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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-07
A Methodist Minister Recommends
Cnamberlain's Couch Remedy.

We have used Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in our home for seven years,
and it has always proved to be a re-
liable remedy. We have found that it
would do more than the manufacturers
claim for it. 1t is especially good for
Group and whooping cough,
Rev. James A. Levi,
Pastor Milaca, Mimi, M. e. Church.
Chamberlain's Cough remedy is sold
Iby all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-07
THE W E4THE Err.
Generally cloudy tonight and Friday,
probably with showers; warmer to-
night; cooler Friday.
j. VI. SHERIER, Local FOrecaster.

Temperature at . a. M, 20; mt $3.50
p. M. 81. Maximum temperature in last
"a hours, 81; minimum, 20. Velocity of
wind ut a. M, 3 miles per hour. Stage
of water, 3.4 feet, n fall of Il foot. Pre-
cipitatiOn, none.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-07
Reward for Dou Pojsoner,

The Rock Island Gun club hereby
offers reward of 500 for information
leading to the arrest and conviction
of the party or parties guilty of poison
ing hunting dogs recently in Rock Is
land. By order of
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-07
Saloon Notices.

Coon lunch Saturday night at Dets-
enroths place, 1901 Fourth avenue.
Coon lunch Saturday night at Rent
frow's saloon, Twentieth street and
Third avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-07
Notice.

My wife, Sarah A. Johnston. having
left my home and board, l will not be
responsible for any debts contracted
by her after this date.
SAMUEL M. JOHNSTON.
Rock Island, H., Nov. 5, 1907.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-07

SIS; lambs, $3.50 to s6.75.
Cattle-Steers, $3.50 to $3.50; cows
and heifers, 81 to $500; calves. $3.50 to
$3.50 Q
Feed and Fuel.
Grain-Corn, Csc TO roc; oats, 4Sc
to Soc
Forage - Timothy, s11@s13.00;
prairie, s9@$11; clover, s10Qs11;
straw, Sc.
Woodland, per load, Sc to Sc. 80.
Coal-Lump, bushel, Is to lac; slack,
per bushel, Z to Sc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-07

When you are sick, out of sorts, take
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea The
most effective remedy. Relieves when
others fail. You be the Judge, try it
35 cents, tea or tablets. Harper House
pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-07
HAD ONE ALREADY
So Former Rock Island Colored
Man Did Not Take Wife
in Moline Today.
ALL ARRANGEMENTS MADE
Report That Henrietta Willis Had Be-
come Mrs. Chapman at Mar
enoo Spells Plans.

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wood, colored,
residing at 1440 Twenty-first-and-a
street, Moline, issued invitations to
the marriage of their daughter, Miss
Mayota Elizabeth Wood, to Leonard
AlexandeR Chapman, former Rock Is
land resident, and the ceremony was
to have taken place today. 1t was not
held, however, though the carriages
were ordered, and all other prepare.
tons had been made.
Already Has Wife.
The trouble is that the groom already
has wife, though it appears that il
is not his fault Henrietta Willis, a
Rock Island colored girl, it appears
marched Chapman to the altar last
week at Marengo. Iowa, at the point oil
a revolver. Telephone messages from
Marengo today verified the report thai
Chapman had been granted a license
there, and the Wood family hastily
called off the event today.
Since the wedding at Marengo Chap
man has visited the Moline girl sew
eral times. He was formerly employed
as a chauffeur by a prominent Rocl
Island family.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-07
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.
Today's Quotations on Provisions, Live
Stock, Feed and Fuel.

OWN, FSCo anu = 0Sts
Rock Island, Nov. Following are
the wholesale quotations on the market
today:
Provisions and Produce.
Live Poultry-Spring chickens, 10c
per pound; hens, per pound, Sc; ducks
per pound. SC to 10c; turkeys, pei
pound, lac to 15c; geese, per pound, &c
to 10c.
Butter-Dairy 22c@23c.
Lard-11c.
Eggs-22ac.
Vegetables = Potatoes, 45c a soc;
onions, 55c@60c.
Live Stock.
Hogs-S5.25 to $3.50.
Sheep-Yearlings or over, 500 Il
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-07
Charles E. Hodqson,
FIRE INSURANCE
AGENCY.
ESTABLISHED 1874.

American Insurance company, Newark
American Ins. Co. Newark, N. J.
Continental Ins. Co.........New York
Agricultural Ins. Co. New York
Farmers Ins. Co.. York, Pa.
Williamsburg Ins. Co. New York
New Hampshire Ins. Co. N. Hampshive
Northern ms. Co. New York
Security Ins. Co. New Haven, Conn.
ms. Co. State Of Illinois. Rockford, Ill.
Connecticut Fire Ins. Co. Of Connecticut
Office, room 3, Buford block. Rates
as low a. consistent With security.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-07

yesterday in the Mississippi river
Lehman carried 100000 life insur-
ance
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
ALTON PARKER is CAUsTIC
Remarks of w. j. Bryan Cause New
York Man to Give Inter
view.

NEW YORK. Oct. 25.--Alton b. Parker
said today that he had seen w. ]. Bryan's
statement in Schenectady yesterday that
when in congress Mr.. Bryan advocated a
law TO protect depositors from exactly such
conditions as occurred In New York during
the last few days. Commenting thereon, he
said;
How glorious it is to be a heaven-born
financial genius. What a pity congress
could not have appreciated the wonderful
advantages OF such a law. Had they ap-
preciated IT, we would not have needed
yesterday the patriotism Of J. Pierpont
Morgan that prompted him to throw Ss7,-
100000 into the maelstTom at a critical
moment; the S25,O00OOO OF the government,
the $10OOO.OOO OF Rockefeller and the money
and strenuous labor Of public spirited and
honest bankers and business men. who
strove nightly TO save business generally,
and therefore every citizen. from ultimate
injury.
IT am sorry that he did not mention the
title Of the bill. In the absence of speelhca-
tions, there win be those who will think
that its title may have been 1e TO l."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
JAPANESE ETHICAL CREED
President of Chicago school board
Would Adopt it for City
Schools.

CHICAGO. Oct. 5.-Japan is to have a
unique revenge for any real or fancied
sights II may have received at the hands
Of American school authorities, If Presi-
dent Otto c. Schneider of the Chicag
school board has his way. Preslden.
schneider wants to adopt the Japanese
imperial rescript on education as the stand
ard OF ethical and moral teaching in the
Chicago public schools A copy OF the
rescript in a new translation recently made
by board Of Japanese scholars, reached
the president yesterday from the Japanese
government at Toxic.
The rescript, which is a report of edu-
cational creed, was made thirty years ago
by the emperor Of japan and has been
used since that time as a formula for
ethical teaching in the Japanese schools.
In part It reads:
Be flial to your parents, affectionate 10
your brothers and sisters; as husbands and
wives be harmonious, as friends true; bear
yourselves in modesty and moderation
extend your benevolences to ALL pursue
learning and cultivate arts and thereby
your intellectual faculties; always respect
the constitution and preserve the laws
should emergency arise, offer yourselves
courageously to the state; and thus guard
and maintain the prosperity OF our imperial
throne, coeval with heaven and earth.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
UTE UPRISING is CONFIRMED
RumOr that Sergeant Baker, jn
Charge of RatiOns, Has
Been Killed.

STURGIs, s. D., Oct. 25.-(special Tele-
gram 1.-THE report is confirmed here that
the Ute Indian agent has called for troops
Sergeant Baker, In charge OF rstions, II
reported killed. The rumor is not believed
here. The Indians are said TO be scatter
ing. Information from Fort Meade states
that four troops of the Second cavalry
from Fort Des Moines have been ordered
by rail with the Eighth cavalry at For.
Robinson. All available troops at For.
Meade are awaiting orders To move. They
will probably move tomorrow. Second
Lieutenant Griflth may command the
troops in the last named post in an over
land march. The Indians arc 80 miles
rom here,
There are no new developments tonight
on the Ute Indian troVbie There are a
number OF rumors OF destruction of prop
erty by Indians. but nothing authentic.
The troops at Fort Meade are in readiness
to hove at a moments notice II orders com4
to move, The troops of the Eighth cavalry
at Fort Robinson probably will come here
by rail and Join the troops at Fort Meade
going overland from there to the scene OF
the trouble It is thought by many that
the Utes broke out, thinking they would
again be brought back to For tMeade and
taken care Of by the government during
the winter.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26

SIOUX FALLS. S. D.. Oct 25-(special) )
The recent seizure by a representative OF
the government OF a number of head Of
cattle. which had been purchased by a
"tenderfoot' homesteader in the ceded por-
tlon OF the Rosebud reservation. in Gregory
county, from some Indians belonging on
the Rosebud reservation. was an eye
opener for many of the recent arrivals in
South Dakota, who were not aware that II
was against the rules OF the Indian depart
ment for Indians to sell stock which had
been issued to them by the government.
Several thousand people from eastern states
have taken homesteads IN the ceded portion
Of the Rosebud reservation, and in the
vast region between the Missouri river and
the Black Hills, in western South Dakota.
in proximity TO some of the big Indian res
ervations OF the state. and they will proht
by the experience OF the Gregory county
homesteaders. who purchased Indian cattle
and then had them seized by a representa-
tive Of the government.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
BOLD ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY
Two Men seize Nine Thousand DOL
lars In Philadelphia sub
treasury.

PHILADELPHIA. oct. s5-one OF the
boldest attempts at robbery in this city
IN a long time occurred today, when two
men tried to get away with $780, which
the men had seized from the bank runner
in the United states subtreasury. Both
were arrested and all the money was re
covered.
The two men had been hanging around
the subtreasury for several days and weI
being watched by bank detectives and sub
treasury watchmen. About II o'clock this
morning p. J. Cronin, a runner for the
Franklin National bank, was handed severa.
large punches OF money by a paying teller
in the subtreasury. He placed 5000 in
satchel and walked to a bench nearby
with the remainder amounting TO $500 In
500 bills. He laid the money on the bencl.
intending to open the satchel and place Il
with the other money. At the SAINT
moment one OF the men being watched. and
who was standing in front OF one OF the
sub,reasury watchmen reading a news.
paper. obstructed the view Of the
watchman. Then the other grabbed the
5000 lying on the bench and started out
the front loor. The bank runner instantly
gave chase, raising alarm as he did 80.
The runner was close to the thief, when
the man who held the newspaper stuck
out his foot and tripped him and tried to
escape. He had only gone a few feet,
however. when the watchman captured
him. Others in the subtreasury started
after the man with the money.
Getting safely out Of the building the
man started west, wrapping the 5000 in
newspaper as he ran. His pursuers
gained on him and seeing that he could
not get away he threw away the money.
Both men were taken to the central
police station at the city hall. They gave
their names as c. d. Bates and Charles
Watkins and said they lived in New
York Bates, who seized the money, car
ried loaded revolver.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
NRRRAsKA.
PRATT CASE is UP AGAIN
New Petitions Filed by Mrs.
Pratt in Her suit for
Divorce.

The Pratt divorce case shifted again
into the limelght yesterday afternoon
when Mrs Julia Montgomery Pratt filed
two petitions in district court setting forth
her double cause OF action, in conformity
with the recent order Of Judge Kennedy.
This order held the first petition bad be-
cause in It Mrs. Pratt applied for d.v-ree
and asked that certain transfers of prop
ert, made after the ante-nuptial agree
ment was signed be set aside. The court
held that these two causes must be set
forth in separate petitions The attorneys
for the defendant. failing to present a
written order to this effect for the court
to sign, Attorneys Vinsonhaler and Bronze.
for Mrs. Pratt. presented the order yes
tsrday afternoon and had it signed. The
defendant Is ordered to answer the new
petitions by November Is.
In the divorce petition Mrs. Pratt makes
the same charges against Colonel Pratt
she made in her first petition. She says
he subjected her to many petty annoy
ances. failed TO pay their necessary bills,
used liquor to excess, paid a large sum
OF money 70 woman named Sabna
Zweifui to prevent a scandal and treated
her cruelty.
In her petition relating to the property
she says Colonel Pratt after the signing of
the ante-nuptial agreement and before
their marriage transferred practically all
OF his property In order TO defraud her of
her rights under the agreement. The mar
riage took place June IS, 1908, when Colonel
Pratt was 7s years old and she was "a.
The ante-nuptial agreement was signed
June 70 and provided she should have a
house worth SIS 900 within two years after
the marriage and $4,000 after the death
OF Colonel Pratt. She says Colonel Pratt
had about $4,000 worth Of property. but
the day before the wedding she says he
transferred his Douglas county property
to his children. retaining a life interest
and his Wyoming property, estimated to
be worth t125.O00. 20 Marshal Field, the
ChieasO merchant. in trust. After the
death OF Field the trusteeship she says
was transferred to the children. She says
Colonel Pratt has lost about 10000 on the
board OF trade and now has so little prop
erty In his own name she could not realize
on the $4,000 guaranteed her in the ante
nuptial agreement. She wants Colone
Pratt. Harriet Belle Magee and Margare
Louise Pratt Olson enjoned from trans
ferring the property TO innocent purehas,
ers and asks the court to set aside the
transfers as fraudulent
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
SPECIAL AGENTS ON COTTON
Their Report 10 Census Bureau
shows Lighter Production
This Year.

WASHINGTON. oct. 25.-The census
bureau today made public the result OF
the reports OF It's special agents on the
quantity OF cotton Of this years crop
which had been ginned up, to the 18th
instant showing 4Os9.SSs bales, as com.
pared with 4ssl .ea bales ginned to the
same time last year. In these figures
sixty-nine countries are, unrepresented and
these counties last year gave a total OF
22eI23 bales.
The unrepresented counties are distributed
as follows: Alabama, To- Arkansas. S; Flor
da, 6: Georgia, s; Louisiana. .; Mississippi,
z; Oklahoma, 8; South Carolina. 10; Ten
nessee,' 8; Texas. S. The total reported is
he output OF 2a,7eo glnReries. as compared
with 2s125 for last year The figures by
itates will not be given out until reports
are received from all OF the counties in
al the states.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
oKUMA ADDS HIS CRITICISM
japanese Progressive Leader Says
visit of Fleet TO Pacific is
Poor Diplomacy.

NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-Dr. Louis l.. Sea-
man, ex-surgeon major United States army,
who was with the Japanese forces, both
naval and military, during the Russo-Japa-
nese war, has received a letter from Count
okuma, the japanese progressive leader,
in which Count Okuma said that the send
ing OF the Atlantic feet to the Pacific is
not good diplomacy.
Foreign newspapers" Count okuma
wrote, ARE to pessimistic. The Japanese
are convinced that there will be no war.
Every case like the San Francisco incident
Is sure to have bad effect l think the
trouble is due to the states sovereignty,
The power of the state is too great They
are too independent. The sending OF the
Atlantic fleet to the Pacific is not good
diplomacy"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
MILWAUKEE, SAFE IS Looted
United states Express Company Loses
Twenty-FOur Thousand
Dollars.

MILWAUKEE,, wis. Oct 25.-Investiga-
tion into a loss of approximately $4,000,
reported last night from the railway depot
office OF the United States Express com
pany in this city, shows that the money
was probably taken by an employe who
was thoroughly familiar with the sur
roundings and with the best means of
making away with the plunder.
The thief apparently had knowledge of
he combination of a large safe in the
office None of the employees is missing
and the question of locating the guilt has
rot yet been located.
Thomas Mcdonald, superintendent of
the company, said: II am not in pos
session of facts which would warrant any
arrests"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
PLAGUE FOUND AT SEATTLL
Suspicious Cases Believed to Be the
Dreaded Disease.
GOVERNMENT SURGEON IN CHARGE
started from Infection Received An
Oriental Quarter-PrOmpt Meas
ures WIN he Taken by
Authorities.

SEATTLE, oct. 3-surgeon General
wyman's wire to Governor Meade was re-
ceived yesterday notifying the governor
that Dr. Cofor OF the United states public
health and marine hospital service would
take charge OF the bubonic plague situation
on Puget sound. DR.. Cofer has had ex-
perience with the disease in Honolulu. Th'
surgeon general intimated that the depart
ment would supply all the professiona.
service. but that the expense for labor
and material would have to be borne by
the local authorities In reply telegram
signed by Governor Meade and William
Hickman Moore, mayor Of Seattle was sen,
to Washington saying:
The state Of Washington and the city
of Seattle will supply the United states
public health and marine hospital service
with all the men, money and material
. necessary for the Immediate suppression
and eradication Of dubonic pleague within
It's boundaries.
The death OF a white woman, Agnes
Osborne, under circumstances that point
to bubonic plague, is being investigated
Her brother was a city patrolman in the
oriental district. She became Ill October
5, and died October 49, a sister Lydia Nj
Osborne became III and the same day
Charles o. Eddy, the undertaker's assistant
who laid out the brother was also over
come Eddy died on the 18th and the
sister on the 18th. on October q a second
sister. Agnes became III and she died yes
terday, The chain OF fatalities came to tn,
ears OF the Associated Press and thu
Board OF Health yesterday afternoon made
laboratory tests which point to. bubonic
pleaguo as the cause Of death in the las
Instance, although the doctors give only a
provisional diagnosis.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
POPE AIDING The SUFFERERS
sends Funds to Clergy of CaIabrin
to Assist I'm Caring for
PaFiahieners.

ROME, Oct. S5.-Little additional news
was received this morning from the dis
trlcts OF Calabria, which were devastated
by earthquake shocks on October 23 The
bad weather continues in the south and
It is feared that many persons are likely
to lose their lives as the result of ex-
posure. Many OF the homeless people
have erected tents or are living under
other temporary coverings. A few fresh
shocks we're experienced yesterday, but no
further damage has been reported. The
pope has sent supplies OF money to the
clergy of Calabria for the relief OF their
suffering parishioners and has ordered that
the churches be kept open day and nigh;
for the use of the homeless. The govern
ment has forwarded $4,000 for use in the
relief work and has taken every other
step possible to help the sufferers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
ILUsITANIA AGAIN ON DECK
Turbine Cuncrder Breaks Eastbound
Transatlantic Record Second
Time.

QUEENSTOWN. oct. A-The Lusitania
arrived here at $3.50 this evening. breaking
the eastward record OF five days, -four
hours and nineteen minutes. held by itself
Its passs ge lis IT, was four days, twenty
two hours and forty-six minutes.
LIVERPOOL, Oct 2.-The new Cunarder
Mauretania, now the finest and longest ship
afioat dt is five feet longer than its
sister ship, the Lusitania) has arrived here,
after having cruised around the coast Of
Scotland from Wallsend-on-Tyne, where
1t was built. Its builder and oficials
expect that it will surpase the Lusitania
in speed.
The Mauretania sailed from twenty-one
to twenty-five knots from the Tyne to the
Mercy. Only three-fourths OF the engine
power was employed. The Mauretania will
probably sell on her maiden trip to New
York toward the end of November.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
ENGINE MEN ARE STUCK UP"
Robbers Force Them TO Give Over
Money in ChlifOFnia--One
Inlured.

LOS ANGELES. Call. Oct. 25.-Threc
armed mer last night help up a south
bound freight train within Ave miles OF
this city, wounded one Of the train crew
robbed them Of $3.50 and two watches and
made their escape.
The engineer, fireman and head brake
man were in the cab when their assailants
climbed over the box cars, covered then
with revolvers and ordered them to throw
up their hands. While one Of the'I mum.
ber remained in the oil tank extending a
revolver in either hand the two accom-
plices took the money and watches.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26

A number of smaller financial institl-
tions suspend payment in New YORK
Brooklyn and other cities. The suspe1-
sion Of the First National bank OF Brook
lyn was announced and Of the Union Trust
company of Providence The brokers are
assisted by a continuation OF the pool
furnished by moneyed men, Page
A number of cases of the bubonie plague
are found at Seattle. Fass
Resolutions passed by the national
trust conference call for agreements be-
tween roads as to reasonableness of
rates, the appointment of representa-
tive commission to supervise industrial
questions and the supervision of corpora
tions. PaSe
Two men in the subtreasury building at
Philadelphia snatched q package con-
taining $1,000, but were later captured.
Page /
Eight hours is fun day for lock-
masters on the Ohio rivers under new
ruling Fase
Vice President Fairbanks says he has
not made any political references In his
recent southern trip. gage
Count Okuma says the dispatch Of the
American fleet to western waters is not
good diplomacy. rage !
ChicaRo's president OF the Board of
Education likes the Japanese ethical creed.
Page !
Special agents report on the production
of cotton as less than last year Page
NRBRAsKA.
Nebraska Railroad Commissioners de-
eide 20 modify the Missouri Pacific speed
order ana ,.ermit the trains to move faster
than twenty-fl5e miles an hour In certain
portions of the state. Page 2
Lincoln woman said TO be first wife
Of w. b. Mills of Seattle, who married
without securing a divorce. Page !
MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
Port. Arrived Saheu.
OIJEENSTOWN. ,Celtic......
SrOWN-Lucania...
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
KANSAS TO SUPPORT TAFT
senator Long Makes Prediction
After Having an Interview
with President

WAHsINGTON. oct. f5.-"Kansas will
send solid delegation 10 the next repub-
liean convention pledged to vote for the
nominqtion for the presidency OF Secretary
Taft. Kansas believes the president meant
exactly what he said three years ago. when
he remarked that under no circumstances
would ne asain be a candidate for that
once"
This was the statement OF Senator Long
OF Kansas on leaving tho White House
today, after an Interview with President
Roosevelt.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-10-26
CAR SHORTAGE NOT LIKELY
Interstate Commerce Commission ncr
Lane Holds Conference with
Chief Executive.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 25. - Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Lane conferred
with President Roosevelt at the request
OF the latter today regarding the car
shortage situation in the northwest. rhs
president was assured that no present
alarm need be felt on account of the lacI
Of coal in the northwest as the railroads
had been shipping coal to that section
during the summer. That there is a car
shortage is apparent, but no immediate
crisis Is anticipated because of that fact.
The crops are being moved, but slower
than is desirable.