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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
TARS GO TO RESCUE
Naval Reserves Called Out to
Save Town of Grand Marias,
Fire Beset.
WIRE COMMUNICATION CUT
Flames Generally Dying Out in Min
nesota and All Other Towns .
Are Believed Safe.

Duluth. Mimi. Sept 9.-It was a
night of terror on the range and one
of deep anxiety in Duluth, but this
morning conditions appear to have
changed for the better. All yesterday
afternoon and last night fires threat
ened a half a dozen of the larger
towns on the range.
Efforts Are Rewarded.
Persistent efforts Of citizens in
stamping out bush fires and wetting
down the fields have prevented the
flames from spreading and the towns
are for The present safe. This morn
ing the wind was reported to be dying
down and fires gradually burning
themselves out. although the danger
is not yet passed
Naval Reserves tn Rescue.
The most dramatic incidents of the
entire fire promise TO develop around
Grand Marais. The United States
gunboat Gopher. carrying 90 members
of the naval militia, left last night fol
Grand Marais to rescue settlers along
the north shore The little village is
entirely shut off from wire communi
cation and it will be "a hours at least
before anything is heard from there
Houses still In Danger.
Superior, Wis., Sept. 9.-Fires il
most parts of Douglas county are dy
ing down today, as the wind is lighter
Rock Mount. however, is an exception
In that vicinity it seems probable man!
farm houses and summer cottages will
be burned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
Parker Not in Race.

Washington. Sept. 9.-Alton B. Par
ker said here today that he is net will
ing 10 make the race for governor of
New York
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
CRICKET CLUB is DESTROYED
One Killed, TWO Seriously and Several
Slightly Hurt at Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, Pa, Sept. 9.-One man
was burned to death. two women seri.
ously injured and several others We're
more or less badly burned early today
in a fire which destroyed the mems
and womans buildings of the Phila-
delphia Cricket club at Chestnut Hill.
There were only employees in the
buildings when the fire started The
loss is $4,000
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
HOO Hoos ARE IN SESSION
Fraternal Order of Lumhermen Go for
Ride on Lake.

Chicago, Sept. 9.-The Concatanated
Order of Hoo Hoo, the fraternal and
social lodge of the National Lumber
mems association, began its 18th an
nual convention here today with inn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09

Peoria, Sept. 9.-Although the demo-
cratic state convention was scheduled
to assemble at 1890, not a delegate
was in his seat at 1:30. The state
committee is waiting to hear the Cook
county delegates try out any differ
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
PLAY Waitinu Game.

Jefferson City, Mo, Sept. 9.-Both
the democratic and republican plat
fann eenyentions are playing azylasts
ing game today Nefpn6F wants TO
make a platform ahead of the other
and each convention has taken re-
cess until .
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
George LiI!ey for Governor.

New Haven. Conn. Sept. 9.-George
L. Lilley was today nominated for
governor by the republican state con
Vention
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
Your Majesty Wins.

Doncaster. Sept. 9.-The st. Leger
stakes, $500 sovereigns, a mile and
six furlongs. was won today by Your
Majesty, owned by ]. B. Boel.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
Democratic Nominee Civ
en- Great Ovation When
He Arrives.
CONVENTION is HELD
Nebraskan's and Adiai Steven
sons Addresses Feature
Of the Day.

Peoria, Ill, Sept. 9-(Argus Spe-
cial) = The demonstration in honor
of Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Stev-
enson here today in connec-
ton with the democratic state CON
vention was one of the most remark
able in the history of all politics.
The business streets all the way
from the Rock Island station to the
National hotel were packed with peo-
pie at the time Bryan's special ar
rived
Both share HonOrs.
All along the line of the procession
the enthusiasm. both for Mr. Bryan
and for Mr.. Stevenson, who met him
at the depot in company with the local
reception committee, was continuous.
The cheering rose in a mighty roar
all along the way.
Hang to Automobile.
People in their eagerness to get
near to Bryan hung onto his automo-
bile and an immense crowd rushed
along on either side and filled the
street
In front of the National the crowd
was so eongested that it was impOs-
sible for the presidential candidate to
alight until he made a short address
standing on the seat of the car The
people then swarmed into the hotel.
following Bryan and Stevenson and
cheering them as the next president
and next governor.
Hall Packed to SuTOcation.
The Coliseum was packed to suffo-
cation, when the convention was called
TO order this afternoon. where again
evidence of the enthusiasm marked
every stage of the proceedings.
H. p S.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
HIS REPLY MADE
Gompers Asks for Trial Before
Jury Instead Of Judge on
Contempt Charge.
RELATES TO BUCK BOYCOTT
Kept Name on ave Don't Patronage
List in National A. F. of L.
Organ He Publishes.

Washington, Sept. 9.-In their an
swers to the petition of Bucks Stove
and Range company to have Samuel
Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank
Morrison of the American Federation
of Labor punished for contempt on the
charge of violating the order of JUS
tice Gould enjoining them from con-
tinuing the boycott against the stove
company by publishing the name of
that company in the I'VE don't patron.
ize the following list" which was filed
today in the supreme court of the dis
triet OF Columbia, the three defendants
named asked that the issue be tried
before jury and not by Justice Gould
alone.
Refer to List Published.
Most of the specifications of the pc
tition relate to publications in the
American Federationalist. official or
gan of the federation of which Com
pers is editor and to public addresses
made by him. and his response is of
much greater length than those OF
Mitchell and Morrison, both of whom
profess ignorance as to the majority
of the utterances quoted.
Admits Most of Allegations.
For the most part, Gompers admits
the correctness of the quotations from
his speeches, Interviews and editorials
but declares none of them were in
tended to be in contempt of any de
cree Of the court.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
Must Have states.

1T would be almost as difficult to
maintain a free, selfgoverning repub-
lie over a large area and with a large
population without state governments
as it would be to maintain such a
republic without general government.
The interests of the different parts OF
the country are so varied. and the mat
ters requiring legislative attention so
numerous. that it would be impossible
to have all of the work done at the
national capital One has only TO ex-
anime the bills introduced in eacn con
gress, and then add to the number
the bills introduced at the legislative
sessions of each CT the 4G states. to
realize that it would be beyond the
power of any body of men to legislate
intelligently on the multitude of queS-
tions that require consideration.
| Indifference Menace.
Not only would national Legislators
lack the time necessary for investiga
tion and therefore lack the informa-
tion necessary to wise decision, but
| the indifference of representatives in
one part of the country to local mat
| ters in other parts of the country
would invite the abuse of power. Then
too. the seat of government would be
so far from the great majority of vot
ers as to prevent that scrutiny of pub
llic conduct which is essential to clear
land honest government. The union o
the separate states under a fedora
government offers the only plan tina
can adapt itself to indefinite exten
sion.
Our constitution expressly reserve
to the states and TO re people re
speetively all powers not delegated t,
the federal government and only b,
Respecting this division of powers cal
we hope to keep the government with
in the reach of the people and re
sponsive 10 the will of the people
Because in all disputes aa to the rela
tive spheres of the nation and tn
states the final decision tests with tn
federal courts, the tendency is natu
ally toward Capitalization. and create
care is required 'to preserve the re
served rights of the states than t.
maintain the authority of the genera
government.
Corporations Extend Influence.
, IN recent years another force ha
been eXerting an increasing influenc
in extending the authority of the Ger
, trail government. | refer 10 the grea
r corporations. They prefer the fedora
courts to the state courts and emplo
every possible device TO drag litigant
before United States judges. The
, also prefer congressional regulation t
state regulation and those intereste
in large corporations have for year
: been seeking federal incorporation
The democratic party will resist ever
: attempt to obliterate state lines whetl
er the attempt is made through legisl
: tion or through judicial Interpretation
/, Amendment of the organic law by j
dicial Interpretation would be destru
tive of constitutional government; OIL
II constitution car be amended by IL
people in accordance with the tern
/ iof the document itself, and no grou
/ of men,. however honorable or hia
), minded, can usurp this power Yithol
Continued on Page Seven.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09

ton to meet him were Adlai Steven
son and other prominent democrats of
the state.
Prevailed Upon to Speak.
Bryan and the special party were
conveyed to the hotel in automobiles.
the journey being a continual ovation.
Yielding to the demand of the throng,
Bryan appeared on the balcony of the
he spoke 10 another great gathering
at which he said. in part:
The success of our system of gov
ernment rests upon the careful observ-
ance of the constitutional division OF
power between the state and me ma
ton. number of expressions have
been coined to describe the relations
existing between the federal govern
ment and the several subdivisions, but
no one has been more felicitous in def
nitions than Jefferson nor more accur
ate in drawing lines of demarkation
He presented the historic position of
the democratic party when he declared
himself in favor of the support of the
state governments in all their rights,
as the most competent administrations
for our domestic concerns and the sur
est bulwarks against anti-republican
tendencies" and the preserve ton of
the general government in its whole
constitutional vigor, as the sheet an.
Choir of our safety at home and peace
abroad" The democratic platform,
adopted at Denver. quotes the language
of jefferson and declares that it ex,
presses the party's position at this
time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
FOOTING WHISTLES AND
CHEERING THOUSANDS AT
PEORIA GREET W. ]. BRYAN

ences to prevent a fight on liquor in
the convention.
Given Great Reception.
Peoria, H., Sept. 9.-Amid the toot-
ing of whistles and cheering of a
great crowd, w. ]. Bryan arrived here
today shortly after noon. He was ac-
companied by members of the national
committee and number of delegates
to the state convention. At the sta
ton to meet him were Adlai Steven
son and other prominent democrats of
the state
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
Pleads for Harmony.

Cannon urged that all differences be
forgotten and that there be unity and
harmony all along the line and that
everybody work for the success of the
state and national tickets. Leslie NJ.
Shaw also made an address. His
speech dealt mostly with national is
sues Senator Hopkins, Governor De-
neen and the republican congressman
present also made shoit addresses.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09

Continued on Page seven.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09

CONTINUED on Page six.,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
From Pocket to Pocket.

'You can never extricate yourself
from financial straits by changing the
insufficient money you happen to have
from one pocket to another.
Nor is this ALL Banks never fail
except when unable to realize on
loans they have made. If the banks
of the country could have collected
their loans and realized on their Sc
curities there would have been no
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-03
CULTIVATED PLANTS HnLpLrss.
II Man should Disappear from Eartl,
They Would Follow Him.

II Man should Disappear from Earth
They Would Follow Him.
We rarely realize how helpless man
has rendered the plants he cultivates
by the centuries Of protection from
their weed enemies that he has given
them, says the American Botanist. An
experiment that well illustrates this
point was made on one of the govern
ment farms some time ago. A field
about one acre In extent, upon which
wheat had been grown for forty years
In succession, was not harvested, but
allowed to stand and shed Its seeds as
It would.
The next year a fair crop of wheat
came up, but the weeds were gaining
the ascendency, and by the fourth sea-
son all the wheat had disappeared from
the field and the weeds held full sway.
If man should suddenly disappear from
the earth 1t is certain that his cult
waited crops would soon follow him.
And yet these very plants held their
own against their competitors before
man took them under his care. The
reason they can no longer persist in the
face Of competition is not alone because
they have grown weaker, but in a
measure because the weeds have grown
stronger. In protecting his crops man
has constantly killed out the weak and
least persistent weeds, and only those
were left to perpetuate their kind that
were able to elude man. One species,
the self-heal (prunella vulgaris),
which ordinarily grows a foot or more
high, has produced a variety SO low
that 1t Is able to thrive on a closely
moved lawn. Darwin never considered
the lawn mower as one of the factors
Of evolution, but undoubtedly this
Yankee invention has played its part
in the great struggle.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-03
Turning the Tables.

When e. L. Godkin was editor of the
New York Evening Post he was SUD-
posed by many to lack a sense of hu-
NOR. But those in his employ who
stood close to him knew better. One
morning he sent for his young citv,
editor.
Last night" said Mr.. Godkin. .r
read In the Post an account of the sui.
eide of a boy. Your news paragraph
reported the motive that the how was
being resisted at home in a premature
inclination to marry. Mr.. Blank, can
you imagine how that father felt when
you accused him, for what was no
doubt done in sense of loving dptv
OF being the cause of the death of his
childT ''
The young city editor stammered an
apology.
Thank you for your explanation
said Godkin. But" he went on IN
more decided tone, eff ANYTHING u,,o
that ever happens again, I give Won
fair warning, sir, that will leave tbts
paper! I will not work for nanor
that says things so cruel!'-Snccoss
Magazine.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-03
Most Notable Day,

The Fourth Of July, ever since that
memorable date in rs, has been an impor-
tant day in the history of this country.
The adoption of the Declaration of indie
pendence makes it, perhaps, the most no
table day In American history.
Other important events which have oc-
CURED on July are the capture of
Forty Fort and the continuation of the
horrible Wyoming Valley massacre in
1878; the signing by President Washing
ton of the first revenue bill, thereby max
ing 1t law, in 1889; the death of
Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Dec
laration of Independence, in 1926, the fif-
tieth anniversary of the adoption of that
document, and the death of John Adams
on the same day; the abolition of slavery
in New York State, and the freeing of
10000 slaves, in 1927; the laying of the
corner stone of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad by Charles Carroll of CarroIlton,
the last surviving signer of the Declara-
ton of Independence, in 1928; the death
of James Monroe In 1881, the anti-abo-
lition mob riots in New York in 1884 !:
the ratification of the Texas Annexation
bill In 1S45; the Five Points riot, in
which eleven were killed, in 1851; the
capture of vickSburg by Gen. Grant in
1888 the great Portland (Maine) fire
caused by a frecracker, with losses aggre-
eating $15,OO0,000, in 1866; and the de-
structive tornado which swept Indiana,
Wisconsin, Ohio and Missouri, with heavy
loss of life and property, in 1873. In
fact, the Fourth Of July seems destined to
always be day when there is something
doing. "-Four-Trac News.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-03
Facts About the FInr.

The flag of the United States was
adopted by our national Congress June
IA, 1777.
The brilliant flag of Austria Hungary
was adopted March 6, 1869, and fioats
over 24,OOOOOO people.
The oldest flag in existence is tks& of
Denmark, which dates from 1919.
The well-known tri-color of France
dates from the revolution of 1899.
The German flag was first unfurled in
1867 and floats over an empire of 90,
100000 people.
In compliment to William, Prince OF
Orange, the great leader the colors of the
house of Orange were added by the sturdy
people of the Netherlands at the end of
their long bout with Spain, orange white
and blue, but nobody knows how during
the centuries since the orange became
changed to red
Peter the Great, it is said, borrowed
the idea of the Russian flag from the
Dutch, among whom he learned ship
building. He simply turned the Dutch
tri-color, red, white and blue, upside down.
The simple stripping of the red and
yellow in the flag of Spain was suggest
eu by the arms of Aragon.
The white cross on the red field of the
Swiss flag has a religious meaning. 1t
was adopted as an appeal to heaven in
1889, when the stout Swiss fought and
won one of their greatest battles
The crescent, moon and stars were
adopted by the Turks as their device on
the capture of Constantinople by Mo
manned II. in 1853.
1t has taken thousand years to build
up the great British empire of 3S6,OOO,-
600 people, of which the familiar flag of
Great Britain is the symbol.
There are many flags in many lands,
And there are flags of every hue,
But there's no flag, however grand,
Like our own red, white and blue,
Boston Traveller.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-03

multitude. As the wearsome hours pass
ed and no sign came to him the aged bell
ringer finally exclaimed, "They will never
do It'll They will never do it! p Just
then he heard his boy clapping his hands
and vociferating at the top of his juvenile
lungs, Ring Ring ~ The old hands
swayed the sonorous bell with delirious
vigor. Its reverberation was echoed by
every steeple in the city.
That was gala day in Philadelphia,
what with rejoicings and bonfires and
Examinations. The cannon doomed and
messengers rode away holly to all quarters
to announce the news. Washington then
was In New York with the army. BY his
orders it was read to the soldiers, who
acclaimed 1t enthusiastically. The towns
folk on that night tore the statue of
George III. from its pedestal in Bowling
Green, and it was melted into forty-two
thousand bullets for the patriot troops.
Boys and girls for generations have
been taught these facts in history; that
is, the boys and girls who have studied
the history of the United States There
are thousands resident here now who have
never had this opportunity. To them the
Fourth of July is a holiday, a day to
celebrate, a day of enjoyment. To the
American boy and girl, who knows what
happened on that memorable Fourth, it
is so much more than that 1t is no exag-
geration to say they enjoy the celebration
with twice the keenness that those who
are ignorant of the country's history
could possibly experience.
Among the older ones, plenty of whom
have studied history, too, there is a host
who only know that Fourth of July is
the day when the Declaration Of indie
pendence was made public. That is what
we celebrate, to be sure, but the kindred
incidents must be known to those who
would appreciate the greatness of the day.
We love the StarSpangled Banner. We
celebrate the Fourth of July. To the
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-03
The Stars and stripes.

The Stars and Stripes, the flag of lib
erty, hoated over most of the fields of
the Revolution, though it was only thir-
teen stars then against forty-fve today.
Several flags, among them a red field
emblazoned with pine tree or rattle
snake, were used at first, and one with
thirteen stripes was raised at the siege
Of. Boston in 1776. On June 10, 1777
Congress adopted our present national
flag, and 1t is more than probable that
the family arms of George Washington.
which united stars and stripes in a very
suggestive way, had something to do with
the first choice. At first stripe as well
as star was added for the birth of each
new State. But this was soon found to
De lmpracticable, and so the increase
was confined to the constellation, while
the, stripes returned to the original tbir.
teen, answering to the Revolutionary
colonies.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-07-03

the illumination of electricity. The sec
ond rose to be President of the nation
he helped to form. The third is the
father of what the world knows as the
Jeffersonian Democracy. The fourth,
Puritan, patriot, leader, gave more in
moral force and determination. in knowl-
edge of the law and its common sense
principles, than almost any man who as
sisted at the birth of the nation. The
fifth was the man of whom the ma jority
of people know comparatively little, and
yet there was none who better deserve
place Of honor in the public mind. Emil
nent as a fnancer, a shrewd Judge of
human nature, his touch on the helm of
state was exactly what was needed to
keep the young craft on her course. JEFF
ferson had spoken but little In Congress
and he had no part in the acrimonies
which then prevailed. In a plain brick
house, at the corner of Seventh and
Market streets, he drafted the Declara-
ton of Independence. The work was
almost wholly Jefferson's, only a few
verbal alterations being suggested by Ad-
ans and Franklin. 1t then was approved
by the committee. A few passages were
SlTuCh Oul ny NOuSTtSS. OteSdr hOQney,
one of Delaware's delegates, in order to
have his vote recorded, rode in the saddle
from a point eighty miles from Philadel.
phia all night, and reached the floor Just
in time on July to cast Delaware's vote
in favor of independence On that day,
ever memorable in American annals, the
Declaration of Independence was adopted
by the unanimous vote of thirteen colo
MES.
The enthusiasm of the patriots at hear
ing the intelligence was unbounded. While
Congress had been discussing the subject
crowds assembled outside the hall and in
the streets, anxiously awaiting the result.
When 1t was announced at noon the
State House bell on which was inscribed
Proclaim liberty throughout all the lands
unto all the inhabitants thereof" changed
deep and melodiously and the throng gave
vent to long and loud shouts of exultation.
The old bell-ringer had been at his post
since early morning. He had placed his
boy below to announce when the Declare
ton was adopted, so that not an instant
might be lost in transferring the glad It'd
ings by means Of the bell to the awaiting