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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-10
FOOTBALL TEAR JOINS
RECRUITS IN A CODY

4" Sinsl'amtons champion high
g school football tcam, which de- ,
81 tpatod all iutcrScholastic teams
@ hst season. has enlisted in the ,
50 United States army AID navy,
" following action by the board OF
d, education graduating all 8tudcats Z
-" at uaoo Who wished to enlist
(" ll@t,ei W. CAPTAIN Earyouelis Of {
r. t.a c.cFcu the students marched ,
10 The recruiting station ana en- {
O. listed.
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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-10
Five pe- Cent to State.

Tho bin proposes that ten round,
no decision bouts may be fought when
promoted by licensed clubs under state
control Five per cen. Of the gross
receipts Of such bouts would be turned
over to the state.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-10

Tali clocks were made in England nv
carly as 1000
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
COURT ORDERS SPECIAL
 LOCAL OPTION ELECTIOH

HELENA, Mont., Jan. 13.-County commissioners of Sheridan count? must proceed with the holding of a county local option election, the su- preme court ruled today in decision by Chief Justice Theodore Brantlv. Justice Sanner concurs.
 The county option fight has beea waged for months in Sheridan coun- ty. After the petitioners were turned down by the county board they ap- pealed to the district court which sus- tained a demurrer to the sufficiency of the petition. The case was carried to the supreme court in the name of Andred Badness. That tribunal holds the petition was sufficient for the commissioners to proceed with the election, reverses the judgment of the district court and ordered the peti- ton to be allowed.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
ANGUS CHISHOLM.

The death of Angus Chisholm, who died by his own hand in his apart ments over the Senate saloon yester- day, was a distinct shock to his many friends in Valdez and the Territory at large. Of jovial, lively disposi- tion; with apparently no cares in the world; untouched by age or disease, and with an income more than suffi- cient for his wants, he was the last man his acquaintances would have picked upon as candidate for self destruction.
 Mir. Chisholm was man with no enemies, and a legion of friends. Of ell the old-timers in Valdez, perhaps he had the most acquaintances in the Territory. To know him was to give him your esteem. His death is dis tinct loss to Valdez. for all called him Friend"
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
Sunken Ships Mark His Grave.

There are many monuments to the "father of the British navy" Sir Fran cis Drake. throughout the world. but his tomb" is in the great deep upon which he made his everlasting fame. He died Jan. 28. 1895. in his ship the Defiance. near the town of Nombre de Dios. West Indies. and in leaden coffin his body was lowered into the waves some six miles from shore. As a last honor to him two of his ships. with all the prizes that were in the fleet at the time. were sunk beside his casket. At the time of his death the great admiral was in his f1ftieth year and in the prime of his physical and intellectual powers. Since his death the British navy has never been with out ship bearing his name.-Ex- change.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
WILLY CECIL RHODES.
Tho Way He Discovered the Diamond
 FisIds of South Africa.

Tho Way He Discovered the Diamond
 Fisids of South Africa.
 Have yuu ever heard how diamonds were discovefed in South Africa2 And did you know that Cecil Rhodes was the man who made the discovery Bnt here is the story:
 A German trader in skins and ostrich feathers from the interior. with Pieter- maritzburg as his frontier station. drove into Cape Town one afternoon. He had been two months bringing in his wagons, each drawn by ten yoke of long horned oxen, from the frontier trading post named.
 This trader, among other curious things. had a dozen or so very brilliant pebbles. which he was showing to his friends.
 "Fine specimens of globular quartz" said a doctor newly arrived. who had just enough of a smattering of geology to know nothing at all about it.
 Would you mind giving me one or two of those pebbles?" said a tall. dark skinned. slender young man. "Or I will buy them from you at whatever you may consider them worth. have no such stones in my collection at home."
 My dear sir" the other replied. with the heartiness of a dweller on the veldt, you are very welcome to a couple. Pick out any two you may fancy"
 The dark young man selected two about as large as a medium sized hick- ory nut, thanked the trader and i'm mediately sent the "globular quartz" off to Amsterdam. As he thought. the report came back saying that the stones were diamonds of incompara- ble Hawlessness. Then started the rush to the diamond felds.-Philadel- phia North American.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
GENERAL
 OF CANADA DIES

OTTAWA. Canada, Jan. 13.-Be- coming ili here after returning from a trip to New York. Thomas Case Casgrain, postn aster general of Can ada, died recently from pneumo- mia. He was \born in Detroit, in and was attorney general of Quebec from 1891 to 1896. when he introduced many important reforms. He sat in parliament as conserva- tive for many years. He opposed the Taft Fielding reciprocity compact in 1911. He was appointed to the bor- der Cabinet to his present position in 1915
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
JOHN BARLEYCORN ON THE RUN.

The spread of the prohibition movement is something that cannot be denied by the opponents of prOhi- bition, and the most significant fact to date is that there is no sign of reaction. During the past four or five years the prohibition wave has attained a momentum that threatens to sweep all before it. It may be as the liquor men assert, that the se- verity of the laws will cause the pen Gulum to swing the other way, but the odds seem to be decidedly on the ether side.
 The reason for this probably is that the saloon question is no longer a moral issue. It has become economic as well. The moral side probably is the most powerful Influence in the movement, but it has been derlon- strated that efficiency and the licensed saloon do not track. Europe, in the throes of war, is one of the most pow erful arguments that the prohibition ists can offer. The working man and the fighting man are given st,mu- lants of coffee instead of liquor. It
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

has not yet been demonstrated that a coffee jag is less harmless than a whiskey jag, but it seems to be more popular.
 It is practically certain ttat the nation in less than a decade, will give prohibition a thorough tryout !u a national way, Judging from the tre- mendous growth of the movement in the last decade. Popular trend is to- ward the prohibition movement, and cur nations representatives have their ears to the ground, attuned to catch the slightest whisper of public sentiment.
 The last election wiped out $500 licensed saloons distributed as fol- lows: Alaska 450, Michigan 32S5, Montana 1900, Nebraska 825, South Dakota 203. Maryland 135, total 6,49S.
 Alaska was hit doubly hard by the prohibition wave. In an una .ttl,d chaotic state, with few laws, and no power to enforce those made by it's legislators, it faces a de1icit by the loss of the saloon money and the fish tax money. The schools of the Ter ritory, which depend upon the license money to a certain extent, will be sadly handicapped by lack of funds. If Alaska had Territorial government in the true sense of the word she could retrench by passing laws ap monies for the schools and establishing a school fund for the upkeep of our educational insti- tutions. But she has no power; no money and no credit. The school term of the coming year will ur- have to be greatly shorten ed, with the probabilities that all High Schools will be dispensed with altogether until means can be devised to make up the deficiency.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
WHEN COTTON BALES BURN.
Bremen Always Dread That Type oS
 Warehouse Confiagration.


 Warehouse confiagration.
 A type of fire that the flremen dread a great deal is blaze in a cotton ware. house. These fires generate an i'm mense amount of dense, suffocating smoke and because of this fact have to be fought almost exclusively from the outside of the building. The smoke is of too dangerous character to allow the men to remain any length of time inside Therefore the fire fighting has to be done entirely from the outside. by pouring great streams Of water until 1t is finally drowned out
 There is an added danger at fires of this type that is not generally known. The cotton bales are packed so closely in these buildings. with practically no space between them. and such an enor to extinguish the fire. that the cotton absorbs the water and begins to swell. And the swelling or expansion of the cotton has been sufficient in number of cases to force out the wallS~ of the building. causing the structure to tum- ble into the street and within short time after the outbreak of the fire.
 This was the case at fire in cot ton warehouse in South Brooklyn sev- eral years ago. Within three-quarters of an hour after this fire started, al though it was in a substantial looking stone building. the walls suddenly bulged out and crashed into the street and number of firemen working near by narrowly escaped being Killed Charles T. Hill i'll St. Nicholas.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
SATURDAY, JANUARY 1s. 1917
SAM BLUM.

SAM BLUM is dead. His light went out so suddenly that the asso- ciates of years find their minds in stinctively resisting belief in the trag- ic end. Men have not been accustomed to regard this virile figure from the standpoint of death. Not yet fifty years of age his great natural powers were still on the ascending scale. He was approaching the summit of suc- oessful career with vaster achieve. ments only beginning to unfold.
 To Valdez the passing of Sam Blum is the climax of a moving picture of disasters. He was the most impor tant financial figure of the town, the dynamo of large business enterprises that were a vital factor in it's activ- ities. Twice within eighteen months his investments were stricken and de- pleted by fire, but each time with the courage of genius and the persistence of his remarkable race he met the is- sue unfalteringly and inspired his fel- low citizens with new hope by the prompt and decisive announcement that he would build again above the ashes the flames had left of his huge property.
 The loss of a man like Sam Blum to any community is an event-one of the landmarks of it's history. To Valdez at this time it is civic ca- lamity. His executive strength, his business judgment, his nerve and en- .ergy, his public spirit, his abounding charity, all were needed in the bait c to revitalize the town.
 It is difficult for those who have known him long to realize that this forceful man has passed without warning from the zenith of vigorous life to the nadir of cold abstraction and voiceless dust. His late fellow citizens, standing at the outposts of death to honor his memory, look doubtfully for his successor.
 Each morn a thousand roses
 brings, you say:
 "Yes, but where leaves the rose
 of yesterday?"
 Men have little time in this hurry ing world to consider long of the dead, but Sam Blum will be missed in Southern Alaska as few men would be missed, and the surviving friends are legion who wave after him a mournful farewell as he enters the dawn of futurity or the dreamless sleep of endless oblivion.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
To Bring Back Refugees

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13.--- Final plans for bringing home tho zoo Americans interned for months in Syria and Palestine made by the state department today and communi- oated to Ambassador Elkus at Con stantinople provide for the sending the cruiser Des Moines from Alexau- dria, Egypt, to Bairut as soon as the refugees are brought from Jaffa I urkinsh military authorities refu"- ed to allow the Americans to leave from Jaffa, but have given permis- sion for use of the Beirut route.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
:VALDEZCAFE$ , AND BAKERY , , Fresh Bread and Pastry always on hand < <
 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT : BERcsTRoM & RocSTAD. Props. :: PHONE IT = Three dsers below Owl Drag. !
Steamship OZama Safe.

BLOCK ISLAND, R. l., Jan. 13.-- The Clye line steamship Ozama, for which four coast guard cutters had been searching the past week, arriv- ed here today. It is believed she was forced to run to sea to escape tn , fierce storms of Christmas week.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
Classifying Him.

A gentleman who dined regularly at a certain restaurant often ordered a dozen clans. One day he counted them and found but eleven. Still another day the dozen was one short. He called the waiter and asked him, "Why do you give only eleven clans when l order twelve?"
 "Oh. sir" replied the waiter. "I didn't think you'd want to be sitting thirteen at table, r."-Christian Herald.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

IT IS SAID Death loves a shining mark. In no way could this be bet ter exemplified than by the loss of two of Valdez most prominent citizens on the same day. The town has had streak of misfortunes the past few months that has been hard to en- dure, and the last blow is the great est of them all
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
BULL MOOSE PARTY IS
 "OFFICIALLY DEAD"

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-The doors \of the progressive headquarters here [state and national have been closed, owing to the failure of the progres- sives in New York state to poll the necessary votes in the recent elections
 to entitle their ticket to a place on the ballot, and the party has lost it's official recognition in this state.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
\ Worthy Axiom.

"The time to save is when you don't need it." And you don't need it now as much as you will after a while" Better begin today by talk ing out a policy in the Equitable Life Ins. Co. Alaska Investment Con- pany, Agents. 2t
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

LOST-Was saved out of ths Em- press theatre on the morning of th: fire: A theatre ledger, camera, and can containing asbestos cable, thumb screws and extra parts for picture, machine Please notify A. H. Pinkus
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
Exclusive.

q was surprised to hear that yOn were Newcome's guest at his week end party. How can you associate with such a vulgar upstart?"
 "I didn't. There were so many nice people among the guests that we didn't have to associate with the host at all" New York World.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
Bio Difference.

"Do you know the biggest difference between an egg and a man?" asked the fool.
 ''What is the biggest differenceY de manded the sage.
 "An egg never gets too fresh." re- piled the fool.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

Try the Cottage Dlning Room Tor good home-cooked meals. Mrs. N. Fucker. Phone 13I. q
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
Episcopal Services.

Morning service, 11:0O.
 Sunday School, 12:00 m.
 Vesper Service, 4:00 p. m.
 Services for the second Sunday il will be conducted by Aaror E. Fucker, lay reader.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

LOST-The Empress lost day book, film record, camera and pack age of goods. Please return to Fry . Bruhn's.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

Anything in nugget and ivory jew elry at Valdez Drug Co.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

All kinds of cocktails. At the Candy Kitchen. tf
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

Two Hundred of the latest colum- bis Monograph Records just receiv- ed on the Alameda. Owl Drug Co. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

The Home of the Pat-a-Cake. 4 IOye-Wh:; ley Co. tf
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

Banquet Steel Ranges, plain and polished tops, at Head's. tf
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

Dora Arrives Seward
 The steamer Dora arrived at Sew ard this morning from her westward trip to Unalaska and way ports.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

We have all outside rooms, well lighted, and we'll ventilated at the St. Elias.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

Pictures and Panoramic Views make fine presents. Valdez Drug Go. tf
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

For good home-cooked meals try Mrs. M. Olson. on Hobart street.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

Gratitude Is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. and the heart of man knoweth none more fra. grant.-Hosea Ballou.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13
Anecdotes.

"What is an anecdote. par"
 "An anecdote. my son. Is short and funny tale which at once reminds the other fellow of tale which is neither short nor funny."-Puck.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-13

Valdez Miner. ss.os per year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-10

church, and will present it to the
church in the course OF the next sew
eral weeks. Last evening a special
patriotic service was conducted by the
young people at the church in charge
|of the citizenship committee Of the
United Societies Of Christian Endeay-
or. The devotional services were con-
Quoted by Miss Georgia Turnbull who
read from Isaiah / TIT The roll Of
honor was read and the audience
sang America" Dr. J. NJ. Stevenson.
pastor elect of the church, delivered a
splendid patriotic address, in which he
pointed out many ways that the young
people can be OF assistance to the
young men who have gone into service.
Letters had been sent to all the young
men who have gone from the church
and three letters in reply were read
from George Fl. Mcdonald of the Uni
yersity Of Chicago, ordnance depart
ment. Paul c. Buffum of Camp Grant
and Stewart Marquis at Camp Dodge
where he is doing Y NJ. C. A. work
. Robert 0lmsted read the universal pat
! riotic service pledge and commented
on it and a free will offering for this
service was taken Ray Reitz gave the
bugle calf for assembly to colors and
at this time four boys, Clark Vernon
! Charles Searle, Oscar Lindquist and
Edwin Baker of troup 4, Boy Scouts
and the Vest End Settlement exhibited
the service flag. The program CLOSED
with the singing of The Star Spanglet
Banner and the benediction.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-10
BREAD STAYS At
10 CENTS A LOAF
Reduction Planned is Deferred When
Journeymen Bakers Ask fer In
crease in Wages.
PRICE DECREASE NOT EFFEcTIvE
Owners OF Shops In Rock Island Coun-
ty Claim Lower Quotations
/ Are Not Justified.

The scheduled decrease in price of
bread in Rock Island was not made
today
Bakers of Rock Island county, fully
intending to today place innocent
loaf on the market, at the llth hour
found that they would not be justi-
fed in making the decrease as the
matter of labor increases had been in
jected into the proposition, they said.
Master bakers claim that represen-
tatives Of the iourneymen bakers
union have made requests for more
wages and that accordingly to reduce
the price at the present time would
deprive the bakers of the narrow mar
gin of profit they are making under
the present conditions. One bakery
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-10

Luncheon served by ladies of Rey-
nolds Red Cross.
lis to 1896 Report of committees.
1870 to $50 Address. .SiIage vs.,
Pasture" ]. p Mason.
2:30 to Address THE Place
of Livestock in Farm Management"
Russell Davis.
The meeting In the evening at the NJ
E. church auditorium. is as follows:
7:30-Address. Americas Biggest
Job" Dr.. Euclid B. Rogers OF Spring
field, H.
Mems program held in Wayne hall.
Ladies program held in NJ E
church.
The ladies' program includes tall
on Some Lessons in Food Economy,
by Mrs. J. G. Hessler of Decatur, ant
demonstrations on bread and wa
breads by Mrs. J. c Hessier.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-10
JOHN r. ENGDAHL Is
DEAD AT PORT BYRON
Especial to The August.

Port Byron, Dec. 10.-After an i'll
ness OF a year with cancer Of the
stomach John r. Engdahl died Sat
urday afternoon at 12;45 at his home
here He was 65 years of age.
Born in SWEDEN on March %, 1852,
he came to the United States in 1870
and in 1873 was united in marriage
to Miss Nina Wassell Surviving are
the widow and 10 children: Mrs Ma
tilda L. Lauritzsen Mrs Emily Lusty
and Clarence Engdahl, Moline; Mrs
Amanda Larson, Aurora, Neb.; Mrs.
Esther Haynes. Northport, Mich.
Mrs. Hilma D. Burcher. Mrs Alma
Oppendike, Port Byron, and Harry
Maude and Seedof, at home
The funeral will be held tomorrow
afternoon at ! o'clock at the home anC
at 1870 in the Swedish Lutheran
church. Dr. J. G. [. Mauritzson o.
Augustana college and Rev. Walter
+ Tllberg, Moline, officiating. Inter
ment will be in the Port Byron GENE
terry.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-10
INSTITUTE IS TO
HAVE GOOD TALKS
Speakers to Be Practical and Success.
full Men Instead OF Old Style
Political Orators.
SUCCESS FOR ALL FoREsEEN
County, Illinois City and Reynolds
Meetings All Expected TO BE
Well Worth While.

Heretofore Rock Island county has
had but one or two institutes, last
year both institutes were held in the
upper part of the county This year
the territory is much better served by
the county institute at East Moline,
Dec. II and Il; Illinois City short
course and institute. Dec. HIP and IL,
Reynolds institute, Dec. Il and Hills
dale institute, Jan. Is and 10. Speak
ers for these meetings are not the old
fashioned political orators. but prac-
teal and successful men who are will
ing to pass their experience on to the
other fellow. The farmers of the coun-
ty would do well to patronize these
meetings ard take part in the discus
sions. A particularly fine spirit Of CO.
operation is evinced by the business
men OF East Moline who have TO a
man, got behind the county institute in
every way possible The success of
this institute is assured.
The Muscatine merchants and bank
ers are also to be commended for ably
supporting the Illinois City meeting
and helping out with liberal merchan-
disc premiums and cash prizes.
Illinois City Short Course.
/ The committee entrusted with the
management of the Illinois City short
/ course and institute which opens to-
morrow morning and continues tc
/ Thursday has done everything in its
power to give the community some
thing worth while The following lis
of speakers has been provided Il
handle the work
Crops--J. ". Merrill, county agen
OF Muscatine county, Iowa.
Livestock S. Brooks, count
agent of LaSalle county, ILL.,, and Fl. c
/ McCarrell. Kinderhook, Ill
Soil fertility l. Mann, Gill
man, H.
Home economics-Miss Naomi New
burn, University Of Illinois and Mrs.
C. Hessle- OF Decatur. III,
The program tomorrow evening in
Guides Dr.. Euclid B. Rogers of Spring
lecturer Of unusual talent. The Mus
catine journal said Of a lecture deli1
cred by Dr. Rogers: Bright hume
2 wholesome truth ana enteTtalnln
: qualities of marked degree feature
p the lecture Of Dr. Euclid B. Rogers
= The Muscatine News Tribune says
S ''Dr. Rogers while handling cold fac
S is blessed with an Incompatible di
. numor which is absolutely irresis
D ible."
He is to talk on Americas Bigge
q Job"
Reynolds Meeting.
T. The Reynolds farmers institute pr
I gram includes the following
4 Invocation.
d Remarks by president
Q Appointment of committees.
: 10 to II a. m.-Address. Alfalfa,
IS T. Mason. Elgin, H.
n II to IL a. m-Address. Soy Bea-
e and Their Uses" Russell S. Dav
Clayton, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-10
IMPOSTER WORKING
OUT REYNOLDS WAY

Adyices have been received by The
Argus that a man giving his name as
Snyder has been soliciting subscrip
lions to The Argus in the neighbor
hod of Reynolds, offering various
premiums in connection with contracts
to take the paper for certain periods.
In the first place The Argus has no
solicitors in the country field at this
season of the year; neither has it in
its employ any individual by the name
of Snyder Several people who are
already subscribers to the paper re-
ceived calls from Snyder and sent
word of his activities to the office of
publication, The fact that he would
call on subscribers was proof that he
was an imposter and had no connec-
ton with the paper The Argus urges
that people exercise extreme care in
dealing with agents not possessing
proper credentials.