Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-12
NO WOMEN, Ell.
County Authorizes Weary of De.
lay Raid Houses Harboring
ing Them in City.
FINES ARE IMPOSED ON 22
Chief McCaskrin Learns of Operations
and Rounds Up IL for Show
Keepers and inmates Fined.
SUMMARY OF RAID ON SALOONS
UARBORING WOMEN. ey

| HARBORING WOMEN. ay
Arrested by sheriff - 22
Arrested by police .... IL
| Fines and fees to state. . S355.2O
| Fines and fees to city. S1o5.2O
/ In about the year 1906 there was Il
little mayor of great city, on the Mis-
sissippi. and he proclaimed that his
city was one of wOndrous morals, and
ne went across the river to the people
| OF Davenport and told them that every
lthing that was unclean had been cast
out of 1t. For he had made an offer of
$500 and of 5000 for evidence that
would convict Cne-half, One-third. one
fourth, One-ffth, one-siXth. one-seventh.
one-tenth or one-eleventh OF the eleven
places that were said by The Argus
some little time before to be harboring
women.
And at the same time there was
states attorney who believed that all
was not lawful and orderly i'll the city
of Rock Island-for the things that
were OF his mind constituted notori-
Gus fact. And it came TO pass
ties of the sheriff's Office, and giving
them warrants and papers. he said,
Go thou out into the darkness of the
night and seek what We shall find"
And the Heiderites gathered them
solves together, and when the hour
was come and the mayor was with the
counsellors in his chamber, they. the
Heiderites, did go out into the dark
ness of the night
What They Found Was Plenty.
And, 10! what they found was as
tonishing to those who had believed the
proclamation of the little mayor, al
though it was not SO TO the people of
knowledge. AT SWede Mandy's. which
is located i'll the portion of the
city where people make their homes.
there was a multitude Of men and
women. And the keeper thereof
appeared before the court Glad in
her purple raiment. And at the Hub,
and at the Blue Goose others were
found, and Dot Ferne came with two
and in all % offenders were gathered
at the place of the sheriff. and others
We're allowed to so their way after be-
ing brought there, because it was
shown that they were not offenders.
And from the place of Herman Banker
on Market square two we're brought. !
but they were only occupants of a wine
room, where they were drinking and
making merry.
And all were arraigned before Mag
istrats Elliott, who fined the keepers
$25 and the inmates SO and the costs
of bringing them there.
When the news reached the chamber |
of the little mayor i'll the city's temple |
that the Heiderites had been bringing !
in the offenders against the law, he !
gathered about him his cohorts ana !
said. GO thou forth. too, all my Nc
Caslrinites,. out into the highways ami
byways and into the hedges and COM
pei them TO come in"
Get "a Dozen.
And the McCaskrinites did go OUT !
into the highways and the byways, and |
even after the Heiderites had taken /
the multitudes before the magistrate |
and when the Heiderites were not yet |
through with their allotted task for it |
was great one, II more were found. |
and these they brought TO the |
city's temple saying, ''All we need |
IS the edict from your honor to |
bring in all that is unclean in
Rock Island: have we not said and |
said again to you, Let us go out and [
them TO come in and pay n |
fine for their violation of the law, and |
have We not heard from YOU the ans
wer, There is none unclean in Rock
island"
When the news was spread about
he great city of what the states at
.orney and the Heiderites had done, the
people were exceedingly glad, and
said. "Have not these fines been due
Tor. 10. these many weeks and months?"
And again they say. would it not
have been better if all of the fines had
gone into the Golfers of the city in
stead of to the state?"
Complaint Not Heard.
And others said. Have we not COM
planned long and for many months that
among our homes and where the peo-
pie pass by this place has been run
ling where men and women gather in
and have we not been told
hat there was no place for these to
gather?"
Verify, we now know the truth, for
lid not the Heiderites go there and
bring them out in large numbers, and
lid not the Page, OF the McCaskrinites,
enter as they were being taken out,
and did not Larson, of the Heiderites,
say to him, You are too late, you have
.arried too long in the enforcement of
H. IaIv I'm this land go
What Does 1t All show:
1t might be said that here endeth the
irst lesson. but while the story is COM
,lete as related in the Sunday morning
'ecords of the sheriff's Office and the