The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1922 Page: 3 of 8
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THE RUSK CHEROKEEAN
be
the
Lincoln's First
Clash With Davis
Interesting Historic Incidents Re-
called by Rock Island's Sev-
entieth Anniversary.
FI6HT OVER RAILROAD RRIDGE
Davis, as Secretary of War, Oppoaed
Building of First Bridge Over Mia*
•iaaippi—Lincoln Waa Attor-
ney for Railroad.
Chicago.—Wlien the Itock Island
railroad celebrates, early lu October,
the seventieth anniversary of the op-
eration of Its first passenger truln one
f the features having unusual his-
toric Interest will be the placing of
ft uiemoriul tablet on the only remain-
ing pier of the tlrst railroad bridge to
span the Mississippi river.
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Da-
vis flgure<l importantly In tuts early
project, Lincoln as counsel for the rail-
road and Davis as secretary of war.
The bridge was bitterly opposed by
the river interests, who condemned it
as u menace to navigation, and went
so far as to attempt to burn it by set-
ting fire to an ancient packet and per-
mitting it to flout downstream and
lodge against one of the piers.
Construction of this vital link, defi-
nitely hooking up the Atlantic sea-
board with the great West to which
the tide of emigration that was to
open a new empire was already flow-
ing, was practically completed when
Jefferson Davis, then secretary of war,
instructed the United States district
attorney for the northern district of
Illinois to obtain an Injunction forbid-
ding its use for the passage of trains.
This action was defeated by the rail-
road, nnd then came the Incident of
the packet, one span of the structure
being destroyed.
Lincoln's Prophetic Words.
Owners of the packet sued the
bridge company, the railroad and sev-
eral officers und stockholders us in-
dividuals. alleging that the bridge
had so altered the river currents as to
cause the packet to drift hark down
the stream. Lincoln defended the suit
In the United States Circuit court, and
the Jury disagreed arul was discharged.
In his argument to the Jury the then
country lawyer made the prophetic
statement that "more truffle would
cross the river on this bridge than
would ever pass beneath It," a pro-
nouncement that was regarded as
more visionary than sound.
Then "Long John" Wentworth,
Chicago's famous mayor and con-
gressman, pushed " resolution through
congress directing the committee
on commerce, the predecessor of
the Interstate commerce commis-
sion, to investigate and report "wheth-
er tlds structure constituted a serious
obstruction to the navigation of the
river." The committee reported that
it did, but recommended that the
controversy be left to the courts for
decision.
Then James Ward, a St. Louis
steamboat owner, tiled a hill In the
United States District court, Southern
division of Iowa, in 1898, praying that
"the bridge be declared a nuisance ami
Will Found Written
on Paper in Watch
Palo Alto, Cal.—The will of
"Dud" Moulton. veteran Stanford
athlete, was taken to San Jose
for filing, and it Is one of the
strangest. In form, ever filed.
Moulton cut a piece of paper
Into a circle that tit the back of
his watch und wrote the will on
It.
It reads:
"September 14. 1021. At my
death I *111 everything I have to
my wife, Ida 1.. .Moulton. 1 wish
her to help Kdwin, our adored
hov, if lie deserves It.
"E. W. MOULTON."
ordered removed." Judge John M.
Love rendered a decision declaring the
bridge "a common anil public nui-
sance," and ordered the railroad to
"remove the three piers und their su-
perstructure which lay w ithin the state
of Iowa.
The cuse was appealed to the Su-
preme court of the United States. Be-
fore it reached there Lincoln was re-
moved from the cuse by Ills election to
the Presidency, but the argument was
prepured along the lines he hud laid
down In the lower courts, und In De-
cember, 1802, the Supreme court re-
versed the District court and forever
settled the controversy, saying, In the
words of Associate Justice Catron:
"According to this assumption, no
lawful bridge could be built across the
Mississippi anywhere. Nor could har-
bors or rivers be Improved ; nor could
the grent facilities to commerce, ac-
complished by the Invention of rail-
roads, be made available where great
rivers bad to be crossed."
Abandoned Years Ago.
The bridge was abandoned and dis-
integrated years ago, and all traces of
It were thought to have been lost, un-
til Charles Davis, " ho drove the first
engine taken into the state of Iowa,
nnd the first pensioner of the Hock
Island lines, was rambling over the
arsenal grounds at Itock Island, Ill-
one day after his retirement, lie came
upon the old stone pier, crumbling
away and overgrown with Tinea and
underbrush. He recognized the local-
ity at once, and communicated Ida
find to railroad authorities, with the
result th^t the pier whs restored by
the government arsenal officers, nnd la
now In condition to stand as a perma-
nent memorial to the first (Tossing of
the Mississippi by a railroad.
While the observance of the rail-
road's anniversary will be general on
the system, special exercises will be
held at several points on the railroad.
One of these will take place at
Jollet, the first terminus of the road
to which regular passenger service
from Chicago w;.s established. The
first passenger train reached Jollet on
the morning of October 10, 1852. TMa
run will be duplicated on October 10
by a special train arrylng railroad of-
ficials and Invited guests to Jollet,
where a monument will be unveiled to'
Samuel R. Heed, the engineer who
built the line In Illinois.
ROOSTER'S CROW SAVES MAN
Guides William Warner, Lost in Penn-
sylvania Cranberry Swamp,
to Farmhouse.
Stroudshurg, l'n.—The crowing of a
rooster saved the life of William War-
ner, who became lost In a cranberry
swamp near Tannersvllle. Warner
wandered for a long time and finally
was caught In the soft, boggy land up
to his waist. After lie succeeded in
dragging himself out and got on to
firmer land he war so tired and weary
that he realized that he might again
be mired. Hardly daring to move, he
heard the rooster crow and followed
the sound until he reached a farm-
house.
Fires in U. S.
Every Minute
as-
Due to Carelessness of Men Who
Heed Neither Warnings Nor
Experience
FIRE BELL CLANGS CONSTANTLY
Each Clang Announces That a Useless
Waste Is Being Added to Bur-
dens of Community—Fire
Prevention Campaigns.
Chicago.—More than two and one-
half centuries have passed since the
great London lire. This tire was con-
sidered to have been an "act of God,"
and lawyers have since druwn con-
tracts to relieve contracting parties of
any obligation that could not he ful-
filled because of an "act of God."
No longer, however, do we charge
the Dle'.v with causing conflagrations.
Humanity lias progressed far enough
away from superstition to place the
blame where i! belongs; that is, on the
carelessness, thoughtlessness or "pentiy-
wise-pound foolish" policy of men who
heed neither warnings nor experience.
Rut humanity has not progressed far
enough to prevent recurrence of dis-
astrous and dentil dealing fires.
In spite of national, state and local
flre prevention campaigns and more or
less pointed legislation, tires rage In
tin? United States at the rate of one
ex cry minute of every hour of every | the en|lre_eastern side
day. The clang of the lire bell never
innumerable number of small tires.
While all of this work Is Important
and valuable, experience has demon-
strated beyond a shadow of ft doubt
that these fires will continue and that
at any time one of them may develop
into a conflagration unless the one
great safely consideration becomes
general; namely, the construction of
buildings that won't burn.
The pessimistic say "there is no
such thing as a fireproof building"
and cite as proof some fireproof build-
ing that has suffered fire damage.
What might have happened had the
building not been fireproof, or if
neighboring buildings likewise had not
been fireproof, is left unanswered.
If can no more be expected th..f a
perfectly healthy tree will remain
healthy in an orchard of diseased trees
than that a fireproof building will pass
through heavy fires In its combustible
neighbors -without damage. The tire
hazard of a fireproof building is found
almost entirely In combustible build-
ings adjoining it.
Stops Spread of Fire.
Tills fact was driven home in a
startling manner in the tire which de-
stroyed an entire bloek near the site
of the new I'nion station in Chicago
last spring. The Burlington office
building was a fireproof building, but
(lie six-story building across the street
was not. When tlie walls of the Aus-
tin building, opposite the Burlington
building, fell into a roaring inferno,
4 # 4
ceases, and each clang announces that
a useless waste is being added to the
burdens of the community.
Losses Increase Ye-irly.
Of course, a reason can readily be
found for the never ending increase in
yearly fire losses. Each year more
buildings are constructed, contents In-
crease, there are more people, and |
both buildings and contents are worth !
more In dollars and cents. Hut people j
are no more careful.
The National Fire Protection asso- j
elation devotes 3(1-3 days out of the
year to tire prevention. Chambers iif
Commerce, Women's clubs and other
civic organizations give a portion of
their time to educating the public to
in the
the
} 1 form those simple habits which iu
2 ■ aggregate would greatly reduce
Lonely Grave of a British Hero
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ton building above the ninth floor was
smothered in a wave of gases of blast
furnace temperatures which melted
wire glass ami instantly it'll I ted every
hit of combustible material In the top
six stories of the building.
Building ordinances in cities
throughout the country are being re-
vised, and an opportunity is thus af-
forded to prevent '.lie construction of
anything hut fireproof buildings with-
in the main business district of our
cities and towns. Those who h:n?
heeded the warnings of lire prevention
experts, and who have sufficient re-
Card for protection of their own in-
vestment and that of their neighbors
to build fireproof structures for them-
selves have n right to the proton inn
of laws prohibiting the construction
of lire traps next to their fireproof
buildings.
SUE FOR AMERICAN'S DEATH
$100,000 Reparation Asked of Turks
for Death of George Knapp,
Murdered by Soldiers.
Los Angeleg, Cnl.--A claim of S100,-
tMHi as reparation for the death of
Oeorge P. Knapp, an American, seven
years ago in Armenia, is being pre-
pared for filing against the Turkish
government by offirials of the State
department nt Washington, according
to a statement made here by Knapp's
brother. J. Herbert Knapp. a civil en-
gineer.
When Knapp died, typhus
as the cause, but Ids brother
the cause was mor-* sinister
Ids home here tn j.o t«> Turkey and
Armenia, where he passed years In
an Investigation, lie secured an affi-
davit from all Armenian hanker, which
declares his brother was taken by
Turkish soldiers, who trampled Into
the dust the American flag over his
door, tied him to a tree In a desolate
place and shot hlm three times simply
because they believed he knew two
much about their depredations.
as given
belle* ed
and left
This plain wooden cross upheld by n cairn of small stones, on the desolate
and nnlnlinbited lslund of South Georgia, Just above ttie Antarctic circle, marks
the last resting place of England's heroic explorer, Sir Ernest Sbuckleton, who
died lost year.
Personalities Ba>red.
We like our friends to be perfectly
(tank—about other people.—Boston
Transcript.
Some More Truths.
"YyOULD yon use a steam shovel to move a pebble? Certainly not. Implements
are built according to the work they have to do.
Would you use a grown-up's remedy for your baby's ills? Certainly not.
Remedies are prepared according to the work THEY have to do.
All this is preliminary to reminding you that Fletcher's Castoria was sought
out, found and is prepared solely as a remedy for Infants and Children. And let
this be a warning against Substitutes, Counterfeits and the Just-as-good stuff that
may be all right for you in all your strength, but dangerous for the little babe.
All the mother-love that lies within your heart cries out to you: Be true to
Baby. And being true to Baby you will keep in the house remedies specially
prepared for babies as you would a baby's food, hairbrush, toothbrush or sponge, j.
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Are You Prepared?
A doctor in the house all the time would be a good idea. Yet you
can't afford to keep a doctor in the family to keep baby well or pre-
vent sickness. But you can do almost the same thing by having at
hand a bottle of Fletcher's Castoria, because it is a wonderful remedy
for indigestion, colic, feverishness, fretfulness and all the other dis-
orders that result from common ailments that babies have.
Fletcher's Castoria is perfectly 6afe to use. It is a harmless sub-
stitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Props and Soothing Syrups. Chfldren
cry f«r Fletcher's Castoria, and mothers recommend it because they
have found it a comfort to children and a mother's friend.
If you love your baby, you know how sweet it is to be able to
help baby when trouble comes. You cannot always call upon a dtetor.
But doctors have nothing but good to say of Fletcher's Castoria, be-
cause they know that it can only do good — that it can't do any kana-—
and they wouldn't want you to use for baby a remedy that you would
use for yourself.
MOTHERS SHOULD READ THE BOOKLET THAT IS AROUND EVERY BOTTLE OF FLETCHER'S CASTORIA
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS j
Bears the Signature of
Exact Copy of Wrapper.
YORK CITV.
Bi. ■
10 Cents
Gives Charming New Color Tone to Old Sweaters
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES—dyes or tints as yon wish
Rumor or Decanter?
"There's u riinio • that Wombat lias
n decanter once owned by General
Lafayette." "Is there anything in It?"
—Judge.
Just say to your grocer lied Cross
Bnll Blue when buying bluing. You
will be more than repaid by the re-
sults. Once tried always used.—Ad-
vertisement
Parasols Used as Pets.
Among the latest fashion novelties
for women are parasol handles spe-
cially carved In wood nnd then enam-
eled In the shapes of portraits of pet
dogs and birds.
Dr. Peery's "Deafl Phot" Is powerful but
75 years of buccpms haa proved tt.
With one single dose. Worms or Tapeworm
can be expelled from the system, and no
castor oil or other purgative should be used
In addition. Money back If not satisfied.—
Advertisement.
Opposite Views.
His—"Gml! Wlint ii short skirt that
firlrl is wearing!" Hers—"Heavens!
What long lejrs she lias!"
CALOMEL GOOD
BUT TREACHEROUS
Next Dose May Salivate, Shock
Liver or Attack Your
Bones.
Every genuine
package has
the cross and
circle printed
in red.
Make your
Old Walls
Redecorate with
little trouble, less
expense and greater
satisfaction. There
is one best way
to do it.
Instead ofKalsomine or Wall Paper
You know what calomel is. It's mer-
cury; quicksilver. Calomel is danger-
ous. It crnslies into sour lille like
dynamite, cramping and sickening you.
Calomel attacks the bones and should
never be put into your system.
If you feel bilious, headachy, consti-
pated and all knocked out, just go to
your druggist and get a bottle of Pod-
son's Liver1 Tone for a few cents which
is a harmless vegetable substitute for
dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful
and If It doesn't start your ilver nnd
straighten you up better and quicker
than nasty calomel and without making
you sick, you Just go back and get your
money.
Don't take calomel! It makes you
sick the next day; it loses you a day's
work. Dodson's Liver Tone straightens
you right up and you feel grent. No
salts necessary. Give It to the children
because It Is perfectly harmless and
can not salivate.—Advertisement.
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If you're alck enough you'll be too
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Martin, W. L. The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1922, newspaper, September 29, 1922; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291272/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.