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Evening journal., 1911-05-01
Look Out For csbb,o. FIi,,

Lettuce. radishes and onions will re-
quire careful watching in early spring
to prevent the ravages Of cabbage flies.
They are so small as to easily escape
notice. and the first suspicion of their
presence viii be the disappearance OF
the young plants just as they are nice
ly started. busting literally with SCOT,
wood ashes OF air slaked lime will
prevent their work. but it should be
done as soon as the plants appear
above ground.
Evening journal., 1911-05-01
FertIIIzIna the MuskmeIon.

The New Jersey experiment station
secured an increase in yield Of 115 per
cent by the use Of $50 to 200 pounds
OF nitrate Of soda per acre. Half the
fertilizer was applied at planting time
about the hills and worked into the
soil and the remainder about three
weeks later. Dried blood and sulphate
OF ammonia used in the same manner
were a little less effective, but increas-
ed the yield from 81 TO 81 per cent
Evening journal., 1911-05-01

on cake OF oilmeal in proper quanti-
ties is considered by our best stock
men to be one of the most healthful
foods thar is on the market, states Pro
fessor Humphrey of the University Of
Wisconsin.
Evening journal., 1911-05-01

There should be a good reason
for everything done on the farm,
and things that are unreaeon-
able should not be done. When
ever superstition is banished
and systematic thinking takes
the place Of "noon farming"
farm progress will begin.
Evening journal., 1911-05-01
SrSSEX LAMYERS HERE.

John NJ. Richardson and Charles W.
Cullen, attorneys of Georgetown, are
in Wilmington today attending the
session of the Court of Chancery in
the case of Tull Trustees VS. Hudson.
Evening journal., 1911-05-01
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Reported daily by f. d. Lackey G.
Co.. bankers and brokers, members
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, s43
Market St.
Evening journal., 1911-05-01
WHERE SURGERY FAILS.
Cutting Won't Remove the Cause nj
Piles.

Ilies.
hes mean more than merely the
Raln OF the stubborn little tumors
mere Is a condition inside that must
p pe dealt with. Cutting is usually fol
lowed with later and worse attacks A
permanent cure can only be made NV
peltering the condition OF the narts
s, sno getting a free circulation Of the
hem-koid cures all kinds OF niles
ny internal action right on the cause
Sold by n. B. Danforth and druggist,
everywhere, and money back IL \
daiis 81 per bottle. DR.. Leonhardt
Station B. Buffalo. N. Y.
Evening journal., 1911-05-01

WANTED-RooM AND BOARD WITH
W private family on West Side for Re.
liable man. Address z-1o Evening Journal.
Evening journal., 1911-05-01
THE SCENIC
ROUTE EXCURSION

II you need rest take a Dark trolley up
the beautiful Delaware. New cars fne ser.
vice. Stop on here amidst the green lawns
ana eheltering trees, Where everlasting
spring abides md never dying flowers - We
9ring our loved ones TO their anal home
Lots $40 upward, IS down. Sc monthly.
Lawn Croft Cemetery
Evening journal., 1911-05-01

+ OR sALE-6O7 VAN BURFN ST. All,
modern improvements, owner leaving
city Will sell at sacrifice. Inquire within.
a29-eod-1m
Evening journal., 1911-05-01
UNDERTAKERS
James I. Chandler, V. w Sinth ans 3. 4
Undertaken. TslsDsSns'- TsSsDssSs

MOURNING HATS LOANED FREE
Full line mourning goods always on hand
scHAGRIN'S. SOS Market St.
Telephone call brings hats to home.
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Evening journal., 1911-05-01
Fruit and Produce Quotations.

Quoted daily for THE EVENING
by Thomas N. Stayton:
Evening journal., 1911-05-01
oiImsaI For Live Stock.

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
WOMAN Is DENIED A
DRINK; SHE FIGHTS
Is Fined Together With Her Compan-
ion and the Bartender in the
Saloon.

Adolph Doercher. a bartender, and
Frank Michael and Mabel Murphy
were fined IS and costs each Satur-
day night as the result of their hav-
ing engaged in a fight in a Seven
teenth street saloon. Mabel had
been ordered to keep out OF the
place and when she appeared with
Michael as her friend. the order was
repeated. Doercher found he had a
fight on with Michael, who didn't in
tend to have Mabel insulted by be-
ing refused bar service Mabel got
in the melee, too. before it was over
and was hauled to the police station
with the bartender and her cham
pion. All paid their fines.
Frank Leis was held to the grand
jury Saturday afternoon under $500
bonds on charges of malicious mis-
chief preferred against him by Hat
tie Swanson, 304 Twentyfirst street
Leis kicked in a window and a door
panel of the Swanson resort.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
NORTHERN CLUBS
HOLD A MEETING
Supposed Object to Discuss Settle
ment of Waterloo Controversy
in Three-Eye.

The Rock Island Baseball associa.
ton is represented at meeting of the
northern clubs of the Three-Eye league
being held at the Hotel Davenport
across the river this afternoon. The
obJect,-it is presumed, is to determine
the attitude that this end of the league
will take on the proposition to drop
Waterloo at the league meeting in Chi
cago next Thursday. Jim Hayes, and
Dick Lane of Davenport, Clarence
Rowland of Dubuque, Frank Boyle,
William Ewald and w. F. Birdsall of
Waterloo and H. E. Casteel and NJ. H.
Sexton of Rock Island are among those
present. The meeting is behind closed
doors and no statement of its object
was given out.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23

himself under the new form of gov
eminent, the adoption of which he
opposed from the same platform a
few weeks previous. The mayor be-
gan his talk Saturday night by ex-
planning how men follow different
paths; that it so came to pass, in
the molding of his career, that he
should engage in the public service.
He reviewed his two administrations
as mayor with a view to proving his
claim that he had saved the city
money, while at the same time mare
progress in public improvements had
been made than under other admin
istrations. A general challenge was
issued for a debate, the mayor wish
ing for the opportunity publicly to
defend the record of his administra-
ton as against that of his predeces-
sor, H. c. Schaffer. The mayor d.
rected his challenge to w. A. Rosen-
field, president OF the Rock Island
club; z. B. McKown, president of
the Rock Island Business Mems as
ISOLATION; H. E. Van Duzer, presi-
dent of the Rock Island County Sun
day School association; Rev. W. G.
Oglevee, president of the Rock Island
Ministerial alliance, and H. c.
Schaffer, president of the Rock Is
land Law and Order league. In con-
GLIDING his remarks the mayor
drifted into personalities.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
OFFICER SWITCHED:
QUITS THE SERVICE
c. c. Church Objects to Being Trans
ferred from Business to Res
idence Beat.

c. C. Church, who has been on the
police force as plain clothes man for
nearly two years, quit the service Sat.
urday when Mayor G. w. McCaskrin
in his capacity of chief of police, an
nounced that he had decided to have
Church and Officer Dennis Bennett
change beats. Officer Bennett, who
serves as a plain clothes man part of
the time, is regularly employed as a
patrolman in the residence districts at
night, while Church's beat was in the
business section. Church felt that he
was entitled to remain where he was
and when he found that the change had
been ordered. he resigned at once.
The mayor accepted his resignation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
Female FORCER
TRACED TO CITY
Woman With Supply of Stolen
Postal Money Orders in Pos
session Operates Here.
ONE FOR $50 Is CASHED
Presents Another at Different Sub
station, but Disappears Before
Money Is Paid Over.

Two United States postof1ce inspec
tors arrived in the city Saturday on
the trail of a woman who has been
raising money on forged postal money
orders, having in her possession a por.
ton of a supply stolen Oct. Is, 1910, at
sub-station so in Chicago. At the time
of the robbery of the Chicago sub
station a stamp was taken also This
has been employed successfully by the
forgers in giving official tone to the
orders when they are presented for
payment at the postoffices throughout
the country. II is believed the woman
who was in Rock Island Saturday is
accompanied by a male accomplice.
One of the orders, which was for $50.
she presented at the sub-station in the
McCabe & Co. store Saturday evening,
and il was paid Another order for a
similar amount was rendered at the
sub-statiOn in the Young & McCombs
store. The clerk in the station did not
have $50 in money on hands. and she
requesed that the woman wait until
she went to another part of the store
to make up the needed sum.
GETS NERVOUS; DOESN'T WAIT.
The woman probably grew suspicious
that she was being watched, for she
had disappeared when the clerk re-
turned TO her post in the store
The woman is believed to have left
the city late Saturday night or Sun
day morning. She has been heard from
in several cities where she has cashed
the forged orders. but thus far she has
succeeded in eluding the postal author
tiles
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
MRS. ARTHUR F. suGERMAN.

Mrs. Arthur F. Sugerman died Sat
urday afternoon at O'Clock at the
family residence. SIG Eighth street,
after a brief illness with complication
of diseases. Mrs. Sugerman was a ma
tive of Russia, having been born there.
April 81, 1882. She had resided in this
country for the past five years. Be
sides her husband, she is survived by
four daughters, her mother. Mrs. So
phia Schartzna, of this city, and two
brothers, in Ottumwa, Iowa, and one
in Russia. The funeral was held yes
terday afternoon and burial was in the
Jewish cemetery in Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
TRIAL PROCEEDING
WITH ONE JUROR SHY
Citizen Sitting in the .LOOney-WiI-
merton Controversy Is Called
Out of City.

The trial of the Looney-Wilmer-
ton suit in which the plaintiff claims
that Wilmerton owes him $4,000
for stock in the former Looney pub
LEGATION. was taken up again in the
circuit court today after a recess
lasting since Saturday morning.
Only IL jurors are hearing the evil
dence, the 9th having been excused
from further service because OF urg-
ent business requirements. f. w
Reimers. the juror who was excused,
presented himself to Judge T. T..
Graves this morning and asked TO be
let out OF the case, as II was i'm
perative that he leave the city at
once for several days. The attor-
neys upon learning of this consented
to having the case go on without the
9th juror.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23

because they realized that with the
initiative and referendum, the recall.
and direct nominations they were get
ting look in on this system of city
government, where they could act eff
fectively, wherein on the old style gang
ruled system they did not have a
chance.
I'D like to get back in Kewanee and
get into the fight again. There isn't
an argument against the commission
system that can't be answered and so
effectively that the argument turns out
to be a boomerang against the man
that presented it."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
Personal Points

George Work has returned after q
brief business trip 10 Cleveland. Ohio
Miss Ella Redecker has been
spending several days at Albany, ILL.,,
on a visit.
Mr. and Mrs. John Byrnes have re
turned home after a two months visit
with relatives at Lansing, Mich.
Mrs. A. j. Schmidt and daughter
and Miss Edna Fletcher have gone
TO Houston, Tex, where they will
make their home.
James Montgomery is home from
Sioux City, Iowa, for a visit of several
days with his mother, Mrs. ]. T. Mont
gomery, 931 Twenty-second street.
Charles Montgomery has arrived
home from Sioux City, Iowa, and is
visiting with his mother, Mrs. Anna
Montgomery, 1909 Second avenue.
Mr. and Mrs Henry III and their two
children, former residents of this city,
will return to their home in Canada to-
morrow morning after having visited
here with friends
Miss Eta Repine. who is travel
ing with a concert company, writes
her relatives here that she and her
associates have just left Ferni, Brit
ish Columbia, after having been
storm-bound there a week The
snow was six feet deep and the
drifts % and 80 feet in height 1t
was 30 degrees below zero.
Mrs. Alice c. Nash. one of the audit
ors Of the Royal Neighbors of America,
and who has been in this city from
her home in Minneapolis since Jan. 9,
yesterday was the recipient of congrat-
ulations. the occasion being her birth
day anniversary. Mrs. Nash entertain
ed a number of her friends at an infor-
NAL dinner last evening at the New
Harper.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
SUPPOSED THIEVES
ARE HELD BY POLICE
Frank Kinsey and Matt Wagner
Thought to Have Stolen Silver
ware They Were Selling.

Frank Kinsey and Matt Wagner
were picked up on the street this noon
by Officer John Furlong, who found
them making efforts to sell a SET of
silverware and a silver cake plate.
The officer suspected that they were
not the owners of the goods. They
claimed that the articles had been CIV
en- them by a friend whose name they
could not remember. They had tried
to sell them to three different second
hand dealers. all of whom were suspt
cious and who refused to buy. The
police will make an effort to find out
how the men came into possession of
the silverware.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
FAILS IN PROMISE
TO BURY A FRIEND
Charles l.. Mcdonald Don't Make
Good in Death of FRAZIER. Old
Acquaintance.

This afternoon the remains OF Will
liam p FRAZIER were buried by Under
taker O'Malley at county expense
Charles l. Mcdonald, who appeared at
the undertaking establishment last
week and offered TO pay the funeral ex-
penses, in case the family did nothing,
has proven false alarm. Mcdonald
came over here last Wednesday and
after telling Mr.. O'Malley that he had
known Mr.. FRAZIER in their old home
town OF New Haven, Conn. and that
he had been acquainted with Frahers
wife before her marriage, offered to
pay for a respectable burial for Fra
her
The last time Mcdonald was at the
O'Malley parlors was Friday. He then
stated that business called him to Chi
cago. He has not been seen since. and
Mr.. OMalley this morning proceeded
to the county poormaster and secured
the amount allowed in such cases.
Mcdonald gave his address as 1926
West Sixth street. Davenport. He
said he was married and was engaged
as travelling salesman by the J. F.. Kel-
y NlONCiS company vi
This morning Mr.. O'Malley learned
that McDonalds story about his ad-
dress and vocation was fictitious.
Just what McDonald's object in
promising to bury his boyhood friend
was, is not known. 1t is possible. how
ever. that something has interfered
with his plans and that he will yet re-
turn and make good his promise.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
SAVING TO A CITY
Karl A. Bickel, Former Rock
Islander, Writes of Com
mission Form.
IN GRAND JUNCTION, COL
Trades and Labor Assembly There
Plays Important Part in AdOp-
ton of the Change.

Karl A Bickel, a former Rock Is.
land newspaper man, now located at
Grand Junction. Col, in a letter to E
S Woehr of Kewanee, in reference TO
the practical working of the commits
sion form of government, says:
"One year of the commission system
in Grand Junction reduced taxes (
mills, gave us the best fire department
in western Colorado, started scientific
of 20 years of legal fooling about the
municipal water plant and put it in
shape for construction this spring.
brought US a new sewer district which,
completed not by contractors but by
the water and sewer commissioner.
will cost just half what any other sys-
tenn ever cost us, raised the library
fund and secured one outdoor chill
dren's playground outf1t-and still
taxes were reduced 4 mills over the
last levy made by the last city alder
men.
out here the strongest supporters
OF the commission system are the
union labor men. Three of our five
commissioners carry union labor cards
the mayor, the water and sewer com
missioner. and the health and civic
beauty commissioner are all organized
labor men
NOW HAVE A CHANCE
The people who went down the line
the hardest for the commission system
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
STRANGER HUGS
A GIRL; Is JAILED
Arthur Johnson, Kansas City,
Pleads Drunkenness for
Actions on Street.
SENTENCED TO 20 DAYS
Pursues Girl Upon Her AIighting
From Street Car in Early
Evening.

Jack the Hugger," in the person Of
Arthur Johnson of Kansas City. was
arrested in this city early Saturday
evening and this morning he was con-
victed on charge of assault and sent
to the county Jail for stay of 20 days.
He was arrested after he had grabbed
a young girl and frightened her al
most into Mysteries. The assault took
place on Thirty-first street and Sixth
avenue. A young woman who is EN-
ployed in Molineg was returning TO
her home in this city after having wit
messed a matinee in Moline. She alight-
ed from the street car at Thirty-first
street and started south. Johnson,
who apparently came from the Rock
Island depot, followed behind a short
distance.
TRIES To KISS HER
Just as the girl reached Sixth ave-
nue. she was suddenly grasped from be-
hind by johnson, who held her tight
and tried to kiss her She screamed
and fought with all her might and
managed to escape from him. In run
ming away. however, she slipped on the
her again, but just as he got to her he
tumbled and before he could arise the
girl was half way back to Fifth avenue.
She rushed into one Of the stores there,
crying Historically, and Detective P.
]. Fleming, of the Rock Island road,
who happened to be there, hurried out
after Johnson. The fellow had Just re-
turned to Fifth avenue and he was at
once placed under arrest. He protest
ed that'a mistake had been made, but
the girl positively identified him.
FEIGNs DRUNKENNESS.
At his trial this morning Johnson
pretended that he could not remember
what had happened Saturday. His plea
was that he was drunk The testimony
of the detective on this point was con-
Trajectory, however. When searched
by the police, considerable quantity
of obscene literature and pictures
were found on Johnson, showing that
he was a moral degenerate. Police
Magistrate Smith expressed sorrow
that under the law he could not pun
ish the fellow more severely than send
ing him to jail for 20 days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
ROBBERS BUNCLE
IN A HOLDUP JOB
Three Masked Men Try to Re.
heve Grew and Passenger
of Long View Car.
MOTORMAN BLOCKS GAME
Sees Masks and Revolvers and Puts
on Full Power-Have Exciting
Run Down the Hill.

An attempt to hold up the crew and
a lone passenger on Long View car
No. PSI at late hour Saturday night
failed miserably because the motor
man outgeneraled the motives OF the
robbers in time TO Illustrate their
plans. The incident occurred on Eigh-
teenth avenue at about Twenty-fourth
street, a very lonely spot the like of
which can scarcely be found in the
city. Shortly after 1870 the car, in
charge Of Motorman Elmer Grubs and
Conductor Marshall Laitsch, left the
Thirtieth street terminal of the Long
View line and started for the other
end, where 1t was due At midnight
AS the car neared Twenty-fourth
street the motorman saw three men
standing beside the track apparently
waiting 10 get on the car. Grubs slow
ed down with the intention of stop
ping.
ALL ARE Masked.
AS the car drew near them, the light
fell upon them and Grubs saw that the
face of each was covered with a black
mask and that each was armed with 4
revolver. He Immediately threw on
full power and the car fairly leaped
ahead, going so fast that none Of the
three could get on. However, one of
them managed to get hold OF the troll
ley rope as the car few past, and when
he jerked the trolley off the car was
without power and in darkness, al
though still moving al a lively gait
Grubs called to his conductor and to
the lone passenger to come to the front
of the car, and as soon as II slowed up
SO that they could run faster than it
was going, they got out the front door
and made all possible speed towards
Twentieth street
ROBBERS ARE FOILED.
Arriving there. they continued on
down to the switch at Eleventh avenue
and Seventeenth street, where another
Long View car was awaiting the COM
ing of the deserted car The whole
party then ran up the hill in the car
TO the place where the other car was
lying. There were no signs of the
robbers Apparently they saw they
were foiled and that they had best beat
IL, for they had undoubtedly gone. The
crews changed cars and No. PSI return
ed TO the eastern terminal while the
other car came down town. Conduc-
tor Laitsch had about $50 on his per-
SON belonging to the street car COM
pany and in addition had about $40
mostly in pay checks. The motorman
also had considerable money on his
person. The three masked men were
youngsters and probably novices at the
business
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
Obituary Record
JOHN GILLESPIE.

John Gillespie. an old resident of
Port Byron, died at his home in that
village at p. m yesterday. He was a
native Of Ireland. being born Feb. 10,
1923. He came to America when 16
years OF age and had lived in Port
Byron since 1868. He is survived by
his wife and three sons by a former
marriage, Henry of Joliet; John Of La
Grange. II, and William Of PhiIadeI-
phta- Mr.. Gillespie had been In poor