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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-22

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imagine vim whom She only knew
she sacttd 40 Il NE we're"
-Besidex. Roxbury.- she said warn.
ingly. ITS most degenerate husband
who Fails IN lore With his Nifes SIS
ter
They Nsr walking IN one Of the
mounlalp prthS some distance behind
the ofIPS. They did not know that
Mrs 0deIl-c Carney had stopped to rest
IN the leafy niche abeve the path She
was inkiIy fannIng herself On the stone
seat thst man bad provided as an Inn
proyemept 10 paturs. Being sharp
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
SCOTLAND links
MARKED BY SUFS

ST. Andrews, Scotland, May 90
This little town is almost in state
o. SIEGE the result of threats uttered
by militant suffraget that they will
destroy the putting green's and thus
reEder the play impossible IN Ihe
worlds amateur golf championship.
which will be competed here next
week.
The most intense excitement pre-
walls among the townspeople, who de-
pend largely for prosperity upon the
links, while members of the Royal ard
Ancient Golf clubs are extremely
aIxious. They and citizens have or
ganized vigilance committee of 5000
volunteers to guard the green's night
and day. AS it is understood the wo.
men are TO use vitrol to destroy tho
greens. all sentries stationed there ara
provided with umbrellas to prevent
the corrosive fluid being thrown in
their facec.
I The river Tay routes, by which tha
/ links are reached from Dundee, hot,
bed of suffragets, are closely guarded
and 10 make assurances doubly sure.
/ a powerful searchlight has been
mounted on the railroad bridge, the
i light from which sweeps the links,
roads and river nightly.
John Ball, holder of the amateur golf
/ championship, who was injured yes.
terday in a motorcycle accident, was
under the care of physicians today
and may be prevented from participant
ing.
The American contingent consists Of
Findlay Douglas, Nassau Country
club; c. w Inslee, Oneida Commune
ty club, and Harold Weber, Toledo,
Ohio.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
COUGHING SPELL
CAUSE OF DEATH
Mrs. Sayrs Sends Daughter
for Aid-Succumbs Before
Child Returns.

Mrs. Mary E. Sayrs, Ill Sixth ave
nue., lied suddenly this morling az ner
home at $3.50 o'clock For some time
she had been troubled with asthma
and few weeks ago she contracted
severe Geld which it is thought has
tened her end. Owing to the sudden
ness of her death the coroner was
notified and an inquest will probably
be held. At the time OF her death
there was no one at home but her lit
tie daughter all the other members OF
the family being az work. According
| 90 the story told by the little girl her
mother was seized with severe
coughing spell and she Immediately
notified a physician. BY the time the
! doctor arrived life was extinct.
| 1t seems as though the family have
only resided in Rock Island a short
time. coming here from Rio. Owing 10
! the fact that the members of the
family were not at home i was i'm
( possible to get a complete obituary.
1t was learned. however, that she is
survived by her husband and six CHR
dren several of whom make their
homes in Rock Island. She was So
years of age.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
over DEAD
WHILE Reading
Mrs. Katrine Conrad Dies Very
Suddenly in Moline-Coro-
ner Is Notified.

While quietly reading, Mrs. Katrine
1104 Fourth avenue, Moline,
fell over dead last evening at $50.
She had finished her supper and be-
gan looking over book. when the fin
al summons came without the least
warning. Medical aid was secured at
once, but physicians pronounced her
dead. Heart trouble was given as the
cause. Coroner r. c. J. Meyer inves-
tigated the death but decided no in
quest was necessary.
The deceased was born in Germany
April l. 1852, and came to Davenport
in 1873 where she was married to
Henry Conrad March 5, 1875. For a
year the home was in Milan and since
that time the family has resided in
Moline. Six daughters and one son
survive: Mrs. Charles Olson, Milan
Mrs. Claus Beck, Rock Island; Mrs
Henry Rohwedder, Rock Island, Mrs
Henry Rommell, Ida, Henrietta and
Theodore in Moline.
The funeral will be held Thursday
afternoon at O'Clock. Rev. F. J
Rolf of the German Evangelica
church of this city will offiCiate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
SPECIAL ATTORNEY Is TO
PROBE ELECTION FRAUDS

Chicago, H., May 20.-CIyde Day,
former city attorney and
assistant corporation counsel, today
was appointed special states attorney
by Judge Korsten 10 conduct an inves-
t:gation OF charges of fraud in the
election last November. At the same
time Kersten ordered a special grand
jury called for wednesday. The ac-
ton of Kersten was made upon mo-
ton of States Attorney Hoyne. who
personally made the request. While
Hoyne was W keTstcr's court, Attor-
ney Ayers, for Lewis Rinaker, defeat
ed republican candidate. was in Judge
Cooper's court ready to plead for his
petition asking leave to file a motion
fer the appointment of special states
attorney.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
SHOT TO AVENGE SISTER;
SCHOOL TEACHER FREED

Muncie, Ind, May 2O.-Miss Doris
Underwood. the Hartford City school
teacher, tried on the charge of at
tempting to kill Otis Fisher, Muncie
drug clerk, who, she alleges, wronged
her younger sister, Ada, was found
not guilty yesterday. Only one bal
lot was taken.
There was a big demonstration in
the court room when the verdict was
read and Judge Sturgiss and the bail
ifs were unable to silence the APP
plause. The room was crowded, many
persons having come from Hartford
City, and practically all seemed to
be friends OF the girl.
Fisher will be placed on tricl today
on a charge FLED by Ada Underwood.
She alleges he promised to marry her.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
is
STATES WITNESS

Boston, Mass, May 20-Dennis Col
Inns, a dog fancier of Cambridge, on
trial with President Wood of the
American Wooden company, and Fred
erick Atteaux, a Boston dye manufac-
turer. for conspiracy to plant dyna-
mite at Lawrence during the textile
strike, testified as a witness for the
prosecution today.
Collins said May 10, 1912, he met
J. J. Breen, a Lawrence undertaken,
who was convicted of actually plant
ing" an explosive, in a saloon in Bos-
ton. Breen asked if he would like
to go to Lawrence that night.
81 told him l would go if l could
hep him any" Collins said. Breen
continued: I'VE probably will NEE
some folks and you had better carry
this bundle to keep your end up,
handing the witness five SIS bills
| Breen, the witness said, agreed t
give him more money the following
day. Collins said, after leaving the
4 SdiOOu ll6s met wv IIAcAL' olC, uS
scribed by the witness as a Mr.. Rice
gave Breen a package weighing abou
! 40 pounds which they carried t
( Breen's house in Lawrence and open
ed. 1t contained sticks which fel
cold"
81 asked Breen what they were,
the witness said, and he told ME
was juice"
The witness told of a conversation
in which Breen said: 'I'll be mayor O
this city next year. There is 4 mi
lion back of me-"
Il asked him what he meant" sal
Collins, land lie asked me if | knew
President Wood OF the Wcolen con
pany | told him l did not, then h
said l would see the joke il the Pr
pers next day.
The same night, Collins said, the
went OFT in a sleigh. carrying the buI
die brought from Boston. They LEI
packages at a Syrian tailor shop an
2 cobbier's shop and also depositc
one at ST. Mary's cemetery.
Collins said until he read in I'll
newspapers he did not know the pacl
ages contained dynamite.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
Prodigious Efforts of Insurance Companies to
Cause Unwarranted Alarm Over Income Tax

per cent upon the reserve, when IL
fact they earn far more than this
amount No one can question the
justice of a nominal tax upon these
classes of accumulated profits. which
are inNexcess of current needs"
MEAT OF THE QUESTION.
But the meat of the whole question
is this: The companies could, if they
desired, and they can under the pro-
posed law. separate from real earn
ings the fictitious oyercAarges which
they now class as a part Of earnings
and which they include in dividends
paid back to policyholders II they
should separate these two classes OF
income, they would only be taxed on
the real profits. So that the remedy
lies with the companies themselves.
But the companies do not wish to con
TESS that they are telling untruths
when they represent that their "divi
dends' amount to such and such
amount. Therefore, they want con
gress to exempt them from all tax.
Their circulars look very impress
sive. They state that the companies
paid s1,S33,534.77 in state taxes fol
the year 1912. Accepting this figure
as correct, it amounts to just abou
/ one-fifth of l per cent.
A PLAIN MATTER OF ARITHMETIC
AS a plain matter of arithmetic
even though these companies continue
to refuse 10 separate real from fc
titious earnings and are therefor
compelled to pay the proposed fedora
income tax of l per cent per annum
and even though they succeed in pass
ing this tax down to the individus
policyholders, it would amount to BIZ
tween 10 and 20 cents per year on tn
= average.
So if you feel inclined to get excl
, ed about this terrible imposition 0
, your pet insurance company, bette
look over the facts first and cool of
: The companies are trying to use the
. policyholders as a catspaw.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20

is that the so-called mutual insur-
ance companies have for years,
through their literature, advertise
ments, agents and solicitors, repre-
scented to the public that each policy
holder, at stated intervals, would be
entitled TO dividend" to be paid out
Of the surplus of the company. AS
matter of fact, these companies have
actually been making an overcharge
in the premiums and have simply been
paying back 10 policyholders the
amounts of this overcharge, so that
the supposed dividend" was in fact
a fake On this ground, and confess
ing the untruthfulness of their former
representations, some of these COM
panies went to the treasury depart
ment after the corporation law was
passed and attempted to obtain an
exemption from that tax. The treas
ury department ruled against them.
SOURCES OF REAL EARNINGS.
There are, however, various other
sources of real earnings which come
to insurance companies, as was point
ed out by Representative Cordell Hull
the author of the income tax provi
sion. in the debate on the bill in the
| house.
''They derive savings from the
amount set apart for expense of con
Quoting the business" said Mr.. Hull
They derive a considerable sum from
excess Of the mortuary fund as | un
derstand.' he continued; gains OF
savings from lapses and surrenders i:
another source of profit; excess of in
terest earnings is still another. 1t il
generally understood that the premi
, ums assessed upon policyholders ar
based upon an assumption of MOI
tally, which is about so per cent les
, than actually occurs, nevertheless tn
! full amount is collected, so that tn
: excess goes to profit accumulation;
Again. it is assumed that the con
/ panies can only earn from to 81
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
City Chat
(Advertiseme nts.)


Buy a home of Reidy Bros.
For express, call William Trefz.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
Bluebird pins at J. RamseT's Sons.
Independent Express Co. West 9S1.
Bracelet watches at J. Ramsers
Sons.
Kerler Rug company for vacuum
cleaning and rug making.
Have you seen the lucky bluebird
pins at ]. Ramser's Sons.
Smoke the Grand Dictator hand
made sc cigar. Better than ever.
Diamonds are on the jump. You can
buy one right at ]. Ramcer's Sons.
Coin purses vanity bags, fancy
leather bags. at J. Ramser's Sons.
The Cav, Moore and Waterman
fountain pens at ]. Ramser's Sons.
Our B. B. serge at s33 is the best
value ever offered J. B. zimmer's
Sons.
J. L. Freeman for real estate and in
surance. 414 Safety building. Phone
2315.
Six PER cent farm mortgages. Litten
& Roberts. Peoples Nations, bank
building.
Coal. coal. coal The Rock Island
Fuel company will deliver to you all
the best grades Of hard and soft coal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
AT HIGH SCHOOL

This week at the high school will
probably be the bushes. one of the
year. Meetings of all kinds are to be
morning the classes met in the session
rooms and voted for two members of
the respective classes TO confer with
representatives of other classes and
two faculty representatives to select
the class editors of the Watch Tower,
the school publication, for next year.
The meeting at which the editors will
be chosen will be held early this week.
Those chosen by the classes we're:
VIII Glass and Elizabeth Sperry by
the juniors; Crawford Carter and Dor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
BY gibson GARDNER.

Especial Correspondence OF The Argus.)
Washington, D. c.. May 1S.-In an
effort to frighten policyholders and to
throw general discredit upon the IN
come tax provisions OF the new tariff
bill, prodigious efforts and thousands
of dollars in postage have been ex-
pended by a number CT insurance com
panies.
Circulars couched in the most alarm
ing language, giving the general i'm
preston that holders Of insurance pol
icies are 10 be taxed under the new
law, have been sent out by the thou
sand. and congressman and senators
are being deluged with ''ready-made"
protests, printed by the companies
and signed by policyholde-s who think
that something terrible is about to
happen TO them under the new bill.
DESIGNED TO HURT INCOME TAX.
The facts OF the matter are that Ger.
tain big companies are trying to drag
/ a herring across the trail of this in
come tax law in order to secure an
exemption from paying their share OF
| the income tax to which they are not
entitled. For this purpose they are
trying to manufacture" public senti
ment against the bill.
The proposed provision places alb
solutely no tax upon the proceeds o.
life insurance policies paid at tht
death of another. There is no tax i'm
posed upon any individual with re
spect to the return Of any sum o.
amount invested in insurance as
business proposition during his life
The law does place a tax of 1 per cen
per annum only upon the net profit
Of insurance companies. The sol
purpose ard the sole effect of this pre-
vision is to continue in effect the pres
ent provision Of the corporation Ia
law, which has been in effect and il
operation for five years without an
particular question or complaint.
The trouble with the whole questio
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
Prize BABY. ILL
WITH SMALLPOX
Winnifred Harding, Colored,
and Parents and Brother
in Pest House.

winnifred Harding, an 11months-
old babe and one of the leading con-
tenders fer honors IN the baby con-
test at the Mckinley Baptist church
last week, has tie smallpox. The pa
tent and her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. H.
w. Harding, and 1-year-old brother.
Clare, all colored. are being cared for
by their family physician al the pest
house west OF the city.
The father is employed as stenogra-
pher at the Offices at Rock Island
arsenal. Clare Harding has been a
pupil at the Horace Mann school
Last night the schocl and the Offices
at the arsenal we're given a thorough
fumigation.
The Harding home is at 1117 Thir'
ty-seventh street 1t is supposed that
the smallpox cantagion came from a
colored woman who lived in the same
house and who never was attended b.
a physician. She supposed she wa:
suffering merely from chickenpox
Whether others have been exposed Il
not known.
Both the family physician ant
Health Commissioner u. 9. Craig dlas
messed the case of the Harding baby as
smallpox.
There are several separate compart
men.s at the pest house and the Hard
ing family occupies one OF these
There is a white patient in one Of hi
other rooms.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20

othy Vernon b. the sophomores; Bes-
sic Baker ana Marion Blakeslee by
the freshmen. The faculty represen-
tatives have not been appointed. The
editors OF the Watch Tower have been
working for the last half year in prep
aration for the annual issue which will
be out the last of next week. All of
the regular departments will be con-
tinued, while many new stunts have
found a place in the Watch Towers
last issue of this year. Pictures OF all
the class teams, school teams. and
many other regular features will be
found in the annual, according 20 the
cope given out by the editors. Paul
inc Levi. editor-in-chief, deserves a
great deal of credit from the student
body at large for the work which she
has done during the last year. The
copy for the last issue is being sent
TO the printers daily and expectations
for the best issue yet published are in
the minds of the students.
The executive committee of the AS
ISOLATED Students is to meet some day
this week, as early as possible, 10 de-
eide who should receive literary r. is
for work in debate, oratory etc. The
committee, composed of the presi
dents of all the school organizations,
met and have recommended that all
the schools representatives in Big
Eight literary contests should receive
emblems. Those included in this will
be: for debate. Larned Eklund. Cecil
Koch, Israel Goldman, Donald Vance
Jual Ford and Paul Dahlen; for ora
tory, Larned Eklund: for defamation
Larned Eklund and Marion Blakes!ee
for stenography. Molly Graham. The
committee also recommended that the
senior editors of the Watch Tower
should receive emblems upon recon-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
new YORK YACHT
TO RACE SIR TOM

London, May 20.-The New York
Yacht club cabled the ROYAL Ulster
Yacht club definitely accepting Sir
Thomas L;pton's challenge for the
Americas cup.
1t will take place in September, 1914,
under the New York Yacht clubs pres
ent rules as TO measurement, time al
lowance and racing rules.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20

will put his entire system out Of order
as sure as fate. Most OF the men and
women of this class whom meet tell
me they have been seeing nerve spe-
cialists. The well-to-do seem to at
tribute all their troubles TO nerves.
It's not their nerves. It's modern con-
ditions that have produced the thous-
ands OF half-sick people among the
rich and poor alike in this city and
every other city in America. It's bro
ken-dovn, overworked, stuffed up di-
gestive organs-that's where the trou-
BILE is.
Il am making a lot OF people realize
these facts in your city. Many who
are calling now have been sent here
by friends. Yesterday a prominent
woman said she had come because
her servant told her that my medicine
was doing wonders for her nerves.
The remedy was sold to her, and if II
makes her e well woman, she will be
positive 1t relieved her nervous trou-
BILE. AS a matter OF fact. there isn't
a single ingredient in any formula IN
tended 70 act, on the nervous system.
Get the digestive organs working
properly and the nerves will right
themselves"
Crowds I'LL the once az the corner
Of Twenty-third street and Fifth ave
daily 70 consult the La Vita doctor. as
examination and consultation is free
Once hours. from 10 TO IL in the morn
ing and 70 4 and to in evening
Free Concerts Every Night This Week
The Ia Vita free concerts and lee
lures will be given every night for
two weeks. weather permitting. AL
are invited TO attend.-(Adv.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
THE RICH AND POOR
PATRONIzE VESTERNFR
La Vita Says Weak Stomach From
All Classes-A Million Doesn't Hep-Big Free Concert
and Vaudeville Every Night This Week at 1880,
Corner Gath street 9th avenue.

Immense crowds continue to attend
the free vaudeville show and band con-
cert on the lot, corner Twenty-fourth
street and Fifth avenue, at 1880 each
night. They all seem TO enjoy it
The La Vita man makes offer TO
have the La Vita doctor remove any
tape worm free of all charge in from
three 10 six hours al his once, at the
corner OF Twenty-third street and
Fifth avenue. with one dose Of the
wonderful La Vita medicine.
La Vita, the man who claims that
Americans have weak s,omachs, seems
20 be attracting an unusual amount of
attention
Each day people are calling at the
ONCE. corner OF Twenty-third street
and Fifth avenue. 10 hear about his
theories and medicines in greater num-
bers and for the past few DAYS the Of
fce has presented a novel sight.
a remarkable feature 10 the onlook-
er is the varied type OF people whom
La Vita is attracting. They range
from prosperous looking business men
and fashionsbly dressed women TO day
laborers and their plainly dressed,
hard-working wives. All rub elbows
in a common cause.-The pursuit Of
health. or. as La Vita puts il, sound
digestion"
In an Interview recently, when the
visitors were called 10 his attention.
La Vita said: Why not? Because q
man has a million dollars that doesn't
make his stomach amp better. On the
contrary. sitting at desk all day. rid
ing back and forth in a nautomobile
and stufing himself full OF rich food
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
KEWANEE KNIGHTS
SHOWN GOOD TIME

Seldom has there been a more en-
joyable Masonic gathering in Rock Is
land than that of last evening when
members of the Kewanee command
cry were entertained by Rock Island
commandery. A banquet was served
at $50 and following the sumptuous
spread the degree team from the Wis
iting city gave the work for a local
candidate
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
UNDERTAKERS IN
ANNUAL MEETING
Iowa State Convention Is or at
Davenport-Hotels Filled
With Delegates.

The 33d annual convention of the
Iowa Funeral Directors association is
in session in Davenport Yesterday
the undertakers from all over the
state fiocked to the city and last night
the hotels we're filed to their capacity
by the delegates. The opening ses-
sion was held this morning at the
Kimball hotel
An undertakers' convention may
seem a solemn affair, but not so with
the Iowa gentlemen. They expressed
themselves yesterday TO the effect
that they expected to have a time of
their lives in the city by the river
and it IS the intention of the Daven.
port funeral directors 10 see that their
expectations are fulfilled.