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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-25
Rock Island & Peoria Division.

daily; X daily except Sunday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-25
FOR SALE-FARMS.

FOR SALE - Forty acres, four miles
from Milan: will sell or trade for city
propertY. Reidy Bros.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-25
FOR RENT-RooMs.


FOR RENT - Two nicely furnished
front rooms at 1920 Fourth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-25
Trains.

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, 4 ST. PAUL
Railway-D., r. i. a. N. W. passenger
station at foot OF Seventeenth street. q.
b. STODDARD. Agent. p. L. Hinricha.
commercial agent, tsS Brady street.
Davenport
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-25

FOR SALE-Lot 4Ox15O feet. centrally
located, on paved street. For partic
ulars address Box 267. city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-25

FOR SALE - Five-room cottage on
Fourteenth and-a-haf street; heat,
electric light, gas and gas stove;
cement cellar, well, and city water:
lot 46X105; fruit trees and grapes;
price, $1,000. Inquire OF c. l.. Boards
ley. 217 Eighteenth street, or 1104
First avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-25

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Trains leave Twentieth street station.
Main line trains start from main depot
on Fifth avenue minutes in advance
OF time given
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-25

FOR SALE-Bargain in second hand
PopeHartford automobile. Robert
Smythe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-25

FOR SALE-Cheap. nice level lots, cor
Ter Twenty-seventh street and Eigh-
teenth avenue, facing Long View
street car track. Also for sale, one
half acre lot. Also for sale or trade,
one-half acre lot with new seven
room house. Terms to please pur-
chaser. Inquire of E. Thonn, 1915
Twenty-seventh street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-25
GOING EAST.
Arrive.

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7:40 aml' 7:40 am
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. L3O pm , 1880 pm
: $3.50 pm . 600 pm
, 6:15 pm
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-25

the store room and building consist
ing of six excellent living rooms up
stairs and two down stairs, formerly
occupied by J. Mosenfeldef at the cor
ner of Sixth avenue and seventeenth
street as his home and the store
room for grocery, is vacant owing
to his retiring from business. rms To-
cation is an admirable one. 1t IS Tor
rent to the proper parties. Refer
ences will be required. Inquire OF j.
Mosenfelder.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-25
Trains

.. daily except Sunday
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-16
NORTH BENNINGTON

Mrs Baker is visiting atH + Lambs.
Mrs NJ + Hathaway OF Bennington,
visited in town Friday
MIR and Mrs A II Phillips OF Troy
are in town for few days.
Mrs Henry Roster has been the guest
of relatives in Bennington.
The young men of the high schoo,
have organized base ball nine.
Several from this place attended the
funeral services OF Mrs Asa LOOMS OF
Bennington.
Geo Phillips left Friday to spend
the remainder of his vacation at Ills
home 10 Mddletown Springs.
The ordinance of baptism was admin
istered to sel eral candidates at the
Baptist church Sunday morning.
The ladies' of the Baptist church
held their missionary meeting 10 the
church parlors Thursday afternoon.
Miss Clara Emerton who has spent
the winter with relatives in Massachu-
sets, has returned To her home here,
a new barn has been erected at the
property owned by DR. g Woodruff
on Fank street. The house which is a
two tenement will be occupied by the
doctors family and his son 10 law,
Hiram Hall Jr.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-16
HUNT ROOTS FOR LIVING.
Old Men of the Alps Dig Among the
Mountains for Medicinal
Material.

Throughout the whole chain of the
Alps there are men who make 1t their
business to search for and root up the
gentian. arnica puffbals and other
Alpine flowers. High up in the noun
tans the root grubber generally an
old man, builds a little hut He clam.
bers precipices to the edges, where the
blue flowers grow; or, if he cannot
ascend, he lets himself down to their
place of refuge by rope fastened to
a pine above. He wanders to long
distance from his hut and does not al.
ways trouble to return to ii at night,
finding shelter under rock
Next morning he spreads all the
roots he has collected on rock where
they may dry, He collects herbs as
well as roots and the resin from the
pine besides When the summer 10
over and there are signs of snow, Ne
root grubber collects all together in
his little hut and finally transports
the whole of his six months collection
to the valley.
Arnica and some other roots used
in medicine are readily disposed or
From the gentian is made the genlian
brandy, which is considered the very
elixir of life by the mountain folk
In other days. when gentians grew In
great numbers, the root digger was
able to realize a good income, but it
is otherwise now.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-16
ARLINGTON

Mr. Reynolds Of Boston was in town
Friday
YIN Smith OF New York wa in town
last week.
Miss Emma Benedict has returned to
Manchester.
Mr. Whist Of Buffalo has stopped
at THE Arlington" the past week.
CA Adams and family returned TO
Adams Saturday after a visit al O +
Adams.
Mrs Alice Greene OF North Adams
has been visiting her brother Thomas
Higgins.
Miss Eva Bronson has been spend.
ing her vacation with relatives and
friends in Boston.
Mrs Ida Bronson is acting a, com
panion for Mrs Elimael of North Ad-
ans for TWO months
Mr. Saire, student at Williams
college came Friday evening to spend
Easter at the Brick House.
Miss Sara Cullen who has been for
few weeks with Rev ) II watkins and
family at St Al5ans returned Friday.
Nr and Mrs h & Garfield and son
Spaiord and Mr. and Mrs Trenor
Gregg of Bennington spent Sunday at
f n Garfield 5.
Miss Mae BroWnsOn who has been
spending 4 week at the Brick house re-
turned 10 her duties AZ the Normal
school North Adams, Saturday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-16

Do YOU realize that Easter is only few days away
That every hour aud minute counts now
We have sddrd many new fabrics-skirts and
wrap and the little things" that make the Easter cos
tune comp splendid stock of Spring things
We have assorted them so that choosing will he easy
and pleasant
We have priced them so that you may bloom like the
Spring flowers Faster time for little cost
Suppose you come and see all the new and modish
fashions spend hour two with us to yonr pleasure
aud profit.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-16
STICKS WIDE TRAVELS
Much Stamped Souvenir That Has
Gone 100000 Miles Through
the Mails.

A mailing stick that has probably
travelled through American mails for
a hundred thousand miles or more,
going to and fro between Washington
and various internal revenue oehces.
is in the possession Of Collector Cham
berlain, waiting to start on another
trip to the national capitol states the
Hawaiian Star of recent date Ii is
decorated nearly all over with the
stamps OF revenue collectors from
Honolulu to Brooklyn. The stick is
used to wrap monthly reports around
before they are mailed and the col
lectors have a habit OF putting their
rubber stamps on it before Iemailing
It.
The stick appears to have begun its
career in October. 1892. by a trip to
the collector at Cleveland. o. Since
then it has been here twice, and has
been one or more times to Arkansas
Illinois. New York. Texas South Caro-
lima. Indiana. Louisiana, Missouri,
California. Tennessee. Iowa. Kentucky.
Michigan and Massachusetts,. After
each trip there is a return to Wash
ington with a report
The department at Washington re-
turns it with report. The various
f. collectors report monthly, so that the
sticks are going all the time
There are many of them going to
and fro all the time. said Collector
Chamberlain. and when they get. all
covered over some one is likely TO hold
on to them as souvenirs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-16

Hal dyspepsia or Indigestion for
airs. No appetite and what did eat
stressed me terribly. Burdock
lood BitterS cured me. j I Walker
unbury, Ohio.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-26

high at the start, but they were worn
down to four and one-half feet. Rough
ton and Dignon started from Chicago
February Is, 1902, on wager, and
covered about 1000 miles in this coun-
try before embarking at San Francis
CO for trip around the horn to Eng
land. They then passed through Ger
many, Japan, Italy, Russia, Africa and
Australia,
Parson Davies. the well known
sporting man and John l.. Sullivan
first manager. ridicules the stand talk
en- by James J. Jeffries in drawing
the color line. The "Parson' is now
resting in the south. People should
not forget that Jeffries secured ques-
tionable decision over Big Bob Arm
strong in New York in 1898, and also
fought Peter Jackson not SO very long
before Peter died" he said. at is
funny how some pugilists change after
they become prominent. | am not
saying Jeffries is afraid of any negro
boxer, but it is funny
A big push BALI to cost 5000 will be
bought for the University of Califor-
mia students When the ball arrives
a game will be arranged between the
sophomores and freshmen on the foot
ball field.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-26

ty attorney, one superintendent of
schools, one coroner, one public ad-
ministrator, one county surveyor, and
one auditor in each of the following
counties, to-wit: Cascade. Lewis and
Clark. Silver Bow, Fergus, Gallatin,
Yellowstone and Flathead; three coun-
ty commissioners in each county, one
for 2 years, one for 4. and one for 6
years.
And in order that said election may
be conducted in quiet and orderly
manner l do hereby offer a reward OF
one hundred dollars for the arrest and
conviction of any person violating any
Of the provisions of Title 4, Part 1, OF
the Penal Code, said reward to be paid
until the total amount hereafter ex-
pended for that purpose reaches the
sum of five thousand dollars.
In testimony whereof l have here
unto set my hand and caused the
Great Seal of the State of Montana
to be affixed at Helena, the capital,
this twentieth day of August, A. d.
1906, and in the 131st year of the in
dependence of the United States.
(SeaD. J. X. TOOLE.
By the Governor
A. N. YODER, Secretary of State.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-26
Beware OF Ointments for Catarrh
That Contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense OF smell and completely de-
range the whole system when entering
1t through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable physi-
clans, as the damage they will do is
ten fold 10 the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. j. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, o., contains no mercury, and
IS taken internally, acting directly up
on the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system. In buying Halls Catarrh
Cure be sure you get the genuine. 1t
Is taken internally and made in Toledo
ONO, by F. ]. Cheney G. Co. Testimon.
ials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price 75c. pei
bottle
Take Halls Family Pills for consti
patton.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-26

AmaIgamated representatives FA'
press the opinion thai the Montana
output of copper for 1906 will be about
per cent greater than last year,
while other operators place the est
mate as high as IL per cent. All
agree, however. that next year. with
continuance OF present conditions,
the increase over this year should be
fully % per cent. 1t is expected thai
East Butte will next year be among
the steady producers and the Butte
Coalition will increase its output NOR,
than 80 per cent while North Butte
will add about 10 per cent to its out
put. Anaconda and Parrot should al
so present a better showing Than this
year.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-26
LEWISTOWN
20 YEARS AGO
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

(F'rom the Argus of July q, 1850.
''Lewstown needs lumber yard.
There is a good opening in Lew
istown for a shoemaker"
Born. in Cottonwood, Sunday. July
Il, to Mr.. and Mrs. l.. w. Eldridge, d
son. weight 10 pounds.
DR.. S. B. Stone. wife and mother
and Lieut.. Cuchman. Of Fort Magin-
mis-. visited Lewistown yesterday"
Mr.. n A. Lewis is building "a
handsome residence upon his Judith
ranch. Conundrum--Wil he remain a
benedict"
Robert Jackson returned last week
from Billings, where he ordered a
large stock OF goods for the store he
intends TO open here in a short time.
Married. arston-Norris; at Lew
istown on July IA, 1887, by Probate
Judge Meagher. Z. T. Marston, of Mai,
den, to Miss Matte Z. Norris, of Bos-
ton"
Fergus county was honored at the
recent meeting Of the Montana Wool
growers association at Fort Benton
by the selection OF J. E. Bower, of
Stanford. as president"
William Allen, an employee of the
Ma9inns Mining company, while en-
gagged at his vocation as a miner, last
Saturday. fell down a 90 foot shaft
and sustained injuries that may prove
fatal
A horse race occurred Yesterday
morning between a bay owned by c.
Sheldon, Of flatwillow, and Charley
Sullln9er 5 gray pony, formerly owned
by VIM. Hortop. The gray won by two
lengths"
Upon complaint of Isabel Stevens,
" IN. Whistler was arrested last
Thursday, charged with threatening
the life Of the complainant. The pre-
liminary examination was held yes
terday, and resulted in the defendant
being placed under $4,000 bonds to
Keep the peace Failing to secure the
BOND, he was remande-l TO JAIL
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-26

II is many years since the market
price of silver touched the high level
of October II, when 90 rs cents per
fine ounce was quoted in New ofh,
and 81 5-t6 pence per standard ounce
in London. Compared with the bot
tom prices this year, the latest New
York quotation shows an advance oil
~ cents per ounce, and London, )
5-l6 pence.
Ten years have lapsed since the sill
yer quotations were on so remuheFd-
tive a basis as they are now. In 1896
the London quotation was as hlSh as
81 9-16 pence, this rise being due TO
the large coinage OF silver Dy Russia
The years average price in New YORK
was sos cents. The shipments from
London to the far east in 1896 amount
ed to e6,S97.015 ($33,3l9, 493). equiv
alent to 1888. 7S5 ounces. produced
principally in the United States, and
which was over one-third of the world )
production of 157.061.31u ounces. Dur
ing 1906 the shipments from London
to India. China and the Straits. from
January | to October t. amounted TO
e12.911.013 ($62.747 ,523D. equivalent
approximately to 100. SS0,262 ounces,
which compared with 10 years ago
shows a far greater increase thdn can
be reported in the worlds production.
In fact. during the last > or years
the output in countries other than the
United States may contribute nearly
one-thrd, or say about 6h,poo,oo0 onn
ceS. In 1908 the world output was
in round numbers 1S9.ouu,ooo ounces.
of which the United States reported
5S91S.S39 ounces being the second
largest producer Mexico occupies
first place among the silver mlnln-
countries. and its output last year was
approximately 1U.o00.oo0 ounces while
1906 may show a marked increase b.
reason Of the energetic development
OF its mines, notably copper and gold
All indications point to a higher mar
ket price, and not forgetting that the
American smelter trust is in practical
control of the situation here. and that
London is the seat of the most actiN ?
speculation. silver miners should not
delay to take ADVANTAGE of the pres
ent bullish ituation.-Mining World.
AOa1o1mafp1 rpDTp aflNJS FN-
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-26
4 Certain Cure for Croup-Used for
Ten Years Without a Failure.

Mr.. w. c. Bot, a Star City. Ind,
hardware merchant, is enthusiastic in
his praise of Chamberlin's Cough Rem
edy. His children have all been SUBJ
ject to Group and he has used this
remedy for the past ten years. and
though they much feared the Group,
his wife and he always felt safe upon
retiring when a bottle of Chamberlin' S
Cough Remedy was in the house. His
oldest child was subject to severe at
tacks of Group. but this remedy never
failed to effect a speedy cure. He has
recommended it to friends and neigh
bors and all who have used it say
that it is unequaled for Group and
whooping cough For sale by all
druggists. Oh.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-26
A PROCLAMATION
BY the Governor of the State of Mon
tana.

Executive Office, Helena, Montana,
August 20, l3O6.-By virtue of the all-
thorlty in me vested by the cOnstitu-
Ton ana laws of the state of Mon
lana. |, j, X. ToOle, governor of said
state. do hereby proclaim that on
Tuesday, The eth day Of November. A,
d. 1906, there will be held in the
State OF Montana a general election
by the qualified electors of the State
of Montana to elect the following of
ficers. to-Wit:
One representative in Congress.
One Associate Justice of the Su.
preme Court.
One State Senator in each of the
following counties, to-wit:
Madison, Chouteau. Flathead. Mis-
soula, Granite, Ravalli, Cascade, Val
gus, Broadwater Sanders, Yellowstone
and Rosebud.
Also members of the House of Rep
resentatives from the several counties
of the state as follows. to-wit:
Beaverhead, two; Broadwater two
Carbon. one; Cascade, five: Chouteal
two; Custer, two; Dawson, one; Dee
Lodge, six: Fergus. two; Flathead
three; Gallatin, three; Granite, two
jefferson, three; Lewis and Clark, sew
en-. Madison, three; Meagher, two
Missoula, four; Park two; Powell
one; Ravalli, two; Rosebud, one; San
ders. one: Silver Bow, twelve; Swee
Grass, one; Teton, one; Valley, one
Yellowstone, one.
One Judge of the District Court o
the Second Judicial District for thu
period of two years.
One Judge of the District Court o
the Twelfth Judicial District for thu
period of TWO years.
Also all county officers in each o
the - counties of the state, to-wit
One sheriff. one treasurer, one cierl
and recorder. one assessor. one coun
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-26
LATEST SPORTING
NEWS

saaassssse
Head Coach Fred Folsom III the
Dartmouth college team is very We
hement in his denunciation Of the re-
vised football rules He regards them
as ridiculous and more dangerous than
the OLD ones. He said recently:
Football under the new rules viii
be a farce and fz2le. The new rules
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-26
Notice of Dissolution.

Notice is hereby given that the firm
of Hoople & Gahagan, doing business
at Stanford has this day been dis
solved by mutual consent, Mr.. Hoople
retiring. All accounts due the firm are
payable to P. H. Gahagan, to whom
firm bills may be presented for pay
ment.
Dated at Stanford, Oct. II, 1906
WIN. HOOPLE,
10-12-3t P. H. GAHAGAN.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-26
q AMONG THE MINERS
~ II LATEST NEWS FROM THE TIMING CAMPS OF
W II FERGUS COUNTY AND ELSEWHERE = = =

with gold and although the state has
always produced some copper, it gives
promise of attaining prominence in
that line
The districts of greatest promise and
present interest are those of Ely and
Yerington in the northerly part, and
the newer discovered camps of Gu
prte. Furnace Creek and GreenwateT.
in the south. The latter must, per
force be shared with California. but
there is evidence that this Will in no
wise detract from Nevada. for if the
new discoveries amount 10 much they
will be so extensive as to contribute
heavily to both states. Probably no
better evidence could be offered in
support of the genuineness of the flu
ture of copper in Nevada than the fact
that the present known copper dis
tricts have literally been invaded by
large interests which appreciate the
future Of that metal
From the earliest days of the con
quest. when Nance Sierra de LeQui-
zamo gambled away at one throw of
the dice the golden sun god that form
ed his share of the loot of Cajamarca,
Peru. has been stamped as a golden
country
The best equipped gold mining en-
terprise in Peru is undoubtedly the
Inca Mining company which works a
profitable mine al Santo Domingo,
some miles from TarapaCa. in the eX
IRENE south of Peru. There are also
well equipped mines as follows: Ell
Gigantic" PataZ The Chuquitambo Gold
company. Ia Quinua: La Andaray,
Camana. etc. and nnumerable small
camps throughout the gold region. any
of which may some day blossom into
prosperity. Gold is mined in great
number OF pldcers in the most print
tive fashion. and there is hardly a
merchant in the interior who does no
export quantities varying in value OBJ
tanned in barter.
The approximate output of gold Of
Peru for the year 1904 total sum
Of 600 Kilograms. valued at S3S9,60
Gold in Peru is found chiefly as
free gold or in combination with
sulphides. Stamp mills are used.
many of them of American make At
Santo Domingo mine tInca Mining
company the cyanide process is used.
In other places tplacer mines) the
usual hydraulic methods are employ
ed
Hitherto the chief obstacle against
a thorough and systematic survey, ami
consequent exploitation of the vast
gold resources of this country. have
been the lack of transit facilities
through the rugged interior, and the
difficulty of obtaining labor among the
Quachua or Aymara Indian population.
The gold regions are. for the most
part. barren lands. where provisions
and some times water are scarce:
where even mule trails are none too
frequent, and where the native Indian
population drags out a stolid. lazy, ana
half starved existence, whose keynot >
is profound mistrus, Of the white
man Under these conditions. little
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-26
Ranch Baroain.

100 acres good land on Ford creek
Fort Maginnis reservation, good level
land under ditch. 8 water rights, plenty
of water for a hundred acres the driest
year. Plenty of good range joining the
land at township 16 n, 20 e, was with
drawn from entry. School on next 40.
Good sale for everything offered at
half its value. By William Cowan, Fort
Maginnis, Mont. lO-l2-o
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-10-26

If present expectations are realized,
gold viii not always hold The premier
position among the metal products
of Nevada, says the Mining Reporter.
Copper is beginning to make insistent
claims for recognition as a factor 0f
importance. In fact the reports Of
the later strikes and eXcitenents are
concerned with copper rather than