Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-01
DAVENPORT DOINGs

| l., To Washington, TO take position
in the government printing office.
Those who know of his good record
here recognize his qualifications for
any work that Uncle Sam has to do
in that line.
Mrs. +. c. Conkling, of Chicago, is
in the city, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
George NJ. Watts. Mr.. ConkIing
is manager of the Chicago station of
the Standard Oil company.
The appointment of Rev. ID. f.
Bradley as president of Iowa college
at Grinnell is noted with peculiar in
tereSt 10y number of Davenporters,
who unite i'm declaring that the col
lege has found the right man for the
place. Fred l.. Bcmis and Will Dur
! fee were school mates of his, at Ober-
lin college, and couldn't forget Dan
| Bradley If they tried. lie was one
of the best athletes in the college.
Won the oratorical prize. was Il sing
or of exceptional ability, and in fact
the acknowledged leader of the stu
dent body. He was born and spent
his early years at Bangkok. Siam.
Under his leadership his Davenport
friends think Iowa college will have
spiritual as well as intellectual re-
juvenation. and they say they
couldn't have prescribed better an
tidotc for the Heron idea if they
had tried
The banquet committee of the
Scott county bar met and chose +. +.
Cook To respond to the toast. PRO
fessional Ethics" on behalf of the
Scott county bar at the Clinton coun-
~ banquet. while f. NJ. Sharon was
selected to address the same gather
ing on Perjury n Courts
The insurance adiusters have been
here to sit ON the remains of the
wagon shop of the Bettendorf Axle
company. and have gone. The com
pany was not ready to do business
with them and there was plenty of
work for them in other places. They
will be back here in something like
a week, and then the work of adjust
ing their share of the loss on build
ings, plant and stock will he taken
up. 1t * not Likely to last long. As
matters are looking there now there
is going to he only Il small percent
age of salvage on the valuable con-
tents of the die room. Most of the
very costly property of the com
pany contained i'm that room is ruin
ed and Il dead loss. The company is
going to be ready to start its car
shop the coming Monday. The steam
and power plant being intact. as has
T,,,f
company great advantages in the re-
newing of its activities. The car de-
partment is being got into working
trim as fast as possible. and between
now and Monday it will be placed in
order To run as before the fire.
Miss Amalie Hofer. of the Chicago
kindergarten institute. is the guest
of Mrs. y. Riepe, and at the Feiervary
home has been introduced by Mrs. |
Shaffer. president Of the local Kin
dcrgartcn association. to many DaV
cnport ladies who called there. Miss !
Hofcr lcctured at Science hall last |
night on Children of Democracy"
One of the nice new wagons of the |
Tri-City Bottled Milk d Butter com |
pany got into the mud yesterday on
LcClairc street between Sixth and |
Seventh. strange as that fact may
seem. y leaking water pipe in the /
street had eaten AWAY all but Il |
shell of earth. and the wheel of the /
wagon dropped into the pit. The |
running gear of the vehicle was Il
little disorganizcd. and the stock ear
Il.
mixed up. but the damage was light.
Criminal business has been the
feature of district court proceedings.
Judge Bollingcr has sentenced sever
al criminals tn terms of various
length. and the docket has been clear
ed OF considerable business. Nestcr-
day Dudley was brought into
court ana pleaded not guilty.
All the cases against him have been
continued till the April term. ON ac-
count of matters in connection with
the evidence.
Chief Kcsslcr thought yesterday
when he saw the Associated Press
dispatch 10 the effect that Henry i.
Russell wanted in various parts of
the country for check forging. had
been arrested i'm Peoria, that the
man was DR.. Lodtmann. who operat-
ed so successfully here and i'm Rock
Island during the past week or two.
This idea was strengthened by the
fact that Lodtmann had used the
name Russell on the checks he Sc
cured indorsers for here. y tele-
,,I,.,,,, ;,,,,,iry however brought the
repIv that Russell was a little fellow.
weighing about 1913 pounds.
This evening. at Science hall. Prof.
Frederick Starr, of the University of
Chicago. will appear. delivering the
fifth of the series of six lectures ar
by the Academy of Science
His subject will be The Aztecs of An