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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14
THEN THEY SHOOK AGAIN.
A story of the Late Edward Rose
water of NebrasISn.

A story of the Late Edward Rose
water of Nebraska.
The late Edward Rosewater, founder
and editor of the Omaha Bee. was at
various times member of the Nebraska
legislature, member of the Republican
national committee and member of the
United States mint commission, and
this summer he represented this coun-
try at the universal postal congress
held in Rome and returned to this
country on June % on the French liner
La Provence.
Mr.. Rosewater was also the original
promoter of the Transmisslssippi expo
sition held in Omaha in 1898. He was
defeated for the United States senate
at the recent Republican state conven-
ton at Lincoln by Morris Brown, to
whom he pledged his loyal support
Mr.. Rosewater was n man of unique
personality. He was small in stature
and spoke in low voice, but he was
a politician of most pronounced fight
ing abilities. He had, too, met many
of the famous men of the world.
At a hotel in Washington one night
a few years ago he was speaking of
Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie and L,
said Mr.. Rosewater, were fellow tele-
graph operators nearly four decades
ago. He was stationed out west, and L
was in Washington. We got acquaint-
ed as operators do over the wires at
night and would call each other by our
first names when we spoke through the
medium of our instruments, and for
nearly forty years we have been prom
Using ourselves the pleasure of meeting.
'I drifted out to Nebraska, and Car
negie's history you know. Naturally
was more anxious to meet him than he
could possibly be to meet me, and
few days agoI called upon him.
IT assured him when he greeted me
that L sought none of his money for Ii
brary or other purposes. Carnegie
looked at me searchingly. You can see
that am a small man. / am five feet
four inches in height. He is no taller
and is even slighter in build than l.
Suddenly he extended his hand
again and exclaimed with unmistak-
able sincerity of feeling:
ct am glad indeed to meet you, Mr.
Rosewater. i am glad to associate with
a man who Is no bigger than 1 am"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14

" HE world of copper has pro-
duced more than dollars. II
II was the cause of Tom Lawson S
structures on ''frenZied finance
1t controlled the politics of state and
made dents in national politics, it push
ed William 4. Clark into the United
States senate and it brought forth f.
Augustus Heinze.
Most copper kings, as well as the mon
archs of metal in other lines, make
their first strike by accident. HeinZe
did not He figured ii out. He calcu-
lated the dip OF the veins that were be
ing worked in other mines, bought
some intervening claims, dug down to
the veins he had located by cold cal
culatiOn and followed them not only
through his own property, but, accord
ing to the statement of his antagonists,
under the surface ''staked OUT by 9TH
ers- Thereupon followed a series of
lawsuits that shook the state Of Mon
tana and caused something of a furry
in the financial world at large.
Brought Standard Oil to Its Knees.
1t was in these litigations that Heinze
brought the richest corporation on
knows, thanks to Thomas W. Lawson.
that Amalgamated Copper means Stand
ard Oil. Well, it was the Amalgamat-
ed that Heinze. then q young mining
engineer with but a small capital,
fought through the courts of Montana
till Henry II. Rogers cried for quarter.
1t is related that after the overgrown
Standard had been smitten by Heinze
until it was aware that he was on
earth Rogers one day sent for F. Au-
gustus and asked him what he would
take to quit.
HeinZe, like Bret Harte's heather
Chinee," was childIike and bland.
why, Mr.. Rogers" he said, st did
not come here to make a proposition.
You sent for me. you know. L am here
to listen to what you have to say"
This gave Rogers a turn. The idea
of any human being, much less a youth
full human being, daring to talk to him
In this way! But, overlooking the
Heinze nerve, Rogers continued sweet
ly:
We will give you half million to
settle all your claims-give it to you
In cash today"
The second main squeeze of the
Standard Oil probably thought that so
much money-and all in cash at that
would overwhelm any young mining
engineer on earth, but he did not know
Heinze.
Mr.. Rogers said that imRudent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14

Frank 3. POSey, surveyor of the port
of Evansville, Ind, and a Republican
leader o. prominence, is about to IN
dertake in Spencer county a remarka-
BILE experiment, says the Indianapolis
Star. He proposes to plant gardens
under the earth's surface and to raise
the fruits and flowers of the tropics
The hanging gardens of Babylon rank
ed as one of the early wonders of the
world, but the people in Evansville
Say they will not he in it with the I'M
derground gardens of Spencer county.
\ few years ago Colonel Posey, who
formerly represented the First district
in congress. bought 200 acres Of land
on Pigeon creek, lying partly in Spen-
Ger and partly in Warrick counties. On
the place is a coal mine that was aban-
doned seventeen years ago. Recently
Colonel Posey caused the shaft to be
reopened, and to his surprise he found
that, unlike nearly all abandoned
mines. the interior chambers were in
tact.
Colonel Posey organized an exploring
party and investigated all of the rami-
fications of the abandoned mine. He
found it covers an area of fifteen acres,
subdivided into chambers 200 feet long
and Of varying width. These chambers
are about 100 feet below the surface of
the earth.
1t at once occurred to Colonel Posey,
who delights In experiments. that here
was an opportunity to test the feast
bility of underground gardening. He
was satisfied that If he could raise fl
teen acres Of garden truck 100 feet be-
low the earth's surface he would per-
form an achievement that would arrest
the attention of scientific circles all
over the world and at the same time
prove immensely profitable. He learn
ed by taking temperatures that the in
terror of the mine remains constantly
at % degrees, the even temperature of
the earth. This temperature is I'M
varying winter and summer and is
the temperature most conducive TO the
growth of plant life. Furthermore, the
air Is surcharged with carbonic gas,
upon which plants thrive.
In order TO grow, however, plants
require light, and how to light his I'M
derground gardens has been problem
that was difficult to solve, but Colonel
Posey is convinced that he has at last
found the solution. He will illuminate
the various chambers and passageways
with acetylene gas, which furnishes a
very brilliant light and is inexpensive.
II had heard" said Colonel Posey.
that some experiments conducted at
Cornell university proved conclusively
that sunlight is not necessary to the
growth of plants ana that acetylene
gas furnishes very good substitute.
wrote to Clifford Pinchot, chief of the
United States bureau of forestry, for
information on the subject, and 1 have
received his reply. He says that he
participated in the experiments at Cor
nell and that while they could not be
.cakladaa completalYz. successful they
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14

tensIveB tried Under all conditions dnd
has proved a signal success. Quite re-
Gently also a greatly improved thirty
sixsinch searchiisht, has supplaIIted the
regulation twenty~four inch light
which Is capable Of defining an enemy
atsover double the distance of its pred
ecessor. Owing to the excellent train
ing afforded by the gunnery branch
our (Engiish) naval gunners can now
with the aid of their latest sight and
searchlight depend on disabling an en-
envy at from 5000 to 1000 yards on a
favorable night.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14
PITMAN ON NEW SPELLING.
Says Letters c, Q and " In the Alpha
bet Are Super6uOus.


When Ben Pitman, brother of Sir
Isaac Pitman, the father of phonogr9-
ply and himself a writer on phonogra-
ply. heard that President Roosevelt
had given Endorsement to simplified
spelling he was delighted, says Gin
cinnati dispatch to the New York
Times. He raped his fist on the desk
and said:
II am pleased. l knew it would
come. 1t may take q century. You
cannot change the system, or, rather,
lack of system, in a day. For years
have worked on a new alphabet.
would eliminate the letters c, q and x.
They are entirely superfluous. l would
eliminate the dot over the and j and
use the dot over the vowels a. e, /, o
and to indicate when they are long.
Then when the child saw the word
pet he would pronounce the short
because there is no dot over it. When
he saw the word pate he would know
that the is long, for dot is over it.
DO you know that the twenty-six
letters of the alphabet may be used
65S ways; hence the chance of your
pronouncing q strange word is in the
ratio of Cos to &c, pretty long odds.
The perfect alphabet that 1 have de-
vised contains forty letters, but TWEEN
ty-three will answer. However, the
solution of the spelling problem is
found in the elimination of C, q and K
and the new use of the dot, as l have
described.
The sound of is obtained in nine.
teen different ways. Which one will
the child choose? 1 would spell cough
'kof.' The pronunciation could not be
wrong, for there is no dot over the to
denote that it is anything but short.
Where is soft $ may be used; where
1t is hard k will do. and will invari-
ably do for O."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14

I youth. Il am surprised 1 had thought
you were a man of broad views, ac-
| cuStomed to great negotiations"
I'm heavens name. how much do you
| want?" sputtered Rogers.
Ten million dollars" quietly re
sponded HeinZe.
Everybody else whoever told that
story says that f. Augustus made the
last reply ".yithout the culver of an
eyelash-"
do not know exactly what an eye
lash has to do with a game like this.
but take the phrase to mean that the
magnificent supply of Heinze nerve
was always on tap and that the bluff
was carried through 10 the end. 1t re-
quires a good buffer to beat III. II.
Rogers. and Mr.. Heinze, the young
Napoleon of feenawnce," is entitled
to brass crown for this victory.
Another prominent characteristic of
F. Augustus was brought out in the
Montana litigations, and that was the
quality of r-give-up-it-iveness. 1t
was also exemplified in his earlier
youth.
An Instance of His Persistence.
Heinze's front name is Frederick.
called by his German father Fritz"
In an evil moment one of FritZie's
playmates kicked the future champion
of the copper ring, and Frederick Au-
gustuS gave chase.
The average boy would have kept
running for a block perhaps, after
which he would have abandoned the
race as fruitless, but the future van
quisher of the Standard pursued for
one block, then for two, then for ten,
then for a mile. and still kept running
until the other boy dropped exhausted
and Fritz evened up the score by land
ing resounding kick on his PROSTATE
anatomy. A kid with that much per
sistence is bound to land somewhere,
and that somewhere" will generally
be at a point in the race of life far in
advance of that at which others have
given up. If a chap never loses his
nerve and never quits the game there
Is surely something coming his way
In the finish. HeinZe won out because
little joltS and jars couldn't loosen his
grip. In manhood as in youth he kept
up the chase until he caught his an
tagonist and got even.'
When the young copper king did go
into the AmalgaIhated it was at
time when Wall street said that he
had whipped the big company, and it
was further stated that HeinZe prac-
tically made his own terms. He had
won some very important points in his
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14

Iertered twenty three viii he distribut-
ed among the twenty-three guests
am going to have just twenty-three
girls present, you knOw-while an or
chestra of twenty-three pieces will play
behind a bank of twenty-three palms.
l am trying TO get Il friend. COM
poser. to write Il ballad entitled Skid
doc For You 1 proposSto engage au-
tos and change their license numbers
to %. l have an uncle who has a
farm of twenty-three acres and shall
take my guests there in the afternoon,
where there will he dancing in the
evening, with twenty-three dances on
the programme"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14

HeinZe won out in n small way, b.
| concluded that he did not know enough
| about the game. He therefore dropped
everything and went 20 Germany,
where he took an exhaustive course in
metallurgy and mining engineering.
When he was thoroughly prepared he
came back and won the world-of cop
per- At one time he saw that there was
money in smelling, so he bought some
old smelling machinery, took it up to
the mines of British Columbia, built a
railroad Il few miles long and soon had
things his own way. OF course the
Canadian railroads and SmelterS fought
him, but he had the advantage of loca-
ton and forced his adversaries to buy
him out at a big profit to himself.
With the money thus gained he went
back to Montana and began his cam
paign which resulted in changing the
politics of the state and forced the
''frenzied" Amalgamated to come to
terms.
Comes of Famous Race.
In personal appearance Mr. Heinze is
under the average height and looks like
a boy. Every line of his face, however,
the curves of nose, mouth and chin, ali
Indicate good old Teutonic pugnacity
and determination. Heinze comes of
the race that produced n Bismarck.
Just what 1he future has in store for
the young copper Croesus"-the allit-
erative name by which all who make
money in coppers are called-iS Il pure
matter of speculation. Some say that
he will succeed W. \. Clark in the
senate. Others say-but what do they
not say? One thing is fairly certain
that he will continue making money
and doing spectacular things. A man
at thirty-seven has only started in the
game of life. HeinZe may even live to
be as old as Russell Sage and grow as
penurious. He may lose all his hair.
like Rockefeller, though it is safe to
say that he will never put up the pious
front that John ID. assumes when going
out on a piratical expedition. Heinze
is too much of a good fighter and good
fellow to shine in a Sunday school.
He has written at least one story in
his life, and it was hot a bad one at
that. He is hardly likely, however, to
bull the literary market like Lawson,
or to write optimistic books of statistics
and prosperity. prophecies, like Carne-
gle. He-likes to make money too we'll
to spend his time in merely writing
about making it.
For one thing, Mr.. HeinZe is said to
be the greatest smelter expert in Amer
lea. and that is no small aecQmnUsh-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14
REAL SKIDDOO PARTY.
Miss Schidu VIII Give 1t Sept. % to
TMenty-three Girls.

a "skiddoo" party is the latest. Miss
Margaret Schidu of Cleveland. o., will
give a party on Sept. % in honor Of
her twenty third birthday at her home.
% East Twenty-third street, says a
special dispatch from Cleveland to the
Chicago Inter Ocean.
People have been having lots of
fun with our name since the term
'skiddoo' has come into use" said
Miss Schidu recently, 80 I decided to
have a real skiddoo party on my next
birthday My age will be SSrried out
prettily with twenty-three candles in
the sbirthday-cake.sa and a.souzenir card
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14
kissing AtomIner Coming.

The carbolic atomlzer of the TWEEN
tieth century girl was pictured recently
by DIR. Ruricl y. Roarl. president Of
the Eastern Kentucky Normal school.
in his address on Habits" before the
teachers institute. Granting the,
alarming prevalence OF kissing and
the growing public knowledge as 70
death dealing microbes. Or. Roark pre-
dlcted that the cautious damsel will
make a frantic dive FOR her atomizer.,
and then after the antiseptic perform.
ance the oScula.ory process will pro-
coed as in former days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14
school Rod s.ppiy safe.

Organization OF the National Hickory
association. the purpose of which Is
1.-The protecting. fostering and prcserv-
ing of tho present supply OF hickory.
timber" wsa completed in Chicago re-
Gently. II. H., ltetfeyd of the United
States forestry bureau. who addressed
the meeting OF delegaten. declared that
unless steps we're taken to protect
hickory trees the supply OF this timber
would be exhausted in The United
States within fifteen years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14
va A COPPER CROESUS AT THIRTY SEVEN ga

wasneu up ana uUnneo dress suIt the
first man who had the temerity to put
on such habiliments in Montana. AS
q result he gained the sobriquet of 1.-The
dude" which has chung to him to this
day. The miners soon learned, how
ever, that "the dude" was game and
good fellow, so they overlooked his
sartorial eccentricities and made him
one of themselves.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14

He did not remain for long on the
five dollar schedule. He figured that
there was more money in working for
himself. There always Is, if a man can
use his head. OF course If he only uses
his muscles he might as wei keep on
working for other peopl~.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14

or twenty graduated from the Column
bia School of Mines He then went to
Montana and began working under
ground at So day. Now, five per may
be good wages in some places, but 1t
was not in Montana. When F. Angus
tus came out of the mine at night he
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14

ment in itself. He is not the Sort Of
man to give up being Il first class smclt-
er expert to become Il third rater in the
book and magazine field. Happy is
that man who knows what he can't do.
Here is little story OF Heinze's boy
hood that made me think more Of him.
After he was sent TO school in Ger
many, he wrote to his mother in Brook
Ign begging her TO remember a small
friend of his across the street whose
parents We're dead. please be good to
Charlie" ran the letter. because he
has no friend but me-" He then in
closed a dollar to buy a Christmas
present for Charlie.
AS n general thing, | do not partieu-
larry fancy high financiers, but | do
like people with hearts in them. what
ever their outward circumstances. Ev-
identity the heart of the boy Heinze
was large and sound. During his long
fight against the StandarNOn trust it
is stated that HeinZe while standing
by the open grave of his mother had a
subpoena served on him by piOus Johns
company.
If one wishes examples of the two
let him take the little boy sending
his dollar TO his orphan friend 5000
miles away and the overgrown corpo-
ration bounding a man at his mothers
grave. The more we see of trusts the
more we love horse thieves by con-
trast.
Worked Hand In Hand.
In the many scores of cases brought
against the Amalgamated Mr. Heinze
was assisted by his brother Arthur, a
lawyer The two worked hand in hand.
and the persistence of the one was
supplemented by the legal acumen of
the other. Case after case was won
not only against the Amalgamated, but
against Senator Clark and others.
There has seldom been a struggle in
the financial world more replete with
sensations and scandals.
AT one time Heinze won the famous
Minnie Healy mine, worth at least
100000. This was the blow that al
most killed Rogers. When he heard OF
that decision all of the Amalgamated
mines in Montana were ordered shut
down, throwing thousands of men oHt
of work and causing untold misery
and hardship.
The Standard could no longer strike
at Heinze. who had whipped it in tile
state courts. So in baffled rage the
great trust struck at Montana. ItSwas
shortly after that shutdown that
Heinze and the Amalgamated pooled
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14

1UH 1'tEH TO t'7 EfNNllHts
One of the few bells east by Paul
Revere now IN existence is TO DO
taken from the belfry of the,old Baptist
church IN Warren. r. l., 70 be re-
cast at Troy, says a Providence dis
patch TO the New York Tribune. A
member of the church will officially
oversee the task and will write an ac-
count of the undertaking for historical
purposes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14
New sight For shooting at Nieht.

The development of accuracy in
shooting at night has received a dou-
BILE impetus of late in the British sery-
ice, says the South China Post. a
new sight has been adopted and is be-
ing manufactured and issued with all
possible dispatch. This sight, q tele-
scopic pattern, is defined by electric
lightASQr spight ssEork. 1t has been -ex-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14

Henry James on Simp1iied Spelling.
"Newfangled spelling will spoil beau
tiful English" said Henry James. the
author, who was recently in Seattle
Wash. on his way to British Columbia.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14

Montana Htigatfons and seemed in a
fair way ito win others. When the
Standard cannot beat a man or freeze
him out or drive him to the wall it
buys him.
Game and a Good Fellow.
F. Augustus Heinze was born in 1869
In Brooklyn. He received part Of his
education IL Germany and at the age
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-14

!" HE world of copper has pro-
duced more than dollars. 1t
FL was the cause of Tom Lawson's |
New-York tribune., 1906-04-04
FIGHT OYER REFORM BILL
assembly WIN Try to Change Gen
erd Amendment Measure.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune !

Albany April 3-The last Armstrong COMMITTEES
insurance bill was advanced To the order of final
passage in the Assembly to-day. That vigorous
effort will be made to amend It was announced
by Assemblyman Cox before he permitted the ad-
yancement of the bill Assemblyman Palmer the
minority leader. also will try to attend to the
measure. This bill includes the final amendments 3
made by the committee 10 the general insurance
law. II the only bill which there was
any difference in the committee which over the
prohibition of the formation OF assessment Insur-
anoe companies. This will occasion the main fight
when it comes up for final passage Thursday. The
leaders OF the Assembly hope to be able to trans
NIT all eight the Senate Friday
The haste with which the leaders are rushing the
insurance bills to the order of final passage ind-
Gates that much opposition is expected before the
measures are passed. Mr.. Cox announced to-day
that he would permit the Advancement of the
general amendment bill without opposition only
with the understanding that when It was again be
fore the House he would try amend IT, repeating
the provision which prohibited the formation oY
more assessment insurance companies in this state
and denies to foreign assessment orders formed
hereafter permission to do business here.
Il want to give notice that l. also, will offer two
amendments TO this bill, said Assemblyman Palm
to insurance officers shall be limited to such an
amount that campaign contributions cannot be Sc
crety made out OF them. My other amendment
which is Yet drawn, will attempt prevent rich
from taking much insurance IN the big
companies tnat the limit of business allowed by
the bills will compel the poor man TO take his in
surance in smaller companies. II / get a chance
discuss these amendments when the bill comes
up for final passage will not oppose its advance
ment now.
Several members OF the Insurance Committee said
tonight that the opposition the bill would prob
ably be of such determined character that its
passage by the Assembly might be delayed until
next week.