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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-10
PERSONAL POINTS.

Miss Alberta Princeton, of Paris, H.,
is visiting in Rock Island.
Miss Nora Lindquist, of Denver,
Col. is the guest of Rock Island rela-
tives.
Mrs Harry Collision left this morn
ing for Peoria for few days visit
with friends.
Felix Patterson. of Hannibal. Mo,
arrived in the city last evening for
visit with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs E. F. Fairfield depart
ed last evening for ST. Louis to spend
a week at the exposition.
Mr. and Mrs. John Ohlweiler leave
tonight foi Denver and Colorado
Springs on pleasure trip.
Roy Streckfus. who has been with
the steamer J. S. this season. has re
turned to his home in the city.
Mrs James Carl and daughter Edna
arrived home yesterday after spend
ing a week at the worlds fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry T. Wolter arriv-
ed in the city last night from their
home in Quincy for visit with rela-
tives.
Misses Genevieve French and Flor
Cncc Wadsworth have gone to St.
Louis to spend 10 days i'll seeing the
worlds fair.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lawson and Miss
Della Johnson, of Cedar Rapids. ar
rived in the city this morning for
visit with friends.
NJ II. Jordan and son Harry, who
have been the guests of Rock Island
relatives. departed today for their
home in Kansas City.
Misses Maud and Stella Patterson.
the tri-cities, left last evening for their
home in Nixon, Iowa.
Frank and Guy Ray. who have been
the guests Of relatives here for the
past week. departed last night for their
home in Olympia, Wash.
Mrs. Edwin Tateman and children
Margaret and Anna. departed last
/ evening for their home in Galesburg
after having made a visit here.
| Miss Margaret Eckhart. who has
| been making visit of several months
! in Montgomery, Ala. and other south
ern points. has returned home.
w. w Douds. of Beaver Falls. Pa.
! is visiting his grandmother. Mrs. Flea
nor Wakefield. Mr.. DOuds has been
attending the St. Louis exposition.
| NJ J. Hurley arrived in the city last
evening from his homo in Chicago to
make a few days visit with friends
enroute to St. Louis to visit the worlds
/ fair
Mr. and Mrs. George Hough, who
! have been the guests of Rock Island
relatives for the past week, left last
evening for their home in Madison,
Wis.
/ NJ. H. Sexton left last night for Buffa-
10. TO attend a meeting OF the board of
arbitration of the National association
of baseball leagues, of which ne is a
member.
! Mrs. D. d. Pottiger returned yester-
day afternoon from Maquoketa. Iowa.
where Mr.. Pottiger is undergoing
treatment. She brings the good news
that he is much improved.
r. E. King and L. D. Chambers. who
! have been on a fishing tour ar Victory,
/ Wis. have returned home. James
/ Price. who went with the party. re-
manned for a longer stay in that To-
cality.
q. II. McEwen. local ticket agent
! for the c. 3. & Q road. who with his
( wife, spent the past week il St. Louis.
/ returned home last night. Mr.. and
Mrs. McEwen depart tonight for Chi
cago and Michigan points on a pleas
ure trip.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-10
LOCAL W0ODMEN IN DRILL
Rock Island Battalion Second in the
Prize Drill at Worlds Fair.

The Woodmen forester prize drills
NJ the St. Louis exposition encamp-
mcnt ended yesterday. The winners
were anpounced as follows:
Battalion drill-TOledo. Ohio. first:
combined battalion of the companies
from Rock Island, Davenport and Mon
mouth. second.
Sentry drill - Omaha, Portsmouth,
Ohio: St, Paul. Pueblo. Jackson, Mich;
one prize each; Leeds. S. D.. two prizes
The battalion of which Rock Island
Is part consists of the teams of
Camps 26 and 1850 of this city. Camp
- OF Davenport and Camp 81 of Mon
mouth. Toledo scored 91.6 and the
Rock Island battalion S9G-just two
points difference
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-10
MEN LIKE THE CITY
j. F.. Syrett Condemns IL Q Stories
Appearing in Springfield,
Mass, Papers
CONCERNING ARSENAL MEN
Inspired by One Who Runs Out His
String in Davenport and Re-
turns Home Diseruntled.

]. Y. Syrett is one OF the maChinists
who came last May from Springfield
Mass, to take a position in the new
small arms factory at Rock Island
arsenal Mr.. Syrett has family and
is renting a home at ZIG Fourteenth
and-a-half street. Last Tuesday he
enrolled his daughter at the local high
school Mr.. Syrett has made numerous
friends since locating here.
He is pleased with his work and with
his home and surroundings, and he
states that every other one of the
Springfield contingent living in this
city is, for he has made it a point
to converse with each one of them
on this subject since the publication
of the stories that have been appear
ing in the Springfield papers emanat-
ing ostensibly from men apparently
employed in at the arsenal.
Il dislike nOtOriety," Mr.. Syrett
stated to an Argus reporter. but
cannot refrain from speaking when
there is made an attempt to reflect on
my family and myself and embarrass
us with our employers and friends
The statements printed in the Spring
field papers alleging that the men who
came here from Springfield are dis
satisfied are absolute falsehOOds, and
you are at liberty 20 assert over my
name that they are inspired by dis
gruntled mechanic who has returned
home after having run out his string
here.
Blame His Friends I'm Davenport
This man was boarding in Day
export. When he went on his two
weeks vacation he soon expended his
savings. and then proceeded to Dor
row from his acquaintances and CON
tract bills. When it came time for
him to go back to work he discovered
It would be cheaper for him to move
To square himself at home and to con
ceal the real cause of his failure to
remain at the Rock Island arsenal
he filled the newspapers up with the
reports referred to.
LAS | said before, l am speaking
only for those men who are living i'll
Rock Island but | believe it would be
safe to assert that those whose homes
are in Moline and Davenport. are just
as content, and | wish to reiteratc
that all are thoroughly happy in their
new environment. Wages are higher
here than they are in Springfield. and
working conditions, if anything. are
better. I have found that. with few ex-
ceptions, foOdstuffs are cheaper here
than in Springfield.
Have Been Well Treated Here.
1T is a healthy community to live in.
abundance of vegetation, fresh air and
pure water. Your people have been
kind to us. We have been made to
feel as though we had been here all
our lives, having found a hOspiti-
ableness among your people that has
made it exceedingly easy for us to get
along. For one, unless there happens
something that I know not of, Rock
Island is my permanent home 1t is
good enough for me, and for any other
mortal. Those stories printed in the
Springfield papers are the imaginngs
of man who is at war with himself
and the whole world. The community
ought to be glad to get rid of him
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-10
Fred oubbs Dies in Texas.

Fred r. Grubbs. son of +. L. Grubbs.
Who was ticket agent for the Rurling-
ton at GaIva for over 30 years, died in
Texas. He was % years Of age and
married. The remains arrived in Gal
va yesterday for burial
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-10
An Early Morning Find.

Nose Meyers tcOIored) was walking
along Fifth avenue and Fourth street
az O'Clock this morning when he es-
pied a gold watch lying on the ground
He picked it up, and opening IL found
he name of F Sundquist on the in
side. The police were notified of the
ind and the watch restored TO Mr..
SundQuist
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-10
Miss Johnson college Instructress.

Miss Clara Johnson. of this city.
eft last evening for Lamont. low
where she has been appointed head of
the department Of stenography and
allied studies al Graceland college.
Miss Johnson taught stenoEraphy for
some time in Davenport in a CONNER
riaI school
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-10
Cox Family Reunion.

The reunion of the Cox family is
being held today at CampbeIl's island.
There are about one hundred present.
Alpha sent 80 members of the family.
yuma. %; Chicago. seven. and a half
dozen came from different points in
Iowa. There are 80 from Rock Island
and Moline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-10
DoubIe-Headers on the eurIina,on.

On account Of the heavy worlds fair
traffic. the Burlington road is running
doubia-headers on day passenger trains
between here and St. Louis. There are
two conductors on the day trains also.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09

Will Of William n. Hickman.
The will of William H. Hickman, dated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09
Blind Telephone Operator.

From the Boston Transcript.
Mrs Emma Magoon Post of North Eng
lish, Iowa, is totally blind, yet she success
fully manages the telephone exchange for
the town and the surrounding country and
has over three hundred subscribers on the
lines she operates. A striking feature Of
this remarkable exchange is its system OF
bell signals. Each line Is provided with a
special bell of special tone and those bells
are all mounted in a cabinet few feet from
the switchboard.
There are large bells, small bells, wire
clocks, gongs, sleigh bells and high-keyed
bicycle bells. fine bit of steel wire four
inches long is soldered to each bell hammer
and a square sheet of paper attached to
this wire bears the line, name or number
forming a visual signal for the assistant
operator who can see. The bell cabinet ID
so situated that the paper squares may be
plainly seen from the operators seat
Mrs. Post is able to distinguish not only
each one OF the forty-fiye bells by its pc
culiar tone, but also the voices of hundreds
of men. women and children whom she
serves. She is graduate of Iowa College
for the Blind, and was noted at that insti-
tuition for quick and retentive memory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09
CLIMATE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Health on the Islands Depends Upon
the Resident.
From the New York Sun.


Secretary Taft has suggested that the
newspapers can "help the American gov
eminent in the Philippines by denying the
lies circulated about the terrible climate
there" In this good work we gladly offer
our cooperation.
The climate of the Philippines is not
at all terrible Many people live there
all the year around AS a climate the
Philippine article has much to recon-
mend it. The resident the visitor has
no uneasness regarding his raiment. He
does not go to business in linen dust
err and curse himself on his way home
for not having carried an ulster In llS
reliability the Philippine climate Is END
lessly the superior of our American brand.
The absence of snow and frost is not nee
essarily a proof of either uncomfortable
or unwholesome conditions. On the con-
trary from time immemorial the great ma
jority of world jewellers have been resident
in either tropical or subtropical regions,
and many have lived to a ripe old age.
Health in the Philippines, in Cuba, in
Porto Rico and in all other similar re-
gions, barring those having vas, areas
of low-lying and miasmatic marsh LANDS,
depends primarily upon the resident, upon
his ability and readiness to adjust him
self and his habits to his environment
The same law holds in New York city with
equal force In no place on earth may
natures laws be violated or ignored with
impunity Due obedience to those laws. in
the Philippines or elsewhere, will insure a
corresponding degree of health, comfort
and longevity. Those to whom hot weather
brings real physical suffering, and there are
such will do well to avoid the tropics or
the edge of them But there are many
who find cold weather cause of suffering
and who find real delight in mean tenn
perature of So degrees The question OF
heat and cold is largely matter OF lndi-
vidual preference.
So far as salubrity is concerned, Secre-
tary Taft is entirely right and justified
in decrying any attempt to malen the
climate of our Philippine possessions THOSE
who have the desire to participate in the
economic development of the islands may
go there entirely fearless of any climatic
terrors, providing they will carry with them
a modicum of common sense
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09
WAR SPIRIT IN JAPAN.
Use of Coolies for Transport Lessons
Soldiers Work.

Eliza R. s. ScIdmore in Chicago Tribune.
TOKYO. December 25-The jinrikisha
coolie. with his little lacquered carriage,
does not view the changing electric railway
cars with eauanimity. Flesh and blood and
muscle cannot compete with the subtle cur
rent and the sen az cents fares, and 1t
is evident that thousands of jinrikishas
must go from Tokyo streets and hardships
fall to the coolies this winter. One such
human pony told me:
"Jinrkisna soon be finish." and when
asked what he would do, answered:
.'Oh. Russia make Robbery, make bob
berry; then come war. and plenty jinrikisha
go Manchura. l go Manchuria."
"And kill all the Russians?" =
"Sayo de gozarimasu' chat is so, certain
ly) and he bowed seriously.
With this relief in view the Jlnr1klsha
coolies are contentediy waiting. Any day
they may step from the shafts at an hour
notice and with their blankets and lanterns
go to the railway station to be hurried
down to waiting transports at u3na A
coolie corps goes with each regiment to do
the packing, the hauling and heavy work
that lessons the fighting soldiers power TO
march and shoot.
On the march to Picking the American SOL
der loaded like pack horse, broke down
or threw away his load. as at Santiago,
while the nimble japanese scampered here
and there a-soldiering, and came up at the
end of each march as fresh and smiling as
their tireless leader, General Fukushima
The Japanese coelie did the coole work
and the jinrikisha transport corps was
mobile, flying force compared to the Ameri-
can four-mule army wagon trains or the
British India tonga cart service. The hui
man pony could look after himself. and
when there was stream to ford or mud
slough to argue with two coolies could take
the jinrikisha - their shoulders and with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09
How Radium is Extracted.
rom the Western Electrician


In spite of the fact that radium has been
so widely discussed. probably few people
are acquainted with the method by which
1t is secured in the minute quantities that
are as yet available.
That the element Is obtained from pitch
blende is generally known, but some details
of the exact progress will be of interest
According to the Lancet operations for the
extraction are commenced by crushing the
p1tchblende and then roasting the powder
with carbonate of soda. After washing the
residue Is treated with dilute sulphuric
acid; then the SulphateS are converted into
carbonates by boiling with strong Carbonate
phate, which is exceedingly insolubIe
salt. The soluble sulphates are washed
out, and the residue or insoluble portion is
easily acted upon by hydrochloric acid,
which takes out, among other things, po-
lenium and actinium. Radium sulphate re-
mains unattached, associate with some
barium sulphate. The sulphates are then
converted into carbonates b, treatment
with boiling strong solution of carbonate
of soda The carbonates of ba -ium and
radium are next dissolved in hydrochloric
acid and precipitated again as sulphates
by means of sulphuric acid. The sulphateS
are further purified and intimately con-
verified into chloride. until about fifteen
pounds of bariu1n and radum Chord are
obtained by acting upon one ton of crushed
pitchblende. Only a small fraction of this
mixed Chord is pure radium chlorid which
is finally separated from barum Chord by
disqualification, the crytals from the most
radioactive of the solutions being selected.
In this way the crystals ultimately OBJ
tanned are relatively pure radium Chord
of a very high degree of radioactivity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09

Four months announced that had discovered in the Paw
Paw fruit remedy that would positively Dyspepsia Indigestion
and blood that
Paww had other virtues In fact have always contended that
remedy that would specific disease had performed all that
had right of it. But Paw Paw exception
for not only dyspepsia and Diseases but has
proved itself be infabe
for the forms catarh do believe there
OF rheumatism lumbago scaca that PawPaw will from
the neutraz the acids the
pains begin disappear after the first dose
Hundreds people that bottle of Paw
has them chronic rheumatism Hundreds that cured
their Catarrh.
much surprised of these the public
possibly only the Paw
IS Natures greatest Blood purifier
firmly believe that have impure blood weak
O sick stomach who takes PawPaw.
recognized and approved by the disn
guhed physicians Preachers scholars that
all
perance lectures combined.
the and with smuant and which
1t all desire for alcoholic drinks by
supplying all muan 1t and life the
BODY nd into the brain.-AIUNYON.
MUNYON'S Paw=Paw Tonic, for sale at all drug
gists: also Paw Paw Laxative ills, the best Stomach
and Liver Pills ON earth. 2Sc. bottle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09
DID VALUABLE SERVICE.
Revenue Cutter Window Saved Much
Property at Baltimore.

That the revenue cutter Window rem
dered valuable service at the great Balti-
more fire is shown by a report received to-
day by the Secretary of the Treasury from
Captain Mcguire, in command of that YES
sci. The Window made a full-speed run
from Annapolis. arriving at Chase's wharf
at 12:45 pm. yesterday. She Immediately
went into service and saved much valuable
property. The Window will remain at
Baltimore as long as her services may DO
needed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09

The present case had then been set for
trial. The witness got from Lorenz 81 .00o
ously for $50. In view Of these and other
cash payments, and of a new note signed
by Lorenz for S2,36S.45, the $4,000 note
was sattled.
The New Note
why was this new note given?" in
quired Attorney Douglass.
Il have been under very heavy ex-
pense, replied Machen, land / asked Mr..
Lorenz to give me a note that 1 could
negotiate, if necessary
why haven't you negotiated it?" asked
counsel
Because my brother-in-law advised me
to do so only in Toledo, and / haven't had
the time yet" answered the witness.
You have been busy lately?'
ssVerx,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09

catlike tread pass over and leave the irate
teamsters hours behind.
The jinr;kisha coolie is certainly 1.-The man
in the street and hears the words:
"Roo-sha' ''Choreu" (Corea) and Man
churia' often as he passes a stand of wait
Ing vehicles They read all the sensational
extras and firmly believe the present de-
preston in their labor market to be the
forerunnef of a boom, when wartime prices
will rule, and they will be assisting in the
great revenge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09
Wants Marriage AnIfulled.

A bill in equity to annul the marriage en-
tered into by him at Rockville, Nd. Janu-
airy 7, 1903, has been filed In the District SUI
preme Court by Thomas A. Cox against
Annie e. Hewlett, alias Annie Il. Cox. The
complainant charges that he was forced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09

July g. 1908, was filed today for probate
Several requests of personal property are
made to the children and grandchildren Of
deceased, and the rest Of the estate is to
be divided equally among the three chill
dren. Henry T. Brian is named as execu-
tor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09

ence him.
One Live Man.
Machen said he took personal interest
in the matter Of the Introduction of the
Croft fasteners by selecting the cities
ers were never ordered In excess Of the
number of letter boxes on hand.
Explaining the shipment of $500 fasten-
ers to Chicago, Machen said he thought
they had all been put to use until he was
informed to the contrary. Upon hearing
that some of the fasteners were stored in
the basement of the Chicago post Office,
he had them shipped to the factory,
where they were put to use by being at
tached to letter boxes.
Referring to the shipment of fasteners
to New York and Brooklyn, Machen stated
that the then postmaster at New York was
a sort of little postmaster general-he had
his own way"
as he dead?" asked Attorney Douglass.
mo, SIR" replied Machen. Hes alive"
II hope our friends on the other side will
take note of the fact that there is one per-
son to whom we have referred who is
alive" commented Attorney Douglass.
For some reason, added the witness, the
postmaster at New York city did not want
the fasteners, and the metropolis Is now
the only city in the United States without
the device.
The reduction in the price Of the Croft
fastener from $3.50 to s1.25 was made by
the witness, he declared, of his own
volitton. -
The direct examination OF August w.
Machen had not been concluded when an
adjournment was 4aken until 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09

mony through fear and duress. Attorneys
L. M. King and VIM. Lee appear for the
petitioner
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1904-08-09
(Jprtiebung folgt)

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f6iebene S9ulen.