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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-03-26
AN ORDINANCE
Providing for 6srbsge Rscopiselcs.

se y ordained By the city council Of the city Of
Rork l.lsnd:
see. [. III .hsIl he the duty of ever owner.
tenant lessec. OF cceursnt Of any os every b"uee
ssenng o. Plses ef bu.ies -. IN the Ct Of Roc /
iefse1. within the district where garbage In col
.ectsd. 70 pso,ide or eause Ia be provided on o,
before the ffst dag % Nay, isss. and o. all times
th.resfsef. to ksep 30 provide . separate water.
cgat covered metsiie vssesl for sssoscs aaal
sst hc iess N N ave ts) gallons, NOE more than
e'cat 80 gsilcus And u seau BE- unla sfui Ia
qua sshes 90 anything bot refuse, animal OF veg.
eistle natter In sueh vsescl used for garbage
and oaai. ssd any psrscu % per son. Who rhsIl
elsee In ssid vseei any aches. ciff o. other sup-
.faIees. tresps - Lereia provided. th VI b. cab
zee, 70 foe not ex-eedu 6 I've so dollars nor
iese then too tosl dollars for caeA oncpsc.
fassed March -. 1855.
A,tssi: Approved:
A % HrrstSs. 4. J. Asput. Jr.
Cty Cs~fk. IA yor
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-03-26
Give. LIN HI Ro.e poetors.

Beaver Dam. Ohio. Aug. "a, 1895.
My daughter. after being treated
BY four doctors. and being given up
for lost. . ncighbor recommended
folcy's Kidney cure. Today she ID
able to walk several miles without
fatigue. feel No would have lost
her II Il was not for your medicine.
respectfully. Mrs. ]. n. Bailey.
For sale by T. H. Thomas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-03-26

That the people may learn Just
what the Glbuey Comedy company
Is. Manager Bleuer has arranged 10
sdmit ladies at q bargain price at
the opening Sunday night at Harper
theatre. They will remain all mex,
week. presenting q new play, with
Is up-to-date spetialties between
one Of the best companies now play.
ing ct cheap prices. and 10 playing to
crowded houses everywhere. They
were In Kankakee two weeks ago and
broke the house record for attend
ance, while 81 Joliet last week they
played to the largest audiences Of
the season. Sunday night they will
produce 1.-The. Black Flag" with
ladies' admitted free.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-03-26

DR.. Woods Norwa Pine Syrup
seems especially adapted to the
needs Of the children. Pleas ant to
tske; soothing In its influence. It is
the remedy Of all remedies for every
form OF throat and lung disease.
Sold BY M,rehall & Fisher.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-03-26

inous ps.ns over the kidneys. 10
build up the run do un. nervous
strength. and cure permanently those
more and, more irequsntly recurring
attacks Of headache and indigestion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-03-26
A Geld I'm the Head

10 one Of the most distressing and
discomforting Of malsdies. 1t causel
loss Of sleep. II neglected. it ter.
inmates in that most obnoxious oil
all diseases-catarrh of the head OF
throat. DR. Bells Pipe-Tar Honey
will cure it in one night. All drug.
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-03-26
f0 Ceo0ampssvso

Az IN honest remedy, FoleyI
Honey and Tar does not hold out
false hopes in advances stages. bat
truihfully claims to give comfort
and relief In the very worst cases.
and In the early stages 70 eject .
cure. For sale By r. II. Thomae.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-03-26

"Myssic Cure" for rheuma tism
and aeuralgia radically curcs In one
70 shsss days. Its action upon the
system 10 remarkable and mysteri.
Gus. Il removes ct once tho cause
and disesss Immediately disappsars.
The Gsst dose greatly benefits. IS
deats. Bold BY Otto Grotjan, l5)l
Sscood avenue, druggist. Rock Isl.
sad; Gass Schlsgsl . Son. 220 West
Sscosd street, Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-03-26

Suite .on, Auditorium building. Chicago, III
The Worcester spy., 1898-10-02
A STORY OF MISS DAVIS.

Apropos Of the death of Miss Winnie
Davis, the Philadelphia Press quotes a
story told about her by Philadelphia
man. He was a colonel under the stars
and bars and Is now a rich man. But
five years ago wasn't" he says I'D
lost every penny I'd had before the war,
and had not made many since A big
slump in the west had done for me
and l put up at New York hotel with
just enough to pay my bill and no more.
My nerves gave way and 1 was taken
Ill. The doctor said I must have long
rest and a complete change Of scene
| said ! might rest in the grave and
change this scene for that of the next
world but that / had no money or
friends and would never leave the city
any way but feet first. Well, Miss Davis
was staying at the hotel. She knew /
wouldn't accept money from her, so she
got the doctor to pretend he was lend
ing me his, own. l went abroad, and
came home cure6g and already on the
way to wealth. 1t was only then that
found out whom owed my life to. You
know her book The Yelled Doctor 2
Well for me there is significance in
that name"
The Worcester spy., 1898-10-02
MILLIONS GIVEN AWAY.

1t is certainly gratifying to the public
to know Of one concern In the land who
are not afraid to be generous to the
needy and suffering. The proprietors
Of DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, Coughs and Colds, have given
away over ten million trial bottles of
this great medicine; and have the sat-
isfaction Of knowing it has absolutely
cured thousands sof hopeless cases
Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness and ali
diseases of the Throat Chest and Lungs
are surely cured by 1t. Call on Bush
g. Co., druggists. and get a trial bottle
free. Regular size Soc and ST. Every
bottle guaranteed. or price refunded.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-22
The Machinery Fund.

Cash received for sawmill. ..SlO46 10
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-22
Encouraging Words from a Reserve
Bureau of Correspondence:

Bureau of Correspondence:
Your letter was read with pleasure.
Very glad to hear that the prospects
for the future of Equality are so
bright. can understand something
of the weary struggle you are passing
through and admire the courage and
energywith which you face the battle.
Neither Dewey at Manila nor Shafter
at Santiago had to fight such an une-
quail battle as you at Equality. The
honor and glory of war inspires the
one, the love of humanity the other.
Which of the two is the greater?
My earnest wish is for your success
and for the triumph of justice and
righteousness in the affairs of men.
J. E. Turner,
California.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-22

Were it not for the Pittsburg Dis
patch some of our Equalityites would
hunger and thirst for intellectual sub
sistence. AS it is the Home Study Cir
Gle, found only in the Dispatch, fur
nishes intellectual nourishment to
quite circle in Equality.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-22

You have never heard OF there being
a scarcity of postage stamps. have your
orpostage stamps depreciating in value?
or being at premium; or being hoard
ed.or OF the government having to issue
bonds to buy postage stamps: You have
never stopped to think why these
things are not so. have you? Wen, do
so right now for about five minutes
Living Issues.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-22
important Notice!

All members of Equality colony
have changed their address from Edi-
son to Belfast, Skagit county, Wash.
Remember this when you write.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-22
How to Send Money.

In making remittances, send Post
Office Money orders for amounts of
one dollar and upwards: stamps will
be accepted for smaller amounts. In
no case send bank drafts or checks.
We will not accept them.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-22

INDUSTRIAL L REEDOM In bundles of
10. to one address, 15c per copy. Give
your neighbors a Socialist surprise
party for few weeks by distributing
a few bundles,
The Coconino sun., 1898-11-19
THE OPPORTUNITY OF 1900.
Address of Chairman Gill to the Republi>
 cans of Arizona.

NoAAo VI fhiZSho'
 After commenting the splendid fight for statehood made by the Republicans of Arizona, Chairman Gill says in part:
 "The defeat of Col. Brodie has shown that statehood cannot be secured within the next two years. The last election settled the silver question and elimi- mated it from American politics. When such silver states as Kansas. Nebraska, North Dakota, Wyoming. Idaho, Wash ington and California repudiate the silver candidates it shows that the ques- ton of the free coinage of silvey by the United States independent of any other nation is dead issue. Arizona stands alone with Colorado. and even in Colo rado the silver forces were reduced to small majority.
 After the 4th of next March the re- publicans will have iifty-four members of the senate against thirty-siX demo- crats, populists, silver republicans and independents, larger ajority than any party has had in the senate since 1872. What does it mean? It means that with the most favorable conditions for the silver forces al every election from now till 1906 that they cannot se- cure control of the senate.
 ''Is there any man so foolish as to be- lieve that statehood can be secured for Arizona if she continues in the demo- cratic column while the senate is thus in the hands of the republicans? Of course she cannot.
 McKinley's administration is proving the most popular one since Lincoln's. He has successfully prosecuted for eiyn war: and when peace is made the stars and stripes will float over all the islands of the seas formerly held by Spain. Mills and factories that were idle under the Cleveland administra- tion are at work. giving labor to thou
The Coconino sun., 1898-11-19

ports for the fiscal year ending June 30 last by more than ScO0. 0.OO0,OOO You don't hear anything nowadays about gold being withdrawn from the treas- ury for export for Europe. Instead, it is coming the other way. The balance of trade is in our favor. That endless chain Mr. Cleveland harped about has disappeared. And these prosperous times will continue under Mckinley. As a logical sequence Mckinley will be reelected president in 1900. Nothing can beat him. His administration of foreign affairs, the prosperity of the country and the construction of the Nicaragua canal, which will be begun within year, will all stand as such living testimonials to McKinley's tit- ness that the people will endorse him.
 'As already pointed out the senate will be overwhelmingly republican. Then with Mckinley reelected and republican congress the only way for Arizona to secure statehood is to elect delegate and legislature in harmony with the administration. This is not political question. It is straight business matter. Statehood would be worth millions of dollars to Arizona.
 "A man from Yavapai county said to me that the people of his county voted the democratic ticket because they were true to silver. and when l asked him to name single silver mine in Yavapai county he could not do it. The alfalfa crop alone of the Salt River valley in 1898 brought more money into Arizona than all the silver ever pro- duced in Yavapai county has brought into the territory.
 ''The one question for Arizona that oershadows everything else is state- hood, and the way to secure statehood is to elect men in 1900 who will be in political harmony with the Mckinley administration.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11

" grand larceny and was sent 70 the pen
itentary for a year.
While in the peuitentisry he was made
a trusty and although he made one at
tempt 10 escape. succeeded in holding the
confidence OF the penitentiary and contin-
ued as a trusty. Last June he escaped
from the penitentiary wn!le outside the
walls as trusty. a half breed Indian
named Tom Wind escaped with him. They
stole Two horses, harness. a spring wagon
or hack and drove direct 10 the home Of
Tom Hicks Wright. They arrived -hers
about the first Of last July. While rem
tezvousing al Wrights. these two outlaws
robbed tire postofices al Crys.sI Springs
and Danvile IN Harper county. stole a
horse in Cowley county. and attempted 20
hold Up the Frisco train a. AndSver II
Butler county In this last rsid they shot
one VIM. Bedford who Afterwards died a.
his wounds. The railroad. express and
mall authorities finally prepared % cap
tu-e him a. Wrights- Becoming s1splc-
icgs. Smith and Wind struck out ard mai
" landed a. Nowa;z. I. T. where they
were ca9-ured-
Smith vas trist and convicted az e
Dorado this week
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11
OVER THE TRODDEN TRAIL

ed, so extraordinarily advantage were
the circumstances which governed the
business. They had the business TO them
elves for a few years more. 1t was not
until about 1873 that it was generally real
lied the United States had millions OF
acres of magnificent grazing land free 10
anybody and everybody to-use; that cat
tie could be bought for few dollars,
turned loose to feed themselves at a trih-
ing expense, and be salable at the end OF
three or four years at four times their
cost. The United States first. and good
part of Europe later. woke up to the fact
there was big money in cattle.
In 1870 there were 2,501.3 37 horned cat
tie in the United States. Ten years later
the census of 1850 showed the number had
risen 20 34931.s70. A large share OF this
increase OF 2.430 333 was in that portion
of the United States that ten or twelve
years before had been the pasture ground
for myriad herds of buffalo and the nome
OF hostile Indians. In 1850 there were
1894 102 cattle in Texas. In Colorado New
Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Oregon, Idaho
and Washington, a large proportion of
whose territory was semi wilderness IN
1919. there were 1852 cattle in 1850.
There were !, 424. 2SS in Kansas. The whole
OF that great belt of country from New
Mexico north to northern Montana. be-
Kansas. a great portion OF which ap-
peared on the MAPS of 1855 as the Great
American Desert. had been given over to
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11

While it is true that later in the history
eminent engineers were employed to
make slight changes in them, the CHS
holm, the Old Shawnee. and the West
Shawnee trails were paths laid out by
men who had no knowledge of the elab-
crate methods engineers would have en-
ployed. They were roads whose magni-
ficence aroused the admiration of all who
saw them. Old John Chisholm, riding
ahead of his herd, selecting what seemed
to be the best route, broke out the trail
named after him as an extension of the
Irregular southern Texas trail, ending at
the north near Cooke county. lie forded
the Red river near the mouth of Mud
creek, followed that stream to its head,
crossed the Washita at Elm Spring, fol-
lowed the Canadian river into the val
ley of Kingfisiler creek, crossed the Ar
kansas river at SewalTs ranch, and en-
tered Kansas near Caldwell: then, turn
ing northeasterly, continued over the di-
vide to the prairies south of Abilene.
The Old Shawnee trail led to Baxter
Springs, opened the same time as Abilene.
1t left the Red river east OF the starting
point of the Chisholm trail. and ran near
" parallel with the latter for over 100
miles. with a connecting trail between the
two. It passed over the Canadian and
North Canadian rivers near the Sac and
Fox agencies and continued through the
Creek reservation to the Arkansas, west
Of Fort Davis. The West Shawnee trail
was between the two others. and for that
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11

reason was sometimes called the middle
trail.
None of the trails were straight for any
distance. They skirted hills, followed wa
ter courses, went miles aside to avoid ob-
stacles, or reach a ford, but they were
wonderful works. From 600 10 $500 feet
wide, beaten as hard as stone, they were
fianked by bleaching skulls and skeletons
of weary beasts that had fallen on the
way, and here and there a low mound
showing a spot where a cowboy had died
with his boots on. In time connecting
trails ran from the great main stems in
many directions, like the streets of vast
city, only enormously wider and without
the least attempt at regularity.
over 100000 cattle tramped northward
over the trails in 1871, fifteen miieo a
day, finding food and water on the way,
and arriving in better condition than when
they started.
The Kansas cattle towns were sensa-
tional. There is no Sunday west OF New
ton, and no God west of Pueblo" There
were terrible storms in the winter Of
1S7l-72, killing thousands of cattle. Out
of herds of 5000 or 70 1000 only a few nun
bred were oaved. 1t was estimated that
less than 50,00e cattle survived In Kansas
From three stations over 10000 hides
were shipped.
Bankruptcy for good many cattlemen
followed the ravages of this winter. and
there was slump in the market besides.
Nevertheless cattlemen quickly recover
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11
The Difference i'm the Range
From the Days of Yore.

The raising or cattle brought there.
Everybody got rict- But in -he early
eighties a change came. The FREQ range
was gone. Ranchmen saw they must
have ranges or their own IL they were 20
go on raising cattle. and they began buy
ing land. The problem was a fence that
would stop the fierce. half-savage range
cattle. 1t ceased to be a problem WHEN
hardware dealer in the little town OF De
Kalb. Illinois. gave TO the world his in
vention of barbed wire. 1t was one OF the
leading causes that revolutionized the
range cattle business and brought the
bonanza 20 an end.
Ranchmen patented water rights and
bought land, paying for the latter az first
as little as 20 cents an acre. and fencing
il in with ibarbed wire as they bough; it.
They gradually paid higher prices. until
in parts of the best ranqe country 8 an
acre ruled for land. Great corporations
and syndicates interested in cattle stepped
in and outbid smaller individuals. snd
took huge blocks OF land The Prairie
Cattle company had three ranches IN dif-
ferent parts OF New Mexico. aggregating
nearly 5000. 90 acres. The American com
miles on the Niobnsra river. Charles
Goodnight established the celebrated
Goodnight ranch. partly IN the panhandle
Of Texas. comprising 10000 acres. and
requiring 20 miles OF fence. The Red
River Cattle company or England bought
150.o.0 acres and fenced in 100 90 acres i'm
mediatey. The Maxwell Cattle compan y
leased the Maxwell tract. en Old spanish
grant IN New Mexico. comprising ] 80 On
acres. a Chicago syndicate. composed 81
John V. and &. r. Farwcii Amer Tay-
Tor and Colonel Babcock. built the state
capitol at Austin. Texas. and received a
range OF 1900, 90 acres OF land in payment.
The big concerns secured their land some
times with old scrip t;ey had boslF ht
cheapIy, sometimes BY paying calHsl Ia
either case doing what tire small ranch
men could not. Tho smaller csttleuen
bitterly resented these huge land pur-
csrases. They cut The ba-bed wire fences
and tore down the posts They destroyed
hundreds OF miles ~ this barrier 90 their
cattle IN tee encounters between their
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11
A BEE STREET CAR.

A number OF very interesting discoveries
have been made. during the last few
months. OF hidden honey in the upper
stcrys of old houses. and in one instance
In the caves of a corn crib and another
in the chimney Of a house that had been
closed for some time during the absence
OF the family. But the latest and most
singular honey discovery Was made a lew
DAYS ago in one Of the abandoned street
ears that had been moved cut to the
outskirts of the city, and al one time used
rs a playhouse 10y children in the neigh
borhood wherein It's new home had been
located.
\ few days ago the car was removed
again. having been sold 20 a Douglas ave
nue. fruit vender. whose intention it was
"a convert it INFO a winter stand. The
owner of the car and man who desired to
purchase il had been trying - make a
trade FOR some time. but could not come
70 any satisfactory Terms until one day
last week. when a bargain was struck and
the now owner had made arrangements
20 move il. The price paid was very rsa-
sonable, comparatively speaking, with the
u ginai cost Of the car. but ,he last owner
was not satisfied. though he did sen j. 10
the vendor al the agreed upon price. The
car was paid Tor and arrangements made
20 haul il away. When the men started
10 move Z 20 town, l. was discovered 70
oe inhabited with swarm az many bees,
which almost drove them away FROM the.E
job. bat it was finally concluded thata they
would open both doors and al the windows
and let the bees out. They came out in
swarms, and when i was safe FOR the men
TO approach the car again. they made an
examination OF the interior 80 see II al
the bees had left, OF which most Of them
had, and IN making the examination large
quantities Of very nue honey was found
Under the seat and hanging overhead
When she honey was az gathered and
weighed there VAS over So pounds. worth
s45, Just twice as muca as the new owner
haa paid for the car. The original cwae
kicked bur t did no good, ana 50 tie ca
was secured by the fruit vender Tor 81 q
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-11

as suddenly as he did when the change
came.
No hlstory OF tho remarkable era in
which the woEds cattle raising were
taken to mean quick fSGtune could DE
written without reference to the great
Chisholm trail, the almost equally IA
NOUS old Cherokee trail, and the West
Shawnee trail, and the trails which led
up from Colorado into Montana and Wy
oming. They were not the creations Of a
day, but of years. Old John Chisholm,
who lived in Texas, and Joe Mccoy, who
went from Illinois to Texas, and has re-
sided in Wichita for many years, lent the
greatest impetus 10 the establishment of
these trails. Ranchers in Texas had car
ried on the business of raising cattle for
many years, when the war between the
north and south cut off their northern
market. Later, when peace restored old
conditions. they were confronted with the
difficulty of driving their herds through
a wild, untracked. unsettled country, in
tested with Indians and bands of out
laws. who demanded toll.
Mccoy saw If railroads could he con-
structed in Kansas much OF the difficulty
of getting stock to market would end. In
1861 the old Kansas Pacific division of
the Union Pacific was being built from
Kansas City along the valley Of the Kaw
due west Mccoy conceived the idea Of
forming a great shipping point at Abb
Iene. directly north Of Wichita. There,
in the midst OF a richly Srassed section,
cattle yards were built. \ single bold
horseman was dispatched on a lonely
ride south through a country in which
bands of hostile Indians roamed. with in
structions TO induce cattle men to send
their stock to the new shipping point. II
was slow work to convince the ranchmen.
Only $4,000 cattle were driven into Abb
Iene the first season-one per cent of the
supply in Texas. The next year. in 1868,
10. 900 entered the yards at the town now
grown from thirty houses TO a place of
several thousand. The text year the ca
vaIcade had swollen to 10000 and the
next year more than double that number
came tramping up the three grand trails
that linked the north and south. After
wards Wichita with its railroads, mon
opolized the great Texas trade