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A composer says banknotes are use,
In composing for tunes
The Globe-republican., 1900-03-22

A man should never blow his own
horn-uETIe.ss he is n musician
The Globe-republican., 1900-03-22

If n schoo1Doy doesn't take pains his
teacher is very apt to supply them.
The Globe-republican., 1900-03-22

Give freely to the poor and you Will
surely increase your store.
The Globe-republican., 1900-03-22

The man who tells all he knows never
gets credit for possessing much wisdom.
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Much of has satanical ma jesty's sue
cess is due to the fact that he never
E1rocraSt1nates-
The Globe-republican., 1900-03-22

Good advice very often turns out to
be impracticable.
The Globe-republican., 1900-03-22
TO CURE a COLD IN ONE DAY,

A miser is one of the things that win
keep in any climate.
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Piso's Cure for Consumption has been
a God-send to 1ne--Wm. B. Mcclellan,
Chester, Florida Sept Il, 1895
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Mrs. VginsEozz-s -ootE1ing Syrup.
For children teethinE,. softens the gums, reduc
nzDu1 at4cn, aiAays pain. cures wind collie 25c
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If money really talks what panic
women would have as bank clerks
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druggists refund the money if it fails
Pc E. w. Groves signature each box.
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wa IKoNnOUNTAIn ReUTE

The Worlds Sanitarfurn AII-Year-Round Pleasure
Resort. reached only via this Elegant Eotels:
Sublime Scenery Delightful hzaat Healing Hot
spring. Pullman Buffet
from ST. Louis Reduced Round Trip year
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descriptive lust write
Company.s eEents. H C. TOWESEND. General
Passenger and Ticket Agent. T.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-03

Much speculation is being INDUCED in
regarding the Northern Pacific land de-
partment, and not a few people init
mately associated with the road believe
that at no far distant day Northern Pa
cihc lands will be a thing of the past.
Within the past few years, it is said.
much of the company's rich agricultural
land has been disposed of and while
there is some of the best of it yet on
hand II is rapidly being settled up Dur
ing the same period several large blocks
of Washington. Montana and Dakota
land have been disposed of TO big syn
dicates at figures considered ridiculously
low and far under those for which small
tracts have been sold
Advices have been received here OF
big sale pending in North Dakota to
Minnesota syndicate, headed by J. l..
Smith, of Minneapolis. 1t is said that the
main details of the deal have been ar
ranged All parties concerned are very
reticent regarding It, but enough is
known to forecast that it will go through
The one matter still hanging fire is that
the Northern Pacific does not own all
the land in North Dakota that Mr.. Smith
requires. Therefore, an effort Is being
made by the road to purchase n large
tract from the johnson Land Company,
In which event 1t is said the Northern Pa
cific will close out its entire holdings to
the Smith syndicate.
In Eastern and Western Washington
the balance of the agricultural lands
owned by the company is not more than
enough to accommodate the homeseekers
that the road expects to bring to this
state this year. Should the business be
as great as anticipated and the Smith
deal be made, with the recent sale of
timber lands in Washington, the North
ern Pacific will own but about 100000
acres of land in Montana and a very few
scattering sections in other districts, all
of which. it is stated can be handled
without a land department.
To this end ii Is generally believed the
road is working and it is prophesied IT
will only be short time before it is con-
summated.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-03
HEAD AND CHEST CRUSHED,
Frank wood Almost Instantly Kill
cd In Olympic Place by IL Heavy
Pole Falling Upon Him.

Frank Wood. an employe of the Seattle
Electric Company, was killed about II
o clock yesterday morning by a heavy
pole falling upon him
Wood was one of number OF men en-
gagged in setting poles on Olympic place
below k4nnear park a pole had just
been hoisted into place, and Wood was
assisting in keeping It in upright po-
sition with stay pole. The big pole
began 10 waver, and before Wood could
release his hold II fell upon and crushed
him TO the ground. He was killed almost
Instantly His head and chest were crush
ed and one Of his legs was broken The
remains were removed to Bonney g. Stew
arts moTgue.
The deceased was a single man, about
% wears Of age. An inquest viii be held
today.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-03
STRANGER FALLS TO DEATH
Intoxicated Man. Who Fell on n
Rainier Heights Car. unidentt-
fed mt the MOrRue.

An unknown man lies dead at Bonney &
Stewards morgue as the result of falling
off street car about 10 o'clock yesterday
morning.
He boarded Rainier Heights car on
East jefferson street near the switch
and stood the rear steps of the car.
He seemed to be intoxicated, and Con-
ductor Kenyon warned him and told him
to go inside and sit down. The warning
unheeded. When the car went
around the curve at Twenty-third ave-
nue. south the man was evidently I'M
able to retain his hold and was thrown
violently to the ground. His skull was
fractured and he was otherwise internally
injured. He was carried into the Walla
Walla pharmacy close by and attended
by DR.. > ]. Holmes, who was on the car
where he soon died. He was about 80
years of age
There was nothing on his person to give
a clew to his identification. His face
shows several days growth of beard
and his hair is slightly tnged with gray.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-03

A decision Of the United States circuit
court which upsets the title to large
amount of Seattle city property formerly
included in what was for many years
known as the Hin tract has been handed
down by JUICE Bellinger in the case or
Calvin e Villas ct ux. VS.. Cornelia Rose
Agar, individually and as executrix OF the
last will and testament Of Henry 5. Agar,
deceased, ct al.
The suit was brought as a test case to
quiet the title to land conveyed to the
builders of the Yesler way cable road as
a subsidy by w. c. Hill in 1887 and later
plated as Rainier addition. The court
decides that Hill had no title TO the land
and that all persons who have purchased
lots since it's plating hold them, notwith-
standing valuable improvements have
been made subject to the claims Of the
Agar estate and the other defendants in
the suit, H. G. Struve and Morris Nc
Micken.
Rainier addition lies a few blocks south
of Jackson street, on the second hill, and
is well built up with handsome residences.
The court holds that the Villas suit is an
attempt to have the circuit court review
the Judgment OF the superior court in the
case of Henry 8. Agar VS.. w. c. Hill and
]. Vance Lewis, in which a decision in
favor of Agar sustaining his claim to
that portion Of the Hill tract. was rem
dered after legal battle lasting seven
years, commencing in 1855 and ending In
1895
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-03
Had No Equitable title.


1T does not help the case to assume
that the conditional agreement with Hill.
regardless OF the fact that the grantee
had at that time neither paid nor parted
with anything IA compliance with its con-
dtions is sufficient in form to vest an
equitable title since those claiming under
IL took with notice OF the Minnick title.
The Agar suit had not been commenced.
hut the contention Of Agar and the facts
upon which II was based were notorious
and We're known. as 81 appears from the
facts stipulated. to lin and Lewis when
their location was made.
AS already stated. II Is not the prov
tuce Of a court Of equity 10 try these ques-
tions OF title and II the defendants title
has been acquired through erroneous find
ings OF fact or Interpretation Of law by
the courts OF Washington, these are mat
tors that this court Is not required to cor
rect or readjudiCate
But upon the legal merits Of the case
II Is hy 30 means clear that the conclu.
sious reached 10y The courts 81 Washing
ton are erroneous. The bin OF
complaint must be dismissed and 70 will
be ga dccrced
ln his decision Judge BelHnger goes
fully into the interesting history of por-
tion ~ the HW tract litigation. which FOR
nearly twenty years WAS In progress in
different courts and In the United States
land department.. and Is even now not en-
trely disposed o.
Rainier addition d part Of what was
formerly Dot 3 in section T. township a
north ~ anse 8 east. as technically de-
seribed Iu 1874 Seattle pioneer by the
name Of MlUnick settled upon lot . and
iot o. adjoining. declaring his lntention 10
claim the land under the presumption
lass A year iaie. he proved up In the
land ofiiCe. then located tn olympia. and
was given a Hnal receipt and certificate OF
purchase Four days later he sold the
land which IS now worth many thousands
% tollsTs. 20 Henry ; Agar and Edward
O. Perkins tor Sto. which J1dge BelliuEer
says was its tul value a. that time.
City Filed Claim.
Later Perkins decided his interest iu the
and to AlsA- The latter took possession
and resided on % until ISL when he vas
olstcl sy Hin Daring AIFars posses
Sion ~ ,hc land a contest Was Instituted
by the clty % Seattle against Ninnlck and
his successors la interest before the com
missioner = the general land once for the
cancellation ~ MuuleSs entry ard for
,hN allowance of the entry 81 the city so-
the same lands under tue toyuss.e law
of the United States.
ON January D. 1877. the commissioner
held that Mluniok's entry was illegal Tor
the reason that the land was embraced In
tHe corporate limits ~ the city. which
even iG those early days seems To hase
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-03

DIAMOND rings. Aprils birthstone
VIM. II. F.nck, Jeweler. SIG Second avenue.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-03
ALGAR TITLE SUSTAINED.
Circuit Court Decides Suit Over
Hill Tract Property.
EQUITY WILL NOT INTERFERE

Purchasers of Lots In Rainier Adj
dition Hold Them sup)ect To
Claim of AIgnr Estate and Its
Grantees-FederaIJ Judge Belltng-
or Holds That Decree of superior
Court in Favor of Agar Is Final.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-03
LAND DEPARTMENT MAY GO.
Northern Pacific Said to Contem-
plate Its Abolition.
HOLDINGS GREATLY REDUCED

Homescckers This Year Arc Expect
ed to Take Up Nearly All ROADS
Agricultural Lands in washing
ton-If Large Deal i'm North Da-
Eota Goes Through, Only Lands
in Montana VIII he Left.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-03
Judge BeIIinger's Opinion.

Judge BeiIinGer's Opinion.
THE complainants. Villas and wife. con-
tend" says Judge Bellinger in his opinion.
that the title in the defendants has been
acquired through an erroneous interpre-
tation of the law by the state courts, and
that because of this judicial error the legal
and equitable titles have parted company.
. e To authorize such relief as Is
PRAYED for in this suit 1t must appear that
the legal title in the defendants was OBJ
tanned. If not by actual fraud or by viola
ton of confidence or Of fduciary relation.
In some unconscientious manner. The
acts or means by which the legal title was
obtained by the defendants must have
been in violation OF some duty owed by
them to the plaintiffs.
In other words, this court must find
that the decree In the state court under
which the title now assailed was obtained
was in some way fraudulently contrived or
is otherwise inequitable. II as between
the parties to that suit the decree was
authorized there Is no ground for equitable
interference to divest the title acquired
under it.
''It Is not question OF legal estoppel or
res adjudicata, but of equitable conduct.
Every question. whether of law or fact.
relied upon here was involved in the other
suit 1t was not necessary, II 1t was adj
Missile, to have made these complain
ants who upon their own showing had un-
der a conditional agreement with Hill.
neither a legal nor equitable title. parties
defendant to that suit.
The case was twice taken TO the
preme court Of the state. All OF this liti-
cation and the facts which gave rise to II
were known to these compliments, whose
right, as they now claim Il, would have
been established by decision in favor OF
Hin A title thus obtained is free from
any OF the objections which serve as the
occasion for the interference of equity.
Moreover, IL violates the policy OF
Jurisprudence to permit these plaintiffs to
retry in this court the same question thus
tried by their grantor in the courts OF an
other jurisdiction. BY such a course It
would be open to them to experiment in
different courts since an adjudication In
favor OF Hill would have been conclusive
In favor OF the right now claimed by the
plaintiffs.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-03

The county commissioners rejected sew
eral petitions yesterday afternoon relating
TO a strip Of country road thirty feet wide
In the Sunnydale district. one petitioner
desired 20 have the county vacate this
in exchange another piece In "A different
locality. Other people in the district OBJ
1ected. BY rejecting all petitions the com
missioners have left the matter where IL
was in the beginning
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-03
VIII lie Held To-day.

The inquest into the death Of Albert
Johnson. fireman on the steamer Angeles
who was killed In a scufhe last saturday
night In a Washington street oyster house
by Henry Linde. the proprietor viii b,
held today
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-03
WON EN-
Especially Mothers

Are most competent to appreciate the
purity, sweetness, and delieacy OF ouIi-
cuRA Soar, and to discover new uses tor
it daily.
Its remarkable emollient, cleansing, and
purifying properties derived from Curl
cuRA, the great skin cure, warrant Is use
in preserving, purifying, and beautifying
the complexion, hands, and hair, and In
the form of washes and solutions for ulcer
ative weaknesses, annoying irritations and
chafngs, as well as for many sanative pur-
poses which readily suggest themselves.
In many of the above conditions, gentle
anointings with CuTIcURA, the great skin
cure and purest of emollients, in addition,
will prove of astonishing benefit.
Sold threu CHOU. th.world. forrsH Dare iTp CnxN.
1op- sols Pror. RA.'n-. "a.7d t1-~kn ~-"ret FREQ.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-14
THE THEATRE PROMOTER.
Mr.. Johnston Recovering FromHis Recent
Severe Illness.


Capt. Ament, the local representa-
tive of Promoter Johnston, who is to
build Muscatine's new opera house, is
in receipt of letter from that gentle
man, who says he will make a strong
effort to leave St. Louis, where he has
been recuperating. for Muscatine,
next week, at which time he expects
to purchase the site and make neces-
sary arrangements for proceeding
with the building operations.-Musca-
tine News-Tribune.
The Muscatine theatrical enterprise,
which has been undertaken by the same
energetic promoter in whom Rock ISL
and tas reposed her faith, has advanced
beyond the point of the advance sale,
which has been in every way success
full, and is now up to the ground pur-
chase. But, as has been the case in
Rock Island. too, matters have been
held in obeyance there by Mr.. John
ston's long illness. Now that he is
better. though, it is to be hoped he
may be able soon to take up his enter
prise here also.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-14

The funeral of Mrs. Ellen Cannon
will be held from the residence of her
son on Thirty-eighth street at l p. m.
tomorrow.
The funeral of Mrs. A. G. Nelson
will occur from the home, 1914 Fifth
and-a-half avenue, at 2 p. m. tomor-
row. Rev. T. w. Grafton, of Me-
mortal Christian church, will conduct
the services.
Mrs. Rachael E. Wickersham sue
cumbed at noon today to paralysis at
Wilson, 522 Twentieth street, aged 7S
years, IL months and l day. Brief
funeral services will be held at the
residence at 2 p. m. tomorrow, and in
the evening the remains will be
shipped to West Branch. Iowa, for in
terment.
A telegram from Duluth yesterday
afternoon brought the sad news of the
death of Charles Albert, the only son
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Taylor, of Clo-
cuet, Mimi, formerly residents
of this city. Charles was taken sick
Thursday and removed to the hospital
at Duluth Friday of last week. Mon
day morning he was operated on for
appendicitis. Reaction came Thurs
dav, which resulted in his death. The
remains will reach here tomorrow
morning, and funeral services will be
held Monday morning at 10 o'clock
from the home of his grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. ID. Taylor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-14
Lunches.
Advertised List of Letter. No. IL.

Fine lunch at Ponce De Leon saloon
opposite the postoffice this e:ening
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-14
in THE FRONT RANK.
Work Done at Rock Island High
School Attracts Colleges
and Universities.
EXAMINATIONS ARE NOT REQUIRED

Scholars VIII Be Admitted to Several
Country-Good Test of the Quality of
Work Accomplished Here-where School
Is Accredited.
While the chief function of the
public high school is not to prepare
its students for college. yet the col
lege and university requirements are
"a good test of the quality of work
done by high school. Universities
and colleges have done much to raise
the standard of secondary school
work, and through their systems of
only work of a higher order.
1t may be interesting to the citizens
of Rock Island to know that their
high school is doing work which is
passed upon favorably by mum Der of
our best colleges and universities.
The tendency of these institutions is
to accept any legitimate high school
study presented for entrance. pro-
vided the subject has been given an
adequate amount or time and has been
properly taught. The Rock Island
High school course includes all the
subjects necessary for college en-
trance, hence students making the
proper selections may be admitted.
without examination, to a large num-
Der of our best institutions of higher
education. A few universities admit
only upon examination.
Where School is Accredited.
The following are among the insti-
buttons to which the high school is
accredited: University of Illinois,
Northwestern university, Univer sity
of Chicago, University of Michigan,
Wellesley college. Knox college, Be-
lott college and Rush Medical college.
1t is safe to say that there are only
q few colleges or universities in the
country, admitting students without
examination, which graduate of the
Rock Island High school may not
enter by certificate.
The following is a letter from the
registrar of the University of Illinois:
Urbana, ILL.,. Feb. 2. 1901. F.
Darby, Principal of High School, Rock
Island, ILL.,, Dear Sir: AS you will see
by consulting the statement in our
catalogue, the university requires Sc
entrance credits of students entering
the freshman class of the university.
High schools having four years in
their course accomplish more than
this amount of work, and when the
excess is of such a character and
grade that it may be fairly ac-
copied for university grade, we ac-
cept it. According to the vote
of our faculty, students coming here.
graduates of your high school, may
be allowed credits in the following
subjects: English, Latin, German,
French, Greek and chemistry. How
much credit one may receive depends
upon the course he selects here.
In some courses in which the work is
mostly prescribed he could get very
little credit, in others. more. Those
who have done good work and are
able, from choice of course which they
make to avail themselves of all the
credits possible. get from half to
two-thirds of a year of credit.
Mr.. HagedoIn, who came from your
school last September, has been given
81 hours of credit, the full credit for
the year being So hours. Very truly
yours, w. l.. PILLSRURY,
REGISTRAR
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-14
HURT IN AN EXPLOSION
Bentley sutton Lifted In the Air and Sc
verely Injured.

Bentley sutton Lifted In the Air and Sc
verely Injured.
A serious accident occurred at the
Lewis Roofing company's works in
Moline yesterday morning. whereby
Bentley Sutton, an employee. had a
narrow escape from death. Sutton,
carrying lantern, came into close
contact with a tank containing roofing
tar. Attached to the tank was a
pump, which, during the previous
day had been used for pumping dead
oil into the tar to soften it. Dead oil
is a violent explosive made Of coal
tar. and as soon as the lantern heat
came into contact with it an explosion
followed which shook the earth and
blew Sutton, who weighs nearly two
hundred pounds, over picket fence 10
feet high, dropping him on a pile of bar
rels in an adjacent lot. DR.. Arp, who
attended him at the city hospital,
found jagged hole in the back of his
skull, his right arm and hand terribly
burned, the flesh of the hand hanging
in shreds, the hair on the same side
of his face and his moustache burned
off, and his neck and chest a mass of
burns. The man had just started to
look into the tank when the explosion
occurred
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-14
HAS A. o. FARBER ESCAPED?
Report Says He Has Gotten Away-De-
MED at Sheriff's ONCE.


The delay of Sheriff L. F. Cralle in
bringing from Sheridan, Wyo., his
prisoner. A. D. Farber, the alleged
grave robber. has occasioned uneasi-
ness throughout the county, and has
given rise to a variety of reports as to
the occasion therefor. One of these
reports, which came to The ARGUS
yesterday, is to the effect that Farber
had escaped and is again at large; that
he had made the sheriff believe he
was suffering from rheumatism and
was unable to walk, and while Mr..
Cralle was purchasing tickets at the
Sheridan railroad depot Farber skipped
out, and that now cards are being sent
out from Sheridan notifying the au-
thorities in other cities to be on the
lookout for Farber.
This story is denied at the sheriff's
office here. 1t is claimed there that
Sheriff Cralle still has his clutches on
Farber, but the latter is too sick to
travel, and further that the court at
Sheridan has given instructions that
the prisoner be not moved until his
condition improves.