Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
SHERMAN CAMPS
INVADED BYCHOST
ApparitiOn With Large Teeth Arises
from Ocean to Scare Managers Of
Fay0rite Son.
FEAR VISIT FROM Roosevelt
Report That the Colonel Will Address
Cook County Bar Members
Causes Panic.

Senator Sherman's managers were
affrighted by new apparition yester-
day. The phantom was projected
from ship somewhere on the high
seas enroute for the West Indies. It's
physiognomy was adorned with dou-
bic row of large teeth and a pair of
thick eyeglasses. Knees clattered like
castanets in the Sherman camp. One
guess as to the spirits identity.
This is how the specter walked and
how 1t happened to saunter Chicago
ward:
Colonel Nathan William MacChes,
ney, head of the Illinois State Bar as
sociation. recently presented an invita-
ton at Oyster Bay for Colonel Roose-
welt to make an address before the bar
association in Chicago this spring.
Yesterday the Sherman camp heard
a report that the colonel had accepted.
No date was mentioned, but forebod-
ings struck the camp that Roosevelt's
visit might occur before presidential
primary day, April II, and that the COL
onel might make an address affecting
the "favorite son" situation. The bar
association officers refused to give out
any information, saying all news
would have to come from Oyster Bay.
At dinner time the ghost was laid, tenn
porarily, at any rate.
Mr.. MacChesney, when it was put up
to him that the colonel's visit was be-
ing magnified into the proportions of a
political pre-primary mission, broke
his silence
amy report" he said, that Colonel
Roosevelt's visit to the bar association
is to be before the April II primaries
is without foundation"
From other quarters 1t was ascer-
tanned that the colonel expects to come
to Chicago some time after the middle
of April, and that his speech is to be
nonpolitical.
Senator Lewis Returns.
Senator Lewis reached Chicago yes
terday, bringing his peace plan" for
the several groups point out that one
barrier in the Lewis scheme, over
which the senator airily skips, is that
it places Carter H. Harrison and Roger
Sullivan ON the same slate.
Special Taxation N0tice-Gen. No. $40.
Notice is hebey given to all persons
interested that the city council of Rock
Island Ill, having ordered that Eighth
avenue be excavated, graded, curbed
and paved with brick blocks from the
east curb of Ninth street to the west
line of Nineteenth street, the ordi-
nance for the same being on file in the
office of the city clerk of said city and
having applied to the county court OF
Rock Island county, ILL.,, for an as
sessment Of the cost of the said i'm
provement according to the frontage
of the property assessed along the line
Of the proposed improvement, said as,
sessment being payable in nine Install
ments, each bearing interest at the rate
of five per cent per annum, and an as
! sessment therefore having been made
and returned to said court, the final
hearing thereon will be had on the
2Sth day of February, A. D. 1916, at the
hour of 9 o'clock a. m, or as soon
thereafter as the business of the court
will permit.
All persons may file objections in
said court before said day, and may ap,
pear on the hearing and make their de-
tense.
! Dated Rock Island, ILL.,, Feb. II, 1916.
ROBERT KUSCHMANN,
Commissioner appointed to make said
assessment.
John X. Scott, City Attorney.