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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-03
For Sale-A Fine Country Hnde
Inside City Limits Of Mo-
line Can Be Had ct :
d BARGAIN.

Az acres Of land with lar, 8 room.
house. closets. hot water heat, bath,s
gas. good brick basement, laundryo
tubs. cement floor, city water, also a.
good $50 fl. drilled well, two good
barns, beautiful shade trees, nice ever
green hedge fence, fine orchard of la
trees, street paved, 219 #. frontage on
18th St, two blocks north of Prospect
Park car line on 18th st. Mrs. d. E..
Heck, 2S42 Fifteenth st. Phone East
1572-K.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-03
FUNERAL OF w. A. GUTHRIE.

The funeral services of the late
w. A. Guthrie we're held yesterday
morning at 10 o'clock at the home.
Rev. Otis Dale was in charge of the
services and those who acted as pail.
bearers were Henry Lemburg, George
Anthony, Thomas Carney, Preston
Green, Jasper Sievers and ]. H. Lid
ders. Interment was made in Chit,
piannock cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-03
OLD-TIME HOTEL
TO Be REFITTED
IN-FINEfASHION
Sum Of $4,000 to Be Expend-
ed on Interior Changes
for Rock Island House.
COMPANY IS ORGANIZED
Takes 10 Year Lease on Property from
William Negus-cafe and Grill
Are to Be Added.

Announcement is made today that
the sum Of $4,000 IS to be expended
on the Rock Island house for the pur.
pose OF making il one OF the most com,
piete hostelries il the tri-cities. The
Rock Island House Hotel company,
incorporated, has closed a 10 year
lease with William o. Negus for the
property. TIE articles of Incorporation
have already been fled at Springfield
ard the papers are expected here
within the next week or ten days.
The Harper Hotel has had the lease
for the past three years.
FORM COMPANY.
The new company which has been
formed to operate the hotel, is con-
posed Of LEGAL men who have every
qualification for the successful hand!-
ing of the proposition. ]. A. Waddell
is president and manager; Ii. G. Luch-
mann, vice president and Bert Zim-
mer, secretary and treasurer. In Mr..
Waddell, the company has an expe7-
fenced hotel man who knows the ms
and outs of the game and who is sure
to be popular with the travelling pub
lie.
SPEND BIG SUN.
The big sum Of money which
Is to be spent in remodeling
and refurnishing the hotel will
make il thoroughly modern and up-tO-
date in every particular. Fifty thous-
and dollars will be used in the work,
the company and Mr.. Negus equally
sharing the expense. The entire no
tel is to be newly furnished
There are TO be 80 rooms with hot
and cold running water in each, along
with telephone and electric lights, the
fixtures all being new. A new vacuum
heating system is to be installed
The rooms are TO be furnished as fol
lows: red carpet, green paper, old
ivory woodwork, brass metal beds.
writing desk of mahogany and dresses
of golden oak. The sample rooms are
10 be separated with folding doors
so that they may be made into one
large room. The ladies' parlor will be
on the second floor and large public
bath and toilet will be installed on
zach floor in addition to private
baths.
NEW FEATURES.
= number Of special features are to
be added to the hotel. The cafe is tc
be finished in Mission style, with
fumed Flemish oak, beemed ceiling
and panoled walls. The new manage
ment is TO pay special attention to
the cuisine and promises to make it
worthy of generous patronage. The
grill, adjoining the main cafe is to
be spacious room, with a seating
capacity Of 40, to be finished in six.
teenth century T1orentine style, with
sky lights and windows Of art glass.
The kitchen is 10 be remodeled and
equipped with latest modern devices
ges ranges, steam and service tables
and refrigerators. The bar will be re.
decorated and remodeled, with new
fixtures and in the basement is to be
Il store room, 4Ox100.
MAY CHANGE ENTRANCE
The lobby of the hotel will occupy
the main floor on the southeast cor
ner. The entrance may be located a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-03
WHO VAST MADE
REPAIRS ON ROCK
RIVER BRIDGES?
Holes in Decks Patched During
Night by Couple of Mys-
terious Strangers.
OWNERSHIP IS INVOLVED
Both County and City Authorities On
willing to Admit Accepting eas
Responsibility. 7ob

Who repaired the Rock river
bridges?
Upon the answer to that question
hinges the ownership of the structures
that the city of Rock Island has gerf
erously presented to the county and
the county has magnanimously de-
clined to accept.
For some few weeks the decks of
two of the bridges have been in need
of repairs. Holes had been worn and
in several instances planks had be-
come loosened. Finally, within o
week, affairs reached such pass that
whole planks we're slipping out and
dropping into the river. People cross
ing the structures attempted tempor-
airy repairs and expressed their opinr
ion of those responsible for conditions.
Still city and county continued to do
the Alphonso and CASTOR act. 10
Tuesday evening there were halffa
dozen planks missing from the north
! bridge alone, leaving as many open
ings through any one of which the
body of man could have easily
| slipped into the river or a horse could
have stepped and broken @ leg. Some
thing had to be done or there almost
certainly would have been loss OF
| life or limb with resulting damage
suits in which both city and county
would have been made defendant.
PATCHED IN THE NIGHT. u
About o'clock Tuesday evening" e.
| rig containing two men with a LAM
tern, planks and spikes quietly ap-
| peared on the scene and when morn
ing dawned the holes all had been
patched and impending disasters
averted for the time being ESQ
While the two men were at work
they are said to have exercised some
pains to conceal their identity. No
body connected with the city or county
affairs has since been found who will
admit that they had anything to do
with making the repairs, for that
would be equivalent to an acknowl-
edgement of responsibility for the
care of the bridges.
At the last session of the Illinois
Legislature bill was passed to enahia
cities to turn over to the counties in
which they are located highways and
bridges which the municipalities have
been maintaining outside of the city
limits. This act aimed to make ac-
ceptance by the county mandatory
upon tender, accompanied by certif.
cate of good condition signed by mem.
bers of the state highway commits.
sion.
ARE TWICE REFUSED.
l The city lost no time in making the
J tender, but the county board declined
t acceptance, first on the ground that
3 not all the members of the highway
commission had signed the certificate.
= At a subsequent meeting. when the re-
Y naming signatures had been seeured.
l the board again declined on the groLnd
5 that the bridges were not in as good
3 condition as they were asserted to be
5 Now the city claims to have met
1 every requirement of the law, and in
4 sists that the county is responsible
: for the maintenance of the bridges
/ while the county declines absolutely
TO have anything to do with the struc
Y lures. 1t looks as if the issue might
S remain unsettled TIL something oc
ours to throw it into the courts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-03
FUNERAL OF MRS. W. II. JORDAN.

The funeral of Mrs. w. H. Jordan
was held this afternoon at 4 O'Clock
at the home, 1925 Fourth avenue. Rev
Vance, pastor of the United Presbyter-
ian church. was in charge of the serv-
ices at the home and the ladies of
the Eastern Star, of which she was
a member, conducted ritualistic sery-
fees at the grave. Interment was
made in Cbippiannock cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-03
e. EVEN APPLiCAMTS
TAKE Office TEST

Eleven applicants for ihe position
as skilled office laborerf at the Rock
Island arsenal took III reaufred ex.
amination yesterday ornine AZ the
arsenal Nine of tie contestants
were young ladies and two were Young
men. It WI be atflesst one month
before the results OF The examfnatiou
are made public
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-03
FUNERAL OF JOHN kEawrS

The funeral Of John Kerwin was
held this morning at the Holy Family
church at Davenport. Father Enright
was in charge of the services and in
terment was made in Calvary GENE
terry, Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-03

New Observation-Disclosures confer
ences devoted to discussion of papers
on various details Of Catholic educa-
ton were continued Wednesday by the
200 members o. the National Educa-
tional association in convention here.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-03
Masons Meet.

There will be a meeting Of Trio
lodge No, 81. A F. and A. II at the
new N5Asonic Temple on Eighteenth
streI<this evening at 1880.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-03

Among those who presented papers
was Rev Daniel J. McHugh, De- Paul
university, Chicago; Rt. Rev. T. j.
Shahan OF Washington, D. c.. presl.
den: general, and all other general of.
ficers of the association were/ re.
elected.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-10
YOUNG r
IN HOBO ROLE
GOVERNORS son AND COMPAN.
ION START TO BEAT THEIR
WAY TO PACIFIC COAST
ON So CASH.

Rapid City, S. D.-4Francis Byrne,
son of Governor Byrne and Ben
.Gautz, son of Jacob S. Gautz, clerk of
courts for Pennington county have
started on a novel outing to the Pa
cific coast. Both of the young men
left Wednesday evening as blind
baggage" on an outgoing Northwest
ern freight train. Young Gantz who
is a Harvard junior has as a chum at
the Cambridge university Roger Du
Pont who created a sensation by TAX
ing up the life of a tramp. In im-
pitation of his exploits the two South
Dakota youths have set out looking
for fun and adventure.
Each possessed a IS bill when they
left this city. With this sum as a
cash start they expect to work their
way to the coast aking in he Vel
lowstone park, Glacial PARK and
other points of interest. They expect
to pick up a few stroy ducats writing
stories for newspapers of their ex-
%periences.
Arriving at the coast the plan for
further travel includes shipping eth
err in the United States navy or with
one of the trans-Pacific lines.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-10
THE WHEAT GAMBLE.

Redfield JOurnal-Observer: In a
way; such a year as this will prove
a. blessing, just as it did in 1911. 1T
simply is added proof that gambling
with a crop Of wheat year in and
year out is gambling against bigger
odds than the average man can af-
ford to take and dire necessity will
prove beyond any question OF a
doubt that we cannot gamble longer
on wheat if we wish to preserve our
soil and make this a profitable coun-
try in which to live.
If 1913 will convince us that we
must raise corn, cattle and hogs to
be able to live, then 1913 has by no
means been a. failure. We will have
D temporary set back, Of course, but
I'VE will pull through some way, just
ns' we did in 1911, and be better
FOR the struggle in years to come.
The time will arrive when even the
iriest Of years will cause very little
alarm. We may lose our %"velvet"
represented in the future by small
acreages of small grain, but we VIII
still POSSESS "a good steady income
from u stock that will feed and
clothe us and keep us on the road
to prosperity. But before that time
cam arrive we must to stake
otfr little all on a bumper crop OF
wheat. And that day is approaching
right now: Even this year there is
from eight to- ten per cent more acre
age planted to corn than last year.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-10
KlMBALL NEWS

Kimball, S. D.-The city is at work
machinery at the artesian we'll in
stalling a new cylinder and taking out
the old rusted casing and putting in
new and after the mud or clay is re-
moved from the bottom it is expected
kimbalI's water supply will be just
as fine Us it ever was in years gone
by.
G.. IL. Piummer, a farmer Kimball
citizen lied recently in Milwaukee g,
Wis. A few years ago Mr.. Plummer,
went to Canada and built Il fine ho-
tel. A township in the northeast
portion of this county bears his name
which for the past few years has been
IL of the best crop producing local
tiles of Brule county.
The Brule County Telephone com
pany has been ordered by the city
council to remove its telephone poles
and wires from Main street and place
them in the alleys and at the present
time has an expert from Minneapolis,
A. Dienhart, who expects to do the
work and furnish the specifications.
In making the transfer of the poles
and wires to the alleys the company
will also remodel it's system from be-
ginning to end and in making the
change each phone will have two
wires to central so when a customer
is using the phone he will hear nc
one else talking thus giving the pa
irons much more efficient service.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-10
GRAIN BETTER
THAN THOUGHT
LATER REPORTS FROM NORTH
ERN PART OF STATE INDl-
CATE HALF TO AVERAGE
CROP OF WHEAT.

Aberdeen. S. D.-Later reports
from the farms do not indicate that
crops in the northern part OF South
Dakota were so badly damaged by
the warm weather OF the middle OF
June as was at first reported. Timely
rains thoroughly soaked the ground
and the small grain developed great
er recuperative power than had been
anticipated. The reports from sec
on the Milwaukee road in the
the Missouri river show average
small grain crops east of Milbank
and on all the branches west of Up
switch and north on the Edgeley and
Linten lines. Between Marvin and
Ipswich the prospects Indicate at
least a so per N crop. South OF
Wolsey, the reports indicate a good
crop. West of the Missouri river in
the homestead country, h crops are
excellent, and hat section of the
state could not we'll be in better
shape.
Rain fell over the entire northern
portion OF the state within the past
| three days, the precipitation ranging
from .25 inch to > inches, in different
sections.
An encouraging feature of the stu
| alton is the fact that the acreage
| planted to corn in South Dakota is
| much larger this year than eve be-
fore, and corr is in fine condition;
| also, nearly every farmer has some
| alfalfa on his place, if he is a farm
owner. and alfalfa is doing s%plendidly
all over the state.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-10

wv FARM pROFITS.

Watertown Public Opinion: The
ultimate story hat attrects the inter
est OF the progressive farmer is the
one written at the market where the
products of the farm are turned into
cold cash. Hence the achievement of
II. j. Hansen OF Platte, S. d., on the
Sioux City live stock market the 9th
|er day should rivet the attention of
every South Dakota farmer. Briefly
1t reads like this:
Mr.. Hanson sold eighty-five fat
steers for over $10, 900 in cash. Each
steers brought about $125.00. The
farmer estimates that his profit,
over and above the gross cost of
raising and feeding those steers,
was 100 per cent.
The ordinary business mar is con
sidered very successful if he makes
a net profit of 10 per cent. on his
gross investment. Even a banker has
no complaint if the dividends on his
stock show a 10 per cent. return.
Scores Of capitalists are happy to
reap a reward of net 6 per cent. IN
their money.
But here is a South Dakota farm
cI, applying iuOdtiH iiCtioic, va
ing stock and utilizing to the best
advantage the feeding crops raised
on his broad acres. merrily moving
onto the market with his finished
product and coming home with a
profit of 100 per cent. 1t looks as
though farming in South Dakota,
when conducted as a business, has
most other lines of business out
Iclassed.
1t Is probably true that all farm
crs will not realize the success of
Mr.. Hanson, but If they do not, they
are not up to Mr.. H%anson's standard
OF scientific management. Literally,
they do not know their business as
he does. Brains and energy applied
as this man has applied them will
bring Just such results as he attains.
Luck in farming is reduced to the
minimum; the law OF cause and eff
feet governs, and the farmer who
knows how, and reduces chances to
scientific certainties, is the farmer
who is going to make 100 per cent.
profit.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-10
$50, 900 SPENT
ON FAIR GROUNDS
THIS AMOUNT OF IMPROVE.
MENTS MADE THIS YEAR FOR
THE SOUTH DAKOTA EN-
POSITION.

Huron, S. Dover sixty thousand
dollars worth of improvements are
being made on the State Fair
grounds on new buildings, fences,
additions and repairs. The new
machinery hall is a magnificent fire.
proof structure with two hundred
foot frontage and one hundred
eighty-tive feet deep. The thirty
seven thousand feet of floor space
will hold a vast collection of farm
machinery of still nature.
The new dairy building is on
structed of brick and contains nearly
fo~rty-seven hundred feet of floor
space. A huge all glass refrigerator
and other appliances will be INSTALL
ed to adequately handle all kinds OF
dairy products on exhibitions.
Other important additions include
a press building for the newspaper
fraternity, t~reasurer's office, admin
istration building for the State Board
of Agriculture, concession building,
SECRETARY office, and additional rest
rooms and porches on the woman's
building.
Two miles of new park and pad
dock woven wire fence on steel posts
have been placed around the grounds.
The trees and other natural features
are improving each year. Thirty
eight hundred feet of four-inch wat
err mains have been added to the al
ready excellent water system, all CON
nected with the Huron city water
works.
Grand Fireworks Spectacle at the
State Fair.
Five thousand dollars worth of
fireworks will be used by the Pain
fireworks company of American each
night of the State Fair in scores of
beautiful pyratechnic effects. This
is by far the most costly attraction
aver engaged by any State Fair in
the country, and may be obtained
only by eXpositions of established
Importance. This grand display
will be given in addition to and in
connections with Pains thrilling pro-
duction of South Dakota Pioneer
Days and Clusters Last Conflict"
This wonderful historic pageant is
being adapted especially to South
Dakota conditions for the fair, and
requires the acting of over two hun
dred persons, Indians, natural seen
cry, horses, etc.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-10
MEETING
rs TO BE HELD
SOCIAL MEETING AS PLANNED
WILL BE ONE OF THE BEST
OF THE PROSPER TOWN
SHIP FARMERS CLUB.

The banner meeting OF the Pros
per Township Farmers club is to be
held Friday evening July il at Miller
Bros. Without doubt this is going to
be the largest meeting that this or
ganization has held up to date.
The meeting as planned will be
largely social. The club is strongly in
ncculated with the all-get-together-
1t is hoped
that the meeting Friday evening will
be the time when all the people of the
township and the surrounding vicin-
ity will meet together and spend the
time in becoming better acquainted
1t is seldom that the people of a
township ever get together at n
common meeting place as it is usually
found that organizations have to do
with only a part of the people OF the
community. In this respect the Farm
er's club is entirely different for ev-
cry citizen of the community is ap-
Ipealed to and has equal standing with
every other member of the commun-
ity.
There is a great need also for wider
and better social advantages in the
country. The country people fail to
know each other as they should in
order to be of the most efficient aid
to the common welfare of all. A re-
cent investigation carried on in one
of the largest colleges in the country
among the large percentage of Its
students who had left the farm not to
return, shows that the lack of social
opportunities in the country is the
reason why many of the young people
leave the farm never to return to ii
again. Such meetings as Prosper
lans for Friday evening will do much
to remove this obstacle to the bes'
development of the rural districts
say Prosper boosters.
The club also offers "a hearty wei
come to all land owners who OWL
land in the community, but are mo-
residents and can fin dit possible tt
l'attend the meeting Friday evening
1.-THE club wishes to be the medium
Through which all the forces OF the
township may find a working basi!
sfor the betterment of the community
The club will furnish the ice cream
land cake will be provided by the wo
men of the community.
DIR. Il. l.. Harris of the u%niversit,
will give a short talk and a gooe
social evening will be enjoyed by al
present. The club extends a heart,
welcome to everybody in the vicinit,
to attend the meeting.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-10
INDIANS VOTE AGAINST
REMOVAL OF AGENCY

Pierre. $. D.-The Cheyenne River
Indians by'a decided majority voted
against the moving of the agency
from it's present location Oh the Mis-
souri, river to one of the railway
towns farther west. The argument of
the reds was that on the Missouri
they could always be certain of fuel
and water at their camping places;
and the further one that the pre-
sent agency wigs built with their
money, and that If a change is made
1t would take more OF. their money
to- make the change, and the benefit
would be more for the town at which
the new agency would be located,
than, for the, Indians themselves, and
the vote against tho change was three
to m
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-10
KIMBALL is TO HAVE
NEW WELL FOR CITY

Kimball, S. D.-A meeting of the
business men was called to order at
the city hall at II a. m. today to dis
the artesian we'll topic ana ge,
the feeling of the business men rela-
tive to the sinking of a new we'll and
where the same would be located. 1t
decided by vote to leave the
matter with the city council and they
are to use their discretion relative to
the proposition. The present we'll is
in d bad condition of affairs and the
councilmen were north of the Mil
waukee railroad tracks Saturday
looking over the ground for n loca-
ton to sink the we'll and place
a new stand pipe to furnish the
city ample water for all homes and
fire protection and it is expected the
new we'll will go down in the course
of a week or TEN days ~tS
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-10
TWO FATALLY
SHOT IN ROW
-FOUR WOUNDED IN FIGHT Be
TWEEN SECTION MEN AND
CIRCUS EMPLOYEES AT
ANDONER.

Aberdeen, S. D.-Two mel are re-
ported dying, another for whose re
covery no hope is held and another
badly bruised as the result of a battle
at Andover, between laborers of a
railroad construction camp and en-
playes or followers of Coles circus
yesterday afternoon.
The injured men are:
Ed. Oakley, shot in the back, sac
run at base of spinal column shatter-
ed and the bullet lodged in the muse
les of the inside of the hip. Bullet not
found. Now at st. Luke's hospital and
cannot live. Circus r%oustabout.
d. Jeffers, shot through the right
lung and bullet imbedded in right
shoulder under shoulder blade. bul-
let not removed on account of mans
condition. 1t is believed that he can
not recover. Member of circus crew.
Now at st. Luke's.
Unknown man shot in intestineS as
he was STOPPING over and SO seriously
injured that he could not be taken
from train to hospital on arrival in
Aberdeen. Returned to Andover. Nc
hope. Member of circus crew.
II imam SUI ~ P'' ''NA
with crowbar and badly bruised pu'
not critically hurt. Is at Andover.
Also member of circus.
The conflict arose over the charge
the railroad workmen made thai
some of the circus gang had taker
a suit case from their clubhouse
Evidently this was like a red rag to
d bull for the circus men rallied theil
forces and after the performance o
the afternoon made a raid Upon the
shanty where some of the men were
gathered for supper.
AS the attacking party appeared
the section men fled within thei,
house and when the door was as
sailed one of their number began
firing through the door from a re
yolver.
According to reports he then threw
open the door and as the assailant
reached for stones and other nipple
ments of attack, continued his fir
upon them.
Then he fled and had not been ap
pretended at midnight.