The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-05-08

Conway sat down In Polk's Office and
wrote the following telegram:
Dies MONIES. April %. 1880.
To Fred. Cramer, Rock Island. ILL.,
Send all papers to me to deliver. and
telegraph Polk that represent you.
(Signed) FRED. CONWAY.
Ia short time after this was written
Mr.. Polk received the following:
Rock ISLAND, April %, 1880.
FoJ. s. Polk, Des Moines, Iowa:
Conway all right.
(Sigued) f. g.
After Mr.. Polk received this dispatch
he notified Conway of the fact and Mr..
Conway came in with another one to him
self as follows:
ROCK ISLAND. ILL.,, April 2S. 1880.
To Fred. Conway, Des Moines. Iowa:
Come on next train and bring party with
you.
(Signed) JAMES j. PARKS.
After this. Mr.. j. j. Williams wrote 20
Mr.. Cramer, demanding an explanation OF
the duplicate report. as follows:
Dies MONIES, May 8. 1880.
FRED A. CRAMER. Esq. Rock Island,
I'll. DEAR SIR-Yours of the lst. inst. I,
received. [ find il necessary to ask you
in plain language why you sent two re-
ports giving value of water works in Des
Moines? One giving value at over $780,
600 and the other giving value at $780,
600. Please answer by return mail.
fs;soea, "s'ps'J ). j. WILLIAMS.
To this Cramer replied 10 q more tim =,
orous STYLE and the following ia the letter
Rock ISLAND, I'LL, May 5, 1880.
! Y. Williams, ESQ. Des Moines, Iowa
Dear Sir: Yours Of the Sd received last
night. In reply would say that do not
know of any two reports sent to Des
Moines fixing the value of the water works
at 5000 900. made out but one report,
that. [ should infer from your letter you
bad received. did sign a document
which I supposed was a copy of my report,
but did not read it or examine it In any
way as l was very busy at the time and
did no. take time to look at it but sup
posed it to sbe all right and signed it.
Have you got the report2 | should like
to know what the contents are. can see
20 reason for any such report, as that
would be placing an unjust value on the
works.
Very Respectfully Yours,
tSigued) FRED. a. CRAMER.
In explanation of the above Mr., Fred
Cramer, hands us the following rough
outline, hastily written, Of a letter to Mr..
Williams, which be is preparing. lie says
he will compel retraetion of the iufamN
out SANDERS, and Mr.. Parks, asserts his
Innocence, as we'll, of anything of crook
ed nature. From long personal and
business acquaintance with Messrs. Cra-
mer, Conway and Parks. the writer of this
is slow to believe in the truth of the char
ges. There is undoubtedly misunder-
standing somewhere. which Messrs. Parks
Cramer, and Conway will no doubt be
able to explain. The ARGUS refrains
from PUBLISHING some ugly criticisms in
the Des Moines papers. having no malice
to crafty or revenges to seek in the mat
ter. being content to withhold judgment
until the gentlemen accused have had
to reply. There are few in
Rock Island who will willingly believe
that Mr.. James J. Parks, or Mr.. Fred
Crsmer. have been guilty Of any wrong
transaction. Below is Mr.. Cramer's let
ter, which explains itself:
Rock ISLAND, Ill, May S:h.
Harry Abel, Ed. Argus;
Dear lSir:-I regret that have not the
tine to answer fully the charges as pub
lished in the Des Moines papers. | am
preparing full statement which will
utterly refute the charges therein contain
ed. | will sag briefly that the charges are
untrue. base and malicious. and intend to
force q retraction of the parties in Des
Moines, who have SO industriously circu-
lated the slanderous statements ia ques-
ton until then would ask for suspension
of Judgment. Yours &c,
FRED. A. CRANER.
RroEl the above it will readily be seen
that MIR. Cramer pasans business. He will
send to Des Moines. this evening, s Iona
letter. and he assures THE ARGUS that
be will make it lively for those in that city
who have sought to injure him. In the
the people of Rock Island will
not believe that either Mr.. Parks or Mr..
Cramer. have done anything crooked.