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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04
DiHereSt Aspects.

Gerald. dear. papa thinks we ought
10 postpone cur wedding awhile on
account of the shortage in the money
market"
Great Scott. Mildred, That's why l
want TO hurry it up."-Chicago Trib.
une.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04
WEARING SAME HAT.
(Galena Journal.)

Uncle George Smart, ''the mayor Of
Council HILL" with his charming wife
and his sister-in-law, was In town Mon
day. George is just as jolly as ever,
and his ONCE doesn't seem to make
him a bit more elevated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04
BY J. NJ. c.
REELECTION VIA THE STOMACH.
Port Byron Globe.)

D'iNH 0I
Sunday being a stormy day, there
was a small attendance at church ser
vice. Only those who had been invited
out 70 dinner we're there.-Zuma Cor
respondence.
Mrs. Babcock, one OF our old minis
ters, surprised US by stepping int
church Friday night Everybody wa:
both surprised and delighted, but sorry
that she could not stay with US for &
while.-Rapids City Correspondence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04
IN MIIANE
MILAN independently

OF all the creatures that the good
Lord has placed on this earth that
should be Stunned, IT is the meddler
or the gossip. There are men gossips
and women gossips, and there is nc
difference between the two. and their
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04
A StanGinu Joke.

Street Railway Magnate-Wno's the
complaint from? Secretary-A humor-
Gus chap. He signs himself - Patron
OF Half an Hours Srsndino."-PittE-
burg Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04

May Sat the regular meeting of
the Phoenix Hose company last even
ing the boys were surprised by their
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04

May 2-The circuit court convened
at O'Clock this afternoon for the May
term. Judge Peasants opened the
court and empaneled the grand jury.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04

All the news all the time-The Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04
(From The Argus Files of 1850

April 2S-At the special session of
the school board last evening the ques-
ton of purchasing an atlas for the use
of the high school was referred to the
high school committee with power TO
act
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-04

ton of purchasing an atlas for the use
of the high school was referred to the
high school committee with power TO
act
April 29-Hartz G. Bahnsen are very
busy just now repainting and papering
their store. They are decorating the
ceiling and walls with fine paper put
on in a very artistic manner.
E. H. Guycr has returned from az
extensive Visit 10 Kansas.
City Attorney William McEairy went
to Cambridge this afternoon on bust
ness connected with suits pending in
the Henry county court.
Fred Weyerhaeuser and daughter,
Miss Ionic, have returned home from
their California trip. They enjoyed
the western climate, scenery, etc, i'm
mensely.
Krell & Math are nearly through
with their addition. The enlarged room
will give them facilities for seating
about twenty more people. When COM
pleted it will be one of the finest ice
cream parlors west of Chicago.
The rural supervisors have quietly
slipped out of town They can spend
the intervening time before the July
meeting telling their constituents what
transpired at the special meeting.
April 30-The fact that the Western
Union Telegraph company is erecting
new poles in the city has excited a
good deal of controversy as to whether
the company is justified in this work
| of improvement, on the ground that
the company at the present time has
no right of way through the city. Last
summer the company attempted to get
a right of way. The city passed an
ordinance granting same and assess
ing the company S. per pole within
the city limits, in addition to the regu-
lar tax imposed upon the property val
uation; but the company refused to
pay same. The poles are now being
put up, nevertheless, and the company
proposes to stretch its wires upon
| them, believing that the additional tax
is an imposition and will be repealed.
DIR. A. H. McCandless leaves this
evening for Cedar Rapids to attend
the state dental convention of Iowa
He will return next Thursday even
ing.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-05-15

yond criticism and there was no least
trace Of discontinue to be detected
in his manner. "But no. You are
under mistake. am merely a
French gentleman without q title;
Raoul de Hyeres is my name"
"Ah!" said the wanderer. "Twaa
the resemblance misled me. Pardon,
monsieur"
Granted, my dear sir. :. Des
Trebes? The name has a familiar
sound. Do 1 not remember reading
somewhere that the Vicomte des
Trebes died last spring? In Tunis.
was it? :. Suddenly, / believe"
"Is it so?" said O'Rourke drily. "Pos.
sibly. The vicomte lived in the man.
ner of those who meet with sudden
deaths"
The subject languished, and after a
few more noncommittal observances
De Hyeres wandered off, presumably
in search of the English girl, to whom
he had been paying assiduous atten,
tion.
On closer scrutiny, she had proved
to be a remarkably pretty girl; al
though, in point Of fact, O'Rourke, for
all that he admired her looks i'm.
mensely, had purposely avoided her,
This he did from motives Of prudence;
he mistrusted the combination formed
by De Hyeres and the girl. The latter
might be all that she looked and claim
ed to bet a sweet, wholesome and rath.
er ingenious young Englishwoman, an
orphan, resident in Rangoon in the
household of an uncle, to whom she
was returning after a visit with
friends in Simla. On the, passenger
list her name stood as Emilia Pyn.
sent. But the adventurer felt it the
course of wisdom to deny himself the
pleasure of her acquaintance, SO long
as she permitted the attentions Of the
Frenchman.
Altogether, considering the hot
weather and such self-imposed re-
strictions, O'Rourke considered the
voyage hardly success from a social
point of view. He kept pretty much
to himself and to Danny, and to make
assurance doubly sure he instituted a
new regime with regard to the Pool
Of Flame: that jewel never left his
stateroom. When O'Rourke was on
deck or at meals, Danny sat behind
bolts, alert and under arms, and vice
versa. BY night they stood regular
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-05-15

watches together, the one on guard
while the other slept. Clearly the ad,
renturer was determined that no lack
of safeguards on his part should again
deprive him of the ruby.
But It's no easy matter to avoid
meeting any particular person on q
ship with a small saloon list, unless
one is willing to be purposely rude
and discourteous. For all his wari,
ness the Irishman was to carry with
him a personal impression of Miss
Pynsent.
On the last day Of the passage. to-
ward evening, the Poonah raised the
coast Of Burmah;. by dark she was
steaming steadily southwards along
the littoral, heading for the delta Of
the Irrawaddy.
A still, bright night with little wind:
O'Rourke was not one to resist its al
lure. -Four bells saw him lounging at
the rail below the bridge, staring hum
grily over toward the land. 1t was in
his mind that another twelve hours
or so would see him relieved Of his
trust; and as the time drew nigh i'm.
patience burned hotly within him; he
had become full weary of the Pool of
Flame and was anxious to be free OF
the thing, to have its chapter in his
history closed forever.
Far ever the water a white and
flashing light lifted up and caught his
eye, nameless beacon bright against
the darkness at the base Of the Ara
kan hills, guardian of the perils OF
those shallow seas. And simultane-
ously he became conscious Of a pres
ence at his elbow; as he turned sharp
ly the English girl addressed him in
a voice sweet-toned and quiet.
"What is that light, II you please,
Colonel O'Rourke?"
Faith, that 1 can't say, Miss Pyn-
sent"
Her eyes flashed laugh upon him
in the gloom. "Then you know my
name?"
Even as yourself, knew mine.
'Twould be strange otherwise, with
our ships company so small"
"But l." she returned, animated, "an
such an Insignificant person-while
you are the Colonel O'Rourke."
eye do me an honor I'm not deserv-
ing, Miss Pynsent, but tits proud l
Continued on next page.)
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-05-15
CHAPTER xxx.

AS time went on, however, If his un.
easiness were not sensibly dimin-
ished, nothing happened, the voyage
proving entirely uneventful; and
O'Rourke was forced TO the conclusion
that. If Monsieur de Hyeres were real
~ the vicomte des Trebes, he was
strangely content to play waiting
game.
The Irishman, however had known
stranger things than that one man
should seem the counterpart of an
other And by nothing more than
this questionable accident of resem-
blance did De Hyeres give him reason
to believe him anything but what he
cliamed to be. The mans demeanor
was consistently discreet and self
contained; he moved about the ship
openly and without any apparent at
tempt to pry upon the doings OF the
adventurer whom he fell into the
easy ship-board way of greeting ami
ably but coolly. Only in one instance,
indeed, did they exchange more than
but courteous salutations, and then
De Hyeres himself seemed to seek
the interview, approaching ORourke
directly.
This was at night, when O'Rourke
occupied a chair on the leeward side
of the saloon deck, consuming medi-
tative after-dinner cigar. De Hyeres
stepped out Of the companionway,
glanced swiftly this way and that, and
sauntered toward the Irfshman with
an unlfghted cigarette held conspicu-
ously between his fingers.
O'Rourke likewise surveyed his sur
roundings in two brief giances: and
was contented to find that they were
alone, or as much alone as two can be
upon a steamship For they were,
after all, well matched; and one OF
them ne knew to be armed. Shifting
In his chair so that his revolver lay
convenient to his hand, as De Hyeres
approached the Irishman removed his
cigar from between his teeth, ffcked
away an inch of ash and silently prof"
fered IT in the prescribed fashion.
The Frenchman accepted the cour'
tesy with bow, applied the fire TO his
cigarette, inhaled deeply and returned
the cigar with a formal phrase OF
thanks. He fingered for moment,
putting and gazing or over the black,
starlft expanse Of the Bay Of Bengal,
lonely to its dim and far horizon, then
observed quietly: 81 am not mistaken,
I believe, in understanding have the
honor to address Monsieur le Colonel
o'Rourke, Chevalier Of the Legion OF
Honour?"
"You are not mistaken, monsieur" !"
returned O'Rourke pleasantly, then
with the directness which he some
times found useful, watching the man
closely as he spoke: "And 1 believe
1t is my pleasure to recognize Mon
sier Le vicomte des Trebes?"
"Des Trebes, monsieur" The
Frenchman's look of wonder was be
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-05-15

Could the resemblance be acciden-
tai? 1t seemed hardly possible. The
Des Trebes he had known had been a
type distinct, so clear and aloof from
the general Frenchman that not even
the addition of beard to his physiog-
nomy could have proven thorough
disguise. And 1t seemed reasonable
enough to assume that, Mrs. Prynne
having failed in her undertaking, Des
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-05-15

Trebes would resume his Office as &C.
tive head Of their conspiracy. If it
were indeed he whom O'Rourke had
Just seen, there was every chance i'm
aginable that the final chapter in the
history Of the Irishman's connection
with the Pool of Flame would prove
an eventful one.
Maybe not" admitted O,Rourke,
maybe l deceive meself But I'm
persuaded I'll do well to keep both me
eyes open until the day I'm rid Of the
damned thing!"
At this juncture Danny's knock took
him to the door. "Mongsere Raoul de
Hyeres," announced the valet breath
lessly: "'tis thot the purser says his
name is, yer honour"
"Yes," assented o'Rourke dubious
ly. "But perhaps the purser's mista-
ken-misinformed."
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The Best Flour in the Market

is the cheapest and most satisfac-
tory. Aid if you will ask exper-
fenced housekeepers which is the
best most of them will tell you they
have found Town Talk -four the
finest they ever used. Order a sack
and learn the reason for their en-
thusiasm.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-02
HAS RIBS BROKEN
Rocky Ford Butcher and Son Injured
in Runaway

While driving in from his ranch onSun-
day evening. Albert Lee, meat cutter in
Browns market, and his son Elmer, who
is employed at tie Rocky Ford bakery.
were so severely injured in runaway
that they were both unable to attend to
business for few days.
As they were nearing their home on
North Tenth street their horse became
frightened and ran away. but the two oo'
oupants of the buggy stuck to the rig
until it coliided with a tree on North Main
street. and they were thrown out, Mr.. Lee
sustaining two broken ribs and a severely
injured shoulder. while the boy got off
with the fracture Of couple of fingers
and some painful bruises.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-02

manifestations. The country re-
minds the visitor of the best pra rie
regions of Kansas when that state
was new. Few districts in Colorado
approach it in attractive possibilities.
1 he ground is everywhere made up
OF that brown, chocolate soil peculiar
to Rocky Ford and Fowler, except
that instead OF being limited to a mar
row piece OF river valley it stretches
lway for miles in all directions, level
IS a lake bottom, or presenting such
slight slope as to afford ideal facility
Tor the flow OF water in the process
IF irrigation.
Newspaper writers used to give
lovel descriptions of the unique en-
erprises in which the late State Sen
ltor G. w. Swink made fame. He
vas the pioneer melon grower, the
made beet sugar a financial success;
md he exhibited alfalfa honey at the
worlds fair. But nothing was made
public as to the biggest achievement
IF all. to which Mr.. Swink devoted
he last years of his life. That was
he irrigation of the rich prairie ten
miles south of Manzanola and IL
miles southwest of Rocky Ford Could
The pioneer have lived till the past
month he would have seen his great
dream realized. Only in the latter
'art OF June was success made sure
and visible.
Mr.. Swink had accumulated for
tune through his various enterprises.
and now he began to concentrate it
N this last ambitious undertaking.
impressed with the possible future
lor that inviting tract OF brown 'cof-
ice grounds" he saw in it the max
inc of thousand Rock Fords.
Working quietly along. keeping his
1wn counsel, he went up and down
Apishapa creek from the Arkansas
river to the. Spanish Peaks. buying
up farms and water rights one by
one. till he had acquired most of the
legal titles to the flow OF the Apisha-
Continued on Last Page.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-02
cANTALOUPES ARE RIPE
T. Montague Has Honor OF Bringing
In the First

On Wednesday. July 81, T. Montague
brought to the Enterprise thoroughly
ripe specimen of the fruit that makes
Rocky Ford famous" and in accordance
with our time-honored custom OF giving
the Enterprise free for year to the per-
son bringing in the first ripe oantaloupe.
he has had his subscription to this paper
advanced for one year.
As evidence that the season is later
than usual we would state that this first
melon was received exactly week later
than that Of last year. but the cantaloupe
crop is ripening rapidly and by the first
of next week the genuine Rocky Ford's
will be on the home market. while carload
shipments will PROBABLY begin about Aug.
is.
A few words about this first captaloupe
will not be amiss as it is OF new variety
and is likely to become quite favorite:
1t was grown by Mr.. Montague in C. C.
Carleton's seed patch on Mrs. Hannah
Corners place just east of town. and was
of the Carleton's Melted Gem variety,
which has been bred up from the oldHahn
Gem strain and has been carefully prop
agated for commercial purposes by Mr..
Carleton. the well-known eantalcupe dis
tributer and seed grower.
Carleton's Melted Gem. it is believed,
will develop into an earlier eantaloupe
than ever the old Waters strain, and
because of its small seed cavity. solidity
and fine favor it is vastly superior and
will rapidly become favorite with grow
ers who cater to the early market and
want melon that will stand up" in
shipment.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-02
FOR GOOD ROADS.
important Convention Will Be Held
in Denver.

The joint good roads convention
of the Colorado Good Roads Asso-
;iation, the Greater Colorado High
way Association and the State Asso-
,iation of County Commissioners
will be held in the new Cathedral
)all room OF The Albany hotel on
Thursday and Friday. September 5th
md 9th. This announcement was
made this week following confer
.ncc of the presidents of the various
organizations interested.
The purpose of the convention is
% discuss the various good roads
measures which will come before the
people of the state at the fall cleo
zion. The position of candidates as
to good roads will also be discussed,
md an effort will be made. to have
he delegates from the various coun-
ties present at the convention, pledge
themselves to work only in the in
,erest of those seeking office in their
own county who stand solid on
'lank for good roads.
That good roads will play a most
important part in the state campaign.
is evident. 1t is the one subject on
which all parties are agreed. and
many candidates for state and legis-
lative Offices. as well as for county
Offices are standing on the good road
plank first OF all.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-02

Continued on Page Four
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-02

Final proofs were offered in the
United States land Office, during the
past week, by the first settler under
taking to prove up" in what is like
ly to become one of the finest and
most extensive farming districts in
Colorado. says McHenry Green III
the Pueblo Star-J Journal.
Irrigation projects" have grown
SO numerous and so vast that the
newspapers have not fully kept track
of them. Some which have had little
foundation beyond hopelessly dry
land. with reservoirs and bitches ap-
pearing only on artistically drawn
maps and blueprints, have somehow
been placed very prominently before
the public, while this one in question
has had no more than the most cas-
ual mention, with no publication de
scribing its immense extent.
Colorado is the most deceptive re
gion in the western country, nature
having concealed its resources IL
ways that seem marvellous. This i
true of its agricultural as well as oi
pie living for years in Pueblo have
never seen the fertile beauties OF
Vineland or the rural delights OF the
five-mile Beulah-valley. Thousand
of travellers who pass along the Ar
kansas river railroads retain only
faint impression of an exceedingly
narrow strip OF irrigated lands, .
mere thread across the boundless
stretch of desrt. The farmed area IS
indeed, small. in contrast with that
wide prairie, but in the aggregate it.
annual production is far beyond the
guess of the observer, and it is grow
iug from year to year. The irrigated
valley is 20 miles wide at Lamar.
Leave the railroad at Manzanola
and travel southwark 10 miles. and
you will find so fair and so rich a
prairie region that it would astonish
the traveller. who sees only the half
mile ribbon between the river hills.
Here everything is on a big scale,
and instead of acres people speak oi
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-02
The Glory OF The West.
BY GENEJ1avH LAWSON

The west-it needs euiogy- speaks for itself
the snowclad that the external ind
the broad sweeping plains to the far horizon everything
suggestive of and prosperity Only few years
gold and silver and copper hidden beneath the tall
the of its hiding place unknown by The rugged
cliffs smiled grim smile and casped their rich heritage close
in their rocky clutches For centuries the priceless
knew intrusion brooding
with miser And the CLEAN of that which go mad
about and toll and scheme and steal and lie purpose
winning lay tucked beneath the solitude the lofty
nels.
But the calculating, prospective mind of
ant beams of intelligence pierced thru the of
earth and and found the rich hidden
result startling Thousands of greed
in their hearts. hocked hither gather
yellow Thousands disappointed. Then
pass that the fortune their
ward the broad of desert land with facing
them, began till the soil History repeats
ity drives their They found
productive but God had misplaced the materials and left them
for together. So again they
tans this time for the of crystal instead of god and
the brought quench the thirst of the
They drank hungrly and If show their gratitude
sponded to the call of Countless little germs which
had lain dormant since the beginning of time woke e
smiled and blossomed with radiant glory. And when the
harvester gather the ripe fruit golden grain
the wealth of the mine the splendid gift of
SOIL Other toilers of the soil and from the seethng,
barren, world made, world that the
kisses with favor that laughs because knows its power
that throbs with life and beauty and majesty
Nor is that ALL The horde people who thought only of
when they the west gained from pure
and from the beautiful bigger strength physically and
spiritually In time the story Coorado wonderful climate
spread through the Those broken in health snatched
the hope contained. Then crowded cities and
damp valleys of the of who had been
cheated of Natures heritage and still they coming end
less breathe the sunshine of the
hind them illness and grief look onward with hope and
ward towards the snowcad peaks that the imprint of the
Supreme and still upwards towards the blue dome of the
mysterious heavens And they know that other
the blessings manifold that here in this garden
spot of the world which La Toilette has named Gods Chosen
Country the good in all things triumph the evil
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-02
Pumping Plant Burned

For the second time in about a year
and half the pumping station of the
Santa Fe railroad was badly scorched
by fire at an early hour on Saturday
morning.
Owing to confusion in the first alarm
the fire department did not reach the
scene of the blaze as quickly as usual.
which accounted for the destruction of
the boiler house, but by good work the
pump house which stands within few
feet of the boiler house was saved, only
the side nearest the fire being soorehed
The fire was discovered by a woman
living near who telephoned the central
office and stated that the pumping sta
ton was on fire. She then hung up the
receiver without telling the operator
which of the three stations it was. the
city owning two in different sections OF
the city. This made it impossible for the
department to find out at first in what
direction the FIRE was but as soon as it
was located. quick run was made and
water was soon pouring on the flames
and in half hour the FIRE was extin-
guished.
As this is the most important station
on the division it is believed that the
Santa Fe officials will replace the burned
structure with brick or concrete build
ing to avoid further repetition and con-
sequent idleness OF their pumping plant
until the fire damage may be repaired.