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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-27
RECORD OF COURT HOUSE
Real Estate Transfers.

G. Elmer Blakesley to R. G. Sum-
mers and j. d. Bollman, lot 3, block 2,
Elmer Blakesley's Twelfth street addi-
ton Rock Island $3.50.
August DeBuck to Polydor Yer
heecke. lot 122, block 10, Buford &
Guyer's addition Rock Island.
Perry l.. Simmon to Victor Belene,
northwest "a southwest u northeast
II section 4-1G-2w. $780,
Albert R. Stoddard to Eudora M
Stoddard and Victorine c. Pettangill
north 80 feet OF south 80 feet lot s
block 3, Osborn's first addition Moline
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-27
DAVENPORT

Ferry Company Files Bond.-E. IL.
Van Patten of the Bettendorf Ferry
company has filed a, bond in the sum
of $1,000 with County Auditor Ed Col
Inns in accordance with the agreement
of the company to have the new ferry
in operation by May /.
Bonds for Three SaIoons.-Abate-
ment bonds have been filed in the dis
trict court by the Hawkeye Realty
company to release three of it's proper
ties recently tied up by Injunction pro-
ceedings. Attorney Henry Vollmer
represented the Realty company. The
tenants of the properties abated and
the amounts of the required bond fur
nished by the Hawkeye Realty com
pany as owner of the premises were as
follows: James Weldon, $1,000; John
C. Davenport, $1,000; Frank Owens
$4,000.
Set Date for BaIi,-The members OF
Company B, l. n. G., at meeting
Monday night set Feb. % as the date
for the grand military ball. Elaborate
arrangements are being made for this
event and it promises to be function
of no small Importance.
.
Wants $1,000 for Wounded Heart
Eva Stanton has started legal proceed
ings against John Forth, well known
resident of West Davenport, claiming
$4,000 damages for alleged breach Of
promise. The woman alleges that il
October, 1907, Mr. Perth agreed tt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-27
NEWS OF THE NEIGIIBORS

Marshalltown. Iowa.. died Monday
night at the home of Mrs. S. Harris,
ZIG East Tenth street. She had been
here for several weeks taking treat
ment for Brighth's disease. The direct
cause of her death was complication
of pneumonia and Bright's disease.
Miss Presson's home was with her
mother, Mrs. S. II. Archer of Marshall
town.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-27
Bad Stomach Trouble Cured.

Having been sick for the past two
years with bad stomach trouble, a
friend gave me dose of Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
They did me so much good that l
bought bottle of them and have used
IL bottles in all. Today am well of
a bad stomach trouble.-Mrs. John
Lowe, Cooper, Maine. These tablets
are for sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-27

Obituary Record. the seven
months-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Carlstedt, 1907 Twenty-eighth
avenue, died Monday evening after an
illness of only two days with convul-
sions brought on by severe cold.
Sylvia was born in Moline June IL,
1908. She leaves besides her parents.
i two brothers. Marvid and Pull.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-27

which comes to the same end as Sis
remarks.
No one who is fair minded will mis-
construe these rather severe COM
ments. He will not as member of
either body of the congress- take to
himself anything herein as rejecting
on him unless he shall have belonged
to that colony Of ''shrimps" who have
abdicated their rights and as n conse
quence failed to perform their sworn
duty to their constituents.
If he belongs to that colony-well.
he's welcome to what view he may
take of these writings.
Warning to Do Eothin9s.
Just q word Of the president Re-
member. he fights to win. He IS one
| who would ascribe to William J. Fry
an motives and associations which he
knew Mr.. Bryan did not entertain or
| maintain. But it was in a fight. and
he fights to win. That explains why
he advantaged himself of the ruling
distrust of the congress to win q point.
He soon goes out from Office. The
congress remains 1t is vastly more
/ important that the congress emerge
from this wrangle appropriately than
that words be wasted on disserta-
tion as to the propriety of the Roose
| velt actions. Certainly congressman
and senators will learn from this cpl
sode that the do-nothingness of the
national legislative body while corrup-
! ton reigned supreme all around was
the weak spot ut which Mr.. Roosevelt
could aim his shafts Therefore let
them take heed to themselves that
henceforth no such vulnerable spot re-
main exposed.
About Senator Tillman.
Meanwhile sympathy for those good
men who suffer unjustly in house or
senate However. scarcely will any of
the Give wires" In either body suffer.
for the people at home know their
friends and will not misbrand them
this time.
How about Senator Tillmap?
How can that South Carolinan ever
recover from the crushing blow ad-
ministered, from the White Housei
Which of the men hitherto attacked
by Theodore Roosevelt has fully re-
covered his aforetime strength before
the people? who can lightly estimate
the dynamic power back of such blows
from one in whom is embodied the
leadership of 10000, 900 people?
1t is my business to record truth
here, making never the wish to be the
father of the thought. Obeying the be
hest of that duty, 1t must be said that
Ben Tillman never will recover com
pletely. and those best acquainted will
him and his condition aver his health
severely strained the past twelve
month. will break under this new load
Washington, d. G.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
MAY RETURN BANK FUNDS.
Loss Of Upton, Ind, Institution to Be
Made Good, is Rumor.

Upton, Aug. 3.-Severa1 conferences
between Noah r. Marker, assistant
cashier of the First National Bank,
and his attorneys and friends were held
and last evening a rumor was current
turn of $4,000 which disappeared from
the bank vault the day Marker left the
city.
Some of Markers friends believe the
money is being held to force a COM
promise Of the criminal charges against
him. but persons connected with the
bank say that he has made no PROPOSE
lions for a compromise and none would
be accepted If he did.
The community has settled down to
the conclusion that Marker did not go
to Missouri, but th2t he did go to Chi
cago, thence to some other city, and
that his mission was to plant" the
money taken from the bank, on the
theory that he was Gin for lamb and
might as we'll go in for the whole
sheep"
Since the banks officers are going TO
make good the loss and the institution
is expected to open in a few days, there
is practically no feeling against Marker
himself If the depositors are made
safe no one cares anything about
Marker. There does not seem to be any
feeling among the owners of the bank
against him. and this fact is proving a
puzzling thing to the people generally
Marker announces that he expects to
spend several weeks in Toledo with rel
atives and will not be here again til
the grand jury at Indianapolis takes az
his case
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
BOONE cHAuTAuouA OPENS.
Great disappointment Over Loss o.
Clark and MckinIay from Program.

Great disappointment Over Loss OF
Clark and MekinIay from Program.
Special to Times-Republican.
Boone, Aug. 3.-Boone's annual
chautauqua started off with a rush
yesterday afternoon and evening, the
program being given by the Redpath-
Vawter Company. The people of Boone
feel keen disappointment in the loss
of Champ Clark and Congressman Nc
Kinlay. who were scheduled to speak
here. The hot times down in Washing
ton just now in regard to the tariff is
holding these two chautauqua orators
away from their engagem ents and the
Boone chautauqua patrons have to be
content with substitutes. Governor
Shallenberger, of Nebraska, and Judge
Lee Estelle, of Omaha, are to fill in
these places on the programs.
This afternoon Congressman Lands
speaks on the Merchant Marine. The
announcement by the Redpath people
of the visit Of this congressman and
his topic, stirred up the local demo-
Gratis and they appealed to the chau-
tauqua management to change the adj
dress, stating that the people of this
community were so opposed to the
Lands side of the question that a
discussion of it would do the chau-
tauqua no good Lands, however, had
his speech prepared, and is to deliver
it just the same.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
HOME FOR AGED DANES.
institution to Be Erected in Des Moline.
by Danish People of Northwest.

by OahlSh People OF NORTHWEST.
Des Moines, Aug. 3.-Thru the gen.
crosby of one man, C. Larson of Ra-
cine, Wis. and of the Danish people
of Iowa and of, the northwest. Des
fMoines is to have $4,000 endowed
home for aged Danish people
To make such home possible Mr.
Larson has presented the local f1nan-
cial committee with his personal check
for $4,000, one-haI of the amount
required for the erection of the first
building Four lots have been pur-
chased at the corner Of East Ninth
street and Morton avenue for the cree
ton of this home. 1t is hoped to have
the main building completed and ready
for occupancy before the middle of next
year. The canvass for funds this year
for the amount necessary for the com
pletion is deferred because Of the fact
that the Danish people are raising
money to build an orphanage this year
at lila, MINI.
For the benefit of the large Danish
college student body, the newly built
up Danish settlement and the members
of the home for the aged Danish peo-
pie, a large and beautifully built church
will be erected on site adjoining that
selected for the home for the aged.
The local congregation has purchased
two lots and expects to finish the build
ing early next year.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
ruB11cAN MARSH IOWA, AUGUST s. 1909

DR.. Trnomas L. Green, Thursday even
ing, he announced that he would leave
with the management OF the chautan-
qua, first prize of 81 and a second
prize of 81 to be awarded for the best
two essays of not less than 200 words
to be prepared by boys or girls in his
audience, from the subject matter of
the lecture. On Saturday Professor
Graham announced that the prizes had
been awarded to John Clinton. first;
and Winnifred Inglis, secnd.
Hampton was assured that she
should be favored by the Redpath peo-
pie with a chautauqua next year, and
that 1T should have talent of no less
merit than this season, and if possible
it should be better The full number
of tickets necessary was guaranteed
and with the least effort that has been
known here for similar undertaking
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
Marble Rock News.

Special to Times Republican.
Marble Rock, Aug. 3.-Sunday was
the hottest day so far this summer. The
thermometer registered 100 in the
shade. If the dry, hot weather con-
tinues very much longer, the growing
crops will suffer materially. Dat har-
vest is now on in earnest. Threshing
will begin this week.
Miss Grace Rex has returned from a
few days visit in Cedar Falls.
The chairman of the Iowa Baptist
Home Missionary Society filled the pull
pit of that church in this place, Sum
day.
Rev. S. NJ. Hood Of Kansas, is visit
ing at the home Of Rev. MIR. Trimble
and preached two very acceptable SER
mons in the NJ. E. church, last Sunday
The little daughter Of Melvin Powers
met with a painful accident last Sat
urday, when her foot was badly larce-
rated with a child's wagon.
The reports are that Mrs. Charles
Losee is being very much benefited BY
the New York climate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03

from the plants own eprinkters. The
company's business, of course, will be
interrupted for some time, and this loss
will be considerable. The plant was
amply insured. The amount of the
loss can hardly be even roughly es-
timated. Perhaps $4,000 will COW
er 1t.
Tho there was not much actual COM
bustion, the fire was one of the most
difficult and most painful that the fire.
men have had ITO cope with in many
years. Half a score of the workmen
and several of the flrernen had to be
carried from the mill, wholly overcome
by the heat, the smoke and the
fumes of the burning starch. 1t was a
dense, acrid, penetrating, biting smoke
fighting which the strongest were over
come
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
MASON CITY MAN INSANE.
Arthur Hanson Made Dangerous BY
peIusion That He is a Detective.

Special to Times-Republican.
Mason City, Aug. Misunderstanding
the delusion that he is detective, and
that it is his duty to assist the police
in ferreting out crime, Arthur Hanson
of this city, has been adjudged insane
and sent to Cherokee. While in Jail,
before taking the trip to the asylum,
Hanson became so dangerous that die
had to be handcuffed and chained to
the bars of his cell. On the day when
he was taken into custody, he Was
going about the streets with an I'M
provised billy, and telling everyone that
he had found an important clue in a
big murder mystery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
Items From Roland.

Special to Times Republican.
Roland, Aug. 3.-Mr. and Mrs. Q. S.
Boyd spent Sunday at the A. NJ. Hen
derson home, in Story City.
Mrs. f. G. Schlaubusch and son Lyle
returned home Saturday. She was &C
companied by Miss Clara Craven, of
Minneapolis, who will visit here this
week.
@. M. Anenson is in northern Iowa on
business, this week.
o. s. Mattison is working at the
Oliver Cole meat market.
Avis, the youngest child of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. Larson was quite sick Sun
day. but is better at this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. Cole are the parents
of baby boy, born last Friday
Mrs. E. Rice and daughter, lone, are
visiting relatives at Canton MINI.
Next Sunday, Aug. 8. the Central
Iowa Church Union will have their
sangerfest at Roland. About 17o sing
ers will be present The meeting will
be held in a big tent on the school
house grounds.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
MANY TRAMPs TRAVEL ACROSS
IOWA BEATING WAY TO
HARVEST FIELDS.
WORK ONLY A FEW WEEKS
DURING EACH YEAR
"Bum" Their Way on Railway Trains
and Make Trouble for Conductors
and 6raksmsn-Besin Season in
South and Slowly Migrate North
ward-cIsan Clothes Tabooed.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Clinton, Aug 3.-The freight train
conductors worst enemy, the profess
sional hobo, is now passing thru Iowa.
The opening of the harvest in the
northwest has started the migration.
There are many men in the United
States who are placed in the category
of the general public under the head Of
buns" There are also many kinds of
'bums," and one that comes probably
more prominently before the eyes of the
public than any other is the train
bum" or "hobo," as he now has the
distinction of being called.
The majority of the professional
hoboes work but little. the harvest
seasons being about the only time in
which they allow themselves to be
classed as a working man. To some
of the old timers and aristocratic no.
boes it is a lasting disgrace to ever
work and they refuse to even do so
in the fall. The demand is always
strong at the time of the gathering
OF the crops ana good wages are palC,
the men also receiving their board
and keep during the time they are
employed in the fields.
Thru the south where the har-
vest comes early hoboes begin
their seasons work AS this is COM
pleted they drift north. working a
short time here and a day or so there
and in the fall they find themselves
way up in Canada With many the
money made in the fields is clear.
Their board and sleeping place is fur
nished them and as they think to pay
a railroad company a fare an utter
absurdity, they save their wages
Clean clothes trouble them little and
those of the worst type have no scru-
pies about stealing their food while
| enrOute.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
"eRADsD ARE BARRED.

Knoxville Hospital Followers Of Gen.
Bourbon Must Keep Out Of Saloons.
Des Moines, Aug. 3.-The followers
Of old General Bourbon who have
taken the liquor cure were given
sorry Jolt in council meeting when
resolution was introduced making it
misdemeanor for them to enter a sa-
loon.
Heretofore the responsibility has
been with the saloon keeper. He being
held responsible should a minor,
fsabitual drunkard, inebriate or those
who have taken the liquor cure enter
his place of business. The resolution
will make the offense a misdemeanor
on both sides.
The resolution was placed on file
with the city clerk by Carl Smith,
former license collector and now repre-
sentative Of the Des Moines Malt Com
pany. 1t was referred to Councilman
Hamery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
QUEER WHEAT PHENOMENON.
Ute Farmer Shells Out 2,640 GRANT
From One Grain of Seed.

Special to Times-Republican.
Ute, Aug. 3.-William Lloyd thrashed
out over 1000 bushels of winter wheat
of good quality from forty acres,
which he sold for 81 per bushel. direct
from the machine. When Mr.. Lloyd was
cutting his grain, he noticed peculiar
bunch of wheat. He pulled it care
fully out of the ground, and found
that it was just one plant grown from
one single grain of seeds, and there
were sixty stems, each with ma
tured head of wheat He selected an
average head from the bunch and
shelled out the grain, and found that
he had forty-four grains from one head
only, giving 2,64O grain from one grain
of seed. This particular plant was
grown where the wheat was thin on
the ground, caused by being winter
killed
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
Items From Rockford.
Special to Times-Republican.

Speclal TO IlmeS-u0epuOl1can.
Rockford, Aug. 3.--The Yager Drug
Company aid the Brincken Drug Conn
pany have bought. out the Thomas
Drug Company, each taking half of the
stock. Mr.. Thomas expects to move to
Idaho.
Otis Hough has sold out his barber
stock to, Mel Wetzel, and has accepted
position the in Wetzel shop. Mr..
Hough has been in Rockford only .
short time. He came here to work for
Mr.. Thomassen, but soon bought out
his shop. He later sold to Mr.. Wetzel.
Mr.. Thomassen is farming.
Mr.. F. E. Trigg, editor of. the Rock
ford Register, and his wife have just
returned from an extensive western
trip. Mr.. Trigg went in the interelf
of his farm notes. which are widely
published, as we'll as for pleasure.
Both he and Mrs. Trigg are delighted
over the far west.
The Methodist and Congregational
churches are conducting union open air
services on Sunday evenings during
July and August. A very large attend
ance has been secured thus far.
George Gardner took his wife to the
asylum at independence, several weeks
ago. She is reported as much improved,
with prospects of complete recovery.
Mrs. Thrush, wife of the Congrega-
tional minister of Webster City, is Wis
iting her parents, DR.. and Mrs. Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Greenman have shipped
their household goods to Montana,
, where they are moving.
There has been no rain here now for
over three weeks. Corn is beginning
to show the effects of the drouth, and
the gardens in town are practically
burned up.
Miss Floy Wyatt, assistant post
mistress, is able to be about her duties
part of her time. She is just recov-
ering from an operation for tubercu-
losis of the glands of the neck which
was performed at Rochester
Miss Addie Jenkinson of the Rock
ford State bank is spending her vaca-
| ton at Lake Minnetonka.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. McNincn, OF Phil
adelphia, have been visiting their sons,
Dr. McNinch, Of Rockford, and DR.. Nc
Ninch, of Marble Rock.
| Grocer Lorenz and Mrs. Lorenz ac-
companed their son Linn to Chicago,
where they will visit for a few days.
Linn will re-enter the medical school
in September.
Miss Gertrude Hoffman, OF Mitchell,
S. D., is visiting in the Hoffman home,
east of town.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
FIRE in STARCH WORKS.

Several Firemen Overcome by Fumes
in Fighting Cedar Rapids Blaze.
Cedar Rapids, Aug. 3.-Half million
pounds OF starch in the process of
m manufacture was more or less dam
aged by a fire which broke out at 4:30
Monday afternoon in the starch works
of Douglas & Co. There was little dam
age to the mill or the machinery ex-
cept from the smoke and the tons of
water which poured into it for several
hours from the eight lines Of hose, and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
SEARCH FOR FRANK RUrT, MISS.
ING FROM CAIRO, IOWA,
UNAvAlLlNG.
SUPPOSED TO BE A wANDERER
AND NOT TO KNOW HIS NAME
Rutt Believed to Have Become De-
mented as Result Of Heat While
Working in Harvest FieId-River
Dragged Without ResuIt-other
Iowa News Notes.
Special to fmes-Republican.
Morning Sum, Aug. s.-Have you seer

Special to Times-Republican.
Morning Sum, Aug. S.-Have you seen
this man?
Frank Rutt left his home near Cairo,
Iowa, on the night of wednesday, July
%, between 10 o'clock at night and 5
o'clock in the morning. When he left
home he was dressed in his working
clothes, faded plaid shirt, dark gray
pants and work shoes, without either
hat or coat. He is 80 years of age, 5
feet inches high of spare build, black
hair, heavy dark brown mustache with
dark gray or brown eyes.
Despite search which Fred Courts,
of this city, characterized as having
covered, inch by inch, the neighbor-
hood of the Rutt home at Cairo, the
disappearance of Frank Rutt, after five
days, remains as much as mystery
as it was on the morning after he left
home.
Mr.. Courts, brother-in-law OF
the missing man, has taken decided
steps to effect either the discovery OF
Rutt's whereabouts or some clew to
his fate. IA reward of $50 has been
offered for the restoration of Rutt to
his family or the discovery Of his body
The mans description has been sent
out broadcast, both thru official cham
nels and in the newspapers.
Mr. Courts declared that he believed
his brother in laws mind was affected
as the result of becoming overheated
while working in the fields and thai
while in an unbalanced mental condi-
ton, he had wandered away, and was
today a bit of human driftwood, igno-
rant of his identity and his home, OF
that in his deranged state he had done
violence to himself, or else had be-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
The Montour News.
to Times-Republican.

SDeCidI
Montour, Aug. s.-George Corley and
sanhronia Rollin were united in mar
rage at the home Of the brides par
ents, in Montour, Saturday evening, at
s o'clock. Rev. L. H. Bufkin offlclateo.
D. W. Blakeley and wife startea
Monday morning foi' Portland, Maine.
p. II. Mason, of Kingsley, arrived
Friday for visit with relatives.
There will be no preaching services
at the Congregational church here, next
Sunday.
The Misses May and Harriet Eek, OF
Pittsburg, Pa, are visiting at the L. A
Branson home. =
g. -. Hoover, of Houston, Texas, is
visiting at the A. j. Hoover home.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03
MANS ARM TORN OFF
Charles Riddle, Farmer Near Ute, Mar
rowIy Escapes Death While Thresh-
ins-Arm Caught in Cylinder While
Feeding Grain Into Machine.

Special to Times-Republican
Ute, Aug. 3.-Charles E. Riddle. a
farmer living four miles southwest of
mere, while in an alleged intoxicated
condition, went out to Samuel Chedis-
ters farm, where a threshing machine
was being operated, insisted on get
ting up on the machine and feeding
the grain into it, when he almost i'm
mediately got his right arm into the
cylinder, and had it torn off. de mar
rowly escaping going thru the ma
chine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-03

come the victim Of some serious. per-
haps fatal. accident. Ii, no other way
could he explain the mystery of tho
sudden and complete disappearance.
Yesterday the Iowa river was
searched from Bard to wapello by
searching parties in aiaunches. but this
effort, like all the former ones, resulted
in failure.