Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-26
SILVER SERVICE
 FOR ARKANSAS Gov. Donaghey and Others to Select Design for the ..~ Battleship.
A BIG FREE BRIDGE
At Van Buren and Fort Smith Will Soon Be C0mpleted-OtIler
 News Notes.

Little Rock, Jan. 25.- No slight the naval department might have shown toward the greatest of all States, Arkansas, Will prevent this great commonw from pay ing an elaborate tribute to the great battleship bearing it's name, as has ever been paid by a sovereign state. Gov. Donaghey is at the head of committee authorized by the House to look for suitable silver service to be presented to the battle ship when it is placed in commission. This committee is now receiving de- signs and they will be gone over be- tween the present time and the mid- dle of February, when report will be made back to the House, where an appropriation bill to purchase the service will originate. It is the in- tention of Gov. Donaghey to make such showing at the presentation that the unhappy incident of the launching will be entirely forgotten and Secretary Won Meyer will feel the rebuke of the state in the man ner it shows appreciation of the dreadnought bearing the name of Arkansas.
 Free Bridge at Van Ruren.
 By the first day of December we should have the greatest bridge in Ar kansas completed and ready for ser vice. states R. F. Allen, one of the directors of the improvement district which is building a free bridge across the Arkansas to connect Van Buren with Fort Smith, We have sealed up five piers on our big bridge, and within month or more we will have the other three in the same advanc- ed stage of completion, unless we get spell of high Water We hope 70 nave the tramway completed all Fhe way across the river within a nonth, and when this is done hign Fater will never stop us. Our bridge to be wider than any city street elng 80 feet in width It will con- Aln two street railway tracks, two Daoways, two foot paths and one ack for steam cars, which will be the center of the bridge. If the Pntractors complete the bridge by ecember 1st, they will have erected bridge in one year, the quickest ne on record for bridge of this Hgnltude, and the contractors are month or so ahead of their lmates in the way of completion
 Oppose the Bill.
 ne members of the Arkansas Rail- commission and those who have Po"ed the work of the Commits ' closely, do not agree with the ihston bill in the Arkansas Sen TOT the abolishment of the Con- slon. In every section of the tnene is depot, or some con- lon nas been given by the rail- companies to mark the progress ught about by the Commission. tue people would resent the do- away with this body. While the cad commission has failed to on. 'ow rates provided by the state ldtures, the Commission has not su to fight for their enforcement 'ne fight is not yet lost by any s' TOT the suits are still in the
 With two years or more ahead
 rem before final decision is
 oy the highest court in the
 II the Commission wins in
 suits' the, Arkansas travellers
 pe saved millions of dollars
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 me members of the Con-
 on do not consider seriously
 - legislature will even give a
 'D committee report upon the
 nespite for Two Men.
 Iov. Donaghey granted a 90
 ssp''e to Henry Pierce, wife
 - ol Little River County. and
 lppi Voodoo, a negro sentenc-
 TOT criminal assault, both
 were to be legally execut-
 rr'day. he gave both men a,
 noe to escape, particularly
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 rs ra'nst him being considered sE; ne General Assembly is now
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 sssal executions in Arkan-
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 0e done in time to save
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