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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-12-07
Water Power Rates.

The water power sites subject is one
that calls for new legislation. It has
been thought that there was danger
of combination to obtain possession OF
all the power sites and to unite them
under one control. Whatever the evil
dence of this or lack of it, at present
we have had enough experience to
know that combination would be prof
table, and the control of great num-
Der of power sites would enable the
holders or owners to raise the price
of power at will within certain sec.
tons, and the temptation would
promptly attract investors, and the
danger of monopoly and extortion
would not be remote one.
However this may be, it is the plain
duty of the government to see to it
that in the utilization and develop
ment of all this immense amount OF
water power conditions shall be i'm
posed that will prevent extortionate
charges, which are the usual accompa,
niment Of monopoly.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-12-07
Department of Justice.

| am glad to say that under the ap-
preparations made for the department
of Justice the attorney general has so
improved it's organization that a vast
amount of litigation of civil and
criminal character has been disposed
of during the current year. This will
explain the necessity for Slightly in
creasing the estimates for the ex-
penses of the department. His report
shows the recoveries made on behalf
of the government, of duties fraud
ulently withheld, public lands improp-
erly patented, fines and penalties for
trespass, prosecutions and convictions
under the antitrust law and prosecu-
tons under interstate commerce law.
l invite especial attention to the
prosecutions under the federal law of
the so called bucket shops" and of
those schemes to defraud in which the
use of the mail is an essential part of
the fraudulent conspiracy, prosecu-
lions which have saved ignorant and
weak members of the public and are
saving them millions of dollars.
The violations of the antitrust law
present perhaps the most important
litigation before the department, and
the number of cases filed shows the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09
HICKORY SUPPLY GOING.
Valuable American Wood Rapidly Be
coming Extinct.

Valuable American Wood Rapidly Be-
coming Extinct.
The supply of hickory, the best
American fuel wood and the most diff
cult to replace in case Of a shortage
Of American hard woods, is approach
ing exhaustion, says a bulletin Of the
department of agriculture.
It shows that virgin hickory, the
chief source of supply, is disappearing
rapidly and that there are no foreign
sources which can be drawn upon
when the home supplies are exhausted.
Prices, it is pointed out, are bound to
advance because of the high technical
value of hickory and the fast dimin-
ishing supply.
The bulletin says that hickory has a
number Of important special uses for
which no satisfactory substitute is
known, that fully 40 per cent of the
merchantable hickory. cut each year
is wasted, that the total amount of
hickory consumed annually is probably
not less than 45O, 0O0, 900 feet, that the
vehicle industry takes about IS per
cent Of the total cut, that there are
now about 100000, 900 acres of land on
which hickory is growing naturally
and that hickory users should coop
crate to prevent shortage.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09

council has opened the first automo-
bile road, from Tardisbruck to Chur,
a storm Of popular Indignation has bro
ken out
An agitation is in progress to collect
5000 anti-auto signatures, by means of
which the council can be compelled to
rescind the permission, and newspaper
articles exhort the people not to permit
the restful stiffness OF the Grisons'
clear atmosphere to be disturbed or
polluted by auto honking and malodor-
Gus vapors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09
Hints on Cleaning the Sink

Every sink should be provided with a
tf1ree-cornered sieve made by covering a
metal frame with very fine netting.
When water is thrown into the sink it
should be turned into this sieve, pre-
venting the solid matter from getting into
the pipes and causing trouble. Each time
the dishes are washed the sink should
be carefully cleaned. The quickest way
is to dissolve teaspoonfm of Gold
Dust washing powder in hot water,
rinse every portion Of the sink with
the Gold Dust solution. pouring some
of the hot suds down the pipe to loosen
the grease that may have gathered in
the trap
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09

terday and arraigned before Magis-
trate Roddewig on a charge Of lar
ceny. Those who were before the
judicial bar were George McKeague
John Luedders, Carl Banks, Louis
White, Frank McKeague, Clarence
Ramm, Carl Kettlesen, Howard
Banks, George Swallow and Charles
Burmeister. After their case was
aired and the details of the theft
learned, the court fined them 81 and
court costs each and ordered them
to settle the railroads claim for the
loss of the goods. With this they
we're dismissed. The larger num-
Der of the youths are employed at
the Bettendorf Wheel works and
some in the railroad yards near the
scene of the theft. They were
brought in by Detective Quinn.
Dance Leads to cuttins.-A kitchen
dance at the home Of Mrs. Ray Cor
ner, Fourth and Rock Island streets,
a quarrel between two sweethearts
and a resultant row in which the
police were called, was the combine
ton which ended In the stabbing OF
Miss Arabella Thomas by William
Barafield, both colored, late Monday
night As a result of the ARRAY the
young woman is lying at her home
with a long and deep cash in her
back and the extent Of her injuries
is not yet known. When Barafield
was arraigned before Magistrate
Roddewig he was at first accused of
assault with intent to inflict great
bodily INJURY, but this charge was
later changed to assault and battery,
on which he was sent to Jail for 30
days. 1t WAS thought preferable to
try him under this charge and hold
him over. to watch developments in
the injuries of Miss Thomas. than
to try him on the other charge and
bind him over to the grand jury.
Aged Man Hurricanes Owens, an
aged man residing on Howell street,
was injured yesterday In a fall on
a sidewalk at Bowditch and Howell
He was taken to the Dav-
export hospital. 1t was at first
thought that his hip was dislocated,
but his injury is slight.
o
Obituary Record.-Albert Neumann
died at 2:45 yesterday afternoon
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09
DAVENPORT

Site for Big Office. An important
deal has been closed whereby the
Trt-Cfty Railway & Light company,
through its president, J. F. Porter,
and general counsel, Joe R. Lane,
leases for a period of 10 years. the
property belonging to the Smith es-
tate, located at 123-125 West Third
street, directly adjoining the Lane
building on the east. The site is
better known as being the old quar-
ters Of the Davenport Furniture &
Carpet company. The property con-
sists Of a four story building with a
frontage of 43 feet on Third street
and a depth Of $50 feet The entire
building will be occupied by the Tri-
City Railway & Light company
and auxiliary companies, includ-
ing the Davenport-Muscatin inter
urban which will be built in the near
future. For some time past the
company has been crowded for
room in its present location in the
Lane building and being. unable to
secure more space in that building
decided on the Smith property,
where all the various departments
Of the several companies generally
known as the Tri-City Railway &
Light company, will be centralized.
The lease becomes effective Jan. 1
at which time the present offices will
be removed from the Lane building.
The Lane building has been found so
desirable that already Mr.. Lane has
had numerous parties negotiate with
him to lease the ground floor. He
stated yesterday that as yet he was
not at liberty to state who the new
tenant would be. The ground floor
Of the Smith building will be utiliz-
ed as the interurban passenger sta
ton for the Observation-Disclosures in
terurban line and the three upper
floors will be used for general Of
fees, etc, for all the companies.
Boys Stole Nuts.-For having been
implicated in the wholesale theft of
some $50 worth of English walnuts
from the freight cars standing in the
Rock Island freight yards a few
nights ago. ten youthful robbers
we're brought into police court yes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09
SWISS OBJECT TO AUTO.

Freedom In Grisons Canton Leads to
Great Protest.
The automobile has had stif fight
to win admittance to the picturesque
canton OF the Grisons, hitherto the only
part of Switzerland where self pro
PEELED vehicles were barred altogether
1t must be confessed that nowhere in
Switzerland is the automobile really
popular.
The official reason for its exclusion
from the Grisons is that the mountain
roads there are too narrow and dan
gerous, but now that the cantonal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09
Found oeIdtin -aunehss.

Early settlers { in > South Australia
were told by. the blacks that up coun-
try" there was; a. cave fullsof, gold, but
they did not attach much credence to
the report A hair caste recently ar
rived in Adelaide with the news that
some 400 miles north Of Fowler's bay
he came upon a series of caves, one
Of which had pendants Of gold like
punches Of grapes"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09
Russian Districts MaIeIess.

Whole districts In European Russia
have been denuded of their male popu-
lation. Many of the men travel on
foot to the immense territory opened
by the Transsiberian railroad. In parts
OF which the state alIots four and a
half acres to each adult immigrant
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09
g NEWS OF THE NEIGHBORS

after lingering illness at his home,
500 West Ninth street. He Is sur
vived by his wife, Clara, and four
sons, Arthur, Clarence, Vernon and
William.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09
BAR STREET"CAR TREATING. /"
Each cIoverdaie (AIa.) commuter
Pays His Own Fare.

Citizens of ClcverdaIe. an incor-
porated Montgomery (AIa.) suburb.
have formed a society prohibiting one
citizen of the town from paying the
others street car fare. Each passen-
ger on the CloverdaIe line from now
On is expected to pony up with 3
cents. no more. no less; otherwise he
violates ethics and the unwritten law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09
The EAsiar MAY.

do foreigners buy many OF our
stocks?"
"Some. Usually. though. they prefer
to acquire them by marriage."-Pitts
burg Post
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09

Moorish ouarryins Still Used.
The method of getting marble In
Spain has not varied since the days
when the Moors built the AIhambra,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09
coids Cause Headache.

Laxative Bromo Quinine, the world.
wide cold and grip remedy, removes
cause. Call for full name. Look for
signature, e. w. Grove 20 cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09
and Tie transportation rs equally prlm.
tive. %h
Work Early In Trinidad.

On Trinidad.island the hours of.laborl
for most classes sof clerks Bhave been
limited to the ttne~from sT-a.S m. 10 Al
p. N. .r,.. ....
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09

All the news all the time-The Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09
5)(QjI:Ahe
You
c}tiiod>?

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound We
furnish positive proof that it has made many remarkable
after all other means had failed
Women who suffering with form of female
illness should consider this.
AS such evidence read these two unsolicited testimonial
aters We guarantee they genuine and honest state
ments of facts.
Cresson, Pa."Five years ago had bad fall, hurt
doctors for nine weeks,
when stopped again. sent for bottle of
Pnkhan's Vegetable Compound directed,
and a stout hearty woman"-Mrs Ella E. Afkey,
CressOn, Pa.
Baird, wash.-"A year ago sick with kidney
doctors
All just let easily possible.
friends take Lydia Pnkham's Vegetable
Compound and Blood Purifier completely cured of
nearly sixty OldNrs Sarah Leighton,
Baird Wash.
Evidence like the above is abundant showing that the
arrangements of the female organism which breed all kinds
of miserable feelings and which ordinary practice does
cure the very disorders that give way Lydia E.
Pnkham's Vegetable Compound.
Women who are afflicted with similar troubles after
reading such letters the above should be encouraged
try this wonderfully helpful remedy
For 80 years e. PnIzham's Vegetable GTSS@SSA
fema No sick does justice TO fV II EAW
this famous medicine. III IT
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Address NIrs PinEham Lynn, Mass
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09

May Close City 6aths-Unless sup
port in the form of patronage is given
the public bath house at Twelfth
street and Third avenue 1t will be clos
ed by the city authorities, who claim
that the institution is not making ex-
penses at the present time and that
the city and the other supporters of
the baths cannot afford to stand this
expense.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09

Vacates Streets.-The East Moline
council has vacated certain streets
through the Palmer property which
was recently purchased by the Mutual
Wheel company. 1t Is thought this
action was taken to permit the com
pany to expand Also streets through
Marseilles property we're vacated for
the same purpose. Ordinances were
passed providing for 100000 storm
drain on Second and Fourth streets.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-09

Obituary Record.-Albert Neumann
died at PAS yesterday afternoon
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-24
h.Baby

lively large sums. barred, while the or
strong and rcsourceful even though they have
but dollar, may enter the gates of the nation. The
immigrant societies will become responsible for these.
The strong have nothing 10 fear.
And past the judgment seat2 The line has dis
integraed 1t has tnkcn up the heritage of ndivdu.
aty for better, for worse The greater part moves
on smiling excited. triumphant and trembling with
JOY difficult TO describe The remainder?
Up over the rcd tiled roofs they wait. those that
have failed ut the test In view notices irrcsu-
lurlties in the mass Here are the timbers of mmi-
grafton with weak parts warped and with knots.
The men and women here have evil faces, weak
old They are apt Illustrations Of the tragedy of
environment Of years.
And, truly. here on the roof the picture is tragic
one. StrolDg about, sitting, basking in the are
the groups Of failure. Some are lIstless but some-
strain their eyes the purple river where rising
from rosy haze aud softened by distance rise the
giant hives, slender. unique, very fnirylana of
reality They have come far. these men and women
10 make part of all these things They have hoped
And here they arc with Straining eyes, rejected at
the very gate of paradise
Downstairs however. in the little cage the scene
Is different The struggle Is behind those who walt
here These hearts be read like open books, these
viollns OF human souls are unmuted. Between them
and the rosy fairyland but new necessary queS
lions friends and themselves for their Own pro-
tcctlon For Tho most impressive Characteristic In
all the wonderfully oiled machinery OF Ellis Island
is the care exercised on the immigrant This is
cally the case In regard to women. lest they should
fall into unscrupuous hands The questions once
asked and answered. however
We'll, the name is called out from the cage; she
comes the one who has travelled far to meet huS'
band or sister or woman friend. Here human I'M
pulses arc naked thlncs-shorn OF vestment and
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-24

vious prerogative). keen eyed and not unkndly He
acute ouestioner Indeed. be has had much practice
for his hand-or voice For years and years he has
sat before his high desk at the end-the very end
OF that line which has reached Its practically uti-
mate point You may look along 1t to where 1t sits
patient in the open pen; for gentleman has a
careful business before him in the way OF question
ing and his proceeding Is longer than that of the
doctor. In the pen is line no longer; only jumblc
of humanity, and the contrast of parts strikes
sharply. One medley of baskets bundles, bags.
OF sallow, dark eyed Italians of broad noSed. semi
Oriental looking Savs; of fair mild eyed Russians.
heavy and thick of frame; of sharp featured Irish
girls that In a few weeks viii be dominating our des-
tnieS of Irish lads with fresh compexlons and In
variable caps. The body and soul of the immigrant
line Is here clustered together awaiting It's 6ual ad
judlcation That body stares curiously at the alert
little official behind the high desk That body fears
and very obviously hopes And part by part It steps
to take It's Mt the other side Of the question
Ing These questions have marked character. They
have sort of kindly penetrancy about them for the
ittle man knows his material of citizenship He
knows manners and expressions His bright keen
l,tle eyes uDveil the awed nervousness and separate
1t from the crude dlssniulation at glance.
A fine. strong looking Irish girl is at tho gate OF
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-24
SQ3N T He
THRE SHOLD
EROM Ellis Island Million
Z 1lWeqvcomers Peer Fever
ishly Into the Great Nequ Home
Prepared for Them-Lutle
Human Sidelights in a Big
Picture
right. 1910. By tho New YORK Herald Co.
BY GARNET WARREN


THE wide white barge moves. loaded with human
| Ity from the distant steamship pier. Nearer
notices thousands Of pink specks, which faces.
and sombrc solid foundation Of dark which is cloth
Ing Nearer still thousands of eyes to stare
out intent curious eyes. and the pink smudgcs have
become rapt expressions, For these vcnturers have
come far and the last stage of their journey is upon
hem. They are ready to embark and Ellis Island is
waiting TO receive.
So forth comes single, slowly moving line.
and one becomes conscious of. evolution In the
mass The phaany of dark clothes and pink faces
resolves itself into many characters of men and raj
ment Slays. Italians, Irish, Poles separate them
selves from the pink and dark mixture on the barge.
One Is aware of bags and huge, weather beaten
bundles OF shaws of every color, of hats Of all ma
tcrias md of every sbapcfclt hats straw hats cloth
hats hats turning up. hats turning down. unimagnn-
Die hats.
1t Is a shifting variable line. differing In most
things but in one interchangeable. And that? You see
t when the line moves 1t Is the slow, heavy footed
movement of toll.
1t moves forward TO the wide door, that line TO the
brisk direction of ocaldom and to the sound of its
crisp tones.
Come this way; come this way sounds the voice
of man in uniform. "One behind the other now.
In the lne-one behind the otber-one at time"
The trim governmental person speaks In half a
dozen tongues Slowly tho line strcaks forward Its
moving distance swallowed by dark doorway-the
first inanimate object Of its digestion.
Slow Moving Stream.
So goes the stream of lmmigrancy-lusty, ploddlng,
many bundled. High In the gallery behind the
-smIlatug door it may be seen again 1t enters
like serpent creeping, in that place be dlsscctcd,
analyzed, separated and given ndividualties and
tickets be deported imported, to be banlshed
possibly-given vote.
1t is an immense hail. this laboratory Of humanity
1t is dark Noored yellow walled, many wlndowed
Light iron rails divide the floor space into narrow
walkways and into open spaces with nm assured
simitude to pens Along these the serpent struggles
aud In them 1t waits
II streams slowly along. Slowly, slowly to Of
6cialdom agaIn-unformed medical oaicaldom this
u,'. which iabcS It's stand NJ corner before basins
and towels and IT, through the prerogative OF author
ship you are stationed the back of these gentlemen
YOU may experience the decided odors of antiseptcs
and see the drifting of a ccasing tide.
They are crisp prompt deftly decisive in their
movements, these doctors. There is Il practiscd
searching movement of fingers a turn, exposure of
eyeds, brisk swapping of fingers an iuvarlabIc
wipng of hands towels. And then? The
vcrtcbra of serpent wheels slowly. gIdes along
another angle Of It's called walkway and moves to
another Trial.
That Is. of course. If the unIl of ycrtcbra Is
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-24
Bills Island-Thc Threshold

decoration Here the novelist could get the human
document Of JOY In reality did he wish do So The
kisses here not the soft and clnGing kind
They fierce hard. short they crush. JOY here too
Hes in laughter II is deep for that Here only
is the primal Kiss. and thcn-thc tears.
one may observe herc. however (oGendlnG analysts
WEI gradatonS In emotion. The Irish show most the
violence OF emotion The SlOys Indicate less feeling,
They grip the hand kiss IT, The Austrians kiss the
hand the head. anything that shows. The English
speaking ones make unwaverngly. terribly, for tho
lips
Here too, is the immigrant In the making. The
melting pot Of this United States Is before the eyes
Ellis Island here is the citizen in his material evou
ton See this just arrived In the heavy boots and
the hard wearing, grossly fitting, much attire
Compare him with the visiting friend perhaps six
years In the country. with polished boots stand
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-24

ITS enough to say yes no." said the Inspector
dryy The naccuracy. however. Is largely the result
of BUSINESS. and she IS passed.
So. standing behind that little sharp inspector one
comes TO know the gradatlons OF nervousness One
becomes particularly familiar with its sevcreSt forms.
for you stand very close TO primal human impulses
when YOU look over the shoulder of the little man.
One inds the poor rough hands to be very shaking.
and there is pitiabe eagerness and anxiety in the
poor blunt features at the sign Of any difficulty.
However brave woman may have been when
setting forth from distant village, the final
trial IN the new land shakes the hardest The money
has been buried deep deep down in the mysteries of
the Interest most inner clothing and the question
Where is it? is the signal for hustercd but progress
sve search Sometimes the treasure lies sccrcted in
belts near bodies even the most careless bear 1t In
bundles beneath the shirt, Always, however. proc
ess of elaborate unwrappng becomes necessary that
the wealth may be displayed
The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-24
Hard Won Gold.

So the poor heavy, shaking hand creeps down
through outer garments unLutons and enters obscure
ARRANGEMENTS OF nnnne, delves deeper. deeper into
other strata II strange appearing raiment There Is
stop n SropIug and the heavy hand returns with
Wrapping a bag purse perhaps. Swathed Ike
mummy In the Phuraohs' time; then, iast the hard
won gold wrought from unkinder. older countries
where the sun smiles only for few. So, shaking, 1t
Is held out. that hard sixty or nifty or twenty or
five dollars so 1t is counted and its owner Is free
with the kindly note OF the inspector in his cars and
a kindly Test for welcome to the new lfe We'll
eoodby Mary There's a lot of fine Irish policemen
here you'll be citizen right away" was the speeding
Of one And GOOD luck" and "Goodby' is the kindly
farewell OF many.
One comes to know standing there that money does
not make the man woman In Ellis Island IhoSe
,,ho &c a,seased even though they have sompara-
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-01

House for Rent.
The dwelling recently occupied by j.
+. Gill, on Rolette street. enquire at
14tf G.. B. HARRIS.