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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-07

h the method and results when
run Of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
refreshing to the taste, and acts
lyvet promptly on the Kidner-,
ra; and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
efactually, dispels colds, head
b, and fevers and cures habitual
,tiration. Syrup of Figs is the
Hy remedy Of its kind ever pro-
red, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ptslc 10 the stomach, prompt in
| action and tr&ly beneficial in its
4c,s. prepared only from the most
&a,,hg aGl agreeable substances. its
5hny excellent qualities commend it
! all and have made it the most
fpular remedy known.
syrup Of Figs is for sale in SOC
b 81 bottles by all leading drug
sts Any reliable druggist who
|ay not have it on hand will pro-
|r it promptly for any one who
Fshes TO try it. Do not accept any
Destitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
san FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. NEW YoRK. N.Y.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-07

Inc soft glow of the tea no is &C.
quired by ladies who use Pozzoni's Com.
plexion Powder.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-07

Sec. !. This ordinance shall take effect and he
in force from and after May !. 1891
Passed April 20, ISL
Approved:
attest; WILLIAM MCCuNOCHIF
RoBERT KoEHLvR, Nayor
Seal City Clerk.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-07

Base ball today. Fritay and Satur>
day-Davenport VS.. Ottawa.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-07
J. E. REIDY,
Real Estate
Insurance.
FOR SALE

FOR SALE
room house on Twentieth street, lot 3sx150.
room house on Sixth avenue between Twenty
fourth and Twenty 9Th Streets lot 25x125.
loom house on Ninth avenue between Twenty
seventh and Twenty-eighth streets, lot 40x150.
Two fine lots on Thirty-eighth street very cheap
IA room residence on Seventh avenue and Nine
teenth street.
Double brick residence corner Seventeenth
street and Seventh avenue.
d room cottage lot 60x110, Eighth avenue below
Eleventh.
Also agent for the Syndicate Insurance Co., Ct
mimi, the Amazon of Cincinnati and the Gran
Rapids Of Grand Rapids, Mich
1903 Second Avenue, over
Hopes Tailor Shop.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-07
An ORDINANCE
10 Amend an Ordinance Entitled
An Ordinance to Amend
Chapter 20, Revised Ordi-
nances, Relating to Water
Works"

Rock Island. -" ''' O"y y
ordinance to Amend Chapter IS, Revised OId,
nances Relating to Water Works" be amended
oy STRIKING OUT IN Section thereof the figures
Sl5 opposite the words For retail drug stores
as TO read: w. so
retail drug stores, each SO: also by Inserting
directly below the above the fol owing:
TOT retail drug stores with soda foan ain Sl5
fos wholesale liquor stores not rectifyinc SIS:
aso os strIklng ouJ the meter rates as established
IT Section Of said ordinance and nv ,nscrtin,, ~
stead the following: -
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-07

1al'ohs used Rte pr Rate Tor 1000 gallons on
- lcoO .eN es- over quantities
T r mo Ga Ions opposite first coiumn
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17
Loyalty and liberation.

Fellow citizens, Texas recognizes that the
war is over. The blue and the gray, they
vino died in camp or bloody field, are Sleep
ing in the immortal brotherhood OF 4 COM
mon ancestry, common blood, and l thank
God we are once more and forever united
republic. Texas is a cosmopolitan state.
Every state in the Union has largely con-
tributed TO her population. Our legislature
has recognized the arbitrament of arms. We
educate the negro child from the same
school fund, share and share alike with the
white child, and ''before the law" he has
all the rights guaranteed by the constitu-
ton. Honesty and obedience to the laws
are the safe passports to our homes-eyery-
where from the mountains TO the seal
Come and break bread with us-and see
our land-and you will exclaim, with that
ancient Eastern queen, THE half hath not
near the close of the late war the grand
armies OF the Union and the ragged but
brave soldiers Of Lee were in camp on either
side. BY consent those soldiers bantered
and badgcred each other across that river
in friendly esprit, when just before the
lights were TO be put out, from the bands of
the Federal army came the airs of yankee
Doodle and Star Spangled Banner" In
reply the Southern bands gave back
Dixie and My Maryland" Then the
bands of both armies united in floating on
the air Home, Sweet HOmer
There were tens and tens of thousands
on each side who wept at the sounds of
home" So We are again in our fathers
house, united, and together may miugle in
common pride and glory over the heroism
of the struggle and in the restored union Of
the states. Loud applause.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17
Advantages Of Deep Water.

I need not tax this intelligent audience
with long history Of the appeal of the
great states west of the Mississippi river to
congress and the government for a S6,000,-
600 appropriation for the port of Galveston
for deep water harbor. 1t is sufficient to
say that Texas and sixteen of her sister
states render grateful thanks to the Ameri-
can congress for the promptness with
which We were given those millions, as
well as the several appropriations under the
river and harbor bill for the other Texas
seaports. Fellow-citizens, in less than a
half decade great ships drawing thirty feet
of water will sail into that port of Calves
ton from all friendly nations, and take in
return our exports of grain and meatstufs
and cotton and iron and the products of the
looms and factories, the mills and mines of
Texas and the great trans-Mississippi
states, outward to the markets of Europe
and Asia and to the islands Of the sea.
(Applause.l
Our horoscope casts bright shadow, my
countrymen, on the canvas Of the near fut-
ure! The footsteps Of that progress are al
most seen and heard even now by the eye
and the ear Of faith, looking and listening
for its coming. What engineering cannot
do On land or on the sands and beds of the
ocean is no longer Q problem. Already
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17
GETTING DESPERATE.
Tennessee Miners Propose Freeing the
Convicts Who are Working in Their
Places at BriceviIie.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Sept 9-Reliable in
formation received here tonight from
Briceville and Coal Creek shows an alarm
ing condition of affairs there.
Whether it is bluff for the leg
islature or dead earnest" remains
to be seen. The information S to the effect
that the miners there have determined to
turn loose tho 125 convicts in the
mines Of the Knoxville iron company
During the Late Briceville trouble these
convicts were taken out of the stockade
and sent to Knoxville the same day
that the cenvicts and troops were cap
tured at Briceville. Since they were
returned and put to work matters
have been going along smoothly, but
it seems that the free miners
have now determined to play a
desperate game. Ii is said that one cause
of the renewal of the disturbance at Brice-
vile is the opinion of the state at
torpey-general, which was sub
mitted to the legislature. He held
that the iessees had no legal authority TO
sub-let convicts. Tile miners learning this
fact, and seeing nothing done to re
move them from the mines, propose
to get rid of them themselves. Conserva-
tires here are hoping that the miners will
commit 10 outbreak until the Legislature
takes some definite action.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17
in gold is derived annually from this source
alone to pay interest on American bonds
held by European capitalists.
Importance of the Cotton Crop.

Nor is this interest felt in the cotton
producing states confined to the American
Union. The failure of our crop threatens
with idleness half the ships of commerce,
and half the inhabitants of the civilized
world look to our cotton fields for raiment.
Thus, every consideration invests the cot
ton culture with absorbing interest, and
every effort of industry and art to increase
and secure this great crop is looked to with
anxious, national concern. Such is the
adaptation of our soil and climate to the pro-
duction OF cotton, ranking in staple the
finest in the worlds markets, that one-fifth
of her territory could produce an annual
crop greater than is now gathered from all
the cotton fields on the globe. And yet we
have more than 100000, 900 of acres IN
touched by the plow. The time is coming,
and that right rapidly, when we shall hold
the balance of power in the cotton ex-
changes of the continent and the world.
If Texas has demonstrated her capacity
for raising all the cotton required to supply
the looms of the world, her soil and climate
have not less conclusively shown that she
can produce the cereals to feed the millions
of the earth's inhabitants in large degree.
The grain-growing capabilities of Texas are
Just beginning to be tested. For the past
few years wheat was only grown to meet
the necessities of limited sections. In the
more recent periods the product has been
wonderfully increased, and the yield last
yeGr was over 10, 100000 bushels.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17

Until the last decade, Texas was compar-
atively unknown TO the horticulturists of
the older states. Now it is second in both
the quality and quantity of its peach, apple,
pear, plum, berry and grape and melon
crops, to no sister state, and in luscious sac
charine properties surpasses by 10 per
centum the far-famed fruits of the 'tGolden
state'' of the Pacific. The culture of the
pear, as developed by that pioneer horti-
culturist, Stringfellow, solves the problem,
that Texas as far down as Hitchcock, near
the gulf of Mexico, can produce as fine
pears as in any Northern or Eastern state
The peach, apple and grape, including es-
pecially Eastern Texas" so-called, and as
far west as the famous ''Abilene country"
bounded by Denison and Red river. and as
far south as Brownwood, grow in great per-
lection, and the commercial value, with the
products of the garden, amounts to over
three millions of dollars annually, as the
official state statistics attest, Our country
men of New Jersey and Delaware. Florida
and California, hitherto the great fruit and
wine centers of the Union, may look TO their
laurels when we show them on board our
exhibit cars" peaches weighing one pound
and half, the Pippin (apple) weighing
seventeen ounces and melons 100 pounds
each
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17
wheat-Growing Region, Too.

Heretofore we have regarded the great
Northwestern states as the only source OF
supply for our bread and meat stuffs.
Now that we are connected by great lines
of railway with the Northwestern states
we have begun to reverse the old course of
trade. We are yet deficient, but will not
always be so, in improved facilities for
manufacturing -four as compared with the
great mills of the West. And hence this
very grain, in many instances. was re-
shipped to Texas in the form of -four, just
rs thousands of our hogs have heretofore
been shipped to st. Louis to be sold TO US
again as bacon and lard, but now we have
our own packing houses. The area of
Texas, peculiarly adapted to wheat and all
the cereals, is larger than the great states
of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana combined.
The wheat crop in the United States in
1860 was estimated in round numbers at
153,000,U00 bushels. OF this Illinois
produced 4,000,0oO, Indiana 1900 600
and Wisconsin 1100O,00 In 1891 it
was doubled. What could Teas do
if one-tifth of her wheat-growing counties.
say sixty in number, were planted in wheat
now, the Panhandle included There are
fifty of the organized counties capable of
producing twenty bushels to the acre, which
IS below the average product by far.
If one-tifth of the area of these counties
were planted in wheat it would yield 49,
600, 900 bushels. the cash value of which is
greater than the cotton crop. Texas wheat,
both in quality and excellence, is not
equaled by that of the most favored grain
growing region of the United States. Let
me give you an instance in point. Flour
from Dallas county, Tex, has been sold
years ago in Galveston market on May ~,
and was from crop yielding thirty-three
bushels TO the acre. Just III proportion as
the measured bushel increases in specific
gravity, it holds a greater proportion of the
nutritious quality OF wheat and less
quantity of water, and the less water it
contains better adapts it when ground into
-four for shipment to warmer and tropical
climates. No. 3 Texas wheat will weigh
sixty-one pounds; No. 2, sixty-three to six
ty-four pounds, and No. l, sixty-five pounds
to the bushel. These qualities of our
Texas wheat are entirely due 10 the chemi-
ca peculiarities and adaptation Of the soil
ana climate. 1t is superior first, because
Il is dryer, more dense and the heaviest
known, containing less moisture than any
wheat west of the Rocky mountains; sec
end. because it contains more muscle-pro-
ducing qualities; third, because it reaches
market four 10 six weeks earlier than flour
made elsewhere in the United States. In
quantity the difference is not less marked
Genesce county, n. Y, from 1899 to 1s4s,
believe, stood first on the list.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17
Wealth and Foundation.

We have to-day-after so richly endowing
our schools, universities, internal improve
ments, and public charities and asylums-
we still have left unapprosriated 5000 600
acres of public lands open for homestead
settlers. We are, too, only in the early
manhood of our life; yet we feel in recount
ing that we have in present wealth and
power our pride and love for the republic
will be gratified. Our taxable property
was, in 1850, SOL, ZOO, 900; in 1860, 1924, 600,
600; in 1870, Sl14, SIS, CSC; in 1915, s215, 0O0-
O00; in 1876, $500, 100000 and in 1891 it is
$500, 900, 600. From cotton crop not ex-
ceeding %, 900 bales thirty years ago Texas
has become this day the largest cotton pro-
ducing state in the Union, reaching 1,7S0
900 bales. and in 1891 it will reach 2,C00 900
bales. Her annual exports OF cattle were
estimated at s6,000,000; wool, 81, 500. 600 :;
hides, Sl,S00,000; beef in barrels, 81, 300.-
coo, and fruits and other exports. 50, 000.-
600 in 1876. and in 1891 these values are
quadrupled. Our increase in exports and
imports, foreign and otherwise, is unpar-
alleled in modern states. Look at
Galveston alone Her exports in 1915
were 800, 1886 526. Her imports in 1916 We're
So, 059. SO, while i'll 1891 her exports and
imports reached nearly 100000, 900. Since
in 1876 we began to ship abroad again, beef
and hogs, and our industries have so Won
derfully developed, our exports of life-sus-
tanning products have fallen below our i'm
ports aud will so continue. What is true of
Galveston is, in the same proportion, true
of Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and
San Antonio, the great trade centers of
Texas. Our growth in population has been
not less wonderful than our progress in ma
terial wealth and power. The population
of Texas in 1850 was 212,000; in 1850, Co.,
600: in 1870, $40, 600: in 1876, approximating
], 200, 600 and in 1890, 2, 23322 600 From the
official estimates our increase Of population
from immigration alone is annually 100, 600
persons. How long will it take Us to march
abreast and to the front, even of the great
states of the UnionI The state of New
York has about 100000 and Pennsyl-
vania $500, 900 population. In five years
we will overtake the "old Keystone and
in ten years stride alongside the great met
ropolitan state Of the Union. In the next
two decades we will have over 5000, o00 of
inhabitants standing sentinels within our
gates. To her sisters who are outstripped
by US in the race, Texas, shall, in that day
of her power, extend her strong arm and
warm heart, blocking shield to shield'' as
our fathers did at Bunker Hill, Yorktown
and San Jacinto. Applause.
have now spoken at great length of our
mineral resources, of our immense forests,
of our best lumber for commerce in the
world, of that not far-distant future when
the great 'new West" of which Chicago
st. Louis and Kansas City are the heart
centers, shall find their newest and most
proper ocean outlet through Texas seaports.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17
Health ana It's Evidences.

here are thousands of people who actu-
a..E i've and camp nightly on the prairies
ii Texas When we number the stockmen
engaged with their herds, the wagon trains
artgS passing to market in The West or
u..'I-y posts. troops on the march. immi-
grants moving. surveyors and their parties.
-u1 Excursions from all lands, always on the
tie wing, the estimate might be doubled
S-ta0ut fear of exaggeratiOn. In this out
IGOR life. from the ocean TO Kansas, and
..u the Sabine 10 the Rio Grande, | am
.H' advised of single case Of consumption
'v-y originating in Texas. / refer you 10
.lg medical associations Of my state and to
BE concurrent testimony, gratefully rem
tered. OF 2.250, 900 If people. While we are
-l' exempt from the Ills to which flesh is
aelr. we have thankful pride that plague
nd pestllence have never yet deSolated our
Zones. Health is almost universal through
,.J the state. We do not claim that the
'sbled fountain of youth" pours its life
,eIewing waters evermore amid Our hills
ird valleys, but we do claim that on our
SOL and in our climate hardy ana health
mi population abounds. and that our NOR
atty is less than sixteen TO tho thousand
annually. These are the facts, and Will not
and cannot be gainsaid BY carping critics
and willful maligners of our good name.
Texas, as early as 1876, raised over one
seventh of the entire cotton crop of the
United States. In 1890 fourth of the
crop was raised in Texas. The general
government. through its agricultural bu-
geaus, watches with anxious eye the rain
fan in June, and learns with diSmay of the
appearance Of the caterpiller in July. And
we'll may the government feel a deep inter-
est in the cotton crop prospects of our
Southern states. Europe is the chief Dur
shaser Of this great staple. and 500, o0o. coo
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17

over seventeen feet of water by the indom-
table enterprise and courage Of your own
Chicago men-the Farwells ana Taylors
and others-has been obtained at Velasco,
at the mouth Of the Brazos river, where
only eight feet was had two years ago. 1t
will be obtained at Sabine Pass and Aran-
sas, and deep water at Galveston means
deep water at Houston.
Did you ever think what all This means,
my friend These ports are 500 miles
nearer BY rail to the center of the great
West than is Boston or New Pork, where
the great surplus of grain is now shipped
by water and rail for European ports. \
saving of 1900 miles round haul in railroad
transits will be accomplished with CORE
neutrality-suspicious. on freight. This added
to the low prices of your grain has covered
macy of your great and fertile states with
mortgages and created spirit of wild un-
rest. The West will have at last additional
competitors for the millions of her grain
and meat stuffs. You will have the great
lakes, the Eastern trunk lines, the Missis-
sippi river and New Orleans, and last the
deep water ports of Texas which will lower
the ocean freight rate to Europe. 1t will
quadruple our railroads and, with the COM
bined commercial coming supremacy of the
West and Southwest, will hold the balance
Of power, so to speak. in the grain and cot
ton and wool and iron trade of this conti-
nent Applause
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17

We are at Galveston, Sabine Pass, Velasco,
Arkansas and Houston 900 miles nearer to
the magnificent grain-growing section of the
Union than is Boston or New York. Cotton
and sugar and grain seek the nearest routes
to the sea. Why may we not compete for
this tradei We are now grasping each
other with iron hands, and to-day the trade
between Chicago. st. Louis, Kansas City
and the West with Texas is counte3bv
millions, which was but nominal ten years
ago. When the bars at Galveston aud other
ports shall receive an appropriation-only
''sheer justice"-from the government,
when ocean steamships shall, as they viii.
land at Houston and the Pass ami Velasco
and Arkansas, Texas ports v Ill handle the
great grain trade of the West in the shipz
ment TO Europe and South America. OHf
iron and copper and coal fields will ere i6g
yield source Of wealth rivaling PENIS VI
vania or the iron and coal fields Of the old
world. Applause.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17
THE COTTON CROP.
Report of the Washington Weather Crop
Experts on the Condition
of the Plant

WASHINGTON, Sept 12.-The weather cror
bulletin has the following to say in regard to
the condition OF the cotton crop:
North Caroiina-Dry and favorable week for
farm work, but cool nights We're injurious TO
cotton The crop is badly rusted, is shedding
and opening very slowly.
South Carolina-The cool weather and ex,
cessive rains of the previous week caused rust
shedding and rottinG Of cotton bolls. Twenty
five per cent injury; fully verified.
Alabama-CottOn continues to shed. Cool
dry weather has caused the plant to stop bloom
ing. The crop is badly diseased and the yield
Will be reduced - per cent
Mississippi-Cotton is opening rapidly in the
southern part of the state. A late season would
develop some top crop in the Delta and north
ern counties.
Louisiana-Cotton on uplands has fallen OFF
greatly owing to rust, blight and shedding, but
is somewhat better in the lowlands.
ArkanSaS-The weather has been too cool for
cotton. Picking has commenced Cool nights
continue and cotton continues TO fall OF slowly.
Texas-The first crop OF early planted cotton
is generally good. Showers have improved
late cotton and the top crop over northern,
central and eastern portions. In other portions
the growth has stopped and rain would be OF
little benefit. Worms have disappeared
Tennessee-Cotton opening slowly Some
rust ana shedding reported