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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-11
FIRE IN ART STORE
Stock of c. w. Boggess on Twen-
tieth Street Damaged
$1,000.
HAD BEEN BURNING AN HOUR
Before Discovered and Department
CalIed-BIazes Else
where.

fire that was evidently caused by
the contact of live electric light
wires this morning did damage esti-
mated at 81, 900 at the art store of L.
w. Boggess, 80 Twentieth stree.
The greater part of the loss is upon
stock, which included a large assert
ment of picture holdings and pic
lures framed and unframed. Every
thing not incased was ruined either
by heat. smoke or water.
Smoke was noticed in the apart
ments above the store room at the
rear as early as ; o'clock, but it was
not discovered that there was a fire
till shortly after 6 o'clock. Then
passers on the street noticed smoke
issuing from the place and an alarm
was turned in. The firemen broke the
front door in and short time after
stream of water was brought into
play the flames were under control.
The fire appears to have started at
the ceiling and worked downward.
Smoke did slight damage in the apart
ments of Il. j. Wilson. above the
store. and in the Adams wall paper
store adjoining. The stock is insur-
ed for $500. and the building. which
belongs to Hon. +. w. Hurst, is also
covered by insurance.
Blaze at Buggy Factory.
There was another call just before
s o'clock to the new building of the
White Buggy company on Twenty
fifth street, where the soldering ap-
paratus of Norris Mulcahy. who was
employed by Allen, Myers q Co. and
was at work on the roof, exploded.
The burning oil set fire to a skylight
on the roof, but ii was out by the
time the hose companies could re
spond. Mr.. Mulcahy was quite badly
cut about the left hand while fight
ing the flames, by the glass in the
window.
Shed Destroyed.
a few minutes before / o'clock yes
terday afternoon fire was discoy-
cred in a shed on the premises Of
John V. Wells, 1905 Thirty-seventh
street, and an alarm was turned in.
BY the time the hose company reach
ed the scene the building was past
saving and the flames had been COM
municated to an adjoining paint shop
owned by T. NJ. Flynn and n shed on
the property OF Mrs. Carrie Lind.
The last two buildings were dam
aged, but Il further spread of the fire
was prevented. The total loss is es-
timated at $500. Children playing n
the shed on the Wells premises are
believed to have started the trouble.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-11
COLLEGE SECURES A COACH

Paul CoIdren to Direct Athletics at Angus
tana This Fall.
Paul Coldren, who was quarterback
on the Iowa university eleven il
1s94-95 and since has been coach for
the Denver Athletic club and other
like organizations, has been engaged
as athletic coach at Augustana col
lege, and will enter upon his duties
here Monday He will at once set
about getting together a football
team, and Judging from the material
that is available the city may look for
a fast aggregation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-11
warning. warning.

Beware of substitutes offered by
unscrupulous dealers in place of Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar, Foley's Kidney
Cure and Banner Salve. DDishonest
dealers for little extra profit will
try to PLAIN off worthless prepara-
tions in place of these valuable med
icines that have stood the test of
years, and thus jeopardize the lives
of their victims. For sale by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-11
Fortune ravors a Texan.

Having distressing pains in head
back and stomach, and being without
appetite, 1 began to use DIR. King
New Life Pills. writes W. p. White
head, of Kennedale, Texas, land soon
felt like a new man." lnfallible IN
stomach and liver troubles. only z.
cents, at Hartz & Ullemeyer's drug
store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-11
THE COAL STRIKE

will undoubtedly hard
although
there ares you % something
than coal, but it will gro
ceries quality "cheap"
Shields sell bestg of grocer
at a price others to quote.
Read this list:
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
FRIDAY JANUARY 81 1902
CANVASS LIE TOWN.

Only few days more remain for
Guthrie to make good on the Fort
Smith and Western railroad PROPOSE.
tion.
Solicitor McLoud. of the Choctaw.
was exceptionally lenient with Guth-
rie. lie extended the time for closing
the ChoctaN proposition twice. The
Fort Smith and Western people will
not be SO generous They have a
fiattering offer from Oklahoma City
and 1t is hardly likely they will daily
with Guthrie If no confidence is shown
their offer
The work OF raising railroad sub
scriptions is an uphill business and
the committees now on duty should
he given all the aid and encourage
rnent and pointers possible.
Before the Fort Smith proposition
is allo~ea to die house to house can
vass Of the city should be made.
There are 10000 people in Guthrie.
II half this number would contribute
So each the bonus would be complete.
The Fort Smith proposition is yet
$4,000 shy. Come in.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

Blackwell News: We notice that
Chief Justice Burford is in Washing
ton in the interest OF the bill provid-
ing for two more judges for Olllaho-
ma, and also providing for an in
crease in the salaries of the Oklahoma
judges from $4,000 a year TO $4,000
a year We further notice that Judge
Burford is among those that are work
ing for the passage of the Flynn
statehood bill. We may have an aw-
full thick skull, but to save our life
we cant see why Chief Justice Bur
ford should at the same time be work
ing for an additional number Of
Judges with increased salaries, and
for statehood that will abolish these
appointlve judicial positions. It looks
like monkey business.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

children. But there can be no iov in
motherhood without health, and without
health for the mother there can be no
health for the child.
It Is Of vital Importance for women to
know that the health of mother and child
is IN general entirely within woman's S
control. The thousands of women who
have used Or Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription when expecting motherhood,
have testified that II made them healthy
AID happy in the days of waiting. made
the baby's advent practically painless.
and gave them health to give their chill
dren.
Mrs W J Kidder Of Hill Dale Farm Enos-
burg Centerl, Enoshurg VI. writes. During the
past year ] found myself expecting maternity
and in rapidly failing health ! suffered d-ead.
Nly from blOating and urinary difiicuitv I
was growing percepubly weaker each dav and
suffered much sharp pain at times. I felt that
something must be done. I sought your advice
and received a prompt reply. Took twelve
bottles Of Dy ctor Pier.es Fav0rte Prescription
and also followed your instructions began
to improve Immediately my health became
excellent, and could do all my own work 1--WE
live on good sized farm). I walked and rode
all could, and enjoyed Il. ! had a short easy
confinement and have healthy baby boy"
The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser, book containing 1908 pages,
is given away. Send 2I one-cent stamps
for expense of mailing ONiY, for the book
IN paper covers, or 81 stamps for the
volume bound in cloth. Address DR..
K. V. PiercG, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
STICK TO THE SIMPLE ISSUE.

a not unsuccessful effort is being
made to befog and dls4redit the cause
.of Cuban reciprocity Apparently in
obedience to instructions from the
commander in chief of The forces ar
rayed against plain duty" and mani
fest interest. every opponent of the
Cuban proposition is denouncing the
sugar trust and attributing the whole
agitation to its selfish ana sordid ac-
tivity. Washington correspondents
say that the trust is "oyecplaying it's
hand" and disgusting congressman
otherwise inclined TO justice and rea-
son toward Cuba. Petitions and let
ters from clergymen urging moral
obligation" are said to have been in
spired by a sugar trust circular, and
this Pecksniffian hypocrisy is filling
congress with weariness and impati-
ence.
on the other hand, says the Chicago
Post, the beet sugar propaganda is
hardly less offensive and sickening.
Few are deceived by the cry OF ruin,
and Che fierce. uncompromrsrng, bitter
opposition 20 Cuba's reasonable re-
quest is causing no little indignation,
But It does not by any means follow
from all this that any man In con
gress Is justified In exclaiming, "a
plague ON both their housesi" and in
giving up in despair" Those who
are now in this mood should be re-
minded that the fight Is not between
Oxnard and his allies on the one hand.
and the sugar trust on the other. Cuba
is the applicant, or suppliaut, and she
is not 70 be held responsible for the
unsought "benevolence" OF the sugar
trust II the trust has really been as
active as Is alleged, which we permit
ourselves TO doubt
What has the merit of Cuba's pro
posal TO do with the demerit Of the
sugar trusts participation ia the con
troversy2 Nothing whatever The
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

Blackwell Daily News; Edgar
Jones idea Of nominating a delegate
for congres. by the primary system
has just one drawback, It fails to
furnish an opportunity for the fellows
who 80 to conventions loaded with
speeches and resolutions. II Edgar
can devise some way whereby those
fellows can hce on those speeches,
and resolve that we view with
alarm, undoubtedly his primary
scbdme would become much more
popular.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
How,s This?

we offer One Hundred Dollals Reward
for any case o. catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
r. ]. CHENEY e CO., Props,
Toledo, o.
We. the undersigned, have known +. ].
Cheney for the last 10 years, and hclieve
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able 20 carry
out any obligations made by' thetr nr,n
WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken Internal
~, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces OF the system. Price
75c. per bottle. Sold BY all Druggists.
Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills arc the best.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
esMARkAsLE STATE.

hOOD hENOIO ION
lf the position taken before the
house committee on territories by
Delegate Flynn. Judge Burford Col
oeel Havens and Sid Clarke. that
there is AN overwhelming sentiment
liza this territory for separate state
hood be true, then there has been
uch "a reyoution Of public sentiment
upon q public question within the last
six weeks as was never before seen or
witnessed upon any public subject in
,he history of this or any other coun-
try. ], can not be true It is not
true. Ninety per cent of our people.
regardless of politics, are as solidly
for single statehood today as they
have ever been and ANY contention
for the contrary is the quintessence
OF folly-the ooze Of personal and po
uucal selfshness.
In every public meeting held in this
territory since the agitation of the
question an overwhelming sentiment
has dominated the conventions for
single statehood and these gentlemen
know they are not representing the
public sentiment of our people in
when they assert the
contrary
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

No honest congressman can drag in
the sugar trust in attempting to ans
wer fairly and nationally these ques-
tions. We know how President Roose-
Senators Proctor, Lodge, Gallinger
and Mason, exPresident Cleveland
and other distinguished men have
answered them. Have these been
nribed or humbugged by the Sugar
Trust? The talk of giving up IN
despair" is not only cowardly butt
hypocritical ana fraudulent Con
gress should stick to the direct issue
and remember Cuba and her claims.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

According to DR. Winkler Governor
Ferguson's sanitarium investigating
committee didn't know enough TO dis
tinguish a dead patient from a living
patient. or an inmate OF the asylum
from one who had been in the lnstitu-
tion. The doctor says. they (the com
mittee) ordered sallie Bugg discharg-
ed. who died Dec 80, 1901, before they
came to the asylum 10 make the in
vestigation; also ordered l.. ID. Mar
tin, man who never had been in the
asylum, discharged. In fact accord
ing to Or Winkler, ,he committee
didn't know an insane patient from
the ward attendants
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

Oklahoman; The urgent need Of
the hour is 10 have a strong delega-
ton at Washington to advise con
gressmen aud senators that the peo-
pie DO not want Oklahoma statehood
made a partisan issue. some Demo
cradle statesmen at Washington
knowing that If Oklahoma and hdian
territory are made separate states.
tkey win both event ally become
Demoe attic il not as Is quite prob
able. Democratic now oppose single
statehood for that reason. This
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

sugar trust may succeed in intercept
ing the consumers share OF the bene-
At of the proposed reduction, and that
will raise an interesting question be-
tween the American people and the
combination. But primarily and es-
seutially the Cuban proposition is a
question of relief for the ISLANDERS
Of enabling the Cuban pianters and
small farmers to sell their chief prod
ucts at a profit in the American mar.
ket. The fact that the sugar trust is
among the advocates of that PROPOSE.
tion can not destroy its inherent JUS
tice.
No ono in congress need be bewild
cred or befogged if he is not willing
to be so. There are but two questions
to be put and answered:
/. Are we bound in honor to open
our markets to Cuba; that is, have we
expressly or by implication, by word
or act, promised her economic aid and
relief?
2. II we have made a promise Of
this nature, has any valid reason been
discovered for repudlatlng it? In
other words, would a so or 40 per cent
reduction Of the Dingiey duties on
Cuban sugar and tobacco destroy or
seriously injure our own beet sugar
and tobacco industries?
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

don't want any sort of statehood. OF
course, the Leader don't expect any
body TO believe that, but in its capaei-
ty of a kicker 1t feels called upon to
saw something.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
MOVED.
Humphrey and HIm

Have moved % the spurlock build
ing over the 'Fair." We are old eI-
perienced underwriters and represent
old time tried and fire tested com
panies. Are Offering somo good loans
on both city and farm property. Have
some bargains in real estate.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

Coming Events; Colonel Roy Hon-
man would do well TO keep his eye on
Edgar Jones. Jones is running for
congress Ike an antelope. That
Democratic nomination for congress
may 80 to the Guthrie man. The
Jones family always was lucky.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

The reply of Delegate Flynn to a
question Of Secretary Hitchcock about
the stock he got in the sanitarium
deal was entirely apropos, but when
he answers the people of the territory
it is quite likely he will have TO be a
little more explicit.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

makes Sc imperative that shey be ad-
vised that the people % the two ter.
ritories have waived political inter
ests in their desire for one grand state
which will be the pride Of every citi.
zen and result in a greater ultimate
benefit Is them
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
RAPID LAND OFFICE
TRANSIT, TOO.


perry Republican,
It is reported that Guthrie has in
street car line. We
don't know what earthly use that
town would have for such an institu-
tion. unless it is to get over that
single block of bluff from the Santa
Fe depot into the heart Of the bust
ness district.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

When Or. Winkler takes the wit
ness box. he win please state the ex.
act amount OF sanltarium stock COB
bled by Delegate Flynn and the price
he paid for IT,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
FLYNNs HYPocRAcY
AND TREAcHERY,

enid Wave.)
Last Sundays Wichita Eagle con
talned an article, prompted by Flynn,
no doubt, which said that barney
stone Flynn had done ali he could to
prevent the land office Of Enid and
Perry from being discontinued
Just a few hours before the issue Of
said Eagle went to press, Dennis
standing in the center OF a group Of
men in washington said.
II actually did not know anything
about the contemplated change in the
Oklahoma land oTi~es until the
changes had beer. made, had not
been consulted by the department and
positively had nothing to 40 With.
IL"
Great Gawd what a lie.
While Dennis Flynn was still stand.
ing In the center of the crowd of his
personal unsophisticated constituents
from Oklahoma, Western Union
telegraph messenger handed him a
message from Kingfsher which read:
I'VE heartily thank you for secur-
ing our reappointment as register and
receiver OF the Kinghsher land office.
God bless you.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
Emory Brownlee,
~. V. Admire

Herein lies the tales two OF which
must be lies. The Eagle says that
Flynn did all he could to prevent the
removal Of the Perry and Enid offices.
Flynn himself says he cid not know
a thing about it, Brownlee and Ad-
mire hank HIM for their reappoint-
ment II Flynn secured the appoint
ment of Admire and Brownlee he must
have known that the Enid land office
would be abandoned, not Kingfsher.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
WHOSE pARLINe is lis?

Don't all speak at once; for
IA you all love her Think of
CSS1l such dainty bit Of moon
,A5SnN light turned into a girl and
~ - multiplied three hundredfold!
That's what you'll see In
The Pixies" at the Brooks theater,
Friday evening, Feb T. Three hun
dred of them in beautiful costumes,
together with fifty pixies, brownies
and goblins in grotesque makeup. It
is not a succession of simple little
choruses, but a big comic opera with
an interesting plot 1t has been Civ
en- in all the larger Eastern cities,
running a week each in Philadelphia,
Boston, st, Louis st. Paul, Chicago
and Milwaukee.
Nearly two tons of costumes and
properties are carried by the man
agenient, and eighteen men are need
ed 10 handle it. 1t is by far the larg-
csc production ever attempted by
amateurs.
Rehearsals here are progressing
very satisfactorily. The brightest
young people in the city having been
selected for the cast.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
KICKER PREFERABLE

TO A LOBSTER.
(Ponca City Courier.) ..
The Guthrie Leader makes the
broad assertion that Delegate Flynn
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31
Don't be a pun back.

The hour grows late. Come in.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

Come in.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-31

Sign the notes.
, 1902-01-23

In India Hindus n Mussulmans
alike wear both sandals n shoes
(slippers), and the latter boots also.
The sandal (the word is PersIan) was
evidently the original covering for the
feet all over southern and eastern
Asia, while the shoe was probably in
troduced into India by the Persians
and Mo(n)gols, together with the tip
tilted (Hittite and Etruscan) boot.
Both are usually made in India of
leather. but never of pigskin; and
while the shoes are always colored red
or yellow, the boots are generally
brightly parti-colored; both, among
the upper classes, being also richly
embroidered in gold and silver and
~variegated silk thread, and with BAN
giles, bugles n seed pearls, after the
manner of the ancient Persian boots
represented on Greek vases. But, of
however rare and costly elaboration,
the inevitable rule is to remove them
after entering a private house, just
when stepping on the mat or carpet
on which the visitor takes his seat.
They must be cast off-the right boot
or shoe frst-before the worshiper
enters a temple or mosque. and 1t is still
regarded as an absolute PROCLAMATION
to attempt to enter either fully shod.
But the domestic habit arose out of its
obvious %proprlety, and the religious
ritual of "the Shoes of the Faithful"
now and for centuries past observed
throughout Islam, can be demonstrate
ed to have been dictated by. II indeed
1t be not derived directly from. the
universal social etiquette Of the East.
, 1902-01-23
A NEW FIELD IN SCIENCE.
BraIny Mems Claim to New Process of
Cheap Gold Manufacture

100" ~ TO- fOttss u
Cheap Gold Manufacture
The possibility of making gold out
of cheap substances is being extern
sively discussed by scientists in Paris.
The topic would have been discussed
a few years ago as a crazy revival
of medieval alchemy, but since the
renowned chemist Berthelot's discov-
cries and remarkable assertion that
gold is probably a compound substance
instead of being a simple metal, an
important school of chemists has pre-
dicted that gold will be manufactured
as cheaply as butter some day.
Meanwhile the French Society of Mod
ern Alchemy claims that three of its
members-Jollivet De Lussus and
Height, all chemists of reputation
have just completed a successful syn
thesis of gold. About half an ounce
was produced and 1t took six months
to do 1t. Prof. Berthelot is unwilling
to give an opinion about it without
knowing the details of the process and
examining the product obtained, but
he says: Until now chemistry has
been a study of only immediate reac-
tiOhs' yet sIoW eactlons-Dy winch L
mean those taking from a month 10
two or three years-are suspected, and
this will open quite a new field in
science. Possibly metals might be de-
composed into several elements. II
they can be so treated, they likewise
car be recombined." Camille Flam-
marion. to whom was given an oppor-
tunity to examine the artificial gold
says: ut presents all the outward
characteristics of gold. l shall never
pronounce anything impossible in
science unless it is SO mathematical
ly."
, 1902-01-23
CALLING BY PROXY.
Sending IA Representative Is One of ths
Latest Fads.

Sending n Representative Is One of the
Latest Fads.
THE fashion and etiquette writer's
in some of the English journals are
making a big ado over the matter of
calling by proxy" said the woman who
prides herself on doing things in the
right way. but there is really no
cause for all the fuss and feathers.
The idea is by no means new. 1t was
tried in this town a long while ago.
The custom never grew into great pop
ularity, 1t is true, but it was intro
duced, and by women who are sup
posed to know what is what. I well
remember what a shock the innovation
gave me at first. l a never heard
of the practice until a En-
glish woman, too. by the way-who
had me on her calling list, sent a rep
resentative around one day to pay her
respects. . The occasion was of more
h a usual Importance. for | was en-
~tertaining friends from the west then,
and the calls were intended more for
them than for me. Imagine. then, my
surprise to receive a woman whom l
had eve seen before and who's name
49," NSNiJ " me IL
English woman's card was presented
along with hers, and she hastened to
explain the secret of her presence. The
Britisher. it seemed, was not well
enough to come, and. being unwilling
to pass my afternoon altogether. she
had delegated a proxy to call in her
stead. She must have found the make
shift unsatisfactory, for I subsequent
ly met the same agent at several
houses on the same errand. The
proxy was a very agreeable woman,
and 1 must say that, aside from the
novelty of the plan, no one seemed to
regret the substitution. Finally sew
eral other women whose social duties
pressed too heavily on their hands
adopted the scheme of hiring a proxy.
and 1t is still in vogue to a limited
extent, although | doubt If there is
any danger of the custom ever becom-
ing general here, as the English writ
ers seem to fear will be the case on
the other side.'-New York Times.