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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-29
RETURNS TO FOLD
Rock IsIand Road Again Member
of the Western Passenger
Association.
SEBASTIAN AGAIN. IN OFFICE
Heals Breach That Threatened 10
Disrupt Combine or
Roads.

| Through Passenger Traffic Manager
John Sebastian the Rock Island gave
notice Saturday that the company
| had decided to reenter the Western
| Passenger association as a full fiedg-
| ed member. The notice was sent to
p. 6. Eustis, chairman or the exeeu-
| tive committee. and il is understood
that the Rock Islands membership
will be gladly received and that Mr..
Sebastian will again be made a MEM
Der of the executive committee.
The return of the Rock Island to
the Western Passenger association
fold heals a wide breach which has ex-
listed in the western passenger world
for more than two years, and which
at times seriously threatened the life
of the organization. The withdrawal
of the road from membership was due
to failure on the part of the associa-
ton lines to accord the Rock Island
an added percentage of the imni-
grant traffic on account of the COM
pany's opening a new FL Paso line.
All requests of the Rock Island were
ignored. the Southern Pacific refusing
even to arbitrate the matter. The
Rock Island accordingly withdrew
from the association and ceased to be
member in any of the pools which
it operates.
Obtained More Than Share.
The Rock Island perfected an alli-
ance with Peter Mcdonald of New
York whereby the company secured
greater proportion of the immi-
grant traffic than had been demanded
of the association. The breach in the
association was further widened by
the organization of a new mileage
bureau which adopted form of tick
ct which the Rock Island did not APP
prove. Up 10 a recent date Mr.. Sebas
tan had been a hold-over member of
the executive committee, but at the
recent election his place was left va
cant. During the detection of the
company from the associate the
Rock Island continued to observe
agreements which were made by the
organization. thereby avoiding becpm
ing disturbing element in the rate
situation.
The Burlington road is planning to
build a new bridge across Rock river
at Sterling this year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-29

1t is Goodbye forever" from AIDE.
lima Patti to Chicago instead of ''Once
more. farewell" as the placards have
it. Mime. Patti was TO sing in the
Auditorium tonight. but the hand
of fate in the shape of small advance
sales has decreed otherwise. Nine.
Patti has cancelled her Chicago en-
gagement. The story is briefly tolq
by reading between the lines of the
following telegram from indianapolis,
received at 4 O'Clock yesterday after
noon at the Auditorium Annex by hel
representative, julius L. Francke:
Madame i'll with cold. Impossible
to go to Chicago. Weather here eX-
ceedingly bad for her to go out. Ar
range to cancel date.
IF. M'KEIGE, Treasurer"
The tour of Nine. Patti seems to
have been n record breaker thus far
in point of cancellation of engage
ments on one pretext or another. En-
gagements were cancelled at Syracuse.
Y. Y; Scranton, Pa; Butte. Mont,
and other points, apparently because
the advance sales did not meet the ex-
pectations of the management. AT
Philadelphia last Wednesday the sing
er did not appear because Anton Heg
ner, 'cellist, formerly with the com
pany, had attached the box office re-
ceipts for claim of back salary.
Robert Grau, manager of the tour,
was in Chicago last Monday when the
sale of seats was opened at the Audi
forum. He staid until Thursday and
of hn11f
as to where he was going.
The report of the Philadelphia at
tachment of receipts had reached him
before his departure. The SUPPOSE
tion is that he went towards Philadel-
phia and probably intercepted the
at Pittsburg.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-29
KNOX NAY ABANDON TIE
HIGH SCHOOL TRACK MEET

At n meeting of the Knox athletic
board of control TO consider the pros
poets for holding a high school track
meet under the auspices of Knox col
lege this spring il was decided that
while the general sentiment was in
favor of holding such a meet, there
was danger of antagonizing the high
schools of the Military Tract if the
meet was again held in connection
with the Western Illinois inter-schol-
astic meet as was done last year. No
definite action was taken, but there
is strong probability that the meet
will be abandoned, at least for this
year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-29

hereafter none but boards owned or
leased by the theatres win he used.
1t IS claimed that with these reforms
the theatres can save thousands of
dollars annually.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-29

March 1.-"Hoity TOity."
March 2-Creatore's Italian band.
Miss Inez Forman. an emotional act
ress of considerable power, supported
by the veteran, John Dillon, gave a
pleasing performance of East
Lynne" here last evening.
Walker Whiteside, than whom no
more capable actor visits Rock ISL
and. was here for n return engage
ment Saturday, playing his new
piece, I'VE Are King" in the after
noon. and Hamlet in the evening
The patronage was not what it should
have been at either. Both plays were
admirably presented, both as to the
personnel of the company and the
attention to detail which character
ICES all the dramas that are directed
by Mr.. Whiteside.
Creatore is enjoying a big business
over the country. and doubtless he
will maintain his record when he
plays here Wednesday evening.
Clean comedy, with plenty of good
singing. etc, is the menu at the ILL
nois tomorrow evening. when 'Hoity
Toity" will be offered by the Weber
and Fields company. The two famous
comedians, il should be understood,
are not to be here. They are on the
Pacific coast with their New York
Casino company, but the organiza-
ton that comes here is represented
to be first class in all respects, the
men TO whom have been entrusted the
roles created by Weber and Fields not
being far behind them in the fun max
ing line.
The free list" evil is now held by
Chicago theatre managers to be ac-
countable in a large measure for lax
ity in the enforcement of laws relat-
ing to theatres. Ii is the plan of the
new theatre managers protective as
sociatiOn of that city 10 wipe out the
free list" Although theatre men de-
ny a permanent organization has been
effected. il is reported that the asso-
citation has been formed and that an
initiation fee of 500 has been requir-
ed from each owner or active manag-
er OF playhouse. 1t is proposed by
the managers 10 enter into a compact
whereby the use of Autographs in
store windows may he discontinued,
as it is this species of advertising that
accounts in a large measure for the
free list" a similar plan is propos-
ed in reference 10 billboards, so that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-29
Baseball.


President Hollands suggestion that
substitute umpires he appointed in
each city in the league, to be called
upon in case the regular man failed
to appear, was received with APPROX.
al at the Chicago meeting Of the
Three-Eye. He asked each city to Sc
lect a man, and three selected candi-
dates. Springfield named Charles
Morgan, Rockford II. L. Memoir and
Bloomington Az Moore. Others will
be named later. The league has had
much trouble in the past when play
ers were called upon to serve as UNI
pires. No provision is made for the
pay of the players when they serve
in this capacity, and the work is dis
tasteful to them. The new system
will result in an umpire for every
game and no disappointment for the
spectators.
President Holland and Manager
Hayes of Davenport have been looking
after the question of reduced rates
by the railroads, and for a series of
excursions to all cities where Sunday
and holiday games are to be played.
The roads are willing to cooperate
with the league, and advantageous ar
engagements will doubtless be made.
Jake" Stahl, we'll known as the
star catcher of the University of Hi
nOis, has passed the examination fer
admission to the bar of Illinois.
Galesburg has given up all hope of
getting a professional baseball team
in any sort of league this year. ana
il is given out that, no further efforts
in this direction will be made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-29
ODE Stage.

March 1.-"Hoity TOity.'
March 2.-Creatore's Italian band.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-29

Miss Bell Hervey Harper, who was
recently member of the Bostonians,
has been married to Col. Joseph b.
Hughes, retired capitalist. The we'd
ding, which took place in the Holland
house, Chicago, came as a surprise to
the friends Of the bride and bride
groom, as no previous announcement
had been made. Col. Hughes is said
to have made division of his estate,
settling One-half. amounting to $780,,
600. on his son and the other half up
on his bride.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-29
AUGUsTAHA CAPTURES
BOTH GAMES AT MACOMB

Both games played at Macomb were
won by the Augustana boys and
girls basketball teams, the scores be-
ing 81 to and Z TO 6. The local teams
were composed as follows: Girls
Misses Torrel and Iindahl. forwards;
Marquis, center; Myers and EngstrOm,
guards Boys-W. Pearson and L.
Pearson, forwards; Olson, center;
Purn and Johnson, guards. The teams
arrived home yesterday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-29
LOOK TOLABOR DAY
Rocx Island Industrial Home As.
ISOLATION Preparing to
be Host.
NEW CORPS OF OFFICERS CHOSEN
Assessment Plan Works Well and
viii Probably be Con.
Ilnued.

The Rock Island Industrial Home
association has already begun to plan
for the entertainment of the other
labor bodies of the tri-cities and sur
rounding towns at the Labor day eel.
ebration which comes here next Sep
TENDER. and n committee has been ap-
pointed to look after this feature
composed of j. W. Cavanaugh, Harry
Lewis and Otto Rain.
The association has begun u new
year of its existence with the selec-
ton of new board of trustees con-
sisting of H. B. Daugherty, Chris
Lange, j. w. Wilson, /. l.. Cool, j. W.
Cavanaugh, Albert Schneider, Harry
Lewis. Perry Shipman, Victor Wolken-
schafter and George NJ. Allender. The
trustees have elected the following
officers:
President. L. Cool.
Vice President-Chris LANCE.
Secretary. w. Cavanaugh.
Treasurer-John w. Wilson.
The unions now represented in the
association are the Carpenters, Iron
holders, Painters, Laborers' Protec-
tive. Cigar Makers, Brick Layers,
Wood Workers. Tailors'. Brewery
Workers, Stone Masons', Retail
Clerks, Machinists', Blacksmiths'
BARRIERS, Printers, Pressmen,s EX-
press Drivers, Plumbers, Sheet Metal
Workers and Stone Cutters
In Good Financial Condition.
The affairs of the association are in
a prosperous condition. The interest
on the Indebtedness has been paid. to-
gether with $500 of the principal. The
plan of levying an assessment of 81
per member upon those belonging to
the associated unions, instead of hold
ing an annual fair or otherwise at
tempting to raise funds by outside
means. has proved so successful that
it is likely it will be resorted to again
this year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-03

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sLlPPERlEsT DAY IN CONGRESS.
Mr.. Mann Plays Mean Trick on the
Father of the House.
the washington Post

From the Washington Post.
The speakers lobby directly back OF
the hall of representatives, was trans
formed this morning into an improyised
skating rink. The floor is marble and
slippery under ordinary conditions. This
morning Representative Mann, a men,
Der of the committee on commerce,
started to go upon the floor of the house
carrying several bottles of preserves to
be used as exhibits in the discussion
of the Hepburn pure food bill.
The swinging door struck him and he
dropped a quart bottle of olive oil which
quickly spread over the lobby. Now
olive oil when spread upon a marble floor
makes the said floor decidedly slippery,
and the person who attempts to walk
upon it is likely to appear "groggy"
General Bingham, the father of the
house, in all his dignity, came along,
his head high in the air. No sooner had
he stepped upon the olive oiled floor
than his pedal extremites shot out from
under him and the veteran Pennsylva-
MIA member struck the floor with a bump
which upset his dignity for the moment.
What he said under his breath is not
considered ar parliamentary language.
He picked himself up, however, as
sprightly as young man of twenty
and went away to have the olive oil re-
moved from his handsome black Prince
Albert coat.
Mr. Cooper of Wisconsin was next in
line, and he likewise "took a tumble
Then the doorkeeper stationed guards
about the oiled portion of the floor until
a scrub woman was summoned. the floor
was washed and the oil removed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-03
ct, and turned off on the market the

net and turned off on the market the
greater the profits
But, as stated, there are other matters
besides feeding that must be observed in
order to make hogs a success. Among
these is cleanliness. Now | know that
some may smile when we come to talk
about keeping a hog clean. for there are
many who think that a hog is by nature
a dirty animal. This is a great mistake,
for all hogs are clean in their habits IL
they only have a chance to be. so that
clean quarters and clean beds should be
provided for the hogs Just the same as
for the horses, or the COWS on the farm.
There is no good sense or economy in
the old practice of crowdng hogs in a
close filthy pen, where the mud is so deep
that it requires a vast amount of extra
feed to produce energy and strength
enough in the hog to enable him to pull
through. Give the hogs clean lots and
keep their beds clean by changing often.
Then do not crowd them too mueh--that
is, do not feed too many in pen, so that
they have to pile upon top of each other
to sleep. Then again. hogs should never
be allowed to sleep in stables manure
piles, nor in or around straw stacks. 1t
Is better to make them. clean beds sepa-
rate and apart from all other stock. Then
again. hogs need some exercise and will
thrive better where they can have room
to walk around as they feel so disposed.
Hogs must have pure, clean water They
need this just the same as does a man or
a horse Never give hog dirty slop
water. 1t Is strange that people have
gotten the idea that just anything is good
enough for hog. Then again. hogs
should be fed regularly and never fed
more than they will eat. Do not pile feed
in around a hog which he does not want.
for this will soon become dirty and clean
feed is ust as necessary as clean water.
Now I have attempted to give a brief
outline of a few of the things necessary
in order to make hog growing paying
business in the south. There is much
more that I should like to say and may
have more later on
SO far | have said nothing as to the
various breeds of hogs. This is matter
largely of choice. left for each individual
grower to decide for himself, and in this
improved age we have so many fine breeds
to select from that no one need make any
mistake. The Polands are fine and so are
Berkshres, and so of many others
Now here is another very important
matter for our people in the SOUTH espe-
cially in the sections where fruits and
vegetables are being grown for market.
Every fruit and vegetable grower should
keep few hogs and to these hogs should
be fed all the small or unfit fruits and
vegetables on the place. Turn these
things into pork, instead of shipping a
poor article to market to come into COM
petition with your good crops for when
such shipments are made the poor goods.
and not the best, control the price. So
that fruit, vegetable and pork growing
should go together and in this way can
both be made to bring in more satisfac-
tory returns.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-03
Peanuts Are Scarce.
I'm the Baltimore Herald.

From the Baltimore Herald.
Is there to be a peanut famine next
In the last two months the wholesale
price has advanced rs per cent in all
the large cities of the east. In Norfolk,
Va. peanuts are now selling for 81 a
bushel. and there is an indication OF
even higher figures being reached.
This Is said to be due to Virginia
corner" on the peanut market. The
peanut belt centers in North Carolina,
Virginia and Tennessee. Spectators
Petersburg, Va, have bought 10000
bags Of peanuts from {. North Carolina
syndicate which had bought them di-
rect from the growers. The deal prac-
tically exhausted the market, and the
spectators in possession of the crop
are now prepared to demand stiff
price.
AS yet the retail price of this tooth
some herbaceous root is unaffected. A
pint of fresh roasted" may be still
be had for cents, and a quart of the
same for 10 cents. A rise of few
cents in the retail price TO peanuts
would be felt by great many more
people than might be supposed. The
lovers of peanuts are numbered by
hundreds of thousands, despite the
protest. of doctors and dietetic ex-
perts.
The shortage in the crop was caused
by the peanut belt being deluged with
rain last summer. What of the crop
did pull through was very late. AS
the importations in peanuts are very
light, being principally from Japan
land those are consumed on the west
ern COAST, the common little peanut
is likely to be a prize article next
spring and summc--tne season when
consumption of it is heaviest.
What a continued shortage in the
peanut crop would mean financially
may be conveyed by the statement
that the money value of the United
States peanut crop of two years ago
was equal to the value of the entire
output of the Klondike mines for the
same year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-03
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-03
Desire for lnteroceanic Canal.

oceanic canal we are far more anxious
that 1t shall be constructed without any
faint whatever of national discredit."
lie concluded, however. that the record
made by the government must supply
conclusive proof on one side or the other
of the controversy.
by 1t. and by 1t alone" he said "the
administration must be Judged" adding
for himself he would accept the record as
it has been made by the executive de-
partment and submitted to congress un-
less it.is impeached by something more
than vague suspicion unsupported asser-
ton and wild conjecture, I'VE must pro-
coed upon the assumption that the exeeu-
tive department within its constitutional
prerogatves is actuated by proper mo-
tives' he said "and that 1t is as regard
full of the good name of the country as
either the legislative or judicial depart
ment. Who shall determine what steps
should be taken to make sure peace and
protect our people from harm upon the
line of transit across the isthmus?
"A determined revolution was at hand
under circumstances dissimlar to any
that had preceded it. Bloodshed was an
parently imminent and interruption to the
highway across the isthmus was among
the reasonably many probabilities Mani
testify the duty devolved upon the chief
executive to take such steps as In his
Judgment were necessary to preserve the
lives of Americans and to maintain un-
broken peace. We are not left in uncer-
tainity by what was done by the United
States in connection with the Panama
revolt, for Secretary Hay says emphati-
oally in his note to General Reyes. Janu-
airy l. 1904:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-03
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-03
Rich New Mexican Dies.

Albuquerque, N. NJ, February 2.-M. S.
Otero, probably the wealthiest man in
New Mexico, delegate in congress from
1879 to 1885, and one of the leading business
men of the territory, is dead at his home
here of apoplexy. He was a cousin of M.
C. Otero. at present governor of New
Mexico. A widow and five children sur
vive him.