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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12
ITO Be BOOM YEAR.
Notable Season in Construction in
Busin ,ss Part of the City in
Prospect.
PLAN TWO NEW STRUCTURES
Another to Be Completely Remodeled
Plans Understood to Be Well
Advanced in All cases.


The coming season promises to be a
notable one in the building line in the
business district of Rock Island As
The Argus has heretofore noted sew
eral important Improvements have for
some time been in contemplation,
among them being the erection of two
new buildings on Second avenue and
the complete remodeling of another.
Achitects are understood to have
practically completed their part of the
work in all cases and it will not be
long before the contractors will be
asked to submit bids.
Will All BE Modern.
Everything in connection with the
new buildings and the one to be remod-
eled is to be thoroughly modern and
they will all, when completed, com.
pare favorably with the Safety build
ing erected last year and the Bes:
building now under construction.
Besides the three structures refer
red to several minor improvements in
the business part of the city are con
templated
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12

and started it on a back track. My
big coat hid my torn and bloody gar
ments until 1 got to Chicago, where
purchased others.
81 am tired of trying to hide, though
have succeeded in eluding the detec-
tives SO far If you get this while |
am yet alive, come and get me. l
shall be not far from Carthage, III.
a. H CARMICHAEL"
Sees a Woman I'm the Case.
Port Huron, Mich, Jan. 12.-Local
officers who have been working on the
Rattle Run murder mystery ridicule
the confession which Carmichael left
behind him at Carthage, Ill.
That portion of the confession say
ing the minister expected to perform
a wedding ceremony for Browning is
particularly ridiculed 1t was well
known in Adair that Browning was a
married man who was separated from
his wife. His son lived with him at
the home of his sister, Mrs. Smith.
Sheriff Waggenseth said he was now
/ was a woman in the case. In refer
ence to the $500 reward offered by St
Clair county supervisors for the cap
ture of Carmichael. Waggenseth saij
the offer stipulated the minister mus,
/ be caught and convicted.
Was Drinking Man.
Auburn, n. Y, Jan. 12.-Mrs. Sarah
T. Browning. widow of Gideon Brown
ing, talked of her life and of her dead
husband to a representative of the AS
ISOLATED Press here last night. She
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12
FIRM ICE BRIDGE
ACROSS THE RIVER
Third Period of Zero Weather Finally
Accompiishes What Has Not Been
Seen Here Since 1905.

Today for the first time since 1905
the ice had entirely ceased to move
in the Mississippi between Rock Is
land and Davenport. Despite the low
stage of water which promotes early
freezing it required three assaults of
old Boreas to effectively curb the
father of waters OF course crossing
on the ice at this point is not and will
probably never again be safe and
satisfactory method of getting to and
from Davenport because the warm
water from the sewers will quickly eat
into the covering along both shores
and render it weak.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12

said she AM Browning were married
in West Bloomfield, N. Y, Feb. IL,
1894; that a year later they moved to
Adrian, Mich, but in the fall returned
TO West Bloomfield, and later went to
Canandaigua. Because Of Browning's
drinking and abuse, she says, they sep
arated in September of 1907, she COM
ing to Auburn to live with her sister.
A year ago Browning came to Auburn,
made threats. and denied he had wife
in Michigan, but she refused to go
back with him. She told about his
selling their property in Canandaigua,
|appropriating all the money and going
back to Michigan.
Mrs. Browning said she never knew
Rev. ]. H. Carmichael.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12
Rebekah Officers Seated.

Eudora Rebekah lodge installed the
following officers Friday evening with
Deputy Ella Godfrey as installing Off
GER:
Past Noble Grand-Victoria thinner
man.
Noble Grand-Hilda Hedberg.
Recording Secretary-Effa Chalk.
Financial Secretary-Ella Rhoden-
baugh.
Treasurer-May B. Reid.
Warden-Amanda Oberg.
Conductor-Alberta Elliott
Inside Guard-Ella Droney.
Outside Guard-B. F. Rhodenbaugh
R. S. to Noble Grand-Ella Godfrey.
L. S..to Noble Grand-Ella Fraser.
R. S. to Vice Grand-Florence Mas
lin.
l.. S. to Vice Grand-Gertrude Wynn
Chaplain--Affenia Hatch.
Trustees. L. Maslin, E. T. God
frey. G. e. Elliott, WA. Smith and
w. C. Dale. %i
Delegate-Ella Rhodenbaugh.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12
DON'T lake tha Risk.

When you have bad cough or cold
do not let it drag along until it be-
comes chronic bronchitis, or develops
into an attack of pneumonia but give
it the attention it deserves and get
rid of it. Take Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy and you are sure of prompt
relief. From small beginning the
sale and use of this preparation has
Iextended to all parts of the United
States and to many foreign countries.
Its many remarkable cures of coughs
and colds have won for it this wide
reputation and extensive use. Sold
by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12

when he began to laugh again, and l
saw that he was holding a weapon up
his sleeve. Instantly 1 made grab
for it and got the Ratchet from him
and asked what he intended to do with
that, and he said: L will show you,
and from his overcoat pocket he drew
out knife with each hand.
HE came at me, striking with both
hands, while l backed across the
church, down the side aisle and across
the front, but l did not dare to turn
about to the front door. Then threw
the Ratchet and struck him and he
fell. l then turned to open the door,
when he grabbed me by the leg and
threw me where my hand came upon
the Ratchet
There was desperate struggle, in
which l used the Ratchet until he lay
quiet and still. l cannot tell all that
happened after that. l was wild to
dispose of the body. 1 was in a horri-
BILE terror, SO l began pulling off his
garments that l might drag the body
away somewhere and hide it. Then
my eyes fell upon one of those knives
and l flew into rage and began to
cut it, when he walked up and grabbed
me again. Then for a while l used
that Ratchet until l was sure he was
dead.
Cuts His Victim to Pieces.
when l saw that the fire was hot
enough to make stove pipe red>near-
ly to the elbow 1 grabbed him and
dragged him down. there and began
cutting him to pieces, putting in each
part as it was dismembered. Then !
began to put the garments into the
front stove, when | remembered that
it had a poor draft and the things
might not burn. Then I saw that my
clothing was torn and bloody, while
some of his was yet whole and I ex
changed and then took all but a little
of mine and piled it along with the
body.
81 then went up nearly to Tunnel
station, where l turned my rig about
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12

Mrs K. Campbell, Watch and Worl,
circle. Kings Daughters, Silver Cross
circle, Kings Daughters and Helpers
circle Kings Daughters. Mrs. Sher-
wood, DR.. Ostrom, Memorial Chr:stian
church. Brs. C. B. Marshall, Mrs. w.
Parks, Mrs. Harry Simmons, Mrs Sam
Ransom, Mrs. Carl Helpenstell anil
the Associated Charities.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12
MEET THURSDAY
TO DISCUSS IT
Council Will Hold Committee of the
Whole Session to Consider
Filter Plant.
STRAW VOTE IS SUGGESTED
Resolution Proposing Ballotine Through
Newspapers is Adopted--Library
Board Reports.
STRAW VOTE IS SUGGESTED
AS TO THE STRAW VOTE.

II, in conformity with the ac-
ton of last nights council meet
Ing, the mayor presents for pub
ncation In the official papers of
the city u ballot to be used az a
means of nscertaining Informally
public sentiment on the PROPOSE
ton to purchase n new mechani-
cal Altering plant for the city,
The Argus will be glad To publish
the same from day to day for
any specified time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12
CAR RUNS DOWN A HORSE
Animal Hauling Davenport Delivery
WAGON is Killed.

This afternoon an Elm street car
ran down and killed horse on one
of the delivery wagons o.. the Boston
store, Davenport, on Second avenue
near Twelfth street The driver turn
ed onto the avenue, and did not see
the car until it struck the horse. The
animal was killed almost instantly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12

The city council at its session last
evening decided to let Alderman
Smiths suggestion relative to vote
at the spring election on the filter
plant rest until committee of the
whole session to be held Thursday ev-
ening.
Alderman Smith, however, had an
other suggestion, and he secured the
adoption of a resolution providing for
the publication of ballots in the Off
cial newspapers of the city, as means
of ascertaining the wishes of the peo-
pie of the city in the matter. The
resolution provides for a non-partisan
committee, not composed of council
members, to count the ballots. Alder
man Smith desired the matter taken
up Immediately, and a report submit
ted by the committee having charge
of the ballots submitted next Monday
Some objection was raised to the prop
osition, on the score that it would not
obtain a true expression on the filter
proposition. 1t was held by those
so contending that the ballots might
be voted by the property owners
and legal voters. but would moro
likely be cast by those not hav.
ing any real interest in the question
Aldermen Tuckis, Trefz, Thompson
and Schmid opposed the proposition
and Alderman Utke declined to vote
Mayor Schaffer, too. was not in favor
of such a method of balloting.
Talk About Graft.
A heated discussion, in which Alder
man Schmid and Alderman Smith took
the lead, and in which personalities
were given a place, was INDUCED in
when the straw ballot was proposed
Alderman Schmid made a few remarks
the trend of which was that the alder
men are familiar with the situation
and know the filter is necessary, ant
can install it without graft or abuse
of their public trust. Promptly Alder
man Smith in reply said he de
clared that his suggestions had beer
made with no insinuation of graft, no
as a political scheme, as Alderman
Schmid charged. He, stated that all h
requires is certain knowledge that tn
people of the city want the filter in
stalled, and he will favor it. But h
maintains that the property owners a
a whole do not want the city to install
the filter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12
TO FORM A CHAPTER HERE
Rock Island to Have Woman's Amer
lean LEAGUE

lean League.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Blandy of Uni
versity City, Mo-, are in the city for
the purpose of organizing local chap
ter of the Woman's American league
They are stopping. at the Harper. The
Woman's American league is being
fostered by E. G. Lewis, the wealthy
st. Louis publisher. Its objects are
stated to be the PRONUNCIATION of cor
.respondence school for the children of
the members, a postal library, national
exchange, and the establishing of an
old ladies' retreat. A meeting will be
called shortly TO take the preliminary
steps in forming a chapter here.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12
GALESBURG & ROCK
ISLAND LICENSED
lnterurban Company Incorporated for
Purpose of Building from Knox
County Here.

Springfield, ILL.,, Jan 12.-The secre-
tary of state today issued to the Gales
burg & Rock Island Traction company
a license to incorporate. The line pro-
posed is from Galesburg and through
Warren, Mercer and Rock Island
counties to Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12

Piles Cured in to II Days.
Pazo Ointment is guaranteed to
cure any case Of itching, blind, bleed
ing or protruding piles in 6 to IA days
or money refunded. SOC.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12
Rock Island Contribu-
tors to Quake Sufferers

First Church of Christ, Scientist. .s173.50
L. S. McCabe & Co. ............. 10000
First Baptist church ........... $500
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
second collection $50. ....... 1850
The Argus 1000
Grace Lutheran church ....... SIG
Rev. r. B. Williams ......... 500
George F. Roth .............. 500
Hon. William Payne ........ 500
L. e. West 500
Timothy Beecher ............... 800
Mrs. s. s. Robinson ....... 200
DR.. Eli Bradford ............ LOO
"A rrleHu Luz
j. Schillinger Observation-Disclosures. 100
c. L. Esbjorn OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Leo
J. M. Pardon ...... ............ 100
Wyman Beardsley .............. LOO
G. Elmer Blakesley ..... 100
Iotai SSb5.l3
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12
The Painting Contract.

In relation to the city hall painting,
there was another sharp controversy
Nealy being the principals. Alderman
McNealy made a report from the build
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-12
CARMlCHAEL'S STORY OF
THE KILLING OF BROWNING

Continued from Page one.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-23

French and foreign. of all countries cpu-
lent tourists and Cook trippers. the noisy
and the dreamers. the ignorant and the
learned. radicals and conservatives. dis
putting bitterly over the expulsion. bevies
of fiirts with their attentive youths. and
families with their children.
They ciatter through the empty library.
The books are gone-"to Tarragona. in
Span, the guide says. Now We come
to the Fathers garden he repeats. by
rote. This one had been raising onions.
muses. an observant American with pre-
historice neck-whiskers. Il should judge
they are reverting to type. Wild onions.
yes, he medtates.
Here are the cells.
We spy through them with a morbid
curiosity opening closets shopping into
corners. to discover something. There
is nothing to discover. They are cold and
empty rooms. Their mystery is departed
Apart from the triumph OF the ladies at
having violated something. go out
into the sunlight rather thoughtful. After
ALL was il well to chase the Carthusians
from their majestic home OF 900 years?
1t is unsettling. II seems like disrespect
to property. Down in Grenoble the
money-makers shrug their shoulders. but
in hundred hamlets on the way up
there is grinding poverty The rich Faith
ers were Immensely charitable.
The Fathers coul1 afford to lie char
liable. They had their Chartreuse liz
queur.
They have il yet-at Tarrasona. whence
they ship il To the entire world. They
are as rich as ever: only IL is the poor
of east Spain instead OF the French
dauphiny who profit by their largasse.
What. then. are all these little glasses?
"Green or yellow :. asks the head guide.
1t is the last ceremony before we pay
up our sratuities.
We sample the liqueur of the liduda-
tors. 1t Is still made at the Grande
Chartreuse the label affirms. You have,
doubt, heard echoes of the lawsuits
in France and in foreign countries. The
French government has sold the mark
to Paris distiller. with the right to
the old plant here at Fourvoirie
much as he peases. How much he
pleases is disputed by these French tour
lists. 1t is almost political question.
not sell it as Chartreuse. All courts ex
to the Fathers. But in Paris l can ten
YOU the agreeable fad of the eristocratic.
the rich and the happy Noble DANES
at their :, o'clock teas grave heads of
families at their gala dinners: frivolous
demi-mondanes skating at the ice pal
ace: sons of the Crusaders, whoOping up
at Maxims. and solemn old drunkards
at the Jockey Club. glance at their empty
glasses, sigh benevolently. and, as re-
solved on good works, murmur:
Yes, Tarragona. adding. meritori-
ously, Ito aid the good Fathers
STERLING HELLO.
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foot inside the outeTmnSt wall OF the vast
palace guarding the Snow Line, under it's
10000 square yards of roofs and covering
twelve acres.
During go years the entire desert ter
ritory was forbidden the approach of
eptomes of the vanities and dis
orders of world which its inha bitants
had fed.
They were great men. Among them. in
ell ages, could he found illustrious names
of Europe, princes. statesmen, warriors.
living here ceTobites and anchOrets,
dead to all human conversation-the aris-
tocratic Fathers of the Grande Char
treuSe.
They were served by like woman fleeing
anchorets stern mountaineers with who
knows what grief i'm their hearts? Such
brothers served the mountain domain as
farmers. wood-cutters, carpenters. ma
sons. weaverS, taiiorS, cooks, diStillerS.
engineers. electricians. bookbinders and
Shoemakers: and if peasant girl in
search. of mushrooms or wild StraWber-
ries necligently wandered up the noun
tain she found her way barred by a
haps. now lost to her ways-an impressive
denizen OF the silent palace up there.
The curiosity of all women, thus, has
been stirred by the Grande Chartreuse-
hove all other mOnasteries. The French
revolution, confiscating the great desert
territory as state forests, technica' ~
opened it to women: but only technically
When man tourists came to pass a night
of pious meditation or Shivery interest
amid the Whitehead figures that glided
down the mysterious great cloister for
mathis and lauds" at midnight, they left
their wives at n Ladies' 1nn, tolerated
by the Carthusians at distance down
the road. BY common courtesy to their
hosts, such tourists were bound in honor
not to offend even the outer precincts by
communicating femininity.
No peeking petticOats got within sight
Of the outer wallis great door.
So life passed for one thousand years
On the heights of the Grande Chartreuse
Today the palace is deserted by it's
white-clad fathers and its brown-garbed
brothers. Since 1903. when the French
governments expelled them and confiscated
their property, the Grande Chartreuse is
Classed as a historic monument"-with
state appointed guides to lead, through its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-23
He Got It.

TIE non-magnetic yacht Carnegie. be-
fore its departure on a ffteen-year
trip to survey the oceans of the world
was visited by Mr.. Carnegie. On his
tour of inspection, accompanied by DIR.
l.. A. Bauer. who has charge OF the
yachts expedition, Mr.. Carnegie expressed
great admiration for the appearance of
the engine room. The surface of each
small piece of brass or nickel was a mir
ror; no soiled waste or greasy cloth was
where to he seen.
Mr.. Carnegie said he would like to con-
graduate the person who was responsible
for the engine rooms appearance. The
man was sent for and listened respectfully
to Mr.. Carneges praise. Then moving
out of the room, he halted at the door,
and. smilin g. asked:
Excuse me, sir. is this just honorable
mention. or does it carry a price,
1t carried prize.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-23

with a reputation for having detected the
only three women who got as far as the
guests ante-room during his ten years
service.
The supreme test of this philosopher
Ito tell a female was to Unexpectedly
throw any small object-like a key or d
ring-into the suspected ones lap.
'If it be man., he argued, he will
close his knees to catch it: but If it be Il
woman, she will spread her knees apart
to make 1t drop in her lap"
The Princess of Piedmont. having
learned this secret. came disguised as Il
slender youth: and, seemingly. she passed
in unsupported. between her husband and
the Count Alberto cit is an ancient
tale and the names are traditionaD. But
while the willy Frere Hospitaler was Of
fering them "a hot soup in the ante
room of the courtyard. he must have had
a doubt. The masquerading princess, on
a bench in the shadow, saw him slyly
reach up his left Sleeve-the Car
thusian's pocket-and had just time to
catch a little apple deftly between her
quick-shut knees. Her practice had not
been in vain.
"Ha, smarty, you didn't catch me, did
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versity professor in gold spectacles. She
wore a rusty black frock coat and a
black SLOUGH hat in midsummer. mumbled
her supper in silence, and kept her nose
in Latin book.
So Sarah saw the terrible procession
of white figures at midnight gliding into
the vast dark church amid the dancing
flames of their iron lanterns. She says
it was the most shocking stage setting
of her life.
And all of this is over at the Grande
Chartreuse.
Today it is an empty shell
The highway up the mountain is dusty,
hot and noisy, Babel of voices. jingling
horse and mule bells. automobile honks
and sirens. cracking whips and shouting
drivers. Swift autos pass in clouds of
dust and imprecations. Women scream.
Men call out warning. Chauffeurs jump
out hastily, shove stone behind wheel
to hold it on the steep incline and un-
screw the cap of their water circula ton.
Up it boils and sduirts, like a steaminS
geyser, 1t is a steep climb.
Batches of fifty tourists at time go
gathering down the lost vista of the
Grande Cloister, hoary with antiquity:
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She heard him protesting as they disap-
peared in the corridor.
THAT young gentleman is OF my par
iy.
Armand. do not leave me-" she called
springing UP and struggling with the
heavy door which would not open,
Send back Armand,' she walled. ter
rified. ~ will not sleep alone with strange
men in a dormitory,
There was mistaking the accents OF
beauty in distress. Lift the latch. -
said smiling guest. 1.-The door is not
locked" Others hurried to her to ex-
plain how the door opened-just as her
Armand appeared. shamefaced, reproach-
ed by the pursuing brother. You will
find rooms at the Ladies' Inn" he said
as he ushered them out into the twilight
-accenting the plural not to scandalize
the Brother Porter at the gate.
Sarah Bernhard is one of the few wom-
en- of the present day to successfully pass
scrutiny and spend night at the Grande
chartreuSe.
1t was at the epoch when she was very
slender. not to say angular, and she had
the wit to make up her face pale. ema-
ciated and wrinkled, of an old uni
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you?' she called out in thoughtless tri-
umph then stopped. aghast at the give
away of it. But too late! The good
brother quietly asked her party into the
adjoining room. accused them Of her sex,
and directed them to d woodchopper
half league down the mountain who
would shelter them fer the night" ut
was centuries before the Ladies' Inn was
builtD
In modern adventure a lively young
French countess on her honeymoon trip
is said to have got as far as the guests
supper. which she ate in tranquility of
mind. supposing all suspician to be over.
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y Il dizzy Alpine
height there Is a
vast deserted pal
acc. In a chaos OF
gigantic rocks, Il
wilderness of light
ming blasted pines,
above the clouds.
it's pointed towers
swim in a silent
sky. For one thou
sand years no
woman might set
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1T is bed time" said the Frere Hos
pitalier: 1.-THE first eight on this side of
the table, please follow me-
do we not have separate rcoms?"
piped up the masquerading bride: and her
dneasness turned to horror as the broth
err seemingly not to hear her question, led
her husband off at the tail of the seven.