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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13
YOUTH PICKS MAN
WITH FREE CARD
Clarence Shegren Successful in
Unique Contest in Connection
With i. Campaign.
90 MEMBERS Is THE GOAL SET
D0rEers Fors8ke Business Cares For
Day and Assist ia Lining Up
New Blood.

Clarence sharon 1900 Trf-f.-rsF.-r
z--.s. e.--.- .,-- --.s.- z---.--
@5-7 MOON ne "a-A~ -l-1o H.
Wales store and satds u would Ike
30 join tie r. IT. c. A Have YOU 2
mem har=afr card for nra7~
.~ yaua ~aae-e4 into his .oorkat
and produced the card which made
Clarence 2 member Of the hovz. de-
ra-+--ar- far ara wear Clarence has
right 10 be haunv. He is in for
whole wear OF good times And all
he had fa do was to ask for it,
Every aev this week. some business
man viii ea~rv one os these cards.
ard ain r.-e-ar+ If IA the e~z- INV
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13
TICKETS FOR FREHsTAD CON
CERT.

Tickets for the concert to he given
by Madam Olive F'remstad at the Dsv-
export coliseum, Monday, Der. Is ur-
der the auspices of the Tri-City Must
cal association. may be procured from
local members of the organization and
ar the Gable music house. The seats
are reserved as they are purchased
and the sooner they are procured the
better chance for good location i'm the
hall. Miss Katherine Gest. Miss Esth-.
crime Heimbeck Mrs. II. > Rh0ads
Mrs. 3. J. Laebner and Victor Berg
quist have tickets which they are anE-.
fous to dispose Of The tickets sell
for popular prices, 81, rs cents. and
30 cents, the first five rows selling for.
the first named price. the next five
for rs cents and The remainder OF tine.
house at so cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13
FIRST ARREST AS
RESULT OF EDICT
Woman Taken Into Custody Because Of
Protests Made Against Cutting
Size of Fence.

The first arrest resulting from the
mayors order that all fences around
saloon yards must be cut down re- five
. feet was made today when 3Irs.
Mitchell was taken into custody.
Police had been Instructed to see
that the saloon owners met the re-
quiremeuts of the order and carpenters
were busy on the fence in the rear of
the Loop saloon Twentieth street and
Third avenue Mrs. Mitchell who lives
+ in a house adjoining the yard protest
ed against the matter and then Officer
Kinney ordered the fence back of her
place cat down to the required size
She is alleged TO have abused him and
she was taken to the station.
She was arraigned in police court on
La charge Of disorderly conduct and
Ofcer Kinney testified against her
She was fined s. and costs Two weeks
ago she was taken in a MONDAY raid
and fined as a keeper of an alleged dis
orderly house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13

To celebrate their golden wedding
anniversary Sir, and Mrs. Peter Eaak
yesterday kept open house al their
home 1915 Thirtie5h street During
the entire day friends and relatives in
large numbers called to shower the
venerable couple with gratuIauous
and well wishes on the anniversary of
50 years Of welded life Many cards
and letters of c0ngratuJation came and
quantities Of beautiful flowers were
brought and sent ia. Several hand
somaIv decorated wedding cakes were
the gifts Of friends and old ncjghbors,
one especially beautiful one being
frosted in white and decorated in tiny
gold rosehuds In the evening a din
her was served 10 the membe oil the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13

family, including the grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Maak were married in
Germany Oct. y, 1865. and came 10
this country that fall reaching here
after three months travel by sail boat
with the exception OF few years
spent near Davenport they have re-
sided in Rock Island since their mar
rage Mr. Maak being a retired gard
ener and dairymau There are three
children living. Deios of West side.
Crawford county. Iowa William Of
This city, and Mrs Rosa Erbs OF this
city. There are seven grand caUfren.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13
TO REBUILD WHEELS
FOR POLICE PATROL,

Because of the fact that Fisk tires
nov on the police ambulance are not
manufactured any more the vehicle
will be out Of comm ssiou for four daya
next week, beginning Monday 1t vii /
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13

ing by Peter Fl. Dobblear against MS
wife. Mrs Fife L DobbIear. The mar
rage was performed Nov %, 1903 81
1llIton springs, ~ T., and the couple
separated Nav IA. 1918 Desertion is
alleged. n NJ McCaskrin is counsel
for the complainant
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13

be neeez AIRY TO rebuild the wheels 50
as to 1T The tire now in vogue for
This type Of ear The police will use
the small touring car. used as an aux
HAIRY patrol at other times
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13

declared he was not wanted here and
taar as far 81 they knew he had never
been arrested here. The city directory
does not give any name resembling
that of John Come.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13
Groceries, Thursday.

Groceries, Thursday:
GRADUATED sugar lbs for 47s with other gro
ceres over 500.
cerssota flour, best In the gor.5 at75 sack
Best 7ea5srry coffee 22zaa Ii.
Fresh soda crackers, z les. fer 15o.
konrs bacon, sussf-cure5 1so h.
Prepared mi1ee meat "saors auartsn 2ss.
"oronsdary" dates, f0o package.
Dutch Tea Rusks, 9 packages for z5e.
Sweet pickles, quart lars f9c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13

Police officials here said they alta
rot know who Coaza might be. They
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13

Housekeeping Helps, Home Goods Dept.
Big fluffy ceiling clusters long handle ssa and
csc.
Shelf paper all es3ors IS fest rolls fer SC.
Triangular oil moPs, complete with handle and
Bottle Of oil: 55c.
Wall paper cleaner. cans for 25o.
Good big feather busters. 81.to, CSC. 75o 5se and
down 70 roo eaca
Coed 4foot step ladders 495 szoh
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13

All the news all the ttme-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-10-13
The OWL S

viii give a dance in their new
hall in the Industrial Home
building every Saturday even
ing, commencing Oct is Gents.
Soc ladies free
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-06
May Go to U. S.
Supreme Court.

But the question that will prob
ably be raised by Crum, who, by
the way, is said to be worth thirty
or forty thousand dollars, is fed
eral one. The United States SUI
preme court has never passed upon
the constitutionality of the con-
current acts between states affect
ing rights on a navigable stream.
The line of original jurisdiction be-
tween the two states was the cen
ter of the river at the time Ten
nessee was admitted into the union.
The Arkansas line, of course, could
go no further east than the Ten
nessee line. Since then the river
bed and channel have shifted until
no one knows with any degree of
certainty where the original line
was. In the meantime the Arkan-
sas supreme court has held that
the line of original jurisdiction is
the middle of the present river,
and in this finding it differs with
the federal court. However, the
question has never been taken to
the supreme court of the United
States for a determination, and
those in a position to make predic-
tions, feel sure that if Crum is in
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-06
Island Is
Isolated.

The island is about a mile wide
and three and half miles long. 1t
lis practically surrounded by water
and because of its location, it's in
accessibility to the officers and on
account of the mooted question of
jurisdiction it has been regarded
as an ideal rnedezvous for gam
blers, bootleggers and bad charac-
ters generally.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-06


the case through the federal courts.
Island 81 Last
Rendezvous.
Island 81 is the last RENDEZVOUS
of the rough characters that for
years have given the Arkansas au-
thorities SO much trouble. Four
or five years ago, when Judge
Frank Smith was on the bench in
this district, the officers started
their war on whisky selling on the
Mississippi river. Island 26, op-
posite LuXora, was cleaned out.
The steamboat operators who sold
whisky were prosecuted so Wig
orously that they finally quit the
traffic. Later attention was di-
rected to Islands "a and 35, ten
miles south of Osceola. In clean
ing up this place John Coats, a
dive keeper, killed Deputy Sheriff
Bob Ferguson and severely wound
ed Bob Dean, now marshal at Os-
ceola. This crime was committed
at the edge of the water on the
Arkansas side, and no question of
jurisdiction could be raised. Goats
was tried, convicted and hung at
0SppO1a
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-06
mem.
A Fusiladc
Of Shots.

Mauldin left two or three depu-
ties at this point to guard the pris-
oners and took the other deputies
about two miles north on the
island to raid the place operated by
negro named Bert Spring. They
reached this place after daylight.
Again they picked up a negro to
assist them in entering the shack.
Capt. Little and his men surround
ed the house, while Sheriff Maui
din and his deputies, Dwight Black
wood and w. T. Chapman, accom-
panied by the negro, went to tho
building, Mauldin approaching from
one end and BlackwOod, Chapman
and the negro from the other. The
negro was told to knock on the
door and have it opened. When he
did so Spring opened the door
slightly and fired at the negro.
Chapman fired at Spring. A gem
eral fusilade then opened up, Black
wood joining in. Spring kept the
door opened only far enough to
permit him to shoot through the
crack. Mauldin, approaching from
the other end of the house, jump
ed in front of the door and fired
three times at the negro, the latter
in the meantime also firing at
Mauldin. One ball struck the sher-
if in the side near the right lung
and ranged to the left. Mauldin
flinched and fell back, telling
Blackwood and Chapman he was
shot. Blackwood then sprang in
front of the door and fired three
more shots at the negro. Mauldin
went around the corner of the
house and lay down. Blackwood
and Chapman fell back behind some
chicken coops Other members of
the posse who were stationed fifty
or more feet from the house opened
fire. This brought Springs wife
out, with her hands in the air. She
had been shot through the mouth,
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-06
Enraged Citizens
Apply Torch.

The burning of the buildings on
the island was the work of people
residing in and around Joiner.
They have complained for several
years because of the deplorable con-
ditions existing in that section, and
Saturday afternoon to make arrests
they followed the officers and ap-
piled the torch.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-06

thority of Arkansas officials tC
make arrests on the island, re-
Trained from coming to the Ar.
kansas side. He went to Memphis
frequently, but never on the train.
He always went down the river on
boat.
Two Men Recently
Killed on Island.
Judge Driver has information
that during the past sixty days two
men have been killed on the island
one of them a white man. 1t is
alleged Crum shot one of the men.
1t is also stated that justice Of
the peace of Upton county, Tenn,
resides on the island and it is
charged he participates in the
spoils of the illegitimate traffic car
ried on. All these charges will be
Investigated by the special grand
jury that will convene in Osceola
vi l. ludy, EAuS lob L u
Crum's Denials
Challenged.
News stories sent out from Ma
rion where Crum, Kenton, Spring
and others are confined in Jail say
Crum denies any completely with
Spring, the negro, in the latter's
bootlegging operations, or that he
had ever given him any instruc-
lions to kill officers. When the
officers were taking Spring to Mar
ion he told them Crum had furnish
ed him with weapons and instruct
ed him to kill any officer who set
foot on the island. 1t is understood
this statement was reduced to writ
ing and Spring swore to it.
Crum, in a statement made in
jail at Marion Monday, is alleged
to have said he had not been inter
ested in the sale of whisky since
last February. Officers who raid
ed Crum's place on the island are
said to have found books, receipts.
check stubs and other evidences
showing that Crum had been or
dering and paying for liquor regu-
larly
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-06
Tennessee Officials
Negligent.

see instanteI
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-06

The Arkansas officials claim the
dens on the island are not sore
country on the Tennessee side is
unsettled back for several miles,
while the Arkansas side is protect
ed by levees and is thickly popu-
lated This is given as one of the
reasons why the Tennessee authori-
ties, who have always had jurisdic-
ton over the islands, have never
shown any disposition to break up
the dives.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-06

and almost grim expression. That
night he sat for hours in his home
with his wife having little to say.
Finally he turned over his keys to
her, telling her what safe, lock
and drawer each key fit, advising
her of his business affairs and di-
recting her what to do with his es-
tate in the event he should meet
death. His wife pleaded with him
not to make the raid if he felt he
would be killed, but he replied he
faced death every time he arrested
a desperate character and he could
not afford to shirk his duty merely
because there was danger in its
discharge. 1t is stated in Blythe
vile that Mrs. Mauldin became OPP
pressed when her husband left his
home shortly before midnight Fri
day, that she sat up the remainder
of the night, anticipating distress
ing news. Shortly after 6 o'clock
Saturday morning she received a
phone message stating her husband
had been slain.
How the Killing
Occurred.
The details of the raid on Island
No. 81, located seventeen miles
south of Osceola, as told by mem
bers of the sheriff's posse are sub
stantially as have been published
in the news dispatches. Sheriff
Mauldin was accompanied by Capt.
Curtis Little, head of the Blythe
vile company of the state guard,
ten or eleven members of the com
pany who went, not as members OF
the state militia, but as special
deputies sworn in for this particu-
lar raid, and by three regular dep
uties. The posse left Blytheville
about midnight for Osceola and at
one o'clock they left Osceola in au-
tomobiles for Joiner small sta
ton south of Osceola and directly
opposite Island 81. About four
O'Clock Saturday morning the Of
ficers had negro whom they
picked up near Joiner, call across
the Chute" to a cabin on the
island and ask for some whisky.
After some parley a negro man
from the dive came over in a boat
and brought a bottle of liquor. lie
was Immediately placed under ar
rest and the posse got into the boat
and went over to the island and
raided the cabin, capturing several
men.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-06
Litigation May Be
Long Drawn Out.

The prosecution of Crum and his
associates will probably result in
much long-drawn-out litigation for
the reason that the question of jul
risdiction over the islands in the
Mississippi river has never been de-
termined by the federal courts So
far as the state courts are concern
ed the issue has been fought out
and the jurisdiction determined
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-06
Question of
Jurisdiction.

A number of years ago the Ar
kansas general assembly passed an
act extending to Tennessee concur
rent jurisdiction to the Arkansas
side of the Mississippi river. In
May of this year the Tennessee gen
eral assembly passed a reciprocal
act extending the Arkansas concur
rent jurisdiction to the Tennessee
side. Acting upon this law giving
Arkansas officials joint jurisdiction
with Tennessee over the islands in
the river, Judge Driver instructed
the sheriff to make the raid on
Island 81. Immediately after the
arrests were made a deputy sheriff
from Upton county, Tenn, accom-
panied by an attorney, went to
Osceola and made demand for the
prisoners, claiming jurisdiction.
Their request was refused and it
is said they were advised it would
be wise for them to keep their mis-
sion a secret and return to Tennes-
see inStanter
The weekly soliphone., 1915-08-06
Improved Conditions
Looked For.

Mississippi county has paid a
dear price in blood and money to
bring about healthy moral condi-
tions, and it is the concensus of
opinion among the thinking citi-
zens that the death of sheriff Sam
Mauldin at the hands of a negro
dive keeper will result in such a
widespread and determined revolt
against the liquor traffic and the
degenerate and desperate charac-
ters who profit by it's sale that not
a foot of Mississippi county soil or
the islands in the river bordering
the county will be a safe retreat for
the vendors of this vile stuff.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20

Russia has awarded a contract for
Is. 900 railroad cars to Seattle farm.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
THE THRiCE-A-WEEk EDITION
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
PULSE GIVES AWAY SECRET
Alenist Tells How Doubling Swain
May Ascertain His Place in
"Her" Affections.

The worlds meanest man has been
discovered. He is an alienist of
Washington, and he has presumed to
put love on a scientific basis. He
has issued formula by which a
doubling swain may ascertain with
out fail the name of his closest rival
for cher" affections.
Here it is:
Carelessly hold cher" wrist, as if
caressingly. Crafty place your fore
finger on her pulse. Then name
over, in casual conversation, the
rivals you fear most. When you
name the right one ''her" pulse will
jump scandalously. If it increases
something like a hundred beats you
might as well quit the race.
To offset this mean betrayal the
alienist has issued some hints to the
fair sex on how to avoid nervousness.
"ScOrn gossip he says, ''and don't
attend to other persons business or
worry over their troubles, and you
will be all right"
But he doesn't say word as to
how Dulcinea might have kept the
fatal pulse jump from giving heJ
away.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
OUT OF HIS ELEMENT.

81 can show you in two minutes
the superiority of the aeroplane over
the Zeppelin said the of1icious per-
son.
But Pm not at all interested in
aviation" said the other man, with
whom he had just scraped an ac-
quaintance.
"The deuce you say! Why, in the
course of time aviation may prove
of great practical benefit to you
may even help you in your bssi.
ness"
''I'm afraid not"
Why"
I'm a deep-sea diver"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
ALL OWING TO BAsHFuLNEss
Rudyard kipIing's Somewhat BeIsted
Explanation Of Act Of Appsr
ent Rudeness.

When Rudyard Kipling was in
America some years ago he was en-
tertained at an evening party in New
York at the house of the late Rich
ard Watson Glider. the editor of the
Century magazine. One Of the num-
bers on the program which enlivened
the occasion was David Bispham's
singing of his famous barrack room
ballad, THE Hanging Of Danny
Deever." 70 the establishment of
the company, when it was all over,
Mr.. Kipling arose abruptly, said
goodnight to his host, and, turning
his back ON the singer, left the room
without another word. Some time
afterward Mr.. Bispham received
visit at his house in London from a
gentleman, who said; 81 have come
at the request of Mr.. Kipling, who
is not in town just now, to present
his apology and regret if, on an eve
ming last winter in New York, he
seemed to be rude to you when you
had sung his song. The fact is, he
is very bashful man, and he was
so moved by the music and your rem
dering of his poem that he could not
trust himself to speak, but bolted
from the house"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
MODERN LIFE AND HEALTH
Medical Journal Reports That In Some
Cases World Seems to Show
Change for Worse.

In 1873 the mortality Of diphthe-
ria in New York was S5 per cent.
Today it is about 25 per cent. Since
the introduction of the Flexner anti
meningitis serum the mortality from
cerebro-spinal fever has been reduced
from between 20 and so to 23 per
cent.
In the sixties, seventies and eight
les typhus fever was almost epidemic
in New York. In 1898 there we're
473 cases. Since 1898 there have
been only four cases in the city.
Fulgurating, or black" smallpox
is no longer seen.
DIR. Edward Waitzinger reports
that in his large hospital practice he
has not seen single case of true
cholera infantum in fifteen years.
On the other hand, remarks the
New York Medical Journal in citing
these changes for the better, there
has been an enormous increase in
diseases-those affect
ing the heart and arteries-includ-
ing kidney troubles.
There has been steady increase
in cancer, while nervous diseases and
insanity are notably more prevalent
than tbpy over wprn bpfore
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
DID HIM GOOD.

"Did that onion poultics | sent
YOU do Won any good"
Did me a heap of good"
"These external applications are
often eflicacious.
81 applied it internally. Those
onions smelt So good that | ate it,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
TO BE EXPECTED.

"The only objection | have to
Wasserby ID that he lets his imagi-
nation run away with him."
"Any man who is continually
squirting his Imagination to renewed
efforts shouldn't be surprised if it
sometimes runs away with him."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
SUITABLE.

81 want TO select a light fruit
lunch for an electrician"
How would some electric cur
rents do?'
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
UNFEMlNIHE EMOTION.

'Wasn't the militant moved by
the piteous crying of her children 2"
"Yes; she was quite unnamed
for the moment"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-20
HIS STATUS.

"Are you a neOphyte in political
campsignsS"
Nav, ! amt nuthia' bat jast
rlsis sesiassr."