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The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05
LIEUT.. GOVERNORS
WILL FORM UNION
First Convention Tentatively Plan
ned. With Vice President Mar
shall to Address 1t.

Springfield, ILL.,, March A un-
ion of lieutenant governors and a
convention of presiding officers of
state senates, at which the state Of
ficials will be presided over by Vice
President Marshall has been arrang-
ed by Lieut. Gov. O'Hara of Illinois,
and will take place in May or late
in April.
Twenty-four lieutenant governors
have signified their intention of be-
ing present, and an attendance of
nearly 40 is expected.
The convention will be held at
Rhea Springs, Tenn. The exact date
will be decided at meeting of a
committee to be held in Chicago
within 10 days.
The suggestion came to Lieut. Gov
ernor O'Hara several weeks ago from
Lieut.. Gov. Pearson of Nebraska.
1t was suggested that the lieuten-
ant governors meet, organize union
similar to that of the governors and
take steps to have all the states in
crease the powers of lieutenant gov
ernors, increase theic salaries and
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05
.WILLIAMSVILLE BANK R0BBER
RECENTLY LEFT PARACOULD

Frank Wilkerson, who with his
brother, pulled off spectacular and
highly sensational bank robbery the
other day at Williamsville. Mo-, a
short distance north of Poplar Bluff
! is we'll known in Paragould. He was
employed as Swing" brakeman or
the Iron Mountain, running from
here to st. Francis. He checked out
of here less than two weeks ago and
said he was going to take vaca-
ton.
Last Monday he and his brother
for the purpose of robbing the insti-
tuition They ran into a meeting of
the board of directors, and promptly
covered the five men with weapons,
and forced them to enter the vault.
The young men then took the funds
in sight, amounting to $1,000, and
skipped. A posse was Immediately
organized and went in pursuit of the
Wilkersons. Several shots were fir
ed at the fleeing robbers and the
chase became so hot that the bandits
jumped into Black river. Frank Will
kerson claims his brother was drown
ed in the river and that the money
went down with him. Frank failed
to swim the river and was forced to
anchor himself to snag. He was
captured and lodged in Jail.
The following account of the
chase is taken from the Republican
of Poplar Bluff, Mo-:
wv X. Andrews, better known as
Cotton Andrews, who had charge
of the Poplar Bluff bioodhounds that
headed the posse in its long chase
after the Williamsville bank robbers
today gave a Daily Republican rep
resentative an account of his thrill
ing trip. IN all tne DlOOuHOun0S
trailed their men over twenty-five
miles, and were largely instrument
al in their capture.
"'After we arrived in Williams
ville,' stated Andrews this morning,
we went directly to- the Williams
Vile bank, where the dogs took up
the trail. The bandits headed north
Vile and proceeded in that direction
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05
CITY MANAGER IS
DESIRED AT MENA
Lundy Has Bill to Give Voters Pow
er to Employ Dayton Plan
Government.

Little Rock, March At remain
ed for President Elmer Lundy of the
Arkansas senate to make the first
official move to give a city of Ar
kansas the manager form of govern
mentor to give it a law to enable
the residents the right to say wheth-
er they want such a form of govern
ment.
His bill was introduced several
days ago and there is very little
question of its passage by the upper
house. The measure was drawn by
the city attorney of Mena. the home
of President Lundy.
1t provides that upon petition of
25 per cent of the qualified electors,
an election can be called for the pur-
pose Of electing three commissioners,
who shall assume virtually the du-
ties of the city council; they are re-
quired to retain a competent mana
ger, whose duties will be the hand
ling of all city business the same as
the manager of a big store takes care
of the business concern or as the
manager of a railroad or big corpor-
alton looks after its affairs.
The bill is said to be patterned
somewhat after the measure that
Dayton (Ohio) adopted and is oper-
ating under now. Dayton was the
first big city in the United States to
try that method of handling city f.
fairs.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05
YOUTHFUL BANDIT ATTEMPTS
TOR0B THE BANK AT KNOBEL

Texas, and remained there with my
company until | was honorably dis
charged in August, 1914. / serveI
in the army little over one year.
From Texas | went to Seattle and
other points in the northwest and fl
nally drifted to East ST. Louis. Later
| went to small town in Indiana
and visited a married sister. / have
forgotten the name of the town. Sew
eral weeks ago | came to Arkansas
and have spent most of the time at
hoxie and Peach Orchard
What put the idea of robbing a
bank in your head?" asked the re-
porter.
"Well, | was on the train going
to Knobel when some boys told me it
would be easy TO rob the bank at
Knobel. | decided to try it, but it
seems | made mess of the affair.
thought some one else was in the
bank and that if | didn't clear out
pretty quick l would get shot"
Lee says he is only nineteen years
of age, although he looks some old
er.
Yesterday afternoon late Sheriff
Grooms received a message from
Knobel to look out for the robber
He was furnished with description
of the young man and was told he
was probably travelling in this direc-
ton. About six o'clock the sheriff
and a deputy walked up the Iron
Mountain railroad and two miles
north of the city they ran into Lee.
He was placed under arrest and
brought to jail here.
when | left Knobel," said Lee,
Il travelled a short distance in the
bottoms, then got into a dirt road
| overlook a farmer and rode several
miles in his wagon. When / got out
OF the wagon | hit the railroad and
as you know walked into the sheriff
who was looking for me-
Lee told Sheriff Grooms he had
shot young man in Kentucky pre-
vious to joining the army and the
sheriff has been trying to get some
line on the alleged crime. Mr..
Grooms is of the opinion that Lee
has been working with gang and
that he is implicated in other crimes.
However, he has not yet had time to
complete his investigations. but hopes
to learn something of definite ma
ture within the next twenty-four
hours.
A deputy sheriff from Clay county
is expected to arrive here tonight to
take Lee back to Knobel for prelimi-
nary trial.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05

! for about six miles. They then cir
cled around and headed back toward
the Iron Mountain railroad.
LAS soon as we saw that our men
apparently intended to strike the
railroad, we Immediately figured that
they would attempt to catch train
at the Mill Springs water tank. Con-
| sequently one of our men telephoned
| to the sheriff at Wiliiamsville. who
with deputy took a speeder and
rode at full speed to Mill Springs.
where they hid near the tank with
party. Sure enough, the dogs trailed
the robebrs to a point on the Iron
Mountain road near Granite Bend.
about four miles above Mill Springs
AS soon as we saw that they were
headed straight down the track, we
chartered hand car, and came on
down to Mill Springs.
Meanwhile the bandits had walk
eu straight iulo the tIdp set LOT
them. When about seventy-five yards
from the hiding posse, they were
commanded to throw up their hands.
Both opened fire, and fusillade Of
shots was exchanged. The Iron
Mountain track at this point runs
along the river bank, with only
fence and a few feet of ground be-
tween it and the water. Both rob-
bers crawled through this fence and
slid down the bank, and it is here
that one of them is supposed to have
been wounded.
Both bloodhounds took up the
trail again at the fence, but the rob-
bers had disappeared. Frank Will
kerson later gave himself up.
"If it had not been for the Poplar
Bluff bloodhounds, it is doubtful if
the bank robbers would have been
captured. 1t was only due to their
good work that officers were able to
tell what direction the bandits had
taken.
'People at Williamsville now seem
inclined to doubt the story of Frank
Wilkerson about his brother drown
ing. No trace has been found of the
latters body, and it is thought pos
sible that he may have escaped, and
that his brothers story was only a
blind"
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05
SENATE REJECTS BILL TO
ABOLISH HIGHWAY OFFICE
By Vote of 23 to &, Wagner Bill
Providing End of Commission,
Is Refused.

Little Rock, March 4.-Despite the
airing that the department got a
| few days ago following the filing of
an auditing committee report in the
senate and house, the senate yester-
day refused, by vote of 23 to 6, to
abolish the state highway depart
ment.
| The debate on the bill, introduced
/ by Senator Wagner some time ago,
brought about discussion of the
merits of the department in which
there was very little said concerning
tee, although it was not overlooked.
The question of whether the state
should maintain rock crusher was
also brought into the fight.
Senator Wagner made brief
statement on his measure, declaring
that it was not doing the good that
| it should for the amount of money
that the state had and is asked to
appropriate. He pointed out the eX
penditures that the auditing COM
mittee referred to as unusual"
Senator Greathouse declared that
the department is needed one to
Arkansas and he opposed particular
ly the clause that provides that au
tomobile licenses should revert to the
cities and towns instead of to the
general road fund of the state.
Senator Futrell opened his state
ment by declaring that the person
mel of the present department should
not be considered. He said that if
the state is going into the rock
crusher business it ought to have
crushers in every county. He point
ed out that counties are units and
that county courts are given charge
under the constitution of the roads
I in their counties. He said that the
rock crusher plant should be under
the supervision of the penitentiary
commission.
President Elmer Lundy took occa-
sion to rap alleged lobbying by state
department Officials and the evil
dent desire of all departments to
have their powers enlarged and their
appropriations constantly increased.
He asserted that the state has now
too many departments and too many
employees. He declared further that
there was always a bunch of state
employees hanging around the legis-
llative chambers-anywher from
one to five a day-and that state
officials and employees were using the
time for which they were paid by
the state in running around over the
state as candidates for other Of
fices."
The vote on the measure was as
follows:
For passa age-Futrell, Moore,
Slaughter, Wagner, White and Pres
ident Lundy.
Against passage-Adamson Ash
| lev, Burgess, Cabiness, Calvert, Car
ter, Collins, Davenport, Duty, Ed
mondson, Greathouse, Ferguson,
Harris, Jones, Kendall, Overman,
! Owens, Russ, Sims, Smith of Colum-
bia, Toler, Vann and Wasson.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05

Frank Lee, alias John Osborne, a
youthful looking but swarthy and
cunning chap, is in the county Jail in
Paragould making mental calcula-
tions on how many years he will have
to serve in the Arkansas penitenti-
ary for an attempt to rob the bank at
Knobel yesterday morning. The pros
pect of a prison term would probably
not occasion such dark forebodings
if Lee had been successful in annex
ing some of the idle coin carried by
the bank at Knobel, but the fact that
he made a waterhaul and then eli
NAKED his i'll luck by walking into
the very arms of Sheriff AL Grooms
of this county, is enough to make Lee
think he was born under an unlucky
star
Lee entered the bank at knobel
yesterday morning about eleven
O'Clock and told Joe Sellmeyer, the
sscashier, he wanted some change He
accompanied the request with the
presentation of .3S-calibre revolver
which the cashier did not observe as
he turned to the pile of silver on the
counter preparatory to accommodate
ing the customer. When Sellmeyer
again faced Lee he observed the dis
play of ''shootlery' and quickly
"ducked." The youthful bandit heard
a noise in the rear of the bank office
and says he thought there was an
other man in the bank and that the
unseen occupant of the premises was
a!hat to shoot him. Conclusions
came rapidly without the formality
of dealing in analysis of details and
Lee made a jump for the door to
avoid being shot. 1t develops that
there was no one in the bank but
Sellmeyer and that the fears of the
youthful robber that some one in the
rear was about to shoot him We're
unfounded.
Lee made dash for the bottoms
near Knobel and kept well in ad-
vance of the posse that was quickly
organized to capture him.
At the Jail this afternoon he
talked freely to representative of
The Press and for the first time gave
what he says is his real name.
II have been going under the
name of John Osborne" said Lee
this afternoon, land in August, 1913,
| enlisted in the army at Jefferson
Barracks under the name of Os-
borne. My real name Is Frank Lee
and my home is at Apt station,
Cross county, where my father and
mother reside. From Jefferson Bar
racks | was transferred to Laredo,
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05
y GET $1,000 IN BANK,
MARCH 2 OUT TOWN
Bandits With False Boards Loot De.
Queen Institution, Force Pres
dent to Outskirts.

DeQueen, Ark, March 4.-Two
men wearing false boards robbed the
Bank of Gillham, 13 miles north OF
here, yesterday, and escaped with ST.
900.
DR.. Ben Hendricks, president, and
a customer were in the bank when
the men entered.
After taking the cash the two
forced the president and the other
man to walk out of town ahead o1
them, and later the men escaped or
horses.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05
WANTED-BAB|ES; EUROPE
STARTS ST0RK CAMPAIGN
Statesmen Encourage Soldiers to
Wed and Legitimize Name
less Children.
London, March 4.-''Wanted Boy

London, March 4.-'Wanted-Boy
babies!"
That's the cry of the statesmen of
Europe. It's a dead earnest demand.
They need boy babies just as they
need wheat, or horses, or copper, or
cattle. These statesmen of most of
the nations in the great war have
thrown aside all the peace time con-
ventionality about marriage.
Babies" they cry; 1--WE must have
babies. no matter how we get them -
And if these same statesmen could
persuade the European storks to
bring only boy babies for the next
five years they would do it delighted
ly. There are plenty of women in
Europe; there will be too many by
!, the time this war is ended,
The German statesmen have gone
about the baby breeding business
with characteristic thoroughness.
They have made rules which encour-
age young recruits to marry before
departing for the front: they want
the faters of German babies to be
the strong men of the firing line, not
the weaklings who couldn't go to
war.
But the most astonishing German
plan is already in the way OF accom-
plishment. Red Cross parties of doc
TORS and mid-wives from the lying
in hospitals of Germany will be sent
TO Belgium and northern France
during the next few weeks and eseer'
into war ridden Europe the babies
Continued ON page 81
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05
BILLS PAVE THE WAY
FOR SALE OF BONDS
Two Measures Proposed to Cure De-
fects i'm Present Improvement
District Laws.

Little Rock, March 4-Two gener-
al bills, one regulating creation of
improvement districts in cities and
the other regulating creation of road
districts, were passed by the house
yesterday morning. The former was
introduced by Representative Woods
of Sebastian and the latter by Repre-
sentative Alexander of mississippi
county.
Under the provisions of Represen-
tative Alexanders bill a majority in
number of residents, a majority in
acreage or a majority in value, of a
district sought to be organized, may
petition a county court to organize
the district, and the court, after the
hearing, may make an order Great
ing the district if he finds that t is
feasible and to the best Interests #
the territory affected. This IS SINH
lar to provisions of the present law.
f1ONeNcl uhuCl lAIC pA CoClI Ia w JULIUS
of road districts are unstable be-
cause of defects in the present stat
ute. The new bill remedies the de-
fects
The bill provides that a county
Judge or 10 residents of a proposed
road district may petition the state
highway department for use of the
department engineer in making of
preliminary surveys, and further pro-
vides that a private engineer may be
named in event services of the state
engineer are not desired.
An exact copy of the bill, but ap-
plying only t3 few counties, has
been passed by the senate and now
is on the calendar in the house. 1t
was introduced in the senate by SEN
ator Davenport at the request of
Representative Alexander.
Should Representative Alexander S
bill pass the senate it will put on the
statute books the first general road
law that is considered free of de-
fects. The bill is fashioned to an ex-
tent after the present drainage dis
trict statute.
While Representative Alexander's
bill provides for a general statute for
creation of road Improvement dis
tricts, Mr.. Woods measure is appli-
cable to improvement districts. 1t
has revolutionary changes from the
present law.
One of the most important fea-
lures is that it provides that any city
may take over waterworks, electric
light plants or any other general i'm
provement owned by an improve
ment district within its borders. The
city or town, for its provisions in
clude the anne rights for an incor-
porated town as for a city, may as
sumo the debts of such improvement
district and issue it's bends for the
payment.
The bill authorizes formation of
improvement districts for the purpose
of making repairs and extending wa
Iterworks, electric light systems and
sewer systems. Under the present
4
provided for.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05

The London salvage corps, main
tanned by the various insurance COM
panies, consists of ex-navy men.
The Long Island railroad hopes TO
save $4,000 by equipping its ferry
and tugboats with oil-burning en-
gines. The cost of making the
change will be inconsiderable.
also have all the lieutenant governors
combine to push pet measures OF
other members of the association.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05

CONTINUED on page 81
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05

Susan V. Powell of Jacksonville,
Mo, has organized throughout forty
states, a system of canning clubs for
girls. In the south alone more than
$4,000 girls have become members.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05

Every fifty seconds there is a
death from some preventable cause.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-03-05

One philosopher informs US that
necessity is the mother of inven-
ton. and another says it is the faith
er lies. Query What is the sex of
necessity?
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-29
INVESTIGATIONS SHOW UP TRICK OF LAYING
FALSE BLAME ON UNION MEN

Just how the unions are falsely
blamed for crimes and disorders was
proven today in two instances. Geo.
Sutton, Fl, with face cut and hands
bruised, said at South Clark st. police
station that he was a non-union lath-
er and had been beaten by union men.
Serg't Willard Malone investigated.
He found that Sutton had gotten the
worst of the argument when he re-
fused to pay for a meal in a saloon
and was thrown out. The report was
circulated that the 100000 fire at
124-126 W. Lake, Saturday, was
started by union men who had a
grUdge against the contractor. The
owner of the building and the con-
tractor both denied that such thing
was even remotely possible. They
have never had trouble with any of
the unions employed in remodeling
the building, they said.
$1,000
WANT PROTECTION FOR CITY OF
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
Washington, March 29. - Protec-
ton for Brownsville, Tex, and it's
citizens was under discussion at the
war department today.
Gen. Bliss, acting chief of staff,
was in touch with Gen. Funston,
commanding the border, and with
Col. A. P. Blockson at Brownsville.
They have been instructed to prevent
refugees from the Matamoras battle
from crossing into the United States
and to take steps to prevent persons
on this side from being wounded by
stray shots. The danger was grow
ing today.
The Matamoras situation eclipsed
all other Mexican matters today. It
was admittedly the first real test of
strength between Villa and Car
rama.
-O-O-
THE HARDEST JOLT!
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-29

A second conference between war
ring building trades factions had
brought no progress toward perma-
nent peace in the building situation
when the meeting adjourned at noon
today
The most noteworthy development
of the day was the signing of Frank
Cada, Iathing contractor, of the union
fathers agreement. Cada has been
a stalwart in the ranks of the, con-
tractors who are fighting the union.
1t is amusing the way the loop pa
peTs have insisted that Samuel Com
pers is dead set against the insurgent
unions and how he thinks the joint
agreement is a great thing. At the
conference Saturday night Gompers
spoke unfavorabIy toward the agree
ment. Even if we men here should
decide that after all the agreement
was a good thing we would have a
hard time convincing the men in the
ranks when we went back to our
unions" said GOmpeTs.
The Building Contractor Con-
struction Employers assn today an
nounced that its $50 members had
voted to refuse to employ union plas-
terers to work over lathing put on by
locked out union fathers. This is an
attempted retaliation for action of
the pIasterers in last week voting not
to put on work over laths nailed by
nOn-union men.
That's really funny" said Fred
Weyman, business agent of the lath-
ers. 1.-The pIasterers a week ago an
nounced they world work only after
union fathers. There is not a single
union Iather working for any one of
these $50 members of the Employers
assn. So how can the Employers
assn lock out union plasterers when
the union plasterers have previously
told the Employers assn that they
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-29

THE HARDEST JOLT!
Cleveland. - Police found two bars
of soap in the pockets of a tramp
and arrested him as a suspicious
character. ~ -
The daily Alaskan., 1915-06-18
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The daily Alaskan., 1915-06-18
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Having been appointed adminis- t-ator of the estate of Henry BernhOier, deceased, by the Com missioner for the Territory of AL aska, sitting in probate in Skag- way precinct Alaska, all per sous having claims against said estate are required to present them, verified as by law required, within six months from the date of this notice, to the undersigned, at his place of business in the town Of Skagway, Alaska.
 CHAS. WYE,
 Administrator First publication, May r, 1915. zi,.al publication, May 3I, 1915. Fl. E. Ls Fevre,
 Attorney for Administrator.
 Juneau, Alaska.