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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
THE TROOPS AS POLICE.
A Very Wise Measure Adopted by the
War Department.

A Very Wise Measure Adopted by the
War Department.
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan, April 15.-The
war department is making extensive prepara-
tions to police Oklahoma with mounted
troops, and in order to do it as thoroughly as
possible is relieving of garrison duty cavalry
commands all over the Indian territory. In
fantry is being brought in from the garrisons
of the east to man the forts, and the troopers
will be detailed to act as escorts through the
new Eldorado in squads of three and four.
The object of this is to prevent disorder and
bloodshed The department has received ad-
vices through officers who have passed
through the Oklahoma campaign that serious
conf cts over homesteads are liable to be OF
daily occurrence unless the strictest vigil
lance is maintained.
Every part OF ground from the Canadian
to the Cherokee strip will be patrolled Pre-
scribed beats or sections will be assigned to
the different commands, and each officer will
be held strictly accountable for what hap
pens in his particular territory. 1t is the first
time in many years that the United States
army or any portion of it has been convert
ed into a police force But in this case Sec
Rotary Proctor thinks it absolutely necessary
to furnish as full protection as possible to all
the settlers. 1t will be weeks before they
can organize their town and county govern
ments and appoint officers of their own,
hence without the restraining influence OF
troops, or some other instrument of the law,
the better class of settlers would become the
legitimate prey of the hundreds of rascal.
aad cutthroats WHO win flock into the trri-
tory for plumber only
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Indians Catch Shad.
Successful Plant of This Fish ir
Arizona.
IT'S PROPAGATION ON THE PACIFIC.

San Francisco Can Now Have Them
Planked II She Wants to, and Home
Grown-The Commission's Work for the
Year-Washington Notes-A Senator'S
Novel Idea-C1arkson's Big Mail-Cheap
Fertilixers-Late Appointments.
WASHINGTON CITY, April Is No depart
ment Of scientific work conducted under gov
eminent auspices shows better or more salts
factory results than that of the fish commits
sion. Evidences of this come to the commits
sion here frequently. The fish commissioner
of Arizona has written to Commissioner Nc
Donald that Indians have caught shad in the
Colorado river. in that territory, within the
past few weeks, Of size that amply repays
them for the labor and time involved The
first deposit or planting of fry in that river
was made three years ago and has been fol-
lowed by new one every year since. Lake
Utah, in the territory Of that name, has also
yielded satisfactory returns from planting
made only year before last One Of the Of
f1cials of the commission states that reports
from San Francisco are to the effect that
shad, the product of eastern fry planted in
the waters of California, are plentiful in the
markets of that city, and of reasonable price.
The methods and work of the commission
are finding favor with the fisheries of the
country, who at first not only viewed them
with dislike, but were violently opposed to
them There are now nineteen Matching sta
lions operated by the commission, and three
new one are provided for by the appropria-
ton bill of 1889. At the central station in
this city there has just been completed the
work of Matching out the eggs of trout and
white fish spawn, which requires about half
a year, and in fortnight the commissioner
will start out car for the general distribu-
ton of the fry.
Preparations are now making to hatch out
shad spawn, rapid process requiring only
from four to ten days. When that is COM
pleted a second car will be started Last year
is, 600, 900 shad and about $4,000 900 trout
fry were distributed over the country. Com
missioner Mcdonald has not yet mapped out
the summers work under the ausI ices of the
commission, but, in past years, it will
doubtless comprise several excursions into
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for the dis
coyerv of nav Snecies Of fish
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Rough on the q. o. p.
Indiana oils Sentinel.

Indiana oils Sentinel.
Mr.. Murat Halstead has the endorse.
ment of Benjamin Harrison and seven
teen republican senators and of most OF
the republican newspapers of the coun.
try as an honorable man. And Mr. Mu-
rat Halstead declares in his paper tina,
half dozen OF the leading republican
senators are rascals. He gives specihca>
lions, too.
These senators are Quay, of Pennsyl
vanis, the head of the republican organ
ization, and the most powerful man 10
that party today; Ingalls, of Kansas,
president pro TEN of the United States
senate, and his colleague. Plumb; Far
well, of Illinois. Teller, of Colorado. and
Evarts, of New York.
Either Murat Halstead, the intimate
personal friend of Benz amin Harrison,
and but lately the recipient at his
hands of distinguished honor, is an in>
corrigible liar, or the republican leaders
in the senate are mostly knaves.
There is no escape from the alternative
which is thus presented
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
GEN. JOHN M. PALMER will be chief
marshal of the W ington ina uguration
centennial celebration at Springfield.

THE strongest backed applicant for a
position under the present administers
ton, is, strange to say, democrat, and
IL he does not receive the appointment
Harrison has little regard for influence.
The fortunate msn-for he is fortunate
In having such an endorsement. even If
he does not receive the appointments
ex-Gov. TIL ompson, of South Carolina,
and the position sought is the democratic
member of the civil service commission.
Mr.. Thompson Is endorsed by every
democratic senator and four or Eve re.
publican senators. He was appointed
to the position by Mr.. Cleveland, while
he was assistant secretary of the treasury.
and would undoubtedly have been i'm
mediately confirmed if it had not been
for the caucus resolution OF the republi-
can senators opposing further coDfirms>
ton during the session. There is Doth>
ing against Mr.. Thompson and everybody
agrees that he would make an excellent
civil service commissioner
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
UNPOPULAR LIFE INSURANCE.
Baltimore AMI Ohio Employees Refusing to
SIN Their POliciea

Baltimore AMI Ohio Employees Refusing to
Sign Their Policies.
PIrTsBURG, Pa, April 15.-The employees
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad are al
most ripe for a strike. The new insurance
feature which the company has been intro
ducing since April has produced general
dissatisfaction Last week, rather than sign
the policies, three night crews in the yard
and one day man quit work. A number in
the shops and yards at Glenwood have given
up their jobs, and at least ten of the en-
ployes at Connellsville declined to sign and
were told to 60 The dissatisfaction extends
along the whole extent of the line from Phil
adelphia t. Chicago. On the Chicago di-
vision the men were told to decide by yester-
day whether they will join the insurance
company 90 b. discharged In the main the
trouble is said to be that the rates of some of
the employees have been increased with no in
crease of benefit, while the rates of others
have been reduced, but the amounts paid at
death have be, N cut down.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
STILL SHAVING.
The e.. II. Il q. Continues 10 Weld the
Hatchet---Kear End Brakemen Cut
OF

The G., n. Il q. Continues 20 Weld the
Hatchet---Kear End Brakemen Cut
or
The policy Of retrenchment adopted by
the management of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy railroad does not stop with
a cutting down of train service and q
general reduction of operating expenses.
1t is being carried on TO an extent of re-
ducing the number of employees, not only
at Chicago but at all the division head
quarters of the company. 1t is learned
that the ak has already began to swing,
and that about fifty persons employed
chiefly at clerical work in the genera,
offices in Chicago have received their
walking papers. Report has it that there
is to be twenty per cent reduction in
the force all over the system. Vice Pres.
idents Peasley and Stone are both out on
the road, and it is understood they are
going over the lines for the purpose of
ascertaining to what extent the working
forces at the various points can be cur
tailed without materially impairlng the
efficiency of the service. This move. it
is said, will not affect the engineers and
firemen, and perhaps will not disturb any
OF the organized labor of the road.
This morning the retrenchment orders
reached Rock Island and took effect in a
manner which cut the rear end brakemen
off Of all the passenger trains entering
Rock Island The rear end brakeman is
a hagman really who rides on the rear
platform of the last coach of passenger
train, and whose duty is, as soon as the
train stops at any place other than those
provided for in the time card. to go back
SO many rods and flag ell approaching
trains or put alarm cans on the track.
The object is to prevent rear end coll
lisions and the position is not as essen>
tial to division lines as it is to the main
line.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15

MADISON, Wis, April 15.-The senate
Saturday killed the bill requiring express
gross earnings, and passed bills prohibiting
the use of dogs in hunting deer and giving
the state agricultural society each year 10
per cent. of the premiums paid by it. The
house passed lis abolishing the state park
requiring the state veterinarian to give his
whole time to his office; making the penalty
for decoying women away from home for
immoral purposes whatever their reputation
may be, from one to five years in states
prison, and in The case of chaste women five
to fifteen years A resolution censuring The
Milwaukee Sentinel for charging the as.
sembly with ignorance, laziness and dema-
gogism in passing a bill to abolish convict
labor In the sta to prison was passed
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Newsp lper War in New York.

NEW YORK, April 15-The contest be-
tween the newspapers in the combine"
which has raised the Sunday rate to cents
per copy, and The Star, which maintains its
price at cents, grows very hot Mr. W. P.
Sullivan, the general manager of The Star,
was invited into the combination, but re-
fused 70 enter. For the past week Mr.. Sulli-
van has had a multitude of men employed in
blooming" the circulation of The Star Sat
urdsy he had nearly one hundred employees
distributing p acards, hand bills, etc. Yes
terday morning The Star published state
ment that the edition of The Star for the
day was 100 900 copies and informed the
gentlemen of the newspaper trust" that it
means a revoluti on. The newsdealers are
opposing the increase in price of the other
paparS
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
A FILleusTERINe SCHEME.
Lower California To BE the Scene Of OPP
lions of n Secret Order

Lower California To BE the Scene Of Oper-
lions of a Secret Order.
Los ANGELES, Cal, April 15.-There is q
scheme on foot to capture Lower California.
A reporter Saturday found two men who had
been asked to join in the undertaking. One
of them occupies nj official position in this
city, and the other is a well known capital
ist. To the reporter one said: "The scheme
is being worked up throughout a secret or
der which has large membership through
the south. and they are well organized and
number over 900 men in the military de-
partment, while the civil department takes
in many prominent and influential men. I
refused to have anything to do with the
scheme, but expect to hear from it before
long. Any one who has watched the pro-
gress of things. on the peninsula during the
past year, and has known of the existence Of
this society, can easily see that trouble is
brewing
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
wheat Wa. Too Many for Him.

ST. LOUIS, April l5.-Saturday morning
the body Ut John Jackson, president of the
st Louis Elevator company, was found
hanging to one of the posts in the Office of
company, dead. 1t was case of suicide.
caused by unlucky speculations in Nav
wheat He left several letters addressed
to friends To Z. s. Warner he
wrote with reference principally to real
estate matters, concluding as follows:
Regards to Mrs Warner Look after INV
wife and boy. Good-by, good-by, good by. >
On the margain of the letter was written:
Loss Of sleep for the last two weeks has
made me crazy" In the letter to Mr.. Warner
also appeared the following: As Tor myself
am fairly beat. Wheat is too many for
ma" His Losses are thought 70 have BEN
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Wanted His Wife to Go with Him.

New YORK, April 15.-Dr J. r. Gyles,
aged IS ears, foc forty years a physician in
this city, committed suicide yesterday morning
at his home, at West Twenty third street,
by taking strychnine. His wife was in the
room while he was mixing the poison, and he
asked her to drink some of it, not srying
what it was. She thought it was magnesia,
but said she did not need any. After she
left the room she heard groans, and, return
ing, found her husband dying. He had evil
IDENTIFY intended that his wife should die with
him. He had suffered from melancholia for
the past few years, owing to financial and
professional tr Dubles.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
The Border Alive with People,

FORT SMITH, Ark, April 15-The entire
western Arkansas border is scene of bust
ling activity. People are striving to get into
Oklahoma by the southeastern entrance.
which opens by far the richest portion of the
new territory. Capt. 8. H. Scott, a prom
inent lawyer of this city, has organized a
large colony and proposes to lay out town
site near Kickapoo reservation. Govern
ment officials from the Pottawatomie and
Iowa reservations report that the neighbor-
hood is fairly alive with heterogeneous
mass Of people. Old forry-niners say the
scene rivals anything in the old California
days If the present rush continues until
the 22ud more than twice as many will be on
the southern border of Oklahoma as can be
accommodated
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Sioux Indians for q Circus

CHICAGO, April l5-Thirty Sioux Indians
from the Pine Ridge agency, accompanied by
Capt. George j. Jaschow, government scout
passed through Chicago Saturday for Phila
delphia, where they are to join Forepaugh'.
circus. Among them are the following
named participants in the Custer massacre
Lone Feather, Red Ears Bull Tail, Shot-in.
the-Head, Two Nails and Bloody Bear. The
Indians are under contract and bonds are
given in Washington in the sum of SIS, OO(
for their safe return to the reservation at the
close of the season
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Diabolical Murder I'm Germany.

LONDON, April 15.-Last Wednesday a
tailor in Hamburg quarreled with his wife
and, seizing a knife, severed her nose from
her face. The woman fell to the floor, when
the brute crouched over her and cut out her
tongue. Not content with this he gouged
out her eyes, and finally cut her throat
Throwing down the knife he took his depart
ure for his usual haunts, where he remained
until Friday cslrousing with companions of
his kind. On Friday morning the dead body
OF his wife was discovered and the fiend was
arrested He made little resistance and ex.
pressed no cOniriton for his crime
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
The First BIoodshed.
Land in Oklahoma Leads t.
CHASTITY Murder.
FOUR MEN SHOT IN A QUARREL

One Killed and Another Fatally Wounded
Over a Clsim-A Number of Women on
Han, Ready for the Rush-Peace To BE
Kept by the Troopers-Rustlers from
Texas Who Depend on Their Guns
|. The Lands Surrounded.
WICHITA, Kan, April ia Wichita
man came in Saturday evening from the
western part of Oklahoma and brings news
OF bloody feud over claim between two
Texans and two brothers from Kiowa Kan.
Guns were freely used and one man was
killed, one Of the opposing force also being
mortaliy wounded The two remaining men
patched up truce. Finally the fight was
renewed, and later in the day the entire
party was discovered by cowboys stretched
on the prairie, the two last contestants hav-
ing been wounded The dead man and three
wounded were taken to Buffalo Springs a
stage station
An arrival from Fort Worth, Tex, says
the Oklahoma excitement there is as great as
In southern Kansas, and that thousands of
people will enter the country from that side,
adding that Texas boys carry little but
shooting irons" and include many hard
/ ~NS~S ''AO VIII Sooso po1SCdD4C ScttiSlS
trouble
Mrs. Polly Young, of Quincy, Ill, widow
OF union soldier came in Saturday en- route
for Oklahoma She say she wants no escort,
and declares her ability to take care of her.
self She is determined to have claim. Miss
Nan Minnitta Daisey, Well known ia Louis
vile newspaper circles, is also here. She has
just come from Purcell, l. T., and says she
has located a claim and proposes to occupy it
on the 22d. Purcell, she says, is given over
to gamblers and fakirs of all kinds Besides
these there are party Of young Kansas
-marms" in charge of Miss Bruce, who were
driven out by the soldiers, and a party of
eight young ladies from Purcell who will
battle for quarter section each
Some fifty or more families of negroes
have left Fort Smith, Ark, for the vicinity
OF Guthrie, Oklahoma, where they and nu-
merous other colored people will establish a
colony
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
A Crime that should Hang the Criminal.

MAssILoN, o., April l5.-Saturday an at
tempt was made to wreck passenger train
on the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling rail.
way near Tippecanoe station A heavy log
chain was wrapped around the rails and
three or four cross-ties were piled over the
rails. The express train passed over the
chain in safety and came to a stop before
reaching the ties Suspicion rests upon a
man recently elected from train by the
conductor of this train, and who threatened
to kill the conductor
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Neebe Must Wait His Turn,

SPRINGFIELD, Ills. April 15.-Saturday
LOUIS Neebe, the brother Of Oscar Neebe, the
alleged anarchist now in the penitentiary,
presented a petition to the governor signed
by 5000 prominent and professional men Of
Cook county endorsing the appeal for execu-
tive clemency. The governor said he could
not consider the matter out of its turn, but
when he reached it ON the docket he would
notify Mr.. Neebe.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
There's a booming River to Cro...

WICHITA, Kan, April l5-It is reported
that the Cimarron is rising rapidly, threaten
ing the boomers with new danger, as the
river must pe crossed to reach Oklahoma and
there are no bridges The ford near Guthrie
is the only one now available A boomer
named Gordon is said to have been caught in
quick-sand near King Fisher and drowned,
while his team was carried down the river.
Two railroad employees are also reported to
have been drowned at Guthrie.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Hawaii Better Look a Little Out.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 15-The
steamer Alameda brought news that the
American bark c. d. Bryant has been seized
by the Hawaiian government for smuggling
sixty tins of opium into Honolulu, con-
demned on trial, and ordered to be confis-
Gated The case is now awaiting decision on
appeal The bark has been allowed to load
and will sail under bonds of $4,000 The
action of the Hawaiian government, it 10
thought, is not such as will stand under the
terms of international treaties
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Preferred Less Wage. to Id,enss.

CATAsAUoUA, April 15.-The trouble at
Crane iron works has ended. The company
was ii dependent about the proposed strike
Saturday against reduction of 10 per cent
In wages and told the men that if strike was
inaugurated all the furnaces would be blown
out and remain idle for SIX months The
threat had the desired effect The men
agreed to accept a reduction rather than re-
main idle, but the cut has been postponed for
q week
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Politics and the Batterine Ram.

LONDON, April 15-Tue speakers at the
liberal meetings are calling particular atten
ton to what they call the in
famous use of the battering RAM
by the, police assisting at evictions in
Donegal The instrument has been dubbed
"Balfour's maiden" and writer contribut
ing an article to the Star suggests that q fac
simile Of it be exhibited at all Liberal meet
ings throughout England Acting upon thii
suggestion the Star will open a subscription
book for the purpose of obtaining funds for
the manufacture of the rams and their trans
portation from place to place as they an
needed for exhibition to the masses
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
A Masonic Jubilee Arranpod.

New YORK, April 15-Grand Master
Frank R. Lawrence announces that arrange
ments for the jubilee to be held simultaneous
ly in III lodges in the state of New York on
the evening of April "a have been completed.
Nearly 1900 Masons will participate in the
jubilee in this state, 5000 of whom will meet
in the large Masonic hall at Twenty-third
street and Sixth avenue The celebration
will commemorate the orders freedom from
debt and will be a very grand occasion The
building fund, which was started in 1912, is
now discharged from debt
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Destitution Among the Coal Miners.

PHILLIPsBURo, Pa, April 1.-THE Wage
Farmers Journal says: Many of the coal
miners in the Clearfeld coal districts are in
destitute circumstances, and from necessity
are seriously considering the matter Of ap
plying for relief from the township officials
Many Of them have been without work since
the first of the year, and have not the means
to pay for the commonest food and other
necessary expenses
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Struggle for a Nice Army Place.

WASHINGTON CITY, April 15.-The strug-
gle for the position of adjutant general Of
army is commencing to wax warm as the
date for the retirement of Gen. Drum draws
near. Gol Kelton is the officer most spoken
of Tor the position. Gen. McKeen and
and Col w. ID. Whipple are his strongest
rivals. There will be a tremendous amount
of influence, social and otherwise, brought to
bear upon Secretary Proctor and Gen. Har-
rison Gen. Drum retires on May 10, when
he will at once go to his country home near
Tarrytown d. c.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Didn't Break Any Records.

PITTsBURG, April ia six days goa.
you please walking match was begun here
April and closed Saturday with Noremac
In the lead, he having made sol miles, laps
There were twelve contestants, and the low
est was Villa ns-Sl9 miles, ] lap. Hegle
man was second with 4S7 miles, lap, and
Conner third with 4s6 miles, l lap.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
Indicted a Newsnaner for Iibe,

BUFFALO, n. Y, April 15.-The grand jury
of the court of Oyer and Terminer has in
dicted George Bleistein, president of the
Courier, on complaint of libel made by
Penitentiary Superintendent Stickney, who
charges that the Courier has falsely and ma
liciously attacked his management of the in
stitution, with special reference to the case of
Jennie Follett, prisoner who made danag-
ing charges against tn. management
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-15
The Samoan Commissioner, pepar,.

New YORK, April l5.-Among the passeu-
gers on the steamship Umbria, which sailed
for Liverpool Saturday, were John A. Kas-
son, of Iowa; William Walter Phelps, of New
Jersey, and George H. Bates, of Delaware,
the appointed commissioners to represent the
United States government at the Berlin con-
ference on the Samoan question. Ex-Mayor
Hewitt and family were also among the Um-
bria's passengers