Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-06
STATE PRISON IS
 UNSAFE FOR THEM The Hot Springs Deputies Charged With Chitwood
 Murder Disliked.
OTHER CAPITAL NEWS
Epidemic of Measles at Little Rock III. k. TOney is Sure to
 Win.

never become necessary to take Deputy Sheriffs Rutherford and Murray of Garland county, who are held on charge of murdering Oscar Chitwood at the Hot Springs jail On Christmas night, away from that city for safe keeping, if such a condition should arise they will be taken tol some other penal institution other than the Arkansas penitentiary. the new penitentiary there is no cell building where safe keepers can be locked up and guarded. They must be allowed to mingle with the other prisoners and those which have been sent there are allowed the freedom of the yard during certain hours of the day. Oscar Chitwood was d safe keeper at the penitentiary for several months He was ill the hos pital building for some time until his arm healed. He then mingled with the convicts daily and became a great favorite with them. It is for this reason the Hot Springs offi- cials will not be received at the penitentiary for safe keeping. It $ internal, not external trouble, which is feared there. There are som desperate men in the Arkansas pfi- son, and the reports of the murde of Chitwood have gotten in to them Which fires the blood of the friends of Chitwood, and no telling what might happen if Rutherford and Murray were forced in with these criminals.
 It's TOney and MilWee.
 The interior of Arkansas is eith CT void of politicians now, or they will be before the end of the week. Ca of the politician H S toes turn toward Little Rock as naturally as the duck flies South in the winter Headquarters of candidates for the leadership of the House and Senate sprang up like mushrooms yesterday morning. The majority of these are located in the Hotel Marion. The headquarters of Senators H. K. Toney and J. P. Logan, for the pres idency of the Senate were opened as we'll as that of w. A. Black for the speakership of the House. Abner Hurst, another candidate for the speakership has been on the ground for week R. F. M.lwee arrived from Clarendon this morning. He has his headquarters Ill rooms 204 and 205 at the Marion. Both of these battles are pract cally over, howev CT, for a miracle will have to be per formed to wrest the honors from H. K Toney an\ Judge R. F. Miiwee The main interest is now in the race .x for Secretary of the Senate and chief clerk of the House, with some strong battles among the smaller fry. George Trevathan, even though he is opposed by the administration appears to have the margin in the contest for Secretary of the Sen ate No real showing has been made of the standing in the contest for the chief clerkship of the House This race is between James Higgins chief clerk of the last House, and Pen L. Griffin, formerly secretary of the Farmers Union of Arkansas Griffin will probably be the admin istration candidate, though Higgins is also from Conway, which s the home of Gov. Donaghey
 Measles at Little Rock.
 Like Memphis, and like many oth- CT cities and towns in Arkansas, Lit tie Rock is just now writh 'ng ill the grasp of an epidemic of the measles Iecal physicians report there are IGore cases in Little Rock now tha, have been known at any one time before. The strange feature of the epidemic is that the major ty of the suffering ones from the disease arc grown people. Measles is very ofter fatal in grown people, but so fal there have been no deaths among those suffering with the disease.
 Listing PardOns.
 Secretary Bruce T. Bull on, of the governors office, and Stenographel Wallace Rose, spent a good portion of the past week in preparing al itemized statement for presentation to the General Assembly, of the par dons granted by Gov. Donaghey dur ing the past two years While tn, ist IS short one as compared witt those of other governors, t is
 lengthy and Eedious job. In one