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ROCK ISLAND ARGUS, t: hi FIFXY-EIGIITII YEAH. XO. 261. SElf WEST POINTERS tET OUT FOR HAZING SUTTOM THE ARGUS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1909. PRICE TWO CENTS." ' AUTOS FAST A North Pole Probability if this Lincoln Penny Fad Keeps Up OF IHWOLIS TRM Taft Acts After Rigid In vestigation Had Been Made. VICTIM WAS ON GUARD Seriously Injured in Fray Brother of Officer Recently Killed. West l'oint. N. Y.. Aug. 19. By direction of President Taft seven cad ets were dismissed from the milita.y academy today for being involved 'n the hazing of Rodando Sutton, brother of the late Lieutenant James X. Sutto l of the naval academy, whose death was investigated at Annapolis recently. Thimr Who Are .ITeeted. The cadets ordered dismissed are John J. Booker, Jr., of West Point, Georgia: Richard V. Kocker of Kan sas City: Earle V. Dunmoie of Utici, X. Y.; Chauncy C. Dcvore of Wheel ing, W. Va.; Gordon Lefebvre of Rich mond, Va.; Albert E. Crane of llawar den. Iowa, and Jacob S. Fortner of Uoiliam, Ala. All are in the third tlass except Booker, who was in the lirst class. Attacked While on iinard Duty. The charges were made several weeks ago that Sutton was assaulted while on guard duty, walking a lonely post, and beaten down by men wrap ped iu sheets and masked with pillow cases. He was almost dazed and was sent to a hospital suffering with se vere injuries. On account of the law passed by congress to stop hazing at the military academy a rigid investiga tion was made. FRESH DOWNPOUR New Alarm Spread Along Ar kansas River by Reports of More Heavy Rains, MUCH DAMAGE DONE NOW .Numerous Trains Tied l, Tracks Be ing Washed Out or Carried Into Mountain Canyons. Denver, Aug. 10. Trains blocked in the lonely mountain passes, with tracks washed away, or in some in stances pitched into canyons hundreds of feet below, people driven from their homes to seek safety with their be longings iu higher places these were the scenes revealed tt daybreak today along the overflowed Arkansas river. Alarmed by another cloudburst at Four Mile creek, near Canon City, last night, scores of people in the low er sections of Pueblo and other, points passed the night in rescuing house hold effects from the danger line. Torrent In Uorae. The famous Royal Gorge, walled iu by rock 1,000 feet high, has been wash ed by a torrent for almost 4S -hours, and railroad tracks have been : wept out. Trains on the Colorado Midland. Denver & Rio Grande, and other rail roads, most of them carrying eastern tourists, have been detoured over cir cuitous routes. WELLMAN GONE TO FIND POLE? Paris, Aug. 19. A dispatch from Triest says, according to a telegram received from the captain of the Ital ian steamer Thalia, now at Hanimcr fest, Norway, Walter Wellmr.n left Spitsbergen Aug. lt in his dirigible balloon, bound for Ihe north pole. He had a favorable wind when the start was made. FISHING BOAT LOST; 11 MEN DROWNED Lunenberg, Nova Scotia. Aug. 19. The Gloucester fishing schooner Or inoco capsized here today. Eleven men 'were 5 drowned. All are Nova Scotiaus. New Telegraph Code Costly. One member of the Illinois Manu facturers' association, according to John "M. Clonn,' secretary, has stated tli.-u if he proposed change in tele giaph code rates goes into force Sept. 1 it will cost his firm more tha 00, (M)0 before it can complete a ne ode. In other words, the company outd have to send its messages at iular rates during (he time the code ' s ing made, and this member fi; es will take 12 monlha to niake i TRYING WILLIAMS BY COURT MAI! VIAL Negro Mixed in Fatal. Box in. Bout Having Trial on Battles!: p Vermont at Sea. Washington, Aug. 19. A wireless message was received at tbe navy department today from Rear Adinii-.il Schroeder saying . David Williarup, mess attendant on the battle -hip Ver mont, is being tried by e ft iuir tial at sea on the charge f man slaughter. This is a seo to the boxing match which ocum.. on the Vermont off Provincetpwii. .Mass.. several weeks ago when llarison H. Foster, another mess attendant, died soon after the match was over. SEE GERMAN WATERWAYS Americans Ik-gin Ivuropcun Task with Iiaiuicli Trip -on i:!!e. Berlin, Aug. 19. The members of the American waterways winmission who are visiting Europe in search of information as to the best methods r.f solving the problems confronting it. began their work yesterday. Senator J Theodore Burton of Ohio called at the Prussian ministry of public works. A large steam launch has been placed at the disposal of .Mr. Murton auJ his party and it will W used dur ing the next three days for a study of the canals and streams adjacent to Berlin and the upper Kibe. Pro fessor Emory R. Johnson of Phila delphia. George McPheison and S, Hopkins will collect material bearing, on the historical' development of the waterways system of Germany. ; NEXT MEETING AT DETROIT Fraternal Congress " F.lc Is 'Officers and Closes Session" i iioston. ' Boston, Mass. .Aug. l!.MJetroit was selected as next year's ni'eting plaoe of the national fratern;! congress. Officers were elected as follows: President 'Thomas H. Cannon, Chi cago. Vice President John J Hynes, Buf falo. Secretary and Treasurer C. A. Gower, Columbus, Ohio. The medical section of ;he congress elected Dr. W. K. Harrit-m. Chicago, president; George G. OVonnell. Chi cago, secretary, and Dr. Elizabeth M. Hooper, treasurer. NEBRASKA JUDGES NAMED Republicans Nominate Sedgewick and Barnes at Primary. Lincoln, Aug. 19. 'though re turns have come In slowly, it Is be yond doubt that S. II. Seilgewick and .1. B. Barnes have been nominated for supreme judge on tin republican ticket. The third place is in di: pute, Jacob Fawcett and F. G. Honn-r being the principals in the race for this place Odds appear to favor Humer. 1 -. Sedge wick is a former member c the bench. Barnes is now sitting oij the bench, as is Fawcett. -who va: appointed by Governor Siioldon. BIG RIOT ON BROADWAY Police irfM-k H. ,icn and Women for the Night as u Result. New York, Aug. 19. Eighty-five men and women spent the nlsht In the Mercer street police station following one of the most exciting- riots Broad way has witnessed in many years. Tin; neckwear strikers endeavored .to call out employes of a, firm at Thirteenth street and Broadway anl a fight started in which more than 200 mcr women and girls took part. During the rioting women's waists were, torn into shreds, and scores oi men and women were badly beaten ji :d bruise:!. BIG DEAL IN; AUTOMOBILES Charles K. Bios, Forniei Rock Is lander Buys l,oOO Mai bines. Among the automobile notes in the New York American of recent date is one teilinc of one of the larcest deals ever made in automobiles, and a for mer Rock Islander. Charles E. Reiss. figures in it. Mr. RelSB, who is a brother or A. J. Reiss.-the local drug gist, and who at one time was In the drug business here himself, is ) ow handling automobiles in New Y -M. He has just contracted for 1,500 0 .i land and Marion cars, which he ilj during the coming season distribute to sub-agents in the east, . ; v . - f Up Co the Prices. New York, Aug. 19. All gratleg of refined sugar were advanced 10 ceni; per hundred today.' . ' T PHOT-BALLIKR FIGHT WILL NOT DOWN AT DENVER Denver. Aug. Despite efforts of leaders in the Trans-.Mississippi commercial congress to prevent the introduction of the Pint hot-Balling-er controversy. former Senator Thomas M. Patterson of Colorado, prepared to attack Pincuot today but COMMISSION WILL PROBEJINANCES Chicago Prepares for Investigation of Revenues With View of Issu- ing More Bonds. Chicago, Aug. 19. Mayor Busse t-j day appointed 10 members of a com mission to investigate the expenditure of the city's revenue. It is the desire of the city .officials to expend large sums in the next few years in improv ing transportation facilities and in beaut ifj ing the city and an accural account of the city s finances is de sired before any move is made to in crease the bonded indebtedness of the municipality. POSTMASTERS IN SESSION Hundred and Fifty From Offices of l irst Class .Meet at Toledo, Ohio. Toledo, Aug. 10. One hundred fifty postmasters representing as many cities throughout the country are .it tending the annual meeting of the Na- ioual Association of Post masters of the First Class, which opened here to day. Today's session is one of a purely routine character. Postmaster General Hitchcock will not arrive until to morrow. Barge and Five Lest. Sanderstown, R .1.. Aug. 19. The captain of the tug Valley Forge which arrived here this morning reported the loss of the barge Shawmont during a gate 1 uesnay. rive oi the crew were drowned. RICH ORPHANS PICTURED IN NOVEL? MAY BE ACTION AGAINST CHAMBERS New York, Aug. 19. On the ground that the hero and heroine of Robert Chambers' serial, "The Danger Mark," now running in the Saturday Evening Post, have been so pictured as to rep resent I-oilis Gordon Hamerley and Katherine Livingston Haniersley, chil dren of the late J. Hopper Hamersley, the groat Hamersley eslatc yesterday consulted counsel with a view to bring ing an . action at law against author and publisher. Courtlandt de Peyster Field,-uncle by marriage of the Hamersleys and one of their guardians, wrote an ur gent letter to the estate attorneys re questing an immediate investigation to ascertain whether the story presented ground for a charge of slander against the novelist. ' - Cilrl IIuk Taulf for Mquor. The uncle was aroused by the fact thnt, while there was a remarkable similitude " between the Hamersley was curtailed in part by the action of the congress in declining to give additional time to Patersou, who wished to present n resolution in fuller form than allowed by the rules of that body. No action was taken on the resolution. ' INDICATES PEACE IN MOROCCO SOON Bill's Ordered by Sultan to SusH-iid Operations Against Ihe Span ish Forces. Tangier, Aug. The sultan of Morocco .has sent a written communi cation to the Riffs, who are opposing the Spanish expedition at Melilla, or- dering them to suspend the struggle ttntil the arrival of imperial mission. ATHLETE TO REFORMATORY Robert Tuintor of Beloit, Confesses to Bobbery and Arson. LaCrosse. Wis., Aug. 19. Robert Taintor, the famous Beloit college athlete, today was sentenced to the reformatory at (Ireen Bay for two years on a plea of guilty to burglary and arson at a garage in this city Monday, llaintor confessed he made a fake attempt at suicide in order to avert suspicion from himself in re gard to the robbery and lire. He comes of a wealthy family at Vir onua. Wis. For the sake of preserv ing the Taintor family name from disgrace so far as the ollicial record is concerned, Taintor .was sentenced under the name of Arthur Dearborn. Governor's Son'i's Recovering. Springfield, 111., Aug. 19. Ashley De uce n is able to be downstairs and about the executive mansion, after a w-eek's illness, which has caused his parents considerable concern. children and the two leading charac ters lu the story, the girl, who might otherwise be taken for Katherine Hamersley. was represented as having a hereditary taste for liquor, while the boy, fitting the description of Louis G. Hamersley, figured in t lie story as fall ing in love with tho nurse. When these passages in tho story were called to the attention of Mr. Field, he said: "That is slander, and such matters can be settled only in rourt If Mr. Chambers has drawn his characters from my words and at- triBnted to them such traits he will have to answer for it in a court of law." 4 AKxroey Are Silent. Immediately following this statement Mr. Field wrote a letter to attorneys in this city. These attorneys refused yes terday to state whether action would be taken against the novelist or-hot, but practically admitted , they were studying the story with such a Qpssi bility in view. ," ; .- RED ARMY SCORES Attacking1 Forces Continue to Push the Advance Upon Boston Town. NEW CLASH TAKES PLACE (icnernl Bliss Fngages Massaehu- sctls Militia in Sharp Skirmish at Bryantvillc. Pembroke. Mas.Ahg J9,--In a strenuous attempt to concentrate its j strength against the red army of in vasion in the mimic war the blue army of defense, composed wholly of Massa chusetts militiamen, was early on the move today. General indications today would see a decisive battle fought somewhere in the neighborhood of Ply mouth and Duxbury. , KnicaKemrnt KurIi. The first engagement of the day oc curred near Bryantville, when the 6th Massachusetts infantry and a company of coast artillery acting as infantry were attacked by the Connecticut reg iment and the entire District of Co lumbia infantry force. The conflict, al though nothing more than a skirmish was a spirited oue and lasted for more than an hour. Mrrrly n Hump. It. was believed by Ihe officers of the blue army that the object of the end auacK at uryantvuie was a ruse on the part of General Bliss to draw the attention of the blue commander away from the main body of the invading red army. Cain I'lv- fllr la lay, Boston, Aug. 19. General Taskerll Bliss and his invading army of the red consisting of troops from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, the District of Columbia, and the 10th regular cav airy from Fort Ethan Allen, rested last night at least five miles nearer Boston than they were 24 hours earlier, as a result of yesterday's operations in the mimic war game. The extreme left of the Massachusetts army of defense, known as the blues, under command of Brigadier General William A. Pew, was hammered unmercifully during the morning, so that the entire left wing was forced to retreat, and, in addition, the blue suffered the loss of one bat tery and a wagon train. Superior In Number. Far superior iu actual numbers and in cavalry, the red force swept down upon the blues' left and drove first into one posiLion and then another with irresistible force. For the past three days General Bliss has moved his army in three divisions, massed wit h the full strength of his cavalry on his left flank. In other words, the flying squadron has been between his infantry strength and the bluo army. and an invincible strength it proved to oe. wnn tne experienced 10th col ored cavalry to infuse life and purpose into the volunteer cavalrymen from the - District of Columbia and 'New York. - . A: Cavalry is Effective. v Both. Tuesday and yesterday the worn oi me cavairy arm was most. "'""""- i uwura womiuite. From the beginning of the "war" at 8 o'clock last Sunday morning up to toInn VAolADnrf rlti m1 t... .m "uyu J c,ui luc eu iiowua at cav- airy has practically done all the fight-1 at the time when the people were go ins for General Bites; and -it was only ing home to supper, and much incou- iii i ue msi uour oi.yesieraay s Dattle, if such it may be called, that the in fantry's strength of the red army was ordered into action. c . MILITIA KEEPING strikers noyiriG Steamer . Bringing Men Across Oliio Iliver to Mill at M.cKees Rocks Is Fired iUpon. Pittsburg, Aug, 19 Mounted state constabulary are today keeping the strikers on the move, In the Pressed, Steel Car company's strike at , Mc Kee's Rocks. Shortly after noon, al leged strike sympathizers opened fire upon the steamer, Pfeil, bringing 15 imported men across the Ohio river to the mill. Several thousand strik ers lined, along the river bank and each volley was discharged at -the command of an unknown foreign woman who carried a baby. . No one was injured-although many bullets struck the boat. , ' NOT A PASSENGER KILLED OH THE "Q" Burlington Road Handles 20,000,000 iu a Year Without a Single Fatality. The Burlington railroad has .just achieved a remarkable operating rec ord, seldom obtained, by completing a year without one fatal accident to a nasseuser. This record is for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, when a total of approximately 20,000,000 of passengers were carried. The record is the more remarkable in ; view of the company's statement that its fast train from Chicago to Denver showed a perfect score by be ing on time at terminals on every trip. During the previous year the road carried 1.01C.454.000 passengers one mile, as shown by the annual report, so that even if one passenger had been L-illpil tho nlianepc Spain St fatal ininrv have been oyer a bmon one for eacQ mne 0f road traveled through 11 states. The company's trains in that year completed a total of 15,000, 000 miles. A similar record is also shown by the Pennsylvania system for the cal endar year 1908. BRYAN DAY AT SEATTLE Oct. 1 Set Apart to Honor e- braskan Attendance 2,O(0,O0. Seattle, Aug. 19. William J. Bryan will visit the Alaska-Yukon- Pacific exposition during the closing week. He has expressed his willing ness to take part in any exercises that, may be arranged. It is propos ed to make Oct. 16, the closing day of the fair, Bryan day. Yesterday was Germon day and Grand Army day at the world's fair and also was noteworthy because the attendance for the period during which the fair has been in progress passed the 2 000,000 mark soon after the gates were opened. MOROCCAN REBELS DIE Itoghi, leader of Band a Prisoner, While Others Arc Decapitated. Tangier, Aug. 19. A courier who left Fez Aug. 13, has arrived here and confirms the reported capture of Roghi, the rebellious subject of the sultan of Morocca. and says he prob ably will be brought into Fez. Rog- hi's chamberlain and many of his followers captured in the recent en I counter with the government forces were decapitated, while others wee tortured. Large numbers of Roghian prisoners are being taken to Fez. EXPL0SI0NKILLS TWO Accident on l'cre Marquette Fatal to Engineer and Fireman. Grand Ledge, Mich., Aug. 19. Engi- I neer William Brately and Fireman Fred L. Graves were killed about mid I night w hen the boiler on a west bound I Pere Marquette passenger train ex- Iploded two miles east of here, wreck I ing the train. - A coach was over- I turned and one sleeping car was de- I railed, but no passengers were ser I tously injured BLOCKED THE BRIDGE LINE Losing of Transfer Wagon Wheel . .Ties Up" Street Car Service. Last evening at 5:15 the street car system on the bridge line was blocked for 30 minutes. -. One 1 of the Robb j transfer wagons lost a wheel on Twen I ueth street - and ' Third avenue just wnere uie cars turn. The wagon was heavily loaded with paper and it was some time before the vehicle could be - 11 I movea. - 'I ne - accident nrrarrcH . venience resulted Several. Marks Lowered. on the Hew $400, 000 Speedway; CHEVROLET STARRK1& Leading;art End of; 50; rjlein, i: . There,1 ToOi . f - - , ... r"- 'Indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 19.- At '.the-jf end-of! 50 miles in the-250-milc racM- Chevrefot was leading,.' his jjme being ; 46 mttrVte 54 seconds. - In.dlahapoIis.VJnd,, Aug. If . TUe-; $40jd;'ldIanapiI18 , speedway Vai form:aljy'on'ea,'if "tipon todfry withti; prograflTMHy oye weij Daiancea racea -a. withiL2$. HiO riBd,ending the dayV r . srrt.lTrr&nmehe' crowd of auto'mV.-: " A,' bile ejrtjknslasts fromt.U parts of ; tpe1 . ' r''. , , s v. . JL 4 Tbd summaries of fevers run off Jn -the early part of thetey are as fol-' -' lows: . " .V. .' - , " ''''.-- Event No. 1 Five iniles strippfed ' chassis, 161 to 230 cubic inches pis-' 'C: ton displacement: Stoddard-Dayton,' , . Schwitzer, first; Stoddard - Dayton,' i; Wright, second; time 5:132-5. - 5'; Brrakn America itrtrord. " .."r ' Ten miles stripped chassis, 231 f.o 300 cubic inch piston displacement . : -Buick, Chevrolet, first, Buick. Strang. second; time 8:56 4-10. This. hi new American track record, breaking the former mark of 9:12, held by Barney Oldfield. ' - v ' Five-mile, stripped chassis,' 301 to '. 450 cubic - inch piston displacement;' V Buick. ; Burman, first; Knox, ' Bor"que JJ second.',Tim'4U$yt. - ) " V '" Ten-mile free-for-all handicap: ; Mar--" ? mon, Stillman, handlcafi 1 minute' 25S.r, seconds,: first;- Jackson, -Xynclt, Cliandl : can 1:30. second . Time .&22.1., t3 X XncHilier-American track fetiori " ff smashed when Barney Oldfield; dro re? v t nis nign powerea neuz oue.mue iu uo - f- phenomenal lime of 43.1. , ' GOES FAR TOIuEOi Miss Julia. Hutchinson, Leader. in Muscatine Society, Ofk for Japan. ; i 0BERLIN COLLEGE ROMANCE 'St Met Groom to be, Who ,1s Civil En cineer on Oriental-Railroad, While at SchooK Muscatine, Iowa, Ang. 19. As tlfd culmination of a romance begun . at Oberlin college seven years ago, . Misi' ' ' "?JV( Julia Hutchinson daughter or a prom -r . inent Muscatine lumberman and. capU . - 3 talist, departed yesterday for Yoko- t- ;jj nama, japan, wuere sne win De mar ried to ,Ralph Harding Sept 11. She will travel 11.000 miles before she meets her fiance, and following the marriage the couple will take a 2,000- mile trip through the orient. Miss Hutchinson left yesterday af ternoon in an automobile for Iowa City, and at night boarded a train at" Cedar Rapids for San Francisco, from where she will sail Aug. 24. Is Civil KnRlnrer. Harding is a civil engineer iu charge of the construction department of tho ; Manila Limited railway. He is a grad uate of Oberlin college and Case Scl- eutific school. The couple will reside at Tanauam, 75 miles from Manila, and' ' will also maintain quarters in Manila. CITY OF 30,000 GETS NO HILi Lorain, Ohio, Aug. 19. The milk-: men of Lorain today put into effect a ' threatened boycott. As a result ot tho" city council's severe' milk regulation" almost the entire population of 30,000r ' ate breakfast without cream or ifcilk SENDS CONGRATULATIONS. . Taft Remembers birthday of Emper- or of Austria. ; .Washington, Aug. 19. President' Taft yesterday sent the" following cou- gratulatory dispatch to Emperor Fran' cis .Joseph: "Qn this anniversary oft you majesty's birth I offer you my cori . dial congratulations with a fitting exy pression of good will this government and people bear for J your" cootttrteif and wishes Xor their prosperity." ; V 4i v 8;:Tf! . .. . ... 'St ' H 'ii' '.'. if