Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-25
LITTLE ROCK MAY
 GET STATE FAIR 
 Next Legislature Will De- eide Future Site of Ar
 kansas Exposition.
FOR FRISCO EXHIBIT
Proposition Is to Raise Funds for Building Through Selling Space on FilmS-Gardiner Offers to
 Donate $1O.0W.
(By A. w. Parke.

Little Rock. June 23.-The next leg islature will have an opportunity to pass upon a plan to make Little Rock the seat of the Arkansas state fair and exposition, which is expected to become an annual event in Arkansas after 1914.
 The plan is to purchase a forty acre tract of land near Little Rock and on this the Pulaski County Fair association will erect number of permanent buildings, together with a half mile track. Ten acres of this will be deeded to the state; and the legislature asked to erect there on permanent exhibit halls. It is planned to ask the legislature for $4O,O0O for buildings, and if the re- quest is granted. to make the title So that in case the county organiza- tion becomes involved, the creditors cannot attack the portion held by the state.
 In this way the state will have con- trol over the buildings, and he old arguments against a state approprla ton disappear.
 It is reported by those back of the project that Hot Springs will not op- pose the plan, the citizens there be- ing willing to abandon the state sair at any time, because Oaklawn race track will soon be cut into town lots, and Hot Springs will then have to place to hold the annual exposition.
 Should the plans go through, an experimental station will be main- tained on a portion of the ten acres cedSl to the state, and on another portion provisions will be made for stadium at which pageants and similar festivities may be staged at intervals during the year.
 Flag Better Than Lantern.
 Public improvement contractors have at last found way to prevent accidents to reckless drivers of motor cycles and automobiles. The respect of all citizens for the United States flag is the solution. In past years red signs were placed on embank- ments caused by trenching the streets, and red lights there at night but the speeeder paid little attention to them, forcing the contractors te pay in many cases where the accident was due to the carelessness of the driver. Now a tiny United States flag appears on all public works. The reckless driver shuns it as though il contained germs of. plague. He steers many feet clear, and in this manner has reduced the number o1 accidents. The speeder does not care for sign, but he does respect his national flag.
 Tillman Scores Victims Father.
 Arthur Tillman should not be hanged" is the assertion of an officia of the Arkansas penitentiary, who has been closely associated with the foul boys who are confined in the peni teniary under sentence of death "There i in his case such an elemen of doubt that he, by all means, should have enough of the benefit to be al lowed his life. even though it is ont to be spent behind prison walls"
 Religious services are held at thu Arkansas peniteniary every Sunda. and all convicts are required to at tend. This gives the four boys wh' await death in the cells adjoining tn electric chair, brief hour with tn other prisoners. All are marched in to the chapel and the only clea faces are those of the four beardles youths who await execution. The, sing with the other convicts, and lea, in the services. Their voices are eas fly distinguishable from those of tn deeper tones of the other convicts All are high pitched, some nearin soprano.
 Tillman grows more morose as tn date set for his execution approaches He seems to feel that no hand ca save him, though he stoutly protest his innocence. According to priso officials, Tillman scores he father c his alleged victim, Amanda Stephens whom he says knew of the wayward ness of his daughter for months be fore the crime was committed. Whil Tillman has never actually charge any particular person with the murde of his sweetheart, his conversatio would lead one to believe that Il places the guilt upon man who ar peared as witness against him, an who was often associated with Til man and the murdered girl.
 Petitions asking for the commute tion of Tillmans sentence continu to pour in on Gov. Hays. and whil Tillman has life, there is still hop that his sentence will be commuted
 Unique Plan for Frisco Building.
 Stopping enroute at various stat capitols to be officially entertained b the chief executive Of the visite state. Governor G. w. Hays and hi party of Arkansans continue the merry way to San Francisco, wher two days will be spent aN the end ( the week in selecting the site for tn Arkansas building at the Panama el position As soon as the site is st lected, the party will hurry back Arkansas and inaugurate the can paign for the funds necessary to eret and maintain the building. Architet George R. Mann is expected to hay rough drafts of tbe building made bt fore the return home, in order ths +hov v,,ov hn onnr0ved hv fhe cOmInis