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10 renin per lino llrnt In-CTtion, 7 cents each utrf(U nt. In) kn. Murrlnire and death mtlH ubove llvo linen obltuarleH and tributes of ri per line FORTY FIRST-YEAR NO. 27. ARKADELPHIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1908.

Adam Clfirk, Chad. M. Clark and fr Wilson KiIt4rH uml I'rorUtoin. A COMPLETE JOB OFFICE ACCORDING TO SECRETARY WILSON, THi FARMEP. IS UP TO HIS OLD TRICKS.

EXPLORERS SAVED BATTLE SHIPS REACH MANILA To Raise Fund or Orphanage. A handsome brick orphanage, capa-Mi of accommodating 100 homeless children, will be erected by the Methodist Episcopal church, South, at the corner of Fifteenth and Commerce streets, Little Rock, at a cost of J30.000. At a meeting of the laymen from all portions of the state, held Thursday at the Masonic Temple in Little Rock, this decision was reached, and plans were perfected for raising the fund, which is to be collected by subscription within a period of 90 days. Rev. M.

B. Umsted of Beebe was appointed to have charge of the campaign for raising the funds, but it was decided that one layman in each of the 21 districts in the state would be appointed to have charge of the work in his particular district. The church has had the plan of rebuilding the orphanage under consideration for some time, end those who attended the meeting Thursday were enthusiastic in their support of the project. The church now owns three lots at Fifteenth and Commerce streets, upon which Is a large wooden structure used for the home. The orphanage is in charge of the matron and one assistant and they are aided in caring for the Inmates by the older girl in the home.

Plurality for Donaghey 66,389. Secretary of State O. C. Ludwig has the official returns of the recent election from all the counties in the state of the vote for the five constitutional officers Governor, secretary of state, attorney general, auditor and treasurer. Mr.

Donaghey received a smaller vote than any of the other candi-daes for the constitutional officers, and notwithstanding he had two candidates opposing him, while each of the others had only one, his plurality over his Republican opponent is greater than the majorities received by Ludwig, Norwood, Yates or Jobe over their respective Republican opponents. The largest vote, 1 1 6,790, was polled by Hal L. Norwood, the Democratic candidate for attorney general, but his majority was 278 less than Donaghey's plurality over Wortlling-ton, his Republican opponent for governor." James L. Yates, for treasurer, received the next highest number of votes, being 1,533 less than was returned for Norwood and 5,295 more than was polled by Donaghey. Jobe, for auditor, received 3,673 more votes than Donaghey and 1,633 less than Norwood, and Ludwig, for secretary of state, received 1,766 more votes than Donaghey and 3,546 less than Norwood.

The returns show that the total vote polled for governor in the 75 counties was 163,674, of which George W. Donaghey, the Democratic nominee, received John I. Worth-ington, Republican nominee, J. Sam Jones, Socialist nominee, 6,787. Donaghey's majority is 59,282 and his plurality ever Worthington is 66,069.

The vote for secretary of state is as follows: O. C. Ludwig, Democrat, T. O. Fitzpatrick, Republican, 50,675.

Ludwig's majority, 62,569. For attorney general Hal L. Norwood, Democrat, T. O. Youmans, Republican.

50,999. Norwood's majority, 65,791. May Crow Rice On State Farm. The question of getting rid of the Johnson grass on the Btate convict farm In Lincoln county will probably be discussed at the next meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the state penitentiary, which will be held Monday. It has been HUSKes'ed that a large tract of the land where tho Johnson grass grows to such an extent as to make it unprofitable to raise corn or cotton be converted into a rice field.

The soil is well adapted to the production of rice, being the same as that in Jefferson county below Pine Bluff, where Judge James Gould and John Rutheriord have made a huo-cess of its cultivation. One of the advantages in establishing a rice field on the state farm is that it enn bo done at little expense and be operated at less expense than those on I ho prairies in Arkansas, Lonoke and I'ral-rlo counties. Growers of rice in the latter counties, in order to secure water, must sink wells and erect tanks at considerable financial outlay which would not be incurred at the state farm, as nature furnishes all the water needed and the kind is located no as to enable the convicts to flood the rice fields at. any time- with little labor and trouble and at comparatively small expense. Flooding the fields where the rice 13 cultivated would destroy the Johnson grass in a single season.

This. year tho sipe water from the Arkansas river ruined about 800 acres of cotton. Th; river at the farm was at the overflow stage last spring for 27 days, and the presence of all this water on the land suggested the Idea of utilizing 1,000 or more acres for the production of rice. It just so happens that the portion of the farm most available for rice culture Is where thJ Juliftsoa grass grows the thickest. Last year the state farm produced between 1,300 and bales of cotton, but this year the yield will not be much in excess of 1,000 bales.

Two hundred convicts now employed in picking cotton, and up to Tuesday had gathered between 300 and 400 bales. None of the cotton picked this season has been placed on the market. A NEWS OF ARKANSAS Rice Airship Refused to Fly. The theory of a large gas baloon encased fixedly to the mechanism ot the airship it is to float, received another disappointing setback at Hot Springs Sunday afternoon when the Joe Rice airship endeavored to mako its initial flight. Rice had undertaken to construct his airship along more extended lines than ever attempted before.

The fragile framework extended from nose to nose of the great baloon that was to lift it, and was connected further to the bag by a circle of aluminum belting which encased the bag along a parallel with its widest points. Under the framework of the bag was wholly encased and firmly fixed to the airship mechanism. When Prof. Carl Meyer of Xew York first examined the affair he shook his head in doubt. But it was the Rice theory, and he permitted the inventor to proceed without the discouragement of his doubts.

"It is a problem yet unsolved, to make a moving, squirming gas baloon, and a fragile bit of framework cooperate in unison," was all Prof. Myer said. Sunday the first flight was to have been attempted. With everything in readiness the ballast bags were carefully taken away one by one, while men stood about the framework carefully watching the effects when the mechanism became dependent on the gas bag. With Rice as the pilot, and tho engine well in motion, the baloon was taken charge of by several men, and slowly allowed to rise about six feet.

The result was disappointing. The framework constructed of steel tubing was pulled hard at one place, while it was loose at other points, the bag swerved but slightly, and was wpped so badly that further effort at flight was impossible. It was hauled down, dismantled of every foot of unnecessary tubing, the circular belt removed, and when the next attempt at flight is made it will be with the steering mechanism of the inventor's ship floating under the baloon, bound only by the lax soft cotton rope used as netting. State Exhibit at Fair. The Arkansas agricultural experiment station at Fayetteville has arranged for an exhibit of many articles at the Arkansas State Fair at Hot Springs.

The exhibit will not be a competitive one, but will bo solely for educational purposes. The exhibits will be as follows: Thirty varieties of otton. Ten varieties of fall wheat with glass lubes showing comparative yields (varieties in straw). Light varieties of fall oats, showing comparative yields (in straw). Four varieties of fall barley, showing comparative yields (in straw).

Ten varieties of rice (in straw). Twenty-cne varieties of Soja beans (on vines). Fifty varieties of cowpeas (in the pod). Fifty varieties of cowpeas under glass. Exhibit of cowpeas showing nodules on roots.

Forage crops of interest to farmers. An educational exhibit of corn. Five hundred weed and farm seed, etc. Dairy department: Butter One-pound prints in five, 10 and 30-pound shipping packages. Solids Ten-pound packages (two styles), five-pound packages (two styles), three-pound package.

Samples of butter mould3, ladles, wrappers, salt. One milk-testing outfit complete. One herd record outfit. Six jars containing constituents of milk. Six one-gallon jars containing samples of silage and balanced rations.

Samples of cotton seed meal in jars with analysis showing feeding value. One model silo. Demonstration work. Photographs or dairy building, interior showing creamery, cheese and milk testing rooms. Interior of dairy barn, silos and herd.

Tom Reed on Trial for Life. The trial of Tom Reed, charged with murdering Henry Pullen near Antonia March 18, opened Thursday morning in the Pike County Circuit Court at Murfreesboro. The court room was crowded with people, as the case is a celebrated one there. Pullen was found dead in his house, where he lived alone. Negroes Scared From Field.

Some excitement has been caused by the operations of whitcappers in the neighborhood of Genoa, 10 miles Boutheast of Texarkana. As a result of posted warnings to leave the county nearly all the negroes have quit the cotton fields and are seeking asylum elsewhere Injuries Prove Fatal. Oscar Samples, 45 years or age, died on the W. R. Brown farm one mile north of Corning Saturday night, at 8 o'clock, from injuries sustained In a runaway the day before.

He was on his way to town with a cow which bad just been, butchered when tne horses became frightened and ran away. Samples jumped from the rear end of the wagon, striking on his head, dashing his brains out. He died without gaining consciousness. H.e leaves a wife and three small children in destitute circumstances. Would Indict Fight Fans.

Because Alderman R. V. Powers changed his mind at the last minute Friday evening, no attempt was made to stop the glove contest between Oliver Ranney and "Brooklyn" Tommy Sullivan at 'the Coliseum rink. Little Rock, Friday night, by tfte process of injunction. Alderman Powers declared that he had been informed by the court that an injunction could be granted upon a proper showing, but that circumstances arose which caused him to withhold filing the papers.

OIL, MATCHES AND FOOD REACH DR. ANDERSON'S PARTY. WAS A BAD REGION FOR GAME Storm That Makes Rescue Possible Prevents Perilous Trip to North. New York, N. Y.

That a repetition of the fatal Hubbard expedition into Labrador barely was averted in the Arctic regions bordering the mouth of the Mackenzie river. Alaska, last month, became known Thursday, when three letters from Vilhjahlm Stefaus-son and Dr. II. M. Anderson, leaders ofthe Alaska-Arctic ethnological ex pedition of the American Museum of Natural History, were received by the museum authorities.

The first of the three letters was dated August 12. and told of priva ticn and lack of supplies on Herschel island in the Arctic ocean. Whaling ships that the explorers had expect cd to carry them to Cape Rathhurst had been unable to reach them on account of ice floes, and food and matches were running low. In an open whaleboat and a native skinboai. the two white men.

with a few native followers, were about tc start for Point Barrow in hopes ol getting supplies. The next letter, dated August 2S told of the arrival at Point Barrow but reported that the expected food and supplies could not be had. Win ter was shutting in, the termometei was falling daily and the explorer! were in danger of being hemmed ir by the ice. The region is a bad one for game and but for an occurrence, recountec in the third letter, the men woulc doubtless have perished before th spring thaw, which would have ena bled them to proceed to a base supplies in their little craft. TAFT IN BRYAN'S STATE.

Concludes Tour of Opponent's Homi State With Speech at Omaha. Uncoln. Xebraska. William Taft, following an enthusiastic reception in Lincoln Wednesday, startec Thursday morning on his final day'j itinerary in his opponent's home statt and will conclude at Omaha, where monster demonstration has beer planned. Taft Wednesday night not only in dorsad President Roosevelt's positior on the question of the publicity ol campaign contributions; but defended it with arguments calculated to estab lish that position as sound from th standpoint of public good.

Mr. Taft made 11 speeches in Ne braska before reaching Lincoln and five speeches in that city. Immense crowds greeted him at all points. Liquor Must Remain. Lawton.

Oklahoma. It is a viola tjert of the Prcbibirion law for a transfer man or any other person to convey liquor from the railroad depot. Liquor shipped from without the state ceases to be interstate commerce after it leaves the carrier's hands. Thi3 is the option of Judge J. H.

Wolverton. of the county court announced in a liquor case here Wednesday. The defendant has appealed. Stewart Examination Begun. Washington, D.

C. A preliimnary physical examination of Col. William F. Stewart, of Fort Grant, was made Wednesday by the medical officers attached to the army retiring board before which Col. Stewart has been ordered.

The examination will be continued from day to day and the medical officers will be ready to submit their report to the board by Monday next. Organize for Protection. Xer York. Y. Manufacturers of railroad material, representing hundreds of millions of dollars in capital, met at the Waldorf Astoria hotel Wednesday to form an orgaciza lion to combat the attacks on rail roads from legislative and othei sources.

It was pointed out that five alone of the concerns represented ar capitalized at more than 100.0u0.00; la the aggregate. Vessel Thought to be Lost. San Francisco. Cal. The Mer chants Exchange has received a cabl dispatch from Manila stating that the United States steamer Tarlac was caught in a gale on September 23 and driven ashore on Borongan Island one of the Samoan group.

It i thought the vessel will be a total loss. Mint Read to Buy Silver. Washington. D. Director Leach of the Mint announced Thursday he would this week resume the purchase of fine silver for subsidiary coinage.

He says he expects to purchase about 125.000 ounces each week for an Indefinite period. Keating Takes Dupont's Job. New York. Chairman Hitchcock, of the Republican Xational Committee says that Charles H. Keating, cf Ohio, will act in the place of T.

Coleman Dupont, who resigned from the Executive Committe of the National Republican Committee. Bark Fox Lost With 15 Men. Nw York. It is feared in shipping circle here that Capt. Thorsen and the crew of fifteen men of the Norwegian bark Fox of Arendale were swept in the hurricane of last week and lost.

Collided With Iceberg. St. Johns, X. F. With her hull damaged by the collision with an Iceberg, the steamer Erik, which accompanied the Peary expedition to the North is reported on her way to this port.

The damage to the vessel ia said to be all above the waterline and she Is not leaking. 8,000 Miners Resume Work. Cheyenne, Wyoming. The 8.0QU miner employed In the collieries of Wyoming who went on strike SJL 1, returned to work. HARBOR VESSELS GO TO MEET UNITED STATES WARSHIPS ENTERING PORT.

GOY. SMITH ISSUES WELCOME Cholera Is Fast Disappearing from the Philippines and Plague Will Not Mar Reception or Pleasure of Americans. Manila. P. I.

The Atlantic battleship fleet has entered this harbor, passing Corregidor island at 12:20 o'clock p. m. Friday. Launches already have gone out to meet the fleet down the coast and accompany it into the harbor. There will be no formalities in the way of reception attempted outside of the demonstration by the steamers end harbor craft which will sail about the fleet as it lies at anchor, and at r.ight the ships will be illuminated.

Gov. Gen. Smith will pay an official call to Admiral Sperry after the great parade Saturday is over. Gov. Gen.

Smith has issued the following welcome to the fleet: -We have loked forward tor many months to the time when we mignt bid glad welcome to the officers and men of the American battleships: but this pleasure has been postponed almost in the hour of its realization, and it is a sad disapointmect to us all that the flying Sags and the wave of distant hands must signal the hearty welcome which our eyes and lips would gladly speak. 'The actual handclasp and words greeting must be deferred a little, but when the time comes they will be none the less warm for a little waiting. The outward manifestations of our welcome may be less magnificent tkan 4hat of other Hands, but in warmth and sincerity our welcome will yield to none." GOULD CASE ADJOURNED. Counsel Given Time to Procure Affidavits Against the Wife. New York.

To permit counsel for Howard Gould an opportunity to affidavits of three disinterested persons who had fn Mrs. Go id intoxicated." a hearing on Mrs. Gould's application for alimony at the rf of S120.0"0 a year was adjourned Ty Justice Glegerc-h in the supreme to irt Thursday. Clarence J. Shearn.

artorr.oy for Mrs. Gould, declared the application for' adjournment was jockeying for delay to "save Mr. Gould a few paltry dollars and to to gt on the records wicked san'laToijs statements against Go'iM in an a'ernpt to further the At the conclusion of the arguments J'is'ice Gieeerch, without comment, granted tie application for adjourn-nent to October 13 after he had learned that Mr. Gould had sent his wife a rfceck for her monthly allowance Thursday. LOOMIS IN JAPAN.

Exposition Commissioner is Looking Over the Plans. Tckio, Japan. United States to the Tckio Exposition in 1H7. Francis B. Loomis, and his party arrived here at 7:30 o'clock this morn-izs were met at the depot by of the foreign office, ex-f i.ucn officials and officials from lie American embassay.

An elabor-ae program of entertainment to the American visitors has been mapped o-t by the Japanese officials. Commissioner Loomis is ia Japan tn look over the exposition plans In crier ttar he may adapt the Ameri-fiz -xtitit for which the United government has set aside 'j-s-i for the general arrangements. Hearst Audience Disappointed. Allai'ierque, X. M.

A large which packed the floor of i tkaur-g rink here Thursday night V- to hear W. R. Hearst were disappoint-Mr. Hearst did not arrive here 11:45 because of train delay i will deliver his speech to-ciorrow He is also on the program tie National Irrigation congress a speech at the afternoon session. Monthly Coinage Statement.

Washington. D. C. The monthly ir.ae statement f3ued by the dfr -or cf the mint ifcnrsiay shows that dirizg September the total executed at the cists was 2. cf which wu S-'J- v3t.C0'3 silver, and 1S3.2O0 minor fuiii.

This exclusive of 2.412.0) P-a piece coined for the Philippine Steel Cars cn Harriman Lines. Chicago. Illinois. The Harriman l.f:s it was announced here Thursday Lav decided to adopt teel coast ruct-1 p4er.Z'-r cars over their entire and have given to the company, an orler for 2-0 steel cars of miceiIaneous types. The cars are to be steel shell and are to lite little wood in their coaitroc-uoa a poible.

It is said they will be alaict indestructible. The Pull-Eiaa company ia to begin deliveries sixty days. Root Back on the Job. Washington- D. C.

Secretary Root, wko has teen spending the am-cier at his home at Clinton. X. re-s-anied hii duties at the state depart-Lieat Thursday and called at the White Huti-. He in excellent Ls-alth. Minister Wu Ting Fang, cf China, the first of his callers, bore a 6Upatth from Peking informirg the iaituser of the designation of two royal Chinese digcitariea to extend an social wdcocae to the battleship fleet it Amoy.

Chiaa- Hope to Effect a Compromise. There will be a lull in the agitation for lower frieght rates until the railroads and the shippers of Little Rock cenfer with each other on October and 7. On these days, representatives from the Iron Mountain, the Rock Island and the Cotton J3e.lt will discuss the reasonableness of the 23 per cent advance in rates, with the Executive Committee of the Merchants' Freight Bureau. The shippers, who are willing to give in somewhat, believe that a compromise will be effected. Arbitration wotl-ed in Memphis, and Manager Bragg believes that it will in Little Rock.

At all ftvents, all legal action against the roads will be dropped until the results of the conference are shown. As one of the most prominent shippers said: "We are going to do everything to allow the railroads to come to terms. We dislike rousing enmity between the two sides through a legal fight, when all differences may ba adjusted amicably, in conference. Umited Dollar Wage. Cotton pickers are receiving $1 per 100 pounds in the vicinity of England, Lonoke according to Postmaster Schooley of that, place, but.

it is only in the lowlands northeast of England, where it is necessary to gather the crop at once lest heavy rains should come and inundate the fields. The cotton, too, Mr. Schooley says, is of a rather poor grade sind a picker cannot, gather as many pounds as in a first-class crop. The tempting price is having its effect, on the negroes, and the other plantation owners of that district, fiiul it necessary to raise their price in order to secure help. As high as 80 cents is beins offered on plantations where the growth is heavy and easy to pick, but in all other portions of the county and in Pulaski, 50 cents remains the ruling rate.

Saline County Fair Opens. An industrial parade of 3.000 people, nearly half a mile long, opened the Saline county fair Tuesday. In the afternoon G. R- Belding and Judge Curl, both of Hot. Springs and also Judge Bonham of Benton spoke on matters of general agricultural interest.

The exhibits are considered the finest in years, with the exception of the live stock. This department, although represented by splendid specimens, is very small. The art. department was generally- conceded to have shown the broadest develovment over previous years. Boy Killed By a Tree.

The funeral of the 11-year-old son of John Bumpass 6f Bayou Meto township who, was killed Monday night by a tree falling on him was held at Cabot Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the family residence. The boy, in company with his uncle, Dave Al-dridge, and a number of neighbors, went 'possum hunting Monday night. A 'possum was "treed," and when the tree was felled to capture the game, it fell across the boy, killing him instantly. Capt. Armstaid Prostrated.

Capt Carroll F. Armstaid, commandant of cadets at the University of Arkansas, suffered a nervous breakdown at Fayetteville Wednesday afternoon. Capt. Armstaid Is completely prostrated and will have to be removed to a hospital for treatment. It Is probable that a successor to Capt-Armstaid will be detailed by the War Department.

At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees of the university, Capt. Armstald's department was especially commended. Agent Swaty Transferred. Special Agent A. V.

Swaty of the government demonstration farm work, has been transferred from the Little Rock district to one in east Oklahoma under State Agent Bently of Oklahoma. Mr. Swaty has been instrumental in bringing about, so tho i-oaiiits nf the experimenta tion by the federal government before the farmers of this section In a practical way and has maintained the closest co-operation between the feder-el and state agricultural bureaus. Drops Dad in Fit. Arthur Eckhardt dropped dead with an epileptic attack at Hot Springs Thursday afternoon while inspecting the city "jail.

Eckhardt is an ex-policeman from Chicago and went to Hot Springs about four week3 ago. Thursday afternoon he decided to visit the jail and while walking about the corridors was seized with a fatal attack. He has a brother living at Greenway, and arrangements have been made to end the body there, for burial. BRYAN" CRITICISES TAFT. Issues Statement on Republican View of Publishing Contributions.

Lincoln, Xebraska. Declaring that every disinterested voter knows that large contributions have been used to secure mortgages upon officials," William J. Bryan Thursday night issued at Fatrview a statement criticizing the adoption by W. H. Taft his Republican opponent, of President Roosevelt's announced view on the subject of the publicity of campaign contributions.

"Mr. Taft," says Mr. Bryan "makes the charge the president does the astounding charge that the voters are so liable to be misled that the knowledge (as to the amounts and sources of campaign contributions) must be kept from them." The Democratic nominee then adds: "I insist that this is an insult to the intelligence of the voter, and it does little credit to Mr. Taft's judgment of the men to whom he is making his appeal." TAFT FEELS CONFIDENT. Bases His Belief on Reception in States He Has Traversed.

Omaha. Xebraska. "I am going to be elected." This statement made Thursday night by W. H. Taft sums up in a word what the candidate thinks of the.

effect of his speech mak ing tour thrs far. The belief is based Mr. Taft explained, "on the manner ol his reception in states thus far traversed in which there was reported to De defections among the Republican ranks. As to the national ticket, Mr. Taft now believes that there is no reason to doubt but that the Republican party will hold its own and should this prove tue case, Mr.

Taft says there is no doubt that he will get the electoral vote of Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Kakotas, Iowa and Xsbraska the states as to which the disaffection was supposed to exist. FORAKER COURTS INQUIRY. Ohio Senator Says if He Has Violated Law He Will Accept the Penalty. Cincinnati, Ohio. United States Senator Joseph B.

Foraker in a statement given out for publication declares if he has violated any law then the penalty should be invoked upon him. The questions to be considered, he says, are, first, whether he was employed illegally, and secondly, whether it had any relation to his duties as senator or Influenced him in any manner in regard thereto. He claims to have answered these points fully and clearly "already. The question of compensation, he says, he does not feel inclined to discuss with Mr. Hearst.

Another Ohio County Dry. Delaware, Ohio. Delaware county Thursday by a majority of 2.14S went "dry." The "drys" carried the city of Delaware by 528. Two years ago the city went wet by COO majority. The faculty of Ohio Weslyan university, located here, assisted in the temperance campaign.

Fleet Arrives at Manila. Manila, P. I. The Atlantic battleship fleet has entered this harbor, passing Corregidor Island at 12:10 o'clock p. m.

There were no formalities in the way of reception attempted outside of the demonstration of the steamers and harbor crart which sailed about the fleet. Tonight the ships will be illuminated. An Invitation to Zanzibar. London. The sultan of Zanzibar announced at the Hotel Rltz that he would invite President Roosevelt to visit the British protectorate on the East coast of Equatorial Africa.

He thinks he can give the president points on big game. Thirteen Killed, 49 Hurt. Berlin. Thirteen persons were killed and 49 injured in a railway collision here Saturday, due to the engineer of one train ignoring the danger signal. Two Hurt In Iowa Wreck.

Marshalltown, Ia. Seven loaded cars totally demolished, two engines wrecked and two persons injured are the results of a head-on collision between Iowa Central freight trains at Abbott, Ia. Forest Fire Under Control. Eureka. California.

The forest fire which has been raging In the northastern part of Humboldt county, is reported to be under controL A rough estimate places the burned area at 20.000 acres. WILSON TO BANKERS HEAD OF PRINCETON U. SAYS FINANCIERS MUST ADVERTISE. SEEK SMALL BUSINESS, HE ADVISES Co-operation of Capital With the People Is Declared Necessary for Success. Denver.

Colo. Dr. Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton University, one of the leading economists of the day, in his address before the members of the American Bankers' Association, in convention Wednesday said, among other things, that capital must seek voluntary co-operation with the people, and that instead of the banks never advertising, as formerly was the case, they now eagerly seek s.iall business as well as big. The session Wednesday was devoted eniirely to addresses by prominent bankers and political economists. The of the bankers In op-prsiMon 'o both the proposed postal savings hank and the guarantee of bank deposits, which was clearly shown in the meetings of the savings bank and trust company sections Monday and Tuesday, was emphasized Wednesday when Col.

.1. I). Powers, president of the association denounced th Lank guaranty plan as dangerous. President Walker of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Toronto, was another speaker.

The reports of Secretary Farr.svt-orth and President Pier-son of the Executive Council were read. Since the preliminary sessions began Monday the bankers have been discussing nothing among themselves but these two propositions and it is expected that before Thursday niht they will take a vote on them. That the result will be overwhelmingly against both proposed laws seems certain. The convention met in the Auditorium, where the democratic convention was held. JEROME AFTEfl FORGER.

Search Is On for Signer of Cleveland's Name to Anti-Bryan Letter. New York. District Attorney Jerome will take a hand in learning the truth of the story that President Cleveland did not write the "anti-Bryan letter," which was published in the New York Times shortly after Cleveland's death. F. S.

Hastings, executor of Cleveland's estate, will be called to New York in the search for the truth concerning the writing of the letter which advocated the election of Judge Taft. Jerome will punish the persons concerned if the letter is proved to be otherwise tnan authentic. Kill3 Postoffice Inspector. Jacison, Mississippi. Postoffice Inspector Charles Fitzgerald of this city was shot Tuesday by W.

A. Sors-by, a' clerk in the Clinton postoffice. Fitzgerald had been checking up the office of which Mrs. Cabiness is the postmistress. Sorsby was the clerk and had been running the office.

Sorsby was on the way to the train when Sorsby appeared suddenly and red. Fitzgerald has been in the service thirty years. Fitzgerald was brought here and died tonight. Case of Bubonic Plague. Port of Spain, Trinidad.

The presence of one case of bubonic plague Is officially announced here. Athletes Blessed Ey Pope. Rome. The International Sporting Congress, which was organized as a celebration of the pope's jubilee and which 13 taking place in the court yard Belvedere, has attracted 2000 picked athletes of the Xational Gymnasium Union, who are participating in the contests. The pope mounted the throne, surrounded by cardinals and prelates, and, smiliag at the people blessed the athletes as they marched past.

Then he blessed the kneeling athletes. Theodore, Finds a Job. Hartford, Conn. Theodore Roosevelt, has began service with the Hartford Carpet Works at Thompson-rille. It is not yet known what his duties will be, but it is thought he will enter the operating department.

Western Drought Broken. Kansas City, Mo. A light rain general over the western half of Missouri and in the northeastern corner cf Kansas fell Saturday afternoon, breaking a drought of twenty-six days' duration. I State auditor J. R.

Jobe, Demo-j crat, A. A. Keller, Repub-j lican, 51,404. Jobe's majority, State treasurer James L. Yates, Democrat, W.

B. Burrow, Republican, 50,950. Yates' ajority, 65,623. Reynolds Held to Grand Jury. Conductor L.

Reynolds, charged with being responsible for the death of Clint Ruff, by throwing him from the door of an Iron Mountain caboose into Walnut, lake on the night of September 12, was given a preliminary hearing at Dumas Friday before Justice Norman Moore. Reynolds was held to the Grand Jury on a charge of murder in the second degree and his attorneys at once announced that they would appeal to Judge Grace, at Pine Bluff, for bail. Justice Moore declared there was not sufficient evidence against Reynolds to warrant, his being held on the charge of first degree murder. A Far-Reaching Fight. Herbert Mitchell, a young white man, was arrested at Texarkana Friday morning by Deputy United States Marshal L.

E. Rowe on a warrant charging him with interfering with and retarding the United Sates maila while in transit. The prisoner was later held to the federal grand jury under bond of $250, which he gave. The charge grew out of an altercation at the Union station last August between Mitchell and a negro employe at the baggage room, a part of whose duties was to truck the mail between the trains and mail transfer office. Postoffice is Robbed.

The postoffice at Baxter was burglarized Tuesday night. Eleven dollars in cash belonging to J. W. Crook, the postmaster, were stolen. Nothing in the way of stamps or money belonging to the government was taken.

The office was robbed about 18 months ago when 50 cents in money, a few stamps and some groceries were stolen. Baxter is only four miles from Dermott, where the postoffice was robbed about two weeks ago. Road Tax and Road Work. Attorney General W. F.

Kirby has been asked to explain certain sections in the digest, regarding the levying of taxes in cities for working county roads, etc. What is wanted from the attorney general is an explanation as to why a man in a small town has to pay a road tax, and at the same time be subject for 10 days In the year to road duty. Attorney General Kirby says that such Is the law, and that is all there is to it. Governor Little Slowly Recovering. Governor John S.

Little, who is in a private sanitarium in St. Joseph, is reported to be slowly recovering, mentally and physically, but physicians at the sanitarium do not believe he will be able to resume his official duties before his' successor, George W. Donaghey, elected Monday, Is Inaugurated the first of the year. Jails Man Who Shot Him. John C.

Roberts, who shot and wounded Sheriff Mooney in Baxter county recently, was placed in the penitentiary Thursday night. He Is sentenced to two years on the charge or assault with intent to kill. It was reported at first that Sheriff Mooney had been killed in the attempt to capture Roberts, who, with his wife, locked themselves in their borne and fought off the possee of men for some time. The sheriff recovered from the wounds, however, and was able to take Roberta to Little Rock. Cutting Near Caddo Gap.

In a fight at Barton's Mill camp, five miles from Caddo Gap, early Friday, Elbert Jester was cut with a knife. A messenger went for Jester'i father, who lives near. The father, armed with a Winchester, proceeded on the messenger's horse to the mill camp, followed by his family in a carriage. The messenger said Alex Stevens and a man known as "Shorty attacked Charlie Jester with rocka and that Elbert Jester went went to his h-other's assistance and was fca4- I tw cnt. Only Frost at Bentonvlila.

As a result of the cool wave, the only heavy frost occurring In Arkansas, according to Weather Bureau reports, was at Bentonville on Monday and Tuesday mornings. The frost at that, station was heavy, but was not a killing one. Cotton planters said Tuesday the cotton had received a chill that will doubtless affect some, but as far an is known no mean-ureabie damage resulted. H. F.

Alciatore, section director, explained the cool wave was an "orthodox" ono from a weather man's standpoint. When the area of high pressure appeared in the northwest, tbere was an area of low pressure south and east. This permitted tho high, with its attendant cold, to swing lo the wilt and east with rapidity. Similar conditions If. winter result in cold waves throughout the country.

Tuesday morning the wave had crossed the Mississippi river, and Atlanta, Chattanooga, Jack sonville, Mobile, Montgomery, New York, Washington, and other cities south and east, showed morning temperatures from 12 to 22 degrees under the morning before. West of the Mississippi river the temperatures were- Took Poison By Accident. Mistaking morphine for quinine. Lillian, the 14-year-old daughter of Tom Moody, who lives four miles north of Keo, filled a capsule with the poison and took It. Seeing her sudden illness tha family thought she was taking a chill and gave her another, capsule containing morphine, which they thought contained quinine.

The girl died just about, the time a physician reached her. Infant Overturns Hot Water. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. C.

C. Cobbs of Keo, was painfully burned about the legs Tuesday by overturning a bucket of hot water which had been prepartd for its bath. The bucket was left on the floor near the babe while the mother went to another part of the house after cool water. Deny Night Rider Reports. Reports to the effect that night riders have appeared near FA Paso are denied by Bee be citizens who Jiave just visited El Paso.

It Is reported that there has been some trouble between farmers in that locality, but, according to all reports, the trouble has been settled. May Get Electric Plant. An effort ia now being made to establish an electric light plant at Heber. A corporation will be organized soon for the purpose of establishing and operating such a plant under the franchise granted W. H.

Horton by the City Council several months ago. Get Orders for Bauxite. The Ozark Mining Company of Little Rock has received an order for 30 cars of bauxite which will be mined from the bauxite mines near Little Rock. E. S.

Gregg, manager of the Gregg-Gordon Company, which owna and operates several bauxite mlne-a near Little Rock, stated that the Ozark company would get out the order and that after it was filled it was some-what doubtful as to when the mine would be in operation again until after the election. Charges Denied. The statement made September 20, upon the authority of C. E. Elmore that W.

Marshall was wanted and in hiding charged with operating a blind tiger in a wagon which he hauled back and forth across the statn line, haa been denied In a written statement of the Grand Jury at Mammoth Spring, of which Mr. Elmore had charge, who says no evidence of the sort was brought out by Judge J. W. Meeks, who says no such case on. hla dockets, and by the prosecuting attorney..