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The Seattle Republican., 1910-03-04
CURRENT COMMENTS

yelt? Soon he will be at home to puzzle the
wise ones with the energies Of great men
tality and the brusqueness of great hunter
of wild animals Having so many qualities,
so many trades, so many resources, he Will
find himself chafng under restraint Is ne
to cut the gordian knot OF Evolutionary
FORMS shove aside the long and endeared
custom of the country in holding to two
terms as ruler of the great American peo-
pleY All that's the question! Let us pray
and hope that he will restrain himself or
that the people may restrain themselves from
doing of that which should remain undone,
the seeking of third term Would he, ike
Adams, enter Congress, settling down to the
work of that body, or, like Washington, re-
tire to the enjoyments of his estate, what
pressure would be removed But no man
essays to speak for Roosevelt as to how ne is
expected to deport himself the balance OF ms
life whether as Caesar or as Clnclnnatus.
Like Ulysses, his home coming Will be tne
grandest burst of popular appreciation ever
accorded an American president.
The most disastrous occurrences are taking
the attention Of the people this spring in the
form of snow slides, avalanches, railroad
wrecks and the like with unusually large
lists of casualties Throughout the west these
distinctions of life have been deplored by
frequent bringing of quick and instant death
to those who are so unfortunate as to be
caught in the grasp Of the unsympathetc
elements To add to the severity OF travel
and the other dangers there is the lack OF
food for those caught in the SHOWS merc1less
grip or belated by washed out bridges by the
flooded streams Great praise is due to the
railroad management and their employees for
the herculean efforts they have put forth IN
relieving the unfortunate victims, repairing
damages and careing for the safety OF trav-
elers. The SHOWS have been unprecedenty
heavy the past winter while the freezing has
not been sufficient to pack it firmly enough
to prevent sliding, hence slides and ava
lanches have been the result, carrying the
greatest destruction of life and property
known for years in the history of Northwest
travel.
The Seattle Republican., 1910-03-04

Prof F. H. King, of Madison, Wis, writes
in current magazine some useful lnforma-
tion about the japanese Empire For pop
ulation of 48, ,542 1876, there is cultivated era
of 21,321 square miles thus allowing 221T
people to the square mile. In addition there
are 100000 laboring animals. One hundred
and forty-two people and seven horses and
cattle are thus given as occupying forty acres
of cultivated land. This is interesting when
it is known that forty acre farm of our
country is barely able to sustain smart
farmers household But it is the intensity
of the farming life that only can produce
such an amazing contrast.
The Seattle Republican., 1910-03-04
Taft's idea and it should meet with substan-
tial support.

is at the present experiencing the cold blasts
of criticism because of disagreeing factions
things will bob up to the unity of the party
in good and due course. 1t is not to be sup
posed that party cannot have elasticity in
opinions or that it should go to pieces in case
thereof IL so, the republican party would
have met its doom years ago. No party has
ever evolved more factions or antagonistic
interests than the republican. Verify, it
would appear that the different factions have
made the real strength of the party Our
democratic friends and our weak kneed sup
porters may see, of course, in the way they
view things, disestablishment of the party
and Of course they enjoy the fun that is in
the fight between the progressives and the
insurgents, but they do themselves but very
little credit as prophets in foreseeing the de-
moralization of the republican party
Miss Helen Kendrick Jahnson, in an article
entitled "Woman's Progress vs. Woman
Suffrage" and issued by an association op-
posed to women suffrage, says that although
more than fifty years old, the suffrage move
ment is not to be credited for the advance
ment of woman s progress, although it paral-
lels this progressive era. : LII the suffrage
movement were to disband today and no wo-
man ever VOTE, she writes, "not a single
great interest would suffer. :" This statement
is strongly put and carries conviction even
with proof wanting. And, thinking of it,
what great interest has been established or
effected, through woman suffrage? What
bad law in any state where equal suffrage
prevails, has been repealed through her voteY
True woman has made marked progress, but
her advancement is not due to her suffrage
and but little to the agitation of it; and it is
averred it never will be.
Reformers of the prevailing form of city
government find much comfort in the dis
cusson of the plan denominated the commits
sion idea which began it's life at Galveston,
Texas, few years ago. But as yet the meth
cd has not found any great response except
in discussion from various would-be reform
ers outside the political ranks, no cities of
Importance daring to readjust municipal
government on such a wide open, to say
nothing Of the unwilling proposition. The
commission plan has an attractive and
plausible appearing form just as any new
scheme that appeals for chance for all the
people, Though it is not likely to replace the
customary system Of municipal government
it is meeting with some favor for it's object
is to suppress the evils that are complained of
by the people government by the bosses.
The railroads crossing the mountains have
been put to the greatest test in their history
the last four or five weeks. Accident after
accident has fallen to their lot for no sooner
than everything would be gotten in order
making travel secure and possible, another
misfortune would befall them. But there
has been no hesitation in using money to ex-
tricate lines from their perilous or impossible
The Seattle Republican., 1910-03-04

The administration leaders cannot well
omit the passing of bill to establish postal
savings bank, an institution which was SO
desirous upon the part of the people that the
republican platform makers had to embody
it as one of it's planks. 1t seems that pos
tai savings bank appeals most strongly to
the economic spirit of the people and es-
pecially so since the word government IS
taken to mean safety The facilities to con-
duct such a bank are ample and beside, there
will be no need Of delay in getting into op-
Grafton through bureau newly organized
for the business, this having been attended
to in the postofice departmtnt President
Taft, with due allegiance to party, has called
for action and he has, also, explained the
advantages to be derived from such an aux1l-
iary to the money saving function OF the
government. The bill which has been intro
duced in Congress is in conformity to Mr..
The Seattle Republican., 1910-03-04
Lynch the Lynchers. Mobocracy received

Lynch the Lynchers. Mobocracy received
a severe jolt few days ago, when the sheriff
at Cairo, Illinois, ordered his armed deputies
on guard at the jail in order to protect a
prisoner from Judge Lynch, to fire on the
mob and fire to KILL and as a result half
dozen of the members of the mob fell wound
ed and one dead If lynch law is ever bro
ken up in the United States, the only country
in the world it is prevalent, it will be done
by lynching the lynchers, that is to say by
the officers of the law firing on the mob and
firing to kill. There is no excuse for lynch
ing parties in this on any other civilized
country, if the law is properly executed. Man
can commit no crime that man cannot enact
a law for punishment thereof, and he or
she that breaks the law should be punished
by the strong arm of the law. Let the Cairo
spirit Of squelching mobs spread to other
communities and it will be but matter of
short time when no more of it will be heard
of in the United States than in the English
domain
Primary Law Blamed. United States Sen
ator Flint, of California, declares, on account
of the direct primary law being in effect in
his state he is not able to run for senator to
succeed himself He says it will cost him not
less than $4,000 to make the campaign. If
after holding the position for the past six
years or more he has not demonstrated to his
constituents that he should be returned on his
record and if he does go back he will have to
pay dearly for his return, then he should not
be returned, and the direct primary law
should be congratulated for keeping such
weak sister out of the senate. The man who
has to buy his way to the senate or any other
office will in all human probability sell him
self when he gets in office just to play even,
though he may not financially need to do So
"a dog that will bring bone will invariably
carry one."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-24
LIKE LIFE IN A
REAL CAMPAIGN
Militiamen at Camp Deneen
Miss Comforts They Found
at Camp Lincoln.
BUT GAIN IN WISDOM
Plenty of Hard Drilling Early and
Late the Rule in Spite of
the Heat.

Peoria, ILL.,, Aug. 24.-(Special.)-
Members of Company A of Rock Island
who are attending the annual encamp-
ment of the Illinois National Guard
will probably realize more real good
from this years tour than they have
from any previous encampment, and
the same thing is true Of all the guards
men at Camp Deneen. They are fac
ing the problem of taking care of
themselves under all circumstances,
for while the state is doing the best it
can in the matter of provisions, tents,
bedding, etc, many have found them
selves without part or all of these sup
posed necessities for several days at
least. Then they had to arrange and
pitch their own tents and care for
themselves almost as they would were
they in a campaign in a foreign land,
and the result is that while they have
met with many hardships, they have
nevertheless gotten considerable knowl-
edge and no little fun out of the axper-
iment a.
System Inadequate.
At Camp Lincoln, Springfield, where
the guardsmen of the state formerly as
sembled, everything was reduced to a
system and there was rarely any con-
fusion. About all the militiamen had
TO hustle for was bedding, and they
knew just where they were to get that
and just where to put it. Their tents
were already pitched and were provid-
ed with board floors. Compared with
Camp Deneen, Camp Lincoln was a
first class hotel. The inhabitants in
the vicinity of Camp Lincoln knew just
what the soldiers needed and they aim
ed to supply it. For instance, if sol
der who did not drink coffee could
easily buy a cup Of milk from any Of
a hundred people who made business
of peddling it at mess time. At Camp
Deneen such advantages are not pre-
scented, as the natives have not as yet
found that they can make a consider
able profit by catering to the soldiers.
Then, too, the regular methods of
handing out the provisions has not
come up to scratch yet, despite the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-24
DR.. GUSTAV ANDREW
NAMED AS DELEGATE
Governor Appoints Rock Island Man
to Attend Conservation
Congress.

Springfield, ILL.,, Aug. 24.-Gover-
nor Deneen today appointed the fol-
lowing delegates to the national con-
servation congress to be held in ST.
Paul, Mimi, Sept. 8 to 8, inclusive,
Issham G. Randolph, DR.. T. c. Cham
berlin, University of Chicago; Walter
L. Fisher, G. w. Traer, A. ]. Earl
ing, Marvin Hughitt, ]. Ogden Ar
mour, Cyrus H. Mccormick, and AL
fred L. <Baer, all of Chicago; Lafay-
cite Funk of Shirley; DIR. Gustav An
dreen, president of Augustana col
lege, Rock Island; John H. Walker,
of DanvilIe, president Of the Illinois
district, United Mine Workers OF
America; DIR. Edmund James, pres
ident OF the University of Illinois,
Urbana; U. G. Orendorff, Canton,
and DIR. Cyril G.. Hopkins of the Uni
versity. OF Illinois, Urbana.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-24
PERSONAL POINTS

i, From there they will go to Elgin,
where they will witness the automo-
bile races, and then on to Chicago.
They will be gone a month.
Mrs. ]. Mccarthy and daughter, Bes-
sic, S34 Twenty-fourth street, who
have been spending the past month
visiting at Old Point Comfort, Va, and
other eastern points, have returned
home.
Perry Leonard, 1921 Sixth avenue,
left today for KeOkuk, Iowa, where he
will visit a week with relatives. From
there he will go to Indianapolis, Ind,
where he will make an extended stay.
Mrs. Henry Stahmer and daughter,
Katherine, of Kenton, Ohio, who have
been visiting in this city for a week,
left this morning for Champaign, H.,
where they will VISIT before returning
to their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. S. Brownson of Du-
luth, Mimi, who have been visiting
with relatives in Rock Island for the
past month, left today for Chicago,
where they will spend week before
returning to their home.
Walter and Charles Durbin of Fort
Dodge, Iowa, arrived in the city this
morning to spend several days visit
ing They are enroute to Lafayette,
Ind, where they will enter on their
sophomore year at Purdue university.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-24
ISSUE IS TAKEN
Two Ice Cream Manufacturers
Hit in Report Come Back
With Statement.
DENY STATE HAS STANDARD
Assert That Public Objects to Too
Much Butter Fat and Defend
Their Own Products.

The report Of Health Commissioner
a N. Mueller Of this city published
last week has resulted in the follow
ing statement:
ITO the Public: There has recently
appeared in the daily papers of Daven-
port, Rock Island and Moline a report
made by DR.. A. N. Mueller, health COM
missioner of Rocb Island. to the eff
feet that ice cream manufactured by
US is not legal ice cream and not
good ice cream and some OF the papers
have intimated that our ice cream is
not fit to be eaten In justice to our
selves we beliepe 1t is only fair that
our voice be heard in this matter, and
we respectfully and emphatically deny
each and all of said charges.
The ice cream that we manufacture
and sell is absolutely pure and whole
some and legal under the laws of the
states of Iowa and Illinois and legal
under the United States food law. 1t
is also legal under the valid ordinances
of the cities of Rock Island. Davenport
and Moline. Any and all statements
to the contrary are misrepresenta-
lions.
THE ice cream we manufacture is a
product that has satisfied our custom
ers and the business we have built up
has been built up by giving our Gus
toners good and satisfactory ice
cream.
State Standards Vary.
ter fat in ice cream has very little to
do with the quality of ice cream. The
public as a rule, demands an ice cream
that is not too rich in butter fat and if
it is too rich they will not buy it. Some
of the state food laws fix a legal stand
ard for ice cream at per cent of but
tier fat. Several of the states fix the
standard at per cent of butter fat,
and we do not know of any state that
has a legal standard as high as IA per
cent as was published in the papers.
The state of Hlircis has no standard
on ice cream, but it is considering fix
ing a standard OF per cent of butter
fat Our ice cream usually runs over
s per cent of butter fat and usually as
high as 10 per cent and II per cent OF
butter fat.
1.-The foregoing facts show that great
wrong has been done to us by the pub
LEGATIONS that have been made.
1--WE propose to show that our ice
cream is legal, pure and wholesome,
and to vindicate our product and our
selves before the public.
I'm the meantime we ask your con-
fidence and your trade and we invite
the public to come to our factory and
see where our ice cream is made, how
it is made and what it is made of. You
will find that it is made in clean,
sanitary and well ventilated building
and of good. clean, wholesome and le-
gal materials.
"LARMORE & CO.,
81. NJ. Beeman."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-24
DRtRYMRN is FINED;
MILK is DOCTORED
Charles Nowack Assessed $50 and
Costs for Violation of Health
Laws.

The warrant which was sworn out
yesterdaysbefore Justice of the Peace
P H. Wells by DR.. A. n. Mueller.
health commissioner, for the arrest of
Charles Nowack, South Rock Island
dairyman, was served today and after
hearing before Justice Wells MIR.
~Nowack was fined SIS and costs. Mr..
Nowack was charged with violation of
the health ordinance in the use of pre-
servatives in the milk with which he
supplied his customers in Rock Island.
Mr. Nowack denies that he put a
preservative in the milk he served his
trade, or that he knew that one had
been used. He puts the responsibility
for ''doctoring" the milk on the farm
ers from whom he buys his supply.
However, the test showed the pres
ence of a preservative," Mr. Nowack
said, 'and 1 was obliged to accept the
penalty. In future 1 propose to have
the milk I sell tested every week at
my own expense, and thus guard my
self against a repetition of the of
Tense"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-24
MAN PAINTED AS
MONSTER BY GIRL
Damaging Testimony Given by
Lena Rind, Aged IL, Against
Frank Corcoran.
is TAKEN INTO HIS HOME
Child Claims She and Marie Smith
Were Intercepted While Return
ing From Picnic.

Lena Rind, aged II, on the witness
stand today, corroborated the testi-
mony of Marie Smith, aged 10, at the
preliminary hearing of Frank Cor
coran in the court of Justice P. H.
Wells, and gave additional facts,
which, if true, will prove most damag-
ing to the defendant.
Corcoran is married, and is en-
ployed AS foreman at the factory of
the Fremont Butter Tub company in
the west end of the city. The girls be-
long to families in that part of the city.
According to their stories, Corcoran
has been taking liberties with them
for upwards of year. Marion Booker,
another married man, against whom
charges similar to those Corcoran is
facing were instituted, is in the county
jail in default of $4,000 bond, await
ing action of the grand jury. Booker
offered no defense, simply entering a
general denial of the accusations.
shouts at Child in Court.
Corcoran has claimed that he is be-
ing prosecuted; that the charges
against him have been trumped up for
the purpose of injuring his standing in
the community. During the examina-
ton by the assistant states attorney,
H. NJ. Schriver, of Marie Smith yester-
day afternoon, when the child had fin
ished describing one of her meetings
with Corcoran, the latter, with his
eyes fixed sternly on the child, shouted
at her in a manifest attempt to fright
en- her. Later in the day, after the adj
journment of court, Marie told the
prosecuting attorney today that Cor
coran had met her and tried to induce
her to change her testimony, which
she refused to do.
Promises OF Money.
Lena Rind recounted visits Of her
self and the Smith girl to the Office OF
the butter tub plant, where they met
Corcoran He also met them in the
lumber yards, and one evening, when
they were returning home from a Sun
day school picnic, Lena testified, Cor
coran, who was seated on the porch in
front of his home, invited them into
his home, the other members OF his
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-24
SHY
FROM BUILDINGS
Curtiss Navigators Avoid Pop
ulous Sections in Their
Flights.
DANGER THUS MlNlMIzED
Manager Finds Exposition Park Ideal
Spot for Ascents, These to
Take Westerly Course.

Don't imagine, when the Glenn H.
Curtiss aeroplanes set sail from Ex-
position park next month, you can
station yourself on the roof of your
place Of business and enjoy the sky
performances. This will not be pos
sible unless you happen to be To-
Gated in close proximity to the expo
sition park, Ninth street and Eigh-
teenth avenue, as the manager for
Mr.. Curtiss, when here to look over
the grounds, stated that the aviators
always avoid the populous portions
of communities where they give their
exhibitions.
"Aviators realize the danger of fly
ing over buildings" Mr.. Curtiss'
manager remarked, "and they make
1t point to navigate in territory
where, If there is an accident, they
will not meet Instructions in the de-
scent. In the earlier experiments
with the aeroplane there were mis-
haps, and we have them still, and
the operators found to their sorrow
that it was unwise to travel over the
tops of tall buildings, some of them
with towers and lightning rod spir-
ais. Aside from the danger to the
aviator, when the aeroplane strikes
the corner of a building. it means that
the ship is total wreck in nine cases
out of ten.
Park Nicely Situated.
I'VE have found the Rock Island
Exposition park an ideal spot for our
ascents. We will send our ships
in westerly direction from the park.
taking a course over the least thickly
settled part of the city. OF course we
will aim to keep within sight of the
crowds on the exposition grounds and
in that vicinity. One thing we will
not do, and that is navigate our ships
over the business sections of the
cities here. This we never do.
ITO prove that the aviators are not
as reckless as they are generally sup
posed to be, for two years a firm in
San Francisco has had a standing Of
fer of $500 for flight across that
city, the snip to carry an advertise
ment for the concern. The offer has
never been considered by an aviator
on account of the great hazard in
volved.''
Promises Are FULFILLED.
the exposition OF this year Will be
advertised 100 miles in all directions
from Rock Island - and it is conf
IDENTIFY expected it will prove the
greatest show yet provided by the
company. One thing that must be
said to the credit of the exposition
directors, and that is that they have
never gone back on a promise to the
public In both shows thus far pre-
scented every feature advertised has
appeared. The only disappointment
has been the side shows. This year
these will be eliminated, and in their
stead there will be provided several
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-24
OBITUARY RECORD.
Funeral of John T. Browning.

Funeral of John T. Browning.
John T. Browning was buried this
afternoon in Riverside cemetery, Mo-
line. Simple funeral services were
conducted at the farm home on Rock
river by Rev. r. s. Haney, pastor of
the Congregational church, Moline.
There was no singing. The home was
filed with friends, mostly business az
sociates of deceased and members of
the Rock Island county bar, of whicl
Mr. Browning was the oldest member.
Directors of the Peoples Savings Bank
and Trust company, Moline, with
which Mr.. Browning had long been
identified, served as active pallbearers.
The honorary bearers were members
of the county bar.