Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-03
DAVENPORT DOTS.
Bryscn on canal Prospects.-Post.

Bryscn on canal Prospects.-Post-
master Lon Bryson is home from
Washington where he went in company
with ex-Mayor Medill of Rock Island
and Attorney ". A. Meese of Moline to
push along the Hennepin canal propo-
sition- The success of the mission has
already been stated in the columns of
The Democrat. The postmaster brings
back the cheering word that bill
containing the 100000 necessary for
the completion of the canal has been
signed and is now law 1t is believ-
ed that the canal can easily be COM
pleted within a year. This statement
seems strange inasmuch as but very
little riprapping has been done. Cap
tain Bryson says this question came up
while he was at Washington and it was
answered by the statement that the rip
rapping will be done after the water
has been turned into the canal, and
the expense therefore very much light
ened. There is every reason to believer
that the canal will be speedily made
ready for use. The objections of the
Sterling parties were due to the fear
that the dam for the feeder would
cause injury to their lands, but these
objections have been overcome.
Trying to Close Bar.-Attorneys
Neal & Neal are preparing injunction
proceedings under the mulct law
against Tom Kurr and the Davenport
Mailing company together with Hans
Erichs as owner of the property. The
II oil
closing a saloon just opened near ST.
mon Yann's place just outside the city.
The suit is being brought by Hans
OHtzen. who lives just next door to the
building in which the new saloon is To-
Gated.
Boy Talks of Thrilling Experiences.
Two young Davenporters, just turned
81. have within the past few months
been undergoing a series of sensation
al experiences such as one reads about
in dime novels and then SCOTS at as
too improbable TO be real. But Harry
Eldridge the son of Mrs. Josephine
Eldridge of Locust and Ripley streets.
arrived in Davenport Sunday morning,
and his companion, Theodore Ciausen.
son of Reimer ClausSen. the we'll
known furnace dealer will be here in
a few days, and the lads have the DOCK
ments TO prove that truth is certainly
stranger than fiction. To reach San
Francisco only 10 be met by the great
est earthquake of centdries, to under
go all the horrors of that terrible eX-
perience at the Golden Gate, to be-
shanghaied on board vessel bound
for Belgium, to be treated like dogs
while on shipboard, to attempt to es-
cape from the ship at Port Townsend.
Wash, to be pursued by boas from
the ship. and to figure as the bone or
contention in a fight upon the water i'll
which one man was killed and another
wounded. then TO be incarcerated as
the star witnesses at the murder trial
which followed. only to learn that the
men who were assisting the lads to
escape were doing so in order to shang-
hal them again at $3.50 per head-to
undergo all this sounds like fiction, but
these are some of the experiences that
the Davenport lads have undergone
And on top of them Harry EldId%e
tumbled through a trestle and had his
arm so badly injured that il wiz be
useless for some months. The injury
made it impossible for him TO continue
on his trip of seeing the continent. and
working his way as he went, and so he
came home to rest up.
Obituary Record.-The death Of Hen
~ c. Milius Sunday evening at the
family home. 70S West Third street, re-
moved one of Dayenport's well known
and respected citizens. Mr.. Milius had
been i'll of lung fever for the past sew
eral weeks and it will be with much
sorrow that his friends read of his de-
mise He was born in Germany, April
z. 1865. and came to America and di-
rect to Davenport in the year 1884. De-
ceased was married here to Miss Anna
Celerich on Jan. 10, 1891. He leaves
TO mourn his wife and five children.
Mrs. Minnie Thompson. Ella, Anna,
Henry and Walter Milius A mother,
four brothers in Germany, a son-in-law,
William Thompson, and his father-in-
law, Peter Celerich. also survive him.
H. H. Andersen, an aged resident of
this city died yesterday afternoon at
O'Clock at his home, 726 West Sixth
street.