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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
MUNICIPAL MATTERS

Proceedings of the city council of
Rock Island, ILL.,, of its regular meet
ing held Jan. 10. 1910
The mayor called the meeting to
order at 8 O'Clock p. m, and the roll
call showed present the mayor, clerk,
and all aldermen.
The minutes of the regular meeting
held Jan. 8, 1910. were read and ap-
proved as read.
The clerk read the weekly pay roll
for the week ending Jan. 8. 1910, and
on motion of Alderman Lawler, prop
erly seconded, the immediate consid-
Grafton of the ordinance providing for
the allowance of said pay roll was had,
and on further motion of Alderman
Lawler, properly seconded, the ordin-
ance so considered was unanimously
adopted, and said pay roll was allowed.
The pay roll so read by the clerk is as
fO1IOu-c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

''wOS'T YOU HAVE AN APPLEY' SHE ASKED.
end from the bosom. the other from
the shoulder blade. On Gretchen's
head was a dainty white muslin cap
A pretty girl in such a costume was
not likely to want for lovers, nor did
Gretchen. but she gave her heart to
one Max Beck and had no encourage
ment for any other.
One day a peddler passed through
Oberhafen and stopped at the Zeltner
farm. Herman Zeltner. Gretchen's IA
Their, was seen to walk away from the
house with the peddler in earnest con-
versation. They climbed up the noun
tain side and passed through a wood.
beyond which was an open space.
where grew a single apple tree. Zelt-
ner returned TO the house. but the
peddler did not. Later his people, who
missed him. tracked him to the Zelt-
ner farm. but could gain no trace of
him after his departure. The last per-
son by whom he was seen was Her
man Zeltner.
Naturally suspicion feu upon the
farmer of having murdered the ped
dler, for it was known that the latter
had good deal Of money on his per-
son. Zeltner was arrested and taken
before a magistrate. There were no
witnesses, and be was simply ques-
toned. He said that the peddler had
told him that be lad made enough
money to buy farm and was DESTROYS
Of doing so. He asked Zeltner to show
him over his own farm and give him
some instruction as to what he would
need. Zeltner had done so, and when
the two reached the apple tree which
marked the farthest point the farm
extended up the mountain side they
had stood under It for awhile. Zeltner
telling the man what implements he
would need and where to procure
them. While talking some loose stones
were detached above and came down
the incline. Thinking it was some ami
NAL, they had listened. but heard moth
ing more. Then the peddIer had gone
on. having inquired the way to one of
the villages higher up on the noun
tain side.
There being no evidence against
ZeltDer. he was discharged from Gus
tody: but, though he had previously
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
Notice of Meeting.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Rock Island Exposition
company will be held at the Rock ISL
and house on Tuesday. Jan. rs, 1910,
at o'clock p. m. for the purpose IF
electing four directors for the term of
three years and for the transaction ii
such other business as may properly
come before the meeting.
7. J. MEDILL.
President.
c. s. M'DANIEL.
Secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a
very valuable medicine for throat
and lung troubles, quickly relieves
and cures painful breathing and a
dangerously sounding cough which
Indicates congested lungs. Sold by
all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
Pure Food Law Dead Letter.

Is the pure food law-legislation
which it took years to obtain-now a
dead letter?
Have sulphate of copper, analine
dyes, alum, starch, sand and stones
again resumed their pristine place
upon the citizens daily bill of fare?
Do we eat a lot of adulterants and
personalities which we know not of
and which help to shorten our lives
and hasten the end of our days?
Samuel Hopkins Adams, the well
known publicist and expert in food
adu1teration, answers all these in the
affirmative in the February Hampton's
Magazine He says things which are
alarming. Read them, and be alarmed
with US.
Mr.. Adams refers to the pretty little
bright green peas which help out the
price of lamb at some Of the expensive
restaurants. He says that most of these
canned peas come from France, and
that sulphate of copper is used in their
manufacture, and he declares that be-
cause of Mr.. Roosevelt's personal
friendship for the French ambassador,
NJ. Jessurand, these doctored peas
AS for Secretary Wilson, the article
states that the secretary dominated
the convention of the National Asso-
,eiation Of State Food and Dairy De
g partments, held last August in Denver,
and that. due to his influence, a presi-
{ dent was elected who shows no inter
z est In curbing the use of benzoate of
soda in preserving foodstuffs. To
quote Mr.. Adams further:
c THE market teens with honey that
is mainly glucose; jellies, jams and
fruit products adulterated' with starch
and agar-agar, colored with aniline
dyes local tar and preserved with
phosphoric, sulphurous or benzoic acid;
coal tar colored fiavoring extracts, in
nhocent of any faint of the fruit whose
name is upon the label; catsups that
are tinted and doctored out of all sem
blance to what decent catsup should
9 be; pickles and relishes dosed with
alum and benzoic acid; blackberry
brandies and port wine improved
with glucose, coal tar dyes and sodium
benzoate; baking powder fortified with
alum; candy, greened, rouged or yell
lowed with aniline; and pepper pleas
1tngly variegated with ground olive pits,
cocoanut shells, starch and sand and
stones.
There still remains congress. The
men who fought the good fight for the
enacted bill may not be content to sit
quiet and see its destruction. They
will have concrete issue before them;
the country's homes flooded with the
very drugged and falsified foods which
the statute was meant to prohibit; a
, referee board created out of nothing
and irresponsible to any properly es-
etablished authority; still scientifically
potent to bless or ban; Harvey w
Wiley, the man who throughout his
term of Office has stood immovably for
the principle of the law, bound and
silenced by the overriding majority in
the board of food and drug control; the
common right forgotten, and the law in
rontempt.
~ "Here is status to stir any citizen, /
though his stomach be that of an os-
atrich, or though he find his food in |
y
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
Difficult Huntinu.

There is no pole 10 look upon
Up in the frozen zone.
The man who finds II must depend
On instruments alone.
Unlike a whitewashed clothesline post
Or like q walnut tree.
1t doesn't stand. and so it takes
4 sage the pole TO see.
One who had never hunted poles
Might think IL was n snap.
For he has seen IL since a boy
Right there upon the map.
He thinks that he would only need
Some doughnuts in a bag
To sally to its hiding place
And with the pole play tag.
But disappointment would be his
II it should be his fate
To find the pole. for thereabout
Is only good 10 skate.
He wouldn't even find a hump.
A hUmmock or a knoll.
You bet old earth is pretty smooth
Up there about the pole.
No: Il requires a lot of sense
And instruments and skill
To be the one TO do the job
And nobly fill the bill.
No dream book writer need apply.
A man of instinct rare
It takes. with science at his back.
To know that he is there.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
Jan. 10 in American
History

1S0T-Robert Edward Lee. distinguish
ed Confederate general, born in
Stratford, Westmoreland county.
Va; died 1870.
Allan Poe, author. born in
Boston; died 1S49. Poe's ancestors
came to America from the north
of Ireland and descended from one
of Cromwell's officers. His grand
father was a soldier in the wars
of the Revolution and 1872
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

Stand by everything that speaks for
Rock Islands advancement Solid, sub
stantial public improvements are what
have made Rock Island progress-and
there Is TO be no halt in that policy
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

Congressman Gerrit J. Dickerna OF
Michigan, who has been in congress
only since 1907, is a candidate for
speaker. He is a regular and has been
chairman of the republican state COM
mittee in Michigan for 10 years. He
went to congress when William Alden
Smith became United States senator.
Dick is of Dutch ancestry, and he him
self was born in Holland-Michigan
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

The Rock Island Exposition company
is made up of the right kind of men.
They do not falter in the face of finan-
cial disappointments. They believe in
digging and going ahead. That is the
spirit that is bound to win in the end.
Even the weather will be with them
one of these days
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

One can't understand why the Chi
cago man who stole seven cents was
sentenced to but rs days in prison.
Capital punishment has not been abol-
iShed in this country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
The Consensus of Illinois Editorial
Opinion.


printed communications from 40 news
papers throughout the state of Illinois
from Galena to Cairo and from Quincy
to Danville in which editors gave a
sort of straw vote or a short ex-
preston akin rather as to what
measures they believed the people OF
the state were most interested in hav-
ing the special session of the legisla-
ture enact.
Primary legislation was placed first.
A few of the editors opposed direct
primary legislation. Most of them in
sisted that the people in their com
munities wanted direct primary law
Waterway legislation was Endorsed
by some and opposed by others, but
the majority favored it.
Mining laws to make working con-
ditions- safer in Illinois mines were
urged by many of the editors. The
Springfield Register sums the express
SONS thus:
The legislation which was given
most universal Endorsement was the
commission form Of government en-
abling act. AS sanguine an advocate
Of this legislation as is the State Regis
ter. we did not think such wide in
terest was taken in It as the replies
to the Tribune indicate. OF the entire
40 editorial communications there was
only one which sought to throw ice
water down the back of commission
form of government legislation. And
this one lonely little knock was under
Springfield date line:
''Thirty-one of them Endorsed this
legislation unqualifedlyi The editors
indorsing this legislation in those COM
munications spoke for the following
representative papers of the state:
Dixon Daily News.
CharleStown Plain Dealer
Moline Dispatch.
ShelbyviIle Union.
Rock Island Argus.
Taylorville Breeze
Centralia Sentinel
Galesburg Mail.
Danville Democrat
Moline Mail
Freeport Standard.
Rock Island Daily Union.
Pana Palladium.
Pekin Times:
EIgin Daily Courier.
Galesburg Republican-Registe
Decatur Herald
Dixon Telegraph.
Champagne Gazette.
Springfield State Register.
Joliet News
Sterling Gazette.
Lincoln Courier.
Rockford Morning Star.
Joliet Republican.
LaSalle Daily Post
Rockford Daily Republic.
Morris Gazette.
Cairo Citizen.
Peru News-Herald.
Peoria Journal.
Some of the editors considered the
commission form of government en-
abling act of even greater Importance
than primary legislation. 1t is inter
esting and highly gratifying to friends
of this legislation to note this enthu-
siastic interest.
The State Register agrees with
most editors of the state that primary
legislation is, however, the most i'm
portant issue before the Legislature
I'VE consider that legislation to i'm
prove working conditions in Illinois
mines is absolutely necessary at this
time to render impossible a repetition
Of the Cherry mine horror
I'VE believe a corrupt practices act
should be placed upon the statute
books.
First of all. the direct plurality pri-
mary bill should be passed by the SEN
ate tomorrow, and a similar measure
passed by the house without delay"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

Rock Islands third annual exposi-
ton will prove the charm. 1t will
Guido both of its predecessors-and
that will be going some
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

nuts and his drink in dew; for it is
the law that is being poisoned, and
in its corruption every citizen is cor
rupted"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

- Quincy Journal: Apropos of that
Boston poets club organized by an
editor-most editors have a club for
poets
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

Being chief Of the Russian secret po-
lice is sometimes a lifelong job, but
not a long-life one.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
HunOr and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
BY DUNCAN n. SMITH

OF course we all know that II other
people were as liberal minded as we
are there would never be the least bit
of friction in the world.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

Have you a weak throat7 If so,
you cannot be too careful. You can
not begin treatment too early. Each
cold makes you more liable 10 anoth-
err and the last is always the harder
70 cure. II you will take Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy at the outset
you will be saved much trouble. Sold
by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

California is demonstrating that it
has just as good air to fly in as has
France.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
Good Idea.

Good Idea.
at is raining pitchforks."
"What.'
"Fact."
when it clears up I'll tell you what
let's do"
What"
"Start an implement shop"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
Exclaimed.

what is meant by the term art
istY"
"ArtistT'
YES"
"WeI. be is an artist who can make
a man want what he doesn't want"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
Hew He Likes Il.

"My husband says he doesn't see
that there is any work TO be done in
the house"
That's the way with most men,"
"What fs?"
"why. they want the work all done
up and kept out OF sight while they
are around"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island. Ill. GEn-
tered at the postoffice as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

If accidents didn't happen they
wouldn't be accidents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

Hens are the most contrary minded
objects on the farm. When eggs are
worth 60 cents a dozen they refuse to
Law
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
Of Course.

Did you say he made desperate
struggle against adverse fate"
Yes
WAS it really adverse fateF
IF It hadn't been. he wouldn't need
to struggle against II"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

Money may not buy happiness. but II
will buy all the other things that hap
piness ought 10 have.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
A Hint.

"Where is your hat. man|
Haven't ! got it on:'
Certainly not"
"Oh. yes. ! have. That Is the one
won from you at the last election"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
No Seat:

"KnoU Peterby:"
1--WE are friends If long standing"
'LoEg standing. ehE
Yes: we ride home on the street car
together"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
Almost a Science.

lie believes in art for arts sake"
what line?'
"The art Of making money"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
Evident.

'I am quite ignorant"
s'Your explanation is entirely unnec.
essary."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
Seems So.

did you ever see eggs so high?"
Awful. isn't it?'
you would think they were laid in
q tree"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19
Simpler WAY.

"Soaker thinks his wife has second
sight"
Second nothing. She can smell 1t
on his breath"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

Insanity continues to be the favorite
excuse for innate meanness.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

TERMS.-Daily. 10 cents per week.
Weekly, 81 per year in advance.
All communications of argumentative
character. political or religious must
have real name attached for publica-
ton. No such articles will be printed
lover fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township in Rock Island county
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-19

BY THE J. w. POTTER co.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-04
UNION LABOR
DEMONSTRATION

LOS ANGELES, November ANN
lous 20 show their strength To those
who have allied themselves against
unionism and who have resolved to
spare neither expense nor energy In
keeping this city one OF the open shop
united unionism paraded the streets
last night
Ten thousand men. carrying torches
marched through the principal streets,
hundreds Of illuminated signs being In
the line. The men represent almost
the total strength Of all the unions Of
the city, while along with them were
several labor leaders from other cities
of the state.
Hundreds Of extra policemen had
been sworn In to prevent any disturb.
ances along the route of the union
procession, but the crowd that march.
ed and the crowd that watched along
the line were orderly.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-04
LETTERS ABOUT
THE EXCURSION

British Columbia. This lets down
the bars to enable the Commercial
Clubs TO send representative with
any udyertlslng matter they may
choose to select and without meeting
any serious objections enables them
20 Hurrah' for their own town. As
originally planned. we could not ex-
pect the hearty cooperation Of all and
at the same time give the entire Gre
OF to one. After noting this explana-
ton I think you will readily appreci-
ate the conditions all Of which have
been thoroughly cleaned up now
under the plan as outlined above
The Seattle Commercial Club at
their meeting Tuesday night will take
Cficial notice Of the Excursion and
issue a letter of endorsement. other
letters of various commercial bodies
throughout the state and British Co
lGmbia will come to us within the
next three weeks, they were being
held up under the old plan.
Heretofore ! have given no expla-
Uation to you why we did not include
the Honolulu expenses in our passage
fares. If we had done this, that
would have deprived the hotels of
/ Honolulu of their earnings which
naturally should go to them. hope
you viii give this publicity where it
will do the most good. / would like
very much to have the hotel men
send rs what literature they have de
scriptive of their accommodations. As
I wrote you, we will be glad to dis
tribute the natter
The Committees agent for tho
Northwest, Mrs. Headlee, writes un-
der date of October 22nd.
THE difficulty relative to the ex-
, cursion has only just today been ad-
justed and | hasten to notify you. In
some ways it is perhaps the best So
luton of the trouble; in other ways
perhaps not what you might have
wished, for the Chamber has with
drawn from any active part in it other
than to send ten representative bust
ness men to accompany it, officially
representing fhe Chamber and ia
study trade relations. The meeting
between the Grand Trunk officials
and the Chamber took place yester-
day afternoon and Mr. Yandell dictat-
ed a letter to you in my presence this
morning which will go forward by
this mail. While his letter does not
state some of the reasons for this
! action, I will say that the most i'm
! lortanu influence was that the steam
, er was under British register and
, quite a little has been said here
through the press and otherwise ad-
verse to the Chamber conducting it.
Then another thing was that they said
they were not in a position to put up
the $2j 100000 guarantee to the Com
pany on December 1st, so Mr.. Yam
| dell has turned over to me the cuts
you sent and we now have folder
about ready for the press, in which
they will be used He will also turn
ever the forty names of tentative re-
servations that have come through
correspondence.
| MIR. King claims to have letters from
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-04
FATHER HEADS POSSE
TO RESCUE DAUGHTER

CITY OF MEXICO, November A.
Pedro Solvero the Mexican peon who
kidnapped Grace Rolph, the sixteen
year-old daughter of a resident of Lin
coin, Nebraska, is being closely pur-
sued, the father of the girl leading the
posse. The government has ordered
the commanders of troops in the dis
tricts to aid in the rescuing of the girl
and the capture of the abductor. Those
who have seen the fugitive and his
victim report that the girl has been
brutally mistreated and presents a
pitiful sight. Her captor forces her to
accompany him in his fight under
threats of death.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-04
Territory of Hawaii, }
s
City and County Of Honolulu)

/, Henry Smith, Clerk Of the Circuit
Court of the First Judieial Circuit, Ter
ritory of Hawaii, do hereby certify the
foregoing to be fun, true and cor
rect copy Of the original summons in
the case of Marston Campbell super
intendent of Public Works of the Tar
ritory of Hawaii VS.. James Steiner et
ais, as the same remains Of record
and on file in the Office OF the Clerk OF
said Court.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, l have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the
Seal OF said Circuit Court, this End day
Of September, 1910.
(SEAL) HENRY SMITH,
Clerk Of the Circuit Court Of the First
Circuit, Territory of Hawaii.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-04

touug m1u to dU uH sunday It
Nouldnt so to church. anyway
Tlo newspaper stand. i0r ulirI1ua
liberty SEQ do b. . u.o to ao u
mass. believe that m0s. ls ho most
wonderfully acted worship over ron
cci,cd by the human mind
"But the newspaper has its faults. "
continued the speaker. 10 clplluIntos
20 The public taste. giving it what &C.
wants rather than what # needs The
reporter Is fable to change some little
item in youl interview TO suit his pur-
poses and go make your statement 81.
dicul,us instead of what you intended
e.
- preached sermon IN which ! said
that the commercial interests were
driving the churches from the bust
ness TO the resident districts ! mem
toned garages In the talk, and the
next morning the papers said that !
stated the honk honk Of automobiles
was driving the people from my
church
"The press is guilty of a want of fine
feeling or delicacy. II iuvades the pri-
vacy of the home. It enters the death
chamber relentlessly and asks for the
facts regardless Of the circumstances;
it tries the banner or railroad man sus.
pected of wrongdoing before he has a
hearing in the court; it photographs
the young girl and flashes her picture
through the streets, adding to the pas
sion she already has for such things.
Editor and Publisher.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-04
WIND DESTROYS
MANY AERoPLANES

BALTIMORE, November 4-Great
damage has been done by storm to the
temporary buildings erected on the
Hangers aviation field, where contests
were about to be run off. The build
ings to house the air machines were
leveled by the fury of the wind and
the aeroplanes, in many instances,
have been wholly destroyed. 1t is es-
timated that the damage to the ma
chimes will total fifty thousand dol
lars.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-04
HIS LAST KICK.

He was a quiet, Misunderstanding old
man, and as he sat in a doorway and
shivered in the night wind the police
man on that beat fe't to pity him and
passed him thrice without saying a
word But duty was imperative. At
the fourth time the cop paused and
said;
Sorry for you, old man, but it's