Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-13
GENERAL FORREST
 IN THE STATE Visits and Organizes Sons of Veterans Camps-Pine Bluffian Complains to STATE COMMISSION
Says Cotton Belt Employees Sweep Cars Here-WilI Green Dies
 Plumbers Meet

General N. B. Forrest of Memphis is TOW in Little Rock for the purpose of spending three weeks in the state or ganizing camps of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans in Arkansas. He went to Philadelphia Monday night anl organized a camp with 91 char ter members. He will visit one town a day from now until the week before the Reunion and expects to organ ize 30 additional camps. Gen. For rest will announced the corrected pro- gram for the annual reunion of the Sons of Veterans within the next few days
 Pine Bluff Complaint.
 The Arkansas Railroal Commission is meeting today to consider num- Der of trivial matters which have come before it One of these is the petition for a depot at Ramey, in Jackson county The commission will also informally consider the pro- position of making an order regard ing the sweeping of coaches in ter minal points. It has been complain ed to the commission that the Cotton Belt at Pine Bluff, where a short stop is made, sweeps the coaches there and during the operation the passen- gers are covered with dust. The same thing is said of other roads at points where a stop of any length is made. The commission is discussing the mat ter with the railroal officials to see if they cannot use something to keep down the dust if the cars must be cleaned in transit at these points.
 Will Green Dead.
 Will Green, the negro who two years ago shot and killed City Mar shal John Hamilton, of Hope, and who was recently captured in Mississippi died in the Arkansas penitentiary, where he was placed for safe keeping, Tuesday. Green was about dead when arrested, but he would have been lynched if taken back to Hope Officers came to take him to Hope for Auial Sunday, but he was too weak to make the trip and they left him. Green was a bad negro and he would probably have remained at large asi long as he desired had he not been hopelessly ilT with consumption It is said the condition of the negro caused him to let his whereabouts be known so the reward could be collect ed, his relatives securing portion Of it.
 Arkansan On Border.
 Capt Curtis J. Little, of Co., M, 1st Inf, Blytheville, has written to Gen. B w. Green, of the Arkansas Nation al Guard, from Maneuver Camp, San Antonio, Texas, that he has been as- signed to Go. B, 17th Inf, and that Capt. Alexander, of Cabot, has been assigned to Co D, of the same regi- ment. He is we'll pleased with the camp and the prospect of valuable military lessons to be learned Capt. Little is the county surveyor of Mis- sissippi county, and is a brother of Representative A. G. Little of that county, who organized and was the first captain of Go. M.
 Plqmbers Meet.s
 The Arkansas Plumbers closed it's two days session in Little Rock Tuesday evening and selected Hot Springs as the meeting place in 1912. The Tuesday session of, the plumb ers, was devoted to the discussiom of methods of sanitation and the elec- tion of officers. Fort Smith seemed to dominate in the selection of off cers and had it not been for the pass it around spirit, would have taken the next meeting as well. W'm Bor- man of Hot Springs, was elected, pres ident. H. B. Meister of Fort Smith, vice president; Wallace Bruce, Fort Smith, secretary and August Reichart Fort Smith, treasurer. Barney Dunn of Fort Smith and Henry Himstedt C.. Little Rock, were chosen as delegstes to the national convention. with Hoyt Bruce of Fort Smith, and Lee Dugg ms of Fayettevill:, a- a!tes esna.e:.