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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-05
CELEBRATION IN
THE.PEST HOUSE
Davenport Smallpox Patient
Breaks Quarantine and Starts
for Rock Island.

The Rock Island police were notified
last evening by the Davenport police
to be on the lookout for a Davenport
er afflicted with light case of small
pox, who had broken quarantine, flee
ing from the isolation hospital in that
city. IL seems that some of the pa
tents had secured some wet goods"
and enjoyed n pink tea" The man
in question decided he wanted to visit
his sweetheart. who lives in Rock Is
land and left the hospital for this
point. However. the police here re-
ceived word shortly afterward that
the fugitive had been apprehended be-
fore crossing the river.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-05
MANDAMUS WRIT
PETITIONED FOR
Coal Valley Drys Attempt to
Force Town Clerk to Put
Question on Ballot.

Petition for writ of mandamus was
]. 7. & S. r. Kenworthy, representing
Clyde Lee, Albert Johnson and Albert
Blazer against Robert McGimpsey.
town clerk of Coal Valley, to compel
that official to show cause why the
petition of the "drys" of that locality
was not honored and the local option
question put on the ballot
The petition declares that although
the petition was signed by AZ legal vot-
ers of that locality, more than the %
per cent. of the vote cast at the last
general election, the town clerk re-
fuses to put the saloon issue on the
ballot for the approaching township
election.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-05
DIRECTORS ARE
TO MEET HERE
School Officers of the County
VIII Hear State Superin-
tendent March 81.

Francis G. Blair. state superintend.
ent OF public instruction, will address
meeting OF school directors of Rock
Island county in this city March 81,
according to an announcement made
by Miss Lou Harris. county superin-
tendent OF schools. today. With Mr..
Blair. w. II. Wittenberg. employed in
the statistical department of the Of
fees at Springfield, will speak.
General Schools will be the sub
ject of Mr.. Blair's address. Mr.. Wit
tenberg. in addition to giving statis-
tics. will offer legal advice relative to
school operation. The meeting is TO
be exclusively for school directors.
The mothers club idea is taking
shape, Miss Harris says. and three
new clubs are to be organized. March
6. district No. 10 at Hillsdale will or
ganize. District No. Q at Port Byron
will form a club March Il, and district
No. 1O1 is to organize March 10.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-05
DAVENPORT WOMAN
is HELD FOR THEFT

Mrs. Adele Boettger of Davenport
charged with larceny was apprehend-
ed in Ottumwa and will be brought to
Davenport tonight. Mrs. Boettger had
been employed as domestic at the
home of \. Wiley, 612 Brady street
Several days ago she suddenly disap-
peared taking with her about 5000
worth of furs, jewelry and silks, it is
alleged.
p. NJ. Perry, charged with forging
a check for $1s.75 and using the name
of a. A. Westlund, was also located
in Ottumwa yesterday and was
brought back to Davenport this morn
ing. Perry was bound over to the
grand jury and sent to jail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-05
WILSON SPEAKER
AT CLUB LUNCH
Authority on Birds Talks Inter
estingly of Their Charac-
teriStics.

B. W. Wilson, local authority on
weekly luncheon at the Rock Island
club this noon. His hearers learned
much that is of interest and value.
Habits of birds, characteristics of diff
ferent varieties and the manner in
which they are of use to man were
discussed. An urgent appeal for CO.
operation in protecting our feathered
friends was made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-05
COURT RULES OUT
CONFESSION MADE
TO THE OFFICERS
,vdee olmsted Refuses to Ad-
init waugh's Statement in
Tires Case.
INDUCEMENTS WERE MADE
p-t.n,. Claims Police Promised I'm
munity. Which InvaIidstes 1t
Was Not Voluntary.

me defense in the cases of J. j.
coonev. Randolph Waugh and Ray Nc
c-.,b. on trial in circuit court for the
,ha,t O. automobile tires from the ma
chimes OF p. II. Lorenz and Leon Mitch
All on Nov. last. the night OF the
srsoessel murder. scored heavily this
--orniug when Judge r. w Olmsted
-stused TO admit the Introduction OF
,ha alleged confession Of Randolph
w.,gh who is said to have admitted
the guilt Of the trio 90 police officers.
Ubeu Detective Tom Cox was call
"A n the stand yesterday afternoon
M the prosecution. for the purpose OF
,estifving relative TO the confession,
the defense objected. The jury was
excused while the witness was eN-
.1fued. The defense tried TO show
that the statement OF Waugh was not
free and voluntary. as required by law.
but that the officers secured the con-
tsssion by holding out promises OF i'm
uunity. Detective Cox admitted that
he said 10 Waugh i viii try to take
care Of you" and Il will make the
punishment as light as possible
While Officer Ginnane said he gave
the defendant a cigar and while he
was enjoying the fragrant fumes OF
The same he told Waugh, the others
have confessed. What's the use OF
you being the fall guy? We will take
care Of you IL you tell the truth"
The defense held that the state
ments Of the officers were sufficient TO
invalidate the confession and Judge
Olms5ed took the point under advise
ment and this morning ruled that the
confession cor.d not be admitted as
evidence
Witness Disappears.
Clyde Ruggenburg, taxi cab driver
who is alleged to have taken the trio
TO Moline after the theft, an important
witness for the defense. although sub
poenaed. did not report in court yes
terday afternoon and States Attorney
Thompson asked that a bench war
rant for his arrest be issued. Judge
0lmsted ordered the same and al |
though dilieent efforts were made by
oficers TO locate Ruggenburg last
evening, he could no. be found until |
this morning when he was brought /
into court Judge OImsted reprimand- |
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-05
Police Deny Makinq Arrest.

Thomas Rule was arrested in the
lobby of the Safety building late yes
terday afternoon. A number of those
in the building witnessed the
arrest but did not understand what
charge had been preferred. The po-
lice today denied any knowledge of the
case.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-05

Paid to L. NJ. Magill and assistants
MT of this states attorneys funds:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-05

demand among the builders of our
county for crushed rock and that we
are now entering upon a period of
good roads building, in which crushed
rock may be used to a great advant-
age. and
whereas, we have located near the
cities of Rock Island and Moline. and
the county Jail. many quarries for the
best rock for concrete purposes and
the building of highways may be OBJ
tanned, and
Whered'. il Is entirely feasible for
the county o: :iock Island tc purchase
sil.:'i lands underlaid with an album
dance of lime stone which could be
easily quarried and crushed for COM
mercial purposes,
Therefore, be it resolved by the
Board of Supervisors of the County
of Rock Island and State of Illinois.
that a committee of five, one who shall
be the chairman of this board, be ap-
pointed by the chairman of the board
TO investigate tn" question, and re-
port to the next meeting of this
board, as to whether it would be
feasible for the County of Rock Is
with lime stone that will make a good
quarry and erect thereon a stone
crusher and the necessary machinery
for the operating of a stone quarry
in the crushing of stone and also for
the erection thereon of proper house
for the housing and caring for such
county prisoners as MAJ be commit
ted to work in the quarry so pur-
chased.
Report on Infirmary.
The infirmary committee made the
following report on the infirmary
which was found 20 be in excellent
condition:
Number of inmates at last report. 10Y
Inmates admitted since last report, SIS
Births Q913) II
Deaths (1913) NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. II |
Discharged (1913D ... All
on books at present time. los !
Cash balance last report. IS 1,22512 |
Total money collected since
last report ---...... 4.916.30 |
Total money paid out since
last report -. .. 3,726.37
Total money on hand at pres
emit ......- -....... 2,415.O5 |
Total invoice of personal
property 5000. 24.617.73 /
Total invoice of buildings. q. . 81, 1856. 90 /
Total invoice of watermains 10000 |
Total invoice of land 800. 81, 10000
Total .............. S120,002.73
Total number weeks board. $500
Total cost of keeping inmatesSS.614.79
Cost per capita per week. SS151.1
Total cost of permanent improve.
Total receipts S4,91630
Total expense .....-........ 3,726.37
Balance Observation-Disclosures. 81, 1898
Ian. list, 1913 balance. ...... 1,12512
December 31st, 1913 balance .s2,415.O5
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-05

ed him and ordered him 10 pay the
costs of serving the warrant, which
amounted to so cents.
Opening Statement.
Considerable difficulty was exper-
fenced in getting a jury. States At
torney Thompson in making his open
ing statement claimed that on the
night OF November Z, the three de-
PENDANTS went to Moline from the
Park hotel about O'Clock; that they
took the tires from the Lorenz and
Mitchell machines and hid them in an
alley; that they then came back to
the Park hotel on Twentieth street
and later returned to Moline. secured
their booty and brought the same to
Rock Island. hiding IL in a vacant
garage on Third avenue between
Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets.
getting back to the hotel about IL
O'Clock. All three of the men went
20 bed in one room and when the Of
ficers who were arresting suspects for
the SchoesseI murder which was COM
mitted about 10 o'clock on the same
evening. arrived at the hotel. Waugh
and McGrath were arrested and taken
to the station and the next day Coo
ney was picked up.
General Denial Made.
]. X Scott, for Waugh. in his state
ment TO the jury. denied all OF the
allegations in the Indictment, but At
torneys II. VI. McCaskrin for Cooney
and \. y. Stewart for McGrath. asked
permission of the curt in reSprve their
statements until later. States Attor-
ney Thompson objected to this pro-
cedure but the court allowed the re-
quests. Motion for the defense to force
the county prosecutor TO elect under
which count he would proceed, was
denied
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-05

December 31St, 1913 balance. 81, 415.0
State Aid.
A resolution was adopted providing
for tax levy of S7.153 for hard roads
and formal action was taken to notify
the state highway commission that the
board desired to avail itself of this
county's allotment of s7,153 for state
aid roads.
Confidence in Jury.
That the board has confidence in
the present grand jury in its probe
into political corruption in county af-
fairs, is evident from the following
resolution which was offered by Su-
pervisor Douglass and adopted:
Whereas, We have in session at
the present time grand jury that is
certain conditions of
Rock Island county, therefore, be it
resolved that We have confidence in
its ability to do its duty and that
back of IL in any direction that
is deemed necessary to take regard
less of expense as we feel that it is
time some methods now in vogue, be
done away with"
Designate Roads.
The committee on roads and bridges
recommended the following designa
ton of routes for first state aid road
in the county: First, on route II, be-
ginning at Taylor Ridge and running
west, distance of 5000 feet; second,
on route three, beginning at east side
section three. township IS n. R., two
east of the fourth p. m. and running
west 5000 feet; and third, on route
eight A, beginning at village of Sears
and running north a distance of. 1000
feet
MasiPs Report.
The judiciary committee made re-
port on the matter of the final report
Of former states attorney. which has
not been submitted. II was stated that
an attempt was made to get a meeting
with Mr. Magill but that this was I'M
successful. II was claimed that Mr..
Magill told Chairman Richmond in De-
cember that he was working on re-
port and expected to have it finished in
week or more. The report states:
we find from the books of the county
treasurer that there was paid into the
treasurer by l.. NJ. Nagill for
account of the states attorneys fund:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
By EBERT HUBBARD

made upon it by the tusks OF
Taft
With a field glass we watched
Taft reclining on his throne. pick
ing the fish bones out of his whis-
kers. All around below were his
wives. and the wives of his
retinue. And woe betide the
amorous holluschickie that comes
swimming around with fetching
smile and scaly tales of daring
deeds OF the dark blue sea. To
he sure. Taft has the embon-
point of twenty -four hundred
pounds. but gravity helps him,
and he can strike the water in a
fifty. and an upper cut with his
fin and a poke with his head and
there is one holluschickie less TO
cumber the translucent waves,
And all is still, or fairly so.
And out beyond stretches the
sea, the salt, bitter seattle sea
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09

that winds and listens along every
shore, the restless, tossing, hun
cry tide-the sea that lures am
bilious sea lions TO peril, love
and death!
Oh, the glamour of the hollus-
chickie-the sweet, subtle prom
Use of his life The bonfires on
the beach, tossing tongues of
flame to the sky and lighting up
the rocks where the cubs call and
cry, are not more fierce, relent-
less, nor pitiless than time. which
does not hesitate nor stay, but
is Fastening bull, COW, calf, cub
and holluschickie to be food for
sharks and gulls, or to mount
papier- mache cliffs in Sutro's
Museum and look with sinister
gaze upon the rocks where life in
never ending succession plays
again the farce that has been
played since time began, quench-
ed by the spray of years-alas!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09

Ntbc rn,l.s .,t tho CUR Uouse..
in San r,r,n,.tsco there ara
soo lions
,vbon po,no, .n,,,,od be,a FIRST
over c,tr and aisooyorod tho
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They tumble and roll and quar-
rel and play ard scold and bark.
NV .'
sometimes less out Always 'he
fraternity is represented.
The sea lion is a great traveller
bor,a,..o mann o,tlos 81 a ,oa,
ou' ne mas places ne cans nome
and to these he annually returns.
Many of these sea lions at San
l,ra,,is,o arc trov, ~ name
''''' nav U'7'''' = ''7'''i'9
ana marks oil lndlNlduaillN Ilal
can not be mistaken. Simple folks
think that sea lions are all alike,
hut mis- oraa, mistake some
az soo' '-'' Al '' "''' '''' ''''
others mean, small qulohllng ana
irritable
! regret 80 say that the sea Hon
IS like New York SocletN-'lm-
perfectly homogeneous.
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,ra,. Al. .,,......,,. i, pan pnIar
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
o Lord Morley'S Warning
BY EDWIN MARKHAM.

~ advisory or for information
only naturally carry a weight
that canno but affect the iudg-
ment and responsibility of a Cab
met
More than all this alteration in
machinery are signs of change in
national atmosphere. These. we
have good reason to hope, may be
only superficial and transient for
nothing is more certain than that
in a survey OF the modern world
national character is slowest of
all things TO alter in its roots
Meanwhile, N:e discover a
shaken attitude toward law as
law, a decline in reverence for in
stitutions as institutions a latter
day antinomianism Even power
ful lawyers use language that
treats a statute as cobweb and
sealed agreements by great in
dustrial organizations are some
times no better than ropes OF
sand
Nor IS the change peculiar TO
England American citizens OK
reflective turn some time tell us
OF the same thing even there. n
We remember, for instance. that
administration of law is the key
stone OF all civilized government.
it is startling TO hear American
statesmen who have held posts OF
supreme responsibility, passion
ately denouncing the administra-
ton of criminal law as a disgrace
To their country, and declaring
the English system Of judges APP
pointed for life to be better than
their system Of elected judges. or
else on The other hand they de-
mand appeal to a popular refer
ondum against decisions Of state
courts on constitutional ISSUES.
and are for cashierIng the judge,
who made them in either cas-.
sastterus tine foundations of the
judicial fabric
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09

TUCH Of the happiness Of
wi life depends on making
wise choice of friends.
Very true friendships may be
formed early in life and may
grow out OF comradeship IN
school or college, or in social or in
business relationships, but even in
the very early years tastes must
&c trained to be discriminating.
Girls must strive to understand
how to choose. how TO discern and
judge character, for it is on the
worth of character that true
friendship is based. Without in
sight or discernment one may
make fatal mistakes which will
bring disappointment aud may
mar life.
A girls friends and companions
show just what sort Of girl she
is. A girl who is refined in her
tastes will not associate with
those who are loud in manner.
coarse in speech, conspicuous in
dress.
Companions are doing harm
when they encourage having
good time q the expense OF
disregard cf proprjeties or r. dis
regard of right Friends or ac-
quaintances who tempt a girl to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09

make clear the fact that in the
case of hayward girls a woman
and not a man, is the person for
that kind of service:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
EBERT HUBBARD.

the waves as they tussled, bit and
struck. fin in fin. BY daylight all
was still.
When the sun rose, Tart could
be seen reclining in the topmost
niche of the topmost rock, mon
arch of an ne surveyed; the wives
he mad annexed, reclining all
around him. each with her cub
the cub an orphan, but sustained
by the thought that he had kind
stepfdther
And Ben Butler--where was
he? Alas. Alas, cut off in his
one hundred and twenty seventh
year his dead body was rolling on
the sands. weight eActly two
thousand pounds II took all the
walters at the Cu6 House. the
cook and the bartender. TO carry
tho body up the him. The hide
jooked like Y -qutlt, from the
original sketches aud designs
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
Investigation to Reach
Crime Source Is
Necessary.

The nature of such offenscs in
evitably precludes such frank
ness of relation between judge
and criminal as is essential to
correct and just action.
Women can understand girls
better than men can, and with
out such understanding, just and
wise judgment can not be rem
dered
Especially does this principle
hold in the matter of criminals
that are young in years and inn
mature in crime. 1t may be less
applicable in the case of those
that are hardened in ways Of
iniquity.
But in instances of youthful
waywardness the best part of the
work of judge does not consist
in determining whether crime has
been committed and in affiXing
commensurate penalty, but in
carrying the investigation far
enough inward to reach the
springs of action and to apply
at that point such correctiyes
Of wise and sympathetic counsel
as shall check the first impulses
toward crime, and convert them
into impulses toward what is up
right and pure.
The place into which such girls
are brought should be a school of
morals fully as much as a peni-
tertiary of chastisement, and it
surely needs no argument to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09

II ORD MORLEY'S address "on
Politics and History" deliv-
cred before the University
of Manchester, is now issued in
book form by the Macmillan Com
pany. Of New York City This
scholarly discourse presents ques-
lions much in evidence in both
Europe and America. Note this:
ANY reflective observer can
sketch some of the signs OF the
times in rather formidable outline
Let ms look att. Political pow
or is described as lying in the
hands Of a vast and mobile cleo
toratc, with scanty regard for ira
dtion or history.
What is history to me?' asks
he plain busy man Democracy.
they warn us, is going to insist
on writing its own program The
structure OF executive organs and
machinery is undergoing half-hid-
den but profound alterations
'rhc two Houses of Parliament
-e being fundamentally trans
formed before our eyes. The
cabinet keystone Of the arch. in
size and iu preroeatye. Is not all
together safe against invasion.
The great wholesome system OF
party Us said to Doe melting into
groups and coalitions. The growth
of special interests, each claiming
for itself a representative Minis
ter In the Cabinet. has turned II
into "a noun OF multitude. indeed.
and a noun not wholly favorable
10 that concentrated deliberatiou
which was possible when Pitt had
first sis then seven colleagues.
Pei twelve. and Gladstone four
teen. To-day we are a score
"N hody OF professional experts
is now united to selected body
of ministers To- saapa conclusions
iu 'he sphere or military defense.
and Hetoter, uf expenditure. and
Eurn ,aae-g,iaHe jhou-h nominal
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
The Chinese Were a Dead Race
Because They Looked
BACKWARD
They Will Improve, if Their New Republic Turns Their
Other Way.

You know nstnctvey that every individual in this picture
this of goose than Each and feels
the little things bother him And looks ongngy
imaginary past
So it is with the wrong kind of old woman-unabe
cope with the present and unconscousy disappearing the
better day.
You how the Chinese still while the japanese
went ahead
That was because China stood with its back turned toward
the future while the Japanese found courage to think and face
the light.
The typical only complains you damage his
graveyard You must not disturb the spirits of the dead But he
at all disturbed by the sight of throwing her fe
male infants after another into the canal.
He forbd the digging of coal mines the building of rail
roads, lest the earth dragon be disturbed But he has obC
on running through the streets system of
agriculture that spreads disease.
Chinese sagnan for ages because they have
looked backward Worship of their has kept them
where they are.
May their present republican government and the coming
power modern make them ADLER efficient
the of their really great national power
This hope for their sake and also because awak
ened might useful regulator of things Asiatc and
save others from trouble
japanese gone ahead because they did wake
up everything new everything untried attracted them.
their Mikado put stoveppe hat and prepos
ferrous tailed coat and rousershe willing the slang
of the day, to try anything once.
looks the past little for the present
about the good old days gone is simply an in
dvdual what China has been a nation.
The past is dead and gone and you will never see it.
FORGET IT. except when you study history to learn from
the probable direction of the future and the encourag
ing fact that everything now is better than it once
The nation or individual that wins realizes that nothing
is impossible future contains everything that the mag
nation of man possibly invent.
thousand years ago the idea that might fly silly
fairy tale.
To-day MEN FLY,
Those living remember when the idea of boat going under
the water was wild dream submarines with
difference
EVERYTHING THAT MAN CAN IMAGINE HE CAN DO.
Remember that and look ahead for wonders coming
not back to the very dull days that gone.