Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-12
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on Eighth street, as result Of the
sudden disappearance Of the wives Of
the two proprietors. The husbands are
minus their wives, and the boarders
are said to be minus several hundred
dollars. One woman is said to have
run away with $1,000 and the other
with 500. Where the women have
gone is a mystery, and the men who
have lost their money are frantic. A
Lithuanian seldom deposits money in
the banks, but turns it over to the
head of the house where he boards.
Proprietors OF the boarding houses on
Eighth street had served as bankers
under this custom. The proprietors'
wives secured the money, according to
stories told to the police, and IT is
thought planned to skip out. One dis
appeared Wednesday night and the
other left Thursday night. No one
known where they have gone. and it
is thought that they had previously
agreed to meet somewhere.
Two Additional Election Preoincts.-
The city council has by ordinance set
Tuesday, April 8, as the date for the
citytownship election, established
polling places, and named Judges and
clerks to serve. There will be II vot-
ing precincts instead of 10 as hereto
fore, new precinct lines being estab-
Hshed by the council to conform with
lines designated by the board Of super
visors which give three precincts IN
each Of three wards-the Fifth, Sixth
and Seventh. The council took action
to submit to a vote Of the people the
proposition Of whether bonds In the
sum of 500, 900 shall be issued to pro-
vide for the erection of a city hall on
city property at the southeast corner
of Fifth avenue and Thirteenth street
If the proposition carries, 100 bonds,
each in the sum Of $1,000, viii be is
sued. The bonds will all be dated Dec |
1, 1910, and will bear interest at the |
rate of per cent. They will be taken |
up by the city over a period of 20 |
years of time, FIVE bonds maturing an |
nually: In meeting In committee Of |
the whole the council decided to adopt |
the suggestion of local union No. 241, |
United States Brotherhood of Carpen- |
tiers and Joiners, regarding additional |
compensation to be asked by the coun-
Gil in consideration of new franchise |
ordinances to the Tri-City Railway
company. The petition of the carpen- |
tiers provides that the railway COM |
pany shall furnish six rides for 25 |
cents, earlier service Sunday morning, |
better owl service on bluff lines. and |
universal transfer system. The spe- |
cial committee to which the railway |
franchises were referred held a meet /
ing after the council had adjourned |
and considered this petition and other |
matters in detail.
Road to Put In crossing.-E. H.
Stafford of Rock Island, an attorney
representing the Rock Island road, |
and ]. NJ. Brown, superintendent, call |
ed in East Moline Thursday for the |
purpose Of comforting with City Attor-
ney A. B. Johnson and Mayor G. F.
johnson regarding the opening of Sew
enteenth street IN East Moline across
the Rock Island tracks and the remov-
ing OF certain switches. Papers of con-
demnation proceedings have been filed |
in the county court by the city attor-
ney, but since the conference between |
the railroad and city officials the open
ing OF the street will be done without |
the aid Of the court. An estimate on |
the cost of the crossings Will be made |
by the Rock Island soon, and the street |
will be opened within a short time. |
Seventeenth street has already been
opened across the c., B. & Q. tracks |
and the D., r. l. & N. W., and after 1t /
crosses the Rock Island 1t will be pos
sible to. drive through on this street. |
An ordinance was recently passed by |
the city council requiring flagmen at /
this crossing as well as at Sevelth |
street, Thirteenth street and Nine
teenth street. A f1agman will. also be |
placed at the crossing on First street |
in East Moline
Council Grants Rights to Deere e.
Co.-Three of the five pending ordin-
ances granting track and tunnel rights
to Deere & Co. were passed by the city
council. Passage OF two OF the ord1n-
ances was deferred, one because the
petitioners did not have a majority of
frontage, the other because
the council desires to go over the site
of the proposed new track. Ordinances
passed provide: Right to construct and
operate tunnel under Third avenue
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets, connecting Easements Of 10
story building to be erected on the
north side of the avenue west of the
main office building, and seven-story
building to be built on the south side
Of the avenue on ground where the
present foundry stands. The city re-
serves the right to close the tunnel
whenever it would interfere with car
rying out improvements In the line of
sewer or water main extensions. 1t is
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