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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

The Denver News has proved its
and Irrigation company and the post
master general has issued an order
branding the company's lottery plan
as fraudulent. The company put forth
the claim that peaches were grown on
the land. and peach, was grown
there, just one peach, which the News
photographed and pictured
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

There was large increase in in
ternal revenue receipts during the
month of July. Those ancient mon
archs, Gambrinus and Bacchus, appear
to be putting down the instruction.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

Quincy Herald: At any rate,
thousand democratic votes in the city
of Quincy that would have gone to
John Wall have been saved foYGeorge
Cooke through the action of the Ma
comb convention.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

The city of Los Angeles, Cal, has d
gigantic plan of improvement inclu1-
ing extension 16 miles to the ocean a
great artificial harbor and 100000
population by 1925. Money is being
appropriated by the millions and the
boom is at apogee. When Los Angeles
awalens from this dream there will be
a lively demand for crepe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

The captain of schooner mistool;
a seaside hotel for an ocean liner and
ran aground. The record, however, is
still held by the Russian admiral who
fired on the lights of drug store win
dow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24
Overshadoweu.

"You are the biggest fool I ever
saw
Thanks. I did not expect such a
tribute from you"
"You didn't, Wby?"
IL knew you to be competing for tue
place
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24
PERT PARAGRAPHS.


When you have to bear it perhapD
The hardest part is TO grin.
Take care of your health and your
disposition will take care of you.
Between a half baked optimist and q
kiln dried cynic is hard choice.
He is truly the prize idiot who keeps
still in his humble little place and ex-
poets promotion and looks for reward
There is one great advantage about
an empty head 1t seldom aches.
Too many people who think they
were horn TO run the universe make Q
mistake in being born at all
The less n laxative person says the
more serious the proposition he in
keeping silent on is apt to be.
No use in waiting for something 10
turn up. The turnpike is lined with
plkers sitting on the fence for tho
same purpose.
Time gets ahead Of all of us despite
the fact that some CT us boast Of never
being behind time.
Just being in touch with money Is an
that some Of our nervy brethren ask.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24
His Own Experience,

"What does congress do when it
goes into executive session. MAJ
1T closes the doors and shuts every.
body else out
"Who gets whippiDg?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24
He Sure Is.

SIS Brown an optimiSt!"
''ls hc?'
"Ycs, is he"
Say. that fellow would pay his
debts checrfully."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

Instead of being born under lucky
times borne under by an unlucky star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24
Nothino In a Name,

It's not the finest people
Who pay the largest fines.
1t doesn't take a monkey
TO cut up monkey shines.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

It's a mean man who reminds you
now that coal bills will be the same
as ever next winter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

In buying a cough medicine, don't
be afraid to get Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. There is no danger from it,
and relief is sure to follow Especial
~ recommended for coughs, colds and
whooping cough. Sold by all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24
Was On.

81 would like to meet my affinity"
81 have met mine"
"What did you do!"
"Ruu."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24
Tuesday, August "a, 1909.

Mems clothes will cost more next
year. Isn't it awful what ii costs TO
keep man?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24
Why She STAYED.

"Docs your new girl like being with
you?"
~ think So
''Tben she will stay"
"Well. think so. notice that she
remarked that my wifc's shirt waists
were just her size"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24
BREAKING the News,

Mother. can go in swimmiugF
when, my SON.
Yesterday, il you please"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24
Hum0r and
Philosophy
THE HIGHER PLANE.
By DUNCAN N. SMITH

A T last the race is sprouting wing1I
"A And in the upper air
Mankind is floating with the birds
And quite at home up there.
Cavorting in the ether blue
And sailing in the skies
As if he knew it all the time
That he was bound to rise.
For many, many weary years
Man Travelled on the ground.
And in this time twas all that he
Could do to get around.
For when he didn't have a pass
Upon a train or boat
Twas up to him to walk or swim
Unless he pawned his coat.
But now at last he spurns the earth
And with a running start
Goes gliding moonward like a man
Who thought himself SO smart,
SCOTS on like one determined he
Both time and space would kill
And breaks a record. too. unless
He bumps into hill.
The latest wonder of the age,
The conquest of the skies.
And isn't it, when all is said.
A mighty fine surprise?
To rise on light and airy wings
And sail away in style
1t sounds so good, Still we will take
The street car for awhile.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24
MANY DELEGATES ATTEND
Annual EnCampmcnt of the sons of
Veterans Begins at Washington.

Washington, Aug. 24.-The 2Sth
annual encampment of the COM
mandery in chief of the Sons of Vet
Grams of the L. S. 4. convened here
today About l.500 delegates are
in attendance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
second avenue. Rock Island. Ill EN-
tered at the postoffice as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24
Trained For II.

81 am organizing regiment Of
clerks
do you think they would make good
soldiers:''
''Thcy ought to be great Oh the
charger
"But how about the retreat?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

TERMS.-Daily, 10 cents per week.
Weekly. 81 per year in advance.
All communications of argumentative
character. political or religious, must
have real name attached for publica-
ton. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township in Rock Island county.
Gp1AHrm
d:TRA5Esf I sset eo1Ncf
lHtI4
Tuesday, August "a, 1909.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

~ THE J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

When you have to bear it perhopn
The hardest part is TO grin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

Between half baked optimist and q
kiln dried cynic is hard choice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

Take care of your health and your
disposition will take care of you.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-24

He is truly the prize idiot who keeps
still in his humble little place and ex.
poets promotion and looks for reward
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
Alliance City Hospital Afire;
Many Thrilling Escapes
Patients Taken From Burning Building by Means
Of Ladders and Fire Escapes.

The fire escapes on the building have
only been completed a few weeks, and
without these it would have been al
most impossible to have removed the
patients before they would have suf-
focated. At the time the fire broke
out the day nurses were on duty with
The patients who were on the second
floor.
This accounts for the fire not being
discovered sooner. Miss Sarah B.
Franklin of Youngstown, who was
elected superintendent of the City hos
pital, arrived here only last evening.
Monday morning she was to take
charge. She was at the institution
when the fire occurred and did good
service.
The hospital was filed to its capac-
ity. A night nurse on the third floor
was asleep and scarcely had time to
escape. She secured none of her cloth
ing. The others also lost much of
their wearing apparel. The loss from
fire and water will reach $4,000, covered
by insurance. 1t will require several
weeks to get the building ready for
occupancy. The lower walls of the
building are brick, and from the sec
ond story up the structure is of wood.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
EMMA GOLDMAN MAKES
ATTACK ON CHURCH
Noted Anarchist Lauds Ferrer as
Martyr to the Cause of Hu-
man Freedoms

By Sun Leased Wire.
New York, Oct. 1T is far more
honorable to die the death of Fran
cisco Ferrer than to be president of
the United States" said Miss Emma
Goldman this afternoon TO the 600 peo-
pie in Clinton hall. "It is far more
honorable to have lived the life of
Ferrer than to be the pope of Rome
under his triple crown of gold and
jewels%
il was not until Miss Goldman was
announced at the end of the memorial
meeting that was held by the anarch-
lists and their sympathizers in the east
side hail that the assembly called to
honor the death of the Spanish radical
showed anything more than subdued
Sunday fervor.
What had been as peaceful meet
ing as any of the after-service gather
ings Of the Christisa Socialists in a
quiet little church hall Immediately as
sumed the militant tinge wnen Miss
Goldma nbegan to stir them up.
When Miss Goldman had finished
speaking she read some resolutions of
her own composition-some hot oneE
they were-and she superintended
their passing by the meeting.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
(staf Specially

Alliance, o., oct 17.--Fire shortly
before noon Sunday threatened the de
struction OF the Alliance City hospital.
The twenty patients we're taken out
from the second story by means of
fire escapes and ladders. The fire or
iginated in the laundry in the base
ment, AM the fAmes shot UP chute
used for cropping clothes from the sec
ond stor to the laundry.
When iscAveied the building was
afire at le first and second stories
and the alf third story. Dr.. A. G.
Ball and Or. B. C Barnard were the
only men i'm the hospital, aside from
the patients, and they, together with
the corps of half dozen nurses did
heroic work in removing the patients
to nearby residences.
Those inside the building discover
ed smoke about the time a lad saw
the flames and turned in an alarm.
The ,city's new Triple combination fire
wagcA, located near the hospital, re-
spon&ed, with two dcwn-town chemi-
cal wagons. The auto fire apparatus
alone saved the building as the hy-
drantl prssure was only about fifteen
pounds, This the auto engine increas-
ed to 100 pounds.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
GOVERNOR HARMON HAS
GOOD Time IN TEXAS
Makes Speech to Confederate Veter.
ans Promises to Return
Battle Flag.

BY Sun Leased Wire.
Dallas, Oct. 17.-Governor Judson
Harmon of Ohio will remain in Dallas
until Tuesday morning, when he will
start on his return to Columbus.
He has met at Dallas so many prom
inent Democrats from over the state
that he has abandoned for the pres
emit his contemplated visits to Forth
Worth, Austin. San Antonio and Hous-
ton.
He is to hold conference tomor-
row with prominent Texas Democrats
at which his availability as candidate
for the party in Texas to support as
candidate for the presidency in 1912
will be considered
Governor Harmon today attended as
a guest the regular weekly meeting of
Camp Sterling Price, United Confed-
crate Veterans and made the old sol
diers a short talk.
He promised to have returned to
Texas a battle flag of Texas regi-
ment taken as war trophy in one
of the battles of the war between the
states and now a relic among the
property of the state of Ohio.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
SUFFRAGE TEA A FROST
Several Couldn't Come to Make AZ
fair Big Success.


New York, Oct 17.-The fighters
for franchise who went to the suf.
frage tea at Mrs. Walston Browns at
Dobbs Ferry this afternoon had cause
for signing, Disappointment confront
ed them at the outset.
In the first place, Mrs. Oliver H. P.
Belmont, who had promised to make
her maiden speech on behalf of the
rights of women in Mrs. Browns big
colonial hail. was i'll and couldn't even
attend the function.
Miss Mary Macarthur, president OF
the women's Trade Union league OF
Great Britain, who was scheduled as
chief orator, sent word that she was
willing to come and speak but might
break down as she wasn't feeling well
Miss Julia Marlowe couldn't pos
sibly stand the nervous strain of get
ting up before an aundience.
Miss Show, the national president
and Mrs. Frances Squire Potter, the
national secretary, made good cam
paign speeches.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
LORD 'SSUPPERIN
BALL GROUNDS
Thirty Thousand JoinS
In Partaking of
Communion.
IMPRESSIVE SCENE

By Sun Leased Wire,
Pittsburg, Oct. 17..-Strangely con-
trasted with the behavior of the howl
ing frenzied baseball enthusiasts, more
than 10000 strong, that filled every
available inch of space of Forbes field
at the championship games last week,
devout throng, almost equal in size
participated this afternoon in what is
believed to have been the largest
Lords supper ever held anywhere.
Conducted by the Disciples of Christ
whose nine days celebration of their
centennial and convention is brought
to close tomorrow, hundreds of
members of other denominations join.
ed in the communion services. How
ever large the crowd was not so great
as had been expected. There are
over 10000 delegates in Pittsburg noY
from all parts of the world.
In spirit at least, the hope of the
Christian church to unity the rejig.
ious world was realized. Rich dnd
poor, men of influence and power, and
those in the humber walks of life
were brought close together in the
bonds of Christian communion.
No spirit of clan was evident in the
seating arrangements of ethe great
crowd. Sprinkled through the ground,
in the grand stand and on the bleach
ers were delegates from the Orient
and the antipodes, seated beside dis
ciples from Europe; and Georgians
and Kentuckians chatted freely with
representatives of the Church of
Christ from Washington and Maine.
"Blest be the Tie That Binds"
sung by $4,000 persons of all religious
denominations and of nearly all the
nations in the world, rising in one
great swelling anthem, brought to
close the celebration.
In addition to the thousands OF del
egates who are in Pittsburg from all
parts of the world, attending the in
ternational centennial and convention
of the Disciples of Christ which closes
tommorTpw, members of every relig-
ious denomination in Pittsburg, OBJ
served the communion service.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
THEY FEAR PEARY
LIKE THE DEVIL
EsKlMoS HIDE THEIR PROPERTY
WHEN THEY THOUGHT HE
WAS COMING.
BELIEVE IN COOK
BY Sun Leased Wire.

By Sun Leased Wire.
Copenhagen, Oct. 1.-THE Greenland
Administrations steamer Codthaab, on
which DIR. Cook Travelled from Uper-
navik to Esesminde, where he boarded
the steamer Hans Egede, has returned
here.
Her captain says that Knud Rasmus-
sen, who wtnt to interview the two
Eskimos wfp DIR. Cook claims ac-
companied lam to the pole, did not
see them. He did not succeed in
reaching An3aslS because the season
was too adviA;ed. However, he met
at North Sts bay, north of Cape
York, ESKIMO Il who had talked with
DR.. Cooks EtBimos and their state
ments agreed Nth DIR. Cooks. They
believe that q TX and his tEskimos
reached the ID
Captain Schat Ne adds that when he
saw the EsFini at North Star they
were terrified b Ling that Peary was
on board TaCcns yirrfcdly hid Sheir
provisions and ywr property. They
fear Peary like y devil.
Rasmussen will return soon and
board the Hans Egede but it is inn
probable that he has further intorma7
ton.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
OLD CROWD COMING BACK
TO WINTER HOME AGAIN

out their existence as best they can,
usuaiD make the infrmary their re-
fuge bn the hard months of winter.
when they would otherwise be COM
PEELED to undergo privations.
Now is the time when these people
are coming back, and interesting in
many cases is their story of life dur
ing summer.
Some become merchants, set up for
themselves, and sell shoe strings, pen
ellis, or other such odd articles. 9th
ers, less ambitions, succeed in some
way in being sentenced to the work
house, which they prefer to a life of
uncertainty outside.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
,ztLOT ACAINST
!?
exican Carried a Pc
cuIiar Automatic
Revolver.
BASEBALL QUERY

n By Sun LEASED Wire.
" San Antonio. Oct. lit was learn
4 ed after President Taft left Ell Paso
last night that the Mexican secret ser
Twice men, two days before the meet
ing of the presidents, had arrested a
. young man who had represented him-
self to be reporter and had applied
for admission to President Diaz's ban
Squet, at Ciudad Juarez. The young
man was Mexican.
~ The Mexican secret service agents
lidn't like his appearance and search
him. In one pocket they found an
Itomatic revolver, the barrel of
which was shaped like lead pencil
in it were seven cartridges. The Mex
lean police officials said that the pecu-
liar revolver, apparently, had been
made. to order. -
1t would have been easily possible,
they added, for anyone to have mis-
ftaken it for a pencil when the hand
pwas closed over the butt. The Mex
! ican was held.
ID 1t was with a great deal of relief
that both the Mexican and the Amer
SSNlCI oGlNlSG dSSlLo saw bhO telot VI
yesterdays ceremonies. 1t was the
most nerve-racking job Chief Wilkie,
of Washington, ever had.
Both the Mexican and the United
!. States governments expect important
tresults from the Taft-Diaz meeting at
Ell Paso yesterday. President Diaz
teagerly accepted the opportunity as a
means of strengthening his admins
ation against possible revolutionary
. ziovement, and President Taft saw in
the international program means of
further safeguarding the vast interests
of the United States in Mexico. Aside
from the personal element, these are
the motives that prompted yesterdays
exchange of courtesies on the border
One of the first things that Presi-
dent Taft inquired baout when the
newspapers were put on his train this
mo- ming, was the result OF the worlds
championship baseball fight.
When he heard that Rittsburg had
won he wanted to know all the details
and was greatly interested. The presi-
dent in his capacity as a fan, watched
the Pitsburgs play at the Smoky City
last summer.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
SOCIETY WOMAN KILLED
IN AUTO ICCIDENT
By Sun Leased wire.

By Sun Leased Wire
New York, Oct. 17-Mrs, Bruce
Price, widow Of foImer well known
architect and a member of the Tux
edo colony. was killed and Mrs.
Charles ]. Coulter, also of Tuxedo, was
injured in an automobile accident on
the public road from Arden to Tuxedo
on the Hartman estate, this after
noon.
With Mrs. Price and Mrs. Coulter in
the car was the latter's 12-year-old
son, Charles. He escaped with few
scratches and bruises. Mrs. Coulter's
chauffeur, John Sculley. had two ribs
broken.
Mrs. Price was Miss Josephine Lee
of Wilkesbarre. Pa. She is survived
by one daughter, Mrs. Price Post, who
is magazine writer under the maine
of Emily Post,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
MADAME AIDA To WED
Noted Soprano Will Marry Gatti-caz-
sza Sometime, He Says.

BY Sun Leased Wire,
New York, Oct. 17.--Giulio Gatti-
Cazaza, director of the Metropolitan
opera house, his assistant, Kino Cen
tenini and Arturo Toscanini. conduc-
tor, were passengers by the liner St.
Louis, in today from Southampton and
Cherbourg.
1t was ANNOUNCED by one Of the OPP
cratic party with the sanction of Gatti-
Cazaza that he and the soprano, Mad
anne Frances Aida, were engaged to be
married No time was set for the GER
emony.
Denials of the report THAI Nine.
Aida and Gatu-Cazaza were to be
married have been made frequently in
the last several months. signpr Gatti-
Cazaza was under the protecting wing
Of Raulins Cottenet, one of the direc-
tors of the opera company whose chief
claim to fame in operate affairs is
his discovery Of the fact that Gatti-
Cazaza was the born manager OF the
Metropolitan.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
SUDDEN END OF FORMER
AMERICAN DIPLOMAT
Judge Ruchansn Found Dying in Lon
don Street.-The Suspicion of
Foul Play.

by sun Gable.
London, Oct. 17.-Judge William l.
Buchanan, formerly American minis
ter to Panama and later special en-
voy to Venezuela, died in this city
last night.
Near midnight a policeman who
was patrolling Park Lane, found a
man in evening dress clinging to the
railings outside of No. 10. He was
unable to speak and was very ill.
The policeman took him to st.
Georges hospital, where he died be.
fore the doctors could aid him. Death
was due to heart disease.
The body was taken to a mortuary
where it was identified this morning
by the manager of Claridge's hotel,
where Mr.. Buchanan frequently
stayed,
He arrived there last Thursday
from the continent, He went out to
dine Saturday eYening apparently
well. There is no Aspicion whatever
of violence The Asperican embassy
is making aFrangemeih CKSs, his fu
neral. \, g.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
Shook UP VANDERBILT
New York Central Man In Accident In
Which One Was Killed and
Eiahteen Hurt.

By sun Leased Wire.
New York, Oct, 17.-William X. Van
derbilt. ST.. principal owner Of the
New York Central; W. C. Brown. pres
ident OF the road. and William H.
Newman. the former president, now a
director. were pretty well shaken az
in their private cars this morning
when the New York express train No
20 was ditehed BY q broken rail neal
Rhynecliff station
One man was killed and eighteen
people hurt whep the express vai
flung of the track.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
AS WINTER APPROACHES FOR
MER INFlRMARY INMATES
SEEK SHELTER AT THE
COUNTY lNSTI-
TITION
TUITION.

Superintendent l. B. Drukenbrod of
the county infirmary is busy these
days renewing acquaintances, for most
OF the inmates who left the institution
are slowly returning, until now the
hotel accommodations there are some
what restricted.
Those who leave each spring with
the opening Of warm weather to exc
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
Sensation in Catalonia.

Madrid, Oct. 17.-(Spl)-The great
est sort of a sensation has been caus-
ed by demand by the captain gen.
eral of Catalonia for authorization to
try Senior Sol y ortega, a republican
senator for completely in the rebellion
In July, including an attempt to burn
the Jesuit college in Barcelona Con
viction would render Senor Sol liable
to death sentence.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-10-21
EXCITEMENT IN HAVANA
Thousands Join in Manifestation
Against Execution OF Ferrer.
Would Boycott Spanish
Goods,
BY Sun Gable.

BY Sun Gable.
Havana, Oct. 17,-Thousands OF
persons this afternoon took part in a
manifestation against the execution OF
Ferrer.
Genetral Lornaz del Castillo and
other leading Cuban liberals made
fiery speeches, while the audience
waved red flags. A resolution to boy
colt Spanish goods was adopted
Subsequent to the meeting, a mob
stoned a number of churches and at
tempted to attack the bishops palace
and the offices of the Diario de la
Marina, loyal Spanish newspaper
The police prevented the attacks.