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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
WHERE WAS 90.

The majority of our citizens attend
ed Old Settlers day at Ferris. Yes
Chat was there. In company with
a most agreeable companion we drove
as far as the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Earnie Robinson, where we stopped
and refreshed ourselves by partaking
of a sumptuous feast after which we
fastened on to the scene of enjoy
ment That the citizens of Ferris
were an up-Io-date and progressive set
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

Amos Duncan, our detective, has
been at the county seat attending the
gamblers trials He said he recog-
nized all of the articles taken in the
gambling raids as gambling furni-
ture. He said they were the same
kind of layouts that he saw in Den
yer in 1901 when he was employed to
assist in cleaning up the city. How
ever, he don't expect to take hand
in the affairs at the county seat, I'M
less the officials find it necessary to
employ him. He is working on an
other important case at this writing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
NEW BURGLAR ALARM SYSTEM.

Harry NJ. Schriver, assistant states
attorney, and T. B. Reidy, the real es-
tate man, we're kept busy the greater
part of Wednesday of this week ex-
planning to newspaper reporters and
others in the tri-cities that they were
not the promoters of company that
was planning installation of a new bur
glar alarm system here.
A young man of air castle building
proclivities arrived in the city the first
of the week with an idea. He had a
friend in a Missouri town who had in
vented a new burglar alarm system.
It was the greatest thing of its kind
ever brought out in the open. There
was millions in it, to quote your old
friend, Mulberry Sellers.
Mr.. Schriver was approached. Not
wishing TO disillusionize the young en-
thusiast, he pretended himself to be
seriously interested. He would drop
in $1,000. r. H. Taylor, manager of
the Illinois. said it looked good to him.
He would cut in with a matter Of $10.-
600 Mr.. Reidy was to be allowed a
bite of the first floor pie also. But
there the books were to be closed.
The visitor had it figured out where
the net earnings would be $4,000 per
year He was to be the general man.
ager with a salary of $3.50 per month.
That was agreed among the three who
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
TWO LETTERS.

Manager r. H. Taylor of the Illi-
nois theatre during the week mailed
invitations, enclosing two compli
mentary tickets in each instance, to
the ministers of the tri-cities to the
performance of The Light Eter-
nal" a religious drama presented
Wednesday evening. and, which by
the way, was one of the best offer
ings of the local season thus far.
Here are two of the letters he re-
ceived:
Rock Island, ILL.,, Sept. 27.-Man-
ager of Illinois theatre. Rock Island,
Dear Sir: Enclosed please find the
card of admission which you mailed
to me a few days ago. l thank you
for the courtesy probably intended
by the gift, but feel that it would
be wrong for me to accept this ia
vor. There are a few plays present
ed in the modern theatre which
may be perfectly pure, but the at
mosphere of the theatre is not con-
genial to them, and they do not
pay" The talk of purifying the
stage is as hopeless as trying to
change a leopard's spots. In order
to the lowest passions of mankind.
If it goes into the preaching bust
ness it will become as unpopular as
the church. l wish it could do this
and prosper; but no amount of talk
ing or example on the part of min
listers can make the masses attend
a play in order to be instructed or
uplifted. To attend this play would
only lend my influence to the bad
plays that will follow this one, and
stop my mouth from warning my
people of the evils of the theatre.
Yours sincerely,
! IRA o. NOTHSTEIN.
Pastor Grace English Lutheran
! church.
| Rock Island, ILL.,, Sept. 2S.-R. H.
/ Taylor, Rock Island: My dear Mr..
Taylor = 1 hereby acknowledge the
courtesy shown and the kindness of
your invitation is appreciated. 1 re-
greet to say that 1 have never read
''Fabiola." Two others dealing with
the same subject 1 have read, name
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

Love: Alb. love" cooed the sent
mental maiden Il feet as If cOui7
live on Roibin2 hui lo.e
DO lei me De voYr caterer. return
cd the ardent youth at her side.-Bcs
ton Transcript
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
SCOOPS ON OUR CORREsPONI
ENTS.

Our correspondents overlooked the
following news items which we steal
from Rock Island county rural news
papers of the week:
George Mayhem is cutting corn
fodder with a binder.
The Ridgewood school was closed
Friday on account of the teacher, Miss
Rouse, attending the Aledo fair.
Johnnie Miller's pony had the mis-
fortune to get its foot caught in the
wire fence and almost cut its foot Off
c. S. Thompson is adding another
Improvement to his residence proper
ty on Third street by having his ter
race nicely sodded
Miss Ethel Patterson has been in
Rock Island a few days visiting with
relatives. She is also having dental
work done.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
EXPORTS GROW s12,000,000
August Record Fails to Wipe Out
the Years Decrease.

Washington, Oct. l. - During
August the export trade of the Unit
ed States increased more than S12,-
100000, according TO a summary
by the bureau of statistics of the de-
partment of commerce and labor.
During the eight months of the cal
endar year the value of exports to
Europe alone was nearly 0,OO0,-
600 and the imports for the same
period were more than S525, O0O.-
900. Compared with the correspond
ing period of 1909 the imports from
Europe show increases of 100000
600 and the exports show a decrease
of $25,O0O,00O.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

Fannie Perkins. our station agents
wife, declares she saw Mr.. Brookins,
the air traveller, in his flight Thursday.
AS far as we have been able to learn,
she is the only one in the Valley who
did. She tried to get her husband to
take a look, but he was too busy
checking up the freight for No. 6.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
FROM THE VALLEY CLARION.

The pair of gloves which disappear
ed at the meeting of the Busy Bee cir.
Gle last week have been restored to the
rightful owner. One resignation was
read at the meeting Wednesday. 1t
was from Mrs Lem Hickle. She wishes
us to explain, however, that the miss
ing glove incident had no connection
with her retirement from the circle.
The other members decline to be inter
viewed. The circle now has five mem
bers in good standing. AS soon as the
cool weather arrives contest to bring
in new members is to be inaugurated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

ly "Quo Vadis'' and The Sign of
the Cross" My wife saw the latter
drama tized and if the company that
presents The Light Eternal to-
night has as high conception of their
theme and similar purpose in the
presentation there is no doubt in so
far they will lift the influence of the
stage. The stage would have only
commentator if its purpose was al
ways to be clean and never to teach
unrighteousness l regret that l
cannot attend tonight. But l thank
you and wish for an entertaining
but also a clean and righteous stage.
Only that kind has place for the
good of our land. Sincerely yours,
MARION HUMPHREYS,
Pastor Central Presbyterian church.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Norway Sets HERRING Record.

Norway's herring catch in the Sta,
venger district is greater than In any
previous year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Notice.

My wife having left my bed and
board. I will not be responsible for any
debts contracted by her.
c. E. A. NUTTING.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

IRA .. NUIHSIEIN.
Pastor Grace English Lutheran
church.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-06
PULP WOOD IN ALASKA.

transportation Facilities Only Needed
to Open Up Enormous Forests.
Another valuable item has been add
ed to Alaska's growing list of undevel-
oped resources. Recent expert eXami-
nation of the timber in the Sushitna
basin has confirmed the belief that it
is pulp wood of high quality. The
timber is poplar, cottonwood and
spruce, but little of which is of COM
mercial value for lumber. The land on
which this growth stands includes the
100000 or more acres estimated as
grazing and farming land and on
which demonstrating recently began.
This area, distributed among the vari-
Gus valleys of the basin, is for the
growth of wild redtop grass, with little
underbrush and only moderate stand
Of timber. 1t is obvious that with a
reasonably convenient market for pulp
wood and water transportation, of
which there is much, the cost Of clear
ing these lands might be greatly re-
duced if not made profit by the sale
of the timber as byproduct.
On Kenai peninsula, along the line of
the seventy mile Alaska Central rail
road, alone there are many thousands
of acres of available pulp wood, and
this will be increased with almost
every mile of the roads extension to-
ward the Matanuska coal fields. The
value of this supply of pulp wood in
American territory and the practicable
ity of utilizing it was first pointed out
by Levi Chubbuck of the department
Of agriculture, who visited the region
last summer. Still more recently Sena
tor George j. Baird of Canada went in
to the Matanuska coal fields and was
greatly impressed by the vast area Of
pulp woods as we'll as the splendid
grazing lands they stood on. He pre-
diets the rapid settlement Of this re-
gion by farmers and cattlemen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-06

ed. The Copper river valley, up
which the road must run, is notorious
for it's violent winter windstorms. its
shifting, uncertain. silt falls; racing,
vagabond streams; deep snow; rocky,
slide secured canyons and advancing
glaciers The river itself, the only
large stream emptying from the Alas
kan interior to the southwark, is
turbulent, silt laden, ice bearing tor
rent in which no man can swim TWEEN
ty strokes. At one place it runs be-
tween great living glaciers that dis
charge millions of tons of ice into it's
current each day of the summer
months, and here the railroad must
run too.
Scenery Will Become World Famous.
The scenery is of unique grandeur
but these scenic features, so soon to
become world famous, have represent
ed to the engineers problems of uneX-
ampled complexity. Many of tEese
problems were repeatedly declared to
be impossible of solution even under
the most favorable conditions of
weather and with unlimited time
Two years ago next month the first
lot of material and supplies arrived in
Cordova. Since then construction has
been pushed forward with almost IN
believable momentum.
In these two years permanent road
of q high standard has been completed
to the mouth of the Tiekel river, 1O2
miles from Cordova. Three great steel
bridges have been set over the swift
flowing Copper river, and a fourth
across a great ice secured channel be-
low the berg lake of Miles glacier is
far advanced and will be one of the
engineering wonders of the world.
Long stretches of tunnel and rock cut
and piling have been finished and
fleet of river steamers built and placed
in commission.
At Cordova end. where there were
no problems of Importance. much mon
ey has been spent in preparing for the
handling of heavy train service to
and from the mines.
The iron in the blood of the men who
are building this road shows apparent
ly in the blood of CordOva, for also
there has been fighting TO do. Made"
towns like this one do not grow of
their own volition in a single year. 1t
takes organization, confidence and
much toll where ones home must, as
here, actually be carved from the eter-
nal hills.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-06

miles. This gorge is exceedingly wild,
with almost perpendicular sides for
considerable stretches This necessi-
tates almost continuous rock work, and
this is about the only kind of con-
struction we are able to continue on
the road during the winter From 600
to 1900 men will be kept in the can
yon all this winter. and as soon as pos
Sib1e in the spring 1900 more will be
added to the force. Beyond the mouth
of the Chitina construction is moder-
ately easy for the Alaskan coast. which
presents more and worse obstacles to
railroad construction than any part of
the world | know AT the Chitina.
however, the Copper river must be
bridged for the third time within a
hundred miles,"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-06
FOUGHT FARMING
BATTLE ALONE.
Went Into Wilderness and
Made a Ten Strike.
OLE MARTINS HEROIC STORY

Miles From Any Human Being, He
Broke the Land With a Hand Guilt
vator and Won With His Nerve and
Brains-OIe's Experience With Potato
Growing.
This is the story of a farmer who
won because he had nerve and under
standing enough to sit down on his
land and fight it out to finish, a
farmer who had never heard Of the
word discOura cement and whose only
definition of failure was that it meant
try again a little harder" also it is
the tale of man who farmed as much
with his head as he did with his hands,
and he did an enormous amount Of
work with those latter.
His name-not that it matters par
ttcularly-is Ole Martin, and six years
ago he drifted into these United States
from Sweden, where he had been farm
ing in rocky and exhausted land for
fifteen years. Six months after his
arrival at New York he was in Alaska
and six months after that he had few
acres of land on the \enai peninsula
Then he began to farm. There were
no neighbors-not then, at least, for it
was not until later that a taciturn
Scot sat down a short distance away
and began to farm on his own ac-
count
Had No Doqs or Horses.
The location was three and a half
miles north of the new town of Sew
ard, and there was no railroad; also
there were no horses and at first not
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-06

even a dog, SO supplies had to be
packed in. A man who has never
carried sixty to a hundred pounds on
his back over rough, unbrOken cOun-
try can only imagine that. Ground
had to be broken and cleared. Then it
had to be prepared for sowing, and
the old methods of Sweden and the
United States even were useless. Mar
tin began with potatoes and failed.
His results were watery caricatures
of the potato of commerce. He had
got his seeds from Seattle, and he
tried again and failed again. Then he
began to farm with his head. He pro-
ceeded to educate his potatoes and
teach them to grow respectfully This
could only be done by growing and re-
seeding. Soon he had real potatoes
and began to sell them.
Cultivation was a problem, for with
out tools it was difficult Martin solv-
ed this problem, however, in his own
patient way. He built himself hand
machine and pushed it himself with
prodigous labor Later, when he had
haul the cultivator. 1t was a severe
task, for be was alone. There was no
hired man-just Ole himself and the
dogs.
Decided on Garden Truck.
Finding himself so close to a grow
ing community, Martin saw that in
garden produce there would be a mar
ket and he set to put some seven
acres under cultivation. In nearly all
his work he had trouble with his seeds.
Those from the States would not grow
we'll in a soil where there were 14O
inches of rainfall in a year, and so he
had to educate his turnips, his cauli-
flower, carrots, cabbages and the rest
to grow in damp soil.
The government maintains expert
ment stations, but these were and are
too f,sS also they are only experiment
stations, and the real work must be
done by the real farmer. Martin went
through it all, and he built his log
house, barn and outbuildings. He cuts
his hay-tOnS of it-by hand and ricks
it alone. He finds time for flowers
and these are his amuSements. He
built an incubator and is raising chick
ems and is housing them in a LOG
house equipped with a stove. Every
bit of work on the place-every last
tap-has been done by this farmer sin
gle handed He has combined the
work OF the experiment stations and
the farm, and to him is due the sue
cess OF farming on the Kenai. Now
the railroad has come to him, and he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-06

can ship his products in to Seward
even across the sound to Cordova and
Valdez, and he is we'll to do.
Fought Twenty Hours a Day.
But the trials and the fight of those
early days, when he was wrestling
twenty hours of summer day and
eight hours Of winter twilight with
rough. semiarctic country. pushing a
clumsy, homemade cultivator by hand
and smiling cheerfully, will not soon
fade, nor will the days when eighteen
hours of yellow sunlight brought the
seeds rushing to the surface and ma
tured them in five weeks Those were
the moments when he saw the things
the future held And he's not going
to sell out and go back to Sweden.
He's going to stick on the job. It's
his home now. and he sees the time
in ten years-nO. fye-When he will
have farmer neighbors all about him
and the rich soil will be working for
the men who can conquer it.
Up in the Tanana valley and in the
Copper river and the Susitna, too,
farmers are following the track Of Ole
Martin, the man who farmed and made
it go thrOugh-alone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-06
TONS OF ALASKA COPPER.
Report of GeoIogist Brooks Shows
Enormous Yield This Year.

Enormous Yield This Year.
The season of mining in Alaska has
been a prosperous one" says Alfred
II. Brooks, geologist in charge Of the
Alaska work of the United States geo.
logical survey. who has just returned
to Washington from his annual swing
around the circle in the far north
west while dry weather and other
unfavorable conditions have curtailed
the placer gold production at Nome.
most Of the other camps have either
maintained or increased their output.
Figures Of gold output are not yet
available, but it seems probable that
the production for 1909 will be be-
tween nineteen and twenty million
dollars The low price of copper has
not encouraged mining of that metal,
but about half a dozen properties ship
ped ore during 1909 1t appears proba-
bic that the Alaska copper output for
the year will exceed 100000 pounds"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-06
One Light In Two Thousand Miles.


For the first time the great southern
coast of Alaska. more than 1000 miles
long, has this winter a lighthouse.
Though one of the most dangerous and
stormy coasts in the world and dittl-
cult of navigation. even in summer,
this area has been wholly neglected
until now. The first light is on Cape
Hinchinbrook. at one of the entrances
to Prince William sound There are
many other places where lights and
fog signals are almost as urgently
needed. notably Cape st. Elias. where
steamers are often held up for days
because Of fogs and a long, hidden
reef. Other lights are. however. to be
added next year.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-05-20

Butterheld have been guests Of z. ".
Butterfeld the last week On their way
from Washington % their home IN Derby
Line.
All agents, baggage masters. ticket
agents and station employees Of the Rut-
land railroad have recently received a
voluntary Increase IN salary Of FIVE Per
cent
Rev. Father N. r. Grmn, curate Of
st. Charles's church at North Walpole.
has been chosen 70 deliver the baccal-
aureate sermon before the graduating
class this year
Next Monday evening the Rev. Jay T.
Stocking, of Newton, Mass, a former
pastor will deliver a lecture in me
Congregational church under the auspices
q the mems club
Mrs. Elbrdge Hapgood. y, vino had
been seriously III a. her residence on
School street many weeks, died Monday
morning. She was the mother Cf Chief
Of Police George L. Hapgood.
Mrs. Stella Robbins, who had been en-
ployed here as m.lliner, left Sunday
afternoon for Boston She Will visit
for a short time there and then 90 70
Lisbon, Ne, where her mother IS living
Mrs. Henry C Capron, who spent
several weeks with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. II. Williams, on Henry street,
left Friday for her new home IN Pitts
field, Mass, accompanied by her young
child
Thirty or more members Of the Wal
pole Grange came 70 Bellows Falls
Wednesday evening and conferred the
first and second degrees upon four can
didates. Supper was served in the rooms
70 40 members.
The listers filed late Saturday night
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-05-20

their abstract OF the grand list which
Is 10 Be the basis OF taxation for the
present year. a meeting Of the board
will be held al the ONCE Of 4. ]. Bolles
at 10 a. m Monday for the purpose Of
listening 70 any who may feel aggT.eved
BY their action.
The Rev. " r. Davenport. pastor for
the coming year for the Methodist
church, arrived here from Orleans with
hts family Friday He occupied his pull
pit Sunday. Their goods reached here
Monday and the family Is getting well
settled at the parsonage on Atkinson
street.
The International Paper company be-
gan last week drawing out the logs from
the boom 70 the meadows above North
Walpole. They are using two separate
positions and two separate steam powers
for this purpose and they do not expect
70 leave the logs In the river as late
this year as In former years.
The dedication Of the new fire station
On Oak street Friday afternoon and
evening was q pleasing and successful
affair. About 80 citizens called during
the afternoon, and at s o'clock dedica-
ton exercises were held at which there
was much speaking, after which dancing
held the attention several hours.
The census enumeration Of the town
has been completed, the last schedules,
those by Enumerator Foster 3. Locke
covering the territory Of the town out
side Of Bellows Falls. being forwarded to
the supervisor Wednesday, Those by
the enumerators covering the village Of
Bellows Falls were sent in last week.
What seems 10 be a somewhat serious
defect in the dam at Minard's pond,
which was built last year, is being in
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-05-20

chosen 10 represent Vermont at the
national Sunday school convention which
Is in session there this week. Miss Ell
vira Gorham was q delegate from Bel
lows Falls and Is there also Mr.. Osgood
occupied one OF the pulpits in Grafton
Sunday and on Tuesday, May 81. he Will
speak al the annual meeting OF the
Cheshire County Congregational churches
IN winchester, y. H, on The laymen in
the church"
George NJ Stone, 4s, died in Dalton.
Mass, Thursday night OF tuberculosis
MI Stone was born in Bellows Falls,
a son OF Charles Stone and grandson of
William Stone one OF the early and
prominent builders Of Bellows Falls.
The residence Of the family was on At
klnson street Just north OF Oak street
The grandfather was the builder OF the
first Episcopal church, which was the
nrst church built in Bellows Falls.
George ". stones wife was Miss Ida
Titus Of Athol. The funeral with inter
ment was in Dalton. Charles Stone.
the father Is still living in Houghtonville.
VI.
Principal A. E. futile organized a
party Of school pupils one day last week
70 go up into Oak Hin cemetery 10 watch
Tor the comet. The party numbered
about 90 persons, and went at ? a m,
out We're not successful in seeing the
celestial visitor, Nearly every morning
during the last week parties have gone
early from the lower parts OF the village
TO hills, but owing TO various causes
no very successful astronomical obser-
Fatlons, or discoveries, were made A
unique gathering in this connection was
the comet party" held in the Bellows
FAILS Boat clubs clubhouse on the river
wednesday evening. The interior decor