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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1910. e BOULDER RESISTS 50-POUND BLAST Requires Second Charge to Dis . lodge Menacing Obstruc tion in River. FALLS OUT OF THE BANK Government Engineering Forces De stroy Rig Rock Which Caused Sinking of Helen Rlalr. It required 100 pounds of dynamite to dislodge the huge rock boulder at the lower point of Suburban island that caused the sinking of the steamer Helen Blair and tore a hole in a barge of the Lone Star during the past week. Two 50-pound blasts were used. The first failed, but the second charge did the business. The dynamiting of the obstruction was supervised by Captain J. C. Mc Elherne of the United States engi neers office of this city. The acci dent to the Helen Blair and the Lone Star were reported to the engineers' office immediately after they happened and orders were issued for the removal of the obstruction. The boulder was first located and a buoy placed over it as a warning to other passing craft. Yesterday afternoon Captain Mc Elherne took a force of men to the lower point of the island equipped to break up the troublesome rock. A hole waj bored and the first charge of dyna mito placed in it. Seemingly it did not get a solid hold, and after the smoke had cleared away the rock was found to be intact. The second charge was more firmly lodged and it did the work clean, the boulder being blasted into thousands of bits and scattered over the bottom of the river. KiK lit Feet la Height. The boulder stood eight feet high. Where it came from probably will never be definitely known, but the "Lioory i:-: that it rolled out of the em bailsmen: when the ice broke up in the sorir.2 at which time the water was unusually low During low water kidnej-s congested causing numerous !"icqncntly at points along the river j diseases. The stomach and liver boulders become loos.g in the banks i must be restored to a healthy conal roll into the stream. tion and Chamberlain's Stomach and j Liver Tablets can be depended upon Ferguson Files Petition, to do it. Easy to take and most er- The petition of S. J. Ferguson, j fective. Sold by all druggists. S O C IELTY With Mrs. Tucker. The July meeting of the Young j People's branch was held last even- i ing at the home of Mrs. N. P. Tuck er, 1218 Twenty-ninth street. Rout ine business occupied the members and one new member was admitted to the society. Following the pro gram the evening was spent in games p.nd general sociability. Announce ments as to the place of the August meeting will be given later. The! program: Songs Society. Scripture reading Miss Anderson. j Minnie ! Roll c.Hll. 1 Piano solo Miss Myrtle Summers, j Reading, ' t land Picking" Miss! Amanda Anderson, Vocal selections Bert Plough, Stanley Ege and Lawrence Simpson. Bennett- Xagel. Yesterday morning at 8:30 at St. John's Methodist church, Davenport, occurred the marriige of Miss Anna H. Nagel of Riverview place, to Dr. J. Burt Bennett of Boston. Mass., Dr. J. A. Burchit performing the mar-I riage ceremony. The attendants j were Miss Helen K. Xagel and Charles H. Xagel, relatives of the bride. Dr. and Mrs. Bennett left immediately after the ceremony for Chicago. They will be at home Aug. 5, after a wedding trip to Niagara Falls, and into Canada, and in Bos ton, Mass. The bride is a Davenport girl, who has always made her home In that city. Dr. Bennett is an op tician and specialist, the son of Charles I. Bennett of Boston. Sociablo at Association House. Tomorrow afternoon from 2 to 5 there will be an ice cream sociable at the Association house, 637 Seven teenth street, ice cream and cake be- HOT-WEATHER DYSPEPSIA It is a well known fact that it 13 harder to digest cold food than warm food, and as most of the food eaten in hot weather is iced, a great amount of diges tive suffering: results. It is well to be careful about what you eat in hot weather, ygg and not to over-eat, but it is-more important no AI (tmaITI ic sti11 " yu are suffering from indigestion to c v mi n dp ncm have 5t cured promptly. It is hard enough at STKUr ffcfiair! best to bear up under terrible heat, but when the stomach is loaded with food it cannot digest and the bowels are clogged with decaying matter, the whole system becomes congested. You become subject to headaches, colds, fever, constipation and a dozen and one ailments that make life a burden. Take a few doses of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin and you will find immediate relief and in a short time a permanent cure. It .will cleanse the stomach and bowels and give your system a new start. Appetite, good spirit, sound sleep and energy will soon return and your dyspepsia will have vanished. The cost is only 50 cents or $1.00 a bottle, and there is sufficient for you and year family. A TRIAL BOTTLE FREE OF CHARGE can be had by writing to DR. V. B. CALDWELL, 400 Caldwell Bid., Monticello. III. superintendent of county schools, for a place upon the republican ballot at the primary election in September, was filed yesterday afternoon with the county clerk. This makes six petitions now on file and more are expected from time to time. Thus far the only contest is for the nom ination for county treasurer, to which office William H. Whiteside and Charles J. Peterson, both of Mo line, aspire. IS BEER SPIRITS OR' JUST PLAIN LIQUOR? i . Question One Brewing Interests Are Now Discussing With the Indian Bureau. Washington, July 19. Is beer spirits or liquor? Upon the determination of that question will depend whether or not the beverage can be introduced into Moorhead, Minn., which is situ ated on ceded Indian lands and is said to be the shipping poiDt of the brewers for trade in North Dakota, a "dry" state. Brewers claim beer is not spir itous liquor, and consequently does not come within the prohibition .con tained in the treaties under which the lands were ceded, but it is for them to convince the Indian bureau beer is not spiritous liquor. LAY TRACK TO ALEDO SOON Stub of Rock Island Southern Is Rap idly Xearing Completion. Grading for the Aledo stub of the Rock Island Southern will be complet ed this week and the laying of track will be started at once. The Walshes, owners of the road, interviewed at Monmouth yesterday, refused to set a date for the probable beginning of elec tric service on the main line, but said I the material for the pow,er house on Edwards river is all on hand now and that good progress is being made. Bal lasting the line is going ahead rapidly and the track will be sufficiently set tled by the time the interurban cars are put on early in the fall so that a fast schedule can be maintained from the start. When the stomach fails to per form its functions, the bowels be come deranged, the liver and the ling served. The function will be un- der the joint auspices of the ladies' auxiliary of the Humane society and the Association house committee and the proceeds will be used in the work. Dinner and Farewell Party. Mrs. George Brinkerhoff. 925 Four teenth street, gave a dinner and farewell party yesterday for her 'for mer neighbors, Mrs. Will Pate. Mrs. Jessie Mooney of Sears. Mr. and Mrs. Eben Seline and Mrs. Jessie Gofen of Kansas. The latter home tomorrow. leaves for her Ice Cream Sociable. The Ladies' Mission society t ( the First Swedish Lutheran church wll give an ice cream sociable on tna lawn of the parsonage, Twelfth street and Fourth avenue, Tuuisday evening. Auxiliary Card Party. The ladies auxiliary of tha E.igios will give a card party at the E-igl-fs home tomorrow afternoon. Cinch will be the game and playing will bo- gin promptly at 2 o'clock. The p-ty is for members and friends, Eastern Star Sociable. The Eastern Star chapter of Milan will give a lawn sociable Thursday evening on the lawn at tho home of James McQuaid at the end of the street car line in Milan. Thirty Club Dance Postponed. The dancing party to have betn given Thursday evening by the Thirty club at the Watch Tower iun ha? been postponed. x Relief Corps Sociable. The Woman's Relief carps will give a sociable in the corridor of the court house tomorrow evening. IS MODEL HOTEL FOR LIVE STOCK Rock Island Road Overhauling Its Yards at Carbon Cliff. 2,382 CARLOADS IN YEAR Electric Light Plant to Be Installed Alleys and Chutes of Concretes Interesting Establishment. Carbon Cliff, July 19. Improvements some of them now under way and others proposed promise to make the Rock Island road stock yards here a veritable model hotel for comfort of cattle, sheep, hogs and horses en transit between points west and points east. These stock yards, which are the big gest maintained at this end of the Rock Island system, were opened for live stock in November three years ago. The yards will rank among the most modern in the entire country when the following improvements are completed: General overhauling, now under way. Installation this fall of an electric light plant. Concreting of alleys and chutes, half completed. Proposed concreting of floors of all stock yard pens. Proposed erection of an addition to be used as "quarantine" quarters for Texas live stock, now tabooed in the yards. The two improvement plans last mentioned are only tentative and may not be carried out for tome time. Materialization of the others has either already been begun or will be started this fall. Already the stock yards contain mod ern features as follows: Sheds over pens for live stock. Complete fire-fighting system. Excellent water system, which pipes drinking water to every pen. Excellent facilities for quick loading and unloading of stock, which enables f yard attendants to handle many car-1 loads each day during rush season. i The general overhauling included a ; thorough eleanning of all the pens fol-1 lowing a busy winter during which a record breaking number of carloads of j live stock was handled. . ( Kleetrie l.lh Ilnnt. The electric plant in the stock yards will be quite an innovation, as every j pen will be wired, thus making the "room" of the live stock guests as up-to-date in one way at least as are the suljes in the metropolitan hostelries. haunted by members of the hugian family. Then, too, the quarters at Hotel Livestock have better "running water in every room" than is furnished by some of the $3 per day resorts pat ronized by Pullman car travelers, not to mention the select quality of the cafe menu homegrown hay, Illinois corn and guaranteed oats which is tendered the quadrupeds en transit to Chicago and oblivion. The electric plant wil be operated by a four-horse power engine that will be j installed in addition to the gasoline affair that operates the watering sya tem. The watering system is made up of a big windmill, the gasoline engine for use on days when 'the west wind is at a lull, and a storage tank from which the flow descends by gravity to live stock pens. Hydrants there are con venient to the watering troughs, and it is possible for employes to start the flow without even entering the "apart ment" set aside for Mr. Steer or Mr. Hog. The same attentive feature is noted in connection with the manner in which food is "served." The racks in the var ious pens are always stocked to the limit with sweet-smelling hay in order that the hungry transients may come down the chutes, enter their quarters and eat to their fill without preliminar ies and ceremony. Operate ."2 Pen. Some idea of the size of this hostelry maintained by a railroad for live stock passing over its lines is gained from the statement that there are 52 pens in the yards, which cover 2 acres. The railroad also holds CO acres of level, loamy adjacent farm land from which two crops of fine hay and a crop of oats are taken annually and used as partial supply for the seemingly bot tomless "larder." Accommodations of the hostelry are limited but by no means meagre. At various times as many as 65 carloads of live stock have been accommodated at one time. C03 Carload la One Month. The busiest month in the history of the Carbon Cliff yards was last Febru ary. During that month 603 loads of cattle, sheep and hogs were cared for. For these transients it was necessary to provide: Pounds of hay 86,650 Bushels of corn 1,295 Bushels of oats 2S8 Nobody knows how many gallons of water. The law says that the minimum time to be spent at the hostelry by any live stock is five hours. Many of the well-to-do quadrupeds, whose owners are possessed of affluence above the aver age, manage to content themselves with spending a day, more or less, at the yards. Of course, this question of length of visit is also determined to some extent by the promptness with which freight trains get under way during winter months when traffic is at It3 height. To Knve Quarantine I'enaf The j!au for a "quarantine" will, if J carried out, result in the building of Here Are Three Very Important Features That should be considered when building a home. Have your house properly wired for ELECTRICITY Have the house properly piped fof GAS And have, the pipes put in that will allow you to use a sanitary VACUUM CLEANER They carry all the dirt and dust into the cellar no more sweeping or worry ing about dirty furnishings. TTfo Jr copies what will be called a "southern divis ion" to the stock yards. It will be for cattle from the south, just as the pres ent yards are for northern and west ern cattle. The reason southern cat tle Texas natives will be put under quarantine Is they have the "tick." Bualnenn Methods l'revall. The administration of the yards is on a basis exactly like that of a mod ern hostelry for the human family. In the first place, the shippers pay the hotel bills of their live stock, state- mcnts being prepared and presented to the owners by the railroad com pany. Then a complete set of books showing when each car is loaded at the starting point, when each carload is unloaded at the yard;', when reload ed at the yards, number of head in each car and what condition they are in is kept by Manager Wietz. These books also contain full record of ex penditures made for provisions, amount of provisions purchased, wages paid hired help, and the incidental running expenses. At the end of each fiscal year it is possible for Manager Wietz to figure up his expenses and his earn ings, thus arriving at net receipts. This reDort is turned in at the head ; offlces of (he raiiroad comnanv. Today in the Markets Chicago, July 10. Following are the quotations on the markers today: Wheat. July, 10934, 111934, 108 , lOSJfc. September. 1073., ICS, lOoA, 105. December, 109'4, 109, 107V4. 107Vi -Oorru July. 59T. 597s. 59, 59. September. Cl. 61. 6ua4. 60. December, 59, 59 Vb. 5S, 0SV2. Oats. July. 41'i. 41. 40, 41. September, 39, 39 39, 39'. December, 40, 40, 40, 40. Pork. July, closed 25.25. September, 21.52. 21.55, 21.32, 21.35. Lard. July, 11.57, 11.57. 11.50, 11.75. September. 11.72. 11.72. 11.57. 11.57. October, 11.57. 11.60, 11.45, 11.45. Ribs. July, closed 11. S2. September. 11.50, 11.52. 11.37, 11.42. Receipts today Wheat 56, corn 330, oats 222, hogs 12,000, cattle 6,000, sheep 20,000. Estimated receipts Wednesday Wheat 40, corn 176, oats 156, hogs 23.000. Hog market opened steady. Hogs left over 2.400. Light 8.65$? 9.00. mixed and butchers 8.50 8.90, good heavy 8.20 8. 75, rough heavy 8.20 8.35. Cattle market opened steady. Sheep market opened steady. Hog market closed 5c higher. Bulk sales 8.45(5 8.75. light 8.65 qi 9.05, mixed and butchers 8.50 9.05, mix ed and butchers 8.50 8.90, rough heavy 8.25 (?r 9.40. Cattle market closed steady. Sheep market closed steady. Northwestern receipts Minneapo lis, today 175, last week 86, last year 68. Duluth, today 4 8, last week 74, last year 28. Export clearances Wheat and flour 77,000, corn 3,000, oats 600. IJverpool opening cables Wheat 14 higher, corn higher Liverpool closing Wheat to lower, corn unchanged. New York Stocks. New York, July 19. Following are the quotations on the market today: Gas 106 Union Pacific 162 U. S. Steel preferred 11C U. S. Steel common 70 1 i Reading 142'4 Rock Island preferred 732 Rock Island common 32 Northwestern t 1424 Southern Pacific .' 114 New York Central 11394 Missouri Pacific 5SVs Great Northern 125 Northern Pacific 11834 Louisville & Nashville 143 Smelters 69 Colorado Fuel & Iron 31 Canadian Pacific 1S5 Pennsylvania 12SH Erie 24 Vi Lead eg C. & O 73 Brooklyn Rapid Transit 77',4 Baltimore & Ohio 109 'i Atchison ... 98 Sugar 119 St. Paul 123 Copper 59 Vs LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS. July 19. Following are the quota tions on the local market today: Fresh Eggs 19c. Live Poultry Old hens, 12V6c pound, springs, 40c. Butter Dairy, 22c to 25c; creamery, 28c. Potatoes New, 75c. Lard 15c. Feed and Fuel. Grain Corn, 75c; oats, 43c to 44c. Forage Timothy hay, $11. wild hay, $12 to 517; straw. $6.50. Coal Lump, per bushel, 15c; slak, 8 c. Wood $4.50 per load. Sales on Market square in last 24 hours up to noon today: Corn Three loads at 75c. Oats Three loads at AZc and 44c LOUIS McKAY IS HELD ON LARCENY CHARGE Alleged to Have Sfoltn Chickens Be longing to 15. Benson of This City. Louis McKay has been held to the i lu -""fP"'s w" ue mane, on me grand jury under bonds of $1,000 on ajthlrd day ,he feature e a munici - charge of burglary and larcenv as a I Pal Parad1. and on the fourth day there result of his having stolen a number of chickens several nights ago. The owner of the missing fowls is B. C. Bensop, 1012 Seventeenth street. Sev eral mornings ago he missed six valua ble Plymouth Rock hens and one ban tam, and the police were notified. They succeeded in rounding up Mc Kay and finding the goods oa him. He refused to say anything about the affair or how he got the chickens, but the police magistrate had no doubt but that he is guilty and accordingly he was held to the grand jury. The chickens were returned to their owner. BRIST0W IN WARM REPLY TO SPEAKER (Continued fron Page One.l zincs and letters. Candidates for con gress are asked. 'Will you pledge your self not to vote for that old czar for speaker?' Oh, the scanegoat. This little 154 pounds of clay cannot bear many sins off into the wilderness. If my constituency is as kind to me as it has been for 36 years, I will go back, if God spares my life, and be in the next congress, either in the majority or in the minority, and I would rather be there in a republican minority, a real virile republican minority, than to be one of an apparent majority that could not take account of stock and know from one day to the other whether it was the majority or the minority. . They wanted me to pledge that I would not be a candidate for speaker if the republicans have a ma jority of the next house. Know of No Crime. "They will meet in caucus and select a candidate for speaker. I will be in that caucus and I will vote for the man the caucus selects. I know of no crime I have committed that should bar me from entering a republican caucus. If vou ask whether I want, to be speaker of the house of representatives longer than eight years, I have been speaker ihat long because my friends thought I could be most useful as a member of congress in that position. But as long as God lets me live the muck-raking periodicals and the so-called independ ent or insurgent republicans shall not make me say that I will not be a can didate for speaker any more than they shall make me say, if I am again elect ed to congress, that I will not vote when my name is called." Smallpox Patient's Condition. R. A. Devore was reported today from the pest house as being in prac tically the same condition as when he was taken there Sunday suffering with smalipox. No new cases have develop ed and it is hoped that none will re sult. News came from Monmouth to day that the coach in which Devore j came to this city over the Rock Island Southern has been thoroughly fumi gated. Dr. A. N. Mueller, health coui missioner, expects to hear tomorrow from the state beard of health regard ing the complaint of negligence which he has lodged with that body against the authorities of Knox county. Power Company PROBLEMS OF CITY Topics to Be Discussed at Con vention of League of Munici palities at St. Paul. DELEGATES GO FROM HERE Mayor G. W. MrCaskrin Will Head a Party of Officials That Will Take Pait in Four Days Meeting. Mayor George W. McCaskrin has re ceived an invitation to attend the 14th annual metiing cf the League of Amer ican Municipalities which convenes in St. Paul this year. The mayor and other city officials are planning to at tend. The convention will be in ses sion four days, Aug. 23 to 20, inclusive, and the following topics are on the program for discussion in open meet ing: Home rule for cities; govern ment by commission; city art museum; street paving problem; what other cit ies are doing, and lines in which some cities excel. On the first day of the session there will be an auto excursion for the delegates, on the second a trip I v'm be an excursion on -the Mississippi 1 river. The pession will be held in the new Auditorium, which was recently completed and which will be used for the first time by this convention. The H. K. Casteel. Pres. M. S. Heagy. Y. P. from WHEN IX ?S Bank your money and rest easy. Burglars can't ct it, and whenierw and fair weather friends wuu'l be o apt to make your money their money. We pay liberal interest consistent with safety 4 per cent. Make OUR Bank YOUR Bank. Central Trust & Savings Bank 'r-V-V Prtnri P r jW 7. 1 1 CHANNON & D5JFVS East Seventeenth St. Rock Island headquarters for the officers of the league will be at the New St, Paul hotel. I. urn I Man an Orcanlirr. The League of American Municipali ties was organized 14 years ago, and Hon. T. J. Medill, then mayor of Rock Island, was one of the principal organ izers. The league grew by leaps and bounds and each year It came to mean, more until now it is known all over the country and thousands of delegates at tend the meetings. FARMERS' ELEVATOR AT TAYLOR RIDGE Company Incorporated With $10,000 Capital to Handle Grain. IroI urp and Supplies. Taylor Ridge is to have a mutual ele vator company. Yes'erday at the office of the t-ecre'ary of stale at Springfield a license to incorporate the Farmers' Elevator company with capital of $10, 000 was secured. The incorporators are George T. Harris. J. C. Hofer and W. E. Parmenter. All three are sub stantial farmers of the vicinity. The license confers the ripht to deal In erain. dairv products, implements and farm supplies. It is underwood tnat 1 the intention is to purchase the old ; Crawford elevator at Taylor Ridge and j conduct it on new and aggressive lines. All the Argus. news a.. the time Th II. It. fiimmon. Cash. m THE fawi fojb Ai .THnnr.H s- the most neglected, the plumbing system of a house is undoubtedly the most important part of it on account of the infiuen.ee it has upon health. Reliable plumbing work and BANK T"'. Si IIS dependable fixtures will make vour home safe and comfortable. We guar antee our workmanship, and supply 'XavdsoKS guaranteed fixtures. Let Us Quote You. 8