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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20
ADDITION MADE
TO DRAFT CARR
Place Of Fathers Birth Is A,t,, =
Blanks 10 BE Filled BIZ NJ VI
Registrars.
BALANCE QUESTIONS S,v,
Rock Islanders Who Have pa.
u Since June >, 1917, ReogI,.s
To Register.
BALANcE QUESTIONS s,,,

Practically no changes -.
in the registration cards N ~ MAG
by the Rock Island Young M y. l .'
have attained the age n ,, "a.
June ). 1911, aud who are , =, s'ha
der law ready for the ns',, y
army. "a1'ols
One addition was made reoc...
ing that the registrant givs y
birthplace Of his father e q
The questions asked On tho c..,
are as follows. 's'
Name in full ......
age .......-...
Date Of birth ......
Where were you born7 ''''
Citizen or not ......
III not a citizen, Of what ps,i...
are you a citizen subjecta
Fathers birthplace ..''
Name Of employer ..''
Place Of employment
Names Of nearest relatives "
Address Of nearest relative,
race ......+
Rock Island exemption bos,s =,
hcials have received posters n
hung about the city for the purno,
of instructiug the new regist,s,,
and have received hundreds
cards.
Secure Helpers.
Rock Islands registration hs,,
quarters will be the local even,
ton board. Registrars will bs /,
cured 70 assist the reTistrants m,
.. which is the official registr,
tion day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20
SCHOOL KIDS ARE
SURE DIGGING UP
FOR WAR STAMPS

School children OF Rock Islsk
last week responded to the drive n
war saving and thrift stamps fal
beyond any collection made BY n
State bank.
The schools purchased 2l5 va
savings and 2,648 thrift stampi
Horace Mann. Lincoln and the ma
school occupying the three AL
places on the list.
In the school collection Grant
Audubon and Hawthorne take al
honors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20
Stamp Drive SatIsfa Glory.

The Mercer county stamp drive
which was started last Friday was
satisfactory in every way. The
committees are reporting right
along TO the chairman. Millersburg
township having gotten its amount
in first was given credit for being
the first township TO go over the
top"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20
Two Battery b. Bows Home.

Adm Guthrie and Frank Moffitt
who are attending the Tractor
school at Peoria, where they are
receiving special instruction. ar
rived home Friday night for a few
days furlough with their parents in
Aledo. Battery B has moved east,
but is most probable that it will
stay in this country until these men
finish their training.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20
Returns to Burlington.

Corporal L. c. Crouch. who was
in Aledo last Thursday. Friday and
Saturday. returned to Burlington,
where he is stationed Corporal
Crouch was in Aledo for the pur-
pose of enlisting anybody who wish
ed to join the army. He gives no
tee that anybody between the ages
of IS and 81 and 81 and 40 who
desire to enlist will find him at any
time in the recruiting station at
Burlington.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20
Local Board News.

The local exemption board receiv-
ed telegram Saturday that the IS
men who were called sometime in
the five-day period beginning May
20 are to be sent on the Dolly Fri
day morning, May "a.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20
Food Administrators Ren0rts.


Food Administrators Reports.
County Food Administrator G. G.
Bowers gives notice that this week
people may purchase sugar from
the merchants for canning pur-
poses. People will be given an ex-
ira amount for this purpose and
will be allowed as high as %
pounds, but this cannot be used ex-
cept for canning. They will also
be allowed what they formerly used
to get before this order was given
out. All are requested by the food
administration to not buy more
than is really required and all will
be also compelled TO sign cards to
this effect.
Another thing Of importance Civ
en- out by the food administration is
for all people having an extra
amount of wheat -four to turn it
over to the grocers, where they will
be paid for il and also they will be
reported to the government as loyal
citizens.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20
WILLIAM M'CONOCHIE, Mayor.
PUBLIC NOTICE.

From this date on, | shall not be
responsible for any debts contract
ed by any other than myself. per-
sonally. J. T. RENO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20
ALEDO AT A GLANCE
Daily Doings in Mercer County's Busy Capital

All men who are In this draft are
required to report at the local
boards headquarters on Thursday
afternoon, May %, at $3.50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20

Total .556.57 s60H
---B Buy War Swings GtamBs--
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20
NOTICE FOR BIDS.

Bids Will be received at the
mayors office, Rock Island. H.. I'M
til 10 a. m. Saturday, June l, 1918,
for grading Forty-third street from
Fourteenth to Eighteenth avenues ::
also Thirty fifth street from Elev-
enth to Eighteenth avenue. City re-
serves right 10 reject any or all
bids
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20

AS the City may from time TO
time open, lay out, widen. alter and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20

Said Tri-City Railway Company
Of Illinois may charge a fare Of
five 90 cents over its said Milan
Line" and Watch Tower Line. ,
and shall give transfers and oper-
ate its said street railway and cars
and give the same character Of ser
vice as required on its existing sys-
TEN Of street railways, by said urdi-
nance Of May >, 1916. and with
which system. said Milan and
Watch Tower Lines are connected
and form a part.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
The Old Fire Bells

Mot longer ago than civil war days
L fire alarms were rung in the city
on great bells hung in towers erected for
the purpose about the town. The bells
indicated the district in which the FIRE
was and sometimes a good deal of ground
vas covered in looking for fire The
First district, for instance, in civil war
DAYS extended from Twenty-seeond street
north to Yorkville and from the East
River to the North.
The bell ringers were constantly on
duty in the towers watching for gns of
fire. An inventory of the contents of
the old Marion street bell tower in 1865
shows the equipment then in use. 1t is
as follows: "One bell, weight IL 900
pounds; one striking apparatus, one
stove, table, clock, one spyglass, one field
glass, one slate and book"
The fire bells of the old city could be
heard all over the town unless a gale of
wind was blowing. The largest bell Was
in the City Hall tower. Its weight wa1
23,o00 pounds.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
mines.

treasure open to any one who can find the
hidden key, but none of these offers such
temptations as the story of the Bollas del
Plata mines The truth of this is horne
out by documentary evidence to be found
in certain old records of the ancient Mex
lean custom house in operation cen
fury and three quarters ago.
Somewhere between the years 1876 and
174l, when Arizona was in Spanish ter
ritory, Don Diego Armenia. a wandering
Mexican miner, reached a settlement of
the Papago Indians, situated almost upon
the present boundary line between Arr
IONA and Sonora, Mexico. The Papagoes,
who still cover this area, called their set
Element "Arizonac.' Don Diego Armenia
by some chance came across a hidden de
post of silver and astonished the Mexi-
cans by returning with what was prob
ably the largest virgin lump OF the pre-
cious white metal before or since found
in the world. 1t contained no less than
300 pounds of pure silver. Armenia
had another virgin lump of 2l5 pounds,
while the aggregate weight CT several
other nuggets was 1923 pounds.
Heavily Taxed by the Spanish.
According to the Spanish policy of ex-
orbitant revenue assessment, these ire
mendous nuggets were unreasOnably
taxed by the Mexican custom house Off
Ger of those early times when Don Diego's
find became known. A dispute arose be-
tween the officer and the finder of the sill
yer and the matter was appealed to the
Viceroy of Mexico, who decided that the
controversy, involving, as it did, the larg-
est silver nugget found in the world, was
beyond his responsibility and that it
would have to be referred to the King OF
Spain himself.
The King, taking the Vieeroy's hint,
promptly ruled that nugget weighing
200 pounds must be regarded as curl.
osity and that all natural curiosities OF
great value found in the colonies must by
courtesy be regarded as the property of
the Crown.
Armenia was naturally heartbroken at
this loss of his priceless nugget. 1t is
said that he. left Mexico in disgust with
out revealing the precise locality of the
wonderful mine. 1t was, however, known
beyond doubt that the Jumps of silver
were found in or near the Papago settle
ment of "Arizonac,' which grew to be
known as "Bollas del Plata" which in
Spanish means "balls of plate The old
name, "Arizonae," thereupon became
widely applied to this region, and, as very
few people know, when the present State
of Arizona was carved out of Mexico its
name was directly derived from tins same
Papago village, somewhere near which the
abandoned mine of Armenia still remains
undeveloped.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

The monster nugget was sent to Me1leo
and coined In the. mint there for the
Spanish King. Soon after the misad
venture of Don Diego the place became
abandoned and lost sight of, and the ardor
of some unskilful miners who attempted
to recover the deserted wealth became
cooled. The nuggets were found on or
near the surface, and encouragement
doubtless uvercame the followers of Ar
mendi because they failed to pick up
more surface deposits In those days they
had no facilities for deep mining.
At Piedras Azules, in the heart of the
mountains, prospecting party stopped
one day for lunch. In searching for
lost knife one Of the party found rock
weighing about two tons from which
native silver protruded. 1t yielded more
than $1,000 when broken up and washed
in the arroyo. The prospectors went out,
organized company with capital of
$4,000 and returned. They prospected for
months without discovering q particle Of
metal and left the mountains penniless.
1t is believed the rock from which the
silver was obtained was carried down by
the water in the arroyo from a mining
camp forty-h miles distant-a- solitary
piece of float that cost the prospectors
dearly:
But the lost mine about which tradition
gathers thiekest is Taiopa, supposed to be
located in the Sahuanpa district In So
nora. Little documentary evidence exists
to prove Taiops a reality, and that has
evidently been manufactured by unscrupu-
lous manipulators. A wealthy Mexican
made trip to Madrid several years ago,
and after minute search at great expense
found absolutely no data to show that
such a mine was ever worked for the
Crown of Spain, and no reliable data in
the Mexican archives or elsewhere prove
such a mine was ever known.
The Lost Mine Of Taiopa.
But quite as trustworthy as most writ
ten documents are the traditions gathered
from the Pima Indians. They stoutly
maintain that Talopa exists, and a few
claim to know its locality. Small quaint
ties of very rich ore are occasionally sold
at the mountain mining camps, and all
attempts to follow the Indians to the spot
where il is found or bride them to reveal it
have failed. Wanting but little in add
ton to the corn they grow, they are i'm
bued with a superstition that if they re-
veal the locality of mine they viii in
stantly drop dead.
To one unacquainted with the Indian
character this statement may seem inered-
ible, but any prospector or miner in the
Sierra Madre will affirm its truth. Large
sums of money have been offered to the
Pimas to tell where the nina tdpada is.
They scorn money and the only open ses-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
Enticing Stories of
the Bollas del Plata
and Taiopa Only
Two of Numerous
ales

lme is mescal, by the liberal use of which
he Indian may be made 10 disclose many
.hings. bat so far he has held inviolate
MS vow TO reveal to no mortal man the
famous Taiopa-
But the fascinating secret, in part, has
been revealed TO woman. All tales of
lost mines have for their central figure
IL grateful Indian, and this story is in
that particular monotonously like the rest.
The facts 50 far as known are the fol-
lowing:
About fifteen years ago an old Pima
chief fell i'll III one of the valley pueblos
and was cured by Mexican woman 50
well known and so estimable that her
statement was universally accepted. The
old Indian returned to his tribe and from
time to time sent her rich bits of ore
which assayed thousands of dollars TO the
ton. All her efforts to induce him to lead
her to the mine were futile. He said the
Great Spirit would strike him dead if he
did.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
Gave Indians Her Care.

TO the women and small quantities OF
meseal to the men of the tribe. She be-
came convinced beyond doubt that the
spot from which the rich ore came was
Taiopa. The chief admitted that it was
the m,aa tGpada, that was worked when
he was a boy. After much persuasion
and the gift of a goodly portion of the
liquor they said that she might discover
it unaided and save the Indians from the
penalty of sudden death for revealing it.
Overjoyed at gaining so much, she had
two burros packed with provisions, and
mounted on mules she and two Indian
women set ont. They travelled mostly at
night, passing through deep canyons and
over lofty mountain passes The fourth
night, some hours after dark, the Indian
women led her into a deep canyon and
paused a short distance from large rock.
In the dim moonlight an old arrasta was
seen, and across the canyon was a large
ore dump, from which opened a tunnel.
The woman gathered pieces of ore from
the dump and arrastra, but was hurried
away by the Indians, who said they would
be killed if they delayed beyond the time
given them by the chief.
They travelled until the moon went
down, rested few hours and went on be-
fore daylight, completely battling the
Mexican woman as 10 the route by which
they had brought her. They arrived at
the pueblo at nightfall, and, having taken
four days 10 reach the mine and but one
to return, the obvious conclusion was that
she had been led about in a eirele-a Gu
rious method of satisfying the complex
Indian conscience.
Despairing of getting more, the Mexi-
can woman returned to her home. A few
months later she returned to search for the
elusive Taiopa, but without success.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-01

would try IT, Ny nervousness soon
left me. / sleep well and feel fine
in the morning and able TO do my
work. I gladly recommend Lydia +.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound TO
make weak nerves strong. Mrs.
AIBERr Suite. Cos Olmstead St,
Winona, Mimi.
How often do we hear the express
sion among women. Il am SO uerv-
GUS. / cannot sleep." or lit seems
as though I should hy.' Such
women should profit by Mrs.
SultZe's experience and give this
famous root and herb remedy. Lydia
+. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
a trial
For forty years Il has been over
coming such serious conditions as
dispiacements. Inflammation. ulcer
alton, Irregularities. periodic pains,
backacBe. dizziness. and nervous
prostraJion or women, and is now
considered the standard remedy for
such ailments.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-01
STATE WILL NOT GET
WICKWIRE ESTATE

News Times Special Service.
ELKHABT. Ind Feb. 1-Ac-
cordins TO Administrators j. -
SIauglcr and q. e.. Berkey the es-
tate Of Frank Wickwirc. which
amounts to $4,000 will not go to
tie state.
The law firm of Conley. Frank 4
Cou'ey has announced that Mr..
Nickwire has half-sister, Mrs.
NCna Gates. living She II the
daughter of Willard Wickwire's first
wife Ii was stated i'm the notice OF
Frank Wickwire's death that his
father had been married twice and
that he was divorced from his nrst
w'fc who was the mother OF Frank
Wlckwire
According 90 information received
from Couley Frank * Conley Mr.
V.Ckwire aaS several blood rela-
tionS surviving. a half-Sister and Il
second cousins.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-01

anu Is a1 30 I'd "
/ could not rest
at night-would
lie awake and
get so nervous
/ would have to
get up and walk
around and in
the m Orn in &
would be all
tired out. read
about Lydia r.
Pinkham'S Nege-
table Compound
and thOuEht I
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-01

Should he have had familiarity
with electrical installations or with
telephone or telegraph work there
is a whole range of berths in these
intelligence and signal services
which are open TO him Not only
are new lines Of communication be-
ing constantly built but unlZe IN
civil life the old lines will not stay
put but are continually being de
strOyed and interrupted so that an
incessant exercise of ingenuity in
reconstruction and repair is con
stantly necessary.
IL he knows anything about
pumps. or mining, or drainage. OF
water supply he Will be eagerly
snapped mp by either military en-
gineers or sanitary officers and en-
ployed upon vitality important mill
tary service. even though IL has
nothing directly TO do with parti-
cipation i'm the actual lighting
Has he IAN eve for country" or
some experience i'm surN eying and
knows how 10 draw maps and plot
contour lines there is wide field
for him i'm the surveying and en-
trenchment departments of the var
iOus headquarters stats
Should he prove an adept i'm the
greatest and most important of all
arts. the handling and molding and
controlling of men. there are a
/ score OF eyes constantly upon him
10 detect the first blossomings OF
ability i'm this direction And his
rise I'M rank. ON an average. will be
found 90 be as rapid and as free
I from personal favoritism as i'm any
I business or occupation at home. Not
only is every officer worth his salt
eager 10 get the best and most
competent commissioned of
Ulcers that he can find among hi,
men. but there is also now a for
mai army order IN both the Brit
I iSb and the French forces requir-
I ing each ard every colonel 10 rec
ommen7 every three months a Ger
tain minimum for promotion TO a
/ cadetslip in the officers training
corps
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-01
For Baby Rash
Itching. chshng. sczlding, all irrita-
tons and soreness. nothing heals ike
Sykes Comfort Powder

Its extraordinary healing and soothing
power Is noticeable on hrst application.
sc az the Vlnol and other drug stores
The Comfort Powder Co.. Boston, Mass
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-01

Help with this war by saving
wheat every dav-eat war bread.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-01
WOMAN'S NERVES
MADE STRONG
By Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Wiuona. Mimi suffered for
more than a year from nervousness,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-01

the crying need was Ca rush for
ward some sort Of a human barrier
against the devouring Prussian
food, there was no time for making
distinctions OF capacity and speC;a
fitness. Any one who was brave
enough TO offer his lie for the de-
Tense Of his country and physically
ht and vigorous was eagerly and
gladly accepted, and sent out TO the
firing line with as brief a delay as
possible for training and equipment.
But as soon as the war had settled
down into its form and the real
nature and seriousness Of the strug-
gle became apparent, an actual
combins had 20 be made OF
the regiments on service at the
front for the purpose of bringing
back the men who had special me
chanical engineering and scientific
training for the purpose of putting
them into munition factories and on
the railroads and on the telephone
and telegraph lines supplying and
supporting the armies at the front.
So new and utterly unforeseen
was this demand Of modern war
that even i'm Gerqany hundreds Of
thousands Of men were withdrawn
from active service AT the front TO
20 back 20 munitiOn factories. cleo
trical and chemical works and later
even 10 special branches Of aFricul-
ture. in order 10 keep the lighting
lines supplied with the sinews 0f
war As Lloyd George declared not
long ago in parliament, 1t takes
three men and four women at
home. on the land. i'm the mines. in
the shops and on the railroad to
maintain and supply one man on
the lighting line at the front"
Nowadays when a man is enlist
ed or conscripted for service care
ful inquiry is made as 10 his pre-
vious training. experience and apti-
tude so as to see what particular
group of the innumerable callings
which go TO make up the modern
army he is best fitted for If ne
knows how TO run and repair a car
he will very probably be enlisted
at once in one OF the various
branches of the transportation ser
vice. Next 10 the railways. the long
lines of motor lorries and trucks
bearing food, supplies and ammu-
nitions are the literal life blood of
an army. without which its strik-
ing muscles would quickly fall
paralyzed and helpless.
II he has had experience in the
Big Woods he may be drafted into
one of the army numbering gangs.
which with portable saw mills are
invading the ancient forests and
woodlands Of France and cutting
4 down and saving up the monarchs
Of its glades TO make barracks and
sidewalks and trench revetments for
the allied troops. Thousands of Ca
madam Lumber Jacks" have been
specially enlisted in the army for
this purpose. and you hear the
whirr OF their saws and the ringing
Of their axes i'm the historic woods
and beautiful groves all over Eng
land. sacrificing the Oaks of the
Druids and the Sheltering groves OF
the noblest mansions for the de-
Tense of freedom.
Should he have had familiarity
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WE have established territory open in Ne
braska for real salesman. The
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-10

THE GERLACH- BARLOW CO., $780,
600 corporation, manufacturers OF art
calendars (both annual and monthly
blotters, folders. holiday greetings, ETC.
for advertising purposes, just completing
its most successful year, has nearby
omen territory, recently made vacant, 1or
two statesmen to begin work with new
line the first of next year. Our sales
men are now earning $4,000 to 5000 per
wear. Exclusive territory: commission
contract with reasonable weekly expense
advance. Permanent position with ut
most cooperation from house. ADDRESS
Sales Manager. THE GERLACH-BAhk-
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