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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-03
Prints, Muslins, Etc.

5000 yards "A ~unblcaehed mas
lin, &c quality 4tc. $4,000 yards Of
fall prints just notwithstanding,
dress and comforter styles; 5000
yards best dark dress prints, value
&c, at 4ic; 1000 yards comfort cloth;
80 inches wide, regularly sac a yard,
AT Sc; 1900 yards best Turkey red
prints, value &c at 4}c.
1000 yards dark dress gipghams,
&c quality at Age.
100 bales cotton bats for comfort
ers, nice white cotton, for this sale
Sc, Sc, Sc, Sc, Sc each.
Crockery Department.
Fruit jars and jelly glasses. enough
for everybody. We shall not ad-
vance u price this fall. Quart Ma
son jars Sc; half gallons &c.
See u new hanging night lamp at
4sc-prettiest little novelty of the
season.
Pocket knives for all SC and 10c up
to the finest pearl-handled 4-bladed
%gentleman's pen knife. Best assert
ment in the city.
Other Bargains.
House paints l0c a can; barn
paints &c u gallon. Paint and white
wash brushes Sc and up.
Buy the New Easy Running Sew
ing Machine, made to sell ut S55;
u price $2l-every n guaranteed.
Special Offer.
Commencing Tuesday morning we
will place On sale 10 gross of Wine-
burgh's Babeskin Soap. n famous skin
aud complexion soap. two cakes in a
package, regular price CSC a package.
at Ice n package; besides this. with
each package purchased we will pre-
sent one cake free.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-03
Dress Goods Novelties.

Dress Goods Novelties.
Our high class novelty Dress Pat
terms have been going very fast.
They attracted more attention last
week than is usual so early in the
season. Come soon if you would see
a choice selection.
New Black Goods.
Special new lots of Caniche Cloths.
Poodle Cloths, Glace Mahairs, Epin-
gle Miroirs, French Bancletta, hand
somer styles and more OF them than
ever.
AT soc a Yard.
A line Of very fine all wool JAG
guard Suitings that you would ex-
pect to pay 75c for.
AT 72c a Yard.
A lot of very handsome jacquard
weaves, many designs, never sold be-
fore for less than 81 q yard, at 72c.
AT Sac a Yard.
40-inch all wool Mohair Suitings
and ali wool Jacquards in the lizard
and weave effects. perfect dreams,
would sell readily at 81. IS a yard.
At ST. and $I.2s a Yard.
Very fine and handsome Mohair--
wool broche effects, a big lot of them,
and their true worth is $3.50 to $1.7j
a yard.
Notion Counter Specials.
5 dozen large size silver Trilby
hearts CSC. 2gross shell daggers for
the hair, value 15c, for SC. s dozen
shell daggers lOc. 5 dozen shell
back combs, worth 35c, at 1Sc. 20
dozen silver belt pins, value 1Oc, at
4 cents. New belts in the mar
row grain leather, with leather COW
cred buckles at SOC and $40.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-03
The Modern Beauty

thrives on good food and sunshine,
with plenty of exercise in the open
air. Her form giows with health and
her face blooms with its beauty. Ii
her system needs the cleansing ac-
ton of a laxative remedy. she uses
the gentle and pleasant liquid Taxa
tive Syrup of Figs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-03
Crockery Department.


Fall will 500 be here. but the fall
in the price of Lamps is now here.
This week we will give you a fine
Gold Lacquered Hall Lamp with
ruby globe. worth q. sale price
$1.lS. This is just what you will
want in that dark hall for the long
evenings that are coming. We
have just received a stock of
White French China for decorat-
ing, from small card tray to the
largest bread plate.
Remember we are headquarters
for all lines of Dinner and Toilet
ware, and we are the people that
the country buys its Fruit Jars
and Jelly Glasses Of.
Other Bargains.
Boys School Waists will 60 in
this sale at 19c.
All the Challies will go in this
sale at 1!c per yard. worth SC.
so cases Cotton Baton for COM
torters, sale price SC.
Sheet music. 8 sheets for &c.
Have you seen the latest-thc
Laughing Camera? 1t pleases the
old as we'll as the young. We
have them-you will smile, you
will grin. you will laugh, you will
howl. 1t will tickle she children
and make the old folks happy.
Price 25c.
~ crosses Fancy Tipped Tea
spoons, heavy plated, will go in
this sale 6 for 10c.
crosses Fancy Tipped Table
Spoons, same as above, 6 for 20c.
Agents for the Imperial Pinned
Patterns.
Beautiful Furniture given away
free.
Cloaks.
Our new Cloaks arc arriving
daily. Remember our stock is en-
tireIy new: no old stock carried
over. We show over 800 different
styles only the latest and newest.
Inspection invited.
Double States, cloth bound, sc.
NCCOmbS
ROCK ISLAND
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-03
River Riplets.

The Pittsburg went north.
The Everette and Abner Gle
brought down eight strings OF lum-
Der each.
The stage Of the water at the Rock
Island bridge at rO0n was sta
tionary at rs; the temperature 81.
The Pilot and Verne Swain came
down and the Helen Mar, Robert
Dodds. Pilot, Everette Abncr Gle
and Verne Swain vent north.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-03

Conditions are favorable for local
thunder showers this afternoon and
evening; fair Wednesday and cooler:
brisk southerly winds shifting to
westerly. Today's temperature. so.
+. J. WALL, Observer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-03

Rock Island lodge No. Is, 1. q. o.
F.. last evening at the regular semi
annual election selected officers as
follows:
n. G.-L. Ludolph.
V. Gil. W. Tremann.
Sec-RObert johnson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-03
THE CON MISSION.
Biographical Sketches OF the Men,
bers.

Biographical Sketches OF the Men,
John X. Eden was born in Bath
county. KY, Feb. /. 1926. He went
with his parents at an early age to
Indiana, where he studied law. Be-
coming admitted t o the bar he moved
to Illinois, settling at Sullivan,
Moultrie county. In 1856 he was ap.
pointed states attorney for the Sew
cnth district, which office he held for
four years. In 1862 he was elected
as a representative to the 3Sth con-
gress, serving as a member of the
tionarv pensions. lie was again
elected to the 43d and 44th con-
crosses, serving on the commit
tee on claims. In December, 1875, he
was appointed chairman Of the COM
mittee on war claims. He was
reelected to the 45th congress
and again to the 49th. Even
before 1862 he was active in state
politics, and has been prominent in
national politics since the date men
toned. He has of late been talked
of for the democratic congressional
domination in the Eighteenth dis
,rict at the coming special election but
has persistently declined to consider
such candidacy. He is not only one
of the foremost democrats, but one
Of the representative men of the
states and Gov. Altgeld honored him.
self as we'll as him when he appointed
him.
w. s. Gale, of Galesburg. although
born in New York state. came to
Illinois with his father. G. W. Gale.
who founded Galesburg. and after
whom the place takes it's name, ir
1929, and he has lived there con-
stantly since. He is consequently
one of the best known men in GEN.
trail Illinois, and evidence Of the
popular regard in which he is held is
found in the fact that for a period of
% years he served continuously on
the Knox county board of supervis-
ors. He is a republican, politically.
Of I. S. Silvis. our own member
and W Sharp" it would be
superfluous to speak anything of an
Introductory character. Suffice it to
say that the governor has chosen
well as TO him as to his associates,
and the honor could have been no
more fittingly OF w~orthily bestowed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-03
spot Cash DEPARTMENT. Store.
Young GMcCOmbS
1925 Second n
SPECIAL CLOSING SALE.
HOT WEATHER o

HOT GOODS.
Please pardon us for not giving you a more descriptive advertise
ment, Is the weather is 81 extremely hot at this writing that we
can only wish for the end, as it is our custom to give you new and
startling bargains each week, W g will come to the point without
further ceremony.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-03

Summer Corsets.
Gage Downs celebrated Summer
Corsets, long wasted and has high
back, comfortable, worth 75c, clos
ing sale price 29c.
Summer Vests.
Ladies' gauze knit Vests, were
SC, sale price 1c.
Ladies' gauze knit Vests, were
Zoe. sale price SC.
Ladies' gauze knit Vests, were
15c, sale price &c.
Ladies' gauze knit Vests, were
25c, sale price l2c.
Ladies' Lisle thread Vests, were
SOC, sale price 25c.
Mems Summer Shirts and
Drawers.
To clean them out for this sea
son we put them at a price that
will move them quickly.
Our Mems Balbriggan shirts and
Drawers, worth 35c each, closing
sale price 19c.
Cur Balbriggan Shirts and
Drawers, worth soc, closing sale
price 29c.
Our 81 quality Shirts and Draw
ers, closing sale price 69c.
Blankets.
HOT WEATHER SALE OF BLANKETS.
Having bought something over
1000 Blankets last June, since
which time the price has advanced
at least 25 per cent. we will throw
them out to the bargain seekers
for this hot weather sale at less
than they can be replaced for to-
day.
Afull 1914 Cotton Blanket. would
cost us today to buy 55c; our sale
price is 4Sc.
A heavier 1914 Cotton Blanket.
white or gray, worth 90c; sale
price Csc.
The trade winner worth $1.25;
our sale price 92c.
Wool Blankets S1.0S. S2.4s, 1915,
$3.50 and up to so per pair.
We have have prettiest baby
blankets you ver saw.
~~--
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-03
A Household Nece.sitv

a HOusohOld Necessity.
No family should be without Fo-
ley's Collie and Diarahoea Cure for
all bowel complaints. For sale at NJ.
+. Bahnsen's drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-03
SALOONS AND THE MAYOR
The Miserable Spectacle the Present Ad-
ministration Has Made of Itself.

The Miserable Spectacle the Present Ad-
ministration Has Made of Itself.
In striking contrast with the pre-
cedinS administration Of municipal
affairs has the present been as re-
CARDS the elevation of the moral tone
of the city. Yet this would not be
quite so noticeable, perhaps, were it
not for the hue and cry which the
Union sent up during Mayor Me-
dill's term and the prominent
part the temperance element of the
city took in insuring Mayor Knox's
nomination and election. 1t hap
pens, too, that notwithstanding the
restless spirit manifested by reform
agitatOrs, the present mayor while
commanding the united support Of
this class. he had the good fortune,
too, to have the hearty endorsement
of q largo representation of liquor
dealers because Mayer Medill. had in
the interests of true reform, revoked
licenses of those who had conducted
disrcputable resorts. In fact, not
outstanding that Mr.. Knox was
looked upon as the apostle of reform
on one hand, he received the ballots
of the majority of sa'oon-keep-
ers on the other, merely because
Mayor Medill had been after some
of them. even to driving one into the
ranks of the republican party. Thus
Mr.. Knox became mayor with over
1900 majority back of him. And
the people arc today bewailing the
spectacle he has made of himself and
the city.
As to Medill.
Now, notwithstanding all that was
said in the Unions so-callcd crusade
against the alleged state of affairs
under Mr.. Medill, THE ARGUS would
like to see the contrast drawn
between the conditions as they ex-
listed then and as they do exist at
the present time. The ARGUS is not
a calamity bowler. 1t has W be-
lieved in the policy of making a wry
face and proclaiming to the world
the iniquities of the city it repre-
sents, but it maintains that Rock
Island from every possible moral
standpoint was better q year ago
than it is today. There had been no
exhibition of u mayor delegating to
the council the duties naturally be-
longing to him in the enforcement of
law under any circumstances. and
consequently there was no such
ridiculous straddle as we have seen
of late. Had the present mayor been
familiar with his duty, and had he the
respect for the high office he holds
that he should possess, the present
situation need never have been
brought about. There we're no such
exhibitions during Mayor Medill's
time. simply because he discharged
his duty maufu!ly as he saw fit, and
he did it conscientiously and faith
fully, and where he was satisfied
that there was evil he attacked it,
and did not ask or permit the coun-
Gil to the responsibilities re-
posed in him by the ordinances.
And any city is the better for hav-
an independent. level-headed mayor
who knows his business.
The record-union., 1895-06-12
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Now here is game of shuttlecock in one
chapter complete: Mayor Steinman in re-
Spouse to the Trustees request that ne enforce
certain laws, sent communication to the
Trustees on Monday night relative to the en-
forcement of said ordinances, and which con-
Germ the L-stfeet nuisance, in which he said:
81 am satisfied that at the present time I'll
ordinances relating TO the subject are being
strictly obeyed." Now if that Is to be taken
as strictly true, it proves thas there are no suf
ficient ordinances bearing upon the subject,
because the nuisance is precisely the same to-
day that it has been at any time for the last
two years or more. The people ask that tho
nuisance be abated: the Mayor replies, 81
have strictly enforced the law" The Corpora
ton Counsel says to the Auti-Nuisance Asso-
citation: ssIf the laws are enforced they are
sugficlent to abate the nuisance The nui-
sance is not abated or affected. What, then,
must a man with halt a brain conclude?
Why. either that the Mayors belief is i'll
founded. or that the ordinances are INSULT
Gent or that the Corporation Counsel does
not know what he is talking about, or that
the people of the south end are mistaken and
thai there is no L-street nuisance, or that the
The record-union., 1895-06-12
Notice to Contractors.

PURSUANT TO LAW AND TO THE RES
/ olution of the Board OF Trustees of the
City of Sacramento, adopted June 10.
1895, directing this notice, the undersigned
invites and will receive at his Office at south
west corner of Fourth and streets, up to 5
o'clock z. NJ of June "a 1895, sealed propos-
ais or bids for the following street work to
be done according to the specifications posted
and on file therefor adopted to witt
That the plumbing and drainage of the City
Prison be improved by constructing two (2)
cesspools and connecting to the sewer with
six TO- inch overflow pipe; constructing two
(2l setacting Hopper closets and That the
bathJub and sink in the receiving hospital
and the wash trays in the kitchen, also the
urnal in the yard, be trapped ana vented ac-
cOrding to city ordinances,
All proposals must be accom- panied by a
certified check payable to the order OF the
City Clerk OF the City of Sacramento, for an
amount not less than ten per cent. of the
aggregate OF the proposal, or by bond for the
said amount. and so payable and throughout
as prescribed by law. o. S. FLINT,
Clerk of Board of Trustees of Sacramento City.
Sacramento. June IL, 1895. je12-1Ot
The record-union., 1895-06-12
POSSIBILITIES OF WAR.

Charles Lesser, the French military OK
pert of LIE Figaro, declares that the strain
of continual armament must be broken.
and that it can be done only by war
among the great nations. Some petty
squabble on some frontier may at any
moment precipitate all Europe into war.
If SO, he asks, how are its battles to be
fought?
He concludes that the chief elements of
them will be celebrity of movement and
directness of assault. Every thing oapa-
BILE of expediting movement will be
called into play. Horses cannot there
fore be alone depended upon. He believes
many mechanical contrivances, now only
fancied, will be realized for war uses,
such as road steam and electric motors,
electric carriages and batteries, and gas
motors, and that even the bicycle will
play an important part in the next great
war. Whereas infantry cannot now be
depended upon to advance more than fif-
teen miles a day, by employing the
bicycle it can make fifty miles or more,
or ten to twenty miles more than cavalry,
for horses must carry more than their
own rations.
Balloons are to play leading part in
the next war, and we are to kill human
beings more rapidly and in larger num-
Der by operations from above. They
will advance swiftly and pour down q
rain of projectiles before which no troops
can stand. Steam wagons, armored and
armed with long distance and rapid fire
guns, will move upon the enemy with
great speed and irresistible force, and
will be met by electric wagons, perhaps,
on the other side.
As fighting quality depends upon the
character of food supplied, in the new
wars flying kitchens will accompany the
armies. and better prepared food. and al
the most needed times will be supplied
so that human strength and endurance
will be conserved. In short, the next
great war may be fought out mainly with
machinery, and through mechanical
agencies not heretofore used.
The record-union., 1895-06-12

not appear that they attempted at that
time, or have since, to ascertain the
whereabouts of Senator Buck. Had they
done so they would have discovered that
it was a physical impossibility for him
to have been with the murdered woman
at the time of her death. On the con-
trary, they allowed it to 60 abroad that
Senator Buck might have been the MUIR
derer. This served to smirch the charac-
ter of the dead man.
Now. when the opportunity offers. his
son proves beyond all possibility of a
doubt that his father was not in San
Francisco at the time of the murder, but
was at his home, and where several peo-
pie saw him and conversed with him. The
dead man is vindicated, but not by any
action on the part Of the police. The
trouble with police investigation is, in
seven cases out of ten, that they start off
upon a theory and work to make sill
the developments fit the theory, which
reflects credit, it is supposed, upon the
acumen and far-seeing Of the officers.
Instead of making a search for the facts.
regardless of theory, and trusting for the
theoretical phase of the case to develop
and possibly become real, all effort APP
pears to be bent upon warping facts to
theory.
In France the detective is sent out with
caution to form no judgment as to guilt
or innocence until facts have clearly de-
veloped sufficient to warrant the as
sumption that this or that was the mo-
tive, and this man or that man the guilty
one. The detective is to ascertain the
truth, and until he does he is to keep his
mouth shut
Had the San Francisco police detective
force done its duty, and have inquired
into the whereabouts of Senator Buck be-
fore making public the correspondence of
Miss Harrington, or the fact that there
was any such correspondence, 1t would
never have had the slightest excuse for
violating its privacy. But clearly the
love Of the sensational is SO strong with
the average San Francisco detective that
no opportunity to pose ID the sensational
press can be put aside. In twenty-five
minutes. had they so desired, the officers
could have known lust where Senator
Buck was at the hour Of the murder.
That determination would have put the
letters of private correspondence behind
the pale of privacy, where they belong,
since they do not concern the general
public, but do concern the man whom
accident has placed in a grave, and who,
if alive, would in all probability be able
to clear mp even the faintest doubt con-
corning his relations with Miss Harring-
ton,
The record-union., 1895-06-12
Resolution Of Award, No. 262.

n ESOLvED, THAT THE BOARD OF
n Trustees of the City OF Sacramento hav.
ing in open session. on the 10th day OF June
1895. opened, examined and publicly de.
cIared ali sealed proposals or bids offered for
the following work. to wit:
That Tenth street in this city, from the south
line of street to the north line of G street
be fwhere not already graded, graveled and
curbed). improved Degrading and macadam.
izing. constructing redwood curbing with
round corners and filling in behind the same
with earth, and constructing stone crosswalks
at the alley intersections, and stone cross
walks with Oregon pine aprons at the street
intersections of and + streets and laying
four a. iron culyerts.
Hereby rejects all of said bids except thai
next hereinafter mentioned, and hereby
awards the contract for said work to the
lowest regular responsible bidder, to wit: To
Antonio King, at the prices specified in his
proposal on nile for said work.
The Clerk of this Board is hereby directed
to post notice of this award conspicuOusly
on the bulletin board near the cham Der door
of the Office of this Board, for five days and
the RECoRD-UNIoN, a daily newspaper pub
Iished and circulated in the City of Sacra
mento is hereby designated as the newspaper
in which notice of the adoption of this reso
luton of award shall be published for two
days.
Adopted June 10, 1895.
o. S. FLINT,
je12-2t Clerk of Board OF Trustees.
The record-union., 1895-06-12
Notice Of Award Of Contract No. 262

PURSUANT TO LAW AND TO THE
| resolution of the Board OF Trustees Of the
City of Sacramento, adopted June 10, 1895,
directing this notice. notice is hereby given
that the said Board of Trustees, in open ses-
sion, on the 9th day of June 1895, opened,
examined and publicly declared all sealed
proposals offered for the following work.
to wit:
That Tenth street in said city, from the south
line of street to the north line OF G street,
be where not already graded, graveled and
curbed). improved by grading and macadam-
lzlng, constructing redwood curbing with
round corners and filling in behind the same
with earth, and constructing stone crosswalks
at the alley intersections, and stone cross
walks with Oregon pine aprons at the street
intersections of ID and + streets, and laying
four al iron culverts.
Rejected all OF said bids except that next
hereinafter mentioned, and thereafter, on the
10th day of June, 1896. awarded the con-
tract for said work to the lowest regular re-
sponsible bidder, to wit: To Antonio King,
at the prices named for said work in his pro.
posal on file. q. s. FLINT,
clerk of Board of Trustees of Sacramento
City.
Sacramento. June 10. 1895. je12-2t
The record-union., 1895-06-12

ONE of the fallacies in which the radi-
cal silver advocates dealt would be
coarse to call it lie-is that all the for
eign silver coins which circulated here at
bullion value prior to 1860 were made
legal tender by Act of Congress. AS q
matter of fact Congress never did any
thing of the kind. Spanish and Spanish.
American coins smaller than one dollar
never were made legal tender in the
United States. Congress did make two
foreign coins legal tender, the I've franc
piece and the dollar of Spain. This was
prior to the adoption of the Constitution.
The record-union., 1895-06-12
NEW TO-DAY.

TN THE SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF
l California, County of Sacramento.
In the matter OF the estate of FRANK DE
BALL, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that FRIDAY, the
2Sth day of June, 1895, at ] o'clock A. NJ. OF
said day, and the courtroom of said court, al
the Courthouse, in the city of Sacra-
mento, County of SACRAMENTO, and
State of California, has been appointed
as the time and place for proving the
will of said Frank De Ball, deceased, and tor
hearing the application of Clara Elizabeth De
Ball for the issuance to her Of letters tesla
mentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal OF said court
this 1th day Of June, 1890.
(SEALl w. Il. HAMILTON, Clerk.
By X. S. WACHHoRsT, Deputy Clerk.
CHAs. A. MARCH. Attorney for Petitioner.
Endorsed. Filed June i, 1895.
w. Il. HAMILTON, Clerk.
BY E. s. WACHHoRsT, Deputy. ju12-12t
The record-union., 1895-06-12
BuNGLING POLICE.

Because the police of San Francisco
could not in their wisdom understand the
letters from Senator Buck found among
Miss Harrington's effects the conclusion
was, apparently, jumped to that the
Senator had murdered the woman. At
least the action of the police indicated
that they suspected the Senator and had
faith in the theory of his guilt. It does