Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-18
MOLINE

Settlement Of Telephone Fight Prob
abIe.-Attorneys for the Central Union
Telephone company have intimated
their desire to settle out of court the
litigation in which they are involved
with the city of Moline. Mayor Oh
son reports that Attorney Mann of
indianapolis, representing the COM
pany, met him last Saturday in Chi
cago and had discussed the COM
pany's standing In this city. Mr..
Mann stated that his company will
have nothing to offer till a report is
received from an engineer now at
work on the Moline situation This
report should be submitted within
| two weeks, when the telephone COM
pany will be prepared to make some
offer to the city of Moline.
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Saloon License Transfer Puzzles
Council. - The agreement entered
into between the Burlington Railway
company and the city of Moline. and
signed by Darius Miller, president of
the company, and Andrew Olson,
mayor of the city, guaranteeing a
$4,000 depot TO Moline within a
year has been filed with city clerk.
The council faces a peculiar situa-
ton as result of one of the properties
which the Burlington Railway COM
pany desires to purchase being sa-
loon property. An agreement was
reached yesterday whereby Jerome
KIeyla agrees to sell his property
on Twenty-third street to the COM
pany, provided the city council will
transfer his saloon license TO cover
some new location-in the same
block If a building can be secured.
The present saloon ordinance limits
the number of saloons In the city.
There are more saloons now than the
ordinance permits, except that pro-
vision was made in the ordinance
that no licenses in force prior to
passage of the ordinance in question
should be repealed. The opinion is
that the present ordinance would
have to be amended before a permit
to do saloon business in another To-
cation could be issued to Mr.. Kleyia,
and after considerable discussion in
a meeting of the committee of the
whole the matter was deferred. The
ordinance passed at the special meet
ing of the council last week granting
to the Burlington Railway company
permission to lay tracks between
Nineteenth and Twenty-third streets
provides that two tracks may be laid.
one on either side of Mr.. Kleyl' IS
present property. The option on
quarter of a block of ground on
Twentieth street, lying north of the
Burlington right of way, and south
of the alley. was exercised yesterday,
the railway company paying the Mo-
line Tool company $4,000 for the
property.
City Contributes $1,000. - Improve
ment of the Seventh street road from
Eighteenth avenue south to Rock riv-
er bottom road with macadam is as
sured as result of action taken by
the city council. The city will con-
tribute $1,000 toward cost of the i'm
provement payment to be made when
the work is completed. Money to
macadamize the road was raised last
fall by subscription and the work
Neo ~ nave DSCh SIdItSu dI tAdI t1uuS
Cold weather necessitated a post
ponement till this spring. The ter
ritory through which the road passes
was outside the city limits at the
time; a considerable stretch of it is
now within the city limits and any
improvement made must be accord
ing to established grade. AS result
of additional cutting which is neces-
sary the expense of the improvement
will be about s1,244 more than was
estimated last fall.
Obituary Record.--A number of Mo-
line people attended the funeral SER
vice for Mrs. Frank Denhardt, held
Monday afternoon from the family
home one-quarter of a mile east of
Barstow. DR.. w. H. Blanche of Dav-
export officiated. Burial was in |
Hampton cemetery.
Andrew Sorting died yesterday at |
the city hospital of rheumatism and |
a nervous breakdown. He was born |
in Sweden, March z. 1858; came to |
America in 1880. The year follow
ing he settled in this city. He was
employed for years as a grocery |
clerk. He leaves his mother in Swe-
den and his brother. Axel Sorting of |
this city. The funeral service Thurs
day afternoon will be private.