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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
Notice to the Public.

To whom it may concern:
Desiring TO protect, not only your
valuable piano, but the good name
and standing of Eberhart's Piano
house as we'll as my own reputation
as tuner, wish to announce espe-
cially to people who have bought
pianos under my counsel or recon-
mendation that on and after the pub
LEGATION of this notice | shall not as.
sumo responsibility for the outcome
of any tuning done by any person
whomsoever, other than myself, un-
less that person has my written order.
During the past Is years | have
represented such piano firms as Chick
ering Bros, Newman Bros, Thompson
Piano company, Reynolds Piano com.
pany, Tryber Piano company and Mel
vile Clark of Chicago, Chase Bros.
Hackley and Carlisle of Muskegon,
Mich, Weber, Wheelock, Stuyvesant,
Kranich & Bach and Hardman of
New York and Baldwin of Cincinnati,
and / cannot afford to let my we'll
established reputation as response
VIC oatCoAhoh al CApClI tuilcI Dt
injured by any inexperienced tuner
regardless of whether or not he may
have at one time been connected with
me, or whether he did or did not
work under my supervision or author
| ization.
Many complaints of Indifferent and
unsatisfactory work are coming tc
me and am taking this step to guard
against any possible misunderstood
| ing in the future.
| Our cities are flooded with mex
perienced and canvassing tuners Il
such an extent that the manufacture
ers, as well as their Representatives
are using every precaution to protec
pianos from being trifled with.
do not desire to be understood b.
my piano friends and customers a!
debating whom they shall employ a
their tuner. This notice is only tt
announce that in the future partie
employing any tuner not authorize,
by me will do so entirely at their owl
risk. Yours very respectfully,
q. c. EBERHART,
Ebsrhart's Piano House
i River Riplets.
! The Ruth was north and south tt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
YATES TO SPEAK
Former Governor is to Deliver
the Principal Address Here
on Memorial Day.
Committee Secures Mayor Scott OF
Davenport for Afternoon Speech
Officers Are Named.

Former Governor Richard Yates is
Memorial day exercises here. Mr.
Yates will speak i'm the morning at
the exercises at the monument at the
court house, and Mayor George w
Scott of Davenport will be tn
speaker of the afternoon, at the pro
gram at Chippiannock cemetery
Mayor H. C. Schaffer is to act as mas
ter of ceremonies for the day, and
Colonel w. T. Channon of the 9th
regiment will act as marshal of the
|Gay. The arrangements are in charge
of general committee composed OF
James NJ. Beardsley, John Ohlweiler
and William McConochie.
Details Arranged.
The details are in the hands of the
following appointed by the general
committee:
Reception committee = George E
Bailey, Hon. c. j. Searle. II. =. Gas
teel
Invitation committee-W. T. Norris
Colonel w. r. Channon, c. f. Gazetteer
Transportation committee = ]. M
Beardsley, j. Arnell, H. c. Cleaveland
Speaker at the recommendation
Richard Yates.
Speaker at Chippiannock = Hon
George w. Scott, mayor of Davenport
Opening prayer at monument-Rev
Granville H. Sherwood.
Closing prayer at monument-Rey
H. c. First, post chaplain.
Opening prayer at. Chippiannoci-
Rev. H. c. First, post chaplain.
Music-Stroehle's band.
Vocal music-Arion quartet, J. Haz
ard, director.
The committee composed of j. nj
| Beardsley, John Ohlweiler and Wi
liam McConochie will call next weel
for the annual contribution for ex
penses.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
Doing Their Duty.
Scores of Rock Island Readers Are
Learning the Duty of the Kidneys.

To filter the blood is the kidneys
duty.
When they fail to do this the kidneys
are sick.
Backache and many kidneys ills fol
low.
Urinary trouble, diabetes.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure them ALL
Mrs. J. F. Sanberg, 1446 Eleventh
avenue, Moline, Ills, says: Several
years ago my husband was troubled
with severe backaches and other symp-
toms of kidney trouble. The pains
were sometimes SO severe as to force
| me to stop work and come home, and
they gradually grew worse. None of
him any good and we were becoming
alarmed when he learned of Doan's
Kidney Pills. He procured a box and
found them to be as represented. AT
ter using them a short time the pains
left him entirely and he became per
| fectely well. He made a statement
at that time recommending Doan's Kid
ney Pills, and he has had no return
of the trouble since However, we
always keep a box of Doan's Kidney
Pills in the house and it is a pleasure
for us to recommend them to any one
suffering from kidney complaint of any
FORM
Plenty more proof like this from
Rock Island people. Call at Harper
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
day. The stage of water was 720 at
"a. M and 1856 at noon.
WAS THE COMPANION OF
FREMONT AND CARSON
"uncle Dan" WhippIe Dies at Ira
verse City, Aged 1909 Years
Of Remarkable Family.

Traverse City, Mich, May 5.-"Un-
Gle Dan" Whipple. aged 100 years,
died Sunday night from hemorrhage
of the brain. Sunday he seemed as
we'll as usual and took long walk
in the fields.
Mr. Whipple was born in Cattar.
|augus county, New York, March 1,
|1799. He was a member of General
Fremont's exploring party on the his
toric trip across the Rockies. He was
long a companion of Kit Carson. and
later served through the civil war in
an Iowa regiment
He never married, being true to the
memory of a sweetheart who was tor
tured to death by Indians before his
|eyes when he was young man in
the west
Mr.. Whipple's grandmother lived to
be 1873 and his father died at the age
of 113.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.

Today's Quotations on Provisions, Live
Stock, Feed and Fuel.
Rock Island, May 5.-Following are
the wholesale prices in the local mar
ket today:
Provisions and Produce.
Eggs-Fresh, 13c to 131sc
Live Poultry-Spring chickens. 10c
per pound: hens, per pound, 8; ducks,
per pound, sc: turkeys. per pound,
lac; geese, per pound. Sc.
Butter-Dairy. 23c. to 24c.
Lard-10c.
yegetables-Po Potatoes. 55c to Coo.
Live Stock.
Hogs-s5.00 to $5.35.
Strengthening or over, $500 to
$500; lambs, $3.50 to $675.
le-Steers, $500 to 5000: cows
and heifers. $500 TO $500; calves. &4.Ol
to $3.50.
Feed and Fuel.
Grain-Corn. Csc to Zoe; oats, SOC to
|53c.
Forage Timothy hay, 81 to $13:
prairie, $500 to $1,000; clover, $1,000
to $11.O0: straw, 5000.
Coal-Lump. per bushel, 1lc; slack
Iper bushel. &c to Sc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
DEATH SENTENCE RESULT
OF A MURDERER'S APPEAL
Negro Dissatisfied With 10 Years I'M
prisonment Got New Trial and
Now Regrets His Rashness.

Washington, May 5.-The supreme
court of the United States yesterday
affirmed the verdict of the Georgia
state courts in the case of James S.
Yeates, negro, who was found guilty
of murder at Decatur. Yeates had
two trials, the first resulting in SEN
tence of ten years Imprisonment. He
sought a new trial, and a verdict of
murder in the first degree was brought
in, the penalty for which, is death.
That is the verdict upon which the
supreme court yesterday passed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05

assault with deadly weapon. He
was arrested ON complaint of Charles
Miner, who claimed that Bender
stabbed him with a knife Saturday
night.
Minnie Stringer and Beatrice Smith,
two women classed, as street
walkers" by the police, were up be
fore Magistrate Elliott last night. The
former was sent to jail for 20 days
and the Smith woman was fined 5000
and ordered out of town.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
EVANS BACK ON THE
CONNECTICUT AGAIN
Rear Admiral Taken by Special Train
From Hot Springs to Coast at
Demonte, Cal.

Santa Cruz. Cal, May 5.-The bat
tleship Connecticut left for Monterey
at $3.50 this morning to bring Admiral
Evans to Santa Cruz. AS the Con-
necticut weighed anchor Admiral
Thomas flag was hauled down.
Demonte. Cal, May 5.-A special
train bearing Rear Admiral Evans
from Paso Robes hot springs arrived
at Monterey this morning. The ad-
miral was taken on board the flagship
Connecticut which Immediately sailed
to rejoin the fleet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
POLICE CLOSE
10 SALOONS ON
MAYORS ORDER
Failed to Secure New Licenses
and Accordingly Given Mo-
tice to Quit Business.
RULE is TO Be PERMANENT
In All IA Have Been Shut Upper
mits to Number of n Now
Granted by City Clerk.

On orders of Mayor Schaffer, Chief
Eckhart of the police department last
evening closed 10 saloons whose pro-
prietors have failed to secure licenses
for the new term. OF the 10 closed a
number will, like the four already
closed not be licensed again by Mayor
Schaffer. In the case of one or two
licenses will be issued for the saloon
to a new proprietor. The majority,
however, are permanently closed.
Those who quit business at midnight
yesterday in accordance with the may
lors orders were the following:
J. A. Bowman, 1926 First avenue
(The Blue Goose).
A. j.. Hines, 119 Eighteenth street
Robert Shannon, III Eighteenth
street
Ed Thierman, 100 Twentieth street.
J. c. Wiley, Fourth avenue and Six
teenth street.
l.. Nicer. 1929 Second avenue
CAMEL Mortier, 21O1 Third avenue.
MacClelland Snyder, 222 Seventeenth
street tThe Hub.
Pete Schaum, 207 Seventeenth
street
The places previously closed are
Louis Ortel tthe Quail, Van de Putte
1.-THE OVID, J. H. Martin, and w. Nc
Clusky.
Seventy-One Are Licensed.
A total of II licenses has now been
issued by the city clerk. A number OF
others have made satisfactory arrange
ments for securing licenses as soon as
surety bonds are secured. For the
present, however, there will be IA less
saloons than there were month ago
Those who have been granted licens
es since yesterday afternoon are the
following: Max Helfrick (630 Twelfth
street,, julius Lambrecht, Peter dc
Smet, Ambros Schyvens, Julius Van
Hulle, Fred Martens, John Ditch, 81
mon Lewis, Henry Doering, Harry
Meanor 1929 Second avenue), Felix
Strobbe (22f1 Third avenue), Samuel
Webb, T. NJ. Collins, John Grogan
Henry Ceisler
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
New York stocks.

New York, May 5.-Following are
the quotations on the stock market to
day:
Gas S95s, U. p 1881. U. S. Steel
preferred 1925, u. S. Steel common
36k, Reading 10, Rock Island prefer
red 325s, Rock Island common 1873
Southern Pacific S37s. n. Y. Central
1921, Missouri Pacific 49A, L. & n
106k, Shelters 72A, C. F. /. 4h2
Canadian Pacific 1854, Penna 1l9
Erie 1871, C. & o. $685., B. r. T. 47H
B. &c o. S75s. Atchison S1k, Locomo
tive 4S9s, Sugar 127, st. Paul 1907
Copper 611a, Republic Steel preferred
CIV, Republic Steel common IS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
health CONDITIONS GOOD
Only Single Case Is Under Quarantine
at the Present Time.

Contrary to the belief of many, the
city is at the present time almost en-
tirely free of contagious disease.
There is but one case in the city,
the quarantine having been removed
from one this morning. A year ago
1T this time there were over % cases
of contagious disease
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05

for the republican nomination for rep
resentative of. this district. A copy
OF the resolutions, signed by d. w.
Hathaway, NJ. b. Heaps and L. Frike
as committee, has been received
by The Argus. .,g &tM
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05

Receipts today: Wheat. &c; corn,
339; oats. 341; hogs, 10000; cattle,
1000; sheep, $4,000.
Hog market opened cents higher
Hogs left over, 1000. Light, $1,000
20; mixed and butchers, $5.S5@5.75;
good heavy, $5.3O@5.72; rough heavy
S53O@5.45.
Cattle market opened steady.
Sheep market opened steady.
Omaha: Hogs. 5000; cattle, 1000.
Kansas City: Hogs, $4,000; cattle
9 600.
Hog market closed strong 5 to II
cents higher. Light, s5.35@5.77;
mixed and butchers, $5.40@5.S0; goot
heavy, $5:4O@5.SO; rough heavy, $5.3!
@5.55.
Cattle market closed steady. Beeves
I$4.75@7.25; stockers and feeders
$3.70@5.S0; cows and heifers, syst
@6.G0.
Sheep market closed steady.
Northwestern receipts
Minneapolis: Today, 112; last week
1855; last year, 1S3. Duluth: Today
"a; last week, Al; last year, 34S.
Liverpool opening cables-Wheat !!
to "a higher, corn unchanged.
Liverpool closed = Wheat Il to y
! higher, corn unchanged.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05

REPAIRING AND MANUFAC-
TURING.
One part of our business which
will be greatly improved by our
removal to the Safety building
is the fine facilities for jewelry
repairing and manufacturing.
This shop is now located in
room sos, fifth floor, and when
our plans are matured and the
shop fully equipped, we trust
the public will render apprecia-
tive response to our efforts.
All jobs are received in the
ieweIry store. but If you have
doubts whether we do the best
work, task the man" at the
above number.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
OPENS DEAD MANS SAFE
Charles Fiebig Called to Dixon to
Solve Mechanical Puzzle.

Charles Fiebig, the local lock ex-
pert. was called to Dixon yesterday
to open safe belonging to the late
Dexter Yale. a wealthy man. who died
there recently without leaving any
one in possession of the combination.
There were papers and currency in the
safe amounting to $15OO00. Mr.. Fie-
big opened the safe without much diff
ficulty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
Rink to Open for a Day.

The Rock Island skating rink viii
be opened next Saturday afternoon
md evening, F. j. Steel. who has
been in charge of rink at Rockford,
having returned to this city and will
throw open the doors for the day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
B RINGS HAAKON's GREETINGS
Bishop Anton c. Bang Comes From
Norway to Attend dwelling.

New York, May 5.-Bishop Anton G.
Bang, at one time secretary to the late
King Oscar III of Sweden and Norway,
arrived today from ChriStiania to at
tend the unwilling of the statue of the
Norwegian poet, Henrik Wergeland,
on the 18th. He will pay visit to
President Roosevelt, to whom he
brings in person greetings from King
Haakon of Norway.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
Licensed to Wed.
Notice.

All parties are requested to deposit
rubbish in alleys before May IL, as
work of cleaning alleys will commence
1t that time.
H. c. SCHAFFER, Mayor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
BANK OFFICIALS ARE GUILTY
Teller and Auditor at Pttsburg Ad
NIT Bu Theft.

Pittsburg, May 5.-Henry Reiber,
paying teller, and John Young, audi
,or, of the Farmers Deposit National
bank today plead guilty to an indict-
ment charging them with the embez-
element of $11S,O00 from that institu-
lion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05

Temperature mt n. M, AZ; mt $3.50
u. m, III. Maximum temperature I'm last
wind mt n. M. 20 miles per hour. Stage
of water, az feet, no change in last "a
hours. Precipitation, .35 inches UP to
"a. ma.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
May 5 In History.

\. Y: other important conquests
along the lake border followed.
1S21-Napoleon |. died at st. Helena,
born at Ajaccio, island Of Corsica
1769
1904-The canal zone formally coded
to the United States. Maurus Jo-
kai. noted Hungarian novelist, died;
born 1925
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
is FINED $40 AND COSTS
Moline Man Pleads Guilty in County
Court to Assault Charge.

George Sobolewski was fined $40
and costs on plea of guilty to a
charge of assault, in the county court
today.
Magistrate Elliott held Milton Ben
der to the grand jury on charge of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05

House pharmacy and ask what GUS
toners report.
For sale by all dealers. Price, so
cents. Foster-Milbnrn COMPANY, Buff
falo, NJ. Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name = Doan's =
and take no other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
THE w EATH r..

Threatening weather, with showers,
tonight and possibly wednesday,; not
much change In temperature.
j. NJ. SHERIER, Local Forecaster.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05
THE MARKETS.

Chicago, May 5.-Following are the
market quotations today:
Wheat.
May, 1033s. 103A. 1921, 1929.
July. 81. 91A, 90as, 90h.
September, S6B, SGas, S5k, S5A.
Corn.
May. 7OA, 7O1a, G9%. 7OA.
July, 65, 65, G4la, G2A.
September, G3, 631s. 625s, G2s4.
Oats.
May, 53%, 53A, 53k, 535s.
July, 471a, 471a, 467s, 46B.
September, 377s, 3S, 37as, 37as.
Pork.
May, 1910, 13.45, 1887, 1887. :,
July, 1855, 1862. 1885, 1887.
September, 1885, 1890, 1892, 1882
Laro.
May, S.45, SAT, S.45, S.45.
July, S.55, S.57, S.55. S.55.
September, $40, S.72, $40, S72.
Ribs.
May, 40, 7.12, 10. 10.
July, 1872, 7.32, $50. 7.32.
September, 7.57, 1857, 7.55, 7.55.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05

ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Sun sets csc, rises 4:4S; moon sets
1:JS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-05

All the news all the time-The Argus.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-15
End Floor Specials

Boys Blouse Suits in the new
shades of Brown, ages
from Z to Is years at $3.50
ana 1928
Boys School Suits, all sizes,
up to 16 years at ..$1.e8
Boys Knee Pants, Blouse and
plain, up to 16 years, at
..98c. 75c, CSC, 50c and Csc
Cotton Blankets at special
prices, $1.9S, $1.75, $1.69,
$1.5o. $1.25, CSC, &C, SOC
and Csc
Mems and Boys Winter Caps
all shapes, colors and kinds
at csc, 75c, soc, sec and Csc
Mems Heavy Outing Flannel
Gowns at .75c and SOC
Ladies fine quality Outing
Flannel Gowns at $1.00, 75c
and ............... SOC
I'D.
Window Shades, all colors,
and the best grades, 35c
value at Csc
Ladies' Fleeced Wrappers,
sizes 80 to 46, at .9Sc
Ladies' Fleeced Waists and
House Jackets, all colors
and sizes, up to 46 at .48c
Curtain Scrim, SO inches wide
at per yard. Sc
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-15

Murphy, although the precautions here
are the same as those at the National
treasury, to a certain extent the char
acter of the treasures at the mint
protect themselves. No man living
could make off with quarter of mil
lion in gold. Fifty thousand dollars
would be huge load for anyone. Ev-
en- the $1,000 bags are not the most
comfortable things in the world to
carry. The same remarks apply to
the silver with almost exactly thirty
times more potency, as gold is now
worth about thirty times the same
weight of silver. The same thing is
true of bullion.
I'm a crowded city like Philadel-
phia," said Mr. Murphy, ''it would be
impossible for a theft to occur even
on an express wagon bringing the bull
lion to the mint from the stations or
piers. Deliveries to the mint are
never made except in broad daylight.
Hence it follows that il there were
any loss it would have to be the work
of a sneak thief and one, moreover,
WIZ WdS oil CAtl
worker. The wagons are in charge of
two men, and even il thief managed
for a moment to elude the vigilance
of the two, his shrift would be short.
1t is no easy task to run away with
bullion. Try for yourself" continued
the cashier, pointing to a pile Of yell
low bars, hold that bar in your arms
for five minutes"
1t did not take more than half that
time to prove the correctness Of the
assertion.
Wouldn't be pleasant would it,"
he continued ito run down the street
hanging on to that piece of gold and
with a mob at the back Of you and
several policemen showing up in
front?
Every imaginable precaution. as
You have seen is taken here, but there
are some strange stories abroad of the
way things are done. An old tale
which is still alive in far away dis
triets is that every visitor to the Phil
adelphia mint is stripped before leav-
ing and searched all over So many
people have visited the new mint from
out OF town, however. that that myth
seems to be pretty dead now.
Another story was that we were so
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-15

careful about any gold that went up
the refining furnaces that we sent arm
ed sweepers over the roof of buildings
in the neighborhood every night to
collect the precious dust which had
floated up the chimneys. Strange
isn't it people think OF the most i'm
probable and useless matters, and the
really important precautions amaze
them when they come to learn of
them?"
For the protection of the mint from
Are a we'll drilled fire brigade has
charge of the extinguishing apparatus.
There are thirty-one fire stations To-
Gated in the corridors and the rooms,
throughout the building. The press
ure on the fire pumps can be run up
to $50 pounds. This force will throw
a stream of water over the building.
At night every fifteen minutes thir-
ty-one watchmen ring signal notify
ing the watch in the telephone room
that all is well. All these men carry
revolvers during the night watch. If
the signal from any Waterman was not
heard at the right time an instant
alarm would be sounded
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-15
Uncle Sam Takes Greatest Precautions to Protect
5000, 900 Stored in Philadelp
o. is

Philadelphia, Pa, Nov. IA up to
date safes and the most modern styles
of vaults serve pretty we'll for the
treasures of our best banks and trust
companies. So efficient, indeed, are
those now constructed that the old
fashioned bank robber has gone quite
out of existence. The job demands
nowadays set of qualifications which
have passed far beyond his powers.
But though the usual modern methods
in vogue for the protection of coin
and jewels are in the highest degree
efficient, yet they are insufficient to
suit the government in its protection
of the wealth of the nation. The
modern American devices for bank
protection are, to be sure, vastly
ment vaults in Europe, but good as
they are they are not good enough 10
suit Uncle Sam. For him protection
unheard of in any other tim and place
have been devised to safeguard the
treasures of the nation.
The mint at Sixteenth and Spring
Garden streets always contains coin
and bullion which fluctuates in value
each day between $500, 1000 and
$3.50 100000 One hundred millions
OF dollars of this amount is in silver
dollars stored for several years in a
room by itself. 100 by So feet in area.
About 100000 is in gold coin,
ready to be put in circulation or to
DO stored in the national treasury at
Washington against the issue of a
corresponding number of gold certifi-
Gates. A million or two is in bronze
and nickel coins. Finally, an amount
of bullion varying from small guam
tity to several hundred millions Of
dollars worth occupies the four mas
sive vaults designed for the uncoined
metal.
Now how is this vast hoard-a
hoard as great as that which Alexan-
der the Great is said to have found in
the treasury of the Persian kings
when he destroyed their empir-pro-
tected?
Walls Of Greatest Strength.
First of all, the whole mint is en-
bedded in solid cement foundation
about three feet deep. Concrete, as
everyone knows. is one of the strong