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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-17
MOLINE


Lock Ready Thursday Thursday
the lock will be opened to traffic.
Such is the information cleaned from
the United States engineers office in
Rock Island 1t is announced that the
electrical motors are being installed
and that work will be completed by
Thursday. Last fall the machinery
had been found to work perfectly, the
motors were removed during the win
ter, for they would absorb a certain
amount of moisture which would dam
age them. Now they are being install
ed again and the officer in charge of
the lock thought the machinery could
be operated about Thursday.
Much Whooping Cougn.-There are
considerably more than 200 cases OF
whooping cough in the city at the
present time Every section of the
city is affected and great precautiOn is
being exercised in homes where there
are children who have not already con
tracted the cOntagion. The exact mum
Der of cases cannot be told, as physi
clans do not make report to the health
department, as is required in cases Of
scarlet fever, diphtheria and Other
contagious diseases. There is also
much chickenpoX, though not as mucf
as there is of whoOping cough. The
health report for the week shows Du
two other forms of contagious disease
one case of diphtheria and two case:
| of scarlet fever.
Yelled "Shoot Police" Arrested
Shoot the police" hooted a mob @
street loafers at the corner of Seventh
street and Eighteenth avenue Satur
rived about o'clock to transfer two
men under arrest for disorderly con
duct to the police station. Victor Car
rette and August Van Durm are thu
pair who were under arrest. The!
had been fighting. When the mob be
gan to boot, Officer Peter Vershav
jumped from the wagon and rushed a
them. The gang stampeded and tn,
officer, singing out one man who hat
been particularly loud in his cries o
shoot the police" started in pursuit
He caught the man and loaded him il
the patrol wagon with the others.
| 81
Start on Storm Drain Yesterda,
morning the Mccarthy improvement
company started work on the storm
Trains on Thirteenth and FOurteentI
streets preparatory to paving. Foul
teenth street will be paved with brio
from Fifth avenue to Seventh avenu
land Sixth avenue from Twelfth t
Fifteenth streets. Material for pawn
on Fourteenth has already been place
lalOng the street, ready for use.
Obituary Record.-Mrs. ]. w. Goo
has received word of the death Satul
day night of her uncle. Oliver Gunnel
lat his home in Osceola, Neb. Mr. Gun
nell will be remembered by early res
Idents of Moline as he came TO thi
lefty with his wife in the early so
and resided here until 1878, whel
he moved with his family to Nebrask;
He was born in 1926 and was 80 year
lOf age.
Mrs. Maria Christina Bergston, wifi
OF Charles BergstOn, was buried SUI
day afternoon. Funeral services wer
held at the Free Swedish Evangelics
church with mterment in Riversid
cemetery. Maria Christina Olson wa
born May Z, 1859. in Eastern Salerup
Socken Ian, Sweden She arrived
Moline in 1877 and was married t
Mr. Bergston March %, 1879. Sh
died March II in Betania hospita
Omaha. Neb., whittier she had jon
neyed in last vain effort to seek
remedy fer a serious ailment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-17
Act Quickly.
Delay Has Been Dangerous in Rock
Island.

Island.
Do the right thing at the right
time.
Act quickly in times of danger.
Backache is kidney danger.
Doan's Kidney Pills act quickly.
Cure all distressing, dangerous kid
ney ills.
Plenty of evidence to prove this.
Charles Greves of 1922 Third ave
nue., Moline, ILL.,, says: Doan's Kidney
Pills have been in my family on sew
eral occasions. Ny wife suffered some
time with severe backaches caused by
disordered condition of the kidneys
and have been troubled in the same
way, the pains across my loins at
times being almost unbearable. Since
learning of Doan's Kidney Pills, how
ever, these backaches and kidney dis
arrangements are a thing of the past
| made a statement some years ago
recommending Doan's Kidney Pills
and | repeat that DOan's Kidney Pills
are all that they are represented to be
and sure cure and safe cure for kid
ney disease"
Plenty more proof like this from
| Rock Island people. Call at Harper
House pharmacy and ask what Gus
toners report.
| For sale by all dealers. Price. 81
cents. Foster-Milbun company, But
falo, New York, sole agents for tn
| United States.
| Remember the name-Doan's-a
| take no other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-17

ton of the ordinance as read.
Adopted by unanimous vote.
Alderman Smith submitted an ord
nance for the employment of an cleo
trician on the fire department, and
moved its immediate consideration
Carried.
Alderman Smith moved the adoption
of the ordinance as read. Adopted by
unanimous vote.
Alderman McNealy moved that Aid
erman Ogden of Davenport be heard.
Carried.
Alderman Ogden of Davenport then
addressed the council
Adjourned on motion of Alderman
Utke. NJ. r. RUDGREN,
City Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-17
DAVENPORT

Teachers Are Angry.-The Daven-
port school teachers very seldom get
mad or even indignant, but when they
do, they have a way of expressing
themselves which leaves no doubt as
TO their position on the subject which
has caused the provocation. Just now
it is the county institute that is wor
rying their minds This has been
called by Superintendent Wells to be
held March 10 to March q, inclusive.
and consumes every day of next
weeks spring vacation and three
days of this week The teachers APP
pear not to be unreasonable in their
protest. inasmuch as they express
themselves as perfectly satisfied with
a short institute but they are almost
to unit opposed to an eight day SEES
sion of study.
Waterman Is Arrested.-Hans J.
Ehlert, residing on West Ninth street,
Waterman at night i'm the down town
district, and a young girl who gives
the name Nellie Cory. were arrested
Sunday night in the Boston store, and
are down on the police books charged
with larceny. The police state that
things have been missed from the
store and that Sunday evening one OF
the Boston store firm took his position
in the vicinity of the store and kept
watch during the night. The police
say that a girl went to one of the
doors of the store at one time during
the evening and the door was locked
She returned later and the police
were notified and Night Captain
Phelan, Detective Brehmer and Officer
Randolph fastened 10 the store and
arrested Waterman Ehlert and the
girl. They were booked on the charge
of larceny. Immediately the officers
made a search at the girls room on
Third and Perry streets and found q
lady's suit. a silk skirt, a lace waist
and several expensive articles which
We're taken to the station. Waterman
Ehlert told the police the entire story
He has been released on bonds OF
$3.50 and the girl is being held. while
an investigation is being made.
Have Confessed BurgIar.-By fol
lowing clues which were available and
tracing details which threw suspicion
on the man, the police department
Sunday arrested John Schneider. ac
cused of having robbed Carl Buenga'5
grocery store i'm Northwest Davenport
of $240. and when taken to the sta
ton and locked up the police say the
man confessed that he committed tho
deed He states that he had a key
which fit the lock and that he wenr
into the store the latter part of Feb
Tuary. The police have been working
on the case for some time and Sunda!
Detective Hans Schramm went t
Schnelier's home and placed hin
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-17
Municipal Matters

City Council Room, Rock Island, Ill,
March 1G. 190S-The council met in
regular session at S:45 p. m, Mayor
Schaffer presiding and all the alder
men present.
The minutes of the last regular ses-
sion were read and approved.
Alderman Anderson from the finance
committee submitted an ordinance
which was considered and adopted by
unanimous vote, allowing the labor
pay roll for week ending March II, as
follows.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-17

DeWitt's Little Early Risers. small,
safe, sure little liver pills. Sold by all
druggists.
Free press., 1908-03-07

Again it has been shown that we are
losing population by not having houses
in our town to rent, two families going
elsewhere because they could not Sc
cure satisfactory little homes. Last
week two ladies came here from New
Mexico, expecting to start small
home for Normal roomers, having heard
of our Normal school here, but they
could not find house and left for the
east on Monday. Mrs. Scott and fam
lily moved to Ellsworth because they
could not find a small cottage for a
home. We ought to have twenty more
SIS to $40 a-month-rent-cottages built
here this Spring.
Free press., 1908-03-07

The "Club Member" published a
Topeka, has this neat notice of our
city:
'Schools are the pride of Kansas
Hays City is especially proud in having
a branch of the State Normal and an
Experiment Station of the Agricultural
College located on the abandoned Fort
Hays Military Reservation Containing
1900 acres), ceded by the general gov
ernment to the state of Kansas. The
government records show this to have
been the healthiest army post in the
u. s." This is printed in red letters
on the checks issued by The Citizens
State Bank of Hays City. How is
that for home loyalty? And all they
say about the healthfulness of that
country is true. cit is the Great
Health Belt" said ore traveller long
ago. Some day we predict that the
u. S. government will put out there a
great sanitarium for the people who
lost their health in its service, Way
down East.
Free press., 1908-03-07
Side Remarks.

Great men have large brains, but it
does not necessarily follow that they
should have the big head.
The worst fate l could wish for my
enemy is that he be made TO lie awake
just one night and listen to himself
snore.
The trouble with good many men
is that they are standing around in
viting temptation to come and do it's
worst
There must be a family of cannibals
out in Iowa. At any rate, I read in
q Hawkeye exchange that "Mr. and
Mrs. Dove had a scrumptious dinner
Sunday including Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond, OF Howard"
The turkey that escaped Thanksgiv-
ing has two more Rubicons to cross
before he can rejoice the second day
Of January. The wise turk will regu-
lato his meals accordingly.
When 1 moved into my new house
few days ago, found that 1 had
been preceded by tenant who had
taken up his abode in the basement,
For the first few nights 1 heard
strange noises and after circu nnayi-
eating the various halls and stairways
in my robe de-nuit in the middle of
the night, discovered that the afore-
said tenant was a chipmunk. Mr..
Munk had installed himself in a big
pile of kindling wood and was help
ing himself to the store of nuts /
gathered off the place last winter. I
had a heart-to-heart talk with him and
we are very good friends at this writ
Eng. He takes the nuts that I leave
away in his stomach or his nest and
risks about as thankfully as he knows
how. II the nuts hold out and he is
not forced to eat nut coal before
spring, he will undoubtedly come
through the winter in fine form.
The funniest thing about a little
man is that he usually has a big wife.
Some men could lose their mind
without any noticeable disturbance in
their ballast
When is policeman a laundryman?
When he collars and cuffs an offender.
Thompson, the poet, is said TO have
written his beautiful poem, Sunrise"
at 10 o'clock in the morning while he
was pill III OSO IL IudhSS q nldn
think beautiful thoughts to be allowed
to sleep until that time in the morn
ing.
The word jugger now and then
drops one. That is what, in literature,
is known as making q slip.
Many man is keeping a $40O lock
Of hair in his writing desk as his sole
remnant of young and beautiful girl
who cost him that amount and then
went away and married another man
and usually, he is glad of It, Time
changes all things, even our loves.
Johnny was asked to tell the names
of the meals OF day. He replied:
Supper, dinner. breakfast and oat-
meal!"
Free press., 1908-03-07
She Didn't Care"

SHc OloU SGTC'
recall when Arthur whitson cum
proselytin' round
With grip-sack full O neckties and
Good Book, leather bound
Cum t lead tn young folks meetin' and
t sell sum bonds and stock
Thet Nuz safe Gibyraltar, cr a New
York City bloclli
He wuz dapper as a preacher and as neat
any cat
In his Synday-go-t' -t'-meetin's AN his shiny
stove-pipe hat.
Next ding 1 remember, he wuz cuttin'
quite dash
Seemed / l., sum weak on preachin'. but
u screamer on tn mash.
II WAS whispered that. sub rosy, he wuz
scr5e9 shy OF means
Bout tn time he met May Higgins who
VIZ. s;cassiey in her teens.
Say! Th' Jedge lie stormed and threat
ened, cussin' mp tn hmpid air,
But Miss May wuZ Kinda heady an she
swore she didn't care!
And l.er raa she wept and pleaded, but it
want no earthly use
When a gal is bent on lovin' she kin play
tn very deuce
In week they'd skipped T. Cleveland
an tn Jedge broke down an cried
While her ma TUX sick with grievin', an
s:st Yesterday she died!
They he'd hardly left tn village fore a
wire cum siftin' in
To arrest an hold Art. Whitson on
charge er forgeTan,
He'd a wife and sev'ral children back in
Kansas. SO they say
Thex's Il sad and wecpin' woman up t
Higginses t'day!
Shes cum home I tend tn funeral an t
kiss tn cold. cold lips
or tn womern who IS layin with tn
folded finger tips
Folks thet's her says she's difrunt,
thet they's silver III tn hair
or tn gal whose heart is broken gist be-
Gus she didn't care.'
Which reminds ME that tn devil allus
likes = meet a miss
Who is sorter free and easy an not over
hard T. kiss
He Is kinda hanGin' waitin' at tn en-
trance to his lafr
Fer a pretty gal who's wilful and who
sez "she doesn't c;4rei"
She's tn flame that feeds tn passions Of
tn pyre of humsn woe
In tn pit of black perdit3on, in Inferno
down below!
Free press., 1908-03-07

That the reputation of our Western
Kansas State Normal School is growing
all over the western half of the state,
is shown by an article in the Roising-
ton Dispatch last week: Hays City
is located AT the Western State Nor
NAL School. " Thanks, for our city and
the state are trying to build up state
institution that the whole of western
Kansas can be proud of.
Free press., 1908-03-07

When a man gives in his property
this year he will have to raise his
hand and solemnly swear before God
that he has given in all the property
he owns including money, notes, mort
cages, etc. 1t is going to be pretty
square test as to which has the strong
est pull on man, his love of truth and
honor as a man, or his desire to sneak
out of his fair share of taxation. =
Marquette Tribune.
Free press., 1908-03-07

Sometime ago the monthly magazine
devoted to the ''women's interests, "
''The Club Member" was taken hold
of by Mrs. Judge Monroe, and she is
now making it very interesting pa
per, the March number being especial
ly so, and has in number of articles
referring to the western half of the
state, Mrs. Jessie F. Taylor. formerly
of this city, contributed an interesting
article on Trego county.
Free press., 1908-03-07
The following dispatch appears in the
papers


papers:
Hoisington, Kansas, Feb. 23.-Four
hundred pupils formed in line and mar
ched out without injury while the high
school building was burning here Thurs
day. The children were well trained in
fire drills and in three minutes after
the alarm was given the building was
empty. The building was almost COM
pletely destroyed. 1t cost SIS, 200 and
the insurance is about $12,0O The
volunteer fire department fought the
flames"
This is a thing our public school
should systematic. Should fire oc-
cur in the basement under the only
stairway, there is no mode of escape
for the pupils on the second floor.
Free press., 1908-03-07

1t pays to advertise whether it be
small want ad of a house to rent or
a large display calling attention to a
new shipment of goods or a special
sale. Ask for FREE PRESS rate
Free press., 1908-03-07
Editorial Gossip
; EsOoso0sOOo0sSOsOOOsosS0

Take time to be polite. A gentle
II thank you," eff you plea Sc" "Ex-
cuse me-" etc, even to the inferior, is
no compromise of dignity.
Take time to be pleasant. A bright
smile or a pleasant word falls like a
sunbeam upon the hearts of those
around us.
Free press., 1908-03-07

CITY RESIDENCES best of
rates for town property. Frank Motz,
Agent for the Home, Niagara, Citizens
and Norwich Union Fire Insurance
Companies. 16-4t
Free press., 1908-03-07

Remember! IIARKNEss is agent for
Eastman's kodaks and kodak supplies.
Plates, Films, Papers, Post Cards,
Mounts, Developers and Sundries.
Eastman's goods are the standard.
You will make no mistake in using
them. lift
Free press., 1908-03-07
Ladies attention!

Tailor made garments to your meas
ure. Also: nice line of dress goods
samples. If you are think ing of send
ing for samples, see my line. Phone SO.
MRS. LAURA E. STOUT, Hays, Kansas.
17-2t
Free press., 1908-03-07
Custom Made Shoes.

We are prepared to fit you perfectly
with a good-wearing pair of shoes.
Come and see our samples. Prices right.
16-tf Gassman's Shoe Shop.
Free press., 1908-03-07

Miss Kathryn Funnell, teacher OF
Voice Culture, Italian method. Call ur
phone 181 16-3tS
Free press., 1908-03-07

We want every item of local inter
est we can get. Our telephone num-
Der is L. If you have any item of in
terest, call us up.
Free press., 1908-03-07

WANTED AT ONCE Good clean old
rags at this office must be lint-less.
Will pay &c Id. for limited quantity
Free press., 1908-03-07

Try the game of Shakespeare" at
your next party. For sale at J. II.
Spratt's Book Store. 15-4tx
Free press., 1908-03-07
WANT ADS. p.s ssi l...
Farm 20 Trade.

160 or 800 acres of improved land
near Winona in Logan County, Kansas,
to trade for 9 residence property in
Hays. See or address, 17-3t
HARRY FREEsE, Hays, Kan.
Free press., 1908-03-07

One of the best investments about
this time of the year is generous ad-
vertisement in the FREE PRESS.
Free press., 1908-03-07

/. M. Yost is getting in car OF
Texas red oats and car of seed bar
ey. Come in and get your seed. 12-tf
Free press., 1908-03-07

l would like the address of Charlie:
Sauer or any of his family, who for
merly lived here. HARRY FREESE.
Free press., 1908-03-07

When answering an advertisement
always be sure to mention this paper.
Free press., 1908-03-07
Wanted to Purchase

House with three to five acres of
land in or near Hays. Inquire at the
FREE PRESS office.
Free press., 1908-03-07
Feed for Sale.

Hay, Millet and Sorgum for sale.
See or phone HENRY BELEKE, phone 6O8.
13-8tz
Free press., 1908-03-07
Wants Some More pie

Gee, but the editor of The Silver
City (Ia.) Times is working q smooth
game out in his town. Read this from
his paper Of last week:
Wonder how many OF our women read
ers tried that pumpkin pie recipe we pub
hshed last week. Mrs. F. Perkins tried
IT and sent the editor a piece OF the pie
just to show how much his opinion
amounted to in-the culinary line The pie
was immense. honest, it was. Either the
recipe Is an extraordinary good one or
Mrs. Perkins is extraordinary rood
pie baksr-or maybe both. Hunt up last
weeks paper and cut out the pumpkin
PIE recipe on page four.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-27
STORM DEvAsTATEs THE SOUTH.
Rain and Wind Cause Much Damage
in Southern States.

New Orleans, La, March 25.-As a
result Of a heavy wind and rain storm
which has ragged in portions of LOuisi-
ana. Mississippi and Alabama during
the last twenty-four hours, much prop
erty has been destroyed, many per
o Il have been injured and at least
one person has been killed.
Hurricanes have bee reported
from East Feliciana parish, louisiana,
and Jefferson Davis county, Miss. a.,
while much damage was done in the
neighborhood of Flomaton, Ala, by
heavy rains. Washouts along the line
OF the Louisville & Nashville railroad
north Of Mobile have seriously inter
rupted traffic. All telegraph and tele-
phone wires in the sections visited by
the storm have been Frustrated, and
details regarding the damage done arc
in many instances lacking.
At Silver Creek, Miss, four stores
were partially destroyed and about
twenty other buildings were dam
aged. There was. however, no seri-
Gus damage in the vicinity Of this
city.
Wind storms Of cyclonic intensity
were reported in several parts of
Louisiana, being worse near the Mis-
sissippi river at Norwood. In East
Feliciana parish a man named Raw
Inns was reported killed during a wind
storm, which badly damaged the town
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-27
CHINESE WILD OVER BACkDoWN
Fifty Thousand Attend Indignation
Meetinq.

Canton, March 24.-The greatest in
dignation prevails here against the
government for yielding to the Japa-
nese demands in the Tatsu Maru case,
1t being considered that the govern
ment's action in this matter has
brought disgrace upon this province.
The Self-government society of Can
ton has organized several monster in
dignation meetings, at which resolu-
lions were adopted hat the anniver-
sary Of the release of the Tatsu Maru
be observed as a day of public mourn
ing. The resolutions also declared a
boycott against Japanese goods.
More than $4,000 persons attended
the mass meetings held yesterday;
buildings were draped In mourning
and twenty or more orators delivered
denunciatory speeches. A great num-
Der among those who had assembled
thereupon Invested themselves of Jap
anese-made garments. including caps
and handkerchiefs, and made a huge
bonfire of them. One dealer in Japa-
nese goods offered to sacrifice his en-
tire stock.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-27
Secretary Root Accepts Invita-
ton for BattIeship Fleet
to Visit Japan.
COUCHtD IN CORDIAL TERMS
Regarded as Demonstration of Good
Feeling Existing Between Two
Countries.

Washington. March 22.-The Amer
lean battleship feet is to visit Japan.
The desire of the emperor Of the isl
and kingdom to play host of the big
sixteen was laid before Secretary
Root Thursday by Baron Takahira,
the Japanese ambassador. The invi-
tatlon, which was cOuched in most
cordial terms, was made the subject
of extended consideration by Presi.
dent Roosevelt and his entire cabi-
net yesterday. Secretary Root was
directed to accept the invitation and
the acceptance was laid before the
Japanese ambassador late yesterday.
Next Bid From China.
1t is regarded in official circles here
as more than likely that China will
be next to bid for a look at the fleet,
and that should this be the case the
Invitation would be accepted.
Secretary Metcalf and Admiral
Pillsbury, chief of navigation, are ar
ranging the details of the new itinera,
ry. With the exception of China. it is
believed to have been determined that
all other invitations. should any be re
ceived, will be declined, for at best
the fleet will not now be able to reach
the Atlantic seaboard before the first
Of next March.
itinerary Of the Fleet.
The itinerary which seems to be
the most direct includes stops at the
Hawaiian islands, Samoa, Melbourne.
Sydney. Manila, Yokohama-should
that point be selected as the stopping
point in Japan-possibly a Chinese
port, back to the Philippines. and
then home by way Of the Suez canal,
with only such stops as are neces-
sary for coaling. e
The acceptance of the Japanese in
vitation is regarded in official circles
as Of considerable Importance in the
way of a demonstration of the cor
diality existing between the American
and Japanese governments. The add
ed trip is nearly equal in distance to
a voyage from New York to Europe.