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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
colonel James Hamilton Lewis.

The Chicago Inter-Ocean contains
the following tribute to Hon. James
Hamilton Lewis, the eloquent Chi
cagoan who spoke in Rock Island dur.
ing last falls campaign:
Among intelligent observers the
jests concerning Colonel Lewis's whis
kers, his ever ready compliments so
the ladies' and his ever flowing cour
tesy to his opponents have long ceased
to disguise the fact that behind these
trappings is man of intellect, oi
power, of hard-headed practical judo
ment of wide experience of men and
things, of patriotic aspirations and oil
invariable faithfulness.
Deemed spectacular chiefly because
it is his nature TO be different in man
ner from the average man, Colonel
Lewis is admitted by all who really
know him to be not the least futile in
thought, purpose or deed.
He is an unusual combination Of
qualities. Most men gifted to attract
personal attention seem to live for the
personal attention they attract and SC
are weak in accomplishment.
Not so Colonel Lewis. He attracts
attention because tits his nature to
But he does the JOB and gets it done
He may be. likened to an automobile
whose honking, instead OF being mere
ly noise, expresses its speed in goin!
about its business.
When we read in the newspapers
that political Importance seems to be
attached in democratic local circles &C
the return of Carter II. Harrison we
realize how much the local democracy
needs a leader whose movements
would be of real Importance. The for
mer mayor is so obviously Belisarius
who is not even pathetic-whose rags
as we all see now, never were any
thing but rags. and so cannot be the
relics of grandeur that ever was real
But the return of the Hon. James
Hamilton Lewis is the return of 4
much-experienced Ulysses, with a new
stock of wonder tales, of course. and q
vocabulary adequate to their telling
but still a man who knows how an6
can do, and whom the democrati,
Penelope should therefore welcome
with wide open arms and would right,
prefer to all her suitors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
Hurnor and
Philosophy
~ DUNCAN HEJSHiT0
PUBLICITY.

II you serenely owh the mint,
You need not advertise.
Your business will go&on the same
If prices fall or rise.
But are you trying to sglcceed -
In other lines, think
A flier you had better take
In useful printers ink.
Love used to make the wor9d 60 round
Before the types were set
And in some places far remote
1t is effective yet,
But we are in different day.
So take a friendly hint.
To make 1t turn around youryway
Go get your name in print.
II you can corner all the air !
Betwixt us and the skies
And make the people come to.yo0
You need not advertise:
But. laboring to get your share
In any other line.
You have to call. by hook or crook,
Attention to your sign.
The people in this busy world
Don't have the time to stop
To ask policemen on the beat
Directions to your shop
To lead them gently to your trough
And then to make them drink
Attention of the mob, arrest
With noisy printerstfnk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
Too Late.

Speaking of vain regrets. did you
hear about the lady who was locked
out of her own house?'
NO"
"She had come away and forgot to
take her key, and the lock was one Of
those spring catches that siam shut Of
their own accord. OF course she was
very much annoyed. and as her hus-
band began hunting around for lad
der and trying various windows. all Of
which were securely locked. she sat
down on the steps. buried her face In
her hands and said. with deep emo
ton, oh. if l had only married .
burglarv"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
Compulsory Voting.

lt is not a new suggestion that the
neglect of civic duties by electors
be prevented by making voting COM
pulsory. This remedy for the apathy
displayed on the occasion of public
elections, more particularly by the
eminently respectable, has been pro-
posed more than once by social re-
formers in this country; but they
never got any further with their
reform than the raising of discus
sion in the press, which would last
for a week or two and then die out
One would scarcely regard Spain as
aScountry where the lead would be
taken in trying out social-political
experiments; none the less it is Spain
which has been the first civilized
country to provide itself with COM
pulsory voting law, and the same has
been tested for the first time in the
recent municipal election at Madrid.
The law requires every person hav-
ing the qualifications of an elector to
vote unless he belong to one of the
exempted classes or be absent from
home or incapacitated by illness. The
exempt are judges, magistrates,
priests and men over 20 years of
age. Neglect of the duty of voting
lis punished by the publication of the
| names of the delinquents, which, in
the case of private citizen, is to be
regarded as a public cenSure, or, in
the case of an employee of the state,
as demerit to be put on record ana
counted against him when the ques-
| ton of eligibility for promotion in
the civil service comes up. This pen
atty would not greatly concern our
neglectful responsibilities, some of
whom make a boast of the fact that
they have not voted in so and sc
| many years. Our officeholding vot-
ers need no legal spur to make them
| go to the ballot box
The Spanish law, however, pre-
scrihes other and more effective pen
| alties. Non-voting citizens must suf.
| fer an increase of per cent in their
taxes. If they are officeholders their
salaries will be locked / per cent
A repetition of the offense will dis.
qualify the offender for any public
Office. whether elective or appointive
| The, Spanish law, adds the Phila
delphia Record. is of such recent en-
actment that the effect thereof as {
encouragement of hesitancy remain.
still unknown. For the present it i.
noteworthy merely as a primary eff
fort to deal with a recognized ant
Widespread evil. The assertion tina
the right to vote includes the RICH
to refrain from voting, and that on,
can express choice by abstention a!
well as by casting ballot, is mere
Illogical fineSse. In Representative,
bodies the members mot voting" OF
important divisions are called dodg
ers; and an entire constituency is bu
a larger governing body. Shirkin,
is as wrong in one case as in the 9th
err; and, while representative assem-
blies can forbid and penalize shirk
ing by their rules, the shirkers in
whole community of voters could b
reached only by a penal law. l
might not be worth while botherin
with non-voting responsibilities VIII
are secretly with the predatory or
CARNATIONS and yet too cowardly t
stand up and be counted. There ar
many neglectful citizens. neverthe
less, who could be stimulated to az
tivity, and who could vote right
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
BRENNAN MADE MARSHALL
Is Elected at Meeting of the High
School Seniors.

The senior class of the high school
held a meeting yesterday afternoon to
elect class marshal, and Dan Bren-
nan was chosen unanimously. Seats
were also given out for the assembly
on senior day and class day. The
program and commencement invita-
tions arrived this morning. They were
somewhat delayed due to unavoidable
mistakes, but by rushing the order
the printers were able to finish them
in ample time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

According to a statement published
in London paper, King Edward has
three suits of clothes for each day in
the year. But what's the use? He
doesn't really look well in any of them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
REPORT is FLATTERING
Inspection Committee Tells of Situa-
ton in Mexico.

ton in Mexico.
Rev. J. G.. iHultkrans of st. Paul,
w. w. Wilmerton of this city and G.
S. Atkinson of Davenport, the commit
tee which recently returned from a
trip of inspection to the plantation of
the Rock Island Tropical Plantation
company in Mexico, have made their
very flattering terms of the conditions
on the companys property, and cob
clude by stating that representations
made here have been exceedingly
conservative"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

Suburbanites report the discovery
of several new kinds of weeds in
their lawns this, spring. Give those
weeds the usual treatment. They are
entitled to no special consideration on
account of being strangers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

Abdul Hamid employed 800 cooks
when he resided at the Yildiz Kiosk.
Yet some people are unable to under
stand why he acted good deal like
a crazy man.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

People who would rather accuse an
offender than excuse q penitent are
comfortable people to keep away from
The easier man makes love the
more woman suspects him and the
harder for him the more she ridicules
him.
But we never for a moment imagine
that we are barely tolerated BY our
heighbors.
1t is hard to believe that other peo-
pie really mean what they say when
they speak in censure Of US.
| There are too many men in this
world who know more about what ais
the general government than they ID
about what ais themselves.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

by compensation and maintaining the
public interests intact This works
|hardships upon the individual, but they
are incident to civilization, with it's
physical developments, demanding
more and more the means of rapid
transportation of persons and prop.
orfy
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

fused an offer of $1,000 to fly in New
York. There are too many sharply
pointed buildings to come down on in
New York
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

If Wisconsin collects a fine of $25
from everybody in that state vino
swears, and from everybody who
swears in that--state, it will be the
richest commonwealth in the union
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

Five men were hanged in Constan-
tinople the other day while singing.
Lots of people in this country should
be hanged for trying to sing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

Just Amusing Themselves.
When finished is the tariff bill
Twill be. my fellow men.
A deal like marching up tho hill
And marching down again.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

they should take the trouble In
their cases the compulsive effect OF
a fine and public censure might be
helpful.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island, Ill. [En-
tered at the postofice as second-class
uatter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

OF course Senator Depew is in favor
of the Aldrich bill. That's why the
Interests" elected him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

Many boy would rather b
Wright than president.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

Senator Tillman is opposed to pro
lection as principal, but not as q
practice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

1t must be that Senator S. NJ. Gu!
lom has lost his voice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

Do you realize that we are little
more than six weeks distant from the
safe and sane Fourth?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

1t is the gown and not the essay
that bothers the sweet girl grad.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

After all Mr.. Rogers of the Stan.
dard Oil company left only SIS, 900,
GOO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

Bully for Best! He is Greater
Rock Island builder proper
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
Had Experience.

Had Experience.
"You know the meek
ooh, yes: know all about Il"
"Well. say it,
'.The meek shall inherit good advice
and all the leftovers."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

At that, little restriction won't
hurt Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

OF Course.
1.-THE new preacher is determined to
marry"
"Our new preacherY'
ayes"
81 wonder why"
"For the fees"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

Tiekdish Job.
THAT horse ran like creased light
ming"
lis there such a thing as creased
lightning, PAP"
II guess so.'
1.-The man has to wear rubber gloves
when he greases it, doesn't he?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
BY THE J. W. POTTER CO.

TERMS.-Daily, 10 cents per week.
Weekly, 81 per year in advance.
All communications of argumentative
character, political or religious, must
have real name attached for publica-
ton. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20

''Do you think she is as young as she
says she Isl?
Eyes, or younger"
"Why so?"
81 heard her telling the things she
would demand in q husband"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-20
Thursday, May 20, 1909.

Holy Thursday.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1909-07-17
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NEW
TOWNSHIP

Notice is hereby given that at a regu-
lar meeting of the Board of County Com
missions of Lvon county. held at Day
ton in said county. State of Nevada, on
the Sth day Of July, A. ID. 1909. the fol-
lowing resolution was passed and
adopted:
Whereas. A petition having been pre-
scented to the board praying for the form
alton of new township and to be
known as Spragg Township, as herein
after described; aud.
Whereas, II is the opinion of the
Board of County Commissioners of Lyon
COUNTY, State of Nevada. that the public
good requires said new township, there.
fore. be il
RESOLVED, that a township, to he
known as Spragg Township. be created,
formed and established. and containing
and embracing all that portion OF Lyon
County, State of Nevada, living south ol
an Fast and West line drawn from the
East line Of Smith Valley Township on
the West, running thence to the Lyon
aud Esmeralda Counties line on the
east. the basic or location point OF which
line shall be the n Il. corner OF Sec. g
r. 10 N. r IS T. NJ. u. Il. < NJ. and
through which said line shall pass; tn,
same being identical with the section
lines along which il shall follow.
Ayes Strosnider, Gates, Martin
chairman.
NAYS None.
Absent None.
Attest: DIV. MELARKEY, Clerk
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1909-07-17
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To John Beckman. u. b. Tranter, An
ton Moglie and Thomas Cescutti,
their heirs executors. administrat-
ors, and to whom it NAV concern:
You are hereby notified that I, Charles
a. Vardy, co-owner, have expended dur
ing the year 1908, the sum OF one
hundred dollars in performing labor
and making improvements on the Gao
tus mining claim, situated in the Ma
son Valley mining district, Lyon county,
State of Nevada, said claim having been
located OH the 18th day OF February,
1907; certificate of location of said claim
is recorded with the Mining District Re
corder of said mining district aud with
the County Recorder of Lyon County,
and that the sum OF one hundred dollars
was expended by me upon said claim,
said expenditure having been made for
the purpose of holding said claim under
the provisions of Section 1924 OF the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States, and
being the amount required to hold said
claim for the year ending December 81
1908.
This notice will be published once a
week for ninety DAYS and il, at the ex
piration of ninety days after such notice
by publication is given. you should fail
or refuse to contribute the sum Of
twenty dollars for and on account of
said, claim. the same being the amount
each OF YOU are to contribute aud is
your proportion Of the one-hundred dol :
lars so expended by me OIL said claim,
your interest in said claim upon which
YOU fail or refuse to contribute said SUM
OF twenty dollars shall become the prop
eriv OF the Undersigned said co-owner
under Section l324 aforesaid
| CIIAS. a. NARUY.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1909-07-17

George c. Waite, convicted BY
The federal jury at Carson of forg-
ery i'm connection with Wells
Fargo's Office at Carson, has been
sentenced to five years imprlson
ment in the government prison at
McNeill's Island.
The Humphrey Co.'S slaughter
house and refrigerator plant at
Reno, suffered a $4,000 loss by
FIRE Sunday. Two hundred dress
ed becves and sheep were de-
stroved. The loss is estimated at
100000.
II is currently reported that the
Glasgow Western mine at Col
conda, Humboldt county, will re-
sumo work next week. 1t is said
that the company will put on "A
full force of men at Kramer hill
and start up the mill again.-Sil-
yer State.
Monday was the forty second
anniversary of the organization of
the Virginia City Miners Union
and the agreement signed then
by representatives OF the union
and mine owners has been strictly
observed and no friction has ever
married the friendly relations then
entered into.
In the MCGOWAN murder case
tried at Elko, the jury brought in
a verdict OF acquittal The verdict
was anticipated by the district at
torney, who had prepared com
plant against him for insanity
He was taken into custody on this
charge and placed in the keeping
of his attorney until he can be ex-
amined as to his sanity.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1909-07-17

ANDREW CUTLERY.
Attorney for plaintiff.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1909-07-17
Notice 60 Al Persons Holding Or
Claiming Liens.

In the Justices Court of Mason Valley
Township. County of Lyon, State
OF Nevada.
r. ]. Lennard, Jr., plaintiff,
w \. Pittman, defendant.
Notice to all persons holding or claim
ing liens.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons
holding or claiming liens on the follow
ing mining claims. to wit The Sunset
Mining Claim. the Sunset Mining Claim
No. /, the Sunset Mining Claim No. 2,
the Sunset Mining Claim No. ) and the
Sunset Fraction, situated in the Mason
Mining District. County of Lyon, State
of Nevada. and OIL, or on. the improve
ments. machinery. buildings. ami the
appurtenances thereon or thereto be-
longing. to be and appear before said
Court. on the Sd day of April, 1909. and
to exhibit then and there the proof Of
their said liens.
J. ANDREW CUTLERY.
Attorney for plaintiff
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1909-07-17
TO SUBSCRIBERS

The Times desires to call the attention
of those indebted to this Office for sub
scription to settle the same at their
earliest convenience. The amount, in
dividually, is not much, but. collective
ly, the sum is colossal in the eye OF the
printer. Come, or send, early and glad
den the hearts of the Office with few
pieces of silver. The said silver is need
ed in the business.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1909-07-17

P. Karaus has located in Virginia City.
He solicits the continued patronage Ct
his friends and of those who desire good
watch work done. See ] G. Gallagher.
express agent No charge for traus-
portation
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1909-07-17
serial ois7s.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
serial oIS7s.
United States Land Office. at
Carson city Nevada.
March q 1904.

Notice Is hereby given that Lille u. wilson,
one vi the heirs and Tor the heirs OF Robert y.
Tiilay deceased OF Nerington Nevads who on
March 1904 made Homestead Entry No 7qs,
serial no: ois75 tor ). u 81 u Section Q, and W
a. Y, Mount Daiio Meridian, has fled notice
OF inteutiun 10 make final five year proof TO
establish cls'h' TO the lend above described be.
s lo.e ,hs k.R,sisf and Receiver OF the United
the ath day Of April 1907.
Claimant nanes as witnesses.
ueolet ". wilson, John e.. MCGOWAN. Earl
Wilson and Ezra Cross. All Of Yerinpton Nevada.
LOUIS J. CONN.
Register
rnN' Pntheation Mat,ii !. l9og.
Lasl publication Apli t. lyr)
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1909-07-17
STATE NEWS

Carl Morris. Fallon youth, was
drowned there last week in an
irrigating ditch.
C. c. Petty, the Sparks wife
murderer has been sentenced to
die October /.
Fortunate Tarsitana shot and
killed Mrs. NJ. l'ava at Reno Sat
urday.
In broad daylight Monday the
bus horses of the Riverside hotel
| at Reno were stolen by unknown
parties.
Howard J.. Grmshaw, Gold
field pioneer and prominent in
Colorado railroad circles, died re-
Gently near Prescott, Arizona.
Don +. Hudgins and wife OF
Sonora, Cal, have been arrested
at Winnemucca on a charge OF
llorsestealing.
The Lakeside Park hotel at
Lake Tahoe was destroy ed by FIRE
last week. The contents were
saved.
Three men, Edward Hopf, Roy
Barr and A. ]. Elton, lost their
lives while working on a prospect
near Goldfield Sunday, by the ex-
plosion OF a gasoline engine.
A receiver has been asked for
by some of the ockholders of the
Nevada Hills Mining company.
Conspiracy and fraud is charged
i'll the petition.
The Tonopah & Gold6eld rail
road has met the freight rate cut
of the Santa Fe road. The peo-
pie of the southern country are
jublant over the outcome.
Denver people have bought the
Conway ranch at Sweetwater. IL
is the intention to erect power
plant aud supply the Lucky Boy
district with electricity.
People in the new camp OF
Glendale, Nye county, who pur-
chased firewood from Indians cut
on government land, have been
compelled by the forest ranger to
pay 81 cord extra.
The Southern Pacific manage
ment will shortly supersede steam
power with electric power ON that
part of their system crossing the
Sierra Nevada.
Complete control of the Rem,
Power, Light and Water company
has passed to w. p Hammond
the 'dredger king" and a cmpany
Of associates, all residents of Sar
Francisco.
Justice Whitehouse of Augusta
Maine, has ordered the Nevads
Mining and Smelling compan,
dissolved in response to bill tilee
by Parry Ashmore of New York
alleging mismanageuent.
The jury trying the case o
Springmeyer vs.. Dangberg at &c
noa, rendered a verdict for de
PENDANT. The plaintiff sued to re
cover $4,000. alleging that water
from the Dangberg ranch hae
damaged him to that extent.
Among the precious metal mine
Of America two of Nevada's TAX,
: the lead for dividends paid thu
far this year. Goldheld Consoli
dated with SI,o5o.74I to its credit
{ leads among the gold mines of thi
| continent. and Tonopah of Nevad
With payments amounting to 5000,
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1909-07-17

Chambers has broken out among
the horses of Gold6eld and many
will have to be killed. The case
has been fully inquired into and
steps have been taken to prevent
the spread of the disease.