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Rock Island Argus., 1908-09-28

one kept IN the city over night was
the Novello troupe of trained ele-
plants, ponies and dogs. They re-
mained on their cars till this morning,
The others went to the grounds at
once and passed the night under their
own canvas.
The arc lights at the park were
kept burning all night and this will
be the rule throughout the week.
Special policemen We're on duty last
night to see that nothing was dis
turbed. There will be % extra police
men kept at the exposition besides
members of the night force from the
city who will assist during the after
noon. The number provided is con-
sidered ample for any emergency that
may arise. Mayor Schaffer this morn
ing swore in the extra men at the Of
flee on the grounds. Chief of Police
Eckhart and Exposition Chief Dono-
van held conference yesterday and
arranged to work together in the pres
ervation of order.
Hospital Tent on Grounds.
A hospital tent will be kept during
the week, arrangements having been
made for this at a meeting of the
board of directors Saturday night.
Drs. G. l.. Eyster, j. P Comegys and
| J. r. Hollowbush will have charge of
will be on duty at all times to look
after anybody who may need his serv-
ices.
The directors met at the grounds
| Saturday evening and the lights We're
turned on for the first time. The eff
feet was beautiful beyond all expecta-
| tions. There are so arc lights and
| thousands of incandescents distributed
about on the fountain, electric tower
AMI the other structures and the park
! by night will be as light as by day.
After an inspection of the lighting ar
rangements the directors held a bust
ness meeting at the Harper house and
disposed of all matters that remained
pending.
The programs, which were distrib
uted today, are eight-page affairs Civ
ing in detail the various events of the
week and containing a large amount
Of advertising matter.
Tickets will be on sale during the
week at Thomas drug store Ulle
meyers clothing store, LaVelle':
clothing store and the Harper house
pharmacy and at Hartz's drug store
on Twentieth street
Rivalry Among Fire Laddies.
Rivalry in the fire department race:
in which teams from the tri-cities will
compete Wednesday. Thursday an,
Saturday afternoons promises to be a
Keen as that which existed in year
| past between the old volunteer com
panies. This is expected to be one o
The most exciting features of the week
c.. S. Mcdaniel was yesterday az
pointed director of the track features
his duty being especially to see tha
everything starts on schedule time.
R. F. Trevellick of New York
professional stage manager, has bee
engaged to take charge of the fre
acts on the stage in front of tn
amphitheaters and he will work wit
Mr.. Mcdaniel in seeing that the pro
p gram is followed promptly.
The grounds will be opened eac
day at 1 o'clock and the shows wi
start at 2. They will not be open
the public in the morning The evel
: ing program will begin at o'clock.
Rock Island Argus., 1908-09-28
FALL OF ROOF
STOPS FUNERAL
Pillar.o of A. NJ. 6. Church Gives
Way During Services Over
Remains of Mr.. Burris.
PlOpLE RUSH FROM ROOM
Hasty Repairs Are Made, However, and
Last Rites Over Colored Man
Are Soon Resumed.

A small panic was started yesterday
afternoon at the African NJ E. church
ON Thirteenth street when one of the
pillars supporting the roof gave way
during the progress of a funeral and
threatened for a time to let the roof
drop on the mourners. The last fites
over the remains of James A. Burris
We're in progress, and a large number
of the colored Masons were present.
Rev. Mr.. Williams of Davenport was
conducting the services, when sudden
ly one of the large pillars gave way
near the top, and as the roof began to
sink and sway under the force of the
heavy wind which was blowing, the
frightened mouIners made for the out
| side of the building with all possible
speed, making use of the windows as
well as the doors as a means of exit
Rev. R. E. Broyles sprained his
! ankle severely in jumping out of a
window, but no other injuries were re-
ported.
| Hasty Repairs Made.
| AS the roof did not fall, however
and the building showed no signs of
coming down, the people soon returned
to the church. and after a hurried re-
pair of the pillar, the funeral services
were continued. 1t seems that the pill
lar which caused the trouble has been
the subject of serious consideration
for some time on account of its weak
ness. With the large crowd which
was in the church the floor sank
enough to allow the roof to exert its
weight and break the pillar. The
church building is an old one, former
lly used as a German school.
Rock Island Argus., 1908-09-28
Fined for Fast Driving.

The two Davenport Greeks, who
through reckless driving collided with
a wagon driven by an employe of the
Cable home last week, were each fined
SIS and costs today for fast and reck
less driving.
Rock Island Argus., 1908-09-28

CONTINUED on Page Six.)
Rock Island Argus., 1908-09-28

the automobiles in line were those
owned by the following:
Mrs. H. B. Sudlow.
DR.. DeGroot.
l.. S. McCabe.
w. A. Rosenfeld.
Dr.. Denniston.
H. H. Cleaveland
Oscar Schmidt.
George Price.
A. d. Huesing.
H. c. Stevenson.
Midland Motor company, three ma,
chimes.
Root & Vandervoort.
Robert Smythe.
w. H. Bolles.
Mason Carriage works, four ma
chimes
w. P. zimmerman.
Otto Huber.
Charles Lindorff.
William Klockau, two cars.
DR.. Burkhart.
DR.. Bernhardi.
DR.. Eyster
II. X. Collins.
William Collins.
DR.. Lachner.
Harry Reimers.
Mr.. Beal.
Buck garage, two cars.
DR.. r. c. J. Myers.
F. G. Denkmann.
w. H. Marshall.
Hubbard Dooley.
Ira Buffum
DR. Assay.
Walter Yerbury.
G. w. Reddig.
Rock Island Argus., 1908-09-28

Don't be afraid to give Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy to your children. 1t
contains no opium or other harmful
drug. 1t always cures. For sale by
all druggists.
Rock Island Argus., 1908-09-28
HERMAN RiDDeK IS CHOSEN
New York Editor Made Treasurer of
the Democratic Campaign.

New York, Sept. 2S.-Herman Rid
der, editor of the Stats Zeitung and
vice chairman of the publicity bureau
of the democratic national committee,
Saturday night was appointed by
Chairman Mack treasurer of the ma
tional committee to succeed Haskell.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20

New Hampshire and Vermont. At times
it has been observed 20 cover the whole
horizon. Such displays are likely to be re-
peated for SINE time.
Shorn Of the scientific reasoning through
which the astronomers come TO their de-
auctions. the explanation Of the existing
heat waves. which comIines with the
forest-fire smoke to give a strange color
70 the sun and moon, Is that It Is generated
largely by the frequent solar eruptions into
which a planet Of the size of the earth
would sink like a pebble in the ocean.
Somehow the activities create an extra
strata, high up in tho air that influence
radiation materially, SO the esrth's atmos-
phere must be warm and gloomy, the sun
and moon must he red. and there must be
auroral displays.-Boston Transcript.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20
RED SUN AND COPPER MOON
Solar EruptiOns and Forest Fires Re
LeVed Responsible for the
COIOrfnE.

Why is the sun so red, and the moon so
tinged with copper? More noticeable. per-
haps, is the fact that the temperature and
humidity are running peculiarly high for
the season, while the days, as a rule, are
hazy and gloomy. 1t all Is conducive to
speculations, and is discussed among all
classes with more or less enlightened in
telllgence. The explanations closest al hand
come from the astronomers and meteoro-
logists. and give recognition to the common
theory that the forest fires are contributory
to the unusual atmosphere conditions, AS
tronomers, however, readily connect the sit
uatiOn with the present solar activity com
monty referred to as sun spots OF which
the general public has seen evidence in an
exceptional frequency and brilliancy of
auroral displays.
Northern lights have occurred so often
I'm the last three weeks that they have
attracted much attention, and even the
layman has suspected some connection
between them and the colored veil that
seems to be drawn over the sun and the
moon. OF course, there is no authority
for assuming any relationship between
these auroral displays and the forest fires,
though the two MAJ bear Joint relation
to the atmospheric conditions. Naturally
the theory that the forest fires have created
atmospheric composition which gives the
heavenly bodies their unnatural colors has
its strongest supporters in the office of
the United States Weather bureau, where Il
is generally accepted that dense volumes
of smoke will rise high into the air and
spread out so widely that even the western
fires would be likely to contribute to the
conditions now observed,
Those who have taken an interest In this
subject may remember the awful days in
August, 1888, when the Krakatoa In the
East Indies broke into its fiercest Eruption
and for a number Of deys was hurting its
interior into the air. The lava dust created
then, fine as flour. was blown ell over the
world, and the only explanation ever found
for the red sunsets Of those days. That
dust had the same general effect OF inter
fering with the radiation of solar impulses
as lie attributed TO smoke; hence It is tc
be expected that the smoke from the forest
fires will cast it's veil over the sun and
moon. and give them the same appearance
that they sustained from the lava dust
The sun spots are e~xertins their influence
on the temperature and II is significant
that the temperature is high all over the
country at the present ime. John Richie
ir. 81 the BOSTON hoard NJ health has beer
a close observer Of the phenomena Of tbs
last two or three weeks. He says that tive
or three groups Of spots were noticed by
astronomers, these spots representing tire,
mendous disturbances on the sun; such al
come i'm cycles OF eleven or twelve years
In places favorable for observations IN,
auroraI displays or northern lights usually
attending the solar eruptions. have beer
particularly beautiful. The aurora boresli,
has been OF the highest tint Of red. silver
and green, and has been seen here ana 4
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20
A BRIDGE TO EVERY MILE
Features of the Extension
in the Mountainous section
If Montana.

One of the most remarkable stretches of
railroad track In the world will be en-
countered by the passengers who, within a
few months, will be able to take passage
Cor eastern cities over the new Chicago,
Milwaukee g. st. Paul., when they pass
along the Musselshell river, separating
Fergus and Yellowstone counties, The
stretch referred TO is fifteen miles long, and
an travelling over this section a passenger
will 40 from Fergus into Yellowstone
county fifty-eight times and return into
Fergus flfty-nine times during the ride. He
will thus have crossed the line separating
the two counties III times. WheD It Is con-
sidered that the line which separates the
two political divisions is nothing more or
less than the Musselshell river, the feat
will become even more remarkable, For
each crossing OF the line there is a bridge
Hence. III bridges have been constructed
I'm q distance of I15 miles. This is'aE aver
age Of more than one bridge TO every mile
and III separate opportunities for the de-
sponaent passenger desiring TO commit sui
eide By drowning.
This fact was included in the report OF
the new road fled with the State Board OF
Edualization, and shows the amount OF track
Il had on March ! which will be subject (
taxation this year. The report indicates thu
point where the road enters the state, and
follows the course OF its line through Fer
aus county,
The line enters the state and passes
sasteriy through Custer county To th'
county lire BET ween and Fergus
oountaaa." says the report. Continuing n
a generally sasterly direction. it crosses th'
Sdusselshell river. which Is the dividing lin'
between tho county OF Fergus. on the noru
side, and the county OF Yellowstone. ON TIN
gouth side OF the river, III times. DasSnl
thereby into Fergus county nfty-nine umei
and from Fergus county into HelloWston
county fifty-eAght times"
Coming up sixteen Mile canyon, In Bergui
and MeaSher counties, ths railroad vii
have an increased number Of bridges. Al
OatirSly different roGdhsd ana track from
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20

that Of the old Montana railroad has been
constructed. and crosses the creek more
times than the old road. The Montana
railroad formerly held the record for the
number Of bridges en- a given stretch in
Montana. II had two bridges 10 every mile.
Now. however. it is probable that IN a
stretch Of almost 100 miles the Milwaukee
holds the worlds record for bridges. The
bridges have been constructed in such great
number 20 follow an air line as nearly as
possible and also to eliminate grades to
some c~xtcnt.-Helena Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20

Political Spellhinder-You know [ put i'm
tow or three days preparing a speech I was
expected to deliver at the convention. Well.
there were so many fellows ahead of me
that they didn't get around to me at all.
I've still got that speech In my system,
Alvira-
His Wife-You have? Then l wish you
would go out 10 the kitchen and thunder II
at the cook. I've tried to discharge her
and she won't go.-Chicago Tribune.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-01-01
SUNDAY LAW is LIMIT.

BOISE, Jan. 1.-The rigid enforce
ment of the Sunday rest law that has
been inaugurated since the act was
declared by the supreme court to be
constitutional resulted il. County At
tOrney kOelsch ordering the directors
of the Y. Nj. c. A. to abandon the pres
entatiOn of the moving pictures of the
Passion Play, announced for Sunday
No admission was charged
but collection was to be taken and
Koelsch held such an entertainment
was violation of the law. Ministers
and others who mad gathered to see the
pictures are very indignant and ac-
cused Koelsch of endeavoring to make
the law obnoxious by extreme en-
forcement
I'VE will remember him at the polls, y
said one minister in closing his re-
marks
No attempt to give the picture show
was made, but the collection was taken
up just the same.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-01-01
RECORD BREAKING
PIANO SALE
EiLERS PIANO HOUSE THE BUSI-
EST PLACE IN TOWN.
More Pianos Sold in Two Days Than
During Any Two Weeks in the
History of the House In
This City.

Piano and Organ buyers realize that
purchasing during this sale means gold
dollars saved. Yesterday we sold a file
$3.50 upright piano for $156; tomorrow
we offer for 1892 one of the best pianos
in the world an instrument that sells
regularly for $500. A full size kimball
organ large plate glass mirror the $50
style, you can buy tomorrow for half
price.
Please bear in mind that in this
stock of so pianos, player pianos and
organs you will fiLd instruments of the
very highest character, such as Chick
ering, Weber, Kimball. Eilers. Scnu-
bert, Lester, Bailey. Kohler & Camp
bell. Marshall & Wendell, etc.
Remember you have only short
time in which to make your selection.
Your opportunity to buy a fine piano
at wholesale price is here. 1t may never
come again. Open evenings.
EILERS' PIANO HOUSE.
IA East Main st.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-01-01
KENNEWkCk WANTS A
BASEBALL TEAM.

EICNNEWICK. Jan. IA movement
is on foot among Kennewick business
teu to get some one of the profession
al baseball teams of the northwest TO
come to. KenneWick this winter to do
their training aid work preliminary to
the opening of the baseball season in
the spring. The climate of Kennewick
ia winter is ideal for such purposes.
tut it is q young town. and the many
good points of q Kennewick winter are
not generally known to outsiders.
II is with this fact in mind that the
business men of the town have started
the movement. feeling that the pres
erce Of a prominent baseball team in
training here during the winter months
would do much to advertise the town
as a winter resort. 1t is proposed to
improve the present baseball park and
erect building on the grounds
equipped with dressing rooms and
shower baths. the. building to be placed
at the disposal of the baseball team.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-01-01
INSTRUCTIVE TO
MANY FARMERS
BULLETIN rs ISSUED ON GRAIN
RAISING IN COLUMBIA
BASIN.

The United States department. of
agriculture recently issued buleti:l
that should be III the hands of every
wheat grower in the Inland Empire. In
gathering material for the bulletin the
author, Mr.. Byron Hunter, made a
study of farm methods of tillage
! Throughout the country to ascertain
just what is being done by the best
farmers in different parts of the cOun-
try. The bulletin discusses the methods
of summer following that are prac-
ticed in different parts of eastern
Washington and eastern Oregon. 1t al
| SO discusses methods of tillage used in
planting spring crops In short. the
bulletin deals with Dry Land Farm
| ing" in the Columbia basin. 1t is
Farmers Bulletin No. 294, entitled,
Farm Practice In the Columbia Basin
Uplands.' The principal topic dis
cussed by the author is of unusual in
terest to the farmers in the vicinity.
The conclusions found by Mr.. Hunter
regarding summer following, is in part
as follows:
The best method of summer fallow-
ing in the Columbia basin consists IT.
disking an dharrowing in the early
spring before blowing. packing the
subsurface Immediately after blowing,
and following this by sufficient sur
face cultivation to retain moisture and
this method is not in general use, it
is becoming more popular and has
been practiced long enough to de-
mOnstrate its superior value. Men VIII?
practice this method estimate that
their yields of wheat are about 25 per
cent greater than those obtained by
summer following in the ordinary way.
The average yield of wheat in tbs.
state of Washington during the year
1906 was 20.4 bushels per acre This
will represent approximately the yield
for the Columbia basin. If it is true
THAT this method increases the yield 25
per cent. the average yield of wheat
for the entire region can be raised five
bushels per acre. By adapting this
method of summer following it is pos
sible to retain sufficient moisture
throughout much of the semiarid sec
ton to germinate wheat at any tins
it may be sown in the fall. This will
make it possible to grow winter wheat
over a Large area that now produces
spring wheat In addition to increasing
the average yield of wheat in the Co
lunbia Basin about five bushels per
acre, it will be seen that better tillage
will further INCREASE the yield IL
bushels per acre over much of the
seniarid section by making it possible
to grow winter Wheat instead of spring
wheat Hence the Importance of the
general adoption of this method
throughout the Columbia basin.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-01-01
SENTENCED FOR ROBBERY
AND ATTACK ON OFFICER

VANCOUVER. =. c., Jan. 1.-Five
years for robbery with violence and
two years for aggravated assault upon
a police officer. the latter term to COM
mence at the expiration of the first.
was the sentence passed upon Fred
Symons by Magistrate Williams. Sy-
mons went into the house at 19A Can
ton street last Thursday evening. and
after brutally assaulting one of the in
mates. robbed her of $50. When Officer
Lattimer attempted to arrest him, Sy
mons dealt him several crushing blows
across the top of the head with heavy
piece of rubber hose loaded at one end
with an iron bolt
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-01-01
DISTURBANCE is GREATEST
FELT FOR A LONG TIME.

SHIDE. Isle of Wight, Jan. 1.-The
archaeological instruments at the Shide
Hill observatory registered an earth
Quake yesterday morning. Prof. John
Milne the wen-known authority on
Seismic disturbances. says that it was
one of the greatest earthquakes ex-
perienced in some time, and recalls
those in the early part of 1907 and the
I revious year. Prot. Milne, in making
referred to the Kingston. jamaica. dis
aster as being similar in kind He be-
Heved that the present disturbance, IL
not of submarine origin. may prove TO
have been most destructive.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-01-01
1T MEANS A RACE.
Friends of Congressman Ellis Will
Fight Hard.

PENDLETON, Or. Jan. 1.-Con-
gresham w. r. Ellis of the second
district of Oregon returned home from
Washington to register, that he
may become candidate for renomin-
alton in the April primaries. He will
leave on his return to Washington
about January 6.
The coming home of Congressman
that there is going to be a hot cam
pa gn for the congressional nominal
ton in this district next spring. Ellis
visited every one of the Is counties
in his vast district during the summer
and fall months. is intimate with con-
ditiOns in every county, and, ms
friends believe. is in close touch with
the people of the district.
With a long residence in the dis
| trct to his credit, Congressman Ellis
| friends here feel that he enters the
race with many advantages over any
other eastern Oregon candidate for
congress. Among those already known
to be in the race are T. T. Geer. edi-
. tor of the Pendleton Tribune, who came
! into this district less than a year ago
and Emmett Callahan, the Baker City
attorney.
| OF the Multnomah county candidates
the people know but little and the con-
test in the primary election therefore
promises to be extremely active. 1t is
not now known by Congressman Ellis
whether he will return to make
speech making campaign or not. 1t de-
ponds on the spring session of con-
gress. If his duties at Washington
keep him there he will depend upon his
friends to make the campaign for him.
but if congress adjourns early enough
to permit him to return for a Few
sreeches he will take the field person
ally.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-01-01
WOMEN ARE EXCLUDED
FROM THE THAW TRIAL

NEW YORK. JAN 1.-All women ex-
ccpt members of Thaw's family and
the women reporters will be excluded
from the court room during the secor.d
trial of Harry X. Thaw, which will be-
gin next Monday. The seating capacity
of the court room has been reduced
greatly since the first trial and Justice
TO prevent the attendance of women of
morbid curiosity who make use of
every means at their comulard to Sc
cure admission to a court room al
ready overcrowded.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-01-01
XPERT'S TERMINAL VALUATIONS
NINE TIMES THE STATES.

OLYMPIA, Jan. 1.-Expert testi-
mony. introduced by the railroads at
the hearing now being held before the
railroad commissioners for the coLclu-
sion of fixing the construction costs
and road and terminal valuations OF
the railroads of the state, fixes the
land values of the property owned by
the O. r. & N road in Spokane at
$261O,36S almost nine times higher
than that placed upon it by the rail-
road engineers in the employ of the
commission. The state engineers fixed
the value of the 140 acres owned by
the road in Spokane terminals and un-
improved property, at $394.S76. The
rate per square foot. Of the terminal
grounds was placed by the roads
great deal higher than the values fixed
by the commission, while both placed
about the same valuation on the right
Of way.
The hearing of the testimony is held
in the supreme court chambers, ana
will be continued Thursday and Friday.
On Thursday morning the question as
TO the land values of railroad property
owned in Seattle will be determined,
and on Friday the Tacoma terminals
will be taken up. The commissioners
! have most of their testimony regard
ing the valuation already in, and the
hearings now on are to give the rail-
roads. through their attorneys a
chance to offer testimony in rebuttal.
! The railroad men in attendance upon
the hearings are: B. S. Grosscup. coun-
sci for the Northern Pacific, al Ia
coma; A. c. Spencer. counsel for the
10 r. & ". at Portland; E. HI. Hay
den. counsel for the Tacoma Eastern,
at Tacoma H. NJ. Watkins, assistant
auditor of the O. r. & N: j. w. Nor
row. tax and right of-way agent of the
O r. & N: H. B. Paige. general su-
perintendent of the Bellingham Bay &.
British Columbia: E. E. Elmendorf ana
Walker L. Bean, realty experts from
Spokane.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-01-01

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