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The Prescott daily news., 1913-02-17

all manufacturers of shoes sold in Arkansas, to stamp those not all leather, so the purchaser would know what he was get ting. This oill was quite popu- lar in the House, but the Senate romped with it from the start. and then the committee knocked it in the head without the use of chloroform.
 The bill providing for the ad- dition of poultry department to that of Mines, Manufactures and Agriculture, also received the official axe by the Agricul- ture Committee. The bill was proposed by the poultrymen of the state and carried an appro- priation of S10,000 for the pur- pose of experimenting with poul- try and it's diseases.
 The other bill killed by the committee was the Niles meas ure which sought to have the cities place heavy license on the transient horse-trader and mer- chant. The committee thought the bill might prevent the farmer bringing his stock to the city for sale, and the merchant end of the bill was so strong the city could force all new merchants to pay a license for six months, deeming them transient until they had been in the city that length of time.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-02-17
NEGRO KILLED IN
 CRAP GAME ROW

Two young negroes became in. volved in quarrel over a game of craps in Sunset yesterday af- ternoon about 4;30 and Otis Gar rison was shot through the left breast and died almost instantly.
 Booser Hawkins, the negro who did the shooting, was fired at three times by Garrison. but none of the bullets were ef- fectiye.
 Il wkinS was arrested by Mar. shal Hamilton and Consta ble Cumings and placed in the coun ty jail.
 A Apreliminary hearing will be given Hawkins before Squire Fishers next Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-02-17
SENATE COMMITTEE
 MAKES REPORT.

Little Rock, Feb. 17.-Through a report by tn e Agriculture Committee of the Arkansas Sen ate, filed Monday morning, the clerk, laborer and professional man who works six days of the week, may still take his little jaunt into the woods on Sunday and take a hoOk- and line too, if he likes, for the committee ad, versely reported upon the bill from the House to prohibit fish ing on Sunday. The members of this committee, some straight laced and long faced, and the chairman son of a minister, re- membered they too were boys at one time, and one even remarked it was one of his chief sources of pleasure to run his trot line on Sunday. With this sentiment there was nothing left but re- port that the bill do not pass. !" In the face of this report it is hardly probable the bill will be called up again.
 This com mittee reported un- favorably upon three other bills, one of which had passed the House. This was the Posey pure shoe bill, which required
The Prescott daily news., 1913-02-17
AUSTRIAN RAISES HOPE
 OF CONSUMPTIVES

Little Rock, Feb. 17.-Seeinp. a ray of light held out to them through the. cure for tuberculosis said to have been discovered bv an Austrian physician, the patti ents at the Arkansas Tubercu. losis Sanitarium, at Bonneville have pledged their all to fully in vestigate, so that if they cannot be reached by it, others may. pr. BoSworth will leave Tuesday for New York to make personal investigation of the Friedman cure, and if it will do all that is claimed for it, will bring some of the serum back to the Arkansas institution.
 To make the trip to New York and fully investigate, $500 was necessary. Of this amount the patients at the Arkansas institu- tion raised $500 and Judge J. M. Hill of E't. Smith, one of the trus tees, raised an additional S1OO. The physicians at the sanitarium have appealed to Little Rock and to the General Assembly for the additional S200 and it will probab- ly be forthcoming.
 The patients who raised the S3O6 are almost all supported at the sanitarium by the state, there being but a few patients who are able to pay their own expenses.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-02-17
Governor Signs
 Prohibition Bill
sos,ial to the News.

Little Rock, Jan. IT, Governor Joe T. Robinson today signed the prohib ition hill introduced several days ago in the senate by nine teen senators.
 This bill, it is stated, will no doubt place Arkansas in the "dry" column. It pro- vides for a petition from the majority of white people in any district for whiskey and it is claimed by the "Pros' that this cannot be securrd.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-02-17

When Twenty is in Love" is a comedy picture at the Gem to- night. It is a pleasing and up to. date love story. Very inter esting to all, especially the young and tender. Go out and take some one with you. Advt.
The Prescott daily news., 1913-02-17
DRY FARMING IS
 BETTER FARMING

oA hlIllS COnS TeSS WILL be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the last ten days of October of this year. This statement translated means that Tulsa will be the cen. ter of the agricultural world during 1913, says John T. Burns in the Interstate Farmer, for the international Dry Farming Con. gross is today the largest and most important organization known for the spread of better farming.
 Many people believe that dry farming is strictly far-western method ef agriculture in dis tricts of very small rainfall, and 1t has puzzled them to know why the International Dry Farming Congress should hold a conven- ton ln a region whose annual rainfall is close to 40 inches. Mr. Burns. who is secretary -treasur- CT of the Congress, explains this in very clear fashion. He says that dryfarming, which is a hyphenated word, is as much an agricultural system as is irriga- tion and mean as much in yield to the farmer who takes advan- tage of its methods. It means deep blowing and surface culti- vatlOn to save moisture. It means the planting of seeds which are accustomed to the climate in which they are expected to grow and it means the selection of crops for soils, the rotation of crops, and the return of manure to the land to maintain soil fertility.
 It has been found says, Mr. Burns, that evaporation figures largely in the crop production of every district and that therefore many regions of very heavy rain fall need dry-farming methods. The average loss by evaporation from April to September, inclu- Sive, is 20 inches of water in Montana and North Dakota. In the southern and southwestern states during the same period it is from 40 to 5 inches, the latter figure including nearly all of Ok lahoma and Texas.
 It is also known that it requires 21 inches of annual rainfall to grow the same native grasses in Oklahoma and Texas that are produced in Colorado on 17 inch es of rainfall and in Montana on II inches. In other words, sev- en inches more rainfall is need ed in Oklahoma, for instance, to produce a profitable crop than it takes in Montana, merely be- cause under ordinary conditions so much more of the vital crop element is lost through evapora- tion. Comparing the 20 or 25 inches of added evaporation with the seven inches of needed rain, it is also evident that any district having an evaporation three inch eS greater than another district will need an additional inch of rainfall during the growing sea son to produce crops of equal quality and quantity. It is fur ther evident that a southern rain fall of 30 inches, half of which comes in the growing season, is of no more value for the produc tion of crops, unless the addi : tfonal rainfall is conserved through proper tillage methods, than is rainfall of 16 inches in Montana or North Dakota, half
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27

Mayor Simon Bloom. With the city
behind us we can do many things, but
without this backing our efforts would
be practically useless from an official
standpoint. Pine Bluff is not a clean
city, from a moral standpoint, it must
be admitted. We have some of the
worst dives in this city that are to
be seen anywhere, and it will be the
opinion of all the well thinking peo-
pie, of all the people who have the
interest of the city at heart, that
those places of immortality be done
away with.
But these are not the only things
that should be exterminated. In fact
they constitute minor part, but the
evil influence a number of local prac-
tices have on the members of the
younger set of girls should also be
brought to an end. l have. no. doub,
but that the Commission will be ap-
pointed and confidently believe thai
it's revelations and recommendations
if carried out, will prove instrumental
in cleansing the social evil of Pine
Bluff"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27
GIBSON CASE TO THE
JURY WEDNESDAY
Goshen, New York Lawyer Says He
Will be Acquitted OF Murder
Charge.

Goshen. New York, May 26.-The
state tonight closed it's case against
Button w. Gibson, the New York law
yer on the charge of having caused
the death of the Countess Rosa Szabe,
and it is expected that the fate OF
the attorney Will be in the hands of
the jury possibly by Wednesday night.
Il will be acquitted" said the l&w
yer tonight Although this was the
states best day, i think it was also
mine
Gibson will not take the stand in his
own defense. He says his counsels dc
not think it necessary. The work OF
the state today consisted in introduce
ing the testimony of witness Ninturn
who claims to have seen Gibson's
hand upon the woman's throat, the
recital of Drs. King and Tasting and
other experts cause of death and fin
ally the showing of bank -book that
Gibson had withdrawn the Szabo oe-
post within a month of the woman's
death.
The night session was taken uI
mainly by DR. Henry Kohel whose ties.
timony was brought in effect that the
Countess was not killed by strangula
ton, "but the method and in the man
ner described
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27
SENATOR KERN USED
TUBERCULAR SERUM
RFsOLUTION INTRODUCED IN THE
ATE REVEALS THAT INDIANA
SENATOR HAD BEEN CURED.
Months Ago AsheyilIe, n. {. Surgeon
Has Cured Patients OF
Tuberculosis.

Washington. May 26-The introduce
ton of a resolution by Senator Over
man in the Senate today calling for
an investigation by the public health
service on an anti-tuberculosis ser
UNI. revealed the fact that Senator
Kern, Democratic leader of the upper
house, was treated with the serum i'll
1906 OF his illness and cure, Sena-
tor Kern said afterwards:
After several physicians had dag
nosed my case as tuberculosis went
to a sanitarium conducted at Ashe-
Vile. N. c., by DR.. Karl-Von Ruck and
remained there four and one-half
months I was absolutely cured and
| know many others who were there
with me who have since completely
recovered Some cases were far ad-
vanced."
DR.. Won Ruck used a form of vac
cine germs taken from rabbits and
guinea pigs. In his resolution Sena-
tor Overman stated that Dr.. Won Ruck
came to Washington about month
ago and had conference with Sec
rotary of Navy Daniels. That official
sent Dr. E. r. Stitt, a professor in the
naval medical school to Ashveille to
investigate the serum. The expert
spent a week there and after eXamin-
ing the institutions record for the
last twenty years reported to Sur
geon General c. S. Stokes that the
remedy in his opinion has proved ev-
ery claim made for it. The depart
ment was furnished some OF the
serum and tests are being conducted
at various governmental places.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27

New York, May 26.-That mini
mum wage of $3.50 a week would be
of little value as deterrent of white
slavery and that such wage is en-
tirely inadequate for women and girls
in large cities like New York and
Chicago, is the verdict of Rev. Mabel
M. Irwin, student of eugenics and mo-
raj prophylaXis, after reading of the
bill recently passed by the Illinois
legislature fixing $3.50 as the lowest
wage that can be paid to woman
or minor in that state. ct is mighty
poor policy for a state to grind a
person down to the lowest amount
that one can live on said Miss r.
vim, land such minimum is absol-
utely useless in the movement to re-
claim hayward girls"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27

quietly just inside the railinS >etween
James A. Garfield anu George A.
Shiras, of Marquette. who is enter
tanning the colonel at his home Col.
Roosevelt showed the deepest interest
in the case and sometimes sat lean
ing over in the direction of the Juror
who was being examined and with his
eyes fixed sternly on the mans face
Editor NeWett who is a tall, spare
man, possibly 80 years old, with iron
gray hair and mustache and ruddy
complexion, and looking more like a
colonel of cavalry than a country edi-
tor did not take the interest in the
trial displayed by the colonel but sat
stiff and prim by the side of his coun-
sci with the freedom of the press
weighing heavily on both shoulders.
At the night session of court re-
cess was taken at 9:15 after both
sides had declared their willingness
that the session be protracted until a
jury was secured. A recess was then
taken with II veniremen i'm the box
all of whom had passed the prelim-
mary examination by both sides, and
while not finally accepted many il
not all, may be on the jury that will
try the case
Bulletin.-The jury in the case OF
Roosevelt against Newett was COM
pleted tonight at II o'clock after 80
venirement had been examined. TIL
jury was sworn and then taken in
charge by the sheriff.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27
NO CHANGE IN THE
JAPANESE SITUATION

Washington, May 26-The Japanese
situation today presents no aspect
vailed since the illness of the Emper-
or was announced from Toxic. Sec
rotary of State Bryan says he has not
as yet made an engagement for a
further conference with Viscount
Chinda, the Japanese ambassador, for
this week, but there is a general feel
ing that the reply of his government
to the American note will be forth.
coming within few days.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27
Michigan Editor Who Said
He Was a Drunkard Will
Not Retract Statements
IS SECURING JURORS
Many Prominent Men Will Testify in
the Libel Suit, That At
tracts Much Attention.

Marquette Mich, May 26-The suit
of Roosevelt versus Newett. Docket,
AZ, file No. 1892, was called at two
o'clock this afternoon in the circuit
court of Marquette county The
suit, according to the papers on file
in the courthouse, was brought by one
Theodore Roosevelt. a citizen of New
York, against one George A. NeWett,
citizen of Ishpeming, Mich, charging
libel it appearing that said George A.
Newett did publish in the newspaper
of which he is owner and editor. VIZ.
the Ishpeming Iron Ore, that the said
Roosevelt did mar and curse in
most disgusting manner and get
drunk too, and that not infrequently
as all his intimates know Because
of this, the said Roosevelt brings a
suit demanding $4,000 in damages.
The said Newett refuses to retract Or
apologize or retract one single word
of his work Instead of that he hires
! lawyers and goes to work to prove
the truth of what he has asserted.
Consequently today came into court,
the said Roosevelt and the said New
EFT and all their lawyers and wit
nesses and great stacks of affidavits
and the trial is on.
The day was spent in examining
! Jurors. At five o'clock some two doZ-
Ell veniremen had been called but
none chosen, although there were ten
who had been questioned on both
sides and still held their seats. Judge
Flanagan decided that the jury must
be secured today if possible so he
ordered a night session of the court
and Lawyer Pound for the prosecu'
ton. said he hoped to put Col. Roose-
welt and some of the former cabinet
members and other distinguished
men On the stand tomorrow.
The veniremen examined today
were mostly of Swedish or Irish ex-
traction but there were several ma
i tive-born and a Fin and German. AS
regards to profession they were main
ly miners, lumbermen or employees in
the officers of the ore company. They
were also certain that they would not
be influenced by the fact that the
plaintiff had formerly been presiden
of the United States but that they
would be swayed only by the law and
the evidence. Also they were in uni
in saying it was a serious thing tt
call a man a murderer thief or {
drunkard if you could not prove it
Some of them were dismissed because
they had previously discussed thu
case and had expressed decided opin
ions; others dropped because of to-
close an acquaintance with the sait
Newett while two walked the planl
because they were brother Elks, tn
, said Newett being charter membe
of the Elks Lodge of Ishpeming, bu
nothing was said about brothe
Mooses.
Lawyer James H. Pound, of Detroit
+, the chief counsel for the prosecution
was much more particular in his ex
animation of jurors than w. P. Bel
den. chief lawyer for Me defense, an
demanded the removal for cause 9
five prospective jurors to the defen
sive's one.
= And during all the questioning @
the veniremen, Col. Roosevelt sa
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27
PARK Committees
Will MEET TONIGHT
DEFINITE ACTION WILL BE TAX.
EN TO ESTABLISH a CITY
PARK IN PINE BLUFF
PROPOSITIONS Will BE Made BY Owners
Of Desirable Sites and the
Matter Discussed.

OF DeS1rADle Sizes anu TIE
Matter Discussed.
Definite action toward the estab-
lishment of "a city park will betaken
tonight at mass meeting of the park
committees of the various organiza-
tons who have become interested in
this movement, which will be held at
the Chamber of Commerce assembly
hall.
Sealed bids for park sites will be
received but so far as known only
two offers will be made, those being
from H. l. Holderness and DR.. o. w.
Clark, owners of the Eden Park Place
and the other from the Okland Real
Estate COMPANY with T. Pearce of
this city as secretary, which owns
property west of the city, near
Smart's pond. Officials of both Of
these companies will be present to-
night and explain the offers and it is
very probable that one of them will
be accepted.
The matter of the establishment of
four parks, one on each side of the
cit, it is said, will be taken up at to-
nights meeting and this proposition
thoroughly investigated. A number
of speeches will be made and it is
assured that definite action will be
taken toward the establishment of a
city park.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27

chairman: Evan Parnell, c. NJ. Nichoi,
w. c. McBryde and T. Havis Nixon.
Committee on Uniforms.-Henry
Marx, clrairman Sam Solmson and
Ben Robinson.
Reception Committee.-Entire men,
bership of Pine Bluff Aerie No. 20S,
f. O. e.
Hotel and Railroad Committee.-G,
J. Merrill, chairman; J F. Caperton,
A. Johnson and J. K. Chadlck.
Grand Ball Committee. wv. Ew-
ing, chairman; J w. Julian, T. A.
Maxwell, c. A. GoshOrn and Ben RoD-
inson.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27
"HAL" CHASE TO WE'D
A SECOND TIME

Jersey City, New Jersey, May 90
Harold Chase, better known as Hal"
the left handed first baseman of the
New York American baseball team and
Anna Marion Cherburg, daughter of
DIR. Leon Cherburg, New York City,
came here today to. procure license
to marry. Because Chase neglected to
take along the papers that proved he
was divorced from his first wife, Mel
lie Hofferman Chase, the license was
denied.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27
II. II. KIRCHGRABER
WEEDS MRS. NELL TROTTER

Fl H. Kirschgraber, we'll known
resident of this city and who for
years has been an engineer on the
Cotton Bely here, was last night mar
ried to Mrs. Nell NJ Trotter, a we'll
known milliner of this city. The
ceremony was performed by DR.. j. l.
Norris. pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, at the home of Mrs. Ada II.
Sweet and Mrs. Trotter, Sixth avenue
and Main street. Mr.. and Mrs. klrsch-
grader left at midnight for Memphis
and Mattoon. Ill.,, where they Will
visit Mr.. Kirschgraber's relatives
They will return to this city in a few
weeks and make their home here. A
few intimate friends of the contract
ing parties witnessed the ceremony.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27

Washington, May 26.-Friends OF
Senator El.hu Root, of New York. in
timated that he will not be candi-
date to succeed himself in 1914. AL
though Senator Root has made no de-
finite statement himself, it is said he
has reached this decision because of
his dislike to enter into a political
contest of the nature which is certain
to precede the first trial of the di-
rect election of Senators in New York
state.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27
i Committees
HAVE BEEN NAMED
Lees Prepare for Conven-
lion to Be Held in This
| City Next Month.
ANY ARE COMING
Lcial Trains Will Come From Fort
Smith, Little Rock and
Hot Springs.

i The Eagles are busy making ar
kgements for their annual conEen-
n and festivities, which are to be
Itured in this city June II, IS and
President E. H. Sammon, of Pine
Lift Aerie No. 209, Fraternal Order
Eagles, has completed the appoint
hi of all the committees and they
! hard at work perfecting the plans
! the entertainment of the guests
4 to make the coming convention
! biggest and best that has ever
En- held in this state.
Much enthusiasm is being display
| in other cities, principally Little
3ck, Fort Smith, Hot Springs and
'genta, and it is expected that sever
special trains and as many bands
n come to this city with the dele
les during the convention. Many
5rchants preparing to decorate and
His believed that the city Will be
Eorated as deliberately as it WAS
ring the recent Elks convention.
Che Little Rock and Argenta Elks
] planning to have a big joint CON
htion session Wednesday night al
Eagles hall in Little Rock and a
delegation from the local Aerie
i attend the meeting f H. Sam
IN will head the Pine Bluff delega-
b. State convention boosters from
Der aeries in the state will attend
meeting, which will be followed
a Dutch luncheon.
President Summons has appointed
] following convention committees,
10 have been at work for several
Us and are meeting with fine prog
is:
Executive Committee.-A. Johnson,
Pirman; E. H. Sammon, secretary,
d }. K. Stewart, treasurer.
FINANCE Committee.-H. B. Feinberg
alrman; Edgar Brewster, J r.
fwart Simon Bloom and Ben Rob
Jon.
Publicity Committee.-Sim Bloom,
Rlrman; George G. Morris, Ben Rob-
pom, Meyer Solmson and Edgar
ewste!.
registration and Badges w. c.
pride and C. M. @Nichol.
Music Committee J.W. Ewing and
e Soltz.
Decoration Committee-R. A. Pool
hlrman; R. H. Williams, Evan Par
u, A. G. Briiner and ]. III. Delmon.
entertainment Committee.-T. A
fxwell, chairman; Edgar Brewster
A. Goshorn, ID. Finley and Meyer
lmson.
program Committee Meyer Solm-
chairman; c. M. Nichol, ]. A
dzier, w. c. McBryde, and c. A
shorn
Dutch Lunch Committee II. B
lhperg, chairman; r. A. Pool, T. A
AAwell, George c. Morris, J. w. Ew
p Lyman Soltz, E. B. Harvey, O. e
FRY and F. p. King.
arade Committee. w. Ewing
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-05-27

so different patterns of Brass
Beds, guaranteed not to tarnish. Spec
ial prices this week. Prices STATS to
$125.OO. Knox Walker. Il