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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19
LOCAL DAlRYMEN
RAISE MILK PRICE
Hereafter Will Sell II Instead of 10
Tickets for Stream so
Cents Quart.

Rock Island dairymen have fol-
lowed the retailers of Moline in adj
vancing the price of milk and cream
to the consumer. The Rock Island
dairymen announce that hereafter
1 4 tickets will be sold for 81 to GUS
toners, instead of Is and 16, the
number given in the past, and that
the price of cream will be raised
from SO to so cents quart. The
retailers place the responsibility for
the increase on the farmers from
whom they buy their supply, the ad-
vance to the consumer representing
only the amount that has been add
ed on their account by the produc-
ers The dairy farmer defends his
action by pointing to the scarcity
and consequent high cost of feed
and the increased pay demanded by
labor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19
new VAUDEVILLE
HOUSE FOR CITY
Majestic, on Eighteenth, to Be
Replaced by $4,000
Structure.
SEATING CAPACITY OF 1900
VIII Serve Higher Glass of Entertain
ment Than Formerly, and Will
Be Ready Next Season.

A. w. Champion, owner of the prop
erty on which the Majestic theatre,
Eighteenth street, between First and
Second avenues, is located, announced
today the closing of contracts for the
erection on that site next spring of a
new vaudeville house to cost approx
mately 100000
Joseph Hopp, Chicago, lessee of the
Majestic, will continue in the same re-
lation with the new theatre. Mr.. Hopp
has sublet the Majestic to Harry A.
Sodini.
A Chicago architect specializing in
theatre construction has drawn plans
of the proposed Eighteenth street
house. Mr. Champion has returned
from Chicago, where, with Mr. Hopp,
he inspected and approved the plans
To Have Two Balconies.
The new theatre will have a parquet
and two balconies and a seating ca
pacity of 1900. 1t is claimed for 1t
that it will be one of the handsomest
vaudeville houses west of Chicago. 1t
will be ready for the season of 1911
IL. 1t will serve q higher grade of
vaudeville than Rock Island has been
getting, and there will be two instead
of three performances daily.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19

and unless the fees of the Office are
sufficient to pay the salary the officer
is the loser, for the deficiency cannot
be made up out of the county tax
fund
Every county officer must render an
accounting each six months to the
county board of supervisors.
Balance to Treasury.
If the fees of his Office have been
more than sufficient to pay all expenses
of the Office, including deputy and
clerk hire, the remainder must be turn
ed over to the county treasurer.
The circuit clerk collects fees in all
manner of litigation and is also paid
by the different taxing bodies for max
ing out tax rolls and extending taxes.
The circuit clerk collects fees as
provided by law and is allowed a per
diem for attendance on the circuit
court
The county recorder receives no re-
Enumeration outside of the fees charged
for filing of deeds, mortgages and 9TH
er transfer documents.
The treasurer receives no fees from
the county, depending on the earnings
of the office for his salary.
The coroner receives fees from the
county for holding inquests unless the
estate of deceased is able to pay the
cost.
The county surveyor is the only Off
Ger who makes no accounting to the
county. AS he receives no fees from
the county and the Office is not a highly
remunerative one the surveyor is al
lowed to retain the earnings of the
Office
A portion of the salary of county SUI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19
NEW BOOKS AT THE
PUBLIC LIBRARY

The following new books have been
received at the Rock Island public Ii
brary and will be ready for circulation
tomorrow morning:
THE Achievements of Luther
Trant"-Edwin Palmer.
THE Rosary''-Mrs. F. L. Barclay.
The American Public Library''-A.
E. Bostwick.
Adventures of an A. D. C."-Shel-
land Bradley.
Personal Conduct of Belinda"-
Mrs. E. H Brainerd.
The Screen"-Vincent Brown.
ARTS Connected With Building
T. R. Dawson.
"Ramrodders"-H. F. Day.
THE Right Stuff'-Ian Hay
Channel Islands of California"-C.
F. Holder.
Privilege and Democracy'-F. c.
Howe.
Life Of Mary Lyon"-B. B. Gill
christ
THE Red Symbol''-John Ironside
THE Girl From Marsh Croft"-S.
o. L. Lagerloef.
Man Higher Up'-H r. Miller.
'Hopalong Cassidy''-C. E. Milford.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19
WHERE TAXES GO
Few People Realize How the
County and State Officers
Are Paid.
SOME DEPEND ON THE FEES
Amounts Received in Excess of Sdp-
ulated Salaries Are Surrendered
to the Treasures.

When a taxpayer calls on the tax
collector each year to pay the assess
ments against his real estate or per-
sonal property, he seldom knows to
what use his money will be put, though
many have an idea that most of it
goes for the. salaries of the county
officers. It will be interesting to know
just how the officers of the county and
state receive remuneration for their
services.
All state officers, judges of the SUI
preme court and judges of the appel
late and circuit courts are paid definite
salaries out of the state funds derived
from state taxes.
County and probate judges are paid
their salaries out of the county taxes.
All other county officers must depend
on the fees of their Offices for all or
most of their salaries. The amounts
they shall receive as salary are limited
to maximum, but there is no minimum,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19

perintendent is paid by the county and
the remainder by the state.
The clerk of the probate court col
lects fees, deducting the amount of his
salary and clerk hire and turns the re-
mainder over to the county.
Balance to school Fund.
The salaries of the states attorney
and his assistants depend on the fees
of the Office. Should the amount of fees
Office the remainder goes to the school
fund of the county.
The fees for the sheriffs office must
pay all expenses and salaries. Some
fees for this office are allowed out of
the county fund for attendance on
court, bailiff hire and also for summon
ing jurors and attendance on grand
juries and securing witnesses. Like
other officers, the sheriff renders an ac-
counting to the supervisors semi-an-
nually and all surplus earnings of the
Office must be paid to the county
treasurer
1925 Daily TO Hold COurt.
To hold court of any kind where
jurors are required costs the county
on an average of 1925 day To pre-
vent unnecessary, long continued terms
of court, much depends on the prompt
ness of all officers. The clerk must see
that all papers filed are delivered to
the court promptly. On the sheriff
and his assistants devolves the work of
seeing that witnesses are prompt in
attendance and preventing delays in
the actions of the courts. Close atten-
ton TO the duties of the Office by the
sheriff and mis- assistants increases the
efficiency of the court and reduces the
expenses to the minimum.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19
TWENTY STOPS ON r. |. S.
Fare Between Rock Island and Mon
mouth One Dollar.

Fare Between Rock Island and Mon
mouth One Dollar.
The Rock Island Southern schedules
20 stops on its line between Rock Is
land and Monmouth. These 20 stops
are not all regular station stops, as the
trains stop at only part of them reg
ularly. The others are flag stations.
The fare from Rock Island to Mon
mouth is 81, and the stops are so ar
ranged that the fare between any two
is only five cents. The 20 stopping
points and the fares from each to Rock
Island are as follows:
Hennepin avenue (city limit, IS cents.
Milan, 10 cents.
Blazers Crossing, Is cents.
Black Hawk, 20 cents.
Taylor Ridge, 25 cents.
Mill Creek Hollow, 80 cents.
Reynolds, 35 cents.
Southern Junction, 40 cents.
Johnson's Crossing, As cents.
Matherville, so cents.
Gilchrist Station, 55 cents.
Gilchrist road, 60 cents.
Anderson's Crossing, 65 cents.
Morrow's Crossing, 20 cents.
Burgess, rs cents.
Norwood, so cents.
Springdale, IS cents.
Cedar Hill. 80 cents
Riverside Park, 50 cents.
Monmouth, 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19
ON TELEPHONE SERVICE
j. A. Boman Says Council Committee
Reported Unsatisfactory.

RepOFted Enthusiastically.
]. A. Boman denies that he ever
represented to the city council in his
request for an investigation of the SER
vice that the company was giving him
at his place of business, 2117 Fourth
avenue, that he had found he was on a
Central Union four-party line when he
was paying for two-party service.
What he did say, he claims, is that he
had contracted for a two-party line
service, but that Judging by the inter
ruptions on the line it sounded as
though the majority of the subscribers
in the city were on the same line with
him. Mr.. Boman claims the almost to-
tai uselessness Of the phone in his
place has caused him to lose a great
amount of business, and he may bring
suit to recover damages from the tele-
phone company. He states what he
wanted the council committee to do
was TO locate the reason for the miser-
able service that he was receiving, but
that it failed to do this.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19
Given Ride I'm Patrol.

Seeing that her weapon had missed
its mark Bertha started for another
this time shoe. She was overpower-
ed before she had an opportunity to
shower it upon the judge. 1t was neces-
sary to place her in the patrol to con-
vey her to the lookup.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19
THE TOWN FARMER HIT
CONTINUED from Page one

of it. One of our men at Cornell found
! by careful inquiry 39S farmers, at
| tending only the district schools, had
an average labor income of $31S an
nually; 1G5 who attended high schools,
! S622 income; 10 attending college, $S47
income. This indicates that the men
who had university training were
making more than double the others.
boy can achieve success on a farm
in just as great measure as in any
other line of work. and much better
with the average intelligence. The
farm is the place for our boys and
girls We have got to send them to
colleges and develop them for the
work on the farm. A few years ago
we heard it said that training in agri-
culture was not pedagogically equal to
training in literature and the arts, and
there are few deluded persons who
believe it yet.
Two Million I'm Agriculture.
DR.. Weber told of Cornell college
of agriculture being overwhelmed with
students. The heads of the fifty farm
ers' organizations of the state formed
a society for the promotion of agricul-
tural knowledge. studied the needs of
the college carefully for ten years in
the future and found that IL new
buildings costing S2.000.000 would be
necessary; $500 students are expect
ed in that time These are types of
education that return the people more
money than any others. These men
had Joint hearing with the legisla-
ture and this was attended by over
100 citizSns to present the side of
agriculture: 40 men make two-minute
speeches and they represented over
100000 organized men, and counting
their families, nearly 100000. The
felt. They got at once $4,000 poul-
try building, an auditorium and labora-
tory. Sis, 1000. and a home economics
building to cost $4,000 Numerous
secondary agricultural schools are sup
ported. The Cornell college of agricul-
ture. this year receives SAP, 900 In all
New York gives nearly 100000 in
one year for the development of agri-
culture
TubercuIOus Cows Killed.
A most interesting feature of the
day was the slaughter of three cows
which had reacted to the tuberculin
test. A thousand people witnessed
the post norton and explanations, and
the disease was found plainly in each
animal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19

Strictly Misunderstanding Porter
IAN Army Mule,p Books for Chill
dren"-C. NJ. Thompson.
Captain Chub"-R. H. Barbour.
"Greece"-E A. Browne.
wonder Book of Beasts"-F. }. II.
barton.
Little Gardens for Boys and Girls
M. NJ. higgins.
"China"-L. E. tombstone.
"The Childs English Literature
H. E. Marshall
"Einland"-M. P. Thomson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19
eubonIe Plague In Ecuador.

Guayaquil, Ecuador, Aug. 19-Ten
cases Of bubonic plague are reported
during the first fortnight Of August
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19
Quick ReIief for Rneumatism.

George W. Rooms, Lawton, Mich,
says: DIR. Detchon's Relief for
Rheumatism has given my wife won
derful benefit for rheumatism. She
could not lift hand or foot, had to 5e
lifted for two months. She began the
use of the remedy and improved rapid
ly. On Monday she could not move
and on Wednesday she got up and
dressed herself and walked out for
her breakfast Sold by Otto Grot-
jan, 1901 Second avenue, Rock Island;
Gust Scnlegel & Son. 220 West Second
street. Davenport
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19

In buying a cough medicine, don't
be afraid to get Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. There is no danger from
it, and relief is sure to follow. Es-
pecially recommended for coughs,
colds and whooping coughs. Sold by
all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-19
WOMAN RESISTS
COURT ATTACHES
Bertha McMullen Stubbornly
Balks at a Thirty Day Jail
Sentence.
SHES HER HAT AT JUDGE
Misses Him and Then is in Act of
Throwing a Shoe in Same Direc-
ton When Restrained.

Bertha McMullen was arrested Tues
day night after she had INDUCED in a
debauch with number of companions.
Her condition following the spree was
such that it was impossible to give her
a hearing before last night, when she
was brought before P. H. Wells, act
ing police magistrate. In looking over
the records the magistrate found that
the woman had been in the court be-
fore under like circumstances, and that
she had been warned to leave town.
Accordingly he sentenced her to 80
days in the county bastile.
Bertha, thinking that she was the
victim of a foul plot, refused to allow
the constable to take her to Jail. Sing
ling out the court as the cause of her
troubles, she started to get even with
him by sailing her dilapidated chapeau
at his head. Luckily the judge saw 1t
coming and gracefully swayed out of
IFS course
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-11-18
OPEN EYES OF KANSAS GIRL
Young Lady Finally Awakens 70
What Her Fate Would Have
Been With stlnoy Man.

There was srCken in Atchison rG
Gently an engagement Of two years
standing between girl and a stinEy
man. 1t was the first engagement she
had ever had. and consequently the
nrst she had ever broken, and she
felt that she must follow the custom
that Is arbitrary at such a time and
return all the gifts the young man
had made her.
Search was made Of the house from
garnet to cellar. with the result that a
messenger boy next day carried to
the stingy man cook book which
had been given away to advertise a
baking powder. 81 which represented
what he had spent ON her for theater
tickets. and a narrow band engage
ment ring, which had cost him moth
Ing, for 1t had belonged to his mother.
She wrapped the articles up. with
tears In her eyes, that also being an
established precedent, but when the
boy had gone and she had neglected
no detail due the sad occasion. even
watching the boy depart through
binding tears, a great light burst up
on her. She saw what 1t would have
meant to marry man so stinEy, and
burst into such a loud hosanna be-
cause of her escape. that she ava
kened the babies three blocks away
Atchison Globe.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-11-18
WOMAN AND HER INSTINCTS
She VIII Follow tho Law Of Her M.
ture Because She Cannot, i.
Help Il.

Women will follow the law of their
natures, not because masculine or
"womanly" arguments convince them.
but because it was there before they
were; they can no more help 1t than
they can stop their hearts from beat
ing; they have no more choice In the
matter than they have In regard to
having hands and feet, nor as much.
Quite as amenable to the underlying
laws Of life are the older and sterner
members Of womankind who chatter
on platforms about women's rights,
When this kind fall, they fall like
Lucifer. ] have even observed, though
] realize that It will take several aeons
before man finds this out. that the
strong est-minded women are usually
the ones capable Of the strongest az
fections. the most apparently unsexed
often. in the deepest sense, the most
womanly. The instinct for mother
hood is the primal. indestructible fact
Of woman's life. and professional
work, university life. even-even the
ballots are not going to change 1t, any
more than the present style In sleeves
Is going to change 1t. AS well be
afraid that water will run up hill,
that the Hudson will turn and travel
back to the Adirondacks. az that the
heart Of woman. be she short-haired
or long booted and spurred or
clad in chiffon, shall be made any way
except az 1t IL made, and has been
for all time! The swallow to her
nest, the river to the sea and the
heart Of the woman to her child, ex.
istent or non-existent. You cannot
keep the needle from pointing to the
pole, and no amount Of good advice
will make 1t point there irrevocably.-
9cribner'S.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-11-18
$4,000 REWARD $4,000

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
least. one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being
q constitutional disease, requiring
a constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and
mucus surfaces of the sys EN-,
thereby destroying the foudation
OF the disease and giving the
patient strength by building up
the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have 80 much. faith in
its curative power that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any case
that it fails to cure. Send fotSl list
of testimonials. ,r't;.:
Address F. j. CHENEY & co.,
Toledo, o. .... -,
Sold by all Druggist 75c. - -.
Take Halls Family Pills for
constipation. .t..c'. ..:......r,.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-11-18
BL0TTER IS NEAT CALENDAR
Easily Made and One o. Most Useful
Articles on Young Lady's Desk
Things Needed.

One OF the most useful things a girl
can possibly have for her desk Is a
calendar b!otter. How often when wri.
ting letter does one have to stop and
think what day OF the month II rs. and.
although there may be a calendar in
the desk there are surely many times
when 1t cannot be found at the mo-
ment II is needed. And the plotting
paper Is often old and nearly worn out
before one. remembers to get a new
piece. Both of these little troubles are
done away with by having a calendar
blOtter. = $50 .-.'.''
The blotter can be made with either
IL sheets Of plotting paper or six. &C.
cording to whether its owner writes
much or little, and also whether she
uses up blotting paper quickly or not
There Is very great difference be.
tween people on this question. The
sheets Of paper may also either be
large enough to nearly cover the desk.
or there MAJ be small pieces that are
picked up and laid over. the writing to
blot It. II the large sheets are used
they must be kept in a drawer Of the
desk at one end and one taken out as
1t Is needed; but the small ones can be
fastened together at one end. the
whole pad kept on the desk and one
sheet torn of when wanted.
To make the blotter all that is need
ed is a pad calendar. and the right
quantity Of plotting paper. Choose the
latter by The color Of the decoration OF
your room and the calendar size by
whether your blotter is to be large or
small. II there are to be IL sheets Of
the paper paste one page Of the calen-
dar on the upper left-hand corner Of
each piece Of paper. n there are to be
only six pieces of paper paste the jan
uary pages OF the calendar in the up
per left.hand corner and the February
page in the upper right-hand corner.
and 30 on through the years.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-11-18
WOMEN CAN VOTE
IN WASHINGTON

One hundred and thirty thousand
women were added to the voting
strength of the state of Washing
ton by the adoption Of an amend
ment for equal suffrage to the con-
stitution at the election on No
vember 8. Formal announcement
will be made by Governor Hay
within ten days or as soon as the
official canvass of the returns has
been completed. Women who are
taxpayers, aslo, are eligible for
jury duty. The women of Spokane
probably will cast their first votes
at an election to ratify the new
charter, which provides for COM
mission form of government.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-11-18
CONSOLIDATED OUTPUT
100000 IN OCTOBER

A rough estimate of the output
Of the Goldfield CONSOLIDATED Mines
for the month of October shows
that 1000, 900 has been produced
from this great property during
that time. The tonnage amounted
to 5.764 tons. a portion of which
was high-grade and shipped to
shelters. The net profits of the
Consolidated mines for the fiscal
year ending October 81 were STA
100000 above all operating ex-
penses. With the disbursement of
the dividend on October 81 the
Consolidated paid in dividends dur
ing. the fiscal year ending on that
date $7,118,248. which brings the
total dividends up to $11.O27.471.
There is approximately $780,
600 cash in the treasury, and the
mine il in as good or better con-
ditioa than ever in its history to
MAINTAIN an enormous production.
-Goldfield Tribune.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-11-18
PROFITABLE YIELD OF sPUDs

D. Judge A. N. Trolson was in town
Monday from his ranch on Carson
river near the diverting dam. The
Judge has earned the title of "the
potato king of the project" for on
% acre Of his fine ranch was raised
this year $50 tons Of potatoes, ex-
elusive Of 40 tons Of onions. The
25-acre tract is under lease to
gardeners, who get two-thirds of
all crops. The judges share,
amounting to but one-third brings
him on an average of $4,000 per
acre. which goes to prove some
thing Of the value of his land.
The gross income of the rs acres
under lease to gardeners $3.50. 90
which is ten per cent upon $500.
This year the potato crop of tn 8
valley starts off at $500, a
higher market price than for
several seasons. The coast spud
dealers eagerly snap up Nevada
offerings go it is said, for the
quality of Nevada potatoes is far
superior to the coast product
Churchill Standard.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-11-18
lLIGHTED FROM CAR SAFELY
Imperative Woman Lets II 30 Known
She Is No Daddy Loneleos" and
Gets Of unInJured.

An unusual sort of woman was
about to leave a car. It was a new
car and its seats were so high In the
air that as the passengers climbed up
to them their efforts would have made
star feature Of a comic supplement
sheet.
The unusual sort of woman made
elaborate preparations for her depar.
ture. First she caught the attention
OF the conductor; then she arose from
her seat, raised her hand and turned
slowly around; then she called out.
with a loud imperativeness that com.
manded the interest Of every passen.
ger In the car:
Il want you folks to take notice OF
what do. because l may need you on
the witnessstand before I'm through.
You driver do you hear met"
AS the car had stopped and the
man at the crank was az motionless
as II he were blue granite instead of
blue cloth, the unusual sort Of woman
must have taken It to mean that he
heard, for she went on a.... P -
IF you start this cal before get
on I'll sue you for damages and prove
1T by these people. want you to
understand I'm no daddy longlegs--'
She landed In safety, to the hilari.
GUS enjoyment Of the passengers, and
when she had waved permission for
the car to resume It's duties the mo.
torman moved on.--Washington Star.