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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
HAVING NO Wife
AIDS MOLINE man
To FEDERAL POST
Andrew Olson offered Place on
Commission to Visit South
Americans.
FOR PANAMA EXPOSITION
Tender Made After Another Who In.
sisted on Taking Spouse Had
.-- Been Rejected.

Because he happened TO be bach
elor, in addition TO possessing the
other necessary qualifications, ex-
Mayor Andrew Olson has been offered
a government post with considerable
honor attached. Mr.. Olson looks with
favor upon the tender. but has not
yet accepted. Being bachelor. there
IS no one to usurp the prerogative
OF deciding what he shall do.
The position is that of one OF the
commissioners general, who will go
to South American countries as ON
cial representative Of the United
States to endeavor TO interest the
Latin-English countries in the Pana-
ma exposition at San Francisco IL
1915. Mr.. Olson has wired TO ask
Senator James Hamilton Lewis, from
whom the tender came, how much
time he will be expected 10 devote to
the work and upon the reply largely
depends his acceptance. II Is under
stood that this mission will not have
any bearing upon his selection later
lOI a post III the NOuSuldI hci VIC AOA
which he is said to be slated.
WIFE N THE WAY.
Senator Lewis first offered the place
on this commission at his disposal
20 Thomas Rees. a Springfield publish.
er. but the latter declined when he
found that II would be impossible for
him TO take his wife with him. The
commission is TO travel on a battle
ship and there is an old law in force
which prohibits giving women quar-
tiers on battleships. The senator ask
ed that an exception be made in this
case, but was informed it was con
sidered unwise TO waive the rule
Then the senator began casting about
for someone who had no wife to EN-
barrass the navy department with and
at once thought of Mr.. Olson.
The position is one of considerable
honor and OF great educational value
There is no salary attached. but al
expenses are paid by the government
In the event Mr.. Olson accepts he vii
at once 20 to Colon. where he viii
join the other members of the com
mission.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
PLENTY OF "SPUDS" IN THE
NORTH LOCAL GROCER SAYS

George l.. Benson, the Moline grocer,
who has just returned from a trip
through Minnesota, denies that there
is danger of a severe shortage in the
supply of potatoes this fall He finds
that the crop is up to or above the
average in the north and that prices
there do not justify the fears that
have been expressed here. 1t is mere
ly a movement to- boost prices, is his
view of the matter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
TAKE FIRST STEP
TO FORM A LODGE
aEst Nome Masons to Number
of 40 Meet and Elect
Officers.

East Moline Masons TO the number
Of 40 met al the Odd Fellows hall in
that city last evening and effected a
preliminary orgsniza- ion, Next Friday
evening they Will again assemble to
consider further matters connected
with the establishment of new lodge.
y. T. Booth of Atkinson, depuy for
the Fourteenth district. was on hand
and spoke George Carson Of Doric
lodge Of Moline was also heard Fol,
lowing are the officers chosen:
Master-Joseph Dale
Senior Warden-Thomas f. Abel
man.
Junior Warden-A. D. Cox.
Treasurer-H. S. Crossley.
ecretary-George H. Owen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
ALL CARS LEAVE
SECOND AVENUE
WATERFOWL Interurban Will Use
the Loop Exclusively as a
Terminal.
OFFICERS JUSTIFY MOVE
Claimed That Public Has Made Il
Plain That the New Way Suits
Its Convenience.
OFFICERS JUSTIFY MOVE

Second avenue will have no street
railway service after next Tuesday.
Wednesday, Oct s, the two-hour sched-
ule maintained by the Moline, East
Moline & Watertown road on that
thoroughfare will be discontinued and
all the cars running to WATERFOWL and
Silvis will pass over the loop west
o. Fifteenth street This announce
ment was made by o. d. Wolfe, sup
erintendent of the interurban, today.
Last January when the company be-
gan using the loop south of the rail-
road tracks, Second avenue property
owners made vigorous objection and
finally started mandamus proceedings
to compel the use of the old route.
-'rhe case was dropped, however, be.
fore it came to a hearing, the company
maintaining q two-hour service over
the Second avenue line beginning at
6:15 each day
IN INTERESTS OF PATRONS.
According to superintendent Wolfe
the change is now made in the inter
ests of the patrons of the line! few of
whom ride on the cars which traverse
Second avenus. Outgoing cars are
poorly patronized, while those coming
to the city are usually deserted at
Twenty-fourth street, where the new
line leaves the old one. Mr.. Wolfe
claims that this shows the company's
position has been sustained by the
travelling public and therefore it now
feels justified in sending all its cars
over the new route
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04

and Helen Karstens rendered a violin
due.
". ". Richards, chairman of the
hospital board, presented financial
report in which he showed that the
institution has on an average. during
the 1s years of is existence paid
about fifty. per cent of its costs from
its receipts. The last year has been
the best, from a financial standpoint,
of any, the receipts amounting 20 so
per cent of the expenses.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
WELCOME BROWN
AND CELEBRATE
Moline Boosters to Number OF
700 Attend Meeting at
Commercial Club.
.CITYS SPIRIT IS PRAISED
Ex-Governor Van SAINT Predicts Great
Things for This Part Ct the
Mississippi Valley.

Seven hundred boosters fer great
er Moline attended the meeting las:
evening under the auspices of the
Commercial club 10 celebrate the rails
ing of fund to purchase a site for
Augustana hospital and to formally
welcome Arthur B. Brown who re-
Gently took up his duties as secretary
of the Greater Moline committee and
of the Commercial club. The meeting
was held in The clubs headquarters.
George W. Ross of Eas. Moline pre-
sided
Half dozen speakers were heard
and all congratulated the city upon
the new spirit shown by all classes,
who have gotten together in a move
ment in the interests of humanity and
for the betterment of Moline.
Ex-Governor S. R. Van SAINT of Min
nesota, who was among those heard,
expressed regret that he had no. been
born in Moline
VIVA. one knows nowadays does
not count as much as what one can
do he said. Moline has shown
| what she can do. She need have no
fear as to the future
The governor predicted that the
| Mississippi river will one day be the
greatest commercial artery of the
! country and that the river cities will
take their places with the most i'm
portant. With the spirit that is be
| ing shown, he said, there is no reason
| why Moline cannot become a second
St. Paul or Minneapolis, and the three
cities should in time take rank with
the two Minnesota cities on the nortl
and st. Louis on the south in industri
al and commercial Importance.
MERCHANTS ARE LIBERAL.
r. B. Lourie, chairman of the Great
er Moline committee, felt that tn
most encouraging sign in connection
with the recent campaign for a hos
pital site fund was the readiness Will
/ which all classes gave. Formerly tn
manufacturers were expected to ful
nish from so to 80 per cent of a.
money raised for public purposes, bu
in this case they were called upon 1
give only their proportional share, tn
merchants taking precedence owe
them.
Mr.. Brown told of the pleasure h
had felt in having the solid backing c
I all interests in such local enterprise
: as he has been identified with and h
d asked that this contine He said that h
q had assisted in many campaigns els
e where and nowhere had he found sue
). unanimlty Of sentimen. as here an
+ such a readiness to substan tally flu
I ther projects for the pubic welfar
II Fully a million dollars is lost I
e the city every year, Mr.. Brown asser
= ed, by failure to have sufficier
e number of homes here 20 house all til
8 men employed in the local factorie
9 1000 of whom live in neighbour
n cities and villages. This constitute
a strong argument for a house bull
ing movement and the speaker belle
ed that This matter should engage II
earnest attention of those seeking
+ further the interests of he city.
! Former Mayor Andrew Olson ar
s Judge R. W. O.msted were 9TH
n speakers.
re l. was announced during the eve
.e ing that the local lodge OF wilkins
ID had voted % give 500 to the hospit
or fund.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
Rrown,s commencement. Nov.

Friday evening, Nov. Z, has been
set as the date of the annual fall com
mencement of Browns business col
lege. Exercises will be held at either
the Moline or the Barrymore theatre.
lass of % will complete the school
work. Franklin Pierce jolly of Joliet
will speak.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
Plans Revival,

Rev. L. Shut of Philadelphia,
known as a labor evangelist" may
conduct a series of meetings at the
First Baptist church in Moline in the
lat er Part of November. The pastor,
Rev. J. A. Hurley, is corresponding
with him and endeavering TO arrange
dates. While Mr.. Shut is wei known
in the east, he has never conducted
meetings in this state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
NEW CARS FOR EAST LINES
WATERFOWL and SiIvis Roads to Be Re-
equipped Soon.

When the last 20 of the new pay-as-
you-enter cars ordered by the Tri-City
Railway arrive. some of them will be
placed on the Watertown and Silvis
lines, replacing the present equipment
which is becoming old and worn The
change will be appreciated by patrons.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
EAST MOLINE MAN PAYS
Sf7.60 FOR SHORT RIDE

Riding five blocks on the interu7oan
in East Moline cost G. Perry 1880.
Perry recently boarded an eastbound
car al Fifth street. When asked for his
fare he is said to have declined to pay.
At Eleventh street a policeman was
sighted and he placed the recalcitrant
pa isenger under arrest. His hearing
took place in the East Moline police
court yesterday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
CONSIDER NEW PASSENGER
STATION IN EAST MOLINE

Officers of the Rock Island road
we're in East Moline yesterday, one of
their missions being, it is said, to look
up the passenger station question. The
city's station is sadly inadequate and
it is understood that the company is
planning a new structure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
Close Hour Earlier

Union barber shops in the city will
hereafter close at s o'clock on We'd
nesday evenings, which is the regular
time for other days. In the past shops
have remained open till on Wednes-
days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
WYLAND CASE POSTPONED
WHILE GRAND JURY WORKS

Justice Harvey Williams today post
poned the case against Guido Wyland,
accused of a crime against children,
for the fifth time. 1t is now set to
come up next Saturday morning. The
justice said the reason for the action
was he understood that the grand jury
was investigating the matter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04

Paterson, N. frederick S. Boyd.
speaker for the Industrial Workers
of the World, was sentenced to prison
for advocating sabotage in the mill
strike. His term will range from one
to seven years, ~, -r....,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04

New York = Fire in Plymouth
church. Brooklyn, did 5000. damage.
Henry Ward Beecher made the
church famous. DR.. Newell Dwight
Hills. formerly of Chicago. is now
ipastor OF the church, built in 1s49,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04

Milwaukee, E. knott. bank ex-
aminer, Gays the Citizens Savings
and Trust company will pay 100 cents
on the dollar II depositors will not
cause unnecessary excitement
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04

Upton, Ind. - Pauline Matilda,
weighing eight pounds, was born in
the automobile of Dr. NJ. v. Newcomb-
err The mother is Mrs. Paul Marshall.
aged 10, of Noblesville.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
WIRE SPARKS.

Peoria, Ill.-Wilbur ]. Slemmons,
ex-county judge. was elected secre-
tary of the democratic executive COM
mittee in charge of the judicial CAM
paign.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
iLLINl AND oLYMPIcS
EVEN FOR OPENING GAME

Sunday will see the inauguration Of
the season BY city football eleysns,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-04
CONDUCTOR AGAIN HURT
Charles Gard Meets With Second Ae-
eldent in Three Weeks.

Charles Gard OF siivis. freight con-
ductor on the Rock Island road. who
was injured three weeks ago at Brook
Ign, Iowa, is again laid up at his home.
this tine with bruises and q broken
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
GREAT SPORT FOR 7. R.
Brazil Promises to Give Him the Time
of His Life.

New York. Oct. 14-Brazi1 is plan
ming to give Colonel Roosevelt the
time of his life in the wilds of that
country. according to Captain Antonio
J. De Fonseca, the new military at
tache of the Brazilian embassy, who
has arrived from Rio De Janeiro. DR..
Lauro Mueller, the minister of for
eign affairs of Brazil, who recently
made a tour of this country, has been
laying plans for Colonel Roosevelt's
trip ever since he got home, according
to Captain Fonseca, and his latest act
has been to telegraph Col. Candida
Ruendo to come in from the Matte
Crosse, where he has spent 90 years
in exploration, to meet Colonel Roose-
Welt and to act as his guide. He
knows the interior of the big state of
Matte Crosse better than any other
man and as member of the en-
cheering corps of the army he has
been surveying the country and is
now constructing lines of telegraph
all through the state.
Colonel Ruendo will meet Colonel
Sac Paolo and invite him into the
Matte Crosse country. which contains
every variety of natural beauty and a
wonderful variety of wild animals,
which will furnish excellent sport for
the American huntsman.
Ca plain FOnSeca added that Brazil
proposed to take a prominent part in
the Panama-Pacific exposition, prep
arations for which were already being
made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
BANKERS ARE BUSY.
Kansas Delegation Will Appear Before
the Senate Committee.

Washington, Oct. 14.-Four impor-
tant details of the administration cur
rency bill were assailed today before
the senate banking committee by the
so-called country bankers delegation
appointed by the recent Boston con-
vention of the American Bankers as
sociation. Mclean Tilten of Pell City,
Ala; w. B. Harrison, Oklahoma, and
George Woodruff of Joliet were heard.
A delegation of Kansas bankers was
to appear later today.
Provisions for the retirement of the
present circulation based on United
States bonds enforcing the segregation
of capital and deposits in National
banks maintaining savings bank de-
partment, creating the proposed fed
eral reserve banks as national clearing
houses, without the power to charge
for the collection of out of town checks
and forbidding the deposit of reserves
in large cities were attacked by the
delegation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
FAV0RS ONE BIG BANK
President of Association Opposes the
Glass Currency Bill.

New York, Oct. 14.-Opposition to
fundamental features of the Glass
Owen currency bill now before con-
Reynolds, president of the Des MOines
National bank and president of the
American Banking association. Speak
ing on the I'M utilization of reserves
before the second national conference
on currency reform, held under the
auspices of the New York Academy of
Political Science, Mr.. Reynolds adVo-
Gated the establishment of a central
bank opposed to the twelve region
al reserve associations provided in the
Glass-Owen bill.
The error in present popular con-
ceptiOn relative to a central bank" he
said, ''arises from the fact that the
people regard the main feature of
such an institution as purely central
ization and fear it's power, whereas,
when properly organized and admin
iStered it becomes representative of
responsibility and disinterested pub
lie service. The weakness of our
present system has many times been
charged to want of concerted action
among so many isolated banks each
striving to care for it's own interest
without regard to the common good.
If therefore this want of unity has
proven defect in the past, what good
reason can be adduced for repeating
the fallacy in the eSta blishment of
twelve competing banks concentrating
capital and reserves, when a single in
stitution would furnish greater sta
Dlllty in a more economical manner"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
ODD FELLOWS MEET,
Assemble for State Convention-Aux-
fliary Orders There Also.

Hutchinson, Oct. 14.-There are
nearly three thousand delegates here
for the sessions of the Odd Fellows
grand lodge, the Rebekah assembly,
the Encampment and the Council
OF Administration which are holding
the annual sessions here. The first
meetings are this afternoon and even
ing. The grand lodge is held in Con-
Ventlon nan and the Rebekahs meet n
Odd Fellows hall. The first session IF
the national meeting of the supreme
BODY OF the P. E. o. sisterhood is to
be held here tonight. Delegates are
mere from as far east as Michigan and
OUT 10 california, representing all the
states between.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
BAD MEN ARE GOOD
Kansas Parole System Proves
a Big Success
According to Figures Compiled
in Governors Office.
II Per CENT VIOLATE PAROLE
OF 1,7O4 Cases, Only 29O Pris-
Oners We're Returned.
Records Show 779 COnyicts Re-
stored to Citizenship.

Eighty-three per cent of the men
and women who have been released
from the Kansas state penitentiary
since the parole law went into effect
in 1903 have made good, according to
figures compiled by S. T. Seaton, pa
role clerk in the office of Governor
Hodges OF 1,704 men and women who
have been paroled under the present
law, only II per cent, or 290, have
been returned to prison.
That the parole system is working
successfully in this state is estab-
ished by the facts and figures which
Seaton has accumulated in his stud
of the present method of handling
state convicts. Not only is the parole
law apparently more popular in Kan
sas today than at any time since its
enactment but the trouble which was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
THORPE MARRIED.
College Romance Ends-Will Take
Bride on Worlds Tour.

Carlisle, Pa, Oct. 15.-James
Thorpe, the Sac and Fox Indian from
Oklahoma, worlds greatest athlete.
and a member of the New York Ma
tional League baseball team, was mar
ried here today before a large crowd
in historic st. Patrick church, to Mar
garet Iva Miller, a native of Okla
homa, and a former student at the
Carlisle Indian school, which they at
tended The wedding is the outcome
of a romance that had its inception
when Thorpe, as the star on the foot
ball eleven at the school, met Miss
Miller after a game he had won by
field goals he had kicked. The bride
groom was attended by Captain Gus
WEIGH of the Indian football eleven,
and the brides maid of honor was
Miss Margaret Chisholm of Oklahoma
The ushers were students at the
Indian school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thorpe leave tonight
for New York where on Thursday they
will join the New York Giants on their
tour of the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
Sweaters and Sport Goats
formerly encountered in finding work

formerly encountered in finding work
for released convicts is much easier
Records in the governors Office show
that a total of 1,704 paroles have been
granted since the passage of the pres
ent law. OF this number, 779 men and
women have been restored to citizen
ship after establishing the fact that
they are no longer menace to society
and that they are able to make good.
At the present time there are 635 peni-
Tertiary convicts enjoying the benefits
of the parole law and Seaton believes
that these men and women will raise
rather than lower the present high
standard of the parole practice
Public Men Help Convicts.
In the issuance of paroles, the state
administration has received aid and
assistance from many men prominent
in the public and business affairs of
the state. A number of men with
convicts work when they were paroled
and In the great majority of these
cases the convicts have proven worthy
of the trust and have been restored to
full citizenship. Many interesting
stories could be told of these cases.
Recently Senator E. F. Porter of
Crawford county appealed to Governor
Hodges for a parole for a prisoner, of
fering the man employment if released.
The governor granted the request and
senate Porter found the convict
good job. Every month the man
writes a letter to the governors office
and apparently is a steady worker, is
saving some money and staying away
from his old associates.
= Another story is one in which SEN
ator Emerson Carey, the Hutchinson
salt king, figured.
One day Senator Carey told the gov
ernor that he wanted a negro paroled.
The Reno county senator had never
seen the man, but a story of his case
had appealed to him. So the senator
offered to give the man employment
if he was released.
How is your convict getting aIong?''
Seaton asked of Senator Carey re-
Gently
Hes one of the steadiest and most
faithful colored employees in the
plant" said Senator Carey.
The Men Who Go Back.
But not all cases are of that nature.
Sometimes a man breaks a parole
within a few days or weeks after he is
released from prison He is unable
ciateS and is soon in trouble. Then
there is nothing to do but to return
the prisoner to Lansing to serve the
remainder of his sentence.
At the prison the convicts display
their contempt for the men who vio-
late their paroles. They realize that
each man or woman who is returned
couse of the fellow prisoner who
might make a good record if given a
chance. And probably this condition
has much to do with the fact that
Kansas has established a parole rec
ord equalled by but few states.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
CATARRH SUFFERERS
Get Immediate and Effective Relief
by Using Hyomei.

Hyomei is natures true remedy for
catarrh. There is no stomach dosing
you breathe it.
When using this treatment, you
breathe healing balsams and effective
ly reach the remote air cells of the
throat nose and lungs, the catarrhal
germs are destroyed-quick and sure
relief results.
Hyomei often restores health to
chronic cases that had given up all
hope of recovery. Its best action is at
the start of the disease when the
breath is becoming offensive, and con-
slant shifting, discharges from the
nose, droppings in the throat. or that
choked up feeling begin to make life
a burden. At the first symptom of ca
tarrhal trouble, surely use Hyomei.
Ask for the complete outfit, S1.00. He
will refund the money if it does not
give satisfaction.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
TO MAKE IT NATIONAL
An Anti-Vice Society Is Organized in
Kansas City.

Kansas City, Oct. lin making
application today for a charter for the
Society for the Prevention of Com
mercialized Vice. organized here re-
Gently in connection with the vice cru
SADIE, Frank p. Walsh, attorney, an
nounced an effort would be made to
make the society national in scope.
THE organization will not be con-
fined to those now in this movement
he said. 1T will not be confined to
Kansas City or this state.''
Injunction suits were filed today
against the owners of property used
for immoral purposes and against the
proprietors of resorts in the vice dis
trict. All the houses have been closed
and the suits were brought to prevent
their reopening.