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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-01
MOLINE

Lock Now Guarded.-The approach
es to the Moline lock have now been
completed, and as soon as river navi-
CATION again opens, the lock will be
put in operation. The construction
of the crib approaches will probably
do away with the criticism that was
directed against the lock alleging that
it was of faulty construction. The
criticism arose from the fact that a
whirlpool was formed by the rush o.
the water through the lock, making 1t
extremely difficult for boats to ap-
pToach without colliding with the sides
OF the lock. 1t was charged by river
men that the lock was of faulty con-
struction, but the United States engi-
neers who constructed it denied the
charge. The construction of the crib.
will remedy the whole difficulty, they
say The cribs were originally part Q
the plan, but they could not be con
structed until the river went down to
low water mark
Haney Lincoln Orator.-Rev. r. S
Haney mas been decided on as tne
chief speaker at the celebration of the
| centennial anniversary of the birth OF
Abraham Lincoln by Graham puost OF
the G. A. r. Mrs. Nellie Benell Robt
will recite, Lincoln's Gettysburg ad
| dress and the Y. NJ. c. A. slee clul
will sing. Other numbers will be an
nOunced later by the committee OF
program. of which E. E. Weelock i!
chairman. The anniversary will be oh
served in Masonic hall Friday evening
Feb u, and members OF the Woman Z.
Relief corps and the Ladies of the G
A. r. will participate.
Work e-Hour Day.-Rush orders a
the Moline Wagon company are re
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-01
MYSTERYIN REFUSES DEATH
keokuk Octogenarian Burned and Res
dence DESTROYED.

Keokuk, Iowa, Feb. Peter Peter
son, aged 81, who lived alone in the
outskirts OF the city, was burned to
death yesterday, the little frame resi-
dence which he occupied being de-
stroyed. Mystery surrounds the death
of the man and the police are working
on the case
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-01

sronsible for longer shop hours that
were inaugurated today. the force in
the blacksmith department being plac-
ed on a 9-hour work day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-01

lywed of Brides Row that he only
finds time to come to town once a
week, on Mondays. To others in
other neighborhoods the town-com-
ing days range from Tuesday to Sat
urday. But the huckster never calls
at the same place oftener than once
4 week. bearing out his deceit to
good personal advantage.
To such ruses the huckster has
been compelled 10 resort for with
few exceptions housewives have
come to learn that they can do bet
ter by buying direct from market
and from reputable dealers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-01

All the news all the time - THE
ARGUS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-01

Lights Go on onight.-Commenc-
ing tonight the circuit of street lamps
in East Moline and Silvis will be
turned on then and continued through
out the year There are ~ lights, is
in Silvis and 81 in East Moline. Thu
commercial circuit will be connected
up within 10 days, by the United LigS.
& Power company
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-01
MEN NOT THE ONLY
EARLY BIRDS OF LABOR
What of Mother, Sister or Wife Who Gets
Your Early Morning Breakfast

~HE truck farmer who raises
the vegetables which the
huckster peddles usually
leaves home about 9 o'clock
at night, and reaches market
In time 20 barter with the huckster
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-01

epidemic which threatened the city of
Silvis the forepart of last week, is dis
appearing and the mothers are breath
ing easier again. The schools in Oil
Wis were closed on account of the
great number of eases. The school
board will meet tomorrow evening and
that body will act then on the opening
of schools. 1t is probable that the
schools will be opened for regular SEES
sions next Wednesday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-01

Defeat GaIesburg Hieh.-The Daven
port high school basketball team wor
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
new TRIAL IS DENIED
JUDGE FOUND NC GROUND FOB
SETTING ASIDE VERDICT.
Col. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper
Appeal to Tennessee Supreme
Court and Make Bond.

Nashville, Tenn.Judge William A.
Hart overruled the motion for a new
trial in the case of Col. Duncan b. Coop.
er and Robin j.. Cooper, recently cor
victed of the murder of former United
States Senator f. w. Carmack. The
defense at once gave notice of an APP
peal to the supreme court, and waived
the formal sentence of twenty years in
the penitentiary.
Judge Harris opinion was brief and
clear. He said:
"The motion in the case of the State
against d. B. and Robin Cooper is now
before the court. After giving due and
careful consideration to all the reasons
assigned in the motion, the court is of
the opinion that there is no ground for
setting aside the verdict of the jury,
and therefore the motion is overruled."
1--WE will pray for an appeal to the
supreme court" said Judge Anderson,
''and waive formal sentence"
1T is granted" retorted Judge Hart.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
CALLED EACH OTHER DOGS
Attorneys in Calhoun Case Have Hot
WordY Pass.

San Francisco.-"I never take any no
tice OF a barking cur" said Francis ].
HeneY t o Lewis F. Byington in the
trial here of Patrick Calhoun.
IL may be a eur" said Byington ris-
ing to his feet, "but l am not a trail
ing dog as you are"
Judge Lawler interviewed as the attor-
neys stepped toward one another and
warned the ~combatants.
Thereupon Mr.. Heney said:
81 do not intend to be assailed by any
person engaged in this case. l stood it
for months when I was opposed by Hen
ry Ach, but so help me God, 1 will not
stand for it again."
The outburst marked the end of an
argument relating to admission of testi-
mony given by James l.. Gallagher on
redirect examination.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
JACKSON.
Battleship Ordered to Natchez.

BattleShlP OTdered 10 Natcnez.
Representative w. A. Dickson, OF Mis-
sissippi, who has been urging Secretary
Meyer to send the battleship Misissip2'
to Natchez to receive the silver service,
has received the following reply:
"The department acknowledges re-
ceipt of your letter dated April 10,
1909, relative to the presentation OF the
silver service for the United States
steamship Mississippi. In reply thereto
the department has to inform you that
instructions have been issued to the
commanding officer of the vessel'to pro-
coed to the mouth of the Mississippi
river, SO timing his movements as to
arrive at the jetties not later than May
10, 1909. The battleship will ascend the
river as far as Natchez, stopping at va
rious towns en- route, in order that the
inhabitants may have an opportunity to
visit the ship. On May 81 the Missis-
sippi will leave the river and proceed
to Horn Island Pass to receive the sill
yer service, as previously arranged.
"The department hopes that this ar
rangement will prove satisfactory to all
concerned"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
TO PROTECT POWER SITES
Secretary Ballinger Issues Orders to
Director Of Surveys.

Washingtonf-A highly important an
wer was made by Secretary of the
Interior Ballinger, bearing on the sub
ject of conservation of water power and
protection of water power sites. 1t
shows that the administration is fully
alive to the Importance of protecting
power sites throughout the country. Sec
rotary Ballinger has ordered the director
of the geological survey to make at
once an investigation of water power
sites within the public domain and not
in forest reserves, with a view of recon-
mending legislation to protect these
from falling into the hands, as the order
says, of a moEopolistic and speculative
interest.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
Privilege Taxes $5s9, 1867

In the work of preparing the tables
for 1908, to be included in the biennial
report next January, Auditor Smith has
compiled some interesting data in con-
nection with privilege tax collection for
that year.
The gross collections from that source
amounted to $685., 1866. Of this, 3d.
1858 went to the sheriffs as damages,
$29,629.s6 in commissions, leaving a net
balance for the state of $555,76S.77.
The figures show that the 10S saloons
in the state paid in $4,000 of this to-
tai, and hat four of the saloon counties
led the list. They are: Warren, s54,-
O73.47; Washington, s46,673.9O; Harri-
son, $43,O44.62 Adams, $39,253. Next
comes Kinds, a dry county, with $685.
217.96, and La%uderdale, also dry, with
SIS ,967.09. The remaining counties all
run much below these figures.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
STEEL TRUST WAS BLUFFING
Earnings First Quarter $4,000, 900
Over Last Year.

New York.-The United States Steel
Corporation, better known as the steel
trust, showed in its quarterly report,
issued Tuesday, that its net earnings for
the first three months of this year had
been almost $4,000 900 greater than
they were in the corresponding quarter
of last year.
The total, s22, 1921, 269, was more than
100000 in excess of general expecta-
tions. In the opinion of Wall street,
it proved clearly that the recent lamen-
tations and wage cutting threats of the
trusts managers were for political eff
feet, with the intention of intimidating
the tariff cutters in Washington rather
than showing the true condition of trade.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
Beauvoir Needing Money.

Although authorized by a referendum
vote of the legislature to borrow not
more than $4,000 to supplement the sup
port fund of the Soldiers Home, at
Beauvoir, and enable them to take in
enough of the waiting applicants to
complete the full capacity of the home,
the board of trustees will take no ac-
ton upon it until their regular meeting
in July, when they will admit what they
conceive to be the most needy of the
applicants. At the April meeting it was
shown that there were 80 applicants, and
room for only 10 of them, but not sui
icient funds to properly care for the 1877
on hand. None of the applicants were
admitted for hat reason. At the cur
rent death rate, it is highly probable
there will be room for still more by
july.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
Beaten for so Cents.

Atlanta, Ga.-As the result of a fight
following a quarrel over 90 cents, Paul
McMichael, a wealthy business man, wa
fatally wounded by R.. A. Benedict, a
chauffeur. Benedict, who had been dis
charged by McMichael, alleged the latter
owed him 90 cents. McMichael dis
puted the claim. Benedict alleges McMi-
chael used violent language and caught
him by the ear, almost tearing it off.
Benedict then struck McMichael with a
heavy bone cane, breaking his nose, four
ribs, and INJECTING internal injuries
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
MISSOURI RAILROADS AGREE
Maximum Rate of 2 1-2 Cents Goes
Into Effect May 10.

Chicago.-A maximum rate of 2 1-2
cents a mile in Missouri will go into eff
feet May 10 on the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy Railroad and several other
roads.
the roads which are tied up in the
Missouri courts in the injunction to re-
strain them from adopting a Scent a
mile passenger rate, sought to induce
the Burlington officials to wait until all
the reads could start together in the
2 1-2-cent rate, but the Burlington of
fcials would not agree to this.
It is expected that that litigation will
be disposed of early in May and that
before the end of the month all the
roads traversing the State will follow
the Burlington's lead.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
Country Life Delegates.

The governor has appointed a list of
delegates to represent Mississippi at the
meeting of the Southwestern interstate
convention or commission on the country
life, to assemble at Guthrie, OKLA, on
May g.. The chief executive hopes that
the state will have a representative dele
cation on hand, as the subject of the de-
velopment of a higher and more useful
plane of country. life is one that appeals
to Mississippi with peculiar force.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget of State News Items Gathered by Our Special
Correspondent At Jackson.
Urged to Aid Lee Monument Fund.

The following letter, in part, has been
sent out as a call to old students of the
Mississippi A. & M. College to contribute
to the monument fund for the S.. ID. Lee
monument:
"The monument to Gen. S. d. Lee will
be unveiled in Vicksburg on June II
next. Gen. Lee was for 10 years the
active president of our A. & NJ College,
which was the period of organization and
the maturing of all the plans of organ.
~ization and of project of our beloved in.
stitution. Then he was for three years
a trustee, which made him still active
in seeing his ideas further developed.
But Gen. Lee was more to us, he was
u friend. He loved us. We were his
boys and his best life work was with
us. Our part in this memorial should be
commensurate with our old affection for
him and our loyal allegiance to his mem.
Dry. Our association ought to pay ST..
900, and / have so Indicated. 1t will
take, however, liberal contribution from
each individual alumnus in order to prop
erly bear our part of the work. The new
men of recent years should give because
Gen. Lee largely made the A. & M. Col.
lege and gave them the chance to become
what they are. The old men under him
in the eighties and n~ineties should give
because of 'auld lang syne,' with its as
sociations, its memories and it's precious
recollections.
capt. Rigby extends through written
invitation a very cordial invitation to
every alumnus to be present at the I'm.
yelling and dedication June II, at 2 p. m.
Let me have your prompt and gener.
Gus contributions to this fund. Cordially,
JULIAN j. GILL, President"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
Summer Training School.

Speaking of the proposed summer
training school for the Seashore Camp
grounds, the committee of the State
Sunday School Association, in session
here, says:
"a proposition came to us from Louis
lana to join them and Alabama in a
summer training school, to be held at
the Seashore Campgrounds, July 16 to
%. Your committee was glad to be a
help to the Sunday school teachers, and
gladly entered into the arrangement. We
urge our Mississippi workers to patron
ize this school, for the reason that it
may be the means of probably locating
one of the international in this part of
the country. We congratulate ourselves
and the school in securing DIR. Lowrey
of Mississippi College as its dean. He
will be associated with a fine faculty,
and we ear promise any Sunday school
worker and pastor who will come that he
will send him back home better equipped
than ever for the Masters cause"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
Cotton Crop Planted.

That more than 90 per cent. of Mis-.
sissippi's cotton crop has been planted,
and more than half of the acreage has
come up to excellent stands, is the ma
ture of reports received here. Granting
the accuracy of these reports, it can be
asserted that the cotton crop has been
placed in the ground fully three weeks
ahead of the usual planting season, and
the early maturity of the crop all de-
ponds on weather conditions that pre-
vail during the next few months.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
Social Clubs Exempt.

That the federal authorities will not
interfere with the social clubs in Mis-
sissippi where the locker system is en-
ployed, and alcoholic refreshments kept
by members for their personal use is
evidenced by recent rulings made by
the United States internal revenue coll
%lector, copies of which have been re-
ceived here by the federal authorities fer
their guidance. The rulings fully sus'
tain the right of social organizations to
of members who desire to keep liquid
stimulants therein, and renders it I'M
necessary for these clubs to take out in
ternal revenue licenses, as in former
wears.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30

Clement A. Evans, of Atlanta, com
mander-in-chief of the United COnfeder
ate Veterans, has accepted an invitation
to present to the United States govern
ment the monument to Gen. Stephen D.
Lee, at Vicksburg, on June II.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
Miss Storer Awarded Medal.

Miss Annie Rue Storer, a member of
the senior class of the Mississippi Sy-
nodical College here, has been awarded
a medal by the United Daughters of the
Confederacy in the interstate contest re-
Gently ~inaugurated by them. Miss Stor-
er's subject was Reasons Why the Gov
ernor's Mansion and the Old Capitol
Should Be Preserved"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
Working for Better Roads.


Commissioner III. E. Blakeslee, of the
department of agriculture, is giving
much thought and all the spare time
at his command to the work of c~ultivat-
ing higher and better ideals for the
road system of the state, with a view
to making the roads of Mississippi as
good and as well kept as any others
in the South.
Farmers Institutes.
Pro-. E. R. Lloyd, director of farm
ers' Institutes at the Mississippi agri-
cultural experiment station,
that the series of Institutes will begin
on July 10, and all communities desir-
ing Institutes held are requested to
notify him as early as possible. No APP
plications for institutions can be con-
sidered after the 3Oth Of June, as Prof.
Lloyd expects to have the list fully
completed by that time. The faculty
engaged for the work win include sew
eral well known agricultural experts
from other Southern states.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30

necessary for these clubs to take out in
ternal revenue licenses, as in former
years.
Must Build Union Station.
The Alabama & Vicksburg and Mobile.
jackson g. Kansas City railroads must
build a union depot at Newton, plans
to be submitted to the railroad commits
sion in 80 days and the building to be
completed by Sept. 1, according to an
order adopted by the commission, fol-
lowing the resembling of the former or
der by which it had been agreed that the
two roads would transfer passengers and
baggage free between the two present
depots.
Sunrise Prayer Meetings.
Sunrise prayer meetings held in sew
eral of the leading churches of the city
from 600 to $3.50 a. M, formed the
opening feature of the second days ses-
sion of the Mississippi Sunday School
Association. All of the meetings were
attended, and much zeal and ear
was manifested by the dele
gates who participated in the various
gatherings. Many of them were out of
their beds at 5 a. M, and shortly there
after en- route to the sunrise meetings.
Ready for Reunion.
Mississippi is officially ready for the
Memphis reunion of the United Confed-
crate Veterans, to be held on June 8,
9 and 10. General orders have been is
sued from the State headquarters cover
ing all the subjects necessary, including
the appointment of a sponsor, maid of
honor and the officers OF the division
staff.
Stirling Wants INJUNCTION.
Attorney-General Stirling win vigor~
ously oppose the motion of the defend
ant to dissolve the injunction granted
the State against the Simms Express
Company as a bar to the further hand
ling of prohibited liquors by that conn
pany in Mississippi. Chancellor Hicks
will hear the motion at Natchez, and
much interest is centered in the outcome.
according to the attorney,gen-
erals information and reading, the case
looks rather one-sided in favor Of the
State. Meanwhile the $4,000 stock Of
linnors il tied I'D,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30
|Wississippi
News

-Four Thousand people visited Columbus
to witness the contests which were held
under the auspices of the East. Missis.
sippi School Masters association, The
occasion was a grand success in every
way, and everybody was delighted. The
contests took PLACE at the Industrial
Institute and College, and, the visitors
took dinner in the college dining hail. as
guests of the institution and the people
of Columbus, and q bountequs repast
was served. .spasa
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30

The sixteenth annual meeting of the
Mississippi Dental association will be
held in Natchez May II, ~ and 10, and,
Is announced, an unusually attractive
program has been prepared, and every.
thing points to q most successful meet
ing.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30

The truck farmers around Wesson
nave closed out all their cabbage to a
commission house for $3.50 per crate,
f. o. b. Wesson, and efforts are being
made to get them to close out their to-
matoes, peas and beans. The truck raised
this season will be worth about $40, 900,
and so encouraged are some of the farm
ers they say they expect to double the
acreage in another year.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30

The officers of the Marshall county
Sunday school convention have issued a
call for an institute to be held in Holly
Springs Sunday, May 80. 1t is proposed
to have a general rally of all the Sun
day school workers of the county at
Holly Springs at that time, insofar as
this may be practicable.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-30

Le1ore Lodge No. As, X. of P, Of
Greenwood, has sent the following in
v~itation to the representatives to the
forthcoming session of the grand lodge
at Meridian, asking that the 1910 ses-
sion of that order be held in Greenwood,
and the two local representatives will
use every legitimate mean to get
the grand lodge to come here next year.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-12

pitcher; Smith. first, Leland, second;
Kunz short; Williams, third; Malone.
Barlow Worswdck and Hunt, fielders.
The lineup of both teams was chang
ed several times dur1ng the game,
Hunt going in after h sixth inning.
The game rocked along nicely for
eight innings, each side scoring a to-
tai of eight u up to that time.
as to overthrowing first, n both
sides did this with a regularity that
grew m~onotonous. Of course all the
out field flies were muffed; that was
expected; Ted Bedell and Dock Wors-
wick being the only mes to break that
rule. In the last half OF the eight
kennedy was replaced in the Barbar-
lan's box by Kunz, and that was when
the firework began. Everybody got a
hit, even Dow. Five runs were piled
up and the Banbs' got on such a big
disgust they could do nothing in the
first half of the ninth, although they
tried awful hard The first half of
the ninth was interesting in some re-
spects. The bases were full and two
men were out. Col. Barlow got up to
bat, and when ne appeared at the
plate the friends of the barbarians
groaned and everybody got up to
leave. The crowd guessed right, for
he took three of those crane-Gke
swings for which he made himself
famous all through the anne, and 1t
was all over, except the sore spots.
The worst injury OF the game was he
loss of a finger nail by o. H Smith
Of the Barbs.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-12

FROM KANSAS CITY TO
w BY AUTOMOBILE.

All the wa from Kansas City 20
Roswell, and several side trips "to
boot" is the trip just taken in an au-
tomobile by R. H. Collins, of Kansas
City, Southwestern Sales manager for
the Buick automobile, who arrived at
Seven o'clock Saturday night, accom-
panied by his chauffeur. Mr. Collins
decided to take a months recreation
and could think of no better way of
securing fresh air than by touring from
Kansas City to the Pecos Valley in an
auto, and in this way incidentally
mixed business with pleasure and call
ed on the various agents Of the COM
pany along the route. He is now the
CUES of ex-Mayor Stockard, who as
Manager of the Roswell Auto Co., is
local agent for this particular make
of machine.
Mr.. Collins took a brand new four
cylinder car, Model 16, and thought