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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09
Is Proving IL Strong Candidate.

The democratic party has seldom
been favored with SO popular and
strong candidate for any public office
DIS r. r. Reynolds, nominee for county
judge is proving to be- Mr.. Reynolds
is making a campaign strictly upon his
merits, which is quite proper i'll view
of the basis of his nomination for the
Office.
Peculiar fitness based upon training
and experience prompted the demo
cratic county committee in making
him its candidate, and the assurances
that have come to Mr.. Reynolds from
republicans and democrats alike from
all over the county afford evidence OF
the wisdom of the choice.
Mr. Reynolds is not a chronic Off e
seeker, and he made no deal OF
dicker that he might be nom
mated. He asked no sacrifice for his
own sake. He was impOrtuned to BE-
come a candidate, encouraged by re-
publicans as well as democrats TO give
consent TO the use of his name, and
now that he has been placed in the
field, he is not swelled up with the cou-
ceit either that he cannot be beaten
or that he is too good to continue II
mingle with the common throng.
He solicits the support OF all who
deem him worthy. More than this he
does not think he has a right to ask.
More than this he does not ask.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09
Let Sincerity of Purpose Guide.

The conference to be held tonight at
the Rock Island house, pursuant to the
call of the city-township committee, Of
democratic delegates to next Monday
nights democratic city-tOwnship CON
vention, may accomplish much in shan
ing the course of the convention Sin
certify of purpose above all should pc
the aim in whatever is undertaken or
accomplished 1t should he a straight
democratic affair, countenancing no ac-
ton that will have the appearance of
bad faith or crooked politics on the
face of it.
In the interest of the party, to say
nothing of the highest good of the
city. the democrats should take such
a stand as will eliminate from its
councils and its conventions for all
time, everything that bears a tint n
suspicion of the unclean in politics.
The party can court defeat by no
suror means than by failing to STAMP
out trickery. Honest defeat is never
a disgrace, but that defeat that carries
deserved public rebuke is ignomy in
deed
Let the democratic party be sincere
IN whatever it does.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09
Spain Building Up-to-Date Navy.

Spain is making rapid progress in
rebuilding her navy. The expenditure
of 70 millions of dollars provides for
the construction of eight battleships,
nine cruisers and many smaller yes
sells. The quickest way to rebuild a
system that has become weakened by
sickness or neglect is to commence
taking Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
No matter how long you have suffered
from ailments of the stomach, liver,
bowels or kidneys, you'll find the Bit
ters will help wonderfully in making
you well again. In thousands of cases,
probably worse than yours, it has "a
ready proven its valuable merit 1t al
ways cures headache, poor appetite.
dyspepsia, Indigestion, costiveness, bill
iousness, colds, grippe. female ills,
cramps, backache or malarial fever
Try bottle today. We guarantee ii
to be strictly in accordance with pure
food and drug act of June so, 1906.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

Either the Isle de LuZon or the Isle
de Cuba, Spanish gunboats of the fleet
smashed by Dewey in the battle of Ma
Mia bay, will be sent to Chicago for
use by the Illinois naval reserve. The
historical boats are sister ships, and
it remains to be decided which shall
come to Lake Michigan. Captain w E.
Purdy of the reserves received a letter
yesterday from Assistant Secretary Of
the Navy Newberry informing him Of
the decision. The SunbOats were rails
ed from the bottom of Manila bay, re-
paired and made as seaworthy as they
were before the battle. They were
brought some time ago across the In
dian ocean, through the Red sea and
Suez canal Mediterranean sea and
across to the West Indies. where they
did service as part of the Atlantic fleet
They are now at Portsmouth. y. H
The boat selected will come TO Chicago
by way of the ST. Lawrence and the
Welland canal. The voyage from Ma
Mia to Chicago will stand unique in
naval annals
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09
constitution would not be
worthy the trust of the people.
Steel Ties a Eailurcr

The statement is made that in consC-
Quence of an investigation made by
committee of its expert engineers, the
Pennsylvania railroad will remove the
steel ties which were in use ON the
stretch of track near the banks of the
Conemaugh river where the recent de-
railment of a fast passenger train oc-
CURED. While that portion of the re
port of the investigators which has
been printed does not definitely place
the responsibility for the accident on
the fact that beams of steel underlay
the rails at this point, it alludes 10 the
riSidity of the steel ties and fastenings"
in the low temperature which prevail
ed, and expresses the opinion that the
damage done was greater tnan if wood
had been used.
Assuming the inquiry to have been
Thoroughly intelligent and painstaking,
the conclusion reached is of interest
both to railroad men and the travelling
public. For some years pas the rail
roads have found it difficult to secure
an adequate supply of sound wooden
ties, owing to the rapid diminution in
the amount of timber available for this
purpose, and several experiments have
been attempted in the hope of finding
an acceptable substitute. Prominent
among these was the tentative adoption
i of the steel tie, which was exempt from
decay and should theoretically have Z
long life But iron and steel have the
property of contracting perceptibly in
intense cold, thereby increasing their
| liability to breakage through the very
rigidity which follows; while in very
hot weather they expand accordingly
a fact which has caused more than one
| serious wreck.
Apparently there is nothing for the
railroads to do but to seek to increase
the lumber resources at their command
| by growing timber on areas which they
control. This may prove a costly pol
icy, but if it tends to lessen the chances
| of derailment, the expense should not
stand in the way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

There is a dcTisive republican claim
down in the twin territories that the
democratic constitutional convention
has lost the new state to its party by
falling to Jump Jim Crow" as the old
song has it. The contention of the re-
publican machinists down there is that
the delegates were sent to Guthrie for
the purpose chiefly of enacting a sep
arate coach law as part of the funda
mental law of the state That Jim
Crow promise entered into the demo-
cratic campaign there can be no doubt
and neither is there doubt as to what
would have happened but for a word
from Washington.
When the convention got to the sep
arate coach question information came
out from the national capital that the
president would not proclaim the con-
| stitution if it provided for any form of
| race discrimination. The democrats
thought the thing out very carefully
They were undoubtedly between two
fires. One view said to play politics.
the other stood for a constitution. The
democrats might have kept their
pledges and lost to the whole people
OF the state a constitution that had
cost great deal of money. to say moth
ing of time already spent and time to
be spent in further tedious congression-
al legislation, if this constitution should
fail. The gentlemen at Guthrie took
the only honest course. They cut Jim
Crow out of the constitution and left
it for the legislature, where it really
belongs.
1t is believed that the best thought
and the best citizenship in the twin
territories will stand by this attitude
There is no breach of faith. There is
in the conventions action every indi
cation of the highest sense of public
responsibility in the action of the con
Ivention. Men who would play mer;
politics at the risk of importing the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09
DAILY STORY
JENNIE SHEFFIELD'S SECRET.
tOriginal.l

IOriginaIl
When Jennie Sheffield returned from
the normal school. she was observed to
be very Respondent Something was
preying on her mind, but the closest
cross examination of her father failed
to bring out what was troubling her.
She went about as one in Il dream.
Nothing interested her. She might
have been cOurted by young people of
her own set, for she was pretty, intel
ligent and generally attractive, but
she declined to have anything to do
with any of them.
Under advice of u physician Mr..
Sheffield made preparations to give
Jennie Il change of scene. He deter
mined to take his family abroad. to be
gone two years. From the moment the
trip was announced Jennie's deSpOnd-
ency increased. She declared that she
would not 90. \ family council, the
doctor included, was held, and it was
decided to treat her as eln invalid,
even as 4 demented person, and force
her TO the proposed sOiourn in foreign
lands, with the expectation that change
of scene would soon do away with her
aversion to being away from home and
result in her ultimate recovery.
Passage had been secured and all
| was ready for the departure VIXEN sud
denly Jennie disappeared. II Vas
supposed that in order to escape Il
tour which for some mysterious reason
she dreaded she had gone away to
some relative or friend. All possible
refugees were looked into. but the girl
was not to he found. Then it was
| feared that her trouble was insanity
and that she had committed suicide.
vt this point clew to her strange
| depression was unearthed by CORE.
spondence with her former school
mates. Her roommate revealed the
fact that she had been in correspond
ence with Henry Emerson, who during
JCnmie's last year at school had been
Il member of the senior class at a
neighhOring college. But. if hers was
Il case of unrequited love, why she
| would not give it as a reason for heI
dependency no one could understand
| That she was very sensitive girl and
extremely conscientious her parents
were aware. but sensitiveneSS would
not account for her morbid condition
especially for her disappearance.
| Emerson was investigated He adj
mitted his acquaintance with and love
for Jennie Sheffield. but nothing more
| Nevertheless he seemed very much
troubled. While he was being pressed
for information he, too. suddenly dis
appeared. Then Jennie'S parents as.
| sumed, with good reason, that he was
the cause of her trouble her strange
acts and especially her disappearance.
The very day Emerson WAS missed 1
man fishing in lake not far from
where the Sheffield family lived caught
his hook in Il cloth garment and pulled
up wOman'S body. Mr.. Sheffield soon
heard of the find and went immediate
ly to see it. dreading lest it might be
his daughter When he arrived, he
found the features swollen beyond rec
ognition. The height. color of hail
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

ana the teeth correspondent with those
of Jennie. He took piece of the
dress home and Mrs Sheffield identi-
fed it as one Jennie had worn, though
not Tor Il long time. This was conclu-
sive. Jennie was dead. Had she COM
mitted suicide or had Emerson murder
ed her?
The search for Emerson was pushed
vigorously. but he had contrived to
hide himself where he could not be
found. Now that the evidence was SO
strong against him there was no trou-
bic in accommodating proof that his
character was very bad. People who
only shook their heads before the dis
covery of the body now volunteered to
come forward in case the criminal was
arrested and tried to testify against
him. Nevertheless the police failed to
elicit any information bearing on the
case directly, except the evidence of 4
love affair given by Jennie'S room
mate. The funeral was announced for
| 3 o'clock i'll the afternoon. At 10 the
| postman's whistle sounded. and Mr.
Sheffield went to the door himself to
| ltttiNt the HILL. lNllcIS bI tDINlD-
| lcnce were coming in. and his wife in
sisted on reading them, only to make
| her, more frantic with grief. There
was but one letter handed III. and as
| Mr.. Sheffield received it he started. 1t
vas addressed to him in his daughters
| handwriting. For moment he looked
at it daZed, then tore off the envelope
and read, Dearest father and moth
err In an instant his eyes went down
to the signature, Your loving daugh-
ter. Jennie
! Not daring to take the letter to his
wife till he had read it, he did so hur-
riedly.
| l have been very silly ANA may have
worried you some by going away. ! VIII
| now confess. While at the normal school
l met Henry Emerson. He made love to
me. and | refused him. Then when |
| went home | WAS sorry and acted like a
niTuy. You proposed to take me abroad.
and didn't want II go. hoping that Hen
~ would ask me again. OF course ]
couldn't tell YOU this. for | didn't know
| that he would. and if he didn't it would
have been very mcrtifying. you know.
So [ went to NJ. and boarded with a
farmers family. ] wrote Henry that I'd
run away from you TO escape COINS
| abroad. He came right up and told m"
all the terrible things for which / am
| responsible. The most important thing
have to tell you is that he has asked me
| again. If he hadn't been 50 silly. all this
wouldn't have happened. We're married
| and will he home tomorrow evening not
| long after You get this. Can't you have
| a little wedding supper for us?
The couple when they arrived were
much surprised at the situation There
was Il wedding supper instead of Il
funeral. though the neighborS declared
that the bride should have been whip
ped instead of Toasted. Jennie eX,
planned that she had given the dress
in which the body was found to Il poor
girl. This was later instrumental in
identifying the body.
| HARRIET T. EE
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

The Euche Indians, 500 in number
who live in remote part of the Creek
Nation, cling to their own language
and marry principally among their OWL
tribe after being conquered and absorb
ed by the Greek Indians more than 2OC
years ago. In some cases a Euche may
marry a Greek and the children will
speak to the father in the Euche Ian
guage and to the mother in Creek.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09
Rheumatism Cured in a Day,

Mystic Cure for rheumatism and
neuralgia radically cured in one to
three days. Its action on the system
is remarkable and mysterious. 1t re
moves at once the cause and the dis
ease Immediately disappears. The first
dose greatly benefits; rs cents and ST.
Sold by Otto Grotjan, 1901 Second ave
nue., Rock Island; Gustave Schlegel &
son, 22O West Second street, Dayen
port.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09
Petition for Saloon License,

To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of the City of Rock Island. Ill
We, the undersigned owners of prop
erty on Twelfth street, between Sixth
|avenue and Eighth avenue, in the city
800 feet both ways from No. $50
Twelfth street, hereby consent to and
petition your honorable body to permit
Max Hellfrich to open and conduct a
saloon at No $50 Twelfth street:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is making
somewhat of a furry in New York So
ciety by introducing original ideas at
her entertainments. At her latest, larg-
est and most novel luncheon she ticket
ed her guests with jocose quotations.
An attractive widow found this at her
place She is pretty to walk with,
witty to talk with, and pleasant to look
upon" Another guest devoted to bridge
found this: she jests at scores who
never played at bridge
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

Professor Addison Ballard, who for
many years occupied the chair of logic
in the New York university, is an ex-
ample of the power of exercise in pro
noting longevity. He is IS years old
and is still to be seen around Pittsfield,
Mass, where he now lives. taking long
walks with a stride which gives many
younger men much trouble in keeping
pace with him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09
HARRIET +. LEE.
Found at Last.

A. Harmon, of Lizemore, west
Va, says "At last I have found the
perfect pill that never disappoints me;
and for the benefit of others afflicted
with torpid liver and chronic constipa-
ton, will say: take DR.. Kings New
Life Pills" Guaranteed satisfactory.
25c at w. T. Hartz, druggist, col
Twentieth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

act double of Senator William Alden
Smith of the same state. Even in De-
troit, where both are well known, Mr..
Smith is often spoken to for Mr.. Irland,
and vice versa. Speaker Cannon once
rode in the same seat from Paris, H.,
to Chicago with Irland, whom he has
known many years and called him Will
liam Alden" all the way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

The democrats have selected straight
democrats only in their aldcrmanic
preferences. Let them select straight
democrats only on the city and town
ship ticket.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

Remember II. II. Reynolds candidacy
for county judge. He in experienced
capable. and worthy. and asks the Of
flee only ON his merits.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island, Ill. I'm
tered at the postoHice as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

Municipal redemption is the first
duty of the hour.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

Fred Irland of Detroit, an official
stenographer of the house of represen-
atives in Washington, is almost the ex-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

Put clean men on guard in municipal
politics.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

Develop Rock Island industrially and
COmmerCialIy-and morally.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09
Call for Democratic Primaries and
Convention.

Notice is hereby given that primary
elections for democratic voters in the
city of Rock Island will be held i'll the
several wards of the city of Rock Is
land between the hours of and p.
al. Friday. March g, 1907, for the fol-
lowing purposes: To nominate can
didate for alderman for term OF one
year and a candidate for alderman for
a term of two years in the Fifth ward,
and a candidate for alderman for a
period of two years in each of the 9th
er wards, to select delegates to the
democratic city-township convention,
and to select ward committeeman. two
from each precinct. The places of
holding said primary elections will be
as follows:
First Ward - Pratt's barber shop,
Fourth avenue and Fifth street.
Second Ward-City barn. Sixth ave
nue.. between Ninth and Tenth streets.
Third Ward-Titus shoe store, 1926
Seventh avenue.
Fourth Ward-Frick's livery stable.
Third avenue, between Nineteenth and
Firth Ward-OId hose house. Twenty
second street, between Fifth and Sixth
avenues.
Sixth N3ru-olu nose mouse ! WtulN -
sixth street. between Sixth and Seventh
avenues.
seventh Ward-Augustana Book Con
. Germ building. on Seventh avenue. be
tween Thirty-eighth and Thirty-nlnth
streets.
The ratio of representation will be
one delegate for every 10 votes or frac-
ton thereof cast for Alton B. Parker
for president in 1904 which entities
the different wards to delegates as fol
lows:
First ward ...........-...' delegates
Second ward ..............1l delegates
Third ward ...............l II delegates
Fourth ward .............. delegates
Firth ward ....-.....-.. ~ utieSdteN
Sixth ward ............-... 10 delegates
Seventh ward ............. delegates
The delegates so elected will meet al
Turner hall, in the city of Rock Island,
at s p. m, Monday, March II, 1907,
for the purpose of nominating candi
dates for city and township offices, as
follows:
City Officers.
one City Attorney ..........T Two years
one city Treasurer ..........Two years
Township Officers.
one Assessor .................O One year
one Collector .................O One year
Four Assistant Supervisors. Two years
one Justice of the Peace. GRO fill vacancy
Two COnstables. ....... tTo fill vacancy
Also to elect chairman of the city
township committee, and to transact
such other business as may properly
come before said convention.
GEORGE II. WRIGHT. Chairman.
p. SEXTON. Secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09
BY THE J. w. POTTER co.

TERMS - Daily, 10 cents per week.
Weekly, 81 per year in advance.
All communications of argumentative
character, political or religious, must
have real name attached for publica-
ton. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

Also to elect a chairman of the city
township committee, and TO transact
such other business as may properly
come before said convention.
GEORGE H. WRIGHT, Chairman.
J. p. SEXTON, Secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-09

The delegates so elected will meet "a
Turner hall, in the city of Rock Island,
at p. m, Monday, March II, 1907,
for the purpose of nominating candi-
dates for city and township offices, as
follows:
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-05-16
PRESIDENTIAL, TALK FROM WASH
1NGTON.
From the Bratlebora Phoenix)

Trom the Bratlebora Phocnix)
The summer fiction which filters over
the wires into metropolitan newspapers
as Washington correspondence in taking
UP the tart boom for the presidency says
the secretary Of wars supporters are get
ting ready to do some work in New Eng
land and that Henry G. Ide of St Johns
bury. who succeeded tho secretary as gov
crnnr general Of the Philippines, hopes
20 deliver tho four delegates from Yer
mont to his good friend. 1t Is further
stated that Judge Ide, who has lived N
Washington most of the winter. has been
In frequent conference with Mr.. Taft
II Is also added that the fact that the
eccretary's father, Alphonso Taft, secre-
tary Of war and afterward attorney gen
eral in Grants first administration, was
a native Neruontpr, will he used as a
sentimental argument. II Is irtmatod
that the interests of Winston Churchill
will he enlisted IN an incursion into New
Hampshire and that Representative Gil
lett, dean Of the Masa ehusetts delegation,
and other members of the House from the
Fay state, are friendly to Mr.. Taft.
Judge Ide with all his qualifications,
/ is hardly the man to he depended upon
for regular political work In spite OF his
pre-eminent ability It has been intimat-
ed that he lacked Sufficient popularity
in his own town to gain an election TO
the Vermont LEGISLATURE and he carries
too much dignity and austerity to Sue
coed as political boomer. The argument
that Secretary Tasts daddy was a Yer
monter IS pretty far-fctched. 1t would
he a curious case NJ history repeating
itself however. # Mr.. TAFT was chosen
to the presidency. Hayes, who WAS
elected president from Ohio, like Taft
Of Ohio, was Of Winiham county parent
age.
Rut the interesting thing about the
whole story is the animation that any
one man can swing" Vermont. The
state will send rs delegates 10 the mex,
republican national convention in ac-
cordarco with tho sentiment Of the poo
( pie, and there IS plenty ~ time for this
! sentiment 10 crYstalizo between now and
June, 1915 Tho rent mhrance OF McKin-
| ley's first nomination Is sufficient argu-
( ment to silence all talk about any man
! or set Of men delivering tho vote Of the
/ State to any particular candidate.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-05-16
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