Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-02-15
DAVENPORT

Came to Enter Sanitarium.-Willianl
Alcorn. the young man arrested IN
Bucktown while acting in a demented
condition, was released from the police
station. Alcorn stated he had come to
Davenport TO take treatment at the
Benadom sanitarium and before pro-
oeeding to that place decided 10 mako
a tour of the tenderloin district. In the
east end he entered the resort kept by
Mamie CTony) Rockwell at 332 East
Front street Here he set fire TO the
bedding and was bent on burning up
the place His arrest followed.
Gets Mail Contract.-George Schick
of the Schick Bros. Express company,
has received word from the postoffice
department at Washington that he has
been awarded the contract for intro
ducing the screened mail wagons serv-
ice in Davenport, and hauling the mail
in such wagons from the Davenport
postoffice to the depots and vice versa,
for four years from July /. 1907. Bids
for the furnishing of this service were
opened in Washington Feb. u. It
will be the first time that the new
screened wagons. recently stipulated
by the department for better protection
of the mails, have been used in Daven-
port Three of them will be required
Sues for Damages.-A suit has been
prepared in the Office of Attorney J.
A. Hanley, whereby Charles Graham
sues the BettendOrf Axle company for
$4,000 damages. While in the employ
of the defendant company last Octo-
Der, it is alleged a truck load of steel
beams toppled over and fell on the
left foot of Mr. Graham Amputation
OF a portion of the foot was found ne
cessary and now it is claimed the
plaintiff mas been permanently cripple
by reason of the accident
Minus Stenoerapher and Typewriter.
Attorney c. T. Cooper is minus a fine
Remington typewriter and also a sten-
ographer. The strange part of the
transaction is that both disappeared a.
the same time For the past several
weeks Mr.. Cooper has had a man Civ
ing the name of Frank A. Crouch, EN-
plOyed in his office as stenographer.
The man had no taste for legal work
and secured position as stenographer
at the Locomotive works He was II
have gone to work there last Monday
but failed to show up. Wednesday at
ternoon Mr.. Cooper had occasion 10
open his typewriter desk and then dis
covered that the machine was missing
1t had been unscrewed from the desk
evidently during the night, for d burnt
candle and a wrench were found in the
office by Mr.. Cooper after he had dis
covered his machine TO be gone. Mr.
Cooper would now like to locate the
socalled Mr. Crouch and obtain hrs
version of the affair, but Mr. Crouch is
nowhere to be found
Booklet to Advertise city.-The ad
vertising committee of the Davenpor
Commercial club met at the club build
ing Wednesday afternoon for the pur
pose of formulating plans for the puo
fishing of an elaborate booklet. beauti
iuily llluSJldlCd, vi DdNcLl
port, its commercial interests and sc
cial advantages AS the Commercial
club represents all interests, it is tn
committees intention to make thi
booklet one which will promote the 81
ture welfare and growth of the city
This booklet will contain no persona
advertising of any nature, as it is put
lished with view of promoting all il
terestS alike The distribution wi
be under the personal supervision {
the committee.
Is Quite Old, But Can Walk.-Pete
Will of Buffalo, one of the pioneer re
idents of that place and a frequent vi
itOr and we'll known gentleman in Da'
export, was a caller in the city yeste
day. Mr.. Will was celebrating h
S0th birthday anniversary, and was r
ceiving the congratulations of his man
friends. He says he does not care