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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-11-15
STORM CITY;
SHELLS SHREK IN
STREETS Of FL PAS0
BULLETIN

Ell PASO, Tex, Nov. 15.-Shots between the
United States troops of the Fifteenth cavalry and Gen
era Villas rebels exchanged when the rebels
firing on federal lieutenant who escaping to Amer
lean soil over the international bridge.
One of the rebel bullets narrowly missed Captain
Harry Cootes of the United States border patrol AS
the Mexican bullets sang the American soldiers
heads they started forward if attack Immediately
the rebel soldiers threw their guns high over their heads
in token of inhostility.
General Villa Immediately sent courier to Ameri-
can officers with profound apology. Major Mickey,
commander of the patrol made spirited reply admon-
fishing the rebels not let the affair again occur Ten
sion among the American troops was high ~t
Ell PASO Tex, Nov General Villas victory
was made complete when SO federals who kept up re-
sistance the racetrack, all killed While the
last act of the conflict taking place General Villa
was organizing his city government General Villas
officers expressed regrets the killing of Seggerson
The rebels say that revolver fired from his auto
mobile before they fired upon him. His car rddled
by the volley party of Americans including the cor
respondent Of the International News Service crossed
the bridge with General SCOTS permission after the
fighting ceased and brought Seggersons body to United
States SOIL General Villa closed all saloons and had
hundreds of barrels of liquor destroyed
All soldiers were ordered to their homes
Ell PASO Tex, Nov 15.-Twenty five hundred
consttutonalists descended upon Juarez this morning
and captured the city after three hours of terrific fight
ing Three Americans five constitutionalistS and thirty
federalists known to have been killed. Firing
menced at 230 o'clock and quiet regned at $50 o'clock
Shells fell into Ell Paso during the engagement
putting thousands of Americans in peril of death
In the midst of fighting the racehorses at the Juarez
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-11-15
R, R, BOARD
81 ICES
Y II T
TOLL
What Rail Board
Phone Rate Cut
Signifies

W lQL TIT NCCtotOft W. Cbfto
All rates cut FL per cent.
Time of standard converse
ton doubled. Was one min
ute.
Saving to phone users of
S5z6, 900 annually.
Order effective February 10,
1914.
Present rates yield company
more than IA per cent. New
rates viii yield 9 per cent.
Commissions rate is a half
cent per air line mile. Fifty
per cent increase for time
over two minutes.
Total of $4,000 messages in
vestigated in reaching conclu-
sions.
Parcel post zone plan fol-
lowed in making rates.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-11-15

MEXICO CITY. Nov. 15.-Reports
were current during the night and
early today that Banquet had made
all necessary arrangements to arrest
Huerta as q traitor If the latter re-
fused to resign. and that Banquet
would declare himself dictator.
Charge d'Affaires O'Shaughnessy
was at his desk the greater part of
the night.
Huerta remained In seclusion today,
while important conferences were
going on between members Of the
diplomatic corps and several OF
Huerta's cabinet officers.
7 have said all have to say for
the present, u was the only statement
Huerta would make to Senior Moheno,
minister OF foreign affairs, when told
that the newspaper men wished for
confirmation or denial Of the reports
that he was to resign today
1t was a Significant fact that Mo-
heno was the only cabinet member
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-11-15
AND
Il j { R I A
CONFER

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 15.-Charge
O'shaughnessy went to the national
palace to see Huerta at 10 o'clock this
morning. Indications mt the Ameri-
can embassy were that he was taking
. grave message to Huerta. While
he was at the palace Mexican officials
declared that Huerta had mo intention
of resisning today.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-11-15
MEXICAN SITUATION
90. 80 80
JUAREZ IS CAPTURED


Juarez was captured at $50
o'clock this. morning by 1900
constitutionalists commanded
by1General Pancho Villa
X X
Three Americans, FIVE con-
stitutionalists and 80 federals
were killed. :
Racehorses stampede during .
hot engagement at racetrack.
r. X
Four thousand additional
constitutionalists on way to
Juarez.
General Villa plans to estab-
lish the constitutionalists' capt.
tai at Juarez to gain recogni-
ton from the United States as
belligerents.
Reports current that General
Banquet plans the arrest of
Huerta as traitor.
X
Bryan sends note to Huerta
demanding resignation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

augurated by Senator Harry Lane, of
Oregon, has been taken up enthusiast
tically by Vice President Marshall and
Senator Simmons, chairman of the
senate finance committee, and has en-
listed the support of the president
himself. There is a good fighting
chance that the notifications of the
present law desired by the farmers
will be incorporated in the pending
tariff bill. ...-...
The present law over which there
was so much hullabaloo several year,
ago was filled so full of jokers by Aid
rich in the senate and later hedged
about by so many impossible regula-
lions by the republican commissioner
of internal revenue that it is practical
~ dead letter. To operate an alco-
hol plant which conforms to the pres
ent law and regulations costs the
farmer anywhere from $4,000 to $780,
600, providing he can buy his plant
from the manufacturers of distilling
apparatus, which he can't.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Osborne has just submitted to Senator
Simmons a draft of a new model de
natured alcohol law, and the Senator
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

A knocker knocked through all his life;
when but child at play
He knocked the little ones who helped
him while the time away.
AT school he knocked the other boys, and
when he older grew
He knocked the fellows whom the girls
smiled at as maidens do.
He never had a pleasing word to say of
anyone
Who wasn't present when he spoke. he
gave good cheer 70 none;
He rose up from his bed TO knock, he
knocked through all the day,
At night he knocked end piously fell on
his knees to pray.
One day he knocked upon a gate st
Peter sat inside:
"Why come you here" the gray saint
asked. The man who Knocked re-
piled:
81 never killed, never stole. never even
swore,
l always said my prayers each day;
please let me in, therefore"
You cannot come" geplied the saint;
but many leagues below
You'll find another gate TO which inn
mense crowds daily 60
I care not that you never stole, nor that
you prayed each day
Down there no knoclser ever knocked and
then was turned away"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
ARMS AND THE
MAN

Robert Rexdale, the Rock Island
poet, who is now in the east, was in
Buffalo during the celebration OF
Perry's victory. and for the occasion
he wrote the following poem, which is
published in the Buffalo News:
(is13-oliver Hazard Perry-ie1s.)
As he who sang Arms and the Man I
sing
when Troy had fallen to azIse no
more.
So I, who play upon the vibrant
Sing % the man and of the arms he
In the brave days an hundred years
ago:
Perry; Thy sword, inOsrnadined with
Turned t6e red tide of battle at its
And gained the plaudits of a valiant
But !. who sing of arms and of the
man.
Dream of two flags that float upon
the breeze,
And golden argOsies that touch and
The mighty empire Of our inland
The buEie dies away, wars echoes
cease
An hundred years of Anglo-saxon
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
Capital Comment
BY CLYDE Il. TAvENNER
CONGRESSMAN from the Fourteenth District.

will probably present it to the Demo !
cratic caucus for adoption This bill
will enable farmers to set up on their
farms inexpensive little distilling
plants provided with sealed tanks and
meters for the distillate. Whenever
the farmers have crops going to waste
they can operate these little stills.
The tanks into which the distillate ex-
hausts will be sealed by the local rev.
enue officer in such a way as to pre-
vent tampering. Central -denaturing
plants can be located in every farm
community much as creameries and
cheese factories are now located. The
denaturing plants can have bonded
tank wagons which will visit the farms
to gather up the low-proof alcohol.
The revenue officers will travel with
these wagons. In his presence the
tanks can be opened, their alcohol
content noted, and the farmer given
a receipt which he can present at the
central plant either for its equivalent
in high-proof alcohol for use in farm
engines or in money. r 1t is all simele,
| inexpensive. and allows adequate pro-
lection of the government revenues.
Under the new provisions, farmers
will not be required to put up bonds.
The farmers organizations, who had
been planning campaign for revision
of the denatured alcohol law next Win
ter, are now sending their officers to
Washington to urge the adoption of
the revision in the pending tariff bill.
The farmers have two additional prop
ositions which they hope to see incor-
porated in the bill before final adop-
ton. One is provision to reimburse
farmers for their purchases of denatur-
ing agents (Which at present prescrib
ed cost is about z cents to each gal
Ion of alcohoD or else receive denatu'
rants from the government free. This
Is urged on the argument that the de-
naturant is for the protection of the
federal revenues and is a legitimate
government expense. The other pro
vision is that central denaturing
plants shall not be permitted to ship
out of their districts the residue left
after distillation. This residue is g
valuable fertilizer, highly esteemed by
European agriculture. The whisk.
: distillers of this country export mucl
of this residue to Europe for fertilizer
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
CANNOT COMPETE WITH AMERICA


American manufacturers Of automo-
biles sold more than $6,00O,000 worth
of them in Europe last year and it is
expected that sales in foreign coun-
tries for this year will total nearly if
not quite double that amount. For
eign manufacturers Of motor cars have
thus far found no way to successfully
compete with American manufactur-
ers in the cheaper grades Of cars, and
one of them says that they cannot
hope to do so unless they use Amer
lean methods of production Even if
they began now they could not dupli-
cate these methods for years.
Thus we see that higher wages than
are paid in Europe do not initiate to
prevent American ingenuity and me-
chanical skill from winning laurels in
the markets Of the world. If our
manufacturers pay higher wages than
foreign manufacturers, they get better
service. And II we can make automo-
biles in competition with the Euro
pesn manufacturers, We can make
many other machines that will find a
ready sale abroad. Our manufacture
ers are going to Ply more attention
TO foreign trade from now on, and It
is not too much to expect that within
few years Americas exports OF
manufactured articles will be so large
that millions more Of men will be re-
quired in the shops and mills, so that
brisk business and prosperity seem
assured for long time to come.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
The Projects to Be
Voted For

Following are the propositions TO bC
voted for at the special election Sept
~, which separately and collectively
promise for Rock Islands improve
nent, development and expansion, anC
every one Of which 10 entitled to tn,
approval Of the voters:
Purchase Of Island City baseball
park. II acres, $4,000; eishtyear
bonds.
Construction of elevated tank at
reservoir staten, $4,000; 1oyear
bonds.
Flooring Of Rock river bridges
with concrete, $4,000; fve-year
bonds.
installation Of police alarm sys-
tenn, $4,000; 1o-year bonds.
Extension Of water mains along
Eighteenth avenue from Twenty
fourth to Fifteenth street, and in
newly annexed territory, $4,000;
elSht.year bonds.
Erection OF new fire station in
newly annexed territory and ex-
tension Of fire alarm system In
. that district, $4,000.
Annexation Of a further strip Of
territory In South Rock Island,
running from the city limits to
Brashar street, south, and from
Twelfth street west to the Missis-
sippi river, exclusive Of the tract
already made part of the city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
NOT TIN PROPER TIME TO GET

EVEN.
II is said that there are those n
Rock Island who, because either Of
disapproval of the commission form OF
municipal government as locally ap.
piled, or Of displeasure with the pres
ent commissioners in whole or in part,
are disposed to oppose the contem-
plated bond issues to be voted on Sep
TENDER IL. There may be people in
Rock Island who are not favorably i'm
pressed with the commission form, and
there may be those who are opposed
to some or all of the present commits
= sioners. II is the right and privi-
lege Of citizens in this land to have
= their own ideas as to the form of gov
eminent, local or general, under which
they live. They have the same right
to approve or disapprove of the acts
Of their public officials.
But getting down to real facts, is
the present the time to show IL? Just
now when thoughtful people realize
the importance and necessity OF all
the propositions to be voted on Sep
TENDER IL. would 1t not be a sort OF
biting off-your-nose-to -spite-your-fsce .
caper to turn down the things which
! mean so much to the city, in order to
show opposition either 10 a govern.
mental condition or the fact that Ger.
!, tain men are in office.
II. for instance, you saw az oppor-
tunity to secure for your children
and your neighbours children an ath-
letic field and playground. together
with an opportunity 10 give TO those
who like baseball a chance 10
get another team here at comparative
ly nominal cost, would you, despite the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

fact that you were favorably impressed
with the idea, tight it because you did
not like some one involved in the
transaction?
Really, would you?
And that is the question involved
in the purchase by the city OF the
tract of II acres of land OF which
Island City ball park is a mere part
Or, would you refuse to give your
neighbor protection and water, when
by doing so it would not cost you a
cent, simply because the men who
are temporarily in charge of the
works are not of your liking?
On the square, would you refuse the
water under such circumstances, when
to give it would cost you nothing?
And yet that is exactly what the
plan to erect the elevated tank on the
bluff and the extension of water mains
on Eighteenth avenue and out into the
new territory means. 1t will not cost
the taxpayers a cent to permit the i'm
provements, but it is necessary under
the commission form that the people
approve OF the transaction.
Would you hesitate to make II safe
and convenient for people to come into
town, even IL it cost you trifle7
Sincerely, would you hesitate If the
matter was put up TO you on the
street? And that is all there is to
the reflooring of the Rock river
/ bridges.
flooring of the Rock river bridges.
Have you ever opposed the putting
in of up-to-date police protection?
That is what the city is seeking to
do in the installation of police alarm
system such as other cities of Rock
Islands class have.
I Have you ever opposed better fire
protection? That is what the erection
OF an additional fire station to serve
the south portion of the city and the
new territory already added and to
be annexed means.
Would you be one of those who for
any reason either of prejudice or dis
satisfaction would neglect to approve
Of any proposition that involved the
annexation OF more territory to the
city and the addition of 1000 to the
population.
No, you bet your life you wouldn't.
That's what is in the annexation
proposition to be voted on Septem'
Der II.
The Argus, for fits own part, does
not believe that the people are in
clined to let prejudices run away with
them II that was their disposition
the referendum feature of the commits
sion form of government would be q
failure. Those who favor the refer
endum rely upon the "Reminiscences
and intelligence of the people to dc
what is right And The Argus be
Ilieves they always do what is
right when they understand it
That is the reason The Argus has
been laying the propositions before its
readers from day to day and seeking
to explain just what they mean tC
the city at the present and in the fu
ture.
And The Argus Is confident tina
those of the people who may b'
: opposed either to the commission
form or to any of the commissioner!
will not take this as the opportunit!
10 express themselves on those scores
: for it is a matter OF no more concern
; to the commissioners whether tn,
pending propositions pass than it is e
the people generally.
The time for public expression, boil
r on the merits Of the commission foru
and those serving under it, will be
wear and a half from LOW
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
Spoiled Trip,

"And l suppose you had a perfect.
ly lovely time while on your yachting
cruise, didn't you?"
no. It was very disagreeable."
why, supposed the weather was
Just about right for such a trip"
"oh, the weather was all right, but
we found out Just after getting start
ed that there had been a mistake In
filling the order for beer. so that in.
stead of 100 cases we had only ten"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

the novel spectacle
of seeing legi.sla-
ton very benefi-
ciaI to them, but
very detrimental
to the Standard
Oil Co., and the
whisky trust, be-
ing set well on its
way to passage
without a long
and expensive pre-
liminary campaign
Ou TIC pa VI
the farmers them
selves.
This is the leg
islation removing
tn e restrictions
from the manufac-
ture of denatured
alcohol from waste
farm products,
The movement In.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

Chicago is moving to enforce the
laws Of public safety governing auto
mobiles and motorcycles. Meetings
are being called. Rock Island may yet
be obliged TO adopt similar methods,
and IL it does, It Is hoped there will be
something done besides resolving.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

President Wilson has said that peo-
pie who respect the laws need have no
fear OF their enforcement. SO It may
be said that people who respect the
automobile ordinances need have no
fear Of their enforcement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

San Francisco-If Judge Van Fleet
concurs, sentence on Maury l. Diggs,
convicted on four counts of violating
by agreement of counsel, be postponed
until Sept. 8.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

New York-Trustees Of the Amer
lean College for Girls at CONSTANT
nople have appealed for financial aid
for many of the students who are I'M
able to return to college in conse-
quence of losses caused by the recent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

Contrary to popular belief, forest
fires seldom travel more than 2 or 8
miles an hour Even in extreme cases
Il is questionable whether they burn
at a rate of more than to 10 miles
an hour.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

We'll" she exclaimed, faring up.
"if you wish to have our engagement
broken off, say So l always hate to
have people beat around the bush in
q case of this kind"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
The Happy Rridsaraan,.

The happy bridegroom knows tina
Nord "obey" is in the marriage service
only py hearsay. The happy bride
groom knows something to WHICH he is
party Is happening. but he has no
Definite idea as to Hkat it is.-Pnila-
deipb;a Ledger.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

Even Harry Thsw couldn't stand it
in New York with the Sulzer-Murphy
war in progress. He didn't feel safe
so fed to Canada. Maybe he is not
SO crazy after all.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

Every dollar that the vulgar million
aire bets on a horse race or puts into
a Jackpot or fiips waiter has been
carr ed through hs work by some
bod else.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

Observation-Disclosures by naval
officers at surgical clinics would be
made compulsory by Surgeon General
Stokes, so that the officers would be
accustomed to the sights of wounded
and dying men and not become I'm.
nerved by such sights attendant on a
battle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

The forests of Corsica, the little
island upon which Napoleon was
born, are managed by the French gov
eminent. They produce lumber, fire.
wood, and turpentine, and AL parts of
the tree are far more closely utilized
than in America.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

Adams luck was simply wonderful.
He never had to sit around and hear
did for her babies when they were
teething.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
The Shark.

The shark enjoys no mans respect.
And doesn't wish 10 claim it--yet
It may be said for aim that ne
Flsunts no pretentious piety
In grabbing all that he can get.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
She cnuIdn,t Stand Il.

''Why was it that they couldn't get
along together?"
ooh, he suffered so badly that she
never had time to wait around and
Net in the last word
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

Uncle Sans forest rangers require
that permanent camp sites within the
forests shall be kept in sanitary con-
dition. The ubiquitous tin can must
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
PLAIN SPEAKING FOR HER.

II see," he said,
that coal has
gone up some
more"
Has IT." she
replied.
And t h 2 y'F e
raising rents" he
continued.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

. Harry Vardon and Edward Ray, the
English golfers, get $4OO day for
their exhibitions, showing how golf
has captured America.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
FOREST NOTES.

1t has been discovered that the
waste from dogwood shuttle-blocks
can profitably be made into handles
for steel knives and forks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

Hartford, Conn.-Isador Broder, a
railroad detective, suddenly insane,
held up five railroad men in a switch
mans shanty, wounding two. He was
arrested.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

When a captain of industry learns
to pronounce the names of the paint
ers who are represented in his nag
nifcent art gallery he feels prouder
than if he had just scooped in two
million on Colorado fuel.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

Switzerland has just discovered
that the aeroplanes have frightened
It's storks away. Now we know what's
the matter with France.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

wars. Contributions, marked STU
dent aid may be sent to George E.
Adams, treasurer, 26S Devonshire
street, Boston.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
WIRE SPARKS

Clarinda, Iowa.-The seventeenth BIZ
ennial reunion of the Crocker's Iowa
brigade will be held at Clarinda We'd
nesday and Thursday, Sept II and Is.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

King George may visit the United
States next year" But has anything
been heard from Queen Mary on the
subject?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

wise man never boasts to his boys
about the great things he did when he
was a boy, If any of the old settlers
are present.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

In these days it isn't safe to judge
a woman's age by the number of d.
vorces she has had.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

Boston lost s1,2OOOOO by starting a
printing department Of its own. Pub
lie ownership also has two sides.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02

II 1t takes the entire police force,
and then some, the speed fiend should
be halted.