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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-08
MAY USE NEW SIGNAL
ON THE ROCK ISLAND

Rock Island officials are contem-
plating the introduction on the c.. r.
]. & p. system of a new danger sig
nal which has been patented and i'm
proved so that it becomes of practical
value. The new signal has been eX-
perimented with on some of the east
ern roads and has given satisfaction.
1t consists of nothing more nor less
than n small white electric light in
the engine cab which changes to red
upon the approach of danger. The
contrivance is SO arranged that at a
certain distance in front of the NOV
ing train any connection of the rails,
such as trucks and wheels would
make, any obstruction lying across
the track or any splitting of the
rails would cause the light in the APP
preaching engine to shift soon enough
to enable the engineer to put on the
air.
1t is thought the new continuance
will revolutionize the system of rail
way signals employed at present.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-08
River Bulletin.

River forecast for 4S hours ending s
a. m. Sunday, May 10, 1908: The Mis-
sissippi river will rise slowly between
Dubuque and Davenport.
The w. j. Young, Jr., Capt. Walter
Blair's packet that has been running
between here and Burlington since
the beginning of the season, win May
"A begin the practice of former sea-
sons of running to Muscatine on a
short trip, going down Sunday even
ings and returning Monday morn
ings.
Boats down: Park Bluff. Glenmont
with 80 brails OF logs, Winona. Boats
up: Ruth. Winona.
Stage of water at a. M, IT'S; at
IL M, us. Temperature at noon, 16.
Subscribe for The Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-08

Gen. Miles offense is greatly pal
lated by reason of the fact that he
did not overlook the opportunity to
fire one more good hot shot at en-
balmed beef.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-08
Friday, May 8.
The coal magnates and the post
office department dislike publicity.

Since King Edward has planted the
chestnut tree Paris is ready to well
come Chauncey Depew as the Ameri-
can ambassadorial joker.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-08

The home circulation of the New
York public library was in the month
of March 275.540-a rate over 100000
a year. The branch system it is said
under the Carnegie gift is advancing
ranidlN
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-08

TERMs-Daily. 10 cents perweek Weekly,
u per year IN advance.
All communications of political or argu-
mentative character, political or religious,
must have real name attached for publica-
zion. No such articles will be printed over
fictitious signatures.
Co, respondence solicited from every town
ship in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-08
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.

roday's Quotations ON Provisions. Live
Stock. Feed and Fuel
Rock Island, May s.-Following are the
quotations on the local market:
Provisions.
Butter-Creamerv 90 @2Sc dairy 10000
Eggs-Fresh l3c@l4c
dozen hens &C per pound, ducks 12Hc, tur-
keys 121kc, geese 9Hc.
"Reminiscences. 25c to 35c.
Live Stock.
Cattle-Steers $3.50 TO el75 cows and
neifers 60. 90 to $50. calves 845O to 5000.
Hogs-Mixed and butchers 90. % to kTC0
Sheep-Yearlings or over, per cwt. s100to
IS so, Lambs per head $3.50 to $40.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-08

Is Gov Yates going to make as mis-
cradle a spectacle of himself in the
matter of the Mueller bill as Speaker
Miller did when it came up to him to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-08
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924 Sec
ond avenue, Rock Island, I'LL ENTERED at
the postoff1ce as Second-class matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-08
TODAY'S MARKETS

Chicago. May s-FolIowing are the open
ing, highest, lowest and closing quotations
in today'a markets: -.
Wheat.
May, 751S: n "A; 76h
July. Tx: PA: 7l9s; az.
Sept, 695s 40; 699S 20.
Corn.
May. 4ssS: 1855: 4S14: 4S1S.
July. 44%: az: AN. 44It.
Sept, Az Ass; 4416 Az.
Oats.
May. "a: s4as; 81: s4ss
July. Biz: 3216; 3IaI Sea.
Sept. 2e9s; 29gs 291s; 295s.
Pork.
May, 80; IS So 10 SO: Is 50
July. II %: 1727: Il IS: II Is
Sept, 1880; 1852; 1875; 1865.
Lard
May, 9.O2: 9 OF: 8 90: 8 90
July, 8 Is: els: 8 %: 800.
Sept, 920; 9.22; IL; 9.l2.
Ribs.
May, 9 30; 9 80: $50: $50.
July 935; 9.4O-: 9.35: 935.
Sept, 9.32; 6. 81; $50; 80.
Rye, May 1914 July 499z; fax, cash, N. w.
LIS; $. w. LII, May ILL., July LA; bar
ley, 1866.
11s; hogs 1900; cattle 10000, sheep 4,tO0.
Hog market opened strong.
ers. Is 5Oas 90; good heavy, seeOG7.Oo rough
heavy, 8 6O06.75.
Cattle market opened strong
Sheep market opened steady.
Hogs at Kansas City 7.0OO. cattle 1000,
hogs at Omaha 500 cattle 2,S0e.
Union stock yards $40 a. m.
Hog market steady to strong.
Light, e. 1906 80; mixed and butchers. 20 60
as %; good heavy, % S5QT 90; rough heavy,
E6 6006.So.
Cattle market strong to l0c higher.
Beeves 81 O0G5 60 cows and heifers LOCO
400. Texas steers t3 6004 40, stockers and
feeders g O01500.
Sheep market steady.
Hog market closed strong.
Light, S6400l6 80: mixed and butchers, 6.55
96.92: good heavy, s6.6OG7oO; rough heavy.
Cattle market closed quiet and ste ady.
Sheep market closed steady.
Estimated receipts Saturday; Wheat g.,
corn 260, oats 125, hogs 1000
New York Stocks.
New York, May s.-The following are the
closing quotations on the New York stock
exchange:
So. Pacific 55&s sugar Is6. c. & A. com 3OM,
gas 1O4 Penna. 1871. II. & o. 9zH. @. r. 1. &
p com 44s< c. M. & st. p 1914 Manhattan l421s,
Pacific Mail 32h. Atchison com. sos. w. u.
Tel Co - N. Y. Central 1915. l.. & N
lis. B., R. T. e6A. Rdg. com. 55%, leather
com l46, copper sis. Atchison pfd. 9T3, u.
s. Steel pfd S45s. U. s. Steel common 354,
Missouri Pacific 1114. Union Pacific common
sOx coal and iron 6354. Erie common 35h;
wabash pfd 471s, Can Pacific 1924, Republic
Steel common -. Republic Steel pfd. ....,
NJ K. s. T. common 261s, American Car
Foundry common 40; G. & 6. w. %
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-08

BY THE j. W. POTTER 90.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
WOMEN OUTSTRIPPING
MEN IN BUSINESS
Rev. DIR. Hills Warns the Sterner SEX
to Stop Drinking Poor Whisky
and Quit Gambling.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3O.-In sermon on
Women" Rev. DR.. n. ID. Hills has
sounded a warning note to young men in
business life. 'If you don't want women
to outstrip you in the industrial race" he
said, 'and compel you to come to them
when you want so cents. you would better
stop drinking poor whisky and quit gam
bling at race tracks and in poolrooms."
Women" continued DR.. Hills, "in spite
of mans refusal to give them the rights
and privileges TO which they are entitled,
are to-day in 145 branches of business and
in many instances are showing more ability
than the men. In one of the greatest finan-
cial institutions of this city not long ago
a well-known man, drawing a salary Of
$4,000 a year, suffered a nervous collapse.
The directors selected a young woman who
for ten years had been the stenographer.
She, the directors told me, has done better
work than the man she succeeded, and is
doing il for but $4,000 year.
I'm fifty years the women will know more
than the men. They have more time to
read books and they are improving their
time. Eventually they will vote and tell
the men for whom they shall VOTE Eventu-
ally all the universities will be coeduca-
tional and the women will carry off all the
priZeS."
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
To Utilize Currents.
New York Telegram.

David Mcintyre, of No. SO Ferdinand ave-
nue., Detroit. believes that he has .solved
the problem of using the current of screams
to run machinery. He has been working
eight years and in that time has devised
various current wheels some of which de-
veloped considerable power, but al with
defects.
He was not dismayed by repeated fail
ures, but persisted in his efforts unsil now
he has won what is. he thinks, a complete
victory over the difficulties and ;has a
motor in operation. Several Detroit men
have become convinced of the merits of
the device that they have spent consider
able money in the purchase of patents
and will soon file articles of incorpbra ton
OF the American Water Motor and Power
Company with a capital stock OF 500 900.
The incorporators will be Louis Mcbride
George G.. Epstean. David McInty-e and
John G. Hacking The Mcintyre motor con-
sists of a series of paddles similar t. those
of a side-wheel steamboat. attached:to two
endless sprocket chains runnins over
sprocket wheels. The water runs throue h
a chute placed lengthwise in the stream.
and the force of the current pushes the
paddles or buckets from the upper to the
lower end Of the chute.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
NO DESIGNS ON THIBET.


LONDON, Nov. 3O.-It was announced to-
day that the British government has no
present intention of pushing the Young
husband expedition through to Lhassa, the
capital of Thibet, or even permanently to
occupy Gyangtse, which is the second most
important town in Thibet. On his arrival at
Gyangtse Colonel Younghusband. it is said.
hopes to be able to reopen negotiations with
the Thibetans. There is no question, how
ever, that preparations are being made for
all emergencies. The military arrange
ments are intrusted to Colonel Mcdonald
who was with the allied forces in China.
Immense quantities of transport stores and
warm clothing are being collected including
Canadian fur coats, purchased for the troops
in China, which are being sent from Tlen-
Tsin, as on the occasion of previous DEM
onstrations on the Thibetan frontier the
troops were obliged TO return, owing to the
intense cold in the mountains.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
Two Men Charged with Conspiracy to
Defraud on Government Contracts
for Mail Pouches.
TESTIMONY OF C. E. SMITH
BALTIMORE LEATHER MERCHANT
WHO PAID A RAF<E-OFF.
sSheme In which w. A. Machen Was
iInvoIved-statement I'm Bristow's
Report Denied.
BALTIMORE. Md.. Nov. sO.-The trial Of

BALTIMORE, Md. Nov. 3O.-The trial of
Thomas w. M~Gregor and Columbus Els
worth Upton. Postofice Department en-
ployes. charged with conspiracy to defraud
TIE United States government on contracts
Ter mail pouches. was begun in the United
States Court IA this city to-day.
Before the jury was sworn counsel for the
defense offered two motions, one to quash
the indictments and the other to require
the government to elect upon which of
the counts in the indictments the govern
ment intended to proceed. Both motions
were overruled by Judge Morris.
The government attorneys announced that
they proposed to prove that McGregor and
Upton had Ias< winter gone to the leather
store kept by Charles L. Smith in this
city and had contracted with Smith to fur
uish the government with 10000 leather
pouches for use in the rural free delivery
service. at 80 cents per pouch, when, as
q matter of fact, Smith could make a good
profit on them at 10 cents a piece. The
difference between 80 cents and 80 cents on
the contract, II was alleged, went into the
Smith made his proft OF 10 cents per pouch
on each one and paid the remainder,
amounting to some 5000, back to Upton and
Smith was the only witness examined
By the government to-day. Smith testi-
fed that Upton called at his store in 1891
end exhibited to him a leather pouch, ask
ing what he could manufacture them for,
end he said about 60 cents. He took the
pouch and seat IL to the Warren Manu-
facturing Company OF Massachusetts. The
Warren Company, Smith said, informed him
that they could furnish him the pouches
at s715 cents a piece. When these quota
tions came, he said, Upton wrote him a
letter to be sent TO Superintendent of Free
Delivery A. W. Machen quoting the
pouches at 90 cents a piece. He said he
made copy OF the letter from the draft
Upton had written ana sent it to Machen.
With the letter he said he sent one of the
sample pouches. He said he informed Up
ton that he could furnish the pouches for
80 cents a piece, but he said that Upton
told him TO put in his bid at 80 cents per
pouch and he did so. Subsequently Upton
brought McGregor to his store and intro
duced him and he agreed to give them 40
cents on each pouch furnished to the gev-
ernment and this had been paid to them
on all the z0.000 pouches which he furnished.
The court adjourned until Wednesday,
when the hearing of the case will be re-
surned.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
MAYOR MAYBURY GRIEvED.
He Had No Idea There Was a Plan to
Defraud the Government.


DETROIT, Mich. Nov. 30.-Mayor VIII
liam c. Maybury to-day denied that he or
his associates had any idea that DR.. z. C.
Echeble. OF Toledo. was party to a scheme
to defraud the government in connection
with the letter-box contract held by May
bury & Ellis, OF this city. and expressed
great grief ard modification over the criti-
cism of himself and the firm in the report
OF Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow published to-day.
'sDfd you rot realize that DR.. Scheble's
demand for recognition in the contract
which your company has elected was
nothing more nor less than a hold-up?"
he asked.
mo, SIR returned Mr. Maybury.
Neither i nor my business associates had
any idea thar the deal was anything other
than a simple business transaction. L
held up, or that we were being made a
party to any scheme to defraud the gov
ernment. Our intentions were of the best,
looking to our own interests, and later de-
velopments proved that they were"
Did you not know of Machen's subter-
fuge, which secured the contract for your
company at a price nearly double that of
the Wynn bid?''
mo. i never heard of IL before, nor did
know that Machen had ever made even
recommendation in the matter. / did
not know that Wynn raised a row in Wash
ington about IT. / never had any dealings
with Machen personally, although / knew
him."
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
QUARANTINE RAISED.
End Of the Yellow Fever Epidemic in
Texas Celebrated.

LAREDO, Tex. Nov. Ex-Governor Lam
ham to-day issued proclamation raising
the yellow fever quarantine which has been
in force against Laredo since Sept 2s
During the prevalence of the disease here
there have been l.025 cases, 80 of which re-
suited fatally
When the Governors proclamation was
issued ar noon to-day there was a great
demonstration. Flags We're displayed on
all public buildings, bells were rung and
steam whistles blown throughout the city
Inspector Clark announces to-day that
the regular train service will be resumed
tomorrow over the Texas Mexican road
Regular service was established several
days ago over the National. 80
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
DEAD AT LOUISVILLE.
~Count" kesselring, Army Officer,
Banker and Hotel Clerk.

LOUISVILLE. Ky. Nov. SO-A member
OF one Of the oldest families in Switzerland.
an army officer in Europe. representative
In Algiers OF a Switzerland banking house
and leader in the social life of the North
African winter resort; then window
washer anG hotel clerk were the successive
phases in The life of Emile G.. Kesselring,
who died at an infirmary in this city to-
night. He was known 10 hundreds of nota-
bic Americans and thousands OF travellers
as Count kesselring, clerk at the Gait
House When financial reverses twenty
years ago compelled his abandonment OF the
aristocraue European circles in which he
lad moved kesselring came TO Louisville
and cheerfuliy accepted a position as win
dow-washer, but his brain and breeding
speedily secured his promotion to chief
clerk.
kesselring's relatives sill live at Berne
where the family occupied a high position
and the members took a leading part In the
affairs frofn the formation OF the republic.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3o-It is learned
that Mr.. Beaupre, our minister at Bogota,
has received several different propositions
from the Colombian government since the
publication of the correspondence, each con-
tanning some indirect method of rectifying
what the Coiombians themselves now re-
gard as a fatal bunder of permitting the
Hay-Herran treaty to expire last Septem-
ber. Mr.. Beaupre, for his part, is using his
best efforts to make it clear TO the Colom-
bien officials that the treaty is dead beyond
resurrection and that he cannot even con-
duct negotiations looking to the acquisition
from Colombia of a right Of way across the
isthmus, located in an Independent republic,
over which Colombia has no authority.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
JUDGE. BALDwIN's DENIAL.
Nufembura Consul EmphaticaIly Says
Bristosv's Statement Is False.

CANTON. o.. Nov. SO.-In emphatic
terms, Judge Baldwin, consul at Nurem-
berg. Germany. now here on a furlough,
declares that the statements of Fourth AS
sistant Postmaster General Bristow that
he baldwin )knows much about the postal
affairs and bribery are absolutely false and
unwarranteG- Consul Baldwin said to-
day:
81 went once TO Mr.. Heath for my SON.
in-law, Mr.. Miller, and said to him that
ny son-in-law desired to introduce these
machines and asked him to give them a
trial. Mr.. Heath said he would investigate
the matter. That was the only time / was
in the Postoffice Department. 1 have never
seen Beavers or briggs. nor have L COM
municated at any time with them"
Consul Baldwin says he never advised his
son-in-law 20 make any agreements or ar
rangement for dollars and cents with any
hody-r
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
TO LESSEN PISTOL CARRYING.
Chicago Proposes to Regulate Sale of
Firearms and Issue Licenses.

CHICAGO, Nov. 30-Drastic provisions
for the protection of life from the pistol
of the bandit and hold-up man were sub
mitted by Mayor Carter H. Harrison to the
City Council tonight. The sale of fire.
arms is to be regulated, and the buyer
must pay a license after giving satisfac-
tory evidence that he ought TO be allowed
to possess any kind of firearm.
The fearful use made by the car-barn
robbers of magazine guns and the many
murders and attempts at murder through
the possession OF revolvers led the oS.ef
executive TO suggest that measures should
be passed which would largely aid in
checking crime by removing weapons from
the youths who desire TO emulate bandits
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
salvadorians Protesting.

PANAMA, Nov. 3O.-Dispatches from La
Libertad, Salvador, says that several meet
ings have been held throughout Salvador,
at which protests were made against the
action of the United States government on
the Isthmus of Panama. All Salvadorian
papers publish articles indorsing these pro-
tests, the only exception being the Diario
of San Salvador. which prints editorials
favorable TO the United States government
The attitude of the government of Salvador
concerning the republic of Panama con-
tinues to be one of reserve.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
NAVAL DEMONSTRATION.
British West Indian Squadron Will
SImpress" Castro's Government.

PORT OF SPAIN, Island of Trinidad,
Nov. So.-The British West indian squadron
will leave here Thursday for Laguayra,
Venezuela. The government officials at
Caracas assert that the squaorons visit to
Laguayra is in connection with the closing
of the Orinoco by President Castro to for
eign trade, which has specially affected the
interests of Trinidad Mr.. Bax-Ironside,
the British minister at Caracas. has twice
protested against the measure without OBJ
tanning a favorable or even polite answer
A new note on the subject, it is believed,
will probably be presented TO Venezuela
while the British squadron is at Laguayra
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
TO RECOGNIZE PETER
UNITED STATES WILL RESUME RE-
LATIONs WITH sERyIA.
Mr. jackson Receives Credentials as
Minister at the Court Of King
Karageorgevitch.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.-The United
States government has given directions
looking TO the recognition of King Peter
Karageorgevitch of Servia. Mr.. Jackson
already has received his credentials as
minister of the United States to Belgrade.
and it is said at the State Department that
IL is merely a question Of short time
when he will present these credentials in
person at the Servian court. The fact that
Mr. Jackson also is minister 10 Greece and
Roumania is said to account for the delay
in establishing relations with Servia.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
WALKING DELEGATE SUES.
Thinks He Wat Damaged to the Ex.
tent of $4,000 by False Arrest.

NEW YORK. Nov. 3O.-James Hickey, a
walking delegate of the Stonemasons'
Union, who was arrested here Nov. on a
charge of extortion. preferred by Henry E.
Fox, a contractor, has brought suit against
Fox to recover $4,000 damages for false
arrest and imprisonment. Fox procured
Hickey's arrest for having, according to
Fox, claimed he would tie up a job of con-
structing bridge unless given so. When
Hickey was arraigned. Ii is charged, Fox
failed to put in an appearances, and Hickey
was discharged from custody.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01

NEW BRIGHTON, Pa, Nov. 30.-Quite
a reduction in the output of New Brighton
factories will follow orders which went into
effect to-day. The American porcelain
works has closed down for the remainder
of the year; the Dawes & Miier plant of
the Standard Sanitary Company will op-
crate but four days week until Jan. I.
and the Townsend wire mill. the Pierce
Crouch engine works and the Damascus
steel works have materially reduced their
forces. Ofiiciais at each Of the pl.nts say
operations in full will resume after Jan L
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
Charged with Selling Bogus Degrees,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30-William Farr,
dean of the Nashville College OF Law,
charged with selling degrees OF a bogus
Commissioner Anson T. Taylor to await a
warrant of renewal for trial by the United
States District Court for the middle dis
trict of Tennessee and remanded to the Gus
tody of United States Marshal Palmer He
applied Immediately for a writ OF habeas
corpus and was released on bond pending
the decision. The hearing i'm the writ was
fixed for Dec, IL.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
Knew Nothing Of II.

NEW YORK. Nov. s0.-Ernest E. Bald
win, assistant United States district at
torney for the southern district of New
York, denied absolutely to-day that he had
ever had any knowledge OF the connection
of the Braudt-Dent Company. manufacture
ers OF automatic cashiers. with the govern
ment, as alleged by Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow in his report
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
Hamilton Fish Operated On.

NEW YORK. Nov 30-HamiIton Fish
assistant treasurer OF the United Statas
In this city, underwent an operation for
appendicitis at his home In this city. Mr.
Fish Is reported TO be doing well.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01

Mrs. Austin's Buckwheat has a world
wide reputation on account OF its genuine
buckwheat favor. Don't forget the name.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-12-01
CHICAGO WANTS IT.

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)
They do not express any elation however,
over the programme concerning public
buildings.