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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
ANNUAL BOATING REGATTA AT PULL
MAN.

The executive committee of the Missis-
sippi Valley Amateur Rowing association,
of which A. b. Cleghorn is secretTy, met
at Chicago to locate the next regatta and
though Moline and st. Leuis urged their
claims, the course on Lake Calumet at
Pullman near Chicago was selected. and
Friday and Saturday, July 81 and 20
were the dates. fixed. Prizes to the value
of So, 900 will be offered At the same
time the Farragut club, of Chicago. gave
its annual banquet at the Palmer House,
and members representing the Pullman,
Dixon. Burlington, Modoc, Evanston,
Mitchell, of Detroit, and Keokuk clubs
were present. j. c. Osgood responded
to the toast victories and defeats
The date and location are quite salts
factory to the boys generally, and the
rowing men have been preparing for
river work in the gymnasium for the past
three months.
There is talk among boat club mem
bers of holding an inter-club regatta in
Burlington some time during the summer
on the afternoons of two days. The first
day to be the regular monthly regatta of
the Burlington club, and on the second
day, races between the other clubs. Such
an event might be easily arranged in
August or early in September, and as there
are clubs in Keokuk. Ottumwa, Daven-
port, Cedar Rapids. Clinton and Fit.
Madison, some very interesting races
might be secured. Some special prizes
could be offered to the visiting crews, and
it would need no great effort on the part
of the Burlington club to raise the re-
quisito funds for this and the other ex
penses of the regatta, while the citizens
generally would undoubtedly display their
usual hospitality and make pleasant the
event
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
EXPLOSIVE MACHINES.
Philadelphia Record.l

George uolgate, the manufactures OF
explosive machines, who lives at No 1909
South Juniper street, in this city. says
| that from the description of the effect of
the explosion of the internal machine
under the Government office in London
he feels confident that it was caused by a
power much greater and more destruct
i've than dynamite. mir. Holgate, who
makes no secret of the business III which
he is engaged, has probably made more
Internal machines than any man in this
country. Within the past six weeks he
has constructed four explosive machines
and sold them TO parties in New York.
Each continuance can be placed in Il
cigar box and possesses an explosive
force equal to 800 pounds of gunpowder
He has also, he says, constructed and
sold two burning machines. which can be
set for any number of hours, and when
sprung create flame equal to hundred
gas jets and an intensity of heat equal 10
a thousand such iets. Il know nothing, .
said he, ''of the uses to which my mach
ines are put. no more ask a man
when he buys one whether he proposes
to blow up Gar or set fire TO palace,
than gunsmith asks his customers
where they are about to commit murder
or u match merchant asks If his purchas-
er is about to become an incendiary. /
make the machines for those who want
them. don't believe in killing kings
with bombs, nor do think that il is
proper to assassinate statesmen with
knives, but would not have the cutlery
business stopped because bad men make
improper use of the dagger. II the NH
lists are in earnest, if they possess half
the courage they are credited with they
win be supreme in few years. do not
believe that the Gar will be crowned
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK

Editor ARGus:l
To the casual observer our politics must
seem to be in a dormant state, yet under
lying this placid surface there boils poi
whose stencil and fumes is bound to
strangle some of the many aspirants. The
main position to be filled seems to be the
goal toward which many of our best citi
zens" are arriving. Among those whose
names are most prominently mentioned
are S. w Wheelock. Q. c. Mason, Stewart
Els, Ed. Knox, =. II. VESSEL and Chas.
F. Hemenway. Who among this number
will be the man is yet an unknown guam
tity Laying aside all personal feelings |
think that either Ed. Knox or p. II. Yves
sell is the best man for that position;
either of them can undoubtedly poll a
heavy vote. Heretofore Moline politics
have been manipulated by the members of
our different pillow factories; it has been
DOG eat Dog" The one shop be
ing always aTraycd against the other,
and we believe that the people OF Moline
are tired of pillow factory rule. In case
Mr.. Wheelock is nominated, the entire
strength of the other pillow shop viii un-
doubtedly be arrayed against him and
there will also be at least two independent
tickets in the field. If G.. o. Mason,
Stewart Els or Chas. L. IIemenway arc
nominated the same thing will be on the
tapis We believe it is now time that
Moline throw off its political yoke and
that our citizens assert their free and in
dependent right of suffrage, and in chos-
ing men let them select men who will
harmonic rather than antagonize the va
rious factions. For the other offices there
are many candidates but these offices
will in a great measure depend on the
name that shall head the ticket.
CITIZEN
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21

Kansas City, where the animals wer'
sold; his iugratiating himself into the goot
graces of party of cattle drovers- ane
cowboys out West. whose cattle he stole
in a herd and afterward sold; his capture
by bloodhounds in the Everglades of Flor
ida; his numerous horse stealing opera
tions, escapes from prison, etc. alto
gsther quite thrilling narrative.
County Clerk Donaldson issued the fol
lowing marriage licenses this morning
james FL. Crabtree OF Eufaula, Indiaf
Territory and Miss Amelia G. Staltenbere
of Moline, Frederick Gruby and Miss
Margaret McQuade of South Rock Island
Squire F. Dean and Miss Matilda j. Ken
ncdy of Black Hawk.
Roof repairing seems to be the popular
diversion nowadays.
Mrs. Jennie Reddig. white, and Vina
Taylor black Peorian, rent portion of
the Philip Simmons block on Fourth ave-
nue.. This morning the Taylor woman
assaulted Mrs Reddig and upon being
brought before Squire Chopper pleaded
guilty to the charge and was fined SIS and
costs
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
A NOVEL BEE TREE.

If there's one old resident of Rock Isl
and who, more than another, delights to
narrate anecdotes of carly times, it is Mr..
Palmer Stearns who helped rock the
municipal infant, known as Rock Island.
when it was promising baby Among
the stories told by the old veteran one of
the most comical is that about the "bee
tree" which runneth about as follows:
In early days Mr.. Stearns employed two
Germans known as John Siegrist and
Billy Shook to cut some grass for him
somewhere above where Moline is now
located One day as all three were going
along the road Mr.. Stearns saw hornet
nest in a tree and with malice
aforethought it occurred to him that it
would be the proper caper to play it on
| his two workmen in way which they
subsequently most heartily despised
AHA, said he, boys, there's bee tree
You see that little sack up there, well it's
/ filed with honey left there by the bee.
for winters supply. Now some day
3 when you're coming home from worl
just cut that down and bring it along.
An right" both men said gleefully
we'll do it Consequently wher
returning late one afternoon from
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
Tl,a Star of India

About the time of the first London
Exhibition jung Bahawdar, the Wuzeer
of Nepaul. paid visit to London, SAYS
the New York Music and Drama He
was known to be kind of human tiger,
bloodthirsty and treacherous, crafty
and cruel. He came glittering with
jewels and with scores of rupees to
spend. At that period the queen of the
demi-monde was Laura Bell and the
Oriental potentate threw her his hand
kerchief. He took her everywhere with
him, drove with her in the park and sat
by her in his box at the opera. When
he was about to return home he drew
from his finger ring, and, with genu-
inc Oriental chivalrv, presented it to
her, saying that at the sight of that RING
he would grant any boon she might re-
quest, even to the half of his Kingdom
Years passed away. Laura married
Capt. Thistlethwaite, of the Guards, got
religion badly, preached to fallen women
at midnight meetings, and ran into debt
recklessly when the religious fit was
over. When the Indian mutiny broke
out the preservation of the English rule
depended on the attitude taken by the
Hill State of Nepaul The story of
Jung Bahawdar's romantic promise
leaked out, and the Secretary for India
called on the lady to exercise her intiu-
ence. She refused Others tried, stin
refusal; but it was suspected that she
would yield if the solicitation came
from the highest parsonage of the realm.
1t is said that the Queen wrote the re
quired letter. The ring was sent out to
India, and carried in safety through the
contending armies and the disorganized
countries to its destination. The Indian
keep his word. Threatening as had
been his attitude, he showed himself the
best friend of England, and never NOV
ed man. After his death, some three
or four Yeas ago, Laura applied fOrthe
Star of India" as a reward for the
services she had rendered. With the
usual ingratitude of Princes the coveted
decoration was refused.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21

hard days work in the hay field
the men halted under the bee tree % and
as Siegrist had no knife he said that Billy
had better 60 up and cut the thing down
and he would catch it as it fell. So Billy
Skinned up the tree, whipped out his
knife and began cutting. It seemed TO
him aftsrward as if he had been cutting
about an hour when the fact was that it
was only about ten seconds when the
hornets came out to reconnoiter and see
ing Billy in the act of cutting away their
habitation they went for him like an
army with banners. Billy had never
seen a hornet but he knew in about a
second and a half that he'd got
all the honey he wanted
and being "no hog he didn't wait to go
down the tree with any kind of skill but
let go and dropped, the knife reaching
the ground shortly ahead of him. About
this time Siegrist concluded that he'd let
somebody else catch the bag of honey"
as it fell and away went both of the poor
fellows, with myriads of particularly
spitcfnl hornets in hot pursuit. The
faster they ran the deeper it seemed to
them the hornets inserted their probes.
Both were stung severely and if they
hadn't taken odt their first papers would
have worked their passage back to father
land Neither ever forgot his first ex-
pcrience with Palmer Stearns' bee tree.
however
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
AGOOD ONE.

Republicans are the queerest set of NOR
tails on the face of earth, and anything
they do or might do would not be sur
prising to the general public, but the latest
thing to come to light TO verify the state.
ment, is the well founded rumor that E.
j. Dahms. candidate for city attorney
before the republican convention, told a
party in Davenport that the chairman of
the republican central committee promis-
ed him the city attorneyship. How is
that for high? Can one man run Moline,
G. F. Grantz is the chairman of that com
mittee and also candidate for collector.
Machine. machine how badly it will get
left; so it ye republicans, fight like Xii
kenny cats and then when election comes
you will die a natural political death.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
MOLINE DEPARTMENT..

Benton Davis is getting along nicely.
| A. Hines left this morning for the east
| The Revere House is to be enlarged
Mrs A B. Webb has returned to Chi
cago.
8. w. Wheelock's picture now adorns
the Library rooms.
Walter Olney is going into the grain
business.
The sawmills win start up in few
days.
Moline sent large delegation down to
| the Tourists. at Harpers theatre last
evening.
| Baptism to- ght at the Baptist church.
The Rev. W L. Saunders. of Cam
bridge, is again in the city.
The Rev. s. T. Smith, an eminent
divine of Boston, will occupy the pulpit
of the Congregational church on Sunday
The young Washers are now on the
| lady loves.
| A number of our citizens attended the
shooting match at Davenport this after
noon.
Peter Colseth the organ maker and his
wifeIare visiting in Minneapolis.
c. H. Smiths Uncle Toms Cabin Co.
will appear at the operal House April I'd;
the Lord preserve us.
1t is said that the police force will be
somewhat changed by the next nun icipal
administration.
| G. II. Deere has gone to Washington.
D. c., but will be home before election
however.
To-day being pay day at the shops, the
men and merchants are happy.
The pay car Gazelle went through here
yesterday; the boys at the freight office
money.
Sam Kennedy has announced himself
as q candidate for collector
A large delegation of Moline citizens
will attend the performance of Mile.
Rhea at Harper's theatre Saturday even
ing of this week.
Moline is very peaceful town ut pres
ent, no police cases being reported to the
magistrates Office, and that fuuctionary
is very impatient.
Fish & Olney the wood firm, have dis
solved partnership. Mr.. Fish having pur-
chased Olney's interest. will assume all
debts of the firm.
A few of the members of the Woman's
Suffrage society in this city. attended the
suffrage convention of Henry county at
Cambridge to-day.
Oscar Wahlberg came near drowning
this morning. He got to close to a by drant
and took crater straight without stick
in it.
It's now definitely settled that Moline
is to be the scene of a coupling match, the
Decatur boys having come to terms. and
the tournament will take place a week
from to night at Wagner's opera house.
The statement in morning paper that
at meeting Of fifty prominent citizens it
was decided to ask s. W. Wheelock to
run for mayor, is away off. The meeting
was probably composed of the .'don't-l
wish I was-supervisor-dis year-Simple
Simon and the bank cashier" such meet
ing have been held before and the people
know all about it.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
THE SITUATION.

the people will not entertain that idea foI
| a moment.
THE SITUATION.
There is one thing certain, that should
s. w. Wheelock or G. f. Hemenway en-
ter the field and secure the nomination,
there will be an Independent ticket in the
field that will receive the support of dem
ocrats. nationals and good share of the
republicans. This ticket will be positive.
ly in the field and man who has a strong
hold on the people of Moline. effected by
his manly conduct. will be at the head of
the ticket. The people are supren ely
tired of Wheelock and his gang. They
have instituted machine 10 this city that
for corruption and downright cunning is
superb. The awakening to this fact
has been long in coming but
the public have at last reused themselves
from their lethargy. and are equipped,
armed and ready for pitched battle, so
that lively times are in prospect. Such a
ticket will, without doubt, sweep the
deep that Vesuylus could not resurrect
them. The time has come when this ma
chine has got to stop its engine, the
lever halted in it's disrcputable moving
and a bright, clear horizon loom up in
our proud city that will put TO shame the
black sphere that has so long been nau
seOus to the public The aldermanic
timber is rapidly cropping out, and there
is disposition to run Wheelock man in
each ward, but doomed they will be, and
will be beaten by larger maj or
tiles than those of last year.
For the city clerkship NJ. c. FoIlett viii
doubtless have a walk away. C. F.
Grantz's success depends upon what. the
machine will do in the matter. w
J. Entriken with the Congregational
church at his back may win the city at
torney prize. In the Fourth ward III. O.
Sleight and Aid Woodward are talked of
for councilmen. In the Third, Frank
Kerns, in the Second r. II. Wilson, in
the first A. Shallene, as to the Fifth there
is no one talked of yet. Moline is a
peculiar town accustomed 10 surprises of
all kinds it will not be much astonished to
see an independent ticket sweep the field
and if Mayor Stillman w. Wheelock, is
nominated it will be but short time be
fore the independents are on the war
path
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
A nasarund Rahnlra


Nothing is truer than the maxim that
great events turn upon small hinges.
Look we'll to the small things of life,
gentle reader, for upon them may de-
pend the greater ones These whole
some reflections are inspired by an in
cident of murder trial at Oroville last
week. When the jury retired for con-
sultation the foreman announced that
the prisoner had conveyed to him the
fact that he had only SO left to ssput
up
s.Ten dollars.' exclaimed one of the
twelve Indignantly. what does the fell
low take us for? We are willing enough
to do the fair thing. heaven knows, but
ten dollars-I call that rubbing it inn
If he had oaly made it dollar
apiece snorted another.
Il tell you what it is, gentlemen, ?
said the foreman sulemnly, If this sori
of thing keeps on, they'll be having
Chinese jurymen next, SO the LAWYERS
viii get it all There's little enough
money in our profession now. It..
about time we made an example of some
one. Spose we hang this man?''
And, by Jove, they did. San Fran
cisco Post.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
POLITICAL NOTES.

great deal of interest is being mani
tested over the approaching election and
an ARGUS reporter started out this morn
ing to gather what information he could
in regard to 1t, SO as to give the public
the true inwardness of the situation Our
contemporaries have all had their say and
virtually nominated a full ticket. Some
OF the alleged candidates know nothing
about it until they see their candidacy
hawked through the papers. There is no
doubt in the minds of the public that there
is still hunt going on that will assume
dangerous proportions in few days. OF
the alleged candidates for mayor, DR.
Vessel and G. Z. Hemenway are really
men who win secure the nomination If
possible, although Mr.. Hemenwav will
not be a candidate against Mr..
Wheelock, should the latter gentleman
conclude not to run, he would put Mr..
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
THE LUMBER Interest.

A special dispatch from Eu Claire.
Wisconsin,, says that at the annual meet
ing of the Chippewa lumber and boom
company, one of the largest lumber cor
porations in Wisconsin, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year
President, F. Weyerheuser. Rock Island.
ILL.,; vice president, o. III. Ingram, Eau
Claire, Wis; secretary, VIM. Irvine, Beef
Slough; manager. e. w. Culver. Eau
Clare. The company has expended up
ward of $15, 600 to $4,000 in improve
ments during the winter, and expects to
have its mill in operation by the goth of
April
The weather in that part of the state
continues very favorable for loggers to
prosecute their work, and the March
thaw has not yet affected the roads in the
least. Late estimates place the cut on the
Chippewa at 80 per cent of the calculated
amount, and on the Black river about 80
per cent. There is a possibility of ten
days more of good logging weather, which
will be improved.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
PERSONAL

Mr.. Godfrey Lawrence, very genial
and obliging young gentleman and good
telegra pher withal. who has been night
operator at the Western Union Office in
this city since last summer, has gone to
Chicago and his place here has been taken
by a young man from Cedar Rapids.
Iowa.
Mrs. j X. p St. Clair left the city yes
terday, with two of her children. foI
Madison, Neb. where she will made an
extended visit with her sister and other
relatives.
BIr. Z. G. Stone, business manager OF
the Rhea company, called at the ARGUS
office this morning on his way to Peoria.
From the Rome. n. Y. Sentinel ''G
I'll. Griswell, of Prophetstown, Whiteside
county, Illinois, who has been visiting
with his brother. N P. Griswell, at Delta.
since last December. will return to his
Illinois home the fore part of April"
Cambridge CHIEF: Last Saturday we
had the pleasure of meeting Arthur n.
Morton, general freight and passeng er
agent of the r. I. & p. r. r. We used
to know him boy years ago in Gaiva,
and are glad to see him advance so rapidly
on the way to prosperity"
Alderman Hull is at home again after a
visit to his business enterprises In Cold
water. Michigan.
Mr.. Clark Connolly expects to go back
to Missouri Valley in about two weeks
and resume his duties at the bank. We
are glad to hear that he has so far recov-
cred.
Last night Mr.. G. @. McTntire. who
boards at Mrs. Oberdorfer's was taken SUD
denly i'll which prevents his appearance
at his place of business to-day. He was
much better this morning and is likely
to be out again in day or two. To
morrow Mrs. McIntire and child are ex~
pected, to remain here permanently.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
The Newer Arithmetic.

At sc per ton how many tons Of coal
can be bought for S24? GThe graenhorn
will answer -four tons.
A stage coach robber was enabled to
lay up $4, $50 in ten months, but Nj
agra Falls hackman sailed down So, 26j
in nine How much better is it to rob
at Niagara Falls than out West?
A tramp gets cold biscuit at one
house. a piece of meat at another, an
old vest at the third, and the owner of
the fourth house runs him three blocks
with a dog. How much more does the
tramp respect the fourth person than
the other three combined?
1t takes twenty blows of a hammer in
the hands of a woman TO drive ten
penny nail three inches. She misses
the nail twice where she hits it once.
How many blows does she strike in all,
and how far can her voice be heard
when she strikes her thumb?
A gentleman who has library of II, =
600 volumes, opens ten volumes per
year. At this rate how long will it
take him to reach the last book?
In one month the owner of n three
minute horse lied ninety-four times re-
garding his speed. At this rate how
many times would he lie in q year, and
how would it help the speed of the
horse any?
A school teacher gives pupil four
teen paragraphs in the science of gov
eminent, thirteen examples in arithme-
tic, three pages of history, one page of
grammar, one of photography, and half
an hour of writing as a daily lesson and
expects him to pass IS per cent. At
this rate how long viii il take her to
rush him into a lunatic asylum?
If lawyer charges plumber s. for
advice, and the plumber charges the
lawyer $3.50 for stopping leak in a
water-pipe, how much is the lawyer
aheadp Fs- s-.
4 saloonist buys barrel of whisky in
bulk and draws two barrels from it by
the drink There is nothing to figure
on this. The figuring was all done by
the saloonist.- Detroit Free Press
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-21
however
RODMAN RIFLES.

1t is generally understood that the long
talked Of and anticipated competitive
drill of the Rodman Rifles will come of
in about a month. unless inspection
should come in before that time, in which
event it would occur at a }ater date, to be
announced hereafter. In this connection
it may be well to say that in addition to
the contest for the possession of the com
pany medal, tue friendly strife
for superiority in drill will
be intensified when it is known
that medal will be awarded to
the man who stands second in the list.
Already this company ranks second to
none other in this section in point of dis
cipline and general military excellence
and it is safe to say that under Captain
Abell's direction none of its old time pres
tige viii be lost.
The attendance upon the regular COM
pany meetings is steadily increasing and
as fast as old members drop out
by reason of the expiration of their
respective terms of service. their
places are more than made good by as
good material as there is in Rock Island.