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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-27
Domestic.

The record price for whisky was
reached at Cincinnati when it rose 2
cents, reaching $1.34.
Three hundred miners at Evans.
Iowa, struck because the company re.
fused to clean the cars in which they
We're transported to the mines.
Evangelist Felix Lawrence of Nash.
vile fell dead of heart disease after
delivering an address in the mission
at Louisville, where he was converted
seven years ago.
The new charter authorized by the
state legislature at it's last session for
the city Of Chicago was rejected by
the voters at special election by q
majority Of over 1000.
A mad dog scare has resulted at
Madrid, Iowa, from the fact that no
less than seven persons have been
bitten by mad dogs. They will all take
the Pasteur treatment.
it is probable the supreme lodge of
the Ancient Order of United Workmen
will meet in Des Moines next June,
instead of Milwaukee, as decided at
the last biennial session held in Mon.
+real
Clarence barrow, the Chicago law
yer who defended Haywood in the re-.
cent trial at Boise, was Kissed ny a
large crowd in a cafe at Spokane be.
cause he refused to stand while the
band played America"
At the annual meeting of the mem
bers of the Associated Press, held in
New York, a resolution was unani.
mously adopted approving the course
OF the officers of the association in
dealing with the telegraphers' strike.
DR.. Robert Able, prominent ply
Sician of New York, in paper read
before the archaeological congress,
stated that he believed radium was eff:
fective in many cases of cancerous
growthhs, naturally those of the epi
dermal type.
Rear Admiral John G. Walker, u. S.
A., retired, died suddenly at the home
CT friend at High Pasture, York
Cliffs, Me. Admiral Walker was sew.
enty-two years of age and native of
New Hampshire. He was at one time
president of the Isthmian canal com.
mission.
Mrs. J. B. Hollenhors is suing for di.
vorce at Waterloo, Iowa, from her
husband, who is serving a three-year
term in the penitentiary for having
padded the Chicago. Great Western
pay rolls and devoting the proceeds to
his own use. Mrs. Hollenhors appear.
ed greatly attached to her husband
during his trouble and broke down
completely when the train pulled out
taking her husband away from her ia
serve his time.
DR.. I. D. Jones of Murdoch, Neb., in.
formed the state board Of health that
twenty cases of beri-beri existed
among the Japanese laborers at Alvo
Neb. The state board Of health imme.
diats)y sent representatives to invest
gate. Dr.. Jones says the disease re
sembles paralysis and seemed to be
contagious.
The general council Of the Evanselt
cal Lutheran church in North Americs
adjourned at Buffalo. N. Z. The nexi
council win be held In Minneapolis n
September, 1902. The Rev. George "
Saudi Of Philadelphia was elected "a
itor Of the church paper. N
~ Hst2 Z.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-27
HIGH WAGES IN WOODS.
Labor Scarcity Again Fac.i in Lur,
Der Camps.

VST VdTIP0s
Blackjack, Mimi, Sept. "a. - Log.
gers now are preparing for their fal9
and winter work, and there are al
ready number of camps in opera.
ton in this vicinity.
Lumbermen predict an unusually
heavy cut during the approaching sea-
son. Their only fear is the scarcity
of labor and subsequent exorbitant
wages which last season was almost
the cause of forcing a number of big
logging firms to the WALL.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-27

Four persons were killed and three
dangerously injured in a fire damp ex.
plosion In the Merienbach mine at
Forbach, Germany.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-27
WOMAN GRABS THIEF
But He Jumps Through a Window ana
Runs,

Moorhead, Mimi, Sept. PA man
attempted yesterday to go through The
Moorhead house. The landlady dis
covered him in room and caught him
by his coat. He jumped through the
window and ran. The police located
him near Fifth street. where re was
hiding and found soHe rings in the
weeds, which he had stolen and
thrown there.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-27
Casualty.


Charles Carter, painter of State
Center, Iowa, was killed by falling
from Northwestern freight train.
A locomotive pulling passenger
train blew up at Calhan, Colo, killing
the engineer and fatally injuring the
fireman.
Eleven persons were killed and
twelve injured by the explosion of q
boiler in the Ferrer factory at Asorri
dero, State of Michcan, Mex.
Edward and Thomas Johnson. broth
ers, of Sioux City, Iowa. were drowned
at St. Joseph, Mo-, by the capsizing OF
skiff in the Missouri river.
Martin Kellogg, street commissioner
and killed by an automobile owned by
Brig. Gen. Russell Frost.
A fire which originated at the Over
land hotel at Boise, Idaho, destroyed
seven business buildings and inflicted
a loss OF $4,000. Incendiarism is sus.
pected.
A Lehigh Valley express train was
wrecked near Pattenburg tunnel in
New Jersey. A number of trainmen
and passengers were injured, but none
of the latter fatally.
Frank Maher and Lewis Trucley,
machinists, were drowned by the cap
sizing of the rowboat in which they
were fishing near the mouth of the
Cheboygan river at Bay City. Mich.
S. ]. Weatherford of Independence
Mo-, was killed and H. E. Kohl of Fort
Dodge was injured in a rear-end col
lision between freights on the Illinois
Central road at Webster City, Iowa.
Fifteen thousand pounds of powder
exploded at the Equitable Powder
works at East Alton, Ill.,, killing Chas.
McGinIis and shocking Chas. Gibson
so that his mind is temporarily gone
Mr.. ard Mrs. Edward Pool, fifty-six
and fifty-two years old, were killed at
the same moment, the husband by an
explosion in coal mine and his wife
in the railroad yards at Centralia, Ill.
Peter Burger, eleven years old, OF
Millidgeville, in the borough of Queens
N. Y, was killed by his chum, Herman
Wehle, fifteen years old, in a struggle
for a small rifle with which the boys
and two companions had been playing.
While three young fellows were re-
turning from baseball game west of
Monona, Iowa, they attempted to steal
a ride on freight train. In the at.
tempt to get on the caboose Ed Wick
Ter, aged fourteen, was thrown under
the wheels and his right leg was cut
off below the knee.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-27

CONTROL NECESSITIES Of Life
EVEN STANDARD OIL TRUST {,
EcLIPsEp BY THIS COMB.
IL. NATION.

Chicago, Sept. characterization Of
the packing trust now under way by
government officials is alleged to have
developed that ten men in Chicago
compose the dynamic force of formi
dable list of corporations that control
prices from those of meat on the hoot
to shops and from breadstuffs to cat
tie transportation.
These ten men are asserted to hold
the balance upon the worlds supply
of the commonest necessities Of life:
The Big Ten.
j. Ogden Armour, E. F. Swift, IRA N
Morris, Thomas E. Watson, S. A. Nc
Roberts, L. F. Swift, Edward Morris
T. ]. Connors, Arthur Meeker, Law,
renee A. Carton. They are all direct
ors Of the same corporation-theN Ma
tional Packing company, organized
under the laws of New Jersey, with a
capital Of $15,000,O00.
The control of this directorate is al
legged to be absolute over these things
among long list Of others:
Control Many Things.
The price of meat to all consunl.
ers; the price of leather to all facto.
ries, and thus, incidentally, the price
of shoes; the price of grain, through
allied interests, and thus, as an Incl
dent. the price of bread.
Thus, without the endless details Of
the fertilizer market, where the trust
controls the price that a farmer pays
for his fertilizer. it appears that the
latest fight Of the government in the
trust field is directed to the two chief
essentials of life-bread and meat.
Raises Prices Arbitrarily.
That the big ten of Chicago has rails.
ed the price of these things to con.
sumers and made no correspondents
increase in the price paid for raw ma,
terial is the chief assertion of the gov,
eminent, and it is upon this general
line that the most interesting trust
fight in the country is now beine
planned.
All of the other corporations in the
country, with few unimportant ex.
ceptions, bow to the wishes of the ten
leaders of the food markets of the
world. 1880
Greater Than OIL Trust.
The government has a list y. over
forty chartered institutions that come
under the domination of the trust. 1t
is claimed that the trust has more al.
lied in5titations than the Standard Oil
trust. All Of them, according to the
information now before high officials,
are subject to the direction of the Chi.
cago combination. Evidence has come
to the government that there is split
IN the ranks of the trust, and it is said
that insiders" have given out valua,
BILE information.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-27
MANY SEEK NEW LANDS.

Big Registration Expected for Lower
erute Opening.
Pierre, s. d, Sept. 24.-Indications
point to an immense crow.l at the reg.
fstTation for Lower B:ule iands Oct
z to ~. ]. w. wen Will lie here
from Washingtc, ag representative
of the department q the interior To-
superintend the yo4:; of registration,
and dlsw,ng.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10
ANDALUSIA.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jay Shade of Moline,
visited relatives here last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Schaffer of Tay-
lor Ridge. spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. T. w. Simmons.
Mrs. John Spickler visited part of
last week with friends in Rock Island.
Several from here attended the
preaching services at Timber Sunday.
DR.. and Mrs. Kennedy of Moline Wis
tied the formers parents last week.
Mrs. Omar Bateman spent Sunday
with Mrs. AdOlph Dunlap.
Revival meetings are being conduct
ed at the Baptist church by Rev. J. r.
Spiller.
The remains of Mrs BOpes of Mi
Ian, were inferred at the Andalusia
cemetery Monday.
A L. Roth visited friends near Aledo
Friday and Saturday of last week.
Word has been received by relatives
that Frank Brookman of Center Point.
Iowa. will go to the south on account
of i'll health.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10
YUMA.

Alfred Grunthem of Moline, visited
friends in this neighborhood last week.
William Russell, son of A. Russell
who was a resident of Zuma for many
years. moving to Guthrie Center in
1876, when William was boy. He
is here visiting relatives and friends.
He reports his father, mother, and
two sisters have passed away.
Rev. Mr.. Keer, the u. B. minister.
who came to supply the Joslin charge,
preached at Rose Hill Sunday morn
ing
The Crescent Telephone company
held it's annual election at Hillsdale
Monday. JAN z. The following officers
were elected: President. William Fl.
Whiteside. Joslin; vice president, Les
lie Hannah Josln; secretary, A. A.
Matthews. Erie; treasurer. NJ. Hanson,
Hillsdale; directors, William Farber,
Port Byron: William Ziegler, Hamp-
ton: John Daley, Zuma; James Dillen,
Canoe Creek; Jerry Pearsall, Coe; Mr..
Sleighmaker, Erie; Mr. Seiger New
ton: Henry Schneider, Hampton.
Mrs. Kate Walther visited her sis
ter. Mrs Schroeder of Rock Island
last week.
Mrs. ID. Mumma who had severe
attack of facial erysipelas is able to be
around after a two weeks illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Cook commenc-
ed housekeeping Jan. l in Frank
Wakes house.
JAN about thirty of S. S. Beal's
friends and relatives walked in and
informed him that he had arrived at
his 64th milestone in life. A pleasant
time was enjoyed. A sumpJuous din
ner was served and a token of remem-
brance was given Mr.. Beal.
John Buckley. wife and children,
who have scarlet fever in mild form
are reported by DR.. Bruner to be i'm
proving nicely
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10

n Reynolds after three days visit with
Mrs. e. G.. Danieison.
Dick and John Farrow returned
home to Bancroft. Iowa. last week
after a three weeks visit with their
brother, Gurney FarrOw.
Mr. and Mrs William Wilmerton of
near Presumption. visited their daugh-
ter. Mrs. Owen Hayes Sunday.
MIR. and Mrs. Barney Flaherty Sr,
went to Rock Island last Tuesday Mr..
Flaherty returned home the same eve
ming. but Mrs. Flaherty remained for
the wedding of her daughter, Mrs.
Julia McDermitt and James Davis that
evening
Mrs. Elizabeth Bell and granddaush-
ter. Edna Ransom, visited in Silvis
Saturday.
Rev Mr. Arborgast and family spent
few days with Mr.. ArbOrgasts par
ents at Saybrook H.. last week Mr..
Arborgast returned to SheTTard to take
up his duties. Mrs. Arborgast went
on to Indiana to visit with her parents.
Carl Chilen and family. who went to
Washington about a year ago, returned
TO Cable last week
Mr.. Peck and wife returned to their
home in Chicago Saturday after a
weeks visit with Mrs. Peck's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Fredricksen.
Mrs. Barney Flaherty Jr.. returned
to her home in Rock Island after a
weeks visit with Mrs. Barney Flahcr-
ty Sr
Miss Mary Flahertv returned home
Tuesday after a three weeks visit
with her sister. Mrs. +. p. Shanahan
of Council Bluffs, Iowa
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10

can get rid of his Smeary and smelly
coal oil lamps and use alcohol illumi-
nantS. He can cook with alcohol in
stead OF cutting stove wood. He can
run his feed cutters and other farm
machinery with alcohol. And all this
light. heat and power he can generate
at small cost from the products of his
own farm, largely surplus and waste
products. If all these dreams come
true life down on the dear old farm
should become decidedly more pleas
ant. With no stove wood to cut the
farmer will have more time to fish.
A Boon and a Blessing.
There is the sweet potato. which is
exceedingly productive of alcohol The
farmer raises it, He can cook sweet
potatoes for his table on n stove heated
by sweet potatoes. In winter sweet
potatoes viii keep his house warm.
Sweet potatoes will light his rooms for
the long winter evenings by the sweet
potato fireside. Sweet potatoes will
grind his corn and cut his chop stuff
for the cows In the stable. Sweet pota-
toes will run his automobile to town
and buy him the necessaries of life
which he does not produce himself.
Verify the sweet potato, in the form of
alcohol, will be boon and a blessing.
In these uses it will give real warmth
and cheer, not the artificial stimulation
which topers from time immemorial
have felt from the use of the undena
tured 'craythur' internally. Hereafter
alcohol proposes to help instead of
hurt In that fact lies a revolution.
DR.. Wiley thinks that for the present
it will be Improbable to manufacture
alcohol in very small quantities. No
farmer, of course, can manufacture
any at all without first registering bis
still and having the tanks locked by
government agent. Uncle Sam proposes
to see to the denaturing himself. The
law provides for this. and If anybody
imagines that he can evade the tax
which still applies to undoctored al
cohol he Is sadly In error.
BY ROBERTUS LOVE.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10

a highly beneficial effect upon the de-
velopment of many American indus
tries. 1t would appear that this bene-
fit is to be distributed pretty generally
throughout the nation. Farmers will
come in for large share. AS they
produce all the raw material from
which alcohol is made, they deserve a
considerable slice of the cake
Heretofore the government has col
lected an internal revenue tax of S207
q gallon on alcohol. This made it's
use for purposes of light, heat and
power practically prohibitive and very
greatly limited its employment in the
many arts and Industries to which al
cohol is naturally adapted. Engines
and stoves and lamps by the million
have had to burn Standard Oil prod
ucts, either gasoline or kerosene, thus
helping to fatten the octopus which al
most everybody hates and fears. AL
cohol minus the tax could be used to
much greater advantage and with very
much less danger. AS a consequences
OF this high tax comparatively little
alcohol was manufactured in the Unit
ed States. Immense quantities of ex-
ceilent material for its manufacture
went to waste.
Four years ago Kansas elected a
young newspaper man TO congress
from the old district of Jerry Simpson.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10

Being red heailed, che ran on the plat
form that red headed men are needed
In congress. This young man, Victor
Murdoch. was born and reared in Kan
sas. which is a fiat country. largely
treeless plain. and he had done good
deal OF thinking. He once expressed to
the present writer the theory that a
plains country is conducive to the de-
velopment of mystics and -seers.
1.-The monotony of the level land"
said Mr.. Murdock makes people med
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10
HAMLET.

Mr.. and Mrs. o. n. Phillips arrived
home Saturday from CrestOn. Iowa,
where they had been visiting Frank
Landreth and family.
Mrs. Maloney Cooper OF New Boston,
is visiting her sister Mrs. c. B. Hal
stead
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Cain are the
proud parents of baby son, born Fri
day of last week.
VIII Steckman returned home from
Iowa Monday night, where he rente1
land. He Will move there with his
family in the spring.
Miss Eliza Owens of Duncan, is Wis
iting her cousin, Miss Ella De Borde.
Miss Winnie Boyles entertained a
party of friends Friday evening at the
home of A. Kendall.
Mrs Than Gaines and four children
of Iowa. are visiting her father. VIII
liam Cain and other relatives around
here.
Dallas Halstead left for his home at
Silver Creek. Neb., Monday, after a
two weeks visit with relatives and
friends in this vicinity.
Miss Lille Marsh entertained ten of
her friends at her home Friday eve
ming.
Miss Ella De Borde has been engag
ed as telephone operator for another
year The switch hours on Sunday
are until 9 in the forenoon, and
until in the afternoon.
Messrs Charles Lee, Cornelius
Swartout, Fred White, and Miss Mary
Lee returned to their school work at
Urbana Monday.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10
FOSTER.

Miss Belle Reynolds went to Rock
Island Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs o. Shirley spent Sun
day at the A. Shirley home.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Foster is suffering from an at
tack of pneumonia.
F. Wright of Rock Island was bus
mess caller in Foster Monday.
Dr. Bendle and ID. A. Kleist were
business callers in Illinois City Tues
day.
Quite a number from this vicinity
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10
The Despised Cob Valuable.

If the farmer finds that corn is sell
ing too cheap to earn q profit he can
manufacture it into alcohol. We are
told that the average yield of an acre
of corn will produce 130 gallons of al
cohol This is from the grain alone.
The stalks, which now are used for
fodder and sometimes burned or plow-
ed under, will make another hundred
gallons of alcohol to the acre if used
before they dry out. Even the de-
spised cob when green possesses starch
and sugar enough to be worked into
the alcoholic output with profit when
used in connection with other materi-
ais. The sugar corn cob is particularly
saccharine and consequently valuable.
Potatoes yield about 225 gallons of
alcohol to the acre. This is the official
estimate on the kind of potatoes grown
for human food. There are other Vari-
cites. we'll known in Germany, which
yield 500 gallons of alcohol to the acre.
Sugar beets are calculated to give
224 gallons of alcohol per acre. \
bushel of corn. we are told, will make
five gallons of alcohol. Corn at 40
cents n bushel brings a high price.
Denatured alcohol. it is figured, can he
made and sold prOfitably at from to
10 cents a gallon. Illuminating oil
costs from 16 to 20 cents. Yachtsmen,
motor boatmen and autOmobilists now
pay about 22la cents Il gallon for a
good quality OF gasoline to run their
engines. \ gallon of alcohol will sup.
ply more horsepower. it is claimed,
than Il gallon of gasoline.
But consider the byproducts of the
farm and orchard that may be used in
making alcohol In addition to the
corncob and stalk. there are apple par
ingS. pea and bean hullS. tomato peel
ings. waste fruits and vegetables of all
kinds that are not marketable. 1t
would appear that you can put almost
any old thing except your last years
hat or II last years birds nest into
the still and turn it into alcohol.
The farmer should find life still more
worth living Stil life, you know. He
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10
The RIGHT Name.

August Sherpe, the popular ovcrsccr
Of the poor. at Fort Madison. Iowa,
says: "Dr. Kings New Life Pills are
rightly named; they act more asrccab-
ly, do more good and make one feel
better than any other laxative" Guar
anteed to cure biliousness and consti.
patton. 25c at w. L. Hartz's drug
store.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10

,CLE SAM is now
engaged in the
free and unlimited
coinage of alcohol.
In plain prose, the
United States pass
es upon alcohol
manufactured by
any citizen and
admits 1t to the
market free of
taxation. The only
requirement is that
the output must be
doctored with some
ingredient which
renders it utterly
and irretrievably
unfit for beverage
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10
SHERRARD.

Frank Lawson of Sherrard. and Carl
Samuelson of near Orion. are on an
extended trip through Texas.
Miss Sherrard returned to her home
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10
FARMER MAY ERECT STILL And MAKE HIS OWN ALCOHOL

noIc material to larger still for man
ufacture was introduced early in the
present session of congress by another
newspaper man. also from a fiat coun-
try, by the way. Senator Henry c..
Hansbrough of North Dakota sponsor
ed this amendment. which is calcu-
lated to set thousands of farmers to
work at the manufacture of alcohol for
home consumption-altog eXter-
nally. of course-and for sale.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10
i

This doctoring process is called dena-
turing. Thus we have denatured alco-
hol, which chemists call commercial or
Industrial alcohol. The other kind Is
just plain alcohol. used in the manu-
facture of intoxicants.
The free alcohol law went into effect
Jan. 1. That date may be remember
ed as the birthday of a new and glor-
ious era for American industries. Such
was the expressed opinion of many
persons who supported the measure
when it was before congress and who
have looked forward with high antici-
pations to Its going into effect. Some
men grew so enthusiastic over the
prospect of untaxed alcohol that they
dreamed of national utopia. They
foretold all sorts of marvellous ameli-
orations to result from the abolition
of the tax. The poor man was to he
come Independent. The Standard Oil
trust was to be smashed to smith
Greens. The octopus was TO be severed
of several of its most wriggling legs
and rendered a cripple for life. Par
ticularly was the small farmer to bene-
fit, even to the attainment of opulence
and town house on Easy avenue.
Rosy Outlook.
1t appears now that a large degree
of extravaganza entered into these pre-
dictions. Conservative opinions CT ex-
perts like DIR. II. W. Wiley, chief of
the national bureau of chemistry, do
not Justify any such serene and
snowy attitudes of hope. Yet the out
look is very promising, even rosy. The
taxless alcohol age in this country has
just begun. In what ways and 70 what
degree it will benefit the people must
be left in a large measure to the slow
results of time. Rome required more
than one day il building. The benign
effects of the free coinage of alcohol
may require several years before max
ing a very great showing.
All the authorities seem TO agree
that the removal of the tax will have
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10
TIM BER.

TIM BER.
Mrs. Sarah Roberts spent Friday at
IS. T.. Roberts.
Miss Anna Harris spent few days
of last week in Rock Island.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. l.. Harris left for
Rock Island Friday, where they will
make their home till April.
Henry Harris of Rock Island spent
Monday night at George Harris.
Several of the ladies of this vicinity
attended a carpet rag sewing at Mrs.
Maynard McDonald's last Saturday and
enjoyed fine dinner.
Miss Retta Andrews returned to her
school duties last Monday after two
weeks vacation.
Several of the old acquaintances of
Nancy Mcdonald gathered at her home
last Monday, it being her birthday an
niversary.
Rock Island Argus., 1907-01-10
In the Suburbs

attended the sale at e. l.. Sheppard's s
Tuesday.
Ben Zollner is in Rock Island this
week. on the jury.