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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
LODGE DIRECTORY.


Masonic.
TRIO LODGE. No. 81, A. F. & A M
4 Meets in stated communication
~ on the first Thursday of each
TX month. Special for work Thurs,
day, July %, at 1880 p. m. All
Masons are Implied. ]. w. Houder,
w. NJ; William B. Petit, secretary.
ROCK ISLAND COUNCIL, NO. 20, R. &
s. M-Meets in stated communication
on the third Wednesday of each
month. M. M. Briggs. T. I. NJ; L. c.
Daugherty, secretary.
ROCK ISLAND COMMANDRY NO. 49,
K. T.-Meets In stated conclave on
the second Monday of each month
II. A. j. Mcdonald. e. c.; X. c. Will
lerton, recorder.
MASONIC BOARD OF CONTROL - H
ID. Mack, president; +. T. Myers. Sec
Rotary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

CARNIVAL CITY PACKET COM
Helen Blair and Columbia for Musca-
tine, Burlington, Keokuk and inter-
mediate points every day at 4 p M,
except Saturday and Sunday. Every
Saturday and Sunday at p. m. for
Muscatine only. Every Saturday at IL
p. m. for Burlington and Keokuk.
c.. j. MANGAN, Agent
Old phone West 1SS: new phone 5152.
Dock foot of Nineteenth street, Rock
Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
OSTEOPATHY.

Q. L. DENNISTON, d. O.-Graduate OF
the American School of Osteopathy,
Kirksville, Mo. Office hours, 8 to IL
a. M and 1 TO and to p. m. Of
flee in Safety building, rooms 20S and
200. Consultation and examination
free. Office phones, new 1868, old 997.
Residence phone 728-Y.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

FOR SALE-Four-cylRde touring car.
with top and lamps. Address Owner,
care Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
FLORISTS.

HENRY GAETHJE - Proprietor Chip
piannock nursery. Cut flowers and
designs of all kinds. City store, 1907
Second avenue. Telephone lilo.
HENSLEY'S Floral store, Fourth ave-
nue. and Twentieth street; funeral de-
signs of all kinds, cut flowers. plants.
ETC.; graves lined. Greenhouses, en-
trance Chippiannock cemetery. Old
phone TEX. Residence sassy. New
phone b170
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
GRAN AND PROVISIONS.

n. ]. TOHER & CO.-Brokers, Daven-
port Stocks. grains, provisions, cot
/, ton. Private wire to New York and
Chicago. Offices, 100 Main street. Tel
ephone 407.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
REAL. ESTATE

REAL ESTATE
An s-room house, new, modern.
22d' street, hot water heat. $500
street, furnace and bath -. s2,sOO
street rooms ............. So 900
furnace. gas. water and sewer. .ss,iOo
a bargain ........ ............ $3.50
A fine lot on 18th avenue. east Of
An H slr p"rn house on sth avenue '''
near 2sth street ........,..... 81 800
i4o %. -. $500
barn. 60-foot lot ............ 81, coo
nice broom cottage on S2nd
street, well, cistern, cement side
NOON o,i e Cottage on goth street. '
cistern. Barn. large lot 81, $50
ON cottage on 18th avenue,
water, barn, rents at SIS
peat 5-room cottage on
hue, nearly new 81, $50
groom modern cottage in
with half acre of ground $4,000
al Groom house on 41st
barn -. ..............s So, 800
A fine 5-room house on 14th street.
terms .... $50. $1,000
An S-rOOm mouse on 0ISI street,
terms ..:..... $4,000
furnace, bath -. -. 80, 400
splendid condition, rent for $26
per mOntI, .. .. $4,000
A neat 5-room cottage on 18th
street thoroughly modern. splen-
did neighborhood -. .--..:: .S3,i0o
street, easy terms ............s $4,000
An S-room house on 32nd street
i1'y splendid condition 90 e........ 81, zoe
A modern Groom house on 9Th
avenue, hot water heat, cement
walks. and cellar. a bargain. Ss,oos
An modern S.lyJ,i "oe $4,000
Splendid new 7-room mouse on
9th avenue, all modern, easy
An elegant new Groom twO-stOry
bouse in good neighbOrhOOd, all
modern, hardwood floors Ss,8ot
The best 7-room house on 18TH
street, new, modern, splendidly
built .S4,ssos
six lots facing 18th avenue on
Long View car line; good D.
room house and Outbuildings,
fruit, well, cistern; a snap. $3,Soe
A modern 7-room house on 23rd
street, hot water heat. hardwood
A corner lot 1O0xI5O, with three
cottages bringing monthly rem
tai of S45; good condition, SPLEEN
did income proposition $',@o'
double house, modern, rooms
each side. well located. rents $40
I have applicants every day for goo sos.
property If your property IS SafaDie
5 list it here and get results.
Open Saturday evenings.
HARRY III. HluIbbard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
FIRE INSURANCE.
Charles e. Hodgsom
FIRE INSURANCE.
AGENCY.
ESTABLISHED 1874.

American Ins. Co. Newark, N. J.
Continental ms. Co. New York
Agricultural ms. Co. New York
Farmers ms. York. Pa.
Williamsburg Ins. Co. New York
New Hampshire Ins. Coz N. Hampshire
Northern ms. Co. ........N New York
Security Ins. Co. -. New Haven. Conn.
ms. Co.. State of Illinois. Rockford, III
uonnecticut Fire ms. Co. Connecticut
( Omce-172s Third avenue. Rates a.
low ~ consistent with security.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

FOR RENT-One of Roche's flats; eight
rooms with all modern conveniences.
Inquire of ]. w. Roche.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
LAUNDRIES.

HOME LAUNDRY - Family washings
only; work called for and delivered.
Miss A. Couch. proprietor; 1919
Twelfth street: old phone west 652-L.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
FOR RENT-ROOMs.

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms, all mod
ern. at PIT Fifteenth street, opposite
court house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
FOR SALE-LANDS.

FOR SALE-Good stock farm, 293 acres.
VIII take small farm in part pay
ment. Reidy Bros.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
REAL ESTAT
FOR SALE

$1,000 buys 4-room cottage.
$3.50 buys 7room cottage.
$1,000 each buys two 5-room cottages.
$3.50 buys 4-room cottage.
$500 buys 4-rOom cottage.
$4,000 will give choice of twelve Z
room properties.
$500 buys 8 acres and good house.
$4,000 buys Groom house and two
lots.
$1,000 to $4,000 choice of eight prop
critics on 14th street.
$1,700 buys Groom cottage on 14k
street.
$4,000 buys Groom cottage on 14h
street
$4,000 buys fine home on 18th street.
$4,000 buys fine home on goth street.
$4,000 buys fine home on Goth street.
street.
$4,000 buys one acre and 7-room house
on eth street.
$1,000 buys s-room house on 18th
IS cash and IS monthly buys fine lots.
$1,000 buys one OF the best building
lots In the city.
Fiscal agents for Queen Princess
Mining company of Colorado.
Fine farms in Wisconsin, Minnesota,
North and South Dakota, and Texas.
We loan money on real estate.
sLANKENsuRG & RLANKENBuRG.
BUILDING, LOANS, BROKERAGE,
AND INSURANCE.
Room 21O, Safety Building.
Office hours, 10 to IL a. m, 2 to
p. m. Both phones.
Open Saturday evenings.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

FOR RENT-Six- room modern house on
IWenty-ninth street Inquire at 1912
First avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

FOR SALE-One acre of land just out
side of city. Has fOur-roOm house,
large chicken house, well, cistern, and
bearing fruit of all kinds. The whole
acre fenced with chicken wire. Lo-
Gated at 1919 Twenty-siXth street, in
Campbell's addition. Inquire on prem
Uses
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

FOR RENT-Nine-room modern house
on Second avenue. with barn, $28.
Harry II. Hubbard
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

LOANS ON FURNITURE, pianos, horses.
wagons, etc; quickly, privately, at
the lowest rates. Mutual Loan COM
pany (uninc.), room All, Peoples Ma
tional bank building, new phone 5l09.
Phone old west 122.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
STEAMBOATS,.

FOR ST. PAUL and way points,
%, July 3, z, ~, 16, 81, Is, 80, Aug. 3,
s, IL, II, 81. %, 80, and Sept 4, 8, 13.
On the above dates a special rate of 81
to Clinton, Iowa, and return will be
made; going on steamers and returning
on the l. & /. railway.
FOR ST. LOUIS and way points,
steamers leave at 9:15 a. m, June %,
July 2, z, IL, Is. 20. 25, 90, Aug. 8, z,
IL, 16, 81, rs. &c. and Sept. 3, s, II, II.
GEORGE LAMONT, Agent.
Rock Island, Ill.
Once, lis Seventeenth street. Both
phones.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

WANTED = Pantry girl at the Harp
house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

WANTED-A few men on steamer w
W. Call at o'clock tonight at III
levee, foot of Nineteenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
LOST AND FOUND.

LOST-L-eft on ridge of Davenport foun-
tain in Long View park, Monday af-
ternoon, by "A child, one small gold
and one silver chain bracelet If found
please telephone 2l1S-Y, Davenport.
Liberal reward
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
wANTED-MALE HELP.

WANTED = Bell boys at the Harper
house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

MRS e. w. MILLER, Masseuse, 1906
Fifth avenue; electric vibrator and
vapor baths body and facial massage,
hair and scalp treatment, shampooing
and manicuring; spinal massage a
speciality. New phone 1858. Hours. 2
to ID. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
MASSAGE AND ELECTRoLYsIs.

MASSAGE given at the homes. Super
huouS hairs permanently removed
with electric needle. Treatment Civ
en- at homes unless otherwise desired.
? Address Miss A. NJ Kittridge, 1919
Perry street, Davenport, Iowa. Old
phone 1886.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
rRIIsr pEPARrMENr.

TRUST DEF Aftl HlEINI.
Estates and property of all kinds are
managed by this department, which ie
kept entirely separate from the bank
| ing business of the company. We act
as executor OF and trustees under
Wills. Administrator, Guardian. and
lConservator of Estates.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

FOR SALE-Lots in Beecher & Walsh
addition on Twenty-fifth and Twen-
and Seventeenth avenues; city water,
and convenient to car line. These
lots are high and level; nice shade
trees. win sell for small payment
down, balance to suit purchaser. Will
assist those desiring to build homes.
Beecher Bros, 1881 Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

Receiver and Assignee OF Insolvent
Estates. General Financial Agent for
Nom Residents, Women. Inyalidr and
Others.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
Central TRUST and
SAVINGS lBamlk
incorporated Under State Law)
ROCK ISLAND. ILL.
II e. CAsTEEL, President
NJ s. HEAGY. Vice President.
Il. q. sIAMoN. Cashier.
Capital Stock, 100000. -Four Per Cent
Interest Paid ON Deposits.

DIRECTORS - c. ]. Larkin, n.
Curtis, H e. Casteel, H. D. Mack, NJ s.
Heagy, H. B. Simmon. H. II. Cleaveland.
Mary e. Robinson. W.. j. Sweeney. H.
w. Tremann, C. w. Halves, w. s. Parks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
Real Estate For Sale

$1,000 buys 4-room cottage
$1,000 buys S-room house, furnace and
bath.
$500 buys 7-room cottage.
$4,000 buys 7-room house. modern.
$4,000 buys 7-room house; paved
$4,000 buys s-room house.
$1,000 buys 5-room cotlage.
$3.50 buys cottage, South Rock Island.
sii.S5O buys cottage on 7th street ,,o
1850 buys house, South Rock Island.
$1,000 buys 7-room cottage; paved
$4,000 buys 7-room modern house;
paved street
s2.7oO buys 7-room modern house.
$3.50 buys s-room cottage. 1sth
street.
$4,000 buys 7-room house, 18th street.
$500 buys Groom house, modern,
$500 buys s-room cottage. 14th
$1,000 buys Groom cottage, and barn.
$4,000 buys Groom modern house,
18th street.
32,25O buys 6-room house. 14th street.
..n,soo buys s-room cottage l4th
$3.50 buys 7-room cottage. modern.
$4,000 buys 7-room modern house.
22nd street.
,2,5OO buys 5-room cottage. 14A
$4,000 buys 7-room modern house,
18th street.
$4,000 buys Groom modern house.
18th street.
$1,000 buys 16-room double house on
18th street.
$500 buys finest home on 18th street
$1,000 buys finest home on 18th street
$4,000 buys fine home on 2lst street.
$4,000 buys fine home on 18th street.
$4,000 buys fine home on 10th street
$4,000 buys fine home on 9th avenue.
$1,000 buys 4-room cottage.
$1,000 buys S-room house, furnace and
WE LOAN MONEY ON REAL ESTATE
lLimiRger & Meyer
BOTH PHONES. 225 18TH STREET
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
INSURANCE.

INSURANCE.
~~~~~~O~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~c~~~~~~c~~~-~~>~~>
INSURANCE on dwellings and house,
hold furniture a speciality. Cham
berlin q Anderson.
PLEASANT F. COX-Real estate and
insurance. Loans a specially. Best
fire companies represented. Your pat
ronage solicited. Phones west %, and
new SIZE. Office at court house.
BENEFITS Insurance Agency Fire,
life, accident, health, and plate glass;
real estate and loans; second floor,
Safety building. Office phone west
$50. Residence phone 736-k. Open
Wednesday and Saturday nights.
WE WILL BOND YOU-Executors', adj
ministrators, guardians, trustees or
any kind of judicial bonds; lodges and
society officers; city. state or U. S.
government officials; contractors po-
sitions of trust; in fact, any kind of
bond you want Except bail bonds).
Terms reasonable. Hayes & Cleave-
land, resident managers Fidelity &
Deposit Company of Maryland.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
MONEY TO LOAN.

LOANS ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY
at lowest rates. Ludolph & Reynolds,
lawyers, Buford block, corner Seven
teenth street and Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

LORAINE-Clairvoya PALM
list, medium, SeereSS; well known in
Structor of the Boston Psychic InSti-
tute, now summering in Moline; 436
Fourth avenue. Il minutes ride from
Rock Island; 5 cents car fare. Hours,
8 a. m. to p. m, daily and Sunday.
Blue line cars pass door. Madam Lo-
raine reads your life like an open
book, giving names, dates, facts and
figures; gives advice on business. in
vestments, suits, wills. deeds. patents.
pensions, and settles old estates that
time has placed beyond the lawyers
Shrewdness; advises on love, mar
riage, anf divorce: teaches clairvoy-
ance .palmistry, and mental control;
locates mines and the earth's hidden
treasures: settles quarrels, reunites
the separated; absolute satisfaction
guaranteed in all special work.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
Open Saturday evenings.
HARRY IT. Hlulbbard.

Fire Insurance. and Real Estate.
1906 Second Avenue. Both Phones
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
PATENTS.

PATENT AND TRADE MARK.-ofce,
room IA, Mitchell & Lynde building,
Rock Island. James F. Murphy, as
sociate, branch of Moore & Co., pat
ent attorneys, Washington. D. c., and
Chicago. Ill
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
STOCK BROKERS.

STOCK BROKERS'.
II. ]. TOHER A. L. ANDERSON
III. j. T0HQElR & CO..
Brokers.
STOCKS.
GRAIN.
PRovIsIoNs.
COTTON.
PRIVATE WIRES TO NEW Yok.
AND CHICAGO.
1903 MAIN STREET. DAVENPORT
PHONE WEST act.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

FOR SALE-At a sacrifice; / Will sell
for cash or payments, one upright
handsome Singer piano, one nearly
new Fox typewriter one National
cash register. 5000 pieces of old
coins, six or seven old violinS, two
Washburn guitars, six clarinets. six
3 fiat horns, also a lot of unredeem-
ed watches and diamonds; % pieces
of old mahogany furniture, four bar
Der chairs, one jewelers. lathe with
bench and tools, Is fine hard coal
stoves and 100 soft coal heaters, also
a line line of steel ranges. VIII sell
cheap or exchange same. Loans on
diamonds at per cent. We make a
specially on trunks and suit cases
Get my prices and if L can't undersell
anybody in the three cities l Will quit
the business. The meanest man in
town. Don't forget my money never
runs out. Find this number and put
the rest of your money in the bank.
1909 Second avenue. Jones. Jones,
Jones, Second hand Jones. Jones, the
largest secondhand dealer and loan
agent in the whole state of Illinois.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
CLAIRVOYANTS.

CIIIROS-World renown-
ed palmist and clairvoyant: here for
the summer; Temple of Palmistry,
Watch Tower. Consult him IL in
trouble.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

WANTED have some customers with
money who desire TO go into business
in either of these three cities. If you
have grocery store, drug store
meat market, o. restaurant you want
to sell. worth the money, write OF!
call at once. Business must be in
first class condition. Step lively. s.
S. HOstetter rear Rock Island hotel
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
EDUCATIONAL.

EDUCATIONAL.
VILLA DE CHANTAL-A home school
conducted for girls by the Sisters of
the Visitation. documentary and high
er branches and all polite accomplish
ments taught. Twentieth street and
Fifteenth avenue. Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

O-CEDAR SPRAY-O-Cedar Spray; the
modern method of discriminating in
sects and bugs; 316-32G Eighteenth
street. Inquire for ]. A. Stombs.
IF YOU WANT to buy, sell, trade or
rent anything, engage help or secure
a situation, the Mail and Journal is
the one paper in Moline that can do
1T for you. Mail and Journal wants
wants bring results One-half cent
per word is the price to all alike,
cash in advance; two-cent stamps will
do. Evening and Saturday Mail and
Journal, Moline, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

FOR RENT-Three unfurnished rooms
with sewer, water and good cellar, at
los Seventeenth street. Inquire next
door
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

MONEY loaneA at cheap rates on sal
airy, furniture, pianos, etc. Loans
made anywhere in tri-cities. Re-
bates same as charge If paid before
due. Railroad men are especially in
vited to call. See us il you want to
save money Office open s a. m to
D. m. daily; Wednesday and Saturday
evening until 8 p. m Peoples Loan
company, 400 Lane building, Daven-
port Iowa. Phone N 2574.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

WANTED - Young man. and his wife
who have $500, to look at a good lit
tie store, doing business now of
$12 to $l5 a day. Can be made to do
much more. Good neighborhood. Liv-
ing rooms over the store. fine
chance. See it. 1t will please you.
Apply to S. 5. Hostetter, rear Rock
Island house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

FOR SALE-First class ice box, cheap
II taken at once. inquire 1875 See
ond avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-22

FOR SALE-Cheap, nice level lots, ASK
125, corner Twenty seventh street and
Eighteenth avenue, facing Long View
street car track. Also for sale or
trade, one acre lot, with new seven
room house. Terms to please pur-
chaser. Inquire of E. Thonn, 610
Twenty eighth street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-09
aThe DevIIv Causes Trouble.

New York. December S.-The contro- versy over the right to produce Molnar' s play, "The Devil.'' came to climax today when Harrison Grey Fiske was expelled from the National Association of Producing Managers as result of charges preferred against him by Henry w. Savage Immediately after the dropping of Mr Tiske from the associa- tion David Belaseo sent in his resig- nation Benjamin Roeder also resigned. The charges were the result of the rival productions of "The Devil'' fin the Be- lasco and the Garden theatre on August 1s. last Mir Savage charged that in springine the Belasco production MT. Fiske had acted as one member of the association should not toward another. MT. Savage produced the play at the Garden the same night after calling hur- rled rehearsals some weeks prior to the time he had originally planned for the first performance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-09
Notice.

State of Alabama, Jefferson County: To the Honorable Mayor and Board of
 Aldermen. City of Birmingham, Ala
 bama:
 Gentlemen: Your petitioner the Bir- mngham Belt Railroad company, on May 16. 1906. as is recorded in minute book IT. page 339, was granted franchise for the construction of tracks and opera ton of same in Alley A between Four teenth and Sixteenth streets, for which the sum of s1OO was paid for each block or fraction thereof.
 Your petitioner now desires to com plete the construction of it's track in Alley A for the full length of block 127 and respectfully petitions for an additional franchise for the right to cross Four teenth street as shown in red lines on the enclosed blueprint. which is sub mitted in connection with this petition in westerly direction entering the prop erty line at the southeast corner of block 12S and continuing inside of the property line to the east side of Thirteenth street the purpose of this extension being to serve the mill and elevator to be con- structed in block 12S by the Wood Orabbe Grain company.
 Trusting that this will receive the prompt and favorable action of your honorable board We are, yours truly
 BIRMINGHAM BELT RAILROAD COMPANY,
 By A. D. Lightner, Gen. Mgr. 12-s-2t-wed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-09

coal business forced the trustees to call on the guaranteeing railroads for financial help to make good the deficiency. As result the roads put up about $4S0,000
 Did the officials of the roads make any demand for the return of this money?" the witness was asked.
 They certainly did" replied Mir. Law. President Thomas of the Lehigh Valley, Mr. Underwood of the Erie and President Truesdale of the Lackawanna, all ? tried to get back the money paid over by their roads. But President Baer of the Read ing, chairman of the Temple company's directorate, put them off. He told them the surplus could be used to better ad- vantage by buying up the Temple iron bonds.'
 Outside of the three bad years pre- ceding 1902 the witness said that the Tenn pie Iron company had an extremely prof itable business. Since 1905 he said they had bought up $1,900,0oO of their bonds out of the total of $3,50e,000 and that now they have $1,OO0,0OO surplus in the treas ury.
 The hearing adjourned until next Tues day morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-09
PRESIDENT ENJOYS
 MOVING PICTURES

Washington. December s.-Moving pie lures of wolf hunts turned the east room of the White House tonight into minia- ture theatre. Nearly a hundred invited guests made up the audience. The stage manager was John Abernathy. friend of the President, and United States mar shal of Oklahoma, who catches wolves with his hands, it is said. Some time ago he showed the pictures privately to the President, and the latter was so de- lighted with the exhibition that he de- cided to invite some friends to see it. The performance began about g o'clock, fol- lowing a dinner at the White House No onlooker expressed himself as more pleased than the President.
 There, they've got him!'' he exclaimed as the hunt drew to a close. That's one of the finest sports in the world, he declared, but l hope to get some equally as good next year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-09
seamen Elect Officers.

New Orleans, December S.-After se- lecting New York as the next meeting place. the annual convention of the Sea- mems union of North America, repre- senting 50,e09 American sailors, was brought to a close tonight with the cleo tion of the following officers: Andrew Flu ruseth, San Francisco, president; c. J. Harrington, San Francisco, first vice president; V. A. Olander. Chicago, sec ond vice president; Edward Stack, Buff falo, third vice president: H. P. Griffin, New York, fourth vice president; George c. Bodins. New Orleans. sixth vice pres ident; Thomas A. Hanson, Chicago. seventh vice president; J. M. Secard, Chi cago, eighth vice president; William H. Frazier. Boston, secretary-treasurer An drew F'uruseth, William II. Frazier and Walter Manarthur will form the legisla- tive committee.