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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
Yesterday in Congress

Washington, Feb. 13.-Following is a
summary, compiled from the official
proceedings, of the work of both
houses of congress yesterday:
SENATE-The senate was not in ses-
sion.
HOUSE THE charges of corruption
and fraud in connection with the PAN
anna canal purchase made by Represen-
tative Rainey recently were reviewed in
the house when Mr.. Lowering of Massa :
chusetts entered a sweeping defense of
William Nelson Cromwell. William H.
Taft. Charles p. Taft and others whom
volved in the transaction. When Mr..
Lowering began the Illinois member had
gone TO the station to take train for
Baltimore. where was tasdefiver q Lin
coin address. but he was hastily called
back, Mr. Lowering in the meantime
suspending his remarks. Mr.. Rainey
| was obliged to leave shortly afterward
to keep his engagement, but he an
nounced that he would make fun reply.
The Indian appropriation bill technic-
| ally was under consideration and all
| the speeches were made under license
! of general debate. Speeches were made
! on a variety of other subjects. and
about 500 pension bills We're passed:
! Previously to taking up the Indian bill!
| brief exercises commemorative of Lin
coins birthday were held. The chap
lain feelingly referred to Lincoln's S
lie character and services. Mr.. Boutell OF
Illinois read the famous Gettysburg ad-
dress. and Mr.. Nye of Minnesota spoke
in eloquent terms of the martyred pres
ident. At $50 p. m. the house ad-
journed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
Newspaper Readers Are
Barred by Peculiar
Court Ruling.
EXAMINED 3,O19 men
Four Totally IIIiterate and Two
Scarcely Understand
English.

Nashville, Tenn, Feb. 13.-The jury
was sworn in this morning in the case
of Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, Robin
J. Cooper and John d. Sharp, charged
with the Staying of former Senator
Carmack. Court then adjouned until
Tuesday, when the taking of testimony
will begin
At Work p Days.
For 25 days the court, attorneys and
officers have been Wearily trying to
get competent jurors. The law made
those incompetent who had talked
with witnesses to the murder or talk.
ed with some one who had talked with
witnesses. On application for bail To-
cal papers printed stenographic stories
of testimony of witnesses
Newspapers Held Witnesses.
The supreme court has decided that
a newspaper printing verbatim testi-
mony becomes a witness who has
talked with a witness. Therefore, ev-
cry one in the county who read the
testimony became incompetent to sit
on the case as juror. This elimina-
ted at once most of the intelligent cit
izens of the county AS a result it
was necessary to draw five venires, or
total of 3,O19, before a jury was Sc
cured
Four Totally IlIiterate.
AS it is, four of the jury can neither
read nor write, and two others under
stood English only indifferently. Ev-
!! cry man of the II swore he had not
read newspaper since before the
killing. and some had not read one for
10 years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

tbs Guild, Jr., governor of Massachu-
sets, and Professor John Clark Free
man were other speakers of the even
ing.
Ambassador Takahira was enthusias-
tically received. In his address he gave
a brilliant eulogy on the life of the
great emancipation from foreign point
Of view, con Guiding tribute to the
golden rule of diplomacy as exemplified
by Lincoln and Hay and in which cat
egory of statesmen he placed Theo
dore Roosevelt, owing to the presi
dents efforts to stave off anti-Japanese
Legislation on the Pacific coast.
Million Take Part in New York.
New York, Feb. 13.-Beautiful ant
sincere was the homage paid here yes
terday to the memory of Abraham Lin
coln In practically every school house
church and hall memorial service!
were held. and it is estimated tina
more than 100000 persons participa
ted. More than 100000 children at
tended the exercises in the SCI publ
school houses.
The city's official celebration wa
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
MASKED PAIR
ROB train IN
Good OLD way

Denver, Feb. 13.-While running 80
miles an hour, Denver & Rio Grande
passenger train No. from the west
was held up at 3:15 this morning be.
tween Fort Logan and Denver by two
bandits who suddenly appeared from
the coal tender and compelled the en-
gineer and fireman to stop the train.
The surrounding country is being
secured by secret service men and
troops al Fort Logan may be asked to
help. Estimates of the amount Sc
cured by the robbers vary and info--
nation on this point is very meagre
The clerks agree only registered mail
was taken.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
BY TAV.

BY lAV.
Especial Correspondence of The Argus.)
Washington, Feb. 11.-Lock AMI
dam. or sea level Which? Discuss
ion of this question is raging like a
blizzard of words among Ehe lawmak.
ers in the national capital. Senator
Kittredge, chairman of the commit
tee on interoceanic canals, and Sena-
tors Teller and Foraker, started the
ball rolling in favor of the sea level
plan
The ''sea levelists' seem to he gain
ing strength every day. When Presi-
dent-elect Taft reaches Washington he
will be urged to come out in favor
of the sea level idea.
Are In Something of Panic.
1t cannot be denied now that the
leaders of the republican parry are 3:
somewhat of panic over the situa-
tion The administration has practi.
cally no material to combat the charge
of engineers of high standing ability
that "if the present plans are pc"
sisted in" the cost of the canal to the
American people will reach the stu
pendous sum of s500000.000. instead
of the $145 100000 originally contem
plated.
That the Gatun dam and it's locks
will be gigantic and costly engineer
ing blunder If completed, is the prin
cipal argument of the sea level adher
ents.
| Although Colonel Goethals. the en-
| gineer in charge of the work, has here
tofore endorsed the canal and loci
plan, it is being asserted in man.
quarters that he really favors the SCI
level plan, but hesitates to express hi
views lest they make him unpopula
Il with the administration. It is wei
known that persons holding high sa
aried positions on the canal believ
their jobs would be in peril shoul
they adversely criticise anything tha
goes on down there.
81 silence Part of watchword.
do your work, draw your salar
;: and keep your mouth closed" is tn
watchword on the isthmus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
LOCK OR SEA LEVEL CANAL NOW THE BURNING QUESTION

feet above sea level, and of such
great depth that vessels could make
their way over it for eight miles. and
pounded waters would be SO deep that
there would be no need nf excavation.
The charge is made that because of
the geological structure of he is.illnus
the foundations are, by nature. SO TN
stable that no engineering skill can
overcome this inherent fault. that the
dam will be ever settling at one point
or another, opening fissures through
which the pent waters viii rush, and
that all chances are that it is nore
than likely to frequently slough off
| its bulky sides.
Hills Would Leak.
The essence of opinion of engineers
of unquestionable standing and repute
! is that, while the dam itself might be
SO constructed iaat it could b. m;ids
to hold water possibly by cover.
II ing the porous rocks with clay
- the surrounding hills which form
continuation of the dam, are so per
vious that it would be Impossible by
d similar method to iinrchnd the i!ow
of the Chagres or to imprisOn Its
waters into lake. 1t is declared that
the seepage in the hills that form 8
continuation CT the dam. alone. wuuIt
be such that no consli. abe boiy u
water coull ever be n i1taiue,l. T.hi:
is very b~ief review of the criticism
against the Gatun dan plans as re
lated to the writer by u nroniiEen
civil engineer who had been 4 memhe
of the canal t1iIEiIssi1I
The lock system has other alleges
faults. 1t is asserted that If one of tn
locks should ever happen to break tn
| vessels in the canal at the time woul
, have to depend upon their own safet
: devices for salvation. For. in tn
} ipresent scheme of impounding til
| waters of the Chagres, ships are t
: be raised to an s5-foot level above tn
l sea by a fight of locks. Damage t
, any one of these locks would b
S fraught with great disaster to an
{ ships in the canal, it is declared.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

The last quoted expression of Col
onel Goethals to reach Washington
was:
will build it. If they want sea level
canal l will build it,
'The sea level canal can be built
for s247, 100000, according to the orr
ginal estimates" says Senator Kilt
redge, land the lock and dam plan
according to present indications will
cost s400,000,000 and how much more
tell u.s.
There should be some sort of an
immediate investigation made to de-
termine whether tf' government
should continue with the lock and
dam plan, or change to the sea level
plan. The change could now be made
without great trouble, and it looks like
! it would save the nation $100000,o 900
or so. The charge that the difference
| in the tides in the Pacific and At
| lantic oceans at the isthmus would
make a sea level canal impractical
has been discounted by able engin-
GERS. who assert the tides could easily
be controlled by gates, and that il
would not be necessary to Use even
gates for half of the time"
| Rniney Sea Level Man.
Representative Rainey of Illinois is
also a sea level man. He may make 4
speech in favor of the sea level plar
in the house. President O5aldia. O
the Republic of Panama, has been s
sea level canal advocate from th'
start 1t may be added that the Gatur
dam plan was authorized from a min
! ority report.
The Gatun dam has been made tn
storm center of the agitation for a Sc
level canal. 1t should be explaine,
that at Gatun the Chagres rive
makes its way through deep depres
zion in high range of hills. III
plan that is being so bitterly assaile
was that of throwing dam across tn
river where it makes its way rhroug
Y this depression, and by this means t
2 impound the waters of the Chagre
into a vast lake, which would be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
TURKEYS RULER F0ILS PLOT
Scheme to Dethrone Sultan is Discov.
cred by Grand Vizier.

Berlin. Feb. 13.-The recent chang
es in the Turkish ministry are due 10
the discovery of plot against the SUI
tan that had for its object his depo-
sition, according to the Constantinop,e
correspondent of the Frankfurter
Zeitung. The plan was to dethrone
the sultan yesterday while he was rid
ing to the Selamlik celebration and
proclaim as sultan Prince Yussof L.
zedin, eldest son of the late sultan.
The grand vizier, Klamil Pasha, was
fully informed of this conspiracy last
week, and he consequently wanted the
sultan at once to appoint Nazim
Pasha to the post of minister of war
Owing to the threatened dangers the
sultan yielded
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
Representative WilIett Of New York
Again Expresses Himself on
Panama Libel.
BUT IS NOT so RADICAL
Declares the Federal Courts Have no
Jurisdiction in Cases of Grim
inal Libel.

Washington, Feb. 13.-Characterizing
at the most fragrant and the most dan
gerous exercise of usurped power ever
witnessed in this county" the grand
jury investigations which have been
in progress for several weeks past in
connection with the alleged Panama
libel case. Representative Willett of
New York. who several weeks ago Wig
orously attacked President Roosevelt
on the floor of the house yesterday came
to the defense of the papers whose al.
legged libelous publications are being
Investigated, declaring that "the courts
of the United States have no jurisdic
tion in cases of libel against the gov.
ernment of the United States.
1T has not been conferred upon
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
FIVE FIREMEN ARE
BURNED TO DEATH
Others Missing and Number Injured
in Blaze at Naturalization Col.
Iapses Under Men.

Milwaukee, Feb. 13.-Five firemen
are dead, others reported missing and
10 have been injured while fighting a
fire which broke out in the warehouse
of the Johns, Manville Manufacturing
company, 225 Clibourne street, about
noon and burned fiercely until 2
O'Clock. The warehouse together
with the piano and organ plant Of the
Netsow Manufacturing company were
practically completely destroyed, en-
failing loss of 100000. The firemep
were killed while fighting the blaze
from the roof of the Netsow building
when the roof collapsed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
GIRL IN BLUE" SAYS BROWNE LAID
The PLOT SPRUNG AT SPRINGFIELD

st. Louis, Feb. 13.-Marie Marshall,
who asserts she is Florence Miller,
Miss Christie, and ''the girl in blue"
who tried to attack Lee O'Niel Browne
the minority leader in the Illinois
house of representatives, said in St.
Louis yesterday that Browne induced
her to say that the episode at the
statehouse was a part of a political
plot Matched in Chicago to ruin HIM.
Miss Marshall says she attempted TO
see Browne for personal reasons
alone. and all she knows of any plot
against him by political enemies was
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

told to her by Browne himself.
After Browne had promised to do
the right thing by her and to right
wrongs he had done her. she says she
agreed to his proposition. Browne
furnished her money to come to s..
Louis, she declares.
Miss Marshall says stories circu
lated about her by Browne caused her
to lose her home. The scene in the
statehcuse when she threatened to
slay the minority leader was a resu'l
of Brownies refusal to see her, she
charges.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
WOMAN WILL BE GOVERNOR OF OREGON
WHEN EXECUTIVE BECOMES SENATOR

Salem, Ore, Feb. f3-When Cover
nor George E. Chamberlain goes 20
Washington to be sworn in as United
States senator, the acting governor
of Oregon will be woman. 1t is un-
derstood that Governor Chamberlain
does not intend to relinquish the Office
OF governor until he takes the oath as
senator. There will consequently he
a period during which he sill will be
governor after he leaves the state. Il
the governors absence from the sta.s
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
Bryce, Jusserand and Ia
kahari All Speak in
Illinois.
MESSAGE IS OF PEACE
Banquet at Springfield Proves
the Growing Event OF
Notable Day.

Springfield, H., Feb. 13.-Springfield,
home town of Abraham Lincoln, where
the "rail-splitter of the Sangamon"
grew from frontier lawyer into states
man and laid the foundation OF MS
greatness, observed with fitting cere-
monies yesterday the centennial ami
versary of the great emancipators
birth. The city was mecca for cele-
brities. From early morning until
midnight exercises were held hourly
on historic spots, from the dingy little
office in which Honest Abe" first be-
gan his law practice to the tomb at
Oak Ridge, where the body of Father
Abraham was finally laid to rest.
Foreign Ambassadors Speak.
The ceremonies ended last night with
a banquet in the state arsenal, at which
Ambassador Bryce of Great Britain and
Ambassador Jusserand of France de-
livered messages of tribute from the
two nations they represent. and, after
drawing lessons of inspiration from
the career of the martyr president,
placed him among the worlds immor-
Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa
were the other orators. The memorial
exercises attracted such crowds of
visitors TO the city that public meet
ing was held during the afternoon, at
which the distinguished guests ad-
dressed an assemblage of 5000
Banquet Chief Feature.
The banquet, which was the chief
feature of the days events, was held
under the auspices of the Lincoln Cen
tennial association. The huge arsenal
was lavishly decorated sfoE~the oeca-
sion and formed the setting for bril-
liant scene. On the floor 500 banquet
ers sat at the tables, while in the gal
leries were $500 spectators. At the
end of the vast hall was stretched a
large painting of the war president.
Flags and flowers and draperies con-
cealed every inch of the steel rafters
and walls. Big masses of color in the
galleries marked the seats of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
At the tables and in the galleries
were the old neighbors of Honest
Abe"-men who witnessed his depart
ure for Washington and who marched
in the cortege after the assassin had
struck him low.
'.GlOry of Mankind"
And how they applauded when the
two distinguished diplomats dwelt or
Lincoln's life in Springfield
Ambassador Jusserand drew a les
son from the deeds of the emancipa
tor, and placed him among the galaxy
of the worlds greatest men.
TakahiFn mt Peoria.
Peoria, ILL.,, Feb. 13.-With GOO ban
queters assembled beneath a canop!
of entwined and intermingled stars anC
stripes and the sun flag of Japan, Ko
gura Takahira, Japanese ambassado
to the United States, was last nigh
one of the prominent guests of homo
at the Creve Occur clubs banquet il
honor of the centennial of the birth o
Abraham Lincoln. Charles Magoor
late provisional governor of Cuba; Cul
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

it has been the practice for the gov
ernor's secretary to attend to Official
business. such as issuing Official doc
uments and signing the governors
name. w. N. Gatens, the present Sec
retary, it is understood, is slated for
a judgeship and will be succeeded ss
secretary by Mrs. o. B. Shelton. who
for several years has been the gov
ernors' stenographer. and as the pre-
cedent will be followed Mrs. Shelton
will be the acting governor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
HOUSE REPORT
MAY OPEN Way
TO LET KNOX IN

Washington, Feb. 13.-By a vote .f
5 to 3 the house committee on cleo
ton of president, vice president, and
representatives in congress today
agreed TO a favorable report on the
Gaines bill to reduce the salary of the
secretary of the state, thus making
Senator Knox eligible for that posi-
ton. A minority report will be pre-
sented TO the house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES
PAY TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN
SOME TRIBUTES PAID
TO LINCOLN.

AS the years roll by and as
all of US, wherever we dwell,
grow to feel an equal pride in
the valor and seIf-devotior
alike of the men who wore the
blue and the men who wore tn.
gray, so this whole nation will
grow to feel peculiar sense of
pride in the man whose blood
was shed for the union of his
people and for the freedom of
race; the lover of his country
and of all mankind; the might
lest of the mighty men who mas
tered the mighty days-Abra-
ham Lincoln.-Theodore Roose-
welt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
-SXTY-SEVEN GO
DOWN WITH SHIP
Penguin Sinks Off Coast of New Zea-
land and Many Lose Their.
Lives

Wellington, New Zealand. Feb. 13.
The Union Steamship company Of
Wellington's steamer Penguin was
wrecked last night off Cape Terawhiti.
Some of the passengers and number
of the members of the crew were
saved, but the remainder of the ship s
company, numbering G7, are missing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
PROTOCOL SIGNED
WITH vENEzUELANS

Washington, Feb. Especial Com
missioner Buchanan today telegraphed
the state department he has signed a
protocol with the Venezuelan govern
ment for the settlement of the dispute
between that country and the United
States. He will leave Caracas for
home Tuesday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

and are supposed to have perished.
The Penguin is total loss. The
steamer was an iron vessel of S24
tons and was built at Glasgow in 1891
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

God send US such men as Lin
coin again! We are confused
by a war of interested, a clash
of classes, a competition of pow
ers, an effort at conquest and
restraint and the great forces
which war and toll among us
can be guided and reconciled
only by some man who is truly
a man CT the people, as Lincoln
was not caught in the tolls of
any special interest, united by
wide sympathy with many kinds
of men, familiar with many as
poets of life, and led, through
many changes, to personal ex-
pertinent which unites him with
the common mass.-WoodroW
Wilson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

Says the great book some
where, though man die, yet
shall he live. If this is true Of
the ordinary man, how mush
more true is it OF the hero of
the hour and the hero of the
century-Abraham Lincoln? One
hundred years of the life and in
fluence of Lincoln is the story
of the struggles, the trials, am
bitions and triumphs of the
people of our complex American
civilization Booker Washing
ton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

With no military career to
dazzle the eye or excite the i'm
aeination; with no public serv-
ice to make his name familiar
to the reading public, his eIeva-
tion to the presidency would
have been impossible without
his oratory. The eIoquence of
Demosthenes and Cicero were
nc more necessary to their work.
and Lincoln deserves to have
his name written on the scroll
with theirs.-W. J. Bryan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

Lincoln looks to US not SO
much mortal man as a mecn-
anism controlled by the hands
of the Almighty for the good OF
mankind.-Senator Dolliver.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

George Washington created
these United States; Abraham
Lincoln kept these United States
from being disinsegrated. They
are your two great men, ana
they are of the worlds greatest.
Ambassador JasseFand. -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-21
BOOMING REALTY.

boom in real rapid
fast suburban land values the
viii higher
inflated approached
OF
be found which
before Judge
nothing doing
Aewa Heights land
of sg land which little
the last sale of lots
should be sold College Hills
transit fire protection sidewalks
suburban lots higher than Deliberate
available
values in the natural and
la few tourists than arrive
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KONOHI.


Despite its deviscaring
sensible celebrations
holiday There
calling
patching old difficulties in
brotbery spirit
1t has all the
sleepy prosecuted Coast Love
adapaby western customs the
Chinese In
a cordial their happiness prosperity long life