Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-25
MOLINE
Referred to Master-in-Chancery.-G

| Referred to MaSter-in-Chancery
A. Shallberg, city attorney, is home !,
! from Peoria. where he spent Tuesday !
| looking after the interests of the city |
| in the injunction proceedings granted |
by Judge Humphrey last week restrain
ing the city from enforcing its bill |
posting and distributing ordinance
against the American Textbook com /
pany on the ground that the ordinance
interferes with interstate commerce. |
| The case has been referred to the |
master-in-chancery of the federal court |
in Peoria, who will take final evidence |
in the case. No date has been set
for the taking of this testimony, but
it will probably be fixed for some day |
next month.
Buys Wagon Factory George y.
Peek, treasurer and manager of the
John Deere Plow company. has return
ed to Omaha from Fort Smith, Ark.
where he, with S. H. Velie. manager
of the Kansas City branch, concluded
the negotiations for the purchase by
Deere & Co. of the plant of the Fort
Smith Wagon company, built four
years ago in the midst Of the hard
wood country, and with a manufacture
ing capacity of $1,000 wagons annual
lily. The Omaha house. like the other
: Deere branches, has heretofore han
} died part of the Fort Smith output
built especially for it under the
name of the Burr Oak wagon, while
: the balance was sold as the 'FO"C
Smith wagon" Hereafter the OMAHA
branch, in company with the Kansas
I City, Denver, Oklahoma City, St. Louis
: and Dallas branches will absorb the
entire output of the factory, to De
G known as the Fort Smith" wagon,
/ dropping the name of Burr Oak
L sanquets City Officials.-F. f Leay-
) ems has invited incoming and outgoing
aldermen and other city officials 10
Il dine with him at the Manufacturers
a hotel at o'clock this evening. Those
+ who will be the guests are: Mayor
Andrew Olson, City Clerk c. G. Carl
Z son. City Attorney G.. A. Shallberg. Ex-
: City Treasurer Henry Werlich. Alder
men John Day. Albert Ed, T. w. Fog
e elstrOm, Ed G.. Nelson. F. II. Guessing
Il Henry c. First, w. A. Macbeth, V E
Brown, Nathan Rylander, H. ]. Gripp
l. w. H. Christison, A c. Stouffer. Wal
$. ker Kent. and r. A. Douglas EX-Al
dermen G.. V. johnson. F. A. Herbst
IL J. p. Pearson. Oscar Abraham, jos
Nader and w. c. Bennett
IS Hand Taken off, Theodore Bagge
employed on the government loci
le caught his hand in the dredging ma
$ chinery yesterday and it was so badi,
crushed that amputation was neces
i sary, He was at work upon dredgt
70 boat and in some manner caught hi.
s left hand in the cogs of the wheels an,
IL before the engine could be stoppa.
Id had been ground almost to a pulp. IL,
was brought to Moline in the ambu
c lance and taken to the city hospital.
Accepts Car Ordinance.-Tuesday If
ternoon the franchise ordinance of
fered by the Silvis village board wa
accepted by the street car company
\. and work will be commenced upon tn
rs line between Warmers crossing an,
the village within a short time. All 0
IL the ties necessary to construct the Lin
nj are upon the ground and the street ca
company has began hauling pole:
rs The contract for the bridge to spa
" the creek at Warmers crossing ha
ny been let to Contractor Jordan. M
mt terial for the bridge is already upO
the ground and work will start mex
eG Monday. The bridge will cost in til
neighborhood of $4,000.
rs son-Holmgren.-The marriage {
Miss Augusta Holmgren to Andre,
ng Nelson was solemnized Monday eve,
I'm ing at the Swedish Lutheran parsonag
by Rev. l.. A. Johnston. The coupl
er were attended by Anshelm Holmqui>
Ia and Charles Peterson. Both of tn
eS- contracting parties are of Moline. an
they will make their home at Ill
M Twenty-fourth street. Mr. Nelson is
We carpenter
Obituary Record-W. c. Rice die
al at the city hospital Tuesday night
a an attack of drOpsy. He was 81 yea
ne of age and had been employed as
ice labOrer at the Moline Pillow cOmpan
ere for the last two years. He has =
in relatives in the city, but has brothe
e. George Rice in Lanark, III.
tor Word has been received by G.
Peterson of this city that his brothe
in-law, c. J. Lindberg, had died
'9o Washington. Mr.. Lindberg attende
INC Augustana college. and later attends
'ei' law school, and was following h
ca; profession wbor bo diod uiS r,,;
Its, died =. few voorc oo, IN NohrocI,o .,
lar then no wont ,oet tIo u,.s oho,,t
years old.