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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25
TAFT To VISIT PANAMA
Secretary Of War Will Sail for
Canal Zone on April 80.
CABINET DECIDES MATTER

Number Of Questions Between the
United States and Panama and Be.
tween Panama and Colombia In
Need of Attention.
Washington, April 25.-As the re-
suit of deliberations at the cabinet
session it was determined that Secre-
tary Taft should go to Panama. He
Will sail April 80 on the cruiser
Prairie. A detachment of marines
also will be sent on the Prairie.
A number of questions between the
United States and Panama and be-
tween Panama and Colombia will be
negotiated during the secretarys stay
on the isthmus. 1t is said to be neces-
sary that the concessions the United
States obtained from Panama provid-
ed for in a protocol should be embod-
led in a permanent treaty.
The secretary will be gone three
weeks, expecting to return to the
United States May 20. The Prairie
will sail from Charleston, S. c.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25
He had been i'll for a little over

He had been i'll for a little over a
week and on several occasions serious
symptoms of heart failure had mani
tested themselves.
For time in 1904 General Linevitch
was governor general of the Amur
territory, but later assumed command
of the Russian forces at Vladivostok
under Viceroy Alexieff.
General Linevitch was in the battle
of Mukden and a number of othe.
important engagements, in which he
was reported as displaying great
bravery.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25
British Rout Tribesmen.

Simla, April 25.-The commander
of the British force sent out from
Peshawur against the raiding Moh-
mand tribesmen has attacked the en-
emy. After sharp fight the British
troops dislodged the tribesmen from
their positions. The British casual
ties are given at sixty. The losses of
the Mohmands are not known.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25
Explosion Wrecks Six eulIdin as.

Eagle River, Wis.,. April 25.-Six
hundred pounds of dynamite In a
burning warehouse, 400 feet from the
business section of this city, exploded.
Six business buildings were wrecked
Fronts of other buildings were blown
In and all of the structures are partly
demolished. No one was killed In the
explosion. The damage Ia estimated
N $4,000.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25
URGES GREATER NAVY
Senator Piles of Washington In
Fear Of War With Japan.
LIABLE TO OCCUR ANY TIME
Declares Our Western Coast Is unpro-
tected and Says There Should Be a
Fleet Of 5attIeships on Both the
Atlantic and Pacific.

Washington. April 25.-The debate
ON the proposition of Senator Piles of
Washington to increase the number of
battleships authorized in the naval
appropriation bill from two to four
was opened by Senator Hale, who sub
mitted statement of the naval estab-
hshment already provided for, which.
be said, would permit a feet as large
as that now making its way UP the
Pacific coast and leave a larger feet
foF the Atlantic coast
Senator Piles based hts contention
In favor OF four battleships on the pos
sibiHties of war with Japan. Saying
chat the Japanese were irresistibly
drawn TO our shores by the advan-
tages secured here he said that con-
fliot between them and the Americans
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25

claring that facts sufficient to justify
the impeachment of Judge Wilfiey
have not been presented to the sub
committee, to which the charges were
referred.
The report of the subcommittee, al
ready made public, is not a complete
exoneration Of the accused Judge, but
establishes that his conduct was not,
within the constitutional limitations,
impeaChable.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25
Two Pennsylvania Banks Closed.

Oil City, Pa, April 25.-The Farm.
ers' National bank of Emlenton, Pa,
with capital Of $4,000. and the First
National bank of Clintonville, Pa,
with a capital of $4,000, both in We
mango courty, were closed by the
comptrollei of the currency. The
Clintonville institution Is said to be a
subsidiary of the Emlenton bank.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25
CONCERNING PAPER TRUST
House Committee Asks Newspaper
Men to Testify.

Washington, April 25.--A telegram
inviting testimony was sent to Her
man Ridder, president, and e. H. Ba-
ker, secretary, of the American News.
paper Publishers association, and Mel
vile e. Stone, general manager of the
Associated Press, by Chairman Mann
Of the select committee of the house
appointed by the speaker to investi-
gate charges that the high price of
printing paper Is due to a combina-
tion or conspiracy in restraint Of
trade, fostered and permitted by the
tariff.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25
Nonunion Men Assaulted.

Chicago, April 25.-Three nonunion
carpenters were fatally injured, it is
believed, and fourth was seriously
hurt as the result of a series of as
saults by five men in Gary and Tole-
ston, Ind. The injured workmen were
hacked with hatchets and beaten with
slungshots.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25
To check a cold ouickIv GET from your

To check cold quickly get from your
druggists come little Candy Cold Tablets
called Preventics. Druggists everywhere
are now dispensing Preventics, for they
are not only safe, but decidedly prompt
nine, no laxative, nothing harsh nor
sickening. Taken at the "sneeze stage"
Preventics will prevent Pneumonia.
Bronchitus, LaGrippe, hence the name
Preventics, geod for feverish children
48 Preventics, % cents. Trial boxes &c
Sold by Sohutz & Ketcham.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25
BY UNANIMOUS VOTE.
House Committee Decides Not to I'M
leach Judge Whitley.

Washington, April 25.-Impeach-
ment proceedings will not be insti-
tuted against LebbeHs r. Wilfey,
Judge of the United States court for
China, against whom charges of mis-.
conduct on the bench were brought
by Lorin s. Andrews and other Amer.
ican lawyers resident In Shanghai
The house Judiciary committee, by
unanimous vote, adopted report de-
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25
NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED
Tornado Causes Great Damage In
Louisiana.

Natchez, Miss, April 25.-Five per
sons were killed and several injured
In a tornado which swept over Vida.
liza, La. The injured have been
brought to the Natchez hospital.
Mrs. Devereaux Shields of Matches
is reported killed by a storm in Con.
cordia parish, La, and Harry Lam.
bind fatally injured. Considerable
damage was done at Pine Ridge, eight
miles northeast of Natchez. Many ne.
groes were injured.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25
GENERAL LINEvITCH DEAD
Fought in Many Engagements of the
Russo-Japanese War,

st. Petersburg, April 25.-Lieuten-
ant General Linevitch, aged sixty
eight, aide-de-camp to Emperor Mich
olas and commander of the First Man.
churia- army, is dead from pneumonia
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25

ManZan Pile Remedy, Price SOC, is
guaranteed. Put up ready to use. One
application prompt relief to any form OF
Piles. Soothes and heals. Sold by
Schultz a. Ketcham
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25

Trial Catarrh treatment are being mail
ed out free, on request, by DR.. Shoop
Racine, Wis. These tests are proving
to the people without a penny's cost
the great value of this scientific prescrip
tion known to druggists everywhere as
DR.. Shops Catarrh Remedy. Sold by
Schultz & Ketcham
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25

Here comes the spring winds to chap
tan and freckle, Use Pinesalye Carbol-
lied, (scts like poultice) for cuts, sores.
burns, chapped lips, hands and face.
It eoothes and::heAls. Sold by Schnts 4
Ketcham.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25

30 Days Trial $l.O0 is the offer on
Pineules. Relieve back ache, Weak back
Lame back, Rhuematic pains. Best on
sale for Kidneys, Bladder and Blood.
Good for young and old. Satisfaation
guaranteed or money refunded. Sold by
Schultz & Ketcham
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25

Mr.. John Riha, of Vining, Ia, says, %.
have been selling DeWitt's Kidney ans
Bladder Pills for about year and the,
give better satisfaction than any pill
ever sold. There are dozen people herr
who have used them and they give per
feet satisfaction in every case. / hav,
used them myself with fine results.
Sold by Holiday & Porter
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-04-25
How Cough Germs Multiply

When YOU haAe cold the mucous
membrane is infiamed and the disease
germs which you breathe find lodge.
ment and multiply, especially the pneu-
monia germ. Foley Honey and Tar
soothes and heals the infamed air pas
sage, stops the cough and expels the
cold from your system Refuse sutstit
utes. Holiday & Porter
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-05
CLINTON MAN GETS
STOLEN NECKLACE
JeweIry Worth $4,000 Taken at Mem
phis Last February Recovered
at New York.

New York, Dec. 5.-A chance re-
mark to Policeman McCafferty of this
city by the son of one of his friends,
that he knew a man &ho had fine
necklace for sale, led to the recovery
yesterday by Garrett E. Lamb of Clin-
ton. Iowa, of a pearl necklace said to
be worth $4,000, which had been lost
since last February.
McCafferty called to see the neck
lace and seized it. He was told by the
man who had it that a Los Angeles,
Cal, pawnbroker had sent it to him
for disposal here. After diligent in
qufry by the New York police, cir
cular was obtained offering $4,000 for
the return of Just such pearl neck
lace as the one seized here.
Then followed the visit of Lamb to
New York and the Identification OF
| the necklace. Lamb said he was a
guest at the home of Frank G. Jones
| in Memphis, Tenn, last February, when
burglars entered the house and got
away with $25000 worth of jewelry
of which the necklace was part.
The price asked for the necklace by
the man holding it here was $4,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-05
REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS
CUT HUGHES OFF THE LIST

against a surplus for the preceding
year of $S4,236.5S6, and points out that
the total revenues for 1908 exceeded
any preceding fiscal year except 1907.
Treasurer Treat points out that thus
it is apparent that the trouble is not
in decreasing receipts but in increas-
ing expenditures, which situation the
treasury was able to meet with the
excess of revenues which had accum-
ulated during the previous years.
"The steady flow Of gold into the
treasury" the report says, continues
to excite an absorbing study of the
resources of country SO favored in
the distribution of precious metal
The amount of gold coin actually used
in the channels of trade is less than
one-half of the general stock of gold
coin in the country, owing to the in.
,creasing popularity of the gold Ger.
tificates, which are the representa-.
tives of gold coin deposited in the
treasury under provisions of the law.
"The general stock of money in the
country at the close of the last fiscal
year was $3,37S, $4,000, an increase OF
S263, ,203,013, as compared with that OF
"a year ago. The money in circulation
for the last IL years has steadily in
creased; the growth per capita ad
vanced from $22S7 in 1897 to $347
in 1908"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-05
Find Way to Avoid PIac-
ing Themselves Under
Obligations.
TAFT AND ROOT IN PLAN
Make Tim Woodruff Clearing
House for Making Of Ap-
pointments.

New York, Dec. 5.-An important
conference OF state republican leaders
was held quietly yesterday. This
statement was issued at its conclusion:
"The conference was for the purpose
of cementing the harmonious relations
which existed between Taft, Root, who
is to be elected United States senator,
and State Chairman Woodruff, who is
10 remain chairman for the next two
years.
Woodruff as Clearing House.
Under no circumstances will Wood
ruff accept any appointment He is to
remain the head of the state committee
and state officers elect and their rep
resentatives have come to an agree
ment that Woodruff is to be a clearing
house man through whom all appoint
ments are TO be made, to the state de-
partments of comptroller. secretary OF
state, state treasurer, attorney general,
state engineer and surveyor.
Ask Nothing of Governor.
Those present at the conference to-
| day are to make no requests of Gov
| ernor Hughes for appointments" 1t
was emphatically asserted the confer
ence discussed no opposition measures
to Hughes and the continuance of his
policies in the state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-05
LYCEUM ELECTION
Augustana Organization Holds Annual
Meeting, Naming C. O. Beng
st0n President.
OBSERVER STAFF IS CHOSEN
E. E. Ryden is Made Editor-in-Chief,
and Anton Rerzelius is Selected as
Manager.

The Augustana college lyceum held
its annual business meeting this morn
ing at the college Besides passing
on a number of important business
matters, the lyceum elected officers
for the ensuing year and also the com
plete editorial staff for the Augustana
Observer, the college monthly organ.
The officers elected are as follows:
President-C. o. Bengston.
Vice President-Gustav Carlberg.
Secretary-Roy Thelander.
Corresponding Secretary-Carl Norr-
bom
STAFF of the Observer.
was elected as follows:
Editor-in- -Chief-E. E. Ryden.
College-H. w. Strandberg.
Social-Carl Norrbom.
Athletics-A. w. Bloom.
EXchang ngeLEleanor Scott.
Seminary-Carl Lorimer.
Conservatory-Mar Bersell.
Business-Carl Seagren.
Alumni-Einar Joranson.
Manager-Anton Berzelius.
Board of Directors, for three years
Arnold Johnson and Carl Lorimer
Propose New Plan.
The lyceum elected a committee fol-
the purpose of looking into a plan fol
consolidating all the entertainments
given at the college during the yeal
under the managership of the lyceum
If such a plan is carried through, sea
son tickets will be sold which will ad
nit the purchaser to all attractions
given under the auspices of the ly
ceup and by the college during thC
| entire year
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-05
A BIC RESPONSE
Being Met With by Solicitors for Beth.
any Home Rummage Sale
Next Week.
TRY TO VISIT ALL HOMES
Annual Charity Bazar- to Take Place
At Armory Hall Beginning Next
Tuesday.

The ninth annual Bethany home
rummage sale, to be held at the Ar
mory, beginning Thursday, Dec 10. at
2 p. M, and continuing every after
noon and evening during the week,
except Friday evening, promises to be
the biggest affair of the kind ever held
in the city.
Solicitors of rummage are now can
vassing the entire city for donations
of all kinds and every imaginable
kind of article is being given The
solicitations are meeting with gener.
Gus response and considerable sum
for Bethany home, where it is appro-
priated to the care and comfort of
helplessly dependent and neglected
children, is sure to result from the
SALE
Call at All Homes.
The solicitors, as far as possible, will
call at every place to remind the peo-
pie to look ever their accumulations of
dispensable articles and leave them in
readiness for the wagons that will be-
gin gathering them next Tuesday, But
if anyone should be inadvertently over.
looked they may respond just the same
by telephoning Bethany home, old
phone No. Ss9-K or new phone or G.
c. Wenger's law Office, old phone No
IL, and the donation will be called for
| 1t Is important that the donations be
in readiness and convenient for the
gathering, as it will greatly lessen the
expense which is at best considerable
Parties obliged to be absent from
home during the time should tag theil
donation "Rummage" and place 4
where the wagon driver can readil!
find it, as a second call may be Inn
possible.
/ Anyone preferring to deliver thei
donation may do SO by leaving 1t a
ArAory hail on Tuesday and Wednes
lday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-05
''CANNON OR ANTl-CANN0N" IS ISSUE At WASHINGTON

of the four Georges" at the worst per-
iod of English parliamentary history,
when forms were highly technical and
the officials who made the rules were
careful to keep them secret.
AS a result, declared Nelson's res
olution, the present procedure is SO
complicated, arbitrary and cumbersome
that most of the business Of the house
has to be transacted under unanimous
consent, suspension of the rules, or
through riders on appropriation bills
"a procedude so bewildering that few
of the members of the house itself,
much less outsiders, have any knowl-
Ledge of the rules"
Improved in England.
| That England has improved it's par
liamentary practice is asserted by Mr..
Nelson Since 1882 Is committees
have revised and reformed the rules,
SO that at this time only 8 of the SO
standing orders which regulate the
business of the house. of commons are
relics of the period prior to 1882.
Constrasted with this is the state
ment that since 1880 but two efforts
Ihave been made in America to simpli-
lfy and better the rules of the house
Both were handicapped by the mem
lbership of the speaker on the commit
tee on rules, who, it is charged, in
both cases sought to further strength
len his hold on the house.
i Some fiery anti-Cannon speeches
|, and urgent pleas for a change ol
rules may be expected. But it is
doubtful if any member will hammel
i"Uncle Joe' with more ferocity O
|speech than did Representative Dor
, |sey w. Shackleford of Missouri, who
, on the floor of the house. told tn,
| speaker of the representation the pee
: pie were not receiving.
l introduced at Every Session.
"At the beginning of the 5Sth cor
} gress,' Numbered Shackleford, 81 in
n troduced a bill here providing for tn
|, abolition of the duty on wood pulp an
printing paper.
Some others introduced the sam
It bill. have introduced it in ever
= congress from that day to this. Wher
e lis it? 1t is down in a pigeon hole
d the ways and means committee room
e lpresided over by the .genii that hav
II been selected by .his autocrat 9TH
h speaker) to see that all who, ents
n there leave hope behind. daughter
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-05
ADMIRAL EVANS PROFITS BY DEWEYS
EXPERIENCE; WILL ACCEPT NO HOUSE

Los Angeles, CAL, Dec. 5.-Rear Ad-
miral Bob Evans, retired. will not al
low the people of Los Angeles to give
him a house or anything else.
The directors of the Los Angeles
Harbor company announced some time
ago that they had elected him chair
man of the board. Then some admir-.
ers quietly started a movement to pre-
lsent him with a residence in Los An
lgeles.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-05

A Los Angeles friend, doubtful OF the
view he would take Of the proposed
gift, wrote. him. In characteristic
reply Evans says:
"of course, the people Of Los An.
geles who know me will understand
do not want to be placed in the POSI-
ton of accepting house, and those
who do not know me would better be
told would not accept a house or any
other present"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-05
BY TAV,

Especial Correspondence of The Argus.)
Washington, Dec. 3.-Cannon or
anti-Cannon?
Down here in Washington it is Gus
tomary when politicians meet for one
to inquire of the other what side of
the fence he is on relative to Uncle
joe"
Shall we continue with Uncle Joe"
as speaker? That's the momentous
issue, and it's as much of an issue
with republicans as democrats.
A popular topic for conversation be-
tween congressman is: Are you in
favor of transferring the appointment
of committees from the speaker to the
house, and changing the rules to di-
minish the power of the speaker and
make one-man power impossible?
The speakers success in preventing
President Roosevelt, republicans, DEM
ocrats, the general public and all 9TH
er individuals and sets of individuals
| from securing needed legislation, and
| that, too, legislation urged by his own
party, gave the country lesson that
will probably be taken advantage of
ItUncle Joe" proved to the satisfaction
of both parties the present rules make
| it possible for a speaker, republican
or democrat, to use his power to the
detriment of the nation.
| Pet Rules in Peril.
The rules that make it possible fol
a speaker to block any legislation he
may desire are right now in the grav
est peril.
Representative Nelson of Wiscon
sin introduced in the last session a res
Iolution which, if adopted, would hav,
resulted in a thorough revision of tn,
code of parliamentary procedure ant
enabled member of the house to IN
sist on action by. the entire body ol
measures introduced by him.
Nothing was ever heard Of Nelson
resolution, because the committee o.
rules, of which Cannon was chairman
Ipigeon-holed it. This resolution ma
see light this winter, however.
The resolution revealed an almos
: Unbelievable state of affairs. which RI
t fleet equally on both parties and som
: of the Old statesmen that have passe
) on. The resolution declared that tn
] parliamentary system of the lowe
e house was adopted from the Englis
.house of commons during the "reig
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-05
Program. Given Out.
MANY ENGLISH
IN WANT WITH
100000 IDLE

washington, Dec. 5.-Over seven
million human beings in Great Britain
are enduring hardsh;ps Sd want
through unemployment and the Cen
eral Federation of Trades Unions has
advised all union men to refuse to
work overtime, reports Consul General
Wvnn of London. The federation
points out that for every skilled worl
man out of employment two unskilled
men are workless.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-05

This man tells us that majority
here (of this house) cannot pass a
measure which he disapproves with
This one man is stronger than two
thirds majority of the house.
"Mr Busby (the speakers confiden-
tial secretary tells us of bill sup
ported by three-fourths of the mem
bers of the house which never got off
the speakers table and died with the
session.
What morgue is that speakers
table! | call upon the American peo-
pie to come up to that morgue and
view their dead (Applause).
"The speaker has overthrown the
it's throne an autocracy more absolute
in its despotism than exists in any
monarchy in Europe.
The Case of Missouri.
1--WE have injunctions in the state
of Missouri We pass law to regu
late freight and passenger rates
Where is that law? For two years II
has been held up by injunctions ISSUED
by federal judge who came from VI
in Iowa.
"One man from another state come!
Into our state and in one swoop re
strains every officer of our state from
reinforcing a law that has been delib
lerately worked out by their peopl
and representatives.
This house is ready to limit tn
'tyrannical power of the courts. Civ
us a chance to do it. Mr.. Chairman
if it be done. the responsibility vii
: not be upon your shoulders. The re
> sponsibility will be upon the shoulder
of us, who come here as the repre-
sentatiyes of a free people.
Give the. farmers, the laboring pet
pie, who are oppressed by these in
: provident injunctions, some relief.
: 1--WE can pass that law in 80 mil
e utes, Mr.. Chairman, but it can't b
done because you, Mr.. Chairman, bloc
the way. We and the people al
e blocked, securely blocked, by your on
y man power that rules here.
e 'The trusts, the special. interest
n are shielded behind that marble des
/, in front of the speakers chair.
e mo man will rise in his place
e this house and say what have ,
II ltered is untrue"
} No one arose.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-05
FIND DEFICIT is BIG ONE
Treasurer Treats Report Shows Bal
ance on the Wrong Side.

Washington, Dec. 5. - Charles H.
Treat, treasurer of the United States,
in his annual report calls attention to
the fact that owing to the disturbed
relations between the income and
outgo of the government there was a
deficiency last year of $5S,070,201, as