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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-19
TAKE SYSTEM OUT OF POLITICS.
Advisa bIlity of Permanent, Nom Partisan
Waterworks COmmIssion Is Urged.

ACCESSIBILITY of n Permanent, On-PsrtIsan
Waterworks Commission Is Urged.
The disclosures tend to emphasize
the wisdom of a non-partisan water
works commission to have in charge
the entire plant of the city. In this
way the city would always have the
advantage of competent engineer,
and would get the full benefits of it's
filtering plant, while at the same
time it would have the essential safe
guards against the negligence now
apparent.
Engineer Lockridge has worked con
scientiously and hard to ascertain the
cause of the disease that has been pre-
vailing here, and having found it he
should be permitted to continue his
Investigations until every possible
source of contamination is located
and eradicated. Further tests of the
intake pipes are now being made and
in short time the public will know
fully as to them. Mr.. Lockridge
praises highly the reservoir and fill
tration system that has been adopted
in Rock Island and says that if the
people are economical in the con-
sumption of water and permit no I'M
due waste the plant will serve until it
is enlarged TO meet existing require
ments.
Selling the Opportunity.
The Davenport press loses no OPP
portunity to open its walls of i'll will
toward Rock Island. The water stu
alton here furnishes the latest subject
of disparsgiug discussion. No oppor-
tunity is neglected, TO refer, locally
speaking. to the terrific typhoid
epidemic, etc., while from the views
expressed on tie water supply, one
would imagine that the existing con-
ditions could never be remedied. and
all sorts of suggestions were offered
as late as last evening by some of
these considerate contemporaries in
the Iowa town. The most remark
able phase of the case, however,
is that while the Iowa editors were
making deductions yesterday as to
what might be done in Rock Island,
the auth orities on this side were
locating the prime cause, as told in
last evenings ARGUS. Rock Island
has undergone a great misfortune in
the past few months, and while the
suffering that has attended it, espec-
tally where families have been de-
prived of loved ones, is inexprsssi-
BILE. the situation has not pos
sessed the horrors that our
neighbors have put upon it, and the
cause having now been practically
located it will speedily be eradicated.
Without entering into discussion of
the RESPONSE bility and blame for the
flaws that have been discovered in the
city's water plant. the results of such
as may in ali likelihood be remedied.
The water system of Rock Island,
taking it in general, is not to be con-
demned as result of the revela-
tions just made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-19
PERSONAL POINTS.

Miss Agnes Egan is in Chicago.
Miss Hannah RaitheI is visiting in
Chicago.
William Strouble, of Marston, was
in the city today.
NJ. J. Young and family returned
last night from Sandusky, Ohio.
William L. Ludolph went to New
York this afternoon on legal business.
Mrs. b. H. Kimball has returned
after 2-weeks' visit to her sister in
Geneseo.
Miss Elizabeth Maley, of Jersey
vile, ILL.,, has returned home after a
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Long.
A. L. Mccoy, of Peoria, was in the
city today on business and incident
ally for social call on his old friend,
A. G. Dart.
Robert Rexdale, supreme orator of
the Fraternal Tribunes. visited the
head office yesterday. lie is to speak
at Tribunal social at Morrison to-
night.
Hon. Ben L. Cable and family are
expected home from Paris this week.
The ship on which they sailed broke
down and was obliged to put back,
thus delaying their return trip.
Abe Rosenfield is now papa, a
little stranger OF the gentle persuasion
arriving at his home this morning
Abe has assumed his new response
biiities with becoming dignity and is
doing the royal among his friends
with Havanas. That he is the proud
est man in town today is but putting
IL mildly
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-19
working "a Houre a nav.

There's no rest for those tireless
little workers-Dr. Kings New Life
Pills. Millions are always busy, cur
ing torpid liver, jaundice, biliousness,
fever and ague. They Danish sick
headache and drive out malaria.
Never grippe or weaken. Small, taste
nice, work wonders. Try them. %
cents a box at Hartz & Ullemeyer's
drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-19

Itchness of the skin, horrible
plague. Most everybody afflicted in
one way or another. Only one safe,
never falling cure-Doan's Ointment.
At any drug store, 80 cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-19
Candidates for Constables.

Peter Schlemmer was nominated as
assistant supervisor to take the place
of G. III. Seidel, who declined to run,
and Henry Boggess, George Simpson,
Louis Ohlweiler, Mike Mintz and Mi
chael Kavanaugh were selected as can
didates for constables, this part of the
ticket having been left vacant by the
convention.
Chairman Egan was empowered to
appoint permanent secretary for the
committee, and he named w. b. Nc
Intyre. The latter has accepted the
position and can be depended to per-
form the duties satisfactorily.
The committee is to meet again to-
night at Turner hall.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-19

Women love a clear, healthy COM
plexion. Pure blood makes it. Bur-
dock Blood Bitters makes pure blood.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-19

1t starts the circulation, expands
the system, strengthens the heart,
brings peace and happiness, if taken
this month. Rocky Mountain Tea
made by Madison Medicine company.
T. III. Thomas pharmacy.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-15

OF holy places-more Of everything
religious except the majesty OF the
ark and the glory Of the Sheklnah. An
mat was gone.
THE FARTHER VIEW.
The air is pure and sweet on the
green hill, and the day Is purpllng into
the shadows Of the twilight IL viii be
night In moment but before the
thought can write 'Ichabod" upon the
splcnd0r of the departed day. the glory
OF the stars shine out and mn the
heavens with majesty and beauty.
Nothing has changed except the city.
ana God didn't make that II used 10
be said Of the Christ that "the COM
mon people heard him gladly" Some-
thing there was In the wayside preach
Ing OF this Carpenter that attracted the
people whose hands were calloused with
toll and whose garments bore themarks
OF poverty Ana just now one hears a
great deal about the attitude OF the
Worklngiucu toward the church which
somehow doesn't seem TO be favorable.
II is much pl'lstutrr and better out
here on the hin than 10 was down there
IN the church one can't see so mauy
holy sticks and stones. but one can see
the sky and the stars. and the noun
tainS. which b. much better-L an
geles Sunday Times.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-15
,IREER OF PRESIDENT KIMBALL.
Gather and Founder Of The British MssOn0ue Of the Most
Active and Industrious Utah Pioneers Something
of His Sterling Characteristics

thirteen years old and / can remember
his rehearsing 10 me some Of the scenes
Of the war lie was a captain OF COM
pany of militia I'm sheldon, and wore
cooked hat of the old English style. q
straight bodied coat, short brooches
with a Knee buckle, long stockings
Suwarr0w boots with pair OF tassels
lie was partly bald and dark brown
hair, blue eyes, sandy whiskers with
light complexion; he was five feet
eleven inches high, and weighed two
hundred pounds and upwards. He en-
gagged In farming aud clearing land,
burning the wood into coal and ashes,
he had also forge and a trip
hammer In the manufacture Of wrought
iron. About the time OF the embargo
before the last war with England my
father lost his property, as It was in
vested in salts, potash and pearlash,
the embargo, having shut down the
gate OF commerce. between the United
states and England left his property
In his hands without much value
In February, ISL, the Kimballs MI
grated from Vermont and settled IN
West Bloomfield, Ontario county New
York five hundred miles from their
former home where the head OF the
family re.eugaged In his occupations Of
a farmer aud blacksmith, TO which be-
now added that Of builder The journey
was a hard and perilous one and the
subsequent privations something terri
nc. This was in the year 1916, writes
Heber G. kmball (which was called
the cold season, the same year that the
black spot was seen on the sun The
following year we had little 90 subslst
upon. for some three weeks we gath
cred milk weeds and boiled and ate
them, not having salt to put on them.
It was difficult for bread TO be pro-
cured"
The elder Kimbal was a man Of force
and energy qualities which his son He
Der inherited 10 a marked degree, The
latter received limited amount Of
schooling only the school days of his
chIldhooS and youth extended from his
fifth to his fourteenth year, and was
OF quality usually found In the prlml-
tive schools of the day, He was not an
ardent lover OF books, but drew his les
sons from life and nature in all their
multiplied and varied phases. At the
age of fourteen he was put TO work IN
his fathers blacksmith shop and ac-
Quired a knowledge OF that useful
trade. When he was nineteen, his
father having met with reverses, he
was thrown entirely upon his own re-
sources, and now began to face the |
first bitter experience Of his life
at this time, / saw some days Of |
sorrow; my heart was troubled and I |
suffered much In consequence Of fear |
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-15

sde President stands ~ him
aumna gn fmun Preside K not nsmalsa When
III h
Temple M t Nrh u b oil H % ne nothb wi O
tu ty o e to hd
0 II % mi t. o al ~
aoegn dandy astvoso ian an
R0nnnaw 1.-THE opt aimee dat audopn ouh u a by n
size In these many r fb ca a
Pradn CHAM Yolg'b ) o
wife Trdnt He
Kin ervelkn nchac OF tina d were frequent here
too place here ah HI mother o
Tr Knbae ynpnng thlne l IA % t. n
o
xSte It aknwnl the Yves Cham M IN a on r t
nmgw wheel Island looms in
clothed the inmates all Of whom a o
richard and which covered hk a from vi Of
nnga Ohrn tam vegetable rdurs w an or
connected II city rk e ct
were of (which IA cntns b through
flowed radrt Kmtu cn O Is
Mrs roep
epbtueA 70 e hOe
do barn
gbu it "
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-15
Jerusalem of Today
BY ROBERT j. BlRDETIf.

BY ROBERT j. BLRDfTTf.

one stalwart and pestllenlial smell as
sorting itself above It's fellows, o very
Triton In a school OF Leyiathan odor5--
streets carpeted with oifal, beast hu-
man and various a city unit FOR the
habitation Of white men,a Turkish city.
I'm short-that Is a brief, comprehensive
and truthful description OF H. that s
the city of Jerusalem as ii reveals IT
self 10 the senses today. Oh. once
i'm a space they tell me. you come into
a clean place and want to lie down ana
reyel and wallow IN II, That's what
they tell me. didn't see any.
didn't want 20 SO into the city al all
I'm sorry now that | went But the
family persuaded me-
what" they said. come $4,000 miles
10 Jerusalem and then not enter the
Holy city? What utter nonsense"
TOUCHED by a TACTLEsS
RoBBER
So went in much against my viii,
and hadn't been in the church OF the
Holy Sepulcher half an hour before
some pilgrim picked my pocket and
lifted a watch worth S5OO-if II had
been the only one In the world. There
being some competition. however. my
loss was not so great as TO make me
Offer a reward of s. for Il.
What made me disguised with the
thief was not so much the fact OF MS
moral obliquity-you expect that under
Turkish misrule anywhere YOU would
be grieyously disappoiutet II you didn't
see il. the shock might prsss fataL II
was the utter taetlessness OF The beggaf
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-15
THE KIMBALL= WHITNEY CEMETERY
Pretty Little Private Buryng Ground Wherein FiySx Bodies
Including Those OF President Kimbal and Bishop
Newell K. Whitney RepOse.

The only private burying ground
In the city aside from that Of
President Brigham Young's Is that
known as the Kimball- Whitney Gene
terry at the rear Of the old homestead
on north East Temple street 1t COM
prlses a greenswaId plot Of iIaXj rods
and is enclosed by a handsomely orna-
mented wrought iron fence set In "A
coping Of cut Nyune stone and shaded
by stately poplar trees which line the
interior Of the enclosure, the entrance
TO which is by a gate on the south
In the very center OF the lot stands
the monument shown In the above cut
and beneath 1t rests the body OF Newell
X. whitney while a short distance to
the north aud west are buried the re-
mains Of President Hcber G.. Kimball
himself a beautiful pine tree today
grows over his exact sleeping place.
while around him are the bodies OF sew
eral Of his wives and friends Thirty
two kimbals thirteen Whineys and
eleven friends of the family are buried
IN this lot which was dedicated and set
apart as a private cemetery by Presi-
dent kimball ana Bishop Whitney in
lSiS, for the two families. The first
body to be Inferred in the sacred spot
was that Of Mrs Ann Houston Whit
ney, and Bishop Whitney was the sec
ond to find repose In 1t, two years later,
The descendants Of President Kimball
and Bishop Whitney jointly contribute
to the expense Of maintaining the Ceme-
terry.
There are many interesting reminis-
cences associated with this piece of
ground which IN the providence OF
events, has been made sacred by the
ashes Of at least two races of people
FIRST, the Indians or Lamanites and
second, the Anglo-SaXon for like the
spot upon which the Kimball residence
was erected, It comprised part Of an
old Indian cemetery, and I'm II today,
It may be singulary enough related,
lie the bodies of two Indian girls who
were adopted into the family Of Presl-
dent kimball, Al that time the var
ious Indian tribes inhabiting the inter-
mountain region were at war with one
another and frequently captured and
sold the children OF their enemies.
These two fell INTO the kindly hands OF
President kimballs family but like 9th
crs Of their race did not thrive well In
civIli2atlon,Th They longed for the freedom
Of the omen air life that has for so
many generations characterized the
very existence Of their own people, and
soon plned and died
Among the friends Of President KIM
ball who are buried there is Joseph
Hoyey, Of the Nineteenth ward. He
honored and respected President Kim
ball very much and when his last illness
came and when he knew that the hand
of death was upon him he sent special
messenger 90 President Kimhali and re
quested that his bod might be buiied |
in the plot President Kimball, In the |
goodness Of his heart, readily granted |
the dying mans request The next day
Mr. Hoyey died, and at the obsequies !
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-15

being a later addition. In 400 years the
Turks demolished all these buildings
This act of vandalism gave the impulse
In the first Crusade. and IN 1893 the
church was rebuilt. to be destroyed
again in 1924 by the Mohammedans. 1t
was rebuilt and In 1905 II WAS des-
tyoyed again by hre. In 1865 the last
work OF restoration was done, a Turk
iSh soldier was placed on guard In the
sacred edifice 10 keep he peace between
the worshipng Christians, who appear
10 b. ain sorts Of Christians-Greek,
Abysslnan Latin, Armenian, Celtic,
Syrian and unassortpd-and white
winged peace has broOded over The
sanctuary ever since, except at Easter.
when the belllgetent passions Of the
pilgrims seem 10 be unusually active
and wide-awake, and eyes are BACKED.
noses punched and heads broken In
spite ~ the Turkish bayonets. And
occasionally man gets himself Killed.
THE MoHAMMEDAN AND HIS
MOTIVE.
We enter the church by the courtesy
Of the Mohammcdan d0ofkeeprr who
had indeed rather be- doorkeeper in
the house Of the Lord than TO dwell In
the tents Of wickedness. because there
Is more baCkshish In it-Oh. a great
more. This office is hereditary and the
Mohammaden family which holds ii has
no use for civil service reform. They
show US the stone on which the body
OF the Savior was laid for amounting;
the altar of Adam. and In the wall
racess IN which We were shown the rock
NJ Calvary with a crack In II which
was made when the life on the cross
went out with a cry NJ agony THROUGH
the crack the blood ~ the Savior
dropped down upon the skull Of Adam
which is buried here In small cave.
How did II got here, when Adam diel
yo FAR away2 Well, when the food
covered all the face Of earth the skull
a. Alan Just swan here. that's all
Ncepi that Il buried Itself when II
at here believe that is an. You could
have more In this country " YOU asked
f1r &C. From here we 60 on 10 the
place where Jesus was nailed 10 the
cross. then We stcop down and see the
hoe in the rrck In which the cross
STOOD: Ii 60 lined with metal. Black
stones I'm the floor mark the spot whore
stood tho crosses % the two thieves:
the one on the north IS the place OF the
imntnitent thief Then we go 10 the
.lttlc space whore the women stood as
ne body ~ Jesus was placed IN the
tomb md here We enter the Chanel
NJ mo Angel ana see. used as the altar
he ST. one which che angel rolled away"
from the door OF the sepulcher. There
also In a very narrow chamber IN the
tomb In which the Lord lay. There are
two round holes IN the wall OF this
chapel through which every Easter
holy fire miraculously flashes. from
which the other sacred lamps and
candles are lighted. believe that. An
oiher thing we saw-a cup with a Fat
llsc in H. which indicates the center OF
he earth. believe that also. The
.ombs Of Joseph Of Aramathsa and OF
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-15

medan-for they mutually surpass each
other in those respects. on this green
hill Christ died for men, or on that one
farther south. or this one 10 the west
or one "a hundred, a thousand five
thousand miles away-what does tmdt-
ter? We are all Of US such idolaters IN
the nature of US that We find IL much
easier TO worship "a sacred stone, "A holy
hill or tree that can never Tebuke the
mawkish and empty sentlmeutality OF
our alteration than II Is TO serve a
righteous God, whose eye pierces our
hollow pretentions who viii not accept
our hypocrisy as devotion. who rebukes
with his thunders our lying prOtestd-
tions Of loyalty when our hearts ate
false 20 his teachlng-God who knows
as through and through. and who hates
the shams we sometimes call our fC-
liglon. When the Christ came TO this
city OF jerusalem the church had
grown from a tent In the wilderness 10
the mignlncence Of a temple In the
heart Of a great city And men In the
name Of religion had crushed and
smothered all the sweetness and ten
derness and love Of the law under
thousand mau-made inanities. infinite
littleness traditions. fables. Hes, and
lifecss formalitics In the Holy OF
Holes In the tent. abode the Ark Of the
Covenant, there were the tables ~ the
law. there the pot ~ mamma. and the
rod that budded. In the Holy OF Holes
in the temple a Roman soldier strobe
one day In idle curiosity brushing aside
the veil with implous hand. And he saw
an empty place. The ark was gone.
The Shekinah had gone out in dark
ness. God had departed from His tenn
pie But there WAS more religion" I'm
1t than there had ever been, more
ritual" more bowings and genuiiex-
ions more sacrifices and more oIerings.
more priests. more elaborate millinery
and rcgalia more and fuller chests OF
treasure, more Of everything that goes
to make well-appointsd temple" full
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-15

that grieyed me. Because the very
next day we planned TO 60 TO jericho
That was a road 10 be robbed on. why
couldn't ne have waited one day
What a story We might have had. NO,
he must 90 ana pick my pocket rlsht
i'm church-with as little compunclloh
as though il had been church falr
And what he wanted with Watch was
another mystery. / never missed H.
after | found II was gone Ihat 49,
after | didn't find IT, Time is OF no
value over here. Nobody Keeps any
note OF II. The Mohammedan day
begins reasonably enough, az sunrise
rather than at midnight You glance
at clock tower the position OF the
hands pointing to the irenzied Nasafles
which stand for Arabic numefWs-ipr
oddly enough although we use the
Arabic figures, the Arabs DO not use
ANYTHING that ever 80 remotely reseln
bic them-tell you that II is Z O'Clock
bv that timepiece, which Is correct, al
though you know very well mat u Is
half-past twelve. noon. Bot that docs
not surprise YOU at all. Nothing mat
IS contradictory or paradoNlcdl sur
urises YOU In this country. You are
merely astonlshed when you run up
against something natural ana ration
al
KEEP OUT"
van can hest see the Holy CITY by
keeping outside the unholy one mere
Sou find cleanliness and order ana de-
cency. The quarters above HuRhts
hotel are especially neat IN thelr ciVlu-
cation. and Is very popular center
for American travellers. In TACT. u YOU
are a traveller you simply have TO loug'
outside. There Is no place Tor YOU IN
the city. But after YOU have seen u
YOU are glad indeed that there IS no
law which ran compel YOU 10 sltep N u
or 10 remain In il any longer than u
takes you 10 get 0ut OF ~ W peppe
do live IN Jerusalem ] know Ana peo-
ple also i've in ConstanilnnpIe. Ana w
Jail And also IN China. ] believe liui
wouldn't care 10 I've In any OF those
places and ! don't know mat ! care
very much which one takes FIRST or last
place IN the list
EVERYTHING IN a CLUSTER
perhaps the chief attraction about
the Church NJ the Holy Sepuch"r s We
great convenience for the pilgrim Wiih .
great desires and little timc-one OF ih' |
Kind who sees everything nnd goes c'-
cry place en- q ien-day ticket Tor
about an tho places connected win |
sacred history in Jerusalem are clus-
tered right here In the Church OF the |
Holy scpulcher. II Is a sort ~ dep1rt |
ment store among the churches. The |
church was builded by the Emperor |
Constantine in the year a. D. 326. In |
about 300 years the Persians burned u I
down II was rebuilt on a reduced scale. |
But still all the sacred places which /
Constantine had plated within Us |
walls were retained. This restoration |
was made In four separate churches
the Church Of the Resurrection. the
Church Of the Cross. and the Church OF |
Calvary. the Church OF Virgin Mary
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-15

Eve miles from Mendon, and tarrIed
at the house Of Phneas II Young Thcy
were Eleazer Miller, Ellal Strong Al
pheus Clifford. Enos Curtis and Daniel
Bowen Hearing of these men, Heber
was prompted by curiosity 10 visit
them, when" says he, "for the FIRST
time | heard the funness OF the ever
lasting Gospel"
Both Heber and Brigham received the
word gladly. and were impelled TO tes-
ufy OF It's divinity and for which they
both continued TO labor with all their
hearts until the end OF their days in
mortality upon the earth.