Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-25

part in swindling John e. Cavanaugh
of this city out of $4,000 on fake
wrestling game is at last in the clut-
ches of the law. 1t says: Postal in
spectors arrested here yesterday horse
swindlers who operated the past few ,
years in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and New (
Orleans, La, securing more than
81, 600 A bogus wrestling promoter
was identified as the New Orleans maa
who victimized an Iowan out of $751;
600 Other victims are coming to idea-
tify the suspect"
To Fatten Chickens.-Davenpor IS
soon to be again the poultry mark It
for the large territory west of here,
with 1000 fat and tender chickens &
week going into a big conditioning
plant here, and as many graduating
from it each week for the Chicago,
eastern and export markets. Articles
of incorporation of the Bell-JoneS COM
pany were filed in County Recorder
Holm's Office yesterday The company
| is capitalized at $4,000. 1t is author
lied to deal in butter. eggs, poultry,
milk, cream. cheese, ice cream and
other dairy products. 1t has leased the
| cid Crescent mill property, formerly
operated by Armour & Co. here as a
chicken assembling and fattening
plant, and will commence business
March l. The officers are: President
and general manager. ]. A. Bell; seq
rotary and treasurer, Nj. V. Jones.
| Plan Street Railway Changes.-The
desire of the Mile Track association
to have the electric lines extended out
to the track this year, and of the peo-
pie out that way for the service, has
resulted in considerable study of the
problem by President Porter and the
| officials of the Tri-City Railway COM
pany. The company has about figured
| out a plan for lettering the service
out there that would make the i'm
| prOvement possible. This would in
GLIDE the breaking of the present loon
and running the Gaines street cars up
to Mercy hospital and back, while the
Marquette street cars could be run up
Washington street to Locust and take
a straight shoot from there to the
| Mile track On such a basis regular
| trips might be extended to the city
| limits. half a mile west of where the
cars now run. and on special occasions
| service could be extended clear to the
| mile track
/ Stole from Coats.-Harold Shelley.
while intoxicated, drifted into the
| bowling alleys at the Turner hall Tues
| day evening, and went through the
coats of a number of the players
| hanging on a rack in an anteroom.
He took a gold watch and s1.30 III
money. The watch was the property
of Phil Sonntag Young Shelley, half
an hour following the theft, was ar
rested on Brady street by Captain
Phelan and Detective Quinn. He still
had the timepiece and the money. Mr..
| Sonntag swOre a warrant charging
Shelley with larceny from building
This would have necessitated the mag
istrate holding him to the grand jury
and doubtless he might have wound IN
in the penitenriary. Under the cir
the young man belongs to highly re.
spected family and had not been IN
any serious trouble previously, the
charge was changed to petty larceny.
He was senteiced to serve a term cf
80 days in the county Jail.
Obituary Record.-Mrs Charlotte
Klos died Tuesday afternoon. She
was 72 years of age. having been born
in Trier, Rhein, Preuscen. Germany, III
1897. She married Christian Klos
there, but he died before she came 20
America in 1890 with her children.
She made her home in Dubuque from
1890 until two years ago, when she
came to Davenport to live with her
son, Matthias. who conducts a confec-