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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-21

Denver-The abolition OF private
banks in Colorado is recommended by
State Bank Examiner Emil Pfeiffer in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-21
Not Perfect.

A horse dealer was showing a horse
TO prospective buyer. After running
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the canvas. Referee Jack Welsh i'm
nediately lifted Murphy's arm. At
tell, sWaying on his feet, his left eye
closed and bleeding at the nose and
mouth, was led to his corner. Muir
ply suffered from AttelIs jabs and
frequently spat blood from his cut lips
throughout the fight.
TOO much weight said Ad VOL
CAST, who was a ringside spectator.
1T was the hardest fight I ever saw
and didn't think Abe could stand the
punching
AttelI. while his seconds worked
over his closing eyes and bleeding
lips in his dressing room after the
fight, could only say:
No statement, no statement to
the newspaper men.
Murphy refused to allow them in
his room.
E-urphy gained no great credit by
his victory, in the opinion of many
ringside critics, who were disappointed
at his failure to display an effective
punch when such a blow meant a
knockout
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active as at present. Various corpora
tions engaged in traction development
or kindred industries have recently
sought additional capital aggregating
something like sixty million dollars,
and their offerings were quickly alb
sorbed by the people.
What the business activities of the
Pc cific slope and the southwest the
gulf states and the lower Mississippi
valley will be after the Panama canal
is opened to navigation almost stag
gers the imagination. At least that is
the view taken of the development of
this commerce by business men who
have been carefully studying the situa-
ton. And one of the best proofs of the
soundness of this judgment is the re
cent agreement of two of the leading
railroads of the west, the Chicago &
and the Chicago, MiIwau-
kee & St. Paul, to cooperate with the
Union Pacific in running through trains
including three new ones, at high speed
from Chicago to the Pacific coast.
HOLLAND
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| of engineering. That interest will, it is
| believed, be vastly increased after the
navigation of the canal is opened and
will cause as great an attendance of
visitors at the Panama exposition
| which is to be held at San Francisco as
| Columbus exhibitions.
| Now in order to be prepared for this
vast passenger traffic the Union Pacific
and Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul
have made agreement whereby through
! trains will be Jointly operated by these
companies between Chicago and the
| Pacific coast. These trains will be so
scheduled as to make it convenient to
divide them up without necessitating
changing of cars, so that passengers
who want to go to Portland, Ore, will
find their cars switched at Green River,
while passengers who desire to go to
San Francisco or else to Los Angeles
will find their cars switched to their
proper trains at this point.
For many years the Chicago & North
western maintained an exclusive agree
ment of this kind with the Union Pa
cific. In addition to the cutting down
of time and the operating of trains
which in luxury and convenience will
be unsurpassed by any operated in the
United States, the new arrangement
will make it possible to establish three
new trains operating between Chicago
and the Pacific coast. Never since rail-
road operation has been conducted on a
large scale in the United States have
there been agreements quite as COM
prehensive as these. They illustrate the
manner in which cooperation which in
no way involves the elimination of hon
orable competition can be esta blished
between railroad companies. There I'M
doubtedly will be keen competition be-
tween the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul and the Chicago &, Northwestern
for through and unbroken Pacific coast
passage, but it will be entirely an hon.
orab1e and fair competition. Each COM
pany will try to secure passengers by
Offering Iuxuries and conyeniences CT
travel by the promise of high speed,
but there will be no cut-throat COMPETE
ton.
From the Far West.
For many days there have been ar
irving in New York city men of large
business affairs who have recently
iourneyed through many parts of the
west, particularly the Pacific slope and
the valley of the Missouri river. With
out exception these men bring reports
of vigorous and highly promising bust
ness conditions throughout all that re-
gion. While the people are of course
greatly interested in political questions
they do not allow that interest to in
terfere with their business activities. |
The whole of the southwest, at least
that part of it which is in convenient
TGdCA VI - AGEO1lS0 10 DC d
real hive of industry The stimulus |
which the expected opening of the |
Panama canal has already created is
serving like q tonic to- invigorate BUSH |
ness health. One of the reports from |
California is to the effect that in All |
that state will raise and |
market in the year 1912 fruits, and es- |
pecia1ly citrus fruits, of the money |
value of at least forty million dollars. /
Traction and other transportation in /
dustries in California were never so |
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UNION PACIFIC STRIKE OVER?
Striking Carmen Returned to Work in
Wyoming

Cheyenne, Wyo., March Ire
ports from division points along the
Union Pacific are that a large number
of striking carmen have returned to
work and, so far as the railway COM
pany is concerned, the strike of the
federated shopmen is at an end. One
omcer is quoted as saying there never
was strike, for the company has
been able to secure all shopmen it de-
sired. In many instances strikers who
wished to return have been permitted
to do so, but the company has treated
with them as individuals. 1t is said
that some have been granted an in
crease in pay, while many others re-
turned to their former jobs at the old
pay 1t is Understood the company
will continue to receive strikers.
Here the strike breakers enjoy per-
feet freedom, and while many of them
are still CHARTERED in the hotel at the
shop plant, it is understood it will
soon be closed and all employees will
be housed and fed uptown. The city
authorities have guaranteed protection
to shopmen, and soon conditions will
be normal SO far as the Union Pacific
shop force is concerned.
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the west and southwest. among them
being Denver & Rio Grande, Interna-
tional & Great Northern. Minneapolis.
st. Paul & Sault ste. Marie, Missouri.
Kansas e. Texas, Missouri Pacific, Tex
as & Pacific and st. Louis Southwest
ern.
gross earnings of all the United States
roads reporting to date for the first
three weeks of February and the gain
as compared with the earnings of the
same roads for the corresponding
period a year ago; also for practically
the same roads in the two preceding
months, together with the percentages
of gain or loss as compared with the
year before:
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RAILWAY NOTES.

Now that very little more snow is
predicted, railway officials in Topeka
are preparing for spring FLOODS
The Rock Islands loading for Feb
ruary was 100.999 cars. as compared
with 91,429 cars a year ago, an in
crease of $50. Deducting the load
ings for the additional day in the
month this year the actual increase
would be 4,2S5 cars.
President Brown of the New York
Central lines states that that system
is short 1890 cars, compared with
surplus of 23,700 cars a year ago.
This is a difference of $4,000 cars.
There are at present about Al, 800
persons employed on the railroads in
Switzerland, 5000 of whom are with
the state lines and 500 on the pri-
vate roads.
Effective this date, Boston & Maine
railroad has carried a department OF
fire chasers in charge of a commits
sioner, who shall have full authority
over all matters pertaining to the pre-
vention of fires and the settlement of
fire claims, excepting those arising
from damage to merchandise in
The Lake shore & Michigan South
ern has declared an extra dividend OF
6 per cent, payable March % to stock
of record March Is.
Railroad companies are now fac
ing the problem of securing between
10000 and so, 900 men to carry out
the vast development programs map
ped out by the companies in the Ca
madam west during the summer of
1912 The works to be undertaken
this year are greater than ever before
and it is doubtful whether the supply
of men will meet the demand.
Statistics have already been pub
lished that the state owned railways
of the continent were not q money
making proposition in comparison
with privately owned lines
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@Loss.
MONEY FOR THE GULF LINE
President Ripley Approves ApproPria-
tons on Santa he.

The annual budget OF the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe railway, rec
commended by the officials of the gulf
lines, has received favorable consid--
Grafton from President Z. p. Ripley
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
system.
The budget is divided into the fol-
lowing principal appropriations: Ter
minal yards. $326,o0o profession OF
banks, grade revisions. etc. $4,000:
track fastenings and appurtenances,
$123'oo0; water and fuel stations.
$l17OOO; increased weight OF rail-,
$4,000; bridges. trestles and culverts,
$4,000; elimination of grade cross
ings, $4,000; block and other signal
apparatus. $1,000: station buildings
and fixtures, $4,000; shops. engine
houses and turn tables, $50. 600.
Among the new depot projects are
new $4,000 brick passenger depot
for Belleville and substantial enlarge
ments for the present depots at Pear
land, Manville and Thomsons.
The lines between Duke and Sealey
is to be increased in weight from SIS
pound steel rails to rails of 30 pound
steel, this item making up a total OF
$4,000. The SIS pound rails will be
removed and relaid on a section north
of Beaumont, on the Beaumont d.
vision, some also going on the Gulf
and Interstate.
The section of track between Tenn
pie and Cleburne will come in for
substantial betterments in protection
appropriation totaling $4,000. while
the track between Cleburne and
Gainesville and from Gainesville to
Red is to get work OF the same ma
ture at cost of approximately $780,
900.
Among local betterments Is an item
of $4,000 for shop machinery and
tools at Galveston, q $1,000 wooden
tank for water in the west yards "a
Galveston, a $1,000 steel tank al
Hitchcock, another $4,000 steel tank
at Sealy, an appropriation OF $4,000
for drainage at Alvin and an appro-
priation of $4,000 for similar pur-
poses at Rosenberg.
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DEPEND ON PITCHERS.
Witches Have Array of Good Twill
ing Talent.

Wichita. Kan, March 1.-THE
Wichita Jobbers will have one of the
| classiest if not the best pitching staff
in the league this year.
Jackson, Ellis, Perry, Durham and
Routt of last years team will be back
and dozen or more youngsters will
report for spring practice to give them
battle, and from all reports on sew
eral of the recruits the old men will
have to be going right to hold their
jobs.
Jackson, the Iron Man of the
league, worked in 81 games last year
with a record of % games won and
son at the head of the bunch. but he
struck some hard luck after the
team was transferred to Pueblo and
did not do as effective work. Charlie
says he is right this year and will
make them all so some.
Ellis led the Jobber staff last year
with record of % games won and
l games lost in Il games. The long
Lad from Arkansas will be there with
the goods this year and is slated for
the big leagues next fall.
Perry was the hard luck pitcher on
the local staff last year and lost more
close games than anyone. The big
fellow is anxious for the season to
open and he is picked for a winner by
the fans. He should have q great
year,
Durham will be back on the job and
that is all that is necessary to say of
the Douglas druggist. Jimmie has
everything that the youngsters have in
the way of speed and curves and in
addition he is there with a bunch of
tricks that keeps the batter guessing.
Routt is a clever pitcher and has
something up his sleeve that he never
used last season. The youngster that
beats him out of a regular job will
have to go some
IoI, n
the twirler with a record of Is strike
outs to a game in % games may
break into the limelight in the West
ern league. WEIGH can dish them up
with either hand. according to the
dope.
Weeks. the big pitcher who made
favorable. impression on the players
in the Albuquerque tournament, is in
the list and 1t is said that he has
Western league class up his sleeve.
Stoffer. the Haven, Kan, pitcher,
will be on hand to give battle. Stof-
fer was signed on the recommends
ton of Carl Moore, an old catcher
who knows a pitcher when he sees
son and he lost only two games out
Of 27 that he took part in. That's
going some.
Harmon, one of the leading pitchers
IN the Kansas State league last sea-
son, is included in the list. Harmon
ook,d awful good last year, but he
was overworked and was unable to
show his real worth.
And then there is the Mysterious
Weller from Rochester. n. z. The fans
lere would pay a quarter just to look |
1t him. He is said to be big league |
i'm Der.
Plympton, secured from Des Moines
n the Jarnigan trade, walloped the
lard hitting Jobbers last year in the |
,nly two games he played against
h en-.
Angle and Keutchenmeister. the
lick of the local talent, are both
lassy pitchers and while they may
lot have had enough experience to
tick this season. they have the goods
IL right and will eventually land in
asst company.
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INCREASE IN GROSS EARNINGS.
First Three Weeks in February Show
4.9'PeP Cent Gain.

Railroad gross earnings continue to
show fair increase over those of last
year, the total of all United States
roads reporting to date for the first
three weeks of February as compiled
by Dunis Review, amounting to $23,-
143s 3O5, an increase of 40 per cent as
compared with the earnings of the
same roads for the corresponding peri
cd a year ago.
Increases are general, the only i'm
portant roads showing a falling off
for the third week of the month being
Southern, with a reported loss of 49,
which is notable contrast to the de-
creases that were made at this time a
month ago. On the other hand, there
are numerous large gains, especially in
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ATrELL NOT NEAR CHAMPION
Harlem Tommy Murphy Gives He
brew an Awful Beating.

San Francisco, March 11.-Abe At
tell of San Francisco, former feather
weight champion of the world. went
down to defeat before the greater
weight of Harlem Tommy Murphy in
the presence of a large crowd at
James Coffroth's Colma arena The
fight was one of the fastest and blood
lest ever seen between good fighters
mere Using his extra eleven pounds
of weight to advantage all the time.
Murphy wore Attell down and the
twentieth round found Abe desperate
ly tired and covered with blood to
the waist line, pounding away at
Murphy's stomach, while the New
York boy tried in vain to put enough
steam behind his punches to Abe's
unprotected jaw to stretch him on
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County Pays s2,2oe.o4 for scalps.

Oberlin, Kan, March 1.-THE
bounty of cents a head on rabbits
in Decatur county was removed March
1, but on account of the heavy snow
and blockaded roads, the farmers
were given a few days after that date
to present their rabbit scalps. The
total number of scalps brought to the
county clerks Office during the two
months from January 1 to March
is 44121, at a cost to the county of
SO 20605
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of all diseases in
Wnen the blood IS injected with
healthf
and glands produces of
the outer
Diseases medical advice whov
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA GA.
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Fix up the lawn for spring. Time
now to sow Kentucky blue grass and
white clover. Zimmerman Seed Co.
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The satisfying quality in Lewis Sin
gle Binders found IN nc other &c cigar.
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Everyb0dy Eead. the stass Jsusnal
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Denver Times: Sport writer's in To-
peka, Kan, are throwing fits of ioy
because their baseball yard is to be
fitted up like a regular playing field
before the opening of the 1912 sea-
son.
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A SAINT FOR THE WEEK.
ST. JOHN DAMAscENE.

The fair city of Damascus had been
taken by the Saracens.. They were
indulgent to Christians, and our
Saints father, man of great wealth,
was even the trusted vizier OF the
Caliph. John was born A. d. $50, and
educated with great care by learned
Greek monk, who had been brought
as a slave to Damascus, and who,
when his work was done, retired to
the monastery of Saint Sabas. On his
fathers death John succeeded to MS
office. He had now all that the world
could give him-wealth, honor, power,
learning. It was probably at this time
that he wrote his three oratlons, OF
singular strength and beauty, in de-
fence of holy images, assailed by the
Emperor Leo The Emperor revenged
himself on St. John by accusing MIN
to the Caliph of treason; and the en-
ragged Caliph ordered the Saints right
hand to be struck off. In the evening
St. John knelt before statue OF our
Lady, and prayed thus: o stainless
mother of God, in defence of holy
images have lost my hand; help me,
heal me, that may still write OF thy
praises and those of thy Divine Son.
Sleep came over him, and he heard
in vision our Lady say: Thy hand
is whole; be it as thou hast said, as
the pen of one who writeth swiftly.
He awoke; his hand was restored;
only thin red line showed that 1t
had been severed. The Caliph recog
nized his innocence, and restored him
to his Office He soon felt the peril
of his position, divided his vast riches
amongst the poor, came down from
his high place, and went alone and on
foot to the Holy Places, and thence
to st. Sabas. His life thereafter is
record of humility, prayer, labor
and obedience; and the cell is still
shown in which he lived and wrote
His great work on the Orthdox Faith
is the first attempt at dogmatic OF
scientific theology, and was a text
book and model to succeeding ages
His homilies show great fervour anc
tenderness, especially when he speaks
of the Blessed Mother of God. His
contemporaries named him Chrysorr
hoes, the Golden Stream, and he ii
the last of the Greek Fathers before
the fatal schism. He died A. D. 7SO
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ONE May TIME.

No cabs in sight; no tram line on
the wet, muddy road of the lonely sub
urb, therefore (by deduction) no
trans.
Mrs. Campbell sighed impatiently,
almost angrily.
''The rains getting harder, mummy,
sighed Cam, as the cold drops trickled
down his face and found their way
down the collar of his fur coat.
Eyes, DEAR" absently replied his
mother as she held his little soft hand
tightly in one of hers and chung des'
perately to her wet skirts with the
other.
81 knew it would rain. wish l had
not listened to Jessie, but she is SO
positive about everything one cannot
refuse her advice without actually in
sulting her." walled Mrs. Campbell.
But Aunt Jessie thought we were
coming home early, before the rain,
ventured Cam.
Yes, yes, of course, dear. We meant
to go home early, but you must re
member we lost our way twice."
Cam remembered, because he was SC
tired with tramping up and down
streets and down and up streets look
ing for old Mrs. Morgan's house. He
could not remember ever walking sc
much before, because mummy had q
neat little brougham for her very OWE
use, and if she felt disinclined for the
brougham she always took a cab
(Cam loved that best especially If il
were a taxi.) But today there had
been no brougham, no cab, not even Q
tram. They had got of the train al
the little station and walked and
walked and walked ever since.
Almost o'clock and the rain in
creasing.
''It will be teeming presently" Mrs
Campbell said in a dismally resigned
tone.
There were few houses in the street
but at the end a schoolhouse and .
church. The church door was open
and as they reached it the rain had be
come a downpour; perhaps If it hat
not Mrs. Campbell would have passet
on. She did not like entering churches
church with crosses upon them
now. But there was no alternative.
They hurried up the tiny red grave
path and stepped into the shelter of tn,
porch. Mrs. Campbell shook out he
dripping skirts and wiped the mu,
from her pretty shoes, while Can
peeped around the screen at the door
Just then an organ pealed forth
few notes, and a chorus of childisl
voices took up the strain:
How pure, how frail and white
/ The snowdrops shine!
Gather garland bright
! For Mary's shrine.
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EATING MEAT ON FRIDAY.

Most of our young men have been
brought up In good Catholic homes,
wherein the precept of abstinence
served. When these young men go
into business life and eat some of their
meals in restaurants or hotels they
are frequently shocked to see other
men who rank as Catholics eat meat
regularly and knowingly on Friday.
It is readily understood, says the
Pilot, that at times Catholic business
man, dining away from home, may be
entirely forgetful of the fact that the
day Is Friday, especially if he be not
accustomed to take meat at breakfast.
But this lapse of memory should not
be of weekly recurrence. It should not
happen chiefly when he dimes with
non-Catholics. And if we cannot char
itably excuse such men on the plea
of forgetfulness, we certainly find it
hard to understand why success in
finance or in politics brings about such
remarkable stomachic changes that
meat is especially essential on Friday,
even at the certainty of giving scan
dal
Do these men think that the pre-
cepts and observances of the Church
do not apply to Mammon's favorites?
Do they really wish to masquerade as
non-Catholics? They should ponder
deeply upon the words of our Lord:
whatsoever shall deny Me before men,
him will deny before My Father Who
is in Heaven"
To fit their case, it might be said:
Know all men by these presents! |
am the great Mr.. So and So, the
premier Of my race. have acquired
money-no matter how, have occasion
ally broken into blue-blooded society,
which has invited me to its festivities
because 1t can use me for its own
purposes, but which fact I do not see;
] am greatly exalted because I have
been fiattered a little, and, therefore,
no more Church nor precepts thereof
for me. To rank with the Servants
Of Mammon I am willing to sacrifice
my real friends, my conscience and
my God. have no king but Nam.
mon, and am willing to give him not
only all that belongs to him but also
what / owe to my God" This is a
fair picture of the Catholic who in
good health knowingly eats meat on
Friday.
Men of this kind will say that the
writer is o1d-fashioned and out of
date, the inference being that the
precepts of the Church must be
changed or modified in order to be
adapted to the cowardice or the un.
faithfulness of the new Catholic, or in
other words. of the Catholic modernist
layman in social life.
We admit that we are so old-fash-
Toned as to know that abstinence from
specified food was the first command.