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Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11

the members of the commission now
investigating the question on behaii Oh
the United States government.
Sir Walter Runciman thinks traoe
has "got round the corner" and that
he ter things are probable. Ceitalhiy
there is some support for this view III
the shipbuilding returns for the pas'
quarter. According to Lloyds hegls-
ter. the merchant shipping under con,
struction on September 30 last totaleo
778. O36 tons. compared with 745,7O5 tons
on June 80. There is an Increase con-
seouently. of over $4,000 tons.
It is an indication of gradually re-
turning activity which is not unWei-
come after the long spell or reiallve
idleness which some of the shlpyardS
have experienced. 1t is satisfactory,
TOO to note that the figures betoken
no Overwhelming anxiety to acquire
new tonnage, except, possibly Tor
snecial trades. Freights have a some
what improving tendency but the sup
ply of tramp shipping is still In excess
of the demand Moreover, steamers
which have been laid up for lack OF
and are now leaving thelr
moorings, have to be reckoned In the
total.
Pretty general is the improvement
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
TEN YEARS OF
SCALP ERUPTION
Tiny Pinhead PimpIes Filled and
urtTremendOus y-Tried Every
thing in Vain-His Daughters
Scalp was Crusted Both Found
SIMPLY SURPRISING
CURE IN CUTICURA

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consider it a duty to inform you what
Cuticura has done for me, About
twelve years ago, contracted an erup-
ton Of the scalp consisting Of small
pinples, about the size Of a pinhead,
which filed after a few days with pus
and which hurt tremendously. l tried
everything, but in vain. Finally, l
washed my head with sulphur and ap-
plied a carboiic ointment After few
davs the pimples disappeared, only to
come back again in week. This L
suffered for ten years and then l saw
an advertisement in the paper OF the
wonderful cures by Cuticura. l bought
a cake of Cuticura Soap, box OF Cuti-
cura Ointment and a bottle OF Cuticura
pills and after three weeks | had used
only half the Soap and Ointment and
my head was as clean as ever before.
After the first application it was simply
surprising how it improved.
INV daughter used Cuticura Soap
and Ointment for scales on the scalp and
after having used them three times her
head was clear and the hair became as
soft and fine as silk. Since then she
uses nothing but Cuticura Soap for
shampooing.
I'm consequence Of my having used
Cuticura Soap for shampooing, ! no.
ticed that my hands which almost al
ways were cracked from handling un-
dressed wood, lime and stone, became
white and Yelvety Formerly | used
glycerine, but one nights treatment
with Cuticura Soap and Ointment does
more for my hands than a weeks treat
ment with glycerine. l hope all suf-
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
YOUTHFUL BANDITS HELD
UP MEN "F0R FUN"
AWanted to See Them Jump When
Gun Was Pointed at fhem,"
Says the Leader

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Nov. 1O-Gage
Booker and Walter Peel, two members
of a trio that has terrorized Kansas
City for more than a month by rob-
bing pedestrians at the point of re-
volver, are in Jail here and Clarence
Curtis, the third member, in com
pany with a detective, is on his way
here from Newton, Kas., where he
was arrested on advices from this
place.
None of the three is more than 21
years old. Booker, who was the leader
of the gang, declares that he did not
commit robbery for the money but
because he wanted excitement and
liked to see the people jump when he
pointed a gun at them.
"The thing that got me started at
holding people up was a joke l played
on a drunken man two years ago,
said Booker II held him up with an
old pistol that could not shoot. took
a pair of brass knuckles away from
him and threw them away. When !
found he was broke 1 gave him car
fare home and told him to run. He
was so funny that 1 held up several
others with the same gun"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
SEC. CARTER TO
LEAVE LONDON
PROMOTION OF EMBASSYC0UN-
CIL0R REGRETTED
UNITED STATES OFFICIAL WELL
LIKED IN ENGLAND
American Waterways Commission
Finds Labors Much simpIified by
Fact Royal Committee lnVes-
tigates Inland System

LONDON, Nov. Al. Ri6gely Carter,
secretary and councillor of the Ameri-
can embassy in London, will leave
England for the United States this
month, previous to taking up his new
duties as minister to Roumania and
other Balkan states. Mr.. Carter's de-
parture from London will be much re-
gretted by the manw friends he has
made in his fifteen years in this coun-
try-he came here in 1894 as secretary
to Mr., Bayard. And, although, of
course, Mr.. Carter could hardly do
otherwise than accept the promotion
offered to him, the regret is mutual.
1t is known he will feel keenly the
severance of the ties that endear Lon
don and England to him.
Although an American diplomat will
usually not permit himself to talk
for publication" he has as rule no
objection to expressing his opinions
on non-political matters anonymously,
and one of the best known Of United
States envoys declared recently his
countrymen and his countrywomen US
ually found London attracted them
more than any other city in the world.
ESPECIALLY the women" he said. "One
can hardly drag them away once they
have lived in London for any length
of time.
"There are,' he added, many rea-
sons for this, but 1 think the chief Of
them is the intensely interesting char
acter of London. One never eXhausts
it; one could not know the city thor
oughly if he lived here a hundred years
Then, too, we are among friends here;
we are among people who speak the
same language; many of us come back
to the land of our forefathers'
The ever-changing social life ana
ceremony of the British capital is also
an attraction to Americans
Commissions Labors Simplified
The labors of the American Water
ways commission. now in England for
the purpose of studying the inland
waterways system, have been greatly
simplified by a fact of which the mem
bers were ignorant when they set out
on their mission. They did not know
that the whole matter is at the present
time being investigated by a royal
commission The English commission
has been endeavoring to ascertain the
present condition and financial position
of the various canals in the three king
doms, the causes which have operated
to prevent the carrying out of Inn
provements by private enterprise ana
the expediency of their being acquired
by public bodies or trusts. A great
mass of evidence has already been
taken in various parts of the country,
and various reports have been issued,
which will prove of much service TO
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11

should enable these other accessories
to be developed upon a wider scale than
heretofore.
The Olympic and the Titanic are to
tically set aside as a ballroom or skat-
ing rink. The decision is no doubt a
wise one, for "rinking" has long ceased
to be confined to the shore. In the
royal navy the smooth, holy-stoned
decks have been found to offer an ad
mirableN surface. The same discovery
has been made on liners. Conce@ably,
in very bad weather. the movements of
the ship may add somewhat to the diff
fculty of maintaining ones equipoise,
but this form of recreation seems.
nevertheless, to have a great future
before it at sea. There will be much
to wonder at and admire in the new
liners, but from the point of view of
ocean recreation they will be partic-
ularly noteworthy.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
NEGRO RUNS AMUCK IN
COUNTY HOSPITAL WARD
Man with Brain Torn by Bullet Bat
ties with Doctors, Nurses and
Attendants

WASHINGTON, Nov 10-Crazed by
pain and with part of his brain torn
out by bullet he had sent through his
head with suicidal intent, William
Stockett, a powerful negro, 80 years
old, ran amuck in Casualty hospital
early today, and battled with physi-
sicians, attendants and nurses. like an
infuriated beast for four hours.
The negro had previously been dis
armed and the injuries suffered by his
would-be captors wer slight After
holding the terror-stricken attendants
at bay until nearly exhausted, the ne
gro was subdued and placed in a
rait-jacket. Soon afterward, when
believed to be sleeping, the madman
rushed from his ward, tearing the
ait-jacket from his body as he
charged the attendants. After another
severe struggle he was again over
powered.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
Methodists in Session

ALBANY, N. Y, Nov. 10.-With dis
tinguished Methodist clergymen and
laymen from all parts of the world in
attendance, including about twenty
bishops, the usual conference of the
general committee of foreign missions
of the Methodist church was opened
here today. The conference will con-
tinue until Monday. The delegates
will call on Governor Hughes at the
executive chamber tomorrow. mis-
sionarv mass meeting has been ar
ranged for tomorrow evening. The con-
ference is to apportion more than ST.
000. 900 for missionary work.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
Camp Out in the Forest
p1SE1ApEN ATMOSPHERE HAVE


Mountains
dre nrhaps people have returned
of he
constantly nhae the
which q
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which makes it splendid rem
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supplied half pint of straight WHISKY oV pep
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
NORTH DAKOTA WILL HAVE
DEMOCRAT IN u. S. SENATE

BISMARCK, N. D., Nov. 1O.-Foun-
tain L. Thompson of Cando, N. D., to-
day was appointed United States SEN
ator by Governor Burke to fill out the
unexpired term of Senator Johnson,
who died three weeks ago.
The appointment of Mr.. Thompson,
a Democrat, was something of a sur
nrise. as he was a dark horse in the
race. The announcement was made
after a long conference in which the
leading Democrats of the state par
ticipated.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
Meteor Falls in Michigan

MANIsTEE, Mich. Nov. 10.-An ex-
planation of what was believed Mon
day night to have been a boiler ex-
poision on a lake steamer was furn-
ished yesterday with the discovery of
a huge meteor on a farm two miles
south of this city The meteor was
stilI warm and ten feet of it projects
above the ground. The spot where it
fell is about half a mile from Lake
Michigan
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11

have established an association for the
purpose of erecting within her academ-
ic precincts a memorial-not TO the
northern Yale men who died, not to the
southern Yale men who died-but TO
the Yale men who died in the civil
War;
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11

Millions of women throughout the
world use Cuticura Soap and Ointment
for eczemas, rashes, itchings, irritations,
inflammations, chafings, pimples, black
heads, dandruff, dry, thin and falling
hair, sanative, antiseptic cleansing, and
for the toilet, bath and nursery.
Cuticura Remedies are sold throughout the world
Potter Drug q Chem. Corp. Sole Props, 1875 Column
bus Ave- Boston. Mass, az CutiCura Booklet
mailed free tells all you need to know about the
cause and treatment Of diseases Of the Skin, Seal
and Hair.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
. Postpones Trip from Peru

LIMA, Peru, Nov. 1O.-Leslie Combs,
American minister to Peru, was about
to sail from Callao for the United
States today when he received tele-
gram from the state department which
caused him to postpone his trip,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
Nine Men cremated

WILKESBARRE, Pa. Nov. TO-
Nine men lost their lives in fire fol-
lowing the explosion yesterday in the
Auchincloss colliery of the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western company at
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
PLAN TO MAKE CAMPAIGN
AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS
Committee of Business Men and Ply
sicians Chosen to Battle Disease
at Colorado Springs

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Nov. 10.
in its report submitted to the pubic
last night the committee of fifteen
leading business. men and physicians,
chosen to take charge of the anti
tuberculosis campaign in this city,
recommends the following:
Removal of public drinking cups;
disinfection of public telephones and
all places Of public meetings.
Medical and sanitary inspection OF
the public schools.
Registration of tubercular cases.
Publication of special sanitary rules.
Continued agitation of preventative
measures through the press.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
Italian Cruiser Sails for China

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 1O.-The
Italian cruiser Calabria sailed today
for China, which is her home station.
The Calabria is the last OF the Tor
eirn warships that visited San Fran
cisco during the recent Portola cele-
bration to leave this port.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
Amounted Chief Census Agent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1O.-William E;
BLOCK of New York has been appointed
chief special agent of the census on the
Pacific coast in charge of the investi-
cation of agriculture and manutac-
tLreS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-11
Banker Files Appeal

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.-The appeal
of Charles W. Morse, convicted in
New York of having violated the ma
tional banking laws and sentenced TO
serve fifteen years in the Atlanta
prison, was filed today in the supreme
court of the United States.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-10
The Lincoln Memorial.

Nebraska State Journal: Congress
has had variety of suggestions as to
Lincoln memorials, but they are not
yet as comprehensive as they might be.
An automobile race track-of course,
lit is not called that's proposed to run
from Washington to the Gettysburg
battlefield. A real estate speculation
under another name-is proposed in
the form of certain Washington public
ground extensions in honor of Lincoln.
Where are the Nebraska congress
men that they are not trying to get Ne
braska in on this deal? Lincoln the
president is in danger OF being forgot
ten. How could his name be better
perpetuated than by giving the city of
Lincoln a new hospital in his honor,
or repaving o street, or building a con-
crete sidewalk from Lincoln to Omaha,
or turning Belmont into a national
park?
OF course. if congress decides that
la national memorial Is needed, some
thing for the whole nation, like the
| Washington monument, by which we
are able to remember the father OF
his country, then Lincoln's namesake
city will waive it's claims to special
patronage. But if there must be pie in
this patriotism, we want our share
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-10

A souvenir of the civil war came into
the hands of a delicatessen merchant
on the New York east side a few days
ago, which recalled the famine of small
change. 1t is green 3-cent postage
stamp, encased in a thin metal frame
the size of an old copper cent. The
face of the stamp was protected by a
disk of mica. On the reverse side OF
the improviSed coin was stamped,
Good for three cents" This queer
substitute for money was given along
with other small change and brass and
pasteboard token and paper shinplas-
tiers by woman who said it was the
last of a number of similar pieces
which she owned for many years, and
the man who took the combination
stamp, mica and tin for three cents, in
speaking of 1t, said: "The woman look.
ed as If she was prosperous once, and
was sorry to give up the piece
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-10
The British "Beeraee,

The recent death of Michael Arthur
Bass, Baron Burton, may revive the
sarcasms current few years ago as
to the British "beerage"r Baron Bur.
tons. title was granted in 1886, Wis
count Iveagh's in 1905, following Bar
on Ardilauns in 1880 and Baron Hind
lips in 1886. BY these creations the
makers of Bass ale," of Guinness
Dublin stout and of Allsopp's ale were
with their descendants added to the
titled laristocracy. Lord Blyth also
represents Gibley's wines and spirits
in the house of lords since 1907.
A remarkable number of additions to
the peerage have been made from the
banking business; many lawyers and
a smaller number of shipbuilders and
great manufacturers have received ii
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-10
Japanese Expansion.

Quincy Herald: By much repetition
the falsehood that the Japanese are an
aggressive lot who are spelling for a
fight with us has assumed almost the
air of a truth. In fact, for $50 years
before the opening of Japan by AID.
miral Perry that country had had Meth
er an external nor internal war. Grant
ing that Japan needs to expand terri
torially to gain room for an excess of
population, its national endeavors for
a generation past testify to the fact
that it's face is not turned toward
America, but to the nearby Asian main.
land, Korea. Manchuria, Saghalien and
Formosa have been and are the fields
OF it's eXpansionist enterprises.
The historic facts vouch for the sin.
certify of the declarations of the Jap
iinese government that it is as anxious
to turn the surplus labor of the coun
try into those fields as this government
is to keep the same out of the United
States and to prevent further compli
cations of the race problem in Amer
lea. The notion that Korea and Man
churia are already overcrowded is born
OF ignorance; on the contrary, they
are peopled as sparsely as most of oul
own trans Missouri regions. There is
nothing Japanese statesmen more ar
IDENTIFY desire than to fill these unoccu
pied lands with population from
which territorial army could be re
crnited equal to the Siberian levies Of
Russia. Our national policy and tina
OF Japan do not conflict, but they har
monte, and will continue to harmon
ize, If marplots will let well enough
alone.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-10
FEAT Of FULTON ON WATER
DUPLICATED IN THE AIR
New York World Offers Prize for Aer-
ial Conquest 100 Years After the
Steamboat was Invented.

Ten thousand dollars will be paid
by The New York World to the per-
son who makes the journey from New
York to Albany in an airship or flying
machine, mechanically propelled, thus
duplicating in the air Fulton's famous
steamboat trip of century ago. if
two or more competitors perform the
journey on the same day, the one
making the fastest time will receive
the prize.
This offer of the Worlds, which il;
open to the aeronauts of Europe rs
well as America, has been accepted
by the Aero Club of America, the rec
ognized American and international
authority in aerial matters.
The feat proposed. the Fulton flight
of 142 miles, while unprecedentedfin
aerial annals, is far from impossible.
Sir Hiram Maxim, the famous inven-
tor. says:
The cleverest engineer in France
recently assured me that they are
practically certain that within consid.
erably less than year they will have
machines in Paris with 100 horse pow.
er motors which will travel at the rate
of SIS miles an hour and keep in the
air four hours at a stretch, carrying a
load of half ton over and above the
weight of the petrol, the water and the
!, driver"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-10
In The Field of Literature
The Youths Companion's Washing

The Youths Companions Washing
ton and Lincoln Number.-The Lin
coin stories, anecdotes, poems and
portraits in The Youths Companions
Lincoln and Washington's number
combine to present the war president
in his true likeness-great, but human.
A contribution of remarkable interest
is the poem, when Lincoln Died." by
Edward William Thomson, civil war
veteran. There is reproduced also the
cartoon which London Punch publish
ed at Lincoln's death, and the verses
by Tom Taylor which accompanied it..
offering amends for the spitefulness
of the cartoons and quips it had heap
ed on the president while the out
come of the war was doubtful. There
is a poem by Theron Brown, "The
Liberator,' and number of wisely
selected anecdotes. The portraits, of
which there must be dozen, picture
Lincoln at intervals during period
of Is years Then in addition to the
current installment of Homer Greene
serial "A Lincoln Conscript," there
are half a dozen complete stories by
such writers as Mabel Nelson Thurs
ton. Alice Louise Lee and Herbert
Coolidge
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-10
Making of q CITY,


Lincoln, ILL.,, is also joining the ranks
of cities throughout Illinois and the
United States which look with hope to
some new form of city government
which will furnish relief from the sys-
TEN of boss rule and politics for rev.
enue only. The Lincoln Courier has
| taken up study of the question and
| its editor announces he will from time
to time make comment upon the new
plan, and more especially the Des
MOineS plan.
The Joliet News recently discussed
the commission form at some length,
and continues as follows:
Since the merchants started their
meetings, numerous letters and news
paper clippings have been received at
the News Office from Editor Bartlett
of the Rockford Register; Editor Joy
of the Centralia Sentinel; Editor Hardy
of the Decatur Herald; Editor. Shiles-
ka of the Cairo Bulletin; Editor Holt
| OF the Kankakee Gazette, and so on,
all watching the movement.
| Joliet should have a committee by
all means. A bill is, however, under
way here with promises of an early
publication.
| Truly, the plan seems to be almost
too perfect for belief. Under this it
seems the whole character of a city
population would be changed, and from
being the center of crime, graft and
ldebauchery, it would become the cen
ter of intelligence and thrift.
1.-THE commission plan is the nearest
to the people of anything so far de-
Ivised. The whole responsibility is
placed upon five men. They get fair
salaries and do the whole work in their
own way. If they do not do it satisfac
torily, the people may call a new cleo
ton, but it takes % per cent of the
voters on a petition to do this The
law places the officer under fire upon
the ballot as candidate for reelection
and he can thus be indicated if be
deserves it.
AT the primary any man who car
lget 20 signers to a petition may be q
candidate for councilman. They are
voted for in alphabetical order and the
highest 10 alphabetically again become
the candidates at the election.
mo politics, no wards, no bribery
no promises of an office go. 1t i:
straight business and works like
dandy"