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THE ROCK ISUAOT) ARGUS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1911. 3 ENGINEERS HAVE HARD WORK AHEAD PEOSECUTOK SEEKING TO CONVICT McNAMAKAS HAS SENT EIGHT MEN TO GALLOWS IN EIGHT YEAES AND HE'S PROUD OF RECORD WAGON DRIVER IN NARROW ESCAPE Samuel A. Freyer Close to Dis aster When Team of Horses Starts Stampede. vltumtm ir irfcrn .irti - nfr i --r'''"- rfiii'-iii jti"" i i iMi (I i -iiimi- inl Government's River Task More Tedious Winter. Men's in 16 Pieces Turquoise Blue Triple Coated Enamel ware given away with every range or cook stove, ccsti ng over $35.00. These large pieces cannot be purchased for less than $7.50 a set but we have been author ized to give them away free with ranges. OF A CLERICAL NATURE ONE OF THE LINES BREAKS Oak Heater With Presence of Mind, He Guides With the Other One and Stops the Vehicle. Survey Itesnlts Must Be Plo.ted, ; ; Maps Made, Beiorts Compiled and Fleets Ilepaired. J JL $4.65 (iii) 50c a week Now lhat most of the government river fleets are being laid up for the winter, the office men who have been on the various boats during the sum mer, are resuming their clerical labors at their respective sta'ions. Captain Frank Martin of the . S. snag boa. Tipton has tied up hi.s craft in the Keokuk harbor and is new located at the V. S. engineers' office in this chy. '. The hardest ar.l greatest part of the river work is done during the winter. The task cf plotting the sureys made during the pumrner, the drawing of maps, making the smrou's reports, romr-ii-n; statistics ,,f work done and to be done, as v.il r;s tiie repairing of the various boat yard? and plants is all none during the cold months. MAKINii IOIi:i, TOW BOAT. In line with th' agitation for s'-'-el hull towboa's, miniature models are being made at the local engineers' of fice. Just what action the bcar.i or cneincers having the new boats under consideration will tal.e is an! nov.n as yet. They ha.e no" made public 'he res tilt of their d-diheraticn- at N'-w Orl'-ans last week, tm; it is confiu: r.tly oxpeott d that some his stir; ris s will be spnirg. n.Kins ti.i. All the ;! . ts, v tha' i:i finite of "IVPnCAL. COURTROOM AUDJEtCS has sent eight men to the i -SrH- Af- ':fA pg?, iji District Attornpy John D. Freder icks. v.ho is prosecuting the McN'a mara brothers In their trial at Los Angeles. tallows in as many years. He 13 In tensely proud of his record. Out of thirty-six cases of homicile which he has tried, he has secured thirty-two ronvictions have ' ?sulted. In the for highway rohfctrv. nmetv-three convicitions have resulted. In the larger picture is shown a tvpical a'.i dience in the courtroom during the trial of Jcmes I?. McNamnra. The percentage of wnrninemen present Is not as larere us o;i- rruK.'-i cipftt from the n;it:ira of the case. DlST ATTORNEY FREDERICKS A W ox Lily lac cestui to a Worthy Mayor When the team belonging to Sam-' uel A. Freyer, 1518 Sixth avenue.' became suddenly frightened in the alley back of Young & McCombs" store, yesterday and started to run, the left line snapped off because of the tugging of the driver, and the horses headed straight for a tele-! rhone pole at the Seventeenth street enttance of the alley. It seemed as' if nothing could prevent disaster, but Freyer, with great presence of, mind, tugged on the right line and ' succeeded in causing the fear-mad-! dened animals to swerve so that the' hind wheel of the wagon locked it-! self behind one of the Lament com pany coal bins, bring the horses to a stop. ! f.l ' !TJ Kf'.r.U. "i: !: i he .-.c-iiio'i cf A. I.. Kich:'.i f1s. ;ir- now jn v. i':Ter oi,:ir' Mr. Richard's ficc t. eon-l;-,t of t;:; Ftearn lioa'.-, a dreujto and so?nP ' 1 harge?, will prob;iHv con'inii" o;' ra'iors late into the wi':',-r. s.?, that ;.-;rti( ii of the river a?jl;rr.f !l i ) this pr.r i" '!ar i:,.---t. froin 'Hr.i:-.i.i:.l ;o i',.t nioath the MiKsoMri ' rivfi, is; in the -.:ri r it n. ar.d th re i" I : i I r lit'!' !a!i:'r': Of The ice J Ji t '-r- fer:::s k t: ::i in h:tji. W. A. Tli 0:1 pre::, who h:.s eharve of the f c ! 1 ( 1 ;! t in'.' i i-Mwi Ti Winona at:i ij.- n.or.tii 01' 'h- Wirrulsin ri'.ir, lrd ;.uieij -he lo al erigiincis' oi'.ic frt r.i liis !. n(! ; :ai''"rs .1! l a Crcf tlr'.t the iff is 1:!! t'h.g up tlur--. ;ilid th y ate h;i.i:.-: (! ' :Ti r-.ilt y in jn ttilif the Lo:::." h:io th- v. Inr.-r har; or at Fcun '.;!; City. .J. 1. Ih;ch r" et, o;era'ii:g !.e tvccii rat:l ;;oi Winona, laid up 2 week r.go. part of them at Stillwater or. the i't :oix and the rest ar Foun tain City P.iy. s. Kdward-. wording 1 th" rive- from i .0 Claire to ti e month Of the TViF-cnriMti river, laid t;p hi. fleet 1" !.".-- ;iiio. so that it can riad-: ily tif F( ( 11 tii:r the indoor work will c r.jieri" nee a ti'-cided boom frrrni now : on. i in thi !!" St pi. .-.C:! ..fW'.T! A ( ! -veiand. Whirioc k, who -0:'0, y) 1 Chit 1?. ari as-'o a; j.' 1 1. n... from th as re lie '.ink r date Ic:t 1 n.e iiiowiag : r. ta;i yoi -led ; !' i' i-irand ice: 1 mayor of he is slender and slight and small ; senseless periods have been rounded , out on the stump in this country by i the bawling and blowing politicians ' of the old school a school happily passing away and to receive its coup , de grac", it is to be hoped, by the new blue pencil of the congressional record a: he; - d tihii.soa st we ok: ar;d he might very credit-;?" tnat no more snail tnere oe given ud lor a juvenile part on : "leave o prin" those speeches of elicate. spirit ual and poetic, shows all the finer qualities of the race and is alive with in stcture, ably make th st ge, but his face, d o a 1 1 r. : i t ' -I T , b- Certain t he ra' of ; he d' m w ith a I'U- i ). - !!.- i-s-ii w ie liioir- y.uti ; tijat wt-r; a superior intelligence, as a lawyei for ti! mi :.io: iai to Torn L. , or four terms the city solicitor of hat rial day afternoon under Cleveland Baker has shown his metal in W iide par,; !u a"u ability in encounters with the bes tuch:, sdei.der fig l-yal talents the street railway mag- u-tX i'y the .-;,eais. r'b r.a'e; of Cleveland could engage in the ;iii. e 1 .Newum D. ei,-lit yt a' s' war lhat resulted finally i::to i:;i;)!:;::f e a:iu it; Tom Johnson's victory for three- oryiir.; ' Ti e n-x: c tu jar-. Through all the tribunals, the uiii'ci.-; the up- to the supreme court of the United a:;u u he-ui ; &tatts ana duck again, ana over ana ; v. i riin-1 over, Paker went in the long wrestle Ti. se in ('! ve!a:.d who of those ears, and he won his case, ith ib" ' piri: po!ij al Purine ail that time he was Tom tha' N'e.vt tn J e i;;iker ' Johnson's legal adviser and his politi !. st iuay r of tha: city. ! cal adviser, too. if Tom Johnson ever that :.i is the leader of took political advice from anyone. He y ': ("1 'vti;;:'::. not only ' did it too without gaining tiiat per- :.ey that spells itself" ponal enmity that most men would i.ut tii" d- t;.oe:-acy that hs-ve tninle in such a bitter class war, ih li th- d. and ho is I u r H ;her"s philosophy is tin1 high and t:i I. est:. 11; t roes Cie-. !a:.(i sa v '.:' i:re in ray sti!i-.i stand, itt'.d rt c" iiuk r. t y ht'st s- mi ! o.iy 1. e: ;:i may: at ! la c:ev If .i.h r, jtis: as i he r.t v. sj.i.pe r-. gi::. ,i by . .or t o 'i"o:n ! . i ssi r. a.- ; h aR thi.se nitiiiii'T the harinii.g eli ryo.te a,.-: the Siioees .ioliUfoii. th logi'-al I...-".; icians say, and. -iy ae.j :..int e l wih ie the great mayor of Cl eland gat'eere abo'i' liim would n adily itnd' r. tand. the sp ;?:'."il snc- psor a.-, we ; ight wlr- n 1, !. :-1 ma;, er f Aliier:' a. a I.incoln StelTe was t! ili-d Tom .lehi.Fon the ,e ne.-t governed city it is. of course, a dit'- lieiilT tall: to he t h a man : 1, i' N w o i.ispiriitg philosophy of kindness. I suppose he never said an unkind word about anyone, which nounds extrava gant. 1 know; but then Newton Baker t has been extravagant with kindness. At d then Baker was the orator of the Cleveland group. Johnson was a tremendously forceful public speaker, but he couldn't speak long unless somebody contradicted him. And his statements were so simple and posi- siteeessor of suchi'ive and direct that it didn't take him 1 devastation in the city code ihak'T is eiitire'.v ; long to cover the ground with them. : elected city solicitor, and to ' which the best thing that fan be said 1 is that they were never delivered. Newton Baker is graceful, simple, con 1 vincing and courteous and at times : iises to heights of pure eloquence. '' And. best of all in the oiator's equip ment, he has that indefinable tiling which in the despair of accurate ex pression we call 'charm.' As the can ' didate for city solicitor he usually ran ' ahad of Johnson on the ticket. And : it was a sad. almost tragic triumph. i to him when in the last municipal ' election he was elected and Johnson j defeated. Then Tom Johnson died and ; 'everyone devoted to the radical cause in Cleveland, and indeed in all Ohio. ! turned to Newton Baker as Tom John- i ' son's successor. "Newton Baker was graduated from John Hopkins in ls!2. He was eJu , cated in the law at Washington and 1-ee university and admitted to the ; West Viiginla bar in 1S94. He prac-; I ticed in his native town of Martins- j ibuig and then was made private sec-i ; retary to the late William L,. Wilson, j j when that gentleman was postmaster j general in (irover Cleveland's cabinet.' i Then he went to Cleveland, and in ; 1J02 was appointed first assistant di ! rector of law and in Uw3 was made j i director of law by Mayor Johnson. In j the same year the rurales in the Ohio 'legislature having made their annual I he was ; this of- ; ri SHIOX STtRT KI N WAY. Freyer was load the wacon with slack, when the cushion, falling from the srat, struck one of the horses on the flank, frightening it so that both j animals broke into a gallop. Hardly I able to stand in the wagon. Frpver j pulled desperately at the lines to stop the animals, but the left line ; snapped as if made of paper. Men in the coal yards, teo frightened to ; move, were horror stricken, exr.ct I ing to see the wagon crash i:to the telephone role and see the driver : thrown head first ento the pavement. Just in the niek of time, the horses ' swerved to the right, locking the wagon wh 'el on the coal bin. and ; throwing the right horse into the 1 bin itself. The broken line was spliced and Freyer drove off none the I worse for his experience. in its own way. It is. as I have trud to suggests, a chaiming personality: for Newton Baker is not only a g.iod lawyer and a good man. an able offi cial and a wise politician, using the word in its highest, best sense, but he is a gentleman of culture and of artiste tastes, fond of literature, fond of music, with a fine curiosity about all life, an ifnsellish wish to make life better and more beautiful for all the people in those cities in which h' sees, here in America, the hope of democracy." ILLINOIS NEWS Starts Much Trouble. If all people knew that neglect of constipation would result in severe indigent i in, yellow jaundice or viru lent liver trouble they would soon take Br. Kk.g's New Bife Bills and end it. It's the only safe way. Best for biliousness, headache, dyspep sia, chills and debility, 25 cents at all druggists. the won 1 priiHipii so cliff"re: siim.' that fitted fo in all bit together son. I v. to b.. called, as called., 'the boy so'.h-i'or' or 'th." comes into the adherent in the leas it would b The satne people who ran deny eth ers everything are famous for refus ing themselves nothing. Leigh flunt. of a tern jter lie kr ows of in r. fleet ion. differentiate from youth. . possibly because Tims he invited heckling, and he never and ileal he is al-i appeared at a better advantage than Tom John-! he did when answering ome opponent in 'he big circus tent in which he held all his political meetings. It was Johnbon and Baker and Peter Witt, who n.arle the campaign speeches. Baker's oratory is of an order that classifies it in what may be called tather loosely "the new school." That is to say. it lacks the pretense, the sound and fury that have gone with t from it must annoy him he is so fi erpiontly oratoi' or 'the boy boy,' anything th'tt mind of the excited political meeting: at a: noying to anyone less kind than Baker's: course that it is all said and. that people do 1 ot refinement and grace Baker is just under 4rt, lice he was reelected in laOS, 1007 and I 1!Ki9. And now, in all likelihood, he j is to be the mayor of a city that has been trained to expect much of its mayors. He knows wha' difficulties besets one in that office, but he has the philosophy with whbh to meet them. One of the greatest of those difficulties, at the outset, will be that those who hail him as the successor to Tom Johnson will expect him to be another Tom Johnson, which is the Publisher Drops Dead. Jacksonville, Nov. 15. John Goldsmith, former proprietor of Waverly Journal, dropped dead his home in Waverly. He was years old. H. the at To the frock coat and the long hair and tone big thing he could not and would 'iie black string tie. It lacks the eter- I not do. He himself is a strong per nal flapdoodle with which so many I sonality, and his personality must tell An Astonishing Discovery Every Housewife Should Read About " Cookin in ID aper Bags IN The Chicago Daily News Descriptions and Recipes Every Day. Ask Your Newsdealer About It It Cooks Better and Saves Money Sets a Corn Picking Record. Kewanee, Nov. 15. Porter C Finderburg set a new record for this section of the country when he pick ed and shoveled 1 a (1 .bushels of corn in ten houiB. The feat was accom plished on the farm of Bert Kiser and a large number of friends of Finderburg followed him during the day and kept tab on his record. j No Case Againist Reformer. j Galesburg, Nov. 15. The case against A. W. Gillette of Chicago by the Knox County. Bar association, al leging that in assisting the Law Kn foi cement league here is prosecut- , lt:g cases for illegal liquor selling , he had misrepresented himself as an attorney, was ignored by the Knox county grand jury. Teacher is Killed by Train. Galesburg, Nov. 15. Miss Alice Alden Patch, for years a teacher in this county and prominent in local D. A. R. circles, while driving home from school last night, was struck by a train and was instantly killed. Takes PciBon by Mistake. '. Mattoon, Nov. 15. Robert N. Chapman, postmaster of Charleston since 1897 and one of the best known republican politicians in this section of the state, died from the effects of chloroform poisoning, the drug having been taken Monday by mistake for a nerve tonic. Mr. Chap-, man was 63 years old. j Boy Kills Child by Accident. Centralia, Nov. 15. George Wascrn. three years old, son ot Mr. and Mrs. George Wasem of Patoka, was shot and instantly kille hy his uncle, Jaeorj Wasem, a boy of 12. The little fellow was at his grandfather's home and was playing with a rifle. The older boy took It away from him to see if it was loaded and in examining it ac cidentally pulled the trigger. The old er boy, the dead baby's mother anl grandmother, Mrs. Josie Valow. are all prostrated and physicians say the mother cannot survive. She has been an invalid several months. Two Are Drowned in Storm. j Peoria, Nov. 15. Caught in a heavy' squall on Pekin lake, Charle3 Huff and Jack Plro of Pekin were drowned when their boat capsized. A searching party this morning recovered the bodies. Pekin Raises Saloon Fees. Pekin. Nov. 15. An ordinance raid ing caloon licenses from $500 to $1,- 000 has been massed bv the board of mm ) S YOUR OLD STOVE taken in ex- y Kv'W''- h change on a new one. Full value ) Tlljffivjl' ffi''j) j allowed. ; Xj yfl fyp M Ccal Heeler ifelyiiSp, , 318.00 . . .... IMS' ji.i. inFti; ziuc a ween. n3S3 - .. y ci ix-.y ,- , ' '1 It.. . ","; , --vi ... iz .' V.-1. --4- . 1" I 1 Vf.1"-:'- -rr A f1 -,V .,: : , , ,l i y .t,it;;t-'il'i- r-r-" '-u .'. :: -ii i : . ,y.v -,, , ; - Combination Gas and Coal Range $1.00 a week. " " "'i .I - -f& , -'' v i i ' Same without Gas $15.00, $48.00, $52.00 A Twin Flue Range This In the rflnge we demon strated. Did you bee it T SOFT COAL HEATER, turns soot and srrokc . . $32, $31, 5 '-3. $-10 -$1.00 a week. $28.00 20th Century Hard Coal Heater $28.00 Something Different and Better All sizes and styles priced from and up to $05.00 $1.00 a week. c h?i . i. irrOr. Iwr TP 1 1 AT THF PrOPLF. v. ill prchab:y be t?ken on the i-pjeFUon "3'ack Damp" Kills a Boy. Lir.coin. Nov. 1",. Henry Denny, 1 morning when bh-. ',. darri; In an wntry one liiiie frora the iialt of the Latham foal mine orev- 'J m'.ri'-r-i from their work. FifKeri oih- r iiiaerj were over- immissioners. A referendum vote,yar3 old, as s;hyx!ated ytfterday , come by the