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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-03
evening was spent in music and games
and Miss Shape was remembered with
many useful gifts.
MISS LLWELLYN WINNER
La Grange Woman One of Contest
| ants i'm Woman's Golf Finals.

Flossmore, H., Sept. 3.-Miss Vida
Llewellyn of LAGRANGE, ILL.,. defeated
Miss Elizabeth Young of the South
Shore Country club in the semi-finals
of the women's western golf cham
pionship, and 2.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-03
LAST AFTERNOON EXCURSIONS


Excursions to Muscatine on steam
er Columbia Sept. and II. Leaves
p. m. Telephone west ISIS. or new
phone 5152.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
NATIVE FLOWER
SEEDS FREE
A Packet of Fifteen Varieties of
CALIFORNIA; Daintiest Products
Being Sent Out for Introduc-
tory Purposes.

LOS ANGELES, Calm this seed
distribution there are contained fifteen
varieties, each of which would be a
treasure to any home garden. Some of
these are rare and difficult to obtain.
They include the wonderful Matilija
poppy. by many considered the queen
of all flowers, with it's profusion Of
yellow centered blossoms, six to nine
inches in diameter; the superb Califor-
MIA poppy, whose Spanish name IS
"Copa de Oro'-Cup of Gold; the bril-
liant and graceful Shooting Star, and
twelve other packages of California
flower seeds, fifteen in all, none Of
which can hardly be said to be inferior
in beauty and interest to those de-
scribed. The regular price of these
seeds at retail from the large seed
growing firm from whom we obtain
the supply is $1.35 but in order to in
troduce to you the lovely California
home and garden magazine widely
known as The Western Empire, we
will send you the entire fifteen varie-
ties, postpaid, and a full years sub
scription to our paper for only so cents,
stamps or coin. By reason of the
fact that the seed men are anxious
to get all lovers of flowers to secure
their beautiful catalogue they make Il
possible for us to make this fine offer
to YOU The Western Empire is same
size as Sunday Times magazine, and is
printed on the Times press. Special
pages to gardening, when to slip and
plant flowers, vegetables, and care and
attention of orchards, etc., with a spe-
cial department on California cooking.
Don't miss this offer. Address West
ern Empire Magazine, 229 Times block,
Los Angeles. California.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24

exist, 1t can only be as the dream of a
supposititious mortal consciousness,
and as man wakes out Of this dream he
begins to see the new heaven and the
new earth, "for the former things are
passed away"
Terms of Proof Accepted
Now If the Christian Scientist rested
the tdealism Of Christian Science on
mere assertion, he would reduce him
self logically to the level of the philo-
sophie idealist who uses drugs to coun-
teract the effects of mind, or the or
thodox idealist who insists that spirit
is the ultimate Of matter. AS a matter
of fact he accepts the onus of proof
He is not satisfied with merely giving
a reason for the faith that is in him
the scientific materialist and idealist
are prepared to do as much as that for
their speculation. He demonstrates the
truth of his theories in the face Of the
world.
For forty years Christian Scientists
have been healing the sick and the
sinner, the man without hope and the
man in want, absolutely without any
material means at all, and simply
through the understanding Of Mrs.
Eddy's words, "that by knowing the
unreality of disease, sin and death, you
demonstrate the allness of God" AS a
result of this the world is today richer
by many hundreds of thousands of
happy and healthy men and women
who have learned how absolutely Christ
Jesus was able to say, "The kingdom
Of God is in your st."-Christian
Science Monitor
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
JURY UNABLE TO AGREE
IN TRIAL OF NEWBURGH
Court Discharges Panel After Long
DeIiberation Proves Members
Are Unable to Return
Verdict

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2S.-Unable
to agree on a verdict, the jury in the
case of A. S. Newburgh, one of the at
torneys for Abraham Ruef, charged
with having attempted to bribe John
M. Kelly, a prospective juror in Ruef's S
trial, was discharged this evening after
celebrating for five and a half hours.
Asked by Judge Frank J. Murasky if
there was any possibility of the jurors
reaching a verdict if sent back for
further deliberations, the foreman re-
piled that there was not.
1t is said the jury stood six to six.
Frank J. Murphy, another of Ruef' S
attorneys who was indicted on the
same charge as that filed against New
burgh, was tried and acquitted several
weeks ago.
E. A. S. Blake, a contractor convict
ed of having attempted to inflence Kel-
ly. and sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary, testified in both cases.
In a dramatic confession made in
court Blake stated that he approached
Kelly with a proposition to get on the
Ruef jury and vote for the acquittal of
the former political boss, at the insti-
cation Of Newburgh and Murphy, and
that when the attempted bribery was
discovered he was promised $4,000 to
keep quiet"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
FROST WARNING SENT
OUT FOR FRUIT MEN
Temperature in Citrus Belt May Fall
to % degrees-Southern Pacific
Unable to Send Trains
North

Frosty is the rule for this morning,
according to the weather bureau, which
issued the following warning to
fruit men yesterday: "The tempera-
ture over the citrus belt will be be-
tween 2S degrees and 80 degrees Sun
day morning, and frost probably will
form in exposed places"
The pressure distribution works for
fair weather in Los Angeles. The total
precipitation for the storm, as recorded
here, was 3.9 inches, more than for all
that of last season to this date. AS a
rule warm weather prevailed generally
throughout the country yesterday, and
rain was registered at Buffalo, N. Y.
Chicago, Cleveland and other eastern
cities.
The drop in temperature noticed in
Los Angeles yesterday was general over
California, Nevada and Arizona. Frost
was noticed yesterday in most exposed
sections south of the Tehachapi.
Traffic was interfered with seriously
on the Southern Pacific as the result Of
the rain, and no trains were sent out
last night on either coast or valley line.
The landslide near Bakersfield tied up
the valley line, although it was thought
that trains might be running again
some time this morning. Guests at the
hotels who had planned to leave for the
north went to the depot only to return
and wait until today. The coast line is
tied up indefinitely.
The Santa Fe and Salt Lake reported
no trouble.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
ONE OF ATTORNEYS FOR
BEEF TRUST DISAPPEARS
Lawyer Suddenly Vanishes from Chi
cago During Investigation of
Packers Methods by
Government

CHICAGO, Jan. 23-The United
States district attorneys who are con-
Quoting the investigation of the beef
industry have manifested considerable
interest in the discovery that Edward
A. Lundberg, an attorney associated
with the defense in the beef trust in
vestigation of 1905, has suddenly sew
cred his connection with his employers
and left Chicago.
For several years Lundberg has been
employed by packing concerns. 1t Is
said he has gone to Portland, Ore.
The district attorney refused to state
whether the disappearance of Lundberg
has any significance in the present in
quiry, but it is probable that they will
communicate with him at Portland.
His thorough knowledge of the busi-
ness of the packing concerns makes him
desirable as an expert witness.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
RAILROADS RESORT TO
UNDERHAND METHODS
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Issues Statement Showing How
Railway Officials Seek to
Prejudice Public

Managers Of the various railroads Of
the country, eager to make more divi-
dends and at the same time create a
prejudice in the minds of the people
against the interstate commerce COM
mission, have been quick to place a
wrong Interpretation upon a ruling of
the latter body.
Because of certain rules adopted by
the clergy bureau Of the Transconti-
mental Passenger association, excluding
certain classes from free or reduced
transportation, on the ground that it is
prohibited by the interstate commerce
commission, the commissioners have
issued a statement cOntradicting the
bureau.
The clergy bureau withdrew reduced
rate privileges from clergymen acting
as editors of official church papers, col
lege presidents or professors; financial
agents for church, religious or char
liable institutions, including church
colleges; clergymen in temperance or
Young Mems Christian association
work, and brothers of religious orders
or Sisters of Charity.
In passing on this subject, the inter-
state commerce commission says:
"The commission takes this occasion
to state that the position taken by the
tranScontinenta1 clergy bureau is far in
advance Of anything required by the
law or the rulings of the commission.
Reasonably interpreted, the ruling to
which reference is made by the trans
continental clergy bureau cannot pos
Sibly neCesSttate the drastic action
which it has taken. For information
of carriers and the general public, we
take this opportunity to express our
views in terms that, it is hoped, will
1a,, 10 .0f Ton
"a clergyman does not lose his min
isterial standing by reason of the fact
that he leaves the paStorate for some
other field of religious activity. A min
lister who becomes editor of church
paper, instructor in a theological SEM
mary, financial agent for a church or
other religious institution, or who en-
cages in other work which may fairly
be regarded as religious in character,
and who does not abandon his minis
teriaI work, may legally be accorded
special transportation privileges.
1.-THE courts have been consistently
liberal in giving construction to the
words charitable and 'eleemosynary,
and we see no reason for being unduly
narrow in interpreting these words as
found in the act. A charitable insti-
tuition is one which is administered in
the public interest, and in which the
element of private gain is wanting.
This definition is broad enough to in
clude hospitals, almshouses, orphanages,
asylums and missionary societies. This
enumeration is not intended to be ex-
clusive-it is only representative. II is
important to note that such an insti-
tuition does not necessarily lose its
charitable character by reason of the
fact that it is under the mana cement
Of a particular denomination or sect,
or because a charge is collected from
some or all of those who enjoy it's priv
ileges. 1t is only necessary that it be
conducted in the public interest and
not for private gain"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
IDENTIFIED BY WOMEN AS
MEN WHO ENTERED HOUSE
Alleged Burglars Said to Have RAM
sacked Premises After Ascertain.
ing That Residents Were
Absent from Home

Benjamin Whitney and James Mag
her, charged with burglary, were ar
raigned in Police Justice Roses court
yesterday morning and their prelimin-
ary examination set for Thursday,
January %. The men are alleged to
have entered the home of Mrs. Ella
Leeper, 1885 East Eighteenth street,
January Is, and stolen a gold watch, a
Mexican dollar, several articles of jew
erly and some wearing apparel
Mrs. Boswell of 1863 East Eighteenth
street and Mrs. Diffebach of 1912 East
Eighteenth street will appear as wit
nesses against the two alleged burg
lars. The women identified the two
prisoners as the men whom they saw
enter Mrs. Leeper's premises.
According to the detectives who made
the arrest, the men entered the yard
and rang the door bell. Getting no
response, they went to the rear of the
place, entered and ransacked the house.
Whitney is a former convict, having
served a sentence for burglary commit
ted in this city in 1905.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
CHARGES FILIPIN0S' PAPER
WITH LIBEL; WANTS $4,000
Member of InsuIar Commission Sues
for Heavy Damages-NationaI-
lists Are Named as
Defendants

MANILA, Jan. 23.-Dean G. Worces-
ter of the Philippine commission has
brought suit against Ell Renacimiento,
the leading organ of the Filipino ma
tionalist party, for $4,000, charging the
paper with libel.
Some time ago Worcester procured
the arrest of the manager, managing
editor and three other members Of the
staff of Ell Renamimiento, charging
them with criminal libel.
The commissioner affirmed at the
time in his complaint that he had been
assailed politically and professionally
by articles appearing in the paper. and
that his personal character had also
been the object of libelous utterances.
The criminal cases are still pending.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
KILLS
-FOUR LABORERS
AMERICAN AND THREE GREEKS
HIT BY AVALANCHE
COAST AND VALLEY LINES ARE
SERIOUSLY BLoCKADED
Great Masses Of Dirt Cover Tracks
Near Santa Barbara and CaIiente.
Passengers Transferred.
Traffic Delayed
rBy Associated Press.1

SANTA BARBARA, Jan. pa dis
astrous landslide occurred on the
Southern Pacific railroad at Benham.
small. station sixteen miles south of
this city, at $40 this morning, striking
a gang of sixty-f1ve laborers who were
at work under the light of a, locomotive
headlight repairing a recent washout,
killing w. F. Bradley, a bridge con-
tractor, and three Greeks and iniuring
several slightly.
The whole side of the steep hill slid
on the track with tremendous force
ana without a seconds warning. The
men mad no time to escape, and those
who were killed were buried beneath
tons Of dirt.
The men scattered at the first sound
of the slide, and it was not known until
daylight how many had been lost. Al
that time it was found three Greeks
were missing. Bradley's body was
found in the debris.
The track was covered with a great
mass of dirt for 300 yards. The coast
line will be closed to traffic for two or
three days. 1t is anticipated an effort
to remove the dirt now on the track
will result in further slides.
Surgeons Sent to Scene
News of the accident this morning
was sent to Santa Barbara and a
wrecking train with surgeons on board
was Immediately sent out from here.
The dead will be brought to this city.
The work crew was sent out last
night to Benham to remove a small
landslide which had occurred at that
point, and the men were working on
this when the big slide occurred.
A landslide covering the Southern
Pacific tracks over the Tehachapi
mountain at tunnel No. A. six miles
east of Caliente, also is blockading all
San Francisco and Los Angeles traffic.
Railroad officials do not expect to
have the track clear before tomorrow
noon. Southern Pacific and Santa Fe
southbound trains are held at Bakers
field, while the northbound traffic is
tied up at Mojave.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
SCORES OF HUTS ERECTED
ON PLATEAU NEAR MESSTNA
Work of Cleaning Up Ruins and Pro-
Viding for Refugees Now Thor
oughIy Systematized-Ra-
tions Are Small

MESSINA, Jan. 23.-The work of
cleaning up the ruins of Messina and
feeding and housing the refugees is
now thoroughly systematized and good
progress is being made.
Huts are being erected on a plateau
near the city and over million. square
feet Of lumber has been brought in for
this purpose.
Food is being regularly distributed.
Each ration consists of bread, five
ounces of macaroni and a piece of fat
pork.
In addition to this distribution five
military bakeries are producing 10000
rations day.
Every night provisions are sent to
neighboring villages and into the in
terror.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
PROMINENT JESUIT DIES OF
PNEUMONIA IN NEW YORK
Rev. William o'Brien Pardow, Rector
of Ignatius Loyola Church, Noted
Lecturer, Expires Unex-
pectedIy

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-The Rev. Will
liam O'Brien Pardow, rector of st. Ig-
natius Loyola church, and a prominent
member of the Jesuit order, died here
today Of pneumonia.
For the last fifteen years he lectured
extensively in this country and in
Europe ON the divorce question and
race suicide.
1t was largely through his instruments
tality that the new order, Daughters Of
the Faith, was founded in 1907, reflect
ing his views on divorce and other
social evils.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24

It's as easy 20 secure a bargain In a used
automobile, through want advertising, as Il
used to be-and still is-to secure a horse
and carriage.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
10 petermIne WAGE Scale

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. %. = The
United Mine Workers convention to-
day appointed a special committee to
confer with the anthracite operators re-
garding wage scale. The present scale
was made by commission that grew
out of a recommendation by President
Roosevelt some years ago, and expires
April 1. The appointment of the special
committee by the convention today
places 100000 organized miners of the
anthracite and bituninous fields behind
the demands that will be made of the
operators.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
TO
NEVADA FOUGHT
CASHIERS BONDS FIXED BY
COURT AT $1,000
HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS
CONFINED TO TUESDAY
Officers from Lincoln County Waiting
to Convey Accused Bankers to
SearchIight for Answer to
Indictment

The fight to prevent the return to
Nevada of S. K. Williamson, formerly
cashier of the Searchlight Bank and
Trust company, was begun in Judge
Willis department of the superior court
yesterday. Williamson's attorneys are
seeking to obtain his release on habeaS
corpus proceedings.
Awaiting the outcome were o. H.
Smith, sheriff, and c. P. Fitzgerald,
deputy sheriff, of Lincoln county, New,
who arrived in Los Angeles yesterday
morning to accompany Williamson back
to that county, where a grand jury has
indicted him on charge of accepting
money when he knew the bank of
which he was an officer was inSolvent.
Smith held the governors warrant
ready to be served Immediately on the
dismissal of the fugitive from Justice
complaint on which Williamson is held.
Deputy District Attorney Frank Blair
asked for immediate dismissal of this
complaint claiming the notice of the
application for the writ of habeas
corpus had not been served on the dis
trict attorneys office in the time re-
quired by law. Williamsons attorneys,
Hammack, Mayes & Hammack and w.
w. Dodge, demanded a continuance.
Judge Willis said he could see no rea-
son for hurry and continued the hear
ing until Tuesday.
Bonds Fixed at $4,000
Then the question of bonds came up.
Deputy District Attorney w. ]. Ford
said the charges against Williamson
and Homer @. Taber, president of the
bank, who was arrested at San Diego
Friday, involved about $750,000, and that
the bond should be fixed with this fact
in mind.
''I don't believe that bank ever had
more than $500 in it at any one time" :"
said Mr.. Hammack. The court fixed
the bond for Williamson's appearance
Tuesday at $4,000.
Smith and Fitzgerald, the Nevada Of
ficers, have returned to San Diego to
await the outcome of habeas corpus
proceedings in the case of Homer G.
Taber, charged jointly with Williamson.
These proceedings will be heard Mon
day, and should the matter be decided
adversely to Taber the Nevada officers
will bring him to Los Angeles, where
he will remain until the disposal of
Williamson's case. Taber is out on
bonds of $25O0 until Monday.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-03
NEAR BEER.

While at a picnic recently at Roths-
childs, one of the men, waiting for
the car which would land them in
Wausau, began an investigation of
the soft drinks carried at the pavilion
stands. One of the thirst quencherS
was labeled ''near beer" and he tried
it. He said the color, foam and taste
were there, but upon inquiry, he
found claimed for it that it was not
intoxicating; that it carried so little
alcohol that it was allowed to be sold
the same as pop, root beer, etc. The
man at once invited all the ladies to
come up and take drink of near
beer" with him; they accepted and all
took a sip, and down went their
glasses. They insisted that it was
beer. After explanations the beyer-
age was drank.
At Leland avenue bathing beach, in
Chicago, an alderman found some
NEAR beer," and he said: 1T was
brown like beer, had foam like beer,
and, by golly, it was as good as beer. "
A license officer was sent around who
procured several samples, and found
it contained very little alcohol and
therefore not intoxicating.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-03
A GOOD COUNTRY.

We cannot all live in Wisconsin,,
nor all in Jail or marble halls but
there is yet room for thousands in
this part of our good old state where
health makes happiness and happiness
riches. You don't have to make in
quiries. Follow the North star and
when you come to the lard of red
clover and timothy growing wild on
the cut over lands, where the soil is
rich and the waters pure, where the
flow of milk makes river of money,
where the girls are pretty and the
babies are fat, that's where we live.
The golden west may boast of her
opportunities, the Alberti country of
her waving fields of wheat, the
Dakotas of their fertile prairies, but
there is not in any, all of the bles-
sings found in Wisconsin, state that
has produced its hundreds of millions
in forestry and ore, state uneQualed
for its natural water powers and better
than all state that still awaits its
soil developments to make it one OF
the greatest wealth producers of any
on the map. That's Wisconsin-we
mean this part of Wisconsin.-Marsh
field News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-03
MORE OLD LOGS.

John Manser's crew at Kelly is re-
moving dead heads at the rate of 200
per day from the river. A pine
log with an end mark as follows: 600,
known among old river men as the
buckshot mark, was recently brought
to the surface. This was mark used
by VIM. Scholtield in an early day
when the village of Schofield was
known as Weston. The log had been
in the water upwards of thirty years
and was i'm good state of preserva-
tion. Some time ago log was picked
up above the Kelly pond bearing the
water marks of Morgan Daniels, who
logged on the Eau Claire river over
thirty years ago. Contrary to general
belief, some small timber was cut in
those days, for this log was one from
which a 6x6 could be cut out and
nothing else. 1t was placed on a
skidway and was partially dried out,
when an attempt was made to float 1t
to the pond, but the effort failed, and
the log was lost somewhere in the
river. Morgan Daniels was brother
of Dick Daniels who is at present a
resident of the city, Morgan Daniels
passed from this life quarter OF a
century ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-03
LID DOWN ON TOMAHAWK.

H. A. Venne, alderman of the
Fourth ward at Tomahawk, has
served notice on the chief of police
of that city, charging that the saloons
were violating the laws, under chap
ter 371, laws of 1909 Chapter 81
reads as follows:
every sheriff, under sheriff and
deputy sheriff, police officer, marshal,
deputy marshal or constable of any
town, village or city, who shall know
or be credibly informed that any
offense has EC~n committed against
the provisions any law of this state
relating to excise or the sale of intox-
icating liquors shall make complaint
against the person SO offending within
their respective towns, villages or
cities to a proper justice Of the peace
therein, and for every neglect or re-
fuSal SO to dc, every such officer shall
be deemed guilty of a miSdemeanOr
and shall be punished by fine not
exceeding fifty dollars and the costs of
prosecution"
In accordance the chief of police
attempted compromise, asking the
saloon keepers to close their saloons
Sunday forenoon. This was refused
and now the saloon keepers have been
ordered to close all day Sundays and
at 11:3O each evening.