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The daily palladium., 1904-08-09
QUEER NAMES
Get Into the Postal Guide, But Au-
thorities are Strict.

! The little furry incident to the re-
/ fusal OF the Postoffice Department to
name Mississippi postot1ice after the
governor Of that State calls attention
/ to the fact that the Postal Guide does
not make bad summer reading. A
perusal Of its 700 or 500 pages may
become tlresome In time. but the scru-
tiny will be relieved occasionally by
bright bits of humor that will make
the reading worth while.
The Postoffice Department has a
few set rules that are enforced In the
hope of keeping names Of postot1ices
within certain bounds of reason. AS
Is now pretty we'll known. the govern
ment discourages the bestowal of long
MONIES on little towns. 1t also insists,
where practicable. that words Of one
or two syllables be selected. EXcep-
tions to this rule are made when it is
desired to give to locality a histor-
ical name or one that has become To-
cal by long usage The department
frOwns on the custom of prefiXing
East. - "Old,' "North, - "South, -
or "West' to the name of postof1ice
and also objects to such additions as
"Burg," "Center,' "City," "Cor-
ners," "Creek,' "Cross Roads, -
Etc.
Whenever practicable the villagers
are given free rein in the selection of
postoffice name, but if the chosen
appellation threatens to become con-
fused with a town of the same name
in another State, then the authorities
require new choice. Thus, if there
is a Smithville in Indiana, the de-
partment will not approve an applica-
ton for Smithville in Maryland, be-
cause the abbreviation of the two
States-Md. and Ind.-is apt to cause
trouble. The same rule applies to
Pennsylvania and Virginia, and to
Minnesota and Mississippi.
cup in Alaska they have a place
called Cold Feet said an old Post
office Department employe today,
"and after they struck oil out in Ohio
they named thriving town Greasy
Ridge. Then, down in South Carolina
there is a hamlet listed in the Postal
Guide as Nine Times. West Virginia
goes five better with a Fourteen, and
so on down the list.'
In 1895 a reform was instituted in
the naming of postoffices, and at the
same time the Postal Guide was re-
vised with a big blue pencil. Such
name as Robbers Roost and He'll s
Retreat were stricken out, and the To-
cal inhabitants were required to sug-
gest less startling names Or else they
were conferred outright by the de-
partment. Since then more care has
been taken in the selection of names,
and there has also been a systematic
effort to preserve euphony in titles.
The daily palladium., 1904-08-09
THE NATIONAL GAME
Scores of Current Games in the Three
Big Leagues.

NATIONAL LEAGUE.
At Philadelphia, 15 Pittsburg, s.
At Boston, L; Cincinnati. 4.
At Brooklyn. 1; Chicago, 4.
At New York, 4 st. Louis, 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
At st. Louis. 1; Washington, 9.
At Chicago. 5; Philadelphia, 6.
At Cleveland, 9; New York, 1.
At Detroit 2; Boston, O.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
At Indianapolis, B; Milwaukee. 6.
Second game, indianapolis, 1; Milwau-
kee, 2.
At Toledo. O.; Minneapolis, T.
AT Columbus, z; Kansas City, 8.
At Louisville, 4; st. Paul. IL.
The daily palladium., 1904-08-09
AN EARLY CAMPAIGN
Opening Gun May 3. Fired lcncr
t~rf.s Than First Expected.

Indianapolis. Aug. o.--The Ropubi.
cans VIII probably open their speak
ing campaign somewhat earlier than
expected Chairman Lyons of the
speakers bureau said today that he
is planning the itinerary OF J, Frank
Hanly. the candidate for governor, and
several others who will take a very
prominent part. II has been the under
standing that there would be no speak
ing until between the 18th and 10th
of September. but Chairman Lyons
said that Mr.. Hanly VIII open his cam
paign at Rushville the 8th Of the
month. He is TO speak in every cou0-
ty, if possible. If he starts on the Sth
he will have to double in many days
to make the entire tour. which is as
signed as one OF the reasons for the
early start, but it is believed that il
is the purpose of the Republicans 10
take the initiative in the campaign
fully a fortnight earlier than original
ly announced. Chairman Lyons said
today, however, that the date fer the
general opening of the campaign III
this state has not been fixed Secre-
tary Kelley of the Democratic state
committee also made a similar state
ment today.
The daily palladium., 1904-08-09
Powerful Alliance Pre- jected.

Indianapolis, Aug. 9.-Twenty men
representing upward of million union
workmen are meeting at the Denison
hotel for the purpose of perfecting the
organization of the Structural Building
Trades Alliance, which promises to be
one of the largest and most powerful
federations Of union labor in the world.
The daily palladium., 1904-08-09
THE SULTAN
Will Most Likely Yield to America S
Demand.
(BV Associated Press. J

6 (By Associated Press.)
Berlin, August 9.-Secretary Hay s
course toward Turkey is regarded in
official circles here as perfectly justi-
fable and is expected that the sultan
will yield to the American demand
before the demonstration at Smyrna
reaches serious aspect.
The daily palladium., 1904-08-09
Headache
Biliousness, sour stomach, constipa-
tion and all liver ills are cured by
Hoods Pills

The non-irritating cathartic. Price
rs cents. OF all druggists or by mail
of c. /. Hood Co., Lowell. Mass.
The daily palladium., 1904-08-09

The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of Whitewater quarterly meet
ing of Friends, will meet at the home
Of Mrs. Eva Wiggins, 211 North Fif-
teenth street, tomorrow, at quarter
past two O'Clock. At roll call each
member is expected to respond with a
verse on the subject of "giving.'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
LOCAL VICTIMS OF E. ARNOLD
WILL GET 2 CENTS ON IOLLAR

st. Louis. May 17.-Walter ID. Coles,
referee in bankruptcy for the eastern
division of the eastern judicial district
of Missouri, has issued official notice
to creditors that first and final divi-
dend has been declared upon all APP
proved claims against the estate OF
the bankrupt +. j. Arnold & Co. The
amount of the dividend will be cents
on the dollar.
+. j. Arnold d Co. will be remem-
bered as the ''get-rich-Qulck' con-
concern, and, incidentally, as the
turf investment company which, until
Il year ago last February. did business
in this city. with headquarters in the
Benoist building. The company, when
il went under. had been in business in
- seemingly more or less flourishing
way for about four years. II did ex-
tcnsive advertising in nearly every
cit in the United States. anC. through
is offer Of an unreasonabIy large per
cent Of interest on money deposited
with the firm il succeeded in dipping
thousands of people. At the time
it went to the wall the company's liza
bilities were about $3,OO0.OOO and its
assets $4,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
UNION MISSION MAY TAKE
IN .UkROUNDING COUNTIES

There is likelihood of the Union Mis-
sion, which has confined its work to
Rock Island county. eXte ndng its use
fulneSS to surrounding counties, some
of the latter having expressed a wish
to have the privilege of sending de
pendcnts to an institution of this kind
instead of the poor houses. The mat
ter of broadening the scope Of the
mission was discussed at meeting
of the directors and number of
friends of the institution held last eve
ming at the home of Mrs. j. s. Gill
more. in Moline. \ committee was
appointed to investigate this ana 9th
er points Bearing on the future of the
mission and report at another meet
ing at the home of Mrs. W. c. Bennett
in Moline Monday evening of next
week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
PRINCE PU LUN DOES TIE
HANDSOME IN WAY OF TIP:

81. LCu-s. Ma, I..-Ihgre l. no Gouot
in the minds OF the~attaches of the
Washington hotel that Prince Pm Lun
is q real prince and knows how 10 up
hold the dignity of the office. And Mr..
Wong, the vice commissioner. is a
prince, too. if YOU ask the walters,
chefs or beHboys at the Washington
about il. Whatever doubts the at
taches might have had about the mat
ter were gloriously Gissipated when
the prince and his retinue were at the
eve of taking their departure for
Chicago.
The prince. or Mr.. Wong for him.
did rot forget the people who had
looked after his wants so carefully
for three weeks There was some
thing doing" for every one of them,
and it wasn't silver. either, but bank
notes. The money was turned over
to Manager Knapp by Mr.. Wong for
distribution. Richard Noll<. the waiter
who served the prince throughout his
visit. drew the capital prize. 1t was n
500 bill. The chef and his assistants
got as much more. and still larger
amount was split up among the bell
boys, so that each one got $40. Then
come the head waiter ana some of
his functionaries for neat sum: then
the porters, the chamhermaids and all
the rest who even so much as locked
into the royal apartments. Last. but
not least. were the hello" girls, who
received $50 each.
The exact figures are lacking. but
somewhere between $500 and $1,000
was distributed. And the attaches are
patiently awaiting the return OF the
prince. They want to show him how
nice they can be.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
Aa,ertI.ea Letter List No. 20.

Letters remaining uncalled for in
the Rock Island postofice for the
week ending May Il. 1904: Roy Baker
Z. y Eau'ing Z w Baker. Mrs. Annie
COL r. + Dunn ia he'll Erics on.
Thomas W. Grammar. Mrs. Mamie
Hoon. Fred Hoerer. Mrs. :. +. johnson,
James Kearney. Guy NJ. Lisk. John NJ.
Locke. Miss Pearl Millhorn. b. +. Mil
Ter. Mrs. Min. Miller. W. =. Moore.
Novas Nonin. \. NJ. Nassr (2). George
". Nelson. Mrs. Johnnie Phillips. Nor
man F. Pierce. J. II. Self. Mrs. Louise
Swope. Jr.. John Shield +. J. Skinner,
John SchieH. Band Wisler, Miss Ellie
Wood Miss Laura A. Morton. For
eigu: " Kal.
7. H. THOMAS, p. VI.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
RALPH HARIWELL, ARSENAL
FOREMAN, WEEDS IN DAvENPoT

Ralph w. Hartwell, of this city, and
Miss Dorothy Taylor, of Davenport.
were married last evening at the home
of the parents of the bride, Mr.. and
Mrs. Is. f. Taylor. 800 West Third
street. The wedding was on rather
elaborate scale. about 20 guests being
present. Rev. w. II. Blancke, of St.
Paurs Lutheran Evangelical church,
ofiiciated. The couple will reside at
1915 fremont avenue, Davenport. Mr..
Hartweu is a veteran of the Philippine
campaign, and is now employed as
foreman at Rock Island arsenal He
formerly lived at Challacomb, III.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
DUST FROM DIAMOND.

Gwin, released by Davenport, played
short fer Rockford yesterday. and
made an error that gave Decatur -four
runs, enough to win the game.
The Rock Island team brought the
arsenal along and had ammunition TO
burn in Sundays game" is the way
the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald sized
up the situation.
Umpire Cusack had trouble at Sioux
City in the Western Sunday. forteiting
the game to that city on account of
the abuse Of the members of the Des
Moines team. President Sexton re-
ceived reports of the affair To-Day.
Maurice Smith, the Colts catcher.
injured in the game at Cedar Rapids.
Saturday. arrived in the city yester-
day. and went to his home in Cam
bridge. Tie thinks he viii be able to
reicin The team the first of next week.
President Sexton of the local associ-
alton has a letter from Manager
Thornt on- cling him of the signing of
Corkhill. the left fielder released by
Davenport. Thornton thinks CorkhiI1
viii make one of the fastest felders
in the league.
President Sexton, Of the Western
league, TO-DAY wired suspension of
Pitcher McNecly of the Colorado
Springs team Who Sunday night as
saulted President Chamberlin Of the
St. Joe club while on a sleeping car
en- route from st. Joe to Omaha. He
Will be on the bench five days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
BILLY KERsAND'S MINSTRELs
TO SHOW HERE SATURDAY

The Little Rock Gazette of Oct &c,
says: Billy Kersand's MINISTRIES had
an audience which literally packed
balcony and gallery and filled the
parquet last night at the Capital thea.
tire, and kept it i'll hilarious humor
throughout the show. 1t is not too
much to say that it is the best min
strel show seen here this season, white
or cOIored.
Billy himself is about the sole sur
vivor Of the old school Of minstrelsy,
at least. Of his color. 1t is many years
ago that he was the star of Callen-
der's MINISTRIES. and afterwards of
Jack HaverIy's. His work now is what
it used to he in the old days, before
the mctamorphCsis into modern min
strelsy. which has strayed very far
from the old Christy idea. which gave
Us the plantation negro of a time be-
fore the dude city negro had an ex-
istence. He gave the perfect imita-
ton of the old negro parson, and ii
was true enough to life to get his
hearers 'shoutin' if he had kept it up
a little longer. A. it was. it kept all
parts of the house in a roar of laugh
Ter. The old man can shuttle Il foot
yet with the young fellows.
~ strong feature of the vaudeville,
* the musical number of the four
Houslcy Brothers. They render an
overture TO William Tell faultlessly on
the Xylophone. and selections from
Trcvatore on the pendants. besides "a
well executed cornet and trombone
quartet. Another feature is the CON
tortiOn stunt Of Marsh Craig. who
was with the Williams and Walker
company last year. He apparently
has neither bones nor even hard girls
tie fer Il substitute. and he performs
almost incredible feats of tying him
self in a knot. The most difficult CON
sists Of sitting on his head while
he suspends himself by his teeth 10 n
raised support. This is something
quite new.
I'm the first part there are good
voices, and the interlucutory and end
men business is quite up to the aver
age. with no more chestnuts than the
habitue expects to hear. The entire
show is free from anything in the
slightest degree Objectionable. and
they made good sufficiently to secure
IA return engagement in the latter part
of the season. as they did likewise in
Hot Springs" Billy and his show are
here Saturday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
Lnan Association No.,.e-

The Rock Island Mutual building.
Loan < Swing association. the oldest
savings institution in this section of
The state. is now issuing its ssth series
Of stock Regular monthly investments
win corn if 'nf' ~ ----trrr-+v. ppr
cert M + Nffi'raal fore me-
-uritv larger per cent than can be
obtained in any other channel for
savings. All funds are loaned for the
building of Rock Island houses. thus
giving employment to our own citi-
1ens and thereby stimulating home
trade in every channel Mechanics in
the building trades. merchants. and all
citizens interested in the progress of
our city win reap double advantage
through investments in this stock
Z. H. GUYER. Secretary.
Mitchell & Lynde Building.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
POSTMASTERS MAY NOT
GIVE RURAL ROUTE LISTS

Postmasters have been instructed
not to give out lists of names of those
residing on rural routes. Throughout
the country many attempts are being
made by business houses and parties
desiring such lists to secure them
through the postal employees. These
lists when secured are valuable as
mailing lists. The postal laws strict
~ prohibit any employc compiling any
lists of patrons for public use. 1t takes
the time of the employees to do this
work while they are expected to be
doing the regular work assigned them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
CITIZEN GETS PERMISSION
TO GO CUNNING FOR DOGS

Dogs have been playing havoc with
some of the flower beds in the city.
digging them up and destroying the
hopes of citizens to beautify their
premises. The animals have been par
ticularly active on Twenty-third
treet. and today a resident on
that thoroughfare asked permission
from Mayor McConochie to use a shot
gun in defense of his property. Dogs
will do well TO take notice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17

Dubuque, Iowa, May 17.-Both
pitchers were hit rather freely, and
Buelow's home run with two men ON
bases in the seventh inning won the
game for DubuuUe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
Made Young Again.

"One of DR.. Kings New Life Pills
each night for two weeks has put me
in my teens again" writes d. II. Tur-
ner, of Dempseytown, Pa. They're the
best in the world for liver. stomach
and bowels. Purely vegetable. Never
grippe. Only 25 cents, at Hartz & Ulle-
mever's drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
BOTE PITCHERS ARE POUNDED
Lakan Pitted Against Eastman, the
Redskin-Around Cir
cult.
Results Yesterday.

Dubuque 8, Rock Island 6.
Decatur 4, Rockford 3.
Cedar Rapids Z. Springfield ,.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
Cedar RapIds !. sprIprneIn 3.

Cedar Rapids. Iowa, May IL Holmes
pitched fine game and clinched his
victory with Il thrce-bngger in the
eighth inning, sending in two runs
and following himself on an error
Score:
Cedar Rapids ...OOO1O2 go II q
Springfield ......OO1 OOOO2O-3 4
Batteries - Holmes and Ludwig;
Case and Smith.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17

From indigestion's aches and pains,
Your system will be free,
If you'll but take a timely drink
OF Rocky Mountain Tea
T. II. Thomas, pharmacist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
Games Tomorrow

Rock Island at Rockford.
Springfield at Davenport.
Decatur at Cedar Rapids.
Bloomington at Dubuque
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17
Decatur 4. Rockford 3.

Rockford. H., May IL Decatur
punched hits on Jaeger i'm the eighth
and scored enough runs to win. Jae-
ger struck out 10 men. Score:
Rockford OOO21OOOO-3 !
Decatur ......OO OOOOO4O-i l
Batteries-.Taegrr and Stark; Rob
ertshaw and Krebs.
Davenport Game Postponed.
The game at Davenport was post
poned on account of threatening
weather.
In big Leagues
Chicago. May II. - Following are
tie base ball scores:
League: At Boston =.
Cincinnati 1; at Pittsburg-NewY York
;, PittsburG d; at Chicago Brooklyn
s. Chicago Z; at st. LouiS-Weather
Americans: At Washington Chi
cago 3. Washington I; at Philadelphia
st. Louis 4. Philadelphia >; ut New
York-Detroit II. New York q.
Association: At Minneapolis - Co
luInbus 2, Minneapolis Z: at st. Paul
Louisville II. st. Paul II; at Mil
waukee-Indianapoli l. Milwaukee /
at Kansas City-Weather.
Western: At Des Moines - Denver
6. Des Moines 3; at Sioux City and
Omaha-Weather.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-05-17

Regain. Three-base hits-BueIow, Re
gan. Home run-Buelow. Umpire
LObeck
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1904-06-09

Last Friday June 8, was q legal
holiday and the Bank of Winn-
field was closed. That accounts
for so many people looking
s.sour'' after going down to the
bank and finding it closed. June
8 is known in Louisiana as Con-
federate Memorial Day and was
made such and declared q holiday
by the legislature Of 1902.
The sad news was wired here
last Friday that .sUncle Darp'
Morris had died at Machen. He
was the father of Rev. S. L.
Morris and was well known here,
having at one time resided in this
parish. He was sixty or more
years of age and leaves several
grown sons and daughters.
The work of Kidding the Eagle
lot Of the old building took but
three days and the lot was ready
for the new building. Brick i
being placed on the ground and
lit will not be many weeks before
| the new building will begin to as.
sumo shape.
= = =
The glass front has been put II
1.-The new Siess building and it be
| gins to show up. Il wih not b
ready for occupancy. however
before July |, shelving ana coun'
| ters to be added before it can b
occupied.
Singer Sewing Machines art
the. best and are sold on an cas-,
payment plan. See w. @
WILLIAMS, salesman and collector
Winnfisld, La. (mll-tf.
= =
Nj. C. ". Hanna Of St. Mau
lrice vs. here Saturday circula
Z. A-sa-sl~
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1904-06-09

S0AJ
Whe0 ~ vesu q a. university.
Peter Density was q MARRIED man
among "a. In everything b stood head
and shoulders shove The rest Of %
One thing troubled me with refes-
eOce to Density. He bad q little sweet
heart-Aline was the only name I
knew tor her-ln htD native town. and
I feared that by marrying q simple
country girl he would be tess likely 10
attain that career which felt was II
store for him. ! rather hoped be
would marry Olga varenka. a graduate
OF the girls seminary near the md
versity where We studied Olga ap-
peared to me to promise a. much fog
a woman as Density ala for q man.
The only thing had against her wns
that she was unctured with revolution
ary notions. but a. Demky was q man
to DO his own thinking and seemed to
be especially bitter against nihilism I
doubted II che would influence him h
this respect She give sv1dence of b.
ing partial 70 Dnsky. and before hs
wes graduated It seemed plain to ne
that she had won him nrom bin rural
sweetheart Every ons said What .
couple those two wM maks-an inee1leo-
tual and physical visoF.s
After leaving The university coere-
sponded Cor q time with Density. bat
be was too secretive and undemmgtra-
tive for q letter writer. and our core
spondencs was soon dropped sup
posed he was engaged to OaEa va1enka.
bat heard nothing q this q an ap-
preaching marriage One day took up
. newspaper and vas astpu1shed tooes
Z report Of Densky-s arrest The gu~-
eminent gave no reason, and 40 Density
had only been outspoken IN one mat
tn-his antipathy TO the methods Of
nihuism-I naturally supposed bin ar
rest vas one OF The many mfSfnkes
that were. made and chat 10 would
son b restored to liberty
The arrest occurred In St Petersburg.
and hurried there TO BE- Of service y
possible. I was not permitted to see
Densky. called at ths house Of oags
varenka. but was told that she was
% prost1ated On account OF the arrest
that It was not best for her 10 zee any
visitors volunteered my evidence 10
the police a. an intimate friend Of Den
sky. who knew his habits, and swore
that be was bitter1y opposed to nihil
Ism. looked for some favorable -
suit 70 follow my statement. but wa
very much SHOCKED b learn that f0w
days after / h1d given It Density wa
cent, with gang Of political prisonen
70 siberia
Three months passed. during which
my old friend vas IN my mind neaE1y
iii the time. feared be had been In
nuenced to change his views with 70
eard to nihilism BY Olga vaRenka and
that what had hoped would DO Z ben
81 had been tho cauee - hiD ruin
hard frum The c1U that - ~ 91vun