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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
ERNEST WORKMAN.
Secretary of said Board.
Notice of Awarding Contract For Fill
ing Douglas, Fourteenth, Fit
teenth, Cedar, Locust and Pine
Streets, and jefferson Avenue
With Earth. From Lot Line e
Lot Line and to the EstabIishe.
Grade Of Said Streets and Ave
nue..

Public notice is hereby given tha
the Board of Local Improvements O.
the city of Cairo. Illinois. has award
ed the contract for the filling of Doug
las street and Fourteenth street, from
Walnut street TO Jefferson avenue, o
Fifteenth street from point one hun
dred and forty-two C42) feet west
Cedar Street to Jefferson avenue, o
Cedar street. from Twelfth street &
Fifteenth street. of Locust stree
from Twelfth street to Seventeenth
street, of Pine street, from Jefferson
ayeneue to Seventeenth street, and o.
Jefferson avenue from the north linz
of Douglas street TO Pine street, witt
earth. from lot line TO lot line and t.
the established grade of said streets
and avenue. TO the Cairo Contracting
& Dredging Company, of said city of
Cairo at and for the sum of Nineteen
TIL usand Three Hundred and Eighty
Three Dollars and Twenty Cent
ei9,3S32eD. in accordance with th'
terms and provisions of Ordinance No
l09 Of said city Of Cairo. adopted DE-
cember IAN. 1906. and approved DE
cember 18Th. 1906. said award how
ever being subject 10 the right of tn
owners of majority of the frontage
of the lets and lands upon the said
streets and avenue. or their agents, 10
elect TO take the said work and eniei
into a written contract with the ssif
City of Cairo 10 do the whole Of said
work At ten 1Ol per centum less than
the said price at which IRE said
work has been awarded 10 the said
Cairo Contracting & Dredging Com
psny. within the time and in the
manner required by law in such case
made and provided.
Dated Al Calro. Illinois. this 18Th
day Of June. 4. ID. 1907.
GEORGE PARSONS.
President Of the Board Of Local I'm
provements Of the City Of Cairo. Hi
nois
Attest ERNEST WORKMAN.
Secretary Of Said Board.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
DEATH OF AGED MAN
Father Of Ira Hastings and Late Sam.
uei Hastings Passes Away After
Long Illness.

Hezekiah Hastings died about noon
yesterday al the home of his son Ira
Hastings. on Eleventh street. aged
about 81 years He had been ailinc
for some years. but was not consider.
ed seriously IN til lately. He was
born in Virginia. bat had resided In
Illinois over fifty years His wife diei
some eighteen years ago. and he lived
with his children after that going
from one to the other. coming to Cairo
last August TO visit his son. Ira. The
death Of his son. Samuel Hastings.
was severe blow TO him. Surviving
members of the family are Ira Hast.
ings Of this cry. Miss Cora Hastings
of Seattle Wash. Mrs. o. s. Gard. Of
Wray. Cal. Noah and Jonas Hastings
OF lngraham. ~. The remains will
be sent 3 Ingraham early this morn
ing. for intermeni. Deceased was
devout member OF the Methodist
church.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
TRACTION CO. IS
NOT BLAMtLESS
SAYS cORONER'S JURY IN CASE
OF BLIND MAN WHO DIED
FROM EFFECTS OF INJURIES
BY CAR.

Coroner McManus held an inquest
yesterday over the remains OF the
blind man. o. e. Bleiler. who died
the day before as a result of being
struck by street car run by Motor
man Martin. The jury consisted Of e.
A. Burke. (foreman) Rob-. Huette, r.
Z. Cannon. Claude Barumfi VIM. Gaz-
zoia and w. c. Charles, A number
of witnesses were examined including
the motorman Of the car. The evil
denee seems to have satisfied the
jury that the motorman was not
blameless in the matter. some of the
evidence showing that he saw the dog
leading The man across the track, but
did not have his car under control suf-
ficiently to prevent The accident The
verdict was rendered accordingly
Nothing had been heard from the re.
laiives of deceased and the body will
be held till they can be communicated
with. They reside in Denver, Colo.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
WARNING FOR OLD FRIENDS.


III we're In the publishing bust.
ness" said the gray-headed man, I'D
get out a school reader and put
into 1t some of the old poems and
stories that were favorites forty
years ago. 1t would do the young
sters good to get acquainted with
that ancient and honorable liter
ature, while as for their parents, who
sometimes look through school book
seeking In vain for a familiar echo OF
their own childhood days, why, they
would get a Whit of the inspiration
OF youth that would lop at least 10
years of their age. I'd put In that
poem about Make Me Child Again
Just for Tonight and that other one
where the little girl wants to know II
God isn't on the ocean just the same
as on the lands? Then there are The
Gamblers Wife, Lewellyn and His
Dog We Are Seven and Lazy Ned
Id print all these old gems and sand
witch them in between the speeches
of Patrick Henry and Daniel Webster,
and that old classic about the content
ed boy who had no kick against life
as he found it, even though he hadn't
even a turnip TO eat. Maybe my book,
when | had finished compiling II,
wouldn't find favor with a modern
school board, but I'll warrant you 1t
would strike sympathetic chord in
the breast Of many reader, old and
young"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13

Public notice is hereby given that
the Board Of Local Improvements of
the city of Cairo. Illinois. has awarded
the contract for the construction of
vitrified tile pipe sewers and house
connections and inlets and brick man
holes in Douglas street. from a point
ihirty-four f3G feet east of the west
line of Washington avenue to a point
fifteen 05D feet west of the east line
of Jefferson avenue. in Fourteenth
lireei. from a msnhole at the inter
section of Fourteenth and Poplar
streets to a point fifteen l15D feet
west of the east line of jefferson ave
uue. in Fifteenth street. from a man
hoIe at the intersec. ion of Fifteenth
and Locust streets to point three
hundred and four can feet west Of
the west line of Locust street. in
Cedar street. from manhole in a
sewer To b. cOnstTuc Ell IN Twelfth
street 10 a manhole in a sewer TO be
in Fourteenth street. in
Locust street. from a sever to be con-
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
ON THE RIVERS
Wireless Plan to Be Employed For
Floating Pool Room in Harbor
Memphis--Rivers Still
Rising.

A Memphis dispatch says: "A SEN
sational story appeared the other day
in an evening paper to the effect that
a floating pool room. using the wire
less plan, where lovers of the ponies
can stake their hard-earned money
just as they did before the Foust Bill
WAS passed In Tennessee and the Amiss
Bill became a law in Arkansas, will
shortly be running In full blast In the
middle OF the Miss.s sippi river, ac-
cording TO those who keep in clos \
touch with such matters. Ii is further
said that this pool room will be loca-
ted IN the middle of the stream,
where 1t is claimed, neither the state
tennessee nor the state of Arkansas
will have jurisdiction, and the eff.
forls OF legislators will be set at
naGght. Attorney General Gates is
quoted in the smae publication as
saying that the jurisdiction of Ten
nessee extends 10 the midrle of the
Mississippi river and hat he would
aiforc the Shelby officials every as
sistance in enforcing the law against
gambling. Meantime nobody can be
found who knows anything definite in
regard TO the pool room scheme"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
Notice of Awarding Contract For Fili
ing Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twen'
tieth, Cross and Cedar Streets
With Earth, From Lot Line to 10
Line and to the Established
Grade of Said Streets.

Public notice is hereby given that the
Board of LEGAL Improvements Of the
City of Cairo, Illinois, has awarded the
contract for the filling Of Eighteenth
street. Nineteenth street and TWEEN
tieth street from Walnut street tt
Cedar street, and Cross street, from
a point one hundred and thirty-flvt
135) feet west of Walnut street Z
Cedar street. and Cedar street, iron
the north line of Seventeenth street z
the north line of Center street, witt
earth. from lot line to lot line and e
the established grade of said streets
to the Cairo Contracting & Dredgint
Company, of said city of Cairo, at am
for the sum of Fifteen Thousand 81
Hundred Twenty-Seven Dollars ane
Fifty-Four Cents 1915, 62T.5D, in &C
cordance with the terms and provis
ions OF Ordinance No. 112 OF saif
city of Cairo, adopted December 14th
906, and approved December 18th
1906. said award, however, being sub
ject TO the right of the owners OF
majority of the frontage Of the loii
and lands upon the said streets, O.
their agents, to elect to take saif
work and to enter into written con
tract with the said city of Cairo &c
do the whole of said work at ten clio
per centum less than the said pric
at which the said work has bee
awarded TO he said Cairo Contracting
& Dredging Company. within the time
and in the manner required by Law
in such cases made and provided.
Dated at Cairo, Illinois, this 12tl
day Of June, A. ID. 1907.
GEORGE PARSONS
President of the Board of Local I'm
provements of the City of Cairo, Hi
nois.
Attest. ERNEST WORKMAN.
Secretary of said Board.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
LINK WITH THE DEAD PAST.
Woman Has Handkerchief Stained
with Blood of Charles |.

An interesting Derbyshire link with
the past" is recalled by Mr.. J. r..
Sharpley of Hatfield college, Doncas-
ter. In a letter to the Sheffield Tele-
graph. He says: in 1872, when a
COY, staying at Hulland ward, Derby
shire, called OH an old woman, Eliza
beth Durose, then 81, widow OF a farm
ar, who told me that her grandmother,
when a girl, had known mana dis
tant relative--who had witnessed the
execution of Charles |. The old wom-
an then took ont of corner cup
board an old prayer-book. bound in
black leather. which was, | fancy, OF
the time of Queen Anne. for | remem-
Der 1t had frontispiece pieturing
parson in gown and bands and wear
ing a long wig, saying prayers In a
three-decker.' Opening 1t at the form
u service for January 80, she showed
ne piece of coarse linen. of the color
1f dead leaf. which she said was a
portion of a handkerchief which had
been dipped in the kings blood, and
was given to her grandmother by the
above eyewitness When 1t first pass
ID into her possession 1t was nearly
entire, but her children had played
with it, and this was all she had man.
aged to preserve. Derby tEngland)
Telegraph.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13

day morning.
The Barrett went up the Ohio with
an empty barge.
The De Koven, a transfer boat be-
longing to the Illinois Central Com
pany, came up from Helena yesterday
and went TO Paducah to go on the
ways for repairs.
The Dick Fowler from and to Pa.
ducah was in port yesterday as us.
ual She will be the Paducah packet
today.
The Stacker Lee came out from ST.
Louis about D. m. yesterday and was
here till after making additions
She had a good trip.
The Wash Honshell brought two
harges OF logs from the lower river
yesterday for the Singer Company Of
Cairo.
The tow boat T. H. Davis came
down from Joppa last evening with an
empty.
The Reaper is coming up from
Memphis with empties.
The pleasure boat Annie Russell is
coming up from Memphis bound for
st. Louis.
The Three States made an excur
SION last evening up and down the
Mississippi
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
PROGRAM AND PRIZES FOR
BOAT RACES NEXT WEEK
Three Races to be Run Of Four, Eight and Eigh-
teen MiIes--Nine Handsome Prizes Of
fered--Many Contestants Promised
aK-Rw

First prize: Article value $500.
Second prize: Article value $500.
Third pre-: Article value $1,000.
The winner OF either of The above
prize trophies coming the farthest dis
tance from Cairo will be donated s25
in gold toward paying transportation
expenses.
Class Open Launches.
Distance miles over two mile
straight course.
First prize: Article value $4,000.
Second prize: Article value $1,000.
Third prize; Article value $500
The winner of either OF these prizes
coming the farthest distance from
Cairo will be donated SIS in gold to-
ward paying transportation expenses
The prizes will he Loving Cups,
Hamper Camping Utensils, Siren
Horn. Motor Boat French Horn. Duro
Storage Battery, Kit Of Boat Tools,
Silk Flags, Etc.
All entries must be made on or be
fore GOO p IN. June 18th, 1907. and
boats will be measured and placed the
following day.
Boats must he owned by person
making entry No boat chartered for
The occasion will he allowed to enter.
A competent and disinterested
party has been employed to measure
and handicap boats.
No entry or measurement fee will
be charged.
Any boat propelled by any form of
internal combustion motor using
gasoline for fuel may enter these
races subject to the rules.
American Power Boat Association
rules and regulations will be used in
the measurement and placing of boats
Headquarters for boats will be the
Cairo Yacht Club Boat House.
II is requested that all boats take
part in the Illuminated River Carnival
10 take place on the night of June 90
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
Wolf in Italian Town.

II is not often that European eyes
witness the spectacle of a wolf trot-
ting leisurely through the streets In
broad daylight, and with little appar-
snt concern. Such an incident hap
Iened recently in the Italian town OF
innezzano. The wolf went smiling
irst in the direction of one house and
then of another as he went along.
Passing by the hospital, an attendant
If sporting instincts saw the game,
Ind, rushing for gun, gave chase.
Before long he got a chance for shot,
which hit the wolf, and, following this
up with another, the beast was slain.
It's presence in the town is accounted
FOR by the theory that the beast had
been hunting over night away from
his haunts, and after eating to safety
and sleeping through the night, was
making his way back to his lair.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
Properly sized Up.

William" said an Oil City woman
70 her husband, Il gave away an old
pair OF your trousers today" You
did? What color we're they?' Blue,
think" Great Scott Woman, do
you know what you've done?" why
William, don't. Was there any
money in them?" Was there any
money in them? There happened to
be $50 in them which intended hand
ing you for present" William.
said the woman. quietly. Il believe you
are lying" Which re was, of course.
oil City BljzsNrd.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
Aidrich and Whitman.

T. b. Aldrich knew Walt Whitman
and liked him personally. although he
would never admit that Whitman was
a poet except in here and there a sim
gle phrase. Many time has the pres
ent writer endeavored to convert Mr..
Aldrich from this state of heather
blindness as to Whitmans genius, but
the debates used to end illogically with
Mr.. Aldrich's delightful story of GER
tain 80 which Whitman once borrowed
from Internationally, but, alas, ir-
revocably-in Pfaff's restaurant in
Broadway.-Atlanti Monthly.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13

At the meeting of the committee
the other night p. T. Langan esti-
mated the cost of putting Of 1000
seats at about 1915. The committee
did not deem ii well to go In so deep
for this purpose and may decide to
have $500 seats. which may be
enough for the ladies and children
and the men can stand up.
1t Is understood that the whartboat
will be moved ont of the way for the
boat races next week, SO that the big
crowd Of people may have an unoh'
structed view of the river from the
levee slope. The committee on ar
engagements have under consideration
the placing of seats on the slope for
the accommodation of the spectators
Commodore j. S. Aisthorpe has
listed five fast moor boats in the
Glass A or Auto Speed races, and
has assurance that large fiotil'a OF
other craft will be here to contest for
the prizes offered
The committee on boat races, con-
sisting of John s. Aisthorpe tchair-
man, |. NJ. Mitchell tSt Louise w.
FL Sutherland. Wood Rittenhouse and
Ofis Hastings, have issued the follow
ing program and announcements for
the races 10 he run June 81, begin.
ming at ? p. m:
Class A Speed Auto Boats.
Distance is miles, over three mile
straight course.
Firet prize: Article value S50:00.
Second prize: Article value $4,000.
Third prize Article value $500
The winner of either Of the above
liize trophies coming he farthest dis
ance from Cairo will be donated 500
n gold towards paying transportation
expenses.
Class 3 Family Boats. Part or Full
Cabin Launches.
Distance s miles over two mile
straight course.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13

structed in Twelfth stree. to a sewer
to be constructed In Seventeenth
street. in Pine street. from sewer
10 be constructed i'm Sixteenth street
TO jefferson avenue. and in Jeffe. sol
avenue. from a sewer to he en-
structed in Fourteenth stseet to Pm
street, to Garner e. Haynes. at and r
the sum OF Nine Thousand Eight
Four Dollars and Ninety-Four Gems
(s9.OsislD in accordance with tn
terms and provisions of Ordinance
No 1O9 of said citv Of Cairo, adop'e
December 14th. 1906. and approve
December 18th. 1906. said awa~d
however. being subject 10 the rig
81 the owneTs OF a majority of the
frontage of the lots and lands upon
the said streets and avenues. or their
agents. To eject 70 take the said work
and enter into a written contract with
the said city Of Cairo to d. the whole
Of said work at ten fiol per ceutuTu
less than the said price At which TIE
said work has been AWARDED TO The
said Garner G. Hines. within the time
ami in the manner required by law In
sucn cases made and provided.
Dated at Cairo. illinois. this 18th
DAY Of June. A. d. 1917.
GEORGE PARSONS.
President Of the Board Of Local I'm
Broyemenis Of the City Of Cairo.
Illinois.
Attest: ERNEST WORKMAN.
Secretar- Of said board.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
Yesterdays River Forecasts.

The Ohio from Evansville TO Cairo,
will continue rising slowly during The
next two or three days.
The Tennessee from Florence to be
low Jacksonville, will rise during the
next As hours.
The Mississippi from Chester to Cal
70 will continue to rise slowly during
the next 36 to As hours.
The Wabash at Mt. Carmel will cen.
tinue falling during the next as hours,
passing below the food stage tonight
or Thursday.
Note: Mail reports from Nash
vile show the stage at that point to
have been 22.5 yesterday, instead OF
514 as received and published here.
n. NJ. CUNNINGHAM.
Observer.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
DEATH OF MRS. BUSH
Wife Of Well Known Electrician Pass
ed Away Ate Weeks Illness
Burial IN PsGvesh Today.

Mrs. Dora Bnh died Yesterday
morn NJ at her home. 21o Seventeenth
street. after a weeks illness from
child birth She was % years old
and was the wife Of Frank Bnsa. alec
irician for the Cairo Tractor Cca-
psny. who. with the infant danehte-
survive her The remains viii be COZ
veyed 70 Paducah this morning under
direction Of Burke 4 Blaine. and inter
meRt VIII take place at Oak Grove
cemetery in that city today.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13

The river marked 342 feet on the
Cairo gauge last evening showing a
rise of GA in "a hours.
Rising rivers were reported yester-
day from points above here as fol
lows: Cincinnati ii, Louisville %
Evansville 0.2.-Mt. Vernon OIL. Nash
vile 40. Chattanooga 0.5. Guntersvillc
z.5. Florence OF. Padueah O4, St
Louis o.5. Chester o.. Cape Girardeau
OF.
The Ferd Herold from Memphis for
St. Loais was in port an hour yester-
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
BUSY With THE Gun
Three Are Shot While on River Ex'
cursion Last Night--Two Other
Affairs.

When the steamer Three States re-
turned from an excursion down the
river late last night she brought back
three negroes who had been shot, one
woman and two men. The woman had
a wound in one Of her thighs, one OF
them in he abdomen and the other in
the lower part of leg. None OF them
was dangerously hurt. No one knew,
or would tell. how ii had happened,
To the best of the captains knowledge
a pistol had accidentally fallen on
the floor during the dancing, and the
balls had done the damage. No arrests
could be made.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13

CommercialAppeal Gus d. Phil.
lips, who has beer temporarily filling
the place of local inspector Of bulls for
The past three months, was yesterday
relieved Of mis- duties by VIM. j.
Hodge Of This city. well known ST
Louis, Memphis and New Orleans nj
lot, who was appointed by the super,
wishing inspector general of steam YES.
sells. George Uhlers. at Washington,
d. C., and was sworn in by Copt E. L.
Dorsey, supervising inspector OF the
Sixth district, with headquarters a,
Louisville.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
Precautions Against Electric Fires

n your dwelling is electrically light
ed never place wood. clothes or other
infiammable material against the
wires. meters or switches; never use
an electric wire as a clothesline, and
see to ii that your dwelling is kept
free from rats. as these pests often
gnaw the insulation from the wires.
The amount of loss from electric
Tres" in the United States in one year.
according TO the Saturday Evening
Post, is sf5.000,0o0.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
KILLS WIFE; BLOWS HEAD OFF

Los Angeles. Cal, June l2,--Frank
r.. Edison, lodging house keeper 60
day shot and killed his wife and then
blew his head off. They had fire.
quently quarreled over financial mat
tiers. They came from okaloosa, Ia
several months ago.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13

On Thirty-second street early last
evening two negroes engaged In a
shooting match without serious re-
suits. and early this morning shot
was fired on lower Railroad street by
some one whose identity could not be
learned, and either he or the one he
shot at made a dash up the street ami
got away.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
Natural for Them.

Those young fellows act like a
bunch of fools. They consider that
hey have a right 10 act that way"
I'd like to knos what right" They
elong to the smart set "-Houston
PO-t
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13

THE WEATHER
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Yesterdays Cairo Temperatures
General Conditions.

Rain fell during the "a hours ending
last evening, measuring .16 Of an inch.
A brisk wind prevailed part Of the
day and thunderstorm passed over
the city In the evening from the north
west To southeast.
The government bulletin reported
rain from % points covering portions
of the upper river valleys.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13

The Bulletin Is the only paper with
In = radius Of $50 miles With the ser
vice Of the Associated Pre.a
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
Forecasts For Today.

Cairo and vicinity; Probably
showers.
Illinois: Cloudy with probably
showers.
Kentucky: Generally fair except an
occasional local thundershower.
Tennessee: Generally fair except
an occasional local thundershower;
warmer.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13

Health Officer Orr viii today order
into CONT al citizens who have failed
10 obey the mayors order to clean NJ
on Railroad street.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13

More people In Cairo read the Bul
letin than all other Cairo papers com
bined.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
IN POLICE CIRCLES
Two Negro Desperadces Wanted In
Cairo Caught in East ST. Louis
Clean Up Or Report in Court

Chief Egan has succeeded in locat-
ing and procuring the arrest of the
two desperate negroes Mitchell and
Smelly, who are wanted for shooting
Officer Wallace al a house on Eigh-
zenith street some time ago. The
rascals were arrested in East St.
Louis and will probably be in the city
jail here today. Mitchell is the fellow
who was employed at Charley Powers
place on upper Commercial avenue and
who was shot at by Frank Connors.
about whose case there was some I'M
pleasant talk. Mitchell was the main
witness against Connors. but failed 10
appear when the trial was called. as
did all the other prosecuting wit
nesses.