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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-02-19
Pullman Company Wins.

Montgomery, Ala, Feb. 10 The sil-
preme court of Alabama has upheld the
Pullman Car company's right to ex,
clude from its coaches persons suffer
ing from contagious or infectious dis
eases.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-02-19
INVESTIGATION FOR
THE OIL CARRIERS
Interstate Commerce Commission to
Inquire Into Methods in South
west.

Washington, Feb. 19.-The inter
state commerce commission has order.
ed an investigation of rates and prac-
tices of railroad carriers engaged in
transporting oil from Kansas and In
dian Territory to interstate destina-
tions. EnsfS %
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-02-19
DIVORCE LAWS
CONGRESS ON SUBJECT MEETS AT
WASHINGTON WITH ALL
BUT THREE STATES
REPRESENTED.

Washington, Feb. 19.-Gov. Penny
packer of Pennsylvania was chosen
president of the congress of uniform
divorce laws which convened here to-
day The membership is national in
scope and all but three states of the
union are represented.
Outlines Objects.
Following the address of welcome,
Pennypacker outlined the objects of
the congress. 1t was hoped, he said,
to secure as near as possible uniform
statutes upon the matter of divorce.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-02-19
PLACED IN TOMB
Remains of King Christian of
Denmark Inferred With Prop
er Ceremonies
BESIDE HIS PREDECESSORS
Representatives of Other Royal Fami.
lies of Europe Participate in
Final Rites.

Roskilde, Denmark, Feb. 19.-The
ancient Gothic church here presented
a brilliant spectacle yesterday after
noon " lon King Christian, amid the
thunder of guns and the blare of trum-
pets. was laid TO rest with the long
line of predecessors on the Danish
throne whose remains repose in the
side Of the chapels in Roskilde's red
stone fame
The service began with the singing
Cf 4 hymn. and then Dr. ROerdam de
Hvered a panegyric touching on the
principal incidents of the kings reign,
dwelling on the great economical and
political strides of the country under
his beneficent rule and addressing con
soling words to the many bereaved
royal personages throughout Europe.
The sermon was followed with another
h.sln. the royal mouners joining in
the singing
Then to the strains of the funeral
march composed by Hartmann on the
occasion of the death in 1874 of Albert
Bertel Thorvaldsen, Denmark's great
scuiptcr. which was accompanied by
trumpets and cymbals, eight officers
carried the cuIrin from the chancel
across to the chapel of Frederick.
Proceed to Chapel.
A short wait ensued while the coffin
was being deposited in the sarcopha-
gus. Then King Frederick and the
queen, Louisa, followed by Emperor
William and Queen Alexandra. whom
the emperor assited from her chair,
and King Haakon and the dowager en-
press of Russia, the four walking
abreast. proceeded to the chapel, where
DR.. PAUL. read the burial service in the
presence only of the royal personages,
the foreign representatives, and the
ministers. Earth being thrice thrown
on the coffin. the Lords prayer was re-
peated and the service concluded with
the benediction.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-02-19
Russia Recalls Army Chiefs.

st. Petersburg, Feb. 19.-Gen. Kuro-
patkin and Gen. Batjanoff. commanders
respectively of the first and third Man
churian armies, have been recalled.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-02-19
GOOD PLACE FOR w. M. HOBBS
Former Rock Island Railroad Man to
Manage Southern Line.

Des Moines, Iowa, Feb 19.-Notice
of William NJ. Hobbs, former head of
the Rock Island in Iowa, to be vice
president and general manager of the
San Antonio & Arkansas Pass rail
road.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-02-19
Mrs. Wilkes Dead.

Florence. Italy, Feb. 19.-Mary
Wilkes, widow of Rear Admiral Wilkes,
u. S. N, is dead, aged 3d.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-02-19
Former Head of New York
Life Breathes His
Last.
DECLINE WAS RAPID
Lost Position, Home, Reputa
tion and Then
Health.

II MAY not have lived the life of
II n saint, but rs 4 look back
now I cannot recall that i have
ever deliberately harmed man,
woman or child. \ have lived my
cOuId.-John y. McCalIs last es-
innate of himself.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-02-19
states Themselves Must Act.

There is no adequate remedy for
this condition. the speaker continued,
Except by the people of that state,
clothed with plenary power through
the enforcement of the Jaw and the en-
actment of additional legislation if ne
cessary, to exercise the function of
government"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-02-19
CANNON WARNS OF GENERALIZATION

uation, and must help themselves. He
said:
THE governor of one of the states
has within few days written to a sen
ator in congress that his state is power
less to compel the railways within its
borders to extend to its citizens facili-
ties by proper connection, switching,
and the furnishing of cars to enable
it's people to have equal and fair treat
ment under similar conditions with
other citizens-and that this condition
comes from inability to enforce law in
existence and to enact additional ne
cessary legislation, and in effect ap-
pealing for relief to the federal gov
ernment.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
SALARY
OF FIRST PRESIDENT
Letters of Washington to
Private Secretary Show
Cupidity of Tradesmen

A recent publication of the letters of
George Washington to his private sec
retary, Tobias Lear, indicates that Phil
adelphia was about the same as now
in the days of the first President
Washington accepted $4,000 a year al
President on the assumption that it
would just about pay his expenses in
maintaining the dignity of the nation.
He seems to have supposed that he
could get along like any private citi-
zen.
He was soon undeceived In the let
ters mentioned the President pours out
the agony of his soul because o. the
exactions made upon him on account of
his position. He says that he cannot
live as well as the ordinary citizen on
$500 or $4,000 a year nor entertain so
much nor so we'll (aside from state din
ners) as these private gentlemen. Every
one cheated him. He paid exorbitant
rent and it cost him enormously for
furniture provisions, servants and
travel.
1t is commonly said that Washington
was the richest man of his day, but
most of his property was unproductive.
In fact the father of his country was
hard up most of the time. His SER
wants, stewards and officious friends
were extravagant to a degree. he had
to hire double the requisite number of
servants, whom he declared to be the
most expensive and incompetent ever
known; his slaves tried to leave him.
and he desired to hire short, squat
Dutch" servants at every vacancy, but
was anxious to make a close bargain
with them His plantation at Mount
Vernon did not pay expenses because he
was continually robbed. II he sold
grain or tobacco he got the lowest price
and sometimes never got the money
promised. His tenants refused to pay
rent on farms, both in Virginia and
and his houses in Alexan-
dra went to rack. His land in the West
were unstable at any price. Moreover
all friends and many strangers were
desiring to borrow money
at times when he was behind in his
bills.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
No PLACE FOR GRuMBTERs.

A man who stands on the street cor
ner chewing and splitting. telling how
the Government should be run. cursing
the town. finding fault with his grand
mother because she was woman
claiming that the merchants are 4 lot
OF thieves. that the lawyers and news
paper men wonld skin man to a fin
1sh, and whole lot more. is a nui-
sance and an abomination ANY town
pestered with one or more such worth
les would be justifed in exercising
cowhide authority on the bosom of
their trousers. No one is obliged TO
live where he is not suited If things
don't suit you, 20 where they will A
growler and q sorehead in town is
an enterprise killer every time
Macksville Enterprise.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
REDUCING THE RISK OF TR.yEI.

Statistics covering the mortality
among passengers and employees on
American railroads in 1905 are again
eloquent in their argument for more
and better safeguards in the equip
ment and operation of trains In the
twelve months ended June 80. 1906, an
average of 26 persons were Killed and
23S injured every day. In the entire
period covered by the Interstate Com
merce Commissions report 9703 persons
were slain and S6.008 others were more
or less seriously hurt. One passenger
out of every 1.375.S56 carried met death
and one in every 70,655 was injured
Altogether, the casualties on American
railroads for year exceeded by nearly
10000 those on both the Japanese and
Russian sides during the siege of Port
Arthur, and were almost equal to one
fourth the number of Japanese and
ing the war
1t is acknowledged, of course. that
travel on American railroads is becom-
ing more nearly devoid of risk, but
there is still room for the introduction
of reforms that would reduce the dan
ger to a minimum. When the officers
and owners of railroads find that it is
the part of economy as well as Of hui
manity TO supply the necessary safe
guards the menace to life and limb
will be practically removed. Enforce
ment of laws already on the books and
the enactment of others to fix the re-
sponsib,lity for carlessness seem to be
the remedies at hand.-St. Louis Re
public.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
ACE Of THE EARTH
RAISES QUESTION.
Professor Lancaster Points
Out Difficulty of Deter
mining Scientific Problem

professor Lancaster, in the course of
an interesting outline of the advance
ment of science in the past twenty
five years, which he gave at the open
ing meeting of the British Association
at New York recently, raised the ques-
tion of the age of the earth.
He said the discovefy of radium far
exceeded all other discoveries in i'm
portance. If the sun. consisted of a
fraction of l per-. cent of radium, it
would account for and make good the
heat that is annually lost by it.
This is a tremendous fact" the pro-
fessor continued, tupsetting all calcu-
lations of physicists as to the duration
in past and future of the suns heat and
the temperature of the earth's sur
face
The geologists and the biologists
have long contended that some thou
sand million years must have passed
during which the earth's surface has
presented approximately the same con-
ditions of temperature as at present,
in order to allow time for the evolu-
tion Of living things and the formation
or the aqueous deposits of the earth's
crust.
The physicists, notably Professor
Taft and Lord Kelvin, refused to allow
more than ten million years (Which
they have subsequently increased to a
hundred million, basing the estimate
on the rate of cooling of a sphere of
the size and composition of the earth.
They have assumed that its material is
self-cooling
But as Huxley pointed out mathe-
mates Will not give a true result when
applied to erroneous data. 1t has now.
within these last five years, become
evident that the earth's material is not
sef-cooling, but on the contrary self
heating. And away go the restrictions
imposed by physicists on geological
time. They now are willing to give
US not merely thousand million years,
put as many more as we want."-Lon-
don Express.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
IMPORTANT STRIKE MADE.
RManager Haley of California Tonopah
Mine Has Favorable Report.

TONOPAH, Oct 29.-From the report
OF Manager John M. Haley of the Cali
tornla Tonopah mine, the strike made
IN that property a few days ago is of
the utmost Importance. On the 15O-foot
level a drift was run eighty feet to the
west and then crosscut started to
the south. It was intended to drive
this ahead some distance In order To
closely explore the ground for string
ers and other indications of the pres
ence of an ore body. The crosscut
had proceeded but a few feet from the
drift when it broke into big block
or ore showing brittle silver in good
quantity This ore body lies in a
slip In the general formation as is
common in other mines in the camn
1t is wedge-shaped. with the anex a.
the top of the drift. The company in
tends TO sink winze on the ore shoot
at once. and from the way the block
wldens out it is thought that big
ledge will be uncovered. The values Of
the rock run from $50 to $50.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
VALLEY OF YANGsTE
AROUNDS IN GAME
Naval Officers ON Asiatfc Station Find
Rare Sport During Leave
of Absence

AS good hunting as can be found
anywhere in the world today is in the
valley of the Yangste in China said q
naval officer who has Just returned
from cruise along the Chinese coast
to a New York Sun reporter. In feet
hunting Is the chief recreation of the
omcers who are at Asiatic stations and
who have the good fortune to get
Aeaves for the purpose
Inc great, low, sandy bottom land
covered with tall grass and a thick
growth of bushes and lines of forests
further back on the ridges is rich in
game Of almost every kind. Deer are
often seen, there are hares. rabbits.
pheasants, pigeons, wild geese. wood
cock and snipe.
On the way down the river we
stopped for 4 ne days waiting for a
pilot, and several OF us went ashore. A
flock of ducks few over our head One
OF the native guides spoke of ii as a
small flock. yet ] am sure that a con-
servative estimate would be 1000 birds
Ia the path of the officer who was in
advance of the party deer sprang up,
furnishing an excellent shot. and we
had venison at mess the next day.
We stopped twice for hunting lust
below Kiukiang, but our best luck was
on the Lunglas reach. Although we
could have got almost any kind of bird
we devoted ourselves TO the Mongolian
pheasant.
They are a beautiful bird. but are
hard to shoot, as they hide in the long
grass and fly up from under your feet
like our partridge. There are often.
too, so many Chinese about that the
situation is considerably complicated.
The first day that | went out I was
accompanied all the way by three men.
ten children and one girl mounted on
carabao- With the scrutiny of this fine
gallery ] managed to miss about every
shot and had my marksmanship placed
on a pretty low grade by my audience.
finally got my nerve, however, and
succeeded in bagging five fine pleas
ants.
This overpopulous condition some
times leads to unpleasant results. for
with people nearly as thick as the
birds themselves. 1t is no wonder that
a native gets an occasional load of shot
Usually this is squared by the payment
OF little money, but occasionally an
astute relative of the afflicted one. in
tent upon wringing everything possible
out of a visitor. will make trouble.
The beating of a gong will bring
out whole village armed with pitch
forks and sickles. and unless the hunter
can make a show of force or slip away
there are liable to be exciting and
sometimes dangerous consequences"
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
RUSSIANS SHUT OUT
OF CITY OF KHIVA
Foreigners Experience Great DifhcuIty
I'm Efecting an Entrance
Into the Town.

Bokhara is fallen. Samarkand is the
seat OF a Russian provincial governor,
and Merv is manufacturing town with
cast-iron drinking fountain. Khiva,
too, was swallowed in its turn, but
oisgorged again: though the kingdom
fell, il was handed back to its owners,
and no Russian may now enter except
by Invitations
The Khivan mobiles. stim ride a-hawk-
lag and caravans in the Kara Kun
sands still fear the armed horsemen
who dash down from the north.
Though compassed about on every
sice by Russian territory. and in sight
'of rhe breaches made by the Russian
guns IN 1873. the khivan Khan still
screws his revenue, from a trembling
people, Joyously murders in the open
market, and dispenses the high. the
middle and the low justice from a raised
dais in his courtyard.
Busnaby rode to the city from the
north and underwent dreadful priva-
tiOns 10 spend three days there Armi-
MUS Nambery, nearly the most courage
Gus traveller Of modern times. reached
there disguised as a holy man. The
American MEGA han entered with Gen.
eral Kaufman in 1873 DR.. LandselI
and Captain Abbott made The journey
and. lastly, Robert l. Jefferson. as re-
corded in his book called A Second
Ride 10 khiva," made long bicycle
ride across the Russian steppes and
q camel ride down TO Khiva from Oren-
burg IN the north. But other than
these, know only Of Russian officers
who have been within the gates
Since the Russians themselves have
agreed TO keep out, they have done all
in their power to prevent others from
going into the city or even crossing the
boundaries of the little kingdom. What
they fear from visitors it is not easy to
imagine Four antiquated muzzle-load-
ing. snnOoth-bore cannon and a corrupt
and unintelligent court circle revolving
about a stupid ruler would not repay
a second thought even from the spies
Of the Niceroy OF India But the fact
is that foreigners are not allowed ac-
cess 10 the State and the Eighteenth
Regiment of Chasseurs is quartered at
Petro AleNandroVsky in such a way as
10 control the Khivsn water supply
along the canal from the Oxus.-Post-
Intelligence
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
RULERS OF EUROPE
BUSINESS MEN.
Thrifty Monarchs $ Increase
Their Incomes by Engag-
ing in Trade Pursuits.

The London Times reveaa 5. Mr.. Leish-
mans great and good friend, the Sultan
OF Turkey. in a new role. He has estab-
lshed land trust to exploit Mesopo-
tamia for has personal profit. BY irriga-
tion the company formed under his
charter is recIaiming soil grown bar
ren through the neglect of centuries.
and is restoring it to fertility, but by
methods which dispossess the natives
landhoIders and reduce them to farnE
Iaborers.
The trust which is enriching the Sui
tan at the expense OF his subjects is a
benefcent one 1t pays the % evicteo
farmers union wages" and it has cre
ated towns and built schools. -Anlari-
can trusts VIII envy it's advantage OF
having the Mussulman priests. in re-
turn for abundant backsheesh, preach
z boycott of all but Moslem boats on
the rivers which water its lands.
Apart from its bearing on the Sui
tan's fortune the attempt TO redeem
an ancient seat OF empire will arouse a
sentimental interest AS an irrigation
project it dwarfs those for the recla-.
nation of American desert lands This
is agricultural gardening on a gigantic
scale. Using twenty centuries after
the Christian era practically the same
methods employed to keep the land
fertile in the old Baby1onian days, it's
profits are poured into the Sultan's
Hejaz Railway and other projects.
The Sultan is not the first crowned
head to engage in company promotion.
His venture in Mesopotanka viii nat
urally recall King Leopold's Kongo
schemes. The Cars mines and lands
are a vast private fortune The Kaiser
has large investments in the Hamburg
American steamship line. now grown
10 be the worlds greatest ocean car
rying company. Il report is true, King
Edward profted by the Hartman ma
snipUlation Of Union Pacific. Queen Vic
tOria once had extensive land holdings
IN New York city. chaumont, Chazy
Lake and Bonaparte Lake in New York
State bring. TO mind the interests Of
both Bonapartists and royalist emigres
in Northern New York
The present order. which finds Kings
more often al the head OF company en-
terprises than in the van of invading
armies, has its advantages.-New York !
World
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
News of the Mining
Camps Of Nevada.

GoLDFIELD, New, Oct. 29-Lodi,
eighteen miles south of Fairview, is
making a good showing for a young
camp. 1t was discovered last winter
by Charles Norris, who found a true
fissure vein cutting through the coun-
try for. 400 feet. which gives returns
of from $40 to $50 to the ton. About
half of his prospects will ship ore from
the surface and one of them runs 40
per cent lead, 100 ounces of silver and
one ounce of gold to the ton.
The Illinois mine, which is shipping
ore. at present making the round trip
TO Austin in four days, is taking out
ore which runs $3.50 to the ton. The
ledge is gold and silver ore and about
fifteen years ago a lessee took out
S6O0.0O0 from the ledge with a wind
lass. He went down $50 feet, making
eleven lifts to reach the surface with
windlasses. lie had a smelter of the
two-funace variety, from which he
took an $500 brick every day for eight
months The smelter has resisted the
lnroads of time and weather and it is
the intention of the Illinois people to
get 1T in shape and run their ore
through it. AS did the original owner
they will have charcoal burned in the
Paradise Range, four miles away
which contains thousands on thousands
of feet of timber. Water is plentiful
in this. locality.
The Burns lease on the Combination
FRACTION property has a vein a it's 800
foot level, which President Wells Nor
ton is satisfied is an extension of the
rich ore body of the Frances Mohawk.
Ihis-. property is working almost up
70 the side lines of the Burns lease, and
morton asserts that the ledge which he
has caught in the drift to the north
west will bring them into the Frances
ledge within a few feet
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
TRADE UNION AGE PENSIONS.

1t may be doubted whether the pub
lie generally are fully aware of what
is already being done for the aged by
working men through their trade
unions and other great self-help or
ganizations. Forty of the principal
trade unions paid in 1904 no less sum
than f267, ,S96 in superannuation BEN
eft. The Amalgamated Society of En-
gineers itself is paying more than
100000 a year to its aged members
All this is in addition to large ex-
penditure on the unemployed, which
again is no doubt greatly swelled by
those who are made workless through
old age. The Northumberland and Dur
ham Miners Permanent Relief Fund
has for many years made provision for
its aged members. In 1905 there were
1881 on the fund, the total amount paid
in superannuation for the year being
f60, 60,094.-Nineteenth Century.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
OLE RRIr1sH RuLERs.

1t was all legally and satisfactorily
settled early in the reign of Queen
quit Britain without let or hindrance,
and constitutionally discharge her or
his duties at whatever place shall be
chosen. Where the King is there is
the court. and there. Within the British
dominions. Parliament might be sum
moned to assemble.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30

A camel begins work at four years
Old and frequently continues in use for
over half century 1t will carry 1000
pounds on its back. while few horses
can carry more than $50 pounds.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30

For many years W. Redmond, one OF
the leaders of the Irish party. was the
baby of the House of Commons. He
was only 22 years old when he was re-
turned from Wexford in 1889.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
NOTICE! !!
All Municipal EMPLOYEES

of the City and County of San Fran
cisco, in each and every department
including all heads of departments, as
well as subordinates, are hereby re-
quested to assemble at DREAM
LAND SKATING RINK, Steiner
street, near Post street, on WEDNES-
DAY AFTERNOON, October 81,
1906 at o'clock The objects OF
the meeting are to refute the false
charges of graft with which the ad-
ministration is being maliciously as
sailed by various political and private
interests and to effect a permanent
organization of the friends and SYM
pathizers of the administration.
Each enploye is requested to hand
in, at said meeting, over his signature,
a written list of five electors (with
their addresses) who can be relied
upon to cooperate in this organiza-
xf0r1
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
Keep Your Liver

working. It's a lazy organ and needs
to be stimulated occasionally or it
shirks its function. That coated
tongue, sallow complexion, sick head
ache and pain under the shoulder
blade are caused by an indolent liver
Liven it up by taking a short course
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30

The Emperor of China rises a. fo,.
o'clock in the morning to studv In
nsn and Manchu before breakfast
which meal is at s. He makes up for
TINS output of energy. however, by re-
firing at sunset.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30

Just why Captain Dreyfus preferred
to hang on and wait in a garret for
''vindication." when he could have been
making a fortune in Texas many VIII
never be able to understand
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30

You can't tell by the size OF mans
hat how much he doesn't know.