations, dollar for d2l- lar. The officers of the bank are k E. l.. Eagle. president; T. B. Go.dsby 1 vice president; R. l.. Buffalo, cash' fer. w. !. Locke and Frark Barton
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-17

cd at St. Lou.s, has tn" following to say regarding the Free Bridge planned for this county and the 2oo1 road, movement in this city and section:
 ..Ube Legislature passed an Ac1 f2 b. free bridge across the t!,h;ta- sasAN fer at Pine Bluff, Arkansas
 "3e eGotiations for letting lhe engi- neerins contract is under way.
 The proposition of q nort efn rail- road outlet for Pine Bluff is agaia be- fore the people.
 'Railroad Representatives have beeN in communication with the Pine Bluff .'hambel of Commerce. and arrange ments for meeting between these representatives and the officials oi the Chamber of Commerce have been made
 "The building of ais bridge will b. Avery fine thing for Pine Bluff and JeHerson county.
 A new railroad, giving Pine Bluff a northern connection witl the Roc X Island Railway will be veiy beneficial for the entire community.
 But the railroads cannot reach the whole county. Some of the farmers have Ito make long drives 70 reach tha marktts Of course it is very neces- sary +6 have good !oads-a system 'l good roads will meet the need; of ali the people-Good Roads are the life of a courtry-tsey put the people ln closer touch w.th the markess, educlf- ional advantages wiih each otaer--3 mark of intelligence and progressive ness
 Jefferson Cuonty is right in }iA( with the Good Roads Movement. TA. county officials, as well as the state rep1esen. a..ives, are in hearty accors with the movement
 ''Taere are already several miles c splendid highways in the county ant more will be bu It.
 A number of citizens on the noff
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-02-15

band of sheep that were about to be
shipped away on the cars. The writ
of attachment was served at the in
stance of A. H. Yost of Zillah, who
alleged that Bremen and Ide oval
total of $1330.76 for hay, gasoline
and salt furnished by Yost, who
learned that the defendants had sold
the band of sheep numbering 1400
head and the buyers were about to
ship them out.
Deputy Sheriff Hillyer reached
Toppenish just as the last cars were
being loaded, all but 45S head having
been placed on board. This number
being sufficient to satisfy the claim,
they were placed in a corral and put
in the charge of Yost by the deputy
sheriff. Hilyer met some resistance
when he attempted to serve the writ,
Churchill, the man who had pur-
chased the band denying that he had
any right to interfere in any way. He
was quickly shown that Hillyer did
have the authority and he did not
interfere further. The defendants
will have 20 days in which to form
ally answer the writ in court.
Mr.. Hillyer said his trip to Top
penish Saturday was the quickest that
he had ever made. The roads were
in fine condition and the machine was
let out to the limit. Not much over
an hour was consumed in the run.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-02-15
ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSION.
President Taft Points Out That
Reciprocity Treaty Is Crown
ing Achievement

SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 11-President
Taft took today his most advanced
position in regard to reciprocity. In
an address before the legislature he
warned leaders of his party that if
they should defeat the concessions
obtained in the reciprocity agreement
now pending and should persist in
retaining in these times of high
prices and gradually exhausting
food supply, a tariff not based solely
upon difference in cost of production
at home and abroad, with reasonable
profit to the American producer, an
opposition would be aroused that
would know no opposition. The pres
ident feels keenly the opposition from
members of the republican party but
he is sanguine in the hope that they
will "see the light" before it is too
late.
The president is gratified with the
manner in which his reciprocity
speeches were received today espec-
tally by the legislative audience at
the state capitol. He will depart for
Washington tomorrow. arriving there
Monday.
Long Cherished Idea
President Taft referred to the pro-
posed reciprocity agreement with
Canada here today as the logical
conclusion" of the protection plank
in the last republican national plat
form.
He defined the protection theory as
one that should impose a tariff not
exceeding the difference in the cost
of production in this country and
abroad, and allowing a fair margin
of profit for the home producer. He
argued, therefore. that inasmuch as
the conditions of production in the
United States and Canada were sub
stantially the same, the widest lati-
tude was given Secretary Knox and
the commissioners who represented
the United States In Offering Canada
reduction of duties in goods and
products coming into this country
from Canada in consideration of the
establishment of the same duty or
freedom from duty, on similar goods
going to Canada
Agreement Preferred
The president explained that it was
thought wiser on the part of both
governments not to make a formal
treaty, but to make an agreement
between the executives, by which
each should submit the agreement in
the form of statute to be enacted and
to go into force on condition that a
similar statute was passed by the leg
islature of the other country"
| He said in part:
This form of agreement makes II
one from which either country can
withdraw at will by simply chang
ing the statute by new legislation,
| 81 am a protectionist. That is.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-02-15
PUBLICITY GIVES HER
BACK HER UNCLE
WOMAN WRITES HAY

OLYMPIA, Feb. 10.-That it pays
to advertise is shown by a letter re-
ceived by Governor M e. Hay from
Mrs. A. E. Rogers, rs Estcourt road,
London, England who writes that
she has located her uncle, John
Knight, through the publicity given
to a letter she sent to Governor Hay
March 80, 1910.
In her first letter she said that
John Knight had gone to Canada and
later moved to Washington but that
she had been unable to locate him
and she requested the governor to
give her letter publicity. He did so
and now under date of January 26
she writes the she has heard from
him and thanks the governor for the
interest he displayed in assisting
her.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-02-15
IL gs which several of the growers oil
jected to.

/, gs which several of the growers OBJ
jected to.
Address of Mr.. Irish
w. n. Irish, president of the unto n
board in his annual address, deliv-
cred at the opening the meeting, took
up the criticism directed against the
union. He Duinted out that the crop
was the largest the section has pro-
duced, that there are 400 members of
the union, many of them new people,
that the difficulties of grading, pack
ing and marketing were great and
that the trustees were serving without
remuneration. They undoubtedly
had made errors but the union as a
union has been of immense benefit to
the valley and to the fruit producers.
Such errors as had been made were
errors of judgment and the effect of
such operated against the trustees
as we'll as against all the other fruit
men interested. The union had
reached more and wider markets
than ever before; its goods had made
for themselves reputation and
where the returns had not been what
were expected the field had been
opened for future operations. Mr..
Irish touched upon the pooling propo-
sition, tried here and abandoned, and
said that in his opinion a proper
pooling system for a portion of the
fruit could be devised.
Destructive Criticism
Honest and sincere work to the
union had been given by the men
chosen to administer its affairs and
Mr.. Irish said, by inference, that he
did not see the need for destructive
criticism of an organization which
had justified its existence in order
to build up other plans and ideas.
Some criticism arose from ignorance
and some from malice and this was
recognized. The welfare of the indus
try required constructive and not de-
structive efforts
The meeting adjourned about
o'clock in peace and quiet and with
good feeling prevailing.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-02-15
FRUIT GROWERS IN
INTERESTING DISCUSSION
Merit of Northwest Exchange Is
Subject of Debate at Horti-
cultural Union Annual

Messrs. o. X. Conant, E. G. Peck
and w. W. Scott were on Saturday
elected as trustees of the Horticul-
tural Union, Messrs. Conant and Peck
for terms of three years each and Mr..
Scott for a one year term. These
gentlemen succeed themselves in Of
fee. Their election was made unani-
nous after a violent attack upon the
union, and it's trustees, because of
their business connection the past
shipping season with the Northwest
Fruit Exchange. The attack, espec-
tally the references to the Northwest
Exchange was listened to with \
great deal of interest and consider
able applause from some of the fruit
growers present at the annual meet
ing, at the court house, of the union.
1t was made by A. II. Henry after a
motion, granting HIM permission to
speak, had been carried by a vote of
As members to 46 opposing 1t was at
the conclusion of the speech by Mr..
Henry that the retiring trustees were
re-electd to office. p. d. Babcock
and one other opposed their re-elec-
ton, though there were no others in
nomination, but at the request of Mr..
Henry withdrew their objection, thus
making the selection unanimous.
Exchange Is Criticised
Charges were made by Mr. Henry
that the Northwest Fruit Exchange
was but dummy, organized by
Crutchfield & Voolfolk of Pittsburg
and allied with the Horticultural
Union, disappearing itself as a
growers organization and calculated
to give a second commission to the
Pittsburg house on the Yakima union
fruit handled by it. He produced cir
culars of the exchange on which were
printed words showing that it repre-
sented the Yakima Horticultural
Union. This fact and the fact that
Messrs. w. N. Irish and w. M. Rich
ards, trustees of the union are also
trustees of the exchange were given
as indications by the speaker that
there is an alliance between the two
bodies. He stated explicitly that he
did not make charges against trustees
of the union but that he did claim
that the Northwest Exchange was not
friend of the growers as it claimed
and that it's operations were not in
the interests of the growers. He stated
also that he had been given, when
the exchange was in process of or
ganization, an opportunity of becom-
ing one of the two North Yakima
men to be permitted to hold member
ship.
In answer to F.. d. Childs, who
asked for a repetition of the proof by
Mr.. Henry that the union and the
exchange were allied, Mr. Henry re-
ferred again to the statement on the
exchange circulars.
Conant Tells Facts
o. X. Conant, speaking for the
trustees of the union, said that there
was no effort to conceal the fact that
the exchange had handled a proper
ton of the union fruit. That had
been under agreement between the
exchange and the union trustees The
exchange had represented itself as
able to reach markets not open to the
union and to be able to obtain in
them better prices for the Yakima
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-02-15
HALF MILLION PAID FARMERS
Richey & Gilbert Company's Fig
ures for the Past Is Months
Are Astonishing

Ten hundred and twenty-five cars Of
produce of one kind and another were
shipped from the Yakima valley be-
tween January 1, 1910 and February
7, 1911, by the Richey & Gilbert COM
pany of Toppenish. These went to
at least 25 states of the union and
probably more as cars were diverted
from Chicago, to Canada and to Eu-
rope. Four carloads went into Cana
da and y into export across the At
lantic. To carry on this business there
were paid to growers an aggregate
Of $376,5O4S4 for apples alone. For
peaches there were paid $71,852.2S;
for pears, prunes, melons and mixed
fruit $6O,959.40 and for potatoes 49,
519.7S. This is a total of $527,s36.30.
Fruit Statistics
Following are some of the statis-
tics Of the fruit and they are in
teresting as showing proportions and
distribution. The shipments were as
follows:
Apples, 548 cars; peaches, 10 cars;
prunes, Al cars; pears, rs; and mixed
fruit, las cars. This makes a total
Of 321 cars Of fruits apart from the
straight carloads of apples. In addi-
ton there was one carload of grapes
and 35 of melons. Spuds and onions
were an aggregate of SIS cars and hay
and grain made a total of IS cars.
This makes a total for the thirteen
months of 1925.
State Distribution
Distribution of the fruit is also in
terinsting showing, as it does a con-
siderable sale right in this state and
covering the entire union and for
eign countries as we'll. The distribu-
ton by states was as follows:
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-02-15
NEWEST NOTES Of SCIENCE

Much cigarette paper is made from
waste untarred herm rope
Only about one acre in every hun.
dred in Ireland is timbered.
The telegraph companies of the
United States employ 10000 persons
Germany is experimenting with
glass telephone poles, reinforced with
wire.
There is an average of about one
cow to every five persons in the
United States.
The British admiralty has develop
ed a system of wireless telegraphy fol
submarines
From one big New York hotel more
than half a million telephone mes
sages are sent each year.
Syria soon is to have it's first tele.
phone system, linking the towns II
the Lebanon mountains.
To read the bible through at the
rate of chapter day would require
three years and three months.
What promises to be a valuable
coal field has been discovered in the
Brazilian state of Parnambuco.
Tapped three feet from the ground
a rubber tree fifteen inches in dame
ter yields three pints of sap.
OF the 100000 tons of salt pro-
duced in the world each year the
British empire provides 100000 tons
Milk cooled to temperature OF
1914 degrees may be kept several dayi
at any temperature under So degrees
A camera has been invented to rap
idly photograph, develop, print and
fix copies Of documents or manu-
scripts.
The British mint recently turned
out it's first square coins, scent nick
el-bronze pieces for use in Ceylon.
The United States imported 1881
ounces of platinum in the first eight
months this year. valued at $2,057.446
If an ironing board be notched to
At the backs of two chairs of equal
size it will be held as firmly as a
table.
According to an official report So
per cent of the natives Of American
Samoa are believed to be hook
worm" sufferers.
Native workmen, using native ma
teriai under the supervision of an
Englishman, have built midas first
Floors and furniture are not
scratched by children playing with
new building blocks made of cork n
Germany.
To record the number of SECONDS
that a telephone is in use each day
is the purpose of a new electrically
operated meter.
Though but a small nation, Switzer-
land makes 1OO,O00.00O pounds OF
honey year. so well is its Nora
adapted to bee culture.
That it will prevent a serious wreck
in the event of a collision is the. claln
of the inventor of an air buffer for To-
comOtives.
Indians Of the Upper Amazon have
developed wireless telegraphy" by
means of drums made of hollow log:
tuned to varying pitches.
step which automatically falls tt
a station platform when a side dool
of a subway car is opened has beef
patented by New Yorker.
The salt beds of Chilli could suppl!
the world with salt for ages to come