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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24
BALANCE OCT. 4.

On Oct. ! last there remained a bal
ance of all funds in the state treas
ury amounting to S4.42i61O. divided as
follows: Trust funds. S315.SO7; gen
eral revenue fund, s3.S37. .629.3
school fund S271,173.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24
FOUR FALL 500
FEET IN Mine

Eccles. W. Va, Dec. 24.-Four
men met death when a bucket in
which they were descending No.
shaft in the New River collieries to-
day overturned throwing them 500
feet to the bottom of the mine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

From noon today to noon tomorrow
Sun sets 4:34, rises 7:19; moon rises
1: 40 a. m; p. m, planet Mercury at
greatest elongation east of the sun. 10
degrees "a minutes, accounting for it's
visibility low in southwest after sun
set for several nights. noon today. sun
directly south.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24
CHARGED on TAX BOOK

The auditors report shows there is
charged on the tax books for 1909 for
state taxes S7,69O.S61. Taxes for other
purposes charged on the books for
1909 are as follows:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24
FREEDOM is GIFT FOR 100

Alabama Governor. Pardons Convicts,
Including 20 'Lifers.''
Montgomery, Ala, Dec. 24.-The
doors of Alabama's prison yesterday
were thrown open to more than 100
convicts pardoned and paroled by Gov
ernor Conner for Christmas Among
the number are 20 life prisoners and
fully 40 convicts imprisoned for homi-
cideS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24
DELAY CAPITAL HEARING
Bucket Shop Prosecution Will Be
Taken Up at Chicago Dec. 20.

Chicago. Dec. 24.-The prelimir-
ary hearing of the Capital Invest
ment company, Sidmon Nellie. its
reputed head, and a score of en-
ployes, and William ]. Lloyd, district
traffic manager of the Western Union
following the raid on the company a
week ago as an alleged bucket shop.
was yesterday postponed until Dec. %
on request of the government attor-
neys.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24
THE WEATHER
Forecast Till 7 p. NJ, Sunday for
Rock Island, Davenport, Mo-
line and Vicinity.

IIIIC dTIu VTCITINys
Unsettled with snow tonight or Sun
day, warmer. The lowest temperature
tonight will be about 10 degrees above
zero.
Temperature at a. M, zero. High
est yesterday, rs Lowest last night,
zero
Precipitation, none
Wind velocity at 7 a m, miles
per hour.
Relative humidity at p. m, 50; at
Z a. m, 93.
J. NJ. SHERIER, Local Forecaster.
]. NJ. SHERIER, Local Forecaster.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24

24.-Eight passengers are dead.
some of them burned to a crisp. and
25 more are injured as the result
of the wreck of the Scotch express
near Halves Junction today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24
BRITISH AVIATOR MISSING
No Trace of Cecil s. Grace Since He
Started Across Channel.

London, Dec. 24.-The search Tor
Cecil Grace, the aviator, who lost his
way in a fog while attempting to re-
turn over the English channel to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24
BY TAV.

(specfal Correspondence of The Argus
Washington, Dec. EFF the army
and navy are wholly unprepared for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24
Aqed 100: Dead.

Appleton, Wis. Dee. 24.-Mrs.
Anna Lehman. aged 100 years
months, is dead.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24

Secretary of War Dickinson particu
larly to answer. inasmuch as he ad-
mits not only that the United States is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24
DETECTIVE WOUNDED, DIES
Chicago Officer Killed Man He Was
AttemDting to Arrest.

l1tUttIII1tIIIt1 10 TIT O9U'
Chicago, Dec. 24.-Detective Jesse
Gilman. who was shot during a revol-
yer fight in which his assailant, Gre
gori Graci, was killed last night, died
today The encounter followed an at
tempt to arrest Graci after he had fired
four shots in a quarrel with former
employer, the owner of laundry.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24
ESTIMATES IN DETAIL.
ollowing are the estimates:


For charitable, educational pc
nal and refOrmatory institU-
tions 49,. ...... ............&4,794.CS7
For pay Of members. officers
employees. and expenses of
Attn general assembly, state
officers salaries. clerk hire,
and expenses of executive de-
partm"nts salaries Of judges.
states attorneys. expenses OF
supreme and appellate courts.
printing. binding. paper. sta
tionery, heating and light
ing. .... .....-.. ............. 1890
For balance of miscellaneous
appropriations. including as
sociations. commissioners of
fish food. labor, live stock.
public highway inspectors.
free employment offices. far
mers' institute. Libraries,
state boards Of arbitration,
equalization. health, mining,
pardons, and prison indus
tries ..... ...t..:......... 1892
For expenses of Illinois Ma
tional Guard ,.... ........ 245.e26
For salaries county superin-
tendents OF schools ...-..... 12s,212
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24
A BIG sum
Auditor Figures ST, 3,023 Is
Necessary to Runt State
for 18 Months.
UP TO FIRST OF NEXT JULY
Taxes of 1909 Will Meet the Require
ments and There VIII BE
Something Left.

Springfield, H., Dec. 24.-State Audi.
tor Mccullough, in his annual report to
Governor Deneeh. estimates that it viii
require $7,653.O23 to meet the expenses
of the state government for the period
between Oct. l last and June 80, 1911,
when the new appropriations become
available.
The taxes for 1909 will meet the re
quiremcnts and leave a few thousand
dollars on hand, according to the audi
tors estimate.
Educational charitable and penal re-
formatory institutions will receive most
of the amount figured as necessary 10
run the state government until new
appropriations become available.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-24

Continued on Page Temp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26

ing for aboriginal legend and tradi-
ton there are the old Indian trails
through the somber mystery Of the
great forest trees to Bears Point Bish-
ops Falls and Cupid's Cascades.
List of Hotels.
The Hotel Breslin has been remod-
eled.
At the Lake View House a new light
ing plant has been installed and the
grounds about the hotel will be bril-
liantly illumined at night.
The Forest, one OF the attractive
places on the west shore OF the lake.
has rebuilt the cottages which were
destroyed by fire during the winter.
Many OF the leading hotels are now
open and catering to those who enjoy
an early season. Among them are
Schafer's Hotel. Mt Arlington Hotel.
the Hotel Boulevard and the West
moreland.
The Silver Spring Park House is In Q
private park directly on the lake.
This season the Woodstock Is looking
forward to a busy time.
At the Hotel Durham on the west
shore OF the lake attractive accom-
modations have been provided for auto
mobile parties.
Tent life has always been one OF the
charms at Hopatcong, and numerous
places for the simple outdoor life un.
der canvas are available.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26

gest old-fashioned luxury and ease; but
while none Of its distinctive character
has been sacrificed, the various improve
ments demanded by modern ideas have
converted II into a watering place con-
tanning all the usual conveniences of a
nrst-class resort. In addition to the hotel
there are about one hundred cottages ar
ranged in rows about the grounds, and
very convenient. for families or parties
OF friends who wish more or less pri-
vacy.
The location of the "Old Sweet
Springs. near Allegheny, w. Va, is one
OF the finest in all Of this Switzerland
or America" The waters, particularly
OF the Chalybeate springs, offer much re-
lef Tor sufferers from many chronic
maiadies. including kidney and heart
trouble, govt, rheumatism, neuralgia end
obesity.
The drive from Allegheny station is one
OF the most beautiful in the mountains,
ana the constant changes in the scenery
prevent any one accustomed to the cities
trip. So
The climate during the summer months
Is delightful, free from malaria and
mosquitoes, and even during the warmest
weather the nights are cool.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26
CAPE MAY.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
CAPE MAY. n. J., June %. 1910.
The names Of the visitors from WASH
ington appear In large numbers among
the cottagers and the hotel guests. The
Washington colony has taken an active
lead in the social events for the past
seasons, and appears at the Golf
Club the Yacht Club and at other social
centers. During the week large num-
Der Of the visitors have been taking part
in the meeting of the New Jersey Eomeo-
pathic Medical Society, which convened
here on Wednesday. Thursday and yes
terday. On Tuesday, "Wednesday ana
Thursday of next week the Pennsylva-
MIA State Bar Association will hold it's
annual meeting here and fine program
has been arranged for the convention.
The bathing here Is excellent now and
the beach is daily lined with those enjoy
ing the water and others watching the
bathers. Next week there will go on duty
the beach front life guards. which will
be a part of the police force Of the city
this season. Heretofore the guards have
lived on donations made them by the
cottagers and hotel guests, but in order
that there may be some authority on the
beach strand the city has decided to have
regular guards and to have them sworn
in as policemen. Their pay now comes
out of the city treasury.
The fishing has turned out to be excel
lent and great catches OF weak fish are
being made. both by net and by hook
and line. They are caught In the new
Cape May harbor. and AFFORD rare sport
for the patient follower of Ilaak Walton.
A T. Simpson of Washington Ia enjoy
ing a vacation at the Windsor Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs Horace NJ. Fulton of Wash
ington are located at the Windsor. They
are accompanied by Miss NJ. A. Fulton
and Miss d. w. Whiteley. Mr.. Theodore
w. Noyes of Washington is a guest OF
his sister, Mrs. George W. Boyd. at her
home on Beach avenue. Gen. Peter c.
Haines of Washington Is located at tho
Windsor for the early season, ana ha
will be Joined by Mrs. Haines later. MISS
Eleanor r. Bliss OF Washington 10 at
the Hotel Cape May for an Indefinite
period. +. 3. Shafer. William Green.
William ONeill, Daniel McGarrigan, j.
Ceilings and Harry d. Falsom make up
a party of young Washingtonians who
are sojourning at the Hotel Cape MAY.
Mrs. d. J. Burnham OF Washington has
arrived at the Hotel Cape May for a
sojourn. Mrs. o. A. Cunningham of
Washington is among the Hotel Cape
Nav guests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26
White Sulphur and Sweet Springs.

White Sulphur Springs for over CEN
fury has bcen one of the favOrite resorts
Of the south. The most casual visitor
is struck at once with its distinctly
southern characteristics, its quaintness,
its space and freedom, and a certain
prodigality of appointments, which sug-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26

stones throw from Lake Champlain
1t Is on high ground. and commands a
splendid view. 1t is pleasing in archi-
lecture. and possesses modern conven-
fences. There is long list Of amuse-
ments from which to choose. the fishing.
1T is claimed. being better than at any
other point on the historic lake.
Lake Raponda Hotel and cottages, at
Wilmington, assures its patrons of q
high standard of service. Rowing, fish
ing, driving and mountain climbing are
some of the pleasures to be enjoyed.
The Woodstock Country Club golf links
are available by permit to guests of the
Woodstock Inn, Woodstock Cards may
also be obtained for the Norman Will
liams Public Library. There is a garage
and livery stable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26

The Massanetta Mineral Spring is lo-
Gated i'm the Shenandoah valley. vir.
gina, four miles southeast OF Harrison
burg. near the Massanutten mountains.
The Massanetta spring water has for
upward of fifty years borne a high
from the various ailments for which
experience has proven it to be an un-
failing remedy. It's composition or guam.
titive proportions were almost wholly un>
known, but its efficacy has newer been
doubted. and the speedy and unmistaka-
BILE benefits derived from its use have
caused its reputation to spread far and
wide.
The Massanetta Springs Hotel has all
modern sanitary arrangements public
and private baths, hot and GOLD water
and electric lights in every room, and
is furnished throughout with new furni-
ture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26

ments and lighted throughout by cleo
tricity. Ample grounds of over four
acres afford plenty of room for all out
door pastimes, such as tennis. croquet
and base ball.
An attractive annex, containing forty
we'll ventilated sleeping rooms, parlor.
electric lights and all improvements, is
connected with the main house by a
covered porch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26
MOUNTAIN AND LAKE
RESORTS IN VERMONT

Vermont's prestige as a healthful sum-
mer resort increases every year.
The Hotel LenoX, Vergennes. Is sit
mated I'm the Champlain valley. The air
is dry, pure and invigorating, and there
is an uninterrupted view of the Green and
Adirondack mountains. A short sail
brings one to Lake Champlain, where
excellent fishing obtains. Outdoor games
and band concerts are among the amuse-
nentS.
Hotel chamfnain is situated less than
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26
Hallett House, Blue Point. L. I.

The Hallett House. AT Blue Point, l.. L..
overlooks the Great South bay. Broad
piazzas extend on three sides of the
house. while the large parlors and the
ballroom afford excellent facilities for
dancing and other indoor pleasures. The
hotel is equipped with modern improve e.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26

Visitor-It must be q gigantic task %
run a great newspaper like yours. Ddis
tor-Not att all. It's the easiest thing q
the world. Dozens OF my friends q WI
as perfect strangers come in hers eSsrT
day to tell me how to run itCChicago
Tribune.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-11
The Happy American Indian

bare bones and the seasoning hides were all
that was left of the good things of the hunt
and it was time to again mount the ponies
and hunt the buffalo once more.
The wild rice grew luxuriahtly in the lakes
and gave much occupation in its gathering,
when with canoe the rice fields were en-
tered and the ripened heads pulled down
over the canoe in great punches and by beat
ing the grain with club it was loosened
and dropped into the canoe.
The whitefish, taken with net in the lakes
and dried in the sun, took much of their at
tention in the proper season. The spring
of the year, when the maskinonge ran into
shallow waters to deposit their eggs found
the young buck waiting for them with
barbed spear. Many was the wary fish, old
in years and heavy in body too wise for
net and yet too knowing for hook and line
that succumbed to the unerring prod of the
lancelike spear below the head
Then came the ice upon the lake and
through openings cut and shielded by skins
from the light above. with dangling lure.
the Indian enticed the hnny monster to its
death.
The moose and deer of the mantling
woods now that the snow was come made
arrow and lance, to track and hunt and keen
the camp in meat.
The snowshoe mounted Indian made quick
progress over the snowy wastes through
which the moose or deer must labor, belly
deep, and soon outran them and brought
them to the slaughter.
Under such conditions in a game country
when pain and woods were equally acces-
sible and in the absence of hostile tribes
the Indians life was to him an idealization
of the happy hunting grounds of the here
after. But the advent of hostile tribes the
resounding war whoop. the raid at night,
the pursuit and engagement upon the prairie,
the success or failure, loss of life in either
case, the wailing of the squaws and the in
carnations of the medicine man, the failure
of the hunt and impending starvation be-
cause of and brought about by This tribal
warfare. made a different picture-one saw
age, brutal, cruel and debasing beyond all
picturing involving the fendish stake and
burning and previous torture. not pleasant
either to think of or write about
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-11

of the sport, which she considers as lady
like as croquet, bridge whist, Summing or
any other of the more fashionable forms of
feminine recreation.
Henry Smith of Echo avenue is reported
to have been the first to land bass this
season, and on the opening day he brought
home to his wife a score of nine and ten
Founders.
While the present run of bass in the lake
is unprecedented in the history of Lake
Merritt, sporting annals record the fact that
al other seasons multitudes of bass have
returned from the spawning places up the
river and filled the lake Tom" Kendall,
the last of the boatmen and old time Ike
Waltons of the lake, remembers we'll the
time when fishing used to be an art and
when true thrills would accompany the song
of the leader, line and reel, as an old griz-
zled mossback veteran of hundred fights
and flights would come sizzling out of the
spray.
"Ya-as," drawled Kendall, as he stretched
himself out in the sunlight when Oakland
was little village, not so very long ago,
there used to be real sport here The can
vasbacks and mallards were as thick as buZ-
yards around a~carcass-and hshl Why, IN
them days 20 FOUNDER wuzen't noth1n to
brag about at all. We had 'em up to Z5-
Why only back in 1905 we had contest
and offered a silver medal to the man who
would land the biggest bass.
The contest lasted a whole week, and
say, that were, sure, a week of fun, The
record hez been matter of dispute ever
since claim it for a feller named Bill
Haimes, who used to live in Hayward He
landed, according to my best knowledge and
belief, a bass weighing 2oM pounds. Fred
Taylor, livin' out on Telegraph avenue
though, sez he caught one that week 26A
pounds heavy. But Bill is dead now, and
reckon the credit fer the largest bass caught
in Lake Merritt will have to go to Taylor
since poor Bill amt here 10 back me up"
The silver medal was consequently
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-11
<zs@RIz-z COVERED s0HT5
-FISHERFZEW

the local sporting fraternity. Every day
the shores of the lake are lined with these
patient and serene votaries of the rod
The sudden increase of fish is the cause
for much discussion, and many theories have
been advanced. Among the more plausible
accounts is the fact that the dredging of
the lake, which has just been finished at
great cost TO the city, has increased its
depth, perceptbly cooling the water and
thus affording a more inviting place for deep
water fish, such as bass, founder and srnelt
Fish have always existed in small num-
bers in the lake. but of late, previous to the
dredging, their presence has been more of
fiction than a fact In the recent influx the
striped bass predominant, and in the deeper
portions of the lake, which measures in some
places 10 feet, the water seems almost alive
with these gamey Creatures.
The news of the bountifu1 bass harvest
has brought out scores of fishermen, and
every day the banks of the lake are studded
with men, women and children; the boats
are filled, and even food gates and cement
bulkheads furnish roosting places for the
eager sportsmen Not only have amateurs
responded, but the news of bass in Lake
Merritt and the prospect of landing one of
these hnny streaks of lightning has brought
out many of the veteran anglers of the city
Grandpa" Arth1r, as he is known, is
familiar figure every day on the banks of
the lake and in his little boat. His luck
is proverbial among the local soortsmen,
and last week he is reputed to have caught
an eight pound bass, besides several, strings
of lesser fish. Arthur L. Martin, cashier of
the Oakland postofice. Is also one of the
more successful anglers OF the present sea-
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-11

N FISH story that puts the Jonah
n legend to shame has been circulated
about the bay for the last few weeks.
This tale has it that huge whale strolled into
the bay through the Golden. gate one morn
ing. glanced about and minaciousy switched
It's tail Thereupon all the little schools of
fishes and some of the kindergartens became
alarmed and hurried with their tails between
their legs up the Oakland estuary through
the food gates and into the haven of the
placid and secluded waters of Lake Merritt
Whether this tale is true or not the gentle
reader is left TO determine. Howbeit, the
fact remains that Lake Merritt. lake of 100
acres. situate in the heart OF city of 10000
Inhabitants bounded on ali sides by boule-
wards and parks, in the center of fashion
able residence district of Oakland, has be-
come in the last fewNweeks veritable fisher
mans paradise
Today the week end sportsman need plan
10 elaborate trip into the inland lakes or
expensive jaunt TO the mountains He
need only don his overshoes, shoulder his
rod and reel and stroll out of his front door
few hundred feet to the sandy and wooded
shores OF Lake Merritt, where, with little
touch of his proverbial imagination, he can
spend as exciting day as on lake in any
mountain fastness.
IF statistics are necessary TO prove the
above statement they are forthcoming. In
four days last week 384 permits for fishing
were issued by Charles Vogt. secretary of
the Oakland park commission, and never
before in the history of the city have such
interest and enthusiasm been shown among
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-11
The Way Of the Rattlesnake

the application of chemicals to the spot
are recommended, but, to our idea. if we
were to advertise an absolutely sure and
certain remedy for rattlesnake bite, on
receipt of only one dollar, we would write
back at once. on a postal card, so every
body might know the good news, Don't
get bitten"
Again, come to think Of it, the Indians
found rattlesnakes useful for arrow poison.
They would cut off the heads of rattlers.
adding a few tarantulas, stew the mess
down and dip their arrows in it. They too
used the rattler as an instrument of torture
pinning a prisoner to the ground and then
tying the rattler by the tail to peg, using
leather thong, the rattler being within
half an inch of striking distance of the face
of the PROSTATE prisoner. And there snake
and man would be left until the rain came
when the thong. soaked and stretching, the
snake could at last be avenged on his sup
posed tormentor. Days after a blackened
corpse with a swollen head, the face marked
here and there by needle holes, would tell
the story.
No doubt many uses can be found for
rattler's existence and yet when you have
your gun with you and you find one within
range. you kill 1t on principle. not that you
are afraid of it biting you, but that there
is chance or it biting the next thing, hu-
man or otherwise, that comes along
We've heard of denaturing the rattle
the snake, provoking it to strike and Jerk
ing the silk quickly away. tearing the fangs
loose. And with the fangs out then the
poison sacs can be removed, as you would
cut out tumor, when his snakeship be-
comes respectable member OF the commun-
ity for the first time
When IN confinement behind glass parti-
tion he will resent too close an inspection
and will spit his venom against the glass
with considerable force
He loves to bask in the open and will
sometimes lie stretched at full length IN
the dusty road for an hour or so. And when
the cold weather approaches he will crawl
into rocky retreat and there remain in
comatose condition until the warm spring
sun draws him forth from his den to again
begin his battle for existence
There may be those who, even in the
case of Tattler, can practice the proverb
of live and let live, but in our experience
we rarely, if ever, have met a rattler or
knew man who did, but what the over
mastering desire to slay prevailed.