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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21

ings, garages, moving picture theatres
and electric signs. Everybody talks.
thinks, dreams and prays dam. With.
out exception Keokuk is the damned
est town ever saw.
The rest Of the world has had to
struggle along with altogether too lit
tie information about Keokuk's big
dam. 1t is hard to realize that over
here the biggest structure of the kind
in the world is being constructed and
that within two or three years it will
be completed and the Mississippi riv-
er viii be impounded like an unrnly
pup, between the bluffs of Iowa and
Illinois. The father of waters, who
has been loafing along in a lazy and
unambitious fashion for several mil
lion years, is going to be harnessed
up 5by this dam and set TO work turn
ing the factory wheels of the Missis-
sippi valley. It's a big job they have
staked out for him, too. Two hundred
and fifty thousand horse power is
what he is expected to produce days
and nights and Sundays, and KeoEuk
declares that when he has gotten into
the job Keokuk is going to be the big
gest city in the Mississippi valley.
Thereare no IFS" or "perhapses"
about this statement, either. I'VE are
going to have half a million people
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21
Wins Flight Tor Life.

1t was a long and bloody battle for
life that was waged by James B. Mer-
shon, of Newark, n. J.. OF which he
writes: II had lost much blood from
lung hemorrhages, and was very weaS
and rundown For eight months
was unable to work Death seemed
close on my heels, when / began, thrte
weeks ago, to use DR.. Kings New Dis
covery. But IT has helped me greatly.
II is doing all that you claim" For
weak. sore lunges, obstinate coughs.
stubborn colds, hoarseness, la grippe,
asthma, hay fever or any throat o.
lung trouble its supreme. soc and S1-0o
Trial bottle free. Gauraneed by all
druggists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21

power house site will have been
pumped out. This is a good deal more
than equivalent to building a Golfer
dam around the entire Peoria free
bridge, and doing the job up neatly in
dusty weather. The whole work will
cost over $27 900, and they declare
here that 1t is the biggest job now in
progress In the world, except the ca
nal work at Panama.
/ went down in the 37-acre Golfer
yesterday and took a look at the bot
tom of the Mississippi river. 1t was
level and smooth and was Uttered
with glacial rock, clam shells, small
pools, worried turtles, 100-ton cranes.
sand beas, locomotives, concrete mix
ers, steel columns and Italians. There
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21
PROSPECTIVE LOW
STAGE IN RIVER
Drop i'm tho Mississippi Indicates I'm
usually Dry Stream Late
in Summer.

River men look with considerable
apprehension upon the rapid fall OF
the Mississippi. Early in the spring
there were record low stages for the
season, but during May there were
rains above here which resulted in Il
good boating channel. Now, how
ever. there is a drop in progress all
the way from st. Paul, where the
stage ia about two feet. With the
present outlook the four and one
half foot -tage prevailing here now
will be cut down BY the end of the
month to a low point seldom equaled
in June This would indicate a like
lihood of trouble for the steamboats,
during the latter part of the sum-
mer.
Rivermeu say, however, that the
low stages that have prevailed for
nearly a year have resulted in a mar
rover and deeper channel through
the sandy stretches of river than is
odinarily to be found. and as there
has been little shifting of the sand
for a year the pilots should be able
TO take their craft through at stages
that ordinarily would force a sus-
pension of navigation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21

here, they say. The power company
backs it up by declining to become In
terested in selling power to st. Louis
and other far-off towns. II has contrt-
buted $4,000 more for a new hotel, in
which to house the advance guards
of the invasion Farm lands which
used to sell for 800 an acre with no
takers is now being held for $500 an
acre. The Aluminium company of
America has promised to come here
as soon as the power is turned on.
Half a hundred square miles of fac
tory sites are being held for the rusa,
and Keokuk confidently expects to ill
them all. That is why the Keokuk man
holds his head high. talks condescend-
ingly with St. Louis men and cannot
notice Burlington men at all unless
they are brought violently to his at
tention
The dam is being built straight
across the Mississippi river from Keo-
kuk. At this point the Des Moires
rapids practically end. They begin
IL miles above and the river fails
1S feet in that distance. 1t is
Is feet in that distance. 1t is
power. So a dam little less than
mile long and about forty feet high Is
being built. On one side win be pow
er house 1000 feet long, and when the
Mississippi river is shooed through
the turbines at the bottom OF this pow
er house it viii develop more power
than any other single plant in the
world.
No time is being lost In the work
either. Already 20 acres OF river
bottom have been Golfer damned and
laid bare, and by next week the whole
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21
VETSAT ROCKFORD
Spanish War Organization and
Woman's Auxiliary in Two
Days Encampment.
A BIG MILITARY PARADE
Regiment OF State National Guard 90
Participate With Various
Other Organizations.

The eighth annual encampment OF
the department Of Illinois Unitet:
Spanish War Veterans, Will open al
Rockford Friday and will continue for
two days. Among the speakers who
will address the convention viii be
Governor Charles S. Deneen, Cofunei
J. Hamilton Lewis, Adjutant- General
Dixon, Claude u. Stone, congressman
from Peoria, and other men of nota
There viii also be a brilliant militaIs
parade led by a regiment OF the nation
al guard, which viii be participated ~
by posts OF Sons of Veterans, Odd Fei-
lows eantOns, 7Woodmen teams and
other organizations. There VIII tie
competitive drills for which attractive
prizes have been offered, and one o.
the largest attendance8 IN the history
of the encampment is expected.
The woman's auxfIiaries will also
hold a convention and have an enssr-
tainment of their own. A number
from the local camp will depart De
partment officers and delegates of Co
1umDia camp, Rock Island, viii leave
tomorrow afternoon for Rockfoid
Other members of the camp will go
Friday. Headquarters OF the auxiliary
win be at the Nelson house.
OFFICERS LEAVE TOMORROW.
Those who go from here tomorrow
are: Mrs. Ed Rittilsin, presidoi I;
Miss Lillian Cox, vice president; Miss
v, Blanche Bromley, secretary, and
the Misses Sarah Ransom, Myrtle Kit
tilsen, Marie Jensen, and Mrs. Nevd
Furbos, delegates.
The program of the Ladies' auxii-
larry follows:
Friday-9 a. M. convention, Memoir
ia1 hall; 1880 p. m. convention, Mem
or1aI hall
Saturday-9:3 80 a. m, business meet
ing, Memorial hall: 1870 p. m, pa
rade; 4:30 p, m. sightseeing, auto
ride; $3.50 p, m. reception to the lad
les.
VETERANS ENCAMPMI1NT.
The program for the war veterans
encampment viii be as follows:
Friday-9:00 a. m, meeting couLcil
of administration. headquarters $50
q, m. convention, armOry; 1880 p. NJ.
convention, armory: $500 p. IN. triD
on Rock river, boat Illinois, $3.50 p. N.
ball game. Riverside park; 500 p. M,
camp fire, armory; 10000 p. m, mill
tary ball, armory.
Saturday-9:00 q. m, convention.
arTnory: 1880 D. m. parade: 400 p. m
band concerts, 1880 p. M, dress pa
rade, Fair Grounds park; $3.50 p. m,
Spanish Veterans camp fire, armory:
800 .. m, Military Order OF Serpents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21
George Fitch at the Dam

/ George Fitch, of the Peoria Herald
Transcript, the well known humorous
writer, who is visiting in Keokuk,
writes as follows of that city
Keokuk, Iowa, June when the
stranger within keokuks gates lays
him down 70 sleep he slides of into
dreamland in the conventional man
ner and is about half way TO Australia
when he is awakened by a prodigious
bang II is a bang of such terrifying
proportions that there is just one
thing to do-get up and view the
ruins Almost every night some
stranger does this. Some who are not
very curious wait to dress before
leaving their hotels. Others OF impet-
nous natures leave IN their pajamas
But the result is always the same.
Down on the corner they meet =
bored and yawning policeman wb3
firmly declines TO be interested in a
little thing like bang of several mil
lion horse power. Jaw, go back 10
bed" he says, its only the dam"
This policeman is the only man In
Keokuk who says "only the dam"
The rest of the Keokukians says the
dam" And when they mention 1t they
do II reverenuy and with an air Of
expectation and breathless hope that
is most impressive. For the dam is
going to do for Keokuk what the
rapids and the steamboats, once dill.
II is going to put 1t On the map in tai
Ter letters that are used for Burling
ton or Quincy. II IL solely on accouni
OF these high hopes that Keokuk peg
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21

pie have not gone down 70 the dam
site in a body and ladled out justice
TO the engineers who insist on firing
tro-glycerine promptly at midnight
each evening.
There is no use changing the sue
ject in Keokuk. Whatever you change
it TO you are going to talk dam in the
end as you did in the beginning. 1t is
all they talk about over here Politics,
baseball, the price of living, the hot
weather and the Baconian theory and
other popular subjects of the day
don't go here. You admire the scenery
from Keokuk's beautiful park and
your guide directs you joyfully to the
big bare spot in the Mississippi river
where the power is being constructed
You ask If Keokuk has another street
car and the citizens you ask will
promptly tell you that when the dam
is finished one hundred new cars will
be bought. You gaze with breathless
admiration on the tunnels through
the trees which Keokuk calls streets
and you are gently reminded that
"AOA Tue ooAn 10 COih pic1ASu Gil THESE
streets will be lined with fine new
brick stores. You look out over the
rolling fields behind the city and won-
der whether any finer job was ever
done by nature. While you are won
dering, your elbow is gently jogge9
and are informed that within five
years after the dam is completed yon
tree embroidered horizon will ha
filed. Jam. plumb full Of fat build
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21
Boys Girls and Chill
dren's Shoes

One lot of children's shoes 60 as low n
as ~
Big lot childrens Shoes sizes 1 to 8, an
at - ~
One lot chldrens sold for 60 cents, sale o.
Big boys and girls shoes that will go CO.
at ~ ~
Big boys girls 81 80 n0~
of oxfords for bad boys
boys up "a, girls up g. Dolly Bros, sold on
them for So and $780, sale price $1.19 and eOO
Boys and girls and oxfords n G-|
goods, styles, Butcher and lace $1.48 and eO
Big lot fine shoes for boys and girls worth n on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21

1t you are not satisfied after using
according to directions two thirds OF
a bottle of Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets. you can have your mon
ey back. The tablets cleanse and In
Yigorate the stomach, improve the di-
gestion, regulate the bowels. Give
them a trial and get we'll Sold by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21

is also a sign jim conspicuous place
mo smoking allowed on account OK
danger of fire."
When read this sign came away
am reasonably brave man, but de
liver me from the horror OF being
caught in burning river bed, 25 feet
below the surface Of the water.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21
Ladies' Shoes e. Slippers

One big lot Of Ladies' oxfords, worth $500, to 49,
as low as ~ ~
ladies' slippers oxfords and buckskins, all co.
One big lot of sample shoes. You will find shoes no~
worth to So. 90. AL go at. OODO
Big lot ladies' shoes and oxfords vici kid tans O. an
patent tips, light and heavy soes, all go at -
ladies' hand turned shoes oxfords
goods, worth IS. Sale price. eO
pick lot ladies patent kid lace and button
shoes and oxfords, sold by Dolly Bros. at $3.50 Un
Ladies' patent ideal kid vici kid ec q Cd
$500 shoes, sale price. .<p~eA%O
Ladies' handsewed shoes and oxfords all sizes a Spn
and widths Dolly Bros price, 81. so, sale price ~eOO
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21
Mems Shoes e. OxfOrds

One big good work and dress shoes all 4 an
sizes, by Dolly Bros, So. Sale price . y
Big fine satin calf shoes, $225 4 OH
big $1.6e $1e9 consisting
patent feathers, kids shoes, di-
lots, values from Oh
$3.50 SIS. 90, take your pick at sOS
Big lot mems kangaroo and patent leather shoes a on
Big patent blucher cuts also vici a OH
hand -sewed shoes and oxfords, worth up to $4@sO0
Ralston health shoes, you all know % an
them, they go at $3.50 and <1s y
Big lot mems So and Sc oxfords and shoes, % 00
So, So ST Reeds e. T. Wright Co.'s and Hur.
ley Shoe coInpany's shoes A IN
AEo -
The morning news. (Estancia, N.M.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-17
Is TO so YEARS
IMPRISONMENT
FOR TRUJ|bL0

Peralta had not even been
present at the time of the Kill
ling. They were in truth ac.
cessories after the fact, but the
statutes of the territory pro
vide no penalty for this crime.
All that was established
against the women was that
Isabel had urged TrujiIlo not
to let Peralta hurt him, and
later urged the burning of the
body. The courts address to
the women, and especially to
Isabel, was an urgent plea for
honest living, emphasizing the
fact that her dishonest life
Was now bringing its reward.
In conversation, the prosecut-
ing attorney highly compliment
ted the officers, both Sheriff
Meyer and the Mounted police,
Captain Fornoff and Sergeant
Collier, on their efficient work in
securing the confessions, and
gathering the evidence which led
up to the confessions. This not
only saved the county great ex-
pense in securing evidence, but
the highly probable result of a
or a verdict of acquittal
The prisoners will be conveyed
to the penitentiary at once to
their sentences.
Thus ends one of the most bru-
tai crimes, especially as to the
of the body, that Tor
rance county or any other county
in the territory has ever witness
sed, and it is hoped there will
never be another of it's kind to be
chronicled.
The morning news. (Estancia, N.M.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-17

Yesterday afternoon the
grand jury made a report, re
turning ten true bills, and re-
porting five cases in which the
evidence adduced did not
warrant the finding of an in
dlctment, and also reporting
several cases as under COnsid
but uncompleted The
court dismissed the grand jury
to meet again ON the morning
of January l5, 1912, when the
work of the court will again
be taken up. In dismissing
he body or men. he addressed
hem for a few minutes, thauk
ing them for their diligent
WORK, ana tue manner III
which they had conducted
themselves during the week
Of their labor. He expressed
himself as more than gratlhed
with the treatment he has re
celved each time he had visl
ted our county in his official
capacity, both as to care for
his personal comfort and the
work of the court.
OF ,be ten indictments re
turned, several of the defen-
dauts have not yet been ar
rested aud have not given
The morning news. (Estancia, N.M.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-17
Report otSChOO|S

Report Of Estancia School fol
the month ending December 8
1911.
Primary, Mrs. Blanch Parrett,
teacher; enrolment, AZ, average
daily attendance, e.; nwnber of
recitations, IS; those neither ab-
sent nor tardy, Myrtle Cochran,
Ralph Cochrane, Ethel Ogilvie,
Glenden Volk, May Young, Adron
Williams, LIE Roy Williams.
Second Primary, Miss Mary
Lobb, teacher; enrolment, 45;
daily attendance, 36; number Of
resitations, 22;; those neither alb
sent nor tardy, Wilma McHan,
Tom Van Stone, Katharine Van
Stone, Geraldine Woods, Rose
Lena Lentz, Charley Lentz,
Gladys Hunter, Edith Hine, O.
C. Loveless, Raymond Hamilton
Lynn Patterson, Floyd Kooken,
Wesley Kooken.
Elementary, Miss Elizebth Hub
bard, teacher, enrolment, As;
daily attendance, 30; recitations,
Ia; those neither absent nor tar
dy, William LovelesS, Dorward
Atkinson, Rolla Patterson, Jen-
ME Lentz, Viva Shields.
Grammar, Miss Minnie Laws
teacher: enrolment, IL; daily at
tendance, SO; recitations, 16;
those neither absent nor tardy,
Charley Read, Edwin Garvin,
Connie Fugatt, Elmer Jones,
Johnathan Loveall. Ralph Epler,
Jimmie Aamilton, Laura Madole,
Lena Grant, Myrtle Williams,
Lillian Hamilton, Gertrude Love-
all, Edith Atkinson, Mary Rose
Patterson, Ruth Grant, Irene
Henry, Hebe Whitman, Jerrel
Whitman, Maggie Myers.
Grammar and High School, ].
[. Ferguson, teacher; enrolment
"a; daily attendance Il; mum
GER of recitations, 16; those nei
ther absent nor tardy: Mabel
Laws, Mabel Hine, Ne lie Coch
'ane, Bessie Atkinson, Esther
Iogelin, John Shirley.
The morning news. (Estancia, N.M.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-17

Manzano, N. NJ, Dec. 11---Ex-
Governor L. B. Prince, in his ad-
dress before the late republican
convention at Las Vegas, stated
that it was an absolute fact that
the Garden Of Eden was located
in New Mexico, and that the
original apple tree, where Eve
plucked the tempting fruit, was
still standing in the town of Man
zano. I have just visited the
ancient apple orchard still stand
ing on the sloping hillside south
of the old spring, and the diane
ter OF some Of the trees is fully
that some of the largest cotton
woods in the Rio Grande valley.
The orchard is still bearing ap-
pies | had a most interesting
interview with Temous Tabbett
the local merchant prince at Man
zano, who has been in business
in New Mexico for quarter of a
century Mr.. Tablet is a native
Of Syria, his home city being Da-
mascus, the oldest in the world,
and a Mohammedan stronghold.
His ancestors worked in the ia
nous palm garden given to Cleo
patra by Anthony on the plains
of Jericho thousands of years
ago. Mr.. Tabbett shares Mr..
Princes opinion about the Man
zano orchard and it will be q
source of pleasure to the distfn-
guished scholar, ex-governor and
ex-chief justice to be backed up
in his opinion by this eminent
educated Arabian now living
within stones throw Of the Or
chard. The glamour Of the past
is everything in Manzano, With
out that charm it would not have
half of its fame despite its beau
tiful location. A veil Of roman
ce hangs over the historic land
scape; every stone and every
half ruined wall is q monument
The ruins of La Cuara, a two
story rock church with walls six
feet thick are still standing with
in three miles of the town. This
ruin is fully three centuries old.
There were eleven Pueblo villa
ges seen by the explorer Cham
uscada, as early as 1880, in this
district. They were peopled by
the Plf0S Indians, a branch OF
the Tanos family; with two divis-
IONS, one occupying the Rio Gran
de valley from San Marcial to
Alamillo; the others known as
the Salineros, occupied the desert
land on the north end of the Jor
NADIA del Muerto, and the foot
hills of the Manzanos. The Gran
Quivira ruins are a relic of the
latter branch as well as those at
La Cuara and elsewhere. A mis-
sion was started here as early as
1926. The present Catholic
church, which, of course was
built at a much later date, is in
good repair and the parsonage,
now occupied by Rev. Joseph |
Gauthier is the finest building in
the town. Manzano has always
been the resident home Of the
The morning news. (Estancia, N.M.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-17
GARDEN OF EDEN
AS FERTILE HS
IN TIME PAST

clergy in this parish, which used
to include all the old towns here,
fatigue, Torreon, Punta del Aqua,
Chilli, and all the old towns
along the Gallinas. Captain and
| White mountains as far as the
old town Of Lincoln. Antonio
Lamy, nephew Of the venerable
Archbishop Lamy. was the resi-
dent priest here in the early sew
enties. When a young man he
went to the old town of Lincoln
to hear the confession of a crim-
nal who was to be hanged. It
affected his nerves so seriously
hat he died on his return to
Manzano.
Another claim to fame by Man.
ano is the feet that it is the
home of Dr.. Christian J. Amble
republican treasurer elect Of Tors
rance county, elected by ma
jority of $50 votes over his demo.
cratic opponent, Angus McGilli-
vray, the we'll known sheep
raiser. DR.. Amble is a native of
the Laud Of the Midnight Sun,
his home town being Hudde, a
seaport town on the Hardanger-
ford, Norway. This place is an
old stamping ground Of the Morse
vikings, where Rolla, the con-
queror of Normandy, lived.
There is nothing humiliating in
his defeat when McGillivray re-
fleets that his adversary came
from a spot near the North Cape
whence sailed a thousand years
ago the dauntless warriors of the
north who for 200 years ravaged
England, Scotland, France, and
Ireland and crossed the Atlantic
hundreds of years before Colum-
bus sailed from Spain. Mr.. Me-
GilliVray is an old timer and
highly popular, but had Teddy
Roosevelt run against Amble he
would have been licked in this
county. DR., Amble has a large
practice along the foothills of the
Manzanos, and it was the selia
mountain vote from the people
among whom he practiced which
gave him his large majority. 1t
is claimed that on election day he
drove around visiting his patients
as usual and hardly asked any,
one to vote for him. DR.. Amble
and wife will soon take up their
residence at the county seat at
Estancia. The doctor, although
of a seafaring race, owns ne
ships. He does, however, pos.
sess a Buick Mountain Climber
chain automobile in which DUR
ing a three hour fifty mile drive
the writer enjoyed the sights of
the Estancia valley.
We visited one farm in the
Manzano draw where two far.
mers have 800 tons of fine up
land gramma hay. Coming back
we stopped at the we'll kept farm
of R. E. Chapman, where we
bought 5000 pounds of pinto
beans. Mr.. Chapman is sue
cessful dry farmer located five
The morning news. (Estancia, N.M.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-17

At the convening of cour
yesterday morning the three
defendants who had pleaded
guilty to the indictments
charging the murder of Juar
Peralta at 'Tajique on May 2S
1911, Eduardo TruiilIo, Juana
Peralta and Isabel BilIesca,
were brought before the court
for sentence. The sentences
we're: Trujillo, not less than
twenty FIVE nor more than
fifty years at hard labor in the
territorial penitentiary at
Santa Fe. The women were
given not less than three nor
more than five years eadh in
penitentlary.
At first glance, these sent
ences appear very slight, when
the hideouSness of the crime is
considered. But the court in
pronouncing the sentences, OK
planned several things in con
nectiOn herewith. La the case
of TruJiIIo, The enormity of
the crime was reduced by the
fact that there was nothing to
prove premedltatiOn. A three
of thedefendantS told The same
story in this regard lsabeI
had left TruiiIlo at her house
and gone over to her mothers,
claiming that she did not
want Peralta to know that
TrujiIIo was there. That she
wanted to avoid any trouble
When Peralta appeared, Tru
jiIlo claims that the fight en-
sued and was compelled to
shoot in self defense, as the
larger man was getting the
better Of him in the scuffe
The court called attention to
the fact that had TrupIlO not
had his gun SO handy, the fight
would not have ended SO dis
astrously as it did. The court
was also informed that TrujiI |
10 had not been in serious trou
bic before, but had been a hard !
working boy. On the other
hand the court took c0gniz !
ance Of the fact that the boy |
had certainly been induIglng
in improper relations with
Isabel, which weighed against
him. and which in the purvi0w |
of the court, had brought on
the whole trouble. The pleas
of guilty weighed strongly in
favor of all three defendants, |
as it would have been pras i
cally impossible to have prov
en- murder against them, had
they merely claimed self de
feuse, except for the fact they
had destroyed the body.
la the case of the women,
the court was satisfied that
they had taken practically no
hand III the murder. Jaana