Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-05
DAVENPORT

III ldDOI ClTCI6S Oh luG City, MdS
arrested at his home Monday night on
l warrant issued in Justice Halls
court charging him with adultery. The
information was filed by w. r. Gil
BERT, who resides on Christie street in
Cast Davenport, and is employed at
light at the Bettendorf shops. Mr..
hilbert charges the defendant with be-
ng intimate with his wife and also
With breaking up his home. There are
hree children in the Gilbert home and
rs many in the Watkins home. Mr..
Gilbert states his wife and one child
IRE in Arkansas and that their eXpens-
S to that place were paid by Watkins.
he also alleges that Watkins has just
'eturned from there, having followed
mis- wife to the south. The preliminary
hearing of Watkins was set for yester
lay but at that time the case was dis
missed by Assistant County Attorney
Murphy on the ground that there was
but one person who could prosecute
Watkins on the charge of adultery, and
hat was his own wife. Inasmuch as
Mrs. Watkins refused to take any such
action, the case was dismissed.
o.
Leases More Room.-The business of
he Bee Hive Cloak and Millinery COM
)any, 114-116 West Second street, has
reached such magnitude that the mat
er of expansion is no longer debata-
Die question, but an absolute necessity.
The method of expansion has just been
solved by the closing of negotiations
With the Putnam estate for 5000 feet
If additional floor space on the second
door of the North Putnam building,
and by Jan. 1, 1907, the work of re
modelling both the first and second
floors will be under way. The addi-
tional quarters secured by the Bee
Hive are at present occupied by the
Himball house sample rooms.
lie Claire River Man Dies Charles
Johnson. well known river man and
/ resident of lie Claire for the past
nine years, died at $50 o'clock Mon
day evening at his home after suffer
ing a few hours from a broken blood
vessel. Mr.. Johnson was running after
a street car early in the day. and as
he result of too much eXertiOn SuS-
tanned a broken blood vessel. He walk
ed back to a physicians office and be-
came unconscious, and at the hour
stated passed away. Mr.. Johnson was
one of the prominent river men. He
was a power boat clammer and had
planned for an extensive claiming sea-
son for next year. He was born in
Fulton, ILL.,, Oct. 80, 1855, and about
nine years ago moved to lie Claire
where he resided until his death. The
survivors are his wife, his mother, two
children. Helen and Leon, two sisters,
Mrs. E. J. Lancaster, Mrs. Jennie TOole
of Rockford, H., and four brothers,
Harry, Clark. and William of lie Claire
and Walter of California
Date for Club Opening.-The ar
for the opening reception
at the Davenport Commercial club on
the afternoon and evening of Dec. IA,
when the new building will be thrown
open to the public, were arranged by
the house, entertainment and reception
in joint session Monday af
ternoon. The opening will be from )
p. m. to 5, and from till 10 o'clock
p. M, and only the regular noon lunch |
club.
Turner Fair Paid WelI.-Carl Mo
chow, bookkeeper for the Peoples Light |
company and treasurer of the recent |
Turner fair, has given out a statement |
If the gross receipts of the fair. These
amounted to $1,000. At the present |
line the exact expenditures are not |
Known but these are thought to run |
n the neighborhood of $4,000. 1t will |
therefore be seen that the net profits |
If the fair will reach over $4,000. This |
s the second largest fair ever held by |
he local Turner society. At the fair
leld in 1900 the gross receipts were
;7,795, and the expenditures $1,764, |
eaving net profit of $1,000.
Confesses Crime at DuIuth.-The .po-
ice have a conscience stricken pris-
,ner at the station in the person of
Ben Olsen. Yesterday afternoon Olsen
walked into the station and informed |
Desk Sergeant Bayley Cook that he is
wanted at Duluth, Mimi, for forging !
wo checks and cashing them. He
claims the crime was committed two
ears ago and that his conscience has
'een troubling him ever since. Olsen |
vas locked up on a vagrancy charge
md the Duluth police notified of his |
Illeged confession and inquiring wheth-
II or not they want Olsen in custody. /
Increases Stock-The Lee Broom & |
buster company is making for the ex-
ension of its factory here make not
Unexpected the action taken by its
tockholders at its annual meeting in /
his city. AT this meeting the capital Il
took of the company was increased
o $36O,000. of which $135.OOO is pre-
erred stock and $225,OO0 common