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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05
EXPENSES MOUNT UNDER REPUBLICAN RULE

been spent on it. No first class battle
ship has ever reached this yard, and
in the opinion of government experts
none ever will, because of the lack of
deep water approaches.
Then why does the government con-
tinue to waste money ON this yard,
which, declare the naval experts, would
be practically useless in time of war
when the nation would be depending
The answer is, politics.
One Source of Expense.
There are several political navy
yards. Mare Island is known as Sena-
tor Perkins yard. In his campaign
speeches in San Francisco Senator
Perkins claims credit for having in
duced the government to appropriate
the $14, 900, 900 for Mare Island. If the
government should quit appropriating
money, setting up the fact the yard is
would be in the position of having
caused the government to waste S14,-
100000. So Senator Perkins naturally
takes the position his navy yard is the
finest in the world. He says he will
see that the appropriations for Mare
Island are substantially increased ev-
cry year He is chairman of the naval
affairs committee. Hale has a political
navy yard, which also helps to explain
why wartime taxes will soon be neces.
sary.
President Roosevelt introduced new
era of public expenditures by establish
ing a principle that public money may
be expended not alone under author
Iity of law, but also by executive
choice" as illustrated. by innumerable
commissions, councils and boards. The
existence and activities of these boards
appointed solely by the president make
no inconsiderable drain upon funds ap
propriated for specific and Legitimate
functions of government by misapply
| ing the same to expenses of iuketine
about the country and in diverting the
services of department employees from
their proper and lawful occupations.
Table shows Facts vividIy.
The march of extravaganza of tn,
/, Roosevelt administration is concisel,
shown in the accompanying comparativ,
table, which sets out the appropria
tions by congress for the quadrennia
period representing the fiscal year.
1894 to 1897. the last Cleveland admin
istration. and the appropriations fo
the fiscal years 1907 to 1910. the las
four years of the Roosevelt administre
tion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05
EX-GOVERNOR DIES
IN MAKING A PLEA
W. A. POynter Stricken with AppO-
pleNy i'm Office of Present Ex-
ecutive at Lincoln, Neb.

Lincoln, Neb., April 5.-W. A. Poyn-
ter, ex-governor of Nebraska, while
making a speech in the office of Gov
ernor Shallenberger at a hearing on
the daylight saloon bill today, was
stricken with apoptexy and died with
in few minutes.
About 1,200 business men Of Omaha,
headed by Mayor Dahlman, were in
Lincoln today 10 appeal to the COVER
nor to veto the bill passed by the leg
islature limiting the sale of liquor in
the state to hours between z a. IN.
and p. m.
Temperance workers appeared i'm
force urging tie governor to allow the
measure to become a law.
Governor Shallenberger withheld ac-
tion on the bill. saying he wished to
consider it carefully in all its features.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05

Washington, April 5.-A motion for
the previous question, considered a
test vote on the special order for the
amendment to the tariff bill was adop-
ted 1856 to 1so.
Washington, ID. c.. April Sit ap-
peared very probable this afternoon
the rule 10 be reported to the house
to govern the amendments to the
Payne tariff bill would provide for
separate votes on lumber, hides, coal,
gloves, hosiery and for a duty of %
per cent advalorem on petroleum in
place of the countervailing duty.
Revolt Causes Delay.
The attitudS of the republican men,
bers who framed petition TO the ways
and means committee SATURDAY. and
who have been eXerting their influence
today to prevent the schedules in
which they are interested from being
opened up for general amendment. re-
suited in much delay in bringing m
the rule
Order Finally Brought In.
al go utUdle WIS suspended ana
Dalgell of Pennsylvania from the COM
mittee on rules reported the order of
procedure on the bill. The republicans
loudly applauded as the order was sent
to the desk to be read The order
limited amendments TO the bill to those
which the ways and means committee
will report and to lumber. hides. bar
| ley and barley malt schedules. An
| amendment imposing % per cent adj
valorem on petroleum was provided
for. The vote on the bill is fixed for
/ 5 o'clock next Friday.
Takes Up Routine.
| Washington, April 5.-Noon having
j been selected as the time for bringing
in the rule governing the future treat
ment of the Payne tariff bill, the house
today spent the preceding two hours
in considering routine business and
further general debate. Clark of Mis-
souri, made a parliamentary inquiry
whether general debate on the measure
could not be dispensed with and its
reading for amendment begun.
| He wanted the whole bill considered
paragraph by paragraph. I'VE are
ready for that performance now," he
said While the chair was ruling that
the question was not parliamentary
one, the republicans shouted for "the
regular order" The house was thrown
| into great confusion
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05

VICE ADMIRAL PASCUAL CERVERA.
Commander of Spanish Fleet at San
tiago Who Is Dead.
manded the Spanish fleet in the battle
of Santiago, Cuba, died here Saturday
afternoon.
Cervera was retired from the active
list of the Spanish navy Dec. IA last at
his own request on account of failing
health.
Sketch of Career.
He was born Feb Is, 1899; gradua-
ted from the naval academy of San
Francisco, and was commissioned to
the foreign service in 1859; served in
Morocco, and in the Cuban rebellion in
1SGS-7S; later was made minister of
marine. On the outbreak of the war
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05
LOCAL OPTION WAR
REACHES The POLLS
Twenty-seven Counties i'm the Lower
Peninsula of Michigan Are
Voting on Question.

Detroit, April 5.-"Wet' or dry is
the question of the hour today in %
counties in the lower peninsula of
Michigan which are voting on local op-
ton. There are upwards of thous-
and saloons and IA breweries and
wholesale liquor houses which will be
driven out of business if the compaign
of the Anti-Saloon league during the
past two montrs results in success in
all counties.
Confronted by the most ambitious
campaign which the .Anti-Saloon league
has ever undertaken against them in
Michigan, the liquor interests have
made hard fight.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05
BELIEVE THAT
PARIS VERCES
ON BLOODY W AR

Paris, April 5.-Newspapers of Paris
show genuine alarm this morning at
the violent character of the speeches
delivered at the workmen's meeting
revolutionary labor organizations TO
formulate a play against the govern
ment. Public opinion is rapidly be-
coming terrified and the papers de-
clare the belief that a bloody insur-
Iection is imminent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05
CHANGE 'MAzUME'
New Designs for Bills and Coins
of United States Being
Prepared.
WILL BE BUT NINE OF THEM
They Will Be Uniform and System
lied With View of Making
COunterfeiting Difficult.

Washington, April 5.-Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury Coolidge has
approved plan for systematizing de-
|signs for United States notes and coin
certificates, thus carrying into effect
q scheme of uniformity in portrait and
general design for notes of the same
denomination of each class. The plan
adopted will embody the ideas of Off
cialS of the treasury department, bank
ers business men, and currency ex-
perts.
1t is believed the new notes will be
welcomed by the public on account of
their simplicity and the readiness with
which different denominations may be
fixed in mind. At present there are 10
different designs for United States
notes and coin certificates of various
denominations, leading TO confusion
and uncertainty.
Only Nine Designs.
Under the new plan there will be
but nine designs. For instance, there
are two new designs for So notes. The
Indian chief. while the United States
note bears a portrait of Andrew Jack
son, accompanied by a symbolical
group of frontiersman and family.
The $40 gold ceartifcate- carries a
portrait of Michael Hillegas, the first
treasurer of the United States. The
silver certificate of the same demon
ination carries the portrait of Thomas
A. Hendricks; the so greenback, a
buffalo. There is equal variety in the
other denominations.
BY the new plan, the possibility OF
confusion will be reduced TO a mini
mum and at the same time the artistic
quality of the notes will be greatly
enhanced
One Design TO Denomination.
Under the plan adopted, all classes
of notes of each denomination will
carry the same portrait and no por
trait will appear on the note of more
than one denomination. nor will any
lportrait be used which will not be i'm
mediately recognizable by every per
son who handles money.
| The 81 sirver certificate will carry
the portrait of Washington; the 81 sill
YER certificate the portrait of Jeffer
son. The So note. whether silver GER
tificate or greenback, will carry the
portrait of Lincoln; the $40 gold and
silver certificate and United States
note that of Cleveland; the $50 that OF
jackson; the $50 that of Grant, the
500 that of Franklin, the $500 that OF
Salmon p. Chase. the $1,000 that OF
| Alexander Hamilton.
4 Eagle, Buffalo, and Indian Go.
The portraits of Hillegas, Monroe
Silas Wright. Lewis, Clark, Mansfield
and others will be eliminated The
eagle, the buffalo, and the Indian head
which have proved to be easily coun
terfeited. also will disappear All du
plications will be done away with
The classes of notes will be differentia
ted by color and by other distinguish
ing marks
| The new system of notes, it is be
lieved, will tend to discourage coun
terfeiting.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05
LUMBER, HIDES and BARLEY
SCHEDULES ARE LEFT OPEN

four churches, two public school build
ings and Walkers sanitarium were the
public buildings destroyed, and other
residences, most of them new and pre-
tentiOus in the most exclusive resi-
dence section OF the city. So rapidly
did the flames spread that the people
living within radius of three blocks
of the place of the origin had no time
to save anything except the clothing
they wore.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05
FIRE AT Fl. WORTH
Large Area Burned Over and
Damage. Estimated at
$2,50O,O00. Inflicted.
ARE ABLE TO SAVE LITTLE
Dynamite Used to Check Blaze
Which Is Driven by High
Wind.

Fort Worth. Texas. .-e.April 5.-Fan-
ned by stiff wind. fire which origi-
mated i'll q barn at Jennings avenue
and Petersmith street, in the southern
portion of this city Saturday after.
noon, swept an area 10 blocks III
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05
HEAVY SNOW OVER
ROCKY MOUNTAINS

Denver. Colo. April 5.-A heavy
snow storm prevails over the entire
Rock mountain region. The temp er-
ature is moderate. The storm will t.
of great benefit. Railroads are eXper-
fencing but little Inconvenience.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05
GOVERNMENT OUTLINES
CASE AGAINST STANDARD

shown by the further fact that the
prices to these railroads are substan-
TALLY double the prices charged to Il
few favored lines, notably the Penn
sylvania. For instance. the brief says.
the New York Central railroad for 10
years has paid about 100 per cent per
gallon more than the Pennsylvania 1t
is also stated that wherever the Stand
ard can do so, it has made contracts
whereby it has either marketed part
or all of the product of the independ-
ent refineries, or has limited the ouS-
put of the same.
One of the evidences of the monopoly
of the defendants, it is charged, is its
enormous earnings. These earnings
are summarized as follows: The
Standard Oil trust and the Standard
Oil company on an investment of
69,024. .4S0 had earned up to the end
Of 1906. $S3S, 1888. Adding the es-
timated profits of 1907 and 1908. We
have substantially, the brief states, q
billion dollars earned by this company
in 81 years with an original investment
of about $69,000,000
Further on the brief says:
1T has usually been claimed for
large corporations in this country that
they have increased business corpor-
ations in this country that they haze
increased business and decreased the
cost to the consumer, but in the case
of the Standard Oil company it has
during 10 or 15 years actually increaS-
ed the price to the retailer. and this
a good deal more than the prices IF
other products throughout the coun-
try, although the price of its raw
material and cost of manufacture and
sale during these years has increased
very little, if any
Has Directors on Roads.
Recognizing the Importance to the
Standard of railway transportation, its
officials and their associates during the
last 10 years, it is said, have been
directors in many of the leading rail
road systems of the United States.
For instance, the Standard interests
have in the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul four directors; Union and South
ern Pacific and Santa Fe two each;
New York, New Haven & Hartford,
New York Central and allied lines.
Missouri Pacific, Boston & Maine. Wis
consin Central. Rutland railroad and
others, one each.
The brief says that the government
does not wish to be understood as dis
couraging enterprises or as taking IL
position against legitimate competitioa
but if the Sherman act means anything
in this country, it means monopoly
acquired by such methods of compeli-
tion as are pursued by the Standard
Oil company. Unless it is enforced,
the small corporation or individual
who wishes to engage in business will
have absolutely no opportunity at all.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05
Gov. HASKELL
IN COURT FOR
FRAUD TRIAL

Tulsa. Okla. April 5.-Governor
Haskell and six other prominent Ok
lahomans, under indictment for al
legged fraud in the Muskogee town lot
cases. appeared in the United States
circuit court today, ready for trial.
Judge John A. Marshall of Utah. the
judge assigned to try the cases, was
ON hand.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05

with the United States he sailed from
Cape Verde islands with four cruisers
and three torpedo boat destroyers
April 80, 1898; entered the hGIbor of
Santiago de Cuba May 10, and lost his
entire fleet off that point July 3 in an
attempt to force his way through
SIMPSONS blockading squadron.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05
Roosevelt at Naples.

Naples, April 5.-The steamer Ham
burg with eX-President Roosevelt and
party on board arrived at Naples at
los p. m. today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05

EXPENSES YEARS DEMO-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-05
House Leaders Bring in
Rule of Procedure
On Tariff.
VOTE AT 3 P. M. FRIDAY
Revolt of Republicans Results
in Partial Victory Over
Machine.

Washington, April 5.-A motion for
the previous question, considered a
test vote on the special order for the
amendment to the tariff bill was adop-
ted 1856 to 1870.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
New York Produce.

led York, Aug. 7.-Beeves, feeding
nominally steady. Calves feeding
steady. Sheep and lambs, sheep 500
to $50: lambs 7.37 IL to S.25; one
car, SIS; culls, 500. Hogs feeding
steady. Flour quiet with prices un-
settled. Minnesota, 6 to 6.25; winter
patents, $40 to $40. Rye dull, 4.35
1.7O.-Rye dull; barley steady Wheat
firm; No. 2 red new LIZ IL; domestic
elevator No. 2 red new, 1.13 IL
prompt f. o. b. afloat. Options Is
to lac. net higher. September, 1.O9;
December, LOO Is; May, LOT rs.
Corn firm; Nc. 2 old, 70 IL elevator,
and 80 delivered f. O.. b.. afloat; nom
inal. Options, 3-S to 1-2c. net high
err. September, 70; December, "a IA.
Oats quiet; mixed, 4S IL. Beef
steady. Meats steady. Lard barely
ROsin, quiet, strained common to
good, $40. Turpentine, steady, So to
SO IL. Rio firm; domestic fair to
extra, 3 to 6 ga; Japan nominal.
Molasses steady; New Orleans open
kettle, good to choice. 2S to AZ. Sugar,
raw firm; fair refining, 3.58; molasses
sugar, 3.33; refined, steady, confec-
TONERS A, AIS.
Futures steady, net unchanged to 10
points higher.
Butter easy, unchanged.
Cheese firm; State full cream, IA IL
to Is IL; State full cream, small and
large, colored or white fancy, IA IA;
State, full cream, good to prime, IS
IA; State full cream good to prime,
13 IA to 10 "a; do common to fair,
II to 10; skins, full to specials, 3 to
II 1-2.
Eggs quiet, unchanged.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
Clearing House Statement.

New York, Aug. 1.-THE statement
Of clearing house btnks for the week
shows that the banks hold $25,945,6OO
more than the requirements Of the Is
per cent reserve rule. This is a de-
crease of s8,213,SO0 in the opo
tomato cash reserve as compared with
last week. The statement follows:
Loans $1,461,527,S 500, increase $1O,-
$685. SOC.
Deposits .$1,43o,251,200, increase
$3,377,6O0.
Circulation s~4e,7e7,1oo, increase
$361,4O0.
Legal tenders s7e,4O3,4oo, decrease
$~2.57O.5OO.
Specie s3~o4,1o5,ooo decrease ST.
469.4Oo.
Reserve required, ss57,562,So0, in
crease $4,000.
Surplus $25,945,60O decrease S.
$4,000.
Elk. Z. S. Deposits s~26,348,S5O, de-
crease s~S.342.SO0
The percentage of actual reserve Of
the clearing house banks today was
26.75.
h statement of banks and trust
companies Of Create New York not
reporting to the clearing house shows
that those institutions have aggre-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
Work Among the Flowers.

Keep the chrySanthemumS in a
shady place during the water
regularly, pinch into shape, prune and
rain. Keep the plant free from in
sect pests.
Cyclamen plants should be rested
during the summer months-nOt al
lowed to dry off entirely, but watered
sparingly and kept as dormant as
possible.
To root an ivy geranium make q
hole under the leaves of the large
plant, set the slip about three inches
deep, allowing three joints to be un-
der the soil, and they are almost sure
to root
Civ liquid manure only When the
ground is moist; the roots cannot alb
sorb the fertilizer when in want OF
water; hence, the giving of fertilizers
during drought often results in the
death of the plant.
In time of drought, if water enough
to soak the ground is not to be had
regularly, it is better to give none to
most plants, as in that case plants
will adjust themselves to prevailing
conditions.
If surface Waterings are given dur-
ing dry weather the surface roots will
start to receive it, and when it is with
held these roots will die and the plants
suffer thereby.
In trying to save seeds of many
plants tie a little cheese cloth bag over
the seed pod just before it ripens. sc
the pod. when opening. cannot scatter
the seeds. Many plants. however, do
not "come true" to seed.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
TIME TO PLAN THE SILO.
Fore-Handed Farmers Will Not Put
OF Building Their SilO Until the
last Nfinu-a

A'N
(By Joseph Newman, Illinois Dairy
mans Association.)
SilOS should be built in time to take
care of the crops before frost comes.
and the thrifty farmer will build as
early as possible.
| built a round Silo, 16 feet, 4 inch
es in diameter by 80 feet high, and
placed in it about seven acres of drill
ed corn we'll cared, and three acres of
hill corn from the shock, all cut and
blown into the silo, mixed as it went
in and wet down we'll.
This made 125 tons of the best win
ter feed for dairy COWS that l ever
saw.
We started feeding it to fifty COWS
and ten head of young took or Dec. 1
and it was sufficient to last them un-
til March 10.
The corn put in in this way furnish
ed not only the roughage, but concen-
trates, and all needed to balance the
ration was four pounds of wheat bran
per day for each COW.
Following this stock in the barn
yard were about thirty hogs, shotes
and sows. and with practically no
other feed, I never saw stock look bet
ter than on March 1St.
We found the best way to feed was
to feed the gran and gluten meal be-
fore and during milking time, and
the ensilage after milking. The milk
Was OOuShl DS III VI Lie a So I'LL
companies which supply Chicago with
bottled milk and was pronounced by
them a fine article, testing on the aV-
erage about 81 per cent. butter fat by
the Babcock test.
For a dairy Of fifty cows, two round
silos, each IS feet in diameter by SO
feet high, should furnish enough for
the winters feeding and to carry the
stock through the dry time the next
fall.
In providing plenty of succulent food
Of this nature for the dairy milk can
be made better and cheaper and more
COWS can be kept on the same number
of acres.
In building this fall do not worry
about the roof until the Silo is filled;
no matter .abOut the weather, as.
should it rain while filling or later, it
will do no harm, as corn fairly We'll
matured needs more moisture than 1t
contains to max the best silage.
1 do not put anything on top of the
silage after filling and did not lose
six inches on top, and the pigs took
care Of that after it was thrown into
the barnyard.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
MAKING CIDER VINEGAR.
The Process is Simple and Involves
Very Little Work and The Profit is
FCpn2t
BY S. M. MILLER

by ,. M. NllIliEft.
There are many apple orchards, es-
pecially those that have never been
sprayed or cultivated in which large
quantities Of apples are allowed to go
to waste every year
Such fruit makes a good grade Of
cider vinegar, n a handsome profit
can be made in utilizing it in this
way.
Ever if one sprays and cultivates
the h regularly each season
and does everything possible to pre-
vent having anything but marketable
culls.
However, do not allow these un-
merchantable apples to go to waste.
Make cider vinegar from them and
get a good price for the product right
here at home.
Making cider vinegar is very sim
pie. There is practically no labor
attached to 1t other than extracting
the juice from the apples.
Perfect cleanliness first, last and all
lance. Apples that are picked up
from the ground are usually dirty
and should be thoroughly washed be-
fore being placed in the cider mill.
The mill and all utensils used in
the making must be kept we'll cleaned
if a good product is to be made. To
use unclean fruit or unclean vessels
simply invites bad fermentation.
If all sorts of germs which are
found on dirty and decayed fruit are
put in the cider a good quality Of
vinegar must not be expected.
Where one has no mill the fruit
can be pulped by hand with wooden
mauls in a wooden trough, and where
only a sufficient quantity of vinegar
is wanted for home use it is not a
difficult matter to secure it in this
way.
The best receptacles in which to put
the cider are molasses kegs Or whis-
key barrels, preferably those which
have held vinegar previously, since
fermentation commences sooner when
the fermenting organism is present
than when it must find it's way into
the liquid from outside mediums.
To make a good grade of vinegar
two factors are essential during the
process of fermentation. First, the
air must ave free access to the LIQUID
to support the organism. Second. the
temperature must be favorable for the
growth of the fermenting agent.
The barrels Or kegs should be placed
in a room where the temperature viii
be fairly constant at 10 to IS degrees.
placed on their sides in order to give
more surface to the atmosphere, and
filled with the Juice to within six
inches to eight inches of the bung-
hole.
The hole should be carefully COW
cred with clean cotton so as to ex-
clude the entrance Of germs and YER
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
Chicago Grain.

Chicago, Aug. retrospective lib
eral shipments Of wheat from Rus
STA and continued favorable weather
condition in this country and Canada
for the new crop had a tendency to
weaken the wheat market here today,
but a sharp bulge in corn partially
offset these influences. At the close
prices were Is higher to 3-8 to lie.
lower compared with yesterdays final
gureS.
Corn was buoyant, owing to o
tinued hot weather, and was lac.
higher.
Oats also closed firm, but provisions
were eaSy