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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-26
WAS LESS FREIGHT
But More Passenger Business on ten
Rock Island Road During
Last Year.
ANNUAL REPORT IS ISSUED
Greater Operating Expenses and In
creased Taxes Help to Further
Cut Down Net Profit.

The Rock Island earned $4,71S.1O2,
or 60 per cent on its capital stock ON
its $75.C00,000 during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1908, after providing
for all charges. according to the 2Sth
annual report issued Saturday.
The effect of the depression is shown
in the decrease in total operating rev.
enue, which fell off $1,654,4 or rs
per cent, which is largely accounted for
in the great slump in freight earnings.
amounting to $2,316,545.
Passenger Business Grows.
Passenger earnings, on the other
hand, increased $539.571, in spite of
the panic year and the cent a mile
fare laws which were passed last year
in many of the states through which
the road operates. The number of
passengers carried increased 1,57S,34S.
Operating expenses show an increase
of $1,515,925, or 81 per cent, and
taxes increased $113,S56. or 6.S per
ceEt There was no reduction in the
dividend rate, 5A per cent for the
year, but the balance nrofit and loss
surplus suffered serious reduction OF
81, G33,7S9 to s7SS,317, or $3.50 per cent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-26

years ago was used ito change $4,000
votes in New York City alone"
Please rush at once, as this is i'm
portant, full list of campaign ntrib-
utions showing how trust and corpor-
alton men, as we'll as all protective
tariff interests. favor the election OF
Taft and Sherman. You might con-
trast this list with the popular sub.
|seription which the people have con
tributed to the democratic fund. We
would like to have this before cleo
|tion
Lest the people forget. please give
us re-hash of that old Dudley blocks
Iof five" story. 1t may help the boys
some in distributing the slush fund in
this campaign.
Any other stories along this line viii
| be greatly appreciated.
Thanking you t>r your consideration
believe me,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-26
New York Stocks.


New York, Oct 26.-Following are
the quotations on the stock market
today:
U. P. 170B, U. S. Steel preferred
1908, U. S. Steel common 4S, Reading
1873, Rock Island preferred 46A, Rock
Island common 20, Northwestern 161
Southern Pacific 1851. N. Y. Central
LOG, Missouri Pacific 56A, Great North.
ern 1913. Northern Pacific 144ss, l.. &
N. 109A, Shelters 80. C. F. /. 1865
Canadian Pacific It's. Illinois Central
1898, Penna 1861, Erie 315s, Lead
1881, c. & o. 43H, B. & o. SO, Atchi
son 91B, Locomotive IS, Sugar 1925
st. Paul 1881, Copper S0A, Republic
Steel preferred so, Republic Steel com
mon %.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-26
For Burns and scalds.

Salubrin is as invaluable a remedy
Jas for other. external injuries, if used
Jas directed, especially if applied im-
|mediately, when it will remove pain,
|prevent blistering and heal without
leaving a scar. Equally efficient on
frost bites, and chilblains. In all cases
consult Directions" as to the proper
dilution and mode of applying. All
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-26
THE MARKETS.

Chicago, Oct. 26.-Following are tn,
market quotations today:
Wheat.
December, 80, 1914, 1855, 991s.
May, 1925, 1929, 1902, 1929.
July, 96A, 97H, 96$4, 81.
Corn.
December, 6S5s, 6SA, $685., 63k.
May, 627s, 62%, 62as, 625s.
July. 62A, 62A, 62, 621s.
December, 471a, 47%, Az, AK.
May, 1875, 1885, 491a, 1875.
July, 45, 45, As. As.
Pork.
October, 1910, -, -, 1875.
January, 1882, 1886, 1875, 1917.
May, 1870, 1872, 1852, 1870.
Lard.
January, 9.45, 9.45, 9.37, $40.
May, 9.47, 9.52, 9.42, 9.45.
Ribs.
October, S.62, SOS, S.62, S62.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-26
- - - BEST TREATMENT
..S.S. FOR CATAR R12Ii'

portion
lining called this
noushment the
becomes infected with catarrhal impurities and lining
symptoms of Catarrh There tight stufy feeling the
breathing The disease cannot be reached by though
such afford relief
Cah the blood of all impurities
discharge headaches
which
be cured
particle the
medical
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO ATLANTA
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-26
A Healthy Family.

"Our whole family has enjoyed good
health since we began using DR.. Kings
New Life Pills, three years ago." says
L. A. Bartlett of rural route 1, Guilford,
Maine. They cleanse and tone the sys-
tenn in a gentle way that does you
good. 25 cents, at all drug stores.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-26
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.
Today's Quotations on Provisions, LIv
Stock, Feed and Fuel.


Rock Island, Oct 26-Following are
the wholesale prices in the local mar.
ket today:
Provisions and Produce.
Eggs-Fresh, &c.
Live Poultry-Hens. per pound. &c:
springs, 121sc pound.
Butter-Dairy, 22c to 23c.
Lard-11c.
Vegetables = Potatoes, 55c to Coo;
onions. 45c; beets, 40c; turnips, soc.
Feed and Fuel.
Grain--Corn, Soc; oats, 47c to soc,
wheat, S5c to 90c.
Forage = Timothy hay, So to $40;
prairie, $3.50 to $500; clover, $500;
straw, $3.50.
Coal-Lump, per bushel, 14c: slack
per bushel, &c to SC.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-26
Yours very truly,
JOSEPHUS DANIELS.

Chairman Bureau of Publicity.
P. S.-Please give us story slowing
who is the republican candidate for
president, Roosevelt or Taft
p. p. S.-Kindly send all stories by
mail, as We are too poor to pay tele-
graph rolls.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-26

on the positive guarantee
that if it does not give sat
isfaction we will return the
entire amount of money paid
us for it.
We ask all those who are
rundown, nervous, debili-
tated, aged or weak, and
every person suffering from
stubborn colds, hanging-on
coughs, bronchitis or incipi-
ent consumption to try Vinol
with this understanding.
HARPER HOUSE PHARMACY.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-14
MONEY COMING
IN FOR LICENSES

The Territorial Treasurer Office is
in the midst of the annual renewal Of
licenses. About 10000 licenses are
issued each year, so thoroughly does
the license law of the Territory look
after every possible source of revenue
of thus kind. These all expire June 80
in each year, and are renewable, gen
orally speaking, during the month of
July.
The licenses issued by the Treasurer
include all licenses except liquor Ii
ceuses. These are issued in each
county by the Board of License Com
missioners
The aggregate of license fees col
lected by the Treasurer during the year
is in round numbers 100000. So far
the collections from this source have
amounted to $32,500.
The entire list of businesses for
which licenses are required is rs fol-
lows: Alcohol, ava, auction license,
banking, billiard, bowling alley, beef
butcher, sell; beef butcher, slaughter
and sell; boat, boatman, barber, brew.
cry, certificate of authority, car license
tax, custom-house broker, collection
agency, dray and wagon, driver, dye
ing or cleaning, etc; emigrant agent,
employment agency, foreign corpora
ton, farrier and horse-shoer, fishing
boat, garage, hack and passenger We
hicle, hotel and restaurant, insurance
agent, kerosene storage, lodging and
tenement-house, laundry, livery stable,
milk, merchandise, merchandise broker,
merchandise peddler, notary public,
pork butcher, sell; pork butcher,
slaughter and sell; peddling cake,
pawnbroker, public show, poisonous
drug, secondhand dealer and trader,
stock and share, steam laundry, to-
bacco, cigar, etc; trust company.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-14
"HAwAw" TERRITORY.

CHICAGO, June l6.-John r. Malloy,
from Columbus, o., secretary of the con
vention, then read the eommittee's IS call
for the convention, and the chief feat
ure of his brief but undaunted utter
anec was his pronunciation of Hawaii
which he repeatedly called "Hawaw,
to the immense delight of all within
sounds reach. Hawaii, I have OBJ
served, gives vast deal of trouble tC
orators in Congress and elsewhere. They
have hundred ways of pronouneinl
it, but it has been left to the ingenious
Malloy to invent Hawaw."
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-14

There is not single Democratic
United States Senator now in Congress
from these twelve States and hardly a
dozen Democratic Representatives. This
is mentioned to emphasize what po-
litical overturning there must be in
November if these twelve States are to
furnish the eightyfour electoral votes
which Bryan must have with his 1853
votes in the solid South to be-
If it should develop that he has even
n fighting chance of carrying New
York--the best judges believe he has
not-the winning of the fortyfive re-
naming votes necessary would not
seem such an impossible task, espe.
cially when it is granted that he will
have about an even chance in Indiana
and also in Nebraska, particularly in
the latter State if the labor men and
the railroad men support him as they
are now indicating an inclination to
do.
For even if the remaining eight
States in the electoral college, all in
| the West, are seriously disaffected-
from the Republican standpoint-and
if Bryan should carry most of them
the total would be comparatively small
They are the transmissouri States, al
follows:
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-14
Total

The only one of these eight States
that can be counted as Democratic
from its political record to date is
Nevada. 1t has the only Democratic
Representative in Congress from west
of the Missouri River. 1t has one
Democratic Senator, whose sole Demo.
cratic colleague from that same section
comes from Colorado.
The columns show what very up
hill fight there is ahead of Mr.. Bryan,
although, of course, the present polit-
ical complexion of States was made in
the Roosevelt presidential year of 1904
and the congressional year of 1906
when stirring appeals We're made to
voters to uphold him in his policies
On the other hand, if Taft can hold
| his 144 electoral votes in the more con
servative Eastern States, as outlined
he will need only ninety-eight votes
out of the Western States that claim
TO be more progressive politically. Cal
ifornia, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Min
nesota, and Ohio, his native State
would exactly turn the trick. All ar,
very certain Republican States. Iowa
Michigan and Minnesota never cast al
electoral vote for Democratic presi
Dental candidate.
! ~ ERNEST C. WALKER.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-14
CONFIDENCE

said Lord Chatham, sis plant
Of slow growth" People believe
in things that they see, and in q
broad sense they are right. What
is sometimes callea blind faith is
act faith at all. There must be
reason and fact to form foun-
dation for trust. In regard to q
medicine or remedy, for example,
people ask, elias it cured otA7
ersP Have cases like mine bee \
relieved by it? Is it in harmony
with the truths of modern science,
and has it a record above suspic-
ionp If so, it is worthy of conf
dence; and il | am ever attacked
by any of the maladies for which
it is commended l shall resort
to it in full belief in ITS pow.
err to help me-" On these lines
wAMPoLE's PREPARATION
has won its high reputation a.
mong medical men, and the
people of all civilized countries.
They trust it for the same reason
that they trust in the familiar
laws OF nature or in the action
of common things. This effective
remedy is palatable as honey and
contains the nutritive and cura-
tive properties of Pure Cod Liver
Oil, extracted by us from fresh
Iod liyers, combined with the
Compound Syrup of Hypophos-
phites and the Extracts of Malt
and Wild Cherry. 1t quickly e.
radicates the poisonous, disease
breeding acids and other toxic
matters from the system; regu-
lates and promotes the normal
action of the organs, gives vigor-
ous appetite and digestion, and is
infalliDle in Prostration-follow-
ing Fevers, etc., Scrofula, Infiu-
enza, Asthma, Wasting Diseases.
Throat and Lung Troubles, etc.
DIR. W. A. Young, of Canada, says
"Your tasteless preparation 0i
cod liver oil has given me nni-
formly satisfactory results, my
patients having been. of al ages
| 1t is product Of the skill and
science of to-day and is success.
full after the old style modes oi
treatment have been appealed to
IN vain. Sold by ell chemists
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-14
JURY OUT A DAY
UNABLE To AGREE
tFrom Saturdays Advertiser3

After being out for about twenty
four hours, the jury in the Manuel CRUZ
case, yesterday afternoon announced
to Judge De Bolt that they We're un-
able to agree, and they were according
ly discharged.
The defendant was indicted for as
sault on young girl The case has
been on trial for over two weeks. The
prosecution was conducted by County
Attorney Cathcart assisted by Deputy
County, Attorney Milverton.
Cruz was defended by j. Alfred Ma
goon and Glenn X. Quinn.
There were very large number OF
witness examined, and in most caseS
the services of an interpreter were rel
quired. The witnesses were mainly,
from the humber walks of life and OF
limited education or intelligence, 80
that. both examination and cross-ex-
animation were a very slow process.
Aside from this case there was moth
ing doing in any of the courts, except
that Judge Lindsay, who is presiding
Judge in Chambers, heard one or two
formal motions.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-14
Total ............. lO3

To be sure, the Democrats claim not
to have abandoned hope of New York,
where the stake-thirty-nin electoral
votes-is so large that the taking of
long chances is justified, nor of Mary
land, nor possibly of New Jersey.
Maryland gave Mckinley majority
twice and probably would have given
Roosevelt a majority but for the ig-
noranee of thousands of voters who
thought that in marking the ballot for
the first name on the list of Republican
electors they were voting for all. But
Maryland is one of the most conserva.
tive States in the Union and does not
like Bryan. West Virginia has be.
come as sure Republican State as
Pennsylvania, having had great acces
sions of voters from Pennsylvania and
Ohio.
The elimination of those fourteen
sure Bryan States and of twelve more
almost as sure Taft States narrows tn,
field to "the disaffeeted West" whicl
has caught up the Roosevelt and LII
Toilette doctrines with very great en-
thusiasm, which causes the politicians
10 wonder whether it means also {
great focking to Bryan in November
With two or three minor exceptions
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-14
THE WEST THE
BATTLE-GROUND

WASHINGTON, d. c., June Is
There is much uncertainty about the
metes and bounds Of "the disaffected
West. - The term has sprung into cur
rent use since the Chicago convention.
The wise men in both political parties
would like to know more about its ex-
tent. The one who could define 1T ac-
curately and authoritatively, would
have more valuable knowledge about
the presidential campaign than all the
Republican and Democratic leaders to-
gether now have or are likely to have
for number of months.
As matter Of fact " the disaffected
Wes.,' comprises about all there is OF
real live interest in the presidential
campaign thus far. For the rank and
file of voters do not care much about
what has been determined upon. They
knew that Taft was to be nominated,
before the Chicago convention met
They know now that Bryan is to be
nominated at Denver. They know that
Bryan S chances are slim indeed in the
East, unless something happens between
now and November to overthrow all
calculations Where everything is as
certain as anything can be in politics,
men refuse to get very excited. They
content themselves with drifting along
and waiting for the verdict at the polls.
But s'the disaffected West" was a
discovery to the Republicans at Chi
cago, although President Roosevelt
seems to have had complete knowledge
of it and to have been planning the
Republican campaign accordingly. The
opposing Republican faction thought 1T
was wiser than he and blocked some
of the convention plans he had made
and now "the disaffected West" is
figuring in all the maps that the poll
tieians are making of territory where
the presidency must be won. ~,
1t is pretty generally understood that
each state has one vote for each of its
two United States Senators and one for
each of it's Representatives in the Ma
tional House. These votes make up the
electoral college, which chooses, once in
every four years, President and
Vice President. There are now 81 Sem
ators and 391 Representatives, and the
electoral college this year will comprise
4S3 votes. The winning ticket must
have at least 242 votes. This is the
largest electoral college the country
ever had, the state of Oklahoma, with
seven votes, having been admitted
since the last presidential election.
The National chairmen, at the very
outset, will eliminate about three-ffths
of those votes from their calculations.
Approximately l5S votes, or tritie
more than one-half of these three. .ffths,
will be conceded to Mr.. Bryan, the
prospective Democratic nominee. The
Democrats may not concede quite as
generously to their opponents, but the
fact remains that good judges will con
cede about 144 votes in the Eastern
section of the country as good as cast
for nominee Taft.
The Democratic strongholds are in
fourteen states as fnllnNS.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-14
COMMISSIONER SARGENT
SECRETARY sTRAUs.

Secretary Straus referred the matter
to Inspector of Immigration Brown for
a report, which was made. There were
conferences with the Chinese Ameri
cans themselves, and correspondence
with the department, and finally plan
was worked out for the issuance of
certificates which should be conclusive
as to citizenship anywhere in America.
The Secretary of Commerce and Labor
formulated regulation covering the
matter and giving year from March
l, 1908, in which applications for these
certificates could be made.
HANDSOME CERTIFICATES.
The certificates themselves have been
beautifully engraved at the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing in Washington.
They are about the size and shape of
a moderate sized bank check, and are
issued in triplicate. The face of the
certificate bears its number and date,
the name of the person to whom issued,
his age, residence, description, and
identifying marks. Each of the trip
licate series bears photograph of the
person to whom it is issued and the
seal of the department. The three
copies of the certificate are sealed, and
numbered by perforation, by one oper'
alton so that counterfeiting is prac'
tically impossible. On the back of
the certificate in fine engraving is sta
ted the purpose for which the certif
cate is issued. The certificate is giver
to the person for whom it is issued
the duplicate is fled at the immigran
station here; and the triplicate goes Il
the department at Washington.
The photographs are made at thu
expense of the United States, and th'
plates are the property of the Unite,
5 States and filed at the Immigran
Station.
Inspector Brown is having a larg
poster printed, setting out the fac
that these certificates will be ISSUED
and the dates at which he will be a
various places throughout the Territor
to receive applications and issue eertif
Gates, These posters will be sent a
over the Territory.
s BROWN IS TOUR OF HAWAII.
Inspector Brown will be accompanie
. on his tour of the Territory by r. v
it Perkins as official photographer, wi
o liam Kapulani as stenographer an
J. typewriter, James IL. Wood as eler
and Loo Joe as interpreter. The ey
p. denee he will require is such eviden,
n, as satisfies him that the applicant WI
Z born in Hawaii or was naturalized he
IA prior to annexation.
9, For Honolulu applicants Perkins h
to opened a place at Kekaulike and II
!, tel streets to take their photograph
n. Inspector Brown will receive apple
d; tions at the Immigration Station |
es ginning with July 10, next Thursday.
Il. H. THE POSTER.
n The poster which Inspector of Inn
e, grafton Brown is having issued, viii
"a sets out the subject fully, and gives t
an itinerary, is as follows:
d NoTICEi
Chinese persons and persons of Q
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-14
OUR DEMOCRATS
ON BIG ISLAND

Hilo Herald.-The Democratic leaders
from Honolulu visited Hilo and the
Volcano with the excursion of Elks,
on Saturday and Sunday, in the person
of Chairman Ed Ingham and Secretary
John Emmeluth, of the Democratic Ter
ritorial Committee; Senator Charles j,
Mccarthy, and former Senator L. L.
McCandless who will probably be the
leader on the Democratic ticket as the
party s candidate for Delegate to Con-
gress.
Before leaving Honolulu, the advis-
ability of holding little rally here had
been discussed but it was felt that the
Hilo people might think the party was
butting into the Fourth of July cele
bration, so the four statesmen visited
the races and the Volcano. They all
returned very strongly impressed with
the fact that Madame Pele's Is fire would
be magnificent place for wigwam
politics.
|
meluth, "the braves could sit by night
and hold counsel. Then, in the day.
time, they could take to the Mahogany
Lumber Company's woods, squatting on
the green sward with nothing to dis
turb them but the rustling of the koa
trees, abundance of material at hand
for the making of planks and plat
forms; free air for inspiration, freedom
from office seekers and reporters; at
night the fires of Pele on which to let
the days ideas and thoughts simmer
into such compact form as could be
served up warm to the voters, and to
the party's best advantage"
cit is a change in the land laws
that is most needed in Hawaii" said
Senator McCandless, "such change
as will put the public land into the
hands of the individual American citi,
zen forever, eliminating the dummy.
What we propose is that all public
lands conveyed either by way of lease
or freehold shall be subject to the con,
dition running with the land, that it
, shall be titled only by citizens or those
+ who have declared their intention of
becoming citizens. This will not in the
! slightest impair the usefulness of the
' land. 1t will simply eliminate its spec
l ulative value. There will lie no temp
4n4 Z L. I.
+ as he has acquired title to ALLEVIATE
: it for consolidation into large estates
to be titled by cheap labor to use
the language of President Roosevelt.
: "There will be no, temptation to The
o owner of large estates to secure it
through dummy, because he canno
till it by cheap labor. Or if the DUN
{ my is resorted to, or the homesteade
sells out, the lands must still inure t.
. the benefit of American citizens be
cause it can be titled by no other. b,
this means all the remaining publ
- lands viii be dedicated forever t.
American labor, and cannot be used TO
l. the exploitation of cheap alien labor.
i, "To this Territory it would mean tn
" establishment here and very quickly o
large American community of me
who themselves till the farms the
i own. It would be the means of az
at complishing what Judge Dole has o
more than one occasion said must b
accomplished or that European civilizi
er tion would be lost to these Island
namely, the anchoring here of Ame
at lean families occupying and tilling I'll
soil. -
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-14
Expert IsbeII Hears
Messages From Fleet

lFrOm saturday's AdvertIser.,

(FromS
o
transport signaling California
t
The Connecticut call the Nebraska 81
the Faralones them
a
navy yard
the having the usual voions
able