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^ ffiL. XXV PAKAGOVLI), GKEF.NE COUNTY, ARKANSAS. FRIDAY. MARCH 12. 1915 LYNN WILSON S WILL ^OSTAINED_BY JURY Efforts of Mrs. H. E. Pranger. His Sister, to Contest Its Validity Meet With Failure. A hard fought law suit, involving the validity of the last will and.tes tament of the late Lynn Wilson, was decide by a jury in circuit court yesterday afternoon when a verdict was returned sustaining the validity of the will. Mrs. H. M. Pranger of Clinton. Iowa, a sister of Wilson, had instituted proceed ings before the county and probate judge to break the will, the court deciding the will was valid and ad mitting it to probate. An appeal was taken to circuit court and an effort was made to have the will set aside on the grounds that Wilson was not in his right mind when lie signed the document. Two days were consumed in taking the testi mony, the plaintiff seeking to es tablish the contention that Wilson was mentally unbalanced when he made the will. It was shown con ^ clusively that at times he was in sane, and that he committed sui cide in the insane asylum. The principal beneficiary of the will, George Wilson, brother of Lvnti Wilson, resisted the efforts of Mrs. Pranger to break the will. Mrs. IJro n -m v uruo rniiriicontoil Ktr A tfnr. ney Miller of Clinton, Iowa, R. E. L.. Johnson and G. A. Burr of this city Attorney S. R. Simpson of this city, represented George Wil son. The estate disposed of by the will is valued at eleven or twelve thousand dollars. * __ WILL Ml RE-SUBMIT IHE PUBLICITY ACT Little Rock, March 11.—(Special to The Press.)—In the closing half hour of the house session, the Ed mondson bill to resubmit publicity act No. 3, was lost. Creswell call ed up the bill, and Representative Beeson, president of the State Press Association, held the floor for 20 minutes unitl closing time and pre vented the taking of a vote on the bill. LEVEE HEADQUARTERS GO BACK TO MEMPHIS Little Rock. March 11.—(Special to The Press)—The house today passed the bill repealing the act fixing the domicile of the St. Fran cis levee board at Marion. LAROR ROES NOT FEAR EUOHIGITION. There is no use in telling the la bor men that prohibition will mean unemployment. They know better. Says the Labor News of Galveston, Illinois: "When the people quit spending a billion dollars a year for less than nothing, then they will have money to spend for necessities and there will he jobs for everybody making things worth while. Who would ■# think of putting up a wall for the poor manufacturer and dealers in ‘coke' or other drugs thrown out by laws against that drug habit? Who will defend the ‘poor workers' thrown out of employment because of the sumptuary law against burglary or murder? It is the booze business that fills our cities with unemployed and send our girls to the devil. Kill the thing which not only incapaci tates a man for work but robs him of the money he might spend to make work for others and the unem ployed problem will be largely solved.” * Supply and Demand. A Westerner was discussing the love of the Indians for whiskey. He told of a personal experience, an Indian having offered his pony saddle and bridle for a pint of liq uor. “What do you think of that?” he concluded. "I think," his auditor replied, “that you got the pony very cheap." “Oh,” said the narrator. “I didn't get it. It was the only pint I had left. —Harper's Weekly. Gossip is a great evil, even when 2$ as of-.en happens, there is some truth in it. AMERICAN SHIP SI NK BY GERMAN WARSHIP — William P. Frye Suspected of Carry ing Contraband—Warship at Newport News. Newport News, Va., March 11. The German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Freidrich, which arrived in Hampton Roads yesterday, brought i word that the American sailing ship j William P. Frye, missing since last November when she left Seattle for Queenstown with grain, had been sunk because she was suspected of carrying contraband. ('apt. Kiehne. his wife and several of the Frye's crew are on board the Prinz Eitel. Surgeon Knoneck, of the Eitel. told Customs Collector Hamilton that the Frye was sunk in the South At- j lantic on Jan. 27 after the Eitel had i ! taken off the captain, his family and ; 1 all the crew. Tuesday night, after dark, the Ger man ship appeared off Cape Henry I but did not enter until after dayliht, ! when she passed quarantine and dropped her anchor at this port. All j her officers preserved the strictest si j lence and her captain at once dis ! patched a message telling of his ar rival and the condition of his ship to the German embassy at Washing ton. No sooner had the Print Eitel an chored than the United States coast guard ship Onondaga went alongside the neutrality of the United States I until officials at Washington decide 1 what shall be done with the Prinz Eitel Friedrich. Scarred by the red rust and salt of her months at sea, the German auxil iary was painted white on one side and black on the other. It was re ported in marine circles she had been chased to the three-mile limit by a British cruiser, but as the Ger man captain had sealed the lips of his officers that was not confirmed. Marine circles were startled when j the long slick ship, easily distinguish- j able by the outlines of a Noth Ger-j man-Lloyd Inter, steamed up the bay into Hampton Roads. She came into the roads and-without any attempt at deception passed quarantine and then came on to this port, where she an chored. Within an hour after the Prinz Ei tel had arrived in Hampton Roads, a request was made to the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Com- i pany for information of whether the j concern at once could begin work on the repairs. The shipbuilding compa ny immediately communicated the request to the Navy Department at Washington, and asked whether the United States would have any objec tion. ‘•ELECTRIC* TOWEL IS LATEST Device Tried Out at Washington Does Work in 30 Seconds. The new municipal building at Washington, D. C., is equipped with ‘electro-towels," devised by its su perintendent, J. M. Ward. The elec tro-towel is simply anelectric hand dryer. It looks like a rectangular box with the front face knocked out and set on a pedestal which brings it about waist high. The box is large enough to accommodate an ordinary pair of hands. There is an electric heating device in the stand and a blower which forces the air through ducts into the box on top, where the hands are held while dryng. A lever operated by the foot turns the cur rent of hot air into it and sets the blower at work. Superintendent Ward contends that as the lever is operated by the foot and the hands are merely extended into the box through the open front they come into contact with no part of the device, and so the operation is perfectly sanitary. It takes thirty seconds to dry hands n this way. 1$At HKLOlt IN SKIKTS. Trieste, which once proposed to make marriage compulsory, might have taken a leaf out of the book of Korea until comparitively recently, a man was not allowed the dignity of trousers until he had taken to him self a wife. Your gay bachelor had to wear a skirt, and brand himself in the public view as one who had not yet attained a position in which he could support a wife.—London Chronicle. Boxmakers in the United States use more than four and a half billion borad of feet of lumber each year, more than one-tenth of the entire lumber cut. DEMOCRAT TILTS LID ON ROTTEN STATE POLITICS (Arkansas Democrat) Governor George W. Hays was scored by house leaders today for his attempt to answer the substan tiated charges preferred » against him by the Democrat: at his ab solute failure to disprove them, and additional signed statements submitted to the Democrat today heap further censure on the head of the chief executive of this state for his many flops on the Hot Springs racing bill. The following are some charges contained in signed statements sub mitted to the Democrat today: That at 9 o'clock Monday morn ing, in Governor Hays’ private of fice, the governor named the men he would place on the state racing commission provided for in the bill. That he, the governor, said un equivocally he would approve and sign the bill at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. That Governor Hays told a lead er of the house, before the racing bill passed the senate, that he had, within an hour previous, solicited the support of two senators for the bill: that one had promised to sup port the bill. That Governor Hays solicited house leaders fn kill the nrimon* election bill, the state fiscal board bill and to pass the state board of control bill, the Greathouse adver tising bill and the state accountant bill. That Govrenor Hays told Phil lips county politicians he was in fa vor of the racing bill but did not want his attitude to become gener ally known. That Governor Hays straddled the fence on every question ever presented to him. That^Governor Hays' attempted alibi proved he still was attempt ing to straddle the fence. DEMONCRAT CONFIRMED. When Governor Hays’ state ment. which was made known about 7:30 o'clock last night, was published this morning, many mem bers of the house and senate who had supported his measures express ed themselves to a Democrat repre sentative to the effect that the governor's attempt to discredit the statements of men of well known integrity would be resented. and that his attempt to explain his va ried course on the racing bill only further confirmed the position tak en by the Democrat. Information that has been gener ally known by persons having an inkling of the inside politics that emanates from the governor's pri vate office, in regard to legislative matters, was explained by house leaders today. That the governor especially ask ed defeat of Senator John Ike Moore's primary election bill, rec ommended by the democratic state convention at Pine Bluff last spring, was contained in statements made to the Democrat. “Governor Hays told me person ally that he desired the carrying out ot' the legislative program men tioned in the Democrat and asked my help on the floor of the house,” says part of a signed statement fur nished to the Democrat representa tive this morning.. HAYS HELPED BILL. “When the racing bill was pend ing in the senate and the Huff bill in the house,” continues the state ment. “I interviewed Governor Hays in his own private office on the racing bill. He told me that he wanted the Ruff bill, which abol ished the state board of charities and created a state board of con trol, passed, and that if it were passed Mr. Sawyer need not worry about his bill; that he was doing all in his power to secure its pass age through the senate and that that morning, not more than an hour previous to our conversation, he had interviewed two senators and asked them to support the measure —the Hot Springs racing bill—and that in response to his request he felt sure at least one of them would vote for the racing bill.” Political leaders of Phillips coun ty, the storm center in the Hays Brundidge campaign, are among those who charge the governor with receiving favors from the house leaders giving them to understand the favor was to be returned by his approval of the racing bill, and who further charge that the very men who assisted him to tthe governor’s chair are those he parted with when he was called to pay his po litical debts. According to a statement made to the Arkansas Democrat by Geo. F. Belding of Mot Springs, supple menting the statement made by Mr. Belding yesterday. Governor Hays unequivocally assured Mr. Belding and several other men Monday morning that he would sign and approve the bill Monday afternoon. The question of selec tion of the commission had been threshed out by the bill's friends in conference with the governor. APPOINTMENT CHAFES. Governor Mays caused another flare of ire among his friends yes terda\ when he appointed T. J. Ra ney of Newark, Independence coun ty, in the place of L. L. Coffman, former state auditor, on the new state board of control. Mr. Raney is known as a political friend of Governor Hays’ opponent for gov ernor, Mr. Brundidge. Governor Hays’ friends in Little Rock who had worked and had helped his candidacy against Mr. Brundidge ‘ ~ ,1 1 . .1 I - •_ . _ , «oivi.u uim uvj a^^uuil a L lliao* ki county man. There is a reason for his appointment of Mr. Raney, however. According to politicians, Mr. Raney has close friends in the pres ent senate, which before tomorrow afternoon must elect a president pro teni who will be lieutenant gov ernor. Governor Hays, it is said, has his own candidate for the place. The president pro tern of the sen ate could have a significant influ ence should a vacancy occur in the Arkansas delegation at Washing ton. Proponents of the Sawyer bill ex pect to take some action within the next few days to take the mat ter into the courts. Rumors were afloat last night that an effort would be made to pass the bill over the governor’s veto. The men advocating the course, however, were dissuaded. Senate and house leaders assured the bill's opponents that the bill would get tiie required majority in each branch of the legislature—51 ; in the house and IS in the senate. “We will stand by the legisla | tore rather than by the governor | since he has muddled this thing,” 1 was a common expression in the 1 house today by members who voted against the bill when it passed the I house the last time, with a senate amendment exempting 35 counties attached. GOVERNOR IN BED. Circulating through the house this morning was a rumor that Governor had collapsed while in his office this morning. Office attaches denied the rumor, but said the gov j ernor was in lied at his home, and that he had not been in his office. | They said he was indisposed. For more than one act of omis sion and commission the governor | lias been censored since lie answer j ed statements made by Judge Eu gene A. Rolfe, Capt. F. R. Rice, George R. Belding, Frank M. Kitch ens, L. E. Sawyer and others, and charged the Democrat with ulterior motives in criticising his double action reversal on the Hot Springs bill. Men who, like the Democrat, have not censored him, today de mand to know why he refused to advocate or recommend to the leg islature some financial scheme for enactment whereby the state's fi nancial condition could be reme died. His efforts to surround himself with a political machine, too, are being censored freely. His appoint ment of L. L. Coffman and the sub sequent refusal of the senate to confirm the appointment stirred feeling. MACHINE COLLAPSING. Governor Hays’ attitude toward j again running for governor, and j his efforts to perfect an organiza tion that would enable him to reach ; the goal, apparently are about to collapse. Had Coffman’s appoint ment to the state board of control been confirmed by the senate, Gov j VOTER MANT FACTl REI* MEN IN TERRE H M’TE J Administration Clerk Testifies at Trial of Roberts—Statement Is Verified. Indianapolis, Ind., March 11. Many and varied were the ways in j which men were manufactured to ; vote in Terre Haute on Nov. Z, 1914, as related by government witnesses yesterday in the trial of Mayor Bonn M. Roberts and 27 others, charged | with conspiring to corrupt the elec ■ tion. ; “When I ran out of carls." testi fied Walter Cordes, a clerk in the city I engineer's office, telling of making j one registration application. “I made men out of my imagination. I gave them a name, an age and set |out the place of their birth. ' ] Harry Forebeck, another employe in the city engineer's office, told of manufacturing about 200 men for voters. He bore out Cordes' state ment that while the two were in the room in the city hall making out reg istration applications, Roberts knock ed on the door and summoned Cor des. Both men, as did other city em ployes, testified that they received their orders from Edward Holler, j then chief of police. Cordes said that Roberts told him to go to Holler jfor instructions. Holler has pleaded I guilty. The witnesses identified a Inumber of registration applications jas previously made out in their hand writing. These previously had been uaentinea as part ot tne election rec i ords. I While Cordes was being cross-ex lamined regarding the voters he had manufactured, Congressman A. O. Stanley, counsel for the defense, in dicated that the defense might con tend that the cards from which the I applications were made were part of jan elaborate card index of Terre (Iaute voters. He said this was legal ;and it was the custom in some places to maintain such a system. Judge A. j B. Anderson, presiding, told him i , "not in Indiana.” Make 000,000 Matches I’er Hour, i Improvements in the process of j |manufacturing square matches make it possible to turn out matches from a single dipping machine at the rate1 of more than six hundred thousand 'an hour. A green log is made into | matches, all packed and ready to j ship, in less than two hours l*.\Il) FOK THE KIJMl. A tradesman in a certain town put a box outside his shop one day. la ibeled “For the Blind.” A few weeks afterwards the box disappeared. "Halloa! What’s happened to your box for the ’blind?’ ” he was a->ked. |‘ "Oh, got enough money." he re | plied. “And,” pointing upward to | the new canvas blind that sheltered his shop window, “there's the blind. Not bad is it?"—London Answers. It is believed that an excellent sub stitute for silk has been produced in Panama by crossing the blooms of certain wild fiber plants with a spe cies of eossipium. The result is a staple of texture finer than cocoon silk, but with a tensile strength about fiye times greater. ernor Hays, with a re-appointment club over Coffman’s head, would have had a useful right-hand man in a third term campaign. During the Clarke-Kirby sena torial contest, when charges of fraud and counter charges of fraud were lpentiful, a demand for a stringent primary election law was strong. It was taken before the democratic convention at Pine Bluff, where a demand was made for a law that would enable dem ocratic candidates to be nominated free of the ever present charges of fraud and ballot stealing. Gov ernor Hays was appointed as a member of the committee named by the convention to draw the bill. With him were Mr. Brundidge, his I political opponent; Judge J. M. j Hill of Fort Smith; Senator John Ike Moore of Helena, and other well known men and Jurists. The committee was instructed to draft a stringent measure and urge the legislature to enact it into law. The governor’s attitude in asking ! the bill be killed, as is charged, in signed statements to the Demo crat, was a direct slap at the dem ocratic convention, political leaders say, and was a direct refusal to en dorse the sentiment of the demo cratic party for clean primaries. : GOVERNOR SIGNS INSPECTION BILL Measure Aimed at Catholic Institu tions Receives Sanction of Chief Executive. Little Rock, March 8.—(Special to The Pres)—Gov. Hays today ap proved the Posey bill for the in spection of convents. Little Kock, March 11.—Gov. G. \V. Hays' "good right arm” may again be called into play within the next few days, for the Posey inspection bill, declared by Catho lics to be a direct thrust at Ca tholicism and Catholic institutions, was ordered enrolled Tuesday night and now is on its way to the gov ernor for his approval or veto. The bill was bitterly opposed by Cahto lics and they will urge the gover nor to veto it. The bill passed both the house and senate by large ma jorities. Senator Davenport's bill seek ing to make it optional with petit juries to assess death punishment or life imprisonment on persons convicted of crimes now punisha ble by death, apparently will die on the house calender. The bill has been given a second reading and is ready for third reading and final passage, but appropriation bills are crowding all other legislation out of the pathway of progress. PLANT LESS COTTON'. Thos J. Bentley, farm demonstra tor for Greene county, after a trip through a portion of that county, re ports 10 times as much acreage sown to grain this year as has ever been sown before in Greene county. Mr. Bentley says Greene county will live at home this year. The indications are that Greene county will not only feed herself, but will have lots to sell in a market where the demand is good and the prices high. It is feared that better cotton prices as the season for planting ap proaches will cause much of the work done in the itnerest of crop diversi fication and reduced cotton acreage to be lost. With so large a part of the world at war and so many acres idle that hitherto produced grain, it should be plain that there will be an incraesiug demand during the next several months for foodstuffs. And there seems to be nothing to in dicate an early revival of the many industries now prostrated that in nor mal times consume our cotton crop. If tlie south plants as much cotton this year as it planted last year the south may expect low prices and bus iness depression.—Arkansas Gazette. GOST OF POliK PKOPUCTIOX IN' Alt KANSAS. The Department of Bacterialogv and Animal Pathology of the Arkan sas Experiment Station was among the first in the United States to man ufacture anti-cholera hog serum to cnecK me ravages oi cnoiera. nui unfortunately, the state has nevei seen the great benefits ot' this serum to the farmers and swine raisers and the increased revenue it would bring, to appropriate enough funds to make it possible for every man in the state to have his hogs innoculated against cholera. The Arkansas station proved by a . series of experiments that pork can be produced on an Arkansas farm with pasture crops such as peanuts, peas, soy beans, rape, etc., with a corn supplement for 1 1-2 cents per pound. So far as we know, no oth er state can boast of producing 1 1-2 cent pork on the farm, and yet the station not only produced the pork at that small cost, but it told the farmers just how to raise the animals. These experiments have been cited by investigators from every state in the union, and thousands have been benefited, and could the station have had men and means of carrying this message to the farmers, doubtless it would have meant millions of dollars in pork for Arkansas. During the year ending last July SOS persons in the United Kingdom were sentenced to penal servitude, as against 881 in the previous yea. Ohio leads the states in the value of its clay products and in the man ufacture of grindstones and pulp stones, and ranks fourth in the value of its total mineral production.