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The San Francisco call., 1913-07-24
F ERRY T ALES
BY LINDSAY CAMPBELL
VHE members of the summer c


ony at Mill Valley. having dug UP
= the rugs and silver they buried
when the fire that SCARED the noun
tain threatened their homes, have set
tied down again to enjoy the peace
and beauty of suburban life. The fre
is out and the work of planting sap
lings to take the place of the burned
trees is under way
The battle with the fire, grim as II
was while 1t lasted. had its comedy
side and this is now furnishing light
entertainment for the Marin county
contingent of the commuter brigade as
its members swing in their hammocks
under the trees they helped to save
e e e
One of the prettiest of the fire stories
comes from the head of Cascade can
yon, the wooded glen in which Mill
Valley is located This story illus
trates the faith that a pretty little
maid of six summers reposes in the
omnipotence of that greatest of all
mighty heroes, papa.
yon nothing could have saved Mill Val
ley and the first house in its path
would have been that of Tony Freitas.
The fire did come within zoo feet
of the Freitas home and was stopped
there only after a hard fight, in which
hundreds of soldiers, sailors and CIV
ilians participated.
After it was all over somebody asked
little Alice Freitas il she had not been
afraid
Afraid of what?" the child asked.
''Of the fire. Didn't you think ii
would come down and burn up your
home?"
There was a fire, she admitted,
"but we had papa. He was away when
it started, but just as soon as he came
home he went up the hill and put it
out"
9 9 9
Here is a story that also requires
some faith. 1t comes from lameda,
where the Argentine ant maintains
one of it's most thriving colonies.
I'VE have ants in Alameda of the
Argentine variety" writes a cores
pondent, "and the following incident,
for the truth of which any observing
Alamedan will youch, illustrates the
numerical stength and intelligence of
this alien pest. On Santa Clara ave-
nue.. between Fourth and Fifth streets,
/ noticed the other day diagonal lines
that crossed the street at regular and
frequent intervals. There were Is of
these lines in the block. They puzzled
me until / stopped to examine them
and found that they were ant trails.
Ants, millions of them, were travelling
on all the trails in both directions.
I'm one of the cutters / found some
crude oil which had been used in dress
ing a patch on the street. With a
stick 1 carried some of this oil and
dropped it across one of the trails.
Travel on this trail stopped at once.
Next day, however, the trail was
open again. The ants did not go
round the oil pool either, but over its
surface-a dry path in direct line with
the original trail had been made with
sand. Can you beat it?"
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-24

The Houston Press club has regular chaplain. He
must be spirituaist
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19
tav Klotz, Sam Wright.

tav Klotz, Sam Wright
Seventh precinct-E. F. Helpenstell,
Fred W. Larson, A NJ. Klove.
Eighth precinct-W H, Toal, VIII
lard Baker, Luther Anderson.
Ninth precinct-CharIes Fiebig, NJ.
W. Battles, H. c. Harris.
Tenth precinct-Robert Kushmann,
James Hanson, H. l.. Wheelan.
Eleventh precinct - George l.
Schmid, John Brennan, ]. G. Miller.
Twelfth precinct-John R Warner
Ernest Russ, William H. Brough
Thirteenth precinct-Frank Meenan
]. w. snitzer, A. ]. Riess.
Fourteenth precinct. Hasselquist
~. A. Mcclellan. ]. A Campbell.
Fifteenth precinct-A E. Nelson, L
H. Thiele, G. L. Ackerlind.
Sixteenth precinct-F'rank Beranek
Henry Hinrich, Charles G. Nelson.
Seventeenth precinct-Andrew VOL
lenhaupt, Fred Grams, Peter Loge.
Commissioner Rudgren offered g
resolution that the persons named in
the list just read, be and the same are
hereby appointed as judges for the
primary election to be held Feb. %
1913. Carried by unanimous vote
Mayor Schriver offered a resolution
that the ordinance providing for the
improvement of Eleventh street by
paving, grading, etc. with asphalt, be
adopted Carried by unanimous vote
Mayor Schriver read report signUi
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19
Reservoir exp. acct ........ 10S.04
Waterworks const. acct, ..... los. 60
Total waterworks fund IS 9S4.47
Grand Total ,sss. 90

Commissioner Rudgren offered a
resolution that the claims just read
in amount of $1,SSs.6O be allowed.
Carried by unanimous vote.
Commissioner Rudgren offered q
resolution that the Rock Island Argus
be allowed SI92 and the Union Print
ing company s122.34 for publishing
special improvement notices. Carried
by unanimous vote.
Commissioner Rudgren offered q
resolution that q. H. Guyer be allowed
SIG as refund in water rent at 1102
Seventeenth street Carried by unani,
nous vote
Commissioner Rudgren read a list
containing the names of judges for
the primary election to be held Feb.
rs, 1913, as follows:
First precinct-James D. Warnock,
W. L. Aster, z. l. Kahlke.
Second precinct-J. c. Mccormack
John Holzhammer, Bert Yoh.
Third precinct-J. A. Cahail, Phil j
Wagner, W. H. Schriver.
Fourth precinct. l. Hickey, viii.
liam Eckermann, ]. A. Sundquist
Fifth precincts. S. Hull, E. G. Don
John Scherer.
Sixth precinct-Daniel Corken, Gus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19

city engineer, recommending the in-
provement of Eighteenth avenue from
the west line of Seventeenth street to
the east line of Thirtieth street, by
grading, draining. curbing and paving
with asphalt on a Ave inch concrete
foundation, except the right-of-way Of
the TrfCity Railway company, togeth-
er with the city engineers estimate
of the probable cost of same In amount
of s19,297.
Mayor Schriver offered a resolution
that the city engineers estimate of
the probable cost Of improving Eigh.
teenth avenue from the west line OF
Seventeenth street to the east line OF
Thirtieth street, except the right-of
way of the TriCity Railway company
by grading, draining. curbing and paw.
ing with asphalt on a five inch con.
crete foundation, is a fair and reason
able one and that the same be ap
proved. Carried: Ayes-Schriver,
Rudgren, Hart Bear. Nay-Reynolds.
( Mayor Schriver read an ordinances
entitled IAN ordinance providing for
/ the improvement Of Eighteenth ave
nue. from the west line Of Seventeenth
street to the east line of Thirtieth
street. in the city Of Rock Island, state
of Illinois"
Mayor Schriver offered a resolution
that the ordinance providing for the
improvement Of Eighteenth avenue
from Seventeenth to Thirtieth street
! by paving, grading. curbing and drain
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19

and one cake Of Cuticura Soap. After using
one box Of Cuticura Ointment considered
the cure permanent, but continued to use
Il 70 make sure and used about one-hah
the other box. Now am entirely well.
] also used the Cuticura Soap.
The disease began on the back OF my
head. taking the form OF q ringworm only
more severe. rising TO a thick. rough scale
that would come OF when soaked with oil
or warm water. bringing q few hairs each
time but In a few days would form again,
larger each time. and spreading until the
entire back OF the head was covered With
the scale. This was accompanied by q
terrible itching and burning sensation.
Now my head Is completely well and my
hair growing nicely" CSigned) Mrs g.
]. CLARK. Mar. IS. 1912.
Cutlcura Soap and Cuticura Ointment are
sold throughout the world. Liberal sample Of
each mailed free. with 32-p. skin Book. Ad-
dress postcard ''Cuticura, DeptT Boston -
Gs-Tender-faced men should use Cutlcura
Soap Shaving Stick, 25c. Sample free.
ADVERTISEMENT
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19

ing. be considered. Carried: Ayes
sehrivsr. Rudgren, Hart, Bear. Nay
Reynolds.
Mayor Schriver offered a resolution
that the Tri-City Railway company be
notified to double track from Fifteenth
to Twentieth streets and run the Long
View cars east and west from FIT
tenth to Twentieth streets ON Third
avenue Immediately after the pave
ment Of Third avenue. Seconded by
Commissioner. Hart.
Commissioner Rudgren offered
resolution that Mayor Schriver's reso-
luton relative to the Long View cars,
ETC., be tabled. Seconded by Commits
sioner Reynolds. Carried: Ayes-Rud-
gren, Reynolds and Bear. Mays
Schriver and Hart
Adjourned on motion Of Commits
sioner Hart.
MT. RUDGRBN.
City Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19

with the celebration OF the third cen
tenary OF the accession of the Roman
OF dynasty to the throne. The stamps
OF seven and ten copeck denomina-
ton, the principal ones in use for In
land and foreign correspondence. TO
spectively. bear portraits Of the pres
ent emperor, Nicholas II.
A diplomatic protest to the Greek
government has resulted from an
amusing "hold-up'' Of the Russian mail
steamer Chikhacheff on its last trip
from Odessa to Alexandria By the
Greek governor Of Rhodes. The steam
e. was halted at sea on the island Of
Tenedos by rife shot from q sloop-
load Of armed Greeks. and the cap
tain, on hating. was informed that
the Governor Of Rhodes was aboard
and desired the latest newspapers. The
angry sailorman refused the demand
In emphatic language, resumed his
voyage and on his arrival at Smyrna
reported the facts to the Russian rep
resentative at Athens.
The island Of Rhodes was occupied
by the Italians during the Italo-Turk.
ish war and is still held by them, SO
the appearance Of Greek governor
is somewhat premature.
The story OF Iliodor the mad monk
Of Tsaritzin, who, after defying the
bishops, the Holy Synod, the police
and all other authorities, has been I'm
ally defrocked and sent back to his
home village as an ordinary layman
passes into its last chapter with tbs
conversion Of the monastery at Tsarit
yin, the scene OF his exploits. into q
nunnery. The monks. his adherents
have been scattered among the vari
GUS other monasteries OF Russia Tht
nuns arriving at TsaritZin to take owe
the buildings, have been met by sucl
abuse and threats by the thousands o
Iliodor's followers that the convent il
guarded by the police.
COnstantinople, Feb. 1S.-The re
newal Of fighting along the Tchatalji
lines and at Adrianople will brinI
again to Constantinople the long line
OF wounded men, some in litters, 9th
ers walking stoically by themselves
still others supported by hospital stew
ards or their own companions-in-arms
The situation, however, for these III
fortunates will have improved in som
ways, for today the Constantinopl
hospitals are better equipped to car
for the wounded.
Two months have passed since tn
fighting was discontinued to give d
. plomacy a chance to make peace /
London, and these weeks have bee
utilized to make preparations of man
. kinds. The possibility of further figh
ing has never been lost sight of, an
chief among the eventualities provit
ed for has been the care of the wount
ed and the sick. Many of the wounde
who were in the city hospitals whe
! the armistiCe was declared have reco'
cred and been discharged to retur
again to the firing line The hospital
. at the front have been cleared of a
cases that could be moved to max
= room for new cases. and in Constal
tinople there have been established
: number of infirmaries for the housin
= OF convalesCents.
The December horrors Of the che
: era camp at San Stefano are now ha
: PLY a thing of the past. The mob
and self-sacrifcing work done here b
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19

Inc uOCtOrs tod me I
would have 70 have my
head shaved. Being a
woman / hated the idea OF
that.
Il was told by a friend
that the Cuticura Remedies
would 20 me good. This
spring / purchased two
boxes OF Cuticura Ointment
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19
REHABILITATION.

Commissioner Rudgren offered a
resolution that the weekly pay roll
just read in amount OF s17L15. be al
lowed. Carried by unanimous vote.
Commissioner Rudgren read a list
OF claims as follows:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19

Central Union Tel. Co. 1913 200
Carlson Bros. .......... 100
Drifhll Printing Co. ......... $500
Davis Machine Shop ..... $50
Elect Const & Mach. Co. 80. ESQ
Dr. G. G. Craig ........ $500
Great Western Remedy Co. .. 800
Dr. NJ. A Hollingsworth .... 3.75
l. Haberthur ........... 1900
Illinois Cont Elect. CO. .... S4.13
Ill & Ehleb .......... AS
c. V. johnson ........ $50
John Koch ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 9.2s
Kramer Printing & Pub. Co. 2l.OO
McCullom d Eagsn ......... 1926
L S. McCabe & Co. ........ so.s6
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19
TERRIBLE ITCHING
AND BURNING
Scalp Eczema for About Five Years.
Form Of Ringwcrm. Thick, Rough
Scale. Entirely Well After Using
CutiCura Soap and Ointment.

iberia. MOI was troubled with scalp
eczema for about five years and tried
everything 1 heard OF but all OF no avail
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19

All the news all the ums-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19
MUNICIPAL MATTERS

Regular meeting held Feb. 10, 1913.
City council chamber. Rock Island
H., Feb. 10. 1913. The city council
met in regular session at 3 O'Clock, p.
m. Mayor Schriver and all commits
sioners present.
The minutes of the regular meeting
held Feb. 3, 1913, were read and ap-
proved
Commissioner Rudgren read the
weekly pay roll for week ending Feb
s, 1913, as follows:
The Monte Vista journal., 1913-08-30

for its wheat than the protected
farmer" of the United States.
Senator Smith considered the
case Of corn. The United States
produces three-fourths Of the corn
crop of the world. Corn brings q
lower price here than anywhere
else in the world, and yet We have
tariff on corn to protect" our
farmers against the "pauper corn
producers" of other countries.
"Why has the duty been kept
on corn" asked Senator Smith,
"unless it was through the gener-
osity of Senators who represented
the protected industries and who
were willing to leave on corn a
duty which did not add a penny
to its value, while the corn grower
was helping them to retain duties
on everything the oorn-grower
bought?
"The American farmers great
sources of revenue are his wheat,
cotton, corn and oats crops. They
bring him three billion seven hun
dred and fifty million each year.
There is tariff on wheat, corn
and oats but none on cotton. Does
any one pretend that the prices
paid the American farmer for his
wheat, corn and oats are increased
by reason of the tariff or that the
price that he receives for his cot
ton is decreased because it is on
the free listl OF course not.
Now let's take the other side:
1t is safe proposition that the
farmers of this country have con-
tributed not less than five hun
dred million dollars a year for the
last twenty years to the support of
the protected industries. What
have they received in return for
this enormous sum? Nothing.
81 am glad this bill cuts off the
duty on the things the farmer must
buy, l am glad it makes his agri-
cultural implements free. l am
glad it makes the cheap blanket
free. 1 am glad it has cut down
the tariff on cotton goods to little
over l3 per cent. | am glad it has
taken 60 per cent off the tariff on
woolen goods. l rejoice also for
him in the reduction in linen and
fax. The farmer has borne the
burden of protection for so years.
1t is time he WAS given relief"
PLANNING A VACATION
/ have decided to return to Col
orado for a short visit with the
home folks. / have been in Wash
ington for six months now. Never
before have | been out of sight of
the mountains for 80 long a time,
and my wife says | am becoming
80 cantankerous that | must be
homesick. May be 80. i won't
argue the point, l only know that
when you read this letter l will
once more be in the country where
you can fill your lungs with the
kind of air God Almighty intended
men to breathe.
came down here as an humble
private in the ranks to help pass
the kind of tariff and currency
legislation promised the people by
the Democratic party. When the
Democratic caucus adopted the
Wilson Bryan currency bill the
other day, the job was finished AS
far AS | was concerned, and | will
not be needed until the tariff bill
comes back to the House from the
Senate. The currency bill will
pass the House by big majority.
My vote will count for the measure
although | will be in Colorado be-
The Monte Vista journal., 1913-08-30
At The National Capitol
Che extraordinary Session
EDWARD
KEATlNC
Congressman from
Colorado

delivered one of the most effective
speeches delivered in Congress
during the tariff debate The Tory
Republicans-Penrose, Smoot and
Gallanger been shedding
crocodile tears over the sad fate
which awaited the American far
mer under the Underwood bill.
That has been the burden of their
speeches for the last six weeks,
and Smith decided to break the
silence on the Democratic side
long enough to expose them.
He showed that number one
Northern wheat is selling for 951
cents bushel in Winnipeg, Can
ada, and S9a cents in Minneapolis,
MINI. OF course, we have a tariff
on wheat and the Tories have
been assuring the Senate that its
repeal would ruin the farmers of
Minnesota and the Dakotas, who
would be compelled to compete
with the "pauper labor" of Canada.
The Monte Vista journal., 1913-08-30

RADIO 8 representatives in Congress
were urged to fight to the last
ditch to defeat President Tafts
proposal to admit yearly three
hundred thousand tons of raw
sugar duty free from the Philip
pines?
DO you remember that you were
assured that Colorado could not
compete with the "pauper labor"
of our island possessions, and that
the passage of the Taft Bill would
be followed by the closing down
of the Colorado sugar factories,
and by the utter destruction of
this great Industry"
DO you remember the red-hot
resolutions adopted by the Denver
Chamber of Commerce protesting
against the outrage" and the
miles of double loaded editorials
printed in the "sugared" papers
picturing Colorado as a Goth CEN
tury Rachel lamenting at the bier
of her fairest and fattest child?
OF course, you remember these
things. Who that lived in Colo
RADIO at the time could forget them? ?
Perhaps you will also recall that
the bill passed and that the fac
tories did not close, but as our
friend Kipling would say, that's
another story"
What | started out to tell you
was that the Filipinos no longer
menace Colorado's beet sugar in
dustry. Hereafter it will not be
considered good form to refer to
them as "pauper laborers," They
are now sturdy American yoemen'
and they must be protected" from
the 'demoralizing competition of
the pauper labor of other sugar
producing countries"
This amazing metamorphosis is
announced in a letter written by
M. Earnshaw, Resident Commits
sioner in Washington from the
Philippine Islands to Senator G.
S. Thomas. Ernshaw calls on the
Senator to help defeat the Under
wood bill because free sugar would
pauperize the Filipinos.
SENATOR'S FAIRY TALES
1 recall the speeches of certain
former United States Senators
from Colorado on the Sugar pro-
ducing possibilities of the Philip
pines. They were very eloquent
and very persuasive Senators, and
they called themselves Democrats,
and they were Democrats except
on the tariff. On that issue they
were willing to abandon their
party, for they said even partial
free trade with the Philippines
meant the wiping out of the beet
industry in Colorado.
One of these Senators went to
the Islands to investigate for him
self. and when he returned he
announced that the Filipinos could
produce all the sugar consumed in
this country at one-half the cost OF
production in Colorado. Then the
Denver Chamber of Commerce met
and gravely adopted some more
resolutions deploring the Outrage"
involved in admitting even three
hundred thousand tons of sugar
from the Islands.
Now we have it on the word of
the Filipino Commissioner that
the eloquent Senator'S persuasive
speeches, and the torrid resolu-
tions of the Cham Der Of Commerce
were merely fairy tales, and that
the Filipino sugar planters will be
ruined if the United States gives
its citizens the benefit Of free
The Snowflake herald., 1913-12-05

Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson
and Francis Bowes Sayre were
married in the historical Blue room
of the White House on Tuesday
of last week. Miss Wilson is the
fifth daughter of a president to
be welded from the White House,
and the 18th bride. Her we'd
ding wasn't a large one but it was
necessarily a brilliant assemblage
which witnessed the ceremony.
Mr.. Sayre is a Pennsylvania of
old and distinguished family and
is man of serious and scholarly
tastes, though an adventurer too
having spent summers with DR..
Grenfell on the Labrador coast
and at another time, having cross
ed the Behring Straits in whal-
ing vessel. He is now assistant
to the President of Williams Col
lege, and after a honeymoon trip
in Europe. he and his bride will
live in Williamstown, Mass,
where the college is situated.
The Snowflake herald., 1913-12-05

couraged by President Wilson,
will undertake the task of reor-
ganizing the democrats of the
city, special efforts being direct
ed toward the elimination of
Tammany hall influence. If Mr..
McCoombs heads the movement
it means that he will have the
backing of the president, with
the control of federal patronage,
the greatest power of politics to
-conjure with. AS soon as it is
officially known that Mr.. Nc
Coombs is acting with authority
from Washington, it is expected
that the pot hunters in politics
will turn somersaults to desert
Murphy and Tammany and go
over to the side where the big
plums grow.
The Snowflake herald., 1913-12-05

The Williams News, one of the
bright weeklies of Northern Ari-
zona, has recently changed hands
and is now under the manage
ment of Messrs. F. f. Wells and
F. M. Gold. The gentlemen
make the following announce
ment in their last issue:
with the change in the own
ership of the News some will be
interested 10 now the politics of
the management. Nationally we
are strong supporters of the
Wilson administration. We en-
dorse the democratic administra-
tion in state affairs. In county
ana city we are Independent and
will support the best men regard
less of their party affiliations.
The Snowflake herald., 1913-12-05
Moving Pictures at
Arizona Penitentiary

Moving picture machines are to
be installed at the penitentiary,
the asylum for the insane and the
industrial school. Within a short
time movie" shows will be CIV
en- within the walls of those in
stitutions at least twice weekly.
More than a year ago Governor
Hunts attention was drawn to
the success attained in institut-
ions for the criminal and insane
where motion pictures are exhib-
tied. Negotiation for the pur-
chase of the necessary machines
have been on a number of months.
Last week the board of Control
purchased Simplex projectors for
the asylum and prison. Later, a
machine with an acetylene gas
attachment will be purchased for
the industrial school, there being
no electric current at Fort Grant.
The machine at the asylum will
be installed Immediately and that
at the prison as soon as the new
building is completed. Arrange
ments for films are now being
made. R. B. Sims, superintend-
of the prison, has been offered a
number of films free of charge.
The Snowflake herald., 1913-12-05
plunnS grow.

On Monday there went into
effect one of the provisions of
the new Underwood tariff law
which excited the most heated
discussion while the measure
was pending in congress. This
is the free raw wool clause,
which exempts from duty all
wool of sheep, hair of camel and
of like animals, all paper twine
for binding such products, all
wool wastes including noils, top,
card, slabbing, rowing, ring, yarn,
bur, thread, and garnetted
wastes, all shoddies, mungo,
flocks, wool extract, carbonized
wool, carbonized noils, and other
wastes not specially provided.
One month later the new rates
on wool manufactures provided
by the Underwood law will come
into operation.