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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-08

boundaries of the city of Moline, is
changed, the proposition to annex the
tract of South Moline just east of Mo-
line to both the city and township OF
Moline, carrying easily.
In Moline the township change and
the city annexation were both voted
on. but in the township only the dis
connection was balloted on. The vote
in South Moline was 3SS in favor of
the proposition, and 335 against it. the
opposition carrying only one precinct.
that including East Moline, where the
vote was 81 for and 149 against dis
connecting the tract from the town
ship.
In Moline the township question
carried by totals of 1929 against 951;
and the city annexation question was
carried by totals of 1852 against $50.
Misunderstood Ballots.
A peculiar situation was shown in
Moline when the count was made on
the ballots. 1t was found that ia ev-
cry ward in the city there were in the
neighborhood of so ballots with no ex-
preston on the liquor question, while
the vote on the annexation PROPOSE
ton was remarkably heavy. The ex-
PLANTATION is that great many of the
voters mistook the annexation baaot
for the anti-saloon territory PROPOSE
ton, and in placing their marks on
the former, did so under the impress
sion that they were expressing them
selves on the liquor problem. The re-
suit on neither is other than it would
otherwise have been, except as it in.
wolves the majority by which each
carried.
| Few blanks Here.
In Rock Island there were very few
blank ballots on the liquor question,
the total in the city probably not
reaching so. The voters here, although
as in Moline. there was a little ballot
on annexation, did not fail to express
themselves on the liquor proposition
which was part of the main ballot
In this city, too. the vote on the little
annexation ballot was heavy, and wa.
overwhelmingly favorable to the propo
isition.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-08
In Nearby Counties.
IN HENRY COUNTY,.

Kewanee, April 7.-(Argus Specially
-Kewanee went wet by 24G. the totals
being for local option, 1.547l against,
l,79s.
Geneseo went wet by votes. and
Wyoming by 30. Cambridge and An
Enawan are wet also. the figures not
being stated.
Local option carried in GalVa 1875
and in Toulon by 100.
Orion. April 7.-(Argus Specially
Orion. Annawan. -Neponset. Princeton
aud Cambridge went dry
wHITEsIDE COUNTY.
Sterling. April 7.-tArgus Special
The count touigiit shows that Ster
ling went wet by a single vote. Ir
Rock Falls, just across Rock river
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-08
Pirst Ward.
Second Ward,
Third Ward.
Fourth ward.

lip. Up.
Thompson. D =. $50 157 337Zilo
Wilcher, r -. So IA 227
'Huesman. S 10y IS %
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-08
Democrats Gain
In City Council

NEW ALDERMEN ELECTED.
First Ward - Frank BiochIing-
or, democrat.
Second ward--John -Carse. re-
publican.
Third WartI--CharIes J. Smith.
democrat, reelected.
Fourth Ward-Charlcs ThOmp-
sou, democrat.
Fifth Ward-No choice.
sixth Ward Frank LawIer.
democrat. reelected.
Seventh Ward-Truman j. FL
linwOOd.
POLITICAL COMPLEXION OF
NEW COUNCIL.
Democrats. q; republicans, 4;
citizens, 3; determined. 1.
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS ELECT
Asscssor--John T.. Moeiier, re-
publican.
Cou~etor-John II. Johnson, re-
pubiicah, III
SupervisOr-David Don, repub-
iic"n.
Assistant Supervisors James
Il. LarIxin, George StrOebIe ana
Ezra wilcher, In repuniican.
CanstabIe - Louis 4. Poland.
republican mo OppoSitiOnD.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-08

SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES)
sClerk--C. F. Mewes, r.
Assessor-Charles France, r.
Collector-Rannie Bowser. D..
Highway Commissioner = Lewis
HeSsInan. Jr., r.
School Trustee-Sherman Powell, r.
Constable-James Milne r.
Pound Master-Albert McGreer, r.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-08
AIdermanic Contests

-STHeT uiHHfV 0UHtVHtS
Below are given the figures of the
unofficial returns Of The Argus on the
wards:
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
MULCTED BY JURY
WHOPLAYED POKER,
He WILL APPEAL
Asbury Park Suit Over Horse
Was Settled After Hot Game
of Quarter Limit.

ASBURY PARK, April 9.-Dissatis-
fled with the verdict rendered against
him by a poker-playing jury, Grandon
Clayton declares today that he won't
pay the $17 awarded to William Rose,
of Belmar, and will at once appeal the
suit.
Rose bought a horse of Clayton for
$35, paying 50 down. Samuel Michael
son, a Belmar bother, Mas to pay Clay
ton $26, but, claimina that Clayton
owed him SIS, offered him IS, which
Clayton refused. Clayton proffered to
Rose the 50 he had paid and Rose would
not take it. Clayton seized the horse,
and Rose sued for $35.
Roses suit was heard before Justice
Gregg.
At 10 o'clock at night the jury retired
TO consider their verdict. Through the
windows they could be seen energet-
ically discussing the case. Then ore of
them produced a deck of cards and
soon the whole six men We're so i'm
mersed in a quarter-limit game of
poker that 2 o'clock a. NJ, arrived, and
no disposition of the case had been
reached. Then Judge Gregg took a
hand. so to speak. and a verdict for
Rose was brought in.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
HOBOKEN FIRM
LOW BIDDER FOR
OVERLOOK SPUR
Track from Erie Railroad to the
Asylum Can Be Built 5.
for $1,000.

At the Board of Freeholders' monthly
meeting today approval will be asked
on the award to the A. e. Sanford
Company. of Hoboken, of a $500 con-
tract for the construction of the trestle
for the switch from the Greenwood
Lake division of the Erie Railroad to
the new Hospital for the Insane at
Overlook. There were seven other
bidders. and the Sandford Company's
being the lowest responsible bid it was
agreed that the contract should go to
it.
The same firm was the best bidder on
the extra excavation at rs cents a cubic
yard and concrete work at $3.50 a cubic
yard.
Five bids were received for 10000
cubic yards of grading work. Valentine
Braun, of East Orange, who now has
the contract for grading the grounds
at Overlook, and whose relations to-
the committee were the subject of re-
cent grand Jury investigation, got this
job at IS cents a cubic yard.
Former County Engineer James y.
Owen wos directed to prepare plans and
specifications for a new water supply
at Overprook, Its cost will probably
be about $40, 900.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
EVANS FIGHTS
HARD BATTLE FOR
HIS LOST HEALTH
In Spite of Physicians Optimism
Belief Obtains Admiral Is
Very Weak.

PASO RoBLES HOT SPRINGS, Cal.
April 9.-Despite the assertions of DR..
Mcdonald that Admiral Evans is gain
ing strength rapidly, the impression OBJ
tains around the hotel that he is fight
ing the hardest battle of his life. While
relieved from acute pain as a result of
the treatment at the springs, 1t is APP
parent that he is still lin a weak con-
dition. and that recovery will be a mat
ter of nan weeks.
The second day of his arrival the adj
miral was out on the lawn. The third
day he was taken for a two hours
drive. Since hen he has not left his
wheel chair 1t is also said that his
baths have been reduced because Of his
weak condition. Asked If Admiral
Evans was suffering from n organic
disease, DIR. Mcdonald was non-con-
initial.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
MAYOR VETOES WORKS
BOARDS RESOLUTIONS.

Mayor Haussling today returned to
the Board of Works, with his veto, the
resolution providing for the paving of
George street with bituminous concrete,
stating that he would favor bitulithic.
While the Mayor contends that he is
opposed to patent pavements like btu
lithic, that retard competition, the ma
jority of the property-owners want this
and, consequently, he cannot
countenance the other pavement.
His veto of the contract for the erec-
ton of a city stable for the Board of
Works on South Eighth street near the
Fourteenth Avenue School was also
presented. The matter will be taken
up and the commissioners are prepared
to override the Mayors wishes in both
matters.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
FEARS ABOLITION Or
GRADE CROSSINGS
MIGHT RUIN ERIE
Vice-ChanCeIl0r Stevens Raises
Interesting Point in City's
Suit.
SEES PRECEDENT IN
TWO=CENT RATE LAW
Asks if COnfiscatory Features of
Order Would Not Make
1t Unconstitutional.

Whether or not a decision favorable
to the city in the suit to compel the
Erie Railroad Company to abolish its
grade crossing at Summer avenue
might. through the precedent estab-
ished, cause a multiplicity of suits by
municipalities against railroads, result
ing possibly in a receivership for the
Erie road, was a point raised today
by Vice-Chancellar Stevens. before
whom counsel is arguing the case.
The our explained the process of
reasoning by which the point had been
suggested, by stating that in certain
States a two-cent passenger rate had
been declared unconstitutional because
it was co~nfiscatory. IF such a rate
Is unconstitutional. might not an order
from this court to change the grade
in this instance be c-onfiscatory?'' asked
the vi~ce-chancellor. "There is no evil
dence TO show the cost of changing The
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
grade" he continued. 1T might cost

grade he continued. ut might cost
$1,000 or 100000.
Now. if an order is issued against
the railroad commanding It to lower or
elevate its tracks, why shouldn't East
Orange bring a similar suit against the
Lackawanna road? Might not Paterson
successfully sue the Erie in a case to
compel it to spend thousands of dollars
in changing grades in that city? Might
not every city or town in New Jersey
successfully sue the railroads and COM
pei them to abolish all grade crossings
in cities or towns? Now, could not the
railroads plead before the highest court
that the manifold orders involved the
expenditure of so much none as to
amount to a c%onfiscation of property
and thus be unconstitutional
Another suggestion made by The
court was embodied in a question ask
ing counse If an order to remove four
of the six lines of track crossing Sum-
mer avenue. leaving only the running
tracks, would relieve conditions at this
point. Joseph Coult, representing the
city, declared that traffic on the ave-
nue. would still be impeded. Cortlandt
Parker, for the railroad, maintained
hat at every crossing there was, at
times, a blocking of traffic, but in such
event, it would be reduced to a mini
mum in this instance.
Mr.. Coult submitted figures showing
the use of the crossing. During one
week, between 6 a. IN. and 6 p. m. daily,
1897 pedestrians crossed the tracks, he
said, and S42 vehicles used the crossing.
A rain ran over the crossing every six
minutes, he said. and sometimes the
crossing was blocked forty-five min
utes in an hour. He cited one instance
in which the gates had been closed
thirty-three minutes, and declared the
obstruction of traffic SO serious as to
permit of. but one remedy-a change Of
grade, involving. possibly, a change in
the location of the North Newark sta
ton.
What a burden would be placed on
the shoulders of the poor railroad COM
panies.'' said Mr.. Coult. IF they were
made to do their duty and abolish
every one of the | 800 grade crossings in
the State. That argument was used
when the Pennsylvania Railroad lost
their suit at Metuchin.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
Is This Information of
Value to You? !.

The mission of the Summer Resort Bureau
to be inaugurated by THE STAR on May 1st,
1908, is to furnish any reader, free of charge, full
information relative to any summer resort in
America.
Tell where you would like to spend the sum
mer and THE STAR will furnish YOU the popt-
lation, distance from Newark, railroad fare, a list
Of hotels and boarding houses. the number of
guests they accommodate, terms per week and
length of season, distance from depot, nearest
water and golf links.
If You cannot come to THE STAR office,
make your inquiry by mail, Address THE
STAR. Summer Resort Bureau, Newark, NJ,
and enclose postage for reply. &
The service is free.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
HUDSON INTERPRETATIONS.

JERSEY CITY. April 9.-Articles of
incorporation of the following new con-
Germs have been filed with the county
clerk:
Welding Manufacturing Company, to
carry on a general construction bust
ness: office. 125 Thirty-third street,
Weehawken.
Garage Realty Company of West Ho-
boken, to carry on a general realty and
building business: office, Asa Spring
street. West Hoboken.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYED
CONSIDERED AT CONFERENCE.

Business conditions and finding work
for the unemployed were discussed at a
meeting of the Newark Conference of
Charities and Corrections held in the
Free Public Library last night. Adj
dresses were made by Patrick H. Ryan,
president Of Common Council; DIR.
Orlando F. Lewis. Rabbi Solomon Fos-
ter, Alderman John r. Sinnott. Charles
Spragle Smith and Frank ]. Warne.
the two latter Of New York city.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
PROUD OF THEIR
UNIFORMS, But
PURSES ARE LEAN
Court House Men Want Raise,
Saying Official Clothes
will Wear Out"
I frst put thIs Uniform on.

'When | first put this uniform on,
| said as l looked in the glass,
It's one to a million. that any civilian
My figure and form can surpass.'"
So sang a chorus of Court House en-
ployees. in spirit. before the building
committee of the Board of Freeholders
last night. but the chorus also bewailed
the fact that uniforms deplete the
purse. In other words, the chorus
would fain have a raise of salary be-
uniforms must be worn and will
wear out.
In the chorus that bewailed were
Louis Stern. the stout hall man, who
sits at the main entrance all day, and
George d. Smith, James Cowen, Mich
ael Fitz Gerald and Peter Mcdonald,
who are up one minute and down the
next in their elevators.
The freeholders simply directed that
the petition for a raise be filed.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
PLANNING 100000 CITY HALL.

ATLANTIC CITY. April 9.-Plans are
afoot to build a new city hall. to cost
100000 1t is proposed to have it cover
a block in the centre of the city.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
LIBRARIAN DANA GOES TO EUROPE.

Librarian John Cotton Dana. of the
Free Public Library. left Newark today
for a European trip. Mr.. Dana hopes
TO add to the library collection of old
ls1oks and engravings while abroad. He
is accompanied by Mrs. Dana.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09

NUR stock of gift things for weddings is exhaustive
in size and diversity. Gifts that will possess the
elements of durability as well as beauty and
usefulness.
Whatever may commend the selection of a gift thing
from our store beyond its intrinsic worth-its beauty of
design-ts excellence of finish-its usefulness of purpose
does not influence our prices. They are very modest.
The items below are but a few hints from our i'm
mense stock:
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
lOC Linen Finish Chambray at

Friday onIy-3,OOO yards 27-inch
apron ginghams, good staple make,
irmly woven; splendid assortment checI
blue, brown, red, green and others
this bargain will prove so popular
say: Sc apron bingham, Friday only, whii'
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
FARMER TO RAISE ANGORA GOATS.

MILLVILLE April 9.-Richard Bid
well, a farmer rear Clayville, has set
aside a ten-acre tract on which he in
tends to raise Angora goats for mohair.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-09
DIES IN COUGHING FIT.

ASBURY PARK, April 9.-George
Newman. of New Bedford. was taken
with a coughing fit and died in a short
time. He was 60 years old.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-11
Stranger Than Fiction

The hackreyed saying about truth
beng stranger than fcs,ou is constantly
brought to mind by incidents Of every
day life. hnRs happen which no
novelist wonld dare invent, and ives arc
lost III the most willy improbable
fashion.
A Great Western train was running
bel ween Bristol and London when an
extraordinary tragedy took place in
tbird-class carriage. A woman trying
to open n bottle Of whiskey broke the
cork. Having no corkscrcw she tried To
force the curk INTO the bottle with her
thumb. The bottle exploded, and a
jagged splinter Of glass gashed her
thigh, cutting an artery. She bled to
death in a few minutes
Another woman, wife Of q miner at a
place chilled Cheboygap, Mich, lost her
life i'll y strange fashion. Her 7.year old
boy had played truant from tchool, and
when he came home che, remeD bering
tho old proverb about sparIne the rod,
chastised him with strap. At the very
first blow there was fearful explosion.
The boy was killed instantly and his
mother received injuries from winch she
did not recover. Investigation proved
that the little fellow had stolen dyDa-
mite cap and slowed it IN one Of hls
trousers pockets. The blow from the
strap had exploded it.
One does not expect to lose ones life
through visit TO the dentist. Yet such
case happened in August last. A
workiDyman went to the dentist to have
an aching grinder extracted. The tooth
was an obstinate one, and in trying to
get good gnp Oh it with his forceps
the dentist forced the patients head
back further than usual. There was a
sudden crack, and the man collapsed.
Horror stricken, the dentist realized
that in forcing the head he had broken
lis patient's NECK.
Strange things happen IN the ct reets
One day in September last horse,
harneeeed TO van, pulled up suddenly
In the middle Of the main tboroughiare
on the south side of Trafalgar square
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-11

and stood there as il rooted to the spot
Everything possible was done to induce
the animal to proceed, but it fatty re-
fused to bulge. A huge crowd collected
and traffic became absolutely blocked
For two hours and half By the colck
that horse remained where he stood
Even when the harness was taken off
and dozen men tried IN lift him away
he refused to surrender. At last the
verdict went forth that he must die, and
a gun being brought be was shot. The
poll &c cay that the incident is unique in
the history Of L)ndon's stree'c.
A much more terrible accide nj was
witnessed in Sloane square Oh Sunday
night in the same month. The cock of
the petrol tank OF a London motor on nj
bus broke off. The bus was stopped and
the driver got down and plug ed the
hole with his thumb while the con-
ductor went back with lamp to look
for the plug. When he got back the
driver was still holding Oh to the leak +,
but by this time was soaked with petrol.
The conductor paused to ask II lady
to get off. Suddenly there was a flush
and report, and the omnibus burst
INTO flames. Next instant the horrible
sight was seen of the driver all ablaZe
unning up the street, a living torch.
Men RAD to the rescue and flung coats
over him. But it was too late. lie died
Of bis injuries. What had happened
was this: The escaping petrol had run
away in n stream down the gutter. A
passerby had dropped 81 match or a
cigarette end, and the iTfamma bic hquiu
had burst into flame, and tile fire had
run back up the gutter t. the bus, and
thus set fire to the clothes OF tho un-
ortuDate driver.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-11

wife made t. save him from the electric
chair. She degraded herself before tho
world t" prolong his miserable exlsten CO
and now the whole rhaw family despise
h.I.
Deputy Sheriff Albert Butler Of Ely
h:'d II narrow escape from being killed
Sunday III tn. lily Jail. j. A. Ellis, u
carpenter, suffering FROM alcoholic
in.anity came very near overpower:ny
him aI" getting his pietol with which
he Intended n end Buffers life Butler
owes hia life to the fact that several
prisoners came to his rescue and be at
the insane man off. Ellis had Butler
by the throat and had choked him tn
sensible before the other prisoners coulu
overpower the insane man. Buffers
escape was narrow one. Deputy
Sheriff Butler WAS raised in Elko and
his many friends here will be GLAD to
learn TINT he escaped serious iniur,:'
IN. unknown man entered the Mer
terday uoriuK and demanded that he he
given $4,000 or he would blow up the
bank and everybody in it, with the CON
tents OF bottle he held in his hand
Vice-pre siJent Drake Of the bank i'll
vlteti the man into ms office to talk over
the matter and finally asked him il he
WAS hungry. i!it. man said that he had
had nothing To eat for 48 hours and Mr..
Drake asked him to go With HIM to
breakfast. He consented aud while the y
were seated at the table detectives
slipped up he hind him and arrested him.
lie was taken to the police sta,ion and
refused to tails. The bottle, supposed
to contain nitro-gIycerine, was sent to
chemist for analysis.
The Elko Automobile Company re-
ceived Telegram this morning from
Harold Briuker Of Ogden to engage n
guide to accompany him IN the Thomas
automobile from Monticello to Reno. Mr..
Brinker will drive the Thomas car trn m
Ogden to the coast. DR.. Clark has en-
gag / Fer johnson Of Cobre to guide
Brinker from Monticello to ELL and has
another party in view to accompany
from Elko to Battle Mountain. The
Tho mas car is the lcader in the New
York to Paris race. 1t: left Cheyenne
Monday forenoon and was expected to
arrive at Ogden Thursday morning.
This should bring it through here tbc
last Of this week. Its nearest competitor
is the Italian machine which is laid up
for repairs at Omaha.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-11
Notice..

All persons indie bted to me are re-
quested to call at the Henderson Bank
and settle their accounts. AL my
accounts are mt tho bank.
". y. HARRAH,
Paso Robes, California, March /, 1903.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-11
BORN

FA1RBANKs-.lu Ruby valley, nPrnda ,
February %, 1908, to the WIFE Of j. A.
Fairbanks, a son.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-11

Live In the Country.
City air contains Ia times as many
microbes as that Of the country.