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FOUR ARE DROWNED
 WHILE BATHING

Dubuque, Iowa, June 27,-Four members of a camping party were drowned in the Mississippi river near Cassville, Wisconsin, today while bathing. The dead are Dr. A. F. Ken ney, Nora Reynolds. Helen Godfre: and Myrtle Judd, all of Manchester, Wisconsin. No one saw the accident but it was believed tonight that Dr. Kenney lost his life endeavoring to rescue the girls.
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Madison county is reported to have given Colonel Brundidge a majority of II. which would reduce Judge Hays lead to 791. Practically all the votes have been accounted for except from few scattering townships in the counties of Clay, Crittenden, Johnson and Logan, and it is believed that in many of these no election was held.
 The Notice of Contest.
 Colonel Brundidges official notice of contest, as served upon Judge Hays, is as follows:
 "To the Honorable George w. Hays. "You are hereby notified that it is my intention to file contest of your claims to the nomination as the Dem- ocratic candidate for governor and of the returns of the primary election for the nomination for the Democratic l candidate for governor, held in the State of Arkansas on the Fist day of June. 1913. sy'F, ''You are further notified that on Monday, June 30th, 1913, I shall mak demand upon the officers of the Gen. tral Committees having the custody of the poll books, and upon a failure to obtain said copies from the officers of the Central Committee. I shal make demand in writing upon the election judges for copies of the same, and if such copies are not de livered to me or my representatives on the date demanded, I shall con tinue to make demands for same day to day until they are delivered. Tht demands for copies of said poll books will be made ill the following coun ties: Clark, Phillips, Calhoun, Union Ouachita, Columbia, Bradley, St Francis and Hampstead.
 (SigneO "S. BRUND1DGE.'
 General NOrwOOd is Counsel.
 Colonel Brundidge has placed hi interests in the contest in the hands o former Attorney General Hal l.. Nor wood of Little Rock, and Joe StaytG; of Newport, and they with other lega advisers and friends of the Scare statesman, including w. B. Smith ant John T. Hicks, propose to go to tn very bottom of the matter.
 There are nine counties involved il the original notice of contest, whic cast, according to official returns, total of 9,2S3 <otes for Hays and 3,3O for Brundidge, majority of 5,992 fo the Camden candidate. Other countie may be added.
 Counsel at Work on Case.
 Counsel for Colonel Brundidge ar at work today on the case, but hay said that until they have gone furthe into it they have no statements what ever to make for publication. It i expected that the protest will first b brought before the State Central Com mittee, which meets next Monday, an in the event relief sought is not SC cured there it will be taken into tn courts.
 Mir. Smiths Statement.
 Both Governor Futrell and MI
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x Explorer Stefansson, of the E Blond Eskimos" fame and who * is regarded as one of the great * est explorers of the present age,
 s has a friend and admirer in Pine # Bluff. Mrs. E. G. Rosenberger, * of No. 1207 West Fifth avenue,
 * was schoolmate of Stefansson in '' the University of North Dakota " in 1902, and in a recent review i" of his life ill the Graphic, she told * of his many characteristics and " popularity as a college boy. Mrs. " Rosenberger is watching his ad- 6 venturous career with a great " deal of interest.
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COMMERCE COURT
 MAY BE ABOLISHED

washington. June 27.-The House rules committee today agreed on a rules by which the deficiency appro- priation bill, to be reported early in 1uiy' Will carry specific provision to aooilsn the commerce court and vest lts Jurisdiction in the United States district courts,
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KILLED CROSSING
 COTTON BELT TRACKS

Jonesboro, June 27.-Mrs. Mary Farrell, aged 43, was struck by a Cot ton Belt train and instantly killed near Fisher this morning. As she crossed the track she was knocked fully ninety feet by the locomotive.
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east Arkansas is specially handicap ped in having to ship practically all of it's road material from the centra: or western portions of the state, and a state rock crusher, by using the state convicts that may be spared from the farm, should be of great ben- eft to this section of the state
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-06-28

Seattle, Wash, June 27.-EXplorer Stefansson who will lead the Canad- ian scientific and exploration eXpedi- tion into the Artic next month, arrlv- ed from Victoria, B. C., last night to make final preparations for his three years stay in the far North. On Thursday MT. Stefansson, Dr. R. M. Anderson the biologist, who will be second in the command, and James Murray, oceanographer, vii! .oard9 the steamship Victoria and leave for Nome, Alaska, where they will join the party of 12 scientists who left Victoria on the exploration ship Kar- lux ten days ago.
 Mir. Stefansson was accompanied from Victoria, where he superintend- ed the dispatching of the Karluk, by J. F. Hicks, an official of the Esqui- malt navy yard. MT. Hicks came to Seattle to assemble equipment shipped from the East too late to be sent north on the Karluk. These will be senmt to Nome, where they will be transferred to the Karluk and to the gasoline boat Alaska, which will be used as an auxiliary to the karluk. and will carry Dr. Anderson and elgnt of his follow w-scientists to Victoria ls- land, where they will take com- plete scientific examination of the land.
 tStefansson is accompanied by ten scientists and a crew of twelve ex- perienced arctic explorers. Stefans- son who has made two artic voyages, discovered the so-called "Blond Eski- mos." believed to be descendants or the Norsemen who landed on the shores of Iceland long before Colum- bus discovered America.
 The uncharted region to be explor- ed is known as the Beaufort Sea ana comprises roughly million square miles,, lying northeast of Alaska There are two theories concerning it: one that it is ans open sea, theory favored by Dr. Jansen. and another that it is a vast continent, which the- ory is favored by Commander Peary and by Roald Amundsen. Peary as serts that in passing by the reglon stefansson is to explore on his dashes to the Pole he distinctly saw points of land and rock sticking above the ice fields. '
 l ,stefansson hopes to reach Nome' the last telegraph station on the Alaska coast month from now ana to round Point Barrow the last week in July. It is expected that the ex- pedition will return in the autumn lof 1916. s.s s.s.
 The expenses of the explorers wno will sail in the Karluk. an oia Wnal- ar are being borne by the Canadian Government. Stefansson had an op- nortunity to make the voyage for sev- era, American scientific societies ana institutions, but the Canadian GOV ernment offered him better induce ments.
 stefansson is a Canadian. He was horn in Winnipeg. Manitoba. of lee- land extraction but was educated ln J the United States. He is somethihs of a linauist. speaking several nuIo- nean languages and number ol As- kio tongues.
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NOTICE

All banks members of the Pine Bluff Clearing House. Association will be closed Friday, July 4th, a. legal holiday. -..
 Pine Bluff Clearing House,
 M. E. BLOOM, Manager. 6-28 Ct.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-06-28

Little Rock, Ark, June 27.-As the unofficial figures stand today with Madison county alone unreported, the results of the recent gubernatorial
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SHOOTS THREE, ONE MAY DIE Near Wholesale Killing De-
 cured in This City Last Night.
SAM JONES IS WANTED
One of His Victims May Die-Wife Among Those Who Were
 Shot Down.
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The Injured.

The Injured. ,Safronia Jones, 30, bullet wound > in the left jaw. Not serious. William Merritt, 32, bullet
 s wound in the left breast and left arm. Left arm broken. May die.
 Carrie Merritt, 20, wife of Will
 . liam Merritt, lacerated forehead
 : and powder burns. Wounds not
 : serious. . 4; !. k < * * ,. < :s < k
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-06-28

Mrs. Burt Sloan will leave toeny leS a short visit to TexarkAnA
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race is as follows
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OFFICIAL RETURNS OF
 CONTESTED COUNTIES

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R,594 VOTES ARE BASIS OF CONTEST Nine Counties Included By Brundidge i'll Notice of Contest.
 HAYS LEADS, 862 VOTES Proceedings of Defeated Gubernatorial Candidate Not Di,ulged-
 Employs Counsel.
HAYS LEADS, 862 VOTES

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OFF FOR FRIGID NORTH Discoverer of Blond Eski. mos Prepares For Arc
 tic Expedition.
A SCHOOLMATE HERE
Mrs. E. q. ROsenberger. of This City, Knew Famous Man aSa
 University Boy.
Has Pine Bluff Friend

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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10
ELOQUENCE OF TRUTH.

Does eloquence, after all, consist
chiefly in having wisdom to see the
truth, and courage to tell it?
1t would seem so. No president
since Lincoln has issued state papers
to be compared in force and elo-
quence with the few official utter
ances of Woodrow Wilson. Yet no
man ever sat in the White House
who gave less heed to sonorous per-
iods and carefully rounded phrases.
He does not emulate the polish of
Garfield, the smooth adroitness of
Mckinley, nor the pompdStuOus
turbulence of Roosevelt.
President Wilson sees clearly and
feels strongly; and this earnestness
and clarity show in all he says. His
one literary care seems to be to
state what he has in mind so that no
candid man can misunderstood it.
In this he succeeds, and in this he
resembles the most eloquent of our
presidents, Abraham Lincoln. OF
the surging rhythm which pervades
Lincoln's best utterances and makes
them prose-poems, Wilson has hardly
trace. But in skill in finding the
truth and courage and clarity in
stating it, the two men are as one.
Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10
PRESIDENT WILSON WAS RIGHT.

1t begins to look as though Prof.
Woodrow Wilson knew wha. he was
talking about when, he denounced
the lobby. When the gangs CT Mi
dental agent turns states evidence
and tells story of ten years inter
ference with law makinS-a story
backed by letters, kilograms, return
ed checks and receipted bills, even
the most confirmed standpatter must
admit that the presidents condemna-
ton of the pernicious activity of the
lobby was not a whit too strong.
If Col Mulhalls story is true, a
group of privileged manufacturers
who claim a vested right in federal
taxation, banded together to enforce
their claims: They paid money di-
rectly and indirectly to a long line
of republican congressman. They
were on terms of confidential init
macy with standpat senators, and
with a former vice president OF the
United States.
They We're the power behind the
throne throughout the Roosevelt and
Taft administrations. They backed
the infamous robbery of the Aldrich
tariff, and lobbicd for a tariff COM
mission as means of heading off any
honest revision. They spent large
sums of money to help their friends
and hurt their enemies; and neither
in helping nor hurting did they pay
much attention to the ethics Of polit-
ical controversy.
1t is not necessary to believe Null
halls story throughout. The truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth is seldom given in such stories
as his. But Mulhall would have had
no tale to tell if the interests he rep
resented had not been engaged in
the systematic corruption of legisla-
ton. That is the damned spot
which no washing will cleanse.
The lobby has fallen On evil days.
The new political eaders-Under-
wood, and Kern, and above all, Will
son--are men whom a trust agent
can not even approach. This is sad
enough for the privileged interests
which have managed this nations af-
fairs so long. To have that misfor-
tune capped by inside exposure of
lobby methods is downright disaster
The lobby's extremity is the peo-
pies ortunity.-Chicago Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10
SOME FACTS WANTED.

There has been running in the
"high class agricultural Weekl1es
and publications for gentlemen
farmers an article on the high cost
Of beef at retail that fully eXoner-
ates the beef trust from having any
part in the matter, and the evil is
all laid at the door of the retail
butchers and the system of deliver
ing goods to customers. The figures
given acknowledge that the farmer
who raises a steer ready for the feed
lots get only 1929 for it, while the
consumer pays $I1S.71 for the meat
that is in it. 1t is claimed that the
packer gets only $6.SS for his
trouble and work, and makes proht
of only $3.50 on each steer that he
handles.
Some of these figures would tend
to make the actual farmer laugh, or
swear, according to what sort OF a
humor he was in, when he reads
them. In one part Of the statement
it is acknowledged that the by-pro-
ducts of steer are sold by the pack
ing company for $3.50, which more
than pays for the cost Of slaughter
ing and putting the meat on the
market. To make the account seem
reasonable it is said that it costs
$3.50 in corn and hay to put stock
steer in condition for the market.
This report reminds one of re-
port made several years ago by Sec
rotary Garfield. He showed from the
company's books that they, the pack
ers, got only profit of s. for slaugh-
tering a steer, including by-products
and all. However, he never made
any attempt to account for the many
millions of dollars that packers have
accumulated as shown in their in
vestments all over the world.
A while ago the common people
were advised to buy cheap steaks and
cheaper portions of the meat. AS
soon as they began to do that the
price of those parts began to rise
to such an extent that one butcher
says that it will not be long until
chuck steak will cost more than
porterhouse or loin. Perhaps Secre-
tary Redfield will take this matter
up and give the people the real facts
of the very great difference in the
price of the steer and meat at the
butcher shops.-World Herald.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10
THE NEW SECESSION.

The banking and currency system
of the United States is a tumble
which would be tolerated nowhere
s else on earth. We have government
bonds bearing low rates of interest
that are given fictitious values by
legislation.
We have a reserve plan which
strips the country of money needed
for legitimate purposes and piles it
up in Wall street to feed the fires
of speculation. We have no elastic
ity in our circulating medium except
that provided by a law, soon to ex-
pire, which can be utilized in time
of panic for the promotion of usury.
We have the most perfect arrange
ment for a banking monopoly Of en-
terprises and credit that the world
ever saw. Shylock, John Law, Jim
Fisk and Gen. Coxey in friendly con-
ference could not in a lifetime pro-
duce financial scheme more unjust
and chaotic
For these conditions we are in
debted in the main to certain bank
ers. It is these bankers who profit
by them. 1t is these bankers who re-
sist every suggestion of reform that
does not put more power in their
hands and more money in their peck
cts. 1t is these bankers who father
every proposition that is calculated
to intensity evils which other great
commercialized nations regard with
wonder and despair. Yet they prate
of knowledge, experience and charac-
ter!
True to their record, now that an
attempt is to be made at Washing
ton to correct admitted wrongs, some
of the greatest banks in the country
are threatening to surrender their
national charters and organize under
state laws. They do not await the
conclusion of the legislation. They
do not propose amendments. They
softer no wise counsel. They simply
announce a purpose to do as they
please regardless Of popular rights or
the national will. In short, they are
going to secede. They are going to
secede in the name of sound finance,
just as their predecessors did in
1860-61, with slavery as their object,
seeded in the name of liberty
If the National City Bank of New
York and the First National Bank of
Chicago think that a menace of this
kind will win, let them put it into eff
feet. The state also will know how
to deal with them after the nation
has set an example.-New York
World.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10
Speaker Champ Clark e.

Speaker Champ Clark expressed
the opinion that it is time the Unit
ed States government ought to con-
Germ itself about the emigration of
it's citizens to Canada and other
countries. These emigrants, farm
ers generally, are among our best
citizens, he says, and the reason they
are expatriating themselves is the
lure of cheaper lands and less string
ent land laws as to demonstrating
Commenting upon the speakers
statement, the Houston (Tex) Post
says: 1t is difficult to see how the
United States can do anything to re-
strain such emigration. These
movements of population are as old
as the human race. They are in re-
Spouse to natural laws, to human
impulse and caprice, and they will
continue so long as the race endures.
Our own country has been settled as
a result of the nomadic instinct &C.
centuated by the ambition for home
and fortune. Europe has emptied
millions of her sons and daughters
into our country and continues to do
so, and our own cOuntrymen are go
ing to manifest their adventurous
propensities, which, perhaps, we
better call pioneer spirit, so long as
there are unsettled fertile regions
which offer opportunities for home
and wealth. The emigration Ques-
ton is, it seems to us, one that will
have to be left to settle itself. OF
course, congress may find it feasible
to ameliorate homestead conditions
for 10 dc
cerned, and may, by providing irri-
cation and drainage, open large bod
les of land within our own borders
to settlement. In any event, it is
certain that the vast area of British
America is to be settled thickly in
time, and it is inevitable that citi-
zens of the United States are going
to furnish the vast majority of the
settlers. These movements among
our own people in the past have re-
suited in greatly expanding our
and it is within the
bounds of possibility that the move
ment so much deprecated by the
speaker will in due time tend to
bring about what so many have
dreamed of-the continental repub-
lie of the United States of America.
The land itself is what is important
to the man who has to make liv-
ing. National boundaries change
with time, but the people must get
to the soil regardless of national
boundaries. There is little more
reason to be alarmed because of the
emigration of our American fellow
citizens to Canada than there is to
fear the strong tide of European i'm
migration that still pours in upon u.s.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10
THE NEW STATE BANK LAW.

The question of how much power
state and savings banks of Iowa may
have under the new law, which per-
mits them to do a trust company
business, is to be, settled by Attorney
General Cosson. The new statute
gives trust companies, state and saw
ings banks the right to amend their
articles of corporation which will
authorize them to be appointed re-
ceivers, assignees, guardians and ad-
ministrators of estates the same as
an individual. Many banks which
have applied for permission to do a
trust business seem to be of the opin-
ion that they are thereby given the
power to conduct almost any kind OF
business under the general incorpor-
alton laws. 1t would appear that
the intent, of the law was to limit
banks and trust companies to just
that particular field.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

to Office as soon as the new legisla-
lures of the states canvass the votes
and declare them elected. AS 1t is
now it is the old congress which
counts the electoral votes.
After a very close election which
changes the political complexion of
an administration it is dangerous to
permit the defeated party to retain
control of the machinery by which
such important officers are declared
elected. Under our constitution, up
on the failure of any candidate to
receive majority of the electoral
votes, it devolves upon the house of
representatives to elect, the repre-
sentation from each state having one
vote. This at present Is done not by
the new congress but by the old one.
Thereby it is possible for a political
party repudiated by the people to
elect president. This is clear vio-
lation of the principle of representa-
tive government.
The constitution further provides
that: "If the House of Representa-
tives shall not choose a president,
whenever the right of choice shall
devolve upon them, before the 4th
day of March next following, then
the vice president shall act as presi-
dent, as in the case of death or other
constitutional disability of the presi-
dent" What a temptation for delay
and for the defeat of the true choice
of the people!
The fact that the weather of jan
uary would be inclement for an in
augural parade is too insignificant a
reason to prevent the adoption of a
constitutional amendment which prom
Uses so much for good government.
Why should we have in a republic
the great pomp and ceremony which
usually attend the coronation of
monarchs? If we must have them,
why can not they be in the nature of
celebrations at some seasonable
time?
True representative government
requires that congress should con-
vene soon after the election thereof,
and the executive officers should
commence their administration with
out hindrance or delay.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10
Mr.. Harwood in his illustrated

Mr.. Harwood in his illustrated
lecture upon Iowa and Her Oppor-
tunities,' says that "in 1912 Iowa
had the greatest motor tractor fac
tory in the world, the greatest steel
car factory in the world, the greatest
power plant in the world, the great
world, the greatest brick and tile
center in the United States, the
greatest silo center in the world, the
greatest sash and door plant in the
world, the greatest steel furnace fac
tory in the world, the greatest stump
puller factory in the world and the
greatest locomotive works west Of
Chicago" How many of these fac
tories can you locate by name.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

1t is claimed for the new law
making the office of county super
intendent of schools appointive that
it will take the selection of that Of
fetal out of politics. "Why, Of
course it will, comments the Har-
Ian Republican-"when ducks refuse
to swim, when pigs wear napkins to
tea, when giddy girls cease to giggle
when all the johnny boys join, the
Y. M. c. A.-but scarcely before
that"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

The Fontanelle Observer says
there are men in public life who as
sumo to be an authority on financial
systems. and particularly on the pro-
posed banking laws, who are unable
to negotiate their grocery bills.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

The Brighton Enterprise predicts
that the dairy business will take a
boom in Iowa as soon as alfalfa is
generally raised BY our farmers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

"This good republican corn wealth
err is another astonishing incident in
democratic administration" says
the Marshalltown Times-Republican
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Mr.. Roosevelt has secured a license
to carry a pistol, but this is quite in
keeping with his theory of main
tanning the peace.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Have you noticed the recent 81
lence of all those papers which laugh
ed at the lobby investigation?
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

Jack Johnson is on the ocean on
his way to Europe and the question
is not "Can Jack come back?" but
Will he come back?"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-10

The man who now doubts that
President Wilson is not real demo-
cratic president, has another think
coming.