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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-17
THE FACTS, THE TRUTH.
 DUTY OF COMMISSIONERS
TAXPAYERS SAY TO DO THEIR SWORN DUTY COMMISSIONERS MUST FIND MAJORITY
 AGAINST BRIDGE.
Pine Bluff, Ark, Aug. 16. 1912.

Pine Bluff, Ark, Aug. 16, 1912. State of Arkansas,
 County of Jefferson.
 l, J. Fl. Shelby, county clerk in and for the county of Jefferson, do here by certify that according to the re- cord of the last assessment of real property in Jefferson county, to-w.t: The assessment for 1911, on file in my office, there appears 6OO6 (six thousand, and six) names on real property owners, without repetition or duplication; that complete and correct. copy of the names, a'phabe- tlcally arranged, showing the pages on h'ch the names may be found cn the assessors record is hereto at- tached and filed herewith; that there are 25S (tWo hundred and fifty-eighD number of pieces of property listed under the head of unknown owners, and that said number of names and 1lnknowns are correct and true as shown by the assessors records of Jefferson county, Arkansas, for the year 1911.
 J. H. SHELBY, (SeaD County Clerk.
 We have shown that many are en- titled to withdraw their signatures from the Bridge petitions; that there are many repeaters thereon; that said petitions contain great many for geries; that many persons whose names are "WRITTEN" thereon can neither read nor write; that many names have been placed thereon with out authority and in addition to this We have filed with the Commission CTS list containing 8O7 names which do not appear on the Asse ssment Books for 1911 nor on the Tax Books for 1912, but which do appear upon and are included in the list hereto fore filed with the Commissioners and represented by them to contain the names of 2SS0 bona-fide real pro- perty owners of Jefferson County. The facts and the records speak for themselves.
 We now know that if the Bridge Commissioners do their sworn duty under the Law, they must find ma jority against the building of the so- Called Free Bridge
 Yours for self-protection,
 T. J. COLLIER,
 President Taxpayers Protective Assoclatlon. Advt. 1t.
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JUSTICE DOSS NAMED ID PRESIDE Governor Dix Takes a Hand In the Rosenthal Mur-
 der Case. WHITMAN COLLAPSES "hes Way to the Strain Under Which He Has Been Working and
 Goes to Vermont.
COLLAPSEs

New York, Aug. 16.-Fresa terror 1 was thrown into the ranks of the gun 1 men accused of shooting Herman Ros- ehthal today when Governor Dix of ! Ine State of New York appo ntad Supreme Court Justice John w. Doss.
 10 preside al the trial of Lieutenant
 Iharles A. Becker and whatever oth-
 CT men may be indicted for the crime.
 In the LeXow investigation Of po-
 Ice crookedress in 1894, John w.
 LOSS, then an attorney, took the lead
 !n@ part of prosecutor. Next month
 ne will sit in judgment on what pro-
 mlses to be as startling and revolt
 ing revelations of official laxity and
 Vice as was the LexCw probe. He
 was chosen Supreme Court Justice in
 1905 and has record of more con-
 v.cTions than any other judge in the
 state for an equal period of time.
 The trials of the men accused of murder will begin September 3 and Police Lieutenant Becker will be the first man tried. District Attorney Whitman who has been devot:ng night and day to the preparation of the evidence for the grand jury, faint ed from exhaustian twice in the past two days and this afternoon left for short rest at Manchester, Vt This gave rise to the rumor that Sam Schepps, the murder paymaster, ar rested at Hot Springs, Ark, would be taken to Manchester and there questioned by the District Attorney. Late this afternoon dispatches from Buffalo stated that Schepps and his captors, Assistant District Attorney Rubin and Detective Stewart, were due there at 7.30 tonight From Buff falo Schepps will be brought to New York and probably spirited into either the Tombs or the West Side police court prison, where Rose, Webber and Vallon, the informers, are now held
 It was reported here from a relia- ble source that Louis Libby, attorney for Louis Shapiro, and William l. bby, owners of the murder car, said that Shapiro saw the shot fired at Rosenthal and could name the man who pulled the trigger.
 Another surprise was sprung this afternoon when Max Freeman, tail or, declared that he saw Gyp the Blood, Harry HoroWitz, wanted as one of the murder gang and spoke to him in Harlem. Rigid questioning by the failed to shake Freeman's story and plain clothes men are out Harlem for the wanted man. Freeman says Horowitz and Lefty Louis Rosenzweig are living in m opium joint but occasionally ap- pear on the street.
 Commissioner of Police Waldo this afternoon issued an order reducing Police Inspector Cornelius E. Hays to he rank of captain, following a statement in the morning paper SUD- posed to have been made by Hays to he effect that Commissioner Waldo lad forbidden inspectors to invade vicious resorts. Hays was then sus- pended and ordered to report for trial or neglect of duty, he having been in harge of the fourth district in which
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-17

and R. C. Hardness. and tvo c1on,,a A. '-ee' and George W. Daniel en- ployed by the Taxpayers Protective Assoclatlon, compiled the list uo 't"eea also that Mr, Collier had also agreed to pay him the salaries of ina special deputies. Mr Shelby said bo hiieW nothing personally of the work done 0' IA
 An inspection of the book showed "n1ie the certificate stated thai if contained no duplicates that it did in iact contain large number of 6nn1i- ea'eS' For Instance, it was shown mat the book contained the names of Holland and Bloom, Bloom and Holland F. B. Bloom, A. Holland, Jones ana Bloom and W. D. Jones'" each liiih and individual being included in 'he count as one name, making six property owners counted instead of three.
 paSt oI lne DOCK filed "leh the Commission by the Taxpay- CTS appears the following names. F Tomlinson, N 5. Tomlinson Tomln- son and Roane, NJ. Tominson, NJ. R. zIomllnson F. B. Tomlinson and A. F. Tomlinson, All of these names sew eh Ill lumber listed for three prop efty owners, F. B. Tomlinson and Wife, Mrs. Mime Roane Tomlinson and mother Mrs. May Tomlinson.
 The list also contains all the names on the assessment books even though parties named are dead ana are no longer owners of preper- |y These were duplicated repeatedly lie DOCK shows the names of John M. Clayton and J. B. Dereiusseaux. two early residents of this county who nave been dead more than twenty years. The Little Rock, Mississippi. md Texas Railway Company, a firm that has been out of existence for many years, is also listed.
 W. A. Lee, R. G. Hardness and A. l NJ. Barrow .Ir., also testified before the Board. They explained how the list was compiled and said that it contained the names of all DroDerty owners listed on the assessment )ooks, Irrespective whether living or lead or i'll various firms and dupi- 'ated as individual property owners.
 The affidavit of County Clerk Shel- " follows:
 Pine Bluff, Ark, Aug. 16, 1912. State of Arkansas,
 County of Jefferson.
 l, J. H. Shelby, county clerk in and or the county of Jefferson, do hereby certify that according to the record 'f the last assessment of real prop- rty in Jefferson county, to-wit: The ssessment for 1911, on file in my of- ice, there appears 6006 (six thousand nd siX) names of real property own IFS, without repetition or duplication hat a complete and correct copy of he names, alphabetically arranged, hOWing the pages on which the James may be found on the asses OTIS record is hereto attached and fled herewith; that there are 25S two hundred and fifty-eight) num- CTS of pieces of property listed under he head of unknown owners. and that aid number of names and unknowns re correct and true as shown by the ssessors records of Jefferson coun- y, Arkansas for the year 1911.
 J. II. SHELBY, seaD County Clerk
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-17

ne Jefferson County Free Bridge
 nlssion held the shortest session Ae week yesterday, but it was de-
 s'y one of the most interesting in
 ol facts and figures, aside from 'elsatlonal turn in the hearing on
 pssday, when a charge of bribery
 naae by T. J. Collier, president
 laxpayers' Protective Associa
 gnu Wlllch was shattered by a
 a'sslon inquiry within a few F commission adjourned at noon 'coaSene at 9 o'clock this morn
 snen 1t will continue it's hear
 U gave the Taxpayers asscia- < sn''l } o'clock Friday afternoon t hst Of names of people, it is |l'u nave signed for the Free ~ but whose names do not an.
 Y 'ne assessment books as prop ovners. D piop l 'ile Commission opened it's SA friday morning Attorney J. H. Adel' for the Taxpayers, filed pss, ' accompanied by certificate sm u'y Clerk J. H. Shelby, certify ... ,'4a' tae book contained all the 'nich appear on the real es- ','.' ,.s'essment books for 1911: that I,. . as llled contains e,oO6 names, ,sa, ,ss. counting duplicates.
 ~, elerk Shelby, on examina- h.., a 'nat he himself did not make ss,,' A nor did he do any of the ,,.s M 5 but that two newly ap- ~ ueputies. A. M. Barrow IT..
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-17
FOR SALE CHEAP,

One half block of ground, with modern cottage on Chestnut and 10th street. Apply to Mrs. Essie Wilson. Froug's Department Store. 7-15-6t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-17

Miss Elsie Baldwin. who has been teaching school on the Sulphur Springs road is visiting her parents sat RisOn.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-17
pTTS IT UP TO ORACLE

little Rock, Ark, Aug. 16, 1912. h the Editor of the Pine Bluff
 Graphic:
 Pine Bluff3 Ark. i Dear Sir:-My attention has ust been called to a statement aid to have been made by Asa Oracle and published in your Issue of the 18th inst. If the ar that referred to me were to b unchallenged, some people kho did not know me, might live credence to it. Any state bent made by Asa Oracle, or ,Hybody else, that 1 said I Sould see that he (Asa Gracie) Eas taken care of if he would tse his influence to have his Ather MT. John M. Oracle, with DlaT his opposition to the Hiding of the Pine Bluff dge, is a willful and malic- us falsehood. Neither did I |lrectly or indirectly offer to leeure him any fee in connec- aOn With the bridge or inter- lfban matters.
 sn willing to make this 'Vvment before any commits lon or any court.
 Respectfully yours,
 JAMES A. GRAY,
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-17

makes an iron clad condition that he and all his officers and men shall re- ceiNe full pardon and be restored 10 citizenship. Almost it seems, coin- eldent With the arrival of the demand rom orozco, the G.000 rebels under Emlllano Hapata. Alphonso Miranda and Jose Mora who are operating in me state of Mexico close 10 Mexico ! ny, began to take on fresh activity. they sacked several small villages within fifteen miles of the national palace, notably Milpa Alta and Con treras, suburbs and to the south and west Milpa Alta was burned.
 Orozco Leaves .Duarez.
 Ef Paso, Tex. Aug. 16.-lt is re- ported here that Pascual Orozco left Juarez late this afternoon for MeXi- co City, having llpen guaranteed nro- lection by Madero for trip to the capital to discuss terms of peace.
 The rebels evacuated Juarez today gong south and west into the coast states of Sonora, where they plan to ]oln General SalaZar, Orozco's second to command
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
The Churches Tomorrow

Methodist Church-Rev. A. M Shaw, pastor.
 Sunday School at 9:45 a. m.
 Regular services at Il a. m. and s D. m. conducted by the pastor.
 Morning Theme: Problems, Perils, Perseverance and Pow er." Evening Theme: The Star Over the Manager.
 Services will be continued at 10 a. m. and 8 p. m. each day throughout the week, Rev. T. P. Clark of Amity, will do the preaching. Dr. Clark is a strong, eloquent and most convincing gospel preacher and his subjects will be of vital interest to all the people
 Everybody cordially invited to attend both services.
 1st Baptist Church
 Sunday School at 9:45. a. m. Everybody cordially invited.
 Presbyterian Church. Rev. H. W. Steen, pastor.
 Sunday School at 10 a. m.
 Preaching by the pastor at II a. m. and 7:30 D. m.
 All are invited to the services of the day.
 Christian church.
 Bible school at 10 a. m.
 Preaching II a. n.
 Evening service at 500 D. m. There will be a Rebekah memor- ial service.
 Every one invited to all ser vices.
 c. H. Gilmore. minister.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
Meeting at Little Rock

Little Rock, Sept. 14-A meet has been called Tor D. m. Sept. 24, at the Marion Hotel, of all persons interested in the pro posed highway from Little Rock to Texarkana. A bill providing for such an improved road is be ing prepared for introduction in to the next Legislature. Hon. H. G. Mckenzie of Prescott says:
 Let parties interested in i'm proved highways in every county through which direct line from Little Rock to Texarkana would pass see that their county is properly represented at this meeting"
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
MUST BE OF SCHOOL
 AGE BY NOVEMBER

It is directed by the Board that children who will not be of school age before the first of No vember cannot enter school till the first of the year. This is done to prevent crowded condi- ton in the Primary Department. It should be understood, too, by some parents that the pri- mary building has been fixed and was announced by the architect to be perfectly safe.
 The Public Schools will open at SOC o'clock Monday morning and it is to be hoped that every parent will cooperate to make the best year yet. We'll have your children and we want you and your help.
 Ellis E. Butcher,
 Principal
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14

age into a system of just and reasonable charge which will fall where they will create the least burden. When we shall have done that, we can fix questions of revenue and of business ad- justment in new spirit and with clear minds. We shall then be partners with all the business men of the country, and day of freer, more stable prosperity shall have dawned."
 Nothing can be clearer than that Governor Wilson has given the subject tariff revision close and intelligent study. He has avoided the reactionary attitude of the Taft Republicans, and has put to shame the heterogeneous quibbling of the third-term can- didate in the discussion of this important issue of the campaign. He has left nothing to inference but has clearly and honestly sta> ted his position. The American people who have so long been the victims of Republican repudia- tions of platform pledges regard ing the revision of the tariff, will find Governor Wilson's frank and clean cut statement refresh ing and inspiring. His speech of of acceptance holds out for the first time in many years that the tariff will be actually revised downward and revised with ref. erence to the good ot all the peo- pie rather than for the special interests which have heretofore been able to prevent the Republi- can Party complying with it's solemn platform pledges.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
"GIVE YOURS AND
 WIN WITH WILSON"

Now that we are through with the state campaign lets put a little more "pep" into the dollar campaign fund. The money is needed and Democrats must give it. The cracker box ora tors of Arkansas who have been settling questions of state for To, these many years, should fur nish at least $5, ,0O0.0O in one dollar installments.
 We have a number of buttons at this office. Give yours now.
 The following are those who contributed to the fund
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
Girl Asleep Three Weeks.

Boston, Sept 14,-What has caused Miss Agnes Hea, daughter of Arthur J. Hea of Medford and student in the high school there, to remain asleep three weeks is puzzling the doctors in a Brookline hospital, who arc trying to awaken her. The maj ady, which is thought to have origin. ated from a spell of hysteria, came upon the young woman in a hotel at Bar Harbor, where she was spending the summer. She smiles continuous. ly, even when pins are stuck into her body.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14

Considerable interest is felt in Little Rock political circles ov- CT the report coming from Bates vile to the effect that w. A. Old field is considering becoming a candidate for the U. s. Senate against James P. Clarke. Mir. Oldfield succeeded Congressman $. Brundidge of the Second Dis> trict, and has made a notable record in Congress. It has b n expected that Senator Clarke would have opposition He has not definitely announced his own intentions with refer, ence to asking for another term, although it has been generally accepted that he would run again. It is believed that Cover nor-elect Joe T. Robinson has his eye on the Senate but when he will run is not known, whether against Senator Clarke next time or wait five years and enter the contest with Jeff Davis.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
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second class mail matter t ts,sd as ath' 1905, at the post93ffices e3 cs |emOelft 4'a, Ar,k., under the act or rs'ss'M ss. March 3, 1873.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
CALLED BACN'

oynopslS - Gilbert Vaughan, wealthy young man is suddenly stricken blind. Physicians state that in time he might recover sight. Chaffed bitterly at condi- ton. While tossing on his bed in his room one night he decides to go out on the street alone, and eluding his nurse he stealthily left the house. He loses his bearing, became frantic and f. nally comes to stoop that he thinks is his own house, but when he hears a woman playing the piano he realizes that he is in the wrong house. The song continued. Suddenly he heard a gas and a groan. The song ceased and he heard piercing scream. Forgetting his afflic. tion, he stumbled into the room and fell over a body on the floor. Someone grabbed him and he heard the click of revolver. He shouted, Spare me, am blind" The assasians satisfy themselves that he told the truth and con- ducted him from the house. In time work of skillful physicians bore fruit and his sight was re- stored. Began search for house but effort was in vain.
 Part Vaughan goes to It. ally for pleasure trip and was smitten with love at first sight when he saw a beautiful girl at prayer in the cathedral. Discov- CTS that girl lived with uncle and maid. Asked uncle for girls hand and after satisfying him. self that Vaughan was rich the uncle consented to the marriage provided that it were celebrated immediately. After ceremony t h uncle disappears and Vaughan finds that his wife is in- sane. In time a shock restored her mind and through it the mys- tery of the murder heard but not seen by Vaughan was re vealed. The victim was the girls brother and she was in the room and the shock drove her mad.
 In all, this is one of the best story pictures that Prescott has had in some time. You will en. joy 1t. At the Airdome tonight. No advance in price, and 10 cents.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
Wilson on the Tariff

"ernor Wilson's position on
 'ailH is so clear and well de. mat it merits the closest Foi every earnest citizen, example, he said in his Fsl < of acceptance:
 FFae a revision should begin 'le schedules which have |ns.''' vs' obviously used to kill \ r'r,''on T, and to raise prices |s;,n u''ed States, arbitrarily |,;u. |s.'a0ut regard to the prices |''s'ng as elsewhere in the mar, !, world; and it should he.
 ,sls IS finished or intermitted |,sh. suaed to every item in ev, I,tns''0 Irsa0le which affords an N l''l'y for monopoly, for |ps ot t@uvantage to limited l;s;O oenefciaries. or for
 na,sa.c control of any kind in ks eaaas avss or the enterprises bt eyssS ysusry' until special fav. PhtelNv' y'.1 sort shall have been
 oiou, N',sndrawn " and every bass VI laws of taxation shah
 sa of transformed from a
 Governmental patron. !
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
|p I. JOHNSON, EDITOR
noNDAY'S ELECTION

hond amendment has a ss over t6,0OO on the votes .stoa bv all to be a majority sh inc further returns can overcome. It is therefore a |.,;utv that this long-sought Indment to the constitution heen adopted, ,and many cities oyDected to begin very soon st on foot movements for Id issues.
 ! is also assured that the peo- by a tremendous majority 5 declared themselves of six ,.r sessions of the Legisla- e It appears that elective eers will soon be subject to all, and that capital invested Iotton factories may be ex- lii from taxation for a period [ears; also that the negroes continue to vote without in- pretirgthe constitution. kll these things being out of way, the greatest amount of rest centers in state wide on which there are various mates that will not be deh- M decided until the official rns from the last county are The liquor men claim they e carried the state by about )N, instead of the 10000 they med at first. The Gazette's bres give them l majority of 10. The Arkansas Democrats res 44,044 for the act and SO against it. Taking all the Orts together, Supt. Frank Frett figures a majority of
 3A3 against the act, with ut 10000 votes to hear from. liquor men claim there will bout thirty wet counties in, ld of nine as heretofore.
 With the country vote coming sit does, and cutting down antl.state-wide majority, ," Supt. Barrett, we have a chance to win. Aside from
 mere are reports of fraud, eumes of the most fragrant lacler' especially in the negro as' and several thousand
 may be thrown out on that |ant' The situation is being ehed closely everywhere, and
 returns will be contested 'eVer these frauds exist"
 a'he other hand, the liquor
 say they have reports from
 su or the counties showing a'e malorities that cannot "srcome, which will give 'ue state by about 15,O0O.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
Mrs. McLean's Burial Saturday.

Washington, Sept. 14.-The funeral services of Mrs. John R. Mclean, who died at Bar Harbor Monday, will be held Saturday morning from the fam fly residence. Interment will be in the Mclean mausoleum in Rock Creek Cemetery. Rev. c. Livingston Bayard, chaplain of the United States Navy, will ctficiats.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
A Scientific Achievement

Modern science has produced no such effective agency in the relief of indi- gestion, dyspepsia, constipation, bil- iousness or impure blood as Meritol Tonic Digestive, the result of the best minds of the American Drug and Press Association, composed of druggists and newspaper men all over the country. Try this great remedy. Hesterly Drug Store Association Members.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
Opening of Tin Plate Mill Celebrated

Elwood, Ind, Sept. 14.-Hundreds of visitors among them former Vice. President Fairbanks, United States Senator Kern, Daniel c. Reid of New York and other men of wide promi- hence, came to Elwood to take part in the celebration of Tin Plate Day, the twentieth anniversary of the building here of the first tin mill in America
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
EVER HEAR ABOUT THIS?

We want everybody in Prescott to know about Meritol White Liniment, It will do so much for. pains of all kinds rheumatism, sprains etc. We have never sold preparation that we could recommend more highly. Hesterly Drug Store.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-14
WaIIoch's BaKory
Foley Kidney Pills

What They Will Do for You
 They will cure your back ache, strengthen your kid neys, correct urinary irreg- ularities, build up the worn out tissues, and climate the excess uric acid that causes rheumatism. Prev ent Bright s Disease and Dia- bates, and restores health and strength. Refuse sub stitutes.
 Hesterly Drug Store
The Winslow mail., 1912-03-30
CARDINALS WILL
HAVE BIG CROWD

The dance to be given by the
Cardinals Baseball Team assist
ed by the Winslow Boys Band
Monday evening April Sth. pro-
misses to be one of the most sue
cessful dances Of the season. We
are informed that already 1926
tickets have been sold and all
the Winslow dancers will be
there. The boys are doing some
hard rustling to be sure that
everyone will have ticket for
the dance and good music and a
good time is assured to all.