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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29

AN OPPORTUNITY to join the L. s.
navy and learn a trade. Board lodg-
ing, medical attendance, and $45 out
mt of clothing free. Good pay, with
opportunities to increase. EIectri-
clans, clerks, machinists, firemen car
penters, cooks, and men without
trades, but of good character, accept
ed. Cali or write L. S. Navy Recruit
ing Station, room A., Whitaker build
ing, Davenport, Iowa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29
WANTED-FEMA HELP,

for general homework
at 1924 Ninth avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29
LOST AND FOUND.

Los 30 reward offered for return of
gold locket with initial s." to SI2
Nineteenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29

COR SALE - Auction sale at KimhalI
mouse Davenport. Iowa Thursday.
May 10. a. m. Everything will be sold
mat can b" found in first class hotel
restaurant and hotel keepers to buv
everything in good condition Cor
man x Harrison. proprietors Carey
NJ. Jones. auctioncer. Chicago. Ill
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29

Office men wanted-We
are under contract with leading en-
for high grade positions. We are
short of thoroughly experienced office
men who understand up to-date meth
DDS and have some executive ability
GOOD positions now open in our IL
offices for competent boOkkeeperS
accountants. cashiers, clerks, collec-
tors. correspondents, office managers,
private secretaries. etc, at $500 to
$1,000 a year. Write us today for
free copy of Opportunities describing
them and let us tell you how we can
market your ability. HapgoodS Inc)
Brain Brokers. 1913 Hartford build
ing, Chicago. Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29
LODGE DIRECTORY,
MsanAte.

TRIO LODGE, NO. 81. A. F. & a. M
q Meets in stated communication
wv on the first Thursday of each
M month. Sam X. Davis. w. NJ. +;
William Il. Petit secretary
ROCK ISLAND COUNCIL, NO 20, r. a
s. M.-MeetS in stated communica-
ton on the third Wednesday of each
month. H NJ. Briggs. t. M; L. c.
Daugherty, secretary.
ROCK ISLAND COMMANDERY, No. IS,
X. T.-Meets in stated conclave on
the second Monday of each month
II. A. ]. Mcdonald, E. c.; r. c. Willer-
ton, recorder.
MASONIC BOARD OF CONTROL-H
d. Mack. president; F. T. Myers. Sec
rotary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29

FOR SALE-HouSes to be moved off of
lot. Apply at 729 Seventeenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29
UPHOL STERER.

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ALLEN - Upholsterer chair
Gamer, and furniture and clock re-
pafrer; all work fully guaranteed.
Postal notice given special attention.
2514 Fifth avenue. New phone $685.;
old phone west 1921.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29

WANTED-Steady man for janitor of
building. Address A. B." care The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29

ANTED = First class frame maker
starr builder and cabinet maker AT the
Rock Island Wood works
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29
WANT'ED-MALE HELP.

WANTED-Carriage trimmer at Keys
Bro. factory, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29

w ANTED-BOys for light factory work
Magin Manufacturing company
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29

FOR SALE-Lots in Beecher & Walsh's
auditlon on TWenty-tifth and Twenty.
sixth streets between Fifteenth anC
seventeenth avenues; will be SOLD
cheap and at your own terms; con.
Nenient to street car line and cit,
water; level all above grade. with
some fine shade trees: will buiIt;
homes for desirable parties For
particulars see Beecher Bros, 1871
Second avenue. 80 IL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29
PATENTS.

PATENT AND TRADE MARK once.
room IA, Mitchell d Lynde building.
Rock Island. James +. Murphy, as
sociate, branch of Moore & Co, pat
ent attorneys, Washington, d. c., and
Chicago, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29
ARCHITECTS,

LEONARD DRACK-Architect and gu.
perintendent. Skinner block, second
floor. Office hours. 10 to IL q m, ( to
S.So p. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29
FLORISTS.

HENRY GAETHJE-Proprieto Chip
piannock nursery. Cut flowers and
designs Of all kinds. City store 1907
Second avenue. Telephone I11O
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29

FOX SALE-Cheap, nice level lots. 4SXl25
corner Twenty-seventh street and Eigfr
teenth avenue, facing Long View
street car track. Also for sale, one
half acre lot. Also for sale or trade
room house. Terms to please pur.
CHASER. Inquire of L. Thonn. Git
Twentyeighth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29

our 1907 catalogue ex-
plains how we teach barber trade in
Few weeks, mailed free; wages Satur-
Gays; tools given; graduates paid $12
to $40 weekly: positions or locations
waiting. Write today. Moler Bar
Der college, Chicago. Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29
FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

FOR sALE-MIsCELLAN
FOB s sALE1Pieree arrow; we have a
with cape top and glass front and full
equipment of lamps. newly painted,
thoroughly oVerhauled and we Will
guarantee its condition. Apply to
Robert Smythe. 225 Eighteenth street.
FOR SALE-A parlor cabinet. and ia
bic and lamp, at 2S3T Sixth avenue.
FOR SALE-Houses to be moved off of
lot. Apply at 729 Seventeenth street.
FOR SALE-Roller top desk and office
chair at l0l4 Fourteenth-and -half
street.
FOR SALE-A barn. nearly new. for
less than the lumber cost. Call at
S36 Seventeenth street.
FOR SALE-Fine Victoria. made to or
der by Kimball. Apply at 1901 Prai-
RE avenue, Chicago, III.
FOR RENT-One store room with six
room Nat. Good location. Inquire at
500 Twenty-second street.
FOR SALE-Housefold goods. includ-
ing beds, dressers, tables. wardrobes,
etc, at 1903 Second avenue.
FOR SALE-At n bargain. a job print
ing office doing good business. For
particular see Eckhart X Buffum.
FOR SALE-To quick buyer: stock and
fixtures, Pru-ri-ta store, 1913 Second
avenue, Rock Island. Investigate.
FOR SALE-Restaurant and cOnfection-
cry business: good location for lunch
room. Eckstrom's restaurant, Rey-
FOR SALE-An upright oak case pi-
ano, used only three months: will sell
cheap for cash. Inquire at 612 Forty
sixth street.
FOR SALE-Very pretty score card and
dance program, containing views of
Black Hawks Watch Tower, at the
FOR SALE-Rubber tire open buggy,
set of single harness. G-foot Kitchen
cupboard. at 1902 Seventeenth street.
Old phone SSH.
FOR SALE - A square Knabe piano,
rosewood case, in fine condition.: will
sell cheap. Inquire of Rev NJ. Hum
phreys, 1O14 Seventeenth street
FOR SALE-Speedy launch. 41sx24 feet.
H-horse power. 4 cycle engine. fine
EIt4f.
soon. kuhner Engine X Machine com
pany.
FOR SALE-Long fat top desk. : feet
inches by feet inches. made by
Moilnc furniture company; also two
revolving chairs. Inquire at No. J.
skinner Annex. Moline.
FOR SALE-Cheap, large chair. sofa.
Kitchen table large sheetiron bath
tub. lawn mower Mason Jars, piano
stool, small oil stove. fancy hanging
lamp at IA Twenty-seventh street.
FOR SALE-Gasoline launch, without
engine. - feet long, good hull, made
OF = inch cypress, first class condi-
ton. cheap. Adams Machine shop.
Forty-siXth street and Sixth avenue.
FoR SALE - Auction sale at KimbalI
mouse, Davenport. Iowa. Thursday
May 10. a. m. Everything will be sold
/ tnat can b" found in first class hotel
OF 100 rooms: good place for dealers
restaurant ana Motel Keepers to buy
everything IN good condition. Cor
man * Harrison. proprietors. Carey
NJ. Jones. auctionoer. Chicago. Ill
FOR SALE-Cheap, good working ma
chinery; complete factory outfit. with
blowing system and dry kiln almost
new, all III fine condition and up-to-
date VIII also rent the large modern
and up-to-date factory building oc-
cupled by the Simplex Washer com
pany, Black Hawk, Davenport situ-
nIl Es-lsa f.,
mail building 50Xl4O; will rent for
long term. Inquire of {. j. Evcrs.
as South Lincoln avenue, Davenport.
Iowa. POI -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29

WANTED = Boys to work in facf0rV:
steady work. good pay. Call at office
National Neck Yoke company, Fifth
street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29
FOR RENT-ROOMS.

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FOR RENT-Two furnished front rooms
at 1915 Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-29

FOR RENT - Two modern furnished
rooms for rent at 1925 Second ave-
nue..
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-05
AGREE ON MORTON
FOR SUCCESSOR
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION FILLS
VACANCY
Movement to Do Away with Executive
Sessions by Public Officials
Will Be Tested
Shortly

Rather than have Mayor A.. Q. Harper
settle the deadlock by naming COM
missioner for the civil service commits
sion 1t is understood that the commission
has agreed on w. Ona Morton for the
vacancy caused by the death of Archi-
bald B. McCutchen.
The mayor had practically determined
that the appointment would go to John
B. Elliott of the Associated Press II
the deadlock continued, but this plan Will
be sidetracked If the commission reports
in Morton's favor. as he is popular with
the administration.
Special interest lies in the selection
of new commissioner, because 1T Is
generally understood that the old policy
of executive sessions and concealment
of news which has marked the course
of the commission will in measure be
done away with. .n.
OF all public commissions at the city
hall this has been The only one, many
taxpayers charge, where the public finds
difficulty in getting information. data or
suggestions. though it's work relates en-
tirely to men and women whose salaries
are paid by the property owners OF Los
Angeles.
1t is probable that by the end of the
year some effort will be made to force
the commission to. let down the bars
long enough to let the taxpayers know
what is going on occasionally, and espe
ciaIly the abolition of executive sessions.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-05
THIEVES STEAL MANY
VALUABLE ARTICLES
4 Automobile, JeWelry and Money Taken
by Burglars - One Holdup
Reported to the
Police

Money, pocket books, jewelry. automo-
biles and other things, more or less valu-
able, figured in the list of articles re-
ported to the police yesterday as stolen
in Los Angeles Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning.
The heaviest loser was Dr. e. c. Moore,
superintendent of schools, who lives at
S05 South Bonnie Brae street He report
ed that his standardization automobile,
No. 1922. was stolen from Tenth and Ara
pahoe streets Tuesday night.
J. r. Hartsook, who keeps photograph
gallery at 542ts South Broadway, told of
the loss of large amount of stock from
his place of business.
S. j. Johnson, employed in the delivery
that a thief had entered his room on
Fourth street while he was asleep and
stolen SAG in money and money order
for 81
Mrs George Kraus of Aurola, Oregon,
reported that while trying to reach a
train at the Arcade depot she lost hand
bag. containing a watch jewelry and 9TH
er articles of value.
Miss May Williams, living at the Ho-
tel Milton, reported the loss of lot OF
fine silk goods and s. in money.
One holdup was reported. G. F. Brown,
500 Stanford avenue said he had been
held up by man at a late hour Tuesday
night near Ninth and Kohler streets. The
man ordered him to Hold up your hands,
Gully" Brown complied and was relieved
of 10 cents.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-05
HAS NO RIGHTS IN HIS
OWN HOME, SAYS WITNESS
Man Claims to Have Been in Deathly
Fear of Wife and Judge
Grants Decree of
Divorce

Charging his wife with being unfaithful
to him and with receiving men in her
home while her husband was absent,
Frank Geovanazzi asked, for divorce
yesterday in the superior court from
Frances GeovanazZi.
The man recited several instances in
which neighbors had seen strange men
entering his house and once he asserted
he saw nan go in and stay there over
night.
''Do you mean to say you Let a man
stay over night in your house with your
wife and did not go in to assert your
rights?'' asked Judge S. f. Crow of
Santa Barbara, who is sitting in de-
partment nine.
Judge, 1 don't have any rights III my
house" was the discouraged reply.
Were you afraid of your wife. or the
rran?' asked the judge,
81 was afraid of my wife, ana l had
good cause to be- replied the plaintiff.
Judge Grow granted the man an inter-
locutory decree of divorce.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-05
WILL FIGHT TO
PROTECT FORESTS
CAMPERS MUST HAVE PERMITS
TO START FIRES
State Forester Issues Warning Prom
isinq to Prosecute Those Who
Are Caught Breaking
the Law

State Forester G. 3. Luce has issued
a warning to careless campers and others
who start fires on wooded and brush
grown tracts and let the flames run over
and devastate valuable timber lands.
From fire wardens in different parts of
the state complaints are being received.
and Mr. Luce intends to check the evil
at once.
Many of those who start forest fires
do 1t more through ignorance of the law
than through malicious intent. Before
it's amendment section 9S4 of the penal
code stated that permits to clear land
by fire were necessary only between
May and the first soaking rainfall of
winter" Since the amendment to tne
section, however, the law does not desig
nate the dry season as being between
any periods, and the courts now con-
strue such a season to be any period
of the year when a fire will spread,
whether there have been soaking rains
or not.
AS a warning regarding the changed
section has been issued the state warden
will instruct his district deputies to do
their utmost in detecting those who start
fires without the necessary permit. All
cases will be vigorous " prosecuted, and
Mr.. Luce expects to do much toward
saving valuable timber and watersheds
by his endeavors.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-05
GIVEN LIGHT SENTENCES
FOR SERIOUS CRIMES
Youths Plead Guilty to Charges and
Are Placed Under Five-Year
Probation Sentence-Must
Not Leave City

Leroy Wells, Ray M. Rodder and Earle
Corder were arraigned before Judge Cur
tbs d. Wilbur yesterday and pleaded
guilty to Il statutory offense.
Corder was 10 years of age, while the
other boys were younger All three
asked to be put on probation. The Of
Tense was committed in July of this year.
Parents and relatives of the young of
tenders were present and were greatly
grieved at the disgrace of the boys
Judge Wilbur heard the stories told by
the offenders in his private chambers
and came to the conclusion that the ends
of the law did not require him to give
the boys heavy sentences.
The young men were turned over to
Probation OFFICER Dodds under five-year
probation sentences and were ordered mol
to leave the county without the order of
the court during that time. Before dis
missing the case Judge Wilbur gave the
boys a lecture in which he informed them
he could have given them the maximum
sentence, which would be imprisonment
for life, and that if the kind of crimes
charged against them continued he would
soon have TO make an example of some
one.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-05
SHOOTS AT COMPANION;
IS GIVEN SIX MONTHS
Inmate of Soldiers Home Pleads
Guilty to Charge of Assault
and Is Given Light
Sentence

Richard Murphy. a veteran from Saw
telle, charged with assault ON a fellow
soldier, L. w. Crane, with intent to mur'
der, appeared before Judge Curtis ID. WI
bur yesterday and asked to be allowed to
plead guilty to assault with a deadly
weapon.
The district attorney brought no OBJ
lection to the change of plea, and Murphy
was sentenced to six months In the county
jail. A
The veteran is alleged to have shot at
companion with 22-caliber revolver
during drunken carousal in which the
men began quarreling. Murphy claimed
the officers who arrested him approached
him from the rear and struck him on the
head with a cane.
witnesses appeared in Justice Summer
fields court during the preliminary exam
inaton and testified that Murphy was the
aggressor in the quarrel, which grew out
of the refusal of Crane to give Murphy a
drink From the testimony 1t appears
that liquor flows quite freely among the
old soldiers at the home in Sawtelle.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-05
ASKS COAST
CITIES TO
KILL RAT is
UNITED MEASURES FAVORED
BY, SURGEON BLUE
URGES HEALTH OFFICERS TO GET
TOGETHER
Experts lnocuate Rodents with Die.
ease 1errns Which the Rats
spread Among Themselves,
Fastening Mortality

Dr. Rupert Blue, head Of the marine
hospital service officials In charge OF the
health situation at San Francisco, saiu
yesterday before going north that all
Pacific coast cities should form an or
ganized movement for the extermination
of rats, DR.. Blue addressed the physi-
clans convention at Riverside Tuesday.
Continuous warfare till annihilation
comes should be waged against the ro-
dents, DIR. b,ue says, because they carry
germs that spread half dozen well
known communicable diseases.
AS a. result of his conference yesterday
with members of the Los Angeles board
of health and Councilmen Pease ana 1oh-
kin it is probable that an effort will be
made to get the health officers of all
Pacific coast cities together to discuss
united plans for the annihilation OF rats.
Those participating in the conference
were Drs. Powers, Garcelon, Dlckson'
Seymour, Brooks, Price and others.
DR.. Blue told the physicians that cach
female rat produces get OF from twenty
to City each year, but that as the ratio
of births is eight males to three females
nature somewhat checks the increase.
otherwise rats would soon drive human
beings off the earth.
DR.. Powers made formal application TO
Dr. Blue for cultures of the fever germs
which the authorities are producing III
San Francisco. Live rats are inocuia.eu
with this germ and soon get a form OF
fatal typhoid fever, communicate 1t to
other rats and In that way reduce rat me.
IF the culture is fresh and good ~
usually kills rats in few hours, salo
DR.. Blue. 'If the first dose does not
kill the second will. The stuff Is leIt
near rat runs and is not dangerous 10
humans. :,
.One of. the great reforms nee-~- IN
the west is rat proof buildings ana
stables. There should be cement cellar
and stables with sewer connections ana
rat proof finish.
"Most rats breed near stables and
sewer pipes
"It would be we'll to nail metal strips
over all rat holes, to fill their haoita
tions with broken glass and broken
bricks, to spread arsenic and phosphorus
and to keep every available trap set day
and night
.'This rat killing is national need and
should be taken UP at once everywhere
The physicians present said an enort
would be made to get the Los Angeles
council to fix scent bounty ON rats as
II would stimulate. many expert rat
catchers to get busy, aside from private
interests.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-05
LOSES SUIT AGAINST
STREET CAR COMPANY
Woman Who Claims to Have Been
Injured in Accident Due to Care
Iessness of Employees Is
Denied Damages

The Les Angeles Interurban Railway
company was victorious yesterday In q
damage suit brought by Mrs. M. e.
Ridgeley fo:' injuries alleged to have been
sustained March 16 while alighting from
a car at Hill and Fifth streets.
Mrs. Ridgeley claimed she was stand
ing on the lower step, preparatory TO
alighting. She alleges the car was
started forward with jerk by the en-
ployes of the company, throwing her to
the ground and severely injuring her hip,
causing her to be confined to bed for
many weeks.
The woman claims to have expended
$500 in nysician and nurse hire and for
medicine during her illness following the
alleged accident. She demanded $4,000
damages.
Attorneys for the defense showed the
car had never come to standstill when
the woman stepped off and was thrown
to the pavement.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-05
DELEGATES RETURN
FROM CONVENTION
D. E. Luther and A. j. Wallace Report
Next Meeting Of Y. M. c. A. Ma
tionaT Association May Be
in Los Angeles

d. Il. Luther. general secretary or the
Los Angeles Y. M. c. A.. has returned
from the national convention Of the as
soclalions at Washington. D. c.. and re-
ports that the prospects are good for
Los Angeles securing the Y. NJ. G. a.
convention in 1910.
A. j. Wallace of the association at
tended the convention with Mr.. Luther
and made the address in which the in
vitation was rendered the body TO meet
in Los Angeles. This address is said
to be one of the most eloquent delivered
before any convention and will do much
toward securing the honor for Los An
geles.
1t is said that many of he delegates
are in favor of meeting in the Angel city.
Mr.. Luther visited the various associa-
tions in the east and says that the new
Y. NJ. @. A. building now in process of
construction win be the finest in the
country.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-05
LYONS ABSENCE BLOCKS
SPECIAL COUNCIL SESSION
Appropriation for Fire Department
and Selection Of Work House
Site Scheduled for To-
days Meeting

Because of the sudden trip Of Council
man Henry Lyon to Murietta Springs
Monday afternoon in the midst of the
council session and his failure to report
for duty at the special session yesterday
morning at 10 o'clock another session is
called for today.
Lyons friends soy that he did not
know that his absence would defeat the
plan of holding special sessions during
the holidays or he wouldn't have takea
his departure though his plans had beeo
made some time ago.
The call fo- today is substantially the
same as for wednesday, with a few
clauses added.
No session can be held during the holi-
days unless the call is served on each
councilman.
The principal business scheduled Is the
appropriatIon of $4,000 for the fire de-
partment in place of the $30O,O0O bond
issue and the plan to erect a work house
in Chavez ravine on city lands.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-05
LATE MILLlONAlRE'S WILL
ADMITTED TO PROBATE
Estate of Tod Ford to Remain Intact
Until Sons Reach the Age Of 80
Years-Property Valued
at 100000

The will of the late millionaire Tod
Ford of Pasadena was admitted to pro-
bate yesterday by Judge James c. Rives.
The property Is estimated by real estate
men as worth about 81, ,00O,0
Freeman A. Ford and Tod Ford, jr.,
sons, will receive the bulk of the estate.
Other relatives are also remembered. as
are the servants of the family.
Freeman A. Ford. son, and Henry M.
Robinson brother-in-law, qualified yes
terday as executors named in the will.
The third executor, Henry NJ Garlick. a
brother-in-law, will arrive from the east
today.
The estate is to remain intact until the
sons have reached the age of 80 years.
The youngest is now 81. Meanwhile two
thirds of the income is to be divided be-
tween the sons and the other third re-
invested by the executors. The magnif1-
cent Ford mansion In Pasadena will be
occupied by the sons. 1t is valued at
$29, 600.