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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18

opening and Mr. Clark closed the meet
ing with prayer.
Resolutions were adopted upon the
death of Mrs. John T. keDworthy of
this city, formerly of Andalusia, and
of John f. Mounts, late chairman of
the board of directors of the associa-
ton. 1t was announced that the an
nual meeting of the association will
be held Sunday, May 81, at the town
hall, when addresses will be delivered
by Rev d. o. Slyter of Andalusia and
City Attorney J. F. Witter of Rock IS
land: Phil Mitchell of this city and
Mrs. Blanche E. Little of Chicago
have agreed to read letters on pioneer
days at early meetings of the organi
cation.
Mr.. Clark yesterday paid a visit to
that other well known pioneer Captain
w. L. Clark, at the latter's home in
Buffalo and the two talked about the
days of long ago.
Tomorrow afternoon the veteran O!
the Black Hawk war will be at the
Watch Tower and will speak there
While he will not appear under the
auspices of any particular organization
there is much interest in him and with
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18

need refrigerator buy now at reduced
prices David Don.
The ladies of St Joseph's Altar So
ciety will give a coffee at the home Of
Mrs. II. c. Schaffer, 932 Fourteenth-and-
a-half street, Thursday, May 20, from 5
to s p. m.
The dependency cases against Kittie
and Raymond Leirich in the county
court have been continued TO June IA
and the children have been placed in
| the custody of Miss Ramser, the po-
lice matron, by Judge Olmsted.
The last of the shop meetings at the
Sash & Door works, which have been
conducted by the Y. NJ. c. A., will be
held tomorrow at noon, at which time
Rev. Marion Humphreys will address
the men and a mixed quartet from the
First Methodist church will furnish
music.
| A brindle bulldog belonging to
George Mason was caught in the fen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18

attempt it. but said he had worked
among the Indians for years and they
were all his friends. The following
morning the long. white beard of The
preacher was waving in the wind from
the top of pole on which his head
had been hoisted at the fork of the
road north of Ottawa.
Soon afterward the people of Plain
field held meeting and voted to re-
move to Fort Dearborn for further
protection and they did so, escaping
attack till state and federal troops
had put the Indians on the defensive
and General Scott came TO arrange
the terms of peace, which he did
while making his headquarters At
Fort Dearborn.
Cause Held Liquor Sale.
Mr.. Clark at this point reverted
back to the cause of the war, which
he said was largely because of the
sale of liquor among Black Hawk S
people. The chief. he said, sent three
messengers, one at Il time, to protest
TO the authorities at st. Louis against
the sale of whisky among the redmen
| All three of the messengers We're I'M
| prisOned, said the speaker, two even
tually being released and returning tc
their tribe, but the third being shot.
| Mr.. Clark did not go beyond his per
sOnal experiences in connection witt
the Black Hawk war and closed with
a plea for temperance. peace ana
truth, urging everybody to record
some of the important things tha
come into their lives, learning thereby
to know what is important and tt
write and speak what is true.
Other Numbers on Program.
Other numbers on the program O
the evening were songs by the Anda
lusia Baptist choir and trio by Mis-;
Blanche Reede. Mrs. John Spckle
and Bernard Heinze Rev. d. o. Sly
ter pronounced an invocation at tn,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18
LIGHT BOOZE.
DO You Drink 1t?

A minister's wife had quite a
tussle with coffee and her experience
is interesting. She says:
During the two years of my
training as nurse, while on night
duty. l became addicted to coffee
drinking. Between midnight and 4
in the morning, when the patients
were asleep. there was little to do
except make the rounds, and it was
quite natural that | should want a
good hot cup of coffee about that
time. 1t stimulated me and | could
keep awake better.
after three or four years of cof-
fee drinking / became a nervous
| wreck and though that | simply
could not live without my coffee
| All this time l was subject to fire.
quent bilious attacks, sometimes sc
severe as to keep me in bed for sew
eral days.
After being married, husband
begged me to leave off coffee for he
feared that it had already hurt m.
almost beyond repair, so l resolved
to make an effort to release myself
from the hurtful habit.
Il began taking Postum and fol
a few days felt the languid tired feel
ing from the lack of the stimulant
but l liked the taste of Postum, ant
that answered for the breakfast bev
erage all right.
Finally l began to feel clearel
headed and had steadier nerves. AT
ter years use of Postum | now fee
like a new woman-have not hat
ANY bilious attacks since l left of
Coffee"
I acres a Reason" Read 9Th,
Road to MELVILLE" in packages.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. The
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18

had planned a general uprising. AS
there were then so redskins to every
white in that vicinity, the former were
certain TO triumph in the early stages
of such contest. And so events
proved
The following year, 1892, Mr.. Clark,
while at work several miles from home
with another lad blowing for the
spring planting. saw parry of men,
women and children fleeing in terror
on foot with their most precious be
longings, approaching and was in
formed that the Indians had attacked
the settlers further west and were
rapidly working east.
Hauled to Safety.
The two boys hitched their team to
their wagon and took the fugitives &c
what is now Plainfield, where they
took shelter in the second house con
structed at that place and Immediately
set 10 work to cut logs and erect g
stockade Ammunition was scarce and
instructions were given the men in
case of an attack not to fire unless cer
tain of their aim.
About this tine a DUnkard preacher
came into the settlement and express
cd an intention of going down the
, river to Ottawa. He was warned that
. it would be certain death for him t.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18

Black Hawk war is confined 10 actiyi-
ties about Ottawa, Plainfield and Fort
Dearborn, where the settlers simply
organized to protect themselves from
the Indians. MIR. Clark did not know
Black Hawk personally, but knew i
number of the chiefs that fought UNI
der him In fact, he was an intimate
companion of the son of enc of the
chiefs and from him obtained warning
a year before the war broke out that
there was to be a conflict.
The fact that Mr. Clark's memory
of details may be faulty, however, does
not materially detraet from the inter
est felt in him as the sole living sur
vivor of an Indian war that involved
this vicinity. The wonder is that he
has survived ana is able to travel alone
across the continent and to speak in
public as he is now doing.
Wars story Not Complete.
In his talk last evening Mr.. Clark
opened with a reference to the objects
of which he spoke, declaring that
Americans have been too needless OF
the Importance of historical events
and urging his hearers TO keep up tho
work they have begun. AS an example
of important events of the past tina
have not been accurately recorded he
cited the Black Hawk war. All his
tories he had read he said, had beer
incomplete. the details being loose anC
disconnected. guesses evidently hav
ing been made at names and dates il
many cases.
The speaker was living as a lat
of Is with his parents A
miles west of Chicago whel
the first warning was given Of i'm
pending trouble with the Indians. TIL
son of chief with whom he regularl
played and speared fish for good 70
the two families, informed him in cor
fidence that the chiefs east of tn
Mississippi had held a conference am
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18
CITY CHA II.
Kerler & Co. weave rugs.
Buy a home Of Reidy Bros.

Kerler & Co. weave rugs.
Buy a home of Reidy Bros.
Read H. X. Walkers want ads.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
For bus and express, Spencer & Trefz.
Sand and cement Mueller Lumber
company.
Godfrey's laundry gives green trad
ng stamps.
Sanitary flexible door mats, IS cents.
David Don.
Steel flexible door mats, IS cents, at
David Don's.
Come to the w. w. when you hear
he calliope May IS.
Music and dancing on steamer w
w by moonlight, May IS.
Let Krell & Johnston do your tin
md furnace work. 1916 Third avenue
First moonlight excursion of the
season on the steamer w. w. May IS
H. T. Siemon wants your tin and
furnace work. 1526-152S Fourth ave
nue.
People find it hard to keep up with
my easy running ball bearing lawn
mowers David Don.
Hot days reminds one they need ice
Call old phone SCI, new GIL. Rock
we'll Ice & Fuel company.
Remember the date of the frs
moonlight excursion of the season vii
be on the steamer w. W., May IS.
Moonlight excursion on steamer w
W., Tuesday, May is. Leaves Rocl
Island S:15 p. IN. Fare, gentlemen, 81
cents, ladies, 25 cents.
There were no boats through tn,
Rock Island draw today. The stage 0
water was go at G a. m. and 9.75 a
noon.
If you want to make the grass fly
buy one of my easy running ball bear
ing mowers; selling them out at cos
prices. David Don.
Leonard porcelain regrigetators, cas-
to clean and great ice savers. If yo
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18
BOYS TO HAVE BANQUET
Members of Il. G. NJ. Club to Have
Function This Evening.

The third annual banquet of the B.
G. NJ. boys of the Y. NJ. c. A. will be
held this evening at the chapel of the
association building. There will be a
program of speaking by the boys them
selves. 1t is expected that about 40
boys will be seated at the tables The
supper. which will be served at Gas,
will be in charge of the Association
Helpers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18
RIVER BULLETIN.
May 10 In American History.

1915 = James Marquette. missionary
and explorer. died: born 1857.
1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne. distin-
guished American novelist and
sketch writer. died; born 1904.
l907-Edward Fl. Conger, who was
United States minister to PekiD
during the Boxer troubles. died at
Pasadena. CAL born 1S43.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18
MONEY FOR MONUMENTS
Will of Late Nose ii. futile Is Ad-
mitied to Probate

The will of the late Nose futile
was admitted to probate today in the
county court. He directs that after
his debts are paid the balance of the
estate. worth about 81 900. be spent
in placing suitable monuments to the
memory of himself and his wife at the
Grove cemetery at McConnell's chapel.
George r. Sydnor is named as execu-
tor. The will was made Nov. %, 1903.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18
TELLS OF WAR
AS He saw II
w. O. Clark, Sole Survivor of
Black Hawk Uprising Speaks
at Andalusia.
HELPED BUILD STOCKADES
Activities Limited to Vicinity of Chi
cagO-COmes to the Watch
Tower Tomorrow.

Not great deal of light. locally
speaking, was shed upon the Black
Hawk war by w. 0. Clark, the aged
Drytown, Cal, man. who spoke a tho
Andalusia town hall last evening be-
fore the Andalusia Memorial associa-
ton. Mr.. Clark, who has almost reach
ed his Gath year, is remarkably we'll
preserved, and is a forceful and ready
speaker, but his experience in the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18
ALREADY ENJOYING
PARK IN EAST END
Citizens Find 1t Pleasant Place for
Picnic-COmmittee Reported
Additional Donation.

The people of the city are already
finding the new east end park pleas
ant retreat, and Sunday a party went
10 the park for the day and enjoyed a
picnic dinner: The soliciting commit
tee announced today an additional do
nation Of $50 TO the fund by Charles
Ntzhugh,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18

Temperature at Z a. M, 81; mt 3 p. m,
20. Maximum temperature I'm last "a
hours, ~; minimum. 10. Velocity Of
wind Mt n. m. IL miles per hour. Stage
of water, 81 feet, rise of j foot In
last "a hours. Precipitation, none.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18
; CALL GENERAL MEETING
Nj. w. A. and IL. n. A. to Discuss
Project Tomorrow Evening.

Following the meeting of Dewey
camp, r. n. A, at Odd Fellows hall to-
morrow evening, there will be a gen.
eral meeting of Woodmen and Royal
NeighborS, and the local camp home
project will be discussed. Important
matters are TO be considered. The
meeting will be called to order at S:15.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18

The indictments returned by the
lie today. There are IS true bills.
Among the most interesting of the
cases is that against w. W. Wilmer
ton, who was indicted for assault
with deadly weapon. He was
bound to the grand jury on a charge
Of assault with intent to commit
murder, but the jury found bill on
Il minor charge. The Indictment is
the outcome of pistol duel on Third
avenue between Wilmerton and
LOoney.
Mr.. Wilmerton this morning gave
bail, with Charles McHugh, T. J. Me-
dill, and E. E. Reynolds as sureties.
HutzeI IL Indicted.
The charges against Harvey IIutZel
grow out of his cashing check OF
100 at the Port Byron State bank
The check was one belonging to Ed
| ward Kennedy, and was, it is charg-
| ed, stolen from Kennedy's place
| where HutZel made his home for g
time. When HutZel was arrested he
|
ing the cottage that was to have beer
their home. All but couple of hun
dred dollars of the amount he Sc
| cured on the check was recovered.
Bills Against Tarver.
Phineas Tarver, the Moline color
ed youth, will have to answer to two
| charges as the result of complaints
lby Byrdie Webb, a telephone oper
ator He is indicted for assault witt
a deadly weapon and for assault will
intent to commit rape. The inciden
out of which the charges grow Great
ed much excitement in Moline and /;
race war was feared for time. Tar
yer is alleged to have assaulted The
girl with a knife, Feb. IS.
The charges against the two Van
overberghe's and Peter Blomne ar,
based on an alleged attack on Free
| Waldman.
George Clark is charged with TIL
theft of a bicycle from William Hans
gen and $263zo worth of goods from
S. Bakers store in Moline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

Sun sets 100. rises 4:35; moon rises
4:4S Il. NJ; planet Mercury visible low
in west after sunset; S:34 a H., new
moon in constellation Taurus with the
sun
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18
FOR MINOR CHARGE
True Bill Against w. w. Viii
merton Charges Assault
With Deadly Weapon.
GIVES BAIL IN COURT
Indictments Returned Yesterday Are
Made PuDlic-Three Against
Man Who Forged Check.
GRAND JURY INDICTMENTS.

GRAND JURY INDICTMENTS.
w. w. Wilmerton, assault with
IDEALLY weapon. Bail $1,000.
Phineas Tarver, assault with deadly
weapon. Bail $1,000.
Phineas Tarver, assault with intent
to commit rape. Bail $4,000.
Harvey Hutzel, falsely impersonat-
ing another. Bail $500.
Harvey Hutzel. confidence game.
Bail $500.
Harvey Hutzel, forgery. Bail $2,5oo
,, George Clark, alias Frank Smith, lar.
ceny. Bail $500.
George Clark, larceny. Bail $4,000
Roman Vanoverberghe, assault with
deadly weapon. Bail $1,000.
Alois vanoverberghe, assault and
battery.
Peter Blomne, assault and battery
Bail $500.
julius DeRore, wife abandonment.
Bail $500.
Harry Leonard, wife abandonment.
Bail $500.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18
THE w EAT H Err

Partly cloudy with probably show
ers tonight Wednesday,; not much
change I'm Temperature.
JIM. SHERIER, Local Forecaster.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18

Nearly stationary stages will pre-
vail in the Mississippi from below Du-
buque to Muscatine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18
FOR half
Suit of Dorothy Christopher
Against Woodmen Comes
to Sudden Close.
GETS $1,000 ON THE CLAIM
Sued for $1,000 on Certificate of Axel
ChristOpher-New Order in
Building & Loan Case.

After the jury had been selected in
the circuit court today for the trial of
the case of Dorothy Christopher
against the M w A, settlement was
reached, and judgment was entered for
$1,000. The suit involved a claim of
$4,000 on certificate held by AXel
Christopher of Moline in the Stewart
vile camp. Mr.. Christopher suicided
soon after becoming a member of the
society. ]. b. Oakleaf appeared for
the plaintiff, and Searle & Marshall
and Truman PlantZ, general attorney
Of the society, represented the Wood
men.
Must Go Ahead.
Judge w. H. Gest this morning set
aside the order to compel the closing
of the plaintiffs evidence in the Moline
Building & Loan case by July 1, and
entered an order that the hearing pro-
coed as rapidly as possible until con-
cluded. Judge Gest discussed the sit
uation with the attorneys and the spe-
cial master in chancery, B. d. Connolly,
before entering the order, and explain
ed the complaints made because of the
delay in disposing of the case.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18
Licensed to Wed.

Joseph Montgomery -. Rock Island
Harriet Ruhser .Davenpor.
William III. Epperson -. East Moline
May II. Swisher. ....... Moline
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-18

out doubt many of the older residents
will go to hear him.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-27
WIFE DIES IN
DRUNKEN STUPOR

Death lurked in the orgy of Kaolelo
and his wife on Christmas Day and
picked the wife, Kahiki. for a victim
the next morning. Together with sew
eral friends, the two had spent the en-
tire day drinking and continued the
debaueh we'll into the night, until the
woman laid down in a drunken stupor
and fell asleep. Kaolelo laid down
minute later and, after the guests had
gone, also went to sleep. At two
o clock in the morning he woke up and
attempting to awaken his wife, found
her dead beside him.
They were living in a tenement on
the mauka-Ewa corner of Kukui and
Nuuanu avenue and the small room and
the mattresses in it are wine stained
and until cleaned out reeked with gin.
With the dead body of his wife be-
side him. Kaolelo did his best to drink
himself to death also. and it was only
because the liquor ran ont that he did
not succeed.
Neighbors on the same floor heard
the old man weeping about two o'clock
and investigation showed him to be
also in a drunken stupor and hardly
realizing the tragedy that had happen
ed. He slept the balance Of the even
ing on the mattress with the dead
woman.
In the morning he arose sober, fully
Continued on Page Six.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-27
SMASHED HIS RESCUER.

For saving the life of soldier on
Christmas Eve, German by the name
of Khruns received as reward man
sized blow on the chin that nearly put
him out of business. The man who do
mated it was the man he saved. A
soldier. who is now at the hospital, had
a most glorious time around town until
he was full to capacity and lay down
on the very edge of the river wall to
sleep off prize jag.
They say there is a special god to
look after drunkards, but if there is
he fell asleep at his post of duty that
night, for the soldier gave two shores
and fell over the embankment. En-
route, he gashed the underside of his
chin directly across and clean to the
bone.
Khruns saw him 60 off and went
right over after, jumping feet first,
and grabbed the soldier s head to keep
is supposed to have acquired a goodly
amount of the liquid mud in the river.
for he was most certainly sick when
they pulled him out.
Khruns hauled his man a little out
of the water where he would not
drown, and began to call for ropes or
a ladder. They were long time COM
ing. but rope was finally tied around
the drunken man S shoulders and h.
was hauled out As Khruns came
over the side,' the soldier recovered
a speck of consciousness and struck his
savior a well-aimed blow on the point
Of the chm. Khruns went nome to
speculate on the fruitlessness of human
kindness and they took the soldier to
the hospital.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-27
EAST IN GRIP
Of GREAT
STORM
FALL OF SNOW STOPS TRAFFIC
Gale Drives the Sea Into Cities
= Streets-Suffering and
Death Reported.
(By Associated Press.)

PHILADELPHIA, December 81
The worst storm for years is raging
along the Atlantic coast. In this city
the snow ha S fallen twenty-five inches
deep on the level and it has drifted
in places to height of ten feet.
Railroad service is disrupted and
trains throughout the country are
stalled.
Three persons are known to have
died here yesterday as a result Of ex'
posure to the cold.
Boston SEfers
BOSTON, December PA disas
trous storm is raging throughout the
New England States, this city seeming
TO be the storm center.
Yesterday the tide, driven by the
gale, reached the highest point on rec
ora here, the inrushing waters being
driven across the docks and on to the
lowIying streets along the waterfront
Three persons have been drowned.
The electric wires are down and the
railroads are blocked.
Millions of dollars worth of prop
erty has been damaged.
Many towns and cities along tht
coast are in darkness, the lighting sys
tenn being rendered useless through
broken poles and tangled wires.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-27
EXHIBIT BACK
FROM SEATTLE

"In future no exhibition or fair of
ticials viii rest content until they have
procured from Hawaii a truly laval
ian exhibit, for an exhibit from these
i, Islands will always appeal to the fair
visiting public declared Lloyd Childs,
in charge of the Hawaiian exhibit at
the Seattle exposition, who returned to
Honolulu on Christmas Day aboard the
army transport Dix. The exhibit is
aboard the transport, and will be un-
loaded today and stored in the base
ment of the promotion committee rooms
until the chamber of commerce can ar
range for a permanent exhibit. with
the Seattle exhibit as a nucleus.
Mr.. Childs states that the fair was
the most successful little fair that has
ever been held, both artisticaliy and
financially. The management gained a
degree Of praise for the treatment Of
the fair patrons, and throughout it was
a revelation TO oIdtimers in 'iae exposi-
fion business. So far ~the Hawaiian
exhibit is concerned, Mr.. Childs says he
was told by conservative people that
it was the best feature of the entire
fair. The pineapple feature was the
greatest individual hit of the exposi-
ton.
Visitors arriving at the fair grounds
inquired. 'tWhere are they serving
pineapples? and exposition guards
told Mr.. Childs that no other question
Continued on Page SIX
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-27
HERE TO MEET LINK.

Thomas J. Ryan, the Democratic
leader in the County of Hawaii, ar
rived from Hifo on Saturday morning
by the Mauna Kea, accompanied by
his typewriter and package that look.
ed suspieiously like the books that Ryan
laid before the congressman when they
met the people of Hilo in mass meet
ing.
1t is significant that the Democratic
candidate for delegate. L. l.. MeCand
less, will also arrive here this morning
and one of the Democratic leaders IN
town gave The Advertiser a hint that
Ryan had come purposely to confer
with MeCandless aud give him an en-.
couraging report on the party's chances
on the Big Island next year.
Ryan will naturally have something
to say on land matters and will assure
his leader that the Democrats of Ha
wai and nearly half the Republicans
are opposed 10 the amendments to the
Organic Act as passed by the legisla
ture in special session.