Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-01
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From Our Fair Correspondent.
fBy Wireless.)

san DiegO, CAN, May Nv nile TAX
ing an airing last night on the veranda
of my hotel my hat was blown away,
being picked off as neatly as if
swiped by a footpad. I recovered it
after chase of three blocks. during
which 1 collided with two cross-eyed
men. who apparently had been shifting
red eye, and one policeman. the latter
suspecting that l was some one not en-
titled legally TO be at large. After re-
turning to my hotel learned that my
cheapeau had been caught by the tail
of blow that strucl. Frisco and work
ed considerable damage there. The
San Diego hotel, where my pane is on
the register, was built by John d.
Spreckles, who made his pile in sugar,
and it really is comfortable tavern,
sweet in its appointments, as our
friends, the ladies, would say.
The natives call this city Sandy-aw-
go. and they speak the name as if they
We're not ashamed of it. The city is
10 miles from the Mexican border. 1
expect to drift over into the troubled
republic shortly. l may be able to
slip the scrapping factions a little ia
therly advice that will aid in hasten
ing peace. After a careful investiga-
ton l have found there is more of the
San Diego exposition than has been
advertised and that one sees more at
night than in the day time. The show
is spread over Balboa park. You know
Balboa was a Spanish sailor. Well.
there are a lot of his relatives still
hanging around this place.
E,sr- to I, -
tiful In all its details. Flowers abound
in p. ofusion. SO do peaches. My
travelling companion. MIR. Happ, ran
across a couple last night on the mid
way. They were native grown, they
told him, but one acted so cold, he
said, that he thought she was of the
Greenland variety.
Rock Island is we'll known in these
parts A weazen-faced Jasper at the
hotel asked me if we had yet subdued
the Indians in the woods around Rock
Island. I said in all seriousness that l
thought we finally had got the upper
hand on them and that I had just re-
ceived letter from home stating that
B. Hawk, the leader of the rebellious
red skins, had been shot and killed for
creating q disturbance at a Sunday
school picnic. He acted as if he be-
lieved me. He is a human pest.
wouldn't be surprised if he turned out
to be a card shark in disguise.
II one goes TO bed one can sleep as
soundly here as any place on earth.
When the ocean has a growing spell
one may avoid the annoyance by wear
ing ear muffs / keep my windows
open at night. My room is on the sixth
floor, away from the fire escape. So I
feel safe.
Stranger told me there were many
openings in Frisco. / said that I I'M
derstood there was a great one there
several years ago, bu- not many seem
ed keen TO embrace it. He referred to
it as a coughing spell. l said ] IN
derstood that the coughing spell fol-
lowed the opening. Then he bought a
drink. The air here is good for the
wits. and the half-wits also, I'm ad-
vised.
I will keep you advised on my Mex
lean visit. You may deny officially
that report that I'm going into that
country as the representative of Presi-
dent Wilson is erroneous. He never
asked me to take such mission.
JERRY WEIGH.