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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
OBITUARY..
Harry s. Blocker.

Harry F. Blocker. until recently local
manager of the Family theater i'll this
city, died last night at 1850 at his
home, 915 Fourth avenue, of typhoid
pneumonia following a five weeks ill
ness. He was born in Davenport Nov.
IS, 1859. His parents taking up their
residence in Rock Island when he was
6 years of age and he has since made
this city his home He is survived
by his wife, his daughter. Miss Zoe
Blocker, a son, Harry F. Jr., his
mother, Mrs. Minnie Blocker. ana two
sisters, Mrs. Margaret Fitzsimmons
and Mrs. Lavina Sehnert, all of Rock
Island; brother. Fred, of Ellsworth,
Mimi, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Price.
Of Converse, Ind Mr.. Blocker was a
member of Rock Island lodge. No.
$50, B. P. o. E.; the local aerie of
Eagles, No. $50, Camp No. 30. M. w.
A, and of the National Alliance of
Stage Employees.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30 from the residence,
where Rev. w. B. Clemmer will con
duct the services. Burial will take
place at Chippiannock cemetery. The
local members of the Elks. the EAGLES
and the Woodmen camp to which he
belonged will attend the services in a
body.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
TEACHES LESSON
Confused Alarms Show made
Quacy OF System and Unrelia-
biIity of the telephone.
YESTERDAYS CALL 0Nt
Value of the Department is CurtaiIed
as Result-Work Under Way Now
Mere Beginning.

Frequently in the last 10 years there
have been instances of fires which
showed the absolute inadequacy, I'M
reliability, as well as the peril. of Rock
Islands fire alarm system, or rather
OF the city's lack of an alarm system.
Repeatedly The Argus has called at
tention to this deficiency, and cited in
stances where property mas been need
lessly destroyed and lives jeopardized
because OF this condition.
Rock Island has undoubtedly one of
the best equipped and best controlled
fire departments III any city of its size
in the state, and yet its advantages
are frequently curteiled by the lack of
a proper and efficient means of notify
ing the department in case of fire.
The Telephone Call.
The telephone is a most uncertain
instrument i'll such cases, for several
reasons. The people interested are in
most cases considerably excited, and
likely to make mistakes which in their
cooler moments would not occur. Then,
too. the transmission of sound over the
line is not always accurate, and any
one who uses the phone to any extent
knows how easy it is to confuse the
sounds of certain letters and figures.
Take the numbers % and 50, or any
two of a dozen others, and over the
phone it is very difficult indeed 10 dis
tinguish the consOnent sounds when
he ipl- w
And yet not long ago, when the Cen
trail Union Telephone company sought
TO force its ObnOXioas ordinance onto
the people and through the city coun-
Gil, one Of the sops it offered was Il
number OF telephones for the fire
alarm boxes. To be sure, these tele-
phones are needed and very valuable
to the police department. but they are
more of an annoyance Jnan OF a ben
eft for the fire department. The Ar
gus at that time voiced this same pro-
test, that the fire alarm system could
not be made efficient by the telephone
system, but that these phones might
be of value to the police department.
The only adequate fire protection OF
this sort is that which is provided by
the automatic alarm boxes.
Yesterdays Alarm.
Yesterdays fire alarm. when the
Kemble school building was threaten
ed, indicates again the inefficiency of
the telephone The department was
summoned, but the call was confused
over the wire, and the wagons hurried
to Twenty-second street and Seventh
avenue, while the blaze might have
been gaining Roadway on the roof OF
the buildinggon Nineteenth street and
Fifth avenue.
The city is woefully lacking in fire
protection of this character, and warn.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
Brick BuiIdinu For Sale.

Sealed bids will be received up to
y o'clock noon Tuesday Nov. &c. 1907,
for the brick building located at BIG
and 31S Sixteenth street.
The condition of the sale is that the
building and all material and debris
be cleared off. leaving the lot free for
excavation, by Saturday, Dec. I, 1907.
Separate bids will also be received
up to same date for the coal houses
and fence on the premises.
Right is reserved to reject any nd
all bids.
Mark envelopes: bid for Build.
ings on Modern Woodman Lot" and
address same to c. w. HAYES,
Head Clerk, NJ w. A.,
Rock Island, Ill
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
Mrs. William w. Carter.

Mrs William w. Carter died this
afternoon at 1925 at the residence,
1927 Seventh avenue, after an illness
of three months with heart trouble
and BrigNs disease. Mrs. Carter was
born in Hudson, Mich, where she
lived till July, 1906, when she came to
Rock Island. She was 5S years of age.
She is survived by the husband. four
daughters, Mrs. p. E. VIM of Hudson.
Mrs. F. C. Strate, Ethel and Ruth, and
a son, j. c. Carter, all of this city.
She is also survived by three sisters,
Mrs. w. II. Tower OF Union, City,
Mich; Miss Delina Canniff of Hudson,
Mich. and Miss Rose Canniff of Char
lotte, Mich The remains will be
taken to Hudson for burial.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
SPEAKS OF The MEMORIAL
Judge Gest Urges Many to Attend
Henry County Exercises.

Judge Gest in court yesterday urged
that the members of the Rock Island
County Bar association be present at
the memorial services to be held at
Cambridge Monday in the circuit court
for the late Hiram Bigelow. T. H.
Chesley. Joan B. Sreed and Harry A.
Reherd. Judge Gest feelingly referred
20 the memory of these men. and
spoke of the beauty of such services
as that to be held Monday. 1t is ex-
pected that a large number of the
Rock Island attorneys. among whom
all of the departed Henry county law
yers were we'll known, will be present
at the exercises.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
PERSONAL POINTS.

Hon. E. w. Hurst has returned from
the east.
A. ]. Lloyd has returned from a visit
in Chicago.
E. l.. Crosier of East st. Louis is
visiting friends in the city.
Instructor Victor Hall of the high
school left yesterday for Chicago,
where he will remain over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Sanders will
leave tomorrow evening for Colorado
Springs where they will visit over
Thanksgiving.
Arthur H. Angel, travelling for all
eastern spice and tea house, arrived
in the city yesterday afternoon from
Lacrosse to spend Thanksgiving with
his parents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
Reed.

Mrs. Selma Lendgren Reed, who died
at her home in Drury township. Rock
Island county, Wednesday, was born
in Jonkoping, Sweden, July 81. 1869.
She had been sick for nearly three
months and the cause of her death
was blood poisoning. She is survived
by her mother. Mrs Johanna Lend
gren, brother Charles of Eliza. H., her
husband. A. w. Reed, and son Charles.
She was a well known schoolteacher
of Mercer county before her marriage
and has been an active member of the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
ARE DAMAGING The LAWNS
Police Informed of Injury to Garnsey
Square by Boys.

Complaint has been made to the po-
lice department that the boys in the
west end of the city are doing consid-
cradle damage to the lawns in Garnsey
square by playing football there The
park authorities have been unable to
stop the boys. and the police will now
take the matter in hand. The boys
have been frequently told that the park
is not intended for such purposes as
the vigorous game of football but have
not needed the warning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23

Floods the body with warm, glowing
vitality, makes the nerves strong,
quickens circulation, restores natural
vigor, makes you feel like one born
again. HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea. 80 cents. Harper House phar-
macy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
stricken with the illness tbat nrnred

stricken with the illness that proved
fatal He was a bright and promising
child and his untimely death is a Sc
we're blow to his parents, to whom the
sympathy of many friends is extended.
The funeral, which will be pri-
vate, will be held tomorrow morn
ing. Services will be held at the home
at 9 o'clock and burial will take place
at Chippiannock cemetery Rev G. H.
Sherwood will conduct the services.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
Bennett.

Martin Theodore Bennett, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George Bennett, 931
Seventeenth street. died yesterday af-
ternoon at 5.45 after an illness of Is
days with scarlet fever. He was born
in this city Nov. 8, 1900. Besides his
parents he is survived by one brother,
Richard, a step-sister, Mrs. John
VoIertsen of Ell Paso. Texas, and a
step brother. George Bennett of this
city. The boy was just recovering
from a severe limb fracture when
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23

Eliza NJ. E. church for several years.
The funeral services We're held at the
Eliza church yesterday at II o'clock.
the service being in charge of Rev.
T. j. Wood of Reynolds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
ScheIl.

John Schell. enc of the well known
citizens of the lower end Of the county,
died at his home in Drury yesterday
morning at 10 o'clock. Dropsy was
the fatal ailment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
Camp 90, M. w. A., Attention.

All members are notified to be at
their hall Sunday, Nov. "a at 300 D.
m. sharp to attend the funeral of de
ceased neighbor, H. s. Blocker.
S. MATTISON, Clerk.
TOM M'LEAN, V. C.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
IN A LONDON FOG.
Dense Cloud Blankets the City
for Several Hours During
the Early Morning.
SUMS RAYS SHUT OUT
Sc Dark Street Cars Get Lost, Ferries
Are Tied Up, and Collisions o.
cur or All Corners.

a fog that would do credit to Lon
don itself enve.oped Rock Island this
morning, and for several hours the
sun tried in vain to penetrate through
the heavy cloud which spread over
the city during the early morning.
The lazy man had a good excuse for
a few hours more sleep than usual, if
he happened to reside down town, for
it was almost like night until well on
toward 10 O'Clock.
The ferry boats were compelled to
remain quietly at the landing, it being
impossible to see as far as from the
pilot house to the front of the boat
All OF the street cars were lighted as
on dark night, and almost every one
of the motormen declared that the
blacklist night ever known could not
be as bad. Even Motorman AL Studer,
who has been running on the Third
avenue line for some 50 years, found
the fog quite annoying. II was report
ed that he had lost his way in Moline,
and could not tell which way TO go till
the conductor made a search for land
marks. Then the conductor lost track
of the car, and went the wrong way
on, the line to find it.
A couple of Englishmen at the hotels
looked out of the lobby and remarked.
How jolly much like London it is,
doncherknow. And they stayed in
side, knowing well the dangers OF the
London fog.
Navigation Difficult.
To make ones way about town dur
ing the early morning was like navi-
eating blindfolded. Transfers drove
their horses at a walk, and even then
there We're instances where the horses
could not see each other in time to
prevent a collision. People stood on
corners waiting for cars. and felt a
very creepy sensation when suddenly
out of the blackness and directly upon
them doomed a monster with dull red
eyes. In most cases the motOrman
failed to see the waiting passenger I'M
til the car had passed the corner, and
then followed a frantic twisting of
brake handles, and the passenger start
ed out in the direction in which he
thought the car had gone. and knowing
from the sound that it had stopped
somewhere near. Pedestrians bumped
into each other ON every corner.
On the hills of the city the fog was
at no time as dense and Uncomfortable
as it was on the lower levels of the
city, and as quick as the sun came up.
the fog disappeared. From the hill,
one looking down on the city, if he
had imagination, might believe that
some big black cloud that belonged TO
a last summers thunder storm had
been delayed and had just arrived and
dropped into the valley to get out of
| the cold wind.
Accident in Davenport.
In the fog this morning. an |. & /
car collided with one of the Tri-city
Railway company's cars near Batten.
| dorf. James Jacobs, the oldest motor
man of the Tri-city lines, was injured
| in the accident.
Seemingly Only Local.
| The fog evidently was not so densl
east of the Mississippi, for the fast
mail train arrived on time, and obser
4 L.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
Seemingly Only Local.

The fog evidently was not so dense
east of the Mississippi, for the fast
mail train arrived on time, and obser-
walton has shown that it does not take
much more than heavy dew some
times to delay these trains from Chi
cagO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-23
Accident in Davenport.

In the fog this morning, an l. e l.
car collided with one of the Tri-city
Railway company's cars near Betten-
dorf. James Jacobs, the oldest motor
man of the Tri-city lines, was injured
in the accident.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-10-31
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The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-10-31
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The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-10-31
BUSINESS INTERESTS
OPPOSE PROHIBITION

Special to Daily Panhandle.
Birmingham, Ala, Oct. 2S,-An
election On prohibition is in progress
today in Birmingham and jefferson
county, following one of the hottest
anti-liquor campaigns ever waged in
the south. All the saloons in the
city and county are closed today and
women are parading the streets,
praying and sir-'ng. An active CAM
paign has been waged by both sides,
the anti-prohibitionis campain
committee spending, it is reported, a
fund of some $4,000. The prohibit
tionists we're also well organized and
carried on the warfare in vigorous
manner. The anti-prohibitlonsts'
committee headed by II. f. Dearde4
lehen, a prominent coal operator and
former iron manufactures, was made
up almost exclusively Of merchants,
manufacturers, property owners and
agents, no liquor dealers appearing
on the list II Is thought that the
result of the election will he close,
as a great many people who might
otherwise vote for prohibition, be-
lieve that It's adoption would be fatal
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-10-31

The governor, attorney general
and secretary OF state declared tho
result as fdlowR I
For amendment TO establish a
4 a home for Confederate
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For amendment creating a de-
pertinent OF agriculture,
with a bureau Of labor. -. 1886
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For amendment relating 10
compensation Of members OF
the legislature .'..,...... 9lpl1
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Fpr amendment providing for
the creation Of Improvement
districts In cities Of more
than 5000 inhabitdp1s ....fS,909
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For amendment relating to
printing, publishing, etc, .al6,043
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For amendment increasing the
amount OF tax that may be
voted for improving public
roads ...,..,'...s,s '...'' E4'o59
Against ,.,,..,,.s.,-. ,AGAA6
There we're thirty, counties In
which no election washeld, and three
counties failed 10 certify to the de
partment of state that On election
was or was not held. .u
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-10-31
Notice to Creditors,

Estate OF Mary NJ. Sweet, deceased.
Whereas, letters of administration
upon the estate OF Mary NJ. Sweet.
deceased, we're granted to the under
signed by the County Court OF Pot
ter County on the 9th day of oc-
tober, A. D, 1906, all persons hold
ing claims against said estate are re-
Quired to present the same within
the time prescribed by law.
My residence is at Amarillo, Tex
as, and my postoffiee address Is at
Amarillo, Texas, care Of, Madden &
Truelove. DON A. SWEET,
BY Madden & Truelove. Attorneys.
39 4c
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-10-31
A RUNAWAY
SWITCH ENGINE
Crashes Into Engine Of Pas
SVngGr Train and Kills
Engineer al Baird
speclal to Daily Panhandle.

hnpElnl lO llAllN IHDQ1uulbs
RaIrd Tcyas. oct Engineer
Mex inpcy e. dead and Fireman Nc
Coron Is scaIdod and mashed 80 badly
thai no will die as the result of a
runaway switch engine. pulIing sev-
or,I freight cars. crashing into pas
scnrcr No. 2. standing in the Baird
Yards Of the Texas g. Pacific AZ S
O'Clock saturday might.
The engineer of the passenger
train was out OF his cab, getting or
ders from the telegraph operator so
he could mil his train out westward,
bu, NcCaren. his fireman, was in the
cab when the crash came McCaren
was caught between the engine and
the tender, and was roarlully scald-
ed bcsides being badly crippled.
When he WAS taken from the wrecked
engine. ne was suffering great pain
and there Is scarcely any hone for
his recovery Engineer Mckinney OF
tho switch engine struck IN mis- throt-
flo and met instant death his body
hcinc avfuIlv manpled. Seeing the
dangar ahead and realizing that he
copl1 h, os No service in efforts TO
STONED the runaway engine and avert
tho co,,isIon Firemao c,ace iumned
as did also brakeman Tilford and
both oscaned tniury
Making AZ least forty.fiye miles IAN
bour tbo switch cnrine crashed
bosdon into tho Messenger engine
with terrific force Roth Iocomo-
.tyos voro oImost totally demolished
CREATING one hir bean Of twisted.
hont and broken iron and steel The
mail car was knocked from ihe
tracks and partialIv demolished
tbourh tbo mail clerk escanod With
only slight bruises A combination
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-10-31
MCLEAN NEWS.
Special to Daily Panhandle.

Special to Daily Panhandle.
Mclean, Texas, oct. 26.-There
has been up to date some twenty or
twenty-five, cars OF corn loaded here
at prace OF about As cents per bush
ell and lots more ready to load as
soon as cars can be obtined Dt
This evening about o'clock a
brakeman on an eastbound freight,
named Jim Glenn, Of Sayre, 0. T.
was caught between a box car and
the coal chutes and was prettyebadly
hurt The doctors say they do not
think his injuries serious
Our little town is still improving
some. There arc now about five new
residence houses under construction
and the contracts let for some four
or five to be begun next week,
The Mclean Hardware company
will be ready to open up their new
hardware store In a short time. They
will occupy the concrete building be-
longing to S, A. Cousins
The Citizens State bank Is opened
up and will. be glad to meet their
friends at their new stand just north
,of the Hindman hotel This makes
two banks for our town, Thus we
grow.