Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-08

SO, and flne of from S1OO to S2OC
when the amount is less than five.
Thefts ranging between these two
figures are to be punished with street
employment.
VERBAL TILT YESTERDAY.
The session yesterday afternoon
was rather superheated when DR.. AL
fred Stocker and Sheriff o. L. Bruner
were called upon to state their sides
of the case, in regard to DR.. Stocker's
removal from medical services at the
Jail. Dr. Stocker presented a per diem
bill covering the past three months,
and the question came up as to wheth-
er DR.. Souders, who has been attend
ing to the jail prisoners, should be re-
imbursed out of DR.. Suckers pay. The
doctor was called upon for a state
ment, and said: Il have done my duty
to the best Of my ability. On the day
was elected, the sheriff made I'M
complimentary remarks concerning
me, to my face. | want to know
whether am innocent or guilty of the
! charges preferred against me. Every
che is liable to mistakes, but l see no
reason for my removal. | want to get
out entirely if / cannot work in har-
mony with the sheriff, but l do not
want to be disgraced by being thrown
out"
| SHERIFF STATES CASE.
The board then called upon the
sheriff to state why DR.. StocFer had
been removed. Mr.. Bruner said: Doc
tor, | just want to ask you one ques-
ton, which win explain all. Did not
you go to DR.. Foster and ask him to
come to me to see if you could not
get a months vacation to straighten
up? If you say you did not, will
bring DR. Foster here to prove 1t"
DR. Stocker then took the floor and
stated that he had suffered with stom-
ach trouble and did deem a vacation
advisable.
Mr. Bruner said that he would not
let me treat any patients either at
the hospital or the JAIL" said the doc
tor.
COULD NOT BE LOCATED.
In answer to this, the sheriff told Of
the Smith case, where one of the pris-
oners had blood poison. He was taken
to the hospital. He grew worse and
had not been attended by DR.. Stocker
for two days, during which time the
sheriff tried in vain to get the doctor
on the phone Finally the doctor Or
dered the prisoner taken back to the
jail, when the sheriff states that the
patient was in serious condition. The
sheriff then summoned DR.. Souders,
who removed the man to the hospital
again.
Mr.. Bruner continued, 81 finally got
in touch with DIR. Stocker on the phone
and said to him: Doctor, how is the
prisoner to which the doctor replied,
Fine When did you see him last and
dress the wound?' was the question.
Day before yesterday, replied the doc
tor, and so l ordered him sent back
to JAIL But doctor, do you think you
ought to send him from the hospital
yet? He is in awful shape;' to which
the doctor replied in very unbecoming
language, that's none of your - =
business
Il do not want the charge brought
against me Of prisoner losing a leg,
while in my care" said the sheriff,
and that was my reason for getting
another doctor"
At this point one of the supervisors
suggested that the board room was no
place for personalities, and that If the
sheriff and the doctor had any differ.
ences to settle, they should do so out
side by themselves. The matter was
laid over until it should come in its
regular order.
A bill for $3.50 for drugs ordered by
DR.. Souders was allowed.
AID TO FARMERS INSTITUTE.
! J. W. McCulloch spoke to the board