Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-12
MOLINE

Harbor Work Done.-All of the $780,
600 appropriated for the improvement
of the local harbor has been expended
with the result that a channel 100 feet
in width and eight feet deep at aver
age stage has been gut from the Fiji
teenth street bridge 10 Pearson's land
ing at Twenty-fifth street. Certain
shallow places between the wing dam
and the south shore of the naTbor
have also been deepened. In the
opinion of local rivermen this $4,000
has been so expended as TO inGie
diately benefit river traffic in and out
of Moline in a practical way. A SUI
vey of the harbOr bottom was ctm-
pleted this week by thu United State
/ engineers and Colonel c. w Durham
has prepared the following statement
as to what it discloses: THE $4,000
appropriated for the i.nprO cement o.
! Moline harbor during the -urren, ifs
i cal year. has all been expended. This
expenditure has resulted in he le-
moval of S9,722 cubic yarls of mate
rial, mostly mud mixed with cona;i3r-
able rubbish The material has been
refractory, and tEe long TO- AMI dou-
BILE handling have made the wo"l.
somewhat expensive. A Channel i99
feet wide and extending to lock nc l.
tom FROM pedrson's wharf 10 de
water above the hrl !g@ For ="
ton Of tue i.sLll,e the channel IS
100 feet wide. 5Gn,e w"'K has Aeen
done in shallow places III cr0ssi' 9
from the dyke (the wing DAMP to the
i south side of the harbor 1t is hoped
and expected to secure an additional
$4,000 for work next season, and in
years to come a sufficient allotment
can probably be made annually tC
maintain the harbor in good condi
ton
Hunter Was CareIess.-Albin Gus
tafSon of Orion lost the index finger
and thumb of the left hand as a re
suit of pulling a gun through a fence
= muzzle foremost, Tuesday. The wea
pom was cooked and the hunter stoOC
it against a post while he crawlet
through the fence. After getting OF
the other side he reached over th'
top and caught the gun by the. barre
and started to lift it over the wire
, The trigger caught in the wire ant
, the explosion that followed blew ava.
the finger and thumb Gustafson wa
hunting alone near Orion, and ate
, temporarily bandaging his hand hun
ried to the town. He called on Dl
> Head, who found the hand in a yer
> badly lacerated condition and h
brought his patient to Moline to d.
T. o. Ringnell The Moline physical
= performed the necessary operation an
the patient was taken to st. Anthony
hospital. The hand was in a very ba
condition and the tearing away of tn
= flesh pulled out number of muscle
from the forearm.
Here on FurIough.-Edward Altz
here from Panama enjoying a 80 day
furlough He is N the employ of tt
D government as marshal Mr. Ali
says that the reports published abol
); the high cost of living in that countr
> are all a mistake; that it doesn't co!
more to live there than here. H
brought a number of reptiles that /
1 had killed.
SaIconkeepers Arrested,-The polio
have served a warrant for the ARE
d. of the proprietOrs of the DeClel
Il Bros. saloon at the corner of Thi
u teenth street and Fourth avenue. The
u are charged with selling liquor
N =. minors and appeared before Poli'
~ Magistrate Gustafson but the heariI
was continued until Saturday. MI
)" T. J. Barnett, mother of T. J. Paine
a, who was arrested by the police f
~ being intoxicated swore out the wa
u rant for the arrest of the saloonkee
ers. Her son is but 10 years old al
was fined for being disorderly.
~, ~ Obituary Record.-Mr. and Mrs.
30 7. Meegan. 1918 Ninth street are /
~ reaved by the death of their daughtt
- Miss Celia Loretta Meegan. T
~ young lady was taken i'll May 80 wi
an attack of pneumonia which dew
oped into tuberculosis, resulting
=, death Tuesday night. Had the YOU
lady been spared her life she Won
have been 10 years old yesterda
Tuesday afternoon she felt that S
was going to pass away and callil
~ the members to Tie bedside she la
them all good bye. Miss Meegan W
born in the \house where dea
Id claimed her Dec. II. 1888. She W
of educated in the public schools of Il
ia city and finished her course in t
is high school in three and one-hi
nd years. graduating in 1906. She al
nd completed course in Browns Blu
he ness college.
Badly Mixed Up.
20 Abraham Brown of Winterton, \.
III had a very remarkable eXDerience.