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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25
PORTO RICo's PROGRESS.
Attorney General Harlan Predicts a
Bright Future For the Island.

Attorney General Harlan Predicts n
Bright Future For the Island.
James S. Harlan. who has been in
Porto Rico the last two years as attor-
ney general of the island. talks quite
enthusiastically about its present con-
dition and its future, according to a
Washington special to the New York
Times. The government is out of debt
and has a surplus in its treasury Of
more than 100000.
IF congress will leave Porto Rico
alone for the next twenty years. said
Mr.. Harlan. the people of the United
States will be astonished at the result
Porto Rico will be the garden spot Of
the country, supporting a well to do
community of intelligent, peace loving
and patriotic people.
Besides the tariff the insular gov
eminent has established a system of
internal revenue taxes, and the federal
system of taxation has not been ex-
tended to the island. so that every dol
lar collected on the manufacture of
cigars. cigarettes, rum, spirits and 9th
er products, which in other parts of the
United States pay a tribute TO the fed
eral treasury, remains with the island
treasury.
1.-The result is that we are enabled to
carry on a system of government as
complex as any other state or terrific
rial government of the country. AL
though Porto Rico can be classed as
only an agricultural community. we are
carrying on an elaborate system of
road improvements, opening up new
agricultural lands and inauguratinR an
extensive school system. There are
now 1,200 schools in the island. In ev-
cry way we are maintaining beneficial
public works such as are carried on in
highly organized communities"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25

climGTng. If the tree is small in girth,
he sometimes uses a vine, passing It
around the tree and holding on to it as
he aScends. The most common way,
however. is to ascend by means OF
notches cut into the tree or bark about
one and half inches deep and about
three feet apart. Having fixed upon
the side lac intends ascending, the
climber cuts a notch with his toma-
hawk about the height of his waist and
another on a level with his head, but a
little to the right or left of the lower
notch, as the case may be. These
notches are made by few taps of the
Ratchet, first horizontally and then
down at an agile of forty-five degrees.
Having cut the two lower ones, the
ascent is made by standing on the ball
of the foot, with the great toe in the
notch, while the climber cuts a fresh
notch level with his head, and so on
until the lower branches are gained.
Often the gum trees run eighty feet
from the ground up to the lowest limb,
the trunk of the tree being perfectly
smooth. These notckes are cut with
great regularity, for, measured on
fallen tree, the distance between them
seldom varies half an inch. In reas-
cending a tree fresh cuts are made for
every fresh ascent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25

Cincinnati and Samuel NJ. Jones of
Toledo were each reelected mayor of
their respective cities.
The victory of julius Fleischmann
over Melville E. ingalls, for the mayor
atty of Cincinnati, it is said, nips a
presidential boomlet in the bud and
perhaps starts another. Mr.. Ingalls,,
who is president of the Big Four rail-
way, had the support OF the Democrats
and the Citizens party. Mr.. Fleisch-
mann is the present mayor of Cincin-
natl, and his success may pave the way
for greater things.
Both the Chicago and Cleveland cam
paigns We're fought on similar lines
that is, the question of the STREET rail-
road management and franchises was
the main issue of the campaigns. The
fight in Cleveland was the hottest in
its history, for on it depended much for
which Johnson and his supporters have
been fighting for several years. The de-
feat of Johnson would have meant the
end of the campaign for. three cent
fares for Cleveland, and on that issue
the municipal battle was clearly and
stubbornly fought. Mr.. Johnson's cleo
ton will have the effect of making him
the strongest Democrat in Ohio and a
senatorial and even a presidential pos
sibility.
Mayor Johnson is a native of Ken
lucky, and up to the age of sixteen he
went to school. Then family reverses
compelled him to become a breadwin-
ner, and he went to work in a Louis
vile rolling mill Office as an GRAND
boy In 1876, when but twenty-five
years old, he bought the Indianapolis
street railway system with capital fur
nished by a wealthy relative. Profits
paid for the road in few years, and
he sold it at an advance of $1,00G,000.
Since then his success has been phe-
nomenal.
In 1870 Mr.. johnson went to Cleve-
land. He bought a dilapidated road,
and soon it was the best equipped in
the city. Subsequently he built a s,eel
plant at Johnstown. Pa, for the manu4
facture of steel rails, and also estab-
lished a steel plant at Lorain, o. Ev-
erything he undertook succeeded, and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25

and daring cowboys in the west.
Fitch's fame as a roper extends to
nearly every cattle state. and he is so
dreaded in a contest that he usually
enters under an alias This was the
case at Cheyenne. and his rivals did
not know that Fitch had entered until
he rode whooping into the ring swing
ing his lariat. Fitch has record under
40 seconds.
A steer roping contest is n sight to
stir the blood of any man. The element
of danger is much greater than at a
bullfight, yet the men are so skillful
that few get seriously hurt. The ranges
are secured to get the widest steers,
and these are brought into the arena as
wanted.
AS the steer is dragged into the arena
and the rope loosened from its horns
the starter megaphones the cowboys
number and instantly the champion
gallops toward the animal. The steer
knows what is coming. He makes a
wild charge, and away they go around
the arena. At last the cowboy sees his
opportunity. The lariat leaves his hand
and by a dexterous twist of the loop
tightens about one of the flying feet
of the steer. With crash the animal
falls. The little COW pony, just as the
moose has caught about the feet of the
steer has stopped suddenly and braced
himself for the shock. The lariat is
fSmly twisted about the horn of the
saddle, and naturally there is nothing
but tumble for the animal.
Almost before the steer has touched
the earth the cowboy is at the animals
side. The pony stands braced against
the rope. The steers hoofs are beating
the air in every direction. and blow
from one of them means death or seri-
Gus injury. But the cowboy, ducking
this way and that, throws moose here
and loop there. The flying hoofs are
brought together with a tug, and the
steer is helpless, with all four feet per
fectly "hog tied"
While the COW pony still stands
braced against the rope the judges ride
up to inspect the work. Every detail
of the tying is taken IN with practieed
eyes. Usually a steer is left on the
ground five minutes in order to give it
a chance to wriggle free. If within
that time it can kick so much as one
hoof ont of the knots the cowboy is dis
qualified.
If McGonigal. Blackaller and Fitch
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25
FASHIONS FOR MEN.
London DEGREES Many Changes In
Clothing For the Summer.

London DEGREES Many Changes In
Clothing For the Summer.
According to the Tailor and Cutter Of
London, mems fashions this spring are
remarkable for the many changes that
will characterize the clothes of well
dressed men.
The sack coats will be cut long, with
a three seam back, a long vent up the
center seam. decided shaping to the
figure, long rolling front and an abo-
lition in many cases of the outside
breast and ticket pockets and fronts.
They will be finished with the corners
moderately rounded away.
Morning coats, or four button cut
Always, are to be cut long. fitting the
waist very closely, the fronts rolling
low and worn fastened at the waist.
Quite a number of these are being
made with fat braid edges. Frocks and
summer Chesterfields are also made to
roll low. Vests are cut with no collar,
there being a decided change in favor
of a single breasted style. White vest
slips are worn by all the smartest
men. Trousers are cut narrow in the
leg and are smartly shaped.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25

Of presenting arms" as a mark of re-
spect, and he has issued orders to men
and officers alike bidding them to adj
dress their superiors in "a familiar and
conversational style
Military critics claim to see the i'm
mediate result of Andres policy in the
recent display of INSTRUMENTATION at
Poictiers, when sixty troopers stayed
ont al niscb5-against the orders of their
commanding officer and were sent to
Algiers in consequence.
Perhaps, however, most fault has re-
Gently been found with the minister OF
war on account of his action in the
case of the commanding officers of the
Poitiers garrison. Besides transfer
ring to Africa the mutinous soldiers
General Andre removed n brigadier
and three colonies for no cause except
that they were in command of the re-
calcitrants.
Now, however, it has leaked out that
the offense of these officers in the Sc
we're eyes of the anticlerical minister of
war was that their wives had not long
since taken part in a Catholic charita-
bic bazaar. A rather similar case in
which, it is alleged, General Andre al
lowed his personal creed to overweight
the scales of justice was that of two
officers mixed up in a garrison quarrel.
The one of rOyalist tendencies was
alone disciplined. This so Disguised
General Tournier, who was in COM
mand, that he resigned.
General Andre, who began his mill
tary career as lieutenant in the i'm
perial guard, is Il great favorite with
''dumanet,'' as the common soldier is
called in France. In the French cham
Der of deputies, however, he is far
from popular, no less than four votes
on army expenses having recently been
carried against him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25
ROPING ! THE STEER.
HOW THE PRESIDENT MAY BE EN-
TERTAINED AT CHEYENNE.

| Champion Cow Punchers of Texas
| Oklahoma and wyoming to Meet
In Cattle Throwing BOut-Records
Made In the Arena-The Cow Pony,
Unless present plans fail President
Roosevelt will witness a cowboy, roping
and steer tying contest between'the ac-
knowledged champions of Texas, Wyo-
ming and Oklahoma when he visits
Cheyenne on May 4. Texas and Okla
homa cowboys met in contest recent
ly at San Antonio, and the Oklahoma
punchers won owing to the remarkable
work of Clay McGoniga1, who took first
prize, 81 900. L. E. Blaekaller of Texas
was second. only a shade behind Nc
Gonigal, winning $500.
Shortly before this contest one was
held at Cheyenne, Wyo., at which w.
e. Fitch carried of the honors. Eff
forts are now being made TO get these
three cowboys together in contest for
supremacy and to hold the contest at
Cheyenne on the occasion of the presi-
dents visit. The prospects are good
for the meeting taking place, and there
is no doubt that the man who wins will
be entitled to the honors as the cham
pion cowboy of the world.
These roping contests are growing in
favor in the west, and they afford ex-
element for thousands of spectators
besides settling the supremacy of one
section over another as to the skill of
their respective champions. This years
contest at San Antonio was n three
days affair and was attended by thou
sands of spectators. There was bitter
rivalry between the Texas and Okla
homa punchers, the LATTER only winning
because of n particularly brilliant piece
of roping on the part of Clay McGoni-
gal.
Some idea of the closeness of the
contest may be cleaned from the Off
cial records of the second day. On that
day the Oklahoma boysroped nine steers
in On. BIS, and the Texas cowboys
Toped a like number of steers III ON.
49s. McGonigal made some remarkable
individual scores, one steer being rOped
in and tied in % seconds Blackaller
at the same contest did even better in
one instance. reaching the phenomenal
figures of ~ % seconds.
w. f. Fitch, who won the contest at
Cheyenne, is one of the best known
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25
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Not in recent years has Wall street
been so interested in a financial fight
as in the contest waged between James
r. Keene and Z. H Hartman for the
control of the Southern Pacific railway
with its 5000 miles of road. 1t is a
tribute to the remarkable power and
skill in dealing with financial subjects
able to conduct n campaign of so much
Importance while lying in bed at a
New York hotel. For twelve weeks,
during the hottest of the contest, which
was going on both in the courts and in
Wall street, Mr.. Keene was confined to
his room, his left leg in a plaster cast.
1t is interesting to note just how Mr..
Keene was drawn into this aggressive
fight. For several years he has been
making 4 study Of the condition of the
Southern Pacific system. He has prob
ably one of the best organized statistic
al bureaus in the country, covering ali
sections of the United States, together
with a corps of high salaried investi-
gators maintained at tremendous cost.
Their duty is to furnish him absolutely
true reports of the condition of the va
rious railroad properties of the country.
In the course of Investigations thus
made Mr.. Keenes attention was at
tracted to the fact that Southern Pa
cific was the lowest priced stock with
a good promise in the market. As Il re
suit of these Investigations Mr.. Keene
held conferences with L. II. Hartman,
the ostenSible head of the Southern Pa
cific and from whom. it is alleged, Mr..
Keene had assurances that the South
ern Pacific company should be put on
q > per cent basis. AS result of these
assurances Mr.. Keene was instrument
tai in forming Il pool in January, 1902,
having for its primary object the main
tenance of the Southern Pacific stock.
Then Keene and Hartman had a
falling out, and the fight was on. The
Keene pool has since dissolved. but
Mr.. Keene will continue to hold his
stock and press his suit against Union
Pacific control of the Southern Pacific
road, which is the real bone of conten-
ton.
James Il. Keene is not 4 Virginian by
birth. but Virginia was his boyhood
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25
NEW DREDGING METHOD.
The Transport Grant VIII BE Used
to Deepen the Columbia.

The Transport Grant VIII BE Used
to Deepen the Columbia.
A new method of dredging harbors
is shortly to be put into execution by
the war department on the Pacific
coast, and something of the kind may
be tried on the Atlantic coast. says a
Washington special to the New York
Times One of the government trans
ports, the Grant, which is no longer
needed for the transport service, is be-
ing turned into dredge and is TO be
used for cleaning out the mouth of the
Columbia.
At the time this plan was conceived
an attempt was made to get a trans
port for use on the Atlantic coast, the
idea being to use it at New York and
other points 1t was found, however,
that none of the transports on the At
lantic coast could be spared.
The Grant is being fitted up with
large bins and pumps. The pumps will
suck up the soil and deposit it in the
bins, and the vessel will then steam out
to sea and drop the soil into the ocean.
1t was found that an ordinary dredge
would be of no use at the mouth of
the Columbia, where the sea is heavier
than at any other point on the coast.
The transport Will make an ideal
dredge in the opinion of the officers
who have charge of the harbor i'm
provements.
The cost is a great deal less than
that of building an ocean going dredge.
The two that are building for New
York will cost about $35O,OO0 each,
while the work Of fitting up the Grant
will cost only about $4,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25

attended. The men in Jones' factory,
which is run on the modern basis by
which the men share in the benefits
and profits of the concern, two or three
years ago organized brass band. This
band is fully uniformed and equipped,
numbers twenty-five pieces and is thor
oughIy well trained. In fact, it is one
of the best bands in the city. 1t is
called the Golden Rule band, the name
being associated with Mayor Jones and
his beliefs. This band was a feature
at all the meetings.
Mayor Jones breaches Walt Whit
man and the Bible, the Golden Rule.
nonpartisanship and physical culture.
A year or two ago he began a system
of starving himself as part of his meth
cd of physical culture. Despite his fif-
ty-seven years he is very active and
prides himself on his agility. He lives
about a mile from his Office, and it is
nothing unusual to see him start on a
dead run from home, down through the
crowded streets, and make the full mile
at keen gaIlop.
The day after the election Mayor
Jones celebrated his victory by parad-
ing the streets at the head of his fac
tory employees. The Golden Rule band
accompanied the procession. All the
men We're on foot, and each carried a
new broom. Stops were made at the
city hall the newspaper offices and
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the mayoralty solely for the purpose of
| building up a state machine with the
| object of capturing a senatorship or
the governors chair. That the White
House is the goal of his ambition all
agree. Meantime Mr.. Johnson has
nothing to say.
Carter II. Harrison. who has just
been elected mayor of Chicago for the
fourth term, also had the opposition of
the street railways to contend against.
While the regular Democratic candi-
date, he had the support of those who
believe in municipal ownership of trac-
ton companies or in compelling trac-
ton companies to pay just percentage
of receipts for use of the city streets.
Mayor Harrison is one of the most
striking figures in public life in the
west. Though still a young mamie is
in his forty third year-he has a large
following of enthusiastic friends in
Chicago and in the state of Illinois. He
is the eldest son of the late Carter H.
Harrison, who was also mayor of Chi
cago and served five terms in that Of
fee
Mr.. Harrison was first elected mayor
of Chicago in 1891 He was again
elected in 1899, his second term being
won after a famous contest with the
street railway interests. Two years
ago he was again reelected and now
for the fourth time is triumphant. Mr.
Harrison is also credited with having
ambitions and, as they say of Mayor
Johnson, has his eye on the White
House
Most picturesque and unique of all
the mayors is Samuel NJ. Jones, who
has for the fourth time been chosen
chief magistrate of Toledo Golden
Rule Jones, as he is called, conducted
one of the most pyrotechnic and sensa-
tonal campaigns on record. Six years
ago he was first elected as a Republic
an. Two years later he was defeated
for denomination in the convention
and thereupon ran as an Independent.
In the campaign that followed he re-
ceived more votes than the Democratic
and Republican candidates put togeth-
er. Two years ago the Democrats
made no nomination, and Jones was
again elected.
Since then the strongest political ma
chine Toledo has ever known has been
organized and put forth every effort
to retire him from office. But once
again Jones was triumphant.
When Jones announced his candida
cy for the fourth time, not newspa-
per in the city would print his procla-
nation as matter of news, and only
one, Democratic daily, would accept
it as advertising matter. The others
refused to print it, even though paid
at double rates, unless it should be
scheduled as advertising.
Jones then entered upon the hottest
kind of campaign. He spoke at several
meetings every night preceding the
election. and all of them were largely
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25

home. He was born in London of
north of Ireland stock, but early in life
was brought to this country by his IA
Their, who came here to mend his shat
tered fortune. 1t was in the west, how
ever, that Keene rounded out his young
manhood. He had begun the study of
law, but it was distasteful. In Shasta
county, Cal, he was successfully COW
puncher, newspaper reporter, an editor,
a school teacher. and at one time he
took to milk peddling for a livelihood.
He drifted to San Francisco in the
days when the gold mining fever was
at its height. He had $4,000 which he
had got together at Virginia City, New.
After many vicissitudes on the San
Francisco Mining Exchange he finally
made a strike when the Bonanza mines
bubble burst This netted him $3,O00,-
600.
Moving then to New York, Mr.. Keene
increased his fortune by several mil
lions during the next two years. In
the late seventies misfortune overlook
him, and in a famous battle with Jay
Gould he is said to have lost nearly his
entire fortune.
James r. Keene has the unique dis
tinction of having won and lost in spec
ulation probably half dozen fortunes
that rank in the millions. Financially
speaking he has been laid on the shelf
time and time again. But he has never
stayed there. He is worth more money
today probably than the aggregate OF
all his losings. He is credited with pos
sessing anywhere from $15.0O0000 to
500, 100000.
AS soon as his sprained knee will per
NIT Mr.. Keene will take his usual sum-
mer trip abroad. He viii spend the
summer in England on an estate which
has been leased by his son. Next fall
Mr.. Keene will doubtless resume his
activities in Wall street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25
KNOWS THE INDIAN.

why HamIin Garland Has Been ChO-
sen to Rename the Red Men.
Hamiin Garland. the author who has
just been appointed by President
Roosevelt to supervise the work of re-
naming the Indians. is probably better
qualified for the work than any other
person, as he has lived among the
western Indians and has learned the
significance of the queer nomenclature
of the red men.
The work of remaining the Indians IS
for the purpose of preventing cOnfu-
sion in identification. There are so
many Bears, Elks, Eagles, etc, that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25
DENOUNCED HER LAWYER,
Lady Francis Cook, Who Threaten
London With = Sensation.

London With = Sensation.
Lady Francis Cook, who was for
merly Tennessee Claf1in, one of the
most talked of women in this country,
has startled London by threatening TO
make revelations that she says viii
cause a sensation in the British capt.
tai some time next May. 1t all came
about in this way: A few weeks ago
Lady Cook was sued by her former
private secretary, a man named Wal
lace, for libel. After a short trial, in
which Lady Cook was not permitted to
testify, Wallace got verdict of 81, 500.
When the verdict was announced,
Lady Cook jumped up in court and de-
nOunced her lawyer, Sir Edward Clark,
a noted British legal light, for refusing
to allow her to testify. She was fairly
bursting with revelations that she was
prepared to make. but that various dis
tinguished folks did not want to have
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25

other points of interest. At each stop
the mayor mounted an elevation and
started some rallying song. When
speeches We're called for, he talked of
the equality of man and referred to his
election as a victory for the people.
Mayor Jones is a Welshman by birth,
so that puts him out of the running as
a presidential possibility. Thus while
the hopes of some have been blighted
the recent municipal elections have
frightened the prospects of at least
three of the victors for further polit-
ical preferment.