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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16

Ability counts,
and II Is usually
entirely willing
and able TO count
dollars
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16
TERMs.-pailx. 10 cents Der weel

eY THE J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16

The secret that
a woman won't
tell Is no secret
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16

Don't worry over the inevitable; Just
let IL inev.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16

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from its long journey.
There are people who are cheerful
even in a dentists shop.
If you have to butt IN do IL with 30
much decision that the surprise viii
make them forget that you did it.
A baby can upset a whole household
by the simple expedient Of raising its
voice.
Don't worry over the inevitable; Just
let IL inev.
Making good may not be entirely
synonymous with being good. but IL
answers the purpose.
II the actress has an array of beau
tiful gowns the women will all vote
that the show was good one.
Perhaps we should not feel so bad
about high prices If we had more
money. Anyway. it is worth consider
ing.
Good Fortune Is seldom at home
when we try to get her on the teIe-
phone.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16

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 wit be printed
over fictitious signatures,
Correspondence solicited from every
township In Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16

Making good may not be entirely
synonymous with being good. but IL
answers the purpose.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16

II the actress has an array of beau
tifu gowns the women will all vote
that the show was a good one.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16

Good Fortune Is seldom at home
when we try to get her on the teIe-
phone.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16

to abandon further Investigations.
Believing that If he did so, there was
danger of government land falling
into the hands of dishonest and IL
legal claimants. CLAWS appealed to
the department of justice. He was
arbitrarily. summarily and without
hearing. dismissed from the ser
vice.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
THREE AGED COUPLES IN
OAKLAND ATTEND ALTAR
All Ceremonies Are Celebrated
Within a Week

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Three
couples old enough to be grandparents,
if not great grandparents, are cele-
brating their nuptials at Oakland this
week.
William S. Moses, aged SO, the Oldest
Mason in California, is to be welded
tomorrow to Eva Robyson, ward OF
the Golden Gate lodge in San Fran
cisco, and till recently one of the edi-
tors of the Smart Set, a New York
magazine. Miss Robyson Is much less
mature than her spouse-to-be, having
seen but SO birthdays.
Robert Dalziel, one of the leading
business men of Oakland, and reput-
ed millionaire, was married last even
ing to Miss Isabel Mcclure. He IL
rs; she is 81. The bridegroom was at
tended by his son, while his grand
daughter acted as bridesmaid.
Benjamin F. Badger, attorney at
law, 72, is welded to Louise BiglerS
who is only 12 years his junior.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
JUDGE FINDS JOB FOR
MAN WHO STOLE MILK
J. B. BIackmore Dismissed from
the Police Court

With a place to work, eat and sleep
waiting for him when he gets out, J. B.
Blackmore, who was arrested Wednes-
day for stealing a scent bottle of milk
when he was on the verge of starVa-
ton, was dismissed from a charge of
petty larceny by Police Judge Williams
yesterday.
1t was through the efforts of Judge
williams, who believes in mingling
mercy with justice when the case occa-
sions it, that Blackmore secured en-
ployment and a place to eat and sleep.
Blackmore was before Judge Will
liams Wednesday for the theft of a
bottle of milk from the porch of a resi-
dence in Boyle Heights. The story he
told of how he had wandered about the
city for almost a week in search of
work, meeting with failure, and how he
hadn't had anything to eat for forty
eight hours before his arrest, caused
the magistrate to continue the case un-
till yesterday morning. Although it
seemed a rather merciless disposition of
the case to make the prisoner pass a
day and night in jail before sem
fencing him, 1t was done with the in
tention of finding him work in the
meanwhile.
Judge williams succeeded in securing
him employment in a downtown hotel
through the proprietor N. B. Blunt.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
URGES LABOR FOR
DELINQUENT GIRLS
Mrs. Minnie U. Rutherford Dellv-
erS Address Before the Los
Angeles w. C. T. U.
CHILD SAVING THE SUBJECT
Declares CoeducationaI Schools
Are Great Advantage to
the Working Women

"Establsh a trade school for your
delinquent girls. Teach them some
thing they will like to do, something
which will give them means for self
support. Equip girls so that they can
earn good living. Give them eff
cheney, which means the capability of
earning a better salary, and conse-
quently moro independence of action"
With such methods does Mrs. Minnie
u Rutherford advise women to fight
for their daughters safety. 1t is not
enough to reason with them, or to pray
for them unless they are actually fit
ted to protect themselves and provide
themselves with all necessary creature
comforts,
"CHIlD SAVING"
Mrs. Rutherford spoke before the
regular meeting of the Los Angeles w.
c. T. U. yesterday afternoon, and took
for her subject the general topic of
"Child Saving" She advocates a for
native principle which shall educate
along the best lines the mental, moral,
physical and social phases, giving each
equal importance in the correct train
ing of the child. She spoke of the two
great evils. greed and lust, which
threaten always to overcome and in
terfere with the proper progress of this
formative work. These are evils which
gradually will be overcome by the
very forces upon which they now
fatten.
"Co-educational schools were a won-
derful advantage to the working wo-
man." said Mrs. Rutherford, land in
the slow, wasteful way in which wo-
men have always been forced to work,
and in which she has yet accomplished
so much that is good and of value to
the world, she has now accomplished
still greater benefits for her sister
workers. The manual training work
throughout the grades, the technical
high schools and the trade schools
which are so frequently introduced in
school work now, will be even a great
er weapon with which to fight delin-
quency OF both boys and girls"
TOUR OF INSPECTION
Mrs. Rutherford is the national SUI
perintendent of the anti-child labor de-
partment, the Juvenile court work and
the industrial educational department
of the w. c. T. u, and is visiting Los
Angeles while on a tour of inspection
of courts and other institutions of the
west.
Before the beginning of the address
yesterday the president of the local
union spoke of the postponement Of
the Orphans home picnic from Sept.
z to Sept "a. This is occasioned by the
fact that the boys and girls of the
Orphans home have each been invited
to enjoy a weeks visit, at the beach.
Woman suffrage will be the subject
.at the meeting to be held Oct. 6, and
particularly interesting program is
yprornised
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
CLERGYMAN'S SECRETARY
ARRAIGNED FOR FORGERY
Detectives Claim to Have Found
Many Bad Checks

Norman Wyeth, private secretary to
the Rev. Charles t. Murphy, rector OF
ST. Athanasius church, was arraigned
before Police Judge Williams yester-
day morning on a charge of forgery.
His preliminary hearing was set for
September at 10 o'clock and his bail
fixed in the sum of $500, which he was
unable to furnish.
Wyeth was arrested Wednesday at
the request Of Herman Blumenthal, a
clothier at 220 South Spring street, who
complained of having been victimized
with a bogus check for SIS drawn on
the First National bank, to which had
been forged the name of Mr.. Murphy.
Several checks for small amounts
with the forged signature of his en-
ployer were found in the prisoners
possession when he was searched at
central police headquarters.
Several other checks have been filed
with the detectives. to which it is all
legged Wyeth had forged the name OF
Mr. Murphy.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
ONCE FAMOUS PITCHER
IS JAILED AS ROBBER
Harry J. Nau Arrested in Chicago
and Brought Here as Pawn
shop Robber Suspect

Harry ], Nau, at one time one Of
the leading baseball pitchers in the
east and who was a member of
Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics
at the time Rube Waddell was pitch
er on that team, was brought back to
Los Angeles from Chicago yesterday
by Detective Frank Carroll to face a
charge of robbing the pawnshop of A.
/. Shapiro, 404 North Main street, on
the morning of August 3, of $500 in
cash and valuables, and assaulting
Kussieel Perelson, an aged clerk in the
store.
Nau, who is alleged to be partner
of Vorrath in the commission of the
crime, was arrested In Chicago several
weeks ago as he alighted from a Salt
Lake train which he had boarded in
Los Angeles.
Vorrath was arrested here August II
by Detectives Mcnamara, Carroll,
Home and McCann. At the time Of
his arrest, the detectives obtained a
clew to the identity of Nau from pa
pers which were found in his possess
sion. The detectives were unsuccess-
full in their search for Nau until they
learned that he had boarded a train
for Chicago. Word was telegraphed at
once to Capt. s. B. Wood, chief of tho
Chicago detective department, who ar
rested him when he arrived in that
city. A suit case, containing almost
the entire loot from the Shapiro store
was found in Nau's possession.
Detective Carroll stated yesterday
that on the trip here from Chicago, he
stopped at Salt Lake to recover sew
eral diamond rings and watch which
Nau had pawned there.
According to the detectives, Nau is
said to have confessed to having been
a party to the crime but says that he
kas induced to do so by Vorrath whom
he had met several weeks before.
Vorrath is said to have an interna-
tional police record.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
NEW PHONE RATES ARE
ATTACKED IN COURT
Pacific Company Draws Sad Pic
ture of Earnings in Seek
ing Injunction

Judge Wellborn Of the United States
district court heard opening evidence
yesterday in the hearing of an applica-
tion for temporary injunction to re-
strain the city from enforcing the new
phone rates, made by the Pacific Tele-
phone and Telegraph company.
E. r. Young, assistant city attorney,
opposed the granting of the injunc-
ton, while the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company was represented by
the law firm of O'Melveny, Stevens &
Milligan. Figures were submitted con-
cerning the earning capacity of both
telephone companies, the value of cor
poration franchises, the cost of exten-
sions for telephones, the rates of wall
and desk phones, and the depreciation
In telephone plants.
1t was brought out that the Pacific
company earned an average per phone
of $24.50 a year on the 37,607 phones in
use and that 1t costs the company
$2O.41 per annup to keep each phone in
operation.
Attorney Young showed that the
Home company keeps each phone in
operation at cost of $12.91 a year,
While the earning average of each
phone has been $15.18 a year. Young
contended that If one company was
able to operate on that basis the other
company should have no trouble in do
ing the same.
Attorneys Stevens and Young then
entered into a discussion relative to the
books of the corporation being exam
ined The city's attorney admitted that
the examiners for the public utilities
commission had but little time to make
their examination before the council
fixed rates for the coming year.
Most of the afternoon was taken up
by arguments over affidavits introduced
by theodore B. Comstock, w. H. Park
and w. F. Sloan. examiners for the
public utilities commission. The hear
ing will be resumed next Thursday
q fternoOn
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
BELL TO CANVASS THIS
COUNTY EARLY IN OCTOBER

Theodore Bell, Democratic nominee
for governor of California, will make
q personal canvass in Los Angeles
county early in October. Ten days will
be devoted to meeting the voters of
the city and county and two weeks to
Southern California.
If tentative plans are put through
several innovations viii mark the cam
paigning of Mr. Bell. It is probable
two great public receptions, each last
ing a day, will be held in Los Angeles.
Through the day Mr.. Bell will meet
men of all classes, rs they come, greet
ing them in pei lsonal and friendly
way. These receptions will be followed
by strenuous expeditions through the
city and It's environs, during which
he will continue his personal cam
paign.
Meetings will be held each evening
during his stay in Southern California
and arrangements are being made for
those to be held at ocean Park, Long
Beach, Venice, Santa Monica and other
places.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
WOULD REOPEN EIGHTEEN
YEAR-0LD WILL CONTEST
Copy of Original Testament Not
in Court Files

John Lapique's petition for the revo-
cation of letters testamentary granted
nearly sixteen years ago to Jeanne L..
Geantit, as special eXecutrix of the
estate of Marie Begon, who devised
property valued at $12,660 then and now
at approximately 100000, was contln-
ued yesterday by Judge Rives of the
probate department of the superior
court until November l.
Mrs Begon, who was believed %
have hidden a large sum OF money IN
a mattress, though her relatives
claimed they could find only $42, died
November 9, 1894, in Los Angeles. She
made her son, Alphonse Geant1t; her
daughter, A.exandrine Jay, and her
granddaughter the executrlX, the chle1
beneficiaries of her will.
The will was admitted to probate
November 27, 1894, and letters testa-
mentary were issued to Miss Geantit
December T, 1894. The will which the
defense alleges was produced in court
at that time now Is missing from the
court files, and Lapique, who brought
the present action on the ground that
he is the assignee oe the claims of her
husband, Antoine Begon, asserts MS
doubt of it's ever existing.
Lapioue states that the husband has
not benefited in any way from the
estate left by the wife and declares
that it is community property and
therefore he should have a share of it.
Iapiuue says that the defendants
conspired to defraud the estate; that
they neglected to collect rents for the
property until $15040 now is due, and
that notes of $4,000 left by Mrs. Be
gon became uncollectible through the
statute of limitations because of the
neglect of the eXecutrix.
The defense declares that Mr.. and
Mrs. Begon divided their estate before
her death and that what she devised
was personally hers and not in any
sense community property. According
to that, it is argued, she had the right
to dispose of her estate as she chose.
Judge Rives continued the case un-
til November 1, by which time a suit
to quiet title to the property will have
been heard il Judge Hervey's depart
ment of the superior court. The ques-
ton of whether the estate of Mrs. Be-
gon was community property will be
settled then.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
CALIFORNIA PRIEST DIES
AT OLD HOME IN BELGIUM
Memorial Service for Father Gre
goire to Be Held Here

Word was received in Los Angeles
yesterday of tie death of the Rev. G.
Gregoire, pastor of the churches at
Compton, Wilmington and Watts,
which occurred August IS at his for
mer home in salzinnes Namur Bel
GUM.
Father Gregoire came to this dio-
cese about five years ago and had
served as assistant at the Church of
st. Thomas the Apostle and the Sacred
Heart. He left last June for his
former home In the hope that the trip
would benefit his failing health.
The Rev. ]. Burke is in charge of
the work left by Father Gregoire on
his departure. Funeral services have
been held in Belgium where the body
was buried. Father Gregoire was
one of the popular priests of the city
and It is expected that memorial
service will be held in his memory.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
WILL RESUME SERVICES
AT TEMPLE B'NAI BIRTH

Regular Sabbath services at the
Temple B'nai Birth will be resumed
this evening at 8 o'clock, and tomor-
row morning at 10:30. During the
months of July and August, the rit-
ual services were held at the assembly
room of the temple.
with the month of September the
regular services with choir and SER
mon will be resumed, and continued
regularly until the end of June.
DR.. S. Hecht, who has passed a part
Of his vacation attending the central
conference of American Rabbis at
Charlevoix, Mich, and visiting the
eastern centers, will be at his post
again this evening and deliver brief
discourse on 1.-THE Liberal Religious
Movement" The choir, under the
dictatorship of J. p. Dupuy, will also
resume it's duties, rendering the nlu-
steal part Of the services. The public
at large, as we'll as the members of
the congregation are invited to attend.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
TO COME
BY FAST EXPRESS
First Train Due Today on New
Schedule of the Salt
Lake Railroad
BIG INCREASE IN TRAVEL
Reports from Departments Show
Remarkable Advance in Traf-
fic from Atlantic Coast

The first American Express train,
carrying the first car of express freight
to be shipped directly across the con-
tinent from New York to Los Angeles
will arrive in this city this afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. Incidentally the first
westbound train of the new service in
augurated by the Salt Lake Sunday,
August 2S, will arrive at that time and,
according to General Passenger Agent
7. C. Peck, it will be loaded to ca
pacity
Although the Salt Lake road has just
added this new first class through train
to its service between Los Angeles and
Salt Lake City, the road is having a
hard time to handle all the business
offered. That the business of a rail-
road, which until less than two months
ago was entirely crippled, due to wash
outs which occurred last winter, should
show such wonderful growth in short
time is considered remarkable by all
railroad men and does not bear out the
forecasts of several rival roads of
ficals that railroad revenues were fall
ing off.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC PROBLEMS
According to Mr.. Peck, the heaviest
travel is eastbound, however. In speak
ing of this matter Mr.. Peck, who is an
optimist and great booster for South
ern California, said yesterday:
81 cannot convince the eastern peo-
pie that this country has the nearest
to ideal summer weather of any place
in the world They think because they
suffer terribly when the thermometer
stands at eighty-five and ninety in the
east that out here, where at rare in
tervals the mercury reaches ninety
five and 100 1t is an inferno. If l had
a few of them out here on a day like
this, the natives would have to move
out and give the tourists a chance
there would be so many of them.
1.-THE first class travel is east, how
ever. We are running two first class
eight-car trains out of here daily and
have only been reorganized to handle
through service less than two months,
yet we are crowded to the limit. Just
today several prospective passengers
called up this office and, when they
eastbound first class trains until Sep
tember 8, thought we were jollying
them. People here are so used to
thinking of tourist travel as an oc-
currence of the winter months only
that they do not realize that Los An
geles and Southern California are rap
idly growing away from this winter
travel business and that people are
coming and going in great numbers all
the time"
The passenger service of the Salt
Lake is not the only traffic which is
showing a remarkable increase. Ac-
cording to the freight authorities. the
freight revenues of the company are
at least per cent greater than at this
time last yea.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
VENIRE OF go EXHAUSTED
WITHOUT SECURING JUROR

After the entire day had been con-
sumed in efforts to obtain a jury with
out one juror being selected, the trial
of c.. w. Efunter on charge or picket
ing in front of the Llewellyn iron works
on August 5 was continued yesterday
until this afternoon at 2 o'clock by
Police Judge Rose A venire OF sixty
was exhausted before court closed yes
terday evening. A new venire of forty
was issued and made returnable today
at o'clock.
The case of II. B. Connors, charged
with picketing at Sixth and Spring
streets, was continued by Judge Rose
until october II, to be reset.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
CLAIM MAN DELIBERATELY
LEAPED IN FRONT OF CAR
Unidentified Pedestrian Is Killed
at Ivy Station

Deliberately throwing himself in
front of an inbound Venice car of the
Los Angeles-Pacific railway near Ivy
station yesterday afternoon, an un-
identified man, about 40 years old, was
struck by the car and instantly killed.
His badly mangled body was placed
aboard the car by the train crew and
hurried to the city, where it was met at
Ninth and Hill streets by the police
ambulance. The body was taken to
the receiving hospital and later re-
moved to the undertaking parlors of
Orr & Edwards at the request of the
coroner.
According to Motorman Todd and
Conductor Bittner, the man was walk
ing west on the outbound tracks. When
the car was within few feet of him
he deliberately plunged in front of it.
His body was tossed almost fifty feet
by the force of the impact.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
GOES AFTER ANGELEN0
CHARGED WITH FORGERY

Detective James MCNAMARA left Los
Angeles yesterday evening for Oregon
city, ILL.,, where he will take into GUS
tody w. P. Comingore. formerly fore
man of the American Engraving COM
pany, who was arrested in that city
several days ago on charge of forg-
cry filed against him here.
co,ningore is charged with forging
the name Of Harry Chandler to a
check for $50, which he passed on the
citizens National bank. Extradition
papers were drawn up by Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Arthur Veitch yesterday
afternoon
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
AQUEDUCT POWER BUREAU
is CREATED BY COUNCIL

The Bureau of Los Angeles Aque-
duct Power was formally created by
ordinance passed by the city council
yesterday and the persons to be en-
p-oyed in the bureau designated.
The employees of the bureau for
which the ordinance provides are one
chief electrical engineer at a salary of
$40 a month, one ssistant electrical
er greer at salary of $175 month,
one mechanical electral draughtsman
at salary of $100 month and one
stenographer at SIS.
The ordinance provides that such
other engineers, superintendents, la
borers and other employees may be
engaged as it becomes necessary in
connection with the power develop
ment.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
CHINESE CEASES FIGHT
AGAINST DEPORTATION

Louie lit, celestial, who has been
at liberty under a bond of $2500 pend
ing his appeal to the United States
district court from an order issued a
year ago by United States Commits
s.oner Van Dyke, who ordered him
deported to China, withdrew his ap-
peal yesterday and win submit to the
order OF deportation. He was charged
with having gained illegal entry into
the United States.
Louie Lit will be taken to San Fran
cisco Monday and will be placed on a
steamer bound for China. Fifteen
Chinese, arrested in San Diego and
y. ilrts neIg sen that city and Los An
ReIes, also viii be taken to San Fran
cisco Monday for deportati IN. They
were found gulty on charges OF IL
legal entry. ~
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
REFUSES INJUNCTION

DENVER, Sept. Judge Lewis in the
federal court refused today to grant
the injunction asked for by holders OF
bonds Of the Denver Union Water COM
pany against the holding of an election
September 6 for the issuing of $8,0OO,OOO
In bonds for the construction Of a mu-
nicipaI water plant.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-02
GOES EAST TO ATTEND
INSURANCE MEETINGS

G. A. Rathbun, Southern Califor-
MIA manager of the Equitable Life
Assurance society, left yesterday for
Detroit to attend the convention of the
National Association of Life Under
writer's. He is president of the local
association and delegate to the ma
tional convention.
Before returning he will attend the
annual meeting in New York of the
Equitable's General Agents assocla-
ton, of which he is vice president He
is carrying with him quantity OF
Southern California literature and viii
expend 1t to the advantage OF this sec
ton.