Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-17
EAST END NOW IN
SALOON WAR,TOO
Property Owners Fight Petition
of Otto Adams for Forty
sixth Street Permit.
Is Renewal OF REQUEST
Had Withdrawn First One, but Since
Then There Have Been Realty
Transfers.

Otto Adams has renewed his petit
ton for permit TO conduct saloon
at 604 Forty-sixth street. and it APP
pears he has stirred up hornets nest
among the owners of adjoining proper
ty, giving TO the east end Of the city
a situation similar to that which
has arisen in the west end
as result OF the effort Of
c. W. Kruger to open bar at Sixth
avenue and Second street. IN the lat
ter case the council voted that a Ii
cense issue, but property owners car
ried their protest before Mayor G. W.
NcCaskTin, and he has had a hearing,
taking the evidence of both sides. The
mayor has not yet rendered a decision.
a month ago Mr. Adams asked for a
license TO establish saloon in the
same block in which he is now seeking
to open, but on account of a protest
entered by the congregation of the
Zion Lutheran church located just
around the corner on Seventh avenue,
he withdrew his petition In the in
term there have been several trans
fers in property in the neigh
borhood, and Mr.. Adams has
come forward again in the expectation
that he has obtained the requisite
frontage to legally entitle him to con-
duct a saloon business at the number
mentioned. However, al the meeting
of the city council last night the own
ers of property in the neighborhood
were heard from once more. 1t is
charged in the petition addressed to
the council that the prelminaries en-
ployed by Mr.. Adams did not comply
with the city ordinances that the
majority of property owners within
the required distance of the proposed
site of the saloon were not signers OF
the petition; that the persons who
have signed are not property owners.
The matter was referred to the mar
kets and license committees and the
mayor to report back.
LINNBERG SEEKS MONEY.
A communication from John Linn
berg, executor of the estates of Ed
Linnberg and Emil Linnberg, was read
by the clerk, in which Mr.. Linnberg
asks for payment of two judgments
against the city. One of these is in
behalf of the estate of Edgar LiRnberg,
and is for $500. Judgment was rem
dered in the circuit court March 8, |
1909, in this case, and beside the 81,
500 includes the cost of the case and
interest. In the other case S1.553.12
is the amount of the judgment in favor
of the estate of Emil Linnberg. The
circuit court rendered judgment In
this case, Dec. p, 1910 Il will be re-
membered that Edgar and Emil Linn
berg were drowned July 4, 1902, in the
pond on Thirty-eighth street. The
communication from Mr.. Linnberg was
referred to the finance committee, the
mayor and the city attorney.
An estimate from p. F. Trenken-
schulz was presented by the clerk. one
is for the sewer on Fourteenth ave
nue., from Sixth street to Fifth street,
and amounts to $1,029.55. The other
Is for the Seventh street sewer and
is far S3,41S.5O. The estimate was re-
terred TO the water works and sewer
committees.
BRIDGE CONTRACT STANDS.
Alderman Charles Borst, chairman
Of the committee on bridges, offered a
report embodying an agreement on the I
part of the Clinton Iron and Bridge
works TO comply with the union labor
condition exacted by the mayor in a
message read ar the preceding meet /
ing of the council in which he announc- /
ed that he would withdraw his sigma
ture from the contract with the COM