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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-05
To Be BUILT HERE
Ti.city Galway company's
Shops Get Contract for a
New Type of Cars
FOR The HILL LINES
Lot of Toto 'RnTurncd Out as Soon as
PqsssDIs1or Elm Street and
Il long View Service.

That the TTi-City Railway company
is well equipped to build its own cars
< Is Evidenced by the fact that it has
been decided 10 construct the new cars
for the hill lines in the Rock Island
shops This decision does not come as
afcbmpiete surprise as the company
SSaF Ndy turned out nearly 80 cars
n satisfactory in every respect,
Ling been in constant opera
- - come time. The fact, however.
that 7rs1 local construction of street
ears is carried on in but few of the
largest cities is sufficient proof OF an
unusual prOgressiveness on the part of
local management.
viii Build 30 Cars.
The new cars. 10 of which will be
butt Immediately will be used on the
Elm street and long View lines in
Rock Island, and on the Northwest
Davenport. Mt. Ida and Central park
lines In Davenport. As soon as this
lot is completed, 20 more will be start
cd This vii add 80 cars TO the exist
ing aen'.---.snt, each having seating
=
CARSON he Bridge line. Manager Lard
ner. in tiscns sing the design of the new
cars, stated that they will be of the
cross seat tybe, which, although muchI
more expensive than the Old-fashionedl
side seit cars. are more satisfactory
from th Standpoint of the TIdizag ptlD-
lie. Tie side seat car ne character
lied as ''oafGdn," pass engers havins
no- choice but TO stare satS each otherli
'.As matter of observation. the ridinsI
public particularly the fair sex. will in-l
variahiF~siet pass a side seat car TO en-.
joy the greater privacy and comfort of
the modern type. This is seemingly.sa
small matter. but it indicates that the
merger authorities are catering to all
reasonable desires of the public
Double the Seating Capacity. II
The new cars will be of the semi-
convertible type. having a seating ca.
pacity of 36-eight less than the Bridget
line cars, and twice that of the stand |
ard single truck cars now in use. They |
will have 21-fOOt bodies, eight feet two
inches wide, and will be 81 feet over
all This provides for rOomy plat |
forms, which will be enclosed in vesti- |
bules. The monitor top will. OF neces-
sity be low. on account of the limited
clearance of the bridge. but the effect
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-05

The correct answer to the ShidoC
problem is that the coin collector haC
G9S.377. 6S1 pennies.
The winner in the contest who has
been awarded the prize of 500 pen
MES is
w. F. M'LAIN-3O29 Fourteenth av
enue, Rock Island.
The % next best solutions. the an
swer in each one being correct, were
from the following persons who will
each receive a Skidoo pin:
W. n. PHILLIPS-529 Twelfth
street. Rock Island.
ESTELLA NJ VANDRUFF'-400G
Seventh avenue. Rock Island
MARION G. HUBBARD-1014 TWEEN
ty-first street. Rock Island.
]. E. PENRY-112S Fourteenth-and-
a-half street. Rock Island.
FRANK G.. YOUNG, JR.-2020 Fifth
avenue. Rock Island.
BERTHA JONASSEN-1132 Four
street, Rock Island.
S. EDWARDS-S3G Twcnty-third
street. Rock Island
H. C. HUNT-M. W. A. office, Rock
Island
r. S. BLAKEMORE-U. S. Engineer
office, Rock Island.
LOUISE KOCH-719 Fourth street,
Rock Island.
CECILE ADAMS-722 Fifteenth
street, Rock Island.
w A. NORRIS-914 Nineteenth
street Rock Island.
CHARLES +. HUTHMAKER-524
Twelfth street, Rock Island.
ARTHUR \. GRAHAM-Brookha-
ven, Miss.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-05
RIVER FORECAST.

A slight rising tendency in the Mis-
sissippi viii continue between Du-
buque and Muscatine.
I'M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-05

GERS defeated the past summer? IT
was because the interested persons in
the county ring opposed it vehemently.
There has not been an audit of the
county officers books that has been at
all searching or thorough for quarter
of a century. and during all this time
the county is going deeper in debt each
year, and now the board submits to
the voters proposition to tax all prop
erty in the county for the ensuing 10
years at mills on the dollar over and
above the legal limit made by law.
This is the worst financed county in
Illinois. and the voters know it. Will
they act? When Gustafson promises,
if elected to the office of county clerk.
to be simply the servant of the people
and only perform the duties attached
to the Office, and all employees under
him shall only do clerical duty in the
clerks office. He will not run
the county board, but will at all times
court the fullest investigation of the
office. Donovan will be able, if elect
ed, to attend to the sheriff's office with
the same zeal that Reticker, Silvis and
Gordon did when the pay received by
the bailiffs was only a small per cent of
what it has been since.
IF Schafer is the new treasurer, as
-here-is every reason TO believe he will
De, the supervision of assessments will
be attended to by him as it was not by
Cox, and property interests will not es-
cape just taxes if his vigilant eye can
discover it. The books will be well
xept, and no bondsmen will be called
IN to pay off a shortage"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-05
y MerrilS a Good Man

y Jonas Bear, who is past represent
aives to- the grand lodge of the Odd
Fellows pf Illinois. is close personal
trend Of Fred b. MerrilIs of Belleville.
democratic nominee for trustee of the
university of Illinois. Mr.. Merrills is
deputy grand master of the state Odd
FeHfws organization and will be the
next srand master. Mr.. Bear declares
ne vii make an ideaI member of the
body fhteh controls the state school.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-05

statements of Mr.. Jackson, who is i'm
position, if anybody is, to know the
facts, and those made by the Union
and the Moline Dispatch, The Argus
prefers to believe Mr.. Jackson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-05

Columbia. which will winter at the
boat yards here. will be given ban
quet by the company
The Chaperon, Ruth Mac. and Pres
colt were north and south. The Helen
Blair left for Burlington
The stage of water was 500 at
a. H., and $50 at noon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-05
Has Made No Pledges.

As to the other charge that Mr.. Don
Ovan had already named his deputies,
it is only necessary to let Mr.. DOnO-
van speak for himself on this subject.
He desired to make no answer to the
statement as to organized labor. simp-
ly remarking. the working men know
me, and have always known where
stand. l am not seeking now to use
them for my political gain My atti-
tude is my best defense. / am one of
them But as TO the charge that he
had made any appointments in ad-
vance of the election, Mr. Donovan
wrote the following answer, and asked
The Argus to publish it:
Rock Island. Nov 5.-Editor Argus:
There is much said in a political cam
paign that is the part of politics and
which does not always affect the gen
eral public, for a man, after all must
be known by his deeds and his conduct
as a citizen But when the statement
is made that a candidate for office has
named his assistants in advance of the
people electing him, they have a right
to know if it be so, and if so, they may
censure him for being too previous"
at least They in fact have right to
know the truth about such matters.
For my part | feel that | owe it to the
taxpayers and the citizens generally of
this county in the face of this charge
to say that neither by agreement.
promise, intimation or suggestion, OrI
in any manner, shape or form, have
| even so much as discussed the quCs
ton of deputy sheriffs with any one.
want to state this as solemnly as !
know how, and further that if the pcO
pie are good enough TO me to elect me,
| will not only go into the office abSO
Iutely unhampered by ante-election
pledges or promises, but that I will Sc
Iect no one for deputy who does not
meet with the approval of the tax pay
ers of the county, and who is not in
every sense of the word qualified for
the office. If l am elected and do not
redeem this pledge, l hope that | may
be regarded in the community ever
after as a moral Outcast.
CORNELIUS DONOVAN.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-05
AT Eleventh HOUR
GroundIess Charges Made by a
Moline Paper Against Cor
nelius Donovan
SURE TO PROVE A BOOMERANG
One Brings Out His Affiliations With
Organized Labor and the Other
a Positive Statement.

As an eleventh hour attempt to in
jure Cornelius Donovan a Moline pa
per makes two charges against the
popular candidate for sheriff, which it
knows to be baseless, but which it
Withheld until the last moment in
| hopes they would work mischief too
late for repairs.
One of these is that Mr.. Donovan
has had much friction with labor
unions" and the other that he has
| already named his deputies in the of
| flee of sheriff.
f.' Too Well known.
To all who know Mr. Donovan and
his methods, it will not be necessary
to make extensive denial of either
charge. 1t so happens that there is
no class of men among whom he
stands better than with organized la
Dor, and Notwithstanding that the OBJ
ject of the Moline paper is TO stem the
tide of the labor vote that is going
Overwhelmingly to Donovan, its mis-
representations of his relations with
labor will prove of the very opposite
effect. Mr. Donovan has never been
other than labOTing man himself. and
as long ago as 1892 he introduced in
the Tri-City Labor congress a resolu-
ton placing the plastereTs' union on
the S-hour basis. That resolution was
unanimously adopted and being intro
duced by him at the September meet
ing it became effective the April fol
lowing. Since that time the pIasterers
have had the S-hOur day. Prior TO
1892, the plasterers got no better than
9-hOur day. The records of the Tri-
City Labor congress will bear out
these statements, and the circum- |
stance that the resolution was put
through by Mr.. Donovan II years ago. |
long before he was a candidate for any
office and without any object other |
than his devotion to the cause of Ia |
Dor. will give it added weight now that |
unjust attack upon him has brought |
out the actual fact.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-05
RIVER RIPLETS.

The packet Helen Blair viii close its
season between Rock Island and Bur
lington Nov II, which is the 50th ami
versary of the birth of Captain w A.
Blair. The crews of the Blair boats,
the Helen Blair. Silver Crescent and
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-08
THE PROPERTY OWNERS
WILL DISCUSS PAVING.

Captain Jason w. James asks the
Record to call, in his name, meet
ing of the property owners whose
holdings abut on Main and ads dining
streets, to be held at Plants Hall.
Monday. afternoon at three O'Clock
for the purpose of discussing paving,
and particularly the paving of Main
and Fifth streets, as planned by the
city council. The purpose of the
meeting will not necessarily be ag-
ainst the paving proposition, but to
devise plans for street improvement
and hear the voice of the people who
must pay the money for the i'm
provement. 1t is hoped that there
will be a full attendance.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-08
BELLAMY STORER
CUSSES THE PRESIDENT

Chicago, Dec. S.-The Daily Trib-
une in a Washington dispatch today
says: An extraordinary letter has
been addressed by Bellamy Storer
to President Roosevelt and the mem
bers of his cabinet in regard to his
dismissal from the post of ambassa-
dor of the United States to Austria
Hungary. Storer was dismissed be-
cause of his wife's supposed elfer-
ence with the affairs of the Roman
Catholic church and her alleged mis-
use of letters from the President.
1t also was charged that Mrs. Storer
meddled with French politics. Both
of these charges Storer denies, and
on the other hand declares that the
Presidents interest in the selection
of Archbishop ireland as Cardinal
was not due to Storer or his wife,
but to the President alone.
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MRS. MEYERS SEEMS
CERTAIN TO HANG.

Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. S.-The mo-
ton for writ of error in the case of
Mrs. Agnes Meyers, under sentence
of death for the murder of ner hus-
band, Clarence Meyers, was denied
today by Justice Brewer in the U.
S. Supreme Court at Washington, ac-
cording to a telegram received by
the woman's attorney here. Governor
Folk recently granted Mrs. Meyers
and Frank Hoffman, who also is un-
der sentence of death for completely
in the murder, a respite until Janu-
ary 10. Their only hope now lies
with the governor. Mrs. Meyers ex-
pressed no alarm at the news, and
said she had faith in Governor Folk
not permitting her to hang.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-08
CALIFORNIA PREDICTS
WAR WITH JAPAN

Chicago, Dec. 8.-A dispatch to
the Tribune from San Francisco
ese imbroglio as practically settled,
but while believing that the present
crisis has been bridged over, ex-
poets and predicts war between the
United States and Japan within five
years. That the Federal government
by lodging the issue and placing the
responsibility for the insult to Japan
on California has prevented an i'm
mediate war is the firm conviction OF
Francisco, but that war with Japan
will eventually occur is declared on
every side.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-08
BOUGHT THE uP-To-DATE.
Pat McCarty, Who Has Been Mana.
ger, Becomes Proprietor.

Pat McCarty, VINO Has Been Mana
ger, Becomes Proprietor.
A trade was consummated yesterday
whereby Pat McCarley bought the
Up-to-Date barber shop in the Coro-
nado Block from George A. Frieden-
bloom, VINO also owns the Parlor
shop in the Costa Block. Mr.. McCar-
ley is an expert barber, and has been
manager of the Up-to-Date shop for
some time for Mr.. Friedenbloom,
and has made a success of the busi-
ness. Mr.. McCarley has a pleasant
word of greeting for regular custo-
mers, as well as for strangers, and
is always courteous and affable. He
will only employ, as IN the past, ex-
pert BARRIERS and he will doubtless
make a success of the business for
himself. He will constantly strive to
add the latest Improvements to the
shop and bath rooms, and It is his
intention to have a shop in every re-
spect equal to any in the Territory.
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A Fighter who is Afraid.

General Frederick d. Grant says
in the New York Defender: ''Tell
the young men through your paper
that General Grant does not drink a
drop of liquor-has not for eighteen
years-because he is afraid to drink
it. 1 tried to drink with extreme mo
Iteration, because l knew that aico-
mol is the worst poison man could
take into his system; but found out
It was an impossihility to drink mod,
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THE USUAL BATCH
OF LABOR TROUBLES.

New Bedford, Mass, Dec s.
Great interest exists in all the cot
ton mill districts of southern New
England in number of Textile I'm
ion meetings called for different
here this afternoon to consider the
offer of the manufacturers to ad-
vance wages per cent Monday. The
labor council recommends that the
offer be rejected and the operatives
insist ON tae original demand for a
ten per cent raise. When the rate of
increase here is decided upon it will
affect from forty to fifty thousand
hands in southwestern New England
outside of Fall River.
Dispute Reaches Critical Stage.
Pittsburg, Dec. 8.-The dispute be-
tween local officials of the railroads
centering in Pittsburg and their en-
ployees over the scale for yardmen
has arrived at a critical stage, and
unless settlement is reached with
in a day or so fears are entertained
of a general strike in the district.
Negotiations with the Baltimore and
Ohio are already off, and much de-
today with the general managers of
the Pennsylvania Company and the
Wabash lines. If these two compa-
nies take stand similar to that of
the Baltimore and Ohio all the yard
men in the Pittsburg district likely
vxri1 INn
cordance with the result of a vote
of the trainmen
Strike Threatened.
Lead, S. D., Dec. S.-A strike is
threatened at the Home Stake mine
The miners will reach decision to-
morrow.
The Eight Hour Law Tested.
Cincinnati, O., Dec. 8.-The Su-
preme Court of the United States
will be asked to pass on the consti-
tutionality of eight-hour labor laws,
the first action to that end being ta-
ken in the U. S. District Court here
today. The case was that of the Sher-
idan-Kirk Co, recently convicted of
employing laborers for more than
eight hours a day on the contract
work on a government dam. A mo-
tion for a new trial was overruled,
and the attorneys gave notice that
on a writ of error the case would be
taken to the U. S. Supreme Court,
claiming tnat congress has no power
under the Constitution to pass such
a law.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-08
new YORK STORE WILL
BE CLOSED MONDAY

The New York Dry Goods Store
will be closed all day Monday to
mark goods. Store opens Tuesday
morning promptly at o'clock Twen
ty thousand dollars worth of dry
goods clothing, shoes, hats and Aol-
iday goods must be sold in 10 short
days All must go. Forty clerks have
already been secured to wait on the
crowds The sale no doubt will be
one of the most remarkable sales
ever launched in Roswell. Coming
from such a well known and reliable
firm, and at the very time people
need and must buy their necessities,
and at the very time all merchants
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-08

erately. Because moderate drinking
is a practical impossibility, I became
an absolute teetotaler-a crank, ii
you please l will not allow it even
in my house. Drink is the greatest
curse. because practically all crime
and all disaster are the result of it.
Nearly every great calamity in the
country, barring accidents of nature,
are due to drink. Ninety-five per cent
Il will make it no less-ninety-f1ve
per cent of desertions and acts of
lawlessness in the army is due to
drink. If | could, by Offering my body
a sacrifice, free this country from the
fell cancer, the demon drink, I'd
thank the Almighty for the privilege
of doing it. If 1 had the greatest ap-
pointive powers in the country, no
man would get even the smallest apz
pointment from me unless he show
ed proof of his absolute teetotalism.
AS it is, my own appointees, the mem
bers Of my staff, not one of them
touches a drop. They know better"
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-08

and-be ready to enter college Jan.
1, 1907 Another teacher has been
added to the faculty. Special lessons
are being given in our new book,
English Grammar Made Easy"
Special lessons in penmansnip
will be given by Prof. G. A. Reed.
Our "outside manager" will make
calls anywhere in the city and will
meet trains Phone 242. Never ring
242, however, unless you nave busi-
ness Students have no time for idle
talk.
WOOLVERTON PRACTICAL BU-
SINESS COLLEGE co.
W. T. W., Manager.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-08
RESOLUTION NO. 1s


A Resolution authorizing estimation
of costs to macadamize or pave
parts of Main and Fifth Streets in
the City of Roswell.
Whereas, It is the sense of the
City Council of the City of Roswell
that the interest of the City require
that all that part of Main Street, ly-
ing between the North line of Alame-
da Avenue, on the South, and the
North line of Fifth Street, on the
North; and all that part of Fifth ST.
lying between the East line of Main
Street and the West line of Grand
Avenue be graded, macadamized or
paved and,
Whereas, it is necessary that
comprehensive estimation of the cost
of said Improvement be made.
Now, Therefore,
Be it resolved by the City Council
of the City of Roswell:
Section l. That it is hereby order
ed that all that part of Main Street,
lying between the North line of Ala
North line of Fifth Street, on the
North; and all that part of Fifth St
lying between the East line of Main
Street and the West line of Grand
Avenue in the City of Roswell be
graded, macadamized or paved; Pro
vided, however, the cost of said i'm
proyement shall not be too great
Section 2. The City Engineer be
and he is hereby ordered to cross-sec-
tion Main Street between Alameda
Avenue and Fifth Street, and said
Fifth Street between Main and
Grand Avenue, and make estimation
of the total cost thereof
The City Engineer is hereby requir
ed to estimate the number of cubic
yards of material necessary to be
used, or removed in the grading of
said street described, and the cost
per yard of first class macadam, and
estimate the cost of paving said
streets and to file his report in writ
ing with the City Council as provid-
ed by Chapter AZ of the Session Laws
of the 35th Legislative Assembly of
New Mexico.
Passed this 6tn day of December.
1906.
(SEAL)
ATTEST
FRED J. BECK, City Clerk.
Approved by me this Sth day of
December, 1906.
J.W. STOCKARD,
Mayor of the City of Roswell.
Territory of New Mexico, City of
Roswell: IS:
l. Fred J. Beck, Clerk within and
for said city do hereby certify that
the foregoing is true copy of Reso-
lution number 81, as the same ap-
pears of record at page 81 of City
Resolution Record number l.
WITNESS my hand and
the seal of said city on
(SEAL) this Sth day of December
1906
FRED ]. BECK.
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SANTA FEE IMPROVE
MENTS CONTEMPLATED.

Chicago, Dec. 8.-Tne Tribune to-
day says: The Santa Fe Railway Co.
is making preparations for large ex-
penditures in 1907 for improvements
all along the lines of it's 5ystem.
They will probably aggregate twenty
five million dollars. Ole of the most
important pieces of work is double
tracking from Chicago to Kansas
City Another large improvement is
the construction of the new line
from Texico, n. M, to Brownsville,
Texas
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-08

are exacting the very highest prices
be the most wonderful sale ever
launched in Roswell. Mr.. Edwards,
the proprietor, states that he has
never put on nor seen put on a sale
at this time of the year. Now is the
profit, but as this has been a most
successful year with him he wants
to show his appreciation to the buy
ing public that has patroniZed him
SO literally. Hence this huge sale,
which means thousands of dollars
saved the people right at the time
they have to buy.
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BARGAINS

2R miles from Roswell. 20 acres
in alfalfa, cuts two tons per acre
eacn time. $25O.OO an acre.
20 acres orchard, yrs. old $250.00
per acre.
Forty acres in alfalfa, 5000 an acre
also fine home place at reasonable
figure. Cheapest thing in Roswell vi
cinity. Good terms.
WOODRUFF e DeFREEST,
3St3 Oklahoma Block.
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CAR PLUNGES OVER
AN EMBANKMENT

East Liverpool, o., Dec. 8.-A trac-
ton car of the East Liverpool Trac-
ton and Light Company, carrying
full load of passengers, was derailed
at the approach to a trestle today
and plunged over 25-foot embank-
ment, completely wrecking the car.
Jas. Vale of Wellsville, was instant
ly killed, and all the passengers in
jured, several it is thought fatally.
The car stood on end when it struck
then toppled on it's side. The pass
engers were thrown to one e1d Vale
having his skull crushed and dying
instantly. The derailment is beIiev-
ed to be due to loose earth collect
ing on the rails.
Rear End Collision.
Washington, Dec. 8.-Southern Pas
| senger train No. "a struck the rear
end of freight train just south of
DanyiIle, Va, early today, derailing
the engine aid several freight cars
| The freight cars caught fire, and it
| is reported that the engineer of No.
"a was killed and his fireman injur.
| ed, but on account of interruption
cf the telegraph service this report
is not verified No passengers were
| injured.
Another large shipment of Japan
L