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The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04
FAMOUS EARL RUSSELL
BECOMES A SOCIALIST

The Socialists have gained their
first recruit in the house of lords.
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Odus Davidson. the murderer of Ella Barham, the young girl of the Harri- son, Ark, neighborhood, went to his death, declaring he was innocent, in the face of overwhelming and con- victing evidence of his guilt. He not only did this, but with the aid of his attorney the murderer tried to have a sympathetic public believe that he had been mistreated by Governor Hays and former Acting Governor Futrell, in that he claimed they did not keep their promise to grant him a respite. The statements of both Governor Hays and former Governor Futrell since show that Davidson and his attorney had no grounds for their statements and that the Governors acted in good faith and being fully convinced that Davidson was guilty of the brutal crime, declined to interfere in his case. Davidson was a murderer of the worst type. Miss Barham's death was revolting and her assailant was giv- en the death penalty, just as the crime merited.
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Judge E. J. Kerwin, local repre- sentative of the Department of Jus tice and known as the white slave officer" has been doing some effective work in this city and section in re- cent weeks. He is now Investigating ng two important white slave cases and is making considerable headway in remedying white slave conditions where they are found. He has the To- cal sporting houses under complete control and is enforcing every govern mant regulation regarding int.atcs, their arrival and departure. etc. Un- licensed immoral resorts are being closed by his order and several young girls have been saved from designing men through his prompt official acts.
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TRADES COUNCIL
 APPROVES THE PLANS
MET LAST NIGHT AND DISCUSSED LABOR DAY CELEBRATION.-
 BAND CONTRACTS SIGNED.
Standing Committees For Ensuing Year Named By President
 w. E. Hicks.

At the meeting of the Central Trades Council on last evening the Labor Day committee reported on their work in planning for the days celebration, and same was heartily approved by the council. The committee reported that contracts were closed yesterday after noon with the First Regiment Band of Little Rock and with the Pine Bluff Band to furnish music during the day and an orchestra for the dance. There was some doubt about being able to secure the First Regiment Band, as Little Rock unions are planning a big celebration for Labor Day, but by prompt work the best band in the capi- tai city will be brought here to enter tain Pine Bluff citizens and visitors. The music will be one of the most pleasing features of the day.
 All the delegates reported that the members of the affiliated locals were enthusiastic over the big parade, and nearly all will have handsome floats in the procession, in addition to the members ill marching order
 A letter from l.. H. Moore, secre- tary, and one from Vice President Kendrick of the State Federation of Labor were received, in which the gentlemen stated they were planning a visit to Pine Bluff, and arrangements will be made for a mass meeting of union men to meet with them. Their visit will be deferred until after Labor Day.
 President Hicks announced the ap- pointment of the standing committees for the ensuing six months, which arc as follows:
 Organization Committee-A. w. Lehman, R. E. Unsell. C. D. Holden.
 Legislative-T. A. Wilson, A. w. Lehman, Walter Herschell.
 Executive (elcctive)-W. B. Hicks, B. F. Price, T. A. Wilson.
 Label-J. A. Moore, Ed Price, N. H.. Alexander.
 Building Trades-E F. Price, J. A. Douglas, Robt. Atkinson
 Press-C. A. Goshorn, T. A. Wilson, Elom Reynolds.
 Labor Day-Ed Harvey, Jack Hull, z. B. Albright.
 Civic Committee-Z. E. Albright, B.. F. King, Ed Price, \. P. Reuter-.
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A Scientific Achievement.

Modern science has produced nc such effective agency in the relief of indigestion, dyspepsia, constipation
 biliousness or impure blood as Meri- tol 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 rem edy. w. L. Dewoody & Co.,, Associa- tiOn Members. If
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SECOND DAYS SESSION
 OF ColoRED MAsoNs
ATTENDANCE YESTERDAY WAS LARGER THAN THAT OF THE
 FIRST DAYS SESSION.
Annual Memorial Services Held Last Night at st. Johns A. M.
 E. Church.

The second days session of the for ty-first annual convention of the Grand Lodge of the Free and Accepted Mas ons of Arkansas, colored, which con- vened at the Masonic Temple in this city Tuesday, was taken up yesterday with committee reports, various rec concentrations of the Grand Master and routine business generally. Grand Master J. H. Harrison, of Wilmar, again presided. The attendance was much larger than on the first day, the number present being nearly five hum dred.
 One of the important matters that came up for discussion during the day was the presentation of a proposition to establish a charity hospital for ne- groes at Hot Springs. Rev. w. l.. kornegay. of Hot Springs, urged the establishment of the hospital. The grand lodge endorsed the project and made cash donation to aid it.
 It was also reported by the Hope lodge that Masonic Temple had been erected during the past year at that place, costing $5,000
 The annual memorial services were held last night at St. Johns A. M. E. church at which several delegates and local residents attended. Dr. J. s. House, of Sherrill, was master of cere- monies, Rev. J. w. Baylum, of Bear den led in the singing. and Rev. w. H. Allen, of Dermott, led ill prayer, while William Bobo read the list of departed members during the past year, ninety two having died during the twelve months. Rev. A. H. Hill, of Little Rock, preached the memorial sermon.
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state banks in all of these counties. It supplies more money to rice growers Ill Arkansas and other neighboring counties than several other banks combined.
 1t will require at least a million and half dollars to move the rice crop in Arkansas county alone The rice crop is now ready to be marketed and if there was some of the govern ment aid money" here now it could easily be distributed from this city among the farmers and rice growers, thus benefitting not only Pine Bluff and Jefferson county, but the entire state.
 The cotton crop of this section of the state promises to be the largest for several years and it is equally as important that Arkansas banks should be favored as any of the larger bank ing institutions in Texas, which has an enormous crop to move this season.
 We are not advised whether the Simmons National Bank cares to han dle any of the government funds. It has probably made all arrangements for caring for it's corresponding banks and individual customers, but to add two or three hundred thousand dollars to the local financial field would not be detrimental to the business or farming interests in this section, to say the least.
 Congressman Taylor and his col leagues at Washington could have had the local institution included in the list of favored banks had they gone to the trouble to explain the importance of government aid for this city and section. We still insist that the mem bers of Congress from Arkansas are not on the job ill Washington.
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MANY MEN WANTED

Little Rock. Aug 13-Busincss is picking up in the Iron Mountain shop in Argenta, the railroad advertising for car repairers and truckmen. for the first time in many years. The railroad has always heretofore beer able to secure all the workmen need
 ed without advertising for them. The railroad company has made additional room for the car repairers to work in
 and 60 men arc wanted. The railroad has the largest appropriation for re- pair work for August, of any month ill recent years.
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sengers riding in passenger train crossing the bridge. If such an order is issued the travelling public will be in a position to protect itself against the illegal eXactions of the bridge company.
 Respectfully,
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NO SANITARIUM
 FOR THE EAGLES
WALTER M. FEEL RETURNS FROM BALTIMORE CONVENTION AND
 EXPLAINS ACTION.
Of the Grand Acric.-Establishm Would Mean Increase of Per
 Capita Tax.

Hot Springs, Aug. 13.-Walter M Ebel, who has been attending the na- tional convention of the Loyal Order of Moose and the Fraternal Order Oi Eagles, which were held in Cincinnati and Baltimore, respectively, returned to Hot Springs yesterday afternoon The action taken by the Moose to erect sanitarum in this city is already we'll known, and Mr. Ebel stated that it was all Hot Springs in the Queen City. The supreme council, he said, would appoint commission to come to Hot Springs. and he concluded a great amount of work the delibera- tions of the last Moose convention en- tailed on them.
 Relative to his effort to induce the grand aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles to erect sanitorium in Hot Springs. Mr. Ebel said
 "The officers of that organization were afraid to undertake prOpOsi- tion of this kind at the present time Some claimed that the order did not reed a sanitorium at present, but the chief objection was the fact that the per capita tax of every aerie i'll the United States would have to be raised The grand aerie last year disbursed over four million dollars. and hun dreds of thousands of dollars of that amount went to the support of subor- dnate 1Aeries.. who deceivdd misfortune in the flooded district last spring. Some of the aeries have heavy death benefits to pay and to have raised the per capita tax on them under such conditions, the grand aerie officials
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ABOLISH THE BRIDGE CHARGE

Congressman Carraway is making hard fight at Washington to abolish against Arkansans, individually, when they cross the big steel railroad bridge at Memphis He claims that the com pany owning the bridge should not make such charge and especially when revenue is already assured it by the railroads using the bridge. Here tofore passengers on railroad trains were charged p cents for crossing the bridge. In recent weeks the charge has been increased to B cents. This is what prompted Congressman Carraway to take steps to abolish the bridge charge entirely. Pine Bluff ians, who are frequently compelled to cross the Memphis bridge, while trav' cling East of the Mississippi river, are interested in Congressman Carra- ways fight and will watch the out come with great deal of interest.
 Congressman Carraway has intro duced a bill to prohibit the Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge Company from charging a toll for railway passengers crossing the bridge. He has written the following letter to the secretary of war, which is self explanatory
 "In the behalf of the people of the State of Arkansas, and more particu- larly those of the First congressional district, who by the necessities or travel are frequently compelled to cross the Mississippi river at Mem phis, Tenn, over a bridge controlled by the Kansas City and Memphis Rail- way and Bridge Company. l most res pectfully petition you to exercise that authority granted you in bill au- thorizing the construction of the bridge and amendment thereto ap- proved April 2S, 1904, by denying to the bridge company the right to collect a bridge toll from passengers on rail- way trains across said bridge.
 "I am moved more particularly, at this time to apply to you in this mat ter for the reason that under the amendment above referred to the bill authorizing the construction Of sald bridge. the secretary of war is em- powered to approve a charge, not ex- ceeding 25 cents, for every passenger crossing said bridge in railway trains. In defiance of the order made by your predecessor in office, limiting the charge to 9 cents, the said bridge company has recently commenced to charge a bridge fare of 8 cents TOT each passenger crossing the bridge. In addition to this l am informed the railway companies are charging pas sengers full legal rate, including the mileage for crossing the bridge.
 An additional reason that some ac- tion should be taken by you in this matter is the bill and the amend ment thereto under which the bridge company operates provides no penalty for a violation of the law under which Nit was constructed and is operated and for that reason 1 am informed by the attorney general that he has no power to enforce the observance by the com pany of the law.
 "In view of these facts l most earn estly request that you issue an order denying the bridge company the r'sn' to make any charge whatever tor pas
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The leading paint stores of the county boast of their succesa w!tli s. w. P. Products; while we gre still small, we boast of the same products. Why? Because they have always stood the test in. all climates and re- gions. Quality is the foundation of success in all branches and s. w. P. means that. Claud Clegg & Co. If
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Respectfully,
 "T. H. CarraWay,"


 CT. H. Carraway." Congressman Carraway's letter te l the secretary of war was accompani. ed by the following statement: The Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge Company was organized in l pursuance of grant by an act of Congress, approved April IS, 1888. Upon the organization of the bridge company, it issued bonds at five per cent for $3,O0O,OOO and sold them at par. The bridge was con- structed at a total cost of $2,998, ,00O Thus the bridge company came into possession of the bridge and fran chise, and had $2,OOO for which it had paid nothing.
 "In a suit heard and determined in the Supreme Court of the state of Arkansas, against the Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge Com- pany, which was suit to collect back taxes, the following facts were dev- eloped:
 "The bridge company has issued $3,- 000000 worth of bonds and erected a bridge costing $2,998,00 The hearing covered the years 1893 to 1910, inclu- sive, and it is shown that in the IF years, after paying all expenses. re- pairs, interest and taxes and setting aside a sinking fund of $10,000, which is sufficient to redeem the bonds at maturity, and to pay all upkeep of the bridge, the company has paid in quar- terly dividends sum aggregating $5,- 365, ,193.55.
 Every dollar of the stock is own ed by the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company and when it is re- membered that the bridge did not cost the bridge company cent, but in fact l was built upon borrowed capital and left with the company. the sum of $2,- 900 after it's construction, it becomes apparent that it's earnings have been enormous and unjust.
 Tn addition to the toll now charg- ed for passengers over the bridge, the railway companies are charging their passengers full mileage at the highest legal rate for crossing said bridge, So that in fact, a passenger must pay twice on crossing the bridge 1t does not seem unreasonable in the light of l this information to require the bridge company to levy whatever sums that would be reasonable return on it's investment against the railway com pany the right to charge passenger toll who crosses the bridge as a pas senger on said trains. In other words, if the railway companies prefer to pay bridge rental rather than to own a continuous roadbed or line of trans portation, it does not concern the pas senger and he should not be required | to bear the additional burden"
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ARE NOT ON THE JOB.

The afternoon paper takes it's for granted that the Graphic meant to in fer that Congressman $. M. Taylor, of this district, was mot on, the job" at Washington because theii Pine Bluff banks were not included in the list that has been prepared in Secretary McAdpo's office for the distribution of the $5O,000,000 that is to be sent into the south and west by the Treasury Department to aid in moving the crops The afternoon papertwas right, notwithstanding the fact that the Graphic did not mention the names of any of Arkansas representatives at tho national capital-althOugh it meant Congressman Taylor, the six other congressman and the two Unit ed States senators.
 It still insists that they are not Ion the job' in Washington when they sit idly by and permit other cities throughout the south and west to en- joy government aid when Pine Bluff and other cities in the state which have national banks, are situated in big crop producing territories, to be left out entirely in the matter of re- .ceiving benefits that are offered almost gratis by the national government, and especially when the benefits would be so general among business men and farmers.
 The afternoon paper would compli- ment Congressman Taylor for being so prompt in wiring M. E. Bloom, manag- CT of the Pine Bluff Clearing House Association, information regarding the distribution of the fund, and says that he is unusually prompt in ans wering letters, etc. No public servant is due any plaudits for promptness or for treating his constituents courte- ously
 The Graphic contends that Pine Bluffs national bank, the Simmons National, should be included in the Treasury Departments list of banks that are to be favored with govern nlenS aid. Had Congressman Taylor or any of the other congressman or the states two senators been on the iob the local national banking institu- ton and all other national banks in this state would soon share the bene- fr from thn Treas ury Departments liberality.
 Little Rock banks are to be well cared fer and as far as we have been able to learn they are the only na- ticnal banks in the state that were listed We cannot understand why Little Rock should be singled out at Washington for government aid, when Pine Bluff. which has annually the second largest cotton receipts among cities in the state. is to be ignored.
 The Simmons National Bank IS ready to meet every requirement of the Treasury Department i'll tho dls- tr,bution of government funds. ad- yanced to aid the farmer and the busl- ness man as well as the banker. This bank has 72 1-2 per cent of it's capital stock in United States bonds. and the requirement. of the government IS that a national bank shall have at least forty per cent of it's capital stock Ill circulating notes. This bank mas eighty stockholders. including some oi the largest planters and most promi- ,nent business men in Arkansas. It has among it's correspondents twenty smaller banks in Grant, Dallas. Cal shoun, Bradley, Cleveland, Ashley j ,incoln. iDesha, Chicot and Arkansas When demands are made the Pine Bluff national bank supplies
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-14

Sleepy Tom" Clark. known as the Prophet of the Smokies" claims to have had another vision and this time he says it was revealed to him that the world would come to an end in 1917. Tom is nice enough to give us four years to live. anyway.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-14

Price does not determine quality cut at the same time SNOW FLAKE flour is high quality. Ii
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-EEpordthy. the 1l-months -eld, dangb3 ter of Mir. and Mrs. G. C Larkln, is very ill.
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-25 per cent off on Lawn Mowers. McGaughy Hardware Co.
The chronicle=news., 1913-07-25

into effect. One OF the pioneers was
III. Malad Forest TIERS Association.
near iii. rocai.lio Forest which lies
on the border uf Utah and Idaho. Tn.
advisory board of this association
has acted as a clearing house for
complaints and u medium through
which mutually advantageous under
standings might h" reached. II IL
said to have saved It's members and
the forcs, service much trouble. en-
barrissmcnt. and even litigation.
The chronicle=news., 1913-07-25
KANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK

Kansas city. Mo, July ...-iioss
Receipts 1000: market Sc lower (:
bulk Of sales $50 to $40: heavy $. 90
to s.o': packers s 40 To 80: IIsh,
$50 to 9.i3: pigs $50 to $50.
Cattle: Receipts ..a'oo: mark.,
steady To weak. prime :cd steers = .o
TO $50: dressed beef steers 1.:s To
$50: western stc'rs $50 to $50:
southern steers $50 to ,..O: cows (,
to :: hcifcrn > to \ SO: st1kcrs and
feeders . To $50: bulls as To
..7a: calves $50 to 10.
sheep. Receipts 5000; market ior
higher: lambs G.:5 10 7.5a: y.ariins-
Us To a.1a: wcth.rs as To .: eve.
$40 to i.65: stockcrs and feeders
ESQ TO I.
The chronicle=news., 1913-07-25
ASSOCIATIONS OF FOREST USERS MAY PAR
TIC|PATE IN NAT. FOREST ADMINISTRATION

Washington. July 2i.-To give
settlers and other local users lar
ger voice in national forest admins
frGtion. Secretary Of Agriculture
Houston has just promulgated u new
regulation which goes into effect a,
once. providing u means by which
the forest scrvic" mas sysicma,iCal
~ cooperate with duly organized as.
sociations OF such ugcrs.
ANY association whose member
include majority Of thm" local res
idcnts making use OF tho national
forests may get together and select
committee. to meet with the local
forest Officers. This committee will
he recognized in an advisory capac-
ity in settling questions which may
arise between III" forest service and
the public in the use Of the forests
The exact wording OF the regula-
ton is:
Whenever any association whose
membership includes a majority Of
the locnl residents using n National
Forest or portion thereof. for like
purposes. shall select Il committee,
an agreement on the part of which
shall be binding upon the association
such committee upon application to
the District Forester, may be rcCog-
nizcd in an advisory capacity on be
half of the association. and shall be
entitled to receive notice of proposed
action and have an opportunity to
be heard by the local Forest Officer
in reference to any proposed changes
likely to materially affect the use
or interest in the Forest or portion
thereof enjoyed by such pcrmittance.
The general principles OF recog-
milton and responsibility governing
cooperation with live stock associa-
tions are herewith extended. so far
as they are applicable, to other reg
ular lines of business conducted on
the National Forests.
The object of this regulation is
to extend what may he called home
participation in national forest man
agcmcnt. II is recognized that the
best use OF the forests in the inter
est OF the general welfare means
the promotion OF local consideration
for all local interests in VOWED. II
is recognized also that public conf
dencc in the spirit of fairness with
which bdividaual citizens are treat
cd is essential, and that local parti-