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ISLAND ABOTT VOIj. M. NO. 73. HOCK ISLAND, HiL,., TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1902. PRICE TWO CENTS. LIST IS OUT QUITE A NEW ISSUE AN IOWA MYSTERY INSULT FROM CHILI GERMANY'S STAND FIXES CRANE ROCK TEW PERISH Of the United States Rep resentatives to King's Coronation. HAS MANY SURPRISES Whitelaw Reid at Head- Clark for Navy The Others. Washington, Jan. 14. The secre tary of state today announced the names of the following jersons who Gl". J. II. WILSON, are to be special representatives of the United States government at the coronation of King Kdwnrd: Special ambassador Whitelaw Iteid. Representative of the army Gen. James II. Wilson. IJepresentative of the navy Capt. Charles K. Clark, commander of the battleship Oregon. Secretaries J. P. Morgan, Jr., CAPT. CHARLES E. CLARK. son of J. Pierpont Morgan, Edmund Lincoln Bn-lies. barrister. New York; William Wetmore, son of Senator Wet more, Ilhode Island. GORMAN ELECTED Returned to Senate by the 3Iary land Legisla ture. Annapolis, Jan. ,14. Arthur Pue Gor man was today elected United States senator to succeed GeorgeL. Welling ton. The vote: Gorman. CS; Jack son, (rep.)."2. Murray A. Vandiver (dem.) was re elected state treasurer for two years. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 14. James D. McCreary was formally elected sen ator by the two houses of the legis lature today in separate session. The vote will be ratified in joint session tomorrow. Columbus, O., Jan. 14. The house and senate balloted separately today for 'United States senator. Joseph It. Foraker the caucus nominee of the republicans, received 87 votes to 53 for Hon. Charles W. Baker, of Cin cinnati, democratic nominess. Both houses will meet in joint session Wednesday to formally select For aker. DUE HONOR TO SCHLEY Is What Maryland Will Ask of Con-gress-Bronze Bust at Annapolis. Annapolis, Md., Jan. 14. In the house of delegates tonight Delegate Broening (rep.) presented a memor ial to congress asking1 that body to adopt the report of Admiral Dewey in the Schley court of inquiry as the verdict of congress. Delegate Griffith (rep.) presented a joint resolution authorizing the gov ernor to have executed by a Mary land artist a bronze bust of Hear Ad miral W. S. Schley, to lie placed in the statehouse at Annapolis. ) Raised in the House Between Vets Who Smelt Powder and Others. GRAND ARMY EEPOET IS RESENTED By Grosvenor and Hepburn New Ex Confederate Proposition Chi cago Drainage Canal. Washington, Jan. 14. The house of representatives spent yesterday lu gen ral .discussion of the pension appro priation bill, the first of the annual budgets. The debate took a wide range. Grosvenor and Hepburn de nounced a report presented to the la6t O. A. R. encampment criticising the course of themselves and other mem bers of congress on the veteran "pref- rence" bill, which was defeated at the last session. They explained that their opposition to the bill was due to the Incorporation In the bill of a clause which had not been Indorsed by the G. A. It. placing veterans of the Span ish war In the preferential class. GnMTtnor and Hepburn Explain. In assailing the report Grosvenor said that his objection to the bill, for voting against which . he was de nounced, was that It contained a pro vision which would have given prefer ence over the old soldier of the rebel lion to a quarter of a million men who enlisted in the SiMinlsh-American war. He did Dot think the provision just. Hepburn pointed out that the bill as indorsed by the G. A. It. and as orig inally Introduced, did not contain the provision giving preference to veter ans of the Spanish war. "Some of the veterans of the Spanish war, he said. were as much entitled to be In the pref erential class as the veterans of the civil war. but the vast majority of the i(MKK) Spanish volunteers had not heard a hostile jrun fired, and lie was unwilling that they should be placed li a preferential class fron which the civil service would be recruited for the next twenty-live years. Confederate at I'nlon Homes. Itixey of Virginia submitted an argu ment In favor of a bill introduced by nlni to admit Confederate veterans to rational soldiers homes and to extend the same national aid to state Confed erate homes In the south as was ex tended to state Union homes. The re strictions against ex-Confederates par ticipating In the government and against ex-Confederates holding com missions Jn the army or navy having been removed, he argued that the sol diers homes barrier which stands across the path of ex-Confederate sol diers also should be removed. Itlch- ardson of Tennessee, the Democratic leader, declared that never wonld he be willing to see ex-Confederates enter I nion homes. The Iiemocrats agreed with Richardson and the debate was lively, but no action was taken on the bill during the session. WOILD MAKE THE CANAL A LINK Chicago Drainage Freiiented aa a Great Maritime Highway. Washington, Jan. 14. The project of giving a national aspect to the Chi cago drainage canal, making it a link in water connection between the creat lakes and the gulf, was considered yesterday by the house committee on rivers and harbors. Two delegations from Chicago were present one in cluding the officers of the sanitary dis trict interesteu in this larger nroiect and another beaded by ex-Itepresenta-tlve Adams, of Chicago, who appeared in advocacy of improved navigation facilities, including turning basins in the Chicago river. The latter project was first presented by Adams, who explained the vast magnitude of the commerce on the river and the difficulties and dangyrs incident to navigation at this time. The city is making extensive Improvements. widening the channel, erecting the most modern bridges, etc.. costing in the aggregate about $11,1(00,000. AH of this benefited the general naviga tion interests 'and it was desired that the federal government supplement the wors by providing turning basins to cost alout $.ViO,ono. ' W. II. Baker, chairman of the com mittee representing the canal trustees. stated the general purposes of the proj ect of extending that waterway . to the Mississippi and thence giving a deep water channel to St. Louis. For the present -the committee asked onlv a government survey, to develop the reasiniiity and advantages of the plan, this survey to cost oo.ooo. Baker did not go into the general merits of the project, saying that the arguments were the same as those so fully pre sented last year. J3 SCHLEY'S FRIENV WILL WAIT No Move In III Behalf Cntil the President I Through With the Case. Washington. Jan. 14. The Maryland delegation In Congress, including sena tors and representatives yesterday considered the course to be pursued on the Schley case, and reached a deter mination that pending the decision of President Roosevelt on the apitcal to be made by Admiral Schley to the chief executive it woud be iuadvisable for the delegation to urge upon congress any of the resolutions or bills intro duced. The meeting was attended by Senator McComaa and by all of the representatives from Maryland except Jackson, who was out of the city. The various resolutions and bills now before congress were gone over. and it waa the general sentiment of those present that the delegation would te favorable to any one of the meas ures which fully vindicated Admiral Schley. Hut for the present, in view of the admiral's placing the matter be fore President Roosevelt, the delega tion deemed it Inexpedient to deter mine upon any particular measure or to urge the matter before congress. Henry u. cayne, tne new postmaster rcperaL takes office, tomorrow, That Involved in the Death of Miss Mable Schoe field. - RUNNING DOWN THE MURDERER Pes Moines Offlcers Believe They Have Apprehended Him. Des Moines, la., Jan. 14. Charles Thomas, of Des Moines, was arrested on the charge of administering knock out drops to Mabel Schoelield on Oct. 21, 1S!K. The dose proving fatal, her body was thrown into the river. De tectives think they have track of the party who helped him carry the body to the river. Attorney W. A. Spurrier states that the prosecution will be able to show that two days before the death of Miss Schoelield Thomas purchased from Druggist Hansen, then doing business at the corner of Eighth aud Locust streets, a quantity of chloral, and that he stated at the time that he was in the employ of Wells & Kntes, under takers, aud that the drugs were for their use. Evidence of I'ae of Polnou. Tue'contents of the dead girl's stom ach have b-cn analyzed by Professor Macy.. of Highland Park college, who found there were large quantities of both chloral and chloroform. Several physicians have testified that there was enough chloral alone to have killed eight or ten persons. IS A GREAT SUCCESS Klectricity as a Means of Propulsion on New York It v Iload. New York, Jan. 14. Electricity dis placed steam as morlve power on the Second avenue line of the Manhattan Elevated Railway company, and the experiment proved n complete success. In the near future the entire system will be operated ly electricity. The run from the I lattery to the end of the line. One Hundred aud Twenty ninth strcVt, is now made In less fhan half he tlme.and the accommodations cr passengers have been materially incn anl. Not only in the speed at tained is the improvement noticeable, but also in the kind of cars used. One of the minor facilities for tle comfort of the public is the ease with which the cars are brought to a stop and started, doing away with the Jolting and discomfort Which attends the use of steam power. The tii-st train to make a regular run started at lo a. m. yesterday. The trial run was made last week, when about 200 financial men. electrical en gineers and representatives of the trac tion companies were passengers. There was no hitch in the schedule and the regular trains were not Inter fered with. The principal difference in the cars Is that they are larger than fhone in use on. cither branches of the system, and are well lighted with in candescent lights. The arrangement of seats is the same as in the old cars. The roofs are higher, and for sanitary pt'nos" wooden racks liave been sub stituted for mats on the floorsc During the rush hours six-car trains will be run instead of five-Var trains increasing rite carrying capacity 20 per cent. Each six-car train consists of f-.mr motor cars and two trailers, each of the four motor cars being equipped with two motors, which develop 30O horse power, the total weight of mo tors for each train lteing about GTi.000 lHunds and tire total 'horse power a train 1,2M(. Th eold-style locomotive weighs alHut 40.00O iounds. which is more than the weight of the eight mo tors and develojw only irlnut '( horse power, or one-quarter of that of the motors. Eliilitt f n hundred of the new motors have 'been ordered. These motors take the place of about 3kj locomotives, and will operate more and heavier trains at higher average singed, thus giving more satisfactory service to patrons of the line. THEY ALL LAY DOWN Masked Thugs Hold Up a Pool . 1 too i ii and Get $2,500. Kansas City, .Ian. 14. Two young men of slight build, with handker chiefs tied across the lower portion of their faces, entered Harry H. Chick's pool room at Jo7 Baltimore avenue, one block from the center of the city, at 7 p. m. yesterday and with drawn revolvers commanded the proprietor, cashier and three other employes who were in the place to lie down on the floor, secured between $1,500 and $2, r0, and escaped. A third man. supposed to be a con federate, but not masked, guarded the entrance while the robbery was com mitted. Jimmy Drlseoll. an employe who did not readily comply with the command to He down, received a heavy blow on the head with a revolver from one of the robbers. Dr. J. A. Frame, the cashier, also received a slight blow on the head. Pot On Free Uat. Washington, Jan. 14. Representa tive Babcock, of Wisconsin, today in troduced a bill placing a numler. of articles on the iron and steel sched ule on the free list, materially re ducing duties on other articles throughout the ' iron and steel schedule. Miners Lose Their Lives By After Damp Ex plosion. . BODIESARERECOVERED Fire Breaks Out, Bu.t is Subdued With Little . Damage. South McAllister, I. T.. Jan. 14. Ten miners lost their lives in an explosion last evening in the Dow Mining' company's mine at Dow, I. T. The ten men were the only persons in the pit. None is left to tell the story. I todies Recovered. All the bodies were recovered, and as none was burned -the conclusion is that death was due to after-damp. The explosion did not injure the shaft. The fire that followed was put out before much damage was done. RATHBONE HEARD One of the Principals in the Al leged Cuban Postal Frauds on the Stand. MAKE3 A VERY GOOD IMPRESSION Declaring Himself ,Anxious to Give Testimony, Wben Told He Could liefuee. Havana, Jan. 14. The hearing of the charges growing out of the Cuban postottice frauds was resumed yester day afternoon. E. (J. Bathbone was unexpec tedly called ' by the govern ment. The court told him he had the right to refuse to testify if he so de sired, to which he replied he was glad of the opportunity to testify. His frank manner in answering questions evidently impressed the court. ,,The judges listened attentively to what Kathbone said when, explaining the de tails of the working of the department of posts, he asked the privilege of mak ing his statements more clear. The court questioned him concerning the appointments of Neely and lteeves, to which he replied that both men had been sent him by the department at Washington. He said that when As sistant Auditor J. D. Lawshe turned over the ottice and the postal accounts he highly recommended lteeves. Question A front the Word "Ordered." Much time was taken up discussing the question as to whether' or not Itathhone had issued an order to the effect that the Cuban postmasters ren der monthly accounts. It was due to the fact that the postmasters had not rendered accounts that lieeves was en abled to issue many duplicate war rants, most of which Reeves now says Neely cashed, keeping the money. Kathlone claims that orders for the Cuban postmasters to render monthly accounts were issued in June, 1N00, and that these orders were in the form of recommendations "from special agents that monthly accounts be car ried. On these recommendations Bath lone says he wrote the word "Or dered," signing his name below it. The government contends that the word "Ordered" was not written on the recommendations when the irregu larities in the postonice were discov ered. Co old Not See to Everything. Ilathbone produced letters written to his chief clerk in May. 11)00. calling the latter's attention to the fact that the order for monthly inspection had not been carried out. and asking an explanation. The fiscal asked Bath bone if it was not his place to see that his orders were carried out as well as to Issue them. To this the latter re plied that with all the details of the oflhH it was Impossible for him to see that everything was done. Value of Keevea' Testimony. The defense claims that so far the only real conclusion to be arrived at from the testimony of lteeves Is that he could have committed the alleged frauds himself, unaided by either Xeely or Kathbone, or both. TO BE SHAMROCK III Sir Thomas Lipton Places Order for Yacht With William Fife. London. Jan. 14. Sir Thomas Lin ton has placed an order for the con struction of Shamrock III with Will iam Fife. The latter has accented. The yacht will be ready in the early spring of 1003. - Danville's Glasa Factory Opens. Danville. Ills.. Jan. 14. The Danville window glass factory, tie largest plant of the kind In the state, commenced operations Sunday .night. The Dan ville Street Car company ran Its first cars Sunday oyer the aew glass work" line. - Furnished the Feature of the Pan-American Con gress. THE DELEGATE SHOWS INSOLENCE Incident Grows Out of Trivial Mat ter and is Passed Over. City of Mexico.'Jan. 14. Yesterday morning's session of the Pan-American conference had been dull enough, when toward the end a ripple of excitement was created. It began with an amend ment looking to the suppression of the linal protocol in order to enable the compulsory plan of arbitration to be re ported to the conference. This amend ment was carried by thirty votes. Chili abstaining from voting. Seuor Pardo, of Mexico, offered a substitute direct ing that all treaties reported by the .conference to the department of for eign relations should be drawn up in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Eng lish. Miserable Insult to the Congress. 'J hereupon Walker Martinez, or Chili, remarked that the hour of ad journment had passed, it being after 1 o'clock. It was provided, he said, by Article 10 of the rules that sessions should bein at lo o'clock and end at 1. President Uaigosa " called Senor Martinez attention to the fact that the session had not begun until nearly 11. Senor Martinez then rose from his place anil walked out of the hall, say ing audibly as he did so: "There is no answering that: this is a species of chicanery to which the people of this country are accustomed." Immediate ly afterward, upon the courteous re quest of Blest ( Jana. of Chili, the chair adjourned the session. IS'LEGALLY DEAD And Now Has to Convince the Court That He is Fully Alive. Kliin. Ills., Jan. l.". James Morrow, of this city, is in New York trying to convince the courts of that state that he is alive iu t.rder to establish his claim to a part of the .::jrMM estate left by his uncle. William McMahou, amounting to $1t;.tO0. Morrow came recently to Elgin after an absence of thirty years, in response to an adver tisement stating that ho was wonted as one of the heirs of the estate. He had disappeared in 1ST2 after being divorced from his wife. His son, in order to inherit his father's por tion of tlu estate, had him declared legally dead, according to the laws of New York state. Attorney It.- S. Egau. of Elgin, Is looking after the interests of Morrow, Sr. OMAHA JURY BRIBING Keport That They Have a Regular System in the Nebraska Metropolis. Omaha.'Neb.. Jan. 14. .systematic bribery of juries, which is said to have been practiced for five years by fran chisee! corporations of Omaha, i the subject of Investigation by the Douglas County Bar association. The findings will be laid before the grand jury now in session. The charges were brought by T. W. Blackburn, an attorney, who has discovered evidence of corruption in conducting personal damage cases against corporations'. A rh davits were presented which dis closed that a juror in -one case had been promised future employment in consideration of keeping a damage award down to $11(0. The fact was also brought out that interested cor porations without exception were able to secure acknowledged re present a lives on every jury panel which was likely to consider their litigation. WHITEHEAD FINED Aurora Evangelist Convicted of Misusing- Postal Cards. Chicago, Jan. 14. In the United Slates district court today the jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case if Jiev. William Whitehead, the ewiiigi li.-i of Aurora, charged with vt-ndmg a postal card to I. P. Bullis, f Orchard, Iowa, tearing scriptural notations calling Bullis a hypocrite. and charging him with disinheriting his daughter. Whitehead was fined $5C and costs. Pr-cculion of 1Jh1 Meat Veuders. Chicato. Ian. 14. Prosecution rainst l lie ve.i.Vss of diseased meats the siock yards district has been re l.v th irovrr:imeiit officials who h lave been Investigating the matter for vrr.il weeks n.-ist. The arrest of red Hess, a butcher at i203 Halsted St reet. was made yesterday. Hess is mrsred with having removed govern ch ment tags from condemned carcasses of beef. True Itlll Acnlnat Dr. Krause. Loudon, Jan. 14. The grand jury yesterday found a true bill against Dr. Kranse. the former goverjior of Jo hannesburg, on the charge of Inciting Cornelius Broocksinan, the ex-public prosecutor "oi Johannesburg (who was executed Sept. ,'WJastFto murder John Douglas Foster, an English lawyer, who was attached to Lord Koberts Eta ft Von Buelow Explains What the Kaiser s Government De sires to Accomplish. POLISH ' LANGUAGE IS NOT BAEEED But Polish Subjects of the Kaiser Must Learn to Speak; Ger man, He Says. Berlin, Jan. 14. The Imperial chan cellor, Count von . Buelow, replied in the lower house of the diet yesterday to Interpellations relative to the Polish question iu Prussia. The National Liberals desired to know how German ism was to be upheld, while the Polish members bitterly criticised the recent events at Wreschen, declaring that the sentences of the courts '"must have caused justice to veil her face in shame." Von Buelow prefaced his re marks by saying that the incidents at COUST VON BULOW. Wreschen had been greatly exagger ated, and had been utilized to plunge Oermauy into internecine difficulties, What had occurred was the fault of the Polish agitation, and not of the Prussian school system, which was the same as hadbeen enforced In the bi lingual districts for the past thirty years, and which was as little addicted to cruelty as. was the Prussian admin istration of justice. Pole Must I.frn to Speak German. Corporal punishment, the speaker said, would herealtcr be omitted dur ing religious instruction. No one pre vented the Poles from speaking Polish, but they must also learn to speak Ger man and participate m the German work of civilization. The chancellor disclaimed all desire to slight the Ko imm Catholics, saying the govern ment's policy was neither Trotestant nor Itoman Catholic, just as his policy was neither Lileral nor Conservative. "I know." added the chancellor, "only one ixilicy. just as I know only one single, individual nation. Questions at Issue Are National. '"The questions at issue in the east ern provinces are not religious, but national, thanks to our protection. There has arisen a community of Pol ish citizens which has now taken up the leadership of Polish agitation in a fantastical spirit, and which is closely connected with the Polish colonization commission. Now that these national conflicts are forced on us only two possible courses are open either to allow ourselves to be vanquished Avithout a struggle or to protect our skins. We cannot allow the roots of Prussian strength to rot. The Polish question is the most important before the nation, and on its settlement de pends the development of the immedi ate future of our fatherland. German Policy TCnrhatiffeable. "Our policy is unchangeable. If need be we shall provide further means to Improve the condition of the German peasantry, promote industry and establish garrisons. We hope to be able to cope with the situation with the existing legislation. We entertain no doubt of the loyalty of the members of this house, but I beg the house to have no doubt about the disloyalty of the Tollsh agitation." The chancellor concluded by assuring the Germans of east Prussia that the government would not deviate in the slightest from the track laid out by "that greatest German." the late Prince Bismarck. . Hart tout sevt-iiieen uays to .xrve. Morris. Ills., Jan. 14. Warren Wavne, who was sentenced last Sep tember to serve four months in the count v jail for extortion, died at the jail here Friday, having had but sev enteen more days to serve. He tried to secure JKtViO from Samuel I). Holder- man last April by means of a letter in wlricli he threatened to destroy Holder man's "residence by fire and has cattle by Hison if the money was not left at a lonelv place designated. A pack- a"e was left and the man captured after In-ing shot by hidden officers. He lived at ltav, Ind., and was 00 years old. - Col. Campbell's Candidacy. Flora. Ills.. Jan. 14. Colonel James Ii. Campbell's candidacy for the Re publican nomination for representa tive In the Twenty-fourth- district ia arousing much talk. He wasi former ly a Democrat and liis party honored him bv sending 'him to the state leg-1 iskirure for several terms. When the Snanish war began he went to Repub licanism and led a regiment to Cuba, j Later he served In the Philippines. He has served a term in congress. Ice Drives the Fishermen Home. St. Joseph, Mich., Jan. 14. Two weeks ago St. Joseph fishermen set nets In the lake, believing the Ice wonld not Interfere, but owing to re cent gales all have returned to port to await open weather. The tug Ed wards went out. but fai'ed to find the nets and returned to fld the harbor blocked with ice. It is believed that the nets, which are new and are seven miles long, will be carried away by the outer floating Ice. " President Arranges Place in Cabinet for Massa chusetts Man WITHOUT SACRIFICE Except as it Puts Him Out of Presidential Aspirant List. Washington, Jan. 14. It is now un derstood here that Winthrop Murray Crane, governor of Massachusetts, is slated to succeed John D. Long as secretary of the navy. So far as can be learned the present program is that Gov. Crane shall remain where he is until after the adjournment of the Massachusetts legislature. Then he will resign as governor of the state and accept the post ion of sec retary of the- navv, to succeed Mr. Long. Sacrifice Too Great. It is understood that Gov. Crane would have accepted the treasury portfolio had it not been for the f act that this would have necessitated disposing of all his Interests in the paper company of which he is presi dent and which has the contract for furnishing the government with dis tinctive paper for its notes and bonds. Gov. Crane felt that to give up all of his vast business interests would be too great a sacrifice. He will be enabled to hold on to them, however, if he goes into the cabinet as secretar3 of the navy. It is per haps a coincidence that he, too, has been frequently mentioned as a pos sible presidental candidate, and thus Mr. Bposevelt removes from his path- two possible rivals in 1004 because, of course, si cabinet officer could not properly oppose his chief in a nation al convention. Sees President and TLodk Gov. Crane was a caller at the White House yesterday. This was his first visit to Washington since he declined the flattering offer made to him by the president. It was significant that he not only called on the president but also had an ex tended interview with Secretary Lon HONOR FOR STRAUS Former Minister to Turkey Chosen to Succeed Benjamin Harri son at the Hague. Washington, Jan. 14. Oscar S. Straus, formerly mmister to Turkey, was today appointee? permanent. member of the committee on arbitra tion at The Hague to fill the vacancy caused by the death of ex-President Benjamin Harrison. - POLICEMAN'S CRIME Kills His Wife and Her Mother as Ilesult of Domestic Troubles. Brooklyn, Jan. 14. William II. Funis, a policeman, shot and killed his wife and her mother, Mrs. Magee, at the latter's home today. Knnis escaped. Domestic trouble was the cause. Fired on by Chinese. Hong Kong, Jan. 14. The British steamer Banning, belonging to the Hong Kong, Canton and Macac Steam Coal company, limited, of Hong Kong; has been fired upon by Chinese soldiers in Tarn Chau chan nel, west river. The chaplain of the British flagship Glorj-, Kev. Charles E. L. Cowan, who was on board, was everely wounded. ' rY.f..-J Died c Ilia Post. ! Kalamazoo. Filch., Jan. 14. A. P. Hooker, an American Express messen ger for thirty years, was found dead in his car when the Michigan Central train from Chicago arrived here yes terday morning. He had died while the train was between, Chicago and Kalamazoo. Wants Her Second DlToree. Washington, Jan. 14. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, who was married to Stephen Townsend 1n 1900, is about to seek divorce again. She was divorced from Dr. Burnett in 1808. They Dont Know Mn, J. King ' j v-toa - Mich.. .Tan. 14. The ' report ' that Mrs. J. King and daughter Cath erine, of Xlles. are to enter a convent at Springfield. Ills., Is news to thW community. No such people are known - here. There are tviqgs nere. out wvy are Protestants, and entering a con vent - is evidently far from their thoughts. Fr. CulHnan, pastor st Mary's Roman Catholic church, says he knows no one here by that name who has i;oinua.uauiou,c.ajiu'auoii.