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Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-07
More Filling.

The Terminal company has let a
contract to p. I. Walsh for 240, 900
cubic yards of filling on the Daven-
port side of the river. The attempt
at dredge filling has not proven alto
gether satisfactory, and tram work
viii have to be resorted to. There
are so many chips and pieces of bark
in the sand along shore owing to the
proximity of the work to the saw
mills. that the suction pipe becomes
clogged and the sand is cut off.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-07
GREAT NEED OF CLUB
Organization of Business Men
Such As Can Assist Rock
Island.
HELP FOUND TO OTHER CITIES

Opportunities That May Have Been Lost
Through the Absence of a Properly Con-
stituted OrganIzation-PIenty of Work
To Be Bone Here Now and in the Near
Future.
The reorganization of the Rock ISL
and club for the advancement of the
commercial, business and social well
fare of the city, which is now being
discussed and advanced, is a move
that should receive the cordial and
enthusiastic cooperation of all classes
of citizens. Every city needs an or
ganization of this kind. Rock Island
never made steadier progress than in
the DAYS of the old Citizens Improve
ment association. To that associa-
tion of citizens and business men is
most Justly due the advanced condi-
tions and evidences of up-to-date ten
the city today. The Citizens I'm
provement association gave the city a
new birth and sound development.
The Rock Island club it is pro-
posed to construct even on
to the conditions prevailing in a city
now nearly uOuDl0 lnS one tldG S\-
listed when the former organization
entered upon its career of usefulness.
Moline and Davenport have both
recently reorganized their business
associations and both are doing good
work. Many instances have devel-
oped in Rock Island in the past year
where the great need of an association
such as referred to was fully realized.
The work done in connection with
the reception and proper entertain
ment of Company A on its return
from the front, where citizens who,
prompted entirely by public spirit
and patriotic pride in the boys from
this city, responded to call to take
charge of the demonstration, were
subjected to unjust criticism on the
part of few who carped instead of
putting their shoulders to the wheel
and doing their part, was but an in
stance of the need of an association
with standing committees to look after
just such matters.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-07

With the exhilarating sense of renewed
health and strength and internal clean
illness, which follows the use of Syrup
of Figs, is unknown to the few who
have not progressed beyond the old
time medicines and the cheap substi-
tutes sometimes offered but never ac-
cepted by the well informed. Buv the
genuine Manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Company.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-07

One Minute Cough Cure surprises
people by its quick cures and children
may take it in large quantities with
out the least danger. 1t has won for
itself the best reputation of any prep
aration used today for colds, Group,
tickling in the throat or obstinate
coughs L. H Thomas, A j. Riess
and NJ f. Bahnsen. druggists
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-07
FIREMAN IS KILLED.
J. Frank Starkey Loses His
Life in a Railroad
Wreck.
ATTEMPT TO DERAIL A PASSENGER.

Freight Runs Into the Trap Mile West of
Iowa City on the Main Line of the Rock
IsIand-Engine and Several Cars Thrown
ON the Track-Victim Lies Under the
Heap.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-07
Inthe Police Conrt.

Gus Leven was bound over to the
county court to make answer to the
charge made against him by Miss
Alma Fransin.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-07

Thomson & Taylor Spice Co. is
introducing IT. & T." brand of coffee.
Their name is sufficient guarantee
of quality.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-07
Cloth Jackets.

Complete assortment, lowest prices,
at Richter & Sons, PIG West Second
street, Davenport.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17

year to the farmers. There is not a
farm or ranch in the country where
corn fodder is fed to stock but that is
more or less Uttered with corn stalks.
which cattle and horses will not eat.
II they can be utilized they will be
worth nearly If not quite as much as
the leaves.
There is LITTLE doubt that there is an
immense waste going on all over the
country in various industries as great
as the waste in corn stalks on the
farm. 1t is onlyi recently that every
thing about cattle that were slaugh-
tered for market was utilized for some
purpose or othert and there is much
waste even in this industry still in
some parts oflthe country. In time the
people will lie hrn THAT all products in
every form have their economic use.
Our country has been so new and its
yield of everything so bounteous, that
we have never learned the lesson of
economy in all things; but we shall,
for it viii yet be necessary. But the
utilization of many things that have
been deemed useless in the past, has
been impossible for lack of knowledge,
and not so much from mere wasteful-
ness. Corn stalks are an example of
this.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Last year there was levied a tax for
the purpose of creating a public library
fund. The amount thus raised was
some s12, O00 A library board was duly
appointed by ex-Mayor Glendinning.
and ii has already secured from the
Pioneer Library association all its
books, some 5000 or 10000 volumes, fox
a sum less than $1,000 The Pioneer
Library association practically donated
its books. the money received by it for
them going to discharge some debts
contracted in connection with keeping
the library open, such as salaries and
rental
The library is now a public institu-
ton, and should be treated as such
1t seems that it is TO be located in the
city building, a very proper place until
such time as a suitable building for
it can be erected. The question of the
hbrary's location is not merely one of
housing the books; there is also the
question of accommodating its patrons
These will be the whole people. 1t is
probable that where one citizen will
call at the various offices in the city
building, a hundred will call at the
public library. This fact should be
borne in mind in providing quarters for
the library.
The public library should be so To-
Gated and given such accommodations
that it will be available for the great
est possible use and to the greatest pos
sible number. Not only has it come
to stay, but it viii grow year by year;
and its popularity and usefulness will
grow year by year. Hence the import
ance of having it located to the very
best advantage. The people will have
more to do with the library than with
all the other departments of the city
put together, and their comfort and
convenience should be considered first
of all.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17
UTAH FLOUR FOR CHINA.

In few days there will be shipped
from Logan for China $4,000 pounds of
Utah flour. The rate on this will be
As cents per hundred, or 50 per ton. If
this first shipment shall prove entirely
satisfactory there will be other large
shipments each month
All will hope that this shipment may
be satisfactory, as il will be the open
ing of a trade that should prove profit
able. Moreover. if Utah wheat can all
be manufactured into flour in the state,
and the manufactured article shipped
abroad, there will be no need to look
anywhere else than to our own millers
for a market for our farmers wheat.
Not only that, but the market to which
it will go is so great that it will alb
sorb all the flour Utah can send. and
this will mean that there will never
be any necessity for ttee farmers to re-
duce the area of their wheat crop. If
this new market is captured and re-
tanned, wheat growing in Utah will not
only be profitable. but wheat will al
ways be a staple crop to be depended
upon.
Success to those who are undertaking
this venture. It is for private gain, but
if successful it will be for the general
good as well.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17
TO UTILIZE CORN STALKS.

THE despised corn stalk, which for
all these years the farmers have burnt
as of no account, just as the cotton
planters used to throw aside the seed
of that plant as valueless, at last
turns out to be of such worth as to pay
handsomely for marketing" said Mr..
D. NJ Frank of Kentucky, to a Wash
ington Post reporter, the other day.
Our farmers are selling it readily for
81 ton, and on an acre producing forty
bushels of corn there will be at least
two and one-half tons of stalks. The
uses to which the stalk is being put
is one of the most extraordinary agri-
cultural discoveries of this day. AT
present there are but two factories in
the country that are equipped for max
ing cellulose out of this material, one
of which is located at Greensboro.
Cenulose is the pith of the corn stalk;
its uses are varied and wonderful and
it has a market value of $500 ton.
War vessels are lined with it, and
whenever a vessel so lined is pune
tured with shot, the contact of the
water with the cellulose causes that to
swell, closing the aperture and pre-
venting the water from entering be-
tween the ships inner and outer walls. .
If the corn stalks grown in the coun-
try can all be utilized and made into
cellulose, it Will mean millions each
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17
STORIES ABOUT SENATOR MASON
The Man whose wife Died.

The latest story about Senator Billy Ma
son concerns the energetic 8, na to- Chand-
Ter of the Granite state. Long ago the
large-hearted Illinois aEmaker had "A
friend whom he has. in recent y 9Js, lost
sight of. The friend lived for Il tine in
Illinois. and later tried his foi rltnes farth-
er west. in the state of Cobra 10. There
he participated in Republican politics.
won the esteem Of his f. -, y I'll erS and
early IL the present session c. con eress
was named by Major Next .ey as post
more than week before the session, at
tempting to secure the appointment. and
being poor man. was running very low
in purse before his name reached the SEN
ate. Then there was a long wait Cor con-
firmation. and he was on the verge of
despair.
At last he came across the friend of
he poured out the story of his trials. He
had purchased a rOund-trip railroad tick
ct, the limit of which had nearly expired
and his nomination was still buried, with
a heap of similar other papers. and little
chance of its being reached.
Just stay here for n Minute. sa u Sell
atcr Mason. after listening patiently to
his story. The meeting was in the senate
corridor and the senate was about 10 be-
gin an executive session. The Illinois SEN
ator entered the chamber and Immediate
ly called up the Colorado case. requesting
confirmation at once.
4 object to that. unless there are some
unusual circumstances, put IN Senator
Chandler
We'll there are unusual circumstan-
ces,' replied Senator Mason. and he began
10 talk pathetically OF his friends hard
ships. why his wife died
THAT is enough" interrupted Senator
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17
FALSE IMPRISONMENT OF
STANFORD PROFESSOR.

Some days ago a member of the fac
ulty of Stamford university, Professor
Dudley, was bbtanizing near a small
town in California, when he was ar
rested as one engaged in nassing coun-
terfeit money. The evidence against him
was that of a man who said he looked
like man who had passed a counter
felt gold coin on him a couple of weeks
before. The man who had done this
wore a full beard, while the professor
wore none. Still, the professor was
arrested and placed in Jail, where he
remained over night and until the next
day at noon. In vain he protested his
innocence, and that he was a member
of the faculty of Stanford On the day
following his arrest, President Jordan
and some of the professors came down,
identified him and went his bail. An
other man who had been victimized
by the utterer of counterfeit coin. de-
clared that the professor was not the
man, but the officers paid no heed to
what he said
Now Professor Dudley says he will
sue the officers who placed him in Jail
and compelled him to remain in it over
night AS citizen he owes that much
to his state. Very frequently officers
act too much like tyrants, and if thsy
falsely arrest a man, and he is released.
they say it was all mistake, and that
the man wasn't harmed, anyway A
reputable citizen who is placed under
false arrest is harmed. First of all,
the officers place a suspicion upon him.
and while his friends know him to be
innocent, that same suspicion will al
ways linger in the minds of some.
Then his feelings are outraged beyond
expression, and a wanton indignity is
put upon him. When this is done he is
entitled to damages from those who
have injured him.
This case of Professor Dudley's seems
to have been a peculiarly aggravated
one, the officers having him in custody
refusing him common courtesies. It
is much to be desired that he pursue
those who arrested him and placed him
in durance vile. as far as the law will
allow. He owes this to himself, his
friends and family and his state
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17

We unite with our protectionist
friends in rejoicing that at last the
Dingley tariff has made both ends
meet during a single month.-New
York Post.
That is more than the great revenue
non-producer, the Wilson tariff. ever
did 1t ought to add to the Posts graf
ification to observe that the customs
receipts Wednesday were the heaviest
since the new law wet into effect
Seattle Post Intelligencer.
That is a very wild statement for so
conservative paper as our Seattle
contemporary to make. The Wilson
law went into operation August l, 1894.
That very month there was an excess
of receipts over expenditures of $780,
96s in June, 1895, the excess of re-
ceipts over expenditures was 1882 AS;
in September of the same year the re-
ceipts exceeded the expenditure by
s.. 229, 1876. There was also an excess of
receipts in December. How was it in
1897? In March the receipts exceeded
the expenditures by $1,000. e64; in April.
by 50. 74O. O3S; in May by S6Ss. lS1. and in
June the last full month the Wilson
law was in operation, by s13,650.O14.
These figures viii doubtless take some
of the qualification out of the Post In
telligencer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17

Evidently Charles Dudley Warner
has been very much annoyed and cha
grined over the notoriety his proposed
American academy has given him. for
he sends to the New York Times a
protest, as follows:
1t has been a matter of some news
paper comment, with more or less good
natured badinage. that, in the brief re-
marks | made recently at Carnegie hall
on the comparative study of litera-
lures, l proposed the foundation of a
sort of French academy in this country.
Naturally, having a desire to pre-
serve the respect Of my acquaintance,
/ am unwilling to be credited with such
an absurd attempt. In fact 1 made no
such suggestion. I was careful to say
ton, but that a conference of literary
workers, like the one under considera-
ton, might possibly grow into national
Importance, and that such reunions
might be of service to an important in
terest-that of literature in America
1t seems unnecessary to explain that
the French academy is a peculiar his
toric growth, not to be successfully re-
peated elsewhere.
One of the accomplishments of fame
or notoriety (they are frequently in
distinguishable until time has done its
work on them) is that of misrepre-
sentation; it is to fame or notoriety
what the thorn is to the rose. If Mr..
Warner has his rose. he must take the
thorn with it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17

coming over to toom Hawaiian annexa-
ton. and incidentally. in caE< annexa-
ton annexes, 10 locate pie claim-
Baltimore American: The Turks re-
spouse 10 demand for justice or repara-
ton is granted strictly in accordance with
the degree of physical force he sees BACK
ing the request cruiser IS a great
quiekener OF his moral perceptions
New York Herald: To see and de-
strcy personal, effects lawfully, acquired
and long in the possession of the owner
as customs officials are now instructed 20
do in the case of ali persons coming INTO
the United States with any article made
of sealskin whose history is not oiiiciaily
certified. is simply confiscation OF private
property. Even if the act of congress eN-
pressly authorized this the courts would
doubtless set aside the act as legislative
outrage in violation of a fundamental
right of property.
Springfield Republican,: 1t is not clear
as vet whether Secretary Gage is BOOM
ing his own or the monetary commissions
currency reform bin. But il is safe to
say that the only bill Chairman Walker,
of the house banking committee VIII
boom will be Chairman Walkers bill.
Chicago Inter Ocean: No sort of toler-
ance should be shown the CIVIL service
form club investigation. We have al
ready too much reform club interference
IL our municipal affairs. The senatorial
committee is lawfully appointed and law
fully organized and is qualified to deal
with the civil service commission. Re
form clubs that belittle the constituted
authorities of the city or state are likely
to accomplish more evil than good.
Denver Times: In recommending the
appointment of ex-senator II. A. w.
Tabor as postmaster of this ciIy, Senator
Wolcott has performed a most graceful
a fi not Ia h.l
above the influences of partisan politics
to recognize claims of a higher order.
For once he has stayed his hand in the
hour OF triumph to reward the public
spirited loyalty of man who has proved
himself worthy citizen in adversely as
well as in prosperity.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17
! On His knee For Two Hours.

A member of the house tells another
story on Senator Mason. which is little
older. concerning 4 lady who keeps a local
boarding house. The senator boarded
there for a while as did lie representa-
tive. The lady belongs TO one of the we'll
known churches here. and is very pune
tual in her attendance on morning ser
vices For this reason she insists that
her bearders must be dowon early for
breakfast Sunday morning. The senator
was not aware of this regulation. and his
first Sunday in the house came downstairs
rather late.
You are not on time this morning.
senator said the lady, gently, but rather
reprovingly.
NO, madam. / spent a half hour on my
knees this morning.
THAT was very praiSeworthy of you, -
spoke up the boarding mistress.
Hunting for a d-n collar button that
rolled upon the floor and under the bu-
reau,' declared the senator, concluding
his sentence
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17
Consumption Positively Cured.

Mr.. R. B. Greeve. merchant. of
Chilhowie. Va. certifies that he had
consumption, was given up to die,
sought all medical treatment that
money could procure, tried all cough
remedies he could hear of, but got no
relief: spent many nights sitting up
in a chair: was induced to try Dr.
Kings New Discovery, and was cured
by use of two bottles For past three
years has been attending to business
and says DR.. Kings New Discovery is
the grandest remedy ever made. as it
has done so much for him and also for
others in his community. DR.. Kings
New Discovery is guaranteed for
Coughs. Colds and Consumption 1t
don't fail. Trial bottles free at a. c. NJ
l. drug store.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17
sNowDRIFTs.

Listen to the plaintive stories
Sung by mOOrland winds today
Dirges ring DER vanished glorieS.
Love and hope have flown away.
Where are Summers airy minstrels,
Where, our warblers debonair2
Can they sing one strain prophetic,
Can they consolation bear?
Guild of faith What promise golden
Nestles meath your dropping wing?
We would bear its balm enfolden
In our hearts until the Spring.
Satin il. Not a sparrow falleth
On the dreary, dreary SHOWS,
But its cry to heaven calleth.
And our Heavenly Father knows"
1 am caught in crystal showers,
Featherly flakes and fairy blooms.
Winter filings her scentless flowers
Ger her dark. unlovely tOmbs
Airy whispers float around me,
Trust His love and perfect rule,
Though his keenest arrows Smite thee,
Lol He giveth snow like WOOL
Royal touch and flashing token
lKingly presence here reveal.
Faith in Him may be unbroken,
Love may smile in woe or veal,
BY the splendor of His pathway
Diamond flash in triple ray
Sure l am that He is near me,
That King hath passed this wayi
Clara Thwaites in the Sunday Maya
zine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17

A Chicago burglar broke into a resi-
dence and went to the piano and began
to play upon it. To be a good burglar
a man must be fit for treason. shot
guns and spoiIs. This man was not
for he had music in his soul
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17

Tomorrow Senator Wolcott is ex-
pected to make his great speech on
bimetallism. If he does not make some
interesting revelations concerning the
mission Of the Bimetallic commission
there will be great disappointment
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17
uAH sAnr LAAG HERALD: MONDAY, JANUARY II. 1895

Chandler. peremptorily; Il withdraw my
objection" and the nomination was con-
firmed then and there.
Il didn't intend to deceive you'' said
Senator Mason to Senator Chandler a few
minutes later. but you didn't allow me TO
finish my sentence Inc man : wi1s d.ed
two wears ago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17

THE production of good Indians by
the incinerating process is a new Okla
homa industry" says the Washington
Post. Indians being the sons of Ham,
the Oklahomans thought it proper to
smoke them; that is all.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17
STATE PRESS COMMENT.

Price Advocate:, There are people who
seem TO take the view that China is just
now a sort of bargain counter, with naval
stations marked down TO 50 cents.
Bingham Bulletin: There is positively
nothing the matter with Hanna He was
somewhat nervous early in the week. but
is now happily, recovered, with some TO
spare. The speculation as to whether he
would have votes to throw at the birds
was only INDUCED by those who have not
given attention TO Senator Hanna'S politi-
cal career. He had no earthly use for
more than one majority. That one was
wanted bad. and behold, not all the gov
ernor'S men were able to circumVent its
wide and irreparable breech in the ranks
of the Republican party of Ohio.
Brigham City Bugler Congressman
William. H. King of Utah. who has just
returned from an inspection of the state
OF affairs in Cuba, reports that the want
and misery with which that unhappy
little island Is now smitten. have but
been half pictured by the telegraph. Thou
sands of the patriots have thus persisted
from sickness and starvation. Yet our
wetl-fed Uncle Sam lounges indolently by
and does not raise even as much as his
little finger to stay the cruel work of this
inhuman war of butchery and annihila-
ton.
Utah State Journal Marcus A. Hanna
who enjoys the distinction of having as
agent of the gold trust, successfully en-
gtneered the fight which eliminated in
the election of Major Mckinley as presi-
dent, WIS elected United States senator
by the Ohio legislature last Wednesday,
There is every reason to believe that
Hanna bribed enough members to make
his election sure, and an investigation
will probably be had before the senate
elections committee. Every indication
goes to show that the Republican party
will be defeated in OHIO next fall. and that
the silver men will elect a majority of
representatives to the house in the next
congress- r+nr
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17

Chairman Dougherty and Commit
teeman Kurtz have descended to the
level of prizefghters and gone to
sparring through the newspapers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17

The United States send golf sticks to
Scotland; Birmingham sends gods and
idols TO China and India, and who
shall say that Pennsylvania shall not
yet send Goals to Newcastle?