Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05
MOLINE
Attorney Generals opinion.-C. F.

Attorney Generals opinion.-C. F.
Grant, secretary of the civic COM
mission, who has In charge the mat
ter Of securing signers to the petit
tons asking vote on the commits
sion form of government proposition,
yesterday announced the names of
citizens having petitions in circula-
ton. The desire of the committee
is that those who have not been ap-
preached by holder, but desire to
attach their signatures to one of the
papers, make 1t a point to see one
of the following men and sign up
without further delay. William Car
stems, William A. Macbeth, Fred
Sundeen, F. A. Herbst, Alvin Ander-
son, /. Weatherhead, G. s. Trevor,
Max Sklofsky, l.. o. Jahns, E. j.
Reimers, George Watt, G. NJ. Gould
and c.. F. Grant,. The present in
tention is to call in the petitions Nov.
| 90 and file them with the county
| Judge on Nov. 81. Acting for the
committee City Attorney Bell has
written the attorney general asking
that officials opinion on certain
points OF the Illinois commission
form law.
| Automobile and Street Car MIA
| Fourth avenue street car collided
with r. x. Swans automobile yes
terday with the result that the auto
! is at the Velie plant today undergo
| ing repairs. The collision occurred
at the Fourth avenue and Seventh
street curve. Street car and auto
were travelling east. George Cromp-
ton was motorman of the car. To
avoid colliding with a westbound
auto he stopped the car and backed
up. Mr.. Swan was at the side of
the street car and the step crashed
against the radiator. which was
wrecked.
Engineers In Skinner Annex-The |
Deere estate has leased to the Unit
ed States engineers corps two of the
second story Offices located in the
Skinner building and facing on
Third avenue. The Offices will be
occupied this winter by members of
the army engineer force who are
employed in this city in connection
with the governments improvement |
of Moline harbor and the building |
of a wing dam north from Moline |
lock. During the summer the en- |
gineers occupy quarter boats on the
east end river front but each win |
ter it is necessary for them to move |
into the business district. Last win |
ter they occupied quarters in the |
second story rear of DR.. P. H. Wes- |
sells business block on Fifteenth |
street. The Offices to be occupied |
this winter are those formerly used |
by Attorney W. E. Whiteside, while |
one of the rooms was at one time |
used as a telephone exchange. The |
engineers intend to move in about |
Nov. 10 and in the meantime the |
rooms will be reprinted and paper
ed. One of the offices will be used |
by the engineers as a draughting |
room.
Hammerquist Creditors Close Eiec-
trio Store.-Creditors of Sydney Ham
merquist, proprietor OF the Electric
Construction company, have closed
the store and may appoint a receiver
to take care OF the stock. Mr.. Ham
merquist requested that this be done,
as he could not meet his obligations
to his creditors. The amount of his
assets and liabilities will not be
known until further action is taken.
Alderman Thomas Burchael is one
of the several creditors.
Uses Gasoline; Badly Burned.-Not
knowing that someone had thrown
a can Of gasoline in the stove he
was about to prepare supper upon,
Russell Gibbs, assistant cook on the
government boat anchored here, ap-
piled a lighted match to the CRATE
Of the range and was badly burned
when the flames shot out of the stove
and enveloped his body. He ran
upon the deck, shouting at the top
of his voice. Several of the men who
had finished early and we're seated
about awaiting the supper call, rush
ed to his assistance and extinguished
the flames. His left arm was badly
burned and he was otherwise hurt
about the hands and face. He was