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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08
ALEDO AT A GLANCE
Daily Doings in Mercer County's Busy Capital

LEFTY as possible The telegram fol
lows.
Washington. D. c. NOV %. 1917.
To all Governors. No. Iu,9fS. Please
cause the broadcast and most extern
slve and continuous possible publicity
TO be given through the aajutant gem
eral. local and district boards, the
newspapers and by all other possible
means of warning to all registrants
who may have changed their places
Of abode and pos.ofFiee addresses 10
communicate Immediately with their
local boards where they are regis
tered and furnish their present ad-
( dresses SO that ouesdonnaires which
will begin to be mailed Dec Is will
reach such registrants without delay
4 Registrars are bound by law to keep
/ themselves advised Of ali proceedings
I in respect to them and failure to dc
/ so may result In their losing right &c
! claim exemption or discharge. Please
request newspapers to give this warn.
ing broad aud continuous publication
from this time until the process o
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08
SENDING PARCELS
EARLY THIS YEAR
Public Heeds Admonition OF possmas-
Ter ard Mailing OF Packages Has
slre;sdy Started.
CONTAIN CHRISTMAS LABELS
Boxes Dispatched Bear Information
On Wrapper That THEY Are
YuIetide Gifts.

Heading the admonition OF the post
master, the mailing of Christmas par
cells has already begun at the Rock Is
land postoitice.
In constantly increasing numbers,
holiday bundles are being dispatched
All of this IS not only gratifying to
the clerks in the home office, but will
bring delight to the railway postal
clerks on the road, More than that
more particularly of interest to send
ers, is the fact that such packages will
reach their destination in good shape
| for Christmas. Marked with the de
/ partment's suggestion, do not opeI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08

until Christmas they will serve all
the purposes OF the sender.
ST is a source both of joy and en-
enlargement to the employees OF THIS
office to witness this response on the
part of the people OF Rock lsland.
said Postmaster Simpson this morn
ing. sfor 1t shows how reasonable the
people are when properly appealed TO
and how ready they are to do their
part in the way OF cooperation IN
these treublous times.
@The war has hit the postal service,
for it has given its full qncta OF men
to the national army. More will an
swer 10 the next call The government
has not Disseminated in favor or IL
self in the enforcement Of the draft
Law. Clerks in the pestoffiees through
out the land, carriers, clerks in the
railway mail service have been taken.
Trained and experienced employees Of
I the postoffice department have been
transferred to the military forces
Railroads Overloaded.
s'Due to war conditions the railroads
4 are overloaded and ordinary ship
ments are DELAYED. What will happier
to holiday mail that is late in startin'
4 may be imagined II simply will no
reach its destination on time and nj
one will be to blame but the sender
Better get it there ahead Of time thai
disappoint entirely some one you wis
to remember As has been said be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08

fore. all mail intended for Christmas
delivery should be IN the postof!1ee mol
later than Dec. IL This advice Is CIV
en- in the interest OF the patrons OF the
nostofflee service as well as the ser
vice itself. II is more than that, u Is
a warning to all who desire TO have
Christmas renaembranees reach Their
f-iee7ss on time. 1t is the only sure
way"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08
I.ncal Ronrd Wants Addresses.

The local army exemption board
has received a copy OF telegram
from Provost Marshal General Grow
der to all governors regarding the
addresses Of the registered. All men
who are registered for war service
are requested to keep the local eX-
emption board notified at all times as
to their addresses should they change
their places of residence. This tele-
gram was forwarded by Adjutant
General Frank s. Dickson with thf
request that it be given as much pub
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08
Case Adjourned Till Monday.


Ihe Cunning insanity case has been
adjourned until Monday morning at
10 O'Clock. when the evidence OF the
defendant will be resumed. Only one
witness was heard yesterday afternoon
for the defendant The complainants
finished their case at ESQ O'Clock aft
er Attorney Wilson had read the ex-
hlbits which he had introduced as
evidence. One more witness was
called, but her testimony was thrown
out as immaterial to the case
Mrs. Frank Dunning of Bedford.
Iowa, was the first witness appearing
yesterday afternoon for the defendant.
She went into detail about converse
tons which she had had with Mrs
Dunning while in Bedford She told
OF trouble which Mrs. 10 Dunning
had had with the Heman Chiids fam
lily over money matters. and also that
they did not treat her. Mrs 10 Dun
ming, right. Mrs. Frank Cunning
identified letters which she had re-
( ceiyed from the defendant last sum-
! mer and also stated that it was her
! opinion that she was in sound mind
and capable of attending to her bust
ness affairs. The letters were read TO
/ the jury by Attorney Watson. Court
adjourned Immediately following this
evidence.
Practically all the evidence Of tbs
petitioners yesterday was technical
and majority portion related to ths
trial in the county court when Mrs
Cunning was restored to her rights
One witness was called to the stanC
who testified to her opinion as Il
Mrs. Dunning's state of mind sinc'
: March Is, 1917 She was Miss Jose
} phine Calhoun of New Boston, whit
b stated that she saw Mrs. Dunning on
Sunday evening last summer in New
Z Boston. She saw her in a car i
front of the picture show and thel
: later in the show. She said Mrs. Dun
! ming spoke to her outside the show
! She said that Mrs Dunning was nc
r interested in the pictures and that sh
4 did not think she was of sound min
i and capable of transacting bushes
9 matters.
t Six other witnesses were used |
z. identifying papers which were late
l. read by Attorney Wilson to the jur,
They were deeds TO Mrs. Cunning
y property, which was given TO w.
Il Willis and Leander Willis, her brott
: ers, with Mrs. Dunning reserving ii
# income for her life estate. The RI
d mainder were reports and orders
s the county court prior to March /
D, 1917. relating to the period OF hi
\ being under the control of a col
IL servator. One other document W;
TT produced which was mortgage {
v her farm near JOY for $4,000 and pa
is able to William and VashG colleg
N She was to pay the interest on tn
during her life and then it was to
D paid by W. A. Willis at her death.
~
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08
KILLED AT Dfs MONIES.

Dies Moines, Iowa. Dec. 8,-James
Bryenton, %, Des Moines, was IN
stantly killed and Roy Snyder, 10, Des
Moines. was probably morally hurt
when a Chicago Great Western passen-
ger train struck the truck in which
they were riding here last night.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08
Personal Mention.

Personal Mention.
John Z. White went TO Moline Fri
day 10 meet his daughter. Miss
Frances, who is Ill in the Moline SAM
tarinm. Miss White vas recently CD
Grated on and has not fully recov-
cred. She is a nurse in the hospital,
but will remain at home for few
weeks rest.
Attorney Paul ], Graham was in
Rock Island Friday
4. Biyens was n Rock Island
Friday.
MIR. and Mrs. c. A. Friese went te
Davenport Friday 70 attend the fu-
neral Of J. r. Lowry in that city. Mr
Lowry was a former resident Of this
city The funeral was held from tht
home and burial was made in tina,
city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08
On County Records

Belle Durling to Joseph Meyer, Sr.,
west 40 feet lot So. South r l.. 81.
f. C. and IT, r. Danielson to Her
man Dralle, lot 81. block Isl. East
Moline, 81.
Henry yelling Ell al to Victor VAN
denbreen. east Il lot 2. block B.. B.
Dayenport's End add. Rock Island,
s725.
William l. and Ola Woodrow to
Della Landers. tract in sec. II and 20.
township 20-2E. 81.
Charles and William Mueller to G.
II. and Louisa Seibert, part lot -.
sec. 6-17-lw, s525.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08

Put a Bear primer and gas gener-
ator on your Ford; guaranteed to
start a frozen motor Bear Manufae-
turing company, First avenue and
Seventeenth street. Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08

All the news all the The Argus,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08

All the news all the ume-Tht
Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-08

mailing missionaries has been ac-
complished.
..CRoWDER. :
Frank s. Dickson. Adjutant General.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
SLEEPING VICTIMS BURIED IN
RUINS OF HUNKHousE AT
NORTH STAR MINE.
OVER l6 INJURED SERIOUSLY
Disaster at Mine IL Miles Northeast
of Haiiey-Rescuers Face Peril
Danger Of Another siiwe,
Workers Are Recalled.

Boise, Idaho.-Fifteen men were
killed and Is injured when a giant
snowslide destroyed the clubhouse,
compressor houes and warehouse of
the North Star mine, IL miles north
east of HALEY, Idaho, at $3.50 o'clock
Sunday morning.
The Dead.
Bodies Of these men have been ia
ken from the debris:
John Fleming, Elton G.. Cooley,
Jack Vaughn, James Peterline, Phil
WEIGH, John Purnell, Frank p. Man
gingo, Roy Judd. Sam Labarge.
The following six men are miss
ing and all are believed to be buried
beneath the slide:
Missing.
John Kistle, John Hearn, Jack Nc
Kelvey, Emmett P. Russell, w. R.
Motley, w. S. Schmidt.
Injured.
On the list of those injured is Tom
Jay, mine superintendent; A. e. Wood
lis in a precarious condition, with his
back broken and hip fractured. 9th
erwise on the injured list are:
George Lee, Jack Lindsey, L. o.
Beeson, Bert Judd, e. G. Jones, j.
r. Carter and Pete Peterson.
Immediately upon receiving news
of the disaster a special train convey
ing physicians and rescue workers
was run from HALEY to Gimlet, from
where the party was obliged to trav-
ell six miles to the mine in sleighs.
1t is reported that three Of this
number are dangerously injured. The
bodies of the dead were left at the
mine temporarily.
The disaster is the worst in the
history of Wood River mining OF
the men killed Fleming, Labarge and
Russell leave families living at Hail
ey. Vaughn, Kistle, McKelvey, WEIGH
and Echmidt are HALEY men. Man
gingo was timekeeper at the mine
Slides Numerous.
A fall of two and one-half feet of
snow during the previous three days,
followed by rain, has resulted in nu-
merous slides in the North Star dis
trict, many in places where they
never were known to occur before
At the time. of the accident the
Federal Mining and Smelling COM
pany had 60 men employed at the
mine and lis at work at the mill,
two miles below. The officials have
announced that because of dangerous
conditions prevailing they will close
the mine for the remainder Of the
winter
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
MILK DEALERS CONVENTION

Inland Empire Dealers Elect Officers
at Spokane
M1lkman of the Inland Empire have
adopted constitution and bylaws
bristling with the latest efforts in ref
ernedums and provisions to protect
the common mixers.
Officers Are Elected
Officers were elected as follows:
President, H. S. Findley, Cheney,
Wash.
Vice-president, Arthur 3. Hooper,
Farrell, Idaho
Secretary-treasurer, B. E. Smead,
Opportunity, Wash.
Executive committee, Robert Gray,
Post Falls, Idaho; David Munroe, Spo-
kane! j. Graham, Palouse, Wash.
The question Of forming a cow test
ing association came up, and IS men
gave their names as ready to join.
They represented a total Of 493 cows.
The plans will be worked out in con-
junction with ounty Agent J. R. Shinn.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
Omnibus Bill


Olympia.-After several weeks of
ardous work the senate and house ap-
preparations committees completed
their draft of the omnibus appropria-
tions bills, or general budget.
The budget represents reduction
of $511,552 from the budget prepared
by the state board lof finance in ad-
vance of converting of the legislature.
The total general fund appropriations
for all state offices, departments and
institutions are $500, 092.70. The
state board of finance recommended
appropriations for these same depart
ments of $7,115,644.70.
The budget represents an increase
of $303.622 from the general fund ap-
preparations for the same offices two
years ago. In It's total of items out
side of the general fund the budget is
not comparable with the budget of two
years ago, because no provision is
made for state institutions of higher
education in this years bill.
The budget bill has been withheld in
the daily expectation that the educa-
tional millage tax would be deter
mined, but no further settlement is yet
in sight. Therefore, appropriations of
something over 100000 for these in
stitutions must be provided in supple
mental budget after the milage tax is
determined this week.
The Medical Lake institutions have
suffered less from pruning of the ap-
preparations committee than others.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
END STOMACH TROUBLE.
GASES OR DYSPEPSIA
"Pape's Diapepsin" makes Sick, Sour,
Classy Stomaehs surely feel fine
in five minutes.

If what you just ate is souring on
your stomach or lies like lump Of
lead, refusing to digest, or you belch
gas and ,eructate sour, undigested
food, or have feeling or dizziness,
heartburn, fullness, nausea, bad taste
in mouth and stomach-headache you
can get blessed relief in five minutes.
Put an end to stomach trouble forever
by getting a large fifty-cent case of
Pape's Diapepsin from any drug store.
You realize in five minutes how need
less it is to suffer from Indigestion,
dyspepsia or any stomach disorder.
It's the quickest, surest stomach doc
tor in the world It's wonderful.-Adv.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
OMAHA FIRE LOSS $4,000
Guests From Two Hotels Hurried
Half Clad to Street

Omaha, Neb.-Fire in the down.
town retail district here Friday wiped
out half a block with loss Of $3.50, 900.
caused guests at two hotels to be hur-
ried half clad into icy streets and for
two hours threatened to become gen
eral conflagration
A gale from the north carried burn
ing brands over wide area and start
ed six other fires.
Five firemen were caught under a
falling wall, but none was seriously
hurt. Buildings destroyed were on the
north side of Douglas street between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
German Casualties Reported.

London.-Casualties in the German
army, exclusive Of colonial troops,
reported in the German casualty lists
in the month of January, 1917, total
led 1854 officers and men killed,
wounded, prisoners or missing. The
casualties bring the total Of Germans
killed and those who died of wounds
or sickness to 9SS,329 and the total
casualties since the war began to
4,087,692.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
so,0oo-ToN RATTLEsHIP
Gigantic Fighting Craft Would Cost
$50,OOO,OOO

V~V3OSVySV0
Washington.-An 80,000-toH battle
ship, mounting so 18-inch guns, having
a speed of rs knots an hour and cost
ing $50,0OO,000 would be the largest
war craft which the United States
could employ, according to report to
congress in response to request for
specifications of the biggest fighting
craft that could use the Panama canal
and American harbors.
The report says that such vessel
would have length of 975 feet, a
beam Of 108 feet, a secondary battery
of 81 six-inch guns, four 21-inch tor
pedo tubes and 12,00O-mile radius of
action.
"A single such vessel, however" it
adds, would not be of great value to
the United States navy, as it would not
be suited to act in unison with the
other major units Of our fleet. TO de-
velop the value of such a vessel it
would be necessary to lay down not
less than five"
The European war, the report says,
has as yet brought no conclusive an
swer to the question of what types are
most desirable and the general board
is not prepared to recommend so radi-
cal departure as the 80,000-ton ship
would represent.
The $25 100000 battleships asked for
in the pending naval bill represent the
greatest increase in size and power for
battleship types in any single year, but
they are to have a displacement OF
only $4,000 tons, main batteries of IL
16-inch guns and speed of % knots.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM.
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED F0RQUlCKREADIN
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are Of Legitimate Interest
to all the People.
Germany is to tax bachelors higher
than family men.

Germany is to tax bachelors higher
than family men.
Vladivostok is facing a coal famine
because of the great demand for ships
to carry ammunition.
A prayer for relief of the food sit
uation was delivered in congress Sat
urday by Chaplain Couden.
The equivalent Of $50 ton for coal
is perhaps the maximum reached dur
ing the present crisis in Paris.
German submarines continue to sink
entente ships. The total tonnage sunk
Friday as reported was 25,456.
The Ferguson bone dry liquor bill
passed February 10, and the anti
cigarette bill passed on the same day,
became laws In Texas without the
formality of being signed by the gov
ernor.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
Mexico Makes Cartridges

Mexico City The cartridge making
machinery purchased from Japan has
been unloaded at Manzanillo from the
steamer Kotchiro Maru and will soon
be put in operation. Two hundred
Japanese experts accompanied the
shipments to set up the machinery and
operate it. 1t is hoped by thegovern-
ment that this machinery will make
Mexico independent Of other countries
for ammunition.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

Logging camps throughout Oregon
and southwestern Washington have al
been forced to close on account O
snow.
| A contract for the building of two
steel freight steel ships, each of $780,
tons, and 423 feet in length, has beef
let by the Cunard line to a Seattle
! firm.
John Christian, a newspaper carrier
aged 40, was electricuted Sunday neal
San Jose, CAL, when he came in con
tact with an electric power wire which
was blown. down by the storm.
Snow fell Saturday in every part OF
Oregon. The snowfall since February
has amounted to over IL inches,
more than has fallen in any CORE.
spending month for % years.
Cholera having abated in oriental
ports, the quarantine against passen-
ger vessels from China and Japan,
which became effective September 16,
last, has been lifted at Port Town
send on orders from Washington.
Thomas j. Mooney, labor :agitator,
was sentenced to death by hanging by
Judge Franklin A. Griffin in the SUI
perior court for bomb explosion that
cost 10, lives during a preparedness
day parade at San francisco last July.
The British Columbia Salvage COM
pany tug Pilot of Vancouver, which
steamed from San Diego, Cal. last
July for Ocos, Guatemala, to salvage
the former German freighter Sesostris,
foundered off the .Guatemalan coast
with loss Of all on board.
Orange Day. which has become an
annual festival occurring each year
early in March, is proclaimed as a
time for paying tribute to the King
of Fruits. March 10 will be observed
everywhere in the nature of Thanks
giving Day for oranges.
The North-bound passenger train
on the O.-W. R. & N. Co.'s line, which
left Portland Saturday night for Sc
attic, was derailed two miles south Of
Kalama, Wash, when it struck huge
boulder, which had rolled down the
embankment. The engine and one
coach were toppled over and all but
one of the other coaches left the track.
None killed, but several injured.
Ham Quong Fong, cannery foreman,
and member of the Bling Kong-Bow
Leong tong, was shot fatally Satur-
day as he entered a taxicab after with
drawing money at tong bank, pre-
paratory to going to Seattle to attend
housewarming and formal opening
of the new tong quarters in Seattle.
The shooting was done by three Chi
,nese gunner, said to be Hop Sings.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
WOMEN CRY FOR FOOD
Great Demonstration in New York
City Saturday

City Saturday
New York.-4A crowd of approx
mately 1000 persons, mostly women,
who had attended massmeeting in
Madison Square to protest against
high food prices, stormed the Waldorf
Astoria hotel, late Saturday, shouting
they were starving and demanding to
see Governor Whitman. When in
formed the governor was at another
hotel, they refused to believe it and
started demonstration, which neces-
STATED the calling out of police re-
serves to dispense them. Several per-
sons were injured in the disorder that
followed. Four arrests were made.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
Has Hot Spell

San Antonio, Texas.-The thermom-
eters registered 81 degrees Sunday
afternoon. This is said to break all
records for February in A years.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
Uruguay Limits Drinks.

Uruguay has prohibited the manu-
facture or importation of alcoholic
beverages of strength exceeding As
degrees.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01
Schumann-Heink Improves

st. Louis, Mo.-The condition of
Madame Schumann-Heink, the operat-
ic contralto, two of whose ribs were
broken in a taxicab accident Friday
night, is slightly improved.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01

eve noticed one thing about these
oriental mystics who tour the coun-
try from time to time"
'tWell?"
"They can always emerge from
their oriental mysticism long enough
to count up the box office receipts"
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01

Western Washington Farm for Sale;
near Bellingham; 80 acres. all fine SOIL;
SO bottom SO cultivated; 30 pasture. New
modern barn; sflo; Groom house; running
water. Adjoining land worth $3.50 acre
up. Price only $14,O00-$1000 cash and
$500 year; discount for cash. Write for
description W. S. Robson, POI Central
Bldg Seattle, Wash.