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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-01
rheumatism Relieved in Six Hours.

DR.. Detchon's RELIEF Tor Rheuma-
tism usually relieves severest cases
In a few hours. Its action upon the
system is remarkable and effective
1t removes at once the cause and the
dose greatly benefits. 76c and s1.00
Sold by Otto Grotjan, 1901 Second
Ave-. Rock Island and Gust Schegei.
20 w. Second ST., Davenport
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-01

Chamberlain Stomach and Liver
Tablets will brace up the nerves, ban
ish sick headache, prevent despon-
dency and invigorate the whole sys-
tenn. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-01
Mistakes
MayH appen

to you,-as they do to everyone.
If you eat too fast, do not masticate
properly, or take food that does
not agree with you, digestive de-
engagements are almost sure TO come,
and indigestion generally leads
to very serious physical troubles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
WRIGHTS BUY WASTE
Permanent Aeroplane Testing Grounds
Among Sand Dunes.

nounced here that OrviIle and Wilbur
Wright have closed a deal for 1000
acres of land at Kitty Hawk. \. C. on
which they VIII esta blish permanent
testing ground for aeroplanes.
The stretch is composed of giant
sand dunes and woodland.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
BIG GAIN IN RAILROAD WAGES
An Increase This Year of 500, 100000
over Report OF 1907.

Railroad wages for the fiscal year
probably aggregate about $1,170. 49,
400 as compared with $1,042. 3S6, AZ I
in 1907 at the climax of the boom IN
railroad business says the Railway
World The actual total. as compiled
bv the interstate commerce commits
sion. will not be known for more than
a year: and, indeed, the figures for
1910 have not yet been given out A
compilation of the bureau OF railway
economics however, shows that the in
crease during 1911 on ten leading
systems comprising 1850 miles of
railway amounted to S14, $685. GOO, or
Wages in 1903. a boom year,
amounted to ZOE per cent Of net earn
ings. and in 1907, the next boom year.
to l19 per cent A comparison of de-
pressed years shows the same ten
dency, for in 1908 wages amounted to
131 per cent of net earnings. as com
pared with 119 per cent in 1904.
On the basis of gross earnings the
wage bill seems almost equally, large;
cent of gross. as compared with 40
per cent in 1904. Likewise in the
boom year 1907. 40-5 per cent of gross
went for wages, as compared with
3S.S per cent in 1903.
In the past year, owing partly to
the decline in earnings, the burden of
high wages was greater than ever be-
fore. amounting to almost 1873 per cent
in net earnings. There are but few
industries in the United States in
which the division of profits between
the capitalist and the laborer is so
favorab bile to the latter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
HE is READY TO QUIT
James OLcary Offers His Gambling
House for sale.

Chicago, Nov. 2s.-James O'Leary's far
famed gambling house near the entrance
to the union stock yards is for sale.
O'Leary. who has weathered many a re-
form movement in Chicago, has announced
that he is ready to quit.
The former gambling king appeared at
the county building and offered to sell
his fire proof establishment in South
Halsted street to the county for $4,000.
amount. it is said, that has many
times changed hands in the building in
a single night. for an emergency hospital.
The building is one Of the most preten-
uous in the stock yards district. From
the street it resembles club. Within, it
is magnificently fitted with bowling alleys,
barroom, reading and club rooms. The
upstairs which was turned over to the
gambling rooms, is built, it is said with
steel walls to protect the patrons against
attacks by the police
O'I.eary says the investigation being
conducted by the civil service commission
into the police and vice and gambling con
ditions have ruined his business. This was
the reason he gave at the county building
for Wishing to get rid of his establish
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
COURTS PASS OUT
Circuit Divisions VIII Be Abolished
After January 1.

Washington. Nov 2S.-In every state of
the Union there viii pass out of existence
on January l next historic court prac-
ticaIly as old as the state itself On that
day II United States circuit courts will
cease to do business at the 276 different
places they have been accustomed TO
meet. Arrangements for this change are
now being perfected in Washington and
throughout the circuits.
The elimination of the circuit courts was
one of the reforms provided for in the
new judiciary code, enacted by congress
uary !. 1912 The code provided that
after the latter date there should be only
the district courts. the nine circuit courts
of appeal, and the supreme court. The
existence of the circuit courts since 1891,
when the circuit courts of appeal were
created, has been regarded as expensive
and superfluous.
The 60 circuit judges will not lose their
jobs, as they will continue TO sit in the
circuit courts of appeal and help out in
the district courts.
All the clerks of the circuit courts will
have their positions abolished At the
same time restrictions will be placed
upon the amount that district court
clerks may draw as salary. Under a spe-
cial law the clerk of the district and cir
cult courts in eastern Kentucky was en-
titled TO $3.50 and fees for each place in
in five different places he was entitled to
$4,000 a year if the fees amounted to
that much. Other clerks were unusually
favored by special legislation. Hereafter
it will be impossible for a clerk to re-
ceiVe more than $500
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
A BAD FISH YEAR.
This Weather Will Kill Millions
in Kansas.
Dry" Holes From DrOuth Are
Now Freezing.
TRYING TO SAVE THEM
Farmers Place Them in Tanks
and Reservoirs.
State Can Offer No Assistance
to Fin Tribe.

Millions of FISH are due to die in
Kansas this winter. These fish are
now swimming stupidity in small
streams or in isolated beds filed with
water but not connected with flow
ing stream of water The water Will
freeze. the air viii be cut from the
bed and the fish viii quietly turn over
and die.
L. I. Dyehe. state game and fish
warden, sees no relief for this condl-
ton. The drouth of last summer dried
up scores of Kansas streams, leaving
only holes of water here and there in
the old creek beds. These small bodies
of water will freeze. no running water
viii supply the air TO the tish and they
Will die.
The state is able to stock streams,
hatch fish and protect them from
hogs" but no means Of supplying the
old creek beds with water has been
worked out by the game warden or the
governor or the bank commissioner or
anyone else. Even DR.. Crumbine is
unable TO recommend q serum or a
vaccination that Will keep the fish
alive and supply them with Water.
Fish can't live without water, strange
TO say
Right now these water holes are freez-
ing In some of the sections of the state
farmers are rescuing the fish and placing
them in the frying pan Others are TAX
Ing them in huge tanks TO the prairie
reservoirs and turning them loose in pr1-
Even the fish that are fortunate to live
in running streams are in danger. They
are being watched by the kind of fisher
men who have their pictures taken hold
ing UP a string of catches
The deputy game wardens are prepar-
ing TO watch the streams carefully this
winter At this time OF the year after
the creeks and streams freeze the fish
gather in deep holes and huddle together
by the thousands in shoals one and Two
feet thick After a certain length OF
time they gov groggy and stupid. Then
is the time for the fisherman who cap
lures them by the hundreds of pounds
A man finds a big hole. breaks into the
Sce. lets down a string with score of
hooks attached and yanks them up
through the mass of fish He snaSs
,hen ten and twelve at time. Professor
Dyche has known of men who procured
IS many as a thousand pounds a day IN
this manner
The law states that only one hook can
ne used at a time but il IS pretty hard
for deputies to camp along all the fish
..oles in Kansas and arrest the sports
men, who are anxious TO have their pic
tare taken
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
BACK TO REGULAR HOURS.
santa Fe Abandons Retrenciment in
San Bernardino Shops.

San Bernardino, Cal. Nov. IS
Retrenchment is over at the Santa
Fe shops. and back to the regular
nine hours is the welcome bulletin
which was posted in the various me-
chanical departments Of the shops by
Superintendent H. s. Wall
The increase will amount to five
hours per week, making the total SO
hours. This schedule will probably
be maintained until the first of the
year when it may be increased. if the
usual heavy rush of work comes as is
anticipated by the officials At pres
ent the men will have Saturday after
Moons off. the shops shutting down at
noon on that day
The working hours will now be from
Z a. m. to p. m. The force is
steadily being increased. IN the past
few days the average increase has
been from six to ten men, and the
present force in the shops is now
about 500 men, restoring it to the
number working before the cut of
fifty employees was made two months
ago which marked the beginning of
a series of retrenchments in operating
expenses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
TELLS OF SEA TRIP
jim Howe Son of Ed, on Voyage
Around the World.

James Howe. who is touring the
world. is a son of Ed Howe, the sage
Of Potato Hill. For several years he
has been engaged in newspaper work
in New York and other cities Re-
Gently his father made him a present
5cf a trip around the world He sailed
from New York October p and viii
reach san Francisco in February He
writes letters OF the trip for the Atchi-
son Globe, of which company Eugene
Howe, his younger brother, is presi-
dent
IN one of the letters ne says:
The around-th world liner. Cleve-
land. is a little city in itself The cap
tain is the mayor. Enough ice cream
was taken aboard before leaving New
York to last until the ship gets 20 san
Francisco. or nearly three months and
a half. There is an ice cream outfit
aboard, however, and 1t IS used when
the chef desires to put up something
real fancy after his own design. When
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
SEEKS YOUNG GIRL
Delk Offers Women S25 to Sc
cure Her For Him.
breaches Free Love to Women
in Their Room.

Lawrence, Kan. Nov. 2S--That
James Delk, the Topeka jail bird and
street preacher, advocated and
preached Free Love to his disciples
and wanted two women to secure for
him a beautiful girl whom he saw on
the train and whom he wanted for
improper purposes, is the statement OF
Mrs. l.. A. Ratcliff of this city In
an interview published here she de-
clares the story she told at lola is
true. Mrs. Myrtle Matthews has since
denied the story she told on Delk at
lola.
Came to Their Rooms.
He came to our room one. night
Love-" she said The Bible says it is
all right, he said, for Free Love. He
says that the Bible says Free Love is
all right. but if you use any kind of
slang he thinks that is awful
1T was first on the train near Gar
nett that I found out about him,
though. A little girl got on the train
there that I told about IN my sworn
statement to Mr. Taylor. She was a
beautiful girl with golden curly hair
and she was dressed beautifully. She
was just about fifteen and she was
just little country girl: Delk never
took his eyes off of her from the time
she got on the train.
Offers S25 for Girl.
when I told him that had talked
with her ard that she said she would
like to get into the work he said that
he would give US SIS apiece if we
could get that girl TO work for US. He
told US then what he wanted to do
with her-what his purposes were IN
wanting her"
Both Ratcliff and his wife have
severed their connection with the
Delk mission. Before their conversion
by Delk they lived quietly at Tonga
noxie. They left their home to fol-
low him Mrs. Ratliff is a pretty and
extremely attractive woman.
Captain James Lyman is another
disciple who has left the street preach
err He is a blacksmith and says Delk
promised him that if he would join
the Nazarenes his family at Fort Scott
should be provided for. He declares
Delk has made no provision for his
family
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28

-'Reggy has a new attachment on his
air-ship-" What for2" For debt
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
MAY NAME a TOWN .RIPLEx.
Important Junction on Santa F'e to
Have Name of President.

Hutchinson. Kan, Nov. 2s-What
will that new railroad junction OF the
santa Fe down on the prairie IN
southwestern Haskell county be
named2
Tt is going to be an important rail-
road town, being the junction of the
Santa Fe's new main short line to
New Mexico and the other new Santa
Fe line running west into Colorado.
One report has it that the new rail-
road town will be named Ripley. in
honor of President Ripley of the
Santa Fe system, BY whose authority
the new line is being built. Another
is that an effort will be made to hang
the name onto f. c. Fox. the Santa
Fe general manager, and make it Fox
Junction
Around Dodge City there is a rumor
that it will be named Fitzgerald in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
SNAKE WARNS THROAT
Steamer Officer Uses Five Foot Rep
tile to Ward OF Chill

Boston, Nov 2s.-John Mcdonald.
an officer of the steamship kalomo.
just in from Calcutta, has an unusual
remedy for coughs and colds. He
brought with him a red. white and
blue snake about five feet long. which
he winds around his neck at night
when d cold threatens An Indian
ghost doctor sold Mcdonald the rep
file
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
snonfanenna Cn1nhnstinn

Owosso. Mich. Nov 2s-Fire. be
lieved to have started from spontane-
Gus combustion, today practically de-
stroyed the Pearce block and wrecked
the adjoining business building. known
as the Wesmer block. The loss Is esti-
mated at $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28

honor of W. J. Fitzgerald. chairman
of the Dodge City committee which
has been getting the right of way.
Others have it that the new town will
be called Haskell Junction, it being in
Haskell county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28

This is written the dav before we
land at Monte Carlo. All day the
money exchange office has been
crowded-the travellers are getting
French francs and things. all hopeful
of making the biggest winning of a
lifetime. No one expects to lose
D =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28

After we leave Cairo we are to have
the use of swimming tanks-one for
the women. the other for the men, A
third is for the crew. And werII need
the tanks about that time-we'u be in
the Red sea, where they say it is some
hot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28

Most everyone spends most Of the
time on deck The chairs are scat
tered from one end of the ship to the
other Each one has his place At
night the steamer rugs are piled away
morning brought out again. The pas
seng gers are divided into little groups
and become very riendly-that is the
congenial ones. The Atchison man is
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
DRIVING FLOATING FORTS
Water Tube Boilers Used to Get
High Speed in WarshipS.

The name Of Babcock & wilcox is gen.
orally associated with naval construction IN
this country, because in nearly all the pow
erful ships Of Uncle Sans armada Bah
cock & Wilcox boilers generate the mighty
force Of steam so necessary 10 drive these
huge floating forts through the water at
great speed The machinery fcr propul-
sion OF these big ships OK war must be as
highly efficient as possible, and at the
same time every pound OK unnecessary
weight must be eliminated. It is patent
that for the operation OK marine machinery
Of modern types high steam pressure is re-
quired.
These conducrs. which nowhere more
abound than in the navy Of the United
states, have led to the adoption OF the
water tube boiler ard ia practically all OF
the large-t ships OF the American navy
PabcocK 6 wilcox standard boilers are
used. IN the smaller and lighter ships the
various kinds CT so-called express type
boilers have been adopted.
TIE marine boiler r. a cylindrical shell.
but little. if any, longer than its diameter.
It resembles a huge bass drum. In the lower
half there are from two 90 four flues which
terminate I'm q combustion chamber at the
rear. IN the upper section large num-
Der Of fire tubes are installed terminating
In the combustion chamber and in the up
take" 20 The snokestaCk at the front.
or tn.s type there are the double end
boilers. These have furnaces at each end
and resemble two single ended boilers
placed back 10 back. Sometimes q common
combustion chamber IS used for both sets
OF furnaces In recent years, water tube
boilers OF various forms have been subsu-
tuted Tor the old Scotch boilers. This is
especially true in naval construction.
To economic heat and increase the rapid
ty Of raising steam the water tube boiler
was developed In this type, which is splen-
didly exampled by the Babcock x Wilcox
makers, there are two or more shels OF
drums. connected by tubes Of small diam
eter. These drums and tubes are filed with
water and the hot gases from the fire pass
around and between the tubes and so heat
the water in them. In the old style the
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

heirs Hes crazy about land " they one
and all agreed; il was ridiculous 70 think
that central Fifth avenue lots would ever
be in quick demand "Beggar yourself by
buying" was the advice they gave him.
"but be alone in your poverty
one day in the latter part OF lAi Mr..
Hunt decided that one Of tie choicest spec
uIauye parcels in the city was a corner
plot near 36th street and Fifth avenue. He
was certain on that point, so be quickly
sought out the owner and asked him II his
plot was for sale. Receiving an affirmative
reply. he then asked him the sale price.
I'll not sell for a penny less than S2'4o'''
he is said 10 have replied. Lots OF similar
size IN the same section were then finding
a very slow market al about 1880 each,
according to some old records. Il agree TO
vour price" exclaimed Mr. Hunt, and with
our a moments hesitation he gave 10 the
owner several hundred dollars to bind the
bargain So happy was Mr.. Hunt In secur-
ing the corner plot at the record price Tor
that day that he went about town telling
everybody who would listen 10 him about
his good luck "FfddlCsticks! some or MS
hearers exclaimed. you are 70 be pltied.
giving so much good money for vacant
plot e.
about SLSo000.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

century. DO not expect their beautiful
trrrtrral cro1tiors to De standing in 1850.
or forty wears hence They estimate the
life Of the buildings will come to an end
before THAI year. although experts agree
that the massive and modern steel frame
s,vf-rlrcl- s.l 10 a.rios. aF strong con-
structiyely forty years later as nov"
u the frame will remain eecrrely intact
then IL must he general interior deteriora-
ton that VIII cause them to go 10 the dls-
card. Tcs. general interior wear and tear
IS what IL expected to bring their existence
TO an end IN about forty years. and de-
urec.ation OF their earning power Edch
yerr a part " the original cost Of the
building is set aside Tor future emer-
gencies. II is q sin ding fund ready for the
fatasul day when the owner will say tear
down the old structure. The yearly sum
set aside. together with accrued interest.
win about equal the cost OF the structure.
Meanwhile mortgages. IL any on the prop
or;y. have been wiped out. all II which
things have been done from The earning
power Of the building.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

present do not amaze the realty expert.
He is used to bigness. and 1t is only the
smallness Of the volume of business in the
dim past that causes him 70 marvel al the
narrow paths OF business.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

the predominant characteristics OF most of
the realty brokers Of that time.
At present these are the days Of the
realty specialist. the various spheres of the
business being TOO many for one mind %
grasp. There are specialists on leasehOd
properties, on store structures, on loft
buildings, on Office rentals anI manage
ment, on Office constructive work, on cor
ner parcels. on excavation work, and on
values in one or more districts as well as
on freproofns. insurance accident liability
and on every other phase Of the business.
The specialist Of one class may know little
about the exactons Of another class, al
though an have interests IN common. and
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
Cid and New Values.

Dazzling are the increases in realty val
ues which have occurred throughout the
city in the last threescore years and ten.
This was clearly shown by two central
Fietn avenue transactions. ole q which
took clace IN 1S4i and the other two years
ago.
John Hunt a we'll known citizen 81 he
early i0's. was considered eccentric because
he continually harped that Father knick-
erbocker was 10 grow immensely rich In
realty holdings. He tried 70 induce some
friends 10 invest largely in vacant lands
m central Fifth avenue, telling them that
they could not leave better legacy 20 their
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

must have r. general idea Of the objective
point and factors in realty speculation and
investment
Those who set themselves up as realty
experts in the 4Os knew little about the
life Of building. how long this or that kind
Of structure will, under reasonable care,
remain standing or be a profitable one.
They cared less BY scientific methods the
average duration OF certain grades Of WOO"
and building materials has been accurately
ascertained. ana the rsy when p new Hu''9-
ing will arrive AT the time at which It's
maintenance charges VIII exceed the rental
returns is known before the cornerstone is
laid.
Years ago the owner in improving site
never figured II the building would last a
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

hot gases rassed through the narrow tubes
and were called on 10 heat much greater
volume OF water.
A great variety OF water tube boilers are
made. Some have only one drum, while
others have from two 20 four. The con-
Meeting tubes vary from perfectly straight
tubes to those bent 10 varying degrees OF
curvature. approaching in some boilers
complete spiral In the type used In naval
construction the boilers are light, powerful
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

and compact and are adapted for forced
draft In thece steam may be raised
rapidly from perfectly cold water or sue :
den demand for increased steam pres'oi'
quickly met. ,..,,,x. ma
denly Increased speed more than torpeon
boats and the torpedo destroyer ciass OF
our navy While most vessels III t.e eI.. lnsI
,t,,r, marine continue TO use the scotch
tV,ne og boiler. the newer and faster types
are beginning TO be equipped win "ater
tube boilers.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

wild speculative" projects cannot be
launched unless the projectors have the
necessary money for the undertaking. If
they encounter speedy failure, as they de-
serve. they fail alone. No one else is tinan-
cially hurt. unless adjoining owners, and
then usually only slightly
Way back in the 40s scientific methods
for the majority OF realty operators were
unthought OF. because. as previously stated,
ignorance as 70 building needs and the
realty demands Of the future was one u
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

definite time He simply wanted sucn a
structure put Up. and guessed it would
answer its original purposes for thirty or
more wears That il might possibly out
grow its usefulness during the h'e Of the
owner never dawued upon the property
holder.
Usefulness Determined.
Most Of the builders Of the newer Office
structures in lower Manhattan. the height
OF which Is considerably more than similar
buildings erected at the opening OF TINS