Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01

benefit of the country as a whole. 1T
may be that we can secure their inter-
ests best by permitting all homestead
ers in the dry country to inclose, indi-
vidually or a certain number of them
together, big tracts of range for sum-
, mer use, the tracts being proportioned
to the number of neighboring home
!, steaderS who wish to run their cattle
upon it. 1t may be that parts of the
range will only be valuable for COM
panies that can lease it and put large
herds on it; for the way properly to
| develop a region is to put it to those
, uses to which it is best adapted. The
, amount to be paid for the leasing priv
ilege is to me a mater of comparative
t indifference.
Object Not to Make Money.
'The government does not wish to
make money out of the range, but sim
+ ply TO provide for the necessary super
vision that will prevent its being eaten
out or exhausted; that is, that will Sc
cure it unchanged as an asset for the
next generation, for the children of the
present home-makers. Of course, we
must also provide enough to pay the
lproper share of the county taxes |
am not welded to any one plan, and |
I am willing to combine several plans
if necessary But the present system
is wrong. and | hope to see, in all the
states of the great plains and the
4 Rockies, the men like my correspond
, ent of the Laramie County Cattle and
D Horse Growers association, the small
4 ranchmen who pillow and pitch hay
+ themselves seriously take up this mat
/ ter and make their representatives III
e congress understand that there must
e be some solution, and that this solution
n shall be one which will secure the
J. greatest permanent well-being to the
Il actual settlers, the actual home-mak-
t ers. | promise with all the strength
), have to cooperate toward this end"
Boards the oIississippi.
1 Following the address, which was
II heard by 10000 people, the presidenl
was driven to the lower lock of the gov
eminent canal and boarded the steamer
Mississippi for the trip south. He re
II viewed the display of 100 pleasure
L launches in the river and departed
|; leading the fiotilla with 20 big steam
Il ships and launches.
The governors left at noon on a spe
= cial train for st. Louis. Ten special
t excursion trains brought in great
l crowds just before the president ar
L rived, and the city was full of stran
4 gers. Keokuk was decorated in the
e most lavish style of any occasion in its
Il history and entertained the greatest
W crowd ever seen here.
The Inland Waterways commission
. arrived last night on the steamer Mac
.e kenzie, joining the president.
Negroes Give Cane.
=, The president was presented with
- gold-headed cane by KeOluk negroes
The president boarded the boat at /
=, O'Clock and left shortly before noon
amidst the greatest assemblage o
boats ever seen in the upper Missis
sippi river.
II Awakened by a Band.
as Keokuk, Iowa, Oct. From TO
O. o'clock this morning. when Presiden
=
Illinois town of Meredosia by tn
strains of the village band, he was sc
$50 dom out of hearing of a cheer of som
30 kind, for country people as well as vi
-, layers lined the roadway, and all wer
=, in a cheering mood
20 Arrived on Time.
as He did not respond TO many calls fo
TO speeches. and arrived here on schedul
H. time. He spent the early mornn
of reading, and when he left the trail
elk appeared in the highest spirits. Sc,
~ rotary Loeb left the party here an
nd will proceed to Wyoming, where h
X goes for months hunting.
er- Crank ut keokuk.
lc- Keokuk, Iowa, Oct John Gatel,
We an umbrella repairer, was arreste
re- here yesterday on the charge of threa
vn ening to shoot President Rooseve
ot when the latter arrived here. Gatel
ut made the threat while paying toll :
nj the Illinois end of the bridge over til
Mississippi river. The bridgetender ;
ed once telephOned to the local polio
7 and the alleged anarchist was arreste
|
he Why Gately desired TO kill the pres
ar dent is not known, and when take
iIv into custody he would not give h
On reasons for making the threat.
tic Presidents Train Late.
in Canton, Ohio, Oct. 1.-The presidel
of was half an hour late in leaving Ca
ler ton, his train getting away at 4:23
M and as a consequence his trayeliI
iro schedule for the late afternoon al
a. night run was somewhat disarrange
At Canton he lost some of his travC
ON ing companions and at Crestline OF
-. ers, so that there were left i'll his c.
only Secretary Loeb, Assistant Seer
~ tary Latta and DR.. Rixey.
to PERSONAL POINTS.
-, Mrs H w GOulder deDartS tonig