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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-04
SIMON BLOOM GIVES
 OUT STATEMENT
PRNlSES TO MAKE ANSWER IN i FEW DAYS TO THOSE WHO ARE BOOMING HIM FOR
 MAYOR
Says His Candidacy Depends rpon His Ability To Arrange Business
 Matters Satisfactorily.

From all indications tie entries in the race for mayor W I be numerous The term of Dr. A. (. Jordan ex- pifes neXt April. Already several gentlemen have tentatively announced their candidacy. It is believed that deflnle announcements will be made shorty Dr. Jordan may be eandi- date fer reelection. Attorney W. B. Sorrells is also in the field. Others ale being spoken of 5n connection Wssh the mayoralty and their an nouacements are expected in few days.
 Simen Bloom is one of those wfo has teen mentioned as candidate. MT. Bloom yesterday gave out the fol- lowing signed statement:
 Pine Bluff, Ark, Oct 3. 1912. To the Democratic Voters of Pine
 Bluff
 Within the pas few weeks have been approached by a graa many citizens. With the request that l sub nit my name for your consideration as a cand date for mayor at the en- suing Democratic primary. It $ use less for me to sell you how highly I appreciate the honor ycu confer upon me by even mentioning my name as one of your good citizens in connec- tion with the tffice of the city chief executive.
 l have been giving the matter that careful cons derat on which to my mind it's importance demands, and I fully appreciate the responsibility resting upcn the office of mayor
 Pine Bluff has long since outgrown it's infancy stage, and with the prop CT administration of it's affairs should soon become the pride of it's citizens and visitors. To bring about this much desired result It vii require the undivided time and attenton of any man no matter how capable. and he cannot share his time With personal and business affairs. The most serious obstacle in the way of tn s city attaining it's proper position from civic standpoint is that her affairs have in the past been too much neglected by the demands of the per sonal affairs of it's former chief ex- ecutives.
 l SHOULD NOT WANT TO TAKE UPON MYSELF TFhE( DUTIES OF THE OFFICE UNLESS I CAN FIND TT POSSIBLE TO GIVE TT ALL MY TIME AND ATTENTION, and am trying 10 arrange my personal affairs to that end. The matter is of so much imptrtance to the city as well as to myself that do not want to de- eide the matter too hastily
 Therefore, I beg the indulgence of my friends for few days, with the pioHliSS tldt II lHen give mem a definite answer, and one that l hope Will be just to them as we'll as to myself.
 Again thanking you and assuring you that am for a greater Pine Bluff I am, s .s43
 Yours sincerely,
 SIMON BLOOM.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-04
A MILLION MEN
 UNDER ARMS There Is Much Uncertainty In Balkan Situation As Reports Cannot Be
 Confirmed.
AUSTRIA FOR PEACE
Powers Making Every Effort To Avert Conflict EUt Indications Are
 Decidedly W like.

London. Oct. 3.-Wita the rensors alre ady a1 work in the capitsls Of 5he Balkan states there is mueH uncer- tainty here as L. the actual tuation A e..crt that Bulgariau iroops have already crossed the frontier is mcon- firmed.
 E is known definitely, however, that million men are stand ns to arms awaiting d military signal or even an untoward incident to hurl conflict. Apparently events have proc eded too faa, fer them To turn back. The strongest hope fer peace lies in the statement of the Austrian emperor who, according to a Morning Tele graph dispa ch from Vienna, sited the King of Greece when the latter passed through that city and said 10 him:
 q hope and believe that despite the difficult s tla ion it will be possible to avoid War. Hepe must not be aban- loned wthsi anding the military Pre parations.
 Tn s sums the situation as if exists a a tate hour tonight It is known that the greal powers are moving heaven and earth to prevent trouble,
 A Belgrade dispatch to the Tele- grapl states that indifference to the Wisses of the powers the Se~Nian g0v- ernment will not withdraw the Ser vian minister from stantinQple even if the Ot omen reply with regard to deta ammunition is unsatisfac- tory. However, there is much sus- piclon among the powers that Austria has not yet declared her true role. Gel tainly the diplomacy of the Pow CTS a.Yays with jealous eye upon each other, has net been able to pre- vent he present tense situation. Mere than ever does the so-cal cd
 concert of Europe" appear tc be only a parpse.
 Meai, while. according to all dis pitches the enthusiasm for war is spreading rapidly through all inc Balkan states and despite the report that Servia will reain her minister at the Forte, a dispatch to the Daily Express from Belgrade declares that by tt!ight 2S0,o0o troops will have been mob lized.
 That Turkey is likely to have Rou- mania as an ally is strongly intimat- ed in 6 dispatch to the Daily Chron- icle
 Th.e war spcndents of the Lon- don Daily have departed for the front The general opin on of this brlgade is that there will be gen eral advance against the Turk sh army in Macedonia which will be the battle ground and the first fighting will be across the Bulgarian frcn- tier through the mountainous gate ways near Belagradtchik, to wh ,ch the allies are now hurrying.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-04
DR. RLNt WELL StYS HE
 Is NOT SPEEDING

Dr. o. G. Blackwell yesterday de med Una he was driving rapidly Tuesday nlght when his au. amobile crashed into q buggy driven by Dr. W. Il. Blankenship The very fae1 that there was as little damage as there was he says, is evidence Of the Iaei that s machine was running very slew.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-04

Leach, Who has been connected with 'ae eommissa1y or lhe Arkansas snort Lear Lumber Company fer sonle time
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-04
MAJOR PARkFS FOR
 COMMISSION FORM
N N OPEN LETTER HE SAYS FINE BLUFF SHOULD BE coy.
 GRNED BY COMPASSION
'andidate Of I've Years Ago lnti. mates That He May Run
 Again.

The conditional annouucemen.e of candidacy for mayor that have been made in tie past few days have salv- ed 10 focus all eyes on city politics. The Jefferson County Democratic Central Committee will meet in the neat tuture tG set the date for tAe City primary ana then the contest will be on in earnest.
 In 2 letter which is publ shed n full below Major W. J. Parkes refers to the statements that have been pub llshed. He is strongly in favor of comm ssion government for Pine Blufl and intimates that he may again be candidate fer mayor. The le ter follows:
 Editor Graphic:
 l have noticed in the press of late various effusions from persons who seem to think they are being solicit ed by their anxious friends to run for mayor
 don { know just what has inspired these statements at this time. Ger tainly the town needs mayor, but l have not yet run across any ovJ : whelming cry for the public for any Of these gentlemen to sacrifice them- selves on the public altar Perhaps they have their ears closer to the ground than I?
 This city is $30,000 tin round num- bers) deeper in debt than it was two years ago. Nobody, with the present form of government can pull it out in two md e years. Consequently the next mayor will catch the blame.
 What this town needs is not so much new mayor as commission form of government.
 1 have been solicited to run for mayor by, possibly not so many voters as the gentlemen who are oc- cupying space just now, but at least two hundred.
 The people of Pine Bluff have just passed through a state electlon-a national election is now on-they are certainly entitled to rest but these ambitious gentlemen seem unwilling to give it to them.
 Therefore in order to make my position clear to my tends I wish to state through your paper that:
 CD. I want the city of Pine Bluff to have the best possible form of government, which is the commission.
 (2). l want it to have the best possible mayor under any form or government.
 (3). Such man has not yet been suggested. If he is, l will heartily support him, if not, l will give the people of Pine Bluff another chance to vote for me.
 But in any event why start the campaign before November?
 Yours for Pine Bluff,
 w. J. PARKES.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-04

" sATED-2a Lumber teams for had'Ihs lumber and logs, 20 men to work "t mill and cutting timber. Pay weekly or every two weeks: good Wages; good place to board ii desired, app'' at mill near farry, Ark.. or III l.. Main street. room ,. Pine blu.f' Ark. .EzeIl >ta,c and lun,,.er Co. o.,s L..
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-04
on New York Express bed Track While Run ! At Speed of Thirty
 Miles An Hour.
[S BURN TO DEATH
Students of Conservatory of [ Perish Before The Eyes of II Trying to Rescue Them.

satuck, Conn.,, Oct. 3.-Four-
 ersons ,fe known to be killed is thought several others lost lives when the second section ! he Boston-New York express, ! New Haven at 3::55, jumped lack at Naugatuck Junction
 baking the cross-oVer from one four tracks to another short- bre } o'clock this afternoon track torn beneath it, the Stive toppled over and I'd down the steep embankment side of the track. Both the Ter and firemen were killed. R2gage car on the forward end ] train was eatapulted out of but the Pullman cars quick
 ght fiie from the burning coaIs led by the engire and within hlr were almost completely ked. Nine bodies have been [out of the Wreckage and three ean be seen Tut at d late hour rescuers have been unable to lte them. It is almost certain |ther bodies ! e hidden in the bf twisted debris.
 trains carrying nurses and : ans were immediately rushed |stene Of the wreck tom Stam- b,d the bodies as soon as they
 be reached were removed to a store. The injured wye talk narby residences.
 bodies are at the morgue here, II them being Engineer Clark ireman J. J. Moker. The others S. James Brady, of Albany, X. d two children. and an un- man.
 engine exploded practically at hme moment that it left the rails ling 70 an eye witness. The re- ras heard several mics distant. lrding to W tnesses the train lnning fifty miles an hour when re dent occurred.
 leopold Stiegel, a New York ant, and friend were sittirg
 au omobile at the NaugatEck when the wreck occurred and thrown from the machine by the ssion of the explosion. The 'ersons to reach the overturned saw three young girl pupils of eston Cons scTvatory of Music Q dt ath before ther eyes after
 ad aided in dragging the fourth quartet from a window. The
 Wamen were in the firth coach.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-04
Morgan Tells Investigating Committee He Contribut- ed That Sum To Repub-
 liean Campaign Fund.
! WILLING WITNESS
Great Financial G0rg0n States Thai His F i'll Neither Asked Nor Ex.
 petted Any Return.

Wash n9tGn, Oct. 3.-.J. P. Morgan today told inc Clapp committee in- vesti5a ing campaign funds that he gave the National committee d total of 5la00e0 in l9o4 and understood that y76,0oo of that sum was 10 go into the S sz-called Hartman fund for the New York ate fight.
 In 196S George R. Sheldon, wdo had succeeded Cornelius X. Bliss as treasurer of the hat onal Republican orga 1iZation, received from h m, 1he flnancier sad, two contributions az S'fe23ting S30, GOO Not a single dol lar of Morgan money has been con tributed t5 any Of the 1912 cam paigAs.
 Judge Charles H. Duell who assist ed Treasurer Bliss i'll 1904, following MT. s!orgaa on he stand told haw Benjamin B. OsDenn. demanded the S250 ,Gao to save New York from the
  Democ12.s, He said a prev ous con- tribation of S200,eoo had been made to tha national and state ticket.
 Mr. Morgan was the most tactful witness whe has appeared before the Senate committee. His 70 ce and manner in answering questions WIS alWazs defsrential After long ef- fort Lad been made to elicit tes l. money thas conbinat on of bus ness magma es headed by Morgan had manipulated elections by the financial powers, the witness however im- patiently held up his hand for sil- ence.
 Several seconds elapsed during which the intense silence in the room was not broken by either side. Tren Mir. Morgan began to talk n tones Wh c.i revealed more emotion than is suggested by his reputation for stern- ness.
 ''I want f distinctly understood" said dr. Morgan with emphasis that J. P. Morgan and Company never made single subscription to any elec ion with any premise CT eXpecta- tion o9 any return in any shape CT manner and We never made a sHb- scr'pton unless we thought it fer the best interests of the government and the i1e ople.
 We never had communication from candidate: we never had any applications from any candidates. The only interest we nave ever had was in the welfare of the public. We never asked any commitments; we never expected any returns and we never got any
 The audience which filled every available foo, of space in the room Uttered as .he gray haired banker continued h's statement and good naturedly MT. Morgan turned about II his chair and smiled back at them.
 Altaough as,onishingly alert men, tally for man of his age-76 yeaTs- Mr. Morgan has grown much weaker physically than believed. He carries much less weight than in former years and walks with hesitating gait After each answer there was evidence of a deep throat cough, a trouble which is said to have grown
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-04
, THE INTERNATIONAL, NEWS SERVICE,
PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER l. 1912
chronic with him from excess ve

chronic with him from exeess.v ve smoking.
 Senator Clapp afforded the audi ence q langh in which Mr Morgan al so to2k part. by remarking at he con- clusron of his testimony Lat the wit ness Was entitled to his expenses for the trip to W shing on.
 "Oh, hat will be all I ght," /" a. swerad he banker before he caught the hlmor ef the remark
 Mr. Morgan took tire stand at 10.1a and was excused It ID: a0 He was told hat he might De wanted aga II by the cemmitse ee but ceull go back 0 New York.
 in beginning the interrogation Chairman Clapp, directed the atten- ton of Ar Morgan to aa article by Gai,les Edward Brassell, charging that President Roosevelt had demand ed that Morgan raise $100,oh0 for his campaign and that Wayne MacNeagh had been present when Mr. Morgan talkel with the White House oyer the telepaone. The art cle quotes Alr. Morgan as having sa q 10 Mr. Mac Veaga after having finished the al- leged telephone:
 What do you think that--maniac in the White House wants me 10 do? Raise IS100,000 more for his campaign after all we did for him
 Mr. MacVeagh is said 10 have asked Mr. Morgan what he was going to do about i. and Mr. Morgan replied:
 T suppose t Il nave to be done
 Do you recall any incident of that kind. MT. Morgan?' asked Senator ClaDa.
 Nothing whatever, answered the banker
 Do you recall anything of Mr. soliciting a contribution towards the close Of he campaign of 1902.
 sNo, except Wat l have heard since, but l don't recall anything. Of h5ve heard f in the last m m9nth or two constantly
 Yes, but do you recall it in con- nee ,en W tn his making any sol!ci- tation of you?'
 T :io no5 think MT. Hartman ever made any solicitations Of me
 NOW. in 1908, did you make any contrlbu ions to the national cam- ragn fund?'
 The only cne know of is $20,GO0 that was paid to Mr sheldon
 'S1ate whether ycu made any con- tribution to the pre-convention cam paign of any cand date for the pres..- dency in 1912"
 "I did not; I was not here: I was not in the country at all.'
 Did any of your associates that you know of?''
 Not that I know of. My firm did not in any way.
 Judge Duell took the witness chair as soon as it had been vacated by MT Mcrgan. He said he did net know of a. b g contribution by Arch bold; certainly net under that name, but ac thought it might have been with large contribution by H. H. Rodgers. He knew that three, four oi five men gave $1o0.OOO each and three insurance companies gave b5o,00C esch. He knew about the Hartman fund, but after eight years could remember no details.
 When Judge Duell concluded the recessed until tomorrow at 10 o'clock when Colonel Roosevelt will be heard.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-04

Gfe7Ns and futg5Fja6s sailed on he Naureiana: 2o others unable to get arr Wal ine fol. the neXe boat; while Steamship agencies lc- Ttff" fHaE thCN 1lye tNa1Iica lY sold OH el tickets fir weeks ahead
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-04
LARkIN BECOMES
 \ KNIGHT OF THE GRIP

es Larkin, who fer many years len city salesman fer the Ham, Company has been pro-
 to the position of trayellng Ian at an advance in salary for me firm. MT. Larkin will be 4ded as city salesman by F. B.
The Bourbon news., 1912-01-30

CHAPTER VII.-Chambret has left Al
geria and ORourke has to gain a mill
tary detachment going across the desert
to reach his friend AS he finds the latter
there is an attack by bandits and
Chambret is shot.
The Bourbon news., 1912-01-30

Danny"
''Yis, sor?"
''Have ye revolver?"
Here. sor."
"Give it here, and bring another
back with ye. Lively, now!"
Alone, O'Rourke seated himself on
the edge OF the fountain and consid-
cred gravely the uncertainties CT life
"'Tis fate" he concluded soberly, at
length. "Ard It's hard upon eleven
now They will not dare to run that
cargo before midnight; and-meself
sorely needs a bath"
Deliberately he stripped off rags and
tatters and plunged into the fountain
Danny was. back with the promised
wearing apparel ere he had finished
splasning.
And while O'Rourke dressed, and for
long thereafter, the two sat and
smoked and confabulated, talked OF
Men and Things and the turn of the
Wheel of the World.
The Bourbon news., 1912-01-30
CHAPTER XVI.

At midnight the muezzin in neigh
boring minaret turned his face to the
windswept sky and summoned the
faithful to prayer and meditation
ORourke pulled thoughtfully at his
pipe until the musical, melancholy
vail had been whipped away Ey the.
breath CT the khaTsin, and there was
silence save for the dull, heavy roar
ing overhead Then he resumed the
conversation where it had been inter-
rupted.
and ye say ye love the young wom-
an, Danny?"
Il do that. yer honor"
"And ye would marry her?"
ovid yer honor's consint-Tm ready,
sor."
81 bless the banns. Ye may have
her on one condition"
"Aw-w?"
1--WE need Of ye, as I've pointed
out"
"Sure, yer honor knows We can count
on me to the last breath in me. sor-"
"Then yell come with me to Bur
mah?"
DO you think, sor, could slape of
nights, after hearin' from your own
lips what we've been through and sus-
pectin' what more ye must go through
With before we've won? Will / be
comm, is ut? Faith, I'll go whether
ye want me or not"
'And afterwards ye can come back
to Miss Psyche here, or whatever her
name may be-
''Yiss, yer honor, and thank We kind
ly." Abruptly Danny started
up. They'll be comm now, sor," he
said in an excited whisper. I'm think
in l hear thin Numbering down the
alley"
Continued in our Next
The Bourbon news., 1912-01-30

enough, kissed him full and long upon
his lips.
My dear! My dearl" she murmured
in French what has happened, o,
what has happened? My poor, poor
boy!"
Now the integral madness of all this
was as effectual in restoring O'Rourke
to partial consciousness as had been
a douche of cold water in his face.
Blankly he told himself that he was
damned, and that it was all a dream.
And yet, when he looked, it was to
see, dim in the feeble glimmer of the
lamp, the face of woman as beauti-
full as young, as young as beautiful.
One glance was enough O'Rourke
shut his eyes again. ''If l look too
long" he assured himself, shell van
ish or-or turn into fiend. Sure, it's
a judgment upon me! Too long have
been an amorous dram-drinker; this
will undoubtedly be the delirium-tre-
mems of love!"
And with that he passed quietly into
temporary Inconsistencies.
The Bourbon news., 1912-01-30
Railroad Wrecks.

The tragic deaths of former presi-
dent j. It. Harahan, of the Illinois
Central, and three other high railroad
officials at Kinmundy, ILL.,, again
illustrates the small regard American
railroads have for human lives compar-
ed to other nations. The number of
passengers killed in this country in
1908 was 301 in 1909 the number was
253, and in 1910 the numbe, arose to
421. These figures are for passengers
clone, and do not include trainmen and
other epmloyes, among whom the
fatalities annually reach into the thous-
ands.
: Against this slaughter of American
railroad passengers the British rail-
roads in 1910 killed only % passengers,
a number greatly in excess of the
average. In 1911 not a Isingle passen-
ger was killed in a wreck in Eng land.
That these wholesale deaths are not
necessary in this country is proven by
the fact that one of the big Eastern
roads, for the last two years mas used
nothing, but solid steel coaches, during
which time not single passenger has
been killed on that road.
The Bourbon news., 1912-01-30

CHAPTER 1.-The story opens at
Monte Carlo with Col Terence O'Rourke
in his hotel. O'Rourke military free
lance and something of a gambler, is
dressing for appearance in the restaurant
below when the sound of a girlish voice
singing attracts his attention. Leaning
out on the balcony he sees a beautiful
girl who suddenly disappears. He rushes
to the corridor to see a neatly gowned
form enter the elevator and pass from
sight.
The Bourbon news., 1912-01-30

CHAPTER V.-O'Rourke is forced to
fight duel with the viscount The brag-
gart nobleman is worsted in the combat
and acts the poltroon.
The Bourbon news., 1912-01-30

CHAPTER U.-O'Rourke's mind is
t1lled with thoughts of the girl, and when
ne goes TO the gaming table he allows his
remarkable winnings to accumulate in
differently. He notices two men watch
ing him. One is the Hon. Bertie Glynn,
while his companion is Viscount Des
Trebes, a noted duelist. When OROurke
leaves the table the viscount tells him he
represents the French government and
that he has been directed to O'Rourke as
a man who would undertake secret
mission.
The Bourbon news., 1912-01-30

loudly and a flicker of light leaped
from a small hand lamp and revealed
to it's bearer the tagged and quivering
figure on the floor
Some one sat down beside him with
a low exclamation Of solicitude and
gathered his head into her lap. Some
one quite simply EMBODIED his neck
with soft arms and pressed his head
to her bosom. and as if that were not
The Bourbon news., 1912-01-30
Luxury In Cigars.

The Rothschilds smoke the most
costly cigars that are made-the
Henry Clay Sobranos-which cost
$1.50 each. These are wrapped In
gold leaf and packed in little inlaid
cedar wood cabinets.
The Bourbon news., 1912-01-30

CHAPTER VI.-The loyal wife bids
O'Rourke farewell and he promises to
soon return with the reward offered for
the Pool of Flame He discovers both
Glynn and the vscount on board the
ship which takes him to Algeria.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-12-20
LOCAL

Merritt Seeley is home for the
Christmas holidays.
The Band Boys will give a Masque
Ball Monday Dec. 3Oth.
B. B. O'Dell and Fred Berry spent
Sunday in Sioux Falls.
Miss Bertha Dahl was a Sunday
visitor at Sioux Falls with friends.
Mrs. Anna Richardson left Monday
for Chicago, Wisconsin and Michigan
Miss Alta Copeland returned last
week from a business trip to Chicago.
Pat Knowles and Guy Smith we're
Sioux Falls visitors Saturday on bust
ness.
The Hon. C. B. Kennedy left Tues
day for Yankton where he has legal
business.
Mrs. Kelley of Lennox was visiting
with Miss Ruth Gemmlll the lat ter
part Of last week.
d. f. Dexter entertained his sister,
Mrs. J. r. Mcfarland and husband of
Cenuerville Sunday.
II. L. Cox of Worthing was a LEAD
Err visitor Saturday and a n date
on his paper set a year aneao.
Selmer Hanson has been under the
weather the past week with tonsil1tls,
but is now up and around again.
Chas. Whitmore was at Sioux Falls
the latter part Of last week attend
ing the Implement Dealers Conven-
tion.
The Ladies Aid of Lands Congre-
gational church will hold their Chris
mas auction at Ole Norlies on Friday
Dec. 18th.
Why not use some Of the empty
lots in Canton for. a skating rink
for the young people. Every little
town in the state has some muse
ment for the young people except
Canton.
Miss Bertha Wilson, teacher of
Dist. No. % will give a basket social
and program on Saturday evening
Dec. 2lst. Everybody welcome, and
ladies bring baskets.