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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

MISREPRESENTATION by young man 81
years of age; fair education. Address
s." care Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

WANTED-Young man, experienced in
shipping and packing goods Will
let's Manufacturing company, 1926
Fifth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

to half sole; mems,
as cents; ladies', 35 cents; the only
place in town, at A. Pollock's, 1911
Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

WA NTED-Ieadies;n our catalogue ex-
plains how we teach hairdressing,
mahicuring. facial massage, etc, in
Il few weeks, mailed free. Moler col
lege, Chicago. III,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02
Notice Of PubIIcation.

Albert Huber, attorney.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

FOR RENT "A suite of rooms furnish
ed for light housekeeping, at 2716
Fifth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

WANTED - Your suit to sponge and
press for so cents; pants, Is cents.
Orders called for and delivered; 1911
Second avenue. Phone old 592-Y-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

FOR SALE-Cheap, a good rubber tir-
ed phaeton, at 1882 Eighth and "a :
+ half avenue. tTsif- i4-iite q 2
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

FOR SALE-Fine thoroughbred French
poodle puppies, months old. In
quire at office of Elite theater, Rock
Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

wANTED-An experienced man, for So
Letting and collecting; state salary
expected. Address H. 100," care of
Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

FOR SAL4E--A covered delfvery>wagol
at 1909 Second avenue, i,7,(sseF.i,s 5
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02
FoR RENT-RooMs.

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms for light
housekeeping at 800 Third street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

WANTED-Good machinist who UNDER
stands die work. WilIetts Manufae-
turing company, 1926 Fifth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

FOR SALEAProperty in this city rent
ing for ST. per month; in good condi-
ment; good reason for selling; $S.-
900. Address Owner" care Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

FOR RENT-Well furnished room, one
block west of court house; all mod
ern conveniences; board included, if
desired; 1880 Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

FOR RENT-A six-room modern house.
Inquire at 1880 Nineteenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms, all mod
ern. at 217 Fifteenth street, opposite
court house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02
ron sALn-CTTY PRoPERTY.

FOR SALEHLot 40x150 feet. centrally
located, ON paved street For partic-
ulars address Box 267, city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

WANTED - Men; our Illustrated cata-
logue explains how we teach barber
trade in few weeks, mailed free Mo-
Ter Barber college, Chicago, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-02

FOR SALE-Round tent, 81 feet in di-
ameter, good new: cost $500;
cheap; at 1907 Eleventh street.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
ENSIGN is DEGRADED
FOR SELLING SECRETS
French Naval officer Must Spend Life
on DEVILS Island for Prov
Ing False TO His
Country

TOULON, June ia pitiable spec
tacle, the degradation of Ensign Charles
Ullmo, formerly naval officer, oc-
CURED at Roche square today In the
presence of an enormous crowd. En-
sign Ullmo was arrested at Toulor
charged with being a spy. An examina-
ton of his. effects showed him to be In
possession of many valuable documents
Last February he was found guilty by
a court martial of attempting to sell
naval secrets to a foreign power ano
sentenced to imprisonment for life IN
q fortress and to be degraded IN rank
Train excursions were run into Tou-
lon and thousands of people from the
surrounding country came in to witness
the ceremony.
Ullmo wearing his uniform ano
sword, was led into the rectangle
where the commandant read the order
that Ullmo had betrayed his country
and was not worthy to wear its uni
FORM
Two subalterns then took off his
sword and stripped him of his chew
rons and buttons.
One of the subalterns broke the sword
across his knee and then threw the
broken blade at ILLINOIS feet.
In this plight Ullmo was compelled
to march at the head of a squad OF
soldiers around the rectangle amid the
boots and jeers of the crowd.
He walked with his bare head SUM
upon his breast and his eyes staring
straight in front of him. Tears were
streaming down his face.
Ullmo will be deported to Devil:
island, off the coast of French Guinea
where Major Dreyfus was confined from
1894 to 1892
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS WANT
FREE FOREST PRODUCTS PLANK

NEW YORK, June 12.-The Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers association
has submitted the following plank to
the Republican platform for considera-
ton:
"The earnest consideration of the
conservation of the nations resources
set forth in President Roosevelt's mes
sage at the recent assembly of state
governors at the national capital hav-
ing directed general attention to the
startling denudation of our forest lands
and the consequent imminent danger OF
a timber famine; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Republican party,
in convention assembled, pledges itself
to the removal of duties upon all forest
products, including lumber both rough
and dressed, and upon pulp, wood pulp
and print paper, to the end that our
rapidly depicting forests may be con-
served the water supply of our great
rivers regulated and controlled, the
vast waste of soil, and finally that the
great consuming public may reap the
advantage of the cheaper forest prod
ucts of other countries"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
RAPID PROGRESS is MADE
REPAIRING RAILROAD TRACKS

BUTTE, Mont, June 12.-Progress In
repairing the damage on the Northern
Pacific between Butte and Missoula is
being made at much more rapid rate
than was thought possible.
When General Manager Slade OF the
Northern Pacific arrived In Butte to
take personal charge of the work OF
putting the line through, the reports
from the west were that 1t would be
impossible to reach Deer Lodge with
train before next week. Shade gor
there last night.
1t is not likely the Great Northern
will be able to resume train service be-
tween Butte and Helena for several
days The worst damage to tracks on
the Great Northern is between Helena
and Great Falls. Hundreds of men
are working on all of the lines repair
ing the damage from floods.
The first passenger train on the Bill
lings Northern road was run today. Nc
train was ever received with greater
favor than it by the passengers who
were thus enabled to leave Great Falls
after having been stalled there FOL
more than week by washouts. The
train was made up at Great Falls and
hauled the marooned passengers tc
Lewiston to connect with the st. Pau
road, that they might get out by way
of Lombard and to Butte and Helena.
The Billings Northern is still In the
hands of the construction company and
a passenger train was never before run
over the line.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
MRS. MARY 3. EDDY ISSUES
STATEMENT ON OMISSION

BOSTON, June 12.-Mrs. Mary Baker
G. Eddy, head of the Christian Science
church, tonight issued statement in
explanation of the omission this year
of the annual meeting of the executive
committee of the First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, usually
held on the Sunday before the June
communion service, and which was to
have been held tomorrow.
The statement is inscribed "A word
to the WISE" and reads:
my Beloved Brethren: When 1
asked you to dispense with the execu-
tive members meeting the purpose of
my request was sacred. 1t was to
turn your sense of worship from the
material to the spiritual, the personal
to the impersonal, the UNCONVENTIONAL
to the doctrinal, yea, from the human
to the divine.
ALREADY you have advanced from
the audible to the inaudible prayers;
from the material to the spiritual COM
munion; from drugs to deity, and you
have been richly recompensed. Rejoice
and be exceedingly glad, for SO doth
the divine love redeem your body from
disease, your being from sensuality,
your soul from sense, your life from
death. OF this Astounding and abiding
spiritual understanding the prophet
Isaiah said: And I will bring the blind
by a way that they know not; 1 will
lead them in paths they have not
known; will make darkness light be-
fore them and crooked things straight.
These things will / do unto them and
not forsake Them
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
A Rottle.Ted Melon

A "bottle-fed" watermelon was re-
Gently shown at a fair in one of the
melon districts of Colorado, which
caused a good deal of interest and
amusement. The grower, an amateur
explained how he had produced a mel
on that weighed tWenty-four pounds
when the shipping melon of the variety
only had to weigh fourteen pounds by
requirement.
He said he had selected a healthy
vine. pinched off all the runners but
the che with the selected melon. which
at that time was about the size OF a
small cucumber, and gave evidence OF
being a promising specimen. Then ne
had pinched off the other buds and
growing melons on that runner sc
that the entire strength of the plant
went into the melon left.
Then through the stem of the melon
he had made a slit. Through this silt
common lamp wick was gently
forced and the other end of the wick
submerged into bottle filled with
sweetened water. That was all The
melon grew apace and outstripped its
brothers on the neighboring vines. The
bottle had to be renewed about once
week--it being a quart beer bottle
When the time came that the melon
gave forth the right punk sound
which the grower knows means per-
fectly ripe specimen, it was picked and
taken to the fair. And on the day
when it was opened II was so sweet
as to be almost sickening and had
practically no rind.-New York Times
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
Claims 704 for Taft

CHICAGO, June 12.-Frank H. Hitch
cock, who had charge of Secretary
Tafts interests before the national
committee, tonight issued a statement
claiming 704 votes for Taft on the first
ballot He makes his statement in COM
parison with one issued by him on
May 16, after all of the delegates to
the national convention had been
elected.
In that statement Mr.. Hitchcock
claimed SIT instructed delegates, which
number he now reduces to 513. He
credits one to Foraker from Ohio and
two to Foraker from Virginia, and
does not claim for Taft the split dele
cation from the Eighth Tennessee dis
trict, involving the loss of another
seat.
BY Endorsement he claims SO votes
the same figure given in his May state
ment, but by declaration he now claims
1856 votes, instead of 81 as claimed in
May. This makes a total of 704. He
credits 227 instructed votes for other
candidates. and leaves 40 not accounted
for in the columns of any of the can
didateS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
THAW MUST REMAIN IN
PRISON AT P0UGHKEEPSlE
Justice Declares Judge Bowling OF the
Supreme Court Must Pass on
Application of Transfer
from Matteawan

NEW YORK, June 12.--Harry X
Thaw will remain in the Poughkeepsie
Jail pending an application of his coun-
sci to Justice Bowling of the supreme
court for a change of the order COM
hitting him to the state hospital Tor
the criminal insane at Matteawan.
This decision was rendered by JUS
tice Morschauser of Poughkeepsie after
hearing arguments of counsel in this
city today on a; motion to transfer the
prisoner to any state asylum otner
than an asylum for insane convicts.
Justice Morschauser expressed the
opinion that it might be better Tor
Thaw to be incarcerated in some other
asylum than the one at Matteawan, as
it was evident that strained relations
existed between the head OF the Mat
teawan institution and Thaw.
Col. Franklin Bartlett and james M.
Graham of Newburgh appeared for
Thaw, Colonel Bartlett contending
that Thaw could be legally transferred
to any other state hospital for the In
sane, and In the argument for the
transfer counsel asserted that ThaW
would personally rather be in the
Tombs or Poughkeepsie prison than In
Matteawan.
District Attorney Jerome said he per-
sonally had no objection to the trans
fer of ThaW to some other hospital II
he were convinced 1t was for Thaws
good and there was no danger or MS
escape.
Justice Morschauser stated he could
not go back of Justice Dowling's order
sending Thaw to Matteawan, but ir
view of the statements that Thaw
might not recover there because OF the
feeling he has toward the head OF the
institution, he would stay the execu-
ton of the order recommitting him un.
til such time as Thaw's counsel couio
ask Justice Bowling for a change OF
the original order.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
HEAVY RAINS FALL;
RIVERS WILL RISE
HIGHER WATERS THREATEN
SUBMERGED DISTRICTS
Crest Of New Flood at Kansas City
viii Be Reached Sunday Night.
Tributaries Are Very
High
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. Mo, June 12,-Un-
usually heavy rains fell today in Kan
sas, Nebraska Missouri and Iowa ana
the weather bureau predicts the kaw
and Missouri rivers will again reach
the high stage on Wednesday night. j.
At p. m. the Missouri here had
fallen rs of foot, but had risen i
of a foot at st. Joseph and continues
to rise there. The Kaw fell about o
inches today and is stationary tonight.
At Topeka the Kaw is rising rapidly.
The weather bureau predicts the new
flood at Topeka will slightly exceed
that of Tuesday.
All of the tributaries of the Kaw are
very high and more rain is threatened.
The crest of the new flood here Will
be reached Sunday night.
TOPEKA, Kas., June 12--North To-
peka Is threatened with another Hood.
The river has risen today from 1873
feet to 21.2 feet. A bulletin issued by
the local weather bureau at p. m.
says:
"Uniformly heavy rains ranging
from one to two inches have fallen In
the Kaw valley and the present outlook
is that the river at Topeka will rise
two feet in the next thirty-six or forty
eight hours. Unsettled weather condi-
lions prevail today and showers are
forecasted for this part of the state
tonight"
The rise already forecasted will put
the river above the flood stage and
more rains would make the situation
serious.
The feed waters of the Kansas river
are rising rapidly. The Republican
river at Junction City has risen seven
feet since yesterday and the Smoky
Hill over three feet. Conditions along
| the Smoky Hill bottoms are reported
worse than in 1904. At Manhattan the
Blue rose over three feet today and
| is still rising.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
GOV. CUTLER'S DAUGHTER
RETURNS TO HER HOME
Romance of Prominent Utah Girl Ends
When Stern Papa Steps In
and Says "Come
with Me"

SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, June H.
The romantic elopement and marriage
of Miss Mabel Cutler, daughter of Gov
ernor Cutler of Utah, and Thomas Ed
ward Butler, which occurred in Ogden
on Tuesday afternoon, seems destined
to end in tribulation for the young
couple.
The romantic young couple, who had
successfully eluded the governor and
his agents for several days, returned
to Salt Lake yesterday morning and
were Immediately approached by the
friends of Governor Cutler. However,
no heed was paid to the opportunities
of the representatives of the governor,
and the bride went to the home of her
husband. Within fifteen minutes of
their return Governor Cutler arrived
at the residence of his daughter and
persuaded her to accompany him to
her late home.
The groom claims his wife is only
on a visit to her parents home. while
Governor Cutler insists that the home
coming is to be permanent. He said:
Yves, my daughter Is at her home
and will remain with us permanently"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
REPULSED LOVER SHOOTS
SWEETHEART AND HIMSELF

SACRAMENTO June 12.-About
O'Clock this morning Charles Stevens
broke into the room of Eva Williams
in a lodging house at Second and L
streets. and fired four shots at the
woman, three of them lodging in her
body He then placed the pistol at
his head, fired and blew out his brains.
His body is at the morgue.
The woman is at the receiving hos
pital and surgeons believe she will re-
cover. The woman has been an in
mate of a house of ill repute. She
says her mother lives in Seattle. Little
has been known here about Stevens.
He became angered because the woman
refused to marry him. He had creden-
tails showing he belonged to the Royal
Arch in San Francisco
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
AYERS DIVORCE CASE
ENDS tiARMONlOUSLY
NOTED CONTRACTOR EFFECTS
RECONCILIATION
Journeys to Oakland to Put In Defense
and Attorney for Plaintiff Moves
That Action Be Dis
missed
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 12.-Edgar
S. Ayers, a wealthy Los Angeles con-
tractor, and his wife, Emma, who had
sued him for divorce, have settled their
differences and left Oakland tonight for
Los Angeles. Upon motion of Clarence
Reed, attorney for Mrs. Ayers, the suit
charging Ayers with extreme cruelty
was dismissed today by Judge Harris
of Oakland.
Ayers has the contract to do the struc-
tural work on the new postoffice build
ing being erected in Los Angeles. He
came to Oakland Wednesday night to
defend the action his wife had begun
against him, but instead of fighting the
case he met his wife and quickly eff
fected a reconciliation.
Mrs. Ayers had charged that her hus-
band constantly found fault with her,
had attempted to abduct their little
daughter and had driven her out of
their home because she had refused to
give him $500 she had earned by giving
music lessons. She now claims rela-
tives caused all the trouble.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
SHAW AT ODDS WITH
EDITOR OF ACADEMY
HIS LORDSHlP GETS ANGRY AT
CRITIC
Wrote the Critique Himself, He Says
Tells Shaw His Mind Is
of the Feminine
Quality

LONDON, June 12-Bernard Shaw
and Lord Alfred Douglas. editor of the
Academy have fallen foul of one an
other. The Academy recently pub
Getting Married" which evoked a
letter of protest from the author to the
editor
Mr.. Shaw, addressing the editor as
Dear Lord Douglas" wrote:
who on earth have you been hand
ing over your dramatic criticism to?
Your man, who must have been fright
fully drunk, achieved a startling libel"
Here Mr.. Shaw cites the portion of
the Academy's article to which he OBJ
jects and continues:
Can you not manage to volunteer
in your next issue a withdrawal of the
article? AS a rule l don't like asking
an editor to throw his contributor over,
but when the contributor throws over
the editor so outrageously as in this
case 1 don't see what is to be done.
Il feel rather in difficulty about it,
because l don't know who the writer
is and am afraid he may turn out to
be some unfortunate friend of mine"
To this Lord Douglas replied, adj
dressing his remarks to Dear Bernard
Shaw:
II received your letter with the great
est surprise. I strongly resent the ac-
cusation of being drunk which you
bring against the writer of the article.
1t seems to me 1t is characteristic of
the feminine quality of your intellect
to make such, outrageous suggestions.
AS a matter of fact l wrote the article
myself"
1t is a pretty quarrel, and interesting
developments are awaited with keen
curiosity.
The Academy's notice of Mr.. Shaw's
play, with a good many other things
that got into the Academy, was of a
very interesting character. 1t spoke OF
the play as boresome and said that In
places it was immoral. Frankly" the
critic wrote, 1--WE do not think that the
censorship should have passed the
play" Mr.. Shaw objects to this as
sertion.
He no doubt was irritated also by
what the critic said in his concluding
words I'VE are sorry to have to say
it, but it is our deliberate opinion that
for all his brilliant cleverness and
ability, Mr.. Shaw does not possess a
masculine intellect. A vegetarian who
never touches alcohol who thinks
smoking "a filthy habit and who raises
| hysterical shrieks about cruelty be-
cause a mother visits her child with a
well-merited and salutary smacking, Is
not the kind of man to whom this
country is going for instruction in So
GEOLOGY or morality"
! 1t goes without saying that Mr. Shaw
knew pretty we'll who wrote the critique
when he penned his letter to the editor
of the Academy.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
SPIRIT FINANCIERS
OPPOSED TO SCHEME
DEFERRED BARNETT FROM
INVESTMENT
J. DaIzell Brown Testifies Against For
mer Associate In Wrecked Call
fornia Safe Deposit and
Trust Company
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 12.-Spirit-
ual advice given by the shades of sucn
great financiers as Jay Gould and Col
lis p. Huntington was what deferred
Walter ]. Bartnett from going into the
Lake county scheme of ]. Dalzell
Brown, and caused the first open rup-
two officials of the wrecked California
Safe Deposit and Trust company, ac-
cording to the testimony given by
Brown today.
And now that Bartnett is on trial
charged with the embezzlement of the
Cotton securities while he was admin
istering the estate of the late Ellen NJ.
Cotton, Brown, who is confined to the
penitentiary for crimes in connection
with the bank failure, to which he con-
fessed, is testifying against his former
associate.
Brown, who was manager of the in
stitution, of which Bartnett was vice
president and chief counsel, testified
today in regard to the contents of
many letters and kilograms sent by
Bartnett while he was in New York to
Brown, showing his close direction of
the affairs of the bank. None of the
letters bore directly on the sale of
the Cotton securities, while they were
held in trust by the bank for the estate,
but they tended to show that 1t was by
the direction of BARNETT that the bank
officers used the securities to save the
institution.
This morning 1t was shown how,
through the alleged manipulation of
Bartnett, 100000 of the funds of the
Western Pacific Railroad company was
transferred from a New York bank to
the California Safe Deposit and Trust
company.
Charles H. Dunsmuir followed Brown
on the stand. Dunsmuir was state
bank commissioner at the time Bart
nett was connected with the affairs of
the bank, and made an examination of
the banks securities. He testified that
at the time he went through the vaults
he was told that the Cotton securities,
which were not there, were either in
New York or had been burned in the
big fire. Later it transpired that they
had been sold.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
The SkY,S FAULT

A Philadelphia property man was re-
lating his memories of Richard Mans
field.
TT was a sultry afternoon in the
spring and we were rehearsing one of
the Mansfield plays-I think it was DR..
Jekvll and Mr.. Hyde'-and here and
there 1 had to supply clap of thun-
der.
Everything went well for a time.
Then, in an unexpected place a loud
roar of thunder rumbled forth. Mr..
Mansfield hurried to me.
look here, he said, with a hurt
look, do be careful, won't you? A mis-
take like that would be very serious
before an audience. That clap of thun-
der came in the wrong place.
"T'm very sorry, Mr.. Mansfield said
I. but it wasn't my thunder. 1t came
from outside Washington Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-13
"BUG HUNTERS" WILL GIVE
MORE TIME TO CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO, June 12.-State
horticultural Commissioner Jeffery an
nounces that after much correspon-
dence with west Australia he has sue
ceeded in making an arrangement for
the retention of the services of George
Compere, jointly as chronological ex-
pert or bug hunter" and more of Mr..
Compere's time will be given to Cali
fornia than formerly.
Mr. Compere will leave June IA on
trip which will include from weeks to
months in several foreign countries in
search of parasites for use in this
state. His first endeavor will be to
obtain a large number of lady birds
for distribution in the deciduous fruit
sections.