The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-23

officers money. but the judge don't want to
be even infcrentis!ly included.
Board of Supervisors.
SHERIFF j L. PERKINS RESIGNS
The Board met this morning at IL
o'clock and but little business was trans
acted.
The roll was ca led and all answered
but Trent, of Port Bgron. after which the
minutes were approved, and com mittee
reports called :or bat ne were received
The Board sat aud looked at each other in
mouyaful sitenoe-a gloom seemed TO
settle over all. and it was evident that the
deyeIopements in Sheriff Perkins case
were received more in sorrow than 10 an
ger.
The resignation OF Sheriff Perkins was
handed to CIsrk Donaldson, but notifca-
tioa was not made to the Board aud after
delay Of probably half an hour the Board
adjourned until .. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The session this afternoon was short and
tedious, and. very little business was
transacted except to fix the matter of
keeping county records.
The county clerk read the following
communication from Sheriff J. L. Perkins
resigning the Office of sheriff of Rock
Island county.
OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF.
Rock ISLAND COUNTY. ILL.
Rock ISLAND, Ill, DEC. %, 1880.
To Richard A. Donaldson, County Clerk, OF Rock
Island County Ills.
1 hereby resign the Office of the Sheriff
of the above named county.
JOSIAH L. PERKINS
Sup. Reid moved the resignation be
received and placed on file. Carried.
Sup. Lloyd offered resolution eontin-
uing the present investigation; laid over
until tomorrow.
Sup. Mcconnell offered q resolution.
subsequently, Withdrawn, to authorize the
fling of all paid vouchers,
The finance committee was not ready to
report fully and was given further time.
On motion of Sup. Ballard, a committee
dock and Lloyd were appointed to contract
for publishing the report of the ommittees
for this session in the three papers OF Rock
Island printed in English.
A sort of jangle was apparent. when
Ballard called Question, without regard
to politics and for the people, lmurmur
ings of that's it, that's the way to put it. J
The resolution was carried uuanimou sly
The Board then adjourned
Diamond 10 and the Boat Killers.
The other day Diamond JIG Reynolds of
steam boat fame visited ST. Paul, and a
Pioneer Press reporter tried to interview
him as to his views on river improve ments
Sna ether matters; hut the river veteran
resp onded that he hadn't any special news,
his principalI attention in that direction
being directed now to the hope that his
boats, which are frozen in at different
points along the stream, would come out
all right in the spring, as. from the great
scarcity of cars now existing, he believed
pNoto WouAu NC luts Vi WOEk iVf tuetu ID uO
nezt season.
Then the ADMIRAL aired his opinion
about boat Killers
What do you think of the reservoir
system, now SO much talked about. as
means of securing sufficiency of water,
Mr.. Reynolds querisd the reporter.
II don't want to commit myself as to
that. but any scheme that will give us a
better channel has my hearty appreciation
and best wishes. One thing [ do know,
though. and that is, wish those internal
boat killers were out of tue way"
Il suppose you mean ridge piers, don't
You2"
No, don't. ! mean those wing dams,
the engineers have put in where the river
broadens aud bars were formed. Boat
killers is the only name | can give them
they do we'll enough for deepening
lie cheppel at FIRST, but their effects do
not last, as the channel is constantly
changing. Besides. how in the world is Q |
pilot to keep away from them. When
severed they ars hard enough to learn in
he daylight. aud at night they're some
hing no Teller can fnd OUT AS l said
psfore, the channel is constantly changing
ind yhers vas god crossing one trip
here nag be Oone 1T all the next one,
while if the wind happens to be blowing
pretty stiff pilot may kill his boat on the
stones at any time 10 spite of all his efforts
% the contrary. The wing dams ought to
be built in the sloughs aud bayous and
oree the water out of them into the main
'haanel. Tasre ara ~ lights on the
famed things either. Now it seems to
ne if instead of having light house
'oard to superintend the erection of the
lights along the river, the matter was
urned over to the engineers, better results
you'd be obtained. aud certainly at far
sss cost to the government"
Mr.Reynold's train being dua tha ra- :