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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08

While on the bench for the northern
district of George Judge McCay had
n habit of cutting short argument
whenever such course see med advis-
able. On one occasion he limited TO a
lawyer who was defending a notorious
mOonshiner that an hour ought 10 do
for presentation of his plea. The law
Yer, an unusually long-winded person,
urged that he ought TO be given eight
hours. Very Well" said Judge Nc
Cay, have it your own way. but it Will
take the accused about three years TO
tell why he employed you"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08
IN THE SUBURBS.


Milan, Sept. THE Misses Cert
rude and Marian Van Horn departed
last week for their new home at Kan
sas City.
G. ID. Mclaughlin visited a few days
in Albany the first of the week.
G. NJ. Baugh and son CIelland were
business callers in Milan Tuesday.
Mrs. Hurley White ana daughter
Margaret returned to Milan Monday
after spending the summer in the
north
Miss Jessie Bloomfield returned to
her home in Detroit, Mich, the first Ct
the week.
Mrs. Thomas White and son Ralph
left Friday for their home at Warren
after spending the summer in Milan
Miss Rose Little, OF Taylor Ridge
was a Milan caller Friday.
Mr.. Sawyer moved his family to
Springfield this week.
The Hotel Milan has changed
hands. Mrs. Julia Smith, who
has successfully managed the
hotel for the past few years,
has accepted a position with the Tri-
City Milk Company on the dairy farm
near Milan. Fred Lamphere has as
sumed the management of the hotel.
Labor day, a large crowd went TO
the Watch Tower.
Miss Vesta Miller has accepted a
position as stenOgrapheT with the
Lightning Medicine Company in Rock
Island
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Garlick depart
Cd TnnCHoN N rhpir fptIlrp
home in Cedar Rapids. Their many
friends will be sorry to see them go
but wish them success.
The Misses Edith and Mary Criswell
of Joy. are spending a few days visit
ing friends and relatives in Milan.
DR.. and Mrs. Virgins went to To-
ledo. Iowa, Sunday morning to be pres
ent and assist in a slight surgical op-
Grafton performed on Mrs. Amasa
Smith. Mrs. Virgins sister. The doc
tor reports Mrs. Smith doing very
nicely.
William Kuehl. OF Chicago. was
called home Saturday 10 attend the
funeral of his brother Arson.
School opened Tuesday with a large
attendance in all the rooms
Rev. Henry Cullom. of Viola. has re-
ceived and accepted a call as pastor
TO the Presbyterian church OF Milan.
Wednesday Rev. Cullom brought his
daughter Miss Una. and son Francis
TO enter Augustana College Mr.. Gull
lom expects TO move TO Milan the first
of October.
DR.. Joseph Huyett arrived home
Monday after SnaDdipg n uaak or two
in Alejo and JOY.
Those attending Augustana college
from Milan are the Misses Anna and
Mary McQuaid, Carrie Walker and
Anna Dickson.
On account of the inclemency of the
weather last Friday evening the con
cert could not be held in Wayside
park. but was postponed until Friday
night. Sept. 5.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08
BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.

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Weekly. 81 per year in advance.
All communications OF argumentative
character. political or religious, must
have real name attached for pubffca-
ton. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08

The county tax report just issued in
Asheyille. y. G.. shows that George
w Vanderbilt. is the largest taxpayer.
Mr. Nanderbilt's real estate outside
of the city is appraised az s1.41O,3
and personal property at $l22,219. In
the city his Victoria property and real
estate is taxed at $4O,515 and his per
sonal property at $9.SS0. Mr. Wander
bilt will pay TO the county and city
about $4,000 in taxes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08

First Lieut.. Henry l.. Harris and
Second Lieut.. Morton Russell, both OF
the 22nd United States infantry, have
resigned their commissions and will
enter the Chinese army. They are to
receive 'the rank of colonel and major
respectively. at $1,000 and $4,000 a
year. and will devote themselves TO in
Producing western military methods in
the army of the Chinese emperor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08

II would be interesting to know just
how many of those comprising the
mobs that are disgracing Japan partici.
pated in any of the battles that brought
imperishable glory to- the legiOns of
the island kingdom, or could be in
duced TO If left to their impulses.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08

HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea new
er fails to tone the stomach, regulate
the kidneys. stimulate the liver and
cleanse the blood. A great tonic and
muscle producing remedy. 35c. Tea
or tablets. T. H. Thomas pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08

Now that the great peace treaty has
been signed. sealed and delivered,
Witte may go home and receive an
honor salute of II bombs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08

An inmate of the Pennsylvania in
sane asylum ate a roll of insulated
electric wire Did ne think it was cur
rent pie?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08

Bryan's Commoner says the dove of
peace is the best emblem of civiliza-
ton. Good.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08

Why suffer with headache. constipa-
ton, stomach. kidney and liver trou-
bles, when HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea will cure YOU? No money wanted
unless you are cured. S5c- Tea or
tablets. T. II. Thomas pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue. Rock Island, Ill IEn-
tered at the postofiice as second-class
matterl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08
c., M. & st. p. Excursion Rates.

Home seekers tickets on sale every
Tuesday in each month to Nov. 1. 1905
To points in Iowa, Minnesota, North
and South Dakota. And every first
and third Tuesday in each month to
other homeseekers' territory. For fur
Their information phone or call at any
c., M. & st. P. ticket office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08
R4ILW1Y TIPS.
The Illinois State Fair

Is best reached via the Chicago, Peoria
IL st. Louis railway, as all trains OF
that line stop to discharge and receive
passengers one block from the main
entrance, saving an extra expense and
tedious trip in crowded street cars,
also hours in time. Special trains are
run from Peoria, Pekin and Havana,
giving close connections from points
beyond, and a rate of one fare for the
round trip will be in effect from Sept.
% TO Oct. Z. The only line that lands
its passengers at the grounds without
extra expense or change of cars is the
c., P. & st. l.. railway Get your tick
cts via that route.
The c., M. & st. P. offer first class
train service to Chicago and Kansas
City, from the tri-cities, sleeping car res
ervations made to any point desired,
for further information phone any OF
their Offices.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-08
c., M. q St. p. Summer Tourist Rate

The c.. M. & st. P. railway will sell
round trip summer tourist tickets
daily, commencing May Is, to Sept 80
1905, to various summer resorts in
Wisconsin. Final return limit, Oct. 81
1905.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-29

/ penters, and we are now sending oo"H
forty by every steamer
"IIow about wages? Does 1t pay an
| American to go to Panaml p
1--WE are now giving about 90 per cent,
| more wages than are paid for similar
classes OF labor in the United STATES
| We nay stenographers and typewriters
sll5. SIPS and even moro per month. Me-
chanics get 80 per cent. more than nt
home, and all labor Is proportlonalely
better paid. AS to whether 1t pays
young man to go there should say u
does. He gets better wages, ana "hen
we have our commssary arrangements
In force he cannot help but save money.
He can do SO how, Indeed, | don't see
how u young man can POSSIBLY speno
more than $S5 or $40 a month"
Health-Panarla for Young Men
"But, Mr., shonts. do you think you can
make the health conditions at Panama
such that one would risk sending MS son
there? II you had n son who was an
engineer, for instance. would you dare
send him to Panama. Would you go
there to live YOURSELF"
Panama is not health resort" re.
piled the chief OF the canal zone. II
don't think it ever Will rank as such, !
do think, however that 1t will soon be as
healthy as many OF the cities OF tho
United States. ! have no boys but had
one who was an engineer, ] should not
hesitate to let him go to Panama In the
course OF n year or so. As for myself,
expect to spend II good part of every
year on the Isthmus and shall be there
during all times of the year"
Experimental Work.
'What are the engineers doing at Pan
ama?"
"They are working away testing the
different parts of the canal route. making
borlngs and other experimental investiga-
Z, tons"
rs there any excavating going on at
Culebra Cut?'
mo; that has been stopped. There is
no use of wasting work, time and money
there until we have the machinery, tracks
and other facilities needed for the work.
Ii was a mistake to use the little French
and Belgian engines and the baby dump
cars. Each of those cars holds only
about FIVE cubic yards of earth, Gu.
new steam shovels each take up FIVE
cubic yards at one mouthful, and when
they drop 1t into such car they are
likely to break 1t or spill II out, II, as
Is sometimes the case. the shovel takes
up an eight or ten-ton rock, II may crkgt
tho car They are worthless for q u
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-29

1 good, but we also believe In the Old
fashioned theory that cleanliness IS next
to health as well as next to goodness.
| We are doing some thorough cleaning
on that basis throughout the canal
| zone
Those Food Contracts.
| "How about the food for the men and
those food contracts which Involved mil
lions of dollars, Mr.. Shonts? ASKED
'"There has been great mlsapPrenen-
sion about those food contracts. 1t was
necessary that the contracts be let out
nt once. When we reached the 1sthmus
we found the workmen out of food. and
that they could not labor for lack OF It.
THE whole population of the Isthmus IS
but a few thousand and when the ten or
twelve thousand canal employees were
added. the supplies of provisions became
short and prices went skywnrd the re-
suit was the common laborers could not
, afford to buy the necessaries OF life
They had to stop work for lack OF eat
abes, and some lived for time on
sugar cane. We saw that we must SEND
food to the Isthmus and that at once
we hurried UP the establishment or tho
commissary departments, and we are
now sending supplies there regularly We
shall soon have it arranged that both the
gold and silver men shall be supplied AZ
cost with almost everything they need
from these commssarles,
"But how about the millions of Uncle
SANS money which the contractors are
to get. Mr.. Shonts?'
1.-THE contractors will not get anything
out of Uncle Sam. They have merely the
privilege of opening hotels and supplying
food cooked and uncooked to tho men ut
certain fixed rates. They will make their
profit out of the business, and It Will
not come from the government treasury
at ALL Tho contracts are carefully worded
and the employees of the canal will be
insured the best of food and they will be
protected against extortlon Of any sort"
$4,000 Men Now at Wok,
'IIow many men have YOU now at
work?"
"Taklng Americans, natives negroes
from Jamaica, and all others, we have
lust about l20O0" replied MIR. shonts,
'What are they dolngT'
"They are cleaning up the towns and
the zone. They are unloading lumber
and putting 1t on the cars They are
building the new houses for the mell.
There are about 1,50o Americans; some
of them belong to the clerical force
others are mechanics and engineers. We
have a large number OF American car
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-29

i, stead of making q great breakWater from
Colon to the mainland. across the bay, at
cost of millions, we can build these
wharves along the entrance to the canal.
We shall have railroad tracks running
beside them. so that the goods from the
cars can be taken almost directly to the
ships, and vice versa. We are also i'm
proving the harbors at the Panama end
OF the canal, and are rapidly bringing In
lumber for the new buildings"
Houses for the Men.
What are you doing in the way Of
providing homes for the workmen?''
I'VE have building going on every
where throughout the zone" replied Mr..
Shonts. "When we reached Panama we
found the chief canal officers in the City
OF Panama In unhealthy localities, and
in most cases In buildings which were
very unsanitary We found no adequate
quarters for the workmen along the canal
route. and also that the American en-
ployes Of Panama were living in the
city. Wo decided to devote all our ener-
giles at first to getting healthy working
places. We are now building Offices at
Ancon, hill which rises almost straight
up from the sea, on the edge OF Panama
City and we shall have the houses of
the clerks there, IT Is ono of the health
lest places on the Isthmus, and far bet
ter than Panama proper
1--WE are building hotels and lodging
houses all along the canal strip We arc
repairing the Gotta ges and little houses
which tho French built, and putting up
others. Many Of these nre for tho COM
mon native laborers, who must be we'll
housed IL they are to do good work.
In Panama and Colon.
what are you doing in the cities?''
1--WE are cleaning up Panama and
Colon and completing the sewers and
waterworks Panama has now plenty OF
water which comes from q dam far up
In the mountains, The water is very pure
and better than that Of many Of our
cities. we shall also supply Colon with
kvod water. The sewers are rapidly
being put into Panama, and We shall
soon have the streets paved, We shall
lay the chief thoroughfares with brick,
and we are now taking brick there in
great quantities We are cleaning the
CITY. IT has not been In a sanitary con-
rlition for ages; we are wpinE out the
cesspools and We hope to make It as
healthy as any town OF orr gulf States
ueretofore Colonel Gorgas and the other
doctors lave been devoting themselves
to trying to prevent disease by wiplng
out tho mosquitoes and lsolating the
yellow fever patients, These methods are
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-29

course. be q costly one. It will run into
the hundreds OF millions of dollars. =
may be not more than two hundred MIL
lions: 1t may be three hundred, or 1t may
be more. 1t Is q job OF time. Buneau.
Narilla, in the exuberance of his French
imagination, talks of five years. The for
mer chief engineer thought 1t might be
done in ten, and other eminent authori-
ties put the time at from twelve to
twenty.
So much for the job!
Now for the man! 4
Is he big enough for the job? Will
answer that by telling you who he Is,
how he looks, ana what he has done.
Inc only real answer can be his work,
and 1t Will take time for that. In the
first place, Mr.. Shonts' imprcsses one by
his p!ainncss and his sturdy simplicity.
He has no frils. He does not part his
hair nor his name In the middle, and he
does not wear patent leather shoes nor
spats. He Is a business man, dressed In
business clothes. who talks buiness, and
does business IN a business way He is
n worker He Is the son of United Pres
byterian parents, coming from the cast
Iron Puritan stock Of northwestern
pennsylvania; and educated In the
United Presbyterian College ut Nom
mouth, III. There Is no better stock and
no better training to make men.
Mr.. Shonts began life as bank clerk
In Iowa. He made u reputation ms a
bank accountant, and, working along
business lines, rose to be q builder and
manager of railroads He has the rep
utatlon Of being good organizer and q,
successful handler OF men. and that In
tho west. which, after all, Is tho best
business working part of our country,
and which to-day Is producing the lead
crs of ali branches of business
Another big element In the makeup
of this MIN ls his health, lle Is.
Judge. about fifty. hut his eye is that OF
a man ten years younger, His checks
are rosy with red blood. He eats well,
digests well and Is the personlfcation
of vigor and vitality, He stands over
six feet In his stockings a big man. with
big frame padded with lean, muscular
flesh.
The Lord has given him the physique
for the work, his life seems TO have FUR
nished the training, and President Roose-
Welt has picked him out as the man FOR
the place. 1t is now up to him to make
good.
His First Real Job,
In my talk with MI. Shonts referred
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-29

compliance with negro rule. In short,
he rlaced ballot In the hands of every
negro and bayonet at the breast of
every white man.
The South felt that no people had ever
been so basely betrayed or so wantonly
humilltated.
Judge Albion w. Tourgce, author OF
"a Fools Errand," which is the carpet
bagger's story of the Khan, pays a tri-
the Invisible Empire which Is very re-.
markable, when we remember that he
was writing OF enemies who had on more
than one occasion sought his life.
Spirit of the South.
He said: Such, however, was the
indomntable spirit Of the Southern peo-.
pie that they scorned to yield to what
they deemed oppression. protesting with
indignation. denounc'ng with rage and
fiercely submitting almost with tears.
No conquered foe ever passed under the
yoke. which they conceived to mean
servitude and infamy with more unwill-s
ing step OF more deeply muttered curses.
The Klu Klux Order was daring con-
ception for conquered people. Only
a race of warike instincts and regal
pride could have conceived or executed
1t. Men, women and children must have.
and be worthy OF implicit mutual trust.
They must. be trusted with the secrets
OF life and death without reserve and
without fear. It was magnificent con-
ception and in a sense deserved success.
It differed from all other attempts ut
revolution in the caution and skill with
which 1t required to be conducted 1t
was movement made in the face of
the enemy and an enemy Of overwhelm-
ing strength Should it succeed 1t would
be the most brilliant revolution ever ac-
complished Should 1t fail-well. those
who engaged In it felt that they had
nothing more to lose.
Wrote Tribute to Foe.
Judge Tourgee was in my opinion the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-29

Especial Correspondent of The Times
Dispatch.)
NEW YORK. October est was in
the new offices Of the Panama Railroad
Company, in the great new white stone
building looking out upon New York
harbor at the foot Of Broadway, that
talked with Mr. Theodore p Shonts,
The new head of Uncle SAINTS biggest
rew project the Panama Canal.
say tho new head, because, since Mr..
Wallace left there has been no ques-
ton as to who is the manager Of tho
canal scheme. Where Theodore Roosc-
Welt sits, as we all know, is always the
head of the table That goes without
saying. But even our mighty President
cannot be in more than one place at n
time, and Mr.. Shonts, under him and
Congr ess. Is supreme. He has the direc-
ton ind the control Of the chief engi-
neer, Mr.. Stevens; he is the chief over
the governor of the ren-Mile Strip Mr.,
Magoon; and he Is the president ana
general manager of the Panama Railroad
and Steamship Company. Every man IN
the ten or twelve thousand who now
make up the canal forces has his WORK
md his responsibilities. but all are subor-
! ulUdtt W ! HtOuule Ellp'i'o' eA'N -" ''i'''
the President looks for results. In other
words, the canal work is at last under
one head, and that head Is Mr. shonts'
The Man and His Job.
Before give you our interview want
to say a word about the man and his
job. We all know something of the job,
1T Is one of the biggest ever attempted
by any nation. 1t is to gouge but the
earth and rock through the lowest part
of the backbone of the mighty mountain
chain which runs through our hemi-
sphere from the Klondike to the Straits
of Magellan, 50 that the leviathan yes
GELS of our age may steam through from
ocean to ocean. 1t is to move out of the
way from thirty to one hundred million
cubic yards of earth; to build mighty
dams to hold back the floods of the
Chagres. which rise nj times almost thir-
ty feet in night; to turn the course OF
rivers and In short, to take the goddess
OF nature by the throat and force her TO
do her work in new ways for the benefit
OF man. All this must be accomplished
In tropical climate, In an unhealthy
country, with labor that In the past has
proved Itself among the poorest that
the world has to offer. The job will. Of
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-29

to the magnitude ana complexities ~
the canal work, saying:
You have now had your hands on the
machine for more than six months; you
have been able to study the situation by
and large l want to know how you i'he
the job?'
| 81 find it both interesting and absorb
| ing" was the reply. sit Is SO absorb
! ing that 1t takes all my time, all my
| nergies-everything that IS IN me. m
deed. seems to me the only real JoD
have ever undertaken. ! did not realize
how big it was until I attempted u pu'
with time and work 1t will be accom-
plished."
.IJow about tho red tape and govern
lnent methods. Mr. Shonts? can any p's-
mess man handle the canal after modern
business methods, with the government
In charger
1--WE hope to do things after the best
Of modern business methods. and at the
same time not act contrary to govern :
ment regulations. There are some things
that might perhaps be changed to the
benefit OF the work. One rule Is that ~
accounts have to pass through the hanas
Of the auditors of two or three OF t'e
government departments. In me great
railroad business Of the United states, y
business which In the vast sums involved
Federal government, one auditor IS SUI
ncient for each road, and almost nothing
is lost It would seem that If the ac-
counts pass through the auditing britich
of one great government department, tnat
might be sufficient, The chief thing with
us in the canal construction is results;
We should like any changes that VIII "a
cIlitate our work and enable us TO do IT
more quickly and more cheaply, with due;
regard to careful government Inspection"
Situation in Panama,
'Nyhat is being done at Panama" I
asked.
eve are doing everything we can to
ft the Isthmus for our working force.
IT is useless to try to push the canal OK
cayation until we have food and houses
for our workmen We can only make
haste slowly. The work we are now doing
will hurry up the real work of the future,
"In the first place, we need yards for
the Panama Railroad and docks at which
to land our supplies. We have hundreds
OF men at work constructing them. AT
Cristobal Colon we are building wharyes
and excavating. so that we shall be able
to load and unload u number of ships
there at a time, This Is also permanent
work In the building Of the canal, In