The Pulaskian., 1916-05-26

CTS. The only important matter left to be settled is the chairmanshlp of
 the state central committee for the
 next two years. The friends of vari- ous candidates for United States sena- tor are busily engaged working in the interest of men favorable to thelr cause, and it Is now believed that man without any particular choice at the present time will be selected.
 Judge A. J. Walls. who is now round ing out his second term as chairman of the committee, is brother-in-laW of Senator Joe T. Robinson and
 close personal and political friend of the senator. The friends of Gov Donaghey and Smead Powell, who
 have already announced their candi-
 dacy in opposition to Senator Robin son, believe that Judge Walls should l retire as head of the party organiza- tion in favor of a man who would be neutral as between the senatorial
 candidates. Jack Maloney, the pres have been reelected without any op- position, as he was satisfactory to all 1 the senatorial candidates, but on ac- count of his duties as ehancery clerk l and prospective incumbency of the
 circuit clerks office, found the duties
 of the secretaryship would interfere l with his official work.
 MT Norfleet says he will introduce bill during the early part of the ses- sion, requiring candidates for state of fees to receive majority of all the votes cast at the primaries, before
 being declared the nominee. It has | been the custom and rule in the past to declare candidates nominated when they received plurality of the votes. MT. Norfeet's idea is to follow the rue laid down by Democratic organf- cations in Tennessee and Mississippi,
 becase, in his opinion, a candidate for | governor or any other state office should receive a majority vote of the
 Democrats before being declared the choice of the party. His measure will l doubtless receive much support in the Legislature, as a number of represen.
 
 1 three sessions gave the matter much consideration The bill will be in the l form of an amendment to the state
 primary election law.
 The following very frank letter
 from a negro, now prisoner in the jail at Atkins, is published in the Rus
 sellville Tribune: For several years
 has been ingaged in the Whiskey
 Business know in jail ] has lost my
 Rabbit foot. Tho Shearf J. w. Danly
 is treating me royal and when his
 time expears the county will loase a | good man for he shore knows how to
 catch Bootleegers, know I will not
 sell any more whiskey for I have 1 paid more fines in this county than
 anyone that's come before the bar for whiskey And I regret weary much
 that Hon. Judge Pritty and MT. A. s. 1 Haise was not Judge and Prosecuting
 attorney years ago for they shore has learnt me a lesen tho it seams hard 1 but I compliment them very much for 1 it. And I will not ask them for Sn automobeal tho I will ask them since
 my finance is all exzausted to return I to me my freedom that may return
 home and spend the balance of my 1 days for good cause.
 l Suit to collect $48,oo1.S7 back taxes was fileu by the attorney generals of. i fee at Fort Smith against the Fort 1 SmIln Lumber Company, which is 1 controlled by Kansas City capitalists. ! The petition asserts that for the past l 10 years the company has failed to pay taxes in this county on the capital | stock of the Central Railway of Ar
 kansas and the Choctaw Investment l Company.
 Preliminary development work IS being pusLed at the newly discovered manganese mine on Sugar mountain in Montgomery county. A roadway is being built to one of the mines near | the summit of the mo 1ntain and it Is said a first class roadway will be | built to tine Iron Mountain tracks at Caddo Gap. S1xteen-ton auto trucks
 will be used to carry the ore from the
 mine to the railroad.
 Mrs Lillie B. Casey, widow of Ben Casey of Texarkana received through Sheriff Baker a check for SIS, ,342.50,
 in payment of a judgment she obtain ed in a suit against the Kansas City Southern Railway Company for the death of her husband, who was killed by an engine while he was at work in the local yards nine years ago. Alexander Jackson. general immi- grafton agent of the Rock Island lines, with headquarters at Chicago, has been the guest of c. A. Doak of the Sparkman Business Mems League for several days. They have been inspect ing the surrounding country with a n