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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14
.HOLDA TEAMSAOOT
Company A Marksmen Contest
on Range When Moline
Fails to Appear.
LaTIMER's SQUAD IS WINNER
Score 211 to POS for Private Furbee's
Team-New Enlistments Raise
the company's Standard.

Company A of this city was to have
met team from Company F of Mo-
line on the rifle range yesterday after
noon but all the Moline men did not
show up Those who did come and
the men from this city selected two
teams and held close and interesting
shoot. Sergeant Latimer and Private
Furbee were the captains of the teams
and Sergeant Latimer's team won on
three ranges by II points. The scores
were as follows:
Furbee, 4S; Dunavin, go; Wochner,
80; Loring, 80; Tenpound, 81. Total,
POS.
Latimer, co; Branch, SO: Willis, So;
Chase, "a; Hedding. 25. Total, PIC.
Five shots were fired by each man
at the 500 yard range, Ave at the 800
yard at rapid fire and five at the same
range at slow fire. making a score of
IS possible. The cross wind. how
ever, interfered with the firing from
the 500 yard range. where very low
scores We're made and the totals were
brought down
New Men on Team.
Captain Dunavin has arranged an.
other match shoot with Company 3
of Geneseo for Sept. u. The meet
will be held at the Geneseo range
The local company has at present
lprobably the strongest rifle team in the
state. due to the enlistment of {. mum
Der of men who are working at the
arsenal testing the rifle turned out
there. Six expert marksmen have
been enlisted and several more have
become interested in the shoots of the
company. The team if kept together
Twin without doubt capture number
of trophies at the rife shoots held BY
the state and it is the intention of the
team to bring the trophy cup of the
9th regiment home next year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14
Advertised List No. 81.

For week ending Sept II, 1908:
Elliott E. Bradley, Mollie Brown,
Edward G. Cox, Earl Crawford, Rich
ard Carvel. Mrs. Clara Carlson, c. c..
Coyes, Bert Dupriz, Miss Ethel Fuller
(2), Harry Grady, Charts Carver, AL
bert Grey, Detlof Holmes, Emil Holm
quist, Rolan Hoffman. Joe W. Heilgen,
Walter Kemble, C. c. Masuret, G. ].
Nelson, Miss Marie O'Rourke, J. w.
O'Connel, Mrs. E. Ryan. John Simon,
Allen Slater, Miss Bessie Syfer Belly
Sardell, c.. B. Strandberg, Standard
Mower company, Mrs. Tansley, HARRY
F. Vickery, c. NJ Walker.
Foreign-A. Berinal, Mrs. Frank
Hampton, Miss Teresa Treacy.
Merchandise-Mrs Minnie Wildman
HUGH A. ]. MCDONALD, P. M.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14
Knocks Own Worlds Record.

New York, Sept. John Flanagan
of the Irish-American Athletic club,
three times Olympian winner, was the
only athlete to establish a new record
in this years American Athletic union
senior championship games at Travers
Island yesterday. Flanagan threw the
56-pound weight SO feet 21a inches,
beating his own worlds record of 3S
feet IL inches, made at jamestown,
Va, last year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14

October, 1927, 1880. 1922, 1922.
January, 1902, 1912, 1000, 1902.
Ribs.
September, 9.77, $50, GIT, 9.77.
October, 9.72, 9.95, go, $50.
January, 900, 9.05. S.95, S.95.
Receipts today-Wheat, 67; corn
309; oats, 311; hogs, $1,000; cattle
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14
Sick Headache.

This disease is caused by derange.
ment of the stomach. Take dose OF
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab
lets to correct this disorder and the
sick headache will disappear. For sale
by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14
Time to sign Manager.

While the alignment of the Three
not certain at this time it is certain
that there will be a league and that
Rock Island will be in it. Therefore
the mistake of last fall should not be
repeated and the early signing of a
manager and getting together of a
team should be attended to. 1t is con-
Jack Tighe can scarcely be improved
upon. He leaves for his home in the
east tomorrow but will return and
winter here if signed again.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14
THE MARKETS.

Chicago, Sept. 14.-Following are the
market quotations today:
Wheat.
September, 9SA, 1884, 9S%, 99ss.
December, 9SA, 9s%, 9s14, 9sA.
May, 1918, 102, 1914, 1918.
Corn.
September, sos. S1ss, soy, SOS.
December, 691s, 69A, 6SA, 6s5s.
May, 6714, 67ss, 66ss, 667s.
Oats.
September, 1914, 49A, 4S5s, 4Sss.
December, sou. 5oA, 49%, so.
May, 521s, 525s, 521s, 52A.
Pork.
September, 1917, 1880. 1912, 1912.
October, 1922, 1856, 1920. 1925.
January, 17.10, 1920. 1875, 100.
Lard.
September. 1920, 1922, 1920. 1920.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14
LAST PRELIMINARY
HANDICAP PLAYED
Harry Ainsworth and p. w. Strickland
Tied for Honors in Mems
Golf Match.

The last of the 1G preliminary
matches for the handicap golfscups
offered by the Rock Island Arsenal
Golf club was played Saturday, and
resulted in tie between Harry Aims
worth and P. w. Strickland. The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14
Try Our Rivals, Too
We invite buy rival beans and them with 1t
"O beans good Van Camps But them and
Serve both brands together and hear what your people

great many people claim to sell beans that just
good as ours We invite you to prove their claims
1t is very easy matter to both brands together
then take vote of your table. Let the majority rule
Do the same with your home baked beans-serve them
with Van Camps. Ask your folks which they want
next.
We fear competition. We have not built up the
largest trade in the world without for it.
One great difference usually lies in the original beans
Some beans cost but fraction of what we pay.
We buy only the choicest of Michigan BEANS and have
them picked by hand We accept only the whitest
the pumpest, the fullest grown. All inferior beans
discarded.
The makers who use what discard of course save
great deal of money That's why beans pushed.
Another great difference lies in the tomato We
could buy. ready made for exactly onefh what
spend to make ours.
But we use only, whele, vine-ripened tomatoes-not
tomatoes picked green; not from canning fac
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14

tory The result is that superlave zest that sparkling
natural flavor.
1t is easy to say Just good But the best way to
settle the question forever to try the others and
Compare Van Camps with your home baked beans in
a similar way. And don't feel badly when your people
decide that infinitely better. Consider the work
that you
People want their beans nutty meay and whole They
want the skins unbroken. They want the tomato sauce
baked into the beans to give our delicious blend
That's what they get in Van Camps The reason is
we bake in live steam You bake in dry heat Your
beans mushy, soggy and broken Ours remain nutty
because they whole.
Yours crisped the top and haf-baked in the
middle Ours thoroughly baked clear through
Your beans only partly digestble. They ferment
and form gas Ours are wholly digestble-they don't
form gas.
That's because of our terrific heat We separate the
particles SO the digestive juices get to them.
So it isn't your faultits your lack Of facilities-hat
makes our beans so much better than yours
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14
River Riplets.

Thee Ruth. Mac and Emily were
north and south. The ]. S. came down
and the Emily went north. The Co
lumbia was up from Muscatine.
The stage of water was 2.30 at a.
m. and 2.40 at noon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14
$1,000; sheep, $4,000.
Estimated receipts Tuesday

31,000 sheep, $4,000.
Estimated receipts Tuesday
Hogs. $4,000.
Hog market opened strong to )
cents higher. Hogs left over, 1900
Light, s6.55@7.22; good heavy, s6.55@
7.30; mixed and butchers, S6.55@7.30;
rough heavy, $6.55@6.75.
Cattle market opened 10 cents lower.
Sheep market opened weak
Omaha-Hogs, 10000; cattle. 10000.
Kansas City-Hogs, 5000; cattle 26,-
600.
Hog market closed strong to Is and
20 cents higher. Light. S6.65@7.35;
mixed and butchers, S6.6517.42; good
heavy. S6.70@745; rough heavy, 500
$3.50.
Cattle market closed 10 cents lower,
Sheep market closed weak.
Northwestern receipts:
Minneapolis-To Today. sos; last week
holiday; last year, $50
Duluth-Today. 391; last week, holi
day; last year, 176.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14
MEETINGS ARE ANNOUNCED
Dates and Places of Teachers Session
Are Determined.

Announcement was made today by
S. ]. Ferguson, county superintendent
of schools, of the meeting places of the
Rock Island county teachers meetings
for the year. The dates and places
for the four divisions aree as follows:
FIRST DIVISION.
Oct. 3-Port Byron.
Jan. 16-Port Byron.
April 3-Cordova.
SECOND DIVISION.
Sept. 26-Illinois City.
Jan. 23-Illinois City.
April 24-Foster.
THIRD DIVISION.
Oct. 10-Ridgeview.
Jan. 30-East Moline.
April 10-SilviS.
FOURTH DIVISION.
Nov. 14-Center Station.
Feb. 6-Milan.
April 17-Reynolds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14

Enthusiastically. H. Snider. w. l..
Velie. N. French, w. McClelland. E.
&c. Mueller, H. G. Copp, J. H. Trimble.
G. Tegeler, w. d. Middleton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14
New York stocks.


New York, Sept. 14.-Following are
the quotations on the stock market
today:
Gas 81, U. P. 1861. U. S. Steel pre-
ferred 1908. U. S. Steel common AZ,
Reading 1876, Rock Island preferred &c,
Rock Island common 1871, Northwest
ern 162, Southern Pacific 1091a, Mis-
souri, Pacific 56Iz, Great Northern
18Th, Northern Pacific 1928, L. & N.
|109k, Shelters 92s, c. F. /. 35ss
Canadian Pacific 173A. Illinois Central
144H, Penna 124s4. Erie 80, Lead S3ls
C. & o. 431s, B. R. T. 52%, B. & O.
100, Atchison 80, Locomotive 46A, Sil
gar 1919, st. Paul 141Ns. Copper 1874
Republic Steel preferred 81, Republic
Steel common 22%, Southern Ry. 24H
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-14
soc to Coo.
NC.
Feed and Fuel.

Grain-Corn. SEE; oats, 47c to soc;
wheat, S5c to 90c.
Forage = Timothy hay, $3.50 to 50:
prairie, $3.50 to 50; clover, $40 to Sill;
straw, $3.50.
Coal-Lump, per bushel, 14c; slack,
per bushel, &c to SC.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
ROyALIST ATTACKS
FRENCH PRESIDENT
Assailant Was Unarmed and De.
clared He Simply Wanted to
Pull Presidents Beard.
President FaIlierss Is Not Injured.
Friends Coming to His Assistance
When Unlooked-for Attack Was
Made by Young Man.

Paris.-While Almond Fallieres
the president of France, accompanied
by Nine. Romondou, his secretary
and Colonel Lasson, military attacbe
al the Elysee palace, was taking n
morning stroll near Rue de pEtoil nm
Christmas day, poorly-clad indiyid.
ual who evidently had been living in
wait, suddenly jumped on the presi.
dent from behind aud threw his arms
about NJ, Faillieres' neck in an effort
to seize his beard
Colonel Lasson and Secretary Ro.
mondou sprang to the assistance of
the president, dragged off his assail.
ant and turned him over to two spe.
oial detectives who had been follow
Ing the party on the trip.
President Faillieres' cane was
broken in the struggle, but beyond a
scratch on the ear he was not in
jured, and insisted on continuing his
walk.
AS the detectives slipped the hand.
cuffs on the man, he cried. 81 am
unarmed. | simply wanted to mil
the presidents beard"
When searched at the station house
the presidents assailant proved to be
Jean Maths, a cafe waiter, "a years
Old and native of the department
OF Savoie. Medals of General Mer.
rier, the former minister of war.
stamps bearing the head of the Duke
OF Orleans, a card of membership in
the Patrie Franchise and other row.
alist documents were found on his
person.
During the examination Maths
boosted of being royalist and talk.
ed confusedly of having done his
duty and obeyed the dictates OF his
conscience" Heaps of royalist re.
dictionary literature were found by
the police, who thoroughly ransacked
his residence.
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defy royalty is no small matter. and
scions of ruling houses like Archduke
Francis Ferdinand of Austria, who sue
cumbed to the charms of non-royal
woman, must needs be only morgana-
tically married But Princess Hohen-
berg's rendering of the archdukes
simple matter, she having been lady
in waiting at court and so virtually
one of the royal family circle. But the
American woman can enjoy no such
advantage If she sets her cap for
princeling Women citizens of the re-
public, thousands of them, have been
years abroad, and only glimpsed an oc-
casional royal parsonage.
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MURDER OR SUICIDE?
Mysterious Death of Salt Lake Bow
on Christmas Eve

Salt Lake City.-It Is now believed
that Charles Seinsoth, the 16-year-old
boy whose body was found Thursday
morning, near the gravel pits in this
city, ended his own life, using car
bolic acid. Seinsoth, who was EN-.
ployed by the Bell Telephone com
pany. was sent out by his employers
10 collect balance due on tele-
phone bill contracted by Charles
Washington, negro. Washington
claims he left the boy on the streets
at 1870. The boys body was found
the following morning many blocks
away from where the negro claims
10 have left him. The negro gave
himself up when he learned the po-
lice were looking for him It now
develops that the lad purchased car
bolic acid, and it is supposed he
sought this isolated place and sui
cided. The claim Is also made that
his death was the result of an epilep
tic fit. The negro j: still under police
surveillance, and the case is not yet
closed.
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III. of Holland in such a manner as
completely to capture him.
The relations of king and beauty
were for many years a scandal but
they had made her of independent
means. For one day William III. drew
from his writing table package of old
mortgages on some lands in Pennsyl-
vania and gave them as a souvenir to
the fair Eliza, who. with all her
Haunting of propriety, had good
head for business. She promptly fore.
closed the mortgages and became pos
sessed of some of the richest petro-
leum lands in the world in the days
when kerosene was just beginning to
be recognized as an extremely valua-
BILE natural product. She thus became
one OF the richest women in Europe.
All of this happened about 1860, and
Nine. Musard promptly set up an es-
adjustment in Paris without bothering
20 separate herself from her legal hus-
band, who forthwith dropped from
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ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

Grape vines can be pruned at this
season. Cuttings can be made of the
trimmings Each cutting should con.
tain four buds.
General pruning and cleaning I'D in
the orchard can be done now. Remove
and burn all dead bush and trimmings
Collect and burn all dry decayed fruit
called "mummies.' They carry spores
of disease, which will cause next
years fruit crop to blight and rot.
Spray fruit trees with the limesul
phur wash TO kill San Jose scale.
The lime-sulphur wash painted on the
tree trunks Will also prevent entrance
of tree borers next spring.
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and after being educated at French
military schools he began to publish a
royalist newspaper in Paris which
caused his speedy expulsion from the
republic.
He had fortune of his own and i'm
agined that he was destined to con-
quer worlds and rule all the CON
quered. Leaving France by govern.
mental invitation he was shipwrecked
on Trinidad and conceived the king.
dom he was afterward to establish for
minute or two The next yea he
married Anna Flagler in the United
States, but marriage, instead of quiet.
ing his restless spirit. seemed only to
incite his romantic disposition The
Odysseys he performed were as start
ling as that of Macmillan to Mexico
which was then fresh in the minds of
the world, and without any manner of
excuse excepting his own perverse de.
sire. he roved over the world. and al
ways encountered adventures that had
no place in the life of nineteenth cen.
fury citizen He should have lived in
the days of the three musqueteers or
earlier in the crusading times to have
been entirely at home with his period.
Harden-Hickey's End.
1t was in 1894 that he set out in a
yacht with his wife They were
wrecked off Trinidad and the baron
set up the government he had planned
SIX years before. At least he began
along those lines and got as far as
taking the title of James |. for himself
and awarding that of Queen Anna to
his wife. His rule was so short-lived
that he did not even have opportunity
to get his eXtravagant plans out of his
head even onto paper. The big island
OF the Venezuelan coast was discov-
cred by Columbus on his third VOYAGE.
and for century before King James
proclaimed himself had belonged to
England. AT the time it had a British
governor and 100000 inhabitants. King
James. therefore, speedily encountered
John Bull, and as quickly as the ex.
changes of the information regarding
his usurpation could be made the
London government dispatched
cruiser to deal with this brand-new
problem OF colonial control.
King James and Queen Anna, at the
time constituting all the royal govern
ment, were exported to Key West, and
the king died as king for want of
place to rule,
Harden-Hickey finally shot himself.
and the baroness brooded over his
death until she became insane and
last summer was committed to a Con.
necticut asylum.
The present widowed Countess AL.
bert Won Waldersee whose husband
was the famous German field marshal
Is an aunt by marriage to the German
empress. She acquired the relation.
snip by her previous marriage to
Prince zu Noer.
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AMERICAN WOMEN
NEAR TO THRONES
There Is Not Nobility in the World, Except
ing China's, That Has Not Had Fair
Daughter of United States in 1t.

along with IT. She who was known
in the Louisiana metropolis as Miss
Marguerite Alice Heine not only nos.
sesses the distinction of being the only
person of New World birth who has
shared a genuine realm with a ruler.
but also is the only Jewess ever legiti.
mately married TO a reigning Christian
prince. Her marriage to Prince Albert
OF Monaco was not morganatic. For
10 years she was a real not a titular.
princess.
Her father was cousin of Heinrich
Heine, the great German lyric poet,
and her own cousin married a nephew
of Napoleon HIS finance minister.
She herself. as most of her family, Is
not of the Jewish faith. AS Miss Heine,
daughter of the New Orleans banker.
who, after making his money there. re-
tired TO Paris to live, she married Ar.
mande Duo de Richelieu who died
Prince Albert of Monaco, the present
prince, who is best known for his work
as photographer, had been married
to Lady Mary Hamilton, but she had
secured divorce. On October 81
1889, at Paris, he married the widowed
Duchess de Richelieu and the famous
old Grimaldi palace at Monte Carlo
was the scene of great festivities when
he brought his bride home. The whole
four square miles and a half of the
principality were bedecked with Vene.
tian masts and triumrhal arches and
cantata was performed in the cathedral
in her honor. Such was the reception
of the bride. In 1902 she secured a
judicial separation from the prince and
still enjoys her freedom. The son OF
Prince Albert, who is his heir, is not
her son, but the offspring of Lady
Mary Hamilton, now the wife of Count
Tassilo Festetics of Hungary.
A King in Thrall.
A plebeian Ohio woman for years
held a king in thrall and Nine Musard
is, | believe, the one case of the kind
in the annals of the New World. On
the other hand, shameless European
adventuresses who have fascinated
monarchs have been many. The story
10 NV" ioi'E vi hllS years Olu. MdTlO
Musard, Frenchman of Belgium. was
the leader of an orchestra in Paris in
the heyday of his career He made
flying trip to this country and took
back with him wife, who was a ma
tive of small Ohio town and was
named Eliza Parker. He himself was
at best an adventurer and she his
willing assistant. While he was EN-.
gagged In professional capacity at
Badeu-Baden he succeeded in throwing
his wide-awalSe, ambitious and pretty
wife in the way of the austere William
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Robbers Crack Bank Safe in Calfor-
mia and Get $4,000.

Los Angeles.-The fact has just
been made public that the First Ma
tlonal bank of Monrovia, Cal, was
robbed of SUN said to amount to
200, some time Sunday night. De
tectives have been at work on the
case, but 1t is stated that no clews to
the robbers have been found, and no
arrests have been made. The loss
was discovered when the bank opened
for business Monday morning. All
the officers of the bank refuse to dis
cuss the matter. Presid INT John
Bartlett admitted that the robbery
had occurred
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Robbers Torture Farmer.

Toledo.-Masked robbers early FRI
day compelled II. A. Schabow OF Cur
tice, o., to open a safe in his farm
house and turn over $3.50 After tying
their victim to his bed, and placing
a gag in his mouth. the robbers stole
a horse and buggy and escaped.
While one OF the robbers tortured
Schabow by burning his feet with
matches, the other kept him covered
with revolver. Schabow is agent
for an insurance company. Toledo
police are searching the city and the
surrounding country for the robbers.
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~,

cleanly--flies simply make it then
feeding ground. Use the device shown
herewith-small frames three feet
square, with wire netting bottoms. One
can be arranged above another in the
manner shown. says the Farm Journal
and all can be covered with sheet of
cotton mousquito netting The air can
then circulate in every direction
through the trays, but insects can not
soil the fruit.
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CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR POOR.
Ten Thousand New Workers Receive
Donations and Dinners.

New York-This city celebrated
Christmas of 1908 in way that not
only lived up to the best OF it's ira
ditions, but set new standard. Fa-
vored with the abundance which the
year brought forth, the rich, well-to-
do and moderately circumstanced had
placed at the dispooal of the active
workers in philanthropy ample funds
with which to go about the work OF
making the day one long to be re-
membered. The unfortunate in the
jails. the III in TIE hospitals, the
poor in their homes, and the destitute
and helpless in institutions, were all
remembered. That not far from 10000
persons were assisted by means of
donations of dinners and the Ike, is
conservatively estimated.